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-JV-" ,- -. .,. I IS ft S z i I; THE JOURNAL.) "WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1885. StUrcl at tto Feiisfiei, Colsnta. Vol.. at steea sutur. MY LEGACY. A rare and priceless legacy The fair, sweet summer left to me: gare -pictures, gems, I think them alL Watch I have bun? on memory's wall. And In ar heart the summer lives with all the joy that summer giree. Green hill-sides dotted o'er with trees. Tall grasses bent with playful breeze. Wide meadows starred with daisies whit And over all, the sunshine-bright. O, winter has no power to chill A heart that holds warm summer etilll But more than all its birds and flower, Far more than e'en its golden hours. The gracious summer left to me, In Its most priceless legacy, A sweet true love, which can not die, However cold the winter's sky I n Close In my heart I hold the gift Which from my life alt clouds will lift. Together love and I recall The pictures hung on memory's walL My little love, with sweet brown eyes. Who came to me 'neatfi summer skies. The golden hours were bright to me Only when they were shared with thee. The flowers seemed sweetest and most fair When thou their beauty deigned to wear. And now my heart forever lives 'Mid all the joys that summer gives. Mary D. Brine, in Harper's WtOO. MAGIC BEVEAUED. Mysteries of Iaedgedennain sad Second Sight Explained, Key to the System by Which Blindfold Person May See Some of the Tricks f ,'. Which Won Success for Heller A few yaars ago the amusement loving citizens of New York were mys tified beyond measure by the second sight performances of Robert Heller. They wero the talk of the town for many days, because they seemed to be outside the pale of ordinary feats of legerdemain, and to have an almost supernatural character. This diaberji was never explained in any authorita tive way that carried conviction to the ordinary mind, although every one formed bis own pet theory as to how it was done, which theory was generally upset subsequently by Heller himself. The clever performer did some re markable things in the way of second sight. He could take up a quaint old coin that was brought to the theater for the' express purpose of puzzling him, and Miss Haidee Heller, blindfolded, would tell its nationality, color and date. While ho held a lady's watch in his hand, she would describe its appear ance and even give its number, and, best of all, when a person in the audi ence opened a book at random Miss Heller would tell the number of the page at which it was opened, and read the contents of the page. This trick especially made credulous New Yorkers fancy there was some unknown power at work in the mental or psychological make-up of Miss Heller or Robert Seller, and they were utterly at sea as to how the thing was done. Letters were writ tea to the newspapers purporting to dis close the secret, but falling widely short of the real truth; magazine articles were published on thesubject; theatre parties and social clubs found an interesting topic of discussion in this mighty prob lem; but everybody after awhile, de cided, with Dundreary, that it was one of those things that "no felier can find out" Robert Heller fully realized the popu lar perplexity on the subject, and he would occasionally in his" witty, chatty styxe pretend to give tne secret away, something after tuts fashion, at the close of an entertainment: "Ladies and gentlemen You may say this is mag netism, spiritualism, rheumatism, or what you please, but you will probably decide after all that it is simply Heller ism." This sally, after the curiosity of the audience was whetted with the ex pectation of being able to pluck out the heart of the mystery, usually brought down the house, and everybody left the theatre with the pleasant sense of hay ing been delightfully puzzled beyond their powers of comprehension. So long as Heller could make a for tune out of the second-sight business it is not at all strange that the story of his art was never accurately told, and that many bright minds puzzled themselves over it and never discovered the truth is testimony to the remarkable system which was mastered by him and his apt pupil. Miss Heller. It is the purpose of this article' however, to give in brief such an insight into Heller's methods as will enable the veriest-tyro to at least understand how the trick was accom plished, even if he should not have the natural ability and quickness of percep tion to master its details sufficiently well to repeat it before a parlor full of amazed listeners. The disclosures here in made come substantially from 'a well-known young amateur ot Brook lyn, Mr. Harry S. Livingston, who learned from Heller's own lips some of his. well-known secrets and fronrE. J. Pale, who was au assistant of the magician on the otagc, or a "confed erate," as cynical spectators would sav. ior some ume, ana was tne assistant of . - - aw. ivmgscon ior two years. Air. L.W- ingston, who has followed the pursuit of scientific magic purely from a love of the art, and is seen in public only in connection with entertainments for sweet charity's sake," has inr his $10,000 collection of magical apparatus many articles used by Heller in his per formances in. the old hall in Twenty fourth Street, now known as the Madi son Square Theater. As Heller is dead," and Miss Heller "3 reported to be