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WILD BECKY.
If there is one thing the country
folks of Millville were proud of over
ami above the new orgau in their
"meetin'-lnu--e" it was the Millville
Hoarding-School, which capped the
very highest pinnacle of their village.
A light set iiH)ii a hill, which shed its
literary radiance over the whole place.
Cynthia Adams was the only day
scholar, hut she was the 'squire's daugh
ter, and it was a matter of course that
her schooling should be something
IkivoikI thai of tin; rest of the village
girls.
One day. as the scholars were hang
ing over the sehool-vard fence, or it-
ung in group' on the steps,
waiting for
tlie &cuonl-lell to
man wiih a lusty
ring, they heard a
pair of lungs shout-
tug (Jee-haw, git up thar!" in
a voice
so loud that it threatened
to shake the
hills.
"That is one of old Miller's whispers.
I do believe," laughed Cynthia. "lie's
a farmer about here with a roaring
voice Siich, a queer fellow as he is, to
be sure. I wish vou girls could see
him."
"1 wish I might," answered fun-loving
Millie King.
Does he lie far from here?"
His house is way down by the edge
of the town, beyond tho pine woods;
they call the place 'Hiscuil City.' "
Vh? Because they have so many
biscuits llieie?" asked a dozen voices at
once.
Cynthia shook her head.
1 guess it is because they don't have
them.'' .-.he said; "perhaps they wish
they did, and so call il that- " AM 1
really know about it is that there does
not M-cui to be any one there to cook
much. anyway; for fanner Miller lives
alone with his grand-daughter, a sir!
, ,, n
auout our age.
"Couldn't she make biscuit?" persist
ed Miliie. unwilling to give up the
idea that they abounded in Biscuit
City. !
Becky! I'd like to see anything
decent that Wf Id Becky could make. No
one in the village will have anj'thing
to do with her, lor she's such a wild,
harum-scarum thing, ami so green, loo, i
that you'd mistake her for grass, just as I
likely as not."
Cynthia stopped abruptly, for the ,
"(iee-haws" sounded nearer every mo-
mcut. and now a pair of oxen came
lumbering over the brow of the hill.
followed by a rickety haycart, at the
end of which was poised a bare-headed
young pcr.on in a cloud of dust. Her
ample bonnet swung from the top of
one of tin; jtolcs which formed the sides
of the cart, evidently for the pui)osc oi
proving to the p:ihser-by that she pos
sessed the article, though she did not
choose to wear it She looked up at it
rather wislfuily, however, as her com
panion, farmer Miller, with thundering
exclamations, drove the cart up to the
school-house gate.
"Pile out. Becky." he roared, "and
we'll soon fix it up with 'em here. Don't
be .tkeered, gal. Be vou the school-
marm
9"
The question was addressed to Miss
Peters, (he principal, who. at this junct
ure, came politely forward.
"I haven't much learnin' myself,
ma'am," he continued, "but I'm bound
that my gal, here, shall have as good
a chance as the rest of 'em. She's a
good gal, Becky is, only a trifle wild
like, and needs scttlin' a bit I'm a
better hand at settlin' bills than lively
young creatures like this one; so if
you'll tend to one I'll tend to t'other."
and handing the poor girl over, tumb
ling her bonnet after her, he was half
way down the hill before Wild Becky
had made up her mind whether she
would be settled or not
It was very disagreeable standing
there with all the "iris staring at her,
she thought; and glancing shyly from
under her long lashes, her eves rested
gladly on the familiar features of the
Squire's daughter.
"How do, Cynthia?" she said, nod
ding in such a civil way that it surprised
herself.
Cynthia looked blankly into her face
a moment without making the slight
est sign of recognition, then, wheeling
around on her heels, she turned her
back squarely upon her.
A titter went around the yard. Every
one seemed aimiscil but poor Becky,
who shut her mouth tightly, ami her
heart, too, for thai matter, and haled
her kind. As she joined the crowd
squeezing into the school-house she
wondered why she had ever consented
to be brought to school. The old wild
life perfectly contented her. To roll
about for hours under the widespread
oaks, with friendly squirrels, or to chase I
the brook as it dashed gayly down the
hills, was plcasanter than the society of
girls, she had always thought
But the fact was her grandfather had
taken it into his dear old head to make
a lady of her, aud, rather than disap
point the kind soul who had done so
much for her. Wild Becky made a des
perate effort to plume herself down that
morning iuto a civilized girl, and
mingle with her fellow-beings.
It was harder even than she had im
agined. The close school-room almost
stilled her, while the dull, monotonous
hum of voices had such a stupefying
effect that before she had been seated
long her head dropped on her desk and
she fell asleep. She was wakened by
something tickliug her nose; putting
her hand up quickly a great bouncing
butterfly fluttered through her fingers
aud shot up into the air. Now, this
was a playmate Wild Becky never could
resist; without half realizing where she
was, she burst into a loud laugh, and
was making a dive for it, when, recol
lecting herself, she slid down again in
to her scat, with the painful conscious
ness that all eyes were upon her. The
pair that tcrrilied her most were those
UKn tho platform not Miss Peters'
eyes, but those of another teacher who
had come into the room during Becky's
nap.
