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THE JOURNAL. WEDInEsday. aim:il r,, ljfca ItteM dan : a : it tfcs Pu2ce,'Cdites. V.. u Late Fashions. The costumes imported for the inter mediate season are shorter than those worn during the winter; not only the instep, but a glimpse of the ankle is disclosed in walking. Experience has shown that short skirts, in order to be both comfortable and graceful, mu1 be decidedly short. Whan they are made long enough to barely escape the ground, they are apt to drag down and finally touch the sidewalk, and the whole de sign of the short skirt is spoiled if the wearer must lift it a thing which most ladies do awkwardly. The first spring dresses are of satin dushes.se entirely, or else combined with striped moire. Dark green, condor brown and black costumes are shown. For the colored satins are new passementeries that re semble applique embroidery, and are ornameated with small pompons of silk, like those worn on bonnets. For the black dresses there is nothing newer at present than jet in solid passementerie, the "satin jet" (with satin cords), jet and chenille fringe, and Spanish lace. The striped satin and moire fabric is in great iaror for pleatings, and is U3ed sometimes for the entire front of the dress skirt, from the paniers to the foot, as. well as for pleated flounces, from three to five, and sometimes seven in number, on different parte of the skirt, according as they are disclosed by the drapery above them. Black satin stripes alternating with white gros grain stripes in pleatings and flounces will be much used for the skirts of dresses that are otherwise made of Hack satin duchesse. Three different widths of stripes are shown in new silks for this purpose, and the pleats are laid toshow only the black satin on top, with glimpses of the white beneath each pleat like a facing. Entirely black stripes, or those of any one dark color, are very effective for pleated front breadths when stripes two and a half or three inches wide are woven alternately ol moire ana satin. Each, stripe is lap ped to leave about an inch of its breadth visible as the pleat, making the satin and moire show alternately. This Is sewed on the skirt foundation beneath the panier drapery, and covers the front breadth and one breadth on each side. The pleats are pressed flatly, and basted at intervals on the wrong side. About an eigthof a yard from the lower end a tape crossing underneath fastens the pleats still more securely, and below this they are loosened to fall like a frill, and this frill is finally a fine knife-pleating two or three inches deep, made of plain satin duchesse; this frill is cut straight across the fabric, is hemmed by blind stitches, and is sewed in a regular seam fby machine) to the edge of the pleated front. The foot of the founda tion skirt which is usually of inexpen srre lining silk is simply hemmed or faced. The top of these front breadths has a crosswise draped breadth of plain satin duchesse something between an apron and tamers laid in full folds, aad edged with jet fringe. The folds are held in place by being tacked down the side seams; and the back drapery consists of two full plain breadths held at the belt in double box pleats, and falling down to the foot with merely hemmed edges; or else these two breadths are bunched up at the top, form two points below, are edged with fringe, and there are four or five narrow pleated flounces tilling up all the spaces on the foundation skirt not concealed by the drapery. The basque is of plain satin, quite short and even all around, scarcely more than a finger-length be low the.waist line and, is trimmed down each front by a straight piece of the striped material shirred at the neck and waist line, and laid in pleats on the bust and below the waist, line. The collar is high and standing, and there are bullat shaped crocheted buttons. When black Spanish lace is to be used oa a black dress whether of satin duchesse, gros grain, or camel's hair the prettiest skirt fronts are like those of full-dress toilettes. The front and side breadths are trimmed upward from the foot to the knees to represent four square-cornered pieces, and the lace in full frills or jabots extendsup and down these squares, but not across the foot, which is merely hemmed or faced, and falls on a frill of lace and a knife-pleating of satin that are on the foundation skirt. To make a more elaborate trini ating, solid jet passementerie in a vine way be put up the spaces between the two frills or jabots of lace that go up each square. There is a high panier drapery across the top of the front and side breadths, and the two breadths of the back are made slightly bouffant. The waist has a basque front with t-o frills of Spanish lace across the ed, and the back is a half-long princesse polonaise, draped in two bouffant points by jet ornaments. Polonaise effects are given to the fronts of dresses in order to form panier drapery without cutting the waist off as a basque. The straight fronts form two points as they are drawn back to be caught up in pleats .at the side seams. The back is in polka style, being cut off about four inches below the waist line, and two fully draped breadths are added there beneath a great bow of satin. This style is handsomely made up in dark green or brown satin duchesse. trimmed with the new pompon applique passementerie of the same color, or perhaps with a few threads of gold in troduced; this trimming goes up each front and around the neck, but the end-: of the polonaise front are merely hem Bed. As puffs at the top of sleeves have aot been popular on Paris dresses; a slightly puffed cuff is now introduced. This is r bias frill slightly shirred, and a tiny ruffle at top, while the lower edge is sewed inside the sleeve, and the puff then "puffs" downward toward the hand. Inside the sleeve, where the puff is nearly flat, is placed a bit of the pas sementerie, showing three small pom pons and some applique leaves. Nuns1 veiling is the choicest wool goods for summer dresses, and is shown this rear beautifully wrought near the selvedge in South Kensington work of self-color, or with the open Madeira work of the color of the goods, or with Jio 1nc Trh. ihint work nf nn irlrr or else in gay jardiniare coloring, show-, ing aesthetic lilies, sunflowers, autumn leaves, forget-me-nots, pansies, or rose- tods in the borders. These are old in dress lengths, and are expensive, but ' MW V.VJV, . -v.