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COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 28, 1883.
WHOLE NO. 707.
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BTJSIHESS CAEDS.
pHAS. SCOA3iE, (Yee Lee)
CHINESE LAUNDRY.
2-Under "Star Clothing Store,'' Ne
braska Avenue, Columbus. as-5m
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-PUTS CJ4-V S UR GEON.
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jSTIlas opened the office firmerljr oc
cupied by Dr. Bonestcel. IJ-dm.
DENTAL PAELOE.
On Thirteenth St., and Nebraska Ave.,
over Friedhofs store.
13-omVe hour-, a to VI a. in.; 1 to 5 p. m.
Oi.i-.v A shhiugh. Dentist.
lOU3il2lIL' stJ'""AJV
A TTURNE YS-A T-LA W,-Up-stalrs
in Gluck Building, 11th street,
Above the New bank.
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NOT A II Y P UBLI C.
12th Street. 1 doom wet c.r Hammond House,
CbZumbtu. iVefc. -01-y
npiiuirsxox A; POWER
SURGEON DENTISTS,
2T Office in Mitchell Block, Colum
bus, Nebraska. ' "-
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.1 TTORNE YS A T LA W,
Office on Olive St., Columbus Nebraska.
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G. A. lilLLIluKST, A.M., M. D.,
H 031 EOF A Till C FH YSI 01 AN,
jSTl'wo Block-, south of Court House,
elenhone communication. -!?
Telepho
V. A. MACKEN,
DIIAI.KK IX
Wints, Liquors. Cigars, Porters, Ales,
e'e, etc.
Olive Street, next to First National Bank.
ircALM!TEK IHKOM.,
1 A TTORNE YS A T LA W,
Office uti-tair- in McAllister's build-in-.
11th st. W. A. McAllister, Notary
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Public
J. M. MACKAKLANI). K- COW rKIt Y.
Ati::e7 t:i l'::7 "ff C:Ji.u.
LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE
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MACPARliAND& COWDBRf,
Columbus, : Nebraska.
EO. ."V. E)ERK1,
PAINTER.
g"TC arrive, house and sizn paintiiiK,
"lazinsr, paper h-iti-ing, knl-omniing, etc.
uone to rrder. Shop on l'ttb St., opposite
Engine Hou- ro'.innbu-. Neb. W-Y
Tf H.KtSCiaE,
llth St., opposite Lindell Hotel.
Sell Harness, Saddle?, Collar Whip-.,
Blankets, Currv Combs, Brushes, trunks,
valises, bussv top-, cushions, carriage
trinimiuv's, Arc., at the lowest possible
prices. Bepair- pi inptly attended to.
JOII.-N CTASKEK,
Heal Estate A-gent,
Genoa, Nance Co., Neb.
-rT7"ILD LANDS and improved farms
VV for -ale. torrespoudence solicit
ed. Office in Ycu hit's building, up-stair.
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MANUFACTL'llEi: OK
Tin and Sheet-Iron Ware !
Job-Work, Roofing and Gutter
ing a Specialty.
SSTShop on Eleventh Street, opposite
Ileintz's Drue Store. -'
r W.CLAKK,
LAND AND INSURANCE AGENT,
HUMPH HEY, NEBR.
His lands comprise some tine traces
In the Shell Creek Vallev, and the north
ern portion ot Pltte county. Taxes
paid for non-residents. Satisfaction
guaranteed. -0 '
pOLVBUS PACKING CO.,
1 OlJvL just u-j, -' '-'i
Packers and Dealers in all kinds of Hog
product, cash paid for Live or Dead Hog
or grease.
Directors. R. n Henry, Prest.; John
"Wiggins, Sec. and Treas.; L. Gerrurd, b.
Cory.
-VTOXICE TO TEACHERS.
J. E. Moncrief, Co. But t.,
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 transactton of any other business
pertaining to schools. 567-y
TAMES SAEJaO.X,
CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER.
Plans and estimates supplied for either
frame or brick buildings. Good work
guaranteed. Shop on 13th Street, near
St. Paul Lumber Yard, Columbus Ne
braska. 32 Cmo.
J. WAG-NER,
Livery and Feed Stable.
Is prepared to furnish the public w.'th
good teams, buggies and carriages for all
occasions, especially for funerals. Alo
conducts a sale stable. 44
D.T. 3Iartyx, M. D. F. Sciiug, M. D.,
(Deutscher Artz.)
Drs. MAETYN & SCHTJG,
U. S. Examining Surgeons,
Local Surceons. Union Pacific and
O., N- & B. H. B. It's.
COLUMBUS, - NEBRASKA.
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COLUMBUS
STAJEr BAIM !;
BucMrtt3 3rrul A ini. ui Tonw k Iiltt.
COLUMBUS, NEB.
CASH CA PITALn - , ,$60,000
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D I HECTORS:
Leandeh Gibrakd, Preset: '
-Gko. W1HUL&T, Vice Pres't
Edwabd'A. Gebrari i 2
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J. E. TAi,-CM)ltr. -
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K or Deposit Dlscovat
Eitc1ase.
