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KATE OP AUVEKriSINC a'ulumlub ESTBusinessand professionalcards of five lines or less, per annum, five dollais. J37 For time advertisemeata,applT at this office. PTIiecal advertisements at atatnta ISSUED KVKKY WKUXKbPAV, M. K. TURKKK & CO.. Proprietors and Publishers . X3T0FFI CE, Eleventh fit.. up -- tail in fouriialliuildiny. ratfiB. EtTFo'r transient advertising, sea rates on third page. E7A.11 advertisements payable tcoattalj. terms: Perycar Six month Three months . . Singlecoplcs... THE JOURNAL. M OBBafBTom ovok SBi t 'SBm. BSk B VoW Bh .VSk BSa - H Bm -TBB IBB 'IBBH I - BlJ aTlBBM BM bb BBS IbbljbbJ issa I J sis bbJ AbbJbbJ bbj ' ms VOL. XVII. -NO. .81. COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 24. 1886. WHOLE NO. 863. ; COLUMBUS STATE BANK! COLUMBUS, NEB. CASH CAPITAL, - $76,000 DIRECTORS: LtAXDKR Gkrbakd, Pres'i. Gko. W. Hui.bt, Vice Prea't. Julius A. Kekd. It. U. Henry. J. E. Task Kit. Cashier. ttaalc of Wepo-ll, ilroaa aa4 Ecrlmaire. 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WESTERN COTTAGE ORGAN saW I kVbbbV TSjQbbw Jf& isai BBBUkBBBTaV 9UawVLiBBBBaaiHUBBf BWaaaw -. Mv - X. V C eksaarlaaV it?" THE SONG OF THANKSGIVING. Vw thankful for a ho of things Too numerous to mention; For sweethearts true and hearts to woo, Aiul all things worth attention. For all and ererything that gives Our lives so much of pleasure We offer thanks. Long may we taste Thine overflowing measure. OUK THANKSGIVING. The morning came. It came as other Thanksgiving mornings bad come wits fresh, frolicking wiads and eaallgat, and blue skies; with merry voices, with cloudless faces and happy hearts. I remember just how yellow and murky the sunshine lay on the floors that morning, and how 1 thought the wind wailed about the corners of the house to me It had no frolic Tho children came in from play while I was at work, all flushed and eager, and happy, jostling and pushing each other good naturedly iu the entry. Dinner time came at last and they gathered round the table gleefully just aa gleefully, I thought, with a half bitterness, as if they had all been there. uVhy, what's this for.'' asked Harry, stopping. "Mother, you've got one chair too many. 'Hu-.li, Harry I know don't you see!" and then I.ucy finished her sentence in a whitpcr. Why had 1 done it; I hardly knew. To lay the plates and set the chairs, and pass that one plate by that place that always was by mine it seemed hard. It was a very little thing; but you know how dear these little tilings Itecome to women sometimes. So I had put it there the empty chair; and with iu pitiful, appealing blaukness be side me, I sat down to the festival meal. I reniemlter just how everything looked, as in a picture my husband's face, with its peace ful Miule, and the children grouped around in the old places; and a fleck of yellow sunlight that had fullen in through the warm south window tiou the table cloth. 1 remember everything. I know that John had just bowed liw head to ask a blessing on our food, and the children's eyes were closed, when I saw I saw as distinctly as I see this paper upon which I write the words a shadow fall across the empty chair. I turned my head, and I saw him, my dead boy Willie. 1 know it was Willie. Tou need not doubt me, for I tell you I cannot be mis taken. Should not I know him, I, his mother! I looked deep, deep into his eyes. I saw the old, rare smile; I touched his own bright curls upon his forehead; I spoke to him; lie spoke to me. "Willie!" 'Motherl- The voice was breathless, but it was his. "Willie! Willie!" Again the old, rare smile. With one hand he motioned silence. His father's voice hushed the amen, and tho children looked up and liegan their chatter. "Did you speak to me, Mary!" asked my hukbaud. "No." "Why, 1 thought some one spoke duriug tho blessing." So the- did not see him. 1 alone was chosen. 1 looked into his face, smiling, smil ing down into mine so tenderly you cannot know how t-'iiileily; but in his eyes I saw and 1 thought uiy heart would break to see it a certain, sad, reproachful look, that i had caught ou his face once, years ago, when I accused him of injustice of some trifling, childish fault a look that had haunted me in many a still hour since. And then I heard hid say distinctly, though to not another ear was the breathless voice audible: "I want them to be happy. I want you to enjoy the day. Did you think I should not be with you, mother J" He was with me, thank God, and I was happy. I talked, I laughed, I chatted with tho children; their merriment increased with mine; my husband's pale face lighted up; I felt my own eyes sparkling. And all the while, where they saw only that empty chair, 1 saw the beautiful, still face and happy 'smile. 