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I 5 h ifc I THE JOURNAL. WEDNESDAY, MAKCI1 2St 1883. Zsttri at tki ?Ntoflct, Cohntts, Hri., u it:al cum autttr. COMING HOME AT LAST. On the proposed removalof the remains of John Howard Payne to this country. .Tfle banishment was o verlbny. But It will soon be past; The man who wrote Home's sweetest song -Is coming' homo at lastl .- Toryara his poor abode was seen In foreign lands alone. And wares have thundered loud between Thls'sln jrer and his own. But he will soon be Journeying To friends acroas the sea: And grander than of any King His welcome here shall be! ' He cannot come with cheerful brow, ' And step of conscious pride; He will not hear the tributes now That fall opvery side; And when we tell him how hl3 rich 'Sad strains our hearts hav? sought, He cannot tell the price at which -The yearning words were bought! .' And silently this man-must come i ; Unto the waiting throng . Who gave a trumpet voice tv Home, Ana thrilled the world with song! .- He wandered o'er the dreary earth, - -Forgotten and alone: He who could teach Home's matchless worth Ne'er had one of his own. 'N'eath winter's cloud and summer's snnr Along thefcilly road. He bore his great heart, and bod none To help him with the load; And wheresoever in his round He went with weary tread. His sweet pathetic song he found Had Hosted on ahead! He heard the melodies it made Come pealing o'er and o'er. From royal music bands that played Before the palace door; He heard its gentle tones of love From many a cottage creep, When tender crooning mothers strove To sing their babes to sleep: -. And wheresoe'er true love had birth This thrilling sorur had flown: . But he.who. taught .Home's matchless worth Had no home of his own! The banishment was overjongr Hut it -will soon be past; The man" who wrote Home's sweetest song iiball-baVe a-hnme at last! And he shall rest.where laurels wave. And fraif rant grasses twine: His'bwcetly kept and honored grave Fhall be a sacred shrine. And pilgrims, with glad eyes grown dim, Wjll fondly bend above .The man who sung the triumph hymn Of earth's divinest love. trittCarieton, in Harper's WetUy. THE TIGER TRAP. Captain Ilarcourt's Adventure In the Teral. A monstrous .tiger had recently ap peared in the Terai, and was making terrible-havoc Srcong the native villages. t If half the stories told of it were true, ' it iuusJ, 'have "traveled by te.egraj.h, or . at least have, gone quicker than any tiger.- ever went before: for it vras de clared by the peasants to have done mischief on the same night in two vil lagB3.fuity:lifty mites apart. The ac coijrits. giveu of Us appearance and hab its were so utterly contradictory as to drive poor Captain Harcourt almost out of his senses; but all agreed in repre- senting this mysterious" beast as the largest, strongest, and most ferocious '"tiger ever seen in that part of India. What a chance for the sporting Cap tain! . The moment they heard that an En- glish burra sahib' (great master) -had come among them, having already killed p'euty of tigers, and meaninjr to kill as many more as "he could, the in habitants of all the ueighboriiigvillages came trooping in a body to Captain - Harcourt's camp to ofler him theirterv- lces m trackinjr down the tijrer, and. to bo mm to ma! ake an end of it as soou . as possible. This was just what our hero would have been very glad to do; but howev er anxiqas the Qaptain might be to see the tiger, the tiger did not seem at all eager to sec the Captain. One n igbt . almost have though: that some one had warned the le:ist of his coming, and that it wa-s keeping out of his way on purpose. One day passed two days three days. The Englishman and his Hindoo guides. scoured the forest in every di " lection, but not a sign of the beast could they see. and Captain Harcourt, enraged by'-liK d'sappointnient, was almost as savage as the tiger itself. But on the morning of the fourth day things took a better turn. An old hunt er ime into the ramp who had actually se-n the tiger but a tew hours before, and was ab t not only to give a pretty exact account of how it looked, but even to tell wlierea outs it was likely to be met with. I'eore the man had sot half wav ihiousrh hi- storv Ca t:iin ! Harcourt s'ji ang Horn his seat, and t l'ingng h!s cap right up into a big tree I overhead, .lanced frantically round and . round tin tent, singing at the top of his voice a verse. from "one of his tavorite songs- A pork barrel's n.ce when you'ie hungry at si a But a well-loadedguu-barreJ's nicer to im; A bright jvllow primrose looks sweet. If you will. ' -But a blight y.