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VOL. XVI.--N0. 28.
THE DREAMLAND SHEEP,
A Charm.
When, tosslnjr on your restless bed.
You can not fall asleep.
Just resolutulv- close your eyes,
6m a fleld-pnth before you rise.
And call the dreamland sboep.
They come, they coine, ahurrylnjr crowd.
Swift-bounding-, one by one;
They reach the wall in eager chase;
The leader finds the lowest place;
They cross, and on they run.
Oh! astir times on sleepless nights
I watch the endless throng.
Their pretty hernia, their wooly backs;
A crowding In each other's tracks
They press and race along.
At the wall-gap, each plants Its feet
On one stone standing still;
Makes Us small leap like those before.
Then with Its mutes, score after score.
Goes scampering down hill.
I try to count them, but, each time.
Lose reckoning at the wall.
They come from whore the gray mists blend,
In the mist they vanish at the end.
With far, faint bleat and call.
Off drop tho day-time cares.
The nervous fancies fall;
Away
And peacefully 1 fall asleep,
Watching the pretty dreamland sheen
Crowd through the dreamland wall.
Mary L. II. Branch, in St Xtcholas.
A BOX LUNCH.
How
it Smoothed the Path of
Persistent; "Wooer.
''Looks if there might be beech-nuts
over there in the grove, sonny." sug
gested Mr. Luther Varney, alighting
from his wngon in front of a square, old
fashioned house at the entrance of Oak
land village. "You may run and gather
some while I'm making my call."
"Why can't I go in with you, father?"
queried the maladroit youth. ''Maybe
they've got apples."
"No, no, Willie; you'd be in tho way.
I want to ask Miss Meserve about her
father's last sickness, and and so forth.
You'll have apples enough when we get
to your aunt Ilowen's."
The boy reluctantly climbed the fence,
while his father hitched the horse a
roceeding as unusual as it was need
ess; but ono must pardon a little irreg
ularity in a two years' widower "look
ing around." Years ago, before ho
wooed Miss Pamela Giddings, Mr. Var
ney bad cast vigorous love glances to
ward Dr. Meserve's pretty daughter
glances that filled shy Miss Olive with
sweet confusion. Had ho been less
bashful, less awed bj her superior
worldly advantages, and had she been
less oo their earlier romance might
have had a happier ending. But in that
case, how would it have fared with the
good old doctor, shortly af tor this strick
en helpless with paralysis? No married
daughter could have" ever nursed him
with the undivided care and teuderness
henceforth lavished upon him by Miss
Olive.
It was the subsequent j-ear that Miss
Giddings challenged Mr Varney's at
tention, so to speaK, and he married her,
takiug her for better or for worse. If
she proved worse than he had antiri-
(ated. he had not been the man to say
t. He had faithfully ministered unto
her in health and in sickness; he had
smoothed her path to the grave with due
regret. At her decease he had sincerely
mourned, not even to himself admitting
that her life had chastened him more
than her death. But time, the great
consoler, had now assuaged his grief
and paved the way for a human com
forter. Not that he forgot Pamela. At
church he often thought of her as a
high-Toiced, somewhat uneasy angel in
the heavenly choir, but he thought also,
of his motherless boy. What would he
not do for this dear pledge of affection?
For Willie's sake he ought to marry
again; and then, looking askance at
trim, rosy Miss Olive in tne adjoining
pew, the bereaved man realized how
sweet might be self-sacrifice. He had
come to regard this silent Sunday prox
imity as the crowning pleasure of the
week, and abuudant recompense for the
long ride and the longer sermon. He
hau manifested his rekindling affection
for Miss Olive bj sundry eloquent looks
and hand pressures, butuntil this golden
October day he had not ventured to visit
her. Spying him now from her sitting
room window, the timid little woman
dr pped the rug she had. been braiding,
and sprang up in a flutter.
"Why will he? In broad daylight,
too! Tho whole village will be talking,"
ejaculated she, with an instinctive glance
at the mirror.
A lady likes to look presentable in
saying "No" as well as in saying "Yes,"
and because Miss Olive had" fully made
up her mind never to be a wife, was
that any reason why she should not wish
to remain an attractive spinster? Shrink
ing from appearing over-eager to admit
a possible suitor, she dallied till the echo
of Mr. Varney's knock had died away
before opening the door.
"How do you do, Mr. Varney?"' said
she, her voice slightly tremulous. In
Pamela's lifetime she" had called him
Luther.
"Never more rugged, and I hope
you're well. Olive. I'm taking Willie
to his aunt Bowen's to .spend a week or
two, and as I was passing, I thought
I'd drop in and sec how you were. Sis
ter Bwen always likes to hear from
you," he added, with embarrassment
tinged with hypocrisy.
"Oh. my health is invariably good,
thank you," said Miss Olive, ushering
her guest into the spick-and-span parlor
sacred to callers.
