Image provided by: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE
About The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 8, 1883)
THE JOURNAL. 1CKD E"ZF.Y WEOSEaDAY, M. K. TURNER & CO., ProDrietors and Publishers. Ifo (fahtmlm.s TES OF ADTEKXU5I3TG. 33"Businesa and professional cards of five lines or less, per annum, five dollars- 0 For time advertisements, apply at this oflce. lLegal advertisement at statue rates. ETTor transient advertising, see rates on third page. X3TAXL advertisements payable monthly. 12T OFFICE. EUzentii. St., up Hairs in Journal Bvildinc. TE P..V:: Per year -ix month T ire months S3 VOL. XIV.-NO. 15. COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 8, IS83. WHOLE NO. 691. OS pal ixr v I ' 3TJS13ESS CAEDS. DENTAL PAELOE. On ThirTenth . ind Nebraska Ave., if.r Fr'i.Jhnf store. J" ij. ur-. i-j 1- i. m : 1 lo " p. ta. ULLA AsHBAlGH. Dentist. .4 TTORXE TS-A 1 -LA W, ! .. tair- jttlu-K Building, lltb -treet, ' .to th" Nw hank. tt -- asrso?i, il. .V7M .'' prBi.rc. li'n -lr-.-t. i inn. wl of lUmmon.l House. '. :i;t -J.S. .W.. 4H-y Tj:j 5iI- A: POWK1W. T SUliGEOX TjEXTISTS, r X.r.,- :!j m; &tr Block. OolUni- -t-vV n-ti .4 THRXE YS A T LA TT", nine u olv ,-i- .lura'jU!. Neara-ka. l i (.. A. lil LLUOK.-T, A.M., M. D . 'liOMEul'A 1 hlC PHYSICIAN. jyTwo hl.i- -uth of urt House. I..- a. ue m hi unieati on 3-ly V. A. MACKEN, H (e. L--tii--rs djors. Pvr'ers, Ales, e'" . ttC t !. v-f -treet. u.-. to Fir-t National Bank. ro-v f ,Z.2.IS'M-:K liKO.. .i rroliXE YS A T LA W, i .-.-ta r it. W.-.Vlh-ter's build ii r.-i -:. a . JKAlli-ter. Notary J . sat'Ktt.l VNU. IS. K. COWDERY. LAV AND tOLLElTIOX OFFICE MAFARtAND & COVTDBHy. . -.1 ni Nebraska. C- PAIXTER. tP"'".: -i '- n i M-in laintiiis. ..i- 4 i . 'm. ...;. k tU.jnuuin, etc. .-Oe l..; Urn vao )3 Uttl 5t., opposite Eir'n -l :-. . .-.'r u u-j. Neb 10-y flf'St.. opposite LindellHotef. - ! ian -- -i.iJle.-. llar. Whips, B.Ja . r. orih. Bru she-.. trunk, jl'-k. ' i.;.. .-a .a-i. irrjje "n .jiu- . .. t: tu- : vt ii)-ible n-. I.'. ',in - l . lll,)L.v Ittendr d tO. I-pal Estate -Aent. Gnoa. Nance Co . Neb- A ILI LAND" and imprdted farms r -a... orre-f-.nuf iioe solieit- i ui . ,;.iii nm - tmMin;r, up-t.tirs. "iO- L- !v' i. iUK. . --J ') ! .V .V I I.'A X i ' -4 E.V 7-. 7 Ml' hi: LI. xebi:. 'i i..- ..in; ri-r" -oin tine tract. . i ii -! i ,- k a !. and the uorth- . I. i rv n l'l f.- -oant . Tales Jul i. i t )ii- i-.ilrui.. -jatiat'actiou -l-araniel. Jt v ( fJMBL'S. - .Vrfi., l'n-k-rin.t lf.tler in ill kinds of Ho p: duet, .-n iaid for Liv? or Dead lien or zr.-t- Dirc:. It. H H nry. Pre-t.: John Wi:.'.:...f. and l"reas.. L. GernrJ, 5. ury. VOTIK '!' TilACHKRS. J. I Moncrief, Co. Supt., Wil' ' e iitii- .tn.- it the t'ourt TI.)ue . ;: tt:e ..id "-aturday of each ui n; h f i!ii' : ur' of examining a; .i-itt-1 r ;a. h-r rtineate. anii trtii ii .it it. n 't any otner buatneos l.-rtainn jo -.otiiiot-. f'tiT-y J a. e s-K'.v a. .ts .. CONTACTOR AND BUILDER. Plan- anatmiites supplied for either frame or ik 'uiMin. Good work .."Jirai!. .1 h'4' n 1.1th Street, near t. Piui Lai' . r Y trd. . lumbiis. Ne-'.ri-ka. ."lidtno. J. WAGNER, Livery md Food Stable. I- prepared o turni.-h the public w'th t.d team-. Jijrie- and carriages for all oocasi- n;, -ivially for funerals. Al-o ci Rduot- a -a.' -tablV. 44 D. r. M vRT-i . M. D. F. -CHUG. M. D.. Deutscher Art:. Drs. ISTYX & SCEUG, U. S. Exaiiininij; Surgeons. Loa' aurrtn. I nion Pacific and .... B. H.R,R's. COLUlIHUi NEBRASKA. ,- oi-xai-v JS. irUR'OCK&SON, Csrpeters and Contractors. Havehad a:extendea experience, and will cnarartte satisfaction in work. AM kind- c repairing done on short notice ou m.tt.-i i-. Good work and tair prices, ("all and irive u? an oppor tun.T.vto.'-tmare foryuc. Ej"Shop on lath ?t .in. door we-t of Friedhof Jc Co'-.sMre. olumbus. 2Tebr. 4S3-v PPTQ;T,7CJ to all. Soldiers that X -L 0JHO were disabled by wounds, dis.se. aceident or otherwise, widows, molers and fathers of soldiers dvm.r in tbeservu-e or afterwards, from diseae whie originated while ia the ser-i-r. art- . ui ,ed to a nnion. New and honorable dicharse obtained for sol dier. lactase of FeBiu ob tained at an time when the disabilitv warrants it. Vll soldiers who were rated too low are etltled to an increase of pen sion. Rejectd and abandoned claims a specialty. Oculars free. Address, with stamp, AI. V-TLEENEi, Box 485, "NTash-rs-GTOX. D. C 45-12c; COLUMBUS STATE BANK! 2i::issn:j 3mrd A 3al ul Tint ft Salit. COLUMBUS, SEB. CASH CAPITAL, - $50,000 DIRECTORS: Leavdeu Gskkaed, Pres'i. Geo. W. Huxst, Vice Pres't. Julius A. Reed. Edward A. Gehbaud. A b jtm TtTRXE k, 'Cash ier. Baak of Deposit, UNcohii ad Exchaage. Collections Preanptly Made on nil PolatN. Pay latere! a Tiaie Depos it. " 274 DREBERT & BRI66LE, BACKERS! HUMPHREY, NEBRASKA. jSTFrompt attention given to Col lections. iSTInsurance, Real Estate. Loan, etc- 5 JOHN HEITKEMPEE, Eleventh Street, opposite the LIndell Hotel, COLIDIBCS, NEBRASKA, Ha on hand a full assortment of GROCERIES! PROVISIONS. CROCKERY & GLASSWARE. c Pipes, Gigarr and Tobacco. Highest price paid for Country Produce. Goods delivered-iu city. GIVE ME A CALL! JOI13I HE1TKE.HPEB. :)i-y LOCIS SCHKEIBEE, it All kinds of Repairing done on Short Xotice. Bnggies, Wag ons, etc., made to order, and all work Gtar anteed. Also sell the world-famous Walter A. Wood Mowers, Reapers, Combin ed Machines, Harvesters, and Self-binders the best made. SSTShop opposite the " Tattersall," Ol ive at., COLUMBUS. 