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1 . .. nri, M-n-Tr-inffnT3'M - . - E&." &&iiitFgm!Pm&r-rsF (lalandhts ' loxtntal "" "l " " nMnJS Lm - - - - Tfc" ' " "" " ' ' '' ' " " " I .. -- . . - .1 .1-. . . !,. .-. - 1 . "T nsss HH 4 .1. '. t .. , vw E K! . EB :r i-k 4f-- If .fj. . r a, VOLUME XXVIII. ABOUT YOUNG WIVES. HE city life of homeless young married people is a very doleful sub ject to -write on. They have .Rood, though moderate Incomes, they are clever, in excellent health, active, en ergetic young men end -women, and yet they have elected to live in board ing houses and hotels. Elevators car T them to upper atnries or huge car avansaries, where they take possession of a bedroom, a parlor and a dressing room. Here they add to the rich but unmistakably hotel furniture the pret ty trifles, easily transported, which were among their wedding presents, and they declare themselves content. They partake of meals, ordered from long bills of fare, cooked by foreign ers, alwayn rich and indigestible and often of doubtful origin, and sit at lit tle tables observing and being ob served with that long, critical stare which Is learned only In such surround ing. The wife has no duties; nothing in their lives exercises her skill, her brain power or her ingenuity. Her husband receives no help or delight from the labor of her hands or as the result of her good judgment. Half of her endowments are lying dormant, and almost every power she has is dulled from want of use. After her husband leaves her for his office, she has to think out some occupation for the day. She shops and visits; if she Is musical, she practices a little; if she is bookish, ehe goes, perhaps, to a literary class or a lecture. Nothing taxes her resouices, no one is help ed or benefited by her wise rule. Lack ing that great prop and staff, personal responsibility, she has no taste of the joy of a personal achievement and suc cess. There is no way in which either husband or wife can express themselves In the material things by which they are surrounded. These furnished rooms are to their personal character istics like ready-made clothing to their bodies, and betray in one way and another that they are "misfits." Worie still, to my thinking, is life In smaller boarding-houses, where the independence and isolation possible in large hotels is lost, and the elements of criticism and gossip find such con genial soil in which to lodge their fast-growing seeds. I kuow no sadder words than home less and childless! There Is a mourn ful inflection in their very sounds, and yet theso prettily dressed, eager, rest lees young women are both these sor rowful things. If God has denied them the crown of motherhood, it would be better to take some mother less baby to their hearts than to live all their lives without the guiding hand of a little child in theirs and the clasp of little loving arms about their necks. I say guiding, with very sin cere faith that there is no such attrac tion toward i noble life as the depend ence and love of childhood, nor any such rebuke as the surprise or fear in a child's innocent eyes. OP LUXURIOUS INDO LENCE. What causes a deliberate choice of this narrow life which entails so many deprivations Is incomprehensible to me. The semblance of great luxury is certainly to be found in the mirrors, the gilding, the deep-piled, velvet car pets; but does all this expensive show give any pleasure when it loses all personal interest, and, stretching this way and that, can sometimes be meas ured by miles? To walk five hundred feet down the long corridors between doors which seem countless in num ber, and opening right and left to lib erate strangers who pass you as if you were to be avoided as carefully as if you bad the smallpox, cannot be a pleasure. To open your door and see five or six conventional pieces of fur niture standing about at precisely the came angles as in every other room you have passed, so that if you did not chance to know that your legiti mate number of square feet were known as number 499, you might read ily think you were In your own quar ters until you saw that where your walls were blue your neighbor's were pink, cannot be encouraging to the sense of individual possession which is half of life's joy. The mere abiding under the same roof with people you dislike or des pise is trying, but when you believe that on your right hand is drunken ness, and on your left the elements of some great human tragedy; to doubt the decency of your nearest neighbor at dinner and be shocked at the vul gar display of the women you meet in the elevator, does not conduce to love of mankind or the elevation of your own thoughts. Why choose these ways of living when open to every woman, accord ing to her means, lies the door of a home? A place which is. for the time at least, your very own, to be a source of comfort and peace to your husband and of joy to yourself just in propor tion to your endeavors? A place where color, arrangement, every adornment, every detail, from the delicate dra