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THE JOURNAL.! WEDNESDAY, SETT. 19, 1883. fcttrei at tte PMi&ei, C:fcatt:, Hot., u sutti clus nif.tr. Treatment f Anbulg. , Has on a right to do aahe will with his own? In this question are involved principals which are of the deepest interest to all mankind. The time has been when ownership, not only im animals but in man also, was.consid ered in accordance with the laws of nature, and human beings were liable to be treated as badly as the most inhuman brute could " possibly have treated another brute. Indeed brute force seemed to be the ruling law of . action, the stronger claiming full power over the weaker. We Know little of the present, less of the past, and nothing absolutely of the future. Whether man was once perfect, and then blundered and fell, or has from the beginning of his existence been growing stronger and better, is a question for a difference of opinion and dispute. It is the commonly ac cepted opinion, however, we believe, at the present time, that men are traveling in an onward and upward course; tbat the world is a little better world to live in to-day than it was yes terday, a 3'ear, or a century ago, and that this better condition is owing to a more intelligent understanding of man's relations to nature, and a desire to live more in accordance with the natural laws, a desire to govern and be governed by love rather than by brute power. Probably there was never a time when so large a proportion of the inhabitants of the earth wero living in comparative peace as at the present tome. As war begets war-liko feelings, so peace inclines to increase the desire for peace and for kindly" feelings between all. Kindliness is kindliness the world over. A man who is kindly by nature will almost invariably bo kind to his animals. Exactly how well domestic or other animals should be treated is a question that is by no means easy to answer. In some countries some animals are re garded ns sacred, and in some all animal life is looked upon with a degree di reverence, or as being something which man has no absolute control over. The whole question of our re lations to the animal kingdom is one more or less of sentiment, and in that light we havo no desire to discuss it at this time. Looking at the matter wholly from a pecuniary standpoint, we have ample inducements for treat ing the domestic animals under our care in a reasonably humane manner. A wild, nervous animal, whether horse, or cow, sheep, pig or fowl, ono that as in constant fear of injury at the hands of its keeper, can never be so profitable an animal as one that wel comes with demonstrations of gladness the hand that feeds and protects. To get the most out of a horse, the animal must be well fed that it will be in good health and good spirits. A plump, well-fed horse or ox is not only more willing to pull a load, but its extra weight, above that of a lean one, gives it an additional advantage over and above what comes merely from mus cular strength. A heavy locomotive, other things being equal, will always start a heavier train than a light one. It is the light, leanhorse that is easily knocked to pieces between the shafts of the tip cart. The principal cost of a team is not in its lirst cost, but in the daily and yearly expense for keeping, and very largely on the character of the keep depends the ability of the ani mal to perform its work each day. If a horse or ox bo starved only for a single day, its measure of usefulness is diminished, and if the starvation be continued but for a very few days, the animal is rendered absolutely worth less. An old, low-priced animal, if well fed aud otherwise well cared for, may, for the time being, be equally valuable with the young, high priced animal, that is, it may be able to earn as much in a single day or week. There is no economy in letting any working animal get thin in flesh, so long as its work is worth having, for it must be remem bered that it is the food we give and not the mere frame and life principle, that gives us the energy and power we are seeking. If a farmer has an old horse that he considers not worth keep ing through the coming winter, on ac count of its age, but is worth retaining through the summer season, we believe it will be better economy, provided its work is needed at all," to keep it in plump condition than to let it get lean from want of sufficient food. Indeed there is no boubt about it, for the well fed horse will do double the work that the starved one can do, to say nothing of the mortification from using a weak, worn-out beast. Many people seem to be very thought less as well as unreasonable in their de mands upon their animals. They seem to forget that working horses can get tired as well as working men. When the' urge a horse to a little higher speed, or are putting on a little heavier load than they ought to draw, they for get that one party is doing: all the work while the other sits and rides. Perhaps there is no greater or more common form of cruelty to horses than that of leaving them standing exposed in the cold and wind, while the thoughtless driver is telling long stories by a warm fire. Animals are also sadly" misused by being made to work in ill-fitting harness, collars that arc too large, saiC dies that gall, and with whippletrees so short that the traces are constantly chaf ing the sides. Occasionally animals