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VOL. XIIL-NO. 81.
COLUMBUS, NEBM WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 29, 1882.
WHOLE NO. 655.
THE JOTJKNAL.
ISSUT.D EVERY WKDN'KSDAY,
M. Iv. TURNER & CO.,
Proprietors and Publishers.
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CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION.
C. H. VanW yck, U. S. Senator, Neb
raska Citv.
Alvin Saundkr.s,U.S. Senator, Omaha.
E. K. Valk.sti.vk, Rep.. West I'efnt.
T.J. Majors, Contingent Rep., Peru.
STATE DIRECTORY:
ALBtNUa Nanck, Governor, Lincoln.
S.J. Alexander. Secretary or State.
John Wallieus Auditor, Lincoln.
. M. B-irtlett, Treasurer, Lincoln.
C.J. DiUvoith, Attorney-General.
W.VT. W.Jone-., Supt. Public Instrur.
C.J. Xopcs. Warden of Penitentiary.
w)7;,Al,bie-V' t Prison Inspectors.
C.H.Gould, 5
J. O. Carter, Prison Physician.
H.P. Mathewson.Supt. Insane Asylum.
JUDICIARY:
George B.Lake.l Associate Judges.
Atna-:i Cobb.
S. Maxwell, Chief Justice.
KOlTKTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT.
J. W. Post, Judge, York.
M. H. Reese, District Attorney, Wahoo.
LAND OFFICERS:
M. B. Hoxie. Register, Grand Inland.
Win. Ativan. Receiver. Grand I -land.
LEGISLATIVE:
State Senator, M. K.Turner.
" Representative. (i- W. Lehman.
COUNTY DIRECTORY:
.1. G. HiggitK, County Judge.
John Stan tier. Countv Clerk.
c. A. Newman, Clerk Dist. Court.
J. W. Early, Treasurer.
!).". Ivavanaiigti. h-riri'.
L.J. ( rmnr. Surveyor.
.M. Maber, i
Joseph Rivet, V Countv Commissioner.
11. J Hud-on, )
Or. A. Heintz, Coroner.
J. E. Moucrief Supt. of Schools.
WlSiSfusj-icesofthePeace.
CITY DIRECTORY:
J. R. Measlier, Mavor.
A. B.CotTroth, Clerk.
J. B. Del-mau, Treiurer.
W. X. HenIey, Police .Indue.
I. E. North, Engineer.
CHUXCILMKX:
1st Ward lohn Rickly.
G. A. Sliroeiler.
'2d Ward Pat. Hav.
I.Ghuk.
3d Ward J. I'mu-'cn.
A. A. Smith.
CulumhuN Iol Office.
open on Sunday- trmll a.m. to 12m.
and from 4:30 to tf i". m. Ilu-ino
hours except Sunday (I a . m. to S p. si.
Eastern mails clo-e at' 11 a.m.
Western mails close at 4:1. r.Sl.
Mail leave- Columbu- for Lost Creek.
Genoa. St. Eduards, Albion. Platte
Center. Humphrey, Madison and Nor
folk, e-ry day except Sundays) at
l:aj p. in. " Arrives at 10:. "i.
For Shell Creek and Creston, arrives at
12 m. Leaves 1 i. M.. Tue-days. Thurs
day and Saturdays.
For Alexis, Patron and David City,
Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays,
1 P. M Arrives at 12 SI.
For Conklinc Tuesdays and Saturdays
7 a. in. Arrives G n. ni. same davs .
i;. I. Time Table.
Eastward Bound.
Emigrant. No.ti. leaves at
Pas-eng'r. 4, "
Freiirht, " 3, "
Freiirht. " 10, "
Westward Bound.
Freight, No. i, leaves at
Pas-eng'r, " 3, "
Freight, " !. "
Hmiirrant. 7. "
0:2.i a. in.
10:.rkS a. m.
2:1." p. in.
1:30 a. m.
2:00 p. m.
4:27 p. in.
0:00 p. m.
1:30 a. in.
Every day except Saturday the three
li'ies leading to Chicago connect with
V P. train- at OmahaT On Saturdays
there will be but one train a day, as
hnwn by the following schedule:
B. & M. TIMK
TABLE.
.:J.i a. si.
0:30 "
. 7.20
7:40 "
S:25 "
.S;.Vi "
!i:..o "
. !t:."i0 '
10:!."i '
lt:l." "
11:10 "
11:4.". SI.
Leaves Columbus.
44 Bell wood
" David City,
Garrison.
" Ulysses,
" Staplehurl, ..
' Seward,..
44 Rubv
Milford.
4 Plea-ant Dale
44 Emerald.
Arrives at Lincoln,
l.efivp- Lincoln at 2:25 1
si. and ar-
rives in Columbus 3:30 v. si.
Makes close connection at Lincoln for
all points east. West and -oiitb.
O., X. A B. H. ROAD.
Time Schedule No. 4. T take effect
June 2, Sl. For the government and
information of employees only. The
ompanv reserve the rirbt to vary
therefrom at pleasure. Train- daily.
Mindavs excepted.
Outward Bound.
Inward Bound.
OlUIUMIs :. I..VI. t
Norfolk 7:20 a.m.
Los tC reek 5:21
Muuson 7:47 "
Madison .:2G '
Humphrey!! :05 '
PL '" ntre !:- "
Lo-tCreeklO.Oii "
Columbus 10:.Vi '
PL Ceutre5:42
IIuuiphievtf;25
Madi-oii '7:04
Muiisou 7:43
Norfolk S:04
ALBION BRANCH.
Columbus 4:45 r. si. Albion 7:!3 a.si.
