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! ,'' ,-.- i. 5 -' -.,. " - ?-i rr- Ik . . Y . 4- -m ' 'C '' WKAaMNG. V:-. v twmWa.I.leBtlmtmgnt attMMwttovBdwfBdUew: the wBd wind Uew; tae cms ef tae mv i I aaari ia my dram the see at the i Ostlmamboardtaatll I aslalept last sight. the oaks ootaue Itotheruahtasblmt; X heard the crash of the stricken nic.-. Aalthe wailing shriek m the g '- -!! n Aad cerda aad aaU replied. ImI slept but Bight gtomrbcutwatuera I saw where the stars shoae urge aaa acme Aad the heather budded apoa the beicbt WMk the cross shore k staadiat white; i was very fair. I steamed as I slept last sight. Aad baeaase of its charm for me, Ike mtaad voices had power to tel Of the sights aad the sooads I lore as weB, AaataeywraptmyiaBcyMmPTc WovenlrbyUesee. M ACCUSING VOICE. It was indeed a beauty, with its box of carved wood, its broad face with enam eled horn figures, its heavy pendulum of polished brass, sliiny as gold, that went to and fro behind a round disk of glass. Every one who saw it through Pierret the clockmaker s window stopped in amazement, and there was constantly a crowd of admirers before the door. Pierret, the clockmaker, was still a young man about thirty, perhaps but be was always sad and taciturn, for he had had a great sorrow in his life. Seven years before, while he was in the army, his father had been murdered in that very shop which now he occupied. He had heard of the horrible catastrophe at his regiment's quarters, and returned at once. Who was the murderer? Upon whom could he avenge the poor old man who had never done liarm to any one, and and had always treated him with so much love and gentleness? The legal in quest had been fruitless also, although the murderer had robbed as well and stolen the 10,000 francs that the father had put aside, sou by sou, for his son. All researches, hovever, had been in vain. Pierret had finished his time in the army; then, free from 'the service, had come back to settle in the murdered man's house, having to all appearances conquered his feelings and chased away worry by hard work. It was evident, thougli, that sorrow was still gnawing hini, for you could see him after dark roaming about the village as if hunting .for some one, and this some one, of course, was the murderer, too well hidden to be discov ered as yet. And thus time passed weeks, months and years. No one thought of it any more except the orphan and that other, the still unknown, who naturally enough, would be unable to forget. Very recently Pierret, who was a great newspaper reader, had gone to Paris and stayed there for several days, "on busi ness," he said, and he had brought with him the Comtoise, that gem of art in his window, before which the village stood in envy and admiration. Country people are fond of heavy, solid andrich furniture, and, in fact, the case of the clock was of more than com mon size and beauty. "And how much could that marvel havecostr "Come in, gentlemen," said Pierret, politely, to tho people who crowded in front of his Bhop; "come in and FU tell you." And then there were exclamations and praises without end. "But its cost?" "Dame, rather dear!" "But the figure?" "A hundred ecus." At this there was a cry of disappoint ment, though truly the Comtoise was worth it, being not only beautiful but, as Pierret declared, unique and rare. "Stall a hundred ecus, and for a clock! Did it strike?" "Strike! Undoubtedly; listen!" and the clockmaker touched the bell, that sounded with a clear, sonorous and silvery ring. "Nevertheless, nobody will buy it here," 6aid pierret regretfully; "rm much afraid Tve made a blunder." "Nobody! Well, that depends, Pierret. We aro not rich enough, it's true, but somebody is here who is, if it suits him to do it," "Really! Who?" "Jocard, of course the handsome Jocard who is about to be married and doesn't care for expense." "If you would be kind enough to tell him a word about it" . "Willingly, and hell buy it if we touch his pride." "Thanks, truly you'll render me a great service." Jacques Jocard, despite his title of the "handsome Jocard," was but little liked in the village, and for several reasons. First, ho had made his fortune too rapidly. There had fallen to him from heaven and through the agency of a no tary from somewhere on tho other side of tho mountains "an inheritance," Jo card said, that had immediately put him at Ids ease, and he had increased it by speculation, in winch there was always some ona cheated though never the in stigator. He had had luck, so to say, and was too proud of it He looked down on small people, showed off his wealth, and though lavish with it when personally in question, was equally stingy with it in his dealings with others. Still, though Jocard talked loud, gave himself airs in the street and was a hard drinker, he had his corn-tiers, and when they wanted to untie the strings of his purse for a bowl of punch or a bottlo of champagne, they knew how to manage him. "Never was one l&o him! He was king of the country," they said. He nodded his head, well pleased with these eulogies, and allowed himself to bo taken in. Why, then, should they not once more make use of his vanity to extract from him a good deed? Pierret was a worthy man. though Jocard would never have given him even his watch to mend. He did not deign to look at his shop. Ho despised him, in fact, because fortune's wheel had turned, and he, formerly as poor as a church mouse, was now rich, whilst Pierret, dispossessed of everythine by a crime, was reduced to -work for his Urine. The fbiag