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TMs assssnrTaSsaSiM iaM ' f ' ifissffsBl I a!BaeB THL JOURNAL. eat pro leeel on alcalde j, ISSC XVKP.T WEDNESDAY, M. 3v. ULSTER, & CO. t Proprietors and Publishers. of or leas, per aauraaa, five dollara. SaT For time advertieementa, applr at thia oSce. tSTXecal advertisements at statute rates. HTor transient advertiainr,, see rates en third pass. IdPAU advertisements payable Z3TOFFICZ, Eleventh St., up stair n Journal 1 Iding. TUBUS: Per year . . Six months Three months . 'Single co. le S3 1 VOL. XVI.-N0. 32. COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 2, 1885. WHOLE NO. 812. thlT. fit Omumlms I' IS m. COLUMBUS STATE BANK! COLXTMBTTB, HEB. CASH CAPITAL, - $75,000 DIHECTOUS: Leakdek Gekkakd, Pres'l. Geo. W. Huxst, Vict Prcs't. Julius A. Reed. R. II. He.vby. .7. E. Taskeu, Cashier. Raak or Depewit, llcem smd Eichaajte. Collection Promptly Made nil Point. Pay latrrcMt on Time Dcpo- iVi. 274 HENRY LUERS, TtKALKK IN WIND MILLS, AND PUMPS, Buckeye Mower, combined, Self Binder, wire or twine. Pumps Repaired on short notice JSTOne door west of Heintz'e Dru: Store, Iltti street, Columbu. Neb. HENRY G-ASS, TJZsTOEJlTAK-Ell ! COFFINS XP METALLIC CASES ASP DEALEi: IN Furniture. Chairs, Bedsteads, Bu reaus Tables, Safes. Lounges, &.C., Picture Frames and Mouldings. 3Tliepairina of all kinds of Upholstery Goods. 6-tf rm miu VKK. Be Warned In time. Kidney diseases may be prevented by purifyin:-, renewing, and invigorating the blood with AVer's Sarsaparilla. "VThen, through debility, the action or the kidneys Is perverted, these organs rob the blood of its needed constituent, albumen, which is passed oC in the urine, while won out matter, which they should carry off from the blood, is allowed to remain. By the use of Ayer'a Sarsaparilla, the kidneys are restored to proper action, and Albu minuria, or Bright' s Disease is prevented. Ayer's Sarsaparilla also prevents inflammation of the kidneys, and other disorders of these organs. 3lrs.Jas. TT. "Weld, Fore-t h,h t., Jamaica Plain, Mass., writes: I .:nve had a complica tion of diseases, "but my greatest trouble has been with my kidneys. Four bottles of Ayer's Sarsaparilla made me feel like a new person; as well and strong as ever." W. 3T. McDonald, 46 Summer at., Boston, Mass., had been troubled for years with Sidney Complaint. By the use of Ayer's Sarsaparilla, he not only Prevented the-disease from assuming a fatal form, but was restored to perfect health. John McLellan, cor. Bridge and Third ste., Lowell, Mass., writes : 'Tor several years I suffered .from Dyspepsia and Kidney Complaint, the latter being so severe at times that I could scarcely attend to my work. My appetite was poor, and I was much emaciated; but by using AYER'S Sarsaparilla my appetite and digestion improved, and my health has been perfectly restored." Sold by all Druggists. Price 91; Six bottles, So. Prepared by Dr. J. C. Aver & Co., Lowell, Mass., U. S.-A. FARMER'S HOME. This House, recently purchased by me. will be thoroughly refitted. Board by the day. week or meal. A few rooms to let. A share of the public patronage i solicited. Feed stable in connection. 2-y Albekt Luth. tLYON&HEALY I State & Monroe St.. Chicago. WBlftsdfnnJutiTUJmfUv BAND CATALOGUE, i V for Its. UO cs J Lsrrmfl I.I iBttranu, .it... cm-, aria. iPoxn. Esaifev. C-Lxma. Sia&4. IVcb UmHi t&Fw &&1 Ka. Soa&y 1U4 Outru. l-TilX tlCbcfeJui. AP1JZE. 5enu frtx, cents for potage.and receive tree, a cottlv box of goods which will help you to more money right u.i than anything else in thi world. Ail, of either sex. succeed from firt bcur. The broa"d road to fortune opens b-Ure. tin; worker. abolutely sure. At once address, Tans Col, Aagasta, Alaiae; egggg U4 tr il THOSE "FLORAL TRIBUTES. How la it that when soaae one diss Keriected and alone. A halo by the unfeeling world Is round his znexn'xy thrown? Tbejr tell his virtues, every eae. Their tong-ues are all untied Bucb. praises, sooner spoken. might Hare soothed him ere he died. Thev bear nun proudly to the grave. While mourners line-the way. And f rajrrant flowers smother deep The cola, unfeeling- clay: He's riding In a hearse that cost A hundred pounds or more. He never had so fine a ride In all his life before. His grave is full of flowers. Exotics neb and rare, With Mr.Bomeone's compliments f What doe the doad man care? The flowers are very handsome. The colors nicely blent (The papers give a list of those Who floral tributes senU. If they had listened ore he died. They xnurbt have heard him moan For flowers like these that All his hearse When he was sick and lone. Tb rose xnirht have brought him hope, Tho miles, thoughts of .May. Be migathave fathered streagta aad bees -Alive and well te-4ay.- - - - Toronto World. YELLOW HOSES. . Beautiful Resurrection of Youth ful Love. This yellow rose tree brings a storv to my mind. One evening two years ago I went to spend a few hours with an old lady, amiable, witty, and kind, who lives near me. She is passionately fond of flowers, and you could not conceive the delight I take in making beautiful bouquets for her, orhow happy I am in her surprise when I take her a flower that she does not know or which is not common in the country. Yesterday when I went in I found an old gentleman with her who came into our neighborhood a year ago to take possession of a large estate which was left him by a distant relative on condi tion that he should take with the prop erty the name of its former owner. He is called, accordingly, M. Descoudraies. He sought an introduction to my old friend, and I soon had