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, .--V. , A. .-iv.- Strang SalciiM. Suicide has always been a method of escaping the ills that flesh is heir to, more or less favored by humanity. In the purer days of Greece and Kome, self murder was regarded as a crime, and by tray of punishment the body was sub fected to disgrace. In Greece, for in stance, the corpse was buried instead of being burned. In most of the countries of antiquity, however, suicide was con sidered an act of courage, as disem boweling is even now in China, and in some places was even a lawful act In ' the island of Ceos the magistrates had the power Of determining whether a person had sufficient reasons for killing himself. A poison was kept and given to the applicant who made out his case before the magistracy. The same custom pre vailed among the Massilians, the ancient inhabitants of Marseilles. One of the most singular features of uicide is that it has been known to pre vail epidemically. If oue person strikes out some new method of self-destruction. others are sure to follow. Sir Charles Bell relates a strange incident that oc curred to the surgeon who was Bell's Eredecessor in the Middlesex, London, ospital. The surgeon went into a barber-shop to be shared, and the con versation turned upon a man in the hos pital who had vainly attempted to eut bis throat. "He could easily have managed it," said the surgeon, "if he had been ac quainted with the situation of the carotid artery. He did not cut in the right place." . The barber quietly inquired as to where he ought to have cut. The surgeon thoughtlessly pointed out the exact po sition of the large vessels, and where they could be wounded. After a little more conversation the barber left the room, and not returning, the surgeon went to look for him. He found him in the yard with his head nearly severed from his body. This was a case of what the doctors call epidemic or imitative suicide. Some years ago a man hung himself on the threshold of one of the doors of the Hotel des Iuvalides, Paris. No suicide had occurred for two years before, but within fourteen days no less than five invalids inuig themselves on that same cross-bar. Plutarch relates that the women of Miletus, a city of Ioua, were seized with an epidemic mania for suicide. They were melancholy because of the absence of their huabands and lovers who were away in battle. The women hanged themselves in such numbers that a Taw was passed "that the body oi every womau who hanged herself should be dragged naked through the streets by the same rope with which she committed the deed." This edict immediately put an end to the crime. Suicide is more common among men than women. Married women and widows are more prone to self destruc tion than the unmarried, while the re verse is the case with men, who, if about to marry or have the care of a family upon them, are not so apt to commit suicide, while those untram meled with ties seem to care less for life.' Men commit suicide by the pistol and by drowning, women by poison and vol-1 untary falls that is, in the great ma jorityof case?. People in everv grade of life have re- course to suicide as a ready escape from J trouble, but the causes which come high est in the list of reasons for self-destruction are insanity and chronic diseases. Among the young disappointment in love is the predominating cause, and in France, the land of suicide and romance, an unfortunate couple usually resolve to perish together. Some years ago a boat mau discovered in the Seine a mass which the stream appeared to roll along with difficulty. It proved to be two bodies, that of a 'oung girl and a young officer. They had lashed their right feet and right hands together. A letter writ ten on parchment declared that they died together that they might be eternally united. A singular suicide was that of a young French lady of rank who killed herself with her own fowling piece because she had no children to inherit her large for tune. A mere desire to be times leads neople to talked of some take their own lives. As George III. was passing Green Park, London, a gentleman seeing the royal carriage approach, stuck a paper addressed to tl.e King oa the railing. When the carriage was immediately op posite him the man discharged a pistol into his breast and fell dead. The suicide was a gentlemau who had held a Gov ernment position but had been sus pended. A Frenchman who had been jilted in formed his servant that he intended to kill himself, and requested him after his death to make a candle of his fat and carry it lighted to his lady-love, so that she mightsee that as he had burned for her his name was now real, for the can dle by which she read the note he sent was composed of his miserable body. He committed suicide after writing the letter. In the reign of terror Mini:. Augine. sister to Mine, de Catnpan. expected to die by the tyranny of Kobespierrc. She declared she would kill herself rath er than be guillotined. In vain Mme. de Campan urged her to wait the order of arrest, telling her that something might arise to prevent her fate, even at the moment of the greatest danger, but the guards arrived a she was speaking, and Mine. Augine 1 an to the roof of the house, threw herself off, and was taken up dead. As they were carrying her corpse to the grave the pall-beafers were obliged to turn aside tt let the cart pass wuicu couoyeo nooespierre 10 me scai fold. The nearest approach the writer has ever heard of a man making his quietus with almost a bare bodkin was that of a Greenwich pensioner, who stabbed him self to death with his spectacles, which he had sharpened to a point tor that pur pose. In 1731 a young lady at Bath, moving in high life and fond of high play, gambled away her whole fortune and hanged herself. A relative was inhuman enough to remark, on being told of her suicide, Indeed! Then she has tied herself up from play." One of the most singular nttempts at suicide was that made by an Italian named Lovat. in 180.'