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THE JOURNAL. WFDXEr DAY, .JUXE 14, ISSi Eitcrei at ikj Pe:tcE:, Cdsatr:. Net., as iiwad eliM ratter. TWO LITTLE BIRDS. Two little birds aye linger round tny dwelling. One called "I-have" is over tame and cherry. Amid the trees' green palaces still tolling A simple tile of which I would not wenry. Ule is so happy when I-have" is sinjrinjr Sweeter than perfume, and as pure as pray ing. And full of melodies. like those upspringing From bands of children in the wild woods Maying. Another bird, with many a brilliant feather. Flits with a mocking splendor through my garden. I hear him singing in all kinds of weather. Sharp little longing notes that chill and harden. His name 0-had-I"; and whene'er I hoar him Cold discontent and cogcrwishoa seize me: I chase him far and wide, yet ne'er come near him: lie lures me only to deceive and tease me. Year after year this bird of sad temptation Wins me and wearies me, awake or sleep ing: "O had I beauty 1 gold I or fame I or sta tion!" "VTild luring words that always leave mo weeping. O sweet I-have," come thou Rnd sing thy measure. Thy little song of calm content so tender. "O-had-l's" snug may thrill with promised pleasure; I never more will heed its mocking splendor. Harper's Weekly. PUMPKIN TIES. Pinkie was balanced on the toes of her slippers, upon the top of a cider barrel, gathering hops, when Tom Carroll drove along with his wagon piled up with red and yellow apples, and a big, lusciously golden pumpkin in the copier, and stopped at the gate. l'inkie immediately hopped off her perch and hid behind the barrel; but Tom, coming up the walk with the pumpkin, saw the edge of her pink dress. "Can't fool me, Miss Pink Pendle ton," said he, rolling the golden sphere upon the porch. "I can see through more things than a barrel. There's the first pumpkin of the season." Pinkie scrambled up, shook out her skirt and surveyed the pumpkin, half wonderingly from under the brim of her eat, turning her back upon Tom, who, however, only went off down the path whistling carelessly, and drove off to town witli his apples. Tom and Pinkie having indulged in a neat little tiff the week before had since amused themselves with trying to freeze each other, very unsuccessfully it would seem, judging by the warmth of temper both could exhibit on the smallest prov ocation. And this was the lirst time Tom had called since the last "unpleas antness." Did I ever!" said Pinkie, and she glanced over her shoulder to see if Tom was looking back, which, of course, he was, whereat Pinkie turned scarlet and scowled, though Tom was too far off to gee that. " lfhe's trying to make up," she continued, " what does he be such a stick about it for? Expects me to go two-thirds of the way, of course; men always do. But he began the row, and if he wants to make it up, let him saj' so, out and out See through more than a barrel! Just him always insinuating things." And Pinkie, thus foolishly fanning her anger, sat down on the step ana kicked 'her toes against a peck measure. The bone of contention which had served Tom and Pinkie with excuses for more than one squabble was a gentle man from the city, who was spending the summer at the farm owned by Pinkie's brother-in-law, a comfortable, old-fashioned homestead, with clover carpeted orchards, cooled with dense shado, and haunted by the gurgling murmur of a brook and the slumberous hum of bees. Perhaps the boarder found an added charm, thought possibly a fleeting one, in Pinkie's spirited brown eyes and piquant manners. And Pinkie why Pinkie would have been coquettish to a mullcn stalk and never thought seriously of the matter at all. Why shouldn't she walk to church with Mr. Ilatherton and pin a red rose bud in his coat? Why, then, should Tom loom up like a cloud" and cast cold water on her innocent amusement? To be sure, they had been the same as engaged Tom and Pinkie since the days they went nutting together and quarreled over their grammar. But that was no reason so Piukie thought why she should not look at any one else. To make matters a little worse, Tom had a stylish oung lady cousin visiting at his house whose company, Pinkie had told him, he no doubt found an agreeable substitute for hers, a supposed fact she thoroughly resented, notwithstanding the proverb says it is a poor rule that will not work both ways. But here on the porch lay Tom's gift, and (probable) peace-offering for having been unusually bitter at their hist tilt, and perhaps The scowl had departed from Pinkie's forehead; her eyes were growing tender. Young Hatherton strolled around the corner, with his straw hat tilted grace fully to one side and a handfull of early wild purple asters, which he presented to Pinkie. "These," he said, " are a much more fitting offering to beauty than is a pumpkin." He pronounced the word scornfully; he had witnessed Tom's visit and now eyed his gift with much disdain, which unaccountably nettled Pinkie. "They are prettier to look at," she answered, "but I don't suppose they would do quite as well to cook." Theyouug man shrugged his shoulders and sauntered away indifferently; his gallantry of late was growing rather careless and fitful. And Piukie was inconsistent enough to put the asters in her hair, and then pull them out and throw them under the step. After which method of relieving her feelings she picked up the pumpkin to carry iuto the kitchen, and o made the discovery that there was a scrap of paper attached to the bit of stem which remained to the pumpkin. And this was written on the paper: " Coming over to-morrow. Forgive ness and pumpkin pies can solace an in jured spirit." How like Tom. A small dimple found its way to Pink ie's rosily-velvet cheek; and Pinkie's married sister. Flora, a plump, white and generally sweet-tempered little woman, came in and saw it. " Have you and Tom made up?" she asked. "1 haven't," answered Pinkie. "Are you going to?" "Don't know," perverse Pinkie turned. re- "You are a very foolish don't," said Flora, "and I is too good for you." girl will if you say he Pinkie scratched her rosy ear with her hairpin, and smiled at the pumpkin. 