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TMffi JOTJRK&L. "issirirn kveky wKDXEfePAY M. K. TUItlSTER &o CO., Proprietors and Puhliihera. V- 0"vi KATES OFABTEBTHUC. EsTBaainsas and professional card of five lines or leas, per annum, five dollars. hilmtiui i ' For time advertisements, applr at this oface. 3"L al advertisements at status rates- tSTFor transient advertising, sss rates on third pags. X3TAH adTsrtissmsnts payable monthly. -JSB" OFFICE, Eleventh St., ' up " in Journal Building. . ; tkrms: r ... Per year Six month? Three months Single copies r-ji COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 21, 1883. WHOLE NO. 706. 03 hi; ipttpi BUSINESS CAEDS. pilAS. SLOASE. (Yek Lnt)" CHINESE LA UN DRY. iBTUmicr -Star Clothing Store" Ne braska Avenue, Columbus. 28-jm C. T. WOOD, M. .. PHYSICIAN & SURGEON. jHas opwied the office f rmerli "oc cupied b Dr. Bonesteel. 19:3m. DENTAL PAELOR. On Thirteenth St., and .Nebraska, Ave., over Friedhofa store. ' - jgj-OiHcc hours, 8 to 12 a. m.; 1 to 5 p. m. Olla Ashuaugh, Dentist. ' ATTORN EYS-AT-LAJrL Upstairs in Guck Building, 11th street, Above the New bank. TJ J. HUIMOX, r ' 'x . NOTARY PUB Lib,' ' 12tfc Street, i doors went or Haraoad House, Columbus, Neb. 491-y rpilURSTOX & POWERS, SURGEON DENTISTS, 3-Oflice in Mitchell Bloek, Colum bus, Nebraska. 11-" p GER Jk BEEDEIti ATTORNEYS AT LAW, ' Office on Olive St., Columbus Nebraska. ;- -'-t f ' " pi G. A. UULLIIOKST, A.M., M. D., HOMEOBA Till C I'JIYSIGIAN, jSTTwo Works south of Court House. Telephone communication. 5-ly V. A. MACKEN, DKALER IX Wines, Liquors. Cigars, Porters, Ales, e'r., etc. Olive Street, next to First NationsBank. 50-y VfcAI-MMTEIt 1SKOS., X A TTORNE YS A T LA W, Office up-stair- in McAllister's build ing. 11th M. V. A- McAllister, Notary Public. J . M. MACKAULAX1J, U- CO WDF.ItY, Attcrcey ass S:t ir? ?sW :. Collector. LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE Ol; MACFARIjAND & COWDERX, Columbus, : "' : Nebraska G EO. A. DEBKY, PAINTER. lS"Carriagc, houc and .siu painting, Klnzing, paper hanging, kalsouiining, etc. done to order. Shop on 13th St., opposite Engine Houm Columbus Neb. 10-y F II. RV'SCIIE, llth St., opposite Lin dell Hotel. Sells Harness, Saddles, Collars, Whips, Blanket. Currv Combs, Brushes trunks, valise, hmrpv top-, cushions, carriage trimming, '&':., at the lowest possible prices. Repairs pr- mptly attended to. JIOII C TAKKER, Ileal Estate -A-geiit,' Genoa, Nance Co., Neb. W Tin t.wns inil imiiroved farms V fnr .,! Cnrre-iiondence solicit ed. Office in Young's building, up-stairs. :o-v o. o. shannon". MANUFACTUKEK OK Tiu and Sheet-Iron Ware ! Job-Work, Hoofing and Gutter ing a Specialty. jgj-Shop on Eleventh Street, opposite Heintz's hnu: Store. 415-y G W. CLAKK, LAND AND INSURANCE AGENT, HUMPHREY, NEBR. His lands comprise some fine tracts in the Shell Creek Valley, and the north ern portion ol Pli-tte county. Taxes paid for non-residents. Satisfaction guaranteed. 20 y nOLVBl7 PACKING COH COL UMB US, - NEB., Packers and Dealers in all kinds of Hog product cash paid for Live or Dead Hog or .grease. '. Directors. R. H Henry, Prest.; .Tohn "VViggius, Sec. and Treas.; L. Gerrard, S. Cory. N OT1CE TOTEACHERS. 3. D. Moncrief. Co. Supt, "Will be in his office at the Court nouse on the third Saturday of each month for the purpose" of examining applicants for teacher's certificates, and for the transactton of any other business pertaining to schools. oCT-y Taxes salmox, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER. Plans and estimates supplied for either frame or brick buildings. Good work guaranteed. Shop on ISth Street, near t.Paul Lumber Yard, Columbus, Ne braska. 52 Gmo. J. WAGNER, Livery and Feed Stable. Ie prepared to furnish the public w.'th good teams, buggies and carriages for all occasions, especially for fnnerals. Also conducts a sale stable. 44 D. T. ilAKTYX, M. D. F. SCHCG, IT. D., Deutscher Artz.) Drs. MAETYN & SCHTJG, U. S. Examining Surgeons;. Local Surtreons. Union Pacific and C N. & B. H. It. B's. COLUMBUS, - NEBRASKA 22-vol-xiii-y COLUMBUS Fv M m.-Bv'KM-' J -a Bzr.unnU imxC liii ut Tubu Sitat. COLUMBUS, NEB. CAST! CAPITAL, $ 50.00b - t - ' o - DIBECTOBS: LtxxuKU Gebbabd, P.r.es'i. Gko. W. ttutsi-, Ftce Pres't. Julius A. Rked. : -- ' -.J Kdwabd jA.Gbbrabd. 1 J: E&rAfcKBtt, jOashier. Ilaak ef Depi DIcl aad ExcfcaB Collecclox's Promptly Made all Vilmtttgr 4 , n , Pay ImtereMt. en Time Depos it.. . . w DREBEBT & BMGGLE, HUMPHREY, JNEBR ASK A. 83"Prompt attention given to Col lections. iSTInsurance, Real, Estate, Loan, etc J. H. GALLEY & BRO., W'ould respectfully, aak their Mends and patronVto call'.and exiJfailne their stocktof : FalandWinterSoods Bpfore purchasing their supplies as they have their store full from floor to 7 " reilingpf Staple and. -Fancy DRY GOODS, 5. N "" ."" - XJLOTHING, 'Vf For Men and Boys, at all Prices! I .OVERCOATS !rSi BATS ABB CAFS.'SOQTS AND 'Ml WE ALSO CARRY A LIXE OF LA DIESWINE SHOES. Blankets, Quilts and all kinds of Fan icy KotioiBv .' -jSTRememher that we keep no shoddy goods and strictly OSB price is our motto, which our twenty-five years resi dence in Columbus will sustain. 