LostCreek5:31 - I "t. Edward:30 -4
Genoa . 0:10 Genoa !:H 44
St.E(lward7:(H " Lo,t CreekO:5!J 44
Albion 7:47 4 Cohunbusl0:4. "
H. LITERS & CO,
BLACKSMITHS
AND
AVa 2:011 Builders,
Brick Shop opposite H-Iutzs Brus Storr.
ALL KINDS OF WOOD AND IRON WORK ON
WAGONS AND BUGGIES DONE
ON SHORT NOTICE.
letenth Street, Columbus, yebrasia.
50
?JEBKASKA HOUSE,
S. J. MARMOY, Frop'r.
lebraska Ave., South of Depot,
COLUMBUS, 3fEB.
A new house, newly furnished. Good
accommodations. Board by day or
week at reasonable rates.
3TetP a Flrt-Clas Table.
Meals 25 Cts. Lodgings.... 25 Cti.
3S-2tf
COL u'iw BUS
I Restaurant and Saloon!
E. D. SHEEBAIS, Proprietor.
tSTWholesale ind Retail Dealer in For
eign Wines, Liquors and Cigars, Dub
lin Stout, Scotch and English Ales.
1ST Kentucky Whiskies a Specialty.
OYBTERfl in their season, by the case
can or dish.
iltkStrMt,Smtkr Dqit
BUSINESS CARDS.
pORXKUIUS 4c SUlLIVAM,
A TTORXETS-A T-LA W,
Up-stairs in Gluck Building, 11th street,
Above the New bank.
TT J. HlD0,
NOT A BY P TTBLIC.
12th Strwt. 2 doors west of lUmmond Hoate,
Columbus, Neb. 491-y
P- M. 1. TUUBSTO.,
RESIDENT DENTIST.
OtSce over corner of 11th and North-st.
All operations lirst-class and warranted.
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CHICAGO BARBER SHOP!
HENRY WOODS, Prop'r.
ESTEvery thing in first -clas style.
Also keep the best of cigars. 510-y
r EER A: ttEEDEK,
A TTOR2TETS AT LA W,
Office on Olive St., Columbus, Nebraska.
2-tf
r G. A. IIULLHORST, A. M., 31. D.,
OMEOPA Till C PUT SI CI AN,
ESTTwo Blocks south of Court House.
Telephone communication. 5-ly
ArcALLlMTER BROS.,
A TTOJRNETS AT LAW,
Office up-stairs in 3IcAllister's build
inir.. 11th St. W. A. 31cAllister, Notary
Public
r . KVA3IS. M-
PHYSICIAN it SURGEON.
227" Front room, up-stairs in Gluck
building, above the bank, llth St. C'Uls
answered nieht or day. 5-6m
J. SI. SIACKARLAND, B. R. COWDKRY,
AU-TS87 si VSOsj PsW : C:U:t:r.
LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE
OF
MACFARIjAND & COWDBRr,
Columbia, : : : Nebraska.
EO. . DERKT,
PAINTER.
233"Carri:i!;e, house and st?n painting,
-rlazing, paper hanging, kalsomining, etc
done to order. Shop on Kith St., opposite
Emrine House, Columbus, Neb. 10-y
Ti H.RUSCHE, -
llth St., nearly opp. duck's1 store,
SelU Harness. Saddles, Collars, Whips,
Blankets, t urry Combs, Brushes, etc.,
at the lowest possible prices. Repairs
promptly attended to.
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.ARK 4c UKEHERT,
LAND AND 1NSUBANCE AGENTS,
HUJiriir.EY, NBBE.
Their Iinus comprise some fine tracts
in the Shell Creek Valley, and the north
ern portion ol Pl.-tte cotinty. Taxes
paid for non-residents. Satisfaction
guaranteed. -0 y
BYRON SIILLETT,
Justiceofthe Peace and
Notary Public.
KYKO M11J-ETT,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, Columbus
Nebraska. N. B. He will give
close attention to all business entrusted
o him. 24s-
T OUIS SCHKEIBER,
BLACKSMITH AND WAGON MAKER.
All kinds of repairing done on short
notice. Buggies, Wagons, etc., made to
order, and all work guaranteed.
iSTShop opposite the 44Tattersall,'
Olive Street. '2r
TITAtiER Ac U'KNTCOTT,
ATTUE
CHECKERED BARN,
Are prepared to furnish the public w'th
good teams, buggies and carriages for all
occasions, especially fur funerals. Also
conduct a feed and sale stable. 4!)
r..MEs PEARSALL
IS PREPARKD, WITH
FIRST - CLASS A PPA RA TUS,
To remove houses at reasonable
rates. Give uim avail.
OTICE TO TEACHERS.
J. E. Moncrief. Co. Supt.,
Will be in his office at the Court House
on the first Saturday of each
month for the purpose of examining
applicants for teacher's certificates, and
for the transaction of any other business
pertaining to schools. iHii-y
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OL.UMBUS PACKING COH
COLUMBUS, - NEB.,
Packer and Dealers in all kinds of Hog
product, cash paid for Live or Dead Hogs
or grease.
Directors. R. H Henry, Prest.; John
Wiegius, Sec. and Treas.; L. Gerrard, S.
Cory.
TAMES SALMON,
CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER.
rians and estimates supplied for either
frame or brick buildings. Good work
jruaranteed. Shop on 13th Street, near
St. Paul Lumber Yard. Columbus, Ne
braska. 3- 6mo.
WILLIAM RYAN,
DEALER IX
KENTUCKY WHISKIES
Wines, Ales, Cigars and Tobacco.
ygSchilz's ililwaukee Beer constant
ly on hand. ffl
Elkvexth St.,
.Columbus, Neb.
