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t -.v a - "2 ' JTSXrr- - iMxcSZSr. i rs THE JOURNAL. ISSUED EVERT WEDNESDAY, M. J. TURNER & CO. Proprietors and Publishers. TES OF tuinc;. lonpitt sSTSaaiaMs aad professional card of fivo lines or less, psr anaaai, It dollars. t3 For tisse advertisements, apply at this oslcs. ETLegal advsrtisasisats at statmts rates. assTPor transient advertlsiaf , sa rats on third paa;. 0111 advsrtlssisats payabl monthly. S3T OFFICE, Eleventh St., up Hairs in Journal Building. terms: Per year Six months Three months Single copies .9 . . S VOL. XV.-NO. 51. COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY. APRIL 15, 1885. WHOLE NO. 779. --"fy- EWPyW ssP Xiir " " J w J "v ; 3. aF X 1 V COLUMBUS STATE BANK! COLUMBUS, XEB. CMS.S CAPITAL, - $75,000 DIRECTORS: Leaxdeu Gebrakd, Pres I. Geo. W. Hulst, Vice Pres't. Julius A. Reed. R. H. IIenuv. J. E. Taskeii, Cashier. Buk of Deposit, OIscsmi amd ExcfcaBge. CellectloHN Promptly Jtlade all PolatK. Pay Interest a Tim Oep- Itt. 274 HENRY G-ASS, COFFINS AND METALLIC CASES AND DEALER IN Furniture, Chairs, Bedsteads, Bu- reaus, Tables, Safes. Lounges, . Bee, Picture -Frames and Mouldings. VST Repairing of all kinds of Upholstery Goods. Ctf COLUMBUS, NEB. ef sTTTnnnxr TTTBno AND PUMPS. Buckeye Mower, combined, Self Binder, wire or twine. Pomps Repaired oil short aotice SSTOne doer west of Helntz's Drug Store, lllli Street, Columbus, Neb. 8 TTHTIT Tkf ifor working people. Send 10 H H. I i r cents postage, and we will m m -- i mail you free, a ioyal, val uable sample box of goods that will put vou in the way of making more money in a few days 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 of both sexes, of all ages, grandly suc cessful. M) cents to $5 easily earned every evening. That all who want work may test the business, wc 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, ent free. Immense pay absolutely sure for all who start at once. Don't delay. Address Stinson & Co., Portland, 3iaine. l8m b. A. FOTLER, AltCniTECT, .ISOSFuumSt., - OHaHa. HIS. PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS FURNISHED for all kinds of Public Buildings and Private Dwellings. Architect of "Willard Block, Child's Hospital, Residence of Hon. J. M. Thurston, Residence of Hon. John I. Redick, Omaha; Residence of Hon. G. W. E. Dorsey, Masonic Hall, Fremont, Neb; Residence of C. C. Crow ell, Esq., First National Bank, Blair, Neb; Residence of Thos. Bryant, First National Bank, Schuyler, Neb., and ma ny others. 43-m6 A WORD OF WARNIXe. 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. W. nENRICn, Special Ag't. 15-y Columbus, Neb. - NO HUMBUG! But a Grand Success. RF. BRIGHAM'S AUTOMATIC WA- ter Trough for stock. He refers to every man who has it in use. Call on or .leave orders at George Yale's, opposite Oehlrich's grocery. IMJm rpKANSIT HOUSE, FLATTE CENTER NEB., JOHX BCGOAX, Proprietor. The best accommodation for the trayel ing .public guaranteed. Food good, and plenty of it. Beds clean and comfortable, charges low, as the lowest. 13-y A PEIZE. Send six cents for postage,and receive free, a costly box of goods which will help you to more money right away than anything else in this world. All, of either sex, succeed frost first hour. The broad road to fortune opens before the workers, absolutely sure. At once address, True & Co., Augusta, Maine. iLYON&HEALY Stale Monroe Sts-Ckicage. Will Ki'toniU to may addraa tWIr AND CATALUUUE, Imamanu. SolU. Cw. Btta.1 IPwnpem. Ejmu. Cp-Lup. ttl.mTt TVam l,ter St&fffc. ud - --": . -. .. u jMstcrteh. UrKua latumcam tM Him Sudty mi uaisn. "i fCtafc feud Mad I ii far abukt mi una aaaam? r " ""kfr - - fsfcmw - irmMt THE LOST BATTLE. To hls&eart It struck such terror That he laughed a-laugh of acora The man In the soldier's doublet. With the sword ao bravely worn. It struck his heart like the trott-wlna To And his comrades fled, , "While the battle-field was guarded tty the heroes who lay dead. , He drew his sword In the sunlight. And called with a long halloo, " Dead men, there Is one living Shall stay it out with you!'' He raised a ragged standard. This lonely soul In war. And called the foe to onset By shouts they hear afar. They galloped swUt toward bus. The oanner floated wide ; It sank; lie sank beside It Upon his sword, und died. Rote Jfaxcthorne Zathrop, in Harper! Magazine. SOMETIME. A. Practical Sermon 'Preached by the Cellar Stairs. , '' i " f . A Strangely enough, the cellar stairs preached it at least they contributed that very important part, the applica tion. Sister Searles had furnished the text in the morning, but then the ser mon might have gone on from firstly to forry-seventhly without Mrs". Bar ney's notice, had it not been for the cellar stairs. Mrs. Barney was hurried that day she was always hurried and it was warm and uncomfortable in the sun shiny, stove-heated kitchen, where -she was hastening to and fro, growing fretted and tired without slackening her speed. Nealie, standing at the ironing-table, was tired also. "1 here's so much to do," she said, wearily. "I do not see why we need do bak ng and ironing both in one day. It makes sucn a crowd, and we could have left one for to-morrdw." To-morrow will bring work enough of its own," answered Mrs. Barney, quickly. "Besides, if we should get the work all out of the way the first of the week, a whole day to rest in would be worth something." "But then we shouldn't take it for resting just because it would be a whole day and something else would be crowd ed into it," murmured Nealie, to whom one hour now looked very inviting and that possible day in'the future very un certain. The mother did not