THE JOURNAL. V.'EnXFM)AY Si.vlii 11 J. ia-2. ACJ$' 7 -co, cs:ju. .A- y.ffE LITTLE BEGGAIVS BUTTON- ZOL2? BOUQUET. 'Twas on a bitter winter's day, I saw a -trance, pathetic tiht: The streets were iclorimy, cold mid jjray, TheairivithfalHritrqnow was white. A little rasred !)enr child iWent runnlnjr ibruugh the cold and storm: He looked as if he never suiiied. As if he never bad 'been warm.' Sudden, ho epled bene.it h hi- leet A faded mitton-hol-! on ,tiet: Trampled and wet "U-Itli rtin jn 1 sleet. Withered and worthier, the.-" it lay. He bounded, seize 1 it with icliht,' . Stood stili and shook t fr from snow; Into his coat hq j itinvd it tiht His eyes lit'up with sUiMer. jrlow. He sauntered on. :'l p'eiino 1 and proud. His lace tranfo -nu-d ib e ery line; And Unacted that tli" liurr.ximr crowd Might chance io oy thai be was tine. The man who thrive- th Hower away Never ouo-haW such pleasure b:d: The llowers' best work was done that day In cheering up that bo rar lad. Ah me, too often wo forget, Happy in these good homes of ours. How many in this world are yet Glad even of ths withered liowersl St, A'icTiolcu. "A MAX AS WAS WRONGED.' If it had been a pleasant day, and if we hadn't all been out of sorts with our luck, wo should' have had a word of wolcome lor the stranger as he-entered .1 . i , our camp mai wreicncii aKcrnoon. as it was, fifty of us saw him leave Chinese Trail at Dead Man's Elbow and walk into our camp, and never a man rose up i to salute him. ! The st Ringer seemed to expect jusf, such a reception. That is. lie didn't seem a bit surprised. He passed down the single street vve had named ltoad to ' l!iehe3, turned to the lefl at the lone pine tree, and without onee lookinjr ' around him he staked oil" a claim and began to erect a 0iarity. ' "Had man. I'm afearod." rrovled Judge Slasher, a- he partly closed one --pressing thi eve and o-Mve tlie.st,raiir(r the Imnnfit of forclnir them the squint. "Bin bounced out of some camp fur Btealin" added the big chap from Kentucky. "Tell you. he's got a hang-dog look." put in the mau known as Ohio ' I Uill." I Every man in the camp was down on the fresh arrival, and that without cause. Ordinarily we were a jolly set, i and a stranger coming among us met with words of cheer, but that afternoon ' the devil was to pay. The three mules belonging to camp Had strayed off and been gobbled by the Indians, and on the heels of this discovery came the an nouncement that we had only salt enongh to last two days, while the sugar' was entirely gone. So we were cross-grained and out of sorts, and it was luckv fur the stranger that lie gave us no cause to pick a quar rel. The next day was bright and fair, and if it hadn't been for Judge Slasher some of us would have gone over and excused our manners and asked the stranger to chip in and become neigh borly; but the Judge said: "He's a bad un, he is. I kin tell it by the way his head is set on his body. Fust thing we know a commit tee will eopie a'oiiir here and gobble him up fur robbery or murder." Two weeks had jiaciL and while some of us had given the stranger a curt "good morning" no one had struck hands with h-m,, or entered his shanty to smoke a friendly pipe. Then a climax came. The six of us occupy ing one shant were working in com mon, and our bar of dus.t wis buried in a corner of the Pre-placc. One niom-:ng-thisbag w.mTsiin, and you e:tn imagine that there was a first-class row in no time. There was the hole" where some one had dug under the stoucsand earned oil our treasure, and whom were Ave to suspect? U'e hail faith in each other, and we could not suspect outsiders because none of them knew I where our ba;r was concealed, aud be cause this was the lirst ea-e of stealing ever known on I3eis Jane Kill. I . Yes, we were mad, and in the excite ment of the brst discovery we came , near having a free tight among our- ' selves. It increased our anger to dis- ! cover that we could nt reasonably sus pect any one, and this fact made every one of us try the harder to pick up a elue. At length Judge Slasher sprang ' to his feet with the exclamation: "By the bones of K'dd! but I know the thief!" "Who is he?" "Thathang-dog, sheep-stealingstran-ger! Hang me! if I didu't dream of 1ft -. fcS".-1 T VBft 1ft ..--I fft A fta wl. 4- - . Ik n.mm row a shovel, aud it w:is Jiis digging under tho isu-hej which started that dream! He has held aloof from us. and that's proof enough t hat he came here for no good" purpose." It was a straw to eatch at. We had lost in a night all we had gained by months ot nam wore, nnti we man t his body. His lirst attempts at locomo stop to reason. It was decided to lay t!on are cheeked; he is put in Ieading the charge at the stranger's door, and strings, he is carefully guarded from if he could prove his innocence so much , the out-door world, from the air that tIie'beUer,for"hii!i.i - . , WOuId invigorate his lunrs, from the The news that the White Home, as 4 sports that would develop his muscles, we'calied our shanty, had been robbed, Hence, the peevishness 'awkwardness spread like wildhre. and as we started . au,i sickliness of our young aristocrats. for .the stranger's claim uureruwd-num-. poor ,)eopi,. have no time to imitate the bered a:fiilLliuudred. Hcwas. outside absurdities of their wealthy neighbors, at work, and as he saw us coming he and their children protit bv what the wasstanieu. J he augrj murmurs ana uiacii iuuks inns1 nail- ii'guieiicu mm. Youwill say-that- an innocent man would have- stayiM and braved the storm. As the crowd swooped down on this man be stsirted oil at a run. "HaltT-Hultl Hall or we 11 shoot!" t shouted a score of men " He's the tluef-vsicju him! stop hi roared the Judge.