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LINCOLN'S OLD HOME.
THE VISITOR'S INTEREST CENTERS
ABOUT THREE ROOMS.
A Most Interesting Collection or Relics
and Meraentoe Contents of a House
Replete with Memories of the Mar
tyred President.
Both the man and the times unite to make
avery reference to Lincoln of sacred interest
in the eyes of loyal Americans; and it was
with something kin to veneration that we
visited his old home in Springfield a short
time since. Tho house stands to-day sub
stantially as Lincoln left it. A few necessary
repairs have been mode, a few rooms have
Iwcn papered, but no alterations or marked
changes are to be seen. It is not an imposing
looking house nobody would think of call
ing it a mansion. It is somewhat weather
worn; a coat of paint would add greatly to
its looks. It is simply a plain twelve room
frame house, with gable roof, standing high
up from the street. The house stands on the
corner of Jackson and Eighth streets. The
yard, which is small, is three or four feet
nl-ove tho level of tho street, and is entered
by a flight of stone steps which are cut into
tho walls surrounding the lot. Ujwn tho
wLole, the place would scarcely excite a pass
ing notice were it not for the large gilt sign
over the front door: "Lincoln Residence."
The inside of the house hardly merits a
minute description. It is substantial in Its
looks, but plain and unpretentious. Roughly
i.peaking, the rooms ure symmetrically ar
ranged on cither side of a hall which runs
through the middle of the house, there being
six rooms on each of the two stories. Tho
visitor's interest naturally centers about three
rooms. These are the two rooms on tho left
of tho hall as you enter and one of tho up
stairs bedrooms the former having been
converted into a Lincoln museum, and
tho latter into a war museum. These
museums are the property of a Mr. Oldroyd,
who now holds the house by lease. The col
lections are strictly private, though Mr. Old
royd delights to show them to friends and
strangers.
MAKIXQ A COLLECTION.
Mr. Oldroyd, who is a member of the
Grand Army of the Republic, began to make
his collection when he was a soldier in the
army, where he used to pick up war relics,
war songs, illuminated envelojes and the like
and tend them home. Later, from sheer ad
miration of Mr. Lincoln, ho began to gather
mciiK'titoes of the martyred president, so that
to-day he has over 2,000 different articles
especial ly jwrtaining to Itr. Lincoln. Mr. Old
royd admits that ho is something of a crank
on tho subject of his favorite hero, but he has
spent hundreds of dollars on his special
hobby, and to-day never loses an opportunity
of getting a new relic of interest for his col
lection. No moro interesting spot can bo
fouud than this old home of Lincoln, replete
as it Ls with memories of the great man, and.
hallowed as k is by the presence of,01droyd's
collection.
The two rooms devoted to the Lincoln
museum are separated only by an archway.
Scarcely an article of furniture is admitted
into the rooms except it belonged to Lincoln
or is redolent of Lincoln's history. Especi
ally noticeable are two rosewood sofas cov
ered with haii-cloth and two large rocking
chairs to match, an old bedroom stand, an
old fashioned settee, a couple of plain wooden
chairs, and a huge walnut cradle, with solid
foot and head boards. These all belonged to
Lincoln. Robert and the rest of the children
were rocked in the cradle. It doosnt require
a great stretch of the imagination to see
Lincoln's gaunt form and benignant face
bending over it
LINCOLN'S OFFICE CHAIR.
Lincoln's office chair also stands there, and
up against the wall is a bookcase made out of
one of Lincoln's old bedsteads. Lincoln's
office chair is a plain hardwood chair of
rather uncomfortable appearance. Of course,
we sat down in it, and in as many more of
the articles enumerated above as we could
conveniently. If we can't walk in the foot
steps of great men it is sometimes a sort of
satisfaction to sit in their sitting places. Es
pecially conspicuous in the collection is Lin
coln's cook stove. This is the stove over
which he used to prepare his own meals. It
bears tho name "Royal Oak." Though some
what rust eaten, it is in first class condition,
and polished as it is, as bright as polish will
make it, it is one of the most interesting
articles to be seen.
Directly in the middle of the room stands a
rude stand or writing desk of Mr. Oldroyd's
own make. Its appearance and history ore
too curious not to be mentioned. A few
years ago some repairing was done to the
Lincoln residence. Mr. Oldroyd took apiece
of one of the old joists and had a very pretty
inkstand carved from it. He likewise took a
piece of one of the sills and had a penholder
carved out of it, in shape like a goose quill;
to this he had fitted a gold pen. Then, being
in New Salem, he went to the old house where
Lincoln used to board and obtained some of
the timbers of the house. These he took
home and made into a rudo frame, bolting it
together with rough screw bolts. For the
top, which is put on at the angle at which
writing desk tops are usually put on, he had
made a granito slab. Here was a unique
Lincoln memorial It ought to bo properly
inscribed. So Mr. Oldroyd wrote to Whit
tier, asking him if he would compose a stanza
of poetry suitable for the stand. Whittier
agreed to do so. Then Oldroyd expressed to
Whittier the inkstand and penholder above
mentioned with the request that the poet
should use them in the composition of the
verses. This request was carefully observed,
and the poetry, inkstand, and pen were sent
back to Springfield. The verses were duly
inscribed on the slab; we copied them for the
reader's benefit:
Let man be free! The mighty word
He spake was not his own.
