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BATES OF AVEMTISII. pirBnalneaa and professional cards of five lines or less, per annnm, five dollars. Eff For time advertisements, apply at this offlce. SSTLegal advertisements at statute rates STFor transient advertising, see rates on third page. I7A11 advertisements payable monthly. THE JOURNAL. ISSUED EVERY WEDNESDAY, IVI. Iv. TURISTEK, & CO. Proprietors and Publisheri. fc S3T OFFICE Eleventh St., up stairs in Journal Building. terms: Per year Six months Three months . . Single copies .. VOL. XV .--NO. 40. COLUMBUS, NEB., ..WEDNESDAY. JANUABY 28. 1885. WHOLE NO. 768. - t 3 - I M l VI I & J f COLUMBUS STATE BANK! COLUMBUS, NEB. CASH CAPITAL, - $75,000 DIUECTORS: Leander Gerrard, Pres'l. Geo. W. Hulst, Vice Pres't. Julius A. Reed. R. II. Henry. J. E. Task En, Cashier. Damk of Deposit, DLsco-sat and Exchange. Collection Promptly Made ob all Point. lay Intercut ob Time Depes- It. 274 HENRY G-ASS, COFFINS AND METALLIC OASES AND DEALER IN Furniture, Chairs, Bedsteads, Bu- reaua. 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Yet from their dust, new forms' of beauty, springing, Shall smile again in summer's gentle sun. Though one by one the pearly drops of morn ing. From drooping flowers, on viewless pinions rise. We'll see them yet the gorgeous clouds adorning With glowing arches of celestial dyes. Though one by one the stars are fading slowly That all night long kept vigil In the sky. The distant mountain-peaks, like prophets holy. Proclaim that morning's light and song are nigh. Though with slow step goes forth the sower weeping. And on earth's lap his precious treasure lc lives Yet comes the harvest, with its Joyous reap- ,n(fi 'When shall be gathered home tho ripened sheaves. Though one by one the friends we fondly cherish Withdraw from ours the cold and trem bling band. And leave us sorrowful, they do not perish They yet shall greet us in a fairer land. Yes; from all climes, where'er the faithful slumber Neath scorching suns, or arctic snow and frost, Stainless they'll rise. In myriads without number; All, all, shall meet there shall not one be lost. Chambers' Journal. TALES OF THE TELEGRAPH. Old Telegraph Operators Recount Their Experiences. The Great Bullion Robbery at Sidney Oat laws Circumvented Ogalalla's Mem orable Call For Help Mine Hunters' Tricks Fool ing a Greenhorn. Several old telegraph operators met here last night, and in the course of a long conversation told some of their ex periences on the frontier, One of them began by recalling the great bullion robber' at this place. It was at noon, and most of the depot and stage hands had gone across the yards to dinner. As the operator sat in the telegraph of fice alone two men presented themselves at his door and demanded admittance. Both had revolvers. He jumped up and let them in, and they quickly bound and gagged him. Believing that he was safe, they disappeared, and he saw no more of them. As soon " as they were out of sight he managed to get to his instrument, and by lying down on the table found that with one of his hands he could Teach the key. It was difficult work, but by degrees he improved his position until finally he raised the Chey enne office and communicated the fact that a robbery was in progress. The operator at that point kept him posted as to the proceedings there, and in a few minutes he was gratified to hear the intelligence ticked over the wires that the superintendent and a party of detectives wTere en route tor kidney on a special train. The distance was one hundred and two miles, but the run was made so rapidly that the people of the town were hardly aware of the rob ber when the train dashed in. The operator had by that time been released, and it was found that the thieves, who had been secreted under the depot, had come up through a hole in the floor mauc DV removing a ooaru.. me uumon weighed about live hundred pounds, and, as it was thought that they could not have carried it far, a vigorous search was made near at hand. Before night the greater part of tho gold was found in a hole under the depot, and the remainder was discovered in an ad joining coal-shed, where it had been dropped. The thieves got away with only about S1S.0O0 in currency. Another operator remarked that he was the man who discovered the Ogalalla train robber'. He was in cnarge of the little office at Kearney. He had had a very stupid afternoon, and as the day was miserable without, he dozed more or less. He tried to read, but, after it became necessary to light the lamps, he found this occupa tion distasteful, and as no one came in he-leaned forward, placing his arms on his table and his head upon them. "I must have slept soundly for awhile," he said, "fori lost myself en tirely for an hour or two, but present ly I had an indistinct impression that some one was calling for assistance. In mv dream it seemed to me that I could hear the cry, -Help!' 