1 saw him pleased with the old fa miliar customs. 1 saw him mindful of the children's jests. 1 saw his eyes full of their own home love, turn from one to another and back again to me 1 saw and 1 was con tent. All that day he was beside me. He followed us into the sitting room and took his old seat bv the cozy tire. He listened to his father's stories and watched the children at their game-, and joined us when we gathered around the piano for our twilight song. I heard uk voice; the children asked what made me sing so clearly. THE CHILDREN COHIXd IK FROM PLAT. Just as the shades began to fall heavily he drew me toward him Iry the frost bound window. He stooped and kissed me. He took me in his arms and said, as he had said before: "Did you think I should not be with you, mother." And then I missed bun. I called to him, but be did not answer. I stretched out my arms to him, but lie did not come back to roe. The room grew dark; my bead swam; I tottered over to uiy husband. "Oh, John! I have lost him!" "Mary why, Mary! what is the matter f and he caught me in his arms. I looked up. I was not in tho parlor by the frost bound window; the children were not beside me. The sitting room fire bad died down into the ashes; the door into the hall was open, and my husband had on his over coat He was holding ma tightly in bis arms. "I thought oh, John! John!" And then I told him all my dream. When I bad finished he was still a long time, then TjX v Subscribe Mary, perhaps the boy has been to r-n At this moment the clock on the mantel truck li We listened to its strokes till tho last one died away. "It is Thanksgiving morning," said my hus band, solemnly. When the morning really came, with its fresh, frolicking winds and sunlight, and blue skies; with its merry faces and gay voices, and the happy children rapping at my door, I thought of what he said, "Perhaps the boy has been to you." Sometimes I think be must have been, so real and sweet is, even now, the memory of bis coming. All that day ha stood .beside me. All that day I saw his peaceful face, and felt the bless ing of bis smile, and heard his low, sweet voice. What for months 1 had looked upon and feared with the bitterness of a great dread, the face, and smile, and vo'ce mada almost painless. The children's merry greetings did not hurt me; my fingers did not tremble when they twined the fresh green leaves about the walls. The older children went with us to church that morning. The little church was very still and pleasant, and somehow the service stole away down into my heart It was no eloquent preacher that we heard; only a plain man, with God's plainest gifts of mind and culture! But the day was real to him, and I listened. A bit of Mrs. Browning's music kept singing itself in my soul: I praise thee while my days go on, I love thee while my days go on; Through dark and dearth, through fire and frost. With emptied arms and treasure lost, I thank thee while my days go on. v I think that I did thank him I who, only last year, had sat there with my boy be side me. I think that when the dear familiar words flooded the church with harmony again, as on that other morning, and John and I clasped bauds silently I think we uttered the old, old ery: "Blessed be the name of tho Lord." We stopped after church together where the boy was lying, to let May lay down her little green wreath, and I was glad that she could do il calmly. Somehow I felt as if tears would be profanation just then. Then we went quietly home. It was a happy home that day as happy as it could be when we did not see him. Yet I knew he was there. "Did you think I should not be with you, mother:" I heard it over and over; I hear it over and over now; I shall hear it when the next Thanksgiving sun brightens his grave. He wished us to be happy; I know he was with us. I think he always will be. Elizabeth Stcart Phelps. AN OUTMDE THANKSCUVlNU SCENE. A HUMBLE THANKSGIVING. We cauuot show a grand array Of toothsome things Thanksgiving Day The day so very near; Our little pantry will not boast ' Delicious viands by the host To every palate dear. 'Neath weight of all the good things know a Our little table will not groan, No. not the ery least; Our little home will not be blest With many a welcome, joyous guest To help iu at the feast Yet, notwithstanding what we lack. We'll not regretfully look back And sigh, for better days; But we u ill fill in every part The spacious store rooms of our heart With gratitude and praise. We'll count our present blessings ottt. And we snail ttnd they number more Than all our trials do; Our happy.