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. TK ft THE JOURNAL. P AaftTKMTIMI-fC; auiumlitt) ETBusineM aad prof eeaioaal cards of tveliaesor less, per aaaaat, Ive dollars. 3r For time advertiseaiSBts, spplr at this office. EdtTLegal advertisements at statute rates- ETPor transient advertising, sea rates oa third page. l-TAU advertlseatents payable monthly. ISSOED EVKKY WEDNESDAY, M. K. TURNER & CO. - Proprietors and Publisher . 'J I3T OFFICE Eleventh St., up stairs t.i Journal Building. terms: Tor year c six months Three mouths Single copies VOL. XVI.-N0. 30. COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 18, 1885. WHOLE NO. 810. mm 3 fcflSaBHH(WBi5'"eTK- Ik pini 9 i U K .V CJ" M 14 r t K r COLUMBUS STATE BANK! COLUMBUS, HEB. CASH CAPITAL, - $75,000 DIRECTORS: Lka.vijek Gekuard, Pres'l. Geo. W. Hulst, Fice Pre'f. Jumus A. Reed. II. II. Henry. .1. E. Taskeh, Cashier. Bank of lepolt. IMcaamt mad KichaBce. Collect ion n Promptly Made oa all PolatN. Pay latere! oa Tlinae fes- ItN. 274 HENRY LUERS, DKAI.KR IN WIND MILLS, AND PUMPS. Buckeye Mower, combined, Self Binder, wire or twine. l'nmps Repaired on short notice j3TOnc ' or west of Ileintz's Druj: Store, 11th 1 1 root, Columbus, Neb. S HEK"3Y G-ASS, COFFINS AND METALLIC CASES ANI IEAI.KU IN Furniture, Chairs, Bedsteads, Bu reaus, Tables, Safes. Lounges, &c. Picture Frames and Mouldings. fSritcpairina of all kinds of Upholstery Goods. C-tf COLUMBUS. NKH. THE BEST boon ovor bestowed upon man is perfect health, and the true way to injure health U to purify ur blood with Ayer's Sata parilla. Mr. Lliza A. Clougli, 34 Arling ton t., Lnwoll. Mas.. writes: "Every winter ami -pring my family, including myself. Use several bottle- of Ayer's Sar saparilla. Experienee ha- rem hired me that, as a powerful Blood purifier, it i- very much superior to any other preparation of Sar.-apaiilla. All per-ons of scrofulous or eoiisunijitive ten-dencie-, and especially delicate children, are Mire to Imj greatly benefited by Its u-e.' J. W. Starr, Laconia, Iowa, writes: For year 1 was troubled with Scrofu lous complaints. I tried several different preparations, which did me little. If any. good. Two bottles of Ayer's Sarsapa rilla effected a complete cure. It Is my opinion th: this medicine is the best blood Purifier of the day.' C. E. Upton. Nashua, N. II., writes: "For a number of years I was troubled with a humor in my eyes and unable to obtain relief until I com menced u-iug Ayer's Sarxiparilia. I have taken several bottles, am pvatly bene fited, and believe it to be the best of blood purifiers.' It. Harris. Creel City. Ramsey Co., Dakota, writes: "1 hae been an intense sufferer, with l)-pep-in, for the prist three years. Six months ago I began to use AYER'S Sarsaparilla It has effected an entire cure, and I am now a- well as ever. Sold by all Druggi-ts. Friec $1 ; Six bottles, $5. Prepared b. Dr. J. C. Aver t Co., Lowell, 3Ia-., U. S. A. FARMER'S HOME. This House, recently purchased by me, will be thoroughly refitted. Hoard by the day, week or meal. A few rooms to let. A share of the public patronage is solicited. Feed stable in connection. 2-y Albert Luth. LYON&HEALY I State A Monroe SU.. Chicago. Will b4 prrpU to u i&m. iMr AND CATALOGUE. I i fr IkS. am pvn :li Emrm.ii I of lunmk Slu, Cm. IVIu. SPooipoM. E(icu. C.pijim. StAnJw Dram M Stf in i far Amttcr lfefek. .fels of Ctoka Uuul Hub TTAfIIlT03i MEADE, M. Ik, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, . Platte Center, Nebraska. 9-y 42Slaila(a LEFT AGAIN. We were strolling; alone On the sands. She must surely have known From my look and my tono That I wanted to aay, when I took In my own Both her bands. She seemed gracious and kind As could be. And encouragud to find She was gently Inclined, I plead for the soft-whispered "Yea" that should bind Her tome. Thero we stood side by side By the sea. And to you I'll confide A cold chill seemed to glido Down the length of my spins, as tde sweet girl replied: "No-sir-e-e-e!" SomervUle JuurnaL BULL-TERRIERS. How One of the Rascals Lost Jack a Fortune. Caburdealae; Hit Haul oathe Subject or Rich Uncles and Hull-Terrirr Why He Is Not Struck Over Bull- Dogs. I was strolling down Montgomery street one day last week with Jack Wotherall, when-a seedy-looking indi vidual, leading a bull-terrier of the most pronounced type, approached us and asked that question which Schnydcrhas made so famous: "Don't you wan't to buy a dorg?"' As "neither of us cared about investing in dog-1'esh just then, we moved on to escape the man's im portunities. As we did Jack remarked: "Curso those bull-terriers. One of the accursed brutes cost me a fortune." How was that. Jack," I inquired, the more anxiously because Jack was known to have experienced some great disappointment in money matters, though he w as most reticent upon the subVeL "Well, it's a pretty longish yarn, but if I shan't bore you, just let's slip into C's back-room, and I'll unburden my soul on the subject of rich uncles and bull-terriers." So we lit our cigars, ordered some fluid comfort, and Jack Wotherall gave the following graphic account of his troubles: "When I was at Cambridge, in 'C8. bull-terriers were the fashion among a certain somewhat fast cliquo. Not gieat, ungainly mongrels like that brute we saw just now, but high-bred, hand some little fellows, weighing from eight een to twenty pounds, and bred in such a manner as to contain as much force as possible in the smallest amount of space. Of course I was bound to have one. and as money in thoso da was not much of an object I determined to gel a good one. It was some time bo lure I could liud just the dog 1 wanted, but at