'Help!' and that I was powerless to render any assist ance. Finally I sat bolt upright, with a nervous feeling as if something terri ble had happened which I ought to have prevented. I rubbed my eyes and looked around sleepily. The depot was empty. It was dusk outside, and the rain was falling. I stepped to the door and looked out for a minute, but heard nothing. Then I went back to my desk, filled and lighted my pipe, and began to read. My eyes had just fell on the page when my instrument sounded once or twice very feebly. I looked at it closely. It ticked again almost inaudibly. -Something's the matter,1 thought I. I got up, and leaned over the sounder and listened I could just catch the faintest click, as if a chihl might have been playing with a key somewhere. While I listened I began to comprehend the nature of the message that was being sent I could not catch all the letters, but I got enough, after listening to it a dozen times, to make out this much: 'Ogalal la, Ogalalla, Help, help.' It flashed upon me all at once. The overland train was being robbed, or had been robbed. I grabbed my key, and let every one have it from Cheyenne to Omaha. There was some lively tele graphing there for a time. They sent engines out from two or three points, ana got to Ogalalla in time to scare the robbers off. You see I was a good deal further off than a dozen other opera tors, but somehow I was the first one that caught on. The way it happened was this: The robbers came into the depot at Ogalalla about an hour before train time, and bound and gagged the operator. After they got him fixed they sat around and waited. When the train drew up they left him, and he im mediately got himself in a position where he could use the key a little. The boys who saw him sav it'is a mys tery how he ever did it. His legs were tied twice, and his arms were pinioned behind him, so that it was almost im possible to move even the fingers. The fact that I could not catch two consecu tive letters until I had heard the mes sage ten or twelve times, shows how faint the stroke was. It was the queer est experience of my life." A third man said he had seen a good deal of service on the border, and had had a good many adventures, only one of which ever impressed him much. Down at Grenada,- on the, Santa Fe Boad, when it was first opened, he had sad a circus all one night with s party of robbers. The country wsV then a very dangerois.one, and the IBM ment was ineiitinual fear of J&k does. x'te && "I was in tkaoAVe in the eventac," he said, "gettJgf ready to elose up, when four or fiwlipnl men came in. They didn't. slnr.qMWk.at first, but seemed to be looBsssKsgrouna over. We were always on fcTlookout for that kind of chaps, and as the machine was ticking I pretended that somebody was asking me a question. I laughed a lit tle, and seizing the key, I broke in with: Everybody Don't stop the express at Granada to-night, whether signalled or not. Robbers here.' They eyed me sharply, but said nothing. The sounder kept up a merry click, and I leaned back in the chair. They fooled around for half an hour, and then one of them .asked.", me what time the train was da. 'Eleven five,' I said. -Well, we want it, one of them replied. I told him that I would signal it About 10:30 I got out the red lanternandjighted.it Just as I got it fixed two of them jumped up with re volvers in their hands and said they would save me the trouble. While one of them covered me with a pistol the others tied me fiat on my back to a settee. I couldn't move head or fool. After they got me there I began to think what sort of a scrape I had got myself in. The train would come presently, and go flying by, and then those cut-throats would murder me just for the fun of it I had thought the thing all over when I heard a sharp whistle and a roar. The men ran out on the platform with masks on and re volvers in hand. One of them had the lantern, which he swung vigorously. In going out on the platform they had left the door open, so that I could see things pretty well. I began to hope that the train would stop, for I knew it contained men enough to do up that crowd if not taken too much by sur prise. The roar came nearer and nearer, until at last I knew by the sound that they were not going to stop. With the whistle blowing at full blast and the dust flying in clouds she swept by like a streak of lightning. It was all up with me, I thought The robbers dropped the lantern and began to swear. Then I could hear them talk ing, and pretty soon I made up my mind that the train had stopped down the road a way, and that they were watching it Before long they took to their heels, mounted their horses, and were gone. When the trainmen came up to the depot, all armed with Win chesters, I was the only occupant They released me, and 1 told them what had happened. A couple of them stayed there with me, and the train went on. If any express ever came any nearer being robbed without going through the mill than that one did, I'd like to know it." All agreed that it was a close call, but the fourth speaker said he had a better story than any of them. There were no robbers in it. "I was one of the first men who worked a key in Vir ginia City, as you may know. One night a man came in picked up a blank, wrote on it, and, handing it to me, asked what the charge was. I read the message as follows: 'Killed Tom to-day. Will kill Jim to-morrow.' It was addressed to somebody in Philadel phia. I collected toll and looked the message over, but I did not place much significance upon the wording of the message, and after a while forgot all about it. We used to get some awful queer messages. About one year later a nicely-dressed stranger came in, and handing the Philadelphia copy of that dispatch, asked me if it had been sent from there, and if I could tell him where the sender was. I told him that I remembered the circumstances, but that I had not seen the man since. The next evening this man came in and handed me tor transmission to Phila delphia a message reading: 'Found Charley. Will leave for home with him to-morrow.' As he was paying me I made some inquiry, because I was curious to know something about the case. The man said he would tell me the next day. I never saw him again. Two or three months later a man came in and, showing me that dis patch, asked me if I remembered send ing it I told him I did. 