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Collection ProBnpUyM4e oa
all PolntM.
Pay IatereMt oa Time Deaos-
DREBERT & BRieGX
BANKEES!
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jSBPrompt attention, given to Col
lectiona. SSTInaurance, -Ril -ItatateV Loan,
etc.
J. H. GALLEY & BRO.,
Would respectfully ask their friends and
patrons to call and examine.
their stock of
Fai
Before purchasing their supplies, as they
have their store full from floorto
ceiling of Staple and Fancy-
DRY GOODS,
CLOTHING,
For Men and Boys, at all Pricejt !
all- Air i?d nr tc i -all-
P.r ice
' y lljljJI.XiJ i Price
BATS m CAPS, SOOTS iND SHOES.
WE ALSO CARRY A LINE OF
LA DIES' FINE SHOES.
Blankets Quilts and all kinds of Fan-
1 ' cy 'Notions.
JSTRemembor that we keep no shoddy
K'ooiK, and strictly one prick ii our
motto, which our twenty-five years resi
dence in Columbus will sustain. 23-3ra
LOUIS SCHREIBEK,
All kinds of Repairing done 01
Short Notice. Buggies, Wag
ons, etc., made to order,
and all work Guar
anteed. -
Also sell the world-famom Walter A.
Wood. Mowers. Eeapers, Combin
ed Machines, Harvesters,
and Self-hinders the
Vest' made.
iSTShop opposite the "Tattersall," Ol
ive St., COLUMBUS. 2-6U1-C
WISE
people are, always.on the
lookout foT ..chances to
increase their earnings,
and in time become
wealthy ; those who do not Improve their
opportunities remain in poverty. We
otTer a jjreat chance to make money. We
want manvmen, 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
encases tails toroake money rapidly. You
caii devote your whole time to the work,
or onlv your spare moments. Full infor
mation and all that is needed, sent free.
Address SnXaOX & Co..Tortland. Maine.
HUBEK'S HOTEL.
JOHN HUBEtt, the jolly auctioneer. hs
opened a. hotel on 13th St., riear Tiffa
ny & Routsou's, where clean beds and
square meals will always be fouud by the
patrons of the house. I will in the fu
ture, as in the past, give my best atten
tion to all sales of4goods or farm stock, as
an auctioneer. '
l3TSatisfaction guaranteed; call and
see me and you will be made welcome.
JOHN HUBER,
Proprietor aud Auctioneer,
rjolumbus, Neb., Jtine 19, "&. 9-tf
COLlinBt'8
Restaurant and Saloon!
E. D. SHEEffAN,- Proprietor.
j3"Whtlesale nd RatalJLDealer in For
eign Wines, Liquo'rs'anil'Cigars, Dub- .
lin Stout, Scotch and English. Ales.
13T Kentucky Whitkits a Specialty.
OTSTBRS in their season, by the case
can or dish.
lltk Sti-Mt. Sostk af Dspnt.
JSMUBDOCK & SON,
Csrps'nters and Contractors.
Haveaad an extended experience, and
will guarantee 'satisfaction in work.
All kinds of repairing dose ob abort
aotice.. Our motto is, Qqqd work .and
fair prices . Call. and give us Tan" bpppr
tunityteestimateforyou. yyshop on
13th St, one door west of Friedhof Jt
Co's. store, Columbus, Nebr. 483-y
azid' Wihtsr Goods
FIRST
National Bank!
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Aathoriied Capital,
Cash Capital,
$250,000
50,000
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T AnT!RSO'. PreJt.
SAM'L C. SMITH, Vict Preset.
O. T. ROES, Cashier.
J. W. KARLY,
JIOBERT UHLIO,
HERMAN OEHLRICH.
W. A. MCALLISTER.
.. G. andbhsox,
P. ANDERSON.
Foreign and Inland Exchange. Passage
Tickets, Real Estate, Loan ana Insurance.
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COALLIME!
J. E. NORTH & CO.,
DEALERS IN
Coal,
Hair,
Cement.
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Bock Spring Coal, S7.M per to
Carboa (Wyomiij) Coil...... 6.00 "
Eldoa (Iowa) Ceal. ...-'..... .-3.S0 "
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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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UNION PACIFIC
LAND OFFICE.
Improved and Unimproved Farms,
Hay and Grazing Lands and City
Property for Sale Cheap
AT THE
Union Pacific Land Office.
On Long Time and low rate
of Interest.
82TFinal proof made on Timber Claims,
Homesteads and Pre-emptions.
J3TA11 wishing to buy lands of any de
scription will please call and examine
my list of lands before looking elsewhere
83TAU having lauds to sell will please
call and give me a description, t.-rra ,
prices, etc.
5TI a'so am prepared to lusurt) prop
erty, as I have the agency of several
first-class Fire insurance companies.
F. W. OTT, Solicitor, speaka German.
NAniEI. C.SMITH,
30-tf Columbus, Nebraska.
BECKER & WELCH,
PROPRIETORS OF
SHELL CREEK MILLS.
MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLE
SALE DEALERS IN
FLOUR AND MEAL.
OFFICE. COL UMB US. NEB.
SPEICE & NORTH.
Genaral Agents for the Sale of
REAL ESTATE.
Union Pacific, and Midland Pacific
R. R. Lands for sale at from 13.00 to 110.00
per acre for cash, or on five or ten yeari
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. Alio business and
residence lots in the city. We keep a
complete abstract of title to all real es
tate in Platte County.
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COLUMBUS, NEB.
HENRY &ASS,
TOTDEBTAXEB !
COFFINS AND METALLIC CASES
AXD PKaLXH IX
Fmrnltmxa, Cmalra, Bedsteads, Bn-
.nav.Xablea, Safes. Lomagea,
fto.i Picture Framea aad
" ICoaldincs.
r tSTRepairlag qf all kind of Upholstery
Goods..
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COLUMBUS, NEB.
A BIRTHDAY GREETING.
What shall I wish thee for the oininff yonr?
Twelre months of drcamllKe en-ie? no care?
no pain?
Brlffbl spring' calm summer autumn with
out rain
Of bitter tears? Would'st Imve it thus, my
friend?
What lesson, then, were learnt at the year's
end?
What shall I wish the then? God knoweth
well
If I could have my way no shade of woe
Should ever dim thy sunshine but I know
Strong1 courage Is not learnt in happy sleep,
Nor patience sweet by eyes- that never weep.
Ah. would my wishes were of more avail
To keep from thee the many Jars of life!
Still let me wish thee courage for the strife
The happiness that comes of work well done
Aad afterwards the peace of victory won!
Argosy.
TAKE CARE OF THE EYES.
Everybody' recognizes the important
'part the sight plays in the happiness of
this life, and yet" there is hardly any
thing which is used with such prodigal
ity. To be blind, to be shut out from
U the beautiful things of the world, to
feel but not to see the blessed sunlight,
to hear the rushing wind and falling
rain, but with no sight of the .fleecy
clouds, the waving trees, or the blue of
the heavens, to catch the fragrance of
the flowers, with no view of their love
liness, to hear the voices of loved ones,
while darkness rests upon their faces,
all this is horrible; and yet most people
run the risk of bringing about this hor
ror by the carelessness and peristent
over-taxing of the eyes year after year.
It seems to be the impressidn that these
organs must take care of themselves.
No doubt the general health has much
to do with the condition of the eyesight.
Anybody will notice how the eves give
out when sickness has impaired the
bodily strength. A severe headache will
often cause a dimness of vision, which,
however, is frequently disregarded, and
the person works right on, determined,
as he says, not to give up. It is not a
question of yielding to bodily pain, but
of permanently injuring the eyes by
forcing them beyond their strength".
They must be favored at such seasons
or their power will be impaired beyond
remedy. It may not be felt or noticed
at the time, but in years to come such
abuse for that is what it is tells sadly.
No one would think of using a weak
ened arm to lift heavy weights, but the
eyes must do duty "under all circum
stances. I do not propose to enter into any
minute description of the anatomy of
the eye. As you know, it is an exceed
ingly delicate" organ, that needs to be
treated with even more consideration
than the car. First we have the eye
lids for protection. They are two pli
able folds of skin, the "upper one of
which can be moved at will and made
to shut down and cover tlte eye com
pletely. Upon their edges grow the
eyelashes wliich help still further to
keep out foreign substances. Tiie eye
itself is spherical in form and is placed
in a bony socket. You know how it is
guarded upon all sides in this way.
There are six muscles attached both to
the outer surface and to the bones of the
socket, by wliich it is moved in all di
rections. It is composed of three layers
or coats lying one over the other, "and
contain cortain humors that act as
lenses. The optic nerve enters at the
back and spreads out over the inner
coat or retina.
The outer coat is called the sclerotic,
or, as it is commonly named, the white
of the eye, and is tough and dense, cov
ering about four-iifths of the outside,
the other fifth being a transparent mem
brane that bulges out in front like
a watch crystal. It seems to be fitted
into a little groove, is called the cornea,
is without blood-vessels, and through it
we see the pupil and iris. The pupil is
the round black spot in the center of
the cornea, and is really the opening
through which the rays of light pass to
form the image of the object looked at
upon the retina or nerve service, and be
conveyed from there by the nerves to
the brain. Around the pupil is the rim
of color called the iris, which contracts
or expands as less or more light is
needed in the eye.
Next to the sclerotic coat conies the
choroid coat and inside of that the
retina, which, as said before, is the
nerve surface, and upon it all images
are formed. Withiu these coats are the
aqueous and vitreous huruors, the
former in the front part of the eye, the
latter in the back part, and between the
two the chrystalliue lens.
I have run over these parts of the eye
hastily, and with no intention of enlarg
ing upon the work of any of them ex
cept, perhaps, that of the iris and pupil
under the lnnuenceot the nerves, which
are of exquisite sensibility in the onan
of vision, as indeed they need to be.