- mi: " 'Five or six shVs were fired almost as .. anil tlii.firtiv.iuiI.Iatl Xorivui'il on the rock. Three bullets entered his back, and as the foremost men bent over him and turned his wh te, scared face to the heavens he gasped out: "You have murdered me God for give you!" " Now to search him'.,, said the Judge as Jiejcanio up, and a half dozen hands , mhdcquick wore it. Besting on his oreasi, anu mane iasi io ins neck 03 a ribbon, was a package wrapped in oil slvin.. There was a ll utter of excite ment as the Judge rudely snapped tho string and held the package iu his hand. Itrtras our dust. .No! We formed in a circle around the judge as he sat on a rock and opeu- rtn tho nVir,wHjt;vritln: va W Marj' 'lid June 3th 1857 That was the dead man's wife! There wag.a. second photograph that of a babe about a 3'ear old, and the Judge read aloud in a trembling voice: "Our Harry -died Aprillth. 1ST.7." That was-not alL On a card were'loeks of-their hair. There was a gold ring once worn by the wife, a failed ribbon which her fingers had touched, and a bit? of plaid like the dress the babyj wore when photographed. Belies of what? Of years agone of a fond wife and beautiful child -of joy and happiness of a husband's love-a'nd a father's grief! And we were looking down upon these thimrs and feeling onr hearts 4 swelling up snd our eyes growing misty when up comes our ood-for nothing, half-witted, cook with the bag of dust in. his hand! In repairingthe-lire-place he had moved the bag, and in the ex citement over its supposed loss what liUle wit he had was frightened away" for the moment. The hole under the stones had Dcen made by some small euUtke-pacKagc-anuan less uian-amiu- j(hey do not constantly interfere with ute. there, were white faces .among u?. ttieir movements, but they forget that What were the content A photograph in points of phvsical education Nature of a fait1A5eU'midiUe aged woman,Taud i,ornlf is m-h -m i.viRllintt9uhnr that. v animal .in search oi food, and inourlHenry. The day was set that evening. hastate had .accused and murdered an innocent man. It came to us in full force as we stood there, and men sighed and wiDed their eyes and walked away with trembling stops. The Judge felt that ho was most to blame, lie was looked upon as a hard, wicked man, but those rel ics of 'the dead broke him ud. rle sat there and wept like a child, and in a voice hardly audible for his great emo- J"1 is hydrogen combined with car tion, bemoaned: bon. Hydrogen is the kmuling stuff " Heaven forgive me for this awful deed!?' With sorrow with tenderness with hearUslikoc children, we-dug a grave and nut the poor body into it, and with his fown 'hands the Judge planted the head-board and engraved thereon; "Here" lies a man as was wronged!" Detroit Free i'ress. Fishing with Horses Tor Bait. In traversing the Lianas ot the Prov ince of Caracas, in order to embark at San Fernando de Apure, on the voyage up the Orinoco, M. Bonpland stopped at Calabozo. his object being to investi gate the history of the gymnotus. an electric eel. great numbers of which are found in the neighborhood. After re maining three days there some Indians conducted Inn to the Cano de Bera." a muddy aud stagnant basin, but sur rounded by rich vegetation, in which some grand Indian figs and some mag citicent tlowering odoriferous mimosas were pre-eminent- He and his friends were much surprised when informed that it would be necessary to take thirty "half-wild horses from the neighboring savannahs m ortler to tish lor the gvm- - . '11 I r It-" .- L- Mi i notus. The idea of this fishing, called. in the language of the country, emlar bascar con calndlos (intoxicating by means of horses), is very old. The word barbasco indicates the roots of the Lacquinia, or any other poisonous plant, by ontact of which a body of water acquires the property of killing, or. at legist, of intoxicating' or stupefy ing,' the fishes. While their hosts wore explainiug to M. Bonpland and party this strange mode of fishing, the troop of horses and mules had arrived, and the Indians had made a sort of battue. horses on all sides, and nfn tlm miTah rPho Tn. diaus, armed with long canes and har poons, placed themselves round the basin; some of them mounting the trees, whose branches hunor over the water, and by their cries, and still more . -. ...ivr ...is uiimuui .a.u .u uv their canes, preventing the horses from landing again. The eels, stunned bv the noise, 'defended themselves by repeated discharges of their batteries. For a long time it seemed as if they would be victorious over the horses. Some of the mules especially, being almost sti led by the frequency and force of the shock, disappeared un der the water, and some of the horses, in spite of tho watchfulness of the In dians, Tegained the bank, where, over come by the shocks they had under gone, they stretched at full length. The picture presented, M. Bonpland says, was now indescribable. Groups of Indians surrounded the basin, the horses, with bristling manes, terrorand grief in their eyes, trying to escape trora the storm which had surprised them; the eels, yellow and livid, loos ing like great aquatic serpents swim ming on the water and chasing their enemies, were objects at once appalling and picturesque. In less than five min utes two horses were drowned. An eel more than live feet long glided un der one horse, discharged its apparatus through its whole extent; attacking at i once tne heart, tlie viscera, ana tne plexus of the nerves of the animal, probably benumbing and finally drown ing it. When the struggle had endured a quarter of an hour, the horses and mules appeared less irightened, the manes became more erect, the eyes ex- I pressed less terror, tho eels shunned in place or attacking them, at the same time approaching the bank, when they were easily taken by means of the long cord, and were drawn ashore without being able, to communicate, any shock. Having landed the eels they were transported to little pools dug in the soil and filled with fresh water, but such is the terror they inspire that none of the people of the country would re lease them from the- harpoon, a task which the travelers had to perform themselves, and receive the first shock, which was not slight, the most ener getic surpassing in force that, commu nicated by a Xeyden jar completely charged. The gymnotus surpasses in sbe and strength all the other electric fishes. They vary in color according to age-and the