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:'& THE JOURNAL. ISSUED XYBBY WEDNBSDAY, M. K. TURNER & CO. Proprietor and PablUheri. !Wmm OF AOTsWTssBtl-fC; tdsTBasinsM and professionalcards of live lines or less, per anaass, five dollars. Js7 For time advertisements, apply at this office. tTTisgal advertisements at statute rates. BTTor transient advertising-, as rates on third page. a3TAll advertisements payable monthly.. 'OFFICE, Eleventh St., up ttair in Journal Building. TB.RMS: Peryear SIxraonthi Three moothi Single copies-. VOL. XVI.-N0. 24. COLUMBUS, NEB.. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 7, 1885. WHOLE NO. 804. (ulumks til wm COLUMBUS STATE BANK! C0LUMIU8, VII. CASH CAPITAL, - $75,000 DIRECTORS: Lea. deb Gebbabd, Pres'i. Geo. W. Uulst, Vice Preft. Julius A. Reed. R. H. Henbt. J. E. Taskbu, Cashier. Bsmlc r epelt, alscsrr- wlm. ExchKBge. Collect! PrtBiplly e 11 Pelatn. Wmj laterent Time lepM It. . HENRY G-ASS, COFFINS AND METALLIC CASES AMD DBALBR IN Farnltnre, Chain, Bedsteads). reaua, Tables. Safes. Xioangaa, Ac Piotura Frame and Mouldings. t3Bepairlng qf all kind of Upholstery Goods. 6-tf COLUMBUS. NK. DBALBB IN CHALLXNQ WIND MILLS, AND PUMPS. Buckeye Mower, combined, Self Binder, wire or twine. Piaus Repaired inart ttiee gdVOae door went of lleintx's Drug Store,' lltb Street. ColunihUd, Neb. 8 THE BEST boou ever bestowed uikmi man is perfect health, jiud the true way to injure health I to purify our blood with Ajer'a Sarsa pai ilia. Mrs. Eliza A. Clouh. 34 Arliug tou fct., Lowell. Mass., writes: "Every winter nud spring my family, including myself, Use scleral bottles if Ajers Sar aparilla. Experience has eouviueed me Uiat, us a powerful Blood purifier, it is ery much s-uperior to any other preparatiou of S.nraparilla. All leious of scrofulous or consumptive trn deuries, and especially delicate children, are jiure to be greatly beuefited by It um." J. VT. Starr, Lacoaia, lowu, writes: For j ears I was troubled with Scrofu lous complaints. I tried seeral different preparations, which did me little, if auy, good. Two bottles of Avert Sarsapa villa effected a complete cure. It I my opinion tkr this mcdiclDo Is the beat blood Purifier of the day.' C. E. Upton. Nashua, X. II., writes: "For a number of jears I was troubled with a humor in my cje, and unable to obtain relit-r until I com tueuced usiug Ayer's Sarsapariila. I bae taken scleral bottles, am greatly beue Bted, aud believe it to lc the best of blood purifiers." 1. Harris Creel City, Uamey Co., Dakota, write.: "I hae been an intent sufferer, with Dyspepsia, for the pat three years. Six month ago I began to use AYER'S Sarsaparilla It has effected an entire cure, aud I am now as well a ever. Sold by all Druggists. Price $1; Six bottles, 95. Prepared by Dr. J. C. Aver & Co., Lowell, Mas., U. S. A. A VOntl OF WAKXIXa. FARMERS, stock raisers, and all other intere-ted parties will do well to remember that the "Western Ilorso and Cattle Insurance Co." of Omaha Is the enly company doing business in this state that Insure Horses, Mule and Cattle against loss by theft, accidents, diseases, er injury, (a also against loss by nre and lightning). All representations by agents of ether Companies to the contrary not withstanding. P. W. HEXRICll, Special Ag't, 15-y Columbus. Neb. LYON&HEALY 9sste4MeafMSts.. ImivnaUunrU IAMB) CATALQPUC iMkMnta. Balk. Cap L fWIUM. UL Dram laM9tV Saar M4 OatkK farAa Utah jtawiWfciEBWBsy, 1 ehSaBW Bssm' suSt ' jgg k .BfBfn aaa 4a- UUL WVtttm THE FARMER'S LIFE. The farmer leads no E Z life; The C D sows will rot: And when at V rests from strife His bones all A K lot. . In DD has to struggle hard ToBK lrtlBfout; B I C frosts do not retard His crop there'll B A drought. The hired L P has to pay Are awful A Z. too; They O K rest when he's away Nor N work will do. Both N Z oau not make to meet And then for A D takes Sosae boarders who so BT eat 'aKno money makes. Of little U O tnds this life; Sick In old A O lies; The debts he O Z leaves his wife And then In P C dies. H. C. Dodge in Detroit Free Press. A MODERN PABIAH. BOW Commendable Ambition Found Its Own Reward. ! s'pose you'll have to come and taj with me, now. Lisbeth, yer father's gone an yer brother Joe bio an got merred." The speaker was a tall, gaunt woman, whoae expressionless face seemed cut out of solid rock, without one softened line, even in this hour of trial. Lisbeth Morton looked up quickly. "No, thank you, aunt Rachel, you hare no work for me, I am sure, and I should not like to be a burden. I am going to the city, and intend to get a situation as house maid. I'll work a little cheaper than the others do, if I can have time to go to the Art School one day in the week and some of the evenings." Going out to service?" the hard voice answered, sneeringlv. "It's just like you, anyway; you always was cranky; out I didn t think my brother's darter ud stoop so low. What '11 Jim Down ing say?" 