The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, September 23, 1885, Image 1
; -i -i-JV - - 1'' THE JOURNAL. ISSUED EVCBY WEDNESDAY, M. K. TURNER & CO. Proprietors and Publishers. BATES ! AeTKTIJl!. ETBusineas and profeseionalcards of five lines or less, per annum, five dollars. I? For time advertisemeats, apply at this oSce. SSTLegal advertisements at statute rates. 3TFor transient advertising, see rates on third page. EJTAU advertisements payable monthly. w X3T OFFICE Eleventh St., up Hairs in Journal Building. tekms: Peryear. .. . .Sir mouths Three months Single copies . 1 VOL. XVI.-N0. 22. COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY. SEFfEMBER 23. 1885. WHOLE NO. 802. S .ati-AF ( uhunbtts gDttpt IW v COLUMBUS STATE BANK! COLUMBUS, NEB. CASH CAPITAL, - $75,000 DIRECTORS: Leandek Geukaud, Pres't. Geo. W. Hulst, Vice Pres't. Julius A. Reed. R. H. Henry. J. E. Taskeu, Cashier. Basic of Deposit. Dleconmt smd Kxchaace. CellectioBM Promptly Made mil Potato. Pay latereNt Tlnse -lt. 274 HENRY G-ASS, XJJSTDERTABIETffc ! COFFINS AM METALLIC OASES AND DXALKK IN Furniture. Chairs, Bedsteads. Bu reau Tables. Safes. Lounges, &c. Picture Frames and Mouldings. T3T Repairing of all kinds of Upholstery (foods. C-tf C0LTTM3US. NEB. HENRY LUERS, DEALER IN WIND MILLS, AND PUMPS. Buckeye Mower, combined, Self Binder, wire or twine. Paups Repaired on short notice S5TOiie iloor west of Hcintz's Drug Store, lltli Street, Columbus, Neb. S Your Hair should be your crowning glory. Ayer's Hair Vigor will restore the vitality and color of youth to hair that has become thin and faded; and, where the glands are not decayed or absorbed, will cause a new growth on bald beads. waw the youthful color and vigor BLfL X of the hair be preserved to old age? Read the following, from Mrs. O. Norton, Somervllle, Mass. : "I have used Ayer's Hair Vigor for the past 80 years; and, although I am upwards of 60, my hair is as abundant and glossy to-day as when I was 25." jvn assured, that a trial of AVer's Hair JDJj Vigor will convince you of Its powers. Sirs. 31. E. Goff, Leadville, Col., writes: "Two years ago, my hair having almost entirely fallen out, I commenced the use of Ayer's nair Vigor. To-day my hair is 29 inches long, fine, strong, and healthy." THyiliyUf Ufa and strengthened JUElHXlWXJI by tbc use of Ayer's Hair Vigor, the hair regains its youthful color and vitality. Rev. H. P. Williamson, Davidson College, Mecklen burg Co., X. C, writes: "I have used Ayer's Hair Vigor for the last ten years. It is an excellent preservative." nr the use of Ayer's Hair Vigor, Geo. AX A. Dadman, Waterloo, Mo., had his hair restored to its original healthy condition. He was nearly bald, and very gray. He writes: "Only four bottles of the Vigor were required to restore my hair to its youthful color and quantity." TTOTlJl Ayer's Hair Vigor cures dis UBMJifjr eases of the scalp. F. H. Foster, Princeton, Ind., writes: "I had been troubled for years with a disease of the scalp ; my head was covered with dan druff, and the hair dry and harsh. Ayer's Hair Vigor gave me immediate relief, cleansed the scalp, and rendered the hair soft and pliable." Ayer's Hair Vigor, rKCTARED BY lr. J. C. Ayar &. Co., Lowell, Mass., V. I. A. For sale by all Druggists. A WORD OF WAKnC. FARMERS, stock raiser, and all other interested parties will do well to remember that tbe "Western Horse and Cattle Insurance Co." of Omaha is the enly company doing business in this state that insures Horses, Mules and Cattle against loss by theft, accidents, diseases, or injury, (as also atrainst loss by fire and lightning). All representations by agents of ether Companies to the contrary not withstanding. P. W. HEXR1CH, Special Ajft. 15-y Columbus, Neb. ILYON&HEALY Ststt a Honret StcChicsta. WUIfdiTitoKBmdatTwlWr I ft im 00 nn, zlO Encrani lr Inntm Sate. Caa. BrW lr i... laWU. C-lmMm. i Studs. Dram Majors Stafi. u hfc. mim laclfcW 1 BilrnrtlM i SUAT JMM IMIMh mm itAMlralutMt r ggfjT'1"v: if .eHmT E- IfW CONSIDERING THE CHANCES. Tfaa Mm Who Old Xot Ifava Implicit ConUdenee In lli Wile 'Well, what is it?" said the money elerk at the United States Express office the other day, as a man with a pro truding under lip and defiant con tempt for grammar halted before him and put his dinner-bucket on the counter. "Hain't this the place where you take money that's to be sent some'rs?" said the man. standing on tiptoe and speaking in a low tone, as he leaned forward over the counter. "Ye: d d vou want to make a ship ment?" "Huh?" "D il you want to send some money awav?" "Well, no: not this inornin': but I reckon I will shortly, an' so I dropped in as I wa goin' along to git a lew items about it. It was all right for me to dron in, wasn't it?" "Oh. yes; certainly. What did j-ou want to'know?" "Well, now, s'poaen I send forty dollars or sich matter to mv sister in Waukegan, an' she never gits it?" "Hut she will get it if you send it." "Yes: but how do I know that, though? S'poscn the train runs aga:n sumpin. stands on its head, ketches tire an' burns up. where's my fortv dollars then?" "In that case the company would make it good." "Huh?" "I sav the company would pav it back." "Hut I wouldn't want it back. I'd wan't my sister to have it. That'd be my main reason for sendin' it." "She would get it. The company would pay it to her." That'.