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ssw T'J"ri fT --.- .. Inn J VJ U XvJN ALi.daoent maa to make a shpccocile qt. WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 10, 1881. Estcrci at the P:rt:2:e, C:lh:. Kct., ss joccsd dit: sitter. Of 'It KIND OF A MAN. Bio kind or a man Tor you ami mol Sic faces Uic .rorld iiiillinchinKly, And smite, ais qk ! the wronjr resists. With a knuckled faith and force like UsU: Hi lives the life he i iircahin f. And loves where imt is the need of love; His voice is clear to tho deaf man's oars. And his face sublime through tho blind man's tears; The lijjht hhinee out where the clouds wc dim. And the w idow's prayer joe3 up for him; The latch clicked at the hovel door. And the .-ick man sees the sun mice more. And out on the barren Held he sees ftoriujrinu: l)lo-oms and wuviiu? trees, FeelttiK. a.s wily the dyinjr may, Tliat 1!m1V own Servant ha-, como that way. Smoothing the path as it still winds on Through tucKOldeiifcrJti' where his loved Imvo gone II. The kind of a man for me and you; However little ol worth we do He credit h lull, and abides in trust That time will teach us how more is Just. He walks abroad, and lie meets all kinds Ot querulous and unear-y minds. Ann. sympathizing, he shares the pain Of the doubts that nick us, heart and brain.; And, knowing this, as we grasp his hand, We are surely coming to understand! He looks tin U with pitying eyes K'en as the Iord, since l'aradlse KLie, fhould wc read, though our Sins should glow ASPcarlet, they shall lie its white as snow? And leeling still, with a grief hair clad. That the bad are as goxl as the food arc bad. He strikes straight out for the Kight and ho Is the kind of a man for you and mo. James W'hUcomtt Ililcy. TREED BY A BEAK. One day when we were up at the cabin in Arusta Gulch, Jimmy O'Brien .stopped a few moments with us, on Ids way to Klk Park, whither he was going to work out an assessment on a mine belonging to him. lie was on foot, driving la-fore him his favorite burro (Mexican jackass) Mike, laden with tents, blankets, '-grub," cooking outfit, pick, shovel, aud other impedimenta. Jimmy and Mike were well known in that country, for they were inseparable. It would have been hard to tell which thought the most of the other. Mike would follow Jimmy about like a dog, while Jimmy neer passed his four footed friendwilhoui stopping to scratch his rough head, and give him a bit of old biscuit or some such dainty. In the golden days of Ml) he had deserted from an American man-of-war at San Fran cisco, and had passed the last thirty years of his life in gold digging in Cal ifornia, bear hunting with old "Grizzly" Adams in the Sierras, silver mining in Nevada, and in leading a wild and ad venturous life generally from the Colum bia to the Gila, and from the Golden Gate to the headwaters of the Missis sippi. Not knowing what fear was, he had sense enough to know when "dis cretion was the better part of valor." Ho was now alxuit sixty, tough and weather-beaten, but still strong and active, one of the jollicst companions possible to find, and one who. to uso the expressive We-tern phrcise, "would do to tie to" in times of trouble or danger. He stayed with us that day only long enough to "corral a hunk of grub," and then pushed on over the dividing ridgo into Klk l'ark. Next day. after having wasted the better part of the morning in a vain at tempt to find a band of mountain sheep, which "used" on the peaks at the head of the gulch. I found myself, about noon, looking down on Jimmy's tent in the Park below. As it was but little out of a direct line homeward, I decided that I might as well drop in on the old man and get a cold biscuit to .stay my hunger till I reached the cabin. 