. He" was a shoe maker at WnL-e. and determined to cru cify himself. He provided the nails. ropes, uamts. crown or thorns, eto. Seeing that t would be difficult to nail himself to the cross, he made a net which he fastened over it, securing it at the bottom of the upright beam a little below the bracket he had placed for his f eet.aud at the ends of the two arms. The whole apparatus was securely tied by two ropcs.one from the net and the other from where the beams intersect each other. These ropes he fastened to the bar above them. Then, taking oil his clothing, he girded his loins with a handkerchief, and put on his crown of thoms. Next he got into the net, and seating himself on the cross, drove a nail through the palm of his right hand, placed his feet on the bracket, and with a mallet drove nails through his feet. Next he tied himself to the cross, and wounded himself in the side. All this he'did inside his own room, but he was bent on showing himself iu public. To accomplish this, he placed the foot of the cross upon the window sill, which was very low. and by the aid of his left arm. which was free, he tilted the whole machine out of the window, and there he hung by the two ropes which were fastened to the beam. His desire for display defeated his own ends, forbeingseenimmediately, people rushed p and hauled him in, cross and all, dis engaged him, put him to bed and sent for doctor. Lovat submitted to treatment. He had injured no vital part, and in the comae ol a couple J weckj his wou&fte were sealed. He new again IttcapUl to crucify himself, er to take his own life. In oar onntry suicide is becoming so prevalent, unless "the circumstances are attended with some unusual horror, like that of .Mrs. Seguin, who recently mur dered her three children as well as her self, ther awake little more than s pass ingahudder. The American woman has begun to be as familiar with the use of the pistol as a man, rendering suicide much' more easy of accomplishment than when her only means of self-destruction were by water, poison, or rope. The checking of suicide is surely of as much importance as any other question affecting life and happi ness, and if some of our great scientists nd philanthropists would show us how to securely fasten in the closet that skele ton which continually breaks out, a domestic will-of-the-wisp, luring the wretched to a violent death, then would our Herbert Spencers be doing humanity an appreciable service. N. x. Dispatch. A. Hinting Experience fat litis The following adventure happened whilst a friend and I were staying at the pretty village of S , famous for its pictures aim temples. The village liei as it were in a dent of the hills, for they rise on all sides far above it, and are in tersected with numerous rocky ravines, infested with tigers, panthers, etc. In the wildest and ateepest of these, that ran down between the hills close to the village, a tiger had taken up his quar ters, and prowling forth at night, used te kill and carry on" the cattle of the vil lagers. When we inquired if any brave shikaree ever attempted to shoot it, we were told that it was a sacred tiger, being protected by Camackria, the pre siding goddess of the largest temple of tne village; and that it was preferable to suffer the losses caused by its ravage! than to commit the impiety of attempting to kill it, for some terrible calamity would be certain to happen to its slayer. My friend and I thought differently; so when, next morning we were in formed of a fresh depredation that the animal had committed the previous I night, we determined to attempt its destruction. Guided by some of thi natives, we went to see the carcase o! the bullock, which the tiger had dragged J into this very ravine. Close by tne carcase there were some trees, and we quickly made our ar rangements. We erected a strong plat form called by the natives a machan in a neighboring tree; and on this, thi following evening, my friend and J took up our quarters, patiently awaiting the tiger's appearance. As we thought it useless for both of us to keep , awake, we arranged that I should watch till midnight, and my friend from' then til dawn. During my watch, nothing occurred. The only objects I saw were the waving branches of neighboring trees, and thi gleam of the fireflies as they flashed through these shadows. The only sounds I heard were the clang of the cymbali and the beat of tom-toms, that rosi from the valley below as a procession ol villagers proceeded to the temple of tkeil goddess, to beseech from her the boon ol rain. Now the howls of the worshippers grow less, as the chanted charm of theit priest arises; and now, under the Strang powers, the cries of the fanatics cease, while the notes of the tom-tom throl pulse-like in the beat of its rhythm. 