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. --s: S5S5JJS:SS2T2SESt3iSS!S2BtS K W Wll.1 i '.. ' M '&. I m THE JOURNAL. WEDNESDAY, DEC. 3, 1S8J. Iiicrd si ito rctt::e, C:fcsta, list., a: nasi elits sitter. j SUSPICIOUS 8P0USE. Twas In the timo of sweet spring tliM. A morning-cool and clear, A happy husband, blithe and gay. Exclaimed: "I think, my dear, Tiuit this is just the finest day That wo have had this year." Then at his sldo his wife replied: It gives nut great delight To the weather settle down So beautiful and bright; And if you want to btay down town Don't hurry home to-night." He said Rpod-bye, but in his eye Blistrust began to prance. And at his trusting. loving wife He (jiiickly looked askance. While through his brain, suspicion rife. Wild thoughts commenced to dance. Again, again, with fevered brain, lie thought on what she said. When to his office he did come. Ills mind was tilled with dread; "She told me not to hurry home." He moaned and clutched his bead. With furious haste his tteps retraced. And with an angry stride He sped across the trembling iloor And homeward quickly hied, lie entered through the open door Ah, what a sight he spied I Confusion great there reigned in state Disorder everywhere; Amid the seem- his wife arose. Her blow was bent with care; A patch of soot was on her nose. And i hitevvash ilecked her hair. Most Weak and bare appeared tho air. With blinding dust galore; There were no pictures on tho wall. No carpets on the floor; lie gazed disgusted at them all. Then turned his back and swore. He gave a groan: "I might havo knows That this would be her plan; In future I will lie content To ne'er her conduct scan." Then hack unto his store he went, A mad but wiser man. iVcw York Journal. OCT OF PITY. She was just seventeen; the Tery youngest littlo bride that any one re membered ever coming to reign at Arn wood Towers; the sweetest, daintiest little ljidy Fielding that tho county had ever welcomed. To herself it was all like a dream, it had come .so fast; it seemed as if all her life had lived it.self in tlioso six niontits; the leaving her English school, and go ing out to her father's plantation in Ceylon, so proud to bo his housekeeper and companion; the strange, brief life on the up-country coffee estate. Then the young English stranger who passed through Lindoola, m his rather vague wanderings for adventure's sake, and who was received and entertained at Holme Harcourt with the delightful open-handed hospitality of the colonies. And then the awful night when the sudden terrible stroke of cholera left her fatherless, and life seemed one great black void; and the Chaplain's wife had been good to her, and kept her from dying in despair; and Sir Harry Fielding had been still more good; and then and then she was resting her poor little orphaned head on a heart that was kind and true as her own father's, and a strong arm was close round her slender waist, and the voice .she liked alone to hear of all the voices around her. was telling her she should never know another sorrow he could guard her from. He seemed the only real thing in ail that dream-time; the sad past, and the present that was so happy, but just as unlike reality. Was it really herself, simple little Ncsta Harcourt, that people were fussing over and petting and welcoming homo as if she hatl been a royal princess? Perhaps it was well she could not re alize it, or her head might havo been turned. Why, had not the whole week Harry and she wero spending with his sifter, Mrs. Mostyn, to present Ncsta to the countryside, been one round of fes tivities, of which she was the queen? This evening they had all driven to a grand concert in the countv town, to ear a famous singer; and Ncsta, in her wonderful golden satin gown, rich with embroider- and lace, with her eves out shining the diamonds on her white neck, and her cheek Hushed with ita pretty shy pink, had been an attraction only second to the queen of song herself. Sho felt a little weary with the excite iiieiitaud the happiness, now that they hatl reached home and wero having sup jior in the great hall, for the concert had loreed them to dine rather earlier than usual. The house was crowded with guests .ami they weie all vehemently declaring that the night was hardlv begun yet, and they meant to finish It with a few fames. The furniture in the blue draw ing room was being hastily moved, and Nesta's heart sank at the thought of further exertion; her head ached aud she was worn out. She would slip away quietly to bed and leave Harry to make Iher excuses to Eleanor. Where was Harry, by the way? Mie had not seen !hini since they .sat down to supper, and he and that beautiful Miss Trafford wero talking in the dtrway. A hasty seareh through the nearest rooms had no re sult, and Ncsta .stopped bvan open door to glance at the half-cleared drawing room. Two portly dowajrers were deen in conversation, their heads bent together behind their fans; but their voices rose above the music Eleanor was pluv-ing. and Nesta could not help hearing what they said. .'Gladys Trafford; yes, indeed!" cried the black velvet gown to the purple brocade. "A very, very old love affair, "that, my dear, lie and she were in separable, and a most suitable match it would have been. The two oldest families in the county; his equal in position and fortune: Lord Stour bridge's estates are next his you know, aud Gladys is heiress to a great part" What made Nesta's heart