Establishing his tall person in the
largest rocking-chair, Mr. Varney
crossed his right hand over his left, un
wittingly bringing into bold relief his
frayed right wristband.
"It seems-sad to see that room desert
ed," said -he, with a sympathetic nod
toward the open-sitting room formerly
.devoted to Dr. Meserve. "But you
can't wish your father back, Olive,"
"No, notfor his own sake," answered
the daughter, with feeling. "After his
mind failed, life was no enjoyment to
him. But I do miss him so! "lie was
aU I had."
"I know, Olive ys., I know. I've
thought of you a great deal lately a
great deal. It must be desolate -for vou
alone in the old house, and it's desolate
for me iu mine. Olive I've been
hoping "
"At first I felt as if I'd nothing to livo
for," interrupted Miss Olive, in quick
alarm. "But I don't feel so now. No.
indeed. Of course I mnst mourn for un
fa ther, but I keep busy, and I make a
companion of Climena, the orphan I
took from the poor-house.'
"You always did have a cheerful dis
position," remarked Mr. Varney, look
ins; down with an air of reproach. Per
cetviar the dilapidated cuff, he artfully
concealed it by folding his left hand
orer his right.
"You are first Selectman again this
year, they say," chirped Miss Olire,
skiaualng off to a safer topic. The
town is bound to retain you in office."
"On my boy's account, I regret it,"
said Mr. Varney, rallying his wits. I
have to be away from home mpre'a is
suitable under present circumstances.
The poor little fellow needs a mother."
Miss Olire rose precipitately, and
picked up a newspaper spread to
shield her new carpet from the southern
sun.
"Father used to say it was thankless
business to work for the town," said
she, folding the paper with nervous
enerffw her cneeks aglow.
"It's
remarkable how you keep your
nl-u fVtirn " arnlaimoil tll Inllfltr-
cood looks, Olive,
mg widower, in irrepressible admiration.
"You seem hardly a day older than you
did fifteen years ago. I've changed
outwardly more'n you have, but I ve
just as warm a place for you in my
heart as I had then."
An uncomfortable warm place it must
have been, provided Mr. Varney's face
at that moment truthfully registered its
thermal condition.
"Thank vou. I'm triad to keep ail my
Arf...a- ... "- r
old friends," quaived Miss Olive, with a
cautious emphasis upon the pronomical
adjective.
"But I want to be mora than
one of
votir friends, Olive, I want to
be your
husband," urged her lover.
bolder
than in tho days of his bashful
indoles-
cence.
"Don't, Luther you niusn't. I'm too
old to change my mode of life."
"Old? How can you talk so, OlivoP
I don't feel old at forty-five, and you're
only forty."
"Thirty-nine, corrected the lady, with
noteworthy zeal for truth. "But den't
ask me to marry," Luther. I'm wedded
to the old house, like the very moss on
the roof."
"Do let me speak, Olive do, I beg,"
pleaded Mr. Varney, in the sotlnng
tone he habitually adopted with the fair
sex, as if intimato companionship with
the departed Pamela had brought him
to regard woman as a being to be paci
fied. Thus gently entreated, Miss Olive
could but listen to the tab of his youth
ful love for her budding anew, and only
the more vigorous for its early nipping.
She listened, not unmoved, though her
prudish lips belied her.
"Reflect upon it, Olive. Take time
to consider," implored the wily lover,
with an appealing gesture injurious to
his cause, for the upraised hand dis
closed a ring that had been Pamela's
gift. Could she, Olive Meserve, accept
a bereaved husband she who had
vowed, in season and out of season, that
she would never marry anybody, least
of all a widower? Hymen forbid! What
a stir it would make?
"No, no, Luther; let's not talk any
more about it," she cried, as if forgiving
an affront. "On no consideration "
A wail from without cut short the
sentence. Blood-stained and affrighted.
Master Willie rushed wildly in, sliriek-
tnff.
"Oh, papa! papa! I
ve
'most
cut
niv Imireron: Oh, papa! papa
it"
41 Dear, blessed little lamb!" ex
claimed kind-hearted Miss Olive, head
ing he procession to t!e kitchen sink.
"It's his seventh birthday, and I gave
him a jncknife. I might have had more
judgment," said the remorseful parent,
bathing the ugly gash with clumsy ten
derness. "Oil, papa, you hurt," cried Willie,
hopping on one foot.
"Yes, yes, sonny. It's too bad, but
papa can't help it," groaned Mr. Var
ney, nearly as agitatea as the child, sole
survivor of five, and the apple of his
father's eye.
Wincing at the man's awkwardness.
Miss Olive quietly supplanted him, di
verting the boy with a highly dramatic
story while she deftly bound up the ach
ing finger.
"What a knack you have with chil
dren, Olive?" remarked Mr. Varney,
pensively leaning against the pump.
