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Tke DiTtaiMg Id. Tbo Philadelphia Press contain! h following interview with Dr. Seth Pan jcoast, 01 that city, who has gained high repute as a cabalist, and has made life-long study of spiritualism, alchemy and the occult sciences in general. 1 "What is the theory of the operatic 'of the divining rod?" 4 " "Well, in the first movement of the tod there is evidently an attraction, and Jin the second movement, giving, the 'depth, a repulsion. The attraction is destroyed or suspended by covering the end of the rod with a wet cloth, if It is Sattracted bv water, or, if bv a mineral. Jby holding the same kind in the hand or toy binding it to the end of a rod. It can be analyzed into an attractive and .repelling energy, and we must believe that those who are in sympathy with "jthis energy possess a higher state of sus ceptibility and consciousness than is (Possessed by a large majority of the tinman family. What is discovered by jthe divining rod is one kind of energy, ithe person possessing the conscious power is the other form of energy, and . jthe rod is the medium between the two; in other words, the sensitive person is jbut in sympathy with the subjective 'magnetism of the mineral through the medium of the rod." "What is this sensitive organization or power of consciousness?" "An intensely acute and susceptible 'development of the nervous system, and of the more delicate mental faculties. Very few persons have it naturally, .though some may acquire it by means of meditation, solitude, religious exer cise of the mind, and a determined will to do right. The great point is to fully harmonize the emotional faculties. This consciousness may exist in the male sex and also in the female. Even children -have been known to have it. Religious and pious persons are more likely to have it and to acquire it by cultivation than others. But, however, there are very few persons who really are en ' dowed with this consciousness." "Does the devil have anything to do with this unseen agency?" "No, indeed, not at all. There used to to be an old superstition that the evil one had the power of granting the ability to use the rod. But that is all an error. It probably arose from the legends that he and his proselytes had all the mines and ore-beds, which were alleged to be in his kingdom. If he had anything to do with it, -religious persons, you may be sure would not be suscepti ble." "How long has this divining rod been known?" "Modern history locates the first knowledge of it in the eleventh century, but in reality it was known long before that. It was known of in the Kabbalah, which, as is well known, is of very ancient date. However, the divining rod must not be confounded with the magic wand of the Kabbalah. The two are entirely different. The magic wand is used for controlling intelligences as a hand of authority. It controls this in telligence. Thus, I will intelligently a desire. That desire never dies until it is fulfilled, or until it meets a counter desire. In willing this desire the wand is used, and is of vast power. The dis tinction between the diving rod and the wand is that the former controls ener gies or physical substances, while the fatter rules over intelligence or spirits." . "What makes the best kind of rodF1 "The slender branches of the hazel tree, or, as it is sometimes called, the witch hazelwood. There is something singular about the hazelwood in its power of transmitting what we call sub jective energy. It has this power more than any other wood. The oak is the next best, though in other countries, notably in Europe, the wood of the rowan tree is greatly used. The hazel tree surpasses all, however, just as cer tain metals are better than others as conductors of electricity, copper, for instance, being one of tho best. So is the wood of the hazel tree the best to convey subjective energy." "What notable instances are there ia history of the use of the rod?" "O, there are many ways. One that is often referred to is that of Jacques Aymar-Vernay, a Frenchman, who lived in the latter part of the seventeenth century. He was widely known as a diviner and as one using the divining rod. He acquired a great reputation, liut how far he was really able to use the rod I can not say. There is a story that he was a mason, but left his trade and became a great diviner, discover ing many beds of ore and not a few streams of hidden water. Somewhere in his neighborhood there was a mysterious murder. The criminal could not be found, though the most diligent search was made in every section. At last the aid of this Aymar Vernay was called in, and he went to work, and whether it is claimed that he used any means of divination I do not know. At any rate he found the murder er, who finally confessed. This whole affair provoked a great deal of discus sion, and a great many short tracts or ipamphlets were written about it at the time. Aymar-Vernay obtained a great ,deal of notoriety, and the story of his .ability to use the divining rod has been jrecorded in French history as being un questionably true. "I know of instances myself of .the successful use of the divining rod. jl can give you one which occurred with 'in the last two and a half years. "Mr Charles Latimer, "who is a per sonal friend of mine, was in Philadel phia and chanced to be at my house. "He is a person who has remarkably rwell developed