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K ) h i!l I i ' THE JOURNAL. ' WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 1883. i . .fettrtd at tie FhCIci, Col&atu, b., ts,itcatfi cut: mrttw. ,w "GRAVES:"'' mound, a atone and violets; ,. 'Arbifd-sonjr to the air: j &'. - 'A chiU that tathera Sowers aad lets .The wind play with its hair: . ., A fleld" ofwbeat across the bedgre Klppled by fairy hands; A silver stream that downward rua ?""W cheer the lowerlands. -- - Jtio mound, no atone, no violets j. luuc bcb uterucaui . rf Aaotobtaa- wind, that ne'er forget ,t Ita.chutinff for the dead. . .Beneath the stara on summer ntehts. That deep blue grave how fair! Ttoffvrhlle upon the" shore the' wares Bet1ow,-arif-ln prayer. a l No mound, no stone, no violets; ' No bird, nor wave, nor star; . A seat where Memory forgets - j o. 4 i -' wnat spring ana summer are; Deeper It lies than deep-sea graves. jrrom iana ana sea apan- O grave so sad and aesoiate i O grave, within the heart 1 . - 3 0 g. -zj.il uvmwnm. -) ' it. it PEBILS OF TELEGRAPH LIE-M EN. To pursue tha vocation of a teleeraph' repairer one must not be a weakling. ' He must possess a strength which will oope with great Dodily labor, no muse ihave an endurance which enables him ' to resist the stormy elements. He must i kave nerves firm-braced as steel, strong 0 the wires be climbs among, and from whose coigne of vantage he surveys the earth, eighty feet below his perch. The clear-eyed young fellows who nimbly swing themselves about in the net-work of wires which span the city streets are all this. Their profession makes ath letes of them. It is a school of physical training unsurpassed by any bookish methods. They are natives of the pure open air. They are walkers, lifters, climbers, carriers. Not a muscle in their, bodies but is nurtured and devel oped by their work. Symmetry of form, grace of bearing, lightness of step follow naturally. The boon that thou sands seek in vain health, robust, bounding, magniflcent health is theirs; the concomitant of a splendid strength, which defies and dissipates the terrors of the wintry tempest. There are in Chicago, employed by the telegraph and telephone companies, about two hundred repairmen. Beginning with the laborers, who are employed from day to day, they range through various degrees of skill, till the first-class line man is reached. He is a combination of trades. He can walk with a profes sional pedestrian, unlike the latter, car rying a weight of heavy tools and wire, over rough ground, through ail weath ers, at a pace and for a distance which calls for the expenditure of more physi cal force than the hippodrome walker futs into his spurtsf The firstmlass ine-man ii something of a carjenter, also. He carries an auger, a saw and a hatchet, tools simple enough, but suffi cient for his work. With them he can fplice a piece onto a broken pole, or, if t be, leveled, improvise a new one out of a convenient tree. In the belt about his waist is a pair of plyers, clamps, a wrench, and some binding wires. With these he reduces the troubles which in terrupt his aerial lines of communica tion. His vigilant eye quickly detects the "cross," or "swing," or "escape" for which he is searching. These diffi culties are usually caused by a wire be ing torn from an insulator. Two hun dred feet of iron wire is a heavyweight, but to the line-man's strong arms it is a trifle. He climbs the pole, hauls up the winging truant, pulls in its resisting length to a tension, and fastens it to its proper insulator. This he can do un assisted. It is the simplest part of his labors. But when the wind has torn bunches of wire awa- from their fasten ings and stretched them on the ground for miles, and when sometimes the rain and the frost have incased them in sheathings of ice, then the arduous part of his profession comes into play. Buffeted by the snow and the rain he must dig the wire out of its frozen cov erings. With the thermometer far be low zero, the line-man must toil through the day smashing the ice with his hatchet, climbingswaying poles.splicing and resetting. The wind howls around him. Hurtling arrows of sleet pierce his face. Like angry serpents, the wires tag and pull as with his strong hands he fastens them to their insula tors and again connects those ities whose commerce pauses when he works. Of necessity, the experts at this trade are located in the larger cities. A be ginner cannot weave new strands into the woof-liku wires which climb roofs and in themselves are, in some streets, almobt a roof. The city line-man must know something of telegraphy. He must be able to set up intricate and delicate instruments. In Chicago his territory covers a circle which touches Eaglewood'on-tbe-southr' Evanston"on the north and Hinsdale on the west. He must know every foot of ground with iu this area. Each one of the innumer able wires crossing and dividing it must be labeled in his mind, its destination, number and particular use fresh in his memory. This most involved of maps soon becomes simple to him. By fa miliarity and use he gets to know every gracefully waving line as well and as thoroughly as the artist knows his handi work, however hidden. When the test operator discovers in terruption on the wires and locates it within his territory, the duty of remov ing it becomes the line-mail's. Strap Eing his simple kit of tools about him, e starts afoot and follows for miles the route the broken wire traverses. Often the brawny Western Union repairers tramp to Hinsdale before they find the cause which obstructs the current Then they arc