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r x THE JOTTHyAIi. ISSCXD EVEEY wrDSZsDiT, "M. El. TURNER CO., PronrietGrs and Publishers. ' OFFICE. EXexev.th St.. vp ?tatrs t& J&trnal Building. TEEM a: Per year six msnth. Tnree months Sickle rsple BUSINESS CAEDS. D T Mastyx. 31. I F J. r-CHCG. H.D Dri. XA2.TT3" & 3CHU5, U. S. Examining Surgeons. Local Surzeon-. Fmon Pacific. 0 N. & B. H. and K. I M. E. E'-. i . r-ultatin- in Orrain as.'. EnslL-h. Telei-aones itefift aau residence. COLI7MSI75. - JTCERASSA. P DOrGHEnTT.31.D- PHYzIClAXi. SURGEOX. J3i ifice erond doir fast ef post-amce. J I. Va2.?0'"t. 31. 1 Disexe of oo:a and children a spe cialty. Count phv-ician. OiTiee farraer iy occupied by lr Bone-teel. Telephone ex aanre. o L.14 A..51-. GH. .. si. I'EXIAL PARLOR. On corner r '. Eic , nth and North streets, oer ErnT-"- uardare -tore t lUKKUI ! A: -! t.LITA.. A TT0RXEY-A 1-LA H". 1'p-stair- m uluoW Building, llth street. lv the N uanfc. H. ,j. airiso. XOTARY PUBLIC. lith s:r-t. i ifiT w--t " fla-uudcd Boas, 'THLKSTO A: POWERS. sUEOEOX DEXTISTS, XT 'Ac- ic Mrcni-L Block, Colarn-bu-. Nebraska. H-f J. G. REEUEK. .4 TTORXE Y AT LA W, Oa,-c on inw m. .luaibu. Sebruti. i-zi V. A. MACKEN, D-1XEE IN FurjJ 'in J" -mesne Liquors and ( ujnrs llth -tr lit ..mnrii- N-b. .-y M cAI.LlJiTEK BKOS A TTORXE YS AT LA W, U:S-e up-tair- m M -Alli-ier'- build ias. llth -t w. .v. McAllister. Notary Public. J. M- MACFARLJ.VD. B. B. COWOEEY. LAW ANb COLLEtTiOX OFFlfE . MAC?i?OiAND& COWDIHf, j G-luvtb. Xehraska. j f. f. in "m:k. n. - ,-BCfe---r :. I- .(.. A.Hcilher't j EOlLEUPATHli: PBTSICJAX A'B T'R ItE'jX. Iiestilar .TxJuate of two medieal eol lesc,7 oih .- ..v- t one-half blo-k north i I! itani"nti HU5e. --ly C. M. SWEEZEY, Land. Loan and Insurance. UIMPHEEY. KB. Monev to loan on loa or hart time on Eeal Estate in -uai- t. -ait parties. ."-7 J. J. J1AIGH.O. t , .. ..., irfturn- Xnttrru .ami and Collection Agent. I . . i j3TPa-s de-iriuj: urveyms done can atifv me by mill at Platte Centre, Neb ( notify 51-tia "P U.RLHE, "llth St., opposite Lindell Hotel. Sell Harness, saddles. Collars. "Whip, Blankets. urry tombs. Brushe-. trunks, valises, urirr tp-. ca-hiona. carriage trimniins:-. JCc at the lowest possible prires. Eepair- pr mptly attended to. $66 cre'fc at home. $3.00 outfit fr-- I'av abiolutely snre. o risik. - ipital nt required. Ti-ir if van want business at which person- of either sex. yonas or old, can m.ifc- CTeat pay all the time they work with atj-olutr certaiaty, write far piTticulars t. H. Uaii-ET Jc Co Port land. 3laiae GEORGE SPOOLER, COXTRA CTOR FOR ALL KLSDS OF 2AOX WORK. Office, Thirteenth M between Olive and Nebraska Avenue. Residence en the corner of Eizhth and Olive. .n W"orlc Guaranteed. 4$-tr J 5. kup.doce: sox, Carpenters and Contractors. Eave tad an extended experience, and WJ1 ccarantee satisfaction in work. All kinds of repairing done on bort notice. Our motto is. Good work and fair priees . Call and ?ive us an oppor tnnitytoestimateforjoQ. "Shop on 12th St one door west of Friedhof Jfc Co's. store. Colnmbns. Nebr. 4SJ-V Q. C. SUET A 7NQ J?T aMyUEACTTTREB OF Tin and Sheet-Iron Ware ! JoVWotx. Roofing aae Gctter icg a Spedalty. yy5hop on Eleventh Street, opposite Heintz's bruc Store. 46-y G vr. CLJLKK, IJLXD AXB 1XSURAXCE AGEXT, MTDLeSRET, XEBE- His lands comprise some ane tracts In the Shell Creek Valley, and the north ern portion of Platte county. Taxes paid for non-residents. Satisfaction guaranteed.- 20 y lOLTTTIslUS PACKD16 CO., COLZZHBTTS, - XEB Packers and Dealers in all kinds of He? product, cash paid far Lire or Dead Hqzs or grease. Dirtston-B- H Henry. Prest.; John "Wirzins, See. and Treas.; L. Gerrard, 5. Cory. -V-0XICE TO TEACHEB& J. "B. Moncrie f, Co. Sspt "Will be in his o:5ce at the Court House on the third Saturday of each month for the purpose of exasuninE applicants for teacher's certificates, and " for the transaction of any other business pertaining to scnccls. ST-y l I (The VOL. XT.-N0. 6. COLUMBUS I STATE BANK! 2h-k--j-:- 3cTirt Smi irl hsc i ZiHt. CQLTJ&SuS, TEB. .i CAPITA $50,000 1UUECTORS: l.RANDEU (iBSEAED, PrCs'i. Geo. Y. HclsT, rice Prcfi. JULIU5-A. IkEED. Edts-acd A. Geeeaed. J. E. Tasker, Cashier. t 233.x k f Deposit, DLicaas nail Exclinar Collectiosui Promptly Made all ?oit. I'ar lHterext el Its. Tine Df 274 D. J. DEKBEKT. IEA B. BRIGGIX. -TITE- CITIZENS" BAKU nnjiPHEET.yzB. I JSTPrornpt attention given to Col ! lections ' iSTay Interest on-time deposits. STnsttrance, Passage Tickets and i Heal Estate Loans. 3-tf LINDSAY &TSEKELL, "WHOLESALE AND EETAIL HUM Al FEED STOEE! OIL CAKE, CHOPPED FEED, Bran, Shorts, BOLTED i IMTE1 CIS! MEAL. GRAHAM FLOUR, AND FOrE KLN'Da OF THE BEST TVHEAT FLOUE ALTTAVS ON HAND. S3All kind- of FEUITs in their sea ion. Order- promptly filled. IT. tli Street, Columbus, Nebr. 4T-tim HENRY G-ASS, TjnSTDJilIlT AKEB ! rOFFIXS AND METALLIC CASES ASD DEALER E? Fnmitnre. Chairs, Bedsteads, Bu reaus. Tables, Safes. Lounge. &.Z-. Picture Frames and Mouldings. X5r-Reparisf of all kinds of Upholstery Goods. 