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COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 7, 1888.
WHOLE NO. 665.
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BUSINESS CAKDS.
ATTORN EYS-AT-LA W,
rp-stairp in Gluck Building, 11th street,
Above the New bank.
TT J. i2Uiso:v,
NOTARY PUBLIC.
12th Street, i doors west or Hammond Home,
Columbus, Neb. 491-y
TK. JI. 1. TML'lWTO-,
11 ES J DENT DENTIST.
Office over corner of 11th and Xorth-st.
All operation lirot-clasb and warranted.
plIM 4; IIAaHlUK SKOP!
HEXKY WOODS, I'KOi'T..
JSTEverytbintf in first-class ttylc.
Also keep the best of cijrars rfaJUp-y
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i:i.lt Ac UEKUER,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Office on Olive .St.. Columbus, Nebraska.
2 tf
r G. A. Iil'l.LHOltST, A. M., M. D.,
HOMEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN,
JSTTwo Block, south of Court House.
Telephone communication. fi-lr
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AI.I.IS I i:ic IJItOS.,
ATTORNEYS A T LA W,
Oulee up-stairs in TdoAHisters build
inir. 11th M. W A. MoAUis-ter, Notary
Public.
.1 . M. MACFARLAXI), B. R. COWDERY,
Att:rsor iri Sstirj PsU'c. Ssllcstsr.
LAW AND COLLElTIOiV OFFICE
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MACFARliAND & COWDBR7,
Chlumbirs, : : Nebraska.
i i ko. :v ii:ititv,
PA INTER.
ISrCarri.tye, hous.' and -iju paintim?,
-'laiMig, paper liaiiimr. kaliominin, etc.
dour to order. Miop on loth St., opposite
Engine House. ( oltuubu. Neb. 10-y
llth St., nearly opp. Cluck's store,
Sells Harness, Saddle-. Collars, Whip-,
Itl'tnkets, iirry Comb-., Itrushe-. etc.,
at the lnwest possible prico. Itcpair
prompt! attended to.
G
H'.CI-AItK,
I AND AND 1NSU11ANCE AGENT.
Hi'MJ'IIIlEY, NEIW.
His land- conipriM some line tracts
in the Shell ("reek Valbu, and the north
ern portion of IM.tte" county. Taxes
paid for non-resident-. Satisfaction
guaranteed. 20 y
BYRON MILLET! ,
.lusticeof the Peace and
Notary Public.
l!Vflt 1III.I.ETT.
ATTOUSEY AT LAW, Columbus
Nebra-ka. S. 11. He will give
close attention to all business eutrustcd
to him. 248.
T OUIS SCHUKIISEK,
BLACKSMITH AMD WAGON MAKER.
All kinds of repairing done on hort
notice. IJiittjie-, Wagon, etc., made to
order, and all woik guaranteed.
iSTShop oppo-ite the " Tattersall,"
Olive Street. 2r
XCTACSaiUC A" WKSTCOTT,
AT THE
CHECKERED BARN,
Are prepared to furnish the public wth
good teams, busies and carriages for all
on-asioiis, especialh for funerals. Also
conduct a feed and sale stable. 4!)
TAMES PEAKSALL
IS PREPARED, WITH
FIRST - CLASS A PPA RA T US,
To remove houses at reasonable
rates. Give nim a will.
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TICK TOTKACIIKIW.
J. E. Moncrief. Co. Supt.,
Will be in his office nt the Court House
on the lir-t Saturday of each
month for the purpose of examining
applicants for teacher's certificates, and
for the transaction of any other bu-iness
pertaining to school's. .rl'7-y
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oii-3inrM l'ACitntt co.,
COLUMBUS, - NEB.,
Packers and Dealers in all kinds of Hog
product, ca-h paid for Live or Dead Hogs
or grease.
Directors. H. H Henry, Prest.; John
Wiggins, Sec. and Treas.; L. Gerrard. .
Cory.
T.Mli SALMON.
CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER.
Plans and estimates supplied for either
frame or brick building-. ioou work,
guaranteed. Shop on lP.th Street, near
st. Taul Lumber Yard. Columbus, Xe-
hraska
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p.T. Martyn, M. I). V. Schco. M. !.,
(Dentscher Artz.)
Drs. MARTYN & SCHUG,
U. S. Examining Surgeons,
Local Sunreou-. Tnion Pacific and
(.. X.&K. U.K. R.
COLUMBUS. - NEBRASKA.
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WILIIAM RYAN,
DEALER IN
KENTUCKY WHISKIES
H7hc. Ales. i'!aars and Tobacco.
j3Schil.s Milwaukee Heer constant
lv on hand.jJ
Eleventh St..
Columbus. Neb.
1 S. MUKDOCK & SON,
Ja Carpenters and Contractors.
Havehad an exteuded experience, and
will guarantee satisfaction in work.
All kind? of repairing done on short
notice. Our motto is. Good work and
fair prices. Call and give us an oppor
tuunv,tBjBTOateforyou. 2TShop on
13th SMMBUoor west of Friedhof &
On'.s3mpi--imbus. Nebr 483-v
" THE
COLUMBUS FLAX AND TOW. CO.,
Areprepared to receive and pay ?3.00 per
ton for good clean flax straw (free from
foreign substances) delivered on their
grounds near the Creamery, in Colum
bus Nebraska.
COLUMBUS FLAX & TOW CO.,
GEO. SMITH, Ag't.
Columbus, Dec. 5, 1882. 32-3si
ADVERTISEMENTS.
RST
National Bank!
COLUMBUS, NEB.
Authorized Capital,
Cash Capital,
$250,000
50,000
OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS.
