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THE JOURNAL. RATES OF AOVEKriSinfG. Z3TBusiness and professional cards of five lines or less, per annipn, five dollars. 37 For time advertisements, apply at this office. ISTLegal advertisements at statute rates. JSTFor transient advertising, see rates on third page. E3TA11 advertisements payable monthly. FOO CHOW. M' III liiW ISSUED 11VZRY WEDNESDAY, M. K. TURNER & CO. Proprietors and Publisher!. TST OFFICE Eleventh St., up stairs in Journal Building. terms: Peryear Sixmonths Three months Single copies oc VOL. XV.-N0. 37. COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 7, 1885. WHOLE NO. 765. v 3lZM v av . fe. . aw . afe aw ' V 4 kv r :T BU8INESS CARDS. D.T. Martyx, 31. D. P. J- SCHUG, M. D. Drs. MAETYN & SCHUG, U. S. Examining Surgeons, Consultations in German and English. Telephones at office nd rejiidencea. i-J-,-m! rirct V-itinnal Bank. 3ta3 vuite u; jo - COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA. 42-y PHYSICIANS: SURGEON. Diseases of women and children a spe cialty. Countv physician. Office forraer fy occupied by Dr.Boncsteel. Telephone exchange. f-E.l,A ASIIBAIJGII,D..8. " " DENIAL PARLOR, On corner of Eleventh and North streets, over Ernst's hardware htore. TT J. 1HIMS03I, NOTARY PUBLIC. 12th Street, i doun. ncot or Hammond Hobm, Columbus, Neb. Wl-J' J . KEEDER, A TTOJiNE Y AT LA W, Office on Olive St., Columbus, Nebraska J-tf V. A. MACKEN, DKALEK IN Foreign and Domestic Liquors and Cigars. llth street, Columbus, Neb. 50-y M cAMJNTEK IIKOS., A TTORNE YS A T LA W, Office up-stairs in McAllister's build ing, llth St. W. A. McAllister, Notary Public. -ron TUIOTUY, NOTARY PUBLIC AND CONVEYANCER. Keeps a full line of stationery and school supplies, and all kinds of legal forms. Iusures against lire, lightning, cyclone and tornadoes. Office in Powell's lilock, Platte Centei. 19"x J. M. MACKAKLAND, B. K. COWDERY, Atierrey asd 17:tiT7 KtYe. Cdliciw. LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE OK MACFARXjAND & COWDERY, Columbus, : : : Nebraska. V. V. KIKVXER, M. (Sutrosor to Dr. C.G. A.IIullhorst) HOMEOPATHIC 1'IIYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Regular graduate of two medical col lege?.. Office up stairs in brick building north of State Uank. 2-ly JT. J. 2HAUCS1IAIV, Justice, County Surveyor, Notary, Land and Collection Agent. 3-Partics deiring Mirveying done can atifv me by mail at Platte Centre, Neb. not fil-flm F II. Kl'SCHE, llth St., opposite Lindell Hotel. Sells Harness, Saddles, Collar.-., "Whips, ltlaukpts. Currv Combs, Brushes, trunks, valises, buggv tops, cushions, carriage trimmii)',', .Vc. at the lowest possible prices. Kepairs promptly attended to. R II. LAWREXCi; DEPUTY CO. SURVEYOR. Will do general surveying in Platte and adjoining counties. Office with S. C. Smith." COLUMBUS, XKHRASKA. 17-tf JS. MUKDOCK & SON, Carpenters and Contractors. Haveliad an extended experience, and will guarantee satisfaction in work. All kinds of repairing done on short notice. Our motto is, Good work and fair prices. 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Moncrief, Co. Supt., Will be in his office at the Court House on the third Saturday of each month for the purpose of examining applicants for teacher's certificates, and for the transaction of any other business pertaining to schools. 567-y i presents given away. bend us ft cents postage, ijuuu anu oy man you win get free a package of goods of large value, tnai win siarL you in wutk iuil nut ai once bring youin money faster than any thing else "in America" All about the $200,000 in presents with each box. Agents wanted everywhere, of either sex, of all ages, for all the time, or spare time only, to work for us at their own homes. Fortunes for all workers ab solutely assured. Don't delay. H. IIal LETT & Co., Portland, Maine. mmi nnn COLUMBUS STATE BANK! COLUMBUS, NEB. CASH CAPITAL, - $75,000 DIRECTORS: Leaxder Gerraud, Pres'l. Geo. W. IIulst, Vice Pres't. Julius A. Reed. R. H. Henry. J. E. Taskeu, Cashier. . - " Baik of Deposits Dlscemmt amd Exchaage. 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That all who want work may test the business, we make this un paralleled offer: To all who are not well satisfied we will send $1 to pay for the trouble of writing us. Full particulars, directions, etc., sent free. Immense pay absolutely sure for all who start at once. Don't delay. Address Stinson & Co., Portland, Maine. A WOKI OF WARNING. FARMERS, stock raisers, and all other interested parties will do well to remember that the "Western Horse and Cattle Insurance Co." of Omaha is the only company doing business in this state that insures Horses, Mules and Cattle against loss by theft, accidents, diseases, or injury, (as also against loss by fire and lightning). All representations by agents of other Companies to the contrary not withstanding. P. W. HENRICH, Special Ae't, 15-y Columbus, Neb. NO HUMBUG! But a Grand Success. RP. BRIGHAM'S AUTOMATIC VTA- ter Trough for stock. He refers to every man who has it in use. Call on or leave orders at George Yale's, opposite Oehlrich's grocery. 