answer, and the girl's hand moved more slowly over the damp muslins as her gaze wandered away to the hills where great trees were throwing cool shadows. How pleasant the shade and greenness were! The desire to bring it nearer suggested another thought to Nealie "Some vines would be so nice at this window, mother. I could plant them if you would let Tim dig a little spot out there." "Yes, but if we ever get the house fixed up as we want it we shall have shutters at that window." "But we don't know when we can do that, and the vines would be so pretty now," urged "Nealie. "Pretty: Well, yes, if we had the whole yard trimmed and laid out as it should be. I hope we shall have it some day; but a stray vine here and there seems hardly worth fussing over when we can't have the whole done." Nealie sighed but was silent, and presently lim came in with an armful of woodT "Nealie," he said, pausing near her table, "if you just sew this sleeve up a little. The old thing tears awful easy, and 1 just hit it again3t a nail." He spoke low, but Mrs. Barney's quick ears caugh the words. "That jacket torn again, Tim? I never saw such a boy to tear things to Jiieces! No, Nealie can't stop to mend t uow, and I can't either. I've been intending) get you a new one, but there doesn't seem much chance to make anything new while you contrive to make so much patching and darn'ng on the old." Mrs. Barney shut the oven door with a snap. Tim was the hired boy, kind hearted but careless, ad he was rather discouraging. Board and cloth ing sometimes appeared lo her a high price for his services. "Hurry, now, and pick some currants for dinner," she said. Tim took the tin pail pointed" out to him, but'he did not hum as he passed with clouded face down the walk. The J thought of a new jacket would- have been very pleasant a few- minutes be fore, but it had suddenly lost attract iveness. The boy- drew his bushy brows into a scowl, a::d as'soon as he was out of sight of the house, threw himself upon the grass and began his currant-kicking in a very leisurely manner. Then it was thatSiscr Searles drove up in her rattling-old buggy with a horse ' that was, as Tim said, "a regular old revolutionary pensioner.-" - - - , "If J can't have fine horses and car riage, I-can take a deal of cbrafort with these," was always Sister Searles's cheery comment upon, her" equipage. She had an errand at Mrs. Barney's, and had stopped on her way to the vil lage. A plump, rosy-faced "little wom an she was, not young,- only that she belonged to the class of people who never .grow old; neatly dressed, though it was "but the old poplin made over." Mrj. Barney noticed while she was talking, wondering a little that she should have "taken the trouble, when she surely needed a new one." "This room is too warm to ask any one to sit in," she said, apologetically, placing a chair for her caller just out side the door. "When we are able to have the house altered to suit us I shall have a stove here in the summer." "In the mean time you have this nice cool porch. What a "pleasant place it is!" said Sister Searles, adm'riugly. "Yes, if one had time to enjoy it," answered Mrs. Barney, with an uneasy laugh. "I'm so hurried trying to get everything about the place in just the right order that I don't have time." Take time. Sister Barney, take time," said Mrs. Searles, smiling, but earnestly. "Make the most of what you have while you are working for something better. Don't crowa out any little sweetness you have to make room lor some great pleasure that's further off. You see." she added, blushing a little, as if her words need ed excuse, "it's something I had to learn myself years ago never trample on daisies in a wild chase after roses. The roses I haven't found, but Jthc'ttai sies have been enough to make the path "bright." Mrs. Barney looked upon her in rouie perplexity as she took her de parture. She nad listened with on- half her mind on the loaves of bread in the oven and the other half did not fully comprehend what had beem said. "Daisies aud ruses! I don't see. what am sort of flower has to do with want ing a new kitchen. Bnt there! I sup pose minister's wires hear ao much talk that it comes natural to t hem Bits of old sersjons, like as anyway. Dear me! I don't get much time fox Setry in my life, I'm sure of that, ow Jim does loiter!" Tim, meanwhile, had sauntered oat from among tha-bushes,-and was en gaged in untying the old horse that Mrs. Searles had fastened as securely as. if it could be induced uader any cir cumstances to run. He was moved to this act of gallantry partly because he really liked the cheery little woman and partly because he heard Mrs. Bar ney's call and was in no haste to go to the house. "That will do, thank you, Tim,"' said Sister Searles, nervously anxious to ex pedite his steps in the way of obedi ence. "I think Mrs, Barney is. calling you." "Yes'm; she mostly always is," answered Tim, philosophically, pausing to arrange the harness with painful de liberation. "But, my dear boy," urged Sister Searles, reading something in his knitted brows, "you "should really try to please and help her all you know. She is kind to you." "Oh, yes, she's kind. Only when I see one of her kindnesses a-comin', I dodge it; it generally hits a fellow hard enough to be uncomfortable," re sponded Tim. Then, having relieved his feelingsby this statement, his con science pricked him slightly, and he added: "You see, she's always in such a hurry. She can't come and bring 'em: she has to pitch 'em." Mrs. Searles meditated as she drove down the country road. "Well, I never thought of that be fore, but I do suppose that's why the Bible speaks of the