A. ANDERSON, Preset.
SAM'L C. SMITn, Vice Pres't.
O. T. ROEX, Cashier.
J. W. EAKLY,
ROBERT UHLIG.
HERMAN OEHLRICH.
W. A. MCALLISTER,
G.ANDERSON,
P. ANDERSON.
Foreign and Inland Exchange, Passage
Tickets, Bcal Estate, Loan and Insurance.
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BECKER & WELCH.
PROPRIETORS OF
SHELL CREEK MILLS.
MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLE
SALE DEALERS IN
FLOUR AND MEAL.
OFFICE. COL UMB US, NEB.
SPEICE & NORTH,
General Agents for the Sale or
REAL ESTATE.
Union Pacific, and Midland Pacific
R. R. Lands for sale at from $a.00 to $10.00
per acre for cash, or on live or ten years
lime, iu annual payments to suit pur
chasers. We have also a large and
choice lot of other lauds, improved and
unimproved, for sale at low price and
on reasonable terms. Also business and
residence lots in the city. We keep a
complete abstract of title to all real es
tate in Platte County.
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COM nBlS. -NKII.
PILLSBPRY'S BEST!
BUY THE
Patent Roller Process
MINNESOTA
FLOUR!
ALWAYS GIVES SATISFACTION,
Because it makes a superior article of
bread, and is the cheapest flour
in the market.
Every vack warranted to run alike, or
money refunded.
HERMAN OEHLRICH & BRO.,
GROCERS.
l-3m
LANDS, FARMS,
CITY PROPERTT TOR SALE,
AT THE
Union Fade Land Office,
On Lomj Time and low rate
of Interest.
All wl&hinsr to buy Rail Road Lands
or Improved Farms will llud 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 affecting sales are unsur
passed. I am prepared to make final
proof for all parties wishing to get a
patent for their homesteads.
SSTHenry Cordes, Clerk, writes and
speaks German.
SAMUEL C. SMITH,
Agt. V. P. Land Department,
C21-y COLUMBUS, NEB
WJL BECKER,
PEALKR IK ALL KIXPS OF
FAMILY GROCERIES!
I KEEP CONSTANTLY ON HAND A
WELL SELECTED S POCK.
Teas, Coffees, Sugar, Syrups,
Dried and Canned Fruits,
and other Staples a
Specialty.
Good OeliTered Free to any
part of the City.
I AM ALSO AGENT FOR THE CEL
EBRATED COQUIIXARD
Farm and Spring Wagons,
of which I keep a constant supply on
hand, but few their equal. In style and
quality, second to none.
CALL AMD LEARN PRICES.
Cor. Thirteenth and K Streets, near
A.&N.Dtpot.
TEE GLORIES OF SWEET CORN.
along vecyt'bles de tu'nip hez a pow'ful lot
ohfren's;
De happUiese of hnnd'eds on the common 'ta-
ta5ipenU9;
De carrot er a han'some root, but, sho ez yo'
er bawn,
Dai's nuffln at dis time ob yeah ter ekil sugah
cawn.
Choral O sweet cawn! O saj?ali cawn I
Wat mo kin yo de-iah!
Jis' bile hie wid de shucks on,
Br roast htt by de flan !
De beet er red an' full ob juice de pa'snip
mikes good stew;
De reddish relishes wid bread termattah
sassdoz, too;
De green co wcainbah'll cut yo' off. In chtT-
hood er in prime
But sugah cawn'll make yo'fat. III! golly!
hit's serblime!
De cabbago an' de summah squash, de string
bean an' de pea,
All flit' Oe table, col er hot, 'twixt breakfus'
time an tea;
Bat cl'ar de bo'd ob all aioh truck de cawn
er w'at I take ;
Hit knocks de 'ticeinent oat ob ebeu. pad'n,
pie er cake!
Albany Argui.
CAFTORED...
Near the beginning of oar late civil
war, Lieutenant Graham was stationed
with a few men to. guard a gap in the
Virginia mountains. The blockade of
the whole South at that time waa very
rigorous, and supplies of any kind were
rarely smuggled through the Union
lines.
One morning, as the Lieutenant sat
smoking in the door of his tent, one of
his outlying pickets presented himself,
red and blown with running.
" I've got 'em, sir! It's some ov thim
rebels hookin' it across the lines. I
brought 'em to with a round turn!"
14 Where?" exclaimed the Lieutenant,
as he jumped to his feet. He was young
and zealous, and had not yet had. a
chancb to prove his zeal. "Rebels
breaking the lines, eh! Well done,
Wright!"
"Carrying provisions, sir!"
"No doubt I No doubt! Arms and
ammunition, too, of course. Where are
they? Were they taken prisoners?"
The man looked sheepish. 'They're
back in the woods, sir. I jest fotched it
along."
" It ." What on earth " The Lieu
tenant followed Wright, who ran to the
woods, dashed behind a copse and
hauled out a little girl of about ten years
of age, carrying a basket. A donkey
stood beside" her.
"There they be, Leflenant! She was
footin' it past the pickets, singing Dixie
to herself as asey as yer please."
" Take your hands off the child! I
thought you had captured a dozen men,
you braggart! Who are you, my child?"
" I'm Dora Nettley, sir.
Dora was a chubby, freckled child,
with honest brown eyes, which reminded
the Lieutenant of his littlo sister away
out in Michigan. Still, important infor
mation, maps and dispatches had often
been carried by women and children
since the war began, and this might be
a bearer of information, child though
she was.
" Where did you come from, DoraP"
" From Martinsburg, sir."
" And what have you in that basket?"