The spirit of the highest stirred
His mortal lips alone.
This writing desk is not at all handsome,
but we doubt if anything could be devised
more typical of the rough hewn character of
the great man or more replete with memor
ies of his life.
A SCRAP BOOK.
One of the most interesting relics of the
collection is a scrap book which was made by
Hiss L- Williams, of Rockford, Ills. This
book is filled with newspaper clippings, giving
a detailed account of the funeral procession
from Washington to Springfield. How the
papers were procured we do not know, but
the clippings begin with an account of the
obsequies as given by the Washington papers.
This is followed by a detailed account of the
funeral procession, as reported by all the
local papers of the places at which the funeral
train touched. The book is very neatly made,
and the account thus given is of exceptional
interest Hiss Williams demurred for a long
time about parting with her book, but con
cluding finally that it ought to be in Mr. Old
royd's collection, she presented it to him.
Beside this detailed newspaper account of
the funeral Hr. Oldroyd has a collection of
253 different newspapers giving accounts of
Lincoln's assassination. These, of course, are
of great interest, giving as they do different
phases of the great tragedy and expressing
differest opinions concerning it Farther,
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there are In the museum eighty different
lives of Lincoln, some in pamphlets and some
in bound volumes of ample dimensions; 209
letters of opinion and reminiscence from the
leading writers, statesmen and politicians of
the country, and, what Lsof great value to all
those who are interested in Lincoln's biog
raphy, GT0 pamphlets addresses and sermons
that were delivered in various parts of the
land at tho time of tho assassination. Some
of these are historical, some biographical,
some eulogistic This collection of discourses
is probably second to none, and its value in
giving voice to the popular sentiment at that
troubled period will easily bo seen.
GLOBE AND EAGLE.
Conspicuous in the museum are a gilded
globe, a stuffed eagle and a well preserved
wreath. This e?glo, mounted on the globe
and holding in his mouth the wreath, graced
the top of the funeral car on its march to
Springfield. How Mr. Oldroyd got posses
sion of them we do not know; but certainly
those who arc at oil interested in Lincoln's
funeral and the fate of the catafalco that
bore the remains can but feel a sense of satis
faction that this emblem of peaceful author
ity which surmounted the funeral car of the
murdered president is. in. such safekeeping. ,
Mr. Oldroyd prizes it and jealously cares
for it
Around the sides of the rooms devoted to
the museum, which originally were probably
Mr. Lincoln's parlors, are arranged a series
of glass cases for tho better preservation of
various articles of interest Here are kept
hundreds of curious mementos. In one case
are sixty funeral medals and badges that
were niado and worn on the occasion of Lin
coln's death. In another are 205 medals re
lating to spocjal features of Lincoln's admin
istration. They range in date from 1800 to
the time of Lincoln's assassination. They
are very interesting, especially to persons
having a taste for numismatics. In another
is a collection of all the bonds issued under
Lincoln's administration. Some thirty dif
ferent mourning badges that were worn by
as many different societies in token of their
resiHict for Lincoln are also to bo seen, and a
collection of eighty-one illuminated envelopes,
such as were prevalent during the rebellion,
bearing on them different pictures of Lincoln
or cuts illustrative of special features of his
work, j
MANY MEMENTOES.
There is something especially touchiug hi
witnessing a collection of so many memen
toes of tho war president, gathered as they
are and carefully arranged in the very rooms
which he was wont to frequent It is, so to
speak, a curious blending of motley memo
ries. From every imaginable corner, more
over, Lincoln's homely, but kindly, face
looks down upon us and seems to speak to us;
for Mr. Oldroyd has been indefatigable in
picking.up busts and medallions of his hero.
No less than fifteen different busts of Lincoln
grace various portions of the museum, and
nine medallions in iron, china, glass and
bronze are carefully arranged in a case.
It is curious to notice what out-of-the-way
things will bo picked up and cherished by a
relic hunter. Perhaps the most interesting
part of the collection now in the Lincoln
residence is that composed of the numerous
articles that one cannot stop to specify.
Here, for instance, are pictures of J. Wilkes
Booth, the murderer, and Sergt Boston Cor
bett, who shot him in Garrett's barn; here
are pictures of Lincoln's horse and dog,
taken immediately after the funeral of Lin
coln at Springfield; here, religiously pre
served, is a piece of an old checked gingham
coat that Lincoln used to wear. Numerous
autograph letters of Lincoln are preserved,
and what are, perhaps, as curious as any
thing, pieces of the four ropes that hung the
conspirators Atzerott, Payne, Harrold and
Mrs. Surratt These pieces of rope were
presented to Mr. Oldroyd by Mrs. Gen.
Dodds. These and hundreds of others in
vert the museum with a deep interest It
seems as though relic hunters were anxious
that people should remember that Lincoln
was a rail splitter. We do not know how
many articles we have seen made out of rails
that Lincoln split Oldroyd's collection has
a cane and a cross made out of such rails.
COLLECTION OF WAR RELICS.
