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VOL. XV.-N0. 48.
COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 18. 1885.
WHOLE NO. 771.
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STATE BANK!
COLUMBUS, NEB.
CASH CAPITAL, - $75,000
D I HECTORS:
Leakder Gebkard, Pres'i.
Geo. W. Hulst, Vice PresH.
Jumds A. Reed.
R. II. Henry.
J. E. Taskeii, Cathicr.
Bank of Wepoalt, OiacowM
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ASP DEALER IX
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Ctf COLU3IBUS, NEB.
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YE EDITOR.
Who tolls .each day from rosy aaora
Till sunset hues the hills adorn.
And seeks his couch wear and wora?
Ye editor.
Who fishes items one by one
From every babbling mother's son.
And maketh now and then a pun?
Ye editor.
Who wakes the world up with a whack
And puts a backbone in its "back
And sends it rolling- on its track?
Ye editor.
Who is it that must ever mix
In science, creeds and politics.
And briny to lUjht all orts of trickt?
Ye editor.
Who is it that must ever please?
When others snuff who then must sneeae?
And trim bis sail to every breeze?
Ye editor.
Who is It sometimes is abued
And sees the naughty word -ref used,"
And e'en of lying is accused?
Ye editor.
Who could we never do without
Along this drearv earthly route.
Where we ifil need a guide and scout?
Ye editor.
Who ought we then to patronize.
And whose brave work most highly prize.
And firmly stand by till he dies
Ye editor.
A CHILLING BEDFELLOW.
A Reporter's Experience in the
"Wilderness.
At a recent meeting of the Arkansaw
Adventurers1 Club, Mr. Daniel Single
ton, known by the misnomer of Truth
ful Dan, read the following paper:
The night was fearfully cold, and I
was riding a mule. I had been sent
out by the Daily Hoicl to report the
hanging of two young men who did
not live long enough to enjoy the repu
tation they had made by robbing a rail
road train and murdering the con
ductor. After seeing the young men
drop. I set out for the nearest railway
station, some ten miles distant. All
railroads in that part of the country
run accommodation trains, that is,
thev run for their own accommodation.
The thought of favoring the public has
never entered the heads of the officials.
The station was deserted when I
reached it. After looking around for
come time, I found a man sitting on a
pile of cross ties.
"Where's the station agent?"' I asked.
"Pm him," lazily stretching himself.
"How long before train time?'
"Train's gone."
"What!"
"Yes. what."
"How long has it been gone?"
"Passed along here about two hours
bv sun.'
""I don't know what to do. How
long before the next train?"
"Don't know. If we have luck there
may be another in a day or two."
"Don't they run on time?"
"Partly on time and partly on the
track. Fust one and then the other."
"How far is it to the nearest tele
graph office?"
"Don't know, but I don't believe thar
is any."
"This is the poorest road I ever saw."
"I reckon you're right. It owes me
for three months' work. That's a ptiltj
good lookin' mule you're ridin. Come
over to the house with nie and I'll
swap jou a better one for him."
"1 am not in the mule trade. Isn't
there another railroad near here?"
"Yes. 'bout five miles, but if you'll
cut across the country 3 ou mout ketch
our train. She don't run so powerful
peart and besides that she's got to stop
and wood up several times."
"Believe I'll try it."
"Good evening. Say, what you
goin' to do with that mule when you
ketch the train? Hitch him behind?"
"I don't want to get on the train
myself. I want to send a lot of pa
pers." "Oh, is that all! Leave 'em here and
I'll put "em on some time during the
week. Wall, if you must be goin', good
bye."
The air grew colder and colder.
Darkness came and in freezing dreari
ness, the pine trees moaned. The
round, hard "hominy" snow pelted
me in the face. I had not gone far be
fore I realized the foolishness of my
undertaking. The depending grape
vines, through the ghastly light that
accompanies a thin fall of snow, looked
like ropes and sometimes I started at
the vivid impression that I could see
dead bodies- dangling from the ends of
them. The cold, shivering notes of
the screech-owl: the chilling scream of
the night-hawk and the benumbed bark
of the fox kept me constantly alive to
the dismalness of my surroundings. A
light gleamed. It seemed to shudder
iiT the chill air. Guiding my mule in
the direction whence came the wel
come glimmer. I soon reached a house,
where I was assailed by an army of
dogs. Just as I was about to be eaten
up, a man came out. lacked the dogs
away and asked me to como in. Some
men might have said, "No, thank you:
I am out for a ride to recover my lost
spirits," but I didn't- I am not very
polite anyway am not at all like the
man who at "table says: "No, I don't
choose any more." when in fact
he is almost famished. The invi
tation was not more than half ex
tended until I was in that house crowd
ing the children and the churn away
from the lire. "When I became warm
enough to look arouad. I saw a comi
cal old fellow: a fat woman with a red
handkerchief tied over her head: a
black-eyed, "sassy" looking girl and a
boy that I felt like spanking with a
board, without further acquaintance.
