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VOLUME XXVII.-NUMBER 46.
COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA
NESDAY. FEBRUARY 24, 18&7.
WHOLE NUMBER 1,396.
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DECEIVERS EVER.
AltEY, CHURCH
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CHANNING, fi rst
lieu tenant. Nth
cavalry, died so
long ago that most
of his story is for
gotten, although it
was a very great
iW ' -wonder at the time.
I - Everybody con
nected with it is
. dead also his mother and the other
two women and so many first lieu
tenants have filled his place since then
that no. one's heart is likely to be
wounded by repeating it
He was a superb;great fellow as all
the ,men in hi3 regiment were said to
be in those days of the big. blonde,
and brave type, knowing neither fear
. nor failure, and his fascination was
scmethinr that hag, hecosae a traai
ticn in the service. So many girls
aye, and married women, too had
loved him- that the shores upon which
he had touched were strewn with
wrecks. ,
The hearts of all those women bad
been broken, actually broken, not just
dented a little, as is usually the case
In such affairs; their lives were open-
ly ruined, yet Channing kept himself
free of blame. No one could say "he
should not have done thus or so," he
never committed himself, he never act
ed in a compromising fashion in the
presence of a third person. But the
women who ran insanely on into the
desert of disillusion, following the
elusive pillar3 of the smoke of his
words and the fire of his looks, never
again passed beyond into the land of
content across the wilderness. They
despised themselves in that pitiful
tasHon that women have, but they
loved him always for such is the way
' of their kind.
It had been his good fortune to have
dealings only with women who either
thought of him alone, forgetting them
selves, or' with those too gentle to de-
..nounce him. Then, too, he had man-
aged well; there was never any definite
.proof. But in the early summer of 'S3,
the pitcher that had been carried nine-.-ty-nine
times to the well narrowly es
caped being broken.
The bride of Capt. Morton, having
seen fit. with due encouragement, to
fall In love with him, threatened to
" become unmanageable. She was a most
wonderfully attractive feminine little
thing, but s!s was neither of the self
?nimoIating nor of the concealing sort.
Having lost her heart, she lost her
head, and Channing was in much dan
ger of having his methods exposed.
His captain advised him. "Chan
ning, you u tetter taKc a leave anu
get out for a bit"
"Why?"
- "Well, it's a delicate subject, but
Morton's an old friend of mine, and I
don't want to see his wife disgrace
ftim."
"But what have I done? I cm as
innocent as a baby; and besides, I
think ycu are mistaken."
"We all exonerate you. It's not
your fault; but I'm not mistaken. It's
evident to the whole post Take my
advice and go see your mother, like a
dutiful son."
Channing was flattered, but he was
also frightened; nevertheless, he was
undecided.
There was a hop the same night
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SCREAM2D FOR HER HUSBAXD.
Mrs. Morton was there, and it was her
actions that determined Channing to
take Capt Lytton's counsel. She was
already in the hop-room talking to the
latter when Channing appeared, and
the moment she saw him. standing tall
and graceful and indifferent in the
doorway, she grew so white that the
whole room noticed it, and she
trembled visibly. She realized her
paleness and knew that Capt Lytton's
quick movement to put himself be
tween her and the watching eyes had
been unavailing.
Her own soft eyes filled as she raised
them piteously. "You see what a spec
tacle I am making of myself. I can't
help it I've tried hard. There's
nothing for it but to go away or break
down.,'
"Poor little girl! Come away, then."
"If you will just take me home, and
tell Dan I " she stopped, losing the
thread of her words, for Channing was
approaching.
Capt Lytton offered her his arm.
"Come quickly," he said.
VJust wait a minute, please just
till I tell Mr. Channing I can't stay
for oar dance."
She had flushed up and her eyes
were brilliant She put out her hand
.to Channing, drew it back, and again
stretched it forth, confusedly.
He took it and pressed it yes, she
was sure he pressed it almost "The
third you promised me, wasn't it?"
