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lnSfcM'iPA.agll.l W lT3fc.tg)BUe. Fa "I -.: tj-y , THE JOURNAL. ISSUKD KVKRY WKDJIKSDAY, M. Iv. TURNER & CO., Proprietors and Publishers. tino rJM-iT T" T V f "T IS &jlJ! S? " af -s; n. iT 'v 'smr: .ic . )o LFBaahieee and profeeslbaal cards orial!Mor lesa, per -sjawsar ire dollars,;,. . a EV Tor Uaae adTertisesaeata, apply 't'Uaaoafce." -J '. 1 - H .jia ynV ci: . ' - -" -.e' ci ,' oTXetal dYsrtlaesneaUat aUUe -iMTf.rtraiieUat aAvartiainff, see 't ? OM. . .; ('KOr.' I f :- f vin -jj f Z2S OFFICE. Eleventh St., ?'" in Journal Building. Mr. Mti.f U1V..1 i f' if csJOUi. tkrms: Per year Six mouths T uree months . Siuglc copies . sa: T "' :'H VOBXIVNOfti- C3i.MIl! II tttMesalftUa: COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 1883. -r .1 r::m6i$mzm:i "All advertisements payable S Ht u, r . .y frty yt-..-.. v 1 i. T 11 - . 'tiyix, 1 - oj '.-JBaaaaanW B' aaaaaai (Mr it 1 Mitt MM ff aaa IV an an' an aa on ' F ! liAv nj , -v vi i siii a';fxml' ' zlmlL Bw. Jav Skv . S Aw. ,av AciA'iS&imc aV.'t mm 19 1 1 1111 lif'ffll SaT I - Hav bb ibb. , I SBlraVi'lBiV) aVi p2 A9 vyvr " W VJ . i. m m hi .ir-H bjlibi' ma f a 1 BUSINESS CARDS. DENTAL PABLO. On Thirteenth St., and Nebraska Ate., over Friedhof a itore. jgarofflcc hours, 8 to 12 a. in.; 1 to 3 p. in. OI.I.A ASI1ISAUGU, Deutist. lORMKI'lUM SUA.I-11'AHr. A TTOB2TEYS-A 7 -LA Hr, lip-stain' in Qluck Building, 11th street, Above the New bank. TT J. H1J1MMMU XOTABY PUBLIC. 12th Street, 2 doom went of lUmmonrt Hom, Columbus. Neb. 4JU-V rR. M. W.TIHJKSTO., RESIDENT DENTIST.,- Olliee over corner of 11th ami Sorlu-sl. All operation iir.t-cla und warranted. p KISR Jt KKKWKKt 1 TTOBXE YS A T LA W, Office on Olive St.. Columbia, Nebraska. J-tf i (5. A. lU'LI.lH'KST, A.M., M. D., i OMEOPA 771 7 C I'll YS1 CI AN, jgrTwo lllovks south of Court House. Telephone communication. 5-ly V. A. MACEEN, KKAl.KK IN Wines, Liquors. Cigars, Porters, Ales, efr , etc. Olive Street, next to First National Bank. M 'cAlXINTBR BROS., A TTOIiNE YS A T LA W, Oiflcc un-stairs in McAllister's build ing. 11th St. AV. A. McAllister, Notary Public. J. M. MACKARLANh, B. R. COWDERY. AttJTssj sd Hiurj TAVt. ColU:t. LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE OK MACPARliAND& COWDBRS", Columbus, : : : Nebraska. V KO. X. DKKBY. PAINTER. 22Tl'arriage, house and sign painting, glazing, paper hanging, kal.-omining, etc.. done to order. Shop on 13th St., opposite Engine IIoue, Columbia, Neb. 10-y F. 7 ll.lti;SIIE, Ilth St., opposite Lindellote I. Sell Harness, Saddles, Collars, Whips, Hlaiikel:-,i urry Combs, Brushes, trunk"', valise, buguj tops, ciihion, earriam trininiinv'N Arc. at the lowest possible prices. Kepaiic pr niptly attended to. - JOH V. TAMKER, Real Estate .A-gent, Genoa, Nance Co., Neb. Yril.l) LANDS and improved farms Y for ale. t orrespoudeiicc solicit ed. Oiiicc in Young's building, up-stairs. .10-V G A W. (I.AUK, LAND AND INSURANCE AGENT, HUMPHREY, NEBR. His lands comprise some tine tracts in the hell Creek Valley, and the north ern portion ot IMntte" county. Taxes paid for non-residents. Satisfaction guaranteed. -'0 y C OI.IJIHLIIIIS B?ACKII CO., COLUMBUS, - FEB.. Packers and Dealers in all kinds of Hog product, cash paid for Live or Dead Hog or grease. Directors. II. H Henry, Prest.; John Wiggins, See. and Treas.; L. Oerrard, S. Corv. N OTICK TOTKAfllKMN. J. E. Moncrief. Co. Supt., "Will be in his office at the Court House on the third Saturday of each mouth for the purpose of examining applicants for teacher's certificates, and for the traiisnctton of any other business pertaining to schools. C'07-y TAJIKS MAl.JIOX CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER. Plans and estimates supplied for cither frame or brick buildings. (iood work guaranteed. Shop on i:ith Street, near St. Paul Lumber Yard, Columbus. Xc Miraska. r2Umo. J. WAGNER, Livery and Feed Stable. Is prepared to furnish the public w'th good teams, buggies and carriages for all occasions, especially for funerals. Also conducts a sale stable. 44 P.T. Marty.n, M. D. F. Scuug, M. I)., Deutscher Artz.) Drs. KABTTK & SCHUG, U. S. Examining Surgeons, Local Surgeons, Uniou Pacific and O., X. & B. H. 1L It's. COLUMBUS. - NEBRASKA. 52-vol-xiii-y JS. MUKDOCK & SON, Carpenters and Contractors. Havetaad an extended experience, and will guarantee satisfaction in work. All Kinas oi repairing uone on snort, notice. Our motto is, Good work aad fair prices. Call and give us au oppor tunity to estimate for you. STShop on 13th St., one door west of Friedhof fc Co's. store, Columbus. Ii'ebr. 483-v T3T?TCTnTQ TO all. Soldiers that X J!iiNOlUiOwere disabled by -wounds, disease, accident or otherwise, widows, mothers and fathers of soldiers dyiug iu the service or afterwards, from causes which originated while iu the ser vice, are entitled to a pension. New and honorable discharges obtained for sol diers. Iacrcae or PeatiioaN ob tained at any time wheu the disability warrants it. All soldiers who were rattd too low are entitled to an increase of pen sion. Kejected and -abandoned claims a specialty. Circulars free. Addreaa, with stamp, K. V. TIEBNE Y, Box 485, Wash ington, D. C. 45-12ct COLUMBUS STATE BANK! SusMunta Otrrtrl S Xitl ul Tusir S laltt. COLUMBUS, MEB. CASH CAPITAL, . $50,000 Ij. K DIRKCl'ORSf "- Lcandeu (Jkrkaud, Prcs'l. (Iko. W. Hoiist, KVce Pres't. JuLIUSrA.-RBED.