The child's face grew red, she shut
her lips tight and remained silent.
" Search it, Wright."
" Here's tea, sir, and a little package
oi sugar, and here's a bottle of quinine
pills."
"Where are you going with these
thing3, Dora?"
She looked wildly from side to side,
her chin quivered, and then she burst
into passionate sobs. "Oh, let me go,
sir! It's my mother. She is down on
the plantation, all alone. The negroes
have all followed your army, and my
mother's alone and sick. 1 just thought
I'd buy her a little tea and sugar and
the medicine."
" How do you know she is sick?"
" Patsey told me. Patsey's the coach
man. He followed the soldiers up to
Martinsburg. He said there was no
body to take care of her."
"And you rode from Martinsburg
here on this donkeyP"
" Yes, sir."
"And meant to pass the lines?"
Dora nodded and her eyes sparkled.
This kind-faced lad was not so terrible a
foe, after all. "I was just going down
the gap-road. I have ridden it on Spot
a hundred times before."
Wright's face was eagerly turned to
the officer. "Oh, lit the child go, Lef
tenant. What harrum kin she do with
her bit of ta for her sick mither? I wish
I'd been in betther business whin I
teched you, sissy."
" I wish you had," said Dora, simply,
How does it happen that your moth
er is alone?" asked the Lieutenant.
" Where is your father?"
Dora's cheeks glowed a fiery red. She
looked at the ground uncertainly. She
was a quick-witted child, and had seen
the pity and sympathy in the officer's
eyes, if she could hide the fact that
her family were actively conoerned with
the Confederates there was a chance
that she would be allowed to pass. But
to lie!
"Where is your father, DoraP" he
repeated.
"In the array!" she faltered.
"Fighting for the Union?" said Gra
ham, quickly.
There was a long pause. "He is with
Lee," she said, at last.
"And your brothers?"
"They are with Dick Ashby."
The young officer turned away impa
tiently.' He had hoped to find a pretext
for being of service to the child.
"Walk down the field abit,Leftenant,
an' kape yer back this way, whispered
Wright. ""I'll give her the wink to be
off. And whatharrum's done?"
"No. I am sorry, Dora, but I can not
let you pass through the gap. It is
against orders."
She did not make any noise, but
dropped on the grass 'and buried her
face in her hands.' "I want mother!"
she sobbed. "Oh, I want mother."
"Ye see, child," explained Wright,
"no support or comfort kin be carried
to the inimy."
"She's not an enemy," cried Dora,
angrily. "She's mother."
"Come with me, Dora," said the
Lieutenant. He lifted her on the don
key and led her to the farm-house, where
the wife of General R had her quar
ters. She was a gentle, motherly
woman, and he told her the story.
"I am going to the commanding offi
cer to telegraph for a permit for ner to
pass the lines! You can discover whethet
she "has anything contraband concealed
about her. But I would stake my life
on the honesty of the child."
"You wiirhave a ride of twenty miles
in tne hot sun, Lieutenant," said Mrs.
R . "Do you know the child?"
"No; but I can not help thinking,
what if that poor woman yonder were
my mother and this child little Alice?"
Mrs. R took the girl up to a little
chamber, which she told her should be
her own until the Lieutenant returned;
kissed her and left. She felt impatient
with the dreadful turmoil and sorrows
of the war. This poor mother, dying
alone perhaps, and the child wandering
through the country! Why was there
bo on who ooold aetit all right?
In the meantime Dora hadhiddemher
basket, locked the door, and kneeled
down by the side of the bed. She was
E raying with all the strength of her little
eart to God to help her. And on the
other aide of the mountain, in a solitary
house, her mother lay alone, her hands
covering her pale, worn face, while she,
too, spoke to the same Friend, who had
been her Friend in whom she had trusted
all her life.
Down the valley galloped the Lien
tenant a stranger to them both
prompted, he thought, by a casual like
ness of the child to his sister. Yet was
there not some Ona who heard their
prayers and made of this man the agent
to answer them? The One who could
and would in His own good time set all
this turmoil and all others right?
At the end of the day Lieutenant Gra
ham opened the gate of the farm-house.
Mrs. R , with Dora, hurried to meet
him.
" I know by your face you have suc
ceeded," she said.
"Yes; tkjtf -General is the most inex
orable of foes as far as men are con
cerned, but he has a wife and children
of his own. Here is a permit and an
order for a guard to take the child
through the pass."
The officer himself rode with the guard
into the gap. "Good-by, my little pris
oner. You will soon be with your moth
er, and I hope you will find that she
will not need the medicine you are car
rying her," he said, as they parted.
Dora's eyes were full of tears. "You
have been so good to me," she said,
dropping Spot's reins and holding out
both hands. "I wish I could do some
thing for you."
"Oh, be good to the first Yankee who
falls Into your hands, you little rebel,
he replied, laughing.
There is a sequel to our little story.
Mrs. Nettley, with her daughter, re
moved for 'safety to her brother's plan
tation in the eastern part of the State,
where they remained during the war.
After a skirmish which took place 'in
the neighborhood, Major Nettley's
house, being spacious, was taken as a
temporary hospital, to which the wound
ed of both sides were carried. Dora and
her mother were busy among them, do
ing what they could to alleviate their
sufferings until the surgeons had dressed
their wounds.
There was one young man of about
twenty who was wounded in the leg.
Dora, as she raised his head to give him
a drink of water, met his eyes. They
had a strangely familiar look.
"What is your name?" she said, as
she took the cup from his mouth.
" Felix Graham."
What regiment?"
" Ensign. Fourth Michigan."
Dora ran to her mother, fairly stam
mering in her excitement.
