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! i 1 1 ( B 9. t. to n i' 1 FAMILY TRIBULATIONS. The Hard Lines That Have Fallea Up Mill Arp. I am very busy now. Literature is at discount in theso parts. The cook quit us last week, and company coming to-morrov city company. I have had a chunk of a darky boy hired all the year, and he was fight haqdy. Ho got up the stove wood and brought the water and milked the cows, and so forth: but all of a sudden his daddy "sent after him',' to hoe cotton, and he left on ten minutes1 notice. These darkies are right clever and good-natured, but they have no more idea of a contract than a hog. They will break it whenever it suits ttfem. They will quit you without .warning, and not feel mean about it a bit. The grass got ahead of Mr. Jordan Franklin, and he just sent word to our chunk, Edward Franklin, to come home. When I re; monstrated and reminded him of his contract, he says he. is just obleeged to have him, andwill.sead.him back "jes as soon as hil done? with fcim.'' That's all, and so Npd! 'cut, out 'without cere mony. We are doing our own nigger ing now, and it keeps me bus'. Our big boy has got'a base ball nose, and it was getting well. It was sorter swaig ing down until yesterday, when a bee stung him on it, i the peach orchard. and now it is bigger than ever. The orchard is full of bees, for the peaches are ripe, and the storm blew lots of them on the ground, and Carl got stunjr on the foot, ' and so the moro work fans upon me. We cut down a dying rcdoak in the grove and sawed it" up with the cross cut for stove wood, and my folks say it won't burn good, and we had to work up a dead sycamore, and the sun was 'powerful hot and come down with pow er on my unsuspecting back. I forgot that I had on a locust back shirt, for I never wear one if I can find any other .'in the drawer, and now there is a blis tered streak running down my spine, and I am sorter used up generally. But there is no chance to stop now for com pany is coming. This jelly business has got to proceed. I have to gather apples and plums and blackberries to make jelly, and get wood to keep up the fire to make jelly and jam and gather peaches to put up in the fruit jars, and bring water to wash up the piazza floor., and ever and anon it is more peaches, and more appli-s, or more water or more wood, aud they want three spring chick ens caught, and the old pea hen, with her line young one, has strayed off, and I must hunt them up. They all worked hard yesterday mighty hard, and knew they would over sleep themselves, and so 1 got breakfast this morning, and a right good one. I have long enjoyed a rep utation in my family for making biscuit, and they do" praise my biscuit raptur ously. Mrs. Arp frequently says when she sits down to the table. 'I wish I had some of j'our pa's biscuit this morning.' ;It is a dangerous thing for a man to know how to cook. I learned how to cook in the army and Mrs. Arp says that is the only good thing that ever came out of the old war. I wish I hadn't have learned or had kept it secret, one or the other. She says that I can muke up the best bed in the world. The only trouble 1 have about the bed is in getting her and the children out of them, for they do love to sleep in th morning. If I had been a darky in old slavery times, my wife says she would have given more money for me than any ten fche ever saw, for ie could have con trolled me then. Hut I don't see any difference m) far as the controlling is concerned, and she got me for nothing. More water they say. 1 wonder what upon eartli they do with so much water? The bos gone to town after supplies, fruit jars and jelly tumblers, and sugar, aud Horsford's powders, and a new broom, and I don't know what all, and now the' keep me trotting. I wish there wasn't-nny town nor any supplies. Man that is born of one woman and tied to another is of few days and full of trouble. But it might have been worse a heap worse -for he might have been born a woman and tied to a man. That is the most perilous condi tion in all nature. Nevertheless it has to be done, trouble or no trouble, and I am content. And now they want some potatoes dug and some beans picked, and there are more cucumbers on the vines ready for pickling. These old bodies of ours arc a sight of trouble. I wonder if they have no gardens or or chards in the next world? I am not sure about that, for there is a heap of .Scripture that tells of trees, and cities, and street!, and horses, aud so forth. I reckon we will have all the good and none of the bad- uo rotten peaches nor bee stings no stove wood to get no water to tote up a hill, no chickens to catch. Well, 1 don't mind catching the chickens, for the dog does that aud never hurt them, but I do despise to "Ibc "em."' If there is anything better than old-iashioncd fried chicken I don't know it. but 1 want somebody else to "fix 'em." Everything that is good has a bad side about it. If I was to find a rich gold mine on my branch I know it would bring some trouble, but still I would risk It. Getting rich is like getting married, everybody is willing to risk it. Calling me again want to know if I sent for salt. Of course I didn't. Why