'I haven't asked him," replied the girl.with a pourd lifting of her head and a vivid color in her cheeks. "Well, you'd better," advised Aunt Rachel, "and if he doesn't put his foot down on that, my name ain t Rachel Jones, that's all." "I shall doas I think best for myself," answered Lisbeth very quietly, and left the room to attend to some household duties. The gray evening came slowly on. Brother Joe and his new wife took Aunt Rachel to her dreary home on their way to spend the evening with a neigh bor. Lisbeth sat down to her sewing with fast beating heart, listening at in tervals for a step she knew so well, that might at any moment be heard on the gravel walk beneath the window. She had not long to wait, for a gentle knock was followed by a quick opening of the door in country fashion, and a young man, with close-cropped yet dark-curling hair entered without further cere mony. He took her hand and attemped to draw her down to a chair beside him. but she sprang lightly up under pre tense of turning down the wick of the lamp for fear it might crack the glass, and then seated herself on the opposite side of the fire-place. Yet the tones of her voice were tender, even trembling as she talked of every day affairs; at last with some hesitation she said : " I wanted a chance to tell you that I am going to the city to stay." The young man looked surprised, and there was a protest in his voice as he said: "Why, Lisbeth, isn't it rather sudden? You surely don't mean to stay?" "Yes I do," she answered, drearily. "I'm not wanted here. Maria takes my place already and it's right she should, but it cuts me up dreadfully, I've been head of the house, and all Joe had to depend on so long I can't get used to it "It is only till next year," he pro tested. "Then my apprenticeship is finished, ami you might take me for better and for worse.'" There was a minute's pause, and then she spoke slowly but with an air of con viction. "I couldn't, my clothes would wear out; my temper would be soured; I should not be worth taking. 1 am not fit for anything but housework, father never thought it mattered for girls. Now I must begin my life and it will be hard at first But I have just got so far with my studies in art I want to get further, so I shall get a housemaid's place, and can save over $100.00 by the time you She never finished her sentence, for he broke in "You, a servant Lisbeth Morton you will not degrade yourself so." "I do not think it degrades me, trying to earn an honest living, anymore than if I was a dress-maker or music teacher," she answered with spirit His faee paled with passion, his dark eyes glowed. "If you go to service I have done with you," he said finally." "You have, James Downing!" said Lisbeth in cool, calm tones, "and there is the door good evening." His manner changed. "Oh, Lisbeth, be persuaded," he said imploringly, with a sound as of tears in his voice. But she shook her head and did not peak, as he picked up his cap and fum bled for the latch, evidently blind with grief and anger. Neither of them re membered in after years just how they parted, but the sad break never healed, and during the weeks that she remained at the old homestead, Lisbeth did not again meet her old lover. Miss Arabel la Downing was strong in her denuncia tion of the young girl's project "To think our Jim had an idea of marrying her once," she said in a moment of con fidence, a common servant It's a shame for her. She might have taken in sewing, or trimmed hats, or had a strawberry bed, that's fashionable now. anything but that, well, she's lost caste any way and Jim will likely marry Amelia Blakely, who has a little'money, though she isn't as pretty as Lisbeth Morton. But then beauty's only skin deep anyway," which must have been a consolation to her if her glass was faith fuL And so in this small village, where every one did their own house work, where every farmer's wife was nurse, seamstress, housemaid, cook," all in one, our little forlorn girl was an outcast from society because she chose to do whatever her hands found to do welL Aunt Rachel, in afitof spasmodic generosiiy, made for her twelve large aprons, of the coarsest crash fowling, suitable for a scullery maid in her pot washing moments, and Lisbeth thanked her for them with a good grace. But all these petty trials made the parting .from the old home less severe, and it was almost with a sigh of relief that she basle farewell to her early associations. .aad after planting a rose bush on the Eves of her parents, stepped out into 4 world without further regret than '.to be so far from those grassy mounds. Mis. Lyster was a widow with two BBBUkTried daughters who were just out in society, and spent all the time they could spare from that arrogant mistress in the pursuit of art with a little music and embroidery that was also artistic. Maud was-notmore than "seventeen," but "tall and stately," with a hauteur of manner that was not so pleasant as the affectionate disposition of Mig non, the younger. They were good girls, brought up in a gay, thoughtless manner, without troubling their heads over any social problems. In fact they considered all women out of place who asserted their rights, and believed those socially beneath them to be of a differ ent caste altogether. "Isn't it curious, mamma?" said Maude, one morning, as she idly cut the leaves of the latest fash ion magazine. "Your new housemaid. Lisbeth, wears gloves, and such ("pretty ruffled aprons, and neat dresses. I wonder if she wants to save her hands, or what is the reason?" Mrs. Lyster smiled. "That is no fault my dear child, the girl does her work well, and is a treasure. She is rather superior and is ambitious, goes to the Art evening class, and gets one after noon in the week as well. I got her for two dollars a month less than the last maid on that account, and she is far more deft and handy." Maude looked her astonishment "The Art class! why she's only a housemaid, and it's really too bsd. Rene Lindsay and Tom Davis belong to that very class, if it is Prof. Pontelle's. I shall be very much surprised if they stay when they find out servants go there." "Nonsense," answered the mother, "it is no one's affair who goes, so long as they pay and are admitted. The gin is thoughful, and hopes to become an art teacher, by and by, she told me, and I