23-3m LOUIS SCHKEIBER, II All kinds of Repaitiiig done, on Short Notice. Bnggies, 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. r3-Shop opposite the " Tattersall," Ol ive St.. COLUMBUS. 2-tim-c WISE people are always on the lookout for chances to increase their earnings, nnil in tim become wealthv; those who do not improve their opportunities remain in 'poverty. We offer a great chance to make money. We want raanv men, women, boys and girls to work for us right in their own localities Anv one can do the work properly from the first start. The ''usiness will pay more than ten times ordinary wages. Ex pensive outfit furnished. No one who engages fails to make money rapidly. You can devote your whole time to the work, or onlv vonr spare moments. Full infor mation "and all that is needed sent free. Address Stixsox & Co.. Portland, Maine. HUBEICS HOTEL. JOHN I1UBER, the jolly auctioneer, has opened a hotel on 13th St., near Tiffa ny & Routson's, where clean beds and square meals will always be found by the patrons of the house. I will in the fu ture, as in the past, give my best atten tion to all sales oT goods or farm stock, a? an auctioneer. 333"Satisfaction guaranteed; call and see me and you will be made welcome. JOHN HUBER, Proprietor and Auctioneer. Columbus, Neb., June 19, '83. 9-tf COLUMBUS Restaurant and Saloon! E. D. SHEEHAff, Proprietor. jSTWholesale nnd Retail Dealer in For-' eign Wines; Liquors and Cigars, Dub lin Stout', Scotch and English Ales. 3 Kentucky Wtekies a Specialty. OYSTERS in their season, by the case can or dish. Ilia 8trt. Sswta of Bvot. JS. MURDOCK & SONv Carpenters and Contractors. Havehad an,extemdea experience, and' will -gaaraateey satisfaction"- Jh 'work. All kinds of repairing done on short notice. Our. motto is, Good work and fairprices'.'- Call and give' us an oppor tnnltvto estimate for Ton 1 Bf7Sb.OD on' "TtV- St-- aw s i)ak nif nf Vriftinf, Jfr CbTs .'storey Columbus ? -Nebr."- 463-y BlacMiHWaiwer National Bank! COXiUl Aithoriied Capital, - - $250,000 Cask Capital, - - 50,000 omcui axd DiaacToaa. A. ANDERSON, Pres't. SAM'L C. SMITH, Vice Pres't. O. T. ROEN, Cashier. J. W. EARLY, ROBERT UHLIO, HERMAN OEHLRICH. W. A. MCALLISTER, O. ANDERSON, P. ANDERSON. Foreign and Inland Exchange, Passage Tickets, Real Estate, Loan ana Insurance. S9-T0l-13-ly COAL LIME! J. E. NORTH & CO., DEALERS IN Coal, Lime, Cement. Bock Spriig Coal, $7.00 P toi Cirioi (Wyomiif) Coil 6.00 " Eidon (Iowa) Coil 3.50 " Blacksmith Coal of best quality al ways on hand at low est prices. North Side Eleventh St., COLUMBUS, NEB. 14.3m BECKER & WELCH, PROPRIETORS OF SHELL CREEK MILLS. MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLE SALE DEALERS IN FLOUR AND HEAL. OFFICE, COLUMBUS. NEB. SPEICE & NORTH. Gensral 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 on fire 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 residence lots in the city. We keep a complete abstractor title to all real es tate in Platte County. 621 col'usmus, neb. LANDS, FARMS, AND CITY PROPERTY M SALB, AT THE Union Pacfic Land Office, On Long Time and low rale of Interest. All wishing to buy Rail Road Lands or Improved Farms will find ft to their advantage to call at the U. P. Land Office before lookin elsewhere as I make a specialty of buying and selling lands ob commission; all persons wish ing to sell farms or unimproved land will find it to their advantage to leave their lands with me for sale, as my fa cilities for affecting sales are unsur passed. I am prepared to make final proof for all parties wishing to get a patent for their homesteads. 3rv. Y. Oil, Clerk, writes and speaks German. SAMUEL C. SMITH, 621-y COLUMBUS, NEB. HENRY G-ASS, TJISTDERTATCER ! COFFINS AND METALLIC CASES AKD DKaLSKXX Farnitura, Chain, Badataada, B- reaaa, Tables, Safes. Lounges, Ac, Flctmra Frames and Msaldings. f&'Rqsmiring of all kinds of Upholstery OWU. e-tr COLUMBUS, NEB. stjtsWsSj 'AasV THE DOCTOR. He warns us In eating-, he warns us In drinking-, He warns us In reading- and writing and think ing; He warns us in foot-ball, foot-raco. elght-oar "stroking," He warns us In dancing and cigarette-smoking: He warns us In taking champagne and canoe ing; He warns us in wearing red socks and sham- n pooing; He warns us of drains In our snug country quarters: He warns us of fever in mineral waters; He warns us in everything mortal may men tion. Out what gives rise To but little surprise Nobody pays htm the slightest attention! Lo'tdcn Punch. THE BATTLE OF ARDMORE. The sunshine never kissed a lovelier day nor blessed a fairer scene. All the laud, and the sky and the clouds were clad in the beauty of June. The lanes were fringed with emerald; the round eyed daisies peeped out from the bil lowy fields of grass, and daintier wild flowers of the woods nestled like gems in the velvet moss. Down in the mea dows the buttercups gleamed like but tons of gold. Over the low hills the soft winds whispered to the leaves about other summers, and down through the shadowy woods the little brook laughed and sung and babbled like a child play ing by itself. Here and there a cottage nestled among the trees. The distant calls of children came rippling