The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, March 11, 1885, Image 1
r rfi-M. JtiTisr TH1 JOUBNAIi. ATM OF ARVRRTIStHtS QTBusineee and profeoeio&alcarda of fire lines or leea; per nnnuns, nre dollars. I3f For time advertisements, apply at this oalce. aTLegal advertiscmenta at atutato ISSUED EVERT WEDIfKSDAT, - m. i. aumsrER & co. Froprietori and Publishers. OFFICE, Eleventh St., up tairs jk in Journal Building. j-,- xatea. TKRMS: Peryear Six months.... -.--- Three months e tyPor transient ndTortining, aeo rate on third page. 0-A11 adTOrtlaomonta payable monthly. K VOKXVNO.mao : '- - 1-C0L0MBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY. MARCH II, 1885. WHOLE NO. 774. Single copies. .. 'i to f Wi;:MdmH .1 - l.zs c . ' Rnnun s ISP? -1 S' i .J J A ht 19 COLUMBUS STATE BANK! COLUMBUS, HEB. CASH CAPITAL, - $75,000 DIRECTORS: Lzan-der Gkebabd, Pres'l. Geo. TV. Hulst, Fice Pratt. Julius A. Reed. R. H. Henry. -' J. E. Taskeii, Cashier. Bank of epo-It. DIacoumi id Esckaace. CeIIectiom TPreMptly Made all Polats. Fay latere! ea Tlaso Oepoe- ItN. 274 HENRY G-ASS, COFFINS AND METALLIC CASES AND DEALER IK Furniture, Chair, Bedsteads, Bu reaus, Tables, Safes. Lounges, &c. Picture Frames and Mouldings. tSTBepairing of all kinds of Upholstery Goods. 6-tr COLUMBUS. NEB. HENRY LITERS, DEALER IK WIND MILLS, AND PUMP . Buckeye Mower, combined, Self Binder, wire or twine. Pomps Repaired on short notice ISTOne door west of Heintz's Drug Store, 11th Street, Columbus, Neb. 8 TI'ljIT T)for working people. Send 10 H Hi i p cents postage, and we will J-LJ-iAJ-l. mail you free, a loyal, val uable fcaniplc box of goods that will put you in the way of making more money in a few davs than you ever thought pos sible at "any business. Capital not re quired. You can live at home and work in spare time only, or all the time. All or both sexes, of all apes, grandly suc cessful. 50 cents to $5 easily earned everv evening. That all who want work mav test the business, we make this un paralleled offer: To all who are not well satisfied we will send $1 to pay for the trouble of writing us. Full particulars, directions, etc., fcent free. Immense pay absolutely sure for all who start at once. Don't delay. Address Stixsox & Co., Portland, 31 nine. A WORD OF 1VARXIXC. FARMERS, stock raisers, and all other interested parties will do well to remember that the "Western Horse and Cattle Insurance Co." of Omaha is the only company doing business in this state that insures" Horses, Mules and Cattle against loss by theft, accidents, diseases, or injury, (as also against loss by fire and lightning). All representations by agents of other Companies to the contrary not withstanding. P. AW IIENR1CH, Special Ag't, 15-y Columbus, Neb. NO HUMBUG! ZBnt a Grand Success. R. P. BRIGHAM'S AUTOMATIC WA- ter Trough for stock. He refers to everv man who has it in use. Call on or leave orders at George Yale's, opposite Oehlrich's grocery. 9-6m J. WAGNER, Livery and Feed Stable. Is prepared to furnish the public wfth good teams, buggies and carriages for all occasions, especially for funerals. Also conducts a-sale stable. 44 rriKAKSIT HOUSE, PLATTE CENTER NEB., J0H5 BTGGAX, FrarleUr. The best accommodation for the travel ing public guaranteed. Food good, and plenty of it. Beds clean and comfortable, charges low, as the lowest. 13-y A PRIZE. Send six cents for postage,and receive free, a costly box of goods which will help jou to more money right away than anything else in this world. All, of either sex, succeed from first hour. The broad road to 'fortune opeas before the workers, absolutely sure. At once address, True Co., Augusta, Maine. LYONAHEALY Weft lTmtaJiiliHUM,rifcMti HaMSsnt far IMS. 0 (. Hi av ... luJ Oatfete. BanH lkra MawSSU. III .fatr1TMlMUl I1 ,r. Imi fCMJ sjaeAB'gnhlBawaBaap ji, rsinsi a am wy XH CMaaV .BSSB ff JiJJJM ;xi THE WILD TIIDVCV. : yjfzs-? v How TUi Bird Cam) by Its Absurd Ap jlltloa Sometbtar Ahoat It Habit ud tfc Skill- BaqaliW "or Its Casta-iv The absurdity of Jccal. names' y?not more emphaticajjy;shownjtbAn,;.in that of "turkey," as applied, to the subject of this article. It was aname bestowed upon the bird by the English for no better reason than atrthe time of its in troduction into England most foreign articles were supposed to eosnofronitsio East. The? French' dmdoni- a corrup tion of cog (Tlndc, and the Italian gallo d1 India, would imply a similar ignor ance on the part of the other Continen tal nations. As a matter of fact, the, wild turkey was carried tby the early conquerors of Mexico to theWestjhdia Islands, thence to Spamand other parts' of Europe. The.confiieion of the East with i $bcjrestflqdiesjras probably the origin of the misnomer. , . There can be no question that 'this, bird, was unknown to, JropleWfOtt'er lands until atUxJki 'djjstoy ery of Ameiv ica. The North American continenVis his birth-place. To the wild stock there first known the world is indebted for the domesticated species now. found in every part of the civilized world. Cultivation,- it is claimed, has not improved me unxu. itrojuirca viguruuasircu;u of the imagination to discover culinary merits in the wild turkev, which are not equaled or surpassed by the do mesticated species peculiar to certain chosen localities. Moreover, there is claimed on the part of the wadbird a more'brilliant plumage.