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THE JOURNAL. MATES OF AOTEMTISirVC;. hilmtnt) (The onpt tSTBusiness and professional cards of five lines or less, per annum, five dollars. S3 For time advertisements, applr at this office. SaTLegal advertisements at statue rates JQTFor transient advertising, see rates on third page. X7A11 advertisements payable monthly. OF GENERAL INTEREST. Issued kveky wkdxiiiy, M. K. TURNER So CO., Proprietors and Publishers. JS OFFICE, Eleventh .St.. up Hairs in Journal Building. h' TKIIMM Per year Six fuonth Thiee months Single copir- .jStf OO 1 OO so OS . J J i. u VOL. XIV.-NO. 26. COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 24, 1883. WHOLE NO. 702. t. L BUSINESS CAHDS. 9 "I T. 1YOOE), 31. c PHYSICIANS- SVIlGEOX t2TH-i opem-d the office formerly oc cupied by Dr. BonesteeL l9-'"m. DENTAL PARLOR. On Thirteenth St., and Nebraska Ave., over Friedhof- store. ESroiIir.- honi-. Mo 12. i. in.; 1 to ."!. oi i a A.-iunMiH, Dentist. SCi:i-l'J?S Ac NUBjI.IVASV. J A TTOJiXEYS-A 1-LA W, 1 p-taii- in t;li4; Uuildinj,-, lltb street, !t iv tin Nt'W hunk. TJ J. IH'SJ40. NOT A It Y PUBLIC. litli sirn't.S ilotirs nest r Hamiiioti.l lloiihe, Columbus. Neb. vn-y rrnHB'Jss'o a. iow:k?. 1 N U EG EOS It EX TfSTS. jSTOm.-c in Mitchell Block, Colum bus. Xthr.isk.i. UAi f s:i:bs a- sseii'.sh'k, a Trans e vs a t la w, Office on Uli- 1.. Cnlumbu. Ncbra-ka. 2-tt ;. . Ill LLHOR-T, A. M.. M. D., 'HOMEOPATHIC I'll YSICIAX, lifTu" Block- -outli I i mill Hou-c. Telephone communic moil. "!' ; ill t.ii.. ...: t. a t-ioi Bricklaying, Plastering, Stonework, Ltc. T Sat it faction iiinrntntrcd, or no pay. V. A. 2SACKEN, ih.vi.ki: IN Wines, IJrji.i .. Ciym-t, Porte, , Ales, ( 'c , etc oli -licet, ii. tt ! ir-t X uioiiil Rank. ArtASJ.SVETIt I55COS., A T TO ItS E YS A T LA W, Oih.e up--l.tir- in McAllUterS build-in;-, lltb t. V.'. A. MAlii-tei. Xotaiy Publii. .1. M. 5IACI lK!.M. R- COW IM-.RY, A.;r.s a-3 y-ur-V.':. C:ll8:t:r. LAW AXii COLl.EtTlOX OFFICE -oi-MACrARiiAND & CGWDERx". Coluuibut. : : Xebr'iska. y 5:0. . ek:kky. PAIS I Eli liT1 airnirc. ii'ui-f iii.l -imi paint ni!r, rl.iing, p.iK-i biiiinir, k.il-umiiiiu:;. etc. done to order. -hp on nth "St., opposite Engine lt.u- . t tiliiiiil-u-. Neb. Iti-j J IE.CC1 S'5i:, llth St., opposite Linddl Hotel. -m-11- II aniens, iddb -. (dlui-. Whip-, ltlniket-. uri omit-, l'.iu-lic-. trunk-, .i'i- -. l"i'i I p-. it In-'".i-, cirri i-i triiiiinitu- ,Vc . n the l.iue-t po--ible pn-. Kii.u.- pi in th intended to. .lOXB '.TASKEU, Renl ICstit to Agent, Genoa, Nance Co.. Neb. T1LD LAND- .mil uiiiocl f.irin V fi -ale. .mi -pniidonci' solicit ed. Oiliee in ill :'- buildinir. np--taii.-. :ii. O. C. Sl-I A3ST jSTOIST, v. ini vori ii Hi oj- Tin and Sheet-Iron Ware ! Job-Work, Roofing and Gutter ing a Specialty. KlT.-hop .-n I'!t tilth -ti.il, eppo-itc Ileint Mi ii -' le. -n-y ( IV. 4'K.AESU. I.ASD AXD IXSCIiAXCE AG EXT, UVMJ'UEEY, XEIill. Hi- land- ciinpri-e -ome line tracts in the Shell ('reck .illcy. and the north ern portion ol I'l tte county. Taxe. jiaid for non-ic-ident-. satisfaction iruar uteed. 20 y c oH.tt.iim; lurKixs c'm COL UJfli US, - SEP , Packers ami Dealer in all kind- of IIoj,' product, ca-li paid for Live or Dead Ho or grcae. Directors. It. II Henry, Pre-t : John "Wisrgius, s-cc. ami Tre.i-.: L. Geir.ird, S. Cory. -vroTici: TOTEACIIKKS. J. E. Moncrief, Co. Supt., "Will he in his office st the Court Ilou-c on the third Saturday of each mouth for the purj.o.-e of examining applicants for teacher's certiicates. and for the tran-actton of any other lft!ines pertaining to school-. ."OT-y TAJIKS SAIiMOV CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER. Plans and estimates -upplied for either frame or brick building-. Good work guaranteed. Shop on loth Street, near St. Paul Lumber Yard, tolumbn-, Xe braska. .r2 Brno. J. WAG-NER, Liverv and Feed Stable. Is prepared to fttrni-h the public w'th good teams, buggies and carriages for all occasions, especially for funeral. Alo conducts a sale stable. 44 D.T. JIakty.s. M. D. F. -"riiffi, M. D., ( Deulscher Art:.) Dts. MARTYN & SCHUG, l U. S. Examining Surgeons, Local Sunreon. Union Pacific and O., X.&1L n.n.K'-. COLUMBUS NEBRASKA. 32-vol-xiii-y COLUMBUS STATE BANK! St::sit-jr:t5 3emrl 3ii t&i Tanir t Eolit. COLUMBUS, NEB. CASH CAPITAL, . - $50,000 DIUECTUUS: Lkan'Iikk (iEHHakd, Preset. Geo. W. IIulst, Vice. Pros' I. . . JijUos Af Herd: tfcJ. 4 , i . f Edward A'i-GtKltARi)- . 4 s J. E.a'ASKEU, Cashier, . IlaaU oi' lcpoit UUcouni ub1 Exchange. ColleetieBM PromptlyJVlHile on all lolnt. Pay latcrext ob Time Ieios- DREBERT & BRIGGLE, BAiSTKEUSI HUMPHREY, NEBRASKA. jSPrompt attention given to Col lections. " lInsurance, Real Estate, Loan, etc. " JOHN HEITKEMPER, ElcM-uth Street, opjio-itc the Lindell Hotel. COTJLTMTJUS, NEBRASKA, r Has on baud a full assortment of GROCERIES! PROVISIONS. CROCKERY & GLASSWARE, Pipes, Cigars and Tobacco. Highest price paid for Count r Pioduce. tioou ueuereuiu cuy. GIVE M'JE A CLL'I LOUIS SCHRE1BER, UacU i All kinds oi' Ilepahiug done on Short Notice. lUil's Wag ons, etc., made to order, and all work! Guar- . anteed. Also sell the world-famous Walter A. Wood Mowers, Reapers, Combin ed Machines, Harvesters, and Self-binders -the best made. jSrsiiop oppo-ile the " T.itter.sall." OJ. i e St.. COLT'.M IU'S. 