- thoughtful hearts shall be Delightful guests right royally Tliey will reward us, too. To seats we once did occupy We'll not look up with wistful eye And eoietous unrest; But bending low down our gage To poorer homes, to sadder ways, 1 lmnk Ood we are so blest. Thank God that though our home U small. It still contains the dear oues all, Kii-h in affection's wealth; Thank God we have enough to eat. Thank God for clothing warm and neat, Thank God for perfect health. Tfiaiik God we feel the fire's warm glow. While uiauy cold and tireless go Ju many cheerless home. Ob, yen, most gratefully we'll lift Our soids to God for every gift. And trust for all to come. Thus 'round our frugal little IxiarJ, With cheerful hearts we'll praise the Lord And beep the jubilee; N'or shall there anywhere be found. Within this nation's utmost bound, A happivr family. Fanxt Pcbcival. THE ORIGIN OF THANKSGIVING. A Parely Pwritaa Festival of Bejotclag Over Worldly Things. As if to resist the bitterness and sadness of the f ailiug year, the most genial and kindly of all our festivals occurs at the end of No vember. Its very name, Thanksgiving," be trays its pious origin an origin unmixed with any prior tradition. The great Christian festival of Christmas stretches backward to yule logs and mistletoes, to Scandinavian and Briton heathenry; nor does it lose by the graceful, happy association. But Thanks giving is purely Puritan. It is the good, warm heart conquering the tough head and ascetic manner of the old pilgrims. In Elliott's "Jfew England History" you may read that in 105, after the harvest, Governor Bradstreet sent out a company to shoot game to furnish a dainty feast of re joicing after the labors of the colony. Hav ing followed the directions of the governor, and the principle of the excellent Mrs. Glass, (bey cooked their game and invited Massa fioft aad same ninety other savages, and all feU naad devoured the feast, tbanUag God for the for the good world and tbt! good things in it." Think of that little shivering hand clustered on the bitter edge of the continent, with the future before them almost us dark as the forest behind them, many of them with such long lines of happy memories iu Old England flashing across the sea into tho gloom of their present position like gleams of ruddy firelight that stream far out of the cheerful chimney into the cold winter night and think of the same festival now, when our govern ors and our president invite millions of people to return thanks to the great giver of harvests; and the millions of jieopleolieying, sacrifice liecatomlis of turkeys and pumpkins and pour out seas of cider and harmless wine. ul-" i-o'"L Ik A" ,'?ii l?yS'A 'J.Y." t & 0(MD U THAXKSrsiVIVO CAM.IXf: IX IliK roou ax ii wi:akv. It inilit Ii-j duugerou to stake one's ivpu tatioii upon the a ertiou that Thanksgiving is a strictly religious feast. It is a day of practical ivpicing in the good things of this world, and there may even be jieople whoso mouths mi) fuller of turkey than their hearts of thanks. Hut every year the area of tho feast enlarges. Every year there ar.j nioit; people who sit down to "groaning lioards," as tho reiiortera happily express it, upon o-ra-sioiisof civic festivity. Dear old Thanksgiving! Long and long may his hospitable board lie spivaiL Long and long miy he stand, Iteuiguaut, at his door, calling in the poor and the weary, the blind and the lame, even nstlieold PuritnnsruIIed iu Mossasoit and ninety other savages. Hich in blessings and reverend iu years, may gwxl old Thanksgiving last with the continent, knitting closer the ties of family and friend ship; its cheerfulness ln-aming like the smile of a jiatriarch; its charity burning like u cen tral lire, wanning all the year and lighting up overy dark day of caiv and sorrow. THE MIKADO'S FATE. A THAXKSf:iVIX(J TIlAOEnY". It was altout the first of Xoveinlier that the big turkey, the Mikado of the farmyard, was given u house all to himself and oven body waited Uxu him iu the most untiring man ner. At first he was somewhat astonished at so marked a change iu his fortunes. Such extraordinary consideration as he now re ceived at Jveryliody's hands amazed him for a time, but he soon settled it in his mind en tirely to his satisfaction. "Ho! ho!" he said. "Ha! ha! They have just learned my worth. I have always known that I was a great genius, with a brain as big as a wash tub, and 1 think tho other turkeys, poor insignificant things, and the chickens, sorry creatures', knew it also. At least, they have ull shown a wholesome respect for my power, but I must