across the fields. The long road wound aw ay, yellow and quiet, until it turned out of sight beyond the little church with its snowy walls and slender spire. How quiet and peaceful all the world lay before the window of my prison that day in June. Far away the note of a meadow-lark came, and was heard no more. Now and then the whistle of a robin; at times the twitter of a blue bird. It was such an afternoon as you would wish to endure forever. Wliite winged peace smiled in the sunshine, and sang with the zephyrs and the brook, and the far-away calls and scarcely-heard laughter of the children playing somewhere unseen. Its music is the crown of the day's beauty and tranquillity. Clear, mellow, distant, four or five notes of a bugle ring out over the low hills and come echoing down the for est aisles. A hush in woodland and meadow follows it. Again the ringing notes, softened by distance, call through the sunlight; but there is an impe rious accent of command in the clear cut tones, musical us they arc. Once more the bugle-call thrills through the beautiful Maj afternoon. The meadow lark answers it, and the robin whistles merrily back to its echoes. How my heart leaped at the sound of the bugle-call! How my blood went surging through my veins like a tide of lava! Out of my prison window I look with straining eyes. In the fluttering leaves I can see no glitter of bayonets. I listen, but down the road or across the meadow I can hear not the rumble of a battery hurrying into position. How silent it all is! and yet not silent enough. I wish the robin would hush his merry note. It is mockery. Does he know what he is singing about? Does he know what the bugle sang, that he answers with such merry defiance? And then I want him to keep perfectly quiet. 1 want the wind to hush, and the leaves to keep still, and the brook to stifle its babble and laughter. I am listening for a footfall, the crackling of a twig, the ran Hied tramp of a col umn of men stealing through the woods under leafy cover. I am listening for tho neigh of a horse, a clatter of rythmic hoof-beats, a ringing carbine shot. Peering out of the window of this lonely cell, I am listening ever since that first bugle-call came winding over the hill I have been listening for sterner music than the robin's note and the wood-brook's murmur. " March!" There it is at last! I can see nothing from this window. The voice comes like a far-away echo of the bugle a boyish voice, softened into music tiy the day and the distance. I picture to my self the fair-haired Lieutenant who com mands the skirmishers. Ah! those days made men of boys: the school-boy fought beside the veteran, and the Ad jutant of twenty messed with the Colonel of forty. Will the line never come in my sight? "Halt!" Silence again, and once more the bugle calls down the unseeu line. Now I can hear the tramp of feet amid all the terrible hush of preparation. AH about me the tide of battle will sweep, save onlv whore I can see it; and I penned in this prison like a caged rat, with ringing bugle and clanking saber calling me out, shouting niv name in words that burn and ring and ring again and I am here. "March!" Away off the tap of a drum, the flam, flam, flam, cadencing the step of the marching column, xearer it comes, and further away it sweeps, faints into quiet at last, Tramp, tramp, tramp. Muffled, yet distinct, and stepping nearer with ev ery footfall. "There they come!" shouts some one. I hold my breath; I Stress my hand on my heart and wait or the first shot from the skirmishers. "Ready!" The click of a musket so close it seems in the very room where 1 am. Gods! If the robin would only hush his song. I listen for the sound o"f the boy ish voice again. . It seems to me, in my excited condition, there is a childish treble to it. I wonder if " "Fire!" How the cheers, pealing up in waves of sound, drowned the crash I was listening for! Again the boyish voice calls: "Fire!" and again the shrill cheers follow. They hush as the bugle notes come pealing down the line again. I hear the wheels as a battery is hurried forward. I hear a drum beat. I hear the tramp of hurrying feet. Some one is calling" for "the flag." Once I heard so close the tide of battle swept to my prison a saber spring from its scabbard with an angry sweep. Ana all this time I could see- only the gold en sunshine only the fluttering leaves and the playing 'shadows lengthening into the waning day; and floating in at my window came the mellow whistle of the robin. The cheers are fainter now as the shadows grow longer. The robin's note as ceased. Mellow, clear and beauti fully imperious as ever, the bugle calls again. A pall of silence falls upon the clamor and din of the battle. I try the door of my prison. It yields to my touch. Down a stairway, with noise less tread, I hasten. I step through a curtained door. I stand on the field where the waves of contention had thundered and dashed. The level rays of the setting sun drift over the helpless figures stretched about me like a bless ing upon the dead. At my feet the overturned .cannon lies. There are its shattered wheels. Lying across the brazen muzzle, "his back to