'JJiiii-c H. LTJERS & CO, BLACKSMITHS AND AVaoron TBnildei s, Xi'w UrlrV Sho opposite llrtntzN llruc Store. ALL KINDS OF WOOD AND IRON WORK ON WAGONS AND BUGGIES DONE ON SHORT NOTICE. Eltrcnth Street, Columbus, Nebraska. ro 'm?TC'TATQT0I-L. Soldier-that X JLlNOlUiNOwcre disabled by wound-, disease, accident or otheru i-c. widow, mothers and f.tlhers of scldier dyhi!: in the seniee or afterward, from disease which originated while in the sei" vice, are entitledto a peu-ion. New and honorable discharges obtained for sol dier. Increuoe of Pen, ion ob tained at any time when the disability warrants it. All soldier- who ere rated too low are entitled to an increase of pen sion. Rejected and abandoned claims a specialty. Circular free. Address, with -tamp, M. V.TIEKNKY, Bo 45C, Wash ington, D. C. 4."i-l-2ct lll'BEK'S 1EOXKI,. JOHN HUBEU, the jolly auctioneer. hs opened a hotel on 18th St , near Titf.i ny tt Itouton's, where clean beds and square meals will always be found by the patron of the houe. I will in the fu ture, a in the past, sivc my be atten tion to all sales of:oods or farm stock, a an auctioneer. jSSSatisfaction guaranteed; call and see me and iou will be made welcome. JOHN IIUBER. Proprietor and Auctioneer. Columbus, Neb, .Tune 10, "$3. 9-tf COLIISIBUK Restaurant and Saloon! E. D. SHEEHAN, Proprietor. 25f-Wholcsale ind Retail Dealer in For eign AVines, Liquors and Ciears, Dub lin Stout, Scotch and English Ales. SSVfcntucJLi IVhiskies a Specialty. OYSTERS in their season, by the case can or dish. lltk Strowt. South of Depot. ,Y , S. MURDOUK & SON, U Carpenters and Conti i " Contractors. Have had an extended experience, and will guarantee, satisfaction in work. All kinds of repairing done on short notice. Ourr motto is, Good work and fair prices. Call and give us an oppor tunity to estimate for you. JSTShop on 13th St., one door west of Friedhof & Co'b. store, Columbus, 2ebr. 4S3-y 1 BlacKsmlUi aiid Wagon Make FIRST National Bank! COLUMBUS. If EB: Authorized Capital, -Cash Capital, $250,000 50,000 . .. i t . : OFFICERS ASD DIRECTORS. A. ANDERSON, Pres't. SAM'L C. S31I TH. Vice Prea't. O. T. ROEN, Cashier. J. W. EARLY,' ROBERT UHLIG. HERMAN OEHLRICH. W. A.TCALLISTEK. "G. ANDERSON, P.ANDERSON. Foreign and Inland Exchan?e, Passage Tickets, Rear Estate, Loan ana Insurance. 2-vol-13-ly COAL LIME! J. E. NORTH & CO., DEALERS IN Coal, Lime, Hair, Cement. Rock Spring Coal, Carbon (Wyoming) Coal . Elilcu dou) Coal ..SIM per ton .. 6.00 " .. i.50 " Blacksmith Coal of best quality al ways on hand at low est prices North. Side Eleventh St., COLUMBUS. NEB. U.3m. BECKER & WELCH, PROPRIETORS OF SHELL CREEK MILLS. MANrFACTURERS AND WHOLE SALE DEALERS IN FLOUR AND MEAL. O FFICE. COL UM Ii US. NK II. SPE1CE & NORTH, General Agent tor the Sale of REAL ESTATE. Union Pacific, and Midland Pacific R. R. Lauds for sale it from $:i.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 lauds, improved and unimproved, for sale at low price and on reasonable terms. Also business and residence lots ir. the city. AYe keep a complete abstractor title'to all real es tate in Platte County. C-21 COLUMBUS. NEB. LANDS, FARMS, CITY PROPERTY FOR SALE, -AT THE Union Pacfic Land Office, On Long Time and low rate of Interest. All wishing to buy Rail Road Lands or Improved Farm- will find it to their :idanta?e to call at the U. P. Land Office before lookin elsewhere as 1 make a specialty of buying and selling land on commission; all persons with in? to sell farms .or unimproved land will fiud it to their advantage to leave their lands with me lor sale, as my fa. cilities for affecting sales are unsur passed. I am piepared to make final pi oof for all parties wishing to get a patent for their homesteads. C5fV. W. )tt, Clerk, writes and speaks Gorman. SAMUEL C. SMITH, Agt. U. P. Land Department. ('21-y COLUMBUS, NEB. HENRY G-ASS, COFFINS AXD METALLIC CASES AND DEALER IX t Tarniture., Chairs, Bedsteads, Bu reaus, Tables, Safes. Lounges. &o., Picture Frames and Mouldings. TSTliepairinaof all kinds of Upholstery uooas. ' 6-tf COLUMBUS, NEB. JPP Jfcr-. - - JZllUt A BOSTON MAIDEN. She was a Boston maiden, and she'd scarcely passed eighteen. And m lovely as a houri, but of grave and so ber mien; A iwect encyclopedia of every kind of lore. Though loie looked coyly from behind the glasses that she wore. Sbo sot beside her lover, with herelbow on hli knee. And dreamily she gazed upon the slumb'ring summer sea. Until be broke the silence, saying, "Pray, Minerva dear. Inform me of the meaning of the Thingness of the Here. "I know you're just from Concord, where the lights of wisdom be. Your head crammed full to bursting, lore, with their philosophy; Those hoary headed sages and maids of hosiery blue Then solve me the conundrum, love, that I have put to you." She srailod a dreamy smile and said: "The Thingness of the Here Is that which is not past, and hasn't yet ar rived, my dear; Indeed," the maid continued, with a calm, unruffled brow, "The Thingness of the Here is Just theThls ness of the Now." A smile illumed the lover's face, then without any haste, He slid a manly arm around