- Bowakd A: Gcrkard. t JFiff CS A Abner Turner, Cashier. fJamlc r lepoMlt, UIhcohbi amd Exckaace. CollectleHM Promptly Made oa all PelatM. Pay latereitt ea Time Uepew- JOHN HEITKEMPER Eleventh Street, opposite the Lindell Hotel, COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA, Has on hand a full assortment of GROCERIES! PROVISIONS. CROCKERY & GLASSWARE, V .& a &. V Y Pipes, Cigars aad Tobacco . Highest price paid for Country Produce. Uoods delivered in city. 'GflVE ME aJcXlL! JOU nElTKEHfER. X " ' ,31-y H. iUERS & CO, BLACKSMITHS AND TVaobnt Builde r s. New Brlrk Shop opponlte Hrlntc'a Pruff Storv. ALL KINDS OF WOOD AND IRON WORK ON WAGONS AND BUGGIES DONE ON SHORT NOTICE. Eleventh Street, Columbus, Nebraska. SO NEBRASKA HOUSE, S. J. MARMOT, Prep'r. Nebraska Ave., South of Depot, COl.lLlfHIJ.H, NEB. A new house, newly furnished. .Good accommodations. .Board by day or week at reasonable rates. t3THetm a First-Claw Xaale. Meals, ir Cts. Lodgings. 3-2tf .2ft CtB. OMAHA WEEKLY BEE. Special Inducements. Since the distribution of premiums is over and our Premium List closed until next year, we are yet anxious to increase the circulation of the WEEKLY REE to such a number as to greatly reduce the cost of the paper and to furnish it to our t-uhscribcra at a mere nominal price. Iu order to do so, we offer the same for the balance of the rear, from now until Janu ary -1st, lSiM, fo"r ONE DOLLAR: This is the lowest price ever asked for any west ern journal of the size, and all 'should avail themselves of this libera) offer. THE BEE PUBLISHING CO. f0 J Oaaaaa, Veb. fJOLIJItlRUK Restaurant and Saloon! E. D. SHEEHAX, Proprietor. ISTWholesale nd Retail Dealer in For eign Wines, Liquors and Cigars, Dub lin Stout, Scotch and English Ales. t3T Kentucky Whiskies a Specialty. OYSTERS in their season, by the case can or dish. lltk StrMt. nmmtk of TUpmt. Jieople are always on the ookout for chances to increase their earnings, and iu time, become wealthy; those who do not improve their opportunities remain in poverty. " We offer a great chance to make money. We waut many men, women, boys and girls to work, for us right in their own localities Any one cau do the work properly from the first start. The ''usiness will pay more than ten times ordinary wages. Ex' penslve outfit furbished. No one who eugascs fails to make money rapidly.. You can devote your whole time, to the work, or only your spare moments." Full infor mation and all that is needed sent free. Address SriNSOX & Co.. Portland, Maine. Our larce GA.attaE7 I HJlaEdescribibC6?c'i Free to ATT. We offer -tbLdtest' Nov elties in MEED KOTATOEN, Corn. Ooats and Wheat, aad.tba Best Collection of Vegetable, Flower, Grass and. Tree SEEa. EverytaiBgiis tested;- Address OOtE A atatCK, SeeanKaVPEL. E.A, IOWA. 4oieow-4p- J SALARY $20 Per week to live areots. .SbWthiagaew. Sells oasfghti 'Tn'TKmiK'ori-&si representing the Past. Present and Fu ture. Jk fiae liUjograpa-la six-'elegaBt .- x tiata. Size asxJS; T Sea4 iUa for circa i. 4 tawp lar.j "V t.' V45C- WISE National Bank! COZ.XTBCBX78. NEB. Authorized Capital, Cash Capital, $250,000 50,000 OFFICKRS 4ND PIRECTORa. A. ANDERSON, Pres't. SAM'I. C. SMI I'll, Vice I'res't. O.T. KOEN, Cashier. .1. V. EARLY, KOKEKTU 111.1(1. HERMAN OKHLltlCH. W.A.McAULISTEIt. G. ANDERSON. P.ANDERSON. Foreign and Inland Exchange. Passage Tickets, RealTCtate, Loan aud Insurance. 2!t.vol-lS-ly t r . . "" -7 BECKER '&' WELCH, PROPRIETORS OF SHELL CREEK MILLS. MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLE SALE DEALERS IN FLOUR AND MEAL. Q FFICS. COL UNB US. NEB. SPEICE & NORTH, General Agents for the Sale of REAL ESTATE. Union Pacific, and Midland Pacific R. R. Lands for sale at from $3.00 to $10.00 per acre for cash, or ou live or ten years time, in annual payments to suit pur chasers. We have also a large and choice lot of other lands, improved and unimproved, for sale at low price and on reasonable terms. Also business and residenco lots in the city. We keep a complete abstractor title to all real es tate in Platte County. f.2l COLUMHI'M. NGB. LANDS, FARMS, GWT PROPERTY FOB SALE, AT THE Union Pacfic Land Office, On Long Time anil low rale of Interest. All wishing to buy Rail Road Lands or Improved Farms will And it to their advantage to call at the IT. P. Land Office before lookin elsewhere as 1 make a specialty of buying and selling lands on commission; all persons wish ing to sell farms or unimproved land will liud 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. j2THenry Cordes, Clerk, writes and speaks German. SAMUEL C. SMITH, Agt. U. P. Land Department, 621-y COLUMBUS, NEB. WM. BECKER, DKALKR IN ALL KINDS OF FAMILY GROCERIES! I KEEP CONSTANTLY ON HAND A WELL SELECTED S TOOK. Teas, Coffees, Sugar, Syrups, Dried and Canned Fruits, and other Staples a - Specialty. Good vDellYered' l?re So aay pari of ta City. i 1 AJi ALSO AGENT. FOR THE CEL EBRATED COQUILLAKD Farm and Spring Wagons, of which J. keep a constant supply on hand" butifew'-their equali in style and quality, secoud to none. . CAXL. AND LEARN PRICES. Cor. Thirteenth and K Streets, near A. & If. Depot. HENRY G-ASS, UlSrDERTAEE ! COFFtNS.SND METALLIC CASES , - , ( AND DBAXJULIN Farniture, Chairs, Bedsteada.Ba reaua, Tables. Safes. Lounges. - c Picture Pramea And ZRepairing of all kinds of Upholstery f JCOLTI3JBU8.VNEB.. t ' o. c. SKAJsrisrojsr, MANUKACTURKR OF LTin and Sheet-Iron Ware ! ToVWoraf, Xoofihf said'Oottar- . r. - . , . - - img a opecuuiy. - y ?i' 11J-" .1. . I ? - -c ' raF'vnnn'An - rtntiaMfa hon3ori 'lie vehfb1 Street, 'opposite 'Heiatz 's Drug store. 