Lord's loving kind ness and tender mercy because there is so much kindness in the world that isn't one bit loving, and so much mercy that .is only duty and not tenderness. I'll tell Josiah that" For it happened that while the good ministerpored over h's books ana studied theology, his wife, going here and there, studied hu manity. And though" he cooked his own'sermons she often seasoned them. The baking was done at last, the cur rants picked and Mrs. Barney's dinner ready. "lor the bounty bestowed upon us may we be duly grateful," murmured Mr. Barney, with head bowed low over his plate. " Then he looked up and re marked that he was tired of a steady diet of ham and eggs and didn't see why they couldn't nave a little variety. "You would see if you had to cook in the hot kitchen as I do," responded Mrs. Barney, more shortly than her wont "I'm glad to have whatever I get most quickly and easily. When we have a summer-kitchen we can begin to live as other people do." "If "we ain't all as old as Methuse ler," complained Master Tommy in an undertone which was perfectly audi ble; "anyway, the chickens will be, if we can't have any cooked till that time." He had sniffed the odors of the baking on his homeward way from school, and, settling his juve nile mind upon chicken pie for din ner, had been grievously disappointed. Warm and weary with her morn ing's work the questions and sugges tions fretted Mrs. Barney. She felt wounded and aggrieved, too, as she moved about silently after dinner. No one seemed to see she cared as much for things nice and comfortable as did the others, she said to herself. She cared far more, indeed, since she was willing to do much now. and work and plan for the sake of having things all that could be desired by and by. How many present comforts and con veniences had she foregone for that! Those very cellar stairs toward whose dark and tortuou3 steps she was tending were an example; they could scarcely be more badly built, or in a more inconvenient place. Mr. Barney had wanted to remove them, but she would not allow him to incur the ex- Ksnse, because a second removal might 3 necessary when the house was thor oughly rearranged. No, she preferred to submit to the discomfort all this time. "Too long a time itproved, f or, while she meditated, an insecure board slip ped beneath her feet, plunging her down , the. dark, narrow stairway, against the rough stone wall, and then upon the hard floor of the cellar. 'One swift moment of terror, the crash of the dishes that fell frem her hands, a flash of excruciatingpain, and then she knew nothing ' more. She did not hear Nealies wild cry from the room above, nor see her husband's pale face as he l.fted her in his arms. When she' returned to consciousness a strange voice the physician's was saying; No bones broken, though it's a won der her neck wasn't, falling in the way she did."' Slowly she opened her eyes upon a confused mingling of anxious faces, wet cloths and bottles of arnica and camphor, and gradually comprehended what had happened and her own con dition .not dangerously injured, but bruised and lamed, and with a sprained ankle that would keep her a prisoner for some days at least. It was a sud den pause in her busy life an enforced rest. She scarcely knew, how to bear it, for a moment, as she remembered all sue nail planned to do, until a sec ond shuddering thought suggested that she might have left it all forever ; then she grew pat'ent and thoughtful. Yet it seemed strange to be lying quietly on the lounge in the best bed-room the room that had been kept so carefully closed to preserve its furniture until an addition to the house should transmute it into a back parlor ; to watch through the open door, only a spectator, while Nealie flitted to and fro in thekitchen bevond, spreaking the table for tea. How good the children were that evening, how tenderly thoughtful her husband was coming to her side again and again to talk or read to her! They had not found jrrueh time for,talkingor reading together thee .late years; she and David; she' had always been so bus- when he was in the house. She had dreamed of a' leisure time coming, though, when they should have many evenings like this, except the illness' She had not thought much of illness or accident coming to mar her plans, or of death .suddenly ending th'em. But it flashed upon 'her now how many little loving words and offices and daily en- i'oyments had been crowded out of their ittle home, and in that brief retrospec tive glance she understood the meaning and the earnestness of Sister Scariest entreatv. - "Why, it's all kind of real nice and jolly if you wasn't' hurt," 'declared Tommy, unable to express his enjoy ment of the pretty room and .the unusual family gathering any more clearly. Tears gathered ia the mother's eyes. out sne nad xoumd ner cine aad she meant to .follow it She bad ample time for thought in the days that fol lowed, whem she was oalyable to sew a little now and then wr 'garments for Tim, or 'look over seeds for Nealie's viaa-laatiag; aad slowly bat sorely she leaned her lesson, and brought it back to health with her togatherlife's pleasantness as God sends his sunshine day by day. Pacific Evangel. " "A MOUNTAIN PINK." A New Jersey Negree a Who Is Said to Bo llCYoara.Old. The oldest person perhaps now liv ing in the United States is Sylvia Du boice, a negress and a former slave, who in August last celebrated her 116th birthday, and who lives in destitution on the bleak sum mit of the Sourland Mountain, in Hun terdon County, New Jersey. In a lit tle frame cabin, with one room hardly large enough for 'the swinging of a oat, and which is hidden