are injured, sometimes utterly ruined, by over kind ness or what passes for that. Few horses can stand idle in a narrow stall for months together, with no exercise, but with full feed, without losing the uso of their feet or legs, and no animal can for a long time have all it can eat of rich food without danger of losing both its appetite aud its health. We have had a painful and expensive illus ion of this in our own herd during the past year. Animals are more like3 hu man beings than the most of us have been taught to believe. Those who have given the matter the most study are often puzzled as to where to draw the line of distinction. Animals suffer from heat, cold, cuts, bruises, conta gious and other diseases, from fear, from loss of companions, and are often homesick when changed to new quar ters. They respond quickly to kind ness, and show affection, confidence, trust, honor, and anger, and sometimes shame, as well as cunning and ingenui ty in carrying out their own or others' plans. They leanr our language, and so far as they go with it, understand it as well as do we who use it, and they have ways of asking for things that are equally unmistakable to us. As compared with former periods, our domestic animals are now treated in a very humane manner. A great change in public sentiment in this direction,- has been brought'about through the efforts of men and women who have organized in societies for that pur pose. The first time we visited the city of Boston we saw a cart horse down in the street, struggling under a -load and entirely unable to rise, but being most brutally pounded by its driver. Such a sight now would be as rare as it was then for even a policeman to interfere with the rights of a driver to do as he pleased with his own. Seventeen years ago there was no effective law in Ameri- j ca to prevent cruelty to animals! The suffering caused to animals by man's inhumanity, however ranch it be deplored, is after all of little inemoe oomparedto the 'rebouBi- r-&. ing influence such cruelty has upon man himself. Blood and barbarity breed blood and barbarism everywhere and always. A man who is cruel to his animals will, as a rule, be cruel to his children, and children reared in an at mosphere of inhumanity will naturally grow up more or less inhuman, and be come dangerous members of society. Not the least then of the good work that has been done in Massachusettes in this direction within a short time has been the pledging of twenty thousand chil dren to be kind to animals. We would not like to see a public sentiment grow ing up in America that would rate am animal, even a poisonous reptile, as of more consequence than a human being, as is the case in some countries, but there is room for the cultivation of a great deal more of real kindness, both m our treatment of animals and of each other. Cruelty tears down and destroys; it is unprofitable. Kindness builds up; it benefits both parties, the kind as well as the kindlv treated. Kindness pays, 'even in dollars and cents it pays. New England Farmer. A Merited Rebuke. "Am Purveyor Hopewell in de hall diseavenin'?'- asked Brother Gardner, of the Limekiln Club, as the meeting was called to order. "Yes, sah," replied a voice from the back row of seats. "Den please step dis way." Brother Hopewell shuffled forward with a mixed look of hope and doubt n his face. He couldn't make out whether he was to be rewarded for pull ing a stranger out of the river the other day, or court-martialed for having a wheel-barrow in his possession which three different men claimed to have been stolen from them. "Brudder Hopewell." continued the President, as a great silence fell upon the meeting, "de odder day I met you down street an' I shouldn't have knowed who you was if Pickles Smith hadn't identified you. You had on a suit of togs dat mus' have cost forty dollars." "Yes, sah." "You had ha'r ile on yer ha'r, you smelt of perfumery, an' you car'd a cane." "Yes, sah." "When you walked you acted like a man who owned half de town, an' when you stopped you struck a pose to show off yer hgger. Brudder Hopewell, how much monev does you aim a week?" " 'Bout nine dollars, sah." "An' how much am you behind on board?" "I I I s'pects Ize 'bout eben, sah." "Brudder Hopewell, you am in debt fur board, fur cloze, fur butes, fur ci gars, an' you has borrowed money which you can't pay. I has had my eye on you fur de pas' three months, an' I knows all about it. Now, den, who am you?" "Purveyor Hopewell, sah." " 'Zactly 'zactly. You am a single man, twenty-five years old, a second class barber, not worf twenty dollars, an' out of de 52,000,000 people in dis kentry not ober one hundred has eber heard of you. Now, den, you dress up; 'ou swell around; you fling on scol ops; you try to deceive people into tak in you fur a pusson of riches. What am your objick?" "i I doan' know, sah," stammered the victim. "Brudder Hopewell, let me tell you sunthin'. When you flatter yerself dat de people of this kentry doan' know do difference between de bray 'of de mule an' de roar of de lion you am dref fully mistaken. You have bin follern' de lead of sartin white people. I knows heaps of 'em who goes hungry an' dodge creditors fur fe sake of blindin' people's eyes. A woman whose hus ban aims twenty dollars per week has no biziness wid silks and diamonds, a fifteen dollar hat or a seven dollar pair of shoes, but she