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31 ?: ! J J k u 1 THE JOURNAL. WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 30, 1885. Ittrsl at the re:to9:i, Colcatu. Kit.. st ciess elan su'.tir. PRIDE OF BIRTH. 'TU a pleasure to know that ourfathcrs were good, Tis a pleasure to know I hey were great As warriors, as judges, in science, la art. Or as cou usel i n matters ot fctate. But men should remember their ancestor lame It not for descendants to wear: To the honored man's fame the family name la the only legitimate heir. The fame that is yours is the fame that you have won, If It is not yet won, look ahead: But claim not an honor because you re the son , m Of aa ancestor centuries dead. Of proud ones who lire on the fame of their aires Many samples around us are found: Like the turnip aaajcarrot. they seem not to know That the best of them lias under ground. Look ahead to the future. The patft is not yours, ' Make the yield of the present your own. The fame of the past is another's reward, For your:prize trust thef uture alone, Inhorlted titles of honor are vain: In the heat of fame's handicap chase The plain man looks forward, the titled looks back. And ofttimeB thus lose tha race. Look forward, toll onward: and when, in the end. Well-merited honor you've won. Be proud that your title to worth did not lia In being Lord Somebpdy's son. UaBi ttrittuyn Demorett'i Montlitv. UNCOMMON PBOCEEDINGS. The Young- School - Teacher and Her Eccentric Patron. "How cold it is growing," said Miss Wait, the teacher of the common school in the then brisk little manufacturing village of Shattuckville, Franklin County, Mass., as she tied on her soft blue hood, buttoned her warm flannel cloak, looked at the window-fastenings of the not over commodious or attract ive but snug school-room, locked her desk and carefully shut the damper of the air-tight wood stove, preparatory to quitting her domain of labor for the sight. As she picked up her rublter over shoes and stooped to draw them over her shapely kid boot, she cogitated: "Oh, dear! Tommy Howe's red toes sticking so pathetically through those old gaping shoes fairly haunt me. I wonder if, in all this properous, busy village, there is no way of getting that poor child decently clad. I must think it over and see what I can do about it." Twenty-four hours later the leading man of the village, and the owner of the little factory there, who, years before, when a poor boy, had stranded down from Vermont to this little hamlet, ec centric and brusque, but kind-hearted, keen-eyed, and observant of all thatwas going on his domain, was walking along the street and met a bright-eyed and sprightly lad of ten speeding ahead with that amusing, unconscious, conse quential air that a boy carries with his first bran new pair of boots. "Old Sam" Whittier, as this gentle man was familiarly called, not by reason of advanced age by any means, but be cause of his supremacy as the mill owner and employer of all the help in the hamlet, took in the situation at a glance, and called out to the absorbed child: "Hullo, youngster! where d'ye get them fellers?" "Teacher gave them to me. sir," and the lad's tattered cap came quickly off, and-he stood with it in his hand. "Does she buy boots for all the boys in the school?" "was growled out. "Guess not; but she bought Joe Briggs a speller and Jane Cass an arithmetic, and sho gives away stacks of slate-pencils and paper and ink and such things." "What made her go and buy them nice boots for you?" "She said she wanted to, sir; and when I said I had no money to pay her for them, she said she'd rather be paid in perfect lessons; and I will try my best to pay for them in that way, you may be sure, sir' "Pretty good sort of a teacher, is she, bub?" ' "Oh, yes indeed! I guess she must be the best teacher that ever lived, sir he tells us about so many things that we never knew before; and she wants us to be good and honest and not tell lies, and she says we will be meu and women by-aud-by,'and she wants us boys to know something so we can own factories our own selves sometime. The other teachers we've had only heard onr les sons and let us go, but 'she's so differ ent!" "Well, well, bub. I shall have to think this business over a little. Now run along, and go to scratchin' over them 'perfect lessons.' I don't suppose you'll find a person in Shattuckville a better judge of perfect lessons, or how much the are worth, Irolh to the teach er and to "the scholar, than Old Sam' Whittier. So bub, look after your ways, and I shall look after you." The next morning a little note writ ten in a coarse business hand was dis patched to the teacher by the hand of one 'of the children. It ran as fol lows: "Mies Wait: I hare heard of some ratnrr uncommon proceeding's on your part as a teacher toward your scholars. I would like to Inquire of you personally as to partic ulars. Will you do me the favor to run over to my house directly after the close of your school this afternoon? 