--, -..-- .. wU.., there are .sheer pure. wool veilings of ji.t.i :,. ,..,.,..... ,u: F k . i . -. - .... - uainivuiunBK wi ii cauy uuc tu uc had in" double' widths for seventy-five cents a yard. White Spanish or Aurillac lace, or the new Oriental laces, will be osed for trimming these stuffs, and the designs for making are similar to those described above for demi-season. cos tames for the street. If economy must be considered still further, these dresses uy be made up over the new founda tion satines that have twilled silk on tie face, but are mounted on cotton, and are called satin-Surahine., These are excellent for linings and foundations of grenadines also, and cost only fifty cents a yard. Harper's Bazar. How to- Eat. Most ef the irregularities of the human ody can be traced to violations of well known and established role 'fit eating. Upon the healthy action of the .stomach depends the healthy action of most, if not the other organs of the body. Though this fact is generally known, few take heed of its fearful truth, but continue to use their digestive systems if they were made ef steel, and iaca pable of becoming impaired. Ameri-' cans, with their proverbial haste, aro said to be a race of dyspeptics. Amer ica is the land of patent- medicines, ad vertised to cure the many ills that are directly caused by an abused stomach. A close attention to the preparation of the food and the manner of eating it would, in most instances, do away with the need of medicines. Even cases of long standing, the result of years of carelessness in this respect, can be greatly relieved by due attention to a few practical suggestions. It was a favorite maxim of Thomas Jefferson's that "we seldom repent of eating too little." Many, however, are the persons who often are caused to la ment their greediness. The confirmed inebriate, weak at every joint for want of his accustomed stimulant, may at least be pitied if he yields to that which gives immediate though temporary re lief; but for the gormandizer there is but one feeling that of contempt. We do not advise total abstinence in eating, but do advise temperance. The preparation of the food is an im portant matter in connection with its digestion. The cooking may be consid ered the first process, the object of which is to render the food less compact, to overcome the adhesion of the particles, as an aid to mastication. No way of making the food tender is so effective as boiling, while frying hardens the food and renders its complete mastication difficult, which are facts to be remem bered by the housewife. The second process in the preparation of food is performed by the consumer himself that of cutting it into pieces of the right size for the mouth and he alone is to blame for errors of that kind. When the mouth is too full for graceful utter ance, it is generally too full for effective work in mastication. The operatiou of reducing the food to a state fit for its reception by the diges tive canal ends with the mastication. When we consider that the particles of food, to be absorbed by the membrane of the alimentary canal, must be too small to be seen by the naked eye, we can readily see the importance of thor oughly chewing the food. It is simply a mechanical process to aid the stom ach in its work of converting the food into a milky fluid. The saliva of the mouth must be well mixed with the mass, and every particle exposed to the air. Thus plentv of time should be taken for our meals. In all cases haste in eating defeats the very object for which it is intended. Is it through greed, or a desire to tickle the palate? The greedy eater has yet to learn the sweetness of a crust well chewed to a hungry man. Is it through a desire to crowd more work into a day? The few minutes gained in eating fast will hardly compensate for the dull af ternoon headache or the daily feeling of lassitude or positive weakness. Is it because you wish to be entertaining to those at the table, and thus eat in five minutes so as to spend the rest of the time in talking? The wonderful de crease in your flow spirts when the company has adjourned to the parlor is sufficient commentary on that. Occasion may arise when but a few minutes can be employed in eating. In such cases it would be much better to eat little and eat it well. More nourish ment would thus immediately find its way into the svstem.thaa if the stomach should be filled with a large quantity of lumps of food that would resist efforts at digestion ana cause acnes ana pains for a penalty. A little common sense in eating would save a vast amount of misery in this world. Let us spend a little more time at the table, ana spend it wisely, and then the doctors would not be in so great demand. Washington's Stately Etiquette. President Washington never went to Congress on public business except in a state coach, drawn by six cream-colored horses. The coach was an object whioh would excite the admiration of the throng even now in the streets of Lon don. It was built in the shape of a hemisphere, and its panels were adorned with cupids, surrounded with flowers worthy of Florida, and of fruit not to be equaled out of Calfornia. The coach man and postillions were arrayed in gorgeous liveries of white and scarlet. The Philadelphia Gazette, a Government organ, regularly gave a supply of Court news for the ediucation of tne citizens. From that the people were allowed to learn as much as it was deemed proper for them to know about the President's movements, and a fair amount of space was also devoted to Mrs. Washington who was not referred to as Mrs. Wash ington, but as "the amiable consort of our beloved President." When the President made his appearance at a ball or public reception, a dais was erected for him upon which he might stand apart from the vulgar throng, and the guests or visitors bowed to him in sol emn silence. "Republican simplicity" has only come in later times. In our day the hack driver who takes a visitor to a pub lic reception at the White House