t f m ; B 1 ABOUT MARRIAGE. to Tfceee Abes to Slip 0 Katrimoaial If ooee. Somc.manyforthefunof the thing and never ice where it comes in. This Id discouraging. Some marry for the sake of a good companion and never discover their mistake. This is lucky. Man is a fickle "critter." Even Adam, who had his wife made to order, found more of less fault with her. Don't marry a man for his reputa tion. It is liable to be only a second hand affair, borrowed from his ances tor8 "Many women have married men for their fine exterior. But that's all thero k to an ancient egg worth mentioning. Many marry to spito some one else only to learn that they got the butt-end of the' transaction, and its worst end at that. Marriage is a lottery full of chances. That's what gives it flavor. All like to chance it, because everybody thinks to win;a prize. Wedlock, in its original state, was as pure as sweet milk fresh from the cow, but man couldn't rest until he stripped it of much of its rich cream. I say when you arc ready to get mar ried, get married. However, it isn't 60 much trouble to get married as to know when you want to got married. The hot-headed youth marries in a hurry because he fears marriageable females will be scarce next year, and lives to wonder how the supply holda out Marriage resulting from love at first sight is not generally wedded bliss on a par with sour milk. 'One or the other gets swindled, and often both. Many a man has married for beauty, only to learn that he paid $10 for what can be purchased for twenty-five cents at all druggists. This is hard. The most affectionate people before marriage seldom hold out in the samo proportion after the knot is tied. It is better philosophy to commence only as you would live afterward. From the matrimonial market the saints of both sexes were culled out long ago. Don't expect to marry one. You must guess at some tilings and take chances for the future on this basis. Woman is sometimes the real cause of unhappiness in the married relations of life, but in the majority of instances the boot is on the other foot and she is really the true comfort there is in it. Don't marry a woman for her taper fingers and lily hands alone, for mar ried life and its rugged experiences call for a wife that knows how to make a pot boil and can spank babies sys tematically. But few people marry for pure lovo, and they in-after years suspicion that what were at the time promptings of the tender passion were, in all proba bility but the first symptoms of cholera morbus. The man who marries a woman sim ply because she is a handy arrange ment to have about the house does so from a purely business stand-point, and in the end, if not compelled to support him, she has has done better than many women I know of. Many a man who lias married for monoy has nevor realized a dividend upon the investment; and many women who have done the same tiling have left word for their posterity that, al though a fair transaction upon the face of it, yet it is just as liable to be put-up job. Toledo Blade HE WAS DISCOURAGED. Bow at Patriot Suffered for the Bake of Freedom' Noble Bird. A young man with his coat ripped down the back and his hair dreadfully mussed up culled to see the Captain at police headquarters yesterday and lodged a complaint I was coming in on the Gratiot road this morning," said he, "wearing a brass caglo on my vest as a badge. OJ course you are aware that it was as American eagle?" "Yes." "And jou fully realize that th American cafele represents liberty?" "I do." "When the American eagle isarouni all tyrants and oppressors have to take a back seat As.iwas walking along I met two young men, and one of 'em steps up and says: " 'Is that 'ere a wild goose or a menagerie snipe?' " 'That's the proud bird of liberty,' says L "'Ikin chnck that 'ere proud bird in the mud!' says the other. " 'Not while I live!' says I, and the fight begun. I was flung down, stepped upon, rolled over, and the emblem of liberty w:is torn off and spit on and trampled into the mud." "Well?" "Well, something ought to be done. I don't care for myself, but when any body insults our emblem he must be taught a lesson." "I'm afraid there is no law to cover the case." "No law to protect the American eagle?" "Never herd of one." "Humph! Isn't this a land of lib erty? Didn't the blood of our fore fathers dye a hundred battlefields that we might bo free? And now you tell mo that it is all an illusion?" Mostly that way, I guess." 