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THE JOURNAL. I&SUKD EVERY WKDNKSDAY, !M. K. TUENEE & CO., Proprietors and Publishers. KATKM OF AnvKicri.KirvG. 33TBasices3 and professional cards of five lines or less, per annum, five dollars. GTFor time advertisements, apply at this oilice. QTLegal advertisements at statute rates. ISTFor transient advertising, see rates on third page. X23 All advertisements payable monthly. T3T OFFICE, Eleventh St., up stairs in Journal Building. TKRJI: Per year ... six months Three months single copies 1 OO SO VOL. XIIL-NO. 8. COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21, 1882. WHOLE NO. 682. mm J W r I. 4 i CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION. C. H. VaxUyck IT. S. senator. Neb raska Otv . Alvin sAONnERS,U.s. senator. Omaha. K. lv. Valkstisk, Itep.. West r.iiui. T. .1. Majors. Contiii-jeiit Rep., Peru. STATE DIRECTORY: Ai.mnus Nance, Uoveruor. Lincoln. -.. .1. Alexander, Secretary of State. John Wallieh-., Auditor, Lincoln. G. l. iiirtlett, Trea-urer, Lincoln. C. A. Oilvvorlh, .vttorney-Ceneral. W. W. V. Jone-, "upt. Public Iiis-rue. C. .1. Xobo. Warden ui Penitentiary. JiiTgm' TNon Inspector.. J.O. Carter, Prison Ph -ician. H.P. Mathevvson.upt.Insanc Asylum. .imiCIARY: C.eor-e 15. Lak,.l Am.-:lU jlu!S.. Am:ia Cobb. ) s. M.i.vvell, Chief .?uti e, KOUK1II .iriWIVI. 1'IHTIMCT. ti. W. l't..lud-:t. York. 31. I?. Rec-e, litrict Attorney, Wahoo LAND OFFICERS: 31. R. Movie, I'ej-l-ter. Grind Inland. Wm. Anyan. I'ereiver, Grand I -land. LI:g-I. I'lVE: Ptatt- Seilnl.u. M. K.TuriHT. " Rcpii-.M itive. G. W. Lehman. fOrVI'Y DIRECTORY: .1. (5. Hiirni'. County Jude. John StaitUer. County ''Icrk. C. A. Newman, Clerk DUt. Court. .1. W. Early. Tr- irer. D. ('. Iav:iti-iu.rli. ""lu-rill-. L..I. CrnuT. ""urvovor. 31..Malirr, ) .lo-cph Rivet. v. count v Coinuii--ioticr. II.. I IliiiUon. ) Dr. A . Ileintz. Coroner. .1. K. MoMi-ricf Supt.of School. W. 31. Cnrn.-iiii-J" ."ccofthel'e.-.ee. CITY DIRECTORY: I. R. 3I-:iirliT, Mavor. A. P.. ':rioth. Clerk. I. I. Del-Mitn, Tre-i-urer. W. S. II'ney. Police .In dire. I. E. Ninth. Engineer. fM'NPII.MKN: 1st Watd lohn Rickly. G. A. S"hrociler. id Ward Pit. II.iw. I. G I tick. "d Ward1 ltrismu.en. A. A. Smith. 4'ol-iiiittM !". I OHI--. Mpcn on UIHl:iV - lrlll 11 A.M. to 12 SI. and from :'W to i v. si. Hii-ine hours except Sundav ti v.M.to v. si. Ej-lerit mail-cloc at'll a. si. Western tniil- doe at 4:l."r.M. 31a.il ;-:iw- Columbu for Lot Creek, Genoa. M. Edward. Albion, Platte Center, llnmphri'v, 31 idi'on anil Nor Idk, cvtv dav (except Sundays- at 4::V p. in. Arrive at 10:". For r-hell Creek and Cretnu, on Mon days and Friday-, 7 a. si , returning al i. si- same dav-. For Alexi. Patruii and Dav ill City, Tuesday-. Tharsdv and Saturday, Ir.v "Arrive at 12m. For Conklin-: Tue-dav and Saturdays 7 a. in. Arriv . ti p. m. -uiie da . II. I. Time T:ille. Eastward Hound. Emigrant. N.0. leave- at r. :!." a. m. I'aen:'r, 4, " ' 11:00 a. in. Frci-rht. " n ' ' 2:I."i p. ui. Freinht. 10. " 4:30 a. m. Wesiicard Hound. Freight, No. .1. leave al .. 2:00 p. m. P:iengr. :'.. 4:27 p. m. Freight. !. t;:"t p. m. Emigrant, ' 7. " "... 1:."0 a. m. Every day except Saturday the three li'ie leidin' to Chicago connect with lT P. train at Omaha. On Saturday there will be but one train a day, a -taown by th' following -chedule: O.. N. k i. U. ROAD. Time Schednlc No. 4. To take effect luni i. aI. For the government and information of employee "only. The Company rcerr the right to arj therefrom -it pleaure. Train daily. Sundaj excepted. Outward Hound. Iiucard Bound. Norfolk 7:20 a. si. ' 3Iunon 7:47 3I:ulion .S:2i , Humphrevy :(.") 1 PL Centre!!: IS ' ; LotCreekl0.tc.l " I Columbu10:." " Columbu 4::i."i i.si. LotCreek.":21 " PI. Centre 5-42 Uumphrea.-2.1 3Iadion " 7:04 " 3Iuuon 7:4.1 Norfolk S:U4 ALIIION HUANCII. Columbu 4:4." r. si. .Albion 7:4.1 a. si. LotCreckr:31 - ' St. EdwardS::: " Genoa 0:10 ' , Genoa !:14 " St.Eilward7:0U " I Lot Creekn:.! " Albion. 7:47 I ColuiiilHpm:4." " P.. .t 31. TI3IE TARLE. Leaves Columbu, r:4.i a. si. " Roll wood t::n " David Citv, 7.2 " " Garrion. 7:40 " ' riye. M:2o " 4' Staplehurt :"' " " Seward '.:: Rubv. ... !:W 31 1 1 ford. 10:l.i " ' Plea-ant Dale,. .. . 10:4.". " " Emerald. 11:10 " Arrive-al Lincoln, 11 :") si. Leave Liin-nln at 12:o0 r. 51. and ar rive in Columbus 7:tn. si. 31ake cloe connection at Lincoln for all point eat, vest and south. H. LUERS & CO., BLACKSMITHS -AND rao;oii lnildeis, n Rrirk Shop i)immI llrlnti" KruC Store. ALL KINDS OF WOOD AMD IR0S WORK ON WAGONS AND BUGGIES DONE ON SHORT NOTICE. Eleventh frte, Columbus, Nebraska. NEBRASKA HOUSE, S. J. MARMOY, Prop'r. Nebraska Ave., South of Depot, COLITJIIIUS. KGB. A new houe. newly furnished. Good accommodation. Hoard by day or week at reaouable rates. 3Xet a. First-Oil. Table. Meals, .... 2T Ct. Lodgings. ..2-t Cts. 3S-2tf COLUMBUS Restaurant and Saloon! E. D. SHEEHAN, Proprietor. 5"Whole.-ale ind Retail Dealer in For eign Wines, Liquors and Cigars, Dub lin Stout, Scotch and Englih Ales. tSTKentucky Whiskies a Specialty. OYSTERS in their season, by the case can or dish. .lltfc StrmU Satk et Urn ft. BUSINESS CARDS. D It. C'AKI. SCHOTiE, VETERINARY SURGEON. Office at Dowtv, Weaver & Co's store. A ADKRSOX KOE., RANKERS. Collection. Insurance and Loan Agents, Foreign Exchange and Pa age Tickets a specialty. lOKMXUS Ac SULLIVAN, A TTOItXEYS-A T-LA W. Up-stair in Gluck P.utliliiig, 11th street. Above the New bank. TT J. IIIrl40.1i. yOTAJlY PUBLIC, 12th Street, 2 iloors net of llammuni! 