-llow tigc-r looUa prettier . The Captaiu and his new ally lost not a Moment in starting off into the forest. : toward the spot where the tiger had ueen just seen; urn aimougn luey saw piemy 01 ty of the mat round paw-marks , li it had left no tiger was to be i ... evwi tLese mice8 Uis ! Which foun appeared, and Harcourt furious at the thought of losing thU splendid chance, sent his attendant to scour the forest on t' e lc t. while ho hini-olf struck" oil' to thcrifflit The Captain had nit one far before ' he came upon a vcrv curious strttc ure ol bain oos laid cloe together whS might have been taken lor x hu ex- eet.tthat it haf no chimnev. an.l an-' parcnth no door c.tlicr. But on ihe farther side lie at length disco ered a fcquarc opening quite big enough for him to creep through, alio- e wh.ch. as if ready to fall and .lose the opening, hung a strong heay plank, kept m place by a cord of iwi-ted bark. The moment the Ca tain saw th s lie knew that the seeming hut was really a tio-er trap. ,t ' jo Then he was suddenly strn k with the idea of hiding hini'-elf close by, waiting unt'l the tiger came to sniff . around .the ba.t, and then shooting it But he'oro doing so lie thought it 'just there ws anv bait for the tier to sniff at for the in:.le of the trap was so dark thai lie cou'd sec nothinjr from without a wen u creep in, aim make sure that In he crawled, and had )ust made out a fine quarter of buffalo beef tied to a stake, when a load snap was heard, and dou u .am; the hang'ing plank, like a window sash, right over the entrance. The Captain's head had touched the cord that worked it an.l he had trapt ed Price. Mr. B hjuself insteatl of the tiger. fc - 11. trcely because . -ust at tne lirstmomcntCaptain-Tfar-court w:w more inclined to laugh than to be djstun ed. hut he soon saw that it was mi laughing matter. The plank tilted so c autlyinto thcopening that he tried in an to lift it. and its fall had left h.m so comnlelclv in th dKrt- Hm i,a could hardlv see'his own lmml Tn,0 hu was (jtiue sate irom the tiger, for the in- -nueavors to lorco prices up. bamb:o polos were &o close ton-ether 1,8 iscaUed buUing' the market. that neither tooth nor claw coul3 find "?Uen tue "bears." those who believe any hold upon them. But if the tiger t"lltan advance is not warranted, sell .. could n it get in, just as little could the ! "Mtures ' freely, and unless the . Captain get out j "bull" speculator has seen further There he was imprisoned. Fret mto e future than they have, he loses again-t it as he would, he had fallen into an the.v mke money, .a trap for a ferocious wild, least and The whole..uestie isajyery perplex . Jiow long he mght remain there was a ins: one, loth in a le"l and ui a moral - uestion that co Id not be answered, point of Tiew. It is'to be feared'tbat. True, he had plenty of food, But it was after alj, the line between what is pot of a kiud that suited his taste, and proper and what is improper must .be no one had thought of providing water drawn by public sentiment so as toen- - or anything else that could be drunk. courage all legit' mato trading and evem On- chance, however, still remained, speculation, but to repress gambling. The bamboos were dry and sapless, and Youths' Companion j . might not be proof against the edge -of 1 , , "m the broadrbladed hunting-knife at his" A man named MUkr.at Dearer, side. Anyhow, tho chance was worth hangs about the lew grooreries asd die trying, so to work he went reputable nlacea of th to, . mA mmYmm i...- ..-.- - . r --..,, - --..-.. AA.. He had been cutting Ynl Knin Skilled eVIT? lAr CtTr away for some cX? 1 t-,J A ..!!. nAnoMamltln ume, ajiu uau uiuuc, wku m"p - .difficulty, a hole just wiae enougn to - ftntstltag &ad a crackling n Bet&ickef; and out into the clearing - :r ke-a"" mon strous tiger, in which b a pale, yel low skin and crow-stripe -'awk rec ognized the famous '"n 'water " de scribed by the Hindoo, .ich he had hunted so long in . vain. , All the Captains prudtnee was gone in a moment Instead of waiting until the tiger eame right up to the trap, as it was sure to do on. scent "ng prev, he thrust his rifle through the cleft and let fly. As a matter, of courso he missed the head, and only hit the fore-shoulder. l The wounded monster gave a roar that shook the air. and darted toward the cage like an arrow;; and the terrible teeth and' claws began to enlarge the hole cut by theCaptaln with a speed that madenis"bI6odrun'calil. No time to reload now. Harcourt fluog.down his useless ride, and. seiz ing bis hunting-knife, slashed and stabbed like. a madman at the grinning xnuzale and great yellow, paws. But. although every gash drew blood freely, the monste continued to .crunch and tear the bamboos until there was room for its head to -pass 'through; then fol lowed one foresaw, and then the other; and Harcourt, giving up all hope of escape, set his .teeth savagely, and drew himself together for a struggle to the death. , But just then the crack of a rifle echoed from the thicket, and the trger. in the very act of springing, reared up and fell back dead. In another mo ment a broad, sun-burned visage peeped through the 'gap.jaud a hearty ' oice. which Harcoujt'cognized as that of an old dragoon 'officer who was one of his special friends, shouted: "Hellow, Jim! have the tigers been shutting you up in a menagerie, by way of a change? Well, you've got yonr cage and your food: why don't yon be gin to sing?" "I'd have begun to sing out long ago.1' answered Harcourt; ' if I'd known' that anybodv was within 'hearing; but if you "hadn't come up when von did. old boy, ray singing would have been stopped once for all.