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On Tltirteaith St., and Nebraska Ave.,
over Friedhofs store.
23TOflicc hours, 8 to 12 a. in.; 1 to 5 p.m.
Olla Ashbacgh. Dentist.
lOKJIIil'lIJN SULLIVAN,
A TTORXEYS-A I -LA W,
Up-stair in Kluck ISuilding, 11th street,
Above the New bank.
tt .i. m;iso3i,
XOTARY PUBLIC.
litli Strn-t.i .loormi-fct or Hammond Hops,
Columbus, Neb. 4l-y
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hu, Nebraska. ll-"
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OMEOI'A Till C I'll YS1 CI AN,
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Telephone communication. -ly
V. A. MACKEN.
DKAI.KK IK
Wines, Liquors, Cigars, Porters, Ales,
etc., etc.
Olive Street, next to First National Bank.
TlfcALIJSTER BROS.,
A TTOHXE YS A T LA W,
Ollice up-stairs in McAllister's build
ing. 11th St. r. A. McAllister, Notary
ing
Public
J . M. M ACFAHLAN1. K. COW DKRV,
Ati:rs7 as J Hetiry PsW c. C:l!i:isr.
LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE
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MACFARLAND & COWDBR?,
Columbus, : : : Nebraska.
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i:o. 3t. 1KKIIY,
PAIXTEll.
J3r'arri:ige, house and sign painting,
glMzing, paper banging, kaNomining, etc.
done to order. Shop on 13th St., opposite
Engine House, Columbus, Neb. 10-y
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i.iti;s in.,
Ilth St., opposite LindellHotel.
SelU Harness, Saddles, Collars, Whips,
Blankets. Currv Comb, Brushes, trunks,
valises. Iiuggv'tops, cushions, carriage
trimmings, Ac., at the lowest possible
prices. Repairs pn niptly attended to.
.IOII. CTASKER,
Heal Estate A.gent,
Genoa, Nance Co., Neb.
WILD LANDS and improved farms
for sale. Correspondence solicit
ed. Ollice in Young's building, up-stairs.
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G
W.CLAKK,
LAND AND INSURANCE AGENT,
HUM PUR EX, NEB It.
His lands comprise some line tracts
in the Shell Creek Valley, and the north
ern portion of Ph'tte county. Taxes
paid for non-residents. Satisfaction
guaranteed. -0 y
pOLUmtllK PACKHO CO.,
COLUMBUS, - XEB.,
Packers and Dealers in all kinds of Hog
product, cash paid for Live or Dead Hogs
or grease.
Directors. R. H Henry, Prest.; John
"Wiggins, See. aud Treas.; L. Gerrard, S.
Corv.
N
OTICE TO TEACHERS.
J. E. Moncrief, Co. Supt.,
"Will be in his office at the Court House
on the third Saturday of each
month for the purpose of examining:
applicants for teacher's certificates, ana
for the transaction of any other business
pertaining to schools. H"7-y
TAMER SALMON,
CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER.
Plans and estimates supplied for either
frame or brick buildings. Good work
guaranteed. Shop on lath sstrect, near
St. Paul Lumber Yard, Columbus, Ne-
braska
52 Ctno.
J. WAGNER,
Livery and Feed Stable.
Is prepared to furnish the public w;tb
good teams, buggies and carriages for all
occasions, especially for funerals. Alo
conducts a sale stable. 44
D.T. Martyx, M. D. T. Schuo, M. D.,
Deutscher Art:.)
Drs. MABTYN & SCHUG,
U. S. Examining Surgeons,
Local Surgeons. Union Pacific and
O., N.iB. H.ILR's.
COLUMBUS, - NEBRASKA.
C2-vol-xiii-y
JS. MURDOCH & SON,
Carpenters and Contractors.
Havehadan extended experience, and
will guarantee satisfaction in work.
All kinds of repairing done on short
notice. Our motto is, Good work and
fair prices. Call and give us an oppor
tunitytoestimateforyou. 2TShop on
13th St one door west of Friedhof &
Co'e. store, Columbus. Nebr. 483-t
"Dl?TC!TnTQ to ALL. Soldiers that
X JilJNOlUiNOwere disabled by
woundi, disease, accident or otherwise,
widows, mothers and fathers of soldiers
dying in the service or afterwards, from
disease which originated while in the ser
vice, are entitled'to a pension. New and
honorable discharges obtained for sol
diers. iBcreajte of Peanleaut ob
tained at any time when the disabilitv
-warrants it. All soldiers who were rated
too low are entitled to an increase of pen
ioB. Rejected and abandoned claims a
ipecialtv. Circulars free. Address, with
stamp, M. V. TIERNE Y, Box 485, Wash
XKOTOX, D. C. 45-12ct
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VOL. XIV.-NO. 12.
COLUMBUS
STATE BANK!
2s::U3rit3 "Urrr4 a Siti aal Tuair HaUt.
COLUMBUS, NEB.
CASH CAPITAL, . $50,000
DIKECTOUS:
Lkandkk (Jerkauij, Pres'i.
Geo. W. IIulst, Vice Pres't.
Julius A. Reed.
Edward A. Gkbbaud.
Abxer Tuknkr, Cashier.