" He is so like the Lieutenant at the
gap, mamma! And the same name.
And I promised ! I promised ! "
Mrs. Nettley in her turn grew inter
ested and excited. She went to the
commandant when the time came for
sending the wounded Union officers
away.
"There is a young man among them,'
she said, "whose wound will probably
prove fatal if he is moved. I owe a debt
of gratitude, as I believe, to one of his
family or at least to one of his name.
If you will leave him I will nurse him
as faithfully and well its I can."
Mrs. Nettley was a woman whose re
quests were usually granted. Felix
Graham remained in her house for two
mouths.
Four years after the war was over,
our old friend, Colonel Graham (for
merly Lieutenant), came home to Michi
gan from San Francisco, where he had
engaged in business after his discharge
from the army.
It was his first home-coming, and
there was great rejoicing, and a gath
ering of all the Graham clan, big and
little.
"But where is my new sister?" he
said to Alice. "I wish I could have got
back in time for the wedding. To think
Felix went to a Virginia for a wife, af
ter all!"
"Here they come," said Alice, as
steps were heard on the porch without,
and the boys rushed out to meet Felix
and the bride with "He's come! he's
come!"
The door opened and Felix, bearded
and sunburned, came in ; a shy, chubby
young girl following him. Her eye
were brown and oddly honest and frank.
Colonel Graham, his hand out, stopped
nerplexed.
"Who? Dora!" he said. "Dora!
"Yes, Dora," she answered. "I kept
my promise," laughing mischievously.
"You told me to be good to the first
Yankee who fell into my hands. Here
he is ; I thought the best thing I could
do for him was to marry him."
Dora's mother and uncles followed
her to Michigan. Since then there have
been many family gatherings, where
the Nettleys and Grahams once such
bitter foes recall the events of the war,
seeking only to remember how much
that was human, and tender, and broth
erly, was mingled with the terror and
misery of that far-off time. Youth?
Companion.
What Are Clouds!
Though the clouds are such familiar
objects, very little is known about them,
and the processes by which they are
formed and give back their moisture to
the earth are unsolved mysteries.
They can not be classified as belong
ing to the solid, fluid, or gaseous form
of matter. Yet they are defined as be
ing "a collection of watery particles in
the state of vapor, suspended in the air."
If they are ordinary vapor, they must
be governed by the laws which affect
vapors. Brande defines vapor thus:
"When liquids and certain solids are
heated, they become converted into
elastic fluids or vapors, which differ
from gases in this respect, that they are
not under common circumstances per
manently elastic, but resume the liquid
or solid form when cooled down to or
dinary temperature." According to this
definition, clouds can not be composed
of ordinary vapor, for under all condi
tions their temperature must be below
the condensing point of water-vapor.
At the elevation at which clouds are
often seen, they are in the regions of
perpetual congelation ; and as they float
above the highest mountains they must
I be exposed, even in the sunshine, and
cerwmiy in tne nignt, wnen tne sotar
heat is not poured upon them, to tem
peratures colder than those of the frigid
zones. C. Morfit, m Popular Science
Monthly.
A writer in an English magazine
undertakes to show that a considerable
change in the climate of any place may
be brought about by artificial meaas
Any bashful young man who has found
himself in a room full of lively young
girls,and inadvertently takes a seat noon
a chair on which one of them "has placed
ner Knitting, witn several kneedlee
pointing in as many directions, wfll
unanimously agree with the English
writer. Norrutouni Herald.
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Our Young Readers.
DOTS STOCKINGS.
Briskly fell the snow's white plumage.
Tossing o'er the barren moor.
While Kris Kringle's jolly features
So belled the weight he bore.
Fast the pearly flakes were falling,
Glad his hoary head to crown,
Making darkness light about him,
As though angels dropped them down.
Sings his heart Its sweetest carol,
Twinkles his gray eyes so bright.
As be pictures the sweet children
In their happy homes to-night.
What cares he that suow is dritting,
And the cold is no intense,
When he sees dear Dottie's chimney
Peeping over yonder fence?
Down the chimney now he's creeping,
Dark and sooty, dim and drear.
Yet hi heart is light, though heavy
On bis back lies Christmas cnecr.
Quite a Journey I've accomplished,"
As be shoo): himself quite freo
From the soot. "Now Where's Dofa stock
ing? Here 'tis. But what do I see?
Whose Is this, and this, and that one?
One last year, but n.iw three more.
I am old, Ju t turned of eighty.
But can count one, two, three, four.
Well, Til All them," said Kris Kringle;
"May be Dottie wants a pllo
Of nice goodies. Here they go in.
Now, my boy, you're fixed In stylo."
He guessed rizhtly; Dot was greedy.
For he did love candles so.
This wus why he hung so shyly
Four bright s.ockings la a row.
Morning came; Dot was in raptures.
Wnat a pile of luscious things
Hung within that old black chimney!
But hark! now the door-boll rings.
In came Neighbor Gray aslghtng.
Times, he said, were very dull;
And his little Sam grew weaker.
Oh! his heart was very full.
Wife, he said, bal watched beside him
Through the cold and bitter night.
And he came to usk for something
Only "Just a little mite."
(Jp Jumped Dottie with a stocking,
Bursting with Its festive bliss.
" Here," he said, to that poor neighbor,
" Give dear little Sammy this."
Just then came the widow's children
Pretty, butso very poor
Mag and Mamie, nearly frozen.
Traveling o'or tho barren moor.
Come In quick," said little Do'tle.
" What s the matter? pray explain."
" We are going for the doctor,
'Cause the baby's got a p.Un."
Mag and May each had a stocking
When they left the farmer's door.