am de pusson who'll have'em fur fear dat somebody will think he isn't rich. Half de kentry am in debt fur cloze which only de odder half kin afford. De woman who w'ars de best cloze on de street has do moas' holes in her parlor ca'pet at home. De man who swells de biggest owes de moas' to his tailor an boot maker. You am a poo' man. You'll nebber have a hundred dollars in bank as long as you live. You'll nebber aim mo' dan 'nuft to run a small cabin in a small way, an' yet you am swellin' aroun' as if a $20,000 mortgage wouldn't bodder you half an hour. What's your objick?" "I I doan' know, sah." "Boy7! take off dat s waller-tailed coat! Jump outer dem tight pants! Drap dat silk necktie! Den vou go to work an' fin' a cheap boardin' house an begin to pay your debts. Let your cloze match your salary. Let your board match your cloze. Be what you am a common sort o' pussen whose assets will kivcr his liabilities by hard pullin'. You can't deceive anybody, an de less vou try to de bettor people will like you.1'' Brother Hopewell retired to his cor ner all broken up, and his first move was to offer to trade a handkerchief with a red border to Shindig Watkins for a white-handled knife with all the blades broken. Detroit Free Press. --- A. German ea Americans The Americans, the Yankees, as they call them, have become a fruitful sub ject of study for foreign physiologists. One of the latest writers on the inhab itants of the United States, the German scientist. Dr. George Seelhorst, says: "The North American nation is of English origin, but mixed with French blood in the North, with Spanish blood in the South, and with that of nearly all other European nations in every part of the vast country. In spite of, and per haps on account of, this admixture, the race differs from all others and is as serting itself as a decided and separate type. Its power of assimilation is so great that after a few generations, sometimes after a single one, the orig inal character of the immigrant is lost and merged in the American type. I have frequently seen children of Ger man immigrants between the ages of fifteen and: twenty, who had become perfect Americans in features, the pro jecting under-jaw, the slenderness of bod, and more than all in their man ner of thought. Even the most tenacious of all types, the Israelitic, soon disappears, because the American Jew feels himself first of all 'a citizen of the United States.' Yea, one might say, the American had adopted many traits from the Jews, i. e.: from the In dians, who have so much of the Jew in their physiognomy that among all the hypotheses concerning the origin of the Indians not one is more obstinately ad hered to or defended with more acute ness and science than that which as sumes the lost ten tribes of Israel to have been the original ancestors of the Indians. The first European discover ers noticed the Jewish type of the In dians, and Montesini called the atten tion of the learned Jew, Manasse Ben Israel, to the fact, who, in conseqence, wrote his celebrated work "La Espe ranza de Israel." in which he endeavors to prove that the Israelites were the original discoverers of America. This question has since ben frequently dis cussed and supported by numerous analogies. Not only has a striking re semblance 'between the Indian and the Jewish type been believed in, but it has also .been asserted "that many Indian words are related to or derived from the Hebrew, and more particularly that there existed in the manners, the re lipious views and onstom f t duns many points which rendered a connect-on- between these anel the Jem ugftiy proMM." Mitt I Steered late a Banke. A New York correspondent says: Dan Farley is an actor who does not make the mistake of hiding his attractiveness of person. He enhances it with good clothes and gentlemanly manners. He is playing the character of an honest man-about-town under his own manage ment, and with great artistic and pecu niary success, lie is the roper-in for a bunko game. The private detective of the Fifth Avenue hotel showed him to me, and said that if I was incredulous as to his employment I could satisfy my self entertainingly and without much trouble. "Don't flatter yourself," said he, "that your city cut will prevent him from operating upon you if you throw 3'ourself in his way. His easiest victims are those who ought to know better, and who think they do. Try him and, I say, you'd better report to me as soon as he gets through with you just what you've done." I did put myself in the way of Dan Farley, making him believe that I was a stranger from Chicago. The proceed ings were not essentially different from what is usual iu confidence swindling. He told me that he had drawn a prize in a lotterv, and was going to get it. Did I care to take a walk and see him ask for the money? We sauntered up Broadway and through Twenty-sixth street to jfo. 122. This is a block which is in that state of social chaos which lies between the expulsion of indecency and the acquisition of presentable re spectability. That is to say, the evil resorts with which it was until lately lilled have been closed, through the ac tion of a majority of the property ownprs, and as Vet neither regular business nor well-to-do residents navo been introduced. The tenants, there fore, are at present poor people, and to a considerable extent negroes. It was in such an improbable