-" From that time forth, however, it was noticed' that Captain Harcourt always made haste to change the subject when anv one besran to sneak of tierer-lrans. IIarpeT?.s Young people. -. . ' Dealing in "Futures." Very 'much is" said nowadays about dealing in "futures," and severe con demnation is visited upon the practice, and upon men wlio engage in it per haps, in s me cases, by persons who do not take in all the facts, or fully un derstand what is meant by the word Tutu res.". The phrase "dealing in futures" sig nifies the act of buying or selling for future delivery.. 1o illustrate: Suppose iron is to-day sealing at twenty-five dol lars s. ton. An irnn-TnflTrhmt op i J speculator! for some reason that seems a goou one to aim, comes to tne conclu sion that the demand for iron is to increase, and. that the price will be higher. . ith this .view, he goes to an other iron merchant and agrees to buy of him a thousand tons of iron, to be delivered in April, .and be also agrees to pay twenty-five and a half dollars a ton for it This kind of trade, in its simplest form, is of the very essence of modern business mcthodsand can no more be discontinued than can the running of railroads. Of course it " involves' the purchase by one Darty of what he does not at present need, and the sal by the other of -that which he does not possess. " - But let us look at the matter practi cally. During the summer mouths, wholesale boot and shoe dealers from all over the country come to Boston to buy their goods. The manufacturers have made up sets of samp.es. Show ing these to the visiting merchants, they take orders to sell boots and shoes like the samples shown, for future de livery for the summer buying: is for the coming winter and spring trade. In this case the shoe manufacturers sell goods for which they have not yet even bought the material. And their practice which is absolutely necessary, for they could not a&ord to ho'd g ocu six months is in the fullest sense dealing- in futures. Then take the other case of a pur chase. The treasurer of a cotton mill knows that he will need a certain num ber of ba es .f cotton for use each ra?Jin- . r'J carenwy lntonuiug him- month SBUf a,3 h? 3UPIiOSe3. to the cotton croP' "e ha3Cora to the conclusion that co'ton .wlU .be worth in JuQe a price than the present quoted price for June del very. Accordingly he buys five hundred bales to be delivered in that month. If be is successful in his forecast, he makes'more money for the stockholders of his corporation than he would have made had he waited until he actually needed the cotton. In 'fact, knowing when to buy aad when to sell is of the utmost importance in our modern commerce. And as it would be not only unjust, but incon sistent, to .make a law allowing men to buv for future delivery what taey wiU need bv and bv. but forbidding men U sel1 wat hev have not on hand it will be seen that it is not possible to stop all dealing in "futures." Yet it can not be denied that there are great evils con reeled with thi fL - 1 Ine ,saIea ol wae i ,ChhJC!f ,Were f gW W-holV .amouMt ,of " which was rece.ved m the city Millions of ..T were uSnt a.na soul oy men who never really owned one bushel of wheat This wa speculation pure and simple. The speculato s merelv made bets that wheat would rise or" fall in : price An enormously large part of this 'so-called trading was done on "margns"' the speculators paying only so much of the price of what they bought or sold as might be necessary to cover possible losses. 1 hither speculating on margins can ever be stopped by law is a question that can not l.e discussed now. But it should be seen that it is a question en tirely separate from that of "futures." For the speculator mav oneratn on & maroin wflen there is an actual delivery ? goods by the seller: and he may trade m mtures without depositing a margin. Another point to be noticed is that in S6116. th speculation in mtures does P1 injuriously affect prices. Where ere 1S a buyer there is a seller. Mr. DUJ'S v'beat "options" freely be- J,e thinks grain is fo advance in tells wheat futures'1 he thinks the nrim i tn ucame. , That is to say, there are speculators "on both sides of the "market." If there arc more buyers than sellers, that is because the general judgment is that wheat "s to advance; and the reverse is true when sellers ae in a majority. But Sllnnose s ma man with tamre But . - .- - - o- . m a CnimnrtaKla tttrtmv 'Wtr - .... b Jr ttgamsi me 'nmtM g gets two dollars ae Youths' Department A BHTME ABOUT BABIES. Here and there, her an there. Babies, babies everywhere Copper-colored, waste and brown. In toe woods and In tbe town. Far towards tae Northern pole Idttle babie romp and roll Ijttle baby Esquimaux In a world of loo and snow. In a sunny island home. Where the jrreat ships go and coma, Babies frolic In the breeze. Underneath the orange trees. Where the starry heavens spaa Waving- palms of Hindostan In theXand of gem and silk Babies sip the coooarinUk; Flay with ivory rings and balls By. the ;f earf uf nountaiA walls ; c Bide ,w.th baby merriment On a tall, tame elephant Little Chinese babies, too. Waar Che Chang and Chi Chuna- Loo, Look la Mbyish surprUs From their narrow aimoad-eyjjs; Lean aa little babies en To bold their cbopicka. wave their ran. To eat their plate of snowy nee. And now ana theaa'roaat of mice. Fngilsh babies sweet and fair; Germans with soft, flaxen hair; Bark Italians with mamma . Floating In a