- j This; also is a popular fallacy.' "The bronze 'turkey of the farm-yard in his early spring feather is in size, weight and brilliancy of color the peer of his savage brother. The most easily-observed differences between the wild andfarm-yard bird are the presence in the latter of a fleshy dewlap extending from the under man dible to the neck, the. bare wrinkled skin of -its head and neck is -much less blue, and is sprinkled with a smaller number of hairs. In the barn-yard species there is a great diversity of - -color, ranging from the bronze U. the .purest , white. The-plumage of the wild bird is a' beau tiful golden copper, with purple and green reflections, mottled and blended with soft black. The. lower part' of the back is an iridescent brown, and the ta:l. which is a darker hue, has a broad black band at a short distance from the extremity, with an outer bor der of dark yellowish-brown. The plumage of the female, a -very much smaller bird, rarely exceeding nine pounds in weight, has a gray tinge, and in general color very much less brilliant. The male weighs between sixteen and thirty pounds, the' average weight being twenty pounds. No animal, and certainly no other birr", requires for its capture more skill, patience, or the exercise of the keener instincts of the gunner. To be a suc cessful turkey-hunter one must, thor oughly understand the haunts and hab its of the bird. Lightness of foot and keenness of vision are indispensable. With many varieties of game fowl a close imitation of the call of the bird is frequently "a great assistance. With the wild turkey, the power to imitate the gobble of the male or the softer notes of the female is an indispensable adjunct to success. There are very rare and exceptional instances where persons have the gift of imitating with wonderful precision and exactness .the cries of these birds by the .voice alone. As a rule, however, artificial aid is re quired; this is lonnd oy making a "call" out of the small bone of a tur Jjey's wing or out of wood or brass. The gobble of the male is imitated by the human voice alone; the '-"call" is used exclusively to. counterfeit the notes of the female. A gunner expert in the use of this instrument, weirvfild den in a blind near some open spofl& our Southern woods for it istherJoMsly that the few surviving flocks ofavtid turkeys can be found equipped with endless patience, may by perseverance and skill lure the lusty gobbler within gun-shot He must be alert, however, or his colored, brother will have har vested the crop before him. Between the Southern darkey and the wild tur key there is an affinity which has exist ed from the earliest days of slavery. Since the i ar, as the restraints which formerly kept the darkey under sur-veilance- have been removed, he has waged relentless warfare on the wild turkey. He scorns all legitimate meth ods of killing film. He traps him, he baits him, he "calls" him, and he gives him no peace at any season of the year. The results of thislire the same as with all of our game fowl; the' wild turkey will in a few years become as extinct as the dodo. The proper season to hunt wild tur keys is late in the autumn, when, after a summer diet .of wild strawberries and other fruits, they-have had a couple of months' run among" the "acorns and mast. At this season, copiously fed and in brilliant plumage, they are so uncommonly alert and shy that only by the exercise of great skill and patience they can be approached 'within the range of a rifle. While stalking these birds is probably the fairest way of kill ing them, "calling," where birds are moderately abundant, is the method which requires the greatest display of skill, and keeps the nerves of the hunt er at a greater tension. Even moose "calling is not more exciting. If one, however, has well-trained dogs, is in sensible to fatigue, and a prime rifle shot wild-turkey-stalking through the Southern woods in December is a sport as exhilarating and fascinating as any within reach of "the sportsman. Gaston Fai, in Harper's JPeekip:'' GASTRONOMIC DEVICES. iBveatleaa 1b the CvIIbmjt Art DeslgMd to Adi Zet to the Appetite. "We have to be thinking up new things all the time," remarked a well known caterer reflectively. "Wealthy, fashionable people such as give, of course the handsomest entertainments want novelties in our line, just as they do im others; and we have to give them to them, or they will think we are- behind the times. Take, for example, the custom of placing raw oysters on the table. in Sk partially scooped out block of. clear ice.Itisa most. exeelr lent custom. It looks, well .and t keeps the' oysters at the 'right temperature, but I should hardly dare to serve oys ters uf that way at a really -aweU' diii ner the device is too old." . "Is the custom of serving birds in plumage still sanctioned by our "first famUisti?" "Ys; work of that kind, skillfully xecwtsd, will, -1 believe, .always be coMtteced comae il-faat 'The head aad plnmaged skin of the bird, of whatever kind it- is are first carefully resaoved, an operation re- X? huibst sone uuw s&ut. -iue utru is L - bo d with dressing, you know 1 i and the boBSd meat returned to. the skin."1 At least, th.tis the way it1J us ually done. A pheasant jerred in this wavunakes,. a particularly attract. ve disk Taft, you know, -aosaetiares serves 'roasted humming birds -in wal nut shells, and it is quite "possible s serve small-sized reed birds im the same way." I . "Rather an expensive dish, I imag ine?" ' "Very: But'some people, yon know, will pay heavily for havlig their pal ates. or their fancies tickled. -A com paratively new and very pretty custom is that of placing 'a large .mirror in the .center of the dinner or supper table, as thecasetaay be, assunooading it with ssftilafc. .It has the eCsct of a miaia fare'Iake.: and this elect is heightened" rattermg.ajewprtioretij uuweta--paHi wr wHswwmg w uit klid-ver its surface?" T- Diaer tables are. sootiBaes deco rated with vegetables, are they not?"