"Where did you come from?" asked
the woman sharply, for she was indig
nant at the interruption of her class.
"Biscuit City, ma'am," was the
prompt reply.
"A land "productive of biscuits and
rude girls," returned the teacher face
tiously, at which the other scholars,
particularly the older ones, laughed
most obligingly.
"Unless you can command yourself
you had better return there at once,"
she continued.
Wild Becky did not need much urg
ing on that score. As quickly as possi
ble she sprang from her seat, and vault
ing through the open window, swung
herself down to the ground as neatly
as a boy could have done it, for she was
in great wrath. So off she trotted,
never looking behiud her until she
brought up at the kitchen door.
Through the opening she could see
her grandfather bending over the big
brick oven.
"Sakes alive! School ain't out yet,
be it?" he asked. Ii tine himself ud to
gel good view of the clock.
oecKy nung Herself down on the steps
and poured forth her injuries, winding
up with a declaration of independence.
TH never go again, never. You
will not ask it of me, will vou, grand
father?" "Not if you're 6et agin it," said the
old man, with a sigh, as he passed into
the buttery and brought out a heaping
dish of pancakes.
"1 thought as how vou'd come home
tuufii, ami ou a iii.ie a lui ui cm.
lieckv had a weakness for
pancakes,
and was quite touched with the atten-
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iiou. sue moved a cnair nearer mem
and tried to eat, but somehow thev
seemed to stick in her throat The
idea that her grandfather was sorely
disappointed made them hard to swal
low. "What makes vou care so much about
my being a lady?" she said, at length,
laying down her knife and fork, and
, looking fixedly at him.
The farmer wiped hi glasses care
fully. "I don't know," he answered;
"p'r'aps it's 'cause your mother would
have liked il; she used to take to learn
in' ami to gentle ways, aud grand
folks, nat'rally as horses take to hay. 1
wanted you to be like her; but laws
me! 'taint in natur's you could be that
kind any more tuau a hen could be a
gosling. It don't matter."
"Yes it does, grandfather;" and
Becky, jumping up, wound her arms
around his neck, and shed a tear or
two on the back of his old waistcoat.
1 "It isn't that I'm so against the
learning," she continued; "it's the
folks I can't stand."
"Well, some of 'em's rather tryin',"
answered the farmer, "but there's one
powerful queer thing in human natiir'.
If you feel ag'iu a man. do a favor for
him, an' you're sure to like him better.
There's 'Squire Adams 1 used to hate
him like fury; bul since I've )een in the
habit of lending him my yoke of oxen,
I've got the better on it"
i "Well, grandpa, I'll go to school just
one day longer to lend 'em to nis daugh
ter. Such fixed up city girls haven't
the slightest idea of how to have a good
time. I might bring them down here
aud show them how it is done."
So, to the surprise of everybody, the
following day Wild Becky appeared at
school. The scholars all laughed as
she came tearing in, aud making a
queer little bob. which did duty as a
courtesy, begged to be forgiven for yes
terday's misiioings.
Perhaps Miss Peters kuew by instinct
what a penance this was to the child,
or it may be that, in spite of her prim
little way, she had a real sympathy for
Becky, and disapproved of the offensive
manner of tier assistant At all events,
the matter was lightly treated, and the
"wild girl" was soon established in her
seat
At recess the girls paired off two by
two. but no one spoke to her.
"Dear, dear," thought the child; "no
body isn't nobody here unless they are
a couple, and I ain't"
Wheu the afternoon session broke up
that tlay a haycart, with two big work
horses, stood drawn up before the fash
ionable establishment The bottom of
the cart was strewn thicklv with frag
rant hay, while old farmer Miller, in his
shirtsleeves, held the reins. Cynthia
Adams was one of the last to leave the
.schoolroom. Who can describe her
astonishment wheu. upon gaining the
yard, she beheld Wild Becky staudiug
upon a horse-block and actually in
viting those city girls to "hitch on."
Most of the scholars looked so horrified
as Cynthia expected, but Millie King
and four or five other jolly souls tumb
led iu fur the fun of it.
Farmer Miller shouted to Miss Peters
that he'd bring 'em home safe and
sound afore bed-time, and, cracking
his whip, they were soon rattling down
the hill, the girls getting such a shake
up as they had never had before; but
they held on to the poles like monkeys,
tilling the way with 'their merry shouts
and laughter, and by the time they had
leached the long winding road through
the pine woods they "were thoroughly
enchanted with their novel mode of
riding.