Bamk of Deposit, OIkcohsu
smd Exchaace.
ejollectlvms Promptly Made ob
all PoIatH.
Pay lattereMt ea Time Deposit-.
SM
DREBERT & BRIG6LE,
BANKEES!
HUMPHREY, NEBRASKA.
USTPrompt attention given to Col
lections. jSTInsurance, Real Estate, Loan,
etc. 5
JOHN HEITKEMPER,
Eleventh Street, opposite the
Lindell Hotel,
COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA,
Has on hand a rull assortment of
GROCERIES!
PROVISIONS.
CROCKERY & GLASSWARE,
Pipes, Cigars and Tobacco.
Highest price paid for Country Produce.
Ooods delivered in city.
GIVE ME A CALL!
JOII HEITKEMPER.
31-y
LOUIS SCHREIBER,
Hi
All kinds of Repairing done on
Short Notice. Buggies, Wag
ons, etc., made to order,
and all work Guar
anteed. Alto sell the world-famous Walter A.
Wood Mowers. Eeapers, Combin
ed Machines, Harvesters,
and Self-binders the
best made.
SShop opposite the "Tattersall." Ol
ive St., COLUMBUS. 2-6m-c
H. LITERS & CO,
BLACKSMITHS
AND
"Wagon 3iilders5
Ntw Itrlrk Shop opposite Hetatz's Drug Store.
ALL KINDS OF WOOD AND IRON WORK ON
WAGONS AND BUGGIES DONE
ON SHORT NOTICE.
Eleventh Street, Columbus, Nebraska.
NEBEASKA HOUSE,
S. J. MARMOT, Prop'r.
Nebraska Ave., South of Depot,
COLUMBUS, N EB.
A new house, newly furnished. Good
accommodations. Board by day or
week at reasonable rates.
tSTSctm a Flrt-Clas Table.
Meals, 25 Cts. Lodgings 25 Cts.
38-2tf
WISE
people are always on the
lookout for chances to
increase their earnings,
and in time become
wealthy; those who do not improve their
opportunities remain in poverty. AVe
offer a great chance to make money. "We
want many men, women, boys and girls
to work for us right in their own localities
Anv one can do the work properly from
the" first start. The ''Usiness will pay
more than ten times ordinary wages. Ex
pensive outfit furnished. No one who
engages fails to make money rapidly. You
can devote your whole time to the work,
or only your spare moments. Full infor
mation and all that is needed sent free.
Address Stixson & Co.. Portland, Maine.
Our lanre GARDEN
CSUIDEdeacribing Cole's
ree All. we oner tbe IMtesl nov
elties in SEED POTATOES. Corn.
Ooau and Wheat, ;and the Best Collection
ofTfegetableV "Flovyer, Grass and . Tree
COLE
JCIJ UI1UK ia ICIKU. , AUU1CH
KO., Seetfaaaea, PEL-
LA, IOWA.
45-eow-4p
BlacMMWapNaxer
FIRST
National Bank!
COLU
iX7S, IfEB.
Authorized Capital, - - 8250,000
Cash Capital, - - 50000
OFFICERS And directors.
A. ANDERSON. Pres't.
SAM'L C. SMITH. Vice Pres't.
O. T. ItOEN, Cashier.
.1. EARLY,
ROBERT l!l!LIG.
HERMAN OEHLRICII.
AV. A. MCALLISTER.
(!. ANDERSON,
1'. ANDERSON.
Foreign and Inland Exchange, Passage
Tickets, Beal Estate, Loan ana Insurance.
. ... -23.voM3.ly
BECKER & WELCH,
PROPRIETORS OF
SHELL CREEK MILLS.
MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLE
SALE DEALERS IN
FLOUR AND MEAL.
OFFICE. COLUMBUS, XEB.
SPEICE & 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
residenco lots in the city. We keep a
complete abstract of title to all real es
tate in Pltte County.
621
COLUMBUS. W EB.
LANDS, FARMS,
AND-
CLTT PROPERTY FOR SALE,
AT THE
Union Pacfic Land Office,
On Long Time and low rale
of Interest.
All wishing to buy Rail Road Lands
or Improved Farms will find it to their
advantage to call at the U. P. Land
Office before lookin elsewhere as I
make a specialty of buying and selling
lauds on commission; all persons wish
ing to sell farms or unimproved land
will find it to their advantage to leave
their lands with me for sale, as my fa
cilities for affecting sales are unsur
passed. 1 am prepared to make final
proor for all parties wishing to get a
patent for their homesteads.
D3-Henry Cordes, Clerk, writes and
speaks German.
SAMUEL C. SMITH,
gt. U. P. Land Department,
021-y COLUMBUS, NEB.
WM. BECKER,
PRALKR IN ALL KINDS OF
FAMILY GROCERIES!
I KEEP CONSTANTLY ON HAND A
WKLL SELECTED S I'OCK.
Teas, Coffees, Sugar, Syrups,
Dried and Canned Fruits,
and other Staples a
Specialty.
Goods Delivered Free o aay
part ef Ike City.
1 AM ALSO AGENT FOR THE CEL
EBRATED COQUIIXARD
Farm and Spring Wagons,
of which I keep a constant supply on
hand, but few their equal. In style and
quality, scond to none.