'Can yu tell me where the man is who sent it?' he said. I couldn't Then he went out and I yelled to him : 'Say, hadn't you better tie a string to yourself? I'm losing you fellows pretty fast' This led to an explanation, and he told me about it It seems the three were brothers. The first one was a little flighty, and was continually run ning off to some out-of-the-way cor ner of the globe. Only a few montn before he appeared in Nevada he had been in India. His brothers paid no attention at first to his crazy tele gram, thinking it was only one of his fopny jokes, but when several months had passed and they heard nothing of him they began to fear that he might have fallen into trouble, and it was de cided that one of them should go after him. This was the second gentleman, and his failure to return brought out the third under the apprehension that the others had been foully dealt with. Well, he was gone about a week, and I began to believe that he had gone up the spout, too, when the first one came sneaking into my office and said: "Say, if anybody comes around here looking for me just tell them you don't know where I am.' 'Where's your brother?' said I. He looked at me nervously and said: 'He's up in the Comstock with me.' 'Where's your other brother?' He's down East' 'No he isn't,' I re plied: 'he's here in this town, and he's looking for you, and going to find you.' Just then the second one came in and said to the first: 'Come on, Charley, Jet's be going.' While I was question ing him in walked the other, and there was a great handshaking all around. The whole three of them seemed to en joy the thing immensely. Well, I be gan to think those were about the crazi est cranks I ever saw, when the last one said, kind of pityingly, to me: -It's all right, my boy. Those messages ain't just what they seem. A little cipher, you know. We've got silver up here till you can't rest, and we couldn't be telegraphing everything.' You see, I was young in those days, and when two of those lunatics came in at different times with copies of messages, inquir ing very particularly after the men who sent them, what was I to think? No Fhiladelphian could come any such game on me now, I'll bet you. They all got rich, and when they came to sell out one of them made me a present of a silver brick worth twenty-five dollars. The last speaker was one who had no hair on his head, but who said in response to an inquiry that no scalping-kaife had ever taken it off. "It was just scared off," he ex claimed, "down toward old Jules burg. One day I was at my desk when the man up at Hooper s sid ing, ten or4 twelve miles away, tele graphed down that he'.was surrounded by redskins, and that they were whet ting their tomahawks' on -the wires. I thought that it was a pretty joke until he telegraphed thattki station was in flames, andlttttj lot of the Indians had set otttfor my plaee. Then I began -to Pck up my ears. There were not many of us there just then, and--wo were in no condition to fight Indians' any way. We threw up hreastworks, and got everybody who hada gun, a pis tol, a club, or a knife- to fall in. It was about sundown when we got all ready for them. While we were wait ing nervously for the onslaught one of the citizens, a saloon-keeper, came rid ing up in mad haste and shouted that there were just 'millions of them coming.' 'You fellows are all as good as massacred now,' he said. 'There's only just one thing to do, and that is to telegraph' up and down the line for help. Put it strong, now,' he said to me. 'Beg, implore, exhort them.' Well, I could rattle a key pretty well in those days, and I everlast ingly begged for help. I was thor oughly scared, and I threw my wholo soul into the work. After about an hour of agony Chevenne broke in with: Oh, turn yourself out, you big calf! What's the matter with you?' This cooled me off a little, and I looked outside and saw the people going and coming as usual. They had put up a gorgeous joke on me just because I was a telegraphic tenderfoot My hair fell out soon after that, and it has never grown since. Sidney(Neb.) Cor. N. Y. Sun. PATENT MATCH-BOX STORY. The Toy Proves a Burden to Its Owner on His Way in From Rahway. A ruddy-faced and clean-shaven man got into a smoking car of an in-coming train at Rahway on the Pennsylvania Railroad yesterday, and, after bitingoft the end of a cigar and clenching it firmly in his teeth, dived into the depths of a pair of agricultural-looking and knee-sprung trousers, and produced a curious match box. It had at one end a patent fuse. When the lid was opened violently a bit of flint and steel struch a spark that ignited a bit of tape, with which he lighted his cigar with great unction. It