was settled at the Cafe de la Grand Place at the hour of absinthe. It was not so easy as they had thought at first. When Pierret's name was ut tered before Jocard he made an ugly . gesture; he liked him not, that was clear. Parbleu! one is free to like or dislike, as it suits him. -'Pierret was a drone," said Jocard. "No, decidedly he was unjust; and, besides, what mattered it when the1 mar Tel of marvels was in question, a thing that had no equal, hi the village at all events; neither at the Maire'a, the tax collector's aor at the chateau itself? Why not look at it? Lookiag costs noth ing." "Indeed, and act even the chateau had aaythin0likeitr Jocard listened. "Aad what an effect it would have in the dining room of Jocard's house faoag fcfjTOTliahofl tf4"hoaTdT'' After all he did need aclock jest as watt bay something good, somethiag s - to buy trash. .But, then, a ham- Mr! ho was not the atem to I a hundred ecus. Jocard, while talking, agoodemlaad getting exceed, ssyng M xaea no, willing to stroll aptothe the UrnnsH -mrom a eoainna f raanitly, lastae; nenmpr. "em woaM tfaiak yon usasmnisfgeiatoPicrret'safaopr ..:: !H7i .'ishl. i m Ja Afraid? Zoaads! it's little I care for Pierret Coaseat oacc;' Tm ready." The little ctookasakcr was sitting at km table, his leas ia his eye, bosywitha watch that he delkatelytouchedrwith his pointed steeL He did not lookup. aor into the sheet no, indeed, not he; all the same he saw distinctly the ap proaching group and saw it with satis faction, for something like a smile flitted across his lips. He hoped to make the sale, aad it is always agreeable to make sftoney, as you know. Jocard entered. "Is that UT said he disdainfully. True, he was not saying what he thought, for he was reaUy delighted, though he must never show it he would be cheated. Pierret had risen politely, but Jocard's back was towards him through haugh tiness, of course. Briefly he. Jocard, would give 250 francs for it immediately, cash down, and yet upon a condition, namely, that "the Comtoisse should bo placed that very njght upon his dining room wail he knew the house the big house oppo site the church." "Every one knows the Jocard bouse," replied Pierret; "within an hour the Comtoisse 6hall be there." "And to-night, friends," continued Jocard, not including Pierret, of course, "we'll have a bowl of white wine, first quality, and we'll drink to the Comtoise." "All right what hour?" "Nine." Jocard threw a hundred franc note on tho counter to bind the bargain and left tho shop, followed by his friends. Again alone Pierret struck a match and carefully burned the note to ashes. This strange act completed, ho brought from the rear of the shop a small box on which something was written in English, and going to tho Comtoise he opened the case to fix the pendulum, doubtless. It is in its place, well set in its polished box. The pendulum swings with a slow, soft tick-tack. Truly it has a splendid effect between the shining platters and the pink tinted engravings. Bound the table, covered with long necked bottles, all sit drinking, laughing and singing. Beveley, the big serant girl, is convulsed with glee. All, but the house won't be so gay when the new madamc arrives! No matter; an end must come some time; besides, when a man lias means, as monsieur has, he may well afford the luxury of having a wife all to himself! Eleven o'clock! The Comtofec 6trike it. Everybody is silent. Jocard happy. What a voice! Liko a song one could listen to it all night long. Faith, they shall wait until midnight, when the clock strikes its fulL No more -wine; punch shall take its place, and we'll light it and put out tho lamps. Such fun as they'll have when 12 o'clock chimes with the cooing of the Comtoise! They are half drunk already heat is suffocating open the window for air! Besides, 'tis well that every one should know that at Jocard's house they never worry! Attention, friends! Five minutes to 12! One two light the punch! The flame springs from the saladier; the spoon plays in the flood that flashes and leaps in yellow and blue tongues; the sugar bubbles. Put out the lamp, boys, put out the lamp! The congested faces take on a purple hue. Zounds! but 'tis fun! Hist! Silence! the Comtoise sounds! Sounds, did 1 6ay? that beautiful Com toise! No, it speaks its calls aloud upon the name of its purchaser. "Jacques Jocard! Jacques Jocard! I say!" "Hey! Who calls him? Whose that oldish, cracked voice? Whence does it come? The cellar? The voice answers with another waiL "Jacques Jocard! Jacques Jocard! Confess, confess, I say!" "Confess? Bah! What nonsense or what farce is this? And who is this talking, Jocard? Why do you palo so, man? And what is the voice saying now?" "Confess, Jocard! Thou art a mur derer. Jocard! Confess, confess, I say!" "A murderer? No, 'tis false! Who says it? He lies I swear it!" "A murderer, Jocard, a murderer who killed the old Pierret a murderer, and you know it!" Then there were cries, hiccoughs and groans of terror. Jocard leaps to his feet, his eyes staring, his hands tearing wildly at tho collar that seems to stop his breathing. But tho voice continues mercilessly, still cracked, still broken, still far away, as if it came from a tomb, repeating and repealing obstinately the hideous charge. "Thou art a murderer, Jocard, a mur derer, and you know it!" Jocard sinks to his knees, struggles to his feet again, to fall anew. Tho voice goe on and on remorselessly. Ho can bear it no longer he throws.up his arms he yields to the Invisible! "I will, i will!" he screams, "I will