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A-i r- i-C -i-i V "V - J"- S-w-kT - t $ rf v?4 " af r "iyl y, ,V ' "4 - V 1 "$-" -- ts iT J!j j - U r IS n""" w-. 5 fr sM ?n ; p .iM-" ""3th. v r i - TSTrf- r m ii ilJ . I WORSE THAN MARRIAGE. roldaadcrankr Wm sMttag- alone to Us ram; to toes with fee go wen ackJag; . iMiwnww on The Madly words of compassta. netoachoraceBtlel And Tae assess) brow grew'aaiinr Asa terse or laeai "WABHitMemrbcil Bat taJs fe m bleated sight i Ooorier. MYKTLFS SUITOR. "Susan, you're cryinV Susan dropped her handkerchief into her lap quickly, giving, her husband an inugaant look. She was a woman of some 50 years, tall and large framed, with a fresh, healthy complexion. She had high cheek bones, her eyes were black 'and her hair, though threaded "with gray, retained its dark hue. She sat by the west window of the large wing room which served for the dining and living room of a farm house. She had been looking into the orchard, where the sun, as it sank in a bank of red clouds, burnished the gnarled trunks and crooked limbs of the old apple trees, which cast long slanting shadows to wards the house. Her husband, who was also tall, was of slighter build than she, pale and older looking. He had been bustling in and out of the room, and had just thrown an armful of wood into the wood box behind the stove. That arm ful filled the box full, and he was reach ing for his pipe on the mantelpiece when he glanced at his wife and saw her fur tively wiping her eyes. "How you do talk, CyriL I aint thought o sech a thing as cryin'. I jest set here lookin' at them apple trees, all bare as they be, an wonderin' who'd be lookin' out o this winder next year, when they Mowed agin. That set me thinkin' o' tho day you an' me first come homo after we'd been to the parson's. We come through the orchard, an the trees was all full o' white blows, some on 'em fallin' on the ground, and you said they was a strewin' our path in honor o ourweddin'. Your ma set in this 'ere winder, an' when she see us comin she got up and opened the door, and when we come up on the stoop we could see the table all sot for us and the room fixed up fur company. I aint forgot a word she said. She put her arms 'round my neck an' kissed me, and says she, Wel com home, Susan. You've got a good husband, an you're come to a good home. I cant wish you no bettern thet you'll be as prosp'rous as I've been here, an when you're ready to die, as I be now, thet you can look back on as happy a life in the old homo as Ida Oh, Cyril, I do hope dead folks cant see back here. If your poor ma was to see us turned out o' here, all the singin' an' playin' on harps, an' all the gold mansions in heaven, even if she owned one all to her self , wouldn't comfort her." The old man had filled his pipe while his wife was talking, and now sat in an arm chair in front of the stove. He made no reply. "You'll think I'm a fool, I know," she went on, "but I keep on lookin' fur that air paper. Somehow I can't give up t I was sech a born iddit as to burn it up with a mess o rags," "It's burnt up fast enough, faint no use o hopin' you'll find it," was the dis couraging reply; "what gits me is, how that old skinflint heard on 't, You don't think Jtfyrtlo 'd think she could hev 'im, do ye? Thet's what he wants. He's got a big farm an' a good house. He aint more'n fifty year old, I reckon." "Land sakes alive! Cyril Pcttigrew, what be you a talkin' about? He's older'n I be, an' I'm hard onto sixty. I guess you've forgot what you've alius said about 'im, an' thet wa'nt no more'n other folks says. Evens'pose he wa'nt the hardest hearted, grindin'est old coot for miles 'round, should you want our Myrtle to marry him as could lie an' cheat about this 'ere money as he's doin? You know you paid 'im, don't you, an' you dont s'pose he's forgot it?" "O' course I know I paid it; he ain't forgot it, neither. He wa'nt pleased when I told 'im what I'd cum fur guess he hoped I couldn't git it, an' then he'd mebbe git Myrtle. When I come away, says he, 'Mr. Pettigrew, I s'pose Myrtle expects to be to homo next Sunday evenin'. Mebbe Til be 'round, an' I can bring the satisfaction piece to the mort gage the same time. Then he give me the receipt, an' I brought it home." "Yis, you did; t'was here fast enough. I remember seein you lay it down on the stand. I must a burnt it up, but deary me, I can't contrive how. I was dretful busy thet day, finishin' up things for Joel's box. I wanted to git it toim in time for his birthday, long's he thought he couldnt spare time to come home. Miss Martin was here a helpin on me. I tried to make her sense what t was we'd lost, but she 'peared to be deafern ever. I hollered it to her as