-' "165 that has, or late'reara, become 'an-importanf -ieatore"of "dinner-table" J .? .T TiZ- s-T m. a uecorauou. oww, carrots, turnips, eta, can be cat so as to resemble flowers -Of--many kinds. ' One of our "cutters" recently made what a casual observer would have taken for a hand some basket of flowers, and it was made, basket and all, oat of vegeta bles." ' . i - "Yes," said another leading caterer, "we have a-numberbf new devices. We make ice glasses now of the shape of small wjne glasses aad fill them with Roman punch. As, perhaps, yon can imagine, the effect is excellent. Air other novelty is -a-hotoe- made- of ice cream, with-.a light iasida of it, giving it the appearance af a .miniature noose on fire. ""A rained castle of ice-cream, with a light inside of it, is also"very ef fective; and a tower of clear ice, light ed in the same way, looks like a minia ture lighthouse. .We make ice-cream in the shape of .all kinds of flowers, and put them together in the form of bo quets. Then we have what appear to be perfect walnuts, filberts, etc, which are filled with sugar plums. In mak ing these we use real shells. We make imitation cherries, grapes and plums, and fill them-in the -same way. They decorate a table very nicely." "Do you think of anything else novel?" "Oh! yes. 1 heard of a party recent ly where a caterer served what ap peared to be perfect eggs, and when they were opened they were found to contain live canary birds. One of the parry, a.young lady, broke into one of the eggs rather carelessly not know ing what it contained and by so doing killed its poor little inmate. I am tola that her sorrow at the accident rather interfered with the enjoyment of the dinner. I hear that a New York man recently designed what'must have been a very pretty table decoration, it con sisted of a miniature forest, made of spruce, pine and hemlock branches, be neath which were scattered moss, cones, pine needles, etc. Perched among the branches were a number of birds and little squirrels. I know, too, of a ca terer who sometimes uses a -musical cake basket. The minute it is raised from the table for the purpose of pass ing around the cake it commences to play, and when it is again placed on the table the musio ceases. "What ' do you consider the most novel device that you know of?" "Well, perhaps the most novel is one that I heard of, but never saw. It was a large block of clear, greenish Jelly, in the center of which was a duck, in full plumage, headed for some sprigs of celery. The upper surface of the block was made in little ripples, and looked just as -water would after a duck had dived through it Around the- block grasses were arranged, and I'm told that the piece, taken as a whole, was very effective. I've seen another very pretty piece by the way. It was made of ice cream, and represented a man in a sle'gh drawn bv a reindeer Under neath the sleigh was a music-box, which played about fifteen minutes af ter the piece was placed on the table, and running through the music was the peculiar grating sound made by sleighs."- "The custom, "of introducing odd ta ble devices is very old, is it not?" "Very. You "will perhaps remember hearing of Jeffrey Hudson, the celebrat ed dwarf, who 'nourished in about the middle of the seventeenth century. He was. a great favorite of Charles L of England, and was on one occasion served up in a pie at a royal entertain ment. When the cover to the pie was removed he sprang out upon the table, clad in full armor: And you remember Mother Goose's time-honored melody: And wtaem tbe pie was opeaed The birds began to stag-, And wasat that a dainty dish To set before tbe king? I have seen and heard of so many odd devices that I question if even the ap-pearanee-of- four -and-tweoty black birds' at a feast would startle me very much. Boston Globe. Carefulness in Old Ago. A medical man compares an old to an old wagon; with light loading and careful usage it will last for years; but one heavy load or sudden strain will break it aad ruin it forever. Many people reach tbe age of fifty or sixty or. seventy, measurably'free from most of the pains and infirmities of age, cheery in heart and sound, in 'health, ripe in wisdom and experience, with sympa thies mellowed by age, and with rea sonable prospects and opportunities for continued, usafnlnesg in the -world foca considerable time. Iet suck persons be thankful, but let them also be careful. An old constitution Is like an old bone, broken with ease, speeded with diffi culty. A young tree bends to the gale, an old one snaps and falls before the blast - A single hard Eft an. hour of heating work, an evening of exposure lo rain or damp, a severe chill, an ex cess of food, the unusual indulgence of an appetite or passion, a sudden .fit ot anger."1 an improper dose 'of medicine any of these or other similar things cut off a valuable life in an hour, ahdleave the fair hopes of usefulness and enjoy ment but a shapeless wreck. An adjustable electric, apparatus has been applied to, a thermometer which rings' a bell whence3 tempera ture rises or falls above or below a de sired point A dry and wet bulb ther mometer has been jnade which does' the same thing. It will be readily seen how useful such thermometers might be made in discovering incipient fires aad as an aid to sleepy witch Chicago Times. .i ii A writer in a Frenifc snejlieal je-sr-nal proposes that cities be aufplie with-fresh country-air. A large field. in the country is to, he seurrownded with a high wall and planted with balsamic trees to absorb tsiasMeC and the sir from this field is to be conveyed through pipes into every tUg house. OF GENERAL INTEREST. -Toojur swells in New York ions to have white skins hare thent selves bled or nee cosmetic.