After answering innumerable questions,
the old man turned to me and said:
"Wall, stranger. I reckon you're
tired. When you git ready, you may
go up to bed. You an' Jake will sleep
together."
Jake grinned and said "Voo." I
don't know that he meant anything
wrong by "voo." but I wanted tospank
him. I don't know why we feel that
way toward certain bo5s, but we do.
It doesn't take more than five minutes,
after seeing a boy, for me Jo tell
whether or not I would liko to spank
him. This young rascal had been in
niy society five minutes, perhaps, when
he put the cat on my back. Oh. how
I wanted to spank him. We went up
to bed. I -wits in hopes that he would
drop offo sleep, but he didn't.
"To-morrow's Saturday, ain't it?"
he asked.
"Yes"
"But the next dav ain't, is it?"
"No."
"Whyaintit?"
"Because because it won't be."
"Christmas is when they have egg
oorff, ain't it?"
"Do you like it?" -
"Sometimes."
"When?"
"Oh, any time."
"There's a whole lot of turnips under
this bed. Do vou like turnips?"
"No."
"I do. Believe Til get up an' get
one."
He climbed out, throwing the cover
off me, got a turnip, and instead of go
ing around to his own side, climbed
over me.
"Look out!" I could not help but
exclaim. He had pressed the cold tur
nip against my back. Then he giggled.
"If you do that again I'll call youi
father." He had repeated the per
formance. Then he began to "cronch"
the thing. I tried to frighten him by
telling him of a boy who took a turnip
to bed with him and died. Just as I
began to think that the lie had been
effective, he said:
"Did he die because he took the tur
nip to bed with him?"
"Yes."
"Well this one won't hurt me for I
didn't take it to bed with me. I got up
an' got it," and he jammed it against
my back.
"Don't vou do that again."
"Do what?"
"Put that cold turnip against me."
Then he began to "cronch." "I gets
up in the night an' eats raw cabbages,
but vou don t, do vou?"
"No."
"Why don't you?"
"Hush, I want to go to sleep."
Overcome by weariness, I sank into
a doze. I could hear the owl could
see the grape vines dangling in the for
est. Then I glided off into a pleasant
reverie- Alerry bells happy faces, the
laughter of sweet voices. I jumped as
though I had been" shot. That trifling
little rascal had jammed his turnip
against me.
A few moments later a voice might
have been heard, saying:
"Old man, where did you put my
mule? - 'Yes, I am going out in such a
night as this. I would rather freeze
than to suffer in a bed with your boy.
Let me know when he is to be hanged,
please. It will be a pleasant duty to
report the proceedings. Good-night."
Yes, the night was intensely cold, and
I was riding a mule. Arkansaw Trav
eler. ODD ADVERTISEMENTS.
How the Parisian Cemeteries are Utilized
by Tradesmen.
Two meditative beings strolled
thoughtfully through the avenues of
Greenwood Cemetery, as amicably in
clined as a Frenchman and American
can be, and apparently determined that
differences of opinion should never
alter friendship. "You have got the
reputation," said the Gaul thought
fully, " of being a people keenly alive
to the value of advertisement. I think
you are. But I beg to tatu that you
do not go as far a we Parisians. You
stop at the churchyard. In Paris they
are our great field for advertisement.'1
The American begged that this con
dition of things might be explained,
and the Frenchman begged that he
might explain them at the same time.
"In Pere la Chaise," said the Gaul,
"which, as everybody knows, is the
world-renowned cemetery of Paris, you
may always see a crowd of people
whoe presence there is at first inex
plicable. They wear no hat-bands, and
are consequently not in mourning.
They are not intensely jolly, and can
not, therefore, be mistaken for under
takers. They seem to go nowhere and
to do nothing, but pretty soou their
work there is discovered. In inspect
ing the principal monuments, say those
erected to Rossini, Auber, Heloise et
Abelard, Thiers, and Raspail, a state
of things is found which is at once as
tonishing, and, I might even say, dis
graceful but I won't, because it
would not be patriotic. These tombs
are literally covered from top to
bottom with cards. At first you are
inclined to suppose that on these cards
are Scripture maxims or adages appro
priate to the mournful occasion. Not
a bit of it. You learn that the exquisite
monuments are simply made into gi
gantic posts for advertisements, to be
used much in the same manner as dead
walls. On Raspail's tomb you will see
'Elegant bottines can be obtained from
M. A.. No. 20 Rue ;' 'Mr. B., wine
merchant;' Mme. C, midwife;" MUe.
