fe&aixMBmmJSm&SSa aaj.uujwcg3Sff' ,!) rfrT.riig--g' J4AVAL OFFICERS. How They Get Harms Cigars WItbemt Faying Daty. The officers of the United States navy, said a leading Treasury official recently, "arc the greatest smugglers among American citizens. Go into their homes here in Washington and , yon .will find them filled with objects of fortu, fine pictures, bronzes and Turk ish rugs which they hare picked up in Joreign countries and smuggled past the custom-houses. Their cellars are stocked with choice wines which they have gotten in the same way, and the fine cigars they smoke cost them about half price when they come in. as they often do, on our naval vessels from Cuba. It used to be, and not long ago either, that naval officers sold cigars to their friends here, and a ourious case of smuggling cigars happened a year or so ago. A merchant vessel was sent by the navy to Havana to bring back to tiievUnited States some shipwrecked sailors. While .there they obtained hold of a lot of cheap cigars, which they baught in'suoh quantities that they corded them up in a great pile on the deck. Over this pile, which looked very mch like a cord of wood, they threw a lot of old sailcloth, and when the customs officers asked them if they had any dutiable goods on board they pointed, to this pile and said it contained cigars. Tho customs officers thought they were being guyed, and did not . look at them. Twenty-two years ago," the Treas ury officer went "on. "the Trenton ap peared off the coast near Norfolk. It stopped at Fortress Monroe and landed a wagon-load of goods. One of the officers of tho Customs Department saw tho landing, but he was unseen by the naval officers. He suspected that the bOxes and trunks contained dutiable goods, and he determined to bo on'hand when they arrived at the express office. Fearing the advent of a Customs officer, they hurried the goods on to a wagon that afternoon and rushed them over to the nearest express office I think it was at Newport News. Here they found the officer ready to receive them. He seized the goods and found them addressed to leading naval officials of Washington and elsowhero. Upon ex amination the goods were found duti able, and the United States was paid fivo hundred dollars in duties before they were released. "At the timo of the Yorktown cele bration it was tho Trenton, you will ro mejnber, which was sent over to tho old country to bring the foreign guests. While over there the officers in charge of her picked up a great amount of dutiable goods, and it is said that a Weu-imown iaeuuinimi u tvasumgiuu stocked hi3 cellar from the trip with enough ine wine to last for years. "I was in Canada not long ago.1' continued this officer, "on business con nected with the United States Govern ment, and while there I sailed in a rev enue cutter from Toronto down to Que bee and landed at Halifax. Here some of the officers of tho cutter wanted a few cigars for present use. Wc were directed to a very nice establishment As soon as tho owner knew we were connected with tho Government, he asked us into a very nicely furnished back parlor and brought us many sam ples of fine cigars, which lie offered at a much lower rate than thoy would cost in the United States. He showed us also samples of fine wines, liquors and brandies. These I sampled, and I know they wore very fine. Tho prices of his old Scotch whisky and Hennessy were, I remember, about half what they would cost in the United States. He said: Of course you will want to load up here. You can get these goods . for half what they will cost you in the United States, and we are doing a big trade with .the navy. Four ships of the United States navy havo been hero this season, and I havo sold the officers of all of them large orders Ho then mentioned tho names of tho ships, but I can not givo you these. I remember only that ono was the Alliance, and I think another was tho Tennessee, We told him wo. wore Government officers, and it was -against the law." Cor. Cleveland Leader. m A TURPENTINE FOMENTATION. Th Exquisite ToEtnr-p Your Landlady1 Delights In Inflicting; Upon You. Did you ever take a turpentino fo mentation when you were not feeling particularly robust? No! First your landladyf who is a very kind .lady in deed, in spectacles, slips a rag in a dish of turpentine 'and deposes ifcvery neatly on the muscles that run up back of the ear. On top of this she deposits a nice white cloth, which at intervals she wrings out in hoj: water. Then yon lie back upon your pillow and smile affably. You don't see anything so very bad in that. You even essay a joke or two, just to show tho inhabitants that though cast down you arc not destroyed. Then suddenly, without the least warning, somebody lams you in the back of the neck with the Hat side of a red-hot hovel. At least, you think that that is what ails you. and in tho excirement of tho moment you yell out some very audible conversation, but it subsequently transpires that it would have been wiser to withhold your yells until later, when they seem better calculated to do you .good. Whoever it is with the shovel now begins to press it against you hard. You groan aloud at this, and if yon are .a profane man, as I am afraid you would be. you possibly