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i h f 1 V N n 1 K h THE JOURNAL. ISSUED EVIRY WEDNESDAY, M. K. TTJUuSTER & CO., Proprietors and Publishers. t3T OFFICE, Eleventh St., up ftairs in Journal Building. TERMS: Ferfer, MxMmUh, 1 Thee afaufe, Slasrle Opie, CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION. C. H- VaxWyck, U. 3. Senator, Neb raska Citv. Al-vix SaOXDKRS,U. 5.Senator,Omaha. E. K. Valextikk, Rep.. West Point. T. J. Majors, Contingent Rep Peru. STATE DIRECTORY: ALBISUS SaNCK, Governor, Lincoln. S.J. Alexander, S-'cretary of State. John Wallichs, Auditor, Lincoln. G. M.. Bartlett, Treasurer, Lincoln. C.J. Dilworth, Attorney-General. W. W. W. Jones, Supt. Public Instruc. CI. Sobe:. Warden of Penitentiary. SirGouid?"- prison iKs,pect"- J. O. Carter. Prison Physician. H. P. ilathewson, 'Supt. Insane Asylum. JUDICIARY: Oeorse B. LafceJ AMC,,te judges. Amata Cobb, t s. Maxwell, Chief Justice, FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT. G. W. Post, Judge. York. M. B. Reese, District Attorney, Wahoo. LAND OFFICERS: M. B. Hoxie, Register. Grand Inland. Wm. Anyan, Receiver, Grand Island. LEGISLATIVE: SUte Senator, M. K. Turner. ' Representative, G. W. Lehman. COU XT Y DIRECTORY': .T. G.Hijrgin-. J'ounty Judge. John Staun'er. County Clerk. J. W. Early, Tr-a,urer. D. C. Kavaitiugh, Sheriff. L.J. Crmer, Surveyor. M.M.iher. j. Joseph River, V Countv Commiioner. II. J Hud.,011. t Dr. A.Heintz. Coroner. J. E. MoMcrief Supt. of Schools. Byron Millett, ) , .- ... -VY.M. Corneliu-.f Justice-of thePeace. CITY DIRECTORY: J. R. Maher. Mayor. H. J. Hud-on. Clerk. John F. Wermuth. Treasurer. m Geo. G. Bowman, Police Judge. L.J. Cramer, Engineer. COUNVILMEN: 1st Ward John Rickly. G. A. chroeder. 2d FTard-Wm. Lamb. I. filuck. 3d Ward J. Rwrni'icn. A. A. Smith. Celmrabat Pout Oflice. Open on Sundays frni 11 a.m. to 12m. and from -1:30 to i p. m. Business hour except Sunday f a m. to rf p. M. Eastern mails close at 11 a. m. Western mail clo-e at 4:lo P.M. Wail leave Columbus for Lost Creek, Genoa, St. Edward. Albion, Platte Center, Ilumphrey, Maiiison and Nor folk, every day (except Sundays) at 4:.V p. in." Arrive at 10:. V. For Shell Crek and Creston, on Mon days and Friday, 7 A. M., returning at " p. M., s-ime d ivs. For Alexis, Patron and David City, Tuesday-, Thursdiv and Saturdays, I P. v Arrive- at I- M. For Conklinir Tueda ail Saturdays 7 a. m. Arrives G p in. -ame davs . t. I. Time Table. Eastward Bound. Emigrant, No. 6, leaves at C:2. a. m. I'ameng'r, " 4, " " ll:0tJ a. ra. Freight, " , " " 2:13 p. in. Freight. " 10, " " 4:30 a m. Westxcard Bound. Freight, No. ", leae at 2:00 p. m. Passeng'r, " 3, " " 4-:27 p. m. Freight, " 9, " " 0:00 p. m. Emigrant, "7. t4 " . 1:30 a. m. Every day except Saturday the three lines leading to Chicago connect with 1' P. train at Omaha. On Saturdays there will be but one train a day, a .hown by the following schedule: O.. N .t B. II. ROAD. Time Schedule No. 4. To take effect .Tune 2, 'SI. For the government and information of employees only. The i'ompanv re-ervei the right to vary therefrom at pleasure. Trains daily, Sundays excepted. fiuhrftnl Round. Inward Bound. folumbii- 4:35 p. m. Norfolk 7:"3 a. ar. J.o-tCreek.":2l PI. Centre 5:42 Humphrey 6;2o Madison 7:04 31unon 7:43 Norfolk 8:04 Munson 7:47 Madion .:2t I Uumphrev9:0T ' PI. Centre J:4 ' LotCreekl0.09 " I Columbus 10:55 " ALBION BRANCH. 'olumbus 4:45 p.m. , Albion 7:43 a.m. l.ostCreek5:31 ' I St.EdwardS:30 ' Genoa ... 6:1G " 'Genoa 9:14 " Ft.Eaward7:0O " Lost Creek9:59 " Albion ..7:47 ' Columbus 10:45 " B. & M. TIME TABLE. .Leaves Columbus, 5:45 a.m. " Bellwood 6:30 " David City, 7.20 " Garrison, 7:46 " . Ulyeee, s:25 " 44 Staplehurst, S:5.1 44 Seward !:30 44 Rubv. 9:"0 " 44 Milford. 10:15 ' Pleasant Dale, 10:45 44 Emerald 11:10 " Arrives at Lincoln, 11:50 M. Leaves Lincoln at 12:50 p. m. and ar rives in Columbus 7-'p. M. Makes close connection at Lincoln for all points eat. west and south. HENRY LITERS, BLACKSMITH AND Wagon TAXaker, Sfcopa ner the Koandrj. .outh of A. it S. Depot. AH kind of wood and iron work on "Wagons, Buggies-. Farm Machinery, &u Keeps on hands the TIXPKEX SPBIXG BUGGY, and other eastern buggies. ALSO, THE ITtirst & Bradley Plows. NEBRASKA HOUSE, S. J. HABMOY, Prj'r. Nebnska Ave., South of Depot, COL.II-'MBtTS, Eli. A new house, newly furnished. Good accommodations. Board by-day or week at ieaeonable rates. 2et u. Finit-CI&Mi Tmble Meals, 25 Cte. Lodgings. . . .25 CU. 38-2tf FAIXE1H! BE OF GOOD CHEER. Let not the low prices of your products dis courage you. but rather limit your ex penses to your resources. You can do eo bv stopping at the new home of your fellow farmer, where youean lind good accommodations cheap. For hay for team for one night and day. 25 cts. A room furnished with a cook stove and bunks, in connection with the stable free. Tho6e wishing can be accommo dated at the house of the undersigned at the following rates: Meals 25 cents beds lOceHts. J. B.SENECAL, H mile east of Gerrard's Corral. lite VOL. XII.-N0. 48. 1T7ILYX8I CA1DS. pOKELIlTS 4c SUULITAH, A TTORNEYS-A I-LA W, Up-stairs in Gluck Building, 11th street, Above the New bank. JUSTICE Of THE FEACE AND NOTABi PUBLIC, riTTE Center, Neb. NOTARY P UBLIC, 12th Street, 2 doow weit of Htmmoid Home, Columbus, Neb. 491-y pK. 31. . TIIUKSTOJU RESIDENT DENTIST. Office over corner of 11th and North-st. All operations tirst-class and warranted. C HICAtiO BARHEK HOP! HENRY WOODS, Pkop'k. !3"Every thing in first -class style. Also keep the best of cigars. 