is quite free to get off his box, walk in side by side with his fare, and shake hands with the President with as much familiarity as anybody else. Very few persons presumed to shake hands with General Washington. One of his friends, Gouverneur Morris, rashly undertook, for a foolish wager, to go up to hiinand slap him on the shoulder, saying, "My dear General, I am hapr to see you look so well." The moment fixed upon arrived, and Mr. Morris, already half repeating of his wager, went up to the President, placed his hand upon his shoulder, and uttered the prescribed words. "Washington," as an eye-witness described the scene, "withdrew his hand, stepped suddenly back, fixed his eye an Morris for several minutes with an angry frown, until thelatterretreated, abashed, and sought refuge in the crowd." No one else ever tried a simi lar experiment. It is recorded of Wash ington that he wished the official title of the President to be "High Mightiness," and at one time it was proposed to en grave his portrait upon the national coinage. No royal levees were more punctiliously arranged than those of the First President. American Bedew. The Advancement of Women. The bottle is uncorked to her as freely as to any man. She need not be sly about it, and she isn't. She may have it in the secrecy of her closet, but she "-" " a'" m in orosu puoncicy 01 tne restaurant. She goes alone, or in couples, or in bevies. Where she used - call for ice cream or Roman punch, s.ne orders up her small bottle of extra . ... ar7' ner cocfetailt punch, or hot Scotch in short, her favorite tinnl Anrl aha in short, her favorite tipple. And she docs not mask it behind a charlotte russe or bread pudding. She calls a spade a spade, and as a- spade it-is set before her. This right is not restricted to settled dames or unmarriageable spinsters. Bright, fresh, rosy-cheeked girls drop in on their way to comforta ble homes and have tfieir "snifter." Sometimes thev 20 out with flushed J faces, whirling brains, and unsteady step, lust as the other sex does. Bv de- ' grees they are reaching the higher point, where they will place one elbow on the bar, throw the right leg gracefully ' across the left and rest the right foot on the toe, while merry chat, and Vepartee, , and bandinage go on between drinks. ' This is a pose which requires practice, and is not to be attempted off-hand by the novice. Women are not only exer cising the right to drink what they please, they are filling drunkards' graves more of them than the world believes and they are not always laid at rest in pine boxes, im as well, in walnut caskets withsilver handle. Proudest triumph of aU, Chicago is about to provide an inebriates' home for women drunkards. Piilaielphia Press, Well Educated to No Purpose. Our subject is quoted directly from a letter received from a young lady, who asks earnestly what she can do to earn a living. She has received, as the phrase is, a good educat:on; she has some knowledge of music and mathe matics, of drawing and science, of French and composition; but knows no one thing well enough to be able to make a living by it, and to live she must have bread, and to have bread she must earn it. Her case is by no means an unusual one. Not a week passes that letters of this character are not sent to this column. So far as possible these letters are answered, ana it may be well to add that the function we are able to perform is rather that of a guide-board pointing the way to the de sired destination than of a pony express bearing applicants bodily thither. There is untold wealth of wisdom in the pro'erJ: "'An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure"; and as pre vention is a commodity much more readilv obtained than cure, and cheaper withaf, and every way better, what we have lo offer are rather suggestions in the way ol prevention than" iu the way of cure. If even body could be taught and made willing to help themselves, there would be ne;ther beggary nor want in this country, and probably not in the world. The present aim of intel ligent philanthropy is to place the poor in a position to supply their own wants and make them independent of the benefactions of others. So many and various are the profes sions, trades and miscellaneous indus tries of the present time that the ten dency of education must be toward specialities and away from generalities. De Quineey might aspire in his youth to become a " circumnavigator of liter ature," and it wa3 possible for John Milton to be versed in all the knowl edge of his time; but in this age of books it is impossible for any one man to know everything that can be known. The greater surface he covers the more superficial and fragmentary must be his knowledge. Hence in all our colleges their are special courses of study, and the student elects what he will devote himself to and what he will pass by. ignore and There was a time when the "Jack-at-aU-trades" could find something to do; but now our artisans, our mechan ics, our day laborers even, m ist have special preparation for the various in dustries in which they eng.tge. We want skilled labor in every department, and as the supply tends to equal the demand, we can generally get it by paying the required price. Thus in competency is left to starve. Not many years since most anyone of pleasing person and manners could get a situation as clerk to sell goods; now in first class stores boys and girls who have been trained, first as cash boys and cash girls, and then promoted from one round of the ladder upward to another, command these situations. So in every department of industry the trained hand is in demand. Now, would it not be wise for stu dents engaged in "getting an educa tion" to "have some certain goal in view, and so direct their efforts that they may reach it? Would it not be w'se for parents to find out what their chi'dren are most apt at learning and doing, and give them a special training in that direction? Would it not be wise for teachers to note the bent of mind in their pupils, and aid them to become what they are most easily capa ble of becoming? A great many parents are well enough convinced that their boys should have a trade or a profession, but do not see the same necessity for