'Now the song ceases below, and its lasl notes have echoed and died in the dis tant clefts of neighboring valleys; and then the only sounds heard are the criei of the jackal and the screech of somi night-bird. Towards midnight, the breeze light ens, then dies away; then gradually, through this midnight calm, a sense oi dim terror steals over me, and I shlvei in the chill of an indefinable dread. Midnight has long passed, whei I awake my companion, and thes after a pull at the flask. I settle my self for a nap. Hardlv seem to have closed my eyes, when I am aroused by the grip of my friend. On my asking what he saw he said that he felt unac countably oppressed and nervous; and he expressed a wish for me to keef watch along with him. I agreed al once. As we sit waiting I feel my feet are getting benumbed, and in spite ol all my efforts I cannot bring back till circulation. The sensation o? deadnesf is also affecting my legs. My friend sayi be is sunenng in the same way. tiradu ally my arms grow powerless, and I am unable to raise the gun at my side, and now even my neck stiffens. All mi body, indeed, seems paralyzed. At thai moment a crashing of sticks in the neigh boring bushes tells the approach of somi animal. Louder the sound grows, and presently the bushes part and the head of the tiger is thrust forth, then hii whole body, and he proceeds to his un molested repast. With the sound ol crunching bones in my ears, a deaden ing sensation seizes my braim and I be come insensible. When my friend aad I recovered consciousness we were being looked after in the house of the headman of the village of S . He told us that ai daybreak a partv of villagers had ascended the ravine, and finding us in sensible, had immediately carried us U his house. And he ended by asking ui whether we now believed in the powei of the goddess and in the invulnerability of her tiger. Before leaving the village we revisited the ravine and found our machan rested upon two trees growing close together, one of which was of a poisonous char acter. To the exhalations of this tree, when the breeze died away I fancy wi owe the state of coma that I have de scribed, and the long subsequent illness which prevented us from again attempt ing the slaughter of the tiger. (7Aam tew' Journal. She Dlda't Transit. Just before noon on the 6th Inst., thousands of Detroiters were gazing at the sun through smoked glass to behold the transit of Venus. There was s group of forty or fifty at the corner ol Michigan Avenue and G lis wold Street, and a farmer who was on his way to market with a load of produce halted hit team to see what it all meant. Us didn't "give himself away" all at once, as some men might have done, but first looked to see what could be seen. The crowd faced the Mechanics' block, and in one of the upper windows was a sorub woman cleaning the glass. Afters lone look at her the farmer bent down ana asked of a boy beside the wagon: " Say, bub, what's happened?" " Transit of Venus," was the reply. " When does she come off?" " Right awaj I guess." " Then I'll wait, and I'll bet this load of 'taters agin a sheep pelt that if Venus takes a transit from that window to tht sidewalk she'll never dance agin. It's a free show, anyhow and I'll count my self in." He waited and watched for tan min utes, and at the end of that time the woman finished the window and disap peared inside. The man rubbed his eyes and looked, and stood up and looked again, but she had gone from sight. " Well, I'll be hanged."' he mutters. as he gathered up his lines. " In the first place Venus was as hose'ly as aa old oak stump; ia the next place she didn't transit at all. but disappeared, and in the third place how on airth these city folks can fool away so much time ana make a living, too, beats me all heller. Git up. thar', Charles aad Wllllae."-. Detroit Free Frets. For nice muffins se erne cop ef cold boiled rice, sne pint of few, tare tges, one quart of milk, one tablaspoeV f ul of butter and Butch si ealt; Beef thoroughly and kike ftieklj. Jt-nm' Jew If esse. Oho day last week Mr. Jones received letter informing him of the death of aa uncle of whom he had never heard, and stating.tho comfortable tact that he was sole heir to a large amount of mon ey. Jones answered the letter by the next mail, telling the writer, who was a lawyer, how to send the funds, and then he went home and indulged in some day-dreaming. "Mar' a," he said, approaching Mrs. Jones with a sheet of drawing-paper covered with intricate lines, "do vou know what that is?" 'Yes," answered Maria, looking at it a. moment with careful attention; "it's a view of Central Africa; we had it at school." "Nonsense," retorted Jones, walking heaiilyup and down the room, and stepping on the baby, "it's our new house. That's what it is."" "Are you going 10 build, Jeptha?" she asked, as she bathed the baby's head with vanilla- under a mistaken no tion that it was arnica. "Immediately." answered Mr. Jones, putt'ng both elbows. through the i arlor window in his excitement. "Do you see that plan. Maria? I drew that ali out of my own head and have wood enough left for another. Look at that vesti uie! Fourteen ways to get out in case of fire." ' r d rather bo sure of one way to get indid papa break its 'ittle head, poor thing? Seems to mo I've heard, Jeptha, of fools building house's and wise men living in them! What does itmean?" "It means that some foot of an archi tect will build this house and I will live in it. He's making out the plans now four parlors, a hall with stained glass windows, marquetrie floors. 