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VOL. XV.--N0. 36.
COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 81, 1884.
WHOLE NO. 764.
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BUSINESS CABDS.
D.T. Maktvn, M. D. F. J. Scnoo, M. D.
Drs.MABTYN&SCHTJG,
U. S. Examining Surgeons,
Consultations in German and English.
Telephone at office and "".Jenee..
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COLUMBUS,
NEBRASKA.
42-y
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON.
DUe-iM-s or women and children a spe
cial. " Couniv physician. Office former
fy occupied byUr.15one.teel. Telephone
exchange.
DENIAL PAJlLOIt,
On corner of Eleventh and North streets,
over Ernst's hardware store.
TT J. ilUttMOXt
' NO TA It Y P UBLIC,
lilh Street. 2 doors west of Hammond Hobs,
Columbus, Neb. W-i'
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J TTORNEY AT LA W,
Office on oliic St., Columbus, Nebraska
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V. A. MACKEN,
DEALER IN
Fofciqn and Domestic Liquors and
Cigars.
llth street, Columbus, Neb. 30-y
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cAli.isti:k bbos.,
A TTOliNEYS A T LA W,
Office up-stairs in McAllister's build-in-,
llth St. V. A. McAllister, Notary
Public.
yon timothy,
NOTARY PUBLIC AND CONVEYANCER.
Keep- a full line of stationery and school
ftiipplies, and all kinds of legal forms,
lusiiro against lire, lightning, cyclone
ami tornadoes. Office in Powell's ltlock,
l'latte Centci. l-x
.1. . MACfARLAND, B. R. COWDERY,
Attcner ad Xctirj TztVs. CslUctor.
LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE
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MACFARLAND & COWDERY,
Columbus, : : : Nebraska.
B 1 KIKXKK, Jl: .,
(Succo.-or to Dr. C. G. A. Ilullhorst)
HOMEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN AND
SURGEON.
Regular graduate of two medical college.-.
Office up stairs iu brick building
north of State Hank. --ly
J. J. Ill AIMS II AX,
Justice, County Surveyor, Notary,
Land and' Collect ion Ayent.
l3ri,artiode-.irin: surveying done can
notil me 1 m-iil at Platte Centre, Neb.
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ll.KDMCIIi:,
llth St., opposite Lindell Hotel.
Sells Haines?, Saddles, Collars, "Whips,
Blanket-. I urry Combs, Brushes, trunks,
valise-, hnggv'tops, cushions, carriage
trimmings. Arc., at the lowest possible
prices. Repairs promptly attended to.
R
II. IAWKEXCE,
DEPUTY CO. SURVEYOR.
Will do general surveying in Platte
and adjoining counties. Office with S. C.
Smith.
COLUMUL'S, - - - NEBRASKA.
17-tf
JS. MURDOCH & SON,
Carpenters and Contractors.
Ilave had an extended experience, and
will guarantee satisfaction in work.
All kinds of repairing done on short
notice. Our motto is, Good work and
fair prices. Call and give us an oppor
tunity toestimateforyou. jSTShop on
13th St., one door west of Friedhof &
Co's. store, Columbus. Nehr. 483-v
o. o. sHiisnsroiisr,
MANUFACTURER OF
Tin and Sheet-Iron Ware !
Job-Work, Hoofing and Gutter
ing a Specialty.
S-Shop on Olive Street, 2 doors
north of Urodfer.hrer's Jewelry Store.
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W. CLARK,
LAND AND INSURANCE AGENT,
HUMPHREY, NEBE.
His lands comprise some fine tracts
in the Shell Creek Vallev, and the north
ern portion of Platte county. Taxes
paid for non-residents. Satisfaction
guaranteed. 20 y
pOLIJBIJS PACK'G CO.,
COL UMB US, - NEB.,
Packers and Dealers in all kinds of Hog
product, cash paid for Live or Dead Hogs
or grease.
Directors. R. H Henry, Prest.; John
Wiggins, Sec. and Treas.; L. Gerrard, S.
Cory.
TAMES SAaLJIOxX,
CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER.
Plaus and estimates supplied for either
frame or brick buildings. Good work
guaranteed. Shop on 13th Street, near
St. Paul Lumber Yard, Columbus, Ne
braska. 52 6mo.
-VTOTICE TO TEACHERS.
J. E. Moncrief, Co. Supt.,
Will be in his office at the Court House
on the third Saturday of each
month for the purpose of examining
applicants for teacher's certificates, and
for the trangactton of any other business
pertaining to schools. 567-y
in presents given away.
Send us 5 cents postage,
and by mail you will get
free a package of goods of large value,
that will start you in work that will at
once bring you in money faster than any
thing else in America. All about the
1200,000 in presents with each box.
Agents wanted everywhere, of either
sex, of all ages, for all the time, or spare
time only, to work for us at their own
homes. Fortunes for all workers ab
solutely assured. Don't delay. H. Hal
lett & Co., Portland, Maine.
$200,000
COLUMBUS
STATE BANK!
COLUMBUS, EB.
CASH CAPITAL, - $75,000
DIRECTORS:
Leaxder Gerraed, Pres't.