in London delighting Englishmen of the world and American tourists 'in the role of a dispenser of bevciages that delight the interior man, no harm can evidently come to anyone by a plain recital of the whole matter. The few magicians who pretend to possess the gift of second sight have much simpler systems, which are far less surprising to the average spectator than Heller's, and in com parison aro puerile and unworthy of consideration: Heller had several methods 'of per forming .the trick, which he would change from night to night to prevent discover)- at the hands of those per sistent persons v. ho attended his seances every evening in order to finally dis comfit him by a discovery. . By usin several methods a night everybody would be more mystified than ever. In the first place, Heller formed as a basis of his operations a list of over four hundred articles, which would cover al most everything that an audience would be likely to bring to a theater. This was subdivided into a group of thirteen. These series were committed to memory by Heller and his fair assistant in the order in which tHey were arranged. For instance, here is one of the series that was used to give the color of an article, or the first thirteen letters of the alpha bet, or the numeral herewith stated. As will be seen, the color, letter, or number was obtained by the way ia wnicn tne question was xramea. Can you name this?.. Can you give thi?.... .Brown 1 a. winte 8 to. Red 3 c. Ulue 4 d. .Violet-5 0. Black 6 f. Green 7 a". Pink 8 h. Purple 9-1. OldgoM-It-fc. Mixture 18 1. rellow Jt-m. Can you tell this?. wnat a tais? .... What is this? And this? , This Is what?. Will you name this?. . . Will you give this?.... Will you tell this? Glre this Xellthla? The. cue to this series, if the color of "color." 1 oDiect was asked for, is Can you name this color?" would be owh, of course; "Can you give' this color' wklte, and so on. If any other letters of the alphabet were wanted, say to tell the monogram on a watch or sleeve-bmttosu a snap of the finger would accompany the question, the ns maining letters in the alphabet bearing the same relative position to the series g'ven. For instance, N, the fourteenth tter in the alphabet would be given bj asldngthefirstquestiosw "Can you name tiiis lettsrF" accompanied by a snap of the angers. The fifteenth letter in the alphabet would require the second ques tion, and a throflghthe list. , , . Heller's success in this and other' methods depended largely on his own marvelous memory and the memory of Haidee Heller, and when he put one, of these or other questioBS to her, in the most natural and off-hand manner in the world, she would respond as quick ly as if the object were right before her eyes. This will be readily recalled by anyone who has ever seen one of his performances. There was another series of questions which was used in the same way, the cue being color for colors, precious stones for such, these different groups of thirteen each being classified in theorder of the series of questions already given, or of this series How 1 a. Now-3-b. 8eehere 3 o. Be quick 4 d. Look here 5-4. Go on 6 f. And here 7 or. Very well--. SCO v u Well-O-J. Here 17 k. Quick 18 i. Look sharp H en. A snap of the finger- would accom plish tho same purpose in this series as in the other. ". . The system of the elder Hermann and of Houdin was very-cumbersome and apparent. A long string of questions would sometimes have to be asked to get at a very simple object, and the sys tem was, moreover, very mucn circum scribed and inadequate to the purpose. Mention has been made of Heller's classification of objects into groups of thirteen. Materials were arranged in 'this list: ,Stone, cloth, gum, putty, leather, cork, marble, glass, ore, ivory, rubber, wood and hair. The metals chosen were: Gold, silver, brass, nickel, steel, tin, lead, platinum, mercury, cop per, bronze, zinc and. iron.-' Precious stones were: Diamond, topas, emerald, ruby, amethyst, blood-stone, opal, cam eo, cat's-eye, sapphire, onyx, carbuncle and pearL Designs were arranged in this order: Skull, head, musical instru ment, house, figure, -insect, coin; star, monogram, -three links, square and compass, strap and buckle and. weapon. Leading countries were also system atized in this way, and, as for playing cards, the ten numbered cards corre ponded with first tea questions in a se ries, and the jack, queen and king with the three last questions. Heller and his assistant used every means for dramatic effect Taking up a watch, he would give the proper cue to Miss Heller, who, knowing full well what the object was, would describe it as a round object and bright, and finally, after seeming difficulty, would say what it was amid much applause. The num ber of the watch was given by means of the system stated. "Can you give" the number was the cue for units, "tell the" for tens, "will yqu give" for hundreds, "what's the" for thousands, and "give the" for hundreds of thousands. Say tne watcn was numbered zuoz. Heller would remark, "What's the number" on this, giving the cue for thousands thereby, and adding "how,-" which will be seenby reference to the second series of questions given stands for "2." Miss Heller would slowly reply, "Two thou sand." and Heller would respond, "Very well," "how," which would elicit from his assistant "82" at once.' Heller. . .... A ' however, had