admit that I have l-ecn slow to impress the people with my import ance. It has come at last, however. See how they truckle fo me. kow-tow to me, sup ply my every want almost before it is felt, and make menials of themselves to cater to my pleasure!"' This ho said to himself as he walked by himself. The other citizens of the fariuyurd looked at him with glowering faces and the bitterness of envy iu their hearts. He had always tyrannized over them, and they hated him with a hatred all the more deadly because it. was concealed under the mask of respect Now, though he had never dono a hun-.nue or generous thing in his life, they beheld bun housed uud ftasted like a king, with the s-atice of admiration served up to him every hour. The' couldn't under stand it; they saw no justice iu it, and they murmured ugainst it. "OH, I AM the cheat mikado. A poor, hard working hen who had brought up her family by the strictest economy and most faithful industry, and who had been robbed of her last bite again and again by the heartless Mikado, spoke her mind about it "It's nn outrage," she said, "an outrage on all decent fowls to see that brute of a Mi kado in clover up to his comb while the rest of us scratch from morning till night merely to keep life iu our bodies. Such things are rapidly creating an aristocracy of sex. Iu the future when male and female are both equal before the law there will be none of this. But it's the way of the world, and always has been. The basest and least de serving get into power, because they are so coarse that they can ride right over any obstacle, having no sensibilities to wound." Here a great swell of a cock, a monopolist of high degree, looked away and pretended not to hear; but the others listened attentive ly, sighed, and admitted that it was hard to rise iu the world while such monsters as the Mikado had the power to oppress. A middle-aged anarchist sputtered around at a great rate; but as he had always talked rather more than he should they didn't give him the closest attention. A fair and fat hen of good fieure smiled scornfully, and said that pne could expect nothing but coarse vanity from a person of realy low pedigree like the Mikado For ber part, come what would, she had the comforting knowledge that the blood of the Brahmas flowed in ber veins. Her ai cestors were Asiatic kings. Then she strut ted around to show off her figure, which really was perfect. COLUMBUS (I x 3H W) it VCV rv .Afv A young turkey, who was considered some thing of a crank liecause he wore glasses, was greatly given to philosophy and meta physics, had gone so far as to lecture a little and was thinking of starting a newsiMper, here piped up: "It is my opinion, friends, that wu are to bhime for our lack of success. The Mikado is mivly carrying out the theories of th.' new school of Ik. ton thinkers ami the occultists of the cast, which he has drojiied on. I veiily believe, through my teaching. He has a jwwerful will, and he has secretly and wii-tently demanded the good things of life and is getting them. The great force, my friends is mind. But while we have ltccu talking about it, he, like the pirate he is, hasg.ab'i-d the idea and put it into operation." An old and opinionated cat that had been apparently .iirpinj; on a fence pot now had a word to say. "You are very inexjierieueed creatures. WI.-.i ou have lived as long as I have (which none of you are likely to do, I am sorry to say. f.ir reason it would be in delicate now to nifitioiij you will know that what upj'ears soio. times to lie great good for tune is really the aix'sif'st unse thr.t could befnl! us. I v. ill not here go into paiticulnt-s, rttt I will entreat you not to bo envious of the Mikado. This is a very dramatic world. The man who is up to-day may l-e down to-:nor-ro. Envy no one. Perhaps your bard lot is better u thousand tiniesforyoursoursgood than the wealth of a t'ould or a Vnuderbil', or evi-u the jIil::id-. 1J.-H Franklin spLe wi-tfy when hes-aid: II.- tliai is .lev. it ) s .1 f.v.r no full, lie that is lui-li'il- i!ilr ut all." Jut lh?.'i lheMi::adiK, whose doors bud Uh-ii ojx-nil b 1'if hcuitit'iil daughterof thehou- to gi.e liini an hmtr's walk in the sunshine, came lu-str tii-m wuh lordly gait, head erect and wings -v-rapm:; the earth iu overwhelm ing pride. In sjiiv ii" the cat's sermon ou humi'ir. . in the i.ue of the f.: that thiy knew -sh I:e t If- lm!h. they l...shriveliit aii.l i :"..i till pu-smo ol t his iictied utiu a-lnii.'