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. ." re-. -- - - g - f . - . -.-. TM - - J Vrf'f "i"""i- -: -. ff" - 'V r ! "A. V-. S " ' --J?1 - VOL. XX.-NO. 14. COLUMBUS, NEB, WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 1889. WHOLE NO. 1,002. 3 gfg", Jt 'xt. (Minnfetts ImmraL ' "a -- V- ftS u i .- i. w ' I ". W . " sr . i. ml- - - . COLUMBUS STATE BANK. COLUMBUS, NEB. Cash Capital - $100,000. D1UECTOKS: LEANDEKGERKAUD.Pns't. GEO. W. I1ULST, Vice Prea'r. JULIUS A.KEED. K. O. HENKY. ' J. E. TA3KEK, Cashier. . Mask r Men-!. Nlac-maM ' mm EtchaaK' .- SJllctiwa Ireely em All Piat. ' rmy - Tlase It. 274 CUKEBil OF COLUMBUS, NEB., -HAS AN- Autkorized Capital of $500,000 Paid in Capital - 90,000 OFFICERS: C. H. SHELDON, Pxwi't. H. P. H. OHLRICH, Vict; Prw. C. A. NEWMAN, Canhier, ' : DANIEL SCHRA3L -Wt Cash. STOCKHOLDERS: r H. Sheldon. J- P. Backer. Herman P. H.O?hlrich, Carl Itienkt. Jonas Welch. W. A. McAllister, J. Hnry Wurd?nan, H. 51. Wmslow, Gre? W. Galley, S. C.Grey . Frank Uorer, Arnold F. H. Oehlnch. 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AiJinM N.e.MMT.H.4, mPEMLSUi XJrDERTKER ! CtffUS A HTALLIC CA81S re oIlldndMof UjAel- tt C0LTJMBUS.5EBbUKA, HENRY & ASS. !BVjVateM THE FUNNIEST THINa. A FROG 16 TWICE AS FUNNY AS HE LOOKS, IF YOU ONLY KNEW IT. It fa nowhere of record timttks alle gation, "The fuameet tttBgs m bog,? has erer beem qgHiwl, tlihwafh there m rw evidence thrt theaaam who Bade it reellr knew how fanny frog actemlly k. The probabflities are that he had been iaaprwaeil with the frog'e mmir pre-enuneace aimplj by obaerration of his external architecture aa he poaaihi adnk pictareaqneneai on a log- He noticed, of coorse, that afrogie aobaalt that all the neck he baa ia the top of his heed. He comldn't hare failed to ob aarre that the fwafa mtmkh hnyina wWw his shoaldera leare oC If the obearrer diSnt note that the frog has to watch oat when he aits down or he may poke his eye oat with his big toe, he failed to enjoy one of his favorite's best low com edy hits. And when it dawned upon him, as it it must have dawned, that the dram of the frog's ear is worn on the outside of his head, being attached to the gable end of his upper jaw, he was of course bed that no farther evidence was sary, and he was ready to take the world into his confidence and utter that famoas declaration about the frog's incontest able claim to be placed on record as the funniest thing that is. Yet even the halo of drollery that surrounds the frog at this ripe period of its existence ia as funereal gloom compared to the humor of his younger days. HIS KAJU.T DISGUISES. Tliis observer, whose sententious com mentary has passed into a proverb, uhouldn't have been content with the humor of which the mere physical con tour of the completed frog is capable. He should have gone back to the time when the frog was but a protoplastic atom, involuntarily cruising along the border of some marshy pond, where the musk-rat burrows among the logs and the wild flag waves its lances to the pass ing breeze, and whose presence is worth at least $2.50 a day to the adjacent dis penser of quinine. He should have sought out that gluti nous molecule. He never would have suspected it a frog. He never would have believed that one day that inert globule would be humped up on a bog snapping at flies and voicing basso pro f undo serenades to the stilly night. He would as soon have looked for the evo lution of a thoroughbred racer from a wooden saw horse. But that is just what that globule is there for, and if this insufficient observer had only gone back and watched it grow up with the coun try he would have seen how doubly for tified against cavil he would have been in .wIning that a frog's place is at the head of all embodiment of humor, ani mate or inanimate, conscious or uncon scious. The frog's embryocic idea of fun hi to do a number of fntprewting lightning changes. His masterpiece as a molecular comedian, and his last act in that line of business, is to transform himself into the living ljlrptmca and grannkr structure of a mulberry. It is while making this hor ticultural display of himself that the whimsical creature is preparing for one of his most droll surprises, and he next appears in the lively and grotesque char acter of a fish that has a mouth and rows of teeth like sheephead's, two other mouths like a sucker's, the tail of an eel, nostrils three times as big as its mouth, a pair of gills that branch from its head like the antlers of a deer, and the diges tive apparatus of a grasshopper! All three of its mouths are in a row on the under side of its chin, the one with the teeth being in the