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VOL. XIV.-NO. 28.
COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBEE 7, 1888.
WHOLE NO. 704.
THE JOURNAL.
ISSUED EVERY WKDXESDAV,
M. Iv. TIXRISTER to CO.,
Proprietors and Publishers .
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BUSINESS CAEDS.
C.
X. WOOD, .11. !
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON.
JSTiThs opened the office f rrnerly oc
cupied by Dr. Konesteel. l'J-3m.
DENTAL PABXOB.
On TItirteenth St., and Nebraska Ave.,
over Friedhofs store.
153-Office hour, 3 to 12 a. m.; 1 to 5 p. ni.
Oi.i.a Ashuacgh, Dentist.
Mimui'iix Ac st; .i.i VAX,
A TTOJiNEYS-AT-LA W,
Ui.stair in (Jlucfc Kuilding, 11th street,
Above the New bank.
TT J. hitimo',
KOTAIiY PUBLIC,
12th Street, i doors west of lUmmonJ House,
Columbus. Neb. -91-y
rpiUJKST." A: POWERS,
SUHGEUN DENTISTS.
jSTOfliee in Mitchell Block, Colum
bus, Nebraska. 'Wf
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i:i:r a ki:i'ikk.
1 TTOllNEYS AT LA W,
Olllce on Olive .St., Columbus, Nebraska.
2-tf
pt G. A. IIULLHOBST, A.M., M. D.t
HOMEOPATHIC I'HYSICIAN,
JSTTuo Block- south of Court House.
Telephone communication. 6-ly
G
EO. 1'. SPOOLER,
Will tuke contracts for
Bricklaying, Plastering, Stonework,
Etc.
X3T Satisfaction guaranteed, or no pay.
T-tf
V. A. MACKEN,
DKALEK IN
Wines, Liquors, Cigars, Porters, Ales,
etc., etc.
Olive Street, next to First National Bank.
50-v
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cALI.lSTKK II St OS.,
A TTOltXE YS A T LA W,
Olllce up-stair-. in McAllister's build
ing. 11th St. W. A. McAllister, Notary
Public.
J. M. MACK.UtI.ANI, . It- COWDKRY,
Attsnoy i I'r.izj Tztrz. C:Ue:t:r.
LAW AND COLliFXTION OFFICE
-OK
MACFARtiAND & COWDBR7,
Columbus, : : : Nebraska.
G
EO. .X. DKKItY,
PAINTEJi.
!QrCarria,'e, liou-e and ij,'ii painting,
glazing, paper hanging, kal-omining, etc.
done to order. Shop on i:th 5t., opposite
Engine House, Columbus, Neb. 10-y
F
llth St., opposite Lindell Hotel.
Sells Harness, Saddles, Collars, Whips,
Blankets. Curry Combs, Brushes, trunks,
valises, buggy tops, i-u-lii.ui, carriage
trimmings, ac. at the lowest possible
price. Kepairs pr mptly attended to.
JOII.-V C.TASKER,
Heal Estate .A.geiit,
Genoa, Nance Co., Neb.
WILD LANDS and improved farms
for sale. Correspondence solicit
ed. Office in Young's building, up-stairs.
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O. C. SI-I ALSTON",
MANUFACTURER OF
Tin and Sheet-Iron Ware !
Job-Work, Roofing and Gutter
ing a Specialty.
j2TSliop on Ele tnth Street, opposite
Helntz's lrn: Store. -JO-y
G
W. CI, All K.
LAND AND INSURANCE AGENT,
III MP Jilt EY, NEIill.
His land? comprise some line tracts
in the Shell Creek Valley, and the north
ern portion ot IM-tte county. Taxes
paid for non-residents. Satisfaction
guaranteed. 20 y
pOLDTIDUS PACKISG CO.,
COL UJIB US, - XEB.,
Packers and Dealers in all kinds of Hog
product, cash paid for Live or Dead Hogs
or grease.
Directors. R. H Henry, Prest.; John
Wiggius, Sec. and Treas.; L. Gerrard, S.
Cory.
-jyroricE to teachers.
J. E. Moncrief. Co. Supt.,
Will be in his office st the Court House
on the third Saturday of each
month for the purpose of examining
applicants for teacher's certificates, and
for the transactton of any other business
pertaining to schools. " W57-y
Tames saljios,
CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER.
Plans and estimates supplied for either
frame or brick building. Good work
guaranteed. Shop on loth Street, uear
St. Paul Lumber Yard. Columbus, Ne
braska. 52 too.
J. WA&NER,
Livery and Feed Stable.
Is prepared to furnish the public w.'th
good teams, buggies and carriages for all
occasions, especially for funerals. Also
conducts a sale stable. 44
D.T. Maktyx, M. D. V. Sciiug, M. D.,
(Dculscher Arts.)
Drs. HARTYN & SCHUG,
U. S. Examining Surgeons,
Local Surgeons. Union Pacific and
O., N. fc B. H. It. R's.
COLUMBUS, - NEBRASKA.
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COLUMBUS
STATE BANK!
Ss::iitortt3 Qtmrl Btil t&i Tsnu s lolit.
COLUMBUS, NEB.
CASH CAPITAL, - $50,000
DIRECTORS:
Leandku Gebkaro, Pres'l.
Geo. W. IIulst, Vice Preset.
Julius A. Rekd.
Edward A. Gerhard.
