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THE o OTTRKAL. KATE OF ART I3rbuainess and profesaionalcarda of five lines or less, per annnaa, Ito dollars. 157 For time advertisements, apply at this office. "EtTLegal advertisements at statute rates. EaTFor transient advertising, aea rates on third pege. ETA11 advertisements payable) saonthly. ISSLKL ..VK3Y WEDNESDAY, M. K. TURNER & CO., Proprietors and Publishers. 1ST OFFICE, Eleventh St., up itairs in Journal Bnilding. i-'fl terms: L'eryear Six mouths Three months Single copies .9 I VOL. XVI.-N0. 40.. COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 27, 1886. WHOLE NO. 820. fte (futon-urns mmml k r COLUMBUS STATE BANK! COLTJMBUS, HBB. CIS CAPITAL, - $75,000 DIRECTORS: Lkandek Gkkkakd, Fres'l. Gko. W. rinLST, Ficc Pres't. .TUMI'S A. llEED. R. H. Henuy. J. fi. Taskku, Cashier. Usmlc of lepott, lslecesmi amd ExckaaRfi. SJellectlon Promptly Made oa all PoIatM. Pay latereMt oa Time Iepe- lt. 274 HENRY LUERS, DEALER in WIND MILLS, AND PUMPS. Buckeye Mower, combined, Self Binder, wire or twine. Pimps Repaired on short notice t3TOne door west of Hcintz's Drug Store, 11th Street, Columbus, Neb. 8 HENRY GASS, UNDERTAKER ! COFFINS 4X1) METALLIC CASES A... DEALER IN Furniture. Chairs, BedBteads. Bu reaus. Tables. Safes. Lounges, &c. Picture Frames and Mouldings. tSHtepnirinq of 'll kinds of Upholstery Goods. 6-tf f'OLIJMBIIS. NKH. Ayer's CherryPectoral Should 1)3 kept constantly at hand, lor u-3 iu emergencies of tbo household. Hauy a mother, fclartk-d iu the night by the ominous sounds of Croup, finds tl:c little sufferer, with red and fwol!en face, gasping for air. Iu such esses Ajci-'ji Cherry Pectoral is invaluable. Mrs. Emma Gedney, 159 West 123 St., New York writes: "TVhilo in tho country, last winter, my little boy, three years old. was taken ill with Croup; it seemed as if he would die from strangulation. AycrN Cherry Pectoral was tried iu fcmall and frequent doses, and, In less than half an hour, the little patient was breathing easily. 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At once address, Taux A Co., Augusts, Mains. A VISION OF SUMMER. How pleasant are the summer hours! The earth Is pay with grass and flowers, Axi birds are singing-carols blithe: With Jor I breathe the perfumed air. And gaze upon the landscape fair, While wuiidorlng through the meadows, where The hardr nower swings his sojtae. The sun rains down his flerjr beams, A sheet of gold the river seems. Where knee deep stand the drowsy kise. Through scented latica my way I trace. Admire tho milkmaid's rustic graoe. The rosc-s glowing in her face, ' Her lips and teoth like milk and wise. Upon a flowery bank I lie, And wntch the swallows as they fly Swift-winged along the river's brink: The watch dog's distant howl I bear. The rooster's clarion, shrill and clear, Itoroml the wooded bill, and near The carol of the bobolink. The far-off islets, creeks and bays Lie shimmering in the golden hate. Beneath a bluo and cloudless sky: I gazo around me. and admire: The sunbeams gild a distant spire. And butterflies with wings of tire Come flitting round me where I lis. I see the mower leave theiteld To seek the shade the maples yield. While his perspiring brow he wipes. But now tho vision fades away: I hear a voice, half-angry, say: "John, will that plumber come to-day. To thaw thoso frozen water-plpesrv. Botton Courier. THE "FIERCE" BASSO. The Useless Terror He Brought TJpon a Lady Critic When I undertook to write musical criticisms for a daily paper, it was with tho firm determination to do en tire justice to everybody. L would be stow praise when I considered it due, and not spare the lash where it could be rightly applied. "We want criticisms, Miss Medland; not indiscriminate flatter' or abuse," said the editor to mc. "Let your words be well weighed. Do not allow personal preference or dislike to in fluence your judgment. Write fear lessly, but honestly, and consider a performance from ever' point of view before committing your opinions to pa per. When compelled to be severe, abstain from spitefulness, and remem ber that votaries of the divine art have tender feelings, which they carry very near the surface. That is all I have to eay." So I attended concerts, musicales, piano and organ recitals and all the various styles of entertainment in which music is introduced, and which, because of some slight difference in ar ranging the programme, are called by distinct names. Thus, a ballad, a vo cal duct, two piano selections, a violin solo and refreshments in a private house is a musicale. The