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i -h 4 & p. THE JOTTKCTAL. ISSUKI) KVKHV WEDNESDAY, M. Iv. TUROSrER. & CO., Proprietor! and Publisher. ET OFFICE, Eleventh St., up ttaire m Journal Building. terms: Peryear ? 22 Sixmonth T2 Three months Single copies BUSINESS CARDS. D.T. JlAKTYN, II. D. F. J. ifCHUO, M. D. Dr.. MARTYN & SCHTJQ, D. S. Examining Surgeons, Local Piiriri-oii-. Union PaciflV. O., N. ii II. I!, and . A- -M. It K'-. CoiiMillitimn in Giriu-in and Kufrliah Telephones at nllice and reiidriire. COLUMBUS, - NBRASrCA A'2- T) UOIItillKKTl, II. , ' MYICIAXS: SURGEON. tiTOlli.-o ccnnd door il or pot-ollii'.-. 51 -v i-i yswian suit geon. Difcases of women and children a spe cialty. County plivs.ici.in. Oili.-f former ly occinuVtl l.v Ir. Hoiii'stecl. Telephone exchange. o I.I. A AIIHAIJII, IK1.S. DENIAL PARLOR, On coiner ot Kltwnlh and North itrect, over Knisl hardware More. C lOin'KI'UM Ac NDIJ.IVAK, A TTOliNFYS-AT-LA W, IJp-slairsin Oluck Kuilding, llta street, Above the New hank. TT .1. IIIJMJiO, x or Ai:r public. 12th Slrrel.'J .loorn tl r Hammond llous, Columbus. AVfc. 4!U.y rpiUJKS ro At POHKUS, s u na VOX KS TISTS. ISjrOlUVc in Mitchell Mock, Colum bus, Nebraska. 11-tf y ii. ki:i:ii:k, A TTORNK Y A T LA W, Olli.e on Olhe St., Coluuibiii, Nebraska, ii-tf V. A. MACKEN, DKALKK IN Foreign anil Domestic liquors and Cigars. Uth street, Columbus, Neb. iilt-v A TTOHXi: YS A T LA W, Oilice up-stairs in SIcAllixWr's build ing. 11th St. V. A. McAllister, Notary Public. J. M. MACKAltl.AND. K. COWDKRY, Attirsoy ul Usury TzlVt. Cdtaetar. LAW AND WILLE4TI0N OFFICE OK MACFARLAND& COWDBRy, Columbus, : : : Nebraska. V. I KHHKR, M. .. (Successor to Dr. C. (!. A. Iliillhorst) HOMEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN AM) SURGEON. ttegular graduate of two medical col-lege-. Oll'u-e Olive St., one-half block north of llaimnoiid House. 2-1 y C. M. SWEEZEY, Land, Loan and Insuraiice, Ul'MI'lllttiY, NKIJ. Money to loan on long or short time on Ileal Eitate in Minis to suit parties. ."Ml-y J. J. MAUGUAK, Justice, County Surveyor, Notary, Lund and Collection Agent. igri'arties desiring surveying done can notify me bv uuil at IMatte Centre, Xeb. .'l-Uin nr ii.k vjsciii "llth St., opposite Lindell Hotel. Sell Harness, Saddles, Collars, Whips, Blankets, Currv Combs, Hruxhes, trunks, valises, buggy tops, cushion:,, carriage trimmings, .Vc. at the. lowest possible prices. Kepairs pr mptly attended to. $66 1 a week at home. $.i.0) outfit free. Tay absolutely ure. No rik. Capital n t rcmireil. Keadcr, if you want business at which person" of either sex, young or old, can make great pay all the time they work, with absolute certainty, write Tor particulars to II. Hai.lkt .t Co., Tort land, Maine. GEORGE SPOONER, CONTRACTOR FOE ALL KINDS OF MASON WORK. Okkici:, Thirteenth St.. between Olive and Nebraska Avenue, ltceidence on the corner of Eighth and Olive. A.11 Work Guaranteed. l!-tf JS. MURDOCK & SON, Carpenters and Contractors. Havenad an extended experience; and will guarantee satisfaction in work. All kinds of repairiug done on short notice. Our motto is, Good work and fair prices. Call and give us au oppor tunitytoestimatcforyou. 3rSbop on 13th St., one door west of Friedhof & Co's. store, Columbus. Xebr. 483-v O. C. SHANNON"," MAXUFACTUKKR OF Tin and Sheet-Iron Ware ! Job-Work, Hoofing and Gutter ing a Specialty. t3TSbop on Eleventh Street, opposite lleintz's urug More. 46-y G W. ClAKk, LAND AND INSURANCE AGENT, HUMPHREY, NEBR. His lands comprise some line tracts In the Shell Creek Valley, and the north ern portion ol 'ltte county. Taxes paid for non-residents. Satisfaction guaranteed. 20 y f-lOLUMRIJS PAC'KIXU CO., COLUMBUS, - NEB., Packers and Dealers iu all kiuds of Hog product, cash paid for Live or Dead Hogs or grease. Directors. It. H Henry, Prest.; John Wiggins, Sec. aud Treas.; L. Gerrard, S. Cory. -(CTOTICE TO TICHURi. J. B. M oncrief, Co. Snpt., Will be in his office at the Court House 'on the third Saturday of each Bonth for the purpose of examining applicants for teacher's certificates, and for the transactton of any other busiuest pertaislBg to ichooU. 567-7 mm VOL. XV.-NO. 10. COLUMBUS STATE BANK! 3ieetti:rit3 Surarl Sui ul Tareir t llt. COLUMBUS, 1TEB. CASI CAPITAL, . $50,000 DlltECTOKS: Lki.mmck (ikki:aki, I'rcs'i. (Jko. W. IIolst, Vice Pres't. Julius A. Ukku. Howard A. Gkkrakh. J. E. Taskru, Cashier. Rank of lepoi, OlNCOHHt uuil r.cliange. CollcctloaN lroiuptIy 91ade o all FoiatN. Pay Iater?Mt om Time IeptM- I). .1. DRKBKItT. Cubie:. IRA It. lUtlOCLK, Attinut Citiier. -THE- CITIZENS' BANK ! Ill'MIMlUEV, NEIL tSTPrompt attention given to Col lections. !5TPay Interest on time deposits. JSriuaurance, Passage Tickets and Real Estate Loans. "-if LINDSAY&TREKELL, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL FLOOR AND FID STORE! OIL OAKE, CHOPPED FEED, Bran, Shorts, I0LTEB I II10LTED CQBI HEAL. GRAHAM FLOUR, AND FOUR KINDS OF THE BKST WHEAT FLOUR ALWAYS ON HAND. 3A11 kinds of FRUITS in their sea ton. Order promptly tilled. lltli Street, Columbus, Ncbr, 47-Uui HENRY GASS, COFFINS AND METALLIC CASES AND DXALKR IX Furniture, Chairsr Bedsteads, Bu reaus. Tables, Safes. Lounges, &c, Picture Frames and Mouldings. gSTIicpairina of all kinds of Upholstery Goods. G-tf