reason to be jeal ous of his attentions to her; they formed a friendship for each other, and spent almost all their earnings together play ing trictrac l saluted them quietly in order not to interrupt their game." and then, when it was ended, I offered Mme. Lorgerel a bouquet of yellow roses which T had bought. My roses were very beautiful, al though the excessive rains of that year bad caused the yellow roses to bloom imperfectly; mine, sheltered by the pro jection of a roof, were perhaps the only perfectly expanded ones in the neigh borhood. Mme. Lorgerel uttered ex clamations of delight over the beautiful bouquet. M. Descoudraies said nothing, but ap peared preoccupied. I remarked this with surprise, not understanding the mysterious influence of my vellow roses, but Mme. Lorgerel soon spoke of some thing else, and I thought I must have been mistaken. As for M. Descoudraies, he began to laugh, and said . "Would you believe that this bouquet has recalled, as by an operation of mag ic, a whole epoch of my youth? 'During the last fiveniinutes I have been but twenty years old; within live minutes I have fallen in love anew with a woman who must cow be sixty years old, if she is still living. I must tell you this story; it concerned a circum stance that has haJ a great influence over my whole life, anil whose memory, even to-day, when my blood has only just warmth enough to continue life and play trictrac, does not tail to move me in an extraordinary manner. "I was twenty years old a little more than forty years ago. I had only just come irom college, where voung men ' spent more time then than in these days. After having ripely considered for me and without my aid the choice of a vo cation, my father announced to me one morning that he had obtained for me a Lieutenancy in the regiment of , quartered in a city of Auvergne. and bade me hold myself in readiness to set out on the third day. "I was somewhat disturbed for sev eral reasons. In the first ulaee I did not like a niilitarv life, but that would have been an objection easily overcome; t the sight oi a neh uniform, a few am- bilious phra.xs. a little easilv have made of me music would an Achilles or a Ciesar. "But I was in love. "I would not for anything iu the world have ventured to mention this to my father. His sole response to such a confidence would have been an order to depart that very night. But I had an uncle. Such an uncle! "He was a man then of my present age; but he had remained young, not toward himself, indeed, for never did an old man renounce with a better grace. Satan, his pomps and his deeds, but to ward others. He loved young people: he understood them without being" jeal ous of them. He did not believe that his infirmities were progress nor his old age necessarily wisdom. Through his kindness of heart and his reason he lived in the happiness .of others. I went to him and laid to him: 'Uncle, I am very unhappy.' "'I wager "twenty louis that you are not,' said he- " "'Ah! uncle, do not joke. Besides, you would lose.' " 'If I lose I will pay: perhaps that will help to comfort you.' "No, uncle; money has nothing to do with tax trouble.' " 'Tell me abouUt.' " 'My father has just announced tome that I am Lieutenant in the regiment of .' " -A splendid misfortune! The hand somest uniform possible, and the officers are all gentlemen,' " 'But, uncle, I do not wish to be a soldier.' "What! You do not wish to be a sol dier? Can it be that you are not brave?' " I do not know vet; but you are the only one in the world whom'l allow to ask me such a question.' "'Well, then, Cid, my dear fellow, whv do vou not want to "be. a soldier?' -- -WelL uncle it is because I want to r aaarry. "-Oh!' "There is no oh in the matter, uncle; I am in love-' " 'Is that what you call unhappiness, you ingrate? I only wish -I were in love myself. And who" is the object of your tender flame?' " -Ahvracle, she Is an angel. " -Yes, I know, it is alwavs an angeL Later on you will love a woman better, j -sui. w vou numan name, in SHorc,aoes this aagel aaswer?' --Tkey call her NaoBoL' That -is not what I am hekiaxr. Naomi is for yourself. Moreover, it is a pretty name. But for .me. who wants to know who the angel is, to what family she belongs, the family name is the es sential thin?.' " 'It is Mtille. Amelot. uncle.' " -Indeed! That is far better than an angeL She is a b nine t to, tall and slen der, with dark, velvet eyes. I do not disapprove the object."' - 'Ah. uncle, if vou only knew her heart!' " -I know, I understand aad does she pay vou back in kind? as they used to say. Is that what you young folks call it nowadays?' " That, uncle, I do not know. ' "What! Not know? My unworthy nephew! You have gone "to see her every day and you do not even know whether she lores you!' -"She does not even know, node, that I love her.' " -Oh, you are mistaken as to that my handsome nephew; you know nothing at all about that. She knew it at least a quarter of aa hour before you knew it vourself.' " -All I know is. that I shall kill my self unless I can hare her.1 Oh! oh! Well, now, nephew, there are a great many chances that you will never have her. Your father "is much richer than she, and will never be will ing to give her his son.' -Then, uncle, I shall know what to do." " 'Yes. but lake care; don't do any thing foolish in an- case. Listen to me a moment.' ' 'Yes, uncle.' '"Very well: in the first place you can not many at twenty.' ' 'Why not, pray?' '- 'Because I am not willing, and with out my consent this marriage can not take place at all. -Oh! my good uncle ' ' 'If the cirl loves you she