2-dtn-c H. LITERS & CO, BLACKSMITHS AND "WaoxL Builders, w Brlfk Shop opponlte Hetatz's Dm? Store. 4LL KINDS OF WOOD AND IRON WORK ON WAGONS AND BUGGIES DONE ON SHORT NOTICE. 'Eleventh Street, Columbus, Nebraska. 50 NEBKASKA HOUSE, S. J. MARMOT, Prop'r. Nebraska Ave., South of Depot, COLU.HBC9, XEB. A new hsuse. newly furnished. Good accommodations. Board by day or week at reasonable rates. 23"St a Flnc-Cl Xable. Meals, 25 Cts. Lodeings .. .25 CU. 3J-2tf WISE people are always on the lootout tor cnances to increase their earnings. and in time become wealthy: those who do not improve their opportunities remain in poverty. We offer a reat chance to make money. "VVe want many men. women, boys and ::irls to work for u right in their own localities Any one can dothe work properly from the first trt. The '-usiaesa 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 STTXbOX & Co.. Portland, Maine. tOur larze GASDE.f 6UIIEdescribins Cole's PreTmrni We offer the Latest Nov elties in SEED POTATOES, Corn. Ooata and Wheat, and the. Best Collection of Yeeetable, Flower, Grass and Tree EE. EvemMnz ii tested. Address LSUK me- 45-OW-4p Bun Wain FIR1T National Bank ! Authorized Capital, Cash Capital, - 8250,000 50,000 OFPICKK3 ND DIRECTORS. A. ANDERSON, Pres't. sAJI'L C. S31ITH. Vice Pres't. O.T. ROEN. Cashier. J. W EARLY. ROBERT UHLIG. HERMAN OEHLUICH. W. A. 3ICALLISTER, G. ANDERSON, i ANDERSON. Foreign and Inland Exchange. Pdiage Tickets, Real Estate, Loan ana !nuranee. Sit-vol-13-ly BECKER & WELCH, PROPRIETORS OF SHELL CKEEE HILLS. MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLE SALE DEALERS IN FLOUR AND MEAL. OFFICE, COL UMB US, XEB. SPEICE & NORTH. General Agents f. r the Sale of REAL ESTATE. Union Pacific, and Midland Pacific R. R. Lands for sale at from $3.00 to S10.00 per acre for cash, or on five or ten years time, in annual payments to suit pur chasers. "We have also a large and choice lot of other lands, improved and unimproved, for sale at low price and on reasonable terms. Also business and residence lots in the city. "We keep a complete abstract of title to all real es tate in Platte County. 621 COLUMBUS. XEB. LANDS, FAKMS, CITY PBOPEBTY POR SALE, AT THE Union Fade Land Office, On Long Time and loio rate of Interest. All wishing to buy Rail R.d Lands or Improved Farm- will find it to their advantage to call at the U. P. Land OlSce before lookin el-ewhere a I make a specialty of buying and selling lands 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 utiiur pasaed. I am prepared to make final proof for all parties wishing to get a pateut for their homesteads. JSTHenry Cordes, Clerk, writes and speaks German. SAMUEL C. SMITH, Agt. U. P. Land Department, Wl-v COLUMBUS, NEB. VVM. BECKER, DCALZ& IS SLL KINDS OF FAMILY GROCERIES! I KEEP CONSTANTLY ON HAND A WJCLL SELECTED S TOC K. Teas, Coffees, Sugar, Syrups, Dried and Canned Fruits, and other Staples a Specialty. Goods Delirereil Free to any part or the Cily. I AM ALSO AGENT FOR THE CEL EBRATED COQTJTtXARD Farm and Spring Wagons. of which I keep a constant supply on hand, but few their equal. In style and quality, second to none. CAIJ. AJTD LEAJUC PRICES. Cor. Thirteenth, and II Streets, near A. tX. Depot. HENRY GASS TJJSTDERTAJSIEII ! COFFINS AND METALLIC OASES ASB DAIX&tS Furnitora, Cnaira. Bedsteads. Bu reaus. Tables, Safes. Lounges. &c Picture Frames and Mouldings. BFepirig of all kinds of Upholstery Goods. 6-tf COLUSCBDS, EB. o. c. STTAisisroisr, 5CAXCTACTUBX OF Tin and Sheet-Iron Ware ! Job-Werk, lotfiar aid Gutter irnf a Ipeeoalty . ShOD on Eleventh Street, onnmit Helnti's firux Store. 4e-y TEE PEREXXIAL JIACD. ifuaH Muller worked at rakln? nay, Ana eieared her forty cents a day. Her clothes were coarse, but her health was fine. And so she worked in the sweet sunshine, Slnyinff as irlad as a bird In May - Barbara Allen " the live-lony day. She often irlanced at the far-off town. And wondered if eirys were up or down; And the sweet son? died of a stranire disease. Leaving a phantom taste of cheese. And an appetite and a nameless ache For soda water and ginger cake. The Judjre rode slowly into view. Stopped nis horse in the shade and drew His fine cut, while the blushing Maud Marveled much at the kind he chawed." He was "dry as a nsh," he said, with a wink. And kind a thought that a good, square drink Would brace him up. so the cup was filled With the crystal wine that the old spring' spilled. And she ?ave it him with a sun-browned nana; Thanks." said the Judjre, in accents bland. A thousand thanks, for a sweeter draught From a fairer hand "but then he laughed. And the sweet yirl stood in the sun that day. And raked In the Judjre instead of the hay. A. O. Picayune. HOW HE GOT OUT OF IT. " For goodness' sake! what's the mat ter. Dod?" exclaimed Sidney Stitt, looking up from the bachelor occupa tion or sewinr on a button, in which his friend's sudden entrance caused him to lose a stitch and prick hL tinjrers ' you look as if all the slinks anil arrows of outrageous fortune had made you their target for a month!' Matter!' jrrowled Dodanim Dothan. flinging himself into a chair, and glow ering angrily at the world through the window "there's enough the matter; should say!" Sidney sucked his punctured finger, and waited till the spirit of confidence should move Dodanim to unbosom. "Sid." he said at length, I'm in a mess! You know what Iltold vou about Phidyle Bates." 