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f"sns t- i e3zxaftas3a MKWPMMW V - M 3 Ct? A m 0 pg t?. i n i ' ; m a it Sleepi last night I lay asleep, and sombre dreamt Around my pillow came on warms wings . Tranced in forgctfulnoss of all true thing a I lay awhile: at last 1 woke. The beams Of the sweet moon flowed in silver streams Through both my windows, and their glim merings ' Tinged all they touched like songs a poet sings. "Behold," thought I in joy, "these bright moon-gleams . Played round me while I slept my troubled sleep And Cynthia with her stars smiled in tho sky. So on through life in fitful dreams we sweep. Intent on visions that -around us fly. And seldom wake to feel bow soft and deep God's lore iu floods is shining from on high. ' Rochester Post-Express. Mia What it Was. Ob, they were as happy as happy could be. Those two little boys who were down by the sea. As each with a shovel grasped tight in his hand. Like a sturdy young laborer, dug in the sand. And it finally happened, while looking around. That, alongside a big shell, a star-fish they found, Such a wonderful sight that two pairs of blue eyes Grew large for a moment with puzzled sur prise! Then "I know," said one, with his face grow ing bright. "It's the dear little star that we ve watched every night; But last night, when we looked, it was no where on high. So, of course, it has dropped from its home in the sky!" .. . , Malcolm Douglas, in St. Nicholas. THE ADVEItTISEMEXT. WJ rANTED Bv a widow lady, a youn? girl of refined ana agreeable man ners to act as co npaiuo-i. lerau uojku. Address, Box . for tiireo days. A word a look even, is sometimes pregnant with our fate, and serves as the portal through which we pass to happiness or misery. It is not wonder ful, then, that the above advertisement tumbled on by accident while going hopelessly, almost aimlessly, through the morning newspaper's list of "Wants" wis the turning-point in the destiny of Marian Fosdick. On her eighteenth birthday, an aunt who had grudgingly -doled out to her her living, gave her, by way of a birthday-gift, a week of grace in which to find some means of sustaining herself, as she was now old enough; and on the last day of the seven she had obtained nothing more substantial as a result of her weary pilgrimages than a little ad ditional knowledge of the unmerciful virtue of a suspicious and immaculate world when dealing with penniless youth and beauty. Marian had nothing to lose; she had, therefore, nothing to fear; and in less than a week from the date of the first note tremblingly addressed by her to "Box ," she had patched up her Bcanty wardrobe, gone through the for malities of a dry-eyed stony parting with her aunt, and was duly installed as the companion of Mrs. Barrett, in a fine old country house not a hundred miles from town. The Barretts were an old family had traditions and ancestors, and titled, of course. They had taken root and ramWed over half the county, and been careful to intermarry only in families likewise powerful, and possessed of tra ditions and ancestors. They had old servants, and an old house square, solid, and comfortable built on a gently swelling knoll by trees a hundred years old, with a brook in front, and ugly, well-constructed, red gabled barns iu the rear. Apart from the loveliness of the sur rounding country, without beauty of any kind, j-et so thoroughly comfortable and well-to-do so suggestive of tho sub stantial good tilings of tiiis life in its surrouudings aud outllankings of fields of grain, a huge well-kept kitchen garden and heavily-burdened orchard; with such good dinners cackling, scratching, lowing, winged, feathered, hoofed, and horned about it above all, in itself so substantially squarely and uncompromisingly ugly, that it actually bullied people into styling it one of the handsomest places in the country. There were only two of the Barretts to uphold the faniilj' dignity in this par ticular section of the country Mrs. Bar rett, a fair, gracious woman, looking younger than she really was, and her brother, the owner of the vast estates, and neither fair nor gracious; but their simple neighbors spoke of them with as much reverenco as of an army, and se lect and fortunate, indeed, was the merry-making considered that was hon ored with their presence that is to say, with Mrs. Barrett's, for her brother was never seen, except at church or on horseback, and was understood to be eccentric and something of a misan thrope. Mrs. Barrett was tine of the best of housekeepers; her household economy was clockwork: her days were arranged by sj'stem. At precisely such an hour. Miss Fos dick was summoned to read to her; at a given moment alio was dismissed. From that time she was free to sit under old trees and work, or dream, or read; un disturbed quiot reigned everywhere. She was treated with the samo solemn respect and observance as the rest of the family. There were romantic walks and no end of marvellous views; above all, no one to scold, to spy out faults, to irritate with incessant launt3 and in sinuations. For tho first few weeks Marian was enchanted; then she began to tire; then she grew weary unto death. She was only vegetating, instead of living; she had no end to accomplish nothing to pursue; her faculties were stagnating; the peaco she had found so deiicious grew terrible; the monotony galled and irritated her; she was walled out from life and its sympathies, and her soul grew clamorous for release. It was at this time that the existence of Mr. Barrett first obtruded itself upou her as a fact to. be considered. Sitting idly under the trees after one of her afternoon readings, she was startled by his coming suddenly around the corner of the house, in close confer ence with his steward. Resisting as undignified her first im pulse, which was to run. she sat quietly, and for lack of better occupation, began to analyse Mr. Barrett, whose dark face, when lighted up by a smile, had, she found to her surprise, something in it both attractive and handsome, and so absorbed was she in the discovery that she did not observe Mr. Barrett coming slowly towards her, and started violent ly when he spoke to her. 