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Ssag,J8iCSUqcrJiMawi wm 7 i: I Jf THE JOURNAL., "WEDNESDAY, JAN. 30, 1881. rticrca st tie Perts2:i, C:lsa, Sb.. u iteeai elits ssttor. THE WORN WEDDING-SING. Your wedding-ring wears thin, dear wife; ah, summers not a few, 6Ince I put it on your finger first, have past o'er me and you; And, love, what changes we have seen what care and pleasures, too Since you became my own dear wife, when this old ring was new! Years bring fresh links to bind us, wife young voices that are here. Young faces round our fire that make their mother's yet more dear. Young, loving hearts, your care each day makes yet more like to you. More like the loving heart made mine when this old ring was new. . And oh, when death shaK. come at last to bid me to my rest. May I die looking in thoss f cs and resting oa that breast; . Oh, may my parting gaze - blessed with the dear signt oi you. Of those fond eyes fond as they were when this old ring was new. The. Lark. A COMEDY OF ERRORS. "A telegram a telegram from Tom, Grannie, I am certain!" I exclaimed, jumping; out of iuy low chair bj the win dow as I saw a telegraph boy coming Suickly up the pretty shaded garden at llmside; and, before Rtchers,Grannies demure old maid, could reach the hall, I had flung open the door, taken the en velope from the lad, and hurried back into the morning-room, opening the tel egram as I went. "From T. Hetton to May Hetton Meet ae at Charing Cross Hotel. Tuesday, eight a. m. Cannot leave Mrs. Elliott." "Yes, Grannie dear," I cried, having read the contents, "it is from Tom, dear old fellow! I am to meet him in town. I wonder what he will be like; and however can I get to Charing Cross Hotel by eight o'clock to-morrow morn- ins:. . You" My dearest child," interrupted Gran nie's sweet voice, "just one moment, please. Have you closed the door, and did you tell the boy whether there would be any message back?" 'Good gracious, no!" I exclaimed in elegantly. "I forgot all about the boy;" and once more I made a hasty journey into the hall. "To dismiss the lad was the work of a moment, and then I again returned to Grannie, eager to make plans for my journey in the morning. These plans, owing to certain un toward circumstances, were not easily arranged. In the first place, Elmsida was a pretty suburban detached cottage, a long drive from Charing Cross. As a matter of course, no trains were avail able; and, lastly, Grannie did not like the idea of letting me go alone. Betty, Pitcher's subordinate, was at home for a holiday, and Old Andrew, the gar dener and factotum, had that very after noon declared himself wholly incapaci tated by an attack of "rheumatics, so it was very evident I must go unescorted, or not at all. Cabs were unknown in our pretty but inconvenient suburb, but a certain re spectable, serious-minded individual named Tomkius, had a vehicle, a "fly," much patronized by the old ladies of this locality, and to Tomkins Ave ap pealed for help. Accordingly early next morning, fortified by tea and toast, not alittle nervous, if,the truth must be told, at the prospect of meeting my long-absent brother. I was still in deep mourning for our dear father, and I had tied a little em broidered crape over my face, through which I could hardly see, and thus, as I argued, could not be seen. The "fly" was clearly a misnomer, for Tomkins crawled on stolidly at a snail's pace, and, as I sat, my thoughts reverted sad ly to the country home, and to my fath er's last loving words, to the oft re peated: "Tom will tak care of my little maid. You must look to Tom, darling, when I am gone." I was just eighteen, an orphan, and Tom was my only brother, or rather half brother, my father's son by his first wife. He was nearly twenty years old er than I and had been in India since I was eight years old; so, naturally, I did not remember much about him. But I had grown up with the greatest ad miration for Tom and Tom's sayings and doings; and, now that he was real ly coming home, and we were to live together, I was greatly pleased and ex oited. Mrs. Elliott was the invalid widow of a general officer who had been killed in the recent outbreak, and I understood why Tom would not leave her alone at the hotel, but would, after a few hours rest, take her down to her father's place in Norfolk. At last we drove into the court-yard of the hotel, and I, a shy country girl, felt rather awed and nervous; but I managed to inquire whether Mr. Hetton had arrived, and was told that he had, and that he desired the lady might be shown to a room where breakfast was prepared. I followed the man upstairs, and down a long corridor, and then he opened a door, announced "Miss Hetton,' and closed it quickly after me. A tall fair man I could see that through my veil and the tears that welled up in my eyes was in the room. "Oh, dear, dear Tom!" And then I found myself with both arms round a manly neck, and rav tearful face was uplifted to a soft golden mustache very much higher than my head. "I am so glad! Of course Grannie could not come; but she sent all kinds of messages; and you will never leave me again; and, oh, this is delicious!" I continued, giving Tom a most sisterly embrace. It struck me, however, even in that first agitated moment that Tom did not quite seem to know what to do with me; but then, poor fellow, he