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IKESi-:. THE JOURNAL. WEDNESDAY, JULY 2t, 1SS2. Xtte;ci t til Fcst:2:e, Cdsntai, Hrt., tiotai eUu sitter. FRUIT OR FLOWER. When orchard! smile, and our gardens blooa In rainbow beauty from day to day. AndTvrdant leaflet and nodding- plume Keep time to music the breezes play. Row sweet the bower When sun and shower Unfold the bud and reveal the flower! Along the meadows In gleaming linos From year to year is the promise writ; Tassels and tendrils of clinging vinos Are never weary proclaiming it; As bells in the tower Toll forth the hour. They herald tho fruit that follows the flower. We may watch and wait, but can hasten net The sweet fruition our hearts desire, Kor gather the grape or the apricot Until they are fed with the noonday lire; Though the fields we scour. We have no power To harvest the fruit that Is still In flower. But when tho orchards are pink and white. And all the meadows are green and gay. In the promise given we take deliirht. And breathe the fragrance that oomos la May. Nor ask for the dower Of a ripor hour. For the perfect fruit In tho tlmo of flower. Jostphin Pollard, In Harpcr'a Weekly. BRITISH LAW OF TREASON. Trials for high treason have been most rare in modern times, and the whole subject is invested with a singu lar Interest even for the goneral read ing public From the beginning of the common law treason was recognized and punished as a crime, the cause of the crime always being some act of hos tility against the Crown by some one owing allegiance to it. With an un written law and corrupt or subservient Judges, it may readily bo imagined what bloody injustices wore possible. The laws of Alfred declared that if any man plotted against the King, either himself or by harboring exiles, he should be liable in his life and all his Sosscssions. During the two centuries tat followed the conquest, however, trials for treason were rare, and the literature of tho subject is scanty. The Ring being merely regarded as a sort of Premior-Baron, and there be ing no difficulty in finding a flaw in bis title, treasonable enterprises were froquent; per contra, when those engaged in such enterprises came to grief, they were got rid of without excessive formality. William deBraose, when King John invited him to send bin son as a page to Queen Isabella, hesitated, ana His wife declared that she would never trust her child in the hands of a man who had murdered his own nephew. Tho result was that tho whole familj having vainly fled to tho Irish wilds, was shut up in a room in the tower and starved to death. The punishments varied, but were often barbarous. The Barons under Mortimer and Isabella hanged Le Despencerand burned out Edward IL's bowels with a red-hot iron introduced through a cow's horn. The Norsemen had an interest ing way of insinuating an adder into a prisoner's stomach in a similar fashion, while Edward III. when ho caught Mortimer, his mother's paramour, mere ly hanged him. In the twenty-fifth year of his reign, Edward made a creditable attempt at remedying the un certainty of the earlier law under which counterfeiting was treason, whether tho King's seal or his coin were copied, and it was treason to " encroach upon the royal power." The new statute made it treason to compass the sover eign's death, to levy war against him, or to adhere to his enemies, otc, though all such o flenses had to be proved by an over act. "Compassing the King's death," however, proved a term capa ble of almost indefinite expansion; and when the phrase could not be stretched to take in an obnoxious opponent, the law was disregarded, or a new act was passed for his benefit. Not alone was a prosecution for treason a convenient method of getting rid of a political op ponent, but very small fish were scooped in in the net Under Edward IV., one man, whoso deer the King had killed, was put to death for wishing that the King had the deer's horns in his belly, and another was hanged, drawn and 2 uartered for making a pun. He called is inn the Crown, and his son the heir to the Crown. The Judges must have resembled that loyal magistrate of the last century who sent a man to jail for declaring that tho Prince of Wales was born without a shirt to his back. A special statute of Henry VIII. made it treason to believe the King's marriage with Anne of Cleves valid. The statute of Edward VL re quired for the conviction of one charged with troason two sufficient and lawful witnesses, but this provision was eluded In a dozen waj-s. Bacon, when Attorney-General, convicted the decrepit old Parson Peacham of treason by bringing in a sermon found in his study which had never been preached more by token, the great philosopher stood by him when ne was racked to oxtort a confession. The punishment of treason in tho "good old times" was something too horrible almost for description. The average reader has a mild and very er roneous idea of what " hanging, draw ing and quartering " really meant, but he will be instructed if he reads the his tory of the Jesuit Ballard's conspiracy in favor of Mary Queen of Scots, in which he enlisted Anthony Babington, Chidiock Titchbourne and other gen erous young men; or turns to the recital by Mrs. Elizabeth Willoughby of the execution of the Jesuit Hugh Green, in 1642. "The hangman," we read, "either through unskillfulness or for want of a sufficient presence of mind, had so ill- Erformed his first dut- of hanging him it when he was cut down he was per fectly sensible and able to sit upright npon the ground, viewing the crowd that stood about him. The person who undertook to quarter him was one Bare foot, a barber, who, being very timor ous when he found he was to attack a living man, it was near half an hour be fore the sufferer was rendered entirely Insensible of pain. The mob pulled at the rope and threw the Jesuit on his back. Then the barber immediately fell to work, ripped up his belly, and laid the Haps of skin on both sides, the poor gentleman being so present to him self as to make the sign of the cross with one hand. During this operation the writer of this kneeled at the Jesuit's head and held it fast between her hands. His face was covered with a thick sweat, and blood issued from his mouth, ears and eyes, and his