was a New Jersey cigar, but the flavor was un questionably improved by the toy by which it was lighted. The old man ex- Eerimented andplayed with the match ox, which was evidently a recent ac quisition, with all the delight of a ten-year-old boy with a a new pistol. Then he closed the lid and put the match box into his pocket again. An Irishman who was sitting a few seats ahead of him had, after much labor, succeeded in fishing a cigar out of the inside pocket of his overcoat, and looked around for a light. The most cheerful face he saw was that of the old farmer, who was smoking away industriously. The Irishman arose, fell over his'own feet once or twice, and finally arrived at the farmer's seat and stretched out a horny hand for his cigar. The farmer, with a pleased smile, dived into his pocket, pulled out the box, again produced a light, and handed it with a great flourish to the Irishman, who lighted his cigar and went away in peace. Then the old agreeable gentleman across the aislo asked to see the match box, and it was explained to him with great delight by the agriculturist There were several matchless men in the crowd that board ed the train at Newark, and the old gentleman had a chance to exhibit his match box again. By this time he was radiant The train was about half way across the Newark meadows when a big faced drummer witli a small Derby hat, who sat exactly behind the old gentleman, touched him on the shoulder, and asked him for a light The owner of the patent match-box had grown a bit weary by this time, and lie handed it out quietly. The drummer lighted his cigar and made believe close the box with great ostentation, but he really left a spark burning there. The farmer shoved the box into his pocket without a word. He smoked placidly at his cigar for a few moments, and then nearly swal lowed it as he bounded from his seat and dived into his pocket again. Some thing was burning. It was the farmer. A moment later the match-box sank to rest in the mud of tho Newark meadows, and the farmer stamped on his cigar and went forward with the ladies. V. Y. Sun. THE DEADLY CLIMATE OF PANAMA. Over Four Hundred Canal Workmen In the Hospital. Just before Mr. Dingier left Panama for France say 1G.000 men were atwork. The wet season is now in, and to-day not more than 7,000 of all ranks are employed. Quite recently, owing to the very sickly season, 440 of the 7,000 were in the hospital, apart from nearly 160 under treatment at home. This tells its own story about this deadly climate. The laborers now are nearly all Jamaicans. At Gorgoma, a canal camp, between Saturday last and Mon day noon three canal chiefs had died. We hear of the deaths of chiefs as for the men, they die on the line and are buried, and no attention is paid to the matter. Two American carpenters are in an unnamed grave near Emperador. The death rate a few months ago, from a careful estimate, was 109 ana a deci mal, nearly 110, per 1,000 for all ranks. Yellow fever kills the whites, malaria the natives and negroes. Many an able bodied, well-built negro is cut off in from twenty-four to thirty-six hours after his seizure. Many are placed in the ambu lance cars of the canal company and die en route. None but those 'living here and familiar with such painful sights can form any idea of this coun try. To return to the appearance of the canal works. Lack of spirit and lack of energy were everywhere observable. Heavy rains interfered greatly with work. Earthworks are swept away by the tropical downpour. A few hours' rain caused a small stream to rise in such a manner that a railroad bridge was swept away, stopping canal work there. One may safely say that during the long rainv season, from May to the middle of December, fully h'alf the time originally calculated on by De Lesseps is lost, owing to the rains, small floods, and the stubborn fact that while the company claimed to have 16,000 in its employ at the close of the -dry season, only 7,000 are working. Some contractors are losing money, and a great deal of it One firm of Americans threw up its dredging con tract rather than lose men and money. Cor. Montreal Gazette. Our boys seem born with the per nicious American idea of jumping into a fortune by being "smart." tfashvillc American. p .& - FIRST National Bank! COL Aitkeriied Capital, -Paid Ii Capital, Sirplns aid Profits, - $250,000 50,000 - 6,000 OFTICKBS AMD DIRXCTORS. A ANDERSON, Pres't. SAM'L C. SMITH, Vice Pres't. O. T. KOEN, Cashier. J. W. EABLY, HERMAN OEHLRICH, - "W. A. MCALLISTER, G. ANDERSON, P. ANDERSON. Foreign and Inland Exchange, Passage Tickets, ana Real Estate Loans. BTJSIHE8S CABDS. D. T. Martyn, M. D. P.J. Scnoo, M. D. Drs. KAETYH & SCHUG, D. S. Examining Surgeons, Local Sureeons. Union Pacific, O., N. & B. H. and B. A M. R. R's. Consultations in German and English. Telephones at office and residences. ya-Qfflce over First National Bank. COLUMBUS, - NEBRASKA. 42-y C J GARLOW, Collection Att'y. SPECIALTY MADE OP BAD PAPER. Office with J. G. Higgins. 34-3in T F. WILSON. 91. Dm PHYSICIAN & SUB GEON. Diseases of women and children a spe cialty. County physician. Office former ly occupied by Dr.Bonesteel. Telephone exchange. 