indulge in a variety of quotations that can not fail to caue your landlady pain. "Am I not almost done?" you pres ently groan, as that good woman re nejs the wrung-out bandage. "Dono?M she interrogates, as she carefully attends to getting the shovel back in exactly tho same agonizing spot "Yes," you say. "cooked." "Oh," tho la'ndla ly kindly returns, "it has only just begun." Then she goes out of tho room a mo ment, you "don't know what for. but you suspect after more turpentine. Now you fall into a sort of horrid night mare, anjl you find your neck Jocked in ono of Torrey's sand mounds, which a sooty-faced workman in a dirty apron is pouring full of molten brass" How it sizzles and burns! You shriek aloud. Then you snatch off those wet and tiery bandages, and you fling' them madly across the room, just in season to catch the landlady, who at this instant un suspectingly opens tho door, square in .the face, to her undoubted astonish ment and alarm. Why," she exclaims, when she has recovered her composure and the rags, they haven't been on'half long enough yeL. "Wpman," you scream, "as she ap proaches the bed with the clothes m iand, "keep away with those odious 'implements of" wrath. Away, I say .avsunt! 'One step nearer and I stretch ijon a living corpse at my feet!" Ton don't mean this, of course, and yon couldn't -do it. anyway, for your feet are tied up in the- bed clothes, but ia-yoav delirium you hardly know what Toaiaay. But the landlady soothes :your agitation with some cooling re Burks, anoints your burning, blistered 3eek in oil. and leaves you to pleasant dreams. In the course of six or seven hours the fire' begins, to subside and you sink iato troubled sleep. Butin Jke morning von will find yourself be tor. Tlwreisi doubt of -! had Courier, . - TRICKY LOCKSMITHS. A Class f Mechanic Whose Days t Bse v falaesa At Over. "Tell you something about lock smiths!" exclaimsd an old craftsman, dolefully; "there are none anymore. The trade is dead. Locks are all made now by machinery, except, perhaps, safe and prison locks; those are hand made because they afford greater secur ity than the other kind. Time wa when the lock-maker was a smith and .bell-hanger as well, audthe trade was a good one; but it is all changed now. and we do nothing now except repair ing, or occasionally duplicating a key that has been lost. "The factory jnaue article, has taken the place of 'the band-madu article, and drivea us out of the business. Now, perhaps, twenty men art) required to make a lock which formerly was the work of one man. These men super intend machinery by which certain parts of the lock1 are matie. One man handles a punch, and cuts out the tum blers; another makes the sliders; the springs are made by another, and so on, until all the the parts are ready to be put together. None of theaey men could make a lock without assistance from othor workman, and thoy have no knowlodge of th principles of locte. "Before the era of machinery all locks were made by hand. That it whyjolcl locksmiths understand their business so well. But there are very few smiths of the old school in the busi ness now. Most of tlivm hstvrt quit making locks, and are making sewing machines. The piinciples on which sewing machines are made win be easily understood by any l"ckniith, and there is more money to bo mada in the new business. "Yes, tho modern lock is superior to the old-fa3hioned one. and for this rea son,' it is harder to pick. The old lock was maJe to accommodate a large key, so that no matter how fine the con struction inside an accomplished cracks man could always get an idea of the works. Tho keyhole being large, ho would insert a wire, tho end of which, being covered with wax, would receive an impression o. the stylo of key re quired to open the lock. It wa-t an easy matter to make a key after this model in wax, so that almost all tho old locks could bo picked with but littlo difficulty. "Thepatent lock of to-day, requiring a flat key, defies any attempt at picking' the works, because the key-holo is so small and the slots are too numerous. For that reason skeleton keys are use less to thieves nowadays, and cracks men rely for success principally on their possession of duplicate keys. " 'Jail work as it is known to the trade, is th only branch of our busi ness where machinery is not U3ed "AlLthe lock; for jails and peniten tiaries are made of wrought iron and constructed witii from two to nve tum blers finished off smooth on the inside and held together by steal screws and brass clamps. The parts when thus joined ari absolutely air-tight, and the only opening in the lock is the key hole. Such a lock is as durable as can be made. "The principle of the modern Jock is very old. I have a book here which gives a description of a lock found among ruins of the great temple of Kar nac, and which was in use more than forty conturies ago. The leading prin ciples of thb lock have served as the foundation for most of the inventions of recent times. The locksmiths of China, we are told, had, centuries before the birth of Christ, perfected a lock out of which a sharp bamboo thorn would dart and strike the hand of any one wrong fully tampering with it. Tho end of this bamboo thorn was steeped in a poisonous