"I learned something of surgeryf rom
father," responded she, with brisk ir
relevance, checking herself in the act of
smoothing Willie's ruffled hair. Then
she cast a despairing glance at the horse
tethered at her gate, where all the world
might see. Before sundown it would
be rumored from Dan to Beershoba that
she and Mr. Varney were "making a
bargain." Had he no regard for the
speech of people?
"Let's go, papa. I'm hungry," cried
the boy, opportunely.
"Run right along, sonny; I'll follow
in a minute, was the craft re
But as nimble - witted Miss Olive
straightway speeded after the boy with
three cookies, the discomfittcd father
was forced to say adieu in his presence.
"I can't help hoping you'll change
your mind yet, Olive," was his parting
remark. "Sonny, can't vou thank the
lady?"
The untrained boy hung his head, but,
as his niorlit&d father secured the check
rein, shyly whispered in Miss Olive's ear:
I like you, lady."
Miss Olive was touched. What bonny
blue eyes the engaging little fellow had!
just like his father's. Ah, if she were
younger, less set in her ways, how she
could love him! the child, of course.
How she should enjoy making him balls
and kites, and teaching him to honor his
father, the besf man in the world! Poor
Luther had had a sorry life of it
He deserved a well-ordered home, if
ever mortal did. "But he might have
known I wouldn't be so ridiculous as to
many at my time of life," mused she,
going back to the empty sitting-room,
where the cat lay curled up on her un
finished rug. "I'm thankful Climena
wasn't round when he called."
In her dreams that night little Willie
leaned upon Miss Olive's pillow sobbing
because "the lady had been naughty to
his papa;" and the next morning he
appeared in the flesh, his finger inflamed
by a cold taken in dabbling in his aunt
Bowen's horse-trough. "Would Miss
Olive do something to make it better?
Oli dear! he wished papa had not gone
some.
Luther was right; the little waif does
need a mother," thought pitying Miss
Olive, skillfully dressing the throbbing
member.
But were there not, alas! hosts of lit
tle boys needing mothers, and did she
not contribute to orphan asylums all she
was able? Why. should she distress
herself over this'individual case? Still,
it did seem especially forlorn to think
of Luther's child ms motherless. In her
loving sympathy so happy did she make
the boy that he came the next day and
every day, though his healing finger fur
nished no further pretext for the visits.
Deprecating-gossip, Miss Olive had more
than once been known on the approach
of callers to hustle the winsome little
lad into the kitchen to Climena. Des
pite her precautions, the villagers began
to.talk-about herself-d Mr. Varney.
In the amburnouse phraseology of the
district, they affirmed that Mr. Varney
and Misseservc- "had an understand
ing between them."' Indeed, this halved
understanding formed the chief topic of
conversation at the Parish" Lunch Party
assembled in the Town Hall at the full
of the next moon.
"I suppose it'll be hard for you, Sister
Bowen, to am anybody step into Pa-
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COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 4,
mela's shoes.' remarked Deacon Hale's
wife, as she helped Mrs. Bowen ar
range the coffee table.
"Dreadful hard," sighed the widow,
who had secretly hoped to fill theaa in
person.
"However, you must have known
Luther would marry again, being a man,
Sister Bowen; and I should say hea
chosen judiciously."
"Oh, Tve nothing against Olive,"
snapped Mrs. Bowen, clattering the
cups and saucers. "Some say she's
courted Luther through his boy more'n
is becoming; but that sha'n't go from
me."
"She's no occasion for courting any
body, fur as I see," responded the dea
con's wife, bridling. "There's property
there. For my part, I ifonder at her
taking up with a widower with a child
to do for."
"H-m! At her age Olive can't have
her pick of the men. and she knows it,"
cried tho widow, pouring coffee with a
Jerk- -,
She but wasted breath. Seeing Sir.
Varnev approaching her own lunch ta
ble, Mrs. Hale hastened thither to serve
him. Several lunch boxes yet remained
unsold, each containing supper for two,
and the card f the lady who had
furnished it Their pasteboard exte-
nors gave no nint-oi tueir contents. Ac
cording to tho rules of the festival each
gentleman might purchase whatever
box ho pleased, but having purchased
it, he must seek the lady whose card it
inclosed and share the lunch with her.
"Any crumbs left for me, Mrs. Hale?"
queried Mr. Varnev, handing her a dol
lar bill.
"Help yourself," answered the dea
con's wife in the same facetious tone.
"The boxes are twenty-five cents
apiece."
"Let the change go into the parish
fund," said he, choosing a box at ran
dom. "Much obliged; and I hope you'll get
your money's worth," said the deacon's
wife, demurely, adroitly substituting
another box for the ono selected. She
was a conscientious woman and a church
member, but she saw no harm in help
ing her liberal customer to the lunch
she happened to know had been pre
pared by the object of his affection.
