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Jv ( r ? Ei J$ 1 THE JOtrKNAL. WEDNESDAY, OCT. 31, 1883. Estcrei it ths Port:See, C:lsta, Hi, as ':: din sitter. ON THE BEACH. I? . I clasped in mine her tender hand. '-t 45 slde fey side witn loitering pace, -And pausing sometimes, face tot ace. We Ayandered slowly on the strand. ' Z' , v We' left behind a laughing crowd " , We felt no need of company; Ourselves, our thoughts, the bcach.the sea, The clear blue heavens that o'er us bowed, . Jfftde us a perfect solitude. ' t Where all with peace and joy was filled. Where jarring fears and cares wercfitilled, ,And speech were interruption rude. - So on we wandered, hand Jn band, . O'erglad to be to each so near, t, , So heart-ccntent," so fond and dear, v Alone upon that pleasant strand. ' -st And when our footsteps we -retraced,.,. The comrades wo had left behind Exclaimed: "Well, wjiat'supon your mind. Old boy? What fancies have you chased ' 'While wandering slowly and alone? - ' You arc" not wont to stroll away: t," .Whatdo tho-wild.waycs say to-da"y. By us unfuncied and unknown?" ' I smiled. They could not seq the hand T clasped in mine, thc.upturncd face; ' Their duller oyes beheld no traco Of little foot-prints in the 6and. 1 c . i-t But that sweet hour along the sea Will never vanish from my heart, t ' When, bilent, from all else apart, " 1 " I -walked -with ui!cen company. . . i - " ' S. S. Vonant.'ln Harper's Magazine. A IA'GEROUS VIRTUE. . Everv one, perhaps, knows the stry of PreSenVc-of-MindTomkyns, of Onel, who gained his prenonien from ham mering with an oar Ihe fingers of tho young huly-who elung'to-liis boat, which -shovoiild otherwise have overset and drowned him; but his'is not the lOnly instance v. herein that admirable virtue has been displayed to its possessor's disadvantage." Except, indeed, in the" case of Tunning away at once on the first hint of danger (where it is almost impossible to go wrong), I nminclined to doubt whether presence of mind is a virtue. I have known so many cases wherein peoplo endowed with this highly eulogized quality have, in what the French call "supreme moments" (Anglice "narrow shaves,1' "muck ers"), done such thingsjwith sang-froid and unpremeditated good, judgment 'as they have repented of, but could never atone for all their lives. I once performed an action of this kind myself, which proved so far from 'presence of mind," being only second in point of advantage in a railway ac cident to "absence of body," that hard ly anything can be less desirable; and as the public travel :t great deal by railwaj-, the recital of it may interest them. 1 was a passenger one night by the Scotch express to Edinburgh, and, as might have been expected from one possessing the quality in question, had taken care to make myself particularly " comfortable. -Pullman j "ami sleeping cars were unknown in thoe days, but I had secured the seat opposite to me for mj' feet and was as well fortified against the cold as a late dinner at "tho Hag," with a glass of "sixty-year-old" brand- to follow, within, and ul ster and rugs without, coidd make mo. I had a friend (no, too suspicious read er, not a lady it was the limited mail train) beside me similarly situated, and in the third seat beyond was an urbane stranger with his legs up, who from his discreet silence and his having secured the seats on the oft" side where nobody could disturb him, I concluded to be a diplomatist. Having awakened at Car lisle, S sot put for another jiclit vcrre of brandy (niuehyoungerthanthatl had had at the club), and on returning to my carriage found, to my horror, the seat for my feet occupied otherwise, by an intruder, and a person too of a class to whom the term "a rough customer" would not have been inapplicable. Every one who is an one can understand my indignation. Even in omnibuses, which are licenced to hold a good many people, persons already in poses sion, however few, resent, I am told, the arrival of new comers; but the present outrage was one that was intol erable and (except on the Continent) absolutely unparalleled. An English man's house is his castle; but his two scats, in 4a flight train are even more sacred and peculiar to' himself. I was astonished and amazed tothe last de gree, but I was not speechless: "My good sir," I -aid, "you Have mistaken your carriage." "No, I ain't; and 1 mean to travel in this un." "Bui it is unseal, sir." "Then I suppose you sits on your legs." Jly friend was asleep (one's friends always are asleep when we need their assistance), hut I saw a sly smile flicker upon the countenance of tho diplomat ist; it was the sort of difficulty (another man's diflieultv) that amused him. "You may not bo aware, my good- man;" I resumed, "thai it usual for gentlemen on long journeys"2to reserve two seats for themselves. .ft "Then tliev ought to take two'tick- ets." he replied, surlily; "show me yourn here's mine right enough," and lie ostentatiously displayed it It avus a second-class one. 1 flung down the window and ex- .claimed, with professional promptitude: "Guard, turn out" I should have said, 'of course, "Guard, turnout this man"; hut the official (who had half a crown of mine in his pocket) understood the situation at oitce. The" obnoxious in truder .was instantly hauled' forth,! ex claiming (falsely) that he had been in serted in the first-class