46-y i r i salaSw YEARS AFTER. I know toe years have rolled across thy grave Till it has grown a plot of level grass All summer doealts green luxuriance wave In silken shimmer on thy breast, alas! And all the winter it is lost to sight Beneath a winding-sheet of chilly white. I know the precious name I loved so much Is heard no more the haunts of men among; The tree thou plantedst has outgrown thy touch. And sings to alien ears its murmuring song; The lattice-rose forgets thy tendance sweet. The air thy laughter, and the sod thy feet. Through the dear wood where grew thy vio lets Lies the worn track of travel, toil and trade: And steam's imprisoned demon fumes and frets. With shrieks that scare tho wild bird from the shade. Mills vex the lazy stream, and on its shore The timid harebell swings its chimes no more. But yet even yet if I, grown changed and old, , Should lift my eyes at opening of the door. And see again thy fair liead'fi waving gold, And meet thy dear eyes' tender smile once more,, , 6 ,j t, 5 v These years of parting like a breath would seem. And I should say; "I knew it was a dream!" ElizabeUi Aker, in Century Magazine. "PUB. DOCS." Tho mail cars leaving Washington are burdened every day with public docu ments, and every Congressman as lie leaves the city pays one last visit to the "folding-room" at the Capitol to see how his documents are getting off. The entire force in the folding-room is busy as busy can be, and quantities of the documents have accumulated at the post-oflice owing to the inability of the authorities to furnish mail cars in which to carry them off as fast as they are mailed. The fact is, impossible :is this may appear, the amount of this kind of matter now furnished by order of Con gressmen for transportation through the mails is more than a car-load a day. By a car-load is meant twenty thousand pounds. "There are," said Superin tendent Robinson, of the House folding room, in speaking of the subject to-day, "there are sent from our folding-room to the post-oflice every day, now, about two hundred sacks of these documents books of all sorts and sizes, and upon all subjects that the Government Printer has been ordered to discourse upon' "And what do these two hundred sacks weigh apiece?" 'About one hundred and twenty-five pounds that makes twenty-five thou sand pounds. Then add one-third more for the amount sent out from the Senate document-room, and you have about the size of our daily mail nowadays." "Over thirty-three thousand pounds, eh?" "Yes." "And all carried free, of course?" "Yes, it could not go otherwise. It would break up the average Congress man to pay the postage on his docu ments. And, indeed, it seems quite proper that these books should become free, for they are proper educators. They go everywhere and are read by all classes of people. They are, as a rule, very judiciously distributed, each Congressman sending his books to peo ple whom they will interest. For in stance, a member has seven or eight hundred Agricultural Reports, or 'ag s,' as we term them, and a couple of hun dred Consular Reports on mercantile matters, a hundred Engineers' Reports, a couple of hundred on engineering, as many reports of tho Railroad Com missioner, some more about patents, and so on; of course he sends the agri cultural reports to the farmers in his district, the reports of the consuls to the merchants and manufacturers, those upon financial topics to financiers, and so on through the list. More than that, where a member has no constituents in terested in any of these particular sub jects, and mauy who are interested in another, he trades off his documents that his people don't want for those of another they do want, and so really they are made to go as far as possible, and. do as much good as could be ex pected from general distribution of this sort." "What Is there in this talk that mem bers sell their documents to second-hand dealers here?" "Nothing, I think. At least I know of no such cases. I do know, though, that they often make trades with these men upon the principle indicated in the trades that I mentioned, a few minutes ago, and by that means enable them selves to furnish their constituents a large number of books that are really Taluable to them." "How many volumes each do mem bers get?" "That depends altogether on the number ordered by the act of Congress. Now this year each member gets some thing over seven hundred agricultural reports. That is the largest number of any one publication." "How many different publications are there?" "Some of the members sent out this year as many as two hundred and twenty-five different works, not all of them publications of this year, however.' "You keep, the publications of former years on hand, then, do you?" "Yes: some of them. Some rnn as far back as twenty years; of others we have none more" than a year or two back. The more valuable ones, of course, are picked up rapidly by the members for themseves and their friends." "Are many of them so valuable, then?" "Yes; some run as high as twenty five dollars for a set. Of course, thatis exceptional; but there are a few cases where they run that .high." "How many volumes do you think you send out a year?" "I think: aboureven hundred thou sand. I have no definite record of the number, but I