Such a queer, homely house as it was
before which they stopped! Beck'
didn't try to hide any part of it, but
made them welcome to the whole, and
to the great barn, too. with its numlier
less hiding-places, initiating them at
once iuto the most approved way of
sliding down hay-mows and riding on
the barn doors. She took them across
the meadows to the stream, with the
little grove beside it, and there they
fished for trout; not that they caught
enough to boast of, for only the most
venturesome of fishes would bite in that
j uproar of voices. When ttiey got tireu
of that sport they chased the colts in
the orchard and hunted out the squir
rels, with whom Becky carried on such
a droll make-believe conversation that
the girls. a9 they said, "almost died of
laughing."
The sun was getting low and the
grass was all purple with shadows wheu
she brought out a table and said that
they would have their supper under
the shade of a great butternut tree.
"This "is the time they'll laugh,"
thought Becky: "but let 'em. I couldn't
get up a genteel tea to save my life, and
1 shan't try."
And sure enough the girls did laugh.
To see such great platters of smokine
hot sweet corn, such huge pitchers of
creamy milk, such stacks of freshly
picked berries, was enough to make
any hungry girl laugh, and in a way
very pleasant to hear.
Then followed a shakedown on the
smooth floor of the barn, accomplished
by the aid of Farmer Miller, who whist
led the tune of "Over the Hills aud Far
Away" from thecornbin.
It wasn't until the young moon shone
out clear and silvery that the young
girls found themselves in the haycart
riding briskly forward to the school.
"I believe I never had such a good
time in my life before," cried Millie, as
she saw, with regret, the outline of the
building through the trees.
"Nor I, nor I, nor I." was heard in
answer.
Farmer Miller recognized one of the
voices, and blessed it to his heart It
was Wild Becky's. As the others left
them she crawled over to her grand
father's side and laid her hand, warm
from the grateful grasp of the school
girls, on his arm.
This started a better state of things
with Becky. She began to truly like
the girls, then she loved one or two,
dearly, in true schoolgirl fashion; and
to bo worthy of their love she tried
to improve her manners. Next came
ambition in her studies, and, as under
it all lay a deep affection for the good
grandfather, she came out at the end of
theyearoneof the brightest, happiest
girls in the school.
There were outbreaks of mischief now
and then. As the old man roared to
the teacher one day. "She couldn't be
tamed all at.once;' but this little girl
bad at last found the golden key. And
so, in brightening the lives of the un
bappy, and in making sunshine for all,
liecky became, in time, a lady in every
sense of that misused term.
IIAND-OIJGAX BUSINESS.
Howllic )llvt-Coiiiilrziuiiel Sou of Italy
Keep Up with the Time The
t.'o-tt of an Instrument.
An olivc-coniplexioned son of Italy,
his hat, clothing, ami particularly his
shoes, evidencing long service and hard
usage, struggled up the two 'lights of
i steep stairs that led to the factory of one
. of the most prominent manufacturers of
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i street organs in mis env. me oiner nay.
says the New York Star, ami shifting
from his neck the greasy leathern strap
that supported an organ on his back,
he placed the instrument on the tloor
with evident relief. Taking his hat off,
he gave a nod of recognition to the
proprietor of the establishment and pro
ceeded to mop the gteat beads of per
spiration from his low forehead with a
very dirty and ragged silk handkerchief
that might in its pnlmicrdnys have been
orange-colored. This operation finish
ed, he said, pointiug to the rtisty-look-ihg-box
before him with an expression
of the most absolute disgust ami with a
voice full of feeling:
"No good!"
"What is the matter with it?" asked
the proprietor of the place.
"Ze iiistnimeiit no piav a good tune.
No make a money. Il is too a ad, too
zlow. Pull a out ze old tune. Make a
play quick mu.ika. Put in .at new tuue,
Pop (iocs ze Weasel.' "
Having been assured that the instru
ment would lie enlivened forth with, and
that he might call for. it in a few days,
the Italian gave a parting look at the
picture of (icuoa in the front panel, aud
shambled oil. When he had disappear
ed, a reporter who hapjeucd to be pres
ent during the above dialogue said to
the fat jovial-looking organ-maker aud
repairer, whose countenance bore an
amusing smile:
"What is the latest agony in hand
organ music, or, in other words, what
are to be the tunes that will set all New
York crazy this fall?"
"That is a pretty hard question to an
swer," he replied, "as it depends very
largely upon the taste and fancy of the
respective musicians. Some of them
know what they want, and some don't
But, a3 most of them leave it to me to
make the selections for them, why, of
course, 1 have to keep up with all the
latest music, and I put in such times as
I think will be most popular. That
man who just went out of here is a fair
illustration of how ignorant some of
these men are. His organ was too sen
timental for his gay nature, and he
wanted a livery air or two to. substitute
for 'Old Hundred' or 'The Heart bowed
Down.' Now someone has told him that
"Pop tines the Weasel' is the riirht
thing. Of course, that is placd out
long ago, and 1 shall have to give him
something of the .same nature thai is not
quite so ancient."
"Do they come in often to have new
tunes substituted?"
"(), yes; about every six months,
sometimes otiem-r. You see it costs
about $4 or -"?. to get a new tune pin in.
They generally have two done at once.