1 took it for granted he would beat work in the tunnel, .some live hundred yards up the mountain side. but. much to my sur prise, when I pulled aside the tent-llap Isaw him inside, rolled up in his blanket, fast asleep. Fearinjr he mirht bo sick for a nap in daylight was a rare occur rence with him I shook him, and asked him if anything w:i. the matter. The lirst reply was a grunt, the next a growl, then a request "not to bother," till finally, when I had -shaken him fully awake (tor I had begun to be seriously afraid that his uuvvoutcd somnolency was the stupor of severe illness) I drew out of him the fact that he was well enough, but "mizherableshlapy." Why he should be so sleepy in the middle of the day puzzled me, till he intimated that he'd been up all the night before. The explanation surprised me as much as the fact. and. suspecting from his curt sjieeeh and evasive replies some mystery, 1 plied him with ijucstion.s, till, finally, silting up and tilling his pipe, he satisfied my e.irio-ity. lie had arrived there safely the even ing before, selected his camp ground, pitched his tent, and turned Mike out fo graze. Then, hearing some spruce grouse calling, he had startd out to secure a few tor supper and breakfast. Leaving his rifle behind, as he did not expect to see any large game, he took only his long-barrelled :S-calibcr re volver, with which he could pick oil" a grouse's head in the top of the tallest spruce. Having shot four or live, he started for camp, it having, by this time, become quite dusk, for darkness comes, liei-L in the-e hills, almost as suddenly as in the tropics. On turning the cor ner of some fallen rocks, at the lower end of the little glade in whose upper point his tent was pitched, he canre sud denly upon a huge gri.zly. busy, as well as he could see in the gathering dark ness, in digging up wild parsnip roots for Ins supper Before he had time to dodge back under cover of the rocks, the bear had seen and started for him. 1 will let him tell the rest of the story in his own words. Mighty little time had 1 to be thinkin', for it wan't twinty yarruds he wor frum me whin I first see him. but I knew 'twau no use thniu to run. an' as fcr fighrin', me thirty-eight wadn't be a Hay-bite to the likes av him. As luefc wad have it. right forninst me was a majium-sized shpruee, an oop that I wint like a wavzel, hopin' that av I didn't shtop to discuss the matter will Mm, he'd afther re-co-nizing me civil ity, an' pass on. an lave me. Not he! Oop he cooms to the fut of the three, shuuils around it. roobs the dirthy head av Mm agin it. Inks up at iucsilf, perched jist bey:.nt his niche, goes off. cooms back, goes through the same manavvens. an' afther a while, liudiu' he didn't dcludher me into any kind of a disheushm' wid Mm. falls to fayden' agin. "I'was so darruk lend only jist sec the big black carcass av Mm. waudherin around like a navgtir's shpook in a cim mytairy. but t wasn't niesilf that wor -cravin' anny nayrcrinshpection avMm, 1 wor aizy enough wher I wor for the prisint. barrin that a six-inch limb ain't quite, so comfortable a sate as a pile of plankcts, and that "twud have bin more gratify-in' like to me shtunimuck. av I'd had acould pratie or two alang will me. -Howiver,' thinks I to mesilf. -whin he's through atiif, he'll go aft" quiet an' dacint like, an the ould mau'll git back to camp in time to git a good shquare male for himsilf yet." But, blast the oolv hide av Mm," phwat docs he do, whun he'd got hiz own dirthy shtuni muck full, but coom back to the three, walk round it wanst or twicct, and thin lie down about tin yarruds from the fut av it. -Ah ha!' says I, -'tis that ye're up to. is it? Goin' to shtarve me out, are ye? Will, will, av I kape whisht, may be yel be taking a giuthale afther-din-ner nap afther a while, an' thin I'll de ludhcr yc, an' slip down off the three onbeknownst to ye, an' av I git back to camp an' can git hold of old Betsey, I'll be afther poompin' the could lead into the onrrateful carcass of ye till yez are at ded as Paddv Burns' pic and then- yaz'li have rajson to regrit that ye caused himself. shqusttm' oop a three in this style, like a hay then monkey on a limb.' So afther a bit whin I thought the line shuppcr he'd been atin' had put him to! schlapc, 1 begins to lit mesilt uown aizy, but aforcYd shlipped down a fut, oop gits the murthern blaggard, an' stharts towards me. 'Twas wonderful how quick I changed me mind, an' con cluded it wasn't so very' uncomfortable in the three Hither all. 