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THE JOURNAL. "WEDNESDAY, FEB. 11, 1883. ZbU1 at the Perteflci, Celsslu, Kit., u iwmI dux sitttr. THE EYES OF LOVE. toeytcH us love is blind, but Is It so? Is not Lore opon-oyod and quick to see Vic hidden Rood that from all other eya .; Deeply concealed may be? TWhat can bo see in her?' one asks, dismayed. .-"-Small, plain and poor, with not one bit of mind! "Unused to worldly ways, quiet in speech Surely, Lore must be blind 1" Another questions, laughing: "What can sk& With" all her gifts and countless graces, find In him. so grave and plain a perfect clod? "Ah," archly. "Love blind!" '"Sec," sneers another, "now the mother -bonds More rravelytender, smiling slow and kind, O'er.that frail child most worthless of them .'ill Aye, truly. Love is blind 1" Bo the world says, passing upon its way. Having no time nor wish to pause and tad "The hidden pearl under tho rough, crude soil Lovo finds tho' he be blind I Tfls only Love that looks beyond tho face. The ungraceful form, tho quiet lips, to And The pearl of price. The eyes of Love are wise, Dcep-scnrching, but not blind! J. K. Ludlum, in Chicago Advance. STEALING A MESSAGE. Sharp Practice and a Great Jour nalistic Feat. IXow Three Able and Enterprislaf Jew aallsta Securod u Advance Copy, " a and IXow a Fourth Stole It 1 From Then. One of tho important events of the year to "Newspaper Row" in Washing ton is the annual appearance of the President's Message. This is never fur nished to tho press to appear in print until after its presentation to Congress. Many times in years past the cor respondents have exercised tho utmost ingenuity in their efforts to get it, by hook or crook, so as to print it a day or two in advance. Two or threo times theyjiavo succeeded, much to the an noyance and chagrin of tho different Presidents who have fallen victims to journalistic voracity. Of lato years it . -has been so scrupulously and systemat ically guarded that it very rarely gets -out ahead of time. An advance copy - Wijl at any time command a large price, and this has more than once induced treachery in tho Government Printing . Ollice. In no other way is it possible for it to reach the public prematurely. Before Grant's time the sharp newg . paper pen had succeeded now and then In-getting a message before tho day of its delivery. They tried their skill on Grant, who was not "up" on such mat ' ters, and successfully, too. They out generaled the General. His first mes sage became the prey of the Row, and people knew all about it before Con gress meL But they did not fool him s second time. He said nothing about , .it, but the next 3-ear ho guarded his . message so carefully that none of the correspondents were able to get the - slightest trace of it. The night before the day of its delivery the President sent a messenger along the Row and invited a number of the leading correspondents to call at the White House the follow- - ing morning. Of course they were all there at the appointed time. President Grant entered the room with a big roll of manuscript in his haud and a twinkle ,in his eye. It was perfectly safe to "givo out" tho message then, as there was not time to make any possible use Of it till after its delivery. "Well, boys," said the President, you outilanked mo last year, but I don't believe 3011 will do it again. Hero's the message. You can all sit down and cop3 it if 3011 want to." Nobody wanted it then, as it was al ready in the hands of the Associated Press, and would be promptly furnished to their respective papers. But they all laughed and declared it an excellent joke. All of Grant's subsequent mes sages were guarded with equal care, and to the end of his Administration he was as good as his word; not one of them had tho edge taken off 1)3' prema ture publication. But they played it on Hayes. How the unsuspecting and guileless Ha3es was taken in by a syndicate of enterprising journalists was "told to me the other evening by one of the guilty trio. These were the representatives pf the New York Times, Chicago Times and Cincinnati Enquirer, ft was in 1877. The boys h:id been nosing around with more than usual zeal, trying to get - on the scent of the message. For sev eral days even-body along the Row was on the qui vivo. There seemed to be an indefinable idea thatsomebod3' would get it ahead of time, and each of tho correspondents hoped to stick a feather in his professional cap by proving him self the smartest of the lot. The mes- ragQ would be.tleHvered.onMonday. and . lip, to, Saturday no oue, as far as known, 5 had-inade any headwa3'. Half a dozen different combinations, -each consisting of the representatives of three or four widely-sepjiraled journals, had been hard at work- all' the week, .jealousy jguardingeaeu syndicate from the other, ,-wha't-tfdings. if am', had been obtained. 'Journalistic rivalry was at white heat. 'Those who did get a stolen copy of tho iuuunrcoveieu uocument Avero snecess--'ful,by the merest accident. It appeared that the New York Tribune man was the only who really struck a lead that promised to pan out rich. He had care fully nursed the ch-me, and was on the very point of svuring a magnificent "scoop" as such a f-at is termed in journalistic phnw -when the other fel - lows stumbled upon the scent and bagged the game. Early Saturdav evening the New York Times corres pondent was sitting at his desk in a de jected mooml. menially bewailing tho failure of all his efforts'to stoal the'mes sage. A -.ranger entered, and in a voice that betrayed excitement inquired if .that was the New York Tribune Of ficc "That's all right," said tho Tiroes niau.