516-y rcALLISTER BKO., A TTORNE YS A T LA W, Office up-stairs in McAllister's build ing. Uth St. VT. A. McAllister. Notary Public. J. M. MACKAKLAND, B. R. COWDERY, tterc7 ui Sjtar PaKic.. CeCJt. LAW AXD COLLECTION OFFICE OK MACFARLAND & COWDERY. Columbus, : : : Nebraska. TJ U.KU9I1E, Uth St., nearly opp. Gluck's store, SelU Harnens, Saddles, Collars, Whip, Blankets, Curry Combs, Brushes, etc., at the lowest possible prices. Repairs promptly attended to. BYRON MILLETT, Justice of the Peace and Notary Public. BYR03I MILLETT,. ATTORNEY AT LAW, Columbus Nebraska. N. B. He will give do4P attention to all business entrusted to him. 243. T OU1S SCHREIBER, BLACKSMITH AND WAGON MAKER. All kinds of repairing done on short notice. Buggies, Wagons, etc., made to order, and all work guaranteed. JSTShop opposite the ,l Tattersall," Olive Mtreet. 25 Tfi J. f4Ul'G,M. 1., PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Columbian, Neb. Ojfice Nebraska Aenue, opposite the Clother Houe, three doors north of Bank, up-stairs. Consultation in Ger man and English. TAMES PEARSALL IS PREPARED, WITH FIRST - CLASS APPA RA TUS, To remove houses at reasonable rates. Give him a call- VOTICE XO TEACHKKS. J. E. Moncrief, Co. Supt., Will be in his office at the Court House on the first Saturday of each month for the purpose of examining applicants for teacher's certificates, and for the tranactton of any other business pertaining to schools. 57-y WILLIAM RYAN, DEALER IN KENTUCKY WHISKIES TFtne. Ales, Cigars and Tobacco. !3J"SchiIz's Milwaukee Beer constant ly on hand.Rl Eleventh St., Columbus. Nb. D K. CARL 8CHOTTE, VETERINARY SURGEON. Speaks German,. English and Scandi navian. Office at Dowty. Weaver & Co's drug store. Columbus, Nebraska. Drs. MITCHILL & M AKTYH, tOLlMBLS mm i tm& nenm Sutgeons O., N. & B. H. R. R., Astt. Surgeons U. P. R'y, COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA. JS. MURDOCK & SON, a Carpenters and Contractors. Have had an extended experience, and will guarantee satisfaction in work. All kinds of repairing done on short notice. Our motto is, Good work and fair prices. Call and give us an oppor tunitytoestimateforyon. I5TShop o 13th St., one door west of Friedhof & Co's. store. Columbus. Nebr. 4S"J-y COLUM BUS Restaurant and Saloon! E. D. SHEEHAN, Proprietor. "Wholesale ind Retail Dealer in For eign Wines, Liquors and Cigars, Dub lin Stout, Scotch and English Ales. 13T Kentucky Whiskies a Specialty. OTBTEXS in their season, by the case can or dish. lit Street. Sentk of Dayot. LAW, REAL ESTATE AND GENERAL COLLECTION OFFICE, b y W.S.GEER MONEY TO LOAN in small lots on farm property, time one to three years. Farms with some improvements bought and sold. Office for the present at the Clother House, Columbus, Neb. 473-x F1. SCHEi3K,: Manufacturer and Dealer in CIGARS AND TOBACCO. ALL KINDS OF SMOKING ARTICLES. Store on Olive St.,near the old Post-office OolusnbuaHabrasJca. 447-ly ADVERTISEMENTS . MnjJlY! MM! Mrs. M. S. Drake & Co., HAVE JUST RECEIVED A LARGE STOCK OF spkiivg ao vnnKK MILLIIE8Y AH FAIEY 13" A FULL ASSORTMENT OF EV ERYTHING BELONGING TO A FIRST-CLASS MILLIN ERY STORE.Jgl Xebraska Avenue, tico doors north of the State Bank. 27-tf BECKER & WELCH, PROPRIETORS OF SHELL CREEK MILLS. MANUFACTURED AND WHOLE SALE DEALERS IN FLOUR AND MEAL. OFFICE. COLUMBUS. NEB Dr. A. HEINTZ, DEALER IN HIS. MEBICIIES. CHEMICALS. WirVES, LIQUORS, Fine Soaps, Brushes, PEEFUMEEY, Etc., Etc., And all articles usually kept on hand b 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 for sale at from '-.W) to $10.00 per acre for cash, or ou five or ten year time, in annual payments to -uiit pur chasers. We have alo a larjre and choice lot of other lands, improved md unimproved, for alc- at low price and on reasonable terms. Also business and residence lots in the i-ity. We ke'p a complete, abstractor title to all real es tate in Platte County. 633 COM'MBl'N, Elt. Hbm Qsslsich l zlk WHOLESALE & RETAIL GrEOCEES! ALSO DEALERS IN .Crockery, Glassware, Lamps, Etc.. and touDtrv rrodnee ol all Kinds. THE BEKT OF FI.OIJR AI. WAW kKPT OX IIA.n. FOR THE LEAST MONEY! 3f"Goods delivered free of charsre to any part of the city. Term cash. Comer Eleventh and Olive Streets, Columbus, Neb. TVM. BECKER, SEALER IN ALL KINDeOP FAMILY-GROCERIES'! I KEEP CONSTANTLY ON HAND A WELL SELECTED STOCK. Teas, Coffees, Sugar, Syrups, Dried and Canned Fruits, . and other Staples a Specialty. Cio4 DeliTrel Free le aiy part ofthc City. I AM ALSO AGENT FOR THE CEL EBRATED COQUHXARO Farm and Spring Wagons, of which I keep a constant supply on hand, but few their eqnal. In style" and quality, second to none. CALX AJTD LEARH PRICES. Cor. Thirteenth and K Streets, near 4 J , Jf ." Jb X. Depot. MS iilumluis COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY, MAKCH 29, 1882. WAGES." It was a merry broot, that ran Beside my cottaae door all day; I heard it, as I sat and span. Singing a pleasant song alway. I span my thread with mickle care ! Hie weight with my heart Increased; The spring crept by uw unaware; The brook dried np the music ceased. I missed it little, took small thought That -ilent was its merry din. Because its melody w as wrought Into the thread 1 