44 You said you had made her an oner of marriage, and that -he had promised a speedy answer." " Yes. ami she kept her word, too, confound her punctuality!" 'That is to sav, declined with thanks." No accepted with the eagerness of a despairing maiden clutching at the last matrimonial straw to keep from sinkinsr in the Slousrh of DesDond!" "Well, what more can you wish?" 'To jt out of it!" said Dodanini. 'You -ee, Phid Bates, as I happened to discover, was down in her rich aunt Hes keth's will for the old lady's entire for tune; and the latter, being turned of ninety, the man lucky enough to become Phid's husband miht fairlyhope to real ize his golden dreams without vexatious delay. 1 made a bold push to be that hap py man. I pressed my suit, proposed, and. as already stated, was accepted. For twenty-four hours I was the happiest of men. But. alas! how soon was the blissful chalice dashed from my lip-! A note from Phidyle announced that her aunt, on being informed of her en gagement, in a fit of -rage called in her lawyer and made another will, leaving everything to the I forgot what he called it Society. 4I hoped the letter would wind up with an oiler to release me in view of these altered circumstances. But not a bit of it! 'I'm real glad it'- hap pened o, dear Doddy.' she added in a postscript: "for now everybody will know, as did always, that "you sought me for myself alone' 'Now. Sid. that's the scrape I want you to help me out of. If I was only free from Phid, I could work my way back into Carrie Se well's good "graces when she gets back from the visit -he's gone upon. She's got a few thousands' of her own. aad is as pretty as a pink. I only dropped her because I thought I saw a better chance." Sidney Stitt having finished his sar torial labors, and put awav his needle and thread, sat for a few moments wrinkling his majestic brow in thought. 'There's one plan that might work," he said at length. 'Out with it!" cried Dod. jumpinrup and grasping his hand. I knew "you couhi help me if anybody could." "Phid Bates L a high-strung piece," continued Sid. "If you could only lead her to suspect that all alonir your "heart has reallv been another'-. "I believe she'd -enI you packing without a mo ment's ceremony." "But how to manage such a schenip?" "Oh! that'- simple enough. Write a stronsr love-letter to some other wom an a fictitious one, if you like. Direct it: put it in yonr pocket unsealed, as though you meant lo add or inclo-e something before mailing it; call on Phid; talk as lovingly as ever; and be fore coming away, accidentally drop the letter and" leave it. Tru-t "to female curiosity for the rest." "Capital!" shouted Dod. slapping his friend's shoulders. "Let's about it at once;"' and drawing a chair to the table on which were pn, ink and pa per, he sat down. " Don't you think it had better be ad dressed to an actual person?" he asked "to somebody Phid knows for in stance? She'd be more apt to think it real. Stay I have it! What sav you to Nepenthe Hooker?" "Ha! ha! ha!" laughed Sid "why, she celebrated her senii-centennial the other day. and is uglier than she's old: but no "matter she'll do as well as any." " But isn't there danger Phid may see through the joke?" sugge.-ted Dod." ' No a jealous woman never takes anything as a joke; besides, as Miss Hooker owns a small annuity. Phid will scent a motive for your perfidy. " Dod, after spoiling several "sheets of paper, submitted the following for his friend s approval Deajizst Nepetite After many attemnta- and failures to suitably express the ardent Dassfon tharha for TMwmr,',,::: , I abandon the effort in desnair. I would tnrow myself at your feet, and pour out my reelings in a torrent cf eamMt hnrnimr words, but for the dread that your anr , mljratdooci me to hopeless misery' Permit &Wlf&n&Zg ' my undytnjr love for vou. and you alone ' wnatever idle ronirues mar have chosen to re- port. Dearest I now offer vou mv hi-r nn.i Do not break the one by d-Vininlr the I would sto to e?k vnur nrw-x-ui. rn, ' other. I would reXbylUinowTaS. SS reellnjjs Ion? pent up. 1 shall seal and disparch It as soon as I liave jralned sufficient nerve Your devoted DoD.ufiMDoTH.of." "Bravo! Dod." applauded Sid. "You ought to get up a new and revised edi tion of 'The Approved Letter-writer, and Love-maker's Assistant." for the ..uuuo.i i"trc' "" ai expression or use of enamored swains of defective lit- ' erarv training " I "6v George. thomzh." said Dod "if ine story ever gets out, i II be the lauo-h of the town!" "Have no fear of its getting out. Phid-Tl never let it be known that she read a letter addressed to another." It was not till the next evening that the friends again met. 44Your hand. Sid!" cried Dod, with boisterous glee. "It worked like a charm. I went to see Phid last