J. . Taskeii, Cashier.
Baak f Deposit Dtscoami
md Exckaace.
Collections Promptly Slade oi
all Point.
Pay Interest obi Time "Depos
it. 274
DREBEBT & BRIGGLE,
BANKERS!
HUMPHREY, NEBRASKA.
EfTPrompt attention given to Col
lections. tSTInsurance, Real Estate, Loan,
etc. j
JOHN HEITKEMPER,
Eleventh Street, opposite the
Lindell Hotel,
COlVUMBtJS, NEBRASKA,
Has on hand a full assortment of
GROCERIES!
PROVISIONS,
CROCKERY & GLASSWARE,
Pipes, Cigars and Tobacco.
Highest price 'paid for Country Produce.
Uoods delivered in city.
GIVE ME A CALL!
JOllft HEITKEMPER.
LOUIS SCHKEIBER,
All kinds of Repairing done on
Short Notice. Kuggies, Wag
ons, etc., made to order,
and all work Guar
anteed. Also sell the world-famous Walter A.
Wood Mowers. Beapers, Combin
ed Machines, Harvesters,
and Self-binders the
best made.
JSTShop opposito the "Tatterssll." Ol
ive St.. COLUMBUS. 'J-Gm-e
HENRY LTJERS,
DKALKR IX
WIND MILLS,
AND PUMPS.
Buckeye Mower, combined, Self
Binder, wire or twine.
Pnmps Repaired on short notice
23TOne door west of Heiutz's Drug
Store, llth Street, Columbus, Neh. 8
WISE
people are always on the
lookout lor cnances to
increase their earnings,
and in time become
wealthy; those who do not improve their
opportunities remain in poverty. We
offer a great chance to make money. We
want many men, women? boys and girls
to work for us right in their own localities
Anv one can do the work properly from
the lirst start. The '-usiness will pay
more than ten times ordinary wages. Ex
pensive outfit furnished. No one who
engages fails to make money rapidly. You
can devote your whole time to the work,
or onlv vour spare moments. Full infor
mation and all that is needed sent free.
Address Stixsox & Co.. Portland, Maine.
HUBEtt'S HOTEL.
JOHN HUBER, the jolly auctioneer, has
opened a hotel on 13th St., nearTlffa
nv & Routson's, where clean beds and
square meals will always be found by the
patrons of the house. I will in the fu
ture, as in the past, give my best atten
tion to all sales of goods or farm stock, as
an auctioneer.
"Satisfaction guaranteed; call and
see me and you will be made welcome.
JOHN HUBER,
Proprietor and Auctioneer.
Columbus, Neb., June 19, "83. 9-tf
COL1IHBIIH
Restaurant and Saloon!
E. D. SHEEHAN, Proprieter.
Wholesale ind Retail Dealer in For
eign Wines, Liquors and Cigars, Dub
lin Stout, Scotch and English Ales.
gTKentuchy Whiskies a Specialty.
OYSTERS in their season, by the case
can or dish.
lltk Strt. Soath ef Dt.
JS. MURDOCK & SON,
Carpenters and Contractors.
Havehadan extended experience, and
will guarantee satisfaction in work.
All kinds of repairing done on short
notice. Our motto is, Good work and
fair prices. Call and. give us an oppor
tunitytoestimateforyou. ST'Sbop on
13th SU,one door west of Friedhof Si
Co'e. store, Columbus, Nebr. 483-y
BttsiluiuWagoiMiiKer
FIRST
National Bank!
COL
Authorized Capital, - - $250,000
Cash Capital, - - 50,000
OFFICERS AMD DIRECTORS.
A. ANDERSON, Pres't.
SAM'L C. SMITH, Vice Preset.
O. T. ROEN, Cashier.
J. W. EARLY,
ROBERT UHLIG,
HERMAN OEHLRICH.
W. A. MCALLISTER.
G.ANDERSON,
P.ANDERSON.
Foreign and Inland Exchange, Passage
Tickets, Real Estate, Loan ana Iusurance.
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COAL A9 LIME!
J. E. NORTH & CO.,
DEALERS IN
Coal,
Hair,
Cement.
fiock Spring Coal, $7.00 per ton
Cartoi (Wyoming) Coal 6.00 "
Eldon (Iowa) Coal J.50 "
Blacksmith Coal of best quality al
ways on hand at low
est prices.
North Side Eleventh St.,
COLUMBUS, NEB.
1441m
BECKER & WELCH,
PROPRIETORS OF
SHELL CREEK MILLS.
MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLE
SALE DEALERS IN
FLOUR AND MEAL.
OFFICE, COL UMB US, NEli.
SPEICE & NORTH.
General Agents for the Sale of
REAL ESTATE.
Union Pacific, and Midland Pacific
R. R. Lands for sale at from $3.00 to $10.00
per acre for cash, or on five or ten years
time, in annual payments to suit pur
chasers. We have also a large and
choice lot of other lands, improved and
unimproved, for sale at low price and
on reasonable terms. Also business and
residence lots ib the city. We keep a
complete abstract of title to all real es
tate in Platte County.
021
COLUMBUS. NEB.
LANDS, FARMS,
AND
CITY PROPERTY FOR SALE, 1
AT THE
Union Pacfic Land Office,
On Long Time and low rate
of Interest.