neighborhood that we found the office of Dan's lot tery. It was a room that had been rather clumsily made to look something like a place of business. "The police are so down on lotteries just now," he apologetically explained, on seeing me scrutinize the make shift furniture, "that I suppose these folks have to move too often to fit up their places handsomely." A much-whiskered man, with colored glasses on to disguise his countenance, sat behind a desk. He did very well in deed at a pretense of irritation when Dan laid down the ticket calling for $20, but counted out the money without dis pute. As for Dan, he was elated. To tell the truth, he remarked, he hadn't more than half expected to be paid at all. Then a sweat-board was introduced, in the usual manner, and Dan lost a few dollars on it He asked me to play for him, with his money, and at first I won, but afterward lost. At length, I was told that I was on my own account indebted to the board to the extent of S300. "I haven't the money with me," I said. "Then give me a check," was the fel low's suggestion. "I suppose you have a bank account. Or, won't that be con venient?" It occurred to me that to sign a check would cost me nothing, since I could go immediately to the bank and stop pay ment So 1 readily agreed to meet my loss in that wav, A blank check was produced and t filled it out. The gam bler scrutinized it, remarked parenthet ically that my payment could be en forced whether I had an account at that particular bank or not, and then dried the ink with a newspaper, in lieu of a regular blotter. Dan had been quiet for a while. Now he suddenly broke out: "This is a friend of mine," he ex claimed, savasrelr. "and I won't see him swindled. He shan't let you have his check for a cent." I wonderod what this meant, and was absolutely dum founded when Dan grabbed the cheek, tore it into bits, and threw them on the floor. "Come," and he seized me by the arm, "let's get out of this den." There was an excited protest by the other chap, but we went out unhindered, and I parted with Dan on the corner, receiving his congratulations on having escaped unscathed. On turning to the -hotel I gave to the detective the promised account of what had happened, ex plaining that I had intended to stop pay ment on the check, but that no such precaution was now necessary. "Don't you lose a minute in going to the bank," he said, "or they'll get there with the check before you. It was de stroyed? Not a bit of "it. A newspaper lay on the desk didn't it? and he put the check between the folds, face down ward, as if to blot it. Then the stool Eigion snatched out, not the check itself, ut a blank one that had been previous ly placed there. Thi9 dummy was what Dan tore up, and the real check was left safe and sound. That's the way they prevent their victims from stopping payments." m The Smells of Cologne. Simple vile smells are all well enough. One can stand a good deal of such. But when it comes to inflicting the un suspecting traveler with compounded smells, carrying in themselves a dozen distinct and separable odors, each one viler than the other eleven, one cannot if he has a spark of natural, manly in dependence about him, help but men tally resent the indignity, and he feels a little charitable toward the people who have changed the name of the town so often, hoping, no doubt, to get rid of the smells along with the old name. My own private opinion is that they did not succeed in this last endeavor if they ever had any such an idea. If they did better the conditon of things every time they made an alteration in the appellation, one cannot help but pity from the bottom of his soul the original inhabitants who lived here when the town had its undiminished stock of smells. In all other German towns I have been in there were, of course, various and sundry smells to be encountered and subdued. But, as a rule, these smells were not very aggressive. They fell upon the traveler singly and gave him some little chance Tor his life, and, if they met with a prompt and vigorous resistance, they would retire from the field discomfited. But the Cologne smells are different They lurk in all the gutters, bide in all the sewer-traps, conceal themselves in all the dark corners and secrete themselves in every nook and cranny. And hure they lie in wait for the foot-passenger, ready at a moment's warning to spring out of their lurking places and fall upon him tooth and nail. And though the stranger may he valiant as a lion and ready for all emergencies, he must, if he is not case hardened, retire from the unequal con test and beat a hasty retreat before the fierce attack of his banded-together as sailants. It seems, also, as if these lurkers in the narrow alleys have'a cer tain amount of what might be called an odorous intelligence. For a native never seems to be bothered at all as he walks the streets. His handkerchief, if he have one, remains quietly in his pocket and his fingers are busied in other ways than holding his nose. From which oircumstances It is fair to argue that he has cosae off viotorious in so many furious battles with the smells that the latter know there is no use in attacking him. No other explanation will suffice, because it does not seem possible, that any mortal man could walk unconcernedly through these .streets if he were attacked and it is bat fair to presume that theCologners are