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sAatasSKSSSSSSeKSfSaSSSfStt1 iSeSSPCiS'KSSSESDKasss. mrrtarxmbB wwIrssSW'aESCjKt3 , m T . s- If i!i I THE JOURNAL. "WEDNESDAY, OV.2T,, 1883. I:i:::i at ths P::::5:;, Cilsaits. Hit., a: tec-trl clics-sit'sr. WHEN TO REST. When tlio sun sinks low In the western sky. Then lay the tools or the neoille by: Labor is Tor the llcht. I have won my rcM torn little while; Good uiglit, my voik, j;ood night I" Many a trouble ninn must bear. But the day is the timo lor thought ana cure The day for watch or fight. When the key is turned in the store theu say? To-morrow is nnothcr day; Worry, jjood niht! good night!" Anger may meet us the hole luy I otic. For the jrood must etill resist the wrong, The true light lor the lislit: But oh. when the shadows ot i-vpjilnp fall. The spirit of tho -.'untie peace recall. And say to the wrong: "Good night!" For nn hour or tw o l.t al thoug-hts eeisj. Be jlud in tho household of joy and peace, Hcjoicc in its lore utid light: Then fcleep, but aist with :i kind heart any: "For tho help you have Rlvcu mo through inc a ay. Tired hands and feet, good night!" "Good night, my ;oul. for I can not know. While my body sleeps, where thou wilt go, All ppaccand reason scorning:! But thee may all good angels keep. And All with hob dreams my sleep, Until we say, 'good morning.' " ErcliatiQC MY VARIOLOID. APesriess Boon to a Constitution ally Tired Man. Not a Bad Tiling to Take Daring the Flxasaut Vacation Period Felt Sad When lie Learned He Could Not Take It Again. I never knew how I caught it, but presume it must have leeu on the ily. I often think 'of that fit of sickness with a thrill of ecstatic pleasure, because in some respects it was a peerless bdon. I remember distinctly coming home early one afternoon with a terrible headache, which couli! not be ac counted for at the time. On the fol lowing day I was barely able to sit up and eat a chicken, and by night-time 1 learned wiiat was the matter from a caller who recognized the malady by the S3mptotns. 1 was not at all frightened, as 1 knew it was good for a leave-of-absence from business of several weeks. I sent word over what was the matter, and they seemed to believe me, because no courier came to the house to ascertain the particulars. As 1 didn't led very sick, I fancied that 1 had come in contact with a reai bonanza; for 1 had nothing to do but lie in bed night and day, and that never grew monotonous. Not feeliujj the need of a doctor. 1 requested the family to. allow me to save them the exjtiMis; of one, inasmuch as he would bo obliged to report tiie case, and I felt slightly sensitive about being car ried down-itair by the arms and legs, and rudely carted away to a hospital. It was deemed proper to get me as far from the bosom of the family as 'possible, so a bed was fixed for me in the garret, and the scuttle thrown open. It was in the month of dune, a:id there was no danger of taking cold. I ued to lie then; and think how the boys were working, and what a fine time I was having lying there counting the stars through the "cut tie and watching the clouds roll b. When 1 heard other members of the family hurrying through breakfast to catch a certain ferry-boat, which involved missing a second cup of coffee, I felt like a bond holder in the knowledge of the fact that I was having a vacation. How are you feeling this morn ing?" the old niau would shout at pretty long range. "Oh, pretty ick. thank you." 1 would answer pleasantly: jut come up and see the sjk.'s- on our son." "Do vou want a doctor?" "Yes." "Which one do oti want?" "Dr. Goldsmifh 'Citizen of the World'." Shortly after the book would be handed to me on the end of a clothes pole, and that lixed me for the das. When my brother gazed upon me. and thought of the time I was having, he became sick witi: oiivv. He sa?d that I wa- ahvas having rood lueknf some kind. To hear him talk one would think I had fallen heir to a handsome fortune. I was the pam pered child of sknc:s; he was the un happy victim of health. After I had been rusticating: in that garret for a little .er a week. I one day became great lv alarmed for the first time. To nn indescribable horror I found that 1 was getting well. My bubble of happiness had" burst. My gilded dream of joy was over. I wa slowlv but surely getting well. At the rate I was- convalescing! I would be on my feet in a few das. . I might not be able to avert such a calamity, but I could work earnestly and conscientiously for a relapse. I therefore ordered all kinds of rich food, which I ate ravenously; but it did no good. I stood by the open window to catch cold-in vaui. I purposely kicked the coverings oil" the bed before jjoinn :o sleep, which seemed io tickle the' inoquitos half to death. I made up my mind to be a man. and not give way to niv feelings. "If I must get well. I must: that's all." I -.sed to .:iv. Many a better man than my.