night, had a long, cozy chat, and in pulling oat my handkerchief to hide a tear at arting, managed to let drop the etter. I called" again this morning, but the servant saidshe had orders not to admit me any more. So, you see, the business is done!" Sid was warm in his felicitations. "Now for Carrie Sewell!" said Dod. "Ha! what's this?" ejaculated Sid. glancing at a newspaper that he hail picked up, and from which he read hur riedly: "Married, at Wet Felicity, on the 1st inst.. by the Rev. Dr. Splicer. ML-s Carrie Sewell. of Chlpperdale. to Mr. Midas Muchryn. of Chlnk uigton." ' Dod looked thunderstruck. The pet part of his project was irretrievably "dished!" Wishing Sid a hasty good evening, he hastened home to his re flections. They weren't very pleasant, on the whole, and were les-" so the next morn ing when the postman delivered a letter in Miss Nepenthe Hooker's stiflVst hand. formally acknowledging receipt of Mr. Dothan's very flattering favor, declaring that the gratifying sentiments it so deli cately conveyed had long been secretly reciprocated, and graciously accepting the otter he had honored her by mat ing. Here was a second thunderstroke for Dod. It was evident that Phidyle Bates had revenged herself by posting his letter to Nepenthe Hooker." What w:is to be done? Dod would have applied to Sidney Stitt forcoun-el; but he shrank from disclosing his ridic ulous plight even to him. He formed the desperate resolve of going to Aliss Hooker herselt and ex plaining that it was all a joke. But is was no joke on her side, the lady de clared: and on learning how her tender affection had been trifled with, she went into a fit of violent hy-terics that rou-ed the neighborhood, and Dod was fain to beat a E:uty retreat to escape be ing mobbed. He resolved to run away next morn ing: but the Sheriff, with a warrant for his arrest for breach of promiae, was beforehand with him. Dod tried to find bail, bnt couldn't. His friend-, it seemed, weren't among the -olid men of substance. Then he sought to make terms with the fair plaintiff. But her only terms were mar ry or go to jail! Like Mrs. McStinger. she held her grip, and like the immor tal Jack Bun.-by. Dod yielded to his fate, and was led a victim to the altar. Moral: He deserved it. .V Y. Ledger. Eminent Mr. Rogers. Mr. Rogers is an eminent robber No. 1.967 in the Rogues' Gallery. His functions require so much education and judgment that only half a dozen men have been able to play h's part in what is known as bank sneaking." The bank sneaks generally form a mob" of three or four, and confine their operations to country u.wn. though they sometimes visit cities. In country banks there is usually some time of the day when only one'or two clerk- are at their desks perhaps the paying and receiving tellers. The mob ascertain the time of day when this is likely to be the case, observe the move ments and habits of the employes, enter the office on business pretenses. i and s the lay or" the land. The I -taller' s" funrtion is to engage the i attention of the clerics while the sneax proper lays hands on the un guarded valuables." Mr. Rogers is a Brilliant taller, the most successful in the business. He has a business-like air, is a slow and easy talker, and would be likely to get the" respectful at tention of any business man. If he engage- a paying teller in conversation, he starts a subject in which a paying teller would be especially interetetL If he L- stalling an insurance man. he has something to talk about which will hold an insurance man's attention. - He could engage the attention of the smartest bank clerk in New York.'' a detective said yesterday, "long enough for his sneak to get an impres- sion of the lock to the door which leads I behind the desks. He could return with his pals, and they couid engige so I many clerks in conversation that the ! sneak could unloek the door and iret the boodle. He has been implicated in all such robberies that have occurred so frequently in the last few year. Take the remarkable case of the"S.tX)0 rob bery in a'Buffalo safe deposit company, which was not discovered nnril the mob offered to return for money the stolen coupons and bonds. There they work ed a rich old gentleman for months, perhaps for years. They found out that at certain times he "went to the company's vaults to clip coupons. To get past the guard one of them took off his coat, put a pen behind his ear. took a bundle of papers in one hand and assed without being challenged. He ooked as if he were going" to finish some interrupted business. The old gentleman was busy cutting otlcoupons. Something was done to distract his at tention, and in a second the boodle was snatched from the table so dexterously that he knew nothing about it. " Country banks are most frequently worked and stalled, but Mr. Rogers' latest exploits were in other moneyed institutions. His mob robbed Insurance Agent Rufus Rose, of Albany, of $2.UO in the following manner: Mr. Ro-e was worked" until it was ascertained that he usually got large sums of money from the bank and" deposited them in his safe. One day when he returned from the bank with .2,fi00 he was "fol lowed by the mob. Before he could lock the safe" he was "stalled, " and in the midst of a pleasant conversation the sneak got the money from the .