9-6m J. WAG-NER, Livery and Feed Stable. Is prepared to furnish the public w:th good teams, bugeies and carriagos for all occasions, especially for funerals. Also conducts a sale stable. 44 rpRAXSIT IIOUSE, PLATTE CENTER NKB., JOHN nUfiGAS, Proprietor. The best accommodation for the travel ing public guaranteed. Food good, and plenty of it. Beds clean and comfortable, charges low, as the lowest. 13-y AT)T)Tr7Tp Send six cents for I 111 I A Pi POStage,and receive J. iliJU. freCj a costly box of goods which will help you to more money right away than anything else in this world. All, of either sex, succeed from first hour. The broad road to fortune opeus before the workers, absolutely sure. At once address, True & Co., Augusta, Maine. ILYON&HEALY I State A Monroe SU.. Chicago. Will tend tmmU t a miinm ti i AMD CATALOGUE. I ittr Ids, 300 rvt), 210 tupmnnp lor InurumnU.' Sclu, Ctpa. Bella, IPosueu. EwltU. Cap-Lamm. , Stand. Dram MmiorH SlaffL Bad I Han, Sundry nj oelcu, nrmt tmu. mbo lacroui luirecuon ana &s- far Aontrar Basila. aaj fCkftbaBasdalatc . """"TaJiVw THE WISH-BONE. Slender and shining, propnetlo bone. We pulled It the future to divine; Her bare pink palm, the bit in my own. Told that wiaOi mnd -wish-bone both wt mine. "What did you ask for?" whispered myBoH, Looking up shyly with eyes so true. "I wished," 1 answered, drawing heaclote, "The woman I win might look llkefyou: "Her eyes as brown as a forest brook, Uer cheek as pink as a sea-shell's tint, A tender mouth, and a saucy look. And pale brown hair with a golden glint; "In short, that my future wife might be You, dear little Uose, and only you." lildlng her face In my breast, said she: "Isn't It funny? I wished that, too." lluih Hail, in Harper's Magasu. A CUP OF TEA. A Story of the Times That Tried Men's Souls. "The British are coming!" It was a fearful cry unto the ears of those upon whom it fell that warm April day. Whispers of a purpose on the part of the red-coats had reached the town of Lexington several days be fore, and now the whisper had culmin ated in a hoarse, full-throated ory: "The British are coming!" Mrs. Sanderson had finished her ironing, and after rocking the baby to sleep, swept up the hearth and set the kettle on for the cozy meal she meant to prepare for her husband and her brothers when they should return tired and hungry from the village. She had just got out the precious canis ter of tea, which, ever sincu the terri ble fuss in Boston two Christmases be fore, she treasured as one of her most valued possessions, when her brothers burst into the little kitchen with the thrilling cry: 4 'Oh. dear! Oh dear! What shall we do?" cried Mrs. Sanderson, wring ing her hands. "Do?" answered her husband, who caught her words as he came hurrying in behind the boys. "Do? Why, meet the pesky critters on their way to Con cord, where they are bound, and scat ter even' mother s son 01 em to atoms," and he pulled his musket down from its place and looked quite equal to the murderous deed. "They will pass here, right through Lexington, then, Silas," said Mrs. San derson, catching up the baby from its cradle and holding .it tight to her breast. "Not if we can help it mother ! We're only seventy men strong, to be sure, but keep up your spirits ; there's a fire and fervor in the American heart that can outblaze any dull, nickering flame of courago in the breast of King George's hirelings! Come, boys! we've not a moment to lose." Then kissing the sobbing woman, and bidding her "keep up," the men hastened on to their brave duty of defending hearth and home. Again the crv resounded on the cleaT spring air: "The British are coming !' and looked out of her window down on the village that lay a little ways below, Mrs. Sanderson could see the signals : and now the bells rang out and signal guns were firing. "Oh dear! What shall I do?" she cried again. "They may pass by here and pillage the house and kill baby and me! Then, as a thought struck her, "I'll escape to the woods before they reach the road. I shall be safo in the little lo hut the bovs built last win-to-." She wrapped the child up warmly as she spoke, and throwing a heavy bed quilt about her own shoulders, was about to start, when, catching sight of her beloved tea caddy standing upon the table, she said to herself, and she laughed afterwards when she recol lected how ridiculous and trivial it was at such a serious time. "The Satun ious redcoats shall not have auy tea for their supper, so there!" anl she quick ly emptied the contents of the caddy into an old battered colFec-pot and hid it in the oven. "I guess you'll have to whistle for your cup of tea in this house, Mr. Brit isher !" said she, as she ran hurriedly out of the house toward the piece of woods half a mile or so away. tt vfiu Hort- nntv ?inil wiYiwinir fnrl ... .. w- . ... ...... i,. 