give such a leap, aud her feet feel spell-bound to the spot where she stood? Arnwood Towers was the only place near the Traffords. It w:is as it her whole being were strained to hear the rest: she -never thought of eaves-dropping, poor child; and it was life aud death work to her. -And why didn't it come about?" asked the purple brocade. "Heaven knows! A lovers' tiff, I suppose, or some such rubbish. It's a thousand pities! A Lady Fielding has always boon at the head of the county society, and Gladys Trafford is just made for the position, with her beautv and cleverness and talents. She has af-waj-s been immensely popular." "And who is the irl he has married? She seems a nice little thing enough." "Oh, ." harmless sort of creature; pink-and-white prettiness, nothing more. She was a planter's daughter in Ceylon, or somewhere: aud lie was staying with them when the father died. She was left quite friendless and destitute, and he married her out of pity. He was al ways a quixotic goose, Harry Fielding." The spell was oil" now; and Nesta, white as death, was hurrying up the stairs to her room. There was a little sofa in a sheltered nook in the corridor, and there sat Harry the missing Harry and the woman he should have mar ried. Nesta sped past, but as she did, she saw Harry bend his head and kiss the beautiful hand he was holding, and she beard his low murmur: "If I had only known, years sgo, things might have been so different." On, on, till her own door closed be iiind her, and she gazed wildly round at the pretty ornaments that strewed her bower, as she had never seen them before. She flung the diamonds from Iter 'throat and wnsts as if they hurt her; And sauk into a chair beside "the nnaint -void ebony table, leaning her head, with j " 'iliule of crisp, brown hair, down on j W folded sm Ste did ot shad a Uar. bat kr fcraia seemed an fire. BssJds her stood the tall rase ef rushes that Harry and she had gathered from the lake only yesterday. Wasn't it a hundred years ago? "Never another sorrow he could guard her from?" Well, it was true; he couldn't help this; it wasn't his fault, ho had meant to do right, he had mar ried her "out of pity'" when he loved another woman. It must be her own fault, not his; yes, because she was pink-and-white, and nothing more; and she was not tall and stately and tal ented; and she oucht to nave known ity wasn't lore, only it had seemed o -. Iiko it! "If he had known years ago. , . imogs might have been so different!" Mhrht they not still? What if she were to go away that very night, and never trouble him again? She had not a friend in the world except her old Brighton school mistress; she would go to her and beg her to take her in, and let her teach the little children. And perhaps she might die soon; and Harry could be happy with the woman lie had always loved. Nesta felt as if deatii wouldn't be long in coming, she felt so ill now. Sho got up to fetch a time-table. Yes. the mad train passed through Middle hampton at one o'clock; it was only twelve now, and though she couldn't very well understand tho puzzling fig ures, she thought it must stop at the little station just the other side of the park. She drew her blotting book to her, and began to write fast. A big tear or two slashed down on the paper, but she wiped them patiently away; it must be clear, that Harry might, read it. "They say you only married me from )ity," she wrote; "I might have guessed t, my darling, but you were so good to me that I never, never did. I can't make you free again; but it is better for us never to sec each other any more. and perhaps I may die, and you can go back to the woman they say you havo always loved. I saw 3011 just now, when vou kissed her hand, and said things might have been so different if you uad only known years ago. Yes, they would have been different for us alL God bless you, my poor, good boy! you were not to bhirue!" She paused and looked up. "What shall I sign it?" she said; "I am not his wife any more, for only love really makes a marriage." Her eyes fell on her little wedding ring, its brightness scarcely tarnished J-et. She stooped and pressed it to her ips gently, solemnly. "Oh, Harry, my Harry!" she whis pered, "if it had only been love, not pitv." She rose and slipped off the golden satin gown and put on a dark warm dress instead. "I must even go away from him in the things he gave me, she said, as she fastened her long far cloak with its sil ver clasps. "I haven't a singlo gown that was mine before I knew him. He has even dressed me out of charity. His pity has been more generous than other people's love." She opened the French window in her dressing room and stepped out on the balcony, whence a llight of steps led down to the terrace below. She glanced back at the prettv room, with its Japan ese cabinets, and blue and white china, and the ebony table where the letter to Harry lay, with the light full upon it, so that he could not miss it. Then she shut the casement sharply behind her, and resolutely turned away. The moon was bright "with a fitful brightness now almost as light as day, now hidden behind hurrying clouds and it was bitterly cold. Nesta drew her cloak tighter around her, and tried to walk fast, but she was desperately wearj', and could only stumble along. Somehow the way to tho little gate had never seemed so incomprehensibly long. Surely she could not have missed her way? The moon and the clouds were playing such pranks that one