loud as I could, but she acted jest as though I was tellin' on her somethin' cunnin' the way she nodded an' looked tickled. I hev suspicioned mebbe she knew what t was we was huntin' fur, an let on to Beed we'd lost the receipt. She knew ho wanted Myrtle. She said, lota o tunes, as how she thought fwould be a good match fur her, but I says to my self, 'You old aarpint! that's cause you want Sam Hoarner fur our squint eyed Bieoe, Malvina Brooks.' She's been set tin her cap fur Sam more'n a year." Mr. Pcttigrew was a farmer in com fortable circumstances. Although he had but little ready money at his dis posal, from the proceeds of his farm he supported his family well and gave to each of his two children a good educa tion. Myrtle, the daughter, now taught the village school. Joel wished to be come a merchant, rather than to remain -on the farm, and though this was a great aiasppouument to His parents, tney made every effort to gratify him. Two years before our story opens Mr. Pettigrew mortgaged his farm to Jabez Reed, a neighbor living at a distance from them of some three miles, and on the farther side of the village where were situated the nearest postoffice and railway sta tion, as well as the school where Myrtle taught: The mortgage was for $1,000, and with the sum thus obtained he bought a partnership for Joel in a west ern town. Before the mortgage fell due Mr. Pettigrew and his son together had saved enough money to pay it, and Mr. Pettigrew himself made the payment to Mr. Reed, who gave him a receipt for the amount. After he reached home the receipt was in some unaccountable way lost, and Jabez Beed beard of its loss, as they learned through a letter from him. In that letter he urged the isasacdiate payment of the $3,000 due Mam on the mortgage which Cyril Pet tjgsewhad promised to pay when he had ontne writer, on the 18th of No- (the date on which Cyril had i the payment). In a postscript Mr. at were hetooecomemore closely coMstrtfd with them he should net, of ceases, be ao urgent for the pay aaaae. safe wusdd than be all in the fam- jbj. . Otherwise, he. should be forced to ' i mlMt, frost tfceattfctocesar ' ' SBUsevJetaseletealdhe. I wMinrnij i uiiiij i BIsUs there wassnBwtMBgwwatlBfc H - -I W I lnl Uaoneybdrr. While stffl ilsnawiiia thb unpleasant of affairs the Pettigrews were in terrupted by the entrance of their daughter, who came quietly 'into the room. Myrtle was tall and alight like her father, but with the bright complex ion and vigorous strength of her mother, and with a striking beauty of form and feature possessed by neither parent. She laid aside her wraps and, taking a chair. sat down near her mother. After a short fl shesaid: "flam has nfmtn"g"A that Mr. Beed will not give father another receipt for the one which was lost I thought this could not be true, or you would have told me; but I can under stand that you wished to save me from unhappiness as long as possible. But surely it cannot be true that he threatens to foreclose on father. What a bad man be must be! Is it from revenge, because I refused to marry him?" "Yis," answered her mother; "spite, and mebbe more'n than that. Thinks, like enough, you'll take 'im now to save the farm." " 'Cordin' to Jabez Beed," said Mr. Pettigrew, "your father's a liar an' tryin to be a thief." "But, father, Sam says you should re sist it He says your word is better than Mr. Seed's oath." "Sam can do a good deal o' talkin'," remarked Mr. Pettigrew, "but 'twont amount to nothin'. Mebbe he's got three thousand dollars to lend me." "He hasn't, of course," replied Myrtle. "I know how gladly he would lend it if he could." "Wall, long's he aint got it I don't see s he can do better 'n to stop pesterin on ye an let ye marry Squire Beed an' done with it" "Shame, Cyril," cried Mrs. Pettisrew. Myrtle smiled. "Never mind, mother; poor father does not mean it As for me I will not believe, till I hear it from his own lips, that Mr. Beed can be so un just" . " Tears likely you wont hev to wait long 'fore you do. That's him now, hitchin' his horse by the front gate, or Tm greatly mistook. Mebbe he's thought better ont and come to bring the satis faction piece, 'cordin' as he promised." "Mebbe them apple trees 'II blow out to-night 'bout as likely," grumbled CyriL A sound of stamping and scraping on the front piazza, and a loup rap on the door, announced the arrival of a visitor. Myrtle opened the door and admitted a man of about 60 years, of ordinary height and size, with a ruddy complex ion, coarse iron gray hair and small, light blue eyes. His lips were flabby and shapeless. His chin was streaked with tobacco juice. "Good day, Mr. Beed," said Myrtle; "we were just talking about you. I was telling mother that unless you told me so, I would not believe you would be cruel and unjust" Mr. Beed shook Myrtle's hand as though it were a pump handle, and winked knowingly at her. 