think that it must runup to that number." "Then adding one-third for tho Sen ate, and some more for the depart ments, it makes a million volumes a year, does it?" "About that, I suppose and that, you know, is exclusive of the speeches of members, in pamphlet form, of which they send, us a great nianv to fold and mail." "How many?" " Well, all the way from one thou sand to one million apiece." "One million! You don't mean to say that any one member has sent out a million copies ofLhis speeches?" "Yes, andrtmdro than' that. One member of this Congress has sent out a million and a quarter of his speeches." " And does the Government pay for these million and a quarter of speeches for political purposes?" "Oh, dear, no. The gentleman has paid nearly fifteen thousand dollars more than his entire salary in both ses sions of Congress for speeches alone. The Government furnishes the envel opes, folds them, and sends them through the mail. We have sent off more than five million speeches in en Telopes. But our envelopes don't cost amen when we buy them by the mill- ion, as we do here. We get them at less than a dollar a thousand." , "How does he get the addresses of enouglt. people to send out these speech es in such large numbers?" i.Yell,he.iurnishe3 each member.as many as he" chooses to send, and keeps four or five clerks busy sending them put besides." "The number of poimds of this mat ter transported through the mails free of charge must be something enormous?" F " Yes it is. It would be impossible to estimate it, except by the general fact that we average a hundred bags a day the year round, and that they prob ably average one hundred and twenty five poimds apiece, making some five or six million pounds, or sav twenty-five hundred to three thousand tons, or two hundred and fifty car-loads." " And how man' men do tho work of preparing this for the people?" "Here, in the folding-room, where he books are wrapped and addressed, we have thirty men, beside those in the office. But we ought to have twice the number. Then that number is small compared with the foreo at the Govern ment Printing Office, where these books are printed. There are between 2,000 and 3,000 employed there. Think of it ! Enough to make a good-sized town. It is the largest printing establishment in the world." " What particular sections get most of these books?" "Well, that is pretty ditlicult to an swer. The scientific works tend toward New England and the Middle States, agriculture toward the Slisissippi val ley, mining both to the far West and to the money centers, and so on. The de mand, however, is. quite general, and the distribution on a very broad basis." "Is the range of subjects considered by these works a very wide one?" "Yes, indeed! There are, as I said awhile ago, from two hundred to three hundred different works. Many of them, of course, are only inter esting to a few, but then! is cer tainly not a citizen who would find them all uninteresting. Take the report of the census, for instance; it covers not only the population, but ever- other conceivable subject, health, wealth, ag riculture, uiiiiiug, manufacture, trade and many other interesting and valua ble topics. Then, there are the Consu lar reports. Agricultural reports, Fish Commission reports, coast and geoditic surveys, a number of volumes on eth nology, special report on diseases of swine, sheep husbandry, the Ethnologi cal Commission's report, Powell's sur ve3's west of the 100th meridian (a very valuable set, fiuelv illustrated and full of interest), reports on mines and mining, and on geological surveys in the mining regions and many others, literally too numerous to mention. They would make a very valuable libra ry in themselves." Thousands upon thousands of these volumes -hundreds of thousands, in fact still remain in the basement of the Capitol. Some have been there twenty years, some appear likely to re main much longer. In one room were thirty thousand volumes, in another ha;f as many. What a fire they would make if they should get fairly started some day. And what a world of infor mation they would carry if they were distributed among the forty million reading people of this country. Wash ington Cor. Chicago Journal. Stick to Your Trade. " Stick to your trade," says an ex change, "nine-tenths of all the failures of the hist year have come to men who were dabbling in outside affairs." There could not be more truth crowded into a few lines than is contained in the above. As a general thing wheu you hear of the failure of a man in business you can set it down that he has been dabbling in something he knew nothing about, and has sunk the money needed in his legitimate business. The merchant, even in a country village, who attends strictly to business, ma' in time lay by a snug little sum, but as soon as he commences to speculate in land, or even trade horses, he is liable at any time to hear something drop on account of taking the money needed iu his busi ness for speculative purposes. The farmer who works hard all summer, sows and reaps a good harvest, and puts the proceeds of the sale of his wheat in to his pants pocket and goes to specu lating in pork, may eventually find a mortgage plastered down over his property that it will take vears of frugal industry to remove. You hear of the failure of a merchant en gaged iu trade ami in nine cases out of ten you can trace the cause to the fact that he had