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SATES OP A1TEJKT3I THE JOURNAL. jSTBu3ine33 and professional carda of five line3 or less, per annum, five dollars. J EETFor time-advertisementSr-applT at this office. ... 22TIiegal advertisements at statute rates. ' 25TFor transient advertising. ' aee rates on third page. 33 All advertisements payable monthly. ISSCK1 E EBY n EDNSsPAV, M. K. TURNER N: CO., Proprietors and Publishers. JST OFFICE. Eleventh St.. up stairs in Journal Building. TERM: Per year -ix month Three month" Single cople Sit (lUllHntHb iiumal. '2 99 1 OO ."SO OS VOL. XIII.-N0. 14. COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY AUGUST 2, 1882. WHOLE NO. 6:38. fc 3? k y r CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION. t. H. isMK. I". . senator, Neb raska ( in. Alvin- s ilsdkr."",U. -- senator, Omaha. E. K. V albntixk, li.p.. West Point. T.J. iU.JOKs. Oiltlli-'ellt Rep.. Peru. STATE DlltE TORY: Aliunus S WCK. lioveruor. Lincoln. s.J. .Vitxamler, ".retry of State. John V allien. .Vu.titor, Lincoln, (t. 31. mrtlett. I'rei-urtT, Lineoin. C.J. Dilwortii. .vttorney-Ueneral. V. V. W. lone-. S'lpt. Public In-true. C.J. N'. . Warjen o i Penitentiary. Y)V;17J'- I'ri-on Ipeetor. C. II. IrOUl'l. J.O i.'trter, I'ri-on Phy-ieian. H.P. M.ttbewson.-:upt. ln-ane Aylum. JUDICIARY: Oeore B. L.itef.( A..oci3tf. Jndire. Ami.:iCflln. i f. Maxwell. hief J'l-tiee. KOIKTH JfWi'IU. IHsTKICT. U. W. Po"t.JuIe. York. 31. R. Itee-e. L-tri-t Attorney. U ahoo L.VN'D OFFITERS: M. B. Hoxie. lie ri-tor. Or a ml llinl. "Wm. Anyan. Receiver, Grand Island. LKU1M. MlVE: State Senator. M. K . Turner. " R4pr-.-nt.-Tive. (i. V. Lehman. rorsrv, iire tory J. Ct. IliL".'in-. .unity Jml.-e. John cai:'r. r. ointv Clerk. . A. Newman. 'erU lit. Court. J. W. Early. Trea-urer. l. '. K i in tnh. - h r i il". L. J. ruit-r. -rurvevor. M. Mah-r. ) Jo--ph Rivet. J- Countv Comini--ionern. II. J. ITud-on. t Ir. A . Heintz. CoronT. J. K. Sloin-rief -Mipt.of schools. Rvron Milieu, i T .. ..., ,, e f .... l- l Justice otthePeace. . jl. t orneuii",! CITY DIRECTORY: J. It. MeiL'hcr, Mavor. A. It. CotTroth. Clerk. J. B. IM-man. Trei-'iirer. W. N'. Hen-ley. Pelieu Judire. J. E. North, Engineer. CLXlIL.MK.V: 1st Hart John Rickly. (i. A. "-hroeuVr. 2d H'ar.f-Pit. Hit,. I. ('In. k. Sd rir J. Ra-um--en. A. A. Smith. CiJumbi Pol OlHce. Ieu .n 'ini1n ir-mll a.m. to 12 v. tnd from .'.o t ii r. m. ltuinet hour- f.-et -im liv t a. m. to s P. M. Eti-rn m ill---i'l-e it 11 v.m. We-terii mail" .-I.-i-e at 4 :l." P.M. 31 nil leivr" olun:tu for Lost Creek. Genoa. t. K!u ir.N. Albiou. Platte Center. Humphr.'v. M i.Ii"on and Nor fo'V. ev.-ry d iv .e-.t Sundays) at 4:X p. m. Arrive- it I;.V. For "hell ' reek and Cre-un, on Monday- and Fritla -. 7 a. M.. returning at 7 P. M . ame d-u . For lei". Pitrn and Dawd City. Tue-d iy-. Th'ir-.liv-. and Saturday", 1 P. m " Arm " at 12 M. For t .nklinr T'!."da inti Saturday 7 a. m. Arm . n. m. - ime d iv- . I'. 1. Time Tsible. EasUnitrd P--tiuil. Emigrant. No. 5. leave-at f:2." a. m. I'a-xeiis'r. " 4. " " 1 1 :tv; a. m. Freight, " -. " " -:L" p. m. Freiirht. 10. 4:30 a. m. Wexticaril Ihntnd. Freight, No. .". leave- it .. 2-AW p. m. I.weii!r'r. " ::. " .. 4:i7 p. m. Freight, " !'. " " rt:!! p. m. Emigrant. " 7. - " 1 ::' a. m. Every day except Saturday the thre-line- leading to Chieairo connect with l P. train" at Omaha. On Saturday- there will be but one train a day, as -hown by tli following -ehfdiile: t.. N. A P.. II. ROAD. Time -.hedule No. J. To take effect Juiif 2, ""1. Fr the government anil information of employee- onlv. The Company reer- the nirht to vary therefrom at ple.i.-ure. Train- daily. Mind t - eVeepted. Outtciird Bound. Inward Hound. Norfolk 7:Jt a. M. iluiison 7:47 Madi-on ..-:"Jti " Humphrey.. or. PL Centre 0:4 Lo-tCreeklO.tVJ " olumbusl0:i)5 Columbu- 4:.'H p. M. Lo-tCreeko-21 PL Centre 5:12 " Humph re vi;i" 3Iadi-on " 7:tW " 31un-on 7:K! Norfolk :04 ' ALBION BRANCH. Columbu- 4:45 p.m. Albion 7:43 A.M. Lo-tCreek.":31 - ' -t. Edward" :30 " Genoa '.:1 " Genoa !14 St.Euward7:rt) Albion 7:47 Lo-t Creek!)-:,;) ' : Columbu-10:45 li. .fc M. T131E TABLE. Leaves Columbu-. Bellwood David City. Garri"On. Lly--e-. " M.iplehur-1, yeward. Rubv, Milford. ' Plea-ant Dale, .. " Emerald, A rrive- at Lincoln. . 5 : 15 A. M. 0:30 " 7..H) " 7:40 s:2T " "? :55 9:.lO " 9:51 ' 10:15 " 10:45 4 11:10 " 11:50 M. Leave- Lincoln at Pi:50 p. m. and ar rives in Columbu- 7-op. M. 31ake- !-. connection it Lincoln for all point- ea-t. west and -outh. H. LTJZRS fc CO, BLACKSMITHS AND AVaijon 33tiildeis9 w Brirk Mtrtp opposite Ilelntx'i Dm? ton. ALL KINDS OF WOOD AHD IR0S WORK ON WAGONS AND BUGGIES DONE ON SHORT NOTICE. Eleventh Mrest. Columbus, yebrasira. 50 NEBKASKA HOUSE, S. J. MARMOT, Prop'r. Nebraska Ave., South of Depot, COLUJIBIS, 3iEB- A. new house, newly furnished. Good Accommodation. Board by day or week at reasonable rates. jars a Firt-Cl:u Tabic Meals, ... 25 Ct.-. Lodgings 25 Cts. 3.S-2tf C O L U 31 B U S Restaurant and Saloon! E. D. SHEEHAX, Proprietor.. jgT'Wholesale and Retail Dealer in For eign Wines. Liiuor- and Ciirars, Dub-. - lin Stout, scotch and Enzlish Ales. fZT Ker.tucLy Vhiskits a Specialty. OTSTERS in their ?eaon, by the case can or dish. UtfcStrMt. Seatk of Dpt. BUSINESS CAEDS. D K. CAR I. XCIIOTTE, VETERINARY SURGEON. Ortice at Dowty. Weaver Je: Co's store. A .lKK.0 4c ROE3I, BANKERS, Collection, Insurance and Loan Asientn. Foreism Exchange aud Paa--are Tickets a specialty. C iOR3IEI.Ili JC SlLLIVA.y A TTORXEYS-A T-LA W, Up-stair in Gluck Buildinz, 11th street. Above the New bank. TJ J. HUU903I, XOTART PUBLIC. 