the power of conscious ness necessary to use the divining rod. So, without his knowledge, we concealed beneath the carpet in this very room a $10 gold piece, and then, later on in the evening, we met in this room and asked him to find for us the metal. He took a divining rod in his hands andbe- fan walking over the floor. When about alf way across the room the rod moved outward and downward. He stopped and said: "Here is the metal, and I know it to be iron.1 Well, this was not the place where we had hidden the gold, and, more than this he had not named the right metal. So that it was not by any means the solution of the experiment that we were looking for. But suddenly the idea flashed upon my mind that true enough there was metal there and it was iron. He was right. He was standing over the steam-pipe of tho heating apparatus in the cellar. 6o I at once told him that he was cor rect, but that there was. more metal somewhere in the room. He then be gan the search once more, and in a short time the rod by its movement, showed him where the gold piece was, and he by his keen and delicate con sciousness knew that it was gold. "Mr. Latimer has also in many cases which have been made public discovered valuable beds of coal and iron. If there were more persons possessed of tM sensitiveness, why there would be a far greater use of the rod in mining enter prises." Mr. Van Wyck, of Kshkill, N. T., gave a friend a package of what he sup posed to be collars to take to Pough keepsie laundry. The friend gave it to the laundryman, telling him what wa in it and who from, and the laundrymam threw the package on a heap of soiled linen to be looked after in aday or two. When its turn came to be attended to, the laundryman opened it and found it contained 9400 in greenbacks, with a deposit ticket for the Poughkeepsie National Bank. He took the moaaf ! the bank and deposited it, and setUbC Mr. Van Wyck, who sent the rinlrfjrt t cottars to ue launaryiM Mmy IX. T.) Jourml - m . 11 . it . , &i Z. m MMtai Afcwta Hone. Thur he stands ez innocenfc-lookuV tti cH pper z er yeaili' oolt, nn1 n un w"uf b'lieve that hoss wuz twenty y'ar old. Yaas I've owned him sesz 'Jx ne wor er everything colt, an' he I've teached him that knows 'cent his meanness. He corned nat'ral by that, pardner Lit was horned in him." Old Zeke, of Texas, is a veritable frontier patriarch. His horse is a large blood-bay animal, who has a wicked fashion of showing the whites of his eyes and laying back his thin ears. "He looks so much like one uv them thur Mexican lions," explained the old hunter, "that I named him Cougar." He had often spoken to me of this fa mous animal, and one day I shall never forget the circumstance I made Cougar's acquaintance. I was on my way through a corral when a screaming neigh, the sound of quickly falling hoofs and a warning ory caused me to turn my head. A blood-bay horse, with proudly arched neck, flowing mane and tail, and head erect, was coming toward me at a quick gallop. His thin ears were laid back close to his head and his red tongue hung from iiis mouth be tween two rows of vicious-looking teeth. I turned and faced the rapidly ad vancing animal. The nearer he came the more dangerous he looked, and I was unarmed. I would have run to ward the row of stalls on the north side of the corral for shelter, but they were too far away. I could hear the champ of his teeth and the sound made- cold chills run down my vertebral column. Fire seemed to flash from his eyes and great flecks of foam dropped from his open mouth. When he was in ten feet of me he reared, evidently intending to crush me beneath his forefeet. I shuttered most any man would have done so under the circum stances and braced mvself for a spring. The anticipated shock did not come however. I heard the sternlv-spoken caution "Hyar!" in the well-known voice of One-eyed Zeke, and the horse, but recently so full of vicious fire, halted, pricked up his ears and stood meekly in front of me, with such an ex pression of innocent wonder on his face that 1 burst out laughing. He did not like this and laid back his ears again. "Hyar, ye rascal!" shouted his master. "None uv that." He walked up to where I was stand ing and placed his hand on my shoulder. "This hyar's a pardner "uv mine, Cougar," he said. "Shake!" Cougar who had inclined his head gravely, as though listening to his mas ter's words, lifted1 one of his fore feet and extended it toward me -in a very friendly manner. I grabbed the out streatcned limb, and since that time Cougar and I have been very good friends, although I never cared to presume on our acquaintance bv any 'undue familiarity. In 1874 a party of soldiers who were being guided by Zeke followed an In dian trail which extended across El Llano del Marie, which is an arid, sandy, alkali desert. It is about one hundred miles wide and there is very little water on it The soldiers had reached the middle of the desert when they were overtaken by a terrible sand storm, which lasted about twelve hours. Many of the men and horses were suf focated by the sand. The packs and water-sackwere blown away and those of the horses that were not killed stampeded. .Old Zeke was badly bruised, and the alkali dust entering his throat had so swollen it that he could hardly speak. The soldiers were lying about suflerinor from the same difficulty. and Zeke knew that unless they could reach water they would all