had been in India so long. Still even in India I sup pose men kiss their sisters. "Really, madam, I fear," he began, when the door opened, an a great, tall, gaunt old lady walked in and stood petrified, gazing at the spectacle of a gentleman who was red and uncomfort able, and a yonng woman, redder and more uncomfortable still, who had just unclasped her arms from the youn" man's shoulders, and whose affectionate kisses seemed to be echoing still round the room. The old lady recovered speech first. "Nephew John," she said solemnly, in a voice with strong Scottish accent; I must confess I am surprised! I had no idea but this young lady is doubt less " Hero she 'paused for informa tion. "I assure you. Aunt Arabella," said Nephew John, who looked very con fused, "there is some painful I mean pleasant at least something This young lady is Well, really, my dear aunt, I have not the smallest or remotest idea who this young lady is." They both looked so helpless and so bewildered that I plucked up courage and said, with all the dignity I could muster, as I took off my unlucky veil: "I am Miss Hetton, and I have come to meet my brother, who has just returned from India and who telegraphed to me to meet him here at ten o'clock this -morning." "But T am John Hetton, and I have just returned from India," said he. "My brother's name is Tom, not John," I answered, becoming almost tearful again in my confusion; "and I am sure, quite sure, now that you are not my brother," I added, weakly. "I have not that honor, madam, cer tainly," said the gentleman; "but I knew Tom Hetton well in India; and I am delighted to have the pleasure of irtffj U sister' ke eoattsoed, wkk low bow: and I actually detected a mile lurking under the golden mus tache. Here "Aunt Arabella," who had sub sided into a very upright chair, and who had been shaking her head and uttering undertoned exclamations in an unknown tongue, began to show signs of becom ing intelligible, when, for the third time, a waiter threw open thedoor and ushered in a gentleman; who I felt at once was my Tom; but so depressed had my miserable impulsiveness made me feel that I followed "Aunt Arabella's, ' example, and jinking into a chair looked on helplessly. "Tom!" John, my old namesake!" and the two men shook hands heartily. "Why, how is this? I have just come by P. & O., and had no idea you had left India till they told me just now that Major Hetton was here as usual, I suppose, thinking we were relatives." "Oh, I came in the old Himilaya," said Major Hetton, "so of course left Bombay a week or two earlier!" "I expect m' sister," said Tom; and then he seemed to perceive that there were ladies in the room, and made an apolegetic bow. I don't know whether I took any no tice of it; but I do not really remember. An earthquake, torpedoes, nothing would have surprised me more at that moment I felt callous, hardened. Major Hetton! And I hugged him! "This lady," said the Major cheerful ly, "is my aunt. Miss Mactagger; and this young lady, is I believe 1 think I understand your sister. Miss Hetton." "My little May?" said Tom's kind voice; and then I found myself held very closely in his strong arms; and, I hid my burning face on his breast, I cried as if my heart would break with pleasure and annoyance all at once. When I looked up. Major Hetton and his aunt had vanished, and very com forting was Mrs. Elliott's sympathy and my brother's good naturcd banter. All's well that ends well; and it is per haps needless to tell how Aunt Arabella and Grannie and Tom and John and I all grew great friends, and had much mer riment over my absurd contretemps; but I must add that I think it was quite un necessary of Major Hetton to say months afterward, when he put a little pearl ring on my finger, and begged just fot one kiss: "You need not pretend that you like it, darling, for you said long that it was delicious." dis ago -Railway Construction In Russia. For certain facilities of railway con struction Russia holds a position much superior to that of her West European neighbors. Land is cheap, and there is a practically unlited supply of wood. In a country flat as Russia is hardly any leveling is necessary the needed en. gineering works consists almost solely of bridges. Taking every legitimate source of outlay into calculation, the average cost of constructing a railway in Russia ought not to exceed 30,000 rubies per mile. Yet owing to the ex travagance and dishonesty of the wholo system, the cost per mile often rises to 70,000 or 80,000 rubles. The rapid de velopment of railways in this country there are now over fifteen thousand miles of them in existence is, of course, due in a great measure to the impetus given it by the State. About half the capital invested really belongs to the Government When a railway is com pleted and has commenced operations the company is in a position to issue bonds with a view to their being put into the foreign market and sold by foreign bankers. Before this is done, however, Government, save where the circum stances are very exceptional, formally guarantees the bonds, thus undertaking to make good the interest on them in case it can not be paid by the company. To properly complete a line to the satis faction of the authorities is sometime anything but an easy task, not so much because the authorities are exacting as because the