'O' course, o course," he answered. "How is the old man, any way; pretty spry, hey?" Cyril gave a grunt; but neither an swered nor looked at tho man. Mrs. Pcttigrew said stiffly, "Have a chair, Mr. Beed." "Wall, I dunno," turning to Myrtle. "Got a fire in the front room? I come to see you." "No,-sir," she replied; "but I do not object to the presence of my parents." "Wall, mebbe not, but I told yer pa" "What I wish, particularly, inter rupted Myrtle, "is to have this affair set right If you have not brought another receipt to father, when will you send one? "Easy now, easy rd like to hev a talk all by ourselves. Cose over and set on tho lounge." He seated himself, and Myrtle stood near. "Set down an' be comfurble No? Wall, s'cuso my settin'. I'm tired. O course you an' me understands one another. Ther ain't no use o' makin a row, but yer pa didn't pay me no money thet day. Cant see what the devil's got into the old feller. Aint acted queer lately, has heT Myrtle did not reply to Mr. Beed, but turning to her father, who was still seated, said: "Father, Mr. Beed says you did not pay him any money. Where, then, is the money which I counted, in bills, and placed in your wallet just as you were leaving home for his house?" Mr. Pettigrew sprang to his feet "Jabe Beed," he cried, "dare you look me in the face and say that?" "Now, now, Myrtle, what did you want to rile 'im up for?" asked Mr. Beed. "Never mind, Mr. Pettigrew, Myrtle an m settle this 'ere trouble. Mebbe you dropped tho money in the road, goin along, or likely you come across some sharper an' he fooled ye out on't Dont blame vou none fur not wantin to tell ont S'pose you old folks goes out In the back room an' let me an' Myrtle spark. We'll come to terms, hey, Myrtle?" with another wink. "Mr. Beed," exclaimed Myrtle, "my father paid you the three thousand dol lars. We know he did, and so do you. Since you are so wicked as to deny it you can have no heart to which lean ap peaL" Overcome with grief and repug nance she felt on the point of bursting into tears. She left the room hastily, not waiting to see what effect her words had produced. Mr. Beed scowled fiercely and grew red in the face. "Hoity, toity; wicked, hey," he snarled, "wall, I guess Til be goin'." "Yis, go," cried Mrs. Pettigrew, "an the quicker the better. Mebbe you'll cheat us out o the farm, but I shouldn't think all the money ye could steal 'ud be much comfort to ye, knowin' thet all hands, young an' old, hates ye like frisin. You was .the meanest boy in school. I aint forgot yer dirty tricks, an sens ye growed up ye aint improved. Tears to me ye grow wuss every year." Trembling with rage, Mr. Beed waited to hear no more. As he went out he slammed the door, then opened it, and, putting his head into the room again, yelled, "Soon's the law'll git ye out, out ye'llgo." Sam Hosmer, Myrtle's lover, found it necessary during the next few days to do a good deal in the line of consolation, especially on behalf of Myrtle. He strove to convince her that his frequent pres ence was absolutely necessary .to prevent her from falling insnthe lowest depths of gloom, and though she laughed at him playfully for hisassurance, his cheerful view of the ""tipp and his hopeful ness were appreciated by her and her mother, if not by CyriL His many sar castic remarks and suggestions did not abash the young man in the least, though they were often quite severe. One evening Mrs. Pettigrew received a pretty little note from a young lady of their acquaintance, waving that she would spend the next day with her and hoped she should be welcome. The writer, Florrie Vail, was an orphan, who lived with an old aunt, to whom she gave a home. She was something of an heiress, a fact which had prevented her marriage with Joel before now. They were en gaged, but Joel was sturdily independent and would not take her from her own home until he could give her another as gpd- Tme to her promise, Florrie came over the next day about 10 o'clock, Vwalkm intothe room as quiet as a little white mouse," as Mrs. Pettigrew told her. She nut her arms around Ifrs. Bstti- grows nee; nasad nar cheek ana cried a little. "TV heard afl about your trouble, dear," aha said; "I wrote Joel about it for I knew you wouldn't But, indeed, he would rather know. I wanted to lend the money to his father, and so I wrote Joel, but he made no reply to that, or at least thfa is what ha did write." Blushing, she held her snow flake of a hand over the upper comer, and Mrs. Pettigrew pretended she did not see the words, "My -sweetest treas ure." The letter read as follows: "Go and spend the day with my folks Thurs day. I will be home on the noon train. Tellthemnotto send to the station for me, as some one else will take me over, unless my calculations are wrong." Mrs; Pettigrew read aloud so far, then "You loveliest of all darlings" "There, you have read enough," laughed Florrie, all blushes and smiles, taking the letter from her, "but what do you suppose he means about 'calculations' etc?" "I dunno. Joel's alhis so reslute. Mebbe 'tis jest as well you wrote all about it to 'im. Anyhow, I'm glad he's comin' home. We'll have a few more happy times together in the old home." "O, a good many more!" exclaimed Florrie; "Joel can do something," with all a young girl's faith in her lover. "I reckon hell be here by 1 o'clock, so let's all hands to work an' hev dinner ready to chuck right on the table soon's he drives up. You go an' tell Myrtle. She an Sam's in the best room." Florrie had great, appealing blue eyes and pale gold hair. Her complexion was like a rose leaf and her mouth shaped like Cupid's bow? Of medium height slightly built and graceful in every motion, surely Joel had shown good taste when he fell so desperately in love with her. At 1 o'clock all assembled in the wing room. They had laid the table with snowy linen and bright glass and silver, and adorned it with a huge bunch of asters, a present from Sam, for a center piece and for a special greeting for JoeL Everything was ready and so they waited for Joel, and they did not know who else, but expectation kept every one silent excepting Sam, whose occa sional attempts at conversation met with no encouragement from Myrtle, to whom they were directed. At last Florrie cried, "Ho fa coming;" then they all rushed to the window. Mrs. Pettigrew saw, at first, only JoeL "Dear boy," she said, "how handsome he's grown, and who Cyril, be I a dreamin', or is that Jabez Beed walkin' long side o' JoeC "Yis, that's the old coot I alius thought Joel'd do somethin' with 'im." In reality, Cyril had never allowed him self to hope anything from Joel in this matter. By this time Myrtle had reached the door, and admitted Joel, with Jabez Beed, whom it proved to be. Joel gave his sister a hug, and grasped a hand each of father and mother, while a fond smile told Florrie she was not unnoticed. He was a strong, sinewy man, with keen gray eyes, thick chestnut hair and a straight nose. He had a square chin and firm well formed lips. His whole face expressed strong will and deter mination, but had, usually, a look of serenity and good nature. Now, he seemed to be keeping under control some powerful emotion. "Father," he said, turning to Cyril, "Mr. Beed has called to make some nec essary explanations." Mr. Beed was redder in the face than usual, and had a hang-dog expression which did not add to his good looks. "Wall," he commenced, "yew see 'twas funny, but jest as I was thinkin' o' comin' over to bring that 'are receipt Joel, he come in and said he'd found the fust one." "You, Joel! How?" all exclaimed at once. - "Never mind now; dont interrupt Mr. Beed," cautioned JoeL "O, I aint got much to say. I joked 'em some 'tother day, an' they got mad an' tuk it in earnest, sol thought I'd wait a while an' let 'em git over it 'fore I come agin. Here," taking a paper from his pocket "is the satisfaction piece to the mortgage. Joel, he's got the receipt I'm glad on't; it'll save me writin' another. Hope ye don't none on ye bear malice." This being received in dead silence, ho shuffled his feet, looked into his hat for inspiration, and finding none, remarked that he "guessed he'd be goin', lib horse didn't stand very good." Joel opened the door for him. and mak ing a low bow, said, "Since you wish to be known as a joker, you may include the remarks which I made to you about tar and feathers and call it all one huge joke." "Yis, yis," he muttered abjectly; "young folks will hev their sport," and shuffled off, evidently glad to escape. Cyril sat down in his arm chair by the stove, and laughed and chuckled. "I knew Joel ud make it all right I knew it, but Joel, how in the name o wonder did ye git that air receipt?" "Why, mother put it in the box she sent me. I found it all rolled up in one of my shirts. I thought she sent it be cause she wished me to see it, and in tended to write about it at once, but I was busy, and the time went by, but thanks to the good sense of this little girl," taking Florrie's hand lovingly, "I heard what that rascal was about, and came on at once. I went from the sta tion to Beed's house, and asked him what the trouble was, not telling him that I had the receipt He said father thought he had paid him, but was