1!oum, Columbus, Xeb. 491. y D IE. .11. . TIIIIK'rO.V Jt EVIDENT DENTIST. Oilice over corner of lltli and North-st. Ml ojieration iirt-clas and warranted. c 1III4-A;0 HAKIIKIt SIK1! HENRY WOODS. Pnori:. t5TEerv thing in lirt-class style. A No keep the bet of cigars. ."ilG-y G i i:i:k &. iei:i:in:i. ATTORNEYS AT LA ', Oilice on Olive St., Columbu. Nebraska. 2tf c 1 G. A. lil'LLIIORST. A. 31.. 31. D.. 11 Oil EOl'A Till C Til YS1 CI AX, JSTTwo P.Iocks south of Court Houe. Telephone communication. 5-lr TIT .', )Yi:itM, .11. ., 11 OM EOl'A TI1IC Pll YS1 CIA X. Will attend to all calls night and dav . utlioe vv ith O. F. Merrill, eat of A & N. Depot. ."ii:lino III ALI.ISTIIK HltOS., A TTOHXEYS A T LA II', Oilice up-stnirs in McAllister's build ing. 11th St. W. A. 3IcAllister, Notary Tublic. c -1 1. HVAfS. .11. ., Pll Y SIC I AN L- SURCIEOX. 1ST Front room, up-taiis in Gluck building, :.bove the bank, 11th St. Calls answered nigtit or dav. .Vr.in .1. 31. SIACFAKLAMi. B. K. ClIWUKKV. LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE OK MAC! ARbAND & COWDBRY, Columbus, : : : Xebraska. r EO. L. 31civELVEY, pi:oii:tirrou ov the (iiY:BARin:R siioi:-j- J37rvelftht st., live doors wet of the Iiammoud House. ,2-tf 1 II. KU'IEK, Ilth St., nearly opp. Gluck's store, Sell Harness, Saddles, Collar., Whip., Rlankets, Curry Comb, Rriuhes, etc., at the lowest posib!e prices. Repair. promptly attended to. JIYRON SIILLKTT, Justice of the Peace and Notary Public. ikvro.'v .mi.i.i-rr'r. ATTORNEY AT LAW, Columbus Nebraska. N. B. He will give cloe attention to all business entrusted to him. 24S. T OU1S SC11REIBER, BLACKSMITH AND WAGON MAKER. All kind of repairing done on short notice. Buggies, Wagons, etc., made to order, and all work guaranteed. Ea7"Shop opposite the "Tattersall," Olive Street. '2 mA(;i:R& wkitidti', -ATTIIE- CUECKERED BA RX, Are prepared to furnish the public w'th good teams, buggies and carriage for all occasions, epeciallj for fuuerals. Also conduct a feed and sale stable. 4!) TA31ES PEARSALL Is PKKI'AKKD, WITH FIIiST- CLASS APPARATUS, To remove house at reasonable rates. Give uim a call. jV'ri;i: to ti:a4;iii:km. J. E. Moncrief, Co. Supt., Will be-in bis oilice at the Court House on the tirst Saturday of each month for the purpose of examining applicants for teacher's certificates, and for the transaction of any other, business pertaining to ?chooN. .'-y TAJIK SAl.HO, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER. Plans and estfmates supplied for either frame or biick buildings. Good work guaranteed. Shop on IXth Street, near St. Paul Lumber Yard, Columbu, Ne braska. r2 limo. WILLIAM RYAN, DKALXR IN KENTUCKY WHISKIES H7ies, Ales, Cigars and Tobacco. STSehilz's Milwaukee Beer constant ly on haud.frj Elkvkxth St Colusibcs, Neb. Drs. MITCHELL & MABTYK, coi.ii.nnus mm i imm ih Surgeons O., X. & B. B. R. Ji., Asst. Surgeons U. F. JTy, COLU3IBUS, - - NEBRASKA. JS. MURDOCK & SON, Carpenters and Contractors. Have had an extended experience, and will gnarantee satisfaction in work. AH kinds of repairing done on short notice. Our motto is, Good work and fair prices. Call and give us an oppor tuuitytoestimateforyou. ETShop o 13th St., one door west of Friedhor & Co's. store, Columbua, Jfebr. 4S3-F ADVERTISEMENTS. MILLINERY! MERYl Mrs. M. S. Drake HAS .ITST receive'd a large STOCK OF SPK1XO A1 SUMMER MIUI3EIY AID FilCY 3T A FULL ASSORTMENT OF EV ERYTHING BELONGING TO A FIRST-CLASS 3IILLIX ERY STORE.J Nebraska Avenue, tico doors north of the State Bank. 21-t r BECKER & WELCH, PROPRIETORS OF SHELL CREEK MILLS. -MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLE SALE DEALERS IN FLOUR AND MEAL. f)FFff,E. COL 77.V7? US. XEU. Dr. A. HEINTZ, DKAI.KK IX DB1S. MINNIES. CHEMICALS. VI.i:S, l.KtUOK Fine Soaps, Brushes, PERFUMERY, Etc., Etc., And all articles usually kept on baud by Druggists. Physicians Prescriptions Carefully Compounded. Eleventh street, near Foundry. COLUMBUS, : NEBRASKA. SPEICE & NORTH, General Agents for the Sale of REAL ESTATE. Union Pacific, and 3lidland Pacific R. R. Lauds for sale at from $3.00 to $10.00 per acre for cash, or on five or ten year? time, in annual payments to suit" pur chasers. We have also a large and choice lot of other lands, improved and unimproved, for sale at low price and on reasonable terms. Also business and residence lots in the city. We keep a complete abstract of title to all real es tate in Platte County. 621 COLU9IBI!!i, NER. PIUMY'S BIT! RL'Y THE Patent Roller Process MINNESOTA FLOUR! ALWAYS GIVES SATISFACTION, Because it makes a superior article ol bread, and is the cheapest flour in the market. Ercry sack warranted to run alike, or money refunded. HERMAN OEHLRICH & BRO., GROCERS. l-.1m WM. BECKER, DKAI.KR IN ALL KINDS OF FAMILY GROCERIES! I KEEP CONSTANTLY ON HAND A WELL SELECTED S I'OCK. Teas, Coffees, Sugar, Syrups, Dried and Canned Fruits, and other Staples a Specialty. Goodn Delivered Free (e pari mC Ike City. J I AM ALSO AGENT FOR THE CEL EBRATED COQTJTLLARD Farm and Spring Wagons, of which. I keep a constant supply on hand, but few their equal. In style and quality, second to none. i CA1X AND LEARH PRICES. Cor. TJiirteenlh and K Streets, near A. Jb X. Depot. ' Youths' Department. WEEN rM A MAN." rm a bov'bout as high as a table; Mr hair is the color of nax; My name isn't Shakespeare, or Milton, Or Byron, or Shelley, or Saxe. By-am -by it will be "Mr. DaiUel," The ril tell you In rhyme what I fancy ncr aii call me now "Little Dan;" Will happen when I am a man. Til have a big-garden for peaches. And cherries, and everything nice; With the cutest of fixings for rabbits. And pigeons, and dogs, and white mice. Til have a big bouse, tind a stable; And of horses the handsomest span That ever you feasted your eyes on, 'Tis likely, when I am a man. A cane I will twirl in my fingers, A watch-guard shall garnish my vest. No fear of expense shall deter me. My raiment shall be of the best. A ring on my finger shall glisten, And the cunningest, sleek black-ana-tan Shall trot at my heels as I travel. 