D., costume maker.' and so on. In all
cases the addresses are given and the
cards firmly fixed so that a hurricane
could not blow them away. Don't
imagine that you ee one, two, three or
four cards. The tombs are positively
white with them, and they are considered-so
much of an institution that they
are hardly noticed by well-bred Paris
ians. I suppose the soheme was orig
inally commenced by the undertakers
of the Rue de la Roquette, just outride
Pere la Chaise, who placed the adver
tisements relating to their immortelle
wreaths and couronhes on the monu
ments, and thought there was nothing
inappropriate in their so doing.'
"Nothing inappropriate?' queried
the American indignantly.
"Not according to their stand-point,"
was the answer. "Well, that paved
the way for the others, you know, and
though I am quite sure that well
educated and thoughtful Parisians
think of the nuisance in the same light
that you do, nothing is to prevent it.
and the thing is kept up just as though
it were one of our institutions. It
strikes every visitor to Paris, but I do
not remember ever having seen it pub
liclv noticed." X. T. Times.
GIVING A COFFEE.
The Detroit Idea Which Amazed tha Old
Man Froni the Country.
Up Woodward avenue the other day
a dozen coupes and carriages were
grouped in front of a residence when a
farmer came riding along on a load of
potatoes, accompanied by his wife.
The couple looked from the house to
the carriages and back, glanced sharply
at the drivers and finally the man
stopped his horses and asked:
""Nother eminent citizen gone?"
The man addressed made no reply,
and the farmer continued:
"Purty late in the day for a funeral,
eh? When did he expire and who doc
tored him?"
"This is no funeral." sourly replied
the driver.
"Then may be it's a marriage?"
"No. sir; the lady in that house is
giving a coffee."'
The old couple looked at each other
in blank amazement for a moment, and
then the man gathered up the lines
with the blunt observation:
"Well, I'll be hanged! I've bin pay
ing sixteen cents a pound fur the best
Rio coffee fur more'n fifteen years, and
yit we never even invited in the nay
burs! That fam'ly must have struck
unthin' in old Government Java!"
Detroit Free Press.
HUMAN SANDWICHES.
Tha Bagged Regiment
Kar St- GUea' CJiorcb, Zadm.
Anyone who has happeaed to to at
the entrance of a certain court not far
from St. Giles' Church early in the
morning at this season of the year may
have seen the poor ragged regiment as
semble there, for this is the agent's
trysting-place.
Here the names of the queer contin
gent are enrolled, here they receive
their boards, and here they come for
their shilling. Where do they live?
When Sam Weller was once asked that
question, he answered: "Anywheres."
You may take the same reply. "WelL
you see, what's a shillin' or eighteen-
Eence arter all? It may be better than
anging about the doors all day on the
chance of a fourpence a hour for three
or four hours three days a week; but
them as hasn't got no reg'lar lod gin's
with a family down Whitechapel way,
or else b- Waterloo road, or perhaps
Bermondsey, or closer by in this neigh
borhood till Newport" Market's all
gone, why, they takes what they can
get at the lodgin'-houses in Fulwood'a
Rent, down by Holborn, or similar.
"Breakfus! 'Well a haporth o1 coffee
and a bit o' bread mostly; or, if your
missus is able to do anything, perhaps
cocoa and a chuftk off the loaf. Bread
an' drippen' or else a saveloy, or once
in a way a slice o' cheese," about the
middle o' the day, and them as thinks
they need it a penn'orth o' beer.
We takes our dinner-time mostly
down by St. Martin's Church",
them as" works on the Strand;
and others down by the bridges, -.and
such places as has walls to set down by,
or to lean agin. Wre off long afore
dark, and them that's lucky can pick
up a job in the evening, perhaps, if
thev ain't wore out with the weight
and the heat of the boards at their
shoulder-blades and on their chests.
Some on us gets a job at the theayters;
and I've known sech as goes on the
stage itself in percessions and sech-like
for what they calls soopernoomeraries.
"Lor' bless you, yes! there's many of
us as has seen better days. I have my
self, though it was only as a plasterer;
but that man over there, as looks so
tidy and clean, he kep' a good 'ouse
over his head one time. Lost his all,
he did, when some bank or another
went and broke, and Is'pose he's never
had no chance, or else no heart to take
it. ever since: but he does better than
most, becos' he's a steady, civil man,
and gets employ to put up the shutters
at shops, and when they wants an extra
hand at tho theater, and what not. I
shouldn't wonder if he made ah, as
much as eighteen bob or a suffrin' some
weeks. But you must excuse me, sir,
and thankee. Time's up, and I must
get between the shutters agin. There's
mv mate a-beckonm of me. and we ve
fc
ot to work round Pall Mall with this
ot." Caswell s Faintly Magazine.
THE POOR OF NAPLES.
Is Lire to Them Worth the Living?"
Kten iu Sunny Southern Italy.
In single rooms on the ground floors
or in the cellars whole families live to
gether with donkes, goats, chickens
and pigs. They are so poor they can
not pay for better quarters. It is not
a depraved taste which makes theni
crowd in these dark and diriy holes,
and keep their little ones in the gutter;
it i only need. The Neapolitans are
not brutes. They like music, bright
colors and lisrht.