should I know the salt was out. There is something out forever and ever, but I didn't know it was salt. Have to send up to Nabor Freeman's aud borrow. That is what a nabor is for to borrow from. Folks are not naborlv unless they lend and borrow. My folks may make out a list of everything that is out and next day there will be something wanted. Old Major Cooper told me that he could live comfortably on ten cents a day. He said he had a cow and she furnished milk and butter and buttermilk, and he had flour, and all he bought was coffee and sugar. He didn't eat any meat, and he figured it all up and it was ten cents. Why should any body bog or starve in this country? Who is there so feeble but what ho can make ten cents a da ? An old woman can make it knitting socks. But I want more than "that. A man has to get older than I am to be content with such limited diet. And aow they want me to put a handle to the slop-bucket II I can't find one Mrs. Arp thinks I can just step to the shop and make one. And I can. The truth is, I have illus trated my usefulness and contrivance so long, there is no use in saying "I can't,' for she says she knows" that I can, and that just means for me to go along and do it. O, my country! Fare well peace! Farewell, literature! And the spring house wants cleauing out, too, 1 heard her say. I havens had time to shave in three days, and com pany is coming to-morrow.'' Atlanta Constitution. m m Quite a novel pet in the shape of a blackbird is in the possession of Miss Olive Waldron. of Welaka. She found it when young in the woods, and fed it and cared for ituntil able to fly, when she released it, but it will not remain away. It flies off in the woods and comes at her call of Dick; it goes to roost with the hens in the hencoop. t the table and makes a fuss until fed, lighting on one's shoulder and feeding from the hand. The house cat knows it belongs to the family and pays no at tention to it Palatka (Fla.) 'News. Of the 82,000,000 left tyaNew York man for the establishment of a mOege of music it is said that but $2,000, fainaTju, the rest having been eonsoiMd inlkyttioB. IT. T. guru WAR TIME EXPEDIENTS. Rome Facto Illustrating- the Proverb that "Jfeceselty I the Mother of InTentioa life la the Sooth During thB War. Perhaps, taking everything into con sideration, no portion of the Confed eracy "during our late unpleasantness" was so-destitute of the necessaries of life as that portion lying on the South ern sea board and forming part of the States of Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. The great industries of these i States, that is, that portion situated as ' exDlained above, was timber, lumber. .,: mw ;ti .nil tnnuntinn (Tha soil is not favorable, except in favored i sdois. ior cultivation. uuisuu ui . m a.? at m . ...... j vast level flats, the top soil of loam is ' very thin, while immediately beneath U , is a" heavy pipe clay, while the oniy 1 vegetation that seems to thrive are the I great forests of pine. These, skirting ! the Gulf of Mexico, following the coast- line for several hundred miles, and with a breadth ranging from one to two hundred miles, form Ihe well-known pine meadows, destined in years to come to be a prolific source of wealth to the South. Perhaps with us; who resided in this portion of the Confederacy, the first necessity, after the small "supply on hand was ev hausted. was salt This was a need soon felt, and it is unnecessary to add that a pound of it soon became ren precious. Old brine that had done duty until it could be used no longer was boiled down until every particle of saline matter was extracted from it, and the salt thus obtained was aga'n in its turn used in the same manner. As the supply became scarcer and scarcer, the next method, or rather recourse, was to dig up the smoke-house and to filter water through the" earth thus ob tained, this in turn being subjected to the usual process of boiling in order to obtain the precious condiment. So scarce did it become as" the war wore on, that when a beeve was k'lled. in stead of salting down in barrels as at first, it became more economical to cut the flesh into thin strips and dry it in the sun. It must be confessed that beef treated in this maimer is more palatable than most persons would i magiue. They who lived near the coast fared somewhat better, for taking the boilers from tha various saw-mills, they separated the shells from the flues, and splitting them into equal halves, a strong head of wood was litted into the ends and thus treated they were placed over a fnrnace and filled with the salt water from the Gulf. Of course the business had its reverses, for sometimes the blockading squadron, attracted by the smoke, would move up and with a few shells completely demolish the salt works. The salt kettles, being made of old boilers, were too heavy for the enemy to carry off, and as no damage beyond knocking out the wooden heads could be inflicted, tl e salt manufacturers would, with indefatigable energy when the hostile fleet removed to a safe dis tance, gather up the debris, make a few repairs and recommence boiling. The ingenuity of the people was to replace the various articles of clothing and