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THE JOURNAL. WEDNESDAY. NOV. 1, 1SS2. Zsterei at tie Pcr.:2:e, CSfcstss. Kse., a: wees! this rattsr. HOW SWEDEN'S PRINCESS WAS WON. A pa?e who Fcemed of low deijre e. And bore thf name of KimU wa ho; The high born Princes Hilga, she. And Ibatthe3v'ith had pcrved taT lon, liein? iii:c Jit errand, skilled in son;?. To Jest wit'i him she thought no wroEff. And so it chanced, one summer day. At ch-s, to while the time away. The pjga nud Princess sat at play. At length she said: "To play for naught Is only spjrt to labor brought. So let a wajjer guerdon thought.' Mv diamond necklace," th n she cried, ' I'll nntch against thy greatest pride. 'Che brand held pendant at thy side." ' But, though my father' s?host be wroth, t'l! i-'k th wapoa. nothing loth, Aysiuit thy love and virgin troth." " Thy worda, bolfvonth, s lall work the ill; 'I hou cau'st not win ugiinst my skill. But I can puuish at my will." Jezln the game: that hiltflo fine i?h II never more kiss hand of thine, Nor tiou again be page of mine." Fr.vji square to square tho Bishops crept The agile lvn!?hts eccentric leapt. The Castles onward stately swept. Pawns fell in combat, one by one: Knights, Hooks and Bishops could not shun Their tate bstore that game was done. "Check!" cr'ed the PrSnc'SS, nil elato: Check!" cried the p.ige, and sealed tho fate Of her beleagured King with "matel" Th I'rincsis smiled, and said: ' I lose, Nor can I well to pjy refuse From my possessions pick and choose; " Or diamond bright, or chests of gold. Or stiing, of carls of woith untold. These may bo thine to have and hold; " Any or all of s-ich be thine; But. save he springs from royal line, No husband ever can be mine." " Nor jewels r'ch, nor lands in fee. steeds, robes, nor castb's pleasure mo; Thy love and troth be mine," said he. ' Nor shnlt thou lack of state and pride. When s ated crown-il thy lord btside. As Kiiut,the King of I)cnmnrk's-brido!" King marnagc bells from sun to sun. And tII the goip-, as thev run. How Sweden's Princess has been won. Tliimas Dunn English, m - A. 1IEAX. It wns a queer shop in a quaint little house, about which a larsre city had slowly grown. The people were quiet folk who jiever hurried. So long as the walls stood linn and strong, and it rented to peaceful tenants who paid their rent promptly, it never oceurred to the owner of the old house to tear it down. . h re were two rooms up-stairs which were occupied by an old tailor, and two rooms down-stairs where A. Lean lived and kept his shop. On one side of the shop were blocks on which were all sorts of wigs, black, brown ami yellow, anil one very funny voolly wig for a colored jier-oii. In the old show-ease was every sort of thing made of hair, that people ever put upon their heads. On the opposite side of the room was along.-dtow-ease in which were pretty laces, real not imitation. In the middle o the room stood a square box stove, on the top of which was one big griddle. The top of the shop door was of glass, and across it was painted in black let ters "A. I'ean." Whenever any one o, niied that door a smart little bell r.ing, w!:en A. Bean would dart out of the ua'k room, which was at once a bed room, store-ro.im and kitchen. The back room had in it besides a small bed steid, and lounge, two chairs, and a small ta.!e on which A. Bean spread liis frugal meals anil did his work. There was usually a huge pile of hair upon it, and his hatchel and the other appliances u-ed in wig-making. A few hairs more or less did nottrouble his di gestion. Above the table was a rough set of shelves, on which was the tin basin in Inch A. Bean made his tea mid coffee. A plate, a cup and saucer, a knife ami fork, and a saucepan, com pleted the list, ne of these utensils were ve-y clean. On the wall hung wigs, bwitehes and curls, in various fctages of completion. A. Bean himself was a lean, little man, very short-si j lite I, equally absent in tided, and irien to soliloquizing to his wig-blocks. ;ie also imagined him self a philosopher. You'd lo e your head, A. I'ean," ho would often say to himself when he had been more forgetful than usual. "You'd certainly lo-e your head, if it wasn't tied on vou." Just outside the door that opened into the little back yard was a curious tree. Years be'ore. a man- who had kept an ea'ing-room in the house had planted there a seed which he had found in a bag of co C'!. Every June it was cov ered with pretty blossoms, and scien tilic men often came to see it; but as yet no one had been able to tell its name, or where it came from, anil A. Bean felt l hat somehow this curious tree belonged to him, and conferred distinc tion on his shop. It was early in the morning. A theatrical company wanted some wigs that evening, and A. Bean's table was a per.ect snarl of hair. His lc-ikclilc was snging on the box-stove in the shop, and he had set down his cup ami saucer and the rol! of bread lie had bought the night before. A philosopher," he paid with a llourili to the nearest wig blok. is always superior to his sur roindings, and that is the reason women arc nev.r philosophers. How glad I am I'm not tied to one of Vm. little or big." Jut then the shop-bell rang violently. What ilo folks mean by coming be fore I'm up"" The little man spoke angrily for a philosopher: but when he saw his visitor he laughed. Well!'" he -aid after a minute. "What i it? A wig? Ma1 be you want a set of frizzes now. or a lace lichu?" The rosy little girl, apparently about three ears old. hugged her headless doll closer to hr bosom, and said coax ingly. "Scfs come." Urn-1 shoiiid say she had. Where's your may?" The eh d shook her head. Your ;av. then?" Another shake, and again coaxinTy, " Sef 's come." it does beat all naterl" said A. Bean, walking about her, and debating with himselt the propriety of taking her in his arms. -'Wiry -ou must have a may an' a pay. Everybody doos." The child shook her head. "Set's come." she repeated, "an' Sef's hungry.11 A. 1 can led the child into the next room, and as ever, thing seemed to have grown disordered and dirtv all in a minute, he set her on the bed and did the be?t he could with the hair and hat hel. and as he had no tablecloth, he spread a clean-looking piece of news paper on the table, and set upon it his cut ful os milk. It was market morning: the streets were already thronged with warons. and he ran out and soon re turned with a handful of strawberries in a cool ine-leaf. The two made a