will prom ise to wait for vou three years 'Three year, uncle!"" " 'If you complain, I shall say four. If she promises to wail three years for you, you will go to your regiment, but not at Clermont- I "will get you into a regiment a few leagues from Pans, so that you can come home once in three months, when you wish to do so.' " -Very well, uncle; how shall I know whether she loves me?' "'How shall you know? Why, by asking her.' " 'Ah uncle. I should never dare to do it.' " 'Very well, then; pack your trunks and obey your father.' " 'But, uncle, you do not know what a girl she is. I have tried a hundred times to tell her that I loved her. I have cursed myself for my timidity; I have fortified myself in every way"; I have prepared speeches and learned them by heart, but when the time came to speak the first word choked me. and I talked of something else. Her ex pression is so gentle and the same time so severe, it seems to me that she could never love a man, and I talked of some thing else.' -In regard to letters it was much worse. When the moment came to give them they seemed so stupid to me that I could not tear them into small enough pieces." '"But. my boy. it is time to make up your mind at last, and there is a reason for it too. Your father has not told you all. He wishes to send you to Clermont because the Colonel of the regiment is a friend of his and has a daughter: be cause this daughter is intended for you and will make a rich and splendid match. But you need not speak I know that all that is nothing when one L? in love. It. is a tremendous folly no doubt, but it is a folly of which I should be sorry not to have been guilty. None but pries are free from it. I know that the old call it illusion, but who knows tkat the illusions are not their own? The glass that diminishes the size of ob jectshas no less real an existence than the glass that magnifies them. '"If she loves you you ought to give up everything for her; it is a stupid thing to do, but it is right, and it must be done. But you must find out whether she loves you. and just now you have an excellent opportunity to do so. They want to marry her. " You turn pale at they idea and wish you had your odious rival at the sword's end is that what you say nowadays? Well, then, try to keep up a little of this fine courage in the presence of your beautiful Naomi. They want to many her: you are richer than she: but the one to whom thev wisb to jrive her is wish to give her is richer than vou: be- sides, he is titled, and is a husband ready to their hand; and the wedding outfit is prepared, while for vou ther would have to wait. Go to Naomi and tell her that you love her. She knows it, but if ought to be said in any case. And tell her for she must love you, young, handsome, and witty as y'ou are tell her to swear to wait three years for you, and to write it to me in a letter, which I will keep. Then I will break up that other marriage; I will get you into an other regiment, and in three years, in spite of everything, I will hare you married. " 'Well, uncle, I have an idea. I will write to her.' ' 'As you please.' "I left my uncle and went to write my letter. "This was not the hardest part of my task. I had already written to her a hundred and fifty times, but to deliver the letter embarrassed me. Hav no time to hesitste, however, I came to a decision. I bought a bouquet of yel low roses and slipped my letter into the middle of the bouquet. Thi is perhaps all very foolish, but I remember it still. "After avowingmy love, I begged her to love me and be happy with me. and to wait for me three years. I asked her if she consented, to wear one of my yel low roses in her belt that evening; "then, said I. I shall dare to speak to you of my joy I dare not savour jov. "When the evening came Naomi wore n rose in her belt. "I wanted to kill my self, but my uncle went with me to Cler mont. He' remained there two months, and ended by comforting me and per suading me that Naomi had nerer loved me. But. uncle, I would say, -she seemed so happy when T came and re proached so sweetly when I came late.' Women love everybody's love.' he would reply, 'bat "they are far from lov ing everybody.' "At last I almost forgot her and mar ried the Colonel's daughter, whom I lost after eisrht vears of marriare. But I still think of Naomi, and 1' alwavs see her a young girl of seventeen, with her brown hair and her dark, velvety eyes, while she must now be some good 'old lady." "But your name is not Descoudraies?'' "No. that is the name of my uncle's estate: mrnameisEdmondd'Altheim." -"Then I will tell you what became of NaomL" "What!" "Yes, she loved you." But the yellow rose?" She'dulnotfiBdyour note. Tour sodden departure "coat'heTr maay 'tears.' Afterward she narried M. da Lorgerel, whose widow I am to-day." "What, tou? Are yon Naomi Ame lot?" "Alas, yes; as you are still, or rather, as you scarcely are. Edmond d' Altheisa. " "Who would hare believed that oas day we would be unable to recogauw each other?" "Yes; or that we should meet years after only to play trictrac. As for the bonquet.'l have always kept it." And Madame de Lorgerel went to aa ebony cabinet and brought forth from tt a withered bouquet. She was tremb ling. She untied the bouquet and found the letter that had been there for forty two years. They were both silent M. Descou draies arose. Madam de Lorgerel took his hand and said: "You are right. This resurrectioa of our hearts' youth should not be be fore two aged faces like yours and mine. Let us shield from becoming ridiculous a noble affection which, perhaps, will bring us happiness all the rest of our lives. Come again after a few days. Since that time the two old people have been inseparable. 