forehead burned with so much heat that she could scarce en dure her hand upon it- The barber be ing still under a great consternation" but enough. When Titus Oates hatched the Popish plot of 1678, the infamous Chief-Justice Scroggs aided the perjurer most vigor ously. No second witness appearing when the Jesuit Whit bread was put oip on trial, Scroggs discharged the jury to enable the Crown to supplement its evidence, and. on a subsequent occasion. Whitbread was duly convicted and ex ecuted. But Scroggs was outdone by Jeffreys, when Lord William Rus el and Algernon Sidney were brought before him in 1683, on a charge of com plicity in the alleged Rye-house plot. The jury was constituted illegally, and fee was "refused the right to challenge, while not- one witness proved the of fense charged conspiring to kill the King. In Sidney's case, only one wit ness, the infamous Lord Howard, could be found, but Jeffreys improved on Bacon by accepting as the second wit ness garbled extracts from a theoretical manuscript work on government found among his papers. Sir Thomas Arm strong was at the same time hanged, drawn and quartered, " without trial, without having been confronted with his accusers, and withoutbeingheariin his own defense." Anyone can read in Macaulay the story of the bloody assize in the west, after Monmouth's rebellion, when men were hanged and quartered by hundreds, and Jeffreys sentenced Alice Lisle to be burned alive, the sen tence being with difficulty commuted to decapitation. Elizabeth Gaunt ws less fortunate, being burned to death at Tyburn in October, 1685. When there was not evidence enough for Scroggs or Jeffreys, the crown could always pass a bill of attainder and have Parliament declare A or B guilty of high treason, and therefore be executed, with ex tinction of his titles and confiscation of his property. William of Orange made haste to do honor to Russell and Sid ney's memory, yet he was the last sovereign to employ a bill of attainder. Thus he sent Sir John Fenwick, a Jacobite, to the gallows, it being hope less to indict him with one witness to the overt act. The bill was with diffi culty got through Parliament, Lord Derby opposing it eloquently in the Lords. In those days tho prisoner was hanged for half an hour; then his heart and oowels were torn ont and burned: then his body was quartered, and the four fragments and his head were stuck upon spikes in different parts of the country. After the Jacobite rising of 1745, Townley and Fkitcher were thus dismembered, their heads being set up over Temple Bar, where Samuel Rogers, the banker-poet, remembered seeing them. They rotted away about the time of our Declaration of Independence. The last persons executed in England for high treason were Arthur Thistle wood and his four companions, hanged at the Old Bailey, May 1, 1820, for the famous Cato street conspiracy to massa cre the Ministers at dinner and carry off the heads of Castlereagh and Sidmouth as special trophies in bags prepared for the purpose. They wore the last pris oners confined in tlie tower, and the last beheaded after death. By tho way, hanging, drawing and quartering was inaugurated in England in 1241, when William Marise, the son of a nobleman, suffered for piracy. September21, 1848, William Smith O'Brien, convicted of high treason, was sentenced to bo hanged, and then beheaded and quar tered. A similar sentence had been Jiassed on John Francis, in June, 1842, or the attempted murder of the Queen. Mr. O'Brien rather nonplused the au thorities by objecting to nave his death sentence commuted to transportation, on the ground that the Queen had no pow er to substitute one penalty for another, and it was deemed expedient to pass an act of Parliament to remove the doubts excited as to the legality of the act of clemency. In old times the fact that a true bill for treason had to be found by a Grand Jury saved many a noble politician whose head would have fallen once he was before the lords. Two witnesses were needed as to the overt act, and the prisoner was entitled to a copy of tho indictment and the jury panel a certain time before his arraignment But ac cording to the act of 1800, where tho overt act is in the nature of a direct at tempt on the life of the sovereign, the trial is to be conducted in the same man ner as an ordinary indictment for felo ny. London Special to Chicago Times. Buried in a Trance. A New Brunswick (N. J.) dispatch says: In the latter part of March a man named James Gilliland, residing here, died after a brief illness. He was a car- Eet weaver by trade, and was well nown in the neighborhood. After death his house was visited by sympa thizing friends, who were anxious to look once more on their departed com rade. There was a peculiar appearance about the body, which was the subject of comment, and many of the visitors refused to believe that life had depart ed. Even after the body had been pre pared for burial and inclosed in a coffin there was none of the ordinary appear ances found in a corpse, and Gilliland' s friends were greatly agitated over the matter, many of them believing that he was only in a trance. So strong was this belief that physicians were called in to make an examination. They found the body slightly warm, and hav ing none of the chilly feeling to the touch which is always found in dead bodies; the face was somewhat flushed, and the supposed dead man resembled a person in a deep sleep more than amass of life less clay. The doctors, however, after a critical examination, pronounced Gil liland dead, and the funeral took place the following day, the interment being in the cemetery. " Last week a brother of Gilliland came to this city to make an examination, having heard that there were suspicions that the man was not dead when burial took place. He proceeded to the cemetery yesterday in company with a man to reopen tho grave. When the coffin was reached the lid was carefully removed, and to the great horror of the man he dis covered indubitable ovidence that his brother had been entombed while in a trance, and had afterward recovered consciousness. The body was found tying on one side with the face terribly scratched, as though done while in agony. It is thought that the unfort unate man, on recovering conscious