- all right, then. But s'posen -otuebody bulldozes your man on the cars with a club, as I heard was done some'rs not long back, an' slides out wUh the money, who stands the racket then me or the company?" "Th' company, of course?" "Whether they ketch the man or not?" "Ye ." "Ha n't there no giggin' back on that?" "No: not a bit of it." "No cotuin back at me with drawback-., or per cents for this'n that?" "Not at all." It's every dollar of it forked over to mv sister is it. no matter what hap-pens.-' "Yes; everv cent." "Is it jist the same in case of be n' struck by lightnin'?" "Certainly." My wive's half brother the one in Michigan had a barn struck ty light nin' ouest. sot on lire an hiiMit dowu. an' I'm switched if the company he was insured in didn't crawl out of it somehow or uther. an' he's lied his noe to the grindstone ever sense on accounts of it. You say your companv never takes a uiau bv the nape of the neck even if it gits a chance to?" "No. The company guarantees to put your money through, and it will do it, or make it good." "That's all right, then, an' my olo woman hain't .so tormented smart as she th'nks she I." "Why so?" "She said there wasn't nosafe way of gittnf the money to 'Lia Ann but to have her go an' take it to her. Hut I thought 1 could see through her l.ttle game, an' so I concluded Il g t a few item s and find out for imsclf how the tli.ng onraveled. Between you an' me. I've ;ot a bulky sort of a not on the ole woman wants to Hare out a little with some new duds, an' if she wa to g t her claws nu to that money I don't b'lieve 'Liza Ann would ever see a red of it, uotwithstand n1 she was good enough to lend it to me U.te a spell ago. when I was considerable hard up. My ole woman is well-meanin' an' a niiddlin' pr mp housekeeper, but she's ruther too deep sot on tomfoolery to be tiusted much in money matters, "an' I'd about as oon put money iuto a bank an1 give up hopes of it at onst. as to have her g t her hands on it She don't mean nothin' wrong about :t I reckon, but I s'pose she jest can't help it, an' she wouldn't have that money about her ten minutes befo-e she'd go to fooliu' it away on bustles an' back hair an' sich other i.on-ene as she'd happen to get her in'nd sot on. I'm a good deal much obleeged to yon, s'r, an' I'll gve you the handl n' of that money as I come along to-morrow. Even if you ruled out 1 ghtnin I d r.sk it a blamed sight quicker' n I wo.ild the ole woman.'' Chirauo Ledger CHOCOLATE. The Growth of tbe Trade In This Article Im the United Stat.-a. Said a well-known manufacturer to a reporter: "The consumption of choco late in the United States ha had a won derful growth. In 1878 we manufac tured into chocolate goods 24.000 bags of raw cocoa: last year we ued .14.000 bags, an increase of ."50.00(1 bags in live years. The next five years will see a still greater rate of increase. When Humboldt discovered the use of the cocoa plant in his travels, he 1 tile dreamed of the immense business that was to grow out of the concoction of his first cup of chocolate. It s to-dav fairly in the way of becom ng one of the principal articles of food through out the world, and tends eventually to supplant tea and coffee as a beveraire. As a llavonng it alrea ly stands next to vanilla, which heads the 1 st. and it is used u all branches of cookery, patry anil cream, aud for baking purpo-e generally. Fifteen years ago I weut on the road to sell in a small wav chocolate soimIs of mv own manufac ture, and I was laughed at for my pains. At that tine the consumption was 1 m led in this country to the few large c ties in wh'ch the " fore gn ele ment predom'natcd. The article was elsewhere comparatively unknown. "The taste for chocolate is au ac quired one. and the public had to be educated to the loe for it. and like tobacco and beer it is at first distasteful and even nauseating, but also like them when once the taste is formed it is not easily surfeited. It probably tires the taste less than any other confection, and this accounts 'for its presence in nearly all the candy that is sold to-dav. Chocolate is one of the most healthful foods known, and in its pure state may be used to ar. unlimited extent w.thout harmful effects. In Europe it has taken nearly half a century of unremitting labor on the part of manufacturers to fairly establish the uublic taste for chocolate, but Americans take to it rapidly, and in fifteen years have learned to love it and look upon it almost as a necessary of life. The va rieties of chocolote preparations are almost legion, for it enters into the manufacture of both food and drink." M. F. Tribune. MR. SAM PLAN'S CALLER. Way Staid Citizen wti Perturbed a Annoyed. "I was both surprised and grieved," said Mr. Samplan,i "when I awoke and found a midnight intruder in my bed-chamber. I do hate to be awakened from a sound sleep, and I had always rather meet strangers by daylight and take a regular introduction. "Well, this man this very audacious man had the impudence to light my gas and point a pistol at me. Yes, sir, and my gas bills are oetrageously high, and his pistol was probably loaded. I do hate to see a man so utterly heedless of other men's rights. It might have softened the matter some had he been a gentleman in his speech, but he wasn't so no, sir, he wasn't. As I opened my eyes and sat up in bed he growled out in a voice like a sea-lion. "Be quiet, old man, or I'll bore your brains with a bullet!' 