The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, September 26, 1883, Image 1
THE JOURNAL. Ouluiubti KATES OF AIHEKTIMIfG. mmmi k ISSUED EVERY WEPXESDAY, "M. El. TTJttlsttR Sc CO., Proorietors and Publishers. STBnsinesa and professional cards of five lines or less, per annum, five dollars. 237 For time advertisements, apply at this office. "2TIgal advertisements at statue rates. BTor transient advertising, see rates on third page. STAH advertisements payable monthly. S3-OFFICE. Eleventh St., up stairs in Journal Building. terms: Per year Six months Tnree months Single copies 2 1 SO es VOL. XIY.-NO. 22. COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 26, 1883. WHOLE NO. 698. i I ! i BUSINESS CABDB. r T. WOOD, 2tt. -. PHYSICIAXd SrZGEOX. grfig. opened the office cupied by Dr. Boneiteel. f rmerlv oc-19-3m. DEHTAL PAB.LOE. Thirteenth St.. and Nebraska Ave., over Friedliof store. Or. ZZTOBice no'urs. to 12 a.m.; lto.lp. m. OLLA ASHBACGH, Dentist. -lOir'Si'x.'il' IS Ac SLiXIVAX, .1 TTOBXEYS-A J -LA W, Up-stair in (ilueV Building, 1Kb street. Above the New hank. H. HI) OSO. XOTABY PUBLIC, ith Street. 2 doors wrt of Hammond House, OAumbus. Xeb. 4Pl.y '-piITCltSTO.'N A: POWERS SUBGF.OX DEXTISTS, 2SOfii-- in bus, Nebraska. Michel! Block. lolutn-11-tf r EER A: REEOEK, ATTOBXF.Y AT LA W Oflict- on Uhv- ("olumtai. Nebraka. C. (,. A. HILLHOR-T, A.M., 31. D., HOMEOPATHIC PHYS1C1AX. 3TTw.. IJlo.k- -outh of ourt Telephone rommi.uicaiion. Hou.-e. 5-1 GFO 'I'. JHM. Elt, -Will tak.- i-outraet- foi- BricklaviHg, Plastering, Stonework, Etc. JSTattn'arti auarant'ed. or n pat. T-t: V. A. MACKEN, DKALER IS Wines, Liquor. Cigars. '. etc Porters, A les. Olne strtre:. next t Firt National Bank. ii0-v M cALIJSTEK BROS., .1 TTORXi: YS A T LA TJ Ollie- u.-tairi in inc. 11th M. AV. A. Publu. 31 AllisterV L-AHiter. build Notarv 31 j. si. ilACFARLANP. a. j:. cowdery. Ctlli::: 4 "... TVWV . LAW AND I'OLLEITIOX-OFFM'E OF MACPAlLbAND & COWDERT. Columbus. yebratka: GEO- . DEKKT. PAIXTEIi. 52J- amazt . house and sign pamtini;, elazing. paper hancin::. Kalsoniinmg. etc. done to crdt-r. shop on loth t.. opposite Engine Houi-. t olumbu.v Neb. !- p II.Rl'SCIIE, llth St.. opposte Lin dellHotel. Sell Harne. Saddles. Collar. "Whip-. Blankets, lurrv ( oxnb. Bruihe.. trunks, valises. tiugiT- tons, ou-hions. earnaire TT-irrT,i in( -. u' Thp l.wer nnitilf ' prires. Repairs pr- mptl attended to. .IOH:S C.TASKER, IReal Estate sreiit, Genoa Nance Co.. Neb. "VTT1LI LANI and improved farm? V for sale. orrespondener solicit ed. Office il Youuj'- building, up-stairs. o. c. SHiAJsrrosr, XlAXUFACTCttER OK Tin and Sheet-Iron Ware ! Job-Work, "Roofing and Gutter ing a Specialty. 23r"5hot ol EIMeutn trt-et. opposite Hemtz's liru sion . -" G W. CLAKK. LAXD AXIt JXSLHAXCE A GEXT, HUMPHREY. XEBP. His lands comprint somt line tracts in the shell creek Vallev. and the north ern portion !: PI tt- county. Taxes paid for non-residents. satisfaction iru&ranteed. i" v COL U3TB US, - XP.B., Packers and Dealers in all kind of Ho? product. cah paid for Live or Dead Hoes or grease. Directors. K. H Henry. Prest.: John "Wigrius. sci and Treas.: L. Gerrard, S. Cory. "VOTICE TO TEACHERS. J. E. Moncrief, Co. Snpt., 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 forthe transaction of any other business pertaining to schools. 5CT-t i TRACTOR AND BUILDER. Plan- and estimates supplied for either frame or brick building. Good work euaranteed. Shop on 13th Street, near St. Paul Lumber Yard. Columbus. Ne braska. 52 6mo. J. WAGNER, Liverv and Feed Stable. Is prepared to furnish the public w;'th good teams, bugcies and carriages for all occasions, especiallv for funerals. Alo conducts a sale stable. 44 D.T. Maettx. M. D. F. Schug. M. D., (Deutscher Artz.) Dte. MaILTYK & SCHTJG, U. S. Examining Surgeons, Local Surgeons. Union Pacific and 0-,X. &B.H.E.H'e, COLUMBUS. - NEBRASKA. 32-vol-xiii-v COLUMBUS STATE BANK! Suztzizn:: 3sm:i J COLUMBUS, HEB. CASH CAPITAL, $50:000 D I HECTORS: Leaxdeu Gerkakd. Pres'i. Geo. W. Hulst, Vice' Pres'i. Julius A'. Reed. Edward A. Geekard. Absek Thestek, Cashier. k or lepoii. UUcoun: m1 EickaBc. Collection Promptly Made on all PolBtK. Pay it. Imieret on Time Iepo 27i DREBERT & BRIGGLE. BAXKEKS! HUMPHREY, NEBRASKA. SSTPrompt attention given to Col lections 'Insurance, Real Estate. Loan. etc. JOHN HEITKEMPER. Eleventh Street, oppo Lindell Hotel. lie the COTTJCBJJB. NEBRASKA, Ha on hand a lull assortment of GROCERIES'' PROVISION'S. CROCKERY & GLASSWARE, Pipes, Cigars and Tobacco. IIishet prife paid for t ountry Produce. Uoods delivered in citv. GIVE ZVLE A CALL! .!OII IIE1TKENPEK. ot- LOUIS SCHREIBEE. r. All kinds of Repairing done on Short Notice, buggies, Wag ons, etc, made to order, and all work Guar anteed. Also sell the world-famous Walter A. Wood Mowers. "Reapers, Combin ed Machines, Harvesters, and Self-binders the best made. Shop opposite the " Tattersall." Ol ive St., COLU3IBUS. --Cm-.