1 have never seen anything like the love that is be tween them. They have a thousand things to tell that have never been ex plained; they love each other retro spectively; they would like to be mar ried to each other. French Translation in Inter-Ocean. HAND-ORGANS. Interesting Facts About an Iniluitry Sel (loin Heard of I'lncky Orjjan-tirinilera. Up four flights of stairs-in a buildiog not far from Chatham square, one comas into an odd-looking workshop. It is a triangular-shaped room, containing a number of benches, several boards ol rosewood and black walnut and many heaps of shavings. The place is a hand organ manufactory. "Trade is pretty dull just now," said its proprietor to a reporter. "My lively times are in the late win ter and early spring. I have been in the business here twenty-five years. It can't be said a regular business it's all special. Sometimes we are overrun with work when we don't expect it, and at times when we have every reason to expect wofk. tiiere isn't any" You can't force the market in the" hand-organ business. The trade don't much.' change "What is the largest sum a hand-organ ever made in a day?" "I heard of one who, when there was a racket in the gold-room, cleared from $50 to $60. But, of course, this was ex ceptional. The monkey part of the bus iness is as good as ever; a monkey is al ways a drawing card to the handorgan player. I hear a new trick is to teach the monkey to steal from houses. The attraction of the business seems to be the independent mode of life. Many Italians not speak ing English can get along much better this way than anv other A curious thing about it is, that they never think of the really hard work they are doing in carrying about all day a load of from forty to fifty pounds. When a man be gins the day with this weight on his oack, it easily seems one hundred pounds in weight before night comes. Some of themcarry organs that weigh as much as seventy pounds, but they general Iv break down when they try that. A man may carry an organ w'eigh ing forty pounds without hurting him self." "What kind are most preferred?" "The weight is the first consideration, the lightest always being the favorites. Next comes those having the most pop ular street airs. The tunes of Harrigan's songs are the most sought after row, and have been a great feature this sum mer. One song especially has taken well. It is 'Stick to your Mother, Tom.' Some of the second-hand organs that we have could tell most interesting histories, and have picked up small fortunes- Their owners travel all over, and show a won derful amount of pluck and perseverance sometimes. 1 know of one remarkable in stance. A number of y ars ago an old fel low, over fifty years of age, came in here and bought a thirty-pound organ. fle started from here with it upon his back, and for sometime I did not hear of him. Tnen to my surprise I got word that he was in California making money. The plucky old fellow had walked the entire distance to California, climbed the Rocky mountains and carrving his orgau with him the entire distance. He got interested in speculating after he got there, beginning in a small way, and the last time 1 heard of him he was well off. He was a stubborn old fellow, and what started him off on his journey was a lawsuit with a church. The last time I saw him his figure was bent far over, but it could be seen that he retained the same old stubbornness of character." "What do hand-organs cost?" "A new one made to carry, is worth from one hundred to two hundred and fifty dollars, but we sell a good second hand organ for from fifty dollars up. A flute-organ, weighing thirty pounds, with twenty-four keys, and that plays nine tunes, costs one hundred dollars, with a black-walnut case; with a rose wood inlaid case, one hundred and twenty-five dollars. A flute-organ of forty pounds, with twenty-six keys and two stop pipes, playing ten tunes, costs one hundred and ffftv dollars in black walnut; extra cylinders coat forty-five dollars each. An organ with flute and piccolo, forty-five pounds and thirty-five keys, costs one hundred and eighty dol lars in black walnut. We sell what we call sideshow organs. Thev come in three different styles. No. 1 is of thirty-two keys, ten trumpets, nine tunes, with sub-bass trumpet and bells. It costs two hundred and eighty-six dol lars. No. 2 is of forty-two keys" four stop pipes, nine tunes, "with cymbals and snare drum. It costs six hundred dol lars. No. S crowns the list. It is an automatic brass band, with, sixty keys, four stop pipes, thirty brass trumpets, large and small drums, triangles, etc It plays nine tunes, and in a black walnut case costs twenty-two hundred dollars. So you see we can get them up as big as a house, if such are wanted." "Do you make any hand-organs con taining small dancing figures? Not many nowadays. I had an order for one yesterday, but it is long; sine I have mide one that it comes hard. Such a one with automatic figures ousts about ty-dollars. X. Y. Mail ami Express. The mineralogista of Washington are keeping a careful watch upon the progress of the great water-works tunnel which traverses the rocky highlands in the northwestern part of the city, asd a series of specimens is to be gathered, at intervals of fiftv feet, throuAoat its en tire length of 21,400 feet. Sr preserva tion in the National 'Museum. Already many minerals hitherto -nakaowkiut the District of Columbia' have aees, taoufat (plight. Washington Stan National Bank ! COX.1 Aitarizei Capital, -Paid Ik Capital, Siralas aid Prai to, - $250,000 60,000 13,000 omcxas and dibxctoks. A. ANDERSON, Prei"t. SAM'L C. SMITH, Ftce Pres't. O.T.EOEK, Cashin. J. W. EARLY. HERMAN OEHLRICH, VT. A. MCALLISTER, G. ANDERSON, P. ANDERSON. Foreign and Inland .Exchange, Passage Tickets, ana Real Estate Loans. 