con fess Idid kill the old Pierret! I did rob him of his money! But- for God's sake stop it that ace jrsed voice stop it! stop it!" Stop it! But it will not stop it is like a machine that runs forever, and it comes from the Comtoise. Jocard dis covers it at last, and with a howl of rage fings himself upon it. He strains it in his arms, shakes it, dashes it to the floor! The works tumble from the case, and with them a long roll covered with metal sheathing. Pierret, listening at the open window, crosses the sill with a bound; his fingers close upon Jocard's throat with a grasp of iron. "Do you hear him?" he cries. "Do yon hear him, one and all? I call upon you to witness it Jocard confesses he is my father's murderer!" And how had Pierret learned or guessed the truth? "Instruct," he would have told you, aided by Providence and an ac cidental discovery that the tale Jocard related of "an inheritance" from beyond the mountains was a he out of "whole cloth," as the saying goes; Jocard's avoidance of his shop; a dozen such trifles as these and an indiscreet word or two dropped by the rascal himself when in his cups. "Inspiration from heaven assisted by genius," -to quote the procu reur general's words in his arraignment of the criminal,' had done the rest and taught a poor, insignificant worker on watdys to utilize the great sad scientific principle of the phonograph in the cause of justice by adapting it to the mechan ism of a clock. Jocard was condemned unanimously, and the Comtoise, its mission done, sings as cheerily as ever on the walls of the Pierre shop, and will sing there forever, for all the money that was ever coined could not purchase from its owner what to baa is Iris father's avenger. Trans lated from tlie French of LernunabyE. C Waggener for New York Mercury. Kis jest fifty years since the postal aaoney order system was introduced -. Ft"" Prior to that time a sjuaik. device had been operated by' private capital, but in 18M the government took charge of the business. The rates have bean gradually reduced from time to thae. until new they are fiaed at the very lowest figure possihk, - During the past year the asaount of money trans- at,w9O,OO0L This plan mthw country, is sbsolstsly the eafia s,kBCwa.-to Tu. i Li Chswa-. HOft ... . . ., i Sti!21a-552ft? -J : " " aanan CJa aaaW anmmfa aammna anVanw anils the rtlila, ! lilt Hii AiasgBfeiimteMim.bsaaaiagawsen. Bowtift epos MWaasady share . Uaseasi sweat is Bops we peer, riiiiHaninhliaahi tieyalaklsssaaareannasawaaj l"am amaMnnmnmnfS mnV hnaa-mn Haw aghtw gent's eMwaawiaan Aadstrtresf tJ Him si. Taoasa rrifs ay aw lbrtha Oa lowtr eetahe He: AtyraamtansadfatoaMsJdmock. r from the shocr. Aad art entirety aw. Her star stf gafdes the saBoraem Aod sweeur soothes the amides sigh. Aadbiadstbemsoaltosoal; something m the haams breast Tlmtwmaot sleep, that caoaot rest, Nor yield to fate's coeiroL Upon life's path km the ligbt That guides eachtrereler aright, To ercrjr soul tis given; KbtbeCSiriatmBUgbtdivioe, And oa his path wtB ever shhw To guide him home to heaves. -J. Waller Hear? ia New York Graphic OUR SANITARY LAWS. It Is Not That We Are Witbaat Dot They At Not referred As population increases in density the need for the enactment, supervision and enforcement of laws pertaining to com municable diseases increases. The gen eral sanitary condition of the United States, in respect to density of population, is very different to-day from what it was one hundred or even fifty years ago. . A single city with its surroundings now contains nearly as many soub as did the whole United States a century back. Far greater alertness on the part of legislatures, city governments, courts and officials is consequently now required than was ever required before, and. so far as appears, the need will continue to grow with our advance in settlement. Our average national death rate has so far been comparatively low, but many of the large cities of England, notably Lon don. Liverpool and Manchester, surpass us in their management of sanitary mat ters, and, if the immunity is to continue, we must take additional steps to secure it. The trouble b not so much that we do not possess a sufficient number of laws as that we are lax in enforcing those we have. It appears for example that the yellow fever, the outbreak of which has been so disastrous in Florida, was intro duced there from Cuba through the agency of smuggled' goods; and yet there exists a law against smuggling. If it had been effectually enforced, there would Iiave been no epidemic. The in tention of this law, it is true, is not san itary. But when we find statutes the object of which is to secure money al lowed to fall into abeyance, we may be, a priori, sure the enforcement of the san itary laws will be so much the more neg lected. It must be the aim of the city, state and national legislators that communi ties obtain the laws they require for the prevention, restriction and abolition of disease, wholly uninfluenced" by political, partisan or mercenary considerations. The control of legislation by corporations, monopolies and-lnoney kings should cease. And in the enforcement of sani tary statutes, greater impartiality is de manded. The man of wealth and influ ence should be, indeed, in all respects, "equal to the eye of the law" with the poorest, and it should be put beyond the power of any of those financial dictators with whom our age and country have been afflicted to push their grasping schemes, as they so often do at present, to the detriment of the lives or health of their fellow