'You have been here six weeks," he said abruptly. "How do you like the place?" "Not at all that is," she added hastily, shocked at her own incivility, "the place is well enough, but it don't suit me " "Oh, it doesn't! May I enquire how It is so unfortunate as to offend? Come, out with it You have told me my place is well enough;' you can't say anything worse. Is it the house you object to? Don't you think it a model of beauty?" "1 think it a monument of taste," she returned demurely. Mr. Barrett caught the wicked sparkle in her eye and laughed heartily. "You mean taste lies dead and buried under it Good! You are both obstin ate and malicious. Anyone must be that who doubts the beauties of anything belonging unto a Barrett So am L I could never properly appreciate tho beauties of this paradise, though it is my own. There is to me, as to you. a something hateful in all this loveliness; as though the peace, the verdure, the very air of substantial comfort were only the mask of some dire secret that ought to rend yonder walls and lay them in piles of rubbish above the IT. A aTimntftr Win tnnn tirl look had bean that of eager, alnost Jferos enou'T Involuntarily Marian shrank away from him; for more than once the unde fined shadowings of some meli secret as he had hinted at had visited her, and she felt that her face told him so. "You have seen have known it," he went on still more eagerly. Then checking himself again: "But why do I talk in this mad way to you? There is a skeleton, doubtless, in every house. Let us speak of something more pleasing. Shall we be friends. Miss Fosdick?" "If you like, sir." "But it's not as I like. I am not a moral Turk, with your respect and affec tion captive, that I can say to you, Like me.' A man harsh, unprepos sessing, and eccentric, it is natural that I should desire your friendship; your pure candid nature is written on your face; whether 1 should not prove even repugnant to you is a question lying in the debatable land of attractions and affinities." "If my friendship can be of any value to you, it is at j'our service." returned Marian, half puzzled, halt pleased. He bent a look on her face, that made her color rise and her heart beat faster. "There is a storm coining," he said at length; "you had better go up to the house." Marian obeyed without a word, for she fancied that she had been forward and indiscreet, and w. bitterly con demning her own folly. Mrs. Barrett met her at the door. "All, Miss Fosdick, you are prudent There is a storm at 'mud. Have you seen anything of my brother? 1 am so uneasy about him." "I left him sitting under the trees," returned Marian simply. A snake-like gleam shot from Mrs. Barrett's eyes. "Ob, he has been sitting with you! I am glad he has been in such good company." Marian went up to her own room, feeling vaguely annoyed and uneasy, and sitting down by her window, began to think, not of tho secret at which Air. Barrett bad darkly hinted, but of him self; and whether she had been so very silly, and what he could have meant by his sudden and unaccountable offer of friendship. Meanwhile, tho clouds that had gath ered in the horizon slowly spread them selves over the entite sky, and her girl ish meditation was suddenly interrupted by a flash and peal of thunder that made her start to her feet in dismay. Her door opened suddenly. "Fiease, miss, is master 'here? Mrs. Barrett is so uneasy about him." "Here!" repeated Marian indignantly, as Ann, a withered, haggish, old family servant, camu into the room. "In my room! What do j-ou mean by such a question?" -Indeed, aud it's a fool's question," returned Ann, looking sharply around her; "but mistress's so worried about master that I fancy she's got rac dazed, too. You see. master's always wild-like when it thunders, and so she can't bear to have him off at such times." Marian looked, though she did not speak her curiosity. "We don't speak of it," continued Ann, drawing closer and lowering her voice, "but there was a young lady master was going to marry, and she was struck by lightning on what was to have been her wedding-day, and master just went crazy, and it was months afore he come to; and even now he's queer and wild like whenever Mercy, what a flash! I must find him somewhere, or mistress will be raving, too." Marian's short-lived pleasure was gone. The friendship that had been the source of so much anticipated pleasure was merely, then, the vagary of a dis ordered brain. As she went down to supper, she heard loud aud angry voices in the tea room; but on opening the door, only Mrs. Barrett and her brother were visi ble the former as serene, the latter as impcrturablc as ever. The meal passed amidst unusual silence aud