amid the stunted underbrush and huge bowlders that lend a rugged "and barren picturesque ness to the lone spot, this famous "mountain pink" drags out her bur densome life, attended by her "baby," as she calls her youngest daughter, Elizabeth Alexander, who is herself seventy"yearsvof age. When a Record reporter, after a wearisome climb of miles, reached the cabin the other day he found the ven erable human relic stirring up wash clothes that were in a boiler on the stove, while tne "baby," lusty and stout-limbed, was chopping wood, swinging her axe with the skill' and strength of an Amazon. For half a century old Sylvia has lived upon the identical spot upon which her cabin now stands. The structure in which all these years were passed had begun to tumble in sheer decay about her, for it was a bold target for the fierce winds that sweep with hurricane-like fury over the top of the old. gray mountain. It at last became not even lit shelter for a beast. Her con-! dition excited the commiseration of nev. Mr. terns, a mountain mission ary, who succeeded in interesting the ladies of the Presbyterian Church at Flemington, ten miles away, in her be half. They raised the money for the. building of a new cabin, and into this she nas just moved. A lie structure is not lathed or plastered, and there is no carpet on the floor. The old lady sleeps on a cot, while her daughter re- loses on an old straw mattress in the oft, which is without a window, and is reached by the aid of a primitive lad der. There is not a single article of comfort about the place, and hardly the necessaries of life. But the new house is a palace in comparison with the old one. The centenarian is remarkably pre served for so great an age. She says she can hear "purty good." Her eye sight is excellent, and she never wore "specs." She can boast of the posses sion of one sound tooth, and says -that since she was thirty years old she has drawn "crumbs of "comfort" from a clay tobacco pipe. "I think as much of dat old clay pipe as I do of my dar ter over yander," she remarked. The old lady is densely ignorant, never even having" been taught to read or write, and this, combined with her clouded memory, prevented her telling much about herself. But the daughter says that her age is fully attested by an en trv of her birth in the familv Bible of Major Baird, to whom her father, a slave, belonged, blie was born nearKock. Mills, at the edge of the Somerset Mountain, in Somerset County, N. J. When a girl she was sold or given to a man named Duboice, who lived at Great Bend, on the north branch of the Sus quehanna River, in Pennsylvania. She says she operated a ferry for her mas ter, and took his name. When she reached her eighteenth year and was her own master Duboice furnished her with a paper setting forth that she was a free woman. Armed with this she returned to Jersey, which was at that time a slave State. Her father served as a lifer in the Continental army, in the command of Major Baird. his master. He partici pated in a number of battles. She has no memory for events, and gets the Revolution sadly mixed with the War of 1812. She is the mother of three children, the eldest, Judith Roberts, whose age is eighty-thnw years, living at Princeton, N. J. She can not recall the ages of her father aud mother when they died, but says her son-in-law, Francis Crazer. died in PhiladelDhia during the Centennial at the age of one hundred and four years. OldSyJvia is as "pert as a cricket." can walk about unaided, and is but little stooped from age. Two years ago she made a jou;t ney to Larabertville, and later to New Egypt. Mrs. .Alexander told the re porter that she had to take as tender care ofher mother as though she were a baby. The doctor will not permit her to take medicine, .but pre -crapes nour ishing food. These old women subsist wholly upon charitj'. The daughter regretted that, owing to the care re quired by'the mother, she is unable to go out to work for their support, and the consequence is that they are in great destitution. Philadelphia Record. ' THE SWINE PLAGUE. Hog-Cholera Not Caused by Feeding In. Ulan Corn. Since hog-cholera has reappeared, to plague the farmer, the theory that tit; malady is cansed By feeding corn too exclusively, is again brought forward. It may be .quite possible that a diet composed very largely of corn wil "cause such derangement of the d ges tion, and consequent loss of vigor, a. to make' an animal more susceptible t disease than if'fed upon a mixed diet; but if sufficient proof has beeu-fouml to show that hog-cholera has been caused by a diet-of Corn,' the world .has not yet learned-of thefact In the recent out breaks the disorder named, there is that, ' in fact, seenvng to dis prove' 'the assertion. Several droves of ..swine - in Atlantic Sta e.s. where corn is not fed to. any great extent, and where swine are certainly hever-'kept upon -a diet of corn alone, have-suffered . severely "from sw;ne plague. -It can not even be sa d, in the case. of the "Eastern swine, that their digestive powers have been impaired :by a- -heavy 'died -of anysingle food, but it can, probably, be truly asserted that .the germs of the malrdy have been -gradually scattered through t!.j Eastern States, by the' traffic in hogs from the. West It , is known that in Ohio, the disorder mentioned appeared first "'beside the ra 1 ways"over which swine were taken from Western markets. . In several cases, if not in most, outbreaks of the plague could be traced clearly to infec tion from thee-spurees. Is jtnemore than likely that the faw outbreaks in the seaboard States resulted through similar infection? Pratrie Farmer. A 'family consisting of one man, his wife, nine children,,, one hound and two muskets camped on Howard street the other morning. Their baggage was hauled ia a tsweL Item (wa.) QwrUr. a- PXRST National Bank! COXaTJaKBlT. Aitkorized Capital, -Paid Ii Capital, SurplHs aid Prints, - $250,000 50,000 8,000 OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS. A. ANDERSON, Pres't. SAM'L C. SMITH, Vice Pres't. O. T. ROEN, Cashier. J. W. EARLY, HERMAN OEHLRICH, W. A. MCALLISTER, G. ANDERSON, P. ANDERSON. Foreign and Inland Exchange, Passage Tickets, and Real Estate Loans. 