'Do you suppose I'd use a man like that? Never! I'd have some decency about me, especially if my victim's wife was beside him. My wife awoke, of course, and when the burglar saw by her looks that she was about to scream, he turned tbe pistol at her and said: " 'Come now; but if you open that potato-trap of yours I'll pin your head to the wall!' "Think of such language from a per fect stranger! Think of the insult to my wife's mouth! No one will ever know how badly she felt. She just fell back on the pillow and cried, and the auda cious burglar he clicks the lock of his pistol two or three times to keep us scared and then remarks: " 'Come, old coon. I want you! Git up and pint out the valuables!' "The brassiness of it! Wanted me to help him rob my own house! I was so amazed at his impudence that I got up. He sat down in a chair near the door, pointed his deadly weapon at my heart, and orders me to go ahead and collect all the money and jewelry and leave it on the stand. Did you ever hear of the like! 1 wanted to argue the case a bit, for I'm a man as doesn't like to be sent to State Prison for robbing his own house, but he thunders at me: " 'Lively now, old spindle-shanks, or I'll make a corpse of you.' "I assure you that 1 was considerably perturbed. Look at these legs large enough to bear up an ox. Had he any right or reason to use the term spindle shanks' He was no gentleman no gentleman, sir. I picked up about $200 m cash, two watches and a lot of jewelry, acd when I turned them over to him he further revealed his nature. Instead of thanking me for the size of the contri bution he growled out: 'Dura ye, for an old skinflint, but I'm a good mind to bore ye!' "I'm no skinflint, as all my friends swear to, and I had given him all we had in the house. After growling for awhile be orders me back into bed, threatens us with death if we move even a toe before daylight, and then goes down stairs. Here he eats up our pies and cakes, breaks up all our plated sil ver, carries off the milk jug and butter dish, and in going away leaves the doors open for cats anumosquitoes and moth millers to come in. "I tell you what such things go far to vex a good citizen and make a bad man of him. I want to be treated like a gentleman, especially in my own house. I don't like to have strange people enter my bed-room at midnight and brow-beat me. No true gentleman will compare his wife's mouth to a potato-trap, and no man tit to appear ia good society will call me spindleshanks, old coon, etc., unless we had both been drinking and were having a hilarious time. I feel perturbed, sir very much Ferturbed, and if the thing occurs again shall certainly go to the police about it-" Detroit Free Prest. e DUTCH CHILDREN. Youngsters who Ape the Habtta mad Small Vice or Their Elders. The middle-class girls of Holland are certainly very pretty. They have soft, clear skins and bright complexions. They are decidedly piquant in appear ance, much more so than their sisters over the Rhine. This year the favorite color is parrot green of various shades, which seems to suit their brown hair and eyes amazingly. They wear the high crown, fashionable hat, with a string or two added. As for the back crinoline now the rage, I have seen nothing in size or sway to equal the achteruit of the fashionable girl of Am sterdam. The literal meaning of the above word, I am told, is "behind tbe horse." Everyone smokes in Holland that is, every .male body. One could almost believe that the male bodies are ushered into the world with a cigar in their mouths. The mollifying efforts of tobacco sooth the infant Dutch boy in the cradle, add variety to his youthful sports and pastimes, and when he becomes old enough to run of errands, or, if of well-to-do parents, to sit at table d'hote with bis father aad mother, forms the chief occupation of his life. Walk the streets of Amster dam early in tbe morning and observe the most diminutive office-boy sweeping the sidewalk, polishing the door-plate or cleaning the windows with a six-inch cigar in his mouth. It is no uncommon thing for a boy ten or twelve years old to address you seriously, "A beetue vuur ini jn heer as u ocfcciC." And sober, zray-haired men give them the desired light and pass on. I have seen a boy not over fourteen years of age dining with his parents at table d'hote at the Amstel Hotel light a large cigar, when the wax tapers were passed, as they al ways are in Holland, immediately after dessert, aud calmly puff away, much to the astonishment of the British matrons and British papas present In railway carriages American and English ar rangementstare reversed, smoking car riages being the rule and "no smoking" the exception. Cor. San Francisco Chronicle. Pearls deteriorate by age, contact with acids, gas and noxious vapors of all sorts. A leading importer advisee that pearl necklaces, which are liable to deteriorate by coming m contact with the skin, be restrung once a year, as drawing the silk thread out and through the pierced parts tends to dense the pearls. In Ceylon, we are assured on fairly good authority, that when it is de sired to restore the luster to Oriental pearls the pearls are allowed to be swallowed by chickens. The fowls with this precious diet are then killed and the pearls regained ia a white aad lustrous state. A. Y. Post. A Solano County, (California,) maa has four wives living, has been divorcee! six times, three times from one womaa. aad has been married sevea San Francisco ChronitU. CURRENT ITEMS. A good mechanic gets four dollars a week in Holland. New Orleans is to have a Castle Gar den, which she hopes to make as famous as that in New York. Cheese rinds are disposed of by making them into cement for mending glass and porcelain. Chicago Herajd. The best