-afe. Operations in the office of the Peo ple's Passenger Railroad Company in rrnianeiphia were similarly conducted v niie the principals were out. the rTiit"L- in f-Vi ....-,- 51, - . t.,11..I ft -"-" "u;i umuc eiC suiueu. anu cne aaeaic entered the inner or- fice. F .- i-w From the safe he abstracted ' fV i. , ,. - ,- , 1De mb also abstracted in February 2' f?m th BI? Po:t-oAice". Une of the mob entered the office with I a letter in his hand. " I live in I .-.,, i.. .. i ..-i , - , , ', ue T MK l Uls lelIPr ,S on-'c- iv addressed to me. hnt it tr.i ifJivAroi? 2-75? T ?? " . . J -.-.... .. ..u an important Du-mess transaction. While the official's attention was thus engaged the sneak got in his work. Mr. Rogers is ?id to own considera ble property, but his case 5- exception al. The proceed- of tlie-i ioint tnrur. p , ? to. be ltlvl1,'tl :mioug so niaav, anu institutions have to be worked so long a time, that the shan of each member of the mob in the profits ; Cm. am not very large after deducted. X. Y. Sun. expenses are A land-lad v Mother Earth. Bur- J lingion Free Press. Dynamite as a Home Comfort. One of the oddest incidents in the I history of dynamite is the- laudation of it by a paper called the Home Journal as a means or" elevating the condition of the poor and oppressed, by enabling the humblest and most obscure to blow up or kill at trifling expense anybody who seems to stand in the way of" his happi ness. The home in which these doc trines were accepted and acted on would be a very strange place, indeed, and would not long need a journal of any kind. There is one comic side to these view-, but only one. and that is the notion that if the use of dynamite by the downtrodden, unhappy, "became general, it would only be "used for the destruction of the tyrant and oppress or. It would be used, as everybody know-, or ought to for robbery" and know, principally the unadorned murder ot enemies, lust as the re- volver has been. Nearly everybody who buys a revolver thinks, or tries to think, he is buying it for self defense, but the cases in which anybody defends himself with it are very rare. It is mostly devoted to killing the unof- fending, or making them keep still while their pockets are being rifled. The man who invented it has a irreat deal to answer for. a.- an one will see who re- I fleets for a moment on the awful de- i struction ot lire which it nas enabled desperadoes in all parts of the world to accomplish during the last thirty years. It gave the ruffian the power which he never had before of carrying five or six shots in his pocket without exciting ob servation, and he "has so used it as irreat- ly to increase the difficulty of maintain mg I ng law and order in all civi ized coun- ries The be-t elements of society il - , eiemento or socierv tries have not profited by it at all. Its ad vantage to the army or navy or police has been very trifling, and there are but few households whom it has ever protected against attacks on either life or propertyJ One of the most dangerous of the an archical notions now afloat is the notion that the oDpressed. even when acting singly, have just as good a right to use ., " . , a . , . the means or destruction against their .n.,n.; : i' r -.i- that an Irishman who does not like the way hb? country is governed is as much ju-imeu in uiowmg up the tiousea or Parliament as the Prussians to bombard Paris. But the reason why the use of the weapons of war against life and property is reserved by old-fashioned moralists for e-tablished Governments carrying on openly declared hostilities, is simply that it is for the interest of the human nice that the destruction of life and property should not be undertaken except in cases where a large body of persons, torming an organized society, have after deliberation agreed that it is necessary or desirable, and a guarantee that the world ghall have occasional in tervals ot peace. The pr gress of civilization has been market! from the beginning by restric tions on the rieht of making war. First. every one could attack anybody he pieasfd. just like the wild animals. Theu it was reserved for small parties or families of savages nnder a chief, and finally was reserveTl exclusively for the socictie.- call.-d nations. When" the tide or civilization receded during the Mid dle Age-. th. right of waging war again became diflu-. d. and MI into the hands of every large landholder. To go out and attack a neighbor, and carry off his cattle. Warae one of hi- every day amu-ements. When tLe tide ofcivili zation again beiran to rLs. the rijrht of attacking people again began to be re- -tncteil. In every century we tml the number of tlio-e allowed to exercise it diminishing, until finally it has become ci.nniied in praenceto thereat nations. Even small nations now a- e rarely al- lowed to go to war. and. when war takes place, it ia carried on bv a million of men on a side, and is therefore rarelv undertaken nnle-s -j. very larre body of per-ons have agreed both that it i.