"Yes, I think so," she answered.
Capt Lytton turned on his heel
and walked away.
At the end of the third dance, while
they strolled together up and down
the line, Channing experimented to
see how far she would go. To his con
sternation he found that she would
slop at nothing short of blazoning -her
infatuation from the house tops. A
scandal was not what Channing want
ed. He was very gentle with her, but
she wept and said all manner of fool
ish things, until Capt Lytton came
upon them and took her home.
Very soon after this the lieutenant
went on to visit his mother. She was
a Virginian, of the conventional poor
but proud order; and she lived on
what had. once been the kitchen gar
den of the family estate. Quite as
often as not she was on the point of
hanger, when there was no demand for
the needlework of her quivering old
fingers. Her son did not contribute to
her rapport "All f my fcecgarl pay,
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de corps. I'd like awfully well to help
yon, mother, but I must hold up my
end of the row. I am a Channisg."
And she loved him all the better.
While he. was with her in the sum
mer of 'So, through sheer lack of ex
citement he became enamored of a
h certain Anna Trafford. He asked her
to marry him quite the last thing he
would have expected himself to do
and she,, being completely fascinated,
consented without even a decent
amount of hesitation. It was arranged
that in the late fall she should join
Channing at the town nearest his post,
and there be married.
In September the unhappy Mrs. Mor
ton, having gone hopelessly away to
another garrison, the lieutenant re
joined his regiment
In November, giving way ungracious
ly enough to Anna Trafford's plead
ings, Channing granted her permission
to join him at th railroad town. She
was very poor. Generally she was cpn
slderateand. elf -sacrificing. Now.sha
clamored, and would not be quieted
until a mortgage was raised on the
wretched little house that was all in
the world her mother and crippled sis
ter owned. She bought her ticket with
the money, and ten days after the re
ceipt of Channing's letter she was at
the meeting place alone.
She spent a day and two nights in
the mean little depot hotel, very near
ly out of her mind with loneliness,
fright, and at last an acknowledged
distrust Then Channing's mother ar
rived, and an officer met them with
an ambulance.
a fever, the mother told her. The doc
tor had telegraphed for her, without
her son's knowledge, the day after the
girl had left the village. Then Anna
reproached herself for her suspicions
with unreasoning bitterness.
The drive to the post took two days.
It was a horrible experience for the
officer. The road stretched on, on and
on, across desert and bad lands, where
even the greasewood and mesquite
were burned by the terrible sun. The
The beautiful daughter of Col. Ross
was standing by Channing's bed, alone,
when the doctor led the mother and
her young companion in. The lieuten
ant had been dead twenty minutes.
The dark-eyed woman did not turn;
she had forgotten everything in all
the world save only Channing's face.
When the southern girl dropped down
at the bedside and screamed for her
husband, she started.
"Is the poor thing crazy?" she asked
dully of Mrs. Channing.
"Xo. But she was not married to
him. Only she was to have been mar
ried at Santa Maria two or three days
ago; I forget when. He sent for her."
"That can't be true, because I am
his wife."
Mrs. Channing caught at the bedpost
with her shriveled old hand. "Xon
seuse!" she said.
"Indeed, it is true. Aren't you his
mother?" She put her arm tenderly
about the bent shoulders. "I thought
you wera. You look like him. He and
I were married last night at midnight,
when they told us he was going to die."
"Anna! Come away, Anna! You've
no right there. Get up. This girl's his
wife. He didn't love ycu. He married
her. He married her last night"
It was cruel, but Mrs. Channing had
gone mad.
For five years afterward Col.. Ross
cared for the insane mother of his
daughter's husband even when his
daughter was dead.
But until Channing was buried in
the graveyard on the hill, where the
coyotes dug up the mounds at night,
and the prairie-dogs barked shrilly,
and the snakes glided along the dry,
baked earth into their holes until ha
was buried there, the two women staid
by her. Their trust in the dead man
never faltered. The girl believed he
had been ensnared on his death-bed;
the wife that he had ne.ver loved the
childish, pretty Virginian. Yet neither
out of pity spoke her convictions.