'Very well. I'm done! I'm done with brags eagles, live eagles and all other sorts. Vm done with the life of c General Putnam the adventures of Marion and the exploits of Washing ton. American libertv can go to Hal ifax! Good day." Detroit Free Press. m REMARKABLE RUINS. Discovery of Prehistoric Riilnn la the State of Sonora, Mexico. The Chihuahua (Mexico) Enterprise reports the discovery of some remark able ancient ruins on a hill or mountain four leagues south of Magdalena, in Sonora. The hill is about 700 feet high, and half way up thero is a layer of gypsum, which is as white as snow, and may be cut into any conceivable shape, yet sufficiently hard to retain its shape after being cut In this layer of stone are but hundreds upon hundreds of rooms from 6x10 to 16x18 feet square. So even and true are the walls, floor and ceiling, so plumb and level as to defy variation. There are no windows in the rooms and but one entrance, which is always from the top. The rooms are but eight feet high from floor .to ceiling, .the stone; is so white that it seems almost transparent, and the rooms are not at all dark. On the walls of these rooms are numerous hieroglyph ics and representations of human being! cut in stone in different places; but, atrange to say, all the hands have five fiagers and a thumb, and the feet have six toes. Charcoal is found on the loorof many of the rooms; implements of every description are to be found. The hoasee or rooms are one above the other to three or lour stories high, but .between each story there is a jog or recess the fall width of the room below. so that, they present the appearance of i steps leading up the mountain. It has recently been discovered that Lake Diss, near DeLeon Springs; Volasia County," Fla., is fed by an enormous spring, which boils up about " two kmadred yards off the south shore f the lake. When the surface is per fectly stUl.the.boiling can be seen over r aa area of about five acres. It is pro posed to anchor a buoy over the center of the spring, since the best of cool water eaa eJMained tbera at a STUDYING POLITICS. Wead MjWall Tfinirif lira tea. Waa Cttnnlil ; Familiar With It. Ud to the present time we seem to have gone upon the principle that poli ticians, like poets, are born, not made; any man has a vote and any woman an interest in affairs pertaining not only to present interests, but to the world's future history. Thai a man should vote has been deemed a matter worthy of being secured at the cost of the uprooting of States and the overturning of civilizations; how he shall vote has been deemed to be a matter of concern only to the candi dates for election. Yet the study of politics is a study not only important but very interest ing. To judge by the amount of talk bestowed upon every political question, even the most trivial, there are few minds that would not find a keen pleas ure in the intelligent investigation of political with their allied social ques tions; and although a radical difficulty in the formation of a proper school of. practical politics would seem to lie .in the fact that most people imagine they know all about the subject already, yet IUVIV 19 B 113111" gi;ui;itMiri um,.....,, noifhanno nf the. nxtonr, of thair en dowments in this particular, and from their numbers it may uc nopea tuat some dudUs for the proposed school may bo secured. There are two kinds of women in the world: those who hate the very mention of politics and those who arc deeply in terested in the subject With a few notable exceptions, both are about equally ignorant; both have a strong influence on the present voting popula tion; both at some possible future time may themselves become voters. To both the study of politics would "be useful and not merely as a means of correct ing an influence often highly pernic ious, or of stimulating to the exercise of a beneficent influence. It would, above all, be useful as opening to them new avenues of thought as estab lishing for them new points of contact with the outer world and as creating new channels through which intelligence and culture may How into their homes. The narrow range of women's interest has dwarfed many a mind endowed with large powers or growth; the pettiness, the untruthful ness, the little meannesses to which woman is thought to be more prouo than man are generally the result of tho narrowness of her vision. She does not see truth in a broad light and therefore she can not see it truly. Let her intelligence be exercised in matters iracticnl beyond the sphere of her tome duties and she will gain morally, even more than intellectually. It is especially-important that women who are already interested in large questions, charitable workers, religious teachers, temperance reformers, should be thoroughly well founded in the science of politics. The adjustment of political action to the social problems of modern life is to be the great duty of the future. With these great prob lems women have much to do, on their practical side, and the true adjustment of social and political conditions is a work which demands the best powers of our brightest women as well as our most promising young men. Prob-f Jems of sanitary science, of public health, of providing work for the idle and industrial education for tho inca pable; problems relative to the housing of the poor, the employment of prison ers, the relation of ignorance to crime, of amusement to public morals, of re ligion to charitable work all these problems have to do with politics quite as surely as docs woman suffrage, and all of them demand that women, whether voters or not should come to an intelligent acquaintance with the fundamental principles on which polit ical science and practical politics are based. Philadelphia Times. NOBLE TOREADORES. IIow Bull-Fights Were Conducted in Spala Id tne Tear 1005. In 1605, loe toreadorcs, wo learn from