sat to spin. ir. It was a lark that sanr most sweet Among-t the -unripe clouds so red; I knew hU nest lay near my feet. Although he sang so liili o'erhead. And though he sang so loud and clear lp in the golden clouda above, Ills thro&bingonuseemed wondrous near; I twined it with the web I wove. The long day's story still drew on; Then autumn came ; the summer fled; The musicthut I loved wa- gone; The song waa hushed the singer dead. in. I wove on with a steadfast heart; My web jrrew greater, fold ou fold, I bore it to the crowded mart; They paid inj-tvage- in good rid gold Red gold, and fine. I turned mc back. The city's dust in my throat No brook ran babbling down its track. No bird trilled out a tender note But eitv noise, and rush, and heat, The gold wa red like minted blood. Oh ' for the t-ool grans to my feet. The bird's song, and the babbling flood. IV. I turnet. me, and I went my way My lonely, empty way, alone: The gold within mv bo-om lay; My wo en web of dreams was gone! Did the gold pay me? No , in sooth, Gold ne er paid for brook and bird. Nor for the coined dreams of youth, Nor for the music that I heard. Mv web L-gone' The gold is mine, And they who bought it, can they see What dr"ain- :md fan jit's intertwine With ever woven thread for me? Chamber? Journal. TWO LETTERS. PvnADi-E Vale, Colo., August 13. Drar Ma r Women ut here are a.- scarce as strawberries among the Esquimaux, and what few there are invariably are the wives of somebody, and hold themselves away above ' 'hiring out. ' Everything is topsy turvy. Th.'re is nothing for it but to im port. The only girl I knew Eat married another fellow, but I trust to your Judg ment. Hi.-e to the occasion. Pick me out a good-natured girl. Represent to her the delights of Western life; put me in as good a light a- you can ; appeal to her compas sion: per-uaJe her; draw ou me; get her trous-eau, buy her ticket, ship her. and then gratitude pales beside the feeling I shall have for you. This is written at a sort of breakfast the coffee is execrable. I have the confidence of desperation in your success. nopefullv thine, Victor Bkaciily. The recipient of this epistle pondered lonr. He knew of but one who would not presently become uneongenial in spite of the broad margin of qualities given, he was a little mite of a wom an, fiery and tough as whip-cord. Hardin put ou his hat and overcoat and went out, hailed a street-car, and ten minutes after was standing in a room sweet with tlowers and bright with sunshine. The door opened and in swept a small creature, dark with glis tening teeth and flashing eyes, she came up to Hanlin. "Well; lovely morning, isn't it?" holding out her hand. "Extremely so." There was a si lence. " Have you anything on your mind, Mat?" looking gravely at hint. "Won't yon sit down?" " No, thanks." Then in desperation he took out Beachly's letter and flung it down on the table before her. " What do you think of that?" he said, and watched her while she read. " Well," she answered, thoughtfully, when she bad finished; "there is Maria Maria Knabbs do you know her? She is very strong and good tem pered " " I was thinking of yon, Miss Made line." "Me! of me!" " Why not?" rather ashamed. " Do you think we women are mere merchandise?" "My dear young lady, you are too hasty. Listen". If you knew him and loved him would you hesitate?" "That-is a distinction with an im mense difference." " No. I come and tell you of a man who is in want of a wife, and that he is true-hearted and chivalrous." "You never told me anything of the sort." "And yon refuse to go because yon don't happen to know him?" She laughed at the simplicity of the answer. "Pray do yon think women are so wild to get married that they will go hundreds of miles after a husband?" " They've gone a great deal further and been just as happy as those who stayed at home." " You are alwajs more or less rude. Now you can go." " By all means ; but first let me tell you. Now you have dependence and semi-drudgery, there you will have frobable happiness and certain freedom, wait for your answer." The door shut and he was gone, leaving the letter. Madeline sat tarinir at it till she heard her sister-in-law coming, then thrust it into her pooket. Her sister-in-law was verv curious, hut her curiosity was baf fled. This m ide her cross, and she took refuge in nagging as only a professional can. Madeline was more patient than usual until evening; then there was a storm of the kind that 'does not clear the atmosphere. Madeline went np stairs and dashed off the following : Mr. Hardin: I will be ready to start West to-morrow morning by the 6:50 train. Madeline Wier. The next morning Hardin found Mad eline at the depot, as collected and com posed as if she had been Mrs. Beachly for twenty years. He bought her ticket, checked her trunk, chose a seat for her, procured a guide-book, explained about the changes of trains, inquired after her sister-in-law, and finally after bidding her good-by, prompted by some sudden misgiving, came back just as the train was moving and lifted her hand to his lips. The next moment she was alone, the train fairly started, and Madeline shivered. On, past town and country, through hills and across rivers. Madeline had enough fresh vitality to enjoy the pres ent ; so it was not until the Rocky Moon tains came fairly into view that her self disgust and