men. Boston Herald. A Brave Uttle Sailer. On a weatherworn bark that is moored to a dock in South Washington to-night there is a little chap with a remarkable history. He is ? years old, his name is Garfield Slocum, and he is the son of Capt. Slocum, who has just arrived here in a small boat from a 7,000 mile sail from South America. Garfield was born in 1881 in Hong Kong, China, and was named in honor of President Garfield by CoL Mosby, consul at that point. The boy has traveled not less than 275,000 miles, including two voyages around the world, and has touched his foot upon the soil of the three Americas, Europe, Aisa, Africa and any quantity of islands, and been clear around Australia. His last trip on tho Libertad, a boat thirty five feet long, carrying only four tons, was 7,000 miles long, a sea voyage un paralleled for a vessel of the size. His father, mother and elder brother were his companions. At times they were 2,000 miles from land, and the frail little craft met dangerous storms, but came through safely. Garfield is a good sailor and has never shown any fear of the sea. In fact he dues not know anything but the sea, having never lived on land longer than two weeks at a time. This Lib ertad trip, .however, did not strike him very favorably, and the first night on board the small boat, when he knelt at his mother's knee to say his prayers,he looked around a moment and doubtingly remarked: "Mamma, this boat isn't big enough to pray in." Washington Cor. Chicago News. -foo many young mothers, in. their iflort to make their first child perfect, goto great extremes in noticing every This is done before every one, even the passing caller. I. think it has the tendency to harden a child, and the expostulation loses its effect. It is pro verbial that children always act their worst when there is company in the house. I had one child who seemed to take advantage every tune any one called. I grew perfectly discouraged, and felt as if there was no remedy for it. He would slide down the banisters, go whooping through the house, slam doors and do the most unexpected things, tfll I was mortified beyond exprt'wiion I finally made it a point to take him by the hand, and ask my caller to ex cuse ns a moment take him to another part of the house, set him in a chair and say that I would send for him when he was wanted. He would remain there quietly waiting. Wham the caller was gone I would go and release him. It seemed the only way to do. The more lw was punished and admonished before people the worse he became. So I tried biding his faults and praising him for the good he did. It had a much better affect, and is stfll as effective. To some ehBdren's natures it is even humiliating to be reproved before other children. I ao not think humiliation the proper way to reform. Sett respect is a much better trait to develop. Let your child begin to feel early that yon expect only the best things of it, and you will start it in a much better way. Do not nWow it to du from the beg tuog,and khchss cute things it mar door my, and repeat them to your friends in the nrewufVof the child. If it is a wide awake child ft will do and' my man tejngstnat win be mmaseiy amus anoif yoa wUheepa book and aownlJttr future let the cmld GaU. know feHaaMiet- phia "I ebat raenmaber," writes Gaaas to Osiers oa the Stth of Nevwasbtr of the year UM, "aay anviag asieaaynre- TieasnnwMi te yoaof attaetsennmaf; nam. isconJanmora ffUTHHsotrbMl 2?ld2i ?. Wlrae stretched 2?2f!i!?rS,i2?m4l,5 SSSSSiS? 2S !5! counecfans; the obnYvatory with the connecting the obsenrstoty with physical fidxvatorr, which si made dhectionof Weber; The eathV length cwireniayUcceBpntedatabowtalM feet. Bothendsof the wire are cotiaectod with a mnltinliratnr, the one at my end i issnaliiii, nf 17ft. that in Weber's labo ratory oT60 coils of wire, each wound aroand a one pound niagnet suspended according ton method which I have de vised. By a simple contrivance which I have named a commutator 1 can re verse the current instantaneously. Care fully operaangmy vottsio jpOs, I can cause so violent a motion of tneneeale ia the laboratory to take place that it strikes a belL the sound of which is audi ble in the adjoining room. This serves merely as an amusement. Our aim is to display the movements with the utmost accuracy. We have already made use of this apparatus for telegraphic experi ments, which have resulted successfully in the transmission of entire words and small phrases. This method of telegraph ing has the advantage of being quiteln dependent of either daytime or weather; the one who gives the signal and the one who receives it remain in their rooms, with, if they desire it, the shutters drawn. The employment of sufficiently stout wires, I feel convinced, would en able us to telegraph with but a single tap from Gottingen to Hanover, or from Hanover to Bremen." "Gaum and the Electric Telegraph" in Popular Science Monthly. Edacated H Doubtless most of you think when you see the performances of trained horses in the circuses of today that a great ad vance has been made in educating the aimaia OTer what was done in ancient times. But you are mistaken, for even the most wonderful exploits of the horses of the present day are repetitions of what was done with them several vearsaeo.. In those days horses danced upon their hind legs, hut mock battles, striking at their e with their forefeet, and showing what appeared to be remarkable mtelugence. Perhaps the most surprising feat ever performed by a horse was in the olden time. A large three sided