middle. A HOWLXSQ SUCCESS. This screaming presentation is known to the small boy as the polliwog and to science as the tadpole. It is the frog's first ambitious attempt at being really funny. It is an instantaneous and cy clonic success. But it is followed in good time by other changes inthebul First, the frog, in his character of polli wog, calls in his antler like gills and stows them away inside of his head somewhere. Then he springs a pair of legs on you. They sprout out on each side of his body, just aft of the spot where his gills soaked in, and the con vulsed observer says: "Hello! There's his fore legs!" That is evidently just what the frog ia his ludicrous character wants the ob server to think, for it adds to the humor ous surprise that be has in store for him when be suddenly sprouts another pair of legs, and the observer finds that, al though the first ones had their roots close behind the poUiwog's ears, they were, nevertheless, its hind legs, and that the new legs pop out ahead of them, and, of course, are the fore legs them selves. This joke of the frog's k so good that he adds still another change to hie makeup, so that he can enjoy it himself. He gets rid of the little sheepshead mouth and the two sucker mouths, and takes on a new mouth that reaches clear across his face, and he looks up and. smiles an expansive smile. During all the tune that the frog aaas queradea as a polliwog he gorges hnaisrif on a strictly vegetable diet, and if he had been scooped out of the water and kept out a few minutes death would have debated him for its own. Bat when be has got through with his leg'ahowhe trades oft his g3k for a pair of may, changes his lah heart for the heart of a reptile, discards hk grasshopper intesti nal arrangement for a regular set of ani mal digesters, and hank himaslf oat of the water on to a bog, or upon the shore among the rashes, ana cocas ms ere up at Ton in a mf onnkwr toh that he wonld be to know what yon think of hka as a fall blown lizard. He hasn't got a thing with him that he started hi with as -s poUiwog except hkeerstafl. Hehaant been long a land wbber before he begins to haaap Tnimaslf oavthe back, and tods veaopthe month that k to become the great attraction of hk features when h aiadimtas ae the fiakhrd frog. New York San. A CUAE FOR SUICIDE. wily a proof that the world k growing Kuhappy. On the contrary, at easy that thenaeral state of society k do ivIIILUBk wT PflBmnMlT nBBwnWs bbbsbSk BBBtBBw BnWhSBBi a BBmamBBw srkaavi hie of people,'! the least grreB to sUnce. the Irian, the Italians. Suicide k vastly i thai we have and Bost given to suicide of aQ the peoples of &rorje,whiksqnJidasribeBBgklsd Spain has the lowest suicide aweammge. If we compare the up i) whs of the werM. weindthatinpneiii, asthedaysof the glory of the republic and the empire, suicide was asach more prevalent thank wmm the darkness of the Suicide k a malady of chanctaraatkfenmybesal,of aa ad vanced aad even pcosperomi state of so ciety. Ia las) Haked States, whan, m thelve years between 1861 aad 1887, g,3t persons took their own kves,only 270 of these deaths were Itiihatahh to It k to "end the conditions, that people take their andthk heartache or world k quite aa distinctly traceable to the in creased HcnajrivciMss of organisation on the part of a cultivated tsnsrttion as k the delight m progress, in society, in art, in music and in literature, that k also characteristic of thk epoch of the world. The prevaknce of suicide k in many ways lam witable; but there kno reason why the world should alarm itself undu ly about it, or, treating it aa if it were due to some preventable cause, like an epidemic of diphtheria, should call out: "What k to be done? Nothing k to be dboe, at least by society as a whole. Sui cide k an inevitable ailment of a time, which, on the whole, k the best time that the world has ever had. But though society can do nothing to restrain suicide, the individual beinj su preme in at least thk respect, something may be done, aad effectively, too, by the individual who finds the urging to self destruction strong within him. If no consideration of the hereafter gives such a one pause, it k in hk power to put himself in health harmony with nature, if Jie will, by obeying the philosophical injunction to "look outward and not in;" to admit to hk life the light of nature first comprehending that nature knot a thing exterior to him, but that it k himself and he k nature and not for ever shut himself within the darkness of a partial and selfish view of life; and, examining in thk light hk condition, to determine whether the lethargy and de spair which impel him to suicide