other systems for per forming the second-sight trick. One of them called electricity into play. There was an armature and magnet in the bottom of the loonge upon which Miss Heller sat, and for ordinary articles there were thirteen telegraphic signals that Dale, who was on the stage con cealed from view, would telegraph to her. She could feel the pulsations of the magnet, and would know at once what the article was that Heller was holding in his hand without saying a word. It was especially puzzling to many persons to see Heller take up an article from some person in the audience, and, altnough he apparently gave no sign and certainly did not speak. Miss Heller would promptly say what it was. They did not know how simple the solu tion was. When Heller played in his Broadway Theater, now Harrigan & Hart's, there was lattice-work on the front of the stage covered with artificial flowers. Behind this sat Mr. Dale. Miss Heller was seated blindfolded, with her back to the audience. Heller would take up some article from the first or second row, and Mr. Dale, through a strong opera-glass slyly pene trating the lattice, could see very clearly what it was aud telegraph to Miss Hel ler. To vary the system as much as possible, Dale on some night3 would communicate to her through a speaking-tube that ran through the stage floor up through the lounge where she sat. Perhaps the most impudent thing in the way of audacity that Heller ever did was the book trick. A gentleman in the rear of the audience, apparently from the country, would hold up a volume and say? "Now, I'd like Miss Heller to tell me what I've got in mv hand." Heller would appear annoyed, woidd not notice him further than to say : "You should have spoken of this sooner," in a net- i - tied tone. Suspicion would grow that i Heller was '-stuck," and finally, as the rmflflAmOfl urlirk roao immamIU A..A. was .persistent, the great magician would elicit from Miss Heller that it was a book. Then he would go on the stage, and in order to make the:, bandage over Miss Heller's eyes doubly effective annarentlv. he would tie a glove over each eye. They, nowever, -wouiu oe tied in such a way asto.form a sort of French roof over each optic, so that Miss Heller could see very well looking down. The dude wanted to know the name of the book, and after due consideration Miss Heller would say, for instance. Rawlinson's "History of the Ancient Egyptians." Heller would tell the dude to put a play ing card in the book at random and open it It was done, and Heller would fiance-at the page, and, asking Miss teller the proper questions, she would at once give its number. The astonished dude verified the auswer. Then Miss Heller would proceed to read the con tents of the page, to the amazement of everybody. This trick was not done every night. The explanation is simple. Miss Heller had a duplicate book, and1 the dude was another confederate. When she got the cue for the page and gave it, she turned to the page on her lap, her back being turned to the audi ence, and coolly read its contents. The book was kept concealed in a secret pocket of the lounge, and was quietly returned there before she left the stage. Before a performance of second-sight Heller would often borrow half a' dozen articles from the audience and put them in a hat. Half an hour later he would let any one in the audience, when he fished out an article, ask Miss Heller what it was. She could always answer. This seems strange, but it is simple as any other mystery when it is-explained. Before the performance of second-sight Heller would find occasion to go on the stage, either to bandage Miss Heller's eyes or something of the sort, and he would tell her quickly, and in a very low tone of course, the contents of the hat She would remember the articles in the order ia which he enumerated them, and Heller was careful to pick them out of the hat in the same order. Of course, he would not allow any person in the audience to pick them out These are the various systems used by Heller in his second-sight . business. Murder will out, and so will maonciaas tricks, and these explanations asay be accepted as the truth of the 'whom matter. Of course there are very manyj other details connected wish the. per formance bf magic which it is unneces sary to go into here. They are simply; cumulative. Anybody with an excellent memory and a quickness of perception can do the most difficult trick with the aid of another person similarly gifted.' K. Y. Times. m m TYPESETTING MACHINES. A New Invention WUcfc . to the IntoUbrant Ceasyoatter. There are about Congress some of the 1est shorthand writers in the world, writes a Washington correspondent Nearly all ofjthem are speculators "in la quiet way, and some of them are quite rich. Most of them are at present in terested in the new type-setting machine which is being perfected in Baltimore. Here is & machine which- is manipu lated by a keyboard similar to that of the type-writer. Each top of the key moulds and manufactures a new type out of stereotype metal, so that one fink of work represents a solid bar of metal with a raised face of the letters struck. This bar can be sliced like cheese for the correction of proofs or justifying, andean be made in 'such shape that it dan be locked in 'a cylindrical form so as to go- upon any of the presses where stereotype plates can go. Tkebeantr of this