9 O LLA ASHBAUGU, D. 1. S. DENIAL PARLOB, On corner of Eleventh and North streets, over Ernst's hardware store. TT J. IIUUSO, NOTARY PUBLIC, 3th Street, 2 doors weit of HsBtaiond Iloase, Columbus, Neb. 491-y J. . REEDER, A TTORNE Y AT LAW, Office on Olive St., Columbus, Nebraska 2-tf V. A. MACKEN, DKALBR IN Foreign and Domestic Liquors and Cigars. llth street, Columbus, Neb. 50-y -VTcAIISTER BROS., A TTORNE YS AT LAW, Office up-stairs in McAllister's build ing, llth St. W. A. McAllister, Notary Puhlic. JOHN TIMOTHY, NOTARY PUBLIC AND CONVEYANCER. Keeps a full line of stationery and school supplies, and all kinds of legal forms. IuBures against fire, lightning, cyclone and tornadoes. Office in Powell's Block, Platte Centei. M- J. M. MACFAULAND, B. R. COWDERY, AttorteyuiHoUryPaWe. CoUietct. LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE OF MACFAR1.AND & COWDERY, Columbia, : : : NsbrasJca. I F. RUNNER, !tl. IK, (Successor to Dr. C. G. A. Hullhorst) HOMEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN AND SUBGEON. Regular graduate of two medical col leges. Office up stairs in brick building north of State Bank. 2-ly J. J. MAUGUAN, Justice, County Surveyor, Notary, Land and Collection Agent. MTParties desiring surveying done can notifv me by mail at Platte Centre, Neb. 51-6m Tj H.RUSCHE, 'llth St., opposite Lindell Hotel. Sells Harness, Saddles, Collars, "Whips, Blankets, Curry Comhs, Brushes, trunks, valises, buggy tops, cushions, carriage trimmings, Ac, at the lowest possible prices. Repairs prfmptly attended to. T H. L. A WHENCE, ' DEPUTY CO. SUBVEYOB. Will do general surveying In Platte and adjoining counties. Office with S. C. Smith. COLUMBUS, - NEBRASKA. 17-tf JS. MURDOCK & SON, Carpenters and Contractors. Havenad 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. Call and give us an oppor tunity to estimate for you. jSTShop on 13th St, one door west of Friedhof & Co's. store, ColumbUB, Nebr. 483-v O. O. SHANNON, MANUFACTURER OF Tin and Sheet-Iron Ware ! Job-Work, Roofing and Gutter ing a Specialty. GrShop on Olive Street, 2 doors north of Brodfeuhrer's Jcwclry;Store. 46-y G W. CLARK, LAND AND IN SUB AN CE AGENT, HUMPHBEY, NEBB. His lands comprise some fine tracts in the Shell Creek Valley, and the north ern portion of Platte county. Taxes paid for non-residents. Satisfaction guaranteed. 20 y pOLVMBIIS PACKING CO., COLUMBUS, - NEB., Packers and Dealers in all kinds of Hog product, cash paid for Live or Dead Hog4 or grease. Directors. R. H Henry, Prest; John Wiggins, Sec. and Treaa.; L. Gerrard, S. Cory. MARRIED WITHOUT MONEY. A. Bowantlc and Truthful Narrative x the Frontier. There are a good many singular in cidents connected with the administra tion of matrimony, especially as it is dealt out by a Justice of the Peace in a young Territory. During eight years in my official capacity as general agent for substancial justice and durable wed lock, I was called upon a great many tim?s to ladle out my blessing at so much per bless under very peculiar cir cumstances. I've done a noble work as a coupler and splicist Looking back over these eight years, it seems almost like a dream. Wherever I was called to go, I cheerfully put on my overcoat and went I married people in the light and the dark of the moon, in' the office and at home, on horseback and a-foot, young and old, tender and tough. I married them all. I was never inquisitive be yond what the 3tntute-required;"'and- Pj never had any one come back to me or complain. It always seemed to give satisfaction. The ceremony wasn't very imposing, though. I used to think sometimes that the groom was imposing on the bride. (Phis is a little epigram. I have quite a number of this style which I am keeping for the holidays.) We never bad much of the orange blossom and swallow-tail coat business in my studio. I generally invited the couple to sit on the wood-box till I got through with the simple drunk.1?, and then we would call in the Marshal and the janitor as witnesses and proceed. I remember, one day, a gentleman named Chilblain Henry, came in from the head of the Chug Water and brought with him a Mexican woman commonly eAllt-'d Beautiful Snow, Colo rado Maduro. She was of a rich nut brown color with a wonderful wealth of raven hair, which she combed when ever the sign was right, but it hadn't been right for a good while. She was dressed plainly, but neatlv in an old lap-robe, caught back with safety-pins and held in place by means of a broad horse-hair cinch, which had been an heirloom in the family. She was about forty-eight years old," and I asked in a bantering tone if she had her parents consent. She did not understand me, as she only knew a little broken cigar box English. Thinking perhaps she might be more familiar with the early history of her race, I asked her if she remembered Pizarro, but she only laughed and dis played her tottering ruin of a mouth. f believe she was the most sorrowful looking hulk I ever saw. She was rather thin in ilesli, and her nose looked like the breast-bone of a sand hill crane. Her union with Chilblain Henry did not seem to saturate her with a great wild joy. She stood there through the imposing ceremony with her cute little Mexican feet just peeping out from under the heavy drapery of her lap robe, and mechanically answered the legal questions propounded to her in a rich, deep and resonant tone of voice. Somehow I could not help wondering if she did not love another. Perhaps she had given her young heart to some neighboring greaser