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THE JOTTRNAL.
ISrOI'.lt KVCKY WEDNESDAY,
M. K. TURjSTEK & CO.,
Proprietors and Publisher.
l-OFFICE Eleventh St.
in J'jumal BuihUng.
vp
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Three month?
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BUSINESS CAKDS.
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CHINESE LA UNDRY.
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1'JI YS1 CI AX & S Ull GEO.
rjrui opened the ofiice f rmerlv or.
rul.i..l l.y Dr. B-.n-.tcel. l-3ni.
DENTAL PATRLOE.
On Come-of Twelfth and North Streets.
ovir 'Ernst's hardware store.
-rrs'i mice l..i-r-. y to 12 a. m.: I to .1 p. m.
oi.LA Af'.iUAt'OH, Dentist.
lOli.-fKS'U"" Sl'l'UTAJf,
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ATTORNEYS-AI-LA W,
r-.--T.ilrs in Oluck ullding,lltL street,
A hove the Sow hank.
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XOTAUY PUBLIC,
IStli Street,:! door, wrst of Ilf.ronion.1 House,
Columbus, Xeb.
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rpiUJKSTO.X A: POWERS
SURGEON DENTISTS,
j2TOfli.:e in Mitchell Ulock, Colum
bu, Xol.ra-fcu. "
J.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
UJlieo iu Olive" St., Coliimbu. Nebraska.
Ml
f G. A. HLLLHOK;T. A. M.. M. D.,
HOMEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN,
rgj-Two Mock- -ouili . .'ourt llou-o.
Telephone cicirnunioition. '-
V. A. IACKEN,
DKALKI' IN
Wines, Liquors. Cigars, Purlers, Ales,
e'e , etc
Olive Street, next, lo First National tank.
ArrAI.MK'1'KR BltOS.,
A TTORNE YS A T LA W.
Ollice up.-rurs in McAlli-ter's tmil.l
iiS 1Kb -t. W. A. McAIIMer, Notary
Public.
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J. At. MAPrAlU-AND, " COWDEItY.
LAW AND (OLLKrriON OFKH'E ;
or - -.;
MACPAHliASD & COWDlOiy.
Columbia. : Nebraska.
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s:o. :. i)::!:".
PAINTER.
jSfC.irriago, tiiiUe -tml -ii-'ii patntint,
.la.in'. papi r hangnisr. kal-oiniiiiujr, etc.
Tlone to order. Simp on i:'.th St.. cppoMto
Engine H.-u-e, ..lutiibu. Neb. W-
p i. c:is'i"tE,
llth St.. opposite Lindell Hotel.
-elU Harness. uidlos, rillar. Whip,
MLinkei-. tirr Comb-. llrnhe. trunk-.
ati-i-. ln:'- top-, tu-hiou-. earriasre
trinnniiJ?-. .v'o at the li.'.vest po-ible
prices. i:ep.iir- pr iupil attended to.
o. c. st-i Ajsraroisr,
MANLTACTURKU OI"
Tin and Sheet-Iron Ware !
Job-Work, Boofing and Gutter
ing a Specialty.
jSTShop on Eleventh Str. et, oppo-ite
Heintz's Urns S;..re. '
f W. CI.A.SIK.
LAND AND 1XSMAXCE AGENT,
HUMPHREY, XEBJi.
His lauds onniprie some fine tracts
in the Shell Creek Valley, and the north
ern portion ot VI tte county. Taxes
paid for non-residents. Satisfaction
guaranteed. "-W y
pOLl'.Hl'ii PACUNG CO,
COLUMBUS, - N'EB.,
Packers and Dealer.- in all kinds of Hog
product, cash paid for Live or Dead Hop
or grease.
Directors. R. II Henry, l're-t.; John
"Wiggius, fcec. and Trea-.; L. Gerrard, s.
Cory.
TTOXICE TOTEACUKIM.
J. B. Moncriei. uo. oupi.,
Will be in his ollice st the Court House
on the third Snturoay of each
month for the purpose of examining
applicants for teacher's certificates, and
for the transaction of any other business
pertaining to schools. fC7-y
TAJIES SALMON
CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER.
Plans and estimates supplied for either
frame or brick building. Good work
guaranteed. Shop on ISth Street, near
St. Paul Lumber Yard, Columbus, Ne
braska. M 6mo.
J. WAGNER,
Livery and Feed Stable.
Is prepared to furnish the public with
good teams, buggies and carriages for all
occasions, especially for funerals. Also
conducts a sale stable. 44
D.T. Martyn, M. D. F. Schcg, M. D..
(Deutscher Artz.)
Drs. MAETYN & SCHUG,
D. S. Examining Surgeons,
Local Surgeons. Union Pacific and
O.. N. & B. H. H. R's.
COLUMBUS. - NEBRASKA.
:j-voI-xIH-t
$66
a week at home. $5.00 outfit
free. Pay absolutely sure. No
risk. Capital not required.
Header, if you want business
at which persons of either sex, young or
old, can make great pay all the time they
worlc, with absolute certainty, write for
Jtarticulars to H. Haiact & Co., Port
nd, Maine.
fit
VOL: XIY 0M 0
COLUMBUS
STATE BANK!
COLUMBUS, 'NEB.
CASH CAPITAL, - $50,000
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DIIIECTQKS:
Lkandeu (iKitiiAun. Pre' I.
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C.r.o. V. Huwt, VJr.a Pros' t.
Julius A. Heed.
EnvrARDcrMSrp.i).j!l
- J; E. TAgKWi. CasKier.
-.. - , J. - & i.