work is that the prssswork is done each time from the face of new type. Hit is practiable the machine is so clean and simple that the work of type-setting can oe done in a parlor without any dust or litter. - When there machines' are ready to go to work the intelligent compositor will be banished. Bis place will be 'taken by nimble fingered, neatly dressed young women. The dirt of the great newspaper establishments of the future will be swept into the basement 'where' the presswork is done, while the money saved by those machines will be de voted to the embellishment and adorn ment of the up stairs part ef the publi cation office, so that the editorial rooms of the future will beall that art and luxury can devise. The editor of 'the future will recline upon an easy chair and softly murmur his editorial musings, in the pink ear of a gentle and 'lovely maiden, whose fingers will- set his thoughts as fast as uttered, so that as soon as he has finished a proof of them can be instantly hung up in front of him for correction. This is the glowing picture of the work of the editor of the future given me by one of the steno graphers interested in the development of the machine. One of the principal stenographers of Washington has in vested the savings of a life-time in this invention. Belief in the virtues of this type-setting machine has spread to Congres sional circles. Senator Pendleton and at least a dozen more of his associates have stock in the enterprise. It has been worked up among the offices in about the same way as the Bell 'tele-, phone stock before it took its great' sweepjupward. Through the location, of the Patent Office here and the pres ence" of a large class of patent attor neys, nearly everyone in official life has heard of some marvelous fortunes being) made in tho lottery of inventions. Pittsburgh Dispatch. BUSTED IN LOVE. Unfortunate Condition of a Marrying Toaas Man from Detroit. H there is one thing sadder than an other in this world it Is to see a young man with a buffalo-skin overcoat on sit ting on the winter side of a grocery with tears in his eyes and nothing but a yam mitten to wipe them away with. Such a case was discovered by a po licemen on Grand River Avenue yester day, and when asked the cause of the young man's sorrow the reply-was: "Busted in love." "Who was she?" "Worked in a corset factory." "Well, that's very little to cry over. Plenty of other girls around, youknow." "Yes, but Pve been to a fortune' teller, and I tell you things look dark.. She took up a skull, shuffled over some' cards and went into a trance and told, me I was to marry a widow with six children." "O, pshaw!" Fact and here I am with less than, four dollars in money, no property, no clothes, no job and going to have six children to clothe and feed and lick and' school and take care of! The widow she'll want new duds and jewelry, audi will be howling to go to the opera and the roller rinks, and nobody knows how: many relations she'll bring into the. house for me to support!" "O, well, it may be all right per haps it will be a rich widow." "No such good luck as that She'll be poor but aspiring, and the young 'uns will be poorer and aspiringer yet, and if I had any grit I'd commit sui cide. Go away ' and lemme be! You can't comfort me nobollycan dome any good and I want to be left in soli tude. I ain't naturally a solituder, but just now I am all broke up'. A poor an' as piring widow six aspiringest children, and only four dollars and a buffalo over coat as a starter! G'way and lemme fig ger it out!" Detroit Free Press. mat ALUM. Description of the Natnraa and Artificial Article. Native alum appears in the form of an efflorescence or argillaceous rock in various parts of the country, especially in the Silver Mountain district, Alpine County, California, but the deposits are too light to be of much practical value. Some years ago a discovery was re ported of what was termed an alum lode, on Howell Mountain, Napa County, California, remarkable for its extent and purity, but as little alum from that locality has ever found its way to market, it is probable that the account of the discovery was much ex aggerated. The existence of native alum is reported in other parts of Cali fornia and also in Colorado, but it is extremely doubtful if it has been found anywhere as a mineral in quantities ot available bulk. Artificial alum, or the alum of commerce, is a manufactured commodity, and the supplies consumed in this country arc both the imported article and that manufactured in a few Eastern chemical works. During the census year ending May 31, 1880, the production of alum in the United States was nearly thirty million pounds, valued at $808,165. The production of artifi cial alum in 1882 amounted to between 16,000 and 30,000 tons, which at. two cents a pound would be worth $640,000 to $800,000. The -process of manu facture is very simple, .consisting in mixing the alum-clay with sulphuric acid, dissolving the sulphate of al umina thus formed, and then adding a solution of sulphate of ammonia and crystalizing the resulting salt The principal manufactories in this country are in New York City, Buffalo. Phila delphia and Pittsburgh. Boston Jour nal of Commerce. m 1 m The editor in the East sks down with malice ia his heart and writes of "our esteemed co-worker in journal ism." The Western editor, leaving his fellow-publisher