COLUMBUS. NKH. GOLD for the working class Send 10 cents for postage, and we will mail you free a royal, valuable box of i-amplc goods that will put you in the way of making mo:e money in a few days than you ever thought possible at any busi ness. Capital not required. We will start you. You can work all the time or in spare time only. The work is univer sally adapted to lioth sexes, young and old." You can easily earn from 50 cents to $." every evening. That all who want work may test the business, we make tlii unparalleled otl'cr; to all who are not well satisfied we will send $1 to pay for the troublo-of writing u. Full particu lars, directions, etc., sent free. Fortunes will be made by those who give their whole time to the work. Great success absolutely sure. Don't delay. Start now. Address SriNSON & Co., Portland, Maiuc. A WORD OF WARNING. FARMERS, stock raisers, and all other interested parties will do well to remember that the "Western Uorsu aud Cattle Insurance Co." of Omaha is the only company doing business iu this state that insures Horses, Mules and Cattle against loss by theft, accidents, diseases, or injury, (as also against loss by lire anil lightning). All representations by agents of other Companies to the contrary not withstanding. HENRY OARN, Special Ag't. 15-y Columbus, Neb. TAMES SAL.NOX, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER. Plans and estimates supplied for either frame or brick buildiugs. Good work guaranteed. Shop on 13th Street, uear St. Paul Lumber Yard, Columbus, Ne braska. 52 timo. J. WAGNER, 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 LYON&HEALY tti f limilil Salk, Of H1 -bulru. Cw-U tea IliwSSka. Hi Su7 u4 OaUh. Baabhf kh ah lactate lartreMM M Ks- (CMaataaltoafc llBHMTlHalUII .VBlSW hBH Jl riRiT National Bank! COX.X7 Amtkwite4 Capital, - - 1250,000 Paid la Capital. - 50,000 Surplus aid Praite, - - 6,000 OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS. A. ANDERSON, Pres't. SAM'L C. SMITH. Vice Pres't. O. T. KOEN, Cashier. .1. W. EARLY", HKRMANOEHLRICH. -W. A. MCALLISTER. O. ANDERSON, T. ANDERSON. Foreign and lulaud Exchange, Passage Tickets, ana Real Estate Lpans. 2U-voM3-ly COAL LIME! J.E. NORTH & CO., DEALERS IN- Coal. Lime, Cement. Rork SpiMg Coal, $7.00 per too Carboa (WyomiBg) Coal 6.00 " Eldou (Iowa) Coal 3.50 " Blacksmith Coal .of best quality al ways on hand at low est prices. North Side Eleventh St., COLUMBUS, NEB. n-3m UNION PACIFIC LAND OFFICE. Improved and Unimproved Farms, Hay and Grazing Lands and City Property for Sale Cheap AT THE Union Pacific Land Office. On Long Time and low rale of Interest. ISTFlnal proof made on Timber Claims, Homesteads and l're-cniptious. X3B-A11 wishing to buy lands of auy de scription will pleise call aud examine my list of lauds before looking else w Lei c I3TAU having lands to sell will please call and give me a description, U-rm , prices, etc. J3TI a so am prepared to insure prop erty, as I have the agency of several lirat-class Fire insurance companies. F. W. OTT, Solicitor, speaki German. 1 - mawians -1 BMIVn t J9M.amiMBj . w.t m. HELcaniTn, Columbus, Nebraska. SO-tf BECKER & WELCH, PROPRIETORS OF SHELL CREEK MILLS. MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLE SALE DEALERS IN FLOUR AND MEAL, OFFICE, COL UMB US. NEB. SPEICE & NORTH, Genaral Agents for the Sale of REAL ESTATE. Uuion 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, iu annual payments to suit pur chasers. We have also a large aud choice lot of other lands, improved and unimproved, for sale at low price and on reasonable terms. Alto buslues and residence lot6 iu the city. We keep a complete abstract of title to all real es tate iu Platte County. 021 COLVNMIJtt, NRR. LOUIS SCHREIBER, BlUCHltlaWeillft All kiads f Repair! B daae Start Natiee. Biggies, Wag- aas, etc.. Hade t trier, aid all wark Giar- aateed. Abo sell tha varid-fiuMif Walter A. W oad Xawara, laapara, Caaaia- ad Kaekiaaa. Harvattari, aad Itlf-biaJ-tia "Skop oppetit Ike "Tatterall," on 0UV M C'UJUUJUUB. mmm COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY. JULY 2, Appearances. Appearances may often deceive, but the world judges things by them. The outward show and semblance are gen erally taken as a token of the intrinsic value. This is characteristic of men, who for the greater part take no troub le to think for themselves, but take their opinions as they do their clothes, ready made. But it is foolish to strive against a swift current when one can reach the desired end so much more easily by going with it. and therefore it is best to accommodate one's self to the popular habits and make a show of virtue, whether we have it or not. In regard to this popular habit, however, it is very often a true index of the char acter of the man whose surroundings are noted; and a slovenly front yard, a toppling fence, a dislocated gate, a reeking, filthy barn-yard, and general loosenqM and untidiness about tho homestead, are pretty certain to indi cate a careless, unthrifty farmer. On the contrary, a home-tcad about which neatness and order everywhere- prevail, where the stock is well kept, the build ings and yards are clean, tho fences in good order, tho gates substantially hung, and always closed and fastened; the orchards iieatly trimmed anil pruned, the lawn