Bunic'.of Iepoiltv IMwcoam
asd Eichaajre. p.,. 4- ,
Collections Promptly Mode on
1! Points. JV ' . .
Pay lntcre.:,"on'"rinie Dcpo
27-1
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DSEBERT & BRIGGLE,
BAJSTKEKSI
HUMPHREY, NEBRASKA.
.t IM 7 "I
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22TProm.pt attention given to Col
lections. ISTInsurance. Real Estate, Loan,
etc. . . v -"
J. H. GALLEY BRO.,
WnuM rc-pectJU'ly ak their frioiuU anil
patron-, to call and cv.imim
their stock.pf
Pall and Tintsr Goods
Before purchasing their Mipplie. a- t!ir
have their store full from lloor to
ceiling of Staple and Fancy
DEY GOODS,
-4 J' V5
For Men and Boys, at all Prices!
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S-0VEKCUAJJ5!prtg
ALtS
P-icr
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HATS MS CAPS, BOOTS AND SHOES.
WF ALSO CARRY A LINE OF
LA DIES' FINE SHOES.
Blankets Quilts and all kinds of Fan
cy Notions.
JSTRcuiemher that wju keep no shoddy
good-, and strictly 'oxk "rittCK in-our
motto, which our twenty-nve years i evi
dence in Columbus will u-tain. -J3-Siii
LOUIS SCHBEIBEB,
ttiillaiiWaiiffler.
All kinds of Itepaiiinj; 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.
rSTShop opposite the "Tattersall," Ol
ive St.. COLUMBUS. i-nm-c
GOLD
for the working class
Send 10 cents for postage,
and we will mail youre
a roval, valuable box of
sample fcood., that will put you in the way .
of making mo:c money in a mw nays man
vou ever thought, 'possible, .at anj- busi
ness. Capital uot required. We .will
start .you. You can work ajl the time or
in spare time only. The-work is univer
sallv adapted to both sexes, young and
old." You can eaMlj earn from 50 cents to
$5 everv evening. That all who want
work m'av test the bu-ines, we make
this unparalleled otTer; to all whoar? not
well satisfied we will send $1 to pay fcr
the trouble of writinir tt-. Full particu
lars, directions, etc., sent free. Fortunes
will be made by those who give their
whole time to thV work. Great sUcccks
absolutely sure. Don't delay. Start now.
Address STINSON & Cp., Portland, Maine.
Ul'UEK'.S HOTEL.
JOHN HUBER, the jolly auctioneer, his
opened a hotel on 13tb St , near Tiffa
ny & Routson's, where clean beds and
square meals will always be found Ly the
patrons of the house. I, will in the fu
ture, as in the past, give my best atten
tion to all sales of goods or farm stock, as
an auctioneer.
"jSgSatufactlonj guaranteed; call and
see me and "vou will bo made welcome.
JOHN HUBER,
Proprietor aud Auctioneer.
Columbus, Neb., June 1, "S3. 9-tf
Restaurant -and Saloon!
E. D. SHEEHAN, Proprietor.
jSfWholesale aud Retail Dealer in For
, eign Wjine,- Liquors and Cigars, Dub
lin Stout, 'Scotch and English Ales.
3TKentucky Whiskies a Specialty.
OYSTERS In their season, by the case
can or'dish1."
llth Strt. Sauth of Titt.
JS. MITRPOCK & SOX,
'Carpenters and Contractors.
Havenad an extended experience, nd,
will goarsntee .satisfaction iiai wortrJ
All-kinds 'of re-palridg'llone 'oir short1
notice. Our motto is, Good work and
fair prices. Call and give us an oppor
tuaitv to estimate for you, .y Shop-on
lSthuSt one: door JwesUof Friedhof Jk
Ca's. sure, Columbus, Nebr. 488-r
(MiUmi
.FIRST
National Bank!
COZ.XJBSBXT8. NEB.
Authorized Capital,
Cash Capital,
8250,000 j
50,000 1
.OKFIUKKS AND DIRECTORS.
A.AkXDER30X. Tresft. n ,
SAM'L C. SMI I'll. Vice Pres't.
O. T. KOEK, Cashier.
J. n EARLY,
ROB BUT UHLIO.
HERMAN OEHLRICII.
W. A. MCALLISTER.
(J. ANDKRMX,
P.ANDERSON.
Foreign and Inland Exchange, Passage
Tickets, Real Estate, Loan ana Insurance.
2!)-vol-l3-lv
COAL $ LIME!
JJ. NORTH & CO.,
DEALERS IN
Coal,
Lime,
Hair,
Geiuent.
Rotk Spring Coal,
Carbon Wyoming) Coal.
Eliion Clowa) Coal
...i7.00 per Ion
... ti.00 '
... 1.i0 "
o
I Blacksmith Coal of best quality al
ways on hand at low
I est prices
North Side Eleventh St.,
COLUMBUS. NEB.
14-3:n
UNION PACIFIC
LAND OFFICE.
Improved and Unimproved Farms,
I Hay and Grazing Lands and City
Property for Sale Cheap
-AT THE
Union Pacific Land Office,
On Lony Time and loin rate
; 'of Interest.
' KS"FInal pn.r.f made on Timber Claim-..
t . .1 .....I !.... .tmntiin.
ijmiicMeaii- aim --.. ..,.i... ..
J-All wishing to buy lands of any de--erlption
will please call .and examine
my list of land- before looking else where
23TA11 having laud- to -ell will p!eie
call and give hm a de-e iptiou. t -rni ,
nriees. etc.