nature of the muddy water in which they live. The Leading-Strings Fallacy. From the moment a child is born, he s treated on the principle that all nis mstmcts are essentially wronjf, that Nature must be thwarted and counter acted in every possible Way. He is strapped tip in a contrivance that he would 1)0 glad to exchange for a strait jacket, kept lor hours in a position that prevents him irom moving any limb ot model nurse would un nfloubtedly call neglect, Indian babies are still better off. They are Ted on bull beef, and kicked around like young dogs; but thev are noL swaddled, they are not r:uliil. and nut ilosi'il with n.irficrorip- thev crawl around naked, and soon I learn to kenri 'onL of the wnv: tlip.v are. i , "rT- ' J 1 nappy, iney never cry. n we wouia ' treat our j'ounglers in the same-way, only substituting kisses and bread for kicks ami bee, they w.ould be ashappy as kids in a'e1over-fie"il, and moreover they wouhl a'terward be hardier and ; stronger. Every week the newspapers i tell u- about ladies tumbling down stairs and breaking both arms; boys I falling from a fence and fracturing their fiilbir hmin Vnim urliot bnirrbt nrrtnlfl a yoim r Comanche' have-to fail to break SJlch bones-not to mention South-Sea Island children aud young monkeys? The bones of mi infant are plastic; let ting it tumble and roll about would harden the bony tissue; guarding it like a piece of brittle crockery malces its limbs as fragile j&giass. Christian moth ergjrep roach themselves . with neg lecting their dutv to their' children if the apparent neglect Is ready a transfer of the pupil to a more efficient school. 1 Dr. Felix L. Oswald, in Popular Science Monthly. m c . A b-illiant fete was given in Berlin in honor of Prof. Virchow. A thou sand persons of the elite, scientific and medical' world were present. Prof. Basrian presided, and presented title deeds to Virchow of an institute for promoting- anthropological studies ac cording to Virchow1 s own directions. Seventy thousand marks have been subscribed toward the project in various Enropean'countrles. '--"" '''' " Papa, how do editors get in free to all the shows?" "Well, sonnvvas.a rgcncral rule they give twenty-five dol Liars worth 'of 'advertising for aJlwenty- nve'eent ticket." - "I declare," said Jalia, you take the words right out of my mouth. "No wonder; thev are so sweet," said Kerosene oi Life. At this season of the year more light is needed than at any other. In rural districts a large amount of kerosene is used. The" use of tallow and whale oil has nearly passed away. Tallow, oil and kerosene are changed to gas before .they develop light. They are al changed to gas by neat, ine gas tne. carbon is th source of light ami neat The sparks that fly from burning gas whether the gts be made from tallow whale oil or kerosene, are carbon. The coal or wood we burn to warm our homes yield-light and heat by igniting the hydrogen and carbon they contain Another element is needed to develoj light and heat, namely, oxygen. Thi whole process of producing heat and light are the same, whatever .substances we may cmploj'. Kerosene contains other elements than hydrogen and car lon, and so does common liurning gas. A great objection to the latter for pro ducing light is that it flickers and pro duces an unsteady light and so harms the eves. Kerosene is more steady in its burning, and so is much healthier for the eyes. It is rapidly gaining in pop ularity among students and others, who an' compelled to use artificial ligbt. Hydrogen and carbon combines read ily with the oxygen of the air. In burn ing they necessarily use and destroy the oxygen any room contains. Oxygen, so nbsolutely'necessarv in sustaining ani mal life, in combining with the hydro gen and carbon, forms a new compound. It is plain enough to see that oxygen must be constantly supplied, or inhala tion is soon impossible. Health, then, demands not only that vitiated air should be removed", but that fresh, pure air should be introduced into any room occupied by any animals. Health de mands a proper amount of oxygen, or it requires ventilation or vitiated air go ing out and pure air coming in; Kero sene yields a given amount of light at a muoh cheaper rate than oil or tallow, or ordinary gas, at present rates. The best way of burning kerosene, is in the student's lamp. It is at once safer, more economical and healthier than any other. It is healthier, because the air of the room in which it is consumed is purer and does not disturb the eyes. Rood and pure kerosene is not ex plosive. Plunge n lighted taper into it aud it will not explode. A poor or im pure article is sometimes sold and used. It may be well to tell our readers some thing about its origin and way of puri fying. Coal oil from which kerosene is made is found in the cavities of the earth. It is not a simple substance but is composed of benzine, benzoline, gas oline, kersoline and other light hydro carbons, differing in their volatility. Some of these are much more volatile than others. Kerosene, when properly prepared, is not very volatile, does not easily inflame, and so does not explode. If it is impure, or tinsafetoburn.it contains some one or more of the other ingredients of coal oil. Plunging a burning taper into a dish of it ignites the volatile impurities. The demand for the very volatile ingredients is so small that "the inducement to let them remain mixed with kerosene is very great. Coal oil is separated into several distinct elements by distillation. The oil is exposed to heat. The most vola tile elements pass into a proper receiver at the lowest tempeRiture. Naphtha is ver' volatile and yet may be allowed to remain mingled with kerosene, and so render the mixture- explosive. Some dealers, in kerosene may add ten to twenty per cent, of naphtha and thus render it inflammable, explosive and highlv dangerous. Fill a lamp with bad kerosene or with its vapor, and it will not ignite unless the oxygen mixes with it. A lamp full of kerosene or vapor may be compara tively safe. Lamps may not explode when first lighted If they be