the Gayangos Diary, were nobles and gentlemen of the court, who enconn tcrcd the bull lance in hand and mounted on hlgh-mcttlod steeds. Horses were indeed sometimes killed. We read bore of the Duke of Alva having one that had cost him one thousand ducats killed under him; but such accidents appear to have been exceptional, and the bull seems to have been given a fair chance for his life not as in these days, when, if the Espadc can not kill him, he is hamstrung with the mediatuna and then dispatched with tho dagger. If it was cruel sport, at least it was a chivalrous one in 16o5. The King did not figure as a toreador, but in the jttcgo de canas, the javelin games, that followed ho did, ana by universal ad mission made the best figure. among all who joined in them. From Pinhciro's account he Seems to have had as-good a scat on horseback as his son Philip IV. Tho arena was-the Plaza Mayor Valla dolid, perhaps the most picturesque old plaza in Spain, and Pinhciro waxes eloquent over the spectacle it presented, with its windows and balconies packed with people and radiant with beauty. He estimates the number of the specta tors at over forty thousand, nearly four times as many as the present Plaza de Toms at Madrid holds. Tho landlords of the houses round the plaza always, in letting them, reserved the right to dispose of the balconies and windows on these occasions; and though they were obliged to find places gratisfor the town council, municipal officers and the officials of the palace, nevertheless they made more in one day than the rent of houses for a year. Each of these bull fight), he says, cost at least thirty thousand cruzailos, (about $15,000. but representing, of cource, a much larger sum now;) but tho Valladolid people seem to have thrown thoir money about pretty freely. "In a matter of pleasure," he remarks, 'these devils never think about what it costs," and in the Diary he gives re peated example of the lavish expend iture he observed on all sides. Black' wood's Magazine. m The Soul of Honor. An American went to one of his friends who was in a sick hospital. "Well, and how arc you getting along?' he asked. "Badly, old man, very badly. The doctor has just told me that if I turned over on my left side it would kill me immediately." You surprise mo." "It's just as I have told you." "It's all nonsense." "You don't believe it; well, I will bet yon ten dollars it is so." TU take it" "Well, then, look here," and the sick man turned over and died. His friend deposited a ton-dollar bill on the side of tho bed and left Paris Oaulois. Suicide an Accident. Judge Dyer, of the United States Dis trict Court, In a suit to recover $10,000 insurance on the life of a man who committed suicide while insane, insared in the Accident Insurance Company of North America against injuries effected by "external, accidental or violent means," suicide being especially ex cepted, decides against the,, company, Jkolding that in this case the act of sai eide was no more the man's act in the sense of the law than if he had been impelled by aa irresistibU physical power. X. T. iWf. CANADIAN . GOVERNMENT. Bow the Varlowf Prevtaeeg "" 'Dominion" Are Governed. The Dominion of Canada consists of the provinces of Ontario, Quebec for merly Upper and Lower Canada Nora Scotia, .New Brunswick, Manitoba, British Columbia and Prince Edward Island. They were united nndcr the provisions of an act of the Imperial Parliament passed in March, 1867, known as "The British North America Act 1867," which came into operation on July 1, 1867, by royal proclamation. The act orders that the constitution of the Dominion shall be "similar in prin ciple to that of tho United Kingdom;" that the executive authority shall be vested in the Sovereign of Great Brit ain and Ireland, and carried on in her name by a Governor General and Privy Council; and that the legislative power shall be exercised by a Parliament of two houses, called the "Senate" and 'the House of Commons." Provision is made in the act for the admission of Newfoundland, still a self-governing crown colony, into the Dominion of Canada. In 1869 the extensive region known as the Northern Territories was added to the Dominion by purchase from tho Hudson's Bay Company. The members of the Senate of the Parlia ment of the Dominion are nominated for life, by summons of the Governor General under the great seal of Canada. By the terms of the constitution, thero are 77 Senators, namely, 21 from the Province of Ontario, 24 from Quebec, 10 from Nova Scotia, 10 from New Brunswick, 3 from Manitoba. 3 from British Columbia and 4 from Prince Edward Island. Each Senator must bo thirty years of age, a born or naturalized subject, and pos sessed of property, real or personal, of the value of $4,000 in the province for which he is appointed. The House of Commons of the Dominion is elected by the people for five years, at the rate of one representative for every 17,000 souls. At present, on the basis of the census returns of 1881, the House of Commons consists of 213 members, namely. 