-elf had got well, and why should I not be resigned? When people called, they were al wa told 1 was out. I never went down stairs to see a stranger, unless that stranger was out on the stoop in the dark. On one of these occasions I had to escort a you:ir lady home. If she had known what I had just recov ered from, -lie wouldn't hae come within a mile of the house. I didn't wish her to know of it. because she was naturally nervou. She couldn't eeo my faee in the dark, so everything was all right. " I started off with her, but when .wp got to the gate she insisted on my go ing in to look at some photographs she had just had taken. "I've got to get back right away," I said. " But. it is only half-p'ast eight," she persisted. "Can't he'p it." 1 replied; "lam not lixed up for calling. a.id I have fomethiug to do at home," At this moment she caught sight of my faee, which was the color of a -toiled, lobster, for we happened to stand near a lamp post. "What makes your face o red?" asked she. "Is my faee red?" I inquired as though I thought it a joke. "Certainly it is." I still .pretended to consider it a jest, and asked: "Are vou not color-blind?" "No, I am not" TheH I ninst be sunburned." "It is not the right shade for that," she exclaimed, in a manner that froze me; 'yours. is a deep scarlet hue, and I don't see why you want to stand there grinning like a newly-appointed post master, instead of tellfcig me." "Well, if you must -know, I suppose Jo must know; but this gorgeous tint am wearing at present and its cause jiproiounu iamuv secret, uowerer. tali jou all if yon promiM sot to divulge the great secret te a living ouL" . "I will nrcr telL" she promised. v "Then," I said, looking first in- one direction and then in another, to make sure that wc were not observed: "it is the blush of modestv." With this explanation I precipitately I fled, and have not seen that girl since When I went back to business, they were .all glad to see me, until they found out the uaturo of nn malady. Then thej moved off, and gave me tho whole place. r Tin so glsd to Bee you." one man would say, shaking hands: "what's been the matter?" "Varioloid." Then ho would gasp, rush out to bo cauterized or disinfected. "What ailed yon?" asked an old nervous member of the firm, laying his arm on my shoulder in a fatherly wa'. "chills and fever?" "No," I replied, it was a. form of small-pox, known as " "Get right away for a vacation." he broke in, as he yanked his arm off my shoulder, and turned pale with fright. "Go rhjlit to the ca-shior,- and draw- three weeks salary and start off. "So I walked out'of that place about as happy as any one could be with a three weeks' leave of absence ami a cash capital of nine -dollars. I shall never forget what au object of envy I was when I left.. Every one that dared to took me by the hand and congratu lated me, and said that they would tr. the varioloid game themselves. "When I returned, I concluded that I had got about all the juice that it was possible to get out of one fit of sick-4 ness. and made up my mind to accept' the situation und go to work. A day or two after my return the same member of the' firm met me at the office, and asked: "How are you feeling now?" "First rate": never felt better." "Oh, by the way." he went on, "J suppose you burned up all your cloth ing after your sickness?" "Didn't burn any," I replied, "the clothes I have on now hung over the foot of the bed wh'le I was sick." The old :ua:i held up his hands in despair, turned paler than I had ever seen him before, and said: "Draw two weeks' salary, go away for that time and burn up all your clothes." I drew six iloilar, remained away two weeks, and went back to business in the same clothes, dyed. That is the idl of my varioloid, and I must admit that I felt sad when a phy sician told me 1 couldn't have it a second time. A. K. Munkittrick, in Puck, A MISJUDGED WOMAN. Hoy a Husband Learned to Respect IIm ISetler II:tirH Courage. There wore half a dozen . of them holding down as many chairs in i suburban drug store the other evening, when talk changed to tramps, thieves and burglars, and Smith said: "Well, now, but Id like to try an experiment. I am a little skittish about theso desperadoes, and Mrs. Smith knows it and takes advantage to brag about her own courage. She say she'd just like to find a tramp on tho door-step who refused to dust when she ordered him to." "Well?" asked one. "Well, suppose one. of you rig up and go to the front door and demand some thing to eat, and be mighty impudent about it? It will .give her a scare and stop her brajrging." The crowd fell in with the idea and one of the men donned an old hat and coat and lixed up as a tramp. Ten minutes later he was knocking at tho side door, while Smith and his friends were posted across the street. It want over two minutes after the tramp's first knock before he came out of the yard. He came over the fence. He was in such a hurry that he ran thirty rods before he could bring up. When Smith and the others readied him he had his hah off and was feeling of his head and gr tting his teeth to keep back a groan. "Well," said Smith, "what did vou do?" "Told her I wanted a hot supper mighty quick." "And what d d she .say? " "She asked whether I would have boned turkey or fricasseed chicken, and while I was trying to make up my mind she kicked me oi. the shin, struck me on the head with a club and pushed me off the steps all at the same time," And every one of the group looked back and saw Mrs. Smith on the walk in front of the house, apparently wait ing for somebody's return, and each man raped out: Well. I'll be kazooed. " Detroit Free Press. - Population Drifting Into Masses. Population seems to seek its kind, and such inducements as our cities af ford prove too attractive for the rural population. In 1SS0 only one-ninth of the populat'on of Minnesota lived in cities. If the State census, just pub lished, may be credited, one-fifth of her present population live in cities. Speak ing roundly, it may be said that in 1790, one-thirtieth of the population of the United States was fouud in cities of more than eight thousand population; in 18S0. one tweutv-fifth; in 1810 and also 1820, one-twentieth; in lS'lO, one sixteenth: in 1840. one-twelfth; in 1S30. one-eighth: in 1SG0, one-sixth; in 1870, more than one-fifth, and in 1880, half way between one-fifth and one quarter. The tendency of modern civi lization Js -to- mass population! The strong lights and-'shadows of our cities, the love of society, the' satisfaction of better .