I
i If"! a o am prepared to insure prop-
I , 1..... tin. .i.ri.iw! nf sever.il
tir.-t-clasi Fire insuran-e companies.
r . W. O'l'T, Solicitor, speak Uerniin.
i KAni;ui'C.s.uirn,
i ,i(i-tf Columbui, Nebraska.
BECKER & WELCH,
PROPRIETORS OF
SHELL CREEK HILLS.
MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLE
SALE DEALERS IN
FLOUR AND MEAL.
O FFICE, COL UMB US, NEB.
SPE1CE & NORTH,
General Agents for the Sale of
REAL ESTATE.
Union Pacific, and 3IIdland Pacific
R. R. Lands for sale at from ?3.00 to $10.00
per acre for cash, or on five or ten years
time, in annual payments to suit pur
chasers. We have also a Jarge and
choice lot of other lands, improved and
unimproved, for sale at low price and
on reasonable terms. Also business and
residenco lots in the city. We keep a
complete abstract of title to all real es
tate in Platte County.
b-2l
COHMniS. NEB.
HENRY G-ASS,
COFFER AND METALLIC OASES'
AND DEALER IN
Furniture, Chain, Bedsteads, Bu
reaus. Tables, 8afes. Loungea,
&c. Picture Frames and
Mouldings.
. fSTRepairiag qf all kinds of Upholstery
Goods.
e-tf COLUMBUS, NEB.
COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 19,
PBILOPENJ.
What sort of ufftft will I take?"
Asks my saucy debtor.
"Shall she make or buy the thintf.
Which do I like better i"
Then to mine a little haml
Is yielded up completely.
While thered lips try to pout,
Andtheeyes smile sweetly.
"Knowest thou prisoner at the bar
(Still I hold her tightly).
The meanlnjrof that Grecian word?"
"No," she answers, lightly.
Paena penalty: phllo love.
According to the letter.
And if you cannor pay the debt
I must keep the debtor.
Would you buy your sqntence off,?
Useless the endeavor:
Yet, if you work the whole term out.
It will take forever!"
Philadelphia Press
BACK HOME.
WHAT ONE MEETS AFTEIt AN ABSENCE
OF FOHTY YEAHS.
The old houses you so well knew
when a boy are here all in their old
place3 but not the people of long
years ago. They are gone, and their
houses are enipty shells tenanted for
you only with memories.
In that eternity of youth, say from
six to sixteen, when the years were so
long, those families seemed to you as
enduring as the everlasting hills. Then
the deacons, the trustees, the doctors,
the lawyers and all the more or less
prominent men of your native village
seemed to you as people to enduiv for
all time. They had existed before you
were born. You could not then realize
their evanescence.
That was forty years ago. That gen
eration has nearly disappeared. Two
or three are left old stumps decayed,
twisted, storm-beaten amid a younger
and more vigorous growth the "sur
vival of the fittest" and a moekerv
after all of the "tittest."
Not only have the heads of families
disappeared, but in many cases the
famibes themselves. There are certain
old houses you see large, old-fashioned,
roomy houses; double houses; two
stories and a half, with big garrets,
cavernous cellars, long ranges of
kitchen and wash-house in the rear; a
double door and a brass knocker;
houses presenting full, important fronts
to the street; no filagree work nor
mansard roof nor Queen Anne styles,
but plain, very plain and substantial
and always painted whit", and in front
an old-fashioned garden with a box
lined .straight walk leading up to the
front door, and oti either siile holly
hocks, .pinks, marigolds and sweet
William.
That house when the world was com
mencing for you, when everything in Tt
was quite new, whencreat'on was newly
furnished for you, and its pai.t was
hardly dry and none of ils veneer and
varnish had been scratched or worn oil":
that house was full of sturdy sons and
bright-eyed, red-theeked daughters.
Some were older than you, some young
er, some of your own age. You went
with them to the village school, one of
the boj's belonged to your own partic
ular set, you played with him, you
visited hi.i barn to inspect his rabbits
and pigeons, he visited your barn for a
similar purpose; those barns which by
the aid of a saw, hammer aud nails aud
a vast amount of clumsy sawiug and
hammering aud banging you kept in a
chronic state of fre-h dilapidation and
unrepair- in a word the village boy's
barn.
The barn is still there an old. rusty,
moss-grown, unpa'uted barn, whose
gray shingles hang loosely by the rusty
naifs and are all but rotted to tinder.
In one end there are still seen that row
of most unevenly-cut pigeon holes cut
after the fashion of a boy's lir&t effort
with a key-hole saw cut by guess as to
a uniform level, and therefore cut on a
very irregular basis but by your
crony's hand forty year- ago when the
world was new to you and me.
The family name no longer exists in
the village. The old folks have gone
the wav deereeil by nature; the girls
married off and ouLof the place: the
boys went away, s me in this direction,
some in that one to California; one to
the war, who never returned; one staid
at home and died; one by one the limbs
of this family tree have dropped oil'
through decay or have been wrenched
off by the storm, while the stunips have
rotted down to the earth and the turf
has grown over them.
Strangers inhabit the old homestead
people from abroad, not of the old
village stock strangers cold, dead and
indifferent to all this host " of memory
and association now tugging at your
heart strings as you look at the old front
door, on which still hangs the iron
knocker, and underneath that same
doorstep which the feet of the departed
still in remembrance so near you have
helped to wear away.
A boy comes out of the old- house
front door, whooping and yelling as did
your crony of forty 3ears ago. It is the
same sound in tlie same place. Only
another boy. To that boy the world is
as new, the pillars of society about him.
the "old men" seem as enduring as did
tho dead and gone "old men" of your
youth. As his glance momentarily falls
upon you he lives over in 3-011 what yon
did with the "old men" of ycur youth,
and you are but living over in him what
some "old man" of your time may very
likely have done as he looked upon that
very'house tenanted with the memories
of his youth.