1 in thinking, when I as a man. No poisonous drinks will I swallow. From foul smelling pipes I'll be free. My nose wasn't made for a chimney. No snuffing or chewing for me. Now my soul I'll possess with great patience. And as well as a little !oy can I will set them a better example; Won't I lecture them when I'm a man? I'm a boy, so there's no use In talking: People snub me as much as thuy please; For the toes of my shoes are ot copper. And my stockings comeover my knees. I've told you the whole of my story. As I promised to when I bean; Fm young, but I'm daily a-growlng, Lo;k out for me when I'm a man. Jolm S. Adams, in Youth' Comixinton. m A PLEASANT SURPRISE. BY KITTY WHITE. My brother Johnny says he would do for a tirst-class bumble-bee; he's as hot all over as if he had fort stings. We've been talking through the stove-hole to comfort each other. This hole is in the wall at the side of my bed; so, if I put a chair on the bed, and then climb up and stand on tiptoe, I can see into John ny's room, and we can have a good talk. We're in trouble; and this is how it happened: One da last week our teacher read us a story about a good little girl who had a'sick father; and he was going to starve to death 'cause he hadn't any money to buy oranges; and everything had gone wrong inside. Well, the good little girl heard that a dentist wanted some teeth, and would pay well for them. (I don't see why he should pay money for teeth, when he could have his own for noth ing). The little girl hud line teeth, so shu went to the dentist and asked him to take some out anil pay her the money they were worth, for her poor father. Then the dentist made her tell him all about her father; nud he wouldn't take the teeth, but he gave her the money all the same, and went to see her father, and got a doctor for him, so he didn't die. It was a beautiful story, and made me cry. Johnnj' said it wasn't anything to cry about; stories like that were for examples, and when we had a chance we must just go and do likewise. Well, this morning, when father was gutting on his overcoat, Johnny and 1 asked him for a penny. And father, he said we were alwavs wanting pennies, and he wasn't made of money; and then he went out. Sister Em began to cry, 'cause father said she couldn t have a new dress this Easter. Everything was going wrong, and he didn't know what would become of him, and he was sick of everything. Johnn- and I didn't cry; we only looked at each other. While we were going to school. John ny said this was our chance. Now wc could do like the good little girl, aud be a support to our parents. Dentists al wa3'S wanted teeth, and we'd go to the dentist right away after school, and have it over. "And then," says Johnny, "if we've made five dollars for father, perhaps he'll give us our penny, 'cause it'll be such a pleasant surprise to him." We couldn't hardly wait for school to be out I got a black mark in arith metic, 'cause when Miss Stevens asked me if you had an apple, and if Samuel Smith ate it up, what had jou left? I said: "Your teeth." After school we walked about till we came to a dentist's, and we went in, and asked him if he wanted some teeth. And he said: "Why? Did we want to lose some?" And we told him, "Yes." We thought he would sit down and ask us all about it, just as the other dentist did with the good little girl ; but he only said : "Let's look at 'em." Then he made Johnny climb up in the high chair, and tip his head back ; and then he said : " You want these two out that crowd the rest." Then he put an iron thing into Johnny's mouth, and pulled out one tooth, and then he pulled another. And he said Johnny was a brave boy 'cause he didn't holloa. I asked Johnny if it hurt, and he said: " Not much, and don't you disgrace the family, Kitty White, by howling." "iow, my little lady," says the dentist, " get" into the chair, and I'll be as gentle as I can." So he helped me up, and tipped back my head, and looked. "Your teeth are crowded just like your brother's," says he; and then he begins to pull. My, how it hurt! And didn't I make a noise! I thought m- head was coming off. But it was over in a minute, and the dentist told Johnny not to laugh at me, 'cause my teeth came harder than his diil. When our teeth were out, we thought the dentist would pay us. He asked us whose little boy and girl we were, and where we lived, and said this was pleasant weather for little folks. After a while he said: " It's four dol lars." We thought he had four dollars for us, and held out our hands, but he didn't give us anything. Instead of that, he said: " Haven't you got any money?" Then Johnny explained to him that we thought he would pay us for our teeth, so that we could help our poor father. 