State Historical Socitfy, Urn Lilwj
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THE GOUR.ER
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Notes From Missouri.
(I'rlnceton IMoneer Press )
A certain young man in this neighbor
hood is ac'ing very queer. He has
bought a now bugey and barnes3, that
his mother and sister may have a more
convenient way to travI. Hut what
seems so queer is, he went to the Brant
ley box supper and took neither mother
or sister. Go it while jou are young,
but drive careful in the dark among the
white oak stumpa my boy
Grandpa Guymon is very feeble and is
falling away fastly.
The Prairie school teacher, assisted by
Miss Ethel Kobbe and Alma Rushton
gave their school house a scouring last
Saturday, it was a cold day, but they
wanted thirgs to look tidy on Wednes
day nex. as that is the last day ot the
fall and winter term.
Miss Carrie Girdner and Mr. Frank
Ewing, son of M. V. Earing, of Spickard,
were married at the home of the bride,
in Mill Grove last Sunday. Mies Gird
ner is a highly respected young lady and
we congiatulate Mr. Ewing on acqair
ing such a useful young woman as she
to be his consott through life. May do
mestic felicity ever reign in their home
circle is the wish of the writer.
W. G. Odneal wears a broad smile for
every day since he has been called upon
to support a boy.
Aunt Mary Lewis lost a tine milch
cow one day last week. The animal
acted very strange, and died in a short
time after getting sick.
T. M. Las well saw a comet acting very
funny the other night. When he first
saw it he thought it was a bouse on tire,
as it was directly between him and the
house. It wavered back and forth a ft w
times, then darted oil quite a distance,
then stopped and shone very bright and
disappeared very suddenly.
Mrs. N. M. Wilson, nee Addie Coon,
daughter of Judge Jacob Coon, left on
the weat-bound evening train lastThurj
?ay, to join her husband at Chillicothe,
where they will reside in the future.
Mr. Wilson has employed to a St. Louis
firm at a good salary. Their friends
here, who are many, wish them un
bounded prosperity and happiness in
their new home.
Calvin Brown, son of William Brown,
came home from the western part of
Missouri last week, where he has been
at work for some time. Calvin does a
better part by his father and mother
than a great many bojB; he alwajs
saves his wages and brings a good share
of them heme for his old parents. Why
can't all bojB do likewise, and not be
dead-beats on the old folks.
Hox did jou freeze your ear ?
A Boston girl talked into it. Town
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A man I know appropriHted a room
for himself when his new house was
finished. lie was to be master in it,
to read and write there, and to do as ho
chose. Except by invitation, no one
was to enter, and no one was to inter
fere with his special arrangements of
tables and lights. But the next day
his three little children established
themselves in it. His wife brought in
her own desk, and placed her favorite
chair in a sunny window. The family
had found papa's room the best in the
house, and refused all preference for
any other Mr. Jones, another man of
m acquaintance, began in the same
way, but he invited his children into
his study one rainy morning, and that
dangerous element in all human inter
course, a precedent, was established.
Mr. Jones never bad bis study again to
himself, ard has had to have his desk
and papers carried to the little college
where he holds a professorship. Little
Miss Jenkins uses her father's studio
for her afternoons at home, and her
friends declare there is not another
such cozy place in town.
This is the fate of ell men's rooms at
home, I have discovered, unless one,
perhaps, in which a pastor's sermons
are indited, or one in which a man in
sists on displacing all his boots and
shoes twenty pairs of assorted excel
lenceto siy nothing of Indian clubs
and boxing-gloves, with the thermom
eter never above sixty at any time.
But a room in which a man bus made
himself comfortable, arranged for his
pastimes or his pleabures, id alwbys the
room a family prefer, and out of which
they turn him. Does any oop, by-the-way,
know a house in which an excep
tion to this rule is proved ? The Bjzir-
From the St. Paul Republican.
The Lincoln Courier is soliciting sub
scriptions for the relief of Mrs. John M.
Stotsenburg, widow of the gallant
colonel who fell while leading the First
Nebraska in a charge at Quingua last
May. It is a gracious thing to do; Mrs.
Stotsenburg has been left with a help
lees family on her hands without means
of support, and the unwinding of gov
ernment red tape will mean a serious
delay before she will be able to draw
the pension to which she is entitled.
Nebraska can do no less to show her
appreciation of the gallant husband and
father than to provide for the comfort
of the widow and orphans. Miss Harris,
editor of The Courier, has unselfishly
volunteered to take charge of the work.
Liberal and prompt contributions will
make the burden easy upon her
shouldes.
W
Pseb3 Lincoln
Steel Range.
.IS BETTER.THAN EVER
A Song for March.
It is the roaring month of March.
The wild northeaster bends the birch j
The gray rain beating on the wold
Has closed the crocus cups of gold.
Adown the dale, adown the dale,
The thrush pipes sadly to the gale ;
His song is sad and I would hear
The anthem of the coming year.
But there will be an April day
The thrush will pipe another lay,
And we will find on greener hills
White violets and daffodils.
Eric Parker, in March St. Nicholas.
A corespondent sent this letter to S'.
Nicholas for March:
"Philadelphia, Pa.
'I have an undo who is in India, and
he wrote me a note telling about a fight
between a cobra and a mongoose. 1
liked it so much that I want other pec
pie to enjoy it, too. Any one who has
read the 'Jungle Books' will, I am Bute,
like it very much. Here it is:
"You remember ''Kikki-tikki tav."
in "The Jungle Book ?" Well, the little
mongoose's tail did bristle out just like
a bottle-brush, and the cobra struck at
him again and again The little mon
goose's eyes got bright as beads, and he
ntver took them off the cobra fcr a sec
ond as it reared above him; and every
titre that it struck, quick as lightning,
the little Rikki-tikki-tavi jumped away
quicker than lightnkg, leavicg the
cobra's head to come down with a
bump. He watched bis chance, and
then sprang in close on the coils of
the snake, and some how managed to
grab him by the lower jaw. Then such
a circus as there was! It was just a
whirl of snake, and bottle-brush tap,
and beady little eyes. Once or twice
the snake coiled so tightly around him
that he almost choked him off, but the
slim and sleek lit le body of the mon
goose seemed able towriggIe out of any
thing. Quick as a flash he changed his
hold, and his teeth sank into the snake
just back of the head; then it was only
a matter of a few seconds before the
cobra was stretched out dead. RikUi
had his mouth too close to the poison
sacs of the snake, and after the battle
he spit and frothed and scraped bis
mouth in the dust until his little no6e
got as red as fire. He was just as tame
as a kitten, and I wanted to send him
home to you, but he would be sure to
die on the way.'
Helen Kate Fubness.
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