last I succeeded in buying, for twenty pounds, the most incarnate lit tle tieud in the shape of a dog that man ever owned. It was milk-white, witn bandy legs, a round bullet head, a tail line as a black-uud-tau's. and ears that had been most artistically trimmed. It weighed only fourteen pounds and some odd ounces. When 1 took it to the -tables, where I kept my horse, the o-t!er. upon whoso authority I had tlw greatest conlidence. assured me that it was a pullect leetle booty.' My col lege chums all went into ecstasies over Snap (for that was the name of the ill onioned brute), and I felt quite a sense of added grandeur in beinir the owner of so line a dog. The man from whom I had lKHight Snap had not by any means exaggerated when he said" 'that there dog'll face Old Nick.' He would. He was immense on rats, but the vast amount of bull in him made him hang on too long to his game ever to make a fast ratter. He was game, however, to the back-bone. I've put him in a pit with twenty-live big old sewer-rats, and, although all bitten to pieces, he'd not quit until he bad killed every one. Cats be detested, and whenever oppor tunity offered took no pains to disguise his feelings. He had, however, one very bad trait in his character; he was quarrelsome to a degree. The old lady's fat, wheexy pet-spaniel was his pet aversion, and many are the awk ward predicaments into which he got me. One incident I shall never forget It was summer va -ation, and my people were stopping in Cumberland Terrace, Kegeut's 1'ark. Of course 1 had Snap homo with me. for we had be come inseparable. Well, oppo-ite the terrace is a garden (public to the terrace folks), where nurse maids were wont to air their babies, and where the old ladies of the terrace used to exercise their dogs. One summer morning, just as I was qu.etly smoking nry matutinal pipe, with ?nap beside me on the garden seat, a stout lady passed, followed by the fattest of fat spaniels. In a sec ond, before I had time to think or act. Snap had thatj wretched, obese brute by the throat Take it off! Take it oil It will kill my Fido.' screamed the stout old lady, as she belabored both dogs indiscriminately with her parasol. Tragic though the affair was, no doubt, to the old lady, I could not help almost bursting vith smothered laughter. The spaniel must have weighed quite forty pounds, and there was little Snap tugging at it with all his might while it squealed like a stuck pig. I lost no time, however, in choking Snap off, and apologized most humbly to the irate old lady. She was like Kachael weeping for her children, only a good deal more wrathy, and would not be comforted. She left me with this parting shot: 'Only coster mougers nd rat-catchers should go about with such dogs as that' At the lime I felt offended and hurt; now I think she was right But here, I'm getting away from the chief and most expensive of Snap's misdeeds: "I had a certain rich uncle, a crusty old bachelor, who lived in Warwick shire. The same vacation in which the old lady episode occurred, about which I've just told you, I had an invitation to spend a week with him at his lovely place near Guy's Gulf. Knowing that the old gentleman was fond of animals. I had no hesitation about taking Snap with me. The old boy met me at the railroad station with his carriage. As I jumped into the barouche, with Snap at my heels, the old gentleman shrunk back and exclaimed: Surely, Jack, that common-looking dog can't belong to you?' But Snap had a most winning M(fy about him, and soon he and mv nncle were on the best of terms. lfe looks like a fighting dog. Jack, and is hardly the dog"for a gentleman to own.' observed the old man. as Jack pricked up his ears and made frantic efforts to jump out of the carriage to get at a pass ing dog. I assured him that Snap was most peacefully inclined, and ventured to quote about giving a dog a bad name, etc, and so things passed along pretty araoothly. . "Wbac bed-time came I was march ing off with Snap (who always slept at the foot of my bed) when my uncle topped me and said:. 'Now. Jack, I have so far put up with your pet, bat I can not and will not allow dogs in my bedrooms.' As a compromise it was agreed that Snap should sleep in the butler's pantry that night; for tie future, in the stables. Accordingly bed was made up for Snap in the pan try, and we all retired for the night "I had been asleep some hours when I was awakened by a light tapping at my dcor. I sprang out of bed in an in stant and found the butler, trembling in his shirt sleeve-, out-ide my door. 'Oh, Master Jack,' he said, in accents trembling with excitement and fear, 'whatever is to be done? That dog of yours has killed Tab, the master's old cat that he's had for ten years.' I said not a word, but hastily getting into my trousers I silently followed him down stairs to the scene of the murder. There, sure enough, was poor Tab ly ing stone dead in the sink, with the murderer. Snap, still vigilantly watcli ing the remains, ready to shake her again should the slightest signs of life appear. I took him up by the scruff of the neck and banged his head against the wall in my wrath. He did not ut ter a single sound, but got up wagging his tail as if such rough treatment was rather fun. It appeared that Tab had a habit of sleeping in a certain cup board, aud that when locking up for the night the butler had forgotten the fact but waking in the night it had suddenly Hashed across his mind, and rising at once he had gone to the pan try. Alas! too late to savo the life of my uncle's pet cat The butler and I then had a council of war, and it was decided to bury poor Tab in the garden, and profess entire ignorance as to the cause of her sudden disappearan e. Accordingly the butler anil I sallied forth in the gray dawn of that July morning, and buried poor Tab in a sequestered part of the garden. " 'Dear me!' said raj' uncle at break fast that morning, 'what can have hap pened to Tab? She hasn't missed com insr for her milk at breakfast time for eight years, unless she had kittens. It must be that ugly brute of a dog of yours that has frightened her.' " 'Frightened her?' I thought to myself: 'I should rather say so' but 1 said: 'Perhaps Tab has engagements elsewhere. 