29-vol-13-ly BusnrEss cakds. D. T. Martyn, M. D. F. J. Schug, M. D. Dm. XABTYH & SCHUG, U. S. Examining Surgeons, Local Surgeons. Union Pacific, O., N. & B. H. and 11. & TH. R. R's. Consultations in German and English. Telephones at office and residences. BT-umce over rini .in.iuuit .-..-. COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA. 42-y r . evaks, n. D.. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. igroflice and rooms, Gluck building, 11th street. Telephone communication. 44-ly pi J GARLOW, Collection Att'y. SPECIALTY MADE OF BAD PAPER, office with J. G. Hisreins. 31-3ra TT J. HUDSON, NOTARY PUBLIC, 2tk Strett, 2 doors west or Humoad Hoas, Columbus, Neb. 91-y T G. IEGDER, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Office onsOlive St., Columbus, Nebraska 2-tf MONEY TO LOAM. Five years' time, on improved farms with at least one-fourth the acreage under ultivation, Jn sums representing one third the fair value of the homestead. Correspondence solicited. Address, M.K.TURNER, 50.y Columbus, Nebr. V. A. MACEEN, DKALER IK Foreign and Domestic Liquors and Cigars. ' llth street, Columbus, Neb. 50-y M cALMSTER BROS., A TTORNEYS AT LAW, Office un-stair8 in McAllister's build ing, llth St. W. A. McAllister, Notary ruuiic. JOHN TIMOTHY, NOTARY PUBLIC AND CONVEYANCER. Keeps a full line of stationery and school supplies, aud all kinds or legal forms. Iusures against fire, lightning, cyclone and tornadoes. Office in Powell's Block, Platte Centei. 10-x J. M. MACFARLAND, B. R. COWDERY, AttentraaiKottrrFrtre. Collster. LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE OF MACFARLAND & COWDERY", Columbus, ': : : Nebraska. F. F. RUNNER, 91. IK, (Successor to Dr. C.G. A.Hullh'orst) HOMEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Regular graduate of two medical col leges. Office up stairs in brick building north of State Bank. 2-ly JT. JT. M AUG HAN, Justice, County Surveyor, Notary, Land and Collection Agent. yarParties desiring surveying done can notify me by mall at Platte Centre, Neb. .. 51-6m C H.RUSCHE, "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 SAL.MON, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER. Plans and estimates supplied for either frame or brick buildings. Good work guaranteed. Shop on 13th Street, near St. Paul Lumber Yard, Columbus, Ne braska. 52 6mo. R. II. LAWRENCE, DEPUTY CO. SURVEYOR. Will do general surveying in Platte and adjoining counties. Office with S. C. Smith. COLUMBCS, NEBRASKA. 17-tf JS. MJJRDOCK & SON, Carpenters and Contractors. Have bad an extended experience, and will guarantee satisfaction in work. All kinds of repairing done on short notice. Our motto is, Good work and fair prices. Call and give us an oppor tunitytoestimataforyou. iSTSbop on 13th St one door west of Friedhof A Co's. Btore;tColumbus. Nebr. 483-y o. o. sit a isnsronsr, MANUFACTURER OF Tin and Sheet-Iron Ware ! Job-Work, Eoofinr aid Gutter ing a Specialty. 3a"Shop' on Olive Street, 2' doors north of Brodfeuhrer's Jewelry Store. 4G-y G W. CLARK, LAND AND INSURANCE AGENT, HUMPHREY, NEBR. His lands comprise some fine tracts in the Shell Creek Valley, and the north ern portion of Plrtte county. Taxes paid for non-residents. Satisfaction guaranteed.- 20 y LIFE !N ICELAND. OMtei of thm Feepls la the Laaul of Ktraal Saowa. Miss Olaf Krarer is an intelligent little Esquimau woman, twenty-seven years of age. Shu relates that she was born in the northern part of Greenland, and lived there until she was fifteen years of age, when reports having reached her father of the- warmer, better country of Iceland, the family emigrated there on a dog-sled. During her stay of five years in Iceland she was, to use her own word, "eddicated," and learned, among other th'ngs, of America and her people. Having a great desire to satisfy her curiosity concerning us, she came with a number of Icelanders to British Amer ica, and from' the Eastern coast finally came to Manitoba. To an En quirer reporter she said: "Mv country Livery different from this. 1 will ex plain now we build houses in my-country. We press the snow into hard bricks and build a tent-shaped house. Insido we line the walls and floor with fur. We aave an opening left for a door which is high enough for a child eight years old here to go in and out. We bang a fur curtain up at the open ing. We make our fire in the center of the snow-house. The fires are made of lean meat, oil and bone.', for we have no wood in my country not as much as one match. Fires arc started with a flint, but Hints are very scarce and the man who owns one is cons dered wel off. The smoke from the tire is kept in "ho house, and as we use oil on our faces, the smoke and oil make us of i dark color. We never wash, for there is no water and it would freeze on our face3- A lady in my country uses plenty of oil, just as ladies here think they look nice with powder and paint. The ladies of my country have an easy timo, no work but the making of the clothes and the eare of her children; only, if a baby cries she will not take care of it She throws it into the corner of the snow