pleasant meal of it. bo pleasant that A. Bean was frightened when he saw how late it Avas. and thought ot the wigs. He could iearn nothing from the child, save that she was Sef. and that she and dolly had come. She either could not or would ot tell whether she h:-d any paYents, or where she came from; and to all questions either shook her head or an sweied with a sigh, "Don't know nusii." Her poor, plain clothes had a certain oddity, and her ruddy little face an expression which struck him as un csuaL " i'ou look furrin. You do look furrin. you httie rosebud," he whis pered to a wig-block, when after her hearty breakfast tho child fell asleep on the bed. The next dj wbsfi nt onfe c:.tz to claim the child, A. Bean advertised btr. And thinking she might belong to some of the eniigran s who were passing through the ci'y bv the hundreds, and who during .he summer often spent the night on th-- long platform at one side ofthe railway station, he sent a minute description of her to some o. the West ern papers tha had a large circulation. He made- a little bed for her on the lounge at first, but as the weeks went on. aud no one came to clai.n her, he bought a crib. He dreaded lo look into a newspaper after that, and when the shop bell rang his heart beat painfull v. But no one e er came, or sent a mes sage asking for a child. Sef had come, and sh staid, and from the first mo ment she and A. Bean loved each other devotedly. "You'd bettersend her to the orphans, home," said Ma'ilda Haddock, the old woman A. Bean had hired to make some clothes for the child, and attend to her little wants. You ain't never take care of a child, no how, unle-js you git marrie1.1' "Marred!" screamed A. Bean, "married! You must be crazy. A phil osopher, and I claim to be one" here A. Bean dropped his voice, aud spoke calmly "a philosopher knows better than to to, if I niav so 'express it, to complicate his relations." " Iley!" said Matilda Haddock, drop ping snuff all over herse'f in her amaze ment, "I don't make ye out, I" "Than to marry," snapped the little man, quite out of patience. "But I shall keep her. The first thing I re member I was bound out. I s'poseyou know what that is?" Matilda nodded. "Well," continued A. Bean, "that was the first awful thing. The next was, I was carried off to a fat country, so llat a pan-cake would be hummocky to it The heavens shut tight down to the airth. an' there wa'n't no folks, nor no applc-sass, nor no nothin1! O Lord! How 1 did hate it! An' Ezra Doxtater and Miss Doxtater how they hated boys, me special. He us-jd to call me a cuss, which it ain't for me to say I wasn't; an' she bein' what 3-011 might call ugly good was forever tollin' me what becomes of bad boys that are took off suddent An' they were lorever a liekin me, an' settin' me to work, which I do say I was willin' enough to do if 1 hadn't been forever lit at. The first thing I did ever- morning was to plan out how I d git to go away. 1 keo planum', an" a-planiiiu', ti'l the railway come, an" then I lit- 1 like to be where folks aire, an' things is goin' on. 1 don' t set no store In water, an' so 1 come to the oily, an' here I've staid. But bein' with 'folks ain't bavin1 folks, not that I do want folks reg' ler, not bein' brought up to have 'em. but I shall keep her. First I had a yaller cat, an1 then I had a j-aller dog. They were the cutest critters. But bein1 of an in quiritf turn, Miss Haddock, I think I'll try a human this time, an' folks kin clack their tongues off, I shall keep her." When two years had passed. A. Bean took the child to the pastor of the church not far from the little shop. " I'm not a religious man myself," he explained, leastways, not till I had her. But bavin' children to bring up doos make a difference, an' I'd like to make arrangements to come to church regTer. BesMes, I want her named. Named reg ler, so 'twill stick, an' seem' as we've neither on us any folks, I'd like her to be named Alexandr' after me. A princess somewhere has that name. Miss Haddock says." " Alice would be a shorter name, and less unusual," suggested the kindly minister. " We ain't usual folks," persisted A. Bean. " It's usual for folks to know where they come from, but we don't, an' here we be; so if it ain't agin ail nater, I'd like to have her Alexandry so 'twill stick, an1 her baptized when it's convenient." When Dr. Stearns explained that it was not the custom of his sect to bap tize little children, and that every one who wished to come was welcome to the church, A. Bean was much amazed. The minister made a prayer, with his hand upon Alexandra's head, and kissed her when she went away. And by these ceremonies A. Bean was as sured that her new name would stick. After that, rain or shine, the two were to be seen every Sunday in one of the shadowy corners of the quaint meeting house. The two rooms grew narrow. "She mut have a room by herself." A. Beau eplained to the tailor up-stairs. "And we must eat in a decent place. Not bein' a family man, perhaps you can't understand it. The hair and the hatch el and the potatoes under the table ain't appetizin" to her." The tailor moved aw:ry, and with Miss Haddock's help the room over the shop was transformed into a young lady's bedroom. Though she ain't but ten, she'll grow to it," said A. Bean, nibbing his wisps of hands together. " Fix it for a 'oung lady, an' then it will be proper." " White curtains were hung at the windows, a brilliant red and green ingrain carpet was laid on the floor, and a big mahogany bureau, bought at a bargain at Isaac's second-hand store, stood between tho windows. The dainty bedstead of pol ished brass was bought by A. Bean him self. " It's just likelier," heexp'ained to Miss Haddock, "bright, an' shiny, an' slim."' And Alexandra had grown bright and slim and wonderfully clever; for she now not only cared for herself, but for the shop, and helped A. Bean in all his work. When she was nearly twelve years old. they were one da' sur prised b- a call from'Dr. Steams. A. Bean was very much fluttered, and ran from his wig-counter to his lace counter in a bewildered way. "This here edge," he said, laying out some of his choicest laces, "does take my eye more'n anything in the pile. I s'po'se you come for lace, as wigs don't seem to have no place on heads as has such hair as yourn. I sold Dr. Camp a wig two year ago, a sort of yaller red his hair is, an' mighty hard to match.1' "I came to talk to you about 3'our little girl," said the Doctor, feeling