Were not all things fair in love and
war? If upon reading Miss Olive's
card Mr. Varnej' suspected it had reach
ed him dishonestly, he neither then nor
afterward upbraided Mrs. Hale; but
promptly seeking Miss Olive, he escort
ed her to a distant table, and rang for
coffee for two. Thanks to Sister
Bowen's agitation, it was muddy as tho
Tiber. Little did it matter. Mr. Var
L.1 AJlkViU U1U Ik UiabiVl V4V. -
was thinking: "What shall I say?"
: Miss Olive: "What will the neigh-
ney
and
bora say?'
"I'd give all I'm worth, Olive, if I
could prevail upon you to always sit at
the head of my table," began the invin
cible suitor, muncing a delectable bis
cuit "Have a pickle, Mr. Varney?" put in
Miss Olive, with a warning glance to
ward the nearest table, where sat the
gray-haired minister, supping with the
youngest lamb of his flock.
"And I don't care who knows it,"
went on Mr. Varney, deliberately. "But
that won't be Parson Drew. He's deaf
as a stone wall."
"I think las deafness increases," said
Miss Olive, catching at the topic.
"Very likely,' assented Mr. Varney,
with painful indifference. "But not so
much as yours does, Olive. I never had
such hard work to make anybody hear
in all my life."
"Try a change of subject" suggested
the lady, with a nervous laugh.
"I can't Olive. If you tell me that I
am up and down disagree bio to you, I'll
take, myself off; otherwise "
"My papa isn't disagreeable, now is
he. Miss Meserve?" cried Master Willie,
running up to the table in advance of
Mrs. Drew, his hostess for tne evening.
"Don't you like my papa?" persisted
the boy. leaning familiarly on Miss
Olive's shoulder.
"Yes, yes, Willie, of course." mur
mured she, strangling an impulse to
shake him.
"Leave children alono for asking
troublesome questions," said the minis
ter's wife, smiliug down upon the cozy
group. "But I assure you, Olive, Mr.
Varnej and I shall not quarrel with
Willie for making you blush so prettilj-.
I embrace this opportunity to present
my best wishesfor your ftiture happi
ness. "Uu, Mrs. urew, 1 you you re vcry
kind, but"
"And, Brother Varnev, I congratu
late you with all my heart," shrilly
cried the observant parson, who hail
read with delight the motions of his
wife's lips. " 4It is not good for man
to be alone.' saith Scripture. I wish
yourself and your bride every joy."
"Thankyou, sir thank you," shouted
the unscrupulous lover, with a bold
glance at his confused partner. "I
can't explain, you see, without making
a scene," he added to her in a roguish
whisper. "Let us make the best of it.'"-
Attracted by the parson's loud words,
a score of people had gathered about to
offer congratulations to the interesting
pair. Speech would have been more
embarrassing than silence. Miss Olive
mutely accepted the situation and her.
lover.'and from that day to this has
never been sorry. But she still dwells
under the old root-tree. It was Mo
hammed that came to the mountain.
Mohammed with one devoted little fol
ldwer. Penn Shirley, in Harper s Bazar.
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The first ascent of the Aiguille
Blanche de Penterie, that unoccupied
peak of the Mont Blanc range, which
two years ago cost the life of Professor
Balfour ana his guide, has been success
fully accomplished by Mr. H. S. King,
of London, and three guides. The climb
from Courmayeur occupied seven hours.
Hitherto it had'been questioned whether
the unfortunate professor had scaled the
peak before his fatal fall, but as no trace
of his success was found by Mr. King's
party, he evidently perished in the
ascent.
The Journal of Chemistry relates
that & celebrated Parisian belle who
made a profuse use of cosmetics, from
the soles of her feet to the roots of hei
hair, ono day took a medicated bath,
and on emerging from it was horrified
to find herself as black as an Ethiopian.
The transformation was complete; not a
vestige of the "supreme Caucasian
race" was left It took some time to
restore her to membership with lhe
white race.
A six-chanibcred revolver, an inch
and a half long, has lieen made by Vic
tor Bovy. In the Scientific American
the "weapon" is pronounced the small
est fire-arm in the world. It is com
plete in all respects, fires cartridges
with fulminate, and has power enough
to send them through an ordinary pane
of glass at four paces.
An English lawyer lately received a
fa of 926.000 for fourteen days's work.
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Att.r.17 ad KcUry Pa.J e.
B. K. COWDKRY,
Ccllicter.
LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE
OK
MACFARIiAND & COWDBR7,
Columbus, : : : Nebraska.
J. J. NAIJGHA4,
Justice, County Surveyor, Notary,
Land and Collection Agent.
"STParties desiring surveying done can
notify me by mail at Platte Centre, Neb.
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JOHN li. 1IIUGINS.
C. J. GARLOW,
Collection Attorney.
HIGGDJS & GARLOW,
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW,
Specialty made of Collections by C. J.