Oh I 'twas well that littlo Dottie
In his chimney hung up four.
Uarptfa Youiiy People.
THEIR CHRISTMAS TURKEY.
The shop of Mr. Onosender Golong
looked, that 24th of December, like a
bower. Two j'oung cedar-trees stood
one on each side of the doorway; long
earlands of evergreen, sprinkled with
right berries, were festooned all over
the walls; and ever)- turkey there, and
there were lots of them, hanging like
some new kind of gigantic fruit from the
ma8 of green that covered the ceiling,
liad a gay ribbon tied around its neck.
And such a wonderful picture in the
way of freshness and color as the big
window presented to the passersby!
Bunches of crisp light "recti celery lean
ing up against heaps of brown, pink-eyed-potatoes
and honest red onions;
fiery-looking peppers side by side with
golden oranges and 3-ollow lemons;
nanl, smooth, shining cranberries try
ing to look as though they were sweet;
great pumpkins; piles of green and
piles of rosy apples; bunches of fragrant
thyme, and more turkeys, sorao with
and some without their feathered coats,
but all. as 1 said before, with j;ay rib
bons around their uecks. Dear me! if
Santa Clans could have only looked
into that window and peeped into that
shop, how pleased he would have been,
and how ho would have laughed! And
he certainly would have taken Mr. Ouo
sander Golong for a long-lost brother,
for neer before did mortal man so
strongly resemble the. child '"en's old
Christmas friend. Snow-white hair,
long, snow-white beard, twinkling blue
eyes, round, fat, red, good-naturedface,
a fur cap on his bead, bunches of
holly berries pinned here and
there on his shaggy j'acket, and
a laugh good gracious ! such
a loud, hearty, mirth-provoking laugh,
that the very people on the street, hear
ing it, began to smilo, and feel that
Christmas was here, indeed. And I tell
you Mr. Onosander Golong was busy
that day, and so were all the men anil
boys employed by him. Turkevs and
other thin 'S that had been ordered the
evening before, turkeys and other things
that had been ordered early that morn
ing, and turkeys and other things being
ordered all the time, were to be packed
away in huge baskets, and sent to their
respective destinations. But he wasn' t
so busy but that he stopped a moment
from his work to give a piece of meat
to a poor do that had trotted hopefully
into the shop (having evidently trans
lated the name " Uolong" over the door
into "Come in"), and was asking for
it with his eyes. And as he roso from
patting lhe dog, he saw two children
standing before him, also asking for
something with their eyes. They were
Eoorly dressed children, but tt e girl
ad a sweet, bright face, and the boy
was as jolly-latjKJng a little fellow as
you could find anywhere. His cheeks
were as round, if not as red, as Mr. Go
long s, and his merry black eyes actual
ly danced in his head. Now if there
was one place in Mr. Onosander Go
long's heart softer than the rest, it was
the place he kept for children: and so
when he saw these two looking up in
his face the boy with boyish boldness,
and the girl with girlish shyness he
said, in the cheeriest, kind st manner:
"Well, small people, what can I do for
you?"
" We would like to tell you a story,"
answered the boy, in a frank, pleasant
voice.
"Tell me a story!" repeated Mr.
Golong, in atone of great surprise.
"Yes, sir, please aChristmasstory,"
was the reply.
" Bless my heart! what a queer idea!"
said Mr. Golong, and he laughed a
silent laugh that half closed his eyes
and wrinkled his nose in the funniest
way.
" Wouldn't you like to hear one?"
asked the girl coaxingly.
"Of course I would I'm very fond
of stories but I don't see how I can
spare the time. We're so busy just
now, and likely to be until, night," said
Mr. Golong.
" It's only a short one," said the boy.
"A very short one," added the girl.
"Well, go ahead." said the good
natured old fellow. And he sat down
on a barrel of potatoes, and his young
visitors placed themselves one on each
side of him,
" One Christmas-time." the boy be
gan, " there was a big tenement-house
in this city, and ten families lived in it,
and every one of these families 'cept
one knew they were a-going to havo
turkey for their Christmas dinner. They
knew it sure the day before Christmas,
all 'cept this one. The family that
wasn't sure the day before Christmas
morning lived on the top floor, and it
was it was "
"Mrs. Todd, Neal Todd, Hetty Todd
and Puppy Todd," prompted the girl,
" Yes, it was them," said the boy:
and went on. with his story again.
"Mrs. Todd was Neal's and. Hetty' 3
mother they hadn't any father; "he
died three vears ago and Puppy was
their dog. Mrs. Todd is one of the best
mothers "ever lived, and she sews button-holes
on boys' jackets for a big
store; and Hetty cleans up tho house,
and gets the supper, and such things;
and 1 I mean Neal runs errands lor
folks when he can get a chance after
school. His mother wants him to go
to school till he's fourteen, anyhow,
'cause a boy that has some education
can get along better than a boy that
don't know anything. And this family,
though they were very poor, had always
managed to have a turkey dinner till the
Christmas I'm telling about, and Mrs.
Todd loved turkey."
" Didn't Hetty and Neal5" asked Mr.
Golong, closing'his eyes and wrinkling
his nose again; and he hurried away to
wait on a stout lady, all covered with
glittering jet ornaments and banglos,
who must havo been a very particu
lar customer, she talked so loud and so
much.
"Didn't Hetty and Neal?" he repeat
ed, when he came back.
" Oh, my! I guess they did!" said the
giriahcr eyes sparkling.