All wishing to buy Rail Road Lands
or Improved Farms will find it to their
advantage to eall at the U. P. Land
Office before lookin- elsewhere as I
make a specialty of buying and selling
lands on commission; all persons wish
ing to sell farms or unimproved land
will find it to their advantage to leave
their lands with me for sale, as my fa
cilities for affecting sales are unsur
passed. I am prepared to make final
proof for all parties wishing to get a
patent for their homesteads.
ISTr'. W. Ott, Clerk, writes and
speaks German.
SAMUEL C. SMITH,
A.gt. U.P. Land Department,
21-y COLUMBUS, NEB.
HENRY G-ASS,
TJISTDERTATCER !
COFFINS AND METALLIC CASES
XSV DK1XCK IK
Farnitura, Chairs, Bedsteads, Bu
reaus, Tables, Safes. Lounges,
etc, Pictmre Frames and
Mouldings.
&epairingqf all kinds of Upholstery
Goods.
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COLUMBUS, NEB.
aaaaBSSS' waiV
ONLY a SISTER TO HDV
He lifted his face In the starlight dim.
And all that he saw vra? a rouna. dull sky;
And the stars that twinkled looked to him
Like the phosphor biennis of the tlre-tly.
The new moon nuuz in an awkwunl shape.
And was crooked and bent like the horn of
a ram;
The somber maples serined hunff with crapo.
And the garden ?atc banned to with a slam.
The brook oozetf over the slimy stones
From stagnant pool-; in the meadow marsh;
Or it crooned along witn plaintive moans.
And the song- of the whippoorwill was harsh.
He jabbed his ribs on the clumsy stile.
For dark as pitch was the dusty lane:
And his thin lips curved in a bitter stnilo
As be smote the weeds with a spiteful cane.
Rough and ugly and long was the way,
The skies were dull and the earth was cold;
He liuted the night unci he dreaded the day.
And his heart seemed a hundred centuries
old.
With the dirge of his sighs he timed his tread,
Aa one who Dondereth bitter thinirs:
But he only whispered, with drooping held
And .a heart that wondered: "Kicked,
Jlngs!"
by
It. J. Burdctte, in Life
m
ALPACA FAUHLNG.
It was in a bitter wind-storm, on the
desolate table-lands of the Peruvian
Andes, that I first saw a ludicrously un
gainly beast pop up from behind a rock,
as the stumbling feet of my mule sent
somo loose stones rolling noisily down
a precipice. Tin brute surveyed me
for an instant, then shook his hairy
head, gave a loud snort and vanished.
The echoes of the lonely pass bore to
ray ears a singular noise, as if an army
of barefooted men were Hying down the
mountain. 1 had startled "a herd of
grazing Alpacas, and their sentry had
warned them of ny approach. " The
noise was the beating of their huge,
cartilage-padded feet on the rocky
PTOuna. As I rode on I saw lioc;ks
from time to time, ernibbinjr the sparse
grass from the rock-sprinkled le
jvels and
the steep declivities, which are such a
peculiar feature of the heart of the
Andes. There was always oue big fel
low perched on a rock, or at some other
point of vantage, and at his snort the
whole herd would turn tail and take to
flight. Often 1 would see the sentry,
without seeing his comrades, balanced
far above me on some splintered pinna
cle of stone, with his big, soft eyes fixed
on me, readv to give the signal as soon
as he considered mv proximity danger
ous. It was a singular sensation, the I
meeting with this alert brute, the only !
living thing but myself and mule
Otiil i niiAiic?iAniil iimnlno !'
u u.,uu.w uhuui. amuii"
";"v "' .-, ..... t..
pierceu me 5Ky in a tine oi savage i
teeth, like a huge saw. That evening, i
on a rock-strewn plateau, without a
bush and almost without a idade of I
grass around it, I halted at a dreary,
stone-built house, with a roof made of
bundles of straw, held down with
planks and stout saplings. Skulls and !
skeletons of horned cattle and other an
imals were scattered all around. From
the wall of the house projected a couple
of big bull's horns, apparently cement- t
ed in the masonry for ornamental pur
poses. As I drew rein, a terrific snort
ing and scrambling broke out in a pad- '
dock, fenced with stout poles, behind
the house. This was an Alpaca farm.
The Alpaca, which many people con- ;
fuse with the Llama, though very close
ly allied to it in form and character-
stic ic tKo
'gold mine" of the lndi- I
ans of the Andes, especially those of
Peru, Bolivia and Chili. it is an ex
traordinary brute, in more senses than
one. Its appearance, with its wool on,
is supremely ridiculous. It is as large
as a big sheep, with a neck like a mall
giraffe; a mere bundle of hair carried
around on four legs, terminated with
feet, resembling those of an ostrich.
Its legs are powerful, and inappropri
ately graceful, in comparison with the
bod' they support ami the feet in which
they terminate.
If the Alpaca is absurdly ugly with
its hair on, it is a positive burlesque
after it has been sheared. It is sheared
like a sheep, only its head is left cov
ered. It is sometimes sheared once a
year, yielding a six to an eight-inch
lleece, but the more provident Alpaca
farmers only shear once in two or three
years, when they get wool from fifteen
to thirty inches long. The wool is
found ranging in color from white
through gray, yellow and brown to
black. The animal looks black, how
ever, as the lleece exudes an oil. and
mats with the dust of the mountain
Pastures in which it roams at large,
he fleece is very fine in text tire, me
tallic in luster when clean, and the
fiber is far stronger than that of any
sheep's wool which I know.