for want of .room elsewhere. .., . J- JLJiadiOnce nioreput upjny vfeet tri umphantly, and was arranging my wraps as the train moved slowly on, when 1 perceived j a carpet-bag in the raclcorv er the opposite seat. Mv nnture j is not malicious, and thouglifetill smart ing from im recent wrongs I feltsorry that the poor man should be parted from, hi s solitary article of haggae, and tmnkiug there jw-as) yet jtime (or 'rather my immense presence of mind' . not giviujr me time to thiuk) I .plucked the bag.Jro.iu the rack and threw it violently out, as I reckoned, upon the platform; it fell Jiowever, On the line, about ten vards be ondit. yiix$ri ltis Itf mrftfcr.'WaHiaieMiplomats. ist in thte's6ftestttVd 'creamiest, -tone- iu i y conceivable; ,'ut, happenjtox.ije-1 flw't ban-." i - m, - ' You might have knocked me down wiin a ieaiiior..nTaaejajmndre-ate poiogidsirrcidJrainriro with'ffrcati3ol!tenessr "It has my address on it. 'and will turn np'sonic aay, no ooubt." "How could I have been such an in fernal fool!" T murmured penitentlv. ? '!Prdo3i)ne)'.lje saic&jstill sweetly smiling; '"ltis not th'at you are the - character you' have so graphically de scriBed, bnt because you have o much presence of 'mfnttf For my part I never do anvthirig in ahurry, t and es pedTallyJ if fit scmB'mratlvely de mandedof inc: r always carefully avoid beino-lwhatis vidian v'callecw'eqBal to the situation.' Atone time, indeed, it '" eured'bf it as l am surd you will be, and, as it curiousjy happens. m a pre- cisely similar -mamier; -l ' '" "I was comine" b'vmail one night from the north-of Scotland; in the car riage Avkh -mo was,but"Dnc"wfellow pas senger,, youtig fefloW-whonVI judged much occupied with his own affairs and,. fBaid.Jittjei zile did not appear .. inriJBfld far alMB.'MdMrMMliHidea of expectation. Perhaps he was to meet his beloved qbject at his journey's encl. At a small station just beyond Perth he got hurriedly out, as I under- ii-1 stood from his muttered exclamation. for a glass of whisky; it was a bitterly cold winter's night, which seemed an excuse for it; but I warned him that there -was no time to. getUt, and 'there was not. THe carriagejiorJd,liardly cTosedbehind"him when the train went on. -'io '-'I was very Borrjr for the poor lad, and knowing1 that to be left at so 'wretched a place without one's'luggage would be t "an additional, annoyance, with great presericeof 'mindTthrew out of the window everything he possessed: his portmantean, hat box and railway rug, even to his umbrella. I can see them-now, black on the snow-covered line, where he-tcould not fail to see them, from the .platform. Then we thundered on for about twenty miles, when . the' train, stopped again, and who should present himself at the window of the carriage but the young man himself ! "I beg your pardon,' ho said, 'for letting thccold air in, but I see it is the wrong compartment I thought I had left my baggage here.' "'So you did,' I said; 'but I chucked it -out. ri verv sonr, but I thought .we had left vou behind. I did it all for tho best' ' t " 'And you've done it pretty com pletely,' was his dry reply. "When we had telegraghed to the last station he got it again and ex plained matters. He was studying civil engineering, it seemeu, and naa bribed the engine man to let him drive us for a jnile or two. As this was con trary to regulations, the man was afraid to let him join him at Perth, but told him to jump on at the first small station we came to, which he accord ingly did. It was a lesson to him not to Dreak the company's by-laws, and to me not to bo so fond as I used to be of exercising my presence of mind." After this homily, and my own pre vious "-experience of what comes of promptness ahd presence of mind, the reader will think that I myself moi quivous parte would at least never fall into a mistake of that kind again. Yet this happened to me only last week. I had taken a hurried lunch at my club, "before going to Brighton, and, finding it to be rather late, had nun? myself into the first hansom atthb door, with an impatient "To Victoria." Tho man drove off, but slowly; his horse seemed tired, and after a few yards came to a full stop. "What is the matter?"- I exclaimed with some irri tation. "J" am the matter cried a well known voice; it was a great friend of mine, who had stopped the cab, just to shakchands. .His quick. eye sawsomc- ., . - T , ..tin 1 inmg Desiues myseii in ic "vny uo you travel with two umbrellas," ho in quired, "like a Japanese gentleman of Tank with a couple of swords?" Then I porceived that the man who had just got out of the hansom at the club had left his umbrella behind him. Of course I might have left it where it was, but. with great presence of mind, it struck me that it wfould be better, to intrust it to my friend (who was bphdfor the club) to giye it to the porter, for the owner, who would thereby recover it at once. I therefore did so, and with the con sciousness of having performed a good action, and also manifested no slight acumen on the spur of the moment, we drove on. On arriving at yictoria, I tendered the cab-man cigliteenpence. "What isthis for?" he inquired, with an indig nation which, -considering his actual fare was a shilling, did him, I thought great credit "It is just fifty per cent, above what I owe 3-011," I 'said, "you very impudent fellow." "What!" he cried, in