hut mortal, exactly the same as the net of ns. But let a stranger fall in behind one e the exempt natives said eHew him inteeeefe byways. Ike smells are not to be Imposed upon by any such a transparent arrangemont. The native parses scot free, tut the stranger has to light. Black declares that these smells are visible and that they have distinct and distinguishing colors. He has drawn up a sort of a table in the matter and classified them all according to aggres siveness and color. His deductions are about as follows: "The red smells are the most ferocious, vindictive, merci less and aggressive. They are really the leaders in all the attacks on unsus pecting tourists. They lie in wait al ways at the ends of the streets, ready to spy out the approaching stranger and inaugurate the attack upon him. Their favorite lurking places are in the open sewer-traps, where there are any sewer tr&m. or else behind some nroiectinir house corner. Here they hide, having. only one eye exposed to scan the side? walks and'streets for victims. They are quite sly and strategic. They wait until the stranger has passed them. Then they give the alarm and attack the ene my in the rear, and woe betide the un fortunate who falls into the merciless grasp of a bright red Cologne smell. ft he be not strong and valiant, he need have no hopes of surviving the encoun ter. For the bright red smells have ab lutely no compassion. When once thev get possession they never leave until they have accomplished their desires. The green smells are malignant. The sea-green more so than the light-green ones. They love to steal up behind one and garrote him. so to speak. But they are also cowardly; and, if repulsed or stoutly resisted, they soon retire. The yellojv smells are gay deceivers. Thev come toward tho object of their attack as if bent on some friendly errand. They are generally corpulent and smil ing. They always come with out stretched hand, as' if to shake hands. They always have a healthy look about them which completely deceives the stranger, so that he almost always goes half way to meet them and actually welcomes them. But ho is soon unde ceived, and that in no very pleasant way; for your yellow smell is powerful; he is insinuating; he is heavy and stifling, and he hangs about one in such an affectionate manner that one hardly likes to offend him by drivi f him away. One always feels as if L might insult a worthy but unfortunato smell if he resorted to extreme measures. Hence it comes about that the yellow smell is tho most dangerous of all." Such are the more prominent of Black's deductions. He has gone, however, more into minutiae and has carefully tabulated all the different shades of col ored smells, together with their charac teristics. He thinks of issuing the tables in pamphlet form, designed for the use of travelers. It would, no doubt, be a valuable addition to the guide-books now in existence. Colognt Cor. San Francisco Chronicle. Puts and Calls. "I believe you have gambled in Wall street Mr. Breezy," said Mrs. Breezy, helping her lord and master to a cup ol coffee. "I have speculated a little in stocks, dear, if that s what you mean," said Mr. Breezy, unfolding his napkin. "Same thing, said Mrs. Breezy; "you can call it speculation; I know it'i Fimbling. How do they do it, anyway? read about puts and calls and "strad dles, and buy a three's, but I never can make any head or trail out of it. 1 sup- Kose it's all some horrid slang you men ave invented." "Well, no, dear,' said Mr. Breezy, helping his better two-thirds to a chop, "it isn't exactly slang. You see, for in stance, I buy a hundred short " "You do what?" cried Mrs. Breezy. "I buy a hundred short," repeated Mr. Breezy. "Well, what in the name of common sense do you moan by that?'' asked Mrs. Breezy. "Why don't you talk United States I nieaii English? You buy a hundred short, and what has short got to do with it?" "If you" will give me time I will ex plain, my dear," said Mr. Breezy. "You see if a man is long on stock he is " "Long on stock?" said Mrs. Breezy. "Now, what are you getting to? First you are short and then you are long. What does a man want to get on a stock for, anyway?" "My dear, if you will allow me" "To be sure. Go ahead. Tell me something about Wall street, but don't talk nonsense." said Mrs. Breezy. "Well, my dear, we will suppose that I have a put on Wabash, and " "There vou go again," said Mrs. Breezy. "Will you or will you not talk in a language I can understand? What is Wabash, anyway? I suppose it is an other slang term?" "No, that's a stock," said Mr. Breezy; "you see, dear, if I have a call on Wa bash or Northwestern " "If you call on the Northwest?" cried Mrs. Breezy; are you really going mad, Mr. Breezy? Well, I might expect as much from the life you have led re cently. What with clubs and politics you are going headlong to some terrible fate." "My dear, it will be impossible for me to explain anything unless you will S've me five minutes to do it in said r. Breezy, with unusual warmth. "Now, at the beginning of this week Omaha preferred started at 106 and 105" "Omaha preferred!" asked Mr. Breezy. "What is preferred? Who preferred it? What has Omaha got to do with New York and Wall street any way, and what do you mean by 106?" "I shall have to give it up," said Mr. Breezy, in a despairing voice. "No, Mr. Breezy, I havo started out to know something