green and closely mowed, the shrubs, trees, and flower borders well kept; all these necessarily proclaim the owner an orderly, indus trious, thrifty farmer, whose prosperity may lie measured by the prevailing ap pearance of his -surroundings. Thus one may travel along the roads end note down as he goes, with :i good deal of accuracy, tho character of tho inhabitants. He may get a deeper and still more acctimto test if he goes be hind the scenes and views the baek yards, the rear fences, aud tho distant Holds. If the hindsight is similar to the front view, the owner may be put down very safely as au upright, hduest, con sistent man, in whom tiicrc is no deceit or guile, and who does not put on a show for the sake of apearauces and to get a reputation which is not wholly deserved; so that appearances really do not deceive when they are tested thoroughly, but only when tho outward show is partial, superlicial, and but thinly diguised. Every farmer should be jealous of the appearance of his home for his own credit. Ho will stand well with his neighbors and be respected by strangers in proportion to his deserts in this re spect. It is his duty to himself, as well as to his neighbors, to thus enhance the reputation and value of his locality. It is a virtue, too, to bo encouraged for its results upon the man himself. It is disciplinary. It is a part of a man's training which does not end till he dies, for it has a great effect upon his general habits and character. Still more important is the fact that it is a training for his children, and helps to form their character anil strengthen their self-respect, which is a very important factor in the problem of uiu vuuug jtuisuu j iiiiM.u jug. iui iu these reasons this timely subject should receive careful attentiou and should be jiut in practice forthwith. One need not say hu has uot tho means to make a show and to expend money upon the adornment of his home. This is not what is meant It is putting the best appearanco upon what we have, and not striving for something we can not reach. A farmer in homespun, if his dress is scrupulously clean and neat is quite as respectable as another in broadcloth. It is the manner and not the material which counts. A plain hoard fence, if neatly and strongly put up, and a rough gate evenly hung and provided with a good latch, which should be used, and a smooth plot iu front of the house, if nothing more than grass, with tidy foothpaths and a clean, well fenced barn-yard in tho rear, will serve to mark the man as well as the ornamental scroll-work fence of his richer neighbor. In fact, plainness, if it is neat and sub stantial, is better than the greater pre tense of the more elaborate show, brill iant in all fashionable colored paints and the gaudy flowers chosen chiefly for their conspicuous colors. -V. 1'. Times. A Familiar Street Scene. A teamster with a load of wood went cip the avenue, and blithely did he crack his whip o'er the horses staunch ami true. They turned into au alleyway with his heavy wooden load, when tho wheels did sink unto the hubs in that muddy alley road. "Git up:" the teamster shouted loud. "Go it while you're young," and the steady brutes did churn the mud, each side the wagon tongue. "She hove and sot," the wagon did, as once a poet Ming, "and every time she hove and sot, awusser leak she sprung." So fared it with this load of wood, as near :is one could judge; the more the horses clove the. mud the more it wouldn't budge. And then began the crowd to come, first (al ways) the small boy, and teamsters stopped on Jefferson the struggle to en joy, and youngsters all along tho walk the women to annoy. A butcher-cart, a passing cab, a wagon full of stoves, a buggy and a grocery rig, with soap and flour and cloves. There stopped a man or. business bent; a doctor in his gig; the avenue was soon tilled up with ev ery kind of rig. As Oliver Wendell Holmes oace said, if a martyr one would burn, some man from out the crowd would know how to roast him to a turn, probably from a restaurant, posted on well-done Bteaks. That man is sure to be on hand and all directions takes. "Why don't you whip your horses up? Why don't you haw or gee? Come, wake up, ancient stick-in-the-mud, or leave the thin" to me." The teamster whipped his horse-; up; the teamster geed ami hawed, lint tho load ot wood was there for good, and there it stood, saying it would (tiol) "Come into tho garden, Maud." The gathering crowd never offered to help, but gave advice instead, while the panting horses stood and puffed and the driver scratched his head. He would look on this side then on that, then gather up each rein; then shout, rave, fume, swear and try it on .again; and all the while the crowd did jeer and scatter round advice, but the wagon wheels stayed where they were as if within a vise. ' Come down from off the load of wood!" "Let's rescue 'em all in boats!" "Oh, put your boulder to the wheel!" "Say! Give 'em a feed of oats!" Then some one took another team and hitched it iu the rear; then both teams pulled in opposite ways while the crowd did scoff and jeer. Having gazed at port and starboard wheel, fully fifty t'.mes or more, the driver then began to do what he should have done before throw off the cord wood stick by stick, and ss networked