the different domest'c luxuries. Old dressess. old coats were turned and made over, remodeled and cut down. The writer remembers well what a pang of envy was awakened within his bosom going to a ball one night to find that the attentions of the fair ones were all bestowed on an acquaintance who made Irs advent that evening in a bright, spick, span new pair of' panta loons, made of new ticking, with broad, blue stripes, cut bias. Perhaps tho easiest problem for us to solve am d our .various troubles was that of making hats. Fortunately the supply of palmetto in our Southern swamps is in a manner speaking inex haustible, and from this source we were soon compelled by the course of eventu to draw our supply of hats. We soon learned to improve upon the first rude models, and when the war was brought to a close some of the ladies, especially, had acquired taste aud proficiency. The palmetto hats they made would not have reflected dUcredic upon a fashion able hatter. The heart of the palmetto is generally selected as being still held together, and not being sprouted out and unfolded into the fan-shaped leaf so familiar to travelers in the South. While in this condition the folds lie one upon another, and are perfectly white and pliable. After being severed from the main tmnk it is opened out and hung in the shade to dry. About a week's drying suffices" to pre pare it for use. It is now separated, each fold from the other, and cut into convenient lengths, then di vided into little strips about an eighth of an inch in widch, and these in tarn plaited or braided together into one con- tinuous braid until of sufficient lensrth to make tlie hat The hat itself was always commenced from the center of the crown by sewing the braid together in slightly overlapping circles. The rim, as a finishing touch, was generally bound with a braid. Keenly felt was the need of ammuni tion. Owing to the stringency of the blockade it soon became almost impos sible to obtain either powder or lead. The latter was the iirst to give out and iu order to supply this need all the ma chinery was taken apart and all the old boxes, fillings, etc.. were put to a new use converted into shot. As there were no shot towers the favorite method was to climb the tallest tree one could find, melt the lead as well as we could in tho top and let the liquid metal drop into a tub of cold water beneath. The result thus obtained would scarcely have awakened envy on the part of some of our modern shot manufacturers, but in the language of an old "moss back" who was compelled to resort to this expedient, "it beat nothing all holler." Detroit Free Press. DIDN'T KNOW HOW. The L,o; au Arkansaw Gentleman Suffered Whrn Ills Wife Waa-DIvorced. Colonel Wadley Higinson, of Ken tucky, came to Arkansaw and rented a small farm of Major Wiley Smith. When the rent became due. Major Smith approached Colonel Higinson and a:d: "Colonel, your rent is due to-day." "I am 6orry to hear that, for I like you." "What?" "I am sorry for I like you." "What difference does that make?" "Makes all the difference in the world." "How so?" "Because I can't pay yon." "Why?" "Well, because 1'ye been disap pointed?" "Financially?" "No, not particularly." "Crops short?" "No.' "Been sick?" "No, been in good health." "Then what's the matter?" "Wife got a divorce from me." "What difference does that make?" "What?" The Major repeated the question. "What difference does that make ? Why man. yeu must be crazv. My wife he took care of the crop." "What d'd you do?" "What! W'y, I iun the farm. You fellows don't know-how to raise a crop." Arkansaw Traveler. Dr. C. C. Abbottthe naturalist, re cently found upon his farm at Trenton, N. J., a Ikx tortoise, upon the under hell of which was cut his grandfather's name, J. Abbott, with the date 1821. The appearance of the tortoise demoted eat age, and there is no reason to obt tho fact that the name was really Dfiawed.upon it sixty-four yean ag. A DOMESTIC TRAGEDY. The Philosophical Maaaer la Which the "Seproes Accept the Decrees of Provi dence. Last summer while the writer was in Amelia County, Virginia, the following incident occurred, illustrative of the philosophical manner in which negroes accept the decrees of Providence. Amelia, i will be remembered, is one of the black counties. The negroes occupy most of the old homesteads, and are given over to ignorance and super stition. The Wigwam, the old Harri- ' son place, a house well known in Vir mnin iz c imuiiiiiMii mm . a. ginia, is surrounaeu on every siue uj hordes of negroes, who own small tracts of land, and farm them. One of these settlements is at "the Lodge." once tho jiroperty of Mr. Robert Archer, a dis tinguished Virginian gentleman of the old regime, now, with all his descend ants, dead and gone. My hostess and I were peeling peaches on the broad veranda, when Mary Ctesar, the dairy maid, .appeared. "Miss Anna, g'mme piece o1 light bread, please, niann." "Who is sick. Mary?" said Mrs. H . light bread being a luxury re served for the ill negroes. "Sister Rose Archer, niarm." All colored people crUiiu the fraternal rela tion, whether there is any in reality or not. if they are members of the same church, orhave "experienced a change." "Why. I thought Rose Archer lived in Richmond. What is the matter with her?" Mary's large greasy countenance, which rivalled a bombazine dress for blackness, fairly shone. "Well, Miss Anna, vou 'member Sis Rose was married to lnk Crutch Henry Archer's son William, en dey moved fum de Lodge to Richmond. 