1'he dentist began to laugh, and said he didn't pay for teeth; but he would give us a letter that would make it all right. bo he wrote a letter, and sealed it. and told Johnny to be sure to give it to father. He kept laughing all the time he was writing it, and we thought he was the pleasantest man in the world. When we got home, Johnny said we'd better wait till after dinner to give father his pleasant surmise. And at tirst I was glad we'd waited, for the,n,crcan- roast beef 'was too brown, and father said: " There never could be a piece of beef done riht in this house, and Mrs. White, my dear, if you could only have a carving'knife thatwould cut! I believe your son uses the carving knife for a jackknife." We felt so sorry for poor father that we thought we'd give him his surprise then, so he'd feel better. Johny took out the letter and gave it to him. He sits next to father, and I sit next to Job nny. Father took the letter, and aid: "WhU's this, sir?" And Johnny said: " Read it, dearFa, and see" Then father read it, and wrinkled his Cheai all up, and we thought he was gJing to burst into tears, like the sick man dtt when the good little girl brought him the orauges. But he didn't burst into tears. He threw the paper across the table, and said: "Whit's this, Mrs. White? Have vou beea running me into debt, aftei what I told you this morning?" And mother said: "I'm sure I don't know what you mean, dear." Then she read the letter, and called us naughty children, and "how dare you cjo aud have sound teeth out without my consent?" And father said that "what we had done was catamount to robbery; going aid getting him into debt of our own accord; and you may go to your rooms and think about it till your mother and I come." We've been in our rooms ever since, and both father and mother said they were under the n'cessity of Well, Johnny says a switch is the worst, but he doesn't know anything about a slipper. Anyhow, it's over for tliis time. Ada Ney'l, in SI. Nicholas. How the Swallows Stopped the Clock. Two newly-married swallows, with the important business of building a nest on their minds, stopped to rest one morning oa the hands of a great church clock in the town of Newark, New Jer sey. Presently they noticed a little hole on its face just large enough for a swal low to enter. They looked in, and saw a lovely place for a nest among a collec tion of wheels that seemed perfectly quiet. There is a great difference, you must know, in the movement of the wheels of the great clocks. Some turn swiftly, while the larger ones move so slowly that, unless they are watched for a long time, they seem to be standing still. The swallows thought it would be de licious to live in the clock. No boys could disturb them, and unless some one should invent a new kind of flying cat they would never have any unwelcome and dangerous visitors. So they began to build. They carried hay and grass and cotton into the clock, and by night their nest was half finished. They slept in a neighboring tree, and in the "morn ing Hew back with fresh building mate rials. Something very strange had hap pened. The nest that they liad partly built had nearly disappeared. The' had to begin again. All that day they worked hard. The next morning they found that the same cruel trick had been played on them. They now became very indignant, and that night they perched on the hands of the clock, so as to be near in case any one should try to destroy their nest In the course of the night the hands of the clock turned around and tumbled them off, but in the morning they saw that their nest hail only been slightly disturbed. They re paired the damage, finished their work, and moved in that night For two days they were very happy, but on the third day a man climbed into the tower to see why the clock had stopped. He found nearly a peck of straw and gra3 and cotton that had been drawn by the wheels into the in most recesses of the clock, and had finally so clogged the wheels that they could move no more. Then he found the nest that the swallows had made, and threw it away, and stopped up the hole in the clock face. And so it happened that the swallows had to go and build a nest under the eaves alter all. Harper's Young People. Daniel Webster's Advice. Other people may find the advice of Daniel Webster to Ids grandson of value for themselves. He wrote it about four years before his death: "Two or three things I wish now to impress on your mind. First, you can not learn without your own efforts. All the teachers in the world can never make a scholar of you, if you do not apply yourself with all your might In the second place, be of good charac ter and good behavior a toy of strict truth and honor and conscience in all things. Have but one rule, and let that be always to act right and fear nothing but wrong doing. Finally: - Remem ber your Creator In the days of your youth.' You are old enough to know that God has made 3-011 and given you a mind and faculties, and will surely call you to account Honor and obey your parents, love your sister and brother, be gentle and kind to all, avoid peevishness and fretfulness, be patient under restraint Look forward con stantly to your approaching manhood, and put off ever- day, more and more, all that is frivolous and childish." The Secret of the Keely Motor. Some weeks ago the Keely Motor Company brought suit against Mr. Keeley to make him keep nis promise