their girls, and so the number of unmarried women and of widows with-families dependent on them who have no certain means of support is very large and constantly increasing. In many Eastern commu nities there are not" husbands enough to go around, and women who would make excellent wives and mothers are left without occupation and often with out resource. It is very certain that the young woman who is able to sup port herself independently is much surer of a husband,' if she 'wants one, and is much more likely to marry hap pily than she who is tempted by her incompetency and helplessness to mar ry ior a nome. mere are schools now open alike to both sexes where thor ough technical and professional educa tion, may be obtained, and whose diplo mas will be influential in procuring graduates employment. It is much easier for students now at school to de cide what they will do, and ascertain what they desire to be. than it will be by and by when habits of study are laid aside, and the pressure of necessity be comes so urgent that calm and wise re flection and action is in a manner im possible. N. Y. Tribune. A Runaway Tt hale. Whalemen sometimes make such time in their boats as -would put them a long way ahead of any of the pro fessional oarsmen. How they do it was told by an old whaler to a reporter of the New Haven Union. 44 It is about thirty-five years ago since I went out from New London as a boat-steerer. That is a pretty lively berth, as any whaleman can tell you, especially when a whale is tackled. Sometimes you can put an iron into a whale and he won't splash on the sur face, but wiil start off like a rocket, or perhaps will go right down, and you have to cut loose and lose yourline and iruus. e were ivinsr oecaimea one day oft the Cape of Good Hope. It was as smooth as a mill-pond for miles; you couldn't see a ripple on the water, for not a breath of wind stirred. By-and-by we saw two or three whales coming up to blow, about two mile aways. The captain called the watch up and a couple of boats started for the wales, which were lying still as if sunning themselves. In my boat was a big negro, black as the ace of spades. We raced with the other boat and got ahead, for my men were lithe and tough, and by-and-by we got along side of one ot tne big fellows. The steering-oar was pulled in; the oars were packed that is, pulled in so that they couldn't strike the water; then an iron was thrown into the floating island. The whale lay still for a minute, as if struck with amazement that any one dare to touch him. Suddenly he made up his mind what to do. He started off like a locomotive, the rope whizzing around in a way to astonish a landlubber. When the rope was out we were rushing by the cap tarn's boat like mad. The captain took off his hat and waved it at me, shouting: 4Go it young man! you re going out ot town faster than vou'll ever go again.' All we could do in mat double-ended boat was to sit still and see her go through the water. 1 candidly believe that we went at the rate of a mile a minute, and the water 'was a wonderful sight. It reminds me, now that 1 think of it, of Poe's de scription ot the interior of the mael strom, were the water went around so fast and was so black that it must have seemed like a wall of polished ebonv. The pressure downward piled the water P on both sides of us so that it seemed to be ot least three feet higher than the edge of the boat, but it couldn't run in, '?r we were going so fast it hadn't time. Everyone's eyes were blurred with the wind, which seemed to be blowing a hurricane against us. This thing couldn't go on forever. The negro naa got a little scared, for it look as if the whale would never get tired out, and we were going to sea at an amazing rate. The ship went away as if by magio, and we had lost sight of the other boat The negro stopped grinning, and the other men expected at least to have a row all night in the dark unless the ship should follow us. Finally, the line all at once slackened. "tbe wfiale hadn't stopped, and, for all I know, is going ahead at the rate of a mile a minute still, but the iron bad come out. 44 We rowed back to the ship, and as we came along, the captain called over the rail: 44 'Where's the whale?' 44 4Oh,' said I, 'the irou melted out, he went so fast.' "Just what I thought,' said the captain; and that night we all had plum durP and grog." The Camel of the North. In a chapter on the reindeer, Mt. Vincent, in h's book, entit ed "Norse. Lapp and Finn," gives his personal observations of th.s useful auimal. which has appropriately been teime.l the camel of the North, lie tells us that most of them are of a dar slate color, though a few are brown, and some q.iite white. They are hardly three feet in height, and perhaps four or live in length. The great size of their antlers presents a striking con trast with their comparatively small bodies. The antlers of a buck are oiten as much ah four feet in length, u ith branches called brow antlers projecting far forward from their bases, and with spurs spre-id out fauwise at their upper ends. Small as he is. a reindeer is able to carry for lorg distances about 130 pounds, or he can draw over the glazed snow, when harnessed to a sledge, 250 pounds. Its hoof is as ad mirably adapted for travel in the auow and morasses of the frigid xone as the hoof of the camel is for the sand and hillocks of the torrid belt. In Lapland a reindeer will readily travel ten miles an hour all day, and there sau instance on record of twenty miles having been made in a single hour as ute-tof speed. In 1699 a reindeer drew an oiliccr, with important dispatches. 