could not bo sure, and her heart had been too full to notice all the turns. It was as black as Erebus now; a darkness that might be felt. Ncsta took a few steps for ward, then stopped short, bv some mysterious instinct, just as the moon shone out bright once more, its golden sparkle reflected as by a thousand broken mirrors in the waters of the lake which slumbered at her feet. A strange, sharp pain shot through her heart, as she saw the very rushes Harry and she had been gathering yesterday. Yesterday? A thousand years :t-o; when she was happy. A wild thought flashed across her brain; she hatl wished to die; it would b; better for Harry and for herself, yes, and for that other woman, too, if she wero Jying under those cold, smiling waters in a dreamless sleep! It was only a moment, her soul was too white and too brave for more; she recoiled with a start of honor; but, ah! the bank was worn and smooth, her little feet slipped on the edge; she threw out her hands to stop herself, but the frozen grass slid through her lingers; there was one short, sharp cry, and a pale sweet face lay still among the rushes in the silent moonlight. It was dark and warm and deliciously restful when she knew anything again. She heard Harry's low voice beforeever I she opened her eyes; and felt his clasp 01 ner uauu iiarrys iiauu-clasp, there was no other like it anywhere and thought it must be Heaven, and was glad she had done with earth, since this was so much better. And so she slept again. And when next she awoke, she knew that the clouds she seemed to lie on, clouds soft and billowy, were her own bed. nothing more etherial; and she was awure that it must bo earth still, but felt it did not matter since it could be so like Heaven, for Harry's voice and Harry's hand were there still; and she slept again, smiling gently. But the next time she woke the hand and voice were missing, aud only Harry's back was visible in the room beyond, as she raised herself on her pillows. And a? she rose she caught sight of herself in the long Psyche glass opposite, and started at the reflection. For all her tangle of brown hair was cut short, and there was no pink and white prettiness now, only great dark eyes, and a small Whito face. And as she fell back on her pillows, half fromsurprise and half from weakness, for sho was very feeble, the tells burst out clear and sweet and mystical, in a perfect carol of exultant jOy. "Christmas bells! Is it Christmas?" she said. "Why, it was November when I died. And as Harry turned and hurried to her side, she smiled up at him, and atked again: Christmas? Is it really Christmas, Harry? ' but he only bent to catch her u iiu arms. She yielded to his kisses; then sud denly she tried to push him from her. 'Harry, you must not youjnust not!" sue said. He saw the troubled look in her eyes, and knew that memory was comin bact. "Yes, I must," he said, "mv little darling, my blessing, my life! The doc tor says a may tea tell you all about it, for the worry will hurt you more than the. talking; and, oh! how I have waiter! for this moment to come! It has been one long nightmare since the minute I heard your scream, avd ran u -j$t in time to see you sink." Then it was you who found me? Oh Harry!" "Yes, j'ou must hear it all. j. came to j'our room five miuutcs after wn must have left it. ami there was ti,c tiniK-table open, and your lilllo iio'j', bless it!" (that tear-spotted bit of papoi will merer leave Harry Fielding's heart while he lives), "and so I just set off for the station as hard as I could go. I had almost reached the park gate when that cry came off to the right and I turned just in time." His voice broke, and be beat his head down to hexs. "Nesta, it was all a lie, a Tile, in famous lie, whoever told it. Gladys Trafford and I were always dear old boy and girl friends, nothing more. 1 knew my cousin Wilfred loved her, and I always thought she had something to do with his going to Australia, yean ago. It was only that night she con fessed to me that they had been en gaged all these years, and Wilfred was trying to make a fortune for her sake. I told her I would soon put alL that right; and then I scolded her for never having told me before, when I could have saved them both all these weary years of waiting. Nesta!" for her face was hidden, and she was sobbing softly "you will not doubt me again?" "Never, never, never! not if you told me so yourself! But, Harry," in a whisper which scarcely reached his ear, "did you really marry me out of pity?" Yes, my sweetheart the very sincerest pity for myself." And Nesta never asked any more questions. CasselVs Magazine. The Cost ef Living in Russia. A man had better not fall ill while in Russia, for all the doctors outside the large cities are believers in phlebotomy and violent purgatives. They prescribe tea, but drug it without telling you, and the effects are felt a few days after ward. The prices of goods in Russian stores are assessed according to the apparent wealth of the customer. A stranger must first choose the article he wants, then offer what he thinks reason-, able, and turn on his heel if the offer be declined. Should tho tradesman hurry after him into the street he may bo sure that he has offered too much. Should he be allowed to go his bid has really been too low, and of course this is liable to happen with persons accus tomed to Western prices, for the cost of everything in Russia is exorbitant. A suit of fairly good clothes