Watching over his mother, they sat
in the room where he had died, and
listened to the thud of the soldiers
feet as they marched by outside, fol
lowing the young officer's flag-covered
coffin. . Then there was a long, long
silence. They- were wide apart the
wife, with her beautiful head in her
hands; the girl, looking straight at
the wall; the old woman, muttering
and scratching at her gown with her
crooked fingers.
At last came the sound of a far-off
volley of musketry. The girl jumped
up. "What's that?"
"The firing over his grave."
In a moment it came again. The
girl stood swaying, the wife sat with
her head still bowed. It was no new
sound to her.
A pause then the last volley. The
girl fell, and the woman, lifting her
head, stared stupidly at the pretty,
dead face, at the fixed, childish eyes,
that still looked hurt; while 'the moth
er muttered in the corner and taps
shrilled from the bugle over the grave
of the man they had loved. San Fran
cisco Argonaut
DID THE CHINESE DO IT?
Freuch Try to Prove That a
Olestlcal
Dlnoovereil America.
The French have always been jeal
ous of Spain because of the fact that
Columbus obtained royal aid and fitted
out and manned his vessel in that
country, says the St Louis Republic.
This being true, it is not at all strange
that we find French scholars at the
head of "nil schemes which disreputa
ble geographers have brought forward
in their attempts to disprove Spain's
claims to the honor of discovery, of
the .great western continent As early
as the first decade of the sixteenth cen
tury a Frenchman Raun attempted
to prove that the Welsh had visited the
coast of America several centuries be
fore Columbus was born. Again, in
1791, another Frenchman M. de Guig
nes translated what purported to be
an old Buddhistic manuscript -of the
fifth century. According to this manu
script, a Buddhist priest sailed east
ward from China 20,000 li and discov
ered a continent It is the general
opinion that the priest reached one of
the small islands in the Pacific.
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HE fame of
Washington is so
immense and the
popular concep
tion of his charac
ter so exalted.
that some skeptical anu
fault-finding critics are dis
posed to question the uni
versal estimate, and espe
cially In the matter of his
ability as a soldier and military
commander. However much we may
wish it otherwise, there is in human
nature a mean spirit of envy and de
traction which instinctively feels the
honors bestowed upon a great man to
be an indirect reflection and rebuke to
its own littleness and baseness. This
spirit cropped cut conspicuously in the
case of'CoIumbus, in the efforts to be
little his great exploit and to blacken
his character. I do not say that cri
cisms upon Washington's generalship
all proceed from base motives, but they
doubtless do mostly come from the
spirit and innate tendency which I have
indicated. This unworthy spirit is as
old as history, as old as humanity. It
showed itself in a memorable fashion
when the old Athenians wrote their
sentence of banishment against Aris
tides because they were tired of hearing
him called "the Just"
Wns'iinstou and Napoleon.
Great soldiers are to be judged not
alone by success, by battles fought and
victories won though this, of course,
is the great popular test but by all the
circumstances and difficulties in which
they are placed. There are great com
manders in history who i?ave won fame
by avoiding battles, like the Roman
Fabius, and even by great retreat like
Xenophon with his ten thousand
Greeks. If Washington is to be com
pared, to his disadvantage, with Xa
poleon, then the popular question is,
would Xapoleon, under the same cir
cumstances, have done any better? It
Is enough for any commander that he
fills the great measure of his require
ment This, of course, is not saying
that Washington would have filled the
place of Xapoleon in the vastly differ
ent field and circumstances in which
that great soldier won his fame. Nor
should it ba forgotten, all the while,
that ultimately Washington succeeded
and founded a nation, while Xapoleon
failed and lost an empire.
TVaslitagtou's IMmcuIt Task.