a few thousand dollars invested in wheat when the price tumbled and the bottom fell out of his scheme for making a little money by outside speculation. A merchant 111:13 'J0 :i"' r"o'd, and level headed iu his trade, he can weigh out codfish and sugar, or drive a sharp bai gain in buying a loatl of green hides 01 a ton of butter, but when he has a few thousand dollars invested in wheat, or pork, or lumber, and the price takes a drop, he loses his head and is laid out collier than a mackerel. "Every man to his trade" is a saying as true as it is ancient. There are instances, of course, where men have left their grocery in tho furrow and took up speculation and struck it rich, or where ministers have beat their hymn books into railroad stocks, and made a fortune at one strike, but these in stancas are scarce very scarce. The cashier of a bank, or Treasurer of State, who lays awake nights fixing up schemes for making a million, dealing in "futures," or holding a hundred thousand dollars' worth of butter and eggs for a rise, are foreve com ing to grief, while the men 'in similar positions, who salt fifty cents on every dollar of their salarj- in an old stocking, and don't try to beat tho "faro" banks, or own the fastest horses or the earth, get to the front and become solid men. There are men enough to do all the speculating there is any necessity for doing; men who have become hardened in the busi ness, and who lose or make thousands without a blush or a twitclj of the mus cles. These men dou't, as a general thing, lose their heads and make bad breaks. They are accustomed to the business, and therestof mankind should be content to let them buy all the stocks and bonds and wheat and pork, and make or lose, just as it happens; they enjoy excitement that would turn some men s hair gray in forty-eight hours, and the business and professional men should be content to let them enjoy it, There are thousands of men bucking against fate, trying to make a fortune by speculation, who, ifthev had ten millions of dollars' worth of the best stocks or bonds in the world, would, in the shortest 'possible time, if theyjper sistcd in speculating, be laid out, finan cially, so flat thev would 1m nhlim! to work a free lunck route. Peck's Sun. Open Fires. Whether it is of wood- or. coal, the virtues of an .open fire are. these: jy its peculiar heat action it warms the air of a room less than its walls and less .than the occupants of the room, producing' a comfortable warmth. It gives the most thonugh ventilation, and it is the most cheerful as well as comfortable source of heat. Its faults are its. expensive ness, and the greater trouble required in, taking care of itr , Why does an open- fire give a com fortable heat when the heat from a sys tem of pipes is often oppressive, and sometimes stifling? Because pf the great difference between the ways in which the fire and the hot pipes dis pense their heat. The heat- rays1 from an open fire pass directly through the air without much heating it; they heat any solid object in their way, wnether it be the1 walls atfd furniture of the room or the person of tho sitter, but they leave the air itself cool until thwis heated in turn by radiation from the walls. The occupant of the room does not have to wait for this secondary radi atiou; ho is impartially and proniptby warmed, like any other solid object iu tho room, by the direct glow of tho fire. whilo the air nronud him may remain comparatively cool. It does not, in point of fact, get to be quite :is warm as the walls and furniture, whilo by choos ing a less or greater distance from the lire, orby the use of screens, you can adjust the heat of direct radiation ex actly to your personal comfort. This is not the case with any other system of heating. Wanned pipes, a stove at anything short of red heat, and a hot-air register directly heat the ' air itself, leaving the walls comparatively cool. The room is full of hot air, which you can not temper instantly to your comfort as you can temper the radia tion of the open fire, while the walls re main cooler than the air wheu these heating appliances are used, and ab stract neat from the occupants of the room instead of supplying heat to them, :is they do when warmed by the open fire. For these reasons the open fire is the most comfortable way of heating. As to its virtue in producing ventilation, an open lire " is powerful enough to draw into the room all the air it wants, and for this purpose will use indiscrimin ately all openings, whether inlets or outfets, if necessary." If, as often hap pens, when this is cold the house is not tightly built, the fire may easily cause too much ventilation, so that the feet become chilled, and the temperature of the room does not reach a comfortable degree of warmth. In such a case a register supplying wanned air from a furnace below is a necessary supple ment to the open fires; a similar com pensation is needed in large buildings where hot pipes are used to warm the halls. The open tire, indeed, is often, in our climate, a luxury for a single room, rather than a sufficient means of heating the house; but the open firu is a great comfort. Other sources of heat may usefully supplement it; but no other, at whatever expense of money and scientific contrivance, can take tho place of it. I have known more than one builder of his own house who has found out that its winter comfort washy no means