Geo. W, Hulst, Vice Pres't.
Julius A. Reed.
R. H. Henry.
J. E. Tasker, Cashier.
Baak of Deposit, IHacos.su
aad ExcamMge.
Collection Promptly Made
all Point.
Pay latercMtea Time Depos
it. 274
HENRY GASS,
UNDEETAKEE !
COFFINS AND METALLIC OASES
AND DEALER IN
Furniture, Chairs, Bedsteads, Ba
re aua Tables, Safes. Lounges,
&c. Picture Frames and
Mouldings.
EST Repairing of all kinds of Upholstery
Goods.
6-tf COLUMBUS, NEB.
HENRY LITERS,
DEALER IN
WIND MILLS,
AND PUMPS.
Buckeye Mower, combined, Self
Binder, wire or twine.
Pomps Repaired on short notice
ISTOne door west of Heintz's Drug
Store, llth Street, Columbus, Neb. 8
TTTHT T)for working people. Send 10
rj Hij i r cents postage, and we will
J-i-I-J-LiJ- mail you free, a royal, val
uable sample box of goods that will put
you in the way of making more money in
a few days than you ever thought pos
sible at any business. Capital not re
quired. You can live at home and work
in spare time only, or all the time. All
of both sexes, of all ages, grandly suc
cessful. 50 cents to $5 easily earned
every evening. That all who want work
may test the business, we make this un
paralleled offer: To all who are not well
satisfied we will send $1 to pay for the
trouble of writing us. Full particulars,
directions, etc., sent free. Immense pay
absolutely sure for all who start at once.
Don't delay. Address Stinsok & Co.,
Portland, Maine.
A HOUD OF WARDING.
FARMERS, stock raisers, and all other
interested parties will do well to
remember that the "Western Horse and
Cattle Insurance Co." of Omaha is the
only company doing business in this state
that insures Horses, Mules and Cattle
against loss by theft, accidents, diseases,
or injury, (as also against loss by lire ana
lightning). All representations by agents
of other Companies to the contrary not
withstanding. P. V. HENRICH, Special Ag't,
lf-y Columbus, Neb.
NO HUMBUG!
But a Grand Success.
RP. BRIGHAM'S AUTOMATIC WA-
ter Trough for stock. He refers to
every man who has it in ubc Call on or
leave orders at George Yale's, opposite
Oehlrich's grocery. 9-6m
J. WAGNER,
Livery and Feed Stable.
Is prepared to furnish the public wfth
good teams, buggies and carriages for all
occasions, especially for funerals. Also
conducts a sale stable. 44
tAXSIT HOUSE,
PLATTE CENTER NEB.,
JOHN PUGG AX,
Proprietor.
The best accommodation for the travel
ing public guaranteed. Food good, and
plenty of it. Beds clean and comfortable,
charges low, as the lowest. 13-y
4 "DDTTP Send 8ix cent8 for
K fli I A rlj postage,and receive
J-J-ZJ J-J. free a COstJy b()3- Qf
goods which will help you to more money
right away than anything else in this
world. All, of either sex, succeed from
first hour. The broad road to fortune
opens before the workers, absolutely
sure. At once address, True & Co.,
Augusta, Maine.
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INDIAN SUMMER.
What perfect days are those that sosMtlmes
come
When latest autumn still retains Its prims;
The plenteous harvests all are gathered la;
A lull succeeds the toil of summer time.
As If the year would linger ere it leaves.
To rest awhile amid its garnered sheaves.
A dreamy, brooding silence wraps the earth,
As wraps the purple haze the distant hills;
The joyous melody of birds has ceased.
But nature's undertone the silence thrills.
And still the blue of summer tints the sky,
Though wary birds take wing and south
ward fly.
How softly now the mellow sunlight falls.
As if in blessing on the waning year;
Not in the fervid beats of glowing June,
But with a chastened radiance far more
dear;
As still we hold more precious than the
rose
If a fragrant mem'ry when the blossom
goes.
O rare, brief season, thou hast all the cham,
Of summer's gladness blent with thine own
peace.
How luce thou art to beautiful old age
The restful calm where active labors cease;
And, pausing on life's threshold ere be
leaves.
One sees Heaven's sunlight smiling on his
BhMVM
U.K. Buck, in Chicago Adtane$.
SACRED FIRE.
A Former Interesting Custom of
North American Indians.
Its Probable Origin A Legend of the
XatchezVThe "Living Sacrifice or the
Sacred Fire" Kept Perpetually
Boralag.
One of the most peculiar and interest
ing customs of the North American In
dians, which, with many others are now
preserved only in tradition, was that of
keeping alive the sacred eternal fire.
All the rites and duties connected with
it are probably remembered by some of
the veterans of tho Western tribes, but
it is not known to have been observed
after the arrival of the French upon the
great lakes.
It is a favorite theme, however,
among the few survivors of the onoe
powerful nation of the Natchez. These
Indians "were of a higher type of intelli
gence, probably, than any other tribe.