Yet the sunshine of to-day is just as
warm and cheering as it was "then; the
hues of the pink and hollyhock while in
their prime are not one whit less beauti
ful than the decayed liowcr of forty
years ago. In the spring-time the new
ness of oursting bud and leaf is as new
and full of life now as then -and so is
the world to eyes newly opened upon it.
THE VILLAGE GRAVE-YARD.
It is an October morn in all its beauty
and brightness and bracing l'rostiness.
The crickets still chirp in the grass, the
katydid is still heard in the trees and
the'birds are not yet silent. Titfcse are
the only sounds heard in the street
the street of the cemetery in the village
outskirts these and your footfall and
the stir of the breeze m "the tree tops.
But quiet as is the place externally,
there is stir and commotion and bustle
enough within that mysterious mechan
ism of yours you call memory, that
name for that mystery which so indus
triously goes on storing up sights and
scenes and events and preserving even
the tones of voices once familiar to you
and not heard by mortal these thirty or
forty years.
Voices, the dust of whose lips lie in
the soil beneath you: voices which once
made your heart beat quicker; voices
once potent in the village town-meeting;
voices of turbulent, quarrelsome
ana never-to-be-satisiied men, and soft
er voices which bade you farewell in
the now long ago, which you 'little
thought you were never to he'ar again.
This is the "set" with w-hicn you are
now most familiar at your birthplace.
This is where you are "most at home.
Every lot holds an old acquaintance.
Materially you do not see them, but the
Ml
grave-stones are here sticking out liko
visiting-cards left at the door, and on
each the name and date of their last ap'
pearance.
Cau it be that so many of these peo
ple .who passed away during your' boy
hood were no older?" Forty, "forty-five,
fifty. You had at that time held" them
as old men. Why. they were no older
than you are some not so old when
they died! Have, you, indeed, arrived
at that period held so venerable in your
boyhood? Here is the grave of a man
deemed by you. or what was to 3-011
many 3'earsago, to be a patriarch. He
was a deacon and a General a Gen
oral of the militia, aud a gorgeous spec
tacle on general training" d:iys at the
head of an army of rust3' unuuiformed
militia, bearing rusty flint-locks. And
only forty-eight when he died!
The silent compan' here assembled
represent different eras of 3-our life.
Here are the girls tho-e lirstgirls. Of
course there have been mam girls since
some 2ossibh' as mucii if not more
dangerous to your peace of mind. Of
these here some 3otj knew on' 3- in the
pinafore aud school-dav stage 3-ct
there have been none exactly like them
since Some are hing bv the side of
their husbands and with them their
children. Soino died long after the
bloom and sparkle of tho'r school-day
3'Oiith had given place to the careworn
and sallowed face of ma'ttrity but here
aud for 3011 they are young and so
best it is.
The village main street was once alive
with all the-o people. They eatue lo
their shops and stores in he morning
after breakfast: tluy passed up again
to dinner and down afterwards, and
then to tea. They congregated anil
gossiped at chosen resorts at night,
and censured their ne'ghbors out of
hearing a good deal and prated ver3
little, and made invidious remarks on
sombouV's sU'le of living, and won
dered where the mone3' came from, and
wondered how much the last dead man
had loft his relatives, aud whether an
other had any property at all, and how
another one was "doing." and howmca
and close this man. and how extrava
gant was that one.
Hut what of that? Tho3- we're but
human, bo are 3-011. You love them
all now -or rataer their memories.
You could wish them all back. True,
pretty neir the same village life goes on
here " to-da3. The same eating and
drinking and sleeping and waking and
manyiiig and getting unmarried an I
living and d3'ing and carping and fault
finding. But it's to vou notexactly the
! same as that of the long ago.
1 ilUU liail SIA UUUUtltOk4IH4 HV.( iliJill
tnoy went to ctmrcii, ana some stood
up and praod long praers aud awed
j'ouverv much In' their severit of man
tier and language, and impressed vou
with an idea that the Deit3' the called
upon was a beiug much more to be
feared than loved.
One by one ime xhey disappeared
and come to this place the husband,
the wife, the maiden sister of mau3
winters, the tov. n wags and the little
bus-, rttsl- man who kept the book
store and bought -our broken glass at
a cent a pound and paid -ou in prns
and picture books, and who did not
know a joke in capital letters. Here
lies the great man of the village, who
owned ships and prayed copiously at
pnner-ineetings. and w:us a being that
no hoy dared to speak to. Here lies the
man in bad repute, whom 3-011 knew and
felt so to be by the manner in which
your parents had called his name. Here
lies Ihe mau whose voice in the street
was a bellow, and the man vou never
recollect hearing .-peak a loud word,
and the awful swearer and the hard
drinker, and the brisk, dapper man of
dandified and sporting tendencies, and
also the Iat relic of tfio old school gen
tleman and federal aristocracy whom
3'ou can jut recollect, and w hose pre
ciseness and formal manner in every
place was in striking contrast with this
carelessness of more modern demeanor.
Here they lie, one rich, once poor
once In- the world ealled bad, called
good all here equalh- silent, equally
rich, cpialty poor "equal in ilu?",
though some be pressed down by
ponderou- marble and others market!
only by a carved icd sand-stone ali
equal so far as 3-011 know.
You must feel amused here as well ai
sad. Mark," says one epitaph, "tho
end of the perfect man," 3-ou know this
"perfect man." A good enough man
as things go a small man in every re
spect who kept a little candy shop,
and fcebl- oiced th" sentiments of hit
richer neighbors, and did nothing very
good nor ver- bad, and l'ved cheaph',
and thought cheaph-. and died cheaph,
and made hardly a ripple in the world.-
turbulent breakers.