How can they pay high rents when
the best wages are scarcely a franc a
day? There is no city in "Italy where
wages are so low as in Naples. The
best skilled workmen the tailors,
the shoemakers, type setters, job print
ers, masons and carpenters even in
the busiest reasons, scarcely get thirty
cents a day, while the second-rate
workingmen must get along with ten
cents a day or less,.
It is. therefore, impossible for a Nea
politan to pay more than one dollar a
month for his rent. The condition of
the women is simply dreadful. A poor
mother is obliged to get work outside
of her home for her bread and for that
of her children. Hat-makers, dress
makers and flowergirls make only three
or four dollars a month. The great
majority of the women are obliged to
go out to service as domestics. A ser
vant girl gets ten francs a month, with
out any dinner. Some of them have
two or three houses in which to do
housework for one dollar at each house
every month. They are constantly
rflnning from one house to another,
and scolded and threatened in each
place they go. Many of these miser
able creatures have children to nurse
when they go home at night, a baby,
perhaps, that has bej left the whole
day in thearms of a little sister. The
poor mother, going home without suf
ficient food .and half-exhausted, has to
nurse the little one. and at thirty vears
of age looks as old as if she had suf
fered the wear of sixty winters.
(Children in Naples are considered a
sort of burden or hindrance. When
the boss takes a boy to work, merely to
pay him his daily "bread, a mother is
happy, and when a girl makes five
cents a week by hard daily work, the
work of a regular servant girl, the
mother is equally delighted. Galig
nanis Messenger.
Dissolving Continents.
Besides the vast quantities of solid
particles which are washed from the
land into the sea reducing the height
of the entire Mississippi basin at the
estimated rate of one foot in six thou
sand years mufti matter is dissolved
by the water and carried away in a
state in which it ordinarily escapes no
tice. From data furnished by the Mis
sissippi, the La Plata, the" Amazon
and the St. Lawrence, Mr. T. Mellard
Reade, an English geologist, who has
devoted much attention to the chemi
cal denudation of the earth's surface,
has calculated that the whole American
continent is losing in this way an aver
age of one hundred tons per square
mile each year. Similar results have
been obtainable for Europe, leading
'Mr. Reade to infer that the whole of
the land draining into the Atlantic
Ocean from America. Africa, Europe
and Asia contributes matter in solution
which, if reduced to rock at two tons
to the cubic yard, would equal one
cubic mile eve'rvsix vears. Arkansaw
Traveler.
A pet cat in Norwich. Conn., re
fused to eat upon the death of her
owner, and insisted upon starving to
death upon a beam in the shed. She
was taken into the hois. and offered
food several times, but o"j;nHl to eat,
and succeeded in breathing her last in
the spot selected by hervttf. Hartford
Cturant.
1RIT
National Bank!
cox.
Authorized Capital,
Paid Ii Capital,
Snrplas and Profits, -
$250,000
50,000
6,000
OmCIU 4XD DIRECTORS.
A. ANDERSON, Pret't.
iAM'L C. SMITH, Vice Prtt.
O. T. BOBS, Cashitt.
J. W. JiABLY,
HERMAN OEHLBICH,
W. A. MCALLISTER,
G. ANDKBSON,
P. ANDERSON.
Foreign and Inland Erchanga, Paaiage
Tickets, ana Beal Estate Loam.
3B-vol.l2-l7
BU8HE8S CAEDS.
D. T. MaRTYX, M. D. F. J. SCHCO, M. D.
Dri. MAETYH 4b SCHUG,
D. S. Examining Surgeons,
toovsrR iia dmp &?
Consultation! in German and English.
Telephones at office and residences.
rj-Office over First National Bank.
COLUMBUS,
NEBRASKA.
42-J
C
J. GABLOW, Collection Att'y.
SPECIALTY MADE OF BAD PAPER.
Office with J. G. Hlggins. S4-3m
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LA. A ASI1B AUGU, I. D. S.
DENIAL PABLOB,
On oorner of Eleventh and North streets,
over Ernst's hardware store.
XT J. Bl71SO!f,
' NOTARY PUBLIC.
St 8trtt, 2 dtors wst cf Haamoad Hoai,
Columbus, Neb. 491-y
J G. KEEDEB,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Office on Olive St., Columbus, Nebraska
2-tf
V. A. MACKEN.
DKAXXRIX
Foreign and Domestic Liquors and
Cigars.
llth street. Columbus, Neb. 50-y
rcALLlSTEK BROS.,
A TTORNEYS AT LAW,
Office up-stalrs In McAllister's build
ing, llth St. W. A. McAllister, Notary
Public.
TOH TMOTI1Y,
NOTARY PUBLIC AND CONVEYANCER.