Brs. MITCHELL & MAKTYH,
COLinBUi
mm & imm mmi
Surgeons O.. N. t B. H. R. E.,
Asst. Surgeons TJ. P. Ry,
COLUMBUS,
NEBRASKA.
JS. MURDOCH & SON,
Carpenters and Contractors.
Havenad an extended experience, and
will guarantee satisfaction in work.
All kinds of repairing done on short
notice. Our motto is, Good work and
fairpricei. Call and give us an oppor
tunity to estimate for you. "e"Shop on
13th St., one door west of Friedbof &
C'o's.stre, Columbus, Ifebr. 483-v
ADVERTISEMENTS.
FIRST
National Bank !
COLUMBUS, WEB.
Authorized Capital,
Cash Capital,
S250.000
50,000
OFFICERS axd directors.
A. ANDERSON, Pres't.
SAM'L C SMITH. Vice Pres't.
O. T. ROEN, Cashier.
J. W. EARLY,
ROBERT UHLIG.
HERMAN OEHLRICH.
W. A. MCALLISTER.
G.ANDERSON,
P. ANDERSON.
Foreign and Inland ExcSSbge, Passage
Tickets, Real Estate, Loan antt Insurance.
2!-vol-l3-ly
BECKER & WELCH,
PROPRIETORS OF
SHELL CREEK MILLS.
MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLE
SALE DEALERS IN
FLOUR AND MEAL.
OFFICE, COLUMBUS, NEB.
Dr. A. HEINTZ,
DEALER IX
U. .MIES. CHEMICALS.
WUXES, LIQUORS,
Fine Soaps, Brushes,
PERFUMEBY, Etc., Etc.,
And all articles usually kept on hand by
Druggists.
Physicians Prescriptions Carefully
Compounded.
Eleventh street, near Foundry.
COLUMBUS. : NEBRASKA.
SPE1CE & NORTH,
General Agents for the Sale of
REAL ESTATE.
Union Pacific, and Midland Pacific
R. R. Lands for sale at from $3.00 to $10.00
per acre for cash, or on five or ten years
time, in annual payments to suit pur
chasers. We have also a large and
choice lot of other lands, improved and
unimproved, for sale at low price and
on reasonable terms. Also business and
residence lots in the city. We keep a
complete abstractor title to all real es
tate in Platte County.
C21
COLUMBUS. NEB.
PUTS BEST !
BUY THE
Patent Roller Process
MINNESOTA
FLOUR!
ALWAYS GIVES SATISFACTION,
Because it make a superior article of
bread, and is the cheapest flour
in the market.
Every sack irarranfed to run alike, or
money refunded.
HERMAN OEHLRICH & BRO.,
GROCERS.
l-3m
WM. BECKER,
DEALER IN ALL KINDS OF
FAMILY GROCERIES!
I KEEP CONSTANTLY ON HAND A
WELL SELECTED STOCK.
Teas, Coffees, Sugar, Syrups,
Dried and Canned Fruits,
and other Staples a
Specialty.
GeedN DeliTerl Free te
part of the City.
T
I AM ALSO AGENT FOR THE CEL
EBRATED COQUHXARD
Farm and Spring Wagons,
of which I keep a constant supply on
hand, but few their equal, in style and
quality, second to none.
CAIX AMD LEASH PRICES.
Cor. Thirteenth and K Streets, near
A. it N. Depot.
OUT OF TOWN.
Close the shutters, Mary, darline:
Clos the slats, and leave no craakf
Put our pet Imported starling
In the Second story "back.
Pull the blinds at every casement
Down unto the window-Sill;
Take the poodle to the basement.
Take him there and keep him itQL
Swathe in dull brown-linen covert
All the parlor-furniture;
TU the cook to see her lovers
At the door with air secure.
Set us then our meals diurnal
In the back room jrently down
Put it in the FauliUm Journal
Thst -The Smiths are out of town
Puck.
OSTRICH-HUNTLNG.
Exciting Episodes on the African Prairie
How the Craziest or Game is Driven Into
the Meshes of the Hunters' Nets.
Captain James Fewsmith, and his
boon companion, Thomas Harrod, re
cently returned from an ostrich hunt
beyond the Transvaal, in the neighbor
hood of the Orange River. The Captain
is a veteran, and his account of a little
experience of himself and Harrod is in
teresting. The game inhabited the dry
Sortions of Africa from Egypt and the
iarbary States to the Cape, and were
he not the most idiotic game in the
world, it would have been almost im
possible to capture or shoot him. The
ostrich's sight and hearing are wonder
fully keen, and he can run at the rate
of a mile in two minutes for along time,
but, with every advantage on his side,
his own stupidity proves his destruc
tion. Captain Fewsmith and his friend were
well mounted, but as the dav was ex
tremely hot. they picketed their animals
under shade-trees and threw themselves
on the ground to smoke and rest until
the sun should descend lower in the
aky. A half-hour later. Captain Few
smith called attention to a curious vis
itor approaching. As the two hunters selves nearpools and springs where the
rose to their feet they perceived that he bird is in the habit of coming to drink,
was a bushinan, without any covering so as to slioot him unawares. The value
for his head, with a very scanty shirt, j of the ostrich, of course, lies in its plu
no foot gear, and with his trousers slung ' mage. These feathers are very costly,
over his shoulder. The lejrs of these ; it rarely happening that more than two
trousers were filled with something
which expanded them almost to the
bursting: point. When the grinning na-
tive came up he carefully let down the
heavily weighted garment and drew out
an ostrich egg, which he presented to
Captain Fewsmith.
