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r. i iM i . a1 i - U J m Mr A r THE JOmtyAIi. ISSCEO EVZRY WEPEi:DAY, :m. k. turner & co. Proprietors and Publishers. 23" OFFICE, Eleventh r., up " in Journal Building. terms: Per year Six month Three months single copies COLUMBUS STATE BANK! C0LTT5I3TJS, 5EB. CASH CAPITAL, - $75.00C DIRECTORS: L-E.v-DEit Geueahd, Pres'i. Geo. W. FIulst, Vice Prert. Julius A. Ueed. It. II. Henry. J. E. Tasked Cashier. Bank of Iepoit, l)lcemt and Exchange. Collection. Promptly Made o all Point). Pay Interest on Time Deposit- "- HENRY G-ASS, UXDERTAKEE ! ( OFFI AND METALLIC CASES iNJ DE.VLER IN Furniture. Chairs, Bedsteads, Bu reaus. Tables, Safe3. Lounges. &c. Picture Frames and Mouldings. "Snirpairlna of all kinds of Upholstery (mods. ti-tf COLrMBF-. NEB. HENRY LITERS, DEALER I WIND MILLS, AND PUMPS. Buckeye Mower, combined. Self Binder, wire or twine. Pumps Repaired on short notice rc??One door wc-t of Heintz's Drus store, lltn Street, Columbus Neb. S tt rji T yfor working people, -end 10 H pi I i ! ent- po-tase, and we will lAXJluX n,a,i joure, a ioyal, val uable -im;!' ').)S of .rood- that will put vou ii ih- w a-, of making more money in i ff- il n . rh.tn mu ever thought pos sible iltnv tine. Capital not re quired. "U can live at home and work in spare time aly, or all the time. All of both -i'Mi. it all a:re. grandly suc cessful. " -ent to $." easily earned every evening. That ail who want work may te-t the business, we make this un paralie.ed offer To all rho are not well satisfied we will -end $ I to pay for, the trouble of writing u. Full particulars. direction-, t , ent free. Immense pay absolutt-Iv -ure for all who start at once. Don't delay. Address -TISsON" J: Lo.. Portland, Mam.. A WOKI OF 1VAK:VCW2. FAIOIER-. stock raisers, and all other interested parties will do well to remember that the -We-tern Horse and Cattle Insurance Co." of Omaha is the onlv company doinir business in this state that insures' Horses. Mule and Cattle ,aaainst loss by theft, accident-, diseases, of injury, (as alo acainst lo-s by nre and lizbtnimr). All representations by agents of other Companie- to the contrary not withstanding. P. W. HESRKH. special Air't, 15-v Columbus, Neb. NO HUMBUG! T3ut a Grand Success. EP. BRIGEAjI'S AUTOMATIC "VTA- terTroush for tock He refers to every man who has it in use. t all on or leave orders at George Yale's, opposite OehlriciTs irrocerv. l)-6m J. WAGNER, Liverv and Feed Stable. Is prepared to furnish the public wfth zood team, buie and carriaires for all occasions, especially for funerals. Al-o conducts a sale stable. 44 PLATTE CENTER NEB-, JOHS DCKGV5. Proprietor. The best accommodation for the travel ing public ruaranteed. Food good, and plenty of i Beds clean and comfortable, charges low, a the lowest. 13-y A"T"r)"rryT71 Send six ce Send six cents for . receive Iv box of :roods which will help you to more money riht away than anything else in this world. All. of either sexTsUcceed from nrst hour. The broad road Co fortune opens before the workers, absolutely sure. At once address, True & Co, Augusta, Maine. iLYON&HEALY I State & Monroe Sts.. WHlcs4?raidtoma7i2jliuithv BANC CATALOGUE, i !at lass. 3" 5F. " "V Pr-nci- E-UltU. ClHlBK I Sta&. Ersm 2Ujari Suw ud FMin. SasfeT Uad UBISO, OB p.1 .lnTT"1 IT Lm, man ifvABilnrmaik,ul CsKScd)tBiac 3 1 5 bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbV"'!, 52bm Chicago. JB b3 "BM ktae II SfLIE mm VOL. XY.-NO. 38. LINES TO MY SPRING OVERCOAT. Thou fickle thinj? ! Oh. I could smite thee with a tongue of brass. But words are dumb and so but let it paa! Forthou art only false as other men, I bate thee now as I did love thee the. Early last spring. Why, false one. seel Thou once was warm enough for any clime: And mark, how short ago was that sweet time In Auirust last, when sunstrokes filled the sky. And for the lack of other coat I wore ta aye: Thou smothered' st met And now? the breath Of chill November makes me wish thee warm; Dead leaves In shivering eddies 'round me Thou art as cold as frigid Greenland's snows. And every one who sees thee laughs and knows I'll freeze to death. BurdetU. in Brooklyn EagU. SQIJAWS EOCK The Tragic Events from Which It Took Its Name. Those who are acquainted with the upper portioa o tho Russian Kiver Valley cau not have failed to remark a peculiarly precipitous bluff, some five hundred feet in height, which over hanrs the western bank of the stream at a point about ten miles north of Cloverdale and six of seven from Hop land or Sanel. Those who have ridden in the stage from Cloverdale to Ckiah at the present day over the new toll road running along the eastern bank of the river, gain a clear view of this precipitous bluff while passing over that portion of the road known as the Blue hde a geological freak which he-s jut opposite to Squaw's Rock, and has acquired its reputation from the glacier-like movement of the blue clay composing that portion of the river .ward slope, necessitating continued re pairs of the roadway, and constituting the acutest thorn in the side of the stae drivers who ply between Clover dale and Eel River. "Either the driver or some fellow passenger, if you hap pen to be traveling on the stage, will probably volunteer to give you the tra ditional" particulars of how the Squaw's Rock acquired it3 name. These par ticuLirs. however, are usually extremely meagre, and all that seems to be cer tainly known about the matter is that, some forty years aco before the dis covery of gold, m fact, and when white settlers were few and far be tween an Indian maiden was beloved bv a white youth, the affection being mutual, butdistasteful tc tfct maiden's tribe, who put