ordered elsewhere, and continue to their new destination with the .ease sturdy legs only know. A walk of thirty miles is not an exception al ieat among them. - - In the country, at towns thirty and forty miles apart, is stationed'the coun try line-man. His skill is not essentially so high as the eity representative of the trade. He has no complicated office wires to run. In the country tele graphic appliances are simple. Some times the skies and the winds are pro pitious. Then tho country line-man's even way' has its tenor undisturbed. His davs flow on in idleness. He mav itruughthe laggard hours, smoking, hh pipe; rummatmg'onthe'mvstcribus' giant-force which traverses the Mvaying steel cords above his head with a swift ness of thought and powcr that might upheave -aiiwofld.' Observing the heavens, that great volume speaks to him. He comes to know the starrv con stellations bespangling the midnight arch. In the darkness of their 'track through the-forest, through the ivalley ruunuing mountains, leaping across the nlains whinh is bis wait, flip. stroiMr. and tell him the hours., jThe cTopds, Bsae meir sigmncaRca. ucnowa. In dreamy-quiet, inaction grows irksome to his healthy organization'. And thus, when the storm rides on the night wiads and carries devastation, to f hpse wire's he watches jover, he goesjoutinto itfVfiezveness alone -and fearless to carb and buid its anger toward hi charge. Im severe climates these men perform seeds of braverv vet unsungr. Frozen ttnTbt, frames exhausted b1xjMurjii falling Missiles in the 'forest, attest it. Their foes are notnhe elements alone. Om tWfmntinr tKinlino-man nffitrRntarB tfcsj'Kgion ofhuman and savage ene- miee. While on the-poles 'he is Rife from arrows and bullets. Indians held the wires im.awe. Theirhummiagis'i them Music from a far-off, unseen iana. Seine tribe call it a voice from the khairov huntinor-cTounds. As such theti r l.d1 ii - .vtv. t' tear to witea uw anuvi uu . plays. The lineman, cliubing among and boldly handling them, gains a rev erence from .the" red' menwlifeh, px tecW him. But 'oh the earth amomf them he is a man like themselves, and1 food for their barbarity. In Arizona and the southwest the line-men usually travel their beats in squads", well anned and safe, in small but det6rminednom bew. Often, howeverrtheir :walJr la solitary. The sparse history of that young country 'failn not to Tecord'in stances where watchers of the wire have departed' alone' to.Tperfbrm"their diitv and have never retnrried.JjTjje untold deeds of roving bands of Indians doubt less coyer those missing- line -naeas fate. Sometimes, -on .the. -few- wires wnicn link, California to.. the outer, world, breaks, occur in great number andTdie heartesung in their character. The snows of the mountains bury poles' in their embrace, tear down their precious load of serial carriers, and cover them deeply out of sight." "" f Some time ago, when alKJaMfoniia was waiting for news of great events transpiring "in the East, such a, storm occurred, leveling communication. From his station in a Tittle Nevada town a solitary line-man went out, to the break. He caught ,the broken slen der serpent and restored its entirety. ciXcrlv nl hv citrantic efforts he lifted it to the poles remaining, and repaired those wrecked ana spuntereu. au? ma pole was bereft of cross-arms, and its crowning insulator was torn away. The line-man did not hesitate. He knew the tnifndntiainiDort.and worth of there- stored communication to San Francisco. Skurryingupthe tottering pole, he fast ened the wire with the only .fastening he had remaining, his belt, part of hi3 clothing he having torn to strips and used for that puqose. He grappled the line in his strong hands and clung to iXio pole holding it, a road for the cur rents to traverse, for six long hours. When a relieving banil of repairers reached the spot they tenderly brought down the martyr to duty and earned lum home, stiffened and numb, to drag out years of weakness and invalidism. In the deserts of Canada and the silent prairies, in the teeming settle ments of the rich inland valleys, by the shores of the soundin? sea.in every nook which the telegraph pierces, the line man waits and watches in increasing vio-iljinnR. The stream of manv-toned voices which mold and guard the daily existence of the world's populace pours over me wires uav uu mgui. uui u hears them not. His is not to listen to these voices, but to the mutterings ol the thunder cloud, to detect danger and destruction in the softly sighing wind. His duty is to be a sentinel and a. friiard. A simnle soul, a tvne of duty. well he docs his work. Chicago News. Mr. Jones Tries te Stop a Cat Concert. Jones has bought a revolver. Tho way it happened was this: There had" been a cat with a big bass voice sere nading the neighborhood for the past week, making it impossible o sleep, and equally impossible to stay awake without becoming a raving maniac, and if Jones had said it once -he had said a hundred times: "I'll shoot that" cat," till finally Mrs. Jones reminded him that the bootjack was the only shooting-iron he possessed, and that had been fired long ago. So he went down town 'and bought a revolver. Now what Jones knows about revol vers is even less than what H. G. knows about farming, but when he came home to supper last Thursday night he called the family into the hall and took the re volver out of his overcoat pocket, and was about to hand it to Mrs. Jones for inspection, when the whole family shrieked in chorus: "Is it loaded?" "No," said Jones; "never has been loaded." "Fly for your lives, children," said