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VOL. XIV.-NO. 19.
COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 5, 1883.
WHOLE NO. 695.
THE JOURNAL.
ISSUED EVEKY WEDNESDAY,
M. K. TURNER cSc CO.,
Proprietors and Publishers.
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BUSINESS CABDS.
DENTAL PARLOR.
On Thirteenth St.. and Nebraska
Ave.,
over rrieuiiuj .- .'""
jgj-Oilice hours, s to 12 a. in.; 1 to ".
p. m.
Oi.i.a ASHHAUfiii, Denti
1st.
,1 TTORNE YS-A T-LA W,
Up-stair.sin Gluck Uuildin-:, 11th s
treet,
AIov tin St'' bank.
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XO TA 11 Y P UBLIC.
lith Street, i Joor net of lUnuuoiul
Columbus. Neb.
House,
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SUHGEOX 'DENTISTS,
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J TTOL'XEYS A T LA W,
Office on Olive St., olunilu. Nebras
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5 OMEOPA Till C I'll YS1 CI AN,
JSJ-I'WO l'.lo-ks .,lltll f Colllt IIolls.
Telephone eominiiiiication. ;-ly
GEO. T. SIMMWKR,
Will take contracts for
Bricklaying, Plastering, Stonework,
Etc.
XfT Satisfaction ,iuaranteed. or no pay.
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V. A. MAC KEN,
KK.M.r.i: in
Wines, Liquor. Ciiir, Purlers, Ales,
cV., etc.
Olive Street, next to Fii ! National Uaiik.
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cAIJJKTEK alKOS.,
A TTOliXEYS A T LA W,
Office upstair- in McAllister's bnild
inc. Uth M. W. A. McAllister, Notary
Public.
J. M. MACKUM.ANO. U. K. COW DKKY,
Attcnoy asi H:tiry TziV:. C:lle:t:r.
LAW ANU COLLECTION OFFICE
MACFARLAND& COWDBRr,
Columbus, : Nebraska.
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PA IXTKli.
JSTCarriajro, hou-e ami -i'-'n painting.
glazing, paper 'lauding, kal-iniiniiic, etc.
done tt order. Simp on i:'.th -St., opposite
Engine House, Columbus, Neb. 10-
1 H.ICISI'IIK,
llth St., opposite LindellKotcl.
SelK Harness. Saddles, Collars, Whips,
Blankets, t'urrj Comb. IJruhes, trunks,
valises, liucirx ' top-, cushion-, carriage
trimmings, .Vc at the lowest possible
prices, ltep.iiis pr niptly attended to.
.lOll.X 4'.TAiKKK,
Heal Estate .Ago lit,
Genoa, Nance Co., Neb.
WILD LANDS anil improved farm
for sale, t oir-spoinlencc solicit
ed. Office in Young's building, up-stairs.
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MAXl KACTL'KKK OK
Tin and Sheet-Iron Ware !
Job-Work, Roofing and Gutter
ing a Specialty.
J2TShop on i:ieenth Street, opposite
Ileintz's Drue Store. -MS-'
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IV. 1'LAKK,
LAND AND INSURANCE AGENT,
IIUMP1IBEW NEltU.
His lands comprise some line tracts
in the Shell Creek Valley, and the north
ern portion ot PI'tte county. Taxes
paid for non-residents. Satisfaction
guaranteed. "JO y
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OrUJIHI' lA(Iil.i CO.,
COL rjni US, - XEJL,
Packers and Dealers in all kinds of Hoi:
product, cash paid for Live or Dead Hog
or grease.
Directors. K. II Henry, Prest.; John
Wiggins, Sec. and Treas.; L. Gerrard, 8.
Cor v.
N
otick to teacuerm.
J. B. Moncrief, Co. Supt.,
"Will be in his office at the Court House
on the third Saturday of each
month for the purpose of examining
applicants for teacher's certificates, and
for the traiisaetton of any other business
pertaining to schools. ."G7-y
TAJIKS NALM.V
CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER.
IMans and estimates supplied for either
frame or brick buildings, Oood work
guaranteed. Shop on loth Street, near
St. Taul Lumber Yard, Columbus, Ne
braska, "- Omo.
J. WAGNER,
Livery and Feed Stable.
Is prepared to furnish the public wfth
good teams, buggies and carriages for all
occasions, especially for funerals. Alo
conducts a sale stable. 44
D.T. Martyx, M. D. F. Schug, M. Dm
Deutscher lrfc.)
Drs. MARTYN & SCHUG,
U. S. Examining Surgeons,
Local Surgeons. Union Pacific and
O., N. & B. II. It. R's.
COLUMBUS. - NEBRASKA.
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JS. MURDOUK & SON,
Carpenters and Contractors.
Havenad an extended experience, and
will guarantee satisfaction in work.
All kinds of repairing done on short
notice. Our motto is, Good work and
fair prices. Call and give us an oppor
tunitytoestimateforyou. JSTShop on
18th SU, one door west of Friedhof &
Co's. store, Columbus, Nebr. 4S3-T
COLUMBUS
STATE BANK!
S:::et::rs ts Osmrl 4 Eiel ill Tzrrsr k Eslit.