12th Stra-t, i door wnt of Himmond House, Columbus, Xcb. 491-y D R. H. D. THURSTON, RESIDENT DENTIST. Olfice over corner of 11th and North-st. All operations first-class and warranted. C HIICACiO HAKBEK 9illOI! HENRY WOODS. Prop'r. J27"ETery thine in tirt-clais -tyle. Alo keep the be-t of cigars. 510-y p KER A: Ki:i:iCK, ATTOEXETS AT LAW, office on Olive St., Columbus, Nebraska. 2-tf p (i. A. HULLHORT, A. M., 31. D., HOMEOP A Till C PHYSICIAN, pTTwn Block-, -louth of Court Home. Telephone communication. 5-ly HOMEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN. Will attend to all calls niht and day. Otlice with O. F. Merrill, eaat of A &. N. Depot. 5I3mo AfcALLMTER BROS., A TTOBNE YS AT LA W, Otlice upstair in McAllister's build ing, llth at. W. A. McAllister, Notary Public. C i . EVA3iM, 31. IK, PHYSICIAN cfc SURGEON. JS" Front room, up-stairs in Gluck building, above the bank, llth St. C1N an-wered niht or day. 5-6m J. M. MACKARLAND. B. U. CUWDKRY, C:Uost LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE OF MAC1 A.RUAND & COWDBRY, CKimbs. : - Nebraska. T? II. Rl'SCllK, llth St., nearly opp. Gluck's store, Sell Harness, Saddle-, Collar. Whips, Blanket-. Curry Comb-, Brushes. et-., at the lowe-t possible price-. Repairs promptly attended to. BYRON MILLETT, Justiceof the Peace and Notary Public. BVR03I niLLirrr, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Columbus Nebraska. B. He wiU itfve cloe attention to all business entrusted to him. 248". T OUIS SCHREIBER, BLACKSMITH AND WAGON MAKER. All kind of repairing done on short notice. Bundle-., Wagons, etc., made to order, and all work guaranteed. j5TShop opposite the ' Tattersall,' Olive Street. 25 W ACi.ER & WESTCOTT, AT THE CHECKERED BARN, Are prepared to furnish the public w'th irood teams, bujrie-. and carriages for all occasions, especially for funerals. Also conduct a feed and sale stable. 49 JA31ES PEARSALL IS PREPARED, WITH FIRST - CLASS APPA RATUS, To remove houses at reasonable rates. Give nim a call. "VTOX1CE XO TEACHERS. J. E. Moncrief, Co. Supt., Will be in his office at the Court House oil the lirst Saturday of each month for the purpose of examining applicants for teacher's certificates, and for the transaction of any other busine-s pertaining to schools. 5G7-y pllARUE SLOA.i, PROPRtETOR OF THE O Y TN ArAX'S STORE ! Dealer in Chinese Teas. Handkerchiefs, Fans, and French Goods. 12th and Olive Sts.. Columbus, Neb. T-12m TAMES SAEJIOH, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER. Plans and estimate snpplied for either frame or brick buildinjr. Good work guaranteed. Shop on 13th Street, near at. Paul Lumber Yard, Columbus, Ne braska. 52 6mo. WILLIAM RYAN, DEALER IX KENTUCKY WHISKIES Wines, Ales. Cigars and Tobacco. JSinSchilz's Milwaukee Beer constant ly on hand.gta Eleventh St. Columbus, Neb. Dn. MITCHELL ft XAETY9, coli;.hbi'9 mm i mm hisml Surgeons 0 N. & B. H. R. R, Asst. Surgeons U. P. R'y, COLC3IBDS, - - NEBRASKA. JS. MURDOCK & SOX, Carpenters and Contractors. Have had an extended experience, and will guarantee satisfaction in work. All kinds of repairing done on short notice. Our motto is, Good work and fair prices. Call and give us an oppor tunity to estimate for you. fjyshop on 13th St., one door west of Frieilhof Co's. store, Columbus, Nebr. 4S3-? AD VERTIS EIGHTS. HUM! MMJIRY! Mrs. M. S. Drake HAS JUST RECEIVED A LARGE STOCK OF SPRING AMD MUMMER MILLISEEY AID FAICY SQODS. S3" A FULL ASSORTMENT OF EV ERYTHING BELONGING TO A FIRST-CLASS MILLIN ERY STORE..S1 Nebraska Avenue, tico doors north of the State Bank. 27-tf BECKER & WELCH, PROPRIETORS OF SHELL CREEK MILLS. MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLE SALE DEALERS IN FLOUR AND MEAL OF FTCE, COLUMBUS. NEE. Dr. A. HEINTZ, DEALER IN . IE1ICIIES. CHEMICALS. wijrrai, liquors, Fine Soaps, Brushes, PEEFTJHEBY, Etc., Etc., And all articles usually kept on hand b Druggists. Physicians Prescriptions Carefully Compounded. Eleventh street, near Foundry. COLUMBUS. : NEBRASKA. SPEICE & NORTH, General Agents for the Sale of REAL ESTATE. Union Pacific, and Midland Pacific R. R. Lands for sale at from $3.00 to $10.00 per acre for cash, or on five or ten years time, in annual payments to suit pur chasers. AVe 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 Countv. 621 COLUMBt'fl, HE! PHLSBOBY'S Bit! -BCTTffE- Patent Roller Process MINNESOTA FLOUR! c ALWAYS GIVES SATISFACTION, Because it makes a superior article of bread, and is the cheapest dour in the market. Every sack warranted to run alike, or money refunded. HERMAN 0EHLRICH& BRO., GROCERS. l-3m WM. BECKER, DEALER IN ALL KINDS OK FAMILY GROCERIES! I KEEP CONSTANTLY ON HAND A WELL SELECTED STOCK. Teas, Coffees, Sugar, Syrups, Dried and Canned Fruits, and other Staples a Specialty. Otedii DeliTered Free lo aay part f the CIt j. I AM ALSO AGENT FOR THE CEL EBRATED COQTJHXARD Farm and Spring Wagons, of which I keep a constant supply on hand. but few their equal. In style and quality, second to none. CAIX AHD LEAK PRICES. Cor. Thirteenth and K Streets, near A. db 2f. Depot. Oar Young Readers. THE PANSIES. What do the ponsies think, mamma, Wbvn they nrst come In the spring? Do they remembrtne robins. And the sonjjs tney used to sing? When the butterflies come again, I wonder if they will say: ' We are ever