peries at the windows to the well chosen implements in the kitchen, ex presses your tastes, your judgment, your judicious economies, your thought of others, your love for your husband. Where no one enters but at your bid ding, and then comes to be made hap py by your society or refreshed by your hospitality. Where, when the day is done, you realize that from the flavor of the breakfast cup of coffee and the lightness of the rolls to the restful chair in which he smoked his last ci gar at night, the man you love best of all human beings owes every enjoy Bent to Yur ovsrsltht and plus. FTnrr j$)l LIFE NUMBER 28. taa-Ksinwi No msttcr how small it may be. n. jultics of ex- natter how many difficulties or at rangement and adaptation present themselves, these, like all obstacles, only enhance success, and In these dys of apartments and moderate houses built especially to tempt young house keepers no one who can afford to live as I have described can be too restrict ed in their means to find it hard to se lect from cne of these classes of domi ciles what is suitable and pleasant. And, having chosen, can there be many pleasures more sure and satisfying than making of those vacant rooms and bare walls a home? That vital spark of vanity and self-satisfaction without which no woman's life is real ly delightful, that undefinable, unclass ified quality which makes her look at her completed work with the exhil arating belief that few could excel it, here has full play. The birds And sources of exultation In the building of their nests, and you can discover that they are house-furnishing by the joy of their songs. It is the natural instinct of love and life to make a place to dwell in. To the woman who can devise a fastidiously beautiful gown I would tommenJ the arrangement and decoration of a room as the expansion and tenfold higher use of her art To the woman who would endear herself to her husband I would offer to guarantee that if she ccn keep within the limit of his means and yet make for hlra a lovely, comfort able, appropriate abiding place, in which he has room for the development of his own tastes and opportunity to bring about bim his friends in hospit able fashion, she will have endeared herself inexpressibly to him and in creased his pride in her tenfold. Let the good order and beauty and con trivances for bis individual comfort be sufficient to make his friends envious, and ready to say that his home tempts them to marry, and the wife becomes lovely in his eyes, In a far more flat tering way than because she is pretty and well dressed. To become the source of a husband s comfort and rest Is to have placed yourself beyond the fear of losing your complexion or ceas ing to be his ideal of a pretty girl. It is also to rise from the position of a dear pet to a useful, important part ner, without whose clever brains and wise direction his life would cease to be a success. I do not claim that home-making Is easy work, nor for a moment attempt to say that the One art of good house keeping is easily attained, but I do say. with all the strength I can put into the assertion, that the married woman who sets aside her kingdom for lack of cour age and energy to rule it is but a disin herited princess who has lost the great est joy of life when she abdicated her throne. The place a man lives In should surely be the place wherein sorrow and illness and death can best be borne and suffered. To the very young these three pregnant words mean little, but when they make themselves heard, may they find the sacredness and priy acy of home about you and the tender surroundings of your own family life soothing your pain. To be happy in or to grieve in, there can be no place liko the shelter which love and care have made for a man and his wife to abide In together, with the children God has given them to sweeten and hallow their inseparable lives. CHICAGO A ROARING RIVER. Scientists Predict That State of Affair For 4897. Prof. Spencer's address before the members of the American Association for the advancement of science at De troit last week attracted great com ment at that assembly. He made a prediction, based on figures which he presented, that the course of the lakea was being changed, and that in time Detroit would be good fishing where the city hall now stands, and shortly after the waters of the lakes would be pouring over Chicago toward the Mis sissippi, and Niagara Falls would cease to exist. Prof. Spencer said that he agreed with Prof. Gilbert that there was a gradual upward tilting of the earth's crust at the northwest, and this discovery showed it was the cause of the closing of the Ontario basin. By data showing that the shore line of the lakes was changing and the waters were gradually rising at the rate of about an inch in ten years to the south west, he demonstrated that the whole lake region was being tilted in that di rection. He said this would seem of trifling importance, but it was really a serious matter for Chicago, because that city stands on a low plain. The work