COLUMBUS, NEB.
CASH CAPITAL, - $50,000
DIllECTOUS:
Leaniiek (Jkkkaud, Pros' I.
Gko. Vr. IIulst, Vice Pros' t.
Julius A. Reed.
Enw'AiiD A. Geuuaui).
Arker Tukxer, Cashier.
Hank of Deposit, IHncoudi
and ExcbanKe.
Collection Promptly Itlade 011
all loi uts.
lay Interest on Xirae Wepos
its. 274
DREBERT & BRIGGLE,
BANKERS!
HUMPHREY, NEBRASKA.
JSTPrompt attention given to Col
lections. jSTInsurance, Real Estate, Loan,
etc.
JOHN HEITKEMPER,
Eleventh Street, opposite the
Liudell Hotel,
COLUMHU9, ?J1315KA.SKA,
Has on hand a full assortment of
GROCERIES!
PROVISIONS.
CROCKERY & GLASSWARE,
Pipes, Cigars and Tobacco.
Highest price paid for Country Produce.
Hoods delivered in city.
GIVE MK A CALL!
.lOH-'V HKITKKMl'KK.
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LOUIS SCHREIBER;
Hsi
All kinds of Repairing done on
Short Notice. Huggics, Wag
ons, ete., made to order,
and all work (inar
antecd. Also sell the world-famous Walter A.
Wood Mowers, Beapers, Combin
ed Machines, Harvesters,
and Self-binders the
best made.
ISTShop opposite the " Tattersall." Ol
ive St., COLUMBUS. i-Cm-e
H. LUERS & CO,
BLACKSMITHS
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Wagon Builders,
Xoit Itrirt Shop opposite Helnfi's Krui; Store.
ALL KINDS OF WOOD AND IRON WORK ON
WAGONS AND BUGGIES DONE
ON SHORT NOTICE.
Eleventh Street, Columbus, Nebraska.
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NEBRASKA HOUSE,
S.J. MARMOY, Prop'r.
Nebraska Ave., South of Depot,
colujiiii;, rveii.
A new house, newly furnished. Good
accommodations. Board by day or
week at reasonable rates.
ZSTMetM a Firt-Cla Xable.
Meals, 25 Ots. Lodgings 2T Cts.
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WISE
people are always on the
lookout for chances to
increase their earnings.
and in time become
wealthy; those who do not improve their
opportunities remain in poverty. We
oiler a great chance to make money. A'e
want many men, women, boys and girls
to work for us right in their own localities
Any one can do'the work properly from
the tirst start. The ''tisiness will pay
more than ten times ordinary wages. Ex
pensive outtit furnished. Xo one who
engages tails 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 Stinsox & Co.. Portland, Maine.
Our lanre GARDEN
GUIDE describing Cole's
Free to a!7. We ofl'er the Latest Nov
elties in SEED POTATOES, Corn.
Ooats and Wheat, and the Best Collection
of Vegetable, Flower, Grass and Tree
SEED. Everything is tested. Address
COEE Sc BRO., Seedsmen, PEE.
LA, IOWA. 45-eow-4p
Blficksmith aua Waooii Maker
FIHST
National Bank!
COLUMBUS, NEB.
Authorized Capital,
Cash Capital,
$250,000
50,000
OFFICERS NDDIKECTOK3.
A. ANDERSON, Pres't.
SAM'L C. SMITH. Vice Pres't.
O. T. ltOEN, Cashier.
J. W. EARLY,
ROBERT UHLIG,
HERMAN OEHLR1CH.
W. A. MCALLISTER.
G.ANDKRSON,
P. ANDKRSON.
Foreign and Inland Exchange, Passage
Tickets, Real Estate, Loan ana Insurance.
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COAL LIME!
J. E. NORTH & CO.,
DEALERS IN
Goal,
Lime,
Hair,
Cement.
Rock Spring Coal,
I'arbon (Wyoming) Coal .
EI1I011 (Iowa) Coal
....$7.01) per toil
.... G.Ol) "
.... 3.51) "
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Blacksmith Coal of best quality al
ways on hand at low
est prices.
North Side Eleventh St.,
columbus, neb:
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BECKER & WELCH,
PROPRIETORS OF
SHELL CREEK MILLS.
MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLE
SALH DEALERS IN
FLOUR AND MEAL,
OFFICE, COL UM11 US, NEB.
SPEICE & NORTH,
Genoral Agents for the Sale of
REAL ESTATE.
Union Pacific, and Midland Pacific
R. It. Lands for sale at from $3.00 to $10.00
per acre for cash, or on live or ten year?
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 abstract of titleto all real es
tate in Platte County.
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COEUJIRIJN. NEB.
LANDS, FARMS,
AND
CITY PROPERTY FOR SALE,
AT THE
Union Pacfic Land Office,
On Long Time and low rate
of Interest.
AH wishing to buy Rail Road Lands
or Improved Farmswill And it to their
advantage to call at the U. P. Land
Office before lookin - elsewhere as I
make a specialty of buying and selling
lands on commission; all persons wish
ing to sell farms or unimproved land
will find it to their advantage to leave
their lands with mc 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.
13?" F. W. Ott, Clerk, writes and
speaks German.