apprehension gained the upper hand. The cars at last slackened their speed for a moment at P . Madeline sprang off. Three miners sprang on. One mail bag was pulled into the car, another thrown out. Madeline's trunk was tossed on the platform, and the train rushed on. Madeline sat down on her trunk desolately enough. After waiting a few moments and seeing no one, she vented her contempt on her unprotected head, unprotected by any self -justification. Suddenly she heard steps, and looking np saw a tall, broad shouldered young fellow, in bine shirt Jopen at the throat, gray pantaloons tacked in his boots, and a large slouch ing hat. He hesitated a moment, then lifting his slouch hat, said : " Miss Wier?" Madeline rose to her feet, the color in her cheeks. "Yes." There was a pause, Mr. Beachly was astonished and perplexed, although he had received a telegram several days ago: She is coming. Get a preacher. Name Madeline Wier. Hardin. But this was something very different from the lady he had had in his mind. He looked down and saw the long black lashes that swept the hot cheeks! It would be better without doubt to have it over. "Miss Wier,' he said, gently, "the clergyman is waiting; will you comer Madeline rose and followed him. She felt herself lifted into a boggy, then moving swiftly through the airTshe saw the mountains in their beauty- around her, but she did not perceive them. Af ter tagging op hill and trotting two or three miles, the horses stopped, before an unpainted, rough-looking frame house. Beachly jumped down and helped Madeline; he led the way into the front and principal room, which was darkened and cool, and possessed a cer tain masculine tidiness. A man came forward, he was introduced the Rev. Mr. White. It was the Episcopal service; she re membered it well -the minister began in a pleasant, deep bass voice. The service was ended; he kept on talking in a conventionally solemn tone on the du ties of married life and of its responsi bilities. A breath of cool air touched Madeline's hand; she raised it and looked at the gold ring on the third finger curiously, then glanced up at Beachly. There was just a glimmer of a smile on his face. Lake a flash Mad eline realized it all ; she swayed, and would have fallen. The next thing she was conscious of was a leisurely voice saying in the easiest tone : " Take a journey of a few thousand miles, and try it, suppose " Madeline made a movement and opened her eyes. Beachly turned quickly and bent toward her, the minis ter moved outside and proceeded to light a cigar. Madeline gazed long and earnestly into the depths of the blue eyes bent on her. "Victor?" The name was pronounced gently, questioningly. A light went over Beachly's face. "My Madeline," he answered. Madeline regarded him wonderingly. Yesterday seemed ages ago. "It is so much better than I deserve," she said, wistfully. " No," he protested, and brought a chair and sat down. " You are the em bodiment of my ideal. It is the fulfill ing of our destinies. You will not re gret it. I will perform my vows and you will cease to wonder. Madeline smiled, but looked troubled also. " I did it in a fit of temper," she said. " You needn't mind ; it was all fore ordained," he answered, reassuringly, and then branched off in a matter-of-fact tone and explained all his plans, asked her advice, described the scenery, and they had an easy, comfortable talk, while the clergyman waited near. "I must write to Hardin," Beachly said, when the preacher came in to make his adieus. And this was the letter he despatched next day : My Dearest Mat I promised gratitude in my last, but now I can not but regard you, my dear boy, as an instrument of des tiny. In the same light I regard my letter, whichl should be ashamedjof if it were it not that one must Judges thing by ita fruiu. As for my wife, language sinks powerless. The manner of our mutual acquiring is not a safe precedent. I acknowledge it is simply a glorious iiolation. Destiny in the 19th centu ry I Come out and see us. Have more land than I know what to do with; would be happy to make you a wedding present. Forever and ever. Paradise Vale, Colo. V. B. Hardin shrugged his shoulders and then laughed. Detroit Free Press. A Carious Relic of the Revolution. At the last meeting of the Virginia Historical Society in Richmond, a curi ous ancient document was read by the corresponding secretary. It is in the handwriting of Col. Thos. Waring, of Goldberry, Essex County, Va., an ar dent rebel, who was with Washington at the battles of Trenton and Princeton. It is entitled "The Last Will and Testa ment of Old England," and is dated at the "Palace of Necessity, this 10th day of April, just four years from the fatal day on which my last opportunity was lost by shedding the blood of America at Ler.ington, in the year 1779." The following are the bequests made : 1. Old England being in a very weak and languishing state, through voluptu ous nes and loss of blood, do make and ordain this my last will andjtestament, in the manner following, viz. : Imprimis I do give and bequeath unto the bish ops of St. Asaph and Peterborough, to be equally divided among them, all my religion. 2. I give all my sincerity to the worthy members of the minority in the House of Commons. 3. I give all my knowledge in politics to Lord Camden and Lord Abingdon and those other noble lords who op posed the Ministry in their mischievous and cursed war in America. 