perish. When he came to his senses Cougar was standing near him. and he called the nnimal to hisside. Withgreat difficulty he managed to clamber into the saddle. "Water!" he whispered hoarsely into the horse's car. Cougar threw up his head, sniffed the air for a moment, and then started ofl at a gallop. He made straight for a water hole, about three miles distant, and when he reached there Zeke was enabled to allay his burning thirst He filled his canteen with water and started Cougar back with it to the suffering sol diers. He made the journey swiftly, and when he returned his saddle was loaded down with canteens. Zeke filled these and started the horse back again. He made several trips, and when every body had been supplied the missing horses and pack animals were hunted up and the outfit turned back toward the post When they reached there, and the story of Cougar's sagacity be came known, they made a hero of the horse. The officers drunk his health, their wives and daughters made him a blanket, the soldiers whose lives he had saved contributed money enough to buy him a costly saddle and bridle, and the commander of the scouting party had a gold medal struck on which is engraved an account of the affair. "Yaas," said Zeke, when he finished this story, "Con gar ez tolerbul keen an' he hez more sense than half the humans what I meets; but he's no augel. ez the man what fools around his head or heels kin testify to." Philadelphia Times. An Indian Funeral. A correspondent of the St Louis Re publican thus described an Indian funeral in Montana: The subject was a sixteen-year-old nephew of Sitting Bull, who had been attending school for some time in the southern part of the Terri tory, and while there contracted a lung trouble that proved fatal yesterday. We followed the procession, which con sisted of four old women and two small boys, professional mourners. The corpse was most carefully wrapped, all his new winter clothes being wrapped about him, around which was a large piece of tent cloth, and the whole bound with ropes. It was drawn to the place of sepulture on a travois poles made fast to the horse with one end trailing on the ground. The body, singular to state, lay with the feet toward the horse and head near the ground. The place of final deposit was made of poles ten feet high, on which was a scaffold of poles to receive the body. It was no little job for the four women to lift and deposit the body upon such an elevation, a task which they contrived to accorn- Slish by making a temporary ladder. In this scaffold was already the body of the deceased's father, who had gone thither three weeks ago. After "burial" was completed the four women began their lamentations, wailing, digging the ground, chanting, etc. When they had partially subsided one of the old womeu, whose eyes were offensively rheumy, said shehad been employed to do so much crying in the last few weeks that she had almost lost her sight When these four women left four more iame, and thus in relays they will keep up their lamentations for a" long period: it often extends over several years. Not infrequently relatives of a deceased person held in specially high esteem, in order to manifest the sincerity of their grief, seriously mutilate themselves. The following appears as an adver tisement in a London paper: "A lady wishes to recommend another lady who, through no fault of her own, has become in distressed circumstances, thinking that if 1,000 benevolent persons were each to subscribe 10 it would place her again in affluent circumstances." The recommended lady might get along nicely on 950,000. Her wants are mod erate, and her ideas are notextrava gamt Chicago Tribune. When a freight car was opened si bene, N. H., recently, a hen flutter out. She had been in the carfifteea days, and had paid three eggs for hat passage frost St. Louis. A Dinner with Washlajrtea. The dinner usually consisted of three ooxrse meat and vegetables, followed by some kind of pastry, and last hickory nuts and apples, of which Washington was very fond. The meal lasted about ! two hours, when the table was cleared off, and the leaves taken out so as to allow it to be shut up in a circle, when Mrs. Washington presided, and from h&r own silver tea service served tho f guests with tea and coffee, which were handed round by black servants. Sup per was at nine, and the table remained spread till eleven. It consisted of three or four light dishes, with fruit and wal nuts. When the cloth was removed each guest in turn was called upon for a toast, which was drank by all, followed by conversation, toasts, and general conviviality. General Chastellux, a member of the French Academy, who came out, with Rochambeau as his aide, with the rank of Major General, trav eled over tho country and published an account of his travels. In this he speaks of his visits to Washington, and describes these entertainments as de lightful, and says that "General Wash ington toasted "and conversed all the while," and adds: "The nuts are served half open, and the company are never done eating and picking them." Wash ington entertained a great deal. Not only French officers but the leading states men of the country visited him to con sult on the state of affairs. Baron Steuben's headquarters were on the Fiskhill side of the river, and he fre- Suently came over to drill the Life ruard in military tactics, with a view ot making