- -"Have you got it?" - . . It had Hashed ncro-s his mind when the man entered that possibbyhe was on some errand connected with "tho subject that had for several days been upper xnot in his thoughts. "Yes, I have it right here," said tho stranger, as he slapped his hand on tho breast pocket with the air of a man who had achieved a great exploit. "How much do vou want for it?" "What will you give?" Til give you a thousand dollars." "I think I can get more than that." "What's your figure?" said the Times. "Fifteen hundred." "Give 3-ou twelve hundred and fifty." "Fifteen hundred, and not a dollar less." 'Up to this time not a word had been said as to what the document was for which such a spanking price was de manded. It afterward transpired that thie stranger, whp. had laid his plans to 'steal a copy of the message, had a single interview on the street tho night before with.the Tribune correspondent, and he had ao-reed to give the latter the hrst chance to buy his plunder. He was not familiar -with the Row, and when he came to deliver the gootls he went into , tfcg wrong office. The Times man was shrewd enough, to take in the situation mi tho niiLset. As indicated by the '- isiiTersation be feigned a f uHJoBOwlsdge assured that the three papers would "back" him he detennined that if it was themessago that the man had he should not take it away with him. "Axe you positive there is no other copy out?" "Pledge you my word on it," said the stranger." "Lay it down here. ' said the limes, "call around Monday morning and you'll get your money, on conditio that no other newspapers have it" "All right," said the stranger, and thereupon he laid upon the correspondent-stable a printed copy of thoPresi dent's message, and departed. Th Times man quickly thrust it into his pocket and hastened to find his "part ners" of the Chicago Times and Cin cinnati Enquirer. There was great re joicing as they perfected their plans for getting the message off to their respect ive papers without is leaking out The least slip in the arrangements might prove fatal. In order that they might not excite'suspicion along the Row they hired for the night a room at the Ebbitt House, which they used as their "headquarters.1- They decided to admit the Boston Olobe into the combination, which would make the cost of the mes sage $375 to each of the Jour papers, the additional expense to each for tele graphing it as a special being about 100. The Olobe man wired his papei on tho subject and received a reply that he might give $250 and no more. The other fellows refused to let the Olobe in unless it would pay its full share; so the Boston people did not have tho mes sage to mix with their bean-porridge. In the meantime the New York, Chi cago, and Cincinnati papers had tele graphed their representatives fully ap proving the arrangement, and telling them to secure it at any price. The most discreet of their number was out to privately interview the manager of the telegraph office, and invoke upon him all the curses in the calendar if he permitted anybody in that office.through which it must go, to "fflVO it away. The precious "copy" was deposited in his hands with full instructions, and tho threo lucky journalists sauntered down along tho Kow. Tltcy called upon theii friends, the wretched correspondents of old fogy journals, who had not enter prise enough to do so easy a thing as getting a-Presidcnt's Message two days ahead of time. They inquired for "news" as if thej had not already- furnished their papers with just as- much as thev eould handle, and asked despairingly il an3body had heard anything about the message. All this time" the ten or twelve thousand words were chasing each othci over half a, dozen wires to each of the three cities. Next morning tho Row showed early signs of animation. The representative of the two Timcscs and tho Enquirer knew tho boys would be around betimes to continue with redoubled vigor theii hunt for tho message, as this would be the last day of grace. Conscious of tho entire success of their scheme tho three met by appointment and went down the Row to see the bo3s and hear the re turns como in. Half a dozen able journalists were standing in front of General Bo3nton's office. As the trio camo up thev ac costed the former with: "Have you got on to the message yet?" "No, have you?" was the reply. "Well;" said the New" York man, "I sent it to the Times last night" There was a stare of wild amazement on the faces of the disgusted group. Their eyes opened still wider wheu the two others chimed in:" "The Cincinnati people are all read ing it in the Enquirer this morning." "Me, too," said tho Chicago Times man. Andthoso who "got left" walked sadly away. At that time there was nothing'on earth' that had any interest to them. As the threo heroes of the hour walked up the street they met the cor respondent of the Chicago Tribune. It was now their time to be surprised, and particularly he of the Chicago Times. His utter demoralization may be im agined when the Tribune, with a broad smile on his face, said to them: "Well, boys, that was a good job. You deserve a credit mark. But tho Tribune has got the message all the same!" And this proved to be true. In some way the Tribune people had the idea that it would appear that morning in New York. The difference in time of an hour afforded the possibility of hav ing it telegraphed from that city im mediately upon its publication, and yet the amount of matter to be handled was so largo as to render the feat a difficult one. In carrying out such a scheme it was necessary that the. issue in Chicago be made as nearly as possible even with the Times. In anticipation of such an attempt, and to prevent it if possible the New York Times delayed its issue fifteen or twenty minutes, until it could be no longer kept