CALL AMD LEARN PRICES.
Cor. Thirteenth and K Streets, near
A. &X. Depot.
HENRY G-ASS,
TJ3STJ3ERTAK-ER !
COFFINS AND METALLIC CASES
XSV DKALKR IN
Furniture, Chairs, Bedstecds. Bu
reau Tables, Safes. Lounges.
&c.. Picture Frames and
Mouldings.
3T Repairing of all kinds of Upholstery
Ooods.
6-tf
COLTJMBUS. NEB.
O. O. STT A "NnSTQNF,
MANUFACTURES OF
Tin and Sheet-Iron Ware !
Job-Work, Eoofine and Gutter
ing a Specialty.
tSTShop on Eleventh Street, opposite
Heintz's Drug Store. 46-y
ipMR5?Siiv:'rrijJk
fulumlms
COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY. JULY 18, 1888.
THE OLD CHURCH BELL.
Born of tbe metal and the tire.
They bore me from my raffing sire.
And made me of tbe city's choir
Which sings In free air only;
And here since then I've patient nunc,
Silent, untouched: but, beins swung-,
Givlnjr my voice with iron tongue
Alone, but never lonely.
The hermit of the belfry here.
Celled In the upper atmosphere,
I speak in accents stern und clear
To all the listening people;
With none my speech to check or mar,
Sending my utterances near and far.
With sonorous clanp and sudden jar,
I shako tbe slender steeple.
1 rinjf the chimes for the bridal day:
I toll when the dead ure borne away:
I clan? when the red names rise and play
On crackling roof and rafter:
I tell the hours for the steady clock;
I call to prayers the pastor's flock;
And buck and forth in my work I rock.
And sink to silence alter.
Here by myself in belfry hiph.
Peeping through bars at earth and sky.
And mocking the breezes sweeping by.
And back their kisses flinging;
Ihlrae for-amlles, I toll for tears,
I herald news and hopes and feara.
As I have done for many years.
And never tire of ringing.
Prom place of vantage, looking down
On yellow lights and shadows brown
Which glint and tint the busy town
With hues that gleam and quiver,
I see within the streets below
The human currents crosswise flow.
Eddying, surging to and fro.
An ever-living river.
And when the twilight slowly crawls
O'er slated roofs und bricken walls.
And darkness on the city Tails.
And dews the flags besprinkle,
I watch the gloom around me creep.
So dense the silence, dense and deep.
The very highways seem to sleep.
But for the gaslights' twinkle.
Or day or night there meet my gats
The sloping roofs, the crowded way,
Tbe meshes of a dreary maze
Where men are ever wending;
One day a rest for them may see
One day in seven; but as for mo.
No time from call of duty free.
My toil is never-ending.
I chime for birth or bridal train;
I toll when souls have burst their chain;
I clang when fire its ruddy rain
From clouds of smoke is flinging;
I chime for smiles, I toll for tears,
1 herald news and hopes and fears.
And so shall do for many years.
And never tiro of ringing.
Tliomas Dunn English, in .V. Y. Ltiger.
STICK TO THE FARM.
An Open Letter to a Farmer's Boy.
My Deak James: You ask me for
some advice as to your future work in
life. You say that you are dissatisfied
with the prospect of being a hard-working
farmer all your days, but at the same
time you do "not consider yourself a
genius, and do not expect to become a
Stewart or a Vanderbilt, or to acquire a
vast fortune by speculation. You ex
pect to work for your living; but you
think there may be some pursuit which
would be equally remunerative and not
so laborious and monotonous as the
farmer s. You ask if it would not be
better for you to become a " first-class
mechanic'' than to be a farmer.
This is an important question, not
alone to you, but to many other boys
who take a serious view of life; whose
common sense gives them a fairly cor
rect estimate of their own powers and
capabilities, and who wish to learn a
business for which they are adapted,
which will give them fair wages, a rea
sonable amount of leisure, and a re
spectable position in life.
Now, it is a curious fact that workers
in almost ever' branch of industry take
a gloomy view" of their own business,
think almost everybody else is better off
than they are, and generally try to dis
courage others from entering their vo
cation. The farmer and mechanic are
about equally ready to say: "Our busi
ness is going to the dogs. If I were a
young man I should learn something
else.'" Sometimes they do this from the
selfish desire to keep down the supply
of workers in their own line, in order
that the demand for them may be great
er; sometimes from the habit of judging
other occupations by the standard of
their most successful men.
But the fact remains, in spite of this
almost universal disparagement of their
owu pursuits among workmgmen, that
some occupations are more, some less,
desirable than others; and I shall try to
give a few reasons for thinking that a
Farmer's boy, unless he has a decided
bent for mechanical pursuits, such as
will quickly take him into that "upper
story" where there is always plenty of
room and recompense, had better
" stick to the farm."
First, the farmer has the priceless
boon of independence. He is his own
employer. He comes and goes when
he pleases, not when another man
pleases. He is responsible to no one
but himself. He is captain on his own
ship. No matter if he only has a pota
to patch from which to get "his living, he
is master of that potato patch; his rule
there is none to dispute in his workshop.