An ordinal v street organ plays six or
eirht:iiis, and thev keep changing them
i until they get what they like, and then
very likely liiev will run along on the
same barrel for quite a wtii'.e. Some of
the latest songs that will probably run
this winter are 'Bocking the Baby,'
White Wings.' and the 'Cricket on
the Hearth.' Then there is the
Lullaby' and When Love is Young,'
from that new comic opera Erminic.'
We get a good many songs that are
popular from Kugiaud. 'Sweet Dream
land Faces,' 'tJoing to Market,' -Tit for
Tat' have taken very well and will, no
doubt, run for sometime yet. Harrigan
hasn't got out anything new as yet, but
we will probably hear from him soon.
the meantime 'Baxter Avenue,' 'Den
ny Grady's Hack,' 'It Showered Again,'
and 'Put on Your Bridal Veil' will still
remain ou the barrels. Scanlau's new
songs, I expect, will take well, aud 1
will probably put his 'Kose Song' and
Gather the Myrtle with Mary' into some
of these organs you see here. The 'Mi
kado' is beginning to get played out,
and will have to take a rest. We will
ruu the 'Gypsy Baron' aud 'Little Ty
coon' for some time yet"
"Do old tunes ever revive?"
"Yes. indeed. We generally give the
new tunes a run for about a year, and
then hang them up for a while' If they
are very popular, they are sure to bo
wanted again."
"Is the hand-organ business on the
decline?"
'No, sir. There are more street or
gans about to-day than ever before, al
though you may not notice so many
the city has grown so large. The busi
ness is too good not to have plenty of
recruits. A good player can always
make money at it. He knows that if he
goes into a fashionable neighborhood
he will be regarded as a public uuisatice
and be paid to move on, while in the
tenement districts he is welcome and
gets all the spare pennies about to re
main. So, you see, in both cases he
makes money."
There are several establishments in
New York and vicinity that supply
hand-organs to the itinerant grinder,
and whether thev are indictable or not I
as public nuisances is a question which
the suffering public has refrained from
testing. Most of the followers of this
profession own their organs, but many
of them reut them. A street organ is
worth from $30 to $200, and weighs
from tweuty to seventy jiounds. The
average weight, however, is about thir
ty pounds. They will last, if properly
made and handled, in the neighborhood
of twenty years, and can be repaired bo
often in the meantime that very little of
the origiual instrument will remain in
the end. There is the greatest differ
ence between players, aud it does not
follow that two men will, with the same
organ make the same amount of money.
A poor player will collect barely GO
or 70 cents for a day's work, while a
good, bright performer, with plenty of
expression, will gather m $4 or $5 be
tween sunrise and sunset The busi
ness yields on an average $2.50 or $3
a day.
One of the best-known organ-grinders
several years ago was a young and
pretty Italian girl about '20 years of
age. She was strong ana well built,
and considering the heavy load she car
ried, retained a very plump and attract
ive figure. She did well in the business
and caught as many beaus as she did
pennies. Her dark eyes and gentle
music proved too much for a susceptible
young German, whose blonde curlvhair
attracted all the servant girls in the
neighborhood to his father's Third ave
nue grocery. The fair organ-eriuder
soon became aware of this attachment,
and managed to surcnade the shop with
a tuue or two every other day. She
coquetted with the young Teuton for
some time, and finally came to the con
clusion that the joys of married life were
preferable to her precarious if indepen
dent existence, and yielded to the vounor
grocer's suit. All might have been well
were it not that the bride-groom's father
woke up one tine morning to tiud the
contents of his cash-drawer and safo
gone, and his sou and heir with it
They had eloped, no one kuew where.
CINCINNATUS.
Tli IVmoii Wli Matin tlio DMcovary Thmt
I lie OlHra Slioulil Seek the Man.
The first person to inaugurate the
baneful theory that the office should
seek the man", a theory which has
caused more uuhappiness than any
other ever advanced in the great realm
of politics, was a party called Lucius
Quintitis. or Cincinnatus, because he
wore his hair iu curls, also because he
had at one time resided in Cincinnati.
In the fall of 4:,S B. (J., after a long,
dry se.-Lsou aud a prolonged aud futile
bull movement in which Cincinnatus
went forth to summer fallow the west
field, hoping by that process and a
judicious rotation iu crops to head off
the chinch bug aud the bears. He was
fBid deal depressed mentally and
physically, fie had been trying to break
a new pair of wild and fractious 4-year-old
steers, and it had required a good
deal of firmness and perspiration to ac
complish this. He had not yet fully
succeeded, ill fact, for every little while
the steers would light out for the marsh
at a high rate of speed ami Cincinnatus
would have to follow them through the
dewberry paich in his bare legs, for
Cincinnatus did not wear pantaloons
winter or summer.
I have given the reader a good view
of Cincinnatus. as I remember him. in
! the accompanying drawing, which I
have made in order that those who wish
i may see the features of the most cele
brated politician of all time. He was
, the man who first advanced the doctrine
that the oflice should seek the man, andv
I ever since that time it is no uncommon
thing to see a man holding on by the
plow-handles and looking over his
; shoulder, expectiug that a good oflice
will climb the fence pretty soon and
; kidnap him.
