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VOL. XVII. -NO. .81.
COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 24. 1886.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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
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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,
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P.ANDKRSOX,
G.AXUERSOX,
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AprJS-'Stftf
BUSINESS CAHDS.
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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.
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NEBRASKA.
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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
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PHYSICIAN AND SUJiOEON.
ISTOllice and rooms, (iluck building,
11th street. Telephone cummuuicatiun.
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PHYSICIAN AND fiUL'VEON,
Platte Center, Nebraska. U-y
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RLACKS31ITII AND WAOON .MAKER,
l.'Ith street, east of Abt's barn.
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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