-.heller, better roads, stronger institution.-, lead men to crowd to gether, even when unable f o be any thing but dependents in the svstem to which they smite themselves. Toledo Blade. The Cossacks. The Don Cossack, with his 'pug nose and tow hair, is a fraud as a fighting man. He has a genius for plundering and makes a capital scout, but he has an instinctive disrelish for anything like close fighting. He infinitely pre fers runuing away. But those Caucas ian Cossacks are men of quite another stamp. They gave the Russians an in finity of trouble before their mountains were conquered; now thev serve Rus sia with a whole soul, and are the hard est, staunchest and most ruthless of fighting men. They shoot well and do excellent work as mounted infantry They will charge knee to knee as recrU. lar cavalry, and odds make no oddsto them. In temperament, as soldiers, they resemble the Goorkhas more, than auy other soldiers who serve under the British flag. Like them, they kill and spare iiot; they have no comprehension of the meaning of giving quarter to an enemy, who they consider deserves ex termination, to 'say nothing of rather free-handed mutilation in the course of the operation. Forbes" Souvenirs of Some Continents. New Jersey chicken farms consist of chickens, incubators and sunflower fields. When the chicken comes- forth from the incubator' it is placed upon a diet of sunflower seeds, which are' fall of oil and very fattening. Some farmT ers plant three and four acres of iuu- flowers, and the fields hare a parties lady brilliant ettecL IT. T. Hikes. I WHEN BABY WEARS BOOTS. , Betas the Cynical Observations of am Cn . . f Iretiats Maw. 1. .:, Or the few -things is -this wotid of sorrow that serve to lighten the gloom and make things lively, a beautiful baby is the moit successful. It fills a void in our hearts that nothing else can occupy. Except good fishing, what is more de lightful than to watch the actions of a little child or to -hear it lisp its first words in musical accents? Its childish prattle amuses and at the same time touches the tenderest chords of our hearts with a soft thrill, and its inno cent smile softens even the li&irt of a plumber. It's caressing touch, as pure as an angels, makes the soul glad with a lender joy that is only equalled by the mad delirium of owning a $3,000 dog. These philosophical reflections were inspired on seeing a young father and mother with their first baby on the cars. The infant was a perfect beauty its big blue eyes looking out at the pas sengers from, under a little hood with a serious solemnitv comical to see. Its hair, of light brown color, was parted and hung down each side of its eyes, giving it an old-fashioned air. ami it wns "moreover 'the picture of health. The father held it on his knee, drawipg now and then the white shawl closer around the form of his darling offspring and the mother squeezed close in ten der solicitude, of all of which nonsense the baby saw nothing and cared les?. 1 watched the trio with great interest, nothing escap'ns: my observation. The parents observed every motion and ex changed glances of proud exultation as the' perceived the passengers "catch ing on" to the beauty they had given the world. Every little while the fond young father hugged the little darling rapturously to his breast and when the child opened its rosy mouth and'said "Ba-ba-ba-ba," his chest filled out and he held his head up more proudly, as he glanced around to see the effect, smiling triumphantly at his wife as the prodigy repeated the feat. Their pride in being the joint pro prietors of so much loveliness was delicious to behold. One of the female passengers having remarked, in tones that were audible throughout the car. that "pretty children always grew into homely adults." the father's face flushed as he looked at his 'offspring with an adoring glance that showed he did not believe in the old saying. "Ah." I thought, with unutterable sadness in my breast, "wait, old boy, until that child gets on his legs! Evidently you' re in luck just now, for you have a healthy, bouncing baby who sleeps nights. You don't have to get up an impromptu undress parade at two o'clock in the morning, or chase the elusive paregoric bottle around the house when the thermometer marks zero'right alongside the stove: but wait, I repeat, till that child,, whom ou know in your heart is cut out for the President of the United States, lets himself loose on your premises and flies around for eighteen hours in the twenty-four. Wait until he sets off matches under the parlor table. Will you smile so fondly when he climbs up and'pulls all the tail feathers out of the eannry bird; eats the shoe blacking and puts the brush, with your soft hat. on the top of a red-hot stove; or when he takes the scissors and trims the fur all off your Gordon setter, which j'on have just fixed up for the dog show, and makes him look as if moths had been at him, eh? Will you be tickled and go out and roll with laughter on the grass? He'? I guess not. I've been there. Maybe -ou'll think it funny when your neighbor comes in with a club and tells you