- H. "LITERS & CO. BLACKSMITHS AXD "Wagon Builders, n Brick Shop oppoit Helnti's Drur .store. ALL KINDS OF WOOD AND IRON WORK WAGONS AND BUGGIES DONE ON SHORT NOTICE. ON Eleventh Street, Columbus, XebrasKa. .50 NEBRASKA HOUSE, S. J. MARMOT, Prop'r. Nebraska Ave., South of Depot, COLUMBUS, 3EB. A new house, newly furnished. Good accommodations. Board by day or week at reasonable rate. STStst si Firwi-Clas Table. Meals,. .25 Cts. Lodrinirs 3S-2tf " "" .25 Cts. 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 p"overtv. VTe offer a preat chance to make monev. TTe want many men, women, boys and girls to work for us right in their own localities Any one can dothe work properlv from the first start. The ''usiness will pav 1 more than ten times ordinarv wares. Ex pensive outnt furnished. 2o one who engases 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 Sxrxsox & Co.. Portland, Elaine. . J. S. MURDOCK & SOX, Carpenters and Contractors. Have had 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 ns an oppor tunitytoestinateforyorn. 3JSbop' on 13th Stone door west of Friedhof & Cos. store, Colmabns, Jsebr. 4fc3-y 6-tf 1 FIRST National Bank ! COZjTXSffSUS. NEB. Anthorized Capital. Cash Capital. 8250,000 50,000 OFFICERS XD DIRECTORS. A. ANDERSON. Preset. SAil'L C. SMITH. Vic Pres't. u. T. ROEX. Cashier. .1. V.'. EARLY, ROBERT rilLlG. HERMAN OEHLRICII. W. A. MCALLISTER, G. ANDERSON", T. ANDERSON". Foreign and Inland Exchange, 1'aisasre Tickets, Ri'ril Estate. Loan ana Insurance. 2H-YoM3-lt COALi? LIME! iJ.E.KORTE&CO., -DEALERS IN Coal, Lime, Hair, Cement. fiork Spring L'oa! S7.00 per Ion CHrbon (Wyoming) Coal u.Ol) Eldon ilowa ConI 150 " Blacksmith Coal of best quality ways on hand at low est prices. al- NoTth Side Eie1111 st- COLUMBUS. NSB. 14-3U1 BECKER & WELCH. phoim:ietoi: of SHELL CREEK MILLS. MANUFACTURER:- AND WHOLE SALE 1EALER IN FLOUR AND MEAL. O FFICB, COL UATIi US. XEB. SPE1CE & NORTH, General Agents for the Sale of REAL ESTATE. Union Pacitic. and 31idland Pacilic j R. R. Lands for sale at from $3.00 to J10.00 j per acre for cash, or on nve or ten years ! time, in annual payments to suit" pur- chasers. "We have also a larce and choice lot of other lands, improved and unimproved, for sale at low price and ; on reasonable terms. Also business and ; residence lots in the city. We keep a j complete abstract of title to all real es-j tate in Platte County. (21 COLU9IRIJS. -"NEB. LADS, FABM8, CLTY PROPERTY POR SALE. AT THE Union Pacfic Land Office, On Long Time and low rate of Interest. t AH wishing to buy Rail Road Lands or Improved Farms will find it to their ' advantage to call at the U. P. Land Office before lookin elsewhere as I ; make a specialty of buying and selling I lands on commission; all persons wish ing to sell farms or unimproved land ' wilbnnd it to their advantage to leave j their lands with me for sale, as my fa. ; cilities for affecting sale? are unsur- ! passed. I am prepared to make final proof for all parties wishing to get a patent for their homesteads. ' JSK. W. Ott, Clerk, writes and l speaks German. v SAMUEL C. SMITH, i Agt. TJ. P. Land Department. I C21-y COLUMBUS, XEB. HENRY GASS, "DISTDEHTAjSZEH ! COFFINS AND METALLIC CASES AXP VXJlLERIS Furniture, Chairs, Bedsteads, Bu reaus. Tables. Safes. Lounges, &c. Picture Frames and Mouldings. THepairiag of all kinds of Upholstery Goods. COLUMBUS, EB. TEE GL0BI0U8 DAYS OF COLD. I remember. I remember. My boyhood's blizzard blbrht; The broken window where the snow Cam- drifting in at nsrht- It came whene'er the are was out, When ma had pone away: But now I wish that icy ni?ht Would come again to stay. I remember. 1 remember, Tne nose red and white. The frozen ears that tingled so Oh! what a cooling sight! The show-bouse that my brother built. And where I used to lie Until my bones were quite congealed Oh. would it now were nigh: I remember. I remember. Where 1 was wont to state: The pond was smooth as glist'ning glass Whereon I broke my pate. My buoyant spirit, then so light. Is hot and heavy now. And summer's pool can no more cool The fever on my brow. I remember. I remember. The cold and icy church; I used to think the minister Would freeze fast to his perch. Those frigid days have passed away. And now 'tis little joy To feel that I'm much nearer heat. Than when I was a bov. A", Y. Mammy Journal. COUSLX TOM'S WEDDING. It was to be in the church, with mu sic and flowers, and my brothel Claude and I were to walk up'the middle aisle and lead the procession. "Now vou must both out on vour best behavior, saidmother.afterwehadwor- bnt not verv bad onlv he can,t 3tand ried ourselves mto our new clothes on , up ion2. en6ugh to be'married vet. and the all-important night; then she kissed , But I'll take vou to him right us just as if we d been aomg to bed, and j awav " sent us off to the churcn an hour before , Well, she didn't scream nor sav she the time. , was going to faint, but just held "on to We found the sexton just opening the . mv hand tighu and Iet e Iead her t doors and he let u go round with him , in the dark We found