Keeps a full line of stationery and school
supplies, aud ail kinds of legal forms
lusures against fire, lightning, cyclone
and tornadoes. Office in Powell's Block,
Platte Centei. 19-x
J. M. MACFARLAXD, B. K. COWDSRY,
Attsnir si Sstiry PrtTe. Csllsctsr.
LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE
OF
MACTARLAin) & COWDBR7,
Columb, : : ' Nebraska.
F. F. RUJNER, M.
(Successor to Dr. C.G. A.HullhorsU
HOMEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN AND
SUBGEON.
Regular graduate of two medical col
leges. Office up stairs in brick building
north of State Bank. 2-"v
j. a. MAuenAi,
Justice, County Surveyor, Notary,
Land and Collection Agent.
igrParties desiringsurveying done can
notify me bv mail at Platte Centre, Neb.
51.6m
T? U.BISCDE,
"llth St., opposite Lindell Hotel.
Sells Harness, Saddles, Collars, Whips,
Blankets. Curry Combs, Brushes, trunks,
valises, buggy tops, cushions, carriage
trimmings, &c, at the lowest possible
prices. Repairs promptly attended to.
TAMES SALnO.t,
CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER.
rians and estimates supplied for either
frame or brick buildings. Good work
guaranteed. Shop on 13th Street, near
St. Paul Lumber Yard, Columbus, Ne
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WOOL AUCTIONS IN LONDON.
One of the Mot Curious Tilings to Be
Seen In the Largest Cltr la the World.
There is no more curious sight in the
sity than one of the wool auctions
which are now being held every after
noon in the Wool Exchange, Coleman
;treeL Imagine a large and lofty room,
capable of holding about five hundred
people. Benches, in the form of a
lami-eircle, rise tier above tier, so that
all the sitters are plainly visible from
the tribune, or rostrum an elevated
desk at the bottom of the room. Every
seat is numbered, and the highest num
ber is 393. A narrow gallery provides
accommodation for the spectators. At
3:55 o'clock nearly every seat is occu
pied, the demand for them exceeding
the supply, and as the clock strikes the
hour the auctioneer, or selling broker,
takes his place in the tribune. He is a
cool, self -possessed, good-looking man,
with a keen eye, rosy cheeks, and hair
parted in the middle" On either side of
him sits a clerk one bald and dark,
the other hirsute and blonde. No time
is lost in preliminaries; aa eloquent
wool auctioneer would be an intoler
able nuisance, and this one is as sparing
of words as a tderam from China.
Every buver before nim is the busiest of
men." and' he has to sell 100,000 worth
of wool before six o'clock. "Lot 213,
ten bales," he says. Simple words, but
the signal for a very tempest of excite
ment. From every part of the
room come, as it were, scattered shots
in quick succession "Eight, half, nine,
ten, ten-half." Then up spring a
dozen, or it may be a score, of eaer,
earnest men, who shout passion
ately at the top of their voices, and al
most in chorus: "Ten-half, ten-half, ten
half," until it seems as if the roof would
split. Some stretch their arms toward
the tribune, as if they were threatening
a foe; others work them to and fro, as
if they were engaged in mortal combat;
others, again, raise them upward, as if
they were appealing to Heaven. They
yell still more loudly, gesticulate still
more wildly, some in their excitement
bending forward until they nearly top
ple over on the seats below. It is a
bear garden, a Babel, a scene of inde
scribable confusion, and to the uniniti
ated -spectator it seems as if the frantic
bidders were about to spring from their
places and punch each other's heads.
But the auctioneer speaks one word,
and the storm is lulled; every voice is
hushed, every man resumes his seat.
That word is "Tomkins." One lot has
been knocked down to Tomkins. With
out drawing breath the selling broker
goes on to the next lot. and then there
is another startling roar, followed by an
equally sudden collapse. The faces of
some of the bidders are a study. One
gentleman, with a bald head surrounded
by a fringe of black hair, and features
unmistakably French, gets so excited
that you fear he may break a blood
vessel or have a fit of apoplexy His
wide nostrils quiver, his s'warthy
faee becomes dark, he fights the air
with his arms and hurls bids at the
auctioneer, as if he would annihilate
him. Near the Gaul is a fair Teuton,
stalwart and tall, shouting offers as
if he were crying "Vorwarts!" in the
smoke of battle, and glaring at his com
petitors as if he would like to charge
down on them as the Uhlans charged
down upon the French at Gravelotte
and Sedan. Not far from the foreign
ers sits a gentleman whose cast of
features and style of dress leaves little
doubt that he is a manufacturer of wool,
or stapler, and hails from a northern
country. To make his bid more effect
ive he puts his hand to the side of hi
mouth and gesticulates with the other:
but he needs no artificial aid. for he has
a voice of thunder and shouts like a
Coauerges. But why all this noise?