time yet made between New York and Liverpool is six days, nine hours and fifty minutes. N.'Y. Sun. A convict in an English prison per fected the style of lawn tennis racquet now the most popular among British players. Petroleum was known to the dwell ers on the shores of the Caspian Sea, and'u some parts of the Valley of the Euphrates, five hundred years before the Christian era. Alexander the Great made use of it in the burning of Baby lon. There are degrees of excellence even in baked beans. A South End restaurant recognizes grades in this es culent, aud advertises, "B.iked Beans, ten cents. Choice Baked Beans, fifteen cents." Boston Saturday Keening Ga zette. There is a peculiar regioii on the border of the Colorado desert, about 110 miles east of Los Angeles, Cal., called Palm City, where npo fruit is produced at least four weeks ahead of any other locality in that section of Cal ifornia. iSan Francisco Chronicle. Yesterday a little girl did not want to go to school because it was "too aw ful hot." When asked if she liked win ter better she said: "In summer it is too hot to go to school and in winter it is too cold. 1 like the weather just right." Wilmington(DeL) Xetvs. A preliminary British company has been formed with" a capital of $100,000 to make geological investigations, en gineering plans and estimates for a rail way tunuel between Great Britian and Irela d. It seems to be ussumed that the cost of the tunuel would be 50.000.000. The birds of Louisiana, papers of that State sav, will soon be exterminated. Thi colored people there not only make oinls an article of food, but have begun to us their eg;s for the same purpose. The vrar of the partridges, robins, wrens, "mocking birds, and all others that they can get their hands on, arc eaten. The Berlin Aquarium has at last accomplished the difficult feat of show ing a school of live herring in its salt water basin. Tiiese fish are so delicate that when caught in their native ele ment even a moment's exposure to the air will kill them. They had. therefore, to be caught under water and to be care fully transported from the seaUoird. Climate never made a breed of fast horses. The development of racing stock in California is due to a few wealthy men who have bpen willing to spend their wealth on breeding es tablishment':, where the be.-:t imported stallions and mares are kept, aud if the business should ever be neglected Cali fornia hor-es would degenerate aud win no more races. Sun Francisco Altu. Browsing animals are proving as destructive to C'aliforuia forests as lire is elsewhere. Herds of sheep aud cuttle are driven up to the mountains ever' year to graze, and they devour every green thing from the foothills to the meadows on the summit of the ranges. When the grass tails the oung seedling trees are eaten off, or the bark peeled so that the undergrowth is entirely destroyed. Chicago Fleruld. s ARCHEOLOGICAL FRAUDS. llow Indian Unite Are Fabricated to Order. To discover an Indian grave is, of course, a red-letter day for the archa.' ologist. Now, Indian graves are manu factured to order, it would appear. At least the following recently occurred in New Jersey: A Philadelphia Flint Jack secured a half-decayed skeleton from a Potter's field in the vicinity, and placed it in a shallow excavation on the wast ing bank of a creek in New Jersey, where Indian relics were frequently found. With it he placed a steatite tobacco-pipe of his own make, a steatite carving of an eagle's head, and beads; with these were thrown numbers of gen uine arrow-heads and fragments of pot tery. The earth was blackened with powdered charcoal. This "plaut" was made in November, and, in the follow ing March, during the prevalence of high waters and local freshets, he an nounced to an enthusiastic collector that he knew the location of an Indian grave, and offered to take him thither for fifty dollars, the money to be paid if the search proved successful, which of course it did. The cranium of that Phil adelphia pauper passed through several craniologists' hands, and was gravely remarked upon as of unusual interest, as it wis a marked dolichocephalic skull, whereas the Delaware Indians were brachiocephalic! Dr. Chailes C. Abbott, in Popular Science Monthly. Forsaken. "Matilda!" he exclaimed, the per spiration irrigating the rootlets of his tawny locks. "Matilda! I love you." "Henry," she replied, clubbing with her fan the mosquito who was dining oft her damask cheek, "Henry, it does you crediL" "And," resumed Henry, with his voice far below the middle stud of his immaculate shirt-front; "and do you. Matilda do you er love me?" 'No, Henry," replied Matilda, with a Christian-huniility-and - resigned-to-niy-lot frankness; "nor Henry, I do not love you, but I tsteem you as a " "Oh, stew that." vociforated Henry, "none o' your esteem you as a brother; that's too hoary a chestnut for me." And Henry on that same hour tbe lady forsook. "True, he had to; but, never you mind, he forsook her all the same. Boston Transcript. How it Works. Mistress "What? you want your wages raised already' Why, you have not been in this country a month: you know nothing of American housekeep ing, and, I am now paying you as much as the most experienced servants geL" Maid "Yes, mum; I know, mum. But you see times is very dull, now." "1 should ay they were." "Yes", mum.' Me brother Mickey is on a strike' me cousin Jim's out of work; me cousin Philip and cousin John and cousin George, they all had their wages reduced." "Well, what has that to do with it?" "You see, mum, I must take care ot tbe whole family now, muai." Phil (klpMa Call. FZR1T National Bank! COLUMBUS NKB. Aitkorized Capital, - - $250,000 Paid Ib Capital, - 60,000 Surplus aed Prelts, - - 13,000 OFFICERS 4ND DIRECTORS. A. ANDERSON, Pres't. S AM'L C. SMITH. Vice Pres't. O. T. ROEN, Cashier. I. W. EARLY, ' HERMAN OEHLRICH, VT. A. MCALLISTER, Q. ANDERSON, P. ANDERSON. Foreign and Inland Exchange, Passage Tickets, ana Real Estate Loans. 