the maiden's slender waist. And on her cherry lips impressed a warm and loving kiss. And said: "Love, this is what I call the Now- ness of the This." Somercillc Journal. LETTERS TO A COUNTRY DOCTOR. For the last three or four years I have been making a collection of the curious or quaint letters sent to me by my poorer patients, ami though, from the nature of the contents, I cannot make public all that is written, I will, with your permission, give .some extracts from them, which will tend to afford .some information as to the orthography and modes of expression in common use by some of the rural inhabitants of Hertford shire. The extracts are copied literally from the originals, and are absolutely correct, except as regards the names, which are, for obvious reasons, dis guised. The knowledge of anatomy exhibited in the following is very poor: "My cough is som beter, but when i cough it calces awful pain on the left side of the atomock below the hip. i have aploide a leteeed poultes." A deeper insight into anatomical de tails is shown by the person who wrote: "I feel very full at the chest where the digestive organs lie, especially after meals." Another writes most emphatically: "ifyou pleas .sir would ou be so kiiid has to send me hay bottle of meadson, for hi have got such hay pain hay cross my stickamat." The next extract is very quaint: 'To Mr. Blank, Surgeut. plese sir i write beeiug unable to come myself feel ing so tirde and ill. i cannot "rest any where such cofleing and soriness and Iw numbfells and trembleing with much weekning.' The patient evidently meant to say that she had feelings of numbness with much weakness. More explicit was the poor woman who wrote: "I have such bad crying .stericks wich causes me .such pains in my chest and heart makes me leel very weak." The next example shows that the per son who wrote it had conquered the dilli oulties of orthography, but had a very confused idea of the use of pronouns: - "Mrs. .Johnson's head is a little better; when I put my arm out .straight there is such a tingling in my thumb, but her medicine makes me feel sick.'' A poor man came to the .surgery one day, and, fearing he would be unable to see nie personally to explain his .symp toms, had written the following letter which he handed to me, as I happened to be disengaged: "Sir you gave me a bottle of medecinc about tree weeks ago for my cold at the chest and the small of the back. My cold was begingeing to come out of me nicely, but 1 could not see ou the next time. I feel a little stun" up at the chest as if a little Hem wants looseing: sir, mv kind thanks to ou for a nother bottle." The following patient had evidently tried to cure himself before applying to his medical man; he writes: "Will you be kind enough to send me something to ease a very sad pain in my inside, for I have beign suffering since yioterday at noon. I have had brandy and w hisky and several things but nothing dont give me any relefe." The latter part of the next letter re minds me of the famous lines in Mac beth: "If it were done, when 'tis done, then 'twere well it were thine quickly:" "Mrs. Stone wanted your opinion as to whether anything could be done for him by sending him away anywhere, she would be ;Iad if anything could be done, to have it done, if you thought it could be done." Very affecting is the following epistle, received from a poor woman whose husband wa in extremis: "Sir: My poor dear husband is so much wor.se, his poor harm is in such dreadful pain and so swolen. Coud ou doo anything to ease him. and his tongue is coated dreadful, and 1 cannot get anv food down him. I am broke for Lini ment and medeson, do ciudly come as soon as possible from vou Keapctfullv. J. Waters." As is also the following: "He was taken with a .sinking and guddy feel, and we thought he would die for a hour or two." It is very gratifviug to a medical man to hear that a patient is better, and that he attributes the good result to his doc tor's skill, hence I transcribe the fol lowing: "If you please would be so kind as to send me some more medsin, as the other suit me so will, and my coft is a little better, but I have the rematic so bad in my head." 'Another grateful patient a poor workingman writes a most genuine and touching letter. "I have got my little girl to write me a few lines to jo'u, to tell j-ou I am very much obliged to you for what you have done for me and now I must conclude with kind love to vou, vours affectionate, Amo Baker." The word medicine seems to be a puz zler to man- poor people, and it is spelt rery variously in ray correspondence, e. g., meddeson, medesin, meaddsen, med eson, medsin, medsen, medinse, mede cian, medecin, medecinc. meadson. Some get over the difficulty by asking for something, somethink, or somethind for their ailments. The word appetite is rarely attempted, but when it is it in rolves a complete failure, as in the en suing letter: "Pleas to send me som moor medecin. I ham getting better, but mv Back is Tery weark and Hapytite very bad." As specimens of quaint spelling the two following extracts are amusing: "Sir pleas Will you Be so Koind As to seand Me A Bottoll of Meaddsen, the Bottoll Was left yesasteaday." "Sir I