costs seventy dollars, a pair of knee boots thirty dol lars, an average cigar twenty-five cents. The only cheap things are tea. vedki, and articles made of leather, but even these cannot be had at a reasonable price unless bought through a native. In the large hotels, where Parisian furniture and beds are to be had, the day's board for a bachelor, without a servant, cannot be put down at less than ten dollars. The price of a singlo room ranges from three dollars to five dollars; table d'hote dinner costs two dollars and fifty cents without -wine; a bottle of pale ale seventy-five cents; one of cham pagne four dollars, and so on. Amuse ments, such as theaters and concerts, cost about three times as much as in Paris. The theaters and restaurants are luxurious, and so are the first-class railway carriages on the line from Odessa to Moscow and St.Petersburg. If a stranger confined his travels to a journey on this line be would go away with aline idea of Russian comfort, for all the latest American improvements in the way of sleeping and dining cars, dressing rooms and attendance are available. There is one good side of traveling in Russia, and it is this: If a stranger be not fairing for commercial purposes, he will be made a welcome guest at the houses ot the authorities in any town where he may wish to spend more tha a day. The Civil Governor will dispatch a Secretary to his hotel and be glad to have him to dinner for the sole sake of hearing what news he has to bring. This is pleasant enough, anil the hospitality is the more gracious as the passing stranger cannot make any return for it beyond thanks. On the other hand, a stranger who settles for any term ex ceeding a week in a country town will have to be careful of the company into which he falls, for Russian friendship soon turns to familarity, and one of the first manifestations of familiarity is to ask the stranger to take a hand at ecarte. Then it becomes a question of refusing aud being deemed a boor, or accepting and being promptly cleaned out. The Russians are fearful gamblers, and a stranger with circular notes in his pocket is a godsend to them. They do not cheat, but play and play until the result is utter impecuniousness to one of tho two parties to the game. Tho women arc as bad as the men, aud think nothing of winning a few thousand dol lars from a stranger whom they have not known for more than a week. Odessa Cor. Brooklyn Eagle. Medes of Salutation. A French traveler xeport.1 that every race among whom he has sojourned has its own mode of salutation,- not accept ing the great Yankee Nation. He in forms his readers that, however, a few polite Europcanized Americans may sa lute one another, the characteristic na tional salutation is "Hello!" We fear he is right. The telephono is accused of having fastened this stigma' upon us-; but in truth the telephone only adopted a word already familiar to all boys and most men. The Arabs say on meeting: "A fino morning to you!". The Turk says, with dignified gravity: "God grant you His blessings!' The Persian salutation is familiar to all the world from its comic quaintne?s: "May your shadow never grow less!" The Egyptian is a practical man. He has to earn his taxes by toil Under a burning sun, and accordingly when ho meets Ids fellow, he asks: "How do you sweat?" The reader is probably aware that in those low latitudes all is well with a la borer as long as he perspires freclv. The good Chinaman loves his dinner. "How are you digesting?" he kindly inquires, on meeting a friend. The Greeks, who are keen men of business, close bargainers, ask one an other: "How are yon gettingon?" The national salutation of Naples was formerly: "Grow in grace!" At pres ent, in all parts of Italy, they use a phrase equivalent to "How are you?" The Spaniards say: "How are you passing it?" The French: "How do you tony yourself?" The Germans: "How does it go?" The Dutch: "How do 30U travel?" The Swedes: "How can you?" mean ing, "Are you in good vigor?" The Russians: "Be well!" The English-speaking races, in addi tion to the juvenile and telephonic "Hello!" say: "How are you?" and "How do you do?" We also take off the hat, shake hands, embrace, bow and kiss, as, in other climes, people rub noses, touch fore heads and take off their shoes. The American in Italy is surprised to see men embrace and kiss eachothe.-, as in Bible lands. The Italians in turn look upon our hand-shaking as cold and ridiculous, the bobbing up and down of the arm having no meaning whatever in their view. The touching of the tips of gloved fingers, if more graceful than hand shaking, must also seem to people of the East as professional and expression, less. The bow, as a mark of respect, is a custom used by nearly all nations, and one that had its origin in ancient time. Youth's Companion. It has been discovered that the calla is not a lily, and the dog-tooth vie le. i- not pmjierly a violet. Now, if . me daring konoclast wHl only prove t at the ouioc is not an onion! Bolts i'. 