Claude on the while he lighted up. and then I pro-1 sidewalk, holdinir the door of the car posed tnat we should stand outside and naire ouen. aild ordering the coachman watch the people come. (wBo looked a if he thought we were -IwonderuCousmTom feels nerv- elODing with the bride to 3rive to the ous. said Claude, as we walked down , g ftore. We all three got in. and the steps under the awning. "Ishouldn t were off before the people in the church think he would, though, tor you know , had a chance to thmk anvthilJfr else doctors But I sav. Ben, what s the . h.,r .J,., ,ini-n ;. i.:. .uu u.i matter down the street there? See all that crowd? Let's run and find out." "Come on." I cried: "I'll beat vou there," and forgetting all about ourgood uiuLiics auu uesi utiuswur, we uom staned ofl down the biock. "Oh. somebody's been run over, or something!" I exclaimed, as 1 won the race and found a lot of people bendinc over the form of a man lving on the grass in front of the Baptist Church. We both stood still for a minute, and I was trying to listen to what a gentle man next to me was telling a policeman, when Claude pulled me by the sleeve and whispered that it might be the verv case cousin loin, wno bad just STadu ated at the Medical School, was waiting lor "Let's tell him all about it!" -I cried. "Quick, before they get somebody else:" and then we both tore off to his lodg ings, around the corner, and pulled the bell as if the house was atire. I tell you, the girl came to the door m a hurry, and without waiting for her r annniin n. . li'.i rvit.-ii .-...-.& CoiiMP Tom , room, and rushed m to ftndhmi just putting on his white satin neck-tie. .., j i . i . , . , wu uuuuuu-uu.ck. euom i-Hiny suuuicu. ouui a Wliy. boy.-, what's the matter?" he exclaimed, makinir muddle of his cra- vat. "Has Alice iainted. or the dress maker forrotten to endher dress home, or what?" "Xo, no." cried Claude. "There's a man hurt, and an awful crowd, and " "Quick, how far from here?" inter rupted Cousin Tom. leaving the two pri(J nf Hi ti hnnrinrr orw cnntnli?nn. . .p -T'"!r' "" JU""";"'s ms pea-jacKei. "i can spare just twenty minutes." "Why. it's only around the corner, in front "of the "Baptist Church." I replied, dancing around the room in great excitement: and then we all three raced off. "Where is he. boys?" cried Cousin Tom. and Claude pointed inside the railing that ran in front of the church, and against which, strange to say. no bodv was leaning. Then, not waiting t hunt up the gate, our cousin, who was a trreat stra- j ping fellow, shouldered his way through the crowd, and without paying anv j attention to the efforts some of the ! people made to hold him back, he ' placed his hand on the top rail of the ' fence to vault over. ! The next instant he gave a spring backward instead of forward, ancf fell against Claude, who. of course fell ' asrainst me. and we all three went down one after another like a row of , bricks, while the nnil pt mi snoK n ! veil that you misht have thought thev ! had all turned into wild Indians on the war-path. Being boys, and quite used to hard knock-C neither Claude nor I wa hurt, and we sprang up as livelv as ever when Cousin Tom was lifted oil of us. But there was not much spring about him. and we were awiully frich? ened when we found that he couldn't even speak. Then they explained the whole thin to us. which was something like this: there was an electric lightin front of the store next the church, and in some way the stuff the electric nuid or what ever it is had got off' the track, or the wires, and run into the fence, and so whoever touched it got a most tremen dous shock. That was what was the matter with the man inside, and the crowd had tried to warn Cousin Tom. but he was too excited about o-etrin"- an i interesting case to listen. ' "Oh. if he's killed, it' all our fault ' for telline him about it!" moaned Claude. "And he was going to be married in half an hour." 1 added, despairinglv. "And Miss Lord'll be in the church waiting for him. and when he don't come she mav have ftt or snmPtfciTirT and oh, Claude, how can we tell her?" ! Bv this time thev had ninkprl Prmcin ed Cousin ' Tom up and carried him into a dnif ' oIutlon- I think he is the best Consul store a few doors off. They told as he ! . service of the Government. You was only stunned, and would probablv i 3ut"ge. therefore, whether the re be able to sit up in the course of half moval of such a Consul is not calculated an hour. As he hadn't lived in town a to occasion regret." When he finished, week yet, nobody in the crowd knew ; wIl'"e. ne stood looking at me with the who he was. and so the burden of car- ! P611 n k"3 band. I delibcratelv tore the rying the dreadful knewsto the weddinc ' partv fell upon Claude and me. "It's five minutes to eiht now." sn. nounced mv brotner. nervouslv. as hav ing left word with the druggist that we would soon be back with friends and a carriage, we hurried off to the Episcopal ' me to interest myself, but by the