softly, so that he can be heard all "through "the whole ward, that your kid has scratched his dear child's eye out, or thrown a stone through the parlor window and broken a Benvenuto Cellini lamp. How about the time when lie puts your watch in the sink and rims water on it? Will you smile then? Will you utter whoopS of delight when you come up stairs and find him" playing with j'our razor, waving the deadly toy in the air, while every Hash of light reflected from its glittering blade strikes through your quivering heart like a barb? How'about the sen sation you'll have when he lakes your silk hat out and carries sand and gravel in it for half a day? A!l these things and more will he do, this young, health' kidlet of yours- When he grows older and goes on starring tours in the neighbor's fruit garden, and tears gigantic holes in the basement of his knee breeches getting over fences, or goes swimming and is brought home in a dirt-cart half drowned and all his clothes stolen ex cept one little rumpled stocking, will you indulge in these paroxysms of mirth? Not much! I'll tell you what you'll do. You will take this scion of a noble family by his pink, shell-like ear, and lifting him from the ground, lead him to the retirement which the woodshed affords. Then you'll fondle hftn with a strap or a club, and tan-his little hide, while he yells so that the neighbors think you are killing some thing, and his mother, standing' by, with tears in her blue e3'es. feels every blow more than if she really bore them on her own tender flesh, and gathers him to her bosom after the matinee is over and sobs in unison with Ler bad, bad boy. Then j'ou'll go In the house, and when your old friend of years and years comes in to see you you'll both sit and tell of the deviltry you committed when you were lioys until that son's eyes stick out in amazement as lie thinks of the walloping he got for doing the same things that very day. N. Y. World. i m m LAKE SAILORS. Their Ordinary Extraordinary Supenfitiooa and Th!r Fear of Ked-Ueatled Women. At supper we spoke again of sailors and their superstitions. The Captr-in said: "Sailors on the lakes are very super stitious. Lots and lots of 'em would sooner lose a place than sail on Friday. The3''re awfully afraid of anything that appears the least bit supernatural. Anything in the shape of will-o'-the-wisp or St. Elmo's light will make most of 'em tremble in their shoes. Once I frightened a set of 'em half to death by muffling a lantern to give it a weird ap pearance, and then tying it to the yard arm. Then they are firm believers in the power of certain things to bring luck or ill-luck, just like old Coleridge's 'Ancient Mariner' and the albatross. They're particularly timid of redheaded women. I was mate on a boat once on which a red-headed woman took pass age, and the sailors complained right off. Once outside everything seemed to go wrong. Finally, we ran into a schooner and lost our jib-boom. This was too much. Half the fellows came to the Captain and actually asked to be put ashore anywhere in the woods rather than run the risk of a possible loss of life, as they said. They weren't accom modated, of course, but once in port you should have seen those fellows draw their pay and skedaddle. A red-headed Captain would either have to use hair dye or quit the business. Cook, bring me another cup of tea." Louisville Courier-Journal. A female book agent has gene down into some of the deepest coal mines of Pennsylvania and has taken a large number of orders from the men while they were at work. Pittsburgh Post. - It was customary in England to ap- Qred years ago P P HMirea OT a' HOUSEWIFE. Picture of Hone Ufa and Work in tUa Middle Aces. The housewife of the Middle Ages is seen stepping out of Chaucer's "Canter bury Tales," as natural as life in that ' May morning of long ago, when the merry company filed out of the Tabard Inn to pursue its pilgrimage,. , She is dressed in a cape and kirtle' of blue stuff; the collar of her cotehanlie and the tapes of her white volupere are em broidered in silk, as likewise, her girdle, and her apron or barm cloth is as white as morning -milk. She wears a broad silken fillet around her head, a leather purse attached to her girdle, "tasseled with silk and pearled with latoun" that is. studded or inipearled with little metal buttons; on her low collar she wears a brooch as big as the boss of a buckler, and her "shoone" (shoes) are laced high upon her ankles. The mediaeval housewife was a very industrious woman. Sh'j was literally the head of' the household. Everything in the house was under her charge; she clothed the whole house with the work of her hands. Spinning was one of the most important labors taught young women. The word "spinster." "now the legal designation of an unmar ried woman, had its origin in the fact that in the early ages spinning was her special employment. In the ballad of the" patient Griselda. the maiden was engaged in spinning when the Marquis first saw her. All the illuminated manuscripts which have come down to us illustrating the domestie life of the middle ages show us the "lady spin ning." "the lady carding wool," "the lady at the loom," etc. Every house hold had its looms and spinning-wheels. The women of the med-rcval home often sheared the sheep with their own hands, and carded and combed the wool and beat the tlax. The old-time housekeeper was also physician and surgeon to the household and all around. Medical receipts in all periods of the Middle Ages, written by the