house, and when it is quiet she takes and pets it 1 will explain for you how we marry in my country. The man must steal his wife. If he is caught trying to get her he is killed, for if he is not sharp enough to steal her they think he is not sharp enough to take care of her. After he has married her he can never leave her. If he does, he is killed. We have no religion in mv country, but we think a good man win go to a goou piace, a uau man to r bad place. We are kind to each other, only we are not kind to the sick, for we think if they were any account they would not be sick. We have but one sickness. Sometimes it lasts for two years, sometimes six years. I thiak it is what you call consumption. When a man des we stick him away in the snow and his spear with him. "I will explain for you how we hun in my country. The men kill whales, walruses, bears and seals. The first man who sticks his spear into the ani mal gete the skin, aud the meat is divided with the others. The meat is eaten raw. The people like best the blood and fat. The skin are used for clothes, which are sewed up with a an.iuai s sinews. Our sleds are mad.. of-s!cins and bones, and are drawn by dogs. When the dogs are well trained they are driven without reins. "The beds of my country are made of the furs; a whole family sleep in one bed. If a man lives alone he makes the furs into a sack and crawls into it when he wants to sleep. We sleep when we are sleepy, aud eat when we are hungry. Our night-time lasts for six months, but we always have light enough from the snow and stars. Our daytime we do not like the sunlight and snow make our eyes burn like they would drop out of our heads. The two months, twilight is the most pleas ant time." "My people grow no taller than a child of eight iu this country, and they never live to be over sixty years of age. This climate,11 concluded Mi3s Krarer, "weakens me. It is very warm." And indeed the little lady wore her sleeves .short, exposing her arms. Short arm. they were, and pe culiarly shaped. The arms of the Es quimau men are straighter, from being used more. Miss Krarer's height is for ty inches, her weight one hundred and! twenty pounds. "What dul you think of the people of this country" when you first saw them?" was asked Miss Krarer. "Oh," she replied, they looked so big they almost seareil me to death; and I was much frightened when I first saw a black woman, she was very dirt y." I thought Miss Krarer has sent for her sisters who are in Iceland to join her. Cincin atti Enquirer. "GRANDFATHER'S CLOCK." Why It Is Superior as a Time-Keeper to Modern Tims Pieces. If it were not for what may be desig nated as meteorological changes, the problem of the accurate measurement of time would be solved if wc had a heavy pendulum driven uniformly over a small arc But here are two, "ifs." We will take the second of them first as it is more easily disposed of. Pos tulating at the outset machinery in the train very nicely executed, and with jeweled bearings so that it will act uni formly, or with the least possible vari ation, we have before us the question of .propelling it uniformly. That the best power for a clock is woight, is be yond dispute. The invention of the coil-spring came near annihilating the race of good common clocks. "Grand father's clock," with its wooden wheels and other crudities, is still the superior of the gmndson's clock as a time keeper, for "grandfather's clock" had the great advantage of a uniform power sufficient and just sufficient to propel the clock when it was properly cleaned and oiled! The grandson's clock has a coiled-spring as a motive-power, hav ing, when it is tightly wound, not less than three times the amount of power required to drive the clock, and dimin ishing in amount, thereby altering the rate of the clock with each successive hour. The grandson's clock will march on, oiled or unoiled (and therefore usu ally unoiled), until it comes to a prem ature end as complete as that of the "one-hoss shay." The "grandfather's clock," on the other hand, which de clined to go unless its rations of oil were doled out to it once in a year or less by the peripatetic tinker, is good for another eentury, since its bearings have been saved from cutting them selves away from lack of oil The kitchen-clock of to-day can only be made to keep respectable time by so regulating it that the gain it makes when tightly wound shall be offset by the loss as it runs dow Theodore M. WHson, m Hopulmr Science Montid MEDICAL HUMBUGS. ToWaat. la taa Oplalea of a Payslelaa. Their Saeeeee May B Ascribed. A few days ago a doctor was called upon by the reporter. The title used was honestly acquired as attested by the time-tinted sheep-skin and many a victory over the grim messenger through the healing art The doctor ceased his professional work years ago, but he still delights in living over the past by recalling its Incidents. He was in slippers and gown. His silvery grey hair was where his exploring fin gers had left it. his well-worn stock was awry, aud the tips of his old-fashioned standing collar were broken over by frequent turnings of his venerablo head. When he walked about the room it was with short steps and his slipper heels perversely declined to leave the floor. When he took tho old brass-knobbed poker and prodded the grate tiro, it was apparent 'from tho vigor with which he smashed tho lumps that he had some forcible ideas. Final-, ly they demanded expression. 