0 ., though the weather for the season ha'd been warm. Patches of snow still lingered on the hedges and in paths which the sun coujd not reach at mid day. The wind whistled through the bare boughs, and she was chilled through when she reached the little hut in the woods. The baby wakened and cried, and his voice seemed louder and shriller than ever before. She hugged him closer to her bosom and stilled his cries quickly, lest some prowling British soldier should detect their hiding spot Flashes of hre and the sound of the excited voices of the men could be heard in the distance. With a prayer upon her lips for the safety and pres ervation of her loved ones, Mrs. San derson at last succumbed to nature, and lay down to rest. Tired and worn out with the fatigue and excitement of the day, she soon fell into a profound (dumber. It was late in the morning when she wakened. In spite of the discomforts and cold in her strange quarters, she had slept soundly through the night; the babv too had been unusually good, and had not disturbed her. For an in stant she could not recover her thoughts. Where was she and what did it all mean? Then a flash of recol lection swept across her dazed brain, and she remembered all. She made her way at length to the edge of the woods and looked down to ward the illage. The light seemed to be raging fiercely: but could she believe her eyes, as, shading them with one hand," she secnied to see the red-coats fleeing back toward the Boston road, closely pursued by the Minute Men? "They have been routed and are re treating! Brave men of Lexington!" she cried, proudly, as she watcled with breathless interest the quick march of the enemy, which were driven before the Americans like a flock of sheep. It was growing toward sundown when Mrs. Sanderson decided it would be s:ife to venture back to her home. VI ready along the roadside were to be seen the debris and ravages of Avar; and when she entered her own desolate home, there, too. the "British" had evi dently "come," for a general upsetting of her orderly household was plainly visible. Where, oh. where were father and the boys? Should she ever see them again?" As she laid the bab down in its cradle, and lighted the candle to look about her more closely, a deep groan startled her. She looked over toward the spot from whence the sound had issued, and saw a man's figure prostrate upon the floor in the dark ened corner. "O Silas, my husband! Are you killed?" she cried, throwing herself down beside the figure The man tamed and laised him f apou one una, and she saw, not ike ; &cc of her husband, but that f a i stranger, and she recognized now the hateful red uniform of a British officer. "Madam," whispered the man, hoarsely, "I am sick unto death. For Heaven's sake give me a cup of tea." "flow dare you?" she began, her dark eyes flashing lire, the very sound of the word "Tea" from her enemy's lips rousing her American indignation; then at sight of the man's pale, ago nized features she stopped, and a womanly compassion for a sick and suffering fellow creature swept away all other feeling in her tender breast. "You are suffering," sho said, in a gentler tone. "Let me see; where are you wounded?" and she knelt once more beside him, for the man had sunk back exhausted. "If if you will give me something warm to drink, I will try to leave your house at once, madam," he gasped, vainly endeavoring to rise again. "No, no, you shall not go," answered Mrs. Sanderson now, with warmth and earnestness. "Your white face is flag of truce enough to soften my enmity against you. We women of Lexington are as tender-hearted as our husbands are brave. I will not turn a suffering man from my door, even though he be our bitter enemy. Lie still; vou shall have your cup of tea," and sno put a pillow beneath his head, and bustled about, making the fire, while the man watched her preparations with eager eyes. The kindlings now blazed up, and the kettle sang blithely, when Mrs. Sander son drew from the oven the old coffee Jiot into which she had poured her tea or safety. She looked towards the stranger," as she carefully measured out the precious grains. "Coffee?" he asked, catching her glance. "No; some of the tea, for which you British would fain tax us beyond en durance!" she replied, hotly, her color rising and eyes flashing again. In spite of his suffering, the man smiled grimly. What a spirited little Yankee woman she was! Presently she poured out a cupful of the fragrant Oolong and held it to his lips. He drank long and copiously, then with a grateful look, he muttered a few words half-intelligibly. She bont lower to catch them. "Whosoever giveth a cup ot water in my name, he shall not lose his re ward."' So much she heard as he closed his eyes and sank into a deep sleep. Baby now demanded her care, and it was with a sorrowful heart that sho seated herself to nurse him. Again and again the agonized thoughts of where was her husband? were her brothers still alive3 were she and baby widowed and fatherless? came with overwhelming force. Suddenly a shout outside started her reveries, and