The war collection, which has nothing es
pecially connected with Lincoln, occupies a
room up stairs, immediately in front of - the
room in which Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln used to
sleep. Here is kept a very valuable war li
brary. Mr. Oldroyd has systematically
bought every book he has heard of that in
any way treats of the war of the rebellion.
His war library now numbers 1,100 volumes.
Some of these books, of course, are of little
intrinsic value, but many are of exceptional
worth to tho students of our civil war. Here,
perhaps, is the best collection extant of tho
illuminated war envelopes that were such a
rage during the rebellion. Over four thous
and of these are prettily arranged in a case,
no two being duplicates. But what to our
eye was of far more interest is a collection of
500 Union war songs with illuminated
tops in tho original issues. During the
whole time he was in the war Mr. Oldroyd
paid special pains to the collection of these
songs. Whenever ho would hear of one he
would send the money to the publisher and
request that the song be sent to bis home.
Thus the sheets are all clean and perfect
We should like to see some enterprising pub
lisher issue these in book form, reproducing
the engravings and illuminations, and mak
ing each page a foe-simile of the original
issue of tho song. What American patriot
would not love to have such a book? These
songs were a power in their day; why should
wo forget how they first came forth to the
world.
We pass over the many .other features of
tho war museum. Pikes, lances, muskets,
sabers, and relics picked up on various bat
tle fields are common to all such collections,
and have scarcely special interest enough to
demand mention.
The existence of these collections and the
appropriation of Lincoln's own bouse for
their home will doubtless be to many, as it
was to us, a bit of news. It was a pleasing
surprise to us to find the hero's home and the
mementoes of him thus intimately associat
ed. We have no desire to impose a host of
promiscuous callers on Hr. Oldroyd, but we
feel bound to say that Springfield has no
more hallowed spot to which to make a pfl
grimago and no more interesting sight to
reward the devotee for his pains than the
Lincoln residence and the collections it con
tains. "F. W. M." in Chicago Times.
A Painter's Keboke.
Turner was one day making a drawing of
Plymouth harbor, with some ships, at the
distance of a mile or two, seen against the
light Having shown this drawing to a
naval officer, the officer observed with sur
prise, and objected with indignation, that
the ships of the line had no port holes.
"Jo," said Turner," certainly not; if you
will walk up to Ht. Edgecome, and look
at the ships against the sunset, you win find
you can't see the port holes." "Well, but,"
said the naval officer, still indignant, "you
know the port holes ere there." "Yes,"
said Turner, "I know that well enough; but
my business is to draw what I see, not what
I know is there." Boston-Budget
The trouble with the church is that it is a
vast hospital ; it takes all the well ones to take
care of the sick ones. Rev. Sam Jones.
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ADEQUATENESS AND SIMPLICITY OF
GYPSY CIVIL GOVERNMENT.
Every Gypsy Man and Woman Skilled
in Horse Lore and Horaeinanship Wise
Oltl Witches and Their Diablerie Won
derful Type.
The make up of the usual party of gypsies
for the road is quite tho same wherever you
come upon any considerable number. There
will always be fouud the sedate and quiet
Gypsy of past the middle age, with a wife
who is far more active and assertive than
himself. They are usually reserved and quiet,
and eat, drink and live their quiet, contented
lives apparently a little apart from thehey
dey of the boisterous life of the band. You
will find three or four or more families that
know these two for tho parent stock, and the
elderly man and wife possess that air of con
tentment and repose which come from un
questioned station worthily won. They will
travel in a fine carriage, in easy comfort,
-maybe, and such are oftentimes discovered
to bo the "king" and "queen" of this particu
lar band, though you would never know it
from any airs of authority or manner of
dress. Yet their decisions the man's upon
the affairs of the men, the woman's upon tho
affairs of tho women are absolute. A
Gypsy would as soon think of becoming
Gorgio outright as to have even an impulse
to question them.
GYPSY GOVERNMENT.
Indeed, it is worthy of remark hero that
gypsy civil government, if it may bo given
so dignified a term, would seem to havo
always and almost unconsciously been tho
very ideal of adequateness, perfection and
simplicity. Hero, as nowhere else on earth,
law is the perfect will of a people expressed
through designated authority. This iicoplo
b direct vote elect their rulers. Authority
no more dare an ulmso of iovcr than dare
the most insignificant integral of the con
crete power-creating source question that
power. So that here, with what your politi
cal and social philosophers would be pleased
to call a semi-civilized people, is found a
government of people by people for people,
infinitely more perfect in theory, and exact
and true to theory in permanent practice,
than was ever even formulated by sunniest
dreamer in ail republics, of lwneficont ora
toric symmetry rather than actual liberty
and equality under hard tests of friction and
use.
There are also found a dozen otber fami
lies, may be. Of those one or two may
travel in wagons which nlono havo cost
small fortunes. But in tko daily lives and
manner of their owners there can never be
found vanity and caste ljeoause of superior
possession, nor envy nmong less fortunate
Uo:.xiiiy, uho seem proud rather than cha
gxiiiyi that their lel'ov.s can show the Gen
tiles such respectable iidongiugs. Of these
dozen or more tamilic.-.. ever man and
e ery woman Is a muster of horse lore, horse
care and of horsemanship. A lad of 12 or a
lass of 15 is a trader, u jocke- and a veter
inarian. A uunuVr of animals besides tliose
in actual use always accompany the band.