00 mile iu two days, or an aveiageof 1(t miles an hour. This astounding feat ended iu the death of the deer, whose portrait, we are told, is still preserved in the summer pa ace of Drottuingholm. near Stockholm. All that we derive from the horse the ox. and the sheep, this wonderful little an mal fur nishes the Laplander. Much of the meat, in its fresh st-ite, is cooked and used for food, but some after being cut into thin slices is dried or smoked. and then takes the p'ace "of bread. The peinmican which the Arctic explor ers use is made from reindeer I esh The milk, which is excessively rich, is drunk fresh, or n ade into a rank :ind unctuous cheese and a kind of butter that tastes like suet. From the cheese an oil is made which is the sovereign specific for irozen feet. The whey is used for drink, and is sometimes con verted lUiO a fermented beelage anal ogous to koumiss. The skins of the deer furnish the winter tents of the Laplanders, their blankets, and articles of clothing, and. in short, serve almost every purpose to wh ch we apply cloth or leather. The women prepare from the tendons, by rolling them with their hands upon the.r cheeks, a thread which surpasses all other-: in s rength and durability. The ant'ers supply the requisites ol their household and culi nary apparatus. The reindeer, with out which the Lapps eo.ild not exist, are a very prec irious possession, owing to the difficulty of procuring their .sub sistence during winter. The moss, or lichen, on which the feed i often lur ied beneath as much :is six weeks of snow, which- the deer themselves have to remove with their feet and follow their nose. Mr Vincent tells us that the reindeer moss is capable of being used for human food; its nutritive prop erties are derived from the starch which it contains, and the taste is not unpleasant when the moss is boiled with reindeer milk. N. Y. Hun. Funeral of the British Flag. The Transvaal Argus of the 6th of August contains a long account of a ceremony which took place on the 3d in Pretoria. A number of Englishmen there had decided to " commit to the earth the emblem of their country's greatness." This was regarded as a 'solemn and emphatic protest against the treatment which British subjects and the British flag hive received at the hands of the British Government." The funeral was arranged to take place as nearly as possible at the time when it was expected that the convention would be signed. A vehicle draped with black was provided, drawn by two horses clothed in sables. Inside the carriage a raised plattorm was placed to receive the coffin, upon the lid of which the following inscription was placed: 44In Loving Memory of the British Flag in the Transvaal, who De parted this Life on the 2d August, 1881, in her Fifth Year. In other climes none knew thee, but to love thee.' Re surgam." The coffin, which contained the flag, was placed upon the platform provided amid the deepest silence and the uncovered heads of the people as sembled. About 350 white people fol lowed the hearse, and a large number of Kaffir chiefs and their retinue fell in, making the total number about 600 in the procession. On arrival at the grave, the coffin was taken from the hearse and lowered into the place pre pared for it '-with the greatest rever ence and decorum," and an oration was delivered referring to the glories associated with the British Hag for a thousand years a flag now "laid low in the dust, wounded to the heart by an unkind thrust, shorn of a portion of her honor." At the head of the grave was placed a tombstone bearing the same inscription as that on the coffin. Her Recommendations. 'Twas a dull, heavy evening; the light of the dozen gas-jets along the streets only served to make the haze and fog visible. The clock jusc tinkled lorth the hour of nine, and, with the usual remark that "'twas time honest folks were abed," old McGunnigiggle trudged otT up-stairs, followed by the aged partner of his sorrows and search er ior nis joys. " Don't you young folks setnp till the morning paper comes, this time," shouted she over the bannister. "No 00," replied a sweet voice from the parlor; "we won't, will we?" said she in an undertone. "Not if I know it," was the reply. "If the old folks are going to be as sour as this I guess Til skip now," and he reached for his hat "See here!" and the girl's eyes gleamed with earnestness, "you're the tirst fellow I've had, and you've got to put down that hat, and sit up and court me in good shape. I'm homery, I know, but I can build better bread, iron a bosom shirt, knit a pair of block ings quicker, and make Si. .'57 go further than any girl in the village. Them's my recommendations." "That suits me exactly, and his hat (lew into the corner, and that evening the details of the wedd ng were all ar ranged. He depended on a girl as smart as that to get the best of the old folks. m The next General Council of the Alliance of Presbyterian churches throughout the world will be held at Belfast in June, 1884. The" committer of arrangements is already at work. A prominent New York lawyer coa fidentially informs us that during his experience he has never met with a di. vorce case but what there was a womaa in it. Yonkers Gazette. A little shaking up occasionally will do young men good. They wko have been blanks may become doubl sixes. N. O. Picayune. HOME AND FAR31. Regularity in feeding goes lax U ward insuring success. The sm ill, turned-over round collar of linen succeeds the square-cornered Byron collar. The present western limit of the cabbage butterfly is said to be not more than 100 miles the other side of Chi cago. Cows command good prices all over the country, and this condition in the stock market will continue for years yet to come. Every rural family that has a home should hive a few hives of bees. Noth ing of so little cost will yield so large a profit. If a small iece of sulphur is occa sionally thowu upon the fire for smok ing bacon, it wilt effectually .prevent "oiiptiers mm uuji iruiu 'Halting lnroaus upon the meat; nor will it produce any uffeeton its flavor, save on the mere sur face or skin. Mr. Vick is quoted as saying that the "White Worm" or any otner worm, in pots, may be dastroyed by sticking three or four common matches down into the soil, al-o one or two up into the drain ojening. The phosphorus on the match is certain death to animal life, and a powerful fertilizer for plants. Willow cuttings should be set out in the spring, early. They may be made now bv cutting rhe branches aid twigs into lengths ot a foot, tving them ? in bundles and burying them in the earth In the spring set them out in the follow ing manner: Pitsh'a spade into the soil, prcs it forward so as to open a space, press iu the cutting in a slanting d-rec-tion, take out the spade and tread the opening close. It has been discovered