1 faucied I heard a cat ser enade last night' "After breakfast the old gentleman handed me a box of choico Havana? aud proposed a stroll in the garden, and soon we were sauntering about that miniature paradise, with Snap at our heels. A little while afterwards I missed Snap, but, thinking he had just irone off for a run, took'no notico of his absence. Five minutes passed and no Snap. Ten. I began to be uneasy. I called him aud whistled, but to no avail. At last I saw him in the dis tance, shaking and tugg'ng furiously at some long o! ect My uncle's curios ity was excited, an 1 wo both hurried to the spot. O, horror o'" horrors! There was that wr-tehed do.; shaking the corpse of poor Tab, my uncle's pet cat. which he I.ad scratched up from its grave. I shall never forget the look nn uncle gave as be turned to Me and said: 'Ah, I sec it all now.' Then, pulling out his watch, he looked at it and remarked: 'The train leaves Learn 'ington for London at 1::'0. You had better pack your portmanteau, and the carriage shall be around in half an hour. Good-bye.' "He then turned ou his heel and left mo to my own bitter rellections. To cut a long story short the old man died three j-ears ago, worth r00,U00, the bulk of which be left to my si-ter and cousins. There was a clause, however, in the will, by which I came in for twenty dollars. The will read: To my nephew. .lohn Wetherall, the sum of live poun Is. to be expended by him in the purchase of mu.zles for what ever bull-dogs he p&ssescs or may pos sess.' "And that's why I'm not stntck over bull-terriers or bul!-dogs," said Jack, as he gulced down his beer in a semi despondent way, and bade me good bye." San Francisco News-Lctler. BILL ARP. He Demonstrate That Ha la tha Boas of Hi Children and Gr.uichtldren. Our grandchildren are having a good time now. They have finished break ing the bull calf and aro very busy making flutter mills under the fishpond dam. The fall is about five feet and they keep the water busy and the wheel, too.and arc talking about a little saw-mill attachment I just let them go along and dull my handsaw and gap my axe and waste my nails and leave everything where they didn't find it. for they are on a big frolic now, and will have to go back, to school in a few days. I overheard them talking about school, and one said: "1 wish there wasu't such a thing as school!" And another said: "Well I don't, for the school is all right, and I don't want to grow up a dunce, but I wish my school days were all over -that's what 1 wish." Hut Jess'e. our Jessie, my Jes sie, has left us. She has gone to town to school, and we will not see her but one day in a we?k. It is mighty hard on us, for she is the light of the house and the comfort of my . age. One by one they have lo leave us. Ralph has gone to Florida to live and work, and we are getting lonesome and homesick. We miss them at night and in the morning and at the table. Even the tlog looks sad, and watches the road for th ir coming. But all's well that nds well, and we are thankful for the good that is left ms. Carl is here yet, and a iot of grandchildren. They carry their sling-shots with as much impu dence as a town boy carries his p:stol in his hip pocket. Two of them made a target of some fine pears in the top of a favorite tree and left the little rocks in t'nu pears. 1 prom'sed them a whip plug, but somehow or somehow else th-y didn't get it There is always somebody around to interfere with my arrangements. So they wanted to go to the ba?e-ball agaiu tlus evening and 1 tii-t put my foot down and said no. I determined to punish them, and now my opportunity has come. When I take a notion I am boss at my own hous and now I've taken a notion and I'll show the little rascals how to shoot my pear.. I'll teach them a lesson. Latei: They have gone to the base ball with their maternal ancestor, and that's the kind of a man I am. Atlanta Constitution. Of the commanders of the Army of the Potomac, none remain with the single exception of General McClellaaV Scott McDowell, Burnskle. Hooker, Meade and Grant, who in turn com manded that army, are dead. Long street is the only one of Lee's Generals living. Jackson, Hill, Ewell and Stuart have also passed away. Chicago Trib- A MEXICAN, FIESTA. Macula Custom Amu tlfa Middle a6 Lower Class of Mexico. The fiesta is a National institution in Mexico, a gala day of which the people never tire. Nearly every little town has from one to half-a-dozen fiestas in a year, and thu success of one seems to be in no wise dependent upon the size of the town. The fiesta is generally held in honor of some saint or the Vir gin, though saints and salvation are the last things thought of when it is fairly under way. In the morning of the opening day the cathedral floor may be thronged with kneeling thousands whose faces seem radiant with blissful thoughts of the hereafter, but during the rest of the festal week the principal kneeling and the most interested faces may be seen at the cock-pit and tho monle blanket No festal day in the States has half . the pleasures for theboys that the fiesta. has lor the lull-grown Mexican. 