constraint; and once over, Marian was about to hurry to her room, when she was stopped by Mr. Barrett "Miss Fosdick, can I have the pleasure of a moment's conversation with you in the library?" "(Juy,""said Mrs. Barrett warningly, "remember I will keep nvy word." "As you like; I defy you," returned Mr. Barrett, holding open the door for Marian to pass. Hardly knowing what she did, Marian entered the library, a sombre room, that she had always avoidrd entering. Mr. Barrett followed her. "Miss Fosdick," he commenced with his usual abruptness, "my sister's rash ness has precipitated the avowal; but had you a little more experience of the world, you must have seen, almost from the first day of vcur arrival, that I love you." Marian sank down on a ?ofa. tremb ling and breathless. She was conscious of a powerful attraction that had al ways drawn her towards llii man, even iu his most taciturn moods; but if that were love, or what was love, she found herself uuablo to answer. "You are shocked alarmed!" he went on eagerly; "but why should you be? Your heart should tell vou as cer tainly now as it could a dozen years hence. Love is not a plant of slow and tender growth, to be reared with careful watching ami tending; it is the light ning that springs from the cloud and strikes where least expected. If you will be my wife, you can tell mc so to night belter, perhaps, than a year ftoni now." Marian was silent. "I do not know." she commenced. "I think I " "That is not enough." he interrupted. "You must promise you must swear." And. seizing her hand, he bent on her such a glance as that with whieh the rattlesnake charms its prey. But though greatly terrified, Marian's strong commou-sense came to her rescue. "I will not be mad enough," she said decisively, "to peril my whole future happiness by taking such an oath as you require of mc." Mr. Barrett's eyes flashed fire. "You will not; you will not!" he commenced furiously. Then, suddenly changing his tone and throwing himself on his knees before her, "Oh, Marian!" he exclaimed pitcously, "pity, pardon me; but my life, my honor", my very salvation, depend on you. I cannot I may not explain to 'you with safety now " The door burst open and Mrs. Barrett rushed into the room. "Stop!" she exclaimed; "if you arc not already lost and hear what it is you are to swear, and why his salvation depends on your assent" "Hold!" said Mr. Barrett, with the same menacing gleam in his eyes that Marian had seen there before. "I care not!" she returned defiantly. "Your hour is drawing to a close. " I have served you in fear and trembling through a lifetime; but at last I repent You snail not add another lost soul to your list of victims. Girl, he meant you for his yearly sacrifice to the master he serves who, for his soul, gives him wealth, power " The clock began to strike. Mr. Bar rett turned livid. "Swear!" he exclaimed, seizing Mar ian's hand again. Too late too late!" rang out in a chorus of mocking voices through the room. The time is past; you are ours." An awful peal of thunder and a vivid flash of lightning that revealed Mr. Barrett's agonized face and his sister's smile of triumph emphasised the words. and in an instant Marian was broad awake, staring around ber little room in dismay, the newspaper still in ber , tightly-clasped hands. 1 It was alt a dream, and she had an swered the advertisement only in im- ' afuutkm. "M. QUAD." Aa Interesting Sketch of the WeU-Kaewa Ilatnoroas. C. B. Lewis (better known as "M. Quad,) is crhaps the most unique and genuine humorist this country has pro duced, excepting only Artemus Ward and Hosca Biglow. "M. Quad" is not a humorous "artist" a boss mechanic who manufactures jokes as a carpenter docs packing boxes, with saw and jack-plane and much exudation of perspiration. He is naturaUy and spontaneously funny. Humor gushes from him like champagne from an uncorked bottle, bubbling and effusive, and drenching us, whether we will or not with laughter. And there is wisdom with his wit strong, home ly, common-sense mixed with a racy, unctuous humor which makes his wis dom as grateful to our taste as whale oil is the palate of an Esquimau. He is not a "product of the soil," with a local flavor. He is of universal relish, as is witnessed by the wide popularity that the Detroit Free Press owes to his contributions. It is not generally known when or where he was born, nor is it a matter of much consequence, since his career did not begin till he was blown up, some fifteen years ago, on an Ohio river steamboat He is, perhaps, the only example of a man who has been lifted into fame by being tossed a hundred feet into the air, and coming down, more dead than alive, to tell the story. He did this. Standing at his printer s cast;, when he was so far recovered as to limp about, he put iuto type "How it feels to be blown up," and the whole West burst into laughter. That laugh made "M. Quad" famous. He was then transferred from the composing-room to the editorial department and ever since short extracts from the Free Press have been copied into every journal throughout the country. About ten years aijo he invented or rather created "His Honor," and "Bijah," aud "Brother Gardner," of the "Lime-kiln Club" characters to tally dissimilar, but' each as natural, original, individual, aud ludicrous as any in American literature. "His Honor" presides over a police court, and makes sage reflections upon men and things as they come into his