- de sirable and that it is likely to attain its object. Thi- is certainly on the whole a great rain for humanity. It may crowd a great deal of killing into a short -pace jf time, but it gives long spaces of time when everybody is sure that he will not be k'lled. and will enjoy the fru.ts of 'ii- labor. Moreover, it enlarges the role of dtsrn-sion in human affairs, and nothing is -o important for the race as thi-. Nuthinr does so much to educate it. and make it reasonable; or. in other j word-, to remove it from the animal", who-e unhappy fate it i- not to know j how to p-i--u:tife. j The Nihilist plan allowing every man to cany hi- own bomb, move" -uch per-ons as he jertluoii- or injurious to the ty. would be a return to the .nal stage of human history, aesimilate man once more t an. I. of course, if generally and re- i thinks sii-communi- j w'Ll-ani- Tt would the tiger. adoptetl. ' would make organized ole. The industrious. o -lety mipo i- ' the enenretic. ' the upright would in every generation be blown up by the idle "and vicious, j ami these would finally have to live .part in caves or trunk "of trees, would foriret how to make dynamite or even gunpowder, and have to rely once more, like their prng-ntors. on their ..:! I ....i. i i ., .- .. u;wi-- aim utlu. ;iuii on euios lor tile promotion of their happiness. .V. Y. Evening Post. Rat-Killing. 44 I've killed over a quarter of a mill ion of rats during the past thirty years." said old John Gregory, or "English Jack." as he Is familiarly termed bv he residents of Camden, in reply to a. question propounded to him the other day about his peculiar business. The noted rat-killer is a little, well-built man. fifty-three years of age. He lives alone at No. 416 Henry street. His nlv companions are his ferrets, dogs ind" white rats, to which he Ls greatlv attaehed. "Pickle" and "Jack." his canine companions, are two fine blood ed Scotch terriers. When not at work they live in a kennel in the kitchen. Their ma-ter values them at five hun dred dollars. For thirteen years they have teen actively engaged" in aiding -English Jack" to make a living bv ex terminating the rodents, and Gregory aptly says: "They have chewed up more rats than any other dog- in the world." Cages containing ferrets and white rats occupy the rooms on the -eeond story. There are only fifteen of the former just now, thirty-five havingdied during the past nine months. These animals look something like rat.-, rang ing in length from -ix to fourteen inch es. They have a smooth coat of fur of a brown and white color. The white rats were bred from a pair imported from Albino, Turkey, are quite tame, and, like the ferret, have red eyes. They are kept in a room apart from" the ferrets. After his visitor had been shown through the house. 4 'English Jack" told how he came to take up the disagreea- ble business: "When a lad livino- r I K'otrinjrbiTn Fng . I maflia vrnainT - ance of Wallet, the Queea's Tester. brought me with him to this country. Wallet acted as a clown with various circuses for thirteen years, and I accom panied him as a servant. He alvs-vs ! carried a pair of ferrets around with him to amuse his friends at private rat baits. When I was twentv-three years old Wallet returned to fenglandT but before going he gave me his ferrets and advised meto take up the business of rat-killing for a living. The first job I undertook was to rid old Matthew Bald win's house, on the river road, between Taconv and Bridesburg. of rats. I was I there two davs and got $100 for de- strovini? over a hundred rats. I met with such success at, this mv first vent- ure that I somehow became imbued with a passion for killing nits, and as I orew nldr th fw!?ncr rrtior InirJ4iri i ow nothing suits me better than to cnn.l o -i,! :.k. ; .. ..iio- .i r...,r,.K Atv. w..t,fl...i r....t- .,- u .J as thev come out of their holes to es cape the ferrets who are in pursuit of them. Then the dogs fall on them, and their death squeaks sound like music on mv ears. If the rats come out in numbers then I take a hand, for I con sider myself as good as either of the dogs, and between Pickle. Jack and me few ever manage to escape. " During the war Colonel Eastman, who was in command at Fort Mifflin, contracted with me to rid the place of rat3. t tilled over few weeks. From -. moned to Fort Delaware. Would you believe it; in a little over a month aad j ahalf I killed sixteen thousand rats. j Nearly all of them were caught near I 0Zd I, used to nu 'emuninheans t Hu QeU- L Uded to Rlle J emu.P ma. e-1P for the purpose of allowing the rebs to the pen in which the rebel prisoners were purpose eat em. " Yes; eat 'em," continued old Jack, as his listener expressed a doubt about the truth of the remark. "I have seen men at Fort Delaware skin rats and eat I them with salt. Just let me tell you j that nothing looks nicer and cleaner than a skinned corn-fed rat. I would ! , , , . wocudn t t a u eat such a rat in a minute, but I sewer or a slanghter- uuuac rat lor rat for money, cause thev are dirty. I haveoft-n killed rats by biting their backs. You se. I just pick 'em up with one hand, sink mv teeth in 1 their backs, and thev are done for. I I have a record for killing five rats in thirty seconds in that way. I have ac complished the feat hundreds of times in the presence of many respectable and wealthy gentlemen. That's