so sflad to see you. And won't you sit down and stay? WiU the pansies rell the butterflies How the snow lay white and deep. And bow beneath It. safe and warm. They had such a pleasant sleep? Will the butterflies tell the pansies How they hid In their cradle bed. And dreamed away the winter-time. When people thought they were dead? And will they talk of the weather. Just as irrown-up people do? And wish the sun would always shlna. And the sUes be always blue? Bpeak of the lilies dressed In white. And the daffodils dressed In void, And say that they think the tulips Are exceedingly uay and bold? I fancy the purple pansies arc proudj I fancy the yellow are gay. Oh! I wish I could know just what they think: I wish I could hear them say: 1 Here comes our dear little Lucy, The kind little girl in pink. Who used to visit us every day .ui UuiCt what we pmutes thxnk." ibiry A. Barr. in Harvcr' Young PmpbL 3LLRY JAXE O FaIRY-La). "I'm 30 tired an' hungry!" sighed ;hetic little sob rising Marv Jane, a cath in her poor, parched throat; "an1 I dadaent go home till I get somethin'. It's gettin' dark. too. O, what urill Granny O'Brien saya She was sitting outaiw. ui a grocery store, on one of the steps a forlorn, ragged bunch of humanity, with great, solemn eyes, that looked like a twin pair of pansies, and tangled meshes of yellow hair. Mary Jane was a little bejrgar-girl, and 3he lived with Granny O'Brien and one lama beggar-boy. You may think that they were brother and sister, but they were not. Granny had picked them up on sev eral occasions, because siie thought they would be of great use to her in her profession. Doubtless you have guessed what that profession was. She had picked up Alary Jane be cause of her beautiful, pleading eyes. Lame Timmy had been the son: of Widow McGrath, a neighbor of Grannv O'Brien. Mrs. McGrath's death had been very sudden. If it had not been, I am sure she would have tried to get him into an orphan asylum, or made some provision against his falling into Granny O'Brien's clutches. But Granny O' Brien told the neigh bors that little Timmy had been Uft to her care by Mrs. McGrath herself. Nobody could dispute her statement, and so Lame Timmy, who had been ac customed all his life to care and tender ness, was sent out into the streets to beg. Darkness was slowly descanding upon the streets of the crowded city. A whistling boy, with a short ladder un dr his arm, was flitting blithely past, lighting' the street-lamps on each block. Mary Jane watched the lights as they began to shine further and further down the streets. It looks like a road leading to Fairy land," she thought: "an' I do believe it is!" forgetting that she had walked down it manr times, and that it termi nated in the dirtv alley-way in which Granny 0Brienrs hovel was situated, down by the muddy river. Lame Timmy could read, and had often told Mary Jane the fairy stories he had read before he came to live with Granny O'Brien. Granny had taken all his precious books away from him, de claring that they made him idle and lazy. Mary Jane accepted the marvel ous tales without question, and doubt ed not that a fairy would some time ap pear before her and grant three wishes. She had even decided what those wishes should be. First, a big marble house with a door-bell; leconu, a " pi anny;" third, a white horse for Timmy to ride on. She never left Timmy out of any of her calculations, for she loved him more than any one else in the wide world Mary Jane dared not go home to Granny O'Brien with empty- hands. She knew too well the strength and cruelty of Granny's skinny arms. She was now quite sure, moreover, that this street would lead her to Fairy-land. Whv not go now and obtain her three t wishes? Granny O'Brien Wouldn't citrt; to touch her if she had a "pianuy" and a marble house with a door-bell. bo Mary Jane stretched her cramped. wearv limbs, ana set out lor rairy-lanu. The first part of the way wasn't very pretty only great gloomy ware houses, and ugly, shabby little shoe-shops and grocery-stores. But further on the street began to grow wider. There were also more Lamps over the gateways and on the corners. On either side were just such freat marble houses as the one- Mary ane was going to have. "Why-ee!" said Mary Jane, "this must be Fairy-land, sure nough!" and he s opped before one of the big man sions. A flood of light was streaming from every open casement, Mary Jane was quite sure that it all came from the gold en throne of the queen fairy. There was music, too clear, sweet, lively music that, falling on the de lighted ears of Mary Jane, made her shabbily-shod feet go up and down in spite of themselves. How Mary Jane laughed softly to her self, and how the little rusty shoes twin kled on the tesselated marble pavement! If the fairies had known she was there, I think they would all have gone oit to look at Mafv Jane iust then, and Iknow thew would have enjoyed the dance quite as much as she. When tiie music ceased, Mary Jane sank down on the pavement, with a laugh and a gasp. ' O, my she said; "wot a dance that was! I must a-Iooked like a hand-organ giri. only their clothes is most alwis nicern mine," looking apologetically down at her ragged dress. Virft riifaM ririiitri anif T-vnlnif'it'ti'irr heart Mary Jane climbed up the stone i steps. She intended to ring the bell, but ! it was so high up that she couldn't reach i it. I am ever so glad that this was so, j for if it hadn't