'Tell you what. Maria, folks will tare." " But don't you catch your lot first?" asked Mrs. .J . Oh that's all right! Lot-of build ing corners everywhere. Now. let me see. Eery room must have a bav win dow, and there must be a niche iu the hall for a bracket of Venus or some thing." Willie Jones went to school and told the boys they were going to have a new house with the n'itch in it. and he'd catch it and give it to them all and Jones went' off up on Davenport street to look at a house that suited him; he staid there all the morning studviusr modern architecture, and getting' his death of cold,' and then when he sat down before supper to make a drawing from memory he found that he had for gotten whether the front door opened in or out.. Til go up and take another look," be said to him, elf, and he did: he got down on his knee? on the door-mat in the du-k, and took a mental measure ment of the premises. Just as he was rising a voice came through the key-hole into his nearest ear. "My hero, my prince, I have long waited for thee! 1 fly to meet thee. Be at the drug store at the corner : nine to-night. Adieu, mv unknown. Bead this letter and. you will know that your passion is reiipfocated." Jones took the letter that was insinu ated un er the door, and turned to leave, all in a flutter, when a brawny nanu leu on ins snouiuer. "I say. you feller, git! I've hed mv eye on yoii all day. and you're actin' mighty suspiciously. If you don' t want to be jugged keep out o' this beat. Yer appearance is agin yer." "But." stammered the unfortunate man, "don't you know me? My name is Jones. I live on " "t on'tcare if your name's Smith or Brown," retorted the policeman; "it's my opinyon yer n. g. so git." Tones got; he went home rapidly, filled with a sweet, mysterious influence from the secret letter he carried, and which he dare not stop to read under a lamp-post. Maria met him in the hall, so ho didn't get any chance to slip the missive out of his overcoat pocket tint 1 after tea. Then Ma ia came in with the unlucky overcoat in her hand. I'm going to sew on that button this very minute," she said, holding the said button in her teeth and turning the pockets inside out, while quarts of per spiration ran down Jones' back and lis knees shook like castanets. She doesn't stop to look at the letter. Oh yes she does, let a woman alone for that! "What's this?" she gasped "To my heart's idol." in a strange woman's hand. Cb. hold me. I'm going to die. Trai-t-o r-r-r! Wret-ch!" What is it?"' asked Jones, innocent ly, in a voice that seemed wrenched from his boots. " Why, Maria, wha: a goose you are? I picked that up in the car don't open it. there's a line of live hundred dollars for opening other peo ple's letters:" Mrs. Jones concluded not to die just then, and they spent a lovely evening quarreling as 'to whether there should be a china closet in the front par'or or not, and if marque rie was spelled with twoq'sorone. the next lay just as the architect was wishing either that he was dead or Jones was. there came another letter from the lawyer saying that he was not the, Jones the money was intended for Joseph Jones, the Board of Trade man. The mistake arose rrom tne initials or their Jront names being similar. Mrs. J. says she never was so thankful for anything in her life, as she feels persuaded that be tween Jones and the what-you-techt she would have been won ed out of her life. Detroit tost and 'Jribtme. Sly Triek ef a h zr Horse. Any one desirous of verifying the fol lowing story need only to take a stand at the foot of Chardou street, where the relief horses are stationed, and watch Lady Knights' maneuverings. 1 ady Knights is a veteran on the relief corps of horse-;, having served in that capaci ty some eight or ten years, and it is quite evident that during that time she has learned a thing or I wo by observa tion, if in no other way. Tart of the day two horses are kept for the pur pose of helping the cars up the hill, and they alternate, or are s ipposed to, n their duties. But Lady Knights is a slyboots, and needs a vigilant eye to see that she doesn't cheat. When the relief horse gets to Bowdoin s uare it is unhitched and goes back to the foot of the hill, taking its place next to the curb-stone, which indicates to the next car that the oitside horse is to help pull up the hill. So accustomed have the horses beome to this routine that they seem to go through it mechanically, and are left to go down alone and take their places. Now, this is one of Lady Knights' favorite tricks. When the other hor o comes down and stations himself in his proper place, she walks up just ahead of him and- then backs herself in be tween Old Stupid and the curbstone; the consequence is Old Stupid some times pulls three or four successive ars up the hill, and would probably keep on pulling for the rest of the day did not the attendant come to tho rescue. tne