formalities are many and the circumlocution great. The first step, after the granting of a concession, is the appointment of a Government Inspector. This official, by virtue of his position, is also a member of the Board of Railway Directors, and receives J iay not only from the State but also rom the country. How he contrives to represent the interests of both is a mys tery, but that he accomplishes the feat to Lis own satisfaction is certain. Then comes the making of the line.. A dis trict "Land and Water Board" furnishes plans from which no deviation is per mitted, for the making of engines, car riages, rails, etc. The construction of the road is usually let out to contractors in lengths of about ten versts each. The laborers, sometimes to the number of several thousands, are hired by agents of the contractor specially sent into the country for the purpose, the bargain as to wages being made with the heads of the artels communes of workmen as sociated together for most every pur pose save that of protecting the interests of labor. Railway "navvies" in Russia are simply peasants who have learned the art of using the pick and the spade. In the summer months they can subsist almost upon watermelons eaten with black bread and salt even a more generous diet when the workers club together for the purchase of food, does not involve an expenditure greater than about six shillings per month, and for this the laborer can have nourishing soup two or three times a da Pay under these circumstances is not high from threepence to sixpence per day is received by the Russian line-maker with an eauanimity which would surprise the socialistic ouvrier of Berlin, Paris or London. On a far different scale is the remuneration of officials. The salaries of the President of the com pany and several of the directors range from 15,000 to 30,000 rubles. Secretaries receive from 1,500 to 1,600 rubles, bookkeepers from 300 to 1,000, superintendents from 6,000 to 10,000, inspectors from 600 to 1,000, and con ductors from S00 to 1,000. When, however.thesetigures have been reduced somewhat by reckoning two shillings for every ruble, the room left for envy is not great, and there is nothing at all to make one wonder why the person nel of a Russian train should always display so conspicuous a lack of tidiness and respectability. Glasgow Herald. m How it Happened. He was a bank teller. He had been sent off on a vacation, his books over hauled, and he had been found $9,000 short. This fact stared him in the face as he sat amidst the Board of Directors. "Now, then," said the President 4,I presume you acknowledjrc the embezzle ment!" "I do." "And how did you use the money?" "In speculating." "In what?" "Well, I was a bull in X. Y. Z. Rail road stocks, but there was too much against me. I didn't have a fair show to make anythinor., "Why how?'p "Well, while I was using $9,000 oi the bank s money to bull the stocks, tht cashier was putting up $20,000 to beai them, and so I lost all!" Wall Stree, News. -- There are saline springs near Lak Manitoba, from which the finest salt bat been made by the Indians from timt immemorial. They used to sell tin Hudson Bay company about one hun dred and fifty bags a year of it in th olden time Chicago Times. Dr. McLean, the St Loms pffl-naa, who lost recently by a heavy fire, has recovered $1,000,000 in- notes and ee entities from a fire-proof vault la taf nins.-Mt. Lu It Tie tick ef the OnL BIBTH CAUL FOB SALE Apply No. South street. Advertisements similar to the above appear from time to time in newspapers in this and other cities. There is evidently a ready response, for such announcements are seldom repeated individually. A'caul is.a little membrane found on some children encompassing the head when born. This is considered a good omen to the infant, and-, the vulgar opinion is that' whoever obtains the cauX-by purchase will- be fortunate and escape' dangers. The, origin of the superstition is lost in antiquity, and it us current among an nations, oi. Chrysostom inveighs against it in the early homilies of the Church, and in Arabian and Athenian classics-mention is made in several instances of persons born with a "coif," or skin hood. "Have you sold thatcaul?" theauthor of the above advertisement was asked yesterday. "You bet I have. A seafaring gent bouirht it at a quarter past eight this i morning, half an hour after I purchased The speaker was the keeper of a general shop for sailors' stores near the South-street Wharf. "How much did you get for it?" asked the reporter. "Ten dollars, and cheap it went. Why, I've had twenty-five dollars for them. I let this one go cheap because I frot it at no expense to myself. I bought a trunk at an auction up town . on the chance of what it contained. 