"Let us see how many he has," said
Harrod. who proceeded to find out the
capacity of the rather flappy trousers
legs. The owner, on coming upon the
oetrich nest, had doffed his lower gar-
nient, torn off a strip from the waist
band, with which he tied the bottom of
each trousers leg, and then he had pro
ceeded to despoil the nest with as much
enthusiasm as an American urchin oft
en shows in gathering specimens for his
collection.
There were six of these eggs in one
leg, seven in the other, while the bodv j
ui tuc i;urmuiiL uuiiuimuu a iuuuu uu-
en more. nen n is nnuie Known inai '
eat-h egg weighed about three pounds,
and was equal in point of nourishment
to twenty-four hen's egg, it will be
seen thatnot only was the capacity of
the trousers tested to the utmost, but a
valuable supply of food was secured to
the bushman and his family. The
hunters had tasted ostrich eggs before,
but found them so strong that they did
not break the shell of the one left
them by the bushman. who went away
shortly after, but as they were in an os
trich country, they remounted their
horses, later in the -afternoon, and gal
loped at an easy pace in search of game,
well aware, from previous experience,
of the difficulties in the waj of success.
Turning the heads of their horse to
ward a sandy ridge, two or three miles
away, they rode along, until the base
was nearly reached, when they reigned
up abruptly at sight of an ostrich nest,
almost in their very path. The Captain
got down from the saddle to examine
the curious sight a little more closely.
It was simply scooped out of the sand a
foot and a half deep, and fully live feet
across. The eggs stood on end, so as
to occupy the smallest possible space.
As these all looked alike, it was hard
for any one to count them, if several
feet distant Like the gilded pipes of
the organ in church which one keeps
trying to enumerate during the sermon,
they are so similar that they blend and
run together so that the eye has hard
work to make sure of the number.
"The cunning native knows how to
keep the .-upply of eggs going: instead
of gathering in all like that bare-legged
follow, he will skillfully draw out the
eggs with a longtick until two or three
are left. If he does his bait well the
mother when she returns will not notice
that three are less than a dozen, and
will continue laying all through the sea
ton that is, from June to October."
The friends now rode to the top of
the ridge, halting and taking a careful
survey of the country before them; the
result was one that awakened hope and
delight. Less than a half mile distant
was a ridge parallel with the one on
which they had halted, and between the
two ran a valley several miles in extent.
Near the middle of this two ostriches
HSr - XUCw S
s-tB. 4M J-w tffvll ! A AAA' I n l-fc HnA w m .-
separating and attempting to flank the
M.W" .Si. W .- WtWtr. AlldVWU W.
birds, the horsemen rode at a leisurelv
gallop in the direction of the eastern
end of the valley. This was narrower
than the opposite opening, which there-
' ,
tore onered the very best chance in
world for the birds to escape, for they
could speedily dash through it into the
open country beyond, where they would
be safe against harm during that after-
Ntn n fr Irtnf. I-tvt- j h -. aI- - a n n n rm
tW tho ntnVh nvpa nn ovhih't-nn nf
stupidity which approaches the marvel
ous. The sight of the hunters making
for the eastern opening of the valley
seemed to give the ostriches the belief
that their enemies were trying to cut
off their only avenue of flight, and in
stead of turning the opposite way, they
instantly started on their long, swift
trot toward the point at which tne hunt
ers were also heading with much the
tart of the birds. The two ostriches
displayed still more marked failure to
"grasp the situation." The singular
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cbase could not nave lasted
nfriKv'P of ha,f bd forest with dead
.?2?l?Jl d i " rampikes." The little cloud of smoke
the birds, running
must have seen that the horsemen were
sure to reach the opening ahead of
them. But, not only did they refuse
to turn back, but they also failed
to swerve in the slightest decree
from their course on which
they had started: they simply increased
their speed, and with their ungainly
necks outstretched, struck a two-minute
trot and sped away for the most
dangerous point on the horizon. As
the pursuers were quite certain of their
til
game, they now slackened their gait
somewhat, and each fired a shot The
bullet of Captain Fewsmith went through
the brain of his bird, which ran a few
steps in a wild staggering way and thn
went down, it head plowing quite a
farrow lathe sand. Leaping from his
addle, the Captain harried forward and
cut the .throat of the ostrich, so a to
ead it sufferings.
It was almost at the same Instant that
Harrod discharged his ritle, and, seeing
the bird acting strangely, he was con
fident of haring indicted a mortal
wound, and was scarcely behind the
Captain in springing to the ground to
dispatch his prize.
But he made a slight mistake foi
when he placed himself directly n the
path of the bird and held bis 'hunting
knife ready to give him the finishing
touch, the ostrich seemed to brighten
up. Before the gentleman suspect
ed his intention he delivered a terrilic
kick which tumbled the hunter over on
his back as if struck by a failing tree.
The ostrich is capable of kicking with
such force as to kill the panther or
jackal, and he does it by throwing his
foot forward, the same as a man. In
the present instance Mr. Harrod fell so
quickly that Captain Fewsmith ran for
ward in .alarm Assisting him to his
feet, he was found to be little injured,
although he declared, with a grim smile,
that he knew more about ostriches than
he ever did before.
The bird kept on trotting straight
away until he vanished in tho twilight
and was seen no more, while the hunt
ers were glad enough to go into camp
and wait tul the morrow.
There are different methods of hunt
ing the ostrich. Ever school-boy re
calls the picture of the bushman awk
wardly disguised as one of the birds,
who is thereby enabled to approach close
enough to a herd to bring down several
with his bow and arrow. In other cases,
the hunter lies in wait and uses poisoned
arrows. In North Africa, the game is
pursued on horseback, the chase being
kept up for several days, until the bird
i is
literally run down and meapame ot
I goiug
further or making resistance.