decoction, and, should the luckless thief escape death, ho would be marked for life. But this story is hardly entitled to full belief for tho rea son that, as the Chinese themselves claim gunpowder was manufactured by them at the time, a celestial safe-blower could easily render the patent lock harmless by the aid of a few grains of powder. "The mediaeval locks were among the most elaborate and delicately contrived specimens of these articles ever pro duced. They were enveloped in steel, covered with heads and floral designs, and were mostly found on the doors of the ancient cathedrals or in.the magni ficent cabinets that have been the mar vel of succeeding ages." Cfiicaqo Ntios. COPPER "Tn TEXAS. Illstoiy of the nicovT7 of tba ttcClel l:tn Mlnln? Ctainis. According to a Texas newspaper, the copper region, of that State is.oj gnat extent; running westward from Bad Kiver, from the line 'of the' Indian Territory, through "several counties, prominent among which are Archer, Baylor,' Knox, Hardeman and Cottle. The district is approximately in lati tude thirty-two degree north, with Red Kiver to the north as well as the east, and the Brazos River to the south. The copper deposits were dis covered by General George B. McClel Ian, in 1852. In that year, 'McClellan, then a Lieutenant in the army, was de tailed by Jefferson Davis, Secretary of War, to accompany an expedition up Red River into Texas and Indian Ter ritory. While on this duty Lieutenant McClellan found important deposits of rich cooper ore near the point where Cache Creek empties into the river, and some miles above it was discovered that Red River flowed through appar ently solid beds of the valuable min eral. In the same locality rich gold bearing quartz veins and placers wore found, and all the conditions pointed to the existence of a mining district mi great possibilities. To complete the' romantic history of the discovery of copper in Texas, it is only necessary to add that General Mi Clellan is now, after the lapse of a third of a century, the lead ing spirit engaged in the development of the deposits. The Grand Belt Mines, in which he is largely interested, are fifty miles from Harrold, in Wilbarger County, from which latter point forty wagons are at present engaged in haul ing coke to the smelter. The smelter is an experiment, but has a capacity of forty tons per day, and is suitably pro vided with engine, blower, pumps, etc All told, the McClellan Company's pat ented claims embrace some 36,000 acres, stretching sixty-five miles adong the ore belt. Upon this vast property they have made probably sixty shallow openings of an average depth of seven or eight feet. The ore is fo nd princi l ally in shallow pockets, and at the main point of taking out is said to av erage about fifty-four or fifty-five per cent. me;aliic copper. Some of it is supposed to be very rich in silver. The most promising opening being worked by the company is at Kiowa Peak, the center of Mot lev County, some sixtv miles west of Margaret, the county seat of Hardeman County. Scientific Amer ican. 'The Minister "in attendance" at Balmoral rarely sees the Queen, is giv en a small bed-room and bo sitting room, is bored in the evenings with the society of the courtiers, and if he brings a dog as was the case once with Loro Harrington he is ordered to send 'the animal away immediately. London Truth. Some of the queerest names hail from the Basque provinces of Spain. Two officials , in the Treasury' Depart ment at Madr'd. who claim Basque de scent, call themselves respectively Don EpifanioMirurznrardanduay Zengotidc and Don Juan Ncpomuceno da Burisna gomttstoracagoceaccoccka. BOYS AND GIRLS. What It Coats to Keep a Yeans; Pasta mm a Charming- ttoelety La ay. f ' Two fond parents, well fixed in life, who live adjoining each other on Park avenue, were discussing the relative cost oLkeeping a boy and aprl. Both spoke from practical experience. Said one: "I believe it costs more to keep a boy.J' w - "And I believe it costs more to keep the girl,' replied the other. -' So they began to figure it up. "21 ow let us take the case of our own children," said the former. "Take my son Charley, for example. He's going into t his nineteenth year.' ilo is not ortfavagant'in'his" dress,' nor does 'be do any work to soil or particularly wear ont his clothing. During the past year hisjtras of expense havebeen about as ioiiows. as near as l can coma . without referring to the bills: One heavy winter overcoat $40 09 One pair casritn-ninda Wautcsnphasts 9 00 One pairs iar-toed Sunday gaiters.. S 00 One white satin tlrjaa cravat 1 SO Two every day ilk cravats 2 00 Six cood oastom-made white s'.i'rts.... 9 00 Two suits red flannel underclothing... 