93 for Ontario, 65 for Quebec, 21 for Nova Scotia, 16 for New Bruns wick, 5 for Manitoba, 6 for British Co lumbia and 7 for Prince Edward Island. The members of the House of Com mons are elected by constituencies, varying in the difi'erent provinces. In Ontario and Quebec a vote is given to every male subject being the owner or occupier or tenant of real property of the assessed value of $300, or of the yearly value of $30, if within cities or towns, or of the assessed value of $200, or the yearly value of $20, if not so situ ate. In New Brunswick a vote is given to every male subject of 21 years, as sessed in respect of real estate to the, amount of $100, or of personal prop erty, or personal and real, amounting together to $400, or $400 annual in come. In Nova Scotia the franchise Is with all subjects of the age of 21 years', assessed in respect of real estate to tho value of $150, or in respect of personal estate, or of real and personal together, to the value of $400. Voting is by ballot The Speaker of the House of Commons has a salary of $i,000 per annum, and each member an allowance of $10 per diem, up to the end of 30 days, and for a session lasting Ipnger than this period, the sum of $1,000, with, in every case, ten cents per mile for traveling expenses. The sum of $8 per diem is deducted for every day's absence of a member, unless the samo is caused by illness. There is the samo allowance for the members of the Sen ate of the Dominion. The seven prov inces forming the Dominion have each a separate Parliament and administra tion, with a Lieutenant-Governor attha head of the Executive. They have full power to regulate their own local af fairs, dispose of their revenues and enact such laws as thej- may deem best for their own internal welfare, provided only they do not interfere with or are adverse to the action of the central ad ministration under the Attorney Gen eral. Toledo Blade. A COTTON HARVESTER. The Advantages and Drawbacks of a Won derful Machine. The machine is absolutely harmless to the plant No matter in what state or condition the plant is in, or at what season the harvester is run over a row, no damage will follow. The writer saw Mr. Mason break the stems of over a dozen burrs on a thickly-clustered stalk, until they were hanging by the finest filament and after tho picker stems had passed through not one was torn off. It seems almost miraculous that this could be, as they were at tached by such a slight filer. A darky, bungling into the bush with his fingers, couldn't have helped tearing oil" half of them. Had tho burrs contained lint the ligament would have given way, of course, and the burr woiiW have been jerked from its broken stem. But the machino has never been known of itself to break a boll or a bloom in the field. Wet or dry it does its work. I have seen cotton picked by it in such a wet and soaked condi tion that when allowed to dry natur ally in the sacks, it became as hard and caked as plaster of Paris. It has yet its defects, of course, and it is far from the object of this article to conceal them. The first is, that as at present constructed, it can not work in-cotton over five feet high. That can easily be overcome by m:ucing different sizes or the machiue adapted to ordi nary and to rank growths. Nine-tenths of the cotton, however, now grown in the South can be harvested with the present size. Again, the machine sometimes drops a little cottou from the picker stems before they euter the box. Also the cotton, as it passes up on the elevators to enter the sack, is sometimes blown off on windy days. 0This can readily bo provented by covers, which have never been put on except for the purpose of experiment because Mr. Mason did not want any part of the interior workings of the machine hidden from view while he was studyingand improv ing it. In the fourth place, a boll it occa sionally passed over and left unfath ered. This occurs seldom, and prac tically is of little consequence, two trips generally cleaning a row thor oughly. When a boll is accidentally left it will be gathered at the next picking, for the planter can run over his crop so rapidly and so often that a boll left here and there is of slight im portance. The frequent harvesting must also necessarily result in a better grade of cotton, as the fields can al ways be kept clean in advance of a rain. . Finally, the harvester sometimes fails to gather the lowest bolls whoa flat on the ground in the dirt That is difficult to remedy without introducing complications whloh would seriously interfere with the working of other .parts of the machine But Mr. Mason is hard at work rem edying, as rapidly as possible, these de feats as they present themselves, and Is confident of bringing the harvester's present capacity of two thousand pounds of seed cotton per day up to double that amount or three bales per day, and of reducing the cost of picking to less than one dollar a bale. And all this by one man and oa mule. Southern Bivouac' A. Chinaman who was.asked if he liked the neoole of California, said: "1 like the Americans; not many Ameri cans here, mostly Americana good men." SCHOOL AND CHURCH. Eighteen thousand female students are in attendance upon the colleges of this country. Chicago Herald. The Christian Dakota Indian young