6-tf COLUMBUS. NEB. GOLD for the working class Send 10 cents for postage, and we will mail yon free a rovaL valuable box of sample jroods that will pat you in the way of makinE more money in a few day than you ever thouzht posiible at anv busi ness. Capital not required. 'e will start you. You can work all the time or in spare time only. The work is univer sally adapted to "both sexes, young and old." You can easily earn from" 50 cents to S3 every evenins." That all who want work may test the business, we make thi- unparalleled offer; to all who are not well satisfied we will send $1 to pay for the trouble of writing u-. Full particu lars, directions, etc, sent free. Fortunes will be made by those who give their whole time to the "work. Great success absolutely sure. Dent delay. Start now. Address ixcrsox Co., Portland. Maine. JL WORD OF WAKXOTG. FAEMEE5, stock raisers, and all other interested parties will do well to remember that the "VTestern Horse and Cattle Insurance Co. of Omaha is the only company doing business in this state that insures Horses, Mules and Cattle aainst loss by theft, accidents, diseases, or injury. (as also against loss by fire and lightning). All representations by agents of" ether Companies to the contrary not withs tan dine. HEN'EY GAEN, Special Ag't. 15-y Columbus, Neb. rAJtES SAs310V, 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 6mo. J. WAGhNER, Liyerv and Feed Stable. Is prepared to furnish the public wf th good teams, buggies and carriages for all occasions, especially for funerals. Alo conducts a sale stable. 44 ssssTR iig., , ajs ALYONAHEALYf lsv S"8. 3MWH. ZM bpsnpl iSBA B lanik Sto. Capfc V "B"r National Bank! COX. XJsl. Aitkarizei Capital, Paid Ii Capital, Sirplis oi Prints, $250,0001 50,000 6,000 OmCDS T DIEICTOE3. A ANDEESON. Fres't. SAM'L C. SMITH. Vice Fres't. O.T. EOEN", Cashier. J. W. EAELY. HERMAN" OEHLEICH. V.'. A. MCALLISTER. G. ANDERSON". P. ANDERSON". Foreign and Inland Exchange. Passage Ticketa.ana Real Estate Loans. 3-vol-I3-lv COAL LIME! J.E.N0RTH-&C0., -DEALEES IN Coal, Hair, Cement. Rock SpiH? Coal Carboa (Wromini; Coal. EldoR vlwa d ...S7.03 per laa .... 5.00 -.... J.50 u Blacksmith Coal of bsrt quality al ways on hand at low est prices North. Side Eleventh St.. COLUMBUS. NEB. 14-3B1 UNION PACUTC LAND OFFICE. ImuroYed and Unimproved Farms, Hay and Grazing Lands and City " Property far Sale Cheap AT THE Union Pacific Land Office, On Long Time and loic rate of Interest. S2TFinal proif made on Timber Claims. Homesteads and Pre-emptions. 25r"Ali wishing to buy Unds of any de scription will plea.e call and examine my list of lands before looking else where 3J"A1I havinz land to sell will plea-e call and givs me a description. :ra . prices, etc. JTl. a o am prepared to insure prop ertv, as I have the agency of several first-class Fire insurance companies. F. W. OTT, Solicitor, speaks German. MAJItlEI, C SMITH. 30-tf Columbus, Nebraska. BECKER & WELCH, PROPRIETORS OF SHELL CHEEK HILLS. MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLE SALE DEALERS IN FLOUR AND MEAL OFFICE. COL UJfB US, XEB. SPEICE & NORTH, Genaral Agents for the Sale of REAL ESTATE. Union Pacinc. and Midland Pacific R. E- Lands for sale at from $3.00 to 110.00 j per acre for cash, or on five or ten years j time, in annual payments to suit pur- chasers. "We hive 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 abstract of titleto all real es tate in Platte County. ! 621 coLnnri. jie. LOUIS SCHREIBER, BlaMl aiiWeilfc All kiids of Repairii die i Shrt Xtice. Kiies, Wa- is. etc. wzie U trier. aid all wtrk Giar- ' anteei. Ake sen the warU-famooi Walter A. CM ed Xaehimas, ami. Self- i-tke 'Shop opposite the "TattersalL" on OUVe at, CULLJLBL2. Mlnntitts COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY. JUNE 4, 1884. JOTTO TEE OLD MAXS EYES. Beside the open window A grar haired man sat down. The raiboad train that bore hra Sped through the grirzT town; A rul everjTiiere. nitended As tar as eye coaM view. The yellow corn and barley Anil fragrant orchards grew. t""g the streiy river Great raeconss rere sees. And ttny ne-x- oorn haaxlea Were neitiad in the irreen: And soonds of engine labor Were rising- to the stoee. And all the landscape bristled Wtih slsns of entorprae. The old g;,in pued ahoc: his And wiprtl away a tear. -Ala-1.