been, Mary Jane might never have seen Fairy-land, and had her three wishes, after alL " I You must know that in this Fairy- land were several ogres, dressed in , black, who would have sent Mary Jane : out again had they seen her come in. Sucn ogres are a great help to thefairies sometimes, though I think they often display more authority than the fairies j have evtirsaid thfv mfcrhf:. The massive oaken door was slightly ajar. Mary Jane gave it a push, and crept softly in. She looked around her in wonder and awe. Such a great, high . worn, with a hard, shining floor, that re- I lected Mary Jane's diminutive figure I and everything around her; with crystal j lamps shininglike clusters of stars above her- I Mary Jane wondered if they were " di'mon's." Eer idea of how diamonds looked was very vague indeed. In Tim my's stories diamonds always figured conspicuously, and these must of course be some. Straight ahead was a wide staircase, which shone just like the polished floor, Mary Jane was quite sure that k led up to an enchanted castle. As she looked at the marble and bronze statues scattered about, Marv Jane's ttnder little heart ached with pity. They had, doubtless, been poor unfortunates in search of Fairy-land, and had fallen into the power of the ogre in the enchanted castle. But there was one which Mary Jane looked at for full five minutes without the least pity in her heart. It was a -marble statue" of a boot-black, with his brush in his hand. ' Ha! ha! I know who you be!" she said, pulling the statue's nose, and mak ing horrible faces. " I guess you won't hit me on the head with yer brush agin fer nuthin', Jim Smith! I'm awful glad the ogre got a-holt o' you!" Just then a step sounded upon the staircase, and, with a stifled scream and a wildly-beating heart. Mary Jane ank down behind the statue of Jim Smith. It was an ogre in black, who looked ter ribly stern, and had tierce, bristling side-whiskers. With a sigh of relief, Mary Jane watched him disappear in one of the open doorways. . As she crept out again she felt very penitent for having treated Jim Smith so shamefully. " It must be awful to be as cold an' hard as a stun," she said, with a ohud der. "Poor Jimmv!" The music had begun again. Peep ing in at one of the doorways, Mary Jane beheld a scene that fairly "took her breath away. There were fairies and fairies, all "about her size, but oh, so beautifully dressed! dancing with as many handsome young princes. There was "a tall lady fairy there, too. who watched the other fairies dancing, and looked at thera. oh. ever so kindly! Mary Jane decided at once that this must be the queen of the fairies. 44 O. this is fairy-land, sure enough!" cried Mary Jane. She had not meant to say it aloud. No. indeed; she had intended to only Uunk it. But the beauty and splendor of it all had almost taken away her senses. Her awed voice rose, sweet and shrill above the music and the rust ling of the dancers. The music ceased with a crash; the fairies and prince stopped dancing and stared at the frightened little apparition in the doorway. Then the queen-fairy carae forward, and. stooping down, kissed Mary Jane's scared, quivering mouth. 44 1 came to visit Fairy-land." falt ered Man Jane, "an to get three wish es from you." How the fairies and princes laughed! But thev were so merry ami good-natured about it that somehow Mary Jane didn't feel a bit embarrassed. 4 What are the wishes, dear child? Perhaps I can grant them." smiled the queen-fairy. 440, thank you, mem!" cried Mary Jane, her blue eyes shining; but, -somehow, the three wishes she hail counted on her fingers so often in Granny O'Brien's hut were not so easy to enu merate wheu she really was in Fairy land. " Well, then. I should like to live here forever an' ever," began Mary Jane, gazing about her in a sort of rapt ure, "an' have Lame Timmv with me. That makes two wishes. An then an' then won't you please a the ogre to change the stater of Jim Smith, out In that big room there, back ag'in?" The boys and rirls I" mean the princes anil fairies laughed more than ever at this: but there were tears in the queen-fairy's eyes. Mary Jane thought they were ilianionds, and" sgftly touched oue" which had fallen on her hand. 44 They ain't di'nioirN. arter all!" she cried, much disappointed. And at this even the queen-fairy had to smile brightly through her tears. I know you are thinking that I am making this story too long, so I will hasten to the end. Mary Jane's wishes all camf true. The queen-fairy was a rich and kind lady, who love children very much, but who had none of her own. Y.ou may be sure that Granny O'Brien didn't want to part with Timmy and Mary Jane. They are both of the opin ion "that" the fairy threw a spell over Granny; and o am I a spell of gold. A boy whose mime is Jim Smith blacked my boots only the other day. so I am sure Mary Jane's third wish was granted. Golden Days. Texas Cattle. Westward from Houston the country becomes drier, though there is still much low prairie. All along the road through this region one sees many cat tle, anl soon learns the meaning of the accounts, so often repeated, of cattle be ing able to "live out all winter, without feed or shelter." They do live so; that is, some of them do. Many die from starvation. I saw their bodies every where, and many of those still alive were wretchedly emaciated. Hundreds of them were, to use an expressive Southwestern phrase, "on the lift;" that is. when