a twinge of conscience at the surprise his visit occasioned. "Have you ever sent her to school?" "No, but she an' me together have learned to read, an1 write, an' spell some, along of Miss Haddock. When had she better begin?" "She ought to have been in school for the past two or three years," ex plained the Doctor. Alexandra was sent to the primary school the next daj-, but when the little scholars laughed at her reading, she snatched up her hat and ran home, and nothing would induce her to return. But the Doctor had so impressed A. Bean with the necessity of an education for Sef, that all other devices failing, he sent her away to a girls' boarding school kept "by gentle-mannerecl Friends. Five years had passed, full of self denial and hard work to A. Bean. It was the last day of June, and that n'ght by the owl-train Alexandra would come home. She had progressed so rapidly that he had readily assented to her de sire to fit herself for teaching. It was not what he had anticipated at first; but she had grown so tall'and beautiful, he did not like to think of her ben4in over wig-blocks, and making switches! "Sef's a human bein', though she jiap pens to be a female, an' an orphan, as was took in," he soliloquized after he had read her letter. "'Twouldn't be healthy lor nobody to set up an" tell me what I should or shouldn't do, much more so, if they said, got to. Life has to be worked out anyways, there ain't no short cut I'll let her work it out her own way." It had rained all day, and the wind blew 10 hard the curious tree bj the back door had broken off short at the root. A. Bean, though he had a great aversion to seeing the moon over hi3 left shoulder, anil dreaming of fish, prided himself on his lack ot suporsti- I tiou. But the destruction of the tree affected his spirits, and by night he had worked himself into a fever of nervousness. He started out, deter mined to take a long walk before the train was due. Unconsciously he crossed the river, and followed the road that led a mile- south along its bank to the railwa3--bridge, which was provided with a narrow way on each side of it for foot-passengers. It was also a draw bridge. A. Bean was walking along mechauicalty, when he felt the bridge move. Like all short-sighted people his sense of feeling was acute. The movement was slight, it was a gentle swaying as if tho bridge were ie:t to it self and the current. He heard the owl-train whistling at the little station a mile and a half away. He ran shout ing to the middle of the bridge. No one was there. "O Lord," he shrieked. I "On'y to know how to lix this here I bridge!" He ran toward the coming train groaning at every step. "O 1 Lord!" he cried, with beseeching hor ror. "She's aboard of it! Think of her, Lord, an1 them that's with her, all expected b- folks! Hear, Lord! Oh! You must, just this here once!" At the end of the bridge, he saw by ! the dim light of tho llickering gas that , the bridge had swung around about eight inches, 3'etthe light which said "All is well" was iu its place, burning feebl3r, ' it is true, but the night was rain'. A. Bean took off his hat. It was damp. I He mauaged to hang the old umbrella ' on his iiead, aud tearing off his shirt, heaped that with his handkerchief into his hat. There was a sudden rush and roar, and a shrill whistle which was ro ' sj ondcd to on tho other shore, and the ' train came in sight around the sharp ' curve, and began slowly to approach the 'bridge. The matches were damp. "Oh, Lord, if 3'ou must have somebody, take me!" he gasped, as they went out one by one in his fingers. "L believe the Devil's runnin' this here job, but Lord, i I'm read." The rags blazed up. The ' little man stood in the middle of the track, waving his hat to and fro under , his dripping umbrella. The burning ' linen dropped on his face and blistered J his hands. Would the tiain sweep over him and into tho river? No, it stopped just where he had stood. I "His back is injured," said a doctor who had climbed out of one of the cars. "He can live but a few minutes." "I agreed to it." A. Bean slow!' opened his eyes and looked wistfully j a" out. "Where's Sef? She's aboard 1 of it." They had lifted him upon some car cushions. The men who had come to see what was the matter stood one side. The women sat in the cars anxious and wondering. In a moment a young girl was kneeling beside A. Bean upon the sodden ground. " I agreed to it dearie," he mur mured, feebly. "An1 the Lord's come. The river in the midst of the city. I hear that. An' Sef, He said a child 3"ou know of such is the kingdom. I never should a' know'd about it if you hadn't come. The Lord Christ bless you." The doctor closed the sightless eye, and gently lifted the unconscious Sef from the earth. There was no sound but the rush of the great river. "The bridge is swinging free,1' said the engineer, who had with the instinct of his craft thought first of the cause of the warning, "there ain't a soul on it The Devil's got the watchman, filled him full of whisky or stole him out right;" and swinging his lantern around ami taking oil" his cap, he turned toward the dead man lying on the crimson cushions in the rain "Three hundred and more of us saved, That lit tle dried-up feller!" There was a breath of silence, and then a brakeman bent and grimy, touching himself lightly on his brow and breast, said, reverently: "God rest his soul. Amen!" N. Y. Examiner. A Shark's Peculiarities. A . singular thiiig about the shark ie, anu about skates and rays also, is tribe, and about skates and ray the number of the p-Ul openings. A suntish, salmon, cattish, flounder, or any ordmaiy fish, has one gill opening, guarded by an ingeniously contrived bony door, or gill cover, inside which may be seen the gills, usually live rows. But all sharks have a gili opening to each row of gills and are entirely un provided with a gill cover. The position of the mouth is another external peculiarity that will strike any one who looks even casually at a shark," be it only a dogfish eighteen inches long. Nb mouth can be seen from above. It is not at the end, with a gap reaching along the side of the head, as in a cod or a pike. It is below; turn the animal over and it is plainly to be seen a broad, more or less curved slit, with rows of cruel teeth inside. This position of the mouth is due to the more or less projecting nose or snout of the shark. In the hammerheadthe front edge of the hammer hides the mouth; some other sharks have