braided rope was stretched several feet from the ground, and upon this the hone walked, preserving its oalance perfectly. In an old print a picture of the act is shown, while another cut represents a horse striking the shield of a soldier with its hoofs. Even the elephant,, generally considered the most ungainly of animals, was trained in those days to walk the tight rope, not only tear thegrbund, but, if .wo .may believe the old writers it traversed ropes swung above the heads of the audience, and not only preserved its balance, but bore a man upon 'its back Philadelphia Times. ? Wrestling With a Bear. A couple of hunters from the Catskflls followed a bear trail for three days. Near Sundown, a charming little nook, entirely shut in by great mountain peaks, the hunters came suddenly upon they prey. There was an old bear and three good sized cubs. They all ran for their lives at' sight of the hunters, but Levi Small rushed headlong in pursuitof ono of the cubs that had made a sense less detour, and, slipping on a bit of treacherous ice, he went tobogganing down the side of the mountain. The cub was tripped up by one of Small's cow hide boots, and the shaggy youngster took a funny tumble along with the hunter. Seeing her offspring in danger, the old bear rushed to the scene, but the comjanion of Small fired a shot with such good effect that Bruin fell in her tracks. Another ball finished the game, and then attention was directed to the impromptu tobogganer, who was having a rough and tumble fight with the cub. It was quickly dispatched and the other cubs were taken alive. Philadelphia Times. The Satellite of Neptane. M. Tisserand has presented a report to the Paris Academy of Sciences kn cerning some remarkable obeciarJonsjof the satellite of the planet .Neptuae, which was discovered in 1847. The an gle which the plane of the orbit of this satellite made at that date with the eclip tic was about 80 degs.. but this angle ha3 now increased by at least 0 degs. - The satellite moves round its principal in an opposite -direction to that usually fol lowed by other satellites, so that a ques tion might be raised whether in the course of time this variation in tho in clination of tho plane of its orbit might not end in its movement around its prin cipal becoming normaL M. Tisserand showed that this variation of inclination was due to the oblate or flattened con dition of Neptune at its poles, and that it will complete its limit within a period of GOO years, at the end of which tinio ii will again bo as it was in 1S47. Scien tific American. The Way te Wi There is a right and wrong, way to wash windows, and as this operation is usually dreaded, the following method will doubtless be appreciated, as it saves both time and labor: Choose a dull day, or at least a time when the son is. not shining on the window, for when the sun shmes on the window it causes it to be dry streaked, no matter how much it is rubbed. Take a pynter'sSbrush and dust them inside and out, washing all the wood work inside before touching the glas3. The latter must be washed sim ply in warm water diluted with ammo nia do not use soap. Use a email cloth with a pointed sttcktogetthe dust out of the corners; wipe dry with a soft piece of cotton cloth do not use linen, as it makes the glass linty when dry. Polish with tissue 'paper or old news paper. You will find this can be done xa half the time taken where soap is used, and the result will be brighter windows. Pittsburg Reporter. Barbers la Oldea It is seldom in these days that you hear of a person being leeched or cupped.' It is rapidly becoming a lost art. Not a great many years back it waa a very im portant business in connection with a tonsorial establishment. Infect it waa almost a prof ession of its own. Cupping and leeching were very popular among the Germans, and, whether weak or strong, they followed the use. Not-a great many years ago an apprentice barf her invariably had to become as profi cient m the application of the leech as he did in the shaving line. Barbers also did a good deal of tooth jerking, but that part of the business is also no more, since dentists are so numerous. St Louis Globe-Democrat Fasts Wrres. Wordsworth had a most congenial and loving wife, who wasn "phantom of de lightr to him. Thomas Haynes Bayly had a wife who bestowed mmpfeto happiness upon the poet, and to whom he wrote a sonnet on her birthday every year. Barry Cornwall had a most con genial wife. It was said of him that he was willing to shut out the whole world, if be could have her beside ,him. Leman Blanchard's wife was so necessary to his happiness that he would not live with out her, and killed himself. Both La martine and John Stuart Mill had wives who were perfectly congenisl. All-of these men were fortunate in their choke. The Writer. Mrs. r ar Auction cranks are one proeainent fea ture of Washington life. A red flag ia front of a building will attract a crowd of this clam as quickly as a sugar hogs head will draw a swarm of flies in sum mer time. The sale of the unclaimed odds and ends of the dead letter office is a perfect harvest for this element - And they spend money, too. It is .'a mania with them. Pittsburg Gaaette. ' The fleetest mean astgfcts aad depths .of continents and ocean areTound.in the northern hmniephars list iiesa SO degs. and- 40 degs.. and in the southera hft tweea 10 degsl and 90 degs. biiokkm tovs. ""zLT1 . asls.ennmiaiee.nn AMyftl- . . nfraTHaoisafraacsueajasss, Aai set my seal aglow. mmm OhvremaadBMtasrJefs. Whore are las sesaaTatmnnnU Where