and smiled on him, perhaps, anil it had thrown him into convulsions from which he never had recovered. When I got through, Chilbf.tin Henry saluted his bride. I had heard before that he was a very brave man. Then he invited me to ditto. I told him it might occasion talk. He said he didn't want any foolishness or funny business. He allowed that a magistrate had a right to salute the bride and it looked kind of outre to waive it He would not pay me, he said, unless I saluted the bride. "Never mind the pay, Henry," I said, "between old friends; so it don't mat ter. Hand it in any time. I don't care if you never pay it; but to tell you the truth, Henry, I'm afraid to kiss Colorado Maduro. I am a man of strong impulses, and I do not dare to vilutc her. When I caught her in my arms I might forget my own home ties and kidnap your fair young bride and dash away with her to the mountains. I kno.vmy own failings, Henry, better than you do. It wouldn't be right, and it would certainly make talk. However, if you insist, I will give my proxv to a friend of mine, who is totally blind, and is accustomed to all kinds of horrors." He went away with his wife, intend ing to come back and kill me, he said; but after I had stayed in the office be hind the fireproof safe two days, with the doors locked, some friend came and told me that Henry had done the whole thing on a bet that he would get married and that I wouldn't charge him a cent. BillXye.in .V. Y. Mercury. m THEY HAD NO EdUSDEM. The Trouble Cuutoil u Patient by a Phy sician Who Oiiln't Use English. Some years ago (of course such a thing could not happen now) a gentle man residing at the South Ind, in Bos ton, was, furnished by his medical ad viser with a prescription containing among other ingredients the following: Syr. Scilliv. half ounce. Tincture Ejusdem, ounce. With this recipe he went to the near est apothecary. "I can not put up that medicine for you." said the apothe cary. I have all the ingredients but one". I have no tincture of ejusdem." The gentleman went to the next drug store. Its proprietor said: "I can not fill that recipe. I should as soon think of undertaking to compound the ptisan of Keuilworth's blacksmith. Tincture ejusdem! Who ever heard of tincture ejusdem?" Disappointed at shop after shop, the gentleman reached the well known stand of the late Dr. B., at the North End. Without making an re mark the doctor proceeded to weigh or measure the various ingredients called for. "What?" exclaimed the gentle man, "have you got 'tincture ejusdem?' I have been to fifty shops, more or less, but not one of them had it: and some pharmacists even averred they had never heard of it." "The recipe," quietly remarked Dr. B., calls for half an ounce of syrup of squills and one ounce of the tincture of the same." "Then why didn't he write 'tincture of the same' instead of that stupid 'Tine. Ejusdem?' Here I have walked from home a mile and a half, and shall have to return the 'ejusdem distance be cause the doctor didn't write plain English." Hints and Helps. A party of Corn-Planter Indians went to a point in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, not long ago, and re turned with a good supply of native lead. They have known the locality for a hundred years, but refuse to re veal it and have always covered up their tracks successfully. Pittsburgh Post. THE REPUBLICA INCOGNITA. A. Soath America Coantry Wkkk Mae Vomet for Eaeh Blast." On Friday morning I looked out of my cabin window to find that we were tied up at the most yellow t'tharf that I ever saw, and in front of a large barn like building. I did not dream that we were at Asuncion, but going on deck foundthat the barn was the cus tom house for Paraguay, and that when we went ashore we were in the city of the republica incognita. Avery nice little city we found it to be. Not that it is pretty or pretentious, or worth visiting but it is an enterprising, re- Eublican, go-ahead place. Most of the ou3es arc small and old, and are built without any regard to being on. the streets. You cannot imagine a more irregular assemblage of houses, but the symmetry with which the public buildings are built offsets this. The President's bouse, Government house, arsenal;sbara"cfe,'and custom house;' stand on wide boulevards, and with the exception of the latter, are as well built as the similar buildings in any American city of tho same rank. The word "asuncion," you know, is not Spanish for "ascension," as we used to believe when schoolboys, but for as sumption, and in the case of the Paraguayan city is well bestowed, for it is not often in South America that there can be found a city that is more assuming politically, socially and gonerally. Remember that fifteen years ago it was sacked by the Brazilian army, and look at it now as a busy trading town of 50,000 people, many of them of fine cultivation. In short, one need not fear toc proud of see ing such a city, a city built by virgin forests on a beautiful hill that slopes from sunny farm lands to the grand, wide Parana. I will not go into dusty details, but assure you that though iso lated, Paraguay is a State worth know ing. Situated in the warm heart of South America, it lies under the shadow of ihe Sierras, and between the two great rivers, Parana and Par aga. Into its territory there have come three and one-half