back and meet the early outgoing trains. The Chicago Tribune peoplo had the impression that it was the World that had the message, and kept that office closely picketed all the latter part of the night Thay also Tiad their skir mishers at each of the other offices. The first copy of the Times that appeared on the street was snatched up b3 a rep-i resentative of a Chicago paper, who went with it at his utmost speed to the telegraph office. The manager of tho, latter had been notified of the job and had ready all the operators that could' be employed. Corresponding arrange ments were made at tho other end' of the line, and the message in sections went buzzing over twenty wires. There being littlo ordinary busiuess at that time of da3 they- had full possession of the line. At the Tribune office in Chi cago there was the utmost activity. Every printer was at his "caso," and editors and proof-readers 13 tho dozon gave their bast energies to the work.. The marvelous feat was accom plished in an incredibly short spaco of time. In a little more than an hour from the issue of the Times in New York the entire massage appeared in the Tribune on tho streets of Chicago but a few minutes behind the issue of the Times of the latter city. When all tho facts became known along tho Row here it was voted that on tho whole the Chicago Tribune should take the cake. The Now York Tribune, which shook tho tree for the others to gather the fruit was left entirely out in the cold. The Enquirer and New York Times promptly paid their ?500 each to tho man who sold them tho message. Mr. Store3. of Ihc Chicago Times, was so incensed at Hie success of the Tribune's exploit that lie refused to pay his share. He alwayc insisted that the party had broken faith with him, and by this means allowed his rival to share the benefits of the enleqrisc. Storey was sued for the mone3. but so far as I can learn it was never paid. "How did the stranger get the mes sage?" I asked of my informant who was one of the thite. "I haven't tho slightest idea," he re plied. "I didn't ask him.- I didn't want to know anything about it The message was what I was after, and I asked no questions." Washington Cor. Cleveland Herald. The Buffalo Commercial comes to the rescue of the Niagara Falls hack men, and declares that "unless a visitor is a fool he can easily bargain with a courteous, intelligent driver for a ride upon the most favorable terms. Tke New York Journal says th days of the street car are numbered. The timo is coming when men will be shot up town in a oneumatic tab THE ST. BERNARD DOG. Noble Brutes Which Have Exceptional Claims Upon the Regard f Human Be ing. To speak of a St Bernard dog as an "exhibit" seems somewhat derogatory to such a noble creature. Even as com pared with other dogs, they have ex ceptional claims upon the regard of human beings a superiority which only the, Newfoundland and the true shep herd dog can in any way be said to share with them. The instinct of tho Newfoundland to save life and the amazing intelligence which it shows whenever it attempts to rescue the drowning have'uggestcd to the Conti nental River Police the formation of a brigade of these brave animals to co operate with the regular "Humano So eicty,"" and the experiments, as reported 03 our emotional neighbors the French, gave some surprising results. It was apparently proved that the dogs dis covered at once for themselves the ac tual degree of danger of the immersed person, and acted accordingly. 11 a man pretended to fall out of a boat they pricked up their ears and wagged thoir tails. But nothing more. If ho called out for help they looked much puzzled, but still re frained from offering assistance. They saw that he was within arm's length of the boat; that the other man in it did nothing to help his unfortunate com rade, so they put their sagacious black heads together and said one to the other: "That drowner there is either a fool of the largest size or else he is an imposter. In either case we had better let him alone." And they did. But no experiment when the accident happened to a man in woman's clothes failed to send the dogs splashing in at once, and if the object was a chud the competi tion to save it was immediately furious. Ordinary property failed to attract their interest, but a hat floating down tho stream made them at once uneasy, and the older dogs would go in and paddle up current and "quarter" the water, as if the association of a man's hat with his head were too strong for the New foundland mind to disconnect the two, and as if tho animal thought that if the one wa there the other would probably be not far off. With the sheep-dog, agaiu, there is an analogous discrimination of circum stances. If a sudden storm comes on it lirst sets about herding those hheep which run the greatest risk and scouring the places where peril is most likely to be fatal. For tho sake of a single Btraggler which it knows to bave gone off it leaves the flock, and as soon as it has got the whole number com plete the tone of its voice, its gestures change so significantly that the shop herd Knows that all his charges aro safe. On tho homeward way the colley de votes all his best attention, to the lame and weaklings, urging them on with a benevolent ferocity which tho sheep thoroughly understands, and bestow ing upon the rest onl3 a perfunctory care- Arrived at the fold it imme diately surrenders all responsibilities. It says to the shepherd: "I know you are not good for much as a shepherd with out me, but at any rate 3ou can surely shut the sheep up for tho night and count them 13 yourself. I am going to have my supper." The intelligence of the St Bernard moves in the same arc. It is of the anTMn Awrrcu No dog is