'Samcel Whittier." "What can I have done?" thought the little teacher, in such a perturbed state of mind that she corrected Johnny Snow's mistake in his multiplication by telling him that seven times nine are fifty-four. Indeed, she let the mistake go so long that every little hand belong iBgto the second primary class was stretched up in a frenzy of excitement. "Let me see; what is it have done the past week? 1 switched Bobbie Baker pretty smartly, to be sure and I kept Sam Woodruff after school and I kept Marion Fisk in from recess for whisper ing; but I must keep order. Well, dear me, I have tried to do my duty, and I won't worry;'" and Miss Wait resolutely west back to "seven times nine," and so proceeded in the usual routine. But she ate no dinner that nco?, and had a decided headache as she crossed the big bridge over the hill to the mill owner's residence. "I shall not back down in anything where my clear duty and self-respect are involved," thought she. "I have set up a certain ideal as to what a teacher of these little common schools ought to be, and I will, God and my mind, good courage and health not for saking me, bring myself as near to it as possible Moreover, I will not con sider in the premises whether the schol ars are children of the rich and learned, or of the poor or ignorant. For the time being .God has placed in my care ragged, dirty little wrcU'hes of a facto tory village, as well as clean, well dressed, attractive children." "Good evening, good, evening, la'am." said "Old Sam" Whittier, in his graft way,meeting the teacherat.the door. "As Isaid in my uote to you.I heard .to-day of some rather uncommon pro ceedings on you part. I saw, ma'am, little iTonnuv Howe..in a new pair of boots this morning. Do you know how he caae by th'emr-" "I bought them for him, Mr. Whit tier," wondering whether the local asagnate suspected the poor child of. stealing. 'Oh, you did! Are you ia the habit of farmsfciag your scholars with such articles? Was Ihe providing of boots a part of yoar business contract with the MMitsee? If it was, I can pat yon . J taw w7'f bojicj boots at waolasala in Boston, where I get my 6upply fgr the store." "It will not be necessary, sir," re plied the teacher, with dignity. "I thank you for your kind offer, how ever." "Why did you furnish boots in this particular case, if I may inquire?" The lad is very poor. His mother has her hands full with the smallcrchil dren. Tommy is learning rapidly; I seo marks of rare intelligence in him. It would be a pity-to have him taken out of school at this time when he is so much engaged. Should he continue coming clad as he was in such weather as'this he would be'ill soon. I could not take the risk in either case." "Are you able to let your heart get the better of you in this way?" "1 nave my wages only," replied tne young woman, with dignity. "Then you probably will have to re trench not a little in your own ex penses." "If I do it will harm no one's purse or pride but my own. In this instance it may be the matter of a pair of gloves or an ostrich tip with me. With him the little act may mak6 a difference that shall be lasting 'through time and eter nity." "You have been attending that school over at South Hadley, I hear?" "Yes, air." "Have you been through it, or grad uated, as they call it?" Oh, no; I" have attended but two terms. But I am fully determined to complete the course." "Hum all right. Miss Wait, you seem to be doing some good work among the children over the river there. I am going to think it all over; but look here if any more of those little rasenls need boots, let me know. I shall consider it a privilege to provide them. You know I can obtain them at wholesale ha! ha!" and the now greatly relieved teacher's interview with the mill owner ended. "If she goes on teaching on and off, and then.taking a term on and off at Mount Holyoke, she can't graduate for vears," ruminated Old Sam Whittier. as he watched her tripping on over the hill; "it's ridiculous." And so it caane to pas9, when Miss Wait was paid her small salary at the end of the term, she found in the envel ope containing the order on the town treasurer a check with a slip of paper pinned to it, reading thus: "This may be an uncommon proceeding-, but I thought it over and have concluded that you had better o right alonjr In youi studies at South Hadley until you graduate. After that, with jour pluck and princlplo. you will be able to invest in boots or boots or in any way you see fit. "Very trulv Tours. "Samuel Whittikk." I leave this true little sketch without comment, It carries its own lesson both to struggling young teachers with hearts and brains, and to .prosperous men of affairs who may lend a helping hand to deserving ones. Philadelphia Call. m m LAKE OF SALT. Aa Interesting- Description of tne Mu tbab Valloy The Salt Lakes of Yar-Oilan. At the meeting of the Royal 'Geo graphical Society recently Sir Peter Lumsden read a paper on the countries and tribes he has recently visited west of Afghanistan. He gave an interesting description of the geography of the Murghab Valley and the customs of its people, and quoted a singular account of the Naniaksnr, or salt lakes of Yar oilan, visited and described as follows, by Captain Yatc: Yar-oilan means 'the sunken ground," and no word can better describe tne gen-' eral appearance of the valley of these lakes. The total length of the valley from the Kangruali road on the west to the Band-i-Dozan, which bounds it on the east, is about thirty miles, and its greatest breadth about eleven miles, divided into two parts by a connecting ridge which runs across" from north to south, with an average hight of about 1,800 feet, but has a narrow, which rises some 400 feet above the general average. To the west of this ridge lies the lake from which the Tekke Turcomans from Merve get their salt. The valley of this