The difficulties which encountered
Washington when he took up his great
trust as coenmander-in-chief of the
continental, army wero most compli
cated and Immense. The theater of
the struggle was a vast one, geograph
ically, stretching along the Atlantic
coast from Massachusetts to South
Carolina, while the whole population
was only three millions not very
much greater than that of the state of
Michigan, and not so great into a mil
lion as that of Illinois. Out of this
small, scattering and peaceful popula
tion an army was to be raised, organ
ized and equipped capable of contend
ing with the chief military and mari
time power of the globe. And it was
cot to be a struggle between govern
ment and government, between one na
tion and another. It was a rebellion,
and there was really no centra! aulhorj
ity. no arms or warlike stores, no navy,
ao treasury or financial system or re
sponsibility. It was only a brave and
patriotic people, small in numbers,
vithout discipline cr military experi
ence, without arms and without money.
ushing thus bare-handed into a con
ict with the mother-country, their
wn government; a powerful nation,
vhich had recently been raised by the
;enius of the elder Pitt to the front
ank. among the great warlike nations
f the wcrld a nation whose military
osts and possessions already dotted
the globe, whose victorious navies cov
ered every ocean and sea. whose corn
:s drum beat as Webster said, was
'eard round the world. It was ag3inst
uch a power as this that this handful
f patriots had thrown Cown the gage
f rebellion and defiance.-
TVhca ilnj-Iand Closcrt In.
Wnen England saw that the contest
..as fairly opened her great navy closed
n upon our ports and landed upon our
horcs different armies of her veteran
oldiers, who had fought in the conti-
ental wars, and these were soon sup-
Icmented by trained Hessian soldiers,
ired and paid by her gold. These
rmies were greater in numbers than
jc colonies had to oppose to them.
And still, tt they had to he transported
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tattles of the revolution were never on
a great scale as to numbers. The
country was new, there was next to no
cavalry and not much artillery, and the
engagements were thus mainly with
infantry and at close range. There
was little chance for tactics or man
euvers. All depended upon pluck, hard
fighting and endurance.
A rrovidentUl Man.
Washington is known In history as
a providential man; that is, a man
raised up by Providence to fill a great
place and perform a great mission.
However this may be, he certainly had
great parts and great and peculiar fit
ness for the most difficult and trying
place which he filled in history. He
had had experience In the , previous
Indian and French wars, and had prov
en himself a wise, competent and hero
ic officer. He had great personal ad
vantages for command. He was of fine
physique and imposing presence, a
splendid horseman, carrying with him
ever the port and air of authority and
native majesty an ideal commander.
Knew It MeantFrccc!ona.
So when this noble Virginian appear
ed before that northern army and drew
hi3 swerd as their commander under
those Cambridge elms his fame had
preceded him and he was received with
shouts of welcome and of confidence.
Then all men knew it wjis to be a
struggle to the death. I have no room
here, of course, to recount the particu
lars of that seven years' conflict Pa
tiently and steadily organizing and dis
ciplining the raw patriot militia and
volunteers into an army, Washington
at the same time closely invested the
British in Boston and finally drove
them to their ships in the harbor, from
which they sailed away, while the pa
triot army marched into the Xew Eng
land capital, which was never again to
be trodden by the footsteps of ah
enemy. Thus was scored a great suc
cess at the opening. Then followed
the march to Xcw York to meet the
enemy, landing in great force on Long
Island; the brave but disastrous battle,
followed by that masterly retreat
which alone would stamp Washington
as a great general; the gallant stand
at White Plains; the reluctant but
stern and heroic winter retreat through
the Jerseys ended by the master coun
ter strokes of Trenton and Princeton,
by which the great leader saved the
cause of the revolution at its lowest
ebb. Then the next year the struggle
to save Philadelphia, the defeat at the
Brandywine, where Lafayette first shed
his blood in our cause; the loss of
the continental capital and the well
planned but accidentally lest battle of
Germantown. Then the gloomy winter
quarters at Valley Forge, which tried
the souls of patriot men and proved
the great soul of George Washington.