ness, endeavored to free himself from his coffin, and that a terrible struggle for life took place, the hands being horribly lacerated, while the face plain ly showed signs of terror. The body was immediately reburied. Last even ing the family of the unfortunate man refused to give any information on the subject and the cemetery authorities were likewise reticent. Most Have a Scotch Hammer. A correspondent writes of an amusing incident which occurred at Oneonta. Tf. Y., and Rays that he knows all the per sons referred to, and can vouch for the truth of it "A carnenter and ioinnr in Oneonta said to his fellow-workmen: As soon as I can get a chance, I am stointr to send over hnm tn Scotland and get a claw-hammer, one that I can work with; I can't get a decent ham mer in Amerina.' Ahont this tfmo . friend of his was going back to the auld sod,' and he commissioned him to go to the best hardware store in Glasgow and get a carpenter's claw-hammer, the best lie could find. rern.rdlpss of nnst Tn due time the friend returned, bringing me aesireu toou xne parry gathered around him, including some of his fellow-workmen, and ne proceeded to open tne package, in the meantime making the remark: 'I'll show you snmntliinp tn mako vnnr orc trntor ' ne the friend had assured him that he had brought him the kind of hammer used by the best workmen in Glasgow. He affectionately unwound the wraps, and, as he took the tool and handed it over to his friends, he said: There, look at that!' One of his friends did n anil read the trade-mark on the hammer: Made at Norwich, N. Y., U. S.' There is no more bragging about Scotch ham mers." A small, very black negro boy by accident threw his tOD through a laro-n pane of glass in one of the front windows of Mr. Green's sewing-machine agency in the Cater block. As soon as he laid hands on the offending toy, he grasped it with steel spinner outwards, and beat himself fiercely over tho forehead and head with it until blood came, when h threw, the top as far away as he could ana tola the owner oi the store that he "didn't go to break the window." His WAS ft nnvel ufir of ati-mincr frn-tiiafanlt but it had the desired effect and he was allowed to depart unmolested. Selma (Ala.) limes. Oscar Wilde has made $25,000 out of his lectures in this country. The "Frevious Question in the House of Commons. It is not surprising that the introduc tion into the House of Commons of the cloture," or what is known by parlia mentarians in this country as the" "pre vious question," should be so stoutly re sisted, when the importance of the inno vation is historically and practically con sidered. Looking at the subject in the light of the present and its necessities, the wonder is that some method of closing a debate within a reasonable period should not have been resorted to before this late day; but when we look back and remember how few debaters there were in the days when Mr. Pitt and Mr. Fox led in the discussion of important questions, how conservative the English people are, and how opposed they are to a new departure irom tne oia meinous of procedure, we easily realize that the opposition to Mr. Gladstone's new rule is not altogether unnatural. Prior to the adoption of the Reform bill in 1832, the House of Commons was a large body only in theory, for while the number on the clerk's list was large, the number of absentees was also always very large, the speaking was restricted to a limited number of orators, and the debates on the most important questions usually terminated by the natural pro cess of exhaustion in a few hours, so that the main question came without forcing. But the Reform bill in 1832 not only added many more members to the Com mons, but it threw into it many conspic uous citizens who belonged to the mid dle classes, like Mr. John Bright men fitted by education, ability and training, to properly represent the ideas and de fend the principles which had brought them prominently to the notice of the public. Instead of the leading parts be ing all taken by a dozen of bright and distinguished leaders, as was the case in the days of Fox and Pitt, there was a crowd of new speakers, representing un easy constituencies, who insisted on being heard. As a natural consequence the debates became more and more protract ed and wearisome, the party contests be came more bitter and prolonged as tho House membership resolved itself into cliques aud factions, which resisted ob noxious measures by what is now called "filibustering" in this country a word that has come into general use since Jefferson's Manual was written. Of late years these obstructionists have become so numerous and so persistent, and so determined to delay certain Gov ernment measures that were obnoxious to them, that it became manifest some decisive measures must be adopted, or all legislation would be defeated by the chronic dead-lock. No matter whether the "filibustering" was resorted to by the Tories, Radicals or Irish members, or all of them in league against the Minis try, the effect was the same, and there was no way of putting an end to talking against time. The instance of the IrisTi members keeping the House in session forty-two continuous hours, as was the case on one occasion recently, is an ex ample of the power of a factious minor ity, under the existing rules of practice, and. also serves to show the necessity of curbing it Under these circumstances one would naturally suppose that the necessity of adopting a new rule of procedure in the House of Commons would be so apparent that there would be but little opposition to it especially with the majority party in Parliament, which is charged with the responsibility of keeping the wheels of government in motion. But the pro posed new departure is seriously object ed to (1) by the old conservative element in Parliament and on of it which dis likes changes of all kinds, and which is tenaciously wedded to the idea that it is "better to bear the ills we have than to fly to others that we know not of." (2) The application of the previous ques tion to cut off debate looks to many people,-even in this country, as a device to stifle the freedom of speech, with which mankind seems to be becoming more and more enamored. Even the majority has a deep interest in the change, because