Here, then, is Cincinnatus, the man
who first made this discovery. The
artist has happily caught the expression
of this eminent man just as the oflice is
in the act of seeking him. He has re
solved to sell his life as dearly as pos
sible, lie will yield at last, however,
aud tear himself away from his preco
cious steers.
In the distance, too far oil in fact to
work into this issue of thu paper, is the
toga of Cincinnatus. It is hanging on
a tall pole as a flag where he has used
it to "sight" across the field while ho
struck out a long furrow. To look at
the furrow few would believe that the
great dictatoi had intended to strike
out for the flag.
The artist has caught the true idea in
this picture ami shows the great states
man ami general in me pose oi a
thoughtful and philaiithropieal man who
has tuliy decided that at the prevailing
price of wheat he would carefully and
prayerfully consider auy overtures that
might be made by those having the
good of the people at heart.
Cincinnatus was an austere man of
the patrician style of architecture and
carefully roached his hair, as well as
the tail of his Uoman mule. He was
imperious in the extreme and courted an
investigation on whenever the papers
got after him. He was the pioneer iu
this line.
The day eaine at last wheu a dark
horse was needed and the chairman of
the Koiuau central committee went to
Cincinnatus to seek out the great man.
The chairman is just getting over the
barbed-wire fence and the eminent Ro
man agriculturist has at that moment
got his eye on him, as our artist rapid
ly transfers the portrait to canvas.
It is but the work of a moment to un
yoke old Brin and Ball' ami accept the
oflice of dictator. Putting on his toga,
the great man bewail to dictate in less
than forty-eight hours. He went to the
house, washed his hands in a tin basin
of cistern water, with soft soap, put
some fresh fine-out in the inside pocket
of his toga, and was drawing a salary
on the following Monday at 9 o'clock.
The first thing he did was to call for
more tioop?. He then marched against
the enemy and captured everybody. He
then returned, having been dictator
sixteen days at $2 per day. He drew
his pay and resigned to accept the
HrtfoIio of buckwheater on his own
property.
We have no American to-day who
could accept the command of our regu
lar army, whip the Apaches, and be
back on the farm iu sixteen days.
And vet Cincinnatus conquered a hos
tile nation, paid the public debt, and
got home in time to do his fall plowing.
If we read the history of Cincinnatus
carefully and look thoughtfully at his
equestrian portrait as it is here present
ed we are forced to admit that he was
either one of the greatest men of whom
we know or that he wrote the matter
up himself for one of the Roman maga
zines. Hill Nye, in Chicago News.
vj-:ll-iaii doctors.
"Do London doctors earn more than
queen's counsel ?"' As a rule they do
not, but the incomes of the three lead
ing physicians and those of the three
leading lawyers are about euual that
is to say, at the rale of $70,000 a year
each. The largest sum ever earned in
one year by a doctor was $100,000,
made by SirAshley Cooper. The three
men at the head of the medical pro
fession in England at the present day
are Sir William Jenner, the court phy
sician. Sir William Gull and Sir Andrew
Clark. Just lately the last-named has
obtained considerable notoriety. He
was induced to visit a very wealthy lady
at Nice, and he received the unpre
cedented fee of $25,000. Oue-iifth of
this amount he retained as a remunera
tion for his services, and the remainder
he divided between two charitable in
stitutions connected with his profession.
Speaking of fees, there is a tale told
of a rich colonial gentleman living in
Kent who hail the misfortttue to take a
slight cold. Not satisfied with his local
medical attendant, he desired to have
Gull down from Loudon in consulta
tion. Gull happened to be away, and
Sir William Jenner came instead. He
was duly paid his fee of $375 for the
visit The patient, feeling no better,
then sent to Edinburg to a leading
doctor of that city, who traveled the
four hundred miles in order to see him,
and in ordinary course received a
guinea for every mile, that was four
hundred guineas, or $2,100. Again the
patient felt no better, and this time
Gull was summoned and attended.
"I suppose," suggested the local prac
titioner, "you will pav Gull what vou
I paid Jeuner 75.
I "Nonsense," indignantly retorted the
sick gentleman, "I am not going to pay
Gull'lessthan I did the Scotchman,"
aud he drew a check for $2,100. Be
fore he got lid of his cold he had paid
$7,000 in fees.
Gull himself relates a story of an ec
centric patient upon whom, in the davs
when clitorotoriu or etner was never
used, he performed a diflicultoperation,
from which the old geutleman recov
ered. But he refused to pay Gull his
fees, and. as the doctor left the bed
room iu an enraged state, the old man
suatched off his night cap, and, flinging
it at him. cried: "Take that; 1'il give
you nothing more!"