are my erases Meet Hybrekea tore-shi Badly my arert Aad orer uxj aoal there faas A shadow. HkeBdstateresfem, Tiat drops without saaad er nam i me oat forever t af my hraasa toys! Yet I dream aa 1 ait m the reagat. Of oae who waa Bright aad Wr, With nmy lire aad nwwrt gray eyes, Aad wavy aat bruwafcair; s am I ait ata ia thw gloaming. Pit the aagris !tare her Joya, Aad there's aaugat tan. the meetery left am Of my tore aad my brocea toys! IVrhap la the far off f nture. Wbea the weary ymm are doae. And Vm grave haw cinwil above me Xeath some fair c-uwaal sun, I shall see, and kaow the reasoa Why I inhwd raith'K mwtt Joys, Ami tbr pitying Ul i:i llravca will mead my broken toy; WHITSUNTIDE. Whitsuntide lias always been con sidered by tlie Irish as a very fatal and unlusky time fur t!u people hold tliat faint1 and evil spirits have then great power over men ami cattle, both by sea and land, anil work their deadly spells with malign and mysterious efficacy. Children Horn at Whitsuntide, it is said, -are foredoomed: thny will either have theevil'eye, or commit a murder, or die a .violent death. Water, also, is very dangeroiur; no one should bathe, or go a jmimey where a stream lists to he crossed, or" sail in a boat for the risk is great of being drowned, unless, indeed, a bride steers, and then the boat is safe from harm. Great precautions are necessary, likewise, within the house; and no one should venture to light a candle without making the sign of the cross over the flame to keep off evil; and young men should be very cautious not to be out late at night for all the dead who have been drowned in the sea round about come up and ride over the waves on white horses, and hold strango revels, and try to carry off the young men or to kill them with their fiery darts and draw them down under the sea to live with tho dead forever more. A story is told of a man named Murrey, who stayed out late fishing one Whitsuntide, quite forgetting it was the night of the death ride. But at last he neared the shore and drew up his boat to unload the fish and then make his way home with all speed. Just at the mo ment however, he hoard a great rush of the waves behind him, and looking round he saw a crowd of the dead on their white horses making over to the boat to seize him; and their faces were pale as the face of a corpse, but then eyes burned like fire. And they stretched out their long skeleton arms to try and lay hold of him, but he sprang at once from the boat to the shore, and then he knew he was safe, though one of them rodo over close to him by the edge of the rocks, and he knew him as a friend of his own, who had been drowned the year before; and he heard the voice of the dead man calling to him through the rush of the water, saying: "Hasten hasten to your home, for tho dead who are with mo want you for their com pany, and if once a dead hand touches you, there is no help, yon are lost for ever. Hasten, or you will never see your home again, but be with the dead forever." Then Murrey knew that the spirit spoke the truth, and he left the boat and the fish on the beach and fled away home, and never looked back at the dead on their white horses, for bis heart was filled with fear. And never again did he go out to fish at Whitsun tide, though the dead waited for him to seize him, but be came not, and lived henceforth safe from harm. At this season, also, the fairy queens make great efforts to carry off the fine stalwart young men of the country to the fairy palace in the cleft of the hills, or to lure them to their dancing grounds,- where they are lulled into dreams by the sweet subtle fairy music, and forget home and kith and kindred, and never desire to return again to their own people, or even if the spell is broken, and they are brought back- by some strong infatua tion, yet they are never the same; for every one knows by the dream look in their eyes that they have danced with the fairies on tho hill, and been loved by one of the beautiful but fatal race, who, when they take a fancy to a handsome mortal lover, cast their spells over hini with resistless power. A case of this kind happened some years ago in the county Wexford. Two brothers, line young fellows of the farm ing class, were returning homo one even ing in Whitsuntide from their day's holiday, when, to their surprise, as they crossed a broad, beautiful field, lit up by the red rays of the setting sun, they saw a group of girls dancing, and they were all draped in white, and their long hair fcll floating over their shoulders. So lovely was the sight that the young men could not choose but 6topand watch the dancers; yet strange to say, they were all strangers; not a famHiarface was among them from the whole country round. And as they looked and wondered, one of the girls left the dance, and, coming over to the younger brother, laid her hand on his arm, wliile she murmured softly in his car: "Come, dance with me, Brian. I have waited long for you. Comb, comer and she drew him gently away. Then Brian flung down his stick on the ground, and taking her hand, they were soon whirling away hi the dance, the handsomest pair that ever trod a measure on the green sod. Long, long they, danced, till the red right passed away, and the darkness began to cover the hills, but still they danced on and on, for Brian heeded nothing save the young girl with her long hair floating on his shrcldor and the fire of whose eyes burned into his heart At last the elder brother called to him: "Brian, come home; leave the dance: the mother 'wfil be waiting for