Mrs. Jones, and they rushed up-stairs and locked themselves in. "Well, if I ever saw such idiots!" re marked Jones, looking down the muzzle of the pistol to sen if it needed cleaning. It came near being the last remark he ever made on any subject A bullet lodged in the ceiling as lie spoke, aad but for the screams that assailed him from upstairs. Jones would have been certain that he had murdered the whole family. As soon as they learned that the pistol was really loaded, they all came down smiling and cheerful. No one had ever heard of u loaded pistol doing any damage. That night they prepared to slay the cat Willie and Johnnie were allowed to sit up and see the fur fly, and they stoou vauanny Deninu uieir pa as ne framed himself in the window and waited. It was bright moonlight; Mrs. Jones sat with her head under the bed clothes and said: "Call me when it's all over," and they waited forthe feline'' to take up the line of march along the back yard fence. It seemed a cruel Uiing to deliberately set out to murder a cat in cold blood,but like Macbeth ii had murdered sleep and made itself dis liked in that community. It came, it had struck the first note of its usual serenade, with the vigor and forco which a love-sick cat is famed for, when pop blaze scat shrieks m-e-o-w in a grand conglomeration of sounds rent the air the cat was safe on the wood shed of the next house, the ball grazed the elbow of a policeman two blocks away, passed through the hat of an un offending citizen, and buried itself in the sidewalk. The rest of the pistol has not yet been found. The cat still lives. Detroit Post and Tribune. u Transpire" or "Perspire.1" "Have you a dictionary with you?" asked an innocent-looking youn man of a Cleveland Herald reporter at the Onion depot. The speaker was one of. a party of three gentlemen who alighted ' from train No. 8. The other two were neatly dressed fellows, "whose sundry winks to each other at once gave them auray as " pals.1' The young man addressed, djd not happen to nave his unabridged with mm, out ;i commercial man sisnning near at once set down his valise, and from it fished up,a.aniall pocket edition of Webster. The three bent,, over the book for, -a, moment, till 'finally one of the two "pals,'-'t-lappinr4he first yormg-rnan on the back, said: "You've lost your money." "So it seems," was the quiet reply. There was an exchange of currency between the two friends, and the youns -man who had first addressed theTeporfer "There goes five dollars. You see'l came aloag.throuh the car aad heard the two, .arguing about a, wonL It did notpecar to me that they were friends and trying to work a, racket m They i were talking about the word 4 transpire,' using it in the sense'perspire.' One wanted to bet-the: other, that ithadthat meaning. You would rtaialy-lbse,?t saia ue outer, 'and. 1. don't iwant to take your money..' ,. i , , " I became interested, and finally bet 1 tne ieuow nve dollars to ten dollars that transpire was never used in" the sense of the word iperspire, and I -find I have " ; ' ; -,, ho 1 The receipts of the Presbyterian Hospital in Philadelphia for the past year amounted tcftW&T.Qe, including ltfterest on'lhe John A-Bfown' fund; IThe disbursements"' were 'f89.46r.74. The LaUies'Aid Society-of the hospital xeoeiTe during the yet t$2,I67.'4V There have been 66S patients treaUil the iartitatito; j. , ; ,cdi.-ihZ f . . j; Tfc, Bicycle. r H H i-' 1 Every one is familiar with the appear ance of the bicycle and its. rider,, .and "yetarcely)ive,years since that ,1a etrumcnVin its presentshape, "first" vis ited this country. The hasty craze of 1869, in which the "bone shaker" played the principal part, can hardly be said lo have beenmore than mo mentary compared with the present in--tenal' "lu" nhetwowheeled -"vehicle. Bicycles probablyjjwejtheir origin to a Frenchman or German named Charles deDrais, master.- of theicforesta of'the rGran4J)uke of;Badeiv who invented a nchineTn 1817,. composed, of two wheels of equal diameter,"' one 'behind the" other .and connectedly' a backbone or perch,, on which was placed ausaddle .for. the rider-.. .It was .claimed that., a traveler with this, instrument could 'coTerCTghfdr nfriemilesr an hour on a good road i Tkei mode' of propulsion xeauircdi tije-jrider,' whosefeet just touched ,the.gr6undi to, place his toes on thegrpund'and'puhthe'machine along. It is said1 that 'considerable 'dexterity was necessary to.prevent the rear wheel fronitstrikiug therUlec'sheels, and that the toes we're turned welt forward to overcorabthe liability toJsucH an acci dent. Baron de Drais, it seems, was imaginative as. well -as,, inventive. He. was not satisfied to ride only in the manner described; but proposed to rig a sail, and under favorable- weather to tack, go about, sail in the wind's eye, and adopt other nautical means of ad vance. The Germans called thi3 instru ment the laufnmshin.i ;It does not ap pear to uhaye emigrated from the Baron V.oVn jurisdiction. . The bone shaker of fifteen years ago was a .slight modification of this instrument, but never met with much favor in this cduntry'because of theTunsuitable roads here. Exhibitions were given 4 in halls and other inclosed places, but it never rose beyond the place-of a curious toy. A glance at the present perfected "bi cycle gives very little idea of the won derful skill in construction, or the deli cate relation cf parts that really exists. Neither pains nor expense have been spared in order to make a machine"ab solutely without objection. The metal lic portions arc constructed of steel, yet for the