These are traded, sold, or added to at a
moment's notice. This summer, in Connecti
cut, a young gypsy with n horn 1 was pil-
griming, on being bantered to sell the one
nag which drew our little democratic wagon,
sold him ou the spot to some overwise
farmers coming from the town hilarious
with drink, and coolly invited me to assist
in dragging the vehicle into camp, some
four miles distant On our arrival we were
greeted with cheers; but I half suspect it
was not so much from the camp a recogni
tion of my Gypsy companion's thrift as it
was from tho entire land's enjoyment in
seeing the "Gorgio chal," as they call me,
transformed into a nimble and tractable
grye (horse).
WISE OLD WITCHES.
The band always has three or four old
spae-wives old, old women that remind one
of the grewsoine Norma of Scott's creation.
Heaven only knows how old these venerable
juid lively relics are. But their virility, ac
tivity, and wisdom are marvelous. To pene
trate the caution, deceit, canniuess, and dia
blerie of these blessed witches is matchless
work. For months I havo exercised my wi
liest arts upon some of them, and am just able
to discover the' are part human. I am al
lowed by one to occasionally coxno of an
evening to her tent and tell her of some of
tho pleasant things of Gorgio life, and, under
frequent severe protest, to calmly urge that
all mankind are one. To another, born be
fore the century, I have mado a poem, and
am not blighted, so that I feel progress is
making. Tho camp smile on me, though,
and shake their heads betimes. If there be
aught in gypsyism allied to the ancient and
honorable being (devil) himself, these auld
raunies possess it all and communicate it in
their presence and influence.
But that sort of witchery is fading slowly
out of the gipsy people. Little by little the
younger blood, tenderry enough, but surely
and stubbornly, refuses its mysticism, dread,
and fetich glamour. But they stand as
wonderful types still of the concentrated hu
man bedevilment of 10,000 years. Well as I
know them, sure as I am of them, I would
not like to pass through life with one of
these witches' curses upon me. But there
are witches and witches. Some walk beside
us in everyday life. They are bugaboos
only. These are the real kind, from out of
the heart of the night of the centuries. With
all these and the dogs and the tinkers a
score of dogs, "of diet spare and slight," like
old Tatine's Greek coursers, almost voiceless,
sedate, even melancholy, but fuller of busi
ness than sentiment; and tinkers many, gay,
jolly, rollicking, the buffoons of tho band,
great hearted but small pursed, and wiser in
sentiment than, thrift and you have the
gipsy band as it moves upon the road into
the scornful, melodious camp. Edgar L.
Wakeinan in Chicago News.
Bravery in Abu-Klca.
Our loss was serious enough to us, however,
being mostly confined to the dismounted
cavalry, nearly all the officers of which were
slain. The Gardner machine gun at that
angle of the square lost its entire crew except
one,. a boatswain in tho navy, who, seeing his
gun being dragged off, and having lost both
cutlass and revolver in the melee, seized a
sponge and, dashing among the Arabs, com
menced threshing right and left with the
shaft, with such effect as to clear the gun,
when, seizing the "trail," he tore back in
safety with it to the square and immediately
opened fire. He may bless his stars that he
was lucky enough in his youth to bo fed on
good beef, or he never would have been able
to exhibit such gigantic strength as he did on
that day. I am happy to be able to state
that for this deed ho has been awarded the
Victoria Cross, which alone carries with it
20 a year for life. Scots Guardsman in
Boston Bulletin.
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Thirty-four salt wells have been put down
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COLUMBUS
j 6ELF-fcONSCIOUSNESS of great men
In the-) Ilabit of Trumpeting Their Own
Prale-Sevoral Notable Instance.
Justin S. Morrill's now book on uThe Self
Consciousness of Noted Person-V contains
little that is new, but it lays bare the true
inwardness of many of the greatest men,
Spendthrifts of the personal pronoun," Mr.
Morrill calls them.
It is impossible to glance through this
book without coming to the conclusion, that
in nil ages the leaders of men havo been in
the habit of trumpeting their own praises.
Among these self-conscious men, we find
Paul telling his brethren that ho had
-labored more abundantly" than the others.
He said to tho Corinthians: "I am become a
fool in glorying. Ye have compelled me:
for I ougfit to have been commended of you:
for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest
apostles, though I be nothing."
In the old days great freedom of utterance
was permitted when men spoke of them
selves. Augustus said: "I found Rome
brick; I leave it marble. r Cicero, speaking
of his lineage, said: "I commenced an ances
try." Xenophou informs his readers that he
is "nsjaannent among the Greeks for elo
qutfiiee asAlexander was for arms;'' Horace
boasted of his "fine genius."