are not of hk own making, and whether the natural gifts of hope and health are not still within recovery. Boston Tran script. TalBakte MSB. at tft Ti There are said to be in the library of the Vatican 23,580 MSB., a large portion of which are Greek and Oriental. The famous MS. of the Greek Bible, the "Cordex Vaticanus," has hitherto been so jealously guarded that even professed scholars have not been allowed really to examine it. It k now, however, more accessible. Looked at merely as a piece of writing, the MS. k singularly finer the letters are clear, distinct and well formed, and there ia plenty of space be tween the lines, so that the reading of it becomes, with a little practice, by no means difficult. Another treasure, also to be found In the same cube, is the palimpsest copy, discovered by Cardinal Mai, of Cicero's "De Bepublica.' The most interesting fragment k the complete snccem with which the ancient underiyingwriting has been recovered. Itk hardly possible to beheve that the clear, well defined letters before you have been covered up by other writing for perhaps a thousand years. Another treasury of valuable M3S.k that on Mount Athoa. The total number of MSS. in the twenty libraries on thk nvwintn'" k 5,579. Professor Lambros k cataloguing them, and expects to find amnng them many thing of unique in terest to the biblical student. New York Telegram. It k supposed to be unlucky to put either shoe on the wrong foot, nor mast one pat the left shoe on before the right, unless one wished to bring about some direful calamity. Augustas Cmmr, it k said, put on hk left shoe first, and before nightfall he narrowly escaped assassina tion. Dr. Brewer says that plucking off the shoe among the Jews, smoking the pipe among the Indiana, thumb licking among Scotch, breaking the straw to gether among the Teutona aad shaking hands among the Raglkh are all cere monies to confirm a bargain. T4 e Jew ish custom of plucking off the Sioe or sandal k frequently referred to in the Scriptures. In the story of Ruth it k re corded that a compact which Boas made was sealed by a shoe being drawn off. One of the verses reads: "Now, thk was the manner in former time in Israel con cerning redeeming and concerning changing, for to confirm all things a man plucked off hk shoe and gave it to his neighbor; and thk was a testimony in Israel." Providence Telegram. A to George Bancroft k said to be particu lar to remove hk gloves before sun king hands. The point Is a good ooe. Jut introduce the fashion of ungioving be fore shaking, and shaking wUl soon sub side. If there be one pre-emiamtlj dk agreeabk and lisHissJug, fashion la Anwwica. it k our aai versal aad eternal head sharing, ba origin, we believsu rune back to oar savage sarsatori. who clasped hands ia sign of peace mstead of war. Is there any reasoa for swearinga treaty of peace with every Tom. Dick and Harry of your anraakirsare whom yoa chance to meat ia the street? The custom k a terrible fagoa Louis Globu-tAJBoerat. It appears from aconunuaicarioa to the Regii Lincei at Borne that poiaoa smularto that of vipers- la them it k aot found they have no organ for k. So it k nasally wishuut aay effect upon maa, bacaaaem theeel eaten by him aa food the poison k destroyed by the heat of rooking, and also because, as k the case with the venom of the viper, k has no ef fect upon the digestive .ways. New Or leans Picayune. xo seep eggs for dip them ivlien perfectly water for n second. bake(. ami mA m asset the wnler k liifiagr hat are dippttL A of tlie s!teii. tight. They will of tuna. BBWBBBBV place m a box, er f Maayleatfh ABODT PROVERBS, obscure of origin, but accept ed FROM INTRINSIC MERIT. To begin at the beginning, what k a proverb? Lord John SmssITs definition was: "The wit of one, the wisdom of many." In a quaint old book, "The Worthies of EngkadVritten by Thosaae Fuller, an Tgjiah divine and author, published ia 1650, a proverb k denned to be "Much matter decocted into few words." Franck Bacon, the well philosophic author and lawyer, lord chancellor of England by James I, aad dismissed, disgraced and fined for ncsaviag bribes from suitors, was char acterised m Pope's sstire m this couplet: If parts aBara thee, think bow Bacon sUaed, The aavif. brightaat. nunutaT oCwiasMarl VARIOUS DEFINITIONS. Bacon, however, went very near the truth when he wrote: "The genius, wit and spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.' Fleming says: "Proverbs embody the current and practical philosophy of an age or a nation." Brando tells us that "Proverbs are, for the most part, rules of moral or still more properly of prudial conduct." Dr. Johnson said that they