it may be in the minor ity next year, or next month, and then the bit placed in its own mouth by an overbearing majority may be as ag gravating to them as it now is to the minority. (3) The innovation is re sisted on the ground that it may lead to still more serious and far-reaching re sults. An ambitious and reckless Minis try, backed by a resolute and courage ous majority in full sympathy with them, might not only pass the most tyrannical measures, but suppress the voice of hon est opposition to them on the floor of the House. (4) The Tories unanimously object to the new rule, because they are now in the minority, and expect to re main so indefinitely. Altogether, the position of Mr. Gladstone on this sub ject is not a pleasant one. The use of the previous question in all legislative bodies in this country, except in the United States Senate, where it has never been in vogue, has not been pro lific of any of the bad results anticipated from its enforcement by the English statesmen. On the other hand, it has been found so useful in suppressing windy speech-makers and unscrupulous filibusters that it will not be long before it most be adopted by the Senate of the United States. Chicago Journal, The Brooklyn Bridge. Some slight doubts are cast upon the safety of the bridge between Brooklyn and New York. The difficulty is said to be in the superstructure, the suspenders, the added weight caused by the neces sity of making up for supplying rotten steel by a supplementary amount of solid steel. Colonel Roeblin. in a letter written last July, stated that the margin;. of safety are very "low in the towers and cables of our bridge. The anchor ages it has been possible to re-enforce, so that a recalculation made last week gives a margin of safety of over three times, which is enough where mere dead weight is concerned. For the other two vital points nothing can be added." General Newton, in his letter to the chkf engineer of the United States army, speaks of the insufficiency of the original plan and estimates, coupled with the attempt to build for 6,000,000 a work which will cost $14,000,000. Another point made by General Newton is of the purport that, to satisfy the locomotive interest "the structure has been strengthened, the trusses raised five feet, and the weight increased so that one whole point in the margin of safety has been wiped out, and the pres sure on the tower masonry raised to thirty-two tons per square foot. While I anticipate not even a sign of weakness, relief can be had at any time by lighten ing the superstructure. The margin is as great as at Niagara, and greater than at Cincinnati. The commission on the Blackwell's island bridge recommended a margin of safety of only three. During the recent reconstruction of the Niagara bridge the permanent load was reduced 200 tons. The cables rose four inches, showing that in twenty-seven years the the elasticity of the cables had not been impaired." The three well-known, venerable citizens of New York, Thurlow Weed. General James Watson Webb and Peter Cooper, have been interviewed by the New York Timet as to the habits of life by which they have been enabled to re tain their mental and bodily vigor. Oat meal, milk and regular living is the pre scription. m Judge Hilton, in giving to a re- Eorter his reasons for discontinuing the usiness of the A. T. Stewart dry-goods house, states that the business was in a prosperous condition, but is too exacting upon a man of his years. N. Y. Graphic. m But very few ever transmit a pedi gree in as good order as they receive it. FOREIGN GOSSIP. The port of Venice is being deep ened, so as to admit the entry of the Italian monster ironclad3. France and Italy have hitherto pro "duced sugar only from the beet root The sugar cane has lately been intro duced in both countries, and it? rapid growth threatens the beat-root industry. The war footing of the Germ-in army has been e-tablished bv the bud get of 1882 at 500,000 men.' In the event of war, the number could be doubled at twenty-four hours' notice by telegraph. Mile. Sarah Bernhardt is said to bo almost vorn out by her Russian tour She has been playing twice a day for several weeks. In Warsaw she was to have played fifteen times in seven days. Returns of the recent census in France give the following populations for the cities named : Lyons, 332.894: Bordeaux, 221,520; Nantes, 121,905; Rouen, 104,720; Havre, 103,003; Douai, 73,900; Alger, 64,714; Grenoble, 50,907. The St. Petersburg police have is sued an order forbidding the appearance of any actors or dancers on the stage of the theaters of the capital whose dresses have not previously been rendered in combustible by moans of chlorate of lime. The same rule has been in force in Berlin for live years. It is feared that a famine is imminent in Tunis. A very large portion of the agricultural land has been, in conse quence of the recent troubles, left un sown; and it is estimated by tho-e capa ble of judging that when the .scarcity of food begins to be felt in the interior of the country another and probably a fiercer insurrection of the population is likely to break out. Olive Logan, in a London letter to the Cincinnati Enquirer, saj's: "I really think a change has come over the heart of the Princess Louise. By the expression of her face I should say she loves and appreciates her husband, as she never did before; while he, on the other hand, has .had his ideas immense ly enlarged by his sojourn in America, and finds that tho whole of life is not centered in the particular degree of latitude wherein the maps say Great Britain lies." Two distinguished men have just died in Paiis from a singular cause. Col. Adan, Director of the lustitue Car tographique, thought he had a chair be hind him, and in sitting down fell with all his weight on the iloor. Ho died within a short time from the effects of the accident. About ten days before M. Pirson, Governor of the Banquc Na tionale, went to a dinner party at the Spanish Legation, and sat beside the hostess. She rose from the table, and then, continuing a conversation, re sumed her scat. M. l'irson followed her example, but a footman had mean while removed his chair, and in his fall he injured his spine and survived only a few days. A writer in the London