apnli Chnrcn. "Cousin Tom was to be in ' c&nl nimself. From Thurlow Weed's the vestry by this time, and, oh my! Autobiography. won't it be awful to have Miss Lord -- walk up the aisle on her father's arm, Felix, the man-milliner rival of and then find nobody to marry her?" ' Worth. made twentv-five visirino- "But. Claude." I proposed, a bright dresses, twentv-five ball dresses, twenty idea suddenly striking me. "if we can .morning and" five o'clock dresses and only get to the church soon enough to 1 undresses too numerous to count, for see her drive up. we can tell her then, j Miss Murphv, the California heiress, and have the coachman keep rieht on I who recentlv married Lord Wolseley, in to the drug store." " (England. "The very thing!" cried Claude. ; -. "Let's run for it." ; a nnp.lTni -mon Toik. n And run we did. but. alas! arrived at the church just in rime to seethe bride's I carriage drive away from the awning emprv. We could hear the organ playing and the people whispering that the proces sion would soon begin to move toward the altar. "Oh. why don't they make sure Cous in Tom's here first?'" I exclaimed, in a whisper. "Perhaps they will, returned Claude. at any rate tney ougnt io wait tor us to lead off; but, stop.Tve got a plan, and though it's a kind of desperate one, it 'if save Miss Lord having a scene before everybody. I'll " and he spoke the rest verv softlv in mv ear. "Why, Claude, dare you"? I cried, under mv breath. "And do vou know how to do it?" "Yes, I noticed the place when we were in here with the sexton. Now do you think you can get up close to Miss Lord before I count twenty slowly?" I nodded and hurried into the church, leaving Claude to take up his station in a dark corner of the vestibule. The procession was evidently waiting for us, and as fast as I could I squeezed a wav through the crowd to take mv place in front ofthe bride. She smiled when she cauehr sight of me, and put out her hand. Then just as 1 took it even- light in the church went out. and 1 knew Claude had succeeded in his plan of turning off the gas. "Don't be frfehtened. Miss Lord." I whispered, still keeping hold of her hand, "but come out with me to the PrtrHflorA hwrtqnco f"Vmci TViyt, l,,.. so suddenlv been plunsred. But but did the electric fluid put out the lfcrhts in church?" asked Mis? 1 Lord after we had explained to her 1 about Cousin Tom's shock. ' "Oh no: I turned off the eras." said i Claude, promptly. "Don't "you think it was a good way to keep people from staring at you and jrossipintr when thev found the groom didn't come?" "Yea. I see now, and I am sure I am very much obliged for your thoushtful ness: but what will papa and mamma think has become of "me?" "That? so!" I exclaimed. "We for got all about that pan of it. Stop the , ojd. aSd found the church lighted up i camaee. and 111 run back: which I acmin a Digger crowd than ever inside. and Air. and Airs. Lord rushing about in even' direction in search of their daughter. I was a little frightened at first, but remembering how much the bride had been spared by our plan, I walked bold- -p- I j v up to the "distracted parents, and . irksome time, but I told the storv as qnictail Could. and I had scafcelv J:.i.,j ...i . . ., . - i ""iaueu. ivuL'a uacK. caiue tne With Cousin Tom and 31Us Lord both ;,. ; i in it. I jumped as if I had -een a ghost, and indeed Tom looked like one. but de clared that he was every bit strong enough to go through with the cere mony. Miss Lord was already in her mother's arms, anil I was awfully afraid we'd have a scene, after all. but luckily everybody thought it was be cause the as had crone out. and in ten ! . c,t i minutes thev were safelv married, and nobody out of the family the wiser. Bartcr. Young People. How Thurlow Weed Secnred an Ap pointment. In 1SG1 a number of New York mer chants asked Mr. Weed to secure a Consular appointment for a veteran clerk a real "Tim Llnkinwater" who, being an Englishman, wanted to r home to end his days there. He says: Mr. Seward requested hL- son Fred erick, the Assistant Secretary, to find a place for him. I went to "the depart ment with Frederick, and in looking over his Consular register carefully. h eye finally rested on" Falmouth, where upon examination he found that the Consul wa. an Englishman, and had held the office more than twenty vears. It wa decided, therefore, that bne En glishman should give place to another, that other being an Americanized Englishman. I reported, thi determin- ftiou to the Secretary, who immediate- lv sent mv inend s name to the Presi dent: and when the messenger returned with Mr. Lincoln's approval. Mr. Hun ter, the chief clerk, was directed to fill up the commission and obtain the Presi dent's signature in time for me to take it to New York that afternoon. Between four and live o'clock p. m. I went to Mr. Hunter for the commission, which lay before him on his desk. He rose somewhat deliberately (as is his man ner), took the commission jn his hand and delivered it to me without speak ing, but with evident reluctance. 