Who but he could have held that de
feated, freezing, starving army to
gether in that terrible winter? And
at the same time the country was filled
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WASHIXGTOX THE SOLDIER.
with the praise of Gates, who had con
quered Burgoyne at Saratoga.
Iu the Darkest Hoars.
In this dark hour. too. Washington
was bsset with cabals and conspiracies,
in congress and in the' army, to de
pose him from the command which was
to be given to the successful Gates.'
When in- the early "summer of 1778
the British commander evacuated
Philadelphia, and Washington follow
ed him with his little army to give
him battle, en the field of Monmouth
he met one of these detractors and
conspirators. Gee Lcc, his second In
command, disobeying b!is orders and
in shameful and unnecessary retreat
It was here that Washington is said
to have lost his temper. It is pretty
well demonstrated that he did, and if
Gen. Lee received upon his miserable
head that day an explosion of titanic
wrath it was surely no more than he
deserved. Despite this untoward disar
rangement of his plans Washington
here won a partial euccear. The bat
tle of Monmouth was his last e'sfaae
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Yorktown, three years later. In the
meantime the war was going on in
other parts of the great field of opera
tions, battles and skirmishes were be
ing fought and subordinate command
ers, Jike Greene and Wayile and Mor
gan, were winning some laurels. But
the central army was not immediately
engaged. It was holding the ground
and perfecting its alliance with the
French forces, on land and water,
which had now come to cur assistance.
When all was ready came that sudden
and rapid march from the Hudson 'to
Virginia and the great final victory at
Yofktowu.
Had o Personal Ambition.
Even from this briefest outline of
Washington's career in the revolution,
it will be seen that he had little op
portunity for personal distinction as
a commander. He was. an unlucky
general;, fortune did not seem to
smile upon him and he had more de
feats than victories. Long Island,
White Plains, Brandywine, German
town all these were defeats; some of
them disastrous. Monmouth was little
more than a drawn battle, while to
offset these, Trenton and Princeton,
while brilliant in conception and exe
cution and great in effect were so
small in the numbers engaged that they
amounted to little more than success
ful skirmishes. And besides they
were with Hessians and not with Brit
ish regulars. Yorktown was, indeed,
a great and crowning success, but it
was won with superior numbers and
the honors had to be divided with the
French.
Greatest Figure in IlUtorr.
Hardly a better instance does his
tory afford of patience under provoca
tion, of dogged determination under
difficulties, of unconquerable will and
courage, holding on so long and com
ing out triumphant at last over such
mighty opposition. These great quali
ties, as we have already seen, belonged
to the man more than to the soldier.
It was indeed the great man behind the
soldier, the man with the great pa
triotic heart, with the wise head, and
the lofty, unshaken soul, that brought
us through that long and tremendous
struggle and gave us our glorious place
and opportunity among the nations.
No other man on this continent but
he could have done it. Greene,
among the generals of the revolution,
would have come nearest to it, but he
would have failed.
But in looking over the whole field
and record, in the light of all the facts
and history, it will be seen that Wash
ington made no military mistakes, that
he improved all his opportunities, that
his generalship will stand the test of
criticism. He struck whenever he had
the chance, his plans were good, and
when compelled, his retreats were
masterly.
Washington's Best Portrait.