should bee verey much a blige to you if you could come and see My Jiusbon at wonce for I should like to have jour advice for his head is so verey baa ama he swelen so as he cannot .see out ofjone eye." Almost as interesting is this extract: "My back was taken bad a week ago I had, a Plaster from the Cemist that don't cem to do me any good I have Sot it "jbn know. I Was took on y ester ay morning when i begun to" work that'slike a snap come the bottom my back I fell down and that took the use away from me for some minutes." I could give many more extracts, but I fear I shall tire my readers, and, there fore, will only quote a remark made by a recently made widow. When I asked her how her husband died, she replied: "He went off as easy as a glove." In conclusion, I will refer to a few of the strange terminations to the letters I have had. One person signs herself "yours respectively," another "I re main with your assistance," another "your ammble servant," another "your afflicted and poor servant." All the Year Sound. Didn't Mean Him. "Take a square look at me!" he com manded as he halted in front of a policeman on Michigan avenue yester day. The policeman looked him all over. He was a pretty good chunk of a man, carrying a florid face, a prominent nose, and an air of general innocence. "I don't see anything wrong about you," said the officer. "Do my clothes fit? Do I wobble when I walk? Do I wipe my mouth on my coat-tails? Does the sight of me remind you of cabbajre and other ;reeu things?" "Well, no. You look to me like an honest good-natured fellow." "Then," said the stranger as he brought his list down with a thump, "there's going to be bloodshed in tho town. I came m this morning with an excursion. We had scarcely landed when a man called out: 'Did you bring along that kcow?' I)id ou mean that for me?' says I. He said he didn't, and 1 passed on." "He might not." "Then, as I was going up the street, a chap in a door says he: "Ah! smell the carrot crop!' jDo you mean that for me?' says I as I walks up to him. He says hedidn't and I passed on," "I presume he didn't." "Well, I got up to Griswold street, and I was looking for the Posloffice, and a man calls out: Til bet he brought along raw onions and turnips for Ids dinner!' 'Do you mean that for me?' says I as I walks up to him. He says he didn't, and I passed on." "He must have referred to some one else." "Well. I walked through the Post office and started for the City Hall, and was almost there when a young fellow in the door of a barber shop calls out: 'There goes the biggest cabbage-head of the season!" 'Do you mean that for me?' says I as I walks up to him. He says he didn't and I passed on." "He could not have meant you." "Well, as I was walking through the City Hall a great big overgrown chap sings out through his noo: 'Behold the second crop or dandelions! Oh, my!' 'Do you mean that for me?' .says I as I wallcs up to him. Ho said he didn't, and I passed on." . "That's right." "Mebbe so, but you look a-here! I'm going down to the ferry dock. The lirst man or boy who calls out carrots, pumpkins, onions, turnips, scare-crow, green-horn, pig-weed or hucklebery blossom to me won't have no chance to lie about it. I'll turn on him and rend him, and slay him and hammer him stone blind! Mebbe nobody means anything, and mabbe its simply their way, but I've got my dander up, and if you hear a roaring sound like a cyclone you may know that I'm climbing for a man who has called out 'summer squash!' to me!" Detroit Free Press. Different Classes of Brazilian Slaves. Among the classes of slaves in Brazil the lives of some are so different from those of others that the case of one class cannot be taken to represent the state of the whole. The highest-class slaves are the maids, pages, or valets, whose sole work is to attend on the master or mis tress to whom they have been dedicated at birth, the custom in many planters' families being tti give to each of their children the soundest and best-looking slave child nearest in age and of the same sex. These little slave maids or valets have to do all the labor and bid ding of all sorts of their young owners, acting as shadows when so required, and as .substances when occasion demands. These children the one free, the other bond grow up together, often weaving cords of love and affection, so that what ever may be the lot of the other slaves these remain with their lirst owners, and are never sent away to work in the plan tations or elsewhere, except in cases of very bad behavior. The next in favor are the artisans, the bricklayers, car penters, anil smiths, who are often hired out, and who are well treated in con sideration of the great revenues they bring to their owners, in fact many a hired slave of this class earns for his master from five to ten shillings a day. Then come the house slaves, the coach men, the eooks, and the washerwomen; following these are the town slaves, who are hired out to work at any labor, the owner receiving so much per head per day. Last of all come the plantation slaves, who often in appearance look little human, and seem very Calibans in many, many ca-e- These .,ad ones are they who earn all the wealth of the