of cutting the Chicago drainage canal, he said, was a mere anticipation of nature, for the tilting of the lake basin would have produced the same result in less than a thousand years. Prof. Spencer demonstrated by figures that at one time the Erie basin emp tied, not by the Niagara river, but by a buried valley, directly into the head of Lake Ontario, and that Niagara river and falls were modern features. He also showed that the gorge near the falls was eating its way backward at a rate of over a foot a year, and that in the course of a few lifetimes it would wipe itself out. He and Prof. Gilbert agrae that the calamity which will bury all lower Michigan and make a broad river through Illinois will not occur until 4S97. Simple Direction. Visitor I would like to get you to teach me to sail a boat. Boatman Sail a boat! Why. it's easy as swim min'. Jest grasp the main sheet with one hand an' the tiller with the other, an' if a flaw strikes ease up or bring 'er to an' loose the halyards, but look out fer the gaff an' boom or the hull thing'll be in the water an' ye'U be up set; but if the wind is steady y'r all right, onless yr too slow in luffin'. cause then y'll be upsot sure. Jump in ' an' try it; but, remember, whatever ye do don't jibe! A Singular Man. Every Christmas Ben Wallack, a rirh Atchison county, Kansas, farmer, gath ers his children around him and di vides thousands of dollars among them. Mr. Wallack lives in Efnngham and is the only citizen of the village who don't play croquet. More people over one hundred years old arc found in mild climates tat higher UtUudw. them In , ISsUl 1U ! tfOLCOMB TO BLAME. : BECAUSE HE GREATLY LECTEO HIS DUTY. NEC- How Be Might Have Saved tne State From the Defalcations Repeatedly Eorewarned Regarding Hartley, bat Al lowed Dim to Continue Criminal Prac tice. nolcomb I Responsible. Omaha Bee: "The republican state convention,' says the World-llerald, "sought to place the blame for the re publican state treasurer's shortage on Governor Holcomb, and now the local republican organ seeks to place the blame for Mr. Gillespie's delinquencies upon the governor. A very convenient method this of shifting- blame from where the blame should be placed to where the blame does not belong." In condemning and denouncing: the faithless state treasurer and auditor whose defalcations have scandalized the party the republican state conven tion justly included in its arraignment the governor to whose gross neglect of duty a large part of the loss that has fallen upon Nebraska is due. Governor Holcomb has been in office since Jan uary. 1605, and if he is to be credited with reforms and economies brought about under his administration he can not escape the responsibility for any shortage, defalcation or irregularity in the state house and in state institu tions since his incumbency which could have been prevented by a rigid enforcement of business methods and an unflinching performance of duty. The fact that Joseph S. Hartley was using state money for private specula tion was brought to Governor Hol comb's personal notice before Bartley entered upon his second term. The governor was repeatedly forewarned at the very beginning of his term that l'artley would turn out an embezzler. He knew that Hartley had persistently refused to make known where the state's monej' was placed and threat ened to resign in case he was compelled by the governor to produce the funds in his custody as a prerequisite to turn ing them over. At that time it is doubtful whether Hartley's shortage exceeded 100,000. Under the circum stances, and in view of the state's loss in the Mosher bunk wreck, the govern or's duty was plain. Had lie fearlessly demanded an accounting from Bartley in January, 1895, as it was his right and duty under the constitution, the deficit in the state treasury would have been at least $400,000 less than it is. Had Bartley refused to comply with the demand of the governor, the legis lature, which was then in session, would have taken action either by re fusing to permit Bartley to qualify for u second term or by instituting im peachment proceedings that would have resulted in his summary removal. For inexplicable reasons Governor Holcomb has failed to do his sworn duty in the critical hour and allowed Bartley to continue his criminal prac tices until the stealing amounted up to over $500,000 and his manipulation of state funds entailed a loss of equal amount. The plain, unvarnished truth is that instead of dealing firmly with Bartley by forcing a cash settle ment at the outset Governor Holcomb permitted himself to be hypnotized by Bartley and his bank backers and re mained inactive until the treasury had been completely looted. Governor Holcomb must also share responsibility for whatever irregulari ties or misappropriations of public funds may have occurred in state in stitutions under his immediate control. This applies to the state institution for feeble minded at Beatrice, where a shortage has been reported, as it does also to the deaf mute school. It