different parts, subjected as they are to varying degrees of weight and strain, tiie metal selected is either rigid or yielding as will best suit the object desired. The wheels are composed of light but strong rims, with 'from fifty four to sixty spokes of number nine or eleven wire", firmly attached to the hubs. Around the wheel is stretched a round circle of rubber held in place bv cement. This isjthe principal feature of the mod ern instrument, and is, indeed, the point of greatest difference between it and its predecessors, Teraoving almost all of the jars caused by inequalities of the road. It is not too mueh to say that without the tire the bicycle would be useless in this country. The rubber tire is an American invention, and is owned by a company, which exacts aroy-altj-of ten dollarsonall English machines brought here. Another -great advance was made when ball bearings were adopteil. This arrangement provides for the turning of the journals upon the surfaces of hardened steel balls, thereby reducing the friction. One company claims that the front wheel of their ma chines has been made to revolve elev en" minutesfrom one impetus. Nor are these the only decided improvements. Every portion of the machine, from the bolts and nuts to the wheel, has been carefully studieil with the view of re ducing friction and weight and advanc ing the possibility of speed. The results of these inventions per mit almost marvelous speed. At Cam bridge, Eng., H. L. Cortis rode a mile in two minutes, forty-one and three fifths' seconds; Hon. Mr. Falconer, two miles in five minutes; thirty-six and two-fifths 'seconds, and five miles in fif teen minutes, thirteen and two-fifths seconds. Ten miles were covered in thirty minutes and forty-five seconds; twenty-five miles in one hour, nineteen minutes and' twenty-three seconds; fifty miles in three hours and five minutes, and one hundred miles in seven hours, eighteen minutes and fifty-five seconds. In six minutes less than twenty-four hours JWJS. BriUenrode 212 iniles a"nd"atlm exhibition "given in ConTlon 1,404 miles were covered in six days. These records have not yet been beaten by American riders. The present su periority in England is probably due to tiiefact.that,bicyclesJhavj2beeniuJ,act-! ive use there since 1870 or 1872, while with us they date from the latter part of 1877. National Republican. Claums in the Pension (Mice. To see the various stages through which a pension claim passes from the moment of its reception in the office until its consummation is reached, wouklastonishthe.LclainianLs and'.ceB- der them less, clamorous, and would also be'a. 'surprise io'the generaltpublic. It is briefly this: When a claim i.s filed its receipt at the office is acknowl edged to the claimant, and the claim, before starting on its rounds, is stamped and jacketted, and the jacket briefed in the Mail Division" after 'leaving the Mail Division it goes to the Record Division, where it is numbered and for warded to the Adjudicating Division to which it belongs, this point being deter mined by the geographical location in which claimant originally enlisted, thus: All cases eoming frcm the New England States go to the Eastern Div ision; from the Southern States, to the Southern Division, etc., and it is during its progress through the Adjudicating Division to which it has been sent that the merits' or demerits of the claim are tested. When the evidence in a case is completed it is briefed and submitted by the Examiner, either for admission or rejection, and goes thence to the Board of Review, where ,the work of the Examiner is reviewed, and his recom mendation reversed or concurred in as the case may be., If- the claim proves to have been improperly submitted it is returned for adjudication; otherwise it is rated at a certain sum per month, according to the disability) found to exist, ana then goes to the Division of Certificates. and Accounts, and the'eer tificate of payment is there issued, and ithe claimant notified of the result. It 'only' requires then that the signature of the Commissioner of Pensions; followed ,by that, of 4 the Assistant. Secretary of the 'interior be affixed thereto to make it a valid document, and place the'claimant on, the rolls as a pensioner, ol the United States. If it appears during the progress of a claim through the Adjudicating ;Diyisionito. which it has been scntthat the testimony therein Js of a-doubtful or conflicting character, or that there is (probable cause for suspecting' fraud; or ,an attempt" to impose upon the office, the claim is at once sent to the Division of 'Special" Examinatijns,wUh a hrief statement of the' reasons' 'for sending it there, and froim thence it.is forwarded to such employe of that division as-may .be located in 'the vicinity of the claimant in the case. Under the former practice of 'the of j - fice, examinations., of , .this character were made" almost entirely tin secret and wholly ex-parte; and the special Exam ners,'or Agents as they were then called, apear to nave been imbued with the idea that claimants had no "rights in the matter;1 and 'that it was theAgents speeiaU duty to hunt up testimony against the claim, and pav little or no atttention to any that might be in its 'favor. Commissiprier "Dudley ' Ahas changed.all this,, and, under the rules and' regulations prescribed by him .it is the first andlimperative duty of the Ex aminer to B0tify;,tbe claimant, in wrlt Ujg,,1haMaj exami nation-as.! to the merits or -demerits of -sria-danm is be ad.t' ferfaJBOtfMt'jjilft&ft- i - GTrM?'r air -o--. ! r- venient to his .home, and that