SAMUEL C. SMITH,
Agt. U.P. Land Department,
2I-y COLUMBUS, NEB.
HENRY G-ASS,
COFFINS AND METALLIC CASES
AND DKALKKIN
Furniture, Chairs, Bedsteads, Bu
reaus, Tables, Safes. Lounges,
&c, Picture Frames and
Mouldings.
X3T Repairing of all kinds of Upholstery
Goods.
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COLUMBUS, NEB.
ZtBB2r 1 la
AWFULLY HOT.
The fat man.
With bijr fan.
Lolls around on a rattan divan;
Every siot
Awfully hot;
Doesn't euro whethor he dies or not.
The small boy.
Full of joy.
Finds much fun without ulloy;
In the stream
White leffs Kleam:
To him life seems no more than a dream.
Hoy sees man
On divan;
Wishes that he eould have a fan
And lie at ease on a cool rattan.
Man sees boy
Splash with Joy;
Wishefl he could his time employ
Bobbins around In the stream so cojr.
WiixltiiUjtoH KevuUia
TAKING MY BOY'S ADVICE.
Just after tea I was standing in tho
middle of tho room with arms folded,
and eyes cast down, thinking intently.
"Apennyforyourthoughts.mamma!"
said illie, my youngest.
4Oh! Willie, my boy, I'm trying to
decide what to do first this evening.
There is the pile of mending, the stock
ings and socks to be darned, Joe's new
books to be covered, and if Aunt Jen
nie is to come on Saturday, the muslin
curtains for her room should be hemmed
to-night."
"Know what I'd do?" queried rogue
Willie, with a smile.
"Well, what would you do, ray boy?"
"I'd let the stocks, and socks, and
other old rags take caro of themselves
till to-morrow. Joe might cover his
books himself; do'im good, and keep
the cove out o' mischief, and 'sposc the
lar-dy curtains warn't put up 'till after
Aunt Jennie got here, 'spect anybody'd
die? Besides, there's a story in the pa
per I'm a-sutlerin' to hear read. Come
on, Mumpsey! read the paper to-night,
and do not do anvthin' else. Jes rest
your face and hands. Guess I wouldn't
crowd myself into a work-basket and
thimble all the time!"
My first thought was. Ah! how little
the dear child knows of the cares and
duties devolving upou the mother of a
family. The next moment an impulse
seized me, which ordinarily would have
seemed to indicate lack of reason on my
part.
I would take Willie's advice, and seo
what the result would be.
"Well, get the paper, Willie, and in a
moment I will be ready to read." Then
going to the closet, I found some nice
brown paper, and tho bottle of muci
lage. I had no idea it would rest me so. In
the first place it was real pleasure to
watch illie's face, as the cleverly writ
ten story unfolded itself, and I was in
terested myself in finding how it all
came out. Pretty soon Joe came in with
bis new school books. He was delighted
at the-thought of covering them himself,
and it astonished me to see how nicely
he set to work.
At eight o'clock Willie went to bed
with a satisfied little facc,and I sat read
ing the e,ntire evening, and it was a
fact, my sleep that night was more re
fresliing than it had been for a long
time, nor was that all, it often occurred
that during the morning hours, over
come with unconquerable drowsiness, I
would drop asleep.in my chair, but that
morning 1 felt bright enough to equal
any exertion.
It is true, when Aunt Jennie camo
the pretty muslin curtains were not up
at the windows, but to my simple ex
planation she replied just as I expected.
"You know I would a thousand times
rather never see muslin curtains up,
tasteful as they are, than to know you
had overworked to get them there.
Mortal woman, my dear, can do just so
much, and no more. Nature will have
her due, first or last!"
So I fell to rellectinfj as to whether
after all it was good judgment on the
part of the housekeeper and mother, be
ing so ambitious to accomplish as much
in a given time as we naturally are.
I well know the satisfaction" aflbrded
by having everything in apple pie or
der when Saturday night comes around,
but would it not be wise for us in the
prime of life to pause for a moment
and ask seriously, is it necessary, is it
best, all this wearying round of 'toil and
anxiety?
I know many a faithful wife and
mother will say. the theory and argu
ments in favor of occasional relaxation
from a certain round of duties is all
proper and well enough for those who
can control their time to suit their own
convenience, but my work would never
be done if I failed to employ even
wakeful moment, and I should' hardly
dare declare her mistaken. But need
all the work be done that is? Is there
not too often an unwholesome ambition
urging us on rather than a real neces
sity? One day, soon after my evening of
rest, Mrs. Harmon called to see what I
would make for the church fair. 1 re
plied, with a feeling of discouragement,
that I would do what I could, mentally
resolving not to worry or tax nryself too
severely even if I did nothing, for with
my crowded hands how could I make
fancy articles for the fair, and a grow
ing nervousness warned me of the
danger should I attempt too much.
But I was dumb with astonishment and
admiration for my neighbor, when she
went on and told what she had done
within the preceding twenty-four hours.