field of view. "Brother Gardner" is a shrewd and quaint gentleman of color, who has all the idioms and character istics of his race, but is not a burlesque of our colored fellow-citizens; he handles his own people gently, but satirizes the foibles, frailties, and weak nesses of the whites inimitably. His sayings might be termed explosive wis dom the reader is sure to imbibe a wise thought but it is certain to explode within him. "Artemus Ward" created one character; "AL Quad" has given birth to three, and each one has, during a period of ten years, given delight to millions. The man is precisely what we are led to expect from his writings. He is by turns "His Honor," and "Bijah," and "Brother Gardner," with the dry humor and quaint wisdom that is peculiar to each character. "If there is an odder man than he in the country," said a Detroit gentleman to me not long ago, "we would like to have him sent along with the circus." His looks, his man ner, even the tones of his voice, are peculiar and eccentric He talks as he writes, and always without any seeming premeditation. His "den," as he calls his "sanctum," in an upper story of the Free Press building, is a curiosity shop filled with odd mementos and knick knacks. Here is a bit of rope that IicIjhkI to hang a murderer, and a pair of shackles of the old slave time; there are bullets from Gettysburg, powder llasits fromthe Mcrrimac, and swords, sabres, muskets, and shot and shell from a score of battle-fields; while around the walls, side by side with por traits of Sheridan and Ouster and busts of Grant and Lee, are pictures of a dozen of the most noted criminals. But the oddest thing in the room is a slender man of about forty, with close-cropped gray hair, heavy mustache, keen, inteut eyes, and an earnest, somewhat eager expression, who sits at an old-fashioned table, and looks up with a smile of wel come as a stranger enters his apart ment This is "M. Quad," known among his personal acquaintance as C. B. Lewis; and he works away at that table eight hours in a day, writing, at high pressure, short paragraphs or political leaders, and now and then seeking relaxation in a little merriment with "Bijah" and "Brother Gardner," for his best work is done as a relief from the daily drudgery of journalism. The Revisers have not been able to amend the text, "Woe unto you when all men shall speak well of you," and if it is to be taken literally, "M. Quad" is in a bad way, as all his acquaintance unite in saying that he is temperate, social, domestic, kind-hearted, a lover of his friends, and a hater of nobody. He is also, they say, open-handed, and so given to charity that, though im posed upon seven times in a day by fraudulent mendicancy, he again seven times in a day empties his pockets to the pleadings of distress. He is also said to be modest and not at all puffed up by the fact that he has a weekly au dience of a million, nearly one-half of whom are matter-of-fact Englishmen, who take him with their beefsteak and ale, as a sure help to a healthy diges tion. He is spoken of as odd and eccentric and that he may be, but I in cline to the opinion that this peculiarity is due to the fact that Nature produced him in one of her genial moods, when she would do the world a kindly turn by bestowing upon it a gentle soul, who should do us good by spreading for us a wholesome feast of minglea wit and wisdom. Edmund Kirke, t'u Har per's Magazine. A few days ago a German visited the "Battle of Sedan." Not that he is the only German who has ever visited this great picture, but this is a peculiar case While on the platform he asked the lecturer where the "Eleventh Prussian Army Corps" was, and, on it being; pointed out to him, replied that he had a brother a member of that division, who was killed at Sedan. The lecturer, for the sake of a joke said: "Yes, I know it Yonder is his dead bodv now, lying at this end of the line"' The simple-minded Dutchman imagined that he could see his brother, and, bursting into tears, left the platform muttering: "Mein armcr binder, mein armer bmder" (my poor brother, my poor brother.) Cincinnati Sun. For "lVti'l "i- I'"rl. If the feet ar: hinder and painful after long Maiiduig or walking great relief may bo obtained by bathiiig them in warm "salt ami water. A large hand ful of salt to a gallon of water, as warm as can be borne is the proper propor tion. The feet should be immersed aud the water thrown over them with the hand and also over the legs as far as the knees. When tho water becomes too cool, dry the feet and legs, rubbing with a rough towel upward. Neuralgia of the feet has been cured by persever ance in this method night and morn ing. New York Commercial Adver tiser. The mint julep is an old colonial Vir ginian drink. It was invented in Vir ginia by a wealthy planter who had a company of friends at his house. A great hailstorm came up; he gathered the hailstones, and, on the inspiration of the moment concocted that delicious beverage, which we call mint julep. Its fame spread, but at first they never made it except when it hailed. m i ai Texas, with 174,000,000 acres of land, u only 40,000,000 sens is farms, TEACHERS GONE TO SEED. Om ProsaJaeat Reason Why the Cams eff Education Halts. Some teachers were grouped together a few days since, and the inquiry was made: "Where is X?" "O," said one, "he has gone to seed." Now X had been something of a force for a number of years; ho had lectured on