centuries of sadness and misfortune. Spain had no colony that was more enslaved; .and though the Jesuitical control gave it a bright da, it was long the prey of cruelty and adventure. Revolutions came at length and resulted in inde pendence. From 1817 until 1869, first Francia and then the Lopez tyrants, held the country under a cruel despot ism. Then Solano Lopez involved the Stale in war with Brazil, and after the sack of Asuncion, and the ravage of the country, the tyrant was shot and the reign of terror gave place to a re organization of the republic, which was modeled after the United States. Appropriations are voted by Congress and that body also fixes the salaries of the officials. The President receives $6,000. tho Vice-Presidfcnt $3,000. the Ministry $1,500, Congressmen $500, and the Judges of the Supreme Court $150. The population is aboutSOO.OOO, and what is strange about it is that there are only about 30.C0O men and 270,000 women. Of course the females aro the farmers, producers and labor ers. They work slavishly and are very poor. While the men sit at home and drink and smoke, they indefatigably toil and support the families. Cor. Springfield Republican. WILLING TO SHOVEL. How Energy anil Industry Wrought For tune to a Young Man Who Had the Kight Kind of Pride. To be willing to bejrin at the bottom is the open secret of being able to come out at the top. A few years ago a young man came to this country to take a position in a new enterprise in the Southwest Ho was well bred, well educated, and he had the tastes of his birth and education. He reathed the scene of his proposed labors, and found, to his dismay, that the enter prise was already bankrupt, and that he was penniless, homeless and friend less in a strange land. He worked his way back to New York, and in mid winter found himself, without money or friends, in the great, busy metrop olis. He did not stop to measure the obstacles in his path; he simply set out to find work. He would have preferred the pen, but he was willing to take the shovel; and the shovel it was to be. Passing down Fourth avenue on a snowy morning, he found a crowd of men at work shoveling snow from the sidewalks about a well-known locality; he applied for a position in their ranks, got it, and went to work with a hearty good will, as if shoveling were his vo cation. Not long after, one of the owners of the property, a many-millionaire, passed along the street", saw the young man's face, was struck by its intelligence, and wondered what had brought him to such a pass. A day or two latei , his business took him to the same locality again, and brought him face to face with the same man, htill shoveling snow. He stopped, spoke to him, received a prompt and courteous answer, talked a few minutes for the sake of getting a few facts about his his tory, and then asked the young mau to call at his office. That night the shovel era ended, and the next day, at the ap pointed time, the voung man was closeted with the millionaire. In one of the hitter's many enterprises there was a vacant place, and the young man who was willinjr to shot el" got it It was a small place, at a small salary, but he more than filled it; he filled it so well, indeed, that in a few months he was promoted, and at the end of three years he was at the head of the enter prise, at a large salary. He is there to day, with the certainty that if he lives he'will eventually fill a position second in importance to none in the field in which he is working. The story is all told in three words: Willing to shovel. Christian Union. He Let His Cows For Beans. "If Smith don't keep his cow out of my garden I will kill her. I have shot her side full of beans every night, but she gets in my garden the next night justthe same as if nothing had hap pened. I believe he turns her in my garden." "Of course he does," said Jones, "for I saw him do it" "What the dickens does he do that for?' "To get you to shoot his cow." "To get me to shoot his cow? What does he want me to shoot his cow for?" "Because he is a Bostonniau and his cow brings home enough of your beans to support his family. He keeps his boys busy picking the beans out of his cow's hide. Take him over a bushel of beans and his cow won't get in your garden for a week." Paris Deacon. A Philadelphia woman who has an income of thirty thousaud a year has been fotiiid guilty of shop-lifting. P.'iiludiljjftiu Ilrcord. OF GENERAL INTEREST. The Germans have thirteen whole holidays every year. The cultivation of licorice is profit ably indulged in throughout Sacramen to County, California. - Among the victims of cholera at Naples was an old woman aged one hundred and three years. The road-bed of the Southern Pa cific Railroad through the Colorado desert is ballasted with salt, vast beds of which abound in the vicinity. A Polish woman in Pittsburgh withdrew an assault and battery prose cution on the defendant's promising to pay twenty dollars to the new Polish church of that city. Arthur Dodge, of New York, paid one thousand dollars for a magnificent St Bernard dog with a handsome coat. After his arrival here it was found the dog had been dyed. X. Y. Sun. Extensive farmers in California are employing negroes from Tenneweein order to rid themselves of the Chinese. Thus far the negroes have been found more desirable as laborers than' the