Gull picked up the night-cap, and.
cooling down in his brougham, he com
menced to rip up the lining. Concealed
therein he found a crisp Bank of En
gland note for 1.000. This story, by
the way. has also been told of several
other eminent doctors. Gull begau life
in an humble way as assistant to a hos
pital lecturer at thirty-five shillings per
week. When admitted to practico his
first vears' fees amounted to $135, but
he himself says that each year they in
creased by one-third. He is a man of
dry humor. Once the Bishop of Derry
consulted him, aud the great doctor
gravely said:
"Yoii must go to Nice, my lord."
"Oh, 1 cairt go to Nice. I'm too
busy."
"It must be either Nice or heaven."
was the doctor's retort.
"Ob. then." quickly added the divine.
"I'll go to Nice."
"1 will not question your judgment,"
replied Gull. "As a right reverend pre
late you ought to know which is the
preferable place."
Sir Andrew Clark is Gladstone's phy
sician. He accompanied him ou the
cruise the premier took with Tennyson,
and agaiu last year to Norway. He
does not do this as a personal tribute,
but as a matter of professional duty.
Gladstone is very testy, faddy and au
tocratic. Clark is equally firm. Lady
Clark is quite incensed wheu Gladstone
orders her husband to speud with him
those two months of the year whenhe
great physician is accustomed to have
the most leisure. It is said that Jenner
and Gull are chosen to atteud royal,
patieuts in preference to Clark because
the latter is so closely identified with
Gladstone. London Cor. Philadelphia
tress.
Water Supply Service Pipes.
"As regards size of service pipes for
domestic water supply, the almost uni
versal custom of plumbers is to put in
pipes of insufficient caliber. Instead of
following the principle of 'small waste
pipes and ample supply pipes' thu usual
foolish practice is to use waste pipes of
too large aud supply pipes of too small
bore, thus working " a two-fold harm.
Agaiu, it is too often the case that no
proper consideration is paid to the ad
justment of the various sizes of distribu
tion pipes in a building. This question
has a special bearing ou high buildings
and large ollice. factory or warehouse
structures. In the case of ordinary two
story and attic dwellings the matter is
not of great importance; yet even with
these a certain saving may be effected
by proportioning the different parts of a
line of service pie to the duty it has
to perform, in other words by 'making
a line of pipe and its branches of such
sizes that no matter how many faucets
are opened on different floors simultan
eously water will flow freely through
each of them. Every householder
knows what an annoyance it is to try
to fill a wash-bowl or "a bath-tub when
water is being drawn at some fixture on
the floor below. This whole question
belongs essentially to the science of
hydraulics, and to solve the problem
successfully requires a close stud' of the
laws governing the flow of water
through pities of various areas aud uu
der variable heads or pressures. Houses
piped scientifically are not often to be
found. The average mechanic or so
called 'practical man' has too profound
a distrust or contempt for everything
savoring of theory to be induced to look
up this question which is, in its results,
decidedly a practical oue." UWi'am
Paul Gerhard, in Hood Housekeeping.
IlHjWty Tracks
in Calhoun Connty.
"I live down iu Calhoun, one of the
few counties in Illinois that have no
railroads within their borders," said a
passenger on the Chicago and Altou.
"Iu our county we have no telegraphs
or telephones, and are, in fact, pretty
well behind the times. Guess 1 have to
tell you a little story to illustrate the ex
treme backwoods character of portions
of our county. A friend of mine drove
down into the wild part of the county
the other day to attend to some legal
business, and was there two or three
days. One afternoon be met a native,
who acted a little shy at first, but final
ly inquired:
" 'What ye doin" down here?'
" Oh,' replied my friend, jocularly,
I came down to see if there was a good
piece of govern meut land that 1 could
pre-empt'
" '1 just knowed that some stranger
had come into the county,' replied the
native.
" 'What made you think so?'
" Caus t'other day I was down to
Silver creek bunting and 1 saw some
buggy tracks. The last buggy tracks
I seen in Calhoun county was 'bout
seven year ago, when there was an
other duru fool drove in here thinkin'
he could homestead gov'ment land, an'
not knowiu that it was wuth $40 an
acre. Hain't found any land yet, have
you, stranger?" Louisnlle Post.
Modern Children Little girl to her
friend! "Elsa, what are you doing
with the book 'On the False Educa
tion of Our Children'? 1 hope you are
not reading it?" Elsa. 'O. no; 1 mere
ly found it in mamma's room, aud took
it along to lock it up so that mamma
may not read such an injurious hook."
Fliegcnde Blaettef.
'Mistah Johnsing,
I t'ink vou's suf-
feriu' will s ntfarinn rl iln I.Jnr v'
heart-beats is ter'ble irreg'Iar." "Hat's
all right, doctah; but, sab, yo' has yo'
ear right gin my watch, au' it hain't
varied a minit in de las' free months,
sab. Wid all respec' to yo', 1 guess I go
ter some older practitioner, sah."
The Misses Heard four sisters of
Georgetown township, are among the
most enterprising and successful farm
ers in Floyd county, Ind. They have a
beautiful farm, which they personally
manage, ineir ueru ot Jerseys is one
of the best in the state.