29-vol-li-lx BU8UES8 CARDS. D.T. JLirty-, M. D. F. J. Scucg, M.D. Drs. KABTTH & SCHTJG, U. 8. Examining Surgeons, Local Surgeons. Union Pacific, O., N. fc 13. H. and U. & 31. K. K's. Consultations, in German and English. Telephones at office and residences. Eg-Qffice on Olive street, next to Brod feuhrer'a Jewelry Store. COLUMBUS, - NEBRASKA. 4-J-T W 7 Jl. COKVluL.IUS, LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE. Upstairs Ernst building 11th ttreet. C 1. EVAiW, HI.' d.. P BY SI CI AN AND SURGEON. STOffice and rooms. Gluck building, 11th street. Telephone communication. -Jy TTA.VIILXO MEADE, 91. 1, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Platte Center, Nebraska. 9-y F. F. MliXXEK, IH. D., HOMGBOPATHIST. Caroaic Diseases aad Diseases of Ckildrea a Specialty. STOffice on Olive street, three doore north of Fint National Bank. 2-ly TT J. HtlMO.1, NOTARY PUBLIC. Sth Street, 2 iMriwHt ef Haemead Hom, Colutnbu$, 'Neb. 491-7 J 6. atEEDEK, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Office on Olive St., Columbus, Nebraska 2-tf !H09iF.Y TO LOA!. Five vears' time, on improved farms with at least one-fourth the acreage under cultivation, in sums representing one third the fair -alue of tbe homestead. Correspondence solicited. Address, 31. K.TURNER, .fl- Columbus, Nebr. V. A. MACKEN, DKALZK IX Foreign and Domestic Liquors and Cigars. llth street. Columbus, Neb. 50-y A rcAEElSTEet BROS., A TTORXEYS A T LA W, Office up.staire in McAllister's build ing, llth St. W. A. McAllister, Notary Public. TOHX TIMOTHY, NOTARY PUBLIC AMD CONVEYANCER. Keeps a full line of stationery and school supplies, and all kinds of legar forms. Iusures against fire, lightning, cyclone and tornadoes. Office in Powell's Block, Platte Centei. 19-x J. SI. MACKAKLAND, B. R. COWDKRY, LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE or MACFARIiAND & COWOERT, Ctlumbtts. : : : Nebraska. J. J. nAUGHA, Justice, County Surveyor, Notary, Laiui and Collection Agent. BTParties desiring surveying done can notify me by mail at Platte "Centre, Neb. 51.6m JOHN G. HIGGINs. C. J. GARLOW, Collection Attorxev. moons & OABiow, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, Specialty made of Collections bv C. .7. Garlow . 3Mm Tp H.atUSCHE, llth St., opposite Lindell Hotel. Sell Harness, Saddles, Collars, Whips, Blankets. Curry Combs, Brushes, trunks, valises, bugzry tops, cushions, carriage trimmings, &C, at the lowest possible prices. Repairs promptly attended to. TA5IES ALM0.1, 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. S26mo. T H. L.AWatFJVCE, DEPUTYO. SURVEYOR. Cill do general surveyiug in Platte and adjoining counties. Inquire at the Court House. COLCMBC8, ... NEBRASKA. 17-tf VOTICE TO TEACMEMS. J. E. Moncrief, Co. Sapt., 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 transaction of any other business prtaininir to schools. 567-y JS. MUJ'UOUK &SON, Carpenters and Contractors. Have bad an extended experience, and will guarantee satisfaction in work. All kiads of repairing done on short notice. Our motto is, Good work aad fair prices. Call and give as an oppor tunityte estimate for v6u. asarghon en 13th SL, oae doer west of Jriedbof A Co's. store, Columbus, Nebr. eas-y ' ROTTERDAat. Qvatat OM Q4. xafcakttaata. Nowadays, thanks to railway aal modern improvements, the approach to nearly all towns is spoiled. You enter Rotterdam on a higher level than the roofs of the houses, amid the usual mase . of rail tracks, stacks of coal and sooty serpentine water hose. The station and the people about it look modern and dirty and common-place. The only thing that strikes and makes one feel that one is traveling in a foreign country is, the inscriptions and advertisements written in that queer Dutch language, that seems now a corruption of English, and now of German a language which one is constantly on the point of under standing, but without ever quite achiev ing that happy result. Once outside the station the charm begins. First of all there is the triumphant and monumental windmill in the center of the town, and then, wherever you turn, you find yourself in a laoyrinth of canals crowded wifh ships and boats of all kinds, bordered with trees and boule vards lined with lofty houses. The city is different from anything thai can bo seen elsewhere in Europe. It is a com bination of streets, quays, canals and bridges, so complicated that you can hardly feel sure whether it is a dock vard or a town, whether there is more land than water, and more ships than houses, for esch canal is crowded with ships of all sizes, except in the middle, where there re mains a dark green channel by which the boata pass in and out. iou are moving along with the tranquil crowd of Dutchmen, with their serious air and their broad yellow faces but faces of a yellow such as you do not see else where, the yellow" of Parmesan cheese with their blonde, reddish, or yellowish hair; some of them beardless, others with a fringe of hair around their faces, such as the English call Newgate frill; and among them women, with equally yellow faces, long teeth, broad hannchei, and formless bodies, by no means re minding one of the robust beauties which Rubens painted. Tre men in t crowd are neither well-Ioolcingnorstal wart,but small