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f illumine 0tttpL Ti, ISSUKD EVERT WEDNESDAY, M. K- TURNER & CO. Proprietors and Publishers. W &: n ST OFFICE-Eleventh St., vp stairs in Journal Building. TERMS: Peryear J 5 Sixmonths "J! Three months rS Single copies " VOL. XVI.--N0. 1. COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY. APEIL 29, 1885. WHOLE NO. 781. lit -V i s rL .r ' COLUMBUS STATE BANK! COLTHOUS, NEB. CASH CAPITAL, - $75,000 DIRECTORS: Leandeu Gekuakd, Prcs'l. Geo. W. Hulst, Vice PresH. Julius A. Reed. R. II. llEKRY. J. E. Taskeh, Cashier. Bank ol" Deposit, IHscobwi and Exchange. Collection Promptly IWade all Points. Pay IntereHt on Time Depos it. 274 HENRY G-ASS, tjt2St.dh:tit-AJ?:eii i COFFINS AND METALLIC CASES AND DEALER IN Purnituro, Chairs, Bedsteads, Bu reaus, Tables, Safes. Lounges. &c, Picture Frames and Mouldings. STBepairing of all kinds of Upholstery Goods. 6-tf COLUMBUS. NEB. HENRY LUERS, DEALER IN WIND MILLS, AND PUMPS, Buckeye Mower, combined, Self Binder, wire or twine. Pinups Repaired ou short notice JSTOnc door west of Heintz's Drug Store, llth Street, Columbus, Neb. 8 TTTfiT T) for working people. Send 10 H Hi I i I cents postage, and we will J.X.I I IJX ,naji you free, a ioyal, val uable ain;ilelox bf 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 of both sexes, of all ape., grandly suc cessful. TiO cents to $3 easily earned everv evening. That all who want work may 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., ent free. Immense pay absolutely sure for all who start at once. Don't delay. Address Stinson &, Co., Portland, 31aine. B. JL. FOWLEB, ARCHITECT, 15C5 Fi: St., - 0JiHA,lTE3. PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS FURNISHED for all kinds or Public Buildings and Private Dwellings. Architect of "Willard Mock, Child's Hospital, Resilience of Hon. J. M.Trurston, Residence of Hon. John 1. Kedick, Omaha; Residence of flon. G. W. E. Dorey, Masonic Hall, Fremont, Neb; Residence of C. C. Crow ell, Esq., First National Bank, Blair, Neb; Residence of Thos. Bryant, First National Bark, Schuyler, Neb., and ma ny others. 43-mC A WORD OF WARXWG. 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 onlv companv doing business in this state that insures" Horses, Mules and Cattle against loss by theft, accidents, diseases, or injury, (as also against Iobs by lire and lightning). Allrepresentations by agents of other Companies to the contrary not withstanding. P. W. II ENRICH, Special Ag't, 15-y Columbus, Neb. NO HUMBUG! But a Grand Success. RP.TJRIGHAM'S AUTOMATIC YTA- 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. 9-6ui TORAXSIT HOUSE, PLATTE CENTER NEB., JOHX BrCGAS, Proprietor. 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 ATVn TTTH Send six ce XlljIjIiJ Postagcand: -- J-VJ.JJ-1. fre a costly Send six cents for 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 from first hour. The broad road to fortune opens before the workers, absolutely sure. At once address, True & Co., Augusta, Maine". LYON&.HEALY I State Monroe Sis., Chicago., will send prepaid to aaysWdms itar i lANDGAlAbVUUfc, V i for 13, TOO faces, 210 EnfrtTiftCil lof iBstrcxafmU, Soils, Car. Bells, Ip-.mm rmnUU. PiixTABii. sar-i nirp r "i - - r ClUmi i j m jh . UMaterUis, U &A lftttrectioB ud Ex f Ctato Esd Mstfft w m mcunr """ um n JtzTZ iziLmi&M&wu UNREST. Here In the years wherein I stand I goto across the fallow land ; Across the conquest and Its cost; Bevond the sougbt-ic-r and the lost; And look into thine eyes of oy Thou brown-faced, tunicked country boy! Just thou and thine, with naught between. Make up that sweetest olaen scene. 0 tender scene and sight and sound! The farm-house with its lilacs 'round: Tne poppy-bed: the locust trees; The stllhcidic bum of bees; The well, with sturdy oaken sweep: The morning-glories half asleep; The swallows, gossiping; the croon Of doves about the barn; the noon When kiue, breast-deep, stand in the stream; And thy world pauses in a dream! Beyond, the uplands; then, the hills. Where, interlacing; creep the nils; Here, forest, sentinels of peaeo; There, fields with opulent increase; Below, the valley, stretching lar And dim to the horizon's br. My brown-faced lad, I look again From out the lairs and lives of men. 1 see the longing in thy face To grow beyond the commonplace; I knowtbo hurts that 'tween us he, And pity thee ! For thou wert I. Edward L. Waktman, in Current THE TIN MEET A LittloXeason In Domestics Econ omy. Charles Lynford was a young me chanic, in good business. At the age f twenty-six he had taken to himself a wife, Caroline Eustis, the daughter of a neighbor, who had nothing to bring him except her own personal merits, which were many, and habits of thrift learned in an economical household, under the stern teaching of necessity. It was well, perhaps, that Charles Lyn ford should obtain a wife of this char acter, since he hiinselfound it difficult to save anything from his income. It was not long before Caroline be came acquainted with her husband's failing. She could not feel quite easy in the knowledge that they were living fully up to their income, foreseeing that a time would come when their family would grow more expensive, and that perhaps her husband's business, now nourishing, might become less so. Accordingly, one