roused her sleeping guest. She hastened to open the door, and Silas Sanderson burst in, begrimed and black with the dust of the fray. "Hurrah!" he cried, triumphantly "We have routed the red-coats; they are going back to Boston fo-night quicker than they came yesterday. Three cheers for the brave Minute Men of Lexington town!" "O, Silas, you are alive! you are not hurt!" cried his wife, throwing herself into his arms. "No, no; 1 am equal to a hundred more battles" "Ami the boys? O, Silas, tell me quickly!" "Reuben wa- wounded a trifle, but Ebcnezer is s:ife: they arc both pur suing the enemy, am! will follow them up to Charlentown to-night. But j'ou, Malvinv, where did you stay, and baby?" "In the woods all night," sobbed Mrs. Sanderson, breaking down for the first time. "My poor girl! There, there, we are all safe now. Come, make me a cup of tea. Ah, you've got it all ready for me? What!" as she caught sight of the tall figure in the red uniform that now stajjjjered towards him from its corner. "What!" he shouted, catching up his musket and preparing to fire. "No, no, Silas! not that not mur der! he is sick and wounded, he is" "He's a red-coat!" cried Silas, taking aim. Mrs. Sanderson quickly placed her self before the man, shielding him with her own bady. "Silas!" she cried, putting up her hand; "you shall not have this man's blood upon your mhiI. It is not war, but murder, in your heart now." The man pushed her aside, and stood awaiting hi doom. Silas dropped his musket with a dull thud upon the floor, and grasped the man roughly by the shoulder. "You are my prisoner, at least," said he. "and you'll stay here until" "Stop. Silas! do you not see the man is dying?" The loss of blood, which now gushed from a severe wound in the oliicer's side, made him unable to stand longer, and he fell in a dead swoon at their feet At sight of the enemy's weakness even the stem Minute Man's anger melted, and Silas lifted up the man, as tenderly as he would have done a brother, and laid him down upon the settle by the hearth. Then together the compassionate man and wife dressed the gaping wound that undoubtedly some of their own friends had that day inflicted upon the hated red-coat. They watched beside him through the night, ministering unto his feverish thirst and and answering his continual petition for "a cup of tea, for God's sake!" without a thought of enmity toward the Britisher" in their hearts. For three days was this their enemy, their prisoner and their guest. At the close of the third day the man was strong enough to walk about the room. Up to this time the three had spoken upon nothing save the necessary talk relative to the man's illness. He himself bro.ke the constrained si lence at last: "I am strong now," he said to Silas, one evening, "but I am your prisoner; what disposition shall you make of me?" Silas looked at his wife. She replied quickly and with warmth: "You are our enemy," said she, "but vou have been wounded b who knows? perhaps one ot our ownblood" with a thought of her own brothers, who wer still down in Cambridge. "You are not a bad man, I think, al though you are a Britisher. If I may answer your queM .0 : a I would like to, I would -jaA .-.imply: "Good-bye, don't come thi way again; we might not be so hospitable another time.' " And she looked anxiously over toward Silas. Her husband did not speak. "And you, sir?" asked the officer. (Silas did not look up. "My wife's word is law in this house," lie replied, in a low tone. "I won't answer for wiat I mkrhti sav if she were not here. You'd better do as she says now. say good-bye and go right away." "Madam, I leei that I owe my life and my liberty to you, God bless you!" and the officer extended his hand to them both. Mrs. Sanderson accepted it, but Silas drew back. 3 "I can't shake hands with a British er, sir," ho said; "you are my enemy stfll." J J ' The man turned and walked out of the door, but in a differant garb, into the gathering gloom of the dull Spring night, and never again did Silas San derson or his wife entertain a red-coat My story is substantially true. Many years after, when Mrs. Sander son was quite an old lady, and liked to tell her grandchildren of the cup of tea she made one day for a Britisher, a great box came to her from over the seas one Christmas. It contained a chest of tea of tho very finest brand, and on a card inside was wftten, "From a British officer to tho American woman who once made for him a cup of tea." Augusta de Bubna, in Youths Companion. a. The Ideal American Home. What is the ideal home of the intelli gent and refined American citizen? You know the picture. It is not over 500 acres of land. One hundred in woodland, 100 in pasture, 230 in gen eral cultivation, and the remaining fifty in proximity to the eight or ten room house. There is a ten-acre orchard of well-cared for fruit trees of every variety adapted to the soil and climate, a live-acre vineyard, a kitchen farden of one acre, separated lots and ouses for .stock and for fowls, and with