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COLUMBUS, NEB., ..WEDNESDAY. JANUABY 28. 1885.
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ONE BY ONE.
Though from the boughs to which they're
long been clinging.
The autumn leaves are dropping one by
one.
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.
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FIRST
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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. REEDER,
A TTORNE Y AT LAW,
Office on Olive St., Columbus, Nebraska
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V. A. MACKEN,
DKALBR IN
Foreign and Domestic Liquors and
Cigars.
llth street, Columbus, Neb. 50-y
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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,
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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.