a voice that brought quite a little crowd around us; "eightcenpence from the Temple!" "The Temple! I came from the Megatherium Club, you scoundrel." "Then that's not your umbrella," he exclaimed excitedly, pointing to that article, my own property, which I held in my hand. "Pardon me," I said, sarcastically, " but those are -my initialsT" And I held up the hadlc for inspection. " Then, where is the umbrella that was in the cab?" It was really rather difficult to ex plain; my real reason for returning tho article by my friend was that 1 had doubts of the cabman's honesty, but. I could not tell him that. So 1 had to narrate to a by this time considerable audience, including a policeman, who was looking at me with great suspicion, that I had sent the article away by a friend, for the purpose of retnrning it to its owner. " Oh, that's a prcttv story," cried the cabman, (and I felt that it was so, and would be worth telling). "Just look after this party, policeman." I had never been in such a false posi tion in my life, though, as the reader knows, I had sufiereif before from my great presence of mind. "You had better go back, my good friend, to the gentleman at the club, who will doubtless reward you," said I, in a conciliatory tone. Then, sud denly remembering it was this abomin able cabman's own fault all along, I added in a much more natural way: "How dare you take a second fare, be fore you have done with the first? Don't you know the regulations under which yon hold your license?" "But I thought, .sir, as you was the same gentleman" then I knew (by his civility) that I had conquered. "Thought, sir," I put in; "it would be much hotter for you if you used your eyes, instead of thinking. The man's a fool !" And then I walked off ma jestically, liaving already, as I saw, im pressed the fickle crowd with the same opinion. Bnt I was quite aware, for all that, that the whole' affafr might have been very unpleasant and that I had been very nearly getting into a second hobble tnrough my too prompt proceedings, and my fatal jnft of presence of mind. James Payn, in Bdgravia. - : Nothing to Speak Of. "You profess to be a mind' reader, do you not?" said the dude, accosting a gentleman in a crowded parlor the other evening. "I do,"-:quietly replied tho party ad dressed, taking in at a glance the dis ciple of po"inted"ho"es and-tight pants. - 'Well.-you'hjavejiow an 'opportunity to test the .genuinetiess of youf profession-' came with a cynical" sneer from LfcgBStth theew struggling hairs on the upper lip of the rare bird. "Let me see you read my mind?" "O, you forget," said the mind reader, tmildly, "I must have some thing to work" on." Andtthen he walked to the other end of the room to allow the dude time to deliberate upon which would be the better weapons ior.a duel gold-headed canes or wooden toothpicks. Yonkers Gazette. ., The, Allan. House, .the Richmond 1 tn yr fca..rt home of'the'poel Edgar Allan Poe, has been purchased for transformation into ahotel, to "be kept bya woman at one timeja leader of-fashion in thatciry. The dustr of -years has lodged upon everything in ther rooriViri which Poe I wrote VThe-Raven." ' Cobwebs depend w w w;uing,ana cimgetq ine waus m picturesque lestooas. It is an octagon-shaped apartment, with windows neither ide of-the fireplace, seeming n into similar rooms. "3ut. there are imiiui-jiaucs inline winuow-sasn instead. iSj-- transparent. ftlass..c Hhe room is spacious and papered in florid I Wtjl:Wehimjton- Dost. Mhnic Advertising'. As a Sun reporter turned from the Fifth avenue down to Fourteenth street the other day he saw a crovd gazing at the second story of a house. Behind a broad window with two large panes of glass appeared the objects which were attracting the attention of the crowd. Behind the lower pane was a broad pieccof canvas on which the name of a summer hotel was painted in large blatk letters; behind the upper glass wa3 a scene which gave in good per spective an idea of the house and sur roundings. It seemed a picturesque summer resort. Back of the house stretched a range of blue mountains. Some of the peaks were so high that fleecy white clouds veiled their summits. From the hotel a path led through a slop'ng lawn to a lake. So far the pic ture represented all that was described on the canva9 underneath, except the announcement that there was good fish ing in the lake. Suddenly, nowever, even this was realized. A man was seen pulling in a boat across the lake. After a while he stopped rowing, shipped his oars, lifted a fishing rod from the bot tom of the boat, and cast the line into J he water. Then he remained motion less as if intently watching the liu '. With a sudden jerk of the rod he landed a fish in the bo.it. This was repeated several times, until at last he appeared to have caught fish enough. He put down his rod, gra-ped the oars, and pulled back to snore. The last seen of him he was walking toward the hotel with a string of fish. Suddenly the canvas dropped. In its place behind the lower pane appeared another, which called upon all people to consult only a certain phy-ician in case of illness. Above this the scene represented a New York st-eet. Among the houses was one with a physician's sign. An old man nearly bent double came hobbling down the street on a crutch until he got to the physician's house and rang the bell. A pleasant