'What do you think," she asked, "of a man supposing he could find balm for his wrong in pumpkin pie?" " I should say," answered Flora, "if the man was Tom, you had better make the pies, and make 'em as good as possible." "Oh, you're so awfully practical," said Piukie, darting off, with her chest nut mane Hying. But all the same, before next mor ning's sun had mounted very high in theheavens, a trim little lady, neatly done up like a brown-paper parcel, in a very large linen apron, betook herself to the kitchen and prowled about in the pantry, seeking the sugar, the cinnamon, ginger and all the various ingredients necessary in the manufacture of pump kin pies. A sound of wheels was heard in the lane, and Piukie trinned out to the porch, the nutmeg-grater in her hand, 1 as an elegant buggy rolled by, driven by Tom Carroll, and Pinkie dropped the grater suddenly and caught her breath there was the stylish cousin be side him, the plume in her hat fluttering and a faint breath of rose drifting up to the house. Pinkie went back to the kitchen and shoved the pumpkin into a corner, and flung the nutmegs under the table and the cinnamon after them, pulled off her apron -and went into the house. Mr. Hatherton met her in the hall. "Shan't we take a ride. Miss Pinkie?" he asked, wondering a little at the sparkle in her eyes and the deep bloom in her checks. "All right," said Pinkie, and dashed up stairs for her habit. lhe shadows were tailing eastward from the trees on the lawn when Pinkie again crossed it on her way to the house after her ride, her habit gathered up in her arms, and a cluster of scarlet trumpet-bells in her belt. "Flora, who was on the step, be stowed as dark a frown upon her as her fair, placid countenance was capable of getting up. "You've lost him now for good," was her first remark. "Lost whom?" quoth Pinkie, staring with wondering eyes at her sister. "Tom, of course! Didn't he stop in when he came back after taking his cousin down to catch the train, aud foundyou gone off with Mr. Hatherton." " And and she's srone home?" gasped Pinkie, feeling suddenly guilty. "Of course, she's gone home. She was engaged to the minister, anyway; and you've made a nice nicss of it all now." Flora flounced away, looking in dignant Pinkie followed her. " Don't you think he will ever come back?" she asked, meekly. " H'm!" said Flora. "He may come to-morrow, but only to see John about the cider-mill, mind you!" Pinkie had little annetite for dinner: even Flora's jam puffs had no charm for. her; and her usual archness had so com pletely disappeared that Mr. Hatherton felt called on to become injured, and indulged in a fit of sulks. But the moderate bit of hope Flora had held out concerning Tom's possible appearance on the next day comforted Pinkie a little, and inspired her with a secret resolution. Long after the dinner hour was past the neat little figure, done up in the big "brown cooking apron, again stood be side the long, white kitchen table, where a row of bright, scalloped pie-pans were shining. Spices perfumed the air, aud a dozen eggs were piled in a cake pan. The sun had fairly gone down when Pinkie set her last fragrant, golden complcxioned pie in the windowsirl to cool, and stood looking down at it, absorbed in her own reflections. "The queen of hearts, she made some tarts," chanted a voice behind her, and before she knew it she was whirled around, apron and alL in some one's arms and kissed. "They're not tarts," said Pinkie, when she recovered her breath. "But oh, Tom, how did you happen to come back? I was afraid you wouldn't speak to me any more." " Oh," said Tom, "perhaps I wouldn't have come if I had not seen some one come out on the steps this morning, to see who was going by, with her usual curiosity, and then bounce in like a little enraged yellow-jacket I sus pected which way the wind blew, and I knew Flora would tell you the truth when I came back; and when I saw the pies just now I knew it was all right" " And now you'll stay to supper, of course?" said Pinkie. " Of course," said Tom. "It would never do to let all those pies waste their sweetness on the desert air." N. Y. Graphic Henry Ward Beecher's Farm. Mark Twain has written of Mr. Beech er's old farm on the Hudson River as follows: Mr. Beecher's farm consists of thirty six acres, and is carried on on strict scientific principles. He never puts in any part of a crop without consulting his book. He plows, and reaps, and digs, and sows according to the best au thorities, and the authorities cost more than the other farming implements do. As soon as the library is complete the farm will begin to be a profitable invest ment But book-farming has its draw backs. Upon one occasion, when it seemed morally certain that the hay ought to be cut, the hay-book could not be found, and before it was found it was too late, and the hay was all spoiled. Mr. Beccher raised some of the finest crops of wheat in the country, but the unfavorable difference between the cost of producing it and its market value aft er it is produced has interfered consid erably with its success as a commercial enterprise. His special weakness is hogs, however. He considers hogs the best game a farm produces. He buys the.original pig for $1.50, and feeds him 40 worth of corn, and then sells him for about $9. This is the only crop he ever makes any money on. He loses on the corn, but he makes $7.50 on the hog. He does not mind this, because he never expects to make anything on corn. And, any way it turns out, he has the