land; these are they who rise before the sun, and after a-king in forced formality the blessing of Christ from their master or over-eer.are led off in herds to toil till dark, their food being taken to them in carts, and doled out as to a herd of creatures more,su ine-like than human; these are they who do all tho hard work of the plantation, the life-sapping toil, leaving that which is easy to the colonist or free laborer. No one who has only seen tin city slaves can form an idea of "a herd of slaves being led off to their work, nor can tell the sensation of meeting a half-hundred human beings homeward turning after a hard day in the sun, each carrying wood to serve for the food cookfng, each on meeting you folding his hands and abjectly begging your bles-ing in Christ's name. On they come, one straggling behind the other, the young and still strong in front, the old and feeble and the women, with their little ones bound to their waists, toiling far behind. London Times. At the Albany Depot restaurant in Boston is the original water pitcher and salver used in 1852 by the lirst water boy on our railroads. It is a very elab orate affair, appears to be made of sil ver, and comprises a large pitcher or tank, with two silvery goblets, borne on a large salver. In those early days the newsboys had to carry the" water Boston Herald. The Tear's Calamities. The disasters of the current year have been most extraordinary. Their fre quency, and the appalling charrcter of most of them, are a constant source of remark. Leaving out pestilence, which in Egypt is working a frightful havoc, having already destroyed 30,000 lives, probably, the record of catastrophes is most gloomy. About 400 lives have been lost in this country by cyclones. By the falling of the pier at Tivoli, near Baltimore, 100 souls per'shed. In the flood, invading the m-ue at Braidwood, 77 persons were destroyed. By the burning of the Newhall House and oth er hotels, 100 human beings have been done to death in the flames. By the upsetting of a North Carolina boat 18 persons were drowned. By the railway collision at Carlyon .'10 persons were crushed to death. The New York bridge panic caused the death of 15 per sons. These are only the more conspic uous of the catastrophes which in this laud have thrown a shadow on so many homes. On the other side of the water the same law of casualty, only, if any thing, more territie, has prevailed. A panic n a factory at Bombay resulted m a less of IS lives. An avalanche on Mount Ararat buried 150 souls. A boil er explosion in France swept away S4, a mine explosion 127, and an explosion in Sicily 35. A tire in Hungary burned up 35 persons, another in Italy 47, an explosion at Scutari 150. The circus disaster in Poland killed 268 persons. In the floods in Germany and Austria 140 were drowned. The fimbria car ried down with her 434 human beings. In the Sunderland panic 202 children were swept into eternity. More de structive than all was the terrible loss of life through the caithqiiakciu Ischia, where 2,000 persons are believed to have perished. IIow far are these calamities to be attributed to natural causes, which man is powerless to control, and how far to the ignorance or carelessness of men? It seems quite certain that the Newhall tragedy, the Sunderland hec atomb, the ajipalling destruction of the Cimbria, are, to a large ex tent, referable to human respousibleness that is to say. that the foresight and knowledge of which men an capable might hae avoided these disasters. Like the great Chicago tire, they teach a lesson of the reign of natural law and the inexorable necessity that man con form thereto. If anything could move the stony heart of nature it would seem to be a gathering of fond mothers and their innocent children at the North Point pier, or that assembly of sweet ness and love that was slaughtered at Sunderland, or those poor girls flinging their arms through the flames and crying for help at Milwaukee. But nature hears no prayer. A fiie-trap is a lire-trap all the same though a hun dred homes be desolate, a hole with no exit is a cage in which fright does its appaling work precisely as though a thousand hearts did not ache. Is the saying now .so common that "human life is the cheapest thing in the market" true? If so, all the worse for human nature. It is much feared that this saying, at least, is not quite a lie, and can not be regarded as a slander until parsimony and avarice shall be elimin ated from the causes or the occasions of disaster. The disasters by cyclone and extra ordinary floods are beyond criticism. Science has not yet discovered what a cyclone is; some say a wind-storm, a concentrated hurricane, others sa' an electric storm, the very reservoir of lightning tlropping down to the level of the earth, a performance of nature on a lower stratum, such as is all the time going on in the clouds. The cyclone all the prophets to the con trary can not be foretold as yet. And there is no defense against it but a cave in the earth. The belt of cyclones even is uncertain within wide limits, so that they can only be infallibly avoided by the abandonment of "any country where the cyclone is known. Till science, therefore, shall