'Did you see an account of the quar rel some of the physicians engaged in the other night?" "Yes. sir.ff "To me that is a sad commentary upon the profession. I grew tired of it principally because our ranks were so thickly crowded by charlatans and quacks who proclaim on walls, fences and curbstones their infallible antidotes for all the ills to which flesh is heir. Imagine how 1 felt when reading some self-styled professor's bombastic asser tion that he could restore old age to youth, feebleness to strength, impend ing death to exultant life. Diseases the most desperate and radical were sought for to exhibit the efficacy of some pill or compound of whisky and cherry bark that was vaunted as an un failing specific for an endless 1st of dis orders whioh had no more relation or similarity than the Queen of Sheba and the man in the moon. These humbugs never read medicine. They were in spired by a genius of evil aud had gen erally failed at honest employment Their chimerical schemes found favor with the people because they love to be humbugged. 1 had and still retaiu an exalted opinion of the medical profes sion. Popular ignorance was largely responsible for the success of the quacks, but the greatest protection against them lay with the legitimate practitioners. Their jealousies pre vented that harmony, that concert of action, that united front against the in roads, of these vultures that would have done so much to maintain the dignity and supremacy of those who are properly trained to a noble art Doctors may not be as bad as actors, but they are bad enough, and nothing but the gravest causes justify an exhi bition of internal differences. It low ers the dignity of the calling. This self-pride is a foible grafted upon our human nature, and it is the mark of true worth to overcome it Self-restraint charity and liberality of views are exalted virtues that doctors should cultivate.1' Detroit Post. A "COWBOY DETECTIVE.' AaKleven-Year-Old Dime-Novel Reader Rung Away From Home The Mesiiage He Left Behind HJm. Two detectives arrived from the East last evening in search of a boy named Shepard, who ran away from New York several weeks ago. Mr. Shepard is a New York banker and has offered a reward of $10,000 for the safe return of his son. The detectives will sepa rate here, one going to Texas amodg the cowboys, and the other, after traveling through Wyoming, will go to Arizona. The officers were inter viewed by a reporter of the Leader last night, and the following particu lars of the boy's escapade were learned: It is the old story of dime-novel reading. Fred, the missing boy, ac cumulated a choice library of all sen sational literature extant The last novel he read was found on his desk at school, open at the place where a young cowboy detective unmasks his father's murderer and carves him into mincemeat to quick music while hold ing the minor villains in subjection with two revolvers held in one hand. Scrawled at the bottom of the page was the line: "Ime goin West to be a cowboy detective." Fred's tin savings bank, which must have contained S2U in dimes and quar ters, was found broken open and en tirely despoiled of its contents. No body saw him make his departure, but it was made in the old romant c way of coins: to re&t early on the plea of a headache, and then climbing out of the window on an L, and then down the spout His mother is greatly distressed over Fred's rash act and she has baked cookies and made preserves enough to keep him at home a year after lie is brought back. She regrets deeply her refusal to give him a qu.nce tart only the day'before he ran away, and the remembers that he hai hinted that she wouldn't be troubled with him very long. Mr. Shepard takes the matter more coolly, and says it will be a good les son for the boy. Nobody would hurt the youngster, who is a pert youth of eleven birthday anniversaries. The detect.ves are urged to activity bv the large reward, and will make a thorough search of the West for the child who wanted to be a "cowboy de tective." Cheyenne Leader. Progress in Servia, Servia has made great progress in the last half century. Fifty years ago a Serv would as soon have expected his pigs to read as his daughter. Nor was this wonderful, if we remember that Prince Milosch, the swineherd whom God inspired to del'ver Servia, could neither read nor write, and that this ruier was.not more ignorant than his subjects. In 1834 there was not a pri mary school in the country except in the ohief towns of the district in all. perhaps, twenty-five. In 1884 scarcely a village is without a primarv school. Troy (N. Y.) Times 1 wonder why when I get a picture of myself it should have a scrub nose and eyes turned in, with an expression that would alarm a stone dog. A sweet cfeld I adored came to me onco and s?id: "Ma wants to know where you had your pqtygruft tooken." "At & Co.'s," I responded cheerfully; it was a pleasure to know that one person who had seen my picture appreciated it Co v' pursued the sweet child as he 3tepp -d on the cat; "she's goin' some where else, so it won't look like yournl Detroit Free PrM. PITH AND POINT. Never judge a man by his salary. And never judge his salary by his airs. Louisville Courier-Journal. -Thr is it that the asaa who whangs a old copper cent iatu the contribution-box generally learns back with a twenty-dollar look of bsasv lenee. Chicago Tribune. A Rutland man is credited with sleeping four hours With his feet ia th water. But then, some folks are ia hot water all over all the time they are awake. Rutland (VL) Herald. Nothing exasperates a womaa who has been shading her eyes from the.; gaslight with her hand all the evening so much as to find that after all she had left her best diamond ring on the washstand. The "All Sorts" man of the Boston Post asks us how we make "greens" and "smithereens" rhyme. The gen tleman is out of