The evening before she had worked
till eleven o clock on an exquisite
sofa-pillow for the fair; at five that
morning she was up. had swept and
dusted, and had a batch of pies well
under way before breakfast; at dinner
time she had baked pies, mixed a great
Elum-cake, repaired a coat for Mr.
larmon, and put away the week's
washing. Since dinner she had put
down a carpet, cut and basted a dress
for Josje and writen a long letter, and
now, at five o'clock she was all dressed
up, sitting in my parlor making a call.
"And I expect to do just as much
within the next twenty-four hours, 'v'
she added, with a triumphant smile.
After she had gone, I actually shed
tears, thinking how much more ener
getic she was than I, with all my un
tiring perseverance and diligence, for
what day ever saw such an amount of
work accomplished by my hands as she
described.
It was time far the spring cleaning,
and do my best, there was no time for
making a single article for the fair,
which I dreaded attending, and meeting
Mjj. Harmon's reproachful glances, for
of course she would know nothing of
Bay having denied myself a much cov
eted piece of furniture in order to give
all I could towards the church object,
but I bought a season ticket, and was
present the opening night. One of
the first objects to attract my attention
was the beautiful sofa-pillow" Mrs. Har
mon bad made, but I did not see her
during the evening, and concluded she
was conducting one of the side shows.
As no one could call for me that even
ing, I started for home early, but had
gone but a short distance "when I al
most ran against Mr. Harmon.
"I did nut see Mrs. Harmon at the
fair," I remarked, "although she must
have been there."
"Humph! Confound the fair!" he
blurted out. "Mrs. Harmon isn't there,
she's flat on her back.where she's likely
to stay all winter. The doctor says one
of the worst cases of nervous, prostra
tion he over saw."
I expressed sincere sympathy and re
gret, but Mr. Harmon was not to bo
comforted.
"Told my poor wife over and over
again," he went on,"that nogood would
come of her driving about as she did,
but she was ambitious, and very saving
of time and money, and a pretty sum
it's going to cost getting her up again,
though goodness knows, I don't be
grudge doing all I can for poor wife."
Mr. Harmon was a kind hearted man.
but in moderate circumstancesand his
wife's sickness was a serious drawback
to him in many ways. Other assistance
would be necessary beside the young
girl they kept as help. There was a
family "of young children with their
numberless "requirements, and a doctor's
bill of no inconsiderable amount was
inevitable, and it was both painful and
ludicrous to hear Mr. Harmon deplore
the unfortunate persistence with which
his wife would push things in one
breath, ami with the next, loyally de
clare his willingness to do all in his
power for "poor wife" now she was sick.
But I have made a new rule to be strict
ly adhered to. One evening of every
week, beside Sunday, is to be devoted
to reading, conversation or any other
diversion or respite, and the change is
a most welcome one, and come to read
my papers a little more leisurely 1 am
surprised to meet with so many useful
hints as to different and profitable
methods of housekeeping, domestic
management, and all such matters both
helpful and entertaining.
We are naturally a pushing, enter
prising people, but a rank growth is
never a wholesome one, and with our
hurried lives, hurried in eating, drink
ing aud hastening from one duty to an
other, we prove, it seems to me, the
truth of an old proverb, although the
application is perhaps a new one:
"There is that withholdeth more than
is meet, but it tendeth to poverty."
Aunt Jennie w:is right. Nature will
have her due sooner or later; an exact
ing mistress t-ho, aud attempting with
holding her rights will only provoke
towards foreclosure on her part the
mortgage she holds on our estates both
temporal and physical. Have you no
ticed how old people, those whose earlier
ambitious are dead, whose life work is
almost done, regretfully reflect on hav
ing allowed their former 7.eal to run
away with their discretion?
"If I only hadn't worked so hard that
cold spring to finish the cleaning quite
so soon, I shouldn't have had this cough
fastened on me for all these years."
"If I could only have been contented
with doing a full day's work in twenty-four
hours, I shouldn't have been
burdened all my declining days with
this poor lame back."
"Don't tear about so, dear. You
won't be any stronger for it a little
while hence, depend upon it you won't."
And let me add, my reader, dear grand
ma knows. Mrs. Harriet A. t'ieeccr, in
Christian at Work.
Was Byron Killed by the Doctors I
The last illness and death of Byron
arc not less curious to the medical mind
than the life of the man. In brief.
Byron went to Greece in his later das
(lie w:is only thirty-six) ostensibly "to
liberate Greece, actually to obtain" the
crown of a kingdom he hoped to see es
tablished a crown which he did, in
fact, as it would seem from these vol
umes, nearly secure. His death frus
trated the tiesign, and his death, pre
ceded by epileptic seizures and by
exposure to malaria, w:is clinched, it is
generally felt, by medical perseverence
in crystallized error. Two "youthful
and incompetent" doctors, to quote
JeaflYeson's definition of them, Bruno
and Millingen, "did their best and their
worst" for him. He had been living,
by his own rule, for five weeks on toast
aiid tea, and at last, in response to the
urgent appeal and insistence of the two
doctors, he consented to be bled (date,
April 10, 1824). Casting at the two
the fiercest glance of vexation, and
throwing out bis arm, ho said in his an
griest tone: "There! You are, I see, a
set of butchers! Take away as much
blood as you like, and have done with
it." They took twenty ounces. The
next day tlmy repeated the bleeding
twice, and put blisters above the knee,
because he objected to have his feet ex
posed for the blistering process. In spite
of all he lived 011. and on the 18th actu
ally rose from his bed and tottered into
an adjoining room, leaning on his ser
vant Tita's arm. There he amused him
self with a book for a few minutes, and
then returned to bed. In the afternoon
two new and strange doctors came to
look at him. and after they had left he
took one anodyne draught. Some time
later he took another draught of a simi
lar kind, and at six o'clock he uttered
the last intelligible sentence, "Now 1
shall go to sleep." He slept for twenty
four hours, and at fifteen minutes past
six on the evening of April 11) .surprised
his watchers by opening his eyes and
instantly shutting them. "He" died at
that instant."