goadtIa. Babies diamond, pearl and opal, Fnm Norway down to CioJlaatinople: Precious Jewels every pne. The dearest things twaeath the sun. But which of all that I hava'told is sweetest, deoraat. Just pur gold Made of auay mingled oharsas? Why, of course, the baby lu'my arms, -Mn. Jf.F. mtU. in TvlK'JJomfmiQ4 WHAT BLTJSLE TURNED INTO. Blusle wanted to be bad think of that! She bated to' be good, and she despised prims," She told Paulina so close to -her ear, in a violent :whis per. It might have broken Paulina's heart to -hear her say such dreadful' things only that she hadn't any heart to break. Perhaps that is one reason why dollies never do have .hearts to save them from suffering mental anguish when their little mammas fly into a tempest and say dreadful things to them. And perhaps the -reason why dollies haven't any nerves is to save them from suffer ing physicalianguish when their mam mas get -into a passion and throw aad bang them about - On dollies! never wish to be alive! You are better off as you are, without life or feeling or hearts or nerves. If Blusie's dolly had had a heart and ,the.n,6 course,she'd had some brains to fi with it well, if she had "had, I think lusie wouldn't havesa'd all the things she did say to her. She would have been ashamed to. for she said many more-cross, naughty things to Paidina than I have told you oh! many, many more.. She said even more than usual lately, for Blusie was'staying with some very prim folks. ..She told Paulina they were "very prim folks," so we'll let ft go that, they were prim, though I never particularly noticed it myself. rv en, meae pniu peouiu ineu o.uaic arcauiuuy so sue ioia rauuna. And when you are tried, of course you are apt to feel cross; and if you don't dare say the cross things you feel to the I ig folks,' for fear of getting punished, who else can you say them to but dolly? That is about the way Blu ie felt on the su ject though she'd never thought it al out in words, this way. She only just felt it You see, Blusie's mamma was sick; she had 'gone a long way- off for her health, and the-e 'prim 'folks' were taking care of Blusie until her mamma got well enough to come home again. This morning Miss Gregory called Blusie back after she had got clear out to the barnyard to see the new little calf fed. She said: "Now, Blusie, come right back and fold up your napkin. anu put u in tne nog, uuu pick up J A. a. Al T m - your oiD-apron on irom iue noor, anu ! ." . - . ll fold it and lay it over the back ol your chair." That's why Blusie called Miss Grego ry a prim in dollie' s ear. Just for that little reason making her pick up and put away her owu things. About an hour afterwards the other 'Miss Gregory found Hlusie's 1 est sum mer hat trimmed with white ribbon and' white curling feathers, laying right on the parlor floor. Jt had een there all night just where Blusie 'bad flung it, when she came home from the matinee the afternoon efore. So the "other Miss Gregory" called in Blusie. This time ?he was clear across the street, in Annie Sutherland's yard sitting under a tree, playing have a party, with Annie. Blusie was not used to picking up her own things at home at all. She always ,left them on the lloor and Janet or the 'mamma picked them up. But the mamma had privately told the Misses Gregory, before she went 'away, that if they could, by any man ner of means, break .Blusie of this habit of throwing her things around, she would be very grateful to them. She, the mamma, had neither the strength nor patience to do it herself. Well, Blusie felt very indignant to be called in a second time that morning just to pick something off from the floor. She flew into a regular passion. She snatched up that best bat of hers bv one of the ribtons, rushed to the foot of the stairs, and just tiung the hat up. instead of carefully carrying it up stairs and putting it away in the band-box, as Miss Gregory had told her to do. Wasn't that shocking? her best hat! Miss Gregory was even more shocked than most people would be, for she was not very much used to little girls, and she'd never even heard of one like this. But she did not sc ld; she just led Blusie up-stairs. made her pick the hat up again and put it away in tbe band box, and then she told Blusie she must stay up there alone until she felt like being a better-behaved gin. Blusie was very angry at first, and that's how she came to be talking away it is so dark that 1 have to strike by so hard to Paulina that morning tell- wood-chopper's instinct' He would inor her how she wanted to be bad, and not let me assist him, for he had at hated to'be good, and all that sort of tained that age when a Southern gentle thing. I man takes great pride in accompTshing But Blusie never staid angry very ' a feat alone. It seemed as though the long, and pretty soon she began to be " tree would never fall. The old man's ashamed of all the bad things she'd ' strokes became lighter, for his strength said to Paulina. She wished she had ' not said them, and she was glad no bodv but Paulina heard her. So she whisnerpd in Paulina's ear: "I didn't mean any of the things I said to you. Polly; I don't want to be bad; I'd either. And, of course, it is awful to throw your best hat up-stairs.'' Then