officers of them, should the war continue. Their encampment was just back of headquarters. On these occasions he was accustomed to dine with Washington. Once several guests were present and among them Robert Morris, who had come up to consult with Washington about the State finances. During the dinnei he spoke very bitterly, of the bankrupt con dition of the Treasury, and his utter in ability to replenish it, when Steuben said, "Why, are you not financier? Why do you not create funds?" "I have done all I can," replied Morris, "and it is impossible for me to do more." "What!" said the baron: "you remain financier without finances? Then I do t not think you as honest a man as my cook. He came to me one day at Valley Forge, and said, 'Baron, 1 am your cook, and you have nothing to cook but a piece of lean beef, which is hung up by a string before the fire. Your wagoner can turn the string, aud do as well as lean. You have promised me ten dollars a month; but as you have nothing to cook, I wish to b discharged, and not longer be charge able to you.' That is an honest fellow, Morris. Morris did not join very heartily in the laugh that followed. Washington was accustomed to hold a levee every week, while the officers took turns in giving evening parties: and, not to mortify those who were too poor to furnish expensive entertain ments, it was resolved that they should consist only of apples and nuts. There was no dancing or amusement of any kind except singing. Every lady or gentleman who could sing "was called upon for a song. Once Mrs. Knox broke over the rule, and gave what at that time was considered a grand ball, which Washington opened with the beau tiful Maria Colden, of Coldenham. She and Gitty Wyukoop and Sally Jansen, the latter two living near old Paltz, were great belles in the sparsely settled country, and the three wrote their names on a window-glass with a diamond ring, and there they remain to this day. J. T. Headley, in Harper's Magazine. Armies Ancient and Modern. Armies are now so organized now so organized tbat they can keep the field without the in termission of the seasons; they can be moved great distances with extreme celerity; they are furnished with terrible means of destruction, the formidable in ventions of modern science; they are trained to march, to maneuver, and to fight with an efficacy which, in the days ofFroissart, would have seemed beyond the capacity of man, and they are com posed of multitudes which a Du Gues clin or a Talbot woidd have pronounced impossible. On the other hand, civili zation has made the natural defenses ot a country weaker; the multiplication of roads and bridges has facilitated the advance of an enemy; the diminution of the power and numbers of fortresses has had a like result, and the improve ment of agriculture, by increasing the means of subsistence for an invading army, has operated in the same direc tion. War in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries was carried on in a very differ ent fashion, and in character and effects was wholly dissimilar. Armies were still, in the main, feudal militia; they were on foot only a few weeks in sum mer; their movements were pitiably slow and limited; their artillery and arms were cumbrous and feeble; their operations were rude, imperfect, and seldom produced decisive effects, and compared with the hosts of the present day, they were no more than a handful of men. Again, a country in those days presented great and various obstacles to an invader; the roads were few and bad, and the large rivers were bridged only at wide intervals; every avenue was guarded by feudal castles, and every town was a kind of fortress; woods and marshes barred an invader's progress; and, owing to a backward state of hus bandry, a hostile army was often unable to obtain supplies in its line of march, and was paralyzed or compelled to re treat Offensive operations are thus favored to an extraordinary degree in modern war; the obstinate and pro tracted wars of defense which were waged, occasionally with complete suc cess, even down to the eighteenth cen tury, have beeome altogether things of the past Edinburgh Beview. Of Absent Mind. Two men went into a restaurant to eat, and when they had finished one of them missed his hat He complained to the proprietor, who agreed to make the proper return in case the hat was not found. This parley caused a con versation at a table near by. One of the men, a hatter, said: "I suppose that man was honest but I find that this is a good time to shake straw hats. It has got to be quite a common trick for a certain class of people to go into a barber shop or a restaurant with an old straw hat and when they "start to leave swear that they had a good hat on when they came in." Talking about hats reminded him that two-thirds of the country people who visit the city and have to cross a bridge always lose their hats. He had studied this subject and had rented a hat store near one of the prominent bridges. It had proved an immense revenue to him in the course of a year. "I have a customer," he went on to say, "wno is a Judge, and he is a rich man. He is the best customer I have. For instance, he always loses his hat and gets a poorer one in return. I sell him a silk hat He comes in here, and the chances are two to one that he will leave the new silk hat in the rack, and walk out with'an old slouch. He nevez thinks of coming back