lake is some sit miles square, and is surounded on all sides by a steep, almost precipitous descent, im passable for baggage animals, so far as I am aware, except by the Merve road in the northeast corner. The level of the lake I made to be about 1,430 feet aboe the sea level, which gives it a descent of some 400 feet from the level of the connecting ridge and of some 950 feet below the general plateau above. The lake itself lies in the centre of the basin above described, and the supply of salt in it is apparently unlim ited. The bed of the lake is one solid mass of hard salt, perfectly level, and covered by only an inch or two of water. To ride over it was like riding over ice or cement. The bottom was covered with a slight sediment, but when that was scraped away the pure white salt shone out below. How deep this deposit may be it is impossible to say, for no oae.has yet got to the bottom of it. To the east of the dividing ridge is the sec ond lake, from which the Saryks of Penjdeh take their salt. The Valley iu which this lake is situated is much the larger of the two. The valley proper is itself some fifteen miles in length by about ten miles in breadth. The de scent to it is precipitous on the north and west sides only the eastern and southeastern end sloping gradually up in a succession of undulations. "The level of this lake is apparently lower than that of the other; I made it out to be some 800 feet above sea level. The salt in this lake is not so smooth a in the other, and did not look so pure. It is dug out in flakes or strata, gener ally of some four inches in thickness, is loaded into bags, and carried off on camels for sale without further prepara tion. London Keivt. Silks, Velvet and Plush. Faille francaise and other soft repped silks, such as Bengaline and Sicilienne, will be used for autumn dresses, and in combination with velvet and plush for the winter. Veloutine is a name given by the softest of these new repped silks with a rich yet dull lustre like that on velvet. Both plain and figured velvets are shown for dresses, while very large frise figures are seen on the cloaking velvets. Black and seal brown are the colors for velvet cloaks, with some of the darkest plotnb or lead shades. Smaller figures of frise or curled velvet and the closer uncut velvet figures are on grounds of faille francaise to be used for dresses in combination with plain velvet or plain faille. Contrasts of colors a: c seen in these designs, such as red on Chartreuse green, blue with Havana brown, red with ecru, and drab with blue. i7oi6-color is most suc cessful in monotone, showing two or three shades of one color, or else in combination with black. Arabesques, scrolls, and curved figures generally, are on these corded silks and velvets. Plush is also imported again in tartan plaids, in etripes, dotted: with gilt or lead as if beaded, and in the ribbed cross lines called ploughed plush. Harper' ' Bazar. Gold is found in all parts of the world. It is said to be everywhere. Professor Foote recently made a state ment to the effect that there is more gold ia the clay under the city of Philadel phia than would equal the entire valu ation of the city. In 1812 mea made sixty cents a day washing the sands near Chaster, on the Delaware River, where William Paaa frit M PkiUitl- phia UNDERTAKERS. Caa BbIbmi and Profrioil STarhaAsef Those Who Bury Our Dead. The business of the undertaker kaf been very differently estimated in differ ent countries and in different methods f burial. Surclythc one who takes or puts a human being under the ground should be regarded as having an im portant responsibility. Yet in the eyes of some, the business has come to be considered as one of greed and cold blooded indifference as to either the health or comfort of the living. Some of this we confess has arisen from the way in which undertakers manage their affairs. There is too often a perfunctory or professional method and an excess of charge out of all proportion to the services rendered. We greatly desire to reinstate the undertaker, or" funeral director, jis he is now styled, intoJiis proper relationship, and then to recog nize in him one who fills a most import ant function in a time of affliction, and who brings to the performance of his duties a business fitness and skill which entitles him alike to respect and com pensation. If he is merely a man -who brings no skill to his t ork, but only buys and delivers a coffin, puts a body in it, and regulates the decorum of at tendance, and the livery provided for procession to burial, then let him and all others understand this, and let his reward be only that which belongs to such ordinary vocation. But if he will come to know that he has other and far greater duties, let him be fully prepared therefor, and friends will not" begrudge him the recognition and reward he has wob. Our first historical idea is of an embalmer. Called upon to attend 'to the being from whom life has but a lit tle time before departed, his first duty is to secure for the body not only external and decorous fitness for the sight of friends, but such cleanly and sanitary conditions as shall check decomposition, or neutralize its effects, and so convey the body to the grave. Hence, no one can read the descriptions of preparation for burial, as found both in the sacred and profane writings, without recogniz ing that the art of the embalmer was akin to that of the apothecary, who