education, had conducted teachers' institutes, and was well thought of. Many looked up to him as one who would be of real service in advnnoinr education. To lose him by death would cause a pang. But to have him "go to seed" that was more painful. What is "going to seed?" Tho case of X was this: Ho had taken charge of school and seemed to care as little about education as if he had never lectured upon it had never pointed out to teachers at institutes the Eath of true teaching. He had got as igh as he could get and felt interested no longer. When a plant begins to "go to seed it stops growing; it begins to look shabby; its glory h'as departed; it has fulfilled its destinv, and seems to know it So it was with X. Thinking of X, I was reminded of Y. He, too, assisted at institutes; being a good singer, his voice was often heard in leading off in school-room songs. From a 9500 salary he rose to $1,000 in a country town, and then he got a Prin- cipalship in , and, as he could not expect to get the superintendency, the incumbent being youug and healthy, Y settled down to breathe. He now gives no thought to educational matters runs his school well, and does no more. An old friend, who had labored with him up in the country, came to the city and looked him up. "I never saw such a change," said he, "in any man. He used to be inter ested in education, and never was so pleased as to see the youn? teachers im proving, but he doesn't care a cent now." "Y had also "gone to seed." Then there was Z. This man, too. ran well for a season. He was so much interested that he started an educational paper. He (as is usual) sank some money in the enterprise, but after a time got a Principalship. He was asked to subscribo for an educational paper, but declined. He "was so busy with his school that he had no time to read!" Of him Superintendent remarked: "Z is not :t growing man; his ideas are all book ideas; we thought he would be an addition to our force, but he is not" Z has also "gone to seed." This is a soft way of putting the mat ter. These men are well-meaning; they intend to do justice to their pupils and give an equivalent for their money. But why have they stopped the efforts they made to influence others? Were they really interested in educational advance ment? The cause of education suffers greatly from the supineness of men in promi nent positions. That the teacher in the little brown country schoolhouse should be interested seems all right enough; her pupils, if not enthusiastic, will not stay in that unattractive school-room and spell long columns of words while nature without is so inviting. But the teacher in the city school is apt to un dervalue earnestness and enthusiasm, he becomes mechanical, routinish, and soon it is noticed that he tells the same story about Andrew Jackson at just the same point in each history class (said class has been informed by the preced ing class of the exact time when said story may be expected) in fact, he has begun "to go to seed." It is not a fatal disease Some live to a good old ago with it It is not so bad as softening of tho braiu or many other ills that attack mankiud, but it is bad. School Jour nal. A Sheriff Badly Mauled. Sheriff Bussey, says the Macon Tele graph, enjoys a reputation all over the state as one of the best and shrewdest officials, besides being a man of un questionable courage Ho has a natural knack in ferreting out criminals, and lias been known to uudergo many trials and privations in order to carry out his plans for the capture of criminals; but one of the tightest places he was ever placed in was with a lunatic, and he tells the story himself: "I went in a buggy several miles in the country after a negro man who had been bound by cords and kept securely until I could place him in jail to await a trial on a writ of lunacy. I found him bound hand and foot, and when I released him from his uncomfortable position he seemed to bo the most grate ful negro I ever saw. I concluded that as he looked upon me as his deliverer, I would have no difficulty in carrying him to town. Accordingly, I gave him a seat in my buggy and did not tie him in any way. I placed him on my right side, and we drove off all right My horse was a spirited animal, and when the negro would now and then give a yell it would frighten him, and it re- J;uired all I could do to keep the horse rom running away. When we had gone a few miles the negro changed. He seemed to think I was carrying him to jail, and before I knew it he dealt me a stingiug blow on the side of the head, nearly knocking me out of the buggy. I held on to the Hues, knowing that if I turned them loose the horse would run away and perhaps kill us both. Meet ing with no resistance the negro gave me another blow, and then another, and still another, until I began to think I was being mauled with a sledge-hammer. The more I talked to him the maddor he seemed to get, and then he began to belabor me until I was fast be ing beaten into a jelly. 