It is of the greatest importance that
just enough light be admitted, and it is
the nerves winch tell the iris when to
contract and when to expand in order
to secure the right quantity. You have
noticed how the pupil grows small in
a very light room and large in a dark
one. Go from one into the other and
you can hardly see at lirt. until, as you
say, your eye has become accustomed
to the change. What really happens is
the contraction or expansion of the iris,
and as this can not be accomplished on
the instant, but must be done gradual
ly, dimness of vision is the result.
Sight here comes in a warning word.
Be careful not to expose the eye too
suddenly to a very brilliant light, nor
to go from one extreme to the other
quickly and several times in immediate
uccession, as the result may lie a per
manent weakening of the muscles of the
Iris.
It hardly seems necessary to say do
not read, sew or work in any way re
quiring close vision by a waning light,
and yet so many are careless in this re
spect, particularly young people, that it
can not be too often reiterated. You
are straining your eyes, though you may
not be conscious of'it, taking away it's
power of recuperation, and years hence
will reap the consequences." Never al
low yourselves to do it, no matter if
It seems to be done without pain or
weariness. And whenever there is a
sensation of fatigue at any time, let the
eyes rest. If you feel a "disposition to
pass your hands across them to rub
away a mist or dimness, stop instantly
whatever you may be doing, for danger
threatens.
I give you the same advice with re-
fardtothe eye as to the ear. Let no
ungler do anything for it. Put noth
ing m it, unless you know absolutely
what it is, its strength, and harmless
nejs. If anything that appears serious is
the matter go to a good oculist. Many
a person has impaired their sight by
taking some one's say-so and using a
medicine that was not needed. Bathe
the eyeB often in hot or cold water,
whichever seems to agree with them
best. Where there is a great deal of in
flammation and this is evident from the
ljlood-shot appearance advice should be
sfugbttomeaiatelji
Let' the invariable nil b t sit wir
the back or ide to the light wiioii road
ing or at work. It is eay enough to
form this habit, and it saves the" eyes
from fatigue. It is well to interrupt the
strain upon the eyes when occupied
with close work by letting them rest
upon something else at a distance oc
casionally. The habit of lying down and read:ng
is a bad one. ft strains the muscles of
the eye, because it is next to impossible
to hold the book or oaper in a good po
sition, and the blood also has a tenden
cy to run in excess thither. Do not try
to read books with very fine print.
There never was one written which was
worth the strain upon the eyes neces
sary for its perusal. In fact everything
that is valuable can be found in these
days in type large enough to be easily
read. Simply throw the book aside
and wait until yon can get it in proper
print.
A trouble which is very common is
that of near sight, and in a large major
ity of cases it might have been prevent
ed if taken in time. Very many chil
dren inherit a tendency to this trouble.
Others still acquire the habit of holding
their books too close to their faces for
various reasons. It perhaps originat
ed from indolence, a poor light, or
even from natural far-sight, and
then continued because not noticed and
corrected. In any case there is a chance
for cure if taken in season. The tissues
in childhood are soft and yielding, and
may be trained into health and a natural
condition. Care should be taken about
children's positions when at work. Tho
light should lie well regulated, their
general health looked after, and every
effort made to correct the habit of hold
ing books or work near the face. Anv
child who can not read with the book
as far as fifteeu inches away should
have his eyes examined by a good
oculist. Tiiis is an important mat
ter which may affect his whole after
life.
I have not attempted to give you any
remedies for disease, for that "is what
only a physician should do. Again, I
say, allow no one to doctor your eves
who ha not made them a study. Use
nothing stronger than water in them,
unless under the advice of a physician,
but if they are weak take care of your
general health and do not abuse them
by overwork or carelessness. In this
way you may hope to retain the
strength of your sight many years
longer than you can otherwise expect
to do. .4 Physician, in Toledo Blade.
The Failure of Success.
The suicide of Amasa Stone, in which the
light of what was in every worldly sense
a successful life was put out in Cleve
land Friday afternoon, inforces once
more a moral that it is to be hoped will
not have to be told too often to tho business-men
of tins country. An English
traveler who was lately In Chicago said
to an American friend that nothing so
struck him in this country as the cease
less energy with which our successful
men, after they had won great prizes of
fortune, continued to toil when they
should rest. In England a man who
has amassed a competency, large or
larger, hastens to enjoy it while there
is still some capability of enjoyment left.
He buys an estate", and goes iuto
boards of trustees and the local magis
tracy, joins a social club, and basks in
the warm sun of public interest aud re
gard that is aimost certain to attend a
successful man. But in this country
work seems to become a vice. It can not
be thrown aside. It clings to its victims
like the morphine habit. It grows upon
them like an incurable affection of the
nerves, until the unhappy sot of indus
try drops out of the world before his
time.
Merchants used to retire from busi
n "ss when they had done well, and had
reached lifly years of age or so. But
nowadays after a man lias built up a
fortune at trading or manufacturing,
aud has made what in the old days
would have been considered something
handsome, he thinks he luis only liegun.