wholly decided by the heiglit of the thermometer. The cheerfulness of the open fire re quires no eulogy. But the open flame, whether of wood, soft coal or hard coal, is a costly luxury. Soft coal is with us one of the most expensive kinds of fuel; but it is worth remembering that one good lump of it upon a hard-coal lire will HII a room with cheerful flame for hours. Of the heat furnished b' an ordiuary open coal fire only about "one-eighth is utilized in a room. This waste has led iuventors to contrive various means for retaining a part of the heat that escapes directly up the chimney. The principle IV up pruu ipl is to warm an ascending current of air in proximity to the lire, but not to an excessive degree, and to disengage the air near the top of the room. Galton has devised one of the best of these contrivances, but it is little known in this count rj'. In an' lire-place the forms and materials employed make a good deal of difference with" the amount of heat saved. Brick and tiles are bet ter than iron for the backing; the grate siiouiu project a certain distance into the room, and a projecting chimney piece absorbs and radiates a consider able amount of heat. The fashion, now going out, of concealing the mantel piece with a board, suitably trimmed and decorated, was thus a" thrifty as well as a pretty one, the fringes "and other coverings of the false mantel piece serving to retaiu and distribute the heat of the fire beneath. The hob is an attachment that should be found upon the grate of every open lire. Any one cau make a good hob in live minutes. Take a piece of stout wire one-fifth of an inch in diameter and twenty to twenty-four inches.long, bend it into the shape of a rong capital U, five or six inches broad, put the points of this U between the two upper grate bars and bend down tho loop of it until it stays level, ami you will have a con venient movable hob, and quite as good a one as can le bought for money. The hob and kettle are very serviceable for evaporating water, according to the plan I have recommended for keoj ing the air moist- A hob thus makes the grate fire in the parlor more healthful.while the tea-ketth- simmering upon it adds its own element of domes tic comfort. Titus Munson Ccun, in Harper's Weekly. How to Buy Meat. "Now,- ladies, I hope you will ask as many questions as you please, because I want to make everything clear to you," said Miss Maria Parloa, as she began her lecture on "Marketing," at the College of Pharmacy, on Twenty third street, yesterday. " On the long table on the lecture platform was a side of dressed beef, weighing four hundred pounds. Beside it, ready to cut it up to illustrate the lecture, stood a most gentlemanly looking-butcher. "You must remember," said Miss Parloa, " that after the meat is dressed only about one-sixth of it is desirable. The rest of it, rich and poor alike, pre-, fer not to buy, but the poor have to uuy it, because they can" not afford the pricw of the choice cuts. But you must bear iu mind that the costly and tender cuts arc not the most nutritious. The mus cular part, that is most used, while it is the toughest, also gives the most nour ishment, only it needs to be cooked dif ferently from the tender parts. When you are buying meat, remember that the "nderest parts conn; from that part of the animal where there i least muscu 1m exertion. The tough parts of the meat, which would bo unpalatable if broiled or roasted, mav be with profit stewed, braised or made into soup. In fact, the very tender parts would not be good for food lor a sick person, because they are not nutritious enough. Now, u tli c ""' I want yeu, ladies; to- aay wksiia-rrtaa names, of the parts l townV'tc : -. -' " The neck,,,:.aaid,a timid voice. -Theribs,-T said i'matroh; Inva seal skin'sacque 43 tiie sticlrraoved:alor.'- "What kind of ribs?" 1 "Give-it up," , said a lady in a fur lined cloak. . , "" "" "Now we will havVMr.'KlsWU'c'utit up," said Miss Parkm, after she had pointed out the principal' cuto and told of the. various, ways, of cutting meat, in different cities. "Fix that back-bone in yourmind." she -continued? -"-for we will start from there. You see the side of beef has been cut in two. The hind- Suarter end contains, at about the mid le'' of "the ' animal,'' the' porterhottse steaks,- the' -porterhouse roasts ana tne tender pieces, that everybody wants. As we go further back we find the rump anU the sirloin." The deft butcher, with his knife, saw and; cleaver, cuti piece after piece as the lecturer pointed them out,showiuj.where the kidneys' lay embedded in the suet j showing the brittle, crumbling nature of suet as distinguished' from fat. showing where the tenderloins lay and how to cut them to advantage'. Each piece was shown, until all had an opportunity to fix its name and place its present mar ket price. The delicate nutritious roll ing pieces were cut and shown, and the method of preparation was explained. These pieces arc sometimes called "the skirt." Tho ladies were cautioned that brine draws out tho-juiccs of the meat, and that fat corned-beef is the best, be cause the fat keeps the juices of the meat from being drawn out by the brino. "Do you consider kidneys nutritious?" inquired a sprightly lady, who had 'got a front seat.to 00 sure and see the carv ing. "Yes, kidneys and the flank pieces, the liver and other cheap parts, when property cooked, are all good food. The lecturer