the field and his feet to the foe," is stretched an artillery sergeant, still grasping the broken saber in his nerve less hands. Here is a prostrate group of infantry soldiers; tney will never stand upon their feet again. Here is a trooper; headless he lies under the horse that with two legs torn away has fallen upon him. A little drummer-boy how came such a child here where the fiery maelstrom of war circled and eddied in fire and carnage and fury? lies by his drum. I bend over him, and in face and form there is nothing human left. Red are the stains about it, and his broken little hand hangs stiff and rigid on the edge of tho shati tered drum. It is terrible. Here, ghastly and horrible, lies a head, the blue cap with its scarlet and white Eompon still resting jauntily over the row; but nowhere can I see the sol dier's body. Here is a saber bent and twisted in the fury of hand-to-hand combat. I walk among headless trunks, arms and legs without bodies; crippled horses lie prone on their sides, or stand wearily, and with dumb pa tience, upon three legs. I tread carefully over and around the broken, shattered bodies of the fallen men. Here is the flag, tattered and unfurled, just as it dropped from the hands of the sergeant; here an epaulet, glitter ing in crimson and gold; here is the gilded belt of the general; here, marred and bent and dented, lies the bugle whose silver voice called into play this wreck and carnage. And here, away off on the edge of the field, away, where just the spray of this angry wave of strife could have reached, my foot almost falls on a child lying prostrate, half turned on her face. The dainty feet peep out of a cloud of silk and lace, the tangled hair of gold, a skein of sun shine, half hides the brow and cheek. There is no sign of life in the beautiful face. Killed by the terror and fear born of the battle? I bend to lift the little form, and the arm upon which I thought the child was lying is gone; a horrible gash reaches from the temple to the base of the brain, and the left eye is crushed in its socket. The child; the dear, sweet little girl; somebody's darling, fair sacrifice to the hideous Mo loch of war, how could " Robbie!" I hear the voice of her little serene'highness. " Robbie! Come, now, and pick up vour toys, dear. You've left your dolly and all your soldiers scattered about over the floor, so that papa can scarcely walk across the room. And somebody has stepped on poor little Bessie's head. I'm afraid she'll have to go to tho surgical in stitute." A patter of flying feet, and the blue eyed commander of the troops, aged six, comes charging into the room, a"nd, resolving himself into an ambu lance corps, collects the dead and wounded with both hands, scoops them into a big box, examines the fracture in the wounded dolly's head for saw dust, and appears surprised to find the skull lined with a big hole. " Papa!" he cries, "did you hear 'e battle zls appernoon?" " Yes, Major, I heard it." " We lighted awful," the Major says, " an' I fell down on my drum and broked my cannon, but grampa will get me anuzzer one." R. J. Bur ilette, in Cincinnati Enquirer. Mr. Harris Infirmity. Yesterday a crowd of persons stood before the counter in an East Side store iu which an auctioneer was selling off the goods to the highest bidder. The auctioneer was offering some silver spoons, when a man wearing an alpaca coat and straw hat came in and took a seat on a box of palm-leaf fans. "Who'll start these spoons? Who'll take them at three dollars? Say two and a half, then," cried the auctioneer, turning from one to the other of the persons in front of him until his eye rested on that of the man on the box. "Oo an' 'alf, oo an' 'alf. Here we are. What's your name, please? Fine bar gains 9" " Harris," replied the man on the box. "Harris, T. B." "T. B. Harris,"- repeated the auc tioneer to his clerk. "Half a dozen spoons at two dollars and a half." " Now, gentlemen, here are some fine watch chains. Gold plated, heavy roll plate. Who will give me two dollars to begin? I'm offered only Ah, all right. T. B. Harris, one gold chain." Mr. Harris had nodded. The clerk told a man to.ask the pur chaser to step forward and claim his articles. Harris only nodded. "I'm going to offer some superior shaving mugs, with brush combined. Don't all spe.ak at once. The ladies must keep quiet and let each man get his mug," spoke the auctioneer. "These are worth seventy-five cents each." No one made an offer. The auc tioneer looked at T. B. Harris and re ceived a wink. "Gents, I'm ashamed of you. Mr. Harris, one shaving mug, seventy-five cents,"' interrupted the auctioneer. The clerk wrapped it up in tissue pa per while he explained to a colored man that Harris was not a puffer, but a bona fide purchaser. "Well, gentlemen, since you are all careless about shaving you must be mar ried. I'll now offer you an article that should be in every household" (here the auctioneer smiled audibly;) "yes, gents, in every household. Joe, bring on them baby carriages." The man on the box nodded, while two women remarked: "What fellows them auctioneers is, anyway." "One at a time, now, gentlemen. This is a carriage