29-vol-13-lr BU8IJES8 CULDB. D. T. Martyx, M. D. F. J. ScilCG, M. D. Drs. XABTTV ft SCHTJG, U. 8. Examining Surgeons, Local Surgeons. Union Pacific, )., X. 4 B. H. and It. A M. R. R's. Consultations in German and English. Telephones at office and residences. larOffice over First National Bank. COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA. 42-y C I. KVAXS, 91. D.. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. t3rofliee and rooms. Gluck building, 11th street. Telephone communication. 4y F. F. MDNKEK, M. D- HOMCEOPATHIST. Chromic Diseases aad Diseases of Ckildrem a Specialty. EJTOfflce on Olive street, three doors north of Firbt National Bank. 2-ly W. 91. COsCHiELlUH, LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE. Upstairs Ernst building 11th street. f A. OAKLO W, Collection Att'y. SPECIALTY MADE OF BAD PAPER. Office with J. Q. Hlggins. 34-3m H, J. HVIMON, NOTARY PUBLIC, xth Street. 2 doors went of HaaMOad Homo, Columbus, Neb. 491-y J O. SEEDER, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Office on Olive St., Columbus, Nebraska 2-tf MONEY TO I.OAIV. Five years' time, on improved farms with at least one-fourth the acreage under cultivation, in sums representing one third the fair value of tbe homestead. Correspondence solicited. Addrefts, M. K. TURNER, ,r0-y Columbus, Nebr. V. A. HACKEN, DKALKK IN Foreign and Domestic Liquors and Cigars. llth street, Columbus, Neb. fl0-y M cALLISTER BROS., A TTORNE YSATLA W, Office upstairs in McAllister's build ing, llth St. W. A. McAllister, Notary Public. JOUZV TIMOTHY, NOTARf PUBLIC AND CONVEYANCER. Keeps a full line of stationery and school supplies, aud all kinds of legal forms. Iusures against fire, lightning, cyclone and tornadoes. Office in Powell's Block, Platte Centei . 19-x J. M. MACFAKLAND, B. R. COWDERY, Attorair ui Hotiry TsXt e. CslUcttr. LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE OF MACFARLAND COWDBRT, Celumbtts, : : : Nebraska. j. jr. nAiiGHAi, Justice, County Surveyor, Notary, Land and Collection Agent. fgTParties desiring surveying done can notify me by mail at Platte Centre, Neb. 51-Gm P U.KINCHE, 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. TAJIK SALMON, 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. 526mo. T H. LAWMEftfjE, ' DEPUTY CO. SURVEYOR. Will do general surveying in Platte and adjoining counties. Office with S. C. Smith. COLUMBUS, NKBRASKA. 17-tf JS. MURDOCH & SON, Carpenters and Contractors. Havenad an extended experience, and will guarantee satisfaction in work. AU kinds of repairing done on short notice. Our motto is, Good work and fair prices. Call and give us an oppor tunitytoestimateforyou. 3TShop on 13th St., one door west of Friedhof & Co's. store. Columbus. Nebr. 483-v O. C. SHAJSTNON MANUFACTURER OF Tin and Sheet-Iron Ware ! Job-Work, Soofins; and Gutter ins; a Specialty. iSTShop on Olive Street, 2 doors north of brodfeuhrer's .lewelry Store. 4-v G W. g,ABK LAND AND INSURANCE A GENT, HUMFHREY, NEBR. His lands comprise some fine tracts in the Shell Creek Valley, and the north ern portion of Pl9tte county. Taxes paia tor nos-resiaents. satisfaction guaranteed. 20 j THE HORSi-S MOUTH. Uaotttloa BUhopluc Signs Whlca IaU ct so Anlml'a A(. Aphthae or thrush, a disease of the mouth, is very common among young horses. It consists of small red patches and vesicles on the inside of the cheeks: also on the tongue. The mouth is hot aud fever sh. and the ani mal will frequently allow the food to fall out of it from iuab 1 ty to masti cate. The principal means to be em ployed are a paste made of equal parts of honey and powdered bavberry bark, or borax; the part; to be anointed every night. To promote healthy ac tion,' and purfy the blood, give one ounco of flower of sulphur, two ounces of powdered golden seal, and one ounco of powdered sassafras, mixed and divided into four parts, mixing one part in scalded shorts every nighL This treatment applies to all classes of stock. There is no doubt that a colt some t'mes sutlers considerable pain from teething, in consequence of tin resist ance which the teeth encounter from unyield ng gums. The pain docs not ar:..e. as some suppose, from the point of the tooth pressing upward against the gum, but from the downward ressure the roots of the tooth com-pre-s ng the dental nerve-consisting in local irr.tatton. which, if not relieved, deranges a pari or the whole of the nervous system. The remedy is a sharp gum lancet. Make an icision r.ght down to the point of the tusk or tooth, and the animal generally experiences relief. If he labor under sympathetic fever, appears irritable and nervous, give him a drachm of asafuetida. in thin gruel, keep the owels soluble and let the diet be light. Owing to the unequal wear of some horses' teeth, the'r edges project and become harp: they are then apt to ir ritate and wound ' the mucous mem brane on the inside of the cheek. In such cases an in:-reaed How of saliva, impi-rfcct mastication and loss of tlesh wdl lie not ced. The remedy is a niouth-mp. BisfiGping