1 gave a V" for it. When I opened it I I feund a lot of women's underwear, ' three heavy silver spoons, a stuff gown. nearly new, and a tin box. I opened the tin box and in it I found that caul I sold this morning wrapped round a large chestnut. Here's the chestnut. I tried to sell it to a Captain this morning the same bloke what bought the caul but he didn't see it. If you want it you can have it for one dollar It ought to bring plenty of luck, havinsr kept company with the caul for so long. Don't want it, eh?" All right; rll find a customer." "Do you sell many caula?" "Not as many as I should like. The supply ain't over and above large." "How do you get them?" "Well, I was born in one myself. My mother kept it for thirty years, and when the old lady died I thought I'd sell it. It had never brought me any particular luck, as I could see. I got eight dollars for it It was a bit torn. There must have been something the matter with that caul, anyhow, ause the man What bought it, mate of a vessel in the tea trade sailing from New York to Hong Kong, fell off the main mast and broke his skull by hitting it hard on the deck the very next voyage he took. "Well, he was not drowned." "No, he weren't drowned. I guess that was his darned luck. Though if I'm to break my neck just to show the value of a caul, I don't want it But you was asking me where I got the goods. Doctors, as a rule, sell them to me. and the mothers. Occasionally the original owners brings them to me themselves, when they are growed un. But doctors is the chief source; physi cians attached to lying in hospitals and them as has a practice among the very poof classes, what don't know the value of a caul. The doctor slips them in his pockets and I gets them. "Do you pay much for them?" "Well, that's telling. However, I will tell you this about it There is a comfortable profit in selling them; but, as you seem a decent sort of a chap, you shall have the next one I comes across for six dollars, and I'll throw in the chestnut we was just a-looking at See here, now. Cauls brings luck any how, no matter what your business or (rofession happens to be. Say vou're a awyer. In comes the fees. But by the cut of jour jib, I should say you're a mininster. Nothing like a caul in the church, so they tells me. Why, there's a Methodist preacher, not five squares away,who bought a caul of me for a V' and the free christening of my wife's latest and that chap has had all the marriages and the funerals in the neighborhood ever since. Why, he's piling up the dollars thick and is grow ing quite high-toned. Would you like a bit of a caul?" "A piece of a caul? Why, what use would that be?" "Use!" Well, I should blossom. A piece of a caul is almost as valuable as the whole article. House will never burn down when a bit of a caul is in it. The person carrying it will never get drowned, suffer from small-pox, tooth-ache or rheumatism. True, it isn't quite as certain prevention as a whole one, but some people like to be economical, even in their luxuries. There is only one thing against being born in a caul unless you get rid of it, and that's one of the reasons I sold mine." "What's that?" "You see too much. I never could go out on a moonlight night without getting the awfnl horrors. Talk about spirits; I've seen them so thick in the streets on a full-moon evening that I've wondered how I was to get past them, and I never did pass them. I seemed to walk straight through the middle of their bodies. Since I've sold my own caul, however, I've never seen no more ghosts." Readers of Dickens will remember that David Copperfield, the alleged prototype of the author himself, was born with a caul, which was advertised fpr sale at the low (?) price of fifteen guineas. An attorney connected with the bill-broking business was the only reply to the advertisement. He offered two pounds in cash and the balance in sherry, which was declined. Ten years afterward the caul was put up in a raffle in a country inn to fifty members at two shillings ana sixpence a head, with the stipulation that the winner should spend five shillings. An old lady won it, reluctantly produced the five shillings, all in halfpence, and twopence half penny short, and eventually died aged ninety-two. It was regarded as entire ly owing to the caul that she never was drowned, although it was well known that the old lady had never been on the water in her life. Pfriladclphia Press. Figaro says the favorite German dish is saucissenkartofflbreisauerkrautanz wurst which is crowned with a wreath of black puddings and hashed meat Below this a cornice of sauerkraut in termingled with pickled beet root, forms a ring which reposes on a mould of smoked and grilled sausages. The mould itself is surrounded by a kind of embossed ornamentation, consisting of even kinds of sausages, the names of which are to be found in the famous Kockbuch composed by a Professor of chemistry at Heidelberg. A pea pud ding, flanked with potato dumplings, forms the base of the dish, over which Is thrown a quantity of current jelly and spirits, which is set on fire. . - . Between East and West Pearl Rivers, on the borders of Mississippi and Louisiana is a territory called Honey Island, with eight hundred inhabitants, located in numerous small towns, who claim that they are on neutral ground and belong to no State, though they be, long, in point of fact to Louisiana. N Three brothers Me vers kept a fruit store on Third avenue, "New York, and within a couple of months two of them died. Recently the surviving brother, Jacob, visited their graves, and on hit Teton shot himself in the head, so he eonld go to tee hie brothers, ae he eaid. FARM ASD HOUSEHOLD. Manure applied to pear trees in the pring is liable to produce blight Cfii tago Journal. It is said to bo more difficult .to breed whito turkeys than those of any other color. Tomatoes dipped in bread crumbs and browned in butter are a delicious addition to the dinner.