am sure it is much nicer to have a girl with artistic tendencies; she dusts and arranges the parlors with exquisite tasto, every caller noticrs it, and thinks you girls do it for me; and she handles the choicest bric-a-brac carefully. I really never had such a faithful girl." So Lisbeth continued to attend the classes and worked m the early morn ings in her attic bed-room, as soon as daylight came in, and if her pictures were "skied," it mattered but little, for no one saw them but herself, and the glimpses of the early sunlight the first glow in the east that she watched in those working moods, formed a picture that always remained in her memory as long as me lasted. Lisbeth won the hearts of her fellow servants by many little acts of kindness, till Kitty, the parlor maid, told her one day in confidence that she was trying to study arithmetic and book-keeping, so as to take a situation in a store some day as saleswoman. "Could she make more money and be as comfortable?" Lisbeth ventured to ask. "No," answered Kitty, sturdily, "but I shall be treated as a human being in the house where I board, and bo inde pendent I don't mind the work, that's easy, but it's havisjg Miss Maude look at me as if I was a post, and talking to other girls about 'the servants,' as if we were not of the same Uesh and blood. She doesn't even wait till our backs are turned, but treats us like the dirt under her feet" and Kitty's democratic little head gave a toss of scorn as she spoke. Lisbeth often saw the young ladies busy with their desultory drawing, but they never seemed to consider her as a hu man being, with thoughts and feelings, or capable of observing. Her training in early life and at the Art School fitted her to be their companion in everything but money. Yet there was a great e ulf between them socially, because one ad to earn her daily bread by the labor ot her hands. Prof. Pontelle was very much inter ested in his quiet scholar; her grave, Kensive face, the deep thoughtfulness of cr pure gray eyes, reminded him of the wife ot his early manhood, who was taken from him during the first year of their married life. It was ten years ago that she died, and he had never since seen a woman on whom he cared to be stow a second glance; they were so frivolous, many of them, and studied art only for fashion's sake, forsooth, but this young girl seemed to enter into his , methods and understand his moods. He watched her closely; saw how lonely she appeared, and apart from the rest, even penetrated the feeling that was to be seen among some of his fashionable pupils, who seemed not to care about making any social advances toward her. Was she not their equal in position? He curled his lips in scorn. His own father had been a blacksmith and peasant be fore they left Europe; he was alone and could snap his fingers at the world if this sweet girl would consent to be his wife. And all the while Lisbeth labored on in silence; serene, ambitious and hopeful, determined to master the art of teaching as well as the teaching of art, and fit herself for more congenial em ployment Ihe closing of the summerterm came in June, and a reception was given to the pupils and their friends. The rooms were crowded; fashion smiled on anything artistic and delighted to honor me nanasome rrotessor who presided over the school. Foremost among the gay groups were Maud and Mignon Lyster who enjoyed such gatherings, but wished particularly to see and criticize Lisbeth's work. Af ter some music, it was announced that an essay would, as usunl, be read by one of the pupils, and when Lisbeth ap peared in her simple white dress, with no ornament but a bunch of pale roses at her throat and belt the audience listened attentively to her words. Calmly, and in rich, deep tones, she spoke of "Simplicity in art, ' and when the last eloquent words were said, was greeted with rapturous but well-bred applause. As she stood alone the pleased Professor gave her his arm and escorted her down the long room, stopping now and then to introduce her to some gentlemen who wished to con gratulate the fair essayist A few minutes passed in pleasant conversation, when suddenly there fell upon her ears the voice of Maude Lys ter, sharp and clear. "Didn't you know, Mr. Wilburn? why she is our hovsemaid. Mamma indulgently al lows her time to attend the evening school, but I think there ought to be rules to exclude that class." The young man addressed was a dandy of the first water, and put up his eye-glasses to stare at Lisbeth's pale face, but the Professor had heard the words, too, and he hurried her to a quiet corner, and procuring a cup of tea, gave it into her trembling hand, as he commenced an argument on the taste and culture of the age with a rival professor who stood near. The whispered insinuations of the thought less guest did not prevent the sensible part of the large-hearted crowd from congratulating Lisbeth upon her suc cess; her fair face and gentle demeanor favorably impressing the thoughtful artists who were assembled. And so the time passed, though a, sting had been planted in the young girl's heart that rankled sorely. "I wish to see you home," said the Professor, with a sudden imperious manner, when she spoke of leaving, and she folded her hands is her lap and quietly awaited the leave-taking of the rest It was over at last and he stood in the hall as she came out of the cloak room. The moon shone brightly, and the scent of roses was strong in the little park they had to cross to reach Mrs. Lyster's. Child, I want to know your history," ho said when they started, and in a few sentences she told him all, and he in