every obstacle in the way of a union; that the maiden was eventually compelled to marry a suitor chosen for her by the tribe, and that, in a tit of despair, she threw herself, like another Sappho, from the top of the precipice which bears her name, and was dashed to pieces on the bowl ders of the river's bed. This poetic legend micht still have remained shrouded in historic vagueness had not chance thrown me in the way of ob taining further particulars from an au tlientio source, which invested the story with a irasrlc and dramatic force which was not hinted at in its original form. borne years ago, while living in the neighborhood of Cloverdale. I made the acquaintance of an Indian of more than ordinary intelligence, whose nat ural reticence was thawed by some ser vicer which I was enabled to do him, and whose confidence I won farnough to succeed in making him unfold in & disjointed manner the real history of the occurrences from which Squaw's Rock took its name. : d which I now reproduce for th benefit of my readers, weavinir the story into a more con nected lorm than was given me by old Santiago. It was some time in the twenties that John YYillard. the captain of a trader, who brought the commodities of civil ized life into llonterey, and there bar tered them for hides, got tired of his seafaring life, as many more have done before and after him in California, married himself to a senorita with broad acres and fat kine. and ettled down into a steady-going rancher in the valley of the Russian River. A son w:ls born to the pair, a stalwart youth, whose robust, out-of-door vaquero life made him both strong and handsome. It was universally conceded that Frank Willard, at the are of twenty, was as fine a specimen of a youth as could be found north of the bay, or, for that matter, south of it either. His free and generous disposition made him as great a favorite with the male portion of the community as his good looks did with the female. Of course, at that susceptible age it was only natural that he should pay particular attention to the latter, and as compatriots of his own station were not numerous in those thinly settled regions, perhaps it was but natural that he should cast his eye- upon such females as there were." The paternal hacienda of the Willards lay in the neighborhood of the Healdsburg of the present day: and to the north in the vicinity of Sanel and Ukiah there dwelt at that time a etrong tribe of Indians, remarkable for fine physique and in all respects con siderably above the average of Califor nian aborigines. During one of his equestrian wanderings oung Frank Willard came upon one of the ranch erias of this tribe, at that time situated upon the western bank of the Russian River, and within a few hundred yards of the precipice now known as Squaw's Rock. It was there that he encoun tered Benita, daughier of Big Bull, one of the sub-cnieis ot tne tnne. a maiden of rare beauty, with a complexion as pure and clear as a CastUian and a form of wonderful symmetry and grace. At that impressionable age to see was to love. Young Mllard"saw his fate, and the flame was reciprocated. But there were the usual difficulties in the way. Not only were the youth's parents scandalized bevond ex pression at the idea of their son allying himself to an In dian, but the Indians themselves, with true tribal pride, resented the ides of such a union. Still love, as usual, laughed at locksmiths, and Frank's ab sence from the hacienda upon riding expeditions of questionable utility be came more and more noticeable as the weeks wore on. There were stolen in terviews with Benita in the chaparral near the rancherix at one of which the loving couple were surprised by the old chief, when Frank was warned that such interviews must cease forever, under pain of the dire resentment of the tribe. The fair Benita had, he was told, been betrothed to Domingo, a gal lant of her race, and the nuptial cere mony was to be performed in the course of a week, on which occasion a grand fandango was to be held, at which the whole tribe would participate. From that time forth Benita was not permit ted to 0 outside the bounds of tho rancfaeria, though ft solitary horseman, presumed to be Frank Willard, could still be seen daily riding among the adjacent hills. At length the day of the fandango arrived. The large adobe building in which the orgy was to be held, was filled at an early hour of the evening with as motley an assemblage of squaws and bucks as ever appeared at such a gathermsj. The weeping Benita was led in, bedecked with as much poor finerv as the wardrobe of the tribe afforded, and at her side stood Domingo with a triumphant expression on his coarse and repulsive counte nance. Dancing was engaged in. around a fire built on the ground in the center of the building (it was winter)., the smoke from which ascended in wreaths to the cone-shaped ceiling through a hole in which it issued to the open air. Squaws danced with squaws, and bucks with bucks, as the invariable custom is. Under the influence of agardiente, of which there was aliberaT supply, the orgy waxed wild and furious. Suddenly it was re marked that Benita had disappeared while Domingo was engaged in danc ing. In an instant a deafening howl was set up. and the motley gathering rushed pell-mell from the tmilding, spreading hither and thither with pine torches and glowing firebrands in quest of the missing maiden. Presently a shout went up from an outlying quar ter. A general rush was made thither. Just at the limits of the rancheria stood a horse, on which was seated Frank Willard, while running towards it, and now only a few yards away, appeared Benita, A second or two more and she