about Wall street, and I won't allow you to get out of it in that way," said Mrs. Breezy, setting herself more firmly in her chair. "Now, Mr. Breezy, you will please drop slang and come to something I- can under stand. For instance, what is a bull boar?" "Ha, ha, ha-oh!" laughed Mr. Breezy. "What do you mean by laughing at me, Mr. Breezy? I'm sure I " "Ho. ho, ha-oh!" and Mr. Breezy fairly doubled up with laughter. "Mr. Breezy, you haven't the man ners of a savage," cried Mrs. Breezy, pushing back her chair, "and I don't believe you know any more about Wall street than a two weeks' old baby," and Mrs. Breezy made haste to the kitchen to take revenge upon the cook. Brook' lyn Eagle. A daring outrage was committed in Calcutta not long ago by a Mahom medan cook, who had been discharged by his mistress. Determining upon re venge, he entered the house of this lady secretly, and deliberately went to work to cut up all her dresses. Then he 1 stole into her bedroom, where she lay asleep, and began cutting her hair. Suddenly the lady awoke and started up, almost running one of her eyes against a point of the Mohammedan's scissors. This ingenious miscreant has been sent to prison, where he will labor at something more arduous than hair cutting for a year. m Amurse in an insane asylum says: "We outlive quickly all fear of ejur pa tients.' For we know by a ecnliantr In the eye of each one when a danger ous ouiDrK. M fc iisnu; ana amy wv reach so callous a stage' that aane peo ple outside seem fer the nonce lunatics, while the maniacs seem sane. " -Gsieege Journal. t m m Mariano Largo, the oldest of ike Carmel Indians, died at Monteher, CL, rsoeatlv from the effects of a,, drumkeft debauch.' He was in the aeikborhmi of one hundred years oML FOKEIGS GOSSIP. About nine hundred lives were saved last year by the British National Life boat 'institution. Mount Etna is now to have a rail road which will go a considerable way up it, and connect many villages lying around its base. The Czar has conferred decorations on all the members of the Papal Mis sion who went to Moscow to represent. the Holy See at the Coronation. The London & Northwestern Bail way Company of England is now run ning. express trains from Liverpool to London. more than two hundred 'miles in four and a half hours. The civil servant under the crown longest in harness in England la Earl Granville. He . has held office even, longer than Mr. Gladstone, his present chief, whose record is so long and varied; The latest fancy of the London mashers is to have a cab painted a delicate primrose color, and drawn by a chestnut horse. The Junior Army and Navy Club appears to be the headquar ters of thess. brilliant equipages. Lord Beaconsfield's fancy for prim rose is said to be due to the circum stance that old Mrs. Williams, of Tor quay, who left him $200,000, always had bunches put iu his room, and he made a point of coming dowu to dinner with one of them in his button-hole. The Bank of France employs one hundred and sixty female clerks, who receive sixty cents a day to begin with, and aftei a year or two an anuual salary of $360. They sit in rooms apart from the men, are superintended by officials of their own sex, and their work is of the best quality. The magnificent Cologne Cathedral is at last actually completed, six hun dred and thirty-live years after its foun dation, and nothing remains but to take' down tho last shed and put the terrace in order. Over $2,600,000 has been spent iu this work since 1864, and about $120,000 more than the money on hand is needod to tear down the incum brances, and this will bo raised by another and final lottery. The "Sixpenny Fish Dinners" at South Kensiugton, which were a happy thought of the Baroness Burdetr-Coutts, have succeeded beyond expectation, and another and larger room has been added. 'The Baroness and her husband have both been several times to tho dining-room to watch the way the ex periment works, and on the day of the greatest pressure Mr. Burdotte-Coutts himself might have been seen, aided by two policemen, serving out plates to the hungry public. Germany will do honor to the mem ory of the reformer, Martin Luther, on the occasion of the forthcoming four hundredth anniversary of his death. The Emperor has always been a devoted adherent and member of the Evangel ical Church, and takes a warm interest in the approaching demonstration. He has just issued a decree that the occa sion be solemnly observed by the holding of a church festival on Nov. 10 and 11 next in all evangelical churches and schools. A Brave GirL In the year 1781, while Clinton and Washington were watching each other's movements near New York, General Schuyler, 'having resigned his com mand, on account of some unjust charges against him, was staying at his house, which then stood alone outside the stockade or wall of Albany. The British commander, therefore, seeing his opportunity, sent out John Waiter Meyer, with a party of Tories and In dians, to capture General Schuyler. When they arrived at the outskirts of the city, they learned from a Dutch laborer that the General's house was guarded by six soldiers. The Dutch man, the minute the band was out of Bight, took to his legs, and warned the General of their approach. Soon after, a servant announced that there was a strange man at the back door who wished to see the Genoral. Schuyler, understanding the trap, gathered