and lean: as for the womcn.they are almost invariably very plain,and not al ways so clean and tidy as tradition re ports. Suddenly there is a halt: the crowd thickens," a balance-bridge rises in the air, a ship or barge glides past; the toll-taker swings a wooden shoe, at tached to a rod and line, and angles for the toll money: the bridge falls into position again", and the crowds and the carts pass away on. calmly seriously, as if th,ey were trying to show the obser vant "stranger" how sood they can be. fet the streets of Rotterdam are full of animation. Tramways-run in every di rection, and there is a constant tinkling of their bells to warn the innumerable carts to clear the track. But all the movement is commercial; you see very few carriages, no display" of elegancy and very few showy shops. In fact, the vast majority of the shops in the streets of Rot terdam are tobacco and cigar shops, sil versmiths and provision stores. The profusion of shops for the sale of eat ables and household wares is extraordin ary. Evidently it is more profitable in Rotterdam to appeal to the palate than to the eye. With'ail their movement there is a singular calm reigniug in the streets of Rotterdam. The faces of the passers-by are stolid: there is no chatting, no ges ticulating. The population is imper turbably good. I was constantly struck by this feature of the Dutch wherever I went: they are preternaturally tranquil. At Rotterdam, it mav be argued, the people are preoccupied with business. and have no time to be gay and noisy. But at their holiday resorts they are equally quiet. One Sunday afternoon I . weat down to Scbeveningen. the famous seaside resort, near the Hague, and I ! was utterly astounded at the bearing of ( rnecrowd'of holiday-seekers. I could hardlv helD thin kin? that the whole thing must be a toy. and that the people ' were playing at being good. Ihe hotels on the to;- of the sand-dunes, the neat brick -paved winding footpath that runs the whole length of the upper part of the beach, the villas, the casino, the village: the church, with its clock-dial painted red and blue, with the hours picked out in white; the little canvas bathing-machines, brilliant with new paint; the little tents on the beach, the fishing boats, all seemed to accord with this idea, they were also neat and proper. When we" arrived, all the people were out on the beach: the Sunday holiday makers, too had arrived: and yet the tranquility, the stillness, the absence of the sounds of gayety, or, indeed of anv human sounds, were so marked that it made one feel quite uneasy. Yon met groups walking quietly; here and there were groups sitting quietly and talking qnietlv; and quiet smiles' pervaded at rare intervals their buttery physiogno mies. I presume these people were en joying themselves in their own quiet way. CorrJull Magazine. FOREIGN ODDITIES. How Raral Letter-Carrier In Knrland and France Ovcreone Topographical 1)181 cult leu. Bicycles and tricycles now help many of our rural postmen to "make good time." as thev sav in America, provid ed their beats lie in fairly level country, with tolerable roads. "But I am not aware that the letter-carriers of the Fen district.- have prolited by the wisdom of their French brethren in the depart ment of Landes, that desert region of reedy marshes, and evershifting sands, only traversed by muddy, uncertain roads. Yeai by year, owing to the prevalence of weaterly winds, the dunes (as these sand-hill are called) en croach more and more on the fertile tracts, actually overwhelming houses and vineyards, or in the forests of cork trees, are scattered the wretched huts of these people, who are mostly shepherds, cork-cutters and charcoal burners. One of their chief industries is the manufacture of sabots, or wooden shoes, clumsy indeed, but warranted to stand any amount of wear-and-tear. But even "these active peasants find it exhaustive work alternately to trudge ankle-deep in light, dry sand, or through ooxv peat-moss, so they have borrowed a hint from the long-legged water-birds that stalk among the marshes, and have adopted the plan of walking on very lengthy ti!t-. Thus they set over tec ground at double pace, and being well raued above the world they. can keep a better look-out for their stray sheep or swine, or the position of such game a may be worth stalking at leisure. Ce $eWs Family Magazine. There are two thousand varieties of taaablerB in the market. N. T.- Sun. THE DUBIOUS MAN. kr Ti Ity sob, if you can be positive I am lad of it. I like to see a man positive that he knows what he knows. I glad to hear you talk as though you knew all about it I do adaiire a posi tive character. Alas, therein do I lack. am not skeptical, but I am not a posi tive maa, I am not really positive about scarcely anything. I -have been taught from childhood that two and two make four, and I believe it. but if you rush at me and cross-question me aad corner me about it, I will have toon up that all I know about it is what the teacher told me. I don't think my teacher would lie about a little thing like that If it were a question of mil lions now. there might bo somo tempta tion to slip in a thousand or two on a poor ignorant fellow who didn't know anything about it. I am not positive when America was discovered nor who discovered it. There are claimants all the wav from the lost tribes of Israel and Eric the Red down to Oscar Wilde. How- am I to know! I am not even positive when I will pay my debts. And this grievous lack of positiveness (is there such a word?) makes me dread controversy. I had rather givo in to a