entirely full. Kerosene lamps, then, are never so safe as when they arc entirely full, or an; filled every day, if in use. Im pure kerosene may not explode when the space above the oil is full of vapor. When kerosone lamps are extin guished, and become cool, the vapor is condensed, and so does not fill the space above the oil, and leaves a partial vacuum; air gets in and mixes with the vapor, ami may explode when relighted, without first refilling it with oil and driving out the vapor. If the oil is nearly all consumed and the space above the small amotmt of oil that remains is full of vapor, it will not explode if it remains at rest upon the table. Agitat ing the lamp, or carrying it into a cool er room may so condense the vapor as to admit the air and then the mixtures may oxplode. It is alwaj-s dangerous to expose a lamp of kerosene to the cool outside air, because doing so condenses the vapor and allows air to enter and mix with it. Small lamps for carrying about the house should always bo ready for immediate use, so that large lamps may remain quiet upon the table. The great fact, then, is that the oxygen of the air should not be allowed to mix with the vapor of kerosene. The student's lamp guards against this con tingency. But all persons can not have this lamp, and so they should know how to determine the safety of the kerosene the' burn. We now see the bearing of kerosene upon health and life. Ex perience and observation shmv it geno Ritcs the best kind of light, the most steady flame. Its use demands the most complete ventilation as does the use of any burning substance. We have ordinary gas fixtures in our house, but we rarely use them,- because kero sene is much cheaper and produces a better light. C. IT. Allen, M. D., in Western Rural. The Future Farm and Farmer. Ex-President Paul A. Chadbournc in a scholarly lecture gave excellent sug gestions about the future farm and farm er. The home stands first in importance. If building anew, let the dwelling be placed on high land where the air is clear and dry and the water pure. Fear not a little wind, when in trees judi ciously set you have the means of break ing its force. If the house is not on the right sideif the farm then plan for it where it should be and set trees and build roads to correspond with the plan. Act as though the f:u-m were to be your home or the home of some one else for fenerations yet unborn. See that the schools are just as good as you know how to make them, but do not neglect home education. Iceland has no schools, and yet her prople are the liest educated of any people in the world. Make your .wife and children happy with home life. Do not educate the children off from the farm. See that they acquire a love for nature, trees and flowers, and the study of rocks, minerals and insects. Enough of these may be found upon every farm to make an Agassiz. Don' t let j'our chil dren pine over those arithmetical puz zles, or wean theirbrains over geogra phy which will do them no special good, but let them learn something useful. And never on an account sena a boy to college; let him go if he must, but never send nim. If half those who are in col leges now had been kept at home-it. would have been better for them aud far better for the wprld. Keep all at home . Sossible, and then there will be enougl rawn away by the attractions of tSi outside world to fill, all .needed places. The-farmer's home in the future will tx not only the best place to be born in, bu the best place to live, and the best placi tn which to end one's davs. Both for Its effect upon fattening and upon health a small amount of wood ashes should be given to swine. The food without this is rich in phosphorii acid, but has little lime, and the equiv lent should be thus supplied. Youths' Department. SEED AND HARVEST. When th? balmy winds of snrins-timo Blow their breath acro-ts the plain, Melcinjr oT the -nnws of winter, FilLasr things with life axilla Then within tho earth's broad bosom Scatter we the precious ced. Looking forward to tho harvest. Providing for a future need. And. as days of summer lengthen. How we watch with e iger eyes The slow progress of our haryest, Giowin to a ripening size. For wbeu summer's heat I over. A11J autumn winds nu blowiu; pa-jt, If we've iicen faitiirul to our duty. The seed will bring good fruit at List.' Thus it U life's seed Is planted, ' Planted in our youthful days. And it gi-ows in o a harvest. As we yo upon life's ways. If we plant the seed of wisdom. And destroy the weed of -in, H-ippy-lives and many blowings Is the rew:ird wo'll surely win. No matter what our worldly prout. No matter hi what place we go, Our reward will lie according To the kind of seed we sow. 1 ... 1 Then as we sow good seed In spring-time. Let us sow irocd seed in youth; Always trying to he faithrul To our duty, and to truth. Boston Pilot. ANIMAL PECULIARITIES. An article on the peculiarities of a few of the countless animal species may interest the boys, and men also, for that matter. The theme is inexhausti ble. Infinite wisdom in the creation, wherein man has never been enabled, and never will be able, to discover a single error, is as manifest in the brute formation and instincts, as elsewhere. Observe, lirst, the camel genus, includ ing the dromedary, with their singular adaptation to the traversing of the desert. Note his spreading feet, that shall not sink deeply iu the sand, and1 thereby im cde his progress: also his self-sustaimng supply of water, during six or ten days; and, more particularly, the little plat of short, stiff hair within his nostrils, through which, by closing down the upper lid. he can sift air from tho sand for respiration in like manner as fish sepanite air from water, through the "gills." His spinal column and fiaxwax, which support his head and ong neck in a horizontal and curved position, upward, are more peculiar than in the horse or ox, or any other of the shorter-necked animals. He is very docile, possesses great strength, with astonishing power of endurance. DeQuincy. in his narrative of the grand exodus of the