day, she purchased of a tin pedler, who came to the door, a little tin safe, such as children fre quently use as a savings bank. This she placed conspicuously on the mantel piece, so that her husband might be sure to see it on entering the room. "Hallo. Carrie! what's that article?" he asked, curiously. "Only a little purchase I made to day," said the wife. "But what is it meant for?" "Let me illustrate," said the wife, in a playful tone. "Have you a ten-cent piece about you?" Charles drew a dime from his pocket His wife, taking it from his hand, dropped it through a little slit at the top. "So you have taken to hoarding, Carrie? My little wife Income a miser?" "No, only a little prudent. But, se riously, dear, that is what I want j'ou to do "every night" "What! drop a dime iuto that new fangled arrangement of yours?" "Exactly."" "Very well: that will be easy enough. A dime is no great sum. But may I know what vou are going to do with this hoard?" "La it by for a rain' da'," laugh ingly answered Caroline. Charles laughed merrily. "And what will a dime" a day amount to?" he inquired. "In a year it will amount " "Oh, never mind spare me the cal culation! It sounds too much like busi ness, and I have enough of that during the day." "But you don't object to my plan?" 'Not in the least I have no doubt it is very prudent and commendable; but you know, Carrie, I never w:is gifted with much prudence." "I am quite aware of that, Charles,'" said his wife, smiling. This ended the conversation for the time. The plan inaugurated by the young wife was steadily carried out. She was not one of those, of whom there are.so many, who enter upon a new plan zeal ously but soon tire of it In the pres ent ease she was thoroughly satisfied of the wisdom of her purpose and resolved to carry it through. Every night she called on her husband for a dime, which was quietly added to the accumulation. Frequently he had not the exact change, but would toss her a quarter instead. She would assure him, laughingly, that this would auswer her purpose equally as well. More than once Charles bantered her on the subject of the little savings bank; but these were not the only accessions the funds received. Her husband early arranged to make her an ample allow ance for dress. 1 say ample, though I dare say .onie of my city readers might not consider it so. But Carrie, who was in thchabit of making her own dresses, provided herself with a good wardrobe at a much less expense than some not so versed in the science of mauaging could have done After considerable calculation, she came to the conclusion that out of her allowance she would be able to make a daily deposit equal to that she exacted from her husband. Of this, however, she thought best on the whole not to inform Charles, enjoying in anticipa tion the prospect of being able at some time to surprise him with the unexpected amount of her savings. At the close of every month the tin box was emptied, and the entire con tents transferred to a more pretentious Eavings bank, where interest would be allowed. "When the items deposited there became large enough, Mrs. Lyn ford, who had considerable business ca pacity, withdrew the money and in vested it in bank and other stocks, which would yield a large per cent Of herfmode of investment her husband remained in cojnplete ignorance. Nor did he ever express any desire to be made acquainted with his wife's man agement He was an easy, careless fel low, spending as he went, enjoying the present, and not feeling any particular concern about the future. At the end of eight years, during which time he had been unusually fav ored by prosperity in business and un interrupted health?" his books showed that he had not exceeded his income, but, on the other hand, had saved ab solutely nothing. (25enty-five cents alone stood to his credit " Running: pretty close, isn't it, Carrie?" he said, laughingly. " I take credit to myself for keeping on the. right side of the line. But then I snp pose you've saved an immense sum?" " How much do you thirikv Charles?" asked bis wife. " Oh, perhaps $100," said he, care lessly; " though Jt would take & great lany dimea to do taat." His wife smiled, but did not volunteer to enlighten him as to the correctness of his conjecture. So things went on, till at length came the panic of 1875 a panic so recent that it will be remembered bv many readers of this sketch. It will be re membered how universally trade and business of every kind were depressed at that period." Among others, the trade which occupied Charles Lynford suffered greatly. One cveniug he came homj looking quite serious an expression which seldom came over his cheerful face. Carrie, who had watched the signs of the times, was not unprepared "to see this. She hail expected that her hus band's business would be affected, "What is the matter, Charles?" she asked, cheerfully. "The matter "is that we shall hare to economize greatly." " Anything unfavorable turned up in business matters?" "I should think there had. I shall have but half a day's wo. k for some time to come, and I fear that even this Will fail. You haven't an idea how dull business of every kind has be come." "I think I have," said his wife, quietly. " I have read the papers care fully, and have bseu looking out for something of this