turn talked of his lonely home, his dead Anna, and all his past "I have been loving you for a long time, my Lizbeth, but only to-night found cour age to speak." "But," she said, shivering in the warm, sweet air, "you can not marry ate I am only 'a housemaid.' " - He stopped and turned to her. "You are all the world to me," he said simply, "and I need you." Her clear, deep tones broke the. silence. "Then if you need me, my master, I must be yours, and with you I feel so safe." They had reached the front steps, he put his foot on one of them, "Not there," she said appealingly, "I go in by the area steps. Do you repent?" Her voice had taken a joyous ring, almost a laugh, and in the midst of her confes sion he kissed her with sudden passion. "There is no one to consult" he whispered, "and I shall come for you to-morrow. My heme is ready. Sister Greta will welcome you, she knows my Wfehes. Good night dear one." He was gone, and she entered the dark hall in a whirl of amaze. To be married to-morrow! Yet it seemed as if she had known him all her life, and now she remembered many things that roved he loved her; she had always olt that he was her friend; she would yield; heart and art would be safe in his keeping, and. as she groped her way towards the upper hall, the voice of Miss Maude called over the balustrade: "It's not proper, Lisbeth, to be talking te a young man and l&ughing on the area steps." "It shall not happen again. Miss," said Lisbeth, as she made her way for the last time to her attic studio. Annie L. Fack, in Woman' Magazine. MEXICO. The Average Wages Paid In Oar Neigh boring Republic. Consul-General Strolher reports from Mexico that the average wages in gen eral trades is from 60 cents to $3 per day, the highest sum being paid to bakers; in factories, mills, etc., from $4.50 to $25 per week; in foundries, machine-shops, and iron works, from $6 to 915 per week; in mines, from $4.50 to 950 per week, tho latter sum being given to directors and $6 being given to miners; to railway employes, from $3 to $35 per week, the latter sum being given to statioa-niastera; in stores and shops, from $4.50 to $25 per week, the latter being given to book-keepers; in house-holds, from $5 to $50 per month; on fanns, from $8 to $45 per month. The cost of living to the laboring class es is variable, Mr. Strother says: Their dwellings in the cities arc generally wantingin all the requirements of health and comfort mostly rooms on the ground floor without proper light or ventilation, often with but a single open ing (that for entrance), dirt lloors, and no drainage. These rent from $1 to $5 per month. The average cost of living (food and drink) for a laboring man in the city is about 25 cents a day; in the country, from 12 J to 18 cents.. The us ual clothing of the male laborer all over the republic consists of a shirt and pantaloons of manta, a domestic un bleached cotton cloth, a blanketof some woolen material, vegetable fiber, or rush matting. Hats are of straw or palm-leaf. If men are shod stall it is with sandals of raw-hide. The women are shod and hatted as tho men, but af fect gay colors in their petticoats and rebosas. The average annual cost of a man's dress is not over $5; that of a woman double that sum, with an unde termined margin for cheap jewelry. As a rule, none of the working classes has any idea of present economy, or of providing for the future. The lives of most of them seem to be occupied in obtaining food and amusement for the passing hour, without cither hope or desire for a better future. The mechanic is always wanting money in advance under the pretense of getting materials to enable him to fill your order; the la borer, to get something to eat before he begins your work. The pr2valent vices in Mexico are gambling, fighting, and drunkenness. State Department Re port. A SIMPLE REMEDY. Horseradish Leave as an Irritant Good for Emergencies. We have the leaves gathered before the frost touches them, strip out the hard stem through the middle, and lay them in a sunny window to dry. Then put up in a paper sack, mark the con tents plainly, tie the bag and hang it in some out-of-the-way place, yet not in the attic or so far away that one will forego the use of them rather than go after them, especially in the night or in severe cold weather. Any remedy for emergencies should be in a place con venient to reach. When wanted for use lay some leaves (which quite likely are broken, but no matter), upon an old plate or saucer, moisten with vinegar, and let them heat till soft; then place upon cloth or oil silk, and apply to the parts affected. It is a good plan to cover well to induce sweating, as well as to protect the clothing. If something more pungent than horseradish is needed, sprinkle a little dry mustard over the damp leaves before applying, and soon a moist grateful drawing upon the skin will be apparent In many cases where some simple remedy of the kind is required without resorting to the severe inflammation produced by blisters and mustard poul tices, there is nothing to our knowledge so efficacious as horseradish leaves. It b a sweating rather than a blistering process, soothing, even if a little burn ing, and is one of the few remedies which we are in the habit of using for little ailments. For pain and soreness in the head, put the horseradish leaves on the back of the neck, chauging if needful to produce sufficient irritation of the skin. If the pain is very severe, a little mustard on the leaves may pro duce more effect For soreness of the chest, pain in the side, faceache and toothache, this will often give relief, even if it may not cure, and it leaves no unpleasant effects behiad. Bettm Qlebe. riMT National Bank! COL Aitheriied Capital, Paid In Capital, Sirplas and Profits, $250,000 60,000 13,000 OFFICBBS AMD DIRECTORS. A. ANDERSON, Pres'f. SAM'L C. SMITH, Fiee 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. ,.