he swore. And all the while tee heart less mob fired off the ancient joke as how the wheels could silent be, when All of them had spoke; that wheels and horses both were tired, they spoke with a waggin' tongue; that the muddy team woukT be ad-mired, and thus the akaogaa rung; tks Ue wagon surely would go off, if he thought it wasn't! loaded, and mentioned the labor of the man as the work the old scare-crow did. At last adown the alley of mud two teams pulled the wagon along, and thus the end of tho tragedy there Drings with it the end of the song. A3 the teamster looked at the scattered cord tho crowd gave him a parting sally: "See, your sticks are all scattered pro miscuo'us around set 'em up in anothei allev." Detroit Free Press. He Was LefMlanded. "'Pearances are deceptive," the driver of a Third avenue car remarked. "About six o'clock last night a young man hailed the car at Sixteenth street, and came forward to smoke a cigar. He was a pale-faced, slender, foppish, dandy sort of a fellow. He wore one kid glove and carried the other glovo and a dainty little walking stick. As he was going to light his second cigar, he took two from a little case mounted in gold, and drawled: Dwivah, seo hcah will you take a ciga-a-ah? Cau smoke after hours, you know.'. I did take tho cigar, and it was a jolly good one. too. "At Grand street a rough fellow with a bull neck and a big, brawny list got on and planted himself right next to the little dandy. Now, thought I to myself, ther'Il be fun. and my littlo friend is in for it. The dandy, with his little caue and his glovo in his right hand, was standing directly behind me, and the 1'owery bully I had seen him often aud knew lihu well by sight as an ugly customer was a little to my left 'Gi' me a cigar, my sweet beauty," said the bully, after he had taken tho measure of the young fellow. " 'Rather unusual proceeding that, I should say.' drawled the little dandy. Hut he handed the rowdy a cigar, then took a fresh one himcclf, lighted it from the stump of his former oue, and turned over tin stump to Hie bully for a light "The bully Miioked for a minute, then made believe that ho wished to get off, and tried to push in between me and tho little fellow. " '(Jit out of tho way, will you?' ho growled, when the little dandy didn't stir. I want to git oft.' " Plenty of woom where you got on, my dear fellah,' answered tho littlo dandy, deliberately. Weally. my dear boy, I'm too comfortable to move, you see." " 'Out of tho way. I tell you,' growled the bullv. ' or I'll mash your dam nose for you. " Weally, that wouldn't be kind, you know, nor wight uor pwopah, my dear boy. Mv noso is Gweeian, and I wouldn't like to have it defaced.' " The littlo dandy was lounging lazily against the jam!) of the car door, and never even straightened himself up as the bully answered. "'Take that, then, confound you. " lie struck out with his right first, following with his left, and I expected to seo the audacious little cuss knocked into the street. But ho just lft'tcd his left arm, with the gloved hand, as quick as lightning; caught the first blow on his elbow, and the second just below it; then straightened out that little arm of his right irom the shoulder, and sent his dainty little fist like a bullet right into the fellow's face, knocking him com pletely off his pins. The man reeled, and caught hastily at the iron rods of the platform to save himself, but missed them, and tumbled off the car in a heap on the pavement. Stop,' said the little dandy, in a voice as so't as a woman's. Put I didn't care to stop just then, so I wiiipped up the horses, and the last thing I heard was some loud swearing half a square behind me. " You sec, dwivah,' said tho little fellow, dusting off one of his gloves with the lingers of the other, ' what an advantage it weally is to bo left-handed.' And then he weut ou smoking as jaunti ly as ever." Ar. Y. Sun. "The Bad Boy" of the Period. Most excellent is the intent of the law proposed in the Now York Assem bly for prohibiting the vicious litera ture which is turniug American boys into savages and rendering it problem atical whether the next generation will be Jesse James, or Jay Goulds. Tho New York World of a recent date has more than a column of the wild and wicked outbreaks of boys from eight to fourteen 3-car.sof age that have occurred within the -last leu days or two weeks. The list comprises highway boys on tho streets of New York robbing a bey of his watch aud chain; a masked gang who robbed a peddler iu Pennsylvania; six burglars in New York, none over twelve years old; "Jesse James gangs" at half a dozen different points; with a bigamist, a poisoner, two or three mur derers or would-be murderers, a duelist anil a forger. In the largo majority of these cases the boys were readers of the newspa pers aud books whose heroes are of this type of Jesse Jamc- or some other in fernal scamp who figures in the vile trash that waylays boys on nearly every street corner aud seduces them into buyiug and reading it by its coarso wood-cuts and sensational engravings. Even the stage is prostituted to this truly devilish conspiracy for converting the Iwys of tho present day into crimi nals and "Uuifflis." Aud this moral plague, like physical pestilence, kuows no