'Twas only playin' 'possum he waz, or may be I'd been too precipitous like, so whin lie lay down agin, I made up me (mind I'd giyo Mm plenty of time this time, afore I thryed Mm agin. So I waited an' wait ed.'till inv whole back was that sore wid the limbs'a cuttin into it. that I cudu't shtand it no longer, so I repayted tho the exshperiment. but 'twas not the lasto use in the worruld, he was at the fut av the three agin, afore I shlid down a yarmd. So I makes up me mind to -ac-cipt the inevitayble,' as 1 hear ye say wanst, an' so I rcshoomed me original position, trustin' that, when daylight came, and he saw how lane and tough I waz, he'd abandon the sayge an' layvo me in payee. So there 1 sits asthradle av that limb all that blissid night, till the ligs av me was so cramped they had no faylins lift, an' tho teeth av me was broke, be raison av me jaws chatterin' bo wid tho could, an' 1 was that stiff Avid the frosht I was afraid I'd shnap in two like an ishickle, an' I was gittin' so hungry I could almost ate mo loots; an' was thinkin' sayriously of takin' an early breakfast on could grouse. Will, " when I was almosht ready to dhrop aff me perch wid fatigue, an' hunger an' could, it bejran to lighten nine . . i in the ayste, an' pretty soon 'twas light enough for mo to see the forrum of my cogler jailer, plainly, lyin' close to tho foot av the three.'' "Hero he paused, re-lit his pipe, which had gone out in the heat of his narration, and p"uffcd away quietly with the air of one who has just finished a good story. "Well.how did you get away?" "On me ligs, av course." "Did the bear leave you when day came?" "Not a bit av it." "You don't mean to say you came down the tree and walked off. while the bear stood and looked at you?" "Av coorse not." "You certainly didn't kill him?" "Wid a thirty-eight? Har-r-dly!" "Well, how did you do it?" "Will yez shware that yez'll niver till, av I disclose to you the saocct av me escape?" "What, secret can there be about it?" "Niver you moind; not another wor rud do yez git from Jimmy O'Brien till ye promise yez'll niver ay a worrmt to the bovs consarnin the houl thraiisac tion."" "Well, well, all right; drive on." "Will, thin, 'twas no bear at all, at all. but that naygur of a burro, Mickey." Forest i7ul Stream. A Beautiful Sinner. Nearly on the western limits of Balti more is "the first house instituted by the Sisters of the Good Shepherd in the United Slates, writes a Baltimore cor respondent of the Philadelphia Press. The purpose of tho order is the rescue and preservation of fallen women, and of the homeless and destitute female chil dren who are exposed to temptations. Tho Baltimore House of the Good Shepherd was originally the MacTavish mansion, the home of a family that derived its blood from the Carrolls, the Calverts and tint Catons, ami during its entire existence it has been noted for its devo tion to the Catholic Church. Mrs. Emily MacTavish, who donated the house and grounds to the Sisters of the Good Shepherd died some twelve years ago. Her grandmother was the daughter of Lady Georgian:!, Duchess of Leeds, one of Ue three famous Balti- uious beauties of the Caton family who married in Kngland, and were so closely related by wedhckto the Duke of Wel lington and the Marquis of Wcllesley. The old mansion is still a part of the modern institution, and its broad front, wide porch and angled wings look out upon the garden planted in the last cen tury by the dead and gone beauties of the MacTavish family. It was recently that I had occasion to visit the House of tho Good Shepherd and became possessed of the reasons why the devout Catholics of the Mac Tavish family have surrendered to the Church so much of their money and lands. Miss Kinily MacTavish. a woman of great beauty and a leader of the highest social circles of Maryland, had just then taken the black veil in the Convent of the Visitation, and hail pro fesssd her wish to become one of tho Sisters of the Good Shepherd. Her abandonment of the worl l of society had created a sensation that was the most immediate aud prominent topic of conversation aud even of newspaper discussion. She had bequeathed the larger por tion of her money to the Church, and those who saw the ceremony of her en trance into tho nunnery will never for get the solemnity. When she came to the front of the altar, clad in her white satin robes, there were many regrets expressed that sho was thenceforth to bo dead to the world. But, if thero is solid truth in tho idea of vicarious sacri fice, sho was an offering and an atone ment for tho sins of one of her ances tors. Passing through the hallway of the House of the Good Shepherd 1 entered the audience or reception room, just beyond which the Sisters were moving about in their white flannel garments. On the wall of this rtom is an oil painting a life-size picture of a lovely woman in the bloom of