his family in one of the upper rooms, and giving orders that the doors and windows be barred, fired a pistol from one of the top-story windows to alarm the neighborhood. The guards, who had been lounging in the shade of a tree, started to their feet at the sound of the pistol ; but alas, too late ! for they found themselves sur rounded by a crowd of dusky figures, who bound them hand and foot before they had time to resist. And now you can imagine the little group collected in that dark room up stairs ; the sturdy General, standing resolutely by the door, with his gun in his hand, and his black slaves gathered around him, each with some weapon; and at the other end of the room, the women huddled together, some weeping, some praying. Suddenly a crash is heard which chills the very blood, and brings vividly to each one's mind the tales of Indian massacres so common at that day. The band had broken in at one of the windows. At that moment, Mrs. Schuyler, springing to her feet, rushed toward the door; for she remembered that the baby, only a few months old, having been forgotten in the hurry of flight, was asleep in its cradle on the first floor. But the General, catching her in his arms, told her that her life was of more value than the child's, and that, if any one must go, he would. While, however, this generous struggle was go ing on, their third daughter, gliding past them, was soon at the side of tho cradle. All was as black as night in the hall, except for a small patch of light just at the foot of the stairs. This came from the dining-Toom, where the Indians could be seen pillaging the shelves, pulling down the china, and quarreling with ono another over their ill-gotten booty. How to get past this spot was the question, but tho girl did not hesitate. She reached the cradle unobserved, and was just darting back with her precious burden when, by ill luck; one of the savages happened to see her. Whiz! went his sharp tomahawk within a few inches of the baby's head, and, cleaving an edge of the brave girl's dress, stuck deep into the stair-rail. Just then one of the Tories, seeing her flit by, and supposing her to be a servant, called after her: "Wench, Wench, where is your master?" She, stopping for a moment, called back; " Gone to alarm the town!" and, hurry ing on, was soon safe again with her father upstairs. And now, very nearly all the plunder having been secured, the band was about to proceed to the real object of the expedition, when the General, rais ing one of the upper windows, called out in lusty tones, as if commanding a large body of men: "Come on, my brave fellows! Surround the house! Secure the villiaas who are plunder ing!" The cowards knew that voice, and they each and every one of them took to the woods as fast as their legs would carry them, leaving the General in possession of the field. The old Schuyler House looks mow as it looked then, except that the back wing for the slaves has been torn down, and some few alterations have been made around the place; bat when you are shown the house, yon can still see the dent in the stair-rail made by thai Indian's hatchet more than a hundred yean ago. George Enos Throop, in St. Mdlas. It is estimated' that the HlUois Central Railroad handles a mflBom trunks in six months, unhamdlingaos lees than a quarter of them, ft is a peat trunk lias. Ckmgo Jew OF GENERAL ETTEBEST. The fashion news from Paris is that in some of the new evening toilets for women the left shoulder is wholly bared. The most expensive and beautiful collection of old china in the country is owned by Mrs. George W. Wales, of Boston. Boston Herald. The Society of Friends has repealed the prohibition of the marriage of first .cousins, which has been in force in that body for nearly two hundred years. The New York Times' Saratoga correspondent says the leading hotel men are opposed to horse-racing at Saratoga, declaring that it does them more harm than good. Rome, Ga., is howling over its new directory, and the compiler of it has fled to the mountains. Prominent church members and business men appear as bar-keepers in the directory. Atlanta Constitution. The anti-toy-pistol law seems to have been well enforced in Maine. Not an accident is attributed to the weapon in the State this year, as far as known. Last year six deaths were caused by it. Boston Post. The other day a tumor was removed from the hand of "a little boy residing in Canandaigua. In this tumor was found a piece ol wooden toothpick, one and one-half inches long. Neither parents nor child had any knowledge as to how or when it came there. Ltica (N. Y.I Herald. The wild Western cowboy may suffer, forgive and forget, but there is one thing ne will not condone--a horse thief and his works. An Indian horse thiof was lassoed and dragged to death at Lewiston, Idaho, by white cowboys for attempting to sell them stolen horses. Chicago Tribune. A medical journal says that sneez ing can be stopped by plugging the nostrils with cotton-batting. Is a man expected to take a roll of cotton-batting to church with him? An easier way than that is to press the finger upon the upper lip. That will stop sneezing im mediately. Chicago Inter Ocean. Stomachs as well as minds give way because of the too intense commercial life of the race. Dr. Maudsley attributes the ills to hasty living, hurry aud rush, and declares that it is wrong to charge a