And the carved widows, weeping on
carved tombstones under carved weep
ing willows! Cau 3011, too, weep as
6h remember those widows and call to
mind the peevish, dyspeptic husband
they weep over the man whose en
trance into the house was announced by
a growl who snapped before grace and
snarled after, because his potatoes were
not conked to his liking and whose
nnal advent to the land of shadows
brought a peace and quiet to that house
hold which it had never known before
and which la-ted until the weeping wid
ow under the weeping willow chose an
other marital master and entered into a
renewal of connubial suffering and en
durance to end, perhaps, b the erec
tion of another marble weeping widow
under a marble weeping willow? N. Y.
Graphic.
A .Miscalculation.
"Did 3011 ever have 3-our fortune
told?' inquired an Austin woman of
one of her most intimate friends.
"No. did you?"
"Yes, I was down to a olairtw-ant's
yesterday evening. Did 3-ou know" there
was one in town?"
"No."
"Well, there is, and she just spread
out hereuehre deck and told my fortune
as slick as a whistle."
"What did the c!airvo3ant s.13- was
going to happen to 3-011?
"She said I was going to marry a
nobleman and become a maid of
honor."
"Become a maid of honor! Why,
you must j forget yourself. You know
3"ou are a married woman.'
"That's so," answered the woman,
dejectedly. "I forgot all about that,
and got the old harridan to laj- the
cards out for a widow. It is funny' how
such little things will slip out of a per
son's memory. I shall have to go down
and get the claimn'ant woman to do
it all over again."' Texas Sif tings.
Those who have looked into the
matter say that while farmers who sell
milk in cities feed distille- grains and
glucose meal freeh; to their cows, and
thus promote a copious How of milk,
those who produce milk solely for home
use or butter-making carefidly avoid
feeding that kind of fodder. Tlie mor
al of this statement is easy to draw.
N. Y. Examiner.
CT") i
1883.
Pernlexilics of a Musician.
My friend was p. great musician; that
is, he was fast beeomiug one, and his
E
iano recitals, like Mrs. Laugtry and ajr. but mv frem- had seen the dam
ped Gebhart, were the principal topics 1 ar,es. and without anv loss of time had
of the public. ell, one day I met srcn tie s;gnai aim tne march was
him on his way to dinner, and as was commenced. The voting man. to save
my habit. I inquired "when his famous appearances, went through the motion
recital was to occur:' for T had seen ' of piayinsr, but his face, which I could
in the paper an announcement to the seii fromljclow, was worth painting. It
effect that Her Yon Snushingsohiter was :l nixture of discouragement and
would execute the March from Tanu- sp!te Tllo furv h which he struck
hau-er. :rraugcd by himselt for four- ; ,iie j,our ,n,ino instrument which could
lee-i pianos. He appeared worried, and j 0 nothing was very funny to see.
as if in deep thought; so it was some, -That was well done, gentlemen,"
fin- lefore he replied to my quotum sa, mv frjenu; ou entering the artist's
concerning the concert; but after this j room, ""but the effect was less than tho
long pause, he began: j first time." o
"You know I am auvcrtised to play . ..The mischief," said the vouug fol-to-morrow
evening, and one of my pian-! iow; 4.mv njaMO broke all at once. '
ists has lallen si-.-!:. What am I to do?" j w,,- the secret was kept a long
"1'utoll th- concert." was my sug- , tme m,t it finally leaked out. orat least
gesiio-i. 1 mv friend and I had reason to suppose
'Never." he shouted. "A warmed- 30from the manner in which the young
up dinner is never worth anything m raan saluted us on meeting him one dav
the matter of concerts. You must never ;n t,e street. St. Mary's Bazaar Jour
put off. The public is ilightv. capri- nu
cious, pitiless. Learn to seize the hour
when it is favorable to you; if 3-ou I tfi-s. Ponncrntan Ke-r.des Her Husband
don t, it escapes trom vou without anv
reason."
"Announce only thirteen pianos," I
said, t nnkiiij I had struck the right
th"ng.
Another error still more danger
ous," was the reply. "The public want
to have fourte n pianos, and if 3-011 give
it one less it will think itself outraged.
It demands foupteen pianos in full view
on the platform."
The difiicuhy was becoming insur
mountable. Chicago, with a 1 its won
derful advantages, po-sess d but thir
teen first-class piano phiyers. I re
flected on the subject for a few
moments, and .ith much excite
ment in mv voice called his
at'ention to the fact that the proprietor
of the hall in which his entertainments
took place had a 'on who was spoken
o." as a perfect prodigy in music, and
we might secure h.s services. M3
friend was delighted at the suggestion,
and we went at once to secure the
voting man, who was flattered, and
assured us he could execute any
of Gottsehalk's, m Thalberg's or
Liszt's without diliic'iltv, and for him
it would 011I3- be fun to take the part
that was wanted for the Matv'ti of Tann-
lrmspr. So mv friend accept rd his as
i-tatiec, and the voting fellow started
wilh us to the had, sa3:ug all the while j h and bask 'neath soft, cerulean skies,
iie required no rehearsal, as he pla3-ed or did we go to Hoboken and spend two
at sight. Mv frii nd Vegan to wear the 1 weeks fishing for eels on the edge of tho
same worried expression, and on reach- wharf ?"'
ing the hall he whispered his fears to I " Well, 3-cs."
me. J "And how about the pictures? You
" Experience," he sa"d, "had long i know ver3 well that pvr3 rich and cost
taught him to shun amateurs, and he ly painting in this house is a ehromo
trembled more than ever for the sue- : from the tea store.'
cess of his concert.' "Well.'