Blusie went and leaned over the balusters, and shouted: "I feel like being a better-behaved girl mw. Miss " Grefory. May 1 come dSwn now?"' I xf?c-"":T.i i.,Vo.i ,.t the fiirMisj Grccrorv. and smiled, and then she an . J ... . .. - I swered "Yes." and Blusie came down. Blusie stayed with the -Misses Greg ory for nearly three months, and every time she left anything thrown around one of the Misses Gregory was sore to discover it and Blusie always had to come in, no matter' bow busy she was at her play, and put it away. She found it was not a bit of use to get angry she bad it to do. So. like a sensible girl, tor the first time in 4er life, she tned to be careful. And she got oh so well, wben once he began to try, that she soon became almost as orderly as the Misses Greg ory themselves. And when, at hut she went heme, shewes es the most orderly person in the 1 . and her father called her "Little ! house Prim' just for fun, yon know. Ajed so, you see, Blusie herself tamed into "a prim." Bat I think it a gortfi tnisw ralher be n-oort. and men we can fro out and play. And I guess Miss Gregory i head, and the other Miss Gregory ain't prims down What to Do in Case of Fire. The papers have lately told us of a number of distressing deaths by tire. Great hotels and warehouses have sud denly burst into sheets of flame ia the night and frantic . people have either perished in the ureaduil blaze or. throwing themselves from windows, have been "dashed to pieces in the street 1 hope that none of my young fr'ends may ever have to pass through .o awf 1 an experience. But if on .-hould ba surprised, at night or in the daytime, by the presence of smoke in your room db not lose your wits if jou can help it .Remember at such a mo l-ent that al- though-3'ou are In great danger, there are friends near who will try, if possi ble, to come to your assistance L'o not open doors or windows wildly, and waste no precious moments in standing and screaming for help. Instead, think if you ( an of the stra;ghtest way out, quickly wrap a thick shawl or blanket around you, covering your head and your hair,- and then cree'p pa your hands and knees to the door or the stairway. There is always air to breathe near the' floor. If you are in the room with others, and a lamp is upset or lome floating drapery takes frre, recollect that you must smothe the names by throwing a rug on them, pulling eurta;us or hang ings down, and covering them with a carpet or a quilt, or in some similar way stop the current of air on which fifefeedsrif a. child's apron catches from the grate or stove"; wrap a shawl or blanket about the little creature pi ompt ly, an.l. roll her on the floor ' You can not be too careful with re- ?ard to matches candles and lamps, 'hose of you whose home are lighted with kerosene or other oils1" should ask the person who takes t are of the lamps always to fill 'them in the morning, nev er doing so after nightfall. A properly filled lamp is not likely to explode. Servants should be warned to be ex tremely careful in the use of kerosene. They should not be allowed to pour it npon-tbeir-kindiuiK-wood in order jto light a fire quickly. Make it a rule never to tride with fire, which is a great comfort in its .proper place, but a dread ful foe when beyond our control. Harper's Young People, What the Prince of -Wales Might - Do. The outlook -before the Prince of Wales is-not-particularly briljiant At forty-two .a man gets" weary of the eternal rqund of society, and it .may be belieyedand hoped that the Prince is sick of the e iipti'-headed "set" of tho past, and that bear-tights between his butts aud buffoons, Aylesfords, Cron mels. t-tc., have ceasedto have charms for him. But the career open to the eld -st son of a Dnk is closed to him. Nothing, as matters stand, 'can change his nosition save the abdication or death of the Queen. Indeed, he is even worse off than his bro hef-in-law in Oermany, since .he has at least actively and honor ably partcipated in real life in the s army, from which the Prin-e of Wa es ! is ketitbackbv etiocctte and condemned to pass his days in christening steam- boats, naugurating docks and opening new wings of hospitals delightful tasks, d ubtless. yet which, neverthe less, must after a' while be apt to pall, and we can well imagine that a vista of some twenty years more passed in that fashion may be ridt altogether cheering. And yet the ueen is quite likely to live as long as that, ami those who know her well assert that she will ne er re sign- lobe Queen is." in fact, a -confirmed habit with her, acquired very early and likely to be held on to up tc the last, for we" don't lay aside habit: as we grow old. if the Prince gets dis contented with having in fact no career worth the name until he reaches sixty two, he may, perhaps, yet astonish the world by a startling new departure, and i no one could Help him toward one - . ; - bet- ter than . a statesman who has given so man in his time as Mr. Gladstone. Suppose, for example, as these two pace the Sauds at Cannes some after noon this week, the Prin e were to say: " I'm sick to death of this playing at work. 1 want to .have some share in political life. Can not something: be found lor me?" -and the Prime Minis ter replied- "Well. sir. unless