a pointed snout, while most of the skates have quite a large triangle running out ahead of their niasticatory organs. Only the peculiarly ugly shark something between a shark and a skate, known as the angel fish and also as the monk fish, and the great bat-like eagle rays have terminal mouths. Both of these, like the hammerhead, inhabit alike the Atlantic and the Pacific. Sharks have no trite bones. Back bone, skull, jaws and fin-rays are all cartilaginous the boniest things about them are their teeth; but the hardest things, harder than bone, for they are enamel, are the small tubercles that stud the skin. In most sharks these are very email, simpby causing the surface to teel delicatel' rough, but in some of the skates spines of considerable size are scattered among the fine shagreen. The hammerhead is decidedly not the most graceful of his tribe. The white shark and the smaller blue shark m:vy la3 claim to grace of form, but the hammerhead cannot; 3-et he is interest ing from his very strangenessT-one out of many singular forms that inhabit the vast ocean and are little known even by sight, save to the fishermen whose ar duous toilJeads them to their haunts. Utterly without fear, blindly ravenous slaughterers, without sense enough to be scared, are all the shark tribe. They will snap right and left as long as they live, and clanger from them, if they are large, is not over when they are safely landed on the deck of a vessel. Ae and club are needed to keep them quiet, or they might do mischief ere they died, for" they die hard. Philadel phia Thr.cs. m 'o Nonsense About Her. I tell you what it is," said 'oung Spilkins, ""that Podgers girl is just the right kind of a girl. There's no non sense about her, you know, and she so observing, you know; sees everything there is to be seen, and she's just as economical and modest-like as she can be. I took her out to walk the othei evening, and she saw everything in the shop windows. More than a dozen times she said: Doesn't that candy look nice?" And two or three times, as we were going by an open door, she said 'How lovery that smells! It smelh just like ice-cream, doesn't it?' But, la! notwithstanding she would like tc have had some, she never once aked me to give her an. I tell you. boys, you don't otten find a girl like that, sc thoughtful and economical, you know.1' Spilkins sa-s if he ever gets mtwrried, Miss Podgers shall be the happy woman, but Spilkins may be mistaken. Miai Podgers mav have a word to say. -D trail Fru Press How Coffee is Imitated. A man who was evident'' obliged, as be said, "to count evury penny," Bhowed a reporter of tho $un a brown paper package of damp black mucil aginous stuff that he said w is w hat he had bought for coffee, "i paid e g' leoa cents for a pound package of tins in Vesey street," said he. "and when I prepared it it did not ook or smell or taste like coffee. I have examined it. an-1 I think it is lareiv made up of bread crumbs. I took some of it to the store where my little girl purchased it, and they admitted :t was noteoffeo, and gave me a package of betur g. o is, .but when my littV g-rl went again she got this same stun! ' "I don't thinic' bread crumbs wo Id be of any aervi e ;u :idultraiug coffee," sa'd a large innorter anil dealer, " and I think that what the man you spea of mistook lor b-vad was the pea aud beans in the comi.o-ifon. Bread would not wci. h ciio gh to answer the pur pose, and unless 1 am mistaken it would float to the top of the 'u-d when cooked. But then so many things are used :n spurious coffee that I am not prepared to say that auyih ng yo 1 may mention is not among th rest. It is uiderstood in the trade, 1 oweve-, that the chief in gredients for imitating coTee are beans and "chicory. The a vera -o pa -huge of prepared cheap ooik-o is made up of one-third Maracaibo and Kio aud two thirds chicory and beans. Coilee costs from twent3r-fivo to thirty-eight cents a pound, chicory costs but six cents a pound, and beans are less than half tho price of chicory. The beans are roasted just as coffee is, then ground and mixed with ground coffee. The3 look like the genuine ground coffee, but have no taste at all. The chicorv seed a'so looks like the real article after the latter has been ground, but has a strong and bit ter taste, and produces a verv black liquid." "How can any one be certain of get ting genuine coffee?" "B3- buying it in the bean, either green or roasted. The whole bean is never anything but genuine. The sub stitutes do not look anything like the coffee bean, and cannot be mixed with the genuine whole bean without ex posure. If'ouhave not got a coffee mill, which after all, only costs a quar ter, buy the roasted bean and see your grocer grind it lor you. Never buy cof tee put up ground and in packages. Never buy what purports to be cheap coffee. Java is only twenty-live cents a pound. Maracaibo is "three cents cheaper. Coffees of all sorts always command their priof and anything that ! purports to tie cotteo anil sells lor less than the market price of Maracaibo is open to suspicion. Mo"ha is the dear est coffee. It sells for thirty-eight cents a pound. People are so used to bogus coffee that they do not like the genuine. In some boarding houses, hotels and res taurants preparations of chicory and a patented article I have here that smells to me like licorice are put into coffee to make it go further. It makes a black, strong liquid, greatly fancied by for eigners. 1 know of a grocer who has a good customer to whom he cannot sell genuine coffee. He mixes chicory with it and then she likes it. Much of the cafe voir, or 'black coffee,' that, is rel ished at the highest-priced restaurants, is made with a larger proportion of chicory than cofiee, and many people who are not at all economical buy chico ry along with coffee because they like a black, strong drink, I suppose." "There is nothing,11 said a man who lays claim to fine taste and a wide expe rience iu coffee drinking, "like a mixt ure of two-thirds Java and one third Mocha, cooked in an old-fashioned tin coilee pot. The Java produces a miid cream-colored fluid, with the most en trancing aroma. The mocha is darker and fuller bodied. It gives strength to the Java without robbing it of any thing. I may be wrong, but I insist that the milic just a little, too much milk spoils coffee shall be put in the cup first. Putting the milk on top of the coffee is not half so good. Boiling the coilee and milk together