"They'll a been Funny fellows if
they didn't," added the boy; "but, "pon
their words and honors, they wanted it
more for their mother she's such a
good mother, and has so few things to
eat than they did for themselves. And
it made them feel awful bad when she
came home and cried 'cause some
wicked thief had stolen her pocket
book with half a week's earnings in it,
and the two-dollar bill that the boss
had given her to buy a Christmas din
ner with besides. And so the boy
Neal he's kind of a nice chap, ain't he,
Hetty?"
" Awful nice." replied Hetty, with a
mischievous little giggle.
"And he says to his sister she's aw
ful nice, ain't she. Hetty?"
" Kind of nice." said Hetty, with an
other littlo giggle.
" He says to his sister." continued
the boy. " 'Don't say any thins: to moth
er, but put on your hat, and bring a
brisket, and we'll make a try for a mer
ry Christmas dinner turkey aud all.'
And they went round the corner to a
beautiful market, kept by a gentle
man who looked exactly" like Sauta
Claus "
Mr. Onosander Golong laughed aloud
this time, and Hew to wait on another
particular customer.
"So he looked like Santa Claus?" he
said, with a chuckle, when he sat down
on the barrel of potatoes again.
"The very image of him!" said the
girl, with great emphasis.
"The boy," began the boy once
more, "had run errands for him two
or three times, and each time hail got
two apples or oranges besides the rcg'
lar pay; and he was good to cats and
dogs. So this hap went to this gentle
man lie took his sister along, 'cause ho
thought Mr. Golong would like to see
her and they told nim their story. And
the boy says, when it was done: If you
would only trust us for a turk -1 mean,
a turkey, and a few other things, I'll
work for you all holiday week, and an
othor week, too, after school. My
name's Jeal Todd, and my mother is a
real nice womau. and I love her just as
you used to love your mother when you
was a little boy.' And the gentleman,
says he: Being as it's Christinas-tirae,
and I look so much like Santa Claus,
I'll do it.' And he did. And that's
all."
Mr. Onosander Golong burst out a
laughinc and oh! how he laughed! He
laughed until the tears ran down his
cheeks. He laughed until he nearly fell
off the barrel. He laughed until every
body far and near who heard him
laughed, too, and the cry roosters in
the poultry shop over the way joined
in, aud crowed with all their might and
main. And they got the turkey. Mrs.
Margaret Eutinac.
A Generous Grocer.
The family had recently moved into
the suburbs of Austin from the wilds of
Arkansaw. The head of the family,
who was a tall, thin man, atllicted with
red hair and the Arkansaw dialect,
went over to the nearest corner grocery
to lay in a .supply of family provisions.
"What are you quoting condensed
milk at per whole can?" asked the
stranger, reaching down with one of his
paws and lifting a quart of cranberries,
which he chucked, one by one, into his
open mouth during the pauses in con
versation. "Twenty-five cents," replied the gro
cer, putting a washboard over the top
of the cranberry barrel.
"Whew! The price hasn't been con
densed much. Gimme half a can for a
dime. I suppose you will throw in a
piece of soap as an" inducement," and
the gentleman from Arkansaw took a
handful of brown sugar to mitigate the
acidity of the cranberries.
"Don't sell half a can of milk. Be
sides if I did let you have half a can,
what would you put it in?" growled
the grocer, looking savagely, as ho
clapped the cover on the sujiar barrel.
"Put it in? I'd take ray half in tho
can of course. You could pour your
half of the milk into one of those new
tubs, or into a bottle. That'syour look
out," and the stranger absent-mindedly
cut off a generous slice of cheese, and
reached into the cracker barrel. The
grocer covered up the cracKers, fondled
the cheese knife in a very significant
manner, and said with a sneering smilo,
reierring probably to the crackers,
cheese, sugar and cranberrios:
"You lay in a great deal of provisions
in the course of a year, don't you?"
" I should say so. I expect to drop a
mint of money" in this town of Austin.
We will just have to have a new frying
pan before spring. As soon as my oht
est boy is seventeen he only lacks two
years of it right now he will want a
box of blacking, and perhaps a paper
collar, and his mother is talking about a
cravat. Our box of matches is not
going to last, the way they are going
now, more than a few months longer.
I only got that box of matches at Little
Rock last Fourth of .July. Our coilec
pot can't last forever, and I'll have to
invest in a new one. 1 should think
you would throw whole cans of con
densed milk at me for the chance to tap
all that trade," and reaching over, ho
endeavored to extricate a piece of to
bacco from the box, remarking once
more: "I should think you would give
me a can of condensed milk just to al
lure me .' He didn't finish, for
the grocer, who had been getting mad
der and madder, actually did give him
a can of condensed milk, but he didn't
wrap it up for him, and tie it with a
string; and ask him "What else?" but
he gave it to him in an off hand, care
less sort of way, just behind the ear.
The generous grocer then jumped over
the counter to secure the trade of the
stranger by giving him an ax-handle,
but the stranger, without waiting for
further indu ements, made another dive
at the cranberries, and passed out like
a beautiful dream. Texas Sitings.
The population of Nevada County,
California, is increasing steadily. One
woman there gave birth recently to her
twentiety child.
Divorce and Remarriage.
The curious things, revealed by the
marriage and divorce records, when
closely studied, have often been re
marked. A line or two which, standing
alone, have little that is suggestive of
romance, sorrow, or humor, may, when
investigated, reveal a story of more ab
sorbing interest than half tho narratives
which pass under the head of fiction. It
is no secret that many of tho most suc
cessful novelists have made a practice of
drawing their characters from real life
and weaving about the actual experi
ence in some humble walk in society a
tale which in most cases passes as en
tirely the product of the imagination.