usr "Not yet net yet" answered Brian; "I njnet finish this round. Leave me and I will follow you." So the elder brother left and he and the mother watched and waited till niidnightfor Brian's re turn, but he never came. Then, the next morning, the brother went to see about him. searching everywhere, though in vain. And all that day to sunset and the night he searched, still no tidings could be bad. No one bad seen him in the dance.' nor the young girls with the white dresses and the floating hair.though when the neighbors beard the story they looked very solemn and said there was no help for the doomed young man. for the fairy power was strong at Whitsun tide, and no doubt they had carried him down under the earth to the fairy palace, and he would never, never come back to his home again. When Whitsuntide came round the elder brother set out on bis search, and there, sure enough, in the very same green field, with the red sunset stream ing down, was a group of young girbt ia their white dreams dancing to the music of the fairy pipes; and hi the midst was Brine, dancing with his fairy bride, and her leas yellow hair floated over his boulder, and her eyes burned into, his hne iwnls" of Ire. "Come away, come awarvBtma." cried the brother: "yoa nave aea aaafafcToi enough, ana tee mother feat lome.sed and sorrowful, nnd loarfy, weltia for yoa. Goat awaj. before the dmrlnem falk and the JX - - m . Mt- night comes on." "Mot yet not yet' answered Brian: "I must finish this daace." And the fairy bride wound her beautiful while arms round him and held him fast So tlie brother lost heart for he feared toenter the circle lent the enchantment should fall on him: and he went back home to tell of his failure. Then the mother rose up, and taking thechann which the fairy man had given her, she hang it round her neck and went forth to look for the missing son. And at last she came to the field and aw him dancing, and danoiag like mail with the witch girl jn hat arms; ami site called to him: "Come back, tome back to us, Brian, darling; come back; it is your mother calls." But Brian danced on and on, and never looked at Iter nor heeded her. Then, for tlie sorrow made her. brave, she went over in the very midst of the fairy dancers with their glittering eyes, and taking the spell from her neck, she flung it over Brian, and clasping his arm laid her head down on liis shoulder, weeping bitterly. Then, all at once, the demon spell was broken, for a mother's tears have strange xwer, and ho let her take his hand and draw him away from the magic circle: and tlie form of tlie fairy bride seemed to melt into the sun set and the whole scene passed away liko a meat, tlie music and the dancers with their floating hair, and only Brian and his mother were left in the Ueld. Then she led him home, but he spake no word, only lay down to sleep, and so for seven days they watched by him. hut still he. slept Then at the end of seven days he rose up strong and well as ever, and all the past seemed to him only as a dream. Yet for fear of the fairies, his mother still made him wear tlie magic spell round hu neck to keep him from liarm. though in process of time a still stronger spell was woven round his life, for lie married a fair young girl of the village before the next Whitsuntide, good as well as beautiful, and from tliat time the fairies and witches Itad no power over him. for it pun. true wife is tlie best safeguard against witchcraft and devils wiles that a tuan can take to his heart us the angel of tho house. Lady Wiltle in Pall Mall Gazette. Writing o Cnaitulssloa. A publisher told ma the otlier day a bit of business experience which u mildly diverting. A young woman brought him a manuscript which, after due con sideration, he expressed himself willing to publihli in paper. 50 cents series, paying the usual 10 per cent, royalty. The young woman expressed herself willing to accept this offer, although she frankly said tliat she had hoped for bet ter terms. "But, she added., thoughtfully, "if it costs much to make the book, I should not think 23 cents would leave you a great deal of profit." "Twenty-five cents?" repeated the publisher, not at all understanding. "Why," explained she, "there are five of us girls who wrote this together. Ten per cent of 50 cents is 5 cents, and five times five is twenty-five. If it takes a quarter of a dollar to pay us girls our royalty, tliat leaves you just the same amount." Tlie naivete of the proposition so amused the publisher that he declares he was tempted to leave tlie error unex plained. He said, however: "But, of course, you can see that we shall not lose so much as we should if there had been ten of you, for then we should liave to make the book for nothing and lose the booksellers' discount beside. Really, though. I fear you will be obliged to do with a cent apiece," And his proposition was rejected with indignation, tho amus ing part of the story being tliat the lady who conducted tlie negotiations declared that if there were only one author, lOper cent would do very well, but that any body could see tliat it would not amount to anything divided among five people Book Buyer. A Feaud'f maeraoaator'a Freaks. St Albans (Me.) has a young man, George E. Goodwin by name, who takes female parts hi comedy in a way that would have charmed classic Greece. He Is a charming young fellow, a trifle below medium height, light couiplexioned, with red lips and small hands and feet On the stage lie dresses in girls' clothing en tirely, not a single article of male attire being