-i. - . a9.vol.W-lT - 1TT8IJIE38 CABD8. D.T. M ABTYN, M. D. F. J. SCHUG, M. D. Dm. HARTYH 4b 8CHT7G, U. S. Examining Surgeons, Local Surgeon. Union Pacific, O., N. & B. H. and B. ft M. R. R's. Consultations in German and English. Telephones at office and residences), raroffice over First National Bank. COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA. 42-y C. 1. EVA KB, 91. D.. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. t3TOuli:e aud rooms. Oluck building, 11th street. Telephone commun cation. F. F. BtliiKKEst, XI. Dm HOM(EOPATHIST. ChresUo Diseases aad Diseases of Childrem a Specialty. E7Office on Olive street, three doors north of Fit National Bank. 2-ly W. 91. COREI.IUM, LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE. Upstairs Ernst building 11th street. C J. OAKLOW, Collection Att'y. SPECIALTY MADE OF BAD PAPER. Office with J. O. Higgins. 34-3m TT J. HUlsSOIV, NOTARY PUBLIC. 8th Street, i doors west of Haamoad Bease, Columbus, Neb. 401-y J CI. REEDER, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Office on Olive St., Columbus, Nebraska 2-tf 910IVEY TO LOAN. Five years' time, on improved farms with at least one-fourth the acreage under cultivation, In sums representing one third the fair value of the homestead. Correspondence solicited. Address, M.K.TURNER, S0.y Columbus, Nebr. V. A. MACKEN, DKALKR IN Foreign and Domestic Liquors anil Cigars. llth btreet, Columbus, Neb. 50-y Jl rcALMTER BROS., A TTORNEYS A T LA W, Office up.8tairs in lug. llth St. Y. A. Public. McAllister's build McAllister, Notary JOHN TIMOTHY, NOTARY PUBLIC AND CONVEYANCER. Keeps a full line of stationery and school supplies, and all kinds of legal form'. Iusures against fire, lightning, cyclone and tornadoes. Office in Powell's Block, Platte Centei . 19-x J. M. MACFAULAND, AtteraiT isl Hctiry Patfc. B. K. COWDKRY, Cellscter. LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE or MACFARLAND & Columbus, COWDBR7, Nebraska. J. J. MAUGHAM, Justice, County Surveyor, Notary, Land and Collection Agent. Bjf Parties desiring surveying done can notify me by mail at Platte Centre, Neb. 51-Cm T? ll.KlgtTlE, 'llth St., opposite Lindell Hotel. Sells Harness, Saddles, Collars, Whips, Blankets, Curry Combs, Brushes, trunks, valises, buggy tops, cushions, carriage trimmings, Ac, at the lowest possible prices. Repairs pn mptly attended to. TAMES SALnON, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER. Plans and estimates supplied for either frame or brick buildings. Good work guaranteed. Shop on 13th Street, near St. Paul Lumber Yard, Columbus, Ne braska. 526mo. R, H. LAWHE.UE, DEPUTY CO. SURVEYOR. Will do general surveying in Platte and adjoining counties. Inquire at the Court House. COLUMBUS, KKBBASKA. 17-tf JS. MURDOCH & SON, Carpenters and Contractors. Havenad 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 tunitytoestimateforyou. ygShop on 13th St, one door west of Frledhof A Co's. store, Columbus. Nebr. 483-v o. o. SHjsnsroisr MANUFACTURES OF Tin and Sheet-Iron Ware ! Job-Work, Hoofing and Gutter ing a Specialty. iSPShop on Olive Street, 2 rinnt north of lrodfeuhrer's Jewelry Store. G W. CLARK, LAND AND INSURANCE AGENT, HUMPHREY, NEBR. His lands comprise some fine tracts in the Shell nrilr Vallov anrl f ha nnrfk era portion of Plrtte countv. Taxes paid for Boa-residents. Satisfaction gvarsatesd. AN ENGLISH TRAIN. Ike Carriages and tke tVoeesBetlve ae Isanreas an Aaeerieaa Traveler. The first impression which an Ameri can who is experienced in railroad trav eling in his own country derives from the exterior aspect of an English train is unfavorable. The cars, as he must necessarily call them, seem to be small; they lack, apparently, the weight and solidity of the American passenger coach; the compartments are, narrow, the ceilings low, the ventilation appar ently doubtful. They stand upon two, three or more pairs of gaunt high wheels, to the axles of which their springs are directly geared. He misses the little independentvehicle, the truck or bogie, -with its four or six small, compact solid-looking, wide-flanged wheels, which sustains each end of the American car that rolling gear which looks so strong, so adapted to inequal ity of rail or curve, so resourceful against disaster and so complete in its equipment. The cars are small there is no doubt of it They are narrower and they are shorter, and to the Ameri can eye they look even shorter than they really arc, because they have no projecting platform at the ends, no overhanging roof or hood, but are buckled close up to each other, and their contact controlled by small metal butlers, the springs of which allow a play of from eighteen inches to two feet and a half between car and car. The Miller platform, the Janner coupler, the link and pin of all the familiar devices of the United States there is not one to be seen. The brakes? None visible. Nor, for the matter of that a brakesman. This influential and numerous person has no existence in England. Ihere is not even a rudi mentary type of him. That yeu do not find him is the first stern intima tion that you receive that in English railroading there are no autocrats. The wheels are fitted with brakes, how ever, and the trained eye notes a rub ber hose connected between the car riages, quite different in its application to that known at home, but