The famous Boston Atheneum por
trait of Gen. Washington was painted
in the humble studio of Gilbert Stuart
in an old farm house at Germantown,
Pa. This house had long been tenant
less and Just previous to its purchase
by the artist it had been used as a
barn. During Washington's first sit
ting (in Philadelphia), Stuart failed to
find a subject that could elicit the ex
pression he knew must accord with
such features and such a man. In the
Atheneum portrait he was more suc
cessful. By this time he had become
better acquainted with the great man,
and, feeling at case in his presence,
was enabled to turn the conversation
into such channels as interested and
roused the General, giving Stuart the
advantage of the expression which he
desired. Stuart retained this portrait
and that of Mrs. Washington in his
own possession during-his lifetime, not
being able to dispose of them at the!
price at which he valued them. After
his death his widow, in an emergency,
accepted an offer of $1,500 from the
Washington association, which, in Oc
tober, 1831, presented them to the
Boston Atheneum. Jane Stuart
writes: "About the time General and
Mrs. Washington were sitting for their
portraits, my father's painting room
was the resort of many of the most dis
tinguished and interesting persons ol
the day. Nellie Curtis,. Mrs. Law, Mis;
Harriet Shaw (afterwards Mrs. Carroll
generally accompanied Mrs. Washing
ton. General Knox, Gen. Henry Lee,
and others came with the president
The British minister and his wife, Mr
and Mrs. Liston, Louis Phillipc d'Or
ieans, Counselor Dunn (an Irish bar
rister), and' the Viscount de Noaillej
were particularly fond of Stuart's so
ciety, and were daily visitors."
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TLMETMLY GOSSIP.
WHAT THE sfXlW SW THE
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straetloaa for ArteoU to Go By.
F PEOPL& iVM-M
consult an exjitrt
astrologer befort
falling in love.
i atarriages would be
(mere kamoaious.
The astrologer. Is
often rc&Mrte to
compare the nero
scopes of man arid
wife to lad out the
cause of the exiat-
m
erenees. etc. He
that Safnrri n on la afflicting" the
Venus of the other, denotisg: that love
affairs do not invariably thrive well;
yet improvement can bd made from a
better understanding of eac!, which,
can only be determined by the cafefel
I comparison of both horoscopes, it
would be well to do this previous to
marriage. Those wishing free char
acter delineation from their zodiacal
sign and ruling planet published under
their initials, should send: Sex, date,
month, year and place of "birth, alstf
the time a. m. or p". Efc If you do not
know the time of birth send two two-;
?nt stamps for. further instruction?
if you prefer the delineation sent by
Mail send twelve two-cent stamps to
cover expenses. Address Prof. G. W.
Cunningham, Dept. 4, 194 S. Clinton
Sti Chicago.
I, S. Iroy; 111.
According to data furnished the zod
ical sign Virgo, which Mercury rnles
was rising at your birth, therefore
Mercury is your ruling planet or signl
Scator. You are medium height or
above; with slender figure: dark com
plexion, hair arid eves;the eyes have
a peculiar brightness afid q'uick rest!e33
movement. You arc endowed by na
ture with a kind and obliging disposi
tion; you are kind to animals and hu
mane in all things. Yon are very in
dustrious and energetic; you make up
your mind quick and every move you
make is quick. You are too impulsive
and if you will be a little mere conserv
ative you will find it to your advantage.
You are rather too modest and do not
push yourself forward as you should,
consequently you are not appreciated
to the extent yqur ability should com
mand. If you had been born twelve
minutes earlier it would have changed
these indications very materially, for
the sign Leo would hare been more ox
less considered.
Mfes Mae, Glentllle, few.
According to data furnished the
zodiacal sign Aquarius, which Uranus
rules, was rising at your birth; there-
fere Uranus is your ruling planet or
signiflcator. The sign Pisce3, which
Jupiter rules, was intercepted on the
ascendant; You are naturally the pos
sessor of two kinds of temperaments.
At times you are very cheerful, happy,
jolly and jovial; then again you will be
subject to spells of the blues and will
brood over an injury that is either real
or imaginary. You are kind to ani
mals, and especially fond of a fine
horse; you are quite a leader in any
thing you may become interested in,
yet it will be in a very modest way
and without boasting. You are fond
of water and enjoy a good glass of it
at any time in preference to almost any
other drink. Ycu are very fond of the
mystical and take delight in unraveling
a mystery. Marriage is only average
fortunate for yen, however you will
have more than average wealth and
will always be provided for.