looking man, presumably the physician, let him in. After a while a boy with an arm in a sling came from the other di rection, and rang. ' This time the door was opened by a girl, probably because the physician was busy attending to the first patient. The patient was followed bj'a pale and debilitated-looking indi vidual, and he by another, who ap peared to be coughing and in the hist stages of consumption. These also were admitted bv the girl. Aft-r a while the door opened again, and out came the old man, linn and erect, briskly twirling his cane. A little later the boy came out. but his arm was no longer in the sling. On the contrary lie swung it freely as he walked along. The pale and debilitated-looking man made his exit whistling. The consump tive who 1 ad seemed to be tottering on the brink of the grave came out with the bloom of roses on his cheeks. Presto change! The canvas went down and the street disappeared. Tiie name of a theater was displayed behind the lower pane, the theater itself behind the upper. A horse-car slopped in front of the theater, which every passenger en tered. A s'age drove up with the same results. Then carriages and coupes halted at the theater, which seemed to be attracting everybody in the city. Finally a sign appeared : "No more standing,room., Anotiier change. This time it w:ls a bicycle advertisement, and bicyclers were speeding their steel racers on the track above. As the reporter started across the street to inspect matters more closely, Sullivan and Mitchell were hav ing a fierce set to. Entering the room on the second floor, the reporter saw near the window a light trestle-work. Round about were lying strips of sun-sets, blue skies, storm clouds, and all varieties of heavens; pasteboard men and women, with nu merous strings attached to their limbs; cars, stages, houses on a small scale, all the paraphernalia of a theatrical scene were there. Two long, broad strips of pasteboard lay on the floor. Over them stood a man with a largo brush, which he dipped into a pot of gray paint and then applied to the pasteboard, making a line of grayish houses and churches. Then he painted in black dots for win dows and doors, adding a strip of green and yellow for grass and a road. "It's done roughly, you see," he said, "but it looks all right "from below. It makes a difference whether you're near a thing, or stand on the street and see it in the second storv through a pane of glass. Fine work doesn't "tell at that distance." "What are you going to represent now.-"' the reporter asked of the man, who was just changing the canvas. "The storming of Alexandria," here plied. The reporter watched him arranging the set of pasteboard over the trestle work. He suspended a strip of lurid sky from the back bar. A little for ward and below was another bar with upright bars at either end. On the bar and against the uprights he put a strip representing the city. Further toward the window were two other upright bars. Against these he placed two forts. On a crossbar a little lower he hung a strip representing water. The trestlework was a small stage in scaf folding. The whole sloped down to ward the window. One man took two pasteboard ironclads with portholes, and lighted a cigar. As he moved the ironclads just behind the strip repres enting water he puffed smoke through the portholes. The other man then held burning paper behind Alexandria. " Do you fit up these advertisements in shop windows ?" he was asked. "Yes. But we think it to the adver tiser's advantage to have his advertise ments appear in this window, because we are on one of the most crowded thoroughfares in the city. We expect to do a large business during election times." "How so?" " We shall represent the candidate running in opposition to our advertiser as being pelted with eggs and pota toes." "How do you get your advertise ments?" "We read those in the papers, and if we find one that can be well imitated by mimicry, we call the advertiser's at tention to our method. N. Y. Sun. A. Big Story of a Teller's Speculation. An interesting story is told of the way in which a paying teller of one of the city banks, of a shrewd and provident turn of mind, was able to ac quire a competency in a short time, and then retire from his position with out the bank having been any the loser by the operation and without having his own reputation blasted. The story is that the bank carried a heavy cash balance to meet such calls as might be made upon it from day to day, and to draw upon in case of a run. This was intrusted to the paying teller. Instead of allowing this sum to remain in the bank's safe, as was the intention of the directors, and as they supposed to be actually the case, the teller invested largely in six per cent bonds and early issues of the Government four per cents. These were substituted for the cash, the investor cutting off the coupons and getting the money on them as they Became payable. The prospective calls upon the cash could be readily estimated, and anything be yond that limit was converted into 'bonds. This state of aflairs went along smoothly for about two rears,' the enterprising teller enjoying all the privileges as to coupons of a bloated 'bondholder. - Soon after the Obv Owen defalcation became public, Jthe directors had ajgnd 4ensjn of vigilance, a&d, oae 'day, withput a moment's warning, they