1 was never so badly punished in my life He rained his heavy, stinging blows upon me and the horse was going at his utmost speed. There was not a soul in sight, and to drop the lines to defend myself meant a horrible death. Finally we met some men in the road, and using all my strength I stopped the horse, and my Erisoner was fastened again in ropes, ut for this I would have been beaten to death." m A Canning Tailor. Young James Blank, whose father is among the millionaires, lounged into a tailor shop some weeks ago and ordered a suit of clothes. Tho suit was sent to the young man's hotel, but, of course, the tailor got no money for it A few days ago as Master James was passing the tailor shop the bland proprietor hailed him with a smile "Why, Master James," he said, "that coat is horribly wrinkled; come in and we will press it for you." Unsupecting ly he entered and surrendered the coat Then something was wrong with the vest, and that, too, was taken down stairs for treatment Tho tailor next declared that the trousers might be im proved upon. They were given up and the youth accommodated with a seat in the dressing-room. "Now," said the witty tailor, "you will have to send a messenger-boy to your room for your other clothes, for I am afraid we can not let you have this suit again auless you liquidate that bill in full!" Young Master James begged hard for his clothes, but the tailor was in exorable and much to his disgust he resumed his winter garments and de parted. San Francisco Post. m i m Said Uncle Thomas to his nephew James: "You see mv bov. it is to vour lntarAct tlit T alinnln Anii mis-l i as long as possible I am no spend thrift and the longer I live the more there will be for me to leave." "Quite right uncle; but then, you know," re plied James, with his most insinuating smile "it is possible to overdo even a gooa mcZi&rFnneh Joke. ! TRICKS OF BALL-PL VYER3. Soaae or tho Celebrated Fluke or Well known l'lNyrrs, ami How They Are Worked. The St Louis Browns and the Chi cagos owe uiueh of their success to the tricks of the diamond. The average base-ball player is a machine, who has no inventive "faculty whereby hois enab led to get out of the ruts. Bao ball, like other professions, has a few men ci genius, who tower above their fellows like the oak above the weeds around it Of all the eiubs which show the genius of trickery the Chicago White Stockings are easily first They throw a dash of brute power into their tricks, but the preponderance ot brain ower is every where discvriiahlit. Tho latest trick in troduced by the Chicagos was played at St Louis. Williaiiioii aud Ffefferdid tho work. The runner plays a few feet off the bag. and the shortstop and second baseman occupy their usual posi tions, nearly midway between the bases. The pitcher knows the game, aud stand ing in the position to put the ball over the plate, keeps his eye on the runner. Williamson then runs to the base, and the runner hustles also to reach it As the two run, Clarkaoti or MeCormick, whoever is pitching, makes a motion to throw the ball. Williamson then re sumes his position, aud ttie runner thinking the Muff is over, advances along the path with him. Scarcely have the two left the bug when Pfeffer dnshes like a streak to the bag. catches tin: ball and the player is caught Few will forget Kellv's trick of stand ing outside the coach fines aud having the ball thrown to him on tho claim that it was ripped, allowing it to pass and the man on third to come .home. Kelly is the first man also who was known to secure a run without going nearer than twenty feet of a base He cuts across the " field whenever the opKrtuuity is offered. Kelly has been known to change balls during a game, while playing behind the bat, and also to call tho fielders in on a close deci sion, bluffing the umpire iuto a third out Dunlap, of the St Louis Maroons, is another tricky player, and his absolute knowledge of the game aud rules war rant the boldness of some of his plays, such as dropping a fly to force a man out under conditions which would turn the head of any umpire. Nut long since, when Healy was pitching and Dunlap was in his usual position at second base the latter caught a ball which was throva from the out-field. He made a quick motion, as if he had thrown the ball to the pitcher, and Healy a second lator took the position to deliver the ball. He pretended to fumble the ball ou the hip and the um pire called for a "low ball." Meantime the runner, who had reached first base, stole way oil', and before he was aware of the fact McKinnon touched him out with the ball whieh Dunlap had sudden ly thrown to first. Latham, of the Si. Louis Browns, might be called a trickster, but he does not rank with Kelly or Dunlap for in vention. Iu fact the Browns are rather shrewd imitators of the trick' Chicagos. Latham did ouo great thing, though, a few weeks since The Browns had two men on bases, one at first and oue at third. Welsh, prompted by Latham, got up from the players' bunch anil ran trom third base toward hoiuc-piate as fast as hi toes could carry litui. The first-baseman, who thought a ruu was about to be scored, threw to the catcher, and the runner on first easily took secoud. Kelly, Duulap, Hecker aud Latham are brilliant examples of tricky and inventive ball-players, aud are favorites everywhere. Hecker is the trickiest pitcher in the country, both iu his delivery aud his throwing to bases. Give the big fellow a man on third aud second at the same time, aud the chances are that one of them will be caught and put out His delivery is invariably a surprise. A few days since a Baltimore player was on second ami wanted to steal third. Heeker knew what he wanted aud set a trap for him. He settled down in the pitcher's box. allowing the man to steal several yards off His movements were purposely slow so as to enable the run ner to think he had a sure thing. Hecker then