were "short sentences, frequently re peated by the people." Cervantes, au thor of "Don Quixote," who may be said to have peppered the conversation of Sancho Panza with proverbs, declares them to be "short sentences drawn from long experiences." In thk the immortal peasant squire resembled Hudibras, of whom Butler wrote: For rhetoric, he could sot ope Hk mouth but out there flew a trope. It k calculated that there are now in use, among European nations and the English speaking people of the United States, not fewer than 20,000 proverbs, by far the largest proportion of which are Spanish. They enter very exten sively into the ordinary conversation of Spaniards. Hence the propriety on Cer vantes' part of making Sancho Panza (ignorant and vulgar, as a peasant of the time and place would have been, but also shrewd and practical) speak very much in pso verbs, the language of hk practical good sense. For the most part, though proverbs are to be found in all languages and- in the history of all nations, generally in their early stages, there ia no record of their birth nor of their paternity. They have been accepted, not as resting on the au thority of a revered name, but from their inherent truth or semblance of truth. In fullness of time, which means in or near the last three or four centuries, men made collections of them. The publica tion in the year 1500 of a volume by Erasmus, which he called "Adagia," first set the learned men of Europe on the track of proverb collecting. He was the first in that line, at least the first who had traveled far upon it. Since then the publication of proverbs has been very general, and a heavy harvest of thk sort has been gathered in from the ordinary speech as well as the written works of Spain, Italy, France, Germany and Eng land. There are now at least from thirty to forty different collections of English proverbs. It was in Asia, said to have been the birthplace and cradle of the human race, that proverbs found their way into the popular speech of Pal estine and Babylonia. SOLOMON'S WISDOM. In the book of Proverbs in the Bible, there k wisdom in them, but not a parti cle of wit. Its opening words, "The prov erbs of Solomon, the son of David, the king of Israel," give us its current He brew title. It has also been called in the Talmud, and by more than one very early Christian writer, The Book of Wisdom." Generally, by Jews and Christians, it k designated "The Proverbs of Solomon," and, representing the wisdom of which the Hebrews thought so much, stands at the head of the whole class of books known as the SapientaL The Bible cred its Solomon with the authorship of 3,000 proverbs and 1,005 songs. Much of the former remain; few of the latter. Most probably Solomon collected short and telling phrases then used in conversation, adding many thoughts of his own. The oldest proverb on record k, "Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked," which (in I Samnel xxiv, 12) David declared to be "the proverb of the ancients" conse quently much older than any composed byhkson Solomon. Those of the east aregraveand simple; of Greece, intellectual; of Borne, more worldly; of Spain, stately and thought ful; of Italy, poetic yet gross; of Ger many, subtle and shrewd; of Fngian very practical. Many of these last, which are our own, indeed, are taken from the poets. Chaucer, the father of English poetry, who k supposed to have been born early in the reiga of Edward m the date on hk tombstone is 1328 and who died about the year 1400, wrote much of thk proverbial philosophy. In the prologue to the "Testament of Love" he has, "Habit maketh no monk, nor wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight." Henry Scogan, a contemporary of Chau cer, thought so well of thk idea that he pat into hk own poem, "A Moral Balade," words: EaBgeade; though as rtah aeon, Elyot put the same idea in "TheGovemor," prthlkhml inl53L "We have ia thk realm coins which he called nobles. As long as they seem to be gold, they be so called; butif they be counter feited, and toadein brass, copper or oder vile metaL who, for the print only, call eth them nobles? Whereby it appeareth that theeatimsfinnk the metal and not m the print or figure." Itk most prob able that Robert Bums never read Chau cer, aever heard of Scogaa or Eryot; yet the intuition of hk geaiua seized their thought and so condensed it that we saw have: Xaa rank is hat the swBMMVa ataaa. ThMMaaatha (aid tor' that Thomas J. Bowditch ia Troy Times. Every Moslem Wlieres devoutly hi a aa overruling Provi- and BurackaoC akh,mthe duty of prayer, and of the soul, m a future state of BBMBts, and ia the ia- of the Bible. Aa