'Oat. M Afe. Old age, which used to come gradually and be in no particular baste to besrin its visible progress, has recently caught the spirit of the time and advanced upon some people at a galloping pace. The fault is with the victims themselves. The life-endurance of any given person is fixed by nature, and the man who draws most largely and steadily upon his physical capital must be the first to display gray hairs and discover chronic bodily weaknesses. In New York any one can find scores of men who at thirty five have whitening heads and nerves that need "bracing at short intervals every day. Whether they reach this condition by too much work or too much play (of the kind that uncharitable per sons call dissipation), the indications of hastening age are equally significant. How is the progress of the destroyer to be arrested? Many physicisns in New York are devoting themselves to tho task of pro longing the lives of persons who are not ill, yet have begun to wear away too rapidly. Among the practitioners who study the subject carefully, there seems to be but little difference of method. Their first and hardest work is to con vince their patients that it is daugerous to live "fast" a word which has a special signiiicance which makes it ab solutely insulting to man)' eminently respectable transgressors of the laws of health. It seems impossible to persuade a merchant who does more work in one hour than his best clerk can do in three, that he is guilty of fast living and dis sipation; even if he never drinks a drop and refrains from all improper pleasures. The lawyer or broker who accomplishes wonders in the morning, but feels a sense of "goneness" early in the afternoon, cannot bo made to be lieve that pat of him is literally "gone," and that if he urges himself beyond that point, without first taking a little rest, he . expends vitality with frightful rapidity. Ladies who, between house hold cares, religious duties aud social responsibilities, are steadily active from eight in the morning until midnight, sometimes wonder why they lose tho freshness of youth, while some of their sex, whom they occasionally see, but would not for worlds speak to, preserve face and figure in spite of lives of which the less said the better. But when these, as well as less inno cent classes, are convinced that they are living too rapidly, aud physicians begin to arrest the advance of age by urging rest. No practitioner of high standing now prescribes stimulants to any per sons not reany 111. excepting tuose wnu are absolutely compelled to more exer tion than is good for them. Short periods of relaxation throughout the day are always found beneficial; some business men have been greatly helped by dropping upon a lounge for five minutes in every hour or two; they may not cannot stop thinking, but there seems great relief in merely assuming a recumbent position for a" little while. During the recent civil war a general whose men were noted for coming out of a hard march in fine fighting condi tion, attributed his success to his imper ative order that his men should lie down whenever a halt was ordered. Regular and full hours for sleep are also insisted upon, and until the patient endeavors to adhere closely to this rule he does not begin to comprehend how nature's great restorative is diminished in quantity by the demands of business and society in a great city. One or two half-nights of sleep per week do not seem to mar the health of young peo ple, but auy person who has reached the age of thirty-live is weakened by such privations, aud few of them who have active nerves can ever make good the loss. "High living" is remorselessly ta booed not only the custom of drinking a great deal of wine at dinner, but that of eating concentrated food, with stim ulating codimeuts and sauces. Much meat and little vegetables is the rule with active people in large cities. It is the result of a physical craving, born of rapid waste of physical tissue, for stim ulation. A hard-working farmer, who is in the open air all day, would not, because he could not, eat as much meat as a slightly-built business man will consume daily in New York, and he would become excitable almost to madness were ho to partake as sparingly of bread and vegetables. Good physicians place no restrictions on the quantity of food for a city man or woman of "active habits, but they urge that the proportion of meats and pas tries to vegetables be lessened. Ihe free use of fruit and milk is strongly advo cated, to correct the bad effects of over eating and of stimulating food. Fruit juices are believed to accelerate tho natural and healthful action of the alimentary canal, to prevent the reten tion of wasted tissue, and to maintain at Its normal condition the prespiratory system, one of the most important and least remembered portions of tho plrysi caI machinery. While not delaying or diminishing nutrition in any way, fruit, if used in suflicicnt quantity, is known to lower the temperature of the blood that is overheated by liberal feeding combined with lack of exeituso. New York has plenty of melons and pfeaches during the summer months; but in eight of tho twelve months of the year fruit is. regarded as a luxury rather than a necessity. A physician with a large Practice in a fashionable district in New ork said recently that carofl iuquiry failed to discover that any one of his patients ever bought apples, except for special treatment in the lutcheu, al though the apple is the most abund ant, cheap, and ever-present of the fruits which are peculiarly 1-cneiJcial as food. The few rules given abovi do not ob viate the necessity for special treatment for persons who are growing old too rapidly, for age nearly always manifests its approach by finding Hs victim's weakest part and attacking It. Tbey are, however, so contrary to general custom that they will be now to most people who read them, as ihey are