called upon the teller for his keys, and were about to institute a count i cash. With an assurance and nerve that struck the investigating directors fairly speechless, he said: " Gentlemen, yVu can not have the keys. I will give you iny written resignation, according to the terms of our contract, but vou shall not have the keys to the safe.'T The gentlemen were taken complete ly by surprise, and knew not what to say or do. Arrest was threatened, but the teller was obdurate, and tho direct ors finally withdrew to talk the matter, over. This gave him his chance, and lipping out with the surreptitiously purchased bonds, he speedily converted them into cash, and the right amount was deposited in the vaults. By that time the objection to the surrender of the keys was removed, and the direct ors antl bondsmen, who had been thor oughly nonplussed and thoroughly frightened by tho refusal, found their heaped-up thousands secure and the bank on as sound financial bed-rock as it had ever been. The fact that the teller had just disposed of a large amount of bonds, however, led to the dis covery of the way in which he had been usirg'the funds of the bank for his own emolument, and the resignation went into effect During the time between the purchase and sale of the bouds they had largely appreciated in value, so that during the transaction the teller had cleared between S-30.0C0 and $G0, 000 from the rise in value and tho cou pons. The bank was none the poorer from the operation, and attempts made to compel the employe to disgorge his prolits were unavailing. Public prose cution would have given the affair un pleasant notoriety for both parties, aud the stoiy has consequently been closely kept St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Our Foreign Population. The immigration into the United States during the fiscal year just ended was more than twenlv-tive per cent, be low that of the preceding year and ten per cent, below that of the year which preceded that. The total number of immigrants arriving in the year just closed was 599,114, against 770,422 last year and 669,431 the year before. Over 2,000,000 have thus arrived in the coun try and taken up their abode here with in the last three years. The total ar rivals for the hist ten years have been less than 4,000,000, and in no three rears preceding had the total run much above 1,000,000. The largest number of immigrants arriving in any one year preceding the three in which tho pres ent "boom" has been running was 459, 803, in 1873. The number of im migrants who have arrived in this coun try during the last lift' years reaches over 10,000.000. The smallest number of arrivals in any single year in the half-century aforesaici was in 1838, when the arrivals wen; 38,914. In 1842 the number for the first time exceeded 100,000. Since that it has only fallen below that number four times in 1813, 1844, 18S1 and 1862. Germany continues to furnish the largest number of arrivals. Last year there were 191, 643 from Germany, the next largest being 79,852 from England and Wales. Froni the Dominion of Canada there were 64.000, Ireland, 63,700; from Scot land, 19,612; from sunny Italy there were 31,715; from bleak Norway, 21, 894, and from Sweden, 34,596. Nearly three-fourths of the arrivals come in at the port of New York; the number of immigrants at that port in the last year having been4Uu,b9. The number of foreign-born persons residents of the United States is now about 7,000,000, or nearly one-eighth of its present population. In 1880 it was 6,679,943; in 1870 it was 5,567.229; in 1860. 4.138,697. New York has a larger number of persons of foreign birth than anv other State. It has 1,250,000 out of a total pop ulation of 5,000,000. Half a million of these are from Ireland and 350,000 from Germany. Pennsylvania and Illinois have each 600,000 of foreign birth and Ohio 400,000. Of the 7,000,000 of foreign population now in the United States 2,225,000 are of German nativit- and nearly 2,000,000 Irish. Besides the 7,000,000 who are of foreign birth, there are about 8.000,000 of foreign parentage. The percentage of arrivals for the last few years shows a large increase from Germany. A few years ago tho arrivals from Ireland formed a much larger percentage of the whole than now. The number now arriving from Germany is more than three times as many as those arriving from Ireland. Last year there were 191,643 Germans to 76,252 Irish. The number of emi grants leaving Germany in the last fiftv years is estimated at 8,500,000; most of them camo to the United States. Washington Cor. N. Y. World. m Usury. Our English ancestors thought that it was shameful and unchristian to de mand pay for the use of money. While they never, declared that the taking of interest was unlawful, they made stat utes to limit the amount. In time their views changed, and they saw that it was just that a borrower should pay for the use of the money loaned him, if the charge called interest was not exorbitant. A trader who borrows money to use in his business, and there by increases his profits, ought to pay for the use of the money just as he pays for the rest of his stock in trade. In nearly all countries the rate of in terest is fixed by law. In commercial countries it is also the rule that any rate of interest can be given and accepted if the agreement to pay it is made in writ ing. The