In this da' we look with wonder at
the medical art which in twenty-four
hours could bleed three times a fasting
man, then blister him, and finally sup
plement the so-called treatment with
two strong narcotic draughts. Lancet.
How to Carry "Concealed Weapons."
A certain young man who was fined
in Cobb Superior Court the sum of forty
dollars for carrying a pistol concealed
some time thereafter had occasion to do
liver a pistol to a party in town, and, to
be on the safe side, he got a ten-foot pole
and tied the pistol to the end of the
same. He then hoisted the pole to
which dangled the pistol and started
across town. To his utter surprise he
met Judge James K. Brown, who was
considerably tickled at the precaution
act of the young man to expose fully to
view the pistol, and he remarked:
"That is very commendable in you. I
thought that forty dollars fine" would
make you a goodlaw-abiding citizen."
The young man expressed the opinion
that the mode adopted in carrying the
pistol was not quite as handy, but it was
less costly. Marietta (Oa.) Journal.
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After shooting at it eight or nine
times. Mr. W. H. Richardson finally
killed, with a ninth shot, a few days
asjo.Ja milk-white deer in the forest near
Bigbee, Ala. The negroes think that
white deer are akin to witches, and are
probably delighted that one of tliem has
been laid low. Two more of the beau
tiful creatures have been seen recently
in the forests of Washington County,
Ala.
A York (Pa.) family have been
poisoned by inhaling fly-poison scatter
ed about the house.
New York Pet Dogs.
Como with me to Central Park.
There arc miles and miles of beautiful
drives, and thousands of every sort and
kind may be seen there every pleasant
afternoon. It is an even bet that in
eight out of ten carriages, single or
double, in which there are ladies, there
will be dogs. I remember when Lina
Edwin, a charming comedienne, who,
with George Clark, now of the Madison
Square theater, had a little bandbox
for comedy up town, startled the pro
prieties by appearing on Broadway
with a beautiful silken-haired lap-dog
under her arm. Little by little the ex
ception lecame the rule, and to-day
fat women, thin women, old girls,
voting girls, every variety of tho fem
inine gender has its dog. There arc
pretty little silken-haired dogs, slender
little greyhounds, funny little tootsie
wootsics, apparently all hair, with an
apology for a tail and two twinkling
black eyes, hidden in hairy recesses.
These, and now and then a maguiti
cent Newfound! and or a superb and
stately greyhound, are what can be
seen on the promenade of Fifth avenue
and Broadway, in stages, in buggies, in
little jerk-me up aud jcrk-mc-down dog
carts, in barouches and in every place
known to feminine caprice. This morn
ing I rode from South ferry in a Broad
way omnibus. There wero six men
and six women all told. One woman
had a black and tan in her lap. Tho
dog may have been six inches long and
three inches high, but I doubt it. Next
to her sat a very uncomfortably fat
woman. She hail a long, thin dog,
with a face like an Irish setter. The
dog was too unwieldy for her to hold
in her lap- in fact she had no lap to
speak of. She was chiefly stomach and
knees. So she placet! the dog
between herself and a Chinaman who
sat next her. The Chinaman didn't like
the dog, and the dog knew it. Tho dog
didn't like the Chinaman, and the Chi
naman knew it. Hostilities were early
developed, greatly to the amusement of
everybody except the old lady and the
Chinaman. The fun continued for some
time, when, the day being hot, the dog
grew tired and indicated his desire to
suspend hostilities by jumping from the
seat clear across the stage into the lap
of a very pretty girl, one of the prettiest
sixteen-year-olders I oversaw, with long
braids down her back, beautiful blue
eyes and charming red cheeks, in whose
arms (one in each) were cuddled two of
the ciiuningest little Skyes. Precisely
what the setter intended he alone knew.
Tins efl'ect was patent. The girl was
frightened, and with a sudden twist to
tho left unfortunately threw one of the
dogs into the street, and in less time
than it takes to tell it the heavy wiieel of
the lumbering stage put an end to his
suffering, too clearly indicated by two
short, sharp, decisive yelps. The agi
tation of thegirl may be imagined. The
general upsettedness of the 'stage-load
of passengers may possibly be conceived,
but the astonishment of the setter, who
was grabbed quickly by his hind leg,
and also by the Chinaman, and. slung
with inconceivable rapidity through the
open window in tho door, it would bo
diflicult to depict. So would the uni
versal roar that followed the Chinaman's
ejaculation of exultation, and so, too,
would the indignation of the fat woman
whose dog had been thrown away, when,
rising upon her sturdy limbs, with one
hand she yanked the strap leading to
the driver's foot, and with the other,
holding her parasol, she belabored the
grinning Chinaman over the head and
shoulders until the stage was stopped,
and with difficulty she got out. Whether
sheseciiredherdogornot. I don't know,
for the stage moved rapidly on.