and take out patents. It was charged by the company, who, it is said, have put $150,000 into his scheme, that he agreed to apply for let ters patent by July of last year. The company's attorneys, it was arranged, should superintend the preparation of the necessary papers, and they were to tell the secret to no one. When July came Keely asked until November to put the finishing touches to his inven tions. This was granted, but it reJult ed in nothing, and the shareholders were obliged to resort to the law to force Keely to keep his contract Keely's defense was purely technical. Joshua Pusey, who represented him, argued that the inventor could not be made to expose that which was hidden in his own brain. If he were directed to divulge his secret who could say whether what he might say would be a secret or not? The court could not make a decree, he said, because there were no reasonable means of enforc ing it Nevertheless, after hearing the argu ment at length, Judge Pierce, of the Court of Common Picas. Philadelphia, overruled Keely's demurrer, and ordered him to make known his process accord ing to his contract with the compan. The court, no doubt treated the suit with becoming seriousness, but it is suggestive, to say the least, to say that the order was given April 1. Scientific There is a weekly newspaper in New York, the Globe, owned and pub lished entirely by negroes. The sheet was started a few years ago by several colored men, who were practical print ers, working during the week in another office, and in spare times writing and setting up their own articles. Such per severance, of course, brought success, and the paper is now prosperous and steadily increasing in circulation all over the country, and has considerable influ ence. Chicago Tribune. The Latest Arctic Calamity. The burning of the steamer Rodgers Fn St". Lawrence Bay, just inside of Behring Strait, adds another to the list of Arctic calamities without any suf ficient result The expedition which sailed in the Rodgers was organized in the spriug of 1&51 by authority of Con gress, iu order to search for the Jean nette, from which nothing had been heard for many months. The steamer was a whaler, built in Bath, Me., in 1879, bought in San Francisco forSlOO, 000 for this expedition, and manned by volunteers from the navy. It was renamed the Rodgers out of compliment to Rear Admiral Rodgers, who was chairman of the board that laid out the route and detail of search. The vessel was a very strong and stanch vessel, quite different from the Jeannette, and carried a great spread of canvas. It made a good voyage last summer and fall, starting from St Lawrence Bay August 11. after having heard there the story, telegraphed o this country last fall, of a water-logged ship with four frozen corpses in her forecastle, and of white stragglers seen on the land, which was then connected with the Jeannette, though without any probable grounds. It may, however, have intluenced in some measure the course taken by the expedition. The Rodgers stopped at Herald Island, passed thence to rangel Land and anchored in a fine harbor, while boats were sent around east and west and a party went inland, the re sult being to establish the fact that Wrangel is only an island and not. as had been sunnised by some, a great polar continent No traces of any human visit were found except the record of the revenue cutter Corwin's visit a short time before. The Rodgers returned southward and went into winter quar ters at St. Lawrence Bay. where it seems the ship has now been destroyed by some strange accident. There had been ample preparations made for searching the land in the spring, and the supply of provisions was very large, so that the loss is considerable. The ollicers and crew, tliirt3"-seven men in all, are at Tiapka, a small settlement near Cape Serdze, northwest of the har bor where tiny wintered. The list com prises Lieutenant Robert M. Berry, commanding the expedition. Master ff. S. Waring, Master C. F. Putnam. En signs Hunt amlStoney, Meredith Jones, Surgeon. Assistant Engineer Zane and Pay Clerk W. II. Gilder. Gilder is an experienced Arctic traveler, was with Schwatka in his expedition, and wrote the stor- of it; ami now has the added experience of a walk of between 1,300 and 1.400 miles over Siberian wastes, to Verkhoyansk, whence he sent the courier who met Mr. Jackson at Ust Vilui, a place on the Aldau River, a branch of the Lena. Terkhoyansk is 400 miles north of Yakutsk, and half wa3" between that town and the coast of the Lena delta where .Melville is search ing for De Long's and C'hipp's crews. The part.3' of the Rodgers are no doubt in distress at Tiapka, and the Nav- De partment has sent the steamer Corwin to the relief of Lieutenant Bony and- his part3'. Thus we send out one expedition to re lieve another, and a third to succor the second, and who shall warrant that we do not have to follow this with a fourth? The United States is exceptionally un fortunate in Arctic explorations of late, but those tliat succeed find little to re-pa- the expenditure of moucy and life in "the work. The fact that "Nordcnsk jold has actualh' succeeded in getting through from the Atlantic to the Pacilic is interesting, but it is a fruitless achieve ment and must remain fruitless, for no bod pretends that the passage is even possible except under the most favora ble conditions. There ought to be an end to this