-d i i-eatuM. lie walked near them, si-i! mI - hi ninilv . am! said: M.iml mil uit.!! :i. . .o:i creatures small, St.ist I out of I In- hj.i of my shallow ; l-.ir 1 mti the kinaiiil !ossir all, Uli. 1 am (lit; great ."liacli. And they stood init of his way, though here and there was one who could not re frain from shedding tears, so deep was his humiliation. The mistress of the house, acromiaimed by a friend, just then appeared on tho other side of the fence, and the object of their at tention seemed to Ix; the Mikado. Ho wasn't slow to show his appreciation of the dis tinction, either. Ho strutted and gobbled iu the nio-t pompous and self-gratulatory ivav. Tlir. MIKADO AT THE FEAST. "Isn't he magnificent f said the visitor. "'I should think he would weigh nearly twentj' K)iiuds. ( )h, isn't he a treasure'" The Mikado hoard this remark and almost fainted with delight. "Ah," he thought, 'I was right iu nlwa3'. believing myself mi im portant personage. I hear it now from the lips of those who have heretofore pretended to bo my suicrioi-s." 'What do you feed him on.'" asked the visitor.- "Oat meal scalded iu hot milk and various little dainties. It's a joy to see him eat" At this the Mikado felt himself bursting with pride. -My daughter is to le married on Thanks giving day. and he is to lw the great feature of the table," said tiie hostess. Oh, my," thought the.Mikndo, "won't that 1 fine:" I am to figure at a wedding, to bo the great feature of the whole proceeding, it seems. 1 must order soinethingnice to wear." The cat ou tho fence post also heard, but she only licked her lips and smiled knowingly. The days went on and the Mikado only grew fatter and more domineering every hour, and the other fowls became more and more cust down. On Thanksgiving morning his doors were opened and he wus invited to come forth. This was the day on which he was to receive greater honors than ever, and he waddled out, cumliered by his excessive flesh with more arrogance than usual. He was a little surprised when tho hired man grubtied him by the legs and suddenly inverted him. It wits an und:guificil uttitude for a bird of his plumage, to .-ay the least ; but he reflected a moment and concluded that it wits but tit ting, after ull, for a creature of his distinc tion to le carried, uud of course this awk ward fellow didn't know how to curry him gracefully or even comfortably. He had no time to frame other thoughts, for hi a moment more the hired man had as sassinated him, and his head was lying on one side of the chopping block and his body ou the other. His lute envious associates ran iu all direc tions, chilled with horror, nor were they seen again that day. He graced the feast, to !e eiire, he was the great feature of it, but not iu the Kipnejty he had so conceitedly antici pated. Instead of the fine suit of fashionable garments he had expected to lie arrayed in, he upjieured shorn of his feathers, with his skin cruelly browned and his legs cut oil' at the knees, a sorry and humbled Mikado, surely. In a short time his very memory was for gotten, or recalled only with a sneer, or to be cited as mi example of whut conceit w ill bring any one to, The day after Thanksgiving there was a little talk over his head uud his Ixjnes, which were found in a ditch by his despised com rades. His fate was a lesson to them. "After all," said one, "we might have known that such a sudden rise into affluence could lxxle no good. Up like a rocket and down like a stick, you know." "Do you remember my words," said the cat, who came strolling along, bulging in body more than usual from having enjoyed extraordinary Thanksgiving blessings. "I told you to envy no one; that it was a dangerous thing to reach such eminence as the Mikado enjoyed- Poor fool, he did enjoy it while it lasted." "Could it lie," said the young turkey with the eyeglasses and taste for metaphysics, 'could it be that my doctrines led him astray i Still, he was a good illustration of the truth of what I have been preaching that if 3'ou persistently desire the best you will get it But the best, iu his case, didn't seem to bo really good for him, after all, and now the question arises: 'Is it good for any of us.' I must admit that I am somewhat confused ou this point, and, iu spite of the Mikado's grave fnu ts of character, I lament the tragedy in which ho was the victim. For some reason, his death was the occasion of general rejoicing in the house, and I have even picked up a word here and there which goes to show that the people who were the cause of his death gave thanks over bis liody. They actually called the day 'Thanksgiving,' so grateful were they that he was gone. Per haps they feared that in bis excessive love of JOURNAL, pmver he would rise some day, seize the reins of government, and trample them all under his