here, but goes straight to the store and buys another. Da less than a week he will lose that is the same way. He is the most absent minded man I ever saw. He will come into my place, chat awhile, and walk off with a silk umbrella. J simply charge it tojhim, send in the bill, and he pays for it He is liable tc carry off anything that is loose. II h ever leaves home he will get hisaseli into trouble." Chicago Tribune He.Wealiat Hare It A squatty little man, very corpulent; rery stiff-necked, and very much out of sorts halted a policeman at tho corner of Jefferson avenue and Wayne street yes terday and said: "Ha, sir! but what kind of a city is this, sir? Ha! (blowing his nose) it strikes ufe that you're a queer set." "Anything wrong?" "Ha! sir! yes (mow), sir! I came from , with the excursion. I had scarcely put foot on the street when a boy called me a caravan, sir! Ha! (blow a caravan!" "He shouldn't have done it." "And a stranger slapped me on the Dack and yellecf hello, pard! in my ear! Yes, sir, (blow") he did, sir in my ear. sir!" 4That was wrong." ''And a boot-black, sir (blow), had the impudence to -call my feet freight cars, and to ask me what line I run on! Yes (blew), sir what line I run on! Ha! sir:" "He deserved arrest:" "Ha! he (blow) did, sir. I want the people of Detroit to understand that I'm worth $14,000, sir, mostly in cash mostly in cash, sir." "Yes." "And I've been a Justice of the Peace for twenty-two years, sir! Ha! (blow) sir." "Yes, sir. (A long blow.) And when one of your villains calls out to shoot this hat, sir, I want him to understand that I'm also postmaster." "You are!" "Yes, sir, and when any-one sneers at my clothes, sir, let him remember that ! I've run for the Legislature the Legis lature, sin a&i (diowj ana was almost elected! I won't have this undue familiarity, sir! Why, no man in my town would dare to call me pard, let alone slapping me on the back! Why, sir (blow), why but I want this stopped!" "Yes sir!" "I won't put up with it!" "Yes, sir." "I am entitled to respect, sir! Yes (blow). I ha! ha! am, sir! "Yes, sir." He walked up Jefferson arenne, but had not gone a block when a truckman, who was tossing watermelons to a man on the walk, made a miss, but hit the 914,000 man in the back with a twenty i pounder, and cried out: ! "Look out. Shorty, or you'll be counted in and sold for a quarter." Detroit Free Press. Under tho Hudson River. The tunnel which is being constructed from Now York to Jersey City, under the bed of the Hudson River, promises to be a more difficult engineering feat than even the wonderful Brooklyn Bridge. The latter is a marvel in its way, but its construction, after all, only i involved the extension of engineering t projects which had proved entirely t practicable in minor enterprises. The j tunnel under the British Channel is justly regarded as an easy engineering feat, because the substratum through which the tunuel is to be extended is an easily worked chalk, protected from the j water by intervening rock ard clay, but the North River tunnel is driven through I a soil of mud and sand, and artificial . works have to be constructed to keep out the water while the tunnel is under way. The construction has so far pro gressed from each shore as to justify the skill of the engineers who planned it When completed it will be 5,500 feet un der the bed of the river. The approaches to the water line will occupy 3,000 addi tional feet, so that the total length of this "hole under the ground" will be about two miles. The deepest part of the river is sixty feet. It will be two years before this work is finished. Its direct effect will be to bring freight and passengers from the West directly into the city of New York, which fact will largely enhance the value of real estate in that city. So certain are those inter ested of the success of this project that another tunnel is projected between the lower point of New York island and the region below Jersey City. The begin ning of the next century will doubtless see four or five tunnels under the Hud son River and as many more between New York and Brooklyn. The engineer is clearly the industrial pioneer of the close of the nineteenth century. Deino resVs Monthly. m The Principles of the Shakers. The Shakers number 5,000 in the United States. One of the cardinal tenets of the order is celibacy. They be lieve with St Paul, that if a virgiu marries she will do well, but if she re mains single she will do better. As a rule the men live in one side of the house and the women in the other. The women cook for the men and do other tasks fit for their strength, and the men do the outside work. The Shakers believe in community of goods and interests. They hold no property individually. Their possessions are held by trustees who are appointed to conduct their temporal affairs. The trustees, or their agonts, buy whatever is needed, dispose ofjthe surplus produce, and hold all property in trust for the, common good. The society in general is dividediuto six bishoprics, in each of which are two male and two female bishops. Each community or family has four elders, two of each sex. The bishops, who hold their positions for life, choose their own successors that is, when one dies or for some reason retires, the vacancy is filled by those remaining. However, it must be filled acceptably to the members of the society, and when the bishop is appointed who