with 'a hearty grasp at the nearest "comn-nail-factory, seises his brilliant pen and fires half tile town against his "loathsome oontemptuary." Current. - Louis Kossuth's bonds, issued whist the fansus Hungarian was in this coun try, are kept as euneaiuei immamr CHARACTER BUILDING. Rome SngSCfttlnns Itelatln; to a Subject la Wblch Ali'nioUiCK Am Znttx-ratrt!. ' The truo a'm of education is the building up of noble character. George Washington had not very much schooling.' He was not even a per fect speller." He knew little or nothing of Greek aud Latin, little of science or art but was he uneducated? Abraham Lincoln had fewer opportunities to acquire book learning than Washington had, but b's name will go down with Washington's to remotest ages. Neither Benjamin Franklin nor Horace Greeley ever went to college, but what two mn have- done mora' for their times than these two? Thetfirst settlers in any country must build their homes of the materials nearest at hand and mo-.t read ly ap propriated. Our forefjt!.4ra, whose virtues are our boast, lived aud died in log houses plastered with mud, but they were good, honest, substantial log houses, well made and proof against weather. Many a Mexican grandee lives in an adobe house and thinks as much of himself as though his habita tion were of marble. And vhy should he not? In sight, as we write, is a pala tial house building, the materials of which are boulders gathered from the adjacent pastures, broken and chiselled into shape. and faced with briok. What a sermon that house preaches! In building character as in bunding houses the majority of men and women must take" materials nearest at hand and make the best of them. There is, al-. ways enough of good material about us to make noble character. We may take the stern, homely unpromising facts of out lives and transform them into stepping-stones of progress, into edifices of utility if not beauty. Now these boys that this mother is so anxious about; if they are learning to be honest, Ailf-reliant, patient industrious, thorough, just, en terprising; if they are ming' all the op portunities they can command to ac Sttire the information most useful to iem in their work, and applying the information so acquired to the further ance of their work, they are getting in so far a very valuable education. A man's wits can be sharpened on a great many different kinds of whetstones. A mans mind may be stored with a great many kinds of useful information. How to make the ends meet how to accom plish certain desired results are often problems more difficult than any that college students puzzle over in algebra or calculus. They stimulate and sharpen the intellectual faculties and give fine practical results beside. "Patient con tinuance" in the humble, monotonous, apparently inconsequent routine of daily life appointed to the majority of men and women may be inspired by aspira tion for "glory and honor and immor tality," and have as its reward "eternal life." What greater reward than this can. mortal man receive? Because these boys can not go to school they need not be ignorant of the knowledge that may be gained from books. We know a youth who is em ployed from early morning till dark in helping support his father s family, but who in fragments of leisure has mastered the principles of chemistry, read all Shakespeare's plays. Bacon's -Essays, text books in several of the sciences, and is well advanced in algebra. His plane of thinking is higher, his power, of apprehension and comprehension far greater than th&se of youths of his age who have been always at school. His mother studies with him, and contrives to keep in advance of him so she can help him over hard places and discuss with him the books he reads. This enables her to give a high tone to the family life, to create an atmosphere of intellectuality at the fireside in which the love of literature and science may flourish. Of course doing this she must omit doing a great many, things conr sidered necessary by many mothers. She has little time for embroideries and fancy cooking and the superfluous nice ties of housekeeping. Among the pyramids of Egypt at least one has been found that is built of bricks made from Nile mud fastened together with "stubble instead of straw," and doubtless the work of the Israelites when compelled to "get straw where they could find it" For over 8,000 years that structure has stood, a monument of patient faithful toil, and it will doubtless stand as long as its elderbrother Cheops, and in its meas ure as praiseworthy a structure as that Some years ago a man with brains and some money bought a rocky, swampy farm, with au unmanageble stream flowing through it from an owner whose father had starved on it and who himself had done likewise. The new purchaser with the rock built substantial fences, bridges over the stream and buildings, drained the swamps, using the muck from them to enrich the barren land, on which he planted fruit trees, and in a few years transformed the waste place into a beautiful and fruitful Eden and sold it for double all it had cost him. We might go on this vein indefinitely, but it is unnecessary. To be faithful over the few things, to build well of the materials furnished us and which we can command by dilieent labor is all that is required of us. "It is accepted of a man according to that he hath and not according to that