they laid down they were so weak that they could not get up; but if they were helped to get up they could walk about and feed, until weariness or weakness prompted them to he down again, when the.process had to be reDeat ed. I saw great numbers of dead" ani mals in the pools and ditches, where they had come to drink, and being too weak to struggle through the mud they had fallen Into the water and been lrowned. The owners appeared generally to hold the same cheerful philosophy with a man with whom I talked at Corinth, Miss., who thought he did no lose much when hundreds of his sheep died for want of food and shelter, because, as he said, 44 we git the wool." So those Texas cattle men seemed satisfied with the hides. " Hundreds and thousands of the cattle die when the new grass begins to come;" so I was told every where. The explanation is that the cattle, weak from long starvation and ravenous with hunger, eat excessively of the fresh grass. They have no "dry feed" to serve as a corrective, and the surfeit on green food kills them. The whole system and plan of cattle-raising in this State seemed to me to be enor niously wastefuL yet the industry is a source of wealth. " It would, however, be much more profitable with better methods; and as population becomes more dense, and the range for cattle is circumscribed, these wHT of necessity be adopted. Atlantic Monthly. In accord with the lew. forty-nina ooys nave oouun ucenses. ana wear badges to show the fact, in Rochester, N. Y., to sell newspapers and black boots. The youngest boy is ten years old. and the oldest Ls thirty-five. Some boys who are known. t be very bad boys have been refused licaase. A. Yolee from the Kitchea. Some progressive creature has been tolling the people, through the columns of the New York Graphic, how the happy housekeepers are to be 4 saved steps." This result is to be brought about by the aid of a mechanical con trivance, to be evolved from the brain of some man who has nothing els. to do. A still better way to save steps ean be suggested. Men must stop eating don'tbtj frightened, brother; so must women so much, and so many elabor ate dishes. If this is an age of doubt, it may also bo said to be an age ot eaters; to be sure, uo one has. as yet. niaiiagvd lo go through life without something to eat. but now cooking is fast developing into a most complex art. Cooking schools are being established from one end of the countrv to the other, while the ma jority of the people, especially the doc tor rs look on complacently and approv- lgh-. And for what are these schools tabhshed? To teach us how to pre- in e pare simple, healthiul dishei? o. ma'am. There is where vou are mis taken. Thev are for the i purpose ot roplex dishes what not. till conjuring up all sorts of com special, wined, brandied one's heart aches, both lor the tired cooks and gluttonous consumers. Imagine the labor necessary to get up the dinners common now-a-davs: and as for the eating of them, it is an excellent ' diminished enibly tor centuries, if w way to kill" time (life is so long, you , negleet the periodic changes, apparent know), but a better wav to till "rave- i '7 connected with the appearance of vards. or worse fate, to fill the world with weakly, sickly, whining specimens ot men and women. In the good old days of our foremothers the cooks hail one day of rest each week and cM baked beans; but. sad to relate, we have ' somewhere read that those das are oast. I Let us stand up for a simple diet: let us have too! more plainlv served. Let us eat to live, not live to eat. This, with small and convenient kitchen, will do more to save housekeeper and servant alike from being "tired to death" and leave fewer miserable, narrow-minded drudges than aiiy mechan ical contrivance man (who is uppoed to know all about the need of a kitch en) ukia invent. ith simpler tood and Ies gorging would come a healthier happier race. and. in time, Diogenes' !ong-ought-for man might make his appearance. It must be confessed that things do not look very hopeful for any such reform now. Eating has conie to be the grand busine of lifo. antl the 44bot fellow in town" is the man whogixes the cost liest dinners. We love our friends dear ly because they are so mindful of the inner mau. even the stomach, or at least it would look that way to a disinter ested berver. if such a person c:ild be found. No one will deny that what is deig nated plain food is more healthful than that which is its opposite. Who eer heard of a horse grumbling ami growl ing hi way through life a victim? of despepsia. or an elephant with the gout? Whatever eLe Mary's little lamb was guilty of doing, it never had the nightmare from over indulgence at a modern supper tlilo. No, indeed. The animal world has de veloped neither cooks nor kitcher. A young laily came to u. not long ago. with the tartling intelligence that she knew how toniake '"Angels' Food." Judging from tho ingredient. thereof, one would imagine that whatever her ucce. might be in making angel food, she would be pretty ure to make angels out of many who partook of the heav enly results of the labors in the culinary department. We do not contend that a universally simpler ami plainer diet would do away with all the ills that tleh is heir to. nor that it would leave housekeepers with no steps to take and ne.xt to no work to do. Housekeeping will alway cause tired hands and tired feet, as" must bo the case with any work which men and women perform. But we do contond. and believe it is a self-evident truth, that it would lighten the labor; it would lessen tho number of stops to bo taken and cause less care both for women an I men. Women would have, not only more time, but encouragement to oultf tivate the mind, that divine attribute which distinguishes man from the lower animal. The talk of the average woman is largely confined, after marriage, to her wonderful cooking anil the trouble " I have with m servant girL." "What of that?" some excite.! imiseuline in quire: " what better can a woman do'" Well. sir. if she has a house to keep, the very best thing she can do is to " keep" it to tho bo.