reason for this is that the value of money like the value of any commodity is changeable. It is high when money is scarce and low when it is plenty. It is right that the dealer in money should have the same advant ages as the dealer in any other article. To take or agree to take unlawful in terest is usury. If taken unintention ally, or by mistake, the agreement is binding at the lawful late. Money-lenders resort to many expe dients to avoid the law. Some of these are allowable. A lender may deduct the interest from the face-value of the note, thus obtaining it in advance. An agreement that a year shall be twelve months of thirty days each, for computing interest, is valid. Com pound interest may be demanded and taken if expressly agreed upon, but the interest must be asked for when it falls due. A lender, who is obliged to borrow the money he advances, may charge for the trouble of raising it. The courts, however, always watch such cases with suspicion. When a man borrows money to put into a risky business, the lender may charge more than the lawful rate. Ho has a right to receive pav for the risk he incurs. It is always lawful to buy up a note in the money-market for less than its face-value. The laws on usury do not apply to loans of anything except money. Any sum may be charged for lending arti cles of commerce. Usurious agreements are worthless in the hands of the parties who make them. In some places, notes bearing usurious interest are not good in the hands of persons who bought without knowing them to be so tainted. Nearly every where, however, an innocent holder may obtain his money. Modern laws have made the usury regulations of little account T6-dav, in civilized lands, they are only a curi osity of ancient legislation. Youth's Companion m Governor Hubbard, of Minnesota, nee edited a oountrjaewspajer. Where Bears Were Thick. Said Major Jim. "B'ars will leavo when you make it too hot foe "em, sir. when I was doin' business for old Jedge Smides, down in Madison Parish plantation lay right on the river Mississippi Kiver you know one night I was sittin' on my gallery smokin', sir everything jest" as still as er dead mule, sir: Well, first thing 1 knowed 1 heerd a kinder noise way up 'cross the river, and it sounded sorter low like at first, and then it kept gittin' louder and louder, twell I couldent stand it no longer, sir. I jest jumps up on my feet and I says: 'Oldooman, old ooman, a hurricane's comein', sure as you're born,' bays she: 'Major O.' she al ways called me Major O. when she wah't in a hurry 'how in the name o' sense can a hurricane be a comein' when there ain't a cloud in the sky?' 'Well,' says I, 'there's the deuce to pay somewhere.' So I picks up my double barrel and I breaks out for the levee, and when I gits there I lissen, and I hears that roarin' 'cross the rivergittin' louder and louder, jest like a nigger funeral, when they begin to blow the mud out their bilefs. sir. And 1 looked where the moon was shinin', and I seen that whole river turnin' black, sir, and comin' closer and closer up to where I was standin'. Skeared! I reckon I was skeared. Why, sir, my hair would a lifted a cotton bale. I would a put up and dusted, ,'md I did kinder inch back r little, but 1 dazent run, sir, with Susan Ann a standin' thero on that gal lery. There she itood, sir, and first she'd sing 'Old Hundred,' and then she'd git down on her marrow bones and moan out her little prayer, and then every once in a while she'd holler out, 'Jim, what is the matter?' as if I wouldn't a given six quarts of Dexter's best jest to a halt" knowed what was the matter. If you'd a seed me, sir, a standin' there havin' one agur on top of anotiier fa-ter'n you could count 'em, and the cold sweat runuin out the holes in my boots, you'd a knowed, sir, how happy I was. sir, when 1 seed some thin' 'black riz up out that river and shuck hisself. 1 jest up and hollered to Susan Ann not to be carryin' on like a mooniack and makin' a durned fool of herself; but I had jest as well hollered at a loggerhead turkle, for Susan Ann and every nigger on tiiat hill had lit out for the cauebreak, sir. So I jest stood there lonesome by myself, and I jest poured it into them b'ars right and left when they topped that levee and shuck thcyselves, twell broad daylight, sir. It looked like the whole world was full of b'ars, sir. I jest stood in my tracks and I killed thirty-eight of 'em, sir tho biggest in the drove, aud when I stop ped shootin' there wasn't a livin' soul on that plantation 'cept me and them dead b'ars. Every nigger, sir, little and big, and Susan Ann to boot, was clean gone, sir. I got some nigger dogs and I ketched the old oomau down on Joe's Bayou the next da-, but some of them niggers never did git back, sir, never did. Yes, sir, b'ars will travel when you makes ithotfor'em." Forest and Stream. Curious Discovery. A few years ago, in boring an arte sian well on the premises of Mr. Bil lings, the Postmaster of Santa Clara. California, at a depth of 281 feet, work men came upon a redwood log two feet in diameter. It was in a good state of preservation, and the chips that were brought up by the boring apparatus were sent to different parts of the State for the inspection of scientists, with the hope that some intelligent explanation would be elicited as to how the tree got in that position. As nearly