--Aa:ctajie. A fillet of veal stuffed with fine herbs makes an excellent foundation for a dinner, and if nicely browned and served hot with browny gravy, it may well take the place of chicken or duck. N. Y. Post. Somebody inquires if there is any remedy for a hard milker. There is but one that I know of. Fat the cow and the butcher will take her. The butcher's money is as potent a remedy as there is. If you go to fooling with instruments you'll spoil the cow. Mirror and Farmer. Muffins without soda, if baked in a hot oven, will be light and excellent. Take one cup of sweet milk, one cup of flour, one egg well beaten, about a third of a teaspoonful of salt. Have your gem pans very hot, fill about half full, and bake. These are nice with butter alone, or with maple sugar syrup added. jy. P. Post. For veal fritters the remains of cold veal should be cut in small, neat pieces; dip each in batter and fry a light brown; in serving pile them high in a dish, pouring over them a good brown sauce, well thickened with tomatoes when in season or, if not, the gravy must itself be thick and strongly flavored with to mato sauce. N. V. Times. A great msny fields, especially those that are long and narrow, are al ways ploughed the same way. An ex change, referring to this practice, sug gests that simply changing the direction of working will often make a great in crease in the productiveness. The fur row cut across the old lines of furrows is not stopped by the same stones, while new soil is opened to the growth of plant roots. N. Y. Herald. The following is a Southern man's method of feeding a cow: "If you want a large yield of rich milk give your cows every day water slightly warmed and salted, in which bran has been stirred at the rate of one quart to two gallons of water. By this daily practice the cow will give fifty-two per cent, more milk immediately under the effect of it, and she will become so attached to the diet as to refuse to drink clear water unless very thirsty. The amount of this drink necessary is an ordinary pailfull at a time morning, noon and night." A mixture which is excellent for re moving grease-spots and stains from carpets and clothing is made of two ounces of ammonia, two ounces of white castile soap, one ounce of glycerine, one ounce of ether; cut the soap fine, dis solve in one pint of water over the fire; add two quarts of water. This should be mixed witli water in the proportion of a teacupful to one ordinary-sized pail of water. Mix thoroughly, and wash soiled garments in it. For removing spots use a sponge or clean flannel cloth, and with a dry cloth rub :ts dry as pos sible. Woolen goods may be made to look bright and fresh by being sponged with this. Cincinnati Times. Dividing and Softening Food. The finer the food when it goes into the stomach of an animal, providing it is not of a character to form a compact mass when it is wet, the more easily di gested it is, and consequently the better it is for the animal. We grind the grains and cook the flour and meal that is made from them, partly for the pur- fiose of making them more digestible, f we swallowed the grains we should have the same amount of nutriment that we have when the grains are ground, but it would be less available, because there would be a firmer resistence by the whole grain to the action of the gastric juice, and less surface for it to act upon. The effect of dividing the grain into small particles, as to the action of the gastric juice, has sometimes been illustrated by citing the increased facility for cooking which ground grain furnisiies over whole grain. It requires but a short time to cook meal; it re quires a very much longer time to cook whole corn. The meal presents num erous little particles for the heat to pen etrate, and it does not take long for tho heat to penetrate it. The whole presents a hard exterior and is a comparatively large, fine mass. When stock is in the pasture field they easily digest their food, because it is of such a character that the fibre is easily broken down in the process of digestion. But permit that grass to grow until it is fit for cutting, and cut and cure it into hay, and wo have a large amount af hard, woody fibre, which must be broken down in the stomach before it will furnish to the system the nutriment which it contains. If the ani mal thoroughly masticates this hard substance, it will go into the stomach in good shape. But that cannot be de- tieuded upon, and, therefore, it is of the lighest importance that it be artificially firepnred for mastication and digestion, fence we cut the coar.se fodders, and to prevent the ground foods from going into the stomach in too compact a form. we mix it with the cut fodders. For the same reason we have frequently advised the mixing of cut foods, and letting them stand for a few hours closely cov ered. In this condition they become softened and are more readily digested. Some writers urge the necessity of bruising as well as cutting the coarse fodders. This would be better than nothing. Any process that will break np the hard fiber would be desirable, it there were no better one. But all tho bruising that could be done would not thoroughly soften the fodder. Cooking, steaming or wetting down, the mass being permitted to stand for a time be fore feeding, will meet the require ments. In cooking