The moderns are not very different from
tho ancients. "They call mo lucky because I
am able," said the first Najioleon. Welling
ton upon being told that ho was the greatest
general of the century replied: "By G d! It
is quite true." Dryden said of his "Odo to St
Cecilia's Day" that "a nobler odo was neer
produced or ever will Ie." Guizot in his old
ago acknowledged that he liked nothing bet
ter than iopular applause. Shei idan made
this prediction when he failed in his first
speech: "I have it in me, and it shall come
out," and Disraeli under the samo circum
stances said: "Though I sit down now, the
time will coma when you will hear mo."
Lrskine ued so many I's in his speeches that
uanspapers found it difficult to set them up.
John Wesley advertised his dictionary as
"tho Itest dictionary in tho world."
Perlmps it is jut as well not to quote the
Americans mentioned b3- Mr. Morrill, but
an exception must be made in the case of
Franklin. Tho old philosopher wrote: "I
wish the out cf fashion practice of praising
ourselves would, like other old fashions,
comaaround into fashion again." And m nis
autobiography he observes that most people
dislike vanity in others, whatever share of it
t!uy nicy have themselves, but that .for his
part he is disposed to givo it fair quarter
wherever found, being persuaded that it is
often productive of good to its possessor, and
to others who are within his sphere of ac
tion. In fact, he sa-.s: "It would not be ab
surd if a man were to thauk God for his van
ity, among the other comforts of lifal" At
lantic Constitution.
Chapter on Hotel "Doii'tft."
Don't expect 5 a day accommodations at
u 2 a day hou-e.
Don't register under an alias unless you
ore "crooked" and then don't register at
all.
Don't ask to have a check or draft cashed
at n hotel where you are unknown, unless
you w i!i to bo thought a beat and treated
accordingly.
Don't tr- to put ou airs to the clerk he
is hired to do that for tho whole establish
ment Don't bully tho bell boy when he is slow hi
answering your summons, unless you want
him to be a great deal slower next time.
Don't make ali the trouble you can, with
tho foolish idea that you will thereby im
press tba hotel people with your hnpertance.
Don't forget that the really "big man cre
ates tho least disturbance.
Don't forget that in order to take your
easo at your inn it is not absolutely necessary
to make everybody else proportionately un
comfortable. Hotel Mail.
lie Knew Not Webster.
Daniel Webster once m-ide a great speech
before an audience of thousands in a natural
amphitheatre among the Green mountains in
Vermont The writer in the Boston Post
recently visited the spot, and found it a
wilderness. "The desolation was perfect,
and as a bear, utterly indifferent to our
presence, shambled across the road in front
of us, we were still more impressed with the
fact that the wilderness, with its accustomed
inhabitants, had long resumed her ancient
reign. Driving along for a mile or two, we
saw a solitary shanty, and a forsaken looking
man who had just finished milking a starved
cow. We stopped and asked if he knew the
spot where Webster had spoken. 'Webster
who was him;' 'Why, ho was a great
American orator who made a speech some
where aiouu'l here many years ago.' 'I
never hern on he, an' I've been heren fur
morc'n thirty year.' "Philadelphia Call.
lie Was Anxious.
One of my friends goes to see his grand
father, who has recently entered bis 103d
year, living tranquilly in the country with
the lost of his daughters, Euphrasie, who is
not less than 75 years old.
"How are you to-day, grandpoppy?"said
my friend the other day.
"Very well, my little man," replied the
centenarian. "I eat my four meals a day,
washed down with good wine, and walk a
couple of miles.""
"Then you are content?"
"Certainly. That is to say, I should be
content if I was not uneasy about the future
of Euphrasie."
"How is that?"
"Yes, that torments me. I see her growing
more and more feeble every day. Sho grows
old, I realize that, and I often ask myself,
who will take care of me when sho is goner'
From the French.
Hints for the Cartoonists.
The public hea an impression that a great
many of tho cartoons that are published in
the illustrated papers ore the result of
sketches and suggestions sent in by various
people. Mr. Gillam tells a Tribune reporter
that the contrary is true. "Out of l.cro
sketches," said he, "scarcely one will be
found available for use in publication.
What an artist wants is ideas and 'pointers,'
and suggestions as to the great movements
that are on foot, and as to the great meas
ures that are coming up for discussion.
Pictures readily suggests themselves if the
artist receives this sort of information." The
artists labor under serious disadvantage in
working on colored prints like those of The
Judge and Puck, because they must forecast
public affairs and the sensations of the day.
The Journalist
Standing- on the Stage.
Mr. Pinero, the dramatist, has some pain
ful recollections of his "utility" days on the
stage. - "Nothing," he says, "could exceed the
agony of standing on the stage, without
speaking a word, in the trial scene of the
'Merchant of Venice, which lasted thirty-six
minutes. I did that for 250 nights. If any
one wants to realize it let him stand, still and
silent, in the middle of bis room for half an
hour." Chicago Times.
The Swiss government proposes to pur
chase all the railways in the country.
JOURNAL,
WITH TUE
PRAIRIE FARMER,
Both One Year For
&2
"make me.
He tootf my hand. lie did not even say
"Be mine, for I have loved you many a day.
3s only pressed it in his lovingly;
3e.looed into my eyes and said, "Make me."
K wist came over mine; J could not see.
And he repeated, "What you will, mako me.
"Lest night I had a dream that I was dead.