9 00 Twit ilre-ti Hfiirta 5 00 (Sue stive headed cane 3 00 Onfl pair ncavy winter gloves 2 50 Two ph:r 6T kid gloves 2 50 One pair of cuff buttons ... S OS One dozen collar 2 OS Four pairs of raffs 109 Two Derby hate and one straw hat.... 10 00 One pair ovcrslioes;onj umbrella 6 00 Two winter salts ot c-i:Uliliii? CO 00 Two summer suits ot clothing S3 OS One lozen 'islrs of socles 3 00 Ttvo lint s.i.ts underclothing 0 00 O.iii dozen bandsri-hlefs 4 CO One sprin-r an! lall overcoat .20 00 Ono ring 'oriiU little Tinker s 00 loek-t money 3 per week (this In clude barber's bill) ISO CO Tuition nt Knlverslty 2) 00 School nooks, etc 5 to Annual rtutu at gymnasium in CO Dancing leisons CO CJ Oues at oicycle school !0 00 The ether fond parent scratched his head wneu he saw his neighbor's mem orandum. "I think mine ijjll heat it." ho said, confidently, and ho put down the follow'no: itcm, ouc by one. It must i:e reiuimoereu thai the young lady in uu stion is eiglitoe years of age, :uil is a modest and charming bud in society: One biaslc si!k tfr- (j.nt too lovely tor atiyuiin'O One Alnliatu wrapper.. $10 00 Oueciotu street ired Two oiher street costumes.. a 3 OO 17 00 S3 00 200 00 190(0 ! Three party lrsieij. ono Hea:sKin coat.. Oneclorh redlngote 35 00 socks, nnueroioiuinc;, collars, cans.. One pair satin slippers for party at Thro 3 other pairs of slippers, five Jrai3 BiiUos One flannel Jersey, two other Jerseys Twobonse dresses One fine black silk dress, for church. Flowers" for theater, theater wrap, opor& ifi&ssos . Tuition In musi; and dancing Tnltion In French, ueodlework, paint- Three white and IUht summer dresses Gtovea. perfumery (paint and pow der), dinellini; bottle, etc One pat dog. alio brass eotlor. One canary and a cage Two winter hats Opera Minuet, two summer hats Bustles, bangs, bandoline, gartors. 35 0J 7 03 45 CO I-J fO 15 00 70 00 100 03 100 CO 100 00 91 00 40 00 10 0(1 io oo 30 00 35 00 25 00 SO 03 Miscellaneous Items. a When the fond parent of the charm ing young lady showed his list to the fond parent of the promising young man. the latter likewise thoughtfully scratched his head. After a shcrt pause he said, slowly and solemnly: "A boy is good enough for me." Baltimtrc Herald, COSMETICS FOR MEN. Society Pets Who Are Anxlovs to Mafc-s m PleaalnK Appearance. "Do you also have male customers'" asked a reporter of a New York lady cosmetic artist who does a good busi ness on one of tho principal streets of the city. "Do I have them? Of course I do, and fully &n many as I do ladies," she replied, with a vicious little her shoulders. shrug of "What do they como for?" "To improvo their personal appear ance." said she, "and I find as much vanity among men as among ladies, and a desire equally as great to increase their personal attractions." "They don't use rouge and other cos metics, do they?" "Indeed, th'cy'do. I could tell you iho names of a "dozen young men whose faces I prepared for an evening enter tainment last week, and they were not all dudes either." "What do you mean by preparing their faces?" " "I touched up their complexions, penciled their eyebrows, and brightened their eyesr There are a number of young men who regularly use cosmet ics. Not everybody can see it, but I can detect it every time. They are not all young men, either. I have served middle-aged men who come here as of i en as once a week to havo their faces prepared. Of course thev are widow ers.' ' "What do you do with them?" "Well, I have a lotion which removes wrinkles and leaves the skin smooth and firm. Then I have a preparation to make the hollows under the eyes stand out full and firm. Then, when the complexion is touched up a little of course, not so much as a lady's they look fully ten to fifteen years youuger." "Do men ever dye or bleach their hah or mustaches?" "Very few bleach their hair. I don't believe I have had such a case in the city, but many of them bleach their mustaches. Many men with a muddy brown or red mustache have it bleached out to a light blonde, and it greatly im proves their appearance. A great many menjdo that who would not use any other of my preparations. And why should they not? I don't see why it is not everybody's dutv to make a 'pleas ing appearance. It is expected of a woman, and why not of a man? 'there is certainly no harm in it and no dau ger." N. Y. Mail and Express. FIFTY YEARS AGO. How Captains of tfce MtUtla Were Elected In 183.1. It U fifty years ago, and the enrolled militia of Hanover Precinct have met to organize & regular military company. Air. Brown rises and nominates Tom Jones as Captain. Jones said he knew but little about mustering and suchlike things, but he guessed that if the boys wanted him he would drill 'am the best he knew how. At this point, Mr. Campbell, amid great applause, suggested the name of fclder Reese, saying that although he was a first-class local preacher, yet he could attend to the duties of both of fices. He was fine-looking, quick witted, ready with the tongue, born to talk and to command and was just the man the company needed for Captain. When the long and loud cheering ceased, the following are the remarks, taken by a veracious reporter, which Elder Reese made in response to his nomination: "Gentleman. 1 arise to accept the nomination of myself as Captain of your company. If yon see fit to elevate me to that nigh and honorable and most responsible position, then I will endeavor to rub up my military tac ticles and serve you to the best of my ability, as the duties of. Captain will not at all interfere with my Sunday ap- SDintments to preach to the people, ut, gentlemen, if you prefer Tom Jones to myself, then I will drop into the private ranks with the same degree of eloquence and affability." He was 'Captain as well as Elder Beese from that day on. 