feet. If so, I half excuse the murder, though I nm too much of a Bud dhist to .sympathize with a festival which sanctions the destruction of living creatures, and the c.ilitrj of them, too. In the round of existence, depend upon it, my friends, nil such flings are evened up. They who kill shall b" l.illed iu turn; if not iu this life, in some embodiment in the far future." &&&. mammv 3iJmjgffiZZZlr-iy' mm(i.j Tin: TALK OVER HIS HEAD AXD HONKS. The hen who was in favor of tipjul suffrage said that :iftai all them were compensatioim in life. Site still held her old views; but she had lcu.'ued a lessou iu patience. Her dream of i dlti a! eipiality would be realized; but she iiiiist wait, and while she waited work as well a- talk. A very aged old bird of no par ticular lineiige cleared hi-: throat just then. As he was generally silent, he commanded great attputiou when he did speak. He said: "You are getting on to the true philosophy of life at last. Agitation doesn't accomplish half us much as (eopIc think it does. The in fluences which really move the world are subtle. Your talkers think they revolution ize the world; but the real jiower eonie from higher, much higher" and he subsided into silence. The noted anarchist rooster had nothing at all to say until his views were called for. Even then he evaded it until cornered and compelled to talk. Then he straightened up and put on his old time, important manner. "It is the beginning of the end, my friends," he said. "Monsters like the Mikado die of their own greed. They are their own execu tioners. Hud he divided his abundance with us we would all have had a layer or so of the fat which encumbered him and brought him to grief, and he might have been alive to-day. But, no he must have the earth. Nothing was too much for him. We had to starve that he might live. All of you can testify that he lived uj-oii the proceeds of your lubor, for you scratched and he came along just as 3-our bite was ready for your mouth anil snatched it from you, and you dared not say your souls were your ow n." "But whut of the lady with the purest blood of Asia iu her Veiii3f asked a dapfier young cock. "I haven't seen her to-day." "Nor have I," said a dozen voices. Here the cat sjwke again. " I aui sorry to say that our fair friend has shared the Mikado's" fate. The chief cause of pride with her proved her ruin. Her good blood gave her a lino figure, and the people of this country are n flesh-eating race. They have no scruples against eat ing any of you who are so unfortunate as to possess sweet, clean flesh. So you see that it is never safe to boast." "Oh, dear; what a difficult and dangerous world to live in!" said ull in one voice. Tho old house dog, who was fond of Shakes peare, came on the scene, sniffed contemptu ously at the Mikado's bones, nnd said: "Alas! he lived for self, and now none are" so poor as to do him reverence.' Gertrude Gakriso.v. hwftfi t,W!' A THAXKSGIVIXG NIGHTMARE. FOR WHAT SHALL WE BE THANKFUL? Kouie Old. Oft Itepcutril O.i-stiuiis. and Their Unfashionable .'-...'it. "For what shall we be thank: til. '"say the sorrowing. "Grief nbidcth with us, and in our hearts is the bitterness of continued trouble." "For what shall we lie thanked'" say the rioor. "The earth overflows with l-nty, but we are destitute. Cold and hi nr is our Krtiou, and want is our compan'mi all the days of the year." "For what shall we be thankful (" say the hopeless. "The day's go ou. but I hey bring us no joy. The sun and the moon traverse the heavens without warming our chilled hearts or lighting our dark pathway." "For what shall we be thankful.'" say the disappointed. "Wherever we tin-.,, there, wailing to dishearten us, lur'..- i:-i.point-meut When we rie he it is th-. ..--es us again to fall." "For what shall we le thankfiilr'' say the tempted, the mistaken, the fallen. "Our temptations have overcome us; our mistakes have destroyed us: our siiw have crushed us. For us there Ls nothing left but wretchedness." "For what shall we be thankful:" say the baffled. When we strive we fail; when we pray no answer comes; when we hojie our hopes are no ver realized: when we love our loves are lost to us." "For what shall we be thankful'" sav the bereaved. "Death has robbed us and left us moaning. Our sore hearts cannot take up the crv of rojoiclug, for we weep uucom forted;" For what shall we be "anV""'" -, sick. "Wo sutter and know no ease. Yve are full of anguish night and day." "For what shall we thankful.'" say tre per secutcd. "Our enemies outnumber us; our burdens are greater than we tau bear." "For what shall we thankful T sav the weary, the wnuuded, the forsaken, the