he can be E resent in person" or by attorney, or oth, andi hear :tho testimony of the witnesses and:cr6ss-examino them, and offer any additional testimony in the case that he'niay have. In other words, secret investigations and exparto methods in the- matter of pension claims are entirely done! away with, and-the claimant is made to understand that the Government in endeavoring to protect itself, is'not attempting to crush him; and further, that if he has been wrong fully adjudged through soma ambiguity of 'testimony previously offered, or from any other cause which he can make plaini-he now- has the opportunity pre sented of setting himself right. Wash ington Gazette. . . z The Young Han or the Period. J Young man, I. am quite aware that, in your own estimation, you know, all that is worth knowing, but for all that, know th'at there are certain truths which you can either learn from me now, or get your knowledge by sad experience in the future. In age, in stat ure iu'appearance, you are a boy, but you'Rre' trying by all the arts in your power to make it appear that you are a manv To do this .you are aping the manners of a certain kfhd of men. You are trying" to' be manly, but why on earth don t you adopt a higher standard of manhood'? Look: at yourself. In your, dress you have selected as your model the dandy, the gambler, the fashionable butterfly; three creations which-alniost1 make- us doubt the -wisdom of Divine Providence when, we seek for a reason for their existence. Y6u are sucking poison into your sys tem through a nasty weed rolled up in the form of a cigar and you think this is manly. -So it is. It is manly because it isn't beastly. The better instincts of beasts protect them from such vile hab its. You swing a fancy cane, not be cause you neetf it for protection or -support, but because some other worthless fellow does it. In fact, you have taken pains to hunt out the worst and the weakest attributes of "human nature, and you have taken them as your stind ard of manliness. Shame on you f If you have no individuality of chanvcter and must have a model something to copy after and imitate why not select some man in the highest sense, one who is as far above the brute as the ones you have selected are below? Why not se lect as your model the man who has won a high and honored position in life, by his own talents, with habits of industry, perseverance and application, without which no life can be made a success? Have you any plans or purposes as to the part you are to take in this busy, bustling world?- You have, of course in your way. I can read your desires in that direction. You want somebody to give you twenty or fifty thousand dollars to start you in some enterprise. What do you want of this capital? You want it for the advantages it will jjivo you over others. On the same principle if you were going to engage in a pugi listic encounter with a boy of your own size, you would like to be supplied with a dirk, a club or.-a revolver! Shame on you! What a contemptible coward you are! You are4 afraid to go into the bat tle of life single-handed, depending on your own strength and skill. You want to entrench yourself "behind the breast works of capital which some braver om 'has built up. Your own father, no doubt, acquired the competence he en joys by a lifetime of hard struggles with the world. He weut into the conflict with his sleeves rolled up, with too much courage and manliness to ask any body's help; yet you would not disdain to take the fruits of his toil, and con tinue through life to get your support through his exertions, just as you did wiion you were a helpless babe. Shame on you ! Do you call that manliness? Do you call it bravery? Can't you see that it is the most contemptible cowardiee? But if your father, as I suspect, has too much food sense to help you in making your ife a nullity by giving you capital, you are wishing that by some fortunate chance some person would give you $20,000. Now the whole essence of this wish is that you want money with out giving any equivalent for it. You would take $20,000 which represents somebody's hard labor, and not give a stroke of your own work in excliange for it Shame on you! Do you call this honesty? Perhaps you don't care whether it is honest or not Very well; we will put the case in another light Would you be willing to stand on the street corner and ask 20,000 people to give you a dollarapiece?" No, of course not, for that would be begging; but where on earth does the difference come in? If you get $20,000 without giving any equivalent for it, you are. getting other persons' labor, and if there is any difference in the methods, it is only the difference between begging and craft. Sup pose by some hook or crook you succeeded in getting your $20,000 without any particular exertion on your part, just tell me in what respect you are better than that convict in the penitentiary who was placed there for embezzling that same amount? He wanted to get something for- nothing. So do you. But this conyict tried to get the property without the consent of the owners. You want the owner of twenty thousand dollars to consent to give it to you for nothing, or to be com pelled to. Shame on you! Whore is your manliness, your pride, your honor? Young man you are commencing life with a stock of wrong ideas, and the worst one is that which leads you to suppose that it is not the highest type of manliness which is clothed in the garb of honest toil. There is no mate rial prosperity that is not the fruit of well-directed labor. Take your place among the workers and be a