Garlow. u4-3m
Tj- H-KUSCIIE,
llth St., opposite Lindell Hotel.
Sells Harness, Saddles, Collars, Whips,
Blankets, Curry Combs, Brushes, trunks,
valises, buggy tops, cushions, carriage
trimmings, tc, at the lowest possible
prices. Repairs pr niptly attended to.
TAMES NAL'IO'I,
CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER.
Plans and estimates supplied for either
frame or brick buildings. Good work
guaranteed. Shop on 13th Street, near
&t. Paul Lumber lard, Cc
Columbus, Ne-
braska.
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H. IAWRE-1CE,
DEPUTY CO. SURVEYOR.
Will do general surveying in Platte
and adjoining counties. Inquire at the
Court House.
COLUMBUS, ... NEBRASKA.
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TOTICE TO TEACHERS.
J. E. M oncrief, 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 transactton of any other business
pertaining to schools. 507-y
JS. MTJRDOCK & 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. gB"Shop on
13th Stone door west of Friedhof &
Co's. store. Columbus. Nebr. 483-v
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MAJ4UKACTUKEK OF
Tin and Sheet-Iron Ware !
Job-Work, tooltaf- aad Gutter
ing a Specialty.
2sShop on Olive Street, 2 doors
aorta of brodfeuhrer's Jewelry Store.
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WHY THEY DON'T MARRY.
Lady Clerks In the Department at Wash.
lug-ton.
"She is a nice-looking girl, a erj
nice-looking grl," and the speaker
threw his head on one side and assumed
the gravely reflective air of a connois
seur. The person thus criticised
tripped along through the corridor of
one of tho department buildings, appar
ently not only indifferent to any possi
ble criticism, but unconscious that she
was being looked at She wore a dainty
summer dress, and looked as feminine
and sweet as a young, happy girl can
look, and consequently the Star repre
sentative could not forbear remarking
to the watchman, as he loitered near the
door for a moment, .that she was a
pretty girl. This otlicial glanced at tho
fair vision, at first in a perfunctory sort
of way, and then, as the influence of
this feminine beauty penetrated his
ooul, he-relaxed from'his otlicial indif
ference and uttered the above as his
solemn if not enthusiastic conviction.
The young lady, however, was not
aware that she had teen ollicially
stamped, asait were, as far as the in
fluence and authority of the watch forco
went, but continued on her way to the
desk where the Government claimed
her services.
There are a good many pretty girls
employed in this department, " ob
served tho Star man as the watchman's
eyes returned from following tiie re
treating form, and as his countenance
resumed the gravity of otlicial position.
"Yes, there are," was the rather
brief answer, as if the matter was hard-
ly worthy of further consideration.
1 suppose that they all marry and
leavo you?" said the Star man, in a
matter-of-course tone of voice.
Indeed they don't" replied tho
watchman, with returning animation.
It is very seldom anv of them get mar
ried." "Why, how is that?" asked tho Star
man, with great interest.
"I don't know that 1 can explain it,
was tiio response, "but at any rate that
is the fact as far as my information
goes. I have been in the Government
employment for thirteen or fourteen
years, and I don't recollect iu all that
time ot more than four or live of tho
ladies employed in this department get
ting married. You evidently think that
because tiiat youug lady is pretty that
she will be married, but in a Govi-ru-ment
department the fair and plain
seem to have about the same fate."
"Why aren't they married?" persisted
the listener, as he thought of the ab
surdity of such fair flowers beinsr al
lowed to waste their fragrance in soli
tude. "They have opportunities. They
are thrown continually iu contact with
men, and you know thai department
clerks, get married, and they seldom
marry rich wives."
"As I told you." answered the wat un
man, with some irritation at the attempt
to draw him into an argument "I don't
know the reason why, but I know tho
fact, because it is the result of my own
personal observation. When the clerks
marry the choose a wife outside of the
department, an I they may not be rich
or half as pretty and smart as the la
dies lie meets in the department but
nevertheless that is what the depart
ment clerk does, and has always dono
since 1 have been here."
As he concluded with the above, tho
watchman took up a newspaper, and it
was evident that the discussion was at
ah end as far as he was concerned.
The S!ar man. however, was not sat
istied with his conclusion, and the more
he thought about it the more he was
convinced that the watchman was
wrong. The matter begau to grow in
interest and the Star mau. as he met
with people who would be likely to
throw light on the subject consulted
them.
Unc of these persons said: "1 think
that it is true but few ladies in tiie de
partments marry, and the reason for it,
in my opinion, is that they have ac
quired an independence and they don't
care about relinquishing it. Of course,
if an opportunity should be presented
of making a brilliant marriage and ac
quiring social position and wealth. I
think that in a majority of cases the
ladies would accept it- But when a
womau is earning her own living and
has an income which she can use as she
pleases an average marriage does not
present the inducements that it does to
a woman who is diflcrcntly situated.