The prevalence of a custom similar to
this of our Indians among the natives
of the East, from a very early period, is
well known to all who have traced the
history and progress of human super
stitions. From them it found its way
to Greece, and eventually to Rome.
It is not, perhaps, surprising that the
element of tire should be selected as the
object of worship by nations ignorant of
the true religion, and seeking safety in
that system of polytheism which de
clared the manners and the morals of
the most polished people of antiquity.
The affections and instinct seemed to
require something tangible and visible
for their support, and this mysterious
agent was sufficiently powerful in its
effect and striking in its operation to
appear as a direct emanation from the
Deity. But there was a uniformity of
the mode of worship and in the princi
ples of its observance which leaves no
doubt of the common origin of this
belief.
The sacred llame was not only re
garded as the object of veneration, but
its preservation was indissOlubly con
nected with the existence of the State.
It was the visible emblem of public
safety, guarded bychosen ministers,
secured by dreadful" imprecations and
punishments and made holy by a sol
emn and imposing ritual. The coinci
dences which will be found between
these observances and opinions and the
ceremonies and belief of the Indians in
dicate with sufficient certainty that
their notions upon this subject were
brought from the Eastern hemisphere,
and were derived from tho fruitful Per
sian stock. It is not known positively
that this custom existed among any
other tribes thau the Iroquois, the Chip-
Jewas, the Natchez and the Shawnees.
t is certain that the Natchez were lire
worshipers, and without giving full cred
it to all the marvelous tales related of
this tribe by the earl- French settlers
and travelers, we may yet be satisfied
from the many concurring accounts
that they were believers in the efficacy
of an eternal iire. According to one
of the legends, this tribe should
have been of Asiatic origin, for
they were unanimous and sincere in
following the most poetical of all
the idolatries of the East. Another
curious fact is that they held woman in
the highest respect, and with a gallantry
quite uncommon to the Aborigines,
they ascribed the salvation of their race
to one of the sex usually degraded and
despised by them. The tradition in
substance is as follows: Many thousands
of winters ago all the inhabitants of the
earth, with the exception of a single
family, were destroyed by floods and
darkness for want of food. This one
family managed to keep up a large fire
of wood and so survived for a time.
But in consequence of the continued
darkness even this last remnant of hu
man existence was about to perish. In
this emergency, a young girl of the
family, suddenly inspired by the idea
that she might save her race by an act
of self-sacritice, threw herself upon the
fire which served the despairing suffer
ers for light and heat. Her body was
gpeedily reduced to ashes, but the next
moment, she arose perfect and appar
ently unharmed, in the eastern sky,
surrounded with halos of surpassing
glory. The darkness began to dis
appear before this new sun, and the
family of the Natchez was saved. This
wonderful girl became the chief of the
tribe, and it was decreed that her near
est female relation should be her suc
cessor. The worship of the sun which she had
rivaled at her resurrection was estab
lished at once, and in addition to this,
a perpetual fire was kept, called the
"Living Sacrifice of the Sacred Fire,"
nd it was the belief of the survivors that
o long as this fire" blazed upon their
altars the tribe of the Natchez should
be peaceful and happy. On the spot
where the sacrificed maiden was rein
carnated when the fire from heaven
descended and surrounded her body
with glory they built their mound to in
dicate that their wanderings were at an
end. It was only on this mound at the
Festival of the Fruits that the Priestess
of the Sun showed herself to the people
arrayed in robes of white with a girdle
about her waist adorned with sparkling
gems. She assisted in the early greet
ing of her ancestor (the sun) and as the
fod of day ascended into the east his
rst rays fell upon the figure of the
sacred priestess, which circumstance
was hailed by the worshipers as a rec
ognition of 'sympathy and acknowl
edged relationship"between the real sun
and his queenly representative. The
Chippewa tribe formerly inhabited the re
gions around Lake Superior.and its coun
cil house and the seat of the eternal nre
were west of the Keewenaw Point. Here
lived the principal Chief, called the
Mutchakewis, who exercised more au
thority and assumed more state than
would be compatible with the present
feelings of the Indians. The designa
tion was official, not individual, ana the
office was hereditary in the direct malej
line. He was supported by voluntary;
contributions, his muskinewa or "pro
vider" making known his necessities
from time to time by public proclama
tion. Whatever was required on these
occasions, either of food or clothing,
was immediately forthcoming. Ho ap
pears to have been the chief priest, and
could not engage in war or hunting. In
the village where he resided, and near
his cabin, the eternal fire was kept burn
ing. The altar was a kind of rude oven,
over which no building was erected.