that -!ab-bages may be prevented from rotting after freezing simply by cutting them open, or by making one or two incisions in them with a knife. After freezing the cabbages commence to decay in Wie center, cau ed bv the healing" iusi.le. When opened sufficiently to let out trie heated gases and fiabfe them to b i come cold at the center they will nt decay. Canifhi Fanner. The best of fried fish are tho.si cooked in oil; small fish should oe rolled in !l mr, seasoned with salt and cayenne, and quickly fried; medium-sized or sliced fish are good for frying when rolled in Indian meal or cracker dust, seasoned with .salt and pepper, and fried. The celebrated Philadelphia method of frying ca fish is to skin and split them, remove the backbone, wash and dry the pieces, season them with salt and cayenne pepper, dredge them with flour, and fry them brown in snick ing h'it fat. Every farmer should have a supply of ice to use during the hot months of summer. It is indispensable both on the ground of comfort and of economy. The "AyrivuUurist" says: The preservation of food and the less frequent cooking re quired, and consequent saving of fuel, will go far toward meeting the expense of providing ice, if it does not more than cover it." It is not a difficult m itter for every family in the country to have plenty of ice at small cost. One of the London medical jour nals declares that the prevalence of neuralgia or what commonly goes by that name should be regarded as a warning indicative of a low condition of health, which mibt necessarily render its MtujecU? peculiarly susceptible to the invasion of diseases of an aggressive type. It is always essential that the vital forces should be vigorous, and the nerve power, xp. especial, in full devel opment; but neuralgia indicates a low or depressed state of vitality a poor and weak state and should be prompt ly placed under treatment. The cheapest and one of the best means of ridding stock -of lice consists in the free application of wood ashes, f-equent brushing, removal of old or dirty bedding, occasional applications of boi ing hot water to the wood-work of stal's, sheds and stiles, or lime-wash-ing of the same. All loose hairs and dirt removed from the bodies of ani mals by brushing, as well as old bed ding, should be collected in a heap and burned. The presence of vermin on livestock cao not be successfully c m bated by simply applying a certain remedy to the body of the animals, and not at the same time attending to the general cleanliness of these, as well as of their surroundings. Winter Care of Stock. The most important department of farm work at -the present lime is the care of farm stock. Dairy cows and store sheep require a great deal of at tention. The old worn-out and unprofi table cows should be sent to the siiam bles or disposed of to drovers for what ever they will fetch. There is no econ omy, but rather actual loss, in feeding such cows a single day after they can be s jld. The cows which are to be kept as the source of next year's income should be provided with warm shelter, and be fed. not merely enough to keep them alive, but more than that. They should be fed all the mint nutritious fodder they will consume. If less than this is done, the feeder's principal objeot is not accomplished. Care should be exer cised daily that no animal is allowed to injure another. Some animals are slow eaters, and others are very fast, and in these circumstances, by a little negli gence on the part of the attendant,some animals will thrive and others will be starved, and to the unobservant attend ant the cause will be unaccounted for. Some men, too, ?re naturally success ful cattle feeders, while others are de plorably unsuccessful. I have known men who were so careless of the safety and comfort of their stock that they would allow ice to accumulate on the approach to the stable-door until, per haps, their attention would be called to the danger by a broken leg. Watch fulness and care in small things is one great secret of the farmer's .success. Sheep should not be allowed to run in the same yard with cattle or horses, on account of liability to accident. They should be fed plenty of good hay, with a very little grain, daily. The object with heep is not to keep them fat, for this is apt to impair their success in breeding, but rather to keep them in vigorous condition. Sheep do not re quire a warm shelter so much as a pro tection from storm. Cor. Country Gen tleman. How to Drain. On level lands where the average crop in five years runs low, and the land by nature rich, it is a safe propo sition for the tile manufacturer if the farmer honestly performs his part of the contract. On rich, level lands that need drainage, and need it badly, it will pay tA-onty-five per cent, annually on the iu vestmeut and in some instances more. We desire to impress upon tlu minds of every one beginning to drain that it is economy to begin with thorough work. D.j nothing in a permanent investment of this character temporarily. Lo.)k forward to the time when the whole of the land needing drainage shall be thor oughly drained. Begin right and it will end right, with iudustrv and enterprise. Open drains intended to be used as an outlet for tile drains should be excavated deeper than it is intended for the tile to enter, and graded to an angle that will not slip do'n from tho sides'. In d fferent soils and eliys dif ferent angles are required. When open drains can be made under-draius they ought to be avoided, for the reason that they take up land that should be in cuU tivatiou, and not unfrequently become plague spots in the field, a harbor for .weeds and other peits. Draiuaas Journal. EEMOVAL OF G. HEITKEMPER & BRO.'S JEWELRY STORE! We do hereby notify the people of Columbus and vicinity, that we have nnv.