Why can not a wool auctioneer knock
down his wares to the higest bidder.
All the linns represented at the auc
tion know to a fraction the value of
every parcel they wish to acquire, aud
live, or ten, or a sCO:, as the case may
be, are willing buyers of a certain lot
at. let us saj a shilling a pouud
more t lan they can afford to give. The
rule i- when t iere are several bidders
at the sjme pr ce a.id there are gen
erally several bidders to prefer the one
who bids the first, which is practically
t:ie one who first succeeds in attracting
the auctioneer's attention. In such a
contest the f.eble-voiced have no
chance to come out of it victorious.
When the selling broker names the
buyer who h is c tugl.t his ear all the
rest subside 1 ke would-be orator in the
House of Commons who fail to catch
the Speikr's eve. The confidence in
the SpetiKer's impartially seems to be
absolute: he never loses his self-poe-sion,
and t:nie is too precious to be
wasted in wrangling. London Specta
tor. A PECULIAR MOUND
V7blch Has Been Recently Found Near
Greensborouli, Ga.
About a mile from Greensborough.
off the road to Union Point, on the farm
of Mr. Ed. Jackson has been recen-y
discovered a mound which has puzzled
all who have seen it A few weeks ago,
Mrs. Jackson and a lady neighbor were
walking around the farm which imme
diately joins tho hous.; lot. and when
pushing aside the bushes skirting the
land observed a huge mound of rock,
piled in regular order, and mounting up
higher than their heads. On Mr. Jack
son's return home, his wife told him of
what she had found, and added that the
mound was the most curious looking
pile of rocks she had ever seen. The
following morning Mr. Jackson with a
number of others went to the spot, and
there saw the huge pile, more than a
hundred feet in c rcumferexice. every
stone apparently laid with greatest pre
cision. The curiosity of the crowd was
aroused, and they determined on an in
vestigation. They began at once to
throw off the rocks around the outer
edge. This was not accomplished with
out difficulty, aud after going about a
foot or two they came to :v number of
big rocks, varying in size from a foot to
three feet sqrare, every one laid as if by
a mason.
To go further down required several
days of hard labor, but the stones were
finally removed, and lying there weft a
number of human bones, all bleached,
but still perfect. Amrtjg them were the
hand, wrist, thigh and knee bones, and
from their size it was evident they be
longed to a person of tremendous
stature.
The excavation in the mound con
tinued day after day. Curiously-shaped
pieces of "flint and stone, in "rings of
great sizes, in beads and arrow-heads,
came to light. By this time they had
gone fully" five down, even below the
earth's surface, and still the walls of
rock met them. Up to this time no dis
covery of great importance has been
made" hot there seems to be no en to
the rock, and there is no telling what
lies af the bottom of it all.
The stones of which the mound is
built areof a peculiar kind, different)
from any around this section, 'and wers'
evidently brought from a distance. It
is different from most Indian mounda,
and oould not have been intended as a
burial place for the dead, as only one
skeleton has thus far been found, and
no trinkets have-been discovered sim
ilar to those usually found in Indian
mounds.
There is a theory that the mound con
tains a treasure. The care taken in
placing and mortaring the rock?, and
the size of them, is an indication that it
was not intended simply as a burial
spot. Some years ago an old man in
this county, his name we have not been
able to learn, asserted that on this placo
was a buried treasure. He stated that
his father had told him this fact, and
that it had como down for a number of
years. But little attention was paid to
his assertions, but now that this peculiar
mound has been discovered, everyone
believes that a treasure is hidden be
neath it Mr. Jackson believes there is
something strange about it. and intends
to dig and remove the rocks until earth
is struck or he finds some treasure. We
hall keep our readers posted. Greens
borough (Ga.) Journal.
FROLICS OF A FATHER.
Solid Comfort Taken by a Young Married
Man While Inducing to Slumber Bis
First Born Son mod Heir.
Havinjr settled themselves at a table
in Tom's back room the young man
proceeded:
"I just had a rich time until that boy
of mine was three weeks old. Then the
nurse left, and my wife said I could just
as well help her as not, and I was only
too tickled to be able to do something
to make myself useful. We had no crib
for tie youngster then, and he slept
with us. between his mother and me.
I was cautioned not to roll on him in
the night and I tried hard to keep still,
but I hadn't been asleep more'n a min
ute when my wife dug me in the ribs
and yelled: 'Get up? you're lying on
Adolphus.' I got up, moved over into
my place, and tried to sleep, but I got
on the baby again, and-finally wrapped
myself in a blanket and spent the rest
of the night on the floor. The next day
I got a crib. Then my real trouble be
gan. The boy would be fed and put in
to the crib, and I'd turn in. My pleas
ant dreams would flee as the plaintive
yell of that youth cut the air and struck
me with the energy of a steam hammer.