Guardians were selected oy the Mutche
kewis to take charge of the fire; two of
these were men and two women. They
were all married, but the wives of these
men employed in this service were re-
Juired to cook and do the necessary
omestic service, while the husbands
of the women engaged in the sacred
duties were always engaged in hunt
ing, and providing whatever else was
wanted. The persons devoted to the
altar were thus left without any secular
cares to divert their attention from the
holy trust committed to them. A per
petual succession was kept up in the
Eriesthood by a prerogative of the
lutchekewis and the principal head
women, the former selecting a husband
and the latter a wife for the services
whenever either of these eight persons
died. The chain was thus always un
broken and traditionary rights trans
mitted unimpaired. Death was the
penalty for any neglect of duty, and
was indicted without delay and without
mercy. The council fires "were lighted
at the great fire and carried wherever
the council was held. After the termi
nation of the business a portion was
carefully returned and the remainder
extinguished. Whenever a person be
came dangerously ill, if not too far dis
tant, he was taken to the house of the
Mutchekewis, where his fire was extin
guished and a brand taken from the al
tar, the fire rekindled, at which a feast
was prepared. A great dance was held
and the viands consumed. It is
stated as a fact that a patient
seldom failed to recover. Once m
eight vears the whole Chippewa tribe
assembled at their principal village
about the season of the buds." Ejariy
in the morning the great pipe was
lighted at the sacred fire, and delivered
to the Mutchekewis. He took one puff
and then delivered it to the women,
and by them to the men, who each in
turn smoked it in the same brief but
solemn manner. It was then passed to
the children. This ceremoi-y occupied
the greater part of the day. Early on
the following morning a feast was held,
at which the men, women and children
silently ate in separate groups, and in
the evening of the second day they de
parted for their different villages. " The
fire was called Kangagerskoote, or tht
everlasting fire. The legends told in
connection with this curious custom
are not a few, many of them being of a
highly romantic and poetic nature.
nat led to the discontinuance of this
custom, which had such a firm hold
upon the religious or superstitious feel
ings of the wilil tribes, is one of the
mysteries that 1ms never yet been ex
plained. But tKcre is not known on
the North American continent to-day
any people or tribe who practice in any
form this custom of the orientals.
J. M. Jiulkley, in Interior.
IN PARIS.
Giddy BUI Nye's Olerv:itiotm on the Uay
l'reiit'h Capital.
There mav be more beautiful sights,
perhaps, than the quiet beauty of tho
French capital sleeping iu the moon
light on the Seine, but I do not re
member at this moment what they are.
Looking down from the mighty for
tifications to where nearly, two million
warm-hearted, hot-headed, loyal and
yet rebellious, peaceful and still bel
ligerent people are slumbering, what
memories of blood and riot and " ruin
come trooping up in the brain of the
beholder. Again the air seems filled
with the wild roar and rush of tho
riotous canaille, the beautiful boule
vards run red with French blood, and
the glorious architecture of forgotten
centuries crumbles and yields to tho
mad tide of revolution and revenge.
From the early days of infant Paris,
known then as Lutetia Parisorum, when
the French eapital was simply an out
fitting point, down to the days when
she dictated to the world in the matter
of National debts and overskirts, we
trace the wonderful career of the great
city. Again we see Caesar rebuilding
the city. In fancy we see him being
about with his coat off and his red
suspenders Hashing in the warm south
ern sun. His noble head is thrown
back proudly and across the horizon of
his pantaloons there is a dash of pale
light that shows where he sat down iu
the mortar-bed near where the Pavillion
de Saltpeter now stands. Rapidly the eye
sweeps down the Seine from the
Louvre, along the Tuileries, the Rue
Rivoli and the Rue Folderol, to where
the glistening mass of the Vendome
de Charlotte Russe raises its pale
facades. Iu the foreground stands the
Hotel des Invalides, an imposing pile,
crowned with a gilded dome one
hundred and five meters high. Im
mediately under it stands the sarcoph
agus of Napoleon I. This sarcophagus
was first used by Napoleon. He was
proud and exclusive about his sarcoph
agi, refusing to use a second-hand
sarcophagus.no matter how cheaply he
could procure it.
Moving toward tho background, we
come suddenly upon tho Bourse, the
imposing coup d'etat, the Palais des
Beaux-Arts, the Bon-Bon, and the
Champs de Dofunny. Farther on rests
the Grand Boulevard de Parleyvoo,
silent and abandoned, while down the
river farther, and still beyond the Palais
de Liverj- Stable, stands tho historic
Rue de Crazy Woman's Fork.
How fresh in my memory still rests
the picture of Paree, and what a pleas
ure it is, again and again to bring back
its tender outlines. Imperfect though
this pen picture may be, I know it will
be read with much pleasure by those
who see it and if there should, at first
blush, appear to be a vagueness, and,
as it were, an incompleteness in the
description, I hope tho gentle reader
will bear in mind that Tie Siding,
Wyoming, ibout the nearest I ever
got to Paree, and with a broken leg
and the long, damp walk that stretcher
out between myself and France, I am
afraid that I may be delayed in reach
ing there this fall.
My next letter will be from Rome.
For a cripple I intemd to see as much
of Europe this fall as possible. Denver
Opinion.
There are about 100,000 colo;tl
Roman Catholics In tho country.
FIRST
National Bank !
Authorized Capital, -Paid
In Capital,
Sirplns and Profits, -
$250,000
50,000
6,000
OFFICERS AND DIRKCTOR8.
A. ANDERSON, Pres't.
SAM'L C. SMITH, Vice Pres't.