kind." " Do you think we can reduce our expenses one-lialf?" asked her hus band, doubtfully. " 1 think we shall be able to do so. Both of us are well supplied with clothing, and shall not need any more for a year at least That will cut off considerable expense. Then tliere are a great iuauy superlluities you are ac customed to buy little things you are kind enougii to bring home to me fre quently which I can very well do without. Then we can sur.dy have less pies and cake, anil I have no doubt it will be an improvement so far as health is concerned." "What a calculator vou are, Carrie!"' said her husband, feeling considerably easy in mind. " I really think, after all you have said, that it won't be so hard to live on half our usual income for the present at least But" and his countenance again changed "sup pose my work should entirely fail? I suppose you couldn't reduce our ex penses to'nothing at all, could you?" "That certainly surpasses my power," said the wife, smiling; "bu: even in that case, there is no ground tor discouragement You have not for gotten our savings bank, have vou?" " "Well, I didn't think of tha't," said her husband. "I suppose that would keep off starvation for a few weeks." His wife smiled. "And in those few weeks," she added, "business might revive." "To be sure," said her husband. "Well, I guess that'll be all right; I'll not trouble my-elt about it any more." The apprehuusion to which Mr. Lyn ford had given expression proved to be only too well founded. Iu less than a month from the date of the conversation just recorded the limited supply of work which lie hail been able to secure en tirely failed ami he found himself with out work of any kind thrown back on his own resources. Although lie" had expected' thi if seemed hard to bear when it came upon him, and again he gave way to a fit of discouragement He brielly explained to his wife the new calamity which had come upon them. "And the worst of it is," he added, "there is no hope of better times till spring." "Do you think business will revive then?" asked his wife. "It must by that time; there are rive or six months between. But I don't know how we are goiug to live during that time." "I do," said the wife, quietly. "You!" exclaimed her husbaud, in surprise. "Ves; your income has never been more than SG00 or 8700 a year, and I have no doubt we can live six months on 250." "Yes, certainly; but where is that money to come from? I don't want to get into debt, and if I did I should not know where to borrow." "Foriuuately there is no need of it," said Mrs. Lynford. "You seem to forget our.little savings bank." "And is it possib'e it can amount to $250?" exclaimed Charles. "Yes, and $G00 more." replied his wife. "Impossible!" "Wait a moment, dear, and I will prove the truth -of my words." Caroline withdrew a moment -and then reappeared with several certificates of bank aud railroad shares, amount ing to $800, and a bank book in which a balance was deposited to her credit "Are j'ou quite sure you haven't re ceived a legacy?" demanded Charles, in amazement." "Surely a dime a day has not produced this.? "No, but two dimes a day have, with a little extra deposit now and then. I think, Charles, we shall be able to ward off starvation for a time." "All this I owe to your prudence," said Charles, gratefully. "How can I ever repay you, my darling wife?" Charles Lynford remained out of em ployment for some months, but in the spring, as he anticipated, buiness re vived, and he was in receipt of his old income. More than two-thirds of the funds were still left, and henceforth Charles was no less assiduous than his wife in trying to increase it The little tin savings bank still stands on the mantelpiece, and never fails to receive a deposit daily. Boston Budget. A Business Woman. I have twice written something about the women who have" held, or are hold ing, positions in the employ of the Manitoba Railroad Company; but I find I had not known it all. The first women mentioned was Miss Carey, who, some years ago was left with three sisters and a brother to support, She learned to be a telegraph operator, and wherever she went, took her f amUywith her and supported them. She taftght two sisters and a brother the business, and was appointed agent at Wayzata, where sha had charge of all the business, which in the summer, with short-line trains and steamers on" Lake Minnetonka, is very heavy. After a time she; was allowed to have .her brother to help, and one sister was appointed train-dispatcher on the same road. Think of it! a woman, who used to be so helpless and impractical, and eenerallv useless and incompetent. given the control of all the life and property involved in the management of the numerous trains, on that busy road. And what do they think of her? "I tried again and again," said the superintendest, " to catch that woman off duty, before I gave her the place, on Sundays and all sorts of odsl hours, aud I never" once succeeded. ' '- IFoww's JeurnaL THE LATE COLONIL BURNASY. 