--. T. lfa.7 An actual and careful test shows that fifty-ight.per cent of the power exerted in driving the propeller of an ocean steamship V lost, or rather is as yet unaccounted for. i , --According to the official returns of the Health Department of "New York there were resorted in the ten years ' ended with 1883,34,697 cases of diph theria, of which 15,657 proved fataL ' Perhaps the largest pumpkin-patch dust ever existed Is located in the Santa' Clara Valley, CaL, between Los Gates and San Jose. It extends for six miles along the line of the South Pacific Coast Kailroad." A pretty Baltimore girl who ad vertised for some one who' would be kind to her received forty offers. the first day., it ought not to be very hard to be kind' to a pretty Baltimore girt Philadelphia Call. Whan a house is to be let in Mex ico the owner 'sticks'an' old newspaper in the window. It isn't very tasteful eeldom improves the appearance efthe house, but it is economical and is understood by tho community. In three million years the mean' an nual temperature'of the earth will have decreased thirty degrees, and eventu ally the terrestial hemisphere will be frozen up, according to the latest astronomical computations. It makes one shiver to think of it In Birmingham, Eng., there is building forthe, London Northwest ern Railway a pianoforte railway carriage,- and the London Queen explains that "appliances will be provided by which the sound of the carriage wheels will be deadened so as to preserve the harmony of the music." The largest bridge in the world crosses Lake Ponchartrain, at New Orleans, and is twenty-two miles in length. It is trestle-work, on piles, and is made of cypress wood which was first saturated with creosote oil, which renders it impervious to moisture and proof against the attack of barnacles. N. O. Picayune. The American steam brake is now in use upon nearly all the railways in both England and France. These brakes are in most cases manufactured abroad, but Americans hold the pat ents. Though no account of this ap pears in the export figures, American brains are thus exchanged for Euro pean cash in considerable quantities. Chicago Herald. The seacoast of California has been visited this season by several varieties of birds which have never before been known to leave the mountains. This has generally been supposed to indi cate a severe winter, but according to science, the migration is more prob ably due to the prevailing scarcity of all kinds of seeds in the mountains this season. San Francisco Chronicle. A young Englishman has insured his whole body against accident ex cept his lett leg, which no companv will now insure, as he is subject to sud den weakness in this limb, and it has been the cause of much loss to com panies. If he has a fall through this falty member he will be unable to re cover any amount from the companies in whose office his body is insured. N. Y. Sun. Texas was received into the Union bv joint resolution of the United States Congress after a treaty for that pur pose had been rejected by the Senate, and under the act it was stipulated that Texas should keep her own' lands and pay her own debts. Under the compromise of 1850 Texas was paid $5,000,000 for the cession of her claim to the Territory of New Mexico. Gal veston Tex.) News. The marble trade of San Francisco is worth $4,000,000 annually, one fourth of which sum has heretofore been paid to the Carrara Quarry, of Italy. With the new San Francisco company operating in the Alaska quar ries, the city hopes to purchase here after its entire supply from its own cit izens, and at the same time to get a marble of equal beauty as heretofore. San Francisco Call. In the time of Louis XV. of France the ladies at their toilet thought noth ing of destroying half a dozen pairs of S'oves before they got one pair to fit. ey were made of white skins, but ornamented with little ribbons and fine rosettes. English sewn gloves were in the greatest request and it used to be a common saying that for a glove to be good three kingdoms must contribute to it Spain for the leather, France for the cutting and England for the sewing. A musical dry-goods man puts the trade of 1884 in this way: At first it was an allegro; in March came the alle gretto fortissimo, and in July followed the frosty adagio,, with a continuing cresendo up to December. Then the recitative was upon us, and the music of the future became the daily theme. Piano, piano, pianissimo, and all will be well was the cry; the big drummer and the bold trumpeter would dimin undo somewhat and the careful and conservative flute and oboe were soon to lead off! Opus 1885. Chicago Times. m m Perpendicular Real Estate. Apropos of earth, they tell a good story of Judge Jackson. He went out to one of the new towns of the Far West which -is built oh a side hill. Reel estate was booming and real estato speculators flocked around him. One of them conducted him to a lot about as desirable for a residence as a perpendicular wall and said: "There's the place for you! Only six thousand dollars! Ain't it fine?'' "Ah, but it's so steep in topography andprice." That's just it" said the real-estate man. "You see that lot below it? WelL tbe man who owns it will have to have dirt to fill it up, and he'll give you five thousand dollars for the earth graded from your lot" The next day another real-estate nun said: "I'll show you a piece of proper- . There's a fortune in it Look ere!" and he pointed down toward the lot below the side-hill that the other speculator had offered him. "Yes. but look at that lot above it" urged Judge Jackson. "That's just it" replied the specu lator. "The man who owns it will give you five thousand dollars for a place to dump the dirt when he grades down his lot" The Judge did .not buy any perpen dicular real estate. Cleveland Hermld. Henry Aleendorf was arrested in "Philadelphia recently for stealing a .string of sausages, and would have gone 'to the ..penitentiary but for his age 'ninety-five. 