order. If such ques tions were allowed they would kill all newspaper poetry ia a week. Lynn Bee. Kate Field tells how the Mormoaj iniquity can be got rid of. "Giv. them," she says, "whatever they are! most opposed to; whatever they don't want make them have.' Just what we have always sa'd. Give them mil linery stores. Philadelphia Call. The Journal of Pekin,- China, was, established in 911, and the present pub-! lisher opens his eyes with surprise whea an old gentleman from the rural dis tricts enters the ollice and says he has. been a subscriber since the first number appeared and shows a receipt to prove it Norristovm Herald. "What did vou have to give for, that bonnet Mrs. Crimsonbeak?" asked Mrs. Yeast while jn their way to the matinee. "Twentytwo dollars!" replied the fashionable lady, proudly.. "I don't mean the trimmings, dear. I mean the bonnet alone." "Oh; six teen cents!" Yonkcrs Statesman. Smith and Jones were strolling up Fifth avenue. Said Jones: "How much does it cost you a year for cigars. Smith?" "Oh, about four hundred dollars, at a rough estimate." "Well, that's a wicked waste of monev. I never smoked a cigar in my life. Why, the money you have fooled away on to bacco in the past thirty years would al most buy one of these fine mansions." "Yes." replied Smith, "I suppose it would. By the way, Jones," he added, which one of these mansions do you own?" A". Y. Times. "Horatius," said the school mis tress to a nine-year-old boy with two imposing freckles on the knees of his pants, "Horatius. please form a sen tence with the word 'toward' in it and write the sentence on the board." Horatius went to the board, and, after much scratching of head and friction of brain, printed with the crayon, in letters that looked like a lot of half feathered Shanghai chickens running after a piece of dough, the following sentence: "I toward my trousers." Lewiston (Me.) Journal. SKATING. The Distinction Between Skating- On taa Ice aad Ia the Rink. Skating on rollers round and round a rink is ono thing; skating on the ice, over a long, straight-away course, un der cliffs, past meadows, among hills, is quite another. The relation of the former to the latter Is the same that shooting at clay-pigeons bears to quail hunting in the stubble. In the one case we find pleasure in dexterity; in the other we get near to nature and catch the spirit of adventure. The writer never had but one thor oughly satisfactory skating experienco in his life. It occurred on the Kentucky River. He was one of a party of ten, all young enough to be l.vely, all old enough to appreciate the rare condi tions. The river wa struck where a break in the bluffs gave an easy descent to the ice the objective point (ad it is always well to have an objective point in life, whether one is skating,' soldiering or sermonizing), seven miles away. The sky was gray; just a thought of snow in the" air; the 'wind with us; the scenery rugrered and picturesque. Here was felic.ty unmixed! We seemed to sink into the embrace of nature. The region was as wild to the view as when Daniel Boone first looked upon it We gazed down the perspective of the vailevs, that oc casionally opened as wc swept out of one defile into another, half-expooting to sec a village of wigwams in the dis tance. There was a charm in every foot of the landscape which, liko a vast Eanorama, swept behind u- a we flew, ut the charms were those that hold us irresistibly when we contemplate the "deep sol.tude-." of nature, profoundly sensitive of the august majesty of the Creator's own handiwork. We began with a whoop; but, as the true senti ment of the seene touched our souls, we jrew subdued by the environing grandeur, the pace conform ng to the general mood, and it was not until there was a sudJen realization that the goal was near that the wild halloo of the foremost, himself abruptly aroused, awoke the spirit of frolic. If skating were only attractive under these circumstar.c -s there would b few skaters in the world; but the same up lifting cxper enee mav be attaiuudin other ways and a all seasons. Tho busy Amercan needs the suggestive diversion that sport iu the open air gives whether it be skating, bicycling, hunting, fishing or tours afoot " And he need-: to open his soul to the senti ment of the past-me. To play merely to perfunctor ly acquiesce in a physi cian's prescription is not the doctor's intention. Wc should learn to enjoy hunting uu te as much because wc go to the hill and fields as for the oppor tunity to fill a game-bag. Skating in a rink, shooting at a target under cover, or racing aga.n-t t mearound tho tan-bark circle, are we)l enough in their way. but the better thing is to go a-sporting where the eye can discover a distant horion. The anise-bag has its proper use in default of the fox. That there is, at the -present time, a popular tendency- to play out-of-doors is very evident, notwithstanding the fervor with which some in-door pas times are held. It is giving, as has been noted by intelligent observers a grateful element to American litera ture, and is awakening in the Ameri can youth an ardor in the pursuit of these healthful pleasure; which are only to be found where Nature main tains something of her original condi tions. It was not many years ago when there were but comparatively few resorts for the summer-tourist in quest of an idling-place. Now they abound everywhere. The reason lies in the fact that people no longer, as a rule, desire to go with the crowd, but prefer the small groups in the. places to which the noise of commerce does not reach, and where the beat of Nature's heart ean he heard. G. C. Matthews, in Chicago Current. ) ts II.-