8am Interesting- IncideaU ia Hii Re markable Career. In the li3t of the dead at Aboo-Klea there is no lino that will strike a wider chord of pained sympathy than that which records his name. His renown was world-wide, and he was in many ways a remarkable man. His personal appearance, as he sauntered down the street or as he sat on horseback on parade, never failed to attract atten tion. The hardships undergone by him in his ride to Khiva and in his latter expedition to Asia Minor had begun to tell upon him. He suffered grievously from heart disease, and with his accus tomed gay courage every hour faced the consciousness of the probability of sud den death. In his youth he was passionately fond of gymnastics, in which he excelled above all bis fellows. There used to be in one of his clubs a colossal dumb-bell in a glass case with the oiler of a heavy wager that no man would "hold it out at arm's length for the space of sixty seconds. The wager was never won, though Burnaby made nothing of ac complishing the feat Among the many stories of his physical prowess one-relates to a period shortly after he joined the Blues. The regiment was down at Windsor, and a horse-dealer who had come into possession of Ja couple of very small ponies, had taken them thither by command to exhibit them to the Queen. Before.going to the castle he showed them to the officers of the Blues, to whom a happy thought occurred. Burnaby, who was captain then, was in his own room on the first flight With some trouble the ponies were got up-stairs, and, the door quietly opening, they trotted in unannounced. This was a capital joke, and had a great success. But, as presently appeared, it had a gloomy side. The ponies had gone up stairs quietly enough, but neither force nor entreaty could induce them to go down. The hour approached at which they were to be presented to the Queen, and the owner was in despair. Burna by settled the matter offhand. Taking a pony up in either arm, he walked down stairs and set them in the court yard. Probably no man in the army or out of it took" such infinite pains to get killed as Burnaby did. In times of peace he was always going up in a bal loon, as affording the maximum of dan er with the minimum of preparation. e had been up altogether thirteen times. His last adventure in this direc tion was a little less than three years ago, when, there having been some ac cidents to people trying to cross the channel in a balloon, the enterprise at tracted Burnaby, who safely accom plished the journey. In times of war he was always eager to be at the front. His first experience of real fighting was in the Carlist war, where he made the personal friendship of Don Carlos, which he always retained. When a British expedition was sent to the Sou dan he went out as a volunteer, and was soverely wounded at El Teb. Previous to this he had seen some, hard fighting by the side of Valentine Baker in the Russo-Turkish war. When Lord Wolseley set out on the last expedition Burnaby volunteered his services, which Lord Wolseley was much inclined to accept But Bur naby was not in high favor at the Horse Guards, and the nomination was rejected. He, however, was not a man to be easily repulsed. He had made up his mind to go out and see the tight, and be went. He knew that if his movements were known a telegram from the Horse Guards would precede him to Korti. He accordingly kept his own secret, withholding it even from his most intimate friends. He "gave out in a mvsterious way that he was bound for tlie Transvaal, and the first that was known of his where abouts by his friends in London was learned from a telegram announcing his arrival at Korti. Burnalay was a man of wide reading and much culture. His knowledge of languages Avas extraordinary. Ih; could speak and write nine, including Russian and Arabic. The time was near at hand when, iu accordance with army regulations, he would be obliged to retire from the command of his regi ment and he had intended thencefor ward to devote himself to politic-, one of the few things of which he really knew nothing. It was characteristic of him that ueating about for a con stituency he should set himself down before the impregnable stronghold of radicalism in the midlands. One other ambition he had beyond that of win ning a seat at Birmingham was to visit Timbuctoo and make the personal acquaintance of the King. This was tho "next trip" he had in his mind, and had he lived he would probably have accomplished it for under hi? winning manner there was a resolute will that would have stopped at noth ing. But it has been finally stopped at Aboo-Klea, and Fred Burnaby sleeps in a soldier's grave in the continent whoso innermost recesses he had quietly ar ranged with himself he would some day explore. London Xctcs. BILL ARP. Ola Experience With a Raging- Toothache. I- When the teeth come, they come with pain and peril, and keep the poor child miserable, and when they go they go with a torture that no philosophy can endure. Oh, my poor jaw just look how it is swollen. I am a sight. A pitiful prospect I look like a bloated bondholder on one side of my face and no bonds to comfort me. I wonder what would comfort a man iu my fix. I have suffered more mortal agony from my teeth than from everything else put together. Samson couldn't pull them hardly, for they are all riveted to the jawbone. I have been living in dread for over a month, for 1 know that eyetooth was fixing up trou ble; and so yesterday morning it sprung a leak at the breakfast table, and 1 jumped out of my chair. The shell caved in, the nerve was touched, and in