4. I give to my sister Scotland all my pride and haughtiness. 5. I give to my sister Ireland the one half of my poverty, distress and ruin. 6. I give to the'Earl of Bute and Lord North all my treachery and tyranny, to be eqnally divided among them. 7. I give to Lord Howe and General Howe all my cruelty as a reward for their treatment of the American pris oners. 8. I give all my low cunning to Lord Mansfield and Lord George Gorman. 9. I give all my stupidity and obstina cy to the present Ministry. 10. I give my power by sea and land to the French King. 11. I give my integrity to the King of Spain. 12. I give my trade and commerce to the State of Holland. 13. I give those abject mortals, the tories of America, one ton of hemp to be equally distributed among them by I. C. 14. I give my right and title to that most glorious tract called Magna Charts, to the United States of America, to their heirs and assigns forever. 15. I give unto my colonies in Ameri caviz.: Canada, Nova Scotia, East and West Florida, the West Indies the other half of my poverty, distress and ruin; and I do appoint the United States of America to be guardians of my said colonies. There has been shipped from New York for Alexandria, Egypt, a portable pleasure and hanting boat mannfactured for Mr. August Belmont, Jr., who in tends to use it during a year's sojourn in the East, daring which he will hunt snipe along the Egyptian rivers. ioipal Youths' Department. D0LLT8 DESPAIR. rra only a last year's dolly! I thought I was lovely and fajtr Bat alas, for the cheeks th Jt wer rosy, Ala, for the ones flowing hair I Yva sure that my baclc ia broken. For it hurt? rae when I ridel Oh, Td ery for very sorrow. But I've lost out both my eye! In comes my pretty mistress. With my rival in ker arma A fine young- miss, most surely. Arrayed la her borrowed charmat My dresses, and my slippers, too. But sadder, oh. sadder than all. She's won the dear lore I haTe lost, For I'm only a last year's aoUl Oh. pity me, hearts that are tender, I'm lonely aad battered and bruised. Vm tucked out of sight in tho closet. Forgotten, despised and abuaed I fm only a last year's dolly. Alone with my troablea heart; Sweet mistress, still I love thee. Inconstant though thou art! Mrs. li. AT. Turner, in Youth's Cumponfmm. THE LONGEST DAT Di THE TEAR. I don't know what the almanac man snid about it. but Dan said it was the longest, and Dan was certainly the one who understood the matter best. It began Dretty much like other days, only that there was a heavy fog, and Dan knew that it was bad weather for haying, and tip-top for fishing. He made up his mind to go fishing. Per haps, if his mind had not been already made up, he would not have minded so much when his father said at the break fast table: " We must get the scythes in good order, so's to take a fair start at the lower meadow to-morrow. Don't lot me have to waste time hunting after you, Daniel, when I'm readv to go at it." Daniel's appetite was gone at once. How he hatea to turn that heavy creaking old grindstone! and how sure his father was to rind a dozen things to do first, and keep him waiting all the morning! He went around by the sink drain, and dug his bait; he examined his fishing pole; he put up his lunch; he even tried a worm on the hook; and then he wan dered disconsolately around, wishing grindstones had never been invented He went to the end of the garden, and leaned sulkily over the low stone wall, eating the half-ripe harvest apples, and throwing the cores spitefully awav. Down the road a few rods lay the mill pond, and in the middle of the road near by stood Deacon Skinner's horse and chaise. Old Whitey had his nose down, and one leg crooked in a meditative fashion. The Deacon was over in the field, mak ing a bargain with Solomon Murray for some young cattle. What fun it would be to start the old horse up, and set him trotting home! Dan could almost jit him with an apple core. He tried two or three, just to see, and then he picked a smooth round stone from the wall, and sent it singing through the air. Old Whitey brought up his nose with a jerk, straightened his fore-leg. and started oft at a brisk trot, the chaise top tilting and pitching back and forth. Dan laughed at least the laugh be gan to grow, when he caught oue glimpse of a frightened little face at the chaise window, and knew that .Nanny Dtti, the Deacon's little lame grand child, was in the chaise. It was only a glimpse, and then the bank of gray fog swallowed Whitey and the chase, and it seemed to Dan" that they had gone straight into the mill pond. "Daniel! Daniel! Come on, now, and be spry about it!" called his father, as he moved toward the grindstone; and Dan obeyed, though he felt as if his feet had all at once turned to lead. Round and round and round; his tough little hands were blistered on the handle, but he did not know it; his mouth and throat were as dry as the stone, but he did not think of it. Crrr-crrr-crrr," rang the rough, weariaome noise, until his ears were so deafened he did not even hear it. For he was Esrfectlysure he had killed little Nanny ana. What would people say? What would they do to him? Hang him. of course; and Dan felt in his heart that he deserved it, and that it would be almost a satisfaction. "There," said his