man, or cultivate your present propensities and be a social leech, an excrescence which may Heaven take pity on the rest of mankind by quickly removing. Eben E. Rexford, in Western Plowman. ,u A Wonderful Fish Pond. Traveling men tell an extraordinary story of a nsh pond on the land of Hon. George W. Hurt; six miles from Albany, Clinton County,) Kyi The pond covers three or four acres, .and was hot known to contiiii fish until a j'ear or two ago, when it was accidentally discovered to.be swarming with catfish from four to.eightinches,long. They say that the fisfr are stf numerous arid so unsuspect ing thatthey may be taken without the use. of hook and line. You may tie a )ieceof mutton or chicken to, a string, ower it into the water, and draw it out immediatelyrwith several fish clinging toit- This1 may be' -repeated as often asdesired.iand a few minutes are sufli cient to secure as many fish as you want One man,' prompted by curiosity, stuck his finger down into the water; it was at once tseized by a fish, which he Eromptly drew up and took off, but the ite brought blood from his finger, and he. does not recommend this method of taking them. Mr. Charles M. Phillips, of Spurlington, having some doubts as to the truths of these stories, wrote to Hon. George W. Hurt with regard to them, and receivedan answer to the ef fect that they were substantially trae. Mr. Hurt does not allow, strangers to lisli in"' the pond "The "fish have been regularly fed -since their 'presence 'was discovered. Louisville Commercial. mum i-We shall have'to'be pretty civil to the .Hawaiian Government,' as King Kalakaua kaa an .army ioi iJorty-ejgkti men besides ;tht musicians, ami grMt 4oweri'ire,apfj jto JBJlyisK RELIOIOUSr AND EDUCATIONAL. During' the past year the Baltimore Conference of the. M. E. Church South received $153,000 foe missioqary work the lanjest contribution since the war. . The Sacramento Board of Educa tion has done1 a good thing. It has or dered that tho doors of 'all its school houses .and- school rooms shall swing outward. ,. L , v Theschoolraasters, of Scotland, in a recenfr meeting 'at Aberdeen, concurred in the belief that " preseutf educational demands areprejudicial to'the.healthof children." o , , L u u Miss JIulda, B. JLoud,, of Rockland, Mas., attended the recent tqwnLmeet ing of the town,an'd asked that thetsal anesof teachers be .raised v$500. She made twpi speeches, jjne, in.reply to an opponent, and the. meeting unanimous ly voted $i;500 additional' to these wages. Bishop,, Keener, of Jhe Methodist Episcopal .Church .South,. gave expres- ..sion, at the meeting of tue Ualtimore Conference at Charleston, W, a., to the feaPthat the clergy of his denom ination are leaning too much to Jiook ishncss, ahdthat wealth is exerting a ruihou.srinflucnce upon the church. TheJews of Torouto are moving to have .certain reforms introduced .into their religious .service, including,, the seatingrof uo'th .sexe.st together .instead of separate The matter Jias beeaire ferred to the Chief Rabbi in.Englaud, but should' his decision, lie adverse a se- cession ami mucpi'micuL movement wiu result, it is said." . Secretary, Teller.has forwarded plans for the erection of a Government Indian Industrial School near Lawrence, Kan Three hundred acres of land south of that place have been purchased for the site, and the erection is to lie immedi ately commenced. The. school will ac commodate about five hundred pupils, and will be th'e largest institution of the kind inthe United States. Chicago Herald. The Episcopalians propose to es tablish a Divinity School in Colorado. It is said to be almost impossible to get pastors from the East as the field is a hard-working and underpaid one. They have a frame building to begin -with, but want at least $20,000 endowment, the immediate funds to be devoted to furniture and other items. The Rev. W. C. Bishop, a Fellow of Emanuel Col lege, Cambridge, has been engaged as President." Two school teachers of Ljnn, Mass., have show;n the world how to administer an artistic whipping to a scholar. One of them held him. an eight-year-old boy, and theotherpound ed him "up and down, all around," with a sharp-edired ferule, until his" body bore a striking resemblance to a barber pole. For -this piece of amuse ment the young ladies have .been invit ed to seek new worlds to conquer. Boston Herald. A Unique Study in Yltal Force. A writer in the Country Gentleman discusses the question: How mueii vital force does a hen consume in (latching an egg? We guarantee that there is no merely mortal man in the United States that can answer this question oil-baud. Of course, Prof. Sumner, of Yale Col lege, can. The proceedings of the American Association for the Advance ment of Science make no mention of it, nor, so far as we arc aware, Las it ever waked to ecstacy the miscellaneous muse of Walt Whitman. And yet, now that the questiqn is asked everybody will be impressed with its interest and importance and fall to wondering why it did not come to the forefront of dis cussion long ago, with the tarifl", the, open Polar sea, the coeducation of the sexes, the limit of consecutive quail eating and other of humauit' leading problems. It has frequently been sus pected that too many hens have been addicted to the consumption of an inor dinate amount of vital force in hatching eggs. On no other plausible theory can the presence of so many tough hens in the market be accounted for. Of course, the only sensible way to check this waste and thus prevent hens from undermining theirconstitutions. is to de termine precisely what amount of