excite ment of raising the hog, whether he gets the worth of him or not His straw berries would be a comfortable success if the robins would eat turnips, but they won't, and hence the difficulty. One of Mr. Beecher's most harassing difficulties in his fanning operations comes of the close, resemblance of dif ferent sorts of seeds and plants to each other. Two years ago his far-sightedness warned him that there was going to be a great scarcity of watermelons, and therefore he put in a crop of twenty-seven acres of that fruit. But when they came up they turned out io be pumpkins, and a .dead loss was the con sequence. Sometimes a portion of his crop goes into the ground the most promising sweet potatoes, and comes up the infernalest carrots though I have never heard him express it just in that way. When he bought his farm he found one egg in every hen's nest on the place. He said that here was just the reason so many farmers failed; they scattered their forces too much; con centration was the idea. So he gath ered those eggs together, and put them all under one experienced old hen. That hen roosted over that contract night and day for eleven weeks, under the anxious personal su pervision of Mr. Beecber himself, but she could not "phase" those eggs. Why? Because they were those infa mous porcelain things which are used by ingenious and fraudulent farmers as "nest-eggs." But perhaps Mr.Beecher's most disastrous experience was the time he tried to raise an immense crop of dried apples. He planted $1,500 worth, but never one of them sprouted. He has never been able to understand to this day what was the matter with those ap ples. Mr. Beecher's farm is not a triumph. It would be easier on him if he worked it on shares with some one; but he can not find anybody who is willing to stand half the expense, and not many that are able. Still, persistence in any cause is bound to succeed. He was a very in ferior farmer when he first began, but a prolonged and unflinching assault up on his agricultural difficulties has had its effect at last and he is now fast rising iroin ainuence to poverty. There is still living in Prussia a lady who in her youth was on friendly and Intimate terras with Goethe. She is now the Baroness Ulrike von Lewitzoff, her 6 is nearlv ninetv. and her hnmn tc at I the rastle of Teziblitz. in Lolraitz. when she lives in great retirement. PERSONAL AND LITERARY. Mr. and Mrs. George M. Pullman 'rode through Italy in one of their own palace cars, the first that was ever taken south of the Swiss lakes. Mrs. Julia Ward Howe lately re ceived the gift from her brother, Mr. Sam Ward, of a very handsome house on Beacon street in Boston. The London Observer thus closes a feeling tribute to Longfellow: "It is scarcely too much to say that since the death of Byron no living English poet enjoyed so wide a popularity as Long fellow." The London Truth announces that Don Philippe de Bourbon, the second son of the Count d'Aquila, is about to marry Miss Mackay, daughter of Mr. John W. Mackay. the California bonan za king. More ex-Senators of remote service are constantly appearing in the news- fiapers. John P. King, who is now iving near Augusta, Ga., is said to have begun his duty as Senator earlier than any other man now in existence. His service began in 18S3, and ended in 1837. - Chicago Herald. Dickens' "Christmas Carol" is now in the hands of a Birmingham book seller, who offers the manuscript for sale. The remainder of Dickens' manu scripts are at the South Kensington Museum, exepting that of " Our Mutual Friend," which was brought to the United States by Mr. Childs. Charles O'Conor, of New York, has moved into bis new house at Nantucket overlooking Vineyard Sound. He is en joying excellent health, and spends much of his time with his collection of books and pamphlets, which are ranged on the shelves of a large fire-proof library, twenty-five by sixty feet in size. He is said to be preparing an autobiog raphy, in which special attention will be paid to some of the famous lawsuits in which he has been engaged. N. Y. Post. Miss Cary's first lyric triumphs were achieved before her delighted neigh bors, on the verandah of her father's house, in the village of Wayne, in Maine. She was the youngest of Dr. Cary's six children, all of whom were gifted musically. The Doctor used to say of his young daughter: " If Annie could so far forget herself as to acquire the necessary ease and abandon, when facing an audience, I think she would sing very well." When she began her professional career Miss Cary was griev ously nervous and constrained. Boston Post. HUMOROUS. Personal: John, come back; all is forgiven! Pa kicked the wrong man. He did not know it was you. Stella. " What makes you look so deathly sick. Tommy?" " Well, the fac' 'f the matter is, I've been taking my first chew, and I am only a amachewer." Mrs. De Nudle " Oh, Mr. Cattle ranche, tell me, are you aesthetic?" Mr. Cattleranche " Oh, dear, no, madame, not at all. Neve had anything the matter with me in my life." It is rather unpleasant to hear a public speaker remark: "Myfriends ur, I wish to say a few words-ur on this occasion-ur," etc.; but then we must remember that to ur is human. A shoemaker states that there is no money in building shoes for St Louis people. Queer! We thought that the man who built a shoe for a St Louisian generally made a big thing of it Bos ton Post. Six medical experts examined a man as to his sanity, and were evenly divided. After they had wrangled about it for a week it was discovered that they had examined the wrong per son altogether. Some one took Charlie up and asked him if he was his papa's boy. He an swered: "Yes." "And your mamma's boy, too?" "Yes," replied Charlie.' " Well, how can you be papa's boy and mamma's both at the same time?" " Oh," replied Charlie, quite indifferent