how I came to loose Iny teeth. I used to draw out rat's teeth with my own when people wanted to rear them as pets. Now I use a pair of pinchers for the purpose. "I flatter myself that no man in this country knows more about rats or their habits than I do. I have watched and studied their ways over a quarter of a century, ami I think there is not a more cunning animal living. They will steal anything and eat their way into anything but iron. Thev have 1 but fonr teeth, two in the upper and two i in the lower jaw. and these they ply i with almost inconceivable rapidity. I I have often heard of deaths occurring I by rat bites, but in this regard, itseems. I am protected from harm. Take a look I at mjr harnij. Tiierc ts not nr on them large enough to cover a pin-head that does not bear some kind of a scar. , I have been bitten hundred.- c; times. j but an application of salt and whisky I speedily removes all pain and causes , the wound to heal. " rerrets are troublesome animals to ( - take care of. Ji. -i. ii.vTsjic.-n. uiuuu money trying to uomesticate them, out never succeeded. I make a iournev to En- t gland every year and a half for the pur- t pose or i rapidly. increasing mv stock as thev die Thev are worth about fortv- hve dollars a piece. I lose about three hundred dollars a year. Sometimes they get killed in fights with monster nts. or wander through drain pipes off into sewers and never return. As soon as I let them out of my bag they scrim mage around a cellar" until they find a rat-Thole, and then they disappear. They will go wherever a rat goes. Having but few bones they can work their way through any building. Rats get terror stricken at the sight of ferrets, and try to escape by emerging-" from the holes. Then it is -ure death for them. So frightened do rats become at the sight of ferrets that I have seen them time and again rush to the edge of a hole, look around in dismay, and then jump into the yawning mouths of the do"u." thtlitdclphtit Record. Turned Hw Head. The oft-repeated maxim that actions speak louder than words has been ex emplified in a pathetic manner recently in thi- city. A very few years ago there lived here a young couple who to all ap pearances were devoted to each other. At least the husband was extremely fond of his young and attractive wife", and surrounded her with everything that could make a reasonable woman happy. She was fond of music and the drama, and in an evil honr he encour aged her to take lessons for the amateur -tage and fill local engagements. It was the beginning of an ambitious de sire for public life, and It ended in her making a secret resolve to go out into the world and earn her own livin" as an actress. One morning she pinned a ro-e in his button-hole when he went awav to his business and kissed him gool-bye as was her wont, and when he went home at night she was gone! He has never -een her since: he expended a great deal of money in following her from place to place, as he suppoMMi. but it alway- proved to be some one else. Once he bribed a waiter at a hotel to let him glance through a door as a tray was carried into a guest's room, bur the sick lady was not his wife. She had disappeared a- completely as ii the earth had swallowed her. The husband made no threats of what he would do i he ever found her. but his friends be lieve he would kill the woman whose only fault is her unwillingness to live with him ambition being her only other love. A few days since a friend met him on the streets here, but at first he hardly recognized him. then he asked: "Have you never found her?" "No. and I never expect to." "Have you given up looking for her?' "No. and I never will." "Have you been ill3 You seem changed." " For answer the other man lifted his har. Two years ago his hair was a dark, rich brown. As he stood there with his head uncovered it was as white as snow Detroit Post and Tribune. The Public h:i3 an infrtinT r. tide on the population of the United j States, in which it is maintained that the country has now 54,800.000 in habitants. The number is about 4.700, 000 greater than was reported by th CenSUS for June 30. 138G. and warrants the nrediction of .1 CM fUYk ho- Tnl-i fr7rt - FACTS A5D FIG CMS. The cost per annum for cremating 7.C00 bodies at Bombay is 15.000. New granges of the Patrons of Hus bandry are being formed in Mississippi and Louisiana. A pitch-pine tree on Grant Creek, Missoula County. M. T.. is 125 feet high and 27 feet 4 inches in circumfer ence five feet from the ground. In the two Carolinas. Georgia and Louisiana, a total population of about 21O.00O people, white and colored, are dependent upon the cultivation of rice. A barn in Butte County, Col., is ca- ' Pcum" enough to hold 4.000 tons of hay ana shelter 1.400 head of sheep. The floor is so wide that an eiht-horao team can turn around in it. The postal cards are made at Hol yoke. Mass.. by fortv men. who turn out about a million dailv. Thev have diminished the consumption of "writing paper by from $12,000,000 to- fio.OO, 000 a year. A German exchange furnishes the following figures of the consumption of champagne In the chief countries of the world England heads the list, drinking 50,X0.000 of bottles a year; the United States. Canada and Mexico consume. 