Ca'mue Tartars, states that the camel was the only animal which endured, to the end, the terrible hardships of hunger, thirst, cold and heat, wh'eh reduced six hundred thou sand souls to two hundred thousand. The moose has a combination of mouth and nostrils which enables him to eat irrass and other herbs under water, and an especially straight, trim and' delicate leg and hoofs, which shall not cntan rle him iu the meshes of herbs and bru-di wood. He is the animal of the swamp." as the camel is of the desert He is said to out trot the fleet est horse, but never canters. ' The hog. in his inner formation, re sembles man more, nearly th m any other known' animal. He has his com bined carnivorous and granivorous stomach, and1 his contrariness. As contRiry a? a hog." is a proverb. He has been taught to read figures and letters and to do other astonishing thing His tusks are horns, not teeth. Fancy a row of teeth, with a horn in their midst. Yet it is a horn, the same as if upon the top of his head, it has the pith of the horn; and a moment's reflection must convince even the skeptc thaV a tooth would not answer the intended purpose. It would break and he would be worsted in battle. As he is. the wild boar is said to have gored the king of beasts, the lion, to his van- quishment and death. His greatest peculiarity is that he is not a ruminant, in common with the split-hoofed genus; and because he does not chew the cud, the Jews rejected him as unclean. 1 he flog species have very many pe-l cuuarities Ihe hound, the coach, the bull, shepherd, drover, setter, the noble Newfoundland and St. Bernard, and others. My little terrier, or ratter, has hair growing in a curve over his eyes, which hides their glare from the cun ning rat. yet does not obstruct his own vision. This gives him great advan tage, like unto pussy-cats' sensitive "smellers.' The dog never sweats or perspires, he has to "loll" it out of his mouth. Though he runs until he falls, his jacket is not moistened like other animals; and he can plunge into the water at the end of a heated race with out injury, or the rheumatic pains to which man and other animals are sub jected. Yet, his skin, when tinned, is nearly as porous as that of the deer. This " fact would seem to require an inner impervious skin, or film, which alike estops perspiration and excludes water. The hound's keenest sagacity cannot scent the femalo fox, and pre sumably, other of the lesser mammals, during their nursing season. While she yields milk her paws have no trace of smell. Their nursling3, in their state of helplessness, are mercifully pro tected. The dog is the emblem of fi delity, as the anchor is of hope. Pussy can watch her mortal foes without shutting her eyes or winking. I never could discover puss moistening the pupils of her eyes by moving a pre ceptible film over them, as do some birds, the owl in particular. Newsboy's Appeal. Hope for Doll Bojs. There is no task devolving on aschool boy more irksome than composition writing. When I was a lad, my tutor in whose head ideas lay imbedded like fire in a flint sought to emphasize the fact that, with a Tittle practice, it was as easy as turning over; and so it is, when you know how. He would set no rules for composition, being impressed with the Platonic idea that rhetoric consists in ruling the minds of men and that this art cannot be learned from text books. W hencver the boys complained of the difficulty they experienced in evolving their ideas, he would say: " Do not be in haste to accomplish a great deal at the outset. Study hart' and practice constantly. Be easy, uatural and wide-awake. Never imi tate, except so far as it may be neces sary to form your taste. Read good books nay, the best books and trust yonr instinct to the end." Most boys fail in their early projects because their ambition outruns their energy. Our youth should not forget that they are boys and girls, and that great things will not be required of them until their powers have matured. Study natmre; be easy and unatlect nd; never spread your wings until you have learned to walk with a firm step on the ground.! One aim should be kept steadily iu viuwr:..- Do the best you can. What is failure to ,a ,.miud disci plined in theuigher uses of its talents? it is but a whip that spurs it on to re newed effort. Our early failures give us hints, of success. Oftentimes, when writing a note,- we say, apologetically: "In great haste." This is a fair excuse for one who has few intervals of leisure. But it will not avail as an apology for the shortcom ings of a work which is supposed to en gage our best'talents. and which Invites criticism. Nothing great was ever ac-' complished in haste. Agatharius, an Athenian painter, valued himself upon the celerity and ease with which he executed his work. Whereupon, Xeuxis, the greater artist, remarked to him: "HI boast, it shall be of the slow ness with which I finish mine." Once get the notion out of your head that there is an easy path to fame and; fortune, and yon may soon boast of s wisdom greater, than that of the school room. Some bovs with large natural endow ments are the envv ot their less-favored companions. And yet many a lad ripens like fruit out o season, and owes his bright appearance without to Imper fections within. I do not know whether or not to mar vel at the genius of these people the more, from the fact that Mozart and Bnethoven comnosed music in their in fanev, Koldoni wrote a comedy before his eighth birthday. Chatterton lisped in numbers, and John Stuart Mill read Greek at 'tlie age of four. Inspiration oi'tthis sort does not seize all young' people alike, and as few minds expand under hot-house influences, we need not regret Ae fact. Jean Paul Richter likens a melan choly child, with an old head on its young shoulders, to a butterfly without wings, or Cupid in a Dutch Collin. There is often moro push in a dull boy than in a prodigy who "shows off" to admiring audiences, and is pampered and spoiled. Let no dull boy despair, if he studies hard and j'et fails to take a prize or reach the head of