he hath not' -N. Y. Tribune. How Honeycomb is Filled. Dr. C. Spencer has been prying into the "easiness secrets of the bee, and thus tells of what he has learned: "In my observatory hive one cell was built against the glass, and that afforded ,an excellent opportunity of seeing how bee deposit lloney in the cell. First, a bee deposited a thin coating of honey upon the base of the cell, making a sort of varnish, as it were, to the base of the cell The next bee that came with honey raised up the lower edge of this film of honey and forced itsYhoney be neath; the next bee did the same, and the film acted as a kind of diaphragm, keeping honey in the cell. Wben the cell is full enough to be sealed, toe bees commence coairacuuz mo o with wax until there is only a hole left in the centre, when the' pear -to take one little flake of wax pat it down over the opening. At time during the process of fillinsr the the honey could be withdrawn with hvDodermic svrinsre. and the phragm left hanging in the eelL" Bos ton Transcript. The way to get to sleep is not by repeating verses, or staring at nothing but blank darkness, or counting, but by fnot thinking at alL For instance, as :the mind takes up a train of thought it should be instantly recalled. It will, of 'course, directly settle upon something else; again recall it In fact, do not .meditate at alL There is nothing tire isome about this process; on the con itrary, it is rather amusing, and a per son wbx firstrtries U wiU be surprised to :findbow soon he will begin to Iosehim iself. As the mindjputs out feelers, it is to be constantly patted down, and in an exceedingly ahorUtme will withdraw tself like a toed child and so to sleep. ; Boston Globe. There are 16.000,000 school chil sbrea in the United States, 10,000,000 of whom areenroBed in the public schools. Thosaas A. Doyle has cntesed upon mm eiouui r wet c idenoe,B.L oenine small kp- and ceu diaA SPECULATING IN MARRIAGES. llovr Poor Toons; SIn nt Enabled t Larty is s;.e',MU':i:g .n marriages now. f ao'iee," snid one of a party ot juuth'.m'ii who wrre .soaed in theread-intf-rowm of tho Fifth Avcuiiu hotel last ' n'g'it Svjulatrrg io rc.nrAtro.!" repeated anot:Mi- of the party, for goodness sake -what k-n 1 of bu?ine-s is that?" "Why, he leids -.money to young fellow: w'to.i.iya prospo:t of marrying, r.ch Hiv.i.'aM the lirsl spoaker. ';Not loug'ugoi ;opd-iookiug young, fellow witu eharoii.' m iinor.. but poor, came here from -P? Kdelphia. He wa ad-m'tk-d into;tispd sce'ety and the pretty daughter oC-a rich merchant fell in love with Siiai. Ji'Iie young Philadelphia!! was abit'to droi the courtship becauso Le diri'doS have th3 nei.-i-ary money to keep it up. He. knew Larry, and when he .met him one day he told him of his Jove affair." , "If you are sure you can win the girl, said Larry.. "I will furnish the . money land you can pay me back when you get your rich wife. . With the "money ne .jPotfronV Larry he was able to dress better and to go out a great deal more -The young lady's parents thought the : young man. had money, and they readily, consented to his union with their daughter. They were finally married and the young man-'was started in busi ness by his father-in-law. He has been, able to pay back the principal to, , Larry' with heavy interest Larry was so bn eouraged that now he has another young' man in training. The young felfuw is very popular with the ladies, and he has a fair chance of securing a rich wife be fore the winter is oven Larry is also arranging to parry on this line of specu lation with strangers. He made his money in Colorado Dy "staking" miners, and as be puts himself,' he is now going to "stake" men who sure trying to strike gold in matrimonial ventures. Whenever man can con vince by the production of love letters and other reliable evidence that he is reasonably sure of marrying a rich wife, Larry will lend him the money to go on. He runs a great risk of losing, but he charges 100 per cent, interest and keeps the love letters for security, besides taking a note which states for what pur pose the borrower expects to use the money. If he comes out all right in his calculations, he is sure to pay as he is in Larry's power, and even if he is un successful he will be very apt to try and reheve himself of the obligation, as an exposure would be, to say the least un pleasant "I once knew a gambler who backed up a young man," said a third member of the party, "about the same way. The person had once been quite well off and belonged to an excellent family. .But he got down in the world and was in a bad way, as he was incapable of making a living in any business. " 4Wuy don't you marry a lady with plenty of money and be independent,' asked his gambling friend one day. Can't do it, because I have not the money to appear in society, and besides people are beginning to find out that I have lost my fortune replied the young fellow. The gambler agreed to furnish 'the money with which to make the trial. That season the fellow visited all the leading watering places, dressed in the height of fashion, and appeared to have no end-of money, which he spent in the finost princely manner. He met a beautiful girl, with a rich father, and 'married her the following winter. On the wedding day her father gave her $50,000 as a starter. When the bride groom came to settle up with his friend, the gambler, he was