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COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 2, 1885.
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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 !
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60,000
13,000
omcxas and dibxctoks.
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SAM'L C. SMITH, Ftce Pres't.
O.T.EOEK, Cashin.
J. W. EARLY.
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Caroaic Diseases aad Diseases of
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Five vears' time, on improved farms
with at least one-fourth the acreage under
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Correspondence solicited. Address,
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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.