'LouisviiU Omvritr-JouriuU, FOREIGN GOSSIP. The refusal by a teetotal tailor to snaxe dotnes tor rumsellers is a new cause for temperance discussion in London. The classic Tiber is once more to become a commercial highway, a lino of .steamers having been built to run between Rome anS Genoa. -One of the large English war ves- aelb. the Resistance, is to be coated with India rubber to a considerable thickness, to see how that material will repel projectUes. - A French musician has succeeded in makimr a piano from musical stones The dints. are suspended by Wires from a sounding board and are played upon by two otner dints. .The museum of Si. Fetersbnrg tins a bank note probably the oldest in ex istence. It is of the" Imperial Hank of China, issued by the Ctiinesw (Govern ment, and dates from the year 1399 be fore Christ. The winner of the grand prize ($10,000) at Baden races this vear be longs to an analytical chemist, who bought her for $165. She has since won him ten races, worth from 930,000 to $35,000, and would fetch as much at auction. Sir Lyon Playfair has ascertained, in the course of some inquiries into the manufacture of hiclfers of which it appears every English person con sumes eight a day that there are still a few families who adhere to the : in dor- box, and for whom tintiei-bo.s are manufactured. - -Among the wedding preseuts of Mile. Do I ravura, a young: lady con nected with the princel l:ssian" hous of Smvaroflf, v. as a 'iii.iiut liltla model of a KussL.u house in jrold, with :i door of emeralds and diamonds, which, whon It is opened, discloses a portrait. After a seveie illness n Kngiish man shaved off his whiskers and other wise disguised himself. He then went to his doctor and said he was a brother of the sick man. who, he asserted, was now dead. He thus o'ota'ned a certiii cate of his own death, had his own de cease registered, drew the burial money from his lodge and decamped. Tho late Earl of Dyaart, Life (Lon don) say9, was ono of tho most cci;n tric of noblemen. Though h had a splendid park near Grantham, and very great, not to sa' unbounded, wealth", e chose to live iu two rooms on the second floor of a house on Norfolk street Strand, wherf he allowed nobody to see his face. Indeed, it is said that when he wan ed a new pair of boots or shoes the son of St. Crispin, who sup plied his lordship, had to measure his feet on the outside of his sitting-room door, the noble legs to which they be longed being thrust through ihe door panels. One of the most obstinate duels ever fought was between the Earl of Lonsdale and Captain Cuthbert, of the Life Guards, in June. 1792. They fired togoihcr. Lord Lonsdale's shot passed through the frill of his opponent's shirt. The .'econds having endeavored to ad ust the matter, but the principals rcmaiuing obstinate, they again fired, but with no effect. The seconds then insisted that :is neither would mako the first concession, the principals should advance toward each other, step fer step, and both declare in the same breath that they were sorry for what had happened. This ingonious plan was agreed to. MELBOURNE. Ihe Early Days or a Magnitlcent and .War vrlons Town. Three decade? are an immense period in tho history of such a city as Mel bourne; and it is far from improbable that the market value of "town lots" has increased in something like cubic ratio within the last thirty years. Most marvelous of all, perhaps, is it to reflect that not only the site of Melbourne and its suburbs, but au immense tract of the surrounding country, was once within an ace ot being sold, "lock, stock and barrel," for, metaphorically speaking, an old song. I alludo to the famous Merry Creek treaty. At the beginning of June. 1835, Mr. Batman ascended tho Yarra and Saltwater Rivers, and a few days afterward ho in duced certain aboriginal chiefs named Jaga Jaga, Cooloolock, Bungaree, Yan Yan and Movuhip, to execute a formal deed of assignment, conveying to him and his heirs forever an area of between 600.000 and 700,000 acres of land, which would have comprised tho sites of the cities of Melbourne, Geelong and Collingwood, the towns of Emer ald Hill and St. Hilda, and the bor ouirh of Sandr dire, the consideration given for this tremendous cession be n ?! 20 pairs of blanke's, 30 knives. tomahawks 10 looking-glasses 12 pair; f scissois, 50 handerchiefs, 12 red shirt , 4 flannel jnck-ts, 4 -u ts of cot es and fifty pounds of flour. Well, business is busfnes . Did not William Fenn have his treaty with the Indians, and how mam thousands of p unds star ling has n t the British tav payer had to pay :o he descendan s of tho 1'enn .amily as compensation fo- the lov of the'r ieaitorai rights r Pennsylvania? "The worth of an thingis just so much as it will i ring, and hu'-di land, .about the Yarra istrict was probably not worth much in 1835. It :s true that J hn Batmnn might have thrown ii a few bottles ci rum for luck. Gove, nor Bouike, however, was hard-hearted enough to declare the whole arra ce ment with Jaga Jaga and his friends to be null and void, :ilthoug.i a solatium of some 7.000 was afterward granted to Batman and his par.ners. Brit it was the gold-fever year 1851 that made Melbourne marvelous. I chanced the other