certain chemical changes take place, which may be of value. Just how valuable they "are we are not prepared to sa And when the cut food is permitted to stand awhile, chem ical changes take place, and these may be of more value than we know. But the principal merit of cither process is to soften and make the mass more easy of digestion. Cooking, probably, does this more thoroughly than any other method, if the cooking is properly done, and the cooked food mixed with other food, and hence the eminently satisfac tory results of feeding cooked food properly. Unquestionably it is better than uncooked food, but circumstances must determine whether or not that or a less expensive and less troublesome method is desirable. If tlie food is di vided and softened, the object will be at least partially accomplished. Feeding cooked food by itself we do not believe to be advisable. The animal will gulp it down without mastication, and under such circumstances it passes into the stomach without the preparation which nature intends it shall receive in the mouth. ExcJianqe. The Virginia City (Nev.) Enterprise S'ves a description of a Piute feast: "A vorite dish with them is a stew of duck, fish, tulc potatoes, and pinenuts. Sometimes, when two or three families join in a feast, a camp-kettle holding a dozen gallons is placed on the fire. Into this are thrown promiscuously all that the men, women, and children have succeeded in gathering. Ducks, minnows by the score, ground squirrels entire except that the hair has been inged off wild rose berries, gra&snute, pinenuts, and the like all boil and bubble togetner in a ncn mesa meat, wA bread all in one. DcFCcratiosr Siusrara. The great question of interest hero now is, of course, the c::rry:ug out of the Park project. It i-, iii-leml, n pity that steps looking to sonic such pruject as this luid not been taken sooner, and this is especially true of what will be the American portion of the Park. Mills, ::! I yards um! rjtiluay tracks now occupy and di-fij;iiiv wr-::t ought to have been one'ot the m-t desirable portions of the propo-o.l Pari: on the American si-ie of the river, and already tiie requirements of trc'lio and the de mands ot individual interests arc making Ihumselves disagsv?ablv prominent on the Canada side, but sliil there is much 'of natural grace and beauty left that otight bv nll possible means to ue pre- served. The construction of a track leading to the new bridge, by theMicbi- has 2,50) university students, gan Central Railway Company, has al- Mr. William Harrison McKinney, a ready made sad havoc with the beauties ) full-bloode-. Vjciaw, was the first In of the romantic looking cliff above the I uian to graduate from Roanoke. He Horseshoe Fall. For a long distance . rtveniK tecu't tithe degree of Bachelor along this hitherto wooded precipice all .... . ' . . its sylvan beauties have given place to an unsightly bank of red clay. In time, of course, vegetation of some kind may take root on this unsightly embank ment, but unless some special effort be made to induce such a result it will be many years before the injury inflicted thus on Niagara's environments will be repaired. East of the convent the pas toral beauty of the grassy heights has been almost hopelessly destroyed by the disposal that has been made of the ma terial taken out of the excavation for the ' roau-ucu. x.e engineering necessities oi ,1 1 nil - ... M me wont in wis inimcuiaie locaiuy uave demanded a long, deep cutting, and a very large portion oi ine reu ciay iaKcn out of this great cutting has been de- ..:.: :.. : ..i i " :..i..i.. i. ...... and ridges upon tho grassy fiats and ?.j -j .:. ... .-.- 'i nnd slopes adjacent to the railway. Much could be done to mitigate in a i few years the worst features of this act of vandalism; but unless some effort Le maiU' at leveling, top-soiling and seeding I these great stretches of red clay in the j localitv. strangers visiting Niagara will scarcely form a very favorable" opinion of the :t'sthetkism of the Canadian peo- j pie. I he great need of Niagara, how i ever, is the establishmentof the proposed j International Park. This will render j possible the abolition of many objection able features that are continually ob truding themselves upon the notice of visitors here. One of these is the scat tering of sign-boards even in some of the most picturesque spots. The visitor does not like to have a very pretty view obstructed by a painted sign-board nailed to a tree in the foreground of the picture he is contemplating, even though the sign may be that of some small trades man recommending him to examine his extensive assortment of "Indian curiosi ties." Cor. Toronto Globe. In Dread of "Hoodoos." "I've been hoodooed to-day," re marked one of the sporting fraternity to a reporter yesterday. He looked very glum, and the scribe thought at first he used the words in the sense of "robbed," which it occasionally re ceives. "Who did it,' he asked. "Don't know. If I had knowed, I wouldn't have played. A man gets hoo dooed lots of times without knowing anything about. it except when he com mences playing." "Are there any big hoodoos here that you know of?" "Yes, there is one I know, and I am afraid that is what struck me. There is a coon here that's all out of shape, and got a horrible mug on him. He is the worst I ever saw. All