does not give satisfaction, he is removed and an other appointed in his place. Ibe com munities are each given religious instruc tion and guidance by four ciders, when the order is full two of each sex. They hold their positions for life and are ap pointed by the elders. Equal promin ence is given to man and woman in even- respect, and equalitv of the sexes is one of the governing principles of the organization. Cor. Philadelphia Tin tlphia Times. Truth Stranger Than Fiction. Frederick Gibson, a man of forty-five, who is employed in the Appletons' book bindery in Boston, is about to be re united to his mother after a separation of thirty-three years. When he was twelve years old and lived in London his father took him out one day, telling the mother, they were going for a hob day in the country, instead of that, they embarked in a ship and came to this country. The father easily got work as a book-binder, and at the end of two years married in Brooklyn. Eight years later Frederick became dis contented and started on a whaling vov age, but deserted at Chili and went back to England. There he enlisted and saw nearly four years of service in the British army. Once when he was quartered at Alderahot, a few miles from London, he wrote to his father for his mother's address and received word that she was dead. After his discharge he found employment in Liverpool, and married there ia 1868. In 1870 he came again to this country, impelled by a strong desire to find out why his father had left his mother so unceremoniously, but no satisfactory explanation was given. The father died not long after, and a man who had worked with him here and returned to England not long ago accidentally came across his wife, now over seventy, in a London book bindery, and placed her in communica tion with her son. The latter, after being satisfied by correspondence that there was no mistake, sent the old ladT a passage ucsev aaasomesaoney. . FARM AND HOUSEHOLD. Salt sown under fruit trees kills the coddling moth. AT. Y. Herald. Do not leave plows and small tools cut in the rain. After using house them as you would an animal. Grease is said to be a sure remedy for apple tree bark lice. It should be applied cautiously, however, for it injures the twigs. For an old fashioned pie, gratoa coffee-cupful of maple sugar, and mix with it two egg and a little salt, and as much cream as your pie-plate will hold. The pie-plate should be a deep one, with an under crust only. Detroit Post. 1 Tobacco smoke prevents the attacks of all insects that infest plants, and does no injury to the plants unless they are confined in it for a long time. i While it often keeps off insects it does j not always destroy them, though it is fatal to manv. N.'Y. Post. To Cure a cough, roast a lemon very carefully without burning it; when it is thoroughly hot, cut and squeeze into a cup upon three ounces of sugar, t finely powdered. Take a spoonful ' whenever vour cough troubles you. It is as good as it is agreeable to the taste. The Housdiold. The following old rule about sub soiling has not been improved upon, so far as we are advised: If the subsoil is to be brought to the top, the depth of the plowing should be .gradually in oreased, year by year about one inch a year. If tho s'ub'soiler is to be run to the bottom of the furrow without throw ing out its cut, the greatest depth may be given at once. Chicago Journal. Pickled cabbage: Red cabbage mixed with white makes an excellent pickle. Slice the cabbage vpry fine; for three heads of cabbage scald two quarts of vinegar of medium strength, add two tablespoonfuls of sugar; put into a bag one tablespoonful eacli of cloves and cinnamon, and half a teaspoonful of black pepper; put the little bag of spices in the vinpgar when you scald it, and let it remain in the pan when you pour the vinegar in over the cabbage; press the cabbage down with a plate with a weight on it, so that the cabbage will be under the vinegar. N. Y. Times. Cisterns, as a rule; should be made as deep as possible for the sake of cool ness and for economy, because it is easier to arch over a cistern twenty-five feet deep and ten feet in diameter than one twelve feet deep and seventeen feet in diameter, and these would be of about equal capacity. The following table of the contents of variously sized cisterns may be of interest in this connection: For each ten inches in depth the follow ing diameters will give the conteuts named: Eight feet, 313 gallons; nine feet, 396 gallons; ten feet, 489 gallons; eleven feet 592 gallons; twelve feet, 705 gallons; fourteen feet, 959 gallons; double these diameters will give four times as much capacity; for each ten feet in depth the figures are to be multiplied by twelve. Exchange. The Skillful Use of Farm Machinery. One of the great secrets of making farm work a pleasant labor, and not a drudgery, is in acquiring the art of using tools with understanding, so as to labor at an advantage, instead of by main strength at every turn. The era of machinery has not wholly superceded the use of the .scythe, ax and pitchfork, and the skillful use of the hoe should not as yet be relegated to the attic of the lost arts. It is the skillfulness with which tools are used that gives one man a superiority for turning off labor, rather than bv great strength. It is a matter of study how to use a shovel, pitchfork or any of the other simply constructed tools