pre pared sweet ointments and spices, and so anointed for the burial, and surround ed the body with those essential oils which we now know to be amongst the best of disinfectants. Hence, we claim that the undertaker of the present day should not merely be a man who has caught up some ideas about his calling, but one who has been taught the art of dealing with the bodies of "deceased per sons in all phases and forms of disease, and who knows what are the particular methods adapted to particular diseases. There'ls great variety of treatment de pending upon the disease, upon the con dition of the corpse, upon the season of the year, and upon the mode and dis tance of transportation. It is now practicable, either by antiseptic and pre servative infusions into the circulatory system, or by external methods, to do ,very much to facilitate carriage and to remove any posibility ot specific or gen eral septic influence from the body of the deceased. There has recently been a convention of undertakers in New York City, which seemed to be impres sed with the importance of a kind of trades union for mutual protection rath er than with the need of a higher edu cation and training in their art. With one the grievance is that he Is bothered ia getting a physician's certificate of burial, and thinks that his precious time should not be asked for that. With another it is the system of the coffin warehouses which do not alloV enough commission on their wares. With a third it is the small allovvauce granted for public and pauper funerals. We advise all the good fraternity to leave the mint and anise .and cummin, and look to the weightier matters of the law. When death has occurred and the undertaker is called, he should be able to prescribe everything necessary for the proper care of the deceased, and also to himself direct and see carried jout the complete cleansing of the room and all that appertains thereto; nay, more; in many cases, the care should extend to the whole house. He should be able to know much of its sanitary condition and promptly to remedv any defects. The time of death is always a dangerous one to the condition of the house. Physi cians and nurses often promptly leave. The family in their grief, arc ill lifted to deal with the disorder, which ofteu is greatly increased in the List few hours. Thorough work is far less likely to be done by those who wait upon the house hold than at other times. Every physi cian knows how often the time between the death and funeral is a time of accum ulation of household evils, instead of their relief. We have known a house thus to become a menace to those in at tendance, even when at the time of death no serious evil existed. Since we are having all these conventions and associations and trades unions, would it uot be well for the undertakers to have a training school, and thus render them selves so valuable to the communit as to show the claims they have to be re garded as practicing an art quite beyond the ordinary routine of a good coffin, orderly arrangements of flowers, a good hearse and a respectable following of livery. AT. 3". Indeptnda.t. m SWEDE TURNIPS. How the Turnip Fly Can Be SubdurU Plenty e" Seed and Manure. It took me several years to get the best of the turnip Ay. For year. they destroyed the swedes, and at last I gave it up. Last year, by accident, I found that rauk-growing potato vines ncn: growing distasteful to the potato beetles, and that they did not disturb them, 'l'h'.s discovery gave me a. hint about the tur nip fly, and acting oa it. a large patoli of land from which the clover had been cut was plowed and covered wjth barn yard manure. The manure was so scat tered that every inch of the ground w.v covered. Row's were then marked out with a corn marker, three feet apart, and the bottoms cleaned out with a gar den rake, so that the seed drill could work on and in the fresh earth. The bottoms of these rows were the onlv places where the earth could be seen Although the weather was very dry, the seed came up promptly, and such a growth I never saw before. Either Un files could not keep with the turnips.oi they did tot like the odor and taste "of the leaves, and did not disturb them. In a couple of weeks the cultivator was run between the rows and manure, and where it was covered and lodged on them, was brushed off. The cultivator did all ot the work required, except the thinning out. The liberal coat of man ure kept the ground moist and served as a mulch to keep the weeds from grow ing. The yield was immense. I ucver raised a crop of roots with so lit tle labor, and there can be no doubt that, with such culture, a crop of swedes will always pay. When the rows were thinned, the turnips taken out were spread between them, and served as ad ditional mulch. This crop of swedes was not put in until the middle of July, and still more than half of them were about as large as a four-quart measure. They were as solid as roots could be, and I found them excellent food for the hogs when sliced and fed raw. They also helped to get the cows and young animals through the winter. It is best to put in plenty of seed, for it is easier to pull out extra plants than to patio new ones. I plant the common swede, which is the old-time name for rutabagas. F. D. Curtii, ia Country Gentleman. ' Twahnadred and fifty million per sons quench their thirst every year at tha Leaden public drinkiag fountain. SIX MILLIONS IN