In these days of publicity for nearly ev
erything that is remarkable in social
life the romance-writer need scarcely be
at a loss to find topics, characters and
plots. A daily newspaper can not fail
to supply in a few weeks enough that is
romantic, tragic and strikingly original
to keop a very ready writer of fiction
busy for years, if he has the capacity to
improve the material which is at hand.
It is only a few weeks nce an attractive
young woman in Chicago was induced
by her relatives to leave her husband on
account of his intemperance. Soon after
ward she Hied a bill for divorce, and in
due time was made a free woman.
While living a her father's house, it
Wits supposed thoroughly weaned from
her discarded spouse, she disappeared
mysteriously ono day, and her parents
were sorely perplexed as to the cause.
In a few days, however, the young wo
man's absence was explained by the re
ceipt of a letter, written by her in a
Southern city, which contained the sur
prising information that she had eloped
with her former uusband, to whom she
had been remarried and with whom she
was now livins happily.
Judge Jennfson, of the Circuit Court
at Detroit, Mich., recently set aside a
decree of divorce granted thirteen yeara
ago, the parties thereto applying for the
order and expressing a desire to try mat
rimony a second time. The Judge, in
granting their petition, prudently ad
vised them to go before a magistrate and
renew their marriage vows, which they
quickly did.
Major Alexander Monroe and Mrs.
Harriet Monroe were married a lew
weeks ago at Findlay, O. They were
divorced in 18G0, since which time the
Major had been traveling in foreign
lands.
A few years ago Prof. John Esputa
was a well-known organist at Wahing
ington, 1). C. His health failing, he
went to Florida, where in 18SI ho com
menced proceedings for a divorce from
his wife Mary. A decree was granted,
ami a few weeks later he instituted a
suit against her for a partition of cer
tain property. This suit was pending
at the capital when the Professor, com
pletely broken in health, arrived in the
city. Remaining at the residence of a
brother-in law for some weeks, he in
sisted one day last summer that a car
riage should be ordered and that he
should be taken to the residence of his
former wife, which he would make his
home. She received him kindly and
cared for him tenderly. After the lapse
of a few days it was decided that the
couple should be remarried. A license
was thereupon procured and the assist
ant pastor of St. Stephen's Church was
ent for, as also Mr. D. E. Cahill, and
in tho evening the marriage service was
performed. Immediately afterward
Mr. Cahill, on the direction of Prof.
Esputa, drew his will, bequeathing his
property to his now lawful wife. He
also signed an order to dismiss the
equity suit against his wife, and placed
it in the hands of Mr. Cahill, who filed
it in court the next morning.
This fall, in Chicago, Virtue Blair
filed a bill for divorce from her husband,
Robert Blair. She had petitioned for a
divorce from him twice before, but each
time returned to him after renewing
their vows of loyalty and devotion and
dismissing the suit. They are well-to-do
people, just beyond middle life.
Chicaijo Times.
Weather Charts for the Southern
Ocean.
The London Meteorological Office has
recently publi-ihed an important series of
meteorological charts for the ocean dis
trict adjacent to the Cape of Good Hope.
These charts, numbering twenty-four,
in twelve pairs, one pair for each month,
are based upon a hundred and forty
even thousand sets of observations,
furnished mostly by merchant ships
traversing this district (between latitude
30 degrees and 50 degrees south of long
itude 10 degrees and 40 degrees east)
and extending over a period of twenty
four years. Among the results arrived
at by an analysis of this immense mass
of data are some which will be of great
practical value to ships navigating this
part of the Southern Ocean.
It is found that the winds and storms
off the seas around the Cape of Good
Hope conform to the "law of storms"
preci-ely as they do in Europe and the
United States, though, of course, the
rotation of cyclone and anti-cyclone is
reversed in the Southern Hemisphere,
and that the rate of progress the Cape
gales usually attain is about twenty-five
miles per hour. The Agulhas current,
running to the southwest off the south
eastern coast of Africa, is shown by
these researches to be about eight de
grees warmer than the neighboring
waters in the same latitude, carrying
the high temperature of 70 degrees to
the thirty-ninth southern parallel, with
a speed varyinsr from forty-six to one
hundred and eight miles a day. The
charts also show that the drift of Antarc
tic ice extends very nearly to the Cape
of Good Hope, and that in the southern
summer the danger to ships making
their passages south of the forty-fifth
parallel is greatly increased. As the
daa show that the rate of sailing was
fastest on the forty-third parallel (that
both north and south of that line the
conditions were less favorable for mak
ing the passage of the Cape) emigrant
and other vessels, which not unfrequent
ly run ice risks by going too far south,
will lose nothing by following the safer
course round the "Cape of Storms."
It is to be hoped that, now the meteor
ology of this region is elucidated for the
benefit of the mariner, a similar series
of charts, based on all the early and
latest observations, may be prepared
for the still more stormy and dangerous
ocean adjacent to Cape Horn. A new
.work ot this kind, embodying the ex
perience of thousands of ships and dis
cussing all obtainable data, is a desider
atum much felt by navizators, and it
t could hardly fail to yield results of great
value to the world's commerce. N. Y.
Ftrald.
.
A provision broker of Chicago, in
conversation with a New Yorker, speak
ing of the stagnation in business, said :
" Why, it is a positive fact that there are
less than two hundred thousand dressed
hogs in Chicago to-day." The friend
replied in astonishment: " Why, I
thought your population something ovet
half million." Boston Traveller.
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PITH AWD POINT.
Walt Whitman exclaims in one of
his poems: "Give me solitude?" Very
easily obtained, sir. Start to take up a
collection for the Washington Monu
ment. Boston Post.