catch up. at least, men must call the desolation caused by terrilic whirls of wind and water and electricity as being due to natural causes, and in no sense refer them to the respousibleness of men. The fact that calamities come not singly, that railway disasters, tires, and all the train of woe come in groups, and that other forms of disaster take the same occasion to work ruin, is one of the strange things which neither philosophy nor religion is competent to solve. The fact is none the less glaring, and the current year is a siilliciently conspicu ous illustration. Chicayo Times. How Granite Columns arc Polished. The word "granite" generally con veys the idea of roughness, coarseness ami solidity. The idea of tinish, smooth ness and polish docs not, in the popular mind, belong to the material. But most kinds of granite are susceptible of a beautiful and almost faultless surface iinish. The effect of this finish in con trast with the hammered faced granite, on monuments where a tablet is surface polished, or lines of lettering are in brilliant contrast with the dull gray of the unpolished stone, is very fine, espe cially so when the shafts of columns are thus finished, the bases being hammered and the capitals carved. As this finish can now be obtained by machinery at a low cost, the possibilities of obdurate granite for ornamental a- well as for building purposes have been greatly en larged. Granite columns, vases and similar cylindrical ornaments are polished in a lathe. This differs but little from an ordinary machinist's lathe, except that a continuous bed is not necessary to hold the lathe heads, that the spindle of the foot stock revolves as well as that of the head stock, and that no tool carriage and appurtenances are required. The head-stock is furnished, like that of the ordinary back-geared lathe, with a back shaft, on which is the driving pulley , or the cone of step pulleys, from which the spindle is driven by means of a gear and pinion, the surface speed of a column under process of grinding and polishing being from 230 to 240 feet per minute, giving to a twelve-inch column about seventy-seven turns per minute and to a thirty-six-inch column about twenty five turns per minute. To center and swing a column in the lathe the stone has a square recess cut in each end, into which is fitted a block of cast iron with round hole through its center. The place of this block is found by means of a cross of wood with slid ing arms on each of the four limbs of the cross, the arms projecting over the surface of the column longitunalty, and when equidistant from the center de noting the place of the center block, so that the true center of the column or shaft is found, just as it is on an iron shaft, from the circumference. The iron block is secured in place bv a running of Babbit metal, or a similar unshrink ing compound, around it. The centers of the lathe spindles fit the holes in the blocks, and wtfen swung to the lathe I the column ia rotated by means of alu or uog on the face plate engaging wit one seated m the end ot the column. Back of the lathe is a wall 'of plank against which rest the ends of a num ber of iron blocks, three or four inches diameter, long enough to project over the column and to have their rear ends resting against the bulkhead or wall. Their under sides are concaved to em brace the column one-fourth of its diam eter or less, aud as the motion of the column in grinding is reverse to that of the ordinary lathe, the blocks are held against thewall by the rotation of the column. These blocks are arranged closely side by side, and when the- col umn is first worked its irregularities of chiseling and unevenness of' contour make these blocks play up and down like the movement of" pianoforte keys under the lingers of a performer. But as thegrinding progresses this irregular movement becomes a very slight undu lation, pleasant to see. A trough runs under tho column its entire length, ami from it an attendant shovels beach sand and water on tho revolving column, the blocks with their concave faces acting as grinders, just as the hinge clamps of the machinists are used in polishing a turned shaft. And like the clamps, the series of blocks are occasionally pushed along one-half of their width to avoid rings of roughness. This quartz sand is used until all the bruises, "stunts," and chisel marks are taken out, and the surface shows a uniform color. Then the trough is cleaned and emery of the numbers forty to sixty, according to the quality of the stone. Is weighed out in the proportion of about half a pound to every superficial foot; thus a column of ten feet in length by three feet diame ter - ninety superficial feet would re quire from forty-five to fifty pounds. This is all weighed out at one timo, and is never added to during the entire process. Mixed with water, it is fed to the grinders by the shovelful, over and over, until the grinding is entirely completed. The reason for this is evident from the fact that, in using, the emery becomes ground up and mixed with teletrilus of the granite and the partieles of the iron blocks or grinders, ami after a time is a pasty mass, losing much of its original sharp