mis taken, and was probably losing his mind getting to imagine things. When I produced the receipt you should have seen his jaw falL He tried to laugh, and make lujht of the matter. I told him, however, that he must come with meat once, and apologize, or a ride, after dark, dressed in a suit of tar and feathers, might be the alternative. Thegrest you know. He apologized as well as he knew how. It is all past now. Let's forget the scamp. We're pretty comfortable, arent we, mother?" putting, one arm around Mrs. Pettigrew's waist and the other around Florrie. The example was infectious, and Sam seemed to think the time had come to embrace Myrtle, but when he made the attempt, was promptly extinguished. Cyril regarded his son with a proud smile. "O; I thought Joel ud do some thin'," he repeated. "To think, though, o'that old coot's wantin' to marry our Myrtle.- What do you think o' that, Joe?" "I think his effrontery, is only equaled by his dishonesty, but let it all pass. Mother, I smell something good cooking. Let s have dinner." Atjhb M. Ladd. AVi The late Lord Eversley was a successful speaker of the house of com mons, and never failed to recognize the right man when a score or more sprang to their feet apparently at the same in stant "I have been shooting rabbits all my life," he once explained, "and have learned to mark the right one." San Francisco Argonaut A difficult' problem is presented to French women desiring to conform to the fashion of wearing flowers by the way in which certain flowers have be come attached to political ideas. For example, the violet is the symbol of the BonapartistB; Boulanger claims thecar- tbe corn flower is recognised as the rose has been appro priated by the Orleanists. CHARITY M PARIS. In recent years, in tious efforts have been to the principal causes of the loss of lation, and it has been numerous facts that one of these causes consists in the physical degeneration in duced by deficiency of alimentation in infancy; and the moat eminent physi cians of Paris, and the director of puhMo assistance, have endeavored to modify and improve the system of nutrition in fliA pnMfa cWWiMft mttitTifrmt. rrmid ing for recently born children lactation adequate to the necessities of the tem perament and constitution. In the Hospital for Infanta situated in Sabres street, there section for rickety boys and girls, whose miserable aspect produces an impression of pain upon the mind unfortunate be ings who have inherited the organic vices, of their parents, and who suffer from anaemia's cruel tortures. The administration of the hospital is arranged in two separated pavilions, where there is much ventilation, with large windows that look out upon a gar den, and whose walls have double rows of willow cradles perfectly eauinoed. The newly born receive here the personal care of the establishment beginning with being weighed in the balance the same day they make their appearance, the operation being frequently repeated almost every month in order to determine with exactness the development of the child. The little one is subjected to an especially nutritious diet of the most tonic kind, if it had been previously fed from a refractory goat liable to convey contagious germs, it having been found by experiment that the milk of this ani mal, although possessing nutritive prin ciples of the most salutary kind, presents' the inconvenience of communicating by, absorption the effects of those nervous accidents to which the goat is subject The public charities of Paris, advised by the wise doctors of medicine, have substituted for the milk of goats that of the ass, and have installed an ample yard near the pavilion of the rickety and scrofulous children, which is only sepa rated by a short covered passageway. Nothing is more picturesque than the spectacle of the lactation of the babes in this inclosure every morning. The nurses, dressed in dark gowns with white caps and aprons, each carry ing a child on the right arm and a little seat in the left hand, present themselves in exact turn to the women who have charge of the animals, and they hold the child, applying its lips to the teats of the docile animaL The children suck with avidity the liquid nutriment wluch is fresh and of agreeable taste. The administration of public assist ance of Paris has calculated that one young ass is able to lactate abundantly for a space of nine or ten months, and when this period has passed they are sold and replaced by others. It is well known that the milk of asses, by its vivifying qualities and its nutritious principles, assimilates in a great degree the milk of the nurse, and these disin herited and sick children, enjoying its beneficial effects by its