1 said; "Is it all right, Mr. Hunter?" He replied: "I have obeyed orders." "But." I added, "you do not seem pleased. Is there anything wron" about the appointment?" ""I have nothing to sav about the appointment. but L faave aeTer dischanred a dutv since l came mto uQ Department with so much regret." He said: "The first commission that I hlled out when T 1 came into office twenty-six years a-o f was for Mr. Fox, our" counsel at Fal i mouth, who succeeded his then recentlv deceased father, who received his ap 1 pointment from President Washington. Tne Consular accounts of Mr. Tax r as neatly and accurately kept as those ot "-,eneral V ashington during the Rev- commission into strips, threw them into the waste-paper basket, and left rli department for the cars- When I ex plained in 2sew York hat had occurred at Washington it -vvas approved, not only by the gentleman who had asked Georgia, is attracing much attenion at , - - T-o-" ?"" " -"". vi"i.. Augusta, Ga., bv Ins pereformances on one foot. He walks a wire rope, dancer jigs and. hops n mile in thirteen min utes. Louisville Courier-Jourwi Adopting Grandpa. An old man not ragged, but clad in old -and faded and time-worn garments, and moving with feeble steps and weary air sat down under a tree on John R. street the other day to rest a bit. Three or four children were plav ing in the yard at his back, and directly a mite of a girl looked through the fence and asked: "Would vou hurt a little girl?" "Bless me, no!" he replied. "Whv. I'd even step aside to pass a bug or a worm! No, child, I wouldn't Hurt a hair of your head for all the money in the world." "Are you anybody's grandpa?' she inquired" as the other chiidrencrowded up. "No not now, child. There was a time dear me! but it hurts my old heart to remember it when children called me grandpa. It was years ago years and years, but I can almost hear their voices yet." "Be you crying?" "N-no. The tears will spring up as I recall the past, but I'm not crying. There are days when I can't keep 'em back nights when I am a chilu. but Fm tryiuir to be strong just now." "I guess I'll come out and see you. My doll's broke her neck and is most dead. "Come right along, child! I used to mend legs and arnis and necks when the children brought their dolls to me." The little one passed through the gate and sat down beside the poor old man. and while he sought to save the life of the "most dead" doll by means of a stick and a string the child ob- j served: "You must be quite, old, grandpa; you are all skin and bone." "Old? Bless you. yes! I was eighty one only a week or two ago. Yes, I'm poor in desh as well as in purse." "So vour grand-children had dolLj, eh?" "Yes. dear dolls and toys and fine clothes and books and everything they wanted. 1 was rich then." " "And did thev comb vour hair?" "O.yes." "And sine: to vou?" "Yes." "" ' "Well. I guess I'll sin? you a soncr. for I'm going tQ ask ma ifl'can't adopt you as my grandpa. You must excuse my voice, for 1 swallowed a pin the other day and ma expects it to work out of my shoulder this fall. I guess I'll sing about the three little graves. Don't look at me or I shall forget." And in a voice full of childish quavers. and trequently stopping a if to swal low some of the words she sunir: ''Under an elm thrtrr little craves Under the sod my children three: The years may pas. but my heart will grieve And sorrow vclll ever rest wiih me. "Under the elm I walked to-day. I looted ." "Why, grandpa, the tears are just running down your cheeks!" "Y-yes, child I can't help it! My poor old life is full of graves and griefs!" "Is your wife dead?" "Long ago. child." "And all the children?" "Dead or scattered. I am all alone." "Well, that's funny. You can wipe your eyes on my apron, if you want to!" "Here's your doll good as new." "Inat s nice. It I should adopt you I'd keep you mending dolls all "the time. Have vou nrot over crvin?" "Yes. child." " "Well, tiien. you must be hunirry. I'm always hungry after a sood crv. Wait a minute." She ran into the house to return with a generous slice of bread and butter and a piece of meat, and as she handed the food to the old man she said: "I've grot to ro in now. but we'll re member that I've adopted you as mv grandpa. Don't cry any more, anil come back to-morrow. Good-bv, grandpa!" "Good-by!" And men who passed by saw an old man with his fa?e in his hands to hide his tears, and when they asked the matter, a child who stood by explained: "Why. sir. he's crying because he's all alone in the world, and a little girl has adopted him!" Detroit Free Press. Fair Woman's Latest Accomplishment. A train on the Fitchburg Railroad was just pulling out of Cambridge. Mass., at the rate of about twelve miles an hour, when a woman apparentlv about a quarter of a century in years grace ful, pretty and charming, said in a healthy tbne: "Is this Cambridge?" A nod from the interrogated partv in the affirmative caused the fair one to