fumbled the ball in his hand, drew a long breath and everybody thought he was going to pitch: but at a sign from Cio-w he whirled instantly on his heol and caught the runner midway be tween the bases. Nothing remained but for Hecker to walk over and touch the man. Amos Cross has a trick which seldom fails to work. When a runner is on third and another at first base the pre dicament is generally considered to be dangerous, but it is Cross' delizht He makes the man at iirst think he will givo him second rather than throw to Mack and ruu the risk of letting the man at third score. Mack always plays in, and Cross looks sleepy behind the bat and seems to be constantly watch ing the runner at third. The man at first base confidently runs to second when Heeker pitches the ball, but Cross is now all alert He catches the ball which Hecker purposely throws a trifle wild, aud makes a lightning return to second base. Mack catches the ball, and if the runner at third starts for home whieh he does if he is not acquainted with Cross' wonderfid throwing powers, he is invariably put out, but if he has beeu caught on the trick before. Mack then devotes his attention to the runner near at hand, who generally goes out at secoud base Jimmy Peoples has a play which catches many. When a man is on third base, he creeps up close behind the bat, and, just when no one expects it throws like lightning down to third, where Piuckuey is always ready, and the anx ious runner is out This throw is Peo ples' forte. No catcher can equal him at it How Empires Have Been Founded. There are a few facts, savs the Pall Mall Gazette, that impress the imagina tion more in beginning the study of physical science than the rain of the skeletons or shells which continue cease lessly from the surface of the sea to the ocean depths. Out of these tiuy relics of marine life is formed the chalky ooze of the ocean bed, makers of the marble that is to be The young princes in The Cruise of the Bacchante." speaking of our islaud empire in the West Indies, which some propose we should abandon, ask indignantly, "Was it for this that these islands were taken and retaken, till every gully and every foot of the ocean-bed holds the skeleton of an En glishman?" It is a striking figure and suggestive. What a rain of English skeletons through these purple seas, skeletons which, hardening iu time like the shelly ooze of the oceau floor, form the material of empire! It is a great thought and a true one, although grim enough in its way. All empires are founded on skeletons. Whoever wishes to rear a throfte must use corpes as its foundation. The eastern conquerors who reared pyramids of skulls but roughly illustrated the universal truth. He who would attain to supreme domin ion must first find men who are willing to allow their carcasses to be used as buildiug material. The noble Russian soldiers who were marched into the bog in which they sank overhead merely in order that those who came after might find the way paved with the crowns of their dead companions' heads were but offering in a most horrible fashion the same sacrifice which all men must offer who would found empire or, indeed, do anything else of permanent and solid worth. The price of liberty, as of em pire, is life And he who is not willing in case of need to lose his life will never attain to those things which aloof mate Ws worth living. The Farmer's Joys. The joys of a fanner's life in tho summer-time are various, says the Utiea (N. Y.) Herald. The government in.iy well do all it can to cicouragc agricul ture. Under a few years of prsccutiou one would naturally cxp. ct that the race of farmers would become extinct, and every man would have to raise his own vegetables, while the m.-inufactur-r i of the seductive oicoiuanjarino would have full way. About this lime the college student is persuaded that the high road to fortune and the way to lay up a little for a rainy night is to become a book agunt and hu immediately saunters forth with th latest book on etiquette aud an illustrated history of the BibIe,"bouud in half morocco with 265 pages, elegantly illustrated, and a book that no family can afford to be without; only waut" to show you. don't expect to sell you one but being an in telligent man and reeomineudcd to me," etc The favorite victim of this class .of fiends is the agriculturist. Whether it is owing to the kindly naturo which farm life is apt to give or that less attrition with his fellows deprive him of facilities for getting rid of book agents and that class of traders is un knowable Hard ou the heels of the vender of literature comes the lightning rod man, who insets on making the farm buildings bristle with copper points and glass insulators. He is in turn followed by the patent harrow tooth or drive-well royalty man, who completes the work of exaseration. The perennial tramp sleeps in his barn and throws his red-hot tobacco ashes thoughtfully into the hay-mow. He re ceives a telegram, collect saying that several of his dear cousins from the city are coming down to spend a few weeks of the hot weather with him. While anticipating an escape from further disaster he finds that the lice have eaten up his hops and the potato-bug and the grasshopper have arranged for a joint campaign of unusual proportions. His favorite Jersey is struck by lightning, and the payment on the mortgage is about six months behind. In spite of these appalling facts the farmer is