We are used now to dogs in public
conveyances, to dogs in restaurants, to
dogs in parlors, in bed-rooms, in ladies'
laps, but it will take us some time to
become accustomed to dogs in churches,
although it is but a week since I looked
inlo tho cooling interior of TriniU
church, where possibly 150 fortunate
sinners were loudly proclaiming them
selves as miserable .sinners, following
tiie lead of a atfO.IMX) a year rector;
Moriran Dix. Accepting the courteous
invitation of the sexton, I took a seat
in tho aisle on a tolerably hard bench,
although there were al least 1.200
nicely-cushioned seats unoccupied.
Hardly had I accustomed myself to the
board beneath me when my eye detect
ed in a pew occupied by a well-known
millionaire, his wife, one son, and two
little girls, the prettiest black and tan
I think I ever saw the merriest, jol
Iiost, wajjgiest-tail, black and tan in
the world. The youngest child held
him in her arms as she might a baby.
His little head rested lovingly on her
shoulder, while his black eyes "merrily
twinkled as ho took the congregation
in. If I had been as nearly ten years
of age a- 1 am fifty, that little girl and
that little dog would have had a cheer
ful time during the rest of the service,
for I certainly should have attracted
the attention of both. As it was I con
tented myself with making a series of
grimaces, unseen by any but the dog.
At first ho regarded me "with mfeigned
amazement. Gradually lqs little tail
withdrew from its convenient .shelter
between his hind legs anil waved over
his back. Ho pricked up one ear, then
the other, until, exasperated beyond
endurance, he stiffened himself" up,
and, standing straight in the little
girl's arms, gave one, to me, tremen
dous bark. The miserable sinners,
with one accord, forsook their pious
endeavor and turned to see tho source
of the unaccustomed noise. The
slipper-shod sexton moved gently down
the aisle. I, of course, was immersed
in thought, but the speedy exit of the
little girl, accompanied by her elder
brother, who buried the dog's head in
the roomy recesses of his hat, afforded
me ample revenge upon the sexton for
having given me a board when I asked
a cushion. Had I behaved, the dog
would have behaved, and the little girl
wouldn't have had a chance to play
among tho graves as she did, until the
fifteen minutes' sermon was over, when
her father joined her, and, having ad
ministered a parental rebuke, took her.
with the rest of the family, to a roomy
barouche waiting for them in front of
the church.
That was the only time I have ever
seen a dog in the sacred precints; but
if it was possible for one little girl to
take one little dog into one church it is
possible for 100,000 little girls to do the
same thing with 100,000 little dogs, and
the consequences you can tell as well
as I. Precisely what effect this mania
for dogs will have upon the rising gen
eration it is diflicult to predict. The
dog that I saw in the stage was not a
pleasantly-odored dog, and his hair
didn't seem to be securely fastened to
his skin. The consequence was that he
was offensive to the nostrils of all that
sat near him, and when ho was flung
from tho stage at least 150 of .his cbes
nut-colored hairs flew from his back
and found lodgment on our respective
coats and trousers. A magnificent New
foundland, a full-booded Siberian grey
bound, a noble mastiff, these are de
lights to the eye and companions to the
best of men. "But these are rarely seen
in New York, and we are compelled to
watch the tender affections of tho female
sex expended upon the pet poodles, of
no earthly value either as objects of in
terest, of "curiosity, or worth. Children
are neglected for dogs. Women who
would never think of taking a child to
walk with them absolutely love to
promenade our prominent streets car
rying in their arms these precious pets.
Miss Rose Coghlan. the popular lead
ing actress in Wallack's Theater, is of
ten seen upon tho street with two dogs,
one under each arm. Clara Morris has
all sorts of dogs, and other Indies in
that line of life are noted for canine
pets, costing all the way from fifty dol
lars to $500 each. Some of the mem
bers of our codfish aristocracy make
themselves peculiarly conspicuous in
the dog line, all of which can be borne
if such things must be, like the old-time
bustle, the noopskirt, the French heel,
and tho maKe-beliove stomach. Dogs
in the back yard, dogs upon tho hearth
stone, dogs on the steps in front of the
house, dogs 011 the promenade are well
enough and in certain times and places
are desirable; but these little make-believe
dogs, hugged to bosoms intended
for other purposes, attended and nursed
in place of children, receiving the hom
age, the attention, and the lavish care
which might much better be bestowed
upon animals with more brains aud
fewer legs -this sort of thing is obnox
ious and offensive to tho last degree.
Cor. Philadelphia Press.
Longevity Statistics.
A student of the reports of the tenth
census has compiled a table for the pur
pose of showing in what State or States
one has the best chances for a long life.
New Ilamshire seems to him to be tho
favorite refuge of green old :i're. for he
finds that oue-seventy-fourth of tho in
habitants are at least eight veal's old.