'Bout three weeks ago S's Rose en Willum hed a light 'bout some'in', en Sis Rose hit Willum Archer er lick on de head wid a stick er wood, and it kilt him. it pintly did. Willum Archer always was a sickly nigger. Well, Miss Anna, she done all she could, en gin him er funer al, en den, bein' ez she was a widder, aud pore, she come up to de Lodge to stav hero 'longer Willum's daddy en mammy. Unk Crutch Henry were mighty 'flicted 'bouten Willum being kilt 'cause he were de onliest son what he had, but Sis Rose say she gwine dai to be all de company she ken for Wil lum's folks." The peach knife fell. Mrs. H though schooled to Amelia eccentrici ties, stood transfixed. Then she gasped "And William's father. and mothe: let her stav there after killing their onlv son?" "Miss Anna." said Mary in a pecu liarly soothing voice, "Unk Crutch Henry done ax Rose buck um she come to kill Willum Archer, en Sis Rose sav .she don't know huck m.' This was Monday. Sunday afternoor Mary reappeared, an expression of tri umphant excitement in her eyes, though her manner was as gentle and depreca tory as ever. "Sis Rose Archer dead. Miss Anna,' she announced. "Dead! When did she die?" Mary smoothed her apron. "Well, Tuesday mornin'. Miss Anna Br'er Jeames Barksdale went to Court House, en de sheriff sout Sis Rose word to git ready, 'cause he was comin' to de Lodge Monday mornin' to git her en hang her for kiilin' of Willum Archer. En Sis Rose say ef do sheriff were com in' to hang her, ez she were porelj enyway, 'twa'nt wutk while to git up, si the gwine die." "Nonesense!" cried Mrs. H . "Ai if people could die when they chose!" "Sis Rose done die." said "Mary stout ly. "She say 'lum'n't wuth while to qit up jest to be hanged, en she die last night, en pleae, Miss Anna, lemme gc to de funeral. link Crutch Hcnr gwine gin her a mighty nice buryin', bein' ez she was a widder, en Willum Archer was de onl'est son lie hed." J. C. Cabel, in Editor's Drawer, Harper, Magazine. LORD NAPIER. How a Great Military H Ik tory was Con - celwd and Written. One day early in 182:$ he went for a walk with Lord Langdale. one of hi: intimate friends, over some fields which are now covered by the mansions of Belgravia. The conversation turned on Southey's recently published narrative of the Peninsular war. Lord Langdak was greatly struck by Napier's remarks on the events of the struggle and tht characters of the principal actors. Sud denly he asked him what he was think ing of doing. "Do you mean," replied Napier, "where am I going to dine?" "No," said Lord Langdale; "what art you thinking of turning to as an occu pation?" Then he urged him to turn to literature. The article on Jomini proved that he could write. He must not waste his life in mere amusement. Why should he not write a history of the war himself? On returning home Napier told his wife what Lord Lang dale had said, and added that he himself felt doubtful wheth er he was clever enough to write properly such a book as a histon of the war. But she, believing firmh in her Husband, encouraged him to try. For several nights he lay awake think ing over the matter. At last his scru ples were overcome by the thought that he might be able at least to vindicate the calumniated memory of Moore, and he resolved to make the attempt. Those of his acquaintances who did not really know him were surprised to hear of his iutent'on, and remarked that being a comparatively young man, he was presumptuous to think that he could write such a history. Having formed his resolve he lost no time ic proceeding to exjcute it First of all. he called upon the Duke of Wellington and asked him for the loan of his Eapers. The Duke replied that he had imself thought of writing a plain, didactic history of the war, which should be published after his death. Till then it would be impossible to make known the whole truth without giving pain to many worthy officers, whose only fault had been dullness. For these reasons he told Napier that he could not lend him his private papers; but he intrusted him with a number of important documents, aud gave him au thority to obtain from the Quartermaster-General. Sir George Murray, all his orders of movements. Of his own ac cord he promised to answer any ques tions as to matters of fact which Napier might wish to ask him in the course of his work. Murray, however, refused to let Napier have the orders of move ments, stating that he reserved them for a history which he himself intended to write. After taking these preliminary steps Napier went to Paris to collect materials for the French side. He walked about the streets, exploring the contents of the bookstalls', and bought every book that seemed likely to be of any use to him. He also went regular ly to the Depot de la Guerre and made copious extracts from the documents which were stored on its' shelves. On returning to England he