as could be determined, it was of the same species as still found in abundance on the neigh boring mountains, and, in fact, over large areas of tho State of California. The redwood tree is quite distinctive, and there can hardby be a doubt about the identity of the log found with the living species. The surface of the ground at Mr. Billings' place is eighty-four feet above the surface of the Bay of San Francisco aud of the general sea-level. The nearest point on the bay is about eight miles distant The bay is gener ally shallow, and at no place, except perhaps near its opening into the sea, some fifty milos away, so deep as was this log below the surface that is to say, 200 feet in depth. The query is, How came this large log or tree in that strange locality? The surface of the ground is at about the same level, and there is no possibility of its having been buried bv a land slide. It was in the middle of a valley some twenty miles in width, and with no depression exceeding a few feet throughout the whole extent 0e supposition is that, in the very distant past, San Francisco Bay ex tended over the region now occupied by Santa Clara, and was, at Mr. Bil ling's place, 200 feet in depth at the time the log found its lodgment there. In that case all the vast body of earth forming the valley to the depth of 281 feet, and composing the bottom of the present bay to an unknown depth, has since been washed into its present place. This theory presupposes that the tree grew upon some one of the mountains skirting the valley (then the bay), and was carried down to the place where it was found by the move ment of water; and that" the same agency, aided, perhaps, by the wind, covered it with sediment and debris, until all the geological phenomena which we now observe have occurred above it. Could there have been a deep river running through Santa Clara Valley in the remote past, in the bottom of which this tree was lodged? This idea sup poses a much greater depth for the bay as an outlet for such river, than it nov Eossesscs. Or could a deep excavation ave been made by the action of run ning water at the place where the tree was found? May there have been a sub sidence of the earth at that locality, bearing the tree down with it to the depth of two hundred feet below the ocean level? Or may there have been an opening in the ground b- some earth quake convulsion, letting the tree which grew there down 281 feet below the sur face? Was the lodgment of this tree, when it became fastened in its present place, on the surface of the ground or at the bot tom of the bay? If the latter, it must have been waterlogged. If not water lqgged, what woukl cause it to sink? Is it not probable that there are many trees like it at that depth below Santa Clara? If that large valley has beeL filled in since that tree was deposited to tnat great ueptn of 281 feet ana upward, whence came all the materials to fill it in? Could the mountains have supplied those materi als? If so, could they have been brought down by the action of water alone? And if so, must there not have been in earlier times much more water and much larger floods than we are accus tomed to seeing? If so, what conditions in the country produced them? San Francisco Bulletin. The severe tonn of the other day caused one of the most wonderful land slides on Flume Mountain, Franconia Notch, ever known in the White Moun tains. About one mile from the Flume House, and plainly seen from there, a great volume of water rushed through the flume, carrying rocks weighing many thousand tons through to Pemige wassct River, half a mile below. It has made the celebrated place more won derful than ever, having extended the high walls some 505 feet The scene as the water subsided was grand beyond description. No pecuniary damage waj done. Boston Herald. An Omaha paper advertisiM "maj tfagp toilet for gentlemen. ' SCHOOL AND CHURCH. "Missionary Hen's Uest" is the name of a Baptist Church in Yalabusha Countv. Mississippi, from the fact that the ladies of the church contribute eggs to tho missionary cause. The little island of Atafu, in the South seas, is said to be the only purely Christian country in the world. Every adult on the island is a member of the churck on confession of faith. The American Bible Society has received letters from Constantinople indicating a disposition on the part of the Turkish Government to withdraw its objections to the distribution of the Scriptures. iV. Y. Examiner. A bright little girl in the First Presbyterian Sabbath School at Hud son, N. Y., upon beingasked what sort of a spirit that of the Pharisee was, re plied: "It was doing a good thing, and then feeling big over it" "It might have been wise," re marked a Hostonian, "to have kept the churches open these cool summer Sun days, and shut them instead when the bitter winds of January are blowing, but it wouldn't have been fashionablo. Comfort rarely is." Boston Transcript. The Congregational statistics of Connecticut, just issued, show January 1, H-3,2Q7churuhes;33 had uo minister. There were 54,663 members. In 1882 the ad-Htions were 2,303, and removals 2,238 a gain of only 65. The addi tions by profession exceeded the re movals'by death by 213. The Sunday school enrollment was 51,675. The opening lecture of W. Robert sou Smith, in Cambridge University, as Professor of Arabic, broke a non conformist silence in that institution of 221 years. Nothing of the kind has been suffered before since the act of uniformity expelled dissenters from the universities. Let it be understood and remem bered that every good school taught, helps every other good school, be it public or p'rivate. There need bo no jealousy and no antagonism there should be none between the public and private school. American Journal of Education. Dr. John Hall, speaking recently, thus eulogized "Protestantism." He was dealing with the assertion that "Protestantism is a failure:" "How," asks the Doctor, "can that be a failure which in A. I). 