The proportion among native white
males is one in eighty, but tho environ
ment in New Hampshire seems to havu
been even more favorable to the preser
vation of life in the other sex, for tho
proportion among native white females
is one in fifty-eight. Other Now Eng
land States do not contain quite so
many old persons, the average propor
tion for the six being one in K54. Com
ing to Now York, he finds that for 0110
person who lias reached tho age of
eighty there are 1G1 who have not been
so fortunate, and in the three middle
States tho average proportion is one iu
182. As he goes southward ho discov
ers a greater preponderance of young
blood, for in six south Atlantic States
theaorago proportion is one in 20:.
Tho gulf Mates atlbrd a less attractive
shelter for the aged, for the average is
one in oOO.
1 11 Texas, where so many worthy per
sons die with their boots on in the prime
of life, only one octogenarian can be
found in a group of 4U7 citizens. The
average rises again in tho interior States
east of the Mississippi, but iu the great
lake States it falls to one in 2t:, a
good old age being obtained with the
greatest dilliculty in the wealthy and
prosperous State of Illinois. In "seven
States west of the Mississippi River the
aged rarely appear, for the average
proportion is one in !;":. In Iowa a
crop of :VM persons yields only one who
has reached the ago of foiir-scoro: in
Minnesota. Nebraska, and Kansas only
one ol tin's'.1 aged citizens can be found
in a group that would yield two in
Iowa, and in Colorado, l",15() inhabit
ants must pass iu review before an oc
togenarian comes in sight. The old
are even more rare in Nevada, but in
California and Oregon the proportion is
nearly one in 500. If the inhabitants of
the whole country could bo assembled
iu 227 groups it would be possible to
place at the 'fiend of each group on
patriarch of eighty or more years. So
our student, assuming that long life is
the inalienable right of those who re
side in Now Hampshire, Vermont, and
Maine, cries: "Flee to the mountains of
New England for health and longevity."
But these figures, although they may
have been carefully compiled, are mis
leading. Ii the boundaries of our States
were walls so high aud so thick that no
one could get over them, and if these
walls had securely shut in the inhab
itants for eighty or ninety years while
they wero coming into theworld. grow
ing and dying, an enumeration of each
segregated State group, with a state
ment of each person's age, might prove
that in one State old men and women
could le more easily grown than in an
other, and might reveal the best soil for
such mature crops. Boundaries are not
walls. Emigration is a mighty factor
iu this problem. Youngmc 11 amf women
have been going out of New England
into other States, and especially into
the West. Old men and women have
returned to New England to pass their
days where they were born, by the Bide
of ojtjier old men and women who have
passed all their lives there. And so we
find that the young are comparatively
few while tho old are many in the States
of New England. The figures which
relate to other Eastern States should be
accompanied hy the same explanation,
and by others which will occur to every
thoughtful person.
And why should we expect to find
aged men in Colorado or in the other
States which were almost uninhabited a
few years ago? There has not been
time for them to grow there, and very
few of them have gone there from other
parts of the country. The samestatement
can be made concerning other States,
but with less and less force as we ap
proach the Atlantic coast from the west.
The subject grows as we examine it;
many explanations the influence of
foreign immigration, the varyingattrac
tions of one's native soil, mortality in
the late war, a thousand anil one causes
for movements of the young and tho
middle-aged crowd the mind. Fig
ures, it is said, do not lie, but sometimes
they deceive tho-o who handle them
with the best intentions. Long life can
be more easily attained, it is true, in
some places than it can be iu others, but
the figures quoted above throw but little
if an light upon the subject of the in
qu i ry. Ch icatjo Times.
There were seven persons bedded
in two tiny rooms. The father and
mother slept in the best bed. and along
side, in a cot, two little children com
pactly lay. In the other bedroom, iu
one couch, three grown girls spent their
nights. "Inconvenience inseparable
from poverty?" says the writer "I
didn't say that these folks wpre poor.
They were not even in the unspacious
city. Their two wee rooms were in a
seaside hotel, and were further re
stricted by the quantity of female finery
that hung on tho waifs. That is the
kind of suffering that thousands of well-to-do
New York families go off volun
tarily to endure." N. Y. Herald.
-
H the cows leak their milk when
coming home from the pasture at night,
it will probably pay to milk them three
timea a day while the pasture holds good.
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.
Widow Van Cott claims the credit
of sixty recent conversions at Watkias,
N. Y.
Rev. Hugh Miller Thompson, Bish
op of Mississippi, has selected Oxford,
in that State, as his place of residence.
Rov. Charles H. Forney, D. D., edi
tor of tho Christian Advocate, publisbod
at Harrisburg, Pa., has been elected
President of Findlay College.
Moody is doing his best for Boston
by holding crowdea meetings in one of
the theaters, and promising to continue
them nightly all summer. Boston Post.
Of the whole number of graduates
from the Maine State Agricultural Col
lego only oleven per cent, have entered
tho professions. Tho remaindor are en
gaged in industrial pursuits.
Mr. Quintin Hogg, in London, has
given the great sum of $350,000 for tho
purchase aud endowment of the fa
mous old Polytechnic, in Regent stroet,
as a home for his Youths' Christian In
stitute. It has a membership of 2,000,
and classes attended by 4,000 pupils,
with 1,000 others awaiting vacancies.