showed how much more economical and sensible it would be to hare the meat cut in gntdes, and not to buy, as is often done now, poor meat in one good piece. She advised the habit of liuying, even at higher prices, pieces with the flank end cut off. She advised her hearers to hunt up butchers who would cut up moat to order, and not compel them to buy what they did not want and could not use. Speaking of soup, she said that to keep it clear it should not be boiled much, ms boiling set the lime of the bones free "But I should think that might be the very thinv needed for children when they are making bones," said a bright eyed lady. " "Well, that may be so. I suppose it is; but you must not boil the soup much if you want it clear.' The lecturer was pointing out in a piece of sirloin the tough part that she said ought to be cut off as not fit for roasting, and, turning to Mr. Kissell, the gentlemanly butcher, she said: "You don't usually sell them that?" "Oh, yes.they do," interposed ayoung lady. You will have to go and educate our" butchers, Miss Parloa." "They charge you twenty-eight cents for this piece with the flank on. You might better, pay thirty cents for tho rest, and let them sell the flank for ten cents." "All it is worth!" ejaculated the lively matron. "I always ask for short steaks and short roasts, and don't buy a lot of meat that is worthless." Miss Parloa kept up a running fire of chat with her audience, and encouraged them to ask questions. N. Y. Sun. Indigestion and Disease. Dr. Henry Reynolds has an article in the Phrenological Journal 011 indigestion which seems to define the nature and symptoms of the case very closely. Ho says: The important relation of indigestion to many diseases which people suffer is not sufficiently realized. Difficulty in breathing, occurring spontaneously- or on slight exertion, may be caused by in digestion. Indigestion causes alterations in tho general nutrition of the body, which are manifested in various way9, among which are the following: Anaemia, or a depraved state of the blood, involving a deficiency of the red globules of the blood, and causing persons thus affected to be unnaturally pale, especially about the lips; decay of the teeth; graynessof the hair; excessive liability to inflam mation, from slight causes, of tho mucous'membranes, especially the eyes and throat; to which may be added, in cases of those predisposed to such affec tions, liability to gout and rheumatism, and affections of the lungs or kidneys. Consumption has frequently been re garded as due in many cases to long continued derangement of the digestion, whereby the general nutrition of the system has become impaired. The inflammation of the mucous membrane of the throat, known as "clergyman's sore throat," is a product of indigestion, and th'e removal of the canse by the adoption of a suitable diet ary, exercise in the open air and ob servance of the laws of health generally will be the best treatment for it. Indigestion is the cause of various alterations in the skin manifested by general coldness or chilliness, especially of the extremities, by changes in its color or texture, which ma' be earthy or sallow in tint, or dry and coarse, ami by various eruptions, among which are the well known eczema, acne, impetigo and nettle rash. Most of the cases of skin diseases affectiug children are best treated by attention to the diet, making the diet easily digestible, and sufficient ly limited to insure complete digestion. The causes of indigestion may be due to the food or condition of the stomach. The food may be defective in quality. There may be excess or deficiency of the normal ingredients, saccharine. starchy, albuminous, or fatty, or some of the naturally indigestible materials! wnicnlorm a part 01 an, iood. J. he food inay be introduced in an indigest ible form on account of defects in the cooking of it, or imperfect mastication, or from its Having undergone putre faction or fermentation, which arrests the functions of ' the stomach. Imper fect mastication oMood is a very com mon cause of indigestiou amougAmer leans. Eating too.much is probably the most common of all causes of indigestion. The secretion of the gastric juice in the stomach seems to be proportioned to the' amount of material required for the nourishment of the system. Food taken .iu excess of this amount acta as a foreign substance, undergoing fer mentation and putrefaction, andoeca sioning much disturbance in the system. Much may be done for the cure of in digestion by eating very abstemiously of suitable, food, thoroughly masticat ted, taking exercise in the open air, breathing pure air ud observing the laws of health generally. The amount of food should be reduced' until the quantity is reached which the stosaaeh can digest without evincing any sysap? toms of indigestion. f i, j i.. ' -; c l ', WJWalAL .AID LtfJOLXn, , ' -Ieaidiak'ArtnurawiTesssanaaa aebrotker. -'-' v Mr. Giadstos. k is said, at a book earths "brkUaasn at 1 ty.'" i . ' - i . 14Unis1Iirslllscalltl,ths"aifat Hon., J. RoWell Lowell" Mptm .I&doa society journals. ,,-,-,.