took up his abode for a time at Strathfieldsaye for the purpose of consulting the Duke. Marshal Sonlt with whom when in Paris he had struck up an acquaintance, lent him valuable papers; he corresponded .with Marshal Jourdan, and received in formation from officers who had served on the staff of Ney and.Massena. H also collected an immense .mass of let ters and. journals from British ofmcers. GRANT AS A COLLECTOR. How He Compelled a Speculator to Make Guod Kouie Draft He Had Given the Soldiers. In the spring of 1863, the army of the Tennessee was camped from Lake Provi dence to Milikin's Bend. Louisiana, waiting to make the attack on Vicks burg. Our battery (Bclton's) was camped at Barry's Landing. Late one evening, at roll-call, the Capta'n stepped to the front of the company and said that a friend of bis, a Mr. Alfred Spink. of Chicago, represented a wealthy firm. Price, Maher & Spink, cotton buyers that he (Spink) would give drafts to any of the men desiring tr send their money home, on F. Graager Adams, a Chicago banker; that tin parties were reliable, and that in cast the drafts were captured b the enemy they would be renewed, is many ot the boats goior up the ivr were captured by the Confederates at Eagle Bend, or Island 83, and the bays were paid off that day. we all concluded to send our money by drafts, a) the Capt ain told us, and "we mailed them by the first boat going north to our fami lies. Soon alterward we moved to Grand Gulf, crossed the river at Hard Times Landing, participated in the battles of Raymond and Chamnion Hill, and engaged in the se'ge of ieksburg about the 19th of May. 1805. A few days afterward we got a b'ff mail, which had accumulated for two months, and when the bovs came to open the letters every blessed draft was returned with word that there were no funds in thfa bank to pay the same. We all felt dis heartened as we had not before, been paid for six montlis, and our famil es were suffering. The Captain told us that everything would be all right after a little. We were busy with the s'ege from daylight until dark for forty-seven or forty-eight days, and did not think much about it. A Mr. C. C. Cadwallader. correspond ent of the Ch'cago Wines, made hi headquarters for mouths with Captain Bolton, and about the third dav of the siege he turned up Captain Billy, :;; we called our Captain, had great con fidence in old Cad. as the boys called the correspondent, and ho la'd the whole matter liefore him. Old Cad set sail on his one-eared mule for Grant's headquarters, and in about an hour re turned with a me-sago that the General wanted to see tho Captain. I never will forget that evening, when Captain Bill returned with the convs pondent and the one-eared mule. He told the boys that the money would l)e forthcoming, that everything was fixed for the men to return their drafts tc Chicago, to Godfather Cyrus P. Brad ley. Chief of Pol'ce (the battery was re cruited at Captain Bradley's office, and the boys always called him Godfather Bradley). Soon afterward word came that every draft was paid. As it may be interesting to the reader to know what kind of an order General Grant made that had such a salutory ef fect upon the parties, I will give it a? near as I can. The General had a list of all the drafts aud the amounts, and then by preamble recited the facts, and then ordered the commander of the United States forces at Chicago to de maud payment from Messrs. Price. Maher & Spink, and in case they tic clined or refused to do so, to place then in irons, and to send them under guar, to him in the field. Lieutenant S. P Tracy was detached to carry out the order, and the Quartermaster's depart ment was ordered to furnish the neces sary transportat'on. After the capture of Vicksburg I was riding with the Captain to our battery headquarters out t he Cherry street road, when General Grant came trotting along. Coming abreast he said: "By the way. Cap. a n, what became of that order about the drafts?" The Captain replied that everything had been settled satisfactorily, to which the old hero re plied: "Although I gave free transpor tation I did not think they liked me welf enough to make me a visit" Cor. Chi cago Inter Ocean. m m MENTAL ABSTRACTION. Some ot the Odditle Wli'ch Distinguish Great iople. The lowest grade of mental disturb ance is seen in that temporary appear ance of irrationality which cetnes fron. an extreme state of "abstraction" oi absence of mind. To the vulgar, a? already hinted, all intense preoccupatiot with ideas, by calling off the attention from outer things and giving a dream like appearance to the mental state, is apt to appear symptomatic of "queer ness" in the head. But in order that it may find a place among distinctly ab normal features this absence of mind must attain a certain depth and persist ence. The ancient story of Archimedes, and the amusing anecdotes of Newton's fits, if authentic, might ;o said perhaps to illustrate the border-line between a normal and an abnormal condit'on of mind. A more distinctly pathological case is that of Beethoven, who could not be made to understand why his stand ing in his night attire at an open win dow should attract the irreverent notice