And you were there, love, bending o'er tny head.
"You held my soul, and weeping saw its stain;
Your tears fell on it; it was pure again.
"Can you not do it? I will follow you
Until I feel that I am formed anew.
"Drop down upon my eyes another tear;
Bockon me onward, and I win not fear.
"Oil, take my hand. Lead me your path alonjj;
Without you I am weak, but with you strong.
"Lore mo as you love heaven, and I shall be
Worthy to dwell there with you. Oh, make mo I"
George llolnits.
SHE TOUCHED THE CLOUDS.
A Chicago Girl's Exploit la Maaitou
CnecreeVby-tlie Ymbx Mea.
"I would like to touch a cloud with my
parasol." She was young and strong, and
for the first time in her life of 1C years was
in the mountains. She stood on the long,
wido veranda of tho hotel at Manitou and
looked up at the white smoky clouds curling
about the lower mountain peaks with the
eager, puzzled, questioning eyes of a young,
impulsive girL To the loft and in front of
her the swelling, almost precipitous slopes
were bright in the sunlight To her right
the low clouds were boiling down the mount
ain glen, shutting out the view of Cameron's
cone and sailing along at a lovel that took
them squarely against the lower cone of Hia
watha mountain. Around this they moved
like a sailing vessel feeling its way along a
dangerous coast. Then the) Boated off with
the wind into the space between the inter
vening peaks and touched even tho top of the
high hills in front of the hotel. It seemed as
though sho could in a short walk reach a jKiint
where she could, in fact, touch tho clouds
with her parasoL
Tho score of people sitting on the broad
porch of the hotel watched the young girl as
she climbed straight up the hill in front, and
watched her as sho took the mountain trail
that led her through tho light white clouds
sailing along probably 1,500 feet above them,
for the people at the hotel were at an eleva
tion some 200 or 300 feet higher tlian tho sum
mit of Mt Washington, and the incline
toward elevations 7,000, 8,000 and 9,000 feet
began not 100 yards away. With their
glasses they could see tho girl as she stood
half enfolded in the whitish vapor. Then,
after another interval, they could see her be
yond, as sho half emerged nlove tho lino of
those floating clouds. So clear was the at
mosphere that the cheers of the young men
ucross the glen at en elevation somowhat
lower than tho one reached by the girl could
bo heard by her uud those ill the hotel. Chi
cago Inter Ocean.
A Couple of Oncer Graves.
Down in southern Indiana the otber day I
went with some newspaper friend at New
Albany out for a drive over some of the
prettiest country in the world. We went to
tho "Knobs," the highest point in that part of
the state. In tho distance rolled the yellow
Ohio, and away beyond, through the smoky
autumn mists, lay that fair and much sung
land the blue grass region of Kentucky.
They told some local history, and I'll give it
to you hero, for it is full of a quaint romance.
There, on top of tho highest hill, was the
grave of an ancient Hoosier. "In them parts"
he had lived and worked (and doubtless loved)
and chewed tobacco and finally died. He did
not do much here in tho vale. The world
never heard of him, mayhap, till now; but
he was still great great in eccentricity. He
made them promise hi fact, put it in his
will that when he died they should bury
him on top of that hill, for it was the nearest
place to Leaven in all the country round
about; as near, he said, as he ever expected
to get So they buried him there, close un
der the laughing blue.
There is another queer grave in the neigh
borhood. We did not go to it, but the yarn
was just as good. There were once two old
steamboat captains on tho Ohio who were
mortal enemies all through life. When one
of them saw bis end approaching ho asked
that, when he died, his friends would bury
him "on tho banks of the Ohio," so that when
the other man's steamer went past his spirit
might utter a curse on it So theyholloned
him out a hole in the solid rock of the ehfT,
and there he lies to-day, a standing menace
to the craft of the man he bated. I am not
sure, but I think the other old captain has
since been gathered to his fathers. Some one
should place them side by side, and let them
fight it out on the other shore. Cor. Jour
nalist A Street Urchin's Funny Frank.
Newsboys have as quick an eye for the
ridiculous side of things as anybody, and
quicker than a good many of their stolid,
indifferent customers. So two young ladies
discovered over on Michigan avenue the other
day. They were out driving in a fashionable
dog cart, but on this occasion did not have
Jeems up behind. A bright and ragged news
boy, who will some day be an actor or a mer
chant, perceived his opportunity and quickly
improved it Jumping up to the footman's
scathe perched there hi comic simulation of
the absent Jeems. Tho young ladies, all un
conscious of tho ludicrous aspect their, outfit
had taken on, drove along chatting merrily.
Soon they were vexed to observe that pedes
trians on either side of the thoroughfare
gazed curiously at them and grinned broad
ly. Too proud to stop and mako an investi
gation, or to turn their heads, because some
rude men chose to make sport of them, they
drove on in agony until a gray coated boule
vard po iceman rushed to their rescue. They
declare that henceforth they will exchange
fewer confidences and take less enjoyment in
their chat rather than drive out in the dog
cart without having Jeems in his pro-er
pjaee. Chicago Herald.
His Petition Was Granted.