which, nevertheless, betokens the air-brake. He takes account of the distinctions of class and reflects upon his country's veiled progress in that regard in the mutter of parlor cars and limited ex press trains. Then he finds that there is no baggage master to waft the vola tile Saratoga to its doom, as his own newspapers would express it There is perhaps a luggage van or two, or there are in the carriages themselves luggage compartments according to the way m which the train is made up, the length of journey it is to take or the custom of the particular line under observation. His final contemplation is perhaps devoted to the engine, and if he has ever given any of his attention to the American locomotive it fills him with a deep concern. He recalls the impos ing splendor of the latter, its comfort able and lofty cab of oiled and polished wood, its gay brass bell, the soul-stirring whistle, the noble head-light and the cow-destroying pilot the great cinder-consuming smokestack (unless it be a hard-coal burner, in which cose that feature shrinks to moderate pro portions.) the powerful drivers and compact cylinder, the eccentric con necting rods and all its parts radiant with the glitter of polished steel or un burnned brass or decked with appro priate vermillion or emerald green. In all of these matters the English locomotive compares with it much as a lawn-mower does with a New York fire engine. It is a humble, awkward green or monochromatic machine. It has neither polish or decoration about it There is no cab. The engineer and his firemen that is to say. the engine driver and his stoker, as they arc styled in England perform their duties with only .such shelter as is afforded by a board screen in front of them, pierced by two round apertures filed with stout glass, technically known as "specta cles." The smokestack is short and thick; there is an unsightly sreen hump on the back on the boiler; the cylinders are under the front of the latter instead of on each side before the drivers; the wheels are all large and the engine is Eerched high above them and looks top eavy and dangerous. The whole thing is rigid and stiff- looking, and to the observer who has had to do" with the external aspect of lo comotives it is unprepossessing and un lovely. The practical American engin eer whistles thoughtfully as he surveys it, and wonders to himself how Iong'it would be before he would ditch nis train if he had to run on a new Wes tern railroad with such an engine. Where would he be on a sharp curve or how would such a running-gear adapt itself to an unevenly ballasted track? Harper. Magazine. SWINDLING A TEXAN. How He waa Imposed Upon In a Metro- politwn Hotel. Major Sumpter McBride is a Texas gentleman who has been spending the summer in Now York. A few days ago he went to the landlord of his hotel in a state of great excitement He said: "The rascality that goes on in a big city like New York in just incredible, and the way strangers are taken in is perfectly scandalous. I've been here three'weeks, and without know ing it I have been swindled every day." "How did it come about?" asked the landlord. "You see there is a lemonade stand near the hotel, and every day I've been getting one or more glasses of lemon ade." "Wasn't it real lemonade?" "The lemonade itself was all right I'm not complaining of the quality of the lemonade, but the way the fellow who sells it gouged me." "How was he able to cheat you?" "Easiest thing in the world. You ee he has a sign up, LEMONADE, 3 & 5 CENTS. That means if he squeezes half a lemon in the glass it is three cents, and if he squeezes a whole lemon in, it is five cents. I didn't know this, and the man who keeps the lemonade stand, seeing that -I was from Texas, and hadn't been long in New York, asked me eight cents, and when I kicked he pointed to his sign, and said that 3 & 5 cents made eight cents, and I've been paying eight cents for a three cent glass of lemonade ever since Ive been in New York. I didn't find out my mistake until to-day. If I bad him out on a Texas prairie I'd make a per sonal matter of it. Texas Silings. A child that is taught to observe and to think is educated. The child that is taught to remember only is merely loaded as a pack-horse. He carries a ereat deaL but it docs aim little rood. GkicaoQ Interior. FRANK BUCKLANO. tees or the Late Plstlagslssisil Hasnrausc. At Winchester "Fat Buckland." after attaining the dignity of "rod-maker"' and "basin cleaner," was permitted to settle down to his chosen avocations. He made plum-puddings in his neck cloth and ate them; kept ferrets in his cupboard, and sometimes added a snake,, a mouse, a guinea-pig or a hedgehog to' his domestic establishment His rat. suppers were the despair of tho masters and the delight of the Chambers, and his maceration pots at Amen Corner, with heads of hares, rabbits and eats being reduced to skulls, something to be avoided. At Oxford "it was tho same. His rooms had "aa Oder of physical science about theta." They swarmed with living creatures, and bis breakfast tablo was alive with adders, dormice, tortoises and other disagree able things. -His pockets were ailed with slow-worms, and, as likely as not a harmless snako would be produced from the same quarter. TIglath Pile ser, his bear in cap and gown, grew to be such a scandal that when the ques tion came to be whether he or his mas ter should go "down," Tiglath was sent to Islip.with an eagle and a monkey which had also been rusticated, after scaring several tutors half out of their wits, and committing misde meanors which no Don could overlook. But the marmots still hiber nated in the