Besides, such a woman's ideas are more
practical and her appreciation of the
size of a dollar iu every-day life docs
not need the experience of marriage on
a small income.
Another i:rson, in discussing the
same matter, said: "I think that while
a great many ladies in the depart
ments do not desire to marry unless
they can better their condition, btill it
may be laid down a a general princi
ple that they are apt to lose their at
tractiveness in the eyes of men. Their
constant association with men every
day, their occupation, which is not,
strictly speaking, feminine, causes them
to lose that feminine grace and charm
which is so intangible that it is felt
rather than expressed. Men are at
tracted to women because they are so
different- It is what we mean when we
speak of a womanly woman, and it is
those qualities of mind and heart that
tind their best development in the do
mesticity of a happy home. Women
are apt to lose the delicacy and charm
of nature when thrown in daily contact
with men, and they are apt to becomo
masculine. I do not think that men are
attracted by wishy-washy women and
Erctty doll faces, and that in order to
e womanly it is necessary to be im
practical and siKy. But still I imagine
that most men, and the best men,
like feminine women; and while it is
uot always the case, still I think the
majority of women in the departments
gradually lose this quality of their nat
ure." The Star man did not pursue his iu
quiries auy further, for, while not ex
actly satified, still it was realized that
the old adage. " Many men. many
minds," was still true. Kasiington
Star.
Contagion by Mail.
The Water-own (N. Y.) Times gives
the case of a little girl who was dying
with scarlet-fever. She sent a "dying
k'ss" to a little friend, which was im
printed on a letter and a circle drawn
around the kissed pot The ""itUe
friend" kissed the spot when the letter
was received and shortly afterward be
came a victim to the disease. It was
the only case in the place, and her phy
sician believes the affection was com
municated through the mails.
Peter Large, a well-known citi
sen of Wheeling, was attacked by a dog
some time ago, and k is thought he will
charge the owner with allowing a fe
xocioas dog to run at Large. Pitt
twey ChrtnicU-TtUqntth.
WHOLE NO. 808.
WRINKLES.
If SefMtiaMlly Considered a KmT Uto
tory Caa B Wrlttou from Them.
An Italian scientist M. Mantegax2&
has recently written a study on tho
science of wrinkles. He believes that a
mans history can be written from his
wrinkles. Entering into a description
of the different varieties and their
meanings, he says that those across the
forehead arc found even in children
who are rickety or idiots. Going in
the sun with the face insufficiently cov
ered brings them on prematurely. But
they are in every caso normal at forty,
or even earlier. Verticlc wrinkles be
tween the eyes come quickly to men
who study or who worry themselves.
This can readily be imagiued; the eye
brows contract naturally when in deep
thought; grief or worry produces tho
same action, which, when repeated
frequently, produces a fold in tho skin,
marking emotion undergone many
times. Ouu of the rules of the Jesuits
was that the eyebrows were not to be
contracted. This was excellent from a
moral point of view, and it was also ex
cellent to prevent wrinkles between
the eyes. Between these and the
straight lines ou the forehead already
mentioned, come the arched wrinkles
of the forehead, found above tiie roof
of the nose. These often tell of long
aud cruel physical suffering, or of still
moro painful mental torture. They arise
from a great development of the verti
cal wrinkles and the resistance of the
skiu above. Tho crow's-feet mark the
fortieth year. They are especially de
tested by ladies, savs M. Manttrazza;
and ho forthwith refatos an anecdote of
a lady who succeeded in keeping off the
dreaded visitation long after it was due
by tho expetlient of using springs
to skin the skin stretched at night
at the corners of tho eyes. These
wrinkles are characterized by furrows
which diverge from the external angles
of the eye in all directions, like tho
claws of tho bird from which they are
named. The wrinkles of the nose are
less frequent and less noticeable, and
appear in old age. Those which de
scend from the nostrils down each side
of tho mouth (the rices Hti.no labiates)
are perhaps th- lirst to appear. The
reason is simple. These furrows are
created in laughing or mastication; a
simple smile is sufficient to produce
them; so it is not surprising the repeti
tion of tho commonest actshould soon
be graven on the face. They are also
hereditary. M. Mantegaza had them
when he was twenty-two cars of age,
and his children had them from their
earliest years. The wrinkles of the
cheeks and chin follow the oval of the
face, and are caused by a diminution of
the fatty substance under the skin,
which then falls into folds. The small
er wrinkles which form a network in
the lower part of the cheeks near the
ears have the same origin, and only ap
pear in old age. Those found in the
upper eyelids, and s omctimes in the
lower, which give the eyes an air of
fatigue, are the results of hard living,
grief or worry. Christian Union.
COUNTERFEITS.
How The Are Detected bjr the Fnlr Em
ploye of the Redemption Dlvinloa.