foolishness. There is small likelihood that there will be, however. The now international scheme of col onies will get into full opera tion this year, whose object is the scientific stud at central points of the currents, tides, etc., in the hope that by combining many observations Arctic "explorations nm be entered up on intelligent, 33steinaticall3, and with some assurance of safely. We cannot think this a reasonable expecta tion, but the colonies certainh involve a minimum of danger and waste. The first work on this plan has been Amer ican, although the late Austrian explor er, Weyprecht. originated it. Two par ties from the United States have spent their first winter at respectively Point Barrow and Lad3 Franklin Bay. This year Russia has alreaih dispatched its corps of observers to the Lena delta (which Melville savs i3 under water from June to mid-autumn), and will probably send another baud to Nova Zembla. Austria has started its colony for Jan Maen Island, a barren rock be tween Iceland and Spitzbergen. To the last-named island Sweden will send its colon; Norway places a corps of ob servation on one of its northernmost points; Denmark will establish a party in Greenland; and England will make one post at the mouth of Mackenzie and perhaps another further north. Spring field (Mass.) Republican. m . m True Politeness. There is a difference between polite ness and etiquette. Etiquette can be defined, classified, formulated. Yon can tell young people to take their soup from the side of their spoons; to eat with their forks: not to make a noise in eating; and all these and count less more injunctions are important But I would rather eat an hundred din ners with ny knife than laugh one malicious laugh at some one else who did so. No error in conventional good breed ing mortifying as such errors are is one-quarter so serious as the least rude ness which has its root in the heart, and springs from innate disregard of the rights or the feelings of othera. It was not the least royal act of good Queen Caroline when, seeing at one of her little tea-parties two ladies from the country who poured their tea into their saucers to cool, she looked with stern reproof at some of her maids of honor, who were laughing behind their fans, and reassured her country guests by tranquilly pouring her own tea into her saucer and drinking it Good manners are to a person what perfume is to a flower; something in dividual and charming; something which is necessary to make even beauty lovely. Their very essence is sym pathy. I do not think a true Christian could possibly be anything else but well-bred, though there are plenty of gruff and uncivil members of churches. But no one -who has taken the gospel of Christ into his heart, who loves his neighbor as himself and blesses even his enemy, can be anything but truly polite, how ever he might through lack of social experience, offend against some of the canons of etiquette. To learn to put jourself instinctively in another person's place is the grand secret of true politeness. Two ladies had met often at the houses of their common friends, and had been intioduced to each other once or twice on such occasions. Of course, according to strict etiquette, such an introduction does not bind people to recognize each other afterwards. One dav. these ladies of whom I speak met in the midst of a little group of people. "Good morning, Mrs. B," said Mrs. A. "I think you must be verj near sighted, for you never know me, though we have net so often." "You mistake," was Mrs. B.'s re phy. "I am not at all near-sighted," and with the coldest of bows she moved awa3. Her object, no doubt, was to resent what she considered a liberty aud teach Mrs. A a lesson; but she succeeded 011I3 in leaving on the b3-standers the im pression that she herself, whatever her social position, was not reall a ladv. To go into societ with the distinct object of making other people happ is to insure that 3011 will be not 011I3" at ease, but well bred. Yquti's Companion. Tehet with Wool. Velvet in new and artistic shades is much used for the accessories of lino woolen dresses. By accessories we do not mean either trimmings or combina tions, but those small yet important parts of a costume such "as the collar, the pointed vest, cuffs, facings and sometimes a flat tablier or petticoat front Contrasts prevail in these ar rangements, and the wool goods is usually very light, with darker velvetto give it character; thus chaudicre. or copper-red velvet completes Manila and pale gray cashmeres; electric blue velvet, that is almost green, and is called Douairiere, is associated with cream white camel' s-hair or Chuddah; and the light bun" ecru tints and pale resedas have dark bronze or olive green velvet for relief. There is an air of distinction about these fine wool stuffs that silk can not have, and this is fur ther enhanced b the rich embroideries that are added as garniture. The de signs of the choicest Parisian dresses give the general ell'ect of the priucesse dress, with close, long waist, pauiers anil plaited skirt 3et the costume is not the all-in-one prince-se dress, buta con sists of two pieces the waist " and skill with draper3 attached to one or the other to conceal the place of joining. The newest skirts are plaited niurel iu front anil back with six loose deeply-folded side plaits be fore and behind, while the sides are quite plain. These begin at the belt, usually