would have reached the horse and been swung into the saddle by the strong arm of her lover, when, hapless fate! an arrow whizzed through the air, piercing the dank of the ani maL TS ith a bound the spirited beast leaped forward, the abrupt movement throwing the, poor youth out of the saddle. In an instant he was on his feet, with one arm round the maiden, while with his revolver he covered the approaching Indians. Six shots rang out in sharp succession, and three swarthy forms fell groaning to the ground! But what chance had the poor boy against the superior numbers of the" now maddened barbarians? Frank was quickly overpowered, bound with rushes, and a council held over his prostrate body. Some coun seled despatchins him instantly then and there, but this was overruled by the older beads of the tribe. After a short consultation, four of the stoutest Indians raised him from the ground and began to bear him out of the rancheria. They took the direc tion of the river, making straight for urn precipice woicu uveruiiaya it st a. height of 500 feet, followed by the en tire tribe. Arrived at the edge of the bluff, the two stoutest Indians took the body of the youth by the head and feet, and swinging him backward and for ward three times launched him out into the stream, whose hoarse murmur could be heard 500 feet below. The next instant a female figure sprang forward from the throug of Lndiaas that had pressed close up to the brink of the precipice, and, with a wild, de spairing shriek, leaped down after the body of her lover. It was Benita. Her body was found next morning, dashed into an unrecog nizable mass upon the bowlders below. The body of poor Frank Willard was found a few days later some miles. down the stream, caught on a snag be low where Cloverdale now is. There were no marks of violence on it. as he had been swung clear into the river, which was then in flood, and as thei rushes with which he had been bound had been washed off there was no evi dence that he had been murdered in the way he was. It was thought he had been wounded while attempting to ford the swollen stream. It was early in the forties when the incident hap pened. Most of those who took part in it are. doubtless, by this time either dead or dispersed. My informant, old Santiago, did not admit having taken any overt part in the matter, so I could only thank him for his narrative, and for having given new interest to the precipice known as the Squaw's, Rock. Robert Duncan Milne, in San Francisco Argonaut. THE PLANET JUPITER. Th Brightest and Largest Firmament. Star In the Early in the evening, a brilliant star comes looming above the Eastern hor izon. It is the brightest and largest star in the firmament, .and illuminates the sky with its soft light, during the whole night. This beaming star is Jupiter, the Prince of Planets. He is in the constellation Leo, east of its leading brilliant Regulus. But no help is needed to recognize him: a glance at the heavens is suffi cient, for he so far surpasses the other members of the starry throng, that ha is almost as readily known as the moon. He will rise earlier and increase in radiance as the months roll on. reach ing ths culminating point in January, and continuing to be throughout the winter the most conspicuous star in the heavens. Even a small telescope will bring him out as a very beautiful object, witix his quartet of " moons and his belts of prismatic hues. In a powerful tele scope, he is beautiful beyond expression, with his stately and majestic bearing. The men of "science will improve the ' present favorable conditions for re newed, study ot tne uovian uise. ao familiar are'the features and so well known the colors of the belt3. that not even the slightest change will escape the scrutiny of practiced observers who make the study of this planet a specialty. Not a favorable night will be unimproved, not a spot or mark will be undetected. Anything: new on the face of the planet will be as easily ? noted as a pimple on the face of a member of one's own family. For spots, rifts, and belts of changing f orm and hue are the Jovian alphabet through which we hold converse with our distant brother. Here we see the evidence of the chaotic condition of the mighty sphere and of it3 primeval fires yet un quenched by time. The lamous red interest Master Irre Latham's friends here. It appears that Irye has been personating in the dead cow-boy act of the show as a substitute for the principal character, making a decided hit for an origibsl remderiag of hi part. It seen impossible for the lad to keep both eyoa aad moath that 'at the Mae time, aad presents the carious anomaly of a dead bovine puncher "with a broad Issgh spread all over sis fact. O'uluinuu.s COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 14, PITH AND POINT. A lover's geography recognises on ly two divisions in the world the place where his sweetheart is and the place where she isn't. The Oil City Derrick ask3: "What is a pelerine?" As butterine is bogus butter we suppose a pelerine is a bogus peler, but even after this explanation we suppose somebody will be stupid enough, to want to know what a peler is. Boston Post. Do you think you will remain in Canada "long?" "l hardly know. I shall for the present at least. It de pends on circumstances." "What cir cumstances, pray?" "Upon whether they abolish the extradition treaty or not" N. Y. Graphic. A woman has been arrested in New York for cruelly whipping her oldest son. She told the magistrate that she didn't know it was a violation of the law for a woman to "bang her heir." Then he doubled the amount of her baiL Xorristown Herald. It was at the Opera-house. The performance was about to