force goes to hatching, and then hit upon some scheme to prevent hens from ex pending more than the determined amount. It ought not to be difficult to mature such a scheme. A modification of the current bell-punch, so arranged that it would ring jus' a$ soon as the hen had reached the force limit, would appear to be the tiling. , , Of. course, it would be the duty of the man who own ed the poultry-yard, just as soon as he. heard the bell ring to walk up to the hen and request her firmly but kindly to contribute no more of her vital force to the business in hand. If the hen de clined to obey after being reasoned with, the man might find it necessary to fling a patent incubator at her. ,After" the incubator had mangled ten or a dozen hens beyond recognition the man could safely count upon having the force limit respected by every one of his fowls engaged in hatching. It only remains to state the result of the investigations pursued by this writ er in The Country Gentleman in the field of applied hens. Starting with the undisputed imposition that " heat can lie measured by force and force by heat," he logicallyconelude.s that it is possible to learn ,the mechanical force used up in hatcliiug a ehiclcen from an egg by measuring the consumption of heat by the eg during the process. So far so good. But his next step is not so satisfactory, for he introduces not ahen but a pine-wood incubator. Now a pine-wood Indian i.s perhaps a more agreeable gentleman than a human Indian. But when it comes to incuba tors the hen is so greatly to be preferred to any other variety that it is positively amazing that this bold investigator should have discarded her. But barring this serious error in judgment, he per forms his task in a most commendable manner. After determining the loss of heat inside of his pine-wood incubator he loaded it up with twenty eggs and placed it behind the chimney, "where the temperature never varied from 80 degrees." The experiments that fol lowed convinced liim that the vital force employed in hatching eggs " would be sufficient to raise about 1,400 pounds one foot high every minute during the period of twenty-one days." This is considerable vital force, and the student of political economy may well ask himself if a hen or other incu bator that can raise about 1,400 pounds one foot high every minute, ana keep repeating the feat for twenty-one con secutive days, has not mistaken its vo cation in devoting itself to hatching- iezgs. Juuiciousiy useu. mat mucn vital force ought to be equal to knock ing out Sujhvan or performing some handsome feats .of' barn-raising or pile driving. We arc living in an uncom monly scientific age. N. Y. Tribune. . The Monumental Lazy Mas. i Louisa Normoul, a colored woman, accused her husband Matthew, in the Jefferson market police court the other morning, with beating hen Jedge," said the accused, "dis woman D beats me, she does; my legs is all sore now." "Itole yo'onah howdeygot 5ore," said the woman. "He got mad' las night an. put .hira legs onde stove, an bekause I wouldn't move de stove away nor lif him legs' off he le'f ' dem dere till ' dey got all burnt.' Dis man iV'jes tod lazy ter draw him.breff. All him wants am a peuistel ter be a stator.j ..Mr. Normoul was held inj X) bail to answer ft charge ofj afsaultiy. T. Mail. USEFUL 'AND SUGGESTITE. Kerosene will mako your tea-kettle' as bright "as new. Saturate a woolen rag and rob. with it It will also re-, move s tains ( from the clean varnished furniture. Tt 'is well to oive horses a double amount 6f feed' on the evoning preced-' ing .a long. l journey, and" only half" ra- tions oli grain -or ajiituej nay on tne morningrof starting. t Remember'to give the pigs a little charcoal Occasionally. Itcorrects'acid ity of the stomach and insures a healthy condition. If it is not easy to procure charcoal give charred, cinders of stove coal. J"Thc cooking' arid canning1' of rab bits isfione of the industries of .Austra lia. . Here is a ;, hint .which should cbe actedupon in thoseeotions of country where rabbits are so plentiful as to be come? a -nuisance. A "can of cooked rabbit in' the summer-time would alter nate very nicely with pickled pork and corned beef. The staining of bricks red is effect ed by melting one ounce' of 'glue in a gallon .of water, then adding a piece of alunas large as. an egg,jone-half pound of Venetian, red, and one pound of Span ish brown; redness or darkness is in creased by using more red or brown. For coloring black, heat the bricks and dip in fluid asphaltum or in a hot mix ture of linseed oil and asphalt. Augels' Food Cream: Dissolve half a box of gelatine in one quart of milk. Beat together the yelks of three' vggs, one qup of sugar, juice .of one lemon; stir it into the gelatine and milkaud lei i'f just'come to a boil, in a farina kettle: When nearly done, whip the whites of the eggs stiff and stir through the custard. Pour into the molds, aud set near the ice to cool. Flavor with vanilla. ' A good way to cover a straight backed chair which is in use in the common sitting-room is to cut a piece of cretonne the exact size of the back; hem it with a narrow hem, and then with a sharp steel crochet needle put on a narrow border of worsted; pin this to the chair-hack with long black-headed pins. This is a useful and pretty cov ering, and is easily removed ana kept in place also. Here is a suggestion of value for a small family, say of two persons. Bake a cake in a long tin, cut it in two parts, and put in any filling you choose. You will have two nice layers, and the cake will probably all be oaten before it