his class. " Labor," said Tom Moore, " is tho parent of all tho lasting monuments of this world, whether in verse or stone, in poetry or in pyramids." Many dunces in the school-room, like Goldsm'th and Scott, have won the prizes later in life. Golden Days. The Two Hats. They were about the same size, and looked much alike. They were great friends. One w:is a wise old rat, and the other was a young rat who thought himself wise. The wise old rat we will call Craty. His home was in Farmer Kural's cellar: that is to say, the f rout-door of it opeu ed into the cellar; but there was a back door in the garden, ami there were passage ways under ground, leading to the corn-barn and the drain. Crafty had studied the ways of the human race for nianv years. In his view man was created for the beuehtof rats. He had known men who were al most as sly as rats; but on the whole he looked upon them as inferior beings. Simple, who lived close by, had also a great contempt for men and women. He olten boasted that he got his board and lodging all at their expense. But he did not know half as much as he thought he did; and many a time he had been kept from getting into a scrape by his good friend Crafty. One night, about twelve o'clock, Crafty and Simple started out together to see what the could find. Having poked into every corner of Farmer Bund's cellar, without getting anything better than raw potatoes, they made their way up stairs. Just at tho head of the stairs they came upon a sort of wire safe in which there w;is amost tempting bitof cheese. The door of the safe was o.ien. "Heie's a feast." said Simple; and he was about to dart into the safe. " Stop, my youngfriend," said Cni'ty, sitting lolt" upright on his haunches. "'1 hat cheese has been put there on purpose for us." " Well, then, wliy shouldn't we take it?" said Simple. VTase my advice," said Crafty,' ' and let the cheese alone.- Many a fine young rat has. been cut off iu the flower of his otitli by snatching at the first good th ng that happened: to be put in his way. That sale is what men call a trap, and ?L is a very unsaie thing for you to meddle with." A few ii'ghts afterAhe two friends started out onee more, and in the mid dle of the cellar they found a nice -barrel of meal. Simple was on the point of jumping right int it; but old Crafty stopped him again. " Don t you know bettor than that, you greeuhorn?" said he. "Never jump into a barrel iu. that way. Look here." And, crawling on the rim of the barrel, he flapped his long tail into tle, meal. "Splash, splash!" Bight under the meal there was water. "Ho. ho. Farmer Bural!" said Crafty, "thats your game, is itr ion can keep this meal for your own eating." But the next time that the two rats went out together, poor Simple did not come off" so well. In spite of his friend's advice, he went after some bread crumbs that were scattered 011 the top of what seemed to be a harmless wood en box. It was a trap, of course. Simple was caught, and Cratt- had to go back to his hole alone. Nursery. A tiurdjm iu a Cellar. In a brick house close to the brow of a precipice at the coiner of Palisade and Charles street. West Hoboken, lives a Frenchman not yet sixty j'ears of age, bnt looking much older, his form beiug stooped by ysars of work in a stooping posture. He is Jean Conord, a mush room cultivator. His father followed the same trade in a small village iu the Department of the Seine. His earliest jears were associated with mushroom beds, and when his father died lie suc ceeded him in the business, which he followed until he was thirty-three years of age. Twenty-six years ago he came to New York, and established himself at Forty-ninth street and Sixth avenue, where ho remained one year perfecting his arrangement and securing contracts and customers. Then he removed to the place he uow occupies in West Ho boken, where a reporter recently vis- itcd him. Before entering the cellars at the rear of the house, where the mushrooms are grown. Mr. Conord showed tho re porter a handful of rich earth. Here aud there upou its surface he pointed out what looked like very short white threads, and these, he said, were tho germs of the miiihroom. He planted them iu the nutritious soil, where they would, all things being favorable, iu a few hours throw up the little button shaped heads that he loved to see. The cellars in wh.ch the cultivation J is in progress number fourteen, each sixty-live feet by fourteen. They are arched over the top, and arc very dry and quite dark. Taking a candle and giving his visitor another, M. Conord entered one of the cellars, the reporter following him. The atmosphere" was heavy with the odorol mushrooms, and the dim light of the candles showed rows of earth, similar to that already described, placed on narrow benches about four leet high and extending all around the cellar. In the.-'o the white germ was everywhere visible, while iu certain places little bunches of mush rooms were seen. The rows of earth were conical, and not more than six or seven inches iu height. They were very smooth, and not a particle of soil was permitted to fall tinou the cleanly swept floor. Everything in the cellars was in the most "perlect order. The mushroom is so sensitive that the pres ence of a substance with a strong or rank odor would, in all probability, de stroy the entire crop. "My life is passed in these cellars," said the old mushroom cultivator, med itatively, as he emerged from the dark cave. " I have no interest iu any other pursuit For years 1 have lived only to grow mushrooms. I force nothing,, but merely try to remove out of Na ture's path some of the obstacles that she encounters in thi3 country. In la A 1 r J i lvkai n s nlinli Hmi Kin Tt . 