cheerful Eulogists and poets, from Horace up, havo sung the praises of his vocation, and economists have plainly shown its necessities and ad vantages. Inspired by these it is sin cerely hoped that the farmer will not become an extinct species, but will con tinue as he has been the most worthy and long-suffering of the body politic and economic m i m Diversity of Opinion. The Pharmaceutical Record says that editing a paper is a pleasant business if you like it But, like most other oc cupations, there are some annoyances. If the type is large, it don't contain much reading matter. If we publish many formula;, says the editor, folks say they are not reli able If wc omit them, we have no enter prise or are know-nothings. If we have a few jokes, folks say we are ratUeheads. If we omit jokes, folks say we are fossils. If we publish original matter, they scold us for not giving selections. If we give selections, peoplo say we are lazy for not writing more, and give them what they have read in some other paper. If we give a complimentary notice, we are 'censured for being partial. If we don't all hands say we are a great humbug. If wc remain in our office attending to our business, folks say we are too proud to mingle with other fellows. If we go.out they say we don't attend to our business. o Eight Thousand Locomotlvea. The Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia, have just completed and shipped engine numbered 8,000. The first locomotive built at these works was turned out in December, 1832T and it took twenty years, until November, 1852, to build 500 engines. The second 500 engines were built in eight years, number 1,000 being finished February, 1860. The next ix years saw the third 500 built number 1,500 leaving the shop July, 1866. The fourth 500 were built in three years, by October 30, 1869; the fifth 500 in two years, and the sixth and seventh 500 each in one year, engine number 3,500 leaving November 20, 1873. Business then slackened, three years being required to build the next 500, and two years the following 500, engine number 4,500 leaving December 17, 1878. Then trade improved, 500 engines being built iu fifteen months and 1,000 more engines in twenty-two months, while 500 more engines were finished in ten months, number 6,500 leaving December 6, 1882, aud marking a half century for the works. The next eight months saw 500 more built and before the close of 1884 number 7,500 was turned out Work has again slackened, and nineteen months were required for the final 500 locomotives. number 8,000 having just left the estab lishment - m m Well Hitched. One of the waiters at the hotel in Grenada, Miss., told us that a colored wedding was comiug off that evening, and several white people went over to the house designated to witness the af fair. The happy couple finally stood up before the minister, who said: "Samuel, you an' Lucinda am shortly to be jined together. Does you desire to back out?'p "No, sah." "How am it wid you Lucinda? Does jou want to flunk afore dese yere white folks?" "No, sah." "Den you two hitch hands." They hitched. "Samuel, does you take her fur better or wuss? Am you gwine to do de fa'r thing by dis yere gurl, whos' fadder was killed on the railroad up nigh Jack son?" "Yes, sah." "Lucinda, does you realize de serious ness of dis opportunity? Am you gwine to stick to Samuel clean frew to de judgmeut day, or am you gwine to trifle around arter odder men?'" "ize gwine to stick." "Den. chil'en, in de presence of dese yere white men from the norf, one of whom subscribed two bits yesterday to help build up de mcctin' house dat was blowed down by de sighclone I de nounce you as hitched, lined, an' mar'd cordin' to the law an1 gospel. Now you flprk 'Inner qn tintiapuvuraaftrAfilK IV... R 'Vee Press. - An Affectionate Man. A man who has an office on Broad street and whese name is seen often in the newspapers, put $500 on deposit with one of hu stock-broker friends a month or two ago, and yesterday, in answer to a message from the broker's office he called to get an accounting. Three thousand dollars was to his credit as profits. The Wall street office was filled with people watehing the tape when he called, but he forgot all about that when he saw the statement which showed his good luck, and with never so mueh as a hint of purpose he threw his arms around the broker and then and there most ardently kissed him. Ho kissed him not once nor twice only, but a full dozen times, and possibly would have kept up his solitaire game of oscu lation till the day was done; but men down-town are rude and roars of laugh ter brought him to a stop. The brocer poor man, he didn't look half as hap py as he might have looked had some body else done the kisiing. New York Time. THE CHICAGO SHORT LIHElLAND OFFICE, OK TI1K St. Pant Railway. THE BEST ROUTE From OMAHA and COUNCIL BLUFFS TO THE EAST. J Two Ttilax .Sifly titrtea Caii, ZnzzU Bfcft. Chicago, and Milwaukee, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Cedar Rapids, Clinton, Dubuque, Davenport, Rock Island.Freeport, Rockford, Elgin, Madison, Janesville, Beloit, Winona, La Crosse. Aud all other Important Points K:ist, 5 Northeast ami Southeast. 1 Fcr through tickets rail on tho Ticket t Attentat Columbus, Nebraska. I Pullman .Si.kit-krs anil the Ki.Rsr I Dining Caks in tiik Woicld arc run on the main lines of the C'liicitisw. .tlll- wnakredc MC. 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