consist; in making arti ficial marks on horses' teeth to give ill em the appearance of youth. It is a species of imposition so" repreheus.ble that all honest horse dealers have set the r faces against it. It is called 'R-shop'ng." from the name of the scoundrel who invented it. .The horse of e ght or nine years old is cast. and. with an engraver s tool a hole is dug in the now almost smooth surface of the corner teeth, and in shape and depth resembling the mark in a seven-year-old horse. The hole is then burnt with a heated iron, and a permanent black stain is left; the next pair of nippers are sometimes touched to imitate tne brown color of the natural mark. However dexter ously th:: operation may be performed, the fraud is easily discovered by thosa who are in the' habit of examining teeth. If the horse is aged, it may be known by the gcner.il appearance, such as gray hairs, sunken eyes, deep hollows above them. The bones are prominent, 1-ps flabby and the hipper of the lower jaw. instead of appearing angular, approach, as the auimal ad vances in years, to the horizontal. - Philadelphia Record. BEYOND THE VEIL. A I'ath WhTch Can Br Iravrted But Once. The stm. as it lingered on theedgeof the Horizon s nkinir so slowiv thatoue might say that it regretted to leave the world in diirkness lighted up his face until the grandchild asleep on his knee would hardly have recoguied him had -he opened her eyes. Old and feeble aud gray ready to bid farewell to earth he was a child again, aud his mind had the thoughts oi a child. The sun had gone down and the duk had come on for h-m tens of thousands of time.-, without ques t on, but this time he felt afraid and whispered: Oh! sun, do not leave me just yet. Wait until I am a man. aud 1 shall care not whether it .s day or night." Ami the sun whispered back to him: I have .een ou pass from child hood to manhood and back. You can not travel the path again." "But wait a little longer. When I have grown to be a youth the coming of night w 11 have no terrors for me. 'Alas! old man." answered the de clining sun. "a irranil old tree can not become a shrub a::a:n. It may be spl utered or uproot-d by the burri cam but it must die as a tree." "Then rema n w th me!" pleaded the old man. "Mv limbs are feeble, aud vour light will safely guide my footteps." -That I can not do. but I will send the moon to cast lu-r rays upon the earth aud soften the darknos of n gh." And when the moon came the old man's locks were changed from the gold of sunset to the silver of evening, and the furrows of age were melted aud softened tint I they could no Ionget be seen. Aud he whispered to the moon: "Do not leave me tonight, for I am old aud afraid of the darkness oi n ght." "1 can not stay beyond my fixed time." an wenil the moon, "but when I go I will send the star- to keep you companv." "I had a Wife children friends. Brinz them back to me from the my. tcr ous unknown." "Alas! but the dead arc dead!" And the moon went awav and the itars came, aud the bid man pleaded: "I am old and lonely. Hear rue com pany dnr'ng my br ef stay on earth." And one br.ght star answered for all the rest: "A hard greater than m- n'-controls our movcn.ents. Look beond us." And the tar- drew aside the mvst t ved. and the old man's eyt looked be ll nd it. Thev lighted up with the fires of youth -of hope -of aut c pat on of deep satisfaction. His a::'d face grew young h . limbs rega net! their strength his blood coursed a- in the veins of a man n his pr nn:. The stars held the veil as'de but a moment, aud yet he had seen enough. The child -lept on. but the arms around it gave up their strength. The niirhl-winds toed w.th the old man s yr.iv locks, but he gave no heed. A hand was la d on his shoulder and a voice whNpered in hi& ear. but he gave no s gn. The grai-' old tree had g ven up its life on earth n beg n anew be-b-nil the ve 1. -Detroit Free Press. In Pennsylvania the figures show 170..VJ4 males to I7C.46o females. In V rginia they bring to light the fact that there ae 745.51.! ma es to 70,!7G females. In 111 nols there are 1.586. 5z9 males :o only 1.41M.34S femaUis. or more t:ian 95 hW of am excess of the former. Pittsburgh Post. TRAVELING IN 1700. Th Vehlrlr, ued by th ColonlU SM Year, ago. The Virginia planter of the richer sort, who was said to live with more show and luxury "than a country gentleman in England on the estate of three or four thousand pounds a year,"showed a strong liking for the statelv six-horse coach, with postilions; but it was not until 1720 that wheeled carriages were recognized in the legal price-list of the Virginia ferries. In the other colonies, also, the coach was valued as a sign of official or family dignity, and some of the richer Carolinians carried "their luxury so far as to have carriages, horses, coachmen, aud all, imported: from Eng land"; but in Carolina, and everywhere north of Virginia.tho light open "chair" or the covered chaise was generally pre ferred. These woro better suited to the roughness and sinuosity of the roads than the coach. The chaise was a kind of two-wheeled gig, having a top and drawn sometimes by one, and sometimes by two horses; the chair had two wheels, but no top; the sulky, which was much used, differed fAim'the chair chiefly in having room for but one person. All these seem to have been hung on straps, or thorough-braces, instead of springs. Boston ladies in the middle of the eigh teenth century took the air in chases or chairs, with negro drivers. Boston gen tlemen also affected