we could make some arrangement by which you could be permanent Viceroy of Ireland 1 ?ee nothing:, and I suppose you would not do that." and then the Prince were to rejoin: " Wouldn't I? I'd be de lighted to do it, and take my chance of dynamite and daggers with the rest. If Spencer lan stand it, why can't I? Even if am kille ? there are the bovs, Alfred and Arthur." Whv. in this case, we can imagine tnat manager Gladstone might produce another of those startling transformation scenes which the public has learned to expect from him. Windsor Castle "would frown, but the country an I her colonies woul 1 cry 'Hooray for a plucky. Prince. Only give him the chance and'you see he "is as brave an his brother-in-law Fritz." A', r. Times. Died of a Short Tree. Several days ago Mr. .George Webley, oue of the most promising young plant ers in Arkausaw, came to the city, bringing the "'-ad intelligence of hid father s death. 'The old man. you all remember, was one of the most noted 'possum. hunters ' in the Mate. The other night when It was so dark that a black hat. thrown up into the air. would hae looked like hutwer's luminous shadow, the dogs ireed. 1 begged the old man not to go, but he straightened himself up, gave me a kind of ante-bellum look and wanted to know if I were a fool. He left the house, and after he had been one about two hours, I became uneasy and started out to look for him. I fo ml the old man chopping on a tree about four feet thick. ' it's a coon, aud I know he's up here.' the old man said. Thi tree would have been down by this time, but was nearly exhausted. 1 he dogs stood around and whined. They looked to me as though they were lying and had only 'treed' to please the od man Finally the enormous tree creaked and siowiy ion a stump, cxmnmng oniy a few inches higher than the old man' s The tree had been chopped during high water and the poor old man naa cnopped down i a big stump, ay tms time day light was breaking, and wben light came sifting down among the .branches of neighboring trees, the old fellow ? neignoonn trees, me oia lenow looked at the ftump. turned away and went home. He had just lost his third iiiifn nml Htrt hrhin fir Tn.nn11tr Hiit! and had borne the stump disappointment killed him." .. , uuv. j.i.1 uw. uu ,. U.MU.UI.,, vry- Arkansaw TrmvclUn The description of George Cole man,, who worked a bogus draft on a bank in Dallas, Tex., said that he had an ink-mark on the back of his right hand. A man was suspected by the New York police some time ago .as beinir Coleman, but be kept bis nand gloved so the marks could not be seen, j A detective was set on his track aad be ' was dogged for a month or more, and a few nights since was rewarded by see ing him take his glores off while in a theater. The marks were there, and he .was promptly arrested and shipped to Texas. & Y. Herald. - ' A number of Stockton (Ore.)' boys were arrested a few days age while en gaged in playing poker aad aheidng dice in the steenie nf'thn f neirrarialasl mi rn-iTr-n, wmiee xaaummmm USEFUL AND SCCWE8TITE. I think we couldn't better employ spare time than by filling up the waste places of our farms with timberfor fut ure growth. L'tica (Ar. 1'.) Herald. I know one poultry raiser who feedi liens a little cooked meat every day, and I think it pays. Where one has plenty of milk for the hens, no meat will 'be needed. Kunsas Ft inner. A good .way, to remove dust from a carpet is to fasten a damp cloth over the broom; witli this tho dust may be literally taken up. This will be found useful in the sick-room, aud also in any room where there are many small arti cles to catch dust It brightens a car pet to wipe it'bff in this way even after the usual sweeping has been done. Ar. Y. fVf. " - l President Chadbourne, who has been a tea.-her all his best days, ad vises farmers not to semt their sons to college; home on land is not only the best place for a'boy to live, but best for leanrng. Encourage the study of the innumerable things to be seen and ob served there. But if found to be deter mined to acquire more of aspecial collegi ale knowledge, it is we'l then, and only then, to permit his going. A. Y. Trib une. Fall wheat can be easily changed in to spring wheat. If rye or wheat is sown iah) in the fall, so" that it does not appear at all. it will grow in the spring and mature the crop. If it is sown wry early in the spring, so that it will e iroen alter it has sprouted, it will do the ame. and the grain thus grown will be a spring wheat Gats and wheat can not.be sown together very well; the oais make a strong growth and croyvd the wheat put Uostou 'Iranscript. Los-; of Mane and Tail: The falling out of the hair is usually paused by a diea-'oof the" skin by which the hair follicles in the epidermis become inac tive. " T rest orq thi'in tho skin may be washed w fh warm water aud soap and ni'ihed gwitly with a tough cloth or a liesli-br'-.sh. "'As" soon as the skin is tlripd sponge the sk'm with aHiout ono ounce of the following mixture: Water,' one' miit; tincture of cantharides, one drachm":" glvoerine, two ounces. Give the horw'ti pint ofiinseed oil, andeer the digestive organs in good order. A". 