to nearly all who obtain them, for the first time," from familv physicians. N. Y. Hour. k Sassy Little Fellow Who Get.Feeled. "I am a rustler, and don't yer furgit it," said a man with a bro id-brimmed hat on and a belt full of deadly weapons on Front street the other day. I'm a bad man from Dakota; and ytr kin put me down whenever there's any senm magiu' tor be done. I'm thur when j"er want some big work, an don't yer fur git it None o' the white-livered sons o' washwomen kin run over me." A number of men gathered around him out of curiosity, and a little bit of insignificant maullood stepped forward and said: "Shake, pardner. I'm a rustler my self, an' ther' ain't no white-livered cuss from Dakota that kin come around hyer an' brag about his stufl 'tbout lickin' me." "You? You?" asked the surprised Dakotan. "Why, if you Itved whar' I come from they'd eat yer up alive." "Go 'long! You're a big knock-kneed coward !" cried the little man, frothing at the mouth, and the crowd clapped their hands and cheered heartily ; but before the cheer had died away the Da kota giant had the little fellow bent across bis knee and was spanking him like all sin. "Yer thought yer'd come a game '0 bluff, did yer?" I heard yer tell that fellow over yandcr what ycr'd do, and that ar war what made me talk big. May-be you' 11 learn by this that there's a darned sight o' foolishness in the stories about little men lixiu' big uns. Yer kin go over thar now, an tell yer pardnei ow yer got fooled." Exchange. Silent Women. The scientific world is now agitated by the subject of the evolution of silent women. Up to date they have generally been classified with the peculiar species known as white black-birds aud black swans. The question is now, whether the few specimens "that are found are signs of a uew and unheard of type of women, or whether they are mere freaks of nature, exceptions to a rule and no more prophetic of a species of silent women, than the Siamese twins, skeleton meu, fat women, six-leged calves, and other curiosities, arc signi ficant of a raco of such creatures. Silent womeu do not seem to be pe culiar to any section or climate; nor are thoy indigenous to any special local ity. Sometimes they are found in cities, where people necessarily do a good deal of talking, sometimes in the agricultural regions, where talking is mainly con fined to the sewing circle, or to trie Suu day noon gossip between morning aud afternoon service. Two of the largest cities of the country. New York and Cincinnati, are just now furnishing tho two most perfect specimens of the new species extant that, is if it is a new species; if it is a freak of nature, they still hold their own as profitable invest ments of a dime museum. One, whom we have already referred to, is witness in a will case in Now York. She is an old servant of the man whose will is contested; and, when put in tho witness bov, loudly announced her reso lution "to keep "still," not to say a word, and that it was no use tusking her anything. She sat back iu her chair and read "A Christian's Secret, or a Happy Life," aud shook her head, said she wouldn't answer a question not one; that she needed all her breath for some thing else; that they could lock her up to the day of judgment if they wanted to; it would not make a bit of difference, and for two or more days held out iu her determination. A Chicago woman has not spoken to hor husband for two years, and the fel low actually wants a divorce from her. But that's the way in this world. Hun dreds of men instead of divorcing her would be clad to marry her. It is like the two men who were telling each other why they joined the army and went to war. One because his wife never had buckwheat cakes; the other because his wife wouldn't give him anythiug else. The Chicago wife's only mode of com munication was writing notes and leav ing them about. Her husband says he would have given all he had and trudged home on foot to save car fare, for one kind, sympathetic word from her. He lit her lamp ami warmed her foot stove, but no word came. 'He went to Toronto to the Sovoreig'n Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows aud she locked herself in her room so as not to bid him good-bye. She would rattle a dish to call him to dinner and then, putting hers upon a separate plate, walk away with it. Everything which some husbands would crave as a sweet boon in their wives, this man esteems a thorn and a grievance. So little credence do the ordinary minds of the country put in the notion that a silent woman may be a regular and healthy development of nature, that both of these are called insane. Detroit Free 1' ess. "Help Me Across, Papa." There was anguish in the faces of those who bent over the little white bed, for they knew that Baby May was drift ing away from them, going out alone in the dark" voyage where so many have been wrested from loving hands; and as the-tried in vain to keep her, or even to amooth with their kind solicitude her last brief sorrows, they too experienced in the bitter hour of parting the partes of death. They only hoped that she dTd not sutler now". The rings of golden hair lay damp and unstirred on her white forehead; the roses were turned to lilies on her cheeks; the lovely violet eyes saw them not, but were upturned and lixed; the breath on the pale lips came and went, fluttered and seemed loath to leave its sweet prison. O, the awful, cruel strength of death; the weakness, the