is the duty of the governor to keep fully in formed as to the conduct and finances of every state institution and he has ample power under the constitution to compel periodic exhibits of every item of revenue and expenditure. Whatever the intentions of Governor Holcomb may have been, his failure to meet the emergency when it presented justifies the indictment embodied in the republican platform. Under republican administrations the school fund was placed in the banks and thousands of dollars lost. Under the "demo-pop"' administration 101,814.98 of the permanent school fund has already been invested in state warrants. Nineteen thousand nine hundred and ninety-eight dollars and seventy-seven cents of the agricul tural endowment fund and $9,993.15 of the permanent university fund have nlso been invested. Orders have been made for the investment of about $150,000 more of the permanent school fund, and warrants to that amount will speedily be taken up. Did this "just happen.'' or is it the result of deliberate protection of the public interests? Under the renublican administration state warrants were discounted to S5 cents. Under the "demo-pop"' admin istration state warrants are at par. Was this one of "the things that just happened" or was it the result of hon est and business-like methods on the part of the "demo-pop"' officials? For the last six months in 1890 the republicans collected for apportion ment among the schools of the state the sum of 5231,958.30. Only three months of the latter half of 1S97 have expired and yet the 'demo-pop'' administration has al ready collected S258.000 for apportion ment among the schools of the state. This is for three months. S27.000 more than the republicans collected during six months. Is this one of "the things that just happened' or is it due to hon est and business-like methods? Did it "just happen" that the party that nominated for a high office an ex oflicial who was a defaulter was the republican party? Did it "just hap pen"' that the judge who made an or der at 2 o'clock one afternoon to bring suit against the ex-official for Si 1.000 of stolen money and at 8 o'clock on the evening of the same day made a speech advocating the election of that official to another office did it "just happen"' that that judge was a repub lican? Did it "just happen' that the county attorney who received this or der at 2 o'clock and made a speech ad vocating the election of the man whose integrity the order questioned did it "just happen' that this county attor ney was a republican? Did it "just hap pen that the only men and newspaper to defend the ex-district clerk of Doug las county are republican politicians and republican newspapers? Did it "just happen"' that the state fair is in control of republicans? Did it "just happen" that the $1, 433,554 lost by the people of Nebraska since 1850 was lost through the dis honesty of republican officials? Did it "just happen" that the. only conven tion, committee or ward club" that has ever defeated a resolution denouncing dishonesty and embezzlement bv a public official was a republican con vention, a republican committee and a republican ward ciufc? The WorldHeraid submits for the consideration of thoughtful men: Are lus"! wuji iu uc uni iui;icu- MJ inure a - ,rj ,i ,.. u... .1 4. .1 .. BmiuiB ui uv vuv aiiir'T liiub 141U 1C t 1 publican party should be rooted from ' COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1897. power, not oilly in the supreme "dirt which will be called cpon. t.lj"? judgment on republican delinquent" but also in Omaha and Douglas cou$y," where the people have been insulted by a bold defense of emoe'zzleniant and fraud by representative republi can organizations. a? No Time for Croaking. 5" Detroit Free Press: The propensity of the calamity howler to predict mis fortune for this country and to empha size the dark side of life will find little encouragement by contrasting the present condition and prospects of the American people with those of the rest of the world. For such a compar ison will reveal the fact that we are vastly better off today than most peo ples. While other countries are threatened with distress owing to short crops, we Americans have been blessed with one of the most abundant har vests in our history. While the far east is suffering with famine and while the harvest in Ireland is reported ruined by unpropitious Weather,-we in America are chiefly concerned -- (V"th the problem of transporting to market the surplus products of the farm. While rising prices will bring dismay to those parts of the world which are under the necessity of buying, the American farmer, with a granary overflowing with wheat and corn, looks with complacency upon the eteadily climbing grain markets. The great laws of supply and demand are working in our favor, and are bound to bring renewed prosperity to our country, in spite of the restrictions of an unwise tariff. While European nations are groan ing under the burden of taxation made necessary by the maintenance of im