O. T. ROEN, Cashier.
J.W.EABLY,
HERMAN OEHLRICH,
W. A. MCALLISTER,
O. ANDERSON,
P. ANDERSON.
Foreign and Inland Exchange, Passage
Tickets, ana Real Estate Loans.
aO-vol-18-ly
COAL LIME!
J. E. NORTH & CO.,
DEALERS IN
Coal,
Lime,
Cement.
Eoek Sping Coal, $7.00 per ton
Carbon (Wyoming) Coal 6.00 "
Eldon (Iowa) Coal 5.00 "
Blacksmith Coal of best quality al
ways on hand at low
est prices.
North Side Eleventh St.,
COLUMBUS, NEB.
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BECKER & WELCH,
PROPRIETORS OF
SHELL CREEK MILLS.
MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLE
SALE DEALERS IN
FLOUR AND MEAL.
O FFTCK. COL UMB US, NEB.
SPEICE & NORTH.
General Agents for the Sale of
REAL ESTATE.
Union Pacific, and Midland Pacific
R. R. Lands for sale at from $8.00 to $10.00
per acre for cash, or on five or ten years
time, in annual payments to suit pur
chasers. We have also a 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 title to all real es
tate in Pltte County.
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COLUMBUS. NEB.
UNION PACIFIC
LANDFFICE.
Improved and Unimproved Farms,
Hay and Grazing Lands and City
Property for Sale Cheap
AT THE
Union Pacific Land Office,
On Long Time and low rate
of Interest.
t3TFInal proof made on Timber Claims,
Homesteads and Pre-emptions.
J3TA11 wishing to buy lands of any de
scription will please call anil examine
my list of lands before looking elsewhere
K57A1I having lands to sell will please
call and give me a description, terms
prices, etc.
J3TI alio. am prepared to insure prop
erty, as I have the agency of several
first-class Fire insurance companies.
V. W. OTT, Solicitor, speaks German .
S4.VIIEL C. SMITH,
30-tf Columbus, Nebraska.
LOUIS SCHREIBER,
All kinds of Repairing done on
Short Notice. Buggies, Wag
ons, etc., made to order,
and all work Guar
anteed. Also sell the world-famous Walter A
Wood Kowers, Beapers, Combin
ed Machines, Harvesters,
and Self-hinders the
best made.
"Shop opposite the " Tattersall," on
Olive St., COLUMBUS. 26-m
BuMWauer
PLUMSOTTLE-'S ADVENTURE.
Ha Relates It to to Appreciative Audi
ence In Aastln.
Tom Plumbottle had just returned to
Austin from a brief visit to New York,
and was relating his experience and ad
ventures to a few select friends in the
back room of a saloon.
'Those gangs of roughs must bo
pretty bad in New York," remarked
Gilhooly.
"Bad! Well, I should snicker to in
sinuate. Talk of Texas rowdies! They
are mero babes and sucklings com
pared with the thugs and burglars of
New York. They think nothing of
burglarizing a house in broad dayb'ght,
and murdering any of the inmates who
may be in their way."
I had no idea they were that dangor
ous," observed Gus De Smith.
"They have got the polico so badly
scared that they are afraid to make ar
rests. That's what makes the brigands
so bold. I had a narrow escape from
being murdered bv them mvself, while
E was in New York," said Plunibottle,
shaking his head, and looking as seri
ous as a candidate of whom a ten dollar
bill had been solicited by an impecuni
ous suffragan.
"You don't say so. Tell us all about
it," said Kosciusko Murphy.
"I occupied a small hall-room in one
of the most aristocratio streets of New
York, and thought I was perfectly se
cure from the murderous assaults of the
iiouse-breakers, but I was mistaken. I
did not get up as early as usual one
morning, as I was not feeling' well. I
had been out to supper with bwindolls,
of Austin, Tom Ochiltree, Bob Lowe, of
the Galveston News, and a few more
distinguished Toxans, and consequent
ly I was suffering from a severe attack
of bilious headache, to which I am sub
ject," continued Plumbottlo.
"Ahem!" remarked Gilhooly.
"While I was trying to recall some
of the incidents of the previous evening,
and more particularly a conversation I
had with Colonel Ochiltree about a sup
per he once gave fo tho Prince of Wales
and tho Prince Imperial of Franco, I
heard a strange noiso in the hall, as if
some heavv Dody was being dragged
across the floor. "I listened with bated
breath.''
"I can guess what you had baited
vour breath with if you were out with
Tom Ochiltree," remarked Gilhooly.
"Please don't interrupt him," said
Gus De Smith. "It's his own breath,
and he has a perfect right to bait it with
what he pleases. Go on, Plumbottle;
we want to hear about your narrow
escape."
"It was no joking matter, I assure
vou," continued Plumbottlo, "for as I
listened with bated breath, I heard a
man say: 'She is too heavy entoirely.
It's sorry I am that I had anything to
do wid her,' and pretty soon another
voice replied: 'Turn her over on her
side, and may be we can lift her thin.' "
"This is getting interesting," re
marked Gusl)e Smith, leaning over.
"Did you have your pistol?"