begin, when one of the two strangers looked all around and said: "Bill, where is the dress circle?" Bill glanced up toward the third gallery, and replied: "I reck on it is up yonder: I see a fellow taking off his coat!" Albany Journal. The cholera microbe is said to be shaped just like a comma. We are go ing to throw out every comma in the news-room. Just suppose a microbe got in by mistake and the compositors set it up and gave some "constant reader" the cholera! Ecansville Ar gus. Coachman. We have no objection to your marrying the fair young heiress of your choicti not the slightest. This is a free country, and native worth is better than plutocratic rank. But when it comes to pouring out the joy of your soul in verse, we elevate the brogan of determined remonstrance. Puck. The hunter and his gun: Tla now the hunter takes his gnu The nelds he rambles over. From early dawn till sec of sun. In searcU of snipe and plover. A gloomy, disappointed wight, A bandaged hand caressimr. Seturns he sadly home at niht, With several nnsera missing. Someriille Journal. "Will you have some soup or fish?" asked" the waiter of a stranger. "No, sir: bring me some meat, per taters and coffy." After he had fin ished his meat, pertaters and coffy, he leaned back in his chair and said: "Now you kin bring in your fish and soup if you want to, but vou shouldn't go triflin' with a Kansas City man when he's hungry." Troy Times. A farmer who had engaged the services of a son of the Emerald Isle, sent him out one morning to harrow a Eiiece of ground. He had not worked ong before nearly all of the teeth came out of the harrow. Presently the fanner went out in the field to take notes of the man's progress, and asked him how he liked harrowing. "Oh. ' he replied, "it goes a bit smoother now since the pegs are out!"' X. Y. Ledger. The Deatii of Captain Cook. Among the gods of this people was one Lono, the worship or" whom was di rected to a long pole bearing the image of a human head at the summit. This Lono once resided on earth. Depart ing from his devotees in a canoe, he told them he would return in a canoe with wings. When the Hawaiians saw the English -hip they concluded from the winged sails that their deity hail come. Thoiigh of another color. Cap tain Cook was evidently a chief, and must surely be Lono. The strange part of the story is that Cook lent him self to the delusion. Acquainted with the habits of the Pacific Islanders, and observant of their modes of worship, he knew the forms of respect to himself were like those paid to a god. He permitted himself to be adorned for worship, and submitted to their sacrifi cial rites. Nay. more, he let himsell be placed between two idols, be crowned with garlands like them, and be bowed to in prayer like those there addre-sed to them. It is true, the old missionary told the writer, that the natives, who had ever since lamented the murder, charitably supposed after their conversion, that the Englishman was mad. This idea Is somewhat borne out by the admitted fact that Cook had not long before re ceived a snn-stroke. As to the death of the Captain, the native story runs that, as he had given orders for his men to furnish firewood for the ship by taking away the sacred fence round the stone temple, great indignation was excited at the sacrilege. It was this that excited the insulting clamor. Tra dition goes on to say that one man in particular, half suspecting that Cook was not the divinity expected, struck him with a stick at the back of the neck to test the question. The Captain cried out with pain. Immediately the Ha waiian was satisfied he was only an im position, for no god would feel the blow, and he struck him down with a mortal wound, btich w-.ia the story told the writer at Honolulu, the same that the missionaries heard from an aged actor in the scene forty-five yeans after the sad event. The AUienaium. Properties of Quicksilver. One of the most curious properties of quicksilver is its capability of dissolving or of forming amalgams with other metals. A sheet of gold foil, dropped into quicksilver, disappear- almost as quickly as a snow flake when it drops into water. It has the power of sepa rating or of readily dissolving those re fractory metals which are not acted upon by our most powerful acids. The gold and silver mines pour it into their machines holding the gold bearing quartz: and. although no human eye can detect a trace of the precious sub stance, so fine are the particles, yet the liquid metal will hunt them out. and incorporate it into its mass. By subsequent distillation it yields ft into the hands of the miners, in a state of virgin purity. Several years ago, while lecturing before a class of ladies on chemistry, we had occasion to purify some quicksilver by forcing it through chamois leather. The scrap remained on the table after the lecture, and an old lady, thinking it would be very nice to wrap her gold spectacles in, accordingly appropriated it to that purpose. The next morning she came to us in great alarm, stating that the gold had mysteriously disappeared, and nothing was 1-r m the parcel but the glasses. Sure -luiigh, the metal remaining in the pores of the leather .entirely destroyed the spectacles. It was a mystery wu.cii we never could explain to her satisfaction. Fireside. The latest invention is an electric fan which is warranted "to lower the temperature of a room from ninety ff to sixty degrees in a few minutes. FIRST National Bank ! COL Aitkoriietl Capital, Paid Ii Capital, Surplus aid Profits, 8250,000 50,000 . 6,000 OTSlCKSUk AJTD DIRBCTOaS. A. ANDERSON, Pnt. SAU'L C. SMITH. Vice Preft. 