father at last, "1 reckon that'll do, Daniel. You've been faithful and stiddy at your work, and now you may go fishing." Dan never knew how he got to Long Pond, or how he passed the slow hours of that dismal day. The misery seemed intolerable, and before evening he had made up his mind that he could bear it no longer. He would go home and tell his father, he would tell everybody. They might hang him, they might do anvthing they pleased. Tramping desperately home with his empty basket in his hand, he heard the sound of wheels behind him, dragging slowly through the deep sand. Perhaps that was the Sheriff coming to arrest him. Dan's heart beat harder, but he did not look around. The wheels came nearer; they stopped, and some one said: "Hullo, Daniel! been fishin'? Fish erman's luck, hev? Well, jump in here, and I'll give ye a lift." Before Dan knew it he was over the wheel and sitting beside Deacon Skinner in the old chaise, witJi Whitey switch ing his tail right and left as he plodded along. " Get up, Whitey," urged the Dea con; "it's getting along toward chore time. Whitey ain't so spry as he used to be, but he's amazin' smart. This mornin' 1 left little Nanny in the shav while I was making a dicker with Sol omon Murray, and a keeriess thing it was to do, but I'd as soon expected the meetin'-house to run away as Whitey. I reckon something must scart him; but he just trotted off home as stiddy as if I'd been driving, and waited at the door for mother to come and get Nanny be fore he went to the barn. "Oh, Deacon Skinner," burst out Dan. " it wa3 rae: I scart Whitey." "Did ye now, sonny? Well, there wuzn't any harm done, "and I know Ve didn't mean to." " I did, I did," said Dan, sobbing vio lently from the long strain of excitement. "I didn't know Nanny was in the chaise, and I threw a stone at him." "Well, well," said the Deacon, rub bing his stubbly chin, and looking curi ously at Dan. "Beats all what freaks boys will take, but I know ye won't do it agin." "i never will," said Dan, solemnly. " This has been the awfulest longest day that ever was in the world." Emily Huntington Miller, in Harper's Young People. A Word t the Girl. What! detest the care to be spotless at a lily, sweet and fresh as lavender, a blessing to those who see her, a part of all fair and comely scenes, itj of something discordant, marring them? I refuse to believe it of any girl who reads this. Now, let the Wise Blackbird drop a bit of wisdom in your ears which will take the harshness out of every dis- WHOLE NO. 620. agreeable duty in life. In Dr. John Todd's " Letters to a Daughter' h wrote: "Whatever one does well she is sure to do easily," and words to the ef fect that what one goes at thoroughly ceaaes to be disagreeable. I know a girl of twenty years ago who took thesfs words into her heart, and they have made work the pleasure of her life. All the careless people who watch her'cry out at the trouble she takes with every thing she does; but they are very apt to say, after all is through: "You have such an easy way of turning off things, and things always stay done for you-" Of course they do. Thorough is th Saxon for through, and anything that is thoroughly done is through with. It is a queer paradox that if you try to do things easily, to shirk and slur them ovr, you will always find it hard to get along; while if you put all sorts of pains into your work, and never think how eas ily it can be done, but how well it can be, you find it growing easier day by day. Wide Awake. Tricks of Magicians. There are a great many regular magicians traveling about, and, while business is not what it used to be, many of them make a great deal of money. The Troy Opera-House is owned by a. magician who says he made all his, money out of nine tricks. A magician of considerable celebrity out West. Prof. M. Williams, a a deaf mute. One would think it would be the last busi ness in the world for a man to under take who cannot talk or hear, but he has a man to talk for him while he doe the tricks. The last I heard of him he was at Leadville. The tricks shown now are mostlv mechanical, as the finei sleight-of-hand tricks which demand the greatest skill are not showy. The prices of tricks are low in comparison with what they have been. The time has been when as much as 9500 would be charged to teach a man the Indian box trick, and now the price of it is only five dollars. Mechanical tricks are generally variations of a few pieces of mechanism. The professor showed a small wooden box, of a size convenient to hold in the hand. To all appearance it was an or dinary box. closing with a lock. One way in which it is often used is for the magician to borrow a watch, have one erson put the watch in the box and ock it. taking the key. The magician hands it to another person to hold. " Do you hear the watch ticking?" the magician will ask. and the person hold ing the box will hear it distinctly by putting his ear to the lid. Finally, the watch appears around a pigeon's neck, or hanging to a chair-back, after a pistol has been tired, or one of many ways,1 according to the fancy of the magician. One eud of the little box swings out on pivots when relieved from its catch by a sharp pressure at one end of the bot tom. It can readily be manipulated with one hand, so that in the interval between the depositing of the watch and the handing of the