youth. Her abundant black hair is combed and puffed at the sides in consonance with tho style of fortv years ago. "Who," I asked Rev. Father John Foley, President of the Institution, "is that "woman?" The picture is that of Margaret MacTavish, and Margaret Mac Tavisii became the famous Mrs. Howard, the mistress of tho Em peror Napoleon III., and the only woman of whom the Empress Eugenie was ever jealous. Margaret MacTavish went with some members of her family to Eugland about the year 1850 and married there a Captain Howard, an officer in the English army and a con nection of tho Howards of Norfolk. She was in Paris at the time of the coup d'etat, and engaged the attention of Napoleon. It is not known where or when site died, and perhaps tho solo relic of her splendid and guilty life is the picture upon the wall of the House of the Good Shepherd in Baltimore. "And now," a Catholic priest asked me, "can you wonder that the MacTav ish family arc still doing penance for the guilt of Margaret?" In their view her sm was all the greater because it was so nearly associated with an im perial throne. Napoleon undoubtedly loved the woman, and her affection for him is not subject to questioning. Tho family have given thousands upon thousands of dollars to Catholic benevo lent purposes, but their interest still centers upon this refuge for tho wretched and fallen, and which might be given their name if the rules of the Church pcrmittnl it Baltimore Cor. Philadelphia Press. Several years ago George Erland bought a farm near Astoria, N. Y., from John Andraise, a wealthy German. Ono day recently, when Mr. Erland went to the barn, he found the old man hanging from a cross-beam. He and his wifo .have never lived happily together sinco he sold out, and, as he stated in a note, he "just came back to the old place to die;" Troy Time. HOME AND FARM. Orchard grass sometimes runs to clumps, because toj little seed has bees used. An inventive woman advises when you dnvo a nail into a clothes-press oi closet to hang clothes upon, to drite it through an empty spool up to the lead, t-elect a spool with a hole large enough so that the nail will not split it. Al bany Journal. In the Western New York Agricul tural Society it was recently stated that tho phmtingof new vineyards was never so generally' undertaken as at the pres ent time. People are learning iiow to use grapes, and finding out, too, how licalth-promotingi!i their frco use. Poultry should not be allowed to run on the same plots of ground year a.teryear. without pi opt-r "precautious for renewing, refreshing or disinfecting. It is a mistake to neglect these things, and to allow the accumulation of drop pings for weeks aud mouths without re moval. Poultry-keeping without pains taking is profitless. N. 1'. 'Jitucs. Salsify is a haruy winter plant, and is cultivated like carrots and parsnips. V hen you have secured a crop you will have a good substitute for oysters. Chop finely, and put in soup, or slico iuto small pieces, mix with batter and fry. There are several ways of cook ing, but this vegetoblc may be cooked in any manner d rected for oyaters. White nut cake: Whites of twelve eggs beaten to a froth, one cup of but ter, two cups -ugar, three and one half cups flour, tcispoonful yeast powder. After the butter is well mixed add .ne largo cocoanut, grated; one large tum bler full of the Kernels of pecans and one tumbler full of blanched almomls, the almonds to be slightly niashed in a mortar. Exchange. A delicious pudding is made by ad ding grated cocoanut to the common corn-starch blanc-manc, The cocoa nut shculd be fresh. Stir it into tho pudding only two or three minutes bo lorn taking that from tin lire. Put it info a mould which has been d'ppcd In t cold water. 