negro attendants when they drove their chairs, or rode on saddle-horses. But in rural regions, from Pennsylvania northward, ladies took delight in driving about alone in open chairs, to the amazement of Euro pean travelers, who deemed that a para dise in which women ceuld travel with out protection. Philadelphians were fond of a long, light, covered wagon, with benches, which would carry a doz en persons in an excursion to the coun try.. Sedan-chairs were occasionally used in the cities. The Dutch introduced sleighs iuto New York at a very early date; but sleighs for pleasure, though known in Boston about 1700, only came into general use iu the northern proviu ces at a somewhit later period. The first stage wagon in the colonies was nin from Trenton to New Brunswick, twice a week, during the summer of 1728. It was a link in the tedious land and water journey from Philadelphia to New York, and travelers were promised that it would be fitted up with benches, and covered over, so that passengers may sit easy and dry. Century. AMERICAN FABLES. Soine Allrgorin. a Good Way after Kop. Which Teach Healthy Moral. THE CROW AND THK HAKE. A Crow and a Hare met by chance one day, and were so well Pleased with each other that it was Agreed to form a Partnership. "The first thing in order," remarked the Crow, "is to select a Home, which will, of course, belong to both of us. Have you got your eye on any particu lar Tree?" "Tree!" echoed the Hare, "why, we want a burrow, of course." ''Burrow! But I can't live in a Hole?" "And I can't Climb a Tree!" "If you didn't intend to Consult my Wishes why did you Propose this Part nership!" "And if you weren't ready to give way in these little Matters why Accept my Proposals?" They were Hotly Disputing and Abusing each other when the Fox came along, and being Appeafed to for his Opinion he said: moral: "My Friends, while you are both wrong, you have still exhibited rare Judgment. The Human Family alone are Fools enough to Marry First and .Quarrel over their likes aud dislikes and Nature's Incongruities afterwards. THE REAR ASI THE WOLF. The Bear and the Wolf had been Warm Friends- for many years when the Wolf one day asked for a Loan to help him out of" a Tight Squeeze. To his utter Astonishment the Favor was Promptly Refused. "Haven't we been Friends?" asked the Wolf. "Truly, we have!" "And don't you wish to be in the Future?" "It is for that reason," answered the Bear, "that I refuse the Loan. If you have no Trouble ia repaying me you will Depend upon me in all Future Emergencies. If you fail to repay you will Become my Enemy for Life." MORAL: (Jo to your Friends for sympathy to your Pawnbroker for loans. Detroit Free Prest. OUR FLAG. The Adoptloa of the National Knalga by the Continental C'ongres. The subject of a flag or standard was considered early in the Continental Con gress; and, on the 14th of June, 1777, this resolution was passed: KfM(ihril.rhnt ttiotlajf or the thirteen United States be tliirtcvn stripes, alternate red and while. Ibattbe Union be thirteen stare, white, in a blue Held, representing a new constella tion. The admission into the Union, after the establishment of the present Gov ernment, of Vermont and Kentucky a? new States, caused the number of star? and stripes to be increased to fifteen each; and the subsequent addition of live other States led the followingenact uient, which is vet in force, approved on the 14th of April. 1818: An Act to cstablUh tbe Hair of the United State. Beit nnicttil lnj the Srutite nnil tome of Hep tatniatitt uf the L'oiteil Stiitea of Amrtica h: CunutrmVHitinUlta. Tbat from and nfterthe -ttli day of July next, the ttajr or the United State be thirteen hori.on al itripes; alternate red and white: that the Union be twenty utars. white in a blue field. Se 1 And ir 't ftirthrr entcUd. That on ti admission of every new Statu into the Union, one star be add-l to thv union or the flay; and tbat uch addition fhall take effect on the -1th day July then next ucoeedin- gucb admission. Whenever, therefore.an American sees this glorious ensign of his country, the stripes recall to his mind the birth of the Republic, with the events that surround ed it: the stars suggest it wonderful de velopment in size, iu resources, and in power; and, in homage to the national grandeur and protective authority which it represents, wherever he beholds it whether in mid-ocean floating at the head of a passing ship, or waved aloft in tbe streets of foreign lands, he lifts his hat to it with a patriotic feeling of filial love and pride. Edmund Alton in St. Nichrtas. There is a simple bliss that follows in the wake ef frugal aud careful habits of life, which even wealth can not bay." National Live Stock Journal PITH AND POINT. A mail down East is lecturing on M'nce P.e." Still he does not tell u what is in it. Oil City Derrick. We presume that if .General Frank Hatton journeyed to Russia he would become General Frank Hattoff. Ctor rcnt. The discovery has been made that the world does not revolve with the same momentum it did a thousand years ago. but it still swings round fast enough to satisfy the man with a heavy bill comingdue. Chicago Trib une. ' It is sa'd that a successful type setting machine has at last been put in operation. We go right smart on ma chinery, but we want to see it trot around the office hunting sorts and stealing leads before wo take much stock in it. Chicago Ledger. A dude, who fell oft a New York ferry-boat, offered any one who would save his life $1.50. The