that was made es pecially for David Davis, when he was a baby, but it was too small. It's worth fifteen dollars. Who'll give me seven?" The man on the box nodded. "Mr. Harris is a married man, I see, T. B. Harris, seven dollars. Step up to the cashier, Mr. Harris, and get your baby carriage," said the auctioneer, in a jocose tone. "I didn't buy that carriage," said Harris. "What? You better say you didn't buy the spoons and the chain and the mug?" exclaimed the auctioneer, not in a jocose tone. "No, I didn't. I never spoke. If a man that's aflBicted with St Vitus' dance and a blinking of the eyes that he was born with catft come into an auction room without being made a tool of when he's trying his best to keep his head from nodding and his eyes from blink ing it's sad indeed." And he rose from the box and went out into the world, nodding his head and blinking his eyes at all whom he met. N. Y. World. A boaster in a hotel was telling of the many sections of the country that he had visited. A fellow at his elbow asked: "Have you ever been in Alge bra?" " Oh, yes," replied the boaster, "I passed through there on the top of a stage coach about a year ago. J?x-chmge. A Tale f 'Frlses Bay. Across the bay in the classical sub urban village of Berkeley, withla the past fortnight there has been enacted a al-lifs romance of a character inter isting and sentimental; while common snough in plot, no doubt, yet, withal, & trine unusual for such a staid, easy going town. It is a case of the old story of unrequited love and subsequent despair of the requiter, but with change of scene and the additional attractive ness of local associations. -In this tale, however, it is observed that one very important detail the condiment, in fact, that is usually served with the modern romance is noticeably lacking, for the scene can not truly be said to have been in "high life" or among the elite, although the hero and heroine mijht be located about medium in the social scale. For many years there has been estab lished near the center of the village, just within convenient distance of the university, and near enough to hear in term time the noisy revels of the stu dents, a boarding-house known as the Terminus Hotel. It took its name from the fact that the railroad once end ed near by, and although the track has since been extended far beyond, yet the name is still on the sign, a false beacon to transient visitors and an object of vexation to the railroad' employe. In this establishment was employed up to Saturday a good-looking and expert cook named Maggie. She gave great satisfaction in her kitchen duties, al though, owing to her comely character istics, there were many flirtations with boarders, which were the cause, occa sionally, of slight negligence of work. But the host was content to regard such affairs complacently, for experience had taught him that his cook was an im portant factor in the matter of secur ing patronage, and so Maggie was allowed full permission to indulge her flirting propensities as much as she pleased. But flirting, it seems, like other things, may be carried too far, and this Maggie found out. Three weeks ago there came to the hotel to board a young man from Antioch, named Joy. He was an honest, sturdy young farmer, well dressed, and with plenty of money, as he had just dis posed of his ranch for cash. After her work at night Maggie at once set about making a new conquest, and laid siege to the heart of the Antioch man. As the young man was apparently unused to such attacks an acquaintance was not formed until a week had passed, but from that time the conquest was only too easy. To carry out the simile, in military parlance, he surrendered, hauled down his flag, and yielded to the blandishments of the charming cook. The next day after meeting Maggie he proposed, saying, to show his 'earnest ness, that he should expect an answer on his return from the post-office, a twenty minutes' walk. Before going, as an important argument on the point to be decided, he pulled out his bank book and called attention to the entry of $5,000 to his credit, being the pro ceeds of the sale of the ranch. The story goes that he beat the local pedes trian record on his trip to the post office; indeed, it is not fully settled that he did go all the way, but evidence is wanting. When he returned, Maggie was found in a blushing but undecided state, but a brief argument finally in duced her to agree to his proposal. 