of the street boys, tor in th's case we have a temporary incapacity to perceive exterior objects and their relations; and a deeper incapacity of a like nature clearly shows itself in poor Johnson's standing before the town clock vainly trying to make out the hour. This same aloofness of mind from the external world betrays itself in many of the eccentric habits attributed to men aud women of genius. Here, again, Johnson serves as a good instance. His inconvenient habit of suddenly breaking out with scraps of the Lord's Prayer in a fashionable assembly marks a dis tinctly dangerous drifting away of the inner life from the firm anchorage of external fact. In the cases just considered we have to do with a kind of mental blindness to outer circumstances. A further ad vance along the line of intellectual degeneration is seen iu the persistence of vivid ideas, commonly anticipations of evil of some kind, which have no basis in external reality. Johnson's dislike to particular alleys in his London walks, aud Madame de Stacl's bizarre idea that she would sutler from cold when buried, may be taken as examples of these painful delus'ons or ideesjixes. A more serious stage of such delusions is seen in the case of Pascal, who is said to have been haunted by the fear of a gulf yawning just in front of him, which sometimes oecame so overmastering that he had to be fastened by a chain to keep him from leaping forward. "Genius and Insanity''' by James Sully, in Popular Science. m m Jn The Garden. He You'll get cold, but it was so nice of you to meet me here. She I said I would, and I did, but, as you remarked, it really is quite cold .for this season of the year. HeDid I say it was cold? Ah (try ing to get off a pretty speacb) , how could I call it cold where you are? She But it is cold (tenderly), now don't you think the fog will hurt you? He Not while you are here. Let us Bit down here and have a talk. She O, not in this fog. Now I really think it wrong of you to remain out in the cold. He (Wondering why she don't ask him in) Well, if you think so and it is so nice of you to be so considerate Small brother (from our best parlor) Mamie, Mr. Barrett says be'li go if you don't come in, an' he says you've a pretty way of entertaining your com-jmaj.-man Francisco Xewi-LeUer. MISCELLANEOUS.- Two young men, one of whem was disguised as a woman and parsed as the other's wife, have been reaping a har vest from charitable citizens of Stockton. Cal., by their pitiful talc of destitut.on. San Francitco Chronicle. At Seneca Falls. N. Y., the largest single electric light ever p oduced was recently placed on exhibition. It was 50,U00-candle power, and pkced on a tower at a height of seventy-live feet it lighted up the whole village. tujfalo Express. As two men were fish'ng in a mill pond at Va'atie, Co'.urab a County, N. V.. the ot'ier day. they saw a crocodile about six feet long crawl nto th water. It was put into the pond Six years ago. when small. In Tenejapa. Oaxaca. Mexico, the Indian residents are n ore sanguinary than the Chinese ia the .uirn n:strat:ti of justice. -They surrounded trie houae of seven well-known ro";b.rs and burned them afivc in tlieir houses. When them-litia arrived they only found a heap of ashes. In a dispute regarding his residence the Plain Dea'er asserts that "the stin giest man in America liv;. s in Cleveland, lie is the man who ha Is the newshovs. takes a paper from his h.u is. lo sks it carefully firough, keeping the oy wait ing, and, after gleaning what he wa-s's from the paper, .-ay "Here sonny, is your paper. Don't "want it; notling m it." Joseph I). Fif'er. an old gentleman of seventy. ' : ' N entitled to 160 acre- o . . :i U waswil'cd to Sally Mm i : . .:'.i.- by William Peuu before he we.il 1 v t i-.nirla.id the last t.me. Wheii-h el nobody cla'med the land and it w:t taken by the eity and sold. Mr. Ki:H-r hat been liok'ng tip the genealog e i! record of the fami ly aud is couv uce I that he is au heir. J'iifadd Jiia l'n;s: A few days ago a Watervliet. (N. Y.) farmer was induced by a stranger to act as agent for a wire fouce. siguini what he was toM w:it an agent's certifi cate. Soon after two men visited h'm and showed him a paper, the one he had signed. It was a contract to purchase S.",000 worth of wire. He inv ted the men into his barn, where ho snatched the paper from the hands of the one that he'il it and drove both from the prem'ses with a pitchfork. Troy 'Times. One of the nlatest retorts ever made in Cambridge, Mass. not a bad soil for good things was a brief re sponse lately given by a young lady to an undergraduate, who offered her. with sime lies tation. his s.'at in the nor.se-car. sue gor in with an eiit.T companion. The car was crowded, and two young men sat near. One gave his seat at once to the elder lady: the other kept his place. His friend asked him disguising it. however, in German why he did uot give his place to the young lady. . "Because she is not pretty enough." Af er a little reflect ou. how ever, he. too. rose and surrendered his seat. The young lady took it, aud thanked him in German X. Y. Trib une. CHOLERA. The Theory Tbut th Itinca-u; My be Ren-ilt-rtMl Ilarinli-M Ity