About a month ago Whalebone Howkcr,
who is a young man of 23, was fined $1,700
for bringing a pair of brass knuckles into the
meeting iu his pocke. Apetitiou signed by
eighty members of the club, praying for his
release from the fine, was now presented. It
was figured that it would take him 1,700 years
to pay the fine and interest, and the prospect
had so appalled him that he was sick abed.
It had been ascertained beyond a doubt that
he bod found the weapon on the street and
supposed it to be an alderman's official badge.
"Under sich sarcumstaucos I will remit da
fine," said the president, '"but doan let it hap
pen agin. Let us now degenerate." Detroit
Free Press.
Tunnel Making; In Russia.
Russia is going to have a railroad tunnel
three miles long, at a cost of $3,500,000. She
has 15,000 miles of railway, but her only tun
nel fa 700 yards long. More great works of
this kind are contemplated, and as Russian
engineers are ignorant of tunnel making,
there is a demand for foreign skiiL Frank
Leslie's.
2 a year.
ADVERTISE IN THE JOURNAL
If you want to sell or Imy
smytblnsxriryou want to lond
or borrow anything; If you
want s ltutlon or If you
-WtUltl4Blp
TT
National Bank!
OF
COX.T7JK8U8. NEB.
HAS AN
Authorized Capital of $250,000,
A Surplus Fund of - $17,000,
And the largest Paid la Cash Cap.
Hal of any bank In this part
of the State.
ESTDcposits received and interest paid
en time deposits.
ESTDraftson the principal cities in this
country and Europe bought and sold.
Collections and all other busiues
given prompt and careful attention.
STOCKHOLDKK3.
A . ANDERSON, Fres't.
SAML C. SMITH, FjcePres'f.
O.T.ROEN, Cashier.
J. P. BECKER.
IIERMAX OEHLRICH.
O. SCHUTTE, '
W. A. MCALLISTER.
JONAS WELCH,
JOHN W. EARLV,
P.ANDERSON,
G. ANDERSON,
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BU8LNESS CABDS.
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Dra. MAETYN & SCHTJG,
U. S. Examining Surgeons,
Local Surgeons. Union Pacific, O., N.
B. II . and B. A 31. R. r'8. '
Consultations in German and English.
Ielephones at office and residences.
ISrOfflce on Olive street, next to Brod
reuhrer's Jewelry Store.
COLUMBUS, - NEBRASKA.
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LA II AND COLLECTION OFFICE.
Upstairs Ernst building 11th street.
O UI.1.1VA & REEDE8,
ATTORNEYS AT LA W,
Office oyer First National Bank, Colum
bus, Nebraska. r0-lf
tp I. EVANA, ill. O.,
111 I'M CI AN AND SUJiGEOX.
ESTOflice and rooms. Gluck building,
lllh street. Telephone coininuuicuiuu.
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PHYSICIAN AND SUIiGEON,
Platte Center, Nebraska. U-y
TTEKMA NATEftSTRIKT,
BLACKSMITH AND WAGON MAKER,
13th street, cast of Abt's barn.
April 7, '8-tl
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It. J. CM AS. W1S.I.Y,
DEUTSCPIER ARZT,
Columbus, Nebraska.
83TOiliee 11th Street. Consultations
.u English, French and German. 22-tiin
DOWKLL nOIJSK,
PLATTE CENTER, NEB.
Just opened. Special attention given
to commercial men. Has a good sample
room. Sets the best table. Give it a
trial and be convinced. 50.3mo
toii i:ui:,
COUNTY SURVEYOR.
ISTParties desiring surveying done
can address me at Columbunj Neb., or
call at my office iu Court House.
5may86-y
7tf4TlCE TO TKACHERN.
W. H. Tadrow, Co Supt.
I will be at my office in the Court House
the third Saturday of each mouth for the
examination of teachers. 3i)-tf
. V. RUrVKR, .11. !.,
HOMGSOPATHIST.
Ckronio Diseases and Diseases ol
Children a Spectator.
BSTOflicc on Olive ftreet, three doors
north of First National Bank. 2-ly
jlfcALLISTEK BROS.,
A TTORNE YS AT LAW,
Office up-stairs in McAllister' build
ing, nth St. W. A. McAllister, Notary
Public. J
J. M. MACFARLAND, B. K. COWDERT,
Attcrs7 tal Naur? Pail c. C:llieter
LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE
OF
MACFARLAND & COWDBRT,
Columbia, : : : Nebraska.
JOHN O. HIHGIXS. C. J. GAKLOW,
Collection Attorney.
HIQOKS & GAHL0W,
ATTORNEYS-ATLAW,
Specialty mado of Collections by C..I.
Garlow. 2-i-m
P li.RXBCHE,
llth St., opposite Lindell Hotel.
Sells Harness, Saddles, Collars, Whips
Blankets, Curry Combs, Brushes, trunks,
valises, buggy tops, cushions, carriage
trimmings, &c, at the lowest possible
prices. Repairs promptly attended to.
JS. MURDOCH. & SON,
Carpenters and Contractors.
Havehad an extended experience, and
will guarantee satisfaction in work.