the front yard thrown into mounds and laid off with serpentine walks, with summer houses, and in which are found tho choicest flowers and most luxuriant of vines. In one room, one of the most comfortable, is found a library; there is always money to spare to" pay for new books, magazines and a newspaper, and to which on the dullest of days the minds of the family can readily turn for communion with great authors. Do officors of tho law ever look under rose bushes or through vine arbors for per sons named in their writs? ever find them in such place?? No, those do not breed crime, graduate or attract crim inals. But they do inculcate and ma ture principles born in tho bosom of God, whose voice is the happiness and harmony of the world. Were it possir ble to rear a child in such a place, without contact and contamination with the outside world, with no other teacher than tho language of tho gar- uen, its Hie would oe as pure as the prayer of an angel, and its epitaph with truth be written: Xo pearl ever lay under Oman's green water More pure in its shell than thy spirit In thee. It is, however, not at all necessary to have so much as 500 acres to create an ideal home; nor the half, nor the fifth of it. How often do wo find a master hand take hold of a few acres, and, as j it were, by the touch of magic, change the otherwise rude and ugly surface of the elephant into the soft and silken spots of the leopard? The cottage home, surrounded by fruits, flowers and ornamental trees, arranged with taste, cultivated and pruned with care, attracts more attention than the costly, stately mansion without these although Hanked by native forest monarchs. You need walk but a few blocks in this or any other city to find proof of this. There is another light in which your calling shines with a luster all its own. You are not reapers but sowers. You are teaching people of our young State how to live how to raise and enjoy the best gifts of their Creator. The seeds you are planting now will bear fruit for generations yet unborn. And it must be a happv reflection that if you suc ceed, as you certainly will, in dissem inating your products and a correct knowledge of them over your country, you will not have lived in vain. And always remember the immortal truth of the immortal speech of Jennie Deans to Quren Caroline: "When the hour of trouble comes, which comes to all, and when the hour of death comes, which comes to high and low, it is not that we have done for ourselves, but that we have done for others we think of most pleasantly." N. O. Times-Democrat. The Games of Savages. We must look for considerable sim plicity in the games of savages. We must also allow for their want of me chanical skill. No outsider, not even Mr. Gale, knows how a cricket ball is stuiled and sewed; some, at least, of the processes are a trade mystery. The savage can not produce a cricket ball, a gou ball, a billiard ball; his equip ment is thus scanty, and he has to do the best in his power with the rude ma terials and means at his command. Yet we must not despise the games of savages. Little studied as they have becnuy the anthropologist (for even Mr. Taylor lias chiefly written about a primitive form of backgammon and about tsigan, or polo, alone,) the games of savages deserve to be ex amined with respect. The nrranjre- meut of such vague things as savage not verv easy. They mav. perhaps be classed as imitative, gam bling and purely sportive, though the three divisions naturally overlap and run into each other. The first category mav be dismissed briefly enoujrh. Of savage as of civilized children it may be said that "their whole vocation is endless imitation." A wedding or a funeral among the elders is copied by the little ones in childish play. The Esquimaux children "build little snow huts, which they light up with scraps of lampwick begged from their moth ers." Australian children have their tinv boomerangs and lijrht vet danger ous boys spears, the latter being made of a long reed tipped with a sharp piece of hard, heavy wood. Australian chil dren are regularly taught by tho old men to wield their little weapons, and the late Mr. Grimston, at Harrow, has his Australian counterpart in the aged Murri, who sets up the mark for the children and teaches them how to di rect their missiles. A disk made of bark is thrown hard down on the ground, and, as it bounds along with irregular leaps, the young blacks cast at it with tin spears. "Obedience, steadiness, fai -.day and self-command were incul cated by the practices witnessed" in tho playing fields of the bush. The imita tive games of young savages, then, are like those of other young people, only varying in the things imitated. Among games we can scarcely reckon the dances of the adults, in which the man ners and customs of beasts are imitated. These dances have usually a religious sense, (as when the Athenian girls mimicked the bear in the worship of Artemius,) or they are magical cere monies, intended to secure luck in the chase. Saturday