1 o not use an egg in this pudding, but make a boiled cus tard for a sauce. Pour it over the pud ding, or serv in a fancy bowl, letting each one "hcp himself" to it- N. 1. Post. Vinegar is better than ice for keep ing lish over night Housekeepers w ho are obliged to be economical should have their lish sent home toward night, and then, by putting a little vinegar ou the lish, keep it perfectly well evi-n in very hot weather! Fish "is really im proved in flavor under this treatment. Fish which has been kept in ice during the night, and been exposed on the shop board during the day, being frequently watered to 'make it "look lass stale, undergoes changes which destroy b;h ilavor and nourish ment. The household. Pastures. That portion of tho farm devoted to pasturage is no less important than the cultivated fields, yet it is often totally neglected from one year's end to an other, excepting the work of keeping the fences in repair. Where smooth, well sodded ground is used for pasture, no great amount of work is needed to keep it up hi goodshapo; but such land seldom gets into pasture, especially in timber countries. On most farms there U a rough piece that has n -vcr been thorougldy cleared, and that is tho piece that" is fixed upon for a pasture; and it is a very good plan to pasture such land, for there is nothing that will tubdiic the toughness and put it 'n (shape to plow as well as close pastur ing. But our whole duty to the pas cure and stock confined demands that jome further work be done. While cattle sheep and horses will pick a living from among the sticks, stones, brush and logs that encumber tho lands, it will be found a piece of eco nomical management to render all the xurfaee available by picking up aud .-learing away such rubbish from ofl the ground. A third more feed may oltcn be gained in this way, and tho stock enabled to jet about with out danger to life aud limbs. Many a valuable colt has been lost by breaking a leg among tho snags and logs in a rough pasture. The loss of feed alone in one season would often equal the cost of cleaning up the field. 1-armors don't seem to figure on this so long as the land is pastured, but jusl as soon as they get ready to put the field tosomeotheru.se, you will see how quickly it is picked up, logged and stumped. Is not the pastur of as much importance as the wheat field? To be sure we don't have to run machinery over its sulfate, but there is certainly no use in allowing a third or half its surface to run to waste. .sheep may have admirable natural ualil'cations for nibbling their food from almost inaccessible places, but I fancy they don't lay on wool or fat very fast if they are obliged to ex ercise their faculties to gain a liveli hood. If the farnior prefers picking his wool from the bushes instead of sluaring from the sheep s back, it may be a very good p!an to encourage the growth of brush and briers in the fiasture, but I must say that it doesn't ook very well to find a crop of wool on tho bushes, somewhat resembling a cotton crop of the South. A farmer that allows such a state of things in his pasture year after year can safely be put down as a bad manager, in that pa ticular line at least. If poss'blc, water should be furnished within the limits of the pasture; for if they have to depend upon being taken out to water they will go thirsty a good share of the time. During the long, hot days ot summer stock should have access "to water several times each day. A well may be sunk in the pasture at no great expense. Cheap planks, hem lock is the best, can be used lor the curb. I know of many wells in which hemlock curbing was used that remain in good condition after twenty years' use, with the water pure and tasteless. If pino timber is put into tho well-curb the water will tasto and smell bad for a year or so. A pasture should also bo provided with a shelter that will protect tho stock from sun and storms. Shadt trees in the pasture might serve the lirst purpose, excepting in fly time. I suppose tho animals have a good rea- son, but whv they should leave the tim ber in a blistering, hot day and stand and fight the horse-flies in an open fence corner, is a question that I could never solve to my own satisfaction. U there is an old building of any descrip tion in the pasture you will see them huddle into ihat A shed with the sides nearly all open oilers just the retreat needed in fly time, and also as a refuge in case of a sudden hail-storm or driving rain. Every pas ture should be supplied with some sucfj shelter, no matter how cheaply built, if it but offer the necessary protection. Posts set in the ground with a board roof laid over makes a very fair shel ter, and the cost of such a one is very slight indeed. Another way of increasing the value of a pasture is" by dividing it into two parts and giving the stock a part at a time. This prevents them from foul ing over the who'.e constantly, as they certainly will do if allowed the wholo range at once. A part is kept fresh and given a