His prosperity depends on his own
thrift and enterprise, not upon thepros-
fi
cntv and liberality of an employer.
le asks no man what he shall do or
how he shall do it, except as a matter
of advice. He "cares no . iore for Lord
James Douglas than Lord James Doug
las cares for him." He is a man among
men, a sovereign in his own domain. Tho
man who owns and cultivates his little
piece of ground can snap his fingers at
Mr. Lofty, and sit on his fence with his
hands in his pockets when the Great
Mogul goes by; tor he is getting his liv
ing :il ursi nanu, ami neeu asK. uu iii
vors of anyon. The average mechanic,
on the other hand, is little more than a
hired serf while he remains a mechanic;
he surrenders his individual liberty to
his employer for his wages, and works
through another man's brains; he is an
automaton manipulated by the golden
wires of capital. He learns to gauge
his work by what is required of him, not
by the standard of intelligent and con
scientious service. Unless he is an ex
ceptional case, his self-respect is un
dermined by the temptation to " loaf'
while the " boss" is not looking, and to
work industriously under his eye. He
becomes a school-boy instead of a man;
learns to look furtively and fearfully at
his employer, and bridles his manhood
through the necessity of pleasing him or
losing his work. The mechanic is a
subordinate in his department; the
farmer is chief ofiieer in his; and it is
better to be captain of a canal-boat and
preserve your independence, than to be
second-mate on the Great Eastern and
have no mind of your own.
Secondly, the farmer has health; or
the means of getting it free of cost if
he does not possess it. His business as
sures him, is larger measure than al
most any other, nature's grand - con
servers "of health air and exercise.
These are better tonics than any which
go into people's stomachs. City pa
tients get them after paying for a doc
tor's prescription, but "to the farmer
they come "as free as air." Better
than any one else the farmer can com
bine business and the hygicnisl's golden
rule:
"Take the open air the more you take tbe
better:
Follow nature's laws to the very-letter;
Let the doctors go to the Bay of Biscay,
Let aloae tae gin, the brandy and tae waiaky
Freely exercise, keep your spirit cheerful.
uet no areaa n wcaneH ever nuuee you
tearful;
Eat the simplest food, drink the pure cold
water.
Then you will be well or at loastyou ought
to."
The farmer is free from' many of the
temptations which beset workingmen
whose occupations bring many men
into close association. Tne seductions
of the dram-shop and of fast society do
not appeal to him as they do to the
townsman. He can choose his asso
ciates instead of having them forced
upon him. He is not compelled to lis
ten to the idle story or the profitless
gossip if he does not choose to hear it.
Statistics show that farmers live longer
than men in any other pursuit except
Washington's body-servants. The farm
er can look forward to an earthly ex
istence longer by several years than
that of the black'smith, the carpenter,
the machinist, the mason, the printer,
or any other artisan, and as long as
that of the average professional man.
Third, the farmer has the means of
'obtaining' mental cnltnre if he has the
will. The dissatisfaction with which
many farmers and farmers' boys look
upon their lot in life comes from their
having too much hard work and too
little spare time. They have not yet
learned to adapt themselves to the mod
orn ten-hour law of labor. They toil
fourteen or sixteen hours a day. and
come home from their work utterly ex
hausted and fit for nothing but supper
and bed. They feel discouraged and
disheartened at such a prospect through
life Overwork is the thief that steals
the farmers' happiness. But it ought
not to be so. A farm can be made
to nay on the ten-hour plan. I have in
mind a farmer who makes his farm
pay a good dividend, takes an active
interest in the world's work, has a fair
library, keeps abreast of the thought of
the age, spends his evenings in reading
and writing, is teaching liis sons the
value of study and work combined, and
does all this on ten hours' daily work.
It is not the amount of labor that we
put into a thing that determines the re
sult, it is the intelligence. The King
of Spain, you have no doubt read, spent
a day in trying to stand an eg"; on end;
Columbus "did it for him in a second.
An hour spent in thinking out a new
way will often accomplish more than
fifteen spent in working in the
old way. Farming requires enter
prise and thought quite as much as any
other business: and fresh plans cannot
come from a weary brain. Ten hours
spent in work and two hours spent in
study, with a mind quickened by mod
erate physical exercise instead of ex
hausted "by over-exertion, will achieve
vastly more than twelve hours of un
ceasing manual labor. Make no mis
take. When a farm is managed in this
way the farmer can devote his evenings
to study and to rational enjoyment far
more effectively than the mechanic, for
he is isolated from the distractions
which usually surround the latter. Much
of the farmer's work, too, does not re
quire the constant straining of the atten
tion which many mechanical pursuits
demand, and he has opportuuity for re
flection while promoting his business in
terests. So, my boy, if you wish to be manly,
self-reliant and independent; if you wish
to be your own employer and your own
master; if you wish to make a fair liv
iug independently of another's caprice;
if you wish to lay a solid foundation of
health on which to build your career;
if you wish to avoid the temptations
into which so many artisans sink year
after year; if you wish to elevate your
mind, 'broaden "your sympathies, and
deepen your understanding by study,
reflection and association with those
who will help, not hinder, you in these
things; in a word, if you wish to be
" Healthy, wealthy and wise,"
my advice to you is, Stick to the farm.