ttti'i.ltln. People are much more willing to ac cept Dr. Ferran's theory that cholera may Tie prevented by inoculation than they were Dr. Jenner's positive demon stration of the efficacy of vaccination. One is the complement of the other; and bo'ief in the one is likely to be followed by a willingness to be convinced of the worthiness of tho other, but as yet Dr. Forran refuses to reveal the secret pro cess wh'ch he ues, and the world must be permitted to express a certain degree of incredulity uutil it knows the cause which produces the effects claimed bv him. deiiner'.s discovery was so simple that the dullest m'nd could comprehend it yet the learned scoffed at it for years, and the ignorant even now have a super stitious horror of being operated upon. Had he possessed some secret device which he would not reveal even to scientists, the ben eficial eileets of vaccination would not have been known when they were, if at all. Dr. Ferran lives in a very different age, as is proved by the fact that, although no one but himself knows exactly what his process is, he liuds many people who are willing to be operated on. The report of the experiments in the town of Alcira. Spain, as made by him self, are of great impoitanee, if true. Of the 20.00'J inhabitants he inoculated 9,100 and of the 130 deaths from cholera only ten were of ter.-on-s who h:id been thus treated. Th's record is convincing enough on its facr, but it may be that the persons inoculated wure ones not exposed to the full rigors of the plague, and if so the mor.al-ty might be considered sufficiently large. The dffttor will have to reveal his secret ami give others an opportunitv to ex periment with it before the wot Id will be prepared to acknowledge h in as a econd J miner. The American medcal journal's query that since one attack of the cholera itself is no .safeguard against another one, how can uioeulat on be expected to accomplish anything? w'll also haunt a great many people, profes sionals as well as laymen. Chicago Herald. A RAILWAY MAN'S LIFE. Evidence of the Hem-ml t'utfH.lriii-e lte rttwed o:t Ittilwjy I'rt-nhl -n'n. Talking with the president of one of the most important trunk lines yester day, a Tribune reporter heard the fol lowing stories: "There are incidents even in the hard life of a railroad man." said the officer, "which go to brighten his lot. and I am convinced that some of them are wasted through waut of appreciat'on. The other day I received a letter from a man in the We-a. who wrote that if I sent him $500 and a pa s over the road he would come to N- York and jrive me a remedy for setti-m; all railroad troubles and restor ug tht pow-r to make profitable dividends to the stockholders. Something funnier than this, however, happened the other day. A man came to me with a new lubricating grease, which he claimed would save $50,000 a year to the com pany by reason of the superior qualities it possessed, which were sufficient to effect that result. He was referred by the president to the first vice president, who referred him to the superintendent, who referred him to the superintendent of motive power, who referred him to the master mechanic. The latter, after examining the lubricator, referred the man back to the superintendent of motive power, who refoi red him back to the superintendent, who referred him back to the first v:ce president who re ferred him back to the president He sa'd to me that he had been detained here longer than he had expected, and, unfortunately, his board bill was in ar rears. He proposed that if I would give him twenty dollars to pay bis board ng-house keeper and enable him to get home, he would confidentially leave with me as security for the loan the recipe for making the new grease!" After a hearty laugh over the remem brance of the incident, the president added thoughtfully: "Now, as this man had never seen me before, and as most people do not know me. and as an in ventor does not usually intrust hi profitable secret to another, I take it that this story shows the general eoBft aence r.eit Dy toe puouo u ue dent' IT. T. Tribune. PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS. A man is always wanting some one to tell him how "handsome he is. A woman will just stand before the glass and see for hcrse Sprittgfickl H'cgis ter. Scientists claim that cigarette-smoking leads to idiocy. We do not know how true this is" but are satisfied that idiocy leads to cigarette-smoking. Texas Siftings. A scientific journal says "few fishes die a natural death." That is not our fault Just as many die a natural death as if we didn't go a-fihing. Xor rtetown Herald. The worm is not the most despised thing in the world when it cau sleep in flowers, travel in peaches and rest for the winter in the p.ous chestnut. New Orleans Picayune. An Ohio court decides that a hus band is tho legal owner of h s wife's clothes. It is to be hoped that in the future he will takeoff Irs high hat while he and she are at the theater. Olive Logan says that the Raphael for which the British Government paid $350,000 is a bad picture. This recon ciles us in part to the disappointment in not securing it for our private collection. Oil City Derrick: This