1500 did not exist, and in 1883 controls populations to the ex tent of 403.000,000, while its rivals, the Roman and Greek churches, combined, control 280.000.000? The Quakers at Winthrop, Me., have introduced a wonderful innovation on old customs. They are building a meeting house which is actually to be beautiful. It will exceed in its decora tive splendor any other Friends' meet ing house in this country. Other meet ing houses are bare and unpainted. This one will be tastefully upholstered. It will also be finished in hard wood. A bell is talked of, but it is thought that the conservative tendencies of the Friends will be sufficiently strained by the upholstery, the hard-wood finish, and the generally ecclesiastical appear ance of the house. This denomination lias hitherto stoutly resisted all innova tions of this sort. Boston Post. PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS. A stranger in the city, seeing the places of public resort full of young men, night after night, asked if this was the land of the midnight son. Boston Transcript. Rattler says the cures effected bv laying on of hands is an old story witn him. His mother often indulged in the past-time in times past. Boston Courier. A man named Darling lives in Far go, and when any one calls to him on the street every young lady within three blocks blushes' and looks around. Bis marck Tribune. It is said that a grasshopper will kick thirteen days after being decapi tated. According to"the rules of dyna mics, then, a mule ought to kick 2,000 years. Burlington Free Press. Here is another point in favor of the Darwinian theory: There is a boy in Norristown who "sprang from a mouke3'." The monkey belonged to an organ-griuder, and attempted to bite the boy. Xorristown Herald. "I need have no more fears from that quarter," is what the storekeeper remarked as he threw the counterfeit 25-cent piece in the fire, which had come back to him several times. Yon kers Statesman. The guinea hen lays up her treas ures on the earth. And that's the rea son why you never find her nest until you step in it, and find yourself knee deop in about two bushels and a half of o8' largely fractured and possessed of a marked individuality. Burdette. When a young man tries for three minutes in church to brush a sunbeam off his coat, under the impression that it is a streak of dust and then looks up find vio n. nrtt- orirl lnntrlnnnr Mt. him he kind of loses the thread of the ser mon, temporarily, as it were. Hart ford Post. "Well," said a jaunty son-in-law, lounging in from the office with his fatiier's mail, "you've got a postal from ma, and she says she's met a cy clone." "Pitv the cyclone," was the old gentleman's crusty reply, as he jabbed his pen into the inkstand. Bur lington Hawk-Eye. "Ethel," asked the teacher, "whom do the ancients say supported the world on his shoulders?" "Atlas, sir." "You're quite right," said the teacher. "Atlas supported the world. Now who supported Atlas?" "I suppose," said Ethel softly, "I suppose he married a rich wife." Eli Perkins. "Ole man," said a negro woman to her husband, "yer's a dnnkin' yerself ter death. Yer's goin' down every day." "So is de ribber goin' down ebery day, but it ain't got dar yet. Go on an' chop some wood an' let de olo man study 'bout flosofy." "Dar's plenty ob wood cut, sah," "Go an' tote some water, den." "I'se dun fotch plenty ob water." "Well, go an' fetch some moab. Dar's nuthin' like a 'oman keepin' her han' in. Let her alack up fur a while an' she's sp'ilt" Arkansaw Traveller. Not New to Him. A group of ladies and gentleman sat upon the hotel veranda. The subject af their conversation was bathing, and fight merrily the nimble tongues rat iled. Miss A. had to tell how dreadfully frightened she was when she first entered the surf; Mrs. B. gave her infallible rules igainst chills; young Mr. C. boasted of his natatorial exploits, when the la dies gazed upon him admiringly; Miss D. told for the twentieth time about her having "such a time this morning" in in the salt sea waves, and messieurs and mesdames the remainder of the alpha bet added each his and her quota to the edifying conversation. As Fogg, who sat near the party, had saicLnothing all this time, it ocenred to one of the ladies to remark: "1 suppose our conversation- dosen't interest you very much. Mr. Frogg?" "Not particularly," he replied; "the subject hasn't the charm of newness to me, you see. I frequently bathe when I am at home." Boston Transcript. Do not despise the American hen. She is industrious. She lays everyyear 9,000,000,000 eggs. She earns the right to cackle. Some of these egg3 may be bad. It is not -the hen's fault. She does the best she can. 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