Clerk (to art-dealer) That $5,000
fjcture doesu't seem to go at the price,
ladn't we better reduce it? Art
dealer Yes. Cross off that last
naughL I'll get rid of that picture if
1 have to sell it at cost. New York
Sun.
Neailv l.f00.000
cases of canned
goods v
lined
at $i,30i.000, are put up
the l'acilic coast.
uwry year ou
A citizen of Schley county, Georgia.
shingles his own
-j --.-..j, u..w.6.,
hair, and does it as I
illful barber.
well as the most skillful
THE VXXtST-
National Bank!
OK
COLUMBUS. NEB.
HAS AN
Authorized Capital of $250,000,
A Surplus Fund of - $17,000,
And the largest Paid 1st ? Cap
ital of any banii in thin part
of the State.
"QTIVpnsits received ami interest paid
on time drpoaits.
gSTDrafta on the principal cities in this
country aud Europe bought and Bold.
E7CoItection and all other business
Klven prompt and careful attention.
STOCKHOI.PKHS.
. ANDERSON, Frea't.
OAM'l. C. SMITH, VicePret't.
O.T.ROEX, Caahiet.
J. P. BECKER,
HERMAN OEHLRICU,
O. SCHUTTE,
W. A. MCALLISTER.
JONAS WELCH,
JOHN W. EARLV,
P.ANDERSON,
G.ANDERSON,
ROBERT UHLHi.
AprSS-'gCtf
BU8IIES8 CAKD8.
1.T. 31 artyx, 3I.-I. F. J. SCHua, 31. D.
Dri. MARTYN 4k SCHUO,
U. S. Examining Surgeons,
Local Surgeons. Union Pacific, O., N.
& B. II. and B.&.M.R.It's.
Consultations
Telephones at o
iu Oeriuan and English,
ffice and residences.
"Office on Olive street, next to Brod
leuhrer'a Jewelry Store.
COLUMBUS,
T-'-y
NEBRASKA.
J 91. CORrVKI.llJM,
LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE.
Upstairs Ernst building 11th street.
Ol.'l.l.lYAN A: RCEDKK,
A TTOliXEl'S A T LA W,
Oflice oyer First
bua, Nebraska.
National Bank
Colutu-50-tf
I 1. KVA.N, M. .,
PHYSICIAN AND SVHUEON.
iSTOttice and rooms, tiluck building,
Iltti street. Telephone coniniuuicition.
Jv
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AMII1'OK IVIKitltl-M. .,
PHYSICIAN AND SUIiUEON,
Platte Center, Nebraska. !-y
TXEIWIAI NATErVBTEIftT,
I'.I.ACKSMITH AN1 WAMON MAKER,
t::ih street, east of Abt'.s him.
AptilT, Mt
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R. J. CIIAS. U ll,l,Y,
DKU TSCI I KU A Ji ZT.
Coliiuihiix, Nebraska.
igroflice 11th Street. Consultation
iu Engliah, French ami (Jenuau. Mm
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.lust opened. Special atteiitiou given
to commercial men. Has a good samole
room. Sets the best table. tJive it a
trial aud be convinced. f0-::mo
lOIIX KIJMDEft.
CO UNTY SUE I 'E YOE.
1ST lnr ties desiring surveying done
can address me at Columhu Neb., or
call at my oflice iu Court House.
fniay5-y
W. B. Tedrow, Co. Bupt.
1 will be at my oflice iu the Court House
the third Saturday or each month for the
examination of teacher-.. V.'.t tf
HOMGEOPATHIST.
Chrealo Diseases aad Diseases of
Children a Specialty.
s3rOAjce ou Olive street, three doors
north ot" First National Bank. '.My
jl IVAI.I.IMTKK BROff.,
A TTOHNi: YS AT LA W,
Office up.atairs in
Ing, 11th St. W. A,
Public.
McAllIater'a build
McAllister, Notary
J. M. MACKAKLA.ND,
Attorstyiaa Notify Publ c.
a. K. COWUKRY,
CsMietor.
LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE
OF -
MACrARfaAND COWDBRT,
Columbia, : -: ; Nebraska.
JOHN ;. HIOGINS.
C. .T. OARLOW,
Collection Attorney.
HIGODIS ft OA1L0W,
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW,
Specialty made
Garlow.
of Collections
by C.
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P H.RUaX'HE,
HthSt.,asositeLindell Hotel.
SelU Harness, Saddles, Collars, Whips,
Blankets, Curry Combs, Brushes, trunks,
valises, buggy tops, cushions, carriage
tritnniiugti, Ac, at the lowest possible
prices. Repairs promptly attended to.
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CONTRACTOR AND IUILDER.
Plans and estimates supplied for either
frame or brick buildings. Good work
guaranteed. Shop on 13th Street, nesr
St. Paul Lumber Yard, Columbus, Ne-
raska. 52 Cmo.
J.