Ixiwct states that the popular impression con cerning quick fatality of wounds of the heart is not supported by fact. " We know of no case," he says, "of abso lutely instantaneous death from a wound of the heart, in any part or how ever extensive." Wounds in the apex kill in an hour and upward, and a cae is cited in which a man lived twelve hours -after the heart had been severed in twain by a sword cut. Out of twenty-nine collected ca3es of heart injur, only two were fatal within forty-eight hours, and in the others death resulted in from four to twenty-eight days. Re covery may tike place when the wound is extensive, for a bullet has been found embedded in the substance of the heart after a lapse of six years from the date of the injury, the patient having died from a disease of another organ. The Last French Emperor's Death. Tho Emperor believed that universal suffrage would redress his wrongs, con found his calumniators, and re-erect the Empire. He was confident that the millions of the people who had respond ed to his appeal in the spring of 1870 were still true to him. But when the news of the elections reached him at Chiselhurst he was overwhelmed with grief. He uttered not a single complaint. It is not on record that he gave way even momentarily to anger ; but lie was struck to the heart, for he truly loved the peo ple from whom the blow proceeded. For some days he remained in deep melancholy; and then his patient spirit reasserted itself, and he turned to his little study by his bedroom, where ho worked, with the portraits of the Em press and Prince Imperial on the desk before him, at his dreams for the good of the many who had just spurned him. . ". His disease had been aggravated by the physical exhaustion of the campaign, and especially by the hours he had spent in the saddle at Sedan, so that he moved little beyond the bounds of the park about Camden Place. He went in the summer of 1872 to the Isle of Wight, but the good gained was only tempora ry. He would walk by the hour up and down the long corridor of Camden Place with his arm on the young Prince's shoulder, while he talked with him of men and things, inculcating those kindly sentiments and generous ideas which time has already compelled his enemies to concede to him. Atter the midday breakfast, at which the little Court met for tho first time in the day, he would sit in the morning-room in his arm chair (the arms supported by eagles) by the wood fire, and talk cheerfully with the Empress or with any visitors who had come. It was a small circle in which the imperial couple moved, but it was one ol steadlast mends. At the close of 1872 the Emperor's medical advisers agreed that an opera tion had become necessary, and it was fixed for January 2. Two operations were successfully carried out, but the state of the patient gave rise to serious doubts as to the ultimate results. On the evening of January 8 the Em peror's case appeared more hopeful than on any previous day since the operations began. He slept peacefully through tho night, watched by turns by . MM. Con neau, Filou, Clary, and the doctors. He was able to rise from his bed in the morning, and felt relieved. Another, and it was hoped a final, operation was to take place at noon. The Empress had visited him as usual. At half-past ten Sir Henry Thompson approached him. A sudden change became appa rent. The strong, regular pulse fell rapidly ; the action of the heart failed. The doctors were alarmed, and in a few moments the Empress was at her hus band's bedside, but he did not recog nize her. Some stimulants were ad ministered, and the patient rallied for a moment. And then the Abbe Goddard administered the last sacraments of the Church, amid the weeping of the kneel ing gentlemen and ladies of the house hold, who had gathered about the death bed. When the Empress leant over h'm and embraced him, the Emperor's eyes fell upon his wife; he could not speak audibly, but he raised his lips to kiss the devoted and heroic companion ha YinA toL-on tn hid hpftrt: at-, tho hoiorlit. of his glory, and who had comforted nis exile ; and then he passed into his long sleep. He had breathed his last when his son arrived from Woolwich. It was a quarter past 11 on the 9th day of Jan uary, 1873. The Emperor's last words, faintly ad dressed to Dr. Conneau, were, "Etiez TOU3 a Sedan?" The poor young Prince arrived from Woolwich only half an hour after his father had passed away. The Empress met him at the door of the death-chamber, and taking him in her arms, cried "I have only you, Louis, left!" Frm JerroWs History of Napoleon III. A Daily 5ecfsslty. A mild mannered man came down tho aisle of the car before we got vo Utica. aud said softly: "Can I sell you a life preserver to day, sir?" The Jester looked at him in amaze ment "Well, hardly," he said. "If you could seiliue something with which jkiljl 111 tlit vitn Kit triflinuf rial' I of detection, now, I would consider that as near a life-'preserver as any thing, but I have no use for the ordi nary cork jacket that is never found un der the berths nor in the cabins of the ocean steamers." "And yet," the agent softly assured him, "every day you travel on the train you run a risk of awful death. You need a life-preserver as much in the railway parlor car as on the ocean steamer. Now I have here a very neat and useful contrivance. It is built, as you see by this model, on the general architectural plan of the complete armor of the middle ages, and gives tho wearer a Richard Coer de Lion appear ance." "I should think it would make him look more like the scrap heap of a prosperous railroad," said the Jester, 'where the rusty looking old man year after year weighs and sorts rusty odds and ends that nobody ever uses. If I wore that armor of yours, the boys would kidnap me aud sell me to the junk man every time the circus came around." "This invulnerable armor,"contiuued the agent, "is an infallible and inde structible protection against the sever est shocks, lou might lie down on the track, clad iu this suit of mail and let a thirty-eight ton locomotive run over you. Steam could not scald you. and if, bj- the concussion of the collision, another passenger ran into i m head on, it would bo a cold day for that other passenger. Here at your side