jook oi mjureu innocence wmcu Lady Knights assumes when the man snakes her out from next the curb and puts her in her. proper place is funny. Boston Journal. A convict in a Georgia railroad car slipped off the handcuffs and j- niped head-fpremost through a window, ex actly like the harlequin's feat in tin pantomime; but there was no device for catching him softly, and it was sup posed that he would be killed by the falL However, he was seen to staggpr tb-hisfeet; stand a minute as though lazed, and then da-h o.l toward the woods. Prof. Brewer aavs: 'The trotting horae is a modern and Amer can inven tion." Thank heaven, there is one thing that wasn't invented by the Chi nese 23,000 years ago! later leturus. Bowever, may rob ss of this honor. Gaards A Street. Tale of Wall Blatt is an accident insurance agent, and was trying a few days since to in duce sundry brokers to take out accident policies. They laughed him to scorn, and finally one in derision said: "If you'll get Jay Gould to take out an ac cident policy we'll see him and go him ten times the amount better." Til do it," said Blatt, and he darted eut of the office. Blatt is a man of nerve and function; of good address and great executive ability, and also of audaciousness. But it worried him to think how he should get at Jay Gould. He knew how well Gould is fortified. It is necessary to pass the investigative scrutiny of three men ere one can reach the ear of Gould in his financial holy of holies. If the first guard deems the business and the man worthy the attention of the second guard, he turns the Gould seeker over to the second guard. If the second guard deems the man and his business worthy he turns him over to the third guard. If the third guard deems tne man one of the elect he ad mits him to the presence of the great Wall Street potentate. It's a terribly sifting process, and this road to Gould is strewn with the wrecks of those who have gone to pieces on one or the other of the three, and so come short of the glory of a private interview with Gould. Blatt determined in his intercourse with the three Gould guards to fence in his business with mystery and import ance; to state no details but only gener alities, inferring affairs and secrets of great moment to be whispered into no ear save that of Gould. So he met the inquiry of guard one with the reply: "I am just off the street and am the possessor of a secret which must reach none but the ear of Gould himself. And with this and a bold front he did actually, to his own amazement, pass the three and found himself in the pres ence of Gould. The King of Cash sat idly and alone, with one leg on the table. He greeted Blatt with the remark: "Well, sir, what is vour business with me?" Blatt at that moment would have fiven a part of his bciug to be out of the Iighty Presence. But he was iu for it, The Rubicon was passed. The ships were burned. There was no escape nor looking back. So he said, with an air of frank self deprecation: "Mr Gould, the fact is, I've come to ask you to take o..t an ac cident policy." Gould stared and thenlaughed. That this man with business of no more im portance than this should manage tc run the gauntlet of his three guards amused him. And he also admired tht talent which could do it. . He said: "But why should I take out an accident policy?"" "Well. Mr. Gould," said Blatt, "the fact is. A, B and C (naming his three deriders who were known to Gould) de clared that if I could get an accident policy out of you they'd go ten time3 the amount better." "O, they did, did they?" said Gould, whose eyes twinkled with satisfaction of scoring a pofnt on the Derisive Three. "What is the highest amount 1 can take on a single policy?" "Ten thousand dollars." "Make it out, then." Which Blatt did. But as Gould ten dered him the money Blatt remarked: "Mr. Gould. I've one more favor to ask of you. I want your signature to a check for that amount, because if 1 haven't it they won't believe I've capt ured you and t want it to shake at thosi fellows." "All right," said Gould, and he passed on his signature. Blatt in two minutes was back before his deriders. "I've got him," he cried. and then, even before the expression ol incredulity had time to harden on the faces of the three, he did shake under their noses the check with Gould's sig nature. Blatt retired with three big accident policies. The Derisive Three are still wondering how Blatt got past the Gould guards. Toujour: Vaudace!N. Y. Oraphie. Innocent and Guilty The oft-told story of the painter who painted an ideal picture of "Innocence," from the face of a beautiful child who sat as his model, and in his old age had a villainous looking criminal sit to him for the model of a picture of "Guilt" as a companion-piece to the other, and discovered that the child and the crim inal were tho same person, has received some startling illustrations in real life. A convict discharged from the old Charlcstown State Prison told the follow ing remarkable history of himself to the warden of that prison: Some years ago a gentleman and his wife and their only child, a boy of five or six years old, visited the prison. They were shown through the work shops and prison by an officer, who pointed out the different objects of in terest as they passed along. The gentle man was inquiring about a