4 L... 1 prevent the destruction of my little buttons. But I have raised something larger than those you have seen, i have more than once produced mush rooms weighing over nine ooncen, but such are rare even ia France." N.'Y. Sun. "autc A "au "" au-" "", ut ueie i nis hands an' hops np an' down an' the intense cold of winter aud the I calls fur me to come out and be pnlver scorchiug heat of summer have to be zod, Ize crwine to consider befo I go carefully guarded against The cold I out. If I am purty 'sartin dat I kin especially is ruinous, and in winter 1 1 wollop h-m. Ize gwine to feel honor have to be constantly on the watch to hound to rush out an" hrnak his nose. FACTS AND FIGURES. Refined cotton-seed oil is supplant ing lard for culinary purposes in Ala bama. Thimbles were invented by the Dutch. They were first made in En gland bv John Lofting, in 1635. An eighteen-pound sweet potato is among the Georgia exhibits at the At lanta Exposition. x There are fifteen sardine factories now running in Eastport, Me., employ ing from 800 to 1.000 hands. -A gigantic enterprise is about to be launched' in Philadelphia with a capi tal of $2,000,000 for the production o! glucose. Over" one million sewing-machine needles were, made during the month of O tober at a manuiactory in Man Chester, Conn. A Georgia farmer has a gourd-vin with over twenty gourds on it that will hold each an average or" one-half bushel of grain. Salt beef from America is to be in troduced in the British Navy instead o' the English article heretofore furnished from the victualing establishment at Depford. Dead horses are reported to be ad vancing in price iu Philadelphia, which is due to the increased price of glue. They are scarce and wanted now at five dollars each, instead of three dollars as heretofore. The eucalypus trees grow so rap idly in California that they are now be ing cut for luel near Florence. The forest is large enough to make the vis tas opened by the tailing of trees very pirturesque. In France a pearl costing sixteen dollars is now imitated for fifty cents or one dollar, aud sU successfully as to be sold at the price of the genuine article to any one not a veritable expert, and even the latter class are often nuzzled. The artificial pearl, however, is simply a glass bead or globe which is first coated on the inside with a glue made of parchment, then treated with a pe culiar so-ctueu "essence," after which it is filled with wax. The essence is the chief pearly ingredient, and is ob tained by rubbing together white fish, so as to remove the scales; the whole is then strained through liuen aud lctt to deposit its sediment, which is the es sence in question. It requires about 17,000 tish to produce a pound of the pearly essence. i WIT AND WISDOM. Egotism is an affection of the I. Toledo American. Horse thieves are generally high strung individuals out in the Territo ries. Wit anil Wisiotn. The girls of Rochester, N. Y., are learning to plav the violin. A girl with a fiddle is a neat accompaniment to a young man with a bang. Burlington Hawkeyc. An editor wrote a personal about a young man going to spark his girl. When it was printed he was horrified to seethe letter 4n" substituted for the "r" in the word spark. Whitehall Times. " Give the young man a chance," says a writer. Yes; give him a chance at a church festival, in a raffle for a blue-eyed doll in a poke bonnet and "just too lovel for anvthing." Give him a chance to go out and kick him self full of holes because he went to the festival. Williamsport Breakfast Table. "So you go to school. Charley," said the laidv visitor. " You like togo to school, don't you?'' " No, I don't," replied Charley. Don't like t go to school! Why not, Charley?" "'Cause the gals is always kissin' me." " Oh!" said the lady with a smile. And Char ley's father" murmured: "Poor ohild! tfould that 1 were in his place! Alas! how true it is that blessings brighten as they take their flight!" Boston Tran script. A shoemaker on Congress street has a parrot which has been taught to use various expressions, and the other day as a seedy-looking individual slow ly passed the spot the bird screamed out: "You're drunk! You're drunk!" The man halted, took a long look at the bird, and there was a touch of pity in his tones as he finally said: "You'd better go at it and learn the difference between a drunken man and a feller who can't raise enough monev to make his breath smell." Detroit Free lrets. In the clothing house: "I want a bang-up, common -sense suit. One that'll be dressy and not too good for business." "That's just the cheese. Every way equal to custom-made. Nobody'll'ever know the difference, and a third less in price. Same thing made up would cost ou ' "H'm; yes. How much have I got to pay for an overcoat to match?" "I can sell you an overcoat. There. Ain't that a daisy? Silk lined, for ? to you. you know." "Got any o' them thirty-seven ?ent suspenders left? I'm comin' all to pieces " Dealer does .him up a pair and forgets to ask him to call again. New Haven Register. m How to Shake Hands. There are only two or three people now living who can successfully shake hands. There is a good deal of hand shaking done through the country, es pecially at this season of tho year, but only a verv small per cent, of the shakers ami shaVees know how to do it so as to get the entire amount of exhila ration out of it. Some grab the hand of an adversary in a quick, nervous manner that scares the victim nearly to death, while others slide the cold and clammy paw at you so that you feel the same a when you drop a cold raw oyster with vinegar on it down your back. If you are shaking hands with a lady, incline the head forward with a soft and graceful yet half-timid move ment, like a boy climbing a barbed-wire fence with a fifty-pound watermelon. Look gently in her eyes with a kind of pleading smile; beam on her features a bright and winsome beam, say somer thing that you have heard some one else say on similar occasions, and in the meantime shako her hand in a subdued yet vigorous way, not as though you were trying to make a mash by pulver izing her lingei:, nor yet in too con servative a manner, allowing her hand to fall with a sickening thud when you let go., Care should be taken also not to hang onto the hand more than half an hour in public, as bystanders might make remarks. This is now considered quite outre and mandamus. BUI Nye's Boomerang. Honor. Trustee Pullback arose to secure in formation. He wanted to know if honor compelled a colored man to ac cept a challenge to l?ght a duel. If not, what would honor compel him t do in case an enemy halted at his gate and dared him to come out of his house and get mashed. "Honor am a citrus thing, Brudder Pullback." replied Resident Gardner. "In case you are a better shot dan your ineniv it am honorable to meet on de field an kill him. If you think it will sartin to kill you it am honorable to excuse 3 ourself on de ground of bavin' a game leg. If I made an inemy an h enmo nlnnor tn mv oahin an snits on . . .