men have formed eleven "Kosha Okodakiciye," which is tho way they call their Y. M C. A. It has been proposed by mis sionaries in China that tho new version of the New Testament prepared by Rev. Griffith John, of Hankow, bo adopted as the basis of a union version for all China. Conversions have been reported from all fields of labor of the American Sunday-school Union from Ohio, Kan sas, .Minnesota, Nebraska, and Wis consin. Four new schools have been organized recently in the Indian Terri tory. At a regular meeting of the trus tees of Dartmouth College, the request of students of the college that the reading-room be opened on Sunday was not granted, that subject having been re ferred to the trustees by voto of the faculty. Concord N. B.) Monitor. A vestryman in one of the fashion able churches of New York declares after years of experience in passing the platter, that tho Richest heiresses rarely put in more than a dimo, no matter what the occasion for benevolence. They take tho lesson of tho widow's mito metaphorically. The maximum of daily school work in Prussia is seven hours for children eleven years of age up to nino hours for those sixteen years and upward. The standard is still higher in Denmark. No wonder that a large percentage of the children under such systems are re ported as sickly and weak-eyed. Chi cago Sun. The following statistics of tho Welsh churches are taken from the most trust worthy sources: In the year 1881, the population of Wales was 1,571,267. The Nonconformist denominations com prise 864,389 of this number, and pos sess 4,447 churches; Calvinistlc Meth odists (Presbyterians), 277,290; Con gregationalism, 276.201; Baptists, 195, 631; Wcslcyan Methodists, 86.438; Primitive Methodists, 19,382; Uni tarians, 5.000; and Methodist Free Church, Society of Friends, and Scotch Presbyterians number 1,608. Christian Union. The Official Year Book of tho Church of England" has published statistics of the amount contributed by churchmen during the last twenty-five years to distinctly church objects. Tho figures have been carefully checked with the view of excluding contribu tions devoted to purely parochial pur poses, such as tho maintenance of ad ditional clergy, or the relief of the sick in particular parishes, to middle class schools, to unsectarian institutions, and, with few exceptions, to sisterhoods. Even when thus limited, the total sum contributed in the quarter of a century is said to reach the enormous amount of four hundred million dollars. N. Y. Examiner. PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS. A wealthy girl never has freckles. Thoso specks on her faco are merely brown-eyed daisies slumbering in afield of roses. Burdelte. A Texas editor says: "Wo nevei could understand why so much shot should be wasted in killing birds while so many young men part their hair in tho middle." Texas Siflings. Aged Suitor "I shall lovo yon as long as I live." Young Lady "That will not suffice. I want some one who will love mo as long as I live." Flie gendo Blatter. Teacher: ''Why, how stupid you arc, to be sure! . Can't multiply eighty eight times twenty-five? I'll wager that Charles can do it in less than no time." Pupil: "I shouldn't be sur prised. They say fools multiply very rapidly." Prairie Farmer. The Chinese answer. Tou ataootee tno and bangce me. You bootee ino and bangce inc. Me doee workee. gotteo boodle Livee on ratoc, poodle; O. me Htco oh. so obeapce. And me workoo while you sleepoo. "If there's anything I like it's roast goose. remarked Fendcrson, as he passed his plate for a second helping. "Itdocs you credit" said Fogg; "there s nothing so beautiful as affection amongst members of a family." Boston Transcript. Bothering a rich man by boasting of a set of malachite studs he had just bought, a fop asked if he did not admire them. "O, yes," replied tho man of wealth, "very much indeed; I've got a mantlepiecc like them at home.' reek's Sun. "Tho remedy is worse than tho dis ease" as the young lady remarked who was expecting a male friend to pass the Sabbath evening, aud so was seized with a headache so violent that she could not go to church with her family; when her mother put her feet in hot water, gave her a dose of castor oil, and sent her to bed at seven. Boston Post. "Fino horse you've got there," said Jonas to a Kentucklan riding a beautiful bay saddler. "Pretty fair boss,' responded the Kentuckian, with affected indifference. "Thoroughly trained as a saddle horse, too, u.'nt he? ' "Knows all the motions, he does." "What do you call him?" "Thebes." "Thebes! Tint's odd. I never heard such a name for a horse before. What do you call him that for?" "Because he has a hundred gates, of course. Don't you know ancient history?" Merchant Traveler. BULLYING A BULLY. A Witness of the Sam Welter Stripe SI. lencm a Brow-Beating Lawyer. There is nothing a bully dislikes more than being himself bullied; and the man who ridicules overy one else is ordinarily the most sensitive to, sar casm. At a criminal trial "the oouo sel for the plaintiff" had threatened, and In some cjiscs had cruelly brow beaten, the witnesses, when it chanced that a hostler, who was simplicity