hangs the regulation pattern old Front de Boeuf battle axe, with which to hew your way through the roof or sides of the overturned car, and hack your unhappy passengers free from encum bering clutches of the tangled seats. Should the flames of the burning car ap proach near enough to threaten to roast you in your armor before jou get out, this lire extinguisher at your back will avert that danger. This Sir Hildebrand Hildesprit railway life saving armor is the only positive assurance a man's family have that they will ever see him again when he buj-sa ticket to the next station, and no wise man will travel without it. And then it secures you plenty of room in a crowded car, for the man with the big overcoat, who always crowds into two-thirds of your seat and smothers you up into a corner without looking at you, can make no impression on this armor, and he won't want to dig his vicious elbows into these ribs of steel more than twice. And when ' "That settles it," said the Jester, "you may take my measure right hero." And although he had to pay 12i cents a pound, delivered at the foundry, the Jester ordered two suits; one to wear and one to set up in the seat beside him, to keep out the bore who loves to shriek and howl amid the roar and rat tle of the train, under the impression that he is carrying on a "conversa tion." "And when I get that medieval ar moral Railway Life Saving suit of mail,' said the Jester. "Oscar Wiide will turn olive green with fleshly envy." liur detle in Burlington Hawkcyc Consumption. The influence of soils upon health is a subject of no ordinary interest. A minute investigation clearly shows that consumption usually prevails on clayey and other soils that retain a large amount of moisture. Among other means of preventing the birth and growth of this unrelenting malady is living on dry or well-drained soils. The dwellings in which persons inclined to this disease live should be raised much above the level of the adjacent lands, and be exposed as much as possible to the vital forces of the sunny rays. Drainage of wet and retentive soils not only produces larger :uid earlier crops, but removes the causes of many severe diseases, notably consumption. . Rais ing dwellings high above the adjacent land enables us to well ventilate the cellars, remove the causes of decompo sition, or impurities, check tho gener ating of injurious gases that would ul timately enter the rooms above, and slowly and slyly create disease. And so, many wise physicians recommend that persons inclined to this malady should avoid the injurious results of exposure to moist and chilly air, in cold, damp, and sudden changes of tem perature. They strongly urge that such persous should reside during moist and chilly months in climates whose chang es are Jess than in the Northern States. What such patients need is a uniformly dry and moderate temperature, and they should exercise as much as possi ble in the house. It is not the temper ature itself that harms consumptives, but the changes of temperature. The temperature that is usually pleasant and invigorating to members of the human family is 66 degrees. It ab stracts heat from the human family at about the rate in which it is generated in the human bod aud is congenial and agreeable. It does not exhaust the vital powers nor produce any unpleas ant feelings. The consumptive not only needs a congenial temperature, but'excrcise enough to promote good digestion. Visiting a climate that is warmer than one's own has only this advantage that you often visit the outer air at regular periods of time. Have food at stated hours and take time for properly masticating it Have as liberal a supply of easily digested nourishing fod as you can easily dis solve, absorb and convert to blood. Keep the blood in active circulation. Avoid late hours and chills and damp air. Secure all the sleep you can. Do not limit yourselves to any definite number of hours, but sleep as long as your condition needs. Protect your body with woolen underclothing and inhale all the air you can in sunny days and expose your sin to the influ ence of the sunny rays. Recovery from this exhausting malady depends moro on this or a similar course of treatment than on medicine. But if drugs are absolutely needed take them iu small quantities at regular periods of time. Do not neglect to rub the skin well with a flesh brush or coarse towel e ery day. Content and cheerfulness do much to ward inducing the same result Prai rie Farmer. Five pale and delicate-looking, but neatly-dressed little boys filled the sanc tum this morning, ranged themselves in a row, and the spokesman said : "Note these pallid cheeks ? Castor oil. Note these shrunken limbs ? Castor oil. Note this Jack of abdominal ro tundity ? Castor oil. Note this unani mous stunt? Castor oil. We are the unfortunate sons of a female woman with a mania for castor oil, with which she doses us every night, until we can bear it no longer, and, heing desirous to break through this unnatural bond age, we wish you would say a good word for us in the paper." We prom ised, and the five tiled mournfully out. The more you look at this, the more sad it grows. Xew Haven Register. The Jersey Board of education re cently charged a lady teacher, through the Principal, of incompetency. The lady teacher put in a counter charge that the reason the Principal thought her incompetent was because she wouldn't let him walk home with her; Lady teacher retained. xV. Y. Pott. SCHOOL AND CHURCH. Cincinnati claims to have taken 1,300 converts into her churches this winter. There is in New Orleans a colored sisterhood of the Catholic Church who are devoting themselves to the education otj-oung girls of their own race. The late Deacon Thomas Smith of Hartford, left over 8400.000 for hi 400,000 for his !?n nnn to ,a ,:- f?mily atler Rv'mS 820.000 to the mis- sionary boards and 10,000 to local cnanties. Detroit Post. A young lady recently received into the First Baptist Church at JJurlington, Iowa, dated her first religious convic tions to the reading of Longfellow's "Psalm of Life." Chicago Journal. The Brooklyn Board of Education charges its teachers with using slan dressing loudly, and showing a lack of refinement and cleanliness. In short, " they are totally unfit" to teach