II. H. M., in Christian Union.
How Sponges are Gathered.
The negro sponge-fishers who ply
their trade here in the Bahamas are a
race of seamen not too regular in hab
its or morals, and living a sadly monot
onous life of exposure and privation.
Their voyages to the sponge fisheries
last each for six weeks, during which
thev live crowded on board their craft
unifer conditions of hardship which, in
a clime less salubrious, would be fatal
to health and life. The sponge firms
"find" for them the boats, supplies and
equipment which they use on their six
weeks trip. The sponge bottoms most
sought at this time are on the coral beds
at the south side of Eleuthcra Island,
fifty miles east of Nassau. With a good
wind the fisheries are reached in eight
or ten hours from this port. Then the
real toil begins. Lying on his chest
along the boat's deck, the fisher with
his water-glass a pane set in a box
fitted with handles looks down forty
feet into the clear depths. With ono
hand he grasps and sinks a slender pole,
sometimes fifty feet in length, fitted
at the end with a double hook.
The sponge, once discovered, the
hook is deftly inserted at the rocky
base, and by a sudden jerk the sponge
is detached to be brought up on deck.
This curt description of what seems tho
6imple work of sponge-fishing gives no
idea of the real skill and exertion
needed. The eye of tho fisher has to
be trained by long experience to peer
into the sea and tell the commercially
valuable sponges from those that are
worthless. He must have a deft hand
to manage the swaying hook forty feet
down so as to detach the sponge with
out a tear. Above all, while doing this
with one hand, he must manipulate
with the other the water glass xs the
waves sway it sideways and up or down.
The strain on eye and body is most in
tense, to say nothing of the cramped
position aud exposure to wind and wet
which first and last make almost every
sponge-fisher a victim of acute rheu
matism. Yet with all his arduous toil,
a faithful sponge-fisher earns no more
than $15 a mouth besides his "keep"
on the boat, which barely de.-crves the
name of existenee.
All the Bahama waters abound in
sponges of great variety, but many of
them worthless for the market. Those
that are good for nothing else are often
most beautiful curiosities. They take
most wonderful and striking shapes
now a cup, now an old-fashioned drinking-horn,
anon a great bunch of mossy,
cup-shaped growths, and frequently foli
ated, like the treo-coral. A cup-shaped
sponge found some years ago in Baha
ma waters, and said to be the second
largest in the world, measured seven
feet in circumference, and its walls from
four to six inches in thickness. Up to
two or three years ago the Bahama fish
eries showed signs of exhaustion; but
the discovery of the Elcuthera bottoms
has proved a godsend to the fishermen
and are likely to supply the markets foi
some years to come at least. Cor. X.
Y. Evening Post.
A California Board of Supervisori
appropriated a sum to purchase a wood
en leg for a citizen and charged tho
amount to "permanent repairs and im-
jrovementa."
fmtttpl
Mlaes and Counter-MIaes at SebtitopoL
The information gained by the Rus
sian Comcaander-in-Chief on the subject
of the mines dug by the allied armies
had been sent to him by a Prussian offi
cer living at Paris, where a lithographic
plan of them had appeared in a shop
window. This was at first supposed to be
a mere ru-v Je guerre of the allies for the
purpose ot misleading the defenders of
Sebustopol and inducing them to dig
counter-mines where there were no mines.
A few days later an Italian deserter from
the Legiou Etrangere of the French
Army arrived at a Russian outpost and
was taken to headquarters for examina
tion. He stated that he had been work
ing in a mine close to one of the bastions,
and he described the place as being ex
actly where it was represented in the
lithographic plan that mines had been
dug by the allies. Still, the cautious
Russian General would not believe in
the possibility of a secretTnilitary opera
tion being made known by the publica
tion of a plan of it. He supposed that
the so-called deserter had been designed
ly sent to convince him of the accuracy
of that plan, in order to divert his at
tention from the real position of the
mines which were being dug. The man
was therefore taken in the night to one
of the trenches, where he was left in the
dark and blindfolded. He was soon
made prisoner by a French sentry; a re
liable Russian scout followed him, and
brought back intelligence of his having
been shot as soon as he had been
recognized as a real deserter.
Russian counter-mines were then
at once commenced, according to
the lithographic plan of the mines of
the allies. One night a distant rumbling
noise was indistinctly heard at the end of
a Russian gallery. On comparing the
position with the plan by the assistance
of a mariner's compass, it became evident
that the sap was approaching one of the
enemy's mines, laid down in it as being
near the salient angle of one of the Rus
sia!! bastions. It was then certain that
passages were in process of formation
through the same stratum of clay as tho
Russians had cut theirs in. The advance
of the latter was therefore stopped, and a
large chamber was constructed. In It
400 pounds of gunpowder were placed in
barrels touching each other and without
lids. The end of a long fuse communi
cated with one of them. Clay was
then filled into the passage, strength
ened by transverse scanoldings of thick
wood and well beaten down, to act as
wadding, through which tho fuso was
made to pass. Men were placed on the
rampart to watch the third French
parallel, and the fuse was set fire to.