Chinese. Embossed sole leather, the figures on which stand out like solid reliei work, is coming greatly into use for library furniture. Gold and silver or namentation is often seen on the leath er. Troy Times. Thanksgiving Day bids fair to be come one of our fixed Cauadian insti tutions, if it has not already attained that position. And it is well that it should. On the other side of the line it Ls almost the only universally recog nized holiday. Toronto Globe. In the old records of the town ol Clinton, Mass., a certain little thor oughfare was called "Cat alley." In the present book of tax registration the name is euphonized into "Pussy ave nue," and it is supposed that the next step will be Feline boulevard. Chicago Herald. . The New York Herald says that a swinging thermometer will not register higher temperature in the sun than in the shade. This may work on ther mometers, but when the same thing was tried on horse thieves in Iowa, the temperature rose to a degree which was simply unbearable. Current. Wolf-skins in the frontier market bring from one dollar and a half to three dollars each. Wolf-skins are the main dependency of many of the poorer ranchmen during the winter months, some of them collecting as many as live hundred pelts from the beginning of November to the elose of February. As an example of their stoicism, it is said that during a light with our troops in the West an Indian womau concealed her little girl -in a barrel, telling her to remain perfectly quiet, whatever happened. After the battle the child was found with her arm shat tered by a niiuic ball, but she had uttered no sound. In Ontario passenger trains jire not started on Sunday. Recently it was attempted on the Credit Valley, a new road, but so strong was the public feeling aroused that the company felt constrained to abolish the Sunday train. When the Dominion Government di rected that tile Welland Canal bo opened during twelve hours of Sunday, so strong w:is the expression of puhlic opinion on the subject that in a few weeks the order was countermanded. The list of goods canned has been enlarged by a company in St. Louis, which has begun canning eggs. A factory has been erected and is now in operation, where they will can 1.000. 000 dozen annually. The eggs are put through some some sort of a process by which the yolks and whites are sep arated from the .shells, and the sub stance is then drietl and canned. Out teapoonful is aid to be equal to one Snf 'im ' '3 warranted to keep freh for three years.- St. Louis Post. A discouraged carpenter of Macon. Ga., being arraigned in the Recorder's Court for an attempt at suicide, pleaded that he wanted to die. and as whisky would not kill him he had tried lauda num. He said if lie was let off lie would not try to kill himself any more. The Recorder said that he would strip tho imaginary romance of the drunk by holding him responsible forbeing drunk on laudanum its well as if he was on whisky. He fined him five dollars for getting drunk on laudanum and at tempting to commit Miicide. A lady sends u the following: "A beautiful thought came from my little boy of eight years this evening. We were watching our lovely Minsut. and, afterward the stars made their appear ance, one by one, until there was a myriad of bright, twinkling orbs. He said: 'Mamma, don't yon tuppo-e that God has bored lots of holes in the skv sc that we can jut see how beau ful Heaven is on the other side, and don't you guess that it is the angels lloatinir bv them that makes them look as though they were Albanu Times. winking?' " "The ('range." Alexander Hamil ton's old home. ituated between Tenth and St. Nicholas avenues and One Hun dred and Thirty-eighth and One Hun dred and Forty-fifth streets. New York, is rapidly disappearing under the pres sure of the march of modern improve ments. Here is where Hamilton spent his happiest years. Surrounded by his wife and children, he continually en tertained the most distinguished guests, among whom were Talleyrand and Louis Philippe. The estate comprised about twenty acre. One of its attrac tions was an isolated group of nine large trees, which Hamilton named the "Nine Muses." -X J". Tribune. Sanitary Clothing. The clothing reform proposed by Dr. Gustav Jaeger, of Stuttgart, is .said to have been already approved and car ried out by thousands of Germans, not a few Russians, and some Englishmen. Dr. Jaeger contends that clothing made exclusively from wool, a natural covering for animal bodies, is the safest and most healthful for man kind to wear, and he urges Jts use for all purposes of men and women. Not only would he exclude every article made from cotton or other vegetable fiber from the apparel in use by day, but he would also reject them from the beds on which we sleep at night He advocates garments of such form that draughts of cold air under them ire prevented, while he doubly pro tects the throat and chest by an extra thickness of cloth, and keeps the feet clean and dry by the use of boots of porous leather or felt and porous inner soles. The advantages of wool over vegetable fibers are claimed to be very great, as the latter impede the circula tion of the air, retain the noxious ema nations of tho body, ad expose the surface of the skin "to sudden change of temperature, while wool is free from those objections. Arkansaw Traveler.