- Ii he looms up like a side-hill, an ii by 'pears to hev lots of science, Ize gwine to send my ole woman out dar to tll him dat if he doan' My outer dat she'll call de hull purleece force an' pmt him whar de calves can't bite him. Detroit Free Tres. KENDALLS C Zl2 lli -" x . w - x - - G3r - X 7 FffiNMirslfc (spavin cure! m We feel p sitive that every man can nave perfect success in every case 11 he will only u e good common sense in applying KENDALL'S' SPAVIN CURE, and persevere in bad cases oi lone standing. Kad below the experience of others. . From CO I. L. T. FOSTER. Youi town, O . ii iv 10. 18). Ir. IJ. J. ht i.all .v Co.,G "tits: 1 hai 1 Vi-ry vahuiblt Uanilih'ti:iian colt vhirh I prized vr h'2h : Us had a larg him.- p.ii on j 1 l md a Miialler . ie . n tin- othi.r nliici made linn vltj litn. , I 1-ad liiui under the haisre of tw Vetrhia urei'iis which fulfil tn -ure uim. 1 va o dav readinjr !n- 1 ivertisetnrtit "f Ken dall's ij)avin Cure in tlic Ohicao Ex nre. I (Icteimin. .1 tit once to try it and notour l uists uci-1 -d" for it, they ordere.l il.n-r lottir-; I took them all and tlimiLt I would z ve it a thorough tiial, 1 med it aecuiUini; to directions and 1 the fmrtli day the eolt reased to b ' l-iiiu, and the lumps had entirely dis i,..-ircl 1 used hut tine Lottie and the colts limlo are as free Irom lumps nd as smooth a any horse in the state. He is entirely cured. The i-iire was o rfinarkiLIe that I let two f my neighbors. ha elite remaining two Lotties, who are now itsiinj it. Very ItcajMTtfulIy, L. T. Foster. KENDALL'S SPAVIN CURE; Frum liEl'. P.2T. Gil A XG Eli. ITfsIdiii:: Elder St. Alb ms DUtrict. St. Albans. Vt , Jan. J9. 1SS0.. Dr. B. J. Kendall ,V Co., Gents: In repl to your letter I will say that my expi rii-iiee with Kendall's Spavin Cute' lets been very satisfactory in deed Three or four ri-:tr asn I pro cured a bottle of your agent, and with it. cured ;i horse of lameness caused by : spavin. Last season my horse became very lame and I turned him ut for a few weeks when he became better, but when I put him 011 the road he grew wor? when I discovered that a ring lioiii was forming. 1 procured a bottle of K'-ndal's Spavin Cure and with less than a hot tie cured him so that he is not lame, neither can th- bunch be touud. Respectfully yours, P. N'. Granger, KENDALL'S SPAVIN CURE 02V HUMAN FLESH it hits been ascertained bu repeated tri ils to be. the very best liniment ever used for any deep seated pain of haiy standimi or of short daratiun. Aho for CUItXS. UrXIUXS. FitOST KITES or any bruise, cut or lameness Some are of rani to use it on human jlesh simply because it is a horse medicine, but you should rtmembir that what is good for BEAST is good for MAX, and tre know from Experience th at "KENDALL'S SPAVIN CUBE' can be used on a child I year old with perfect safety. Its Effects are wonderful on human Jlesh audit does not blister or make a sore. Try it and be convinced KSNDAI.IiS SPAVIN CURE! Kendall's Spavin Cure is sure In its ethcts. mild in its action as it do.-s not blister, yet it i penetrating and powerful to reach air u.-ep seated pun rr to remove any bony growth or any other enlargement if used t'oi several la- . nch as spavins, splints, curbs, callous, sprains, sw .lnt'-. .uiv litueiiess ml all -i-largements of the joints or limbs, or rheumatism .njiiiin ami for anv nirit s- lor which a liniment is Used for man or beat. It is now i. noun to 1 e th.- best i:i nient for man ever used, acting mild and yet certain in its effects. 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J.Kendall fc Co., Gent: In jm- to vou and inviolr", I think ( oil ''at B tiii to let you know that I have removed two Lone p ivins with "Kendall's Spiv in Cure," one ery lare one, don't know how Ion.; the spavin bad been there. 1 have owned the. horse eitjht months. It took me four mouths to take the lare one on and two for the small one. 1 have usimI ten bottles. T.ie horse Is entirely well, not at all stllf. and 110 Ltineh to be seen r felt. Thi- is a won-(!.-iful medicine. It is a new tiling here, hut if it does for all what it has done for m- its sule will be very great. Respectfully yours, CiiAs. E. Ia :kkk. STA fFME.YT MA DE UXDEli OJ TH. To Whom it May Concern. In tho j ear I8" I treated with Kendall. Spavin Cure." a bone p ivin of several mouths growth, nearly half as large as a hen pgir, and completely stopped the lameness :md removed the enlargement. I fiae worked the horse eer since very hard, and he never has been lame, nor could 1 ever see any diUercnce in the size of the hock joints since I treated him with -'Kendall's Spavin Cure." K. A. Gainics. Enosburgh v. lis. Vt.. Feb. i. 'VX Sworn and subscribed to before me this 25th day or Feb.. a. d. 1S71. John G. Jknnk. Justice of l'eace. WHEN YOU TfiAVEL ALWAYS TAKE THE B. & M. R. R. Kxamine map and time tables carefully It w ill be seen that this line connects w itit C. 15. x. q. It. K. ; in fact they are under one management, and Liken together torm what is called 1 nr Shortest nnd Quickest Line to ST. DES MOINES, ROCK ISLAND, .A.ad Especially to all Poiats -IX IOWA, WISCONSIN, INDIANA, ILLINOIS, MU'HHiAN, OHIO. ritlNCII'AI. AllVAXTARRS AUK Through coaches from destination on C. It. A; j. ft. K. :No transfers; changes I'.cmi '. 11. .t (j It. K. to connect ing lines all maddu Union Depots. " THROUGH TICKETS AT LOWEST RAIES CAX UK HAI Cpt ii application at any station on the road. 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