However, mv friend assured the, " -Thy bath shall he of milk.' Do I
voung confidant that he doul ted bathe in milk? Do I bathe in milk, or
nor his ability to perform ' is it like pulling teeth every morning to
without lehearsing" and that the re- i iret ten cen! out of you to buy milk
henrial wa- less for the dilliciilty of ex
ecution than for pl-iyit'g together, ami
that, if he wish cl. my friend wo-.iJd
play with him to point out the movement-.
So the young fellow placed
himself at the piano, and, 1'ke all
aniaf't'.r-. after" having executed a
noi-- flourish, attack'd with the liold
ness 01 innocence t.'ic March from
T: naha's-er. Al the end nf two bar.-,
:nv friend whispered to nie: ' M.
mini is mute up: 1 know what 1 am
to expect."
Well, f. too. ;Vlt unpleasant, for the
most eom.l:i--:ij. ir-arer would hardly
have bee:: able to distinguish a shred
o." WagnerS theme which was floating
here and there Iik waifs in the mid-t
of an 0. c 11 if faNu nots in a deafen
ing ti:rm of cntinuoi:- p."d:tl. The
-t .rni could not be de-eril'cd. nor the
comj'iete wreck of tin
jdr'l of t'.ie author. Mv
measure anil
friend'.s mis:-
; ii became hnrr ble -to refuse tl
to refuse the
a'--i-.iati : of the first amateur!
of ( h cago. elegant and rich, who j
would pivl.ahlv ivu'ati among all his 1
friends and : 1! t'. ;: d -ocietv of the
city t:nt h th---gni d to gi'.e my friend
t!w nsi! ot hi- talent-. 1 did not even
make a riina.k. it would have been
:ts uii eli ;i-" a- to frv to m:.ke a piano
out ot a jc-.'.sl.aip.
The lv'eearsa" was short, anil the :
voting aspirant Mood beaming over with
"03- and pride, :r:d. !o .ing at my frieud '
ami wip.ng hi- for -..cad altTthi: piece, j
said: J
lia. ha, wha? did ' t-ll you'.'"
The oung tdlow .--emiisd cuvhied .
of ).'. v 'I til. :
ordy aar !!
li is c. ; vrn
111:1113 time-'. :
sati-lied 1 f.l"
nd with tht-ea.se Wiiiiii I
jn.s-. -, where the pu -
d. r "pealjd to nu 'rieud
;i:i-',i.t!siv -mditig w,tii a
iw: -Oh .".-. I think
that do-ea-v.
t-rv .t!l- Iies-de
it
quite
We parted: that i- the young
man
left is. Mv 11- c.
1 uiougu Senou-n- 01
neerl under the pre-
nosin ilillg lie- 1
tense 01
in'.i-posiiioii
when his tuner, a
man ot resouivi s
said to him:
-Sir, if th's voiuigm-tn plays, trouble
is inevitable w th the other pianos. It is
au-O U'elV licet
in r herd, an '
is t-iis." and
pushed ! ac!: .
signed for t..e
right j i.-tio
meehair-'u
at mv triend
:i y 10 pro, em his be-
the same time la
prop
-i'.g
the piano do-
g ::-p 1 nut -an up-
ut ail the inte in.-
. .1
d, '1 king triumphnnth-aadevi-
"Tise key-hoard
remains, but ther. will be no more false
notes.
The plan was excel I -nt. Tho evening
came; the ha!i was U: our young con
fi hint, ii w.ii: era", at a:.d evening
il res ".was inthehali: his lv'iils awaited
the moment of hi.s appearance with im-
paueuee: ne iv..ui--te.l mv menu to
g ve him a pi..nc fit. I vev. of the an-
it:ne 1 pi fc i i
ipimb pi-mo in
the middle of tit. nge. Myfri'-nd im
pressed u: on iii- ill ive'i t.iat in order
to prodiio t .e giva .; eil-'ct it was
ndi-peti- -We n i to ma' e :::iv prelude-,
that thus 'iie p.ibl c might be ;nor. sur
prised to hear a!l at once the fourteen
pian. attiek t-i . o'ir..sh ot tnimpets ,
with which the Marc'i of Tainhauserbe
gin. One, two. t -ire": we commence: it
goe- nnrvelort-h. In tlie mid-t of the
piece I gliuce! at the voung fellow.
He was -!j,ci- He was -wct ing great
drops, and, throwing1 his eeseatehi.-sh
on the audience, he performed with
miraculous ease apparently the nio-t '
did'eu t -.arts. II'- friends were in
raptures. Some entlius'ast, even cried
out: "Hurrah fur Blank." En ore, '
"ii' ore. We must repeat the pine;
but al the moment of 1 omm.-ncng, !
the oung aspirant forgot the
recommendation not to prelude, and
coid not resist tiie temptation to play '
1 littiv- t-hn mat; -cale. I -ee liini now:
ne sUijior wife i '.vib print d upon his
fa e was inexpressible. He recom
menced nothing. The piano was mut.
For an instant he had the idea that the
ardor with which he played had been
latal to the strings, out tnrowing aj
glance inside he saw them all rigbt. Irancos Earl Bryant, of 1-ultou, N.
Mit'.ouf doubt it must be the pedals. !i- wears a dress-skirt like other
aud after some shakes impressed , women, but the upper part of her
on the pedals ho be-an a"-aiu bis costume is a man s eoat.vest, collar tad
little flhronaatic scale, f hen, ifersuetLI Der"0.v hat- TroU Times.