0. T. BOEN , Cashier. J. W. EAELY, HERMAN" OEHLRICH. W. A. MCALLISTER, G. ANDERSON, P.ANDERSON. Foreign and Inland Sxehanga, Passage Tickets, ana Real Estate Loans. 20-vol-W-lj BTTSUTESSCABSS. D.T. Martyx, M. D. F.J.Schcg, M.D. Drs. HAETY5 SCHUG, D. S. Examining Surgeons, Local Surzeons. Union Paelnc, O., N. B. H. and B. A M. R. R's. Consultations in German and English. Telephones at office and residences. ya"Omce over nrst .ijuuuu uaua. COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA. -w-y 1 J GARLOW, Collection Att'y. SPECIALTY MADE OF BAD PAPER. Office with J. G. Hi?"- M-m J F. WILSON. 31. O., PHTSICIAX SURGEON. Diseases of women aad children a spe cialty. Countv phvsician. Office former ly occupied by Dr. Bonesteel. Telephone exchange. " O LLA ASIIUAIGB, D.D.S. DENIAL PABLO B, On corner of Eleventh and North streets, over Ernst's hardware store. TT J. MfJlMO, yOTAB Y P UBLIC, ith Street. 2 Jours wot of Hamaioad Room, Columbus, Neb. 491-7 r G. KEEDEK, 1 TTORXEY AT LA W, Office on Olive St.. Columbus, Nebraska 2-tf V. A. MACKEN, DK.1LKR IX Foreign and Domestic Liquors and Cigars. llth street, Columbus, Neb. o0-y ArcALLlSTER BROS., .1 TT0B2TE YS A T LA W, Office un-stairs in McAllister's build ing, llth bt. VT. A. McAllister, Jiotary Public. TOII3I TUIOTUY, NOTARY PUBLIC AND CONVEYANCER. Keeps a full line of stationery and school supplies, and all kinds of leil form-. Iusures ajrainst nre, lihtninir. cyclone and tornadfoes. Office in Powell's Block, Platte Centei. l9oc J. M. MACFARLAXD, B. R. COWDKRY. LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE OF MACFARIiANDA COWDBHY, ColumbM. : : : Nebraska. V. F. RUJi JiEK. 71. D-, (Successor to Dr. C. G. A. Hullhorst) HOMEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN AND SUBGEON. Regular graduate of two medical col leiieiT. Office up stair in brick building north of State Bank. '-1-ly J. J. MUGHAL, Justice, County Surveyor, N'otary, Land and Collection Agent. rgrPartie-i desiriaz surveying donecan notifv me bv mail at "Platte Centre, Neb. 31-Sm T H.RISCHE, llth St., opposite Lindell Hotel. Sells Harness, Saddles, Collars, "Whips. Blankets, Curry Combs, Brushes, trunks, valises, bugv tops, cushions, carriage trimmings, Ac., at the lowest possible prices. Repairs pn mptly attended to. p H..LAWWLUE, U DEPUTY CO. SUBVEYOB. "Will do general surveying in Platte and adjoining counties. Office with 5. C. Smith. COLUMBCS, NEBRASKA. 17-tf JS. aCUBDOCK & SON, Carpenters and Contractors. Haveaad an extended experience, and will guarantee satisfaction in work. All kinds of repairing done on short notice. Our motto isTGood work and fair prices. Call and give us an oppor tunitytoestimateforyou. EyShop on 13th St, one door west of Friedhof A Co's. store, Columbus. Nebr. 4S3-V o. c. s&Aisrisrois", MAXCF-iCTCRHB OF Tin and Sheet-Iron Ware ! Job-Work, Hoofing and Gutter ing a Specialty. SSTSbop on Olive Street, 2 doors north of Brodfeuhrer's JewelryStore. 46-v G W. CLAKK, LAND AND INSUBANCE AGENT, HUMPHREY, NEBB. His lands comprise some nne tracts in the Shell Creek Valley, and the north ern portion of Platte county. Taxes paid for non-residents. Satisfaction guaranteed. 20 y "lOLUmCS PACKING CO., COLUMBUS, - 2TBB., Packers and Dealers in all kinds of Hog product, cash paid for Live or Dead Hog or grease. Directors. R. H Henry, Prest.; John "Wiggins, Sec. and Treas.; L. Gerrard, S. Cory. 0ttpl 1885. MOSCOW. At a Tea-Drinking Establishment Riusbui Customs. It would be a very incomplete sketch of Moscow that did not treas of the traktirs," or tea-houses. They abound in every street lane and alley, rivaling in their numbers the public houses of western lands. The drinking of 4,tchai" is, indeed, a prominent feature of Rus sian life- Everyone has heard of the precious packages of tea, the best that the Flowery Land can produce, brought across the steppes of Tartary and through the passes of the Oural Moun tains to the great fair of Nishni-Nbvgo- rod. Enter a traktir at what hour of th Aiv vnn nlp.a.s it alwavs seems crowded. A corpulent little saint with a smiling countenance, who is supposed especially to preside over tea-drinking. is perched in one corner. The Russians, as thev enter, uncover their heads and bow to the patron of "the cup that cheers, but not inebriates. Profusely and. indeed, completely sai.uruu.-u wiui tea. ue uuunucs tun. over and settle matters of business or pleasure, strike bargains, or balance ac counts. Merchants, brokers and bank ers confer and transact business; pleasure-seekers arranse their plans; es tranged friends make up their quarrels overthe steaming tumblers. W ho can doubt that tea-dnnking in Moscow is a great National institution? One of the chief houses of call for merchants in Moscow Ls the Moskouski Traktir. This is no ordinary establish ment Tall, robust servants, in white ... A - .-. . 1 .L . m . Xm . I w .v.. alv trousers and tunics, move to and fro. and assiduously wait upon the guests r ! The cooking at this establishment is celebrated, but it is for tea-drinking J that it is chiefly frequented. If you , have no one to talk to, you can smoke i a pipe or cigarette, or listen to the organ- At almost all the restaurants. however humble, music is supplied. The organ at the Moskouski Traktir J was made at Wurtemburg, expressly for ! this establishment and cost 3.'X)0. It plays when it is wound up. and is lim- i ited to just twenty tunes, so that those . who frequent this traktir year after year must find a little sameness in the performance. But, after all, it is in the tea-jardens and similarsuburban resorts thatthe most pleasing phases of Russian tea-drinking are witnessed. Beneath the trees, in every direction, happy fam ilies surround the burnished urn; and in retired nooks the teapots are