distinction. Tho boys reared in decent, and even superior houses, subject to all the educational appliances of the day from the kinder garten to the Sunday-school are as much exposed to its deadly "influences as the neglected and the ignorant They are insidiously assailed by this literature, which is cither vulgar or vicious. They become "bad boys," in soleut littlo vandals, without rogard to the rights of person or property. Thev indulge in what they call the "tricksf' of the "bad boy" which are really odious aud lawless assaults upon com mon rights aud common decency. They live with as little notion of proper civilized restraints as the burglar in one's house at midnight, the cowboy on the cattle-plains, tho road agent in the mining regions. Nor is the evil imaginary and high colored. Tho constantly increasing number of these cases is not accidental. The cause is increasing, because the source of it is growing larger, and tho question what is to be done about it is growing very serious. In legislation on this subject some of the Southern States are ahead of the Northern; but experience takes away even the little comfort felt in the pass age of laws, for it is the defect in law enforcement that is at the bottom of these evils. It is common to the vet eran official and the juvenile offender. Both lack respect for law; the youth shows it by breaking it, the official by a slipshod neglect to see that it is com plied with. Detroit Free Press. Jay Gould's income is reckoned to do attke rate of nine daHar a iottpa) 1884. Italia. Wine. F Virgil found it impossible to enu merate the different kinds of grapes and their names, how much more so is it the case to-day? But his praises of the Falem'an " wine arc well deserved. White Falern'an is excellent, and has an aroma and bouquet of its own withal strong and generous. Tuscany is de servedly proud of her "Chianti." and "Vin Santo" from any respectable "fat toria" is not to be despised. But the worst of Italian wines is that you are seldom sure of getting the same class of wine two years running. The manner of making wine has not changed since the time of Virgil. The white oxen bring the grapes from the fields in a vat placed on an unwieldy, heavy ox-cart painted scarlet, to the "tinaja" or place where the "tini" or vats are The grapes are emptied out into "bigoneie, tall wooden pails withoutjiandles, which the men carry on their shoulders. The grapes are poured into the immense open vats, where thev are stamped upon night and morning by the bare-legged peas ants to prevent the upper stratum of grapes becoming acid by too long a contact with the air. When the for meutation has ceased the clear murk is run oil' ; a man gets into the vat and pitchforks the murk into "bigoneie" again, which are emptied into the wine press. As a pictorial subject this press is delightful, but it is inconvenient and extremely wasteful. Two huge posts of wood support an immonse beam through which works a wooded screw, finishing at the bottom in a sqiiaro block of wood with two square holes straight through it. Under this stands what is called tho "gabia" (cage), a round, vat-shajed. iron-clamped re ceptacle, mad s of ..troug bars of wood. The murk is put into this aud when it is full "toppi," round slabs ot" wood like coloi-al cheesus are pilod on top of the murk. Then a long pole is stuck into one of the square holes in the bot tom of tho screw, aud to the other end is hooked a rope, which is secured round a turning pillar of wood alout eight feet off. with a handle, against which three or four men throw their whole weight Slowly, with many creaks and groans, the huge block of wood descends on the round slab-, and the rope curls round tho pillar, while from between the bars of tho pi ess rushes out a dark, turbid, dirty-looking liquid, which one can Irtrdly belie o will over turn into ruby wine. This operation is repeated by unhooking the rope, lifting the beam out of its hole and carrying it on a man's shoulder to 'the hole behind, until the murk by sheer physical force Is pressed into a .compact mass and contains no more liqu.d. Virgil's excellent advice about thor oughly seasoning and breaking up the land before planting vines is carriod 'out to the letter in 'I use any, whore the Jclitchcr makes a trench at least six feet deep, and four feet wide, called "scasso reale," which is left open to sun, wind and rain for six months or a year before it is again filled in, after having- been drained in a rough and ready manner by pitching all available stones into the bottom of the trench. The vine-cuttings, "magliuoli," or, better still, two-year-old rooted plants, "barbatelle," are planted two on each side of a young maple tree destined for their support. if a vineyaid is to be made, tie quin cunx system, recommended by Virgil, is always followed, and you "will still hear the head of a sranr " of workmen saying, "they must be like soldiers, properly in "line." Longman's Maga zine. - Crushed Again. The Keepitups had hail a matinee for members of the family only, with more than usual spirit, and old heepitup was tired of life. He dashed up stairs and came down in a minute with a coil of rope on his arm. "Do you see this?" he shouted. "I do)" she said, very coolly. "What of it? Are you