man who had recently been sent to prison for life for murder. "Bv the way, this is his room," said the officer, stopping before one of the cells, the door of which stood open. Tho i;ttla Ktvt- wit J. o ,.i.:i,ii.. n.,;nc.:. stepped up and looked in. His father came up behind the child and playfully pushed him in, and closed the door. The little fellow shrieked to be let our. The door was. immediately opened, and the child ran sobbing into his mother's arms. She, brushing back the light curlsfrom his forehead and kissing him, said soothingly: "No. no; they shan't shut up my little son in prison." The boy was terribly frightened; he turned his eves once more toward the dreaded cell, and for the first time noticed on the door the "No ." The incident made a deep impression upon his mind. Time passed. He grew to manhood. His father and mother were both dead. He became a sailor, and a good one, rising step by step until he was second in command of one of the California steamers sailing from New York. But like many others, in consequence of that vice which has dragged down so many even from high positions, he lost his situation, came back to Boston, sank lower anu tower, ami was nnatiy ar rested for breaking into a store. He was sentenced to btate Prison for four years. When received at the prison he was taken to the bath-room the usual cus tom bathed, shaved and clipped; clothed in the prison dress and conducted to the room he was to occupy. Judge of his horror and consternation when he found himself standing before, and the officer unlocking, the door of the same cell, "No ,'?into which he, when a child, had been thrust for a mo ment by his father. In relating the story to me (says Warden Haynes), he said no one could imagine his feelings when he found him sen an inmate of that cell, livery inci dent and scene from childhood rushed upon his mind; the exclamation of his mother: "No, no; they shan't shut up my little son in prison," rang in his ears, and he threw himself upon a stool weeping, in utter despair and wretched ness. But it is pleasant to see shining through this strange story of circum stantial retribution tne truth of the fam ous line: "There's a divinity that shapes our ends." The convict became a religious man in prison, and years after his discharge rose to be an officer in the navy. Youth'' a Companion. The human race it over. never a walk" The Geild 18S3. JULY. ei!s;3!3.iss'ss? Wzuzi zs.ee i ss.ssao'aii- JANUARY. a u. t. w.It. k. s. i : u i i v e jioni is is l4-l)ie!l-7'l8 i,au I (S. M. T. jw. T. P. a. i s sj 4 a t ' a e lejit is ia i 15 le 17 IS 1S4S1 7sa , .CD 30,81. -- -- -- .. FEBRUARY, i ? AUGUST. 8. M. 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X 1 ' 8 S 4 S S 7 s S lt 11 IS IS 14 IS 18 17 18 ISSS'SI SS 'SU 84 SS 88 87 88 SS 'S4 81 8 S IS' ii i.ia' 14'15 16 i7jis is as vistta 84 SS 88 S7!8! SO H-l- FA KM AM) FIKESIME. For spice cake use two cups of sugar, one cup of butter, three egs, one cup of cold water, teaspoouful of soda, three cups of raisins, chopped, three cups of dour, and spice to suit the taste. For cup pudding that are quickly made seat up four spoonfuls of Hour, with a pint of milk and four eggs; udd nutmeg and sugar to suit the taste; but ter tea cups and till them three-quarters full, and bake for a quarter of an hour. Ham toast, which is very nice for breakfast, is made of one slice of cold ham cut iuto small pieces, one egg, a little thin cream, and a little pepper and salt; mix" together on the stove nutil it thickens, and then pour over toast but tered and cut in slices. To make good turkey-soup take the bones and cook for about an hour iu just enough water to cover them, then add a little of the dressing and a beaten egg. and if desired a little finely chop ped celery. Alter taking from the lire, season with butter, pepper and salt. Poultry breeders do not seem to ap preciate the great value of bones for their fowls, and but a limited few ever make use of them for this purpose. No matter whether the birds are confined or not. they are sure to be benefited by a moderate quantity of bones, though those which are in close confinement need them most. For a delicious white cake take one cup of white sugar, one-third of a cup of melted butter, whipped to a cream, one third of a cup of milk, and stir thor oughly; then add onecupoftlour, sifted, one-third of a cup of corn-starch and one teaspoonful of baking-powder. Take the whites of four egs, beat them to a stiff froth and stir in thoroughly; flavor with lemon and bake slowly. For excellent lemon creams, pare four lemons very thin, and put the peel in twelve tablespoonfuls of water; squeeze the juice iuto eight ounces of finely-powdered sugar; take tike yelks of ten eggs, well beaten, and add the peel, water and juice gradually, and strain through a muslin cloth into a stew-pan; stir one way over a slow fire until it be comes quite thick, taking care not to let it boil; serve in custard cups. One of the best omelets we have ever oaten is made after Catherine Owen's recipe: Take the crumb of a slice of bread, soak it in hot milk (cold will do, but hot is better), beat up white of four eggs to a high froth; mix the bread with all the milk it will absorb, no more, iuto a paste, add the yelks of eggs with a little salt, set the pan on the fire with an