witnesses ( to lovers' vows. Petrofski Gardens are . a verv favorite resort In 1812 Xapo - leon lodged here for a time in the cha - teau built by the impress tuzaoein. The road from Moscow is thronged with carriages and droskie- and well dressed pedestrians. Guards and police keep order at the gates that admit to the varied attrac tions within the promenades, and lawns, and copses: the rustic cottaires. stalactite caves, and glens, and grottos; the lake, the fountain, and the marble statues. In the evening, avenues of many-colored lights and festooned arches conduct to pagodas Used as theaters for various entertainments comic dramas, in which the fun is some whau broad and grotesque, exhibitions of tumbling, etc. Grand displays of fireworks terminate the proeeedinr--The ordinary town-peasant Usually affects a red shirt and high boots. The moulik. fresh from the country, is most ly clad in a suit of undyed homespun cloth, and in lieu of steekinss he winds cloths around his It'gs. His feet are shod with sandals of plaited linden bark. The lower clas-es in Moaoow are. for the most part, smiling and good- natured, but slow, slouLhing. shabbv in their appearance. Thev and are also very frequently drunk; for, though fond of "tchar," they by no means confine themselves to it In addition to Sundays, there are no less than tifty clearly-denned annual holidays kept in Moscow, and the holiday-makers are usually incapable all next day. A Russian nurse is a conspicuous ob ject in the public street If her infant charge is a bov. she is attin'd in blue; if a rirL in red. Should she be in the u. a giii. ill ieu- ouuuiu sue uc m uutr service of some rich familv, her dress is lavishly trimmed with gold, above which hanss an apron of line dotted muslin. I There is plenty of bread made in Mos- cow which is not black; indeed good sweet bread is a specialty of the city, and is often sent as a present to friends ! in bt Petersburg. The water is brought ' twelve miles in water courses from the Mytistchi Springs to the public foun tains, but it is very seldom laid on to private houses. Accordingly, to supply t domestic needs a tribe of water-carriers are out at early dawn. The water-' carriers are only one among many , classes of itinerant venders and worker, i A funeral in Moscow, when conduct- t ed. as is usually the case, in the ortho dox National manner, is a picturesque and interesting spectacle. The proees- sion is headed by long-bearded priests in their black robes, carrying shrines and burning tapers in their hands. Next comes the hearse with four horses. On the steps of the hearse are more priests holding images of the Saviour over the coffin. Yet more follow, speak ing words of consolation to the friends and relatives of the departed. As the procession moves on the DeoDle in the streets cease from their occupation, un cover their heads, bow, and pray lor the repose of the deceased. The count less pigeons of Moscow are a featnre of the citv which ouirht not to remain un noticed. They enjoy Lie freely, and in crease and multiply to an enormons extent, for no one thinks of killin'j: ' them. In the popular mind thev are ; incarnate emblems of the Holy Spirit. Moscow Cor. Chicago Tribune. AN OLD-TIME SURGEON. How Much It Toole to JLike 3Caa Rich B forts the Revolution. Until the close of the Indian war of 1643 the colonists' on Long Island were dependent for medical treatment either on the surgeons that accompanied the ships of the Dutch West India Company or on the willin: but iiniorant Ziecken troosters, who essayed to he:d both the bodies and souls of their charge; that war brought to the aid of the province a company from Curacoa. and with the troops came Sunreon Paulus Van der Beeck. who was destined to become the first practitioner in Kimrs Countv. Earlv in 1636 settlers began to people the western end of Lonr Island. Among those who started homes in rungs Countv was V ulem Adnen.-en Bennet who bought nine hundred and tairty acres of land in Gowanas and erected a house at about the present Twenty-eighth street and Third avenue. Brooklyn. At the close of the war with the savages it was found that Bennet had been killed, his buildinr? burned and his farm devastated. His widow, who had been a widow previous to her marriage with him. took for her WHOLE NO. 766. third husband Surgeon Van detf Beeck. aad the two, moving back upon the deserted farm, rebuilt a home and began to reclaim the sail. In a sparsely populated country, among colonists' who from the nature of their task must have been robust and rugged, there could have been, there was. but little demand for medical skill; no one pursued one busi ness to the exclusion of others, and as all alike had to sustain life from a common source the earth all followed agriculture to a greater or less ex tenL Thus Van der Beeck is men tioned as Mr. Paulus. surgeon and farm er. He was a pushing man. When women were few and far between he married a rich widow; with appar ently no fear, he moved far from the protectins jmns of the fort Enterinj i into pubuc affairs in 1656. he was ct- lector and farmer of revenues: in 1661 ( he farmed out excise and tenths on Long t Inland and was ferrv master. When holding this latter position he drew ' upon himself a severe reprimand from the Provincial Council for keeping would-be passengers waiting half the day or night before he would carry them across the river. Surgeon Van der Beeck prospered and grew rich. In 1675 he was assessed -two polls, two horses, four cows, three ditto of three year, one ditto of one year, and '20 morgens of land and valley, 133 10s.." and the next year he was rated at 140, land, passing" at 1 an acre wampum value. The date