1 he pnre white element takes little part in it except to make money, and the up per class has almost nothing lo do with it except to look on for a little while; but for the Indian, the half-breed aud the poorer whites it is nearly all that is worth living for, a thiug that takes pre cedence of all clso on earth. Hundreds of miles the Mexican often travels to it sometimes with his whole family mounted upon donkeys, or in one of the ponderous ox-carts used on the haciendas. For the fiesta the choicest game-cocks aro saved; to raise money to gamble with the best pig or goat is sacrificed, and even the faui.ly ration-, except peppers, may be curtailed. When he reaches town the Mexican camps anywhere in the street or on the sidewalk, as suits him best, and turns his donkey loose to feed on banana skins, orange peel or the numerous castaway scraps of masticated sugar cane, which here takes the place held by the peanut of the American circus. Some people who have something to sell erect booths of thin cloth or brush, which serve also for saloons aud restau rants; and in one of theso the whole family lives, eats and sleeps, including the fr.mily dogs, which, of course, go along to the show. Some less fortunate or energetic spread their wares, bottles or provisions on the ground upon a bit of mat and sleep at night curled up be side them. Gambling is ever the principal part of the fiesta. The chicken-light, the bull-tight, the dance or the theater oc cupy but a small part of the day, aud seem mere ripples on a continuous cur rent of gaming. No matter what crowds may gather at the bull-ring, the cheery rattle of tho roulette table never slackens, and around the montu game the eager faces still beam unceasingly. Long lines of booths surround the plaza, in which, as well as upon the groun I, every conceivable device for belting is emuioyed. from arti?t:cally-made ma chines that est mueii money, down to an octagoual sick with alternate sides of red and green, over which little boys of five years old bet their coppers on tho color that will b. upward when tho stick stops rolling. Outride of the-e gam bling booths are long I.uos of portable saloons, generally consisting of two or three bottles of mera' or tequila strong liquors distilled from certain varieties of the Spanish b tt;onet, iuccm or Huiyitl' with two or three small glasses. These are .sometimes mounted un a small stand, sometimes kepi in a basket ami often spread upon the ground beside some gambling game whose owner can uot afford a booth. The whole may be presided over by some dark-eyed dame, with a sickly looking infant slung in a shawl over her back. Though the Mexicans are good musi cians, they rarely show it upon such occasions unless the brass band plays on the piava. But this will seldom be the case excepting in the larger cities, whereas the fiesta at its best can be seen ouly in the country towns. Here the dismal wail of that long-suffering mar tyr, the violin, the shrieks and groans of a tortured clariouct and the tingle bang, tingle-tangle-tum of the guitar will be about the only sounds that break the soft murmur of melodious Spanish, or the gay laughter of the jolly beggars at the gaming tables. Like an old-time English fair, the Mexican fiesta is the occasion when every one who has any thiuj to sell brings it forth. Around the plaza and for a hundred yards or more down the Btreets. that lead to it are lines of mats spread upoa the ground, heaped with all sorts of provisions, fruits, candies, pieces of sugar-cane, cakes and toys. Shoes, cotton cloth, pottery, tobacco, peppers, green com and peanuts may all be for sale in the same heap; and the woman who occupies the next square of ground may deal in live chick ens, combs, .-shoe-strings, mescal, silver filigree work and old cartridges, no two of whicli would fit the same weap on. Every one cooks, eats and sleeps beside the stock of goods, and the mot ley dres-es, the motley wares, the curi ous dishes of food that are ever cook ing, and the curious chaffering for wares and interchanges of compliments over a bargain of a few cents in value make the whole a scene through which one long may wander with little loss of interest Thus the fiesta goes on for two or three das, perhaps, with unabated vig or, the earning tables crowded nearly all night the streets and the plaza crowdod by day and filled by night with outstretched sleepers. About tha fourth day the crowd becomes visibly less. The losers who can no longer borrow. Ihe poor white who has successively staked his saddle, his donkeys, his terape and his wife's shawl, steal away on foot, along with the peon who has lost his sandals in a wager against a sixpence on the whirl of a band on a painted dial, aud can not find a taker for the tempting offer of bis shirt against atlacl (U cents). In a day jt two more tiiafiota is over by expiration of the orthodox time, and "the crowd .-cat-ters. each one looking hopefully for ward to the next at some other town. San Die jo Cor. X. Y. Post. A Novel Mouse-Trap. A remarkable circumstance is report ed from Whitstable, England, by a local naturalist Recently two or three oysters were put away in an earthen pan, and during the night a couple of young mice found out the dainty d sh and inserted their hungry mouths with in the p..