is criminal. A. Y. Sim. The Poetry Market. A timid, but really rather pretty -oung man came stepping softly into tho UntvLcyc sanctum csterday afternoon, when nobody was in but the adverti-e-meut solicitor, who was writing a half column puff of Slab & Headstone's new marble shop. The young man took off his hat and said: "Good morning," aud the advertising man snarled. "Wliat is poetry worth?11 asked the timid, but pretty young man. "Forty cents a line," said the adver tisement man, promptly and rather teuderlj, "and 3ou can't do better any where in America. The advantages we offer for the publication of poetry are unsurpassed on either side of the Missis sippi. Our circulation, standing in five figures the first 3'ear, has steadily in creased three times an hour ever since, and poetry published in this paper is placed in tho hands of 150,000 families before night. How much have -ou?" "Perhaps," said the timid young man, fairly reeling with delight, "it is a little too long." "Makes no diflerence," said the ad. man, beaming upon him kindly; "we'll put it all in if we have to issue a sup plement. And everything over 3,000 lines goes at thirty-five cents." The timid young man looked disap pointed. "It isn't so much then,'1 he said, "when it's very long?" "Never," replied the ad. man, mag nanimously. "Never; less room, more pay: that's the way you make your liv ing. Got your copy with you?" "Yes, sir," replied the young man. joyfully: "would vou like to read it, sir, or shall I read it?" "No, don't care to read it just now. Sit down and we'll count it," So they sat down and counted it. 'My heart, my heart in throbbing numbers tells," read the ad. man. "Heart medicine, young man?" he asked, in the patronizing way of a man who knows everything. " No sir," replied the young man. in amazed tones, while the ad. man count ed away for dear life. "No, sir; a rhapsody, sir." Oh, yes: yes, of course," said the ad. man. in reassuring tones. "Hun dred nine, bund ten. hund 'leven course, hund fourteen hain't done much in rhapsodies since Helmbold failed hund tweut-thco good things, though; we took a gross of "em last spring on Pad & Lotions column hund for' -two and I wore one myself two weeks and it made hund lift' -four man of me. One hundred and sixty eight lines, sir, and we'll throw in a four-line head and won't count the odd half line $63.20; call it an oven $65 cash down. Just step down to the business office and I'll give you a re ceipt." We don't know what happened im mediately after that. We only know that when the footman opened the door of the carriage to let us out at the mar ble steps of the Hawkcye office, the ad. man was leaning on the heavy bronze balusters, gazing wonuenngly at the figure of a 'oung man, walking un steadily down the street, holding a flut tering manuscript in one hand, and into the other clasping his pallid brow. "You may take my double-column head for a foot-ball, sir," said the ad. man, respectfull- raising his hat and standing uncovered as we ascended one broad stairway, " if that young fellow fjoing down street isn't a three-square unatic from Crazyville. Wanted me to pay him sixty-five dollars for a long rhyming puff without a line of business in it, sir." Br&a0ion Eawkeye, The Culture of tyiincen- In answer to a cot respondent Who In quires about the best var.t-.es of quin ces to raise, the soil best, adap'ed to then, the method of tra:ning. and their insect enemies, the editor of the I'ounlry (i"ni!enn a gives the following informa tion. "The best quiuce trees which we have seen grow on gooJ, rich, uplaud soils, moderately manured and well cultha (j i. Owners differ as to the best soils, somp insisting that low and naturally damp laud is the best, while others prefer the reverse. During the discussion at a meefng of the West ern New York Ho t:cultural Society, C. L. Ho.ig. of Loekporr. who is a suc cessful cult' valor, said that quince trees drop the leaves if planted on low grounds, whatever might be the culti va ion given tlieiu, but hold them well on upland. On the other hand, E. A Bronson, of Geneva, well known also as as skillful cultivator, said that ac cording to his ob-ervation the lea es drop from trees grow'ng on upland, but adhere well on low, moist ground. Some succeeded best with them in grass, others on well cultivated soil. So doctors differ. Among the most suc cessful trees which we have seen were those -on good upland '-oil in the vegetable garden of Robert J. Swan, of Geneva, N. Y. The- were twelve or fifteen years old, four or live inches in diameter, and eight or nine feet high. The ground was well cultivated, and small mounds of coal ashes were placed about them to exclude the borer. Some of the trees have borne two bushels, and one j'ear a hundred bushels were picked from sixtv trees. These were tho orange qtrnce. Itoe's quince, on the grounds of Elwangrr & Barrv, at Rochester, which have llornc heavily are many years old, and some are ten or twelve feet high. The grow on upland, have received good cultivation, and the ground has an annual moderate top dressing of manure. From the little wo have so u of the Champion quince wo are led to regard it as a very promising variety, and it may prove the beat known The quince is too often quite neglected, and allowed to grow into a mass of unpruned brush, aud to become incumbered with grass and weed9, Nurserymen raise straight and hand some trees, which do best if the heads are formed within a foot or two of the ground, with a single straight stem. If the young trees happen to be crooked or stunted, they may be improved bv cutting down to a bud or new ohoot, and a vigorous stem will spring up and form a straight tree. If this new tree does nof incline to grow sufficiently erect, it may be. made so by tying to a stake. The" cutting back and pruning must of course be done before the buds swell iu spring. The principal disease affecting the quince is the twig-blight. There is no certain remedy, but it is al ways well to cut oft and burn the dead portions. The borer attacks the stem near the ground, and when seen is to bo treated the same as the apple borer.1' Setting Out Blackberries. Blackberries can be set out in the fall as well as in tho spring, but always when in a dormant state. Nearly all late planting in the spring are failures. But if late planting is unavoidable, the sets must be shaded aud kept continu ously moist until all danger of wilting and shriveling is over. They do best on