of the tirst surgeon's death is not recorded, but the much widowed woman whom he had mar ried was again a widow, and as such conveying lands in her name in 1679. Magazine of American History. MODERATION. A Few Word of Caution aad AdYlcu to People Who Are LiTin? too F-.wt- In the present state of the Christian world, the idiotic and imbecile, the weak-minded, are treated kindly by the stronger and richer members of society. This is a proper development of Chris tianity. We have often reierred to health of mind; and have warned our readers against excessive exercise of the brain as destructive to mind and body. Mental activity, if moderate, conduces to health and growth. Dailv observa tion shows that the growth and contin uances of mental power may be seriously harmed by excessive activity. The mind mav be weakened and exhausted bv 1 prolonged and severe ! have ruore than hinted exertion. We that the train- ins: of children consists in securing sound minds in sound bodies, and tha: the mind is so dependent on the body, that parents and teachers should culti vate the body and develop it- various powers by giving it and. its organs proper nourishment judicious exercise ami suitable repose. The young and growing need more nourishing food, more regular exercise, and more rest than the mature and grown. Many observations show that the moderate activitv of the mind and reg ular training of its forces contributes to lonir life. Men and women of mental culture live longer and happier than the hrnorant Nearly all the mental giants of our nice live to be more than three score years and ten. But to secure this result body and mind culture should be bejrun at an early period of life ami continued judiciously to its close. Men who cease to practice the activity of their growing years lose the powers they once acquired. The active mer chant vho becomes rich and retires ' from a business life usually cut3 shore his days, those who disregard hy gienic laws, and cease to exercise from day to day their muscles and their in tellectual powers, soon cease to have "a sound mind in a sound body."' Some men in the prime of life and in the midst of usefulness disregard hygi enic laws in some way either by ex cessive activity of brain, or by ceasing to give it proper, moderate exercise. Wealth enables them to fall into sen- -;ivl im$rilcrnm-; .tm? -n imnnir tfcpir - 1 mental and bodily forces. They may , have no family tendency to disease. may nave leu regular auu souir uvea, and still be troubled with weaknesses and infirmities in middle life. This condition most men could avoid by con tinuing to live as they began. Modera tion in eating, regular business proper exercise of mind and body would have kept their mental and bodily ma chinery in good condition until they reached old aire. It may be true that the prime of life may extend from thirnr to fifty years and still, we have known men who observed strictly the laws of health, and so lived to four score years. We gain strength of brain and muscle by Using them: we become weak when we cease to use them. After fifty years an active man should be more moderate in his exertion than before, but still he should not cease to act and use his va- nous powers, as tne oest means or pre i serving them. In the middle period of life, thirry to fifty years few men or women can safely overtax their brains. i This organ once impaired does not easi ly, if ever, regain its strength- The i mind sympathizes witn the brain in all ns suuermss- Jiauv ui our sciioiars limit themselves in their exertions, and so reach old age. Agassiz forgot that he was mortal and o continued to exert his mental powers during many hours of the day and night after he had passed three score year-, and so broke down. ' and sc:encemet with an irreparable loss, air v aiter ccocc in nis miuuie life declared that six hours a day in brain work was all he could continuous ly endure. But when he was pecun iarialy embarrassed in later years, he over-taxed his brain to meet his obliga tions, he became exhausted and his pro line mind lost its former strength and he died an imbecile. Wade we object to excessive physical and intellectual exertion, we also see the folly of laziness and inactivity. The business man. who devotes ten hours a day to his special calling, should have the remaining fourteen hours for sleep. ocial intercourse and improvement of the mind. This latter does not make a man. but it does make him more of a man than he otherwise would be. A clergyman called upon a lady who within a few years had lost her children, her husband and nearly all her proper ty. He attempted to console her. but he soon found that she did not need or seek hia services- For on sayimj that he tlid not see how she could be so ! cheerful, she replied that she made up her mint! a great manv veara aeo that if she did not enjoy herself as she went alonir, she never should So we think that every man. woman and child should have hours for pleasure as well is hour- for work. "W e ought to pro vide for the future, but also enjoy the pre-ent- The man who overtasks his bodv or brain, sooner or later pavs the penalty. C. H. A&n M. D.. in Wmt er:i Sural. KATES OF AttTEKXISllC SETEuaiEesa and. professional cards of five lines or less, per nnnum, five dollars. 