WHOLE NO. 710.
that the piano was just out or order,
ho strove to make nn friend understand
he could not begin "again the msreh.
'Rntlior. hnther ." s.iiil lii with ft wild
with Comparisons.
" My dear," said Mrs. Popperman to
her husband last evening, "I was look
ing over a bundle of old letters to-da
and found this one. which you wrote to
me before we were married, when 3ou
were voting and sentimeutal."
"Vhat doesitsav?"
' I'll read it."
"Sweet idol of IU3 Iouch heart: If
thou wilt place thv hand in "mine, and
sav, dear love, I'll be thv bride, we'll
113- to sunny Itah. and 'neath soft, ce
rulean skies we'll bask and sing aud
dream of naught but love, ltich and
cost 13 paintings b3 old masters shall
adorn the walls of" the castle I'll givc
thec. TI13 batii shall be of milk. A
box at the opera shall be al thy com
mand, and roj alt3' shall be U13 daily
visitor. Sweet strains of music shall
lull thee at eventide, and warbling
birds shall wake thee from tin morn
ing slumber. Dost thou accept? Say
3es, and I13-. oh! II3-. with inc."
"And I dew,', said Mrs. Popperman.
"But if I had been as fly as I am now.
wouldn't have flown.""
WI13 not, dear?'
"Win not? Have vou done as vou
promised in that letter? When wo
were married, did we '11 to sunny Ita-
lor the baliy .-
Kinder."
" -lio-alt) shall be thy daih- visitor.'
The onlv daih v'sitors 1 have are the
book agents and clam peddlers."
t "l.,. miv fnH ''
-a-tu ill) At-ttatba
, " 'Sweet strains of music shall lull
tiiee at eveatidc' The unh; chance 1
have to li.-ten lo sweet strains of music
is whin vou and I go out walking at
night and follow a monkcv and a hantl-
, organ around the block.""
"Oh. I am -o sleeps'."
1 " I don't care if you are. Where are
the warbling birds you promised me?
1 hear Mr.-. Magnus' crowi.ig roosters
next door everv morning. Perhaps
they are what 3011 meant."
1 "Well, never mind."
1 "But I will mind. 'I was to have a
I box at the oivra. Where is it? Tho
-',i. io" n- uiti n ;iuu vvuu
i ot hill-posters' tickets to a dime muse-
....!. f '. T .m ,0 n.i m.nmi '- ..-!... ....
' l,m .
"It's too bad.'
"it is re dlv too bad. And then you
said we'd talk and dream of naughtbut
Irivi. Sir... 1 iiv."nil 'rn wr,Tri f,IL-ml
and dreamt of naught but rent.
Good-night, sir," anil Mrs. Popnerman
ttirin c! out the gas and jumped into bed,
1 leaving Mr. Popperman to bark his
-hin- against tin- bureau in trying to
grope to bed in the dark. Boston Hcr
' "aid.
At the SLisnp Window.
"Has posfsgc been reduced to two
CI tits? '
'Vet'm.'
-For Idlers-""
"Yes":,i."'
"T .en a two-cent stamp will actually
earrv a letter?"
"ft .v.li."
"And t':ie"s no need of putting ou
three cents?"
"N-.t .1 bit."
-Di.yoii know .Mrs. Blank?'
"No'm."
'She says it's two cents in the cit3."
"It is two cents anywhere in the
country.'
-'.-h. s:i;, a she .sent a letter to her hus
uau I in '.'."cago with a two-eent stamp
on "t and .he n -ver got it."
"I can't help that, ma'am."
"Then two cents i- enough?'
"J'lenty."
"Ami iter husband probably got the
let er and didn't answer it?"
"I lobablv."
-Well, I'll take a two-cent stamp,
but 1 there is any dotiot about the mat
ter I'd as soon pay more. It will go,
will it?"
"Yos'm."
'( 'o right out to-da3?"
"Yes'ni "
ell, l Hope so, lor its a v.-r
iin-
, portaut letter. You know Mr. D
who u-ed to live on street?'
No'm.'"
"Well, it'- for her. She lives in Buf
falo now. lie aked me for the best
w:n" to pickle mived "'
The wi-nian had to stand aside for
two or three m'nutes, but :t soon as
the window was clear she returned to
-ay.
I've got the stamp on.'
"Yes'm."
Two cents."
-I mc"
"And it'll go?"
"It will."
"If it don't !'"
And -lie probably didn't .sleep a wink
last night. Detroit Free I res.
"Aw, 3cu can sell me, aw, a blue
neck-tie to match 1113- iycs, 3011 know?"
inquTC-d an Austin dude in a gentleman's
furiiish ng store. "Don't know a-s I
can. exacth.'" replied the salesman,
"but I can fit you with a soft hat to
match that head." Then the dude
withdrew from the store, a crushed
strawbeny hue effusing his effeminate
features. Texas Siftiw3.
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RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL;
Middldmn (Vt.) College is to be
opened o w men.
- A hand-ome cpllege building that'
will accommodate six hundred students
is goi.ig up at Decatur. Tex.
The Japanese are teaching about
2,000,1 0 eh ldrr-n in their public school
on American aud English s3-stems.
Of 4,aai.729 Prussian children. 2.
720,911 go to Evangelical, and 1,405,989
to Catholic schools, making a total of
4,12i),900 in Christian schools.