He ha now obtained not a nest-egg, but
a whole basketful, which, if put into
railroad building, bauking, stock-job-binj,
or into some of the other wide
fields opened to energy, and associated
capital, and executive ability, will make
him really rich. He is not content with
the success he has achieved in his own
field. The huge fortunes that surround
him till h:m with envy and a nervous
resiles -ness to go them'" one better.
His business experience h-isbeen but an
apprenticeship to the grander trade of
corporation management and stock ex
change opportunities.
It results from this narrow intensity
of the thirst for gold and power, and
this indulgence of the appetite for in
temperate exert i'Jii. that the men who
work the hardest work without pay.
They get board wages from the world,
and that is about about all. They
work for the sake of the work. In
the hot rivalry to sell more calicoes,
build more railroads, lend more money,
put up more houses or stores than their
competitors, they strain their nerves
to the snapping point. They founder.
They run their mad racuintlie delusion
that they aie working for themselves.
They wake up in the next world to see
that it was the community that got the
benefit of the railroads, the houses, the
bank.s. t-Le manufactories, tho vast
warehouses in which they embodied
their eu-rgies. Their overreaching
selfishness hns failed because it has given
the fruits of their labors to others.
They can not claim that theirs was a
success in working for others, for they
did not mean to work for anybody but
themselves.
It was Bulwer who epitomized human
life in the bitter phrases: "Youth a fol
ly, manhood a struggle, old age a re
gret.'" A kinder and wiser saying comes
from Emerson: "We should prize our
youth.'' The llood-tideof young energy
is the tide on wliich to embark for fort
uuc. But the cooler days that follow
are those which the wise, successful man
will give to better work than fortune
seeking. Few of us can be what the
world calls "successful." Those who
reach that' goal should not forget that
in getting to it, human toes were the
least sensitive things they crushed.
Whether or not the world owes every
man a living, every man owes the world
something out of his living. Insomnia,
nervous prostration, paralysis, prema
ture death are peor finishing touches
to use for the apexes of what we want
the world to look at as successful ca
reers. It is better to stop short of "suc
cess" that is so complete that it ends
in complete collapse of the successful
man. "When I was young,' a Greek
epitaph says, " and could enjoy life, I
had nothing. Now that I am old and
can not enjoy it I have more money
than I knowwhat to do with." Our
eticcessful men would not fail as they
do from the eurfeit of success if they
would learn the wisdom of making les's
of their business and more of thsmselves.
Chicago Tribune.
Youths' Department
"NO."
Yesterday out of my window
I leaned, and chanced to hear
Two boys as they plotted mischief.
Not thinking I was near.
" We must have Joe to help us,"
One of the plotters said:
" He's as good as a dozen for helplnf.
Whenever there's fun ahead."
As they stood there talking together
About the work to be done.
If they carried out the mischief
They culled by tho name of fun.
Up the street we heard a whistle.
And knew thut Joe was nigh
By the smuul of his merry music.
Like the blackbirds iu the rye.
We've just been talking about you I"
The boys cried out to Joe:
We've pl'inned the Jolliest frolic.
And we count on you, you know."
- It diieails .n what's to be done, boys.
As to whether I help," .-aid he;
"If it's fun. and oith; fun. you know
You can ulways count nu me."
They told him what their plans were:
He gravely shook bis head.
" I couldn't help with that, boys.
For it wouldn't be ritfht." he said.
Perhaps you call It only fun.
But you know it Isn't so."
And though they urged, they urged la vain.
For he tirmly answered: "No! '
I wa3 proud of the boy with courage
To stand up for the right:
He was as much a hero
As those who battles tight.
Whenever a boy U tempted.
As was my hero, Joe,
It's always best to win the day
tiy a Arm. unwavering "No!"
Eben E. Rexford, in Golden Days.
LITTLE POLLY FLINDERS.
44 Little Polly Flinders sat among the cinders.
Wanning her pretty little toes!
Hor mother came and caught her.
And whipped her little daughter
For spoiling her nice new clothe3."
Mrs. Flinders' kitchen was such a
Iare sunny room and so clean that not
a spot could be found on her shining
Uoor, aud you could almost see your
face in the "bright tins hung at one end
of the room. There was a great old
fashioned fire-place on the north side,
and this was such a famous place to
roast apples and potatoes, and pop
corn, and to gather around in the long
winter evenings and to tell stories.
Such marvelous tales of the sea, or of
Indians in the far West, or even ghost
stories! But what Polly loved best of
all to do was to toast her toes in the
wood ashes, raked out in front of the
fire. Her mamma scolded her all to
no purpose. Polly was the only
daughter of good Farmer Flinders and
his wife, but she had several brothers
six in fact and they were the plague
of little Polly's life!
She had happened to come into the
family a long time after the brothers,
and was teased and spoiled, scolded and
petted, until it was a wonder she was
as good a child as she was! Her broth
ers each secretly thought her a wonder
ful child, but you would never have
dreamed of such a thing, the way they
treatedjher. It was, 'Now, Polly, don' t
be so rude," "Now, Polly, do turn your
toes out," or "That is not the proper
wav for a nice little girl to eat at the
table, Polly Flinders," all day long.