SMOK-. Wo ratlins; Oft ia the Celebratlna of taa Fourth. Of late years the impression ha-; beea gainingground that the old-time celebra tion of the Fourth of July was falling into disuetude, and that in the -not-distant future the bon-fires, fire-works, and other accessories of the day would be given up. A visit to the various manu facturers tends to dispel the delusion that fireworks on the Fourth are going out of date. "The fireworks season," said a leading dealer yesterday, "Iwgins early iu Feb ruary, wheu the far west sends in its orders. The factories are busy with these until early in the spring, when theS ates east of the Mississippi begin to stock up. It is a curious fact that, although the north, from Maine to California, lays in a full stock to blow tip on the Fourth, not a dollar is spent by the people south of the Potora-ic and Ohio Rivers. They use. them only on Christ mas day. The demand for" all kinds of goods fell off rapidly for two or three years after the Centennial, but for the past five years it has steadilv increased, and this year I think will show a gener al increase all over the country. I don't believe there was ever before so many firecrackers exploded as on Saturday. From all the data obtainable I should say that there were distributed over the country over500,000 Iroxes, worth about 500.000. Then the big crackers, which have risen rapidly to favor, have been more extensively sold than at any other time the patriotism of the young men who are too old for the old-time fire cracker expending itself in producing the unearthly din these big crackers make. Of course I judge at least i.r00. 000 more were blown into smoke and fragments on the Fourth. "The fireworks manufacturers do their best to discourage the consumption pf firecrackers, but the young people ap pear to have renewed the loyalty to these time-honored explosives, and our opposition seems to hare made but little headway. The fireworks now mostly in demand are of a kind decidedly su perior to those mostly in vogue in the past, and the demand for them is not by an' means contined to the big cities but Oregon and Montana want just as good tire goods as we can make. Of these, rockets, Kouian candles and the various colored fires seem to have struck popular favor. There has Ween sold this year, I think, fully 5C,000 000 worth of these for consumption on the Fourth alone, so that Saturday witnessed the disappearance of fully $6.(100,000 in smoke as an evidence of the patriotic feelings of the country noith of the Ohio River. "This does uot include the new fangled Japanese fireworks which are now extensively used for daylight exhi bitions. Every visitor of a country fair now thinks the show lacking if the com mittee does not set off between each heat of Ihe races a lot of these Japanese constructions. Their use, however, is almost entirely contined to such oo casions. But few are sold for the fourth, as the celebrating patriot of to-day, like his predecessors of old, want just as much noise as possible by day and just as handsome a show by night as money will buy. A. 1. Times. COLOMBIA. Tha Llcennes Exhibited by the Mcantiou l'rrss of the Country. In Colombia the press enjoys a liberty that is almost license even mothers of families can be calumniated with impu nity; but as an instrument of correction and as a promoter of progress it has be come within the last few years not only impotent but- odiously opposed to those noble aims. The serious, moderate.aud truly, "leading" publications are few anil are not supported. Those which are most numerous are political sheets of an ephemeral but mischievious exist ence, mo? t of them modeled after La Lanterne, V Intramiqcant, and La Ba taj'lle of the French demagogues. The acrimony of theirlangauge and the cyn ism of their accusations are unparallel ed elsewhere. If one were to accept the opinions of these papers he would firmly believe that the public men of Colombia arc a gang-of thieves fit only for the galleys of Toulon. In no piirt of the world are the men who administer the government subject to such vile at tacks not only through the press, but by word of mouth for noisy clamor is neither punished nor checked. An il lustration of this: At one time the houses of Congress could not assemble for the transaction of business except under the protection of a battalion of soldiers, and when one da this guard was absent the hoots and insults of the spectators in the galleries were simply monstrous. These outrages are there regarded as "excesses inseparable from libertv." Cor. X. Y. Herald. RAZOR LORE. A'lGoud Itazor Are ent to Hamburg to lie Grouud A Journeyman Itarber'a Outtit. . A tonsorial artist, gifted with the volubility of his craft, remarked yester day to a reporter that there was a great difference in razors, and the best were American razors. Then he warmed up with his subject, and continued: "Why, Sheffield stuff can not com pare with the true American razor, al though the Sheffield meu have a manu factory on this side, the American con cave razor is the pride of the world. It glides easily and gracefully over all the facial angles, contortions and bumps." "Who grinds your razors?" we asked. "All our razors are ground in Ham burg. Tin1 Shellield manufacturers alo send all their razers there to be ground. All the world goes to Hamburg to have a proper edge set on razors. Why do not the grinders come to this country? Why, that is