cellar, and at Buckland's wine parties, a chameleon, which used to stand upon an inverted glass, with his tail round the stem, convulsed the I undergraduates, especially when it con Tcluded his performance by tumbling neau ioremost into the preserved ginger. At Giessen, toghich this-wayward un dergraduate wrtit in the Long Vacation, he studied chemistry with vigor, but wasfalways, as he was cverwhere, buying snakes, or frogs; or fishes, or storks, raising the wrath of the "Philistines" by letting his frogs croak in railway carriages, or by unwittingly allowing the red slugs which he was conveying to England to escape and crawl over the bald heads of the hapless sleepers in the same post-wagon. In London the ruling passion was never asleep, for whether as student or Guardsman, or Fishery Inspector, Buckland was as eager as ever in the study of nature. Nothing came amiss to ?him. His sympathies were un bounded, whether- it was for an owl with a broken leg, salmon who could not get'over a weir, birds in their mi grations, fish poisoned by factory re fuse, lobsters suffering under a ruthless herodiad, oysters over-dredged, or a weak-kneed'giaut who had to be taken out of a caravan and put in a better way of business. He was never weary of experimenting, casting and dissect ing. "Where's the surgeon?" de manded the Colonel of his regiment one day. "Inside your charger, your honor," was the sentry's prompt reply, and the ready laugh told that the sur geon was a privileged person. The charger had in fact died, and the sur geon was dissecting him. London Standard. A COLD WATER BOY. The llojr Who Drank tho Water Tank Dry A Railway Incident Last winter how pleasant it is to think of a time when it was cold enough for overcoats as we sailed down the J. M. and I. Railway, kno.wn among the native Hoosiers as the "Jeff" road, there were several things to look at. There were two dramatic troupes on board and a boy from Indiauapolis who had designs ou the water tank. He be gan drinking before we fairly got out of Indianapolis. He would drink as long as he could hold his brcath,and then put down the cup and sigh, and go back tj his seat When he felt a little rested he would march down to the tank again, and looking over the rim of the cup with an iujurcd expression as he drank, gaze at the passengers as reproachfully as though it was our fault that he couldn't hold a tubfull of water. Then he would sigh and go back to rest Then he'd come up again, a little bit groggy, but still in the ring, drink till the water stood in his eyes, and go back to re cuperate. Once or twice the brakeman drove him away from the tank. "Some body else might want a drink before we get to Madison," he said, "and any how, there was no coroner on the train if the boy should succeed in drowning himself." Still, the boy, eluding the vigilance of the careful brakeman, kept on drinking great quantities of aqua pura, with brief intervals for rest. Pres ently the brakeman came in, after fighting with a man who didn't want his two dogs Banished to the baggage ear, and wrestling with an old lady who had got it into her head, just because he told her that she couldn't go ia there, that the smokiug car was just the very Alabazan car of all Alabazan cars, and fought to get into it He was pretty hot, because he hadn't half whipped the man and couldn't rip out on the old lady, and he was just hungry for a chance to "blow off" somebody.' The first thing his eyes fell upon was the boy at the water tank. He swept down upon him, grabbed him by the shoulders, shook the hat off and the breath out of him be fore the boy could yell, lifted 'him up in air, slammed him down on the seat with a Lagtry bang that shook open the ven tilators. "There!" he roared; "you dropsical little squab! D'yoti want to make a millpond of yourself and be ." The boy's face was purple with rage and he broke out into a torrent of profanity, abuse, defiance, threatening and slaughter in one awful breath. He danced out into the isle, shed his coat, beat his fists together and pulled a re volver. Everybody yelled and hollered and laughed and stood up on the seats and applauded the boy and encouraged the poor, dumb-founded, stammenng. blushing, apologizing brakeman. Poor Ixion. in his blind wrath he had swoop en down upon an irascible, cross-grain-little wretch of a dwarf, forty-one inch es high and fifty-two years old, belong ing to one of the dramatic companies. It was too funny for anything, for the rest of us. And while the row was ab sorbing general attention, if that mis erable uoy with the hydrophobia didn't sneak up to the water-tank and drink it so dry that it warped. It. J. Banfetle, in Brooklyn Eagle. o The mansion at Sayre, Pa., occupied during the latter part of his life by Colo nel Robert A. Packer, once President of the Lehigh Valley Railway, was ded icated as a nospital recently. The din ing room, which is to be used as the male ward, cost $55,000, and the maa sion about $200,000. Philadelphia Pre. The man with the most faults grieves at his neighbor's one ":ttle shortcoming. WhitrSuli Tom. OF GENERAL INTEREST. The tomato is being introduced Ia to Turkish gardens, where it goes, as the rod egg plant During the tobacco seasoa Lynch burg (Va.) has sold twentwenty-three million pounds of leaf tobacco. The average enameled watch baag ng at the waist belt of the average girl, contains a powder puff nothing else.' Chicago Herald. 