fingers of women, are still preserved in European libraries. It was the women who set the knight's broken bones by skillful manipulations and healed grievous wounds by cunning plasters. spread by their own fair hands. In that idllyic novel of the thirteenth centurj. "Aucass'n and Nicollette," we see the heroine acting the part of a surgeon when her lover had dislocated his shoulder; and in the romance of "Elie de St Giles." Elie, who has been wounded, is carried by the fair Rosa mond into her chamber, where she takes precious herbs from her coffer and ap plies -them to his wounds. Neither the Good Wife of Bath nor Griselda knew what it was to take up and put down carpets. They spread rushes and sweet herbs on the floor in stead when they expected company. They covered the walls of their homes with tapestry aud sat at their meals on heavy wooden benches and stools. The table was literally a board of boards, set on trestles aud covered with cloth. The "good cheer" of that old time would seem strange enough to us. Barley and oaten bread, bacon, boiled fish, capons, eggs, roanchels. with vast quantities of home-brewed ae or mead, and sometimes among the nobles wines from the Levant covered the mediaeval table. Food was not always plentiful in the homestead. The choicest articles of furniture in the kitchen of the Middle Ages was the sideboard or court cupboard, it was usually richly carved aud made with little compartments, in which small articles of plate could be placed. On the top the good mothers arranged for display the beakers, tankards, flagons, drinking-horns, basins and porringer.-. On tire shelves glistened the family plate, often of pewter, which was ol value at that time. Beside them were the lesser utensils the forks for "the green ginger," the powder box for sprinkling green spices over the meats, the curious carving-knives, the clasp knives, "the spoons and that singular vessel called the "maser cup," manu factured from the knottiest wood and handsomely ornamented with silver, which was used- on great occasions like Christmas to pass around a warm spiced drink, of which all the company must partake. There was no stove in the mediteval kitchen, and even chimneys were rare. The fire was usually kindled on a stone hearth in the middle of the room, the smoke parsing out from a hole in the roof. Even in castles only two or three of the largest rooms had "a "cover" or fire hearth; around these the servants and house carls sat shivering in the cold winter months. Later, some of the queens had braziers or small iron fur naces in their rooms. The day's work done, the spinning wheel set" away, the children tucked in their racks, the bolts of the door drawn, the tire smoldering on the stone hearth and the feeble .rush light burning low in its socket, the good wife and her hus band sought the chamber where stood the great ""posted sett-work bedstead." covered with its "harden sheets" (made of coarse flax), "tear sheets" (of fine flax), "lloor beds (wool coverlets.) "pillow beets" and "counter-points" (quilts made in squares of contrasting colors). Thus lived and dined and slept the housewife of the Middle Ages. Doubt less she thought herself a favored crea ture but who of her nineteenth century sisters would care to go back and live in those "good old times?" Philadel phia Press. Always Late. Half the value of anvthing to be done coas'sts in doing it promptly. and yet a large class of persons are almost more or less late. Their work is always in advance of them, and so it is with their appointments and en gagements. They are late, very likely, in rising in the morning and also in going to bed at night; late at their ap pointments also.. Their letters sre sent to the postotlice just as the" mail' is closed. They arrive at the wharf just as the steamboat is leaving it. They come into the station just as the train is go infi out. They do not entirely forget or omit the engagement or duty, but they are always behind time, and so are generally in haste, or in a hurry, as if they had been born a little too late and were forever trying to catch up with the lost time They waste time for themselves and waste 'it for others, and fail ot comfort and influence and success which they might have found in systematic and habitual punctuality. A good old lady, who was asked why she invariably was so early in her seat at church, is said to have replied that it was her religion not to disturb the religion of others. And if it were with all a part both of courtesy and duty, not to say of religion, never to be uu punctual, they would save time for. as well as annoyance to others, and aid themselves to success and influence in a thousand ways. Household. Steering Clear of Sin. Milkman Johnny, did you put water in the milk this morning? New Assistant Yes sir. "Don't you know that Is wicked, Johnny?" "But you told me to mix water with the milk." "Yes. but I told yon to put the water in first and pour the milk into it. Then, you see, we can tell people we never put watt in car milk. Chicago News. The Rochester Democrat assures us on its sacred honor that CO.OOO.OOO of years from this time the earth vrill be like h moon, lifeless aud unishablt-blf. A MEDIEVAL HOW LIVES ARE SAVED. The Srt if Work AIiit. l.y the Uult-l St !r I.if.