Recicio. A man with a wooden leg is one of the most expert bicyclists in Salem. Ore HOW LONDON DINES. Corfly State Dinners, or. If You Like, Meal for a Fenny. Being bidden to one of London's civio dinners, I partook inter alia f lark pudding. I do think it is a shame to put the lark which "at Heaven's gate sings" into pudding, but being in a pudding the lark is exceedingly nice. 1 am told that lark pudding is quite as expensive and doubly as rare as bird's nestjsoup, and certainly the unanimity with which tho guests on the occasion I refer to called for it, bears out the as sertion. Perhaps Delmonico himself could not have suggested a rarer menu than that which the shipwrights laid before us. The Lord Mayor as fine and yeomanlike a specimen of English man as one wonld wish to see occu pied the guest's place of honor, and at such times as I dared furtively to raise my eyes in the direction of that digni taryl thought I 8aw"tnat he enjoyed tho repast exceedingly. Certainly it was a gorgeous affair, from tho soup to the pudding, and afterward to tho cigars (great fat fellows of that deli ciously loose and crumbly make about the end that domestic workmen can not imitate). The wines, too; the fra grant hocks and mellow clarets and dry champagnes, the rare old ports, the nutty sherries, the thimbleful of oily brandy, and the accompanying gulp of coffee. That is one way in which Lon doners the great corporations and city guilds dine. Let us soe. At tho height of that ban quet it must have been nine o'clock. From tho majestic Mansion House, which seos literally hundreds of such din ners during every Lord Mayor's term, to the Now cut, is but a ihort distance. Here, "as indeed in all parts of Loudon. there are served up at eght o'clock pre cindy in the ham and beef shops huge dishes of boiled beef, baked pork and peaso pudding. It is not to say too much that one hundred thousand fam ilies in London take their evening (and heartiest) meal from theso shops, carry ing home the steaming viands in hot basins, at a cost of from one penny to say, ninepenco each family. (Two to 18 cents. The meat, of course, can not bo obtainod for this smaller sum, but a huge platter of peaso pudding may, and there is no dish moro whole some and sustaining. To tho very poor not to the very poor est, poor creatures, for they are unable to get oven this cheap food frequently the hot joints and hot pud ding served from eight o'clock until midnight, and the savory saveloys that are taken steaming from the boiler are a great boon. Many of tho establish ments in which they are served have also a midday hot lunch (none being al lowed to consume their food on tho premises), but for tho most part the morning is occupied by their proprietors in cutting and preparing the meat for the great rush of the evening, in clear ing up generally, and in cutting cold meats for such as want them. I have often gazed with mute admiration upon the deit manner in which these gentle men ply their long knives. They seem to be able to cut off a pound of meat without diminishing the joint. And to do it again and again. I am positive that I have seon them shave off a piece of ham that was no thicker than tho paper on which these lines will be printed. Such as can not muster enough money to indulge in a steak-and-kidney pudding, which costs anywhere from four to ten pence, according to how much steak and kidney there is in it, and of what variety they are, can at all events find a cheap and healthy repast in the fried-fish shop. There is a great plenty in England, and at any seasons of the year, ot a fish called plaice. It is something liko a flounder and some thing like a sole, but it is neither, and has a distinct flavor. The fried-fish shop-keeper cuts this plaice in two, peppers, salts, and flours him, and pops him into a gigantic vat of boiling grease. In ten minutes he is done. Scores of thousands, especially in the winter time, are nightly customers of the fried-fish shop. I have tried plaico so cooked and like him very much. The great consideration about him, however, is his cheapness. A satisfying portion of fried plaice for one can be obtained for a single penny, while, if the purchaser desires to spend more, he can get at the same shop a three-cornered paper full of chipped potatoes for another penny four cents of our money in all. Is it not terrible to think that in this vast town, this innumerable cara van, there are thousands who can not often approach even this poor luxury? The poor, however, have certainly more opportunities of obtaining cheap and nourishing food in London than in any other of the large cities certainly far more than in New York or Brooklyn. We will suppose, for example, that a man were landed in New York with but twenty-five cents in the world and hungry. How long could he support life on that? Certainly not more than two days that is to say, before he be gan to starve. Twenty-five cents are a shilling and a half-penny in English money, and I think you" will gather from what