less frivolous -"-"- . . -r, less addicted to canine vanities. Even as puppies they find out their strength and weight, and the natural generosit of their character, so amply expressed in the broad, deep set of tho forehead, the expression of thoughtful dignit3 in the C3e. makes them far more tolerant of trivial affronts, more patient under small provocations, than their inferiors in size and sinew. When the3' grow up they carry themselves admirably in any "scene" with which the3 ni:i3 happen to get mixed up. Their nresencc often sufiiccs to put a stop to a street-brawl. The gravity with which the3' approach the cause of quarrel, the ponderous air of judicial impart iality with which they seem to investigate it, arc too much for the little dogs of low degree or the vul gar t3pcs. Such dignity of bearing is intolerable to the canaille. They slink off in various directions, overpowered b3 the suavity of the giant's address, the imperturbable courtesy of his man ner. London Telegraph. RUSSIAN WOMEN. The Duties and Pleasures of "Life A3 They Exist In the Czar's Dominion. The subject condition of Russian women is one of the principal causes of the rapid growth among the people of certain radical Christian sects, some of which resemble in many particulars tho American revivalists and Anabaptists. The despotism of the family drives the peasant woman to these sects, which teach that there can bo no domestic ties de jure where none exist de facto, and that it is degrading to observe the letter whou the spirit is dead. She flies from her home and lives under an assumed name, lest she be dragged back to her former servitude. She feels raised to a condition of equality and independence b3 her faith in a religious doctrine, and ardently embraces the new belief. Tho maiden, or woman married against her will by the Slate church, having once thrown in her lot with tliee enthusiasts, may marry among them. Until within the last two years Russian law did not recognize these marriages, and tie juro the wife was alw:i3's able to leave her sectarian husband without his being able to restrain her. In some of these sects the husband and wife stand on an equal footing, and the marriage lasts as long as both parties aro satisfied. On entering the conjugal state the3 declare their intention before the elders of the church, and on sundering the union they do the same. Until very recently these sects were persecuted, and many a peasant woman, by her devotion and heroism, has shown herself worthy of the martyr's hal. Women often preach, and the greater number of these religious bodies are distinguish ed for a high moral level, purity and tenderness of domestic life, which is all the more remarkable when it is remem bered that ai entire dissolution af all famil3' ties is permitted by some of thoir KHMdiar doctrines. Besides thu sects just mentioned, there are others of an ascetic nature, in which the women take vows of chastity anil con-:eerato their lis to nursing the sick and studying tli". Bible. A new sect has very recent ly sprung up, whose distinguishing feature is the exaltation of woman. She is placed above man because she can give birth to another immortal being. Her pain and travail are so great that exempting her from all other physical suffering and annoyance would be but a poor reward; she is entitled to the deepest gratitude and reverence of man kind. Certain writers who have studied Ihese religious phenomena speak with great admiration of some 3-oung girls gifted with remarkable oratoncal talents and wonderful depths of mystical thought The sects to which they be long seek sanctity in the acts of every day life. A member of one of them a psalm-reading old maid said to a proud Bishop riding in a carriage: -Christ went barefooted." The spirit of the Russian sectaries in favor of the mancipation of women shows what a rital hold the woman question has on jven the lowest orders of our national dfe. What the upper and educated :lasses of women seek in the sciences, ligher education and 'the liberal pro essions, the poor, ignorant peasant vomen find in niystioal religiea.-'-T. Stanto. GOING HOME. Dow Great Tilings Grow Utile la Oar Sight uWd Grow Older. Reader, if you ever left home and went to a great eiy to seek fortune and fame, or lodging at police headquarters, then come home on a visit after a 3oar or two, did you notice how low the houses once so tall in your eyes ap peared? When fifteen I went forth in the world and found myself at the end of the second day four hundred miles from home in a larger city than I had ever seen. I was soon familiar with its Iirineipal points of interest and" only ack of funds with which to purchase postage stamps kept mo from deluding my'scviool-mates in Illinois with gTov ing accounts of my wonderful adven tures and my hair-breadth escapes. I remember the first time the fire de partment was called out after my ad vent in the city. It was before fire ex tinguishing had become a profession as it is to-day. and tho Tiffin department was a volunteer affair, which hauled the old "Seneca Chief" steamer by haud, and ran a heok-njnd-ladder truck and hand engine by tho same motive power. I was struck with tho apparent incili ciency of the outfit and yearned to right the numerous errors I thought I detect ed in reducing Peuncr's barn to ashes. II there is anything a boy with the ac cumulated wisdom of fifteen rbDr aud wear3' 3'cars rankling in his bosom, can detect belter than another it is an error in some great enterprise like burning a house or barn, and he is not slow in righting the great wrong to tho best of his ability. I thought the fellow that held the helm of the hook-and-ladder truck did not understand his .business, so I walked up