the boys are on to him, and whenever he looks at one of them, and the fellow knows it, he won't play any that day. It don't make any difference if you see him, but if he see& you that settles it for that daj If you play, you are dead sure to lose. He is a holy terror, and there ain't any cure for him that I know of." "I suppose you can cure some hoo-' doos, cau't you?" "I'm not sure about that. There art, some sports that think so. Some think it breaks bad luck to get up and walk around your chair from right to left. Some always go on a certain side of the street Some carry charms. I used to know a fellow that carried a bullet that a woman was killed with, and he al ways thought it gave him luck. I've heard that some people carry luck with them." "They can give their luck to other people, then?" "Of course. Now there's hunchbacks. If a man can touch the hump of a hunchback without him knowing it, it gives him the best kind of luck, but if lie knows it, it don't do any good. Why, I used to know a hunchback in San An tonio that always had a hole wore in the back of his coat by bos touching him." "Is it unlucky to put a copper back if any brushes it off?" "That depends on how you look at it. I don't think so. Some men never play coppered at all. I know one sport at Leadville that always plays open. He says it is all he can do to guess the win ners, let alone the losers. Others are different 1 know some men who would not put a copper back for anything. If a man knocked it off accidentally, even if it was square against their system. Maybe they're right." Denver Repub lican. A Device Agraiust Bores. An invention for protection from bores has been devised by a gentleman of literary habits in this city, whicli may safely bereeommended to those who are afflicted with the attentions of these well-known pests of society. He has his study iu the top of one of our public buildings, and nearly every day a prom inent representative of the gehus bore enmrts up me siairs ana knocks at ine door, and after entering ho sits himself down and smokes the literary man's cigars and discourses second-hand opinions to)him during the greater part of the day. The literary man has been for a long time casting about for s remedy, and at last he said: "My dear Jones, i want to tell you something it confidence. I am frightfully troubled by people dropping in on me whom I don't wish to see, and so I am going to keep ray door locked hereafter. Now, of course, there are some whom I am always delighted to have call, and you, nvy dear Jones" slapping him on the back "as I don't need to" tell "you, are one of them. So I am going to arrange a private signal with those whom I shall always be glad to admit to my room, and I want you, when you come, to knock thus, two slow raps and three quick ones see? and then I shall know who is there." Jones commended tht idea as peculiarly ingenious, and has since faithfully acted upon it, but was heard the other day to remark very in nocently that it was deuced odd, but of late it was very seldom that he could find his literary friend at home. Boston Journal. This will supply a long-felt want A New York man lias imported a pair of Indian mongooses, the first that ever came to America. They are a litltle larger than a good-sized rat Their bodies arc covered with brown hair, vari egated with white stripes. The importer will breed these animals and sell them as vermin exterminators. It is claimed that they have no equal in that business. One mangoosc will rid the largest housf of rats. They destroy snakes witl wonderful rapidity, and are the inveter ate enemy of every species of vermin They are gentle and harmless to humat beings. Indianapolis Journal. m m A Utah tourist sums up his opinio! ef Mormondom by calling it the waste basket of the world. Chicago Tribm RELIGIOUS AMD EDUCATIONAL. It is asserted that 100.000 ncgroee .n the United States are Roman Cath olics. There are about 30,000 Christian Indians in the United States, and one- half of these are Baptists. Chicago Journal. Up in Clackamas County, Oregon, when the sshool-teacher wants the hoys and girls to come to school she blows a horn, and they come piling out of the cauyon3 toward the temple of barn'ng. Chicago Tines. - S o'land.out of a population of 4,000, 0:H), sends rf.oOO student to her univer- slt'es, while the two great English uni- vcrsiucs nave out o,uw stuucnis. uer- many, out of a population of 43,000,000, !-- " .. of Arts, uu:. s nut tweutv-three vears of age.whic proves good aptitude in the Indian.--.A '.'. Time. Preside Ward, of Yankton Col- i lee, I). T. arho has just returned from an r astern vis t, has announced there that t!.e college re-e'ved a donation of 810,000 from one source, and a legacy of $40,000 :n the will of another person in an Eastern State. L'hicqo Herald. Au c.umintion of the work of the Prcs'jytT'an Hoard of Td.icationforthe Inst tw-ntv-iive vcirs shows that there U'-M f uv lO'l t.itnr.ftQ fif ill irimta nut ! "' " ' ....