After a little time something like an
earthquake was felt, a smothered roar
was heard, and a cloud of smoke rose
from the parallel. When it had cleared
away men were seen carrying dead bodies
from the breach where the smoke had
escaped. Eighteen of those mangled
victims were counted. On going into the
gallery from the fort it was found by the
Russian officer of engineers that the wad
ding of clay had not been in the least
disturbed, and that an aperture had
burst into the enemy's sap. Sentries
were placed in it to report any sound
which they might hear. Three days
afterward they announced that digging
had again been commenced. The Rus
sians then proceeded to remove the wad
ding of clay, with the view of getting
near enough to the enemy to springother
mines against him. The French fired a
mine, but it did no harm to the Russians,
who met every advance by an opposing
passage. Mines and counter-mines were
frequently sprung on both sides, with
more or less success, and this fighting in
the bowels of tho earth resulted finally
in the establishment of tho fourth French
parallel. Temple Bar.
What Island? ,
The smallest State in the Union has the
most trouble with its name. It has nev
er been ascertained where, when, or how
Rhode Island received its name. Some
people think it was given to indicate a
resemblance between the island in Nar
ragansett Bay on which Newportis sit
uated and the Island of Rhodes iu the
Mediterranean Sea. Others are sure that
the name must have first been applied by
Dutch traders to an island in the bay as
"Roode Eylandt" (Red Island), so called
from the color of its soil.
But whatever may have been its origin,
we know for a certainty and that is all
we do know that in 1U-14 the General
Court of the Colony ordered the name
Rhode Island to "be substituted for tho
Indian name of Aquidneck. Since that
time "Little Rhody" has heard the ques
tion asked a good manv times, "What
island?"
Its name has given foreigners strange
ideas about "the smallest State in tho
Union." Even in Canada, which is not
far oft", Rhode Island is but little known.
A young man, who lives in Providence,
It. I., was once mortified while traveling
near Toronto at the ignorance shown of
his native State. A Scotch lady, to
whom he had mentioned his home,
startled him by exclaiming:
"Eh, lad, an island is't? Ye donna
look like an islander!"
Another lady, eager to learn all she
could about it, asked:
"An' how far from the main land, is it,
think?"
"It is not an islaud," was the youth's
reply. "It is the main land itself. It is
a State."
"Young man," said the woman, stern
ly, "you said Rhode Inland, didn't you?
Well", if it is an island, it ts an island;
an if it isn't an island, it isn't; an'
that's all there is about it! 'Call a spade
a spade,' youug man, an' don't stoop to
falsehoods."
The young man, somewhat discomfit
ed, hastened to explain to his severe
critic. After a while he succeeded in
convincing her of his truthfulness, but
not until he had called to his aid several
persons acquainted with the geography of
"the States."
On another occasion, a gentleman
asked:
"What is the chief employment there,
fishing?"
Rhode Island, sir?" was the polite re
ply, "is one of the New England States."
"Ah, indeed! near -Boston, then, is it
not?"
"Yee, sir: only forty miles distant."
And this served to" identify the little
State. Some people go fao fur as to call
Rhode Island "a suburb of Boston;" and
yet Providence alone has a population of
one hundred. and sixteen thousand inhab
itants. YouiKs Companion.
Miss Lillie Wall, of Irwin County,
was dangerously ill for several days, and
the doctors quietly informed her father,
Mr. Jasper Wallr that his daughter could
not possibly live. Going to her bedside,
and viewing her sadly, the father said:
"My darling child, ycu are obliged to
die, but I only hope that I may die
first" Shortly after he went into con
vulsions, and was soon dead, followed
three hours later by the death of his
daughter. AtlantaOa.) ConttituUo.
WHOLE NO. 688.
The Boj Who Whistles.
He trudged along, -unknowing what hw
sought. .
And whistled as he went, for want or
thought."
It was probably a memory of his boy
hood time which prompted Dryden
when he linked the jingling lines to
gether which head this article, for cer
tainly no man can read them without at
once'eatchiug the whole sentiment of
the couplet.
Because John Dryden, the poet and
dramitist, was buried in Westminister
Abbey and lives in history, it is not im
probable that Johnny Dryden, the boy,
often whistled his way through the
lanes of Aldwincklo to confess, on
reaching his home, that he had for
gotten one of the many most important
articles his mother had sent him after.
Boj's whistled in the seventeenth cen
tury just as they whistle now. In fact
whistling has always been and always
will-be one of the prerogatives of boy
hood, and he whose ability to whistle
lives with him to maturity or old ago
has always a reserve force with which
to blow aside many of the aches and ills
of a lifetime.
Where is the boy who has not had a
dear companion whose face was no
more promptly recognized than his
whistle? Every boy has a memory of
the signal which so often reached his
ears, and his alone, from the chum who.
knowing that it was against rules and
regulations to be out of doors at night,
persistently puckered his lips and blew
temptation terrible to resist and not
always overcome.
How many a boy has lived, who. per
haps able to whistle in but one fashion,
has envied his more accomplished friend
who could give the calls in two or threo
different ways? What a paragon was
the boy who" could perform the act of
whistling in all known styles!