ly, "can't a wagon have two horses?" Down at Old Bridge, in New Jer sey, a woman got a forlorn man so drunk he couldn't stand, and then she sent for a Justice of the Peace, and while some of the neighbors held the unhappy and limber-jointed bacchanali an up, she married him. That's the kind of a hairpin a New Jersey woman is. When she has once made her "mash," no cold conventionalities of our false and much veneered social in stitutions may stand between her and her love if applejack only holds out Hawkeye. She was a reel sweet-looking lady, with a sealskin sacque and a big plush hat, and she stood on the step of an up town residence, having just pulled the belL "I called to see," said she to the lady of the house, who was very red in the face from frying doughnuts over the kitchen fire, "if you wished to give anything to the heathen to-dry." " No, I don't want to give anything to the heathen to-day. I just gave the woman next door a piece of my mind about her scalawag of a boy that broke down my plants. That's all I can afford for the heathen just now." New Haven Register. m t m Senthera Htmsr. Every people is known by its jokes. Men are least restrained in their mirth, and give therein the largest play of their Tikes and dislikes. The humor of Harry Fielding, Thackeray tells us, is wonderfully wise and detective; it flashes upon a rogue and lightens up a rascal like a policeman's lanthorn. The same may be said of the humor of Rabelais, though the objects of its ridi cule are not always cheats and scamps. The difference between opera bouffc and Anglo-Saxon farce represents the differ ence between the life of the French and the life of the English. With the Amer icans it is not the snob and the husband who are satirized; our domestic jocosity embraces chiefly the small boy, the widow and the mother-in-law, reserving for its most palpable hits the bully, the visionary speculator, the gamester and the commercial agent Thus American humor may be divided into two classes that which relates to fighting and that which relates to money. In the South the general classification grows still narrower, gaining, however, in whimsi cality and local color what it lacks in breadth. There can be no mistaking the origin of the old story of the traveler who asked a Mississippian whether it was worth his while to carry a plstoL and was told: " Well, stranger, you mout move around here more n a year an1 never need a pistol; but ef you should happen to need one, you'd need it pow erful." Equally characteristic is the record of a well-known Tennessee case. The principal witness for the common wealth testified that he was sent to get a fresh pack of cards, that he got them, and, returning, sat down in the grass. Here he balked in his testimony, and would go no further. At last, after cross-questioning aud coaxing had been exhausted, the Judge threatened him with fine and imprisonment whereupon he said: "Please, your Honor, if I must tell how I drapped in the jimson weeds, I suppose I must It was just your Honor, to look over Uie Jcerds and mark the bowers." The following inci dents no less reflect the local color of the ante-bellum days: Two Kentucki ans went to settle their bill at a hotel iu Boston. There being a dLpute about the amount, ohe of them grew angry and began to swear, when the other said: "Remember, John, who yon are. Remember you are a Kentuckiaa. Fay the amount and shoot the scoundrel." Henry WatUrsan, in the Century. Youths' Department. LITTLE ROBIN ADAIR. rfce very oddest boy I know Is Robin Adair, with his head of tow, nd his brave, bright eyes, where' tho ques tions grow. For this very strange boy is asking why. From the time that morning paints the sky Till the sleepless stars look out on high: Why does Jack's kite stay up in the sky? It has no wings, and yet it can tly And sister says wishes go just as high. Why is oatmeal healthy and candy good? Is it always naughty to do as you would? And would you be an angel if you could? This rose was a bua, and why did it burst? This bird was an egg, and which came first. The egg or the bird? and how was it nursed? What is tua wind? and where does it stay: When it hushes Itself and creeps away? Is it crying or singing? anil what does it say? Why does the sun sleep back of the trees At home when in summer he takes his ease All night In the rocking bed of the seas? Why is it bad for boys to fight? And for soldier-men so brave and right? Why do I love you best at night? Why do the oaks and elms stand tall. Ami the apple trees do th j work for all With their gnarled old branches ready to fall? Why does a great, strong gentleman ride In a. carriage, pretty, and soft aud wide. And a tired old woman walk by tho Bide? Ah! Kobin, I'll neither laugh nor cry: But 111 tell ycu a secret, deep and hign: The grown-up children keep asking why. And the answers are somewh re safe and fair Beyond the stars and the stur-lit air For men and women and Kobin Adair. Fannie E. Robinson, in ITide Awake. " NUMBER ONE." " Look out for number one, my boy," said his father, as the baby held up his bread-and-milk for mamma to eat "That's what he never will do," laughed mamma. "He'd far rather look out for number two. Not a spoon ful will he take till he holds it up for me to taste." . Just as mamma had taken her sip, baby caught sight of papa's curling beard anu laughing eyes. Holding up the spoon to him, he made a little coax ing soimd. " The generous darling!" said mam ma. "Number two and number three both come before number one in your arithmetic; don't they, baby?" "We'll name him 'Number One,'" said aunty, from her easy-chair in the corner; and ever after that she playful ly called him "Number One." although he soon had another name. Aunty had a way of proving that her choice of a name was a god one however. For, as baby grew older, his father