22? For time advertisements, apply at this office- ZSTXegal advertisements at starats rates. iSTFor transient advertising, sea rates on third page. I5TA1I advertisements payable monthly. PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL. President Thomas Lamb, of the Kew England National Bank of Bos ton, has resigned, after having held the office for hf ty years. Private Patrick Kneeland. Com pany H. Twelfth United States Infan try, has been in active military service thirty-five years, continuously, As a sample of good guessing. Congressman-elect Gibson, of Mary land, said he would get two thousand one hundred majority. He got two thousand one hundred and two. Asa B. Hutchinson, the once noted composer and singer, and the founder of the old original Hutchinson family concert troupe, died at the residence of his son in Hutchinson. Minn., re cently. Walter Young, a Scotchman, to tally blind, works daily digging coal ia a mine near Pittsburgh- He fought in the battle of Balaklava. and witnessed the charge of the Six Hundred. HUs burgh Post. The Geonrfa Legislature has ac cepted Mrs. J. M. Gregory's painting of the late Alexander H7 Stevens, rep resenting that statesman in his famous roller chair. looking as he looked dur ing the closing years of his life. The American violinist Anna Harkness, now so successfully per forming in Germany, couldn't make an anagram of Anna, since it spells both ways just the same, but succeeds with her last name and is starring as "Anna Senkrah." A quiet, reserved gentleman of seventy-three year i Admiral Porter. His eyes are sull bright, his voice is soft and entirely destitute of the husky, foggy character popularly supposed to attach to jolly old s.a doirs. His face Ls bronzed, and his hands large and knotty, but soft in texture. The tithes of some of the richest English Bishops are: London. 350.000: Durham. 35,000; Winchester. S:W,500: Ely. $27.5u. and Bath. Lincoln. Ox ford. Salisbury. Liverpool and Worces ter. .$i".0w each. Tin Bishop of Sodoi ami Man. who has neither cathedral nor dean, gets .310.000 a year for doing nothing. The cane which President Lincoln carried on the night of his assassina tion is now the property of Colonel W. H. Harris, of Cleveland", who was with the President on that fateful night The cane has a bnt top. a dog's head of ivory, and a narrow gold band on which is engntvrd: "Abraham Lincoln, 1865." Cle-vciwul Lctuler. .lames Lawrnson, of Maryland. Ls the oldest employe in the service. He beiran work in the Po-t-ofiiee at Balti more more than sixty years .aro. Ten or fifteen year; later he entered the. Post-otlice Department in Washington. That w.ls when Wdliani T. Barry, of Kentucky, was Postmaster Gf nerai. and when but seventy clerks were employed to do the work of the Department Chicago Herald. Old Rex." of Cr-nada. is dead. Rex was the favorite ii'ckname of Thomas D. K'nir. an official of the Dominiou who had a wide reputation as a scientific man. II.- was a literary student aLso. and .inioajr hi- pnbtLshvd works was a small volume entitled "Bacon ver.u- Shakespeare." So well known wa.- he that letter- addressed Old Rex. Canada." often reached him from England. "A LITTLE NONSENSE." "ThL-J ls enoun to take away my breath." mnrninred the youth as he seized a handful of eloe- bt-fore re entering the theater. N. I". JounuiL A Georgia man ha.- paid for a farm with the melons o;F it to say nothing of the struggling yonnr doctor he has firmly established in business. Loiccll t'Uizrn. The dine-nee b-tween the pocl and the train dL-pateher. dear? Why. certainly: one write- for all time and the other time-- for "all right" Say this to your-elf alter you get on the car-. Bu rdette. Mamma "What do you -say to the gentleman. Johnny, for that nice candy?" Johnv "Dunno: candy's awful good." Marnni "What does mamma say when papa give me a lot of money to go shopping?" Johnny "JTor''.'" Heard in a Bo-ton -ehool: Teacher "Explain the meaning of the metaphor 'painting the town reiL " Fir-t class in definition "It mean- carminating the municipality withaninv-ible brush impreirnated with imperceptible spirit" DetrvU Free Press. Smillkins is the meane-t man in town, and when a baby wa left in a basket on Johniinr"s steps the other night he -aid "That Johnling L an awfully lucky fellow. " "Lucky '" ejac ulated Mr. "Greatheart. whom he was addressing: "what do vou mean?" "Why." -aid Smillkins. was worth forty cent-." Hairlfl. "that basket IViuungton A rntleman who was going to taxe his ramilv to -ee a dramatic per- formance the other iiav was surprised to se hi.- wife packing a larze trunK and filling two large baskets with eat ables just before starting. "What on earth are you dninir that for?" in quired the husband. "Whv." returned his wife," it sas on the play bill that six weeks elap-e between the fir-t and second act.' Mis? Daisy Greene ( to Jone-. who has just been introduced): "What funnv looking people one meets out. Mr. Jones: only look at that frightful girl in th doorway." Jone' "f can't help thinking she i not o bad looking as the awkward stick who is talking to her " Miss G. "The awkward -tick is my brother." Jones "Th fright ful rrirl w my sister." Tableau. Co lumbia Spsrtaior. Irate Prohibitionist "See here. sir. thnt stuff L a fraud and I want my money back." Stationer "Do you refer to that bottle of mucilage I sold vou?" "I certainly do. It is a regular humbur no u- at all." "Why. my dear sir. I thought that was jnst what vou wanted. It L- called 'Temperance Mucilag!. " "Temperance Mucdage?" "Yes: mucilage without any stick in it" Pluladelphia Call. "What did that lady -ay?" asked Mr. Buyem of his confidential clerk. "I'd rather not repeat her words, sir." replied the clerk- "But I must know. Mr- Plume must know, sir." "O. if von insist on it sir. I suppose I must tell you. She said you were all busi ness", but you lacked culture." "So!" exclaimedMr- Buyem. in astonishment. Lack culture, eh? Look here, Mr. Plume, d'ye know you'd oughter told me o' that long ago." Let's have some right away, before Scrimp fe Blowhard can get ahead of us." Boston Trua-script.