Whenever they went to town they al
ways broughther tovs or sweetmeats,
but while Polly liked these as well as
most little girls, the great brothers nev
er dreameu how much better she would
have liked pleasant encouraging words,
and a peaceful home-life, nor how often
she stole away to the garret at the top
of the house "and had a good cry, de
claring she "never could please those
horrid brothers!"
The mother and father petted her
too much, as an offset to the brothers'
fault-finding. The only thing that made
Mrs. Flinders positively angry was Pol
ly's naughty habit of toasting her toes,
as she not only ran the risk of spoiling
her clothes but of setting herself on fire.
One day her mother's patience was en
tirely gone when, coming into the kitch
en, she found Polly at her usual and al
most only disobedience.
Polly fiad on new plaid dress and her
prettynew bronze shoes for that was
before the fashion for only plain black
shoes and in her little rocking-chair
had rocked herself so near the fire that
one shoe was burnt in the cinders and
her dress badly scorched. The mother
took her little daughter and gave her
a not very gentle chastisement, which
made Polly cry very much she was so
much astonished to think that her moth
er would do such a thing to her " dear,
sweet Polly Flinders."
There were no more toasted toes for
a little while. But, alas! Polly began
if again. That great bed of glowing
coals and cinders seemed to have a per
fect fascination for her.
Something happened at last which
cured Polly of her bad habit and put an
end to the brothers' constant nagging.
Polly's father and mother had gone to
town and the brothers were all busy in
the fields. Polly took her latest doll
Miranda Lucy Maria and made up her
mind to rock her to sleep. She put her lit
tle chair in the middle of the kitchen and
determined to see how soon she could
reach the fire-place. This she soon did,
siugingat the top of her voice all the time.
Sh wore a large gingham apron, and
before she knew how near she was to
tiie fire she was almost into it, and the
cotton goods took fire in a second.
This would have soon been the sad
end of Polly Flinders, had not her
youngest brother, Ralph, come into the
kitchen at this very moment. He
had been worried about Polly, know
ing she was alone, and remembering
her dangerous habit, and now as Polly
turned towards him, with a look of
such horror and fright that it seemed to
paralyze her, he seized two great
blankets near, which Mrs. Flinders had
brought down to air and happily left
there, rushed forward and wrapped
Poll- and Mirauda Lucy Maria in their
folds. Then he rolled "them over ami
over on the floor until the flames were
out and all danger over. Polly, a great
deal frightened and a little burnt,
threw her arms around Ralph's neck.
"Oh, Ralph, I will never toast my feet
in the cinders again as long a3 I live,"
she sobbed, and she never did.
Mr. and Mrs. Flinders and the five
brothers came in while Ralph was dress
ing the poor little burnt arm, and they
turned very white as they listened to the
story of the little girl's "narrow escape.
Never had the brothers realized so well
how dearly they loved Polly, and never
did Polly have to cry in the garret again
on their account. Sometimes they for
got for a moment and began: "Oh,
Polly," but they always stopped in
time", and Polly "became wiser, better
and happier every day after. Indeed,
her "torments" became blessings, and
later, in her perplexities and troubles at
school, it was to Ralph Polly turned for
help, and never in vain. N. Y. Tribune.
Training.
It was general training day. If you
don't know what that means.ask grand
ma. John knew; and he wasn't deaf.
Not he. Nobody heard the drum and
fife that morning any plainer than he
did. I don't know that it sounded
weeter to any boy's ears. Yet he
wasn't rushing alone the streets of
Windsor with the rest of the boys, eager
to join the procession. Instead, he was
out in the back lot, away up in the
northwest corner, hoeing potatoes with
all his might. A nice little patch of
potatoes; none better looking in all the
town of Windsor. 1 doubt if there were
any that received such care. Ever hill
of them belonged to John, and it was
about all that he did own in the world,
unless I except an old arithmetic with
one of the covers gone entirely, and the
other hanging by half its back; but
every problem in that arithmetic John
could do! And there were some hard
ones.
He hoed away. The band was play
ing, and he tried to make his hoc keep
time to the music, while he whistled it
loud and clear.
Jo Parsons leaned over the rail fence
and looked at him
"You don't say you ain't a-going!"
said he.
"Well." said John. "I didn't say it,
so far as I know, but 1 can, if you want
me to."
" Well, now, if von ain't ono of 'em!
Why not?"
""Why not what?"
"Why not ain't you going to general
tpiining,when every man and boy iu this
town is on hand?"
"Got other business. Every man and
boy can do all the work that "there is to
to do at general training without me,
and my potatoes are spoiling to be hoed,
and this is the only day I've got."
"Why can't you hoe 'em to-morrow
just as well?"
"Because to-morrow I've got to .o
and help Governor Wolcott hoe his;
there's acres of them, and it will take
me all the rest of the season; before I'd
have another chance at mine they'd
spoil, sure; no, sir, I've looked at the
sum on ail sides, and worked it up
every way I coidd think of, and the only
answer I got was that I must stay at
home and hoe. I'm training, though.