-d our Jewelry Store lo the building BETWEEN OEHLRICH'S AND KRAMER'S ON ELEVENTH STREET. It is a new, large, commodious building, where we hare now on hand, and will sell cither at Retail or Whole sale, anything in the line of Wate, Clocks, Jewelry, Mini flaiefl Fare, Spectacles id Optical Goods, &c., t A full line of Toys, Organs, Piano, in and see our new Edvcatiea. Education, in its broadest sense, is undoubtedly the main business ot youth. Theirs is the preparation for a future life of action. But we arc too apt to regard school and study as fie whole of education, whereas it is hut a part, and is valuable only as it is made to contribute to tho general fund. Often the very best way to prepare to do anything is gained chiefly by continual exercise in it. As life consists largely of work, it would seem to be the path of wisdom to ac custom the boy and the girl to take some regular chare in it suitable to their years, that they may uot, upon entering its real business stand aghast and overwhelmed by the multitude of claims on efficiency in action and no bleucss of character; and the acquisi tion of knowledge, though important as one means, can never.by itself, pro duce either of these. It must be vi ttlized by individual thought and u ilized by personal action before it can put real value into one's life or produce anything like an abundant, harvest. These processes should go oi simultaneously. w. from (torn other E. Walton, living fonr miles Genoa, bad a narrow escape having his barn, stables aud buildings burned this week. During one of the windy days of this week, he et a pail tilled with charred corn in the tront yard to cool, sup posing, of cour-e, that there was 110 lire iu it, he left it and went into the house. The strong wind tanned the smouldering sparks into a flame and a gust of wind blew it out of the pail, igniting the surrounding dry grass, and in a lew seconds the flames were traveling at the rate of 40 miles an an hour. It was with great .difficult) that Mr. Waltou saved his buildings, and with the help at hand ariested the : tlestiuctive progress of the tire; nor, did they accomplish this nutil most ot his young thrifty timber iu the valley was destroyed or badly dam aged. Too much care caunot be taken in guarding against fire. Genua Leader. "At a lyceutn' in a country town in the northern part of this stale," re lates a Boston man, "a few evenings since, I was impressed with what 1 heard of the power of woman, and came to my homo with some trcpida-f tion. The subject for debate wast 'Which has the more power over man,'; woman or money ?' There wen; the usual expression of views hin th. il, oui ine y alarm was tront one that caused my the lips of an old farmer aud wa comprised in the following words: 'A woman will take a man, money all, and carry him off to Jericho, audi he can't help himself.'" A West Point merchant, the other day, was made apriMmei in his store cellar for two days and nights. A barrel of salt rolled over on his leg aud he could uot move it off. His eiies for help were uot heard for the leasonthathe did not advertUc, and uo one entered the btoru during the forty-eight hours. The man whom he had hired a few days previous to mow the grass and weeds in front ot his store to escape a city fine, hap pened around to do the job, else he might have died, a?, indeed, he came near doing. Stanton Jiegister. "My bretbrtu," said a Western clergyman, "the preaching of the Gospel to some people is like pouring water over a sponge it soaks iu and j sfaya. lo others it is like the wind blowing through a chicken-coop. My experience of this congregation is that it contains more chicken-coons than sponges." You cannot dream yourself into a character, you must hammer aud forge yourself one. Faith and hope cure han medicine. more diseases tutts PILLS INDORSED BY PHYSICIANS, CLERQYMEI. AND THE AFFLICTED EVERYWHERE. THE GREATEST MEDICAL TRIUMPH OF THE AGE. SYMPTOMS OF A TORPID LIVER. IjOMofappetite.yauaea.bowelacoiMva, Pain in theHeitd.witha dull sensation in the back part. Pain under the afiouTdar blade. fullne after eating-, with a disin clination to exertion of body or mincIT Irritability of temper, LowipinU. IjOss of memory, with a feeling of haying neg lected some dnty. weariness. Diaalnesi, fluttering of the flearyPoU before the eyes, Y ellqw akin, H eadiche. Hestleaa nesa at night, highly colored Urine. IFTHZSEWASHIirOIAlIinrHXZDZD, SERIOUS DISEASES Wia SOON BE DEVELOPED. TUTTS FILLS are especially adapted to sach cases.one dose effects such aehaago of feeling as to astoaUh the sufferer. They Iatereae tfc A pprtlta. and came the body to Take on Flrab, thus the system Is anarftkK'd.&ndbyihetrTofHeAetlomoatlio lllgrstlvr prnas. Kenlar ! re pro duced. ' Prire 3 cent. HUbitbt S !.". TUTT'S HAIR DYE. Objit Haibot WmatiM changed to aOinsar Blacx by a single application of this Dyk. It Imparts a natural color, acts Instantaneously. Sold bj DrugguU, or scat by exprrai on reipt of 1. Office, 35 Murray 8t NawYorfc. a Br. ILri-a Airil. r TUaU IwriM bm mm ami wiu mm sua a Sewing Mschinernd a great many articles too numerous to mention, store price verv low, aod everything will be guaranteed. KENDALL'S IT CURES SPA VI VS. bPLIXTS. KINO BONKS. C UKKS AND ALLSlMILUtBLEM ISHES AND UL' 3IOVKST1IK i5U.Mli WITHOUT HLISTL ICING. KENDALL'S SPATIN CURE! It has cured thousands of cases and is destined to cure million and million', more. KENDALL'S SPAVIN CURE! Is the only positive cure known, anil to " --ompiu 01 raes euren iv iu, a statement wincn vas CTVEN UNDER OATH. To Whom it May Concern. In the year 1875 1 treated" with - Kendall' Spavin Cure," a bone spavin of several - months' growth, nearly half a larire as u belli egg, and completely stopped the lameness and removed thceiilargeiuunt. I have worked the horse eerince crv bard, and he never has been lame, nor could I ever see any ditt'erence in the size of the hock joints since I treated hiiu with ''Kendall's Spatiu Cure." K. A. fiAIN'KS. Enosburgh v.,ns, t.. Feb. i"i, 'T!. Sworn and subscribed to betore me this 23th day of Feb., a. i. 1ST!). John G. .Irxnk. .lu.