easily explain!. They have a good business there, and if the emigrated, they would have none here, for Hamburg alone is known as the razor-grinding market. "I am only a journeyman barber, but my place and salary depend upon my skill and the use of a smooth, velvet edged razor vhich will suit the thinnest skinned customer. Do our bosses sup ply such razors? Oh.no. Every jour neyman barber in good repute must have his own supply of razors, whether iu New York, Chicago or San Francisco, er even in intervening country towns. Besides, he must supply his own combs and brushes." "Suppose he had none of these?"' "Why, he would be regarded as a tramp barber, and not eligible to a situ ation in any good establishment, while the lower grade shops wouldlcok upon him with suspicion.1 Y. II Huu. m e Many devices have been put in use by actors and lecturers to keep from smiling, but the simplest and most ef fective is to put a small wooden button in the mouth, and bite down on it every time the impulse tc laugh makes itself manifest, Some grit 'their teeth or cringe their toes, and a famous minstrel for a long time resorted to the scheme of sticking a pin in his thigh. Baltimore Herald. m m The glory of the Birmingham (England) Public Reference Library is the Sbakspere collection, originally founded in 18t4, destroyed by fire in 1879, but now restored almost to its former number of 7,000 volumes , . e m -The United States produces aearly 50,000 lawn mowers annually, and ex ports U every civilised coaatry oa the globe. USEFUL ANO SUGGESTIVE. Gypsum is the best land plaster; mortgage is the worst. Cfi'cayo Cur rent. The most desirable horses are ncrt always the handsomest. While beaut is a desirable quality of a horse it is not always esssential. r. Y. Independent. Covet not your neighbor's property nor envyus success. This would be wicked. But it is perfectly legitimate to emulate his good example, or try to beat him out of sight in raising good crops. Toledo Blade. Butler needs to be kept cool as well as fresh. To put in salt and water hardens it better than anything exceot ice. To put it in a basinthat stands in salt and water is not quite so effectual, but avoids the difficulty of putting it actually under water. Bo-t-n Budget. A heap of stones after lying two or three years will leave th soil beneath much richer than before. This i prob ably in some caes due to disintegra tion of the stone, which j-w the mode in which all soils are formed But th greater part of the effect is due to the action of the stones as a mulch, allow itir tin soil beneath to disintegrate. Chir.oqo Tim .. The gr.vih of the cattle industry i wondt'rful. Twenty yeais ago a million of dollars would cover the amount in vested in cattte ranches in the United States, while i.ow the iiiwMinent is es-' liuiated al a hundred millions. Not only in thison-tS. but abroul. agricul ture has been p'-r'ded iu miuypl:uv by cat lie ra: ; Imwritig ard will cotiiifin j price of hi-:. ;:. J", 'i'n't - Fried uitN.i v . ' . Chop hta raw meat as ou wuii.1 for :iuHg-: uuy nir al may be u d. but beef is b Season with s dt. pepH!r and otiiou; shape into fiat cak.'-.iiipiho cak-- in egg and bread crumbs, and fry in dripping. Drain on a strainer: have ready a dish f nicely nias'u-d potatoes ou which put your me.tt oakes and serve. Tht Hott'chnhl. Brahms. It-: Take the whites of .ten eggs, one quart of cream and one and one-half pounds of the best powdered sugHr (confectioner?" sugar is best); mix well togi'ihrr in a t'n or granite sauce pan; place it 0 the lire aud stir con stantly 1:11 :t boils once. Then add two wine gli." of Curacoa and half a tumbler of orange-flower water. Put it in the freezer and freeze. N. Y. 6'owi nieieial Advc, Utr. If you want your Mock to be gentle aud kind be gentle and kind yourself, and begin early. It is not incofup ttible with that liriniicss always iudipcns:;blc with the young. It will apply to the children of the family, especially. Chil dren cruelly raised will be cruel them selves. Animals cruelly treated will bv vicious. The exceptional cases are about equally divided between men and animals. Chiv-g-j Tr.bmie. There are many kinds of farmers besides merely good farmers ami poor farmers. There are farmers who farm solely for profit, for just all the haid cash they can possibly get out of their business: then there arc farmer who plav at farming, or farm for the fun of the thing, and farmers who are fanners tbecaiist 'h y happened to lit. farin-r- b force of e:rour.i-lances over which the have .seemed lo have but little control. iV. E. Fur inn: Delicious little puddings are made by this receipt: Weigh four ega and take the same weight in butter, sugar and flour. Mix the flour and butter smoothly together, then stir in the sugar, and lastly the eggs. Bake iu small buttered cups in a quick ove.i for twenty minutes; turn on a warm dish and serve with any desired sauce. The weight of four eggs will make sixteen small puddings. Philadelphia Call. FRENCH DETECTIVE POLICE. A Bad Siyatrta, a Small Hodyaa4 a Large Amount ot Work to De. There is, or has been until very lately, an idea that the prefecture de police in Paris commands the services of a large number of agents, all able and some of exceptional ability in their peculiar call ing, who devoted themselves entirely to the crime, who could immediately be launched on the track of a criminal, and of whom some had no ostensible connec tion with