Professors for eleven different chairs
or departments in colleges, polytechnic
schools and other institutu ns of higher
learning in the United Stu'ei. have re-'
ceutlv been chosen from the alumni of
the lvnier-it3 of Virginia. N. Y. Ex
amimr. - Prof. James C. Greenough, Princi
pal of the Rhode Island Normal School,
has accepted the Presidency of the
Massachusetts Agricultural College, at
Aml.erst. He is a native of Deertield,
Mass.. and was graduated from Will
iams Ccdlege in the class of 1860.
- At Bellows Falls, the Congrega
tional and Methodist churches not only
meet harnionioush in one building,
but they go so far in Christian fellow
ship as to pool their collec'ions. Two
brethren from each church soeiet take
up the collections, which, for the most
part, eon-i-t of envelopes containing tin
money offering. Such offerings ils
come in tie wav of looe change are
cqii.il'3 d vided. --iiut a nt ( 17.) Ilera'd.
Mr. Spurgeon surprised his congre
gation a few Sundays ago. He b.'gan
his sermon as usual, and got through
his "lirsth" pretty well. Then feeling
very warm himself, and seeing his con
gregation growing listless, he inter
rupted himself with the remark: "That
is the end of the ' firstly." and it's so
warm to-day that 1 think tne secondly
and thirdly will very well keep for a
cooler Sunday." So the congregation
went its w.'u. and Mr. Spurgeon went
his vny.-Chicaao Inter Ocean.
A study of the religion of the Tlin
kit Indians, of Ar'zona. has been mado
by Bev. S. Hall Youn, who saj-." that it
so much res mbles that of Christians that
their conversion is quite easy. They
believe in a God who is a trinity in his
attributes. He is. fir-t. a universal
punisher of evil and rewarder of good;
second, a holy spirit of beneficence, to
whom they pray for blessings; and,
third, a mediator in the various forms
of lesser divinities. But many of the
elaborations of this religion are sa-vngo
aud grotesque.
m
The Plague in Egypt.
It might have been expected that tho
English occupation of Egypt would
have got enough sanitary regulat'on
into the land of the Nile to at least pre
vent the in-ist fearful p!-gue known
there for 3-ears. But now. between Cairo
and Port Said in one direction and A1-.
a:iudri:t in the other, the condition is
most distressing. Even the English
soldiers are .suffering, several having
died at Damietta, but the English eeiu
to be making everv effort to conceal the
facts. Two not'd physicians. Dr. Laird,
a Scotehm '.11. and a German, Dr. Ernst,
have lost their lives there, and the exo
dus of foreign families amounts almost
to a panic. The few fore'gn medical
men willing to remain to stem the tide
are met with opposition from the na
the doctors, who are driving a good
business, a.- they are the only ones that
collect fees. Lord Fitzmaurice told the
House of Commons Tuesda" that tho
Government had no intention of pro
posing an nteniational conference.
The Sanitary Council at Cairo has put
the population of Damietta into tents
and partly burned and partly disinfect
ed the place. Several small villages
have also been burned. The natives are
fo-eed bv the soldiery to bury their
dead, and the hospital camp nt Damiet
ta is .-trough guarded. In some of the
isolated villages along the Med-it-rrane
in and in tlie low line districts
between Lake Mun.aleh and Lake Bor
las there are search natives enough to
bury the dead. T'-e natives are very
bitter against the English, who, though
warned of the approaching plague,
failed to make the n'e.ir' precau
tions. The condition at M-insoura is thus
described:
"The dving are left alone in the
hou-es. friend- and relatives fleeing, and
their bodies have iniaitied tmburied for
dav-s. Dead Lodies in some cases have
rotted in the sunshine in the streets of
villages deserted by all eveept the dying
and the convalescent, while mam of the
latter were helpless and starving. Ati3
thing like a grave had been unthought
of for a fortnight, and in the low delta
ground where water is found at a depth
of two or three feet, the trenches have
been dug so shallow and filled so full
that the lirst wind blew avvin the cover
ing of sand or tho first rain washed
away the earth. Even where the rot
ting" bodies wen no' uncovered and ex
posed, they were mi near the surface as
to rot under a hot .uii. aud allow the
gases to filter to the suffice and poison
"The air." Springjid'l (Mass.) Repub
lican. What Happens iu Newport Churches,
One of our churches has a somewhat
eccentric parishioner, who often affords
the congregation much amusement. He
has a habit of expressing his thoughts
aloud when very mil- h in earnest, nev
er mind where lie nm be. His entire
unconsciousness of having thought
aloud is irresistabh" funm. Last Sun
day a late-comer at church a 3-oung
lad3 with voluminous skirts sought to
pass him to get to a seat. As sne did
so, she carried the gentleman's hat,
which was on the lloor, some distance.
It happened during a pause in the serv
ice, when there came, slowly and dis
tincth, and with an earnestness worthy
of the" preacher, this unconscious ejacu
lation: " Now where in the name
of the Lord is that girl taking
-my hat?" Funny things happen
often in Newport churches. A good
sister not long ago put her hand to her
back hair, or where her back hair ought
to have been, found it forgotten, and
without a momeut's hesitation got up
and fled out of the .church, still carry
ing her hand over the poor little pug
peeping beneath her bonnet, and which
was never meant to meet the public
gae. A dude took his cane to church
and amu-ed himself during service 03
springing it beneath the seat in front of
Jiim until it formed a bow. It sudden
ly got away from him and went whiz
zing up into the air, strik"ng against the
ceiling and producing a consternation
i throughout the church, which extended
j to the pulpit. The tiude blushed and
woultl Have gone ueeper mi.o 1:1s conar
but that his ears prevented. A brother
iu the pari-h meeting complained of the
uncomfortable temperature of the
church during the winter, and declared
that onh" persons with ironical consti
tutions could safely come to service.
Cor. Boston Transcript.