going to strike me with it?" "No," he replied, with forced calm ness. "1 am going to let you have your own way from this time henceforth. I am going out to the barn with this rope and hang myself with it." Mrs. heepitup gave a quick searching glance at the rope, made a sudden jump at him and captured the deadly weapon. A tierce triumphant light shone in her eyes. "Not with the ropo you d-m't!" she shouted holding it behind her back. "Not with a new clothes line that cost me a dollar and twenty cents only a week ago you don't hang yourself! Not while I'm alive and have the grit of a woman you don't! You get along out to the barn and take an old plough line; that's plenty good enough to hang bet ter men than ever married into my father's family. And be quick about it too!" she shrieked out of the door after him as he lied away to the barn, unbut toning his collar and tearing it off as he rau. "You bo lively about it because if there's going to be an inquest about tliis house I waut it over and out of tho way before baking day." Old Keepitup uid'nt do any hanging but he went down town and shot him self nine or ten times and came homo at dark so drunk ho let himself into the hen house and his own dog, that bit him five times before recognizing him, had three whisky fits before morning. Bur lington Uawke.yc. Farm Insurance. A correspondent wants our candid opinion if it pays to insure farm prop erty. A wealthy man who has so great a variety of property that the loss of one piece will not cripple his means or embarrass him in his farm operations, need not insure. lie can hardly afford to insure, in a financial poiut of view. And yet, in view of the fact that few men have enough property, iu their town estimation, the constant danger of (loss may annoy him, in which case his ease and comfort requires him to make his property safe by insurance in soma well managed company. But for a man of moderate means, and where the loss of his house will deprive his family of a home without mortgaging .'his property to build another, it is supreme folly to neglect insurance enough to cover the value of his farm buildings and their contents. It gives ra feeling of security and contentment 'We notice theburniug of a barn near -Omaha lately, with twenty-sir cows, eighteen horses, 1,000 bushels of corn and a large amount of hay and oats -loss, -10.0U0. The account ends with ;these words: "No insuarnce." That man ha but one regret on. this subject, and it is probable it will last him through life. This same story comes with saddened tone from all parts of the country. So we say to our friend .it dees pay to insure, in saving prop erty and in securing a contented mind ana sound sleep. In many cases it will save from bankruptcy and ruin. But be careful to insure in a sound com pany, with honest officers and a plain qfuj . .www snmm Mvyiwiif . WHOLE NO. 738. PEESONAL ASD LITEKAJtT. Mrs. John C Fremont is writing1 her recollections of the noted people she has known since her father Degan to go to Congress years ago. N. Y. Times. The most expensive book ever pub lished by a single individual is Lord Kingsborough's "Mexico." It has seven volumes, with one thousand col ored illustrations, and cost $300,000. Mary Jane Baldwin, a Long Island girl, who, because one of her rejected admirers suicided, vowed she would "never marry all the days of her life," was married at midnight recently. Brooklyn Eagle. D. F. Murphy has been official re porter in the United States Senate for thirty-four years. Jeff Davis, Hannibal Hamlin and Freman Smith are the only surviving members of the body in which he entered upon bis duties. Washing ton Star. Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe denies her publisher's statement that she would havo't'akeu one hundred dollars for the MS. of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" when she first offered it for publication. But she admits she was surprised at it success. A". Y. Sun. Henry W. Shaw, the Josh Billings of comic print, ruthlessly crushes anoth er fond fallacy of tho people. He denies the story that a man in Michigan loft iu a will five thousand dollars each to himself and Eli Perkins. Mr. Shaw thinks that this pleasant bit of fiction was tho work of Mr. Perkins, iu fact Chicago 2'imes. Of three noted millionaires, C. P. Huntington, Mark Hopkins and Gov ernor Stanford, all of whom made their enormous fortunes chiefly out of Cen tral Pacitie, none but the'third has evor had a child. Governor Stanford had a son who died a few weeks ago in luly, about sixteen years old. Neither of the three has a direct descendant to whom to leavo his property. Indianapolis Journal. The most prolific and industrious living writer outside of a newspaper office is undoubtedly Mrs. Oliphant, the novolist Like Anthony Trollope, she can carry on three serial stories at once. Besides a great number of novels, she has written essays, travels, criticisms, etc , without end. Also, her work rises to a higher standard as she grows older, which cannot be said of all writers. Boston Post. Moncuro D. Conway intends to re turn to his native land! Mr. Conway has been abroad twenty years, as min ister, lecturer and newspaper corre spondent It was in 18t;: that he left America, worn with work, tired of the