"I never travel without my arms,"
resumed Plumbottle; "so without tak
ing time to make my toilet, I took my
pistol and listened again, attired as I
was in my short-stop clothes. The
burglars were still there, for I could
hear them trying to lift the body, for
one of them said: 'Turn her up on her
back, Pat, and lift her up at the other
end, for she is squazing tho loife out of
me.' I knew that the stout German
lady, who lived on the floor above, had
been murdered for her mone', and the
burglars were removing the body to the
cellar to conceal it."
The hearers had become interested in
Plumbttle's narrative. They leaned over
towards him with protruding eyes and
open mouths. Even their drinks re
mained untouched.
"I silently cocked my revolver and
unlocked the door. I heard a voice say:
Turn her over on her back and take off
her legs.' I knew that the moment had
arrived for action. The assassins, in
order to more easily dispose of her body,
were going to dismember the fat wom
an. Gentlemen, I tell you it was a try
ing moment," and Plifmboltle paused.
"Uid you shoot?"
"Was the woman dead?"
'Gentlemen," resumed Plumbottle,
"I did not shoot. The woman was not
dead.for when I stepped out into the hall,
she was standing on the landing above,
watching the Irishmen bring up one of
those square pianos. One ot the Irish
men, who was unscrewing the legs of
the piano, offered me a dime if I would
help them cam' her, the piano, up the
Stan's. If it had been the fat woman
instead of a piano they were carrying off",
I expect I would have been murdered
in cold blood, and never have been
heard of afterwards," said Plumbottle.
"I wish, then, it had been the wom
an," said Gilhooly, with a disgusted
took.
"You are a fraud, and no gentleman,"
.iaid Gus De Smith, draining his glasss
and going off.
"I believe the whole thing is one of
Colonel Ochiltree's yarns," said Mur
phy. 'I would not have been deceived if
the Irishman carrying the piano had not
referred to it as a female, but that's not
my fault. How could I suppose it was
a piano when they talked about turning
her over on her side and lifting her up
at the other end?"
"Charge these drinks up to Mr. Plum
bottle," said the crowd as they passed
out. Texas Sif tings.
THE WONDERFUL MOTHER.
A Large Brown Bear Which Took Care of
a Little Savoyard Bojr.
The winter of the year 1709 was one
of extreme cold. Never was a colder
winter known in Europe. In France
many people froze to death in their
beds, not only among the mountains,
but even in the villages and cities.
The hottest fire was not sufficient to
keep a room warm. While the stoves
were red hot, the water would freeze
but a few feet from them. The trees in
the forest and by the roadside became
so frozen that some of them burst, and
made a noise as if a small mine had ex
ploded. Sparrows and crows and jackdaws
sometimes fell down dead while flying
in the air. Large flocks of sheep and
cattle froze in the barn yards. The
bats, which usually sleep during the
wintei", were awakened out of their
torpid slumbers, fluttered around a lit
tle while, and fell dead on the ground.
The deer in the forest could no more
run swiftly, but crept slowly out of the
woods and came near the dwellings of
men. Finally spring came, and a mul
titude of them were found dead in the
woods. The little lakes and brooks and
rivers, after they ad been thawed by
tbe sun, emitted a very unpfeasant
odor, because nearly all the fish in them
had besen frozen to 'death. The people;
suffd-cd from extreme poverty, Tor tho
cold had destroyed many of their means'
of support. Tho wheat that had been'
sown in the autumn, their sheep, fowls,'
fish and vegetables that had been buried
in the ground, were completely destroy
ed by the frost.
During this winter a poor little Savoy
ard boy was wandering in the streets
of Luneville, in Lothringia. He was a
Eitiablo orphan. His older brother, who
ad taken care of him, had now gono on
a message to the city of Nancy to earn
a few francs. But he suffered the fata
of many travelers, and was frozen to
death. Many of the passengers on tho
stage and on horseback were frozen to
death, though covered with furs and
cloaks. Tho drivers lost their lives, and
still held tho reins in their stiff hands.
Tho little Savoyard boy wandered
about from house to house to get a little
employment or a piece of bread. Ho
was glad to blacken boots orshoes, dust
clothes, clean dishes in the kitchen or
do anything that would givo him a sou.
But when night camo on hi3 suffering
became intense. He had slept with his
brother in a carpenter shop, where the
two had covered themselves with an old
foot cloth, on which they piled shavings
very high. Thev lay very close to
gether, and by tnis means managed to
be protected from tho severity of tho
cold. But now ho was alone, and he
would cortaialy freeze if ho should at
tempt to sleep" in the carpenter shop.
The wifo of tho hostler took compassion
on him. She showed him a little sleep
ing placo in ono of tho stalls in tho
stable where the horses of a certain
Princo wero kept. In this stall there
stood an iron cago in which a largo
brown bear was confined; for the beast
was very wild and angry. Tho little
Savoyard boy, who had come in the
darkness of tho night into the stable,
neither knew nor cared for any wild
beast that might bo near by. He lay
down upon some straw and stretched
out his hand to pull more. As he
stretched out his hand he put it be
tween tho wires of tho cago in which
the beast was, and found that a large
pile was thero. Thinking it better to
get in where tho straw was, ho crawled
up to tho cage and squeezed in through
the iron bars. Tho bear grumbled a
little, but did no violence. She took
the little stranger between her paws and
pressed him near her warm breast and
against her thick skin so softly and
comfortably that ho who had not slept
for many nights with any comfort now
forgot all fear and soon fell into a sweet,
deep sleep.