permanent and methodical use, are restored little by little to health and vigor. La Dustra cion Esoanola. What are the feelings of a man or a woman who has risked life itself in an effort to save people from a pestilence, and is then shunned by every one, even after the danger of contagion has passed? What could have been the feelings of a poor woman who lived not far from Count Tolstoi's estate, whose story is told in "The Truth about Buasia"? The villagers had been greatly excited by the fact that several persons had been bitten by mad wolves. A widow lived in a cottage with her daughter-in-law and her little grandson. One day a wolf came out of the forest and attacked one of the widow's dogs. The lad, thinking the wolf a strange dog, picked up a stick and struck it to make it leave the dog. Instantly the wolf left the dog and seized the lad. His cries brought out his grandmother, who saw him in danger of his life, and ran to save him. The wolf left the boy and rushed at the woman. As ho came at her open mouthed she thrust her naked hand down his throat His teeth lacerated her arm, but she held him until the wolf choked. The boy, at her bidding, ran into the house for a knife; but it was some time before he could get it The woman held her hand down intothe wolfs mouth until the boy came with the knife, and then killed the brute. The wolf had been the scourge of the neighborhood, and the peasants as sembled with joy to see its carcass. Sud denly a great fear suggested that the wolf might have been mad, and that the woman might also go mad. Weak as she was from loss of blood, and suffering from her wounds, they seized her and shut her up in an out house without attendance, without water, without food and fire. For twenty-four hours she lay there, almost delirious with fever, not knowing but that she might have been bitten by a mad wolf. At last she was allowed to go at large, as she showed no signs of hydrophobia, but all her dogs were killed. She asked for either a dog or a man to protect her from other wolves. The peasants heeded not her request She recovered, but for months the peasants shunned her house, saying: "Who knows but that she may suddenly go mad?" Youth's Companion. Hstrhlsc Craws far Bewstr. An ingenious agricultural person who lives not very far from Boston has hit upon a new and decidedly profitable in dustry. There has recently arisen a de mand for crows' heads, hitherto deemed valueless, and it is his purpose to supply it Ten cents apiece the county authori ties have offered for the crania of these interesting birds, from whose destructive propensities the farmers' crops have been suffering seriously of late years. Under ordinary circumstances this bounty would not leave a very large margin of profit for the recipient It costs some thing, you see, to kill a crow. There is the ammunition, in the first place, which is expensive, and one cannot count upon slaying even a single inky feathered fowl for each charge of shot and powder. Besides, the sportman's time must be reckoned in the account But the enterprising speculator above referred to has devised a scheme by which a maximum percentage of gain Li to be secured without any risk worth speaking of. He has set up a chicken incubator of the most approved pattern, m which k placed as fast as laid the pro duct of about 100 hen crows that have been trapped and confined, in company with perhaps a dosen cock crows. With in fifteen days the little creatures are hatched, and a fortnight later they are ready to be decapitated. For be it un derstood that the head of a crow chick is worth just as much as that of an adult of the same species. At the uniform rate of ten for a dollar, dead, they pay the producer. Albany Argus. I recently visited the Amina settlement In Iowa, wheretbere are about 4,000 peo ple living In common. I found that the community system works better among them than among any other in the country.- HoweTar,tasra was this to beob- serve(Ljthat iaoj cCJfaVt that the younger attention which has crown np warns so own aonwthfns7 fedrridwala and leave the community as soonaapoaaibk. There are aeveralvfl kges. Amine being the principal, and thfe has a pretty hoteL The landlord re ceives the money from Us guests and ersryeV tarns it over to the treasurer of the community and receives hk amp plies from the commissary department It ia the same throughout every branchr of business in which these people en gage. It is like thegeneralgoveraaiaiil, only no salaries are paid. Every family has a house, built at thegeneral expense. They are all alike.