The Alpaca is allowed to graze at
random, only being "rounded in" to lie
sheared. It can only be domesticated
when young. An old Alpaca separated
from its lloek will lie down anil die of
pure stubbornness and grief. Young
Alpacas are. however, herded in p:u
docks, and become as familiar, quiet
and impudent as dogs.
They are gentle brutes, unlike their
cousins, the Llamas, which are often
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full of viciousness. The Alpaca never
gets over its sny and timorous wild
habits, and though it seems to know
and not fear the farmer and his men.
the mere sight of a stranger in the dis
tance will stampede it. The age to
which an Alpaca will produce valuable
wool none of the farmers seem to know.
When it ceases to be worth shearing
they kill and eat it.
The Alpaca farmer leads a life little
better than that of the brute he lives
ii:., i . : ...... i
, TT It f
sleeping. He scarcely knows even the '
uu. iiis uiii iuHu-cineiiL is uat:nr anu, ,
vice of drunkenness. Except a chance
traveler, he never sees a .-oul from year's
money, and the wool-trader who once a
year makes the rounds with his peons,
or Indian servants, and his train of pack
animals. "Most of the trailing is half
barter and half money. The visit of the
trader is a great occasion. Then the
old iron scales are brought out and
hung on the bull's horns at the door,
and the year's harvest raked down from
the loft of the house, where it has been
stored. It is a curious fact that the
Alpaca farmer will never let a trader
use any other scales. He is afraid of
being cheated. But he lets the trader
weigh the wool with his own weights,
and I fancy the trader is satishWwith
the bargain.
During the solitary portion of the
year the women of the Alpaca farm
card and spin the wool, and weave it
into blankets and ponchos, or cloaks,
which latter are simply blankets with a
hole in the middle tor the head to pass
through. These ponchos are sometimes i
ornamented with grotesque but effective
atterns in dyed wool. They are sold,
ike wool, to traders who carry them to
the coast.
The region of the Alpaca farmers is
the most dreary and inhospitable on the
continent. The nights at these high
levels are always bitter cold, ami the air
is so thin that bullocks brought up to
the plateaus soon die, apparently of
consumption. The land produces only
potatoes, tiny, hard as bullets, and bit-
end to year's end but the priest, com- I . x "'" s .u K s ." w" "" . ,:ui s:m
monly an Indian like himself, wh 'v. r.ng the girl with a ook that
strays up now and then from his home ! V'1 of tl,u melancholy yellow leaf,
in thR lower wnn to ordlnt 1,5c tt,oM ! AtiSt. :lt the time I need your sympa-
M.-vv -- vwwv umm.i U1IU.-U
ter as quinine. These can only be eaten
after the bitterness has been roasted out
oi them. The- houses are built as regu
lar fortresses against the weather. They
only have a couple of small loop-holes
for vent:lation, and the stench at night,
when the doors are closed, and the oily
reck of the wool overhead pervades and
mingles with that of unwashed human
ity, is simply abominable. The Alpaca
farmer is a creature of the earth, igno
rant and superstitious, but he is a mild
uatured fellow, and is nominally a
Christian. His life is a miserable one,
but he alone is litted to live it. It is as
impossible for a denizen of the coast
country or a European to exist among
the mountains, as it has been found to
acclimatize the Alpaca in civilized coun
tries. In my ride across from Lima
into Bolivia, I suffered almost as great
inconveniences and miseries in breath
ing and in rushes of blood to my head,
as I experienced a year ago in a descent
into the eonipresseil air inside the lock
of the Hudson River tunnel.
About the only thing that will stir an
Alpaca fanner up to rage, is the wanton
killing of one of his sheep. Travelers
sometimes make free with their revolv
ers among the Hocks, ami several mur
ders have occurred in consequence. In
ever- case the murderer was an Alpaca
farmer, who thus avenged himself for
the injury done his property.
Unlike the Llama. the.Alpaca cannot
be used as a beater of burdens. It
makes its only concession to man when
it permits him to deprive it of its lleece.
The Llama produces a lleece also, but it
is coarser and le beautiful than the
Alpaca's, besides being different in text
ure. Of late years. Alpaca wool has
been cons'derablv adulterated with that
I of the LI una, but
thia is the work of the
trp practices of our
traders, lho sh.
acute modern bu-ine-s systems have not
yet infected the simple denizen of tho
mountains. As civilization is rapidly
invadinjr even the Andes, it will not be
: safe to ca'culate too far on the Alpaca
i farmer remaining innocent of the tricks
of trade. Alfred Trumble, in
Ayriculi-
urist.
Thc .Machinery Dlilnit Work.
The other dav Bill Iligironson, a well-
known character of the White
springs
neighborhood, came t the city m com
pany with several young ladies, to oao
of whom he was engaged to be marr.ed.