mense standing armies, with their costly militarj maneuvers, we Ameri cans are getting ulong very well with out any army at all worth speaking of. While plague and pestilence arc devas tating certain portions of the world, the health of the American people was never so good. Even yellow fever that former scourge of our southern states. has lost its malignant power under our wise sanitary regulations. And so, with our abundantcrops and cheap means of transportation, with a recuperative power that will soon en able us to more then recover the ground lost in the late financial de pression, with perfect freedom to work out our own destiny, without fear of interference from the outside world, it is hard to see what the American pes simist can lind to work upon, especially when he compares our condition to the rest of the world. If he would thrive in his calling he should go to Ireland, where failure of the crops threatens famine, or to Cuba, where civil war go hand in hand in their awful work: or to Spain, where bankruptcy is staring a whole nation in the face; or to India, whence conies stories of suffering and death almost beyond belief. Then let iiim return to this heaven - favored country and renew his croakings if he can. Bryau and His Passes. Troy (N. Y.) Press: The Omaha Bee publishes a fac-simile of the letter in which Win. J. Bryan made application for a free railroad pass from Sacra mento, Cal., to Portland, Ore. Bryan had previously traveled from Ogden to Sacramento on a free pass. Bryan de fends his application by saying that he asked for the application on the ground of his connection with the Omaha World-Herald. As Bryan's position as an editor of the World lierald's staff expired last year, he claims the free transportation by vir tue of owning a few shares of stock in that paper, and on the paper's adver tising contract. The business man ager of the World-Herald says that it has no advertising contract with the Southern Pacific road and has not been printing any of that road's advertising matter. Tii is is the man who, although he traveled to the Chicago convention on free passes, insisted with a great llourish on paying the fare of himself and wife on the return trip, and who, during his presidential canvass, called everybody's attention to the fact that he was paying his way and to his con tention that no one was entitled to special privileges from the railroads. Now as a capitalist, as a stockholder, he asks favors of a railroad company. If Bryan had not been receiving re cently a large income from his book and from his lectures in which he has denounced corporations and their fa vors, his offense would not be so rank, or if he had asked for the half fare usually allowed to children, no one would have objected. Bnt it looks as if he had been crucifying opposition to corporate privilege on a cross of per sonal profit. The only loophole for escape left Bryan is to plead that he was spoiling the Egyptians by making them expend motive power in carrying him long distances without receiving reward for the service. Buoyant With Hope. Denver Times: One can almost breathe in the air a rapid change of sentiment in the business community of this city from the old feeling of irloom to one of sanguine cheerfulness. The conviction that the long night of depression is ended, and that we are entering upon an era of unprecedented prosperity is becoming irresistible. It possesses every man who has not been hopelessly wrecked by the cruel hard times which we have passed through, and even many of these arc buoyant with the hope of a new start in life. There is u profound difference of opinion as to the causes of the revival and as to its duration, as well as to who, if anvbody, deserves credit for it, but that it is coming and is practically upon us is the "almost unanimous be lief. Signs of Kcpublicaa Times. Indianapolis Journal: Senator Gear of Iowa, a former business man and well posted business conditions, say the days of 7 per cent loans on farms in Iowa are ended. Farmers can get all the money they want at G per cent, and most of them do not want it at any rate. "Iowa fanners have 'got a surplus," says Senator Gear. -'The banks are full of money and the farm ers do the lending."' Which is why we remark these are republican times Who Knows. Courier-Journal: -We are thankful to providence,' resolve the Bryanites of Nebraska, "rather than to any man for the measure of our prosperity with which our state has been blessed, and we attribute the rise in wheat to for eign scarcity rather than suppose it to be the result of dear sugar or an in creased tariff on straw."' What? To "foreign scarcity?"' But "what have we to do with abroad?"' And arc you sure it is not due, if not to dear sugar and taxed straw, to outraged silver? Enjoined to Protect "Life. New York Commercial Advertiser: Mr. Bryan reveals thn Hmn"-orin vein in his political make-up bv declar r . .... - r-f-- I mg that "the injunction has beer Seen : called m to aid in the suppression o strikers.' It has been