jump from her seat and rush to the rear end of the car. The men were startled and one or two ancient relics of the feminine gender uttered a consumptive shriek as the belated passenger reached the platform, and both men and women rose in their seats all expecting that the excited beauty would alight from the moving train and go through a series of gyrations which should put to shame a Fourth of July pinwheel after it came off the barn door and was so'rng it through the grass on its own responsi bility. But in this all were mistaken. She did nothing of the sort: she grasped the guard rail with one hand, sent one one dandy little foot earthward, poised for a moment, and then swung off" that train in a manner that would have made the brakeman on the head end of a iocal freight train pale with envy. ine ague young lanv landed and kept right side up. raised her parasol, and with a saucy toss of iier h'ead, walked towards the depot, proud in an achieve ment heretofore never dreamed of bvher sex. Boston Herald. "o "Dull Season for Xews.' Talk about "the dull season for news!" There was once, but now is no more. All the news centers of the world are tapped by the telegrapjiic wires. The ticking of the instrument is unceasing. Newspaper men. like race-horses, appear to go faster in hot weather than at any other time. In every well-regulated office in the coun try, in the small hours every night, a cross kind of man. called a manain editor, goes around with a big club knocking off" "heads." knocking out "columns" and squeezing up the paper so it can buckle its belly-band for a red hot run through the press to catch the first morning train. O. no, thank you. The man who was constantly comin around asting: "Don't you want some thing with which to fill up your paper?" Was shot down stairs long ago. Cincin nati Commercial Gazette. The recent explosion of several soda fountains and the poisonin" of a hundred people from eating ice cream, has been a regular bonanza to a multi tude of nice young men. If the scare runs through the season a good many of them could take tree claims in Dakota and have money to lend. Chicago Inter-Ocean. The "White. ElephaBt" let WUfe A low wall rising behind the Palace of Justice inclosed the royal gardens and the palace occupied by the King. We moved several hundredyards away to the, left, followed by several curious Burmese soldiers andpalace officials, and stopped in front of a huge teak building, at the large open doorway of which paced half a dozen sentries. Signor Andreino whispered that this was the white elephant's palace. At last! Here I was. then, on the very threshold of an edifice containing one of the most famous animals in the world a beast so remarkable that sober-sided occidentals did not credit its existence. Andreino spoke to the captain of the guard, tipped him slyly some buck sheesh. and he motioned us in silence to enter. I now found myself in a large and lofty hall. The roof was elaborately carved teak and the floor consisted of hard-pressed earth. On the walls were hung green, yellow, white and blue standards, golden shields and sigantio basins and vessels of a thousand fantas tic shapes. Hero and there upon the floor gold and silver vessels were strewn in careless profusion. "There stands the lord and owner of all this magnifi cence," said Signor Andreino, as he pointed to the center of the floor. The white elephant! There he stood, chained heavily to stakes planted in the ground. Was he all my fancy painted him? By no means. The great sacred white ele phant was a slaty-covered, wicked-looking brute, without a patch of that snowy whiteness which I had associated with him as much as the Doe of Ryl stone. His trunk, with which he was viciously tossing bundle of hay over his back, was mottled with flesh-colored leprous-looking spots: his eyes were small, slat -gray and ablaze "with sup pressed hre. his ears were mottled in the same curious way as his .trunk, and his body, as I have said, was a dark slaty-gray. A Burmese, stripped to the waist, was vigorously rubbing the great brutes hide with something that looked like a brick. Could it be possible3 He was actually pumice-stoning his sacred majesty! I have no doubt whatever that constant pumice-stoning had pro duced the slaty color, and I should not wonder if the whole hide by this time is not much thicker than a dime. Turning to the Italian I expressed my disappointment at not seeing a genuine white elephant, as 1 had expected, and he counseled me that it would be wise to affect an admiration for the brute, because already there were gathered at the doorway a number of sulleu-looking Burmese. I walked round and round "his Majesty." pretending to be aston ished, which I was. As for him he kept following me with his piercing little gray eyes and penduluming hi trunk in anything but an amiable fashion. I was to him evidently as much of a curiosity as he was to me. only he would have liked to smash up the curiosity. I asked Signor Andreino to