oox to some one to hold, the watch slips out into the magician's hand, and a watch move ment hidden in the lid of the box keeps up the deceptive ticking. Such a box sells for twelve dollars. The Indian box trick, which is a fa vorite trick with magicians, is just as simple. In this a oig, rough box is brought on the stage, and several gen tlemen are invited to examine it. They find an empty box. as roughly made as a packing-case- The nails seem to run throngh the corners, thends clinched in the wood. The magician's assistant is put into a bag. Its end is tied up and sealed. The box is tied round ana round with rope, as well as locked. The bagged-up man is laid on the tied-up box, and a screen is drawn in front for a short time. When the screen is drawn back, the empty bag is seen with un broken seal lying on the box, which, when its cords are untied and the lock is opened, is found to contain the man. The only difficulty is the bag part There must be two bags, one within an other. The junction of their months is concealed by the magician, who, with great show of zeal, ties the mouths with his handkerchief at that portion, and then invites the committee to tie and seal the protruding ends of a bag which is really alongside of his assist ant inside another bag. confined sim ply by the handkerchief. The nails of the box are shams at one end. being simply heads and points whifh do not meet. The end .swings in like a trap door when properly manipulated. The assistant lays the sealed-up bag on top of the box, creeps in the end, easily pushing past the rope, and then re turns the end to its place. Thus the lid of the box on which the committee expended their exertions remains undis turbed. " Spiritual tricks," the professor said " are taking well this season. Thev arc worked by means of mechanical pad locks, and require very little skill." The reporter was shown some of these padlocks. They seem to be justlike or dinary padlocks in make, but in some a touch on a particular rivet throws them open, and others have clockwork in such a manner that they open of their own accord in a fixed time. Bound by such padlocks, it is an easy thing for any one to show spirit hands or faces through the hole of a cabinet as soon as its doors are closed, and be found sitting in the same position as securely bound when the doors are opened. N. Y. Sun. Helpiuff a Constable. One day a Michigan Constable who had long "been trying to collect a claim of forty dollars against a sharp citizen, went to a worthy buftherand said: "See here, Jones. Tve got a plan to collect forty dollars of that sharper Per kins. All I want is a little help from you, and if you grant it I won't forget the favor." "I'm willing what'syour plan?" re plied Jones. " Why, I want you to bet him twenty dollars that he doen't weigh 120 pounds. If you'll do that I can fix the rest." " Oh, I'll do anything to help you out," said Jones, and the two walked around to the grocery where Perkins was known to hang out. After a little talk, the Constable keeping in the shade, Jones began bluffing, and when he stated his fiendish desire to bet twenty dollars that Perkins wouldn't tip the beam at 120 pounds, his greenbacks were covered before a mule coidd kick three times. As the money was put up the Constable slipped out for a gar nishee, and was back in time to serve it on the stakeholder. Perkins weighed 148 pounds, and the forty dollars in the hands of the stakeholder eventually paid a claim against him, but it has ever yet been made plain to Jones how he made anything out of it. It has always seemed to him that he was twenty dollars out. and for fifteen long years he has refused to walk on tie same side of the street with that Con stable. Detroit Frit Press. j3Busiam and profeaaiomal. cards of five-lines or less, per annum, fi dollars. . aJ SSTFor time advertisements,1 apply at this office; v . s Sdrifssjal adYvrtiseatamta at ataftst 555 3 "a- &i: A grror-traasf eat, . adTartiabicaii rates on third page. , : - " ET All adwartlserasnta "Aayabis monthly. svirttiiZ "- J iWa'OHTram'21 It is a rule on most American raihrajsj to sell,. once in twp or three, years ail unclaimed baggage. TrrmksivausesJfetcM sfter having-been doly a'dvertiseiip&W put up at auction and knocked down jta to the highestbidder. The sale has the uncertalnry'of a lottery: -The pnr chafier takes home bis trunk; not taowi ing whether it contains wottaless;.oi4 rags, or thousands of dollars. r. Blanks are many, and prizes;- si -may!besup-posed, very few ' , -- -3 At a sale receatlv held by one ot)$ great Middle State" Trunkliailwaya, a leather trunk,' -of Engnstf make",-was bought by s:gentlenian,:wae, ba opeal ing it, found its pruicipal coutenU.to bat packages of letters extending" jover a period of twelve years, careraltytie1 to getaer and labeled-. Thertmak ,aas been the properly, of an English eoajn mercial traveler, and the'letters were from his wifer She wrote frais3Jtown in Ireland, where she lived witahr Vwa children, while-her. husband.. traveled through Great' Britain. ""Daring the flrss foar years the letters were alayrai: ind happy, filled with anacdoteaoi.aaia baby and " Harry,", and mth-anticipar., tions of the time which 'app'arently ws near at hand,- when the husband. wouid ha taken as partner intouhe firm, andv would settle down at home in LohdotL The writing and' wrirdin?of the letters1 are those of a woman of great refiae meat. , , In 1S74 there is a change in their tone. The husband is urged and eritreawdV with aU the patfaosTjl a loving wife aad mother, to restrain himself irona saaiefj unnamed vice. The bank and cash books'found in the trunk showed Livtsh. outlays at this time by the young naai for late suppers, jewelry, hire of -haa-j; sonn, etc. The wife's letter grew, mbrij. despairing with each month.