There is a very largo amount of coun
terfeit paper afloat, aud some of it tind
its way to the Treasury, when it is dis
covered in the Redemption Division. It
is here that all the money sent in from
outside sources is counted and exam
ined. The counting and sorting are
done by ladies, ami they are the most
expert in the country. They can tell a
counterfeit instinctively, with eyes open
or shut and there is not a bank cashier
in the United States, or even among the
large contingent now sojourning in
Canada, who could compete with them
in the matter of determining counter
feits. .They can tell a spurious bill as
far as they can see it, and the mere
handling of the paper is enough for
them to t'.ecide upon its genuineness.
The silk paper upon which Treasury
notes are printed can only be made by
expensive machinery, and it is a felony
to even manufacture the blank paper
without due authority. Under the cir
cumstances all counterfeits are printed
upon inferior paper, which lends rnis
great facility in the matter of detection.
A guide ws once takiug a party of vis
itors through the Redemption Division,
aud was expatiating upon the expert
ness of the fair money haudlers in this
respect He solemnly assured the party
that one of the girls had detected a
counterfeit in the middle of a pile of
money six inches thick, by merely see
ing the thin edge of it This imagin
ative public servant hjs been dis
charged, but after all it was only an ex
aggeration of a demonstrat 'd fact To.
a stranger it seems more like diablery
than the possession of trained ision
and a delicato sense of touch in the de
tection of'Conntorfeits.
The-e female experts receive seventy
live dollars a month for their .iervice.
'They do nothing but count from nine
in the morning until four in the after
noon, and their hands move with a
rapidity seldom ac mired by the most
expert bank clerks. But they make no
mistakes. A miscount or a counterfeit
overlooked comes out of the wages of
the one making the error, and two or
three mistakes a month would wipe out
a girl's salary, as some of the bills
handled are very largp. The great
drawback of the position Is the poison
absorbed by the continuous handling of
nione'. The backs of all Treasury
notes are printed with a pigment which
consists chiefly of Pans green. Small
particles of tfcis substance are absorbed,
and in a year or two the girl who may
hae eutcred the Treasury mooth
skinned and healthy imds herself a vic
tim of lassitude, and with her bauds
and face broken out in mulignantsores.
Each employe is f::rnished with a
sponge to mo'stcn the lingers while
counti Jg. A new one is supplied evory
morning, and by evening its color will
have changed to a dull black by the ac
tion of the poison. Notwithstanding
th:s drawback there is never any diffi
culty in filling vacancies. Washington
Letter.
Valuable Parchment Manuscript.
la the Vienna Hofbihliothek there is
a parchment MS. written betweon the
years 1516 and 1.013 the private prayer
book of the Emperor ('barles V. It
bears the trace of long ue. In one
place of the book, the spot where the
Emperor's spec! cl-s used to lie is
clearly marked, and in other places the
names of some of his near relatives are
inscribed, as his Aunt Margaret, the
Elector Joachim, of Braude .uiirg. and
others. It is adorned w th beautiful
m'natures by a Xethe-Und sh artist.
This book was formerly the property of
the dissolved Jesuit (. J:e:' in Vienna
Neustadt. where it had beou k-ut iuc
170. V. Y. Post.
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PERSONAL AND LITERARY.
Edward Everett Hale thinks news
paper men should eat five meals a day.
Sarah Bernhardt is said to havo
earned 13,000.000 francs since she first
trod the stage.
Five daily papers ia New York
have suspended publication since the
lst,pf last January. A. "I. Sun.
A solid family is that of the Messrs.
Gilbert in Pottstown. Pa., whore the
four brothers' united weight is 1,100
pounds.
Extra Billy" Smith. ox-Governor
of Virginia, is ninety, years old. Ho
lives in happiuess upon the broad acres
of his farm near Warrentown. Va.
Henry Ward Beccher says that tho
first public address made by him was
on temperance, at Brattloboro, Vt,
while he was a student at Amherst Col
lege. J. S.. McCalniont tho now Com
missioner of Customs at Philadelphia,
was born on the same day as General
Grant, and they were at West Point to
gether. Claimants of the authorship of tho
Saxe Holm stories are now confronted
by tho positive assertion that they worn
written by Mrs. Helen Hunt Jackson,
who recently died, and who preferred
to rest her reputation on more solid
works. N. Y. Herald.
-"Uncle Tom's Cabin" still con
tinues one of the world's books. Its
popularity is undiminished, as is evi
denced by the fact that a dollar edition
is soon to Ih issued. This price is far
below any at which the hook has here
tofore retailed. -V. Y. IndepemUnt.
Conductor Ambrose and Miss Nan
cy A. Malono were married on tho
traiu ou the Leweckley branch of tho
Pennsylvania Railroad Friday, tho pas
sengers being the guests. The train
was running at a rapid rate of speed
during the ceremony. lHttsburgh Post.