-u shells of one "of the bivalves. In the m-iruiug they were found fast held by the closed shells of the oysters, and of course quite dead. The "oyster continued its firm hold on the intruders, and the trio having been handed to Mr. Sibert Saunders, a member of the East Kent Natural History Society, were at once immersed in spirit, and will in due course be placed in the loral museum, S T. Post. FIRST National Bank! COZ.TJ1SI-BX7S Aitkorized Capital, -Paid In Capita, Sirplns and Profits, - $250,000 60,000 13,000 OFFICKRS ND DIRECTORS. A. ANDERSON, Pres'l. SAM'L C. SMITn, Vice Pres't. O. T. UOEN, Cashier. J. W. EARLY, HERMAN OEHLRICn. W. A. MCALLISTER, G. ANDERSON, P. ANDERSON. Foreign and Inland Exchange, Passage Tickets, and Real Estate Loans. -, 29-vol-18-ly BU8IHES8 CARDS. D.T. Martyn, M. D. F. J. SCuug, M.D. Drs. XABTYK & SCHTJG, U. 8. Examining Surgeons, Local Surgeons. Union Pacific, O., N. & B. H. and K. & M. R. R's. Consultations in German and English. Telephones at office and residences. aOfficc on Olive street, next to Brod feuhrer'a Jewelry Store. COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA. 4i-y C I. TBVAIVS, 11. D., PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. jSTOllicc and rooms, Gluck building, 11th street. Telephone commun.cation. f -y ft?. F. RTUNXER, HI. IK, HOMCEOPATHIST. Chronic Diseases and Disease of Children a Specialty. iSrOffice on Olive street, three doors north of First National Bank. 2-ly H. J. HUmtSOl, NOTARY PUBLIC, Stk Street, 2 doors nest of Hammond lloase, Columbus. Neb. 481-y T . RKEDKR, A TT0R2TEY A T LA W, Office on Olive St., Columbus, Nebraska 2-tf rtlOniKY TO LOAN. Five vears time, on improved farms with at feast one-fourth the acreage under cultivation, in sums representing onc tuinl the fair value of the homestead. Correspondence solicited. Address, M.K.TURNER, ji0.y Columbus, Ncbr. V. A. MACKEN, PKALKK IN Foreign and Domestic Liquors and Cigars. llth street, Columbus, Neb. flO-y M cALMTER BROS., A TTORNF YS A T LA IF, Office tip-stairs in McAllister's build-in-,', llth St. W. A. McAllister, Notary Public JOHN TIMOTHY, . NOTARY PUBLIC AND CONVEYANCER. Keeps a full line of stationery and school supplies, aad all kinds of legal forms. Iusures against (ire, lightning, cyclone and tornadoes. Office in Powell's Block, Platte Ccntei. 19-x J. M. MACFAULAND, B. K. COWDKRY, A.ttere7isi Hour? Pair e. Csllieter. LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE OF MACFAR&AND& COWDBR7, Columbus. : : : Nebraska. J, JT. IflAUQHAI, Justice, County Surveyor, Notary, Land and Collection Agent. iSTPartics desiring surveying done can notifv me by mail at Platte Centre, Neb. M-Ora .I01IN O. 1IIGGINS. C. J. HARLOW, Collection Attorney. HIOOINS & GABLOW, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, Specialty made of Collections by C.J. Garlow. 34-3m Tj 1I.RIJSCHI2, llth St., opposite Lindell Hotel. Sells Harness, Saddles, Collars, Whips, Blankets, Curry Combs, Brushes, trunks, valises, buggy tops, cushions, carriage trimmings, .fee, at the lowest possible prices. Repairs promptly attended to. TAJIKS HALO.K, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER. Plans and estimates supplied for cither frame or brick buildings. Good work guaranteed. Shop on 13th Street, near St. Paul Lumber Yard, Columbus, Ne braska. 52 6mo. R. U. LA'4VKl'.'fJE, DEPUTY O. SURVEYOR. Will do general surveying in Platte and adjoining counties. Inquire atthe Court House. COLUMBUS, 17-tf NKBRASKA. "VTOT1CE TO TKACHEKH. J. E. Moncrief, Co. Supt, Will be in bis office at the Court House on the third Saturday of each month for the purpose of examining applicants for teacher's certificates, and for the transaction of any other business pertaining to schools. 567-y JS. MURDOUK & SON, Carpenters and Contractors. Havehad an extended experience, and will guarantee satisfaction in work. All kinds of repairing done on short notice. Our motto is, Good work and fair prices. Call and give us an oppor tunitytoestiroatcforyou. iSTShop on 13th St., one door west of Friedhof & Co's. store. Columbus. Nebr. 4f-v NO HUMBUG! But a Grand Success. "P P. ISR1GO AM'S A UTOMATIC W A Jtk ter Trough for stock. He refers to every man who has it in use. Call on or leave orders at George Yale's, opposite Oehlrich's grocery. 90m TAXING BACHELORS. ga Cog-aat Kwuoa Why Aatl-Bea-dteta 8haM Par CoatritoaUoa to taw PaMla Treaaary. There is a proposition on foot in sev eral of the Eastern States to have laws passed taxing bachelors a certain sum each year. Tho object is two-fold, to raise money from a non-producing class of citizens, and to place bachelors un der a ban, and show them that their manner of living with no object in viow is not believed to bo of value to a com munity. There are two sides to all questions, and the Sun does not know which side to take, consequently it will, as usual, straddle the fence. Bachelors, who are such by choice, will tight it out on that lino and claim that they had rather pay a reasonable tax. or even an exorbitant tax. than to marry. They will illustrate their position by pointing to thousands o'f married men who would be willing to pay their last' dollar in taxes, if they could be placed back in the ranks of bachelors. Tho bachelor will show that on tho average they aro happier, and mora free from care, and enjoy themselves better than tho aver age 'married man, and on that ground they ought to be willing to pay a tax. They will show that bachelors are, as a rule, rotund and jolly, while married men look as though some thing was eating them. There may be certain alleged beauties about the life of a bachelor whilo he ;s young and in his prime, but whon be begins to got old, and pains rack his bo ly. sickness confines him to his lonely bd, and lie has to be a-H'sted bj strangers and hired help, he will realize what a fool he has made of himself and- what a failure his life has been. No wife or children to minister to his wants, the bachelor is