-STj.i SrrvUr. The method of saving lives from ship wreck, at pnnetit in use at our United States tifc-SaYingStations.may be best understood by snppos ng an actual case and describing the operations of the suiftnec If the sea will permit, the people on the vcsels are brought ashore in the mi uf-boat ' If jihighseais nmnlng.how ever, this is rendered impracticable, and re.ou se is had to the "Breeches Buo " When the dif-covery of -a wrec. is announced at the staton, all the apparatus is at once carried along the beach to the point nearest the wie-k. The Lyle gun, a small brass cannon, wiiieb weighs one hundred and seventmi pounds, is loaded with pow de Tnen into Its mouth is sl'pped a lonj, steel "projectile." to the outer end of which i attached a lght but stout l,ne. called the "shot l.ne." Then the guu is a'ined and fired The projectile, followed by the long cord, flies out toward thewrer-k. pas-es over it. and drops into the sea. and the "shot line" falls on deck. Thus the firM meat! of coiumun'cai'on is established betweeu the wreck and the shore. Tue crew of the vessel now pull in th s "shot Hue." unt.l Iiey draw on deck a pulley bloi k, w) ie'i the men on shore have t ed to block is uiun is, a long 1"" t. Through this pulley T fi "endless Une' that v5ih :s called endless, - : been fasten . r i also through an i . which has been because the ed together. other iiullev . . - Kent on siio-e. l e sa 1ok tie the'r ep on the mast, and pulley block well i; the men on sho.-e fasten theirs to a "sand anchor.'; which they have firmly burled in the sand. You have often seen the double string which ch'Idren. living across the street from each other, run between the r houses and call a telegraph." It :s a long, endless line, runtfng through a pulley, or a staple, at each end. aud when a basket o.- other article is tied to one s'de of the double line, aud the other side Is pulled in. the baske? of course moves off across the street. Th's :s like what has now been r ge 1 belween the vessel and the shire. So now the men onshore cau tie anytii ng on to the endless line, run ning through a pulley block at each nd. and sts-r ing the circular motion of the line, soon sen t out to the vessel. What they do tie on is the end of a great hawser, or heavy rope, and when ths hawser U drawn "on deck, it is at once fastened to the mast a few feet above the pulley block. Then tire other end of liie hawser, which has been kept on snore, "s hatt'ed in as t;ght, or "tAiii." as poss b'.e. and aKo fastened a few feet above tiie pulley block, which has bjen t:eJ to Hie sand anchor. Now the "bre'chos bu'y"' is brought out by the n.en on shore. Th's Is a circle, or large rn of leather stuffed, of per haps two feet in d'ameter. Hanging below it is a pair of stiff canvas knee-breeches. It is now hung from tun heavy hawser se that it can sl'de tVeely to and fro upon;it. Then it is secerely latened to one part of the end'e line, the other part of the line is battled slea.Mx n. and awav moves the buoy, slipping along on the hawser from wh eh it ha.:gs. ami drawn by the small eudlcss line to which it is secured. One person is dropped in through the circle, w.th one lef in each side of the canvas breeches. The circular line. which has been described, is fastened also to the buoy, or rather to the pulley block of the bmn. anil is again put in motion, and the buoy retraces its course to the sltore." Tiie re-cued person is taken out. and again ami again the buoy makes t io journey, until every one on board is brought safe to land. Youth's Companion. m VALUE OF THOUGHT. Deep Uraoiiulii? on tliw Strt-iisth of Which a CoIoi-.n1 (ri:t!rm:iii Oliiuiiieil a Useful I tuple nit-lit. "Let that wheelbarrow alone," cried Colonel Matterson, as he stepped to the end of the gallery and called to an old negro who hat! entered the backward. Sah?" "I .av put down that wheal barrow or I'll send for a policeman." "Oh. I ken put it down, sah, an' sabe yer all dat trouble. I neber wants er jiussou ter go outen his way tor commodate me." "All right. Xow g.-t out of Jthis lot. First thing I know you'll .steal " "Xo'v. Oook hi-iih. mister. I doa'i know whut er name is. but I wants yer to look heah jes' de.sann. I wan't ti"i:k-ii erbout lak'n' dts thing. 1 makes disc iiii;)'-r.iieiit. sah. an Z wan to I ter V.am'nc d s one 'cae it re I ter b er new 'vent'oti. but. a'. -r's .o easy skecrcd, 1 11 bid yer good mawn'n' "' "lo.i must evctise me if I have wrou-rfttllv accused ou." 'On. tteb;r iiwie. De ole saints wiiz cu ed an usyeu:od. ah. Kf da could stan' it w dwt 'pla'niu' I ottirh tenter giiiiii'uV."' Short! v alter the Colonel went into the ho::-'. the old negro, after tju'etlv lifting the wheelbarrow over the fene mused : "Folks is git in .o '.p eious dee das dat somebody is gw.ne ter at inter trouble. I'atman a'n't got no use fur it s 'boner. Whut do be IMiV say 'bout de pusson whut bii-u;d n s taleu's an' -d do' make uotltin' outen 'em? Folks oughter th uk er'uout deae things." Arktinxuw Tnn elcr. A DISAGREEABLE f.lT. Iiidiflerrnt IVopl.