of the farm to the best advantage, and with the least expendi ture of strength, and thus secure the maximum result. That the flail has given way to the steam thresher, and the self-binder has made the sickle and cradle forgotten tools, does not release the farmer from the exercise of skill and sleight, but simply transfers it, and skill in using machinery is now quite as necessary as was sleight in using the scythe and pitchfork. Steam is Being fast harnessed into doing the work of the farm, and complex machinery is be coming every day more noticeable. To the development of skill, the higher in telligence and knowledge of philosophy and laws of mechanics are necessary. The scarcity of farm labor calls for more and better machinery and the hiring of the unskilled labor of Europe, features that make it imperative that the farmer must know more and bej'et more skillful, so that he can employ both at the best ad vantage. The time has come when the farmer is not a mere field hand or laborer, his energies wholly muscular, and his labor worth exactly that of his hired help, and no more, but now, mounted upon his labor-saving ma chinery, he does the work often men, and his knowledge and intelligence, along with his skill, directs the muscular labor of his help, and he thus becomes by his superior intelligence and skill a director of labor rather than a mere laborer himself. It does not need verification to assert that success in farming in the future is not to be attained so much from muscular labor as from the skillful handling and utilizing to the fullest ex tent the improved tools and labor-saving machinery of the day. Cleveland Herald. m High Food. It may be laid down as a great prin ciple that meat, fish or poultry in a state of decay cannot be eaten with safety, since symptoms of irritant poisoning have so frequently arisen from this cause. But a little consideration will show us the impossibility of drawing a hard and fast line upon this point. We relish venison which has partially un dergone decay, while we at once reject beef or mutton in a similar condition. Again, poultry to be palatable must be fresh, yet we do not scruple to eat game which is far advanced in decomposition. There is no doubt that in mam' cases we are guided by our palates in deter mining what food is wholesome for us; for while man of us eat mouldy cheese a Chinaman will swallow bad eggs, and some races enjoy fish which we would consider putrid. Even as regards oysters, which are generally relished in proportion to their freshness, it is some times a matter of taste. For example, it is recorded of the first monarch of the house of Hanover that he objected to the English native oyster as being defi cient in flavor. It was privately sug gested by a shrewd courtier that the na tive oyster should be allowed to become somewhat stale before being brought to the royal table. The king at once re cognized the flavor which had always pleased him so much at Herrenhausen, and gave orders that in future he should always be supplied from that particular bed. The absence of evil consequences after eating food which has undergone a certain amount of decay is doubtless due in many cases to the "completeness of the cooking process; but this does not militate against the general rule that food in any stage of decay is unwhole some and should be avoided. Of late years there have been cases of poisonous symptoms arising from the use of canned meats. The cause appears mainly to have been improper methods of can ning or of the use of meat that was tainted before being canned. An exam ination of the outside of the can is our only available guide as regards this class of article. The head of the can should be slightly concave, whereas if it be convex it shows that decomposition has commenced within the can. Some times through careless soldering,.tiie preserved article becomes contaminated with lead, and poisoning by this sub-' is ue resujc utoa wvras. OF UE3ERAL INTEREST. The latest dodge is "paper boiler,' but some will hanker after a steamboat with iron boilers in preference. Chicago Inter Ocean It is predicted that Washington will be gayer tlufu ever the coming winter. The session of Congress is the long one. Chicago Journal. George Hackett, of Taunton, Mass., while driving, struck a slack telegraph wire and lost several of his front teeth. Boston Transcript. A steam lire engine company went from Mifflintown, Pa., to Lewistown by rail at their own expense to extinguish a fire, and were compelled to pay toll on crossing the bridges. Philadelphia Press. Because a juror in New York sug gested to his brethren that they flip a cent to see whether they would convict or acquit the defendant", the Judge dis missed the jury and ordered a new trial. Al Y. Sun. The most useless article in the way of a weapon-ever invented is the pistol. In nine cases in ten when it goes off it kills the wrong man. Having one anuy nas ueen tuc cause ot many a murder. Chicago Inter Ocean. To settle a quarrel relative to the presidencv of an association, Henry Cuter and John Murphy, of Flushing, L. I., fougiit bix rounds, under the Mar quis of Queensberry rules. Both men were badly punished, and the fight was "declared a draw. jV. Y. Times. Great Britain is the only country in Europe which has no forestry schools. On the Continent there are numerous excellent and well-established schools of that character, where