ounce of butter. Let it get very hot. then mix the whites of eggs With the yelks and bread lightly, pour in the pan and move about for a minute; if the oven is hot when the omelet is brown underneath set the pan in tho oven for five minutes, or until the top is set; then double half over, and serve. The ad vantage of this omelet is that it keeps plump and tender till cold, so that five minutes of waiting does not turn it into leather, the great objection to omelets generally. N. Y. Examiner. No Doubt. The truest successes in life are not those into which people fall by accident, or those which tliey win by a single bold stroke, but those into which they grow by a slow and sure unfolding of capacity and power. The most unfortu nate thing than can happen to a young man is often the very thing which his friends regard as a piece of exceedingly good luck. There is no better prepara tion for failure than that a man has been put into a place of influence, re sponsibility and power, before he has been developed and equipped for it. Men who make this mistake, or have the misfortune, commence life at the apev of the pyramid, and descend, step by step, to the bottom. The true road to success leads in the opposite direc tion; it begins in small things, and bv a patience which never yields to dis couragenicnt, to disappointment, to hope deferred, moves on from one point of achievement to another, meeting each new opportunity with an increased power and each new duty with an en larged outlook upon the work to" be done. The method of growth is the method of nature, and no man can copy her methods too closely. They are the only methods that are helpful' and unfailing. Long ago Dr. Holmes put the whole matter of success' in life in a few pathetic words descriptive of the race in which those who started with most of promise were left behind, and the unexpected winner came to the front by virtue of qualities unsuspected at the beginning. The promise of success is not in brilliancy of gift, in quickuess of action, nor in high ambitions, but in that patience which is in itself a noble achieve ment. The man who is sure to win waits for success while he slowly trains himself in all the schools of work, en durance and study. The patient man has no expectation of carrying off the crown when he has passed the first stone in the course, and the shouts of the spec tators, if they applaud his speed, have no other effect upon him than to urge him on over the tract which lies between him and the distant goal. He places his faith not in tricks, or devices, or luck, but in the development of himself by a law of nature which is as certain in its operations as that which moves the planets in their courses. There is not the slightest doubt that patience wins the most lasting successes, and that he alone can hope for the noblest things who Is willing not only to work but also to wait, I C'Arutfoft Utm, 1 MISCELLANEOUS. It takes but thirteen minutes to lead an elophant on a train, while it takes twenty for any sort of .woman to kiss her fricntls good-by and lose ths check for her trunk. A girl at Richmond Hill, L. I., was struck by an engine and thrown sixty two feet through the air. Her body struck the side of. the station building with such force as to break tho boards. "That is- half-granted which is de nied graciously," says a philosopher. That may be so; but denials, bowever sweetly made, do not fill the contribu tion boxes. The editor of the Troy Press, who was recently horsewhipped, is said to have purchased a sixteen-lollar revolver. and is now employed in shooting apples off the heads of hi reporters. m The rate of vibration of the rattle snake's tail has. been determined by Dr. Ott to be sixty per second. The method of experiment was to attach a pen to the snake's rattle, the record being received on a revolving drum. The success of a Roman Catholic colony, including several County Cork (Ireland) farmers, in Greeley County, Neb., has encouraged Mr. Lane to form a syndicate of capitalists, with the view of establishing a similar Irish colony in lows. The strongest man in the country lives in Georgia. His name is William Mills, and he is reported to carry 4,000 pounds on his shoulders. This is nearly as much as the late Dr. Winship. the champion strong man could lift iu har ness. A new book is called "How to Keep a Store." It is a work of several hun dred pages, and life is too shore to read it. The best way to keep a store is to advertise judiciously; and thus prevent it falling into the hands of the Sheriff. Nomstown Ikrul'f. A Boston man has made, in the pub lic prints of that city, a very sensible suggestion to the effect that the fire de partment should be supplied with large nets into which, when supported oy poles, persons iu danger of incineration could jump from auy height. There are quite as great objections to living in the northern districts of China as in some of the western States. The hurricanes, floods and other ca lamities that afflict the Celestial empire are as fearful as auy in this country. The system of co-operation in Fr mce is rapidly extending among farmers for the pui-chse of seeds, manures and im plements of the first quality. The mem bers of the society bind themselves indi vidually to guarantee the payment of all orders given. Bicycling