- Unlit to IJe In Clvl li. it iiiiiiun!ti. What is my opinion of ind'fl'erent peo ple? They are a di-agiveable cros be tween boor'shnessandsellistuiess. They are so thoroughly devoted to themselves and their interests that thev can "ive no thought to anybody else, and they fre- rmently go so far in this exclus'on as to be positively uncivil. I have met men who go about with the'r bMs'ness. or their cares, so closely wrapped about them, that it was not possible for tiiem to see the world around rhem. That is the way it looked to the casual observer, but I somehow thought that those men had not mind or heart enough to at tend to their own affairs and be polite at the same time. There are those, too, to whom you may ta'k. po-sibly not be cause you want to. but because the necessities of the c"i'cumtrtnce!s compel it, and they will look at jou with a kind of idiotic Man wh'ch is enough to para lyze a liiiudivd-poiimt rifle gun loaded to the mu.Ie. Vou've seen, hundreds of that kind, and the' don't seem tode crean in numbers to auy remarkable extent as the world increases in civil na tion aud refinement. I can understand and allow for a certain percentage of selfishness in the sum of our exiMeuce. but I not believe that any man or womap has the right toincreasethat perceutago to the discomfort or unhappincss of the majority. A very little thought and care for others goes a great way. and those who do not exercise it, differ from hogs only in their difference of anatomy and the clothes they wear. Merchant Traveler. The Superior Court of North Caro lina has dec ded that a railroad com pany can not force a passenger to ride in a smoking-ear if he objects to doinf so. m Jelly -speckled" with strawberries is the favorite -dish for suppers after dances in England. SCHOOL AND CHURCH. r It is estimated that sixty-eight churcu.es in Paris possess works 'of art valued at $1,615,710. Tho Baptists in rouisville, Ky., have undertaken to ' raise $20,000 for church extension in that city. The Stinting Sc'ionl Times prints a ktter advocating the formation of an American Church Library Association, for the improvement of church and .Sunday-school libraries. In the Colorado Methodist Confer ence the ministers voted to do no work or traveling on the Sabbath that is .not str'ctly uece-sa'-y; to take no Sunday pa;,er. ami to request the members of the Conference to give no items of news to sneh papers. A goipei boat was recently launched at Portiatid. Or: It was named the Kotsie. and will be taken to Alaska and n-jcd for mis unary purposes among the ieiisans by the Presbyter an Missionary cietv. It is a neat little craft and is well adapted to the purposes for which it is intended. San Francisco Chron icle. That a -...:' can do effective Christian v . . . Me frontier :s shown iy tho lvr-oni of a U" gregational dea con in Wiso.-u-iu. wno in the last thirty years, has fathered the building of six meeting koines ami organized several churches. He has a home mis sionary commission, and has covered territory uncared for by Protestant min isters. Congreguiionulist. The colored people have three well organized colleges in Atlanta and are building a fourth. One thousand young negroes attended the three col leges during the last term. Besides there were 2.000 negro children in the public schools of the city. A high stand ard of scholarship has been established at the colleges, says the Atlanta Consti tution, and the average proficiency of the students is fine. . "The gold and scarlet of the sun" is rivalled in the cupolas of St. Peter's Cathedral, just finished a.t Moscow. There are five of the cupolas, and no less than u00 pounds of gold were used in overlaying them. The doors of the temple cost $310,000. and upon the marble floors were expended $1,500,000. Ten thousand worshipers can be com fortable, if their souls let them, within this $12,500,000 temple. Fiom a compilation of statistics just made, the rapid development of popu lar education during the fourteen years 1870-81 may be compared. In England and Wales the number of schools in spected in 1870 was 8,281; in 1884. 18. 873. Accommodation was provided in 1870 for 1.878.584 scholars, figures which in 1881 had risen to 4.82S.738. In 1870 the average attendance at day and night schools was, 1.225,7tJ4. while 1884 showed an average of 3.273.124. In 1884 the number of schools in Scot land was 3.131. with 587.945 names on the rolls, the average attendance being 448.242. y.-r. Post. . PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS. -It has been discovered that the farmer who sued a man for libel, for saying that his "milk was watered," had a spring on h's farm. An old grist-mill near Manor Sta tion. Pa., twenty-three miles east of Pittsburgh, celebrated its centennial anniversary the other day., The Chinese have a proverb that every man who rules himself is a Kins. Any man can be a King if his wife will let him. Philadelphia Call. Stanley says the native African can sing himself to sleep. We have lots of people in America who can do better than that. They can sing a crowd to death. Detroit Free Press. The meanest man on record sent through a postoflice presided over by a woman a postal card on wh'ch was written: "Dear Jack: Here's the de tails of that scandal." And then the rest was in Greek. Exchanqe. "Smith, did you see my wife go down this street?" "les. she passed about an hour ago." "Wonder what mv chances are for overtaking her?" "Good. The sidewalk is just lined with show-windows. Chicago Herald. Is there any glue or anything that will keep the wild waves from break ing, or the magnificent mountain scen ery from bursting on one's view? Lynn Saturday Union. Yes. certainly an empty pocketbook. Mroit" Poii. It has been sa'd that "what we learn with pleasure we never forget." Were il so it were weil: but we fear tnat sometimes a man learns with pleasure that a wo in as loves him, and than after marriage forgets it. Lowell Ltdzcn. A lightning photograph of" artist has secured a a pistol bullet in its -vgni. ne win next trv to eaten a shadow of a man's week's salary when his wife, desirous of a new bonnet, has got the wealth in her possession. CYm cinnaii Commercial Gazette. A contemporary tells of a Virginia babe who mimics every tune he hears, and hums himself to sleep. But if the parents ever take the youngster to a minstrel show they will be willing to go back to the old reliable paregoric. San Francisco Post. "Say." said the editor's smart little son. as he entered a store, "do you keep knives?" "O. yes.' responded the storekeeper; "we've kept them for years." "Well." returned the boy, starting for tht door, "you ought to ad vertise, and then you wouldn't keep 'em so long." Xorristown Herald. Bromlev I bought a little painting ! . TT ! . yesterdav quite a gem cost me $200. Prety steep, wasn't it? Perkins Rath er; still, not very steep. Your son-in-law. De Baggs, has a painting that must have Cost him $2,000. 