All kinds of repairing done on short
notice. Our motto is, Good work and
fair prices. Call and give us an oppor
tunity to estimate for you. J3TSbop on
13th St., one door west of Friedhof &
Co's. store, Columbus. Nebr. 488-v
Ar"QTr7T71 Send six cents for
I III I A Tl Pstage,and receive
A XVlJLi. free a C08tiy box of
goods which will help you to more money
right away than anything else in this
world. All, of either sex, succeed from
first hour. The broad road to fortune
opens before the workers, absolutely
ore. At once sddrsia, Tkub A Co.,
AUfUiU, Malms.
C3ofMl KesaltM la Every Cane.
D. A. Bradford, whole-ale paper
dealer at Chattanooga, Tenn., writes
that he was seriously afflicted with
a severe rold that settled on his
longs; had tried many remedies
without benefit. Being induced to
try Dr. King's New Discovery for
Consumption, did so and was en
tirely cared by the use of a few bot
tles. Since which time he has used
it in bis family for all Coughs aad
Colds with best results. This is the
experience of thousands whose lives
have been saved by this Wonderful
Discovery.
Trial bottles free at Dowty &
Eleitkemper'g drug store.
A OASip of United Workmen was
organized the other evening at Hast
ings. The OM aaa the .lew.
The old-style pills? Who docs not
know
What agony they caused what woe?
You walked the floor, you groaned,
you sighed,
And felt such awful pain Inside,
And the next day you felt so weak
You didn't want to move or speak,
Now Pierce's "Pellets" are so mild
They are not dreaded by a child.
They do their work in painless way,
And leave no weakness tor next day.
Thus proving what is olt contest
That gentle means are always best.
The citizens of Liberty want a
brass baud and fire brigade.
Mr. F. II. Goodrich, a St. Louis
Traveling Man, representing the
Graham Paper Co., contributes the
following, it may be of value to you :
"I have been troubled with colds and
aoreneas of the breast tho past year
and find great relief in Chamberlain's
Cough Jtemedy. I cheerfully recom
mend it to any one troubled with
coughs or colds, give it a trial." L.
Harry, a merchant of Sweet Home,
Mo., has also used it for several
years aad knows its value ; he says
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy never
ails to ive quick relief, and that be
always keeps it in the honse and
would not he without it for five
ime3 its cost. Sold by Dowty &
Meitkemper.
Mason City is difcuqsiu"; the pro
priety of a hook and ladder com
pany aud more water facilities.
Itch, Prairie Mange, and Scratches
of every kind cured in 30 minutes by
Woolford's Sanitary Lotiou. Use no
other. This never fails. Sold by
0. B. Stillman, druggist, Columbus.
York has raised $10,000 of the
:50,C00 necessary to secure the M. E.
State University, and ha? not ob'.ain
ed it yet.
As Cxd to ttoHC Kvrapiasr.
Edward Shepherd, of flarrisburg,
111., says : "Having received so much
benefit from Electric Bitters, I feel it
my duty to let stifiering humanity
know it. Have hid a running sore
on my leg for eight years; my doc
tor told me I would bsve to have the
hone scraped or leg amputated. I
used, instead, three bottles cf Electric
Uztlors aud seven boxes Bucklen's
Arnica S-tlve, and my log is now
ound and ell."
E'ectric Bitter are sold at fifty
;cuts a boltle, and Bucklen's Arnica
Salve at 25c. cer box bv Dowty ft
Heitkemper's.
Dominick Mokan, a grader on tho
Rock Islaud road, dropped dead the
other day neat Beatrice, trom heart
disease.
The Ruddy River
of life is the blood. From it the
system receives all the material of
growth aud repair. It bathe9 every
tissue of the body. How necessary,
thou, that tho blood should be kopt
pure and rich. Dr. Pierce's "Golden
Medical Discovery" is the great blood
food and blood purifier. It is a sov
ereign remedy for all diseases due to
impoverished blood, consumption,
bronchitis, weak lungs, scrofula, in
fluenza, aud kindred diseases.
A Baltimore buildiug fell in the
other day and killed one person.
Chambrrlaix's Colic, Cholera and
Diarrhaja Remedy never fails aud is
pleasant aad safe. Sold by Dowty &
Heitkempar.
The recent storm that occurred on
the English channel is reported as
having dono much damage.
ncUleaK Arnica Naive.
Tho B-.'st Salve iu the world for
Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcer, Salt
Rliticra, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped
Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all
Skin Eruytions, and positively cures
Piles, or no pay required. It is guar
anteed tojlvo perfect satisfaction, or
money refunded. Price 25 cents per
box. Foi Sale by Dowty & Heit
kemper. mayl7-ly
A new and beautiful school build
ing has been completed at Lyons.
Ynrc
can live at home, and make more
money at work for us. than at
lUUany thing else in this world. Cap
ital not needed; yon are started free.
Both sexes; all ages. Any one can do
the work. Large earnings cure from
first start. Costly outfit and t mis free.
Better nut delay." (,'ot.n you nothing to
cnd u your addretx and liml out; if
you are wne you will do so at once. Fl.
llALLETTi Co., Portland. .Maine.
Dec-22-'iC
Work was commenced the other
day on the Nebraska City water
work.
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