S. MURDOCH & SON,
Carpenters and Contractors.
Havesad aa extended ezpertence.and
will guarantee satisfaction in work.
All klsds of repairing done on short
notice. Our motto it, Good work and
fair prices. Call and give us an oppor
tunity toeatlraateforyou. gJShop on
luuuv loesiiiuaie lor , uu. fe .iuuji u
mi St., one door west of Fritdbor .
Co's. store. Columbus. Nst-r. 43-v
Rev. Robert West, editor of tho
Adattce, died suddenly Oct. 25th at
Syracuse, III., where he bad goue to
deliver a sermon.
"I would not live always." No;
uot if disease is to make my life a
daily burden. Hut it need not, good
friend, sad will not if you will be
wise iu lime. How many of our
loved oaes are mouldering in the
dust who might have been spared
for years. Tho slight cough was un
heeded, the many syuitocis of disease
that lurked within were slighted
and death came. Dr. Price's "Gold
en Medical Discovery" caunot recall
the dead though it has snatched num
bers from the verge of the grave, and
will cure consumption in its earliest
stages. '
Fisurs aavs basa dyiagaumer
ously and recently in Central Park
Lake, New York, the water of which
has not been changed for six ye.ars.
Reaews Her a'eatfa.
Mr?. Phwbe Chesley, Peterson,
Clay Co., Iowa, tells the following
remarkable story, the truth of which
is vouched for by the residents of the
town : "I am 73 years old, had been
troubled with kidney complaint and
lameness for many years ; conld not
dress myself without help. Now I
am free from all pain and soreness
and am able to do my own house
work. I owe my thanks to Electric m
Bitters for having renewed my youth,
and recovered completely all disease
and pain." Try a bottle, only 50
cents, at Dowty & Heitkemper'a.
Ladizs are said by a late Paris
publication to be carrying on Mason
ic lodges composed entirely of wo
men in Franco numerously, and with
the completest of ceremonial.
Chamberlain's Eye and Skin
Ointmeut is a safe and certain cure
for sore nipples, skin eruptions,
scald bead, tetter, piles, and all
smarting, itching diseases of the
skin and it is unequaled for chronic
sore eyes. Sold by Dowty & ficit
keniper. 2C-lt
Sixty thousand tons of coal, it is
estimated, are Btolen every year from
the cars in transit. At oue station on
the Erie road the theft amounts to
thirty tons every night.
Itch, Prairie Mange, aud Scratches
of every kind cured in HO minutes by
Wool ford's Sanitary Lotion. Use no
other. This nover fails. Sold by
O. B. Slilltnan, druggist, Columbus.
A hundred years ago Mocst and
Chandon thought 0,000 bottles of
champagne in one year an enormous
production. Their successors one
only in many now bottle about
200,000 doen.
Des't Hawk, Hail, Cesgh,
sutler dizziuess, indigestion, inflam
mation of the eyes, headache, lassi
tude, inability to perform mental
work and indisposition for bodily
labor, and annoy and disgust your
friends and acquaintances with your
nasal twaug and offensive breath
and constant effort to clean your
nose aud throat, when Dr. Sage's
"Catarrh Remedy" will promptly
relieve you of discomfort and suffer
ing, aud your friends of the disgust
ing aud needless inflictions of your
loathsome disease?
Queer mishaps are noted. Iu a
field of yellow grain near Merced,
Cal., the driving wheel of a harvester
struck a spark from a stone, the
spark set fire to the wheat, and there
was an uproarious race of billows of
flame.
A Iff tor A 11.
In order to give all a chance to
test it, and thus be convinced of its
wonderfnl curative powers, Dr.
King's New Discovery for Con
sumption, Coughs aud Colds, will
be for a limited time, given away.
This offer is not only liberal, but
shows unbounded faith in the merits
of this great remedy. All who suffer
from Coughs, Colds, Consumption,
Asthma, Bronchitis, or any affection
of the Throat, Chest or Lungs, are
especially requested to call at Dowty
& Heitkempcr's drug store, and get
a tiial bottle free, large bottles $1.
It is stated that Harrison, who was
Gen. Grant's body servant, and who
was discharged from the Government
printing office a week or two ago,
has been appointed a laborer in the
Paymaster General's office.
Headache, billions disorders and
consumption are cured by St. Pat
rick's Pills. They 'are the most
pleasant and most effectual physic in
use. Sold by Dowty & Heitkemper.
Martin, a boy living near Indiano
la, fell into a well the other day aud
was killed.
Macsileas Aralcia S;alrcv
The Best Salve in me wrld for
Cute, Bruises, Sores, TJjcer, Pall
Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped
Hands, Chilblains, Corns, aud ail
Skin Eruptions, and positively cures
Piles, or no pay required. Il is guir
anteed to;;ive perfect satisfaction, or
money refunded. Price 25 ceuts per
box. Foi eafe by lowi & Heit
kemper. Ma17-ly
A hrairie fire near H altou,
itroyed 50 stacks ot hay.
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