was con tinually repeating the saying: "Look out for number one;" but it was with a Eroud feeling that his boy never could e selfish after all. He was so forgetful of self that he always thought of all other numbers before number one. He chopped kindlings for mamma as cheerfully as if it were the best fun in the world; and often and often he scoured the knives, or even washed the dishes, if she did not feel well. He helped papa in many other ways. His sick aunty called herself "number four," for she came in for a large share of his loving thoughtfulness. As Number One grew older, he had a darling baby sister, number live, men, by-anu-by, came number six and seven another sister and a brother. How could Number One look out for himself, when there began to be so many other numbers? He kept finding out new numbers, too. There were Grandpa and Grand ma Gray, Grandma Eaton, and aunts, uncles and cousins so many that, when he counted the numbers, they went all the way from number eight to number forty-seven. He did not see them all every day, to be sure; in fact, some of them lived so far away that the visits were few and far between. But when they did meet, they were all sure to feel very soon that Number One was not looking out for himself, but wished rath er to make them happy. Number Forty-eight was poor old Darby, who had to sit in his chair from morning till night, year in and year out poor, lame and blind! How Number One did delight to carry him a pailful of mother's broth, and perhaps sit and read a psalm to comfort him! By-and-by he was strong enough to shovel snow for Miss Patty, who lived in the lane close by, or to dig up her little patch of a garden in spring time. So aunty jailed her Number Forty-nine. Then there were numbers fifty and fifty-one Tom Hanson and his little brother. They had never a sled to their names. How could Number One help lending them his for a ride every other time? True, Dick Jones and Jack Har vey didn't lend theirs; but perhaps they didn't think. Yet, somehow. Number One did Uiink, and he couldn't enjoy his all by himself, seeing the little fel lows look on with such hungry eyes. And so the numbers kept adding up day after day, and year after year. At first, aunty kept account to amuse herself in her weary hours of sickness; but by-and-by there were so many that she gave it up. "I believe there never was a more un selfish boy," she said; "and he's the happiest boy I know of, too." . The numbers counted up pretty fast when Number One grew to be a man; for he was married, and had boys of his own. But he often thought how much he should love a little daughter; and he soon round out a way to add two new numbers to his list A poor woman died, leaving twin girlies without father or mother, and Number One adopted them. He took them to his home, where his wife was all ready to welcome them. The twins were old enough to remember their own dear mamma; but before long they found that they loved their new mamma and papa just as much. Their names were Catherine and Tabitha; but their new papa called them Kitty and Pussy, for short In a few yeare'they were old enough to go to board ing-schooL When they came home for their first vacation, they found that papa had added a new number a splendid great tabby-cat with yellow eyes. He had been sent out to sail on the harbor in a basket by some cruel boy; and their Eapa. standing on the wharf, had heard im crying, and saved him from a wa tery grave. "rve named him Moses," he said, " because I took him from the water. He pays me well by catching mice." The next day was papa's birthday, and Kitty and Pussy each had a gift for him. As they were talking them over together", Kitty said: " The trouble is. Puss, 1 always want to do something my very own self for papa. He's so good to us, and to everybody. I do be lieve everybody loves him. Even Moses Eurrs on his knee, and catches mice for im; but all we can do is to buy some thing for him with the money that he gives us." "Oh no."' said Pussy, "that isn't alL We can try to please him every day, and Pm sure he will understand from that how much we love him." ' But then I want to say it somehow, and not just act it out," said Kitty. "Oh! I know what Pll do, ril write him a birthday note." Half an hour after. Pussy was just putting the last stitch in the pretty watch-hook which was to be her gift, when Kitty held out the note for her to read. "That's nice," said Pussy. "And ril add a little." Then they folded the note, wrote upon the outside, "For Papa's Birthday," and placed it with their gifts under his plate at table. When he opened it, he read: He stood alone upon the wharf; A wall came o'er the water. 'Can that be Moses" voioer be cried. Then I'll pUy Pharaoh's daughter.' , And lightly springing to a bout. Ho rowed to reach the casket But lo! 'twas only tabby-cat. In cost-off butchers' bosket. Now tabby-cats caich mice and rats Thus daily docth Moses: But Kitty t at, who can't do that. Her love in rhyme discloses. With tiiuny sincere pur-r-rs, KtrrT CAT." "Next Pussy Cat, with grateful pur-r-rs, A birthday gic :ting adds to hers; And wishes every day to try To show her love. So now good-bye. Purringly, Pussy Cat." When papa first began to read he smiled, but soon the tears came into his eyes, and he put his arms around both little daughters, and told them how sure he was that they loved him as he loved them. Say, boys and girls, would you wish to be loved by every one? Then don't be so careful to look out for number one, but think of the other numbers first. Lilian Pay son, in S. S. Times. Emma's Ambition. ' O mamma!" she said, looking up with flushed face; "there is just the loveliest story in here! It is about a little girl who was only ten years old, and her mother went away to see a sick sister, and was gone for a whole week; and this little