Tho Central Advocate, published at
St. Louis, publishes a page of letters
from leading Methodists upon tho pro
priety of a change in the limit of tho
term of pastorate. Of those published,
twenty-two favor a removal of tho lim
it, thirteen are opposed, and two are in
a state of suspended animation, so to
speak. Indianapolis Journal.
A correspondent of the Rome (N.
Y.) Sentinel says that a teacher In tho
academy of that city, to whom written
solutions of examples in arithmetic were
handed iu each day by the pupils in her
class, did not examine the solutions, but
cast them into the waste-paper basket;
that the pupils ascertained tuo fact and
passed in blank papers, algebra exam
ples, Latin lessons, and theater bills
without detection, and afterward found
them in the waste-basket, unopened.
Among the scholars of tho Portland
High School, class of 1883. who gradu
ated the other day, was a blinu girl.
She was one of tho best scholars of the
class, and had she taken thekstudy of
geometry which, of course, was utter
ly impossible for her -would have re
ceived a medal, as she stood No. U iu
that class for the four years. She was
always at school anil had perfect lessons.
A blind girl has never been through our
public schools before. Portland Me.)
Artjus.
A Cruel Revenge.
Some time ago an old squatter board
ed a railway train for tho tirst time, and
was naturally very solicitous concern
ing the distance he had to travel aud
what time he would reach his station.
Tho conductor was very curt in his re
ply to tho old fellow's questions.
" Wall, about what hour by sun dods
your contraption git thar?"
" I don't know. '
"You know whar the place is, don't
you?"
" I suppose so."
" Wall, can't you give mo soni's sort
er idee about the go on. then!'' ho con
tinued, as the conductor left him.
Several weeks after the conductor,
together with several railway contem
poraries, went out to tho mountains on
a fishing excursion. Losing their way,
they stopped to inquire the road to
Blue Creek. Tho fanner met them at
the gate, and after a satisfied shake of
the bead, as though a long looked-for
opportunity had come, he invited tho
sportsmen to get out of the wagon.
"Wo haven't got time," said tho
conductor. "We merely wanted to
learn the nearest way to Blue Creek.
Can von give us tho direction?"
" Oh, yes. I've lieen llvin' here for
thirty year, an' have catched many a
fish outen tho creek."
"Well, which way must we go?"
"Lemme see. Thar's several ways.
The finest fish ever tuck outen that wa
ter was snatched out by my son Ike.
Wa'n't it, Ike?" turning to a boy.
"Yas, pap."
"Wa'n't he lively?"
"Yas, pap."
"Didn't ho make you prance around
like a colt?"
" Yas, pap."
"Here, old man, we've got no time to
fool along with you. Which direction
shall we take?" "
"Wall the neardest way is to take
that holler yonder, au' keep down it
till there's a high blurt on each side.
Tho walls of the blurt' will keep gittin'
closer an' closer, but niter a while
they'll widen out. Then you'll bo right
at the creek."
" At a good place?"
"The place whar Ike snatchnd tho
whopper. Ain't it, Ike?"
" Yas. pap."
"Didn't ho make you prance like"
"Drive on!" demanded the conduc
tor. "We can't fool around here any
longer." Thev turned down into tho
"hollow," and the wagon ran over tho
rough stones with a series of concus
sions that seemed to keep the railroad
men in the air half the time. Tho old
man and Ike watched the wagon for a
few minutes, and then laughed boister
ously. "Come on," said the old man; "we'll
whip aroun' an' git thar fust." And
they started over the hill at a rate of
speed surprising for so old a man to at
tain. The wagon proceeded until precipi
tous walls, between the mountains, rose
on each side. Tho pass otow narrow as
the wagon advanced. Darkness came
on, and the great walls frowned upon
the now anxious party. Finally tho
wagon hubs grazed the rocks, and then
with a shock the vehicle stopped.
"This beats the evil ono himself,"
said ono of the conductors. " Hero wo
are stuck, and we can't get out except
by the hind gate or climbing over tho
mules. Can't turn around. Blamed if
I know what we'll do."
" Say, down there," called a voico
from above.
"Hallo, we' ro stuck," exclaimed tho
squatter's conductor. "How can wo
got out?"
" Dinged if I know. It's a pity, too,
for about ten miles from here is whar
Ike caught tho whopper. Ain't it,
Ike?"
" Yas. pap."
' Didn't he make you prance?"
"Yas, pap."
"Say, you old scoundrel." called tho
squatter's conductor, "what made you
get us into such a-trap?"
"Don't reckon you recollect when I
rid on your train; fknowed I'd get you.
In this neighborhood I'm kuowcif as old
Pizen Bill. I came to Arkanstiw 'fore
the sun riz. an' I'm goin' to stay hero
till nrter she sets. Don't sass me. I'll
roll a rock down on you. What time
will you come to your gettin' off place,
do you reckon? You say it don't smell
satisfactory down thar. Reckon not, fur
you are in the biggest buzzard roostyou
ever seed. Well, call by an' see me
when you git out. Good night."
Arkaniaut traveller.
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