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sometimes a ueru is
herd is forced into the
water, where it is an easy matter to
knock them in the head. The Europe
an horseineu prefer to conceal thein-
dozen marketable ones can be obtained
from a single bird. March or April is
the best season, as the ostriches have re
covered theirmoult and the feathers are
elastic and "vigorous. It is necessary
j also that the feathers should be plucked
i from the body of the bin! before it gets
' cooL or they will be found to have lost
' mucu of tIieir glossiness and disposition
' to curl Natal Cor. Philadelphia Press.
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Jueen Charlotte Islands and the Haidas.
The climate of the Queen Charlotte
Islands is excessively humid, and they
are almost everywhere covered with
magnificent coniferous trees. Mount
ains 4.000 to 5,000 feet high rise in their
central portion, and they are penetrated
on all sides by dark deep fiords with
rocky walls.
lo the northeast, it is true, a wide
i stretch of iow
and nearlv level country
occurs, which may some da support a
farming population; but at the present
time its somber woods, filled with dense
undergrowth, and barricaded with
prostrate trunks in every stage of de
cay, offer little to induce either Indian
or white to penetrate them. The Hai
das, therefore, though cultivating here
and there along the shores small pota
to patches, are essentially fishermen.
Few paths or trails traverse the inte
rior of the islands, and of these some
formerly used when the population was
greater are now abandoned.
The halibut is found in great abun
dance in the vicinity of the islands, and
it is more particularly on this fish that
the Haidas depend. Their villages are
invariably situated along the shore,
often ou bleak, wave-lashed parts of the
coast, but always in proximity to pro
ductive halibut banks. Journeys are
made in canoes along the coast. The
canoes are skillfully nollowed from the
great cedar-trees of the region, which,
after being worked down to a certain
small thickness, are steamed and spread
J by the insertion of cross-pieces till they
are made to assume a most graceful
form, and show lines which would satis
fy the most fastidious ship-builder. In
I their larger canoes the Haidas do not
! hesitate to make long voyages on the
, open sea; and in former days, by their
frequent descents on the coast of the
mainland, and the facility with which
, they retreated again to their own islands,
t they rendered themselves more dread
ed than any tribe from Vancouver to
i Sitka.
I R d km lhev di . -n -,.-1:
uf-,acture o can"oes and" other articles.
In their mode of life, and the ingenu-
, the Haidas do not differ essentially from
the other tribes inhabiting the northern
I part of the coast of British Columbia
and Southern Alaska. In the Queen
' Charlotte Islands, however, the peculiar
sU le of architecture and art elsewhere
among the Indians of the west coast
more or less prominently exhibited
j appears to attain its greatest develop
ment. Whether this may show that
to the Haidas or their ancestors the in-
j traduction of this is due, or indicate
merely that with the greater isolation of
, these people, and consequent increased
! -" ?! secri-y the Particular ideas
of the Indian mind were able
to bodv
themselves forth more fullv.
we may
never know. The situation of the
islands, and the comparative infre-)
quency with which thev have been vis-1
ited for many years, have at least tend-
cu iu iiioseivc iuuici nuuiv leuturea
which have already vanished from the '
customs and manufactures of most other .
tribes.
As before stated the permanent vil-
lae.S OI l"e nalua? are invariant
situ-
ated at the seashore. Thev consist
generally of a single long row of houses,
with but a narrow grassy border be- (
tween it and the beach, on which the j
canoes of the tribe (for each village j
constitutes a chieftaincy) are drawn up.
In front of each house "stands a symbol
ical carved post, while other carved
posts, situated irregularly, and differing
somewhat in form from those proper to
the houses, are generally memorials to
the dead. Such a village, seen from a
little distance off, the houses and posts
from the various fires may, however,
serve to indicate its true character.
George M. Dawson, in Harper's Maqa-.
zine. I
-The son of an Austin batcher ex-
Eerienced great difficulty in compre
ending fractions, although his'teacher
did his very best to make him under
stand their intricacies. "Now. let us
suppose," said the teacher, "that a
customer cam to your father to buy
five pounds of meat, and he only hai
four to sell what wnnld hp in?"
"Keep his hand on the meat while he
was weighing it, and then it would '
weigh more than tive pounds," was the
candid response. Texas Siftings.
Woman are hereafter tm be admit
ted to the University of Muuissinm in
j ail its departments.
Flaces ftr Thiags.
A. place for everything and every
thing in its place," is an adage familiar
to us all and full of wisdom. But to
keep " everything in its place" one'
must have a place for everything. and
this it is not always easy to have. Many
uuiises arc uuui vwiu siauicuiauic warn. .
of closets, for closets are expensive. in
room, material and labor. In planning '
a house they are frequently, if not gen-1
erally, an after-thought, and are thrown '
in where space for them can best be af-
forded. When women plan their own
houses there will be ample allowance of mpt. all politicians mercenary, the civil
closet room. If one has plenty of mon- service rotten to the core, and our so
ey, cabinets, wardrobes, chests, can be gjaj -fe js honey-combed with decav.
bought that are at once ornamental and Xow, mv dear bov, there's onlv one wav
useful, and form part of the furnishing, I for you 'to escape that man's whining
uul iuc uiaui uepeimcucc ui iiiGmi-ia-c
housekeeper must be closets. These
when furnished with shelves, drawers
and rows of hooks, are an unspeakable
comfort and convenieaee-to the order
lovintr housewife. In eitv houses where
everytning is constructea witn a view to
to I
ecouomv in space, we oiten nnu them.
but in the average country house very
rarely.