In the morning tho boy waked rap
with renewed strength and crept out of
the cage and went forth to the city to
attend to his business and seek his
daily bread. At night he returned to
his strange mother. Beside the bear
thero lay a great many pieces of bread
which had been brought from the table
of tho Prince; but the bear had eaten all
sho wanted, and these wero left. So
the Savoyard helped himself to all ho
needed. He then lay quietly down
between the paws of his thick-clad
mother, who pressed him to her as she
had done before; and he slept thero as
if iu the warmest feather bed.
In this way he spent live nights with
out anybody knowing it. On the morn
ing of "the sixth night he overslept him
self, so that when the hostlers went
around with lanterns in the early morn
ing to attend to tho many horses in the
stable, they saw the boy lying between
the paws of tho great bear. The old
bear grunted a little as if she was very
much offended at any one seeing her
taking care of her little favorite. The
boy sprang up, and squeezed through
the cage, to the great astonishment of
the bystanders.
The strange affair became widely
known, and created much wonder
throughout the city. Good Words.
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THE CHINESE CABINET-MAKER.
A SIrapIe-MImlod Fellow- IVlio Was Easily
Flattered !v a Kusslan.
I noticed a door and a window in a
courtyard with a very original lattice.
I had succeeded in getting a few similar
ones, and when time failed me I rubbed
black all over a sheet of paper and then
applied it to the lattice, thus obtaining
a faithful life-size copy. The Chinese
paper being strong, although fine, was
eminently suitable to tlm sort of draw
ing, and also copying inscriptions on
stones or walls. Not having any such
paper about me I begged a Chinese to
go and fetch some for me, which ho did
with alacrity, and when J explained
what I was going to do, ho fan and got
me a stool that I might reach the win
dow with greater facility. Some of them
held it all the time for me, and when
they inquired why I was doing this, I
told them that the design was very
beautiful, and that I desired to have a
window like it in my own house. This
pleased and flattered them greatly, and
to enhance the merits of their town they
totd me the artist was a native cabinet
maker; some of them even ran to fetch
him. I complimented him on his work,
but he was very modest about it. I then
tore a sheet of paper out of my note
book, and, to leave him a remembrance,
sketched my own. likeness and offered it
for his acceptance. The onlookers rec
ognized the drawing and uttered ex
clamations of approval. The cabinet
maker ran oft" with it greatly delighted,
accompanied by a crowd of admirers. I
only mention this fact to prove how easy
it i3 to disarm the distrust and hostility
of a Chinese crowd. A Russian through
China.
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Elk-Hunting in Ceylon.
The finest sport in Ceylon 13 elk
hunting on the hilb, which arc five
thousand to seven thousand feet above
the sea level. The hounds are a mixed
pack, comprising four or five couple of
English fox-hounds, three couple of
mixed breed, and some "seizers viz:
a thoroughbred Scotch dcerhound, a
strong greyhound, perhaps a kangaroo
hound, and crosses of these breeds with
mastiff and bloodhound. After an elk
has been found the run is very fast, and
it is generally impossible to keep near
up with the hounds. Occasionally ono
of these is snapped up bv a leopard
lurking on the hillside. When at last
the elk comes to bay, it is generally in
a strong-flowing water course, and the
seizers then rusu in, aided by the hunt
ing men, whose only weapon appears to
be the knife, with which the quarry is
stabbed as he faces his four-legged
foes. The elk weighs sometimes as
much as fonr hundred pounds clear,
and it is a pleasant reward for a run
which lasts usually two hours or more.
Chicago Tribune.
A Tennessee man bad to be hanged
before he could be convinced that there
was any law in this country to punish a
man for killing his wife's poor relations
There are 546 lady missionaries in
India.
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.
Education is on tho increase. Thero
aro twenty-two public schools in Al
turas County, Idaho.
Over 10,000 copies of the Biblo
have been printed every day for the last
thirty-four years. N. Y. Tribune.
The real object of education is to
give children resources that will endure
as long as life endures. Sydney
Smith
At Bowling Grceu, Ky., it is neces
sary for tho churches to tako out boarding-house
licenses before they can givo
charitable suppers.
A frame school-houso in tho Cats
Kill Mountains, which is used for
church purposes, is papered with pict
ures from illustrated papers published
during the rebellion. Troy Times.
Since he has attained his majority,
in 1868, tho Duke of Norfolk has, ir
ons wav or another, given moro than
$2,500,000 to the Roman Catholic
Church, besides princely sums devoted
to private charities.
The Superintendent of the Phila
delphia Public Schools declares that 96,
000 children of that city aro growing up
without schooling. At least 20,000 ot
them, he thinks, do not go to school be
sause there is no room for them.