light soils and in sunny exposures. With' partial shade on moist, heav' land, the canes are apt to grow too late, and tho heavy frosts find them un ripened and unable to endure the win ter. Warm, well drained, but not dry, compost soil is tho best. On dry, hard soil tho fruit often either perishes be fore maturity, or is only a bunch of tasteless seeds. In the preparation of the soil, plow deep, thorouglily loosen ing, if possible, the subsoil, fi an op portunity is given, the roots of the blackberry are groat foragers. It de mands mellowness rather than richness. With the latter it grows too rank. In field culture the rows of blackber ries should be from six to eight feet apart, and the plants set three feet apart in rows. It will take about 1,800 plants for an acre. It is best to give tho canes support. This can bo do o by posts and fenoe wire, and grown in a continu ous bushy row. In May and June the roots send up vigorous sprouts, which grow with amazing rapidity, attaining from five to ten feet high. The black berry requires and will amply repay for management and culture, both of which it needs. If the canes are allowed to grow tall, aud then cut off with shears, they have few, if any lateral branches ami produce meagre crops. The best way is, when in rapid growth and about three or four feet high, pinch off with the fingers the terminal bud. Then lateral branches will start out. They, too, must be watched and pinched so soon as long enough. In this way good, safe, stock- canes can be had which will support themselves in winds and storms. Blackberr'es sprout, but those which come up between the rows can be re movod if taken in time, as easily as weeds. But if left to their wild im pulses the farmer or gardener will soon find a bramble wilderness in the midst of his premises, which will require strength and patience. They can be come very easily a very unruly and dis agreeable tenant. With care and watch fulness they are a source of pleasure ami profit. Iowa Slate Register. m m Beautify Home. The best test of the worthiness of a conimunit is probably the extent to which it keeps the Lord's day holy. All good things go with Sabbath observance, general!- speaking, and all bad thing3 with Sabbath desecration. Another ex cellent test is the expenditure on educa tion, and another, missionary contribu tions. As a test of intelligence aud ac tivity, the consumption of paper per head of the community has been sug gested: and the average consumption of sugar is equally indicative of the degree of comfort in which the people live. But in :dl the tests of comfort and taste, that which strikes a traveler through a country most readily is; the appearance of the dwelling-houses, with their gar dens, lawns, fencs ami other surround ings. Whether these dwellings be cot tages or villa-mansions, it matters little: it is the evidence of careful attention and good taste that impresses the mind favorably. It was once said by an accurate ob server that the finest" object in his ex tensive garden was grass that was al ways beautiful, whilst flowers faded and became unsightly. We may add that all good gard -ners pay special attention to lawns. However small the front court or back -ard nta3 be, there should be in it a well-kept lawn: and if there is room, there should be borders or circles or crescents of flowers, giving a prefer en e to those which grow low and con tinue long in bloom. A cott tge with a nice lawn having a few fine shrubs and a center circle or border of flowers is a beautiful sight, especially if it has one or two trees growing near, but not too near, the house. All beautiful lawns aud flow ers should be visible from the road that ever' passer-by ma3 be gratified. Household. A Buffalo (N. Y.) reporter was struck with the number of white horses driven in that CH3-, and he took the trouble to visit the different barns and ascertain the exact number owned. He discovered 520. A liveryman gave as his reason for having a large num ber that they were kept easier than any other, they were usually sound, as a rule perfectly gentle, and the most in telligent of the' horse race. FACTS AND FIGURES. California will pack over 1,003,000 eases of canned goods this year, in eiuding fruits, fish and vegetables. There are now fifteen locomotive ' works in the United States, with a com bined capacity of 200 engines per mouth. The amount of buckwheat ra:sed in most of the Western States is very small, and is generally decreasing. Gnicaqo Journal. A few feet of land in New York City, lo by 20 feet, sold recently at the rate of $15.45G,0u'J per acre. "This is the h'ghest price ever paid for land in tnis country. North Carolina has 178 varieties of minerals, 25 more than any olher State can show up. There are 112 varieties of woods, and-again we are in the lead. Raleigh New. The Norfolk & Western Railroad. Company will pay a tax to the State of Virginia this vear of 73.000. against $18,000 last year. This is by large odds the heaviest tax paid to the State' by any of its railroads. The Kin'ua viaduct, near Bradford. Pa , on the line of the New York, Lake Erie & Western Road, the highest in the wor.d, has been completed. The bridge is over 2,030 feet long and o02feet high. -A r. Sun. Minnesota has 83,530 square miles. or o3,459,200 acres, of which 2.459,500 acres are occupied by about 8.0J0 lakes ranging in extent from 100,000 down to 75 acres each. The State is as large as all New England. Detroit lost. For the week ended August 25 then; was built a total of 202 miles of new railroad, making 5.934 miles thus far this year, against 3. 159 miles report ed at the ccrrespondino- time in 1881, 2,853 miles in 1880, 1,470 miles in 1879, 1,019 miles in 1878, 1,014 miles in 1877, 1.273 miles in 1876, 613 miles in 1875. 