1. j inies. How Western Fanning Pays. Whether they go West or not Eastern farmersare inferesied in knowing the value and yield of Weslern farm prod ucts. The Wesf ern farmer's life is quite ditietent and no less laborious than that of his Eastern brotlu r In the first place he i mightily stim ulated to work by the size and needs of his-larm. hy the " oss bilities of increas ing 'N pro.luctinu aud value, and by the rapid actions of h s neighbors. Work, work, work, an immense amount of it. Mares him in the face all the year round. Hs haayy farm work opens early in March, aud from that fme till Thanksg.ving. or even till Chrstmas, his work presses heavily upon him. Its or er t abed as follows: Sowing wheat and oats, plowing for corn, rolling the wheat and o.it hinds, planting the orn. roli ng. harrowing plow'nsr it, hay "ng. liar est in the wheat and oats and per haps arlcy. stacking, threshing, fall plowing and corn picking. During the winter he will have nothing to do but loo'c a'tcr his large herds of cattle and other stock, prov.de fuel, aud market his corn and grain. It is during this period th it the children go to school and the '.oimg fellow takes his girl sleigh-rid'ng. and old and young turn out to attend the"- spelling" school. A period of partial rest, pleasure and ex uberance of spirits, for your Western farmer is full of dry humor, and a lover of good hone-t jikes. He usually owns 1 sii)-acres (a quarter seet'on) of" land, keeps about four good horses, and hires a man to help him, unless he has a boy ten years old or a little more who is equal as most boys of that age are to tho management of a team. Xo'WVstern farmer ever speaks of one horse as a tufn. Nor will you see one man in a hundred driving a s.ngle hor-e. His usual cotive3:ini e is a sub sta'itial Tour-wheeled wagon with two or four "horses attached, while, on Sun days, hi trots more briskly aioug be hind his uvll-fed team, in a buggy. Western horses are well-kept and are. as a rule, cons'derablv larger and flesh ier than the farm hoists of .New En gland. Plenty of oats corn ami goul hay tell the .story The Western farmer has less small jobs an! putterings ai'iiiinit than his Eastern brother; though the little jobs which he does have t do vex him sorely and are oft complaiued of. But most of his work he does in a large, generous way. He puts in sixty aeies or wheat- anil as much of corn. He buys au additional eighty acres and turns it into a pasture for his colts and cattle, he gets up earli. foods well, for almost without exception he is a gen eruiis provider. .Much goes to waste in doors ami out. but he would rather have it this way than be called n:ggardly. lieef an ! "pork, turkeys and chickens, butter and eggs, llour an I vegetables, all these. are products of his nwn farm. No wonder thai he provides well. His hired man would leave it not ted mi a generous diet of I eel good bread, chicken, eggs. Iteit of butler, cheese, vegetables mid fruit. lies an epicure, .? this Western hired man, who will be a farmer himself in live years more. And the hired girl has her ideas jf things, and high and exacting they often are, the supply doe not equal the demau I, and she" is well aware of t It lact Uut despite these drawbacks the Western farmer gets ahead. The signs of thi-. are evident in improved fences, iu l-etter brn-, in a new, larger, and more onunodious house aud in the ar raug. ments of crops and machinery, and iu the iiicrea-ing numbers ot his stock, lie raises all the way from ten 'o thirty bushels of wheat and" thirty-live to sixty-live of corn to the acre, aeeord-iii- to'lhe'varviiij; conditions of soil and weather. "Jo feeds Ins lam.iiy iiiaini from what he raises. He has a good surplus of corn and grain to sell, oitcn fimes some hay and. if he be a well managing tanner he h:is a goodly num ber of hogs and fat steers to put upon the market, at good price. In theso is his profit, when he can sell his hogs for six cents and his steers for live cents a pound as they stand; ho is making a tine percentage upon money invested in them. But his property is steadily rising in value, lie uotigui lor ten uoi lars or five dollars, or if he was an original settler one dollar and twenty five cents per aero. Now, being well fenced and well mproved, aud having good buildings, and being reasonably near to a large village anil the railroad it is worth forty or fifty, or possibly sixty dollars per acre. And the man who surveys a half section of good land thus improved, free of debt, and who has large n. mbers of horses, lattle and hogs, is an independentman and on the road to wealth; whose condition is more enjoyable than that? Such a man. sit ting'down in his maturer years to enjoy the fruits of his toil, frugality and fore sight He has now a pleasant healthy lite, younger feet run and younger shoulders bear the burdens, but he plans and oversees. He is much abroad, he has money to spare and knows how and when and" where to turn it to the best accoiur. He has time to enter the political field, or to intro luce new ma chinery, and new and improved breads of stock. His judgment carries weight. He fills out a large and honorable man hood. If now he is the noblest type of man and the West has not a few such he becomes .a'grcat blessing to his family and, tbe community in which ho dwells and docs what he can in thn in terests of education and of religion. He has made himself a large place and filled it to the best of his ability. Muz- $4cAuxtts ploughman. TRAVEL ONLY VIA -xni IBLMIfcitBIUAILB'AI KXOWX AS FOR AU. POINTS EAST AND WEST. Daily Express Trains are now run to Chicago, Omaha & Denver Via LINCOLN, AMI BRTWEKX KaMaMCIl . Atc-liUoB A IKBrer. 