So there must be recourse to bureaus,
boxes, bags, chests and unprovised
closets. The last may be constructed
wherever there is space to put a shelf,
anil may be of the size of the shelf in
length and width. Hooks screwed into
the bottom of the shelf will serve to
hang garments on. and a curtain may
be hiiug on rod' fastened to the shelf.
A valance tacked above the rods ou the
shelf will form a. more complete protec
tion from dust than the curtain alone. In
many rooms that are closetless a comer
can be spared, and may be made either
iuto a triangular or a rectangular closet,
as suits the fancy or convenience.
eights sewed into the hem of the
curtain will keep it in place. Goods
boxes make very useful closets, for
kitchen or cellar use. Shelves niaf be
. 1 !.!. t. ..
put in them, and the covers, hinged
properly, serve as doors. With a cov
ering of paper or a coat of paint they
may be made not unpleasingtothe eye.
Shoe-boxes, used by shoe-packers, are
very useful as substitutes for closet
room. The covers should be hinged to
the box, and these neatly upholstered,
to form a plea-ant seat Furniture
calico fastened around them in rallies
or folds conceal the angles and the
wood, and converts utility into beauty.
Room can readily be found for these,
aud they fill the places of chairs or
lounges quite well. Soap boxes and
candle boxes aud starch boxes make
very convenient receptacles for small
articles if they have covers hinged on.
and are lined with paper and covered
ou the outside with pictures or calico
pasted on. A couple of hinges, less
than a tlozen screws, a little time, taste
and odd pieces of paper or cloth, may
be made to transform an ugly box into
a thing of useful comeliness.
Bags in even variety
ire needed by
the housekeeper. A tout piece of nice
bagging makes a good elothes-bag; and
an end ot" rope should be sewed into the
hem, so the top of the bag may always
be hospitably open. One of these hung
in every bed-room is indispensable, and
makes "the gathering of clothes for the
weekly washing a very easy matter.
Shoe bags are a great convenience, and
can be made so as to hold one or a
dozen pairs of shoes, and keep them
from gathering dust and mould in
closet corners, beside preventing the
vexation of hunting them up when
wanted. Scrap-bags are a necessity,
and may be made very ornamental by
the exercise of taste. They are indis-
fens.ible in every room in" the hoine.
nsead of bags, baskets or jars may be
used, and these can be made handsome
by the exercise of skill and taste.
Wall-pockets and brackets are very
great conveniences where one lacks
closet room and shelf room. The
former may be made of splints or
pasteboard covered with cloth and
trimmed with cord and embroidery. A
wall-pocket with many compartments
tacked on the inside of a closet door
may serve many valuable purposes,
especially where there is a family of
children" and a great many things
"lying round." A label on each pocket
will help keep things in the right place,
and prevent the shoe-laces from getting
mixed with the calico pieces or the
knitting work.
It takes time to create places to put
things in, and it takes time to keep
them in place, but not more time than
it takes to hunt them up when they
may be anywhere and everywhere and
belong nowhere. The satisfaction of
knowing that at a moment's notice, in
the middle of the night or in broad
daylight, one can put her hand on
whatever in her domain is called for,
is a great satisfaction t the orderly
housekeeper, and one which she will
contrive one way or another not to be
without. N. Y." Tribune.
AdTice to a Young "Xan.
Keep up with the procession, my
boy. DoD't hang back in the breeching.
Yon may be able to make things drag
a little, "but you can't stop the team,
and you'll have to come along. There
was a man, an eminent mathematician.
Dr. Lardner. of England, who pub
lished a treatise to prove that no steam
ship could ever cross the Atlantic
Ocean, and the steamer Sirius a few
weeks later brought the first copies of
the pamphlet to America. This same
eminent scientist also "staked his rep
utation as a man of science," before the
House of Commons, on his statement
that no railway train could ever go
faster than tenmiles an hour, and tne
slightest curve would invariablv throw
it off the track.
Babinet. the" French
calculator, declared that no telegram .
could ever be transmitted from.Europe
through the Atlantic to America.
There was a man right here in Amer-
ica. onlv one hundred years ago, who i
opposed the rebellion 6f the colonies .
because he knew it would be a failure.
There was a man who laughed himself
sore at Fulton's absurd ideas about
steamboats. There were members of
Congress who wanted Morse shut up in
an insane asylum because be talked
about a telegraph, which was an impos
sibilitv. There wa3 a man who said
you could never build a bridge across j " couldn't you scatter them along a lit
the Mississippi. There was a man who j tie? We really can't dispose of the
said you could never raise wheat on the ,
great American desert. Inere was a
man who "knew' that nothing but a
steam horse could ever trot in less than
2:40. There was a man who "knew"
you couldn't make the sun draw your
portrait. There was a man "who
"knew" you never could find a
better light than a whale oil lamp.
ihere was another man who
knew '
you could never beat lard oil. There
was another man who said Colonel
Drake was a gibbering idiot because he
S3id he could pump a better oil than
lard oil out of the ground like water.