the prefecture, and were thus able to throw the most suspicious male factors off their guard. From M. Mace's book, plain and prosaic and shattered many cherished legeuds, it appears that the "agents de la Surete" are a small body with a vast amount of work to do. and that the system under which they work is about as bad as it possibly can be. As to their numbers, his statements are surprising. In 1879 there were all told in 2:57 men in the service. In 1881 there were, including the Police des Mcenrs, fused in that year with the Su rete, and of whose special work we do not for obvious reasons wish to speak, 806 agents; in 188:5 apparently about the same. At first sight this may seem a large number, and certainly, if the per fecture commanded the services of some 240 or 250 skillful detectives, excluding the Police des Majors, always at its disposition, it would be well able to grapple with crime; but, as a matter of fact, it has nothing of the kind, These men are not all skillful de tectives by any means. Some" are or were sent from other branches of the service as a punishment. Some are re cruits who have been very carelessly en rolled, and it appears from one passage in M. Mace's book that the best of the recruits are apt to leave early if thevsee their way to other employment. Then from the total number must be deduct ed the considerable staff required for of fice and clerk's work, and a certain number on the sick list, so that practi cally the administration ban not more than 200 men at its disposal. The work which these agents have to do is enor mous. In addition to this not inconsid erable amount of work the ageuts had to deliver personally 6,193 summones, notices and letters from the Parquets. Of this part of their duties M. Mace speaks stronglv. and seemingly with good reason. The unfortunate agents, with only a short night's rest before them, have to issue forth in the evening for they never geb tne otticial docu ments before and to discover all sorts of disagreeable persons lodged in the bad quarters of Paris, where, on the part alike of the landlords aud of the retiring guests, there is the strongest possible dislike to intrusion, and sometimes a marked tendency to make tha delivery of undesired letters as unpleasant as possible for the bearers. Needless to say that the function is arduous and perilous, and that it constitutes a severe addition to the day's work. Saturday Review. ' Novel Reading. Young Society Belle "Oh, Dr. Port man, 1 am so glad I met you. I hava such au important question I want to ask you. 1 am so anxious you know net to do anything that'I do not think my pastor could fully approve, and I do want to know if you think novel reading Is wrong?" Dr. Portman "No, my dear yoqpg lady, I think I may say that I do aot deem novel reading a sia." Young Society Belle "Ob, I am so glad. I told the girls I did not thiak yon would." Or. Portman "No, my dear young friend, I think that the readiag of his tory and science, and works of travel, is highly salutary to the youthful mind. And I am quite sura -that would be aaval reading to you." LtuinHlU J- FOREIGN GOSSIP. The temples in Dahomey are al most cittirolv- built of human" .-kulls. - Ci ili ;a-,s a bounty" of five dollars a ii;.:l or 1 he sealps of condors but the i d are so sly that i' does not j.ay to hunt lhe4D A jo-k altar, with -tcos bat tend and wralhe worn, has rvc ntly been :li .covered near Zorah. the hotuo of Manna i. the father oC Nunsou. The pav.lioa of ilenrv IV.. as St. Germain, ha b cn turned into a ivs ta rant a-ul people dine in the very room in whioh Loui-s XI was born. Tiii little town o: Itatteuber", f-Mii: whi.-h the huliand of Princess ! trice and i.is brothers derive their title, ha hve par. of th- Priiian ter ritory nearly itin te n ears. An invention which will be of great service ha us? he.'ii patented by Mr. i'rammo'd of iVS a-t. It shields the wheel- of train ears o as to pre vent the posi'ilit. of n'ury to any person from falling between them", i'hotigh simple it. fit'iills the pu pose. Including women and children whoe live ihi'O.I depend- upon the os tabi siiniftit, then i in the Krupp iron works, at K-en a work ng class popu lation of nor fewer than .:: persons, o: whom nearly 2!.0.Ki live in houses owned by the works. The Arabs made a pyramid of the skulls of Kicks unfortunate command. W .U'h peri-hed in the oudan before (tordon went t'-ere. Of t!-ise.pod:tion 10 (Km soldiers in 'h.diiig 2.1 00 eavil n. periihcd and 1.0.h.u;K) rounds of K miugto'i amut tuition, seven Krupp. six Nordenfelt and twctily-iiiiie lnotu tain guns were captured." - A J a'tiaiclial coip.le living in the s.ou'.h o( Franc have had twenty-seven chi.'dr n of ivhom iw.-nii -live ate liv ing, and threi? a .-.crvinj; in the army in ionquin. The fat he- and mother, aged respectivvl- ?cnt -three aud Ml -eight, cultivate a farm aided by six oilier sous. Of their twenty-seven children, tw -nty on wre bows. Out of .-0Sr m-mber-of the Houe of Lord no "ess than -!U are landlords in the ftilhs: sense of the term; that , the. derive th whole or greater part of t eir revenues from land. Fifteen mil lion acres of lafid. with a-i aii'iiiai rent roll of jtl.r.0Hi.:0. ivpiesents their property and income while another r.rM.tK! iu the ship.- o pensions, an-nuilic-r, aud salaries also falls annually lo tne lot ot this privileged class. Among the flints of chalk formation is occasionally Sound one Mint emits a cIum inii.