'Gray hairs are indeed the old man's irmot.IhOadelphia Press. ! KIT National Bank ! Aitnsriied Capital, - - $250,000 Paid Ii Capital. - ' 50,000 Sirjplis aai Preflts, - " -J 6,000 omens axd dtkkctors. A. ANDERSON, Prett." - SAH'L C. SMITH, Viee Pres't. O. T. ROEN, Cashier. ..J. W. EARLY, -HERMAN OEHLRICH. UW. A. MCALLISTER, o: ANDERSON, P.ANDERSON. Foreign and Inland Exchange, Passage Tieketi, ana Real Estate Loans. afcvol.M-ly . 1USDTESS CJJLDS. D.T. Jf iimr, M. D. P. J. SCHUG, M. D. Drf. KASTYV SCHUG, U. S. Examining Surgeons, Local Surgeons, Union Pacific, O., N. St B. H. and B. & M. R. R's. Consultations in German and English. Telephones at office and residences, aarofflce over First National Bank. COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA. 2-y p D. EVANS, M. D.. PHYSICIAN AND SUBGEON. tsro&ce and rooms, Oluck building, 11th street. Telephone communication. 44-ly pt J GARLOW, Collection Att'y. SPECIALTY MADE OF BAD PAPER. Office with J. G. Higgins. 3i-3m f"L.LA ASIIBAUeil, D.D.S. DENIAL PABLOB, On corner of Eleventh and North "streets, over Ernst's hardware store. TT J. HUBMOIf , NOTARY PUBLIC. Stt Stmt, 8 Jeers west f Haamsad Hosss, Columbus, Neb. 49l.y T S.REEDER, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Office on Olive Stf, Columbus, Nebraska 2-tf V. A. MACKEN, DKALXRIN Foreign and Domestic Liquors and Cigars llth street, Columbus, Neb. 50-y -vrcAJLLlSTEit BROS., ATTORNEYS AT LA W, Office up-stairs In "McAllister's build ing, llth St. W. A. McAllister, Notary Public. JOHN TIMOTHY, NOTARY PUBLIC AND CONVEYANCER. Keeps a full line of stationery and school supplies, aud all kinds of legal forms. Iusures against fire, lightning, cyclone and tornadoes. Office in Powell's Block, Platte Centei. 19-x J. M. MACFARLAND, ' B. K. COWDKRY, AtUtuj sal Xsurj Pair e. Collietcr. LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE OF MACFARXjAND & COWDERT, Columbus, : : : Nebraska. F. F. RUNNER, M. IK, (Successor to Dr. C.G. A.Hullhorst) HOMEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN AND SUBGEON. Regular graduato of two medical col leges. Office up stairs in brick building north of State Bank. 2-ly J. J. MAUC211A2V, Justice, County Surveyor, Notary, Land and Collection Agent. narPartieB desiring surveying done can notify me by mail at Platte Centre, Neb. 51-Gm T? 0.RVSCRE, . 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 SALMON, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER. Plans and estimates supplied for either frame or brick buildings. Good work faaranteed. Shop on 13th Street, near t. Paul Lumber Yard, Columbus, Ne braska. 52 6mo. R B. LAWRENCE, DEPUTY CO. SUBVEYOB. Will do general surveying in Platte and adjoining counties. Office with S. C. Smith. COLUMBUS, KKBRASKA. 17-tf J 8. MURDOCK & SON, Carpenters and Contractors. Have had an extended experience, and will guarantee satisfaction in work. All klaes of repairing done on Bhort notice. Our motto is, Good work and fair prices. Call and give us an oppor tunityte estimate for you. 0"Shop on 13th St, one door west of Friedbof & Co's. store, Columbus. Nebr. 483-y O. O. STT A ISTJSrOJST, MAHUTACTURKR OF Tin and Sheet-Iron Ware ! Job-Work, Xoofinr and Gutter ing a Specialty. tTShop on Olive Street 2 doors north of Brodfeubrer's Jewelry Store. 46-y Gw. LAND AND JNSUBANCE AGENT, . HUMPHREY, NEBR. His lands comprise some fine tracts la the Shell Creek Valley, and tbe north ern portioa of Platte county. Taxes paid fer non-residents. Satisfaction guaranteed. 20 y THE CHAIRMAN. His Datles as Thr Cxlst la rolnU for ttta PtopU. For the ordinary work of committee or societies, it is by no means necessary that Ihe chairman should be a good speaker perhaps the reverse, on the whole. A chairman who likes to hear the sound of his own voioe will very soon ruin the committee or nceting over which he presides, unless steps bo taxen promptly to remedy the mischief. The molel chairman should bz able to say his say in a few brief, appropriate enteuces when circumstances requires, it as, for example, in. stating the ob- 'ects for which a meeting is being held; ut usually he has to do more with controlling Sao speaking of others. He must be a man of tact judgment and an even temper possessing the knack of coming if need be. to a swift aud sound- decision upon the spur of the moment A professional or business man, of good social standing in the locality, ought as a rule, to be invited to take the chair. He will at once give an air of substantiality to the committee, stumping it with the sign and seal of worth. Often enough the success of a movement or of a so ciety has been secured forthwith be cause a certain particular man has consented to head it And on the other hand many a committee has fa led to make the slightest headway though the object for which it exists may be unexceptionable simply be cause the co-operation of Mr. Sfo-and-so has not been obtained. Though this may not indicate a very cheerful state of things, it is nevertheless a com mon experience. A committee ot society having been established, and its chairman appointed, it becomes incum bent upon the latter to attend the meet ings with