I . C O
BU1 ,.xs :liu :lvs thirsted for notoriety.
lle w.ult.s to ,; known bv
wants to be Known uy tne leading
men in town, and to show the people of
his community that, although born in
obscurity and reareil on the farm, he
can ad iress prominent men in a fa
miliar way. While the young ladie
were at the hotel Bill went into a whole
sale store,-and approaching a man who
sat in the office, said:
"Cap'n, you can do me a big favor,
if you will. I've got a lot of gals in
town with me, an" I wanter show 'em
that 1 ain't no slouch. I want 'em to
go home an' say that Bill that's me
come to town an' was knowed by the
big bugs. Now. I want to make this
agreement with you. I'll go away, an
putty soon I'll come aroun' with tho
gals an' come in here, slap you on the
shoulder an say: "Old chap, how do
you hold out?' Then vou slap me, an'
say: Why, Bill, old boy, I'm glad to
see you.' "That will lie blowcd all over
my country, an' will bewuth money an'
character to me, leiinne tell you."
The gentleman said that lie did not
o'ljeet to helping a young fellow along.
ant! that the a.spinng llliam migiit
come in and slap him, when he would
go through With his pari of the pr
gramme. Bill, highly delighted with tho ar
rangement, went to the hotel and told
the girls that he wanted them to take a
walk with him. As they walked along
toward the store. Bill said:
"Now I'm going to .show you, 'Liza,
that you ain t going to marry no
slouch. I'll how you that your own
Bill is looke 1 up to an' liked in this
town, an' he is on terms with the best
of "em."
The girl laughed self-complacently,
and declared that it was nice to marry
a man that "wasn't a stranger an a
slouch."
When they reached the store Bill con
ducted the ladies to the office, where a
man sat looking over accounts; he was
not the man with whom the arrange
ments had been made, but Bill did not
recognize the difference. Advancing,
he struck the man a pretty heavy slap,
and evclaimed:
"Hello, old chap, how are you holdiu'
out?"
The gentleman sprang to his feet and
glared at William, but William, with
out embarrassment, punched him among
the ribs and said:
"Old chap, how are you holdiu' out?"
" Look out, here! What do you
mean?"
"No foolhf , old boy. Don't you re
member the agreement?" he added in
an undertone. "It's me; don't you rec
ognize the man what seed vou ies"
' now?" and hen. as he fancied he saw
i a change of countenance, he jolted the
gentleman among the truncate ribs and
eclaimed: "How are you holdiu' out?"
The gentleman "hauled off" with an
ink-bottle and knocked Bill down. The
girls screamed and ran away, and Bill,
i as soon as he was able to regain his feet,
J skulked away. When he reached the
I hotel with his fact; all besmeared with
i ink his betrothed ran to him, punched
i.:, : '., .:.i
111111 111 lilt; .lllU I
4tI, ,. ...
ml said:
I 11VI1V, Will Vll
tp, how are you holdin'
thtznf the most, when old frien's
back on me and knock me down, you
jine the enemy. Go and pay your libte1
bill an go home."
"Ain't you goin to pay my bill?"
"Xary red. " .
"Would you see me disgraced right
in a place whar there's so many folks?"
'That ain't my lookout. "I ain't a
goin' to pay nary cent fur you."
"Then Til take all back, an' I am
sorry that I made fun of you."
"Xtiff said. Come an' put you head
on this here manly shoulder." Arkun
saw Traveller.
Professional burglars, or such of
them as follow the higher branches of
the learned science, arc about destroy
ing the proverbial usefulness of the
watch-dog. They are able to admin
ister anaesthetics by projection as well as
injection, and the huge mastiff or thirsty
bloodhound will be of less warning value
than the frisky poodle that dwells with
in the hoi:s" and yelps if a mouse
squeaks. A young terrier should now
be given carte blanche for the house in
terior after night-fall. JV. Y. Sun.
The First Congregational Church
at Oakland, Cal., has voted to pay the
superintendent of its Sunday-school a
good salary, so that he can devote hia
whole time to the work. Chicago
Neics.
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Superstitions of the Sea.J
Like sailors, the Cape Ann fishermen
are quite superstitious; one finds the
study of this trait quite interesting. The
superstition against beginning a trip on
Friday is strong with them. When a
vessel sails near enough to Half-Way
Rock, on the Bank voyage, the crew
are apt to pitch coppers and nickels
upon it, "to bring them good luck."
They believe that if a sea-bird alights
on a vessel blown out to sea it is a bad
omen if a bee or land-bird, a good one;
and some have been known from such a
mishap to put back to port and change
the trip. The more ignorant believe in
witches and the numerous spirits of
Hood and fell. The locale of Captain
Kidd's treasures is often under discus
sion in the forecastles. But their most
singular and widespread beliof is in
Jonahs." These may be animate or
inanimate, men or things; but that some
are unfortunate, while others bring good
luck, is the firm belief of the true fisher
man, ami he has an array of facts to
fortify his belief. He will tell you of a
certain builder that has turned off
.twenty schooners from his stocks and
not one of them has cleared their
owners a penny. He will instance
another vessel that in five annual trips
brought in five of the largest fares
known to the port, and that never
misses a full fare. Ho will point to one
man an able seaman and expert fish
er who always brings bad luck to tho
crew he ships with, while the same
crew, on getting rid of him, finds its
former good fortune return. A valise,
violin, checker-board, toy boat, a
bucket on deck, half full of water,
dropping a hatch into the hold, break
ing a looking-glass, driving nails' on
Sunday, are all Jonahs. There are few
fishermen who will not whistle for a
breeze when it is calm, or stick a knife
in the after side of the mainmast to
bring a fair wind, aud it is a well
known fact that if a hook is stuck in
the hand, thrusting it immediately into
a piece of pine will prevent soreness ol
the wound. But it is in the matter oJ
dreams aud premonitions that the fish
erman's superstition finds readiest
channels. Columns might be filled
with the dreams that have come .true te
the knowledge of the old skippers who
abound in the port. Two instances will
serve to show the flavor of these eerie
recollections.