is too dry to be enjoyed. A good recipe for this cake is: the whites of two eggs, one cup of white sugar, half a cup of milk or water, one cup and a -half of flour, half a teaspooflful of baking pow der. If made with care, the butter and sugar beaten to a cream, and as much pains taken as if it were an expensive cake, this will be delicious. Thousand-Dollar Compost-Heaps. Please give me a little space to again urge upon the Tribune's thousands of farmer readers the .great value of, the compost heap. I do not urge it as a theory, but as the result of many years of actual experience. I have tried, in a moderate' way. one and another of the commercial fertilizers, and while I have no complaint to make as to their value, it seems to me that our farmers as a rule can do better. I commenced haul ing for my compost heaps last spring, throwing into them all the coarse re fuse, whether it was coarse manure, street sweepings, fisli refuse, pig ma nure, weeds from the garden, potato tops, pea-vines, in fact, anything and every tiling that I supposed would bo of value. At times, when they seemed to be getting too hot, I had water thrown upon them in uilicient quantity to cool but not to drain from them. During the fall the- were worked over. They have been heating a very little all win ter, about sufficient to keep them from freezing. We are now working the largest one over again, after which it will be ready for use. I am aware that it may be urged against this that it will c'ott time, labor and some money; yes, my farmer friends,, it does; and so do all of the good things that I know of in this world. I can not tell what the two heaps have cost me, as they have been gathered at such times as we could spare men and teams from other work. I am now paying twenty-five cents per 2ord for working over, and will have, after this is done, not less than one hun dred and .seventy-live and perhaps two hundred cords, aud in splendid condi tion for immediate use. As near as I san judge, the cost will be from $800 to 400. How about their value for the 'joining season's crops? I shall also have an immense amount of good stable and barnyard manures, much" more in bulk than these heaps, and I believe that no man values them higher than myself, but when and where I want my laud to give me the largest possible crops, and those of the greatest value, there goes my compo9t manure. Why? Simply because many years' experience tells me that crops will start up more vigorously, and grow up more rapidly with this manure than with an equal amount of the be.-t stable manure. It is reasonable that this should be the' case, as it is more nearly ready for plant fowl than any coarse or unprepared manure could be. I can not give your readers the actual value of these heaps, but if any man should come to-day and say: "I will deposit $1,000 to your credit in the bank if you will allow me to haul away j'our com post heaps," I should anwer: "My friend, I have lately been purchasing some property, and my bank account is unusually low, but I.do not needraoney bad enough to make such a sacrifice as that would be to obtain it." I have never used these manures upon any crops" where they did not tell the same story. I will not pretend that the mingling of the different materials makes each and every one of them more valuable'than theyotherwise would be. It is possiblvthat if each was taken in its crude state and plowed under, jts value to the laud might be as great as when in its present condition. But I should be years instead of a few weeks or months'in getting my returns. Mer chants think "small profits and quick returns'" beat in the long run. With me this plan of fertilizing lias never failed to give quick returns and large profits, or at least large crops. J. M. Smith, in N. Y. Tnbuuc How fo Feed Stock. The Massachusetts Ploughman says that some farmers have an idea that any boy can feed stock as well as a man, but'the more observing believe that to feed stock so. as to secure; .the best, condition pnathe .smallest amount of fodder, requires' quite as much skill as any operation on the farm, and it isa work winch requires both study and practice; study to learn the nature and requirements of, each class of animals, and the nutritive" qualities of each kind of food; practical experience so that the particular wants of 'each animal in ev ery class maybe thoroughly understood. While the farmer should endeavor to have his boys feed the stock a portion of the time, lie should always be with them to give directions and to see that the worK is propeny uone. Ane anowi-. edge of how to make cattle eat up the coarser fodder without waste, is fully possessed by some farmers, wliile oth ers do not even know how to. make them eat up clean the best of hay. but ,keep large' quantities before them the moat of tne tuae.o j-orr.ecoaoniy mere is nothing like keeping, a clean crlL, giving catUe'oidy as nmcVas teyArilL t once eat up clean. This will apply t fjl fans animals u.wall as cattle. KtBKKKtUUt y EASTWARD. Daily xpaa Tnilu3 for Omaha, Cnl rugo, KaiiwurClty, St LoaU. ami all points E C Through cars via lVorlt to lutliau apolla; 'Klct.utl'uUwan l'ulurrCni-iauil Jay.cochutf on all through tmuia. aiul IMnliiir ui-J ouit ci -Missouri j;i.er Through Ticket at thoT.owmt liutoa nrooii sa!o nt all tho important ntntiond. and bncⅈu will Wchii-luM t- tluHtitmtiou. Any Information tn to ratoc, routed or tituo tallies will Ikj chvrf ully turuinhctl upou application to uny npout. or to 1". S. KUSTIS, Cuiitii-ul Ticket Agvut. Omaha. N'eh. 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