heavy of heart "For us there is no rest, no happi ness, no help. Weariness is our jK)it ion and burdens our inheritance. We have no cause for rejoicing from the beginning of the year to the end." For these, for all these, it is written: "Rest iu the Lord. Oh, rest iu the Lord. Wait pa tiently for Him mid He shall give thee thy heart's desire." To theso, to all these, the promise has been given. To these, the words from n t.ihi old sermon come with power to heal: ' There is still heaven to be thankful for. Whatever soi rows bereave us here, whatever fatal mis takes darken our lives, whatever irredeemable losses befall us, we may yet rest in the Lord, and wait -patiently for htm iu the little life that remains; for teyond this world's gain or loss, high iu the serene air of heaven, when ex-. istence ceases to be a lesson and becomes vivid life, there and oidy there shall He givo us our heart's desire iu its immortal fullness. Here knowledge is defiled, love is imperfect, purity the result of fiery trial, wealth rusted into covetousness; but In heaven is the very native country of pure knowledge, perfect love, ut ter smfewness, and riches that neither moth nor rust corrupt, that bless and curse not" a year r ifliil il&r $2 National Bank! -OK COI.UMBU8.NK . HAS AN Authorized Capital of $250,000, A Surplus Fund of - $17,000, And the largest Paid 1st Cash Cap. Ital of any banc in this part of the State. SSTDeposits received and interest paid on time deposits. lEsTDrafts on the principal cities in this country and Europe bought and sold. KJTCollections and all other business giveu prompt and careful attention. MOCKHOLDKUS. A . A X D E RSOX , JPret't . S AM'L C. SM ITU, Vice Prea't. O.T.KOEN, Cashier. LP. BECK KK, HERMAN OE1ILUIC11, (J. SUHIITTE. W. A. MCALLISTER. ON AS WELCH, JOHN W.EARLY, P.ANDKRSOX, G.AXUERSOX, ROBERT Ull LIG. AprJS-'Stftf BUSINESS CAHDS. D.T. M aktyx, 31. I). F. .1. Sciiuo, 31. D. Dra. MARTTN A SCHUG, U. S. Examining Surgeons, Local Surgeons. Union Pacific, O., X. & IS. II. and B.A31. R.R's. Consultations in German and English. Telephones at office and residences. ETOtlire on Olive street, next to Hrod feuhrer's Jewelry Store. COLUMBUS. 4i-v NEBRASKA. W. M. CORrvKl.ll.'N, LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE. Upstairs Ernst building 11th street. O tll.l.lVAf Ac KKKUKK, ATTOliXJllti AT LA ', uilice oyer First National Rank, Colum bus. Nebraska. ."o-tf C . KA:, Ji. IK, PHYSICIAN AND SUJiOEON. ISTOllice and rooms, (iluck building, 11th street. Telephone cummuuicatiun. 4v H A.IIILTO JlKAItEfJI.D., PHYSICIAN AND fiUL'VEON, Platte Center, Nebraska. U-y HE KM A." rVATK.VTKIft'r, RLACKS31ITII AND WAOON .MAKER, l.'Ith street, east of Abt's barn. April 7, 'SC-tl D K. J.rilAM. WILLY, DEUTSCHER ARZT, Columbus, Nebraska. t3TOflice 11th Street. Consultations in English, French and German. 2'J-Om poweLL 1IO 1J K, PLATTE CENTEK, NEB. Just Opened. Special attention given to commercial men. Has :i good sample oom. Sets the best table. Give il a trial and be convinced. .'lO-omo ton.: EUMDi-::, COUNTY SURVEYOR. Parties desiring surveying doue can address me at Columbus, Neb., or call at my office iu Court House. OmayStUy lOTIC'E TO TEACHERS. W. H. Tedrow, Co Supt. I will be at my office in the Court House the third Saturday of each mouth for the examination of teachers. ::'.' If F. V. Klia.liKK, .11. IK, HOMOEOPATHIST. Chronic Diseases aad Diseases of Children a Sj.eciaJ.tv. IST'Otliee on Olive ."treet, tuiee doors north of First National Rank. :My Ic"AI,I.IN'lF.K HKOM., A TTORNEYS A T LA W, Office up-stairs in .McAllister's build iug. Ilth St. W. A. .McAllister, Notary Public. J. M. MACKAKLAND, B. K. COWDKKY, Attora73llTst 1:7 Pail c. Csllictjr. LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE OF MACFARLAND& COWDERT, Columbus, : : : Nebraska. JOHN C. IIKIGIXH. C. .1. CAKLOW, Collection Attorney. HIOSIHS & 0AEL0W, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, Specialty made of Collections by C.J. Garlow. i-l-m C H.RliMCHE, Ilth St., opposite Lindell Hotel. Sells Harness, Saddles, Collars, Whips, Blankets, Curry Combs, Brushes, trunks, valises, buggy tops, cushions, carriage trimmings, Ac, at the lowest possible prices. Repairs promptly attended to. TAMES SALMOX, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER. Plans and estimates supplied for either frame er brick buildings. Good work fuaranteed. Shop on 13th Street, near t. Paul Lumber Yard, Columbus, Ne braska. fi2 6mo. JS. MURDOCH & SON, Carpenters and Contractors. Havehad an extended experience, and will guarantee satisfaction in work. All kisds of repairing done on short notice. Our motto is, Good work and fair prices. Call and give us an oppor tunitytoestimateforyou. 