called in for nothing of the kind. It has been cm ployed to protect lrfe and property and the rirht of Amrrion tnilm-? r --ni.L- for whom and nt vnh wages as they seo fit DAHPFIRE SKETCHES. GOOD SHORT STORIES FOR THE VETERANS. Bea. WaaMaxtoa's Ico XYouse The Girl Was Fell Into It Tell the Story Grant's Aversion to Liars Had No Patienee with Them Original Aboli tionist. Mariners Sleep by the Sea. HE mariners sleep by the sea. The wild Wind comes up by the sea. wails round the tower, and it blows through Brasses, It scatters the sand o'er tho graves where it passas. And the souud and scent of the bea. When at night there's a seething of surf. The grandamea look o'er the surf. They reckon their dead and their long years of sadness. And they shake their lean fists at the sea and Its madness. And curse the white fangs of the surf. But the mariners sleep by the sea. They hear not the sound of the s-a. Nor the hum from the church where the psalm is uplifted. Nor the crying of birds that above tliam are drifted. The mariners sleep by the sea. Marcarct L. Woods. Gen. Washington Ice llour. "It is ice water, drinking so much ice water, which is injuring the health of so many people. The glands of the stomach are paralyzed. 'Digestion is ruined. The whole body sutlers from it." We were a mixed company In the dining car en route for vVashington, says a writer in the Youth's Compan ion. The speaker was a very positive gentleman, a physician, who had per emptorily ordered the waiter to remove the ice from his glass of water. "Ice is the bane of modern life," he continued, with conviction. "Look at our hardy forefathers. Look at our early statesmen; such men as Washington, Jefferson, the Adamses, and Lincoln in his young days. Their digestion was not spoiled by ice. Imagine George Washington drinking ice water! Thank heavens, ice houses were then un known." "I sincerely beg pardon, sir," inter rupted a lady, sitting at a table acrost the car aisle. "George Washington had an icehouse." "I am sure you are mistaken," cried the enemy of ice. "I am equally certain that I am cor rect," rejoined the lady, laughing; "for the best of all reasons; I once fell into it." By this time the attention of the whole party was enlisted in the discus sion. "It was when I was a girl of 16," the lady continued, merrily. "There were ten of us, all young people, save one, on a first visit to Washington, and we had gone down the Potomac by steamer to see Mount Vernon. "What a day that was for me? We peeped in every room, corner and nook of the Washington mansion, visited the weave room, the dairy, the flower gar den, the greenhouse, and even the sta bles, everything. And of course we had gone to the tomb of Washington on our way up from the steamer land ing, both the old tomb and the new tomb. "When at length the bell rang to call us back to the steamer, five or six of us i an to the brink of the declivity fronting the river for a hasty glance at the water view, which showed beauti fully through the trees below. "Suddenly, while looking off, I found myself on the very verge of a deep pit in the side of the steep bank and be fore I was aware the turf and earth fell way under my feet. In a moment I had slid down for at least thirty feet into a wet, awfully dirty place, a sort cf cave, however, opened at the bottora. "1 was not much hurt, but shockingly muddy, and ray companions rescued me at the orifice below amid shouts of laughter. "The superintendent, who had been attracted by the outcries, told us that I had inadvertently fallen into George Washington's old ice house and that the far.iily was accustomed to store up a 'inply of ice in this pit for use during Iip heat of the summer months. "The plicc where I fell in is now oc cupied as the site of a small summer house on the brink of the bluff." A general clapping of hands followed the lady's story, but the opponent of Ice rcriatncd unconvinced. Sra&i'H Aversion to Liars. In tse Cemury, Gea. Horace Porter, m h.-: "Campaigning With Grant," dwelLs upon Graut's aversion to liars. He quotes tb? following remarks from Gen. R:iwlius: "The general always likes to tell an axcJOvO that points a moral on the ul)jcct of lying. He hates only tvn I'r.ds cf pc-ople, liars and cowards. He has no p-tJesce with them and never falls to sbov,- his aversion for them." In: alls dds: "Such traits arc so foreign to his ovn nature that it is not sur prising that he should not tolerate them in others. As a man and boy he has always been the most absolutely truthful person in the whole range of my acquaintance. I never knew him to run into the slightest exaggeration or to borrow in the least degree from his imagination in relating an occurrence." One of the party remarked: "I was amused one day to hear an officer say that the general was 'tediously truth ful. He explained that what he meant by that was that the general, in men tioning something that had taken place. would direct his mind so earnestly to stating unimportant details with entire accuracy that he would mar the inter