-"RnaTly the bank-book shows no mora:aaaas placed to. his credit. He had evidently been discharged from his situatibnl"" . In 1876 his wife writes, urginghfm i dy to escape arrest fori- some' criraa-I which, he had committed, and pcsp.el him', passionately, should he' "reach" tn& States, to go to church, to think at (Mda and his children, anL,"to come baclc Ism his dear old self." She was then re duced to extreme poverty while s&ug gling te support her childrem ""; r There are no further letters -from hert after this timo. . He had, apparently not told her'6f hi3 hiding-place in this' country. " a 9 An .old Bible marked with a date, "New York, July, 1877," showed thalj the poorwretch "had feebly tried to "go. back to decency, honor, and fo'GoaB But the hold o vice was .too-Strang on? hiin. One or two pawn tickets foc4his last pieces of good clotidngnvere found and'nothing more. - I Death had ended the story- dlsciose&C by the old trunk ; a tragical story K bulj common as the stones on'our streets. No words of ours could.add force. toU& meaning. Youth's Companion. j svsd ; - j - A Tableaa Yiraat. vi Another fraca3 in the Jones familvr , This lime it is a little out of- the-usual routine and looks rather , serious.? Bridget, the one faithfuj servitor apd- ' taken her vacation of two WBeks-seraP annual and gone to visit ,hec -sistarvS Mrs. Mulkoouey, and her last wordson leaving seemed almost prophetic vfeweo! by the light of subsequentevents, as the historians say. "Yese '11 be in a hspeoi&i tkruBle afore I git back to yese; Ifeel it in my' bones," was her valedictory' remark. A successor was installed at once, however, and things seemed tc jog along about as usual until one un-. lucky'day, when Jones took it into bi3 head, to remark to his wife at table's Tf the dining-room door closed on thane w.31 girl: w ,, 3,1 "Quite a trea-mre not a bad-looking girl eitherMarial"" - " I don't know what you see goodrja looking about her," snapped Mrs. Jones. "If you admire red hair and freckles and .a snnb-nose, why then1!" suppose she is to your taste." tX " I didn't say she was good-looking,, did I," asked Mr. J. with dignity, while secretly quaking in his boots.- "I re-' marked that she wan not bad looking! by which I meant evil, vicious, etc. JJj couldn't have told you whether her baif was red or bine!" ' '"A He looked so injured that Mrs., Jo oca hastened to pacify him, and they parted the best of friends, and when he h'ad' came home at night he had a little sur-iI prise for his wife, though it wasn't justjg what he had planned, as it turned out. It waa Mrs. J.N wifely habit cto rurr down and open the. front door when she saw himcoming in the evening.. sov that j he wouldn't have to sand in the dark' . vestibule and fumble for his latch-key: Jones was in quite a festive mood : this Ms evening, owing to "snacks" with-a-po--jp tation after business" closed, and as his wife held the door open he skipped inl and gave her a routing smack that & nuht have been heard in the next block, jj "Kitchee-kitchee!""he said,, playfully, with one arm around her waist "put tr ittle hand in my overcoat 'pocket and-T find n ittle present there." ja But the screams that sounded through the Jones mansion took all the playful-- ne-s out of the unhappy man, and as hevi& asked, hollowlv "Maria, what does this ( mean?" Maria herself appeared jn a. i crlare of light at the top of the staira and saw the wretched Jones and the new " firl, and, not realizing that it was all a i readful mistake, f.iinted dead away. We are not good at dia-jnoing the'1 weather in general, but'if this domestic squall doesn'u result in an elegant new . spring wardrobe for Mrs. J., then the- world is all hollow and onr doll filled with sawdust. Detroit Pait awl Trib- une. ) Why Jostlee Relented. Among the prisoners brought before Justice Patterson at the Jefferson Mar- 44 ket Police Court this morning was John..;j Hess, of-No. 1360 Second avenue, a. medium-sized manf whom Officer Link,-' -of the Twenty-ninth precinct, had ar-h rested for being drunk on the streetv Mrs. Hes, a heavy-set, muscular wo- man, came forward and interceded for'3 her husband- - ir " Wiiat kind. of a man is he3" asked the magistrate. "Oh, he vos a goot ?? man, Shadge," responded the wife, "and I shure dot ho mocsthAve slipped, y on der ice und fallen town, ash he vas m not vary drunk. He vos a goot vork-" mon, und he vos goot to me, Shudgeij i und ven 1 get him home I vUl give hunAt 2 a good voUoping mit a stick." $ " WiU you give him a good licking P'Vc asked the magistrate, laughingly. "Yoa; pet I vill, Shudge. I vUl licWhim goot mit a stick." A "Well, you may gov" said Justice Pat-i fa tersoa to the prisoner, and Hess, dashed. t s aut of court, fottowed by his" wrfei who , with clenched fist, amid roars of langh- ter, saoatad, MYoa pet, Shudge-, :dottI1i TullkkdotnonTenlget-hka nca.U. N. Y. Msdl aji Ejtfreu. . - cc: t i ri fet.