Aided by a gentle push from my better
half. I'd 'climb out pick up the boy,
and. clad in the clinging folds of a
night-shirt and pair of slippers, I'd sit
me down to woo the gentle god of slum
ber on my son's account This attempt
at wooing the gentle god is the direct
cause of the ruin you see before you.
Just the minute I picked the baby from
his bunk he' stop yelling and look at
me in wide-eyed surprise and seem to
say: Wherein thunder did you drop
from-?' Then, as I sat down and trted
to get him comfortably balanced on one
of my knees, he'd begin clawing the
air and grunting contentedly. About
this time I set my foot in motion, trot!
trot! and accompanied it with a se
ductive ' sh h h h, th ere e e
that I hoped would sogn lull him to
sleep. But nary lull. He'd look at me,
smile his grandmother says it's colic
that makes him smile and then take
in the furniture piece by piece, and stare
stupidly at the dimly burning ga-jet
He was perfectly cool about all this.
Nothing was done in haste. Each pict
ure, chair, ornament, would receive a
minute inspection from these wide
opened blue eyes, and your humble
servant kept digging away at the trot!
trot! and 'sh h h' scheme all the
while. Suddenly there would be a slow
closing of the little white lids and the
blue eyes were hidden. Aha! Now he
was going to sleep. At last! And Td
work the trot! trot! with renewed rig
or. Then he'd sigh a tired little sigh,
and when I was sure he was fast asleep
I'd start to lay him back in his crib.
But just as I would lean over to lay
him down he'd open his eyes, coo hap
pily, and seem to say: Oh, I'm not
asleep; I was just having some fun
with you,' and there was nothing to
do but to take him back to the
chair and begin the whole business
over again. Another three-quarters of
an hour would drag wearily by, and a
second time the baby's eyes would close
and sleep appear to have come at last
How carefully I'd sneak over to the
crib and gently lay him on his little
quilt How tenderly I'd tuck him in
and wish that he'd sleep for a week or
more to give me a chance to catch up on
what I'd lost He doesn't move, and I
tip-toe to the bed that had known so
litt'e of me for some time. I sneak in
under the covers, stretch myself, think
there never was anything so comfort
able as that bed. and close my eyes for
a refreshing nap. when there comes
from the crib a suspicious grunt, fol
lowed by a string of spasmodic coughs
and an unmistakable yell. Painfully I
climb out of the restful bed. snatch that
infant from his downy couch and quiet
him with the Same olil trot! trot! trot!
while the chill night breezes float
through the open window, and play
peek-a-boo with my modest knees under
the flapping flap of my night-shirt
This has been my nightly programme
for about two weeks, and you see the
result before you. I haven't slept twen
ty consecutive minuted in twenty con
secutive days. You said something
about having comfort with that boy. I
fondly hoped I'd get it I'm still hop
ing." And the gloomy look again stole
over the face of the happy father. His
eyes gazed vacantly into space as he
. mechanically made his way to the door,
and with shuffling, uncertain step, he
tottered away. Chicago Tribune.
Wifely Strategy.
It is the easiest thinjr in the world to
workahusband.even if he is completely
".absorbed in business. He is never so
far gone that he will not appreciate a
dinner cooked jnst to his taste- Study
his peculiar taste-, and cater to them.
This is diplomacy. Do it so naturally
that he can never" suspect that you have
an object in it This is strategy.
He likes a bright fire burning in season.
He prefers to sit in a certain corner.
Let him always find his' chair in that
corner not" in .1 way, however, that
will lead him to suspect that you put it
there. He thinks ou look better in a
certain dress or with a certain ribbon
on your hair. Let it happen that you
dress just that way. There are a thou
sand and one things you can do that
will combine to make his home more
attractive and enjoyable that a club
room or alleged business office.. But
for goodness aakp dan't let him know
you are doing this on purpose. Pitts'
burgh Dispatch.
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.
It costs Italy $-2,000,000 more to
ran her prisons than her schools, but it
is easier to lock a person up than to
educate him.
Mrs. Ezra Abbott has presented to
the Harvard Divinity School the greater
I tart of her late husband's theologieal
ibrary. The gift includes nearly 4,000
volumes.
Charles B. Richards, a worknaa
and later a superintendent in Colt's
Pistol-Works, Hartford, has been chosen
to fill the chair of Dynamics in Yale
College. Hartford CouranL
When a visitor at the Carlisle In
dian School asked a young Cheyenne
girl if she was a member of a church,
she answered: "Not much; just a lit
tle." Philadelphia Times.
The Yale Freshmen have been
measured, with the following results:
A erago height 5 7.5 inches; circum
ference of chest S5 inches; breadth of
shoulders, 16 inches; weight 134.4
Dounds. The average age of the class
is 19 years 1 month and 11 days.