-t of her ability, but need she be forever "gabbling" about it? Let her spare she world the recital of her housekeeping trials and triumphs. How can she do this if she has no time to keep up with the tide of human events; if she has nothing ole to talk about? She cannot, unles housekeeping be sim plified, and. though well done, not be so complex that all a woman's time and thought must be give up to it Unless we can live with less extensive and expensive wining and dining, a thousand mechanical contrivances will not lessen the number of steps or the hard work, which fall to the lot of housekeepers. Always with new ma chines comes new work. As it was with the sewing machine, for instance, which wa to make sewing mere play. Madam Fashion got the better of us there, by immediately ordering a half dozen extra rnfflers for our gown. Therefore we ay- Let ns have a simpler food, more plainlv served. Let us eat to live, not live to eat. Let ns find some nob!er way to man's heart than through his stomach; or failing that let us simplify that wav ami no longer sot be for him. at the expense of time, money, patience, or, what is more precious to us, our own life-energy, and our own hope of advancement to a higher, more intellectual and more beautiful life here. Cor. Burlington Huwkeye. The Maintenance of Solar Temperatures. An estimate of the amount of heat poured down annually upon the surface of our earth may be formed from the I fact that it exceeds a million times the heat producible by all the coal raised, which may be taken at 2!jO,WXiG0O tons . a year. If. then, we depend npon solar radia tion for our very existence from day to day, it cannot be said that we are only remotely interested in solar physics, and the question whether and how solar en ergy, comprising the rays of heat, of light, and the actinic rays, is likely to be maintained, is one in which we have at least as great a reversionary interest as we have in landed estate or other property. If the amount of heat. or. more cor rectly speaking, of energy, supplied an nually to our earth is great as compared with terrestrial quantities, that scattered abroad in all directions by the sun strikes ns as something almost beyond conception. The amount of heat radiated from the tun has been approximately computed by the aid of the pyrhcliometer of Pouillet. antl by the actinometers ot HtrsfhtL ut lS.f000iO hit-nnits from every it,uare ft of to surface pet I hour; or expressed popularlv. if coal were consumed on the surface of the sun in the most perfect manner, our total annual production of ?sn.ijO4,.tH.'0 tons, being the estimated produce of all the coal-mines of the earth, would suffice to keep up solar radiation for otilv one forty-millionth part of a sec ond; or, if the earth were a mass ot coal, and could be supplied by contract to the solar furuaceuieu. thL supply would last them just thirty-six hours. If the sun were surrounded by a solid sphere of a radius equal to the meau distance of the sun from the earth i'J.. CWO.OOO miles), the whole of this pro digious amount of heat would ho in tercepted; but considering that tho earth s apparent diameter as 'eon from the sun is only seventeen seconds. th earth v..m onIv -ntereopt t -.-; ,;. i;onth part. " Assuming that the other piam?tarv bodies well the" amount of in- plai: teiveptcd heat to ten tim-s this amount, there remains tho important fa.t that , r of the sni:irenor!rv radiated into 9Pace- :,n'- apparency Iot to the -olar system, anu omy t.iTi uiuizeu or in tercepted. Notwithstanding thi- enormous lo of heat, solar temperature has not sUll-pot- Lockver : . that have bvn o!-erod hr ind others, and tho iuotiou forces itelf upon us. how this grout los can be Ustained without producing an ohervable diminution of oIar toni perture. even within a human life-time. C. William Siemens, in Popular f Science Monthly. A Singular A miction. A very remarkable cao of a man losing the use of his speech was devel oped in tin. city Iat Tuesday, the victim being David ('alder, a machini-t at the L. tfc N. shops. Tho ease is a remarka ble one. owing to tho fact that the afflic tion came on him very uddenly. and no , l0nlv the orirrin5of ,po,H.h ar1 psM,lIvz0l , IIe fc about tiftT.fivJ w:ir0i,L and h:u positive outward cause can bo found. L 1. up to the time ot the occurrence, per fect use of his tongue. He went to work a usual Tuesday morning in ex cellent health and spirits, chatting pleas antly with hi family before leaving home. On arriving at tho -hop he went 1 to work in company with everal other . men. and talked to them at times until about ten o'clock, when ho wa tirt aileetciL He wa sneaking to one of the men about a piece of machinery. wh"n Ids speech suddenlv failed him. almost in the middle of