day in tho inn parlor at a little township in Victoria, called Wangaratta. to light on a rude litho graph depicting the arrival of the first gold escort from the diggings at the Government building in William street, in 1852. The gold ' has been brought down in huge chests, three of which form a load, to a dray drawn by a long string of bullocks. There is an escort of troopers, armed to the teeth, for in the early mining days attempts on the part of bushrangers to "stick up" or rob the gold escorts were frequent Young as were the days of mining in 1851, you see in the picture John China man, already about and as busv as a bee. The letterpress at the bottom of it tells you that the people looking from the windows of the blue-stone building in William street are the clerks and draftsmen employed in the office of the Surveyor-General, and that on the day following the arrival of the gold escort these gentlemen all threw up their appeSutments under Govern ment and were oft to the diggings. The crews of ships at Williamstown and Port Melbourne used to act in precisely the same manner. They would desert en masse. Those were the days of al luvial deposits, of big nuggets looking the diggers in the face, so to say. Large portions of the colony of Victoria were then a veritable Tom Tiddler's Ground, where gold was to be had for the pick ing up, for the scooping out, for the shoveling together. The consequence was that everybody, from all uarts of the world, who had a little' money and a great deal more energv and pluck, started for the diggings. '"There was a proportion of weak-kneed breth ren, whose pluck vanished as quickly as their money did, and it soon became a case of the survival of the fittest There was left a residuum of real "live men," as the Americans .say, and those livt men and their sons have made Mel bourne what she is magnificent and marvelous. George Auqustus Sola, in London Ttbfraph. URUGUAY. A Ceentry Which Promises to Be a Pew- ' commercial nival ortb u..u.i srte.. ye are accustomed to regard Uru- guy as an obscure and insignificant country, worth not even a thought; but . i . j u i commercial stride she is making S"6 r P"UBo Umted Sutes m the !iear tatr' Chili lias taken the flour market of the . west coast of South America awav from California, and Urozuav and the Ar- - gcatine Republic are soon to meet our Dftkots. 'lllnpis and Kansas wheat in the marke's of Europe, while they threaten an evou greater danger to ottr'cattle interests. With 100.000.000 sheep in the Argentine Republic, and l'.000.000 sheep in Uruguay; with 30, 0)0.000 cattle in on country and 7,000, 000 in the other, and only about 4,003,- i 0W people to furnish domestic consumers tatween them, it is easv to see what the' supply of beef and wool and mutton will soor be for exportation. There a more cause tor alarm in the ranches of Uruguay and Argentine than in the manufactures of England and Germany. We can compete with foreign indus tries in the quality and price of mechan ical products, but we can not compete with ranchmen who can put beef cattle into the market at $10 and $12 per head. One of the greatest advantages the cattl. if producer of Uruguay and Argen wil ahvrvs hav.. over thoe of the tino United Stat--ranges to t'.i of beef in b.- . oxpo-t mark radius of one '- tc nearness of their ' prespnt supply ' countries for tht . nes from within a huti ir d miles from an ocean harbor, in u inch can ha found the steamers of every maritime nation oc earth xcept our own. Ocean vessels can go a thousand uiilcs up the River Plata, and five hundred mi es up the Uruguay River inlo the heart of the cat tle country, and altnon tie up to the trees on the ranches,, while our cattle havo to be carried 1,50 to 4,000 miles on the cars. Th geographical and nav ig ble conditions of these countries are such that ours wo.dd on y equal them if ocean s earners could visit Denver aud Fort Dodge. Any man of bus'nessac calculate the difference in the value o! the product and the differences in prof its. It is o'aimod that the cattle cum Eanies of tho countries of which I havr een speaking can sell marketable steere at $10 and $12 a bead and declare thir ty percent dividends. Montevideo Cor. Ohtcaqo Inter-Ocean. TORTURE AT SING SING. The Terrible InraatloQ Kxatblted Crael Keeper. Brio At this moment the attention of everybody was attracted by the keepor, who was actually smiling. It was the first time his features had relaxed dur ing the day, and the crowd gathered round him. "I am going to show you a little in vention of my own," he said, pleasant ly, "which has been adopted all over the country. I suppose yon know that the criminals often get ugly The placo that harborj more than fifteen hundred of New York's worst scum must neces sarily Siave a numbar of hard charac ters to deal with. Men here get rebel lious, ill-tempered and unmanageable pretty often. In former years they used the lash, the paddle, the douche, and often calmed men by putting them in the dark rooms. The fiercest spirits are quelled by imprisonment in a dungeon. The wildest case we ever had turned to a lamb after tweuty-fiv days: imprisonment, without agleamof light, n a black cell. All that is settled now, however, by ray littlo invention. We