is the way the ladies convey thoir meaning: i Mrs. Brown "How is that dear little babv of vours, Mrs. Smith?' "It Was dreadfully sick last week; thought it would die. but it s nearly well now." says Mrs. Smith. "O, I'm so sorry." says Mrs. Brown. Pittsburgh Chronicle. A New York lady wants ,a receipt "for making daisy mats from rickrack braid." If this lady will tell us how to make rickrack braid and what it is like after it is made, we shall be pleaded to send a receipt for the mat It will be a daisy. Boston Transcript. Hadn't yet occurred: "Will you walk Into my parlor?" Asked fie touor f the dud?. Who, elnd in corkscrew trouier And an Anglo-maniac mood. Said. "Why weally 1 would like to, 1 wouM upon my word: But the baard 1 lonirin watt for Somehow hasn't yet occurred." An exchange says that "the first pure monkey ever born in America saw the 1 ghtof day recently in New York." If these Italian Counts "who ro around , the country disguised as members of the Handle .Iusi -V Association are foisting an adultera irt-cle of monkey oa the Amcr can p i i - about time to cry "Halt!" Tue -1 io much adultera tion in our food and amusements. Abr risloum Henvd. "You .should have a thermometer to ascertain the proper temperature of i the water." said a fond mother to tho colored nurse who was giving the babv a bath. "Whafl'or?" -'To tell when the water is too hot or too cold." "Don't need no s:ch dockeriueut. Ef de chile turns blue de water am too cold, an' ef hit turns red den hit am too hot.' And now the colored lady is open to au ofl'or. Texas Sifting.. m m SCHOOL AND CHURCH. A deaf mute was recently ordained a clergyman of the Church of England by the Archbishop of Canterbury. Rev Thomas Spurgeon. son of the great Loudon divine, is pastor of a flourishing Baptist Church in Auckland flew Zealand. About twenty per cent, of the grad uating class at AVilliams are six feet high or over, or, to be exact, eleven in a class of sixty. Troy Times. Christian, make a note of this: The net gain in communicants the past year was nine times arnater in foreign mis sions than in Christendom! Christian I'nion. It has been decided to rebuild the Roman Catholic Cathedral at Charles ton. S. C. which was burned in the great fire of 1861, and at that time con sidered the finest ecclesiastical building in tho South. There are over one thousand mem bers in the three Congregational churches in Scranton. Pa. Between two ami three hundred of this number have been admitted since the 1st of Jan uary. The avarage Sunday plate collec tions of Rev. Newman Hall s church, in Westminster Bridge Road, London, is $175, and of Rev. C. H. Spurgeon's congregation in the great Tabernable, $345. A Boston Courier reporter asked the Superintendent of Schools the other day: "How does it happen that there are so many old maids among the school teachers?" and he replied: "Be cause school teachers are as a rule. women of sense, and no sensible roman will give up a sixty-dollar position for a forty-dollar man' The journals of the English Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts are to be printed. It may not be generally known that those journals contain the earliest historical records of the Church in America, Canada, and the West Indies. They will fill five octavo volumes of about 700 pages each, and the cost of the set will be six guineas. Only 250 copies will be printed, unless the number of subscribers who come forward will warrant the Issue of 500 copies, in which case the price will be five guineas a set There is a church in Milton County, (Georgia, that is badly split up on the subject of cyclone pits. It seems that a goodly number of members of the church have dug cyclone pits, which is considered by a majority of the church as a flagrant violation of their doctrines and a temptation to God to wipe them off the face of the earth. As the pit diggers were more fearful of cyclones than of the wrath of the majority, they have been turned out of the church. They immediately organized themselves into a church, under the name of Cy clone Primitives. Chicago Journal. m HINDOO TIME. The Corlosltie or the Eastern Method f Iteckoalnff Time. The Hindoos also employed ages in the computation of time, and these, lo ti vided into periods of different durat;ons. The present age is the kali yuya. or the a re of iron; -1,98. years of it have alrcad. passed, but its total du ration is supposed to be 432,000 years. The succession of the ages, counting back, is given as follows: Fourth age Kali yuga, age of iron, or of woe (the present age), to be of 432,000 years. Third age Dvapara yuga, 864,000 years. Second aeeTrila yuga, or age of silver, 1.296,000 years. First age Kr'ita yuga, age of gold, or of innocence, 1,728,000 years. These four ages form the maha yuqa, or great age. of 4,320.000 yean. The length of. a patriarchate is seventy-one maha yugas. or 306,720.000 years, 'to which is added a twilight period of 1.728.000 years, making in all 308,448. 000 years. Fourteen of these patri archates, augmented by a lawn of 1.728,000 years, gives 4,320.000.000 years, which form a kalpa, or the aeon of the Hindoo chronology. 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