to him and seized one horn of the dilemma. I never exactly knew whether I fainted, suffeied a stroke of paralysis or was kicked by a mule, but when I recovered from my tempor ary indisposition I was lying on my back In the mud, and one of my eyes had lost its cunning. It was in mourning nearly two weeks after that Ever since that occurrence, I have known more about tho line of policy pursued 1)3' accomplished firemen than I ever knew before. I believe I learned about as much conccrninjr-fires on thit occasion as I ever care to know, fori wandered -around after rising from tho scene of my downfall, until I collido-i with a somewhat persistent stream of water that the hoscman evidently thought useless for an purpose except to extinguish tho ardor of over-smart boys. I have since observed that all well regulated fire departments have an engine ior that express purpose. A fire has no charms for a first-class fireman, jf there is. a boy with ideas far in ad vance of his 3cars in the crowd of by standers. I have seen a whole depart ment of firemen let thousands of dollars turn to ashes right in front of them, while engaged in dampening the irre pressible ardor of youth. In myv opin ion it is the tlufy of every city to pass ordinances prohibiting 0033 from run ning to fires, in order that" firemen may have time to throw a little water on the fire. " With all m3 inexperience and ad vanced ideas. I survived the shocks and rebuffs of a" uuappr.-ciatii'c world and was spared to n- ura to 1113' home, re storing light, life -and comfort to the languishing household. When the train pulied into my father's post-ollice ad dressthat is about all there was of my native village I was surprised at the lowncss of tho two-story brick house that constituted its business district I had though it the very impersonation of architectural altitude in the good old days, but on my return it seemed a vcr3' small affair. So it was with the hopes of high posi tion among my old school-mates, which I had builded seven or-eight stories high before I came home. I found that all that remained of them was the base ment, and instead of looking up to me, as I had fondlv anticipated, they slapped mo on the back in the old familiar wa3, and when I resented such famili arity tho3 said I was stuck up and they were right Through Mail. m - HE STOPPED THE CAR. The Young Man Who Took a Itldicalona Method of Winning' a Ilet. The car was going down French's hill, and there were a few jovial passen gers aboard. At Prospect street a lady got out A3oung man, who, with a few of his friends, were haying a bit of quiet fun and had evidently been end ing themselves, said: "I'll bet cigars for the crowd that I'll slop the car with out ringing the boll, speaking to the driver or conductor or asking auyono to stop it." "O, you'll go outside and slap hold of the brake. You're too smart, you arc," remarked one of his companions, smi lingl3. "You'll cut j'ourself if 3011 don't mind." "No, siree, I'll do no such thing. I'll neither touch the brake, nor ask an3 oie to touch it for me, and I won't ask anybod3' to stop Hie car." The bet was taken. Up jumped the car-stopper, and seizing one of the straps tugged at it as hard as he could. The conductor saw him and con cluded that the man was a greenhorn who wanted to gel out and w'as yanking at the wrong tag. He stopped the car and threw open the door. The man had sat down again. "Don't you want to get out here?" said the conductor. "O, dear, no." "Then why did ou pull the strap?" "I was 011I3- trying to sec if it was linn enough to hold me if I happened to come along iu the car some night when I couldn't get a seat" The door slammed, and the conduc tor said something :is he leaned against the rear brake?, it was something not very complimentary to such darned fooling. But the man had won his bet Ho had stopped Iho car. Fall River Ad vance. The Tooth Factory. The domain of the dentist is about to be disputed. A great discovery has been made which will revolutionize the whole business and emancipate tho suf ferers. A factory has been established, with plenty of capital to back it, for tho purpo.se of making artificial teeth by machinery. All that auy one who i$ troubled '.vith his teeth will have to do will be lo got them all pulled out Then he can purchase a brand new, machine made set aud be exempt from toothache all the rest of his life. There is, of course, nothing new in the making and using of artilicial teeth, but it will be easily seen that the manufacture by ma chinery presents great advantages. When tho making of watches b3 ma chinery was starVd there were man3' protests that the new way would never be :i good as the old. But tho exact ness soon attained, and the convenience of having' the parts interchangeable, brought about a revolution, and tho factory watches now rank above the hand-made. The same advantages will be had in the factory teeth. If one set gets broken, or comes out an exactly similar one can be ordered from the faeton at very small cost If the plate gets ciacked it can be replaced in the same way All that will be necessary will be to give the number of the plate, and a new one, precisely like the old, will be sent by return mail. N. Y. Mail and Express. m m Camphor trees arc growing thriftily at Quincy. Flo. The plants wen ok rained from Washington. ORES OF BRAZIL. Deposit of S.OIO.OOO.OOO Tons of tht Us'-Cul Metal. The iron ores of the province of Minus, Brazil, arc rcmarkablo for their ex traordinary abundance, thoir richness, and their purity. The3-are to bo found -almost cvcr3whcrc in the center of the province; sometimes iu outcrops ol enormous extent often worked into to & great depth by the gold 'minors in search of the pr.:cious metal; sometimes deposited In large m.