my agony I gave one groan and re tired like I was a funeral. Five miles from town and no doctor. Don't put down what I suffered all that day, and the night following, for you can't. Mush poultices and camphor and pare goric and bromide and chloroform, and still the procession moved on, and the jumping, throbbiug agony sent no flag of truce no cessation of hostilifes. What do I care for anythingP Please five me some more of that camphor, 've burned all the skin off my mouth now, but it is a counter-irritant and sorter scatters the pain ar Jf HI had some morphine I would take it for I want rest. I am tired. Oh! for one short hour of rest Atlanta Constitution. FIRST National Bank! COLUMBUS, NEB. Authorized Capital, Paid In Capital, Surplus and Profits, - 8250,000 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 OEQLRICH, W. A. MCALLISTER, c Q.ANDERSON, V. ANDERSON. Foreign and Inland Exchange, Passage Tickets, ana Real Estate Loans. 29-vol-13.lv BUSINESS CASUS. D.T. MaRTYN, M. D. F. J. Schdg, M. D. Drs. KAETYN & SCHUG, U. S. Examining Surgeons, Local Surgeons. Union Pacific, O., N. & B. H. and U. & M. R. R's. Consultations in German and English. Telephones at office and residences. jgBTOfflce over First National .Bank. COLUMBUS, - NEBRASKA. 42-y p O. EVANS, W. 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Shop on 13th Street, near St. Paul Lumber Yard, Columbus, Ne braska. 52Cmo. R, II. LAWRENCE, DEPUTY CO. SUBVEYOB. Will do general surveying in Platte and adjoining counties. Office with S. C. Smith. COLUMBUS, ... NF.BRASKA. 17-tf JS. MURDOCK & SON, Carpenters and Contractors. Havehad 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 tunitytoestlmateforyou. B2TShop on 13th St., one door west of Friedhof & Co's. store, Columbus. Nebr. 483-v o. c. sprAisrisrojsr, MANUFACTURER OF Tin and Sheet-Iron Ware ! Job-Work, Roofing and Gutter ing a Specialty. jSTSbop on Olive Street, 2 doors north oriirodfeuhrcr's Jewelry Store. 46-y G W. CLARK LAND AND INSUBANCE A GENT, HUMPHBEY, NEBB. His lands comprise some fine tracts in the Shell Creek Valley, and the north ern portion oi Plutte county. Taxes paid for non-residents. Satisfaction guaranteed. 20 y STRAW BAIL. How the Kuslness Is Conducted In T.ars Cities to the Mutual Satisfaction or Bailer andJIniler. "I read the other niorning an inter view with Prosecuting Attorney Robi son, in which he said he proposes to collect the forfeiture bonds that have accumulated during the past four years. Does he intend to collect all of them?" inquired a gentleman who was formerly a criminal lawyer in another city, but engaged in other business upon coming to Detroit a few months ago. "Yes, I believe so, though he will Erobably lind some straw bonds beforo e gets through the list " 'Yes, I guess so. Of course I don't know anything about it, but from a conversation I bad with a party about the time I cams here I should think it likely that he will lind considerable straw. This individual told mo that they had a straw bail scheme that worked beautifully.1' What is it?" 'It was announced in the paperj that I was coming to Detroit, and of course everybody supposed that I would prac tice criminal law here. One day a very clever safe-blower, whom I had de fended and acquitted out there, came to me and said: 4You'd better stand in with the straw-bailing when you get to Detroit." "I aikcd him what he meant, and he replied: 'There don't no slick ones go over the road from Detroit; nothing but the slouches. Them we don't care for. 4What is the irame?' inquired I. 'When one of us gets pinched the rest of us. and some lawyer who is fly and stands in with us. go to work to get him off, and we don t get left. We looks the case up to s-ce if they've got any evidence worth .hucks. If they haven't we stand tr ai to get acquit ted. If they have, we go to work to see how good an ahb we can get. An alibi ain't safe to go to trial with nowadays unless you've got two or three respectable witnesses, and they cost big money, for thoy know they can get it An alibi is nearly always dangerous, but sometimes a fellow has got to take chances. I seen as pretty an alibi as ever was all knocked out of shape over in Chicago awhile ago. Big Mike was before the beak for turning a bloke's pockets wrong side out, and we got him three a good witnesses as ever you see. They was a saloon-keeper and a couple of iree-lunch grabbers that he sa"d was all right. They was to swear that at the time Mike stood the fellow up they and Mike was in the back room of the'saloon playing seven up, and the saloon-keeper was to say that Miie got stuck for eight games and gave him a stand-oil. That would make it all sound right, you know, and make the jurymen laugh. 