962 miles in 1874, 2,252 miles in 1873, and 3,962 miles in 1872. Chicago Jour nal. The price of ivory is going up in Europe at such a rate that table-knives must soon rise in price. The recent Liverpool sales showed an increase of prices over last year of ten to lifteen per cent., and only thirty tons were of fered for sale. The top price paid was three dollars a pound for Angola and two dollars and a half a pound for Ni ger. At London seventy-two tons were sold at greatly advanced rales. The works at Sheffield may have to content themselves with using American ivory for the genuine ar.ieJe, and that supply is not likely lo fail while the com crop is sufficient for the manufacture of cellu loid, or while the heads of cattle in Tex as keep up in number and excellence of sliank-bones. San Francisco Chronicle, - - WIT AND WISDOM. A Baltimore belle has married a policeman. His beat was in front of her house for over a year, and she no ticed that he never snored. Philadel phia News. In 1859 eleven cars managed to ship all the peach crop of Delaware that was sent outside of the State by rail. Today it takes sixteen engines, 400 cars and ninety-six men. A correspondent wants to know "how we pronoutue Ras-el-Tin?" We don't pronounce it at all; we only write it. Do you suppose we read the papers to the subscribers? Courier Journal. The Egyptian war will give about a hundred paragraphers the opportunity to say that the Bedouins are no great sheiks, and that no matter how they are treated they will always Be-do-in some thing atrocious and inexcusable. War is, indeed, a groat evil. Texas Sitings. A Chicago lady who had gone into the country at the" invitation of some relatives, wrote to her husband: "Dear Charley When I left home I forgot to bring my slippers with me. Send them at once." She received a telegram the next day to the following effect: "Ex press companies can't spare the room to transport them. Buy a new pair." Brooklyn Eagle. Courage. "Suffering sisters,11 ex claimed the speaker, energetically shaking the hair pins from her head in her excitement, "women will never ob tain their rights until they display more courage. Let me say to you, in the words of a famous French orator, 'Courage! courage! courage!' " At this stage of the proceedings somebody threw a box of caterpillars upon the platform and the meeting broke up in gieat terror and confusion. xV. Y. Post. She sa'd she wanted a ticket to Wyandotte and return, and the pale, gentlemanly agent with the dark mus tache, asked as ho took up the paste boards, "Single?" "It ain't any of your business as I know." she responded, tartly. I might have been married a do.en times if I'd a felt like providin1 for some poor shiftless wreck of a man!" He doesn't ask ladies if they want " single" tickets any more, he's afraid to. Detroit Post and Tribune. A nouveau riche had his house robbed of several valuable pictures. He appreciated them because they cost him a great deal of money, and when he made his apearance in an art-shop he was in a very excited state. "I want you to get my pictures for me," he said. "What do you mean?" replied the polite attendant "Why. I was robbed of them the other night, and I come to you for satisfaction," was the answer. "But, my dear sir, we are not receivers of stolen goods, nor are we detective officers," said the dealer. Then," shouted the indignant million aire, "'ou had better take in your sign, 'Oil-paintings restored.11 Boston Courier. Methers-in-Law In Iadia. That the youthful wife or wives of the budding Hindoo are very much un der the personal jurisdiction of their mother-in-law has always been re garded as a peculiar fact in Indian sociology; but the appalling consequen ces which result from this arrrange ment have rarely been brought to light in so forcible amanner as in a case of female suicide which has recently been the subject of inquiry in Bombay. It was proved that the girl, almost a child in age, who had committed the dread act of self-destruction, had been driven to it by the persistent persecution which she had undergone at the ruthless hands of her husband's mother ever since her marriage. In directing the jury, the Coroner stated the remarkable fact that by far the largest number of female Hindoo suicides are those of women be tween the ages of twelve and twenty; and it is beyond question that the cause which impels these hapless maidens to put an end to their existence, just when at an age to reap most enjoy ment from it, is in nearly every case the organized despotism of the mother-in-law in the interior of the zenana. How this state of affairs i3 to be reme died it is difficult to see, although in the instance referred to the Coroner de clared the need of a complete change in Hindoo social habits. The only change which would be effectual is for the young Hindoo not to bring his wife home to the paternal mansion, but to set up house for himself with his matri monial partner, according to European custom. This, however, would be such a complete revolution in native habit, see ing that several generations usually liv aud have their being under the same roof-tree, that centuries would be nec essary to bring it about We should rather, perhaps, look to the ameliorating and humanizing tendencies of the noble efforts of those Christian ladies who pen etrate the secret depths of the zenana and carry into them the lessons of a fcifhar manlitj. Umim TtitqnvK. KENDALL'S SPAVIN CURE! KENDALLS THE MOST SUCCESSFUL REMEDY EVER D!S( OV ERS!) ; AS IT IS CERTAIN IN ITS EFFECTS, AND DOES NOT BLISTER. From COL. L. T. JBOSTJKR. Yountowii, Ohio. Mav 10th. I8S0. B. .1. Kendall & Co.. Jents: I had a very valuable II:iiiiMeton::ih colt which I prized very highly, he had .1 lure bone spavin on one joint and a small one on the other, which made him very lame; I had him under the eharjre of two veterinary sui-jreons who failed to cure hira. I was one dav reading the advertisement or Ken dall's Spavin Cure in the Chicago Express. 1 determini d at once to trv it, and got our urujrfrist hero to -em! for it, they ordered three bottle. I took them'all and thou-ht 1 would give it a thorough trial, I used it according to directions and the fourth dav the colt ceased to be lame, and the lumps had disappeared. 1 used hut one bottle and the colts limbs are as free from lumps and as -mouth a .mv horse iu the State He 1 entirely cured. The cure was so remarkable that I !-t two of mv neighbors have the remaining two tmtltt: who are now using it. ' Very respectfully, L.T. FOSTKR. FROM THE ONEONTA PRESS, N. Y. , , Oneonta, Xew York. .Ian. Cth, i:wt. J-.arly last summer Mesr. Ji. J. Kendal! .t Co., of Enoliurgh Fall:,. Vt made a contract with the publisher.