Tho schoolmaster who sat down on
largo disk of shoemaker's wax, which
the boys had placed in his chair, stuck
to business very closely. In fact, ho
stuck there until about cigiit o'clock in
tho evening. Burlington Free Press.
A good old Congregational pastor
used to say that there is a town officer
mentioned in the New Testament to
whom he had been moro indebted than
to almost any other man: "tho town
clerk of Ephcsus, who Actsxix. 35 ad
rised 'to do nothing rashly.' "
At the recent examination of Rev
M. C. Stebbins for the pastorale of tha
church at Cornwall, President Hamlin
inquired if we have the right to fix tha
Bible over to suit ourselves; to which
the candidate replied: "I am accus
tomed to look upon the Bible as in
tended to fix us over." Rociester Ex
press. The New York Freeman's Journal
does not believe that convent schools
should be fashionable resorts merely for
the young ladies of rich parents. It
says: "There is no necessity for convent
schools unless they semi put into tho
world Christian gentlewomen. If they
become servile to wealth, they should
close their doors to pupils and take in
the poor and tho sick."
Many of tho country school-houses
in Europe have gardens attached to
them, says Prof. Lanz. This is espec
ially true of Germany, Switzerland, Bel
gium, Holland and Denmark. Theso
gardens are used not only for ornament
and to grow vegetables for the use of
the teacher and liis family, but they also
servo a purpose in the work of instruc
tion. Children in these schools aro
generally taught the elements of agri
culture and horticulture, and these gar
dens are used to illustrate lessons and
to try experiments.
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WIT AND WISDOM.
Au ounce of keep-your-mouth-snut
Is better than a pound of explanation
after you have said it.
" Oh, for the wins of a dove," sho
uang as she was puzzling her brains as
to what new ornament ,he liouId put
upon her bonnet. Yunkers Statesman.
A more glorious victory can not bo
gained over another man than this, that
when the injury began on his part, for
the kindness to begin on ours. N. Y.
Ledger.
A little boy whose sprained wrist
had been relieved by bathing in whis
ky surprised his mother by asking:
" Did papa sprain his throat when ho
was a boj-?" Troy 'Times.
3 "It's proof of the singular operation
of tho human mind," says a mental
philosopher, "that when two men ac
cidentally exchange hats tho one who
gets the worst tile is always the first to
discover the mistake."
They have a man named Pyle ont
in St. LouLs who drives a horse-car. A
horse-car under the guidance of a pile
driver is certainly an innovation, and
there is probably plenty of punching
done on the car and possibly soma
lo;r-rollinjr. Boston 'Times.
A fathcr-in-Iaw at a wedding at
tempted to chaff tho room : "Iiiopo
now, sir, that you will not rct into any
more scrapes." "No," said the new-son-in-law,
"I shall not have a chance ;
I shall never get out of this one."
Providence Nctcs.
The Crazy Quilt!
7b, can you ceo by the dawn's early llfjlit.
Whut you fuileil to perceive at t!i tuillKht'
itut gleaming:
A cranky concern that through the long night.
O'er the bed where j ou slept wa3 so Mtucily
streaming?
The silk patches so fuir.
Hounii. thrcb-corued and square.
Give proof that the Itiuatiebed-ouilt is there.
Oh, the crazy-quilt mania triumphantly raves.
And maid, wifo nnd widow are bound aa 1M
slave.
D. T. Highmore.
I was told a good story the other
day about a Griswoid street lawyer. In
the dead of out; dreadful hot August
night he was awakened by a noise in his
bedroom. Hastily sitting up in bed to
find out who the intruder could possibly
be, he was confronted with a revolver
in the hands of a burly burglar. " I'm
looking for money, I am, ' hissed the
burglar, " so you'd better keep still."
"Oh! say, holil on," said the lawyer,
"lemmo'get mv pants on and I'll help
you hunt for it." Detroit Free Press.
Mrs. Jarply to husband: How
could you stay out at the club until after
one o'clock in the morning and leave
your wife all alone? Mr. Jarply: You
must be mistaken, my dear; it was
only half-past eleven o'clock, or so.
Mrs. Jarply: You can't deceive me; I
was awake, and looked at the clock.
Mr. Jarply, in a deeply injured tone:
Well, Amandy, I've nothing more to
say, if you will believe a ninety-fivo
cent nlckle-plated nutmeg clock, in
stead of jour own married husband.
N. Y. Independent.
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The Word " Woman."
Men often misuse not only women,
ays a contemporary, but the word
"woman." The husband who speaks
of his wife as his "woman" is a hog.
The man who goes out with his wife and
registers her as his "lady" is abusive,
though he may not know it. The man
who goes out with several women should
not say that he is with a lot of women,
but that he accompanies ladies. This
includes his wife and all others in tho
company- It i- proper to say good
morning, good evening, or good night,
"ladies," but it would be boorish to say
good-night "women." Treat your
wife as your wife, with love, respect and
manly attention. Treat all women as
ladies, as retired, lovable women, as by
so doing you prove yourself to be tha
))vc or of ge .tlcmanly qualities.
8ir I iv . ir,.y.j ChivilicU.