'Congressman William Walter Phelps has planted over a quarter of a million trees on his estato in Bergen County, N. J., within the past seven years. N. Y. Sun. The percentage of cattle losses oa Western ranees is not Iartrer than in rtheTStates. This statement although it may seem a. little fishy to Eastera people, is susceptible of the clearest prffof. Chicaqo Tribune. Our Batioaal air of Yankee Doodle, says Webster, was composed by British officers, in ridicule of American troops. Yet ere long the last of the British army laid down its arms at Yorktowa while this same air was played in the ears of officers and men. Long names having been made a subject of discussion, the Lexington. (S. C.) Dispatch devotes part of its spacrt to this sample, excavated in the neighborhood: "Benjamin Bathurst Benbow William Henry Jeremiah An drew Jackson Singo Simon Peter George Washington Johnson." It is less thau thirty years since an ocean cable was successfully laid, and now there are one hundred and ten thousand miles of submarine cable, in the world. Governments own twelve thousand miles and private companies over ninety-eight thousand miles valued at one hundred and fifty million dollars. X Jf. Tribune. A Boston legal authority says that the younz lady who has been jilted has the right to read the recrcaut's letters in her breach of promise suit, but she must not weave them into a novel and copyright them. That privilege be longs to the gentleman. She may. however, demand the return of her own letters as her property. Boston Post. The ago which oysters may reach under favorable circumstances is yet unknown, but specimens have been found which were believed to be from twenty-five to thirty years old. With care the bivalves may be kept alive for a considerable time after removal from the habitat It is stated that they have lived on the floor of a cold cellar for three months. Baltimore American. A peculiar custom in the Caps Verde Islands is noted by a recent visitor there. His hostess was smok ing a cigarette, when suddenly she drew it from her lips and offered it to him. Though somewhat startled, he accented it with the best grace that he could command, aud upon subsequent inquiry found that it was considered among the islanders one of the great est compliments a lady could pay to a gentleman. In giving bis reasons for vetoing one bill Governor Pattison. of Pennsyl vania, says: "It is greatly defectivo in orthography. Hereditaments is spelled 'heroditnients;' encumbrances, 'enciim berances;' proceeded, 'proceded;' man ner, 'manor;' required, rcqiired; de cree, 'dcree;' costs is written 'cost Syllables ami words are omitted. An other i- written aiioth.' " Here is cer tainly an efl'ort for reform in tho right direction. Philadelphia Press. Before the days of the telegraph carrier pigeons were successfully util ized in journalism. When Daniel Web stcr made his famous speech at the completionof the Bunker Hill monu ment triplicate copies of his address were sent ! three pigeons. Two of the birds r ached the New York Sut building witii the speech in good order, and the Sun thus succeeded in leading its contemporaries twenty-four hours. The third incasengfr fell exhausted in Connecticut, and a farmer picked it up. lto-toii Journal. Belfast Ireland, has now a popu lation of two hundred thousand peo fle. The siti: of the city formerly be ouged to the f'hichester family, and Lord Donegal is still the ground laud lord of the greater part, but most was let on perpetual lease by a reckless pre d'cesor in the last century. Had tho Chichester family retained the property and managed it judiciously, their in come from it to-day could scarcely have been less than $1,250,000 per an num. As it is Lord Donegal's whole Irish property is put down at $205,000. Rev. Sam Jones, the Southern sen sational preacher, held a revival at Plattsburg. Mo., recently. In an in terview with u St. Louis reporter he Said: "I have long held the opinion that Misouri was badly in need of my services. This j ear I have converted ten thousaed people, and ninety-five per cent, of them remain true to their professions. I don't profess to have methods; and when asked regarding them I &y I am perfectly willing to swap methods with any one if his are more efficient. They have lots ol methods, but the test of the tishermat. is his'string of fish, and not the mini ber of good bites he receives." His Retiring Disposition. Apropos of General Grant's retiring disposition, the following is related in the Chicago Inter Ocean: "I remember well the morning that he made his first appearance in Washington. He had been called there to take com mand of all the armies in the United States. He slipped in unannounced, and very few knew of his presence in the city until he appeared at breakfast in the dining-room at Willard's. It so happened that there was only one per son in that dining-room who recog nized him when be came in. Grant had walked quietly to the table, and was in his seat before this gentleman saw him. The moment he did see him this gentleman arose and said: 'Ladies and" gentlemen, wc are in the presence of Lieutenant-General Grant' In stantly all the people at the tables were on their feet At that time Washing ton people were used to the other style of military man. an,d naturally thought that Grant had pride enough in ni9 own achievements to be pleased at any recognition of them by the people who admired him. But as the clamor of enthusiasm arose in that dining-room there crept over Grant's face such a look of disappointment aud distress that those nearest him were discon certed. He acknowledged the compli ment paid him in a quiet way that seemed to the Washingtonians very much like indifference; out I think ha never forgave the man who called the attention of the people to aim while ha was at breakfast" 7