helplessness, of lovo! Those who loved her better than life could not lift a hand to avert the de stroyer; they could only watch and watt until the end should come. Her merry, ringing laugh would never again gladdeu their hearts; her little feet would make no more music as they ran pattering to meet them. Bab' May was dying, and all the house was darkened and hushed! Then it was, as the shadows fell in denser wives about us, that she stirred ever &o faintly, and our hearts gave a irreat bound as wo thought, "She is better! She will live!" les, she knew as; her eyes moved from one face to tho other, with a dim, uncertain gaze! O! how good God was to give her back! How we could praise and bless Him all our lives. She lifted one dainty hand cold almost pulseless, but better, bet ter we would have it so and laid it on the rough, browned hand of the rugged man who sat nearest to her. His eye lids were red with weeping, but now a smile lighted all his bronzed face like a raiubow as he felt the gentle pressure of his little daughter's hand the mute, imploring touch that meant a question. "What is it, darling?" he asked, iu broken tones of joy and thanksgiving. She couid not speak, aud so we raised her on the pretty lace pillow, and her wee white face shone in the twilight like a star or a sweet woodland flower. She lifted her heavy eyes to his eyes that even then had the glory and the promise of immortality in them, and reaching out her little wasted arms said, inner weary, flute-like voice: "Help me across, papa!" Then she was gone! We held to our breaking hearts the frail, beautiful shell, but she was far away, whither we dare not follow. She had crossed the dark river, and not alone. 'Over the riveritlie boatman palo Carried unothcr household pet. She crossed on her bosom her dimpled hnnda. And fearlessly entered the phantom bark; We felt it glide from the silver sands. And nil our sunshine grew strangely dark." O, inlinite Father! When we weary and disappointed ones reach our plead ing hands to Thee, wilt Thou take us even as the little child, and help us across over the mountains of defeat and the valleys of humiliation into the eter nal rest of Thy presence, into the green pastures and beside the still waters, into the city of the New Jerusalem, whoso builder and maker is God? Presbyte rian. ' Been to the Club. "Where have you been at this late hour," sternly asked Mrs. Tonguelasher, as her liege and lord staggered in at the door, bowing to the hat rack. "Been to club," he answered, with much difficulty. "You know this is not club night," she howled emphatically. "Was call mectin' by Scc'terry," he replied, thicker than before. "Oh, yes, it may have been called a meeting by the Secretary, for he runs a gin shop; now tell me," what was the object of this called meeting?" "Was call meetin' to confer with crowd lawyers," he returned, feeling his way to the water bucket. "An' I tell you, Liza," he continued, "I met shev'al mos' prom'nent members of. bar." Sorrowfully she looked at him and said, as he snugly tucked bis boots be tween the sheets, and threw himself un der the bed: "Yes, from the way you smell, I should think you met all of the distin guished members of the bar." Atlanta Constitution. m A taxidermist in Heading, Pa., has a collection of 75,000 butterflies. FAUX AND HOUSEHOLD. Fruit-growers would do well to watch their trees for mildew. As soon as there is food for insects 011 fruit trees they will be on hand to eat it. Be ready for them. Watch for the first "tents" of the caterpillar and removo them while small. xV. Y.Timcs. Mutton Broth: One pound of the neck of mutton without any fat. one tablespoonful of Barley, one quart of water. Salt to taste. Cut the mutton into small pieces. Simmer gentlv, but do not boil, for two hours. IJu house hold. Nothing is more susceptible to for eign matter than bad butter, tf a farmer be not sure of this let him place a pound or so of butter near a piece of ordinary soap, or a few onions, and ex clude the air for a few days and he will be convinced. Albany Journal. Water Pound Cake: One pound of flour, oue pound ot sugar, one-half pound of butter, four & and one cup of warm water. Use prepared flour, or put into the flour before sifting it two teaspooufuls of any good baking pow der. The cup of water must be quite warm, but not really hot. Beat tho eggs separately. Exchange. A Western writer says: "Buy small trees. Small trees, ten chances "to one, will come into bearing sooner than the larger ones. The larger the tree the less liber there will be upon tho roots. A tree thai has plenty of fibrous roots will live and flourish, while one that lacks such feeders will languish and die." German Bread: One pint of bread sponge, one cup of sugar, one vg, one piece of butler the size of a walnut; beat them all together till light, stir in flour till it is as thick as a cake, let it rise till light, then bake iu a moderate oven. After vou butter your tiu. sift cinnamon over it, and just before baking sue sugar over me lop ot the bread. Toledo Blade. Cleansiug Liquids. Water in which potatoes have been boiled exercises re markable cleansing properties upon silverwares of all kiud, especially upon spoons discolored bv eggs. Hyposul phite of soda dissolved in water will re move all tarnish from silverware in two or three applications if applied with a soft cloth wet with the solution. Frairie Farmer. The New York Tribune mentions an easy and profitable