- he sirhed. outblctted Is all 1 held most dear. Tie trre?. the wood, she mountain, The prospects I have inowu .!i thinx tiiat were familiar Ar passed atray nd gone." Beside the straaer loitered A little shnli-vutecd chap. And dropped a small pnze-packags Into that stwnjer's lap. The old man started quickly. lie started and was mete. Ee eyed the small boy's basket. His papers and his fruit. And from his laboring bo-om Came srhs of s'iad relief. And clutchlnar at the tram-boy. He uttered this in brief: I fancied ail was altered. A g-iaJ surprise has come. I see the self -same packages You had ere I left home. X T. JcuntsL PEAEL. "Listen. PeirL and mind all I say." Tes, papa." "Can vou take care of mother all day?" Of coarse I can, papa. Are yon goim-away?" -Yes: him and I have to go after those yearlings. And like as no"c auntie won't he home till ro-morrow." "What a cozy time mamma and 1 will have!"" "And. PearL if I should not be home till late, can you call old Snovr into the stable, and push down a little fodder for her"'' "Ye. papa, aad I'll get the chickens in. too." "But let everything else go for mother, dear. Alwavs remember that." "You know I will, papa." H-r word. were a? earnest as his own a.s she ran after him for another kiss: and he added, a- he laid a braid of her pretty hair against his lips. "If she's the least bit nervous toward night, don't leave her a moment, my biid. but let the animals take care o'f themselves." Pearl lived on the shore of the sreat Mississippi, far down, where "Jack Frost never gets a very tight rii on things, and lets go very early, as Sadam Spring comes smflingabontl Her father was getting poorer and poorer year by year, as his worn -out land grew" less productive with everv season of slack tillage, until he found it hard to wring from it a livins: for his small family. The stock dwindled down to a few poor ill-kept creatures, which looked as ii forlornly wondering within them selves whether it were realiy worth while to live or not. Pearl's father had something of the same look him self, which increased as his wife grew weakly and gradually sank into the condition of a gentle invalid, content to be waited upon, without, perhans. ever pansins to ask whether she really stood in need of it. i You may think Pearl must have had a very sail childhood. But she had never known any other place nor any other children, and was so happy in her own bright, unselnsh little nature as never to have suspected anythins: de pressing in her surroundings. Pearl throve as nothing else on the place throve, even under the burden of care which came to her too yoang shower ing back npon her mother so many earresses ana such loving care that ft would be hard to say which looked most upon the other as" a child. TI1 get your breakfast pet. Wait t21 you see what I've ot for you." Pearl skipped about in great glee at being left in charge for all day, and. after the usual amount of small fussing. earried in the tray with a face full of anticipation of her mother's delight. "The iirst branch of crape myrtle. I found it peeping oat in the sunshiny corner of the old pasture. You poor dear little mamma a. dozen kisses on her thin hands "if you only could go with me to see all the beautiful things ! But ril brins vou every one. Papa thought he had found the hrst mag nolia' bud th- other day. but I had seen it the day before, and never said a word. Xo, I won't take a single taste of egg- There isn't enoasb for you. " "Just a taste, little one." "Not ore bit. See what a great strong thing I am" Yoa must have the good things to make you welL" The lassie set her" foot down, and mamma never dreamed that there was something almo-t heroic in the refusal of the tempting morsel, the little girl having jut turned away from her own uninviting breakfast of bacon and corn-bread. "The river looks curiously, rnmma dear." she said. hatting over the wild flowers she was arranging on the table as she spread their feast. "I went into the boat to play, and when I wanted to get out the water was between it and the shore, so I had to jump. Why. PearL are you snre?" "Yes, mamma: and I was afraid I couldn't get in it again; so I untied it and held the rone rill it Coated to the little bayou, and then I pulled it in and tied it. It vas hard work, too." Can the river be rising? I wish thev were net all awav, daughter.' The helpless woman looked oat of the window with a troubled face. The floods of the year before had done but little injury in their neighborhood, the land lying much above the nver leveL Bat she knew that this was due to the strength of the levees many miles above, and remembered having heard people say that tfaey never wooTd stand another pressore of high water. The river was not yet as high as she had seen it. but she observed with some un easiness that it had advanced upon them perceptibry dnring the last few hours. "I don't believe the levee will break, though." she said, trying to encourage herself and PearL Their dinner was eaten rather more soberly than qtdte suited the little girl; but after everything was cleared away and she had taken another look outside, both felt better at perceiving that the waters seemed at a stand-srHlL "Bring me the brush for tout pretrv hair. PearL It was one of the few things she still had energy to do. thf brushing and fondling tling-Qf the child's hair. 2oone, "" its beautiful luxuriance, could wonder at her lovingadmiration. Pearl took innocent pleasure in it as one of she tsdsgs which made her sweet to talker and mother, and laughed as loosened site soft braids and sp the wavy buss to catch the "Paps says it's my golden nag." she said. '"When I was oat hunting old Snow last week he knew it was me when I was a mile away." "Then you must hang oat your &z whenever