offer was final ly accepted by an old woman who wanted capital to set up an apple-stand, but she didn't make a move until this fact was fully expla'ne I to her fellow pasetigers. Detroit Free Press. Nothing makes a man prouder than to find when he has got his garden nicely laid out and the seeds all in, that every hen within a mile of him seems determined to have a claw in the job, and show him how she would have ar ranged matters if he had consulted her. Fall Hirer Advance. -Then and Now. lie called uic I'opsey. Sweet, and fet. When wo began our married tile. Ills guiding star, his loved Annette, UN hope, bis joy, bU dull In if wile. The-. fond endearment are all o'er. And though bU heart no doubt U true. I hour thoe pretty names no more. For now he calls mo "uy there, you ! Judge "Did vou Witness the acci dent?" Witness "I did." Judge "At what distance?" Witness "Sixty-seven feet and nine inches." Judge "How do you know so exactly?" Witness "Well. I knew that 1 would !e summoned, and I prepared niys. If for alt the foolish (uetions that 1 knew would be put to me in a court of law." X. Y. Telegram. Tenant (to owner ot Hast Side Har lem Hat)- "Some of the plaster in my kitchen fell down lar night, and I want you to fix it." Landlord: "What caucd it?" Tenant: "The man who occupies the lloor above sneezed." Landlord: "Well! Some people think because they pay twenty-two dollars a month rent they can carry ou just us if they lived in a Roman citadel." A'. 1'. Independent. e THE NUPTIAL KNOT. Seven Separate and Ulittinet Way of Coin mittlng Matrliuuuv. There are seven separate and distinct ways in which the nuptial knot may be tied, the attend ng expense of the differ ent modes varying !rom $1 toSl.000. The least expens ve, and the one seldom adopted, except in cases of elopement, is that afforded by the Justice's office. There a couple can be lirmly united in the spnee of a minute for a small Mini. It is customary for a groom to dress as he may plca-e when th marriage i, to l.e performed In a Jiit.ce. mi. I a dress .Miit would be sadly out of place in the iuut'.' law office. The one great ad vantage of the jiiitice-shop marr.agi is cheapness. As -oine people object to being mar ried by a Justice of the Peacer prefer r ng the sanction of the church in addi tion to that of the law. the young peo ple may vi-it a parsonage instead of a .1 notice's office with the sum.' preiiar.i t on The ceremony may'l.e fully as informal wlieii at the minister's home, the only difference being that not less than t"j. and better -till :" or S10. should be paid for the service, although there is no fixed sum oharged. The most popular ceremony among peo ple who do not class thciu helves as in "society." and aUo among many who do. is a iju'ct home wedding, where the brde s attired in a suit of pla;n white or a traveling dress, and the groom iu a plain black or brown bus ness suit, and where only a few friends and relatives are present. The affair is informal. pcrhap3 a modct supper or lunch being served after the ceremony is jierform-d. and the entire epeiisi- to the gioom be ngcovcred by a '-0 bdl. or ev u le-s. This is the most pupu'ar wedding ceremony, and this is the way in which fully seventy five per cent, of oimg people are mar ried. Next in point of favor and ine.x pens enes is the informal church wcdil ng, being sim Iar in all thing-, ex cept that the service is performed wtth'n the port tl of the hunli. If the affair is strictly privato. the bride aud irroom may he unsupported or have br desmaids and groomsmen, as they plea-.e. In the latter case full dre-s suits' should be worn, increasing the expense. The "full dress wed ding " as t may be called when the ceremony is performed at home, isnevt in favor. Elaborate tioiisseau. full dre.-s u ts, bride-maid-, and grooms men, flowers A abundance, and a ho-t of inv.ted ffiiests are the re-juisites followed by a recept on. fexst or lunch, as the contracting part es may desire. The seventh and last and most pop ular is the full-drc'S affair performed in church. Among people who desire to create a st r in society th s is the favorite. It is expensive, and in many cases unsatisfactory. Milwaukee Jour- The London Ragamuffin. The jMMiuin ragamuffin will never compla n. He never expects or even hopes that h's condition will improve; he is as much a fatalist as the Turk. 1 once asked an 'iiteresting little boy with a pale, careworn face and an in telligent express on, if he ha 'ever won dered why it wa- that In had iioth'ng but rags; why it was he had no !oots. and sometimes no bread to eat. while I had plenty of everyth:ng'J He look ed up at me with a calm, pat ent ex press on. as much as to -ay. "I have never wondered at such things." "Tell me."' I persisted. have you ever thought about this d flerence?" "It's the Lord's w 11." he repl ed tritely: but he seemed reluctant, when I pressed him. to explain what he understood br the i ord's wdl. At lat in a tim'd, burred voice he said: "It is all the Lord's doing, this way; you are grand like, and drcs nice, and lives in a big house, and you have a planner, and and." he looked round the room that he might enumerate all our titles to consideration "and a sofy: so the Lord sees as how you are gentlefolks, and He think lots of such 1 ke as you. But we are verj- poor, we are. Mothcrpawns the blankets, and father beats mother, and swears awful. We ain't got no Sunday things; we're all raggety, so the Lord don't take much notice on us." English llluttraUd Magazine. t