gritiness. If. now, fresh, unused emery was added, the effect would be to scratch the half-finished surface. When the grinding is finished the common cast iron grinding blocks are removed and others are substituted having their embracing under sides faced with felt. To these is fed the ordinary marble polish of oxide of tin and water until the surface of the column shines like glass and reflects like a mirror. The entire time required to polish granite columns dependent on the exactness of their chiseling is from forty to fifty hours, diameter and length making but little change, as the work is simultaneous and the surface speed a constant. Scientific American. A Schoolmaster Running the Rapids. W. tl. Ballard, principal of a public school in Jamaica, Long Island, ar rived in Montreal on Saturday evening, having run all the rapids of the St. Lawrence in a skiff seventeen feet long, three teet nine inches in the beam. In conversation with a Montreal Star re porter he said: "I left i 'ape Vincent a week ago last Thursday with three friends. The Gallops didu't amount to anything; a child could run them; but when we struck the Long Sault we had our hands full, I can assure you. We tHik the south side, where the current flows with lightning-like rapidity: so we just steered our boat and let the cur rent carry us along. When we got pret ty well down into the worst part of the rapids we ran ashore, and saw a glor ious sight. The north and south cur rents of the Sault met just below, and the waves were piling on top of one an other, rolling in a corkscrew manner and boiling in a way to make the bravest heart quake. But we got into our boat aud had an exciting time for a few minutes. We had first to dodge a whirlpool and then keep clear of the 'corkscrew waves,' but we did it and came into Cornwall safe and sound. " When we struck the cedars I saw my companion looking a little anxious. Every few seconds he let a -Hi, hi,' out of him, which I interpreted 'Pull your oest,' and I bent to my oar, while he threw all his strength into his paddle strokes, and we swept with lightning like rapidity through foaming, roaring, boiling swells. My boat is one of the best of the kind in existence, and went over the swells in a beautiful manner. One moment I was on the brink of a wave looking down perpendicularly on the white face of my pilot, next mo ment our positions were reversed and I was in the trough of the boiling wa ters. We had some pretty close shaves, but muscle and skill triumphed, and we came out of the rapids safely. We then ran the Cascades, swept through St Louis and ran the Lachine. The latter rapids don't amount to much, however, and I would undertake to run them with a boat load of people with out any pilot. Well, here I am, safe and sound in Montreal, and can look back with pleasure to my adventurous trip tlown the rapids. " Last year I ran the entire length of the Susquchana, five hundred miles, coasted tlown the Chesapeake Bay, ascended the Delaware River, and thence home by canals, having traveled about eighteen hundred milesC A pretty good way to spend a vacation. I think. Too Late. A New York broker who reached a village in Ohio the other evening was interviewed, soon after placing his name on the register, by a farmer, who said: "I just wish you had arrived here this afternoon!" "Any excitement?" replietl the broker. "Well I should say so. My son, Dan iel, was convicted of stealing seveu sheep, and has been held to the higher court. You ought to have been here!" "Why?" "Why; I'd have had you on the jury, and you could have cleared Daniel slick as grease. Our folks here don't look at things as vou New Yorkers do." Wall Street Seu-s. FhotognpblBg Letters. "The oddest customer," said the pho tographer, "I ever had, was a Tennes sean who came in and had himself taken with a sign across his chest, on which was printed, in large letters : 'J.C.K. The father of thirty-four children. "He was in sober earnest, and want ed fifty copies. He was dumb-founded when, by way of a joke, I showed him the negative, on which the sign read : ' K. C J. nenllihc ruof-ytriht forehtaf eht.' " Cincinnati Enquirer. A Mrs. Knapp, of Philadelphia, a Slimmer visitor at Deal Beach, N. J., has erected a life-saving station at that -point at her own expense. A Massachusetts man who was sent to State Prison for life for kicking bid wife to death has had a stroke of pa ralysis and last the use of the leg With which he killed the poor woman. Boston Post. The way in which the world skips along now-a-days makes it necessary f6r every man to be his own majesty or ' everybody's lackey. These be times that try men's souls for one extreme or tho other. Chicayo Inter Ocean. Tho three-year-old daughter of Charles Brittaiu a miner, of Lykons, Pa., climbed up the side of apig-pen and put her head through an opening to look at the swine. Her feet slipped, and she hung until she died of strangulation. Pliiladelphia Press. The Judge of a local court in France has been suspended for two years "for undignified behaviour in hii profession." the principal charge against him seems to be that he was in the habit of smoking a pipe in the cor ridors of the court house. X. Y. Graphic. A stampede