'D d youever see a nicer alibi than that? Hanged if one of them lunch fiends didn't spoil it. It was all ar ranged that the saloon-keeper was to testify iirst, and tho otiier two chaps were to swear just as lie did. One of them chumps came in late and didn't hear when tvaa.Mike did the job, only, he knew 'twas a Wednesday.' " When was it you played them games of seven-up?' inquired the Prose cuting Attorney. " 'Wednesday u;ght,' said the chump. "'What day of the month was it?' said the Prosecuting Attorney. " 'Wednesday,' said the chump. " 'Are you positive that 3'ou and these other men were playing seven-up with Mike from nine until twelve o'clock last Wednesday night?'said the Prosecuting Attorney. Yes, s r,' said the ehump. " 'Well, perhaps you was,' said thq Pro-ceiitiug Attorne but Mike was in jail at that time, and it was three weeks ago last Wednesday night that the robbery was committed.' " -Mike "got ten years all on account of that chump. " 'No, sir-ee, the bail racket is tho safest, and it don't generally cost moro than an alibi. You see our lawyer gets some friend of his who has got plenty of stuff to deed three or four houses and lots to some fellow we know, and he goes into court and swears he owns them and don't owe a cent on 'em. That gets us out on bail, we jump, the deed is torn up, the la'.v er and his friend whack up S'400 or" o00, cvery bo Iy's safe, and no harm done. Bads is better than alibis. You can work them when you can't nothing else.' " Detroit News. Spring Woolens. The leading colors for light cloths shown for spring suits are brown, chiefly in tan and beige tints, grays, with no glint of .steel, and the never failing navy blue. Much braid is used for trimming these, not only self-colored, but in gold and silver, put on in many straight rows around the skirt at the foot, across the vast and up and down the collar in a fla'tened spiral. There are mam novelt es, and the ef fort to reintroduce alpaca and poplin shows some s'gns of success, inasmuch as among the new fabrics there are some which, though not still, are at least not limp and clinging. Among thee is prunella, with a soft gloss on its surface. The new armnres are very small; a few feet off no armure effect is perceptible, and in the very newest the armure has tho ellect of a tiny check. Another novelty is thenassowa cloth, a sort of woolen gros grain, or otto man with very small cords. Silk warp veilings and woolen batistes bid fair to divide favor for evening dress at watering places. They come in any number of evening tints, in blue, " rose, gray, absinthe a pale, yellowish green lilac, beige, ecru, cream, ivory and milk white. There is a new brown, the American brown, the French call it. because it is so often seen iu the hair of American women, a warm chestnut with a touch of red when the hght strikes it. Philudelpfua Press. According to Dr. Dolan's work on aydrophobia, physicians may convey to their patients a reasonable hope of al most perfect immunity from the dis ease after three months have elapsed from the time the bite was inflicted. The danger is thought to be lessened with everv month that passes, "so that after a year the physician may aflbrd a scientific certainty of the patient's re covery." Absolute quietude, or "se dation.'' and the use of the Turkish bath, are the measures chiefly recom mended as preventive treatment. N. Y. Post. There has arrived at San Francisco by mail a hat that has made the tourot the world. It was started from an Oregon town as a joke. and. as it is still well supplied w.th uncanceled 'stamps, it is probable it will keep trav eling until it is'worn out. San Fran cisco Call. GENERAL GORDON. The Unique Characteristics or the Hero of Khartoum. The life of General Gordon is without a parallel in history. He had aiyill as imperious as Napoleon's; he had a nature as inflexible as Cromwell's; ho had Give's genius for war ami fertility of resource; ho had Jan Lawrence's capacity for governing semi-civilized races; he had Francis Xavier's over mastering love of humanity. But with these traits were combined a chivalrous devotion to the races for whom he labored, with a contempt for the states manship oi Europe, en unquestioning reliance upon the law of his own con science, and an intense religious nature that reflected at once the mysticism of the middle ages, the austorc" virtues of Puritanism and the fatalism of the East A man of commanding genius in achiev ing -great results bv means of insig nificant instrumentalities, and in con ciliating the prejudices and overcoming the resistance of barbaric hordes, he was at once a hero among men, and a solitary figure removed from them by unique characteristics. There is, perhaps, no other country in the world where such a character as General Gordon's would bo so easily misunderstood as England. His som bre genius, hi3 medieval piety and his devotion to the interest of semi-civilized races, had little in commou with the in tensely practical instincts of the Nation. His contempt for the tedious processes of diplomacy, and his indifference to the fate of ministries aud the policy of governments, marked him out as a mys terious idealist, whoso judgment was not to bo accepted without hesitation and reserve. lie returned from China to face a storm of obloquy aud reproach from the humanitarians who mistook him for a cold-blooded butcher of the Chinese population. His work iu the e matorial provinces and his battles with the slave-hunters were neither un derstood nor appreciated by English m in. while he incurred the hostility of the ring of pachas at Cairo through his administrative reforrrs. At Mauritius, in Basuto-Land and in India he found it impossible to endure official restraint His mission to South Africa was a com plete failure, and it was not until as an arbitrator he had personally decided that China should not declare war against Russia that the English