-is'csin the bed and upon the banks of river , the floods of which carry them away and scatter them over other localities. In many placpj thoy couittilu'c tho track of the roads, the'dust of whioh sparkles so brilliantly during certain hours of the day that the eye can scatcely bear to look upon it So abundant is this ore, and so ready to hand, that large quant tics of it are u -ed as building stone; this is notably the case in the town of Ouro-Preto. Maug.mese is always found in these ores, often only as a trace, but sometimes in considerable quau tity, as much as nine per cent in some samples. These reraarkale ores, equal, if not supcrior,to the bst ores of Sweden, Algeria and the Pyrenees, may lie had for the labor of picking them up. In some places the3 crop outffroni the hill-sides, as at Pitauguy, for example, where, thanks to tho Tabor of tho gold miners, the outcrop of a bed 450 to 600 feet thick may bo seen at one view. over an extent of several miles. In other places, covering an immense ex tent of country, occurs "canga," a su perficial deposit the thiekness of which is often as great as twenty-five or thirty feet Everywhere the streams carry down and deposit pulverulent oligist iron, rcad3' washed for whoever will take the trouble to collect it Mr. Gorceix estimates tho mass of deposits at the foot of the Serra De Caraca at 8,000,000.000 tons. But without such estimates, whoever has travelled through theso regions must necessarily havo come away with the impression that the deposits aro practically inex haustible. Unfortunately for this country, so rich iu metallic ores, no coal exists in the neighborhood of these deposits. Lignite, 'of good quality, is found in several places, and in beds of workable thickness. But this has. only future in terest when tho industry shall have been sutlicicntly developed to use the fuel in gaseous form. But there is an abundance of wood, aud wood charcoal must bo the fuel employed iu the reduc tion of these iron ores. The extensive forests of the province of Minas are ca pable of supplying fuel on a large scale for many years to come without the material rising niucbjn value. Hence it will be possible to carry on metallur gical operations for a long time very cheaply b3 llicaiis of wood fuol. It ma 'ie added-that water power is abundant and easily uliliable in this mountainous counUy. At present the means of transport a:e insufiicient: but a railwa will shortly be completed up to the boundary of this mineral district and commercial enteqirise only is needed to contittu.' it into the heart of that rcjjlou. Annulet da Mines. AN OHJO SQUASH YARN. A Tall Story Which Scattered a Crowd, and Mudo tho Grocer Take Down IIU Sliot-Gun. Yesterday a lot of men were seated in the "corner grocery," when their atten tion was attracted to a pumpkin which was just then brought in. Being of au uncommonly large sic, it set the more talkative ones to telling "squash yarns." After somebody had told a vcr3 extrava gant one about a squash that weighed, as he solemnly asserted, seven hundred and ninety-nine pounds, an old fisher man arose and addressed the assembl,. "My veiygood fren's, I canjestbe.it sich squash 3'arns as that, 'wa3 yander. W'y," he went on. "when I was phin' my trade in the West Injies, I kept a kind of squash seed which I alwa3s planted a little before my reg'lar iishin' -scursions. Well, then in 'bout a week, in that hot keiitry, Mr. Squash lied got a good start and I took him by the helm aud steered 'em toward the water where 1 wanted to do my iishin'. "Only one.suua-h growed on this 'un, to wich I tieu a big lump of cork to keep ini afloat Ye see, the blame thing growed so fas that it just drairsred tho squash over the water like double-geared lightnin'. Thinks I, 'I'd better be a go iir if I ketch vou:' so I iuniued into mv boat, first tyin' about fifty fish linos to the vino as it rushed past me. I hed to row for all I was worth to ketch up with him, he had got under such heudw.iA'. HowsomeVer, I got round on the lee side of it, as it glided onward toward the scttin' sun, and veered it square around with au oar, and headed the thing for port agin. "I hed niightj hard work to keep the side of my boat from getting stove in by the squash a cavin' around so; but when I got it started she went fer tho land at the rate of forty knots an hour. "This I did, so as . to land ray fish, which 1 could plainly see, jerkin U13 vegetable trollin' line about sixt3 wa3s a minute. It took that viflfc just three seconds to grow back again to the shore.aud the distance was three miles. This squash, contrary to all my expec tations, didn't stop when it touched the ground, but took the overland trail, drajrsin' vine, cork, fish and all. It was a beautiful sight to see the speckled shiners go sailin' across lots, mixed in with the em'rald green of the squash leaves, floppin' again one another an' ghtterin in the sunshine. "I didn't hev much time to admire it, fer I sec that I Was li'ble to lose the benefit of my catch, so I got ashore quick aud cut the vine to stop the thing; but I found out afterwards that the squash had knocked down seven huts, killed a dog, and crippled three natives for life who tried to stop it "When I got to my fish I found to m astonishment that ev'ry blamed one of em' by rubbiu' over the sand so fast hed been cooked to a nico brown, and" But when this disciplo of truth gazed around to see the effect of his words, not a man, with the exception of the grocer, who had taken down his shot-gun, was left His audience had silently departed by the back door. Toledo Blade. Cheerful Chinese Execution. A common modo is to tear off the nails of the toes ami lingers, thrw-t bamboo