per sonified, was called to give his testi mony. "Now, sir, I hope we shall have no difficulty in getting you to speak up!" said the attorney, in a very loud, com manding voice. "I hope not sir!" shouted the wit ness, at the top of his lungs. "How daro yon speak to me in that way?" "I can't speak no louder!" screamed the hostler. "Iiavo yon been drinking?" "Yes, sirf ' "I should infer so" (fiercely) "from your conduct; what have you been drinking?" Corfee, sir!" hoarsely vociferated the knight of the stable. Something besides coffee, sir, you've been using! Don't iook at me like that, sir!" (furiously) "look at tho jury, sir! Did yon have something in your coffee?" Yes, sir!" "What was it?1 Sagar!" " "This man is no fool, your Honor- he is worse!" stormed the counsel. "Now, sirrah," turning to the wit ness, "look at me! What besides su gar did you take in your coffie thie nibrafng?" The hostler collected his forces, drew ' a deep breath, and in a voice that could have been heard blocks away, bellowed out: A spuno!- A- spume; aa' mothta toe!" Youth's 0mpmnio. EDUCATIONAL. eat Tenure of Office for Teachers Current INibllo Opinion on Educa J tlonwl Topics. TENURE OF OFFICE OF TEACHERS. The most important reform in school administration that is now demanded in this country is a-more stable .tenure of oflico for teachers. Nothing but a per manent tenure of ofiice'diiring ciiicieney and good behavior will secure the ser vices for life of tho men and women best able to improve our children in head and heart. Security iu ofliec is essen tial to procuring " tho best talent for teaching. The duties are so laborious and the compensation m small that the ablest men must have at least the poor boon of security in the faithful dis charge of their "duty if they arc to be turned to a life-work in the schools. In building up her spleudid public school system, Prussia started out with this doctrine, as a fundamental princi ple. There the tenure is for life, pro vided efficient service is rendered. In deed, the Prussian law has long since expressly prohibited the appointment of any regular teacher for a determinate period. The result is a noble set of men in schools, of whom Horace Mann wrote: As a body of men their character is more enviable than that of any of the three so-called 'professions.' " In Saxony, while the cities are al lowed to elect teachers from properly presented and certificated candidates, a teacher can be removed only with the concurrence of the governmental au thority, after governmental examina tion. So in Bavaria. Every safeguard is employed to prevent the appointment of unworthy teachers, and a proper pro bationary period is required; but when the teacher is once continued iu his place, he is secure so long as lie does his duty. Says an eminent authority: "The precarious tenure has not lleen found necessary in any other enlighten ed country on the face of the globe; and. in our own country, the annual election is unknown in uuivcrsiticsv col leges, and higher educational institu tions, generally, outside of the public school; so that this odious annual elec tion has no place in the civilized world except the public schools of the United States." Now I submit that the facts just stated make it highly probable that we are wrong in this country. Where the public-school problem has been studied longer ami .with better results than with uh, it is likerV that the treatment fit teachers in this respect is preferable to our own. It is certainly for the inter est of European governments to obtain the best teachers at the lowest price, and a stable tenure of office is there universally regarded as one of the first conditions. PUBLIC OPINIO. Some wide-awake, observant children, ready at the age of five or six to look at anything but books, will catch the idea of spelling by sound, while their eyes wander. Probably it would be better not to give them this idea carl', but hold them closely to learning one. or two words at a time by sight perfectly, so as to be able to recognize them instantly. A good perception of form ought to help in learn inir to read and spell. Student. The teacher who will succeed must not fall into the error of dealing with his school a if it were simply an aggre gation of little jeople, each like the other, and all of whom may be taught and developed in tiie same general man ner. A school is a community of indi viduals, no two of whom are alike, and no two of whom can be most success fully taught, governed, or developed in cxactlv the same way. West Virginia School Journal. What children require to be taught more than anything else is, to spell cor rectly, to read intelligently, to write a good, plain hand, and to know arith metic, irrammar, and geography. If children can be taught these thorough ly, even if they get no more schooling, they will do well; and if they ikuscss average intelligence, combincu with perseverance and a desiiu for knowl edge, they will be ablo to improve them selves as they go through life. What they need first is a solid foundation to build upon. Salem Gazette. When the teacher is easily provoked and falls to scolding to remedy existing evils, it may be