people began to comprehend the genius of this grim Puritan warrior. His roving commission as miracle work er in the Soudan was regarded at lirst with enthusiasm, but the moment he ar rived at Khartoum every proclamation that he issued, every proposal that he made, was criticised and misconstrued. The Government which had dispatched him across the desert refused to follow his advice. The humanitarians de nounced him as the slaveholder's ally. Practical politicians condemned his nomination of Zebchr as his successor as the act of a fanatical madman. But even Englishmen awoke at last to a consciousness of General Gordon's heroic qualities. For nearly a year that solitary European has held his ground against a horde of barbarians. Ho has .raised armies and paid them without money. He has conducted a marvel lous campaign by promising liberty to several thousands of blacks and by mounting rusty artillery on a fleet of leaking hulks. He has stood on the broken rampant a solitary English sen try refusing to desert those who had trusted in him, and awaiting an army of rescuers which never came. And there lie will remain in the memory of the nation a sublime figure, never to be forgotten; his heroism, fortitude, ehivalrous loyalty aud Christian faith understood at last. N. Y. Tribune ENGLISH COURTS. How They Were-Conducted n Half Cent ury A'o. Among the Judges a"id front bench of counsel there was a grim priggish ness calculated to strike terror iu the hearts of juniors. The number of Queeu's Counsel was comparatively limited. Serjeants possessed the mo nopoly of th-i Common Pleas, aud a proper attention to the process of eat ing beef and mutton, with the occasion al addition of apple pie, qualified the student to take upon himself the re sponsibilities of the bar. Competitive examinations existed only in the womb of time, yet the students, who nowa days would be considered semi-educai-cd lads, had furnished through pa-t ernturies a line of accomplished Judges, splendid advocates, and a sys tem of judicature certainly surpassing t at of any other European country. It ma' be doubted whether, if the present re-trie' ions had been in force, the pub lie and the profession might not have loit the services of such men as Erskine, Wilde and Thesiger, with others who, wishing to join the profession at a com paratively late period of life, had neither time r.or disposition to plod through the studies of boyhood. Legal habits were earlier in tiie niorning and later at night The courts commenced at nine, and consultations were, I may say. almost invariably conducted at the eh.unbers of leaders in the evening, and sometimes con inned until a late hour. I leiuember being at a late consul tation with Mr. Serjeant Wilde up to twelve o'clock at night Sir Fred erick Pollock told me that during the terms and the sittings, summer and winter, he reacln d his chambers at five o clock in the morning, lighted his own fire when necessary. At the Old Bailey the sittings continued from nine in the morning uutif nine at night The Judges upon circuit, during a heavy assi.c. sat until very late; and one can scarcely wonder at "the exhausted jury men, who, during the address of Mr. Crowder, one of the most amiable but certainly not liveliest of men, lapsed in to a sleep whic'i displayed itself in notes somewhat antagonistic' to the elo qut'iice of counsel, and, when awak ened and sternly rebuked by the Judge, is reported to have said plaintively, "Well, my Lord, 1 have stood as much 'Crowdering' as any one!" And it must be admitted that at this period the Western Circuit notwithstanding the occasional flushes with which the future Chief-Justice enlivened its pro ceedings, was, if distinguished by it? law, equally so by the ponderosity "with which certain of its advocates developd it Serjeant Borapas has lost his name! and is only remembered as Serjeant li'izfuz, in Dickens's famous trial for breach of promise. I have heard him upon two or three ojcaions an earnest advocate, with a style certainly not lively. He had a larga business on circuit Serjeant Ballantync, in Tem ple Bar. Spurgeon has turned out six hun dred and iglity-cight preachers fro6r his " Pastor's College " in the twenty eight years it has been established. KATES OF A1YEMTISING. dTBusiness and professional card of five lines or less, per annum, five dollars. 37 For time advertisements, apply at this office. ESTLegal advertisements at statute rates. JSTFor transient advertising, see rates on third page. Xd'TAll advertisements payable monthly. PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL. Mrs. Langtry. the Jersey Lily, has invested one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars in real estate in New York. A', r. Sun. Scalchi's voice is considered by a St Louis critic to be "sweeter thaa the tinkling of tho pennants on a crystal chandelier." Hiram Bates and wife, now resid ing at South Hanover, Mass., were both born on the same day, August 5, 179G, and within a few hours of each other. Frederick Douglass says that Abra ham Lincoln was the only public raaa with whom ho ever conversed for as hour without beiug reminded of Jab oolor. It is a remarkable distinction to be the father of eleven daughters, but much more remarkable to be the father of eleven married daughters. This is the