Mrs. II. B.. Iloltou. Kan.
According to data furnished, the
zodiacal sign Gemini, which Mercury
rules, was rising at your birth, there
fore Mercury is your ruling planet or
signiflcator. You are medium height
or above; medium to dark complexion,
hair and eyes; the eyes have a peculiar
sparkle and sharp sight. You are quick
in all your-- actions and oftentimes
change your mind too quick for your
own best interests, and it would be bet
ter for you to deliberate more on im
portant business matters. You are very
fond of books and everything relating
to literary attainments, and will always
admire d person that has a fine mind.
You do not think that wealth is the
only thing to live for and will spend
a fair portion of your money for books
and papers. You will make more
money through salaried position than
in any other way. You arc somewhat
lacking in confidence in your ability
and should cultivate self-esteem.
Note. These who have sent in their
stamps (26 cents) for readings by raa'I,
will usually be promptly answered. In
cases where there is an apparent de
lay the astrologer should ba notified at
once and the mistake will be rectified
Commerce rrrrall'.
Schoolmaster Master Isaac, what
wrong did the brothers of Joseph com
mit when they sold their brother?
Isaac They sold him too cheap. New
York Tribune.
WORDS OF GREAT MEN.
To choose time is to save time; and
an unseasonable motion is but beating
the air. Bacon.
True delicacy, that mosr beautiful
heart-leaf of humanity, exhibits Itself
most significantly in little things.
Mary Howitt
Who can define the bounds of future
improvement? Who will venture to
allege thai men have not yet as much
to learn as they have already learned?
Noah Webster.
If we exclude sympathy and wrap
ourselves round in a cold chain armor
of selfishness, we exclude ourselves
from many if the greatest and purest
joys of life.-xair John Lubbock.
Patient hopeful waiting is hard work
when it is the only work possible to
us In an emergency. But patient wait
ing is in its time tne highest duty of
a faithful soul. H. C!ay TrambuIL
Read the bosk you do honeatly feel
a wish and a curiosity to read. The
very wish and curiosity indicates that
yy fet as4 Utsr Af th rsm 1!
ta ttei q JtfftrJ-!,
. i
m Sfew WoWteC
BUrk o? CWSamki ,
Interest in the? whereabout aa c
loss of Xcr. Canel $& bee manifest
ts late, nartlcmlarly isi the Brt32 I
klesv where he wae onctf httfiisa;
im& ccttSDfcaeaii figure in big ?i'
iffa? ahtf in dmrch affairs, says K-
respoii'nt of ti Cincinnati Costs? j
cia!.- He w the Cateubr or Disraeu
"LothaTr" aaoHe it m tria converted
the rich asarquik' of B-.o axil ether
atenbers of the English aristocracy
(9 4fe Catholic faith, d his nas
was JaariUar- oue throtifhout th
united k&Jfoa. He got uade? a cloud,
however, in .e way and w i
to the United Stafts ftf a sort oZ eKUc.
The clergy- iu this eotfffry Kd not take
to him much and he swtiflff a fectan.C
teftr circle, finally taking timnett tc
Calffftrnia-. where he has sinew re-
M cpmaiete iaolatioa. Xo
t.a.kra ranci went I;.
raising ine hotSfts and Wooded stock
generally. A young" jrjest who knows
him well and has kepf ap with him
Informs me that he has gxewn rich.