you want him to 2nd you. 7. wish auntie were here to help "yoa to dav, my pet." But the hand which held the long golden braid suddenlv dropped. "Look there. Pearl!" Pearl sprang up and saw trees not far from their door standing in water, where water had never been before. In one moment's glance she marked how the river was broadening and swelling. There was no sudden rush or roar, as would have been the case with a nar rower stream, or one with high banks; but there was still something mysterious and terrible in the low, "half-hissing. half -murmuring with which the pitiless flood was fast creeping upon them. She turned with "one thought in her brave little heart of g for her mother as she had promised. "Mamma, darling, don't be fright ened. You must get to the boat yoa can. I know, when I 'most carry you." Bat the poor woman cried" and trembled. "O, why did they leave us' The levee has broken. We'shall be drowned. PearL all alone here." Pearl had rushed oat to the boar. Host fortunarelv the bank to which she had towed and secured it was high. Draw ing it now much nearer thehouse. she came and hurriedly prepared her mo ther, cooing to her all the while endear ing words of encouragement, never letting ber gass how "her own face grew pale and her heart stood still at sight of the danger which gathered faster and faster so near them. Again she ran to the boat, and this time, with dripping feet, moored it to the door. ".ow. mamma quick" Pearl never could tell how she got her in. When it was accomplished, she brought a few of the more valuable ar ticles' in the house and placed them be side her. Before all this wis done she per ceived with increased alarm the vio lence with which the long-imprisoned waters bore down upon them. They beat angrily against the house, and re doubled" her anxiety to get away from it. But at the last moment she ob served how the boat rocked and tossed, and the idea suddenly flashed upon her that her mother would be safer if she herself remained behind. "Mamma. Tm going to stay here while you go in the boat. When you get below the bend they will see you and get you. Tell papa to come for me. Tell him I took care of you, aad don't be frightened, you dear, dear mamma?" She gave her one long em brace, untied and threw in the rope. and carefully stepped back to the apper step of the door. "Her mother had not guessed her intention tUl the current was carrying them far apart. She half rose with a scream of dismay "O. Pear' my Pearl' come to me! I shall die witho'ut you' And what will become of you?" She caught one glimpse of the brave little white face smiling at her, as the child called cheerily after her: "Don't be frightened, darling. 111 come to yoa just as soon as I can. God will take care of you." And then the rushing waters shut out every other sound. In her alarm and despir the mother could have flung herself from the boat. How tender the little face was. and how small the childish figure, as it stood there for a last word of encouragement to her' Pearl's face grew paler as the tim bers of the old house groaned and creaked. Eer little white kitten came mewing piteoosly to her feet, and she took h in her arms, while she hastily took a bundle of papers from her father's desk. Then she waited through water ankle-deep to reach the stairsto the half-story above, and she climbed them wondering if the water would come to her there before papa came. He had gone some distance in land, but she knew he would come for her as soon as he could. What a wild waste of water she looked oat upon' She saw bams, shetis. sometimes a house, sweeping down the river. She saw their own barn swing out into the current and float away She could hear the water rushing through the doors and windows below, and wondered how soon the house would break away and follow those she had seen going down the stream. "I must hang out my golden flag, so papa will se me." Pearl unbraidetfher bright hair and looked wistfully out. Bat the weary afternoon wore away. and night came with its gloom and its chilL Po r little Pearl's courage al most failed in the darkness. She sobbed pitifully for papa everything seemed so much more terrible than when it wa light then knelt down and said her prayers, asking flrst that mam ma might be cared for, then herself, and feeling comforted in the full faith that God would remember them both, resolutely set herself to keep awake until papa should come. But her head droDDed on the window- sill and she soon slept quietly. The j winged messengers who wait" on the j prayers of a child surely guarded her ' rest with gentlest care, for when at last t the strained timbers gave way and the old house bade adieu to the foandations on which it had stood for many a long vear. she never knew it, but sleDt onl "I saw your shining flag. PearL my blessing." Pearf opened her sleepy eyes to see the early morning sun beaming upon her. All the trees on the bank were running past her in a most confusing manner. Papa was lifting her from the window into a boat held by two other men