Brook lyn's children. A sect called the "New Israel" ha? risen among the Jews of Russia. It abandons circumcision, abstinence from certain viands, changes t lie Sabbath from the soventh to the first day and abolishes usury. Ar. Y. ImlepemLnt. A railroad conductor was recently chosen deacon of a church. When ft became his duty to take up a collection, he surprised the congregation bv start ing out with the characteristic ejacula tion: "Tickets, gentlemen!" The con tribution that day was large. Chicago Herald. Sands Street Methodist Church is the oldest of its denomination in Brook lyn. The rules which were in force in 1815 required that the sexton should have the church opened and the candles lighted at least a quarter of an hour be fore the time of evening meeting. He was also to see that the candles were snuffed before the meeting began. The steady progress of missionary work in India may be judged of by what is said by the Rev. James Smith, an English Baptist missionary of long ex perience in Delhi. He says that thirty years ago it was considered encouraging if anew convert could be reported every two or three years. Now. at every mis sion station, they are counted by scores in each year. The suggestive and inspiring teacher is the man who is lxrn to hw work and who alone should perform it A patron of a school was once heard to say: "I wish we could get such a teacher as we had last year; lie taught the children hundreds of things they never thought of before, and my boy has pestered me with questions ever since; he will scarcely give me any rost; he tells me everything he has heard there and relates to me all the stories in his reading book and comments upon every thing. Such a teacher has a value be yond expression; he remains an inspir ing influence in his pupils' lives to the end of them. These teachers may be found and they are always appreciated abstractly; it has not been discovered that they arepaid more liberally than are the dullards of their profession. N. Y. Tribune. PUSGENT PARAGRAPHS. To-morrow never greets us; to-day never bids us farewell; yesterday never recalls us. Whitehall Times. The hardest rocks are made cf the softest mud, just as the biggest swells are made from the smallest men. Low ell Citizen. "Lemmy, you're a pig!" said a father to his son, who was five j'earsold. "Now, Lemmy. do you know what a pig is?" "Yes. sir a pig is a hog's little boy." Meriden Recorder. Sympathetic lady to beggar, who is standing with hat 6th "O, sir, won't you take a cold?" Beggar: "No, thank you, ma'am; I only takes pennies or five cent pieces." Philadelphia Sun. A chap who sent us a poem begin ning "When twilight dews are falling fast upon the rosy lea," has since mar. ried Rosa Lee, and now the weekly dues are fallinsr faster upon him. FreePre.ts. The presence of spongilla fluvialilis in most of the city water in the land is regarded as a sufficient excuse by many for the insertion of four tablespooufuls of spirilus frumenti in a small tumbler of aqua pura. Norrislown Herald. New that the fact has been demon strated that the earth will continue to revolve on its axis for at least ten mil lion years more, we would request our ubscribers to hesitate no longer about paying up for one year in advance. We may be sanguine, but we think this op portunity for displaying faith should not be neglected. Hackcnsack Republican. A New York athlete named Donald son wants to bet tliat he will jump from the centre of the Brooklyn bridge into the East River. He is safe enough in that bet. We'll bet that neither he nor any other man can jump from the centre of the Brooklyn bridge and come down anywhere but in the IJast River. N. Y. Graphic. It was an independent looking fel low who was standing on the railroad track, apparently paying no attention to the fact that a train was rapidly ap proaching. "I say," said the station master, "you had better get off the track or you will get run over. "I fancy that is my own affair if I get run over," was the reply. "Yes, I reckon so, but who is goingto attend to taking up the mess afterwards? It's not me." And. reach ing out his right foot, he kicked the in different man fifteen feet and nine inches by actual measurement. Texas Sif tings. We have studied with great care an essay " On the Application of Electro Puncture to the Treatment of Pulsatile Exophthalmos of the Orbit," and on the whole conclude that it is indispensable for family use. Night after night have we been kept awake by the "pulsatile ex ophthalmos" getting on a racket and knocking its own orbit askew. If we liad only Iiad an "electro puncture" or or even a bell punch in the house w should have been happy. But now science has stepped in and tilled this long felt want we are comparatively happy. New Haven Register. m Wealth in the Senate. The present Senate contains at least a score of Senators not one of whom if worth less than $200,000. The richest man is, of course, Fair of Nevada, wlio probably possesses as muph as all the other Senators together. Next to him is David Davis, of Illinois, a widower, who is reputed to be the possessor of millions. It is somewhat difficult to name the Senator whose fortune ranks third in size; but if Eugene Hale of Maine has received the mantle of his father-in-law, Zach Chandler, with its well-lined pockets, his fortune is nearly as large as that of David Davis. Tlie wife of Senator Hale is the only daugh ter of the late Senator Zach Chandler. Other very wealthy Senators are Miller of California, Mahone of Virginia, and Sawyer of Wisconsin, known to be worth more than a million each. Sewell of New Jersey is a railroad man, and is very wealthy. Senator John Sherman of Ohio, it is said, is worth more than $2,000,000, his property consisting large h of real estate in Washington. Among other Senators who write their fortunes with seven figures are Cameron of Penn sylvania, Camden and Dgvis of Wesi Virginia, Brown of Georgfa, and PHlmb of Kansas. Senators Hill of Colorado, Gorman of Maryland, McPherson of New Jersey, andPendleton of Oliio are all worth more than fSOO.OOO. Many, other Senators are comfortably fixed, possessing little hoards of from" $50,000 to $400,000. Among those who have but little comparatively here below that is not more than $100,000 apiece are Morrill of Vermont, Anthony of Rhode Island, Rollins of New Hampshire, Jones of Nevada, Saunders of Nebraska, and Allisoaoflowa. Portland (Me.) Argm. KENDALL'S SPAVIN GUEE I. 1 ITCTUrS SPAVINS ,"PLixr. iiixc ALLsi.Mii. vr im'imi ! IS1IKS A.VD x j "SHE" move niK iirsi'ii WITHOUT ING. BLISTfc.lt. KENDALL'S SPAVIN CFEE! - It has cured thousands of cases aud is destined to cure millions and millions mors KENDALL'S SPAVIN UEE! I the only positive rure known, and to show what thi- remedy will do we give here a : :ii!iph of cast- uredfor it, a statement which vas GIVEN UNDER OATH. To Whom it .May Concern. In the r:u- 1S7". I treate'd with " Kendall's Si-iin t lire." a hone spavin of several month.