allowed in Ids make up. His fa vorite gown is one he cut and made him self. It is, or appears to be, black silk, with lace sleeves and low neck. The sleeves reveal the round white arms be neath the lace. The neck and bosom, being exposed to a modest extent, are very, white. He wears a beautiful blonde wig, frizzled a la mode, and the way he handles a fan ia described as simply charming. The young man aforementioned is not content with his triumphs on the stage, but is guilty of the reprehensible practice of flu-ting with the susceptible married men he encounters wliile on his starring tours. He attended a dance after a recent show at Athens, and made a young wife furiously jealous by his attentions to her husband. At another dance, which he attended in his feminine rig, he made a "inush" of a highly respecta ble middle aged man who had a wife, and who didn't detect the game until he had furnished much amusement to those in the secret Dexter '(Me.) Gazette. It AScct Them Strangely. "It's queer the way people are affected by visiting a dentist's office," remarked a dental surgeon. "Some no sooner come here than they seem to be seized with a sudden chill, which sets them to shivering all over. They get in the chair and I turn on the natural gas to make as much heat as possible. Why, I've even had to put blankets around my patients to keep them comfortable 'on a warm day. Others are thrown into a feverish state, and the perspiration breaks out tho minute they sit down. Then of course 1 have to shut off the fire. "But the strangest thing about both classes of patients is that their chilliness or f evcrishness leaves them immediately after they quit the chair. It is nervous ness and dread that cause these remark able physical effects, I suppose. But it's about as-hard on me as it is on them, for the uncvenness of temperaturo in the operating room, which' I must perforce endure, keeps mo suffering from a cold, catarrh or headache about half the time." Pittsburg Dispatch. Mrs. Alice J. a whistler has resale of excite Is, is very pleas. in two A had the with her. home in the on the iafibr floor, and m a prettr Mguce gown of striped blue aad red wooC the front a InHwrectofre, with rs vers of vivid red India silk, filled in with i leamj lace, she waa not only worth lookmf at, bat' worth studying carefully, for she is a brunette of the Jano type, and sagkniooeabitof phy sical perfection m the reportoml eye often rami upon. After the prsHmhiirv civilities were ever, theenssdon waspat: "Now, Mrs. Shaw, mil see how one nantf throat can hcid whittle enonghto m oar las lfaehi hslIT It mn'ism-sB throat to iniir w-miMMi a ne Burnet noose. Commercial Gaaette iwarnmstatiTe pleasure of a- hah? hoar, chat Mrs. Dnaw is pteseaauy as nstaaaVmnaeuhwOf rooms 3& i35r&hajeiBnK: m lowriwreuwiiinn ijiaias men to mahek. Lookharr . . Jf. j T5!S!iS?tjSw ST2iS!TiS3feS 3 homos, dfecJcMBfr the euauli inmniii of her throat aad a chest of extraordinary breadth, white as alabaster and Arm cs a rock. Tlie length of her figure from chin to belt is unusual, and stowed away under her black satin corsets is the ma chinery tliat has whistled her into fame aad fortune a splendid pair of lungs. Here Mrs. Shaw just curved her red lips a little, suppressed a couple of dimples, and whistled a bar or two as sweet and clear as a blackbird, ending with a roulade, that vanished noto by note into silence. The listener thought old Chaucer knew what ho was about when ho wrote: Us Jofy whists! writ y-weC Cincinnati CocuncrciaL Miners. The Scotch miner has many ways of amusing Idmself. Quoits is a favorite game of Ids; so is a game called "round ers" a sort of cricket and cricket itself is popular among the younger men. but with them football is the favorite pas time. Leaping; running, throwing the hammer and tossing the caber are all practiced, and hi some parts a game called "bullet playing" is in high favor. We have never seen this played except in the Lothians and Stirlingshire, and there it was at one time crack arannr ment Rather a peculiar amusement, too. It is played m this manner: A cer tain distance, say a mile out and a mile in. is fixed upon as tho ground to be cov ered by tlie players, and the man who does so in the fewest number of throws ia declared the winner. The bullet is a polished ball of bard whinetone, and weighs from ten to fourteen ounces, and thisball the player takes Into his hand and running to a line drawn on the road way, he swings his arm and throws with alibis might This is termed "hainch ingtbe bullet." and a good player can cover the mile in five or six throws. The game is one mainly of strength, but a good deal of skill can be shown in it Each player has a man in front to show where the bullets should be landed, and Ins business is to see that, if his di rections are followed, tne bullet of his player will have the best part of the road to run on. The game is always played on the best highway in the neigh borhood, and the authorities object to it as being dangerous, although we never have heard of any accident arising there from. A bullet match is to the Scotch miner what a doer fight is to his North umbrian or Staffordshire congener, or a prize fight to an East End Londoner. The fact that it is forbidden by law adds to its attractiveness, and it affords ample opportunitiee for betting. Bets are made on the throw, on the distance out and on the complete match, and when the two "dons" are playing excitement runs high. Scottish World. A Flaw Vessel. 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