I have written that it would go much further here than there. For a penny here man may have a dish of whelks (a toothsome shell-fish) with pepper and vinegar, or two very repulsive-looking oysters, or in the winter time a cup of hot eel soup, or a meat or fruit pie, or a plate of mussels. Cor. Brooklyn Times. Why He Objected. Judge Bigincome sat down to the dinner-table, and after being helped, asked his wife: "Mary, who is that freak of nature I saw in the back yard?" "That is the new coachman I engaged this afternoon." "Why, he's humpbacked and will look like a toad sitting upon the chine of a water-logged barrel!" "Perhaps so." "And he's got a bias in one eyo that would arouse tho sympathy of even Ben Butler." "I noticed that." "And his mouth looks like the hop per of a sausage-grinder, his nose eems to be retiring from business and his ears are the size of the cinder-fenders on a Pullman car!" "I agree with you. But why do you object to those items, Judge?" "Why, madam? Because I don't propose that one of my daughters shall marry a combination side-show! I, at least, have the privilege of wishing that my son-in-law can go about with his wife in good society without his very looks giving people acute neural gia of the optic nerves and frightening timid parties into possible catas trophe!' Ihe "freak" got his walking papers right away. v42xto Cracker. FIRST National Bank! COLUMBUS, NEB. Authorized Capital. Paid In Capital, Surplus and Profits, - $250,000 50,000 - 6,000 OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS. A. ANDERSON, Pres't. SAM'L C. SMITH. Vice Pres't. O. T. ROEN, Cashier. .1. W. EARLY, HERMAN OEULRICH, W. A. MCALLISTER, O. ANDERSON, l'.ANDEKSON. Foreign and Inland Exohnngo, Pus sago Tickets, ana Real Estuto Loans. 2iMrol.l3-ly COAL LIME! J. E. NORTH & CO., DEALERS IN Coal, Lime, Cement. Bock Sping Coal, $7.00 per ton Carbon (Wyoming) Coal 6.00 u Elflon (Iowa) Coal 5.00 " Blacksmith Coal of best quality al ways on hand at low est prices. North Side Eleventh St., COLUMBUS, NEB. 14-3m BECKER & WELCH, PROPRIETORS OF SHELL CREEK MILLS. MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLE SALE DEALERS IN FLOUR AND MEAL. OFFICE, COL UMB US, NEB. SPEICE & NORTH. General Agonts for tho Sale of REAL ESTATE. Union Pacific, and Midland Pacific R. R. Lands for sale at from $3.00 to $10.00 per acre for cash, or on five or ten years time, in annual payments to suit pur chasers. AVe hare also a large and choice lot of other lands, improved and unimproved, for sale at low price and on reasonable terms. Also business and residence lots in the city. "We keep a complete abstract of title to all real es tate in Pltte County. 621 COLlJIBlIi, NEB. 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 rate of Interest. t3ff"Final proof madeon Timber Claims, Homesteads and Pre-emptions. E5TA11 wishing to buy lands of any de scription will please call and examine my list of lands before lookinz elsewhere I3TA11 having lands to sell will please call and give me a description, term, prices, etc. TZ3TI also am prepared to insure prop erty, as I have the agency of several first-class Fire insurance companies. u. W. OTT, Solicitor, speaks German. MAJHIKI. C. SMITH, sn-tf Columbus, Nebraska. LOUIS SCHKEIBER, MsiMWgpittei'. All kinds of Repaiiing done on Short Notice, buggies, Wag ons, etc., made to order, and all work Guar anteed. Also sell the world-famous Walter A Wood Mowers. Reapers, Combin ed Machines, Harvesters, and Self-binders the best made. XSTShop opposite the " Tattersall," on Olive St., COLUMBUS. 'Jtt-m One of tha Few rortn la China Opa a Foreign Trade. Foo Chow 13 thu capital city of tho province of Foh Kieu, annil one of tha few ports in China open to foreign, trade. The Chinese nanus of the city U Hok Chin, which signifies "happy re gion." Foo Chow is situated in latitude 2G degrees 5 minutes north and longi tude 119 degrees '20 minutes east, about 420 miles northeast of Canton, and 375 miles southwest of Shanghai. It stands on a plain about two and a half miles from tho north bank of the River Miu. and twenty-live miles from its mouth. An ampitllcater of hills surrounds the city about four miles distant, and it is protected by one of the peculiar walls of China, which is seven miles in cir cumference, from twenty to twenty-live feet high, and from twelve to twenty feet in thickness at different points. Seven gates. aHoriLentrance to the city proper through this high wall, and over each of the gates is a high tower which is jealously guarded by watchmen. Tho whole district between the city and River Miu, the island of Xantai. and the southern bank of the river are occupied by extensive suburb-,, and the river it self is occupied by a large floating poj ulation which lives in the boats which crowd its waters. Communication frm bank to bank of the river is afforded by a stono bridge, which is about a quartor of a mile long, and is supported by forty piers, placd at unequal distauces. Across these piers are laid immense stones, three