a most forlorn object. It is then that he begins to look careworn, cross, ind as though something was eating him, while the married men who u-ed to look that way is happy and contented. It is bet ter to have some cares and discomforts as a married men at the front en 1 of lifo. when ono can endure thorn and sec a piece of clear sky ahead, than to have a careless picuic in early life, with a prospect of dark clouds all the time after the individual becomes old enough to need kindly o'lices from loving friends, instead of hiring somebody to Imj sorry for If ni at so much a w.'ek. The most pitiful object in 1'fe is a sick old bachelor at. a boarding-ho-ise. a hotel or a hospital. It is then thai be thinks over his list of friends, mal and female, who have homes, and he would give the woildtobcan inmate-of one of thoc homes. Ho thinks ot the girls he might aud ouht to have married years ago, and as a hired nurse brings him some p'lls lo take he thinks how much easier he could take them from the hands of a loving wife or da'isrhter A bachelor with a cric-'c in his back thinks the hand of the hired nurs who rub; it is a ourrv-comb, and he thinks of some s ft hand It has held in his, years ago. and ho would give t i years oLhis life if hit bad given to the owner of that soft ban I th right to rub the crick out of h:s br,ck. but it is ever lastingly too late. If he went search ing for a wife now he would have to take one who was as old and toothless as be is. and her hand would be so harsh and bony tbat she would produco two cricks in the b.fk where only one grew Ihj fore. He realizes this when he tosses in p:in; and the look on his face plain ly xbows remorse. Bachelor frit-nd-may make formal calls on If m when he is sick aud wish him a speedy cure, but that do s not f I II the bill. lie dies and tho bachelor friends act as learcrs to his funeral, friends of other days r'do in the carriages as mourners, and talk about the blank life of the deceased, but th ;re are no tears, unless the--e is a sis ter who comes from a distance to attend- the funeral and s:'e about pro bating the will. The confirmed bache lor is in hard luck, and perhaps he ought to pay a tax, or license, and wear a check on If s neck, so that all may know he is a bachelor. l'c:k"s Sun. PNEUMONIA. Twelve Cause to Which Th! Diseudi Can It Attribute!. To reach reliable conclusions respect ing the more importantdisenscs, the ex periences of many observers in differ ent localities need to be compared. Medical books and magazines furnish comparisons to some extent, as do the frequent medical meetings, with their papers and discussions. But the end is being reached in a more systematic and thorough way in England Thus, in the case of acute pneumonia, reports have been received by a central com mittee of ovor one thousand cases from four hundred and eighty observers. These were put in charge of a sub-committee, to arrange, aud to deduce from them what may be looked on as estab lished results. T.'e following we have gathered out of them and here present aj a brief summary: 1. While pneumonia is apt to be con nected with bronchial and catarrhal af fections, this is by no means invariable. We Like this to mean that it may oc cur without any symptoms of a "cold." 2. Pneumonia often attacks mor. than one member of a family at a time. Th s, we suppose, may b interpreted as cither indicating a common cause, or an infectious character of the disease. 3. When it is unusually prevalent, the rate of mortality from it is excep-t-onady low. 4. Defective drainage aud sewer-gas poison may both cause it and favor its spread; but such cases are neither specially severe nor mortal. 5. Alcoholic oc'ss is often the excit ing cause of it. When so caused, it is the most fatal form of the disease. 6. Next to alcoholic poison, the most unfavorable conditions for it aro fatigue and mental depression. 7. The diseasi may be infectious; be communicated to those who are in in timate and prolonged connection with it as nurses aud bed-fellows. Still, it is not infectious as ordinarily seen. 8. One attack pred;sMics to a sec ond attack; but tSo patient is as likely to survive it as the lirst. In rare in stances there is a third attack. 9. It does not tend to terminate in consumption, even when the patient belongs to a consumptive family. Such an one recovers as rapidly and as thor oughly as others. lu. When death occurs it is most commonly on the sixth, seventh, eighth and tenth days. 11. There are seldom any sequela; other ailments as a consequent 12. Primary pneumonia is sudden in its onset and in due to some chill and exposure. It has all the character of an acute inflammation, with a marked tendency to spontaneous recovery. It is largely dependent on meteorological chaugessuch as induce other forms of lung inflammation. Youth's Com- THE LATEST CRAZE. Haw Detroit Ladl Obtain Kxo.akltaly LoTely Pompon. As the reporter lolled oa the oak upholstorcd seat of one of Hendrio's maroon-colored coaches the familiar driver pushed tho door open, loaned his back on tho north jamb and began unloading his daily budget of expressed information. 