is rapidly becoming uni versal! popular, and scarcely any sec tion of the civilized world is now 'with out a bicycle club. There is a flourishing organization in. Port Elizabeth, Cape of Good Hope, and a club in Cape Town has about seventy members. The new ship canal which is to con nect the Baltic and the North Seas will save nearly 600 miles of the water journey now made around the Danish peninsula. The cut. as proposed, will be from Gluckstadt to Kiel, and "the length will be about half that of the Sen. Canal, or somo fifty miles. As in theSeuz Canal, there are several small lakes lying in the way, which will h utilized by the engineers. Education for Civil Engineers. If a census could be taken of all the young men of the age of thirty who are in charge of parties on railroad location or construction, it would be found that those who graduated from technical schools were receiving the highest sala ries and had the best prospects for pro motion and further, we feel confident that in numlier they would far outrank the others. This cannot be said of men of fifty, for thirty years ago, when they were young, technical schools were scarcely known. To argue that, because these older engineers have attained re putation and success without the advant ages of scientific education, the 3"oung men of to-day can do so likewise is certainly fallacious, for the conditions in the two cases are far different. An inspection of the lists of graduates given in some of the catalogues of tech nical institutes shows that young men who have been six years out of the school, in general, hold responsible and lucrative positions. On graduating, they began at the bottom of the ladder with low pay, but they have rapidly mounted the steps, passing and often leaving far behind those who began the ascent when five years younger. In fact, we know of no profession where the graduate advances so rapidly as in civil engineering. A young doctor finds it hard to obtain pa tients, even when he furnishes both ser vices and medicine gratis. A young lawyer is glad to take cases where he receives nothing if he loses, and almost nothing if he wins. But the young civil engineer earns at once as rodman or draughtsman fifty dollars a month, and usually double or triple that amount after a very lew years of practice. The indications are, that technical education, as a qualification for techni cal pursuits, will grow every year more and more important, until finally it will become, as it is now in Germany, indis pensable. Already some railroads hire for their field parties and draughting offices almost no others than technical graduates. They do this because they find it pays. A young man who is train ed how to think is of more value to them at higher wages than one who does his work by rule of thumb at lower wages. He does more work in a day and does it ueiter. And when we look at the question from other points of view than the financial, everybody will agree that the young man of education has the advantage? The locating engineer, for example, does his work with a more cheerful mind, if he knows something about the rocks of the country through which he travels. He has an interest in the pro gress of science in general, as well as iu that of his own specialty. When the panic comes that stops his work and his Eay, he is not so bound to his trade that e cannot try his hand at something else. In such times, too, he feels at liberty to ask the alumni of his institution to assist in securing him employment. This may, perhaps, seem a trivial matter, but as a rule men's lives are largely controlled by circumstances, while those who are able to control circumstances are few; and many a college man will testify to en couragement received from his brother alumni in times of commercial depres sion, encouragement without which his life might have been very different. There is one other point suggested by me remaras maue two weeta ago, by Herbert Spencer, concerning overwore and gray hairs, that should receive the careful attention of parents who are puzzled to know whether to give their boys a technical education or put them at once into practical work. Much of course depends on the boys, but if they have any liking for study, we say by all means let them continue at it. In these days of hurrying business rush and overwork, let us keep the young men out of the world as lone as possible. Let the davs of their youth be spent in academio halls, where the worry of business is unknown. Let the selection of their special branch es of engineering labor be deferred until they are qualified by age and experience to select Overwork and gray hairs come soon enough to men, even when life is begun at twenty-two, and by commenc ing younger nothing whatever seems to be gained, but rather much seems to be lost. To conclude: A youmr man who wishes to attain success and happiness in the occupation of a civil engineer ought to begin by obtaining a sound fccgnicai cducatiog, Wnginttring tftfh j 3STOTICE Chicago Weekly News. H OUUBK, $2.50 a Tear Postage Included. The OBIUAGO WEEKLY NEWS is recognized as a paper unsurpassed in ali the requirements of American Journalism. It stands conspicuous among the metropolitan journals of the country as a complete News-paper. 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