est of tie story. "For instance, after returning from a walk around camp, he would say: 'I was told so and so about the wounded by Dr. while we were talking this morning inside the tent; and a half hour afterward he would take the trou ble to come back and say. as if it were a matter of the greatest importance: T was mistaken when I told you that my conversation with Dr. occurred in side his tent; that was not correct; it took place while we were standing in front of his tent.' " There was much truth In this com "nt. No one who had served any i'SXVi Q) It Mia A""?1- time with the sneral could fail ts h struck with his excellent memory and the pains he Invariably took to stata occurrences with positive accuracy ,evan jn the most unimportant particulars. The Dying Soldier. How different were the dying scenes (ft the soldier from those we are wont to see in ibr of peace. In the quiet home circle, when death comes, the sick one has our love and' feeder care; our voices are hushed; our foofsfe arc noiseless; through the long night we eagerly watch every breath and every motion; the quick ear catches every moan and whisper, and then at the last moment we take the hand of the dying cne and go out out to the very brink of the deep, dark river that separates time from eternity, listening so eagerly for the last faint whisper", saying with such inOnite tenderness and love the last good-bye. following the loved one with cur eyes till our human vision is lost in the shadows of the Unknown. But on the fields of battle, where the soldier dies, how is it? In the wild charge, sweeping over the ground like a hurricane blast, where the glisten ing bayonets flash in the clouds of smoke, where the air i3 thick with hissing bullets, amid storms of shriek ing shell and solid shot, the brave sol dier falls mortally wounded. In the heat of battle he cheers his comrades on to victory, and then sinks down up on the ground, mangled and bleeding, surrounded by the wounded, dying and dead. He feels his life blood wast ing away, the hot sun beats down upon his head, his lips become parched with thirst, he writhes with the terrible pain that tortures him. The sun goes down; twilight deepens into night at night upon a field of battle dying alone. The dying soldier grows weaker and weaker, as hour after hour passes away. He thinks of those at home, of sister, of mother, of wife, of children just as some of you who are here to day have been thought of his heart yearns for Just one word from them; how he reaches out his poor hands for the tender touch of hands that he never feels; how he calls the names of those who will never hear his call on this side of the grave; how his heart is pierced with anguish, as he thinks that those dear ones who are dependent up on him will, on the morrow, be help less. At last he crosses his own hands over his breast, looks up among the stars, murmurs with pale lips messages of love and fond good-byes night passes away, the sun rises over the plain, and shines upon the face of the dead soldier. S. F. Norton in Farm ers' Sentinel. Original Abolitionist. Rev. Dr. Richard S. Rust is one of the "original abolitionists." Ever since his youth and he has now reached old age he has been active for the wel fare of the colored people of the land. Before the civil war he worked for their freedom. Since the war he has worked to increase their culture. All his life long he has been connected with edu cational institutions for their especial benefit. He has made for himself an imperishable record as an agent of civ ilization, and his name will never be forgotten by the freedman of the Unit ed States. Dr. Rust was born in New England, where revolt against slavery was indigenous, and there was never any doubt about his willingness to be classed among the "black republicans," or the "greasy mechanics," or what ever else the advocates of the great est of national reiorms were then con temptuously called. Perhaps he was never actually assaulted while prearh ing and lecturing for emancipation, but over and over again he had experiences violent enough to appall any but the moat stout hearted. Orer forty years ago he became president of the Frced man's College at Xenia, Ohio, and while holding this position he had much to do with the insertion of the clauses against slavery into the general Meth odist discipline. After the war Dr. Rust was the father of the Methodist policy of extending schools for frecd men all over the South, which has re sulted in about eighty institutions that serve as lighthouses of knowledge to the whole colored race. For years he has gone up and down the 'and lectur ing and preaching in their behalf, and now when too old to continue person al labor, his interest is still strong. Dr. Rust resides in Cincinnati. Th Klondike Fiddler. Argonaut John Kavanagh, the fid dler of the Klondike, before the year is over, will probably be held re sponsible for the downfall of some scores of musicians, who, tempted by the stories of his good luck, are track ing their way to