There was another man who said Edi
son was insane when he talked about an
electric light. There was another maa
who said th phonograph was a clever
trick of ventriloqa&oa. There was a
man who said the telephone was a news
paper lie. There was a man in England
who led mobs of agricultural laborers to
destroy threshing machines. There was
a man" in America who "knew" the in
vention of the sewing-machine meant
' starvation for the poor seamstress. And
there a man to-dav who "knows" the
Indians can never be civilized. There
is a man who " knows" we have reached
the limit of human progress. There is
a man who "knows" the people are
helplessly enslaved, and will never rise
to assist 'themselves. There is a man
who "knows" that all politics are cor-
j an(i obstinate, mulish opposition to ev-
er tning. iveep so iar aneau oi nira you
can't hear him. . And do you keep mov
ing and drag him along. Rasp him with
the doublo-trees: he has to come, for the
old chariot never stands still a second.
i The
difference between you and that
mnn. mv hov. is th:it vnn run. nnil he
, 5s dragged. You spring along with
I your eyes open, your head erect,
and vou help to keep things
moving. He has his feet set in the road,
his eyes shut tight, his back up on his
shoulders and his heart under the wheels.
Every time you make a leap you throw
the dust back in his face. Uou't. my
boy, whatever you do. don't get back
beside that man. Don't have any
breeching on your harness. Put on a
breast-collar and that is enough; you'll
run more lightly and feel freer. Let
the man in the breeching hang back.
All that you have to do is to step out.
keep pace with the times, sing as you
march, and keep the man in the breech
ing so covered with dust the world will
only know he's there by the dirt around
him. It may be, Teleniachus, you will
run a little last sometimes; it mav be
, that you will kick over the traces in
. - ..
your exuberance of spirit; you may
sometime, want to strike a 2:19 gait on
a o:i'0 road; you may need more curb
than whip, but go it. my boy. There is
a good driver on the seat, and a firm
hand on the lines, and I'd rather see
. ou coming down the long vistas of his
tory with the bit in your teeth, your
heels in the air, the brake rod sprang,
and the dash-board tlying, than down
on your haunches, your eyes shut, and
your back bowed, the lash on your
flanks and your collar up to your ears,
your legs set like crowbars" and tho
dust of the whole team tlying in your
face, while you hang back in the
breeching and only come along because
you can't Help it. Burdette, in Burling
ton Eawkeye.
Sairhalicn Instead of Siberia.
The Novoe Vremju. which is usuallv
well informed in administrative matters,
! states in a leading article that the Rus-
' 3'an Govern meut is actively engaged
uiscusaiug n. project lor auousimu; exue
to Siberia. This may seem an untrust
worthy rumor to persons unacquainted
with Russian progress, but -it is, in ef
fect, altogether in harmony with the
tendency both of the Russian Govern
ment and people to give over treating
Siberia as a huge Botany Bay. and niaje
use of it as a colonial adjunct, like Can
ada or Australia. Of course a place
must still be found for the "50.000 exiles
who are deported from European Rus
sia every year, and here the recent an
nexation of Saghalien conies" in handy
to play in the North Pacific the role that
New Caledonia plays in behalf of the
French in the South Pacific Ocean.
Should the island become over-crowded,
as it would very likely be in course
of time, unless the stream of exiles di
minished, a second penal settlement
could be formed in the inhospitable
wilds of Novoe Zemlia, where a Russian
geographer has recently demonstrated
the winters to be not so bad as usual
ly represented. Whether this be so
or not. or whether Novoe Zemlia
will ever succeed Saghalien, it
seems to be tolerably certain that
before long the indiscriminate distribu
tion of exiles over the length and breadth
of Siberia will undergo a thorough over
hauling. At present, exiles are shot
over the Urals into Asia in a most pro
miscuous manner, scarcely a thiru re
maining in the districts assigned to
them, and a large proportion wandering
about the country like vagrants. In a
word, in most essentials the deportation
of non political convicts is simply a sort
of enforced colonization, with a suffi
cient grant from the State to keep the
exiles from actual starvation. This in
trusion of a needy criminal element has
always been a grievance to the regular
Siberians, and has been unanimously- re
garded by Russian statesmen as the
principal cause of the stunted growth ol
the country during its :300 years' exist
ence under Russian rule. Now that the
European railway system penetrates be
yond the Urals." and the province ot
Tobolsk has been placed on the same
home administrative footing as St.
Petersburg or Moscow, the deportation
of exiles, to Western Siberia at least,
has become an anomaly: and of the two
they would be kept in hand better in the
Island Saghalien than in the eastern sec
tion of that great appanage of the Rus
sian Empire. London Globe.
Killed the Wrong Hens.
An irascible sea-Captain settled down
to Portland life by the side of a well
tempered man, and the two got along
very well until the hen question came
up. Said the Captain:
" I like you as a neighbor, but I don't
like your hens, and if they trouble me
any mone 111 shoot them."
I he mild-mannered
neighbor studied
over the matter some, but knowing thi
Captain's reputation well by report, he
replied:
"Well, if we can't get along any
other way, shoot the hens, but I'll take
it as a favor if you will throw tiiem
when dead over into our yard and yell
to mv wife.
" All right," said the Captain.
The next day the Captain's gun was
heard, and a dead hen fell in the quiet
man's yard. The next day another hen
was thrown over, the next" two, and the
I next after three.
"Say," said the quiet man.
number you are killing.
"Give 'em to your poor relations,"
replied the Captain, gruffly.
And the quiet man did. He kept his
neighbors well supplied with chickens
for some weeks.
One day the Captain said to the quiet
man:
"I have half a dozen nice hens Tm
going to give you if you'll keep quiet
about this an air.
" How is that," said the quiet man.
' Are you sorry because you killed my
"Your hens!" said the Captain.
" Why, sir, those hens belonged to my
wife! I didn't know she had any until
I fed you and your neighbors all sum
mer out of her Meek." -Port land (Jfe.)
Transcript.
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.
I It Is claimed in Boston that every
. building iu the city available for manu-
facturing purposes is now occupied, and
I that suitable sites for other manufao
' tories are in demand.