chance to get a start while the other portion is being fed. In this way a, change of pasture is thus provided every few days, and animals relish this immensely. Of course this plan in volves the construction of an extra division fence, but it will be found a profitable outlay, especially where tho pasture is a litilv scan' for the number of head pastured tin:; con. If. I). Boy, ton. in Utdern Jloitmuii. FOREIGN GOSSIl. The most rancorous bitterness pre ra'ls in Belgium now in regard to re ligion. It finds reflection in very paper. A memorial window has been pla-ed in the Haworth Church, Eng land inscribed w th these words: "'lo the GI iry of God. In memory of Char lotte I route. 1'y an American c.tizen." -The other dav a pet't'on w:i; pre sented by certain distressed weavers of Madras.! ndia, to the iiowrnor of that province addrcs-ed "To Almighty God, care of his Exceilen.-v th Governor ot" Madras." Wh.'ii Archer, th first joek:y of England, recenth writ to Thrisk. in York-hire. t- rid-, t!io town erier marched through the streets announc ing that "Fred Archer, tlu wonder of the world, would eeit-iinly ride at tho mees." ..ust before a Hindoo woman dies a cow is bmu :ht in, so that she ma;, hold its ta;l as her sou1 leaves the body. They believe in the transmigration of souls, and th'-so women prefer to dwell in tl.e bodies of cows to any other ani mals. The ability of ants to tunnel under a river is almost ineiviiible, but a Brazil ban naturalist once found a colony which had ellcctcd the feat. Mitoku was forced from one end of the tunnel to tho other, and m-u-ked ants were seen to o in on one sale ami come out on tho other. -At Monte Carlo it is the custom to fill the pockets of siiie des with bank notes so that it may be seen that they dhl not kill themselves on aceount of losses. They tried ths trick on a pre sumably dead Jri-hmau a short time ago. but he w:is not ilea I at all, and skipped o X with tho money iu the most lively style. The body of the late l-mpre-s is tho 111th laid iu tho imperial crypt at Vi enna. The first was that of Empress Anna, the wife of jhe l ini'erorMattliias, who d.ed iu lti.j:. l-.leven Emperors and liiteen Empresses already repo-e in th s venerable spot, together with nu merous members of the imperial fam'ly anil other princely peisonagO'. A new outdoor game for ladies and gentlemen called enchantment is be coming fashionable iu i-ngland. It is played w th small, light hoops, thrown with wands, someth.ng arter the man ner of grace hoop-5, though the wand is of a novel construe: ion, involving a pe culiar ini'i hod of :isting the hoop. A moderately largo piece of ground is suitable. It is a curious statistical fact that 17: marriages were advertised in tho Tiiin.i in -een dax. and out of this number eighty brides were fatherless. This. I presume, means that bride grooms are looking more and more to the main chance, and only marry girls who have cash in hand. Prospects, nowadays, -ire not considered enough. Mothers-iii-Jaw have long been at ft dis count, but it would seem that young men have now come to the conclusion that naiiy c:isit is a better ass-t than a father iu-Iav. Luirlon Truth. The ( .arowitz. who has reached his majority amid g eat rejoicing and state i etvinony at t. Petersburg, is twenty-six years old the time of the legal coming of age in Russia. His mother's betrothal was somewhat pe culiar. Pagmar, the so oml daughter of the King of Denmark, w:is engaged to the brother of the present Czar. Be fore his death he expressed a wish that his younger brother, who would inherit the crown, should also accept Daginar as his prospective (Jueen. After a proper season of mourning she agreed to the arrangement, and m due time became the Empress mo. Iter of the fu ture Nicholas If. of Bus-ia. Nails. A large dealer in builders' hardware said rceentlv that the demand for clinch or elout nails and for chisel po'nted nails had largely increased within a year, as compared with that for the ordinal' cut nails, and that flooring nails with the wedge-shaped heads were also used in place of tho nails with the fiat upset heads, llis reasons were that better work resulted from the better nails, and thero was far less waste. For the coarsest purposes the le-s lirst cost of the ordinary cut nails with the fiat head induced builders t- continue the r use; but he believes the improved form and better