-St Louia Globe Democrat Happiness k the smile on the face of contentment In the bottom of pleasure's cup are bit ter dregs. Imagination k the rainbow in the ho rizon of the soul Every man's heart k a graveyard, in which are entombed the dead heroes of his ideal. As the flaw in the diamond k soonest noticed because it k a diamond, so the fault of a good man k soonest noticed because he k a good man. Our difficulties seem like huge bowlders in our path, retarding our progress, but, when once surmounted, they serve aa stepping stones to success. A genius not only has a message for the world, but he succeeds in whispering that message into the ear of the world and engraving it upon its heart Envy strikes at others and stabs her self. .You can invent a falsehood, but a truth never. .To do as you please k to become the slave of your own caprices. We can take nothing with us from thk world except what we have wrought into our minds and characters. Happier k he who loves hk occupa tion, be it ever so humble, than he who occupies the highest station, if he be at odds with hk occupation. Will P. Hart in America. A KmUm wttk a Hiatal?. There is a gentleman living in thk city who lias in Ids possession a knife once owned by Jim Bowie, which was given him by Juan Padillo, a man who left the Lafitte band of pirates to follow the for tunes of Bowie, and who is still living. The knife k of tempered steel, the blade sixteen inches long, with a steel guard and buckhorn handle. The handle k dressed smooth where the hand clasps it and, on one side k a silver plate, one and one-half inches long, set into the handle, on which is scratched, in rude charac ters, "Jim Bowie." On die steel guard of the knife, on the upper side, two notches have been cut with a file, which old Juan Padillo said were cut to mark the number of men Bowie had killed with the knife. On the lower sideof the guard are three notches, which are said to represent the number of 'Indians scalped with the same knife. The knife was given by Bowie to Padillo while Bowie was a resident of San Augustine, Tex., and was presented by Padillo to its present owner in 1862, when tho latter succeeded in recovering from the Co manches ten head of horses, which they had stolen from Padillo's ranch, thirty five miles west of San Antonio. Honey urove (Tex.; special. Aa Improved life Savlas; Ket A net designed to be held beneath the windows of a burning building, so that the inmates in jumping or falling upon it will not be injured, has been patented by Mr. Malcolm Hunter, of No. S3 Dutch K01 street Long Island City, N. Y. Thk net k preferably made about ten feet in diameter, of Bussian bolt rope three-quarters of an inch in circum ference, and with a three-sixteenths inch outside galvanized grasping chain, but has an approximately solid rope center piece, with ropes radiating therefrom to form the body proper of the net Each of the radiating ropes k equal in length to the full diameter of the net and they are so intertwined and spliced with short pieces as to make at the center a compact, closely united piece, affording great strength, while still designed to act as a cushion for a body falling thereon. The use of a grasping chain instead of a heavy rope permits the net to be folded into a small compass. Sci entific American. BtoagM HesM to Her. A few evenings since a lady who waa giving a little private party was saying all manner of severe things about the proposed lottery. In the midst of her pious indignation an old gentleman, ait ting on the opposite side of the table, said quietly: "Madame, did you not once sell mo two tickets in a church raffle?" The woman hesitated, and finally said: "Perhaps I did." "Fancy cake basket wasnt it?" She colored up, and, after an embar rassed cough, said feebly: "I believe so." "Did the drawing ever come off, and, if so, what was the winning number!" The lady made a strong effort and said she had forgotten. "The reason I recalled the circum stance," continued the old gentleman blandly, "was that I noticed the cake basket on the table." And he looked at the aforesaid piece of silver in a smiling way. There was a dead silence all around the table, for several of the guests re membered having purchased those same tickets, and they couldnt remember, either, just when that drawing took place. Carson (Nev.) Appeal A Iwsjsss FaJator. tftyifrmin West, the famous American painter, waa bom of Quaker parents in Springfield, Pa., Oct. 10, 1783. When a child he drew a picture of the baby in the cradle, and for hk first painting obtained hk colors from leaves and berries. He taught himself, and at the age of 10 painted pictures in Philadelphia and neighboring villages. It was at thk time that ha produced hk painting of the Death of Socrates. In 1760 the generos ity of friends enabled West to go to Italy to pursue hk studies. 