unfailing regularitv. For his own comfort and convenience he will do so, since it must be obvious that the mo ment he "loses touch" with the affairs of the committee he then and there labors under a distinct disadvantage, and his usefulness, moreover, is dimin ished. In committee work he will have due regard to punctuality beginning the proceedings at the selected hour. If he is lacking in this respect he will find the members of the committee soon growing equally remiss not to the benefit of the business which calls them together. In committees it is customary to permit of a good deal of the conversational style of transacting affairs, and within well-defined limits this is unavoidable. But in a meeting: on a larger scale, public or otherwise, the chairman must regulate the busi ness in the strictest possible manner. Again, Mr. Chairman must take care .hat his meeting docs its work. Let him always have it well in hand. He must not allow any one to speak more than once or to wander from the sub ject, or to obtrude upon an unwilling audience. The only exception to tho first point is made in favor of the speaker who introduces a subject and who is accorded a right of reply which, however, is usuallj' not clamed at public meetings. As regards the second point, he will call the errant orator's attention to the irrelevancy of his remarks, and invite him to discuss the matter under consideration, or re sume his seat And in reference to the third, which has not unfrequently proved itself a thorn in the chairman's side, should the sneaker persist in ad dressing people who are manifestly re luctant to hear him, the chairman" w II probably be able to put an end to the unseemly scene bj' requesting the audi ence to vote as to whether the obstruc tionist is to be heard or not In all cases tho chairman must sec that his ruling is upheld and acted upon. Re spect for the chair must be a cardinal principal. CasseVs Family Magazine. Ml THE COCA LEAF. Wonderful Properties 'of a Plaat Walcm Grows In South America. Coca leaves, when chewed like to bacco, arrest the waste of the system and keep up its nervous tone and vigor. Dr. Smith, in his "PeruAsIt Is," says: "When used in moderate quantities, it increases nervous energy, enlivens the spirits, and enables the Indians to bear cold, wet great bodily exertion and want of food to a surprising degree with apparent ease and impunity." in isou, two men ouneu in a mine eleven days were kept alive by the small amount of coca they had with them. The natives of Peru make a three days' journey over the mountains with no other support and reach their destination without exhaustion. The recent discover.- that the most difficult surgical operations can be per formed on the eye without causing pain, by simply dropping in it a l.ttle solution of the active principle of the coca, has given it new interest and we add the following, gathered from the New York Medical Uecord: "The leaves resemble those of the tea-plant, and in fact, the active prin ciplesthe alkaloids, as they arc termed are essentially the same. The tree grows w Id in the monntains of Peru and Boliv'a. and is also cultivated in highlatitud.vi "In 1864 the annual product was val ued at two and one-half millions of dol lars. The leaves are worth in Peru seventy-five cents a pound. They have been used by the natives from a remote antiquity. The high esteem in which they were held is seen from the fact that they were among the offerings to their gods, and it was believed that the latter would not be propitious unless the priests chewed the leaves during the ceremonies. It is estimated that thirty million pounds are now annually consumed by e'ght millions of people, each using two or three ounces a day. "It is about twenty-five 3ears since the discovery of its active principle (the alkaloid) and of the properties of the latter. Its present name, cocaine (pro nounced coca-ine), was then given it "It crystallizes insix-sidcd prisms. It unites with acids to form various salts. The salt now used to deaden sensibility is the muriate of cocaine. Like all the alkaloids, it is a poison in large doses, the symptoms being cere bral excitement complete paralysis of sensibility, tetanic (fixed) spasms, and death. It is thought that theine (tho alkaloid of tea) may have the same anaesthetic properties, and be substi tuted for it Caffeine the alkaloid of coffee is also radically the same." YouUi's Companion. The German people, who were only 25,000.000 in 1816, are now 45, 500,000, and their present rate of in crease is greater than that of any European race. The population, which in France only increases bv 26 a year for every 10,000 and in Great Britain by only 101, increases in Germany by 115. and this in spite of a vast emigra tion which, since 1816, has carried. away 3,500,000, mostly soung adulu. INDIA. Xaeta The account given me by the oldest and best informed of my native ac quaintance (and I am not talking hero of Bengali demagogues, but of men holding it rnay be or who have held high often under Government and de servedly trusted by it) of the gradual estrangement which has come about within their recollection between then selves and the English: in India, is most instructive. In the days, they say, of their youth, thirty and forty years ago, though there were always among the company's officers men who from their abuse of power were disliked and justly feared, the general feeling of the na tives toward the English civilian was one of respect and even of affection. The Indian character is, affectionate, enthusiastic and inclined to hero worship; and the English in early days, from their