Don't you hear my hoe keep time to the
music?'
" How many potatoes do you expect
to get out of that patch?''
Jo said the word "patch" in a very
contemptuous way. The fact was. he
might as well have told his friend John
just what he thought, that that potato
patch was a very small affair.
" Dunuo," said John, cheerily. "Just
as many as I can coax into growing for
me.
"And what are you going to do with
them when you get them?"
' Sell every blessed one: father has
promised me seed enough to plant again,
next season, so I sha'n't have to lay by
any."
" Well, what do you want to .sell
them for. What are you after, any
how?" John stopped his busy hoe and
leaned on it for about one minute, while
he said in a slow and very impressive
voice:
"There's a good manythingslwould
like to get, and thero are two or three
things that I mean to get if I can with
these potatoes; but there's one thing
that I m after with all thestrength there
is in my hoe. and that I'm bouwllohave;
and that's one of the new geographies
with pictures of the rivers, and towns,
and everything!"
" Ho!' said Jo; and the way he took
his arms oft the fence, and stood up to
put force into the word, gave you to un
derstand that he had a very small opin
ion of geographies, and thought that
John Fitch was a simpleton.
He went to general training, and had
a good time, I presume: but whether
hedidornot.no one will ever kuow;
for so far as I can learn, nobody ever
heard of him again, though I suppose
his mother and'a few friemU knew all
about him.
And John kept at his hoeing: and
then when that was finished he went
home and did the "chores."
Hard work, was it? Of course it was
hard: but then wait a bit. To-day
theru is not a well-informed boy in the
country who doesn't know more or less
about John Fitch. Amongother things
they know, that a few years later, when
he had earned his geography, and
studied it, and studied1 several other
things, one day he went gliding up tho
Delaware River on a steamboat of hia
own planning, the iiist one that was
ever used in the world! I'm inclined
to think that he hoed his patch of po
tatoes to some purpose.
The truth was, he had a "general
training" every day in the year, and
trained his mind tothink and to plan.
Pansy.
Take Care of the Matches!
This very useful invention, like many
other good things in life, is in danger ol
being sadly perverted. The great dan
ger is in the careless manner in which
they are handled. People forget they
do not think and so we have almost
daily instances of observing "how great
a matter a little fire kindleth." More
buildings are burned, more lives and
property destroyed, by the careless use
of matches, than by any other agency.
People call such a calamity "a mysteri
ous Providence,' and are much more
willing to ascribe their losses to the
over-ruling Hand than to their own in
excusable carelessness. It is a common
custom to leave a box of matches any
where, just where you happened to use
them last on the table, bureau, closet
shelf in fact, in any place except the
match-safe. Children get hold of them,
and slip them into their pockets, and
then in pulling out their traps to find
something else, the matches slip out,
just as likely to fall on a carpet or barn
floor, with straw scattered all about, a
anywhere else. Somebody steps on
them, or a mouse nibbles at the phos
phorus, and off they go! Unaccounta
ble! Strange! The work of an incen
diary! Another way young men strike a
match to light "a cigar or pipe and throw
it.down all ablaze, never minding where
it falls. If it is out of doors, it can not
do any harm. It may not fall straight
to the ground, a gust of wind may cam
either sparks or blaze into some com
bustible material, and it is a seven days'
wonder how the lire originated.
This is no trilling matter, and every
house-keeper should sec that matches
have a place that is safe, a tight box of
tin or iron, and make it a rule that the
matches shall be kept there. Country
Gentleman.
Mrs. John Jacob Astor paid two
hundred dollars for a flower the other
night, whereat people talk. But they
do not add that it was a charitable en
tertainment and that the money went
for "the greatest of these." Mrs. Astor
every year sends a colony of 003-3 and
girls to the West, and gives away thou
sands of dollars besides. N. Y. Times.
In an old desk purchased at auction
the other day at Wilton, N. H., was
found several hundred dollars in gold,
which was promptly returned by th
finder.
Ninety thousand dollars have been
.subscribed for the new Unitarian Tem
ple in Boston. jk
The Loudon School Board has ap
pointed a committee to consider the in
troduction of technical education in ele
mentary schools.
- -Rev. Joseph King, of Allegheny,
Pa., has been elected President of
Hiram College, Ohio, by unanimous
vote of the Board of Trustees.
The proposition is made in Boston
to have a school holiday in tho middle
of the week, instead of "Saturday, after
the usage common elsewhere.
Rev. Mrs. Stoddard has taken
charge of the Second Advent Church In
Oil City. She is the first woman preach
er ever seen in the oil country. PitU'
burgh Tost.
The Supreme Court of Missouri has
decided that under the Constitution of
that State there is no restriction as to
what may or may not be taught in the
public schools.
The Episcopal Church Council of
Virginia has appointed Rev. Dr. Ran
dolph, of Emanuel Church, Baltimore,
assistant to Bishop Whittle. The ap
pointee is a Virginian and a member of
the Randolph family.