8oon after he set tled in England be obtained the favor of George niand in thirty years painted over 400 pictures. He died in London on .March 10, 183a Philadelphia Times. The proper length of time to stay at a tea has never been defined. Elderly so ciety women who are past the rush and activity of their prime and only go to one tea in an afternoon, sometimes eettk themselves comfortably in an easy chair and stay two or three hours chatting with their friends as they come and go. Busy Sfjckty leaders fly into the house, sip a cup of tea, stay five minutes and dart out again, only to be driven rapidly to another place, thus going to three or four teas in an afternoon. New York Sun. f T There were 1,W5 aeddenk on the nul roads in the United States during 186a There were 804 collisions, 1,033 derail ments and 99 other accidents. Of the collisions 404 were from the rear, 811 were buttings, 90 on crossings. Defects in road caused 189 derailments; defects of equipment caused 148, and neglect in operating caused 117. The killed num bered 97, of whom 484 were employes and 188 passengers. Troy limes. in been k retnrniar to tfc a rich canopy and, asa a sneer tint wean the for bottles. -'--- Me. t. we simple days of in bottle. TseaewtteGrwUShoakoawFalk-itwas eofar beyond has panofla eMning. So that are wonderful brejuaa of beauty in the tmf set no loveliness of the grand "AssrkMAli"m Colorado, which are at one taw aspiration and the despair of painter and poet Splendid beyond oompariaon k the superb acenery along the South Park Division of the Union Pacinc m Colorado. 6-1-ot Noble honaekespers need no doors. Tor peculiarly soft yet penetrating ahades of color, marvelous grouping in form, fantastic, solemn and tender shap ing of rugged cliff and mountain an 3 valley," says a distinguished artist, tbe wonderful empire of Colorado stands peerless. The Alpine scenery along the fine of the South Park Division of the Union Pacific in Colorado k the moat magnificent in the United States. Fat pastures make fat venison. It k un-American in the higher sense for our people to prate about Europe so glibly when so many of them are pro foundly ignorant of the wondrous beau ties of their native land. As a matter of fact there are hundreds of thousands of American citizens who are thoroughly fanuliar with Switzerland; who have idled away weeks at Lucerne, done Chamouni, and attempted the Matter horn, and yet have never feasted on the lovely beauty, the wild weird majesty of any one of the Colorado Peaks. "More than Alpine glory" rewards visitors along the South Park Division of the Union Paeine in Colorado. There k no scen ery like it in the new world. Whose bread I eat, hk song I sing. The splendors of the "American Alps" are beginning to be appreciated by our people, and a visit to Switzerland for gorgeous scenery k unneoeesary. The picturesque mountain resorts on the South Park Division of the Union Pacific in Colorado are absolutely unrivalled on thk continent Live on hope and die of hunger. I They rested there escaped awhile rrom cares wnicn wear we me away, To eat the lotus of the Nile And drink the poppies of Cathay." And every Aimtmiii business man k beginning to find that hk summer vaca tion k more and more of a necessity; the money making machine won't stand the strain without an occasional rest The "American Alps" of Colorado offer the highest conditions for perfect relaxation, pure vital air, comfortable hotek and the noblest scenery in the country, and may be reached on the South Park Di vision of the Union Pacific Railway. The biggest fields grow not the best corn. The peerless empire of form and color, k found in Colorado," says a great artist. So are many other very wonderful effects. There k that grand triumph of engineer ing skill the Bow Knot Loop, famed all over the world; the pretty town of Gray mont nestled against the base of Cray's Peak, the giant prince of the range; sunrise on Gray's Peak a sight once witnessed never to be forgotten; Idaho Springs the beautiful, a restful spot blessed with the healing waters for all who come, within two hours ride of young levithian Denver; the storied gold camp of Georgetown perched in the upper air of the mountains ever fresh and cool and clear these are a few of the delightful spots in the "American Alps" reached by the Colorado Central Division of the Union Pacific Railway in Colorado. A abort mass and a long dinner. i. -t- Dsiaty little globBkw. - Has, sad wkite, sad sweet, KM7 to be swallowed; la their work, eoaiplete. no oiseosuoK wauac snpes. i,oracbiag. What are they? Why Pierce's Pleas ant Pnrcraf.iVA PaHaIs flio nartotinn nt of laxatives. 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