girl made tea and toast, and baked potatoes, and washed the dishes, and did every single thing lor her father; kept house, you know, mam ma. Now, I'm 'most ten years old, and I could keep house for papa. I wish you would go to Aunt Nellie's and stay a whole month, and let me keep house. I know how to make toast, mamma, just splendidly! and custard, and Hattic said she would teach me how to make ginger-cake, some da'. Won't you please to go, mamma?" "I don't think I could be coaxed to do it," said Mrs. Eastman. "The mother of that little girl in the book, trobably, knew that she could trust her ittle daughter; but I should expect you to leave the bread while it was to:isting, and fly to the gate, if you heard a sound that interested you; and I should expect the potatoes to burn in the oven while you played in the sand at the door. 1 couldn't trust you in the least." " Mamma!"said Emma, with surprise and indignation in her voice. "Why do you say that? You have never tried me at all. Why do you think I wouldn't do as well as a girl in a book?" "Haven't 1 tried you, dear? Do you know it is just three-quarters of an hour since I sent you to dust the sitting-room and put everything in nice order forme? Now look at those books, tumbled up side down on the floor, and those pa pers blowing about the room, and the duster on the chair, and your toys on the table; while my little girl reads a story about another little - girl who helped her mother." "O, well," said Emma, her cheeks very red, "that is dillerent; nothing but this old room to dust If I had some thing real grand to do, like keeping house for papa, you would see how hard I would work; I wouldn't stop to play, or to read, or anything." "Emma, dear, perhaps you will bo surprised to hear me say so, but the words of Jesus Christ show that you are mistaken." "Mamma," said Emma, again, and her voice showed that she was very much surprised. "They certainly do listen: He that is faithful in that which is least, is faithful also in much; and he that is unjust in the least, is unjust also in much.' "And once he said to a man: Well done, good and faithful servant, thou hast been faithful over a few things; I will make thee ruler over many things.' Can I say that to you this morning." Pansy. A Warning to Doctors. The Chinese authorities of Shanghai recently issued a quaint decree respect ing the" neglect of physicians to attend at once on their patients, and the high fees which they charge. They give notice that it is the duty of all physicians to use their knowledge for the benefit of the people; when people are sick they must be ready to attend upon them whenever they are sent for, without re garding the hour of the night or day, or the state of the weather. When people are ill they long for the presence of the doctor as the grain of seed longs for the rains. Instead of doing this, liowever, the physicians now think that they pos sess great skill, and not only charge high fees, but insist on being paid full hire for their chair coolies, and they do not care what becomes of the patient so that they get their fees. If these were only charged to the wealthy it would not so much matter; but the poor have too pay them also. An evil practice (the decree goes on) also exists by which doctors will not visit their patients before two o'clock in the after noon. Some will even smoke opium and drink tea until late in the evening. These are abuses, the magistrates say, which they will on no account permit Doctors must attend their patients at all times. They must, if necessary, visit them several times daily; they must think more of them and less of their fees. Notice, therefore, is given to all officials and people that a physician who does not attend when he is called must only receive half his fees and half his chair hire. "If you physicians delay your visits you show your wickness, and sin against yourselves." The decree is a model one for a paternal Government; argument, entreaty, objurgation, ex position, threats, are all mingled in due proportions. Nature. Early Navigation. " Ever seen navigation open as early as this before?" Tie repeated, as he glanced out of the window at the river and settled back in his chair " bless you; yes! Why, this is no spring at all compared to one we had along iu the forties. I don't exactly remember the year, but we'll say 1844." "Very early, was it?" "Yes, indeed. We only had seven flakes of snow that whole winter, and they fell in December. Only seven, sir, and the other two men who kept count with me are now up in the sail loft Shall I calPem down?" "Oh, no matter. Was the river frozen?" Not the first sight of ice all winter." "Did vessels continue to run?" " Right along without a break. On the 10th of January I sailed into Buffalo with a cargo of wheat, and the weather was so warm that the men walked the decks barefooted. On the return trip I was sun-struck off Point Au Pelee." "Is that possible?" "That's a dead fact That was a sad trip for me, both financially any physic ally." "Why, you didn't lose any money, did you?" " Not on the cargo, but going off just at the time I did and being gone eleven days threw my garden patch all behind and it never caught up." " But you got over the sun -stroke?" "Not entirely, and probably never shall. I can't talk five minutes without feeling dry, and if I should go to ask you to have a glass of beer with me I'd stutter over it so long that you'd have a chance to asK me twice to arms witn you. No, young man," he continued, as he carefully put the glass down, " don't try to rush the season. Early navigation has no money in it and it is full of perils. I've tried it, and the result is an infirmity which will follow me to my grave. I always smoke after drinking, and yet thanks don't care if 1 do I prefer dark color and yet that is, don't rush things. There's