On the 7th of September, 1871, the
schooner Sachem, of Gloucester, was
nearing George's, when at midnight
the steward. John Nelson, appcareu at
the Captain's berth in great agitation,
and besought him to change his course
toward land, as some great catastropho
was about to happen. He had just had
a dream, he said, of females clad in
white crossing a brook. Twice before
a similar apparition had visited him,
and in both cases accidents had hap
pened in the first, a collision that left
them in a sinking condition ; in tho
second, a gale that nearly wrecked the
ship, the crew barely succeeding in
getting her into port. The Captain de
cided not to change his course, but
was so impressed by the man's earnest
ness that he gave orders to the watch
to keep a sharp lookout. At half-past
1 a. m., the vessel being near George's,
the watch observed a bright light off to
leeward ; simultaneously one of the
crew sung out from the forecastle that
the schooner was filling, and, true
enough, an examination disclosed six
inches of water above the floor. The
pumps were at once set to work, and
efforts made to find the leak, but with
out avail ; and in the morning the crew
left the vessel, which then had eighteen
inches of water on the forecastle floor.
She sank at 2 p. m.
The other was of a different nature.
On Sunday morning. July 21, 1872, as
Captain Elwoll, of the schooner Belvi
dere, was asleep in his berth he dreamed
that he saw a dead body floating on the
water. His efforts to secure it were un
successful, and it finally passed out ol
sight under the counter of the vessel.
The dream made such an impression
that he awoke and went on deck almost
expecting to see the fulfilment of his
vision and firmly convinced that some
thing noteworthy would occur. After
half an hour he saw a box floating on
the water, aud on sailing up to it made
several unsuccessful efforts to got it on
board, but it eluded him and finally dis
appeared under the vessel's counter.
Theysailed on, but the Captain was un
easy, and finally put about anil secured
the box. It was found to contain the
hotly of a little girl, lying on seaweed,
and holes in the sides of the box indi
cated that it was the purpose of those
who set it adrift to have it sink. Cor
respondence N. Y. Post.
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Made a Kleptomaniac by a Pistol Ball.
Governor Blackburn, of Kentucky,
tells of a young man who was wounded
in the head by a pistol ball. After he
had apparently recovered he robbed a
store of a lot of stuff that was of no
value to him, loaded it into a wagon
and hauled it into the woods, where he
concealed the whole property. He was
sent to the penitentiary. He served his
time out, aud. going home, broke into
the same store, taking the same class of
goods, which he loaded into the buggy
he had run oil" with before, and con
cealed the things in the place he had
selected on the occasion of his first of
fense. Once more he was sent to the
penitentiary, and had nearly completed
his second term, when the prison doc
tor gave it as his opinion that the bullet
which had struck the young man's head
indented the skull sufficiently to press on
the brain, and that this wjis the reason
that he committed the burglaries. So
the prisoner was sent home. He lost no
time in loading up the old buggy again,
precisely as before, and was returned
to the penitentiary. "I then said that
I was going to trepan that fellow's head
if it killed him," says the Governor,
who is a physician, "and did it success
fully. Then I pardoned the young man.
He behaved himself like a perfect gen
tleman, sir, and never made the slight
est attempt to steal even a pin."
Some enthusiastic versifier, who
hides his light under a bushel, in other
words, his name under initials, has sup
plied a London weekly journal with en
tertaining reflections upon the famous
Ohio girl, Miss Chamberlain, who has
been for a long time a favorite in Lon
don society. The versifier celebrates
Miss Chamberlain after this touching
fashion: "Of all the gay and gifted
crew, here brought by kindly steam and
steerage, our commons' coffers to re
new, or to regild the British peerage,
not one upon our hearts has played
with power like this Ohio maid."
Detroit Post.
A widow has discovered a new use
for medical diplomas or thinks she
has. The following appears in the New
York Herald: "A widow lady will sell
her late husband's old school medical
diploma. Address Widow, Herald Up
town Office."
Rick eat Unreined.
In the large parlors of the Grand
Union Hotel, Saratoga, there is on ex
hibition every evening a most remarka
ble old lady. The old lady's name is
Crouse. She is from Syracuse, ",N. Y.
Her husband was, in early life, a grocer
in a very small way. He worked hard
and became rich. Tho latter part of
his life he has devoted to his money, so
that it now amounts to several millions.
The husband and wife were uneducated,
and used to mauuel, labor at the outset
of their life, and so when their money
came they enjoyed its possession as few
do who love money. For forty years
they have been rich, without losing for
one day the keen zest of the possession
and power of much money.
Let us look at her enthroned in the
grand main parlor, a little to the left of
the main entrance, peering with her
keen black eyes at the passers-by. She
looks like a great lay figure for tho ex
hibition of Jewelry, laces, and silks.
Her face is coarse-featured, heavy lined
and highly rouged. Her eyes are clear
and bright. Her nose is large and
straight, inclining upward. Her mouth
is thin, anil curved toward her double
chin.sinkingdowntoa figure that is per
fectly shapeless, hidden in billows of fat.