close to the house, "which still rocked and heaved as it settled deeper and deeper into the water. Papa, where is mamma?" Safe. dear. Some steamboat men brought her in shore, and I found her late last night. "Oh-h-hf Well, then. papa, get my kitty and poor old Biddy. On dear! my neck and my shoulders hurt. As the boat'neared the shore she opened her eyes in amazement, almost in fright. "TEat's mamma" she cried. Stand ing tro Oh. mamma. vouTl hurt vour senT' But mamma met Pearl at the very edge of the water, and led her to the house whose friendly doors had been opened to them. Doctors have talked learnedly of such cases about will power, nerve force, and other things hard to understanL AH I can tell about it Is that great excitement and some very serious thinking had worked a wonderful change in Pearl's mother. She now lookec oat at the house and sv the water pouring in at the win dow mm which the idol of her had jo bees zveeaed. With tafErabQufeer. gnnpal "He aas taken eaxe of as, Feaxl. be- I ter than we could have dreamed. SioW ncy Iktyn. in. Harper's Yovmg Psemle. m Ja Like a ly. A manufacturing establishment dowsv Fort street was moving its offce tkV other day. mod had called in all ths a prentice boys to assist in the operatiosL. The desks and chairs and books aast maps and patterns were all safely loaded and transported, and by-aad-by nothing was left but the ore ex tinguisher. One of tlse boys-was ordered to place this on a wheelbarrow tad. carefully wheel it over, st he knew plan twice as good as that. Theie were straps on it, aad he was ra enough to'cary it slung os his back. With the help'oi another boy he loaded it up, and when he found it ssogry fitted to his back he pranced oat aad wished from the bottosa oi sis sotsHtssC he had been a fmiTi rnttrmA mt an ap prentice boy in a foundry. He wis slumping along in a melancholy way when his foot struck the end of a plak and he went sprawling. The nearest person was an old woman with a basket on her arm, and right behind her was a chap with a white vest and yeltow kids on. Both started forward as the boy yelled oat, and the next ornate a areas) ' was in progress. The fall got off the machine, and it was imDOSsible to doubt that it was in fine working order There was a distant rumbling and groaning, as if old "Vesuvius was on a bender. Then came a z-z-z-z-azz! as if somebody's soda fountain had con cluded "to quit business. The boy rolled over and over, the hose flew around like a whip-lash, and such of the chemicals as didn't ull the boy's ears and eyes and pockets were pretty evenly divided between the old : woman and" the man with the white j vest. The man would have got across ( the street had he not ran into a hitch ing post and got a set-back, and the old woman would have escaped with s mouthful or two had she cot stumbled over him. There was a screaming aad jawing and whooping among the three as the terrified boy kept rolling around and calling for some one to pat him oat, but nothing could be done until the charge was exhausted. Then a wild-looking object which had once been a man got up and kicked at an apple peddler and made u" with his hat in his hand at a run. and an object which had once been a good p stared old woman with four cucumbers in a basket, rose up and grabbed a handy club and whaled away at the boy and the extinguisher, hitting one as often as the other, until her elbow grease . gave out. Then she panted and gasped and announced. "I'm generally known as a peaceful! woman, bat when anybody jomps at. me with an infernal masheen and! j throws corrosive sublimate aad skunk's grease all over my best bonnet, I'm bound to let 'em know that I've spank enough to reseat it!" Detroit Free , Fre3s. ' His Coat-TaiL At the comer of Fourteenth Street and Broadway the little white pais of steam from the peanut-peddler's roast ing apparatus sent oat a very tnt.ilwing odor Thursday afternoon. A yoang man with light English trousers and a long Prince Albert coat stood gazing at the rings of steam for a moment, and finally deciding to invest, backed up to IS the stand. As he stood there, with legs wide apart, whil the Italian merchant prepared to unload into one of the pockets of his coat-tail a quart of peanuts, two young ladies came directly toward him from aroaud sin; corner Realizing the ungraceful position In which he was placed, the young fellow endeavored to right himself in order to properly meet his lady friends. With a look of indifference on his countenance, he reached behind and tried to jerk his garment from the hands of the peannt man. Bat the latter was not to be beaten oat of half a quart of his wares through any such sneaking deviee. He clung-persistentlr to the right hand tail of the coat, and as the young man twisted and tarned. trying to loose him self, the vender, dropping his quart meaure and strewing the sidewalk with peanuts, swung round and round, hold ing the garment with botn hands and jabbering excitedly in his native tongue Nearer and nearer came the ladiea. aad their friend making