set down at once that she knows little of the doctrine of disci pline. It is the delight of a certain class of boys to tease the very life out of such a teacher, and we don't say their dispositions are very perverse either. Tell one of these ouick, nervous, fun-loving boys to do a tiling, and impress its imiortancc with a scowl and a menac ing threat, and if he has any snap about him he will do the opposite. The rea son is that the request conies as a stern demand as a "I dare you not to do it" Miss. School Journal. The best teachers do a work unknown and unseen. Whoever says to a class of boys and girls that widen strengthens the weak, improves the ignorant en courages the down-hearted, gives new hope to the discouraged, softens and cultures the rude and foolish, does a work equal to that which the angels of heaven undertake. Tho labor may seem to be nothing in the eyes of those who simply look to see the results that busi ness brings forth houses, land, money, and fame. Yet it is just such work that is urgently needed to vitalize conscience and to infuse noblo ideas. A country is rich if it has many such men and wom en at work poor, indeed, if it has but few. Penn. School Journal. It is possible to provide machinery on a great scalo, and yet to accomplish lit tle. In the last century it was romarked how little good came of the rich endow ments of our universities and how they were surpassed by much poorer univer sities in other countries. Machinery thrown away! In this century we have tried machinery of a different kind. Have we always had success? Wc set up the examination system; we extend ed it over the whole country; and what do wo think of the result? Is this ma chine so decidedly better than the other? I think n few persons will say so. Emu lation turns out to be a rude and coarse motive, competition proves to be an ex hausting, unhealthy process. It is com plained that those who have been trained under this system imbibe low views of culture; that this sort of educa tion has disappointed results and can scarcely be called liberal. J. B. Scclcy, in Nineteenth Century. if Japanese Puzzled by a Negro. "When I was in the country (of Ja pan) in the interior, a foreigner was a curiosity, equal to the first Chinaman or Jap seen by us here. On a visit made to the summit of Fujl-yama in the Sum mer of 1871 I went to the famous hot springs at Hakone; at nearly every tea house our party was as much of an ex hibition as Jo-Jo, or the woman with big feet is here A colored servant dark as Erebus, whom I bad with me, was a phenomenal subject to the inno cent Japs. The men and women would como up to him, try to rub the black off with their bands and be surprised they could not and laugh over it with the contagious and hilarious glee the pcoplo so much enjoy." Philadelphia Times, The available coal of Alabama, col lected into one lump, would be forty five miles loilg by twenty-five miles wide by ten feet thick. A breaking off of 5,000 tons daily from the lump would leave a large part of it untouched at tne expiration of 6,000 years. A Hindoo loom complete is worth 68 centa, and weaves shawls, silks, and muslins which our most expensive ap-1 paratss cannot equsi. 1 MASTER AND MAN. Relations of the Two in England A De moaatratiTe Dntler. General Badcau, writing on tho rela tion of master and man in England, says: I was staying once with a young nobleman who had a crowd of peers for guests. Wc had been dining some miles away and drove back late at night in what is called an oinuibns. The valet of ono of the visitors, a lad of 19 or 20. stood on the steps outside. Bv a ioll of I the carriage this youth was thrown off into the road while wc were still some i distance from the house, and the wholo , party alighted to look after him. He was unable to walk or to endure the I motion of tho carriage, and a couple of viscounts, airomccr ox tne army ana a Baronet carried the valet a quarter of a mile up a steep hill, then bore him into the room of the master of the house, and one tore open his shirt to look for his. wound. There was no surgeon, so they bathed his breast and his forehead themselves, and the youth lay on tho nobleman's bed till it was certain ho was not seriously injured. Not till then did the gay young rollickers assemble for their late carouse. I kuow of another nobleman whoso eldest son was standing for Parliament Tho contest was keen, and the excite ment in the family extended to tho servants. Finally, the heir was elected, and tho news was brought to tho Earl and the Countess as they stood on the steps of the house in a crowd of friends and followers. The butler, a very re spectable man of o0 or more, who had been in the family all his life was una ble to contain his delight He rushed up to his mistress, threw his arms around her and kissed her, and tho sa lute was forgiven by the lady as well as the Lord. I did not witness this dem onstration of fidelity, but I was told by an Englishman who was present and pronounced it unusual, but not inex cusable. The Queen, it is well known, sets the pattern in this consideration for ier sonal "retainers. She not only visits her gillies in the Highlands, but