superior knowledge and strength of onaracter, exercised no little fascination on the native mind. Nearly all of the older men talk with reverence and esteem of certain teach ers who instructed them in youth, and of certain early patrons to whom they owed their success in after life and they willingly acknowledge tho influ ence exercised over themselves and their generation by such individual ex ample. The English official of that day, they affirm, had more power than now, but he exercised it with a greater sense of responsibility, and so of honor in its discharge. lie took Eains to know the people; and, tn fact e knew them well. Except in the very highest ranks of the service he was readily accessible. He lived to a great extent among the people and ac cording to the customs of the people. He did not disdain to make friends with those of the better class, and oc casionally he married among them, or at least contracted semi-matrimonial relations with the women of the land. This may have had its ill consequences in other ways, but it broke dowa the hedge of caste prejudice -between East and West, and gave the official a per sonal interest in the people, which no mere sense of duty, however elevated, could supply. The Englishman of that day looked upon India not unfrequently as his second home, and taking the evil with the good, treated it as such. England could only be reached by tho Cape route. Traveling was tedious and expensive, the mails few and far between, and many a retired officer had at the end of his service become so wedded to the land of his adoption that he ended his days in it in prefer ence to embarking on a new expatria tion. It is easy to understand from this that the Anglo-Indian official of the company's days loved India in a way no Queen's official dreams of doing now. Also that loving it he served it better than now, and was better loved in return. Fortnightly Beview. HOME-MADE CANDY. How to Msdc Tffjr, Caramels, at Csady aad Battar-Seotck. Here are some receipts for making candies at home which are easy of execution: For peanut candy half as much sugar as glucose must be used, and as much or more weight in peanuts as the sugar. In fact, the peanuts must be stirred into the syrup just as thick as possible. Let the syrup come to a boil, throw in the nuts, and stir constantly until the syrup "hairs" when it drops from the spoou. Then pour it on a slab. That which is to be cut up in bars is marked while soft Almond and filbert bars are made in the same way. Cocoanut candy is softer. The best cocoanut candy is that made with some maple syrup in it V good proportion for making cara mels is one gallon of cream, five pounds of glucose, two pounds of sugar, using such flavoring as desired. Three quarters of an hour is long enough time to cook caramels When done the syrup should be poured on a slab and marked. Molasses taffy is made by using three pounds of glucose to five' of sugar and one quart of molasses. There is no candy more difficult for a novice to make than molasses taffy. It must neither be cooked too fast nor too slow, too much nor too little. Equal portions of molasses and sugar should be used. To two teacupfuls of each, for instance, put in about a tea spoonful of butter and three table spoonfuls of vinegar. When it is ready to remove from the fire add about a half teaspoonful of baking soda, and immediately pour into a but tered pan. When cool enough to handle, knead it just like bread, sprink ling lemon extract over it and then pull it well, till you grow tired on any convenient hook. Butter-scotch is good only when fresh. It is made in the proportion of thrp nnnndu of srlnnnsa tn fiv nf Mail and Express. m s The Silver Question. There is a young lawyer in our town who. among other things, is noted for his ready wit Fortune once smiled kindly upon him, but now the chilly breath of her disfavor follows him wherever he goes, and he is in constant need of money. Recently he was ap proached bv a man who inquired of him hurriedly whether a Government promissory note for two dollars was a good bill. Yes, it is good," replied the law yer, hastily scanning the bill and im mediately placing it in his pocket "Please give it to me?" said the frightened interrogator. "I never give advice under two dol lars," replied the lawyer; "but as I am a humanitarian and a patriot having the interest of my country at heart "take this silver dollar, which I am cer tain is sure to go into speedy circula tion, thereby doing your family a ser vice and saving the Treasury Depart ment at Washington with being bur dened with at least one chunk of sil ver." "The silver question did not trouble that unfortunate client Albany Ex press. There is not a man in the State of Georgia who has had his faith more fairly tested by family afflictions and wholesale bereavements than Mr. A. H. Edwards, of Oconee County, he losing his wife and five children in less than forty-eight hours, and if we are not misinformed he aided personally in the burial of each, carrying his wife out of the window of his house at night to hide her death from the rest of the family. Crawford Monitor. PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL,' Fred Douglass is worth $150,000.. Washington Post. Moss Alice M. Bacon, an American girl, has recently won success as at pianist in Berlin. Edward Langtry, husband of the! Jersey Lily, is achieving fame on hi" own account by writing stones for the; Irish press. The King of Bavaria has a daily; income of two thousand seven hundred dollars. This slightly leads that of thai average newspaper man. Beda Lucas died at Corley, Ark., recently at the age of one