According to the United States
Commissioner of Education. $61,475.-
000 has been given by private individ
uals for educational purposes in this
country within ten years. This does not
include the recent" gift of Slater and
others, amounting to $8,000,000.
Rev. Mr. Black, an evangelist for
merly of Indianapolis, and a graduate
of Hiram (O.) College, in a recent ser
mon predicted that the Jews would be
converted to the Christian religion in
the year 1917, and that the millennium
would arrive in 1987. Chicago Inter
Ocean.
Australia has seventy day schools
of agriculture, with 220 students, and
174 evening schools, with 5,500 students.
France has forty-threo farm schools,
with from thirty to forty pupils at each.
Germany has over 150 schools of agri
culture; while more thansixty agricult
ural stations have been established,
each having a special line of research:
In the synod of the Reformed Pres
byterian Church at Philadelphia re
cently, the report on the signs of tho
times stated that Nihilism in Russia,
Socialism in Germany, Communism in
France and Feniauism in Ireland were
matters of regret, and that tho United
States was in a good political condition,
even considering that Utah Territory
and the Oneida Community were within
its borders. Philadelphia Press.
To show that country people may
be too sharp for city folks", the Rich
mond (Va.) Religion, Herald adduces
the following: "The other day a pastor
and several of his head men went out to
take a collection at a country church
for the new church in the city. Pretty
soon after the city clique reached the
church some of the country sisters be
sieged them for a contribution to buy a
new suit of clothes for their pastor.
The upshot of it was that the finely
dressed city brethren had to borrow
money to get back home.
The Reigning- Fashions.
Summer cloth bodices cut out in
pointed tabs arc worn with checked
cheviot skirts,, made in Scotch kilt fash
ion with drapery high and full on the
hips.
Red parasols will bo Use more than
they have ever been before. Watered
silk, satin and even velvet parasols are
made of dark garnet, with frills of black
Spanisli lace.
A novelty in fans is in the form and
color of a large begonia leaf in velvet
w.'th a plush stalk for the handle. A
flower is laid in the center and the han
dle is tied with a bow of green or red
satin ribbon.
Young ladies wear "skull crowned
turban hats of dark straw placed far
back on the head iu Langtry fashion.
The brim has pull's of velvet upon it,
and breats of birds are laid close against
the low crown.
The kilting of skirts of Ottoman silk,
grenadine, satin or nun's veiling has a
row of tucks or rows of narrow velvet
ribbon abovo the wide hem that finishes
the lower edge, and this border is re
quired as a neat finish.
Checked surah satin is one of the
novelties of the season. It is used for
plaited skirts with a basque and over
skirt of cashmere, or of plain surah that
has velvet of a contrasting color for the
buttons, vest, sash and collar.
Newmarket coats of Cheviot have an
epaulette cape with a stuffed roll above
the shoulders on the cape. Plaits are
down the middle of this novel garment,
beginning in the shoulders and are six
in number, meeting in the center.
Simple dresses of dark green surah
have deep plaitings on the skirt edged
with ecru lace. The basque is fitted in
Jersey style and ecru lace forms a yoke
shaped collar. The small bonnet is of
green straw, trimmed with Marshal Neil
rosebuds.
It is the fashion of the season to use
figured goods for the lower skirt and
plain goods for the waist and overskirt.
The exception that proves the rule is
when Watteau overdresses are made of
gay-figured sateens with plain skirts
flounced with lace.
Tulle is again used for bonnets. Black
tulle is gathered on gilt wires for the
crown, and the front is covered with a
ruche of gilt lace or rows of currants,
rosebuds or small white blossoms. Lace
strings are fastened on the left side by
a rose or a bunch of flowers.
Red or blue plaids will be much worn
for ginghams and thin zephyr lawn
dresses. The skirts are disposed in
Scotch plaits and the polonaise fits the
form like armor, as low as the hips,
when a straight scarf of gingham is
tieil around the figure, after first being
edged with'lincn lace or emoroidery.
Velvet ribbon criss-crossed in lattice
designs forms side stripes for nun's veil
ing dresses. There are plaits down the
front aud'back of the skirt, and the far
thingale overskirt is puffed out on the
hips and flat behind. Garnet and blue
velvet, on cream, white or pale gray
dresses, is worn by stylish young ladies.
Cameleon silks that change to several
colors are rivals of an old fabric, but
are made to look new by having the
ground checked and dotted with velvet
or strewn with blocks of velvet. A
brown, red and ecru mixed chameleon
silk is handsomely made up with pinked
flounces, or with rows of dark brown
velvet on the skirts and bodice.
Small straw bonnets of dark green or
red are bound with velvet and the brim
is covered with rows of small green
buds. A rose aigrette made of several
small roses with stiff white feathers in
the center is on the top of the crown,
and for strings there are two pairs of
narrow rose-colored velvet ribbon and
one pair of dark green velvet, only hall
n inch wide. .A. Y. Graphia.