Alaska, provided only with their instruments, and a hopeful disposition. Kavanagh had been em ployed at Port Costa, but he became possessed of the idea that there was money to he made in the north, so he struck out for Juneau. From that place he moved on to the Klondike re gion, going afcot over the rough coun try intervening, and carrying with him in his outfit a Winchester rifle and a violin. Once in the diggings he found himself about the only available musi cian there, and the miners gladly paid him S30 or ?35 a night to play for them at their dances. Should Ilnre Spoken Sooner. He Mi3s Quickstep, they say you tabulate your admirers as "preferred " "eligible," "tolerable," "so-so," "emerg ency," "intolerable," "not to be thought of," and the like. Where do I come in? She I I'm afraid, Mr. Rinckley, you are a little too late to classify, ABOUT THE ELEPHANT! HOW THE DRIVER DECORATES HIS FRONT. V How m Native Fablto Work Oaleer Un wittingly Dlatlaaataned Himself by Accidentally Driving m fWaoI Troop f Wild Specimen lata CorralU N Burma's the pub lic works and oth er departments are dependent on the elephant for a large amount of heavy labor. By this gen tle giant's strength man is able to ac complish with ease that which would be almost Impos LKKT R&HKSHM4Nt sible without him. Any one who has seen these cleverly trained animals at work in the forests and timber-yards of Burmah will at once realize their utility. Sometimes harnessed to huge teak logs, they drag them wherever they are required; or a monstrous tusker may be seen trundling a log with his tusks and placing it in any position he is ordered as easily and with apparently as little exertion as a child would handle a tennis ball. The illustrations are from snap shots of one of these useful creatures, with his mahout (driver), at work and at leisure. In one you see the mahout anointing the elephant's forhead with a cocoanut-oil, which is supposed to keep the head cool when worktng in the hot sun. The white marks on the head ar made with chalk, with which the mahout delights to decorate his pet. So much for tho elephant tamed. In his wild state he Is another crea ture. The most ticklish and difilcult part of elephant-catching operations Is to drive tho herd Into the kheddah prepared for its reception: hence the catch which was made in the Mysore jungles a few weeks ago ranks as unique. A native public works officer. on the way to inspect a bridge in bis THE MORNING TOILET. district, passing near one of the enorm ous enclosures built for the purpose, saw a large herd of elephants feeding near the gate. Being alarmed, native like, he fired his gun and shouted for all be was worth; the herd, equally alarmed, fled incontinently into the kheddah, whose gate stood open! Whereupon the engineer recovered ki3 wits and made his coolies lower the gate, capturing the lot. That various delays gave the elephants time to break down the ungarded stockade, whereby the majority escaped, reducing the number actually secured to 10, does not affect the capture as perhaps the most remarkable in the annals of elephant catching. JOINED THE SALVATION ARMY. The court circles of Sweden received severe shock several years ago when It was announced that Prince Oscar, i nephew of the present king, was about to marry Miss Ebba Monk, a young lady of patrician birth, but far below the prince in station. The king protested and refused to permit the marriage, whereupon Prince Oscar de clared that he would yield his title and resign all rights of succession, but that marry Miss Monk he certainly would. The marriage was celebrated In due time and Prince Oscar has never been seen in the royal circles since. The king and queen have maintained friendly but distant relations with their democratic nephew, who Is known sim ply as Prince Oscar and who is im mensely popular with the people be-'' cause of his philanthropy. I Prince Oscar and his wife have been devoted to causes of charity and benev olence, but recently have created a sec ond sensation by joining the ranks of , the Salvation army. The prince and 1 his wife hold regular open-air meet ings according to the methods of the PRINCE OSCAR. army. The prince exhorts and he and Us wife lead in the street singing. Civic Ownership of a Paper. Dresden, the capital of Saxony, owns a singular piece of property a morn ing newspaper, the Dresdener Anzeiger. This daily, upon the death of its last proprietor, was bequeathed to the city upon the condition that all profits aris ing therefrom should he spent upon the public parks, as has been steadily done. The paper continues to hold the re spect of the citizens, for the trust ha3 been carried out in its broadest spirit, and the power has never been em ployed to foster any school of opinions social, political or religious. Looking Westward. A dispatch received here from Chico pee, Mass., says that Edward Bellamy, author of the book "Looking Back ward" and "Equality," will soon move from that city to Denver. 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