positive man a week than dis pute with him ten minutes, be cause he is positive about every thing and I am positive in nothing. Why, even after he has silenced me I am not positive that he is in the right. I am not even positive that ho is posi tive. He says he is, but I don't know. So I wait I am very patient, and often it happens, I may say it always happens, that a few days", a few weeks, a few months, or a year, even a year is not long shows that he was altogether wrong and that I was unquestionably right on every point. And then .how triumphantly I hunt him up, and ride over him rough shod, and sav to him: "There, what did I tell vou?" Didn't I say so? asn'tirlght? Didn'tlwarn you? Didn't I know? Are yon con vinced now, you pig headed old colossus of ignorance and presumption? The next time I tell you a thing is so you'll know that it is so, whether it is or not." That's triumph for you, my boy. But ah, me, I so often grieve over my lack of positive conviction. Do you culti vate a positive character, my son. And when yon know it about all'come down and stay a few days with me. Til try to lead you into a few ambiguous pits which I have vaguely dug here and there about my apocryphal grounds in aa indeterminate sort of way formy ab solute friends to fall into. Burdetie in Mrotklin Eagle. ENGLISH ENGAGEMENTS. Way BritUh XaMea Strive to Proloag; the Xafaeeaaat S oa. English girls seldom marry before the age of twenty-two or twenty-three. Some marry rell at the age of thirty. A marriage in England is not arranged in a few days, or even in a few months. A young man of about twenty engages himself to a young lady of, say, eighteen, and the lovers remain engaged for three, or even five, yoars. These are the wo man's good times. During the engage ment she enjovs almost all the sweets of married life without any of its troubles, and she is free. Sometimes she does her best to make the engage ment last as long as possible. She -prefer? to murmur wonL of love to her be trothed to shutting herself up with hi m in some semi-detached cottage wherein to bemoan the high price of bread and butter and coal. On the day she is married she is settled, as they say in England; thatmeans she is established. I would define this word "settled" more correctly by saying that her business is done for her. I do not wish at all to convey the idea that woman finds no happiness in the English housc-ttold; nothing is further from my mind. I think, on the contrary, she can enter it with more confidence than can her sis ter across the channel, because she as sumes much lei's responsibility and be cause her mother has invariably versed her inot thoroughly in domestic econo my. Women in England know nothing at" all about their husband's business, no more than a clerk knows about the private affaire of his employer; and it i even a difficult matter for her to say whether he is making a fortune or on the verge of bankruptcy. When her hus band dies an Englishwoman who has no fortune may become a governess, a housekeeper", or a nurse. That is ser vitude. An Englishman gives his wife so much a month for hjujenold expenses, and so much for her wardrobe-her wages as it were- She evinces no surprise when she learns one fine morning that her husband is taking her to a sumptu ous abode, nor when she learns that they must move some evening in the dark without making any noise. She goes with the furniture in a double sense. N. T. Mail and Express. A Noted Preacher's Advice. Rey. Dr. George Seffrey. of Glasgow, Scotland, has preached more than forty six years to the same congregation. To one of his foimer parishioners, now a New York merchant, Dr. Jeffrey ex plained the secret of his being able to interest the same audience so long. "I read every new book that has a bearing upon my special work," he saiiL "and make extracts from it, and index them, so that at any moment I can find them when wanted. In this way I feeep my self from moving in a rut. I work as hard as I used to at twenty, and I keep so far ahead with my sermons that there are always ten oi fifteen unfinished ones lying in my drawer ready to receive the result of my latest readings. I call them -sleeping sermons,' but it is they that sleep, and cot the people that ea"r them.' Exchange. There is some advantage in being a mathematician and having oeen distin guished at Cambridge. Such an indi vidual, after a proceas of figures, de clined to be married on a Thursday, as his silver wedding day would then "be on a Saturday, and his Masonic Lodge held iu meetings on Saturdays, and he was never absent on such occasions. X. T. Herald. 1 The old superstition about the pearl, that it brings bad luck as a wedding gift, seems to have gone over entirely, and now it is said that emeralds and sap phires are the unfortunate" stones to give for bridal presents. Clemlmnd Leader. It is announced that an English in ventor has lately devised a method of coating tin with a material reeerabliae glass, which removes all danger of poi sos. m canned goods. RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL. The seventv-niue evening schools of New York City'are attended by 35.4NO pupils. N. Y. Tribune. The average salary of the Missouri Conference is 500. just the pay of col ored porters in city hotels and ware houses. Richmond Advocate. Hereafter at Amherst College ao diploma will be given at graduation to those st-idenu who do not properly at tend to their gymnasium duties during their course. Hamilton College has in its museum a series of ivory figures delineating the stage of the opium eater's deseest through emaciation