'The landlord was informed, figuratively speaking, of the latest dishthat Maggie had cooked. He agreod, although com pelled to lose a valuable servant, and the trio set about, with the material aid of Joy's bank account, to prepare for the wedding. Here it may be men tioned that, although the landlord was sorrowful at the thought of losing Mag gie, yet his sorow was in some part con doned by a tacit agreement having been made with her that she should induce her husband to buy a lot of him, as he had, and still has, a desirable building site for salo. The day was .set for last Sunday. Friday the pair went to Oakland, and the pur chases of the devoted bridegroom were so many, so elaborate, and so substan tial that the hackman whose carriage they were obliged to hire to return in, was compelledto drive at a very mod erate gait. At the hotel the driver was told to come again on Sunday, as his services would then be required to drive them down to the little Catholic chapel where the services of the priest, Father Comerford, had already been secured. Friday night the pair sat up until late discussing plans and arranging for the proper disposal of Joy's bank account. Saturday morning the bridegroom dressed as a groom should on the day before his wedding, and waited long and patiently for Maggie to come down to the breakfast which she then was ex empt from cooking. But she did not come, and Joy, becoming impatient, went to her room, which he found de serted. The bed had been unoccupied. Around the room were the dresses and the finery which he had bought the day previous' Alarmed -and nearly frantic, he called and shouted, which resulted in bringing the interested landlord up. Together they looked the room over, as it was evident the bride had fled, and at last, on the table, the anxious lover found a note from Maggie. It simply said that she hud repented and gone away. The two men then began a search for the fugitive bride. The train conductors were interrogated, and the lover was seen, to the great amusement of his male acquaintances, running anxiously all about town. Finally, the next day Sunday the wedding-day Maggie was found at the home of an aunt in San Francisco. She explained simply that she had changed her mind, and remained obdurate. The ex-bridegroom has announced his intention of going to Washington Territory, there to become a hermit. San Irancisco Bulletin. Augast. August, notwithstanding its robust name, is a sort of flabby, watering place month. It is fly-time, it is dog days time, it is flirtation time. It is a period of general listlessness and inde cision. It is said to be very difficult in August to make up the mind either to accept him or reject him. And, worse still, it is apt to be the latter part of the month before he makes up his mind to propose. Indeed, to speak of making up the mind at all in August is nearly absurd, for there is no mind to make up. Nature and people if the expression may be permitted feel seedy. Inland it is muggy, on the sea-cast it is foggy. In the cities all the taste has gone out of life; even in the hills everybody is languid, and disposed to lounge onpi azzas and watch things simmer. The world, like the garden, owns itself played out. The days are growing short again, and it might be expected that the intemperate heat of July would abate, but the heat continues, although it is not the 'clear sun-heat of the lusty growing season, but a sort of oven-heat teamiax us from tha aajrth. It i tha away from everything, even from one's self. Even the church- es alow down. Yet there are good things about Au gust. The schools are shut up, and the everlasting process of education is cased off, and a chance is given for the mind to stretch itself and grow a little, nat urally. People forget that the mind needs those periods of semi-doze in which to ripen. We understand all about the convulsions and the gray mat ter of the brain, and know just where the memory-cells are, and where lie the coils of imagination and ideality, can put our finger on the spot that, if ex cited, makes a man willing to pay his debts, and on the spot where exists the impulse to forgive our debtors If our debtors will forgive us; but no one can toll how it Is that if a thought is dropped into the brain over night and left to simmer there, and, indeed, re mains for a time wholly unheeded, it will be found, when again called up, to have blossomed into a sermon, or an esJay or a magazine paper worth ten dollars a page. I know a clergyman who is obliged to set his sermon over night in this way. exactly like a batch of bread, or it will not rise in the morn ing. The little idea seems to be yeast and that furnished, the brain will go on unconsciously, and work out the rest itself. The trouble with a good many sermons and essays is that they have no yeast in them. Perhaps August which seems so stupid, is the yeast month of the year, ana perhaps this is the reason that so many authors find September the most fruitful month of the year. August is also lawyers' vacation, and their clients have a rest, and an oppor tunity to settle up their differences in an amicable way. When the lawyers quit the ship it is a sign that everybody else ought to go to be off to the Rockies, to the North woods, to Norway, to the rocks by the sounding sea, if there is by that time a rock anywhere on our thou sands of miles of coast that has not a young lady sitting on it. with a spread parasol and a novel in her hand, and a still more interesting work of nature and art at her feet talking to her languidly about friendship, and how you can know if two peoplo arc suited to each other, don't you know. It is the harvest month of the novelist for then if ever one wants a novel to put in the pocket in the woods, or to carry down to the beach, or to leave lying round with the split zephyr. People will buy novels in August, it