-, of the Press fur a li ilf column advertisement' for oue year setting lorth the merits ot" Kendall's Spa in Cure. At the ame ti tie we secured from the Arm a quantity or hook, entitled Dr. Kendall' Treat Ne on the llor-e and hi Disease?, which we are giving to advance paving suhscril.crs to the J'rpnv is 1 premium " -.. About the time the advertisement lirst appeared in this paper Mr. 1. (5 cher merhorn, who resides near Colliers, had a spavined horse He read the advertise ment aud concluded to test the efficacy of the remedv. although hi friends HifhiMl at hiscreduality. He bought :i bottle of Kendall's Spavin Cure and commenced u",inir it on the horse in accordance with the direction, and he informed us this week ti-it it etlected such a complete cure that an expert horseman, who examined the inimil recently could find no trace of the spavin or te place where i' hid been located M Schermerh..ru ha since .secured a copy or Kendall's Treatise on the Horse aud his Diseases, w hich he prizes veiy highly and would be loth to part with at anv price provided he could not obtain another copy. So much lor advertising reliable articles! KENDALL'S SPAVIN CURE. Columbiana. Ohio. Dec. 17th IjnSo II. . I. Kendall -Co., Gents: You will rind below a recommendation from "our expressman. We sell KniM'air Spavin Cure and find all w ho ue it are pleased with it. You may send us more advertising matter, and a few nice canN uith oiir names 0,1 t,,cm- COXLKY .t KINti. B.J. Kendall Co.. Cent-: I am using your Spavin Cure for a bone sp-ivin (bought of Cotiley & King. Druggists, Colmnhiana. Ohio.) I lind it jtI,t the thin" to cure a spavin: the I.'i.nenes h 1 all left mv mare, aed bv further Use ( the cure 1 look tor the lump to lr ivc. The one bottle was worth to mv ten times the cost Yours truh. FKA.VK I5KLL. KENDALL'S SPAVIN CURE. T - TRAVEL ONLY VIA THE KNOWN AS FOlt ALL POINTS EAST AND WEST. Daily Express Trains are now run to Chicago, Omaha & Denver Via LINCOLN, AND BETWKEN KaawMCUy, Atclii.xoa Jk Dearer. O EXPKCSS TKAIXS laily -BETWEEN OMAIIA AND LINCOLN. All Through Trains are equipped with new and elegant Pullman Palace Cars, Day Coaches and Baggage and Express Cars of the latest designs. Through Tickets at Lowest Bate3 Are on sale at all principal Stations. where passengers can obtain information as to Routes, Kates and Connections, and can secure Sleeping-Car accommodations. Quick Time, Sure Connections, No Delays, As trains run to and from Union Depot at all principal points. I. S. EUNtlM. Gen'l T'k't A'gt, 23y Omaha, Neb. LAND, FARMS, AND CITY PROPERTY FOB SALE, AT THE Union Pacfic Land Office, On Long Time and low rule of Interest. All wishing to buy Kail Road Lands or Improved Farms will And it to their advantage to call at the U. P. Land Office before lookin elsewhere as I make a specialty of buying and selling lands on commission; all persons wish ing to sell farms or unimproved land will find it to their advantage to leave their lands with me for sale, as my fa cilities for afl'ecting sales are unsur passed. I am prepared to make final proof for all parties wishing to get 3 patent for their homesteads. tSTHenry Cordes, Clerk, writes and speaks German. SAMUEL C. SMITH, A.gt. U. P. Land Department. G2I-y COLUMBUS, NEB $661 week in your own town. ?.) lOutfit free. No risk. Every thing new. Capital not re quired. We will furnish you everything. Many are making fortunes Ladies make as much as men, and bo and trirla make irreat nav. Reader, if you want & business at which you can j inake great pay all the time you work, write for particulars to II. IIallktt & Co., Portland, Maine. -Ijan-y uorae anu i.i.j Meases. 1 i..ve .... 11 using your Spavin Cure on one 01 mv horses for bone spavin. One bottle entirely cured the lamenervs and removed m-t all the bunch. Yours respectfully, LKKItoY M. GRAHAM. Milwaukee. Wis., Jan. Mb. 1SSI. B. J. Aendall A Co., Gents: I have the highest opinion of Kendall's spav 11: Core. I lind it equally good for many other troubles named by vott. and partictilarlv for removing enlargements. Your very truly. . F. RRADLKY. KENDALL'S SPAVIN CURE. Kendall's Spavin Cure is sure in its ellccj. mild 111 its action as it does not blister, yet it Is penetrating and powerful to reach any dc-'p seated pain or to re move any bony growth or any other enlargement if used for several dav. such a spavins, splints, callous, sprains, swelling, any lameness and all enlargements of the joints or limbs, or rheumatism in man and for any purpose for which a liniment is used for man or beast. It is now known to b the b'.-9t linim -nt t .r in ui ever iise.l, acting mild yet certain in its etfects. It is used in tuli .strength witi perfect af tv at all seasons of the year. Send address for Illustrated Circular, which we think giv positive proof, of its virtues. No remedy ha's met with such unqualified success to our knowledge, for beast as well as man. Price $1 per bottle, or six bottles for $.". ALL DRUGGISTS have it or can get it for you, or it will be sent to any address on receipt of price, bv the proprietors, 18 Dr. B. J. KENDALL & CO, E..osburjr Falls, Vermont. SOLD BY ALL DKXJGQISTS. BUBLIM ALSO IX EL LENT FOR HUMAN' F L K S It ! 1'ROOF BELOW-3r- Rochester. Jnd., Xov. r.'uth. tSJ I'. .1. K.-nda'l ,v- l... (J.nt-: Pleasf send lis ;, Mipplx iI ailvertisiiu' matter f..r Kels dail s -sp;,- i . Cure. It has .1 good sale here ,V iv s the l..st ot satistaciion. Of ;.u wt. h.ive sold we have yet to learn the tirst unfavora ble repot t. Verv respectfully. ".I. DWVSON - SON. AYinthrop. Iowa. Nov . i'ld. 1S0. 15. .1 Kendal! ,t Co., ents:K dosed please tit'll 2T cents fur vnur rm-iii.,. ..1. ti... . - ....- 'i 1870. 1882. THE almffbtts Slomnnl Is conducted as a FAMILY NEWSPAPER, Devoted to the best mutual inter ests of its readers and it publish ers. Published at Columbus. Platte county, the centre of the agricul tural portion of Nebraska, it is read by hundreds of people east who aru looking towards Nebraska as their fnture home. Its subscribers in Nebraska are the staunch, solid portion of the community, as is evidenced by the fact that the Journal Las never contained a 'dun against them, and by the other fact that ADVERTISING In its columns always brings its reward. Business is business, and those who wish to reach the solid people of Central Nebraska will And the columns of the Journal a splendid medium. JOB WORK Of all kinds neatly and quickly done, at fair prices. This species of printing is nearly always want ed in a hurry, and, knowing this fact, we have so provided for it that we can furnish envelopes, let ter heads, bill heads, circulars, posters, etc., etc., on very short notice, and promptly on time an we promise. SUBSCRIPTION. I copy per annum " Six month ... " Three months, . ?2 no . 1 00 . 50 Single copy sent to any address in the United States for Sets. M. Z. TURNER & CO., Columbus, Nebraska. 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