educated if asked why he does aot be- mav aot imnrobahrr wary taasv accordmg to eft New T BsCBBttaaaGivHi mt Ta ay Tli . oaaaireaay. imvat reserved from oae of my stjks himself "a Miriam aada Chrk- Thougha most pious aad sincere Mo hammedan, he chums to be one of those "who profess and call themselves Chrk tkas," for whom we pray every Sunday that they may be led into the way of truth. They hold that Islam was the lat est revelation, perfectiag the Chrktiaa revelation, just aa Chrktiaaity supple aaaated the revelation given to the Jews. Mwhammed maybe considered as a re former of Chrktiaai--; like Luther he denounced certain sMaaajtitions that had grownup. The Koran says that God gave the Gospel to Jesus to proclaim, and that He v put kindness and compassion into the beans of those that rouoweu Him; oat aa for the monastif life, they invented It themselves." "In the time of Mo hammed,'' says one of my friends, "Christianity had become corrupt, aa many of your own writers admit, aad k was .these uaiaptfcae thatk was Mb haauned's aikninn to reform. We reject the corruptions of Christianity. But we claim to have a final re velar ion, predicted by your own prophets, just aa the com ing of the Messiah was foretold to the Jews, who nevertlielem blindly rejected him as you reject Mohammed." Leaves from an Egyptian Note Book. TeaUasj Was In attendance at one of the Indianapo lis ward schools k a little colored girl t years old. She k miserable, indeed, for at home she k ill treated and the shoes she wears, and often the clothes, are sup plied by the teachers or some of her classmates. There k a tender poetic vein in her make up and it found vent in a composition. The teacher took a little pansy plant to school one day and told the pupils of the flower. Two days after she asked them to write a poem of it and gave them the privilege of having the pansy talk and tell the story, and thk k what the little colored girl wrote, the word pansy in the copy being the only one dignified with a capital: "I am only a Pansy. My home kin a little brown bouse. I sleep in my little brown house all winter, and I am now going to open my eyes and look about. 'Give me some rain, sky, I want to look out of my window and see what k going on,' I asked, so the sky gave me some water and I began to climb" to the win dow, at last I got up there and open my eyes, oh what a wonderful world I seen when birds sang songs to me, and grass hoppers kissed me, and dance with me, and creakets smiled at me. and I had a pretty green dress, there was trees that grow over me and the wind faned me. the sun smiled at me, and little children smelled me one bright morning me and the grasshoppers had a party he wood play with me and a naughty boy pick me up and tore me up and I died and that was the last of Pansy." Indianapolk Journal. We are in danger of something worse thaatheLibby prison speculation. Itk .now proposed by aspeculative northerner to purchase all the battlefields of the late war, fence them in, turn them into parks, and show them to visitors at twenty-five cents a head. It will strike those who are acquainted with the situation that the great Ameri can showman will have a big job on hand when he comes to the cluster or bouquet of battlefields around Atlanta. Our old red hills have good cause to be redder than any other hilk that ever trembled through the thunder storm of war. Nowhere on American soil can there be found a spot that was ever so pounded and mangled and harried and scorched as thk same Gate City of ours. 'All over the world there are men now living whose proudest boast k to my that they went through our forty days' baptism of fire or were in one of the many battles fought under our city's walls. We are not yet ready to sell 02? blood stained fields of glory to the gun strangers whose only interest in them k to coin money out of them. If we can do nothing better, let us level the grim for tresses and the frowning ramparts, and fill up the silent trenches once so full of heroic life. Let us cover these scan of war with the blooming industries of peace! Atlanta Constitution. A XwUI Dag Story. A remarkable case of animal intelli gence and fidelity has developed in thk city. Every one knows the late D. Watson's little dog Zolla, that used to follow him everywhere and often ride beside him in hk buggy seat. He would come every morning to hk master's office, and if he did not find him there would run over to the livery stable to see if the doctor's buggy was gone, and if it was he would follow the track until he had found him. When hk master was in the coffin little Bolla was held up so he could see hk face, and showed signs of intense grief. He was at the funeral at Woodbine cemetery and was the last one to linger at the new made grave. Since that time he has visited the grave night and morn ing and k seen sitting upon it keeping watch, as though he expected hk kind friend and master. He often wandered alone on the streets at night, and a gen tleman whose profile and beard some what resemble Dr. Watson's has told us that little Zolla has often walked in front of him and gazed into hk face and even followed him home and sat for hours in front of hk door waiting for him to come out that he might get one more look at thk face ao much like the one treasured in hk memory.