spikes into the eyes, and riddle the whole bodies with iron wires heated in the tire. Another peculiarly diabol ical invention is a cae, just high and wide euough to enable the victim to stand in it. Its whole interior top, sides and bottom, excepting just space enough to rest the feet on is garnished with spikes made of bamboo, and when the pnsoner is placed iu it the cage is suspended. Unless ho keeps his body perfectly rigid the cage oscillates, and with the least oscillation tho spikes enter his naked body. He can not crouch down nor fiiange his position in the least, nor make use of his hands. No food is givau him. The moment ha commences to feel sleepy to relax his muscles innumerable bamboo pointi enter into his flesh, and the pain is so ucute that sleep is impossible. Finally he dies, rather from want of sleep than from pain one of the most hideoae deaths imaginable. Figaro. The Germans now use paper in stead of wood in manufacturing leaeV KOCilft IRON PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL, Baron Striglitz. the wealthy Rus riat banker who died rcceutlv, be queathed 6,000,000 roubles, about $$, 900.000, to Mmc. Sophie Mooter, the celebrated pianist Mr. William H. Vanderbilt during the last year has- speut over $10,000 relieving old Staten Island friends of his whose homes wore about to be sold on foreclosure of their mortgages. New York Sun. Mrs. General Custer is said to have several times had the napo of her neck and side line pf the head taken in photo graphs fur admiring friuuds, who de clare it to bo of classic proportions, rarely found excopt on a sculptured form Mrs. Naccy Culoy, aged oue hun dred and five, thu oMcat woman in Connecticut is a negress, and was so small when she was born that she was placed in a pewter teapot and tho lid closed. She has been brewing some time. Hartford Courant. David Couley, a pioneer of Colo rado, said on the night of November 4, in a voico made hoarse by hurrah ing: "All I havo ever wanted to wait for was tho election of another Demo cratic President Now I am ready to die." His exposure that uight brought on pneumonia and, sure euough, he did die. Chicago Journal. Maggie Mitchell is 51, Minnie Pal mer '25, Marv Anderson 27, Bijou Heron 21, Ada ltehan 24. Alfa Norman 2G, Mrs. John Drew 63. Ristori 60, Lydia Thompson 53, Rose Ey tinge (four times married) 48, Effie Gerinon (six times married) 47. Mrs. Bowers 53, Mrs. Chanfrau 45. "Kellogg 42, Charlotte Thompson 41, Patti 44, Nilsson 42, Rose Wood 38, Eliza Weathersby 36, Lotta Crabtree 39, Fanny Davenport 34, Alice Harrison 36, and Miss Ellen Terry is a grandmother. xV. Y. Mail. Frederick Archer, the celebrated English jockey, now on a visit to this country, is twenty-eight years old, slim, short, of quiet and indifferent de meanor, and dressed in black. He has mounted more horses than any other Englishman, and has won tho Derby three times and the St Leger four times. His father also was a jockey. He says that Mr. Pierre Lorillanl's Iroquois is "the noblest animal I ever mounted, kind, gentle and winning. When I won the Derby with Iroquois Mr. Lorillard gave mo five thou sand dollars, which was quite uuasual." N. Y. Her thl. "George 'Jould," says a corre spondent acquainted with Jay's son, "is one of the nicest 3'oung men in the world. Of course he has not had much ehance 3-ct, for he is only about twenty three, and does not look over twenty; but his father is pushing hir.u ahead, and when the old man is dead the boy will- make the name a better one than it is now. He has already been put into several boards 0 directors, aud even now he often sits at the head of the table as Vice-President of the West ern Union and calls to order and pre side, over a board in which Russell Sae and Sidnc3' Dillon sit as Director.-. He is careful of himself, avoids bad company. Albany Journal. "A LITTLE NCNSENSE." A mui'dicaut approached a Wtt chostor man on the cars the other day aud said: "Dear sir, I have lost ny leg," lo which the Westchester man re plied as he hurried away: "M3 dear friend, I have not seen anything of it" Westchester Local News. A shoemaker with one eye com plained that one of his lamps did not burn. One of his shopmates, who is a genuine son of tho Emerald Isle, with as o-'shment exclaimed: "Faith, and do 3ou want with two lamps? Y 't but one e3o!" N. Y. Ledger. 'on forgot your umbrella this - and you were caught in a inwr as you went to the bank," - 1 jollier's wife to her husband. !.: m dear." "Didn't vou feel orrvr -0" "No, my dear; I felt LS II 1 "To a was on mv way to a party ,. " party?" "Yes, my love; I was going to the bank wet.'' Boston Courier. Mose Schaumburg "Dot schwal lowlail goat vas schoo.st splendid to go dot barty to, and make ma-hes dose girls on." Customer "Yes, but one of the tails of the coat is missing.'1 Schaumburg "Never mind dot. For dot tail vhat vas gone dot goat from, I gives you for noddings a hair of India rubber overshoes." Texas Siflingn. Miss Koseleaf (who is trying to force a conversation) "What do you suppose, Mr. Van Noodle, makes our hostess' receptions so invariably stu pid?" Mr. Van Noodle "Aw, weally, I haven't a ghost of an ideaw." Miss R. "And all the other gentlemen are very much like you." "Yes; that must be "the reason." Harvard Lampoon. "Why, old man, you don't say you're most ninety-eight, and was born aud lived iu Virginia and never saw George Washington." Fejble old darkey "Dot am er fac', boss, I'se an hones ole man, an' am too far gun' in this worl to tell er lie. I nebher seed young George, but lor', sah, his poo' ole gran'fadder an' grun'muddcr use to think er' powerful sight ob me!" N. Y. Sun. Old Lady Goodheart tool up a newspaper fiie other day, and upon reading the caption "Making Bs-s -iiht Steel ' she thn;w ilnvv:i the vita On-..' and exclaimed: "I've no patience win. the papers any more! You can't lind a thing in 'em that doesn't make your blood bile. Now, I don't s'pose that Bessemer had any not'jn of ste:.l n hut thev went to work mel in.