2i:YIKK.S riMlV Uully - BETWEEN- OMAHA AND LINCOLN. AH Throiiijli Trains are equipped with new ami elejjMM Pullman Palace Cars. 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FISHBLATT, OF THE OMAHA MEDICAL DISPENSARY, OX ACCOUNT OF HIS Immense Practice in Columbus, Nebraska, WILL MAKE 1IIS NEXT VISIT On Saturday, Apil 14th, 1883. AND WILL ltK.Yl.US ONE DAY AT THE CI.OTHEM HOUSE, WHERE HE AN BK CONSULTED ON THE THROAT, and LUNGS, CATARRH, KIDNEY AN1 i:LliL'R Nt FKUAt.K IHiTOASKS. A-t WELL A ALL CHUONIC ANI NEUVOUS DISEASES. DR. FISHBLATT II" di.icov.Ted the greatest cure in the world for weakne-.. .f the bade and iimlu, involuntary discharges. itnpoi-ncy. general debility, iiervou-nes-, ltnsjuor, coufu--ion of idea-., palpitutiou o:"tln heart, timidit.-. trembling, d nincsi of sl-iht or silddi nes., diif !t.rs of the head, throat, uo.e. or kin. mtcctious of tin- Is or, litinra. -.torn-ach or bowels those icrril.l,- itNnrder; -tri-dii from iolit:iry hildHof ynur.'i, and secret practices luoie fnlal to the virttnii than the song, of Syrens tlhe mariner-, of Clvs-.cs, liliiitlnir thir :nt radiant hoin-nor Hiiticittilir.m. rciul.-rin-r mirri.ivre im- posnihle. Thote that are suffering from the evil practice, which de-troy their mental and phy -ileal y.-teiiis c.iiitiiii; .NERVOUS DEBILITY, the iyniptoms of which are n dull. di-tre-.ed mind, which unliU theui from perform in'; iheir Ini.iiness mid social duti.-, tn.ilce- happy marriage impossible, distreies the action ot the- heart, causing rtuhe- ol heat, depression of spirits, evil foreboding-, cowardice, fears, dreams, rc.-lie. i.ijjlit.-, dlziiies, tnict mines-., unnatural dN-eharj-r.., pain in the back and hip-, short brcathiu;, melancholy, tire ea-lv of com pany and have? pittfereuee-to be alone, feelinj: as tired in the tiioruitiu'a-. when retiring, -euiinal vveakiu'-. lo-t manhood, white bone deposit in the urine, nervoita-ne.-... i.oufii-inu of thought, irrtutdiu;, water v and weak eyes, dy-pep-ia. constipa tion, paleness, pain and weakiirs- in the limb-, etc., .-uoul.t -on-ttll tne iuiiucdi-itetv and be restoied-lo perfect health. YorXCJ MEN Who have become victim- of -oht irv vie-, that ilrculful and destructive htl-it which annually .-weep- loan uiiiiin-ty -ifive timu-.tiid- of yoruii me.i of evalted talent add brilliant intellect who nuIii otlt rwi-e entrance li-teuiiK -en itot- with the thunders of their elciietn-e or wake to pc.-tacy the living Ivie. in iv call with full coiiiidencc. MAKKIAGE. .Married per.-on- or yoiiu; uiii conicuiplatin; in irriae !. .iw.nv of phy-ictl weasne.-s. lo of piocreati pi-w e- . iinpoten. y.er anv othef di-i'Ualil!culion -peed-ly relieved. He wlu pticc- him-c't im.ler th. cueot !V. Ei-'iid itt mtv reli;init-ly contide in hi, honor a- n euiLuiaii. and coniidentlv ivlv upon his -kill a pliy.-ieiau. OKGAXAL WEAKNESS immediately cured and full vi:or restored. Thi- distressing affliction which ren ders life a burden and marriage iinpn ible. i- the penalty paid by thvietin for improper indulgence. You in: people are apt !i commit i-vces-e- trcm not beint; aware of the dreadful eouset-uence- that in ay en-iie. Now vvn th it understands this subject will deny that procreation i- lo-t.-ooiwr !v th -: filling into improper habits than by prudent? Heide beimr deprived of the plea-ure of hilthy oil-.-prius, the most eriou and destructive -ymptoin- of both nun! and body arise. The system becomes ikrangtl. the phv-icaland in.-nti! function- weiken. "l.o nt procrealive powers, nervous irrit.iiiiutv , dyspepsia, palpi a ion of the heart, uuli-j;e.-tiou, constitutional debilitv. wa.-tiuot I hi frame, eoujih. co-i.-iimptiou and death. A Cl'KE WARRANTED. Persons ruined in health by unl.Mrncd pretender-, who ke-p them triil.ii-: in.uitii after mouth taking poisonous and injurioti- co-.npound-. -Iioutil toply uu uedi.it Iy. DR. FISHBLATT irradiiate of one of the most eminent collefie- of the t'nitrd State-, ha- effected -omc ot ihe.mo-t a-tonisbint; cure- that vveie ever known; man tro:i'i.d with rJ:iuj:ii Hie car- and head when a.-lei-p. rrent nervou-ne--. hem-: al irut.'d .1! cert ij -otiu.l-. Willi frequent blushing, atteu led suitnne- with deramre.neut of lite mind were cured immediately. TAKE PARTICULAR NOTICE. Dr. P. addicsses all those who have aud solitary habits which ruiu both mind studv. society or marriage. These are some of the sad. melaucholy effect produced by the early habits of youth, viz: Weakness of the back and limbs, pain- iu the head and diuinc-.- of stent, loss of muscular power, palpitation of the heart, dyspepsia, nervous irritabil ity, derangement of digestive functions, debihty, consumption, etc. Private Offices,over Omaha National Bank,Omaha,Neb. CONSULTATION FKKE. Charges moderate and within the reach of all who need Scientilic 3fcdic.il Treatment. 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