-Jefferjon (Ga.) Herald. In Philadelphia, if a fashionable tea or dancing party k to be given, paintings or other works of art may be leased for the occasion from several firms. They will pat the pictures up in the evening before the entertainment and take them away the next morning. In exchange their charges are quite moderate. Any dam age to the paintMga must be of course paid for, and as much rental m to bring the importeragood percentage on the capital mvested. In the cam of the wmmcr hotels, the best castomcra of the picture dealers, the hotel keepers insure the picture and pay for its use during the season about 8 per cent, of its cost price New York Telegram. The British naval programme for the fatnre k colossal In addition- to the thirty-eight war ships of one land or an other bow ia construction, seventy more are to be laid down at a cost of twenty two miflkm pounds sterling, making five haadred aad oaa war ships by ISM. TENDING THE BABY. HOW THE ROSES PALE AND DIE UPON THE MOTHER'S CHEEK. after eariag for thk pink aad white tyr- aaay, so helpless aad yet I Our homea are aot aQ cook, nursemaid aad hniawmsiit Not I to ilkmks the fact, a majority of the littkoneaareBurtared by the i who combines all thms nalrm in If the because the hoasa awther k the pivot upoa which swiag ao maay acttritka. Itk of these hnmsa without wealth, yet mi fa additrrtaaiidaaUiailiisi. awiailj subtractioa. maat be dona every week. It k here the babies gather. The storks seem to be fond of them humble homea for they sever forget them. The hero isms of life are largely by the firesides. Theaagekof the children see aad tell the Father oa high. These mothers who have ao much to do and bear, with a at their disposal, need our sympathy. joss's dat or soud res. I belkve the majority of men think the care of a baby k child's play. They coma home from shop and office and see the rosebud fresh, in its damty white, and think what aa easy time Kate has, with such a cherub to play with. It surely cannot be work to torn and rock and sing to thk little man, with shining eyes. And yet the house mother looks tired. The tears are almost at the eyes, the mouth trembles, and John, stupidly kind, wonders what it k all about. But hk eyes are opened at last. He baa the influenza and must stay at home from the office What jolly fun it will be to play with that son and ueuv Kate shall go to her cousin's for the day. Leo can see to the kitchen, And ao the good wife departs, with many cautions and warnings to John, aa to colic, food and naps, the baby meanwhile crowing lus tily as the mother gives it a good-by : caress. John wonders why Kate grows ; old so fast, she k really fading. Poor woman, she has not been out on a jaunt like thk for months. The baby for the first half hour k an angel What fun it k to dandle him about Now he drops off in a nap and John will read the paper. But juntas he is deep in the leading article, oblivi ous to babies, there k a moan, then a cry and John comes to hk senses. How he cries, how red in the face he gets! What does possess the child? He takes him on hk knee, he rocks him, be tum bles him, and now at last he walks with him, but still he cries, hk little lips look ing so grieved. Leo comes in and in quires about dinner. Mistress always sees to that. By thk time John k in a profuse perspiration. The "sweat" the doctor ordered k hk, in the order of na ture. He k finally summoned to a "picked up" dinner. What a contrast it k to the inviting board of Kate. How does she get time to attend to it? be asks himself. But how that baby cries! In fact he yelk lustily at last. Leo puts her head into the door to inquire if he baa hadhk milk. Zounds! John had for gotten it entirely. Kate had charged him to warm it at 1L The baby was hungry; the poor little fellow was suffer ing from any empty stomach. He got hk milk and now k asleep, with a little shadow on hk bright face. "KATK MAS THIS EVERY OAT." John's conscience troubles him. lie k always cress when