terminate in embroidery at the foot falling on a balaeuse flounce, and are draped at top with a scarf panier. Sometimes the front plaits fall open toward the foot, and there is a pyra midal flat piece of velvet inserted the whole length of the front from paniers to foot A soft white wool called crape cloth has Douairiere (blue-green) velvet up the skirt front, with the white wool falling on each side of it in three length wise folds, and completed at the foot by embroider twelve inches deep done on the selvedge of the cloth, which is sup ported by a velvet box-plaiting that goes around the foot of the skirt. A scarf of the wool twisted over like a knot in front curves like paniers on the hips, and is draped low behind on the skirt The front of the waist has diamond shaped openings of the velvet nearly concealed b- the embroider, and the edge of the front is hidden under the panier scarf, while the back has a basque that forms deep plaits, held by a velvet bow that adds to the bouffant ef fect The velvet collar is rolled outward, and the velvet cuffs are flat. A pale gray cashmere dress has copper red velvet for a Byron collar and a pointed vest that stops at the waist Hue; these are near ly covered with cashmere embroidery that has scalloped edges resting on the velvet The red velvet cull's are simi larly covered, and the skirt, with its six "deep plaits in front and back, ends in embroidery that has red plaiting be neath it A buff wool dress with bronze green chenille foliage em broidered upon it has bronze velvet in two great pull's on the hips, edging the basque, also for the Marie Antoinette collar, and in the fan-plaited bow at the back of the basque, with plaited drapings of velvet mingling with those of the wool. Simpler dresses of ecru French bunting or of cashmere are dis tinguished by a Byron collar of olive green velvet, also "flat cuffs that turn upward and Kint outward, being snghtly larger than the sleeves, and large square or crescent-shaped pockets on the side of the basque. For light cloth costumes for spring, French gray cloth is made up with a Louis Quatorze coat in which is a garnet velvet vest nearly covered with white mull em broidery in Irish point patterns, and this- is also laid over the velvet collar, cuffs and pockets. Harper's Bazar. m What Broke a Printer. The publisher of a weekly newspaper in Michigan before the war was under the saddle and hitched to a wagon to boot He carried a load of doubt, debt and anxiety which would have crushed a Secretary of the Treasury in one brief week. A dollar was a cart wheel in his ees, aud two cart-wheels in the eves of his employes. It is vividly remembered by the writer how a certain publisher in an interior town "felt as happy as a king when he could send for two bundles of paper at once, and it is more vividly re membered that he never saw the week when he could buy one bundle of paper and pay off the hands, too, in cash. One day a printer died. Perhaps he gradually starved to death, or may be the anxiety as to how he could buy both wood "and flour the same Saturday finished him off. At any rate a new printer came up from Grand Rapids to fill the gap. and his wages were to be twelve dollars per week. On the first Saturday he got an order on a hardware store for ten dollars and two dollars in cash. On the next he got p. boot and shoe order for nine dollars "and a three dollar order on a grocery. On the third he had to take a six dollar order on a livery stable and let the balance go over. His fourth Saturday had arrived, -and he had eighteen dollars due him. An order for that amount on a saw-mill man was quietly laid on his case and the books balanced, but he protested: " Why, I can't use this order." "Why not?" I don't want auy lumber." " You don't?" "No, sir." The publisher looked blank, scratched his head, and after a minute hurried over to the desk with the remark: "I see all right I'll tear this up and give ou one on a cooper for ten dollars and another on the undertaker for eight! You had better arrange to get married and settle down here- The printerwent out of that town that evening by a very muddy highway, hav ing disposed of his orders for two dol lars in cash and a sachel to hold his spare shirt Detroit Free Press. RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL. Isaac S. Osterhout. who recently died at Wilkesbarre, Pa., left ;S3o0,000 to found a public library. The Protestint Episcopal Church has started a church paper in Baltimore known as the Maryland Churchman. Tho Board of Trustees of the South Carolina University has decided to have five additional professorships at a sal ary of $2,000 each. The Rutland Herald says that tho Rev. E. Gerry, of West Randolph, Vt, walks fourteen miles every Sunday to the place where he preaches, and re turns home on foot the same da. Mr. Edward Smith, of -"Enfield. Mass., has given $5,000 to the Mt. Holyoke Seminary, to start a fund, the income of which is to bo used to aid in digent students, and he is now endeav oring to raise the fund to $25,000. Dr. Thomas M. Maguire has be come professor of moral philosophy iu Dublin "University. He is the first Roman Catholic to hold this post Re ligious tests formerly barred positions in the Universit to all but Episcopa lians. -V. 1'. Independent. It is customary, in some localities, to teach children to think of a text as they drop their pieces of money into the contribution box. A