It may interest our manufacturers
to learn that the Turkish Council of
ftta hat In ftnthnrirml tht lmnnrta-
I tion of agricultural machinery into tk
j Ottoman Empire free of duty. Chicago
Tjrk.ii BMt
It is estimated that no less than
800,000 tons of tin plate are annually
used in the United States in the manu
facture of tin boxes and can for oys
ters, and the multitude of various things
known to canners. A single New York
firm uses twenty tons of the plate per
day. N. Y. Times.
It used to be considered a wonderful
thing to engrave the Lord's Prayer on a
three-cent piece. At the last meeting ol
the San Francisco Microscopical Society
the President exhibited an engraving
upon a glass plate of the Lord's Prayer
so minutely executed that on the same
scale nine copies of the entire Bible
could be produced within the space of a
square Inch. St. Louis Globe.
The improved Gatling gun, which
is made at Hartford, has been tested at
Sandy Hook by the United States Ord
nance Board with very satisfactory
results. The cartridge feeder works at
an elevation, and Dr. Gatllng holds that
the gun, firing from five hundred to one
thousand shots a minute, will kill men
in intrenchments at any distance from
one hundred to thirty-five hundred
yards. New Haven Register.
Some of the foreign papers have
reported a discovery in photography ol
Capt. Blng, Paris. He converts a neg
ative into a positive In this way : The
back of the negative is covered with
soluble asphalt and then illuminated
through the negative. When the ex
posure is sufficient to make the light
portion Insoluble, the remainder of the
asphalt is dissolved away in any usual
manner, and lastly, the silver negative
Is dissolved off with the chloride of
copper and a fixing agent.
A Canadian paper says : The duty
of fumigating green-houses is such an
unpleasaut one that it is often neglected,
to the injury of the plants. A French
horticulturist has made a discovery
which will render it unnecessary to use
smoke for the purpose. He finds that
the vapor from boiling tobacco juice is
as efficacious as are the fumes from tho
burning weed. The method adopted is
simply to mix a small quantity of juice
in water and evaporate the whole. The
vapor, it is said, kills all the insects in
the house. Could not the same plan be
adopted against houseflies and mosqui
toes? Its recommendation would be its
cheapness, for the juice could be ex
pressed from the refuse tobacco which
Is now thrown away at the factories.
PITH AND POINT.
It is said a cornet player in Berlin
buret a blood-vessel trying to sound a
Wagnerian double note! It. is comfort
ing to know that Wagner's is to be the
musie of the future. Lowell Citizen.
Professor Huxley e-ttimates the taka
of herring in the North Sea at "5,000,
000,000. Before relying on Huxley's es
timate we would like to know whether
he saw the fish or took the statement ol
the fishermen. Boston Post.
Douglas Autz, of Norwich, fell un
der a moving train he was trying to
' board. When the train passed Douglass
arose, uninjured, with his cigar In his
mouth. Anil yet there ire people who
claim smoking to be injurious. Dan
bury News.
A new nurse-maid had beenengaged
for the family of John Leech. On her
appearing in the nurserv -the was thus
addressed bv Master Leech : "Nurse,
papa says f am one of those children
that can be manage! by kindness, and
I'll trouble you to fetch some sponge
cakes and oranges at once." Chicago
Tribune.
A salt mine has just been discovered
in Australia which is believed to be
more than two thousand years old. It's
a good thing it was a salt mine, or it
would'nt have kept half so long. Now,
there are some silver mines in America,
for in-tance, that haven't lasted more
than three months after the assessments
gave out. Burlington Hairkeie.
Some men have tact. Said the
bridegroom who didn't wish either
to offend his bride or die of internal
disturbance: "My dear, this bread looks
delicious; but it is the first you have
ever made. I can not think of eating
it, but will preserve it to show to our
children in after years as a sample of
their mother's skill and deftness." Bos
ton Pott.
Plantation philosophy Kemeraber,
young man, dat de best t'rien' yer's got
on dis earth is a better frien' ter himself
den he is ter you. Pay no attention ter
a man by de boasts what he makes.
Thunder tloan all de time tell ob a corn
in' rain. . . Doan turn a man cuten
de ranks of spectability case he's a cow
ard. A hound dog ain't much on de
fight, but he's a mighty useful animal.
. . . While Nature was a foolin' away
her time paintin' different colors an'
stripes on de horn3 ob de Jack snappers
an' odder bugs, I doan see why she
didn't contrive some easier way fur a
chile to cut teeth. Arkansas traveler.
Beat Him.
Dan and Flasher were in the habit of
trying their wits on each other.
Once they were discusssing the rela
tive merits of ritle V3. bow ana arrow.
" I can beat you even at short range,"
said Flasher, boastingly.
" Try it," said Dan.
They tried. Dan discharged an arrow
in pursuit of a hen that they saw In a
yard that they were passing, and missed
the hen.
Flasher, with a shot of his ritle, killed
the hen.
" There," he exclaimed, "I told you
that I could beat you."
" But I have beat ye," coolly said
Dan.
" How can that be ! You missed the
hen, while I killed her."
" Still I have beat ye, because you
must pay for the hen. Vou killed her."
Verdict for Dan from referee. De
troit Free Press.
A young woman was recently ar
rested in New York who ha3 led a most
adventurous life. In January last she
wa3 found at Hoboken almost frozen to
death in the snow. From there she went
to Brooklyn and attempted suicide by
jumping into the Gowanus Canal. She
was next found on West street. New
York, where she was suffering from the
effects of a dose of oxalic acid. Writers
of the modern sensational diimatia
school would do well to take note of this
case, and work it up with a few penny
awful accessories into a first-class five
act and seventeen-tableauz melodrama.
Christian Union. '
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