and degradation to death. There is somo demand that the' schools return to the old-fashioned sys-. tern of oral spelling, as being better' in,' its results than the method by which', students are taught words as a whole. Chicago Current. The United Methodist free churches represent the union of three desomine-4 ions of Methodists, and they constitute' the voungest of all the organized off shoots from the old Weslevan bodv. There are 76,385 members aad 332; preachers. A story is told of an aged clergy man, who met a man loudly declaiming against foreign missions. "Why." said the objector, "doesn't tho church look after the heathen at home?" "Wo do." said the clergyman quietly, and gave the man a tract. JV. Y. PoxL Tho Free Church of Scotland has determined to found a permanent church in Geueva, the city sacred to the mem ory of John Calvin and the sphere of the labors of John Knox. The services are to accommodate tho English speaking people. A number of Americans reside in this city. The whole educational question ap- Iiears to be resolved pnto this formu ation: Plain simple instruction in the elementary principles. No cramming. No fancy studies. Short lessons, well prepared. If any genius bo developed, seeking higher methods and wider cul ture, ho will, with the weapons provid ed, make his way. Bat it is folly to overdo instruction with the average mind, which, like some Virginia land, described by John Randolph, is "poor by nature and ruined by cultivation." AugmLi (Ga) ConslitulionalisL m m WIT AND WISDOM. The world may owo a man a living, but it is always best to'go out aad col lect it by a little hard work. X. 0. Picayune Harry: "When do soldiers become beasts of burden. Larry: "Beasts of burden? Let's see. Why. when they carry the town 1' " Golden Diys. Lady caller "I much prefer col ored servants to white ones, don't vou, Mrs. B?" Mrs. B. ' Well, really. Mrs. R-, it depends upon the color, you know. I can't endure green one:. 'Ex change. Gus De Smith "I want to hire you to take me out to the Lunatic Asylum and back. How much do you charge for the round trip?" Colored Jlacl: man "De Lor'! Yer ain't gwsntcr come back arter you onee et out dar, i- yor. Honey?" Texas Sifliitys. A book has jut been published which advocates the eating of non-carnivorous insects. As Abraham Lincoln once remarked: "For those who like this iort of thing it i- quite probable that this sort of ihinjr i jn-t about the ort of Post. thing they woulti l"Ue." Baton "By gum," said a girl in a blue silk dresd and white ab-i-v!. as she watched the c:A-Ies gliding of the elevator up and -ovrn. Thur.-da;. "I should think the man who pulis that up and down all dar ould bo awfully tired at night time.' Lewitton Journal. The Pmladelphia ' all says: The wealth of our language i shown by tho fact that "hang it up" and "chalk iu down" mean precisely tiie same thing. And it niisht have .id (led that the tiling "hnng up" or "chalked down" can be drunk up" or "drunk down" as it suits the customer. j". 11 Graphic Wisely said once a tough old sea-Captain to the a..eiubled pxengers at the ship's table: "You ve got to take things mighty ?arly; the first week I was mar ried nit and my mother-in-law had a rough and tumble tight to find out which one of us had married her daugh ter, and I gues I .-willed it." Boston Htmld. The marvelous fowl. The oraou'nr owl 1- h very fowl. Hrftt- on a limb By cigrt anl by ils.y. And an eajrer aeuMy wait on him To listen to what the ww bint mity say, I heard hla rincourvj Iu the folio-rtn? wayi Tho sun noun will set in the wrt. Twill be fair If the i-y It not cloudy. If a huntlrvtl an" :rooJ, ouly one can be befit. No jreatlniaa' ever a rowdy " -Ah'aa! crlfd theblnis. "what a marvelous fowl! Oh. woo could excel this oracular owir A.J. Wells, in SL XietuAttt. THE OLD STORY. Tbe Tru Inwanlnemof ait Editor' Pop ularity. My son. if I should publish a daily paper for twenty years if you can just strain your creduiity to the jwiint of be lieving that I could keep a daiiy paper going longer than six weeks if I should publish a daily paper twenty years, aad in all that time take occasion to men tion you about twice a week as our distinguished fellow townsman and "that eminent nan of letter and mer chant prince.''- and should say every time you croed the river on the ferry that vou had "departed" for the East, and when you came back I should no tice that "our justly popular fellow citi zen" had "returned; if I should in all those years praise your dog. your horse, your goods, your wife and babie. your clothes and your character, aid then some day. when I was away attending a convention, my local editor should call the attention of the town marshal to the filthy condition of the street and side walk in front of your store, would you ever forgive me? Would you? You would denounce the paper as a "scur rilous sheet" and its editor as a "lying scandal monger that ought to be whip ped out of the community." That in the reason, my son, whv tiiere are but two kinds of editors. One is a meek, smiling, timid little scrivener, who pays all the bills and allows his neighbors to edit his paper; and the other is a trucu lent, loud-voiced savage, who viciously scratches out the uict- little iersonal the local editor has written about your arri val home, and sends it in "By me in scrutable decree of a stern and relent less Providence, old Jake Diffenbaugh. has been permitted to come back home alive." aad then meets you at the head ef the stairs with a blackjack and pounds tan top of -your head in when you come to see about it. urdtU, in BittUuMU.