he k hungry. No wonder the little colt cried, Now be takes up that article again, feeling a lit tle tnkused with hk dinner of "scraps." He has forgotten all about the blessed heir when he hears a little moan. The dinner came too late, and a forenoon of crying, with no nourishment, will have its effect. And now the cherub criea. Mercy, what a voice! He has the colic. He twists aad wriggles and roUe John gives htm catnip tea, and lie k easy for a minute, then be begins again, and finally betakes him up and marches up and down the bouse, singing at the top of bk voice, "My heavenly borne k bright and fatr." Hk back aches, man as he k; hk arms are tired and hk bead buzzes like a machine. What does possess the child! He certainly will cry hiraarlf to death. After an hour and a half of thk ptoy the baby drops into an exhausted sleep, and John lays him down, He does not read the paper aa be sits down. He has it wjong side up. but be says to himself. "Kate baa thk every day," and then be doea a good deal of thinking He k a sensible man. He has found out how much pky there k in minding a baby When Kate comes home rested and looking younger than she baa for years, with news and chat of her visit, a very humble man receives her. There k pity and admiration mingled in hk gw The baby receives bk attention every day after thk; at odd momenta, when at home, he takes hka and becomes quite expert in tending hk son and lieir Such k the mother's experience with her baby. Let us not allow, because of her great love to her child, the roses to pale aad dk upon her cheek. "A Coun try Pareoa" in Good Housekeeping The subject of poisonous paper haag mgs has lately been discussed, in the light of some new facts, by the Boston Society for Medical Improvement Some of the Imported papers stQlcoa tain arsenic in quite dangerous amounts, and even American manufacturers, though they use km arsenic than for merly, are aot yet wholly wkhm the Mas ks of safety. It k found that one-third of agraiato a square yard k decidedly deleterious; bat papers are ia aae that analysis shows to contaia tea, ifteea, and evea twenty grains! The following are important facts ia the ease: 1. The harm varies, aa would natur ally be supposed, taversery with the m dividuaTa power of rlhninirion Thk power may ha fuDy adequate ia some persons, and ote inadequate mothers. 2. Thesymptomaof two persona in ju rioaary affected by the same exposure aad the results may be quite different. Inffammatioa of the kidneys, for in stance, may be induced ia the one, aad not at aD ia the other. t Arseaie amy aot give rise to the of y attr uj How the asothera arms aad back ache from tae true 4. While oae third of square yard k Massy to a young child amy be m jured by a trace, aad the caaae of the trouble be wholly unsuspected. 5. While arseaie k aotacaamlative pokoa, like lead, yet it k very slowly elksmatedfrom the body. It requires weeks, aad sometimes evea aaoathStto effect its complete moval from aa it day aad aigat, amy cause a of the pokoa in the Thk accumulation will be very rapid if the organs of elimination, one or more of them, are feeble. f. A aw and coaciueive method of de tectrng the presence of arseaie ia the system has been discovered, which leaves ao room for doubt Thk test has besa applied m many esses, aad has led to the removal of the paper from the wall, or of the patient from the room, followed 7. The covering of arsenicat'paperlry non-arsenical k not sufficient io remove danger, for though thk expedient may prevent the arsenical dust from impreg nating the air, yet it k surmised that moktnre develops a volatile araenious compound, which readily finds its way into the air of the room. Youth's Com panion. When Professor Morse was in Wash ington, preparing to test the telegraph line which had been erected at govern ment expense between Washington and Baltimore, he was attended by several gentlemen friends, among whom was Congressman John P. Wetherill, of Maryland. Professor Morse rang up the Baltimore office, then located in a room over the postomce at Fayette and North streets, and having received an answer ing signal he announced that he was ready to transmit a message to Balti more. At thk juncture Congressman Wetherill suggested that a3 communica tion by electricity was a great event in the world's history, the honor of sending the first message should bo bestowed upon some one identified with the nation's progress. Thk suggestion met with ap proval, but none could think of a person whom thk honor would conspicuously befit Suddenly Wetherill cried out: "I have it! Mrs. Madison k in Washing ton, and she k just the person." That distinguished