Foraserly the pink of perfection in
dress, he has grown indifferent to hb
garb and dresses and looks like a typ
ical ranchman: He is a man of rare
culture s4 most elegant accomplish
ments. He is cf the most imposing ap
pearance and imperial bearing. His
dark, deep-blue eye flashes from seem
ingly fathomless depths and indicate.
a masterful mind. His hand is aa per
fect as Trilbr's fcot and he has a way
of laying it affectionately across his
manly and magnificent chest that
fetches the admiration of the ladies
to an alarming degree. It was at a
brilliant and fashionable reception at
Louisville given by the late million
aire. Dr. Standiford, whose wife was a
Catholic, that the correspondent mzt
the captivating Capcl complacently sip
ping his champagne and fascinating all
abctt him with his wit and superb
physiqUff. He wore his smart-flttlng
robe trimmed with the purple denoting
ecclesiastical rank. Whenever he laid
that lovely hand across the purple
above bis heart the ladies sighed. He
singled out one very attractive young
lady and mads her three distinct and
pretty speeches in the course of the
evening, all of which apparently
touched a tender upot. I should like
to iee him now in his cowboy costume.
It was said that Capel is tutor to the
son of a wealthy Italian widow, who
owns an adjoining ranch. ,Hc and the
widow may swap horses and chickens.
PAPER IS KING.
Oa or the Tommaat of American la
dostries. Every yar Europe sends us tons and
tons Of her rags to be manufactured
into paper, says the San Francisco
ChroniciC. Tne obnoxious odor of
much of our writing paper attests this
original association wih the slums
and filth of the old world. Our higher
'grades of paper are, however, made
from carefully selected material con
sisting not only of untainted and clean
linen and pure vegetable matter, but
are scientifically made under the in
struction of men who have made a
careful study of the hygienic and ocu
listic effects of paper. Bank stock, of
which we have read and beard so
much of IsLtt, is the result of the in
vestigations of an Intelligent, deep
thinker. Herr Karl Heinrich Mausel.
He conducted his work in the inter
ests of Gerfiiiny'a youth. As the chil
dren are to be recruited from in the
future to fill the ranks Of the emperoT3
army their health and the condition of
their eyesight is of paramount im
portance. The investigations of Herr
Mausel proved to be of great value and
as a result we have bank stock, the
only paper made from a purely ocu
listic staddpoint The ingredients and
component parts are not known and
are not accessible even by analysis
and will not be divulged except by the
shrewd German, who is sot at all
likely to part with so valuable a secret.
Many attempts have been made to imi
tate this paper, but they have all
proved failures. Quite recently a large
order was placed with a local house
for stationery to be made from bank
stock. A paper having the general ap
pearance of it was substituted, but the
fraud was detected by the man. who
knew the value of what he had ordered.
Of course, the goods were returned by
the incensed buyer and the loss of sev
eral hundred dollars was doubtless a
salutary lesson to the man who thought
the substitution would be overlooked.
Bank stock, like other commodities
that need a protection in the way of
a brand, carries its watermark woven
into the fiber of every sheet and has
the protection of the government.
Broail Xindeil.
"I'm ginerally disposed ter side wsth
the kickers." remarked Meandering
Mike; "but I mus' say thet I can't rile
up ez much ez some o the folks thet
wants ter rub out ev'ything this gov
er'ment's been a-doin so long, an'
start over agin."
"That's a nice way fur a down-trodden
victim of capitalistic oppression to
talk," exclaimed Plodding Pete, con
temptuously. "I tries-ter be fair. I'm agin wealth.
But some o' them fellers is jes ez
much sot again workin' ez we are.
They've inherited wealth through no
act of their own, an' I can't bring my
self ter hate a man jes' because he
happened ter be born rich." Washing;
ton Star.
Very Accoiuiuotlatiu;;.
The Boston fire department is at once
humane and accommodating. While
on the way to a fire the other day the
attention of a fire company wa3 called
by a kindhearted old lady to a dis
tressed cat up a high tree in Union
park, near by. The hook and ladder
boys kindly stopped and put up a high
ladder and brought Tabby down. The
thrilling rescue was loudly applauded.
In the meantime the building went on
blithely burning.
Kesolt Disprove! It.
"This is all rot about pure grit win
ning success."
. "How so?"
"I sank a fortune in a grindstone
factory." Detroit Free Press.
"The Collecting- Fad.
Alice I hear Jeannette is getting
a teKcetten ? rincs1;
men. CAFcru
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