the serv ants on all her estates; she attends their' balls and their christenings and funer als; she invites them at ' times to enter tainments at which she is present in person; an honor she never pays tho nobility; aud her affection for her de voted John Brown she has been anxious to make known to the world. Twice I was present at country houses where the servants joined in a dance with the family. Once it was after a servant's wedding, which was, of course an event. On the other occasion, at a well-known lodge in the Grampians, a highland reel was proposed, but there were uot enough ladies to go round, so the best looking of the housemaids were brought in amlplaced in the line with Marchionesses and the daughters of Earls. One was by far the prettiest of her sex in the room, and the heir of the house didn't like it at all if anv of his f guests danced too often with his maid. But none of these 'young spinsters pre sumed on the favor that was shown them; the distance in rank was too great to be bridged bv any transient famili arity. It was the very consciousness of the jrulf that made the condescension possible. At a house of a nobleman who had a crowd of sons, and'these always a crowd of boyish visitors, the whole frolicsome party was sent oil nightly, after the lad ies had retiretl to a distant tower of the castle where they might make as much noise as they pleased. They drank and they smoked, and they played cards, and had. two or three of the footmen told off to them who stayed up half tho night with their vouni --V . ua. . . aaa.j&x t t f v ! ni-Ktirc tt wfr on them anil amuse them. The young men were all of the same age, and tho gentlemen often invited their servants to a cigar or a glass and not unscldom to a turn at the gloves, for most young Irishmen box. They played fair; the lords and the lackeys wrestling together on an equality. The servant might get his own master down if he could, and if tho valet struck out from his shoulder tho gentleman took his punishment like uman. Two Robust Lies. Whenever a Mississinpian tells a lie It is generally robust and healthy and can walk; but the moment a Georgian hears of it, eo great is tho rivalry between the two States, he girds up his loins and un loads a' "whopier" that is so strong it has ribs and backbone, and breathe. Not long ago a man living near Ellis villo. Miss., said that the cold wave in January swept over that State so quick ly that the ponds in the swamps were frozen stiff before tho snakes living in them could duck their heads under the water. He further remarked that he amused himself for a wholo day by walking on the ponds and kicking oil the heads of the snakes which stuck up out of the ice. This story traveled from one place to another until it reached Georgia, where for a time it, to use the language of the prize ring, knocked out everything it met, but linally a noble Georgian Invented a muscular lie that climbed on tho collar of the Mississippi prodigy, and literally pulverized and mashed it into the earth. Tho Georgia man said that while chasing a fox acros3 an abandoned cot ton field bis horse and himself fell into an old well about seventy feet deep. The fall killed tho horse instantly, but he escaped without injury, and at once commenced looking around for a way to reach the surface of the ground. To his dismay ho discovered that it was impossible for him to get out by climb ing tho steep walls of earth that shut him in, anu he commenced howling for help at tho top of his voice, but none came. On the mowing of the second day the stench from the carcass of his horse was stilling, and he mado up his mind to suffer a horrible death, when he noticed n numlwr of buzzards hovering about the top of the well. Finally the birds alighted in the well, and a bright Idea flashed through his brain, and he determined to make the buzzards bear him up to the ground above. As thoy settled on the carcass of tho horsu he seized them by the legs until ho had three of the buzzards iinnlv grasped in each hand, when he gave tlicm a violent "shew," and they new up, carrying him with them, but they did not stop when they got out of the. well, but continued to soar upward until ho was horrilicd to find that he was fifty yards above the surfaco of the earth. Suddenly, how ever, it occurred to him to release one buzzard from each hand. This iio did, and to hisrrcat joy his weight dragged the remaining buzzards slowly down un til he was safely landed on terra firma, when ho at once dropped on his knees and returned thanks in prayer. When the story of tho Georgia fox hunter reached the cars of tho Missis sippi man, who launched tho cold weather lie, it mado him feci so utterly mean and worthless that he sold out and went to Texas. N. O. Slates. Mrs. George H. Pendleton is credited with leveling at Oscar Wilde one of the keenest shafts of wit of which he was the target when visiting this country. He hau remarked, disparagingly, that "America has no ruins and noted curi osities, you know." She is said to havo retorted: The nuns will come in time, and as for the curiosities we import them." 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