'Goodness gracious! I never knew that. I must have a look at it" "Well, the next time you meet him take a good look at his nose. Chicago Tribune. Bobbins (to a friend) Yonder comes Jackson. He's owed me five dollars for two years.. Jackson Hello, Bobbins. By the way. I owe you live dollars. Here's your money. Bobbins (taking the money with a show of re luctance) Is that so? Jackson Yes, I borrowed it some time ago. Bobbins Well, well. I never would have thought of it again. Arkansaw Trav eler Sugarsand "Good morning. Mr Bassett. You're quite a stranger. ' Bas sett "Yes. I don't often pass along this street, that's a fact" Sugarsand "I would like to have vour custom. Mr. Bassett. You know 1 have just started a grocery store around the corner." Bassett "I wasn't aware of it. and. in fact. I generally buy my groceries at Brown's." Sugarsand "Brown's! Good gracious, sir, don't go there to be cheated; come around to my store." Philadelphia Call. m A Lucky Man. Hostetter McGinnis is one of the most lucky men in Texas. If he takes a chance at a raffle he is sure to win. If he throws dice for the drinks, somebody else has to pay for them. Not long since a stew xork lawyer said to Mc Ginnis: "Lend .me seventy-five dollars. I'd rather borrow money from yon than any friend I've got" "Why do you prefer to borrow from me?" "Because you have such good luck that I really believe you would get yonr money paid back, although I never did did such a thinj in my life." As luck would-have it, Hostetter did not have a cent of money with him at the time. Texas Sitings. Your Hair should bo your crowning glory. Aycr's Hair Vigor will restore the vitality. and color of youth to hair that has -become thia and faded; and, where the glands aro not decayed or absorbed, will cause a ncv growth on bald heads. W1V the youthful color and vigor MUL X of the hair be preserved to old age? Read the following, from Mrs. G. Norton, Somerville, Mass. : "I have used AVer's Hair Vigor for the past 80 years; and, although I ass upward of CO, my hair is as abundaat and glossy to-day as whea I was 25." TkTf assured, that a trial of Aycr's Hair AEf Vhjor will convince you of its powers. Mrs. M. E. GoflT, Lcadville, Col., writes: "Two years ago, my hair having almost entirely fallen out, I commenced the use of Aycr's Hair Vigor. To-day niy halr Is 29 inches long, fine, strong, and healthy." EEKEWED zrsrs Ayert Hair Vigor, the hair regains its youthful color and vitality. Eev. If. P. Williamson, Davidson College, Mecklen burg Co., N. C, writes: "I have used Avert Hair Vigor for the last ten years. It b an excellent preservative." nv the use of Avert Hair Vigor, Geo. X A. Dadman, Waterloo, Mo., had bis hair restored to Its original healthy coaditfon. He was nearly bald, and very fray. He writes: "Only four bottles of the Vigor were required to restore my kalr to Its youthful color and quantity." TfflrUH Oyer's Hair Vigor cures dis VOMJMIJ eases ot the scaln. P. n. Foster, Princeton, lad., writes: "I had been troubled for years with a disease of the scalp ; my head was covered with dan druff, "and the hair dry and harsh. Avert Hair Vigor gave me immediate relief, cleansed the scalp, and rendered the hair soft and pliable." Ayer's Hair Vigor, PREFAItKD UY r. J. C. Ajar & Co., Lowell, Haas., V. S. A. For sale by all Druggists. COAL & LIME! J.E. NORTH & CO.. DEALK11S IX Coal, Lime, Hair, Cement. flock Spin Coal, Carbon (WyomiHg) L'onl. Eldon (Iowa) Coal ..$7.00 per ton .. 6.H0 " ... .00 " Blacksmith Coal of best quality al ways on hand at low est prices. North Side Eleventh St., COLUMBUS, NEB. l'-am LOUIS SCHREIBEK, All kinds of RepairiBg done ou Short Notice, biggies, Wag ms, etc., made to order, and all .work Guar anteed. Also sell the world-famous Walter A. Wood Mowers. 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For Impotence, Sterility iu either sex, Loss of l'owcr, premature old age, and all those diseases requiring a thorough in Wgorating of the sexual organs. Price $:.00 per box, six boxes $10.00. I DR. WARN'S SPECIFIC No. 4. For Headache, Nervous Neuralgia, and a!l acute di-ea-es of the nervous teiii. Price 50c per box, six ho. $-J..")0. " DR. WARN'S SPECIFIC No. 5. For all diseases cau-ed by the over-ti-of tobacco or liiitior. t'his remedy is nar- ; ticularly etllcacioiis in averting palsvami delirium tremens. Trice ?t.tu per '.o . s.x boxes $.1.00. We Uuarantee a ''ure, or aree to re I fund double the money t:id. Certilicat , iu each box. This gtfarautee applies t t eieu of our live Spec'tlcs. Sent by ma. tt any addre.--, .secure tVom observation in rceipt ot price. M areftil to mcntio the number of Spc-ti- wanted. Our stii;iitics are only recommended fur .-pe- citic di-ea-es. l'eware !' "-i-fLedies war ranted to cure all ttn-r iti.-e.t-e5 Willi ont medicine. 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