- v . .m.ri.i.7. vui of .,1G:S siud-nt aided in obtaining an rdueition. j cHt'uhilat'e" Ti.e average . ost of these was 5F:U3.34 each. Th In- ,iri0r. ' n". ri n n v v i u Ur. John Hall, of New York, the famous Pre-sbvterian div:ii; goes every day to pr.iv with a ladv who lies dangerously il!, and his ministrations are a great comfort to iier. She said to him: Doct-ir, th-y say I shall last all summer. Now do not allow my sufferings to spo'l your vacation". When yon are ready to go, come and say good-bye to me.' "(iood-bye!" said he. " No. I s'.ail not leave yon. These vis'ts to uu :t.e my vacation." A. Y. Tribune' The Town Street Methodist Church, Columbus, ()., expelled Coun cilman George P. Morrow from its membership, because he voted for the repeal of an ordinance prohibiting base-ball playing on Sunday. Mr. Morrow said he was opposed to any desecration of the Sabbath, but, since the young men were bound to have some amusemeut on Sunday, he thought it best to let them play basc h:iil if it would keep them from the saloons. Cleveland Leader. A Lawjer's First Cose. Judge Shickleton relates an interest ing reminiscence of the early days of Arkansas. "I came here," safd the Judge, 'Vust after I had been admitted to t lie bar in a Northern State. Like the average young lawyer, I was poor and actually thirsted for a case. Short ly after I arrived I went to a mountain d'strict and stopped at a small town where there was considerable excite ment over the trial of a young man who had been ind'eted for niurder. The oliler lawyers were loth to engage in the prosecution, so the young Pros ecuting Attorney was working single handed. I met him the second day after nvy arrival, and when he learned that I was a lawj'er, he said: "'lam at present prosecuting, fot murder, a young fellow named Dawes. He is guilty as guilty can be, and should by all means hang yet I fear, with so much opposition, that I will not be able to assist justice to a proper punishment of the terrible crime. Now, what I want you to do is to assist me.' "I studied the case carefully. I made every point so clear that I could see the jurymen shaking their heads when an illustration was strikingly vivid. The counsel for the defense, composed of old lawyers whose fame had long since been established, looked at me in astonishment They met me and want ed a compromise. I knew nothing but justice, and justice knew no compro mise. Finally the case went to the ju ry. Within five minutes afterward a verdict of guilty was rendered. The young man was hanged. I moved tc another part of the State, where I soon established a good practice. "One day about three years after ward I met, at a Northern watering place, a beautiful young woman whose husband was dying of consumption. The consumptive grew worse rapidly, but his wife was still hopeful, for ne would talk of what he intended to do when lie recovered. One night about twelve o'clock I was summoned to the poor fellow's room. He lay gasping for breath, and his wife, even beautiful in grief, sat holding his hands. The end soon came, and I saw her bow her head in despair. " I did not see Mrs. Delure, the fair widow, for a few days after the funeral. Then she came to tell me good-bye. " When the memory of your hus band affords a melancholy pleasure, in stead of a deep grief, will you not write to me?' I asked. " I don't know,' she replied. J don't feel as though I shall ever again feel disposed to write, but I thank you for the deep inteiest you have taken in me, and hope to some day meet you again.' "I returned to Arkansas and resumed my practice, but business cares did not remove the image of that beautiful face. Two years passed and I heard nothing from EIla. as I had learned to think ol her. At last I determined to go again to the watering-place. One evening alter I had been there a few days, I was strolling on the mountain when I chanced to stroll near Delure's grave. Hearing voices I approached cautious ly. I stood behind a tree. The moon came out, and I saw Mrs. Delure and a man sitting near the grave. "'lean not marry you, she said. 4 You have been very kind to me, and have greatly aided me in getting my school, but I can not niarry you.' " 'Do you ever expect to marry again?' he asked. "I don't know. There is one man whose memory I love. He was with me when ray liusband died. If I were to ever marry any one I would marry him. I promised to write to him, anil have tried a dozen times, but each let ter seemed like a love letter.' " I could stand no more, and exclaim ing 'Ella,' I rushed from my hiding place and caught her in my arms. The man looked on for a moment and turned away. "Our arrangements were soon com pleted. Our wedding was quiet and simple, and immediately after the cere mony we started for my home in Ar kansas. "We began housekeeping at once; and I know there was not a happier man in town than I. One evening while Ella and she said: I were sitting in the twilight "I never saw a man so little inter ested in one's history as you are. You have been acquainted with me for a long time now, and have never asked m anything about my former self.' " Your present self,' I replied, be longs to me; your former self did not I am never anxious about anything that -loes not belong to me. " Do vou know that I used to live in this Statel" " Did you?' I asked in surprise. "Yes, she said, in a saddened tone, I have been three times married. My first husband was named Dawes, but he was a bad man, and died by the hand ol the law.' "Great heavens! I had hung her band.' 4rjtarau; Traveller- AilWAKI). Dally Kxiircii Trnii a 't r Oml.n. f.ii rago, Kiiuoa. t.ily. St. i.ouis. unil all x;ute Kiutt. 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