say to the pumice stoning attendant, in a jocular way. of course, that the sacred beast was not white after all. Suspending his pumice stoning for an instant and drawing him self up to his full height, the Burmese replied with creat dignity: "The King says it is!" That settled it. Tne King said the white elephant was white and nobody else uad a word to say. if the King had said it was pea-nven. sky blue or magenta it would have been all the same. Philadelphia Times. Convicts Exchange Personalties. One of the queerest cases on record developed itself to-day. Policeman Garham yesterday took a captured con vict to Huntsville penitentiary and re turned to the officers there. This morn ing Garham. having nothing to do, thought he would call up George Ha selmeyer, who had been sentenced at the last term of the Harris County Court to seventeen years in the peni tentiarv for horse-stealinjr. Garham knew Hasselmever. so when the con vict who answered to that name was brought up he was astonished to find that it wa-s not the same person who had been sentenced under that name. The penitentiary Warden insisted that it was the only Hasselmeycr confined in the penitentiary, whereupon the con vie;, seeing that further concealment was useless, made a comession. it seems that James Kennon, who was sentenced at the same term of court as Ha-selmeyer to three years, and Has selmeyer were chained together, and on the way to Huntsville Hasselmeer made the as.tounding proposition to Kennon that they should change names and terms. Hasselmeyer offering Ken non $1,000 to work his seventeenyears' sentence, while he should work the three ears' sentence of Kennon. Ken non accepted the projosition. When Hasselraeyer's name was called at the penitentiary and he was told to register Kennon stepped forward and declared that he wa the man. As neither the Warden nor the guard who brought the convicts to Huntsville knew the names of the men the ruse was completely successful, and had it not been for the mere ehance of Garham asking to see Hasselmeyer, whom he happened to know, i: is something that might hap pen at any rime, and yet none of the officers would be anywiser, as they are not supposed to know the convicts per sonally until after tiey are registered at the penitentiary. Hasselmeyer was found on a convict plantation working . 1 ! under the name of Kennon. He had been working outside of the walls, as short-term prisoners are not so closely confined and guarded as are those in for a long term. Houston Tex.) Special to Jit. Louis Globe-Democrat. A. Russian Solomon. The St. Petersburg Herald relates that recently in a South Russian village a peasant was accused of a theft. The culprit kept out of the way. but sent an advocate to plead his cause before the local judicial magistrate. The lawyer employed all his eloquence to convince the Judge that his client was innocent, but his clever appeal had no effect upon the magistrate, who knew the accused and had probably condemned him be fore he heard the details of the case. He gave the sentence five and twenty blows with a rod. The villaseSolomon was informed that the criminal could not be found. "Never mind.' he ob served. "Justice must have its course. As the criminal is not in our hands, we decree that his advocate shall receive the flogging. The man who has tho face to defend such a rascal deserves to be punished. The luckless lawyer in vain protested against the illegality, absurdity and utter injustice of tne monstrous sentence. The loss of his time and his fees, he contended, would be quite sufficient punishment. But the stiff old Russian Solomon was inexor able, and the lawyer was actually seized, bound and received the twenty- five strokes as the representative of the absent criminal. , SCHOOL JL5D CHUBCH. An effort is being made to build a church for deaf mutes at Philadelphia. An outline of the temple at Jerusa lem, traced on glass, has been found in the Catacombs at Rome. A Hartford girl twelve years old, being asked how far she was advanced in school, replied that she was "in geo graphj on the second floor." Hartjord Evenina Post. vening Post. The Garfield Memorial Church, on the site of the little frame buiidin"- on Vermont Avenue. Washington, wnere Garfield worshiped with his mother and his wife, is about finished. WasJi ington Star. In the village of Todorag, Sivas field. Western Turkey. L? a Protestant school taught by a girl. This) brave girl conducts religious services on the Sabbath, reading a sermon, and her ser vice is drawing tn the villagers. A Joint Commission, representing the five Ohio Annual Conferences of the M. E. Church, has issued an address to the ministers and members of the M. E. Church in Ohio on the proposition to imbed in the constitution an enactment for the utter extermination of the liquor traffic. Chicago Inter-Ocean. A Christian church now marks the battle field of Isandhlwana. in Zululand. where the Prince Imperial was killed. The church is a Gothic structure of white