'W immin is mighty curus critters,' was his exordium. "This road is go in to pay a dividend if tho latest a-goay only holds out" "What 'a-gony?' " wearily asked tho reporter. "Why. this thicksll snap." "Thistle snap?" "Yes. Crowds on 'em go up every day to tho praino' and gather thick slls bushels on om and lug 'em homo; but I dun.no what they do with tho pesky things bile 'ono. mebbe. for tho blood or wash in the soup. What- ever 'tis, there's slashins of em up horo every dav." As the driver had pumped himself dry on tho subject and was preparing himself for another effort on a loss ab struse topic tho reporter left tho car. Later, asking a lady acquaintance who never failed to bo in tho swim, what there was to the driver's yarn, ho was laughingly informed that thero was more truth than liction in it "You sco." said she, "we gather the thistles before they aro fully ripe, and whon we have them home, go to work and shuck them. After you have tho outsido covoring oil you have befoie j on a boll somowhat rcsptublinz a cot ton boll, only not so white. You then fasten them by their stems to a string, and hang them out in the sun to dry. If the wind has done its duty you will have one of the loveliest pompons imaginable Their soft, fluffy appear ance, somewhat resembling tho ex quisitely downy covering of young chickens, makes an ornamental ellcct on a fan to bo hung on tho wall, or any other device your ingenuity may sug gest They will last six months at least, so you seo we do not havo our trouble for our pains. They are not tho easiest thing in the world to handle, but if you persevere you will be re warded, when your design is com J doted, by the delight of your admiring riends. Thore'is no expense attaching to tho work, so it it is not rational it is reasonable. ' ' Detroit Fr-c- Press. STEEP TRAVELING. A Kallroatl Ananias Who Will Certainty Taktt the Prrinlum. "Guess." said a railroad man. re cently, "that I've worked aboard the fastest railroad on earth." Where?" exclaimed half a dozen bj standors at once. "Oh! out West." replied the railroad man. Yes," he continued after a pause, "I reckon l'vo mado tho fastest run on record. You sec it happened some years ago now. The lino I worked on was a big gradient tor about two hun dred miles. Well, I wanted to .do something big. so I went to the engi neer and said. 'Jim, I calculate we've got to slip down this here gradient somewhat lively. S'posc we'll aston ish the people 'longsido this line.' Jim was game, and worked the steam up to bus tin' point He opened tho regula tor, and away wo slid. Tno wind went past tho cars 1 kc a hurricane, and some of the passengers got shaky, and inquired if we were trying to run that train oT tho cud of the lino right into tho Pacific. I said we were erect ing a big record by contract but they seemed to think wo were going in for starting a private cemetery. Well, you wouldn't l.clieve it but during that run down we didn't once see tho surround ing country. Th:it train went so fast that l ho telegraph pole; near the line seemed closo together, aud blocked cut all tho scenery completely. Solemn fact that! I was thorcand should know. But that's nothing, bless you! By the time we got to the bottom of tho slope there wasn't a rail loft on the track. They were all melted up through fric tion. Of course dim and me got dis charged, and an'asscssmonl was made on the shareholders to relay tho tracks, but wo didn't care. We had dono two hundred miles in one hour, six minutes and forty-seven seconds, which is pretty steep traveling. The American Nation ain't played out yet you bet" And so saying ho departed. Texas Sif tings DEPRAVED TASTES. A Country Wlioro Mhakofpcare In Original iur:ty I Not Apprrit-l. Tho sun was shining brightly on Union Square when Harold Montgom ery Boothbarrctt strode into the center of a group of actors. His ambrosial curls were disheveled, and his brow was knit as though he were abont to break out into the curso of "King Lear." "Why. Harold," said one of tho actors: "I thought you had gcjo out West with a company to play Shakcs perian plays." "Ti3truc 'tis pity; pity 'tis 'lb true " replied Harold, not relaxing tho frown upon his Phidlan brow. "You have cut your trip short, haven't you?" "1 1 avc." "Well, why?" "Young man. I undertook to play Borneo and Juliet' in Butte Cit Mon tana. All went merry as a marriage bell t.ll I was about to stab myself in the last act When I drew the daegcr. the audience burst into a roar of laugh ter, and a rude fellow in the front row called out: He3', you tender-foot, wot are yon goin' ter do?' "1 was astonished, but I replied: -To kill myself.' " " -Wot' said he: -with that too'h pick? You can't come that on this community. You take this and send yourself over the range in style "And he handed me up a tremendous revolver. I expostulated and explained that it was not in tho play. 1 said they had no pistols in those days. " 'Wot!' he -roared: " "no pistols? Then the quicker you stop Ih s durned play an' give us a song and danco tho better.' "And 'Juliet' and I had to do tho Big Sunflower' light thore, dressed just as we were Yormg man. Shakes peare's got no show out there' Puck. It is a curious fact that wasps' nests often take fire, as is supposed, by the chemical action of tho wax upon the material of which the nest is composed. Many of the fires of un known origin in haystacks and farm buildings may thus be accounted for. Chicago Times. A dove flew in at an open window of a church in Danbury. Conn., on San day morning, and. perchiogupon a gas jet just over the preachers head, re mained there tdl the dosologjr WM nog- Hartford CouranU PITH AND POINT. Some men are born with big heaos. tome acquire big bauds and others have big heads thrust upon them. Bill Xte. 