-ticc of Teaee. KENDALL'S SPAVIN CURE; ON HUMAN FLESH it has been ascertained by repeated trials to be. the very best liniment ever used fur any deep seated ptn'n of low stamh'ny or of short duration. Also for COHNS. Bl WILLYS. FitUbT BITES or any bruise, cut or lameness. Some arc afraid to use if on human jlesh simply becuuse it is a horse medicine, but you should remember that irhat is good for LEAST is yovd for MAN,' and ice know from Experience th at "KENDALLS SPAVIN CUBE" can be ued on a child I year old with perfect safety. Its Effects are wonderful on human I 'esh audit does not blister or make a soi-e. Try it and be convinced KENBALL'S SPAVIN CURE Bead below of Its wonderful effects I am B. J. Kendall & Co.. Gknts: , plication of your Kendall's Spavin Our Make puliJiKh it to the world. About thirtv-tive veart ai while riilins: a ..uii" njfly bori.e, I was injnrcd in one of my testicles, and rrom that time to three v:e! njroa -low but constant enlargement has lieen the re-nli. mimr me Lre.it .unomu f trouble, almost entirely preventing me from hore!aek riding, wh'rii w.uv llwl.'lltm... .. n.... ...I...... I ... .!-- T ... - ..-.... ...,j ui uai;iiuK. 1 -av ;i nonce (.uuugui. 01 11 ior anyxuinj,' except tor liori . hut atter reeevi:i the medicine and reading over what it was good for,.fevliii terribly exercised about 111 v dillieultv.for 1 had consulted many physicians and none f;aeiiie;tiiv sp.-i-itie hiit'uliMit it i-nnld Ite endured no longer to remove it w ith the knife. I applied vour Kendalls Spavin . ure as an experiment, and it wa so painful in its application that I concluded not to repeat it and thought no more about it until near .1 week, and lo and behold one-half the size was jrone. with lov I could scare.-lv hnti.-v.. if 1 im.,wi;-. ..?,- .... j plied it over again, and have made in all a ttpace or two weeks and the terrible enlargement i-. almost gone, in view of which 1 cannot expres- my feelings of delight. It has been a (Jod .-.end to me. mav he send to others with like troubles, ,Ioun Kick Tastor of Hematite Congregationil rinireb. I. S You are at liberty to put this in any shape on mav plea-e. I am not ashamed to have my name under, over or bv the side of it. IENBALLS SPATIN CURE! Kendall's Spavin Cure is urn in its blister, yet it is penetrating and powerful J ,uove. anj : Vy Krowth or any other enlargement if used for several d.iy, Mich as 7 spasms, Sj,is caHoii,. .sprains , .-.welling, anv Iamenes :md all enlargements of I tlie joints or limbs, or rheiimati-m in man and for any purpose for which a liniment in Used for mall or hcriStt It i- HOW known acting mild yet certain in its etrccti. It i. used in lull strength with perfect safetv at all seasons of the year. Send address for Illustrated Circular, which we think gives positive proof, ofits virtues. Xo remedy has met wit 1 ui'h uiiiu illlied .suceN$ to our knowledge for beast as well as man. Price $1 per bottle, or six bottles for $". " AIL DRUGGISTS have it or can get it for you, or it will be sent to any address on receipt of price, bv the propi irtois, 48 Dr. B. J. KENDALL & CO, Euosburg Fills, Vermont. 1870. 1888. THE f&olunjbus ourml 1 conducted as a FAMILY NEWSPAPER, Devoted to the best mutual inter, ests of its readers and its publish, ers. Published at Columbus. Platte county, the centre of the agricul tural portion of Nebraska.it is read by hundreds of people east who are looking' towards Nebraska as their fnture home. Its subscribers in Nebraska are the staunch, solid portion of the community, as is evidenced by the fact that the Journal has never contained a "dun" agaiust them, and by the other fact that ADVERTISING la its columns always brinpB its reward. Business is business, and those who wish to reach the solid people of Central Nebraska will tind the columns of the Journal a. splendid medium. JOB WORK Of all kinds neatly and quickly done, at fair prices. Thib species of printing is nearly always want ed in a hurry, and, knowing thin fact, wc have so provided for it that we can furnish envelopes, let tcr heads, bill heads, circular,, posters, etc., etc., on very short notice, and promptly on time as we promise. SUBSCRIPTION. lcopy per annum 4- Six months ... " Three months, $2 00 1 0G ;n Single copy sent to any address, in the United States for 5 cts. m. x. Tinurii co.. - Columbus, Nebraska. $66 vwpeis m vour own to-rn. is Outfit frqe. Xo risk. .Every thing new. Capital not re quired. "WewDl furnish vou everything. Many are -aakiBg- fortunes Ladies make as much as men, and boys and -rlrls make great pay. Reader, if you want a business at which you can maj-e great pay all the tim-j vou work, write for particulars to II. Co., Portland, Maine. Halijbtt & 4jan-y ' (Jill 473 SPAVIN CURE! FOKMAV ITIS NOW KNOWN TO BE ONE OF THE BEST IF NOT THE BEST L1NI.MENT EVEB OISTOVEKED. show what tliN reined v will do we :ive here is a liniment for the human family. IIkmatiik. JII.SM 11-1:1, An-ru-a Ll, l.sso. no ovnriiivoil in i.-w ..f rli i-..n't n.r ... .... - that I'ft-vl tli.it 1 nii"ht for Humanities" 01 vour neuu.i'i -. ii 111 l tire, in-ver once about 14 dozen application riinniiii'"over ell'ects, mild iu its to reach action as it does not any sleep sealed 1111 or to re to be the best Iininn.nf tVir mm ..V..1- .-... 1 WHEN YOU TEAVEL ALWAYS TAKE TltK B.& M. R. R. Kxamine map and time tables carefully It will be seen that this line connects with C. H.tQ-K.K.; in fact they are under one management, and taken together form what is called ! Shortest and Quickest Line to st. ins, rum, DES MOINES, ROCK ISLAM), And Especially to all Points IX I0AVA, WIS10XSIX, INDIANA, ILLINOIS, MICHIGAN, OHIO. ritlXni'lL. AOVANTAOKS AKK Through coach f; from rictinatinn on C. 15. A: 2- ! ' " tran-fi r; chalice? fiom C. U. A. I J. It. to connect ing line-, al! made iu Union Depots. THROUGH TICKETS AT LOWEST RAIES -CAN BIC II W I l)in application at any -UUon on tho application road. Aircnt arc aNo prepared to check ha-rgaire through; ie all inform ition as to ratrn, routes, tunc count -lions, etc.. and to -1 cure pluping car accomoda tiotit. This conniari ! engaged on an cxtun- tion which w ill open a NEW LINE TO DENVER And all point in oloratlo. ThN ex-' tcntiou will be completed and ready for liuiines- iu a'few month-, and the pub lic can then cujo r.H the advantage of a through line between Denver and Chicago, all under one roinai-pnient. I. S. EllHtl. Ueu'l'l'k't A't. 43y Omaha. Neb. TTEaitY OASM, Manujacturer and dealer in Wooden and Melalie Burial Cask els. AH kinds and sizes of Kobos, also has the sole right to manufac ture and bell the Smith's Hammock Reclining Chair, Cabinet Turning and Scroll work. Pic- lures, -ieiure frames anu Jiouiumgs, Looking-glass Plates, "Walnut Lumber. etc., etc. COLUMBUS, NEB. BDBLIIM ROUTE V J V