a last, desperate effort to escape, tlie eoat pa: ted at the waist, leaving oue-f jurth in the hands of the vietorijus peddler, who landed in a heap upon his overturned stand. With a howl of rage the unfortunate victim of circumstaneea kicked his shape!e hat into the gutter and rushed for the friendly cover of a saloon, reaching it a the comment of one of the ladies floated in: "I didn't know he was so addicted to drink." X. Y. World. Sot a Shyloek. A day or two ago a man who was at the Central Depot to take a train sud denly cried out that some one had stolen his valise, and he began such a hullabaloo t:.at everybody had to be in terested. I sot that 'ere satchel right down thar and stepped to the door." he ex plained to Oflieer Button, "and when I returned it was gone." Well, you should have been care fuL We are not responsible for such losses.' -You ain't eh3 Whar's the Presi dent?" Out of the city, sir." "Whar's the Gineral Manager?" "He's sick abed." "Whar's the Superintendent? Won't : here till four o'clock." "Wall, now, somebody's got to make good that loss or about a dozen men will go to the hospital for six months apiece!" What was the value?" "Fifty dollars and not a cent lessP What were the contents2" "I had twelve ahirta. a new suit or clothes, an overcoat, and lots of other things." "Was it a carpet-sack?" She was." One handle goae and the lock broken?" "Yes, one handle was gone, and I had her tied with a string."" "Is this it?" asked the oficer. as he took the baggage oS" a bench not six feet away. "Great snakes! that's her!" chuckled the owner. In handing it to him the string broke. the bag Sew open and out rolled two old ahirta. a pair of socks and five or six paser collars all there was in k. "Then these are the dads you wanted fifty dollars for? queried the officer. Xo. sir!" was the ?wriTgwtg zmpij. I should hare taken the money for loss of time and daasage Vomr feekngs lm bo Skrlock, mxt'Ikxnii rfmt WHOLE NO. 784. rEKSOSAL AXD LLTEEART. Elijah Cole, of Xorthville, X. Y-. six feet and a half tall, and known as ihe - Giant of the North Woods," died recenty, aged seventy years. Samuel Francis Smith. D. D.. the author of our National hymn. "My Country, 'tis cf Thee. now resides, as the age of seventy-four, in Newtowa Center. Mass, Senator Eugene Hale in the prac tice of law has niade s little fortune for himself of aboat &5O.0CO to S10O.0GO. Eis wife is said to have Sl.rt30.C00, and with her mother's interest fl.5G0.OXL Rostov. Post. Isaac Adams, the inventor of the Arfims power printing-press, ditd re cently at Sandwich. N. H-, where h 1 had resided for many years. He was eighty-one years of" age and quits wealthy. Mr. Henry T. Paddock, who soirte years since married Maggie Mitchell, the actress, is geniaL educated and en terprising, forgetting himself in his wife, and promoting "her fortunes with seal and intelligence." JJsrper. Bazar. Miss Louisa de la Ramee, "Ouida." writes to the London Times in favor of making a copyright treaty with the United States with the concurrence of Eablishers. She opposes any admission no England of American reprints of English works as ruinous to authors and to literature. Mr. Charles A. Dana, of the New York Sun. pats on a white beaver aboat two o'clockeverv afternoon and goes to lunch. He straddles one of the "swing ing seats at a counter, and. tilting his hat gently back, nods familiarly to the waiter, and orders a niate of soap. He a as modest as if he did not have an in come of 20,00 a month. Chicago Tribune. Dr. Oliver S. Taylor, of Auburn. N. Y.. the one surviving member of Dartmouth College's class of 1508. i now in his 100th year of life, and enjoys perfect health of mind and body. He has never been sick but a day and a half, and has never had a headache. The one slight attack of sickness occur red some seventv-three vears ago. X. Y. PosL Bev. Newman Eall's Come to Jesus" has been printed in twenty lan guages and 3.0CO.GOU copies of it have Been sold Mr. Hall is tall in stature, not robust, genial in manner, and with i a face kindling with sympathv. His home, called Ivy House, "hali hidden by Tines, is full of pictures and books fathered from all partiof the world. Chicago Xezcj. Bayard Taylor used to say that of all men he had ever seen Hawthorne was the most remarkable for possessing eyes that flashed fire, the pap!!s being sometimes so dilated as to render the iris Invisible. Gladstone has similar eyes, and some of his friends attributed to them Queen Tictoria's lack of fond ness for that statesman. Her Majesty, they say. has on several occasions been actcallv terrified, bv Gladstone's gaze. HXX0BUUS. The good dve young if their mus tache happens to be white. Rulers sway the people, but the school-master sways the rulers Wcit. loo Observer. A clergyman said that he addressed his congregation of ladies and gentle men asbrethren. because the brethren embraced the ladies. There i a tied in the afairs of men which leads on to fortune." re marked a yocng maa after marrying an heiress. Cincinnati ilercnaiit and