don't havo to use the black cells or any thins; else, and tho men are so thoroughly scared by what I call my weighing machine.' that they no longer hght'nor rebel." He then showed it to us. If a convict became desperate at ill-treatment, over-work or a realiza tion of the awful duration of a twonty vcars' sentence, ho is dragged into the keeper's room, and a pair of iron hand cuffs are screwed tightly about his wrists, then the chain which connects the two handcuffs is drawn up until ho is almost lifted off tiie floor. Here he hangs against the wall until his spirit is subducdT The wall was smeared with the stains of blood from the wrists of the pour wretches who had hung thera "It's a daisy," said the keeper, radi antlv; "the toughest man in the whole jail has never been able to stand it more than three-quarters of a minute. It cures rheumatism, blindness and all the other ilk that criminals aro heir to." 'It must be torture." "Well, rather. It stops the circula tion of the blood, yon know." And ho still smiled as he stood with his hand on the pulley, while the crowd wanderod away. It's a grert thing to have a clear idea of the hunior ou3. Sing Sing Cor. Cincinnati En quirer. THE OLD GENTLEMAN. UU Remark Upon the Uec:iilenee) ff Street-Car rnllteit'vs. "Thoe who travel on the s-eet car, . s I am sometimes compelled to do." rem aked the old Colonel, as he leanid on bis gold-headed cane and bowed to a Constitution teporter, "find outagod i'eal more about female char cter thnn they ever would in d awing-roo s. 1-. th "ol days," he c ntinued, Icaring h s th oat a littl , "politeness was ie ciprocal. A gentleman who show hi his desire to be polite t a lady was certain to meet with some resp mre. His attempt, however awkuard. uas rewarded with some ac uowledg tnf a smile or a bow, ad som tines b th. But what you young gentlemen are pleased to term yo :r new civ V ra tion has brought about great changes. "Ah, you may smile, but it is true. The fine flavor of the old times is lost I am an old man, and it costs me some thing of an effort to rise in the street car and offer my seat to a lady when I know that she will not appreciate the small sacrifice that I have made. 1 feel better satisfied, however, when I remember that some of you will never know what we have lost in the way of the small courtesies and amenities of life." "Well." said one of the younger pas sengers, "when I give a lady my seat I never look around to see whether she thanks me or not" "Precisely so," replied the Colonel. "You inherit your disposition, but the spirit of it is" acquired from your sur roundings. It is commercial, purely commercial. It has grieved me to see some of the ladies smile superciliously when I take off my hat lo receive their fare. I feel that I am terribly out of date. But I can not learn your new aud shoppy tricks of disposing of wom en as if they were so many bundles. Perhaps the anubbings I receive are good for me; but I shall never cease to grieve that our society has fallen a vie tim to modern rapacity." Atlanta Constitution. A gentleman traveling in the wilds of Fayette County, West Virginia, last winter, had to pass the night in Ihe lowly home of a "broonisager," who, before his family retired, offered up the following prayer "Now we lay we 'uns down to sleep. We' tins are not jealous of onr betters, and ef the snow fall f' feet deep to-night, in the mawn in perhaps the stranger will trade we uns his watch and chain even apfo' th old yellow mule" -Chicago MmL IO A Frenchman has mad his suicide remarkable by dropping from the tower f NotraDan. PITH AND POINT. The pin seems to bo tho lode-star of woman's existence. It's hair-pin, rolling-pin or.piu-money that she s reach ing out fof continually.. A prominent mathematician's wife has prvsotjted him witn a pair of twins. He has nov attained the full sum of hu man happiucsa. with two to carry. ChigoXm. Ji & . " C An xbh!tnse'teUi"how men should eat whocan not" exercise. We have never kad any experienea with raaa of , this class, bat shoeMsuppoM thev ate ' with a knife and fork. The laws of ' polite sooiety can not be attend to.snit any particular set. of mea.-f. 'T. Graphic " ,2; I Once there was a hired mao who was constantly ustonhhjngniseoaplojw, j a farmer, by doinz strange and jjaaex- i pecieu ur.ngs. Uue dv the lamer went into the barn, aud fo'md his man had hung himself. Looking at the dangling body afew minutes, he ex claimed: "What ou earth will that fel low do mmtf" &ui Fraiicino Ar gonant. "" The Burlington Free Vt says: Mighty poor dos sometimes make ana satisaga-moat" 'This shiw how far the oduca'Jon of -the dumb brutes has advanced witiiin the past few yean. Wc have no doubt that in timd dogs can be hired to perform many of the menial duties for which we arc now obliged to pay bih wages. The Jud-jc. How the intense agonies of this ar tistic a,o creep upon ti ore we know it? Tho newest and sweetest idea is for the young lady .who has just returned from the seaside to paint a neat little yacht race on the lining of a :hell she herself picked up on tho sounding sands, and send it to her l:est young man. This si.-nilies, when translated into the ver nacular, "I will 03 the Genesta to youi Puritan." This is ve.