The Boston School Committee has
found it necessary to caution teachers
against sending to the home of absent
pupils to inquire as to the causes of ab
sence. Many of those absent have been
found suffering from contagious diseas
es, and there has been danger of infec
tion by exposure of the pupil sent to
inquire. Boston Post.
Edward Everett Hale has been tell
ing a Boston audience how he would
run a school. He would recognize each
boy's drift Then he would have half
time and full-time courses; that is. com
plete courses requiring only thirteen
weeks' attendance, as well as courses
covering a period of forty-six weks.
This would be half-time study, but it
would be concentrated, and a boy could
begin one year just where he leftoff the
preceding." We should gain regularity
where now we have irregularity; we
should know our work, and the boy
would have time to earn something.
Boston Journal.
Secretary Teller shows in his an
nual report that the Indiana are mak
ing commendable progress in educa
tion. During the past year new school
buildings have been erected at several
of the agencies. Five new boarding
schools and twelve new dav-schoou
have been added to the Hit There aru
now eighty-one boarding schools, seventy-six
day schools, and six industrial
or manual labor schools under Govern
ment control. Fourteen boarding and
four day-schools are supplied with
teachers and other employes by some
one of the various religious denomina
tions, the Government paying a stipu
lated price for the care and education
of the children therein. There are also
twenty-three schools maintained bj
churches and associations without ex
pense to the Government
WIT AND WISDOM.
Rest satisfied with doing well ant.
leave others to talk of you as they
please. Pythagoras.
The New York Graphic says that in
the play of "A Wooden Spoon"
young man makes love to four beauti
ful voung lady actresses. We should
call that a "brass" spoon. Xorristourii
Herald.
Too cautions. He "I am going
to take away a bottle of salt water as a
memento of this watering place." Sho
" But don't fill it too full, or it will
slop over on us when the tide comes in."
Flicgendc Blatter.
Janitor (to his wife who has hung
the water-pail on the gas-jet)
"Bridget me darlin'. did Mr. Levy
straus tell ve to put this pail on the
gas?" Brfdget "No Pat; but he was
after savin" that the gas was laking,
shure!'' Washington Hatchet.
" 'Ellow. Ed, 'ow's this about your
brother 'Arry?" said one Englishman
to another on Fifth aienue. "I 'ear
'Arry 'as a broken 'art because the
'orse 'e 'as been ridin is dead." "It's
true, Georgy, ivery word of it The
doctor thinks 'e 'as ossification of the
'art" l'hila(klj'hia Chronicle-Telegraph.
Jim Terry, of San Antonio, induced
i local publisher to bring out a book of
poems. Even once in a while he would
call on his publisher and talk to him by
the hour, finally t!ie publisher said to
him: "You remind me very much of
your book." "In what respect?" "I
can't get rid of either of you." Texas
Siftings.
A heavy pounding on the floor
abo-e. caused young Mr. Staylate to
inquite of the girl on whom he was call
;n: "Are your folks tacking down
carpets this evening?" "Oh, no," she
replied: "it's only papa putting on his
heaviest boots, and " "Good even
ing!" interrupted the youth, as ha
lashed out of the door" like a circus
lown through a hoop. X. Y. Journal.
-Well." he aid to the minister at
the conclusion of the ceremony, "how
much do I owe you?" "O. I'll leave
that to you." was the reply; "you can
Detter estimate the value of the service
rendered." "Suppose we postpone set
tlement, then, say for a year. By that
time I will know whether I ought to
ghe vou one hundred dollars or noth
ing.'" "No - no," said the clergyman,
who is a marned man himself, "make
it three dollars now." Detroit rost.
AIR AND THE TELESCOPE.
The Air the Wunt Kurmy of the Atron
lomcr'i OlMerratlons.
The air we br.-athe is in truth the
wor.t enemy of the astronomer's ob
servations. It is their enemy in two
ways. Part of the light which brings
its wonderful, evanescent messages
across inconceivable depths of space, it
stops; and what it does not stop, it
shatters. And this even when it is most
transoarent and seemingly still: when
mist-veils are withdrawn, and no
clouds curtain the ky. Moreover, the
evil grows witn the power of the instru
ment Atmospheric troubles are mag
nified neither more nor less than the ob
jects viewed across them. Thus. Lord
Rosse's giant reflector possesses nom
inally z. magnifying power of G.OOO;
that Is to say. it can reduce the appar
ent distances of the heavenly bodies to
one six-thousandth their actual amount.
The moon, for example, which is in re
aliW separate! from the earth's surface
bv an interval of about two hundred
and thirty-four thousand miles, is
shown as "if removed only thirty-nine
miles. Unfortunately, h'owever. in
theory only. Prof. Nowcomb compares
the sight obtained under such circum
stances to a glimpse through several
yards of running water, and doubt3
whether our satellito has ever been seen
to such advantage a3 it would be if
brought subs tin tially, not merely op
tically within five hundred miles of
the unassisted eye. Popular Scieac
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