lady was sent for, and in half an hour she arrived, duly excited, but with the heavenly, obliging smile she always wore. Professor Morse asked her to write out a brief message to some friend in Baltimore, and Mrs. Mad ison accordingly wrote a line to the wife of the congressman, simply the words: "Mrs. James Madison's compliments to Mrs. Wetherill. " This first message was ticked off and shortly thereafter reached Mrs. Wetherill at her country home in the suburbs of Baltimore, liaving been dispatched from the Baltimore office by a courier on horseback. Several other preliminary messages, such aa "How are you?" etc., were sent, and then came the formal communica tion: "What hath God wrought." These facts were narrated to me by Congress man Wetherill in 1S47. Cliicago News. A Sea of Fire. A sea of phosphorescent fire, extend ing as far as the eye could reach, was passed 185 miles cast by north of Cape Eenlopen by the Allan line steamer 3Ian itoban from Glasgow. Capt Dunlop, master of the Manitoban, said: "Early on Tuesday night tho heavens suddenly became overcast and intensely .dark, and I left the bridge temporarily. leaving second Officer Johnson in charge. I had hardly reached the cliart room when the cry of fire was announced on the starboard bow, and I rubhed on the bridge and found the sea to be like a mass of flame, presenting a scene of sub lime grandeur. "Whenever a sea broke over the bow of the vessel the drops of fire spread over the rigging and decks like the fly ing embers of a genuine conflagration, where sparks were driven by a strong wind. Everywhere on the decks were found tiny sparkling phosphorescent beads, which did not disappear until the next morning. For two hours the ship was steaming through thk sea of fire, causing considerable alarm to many of the superstitious sailors and passengers. In the distance the sea appeared to be breaking on a strand, but a dip of the log without finding bottom indicated that shoal water was not near .at hand." Philadelphia Record. ou The olive k one of the oldest trees men tioned in history. The ancients bad al most a religious regard rorit, and its branches early became the emblems of peace and good wilL In thk age it u valued chiefly for its oiL In Southern Europe, where it k extensively grown, the fruit, which k a small green oval, is gathered when rare ripe and spread for several days to dry and ferment It k then crushed in a mill, the stones being so adjusted as to avoid breaking the stone of the fruit Itk then put into coarse bags and the oil Lj expressed by a screw press. The crashed nuisa in ground a second and sometimes a third time, to obtain lower grades of oiL Besides its very extensive use as food, the oil k val uable for its medicinal qualities and for cutaneous application. The refuse, after the oil k extracted, is used to fatten hogs, and as a fertilizer. The green fruit pickled in salt water and spiced, k esteemed by many as a relish. Good Housekeeping. Caaae to Sit Oowa at He had bought an admission ticket, and with true rural independence, swooped down on the best empty seat in the theatre. He sat placidly there for a few minutes, and then the usher came aad told him he'd have to get out He moved into another seat and presently the usher came and fired him out of that. He took another vacant seat and presently the gentlemanly usher came along and bounced him out of that Thea he got mad. He stuck hk hat on the hack of hk head and marched out As ha passed the doorkeeper he stepped up ami shook hk finger in bk face. "Sea here, my man, I'm going back to Sew Hampshire. I own 'ground there and I can sit down." San Francisco Chroaicle. "Pa aint turninar out the sort of I expected," said a little 8-vear-old W Eader as he returned, rubbing hk legs, from a woodshed seance wkh hk father, "aad. ma, the next time he whips aa kfs get a divorce." Washington Post. divert ia to a National Bank! -SUAK AMWkam CttttaJarf $25f,0tO, A-ASDEKaOJf. PWr. J. H.GALLKY. Vic Pleat XT.BOXH.CaaUr n.ANDEBSON, P. AlfDUNOK. JArOBGREIsiX. HraRYKAGAtZ. JOIUtJ.HULLlVAN. J. G. attDBaV AatS-'aBC DEUTCHER ADVOKAT, Oow Columbaa Slat Raak. Culaaiba, g ULaMTAa A atKKaaKm. ATTORNEYS AT LA Ofic over First Xafioaal Bask. Cohusaaa. 3(ebraka. ULU X EUMbbE, COUSTT SCBrRYOR. Wrutim tieairinx aurrejiair tluaa eaa Omia m at tWuu.Ui, JMk. or call at -rll ib iourt uxue. Saau8ay T - C'atAJiKaa, CO. SUP-T PUBLIC SCHOOLS, m$J&LS! ta -.- , . no, uMJBia lor iiurvxaauaa Uoa f applicant- rr trttcbn.' crrtiSratM. aai for the traaaactioa f .k -ThrmL J.CKVN. DRAY and EXPRESSJiAX, JHt,.L7J,,.D'f; ""t-iwith T.l,phoaSU ? 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