Traveler. A four-year-old child, visiting, saw bellows used, to blow an open firv. aad informed her mciher that "they hovel wind into the fire at Aunt Augusta's." The Eozisehold. A Boston school-girl can not be made to spesk of overalls. She prefers to call them saper-omnes. Now let gome of those wild Western sheets again sneer at our culture, if they dare' Bos. ton Transcript. One of the loveliest spectacles in this world Is to watch the expression of rapture that passes over the face of tha dude as he sucks lemon up through a straw, roll his eyes and rubs his ears to gether at the back of his head. Golden Days. The fair thing- "Now, Mr Over charge, what will it cost to have hot and cold water out all through my hocse." "Wefl. I can't give a very close estimate until the job is com pleted. I will do the fair thing by you. though-' So the plumber "went to work and three months latter he owned the house. Detroit Post. A musical journal discusses Music as a Healing Art." If a man were to be treated to a serenade by a couple of bagpipers, he would have to be pretty ill If the inspiring strains didn't infusi enough 3treugthfcito his srstem inside of five minutes to cause hia to jump oat of bed and look around for a shot gun. Scotch Fun. John Bull (who is asked toward the Cottage Home for Over-worked School Board Children) : "Confound it! my hand's never oat of my Docket. First I have to pav for their education, and because that nas made 'em so queer I am now asked to pav the doctor's bill" Fxr.ny Folks. EUa Wheeler ays. in a poem, that it was at the twilight hoar" when -a dream came to my stem heart's bolted door a sad-faced" dream, robed in the garb of woe." If she eats ice cream and a pickle just before retiring, as many girls do, such dreams will surely come loafing around her stem heart's bolted door, and she's lucky if they don't crawl about her head and frighten the wits out of her almoat. XorruSmcn Herald. FuIL" Tbe time was midnight nd the situ ation near the World office. Th mar. was fearfully and wonderfully fuIL H walked up to the fire-alarm "signal-box and placed a nickel in it- Then he sat down on the curb. "Why don't the car start?" He received no answer. Why don't the car start?' Stin no answer." Gimme back me fare, thenT It was not retuxned. Then he jumped up. grabbed the telegraph-pole around the waist, and at temptad to trip it up. There was a suinted tugging for several seconds, aad then he made a terrific kick at the "feet" of his adversary, and the result was that he kicked himself over on his own head As 1m exsccSTized himself he morad o. saying Ysr a snaaTVr conductor than X thought jar wnx, bctl SalieTenowthaa )7c a thi-pred ver if vie coat hadn't a SMC CS'-J-. X Massowah is the prettiest spot on tha west coa,t of the Red Sea. It is an en larged and vastly improved Soakim Instead of one island, as in the latter IocaKsv. Massowah has two the inner of which is connected with the main land by a long causeway, guarded at the island end by a strong fort mounted with Erupp guns. A shorter causeway joins the 'inner island, on which the palace aad an Arab village are sit uaisd. to the outer oce, which contains the trading establishments. French and TtaFtn Consulates, and other public hnTBJ'ngs. At Saakim a wide plain in tsrvenes between the sea and the hills: as Massowah the background of moon tains trssprings close at hand, in forst not seldom of grandeur orbeacty. The island of Suakun is in great part a heap of stones and rubbish, and its labyrin thine streets are badly swept and smell worse- But for an f-cari town Mas sowah is a pattern of order aad cleanli ness. The' population of Massowah does not exceed half that of Saakim; bat with good administration andsecur itv on the trade routes it must increase. Massowah has a future. For the pres ent the most enterprising of its Inhabi tants are the fifty or sixtv merchants from Gozerat in British India, all Brit ish subjects It was a dea-ant sur prise to come upon this little colouy of fed-turbaaed. white-robed Mahrattas. aad to hear them talk tn the bazaar Hindustani of Western India. In man ners, personal appearance aad intelli gence, they offer a refreshing contrast to the rude semi-barbarians of this part of the eastern Socdan. and to the Greeks and Levantines who keep the small cafes and drinking-shops. In the town of Massowah there are not mora than a hundred Aby-viiniaas. the balk of the population being oudaai Arabs aad blacks, with a sprinkling of Gallas. the people from whom the comelier cla-v of female slaves is taken for the market in Holy Mecca. Judging from the speci mens we saw about the town, ali the prettiest must have long since ben ex ported. An artist aad brother correa poadent has been vainly searching for a model worthy of his penciL A few minates since" while strolling about on the beach he discovered one romp ing among a crowd of other children. He produced his pocket book, fixed his searching eye apon her. and sketched. Mademoiselle took fright, probably thinking the gioar a magician, and