Miss Sarah Lnudrcau, who was
once the reigning belle of Savannah;
Ga., has for thirty-live years lived a
hermit life in a log cabin near Fayotte
ville. Ga.. because of a disappointment
ia love. She was to have been married,
and the nii;ht of the wedding the groom
loped with another woman. St. Louis
Post.
The story that Dr. Newman re
ceived $H.0ii0 for participating in tho
luueral services of the son of ex-Governor
Stanford, of California, has betri
denied. The Governor says he pa.d
Dr. Newman nothing, and that he is
under obligations to the clergyman for
"many kindly services and true and
tactful sympathies." N. Y. Ilera'd.
"Hugh Couway." now known
equally well by hi- name, F. J. Fargus,
was a Bristol auctioneer, and probably
few of his clients were aware that tho
ventlemauly. matter-of-fact man of
business, who conducted their Miles or
valued their furniture forthom. was the
author of the graceful little poems and
clever sketches signed with that nom
de plume which wen; to be read in
magazines aud newspapers. Hartford
Post.
HUMOROUS.
Teacher: "Detin. -n.iring.
Small
boy: "Letting oil sleep.
When a photarapher.
eise of his bush es, ues a
iu-- he do so in order
iu the exer
hlack cloth,
to make his
camera obscura? Pu-L.
A correspondent wants to know if
bees ever lose th:ir tein. or We can't
say, but we ar poitiu their stings
don't IlurXntjttiii Free I're.
"How do poets live?" asks an
anxious inquirer in an esteemed con
temporary. Best if y know Some
of 'cm work the fivc-Iunch route- and
others saw wood. - iA a l'ic-.i.
"Lay the cat ou lightly, please.'
said the Delaware w fc bs-ater to the
Sheriff, who was about to apply tho
lash to his back; "lay it on lightly and
you will soothe my anry feeling- "
Soothe your angry feelings? ' sa d t :o
Sheriff. "Yes: a soft tan, sir. tuructii
away wrath." -ismlot Courier.
A subscri' or asks: "How old must
a person w th a g.-ne al talent l be
fore you deem him old cnoug : to begin
studying "h; art of music with suc
uevs?" The older the butter We havo
heard peop'e sing who oui'ht to have
postponed fie r musical studies until
thrui! or four years alter their death.
x hange.
Astud'Mit n instrumentation wishes
to know on what instruments he should
score a u cess. We should not a'lvise
him to begin with such an ambitious
work. Let hi-, first work he a score of
simpler character. A base-ball score,
tor example, woidil be a tr.king" af
fair, if he arranged it in a modern
"pitch." and gave the conductor a
chance to r-c his bat-on."--."'mva
Herald.
Do Kagg' "There is a most pecu
liar odor. Judgo, that issues from a
crevice in the bank near my houe I
think it is natural gas." Jude
Why don't you test i?"' "I .don't
know of any corn incing test" "Touch
a lighted match to thecrev'ce." "But
it might explode ami blow n.e up."
"Well great i-eot! do ou want any
more convincing proof than that?"
Philadelphia Cilt.
"Any quails about this neighbor
hood?" inquired a tourist as he was
about to register a a Lake George ho
tel. "(iuaiN"" said the proprietor with
an indulgent smile, "they have got to
be a nui-ance. The cook complain
that he can't throw a piece of refase
toast out of the bacK window but what
four or five fat qua Is tight to see which
one sh.dl lie down on it. Here. Front,
show the gentleman to parlor A.- .V.
Y. San.
A Scotch miirster was once or
dered "licef tea"' by h s physician. The
next day the patient complained that it
made him sick. "Why minister."
said the doctor. "I'll t y the Vjh
mvself." N. putting some in a
skillet, he wanned t and told
tho
minster it was evce lent ".Min.
V
said the niiuis'er. "i that the way ye
sup it?" "What ith-r wa should it be
suppit? It's excellent. I -ay ui rr.-tcr."
"It mav be guile tint wav. doctor; but
tryitw'i' tie eieam and sugar, man!
try it wi' thnt, and then s-e hoo ye liko
it!"
"It isn't true, is .t?" asked Kollo,
as he fhfseed ie:ding "The Pied Piper
of Hamelin " "t i-n't :ruo that ho
could play Oa the pif e so th.it th- rats
would go off and drown tl.e'nsoJve?"
Well,"' replied KoHoV father. I don't
know about that. I th nk it mav be
true. Your Unci- George can pby the
flute so that it v. i scare :. cow into tho
river and drive al. tne dog in the pie
cinct howling era y. Ye-. 1 guess the
poem is true." An I Rollo's L'nclo
George was so mad he couldn't see.
and he r.eld hi p.ti--r strit ght in front
of him snd rjd clear through one of
Sam Jone' sermons lei'ore he fo'iud
out that it wasn t an a c..u::t o. the
Jave-ball gaavi.- Chi.ago .ribui