indebted to him $5,000. Three months afterward he gave the gambler $15,000. The couple are living happily to-day on Fifth "Avenue." In Chicago a number of pawnbrokers will advance money for this purpose. K.'Y. Telegram. m SILK THREADS IN GREENBACKS. The Trouble the Goyernment Has Had with the Man Who Invented the Paper. "There, I guess that will finally set tle that annoyance." " The remark was uttered by an official of the Treasury as he signed his name to a terse official document "To what annoyance do you allude P" inquired the Journal correspondent "It is a long story, but if you are in terested you shall have it Yon have probably not noticed the two silk lines running through all United States bills. No? I thought not I noticed that a writer in one of the New York dailies the other day made the assertion that there were not a thousand men in New York who had ever made the discovery. Such is the fact, however." And draw ing from his pocket a five-dollar legal tender, he pointed out, besides the silk scraps of thread scattered through the body of the note, two perfect threads of silk running through the entire length of the paper, and about an inch and a half apart "About thirty-five years ago," he con tinued, "the English Government aban doned the practice of incorporating silk fiber in its bank-note paper. Some years after that an Englishman named Hay ward came to this country and took out a patent for the manufacture of this pa per. He tried for years to get the Govern ment to adopt it without success. Five or six years ago the Treasury decided to abandon the use of the "distinctive bank note-paper formerly used for securities .and advertised for samples and pro posals for a new paper. A large num ber of bids and samples were received, and after an investigation all were re jected. Among the bidders was this man Hayward. He had induced a paper firm to make samples for him, and the Government paid $2,100 for the samples. Other proposals were invited, and the bid of Crane & Co., of Dalton, Mass., was accepted. The paper which they were to furnish contained a few pieces of silk threads scattered through it end in order that it might be still more distinctive, it was decided to run two threads through each bill as I have shown you. Hayward was not satisfied. Although his patent had expired several years before the contract with Crane & Co. was made, he persisted that .he should have had it, and that as it was not awarded him, he should be paid for his trouble and for the use of his patents. For five years or more he has hounded the department ' His claims are simply stupendous. He has written hundreds of letters and hundreds more have been writtan by his friends and attorneys. The President's life has been made mis erable by this persistent bore, who has no. more right to a dollar wan you nave. bendy he obtained the support of sir. John J. Knox, formerly Comptroller of the Currency, and lately Mr. Knox s importunities have been added to his own. u have just answered his last letter, and I hope and pray it will end "HowWyou answer it?" "I told him that he had failed to make .out aclain, and that all correspond eace on the subject would be unraroita ible, as thedepartsaent has fuHy de .ciied not to -pay him a dollar. It was as I signed the letter that I made then Wark.11 Washington Cor. Indianapolis (ft A sDortsman at Cumberland, Via.. sighted a flock of turkeys the other day a teisi ms aeg to ne aewm. xbm mow ssmsL and be went alter the fswUl tore hows afcetwatd the to look far the 'Z Z L . mT Mfmrn -- mmV e sssf lam a m. m PERSONAL AND . IMPERSONAL. Clara Loni.ie Kellogg has a maaia for real 'point lace bnudkerolief. Bishop Kip, of California, docs not inscribe his name on his visiting cards, but s'mply the words: "The Btshop of California." Dr. D. Humphrey Storcr is the oldest medical practitioner in Boston. He became a member of the Massachu setts Medical Society in 1829.-"-Boston JournaT. 1 A large number of young society ladies in' New York City are taking les sons in elocution for the purpose of improving their conversational powers. Ar. F. Post. The great-grandfather of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Father Moody, of York, Me., was. the first author in the limits of Maine, a sermon having been printed by him in 1701. Captain B. L." Chad wick has been postmaster at South Lyme. Conn., for forty-six years, and for thirty years carried the mail to the railroad station himself. Hartford Post. ' The widow of Captain Webb, the famous swimmer, has received all the moneys raised by appreciative English men for herself and children. It amounts to about $3,300. Chicago In ter Ocean. Garret Boice, ex-President' of the defunct City Bank of Jersey City, who was sentenced to five years imprison ment in the State prison, has just com-. Eleted his second year, and in that time is hair has turned perfectly white. K. Y.Sun. The late Charles W. Tolger, son of the late Secretary Fdlger, when a Williams College student in 1868, was much admired for his muscular strength and courage, and none of the associates of his college days would have prophe sied for him a short life. Troy Times. Humphrey Davenport, of Moravia, N. Y., while in the late war, was struck on the right side by a minis ball, which entered his body, carrying with it a suspender button. Neither was removed, and a recent operation re vealed