How we boys used to stare wonder
ingly and with admiration as the cham
pion whistled with four fingers filling
his mouth, with two fingers, with any
one finger and even with the thumb ami
iu each instance causing a shrill shriek
loud enough to be heard half a mile
away.. Then with what a patronizing
air the champion would sink his skill to
indulgence in the ordinary lip-whistle
or the almost as common and very
sonorous doubled-fist-wIi'Mle. to again
jump with bcwilderingbrillianeytothat
chef d'ajuvre of sifllemcnt thetongue-and-teeth
whistle.
It is Mirprising how many are the
moods indicated unmistakably by A
boy's whistle. There is the whi.tle iu
which the head is held erect, the eyes
look straight ahead, but at nothing iu
particular, the lips show the utmost
muscular contraction, the distended
cheeks prove total indifference to ap
pearances and the noise, a strain most
monotonous, because it ends in the
wrong place, only to again take up the
first note and give a repetition to tho
erratic finale over anil over again,
totally oblivious to all surroundings.
Then there is the disconnected whitle,
doubtful, often false, and generally ac
companied by a slow pace, a hanging
head and a general indication of regret
and unwillingness to do anything but
whistle. Again there is the boy. often
grown to manhood, who does nut know
one note from another, yet who insists
on whistling constantly, in a hopeless
effort to catch a tune which he heard
the band play at the county fair.
Sharps and flats are alike to him, while
measure is wholly unknown and uu
thought of. Perhaps the man and his
whistle are a bore to a majority of
people, but it is bread and meat to him.
It is an unconscious sanitary measure,
doing much to keep lungs and stomach
on good terms with each other.
Where is the boy who has not often
"whistled aloud to keep his courage
up," while busy in the attic at some
mischief or slyly in the pantry search
ing out the cake box. How many
wives and mothers now live -and love
their boy's whistling because it re
minds them of the time when they
used to listen for the whistle of the boy
of long ago who now sits over there in
the great arm-chair with spectacles on
his nose, legs crossed and the heel and
toe of the free boot rocking in time to
the whistling of the young man wko.
having mastered a new operatic aria, is
putting on his hat and gloves in the
hallway preparatory to going over to
lei his sweetheart know of his latest
accomplishment.
It is only among boys that whistling
becomes a fine art. and it is often aston
ishing to observe the perfection which
some of the artists attain. A hundred
boys will attend the production of a
new opera, and the next day fifty of
those boys will be heard whist
ling selections from that opera,
each one having chosen the air which
most pleased him. In this way have
the reputations of song-writers been
made. Fritz -Emmett's "Lullaby,"
Willian Scanlan's " Peek-a-Boo." and
many of the old-time Foster melodies
are notable examples of popular songs,
and the first herald of that popularity
were the boys who whistled the airs
all over the streets of America. Much
of the success of "Pinafore." "The
Mascotte," of that oddity "The Turkish
Patrol," and of numerous other compo
sitions, is directly attributable to the
boy who whistles. Detroit Free Press.
An Honest Hoy.
There were :i dozen of us waiting
around the depot at Chattanooga to
take the train for Atlanta, and pretty
soon a stout, red-faced ami high-tem
pered man from Columbus, O., began
jawing about the way he had been bled
by the waiters at the hotel, and added
that there wasn't a single honest nigger
south of Mason and Dncon's line.
" 1 beg your pardon, but I must differ
with you,' remarked a man from South
Carolina.
" Differ be hanged!" shouted the fat
man. " I wouldn t trust one of 'emout
of sight with a ten-cent piece."
"Oh, you certainly misunderstand
them. I'll bet you the cigars that if I
give one of 'em a teu dollar bill to get
changed he'll return as straight as a
string.'
" I'll do it. Give your money to that
chap by the window!"
The gentleman walked over, took a
bill from his pocket, and quietly said:
"Boy, run uptown and get change
fortius."
" Yes, sah,' was the reply, as the
youth hurried out.
Iu about fifteen minutes he returned,
walked up to the Carolinian and re
turned the bill, and said:
" Went all ober, sah, but couldn't git
it busted."
He was rewarded with a dime, and
the Buckeye, after a great deal of puff
ing and blowing and wondering over it,
paid the cigars. As we boarded the
train I asked the winner:
" Did you know the boy?"
For answer he took the bill from his
pocket and unfolded it. It was a ten
dollar Confederate note! Cor. Detroit
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OF gEXERAL PiTEREST.
The moat universal favorite among
English statesmen is the blind Pottsmtot
General.
A girl baby, whose hair at.Jurtk,
reached below her waist, is theTatesi
Mormon freak of nature.
It ia proposed to so change the Mas
sachusetts State Constitution that women
who are lawyers may be made. Justices
of the Peace."
Jackfish are very numerous in ths
streams in the Riding Mountains, where
hundreds are being speared with, pitch
forks by the men in the lumber shanties.
Chinese historians have been at work
for 200 years past, and. yet hare only
brought their books dowa to the four
teenth century. They don't believe ia
skipping anything.
The Philadelphia Bulletin thinks
there ought to be a grand crop of good
living cominaup about this .time, as the
result of the grand sowing of good reso
lutions during the last six weeks.
Two Ohio men played checkers for
thirty-eight hours without eating or
sleeping, and the game would not nave
been broken then had not the wife of one
of the players made clubs the trump.
Detroit Free Press.