everything that appertains to trees is taught by ac complished teachers. N. Y. Tribune. The Dakota Constitutional Con vention at Sioux Falls recently settled the woman-suffrage ques tion by adopting a provision allow ing women to vote at school elections solely, and granting them the right to hold office pertaining to school govern ment. Chicuao News. The English sparrows, which are eaten in Philadelphia for reed-birds, are considered as being a great delicacy. The flesh of the sparrow is darker than that df the reed-bird, but the Philadel phia cooks say that only those who have never eaten anything but reed-birds can tell the difference. Philadelphia Becord. A blooming young widow of Wayne County, N. Y., was to have been married a few days ago. The feast was spread and the guests were on hand, but the bridegroom failed to come to time. Three days afterward the young man ex plained that his father, who objected to the match, had hidden his wedding clothes, even to his underclothing. Buffalo Express. Louisiana boys take young mocking birds just before " they can fly and sell them to New Orleans Creoles for ten or fifteen cents a piece. The Creoles sell them to German or Italian retail deal ers for fifty cents and the dealers, main ly pedlers, receive three and four dollars for them in the North. The pedlers say that rich people do not buy birds; they prefer dogs. N. 0. Picayune. The engineer of an express train on the Hudson River Railroad had a pecu liar experience with lightning recently. At New Hamburg he encountered a heavy rainstorm, and as he pulled his head into the cab lightning struck the track, and for several seconds the fluid revolved on the driving wheels on both sides of the engine. At every revolu tion the fluid would burst with a crack, sending out a shower of sparks. For over half an hour he felt a stinging, burning sensation on the cheek. Troy (N. YJ Times. Sir Thomas Wade, after a residence of upward of twenty years in Peking, believes its population to be less than half a million: and a French physician. who has made systematic observations, estimates it at 400,000. Yet the geog raphy books give it at 3,000,000. Kt the junction of the Han River with the Yangtsze are two cities, Han-yang-fu and Wu-chang-fu, and an enormous perpetual fair, Hankow. The popula tion of these has been set down at 3, 000,000, but from a visit to the spot Sir T. Wade estimates it at about half a million. Chicago Herald. A big walnut log from an out-of-the-way part of France arrived in New York a few days' ago. It was twelve feet long and nine feet in diameter, and it is saul to weigh nearly twenty-two tons. It cost the owners 100 to bring it across the ocean, and 40 more to have it trucked some little distance to a veneer mill, a task which kept six horses busy for thirty hours. Thero was only one derrick lighter in the harbor with which the monster log could be handled. The log is said to be worth, as it stands, 2,000. or 6,000 when cut into veneers. N. Y. Netos. Among the curious things exhibited at the Louisville Southern Exhibition were thirteen medallions or castings of iron representing Christ and the Twelve Apostles. These were cast from native ores nearly one hundred years ago at the old Bellcwood Furnace, upon tho Cumberland River, in Eastern Ten nessee, in molds made of green sandstone. Considering the rudeness of methods and the infancy of art in that section and time, they have a finish, smoothness, and polish that is remarkable. The delineation of features, the eyes, brow, shin. etc.. are nearlv if not auite eonal to the very best grade of chisel work. Louisville Courier-Journal. Miss Regina Anderson, the young girl rescued from the Mormons at New York by her sister, says her home near Stockholm, in Sweden," was visited by a Mormon missionary, who painted to her in the most glowing colors the advan tages she would derive from exchanging her humble lot for a home among the Mormons. "He told me," she says, "that the weather in Utah was always pleasant, that every kind of fruit grew in the streets, and that nobody lived there but rich men, a great many of whom were unmarried and wanted wives. He told me that a hus band was awaiting me among his peo f)le, and said he owned a big coal mine, ived in a palace, and owned a dozen carriages and a great stable full of horses. Chicago Herald. The Verbiage of the Courts. 'I was in court a few days ago," said a time-worn litigant, "when a young lawyer, arguing before Judge Joseph Barnard, read from one of the papers in the case including the usual verbiage. The Judge suggested a briefer statement on the point, probably believing, with the Judge of the Supreme Court in the anecdote, that Justices may be presumed to know something of the forms of law. The young man then stated his point in plain and condensed English. The idea then struck me, when would it be possi ble to relieve the law of all the flummery of the verbiage now employed. In ac tual proceedings before a magistrate this verbiage is discarded as absolutely unnecessary in argument: yet it is re ligiously maintained in all matters of pleading and in all orders, injunctions, etc., granted by the courts. Half the delays grow out of this use of verbiage. Half the quibble, out of which some un scrupulous lawyers make their living, are based upon this needless use of un necessary words." 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