3TShop on ism si., one uoor went 01 rrisuaoi Co's. store, Celuabus, Nebr. 483-y A party consisting of eighteen r milies, from the neighborhood of North Bond, Neb., were recently lo cated near Pawnee creok by Ebbs & Taylor. TVo of thee families, tboso of Ole Welling and Win. Bhuel, ar rived here Wednesday with their household goods and are preparing to settle permanently on their claims. The rest will aU follow aud take up their homes on their claims between this and spring. Sterling Col.) JTeir. Weaderfal Cares. W. D. Iloyt & Co., wholesale and retail druggists of Rome, CJs., says : We have been selling Dr. King's New Discovery, Electric Bitters and Bucklen's Arnica salvo for two years. Have never handled remedies that -c'.l as well, or (five such universal AHisfaction. There have been some wonderful cures efl'ected by these medicines it this city. Several cases of pronounced Consumption have been entirely cured by use of a few bottles of Dr. King's Now Discovery, taken in connection with Electric Bitters. We guarantee, them always. Sold by Dowty & Ueitkemper. Two hundred and thirty persons who participated in the Iato revolu tion in Spain, hrve been condemned to death. Worse Ihaa a Eire Aluriu. One ot tho moat dreadful alarms that can be Hounded iu a mother's ears is produced by croup; dreadful, because it is known to be danger ous; tho more dreadful because the life of a loved one is in jeopardy. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is a never tailing safeguard against this dangerouq disease. Its reputation as a preventative and cure for croup is fully and (irmly established. In fact, it is tho only remedy which can always be relied upon. Sold by Dowty & Ueitkemper. Bai.i Kxoit citizens to the number ot one hundred undertook to play prohibition by destroying all tho whisky in Chad wick. Mo. They were stampeded, uud otie of them kill ed. "Hk who is false to present duty," says Henry Ward Beecher. "breaks a thread iu the loom, and may find tho flaw when he may have forgotten tho cause." A case in potut occurs to ua. Mr. Win. Ryder, of 87 .Toflorson street, Buffalo, N. Y., rocetit'.y told a n-porter that, "1 had a targe ttahcei on each leg, that kept continually discharging tor twenty years. Noth ing did me any good except Dr. Pierce's '(Joldeu Medical Discovery.' It cured me." Here is a volume ex pressed in a few words. Mr. Uydor's experience is entitled to our renders' careful cousideration.--77te 6'i. A KhviSKD report oi the corn crop has been taken, which aho'.vs a yield of 1,,000,000 bushels, mi average of 22 to the acre. Itch, Prairie Mange, and Scratches of every kind cured in !50 minutes by Wool ford's Sanitary Lotion. Use no other. This never fails. Sold by C. B. S'illman, druggist, Columbus. a Hot; cholera 14 again making tnd ravages in York county. . really Evcitel. Not a few of the citizens of Colum bus have recently become greatly excited over the astounding facts, that several of their friends who had been pronounced by their physicians as incurable and beyond all hope sutlering that dreaded monster Con sumption have been completely cured by Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption, tho only remedy ihat does positively cure all throat and lung diseases, Coughf, Colds, Asthma and Bronchitis Trial bottle free at Dowty & Heitkemper's Drug Store, large bottles $1. A.NmcEW Fmoi.K, of Sarpy county, has six bogs that weigh together 1,200 pounds. Fifty Obim Is the price of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, the safest and best Cough Medicine in the market. Sold by Dowty & Ueitkemper. Joseph Durr, a prominout Oloo county farmer, has been mis.Mug for several days. His property it worth 20,000. A Maddea l-ata from heart disease is uow quito com mon. Dr. Pierce's "Golden Medi cal Discovery" is a certain remeJy. Chronic irritation, palpitation, ex cessive or defective action of the heart, shortness of the breath, and pain are removed by it in a short period. It also cures nil diseies re lating to the liver, stomach, bowel-, blood and skin. Tiik til st body iuturrrd in Park View r meter, Ila-sln j:p. whk that Of D Lw n;an, who was prtsidtnt or the association. aclclea'a Aralca "aire The Best Salve iu the world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcer-, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Conn, and all Skin Eruftions, and positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guar anteed to ire perfect satisfaction, or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. Foi Sa le by Dowty & Heit- ktmper, Mayl-.ly