-' growth, nearly Iialf a large as a ! ns egg, and completely stopped the laiiit ness and removed the eiil-irgemcnt. I have worked the horse eer -.itiee very hard, and lie never ha been lame, nor could I ever see any dillereiu-e iu the size of the lioek joint- since I treated him with "Kendall Spavin Cure." It A. (iAI.N'KS. Enosl.urgh ""'alls. Vt. Feb. . T!. Sworn ami ?ulcriled to before me this -Joth day of Feb.. a. i. 1S7!. John O..Ik.nk. Ju tic of Tcaee KENDALL'S SPAVIN CUKE; ON HUMAN FLESH it has been ascertained hit repealed trt lis to he, the very best liniment ever used for any dce seated. pain of lona standing or of short duration. Also for CORN. : IN IONS. FROSf -IlIThS or any hruise, cut or lameness. Some are afraid to use it on hit nan jlesh simply became it is a horse medicine, but' you should remembir that what is good for Ji EAST is aood for M AN,' and ire know from Experience that "KENDALLS SPAVIN CURE" can be used on a eiid 1 uear old with perfect safety. Its Effects are wonderful on human ilesh and it does not blister or make a sore. Iry it and be convinced. KENDALL'S SPAVIN CUKE; Head below of Its wonderful e fleet c . II KM ATI TK. MlSSOPKI, Alll-t 0, 1SI. 15. !. KK.viiAl.LtV ).. Gknts: I am so oirjovit it; iewi.f the result of an ap plication of your Kendall Spavin Cure that 1 f.-.f that I omrht for Humanities sake puoiisti it to the worm. About thirt-live ear- nun while U"ly horse, I was ininred iu one of mv testlelf-. ami frmiitli.it nm ago a slow but constant enlargement has been the n-ult. giving me of trouble, almoM entirely preventing me from horseback rn'Tii. uyiiai n.ii tn ir;it;un. i saw a notice 01 vour Ivemla.i s pivm i iif'-. neer once thought of it for anything except for horse's, but atter recou in- he medicine and reading over what it was good for, feeling terriblj exercised about mv ilillicultc. tor I had consulted many physicians ami r.iiue gave me an v sp,-,-itic but 'when it could be endured no longer to remove it with the knite. 1 :ii',.litd ..tir Kendal''. Spavin Cure as an experiment, and it was so painful in i-s application that I coiiclu.i. .1 not to repeat it and thought no more ale ut it until ncir i week, and lo and bc'-old one-half the size wa gone, with joy I could scare l b-lie.- it, I immediately ap plied it orer again, and hac made iu all about '- doeu applications runuiu''ovcr a space or two weeks and the terrible enlargement U almost gns.-. ir. iew ffwluch I cannot express my feelings of delight. It has been a God send to me. m:o he .-cud to others with like troubles, .lon.v Kiei" 1'astcr of Hematite Congregational Church. i . s. lou are at liberty to put tins ashamed to have my name under, over or KENDALL'S SPAVIN CURE! Kendal IN Spavin Cure is sure in it- etfeets, mild in its action is it dm- not blister, xct it is penetrating and powerful to reach -in de -p -itdpuu .r t re move any bony growth or any other enlargement if ueI for sexci.r. dtjs. mhIi as spavins, splints, callous, sprains, swelling. an bim-ncv and all enl u:L'-mriit !' the joints or limb, or rheumatism in inan .im! tin-any purpo-e for wlinlia liniment in used for man or beast. It i- now known to be the best liniment for in m ier n. .1 acting mild yet certain in its effects. It is Used in tult strength v. 1th oertect saf. t at all seasons of the year. Send address for Illustrated Circular, which we think gives positive proof, of its virtues. No remedy has met witn Mich utiU;lllj d mi.v.ss to our knowledge, for bcastas well as man. Price $1 per bottle, or iv buttle- for $.". ALL DRUGGISTS have it or can get it for you. or it will be sent to anv address on receipt ot pi ice. b the proprirtois, 48 Dr." B. J. KENDALL & CO. E-iosburi; Fills Vermont. WHEN YOU TEAYEL ALWAYS TAKE THE B. & M. R. R. Examine map anil time tables carefully It will be seen tliat this line connects with C. l.tt2- K. It.; in fact they arc under one management, aud taken together form what Is' called Shortest and Quickest Line to ST. DESM0IXES, ROCK ISLAND, .And Especially to all Points IOWA, WISCONSIN', INDIANA, ILLINOIS, MICHIGAN, OHIO. PRINCIPAL ADVANTAGES AUK I'lirouh coaches from destination on C. 15. .4 Q. K. II. No tranfers; changes f.om C. H. & Q. It. U. to connect ing lines all made iu Union Depots. THROUGH TICKETS AT LOWEST RATES CAN UK IIAD Upon application at any station on the -oad. Agents are also prepared to check jaggage through; give all information as ,o rates, routes, time connections, etc . uid to btciirc sleeping car accomoda tion. This company i engaged on an exten tion which will open a NEW LINE TO DENVER And all points in olorado. This ev tcntion will be completed and ready for Hisincs in a 'few months, and the putt- I ie can then piiio all the advantages of i i through lin between Denver and Chicago, all under one management. I. S. l'if.ti. Gen'I T'k't A'gt, J3y Omaha, Nkis. LAND, FARMS, AND CITY PROPERTY FOR SALE, AT TIIK Union Pacfic Land Office, On Long Time and low rale of Interest. All wishing to buy Kail Koad Lands or Improved Farm will And it to their advantage to call at the U. P. Land Office before lookin elsewhere as I make a specialty of buying and selling lands on commission' all persons wish ing to sell farms or unimproved land will tind it to their advantage to leave i their lands with ni for sale, as my fa cilities for affecting sales are unsur passed. I am prepared to make linal proof for all partie- wishing to get a patent for their honn-steads. 32TIIenry Cordes. Clerk, writes and speaks German. SAMUEL C SMITH, Act. U.P. 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