privilege of Mr. Burnand, the edit or of Punch. Don't believe Old Spoopendyks will care a Sioux for the vacant throne. If he intends to accept it, however, he will probably pay a visit to Unci Sammy, to fix upon a Cabinet and a policy. Chicago Current. Miss Mary A. Fletcher died in Bur lington, Vt, recently. She left tea thousand dollars to her faithful man servant, and the rest of her property, two hundred thousand dollars, to the Mary Fletcher Hospital. Oscar Wilde defines fashion ia dress as a form of ugliness so unbear able that we have to alter it everv six months. He remarks that, on a Paris fashion-plate he had once seen under a bonnet a note: "With this kind of a bonnet the mouth is worn slightly open." John W. Price, the famous restau runt keeper, of Philadelphia, who died recently, furnished meals to Jenny Lind during her stay in that city, thirty-live years or so ago. She pre sented to him a miniature portrait of herself, which she had brought from Europe. George Augustus Sala has made two thousand five hundred dollars ou his nose. George's nose is of the sun set tint A jealous fellow-journalist once said it had attained that hue through Mr. Sala's copious indulgence in stimulants. Result, libel suit and two thousand five hundred dollars damages- for plaintiff. Chicago Herald. Ella Wheeler-Wilcox has a bracelet which her friends describe as "a poem written in gems." It is a gift from hor husband. A golden horseshoe, studded with torquoises, bears the date of their first romantic meeting; a small gold plaque, set with superb rubies, the data of the first letter ever written by Mr. Wilcox to Miss Wheeler; a Roman gold star, set with sapphires, represents tho engagement wcelc. Several other days and events are symbolized in beautiful designs, the whole completed by the "wedding bangle," an exquisite anchor and crown set" with six rubies and six diamonds. Hartford Post. George Parsons Lathrop was born on board the American ship Montreal, John" Chadwick, master, on a voyage from Boston to San Francisco. An officer of the ship recently came across this memorandum in his log: "Friday, January 22, 1819. This is quite an im portant day for one individual I wot of on board this good ship, who made his first appearance on the stage of life this morning an oceau-born child a son of Dr. Lathrop, who ought to be chris tened by Neptune by the name of Mont real. He ought to be made a sailor when he is old enough. Latitude twenty-nine degrees thirty-nine min utes, longitude one hundred and fifty two degrees thirtv-six minutes." "A LITTLE NONSENSE. Sarah Bernhardt lias received a proposal of marriage from a corpulent Englishman. At least, we suppose he is corpulent, for it is stated that he is perfectly iu fat-uatcd. (Seven of these for a dollar..) Lowell Citizen. "Good evening. Tommy. Is your sister Clarissa in?' "Yes, sir. She's up stairs, but she lo-t her teeth in tho kitchen stove to-day an' told ni to tell vou she had gone out o' town fur a few days." Detroit Free Press. A oiing dude lawyer, who had left some dres clothes with an uncle, is preparing for society, and was seen in a pawn shop the otiier day. "Is he here to prosecute?" asked a friend of the .shopkeeper. "On the contrary," said the pawn gentleman, "he comes here to withdraw his suit." -N. O. Picayune. "George Washington!" shrieked the rural orator. "Is there any man within the sound of my voice who shall not feel the hot emotion leap to his bosom when I mention that name?" 'Yes, sir," came the rtfplv. cold and harsh. "Who. sir? Who?" "John Scriggins. sir. John is deaf." Wil liamsport Breakfast Table. A woman is brought before a po lice magistrate and asked her age. She replies: "Thirty-live." The mag istrate says: "I have heard that j'ou have given that same age in this court for the last five years." "No doubt, your honor. I'm uot one of these fe males who says one tiling to-day aud another to-morrow." Chicago Times. First young woraau (in the role of peacemaker): "Why don't you give way to Nellie a little? I am sure she is ready to me you half way. My advice is to kiss each other and say no more about it" Second young woman (still warlike): "Kiss "Nellie Jones, the mean, spiteful thing! I wouldn't kiss her if she hail a man's hat and coat on." N. Y. Graphic. Colonel William Pope, a wealthy resident of Galveston, hired a professor to teach his eldest boy, who was very lazv indeed. "Now that I have shown you how to do that sum, I'll prove it to you, to show you that it is correct" said the professor, who was teaching him arithmetic. "No need of proof, professor; I will take your word for it I know j-ou wouldn't toll me a lie." Texas Sif lings. "A good wife is Heaven's greatest gift to man and the rarest gem tho earth holds," remarked Mr. Jarphly the other morning. "She is his joy, his inspiration and his very soul. Through her he learns to reach the pure and true, and her loving hand3 iead him softly over the rough places. She is" "Jeremiah." said Mrs. Jarph ly, solemnly. "Jeremiah, what wicked ness hav&you been ur, lo now? There's no use of Waiting ox whipping 'round the btum for I'll hoar of it soon enough. Say it right out, Jeremiah." Exchange. Many husbands and wives are said to be far Ies3 happy during the first year of married life than afterward, r. r. Sun. l . iPjZ"V