-,, -y- ., Tne death of Poefstsf Qsatrai Howe is the first death of a Ce Mast bat cer since that of General aawHaa, Pres ident Grant's first Secretary of War. Hon. Mrs. LeigaVaa-Eagiigh lady, is about to publish ia -London ja book concerning ner life in- America," V It is to be entitled, "Ten Years on a Georgia Plantation Since the War.' Rev. Dr. S. F. Smith, who wrote "My Country, 'tis of Thee' has re tained to Chicago from a long tour through Europe, the East ladies and Burmah. He wrote the hysan, while he was at Harvard College, uityyeers ago. Wong Ching Foo,the editor of the New 'York Chinese-American, is about to begin tho translation into English of "The. Fan Yong. or the Royal Slave," the most popular of Chinese hintorical novels. The romance was written 2,200 years ago, by Kong Ming. Dr. Clenienceau, the distinguished leader of the extreme left in the French Chamber of Deputies, was teacher of French in a Hartford seminary sixteen years ago, and while there married Miss Fluinmor, of Wisconsin, one of his pu pils, who is now a leader in Parisian society. The wife of United States Senator Brown, of Georgia, who is described as exceedingly plain, goes but little iato so ciety, and ahrinks from publicity. 'Her first journey in a railroad car was takes when she accompanied the Senator to Washington two yearn ago and saw him sworn in as United States Senator. It appears that the announceBseaf that Edward Everett Hale was going to Mexico arose from tho fact that he is writing a book on that country. Since he has officially denied that he has any intention of visiting our sister republic, tho Buffalo Commercial Advertiser sup poses it is because he doesn't want to be prejudiced in what he may write. Miss Sarah Brown, daughter of " Old John Brown," has been appoint ed to a position' in the United btates Mint at San Francisco, John Brown, the eldest son, a man of sixty, strong aad vigorous, lives at Put-in-Bay, Lake Erie. With him resides Owen Brown, a younger son, who was with his father when the latter made his .attack on Harper's Ferry. A daughter named Both Thompson, lives near by, and an other son. Jason, resides at Akron, O. Mrs. Brown lives in California HUMOROUS. "We Studdy to Pleas" is a sign in a Philadelphia shop window. They might better study the spelling-book. It was Chaucer that appropriately said: "There is nothing new but what has once been old." Chaucer evidently knew hash when he saw it. Yonkers Statesman. A Jackson County milkman while working the pump handle calls out "h'ist there! so boss! so there now!" It isa way he has of easing his consci ence. Modern Argo. John Bright has changed his mind as to woman suffrage. The ladies will have to be easy ou Mr. Bright, how ever. They will remember how often they change their own minds. A young man named Polk sang all the evening to a company of friends at Montgomery, Ala., and -then shot himself dead. He probably preferred mieide to being lynched. Rochester Post-Express. Here is an "Esay ou Man" rather more concise than Pope's. It consists of the following canto: Man'H a vapor Full of woes; Start a paper, Duaut and gooa. There was company to supper, the table was set out splendidly, and all were enjoying themselves exceedingly, when the pet of the household unfor tunately whispered: "Ma, why don't you have this sort of supper when thero isn't any company?" ' Gent to waiter: "Bring me soma grammatical and typographical errors.' Waiter (looking puzzled at first, boA recovering in a moment bis usual serenvi itv): "We are just out of them, sir.'; "Then what do you mean by keeping them on your bill of fare?" Mrs. Mansard is a practical womaa with no nonsense about her. When Mr. Mansard in an affectionate way tho other day exclaimed: "My dear, how can I ever leave you?" she coolly re plied: "Leave me in as comfortable) circumstances as you can. Mousy; there.' now, dou't make a fool of yourself." A Chicago paper gives the follow ing story concerning the recent regis tration of female voters in Boston: En ter old lady of a certain age. " I wish to register, sir." " Your name, please?" "Almira Jane Simpson." "Your age?" "Beg pardon!" Do 1 understand that I must give my age?' "Yes, Miss, the law requires it." " Worlds, sir, would not tempt me to give it! Not that I care. No; I had as leave wear it ou my bonnet as a hackman does his number; but I'm a twin, and if my sister has a weakness it is that she dislikes any reference made to her age; and I count not givi my own because 1 do not wish to of fend her." Encouraging a Yenng Man. A young man, twenty-two years old, a resident of Detroit, had, by strict economy laid by a couple of thousand dollars. Feeling that he needed advice as to how to invest it, be called at the office of a capitalist and philanthropist, and stated his case. "You have done well exceedingly well," replied the philanthropist, "you should invest that money in a suburban lot, and profit by the rise." " I've thought of that; but where can I find a lot?" "Oh! that's easy enough; in fact, 1 have several lots myself in market, and I will give you a bargain." The map was consulted, but when the young man saw the location of the lots, which had a soap factory on one side and a tannery on the other, with a ravine at the back of both, be thought. $2,U0U too great a price. "But the title." protested the philan thropist "the title is without a law. There is where you gain.' "How?" "Why, when you come to ma six months from now to mortgage that lot for $1,200 it wouldn't take us overhaU an hour to complete the whole business. As a philanthropist I'd advise yon to invest in solid real estate. As a cap, tattst I'm always willing to take a mort gage where the title is perfectly den f-IMntU Fru Prut.