Mr. Josiah Quincy writes that in
1820, during one of his visits to Phila
delphia, he was struck by a singular ec
clesiastical privilege which then existed
in that city the right to obstruct tHe
streets by chains during the hours of
divine service.
There is less snow on the Sierra Ne
vada Mountains this year than there has
been for many years past. Along the line
of the Central Pacific Railroad fire trains
are employed in wetting down the snow
sheds to prevent their catching fire from
sparks.
A rooster owned by a Virginia
farmer has gone oti to live with a flock of
wild turkeys. Every morning at day
break ho crows, and the farmer, who
knows where his rooster is, is thus enabled
to go out and kill a wild turkey every
day. Such an abuse of hospitality Is
worse than human bunko-steering.
Prof. J. P. Stelle, of Alabama, is
down on what he calls the "carp farce."
He thiuks the carp is no better than the
buffalo fish. He calls it the "aquatic
buzzard," and Bays it is tho "meaneat fish
of any waters; a nasty, grisly-fleshed
kind of mud-sucker, which digs in the
muck and feeds on decaying substances."
Connecticutdeinands a law to pro
tect railroad brakenien. The Hartford
Couraht says: "Nobody doubts the story
now going through the newspapers that a
railroad Superintendent told an applicant
for the place of brakeinan that he had no
vacancy then, but somebody would be
killed off in a few days. It is too true to
be questioned."
The Lyons (N. Y.) Press states that
a dealer in that village recently shipped
two car loads of straw to a firm in Penn
Tan, who informed him that every par
ticle of that straw would be made into a
certain kind of paper, which after being
oaked in tobacco juice, would greatly re
semble Havana leaf, and be used as such
in the manufacture of cigars.
Burglars broko into a Cincinnati
newspaper-man's bed room, anight or two
iiuce. It w:is unlucky for tho inmates
A neighboring rooms that the intruders
found nothing worth stealing but a per
fume bottle in the newspaper-man's apart
ment, for from the others were taken
money, jewelry, handkerchiefs, hosiery
and other proinjrty of varied value.
A re'K-rt comes from Montreal,
Canada,' that the right of a nun to take
off the veil and re-enter society will soon
be tried in the law courts there, as tbe
opulent friends of a young French
Canadian lady are about to apply for a
writ of habeas corpus to compel ths
mother superior of one of the local con
vents to open the doors and allow her to
leave.
The statue of "Liberty Enlightening
the World" will weigh eighty tons and is
to be placed on a pedestal 150 feet high.
The fear is that the statue will not be able
to resist the pressure of the wind. As
only $80,000 of the S2."0,000 necessary
for the pedestal is collected, there seems
to be no prospect- ot their raising either
the statue or the wind high enough to
do any harm to it Detroit Pott and
'Tribune.
Two young men from the rural dis
tricts visited a King street, Hamilton,
Out, photograph gallery, for the purpose
of securing the "shadow ere the sub
stance fadf," and they performed their
ablutions in a bowl of water while the
operator's back was turned. It was a
nitrate of silver bath, and they have con
cluded that, though the Ethiop may not
change his skin, it is not difhcult for a
white man to do so.
The injudicious use of metaphors
has occasionally created great amuse
ment both in the old Irish and
English Houses of Commons. The other
night Mr. Callon, M. P. for Louth, a
staunch opponent of the Sunday Closing
and Permissive bill, aud personally a
great benefactor to the revenue, replying
to the Irish Attorney-General said: "The
facts relied on by the learned gentleman
are very strange. Now, Mr. Speaker, I
swallow a gooa deal. "Hear, hear,"
"Quite true?' "Begorra you can," and
roars of laughter. I repeat, I can swal
low a great deal ''Hear, hear," and fresh
volleys of laughter, but I can't swallow
that." A few nights before, in a debate
which had to do with the Jews, Baron ds
Worms laid just remarked, "We owe
much to the Jews," when there came a
feeling groan from a well-known member
in his back corner, "We do."
Some Arablaa Yarns.
In the way of serpents, a skipper named
Abou Mohammed, son of El Hassan, son
of Amr, had a strange experience, ths
authenticity of which was vouched for
by Ismail, on of Ibrahim, already cited.
Running into a creek for shelter during
a violent gale, he observed on the follow
ing morning, a gigantic serpent, fearful
to behold, plunge into the water, traverse
the creek, climb the opposite bank, and
glide away with startling rapidity.
Toward night-fall it returned, but iu
movements were then slow and heavy.
The same thing happened for five con
secutive days. On the sixth the skipper
bade some of his men follow the reptile
and mark whither it went On their re
turn they reported that the snake
repaired to a marshy ground completely
covered with ivory tusks voided by that
devourer of elephants. For several suc
cessive days the crew were employed in
filling up the ship with ivory, throwing
overboard their less valuable cargo.
Almost incredible was the value of ths
tusks they collected during their twenty
days' detention. Another celebrated
mariner named Djafar, son of Raahid,
spoke of a serpent that entered a bay on
the Malabar coast and swallowed a croca
dile. The Governor of the place forth
with dispatched a body of troops to seize
the monster. It took 3,000 men to master
and fasten a rope around its neck. It was
lixty feet ia length and weighed some
iLcusand of pounds. AJltheYtar Rouni.