they can not borrow them, and if they are in cheap editions. It is a nice holiday, August, just because it has no vitality in it Pity it can not be more of a holi day to more people. For the shops ought to shut, ana the banks, and the life-insurance men ought to go off into the wilderness with the lightning-rod men, and the canvasser ought to cease from canvassing, and the weary be at rest It would be a good thing if the politicians would clam-bake and barbe cue, and make no speeches; they wouldn't make any if tho speeches were not reported. It might be a good thing if all the newspapers would suspend. Then the world would have nothing to talk about, and perhaps would repose fully grow in grace and sanity. Charles Dudley Warner, in Harper's Magazine. m m Cholera Iafaatuau With the arrival of the extreme warm weather cholera infantum has again made its appearance.- Four deaths from this disease were reported at tho Health Office yesterdav, and it is probable that the number will be increased from day to day until the last of August No malady is more dreaded by mothers, and none is perhaps more rapid in its action, and so universally fatal in its results. During the heated term the little ones are never safe, and mothers can not exercise too much care regard ing their children's food, clothing and bodily condition. " Cholera infantum," said Dr. J. F. Isom, yesterday, to a Leader reporter, "is as much like Asiatic cholera as it is possible to imag ine. It is caused principally by ex treme heat When the temperature at night ranges from seventv degrees up ward many cases of the disease may be expected, but if the nights are cool there is not so much danger, no matter how hot the days. During the day, let the weather be ever so warm, a child will not be so much affected by the heat as while sleeping, and for this reason the warm nights cause most of the trouble. Extreme heat in a child's body will arrest the process of diges tion, diarrhea ensues, and if this is not checked it will eventually run into cholera infantum, the little sufferer dy ing within a few hours after being at tacked, while in other cases a child may be sick for a week with summer complaint before cholora infantum en sues. The discharge in cases of sum mer complaint is filled with particles of curdled milk which can not be di gested, but in the last stages of cholera infantum the discharge is clear and colorless, like rice-water, and is filled with albumen. This discharge is noth ing but the watery portion of the blood which leaks through the intes tines. Many children die just as if they had bled to death, but in most cases of cholera infantum the patients are seized with cramps and spasms, lying in great agony. Teething chil dren are more ant than others to be afflicted with this disease, for the reason that the nervous system is in a constant state of irritation, and the reflex nerv ous action generally affects the stomach first "Yes," continued the doctor, "in the great majority of cases children die from neglect; not that parents do not try to save their lives, but because they do not know how to take care of the little ones. During the warm months the babies should De kept as quiet as possible. During the day it is a good idea to give them plenty of fresh air. They should be permitted to play out of doors in the shade all day, and before they are put to bed at night a cool bath would reduce their temperature and fit them for a good night's sleep. Mothers who nurse children should avoid heat ing their blood, and the bottles from which- youngsters drink should be scalded daily and kept perfectly clear of sour milk. No child suffering from diarrhea should be permitted to go a day without medical attention. These directions, if followed, together with a firoper attention to dress, will, doubt ess, save the life of many an infant." Cleveland Leader. The total production of the Lead ville mines for April, May and June amounted to $4,278,815. The product of the first three months of the year aggregated $3,662,662, making a total for the first six months of 1883 of $7, 942.477. against $7,822,390 for the same period last year, or a gain of $120,870. Chicago Tribune. m It is said that 2,450 watches are manufactured in this country every woranur day in the year. month to get I FACTS AND FIGURES, -TkBre are now three thousand Na tionalBanks. Over 10,000 houses of all kinds are being erected in New York, with ac commodations for 50,000 persons. N. Y. Sun. Ths old Capitol at Albany, which is to be taken down, cost $173,000, and; did service forseventy-six years. Either' of the grand stairways of tho new Capi tol cost more than $200,000. Albany (JT. r.) Journal. H. J. Beemer has signed a contract with the Lako St. John Railroad Com- ftany, of Canada, to construct tho whole ine of railroad to Lake St John. The whole price to be paid is between $3,000,000 and $4,000,000. The number of distilleries In opera tion throughout the country is 630, against 387 one year ago and 781 two years ago. Illinois is the largest man ufacturer, Kentucky the next, Ohio the third and Iowa the fourth. Chicago News. In 1880 Aroostook, which is the banner