ministry, and doubtful of the success of tho anti-slavery caiue, in which he had been an untiring worker. On his re turn to this country ho will probably settle down in Washington. HUMOROUS. An that's the pillar of Hercules?" she said, adjusting her silverspectacles. " Gracious! what's the rest of his bed clothes like, I wonder?" It is a sir-prize the girls are after this year. But the men are growing cautions and are not to be m'se-taken thus easily. Indianapolis Seizors. Ladies are said to be working their way into the watch business, because they produce handsomer faces aud more delicate hands than men----V. Y. Ledger. A young and brietless lawyer whj calls upon his lady acquaintance's a good deal in the evenings, deceives his father with the story that he had a great deal of court practice. N. Y. Commercial Advertiser. James, who was trying to sew a new button on his coat, murmured "They say there's a new yacht tiia makes fifteen miles an hour, b'ut thL thread makes twenty knots a minute." Frank ford Herald. A lady in Toronto got to laughing so hard over some amusing incident that she couldn't stop. Finally a doctor was called in, and he couldn't quiet her. As a last resort some one had to tell her that her back hair was coming down. Lowell Citizen. An engaged couple having appeared several times before a clergyman to get married, who on each occasion declined to perform tho ceremony because the groom was invariably drunk, at hist reproved tho girl for bringing her lover before him iu such a condition, where upon she burst into tears and said: "But, sir, he won't come when he's sober!" Exchange. "Waitiw, I will weally have to wc raove to anothaw table. Tnere appeaws to be a terwible dwaft hcaw." "Tain't no draff heah, no how, Mr. La Dude. Dah ain't no win' 'tall 'copt what dat yer lady am makin' wid' her fan." "Aw, that's it. I knew there was a dwaft It nearly blew me away. Weally, now, couldn't you ask her to 8top?"--Cftca;o Herald. "Is there a dude club in this city?" asked a stranger, entering the editorial room. "There is," returned the editor, aa he produced a toothpick from his pocket and laid it on the roll-top desk; "that's it, and the first dude that shows his head in this office will be brained iwith it" With a deep sigh tho iStrauger turned and disappeared. Sumervdle Journal. "Sister," said a little boy, rushing Into the parlor, where she was enter tertaining young M-. Smith, "will you come into the hall a minute? I waut to peak to you." "I can not uow, dear. Don't you see that lam engaged with Mr. Smith? What Is it you want"' "Jimmy White is out in the hall, and he says he won't belie vo it unless you tell him so yourself." "What is '.t that Jimmy White won't believe, dear?" asked" the sister, sweetly. "That you ate thirty-live pancakes this mornin" for breakfast " Philadelphia Call. A Fine Paper. The boy had just brought some pa pers to the editorial room fresh from the press, and the for e were engaged iu commenting on the issue. "Good paper today, gentlemen," re marked the editor. "That leader of mine, if I am not very much mistaken, will cause a sensaliouamoug- " "It is a good paper," broke iu tho funny man, who had ben looking over his column for typographical errors. "I haven't veryjmuchjmatter in, but if I do say it myself, evory line of it is 'Bright, even for me, and will be copied .far and " "A good deal of local matter is cut out." interrupted the city editor, "but .what there is is first-class news. That cock-fight, I know, will be published ex clusively by us, and I think the runaway accident " "Well, gentlemen," said the proprie tor of the establishment, entering the besom, "fine paper to-day. There's not much in it hat adaertisementd, but taaft'awfcat pja'Pfci7 V(ftfa UalL SCHOOL AND CHURCH. Nearly one-fifth of all the children! in Providence, R. L, of school age, did not attend school a single day during the year 1883. The Baptists havo established at Newton Center, Mass., a house for the children of missionaries who are in dis tant parts. Boston Post. Alfred Smith, of Newport, has pre sented to the Channing Church in that city, as a memorial to his wife, the es tate No. 29 Key Street, to be used as a parsonage. It is worth about $25,000. N. Y. Times. In Denmark, Bishop Marteaaen re cently examined and ordained two young Esquimaux, who will engage In missionary work in Greenland under the auspices of the State Church of Deamark. To the question: "Why did Satan make his approach to Ere and not to Adam?" a religious paper answers: .It may have been because Satan knew that the influence of Eve would be his best holp in conquering Adam. Wives are apt to be the most potent pleaders with thoir husbands. It is gratifying to know that tho Presbyterian hospital of Philadelphia did not lose anything by its refusal to accept $2,500 from the proceeds of a chanty ball. The manager of the in stitution stood for a principle. Their church pronounced dancing wrong, and they would not accept money that had any suspicion of illegitimacy about it, and an admirer of this spirit has sent the hospital a check for 3,000 to make up the loss. Chicago Inter Ocean. The public schools, let it be remem bered, send very few out of the large number of criminals in our peuitonti arics. Most of them have no