certain lktlo girl at Sundavrschool recently saw the box approaching and began to search in her memory for a text. She hesitated for a few moments, dropped the dime in the box. and exclaimed, triumphant ly: " A fool and his money are soon parted." Bath Times. The Boston Herald calls attention to the fact that the primary education in the schools iu that city "is deficient The great majority of the childreu have to go to work" before they enter the grammar schools, and so the pri mary school education is all they have as a preparation for life. The should, therefore, bo taught something that will be of practical value to them. Instead of that, their time is taken up with esthetic and beautiful work, and a solid and thorough training is not given to them. The alumnrand undergraduates of Yale College have raised inoniy suffi cient to purchase a park for athletic sports, to be the property of the stu dents. The grounds comprise bix acres of sloping land on the western side of tho city and are to have an incline of one foot in five hundred feet The walk ing and running track will be a quarter of a mile in length. Inside the oval made by the track will be the tennis ground. On the soulh side of the track will be the grand stand, and south of the stand the ball-field and the lacrosse and cricket-grounds. A place will also be devoted to archer. .V. Y. fnde- pendent. The Post-Ofllee Delivery Clerk. The post-oilice delivery clerk is an official paid by the Government of tho United States to make the traveling public, and those who have not got lock boxes paid for quarterly iu advance, feel that there are worse" things than not getting the letters they expected. The worse thiugs are the delivery clerk him self and the manner iu which he treats the anxious inmiircr. There is no im petuous haste about the movements of the delivery clerk, but, instead, there is a calm repose of manner aud leisurely disregard of time, as he turns to his pigeon holes to look for a letter for you. and. becoming interested in the reading of a postal-card, .forgets all about your presence. We heard a man say. the other day, that the average delivery clerk is of a retiring disposition he will retire be hind a desk for half an hour to finish reading the catastrophe of a Seaside Librar novel, while the unlettered pub lic howl like fog-horns outside, and pound on the sides of the window with their sticks and umbrellas. The post-ollice deliver clerk is really a very mild and inotlensive creature when he is dead or discharged. In his official capacity, however, he is not ex cessively communicative or oppressively poIit. He never comes out of his win dow to chat with a friend, or to point: out to a stranger the way to the court house. There are several characteristics and eccentriciti.'s of the delivery clerk that may be worth mentioning. He will look at the inquiring one in a pre occupied sort of way. and when the latter states that his- name is J. F. Wil son, and asks if there are any letters for him. the clerk will go into a reverie over about forty letters that he will fish out of the W box. After he examines them all and has had ten minutes of a joint dis cussion with the first assistant mail ing clerk, with regard to wheth er the second throw that Smith made last night was two sixes and a three or two threes and a six, he will then look over a few more letters, untill he comes to one that looks as if it might fit the man outside, and doming to the window says: "You are sure your name isn't J. P. Williams, are you?""' as if Wilson might have lost or mislaid his name and unconsciously picked up some other man's name by mistake, as one might exchaugeahator umbrella. When the man assures him that his name, as well as he can remem ber, is Wilson, the clerk looks disgusted and disappointed because he is again balked in disposing of some of his stalo literature. " The most exasperating specimen of delivery clerk is the one who has tho reputation of having a remarkable memory. He remembers, or pretends to remember, the names of all the let ters in all the pigeon holes, from A to Z, aud we never saw a man 3et who wouldn't doubt the accuracy of his statement when.without looking through, his stock of letters, he says: "Naw, nothing for that name." That the delivery clerk should have a gloomy and cheerless disposition is not to be wondered at He has much to an noy him and prejudice him against the people, who seem to have a deplorable and insatiable yearning for a letter or even a one-cent circular. He is worried by all sorts of unreasonable people. There is the drummer who wants any letters that may come for him during the next ten days forwarded to him at Chicago; the man who wants to know if a letter mailed now will go East on the 4:20 train; the boy who mailed a letter without a stamp and wants it back; six men who forgot their box keys and want their mail handed to them; the woman who knows there must be a letter for her and asks the clerk to " look again;" the countryman who gets angry, and wants the clerk to "come out on tin sidewalk for just two minutes." because the clerk wants to charge him six cents on an insufficiently prepaid letter, and the colored female who does not get a letter, on an average, once in two years, but who comes every Monday morn ing, and inquires, not only for letters for herself, but for all the cook and wash ladies in the ward she lives in. Texai Siftings