-idt: him do it. My! my! what a w:ck-d world this is." Yun'kcrs Gazette. "Pa, I read in the paper that an other bank had closed itt doors. What does that mean?" asked an Austin boy of his father. "It means, my son, that the cashier has run oil' with all the money." "But if they closed the door.- anil the cashier returned and wanted to put the money back where he got it he couldn't get in, could he. pa?" "My child, I did not think it wns possible for a hoy of your size to know no little about cashiers." Tcxax Sif lings. A party of young men were telling what they would do if thoy were ship wrecked "far out upon the sea. and left buffeting with the wavo without a (dank to sustain them. Kach one gave '.is opinion, excepting Paddy Murphy: "Bad cess to ye for a cowardly set of spalpeens! Ye'd all be after savin' yourselves an not trying 10 save one another. Why, it's Paddy Murphy that would swim to shore an save himself, au' thin come back and thry to save another." Witch Doctors in Scotland. It seems that witch doctors still flourish in Scotland. We are asjurud that "implicit belief in witohcraft is not infrequently associated with osten tatious professions of religion, sclf-rirhteoiisncs-s aid ardent .Sabbatarian ism. " It Ls common, it apjwars, for witch doctors to save lisiiin-smack.s, or ivc them immunity from the erils of the deep, which in done by spittin ou the boat under cover of darknes inscribing cabalistic characters ou it with a wand, and muttering Gaelic in cfwitations. The witch doctor b in gn at demand, too, for dieascs of the eve. To ctlcct a cure it is necessary 'that the professor of deiaonolo-y should receive his fees beforwhaad, and should not see the patient; lie goet through a series of coutortioaa aad in cantations at home. And alltkis witcfe. cruft flourishes in religiow- aa4 ed cated Scotland! Richmond Btatu. YOUR BEST TIME FMt ACQUlfiUG A PRACTICAL EDUCATION IS NOW. r 1 1 --jjiJBHiHHUHHK-1 9 DECIDED SUCCESS. THK FREMONT NORMAL AND BUSINESS COLLEGE, AT KKESIONT, NElt, Oprm-il NUccesfii'ly October 21. with ten teacherH ami a jcooil attendance, w icli doubled during the tir-i liv.i weeks, and i till steadily increasing. Fifty Stiuleiit iu the HuineHs CoHeire and Short-hand Classes: nearly tiltv in the Normal or Teachers' l)cp truncal "ami common branche, and a uood altundancc in tntt Miuic and Art Departments. The Faculty. PRESIDENT JUNES has h:irt over twonty yeant experience in Educational work. PROFESSOR HAM I.I N. 1'rineipil of the Buaineat, college, has had over tiftcen years' experience and is .1 Superior IVn man and Expert Accountant. PROFESSOR MOIILKR i an onj-intl and inspiring teacher 1:1 the Natur.il Science and l'u.slness Depart m--nt. PROFESSOR l.AWON. .f H.-tou. Mas.. it a Miperior inxtriu-tor iii'.MiiMc. Mis Strah Sherman, of (. hii-ao, N an artist of rare latent and kill, ami a mn.i successful Teacher. .Mi-.-. I.ili.t I,. Jones ami Mi-s JeMe (,.l- arc grad uates of the NoriliTf!ntt lTntctMty, and aMc teacher. Mr. A. A. t'o It .- N a practical liort-Iiati.t reporter ami an adept at type-writinsr. The iln.r teach ers are thoroughly '-ualilicd. EXPENSES VKICY l,OW. Tuition for fifteen week $!.. Hoard costs from $'2.f0 to $:oo a wctk. In clubs aud by sclt-boanlimr it coi Ie Places can be fuuud lor ever.il more fctudeute who wi.li to p.t part or whole ot board by housework or chore.-. No VacalioBo. The WINTER TERM ot 1.1 weeks will begin Dee. Si), but xtudctits can k.vtki: at any TIMK, and are doing o contin ually, pa, in; charges only from time of entering to time of leaving. For particulars address the under signed. W. P. JON ES. A . M.. Prest. of Normal College. Fremont, Neb :il Amu UNION PACIFIC LAND OFFICE. Improved and Unimproved Farms, Hay and Grazing Lands and City Property for Sale Cheap AT THE Union Pacific Land Office, On Long Time and low rate of Interest. 3Fiii:il proof lnuile on Timber Claims Homestead-, and Pre-emptions. 3?TA11 wishing to buy lands of any de scription will please call and examine my list of lands before lookin-; elsewhere t37AU having lands to sell will please call aud give me a description, term , prices, etc. !o"I a'o am prepared to insure prop erty, as I have the agency of xuveral tirst'dasa Fire insurance companies. V. W. OTT, Solicitor, speaks Herman. NA.nilEI. C. SMITH. aO-tf Columbus, Nebraska. SPEICE & NORTH. General Agents for the Sale of "REAL ESTATE. Union Pacific, and -Midland Pacific It. R. Lands for sale at from $3.00 to $10.00 per tiers for cash, or on five or ten years time, in annual payments to suit pur chasers. We have also a large and choice lot of other lands, improved and unimproved, for sale at low price and on reasonable terms. Also business and residence lots in the city. We keep a complete abstractor title to all real es tate in Platte County. 621 COE.UM RUN, ttKII. LOUIS SCHREIBEK, II AU kiHds of Repairing done Short Notice. Buggies, Wa; ons, etc., made to order, and all work Guar anteed. on Also sell the world-famous Walter A. Wood Mowers, Beapers, Combin ed Machines, Harvesters, and Self-binders the best made. lyShop opposite the "Tattersall," on Olive St., COLUMBUS. JSi-iu TA3IES MALMON, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER. Plans and estimates supplied for cither frame or brick buildings, tiood work guaranteed. Shop on 13th Street, near St. Paul Lumber Yard, Columbus, Nc- braska. Ilimo. 1CTOTICE TO TKACIIKHM. J. B. 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