nothing gained by it" Detroit Fret Pro. ELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL. . vansas has 209 Presbyterian chHies with 12,044 members. -"- Mororan Dix. of New York, has SiXtC :..i.., .:..:...., :.. i...'rv:..: I Paris, I '" Griffith John, a missionary to t I "it" 'A rcccnt address in Ghisgow, I stated China proper is now entirely upucu the missionary ana the lJible colporte with tne giugie exception of one prov,lal capitaihat of Hanan. . JViresbvterie in the United Presb.vtenlChurch have voted on the overture refw the prohibition of in trumental uic The voters are ! counted by ; ,mbers, not by presby teries, and loave votea for and 122 against tne rnelre It is said tt thjs coantry is in debted to Rtcha Storr3 Wmis more than to any othejson for the mtro. auction of olle song3 he having taught the Yale stent3 the Latm song of "Gaudeamusj" lichhe had learned in the German Unijjg Sir William Blastone teli3 m tnat marriage was declai an ecclesiastical contract by Pope lL,cent ill., A. D. 1198. Our own mi;,,,, is that he has placed the date so, 5i)0Q years too late, for we trace it ba. ia :l relinon.s rite to the early days oQn.GJuircJi man. Among the New Y01 pa3tors whe object to opening pub!i.1ibraries on Sundaj are Dr. Johu IIal.fjr y jj. Taylor, Dr. Sabine and FjverThomtu S. Preston. Among those jlt) SUpp0rj Joseph H. Choate's pro,-:.':, , I open them are Dr. J. P. Nean n0 ! ert Collyer and Rev. Heber Jton. Harvard students are orgxj7i;n , total-abstinence society on ,um"u sense principles. It is to be ltlii frou pledges, bigotry and importunity a!U based on "common sense. self-i..')e,. and gentlemanliness." The socieiw;j favor total abstinence, but a meje . will be allowed freely to withdraw 1,,, the organization whenever he finds ,6 practice of its principles too much him. Rev. Phillips lJrooks and Pro James are to deliver lectures before thJ society. The public schools of the State oi New York were las: year attended by 1,021,282 children, a smaller number by 10,000 than was recorded in 1880. Of tho 80,826 teachers employed, 23,157 were women. The average annual sal- 1 ary .of each teacher was $375.06. the whole amount expended m salaries be ing 97, 775,505.22. The State has 11,248 school districts and 11,894 school-houses. The total amount expended upon the schools last year was $10,808,802.40. N. Y. Examiner. The Indian University, at Table, quah, Ind. Ter., reports an increase of students and an advance of proficiency this year. Three young men are study ing for the ministry, and quite a num ber are preparting to teach. It lian been proposed to remove the institution to the limits of the Creek Nation, and s fine site has been granted for that pur pose. The great need, however, is fora building fund to erect buildings of brick or stone to accommodate two hundred students. Rev. A. C. Bacone is Presi dent of the institution. Presentations to Royalty. Inside the palace, the same crush, the same impatience, the shaking out of trains, the fervent adjurations to friends to be "set right," the feverish anxiety to kiss the august hand so quietly stretched out to receive the loyal salute Few women walk gracefully through: the ordeal, and most of them flush un becomingly in the vain attempt to man age their trains successfully during three courtesies, to stop at the proper moment, and to exactly know when to relinquish the podgy fingers presented to them. And yet what care has been taken, what time has been wasted to in sure a complete mastery of the perform ance! Rehearsals have taken place. masters of deportment have been sum moned, domestic representations of the throne-room arranged, debutantes have courtesied scores of times to members of their own family till they have been pronounced perfect and then have failed deplorably on the eventful day. It does not seem so very appalling to pass for five seconds before a short, fat, somewhat aged woman dressed in black, with always the faintest soupcon of weeds about her; and yet stout hearts have quailed, brave ollicers have got entangled in their swords, even the pro fessional beauties have lowered their bold, proud eyes before the pale, ex- Iiressionless look of the royal lady, familiarity with these scenes does not remove the weird sensation; and yet every available pretext is taken to re peat the ceremony. The Queen's mem ory must be remarkably short or her desire to note the changes events create in her subjects very strong; for a girl is presented to her when she "comes out" again when she is married, and if, like Lady Waldegrave, she has had four hus bands, at each successive nuptials she is obliged to appear before the Queen as a perfect stranger. A man also comes with the charm of novelty, aud is introduced da capo at every step he takes in his profession, and at every new distinction he receives. This naturally insures a large attendance, no matter if at times slightly mixed, as it is not un frequent to be tightly wedged in the ante-rooms with people one would on no account have on one's visiting list; but it likewise causes a crowd so denso and so unscrupulous that, when fair ladies have found the use of hands and elbows insufficient to procure standing room, they have been known dexterous ly to dispose about their persons pint with the points outward, and to trust to those weapons to remove the more de fenseless of their neighbors. As the style of dress is strictly decollete, and that by the express command of the Queen, there is a certain amount of cruelty in this mode of attack. London Cor. N. Y. Sun. Spirited Sparrows. Attention was attracted the other day by a large crowd assembled along and hanging on the fence of Washington park. Examination proved the assem blage gathered to witness a desperate conflict between two sparrows. The venomous little rascals were intent on business