material of the tough wire and clinch nails would, in time, drive out the inferior material and defective form. The principal advantage of the wedge shaped head, as in lloor nails, is that the h ad never break- oil" in dri ing. as it is only a gradual enlargement of the body of the na'l. instead of an upset across the. nail, l'ut the chisel point of the wire nail is its especial merit, as it cuts a clean passage through the fibers of tho woo 1 for the following of tho Ik 'y of the nail, instead of "stunting" and mutilating the fibers, as the blunt pointed nails d . The common cut nails will not usual ly clinch, even when the clinch is turned in the direction of the grain of the wood- but they may be con siderably toughened by heating to a red. and gradual cooling. A hardware establishment was burned a few years ago, and among the stores Avere nearly a hundred kegs of cut nails of various sizes. The remains from the fire were sold to another dealer, and as soon as the value of the burned nail became known he eould sell no others until they wero gone. Hnailific American, luiiucm-c of the Sun. ""Mrs. Nailor noticed that every time old Bill came around the setting hens made noises, and that the eggs, not to speak of tfie chickens, were scarcer. took here. Bill,' said the lady, "how is it that whenever you come here the eff"s and chickens become scarcer? "I oan know, lady, lessen it am de weather.' "I didn't know that the weather had anything to do with the reduction of chickens." Oh, yas, bless yer innercent souL De hot sunshine dries up chickens jes de same as it does de dew " "What has become of thatdoniinecker hen, Uncle Bill?" "She's dun dried up. lady. I seed do sun erstrikin' at her. day afore yistidy, an' I knowd dat her days wuz num bered. An' lemme tell yer, ef yer wanster raise any o' dese heah chick ens, ver's got ter keep 'em outec do sun.' "I don't see why the sim should have such an effect on them.'" "J doan" neither, la ly, but de smart men Mows dat it's bercause 1 hain't studteu llosofy. Izyesse'f a putty ap' llosofy scholar, lady?" "No, I don't know that 1 am." "Well, da's tie reason. Now, dat white pullet what loostcd up dar in de tree is dun gone, an' I reckons it am bercause o' de sun." "But the sun did not shine on her when she was roosting at nighr, Undo Bill." "Ter be sho' not, honey, but sho fooled erroun' in de sun 'fore she went ter roos'. Go an' get ono o' dem books o' llosofy. lady," and as Mrs. Nailor turned "away" the old man added: "Hardes matter in de worl' ter make dese folks unnerstau.' Ob course dasa chickens had too much heat." Arkai saw Travcl'cr. A Stratford (Conn.) woman dreamed that she saw her husband kissing s no'ghbor's wife. Sho awoke and struck him iu the face, breaking his uom. Hartford Pmt. mmMmm AGAIN TO The season for self-binders and reapers, which has proved siiccessful to us beyond anticipation m chine again and which we propose the extremely large number ot machines we sold, as well as in the rierfect operation of each ma- and the unbounded praise and satisfaction expressed by each purchaser, being over, we are ready, and olier to the farmers of Platte and adjoining: counties troods wh ich ai-e now in season Mowers, Hay Rakes, Hay Sweeps, Farm Wagons, SHELF AND HEAVY HARDWARE, At the Lowest We sell the Thresliinff DEEBWG, 0 WARRIOR, CLIPPER, CLT Tiger, llolliiigsworlli, Hoosirr, i Umax, Surprise Taylor, ('tampion, and Daisy, c-TPIE WELL KNOWN" AEBOTT, STUDEBAKER AND EACINE Buggies and Spring Wagons. THE CELEBRATED STUDEBAKER ! AND THE Light - Running Orchard City Wagons. HALLADAY, ECLIPSE, "L X. L.," U. S. STAR and ADAMS EVERYTHING WE SELL We cordially invite everybody to call on us. in our line, and wiU give you BOTTOM PRICES. Thirteenth Street, to sell at EXTREMELY -WE ARE PREPARED THE LARGEST STOCK Ol Cutlery IN" COLUMBUS. Living Prices. Come and Convince Yourselves celebrated AULTMAN & Machines, Horse M AX. WOODS, - near B. & M. Depot, LUBKER THE FROM! LOW PK30ES. TO GIVE BARGAINS IN Spring Wagons eBuggies, Sulky a Walking Plows, Wind Mills, Pumps and Pipe. TAYLOR, and C. AUI.TMAN & COS Powers and Engines. fir k I W KnAlBrJ' i'BHMBIHVH m . A I J3jJ8giE!IIS -k.-dsZr","'"feffT -rtl?-Z V&tfT'' KL M IS FULLY WARRANTED! We are always ready and CSC - 5 t r glad to show anything jflfKgfgaWffi jSjmnrtifiimim mw-J COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA. f