she fled. The magician, equal to the occa sion, bribed tht small boys with a hand ful of piasters to go in pursuit. This they did. The whole Arab quarter seemed to join in the hue and cry so. I t'linV, did the artist himself and in the ead the Mademoiselle, was captured. At every glaace of the magician's eye. at every stroke of his pencil, ihe shrieked and "screamed. Had it b-en Shaitau with his horns and ,taii she could not have aapeared more bewildered and terrified. The sketching of Mademoiselle wQl exercise the Massowah gossip for the next six months. The men are generally -.H aad fairly well devekDed. Bat of uninviting aspect, and redolent of bad oil and other raneid stuffs. A respectable Soudani carries as much grease in his vast shock of curly coal Black hair as would suffice to keep hy family in caadle-Iight for a week. As the grease adheres to the hair in round white globules, it must, I fancy, be mixed with some substance in order that it may not melt in the sun. the heat of which, even in this so-called -winter" season, is sometimes terrific Hair, f,?"?nor la two wedge haned masses, one over each shoulder, collected into a third on the crown of the head, bespat tered in. the manner above mentioned, and run through with a wooden skewer or two for the purpose of scratching, and a piece of yellowish cotton cloth scaatly covering the back, chest aad loins such is the ccslume and toQet of the Massowah man about town. If he aspires to mashership aad the reputa tion of a lady-kniar. he adds aa extra dasb or two of white far to his shiny locks and an additional skewer To General Baker. Mcktar Bey. the then Egyptian Governor, wj obsequi ous and cringing to aa unpiea,-ant degree. No one can tell how he rose from the position of biscuit-baker to that of ruler of so important a province as Massowah. but everyone tnws his in competence, and every bxiy suspects him of collusion with the couadre!s who have been plundering caravans in the Egypto-Abyssinian frontier districts, aad destroyiag the trad between this promising seaport and the interior. Cor. London Body Xetcs. Ihe "rahdTs CoaTerts. When any of the Chistians of the Soudan are brought before the Prophet he urges them to abandon their faith and recognize in him the Messiah of the Scriptures. One of the sisters ot the French Ca"hoIic Mission declared that she was quite ready with his desire, but as the said that the Messiah should nized bv His miracles she to comply scriptures be recog tbooghwt would be weU if the Maadi were to perform a miracle, in which ease she. with all her ompanions. would, with an easy conscience, bow down and worship" t-tm Mahomet Ahmed replied. with some embarrassment, that she was right, that- however, the time for mir acles had not come yet, although it was near, aad t ? he would take the ancs themselves under his protection to pre pare them for conversion- Person- who have seen the Mahdi say that he delights in playing the part of the en lightened dervish, shaking hi- head and murmuring prayers while walk ing aboat, with his eyes lifted up to the heavens. The belief in his divine mission is strengthed by the fact that on his right cheek h has a scar of some kind by which, according to Mussulman superstition, the Messiah" is to be recog nized. It is almoat incredible to what an extent this belief is spread in Isiam. Arabi made believe, aad perhaps be lieved himself, mat he was the Messiah. because an old biiad skeikh had dis- covered the letter L imprinted on his I forehead. In tne same way the Sou danese discovered the legitimacy of the Mahdi's divine mission. After the de ! feat of General Hicks the Mahdi ordered j a hole to be dog in the ground about ' four yards deep, in this hole he de j scended and remained in it for above -Tf an hour: on his ascent he told his I fouower3 that God had commanded him not to march towards Ehartocm before the end of two months- ne mair-tains. also, th--' it is the w21 of God that after going to Khartoum he should proceed towards Berner and thence to Cairo Having converted an the Egyptian Mus sulmans he win go to Mecca aad Medina- In passing ne wffi drive away the Sultan from Constantinople, which he rfTyr wfll not be difiicult. for. accord ing to his geography, Constantinople is quite near to the Suez CaaaL In the meantime, while he is waiting he causes his name to be invoked in nablic prayer m-gp cf the name of Mahommed. If anybody is by necessity or conviction ready to be converted he is taken before the M". who addresses him with the words: "Inta akat elbea mockdieth?" (Do you accent the religion of the Mahdi5) The convert replies "Akat" (Yes), kisses the Mahdfs hand and the conversion is coraDleted. PaZ Mall GaztiU. At a marriage celebration the bride was requested to sign her name in the register at the sacristy Excitement caused, her fingers to tremble; she took the Den. signed, aad cade an scormocs ink-bloc. "Must I do it over again." she Wnsfeingjy asked her hnesand. "No. I guess that wCl do. but " "Oh. don't scold xne! I w2I pay taers toon M 9" R. t