and seemed to be aware that their "mill" was attracting unusual notice. They hammered away at each other with a vim and vigor which would have done credit to Paddy Ryan and Sullivan. Each took his punishment with little complaint, except now and then a sharp squeak would announce a telling blow on the part of one or the other of the contestants. They backed and filled and came to the "scratch" after the most approved prize ring fash ion, aud struck out in full accord with bird science. After about fifty rounds were fought with a give and take that showed the pluck of the belligerents, they became exhausted and laid down on their sides about ten inches apart and E anted like distressed hounds. The lood flowed so freely from the heads of each it was difficult to tell which was entitled to the honor of having drawn the "rubv" first. Afterabout a minute's rest they called "time" themselves and flew at each other again with the ferocity of bull-dogs; they pulled and hauled and pecked, aiming at each other's eyes, which were blood-red with rage, until, too exhausted to stand, they lay down on their sides, and in that position shook each other like terriers. At this junct ure a small boy entered the ring, and the gladiators, too weak to escape, were carried off into hopelese captivity. Never was the fighting qualities of these pests more aptly illustrated. Nmeark Aduertiser. KENDALL'S SPAVIN CUEE! it . iruEs siwvivs. SPLINTS, Kl'(i HOXKS. I'KliS ANT ALLS MILAUHLK 1SHKS A XI) I: 31UVKSTHK isrvi l WITIIoLT KLISTr.l: IXG. oBKendall?VL KENBAilr'S SPATIN CURE! It ha- cun d :hnuands of cases and is destined to cure millions and millions mor EBKAIiLS SPAVIN CURE! Is the only po-itive cure known, and to show wh.it tlii- ieuu ly will do we give 1 as a sample of lmm-s cured bv it. a statenu ill hieb vad GIVEN UNDER OATH. To Whom It Mav Concern. In the year 1375 I treated with ' Kendall's Spavin Cure." a bone spivin of several iiioniht' growth, nearly half :i large as a hens egg, and completely stonpedthe lameness and rrnut ed the en'.irgement. I have worked the horse eer since very bard, ami he never ha- been Lime, nor could I ecr see any ditfcrcisce in the sie of the hock joints -ince I treated him with "Kendall's Spavin Cure." X. A. ;.INKS. Enosburgh -iIN. r Feb. .-. '7:. Sworn and sub-cribed to before me this ,."th day of Feb.. a. i. l-7!. .Ioiix C. .Iknnk. .1 list ice of Peace KENDALL'S SPAVIN CURE; ON HUMAN FLESH it has been usccrininul by repeated tr ifc to be. the very best liniment ever usedj'or any dei'i xatfnl pain of lomi standing or of short duration. Also for VtHlXS. lil'MONS. FROST-BITES or any (muse, cut or lameness, dome are ohnxl 10 use tt on fin 'nan jlesli simply because it is a horse medicine, but yon should remember that what is good for ItJEAST is aoud for MAN. 'and ire A-noir from Experience th at "KENDALL'S SFA VJN CI' BE" van be used on a c'titd 1 year V old ici'th perfect safety. Its Effects are wonderful on human jlesh audit does not blister or make a sore. Try it aud be convinced. KENDALL'S SPAVIN CURE; Read below of its wonderful e fleets us :i liniment for the hu tin family. IIkmAtitk. Mi.n&ouki. AujHi-t 21), 1SS0. B. J, IvKN'PAl.L it Co.. (iKNTS: I am so oerj'jycd iu iew of the result of an ap Pcation of your Kendall's Spavin Cure that 1 "feel that I ouirht for Humanities' '".e publish it to the world. About thiity-tive vears ago while ridins: a young ufy horse, I was injured in one of my testicle-, and from that Urn to three weeks aja slow but constant enlargement has been the re.-ult, giving me a reat amount ouble, almost entirely preventing me from horseback ridini. wlr'ch was my uslj w:ly 0j- traveling. I -aw a notice of your Kendall's Spavin t 'lire, never once noMit of it for anything except for hors-s, but atter receiving he medicine aud reau.j,ov,,r what it was good for, feeling terribly exercised about my ditlictilty. for I bau01,sUjlL,( msmy physicians and none gavenie any specific but When it could be enured 0 longer to remove it with the knife. I applied jour Kent!. ill's Spavin Cure aun experiment, and it was so painful iu its application that I concluded not to rpl:ll jt .imj thought no more abi ut it until near .1 wee!., and lo .nul Lc'-ohl on.e-"a,fhe size was gone, with joy I couhl -rarcely believe it, I immediately ap P"BU it o-;r again, and have made in all about xi dozen .ipplie-tion- ruuning'over a space ntwo weeksand the terrible enlargement i- almost goe, iu view of which I cannot ereSN 1V feelings of delight. It lia been a (Jod send to me. mav he send to oth.s with'like trouble-. .John Uiuk. iastor & Hematite Congregational Church. li i1 :ire :lt '',J,;rly t put this iu any shape you mav plca-e. I am not ashamed to hve my name under, over or by the side of it. KENDALL'S SPAVIN CURE! Kendall's Spjn Cure is sure iu it- ellects, mild iu it- action a- it docs not jlistcr, yet it Is pt,etrating and powerful to reach any deep s.-.tted piin r to re move any bony gro.-th or any other enlargement if u.-ed for -everal d iy. -itch as spavins, splints, ca'us. sprains, swelling, anv lameness and ill ei-l.iigeuieut- of the joints, or limbs. - rheumati-m in man and for anv purpose for which a liniment is used for man or be3t. It i- now known to be t he best liniment for man ever n-ed acting mild yetcertai n jts effects. It is u-ed in lull strength with perfect sarctv at all seasons of the yir. Send address for Ilistrated Circular, which we think give- positive proof, or its virtues. No remedy ha in,.t with siili uiiiuillfi d-u-ejss to our knowledge, for V beast as well as man. Ice $1 per bottle, or six bottles for $". . ., ALL DRUGGISTS have it or can get it for you, or it will be sent to any adre.-s on receipt ol pi id . bv the proprietors, 48 Dr. B.J. KENDALL & CO. Esosbur!? 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