way of disposing of the hard bones which are usually left kicking around the backyard ordistrib uted by prowling dogs : "Bury a peck or half a bushel or more of the hard bones under a newly set grap-vine or fruit tree, or within reach of the eager roots of an old one, which will search them out and feed on them year after year until the last fragment is trans formed into grapes or apples." Linseed Meal. As to the matter of linseed oil meal there are a great many who think that they know all about it who do not Wo suppose that there is no food that there are so many erroueous ideas concerning as oil m-al. Men who have fed it to some :: nimal.s foryears, entertain the idea that it U hurtful to animals that would do well with it; others feed it when or iu such way as they should not do. Some think that they ought to havo it whatever it may cost, and others be lieve that it wouldn't pay to buy it at any price. Generally it is a capital food, but if the nrice continues to ro up, its use will soon be discontinued. It is not always advisable to use it. It may be ro high in price or dillicult to get, that it vould be advisable to use mill stuffs instead. While they will not precisely fill the bill, they are largely of the same character of oil" meal, and it is often desirable to use a less meritorious food, on account of price, or other cir cumstance, if it approaches to the more meritorious. Oil meal is linseed meal from which most of the oil has been taken. Still it contains some oil and the small percentage that it does con tain, is of use to the animal. There is, perhaps, no food that will so well keep the bowels in order, aud the oil that it contains gives it this superior character istic over flesh forming foods. Except as to its small percentage of oil, it is a flesh forming food, containing usually twenty-eight per cent, of muscle form ing element and all of this class of foods are more conducive to good digestion than are the fat forming. It is fed in conjunction with other foods, and if fed properly it is good for an animal under any circumstances. It has been ob jected to as food for animals carrying their ycung. Especially what is called the new process meal, from which tho oil is extracted by the use of benzine, has come under this condemnation. But we have fed it, and like it, and we think think the charge of being injurious has arisen from the advertisements of rival companies. In consequence of its loosening character, it must necessarily be fed with caution to animals with young, and if it is fed cautiously it is good for all animals, we repeat, under ill circumstances. If we could feed more of it we should have healthier luimals, and less 11 ted for drugs. But then, we cannot all get it. and as before said, if it keeps on increasing in price, done of us will be able to get it. In view of this, we have alwavs been careful to I nuggest that middlings and flax seed may be used instead with ver' satisfac tory results. In a recent issue w& noted its use as an ingredient in forming a ration for a calf. It will be remembered that we -iaid that after the tirst week the calf could be Ced on skim milk and oil meal, beginning with two tablespoonsftil a day, dissolved in warm water, and gradually increasing the quantity until It reaches a pound a da, which "will be quite sullicieut until the calf is two months old. In the production of beef some such daily ration as two pounds of oil meal, four pounds 0 wheat mid dlings, six pounds of corn meal and hay in proportion will suggest how it may be used. To fattening cattle, some feed as high as six pounds per day. Cir cumstances, of course, have to be con sulted in individual cases, but the feeder will be able from the proportions given to arrive at the proper proportion of oil meal. The best English feeders, it may be mentioned, are accustomed to over stock their pastures, and make up the deficiency by feeding oil cake. We mention it to show how valuable an ad junct to feeding this class of food is. For milch cows the amount of meal per day in connection with full ratious, 6hould be about two pounds. Horses may be fed two pounds of the meal per day as a part of their rations, aud they will be benefited greatly by its use. But we'desirc to impress" the" fact that combinations of food can be made with out any oil meal in them, that will an swer all practical purposes. Take for instance rations for a horse, and we must leave the subject with these sug gestions. A good combination is red clover, eight pounds, oat straw, six pounds, com meal, twelve pounds, wheat middlings, six pounds, or tim othy hay, twelve pounds, corn meal, eleven pounds, malt sprouts, live pounds. This will give some idea of what may be a combination, and the combinations are almost endless. We will say, for it is a matter of great im portance, that the hay fed, or when straw is fed. it should be wet and mixed with the meal. Western Rural. J. A. Peabody, of Jforragansett R. I., lost a good scarf-pin in the woods twenty-nine, years ago, and, after many searches, gave it up for lost. Sunday ho passed the spot, brushed away a few leaves and found the pin. Prcvidencs Journal COLUMBUS STATE BANK! COLUMBUS, NEB. CASH CAPITAL, - $75,000 DIRECTORS: Lbaxdkr Gerhard, Pres'i. Gko. WHulst, Vice Pre' t. Julius A. Reed. U. H. Henry. J. E. TASKEh, Cashier. Buk of Depotitt, lIrmat aid Exchaac CaJIectleaN Promptly ,Miulr on till PolatN. 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