hundred andi twenty-five years. She claimed that her father was a Cherokee Indian and ker mother a white woman. Rev. Dr. Robert G.. Seymour has been Chaplain of the Massachusetts House of Representatives for six-years, and during all that time it is saki'that "he never made two prayora at all alike." Boston Journal. L. P. Farmer, the old passenger agent of the Pennsylvania Road, lived on a milk diot for one year after he resigned his position and recovered his health. He is now in the employ of tne same company at Boston. Boston Herald. Mr. Hamilton Fish spent seventeen . thousand dollars a year, Mr. Evarts. twelve thousand dollars, and Mr. Fre linghuysen ten thousand dollars, over and above their salary, while holding the office of Secretary of State. Har per's Bazar. It is claimed by those who are sud posed to be high authority on the sub ject that the gentle, graceful and re toseful blonde young lady, who for so ong has reigned as queen in fashion's world, is now, for a season at least to retire. Harper's Bazar. Miss Annie Boyer, who died a few days ago at Middleton, Del., at the age of eighty-two, left an estate of fifty thousand dollars and the nails on her toes three inches in length, it being one of the worthy spinsters eccentricities never to have them cut N. Y. Sun. Victoriano Nievez lives at Carmen, in Mexico, and is a millionaire. The other day he and his wife celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. Ho gave a banquet and scattered dollars right and left Five hundred thousand dollars in one lump was sent to the poor in the locust-eaten districts and ten thousand dollars was given to the Republic to help pay off the American debt The late Augustus Sherman, of Glen's Falls, N. Y., left an estate val ued at from two million to three million dollars. Mr. Sherman operated seven or eight lumber mills, starting years ago as a workman in one of them. He was eighty-three years old when he died and until afew clays prior to his death gave personal attention to the details of an enormous business. Troy Times. John P. King, Mark A. Cooper and Junius Hillyer, statesmen of promi nence long before most people now in the world were born, aro still living at their homes in Georgia, and all watch the march of tbe present actors on the stage of affairs. Mr. King, who lived the life of a gentleman of leisure in Paris as long ago as 1820, was in tho United States Senate in 1836. Colonel Cooper was in tho House forty-five years ago, and Judge Hillyer in the forties. Chicago' Herald. A LITTLE NONSENSE." Black silk hose for fire companies are not in vogue this season. Life. Mrs. Partington says that it is not true that her son Ike has ulsters in his throat Somerville Journal. Klickitat is an Oregon town. A man with a pistol would doubtless find something there to klick it at Louis ville Courier-Journal. "Aw, do, please. Miss Banger, favah me with some music. Youh music is always so chawming, ye know. It quite transports me." "Certainly, Mr. Thinshanks. if I can do anything toward your transportation!" Chicago Times. A Mormon editor of Salt Lake City had the following in a recent number: "The unknown woman who was killed at this place about three months ago by the cars proves to be one of the wives of the editor of this paper." Chicago Journal. A firm in Japan is about bringing out a-work called the "Meifin Titcu. Why one of those things was not brought out years ago has always been a mystery to us. We don't seu how the Japs managetl to get along without Norrislown Herald. Little Willis had often stood by the window and watched the robins feed their young. "Ma, did you know our hired girls eat worms?" "No, Willis, of course she does not." "Yes, she does, too. I seed pa a-feedin her behind the kitchen door this mornin'." Oil City Derrick. wContributed by the coachman: I "Mp speak tbe words her tongmo did falter. ?SjO Spi tjBut it an ner icurs ami prayers wc-rc mie; father forced her to tho halter. For bo'd determined oa the bridle She did not wish to stirrup strife. And so bar feelings sbe did smother; But saddlo bo hor married life, Sbe wedded one. but loved another. Boston Courier. There is a charming absence of circumlocution about the following verdict recently rendered by an Arkau sas Coroner's jury over the remains of a well-known drunkard: "The feller come ter his death by switchin' off from one kind o' whisky "ter another. The moral o' this hear verdick Ls, don't switch." Arkansuw Traveler. "And what is the name of the man whom you are to bless with your hand and heart my dear?" "Oh, his name is Arthur Mills." "And how do you like him?" "Oh. he's just the loveliest of men a heaven-sent prize. He's a trifle slow, though." "On, well, never mind that You know the mills of the gods grind slowly." Boston Times. Master "Well, Susan, did you mail my letter as I told you?" Faith ful servant "Yes, sir;but I had it weighed first and as it was double weight I put on another stamp." Master "Good girl; only I hope you didn't put it on so as to" obliterate the address." Faithful servant "Oh, no, indeed sir; I just stuck it on top of tho other stamp so as to save room." Paris Paper. The particulars of the Freedom affair have at length come to hand. It seems that Freedom was skating around the rink in company with Koe dusko on the evening in question, when her foot slipped in attempting the grape-vine roll, and she went over, .carrying her partner with her. "Free ,dom shrieked when Kosciusko fell!" Of course; so would any other girl in her place. Kosci must have weighed two hundred and seventy-five pounds, without his skates, at the time. Buf falo Express. ijp 'I -Vi-