The stage-driver on a mail route In
Arizona has resigned. Masked robbers
have filled him so full of bullets that he
intends to lease himself to parties who
have been prospecting for a lead mine.
The Judge.
Health journals insist upon reposing
on the right side only, and claim that it :
is injurious to lie on both sides, but we
don't know where they will find a
healthier set of men than lawyers. 2b
ledo American.
An old bachelor recently gave the
following toast: "Women the morn
ijjg star of infancy, the day star of man
hood, the evening star of age. Blesa
our stars, and may they always be kept
at a telescopic distance."
Jennie June sighs for a scientific
dressmaker. What is it but science that
calls for twenty-eight yards of goods in
a dress so tight that "the wearer can't
draw a lorn; breath without hearing
buttons fly? Detroit Free Press.
" Did you say, sir, that I looked
like the monkey in that oage over
there," asked Filkinson in angry tones.
"No, Filky," replied Fogg; "I simply
said that the monkey looked like you;
and to tell yon the truth, I don't believe
the brute more than half liked it either.'"
Boston Transcript.
A brother journalist asks us if it
will be too much trouble for us, in cred
iting items from his paper, to add his
name also to the credit. Certainly not,
if the gentleman will kindly add to the
Boomerang credit the number of our
lock box and the casual remark that
this will be a long, cold, dreary winter
to those who do not subscribe at once.
Laramie Boomerang.
A London paper describes an
American girl in that city who "wears a
gown with a flight of embroidered swal
lows, beginning on her left shoulder and
ending at her right foot; and swallows
also fly about he"? parasol." The Amer
ican youth in London is also addicted to
"swallows," but they don't begin on his
left shoulder. They begin under hia
nose and run down his throat. Norris
toivn Herald.
"What I want to know is who
struck the first blow?" said aa Austin
Justice to Jim Webster, who was the
principal witness in an assault and bat
tery case. "Uncle Ike, dah, he hit do
fust lick," replied Jim. "Are you posi
tive that Uncle Ike struck the first
blow?" "Ob course I is. Didn't I see
him reach out and hit de fust lick; but
how many licks he hit befo' dat fust -one,
or how many licks de udder nig
gah hit him fust, am more dan I'se
wiilin' to swar ter." Texas Si f tings.
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.
Within the last twenty-five years the
steam pressures of locomotives have
been increased from GO pounds to over
1G0 pounds to the square inch.
Miss Bettie Green, of Forsyth Coun
ty, Ga., has two silk drosses which sho
made herself, having raised the worms,
spun the silk, colored and woven it with
her own hands.
A gentleman in England has in his
bedroom an electric bell which warns of
any burglarious approach, and an indi
cator showing whether the garden gate,
the hall door or that of the kitchen, or
any one of the windows of the house is
the point of attack. N. Y. Tribune.
With a new apparatus for ascertain
ing the velocity of railway trains, a train
weighing 125 tons and traveling at a
speed of forty-five miles an hour has
been found to run a few feet more than
five miles after steam had been shut off.
The track was level aud the day calm.
St. Louis fihbe.
The gathering of fir cones to obtain
the seed for export is quite an industry
in Puyallup Valley, Washington Tern-,
tory. The cones are dried in the hop
furnacos until the seed fall out, when ft
is packed up and sold for export. Large
quantifies of this seed aro planted in Eu
rope. The fir seeds bring from $5 to S8
por pound. Chicago Times.
A French writer estimates the mini
mum annual consumption of nickel in
England at 500 tons, and places Ger
many second with 300 tons, the United
Stites third with 200, and France fourth
with 100. The Emjinecrinq and Mining
Journal says that, in view of the fact
that in this country nickel-plating has
reached an extensive u.-e nowhere else
approached, not to mention the con
sumption for coinage, this estimate is
probably far below the actual figures.
A writer in the Imlustrial Review
advises the introduction of the bamboo
in the Southern States. Though capa
ble of growing on the uplands, it Is said
to oe especially suited to marshy re
gions, snch as fringe the South Atlantic
and Gulf States. Its uses are numer
ous. As a timber for building and con
struction purposes, for tools, imple
ments, etc., it is well known. As an
article of food its young shoots serve as
substitutes for vegetables, and are pro
nounced delicious. Bamboo curry and
chow-chow are excellent. The growing
plant is invaluable also as a defense
against malaria, sweeping fires, and
cyclones.
At the Sanitary Congress in Eng
land the other day the Hon. F. A. Russell
said that it was found that at a height
about equal to that of the upper rooms,
in a high house a drier climate prevailed
than at lower levels, and with a daily
range not much greater, and much less
cold on the coldest and on foggy nighta
than down below. The practical con
clusions seemed to be that invalids and
delicate persons should generally be
placed in high, sheltered situations, in
the highest rooms of a house, and by no
means on a ground floor; that every
house ought to be built on arches, or
thoroughly ventilated below, and raised
on piers above the ground level.
Extinction of a Family.
A remarkable instance of the extinc
tion of a family has occurred near Rox
ana, N. C. Jacob Evans and his wife
died a year or two ago and left two sons
and two daughters. An unmarried
brother of Mrs. Evans named Taylor
also lived for the most of his time with
the children. A short time ago one of
the daughters, who had marncd mean
while, died. In a little while Taylor
died. In a week or two more the other
daughter died, and was followed to the
grave in a few days more by one of the
brothers. The other brother and only
remaining fragment of the family has
been for some time at the point of death,
though at present is reported better.
These deaths have occurred within the
space of little more than a month. The
' family are said to have been mentally
weak, and when death removed the first
to) rest gave way to melancholy and
died.--North Carolina Paper.