the fact that both had becosse attached to a rib" and woregrown over with flesh. Buffalo Express. Miss Marie Van Zandt, the Ameri can prima donna, appeared the other night at the Imperial Opera House at St Petersburg in "Lakme," and had a brilliant success. She was recalled thirty times, and received the compli ments of the Emperor and Empress, both of whom were present and re mained throughout the performance. N, Y. Graphic. Stanley, the African explorer, is not married, and probably "never will be. When he first started for Africa he was engaged to a pretty New York girL who gave him up for dead in a year and married another man within two years. He did not return till the end of the third year, and thought the damsel should nave waited for nim;and her course embittered his life. N. Y. Tribune. The two brothers, John Jacob and William Astor. occupy the front of a square in the Fifth avenue, New York, their houses being on each corner and the intervening space being a garden screened from public view by a high brick wall. The houses, though spa cious, are of plain brick, with brown stone trimmings, and have none of that architectural display which marks Fifth avenue. The brothers retain a friend ly union. N. Y. Times. "A LITTLE NONSENSE." Grace, seeing her aunt write a message on a postal card, called for an envelope saying: "I'm. going to write a letter, too, Aunt Jane; but lidon't want it to go bareheaded like yours." Golden Dags. Webster's spelling book, it is said, still sells at the rate of a million copies a year. Though not so exciting as some novels, it nevertheless throws a potent spell over the reader. Phila delphia Call. A Montana man comes to the front with a story about finding a cave full of petrified rattlesnakes. When the whisky makes a fellow see 'em petrified, it must be of a character simply awfuL Omaha Republican. A new kind of lamp recently in vented is called the "sweetheart" The reason for the adoption of this name is' probably because it never goes out un til after midnight, unless the old man comes into the parlor and goes to shak ing down the stove. Lowell Citizen. "Ma, this paper says there are 3,950 Bands of Mercy in this country. What is a Band of Mercy?" "An as sociation for charitable purposes, child." "Oh! I thought it meant a brass band that didn't practice even ings." Burlington (F.) Free Press. Some strolling Thespians were once playing "Macbeth" in a country town. Their properties were not kept in a very systematic order; for when' the hero' of Shakespeare's drama ex claimed, "Is that a dagger I see before me?" a shrilLvoice responded from the "flies:" "No, sir: it's the putty knife. The dagger's lost' How to Gain Wealth I'll tell you a plan for paining- wealth. Better than oankinr. trade or leases Take a banknote and fold it up. And then you will find your money la- creases. This wonderful plan, without danger or loss. Keep your cash in your own hands, where nothing can trouble it; And every time that you fold it across. It's as plain as the fight of the day that you double it. Professor: "Why does a duck put his head under water?" Pupil: "For divers reasons." Professor: "Why does he go on land?" "For sundry reasons." Professor: "Next you may tell us why a duck puts his head under water." Second Pupil; "To liquidate his bill." Professor: ""And why does he go on land?" Second Pupil: "To male a run on the bank." N. Y. Inde pendent. WANTED AN EMBLEM. The Unfortunate Detrolter Who Wanted a Sign Emblematic of a Serloas Condition of ASalrs. A man.called in at a carpenter shop on Clifton street yesterday and said he was in business in the western part of the city and wanted an emblem to hang on tho front of his building. "What kind of an emblem had you thought of?" asked the carpenter. "Well, I dunno." What business are you in?" "I run a saloon." "Ah! How would a beaver do?" "There ain't enough water in my business to support either a fish or a beaver." "Might take an eagle?" '"Too common, and the Eagle saloon is only a block away.' "How would a rooster do?" "Well, I haven't much to crow over." "Then take a bee-hive. "What does that represent?' "Industry. The bee is ever busy, you know." "Well, I ain't and the business is a lazy one." "A gilded ax or hammer would look nice." "Yes, but they wouldn't do. I'll state the case and then, perhaps, you can suggest something. I ass four hundred dollars in debt nty wife has run away, and I am sick and tired ef . the business and want to go West and hang myself. H you've ret ,any env blem for that state of amain trot her out" The carpenter had to dediae the jets. ' Detroit Free Press. YOUR BEST TTMF, Fit A(millll A PliCTlCAL IBGCAT1IN IS NOW. A DECIDED SUCCESS. .. -THB FREMONT NORMAL AND BUSINESS COLLEGE, AT FREMONT, NEB., Opeaed successfully October 21, with ten teachers aad a good attendance, w Ich doubled during the a rat Ave weeks, and is still steadily increasing. Fifty Students ia the Business., College aad Short-asad Classes: nearly fifty in the Normal or Teachers Department an J comaoa branches, aad a good attendance ia the If usie and Art Departments. The Fsscmlty. PRESIDENT JONES has had over twenty years experience in Educational work. :PBOFESSOR HAMLIN, Principil of tae BusiBess College, has had over fifteen years' experience aad is a Superior Fen ntan aad Expert Accountant. 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