breaking stomach to the use of coffee, and the sick uan drink a certain amount with benefit. Chicago Inter Ocean. Thomas Burrage. believed to be the oldest barber in tho Uuited States, has been engaged iu the business on Fairfax street, Alexandria, Va., for sixty-nine years, succeeding William Wood, whose shop was established in 1762. Wood was the successor of one Martini, who was the valet of General Braddock, and was left behind after the defeat of the Fort Duquesne expedition. The presence of the hoodlum in New York is explained by the fact that there are from fifteen to twenty thous and young boys there homeless and de pendent on themselves for a living, which some of them get honesty. In Hartford, on the other hand, the Courant says the lough, disorderly class of boys fast drifting into crime are large ly recruited from respectable people. Dr. Baker Edwards, the Govern ment Analyst, has analyzed the so called soda-water sold by many apoth ecaries in Montreal, and reports that nearly all of them contain traces of lead, iron, or copper, and that one sample was so largely impregnated with copper and lead as to be a dangerous beverage. He further says that none of the sam ples contained soda, only aerated water. Chicago Times. The French are ready for any enterprise, it matters not of what plausi bility. It is said of them that they have subscribed $150,000 to pay the expenses of an expedition to dredge the Red Sea for impedimenta belonging to Pharaoh's army. While they are at it. why not scale down Ararat and uncover Noah's ark? They might find some bread in the locker," and if they did it would be a deal easier masticated thau is the or dinary steel-plated French bread. In dianapolis Journal. The monument to Dr. J. G. Holland, in the Springfield Cemetery, has been completed by placing in position the fine bronze bas-relief of the journalist. The monument itself is of a beautiful blue stone of even grain, dense texture, and fine dove color or slate. It takes inscription perfectly and reveals every line clearly. It is about six feet by seven at the base, above which is a plinth with tablets; above the plinth, after two or three small steps, rises a short rectangular shaft, with Ionic pilasters upon its four corners, support ing a scroll. The shaft bears upon its face the relief, which is the striking feature of -the whole. This represents Doctor Holland's face in profile, and is an admirable likeness of him in a re flective mood. Springfield (Mass.) Be publican. Some Facts About Lemons. A reporter called on one of the largest dealers in fruit in the United States to get some information about the lemon trade. "Nearly all the lemons handled in this market, . said the dealor. "are imported. Sicily contributes more tha,n all other countries put together. Cala bria, Messina, and Palermo send out large consignments. There are four crops each year. The lemons are cut from the trees when green and placed in magazines where they are subjected to a sweating or purging process. At the end of four or five days the fruit is either stored away in shallow trays or packed for shipment. Lemons gathered in November and December have the best keeping qualities. I have kept lemons of this cut from November till June without destroying their market value. When the fruit arrives here it is sold at auction, this being the only way in which lemons and oranges are sold to the trade. One year ago a steamer ar rived with a cargo of thirty-six thousand boxes. The entire lot was disposed ol the same day. Unless the broker ot dealer wishes to sell his purchase at once, the fruit is put away and ripened by steam heat. Our business has entire ly changed since the introduction of steamers. The voyage by the old sail ing fruiters were long and uncertain. A cargo of decayed lemons was the fre quent result of a voyage of several months. Now, with rapid transporta tion at his command, the shipper can allow his lemons to remain on the trees many weeks longer than he could then, and is quite certain that on arriving at this market the fruit will be in good condition. The best, and consequently the highest, ease lemons come from Sorrento, ureat care is bestowed upon their cultivation. The fruit is long and smooth and has a beautiful golden color. Those lemons are considered a luxury in Paris, where they are used not only by confectioners aad bakers, but also by decorators. Generally speaking a medium-sized, thin-skinned lemon is the best. The large, coarse-grained variety are the poorest and cheapest. The United States consumes more lemons in a year than all the other countries com bined. Russia comes next. The custom tho Russians have of drinking their tea with a slice of lemon in it accounts for the large consumption there. The growth of the lemon trade in this coun try during the last thirty years has been enormous. In 1850, lli.OOOboxts were imported. Last year this number had inereased to 1,342,000 boxes. The sum mer is our best season. There is one more fact about the lemon and general Irak trade that is worthy of notice. The Kople in the far West will not buy any t the choicest fruits. It makes difference what the prices are, they will taj it." if. J. IWWs. KASTWAKIl. Btilr Expro.. Trains Irr OiuuJ.u. Col cago, Kama City, St. LouU, ami nil jjointb EMt. Through cars via l'rorin to Imliaii a pulls. 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