10.000.000; France. 2.300.000; Russia. 2.000.000; Germany. 1.500.000; Holland. 600.000: Italy and BeliHum. 200.000 one thousand in a each; Spain, 300.000. and Africa. 100. there I was sum- 000 bottles. We are ta nreanmft thr ' - w - - the champagne aforesaid was genuine. The Holyoke (Mass.) Envelop Company, which turned out its first goods about two years ago. at the rato ' MOttt :"a0P J- & l now a capacity for 1.000.000 dav. and ;. n-r nn .. km cm or aoout -tlu.LDO envelopes daily. The concern ha a working force of about 200 hands, and produces goods of about 1.M different grades and 500 different styles. Besides its largu trade in this country, the company sends large amounts of it3 products to Canada. Mexico. Australia and New South Wales. Boston Post. Roskosehny's recent work on Rus sia claims that "there are 300.000 profes sional beggars in seventy-one Govern ments of that country, who thrive and make money in this trade. Many of them have farms and live nicely a: home, but at the approach of warm weather abandon everything and set forth upon their wanderings, enjoying the variety and vagabond life, and gath ering a rich harvest as they hang around the church doors and market-places. Bigoted, lazy and fond of drink, the average Russian peasant finds such a life the height of enjo ment, The total commerce between the United States and Canada for the fiscal year ended June 30. 1382. was of thd value of $92,159,278. and the total com merce in merchandl-e between the two countries was &7.275.!i84 for the same period. The exports from this country were $36.5J0.4u:L and the imports from Canada were $.j0.77...j.si. a. balance oi trade in Canada's favor of $14,275,173 But of the merehaudi-e imported from Canada only $3s.32S,"i45 was dutiable, and of the merchandise exported $3,265. 668 was foreijrn. and :i3.234.735 wju imm wi.a a I l.J U te SUVJUta U7VW domestic The exports from this coun try to Canada consist mainly of manu factured articles, and the imports from Canada are mainly articles In a raw state. Chicago HeraUL WIT AND WISDOM. The teeth perform the duties of th tongue when they chatter. Never fail to keep your appoint ments or to be punctual to the minute. There are few things in the world more ra-ping than a file of unpaid bills. Toledo American. It is a singular thing, but the most plea-ing period of a dentist's life is when he kks down in the mouth. The poor man with an idea of pov erty is no worse off than a rich man with a poverty of ideas. A gentleman whose initials are W. E. D. has just been married. It is bet ter to marry than to remain a bachelor ami spoil a great coincidence. Chicago Herali. Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Columbus. Every novel is a debtor to Homer. Every car penter who -haves with a foreplane bor rows the genius of a forgotten inventor. Ettiin-son. Fashion item: "Ma." said Mary Parvenu, "they . say young Mr. Fiddle stick embezzled. vhats that?"' ' Oh." said Mrs. Parvenu. " it's sorter em broidery on paper like what artists does in Rome and other French cities." A lady friend won't allow the sales woman to try on Tier gloves for her. no; because it is hard work for the sales woman, but because our lady friend will have nothing to do with counter fit. Boston Transrript. Wishing to pay his friend a compli ment, a gentleman remarked. " I hear you have a very industrious wife." Yes." replied the friend, with a mel ancholy smile. " she is never idle. She always finds something for me to do.' "Mamma, I wish I was a prairie hen." said a little nine-year-old. " Whv. dariing?" asked the" mother. "Oh. those hens they sent to the Prince of Wales are going to be turned into thi royal preserves, and I know the Queen must have a lot of rood things in th pantry." Chicago Herald. The Father's Prayer. "I can not slnir the old soturs." Slw radplnirty did toot. While at an asthmal onran Hernnjfew iJiedM shoot. Thank heaven!" jrrowJed the parent. With mamt ado. I pray taeyi ilr the new ones Just o you can not. too." Did it ever occur to you. when you ere groping around your room in'th dark and struck your nose so violently against a half-open door that it jarred the whole house did it ever occur to you at such a moment that the heat ci the sun is sufficient to reduce the Pacifiu Ocean to steam in twenty minutes? The probabilities are that it tlidn't. Xorris totcn Herald. Judkin's Boy on Frogs. Frogs is the people's friend, but they can't fly. One't they was tadpoles about as big as Iicerish drops, and after a while legs growed out on 'em. Oh. let us love the frog he looks so sorry! Frog3 can swim bctter'n little boy8,and they don't haf to hold their nose" when they dive, neither! Oac't I had a pet frog and the cars run over him. It jist squashed him! But he never knowed what hurt him. Onc't they was a rich lady swallered one when he was little, you know; and he growed up ia her. and it didn't kill him at all! And you could hear him holler in her bosom. It was a tree toad, and so every time he' J go "p-r-r-r-r-r!" w'y then the grand lady she'd know it was going to rain, ana make her little boy run and put the tub out undar the spout. Waia't that a beautiful frog? 2i Y. Lift