'The bones of the average man only weigh about twenty-four pounds, and yet some people put on airs and step around as though they weighed a ton. Chicago Ledger. A small son of a Raleigh nan. when asked if ho was not very much frigh. encd whon tho lightning struck his father's house, replied: "No. de Lawd wasn't gwino to hurt mo: it was daddy ho was after." Raleigh (N. C.) Ob serrer. There havo been various answers to tho conundrum: Why is a ship called nho? Wo th nk th. proper answor is: Because she is handsomest when she is well-rigged. Wives .should cut this out and show it to their husbands. L'oston Courier. Baby cries, and is sent to a side table Papa says: "When you havo a beard you can s t with papa." Tho houso cat jumps up familiarly besido him. Babv (furiously): "Jump down! You havo a beard, ifo eat with" papa!" Chicago Journal. "How Is it" writes a correspond ent, "that tho yachts always sail faster in a newspaper account of a race than they do on tho water?" That's an easy one to answer, frieud. You see. it the extra "pulling" Tho boat gets that does the business. Yonkcrs Statesman. "You may say what you like, mother. George no longer loves me." "But child, how did you get that silly not on into your head?" "Oh. very s.nudv and only too quickly. When he takesme home nowadays ho always ehoou's "tho shortest road!" Chicago m'cr-U?eim. A St. Louis boy who was twelve year old last year, but has recently scored another birtnday. complains bo cause he is not permitted to oat at tho table by reason of thirteen being an unluekv number. And it is uulucky for the rest of the table when a boy of thir- teen is allowed to get m his work. "Tho average American eats fifty fix pounds of sugar a year, against the Knglislimaifs sixty-seven " Despite this fact however." Ihe average Ameri can irl is mu -h sweeter than tho Kn- lisli lasses. Probably because she it fli.-on more "tally" than the KuglLsh girl receives. Xorrisiotrn Herald. -A Japanese woman dresses herha'r once in every four davs. The luxury of hearing one's wife, w.th the ends of her hair in her teeth mid her mouth full of hairpins, talking about the kitcheu boiler in tho morning before tho mirror is never enjoyed by tho lapaneso husband more than twice a week. Chicaqo Tribune. "How much will your new school books cost Johnny?" asked h s f.ithor. Johnny calculates to h mself. sotto voce: "Lemtne see; sixty-two cents for the singing !ooks. seventy-five cents for a now 'ntlimetic, one dollar and twenty-live cunts for a new jo graIiy. twenty-live cents for a new hockey, hulf a dollar for a new bat. and a quarter for candy." The-i out aloud says: "Bout four dollars!" llodon Post. REMARKABLE CHANGES. Mlsllpl Sleitiu!alliir Twenty Yeart Ac wt:KTi-ilr. "I tell you." lit? said throwing him self ba'k in a heavy arm-chair. thi Mississippi is no longer what it used to bo; the railroads have ruined it. Th.-ro w.!l be no more s-ich steamers as tins If" K. Lee. the Kichard-.on or others of their class built The st.Miner.t used to float all the cotton of the valluv to Now Orleans, ami were bui t to carry I mm .VH)t' toH.iM) bales. The week, bow ever, which it re .uired a -.teamer to take it down, is now reduced to tweutv four hours by rail. Kndrouds aro "ol lowing the coarse of the liver and, rob bing it of Its trade, and 1 look forward to the dav when the Mis-dss ppi River will be abandoned entirely in favor of rail. "Yes." he continued, in answer to a question, gamblers iLscd to have a picnic alonir the iier; but that dav. too. is past. It i-. not because people ha o grown better but becau-e they havo less money. I once saw two men in a di-pute over a game, rise from their chairs, place the r p stols at each oth er's temples, and tire simultaneously. Their dead boili -s were carr ed away, and the game continued as if nothing had happened. Those were wild day i. and are not likely to return. The mode of "gott ng other people's money has merelv changed in some n spect. With the ex t of the honest gambler who told his bu.si less, we wit ness the cntrarc: of the sneak thief. But a few days ago a rich planter boarded th s "st -a mit of!" Natchez. While sitting right where we are now. he purchased a paper from a newsboy and was soon lost in its perusal. "Colonel. sa'd a bland young man. a few moments after. vou haw just dropped this.' handing him a lifty-dol-lar note. " '1 reckon not ' said the old gentle man, as he overlooked his spectacles. I just picked it up under your cha r ' rcpl ed the oting man 'and seo no other wav to di-pos of it How ever, since it jni'DH to belong to neith er of us wc might just as well divido it.' "The plan worked well. The old gentleman pa-e 1 over S25 in change, and the oung man sauntered careless ly out on land. A few minutes after the vesei had taken to water the old gentleman presented the 0 uoto t the clerk i pa nient for his fare. Counte feit!' exclaimed the clerk, ami then for the first t.me the wholo tru'h dawr.e-l u; on the old man's mind. -The deck' and an a hard Iot They work, as you see wi h a vim while in por . aud pass this tim until the uext h reaehed in lav in,' -craps.5 They are paid ?.'.. 0 a dav. When they are called up to get their wages, thev d: ide into little gambling .arties at o.ire and by the time po t is reached, of tho ft-- men pail o . about ten will hao .dl the money. TIii t-n will take one night on land, coming b :ck to tho boats dead broke, and on the return trip there w 11 not be a iekel in the whole crew. And th way they can go through a franger." -aid the speaker, growing wa m. is a cau'ioji A ne gro got" o.i board at Vic sburg th other day aud fell asleep. It wis no ticed that h s und-rclothi ig was new. Quietly the m-n went to work, stripped b uu divided out Ii s underclothing, put him back i:t h s old -boo-., shirt and pantaloons, and left Ii m. Whn that negro awoke and found the change which had been made in h-ni. he was completely mysti.ied. He could not understand how his underclothing could have been stolen without tsuoh iag the rest'--Atlanta. (Go.) Constitu-lt. v r t ;a