feet square and about forty-live feet long, and over these a granite platform extends. This bridge is known to the natives as the bridge of ten thousand ages, and is said to be over eight hundred years old. It is lined along the sides with shojw, and is constantly lilled with the people of Foo Chow. The city proper of Foo Chow is reg ularly built, but the streets, though paved with granite, and in many in stances planted with 4rees. are tilthy, narrow, anil infested with beggars. The population of the city has been variously estimated by travelers in China at from G00.000 to 4,000.000 souls. The most remarkable establishment of the city is the arsenal, actuated about three miles down the River Min, at Pagoda Island, where the sea-going vessels usually anchor. It was founded in 15G7. and has been conducted, under the direction of French engineers, ac cording to European methods. In 1870 it employed about one thousand work men, besides lifty European superin tendents. Foo Chow is known in China as a city of the lirst class, and Ls the seat of "the Viceroy, or Governor Gen eral, whose jurisdiction extends over Fokien and Cheklang, the province ad joining Fokicu to the north. The city is also a great literary center, and nti merous gentry who have retired from office in other parts of the Empire and men of high literary attainments reside there. It has several cotton, papt r and hardware manufactories, .-everal hun dred factories for making porcelain, and factories of blue cloth, .screens and combs. Near by are productive lead mines, and a great tea-growing district lies within seventy miles of the city. The commerce of Foo Chow is princi pally witlt Japan and the maritiimo provinces of China. The chief exports are black teas, timber, bamboo, fruits. orange-peel, tobacco, potash, spices, gniin. copper and lead. The import-! are opium, which .sometimes amounts) to -5.000,000 in value for a year, salt, sugar and European manufactures. Chicago Times. a a WANTED TO WED A CHILD. An Italian Atmnpiliifj tn Mury a Tn-elva-Yr;ir-OIl (ilrl. The procession of Italians, the womeni in srav costumes anil most of the men. dressed like laborers, trooped aerosst City Hall Park yesterday afternoon and) entered the hall by tho rear door. The leader was Mr. Pergamini, the money broker, of No. 15 Center street. A girl not ever four feet in height came last. She was clad in a brown dress with a bright blue waist, her head was uncov ered, and a profusion of chains hung about her ncc,k. and rings were upon nearly all her linger-;. She prattled with her companion during the walk, and laughed with childfch glee when the hall was reached. It was a wed ding party, and the child wa- the bride. Entering" the hall, piloted by Mr. Ber gamiui, they proceeded to the Alder manic Library, where the necessary papers were lilled out. The girl-bride was Teresa Uallote, and her age wa set down at between twelve and thir teen. The jjroom was Demenico Mil ano, aged twenty-six. Mr. Uergamini bustled about, and when the attending witnesses had allixed their signatures to the certilicate declared that everything was ready for the ceremony. After ,somc delay Alderman Dempsey was found. The parties stood up, when the Alderman demanded: -How old is that child?" "Not quite thirteen," raid Mr. Ber gamini. "I won't marry such a child," said the Alderman, "and it is an outrage to have her married. You must get some one else," and, hastily walking out he banged the door to show his displeasure. "Well, well," said Uergamini, "we must get some one else. Where is Alderman Finck? He will do it right off." A search for the willing Alderman proved fruitless, and. again headed by the indefatigable Uergamini, the party entered the private room of Judge Mc Adam. Before the papers were shown to him the age of the child was altered uo that she was made to appear as being in her fourteenth year. The Judge ex amined the papers, and then came out, and. taking a look at the child, paid at once: "I won't marry tin. girl, as she is not of lawful age and is nothing but a child." The girl's mother stepped for ward and explained through Uergamini that the marriage was with her consent, but the Judge lirmly refused to perform the ceremony, and again the party left in search of the necessary oflicial. None could Iks found, and the parties then left for home, Mr. Bergamini stating that the ceremony would be performed on Monday at two o'clock, when plenty of Aldermen will be about. Judge McAdam said, after the bridal party had left, that, wholly apart from the "impropriety of marrying such a child, the ceremony could not legally be performed, and that any magistrate or Alderman marning her would be in dictable for misdemeanor. :us the statute provides that females under fourteen years of age. or males under sixteen, can not be married, even with the con sent of the parents. He was also out spoken in denunciation of the attempt o deceive him about the ago of the girl oy chauging the figures upon ths papers. N. Y. Times. ITsa