Maine county, had 5,802 farms, containing 270442 acres of improved land, the principal productions of which were as follows: Barley, 15,777 bushels; buckwheat, 296.793 bushels; oats, 628,435 bushels; rye. 10,894 bush els; wheat, 138,236 bushels; potatoes, 2,248,594 bushels; tons of hay, W.310. The packet Great Western, now sailing on the Pacific coast, first sailed from New York to Liverpool forty years ago, and remained in the Atlantic fleet twenty-nine years. She crossed the At lantic 116 times, brought 30,000 passen fers to this country, has had 1,500 irths and 200 marriages on board, and has never lost one of her crew, or even a spar, in a gale of wind. N. Y. Times. Captain R. Y. King, who, it was re cently reported, had sold his immense cattle interests in Texas, has about 85,000 head.of cattle, about 20.000 head of horses and 30,000 head of sheep, his pastures amounting in the aggre gate to something over 1,000,000 acres of splendidly watered lands, a valua tion in all, land and stock, of some thing in the neighborhood of 85,000, 000. The magnitude of the barb-fenco business wijl be understood, says the Scientific American, when it is stated that the estimate of the quan tity of this fencing made in 1882 was 80,000 tons, or 500,000 miles in length. The firms claiming under their patents the exclusive right to manufacture barbed wire are said to have made with in the year in royalties from their li censes and from extra profits in their own business between $4,000,000 and $5,000,000. m WIT AND WISDOX. A very precise maiden-Ettie Quette. Al Y. News. The largest liberty which can ever be given to any man is the libertv to do right A school -boy remarks that when hi3 teacher undertakes to "show him what is what" he only finds out which is switch. What is the difference between a fool and a mirror? The fools speaks with out reflecting, and the mirror reflects without speaking. "Those," said Spicer, when he was shown the Venetian dungeons, " theso must bo relics of the dark cages." Boston Commercial Bulletin. A Cincinnati woman testified that her husband got so full of liquor that he had to gasp for breath. A demoralizing case of tight pants. Philadelphia Her ald. It is a good sign when, women are happy in each other's society; when they talk as well and are as agreeeble, vivacious and witty when together as when there arc gentlemen to pleaso. N. Y. Examiner. "Statira Jane," said a fond moth er the other morning to her daughter, " did Daniel Johnson kiss you on the steps last night?" "No, mamma, he did not" If tho fond parent had said mouth instead of steps, it would have troubled Jane to reply; although, after all, steps are things to a door. Boston Courier. Having learned that somebody had affirmed that there was no rhyme for coffee. Bob Bunlette immediately com posed the following lines: To drown the drear perfume of beor. He drank a quart of coffee; And when that night his boots were tight. And couldn't bo pulled off, he Left them on and Slept On the Moor. The Winterport correspondent of the Belfast (Ireland) Journal relates that little Josie was accused by her sis ter of telling a falsehood. She at first denied, but afterward said by way of extenuation: "Well, suppose I did lie; everybody lies but God and George Washington." This same little girl was asked if she said her prayers. She replied: "No; I have to take Kenne dy's medicine, and that's enough with out saying my prayers." American journalism: The follow ing is a sample of the headlines with which the Cincinnati Times and Star enlivened its telegraphic columns during the Egyptian campaign. Each capital ized word represents the beginning of a separate line: "Woeful war. It lifts aloft its horrid front in Egypt's desert land. And Wolseley's soldiers groan aiid grunt Across the scorching sand. The turbaned Turk and gorv Gr;c!c In en mity lock horns. And afl the Powers, .10 to speak. Tread on each other's corns." St. James' Gazette. Gold from the Dead. Some time ago Mr. J. L. Clark, the gold refiner, was waited upon by a ladv who desired to dispose of a rough ball of metal, wh -h, under the refiner's usual chemical tests, proved to be gold. The lady was neatly but poorly clad, and, though Mr. Clark was thoroughly convinced that the ball was composed of gold similar to that used by dentists, he naturally inquired of her its history, and was rewarded by an interoiting re cital of howcame into her possession. Before fBeVarfhe lady's husband was a practicing dentist in the city of Charleston, S. C, and when the civil war occurred he joined his fortunes with the South. His health failed him. and he was stationed at one of the prisons where Union soldiers were con lined, his business being to bury the dead or dispose of their bodies. When ever he discovered any teeth-plates he removed them, and the accumulations he hammered into a ball. Previous to his death he gave it to his wife, and told her to take it to a reliable refiner, who would give her full value. Mr. Clark gave her over two hundred dol lars, and thus the poor woman was re lieved from the results of the dead soldiers' gold teeth-plates removed by her husband. rhuadeiphm Hecora. t