education. Very few havo had a thorough public school education. Tho average statis tics of tho United States show that out of tho small per cent of the people un able to road aud write como about one third of the criminals, aud of the re maining two thirds only one in a hundred had been educated in tho higher branches. Journal of Educa tion. "In the Cabinet circle all religious meet," sa's the Washington corres pondent of the St Louis Ulobc-Demo-crat. "Tho President is a High Church Episcopalian, although nis father was a Baptist preacher, aud his sisters are all members of that church. Secretary Folger is a Presbyterian, and sits with the pastor's family in the New York Avenue Church, where Sec retary Frelinghuysen and his family, and Postmaster-General Gresham and his family also attend. Secretary Lin coln, like his father. Is a Presbyterian, but his wife is from a strong Methodist family, ami they genorally attend that church. Secretary Chandler and his family go to the Unitarian Church, aud arc of the advanced and liberal think ers of that body. Attoruey-Geuoral Brewster and his wife always worship at tho Kpiphauy, the largest and most fashionable of the Low-Church Episco pal congregations. Secretary Teller and his wife aro very devout Metho dists." m a PUNHENT PARAGRAPHS. "I could make a fortune if 1 had u little capital," say numerous young men. but it never occurs to them tu go to work and earn the aforesaid capital. --"Ah!" sighed Brown, "this life is full of disappointments." "Yes," re plied Fogg, glancing significantly at Mrs. F., "and some disappointments are full of life." Botin Post. A Virginia girl married a tramp, who turned out to bo a duke. Wo've no pity for her. She should have known what he was before sho married him. Boston Post. How a woman always doo-i up a newspaper she sends to a friend, so that it looks like a well stuffed pillow, is something that no man Is woman enough to understand. A Williamsport youth sent fifty cents to a New York firm to learn how to keep from swearing, and received in reply: "Don't open your mouth!" ho has sworn ever since. Willfamsjtort (Pa.) Grit. An Austin man, who has just got out a book of poems, mot Gilhooly and the following proceedings were had: "Did you read my new book?" "O, yes; I read it." "How did you like it?" "Mv dear sir, I assure you that I laid it aside with a great deal of pleasure." Texas Sifliiifs. W. H. Vanderbilt says he never picks up a newspaper that ho doesn't see something disagreeable in it about himself. Lend us a half-dollar. Id fellow. There's nothing disagreeable about that. We might havo asked for a dollar and a half, but this paper is dissimilar, so to speak. Merchant Traveller. On the wedding toun "Don't sit so near the window, darling that we may have the carriage all to ourselves, for there is somebody sure to get in if he sees your pretty face." Thirty years later: "Move up to the window, old woman, so wo cau have tho compart ment to ourselves; you will frighten all the other passengers away, you know." Detroit Post. A clorgymau's daughter, looking over tho MSS. left by her father in his study, chanced upon the following sentence: "Hove to look upon a young man. There Is a hidden potency con cealed within his breast which charms and pains me." She sat down aud blushingly added: "Them's my seuti meuU oxactly.papa all but thepains." Exchange. "Statistics show that there are at least 11,000 men who can neither play foot-ball nor assist an objectionable vis itor to alight from tho front stoop," said a sad-oyed Brooklyn harhelor. "What is the matter with them?' asked his friend. "They are one-legged," was tho cheerful reply. -V. Y. Journal. Is your sister at home?" asked a St Louis young gentleman of the littlo brother who answered the bell. "Yes, she's home," said tho boy; "we're goiu' to have cocoanut pies for dinner to-morrow, and she's out in tho kitchen helpiu' mother make 'em." "Indeed, replied the young man. evidently very much pleased, "and what part of the pie does your sister make?" "She cracks the eocoauuts with hei teeth." Philadelphia Call. The Joke of the Milwaukee Joker. Coming Into a Milwaukee barber shop a few days ago a railroad man espied a friend iu one of the chairs, and sneak ing quietly up behind he seized the lather brush and daubed him in tho eyes and face till he looked like Hump ty Dumpty without any mouth. Tho victim struggled, but to no purpose, and wheu he finally got ou his feet his head was a ball of soap-suds. It was then that the spectators first discovered that be had a mouth in spite of appear ances to the contrary, and the way he went for his assailant proved that ho knew how to use it In the language of the manager of the skating rink, "He deserved the Florida medal." At the sound of his voice the railroad man turned as pale as a ghost The victim was a total stranger to him, and but for the intercession of the boss barber, gore would probably have been spilled. The railroad man's apologies were profuse, but his laughter rang no more that day. He didn't want to laugh; he had had his laugh before he discovered his mis take, and he had got through. Now ho always looks a man all over and waits for him to speak first before he tries to have any fun with him in a barber' chair. Exchange.