of Texas steers in the streets of New Orleans a few days ago made lively work for the police. Several men, two mules, and two horses were badly goretl. Tho number of steers was estimated at about twenty, but, an ac count savs, they scattered over the city so quickly aud doubled on their tracks so often that there seemed to be hundreds of the raging creatures at large. N. O. Picayune. The road agents who recently , robbed a coach in Montana ranged the men in line with hands up and relieved them of all their valuables. They then passed a bottle of whisky ami a box of cigars, compelling each one to take a drink and a smoke. One of the unfor tunates hail never smoked a cigar in his life, but under the persuasive and urgent invitation of the gentlemanly robliers he lit his first cigar. Chicayo Herald. Mrs. Jane Farrington, a wealthy witlow of Westtield, N. Y., received ! call from a party of genteel burglars the other night, 'they forced her to open the safe, from which they took $500 in cash and $3,000 in Government bonds. When she beegged that some ancient goltl and silver pieces, which were family relics, be returned, they gave them to her with an apology for taking them. They then courteously bade her good night, expressing their regret that their safety made it imperatively neces sary to leave her bound and also to gag her. N. Y. Sun. A specimen of the "monkey-faced owl." a rare bird, was recently captured by Captain Pitts, of Orlando, Ha., in the Everglades. It is described as be ing somewhat smaller than the hooting owl. The plumage has the soft, furry texture of the owl family, but a tiugo of orange enters into the color. The head aud face are those of a baboon, the face beiug white, while the eyes are much smaller than those of an owl of tiie same size, coal-black, and some what almond-shaped, opening and clos ing with lids like those of an animal. In fact they more nearly rescm ble the eyes of an otter than a bird. It is said that where a dollar's worth of goods pass the Custom Houses ou the Niagara River, 1,000 worth are smuggled, either one way or the other. From Canada are .smuggled butter, spirituous liquors, aud silks: in return for which the Americans smuggle into Canada cheap jewelry, kerosene, and innumerable products ot Yankee in genuity cheaper here than there. The smuggling is done at night in rowboats. It is saitl that it would require at least fifty night watchmen on the Niagara River to prevent this traffic. Next to the Niagara as a field for smugglers comes the Detroit River. Detroit Post. Henry Packer, of Hartford. Conn., employed by .the trainer of elephants with Barnum's show, was killed by the elephant Queeu at Cincinnati. He had not provoked the animal in any way, but was at work, preparatory to the morning parade, when the monster sud denly pinioned him with her great body against the side of the tableau car, anil remorselessly crushed the life out of him. The pressure was so violent that the car was thrown over, and thus the poor fellow was released. The trainer says it is only a proof of the sly, mali cious cunning of these beasts. He thinks she saw an opportunity to do an injury to Packer and! embraced it. St. Louis Post. Lung, a Portland (Oregon) China man, abandoned the laundry business, in which he had made some money, and undertook to run a farm. He came to town the other day looking a little seedy. One of his old patrons meeting him. said: "Well, Lung, how did you make it at farming? ' Not muchee good." replied Lung sadly, "I sow wheat and bird he come catchee some. Byrne by wheat grow up anil plenty squirrel come catch heap. Then leaping machine come cut him and cost too much, and when thasher man come, take all wheat pay him. anil his gang eat up my tlee fat hog and cuss me 'cause I not give 'em pie tlee time every day. I no likee farm any more." Portland Journal. It Was After That. On a train coming up from Philadel phia, the other day, a New Yorker shared his seat with a stranger who proved to be an ex-County Treasurer from Ohio. After some little conversa tion the citizen inquired: "So vou were a County Treasurer, eh?" "I was." "What was the amount of vour de falcation?" "My books balanced to a cent; sir!" was the indignant reply. "Ah!" growled the New Yorker iu a disappointed voice, anil it must have been easy to see from his looks that he was deeply chagrined. The stranger doubtless felt sorry for him, and after a few minutes of painfnl silence re marked: "But I subsequently acted as post roasterand cheated the Government out of -37,000!" "Oh! you did!" chuckled the New Yorker, and a feeling of quiet satisfac tion at once rested upon his face, and friendly relations were again established. Wall Street News. N. T. Elliott, of Live Oak, Fla., had a very fine patch of Hubbard squash, from" which he expected to realize at least $100. A few days ago he found a few worms on his vines, which he sup posed to be grass caterpillars. Arising one morning, not long after, he found he had neither vines nor fruit, the worms having completely destroyed both. They first eat the vine and then the fruit. Hundreds of squashes were de stroyed in one night. 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