The face is a kindly one, wearing an
almost childish look of pleasure It is
made up as if for the stage. The lips
are tinted, the cheeks roughed, while
the layers of fat under the jaws are
powdered. Above this mask of artifi
cial bloom Is a heavy jet-black wig of
curls, coming well down upon the fore
head. The eye-brows, too, aro artificial;
being perfectly curved and jet black.
Upon the black wig is a great wreath
of artificial flowers so glaring in color
as to attract as much attention as an
electric light. Back of this crown of
color is a purple-trimmed lace cap. In
the ears of this strange old ladv blaze
great solitaire diamond ear ings, price
58,000. Around her neck is a gold
chain twice as heavy as any dog-collar
ever made. In the middle is a bar of
huge diamonds. From this descend
other chains over a surface of black
satin and point lace to a girdle, where
a watch and charms encrusted with
diamonds repose. The left hand is
loaded from the knuckle to the first
joint of each finger with diamond rings.
Her hands are bony, and show the
evidences of the hard manual labor of
her early life. But the large joints hold
on the rings better than a more supple
hand. The right hand is adorned with
only one ring, but it is a great, blazing
opal encircled with diamonds. Her
black satin dress, stiff enough to stand
alone, is covered with black thread
lace. White duchess lace is about her
heavy wrists, and fairly swaddles her
short neck.
This is the way she looked theeveuing
I first saw her. But I understand she
has a dress for nearly every evening.
By her side sits her husband, her oppo
site in everything so far as mere ap
pearances go. He is a tall, handsome
old gentleman, with snowy-white hair
and beard. There Is not the simplest
indication of display upon his part.
But he heartily sympathizes with his
wife, anil admires her as artists do tho
realization of their loftiest ideals. He
is always ready to talk about his wife.
He will say, with an amiable smile upon
His peaceful face: "How do you think
she is looking to-night?"
"Splendid:" you say.
""i ell, she is spleddid. She has all
the money she can spend. How do you
like those, diamond ear-rings? I paid
4,000 apiece for-them."
"Beautiful !"'
"Beautiful, you say. Well, yes;
but they won't compare with that bar of
diamonds at mother's throat. I paid
$15,000 for those."
Mr. Crouse will go lovingly over every
item of his wife's wardrobe and check
off the price of each bit. He regards
her as the toy figure of the shop win
dow of his life. He is constantly think
ing of something that will cost much
money to hang upon mother.
Mrs. Crouse is equally free with her
information about the cost of articles
of her wardrobe. A few days ago a
neice of hers was here on a visit. The
old lady introduced her neice to one
of the ladies of the hotel, and said:
"Look at the lace on my neice's dress.
There are fifty yards of lace in that
trimming, and it cost 71 a yard."
Chicago News.
What Hygiene Did for Scurry.
Tiie inquiry into the causes of scurvy
was another step in advance, of the
most signal importance. No one in
the present day can form any idea of
the ravages that terrible disease pro
duced. All long voyages were imper
iled by it, while the very existence of
England depended upon her fleet,
which had frequently to return to port
absolutely crippled with scurvy, in
some cases as many as 10,000 men be
ing landed from the Channel fleet help
less. Although so far back as the sev
enteenth cenfliry the efficacy of fruits
and fresh vegetables as preventives had
been surmised if not actually noted, it
is really to the renowned Captain Cook
that the credit is mainly due of having
established this important fact. That
eminent navigator never lost an
opportunity of taking on board
fruits and fresh vegetables when
ever he could, and the re
sult was that he was ablo to bring home
from a lengthened voyage, crews in
almost perfect health and condition,
a thing never before known. It took
many years, however, to impress this
fact sufficiently upon the authorities,
and it was not until 1796 that the med
ical officers of the navy (among whom
was the renowned Sir Gilbert Blane)
obtained the regulation ordering lime
juice to be supplied to our seamen.
The effect was magical; scurvy lost its
terrors, and it may be that the suprem
acy of England at sea during the Na
poleonic wars was in part owing to tho
improved condition of the seamen dur
ing that gigantic struggle. We have
still a monument of the extent of the
disease in the immense naval hospital
of Haslar, the largest in this country,-
which was built of such dimensions
mainly to admit the extraordinary num
ber of scurvy patients which were be
ing continually landed from our fleets.
AY e have not yet got entirely rid of this
enemy, but I think we know now how
to combat it, in spite of heretical opin
ions which find expression from time
to time. Dr. DeChauniont, in Popular
Science Monthly.
Portland, Oregon, has a trouble
some amazon, whose most recent arrest
was for entering a house not her own
and for carrying concealed weapons.
Her armory comprised a pistol of the
pattern known as the Rocky Mountain
giant, which is conceded to be quite as
effective in the hand-to-hand encounter
of two western pioneers as a Gatling
gun. Denvejr Iribunc.
Good stuff is often
queer shapes.
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SCHOOL AND CHURCH.
It is said that 15,000 copies of
printed sermons aro gratuitously dis
tributed every week in Berlin and a
few other German cities.
Priests and religious teachers have
been expelled from 136 schools in Paris
during the last three years, and 123
Christian free schools have been main
tained. The Methodist ministers of New
England receive an average salary of
SotiO a year, tho Baptists a trifle more,
the Presbyterians 740, and the Epis
copalians 900. Boston Post.