sandstone, and was very recently dedicated. Ritualism marked the cere mony, the bishop was vested in white cope and mitre, two tapers glimmered on the altar, and a large brass croso glistened above the vase of flowers. At a colored camp-meeting near Columbus, O., one of the evening exer cises was the "breaking of Gideon's lamps." in illustration of the Bible storv of Gideon and his band. who. when warred upon by the Philistines, came upon them at "night from different di rections and broke .their lamps with a great noise, causing the flight of their enemies. The procession ofnegro Gid eonites formed at headquarters and marched through tie audience, coming upon the enemy at three different points when the breaking of lamps took place. Chicago Tribune. Bishop Warren says the assertion that the Southern negro ministers are leading their flocks astray by wicked lives is not true, as far as it relates to ministers of the Methodist Church. Every minister, white or black, is every year examined as to his character in open conference. Occasionally a man is found who gives evidence of" having fallen from grace. He Is tried, and 5' found guilty is expelled from the minis trv. In one case at the last conference, where Bishop Warren presided, a min ister was thus dealt with whose offense was not lewdness or drunkenness, but the fact that he did not pay his debts. Chicago Xews. The Baptist Weekly thus condemns a variety ofs religious persecution: "If there is a species of punishment mnr execrable than another, it is that of making children learn scriptures as a penalty for their offences. The Rev. Charles Garrett, the President of the Wesleyan Conference, says he Iately found in a school a boy who for some offence was ordered to "learn a portion of Scripture, and above all chapters the fourteenth of John And there the poor little fellow stood sobbing and murmur ing as best he could: 'Let not vour heart be troubled ' How can bovs "so treated love the Bible?" PUXGEXT PARAGRAPHS. If you make a speech be sure that your speech is out before the audience is. Like the dog in the manner, the nose Ls above kissing, and Ls alwavs ready to interfere with the kissin"- "of others. " "I have a bright prospect before me," said the loafer. "You always will have." remarked Fog;r. "I don't think you will ever catch "up to it." Boston Transrripi. Indignation will fill the breast of every artist when we state that two men were arrested in a lumber-vard the other day, because they were suspected of a design on wood. Chicago Herald. An Alabama girl three years old. ongoing to the window earlv'one foo-v moming, cried out. "U, "come here and look, mamma. The skv is . all crammed down to the ground." It Ls estimated that the Delaware peach crop this season -will be from two-thirds to three-fourths of a full crop." As there never has been a "full" crop of peaches in that State, it is difficult to tell upon what the grow ers base their estimates. Xorrtstown Herald, A high school girl explained to her friend that to say. "he kicked the the bucket. is slang, and that the polite slanir. and expression is. "he propelled his pedal extremities with violence against a familiar utensil used for the transpor tation of water and other fluids " X Y. Post. Our amiable young cousin. Bar oness Burdett-Coutts-Bartlett. etc., holds S20VXW.00O m United States funds. A recent interview with the Baroness convinces us that she intends to hold them. too. That's the gall of it. Georrina was alwavs that kind of a girl. Burdette. Charlie went to see the apple of his eye the other evening, and," after a proper amount of affectionate convers. i tion, said: "I'll rive vou a pair of ear rings, dear, if you'll earn them bv let ting me bore your ears." "Haven't I earned them "already, then?" queried the fairobject of his affections. Chicago Tribune. Some people assert that thev will believe only what they can see. What is clearlv demonstrable thev will ac cept, but nothing else. These very people, however, believe with all then might that they have brains, and vet they never saw them, and other folks at any rate have no evidence that they possess them. X. Y. Herald. The young doctors who have been let ioose from the schools on a confiding and physii- loving public are likelv to try many experiments very interesting to all except, perhaps, the subjects of them. They remind one of the illiter ate fellow who. on being told that a certain patient was convalescent, said, "Why, that is nothing. I can cure con valescence in three "hours. Chicago Xews. President Grevy. of France, is a great coffee-drinker when he can get coffee fit to drink. Calling one day at s country hotel for a cup he asked: "Have you any chicory?" "Yes, sir." "Bring" me "some." The landlord brought a small can full. "Is that all you have?" "No. sir. we have a little, more." "Well. let me have it, too." Another can was brought. "Positive ly, this is every gram vou have? "Yes. sir." "Very well; now go and sake me a cup of coffee."