a sentence. He tried to speak several times, being apparently startled by the shock, but could not do I so. It was some time before the rest of tho workmen could realize what had happened or nnIertand it. Ho. how- 1 ever, made signs, and' asked In this wav to be taken home. They accordingly 1 conveyed him to his resilience, oil Eighth street, near Broadway. Dr. Palmer was called, and Calder was i placed under treatment. , Although every possible effort has been made to fin! ut the cause, no im provement ha been made in Mr. Car der's condition, and he has not been able to speak a word Mine. Then is no paraly-is whatever of any of the or gan of the throat or the tongue: he can I faugh, cough ami ite his mouth ami work hL tongue freely, in fact, every thing but speak, and consequently the case is a mot curious one. Such eaes I sometimes occur in women, ami are 1 caused by hy-terics or violent emotion of any sort, ami have been known to occur from religious excitement. None I of these causes can apply to Mr. Carder's . case, however, a he i a quiet, easy going man, seldom, if ever, getting ex cited. He does not drink, ami iia no , habit which would bo likely to bring ou an attack of tho sort. Tho true can', probably, is some mental derangement or parallels of the brain. which ha been known to work Mich eiieoL-. the pa tient being aiFeeted a not to be able to talk, but wanting to. A ingular case of this kind oc'tirrel in thi eity i about twelve years :igo. A negro girl , living on Walnut street was uldenly. ' to all intents and purpoe. ;ruck dumb. Tho ailliction came on very ul- , denly. while she was sitting at a table. , and every ellort failed to make her -ay a word. A number of phyieian wvre 1 called in and expressed it a tueir op'rn iou that the trouble w:i eau.-od by some brain trouble, and that the girl wuld certainly die. A nuniberof mean. were resorted to. without ucces. until in the fourth week of her dumbness Dr. Pal- mer and another well-known phwjian were called in. They examined the pa tient, and, finding no paralysis whatev er of the organs of speech, concluded that it was caused by some form of men tal insanity, and became convinced that the girl really could talk but was a'niid to. "They considted over the matter, and a plan was hit upon to frighten her into speaking. They returned from the consultation, and. sitting near enough to the patient to let her hear . what they were saving, began to speak about applying a very powerful electric battery to her. )ne of them remarked that the chances would be diperate: 44 for," said he. " in all probability the shock will kill her: ami it is a pitv to hasten her death, bnt the eae i a des perate one. and desperate nn an have to be resorted to." The patient atn-e became interested, and. turning over in bed. listened intently to what thev were saying. They continued to talk in that train for sonie time, when, ' thinking that -he was -ullicientiy -eared 1 up. Dr. Palmer took hi hat and' walked out, saying he wa going for the bat tery. In about half an hour he re turned, ami. to hi great a-toni-dnmnt. , found the giri. who had been dumb. sitting up in bed and talking at a terri ble rate. The cure was etfeetive. and the ailliction has never returned. Lou tsvtlle Cuuner-rournal. Honest, hut Not Reliable. Not long since a lady called on Mose Sciiaumburg. to find out if a colore! woman who had formerly been a servant at his house was honest, she having given him as a reference. "She vas honest, too honest to suit m. put she vas not rel'able." "How in the world can that be?" 44 Veil, one day I leaves a five tollar pill on de floor." and I dells Matildy to sweep dot room out. I hoost vant to see if she keep dot pill." 44 Well, did she keep the bill?" 44 No. she brings me dot pill pack." 44 That looks very much as if he was reliable." "No, she vas not reliable, for dot pill vas counterfeit. I vas in hope she dakes dot pill, and den I would never have paid her dot twenty dollars I owed her: put she's fooled me py bringing me dot pail pill pack, so I cannot say she vas reliable, but may be she vas honest." 2'iro Sitings. SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. Henry Henkle, a Rochester (N. T.J inventor, w engaged in a project to gen erate electricity on an immense scale and transmit the electric current to-aaji point desired for Qlnminating and other purposes. German settlers in the Roanokw Valley, of Virginia, have given by their example a wonderful impulse to the fruit growing business. The fanners in Bot etourt and Rounake are setting out fruit trees by the thousand. All the various mines and coke works along the New River, West Vir ginia, are in full blast, with plenty of orders for coal and coke. Business generally Is going along finely, with ap parent prospects of continuing to do so for some time. Mr. John P. Gibson, of Ifexata, England. lately described how he suc ceeded in taking tho photograph of a flash of lightning. He used Swanks plates, backed with red paper. 