Tho Southern Bishops of tho Epis
copal Church have passed resolutions
in favor of constituting the colored
population into a special missionary
organization, rather than giving tho
negroes a separate establishment. Tho
Bishops also declare that tho only way
for the church to accomplish anything
among tho nogroes is by educating
young colored men for tho ministry.
-AT. Y7 Examiner.
Mr. Elam R. Jewett has offered to
the Church Charitv Foundation of Buf
falo a lot of grounit in that city on cer
tain conditions, the principal of which
is that a chapel to the memory of tho
late Rev. Dr. Edward Ingorsoll, to be
called tho "Ingersoll Memorial Chapel,"
at a cost of not less than 10,000. shall
be erected on the property, and shall
be ready for occupation within three
years from date. The Board of Man
agers of the Foundation have accepted
tho gift Buffalo (N. Y.) Express.
This incident is recorded by The
Christian at Work: "Our Methodist
brethren are not always considerate iu
their responsive outbreaks, and here is
an instance: As the Rev. Dr. Bowman
was about to begin his sermon on last
Sunday evening at Ocean Grove, he re
marked: Many of you have never seen
mo before, and in all probability many
of you will neversee me again.' 'Amen!'
shouted an enthusiastic nrother. The
minister smiled with tho congregation.
How could he help it?"
In a letter written by Thaddeua
Stevens in 1864 to a lady who had
thanked him for his efforts iu behalf of
a free school system, Mr. Stevens said:
When I entered the Legislature about
thirty yea ago there was not a school
in any part of the State where the chil
dren of the poor could acquire common
education without recording themselves
paupers and being recognized and
treated as such by their fellow stu
dents. Few availed themselves of
these odious conditions, and the poor
man's child was doomed to ignorance.
Now there is no obscure, barren spot
within tho broad limit of Pennsylvania
where the children of the rich and poor
do not meet in common schools on equal
terms. Detroit Post.
The Edinburgh Scotsman recently
contained the following statements
made by Dr. Peddie, of that city, to hi
congregation, concerning two extraor
dinary pastorates: "On tho 3rd ol
April, 1783, my late father was or
dained to the ministry in this congre
gation. Since that date a century had
elapsed on Tuesday last, which was ou
the 3rd of April, 1883. I was associ
ated, as most of you know, with my
father as his colleague, during the lasl
seventeen years of his life; and having
received help of God. I continue to this
day; so that father and son have served
you in the ministry of tho gospel for a
hundred years contiuuou.sly. Neither
of us ever had any other charge than
this congregation; and as my father
when ho died had completed sixty-two
years in the ministry, and I havecom
pleted fifty-four, the sum of these peri
ods of service . is 1 16 years. I do not
mention these things, I hope, to glorify
myself, but rather to magnify God's
goodness to us. The facts 1 have now
stated are probably quite unique; cer
tainly they have been very rarely
paralleled.
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.
A philosopher who hail married a
vulgar girl used to call her "brown
because, he said.
she was
sweet, but unrefined.
What is the difference between tho
death of a barber and that of a sculp
tor? One curls up ami dyes and tho
other makes faces and busts.
A little girl in a Hartford school,
unused to diplomatic wavs, sidled up
to her teacher, and, naively as could
be, said: "Mother wanted me to find
out iu a roundabout way whether you
aro Mrs. or Miss." Hartford Post.
What was in it: "My ease is just
here," said a citizen to a lawyer.
"The plaintiff will swear that I hit him.
I will swear that I did not. Now, what
can you lawyers make out of that if wo
go to trial?" "A hundred dollars,
easy," was the reply. Bench and Bar.
A little girl admitted to her mother
that her little boy sweetheart had
kissed her on the cheek. "And what
did you do?" asked the old lady in a
tone of indignation. ."Mother, ' said
the child, "I cannottell a story;I turned
the other cheek." Harper's Bazar.
The Pall Mall Gazette points out
that during Mrs. Langtry's nine months
in the United States she cleared about
five times as much as the income of the
Prime Minister of Great Britain and
more than twice tho monthly emolu
ments of the Archbishop of Canterbury.
The way to wealth is as plain as
the way to market. It depends chiefly
on two" words industry and frugality;
that is, waste neither time nor money,
but make the be-t use of both. With
out industry andfrugality nothing will
do, and with them everything. Frank
lin. A Virginia girl has picked and sold
enough blackberries thi3 year to buy
her father a shotgun and sixteen steel
traps, and a woman in Nebraska has
cut and sold over 200 worth of rail
road ties and bought her husband a
zither and a gold watch. Detroit Free
Press.
"Please, sir, is this the mail boat?"
inquired a lady, holding a letter in her
hand, of a gentleman who was standing
on the deck of a Mississippi steamer.
"I guess not, madam,"' replied the
gentleman, somewhat embarrassed; "I
just heard the Captain say she would
leave in half an hour, so I guess it must
be a female boat." Yonkers States
man. Plantation Philosophy A white
frost is de gray hairs of the season. Do
man that swears dat he wouldn' hab a
office is de berry man dat is hurt when
he's beat. People what alwayrf look on
de dark side should recolleek dat na
tur' furnishes as much honey as she
does gall. I doan hab much confi
dence in de loud-talkin' man. De
blunderbuss is louder dan de rifle, but
it ain't half as truo. Dcr old sayin' dat
a miss was good as a mile ain't true.
A feller shot at me once an' missed me,
but he skeered me nearly to death.
Arkaniaw Traveller.
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