-ical sound wr.cn tt'itek tnnTiifr Hint. A I'roni'litii-ni Ima MtCw-ecdrtl in liiaki g a "phno" f om inese mu.Mcal stones. J lie Hints ar. si'speiided by wires abo e a sounding board, and are played by two other fiint-. The stones of the piano number twenty-six. formi g two chromatic oc taves, anil were collected with much patiejit labor, during a period of more ti an thirty ears. Th le seems to be co rela "on between tho .-i es of the stones and thoir to ics. LOHO B-ACONSFIELO. Not Given Uver to lermint Ambllioa A lf:t Km i HlogtHl Lord Be'condield has been re proached with b irrg wholly given over to personal ambition, lie was not, it is said, a patriot at all. He was simply a clever, unscrupulous promoter of his individual success. The censure is as meaningless as it is stereotyped. What is it which divides ambition from pa triotism? Wiio can s.iy at what point the former ceases to be indispensable to the latter? IIw is a m n to place himself in the position of serving his country, unless he"first secures the ear of his country; and how is he to do this unless, as a preliminary, he advances himself and takes his stand on a com manding platform? That the polluy or r.onl Beaconsfield. when he obtained the opportunity of moulding apoiioyaud secured for it tho approval of the English people, was eminently patriotic and was ia con formity with the b-'st traditions of Kn giish statesmanship, has already been shown. Ambition is a part of patriot ism. Tne motives which are the priimuu mohile of the patriot must alwavs be beyond the ken of the critic. It is by his e.it-rnal action only, and its results, that the patriot can bv udged. It may be con lidently predicted that the more calmly ami impartially the career of Lord llcaconsficld Is e-;am:ucd the more con temptuously will history reject the c.iarge. often and mechanically bronghl aamst him. ot being a political adven turer. He made polities his profession, lie fought hs way by d nt of irsintre- d:ty, his intellectual power, his knowledge of human nature, his elo t Ufiice. Ids wit his litcrarv skill. He must therefore be classed with such nii'ii as Chatham aud his son. w th lturkc, IMacauIay. and iMr. Gladstone himself. Nor will Lord Beacon-lielp ever be recognized as an adventurer in the -euse that he changed his princi ples with the lime-, that he deserted a falling cans ju-t soon pnough to pin his allegiance to the wi ningcolors that he subordinated prin iples to ex pediency. '-The Letters of Run in meile." The Spirit of TVhig gUm." "The Vindiation of the 1'iitish Constitution." ami the novels of sibil." "Tancred " an I f'oiiigsbv" contain the articles of that po i'ieal creed to which Lord lea'on -field was tru throtigho ;t his life. The ery rea sons which caused him to be dissatis fied with the le orm Bill of 18:'2 were the coi cluive argume rts in favor of his own licform Bill of thirty-five years later. Temple liar. THE PANAMA CANAL. ont- StiiteiitMi SnKi HliniK as to IU i'hV4lcl r it f. Dr. Charles Pinckney, a man of fine learning anil observation, opens up a stupendous suggestion. He asked, the other dav: Have you thought muclj of the plnsical effect of the Panama Canal?" Not much." "Well, let me throw out a sugges tion. The l'acilic Ocean is live times as large as the Atlantic The rotary motion of the earth, acting on water near the equatorial line, of course, has a tendency to pile it up. The bulk of tho l'acilic beiuir so mucli larger than the Atlantic, is 1 fled twouty-cight feet h hcr than the Atlantic, ror the same reason, that of its bulk, it is about twenty degrees colder Now imagine the ei'cct of this enoimous body of wa le:, twenty-eight feet higher ia level and twenty decrees lower in tempera ture, being poured into the Atlantic through the canal. Why doesn't it seek its levo! below the cape?" "Because that point of meeting is so far from the equatorial line that the centrifugal force Is uot so great and the levels of the two oceans are tht ame. Up about the Panama the dif ference in levels is great and the im mense volume of the Pacific will rush dowu into the Atlantic with terrific force." "And with what effect?" "That is almost beyond speculation. Bui suppose this m ngliuz of the twe oc. a-is .-imply changed the current ol the ulf stream. Tha one enangt wot.l 1 wipe out the cotton and rice in dustry. lnaMng Georgia many degrees colder. These are speculations; but the cold facts are as stated, and it ii interesting to think of what will be th affect when the canal is cut. and tat ub immensity of the Pacific is drop aadtothe level" of the Atlaatic At iumta ContUttifin. Be Warned in time. Kidney diseases may be prevented by purifying, renewing, and invfgoratin;; the blood with Ayers SarsauariHa. When, through debility, the action of the kidney Is perverted, these organs rob the blood of Its needed constituent, albumen, which i passed off in the urine, while woru out matter, which they should carry off from the blood, is allowed to remain. By the use of AVer's Sarsaparilla, the kidney-, are restored to proper action, ami Albu minuria, or Bright's Disease Is prevented. Ayer'a Sarsaparilla a So prevents inflammation of the kidneys, and other disorders cf thee organs. Mrs. Jas. TV. Weld, Forest :Ytl -f.jamatca riain. Mass., writes : - ,iave had a complica tion of discus, b-. r.-.y greatest trouble has been with my kidneys. 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