'The lens employed was a half-inch rapid symmetrical", with the largest stop- but one. Coal-tar seems to possess a marvel ous potentiality. Already it has been compelled to yield, under the hand ot the chemist, carbolic acid, picric acid. parafiine, all the aniline dyes, artificHil madder, artificial miligo. etc.. and no"Vr it promises to be a source of quinine ; sk subtanee called chinohne, closely re sembling quinine, has been manufac tured from it. It is believed that chem ists will soon be able to produce pure quinine itself. t. The London Globe announces thaS the Sultan and the wise men of Turkey are aboat to enter upon the study of astronony. Constantinople is to have an observatory with all suitable instru ments. It seems th:it the Turks. vvaatto know about this revolution of the plan ets and sneh things. Tho Moors-in Spain were excellent atronomers and matliemaricians ; but she Turto have until recently regarded astronomers', as. wonder-workers, who should be viewed with suspicion. A mode has been described for de monstrating that yellow color can ba formed by combining red and "blue Tim consists in mixing a. reL soiniion of chromate-of potash? with a blue solu tion of litmus, ami, on allimr it into a glass cell of a certain thickness, the light transmitted through it is seen to be yellow. Plates of glass coated 'with gelatine impregnated with, chromaiu, pi potash, placed side by side with plates coated with galatine impregnated, with litmus, also transmit ycUow light. Ic-w round however, that the eyes bf differ ent persons vary not a little in their power of appreciating the tinge of the transmitted yellow. N. i". Grapktc. The eighty-ton gnn at Woolwich has proved its capacity not oulyto throw a great ball an immense distance, but that its accuracy is remarkable. In one instance the charge of powder 3ed was 37 pounds, and the weight of-'the shot the latter being four feet in length and studded with thirteen rows of four studs each was l,7UU poumls. On the gna being tired at an elevation of seven degn es, the shot first grazeil the ground at the distance of 1,''S7 yard, or more than two miles and a half, and then went ricochetting along severd mile.- further. The time of flight till it first struck was 11.-5 oeonis, ind the report made by this vast pieee of ordnance is described as having been tremendous. -V. Y. Sun. The English Relief System. Moncure D. Conway, in a letter tc the Cincinnati t'ommeriialj describes the relief system of Great Britain as fol lows : '-Not only is poverty pensioned, but a premium is put upon some of its causes. Were at this moment to lay aside my pen and go to the relieving officer of this parish and tell him I and my family were in want; he wochi"etth er have to show it otherwise or support me. If he iloubts my statement the bunion of proof ret. with htm. If 'he riuiLs me in a house, ami L declare the house and furniture belongs to on one else, he must either take cp liis time in ferreting out facts that would show the imposture or eLe must giye relief. A a matter of fact, when th relieving ofiieer L applied to, his inves tigation is not and an not be extensive. He gives the applicant half a crown (2 1-2 cents) per week for himself, a shilling for his wife per week, a roll of bread for each of the children and an onier for meat and gr'M'ene. These meats and groceries are -nipli,l by con tract with Targe hou.?s. and are much better than most people get who, work for their living. Everybody, therefore, in this country, hat? a" right to demand Fhysical support without working foe; it. t is true that the relieving officer is au thorize! to make the applicant io some work, and nominally he often does so; but it is a mere apology fur worx, such as assorting papers for a half hour oc other trifle ; for were it real or produc tive labor the trades would make a row. Therefore, the guardians support a vars number of lazy people. But there are other singular f:icts. If a poor man and wife have ten children they may find an important advantage in deserting them. They go off to another par: of I.ondoc or to another town. Fhe guardians of the poor take the chii'lren to a com fortable home. They advertise for the deserting parents. They are probably found out and arrested. The man-is given a few weess in prison. When ho comes out of prison ho may, if he cares for his chddren, go to the home and de mand them (though the home would keep them). Having got thetn-he.may then go to tho relieving officer arid' say : 'Nobody will employ me Lecauso I havo been in prison. I have ten children on my hands.' Then the relieving otneer must support that big family. Any lit tle money the man can pick up he may keep ; he has always an excuse foe de manding relief in the -tigma of his crime. "" The more children he has the more he gets. Instead, therefore, of placing a tax on every ehrld brought in to the world, which would be the better course, this country virtually put a pre mium on excessive breeding of paupers. And this it continues to do after the fol ly has been demonstrated a thousand times, -imply in dread lest these massed turn to criminals. Twenty-ionr hours of absolute hunger would turn them in to an army of bandits and iurglars. To deal with an evil radically is not in the average English nature, consequontly the evil has gone on until now pauper ism, decreasing in many districts by flooding London, has risen beyond the provisions of the metropolis for it. The result is an increase of crime. There is Visibly growing a great Python in Lon don , "and it begins to assume the inge nious fangs and suDtleties of a scientific aga. It shares the culture of a scientific; ago. It is tealing largely in American -revolvers. All the law aad the prophets are for i: summed up in two : Thou sfaafc love thyself with all thy mind, eoui and strength, and pnt out of your vay anybody who stands in it."