-y encouraging to the yoxmgm&nr- Hartford Post. Last summer we o.Vn admired th kind and gcutcel manner with whlcL one of tho soei;tv young men of Crestod Butte attendod th,j footsteps of axertain fair damsel. Ilo.v anxious he was t' belp her over every muddy or rougl" place! But now we sue her jump th'J d tch, splash through the mud, and climb over p:le ot lumber, while b has plenty to do to hunt a dry crossing for himsolf. They aro married now.- -Denver- Tribune MONGOLIAN 7 SCHOLARS. The Chine Faptla uf w ch!ctgi Sabb'-h .School anil Thtlr Intallicener. Thirty-nine Chinamen of pious In clinations attended the Chinese Sunday School at Dr. Goodwin's churob, cdrnec of Ann street and Washington Boule vard, yosterday afternoon. Many of them had dis arded tho costume f their native land and wore tho dr& if this country, but by far the greater number had on their abbreviated Mother Hub bards and sandals, and woro their hat) so as to display the fall beauty and symmetry of their ci.es. All were scrupulously neat in appear ance, deferential in manner, and atten tive to the exercises. These consisted of prayer, the ringing of hymns, both in English and Ch'nese, and the ex pounding of the S.'ripturos. Tho ladies of Dr. Goodwin's chlrch havo exerted themselves toward the conversion of the Chinese, and 'Since tho Sabbath Scho.il was established, upward of a year ago? many of the heathen havo embraced Christiaaity. Yesterday one Chinaman wai learning the alphabet, while another, who had mastered the intricacies of the lan guage, was wrestling with doctrinal principles, and wante.l to be enlight ened" as t the meaning of the term There is one teacher to each Chinese scholar. If tho latter can sot road, he is taught the alphabet and is then made to spell word forming part of some Scriptural text Tho whole text is thee made plain to him, aud tho Scriptural idoajtcontaincd ;n it fully explained. The teachers say the Chinese are very apt pupils. Generally one lossou is all they require iu which to master the En lish alphabet Information once ac quired they do not forget The China boy" who learns his letters one Sunday attends school tho next Sunday pre pared to engage in spelling. A few months later his text-book is the Bible. He is inquisitive and anxious to loam, and his quick, subtle mind readily comprehends an 'idea. The teachers say the Chinese are model pupils. Whon they sing the somnolent look vanishes from their faces and thoir smart countenances aro lighted up with joy. "The Chineso are a misunderstood people," declared a lady prominently identified with the work. "They are always respectful and it is almost pa thetic to see how anxious they are to learu. Then they are generous almost to a fault. When this work was first commenced we took up a collection once every Sunday, but the Chinese gave so much that we were obliged to limit the collections to once a month. They could not be taught to give five cents, but gave half-dollars and dollars. Not long ago we planned to give them an entertainment in the church. They learned, of it and in five minutes went among themselves and collected $60. Chicago News. WIDE AWAKE. A!rtnM On nt tUe IailNpaasabt Ooo olltlO'ia of Succe-M. It is interesting to notice the different degrees of success attained in business or professional life, by men who appar ently start with equal chances. Those who fail of "success" in gaining money may be as successful as the millionaires iu making themselves useful and their lives happy; yet an observer may learn much lrom noticing the causes which led to failure or to success. One char acteristic of successful men is close and wide-awake attention to the work in hand, such, for instance, as marked a New York driver on the line of stages which have recently been withdrawn from Broadway. He had a genius for driviVg a stage, and was noted for keep ing his stage full of passengers, and for taking in more fares than any other driver on the route. His success was not accidental. His eyes were forever on the lookdut, both on Broadway and in the side streets, so that he never failed to see a distant nod or a slight gesture. A similar alertness for busi ness is noticeable amoner the fruit-ped dlers, the boot-blacks and the news-boys qf New York. Three carts full of ban anas and other fruit may be often seen standing close together by the side walk. The man in the middle cart will work 'every moment standing up, calling attention to his stock, and alert to grapple with any one who comes up with the slightest intention of buying) But the other venders will be seated and hslf-dozinr, or reading a news- L paper, carelessly waiting for a customer to asic lor iruit. eeiore noon tne ap pearanco of the wagons shows the in evitable result. By night, the middle wagon is empty, while the other venders wheel home a good part of their stock to keep till the next day, and complain of "bad luck" and "hard times." Some of the boot-blacks fly about through the crowds like shuttles, eagerly examining every pair of boots, and asking hers and there: "Have a shine, sir?" Even the beggers keep a closewatch on the streaam of coppers, and sever stay lone in a spot when their income begins to fall away. 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