same pro gram!) in a hall, with a quartette and an aria from an Italian opera added and the piano solos omitted, is a con cert, while an entertainment essentially the same as the first mentioned, but with the name of the pianist in capital letters on the programme, becomes a piano recital. I soon learned these nice distinctions, and religiously sat through all tho en tertainments for which I received tick ets, giving ny impressions of the per formances in the paper afterward as fairly as I could. "Miss Medland," said the editor, one Saturday afternoon: "I should like you to go to church to-morrow." "I always do." "Yes, but I wish you to attend the services at the Fourteenth P. E. They have a new choir a quartette and I should like to have a detailed criticism of their work in Monday's paper." "Very well. I will go." "The basso looks very bass," I thought, as I sat in the church next morning and glanced up at the choir, which was standing up preparatory to singing the lirst anthem. "What a terrible creature, with his great black beard and eyebrows! I hope he will not compel mc to speak slightingly of his singing. I am afraid ofhim. ' But the next minute the anthem com menced, and oh! what a bass. It was nothing but a discordant growl. It was useless for the other three voices to strain at the harmony. The bass persistently sang in the wronsr key, with a disregard for time ana tune that was absolutely maddening. I novcr looked up after that first glance. I felt that I must show my nisgust in my countenance, and per haps meet the eye of the basso as it rolled wildly iuits socket in sympathy with his frantic efforts to control his voice. "Perhaps he will not be-so bad in the other numbers," I thought. But he was and worse. As the ser vice progressed and the choir were at intervals called on to render their as sistance, the basso's voice seemed' to gel huskier and more disagreeable. When I sat down in my room that aft ernoon to write my-criticism, I had no compunction in giving him'as severe a lecture as he ever probably received on paper. Of the other three members of the quartette I had nothing but good to say, and I censured the directors of the church for allowing the efforts of three good singers to be rendered use less by an utterly incapable fourth. I folded my manuscript and sent it to tho office of my paper, with a note to the editor, in which I told him that my animadversions on the basso were strictly justified by his wretched per formance. When I read the paper the next day and saw how my hot words looked in cold type, I began to feel uncomfort able. I thought of the fierce man with the black beard and eyebrows, and wondered what I should do if he found we out and demanded satisfaction. -I wished that it had been the tenor, in stead. He was a handsome young man with a blonde mustache, from beneath which I felt sure no unkind words could come to a lad-, even if the lady had given him an unmerciful scolding in the columns of a newspaper. I should not be the least bit afraid of him. But it was no use wishing. The tenor part had been beautifully rendered, and I had not a shadow of excuse to censure him. "Mamie," said my younger sister Belle, bursting into the room, where I was thinking over my troubles, "come down stairs, won't you? You have been moping all day. Here it is eight o'clock in the evening, and you are still sitting up here by yourself. You have no writing to do for that tiresome paper, I know. I don't sec why you do it at all. Literature is well enough in its way, but I think the trouble and annoyance must far outweigh the glory and emolument" "Never mind, Belle. 60 away. My head aches." "Of course. The old excuse when you feel cross. But do come down, there's a dear. Papa has brought ft gentleman home with him, and we want some music. Mr. Wilton sings." "I am tired of singing." "No yon are not, Mamie. Von are disagreeable. I will go and ell papa that you will not come." "Belle, don't be Impertinent. Tell papa I will be down in a few Min utes." Plump came a kiss on the end of my nose, and Belle danced out of the room, reappearing for a Minute to say: "Oh, by the way. Mamie, Mr. Wilton is a member of the Fourteenth P. E. Church choir. You must have heard him sing yesterday' "Belle'' I screamed. But Belle was gone, after firing her parting shot. Now what should I doP If I only knew whether Mr. Wilton were tho black-bearded basso or the blonde mustached tenor! I had a good mind not to go down stairs at all. And yet that would be cowardly. No! I am not afraid to. write boldly, and I would be consistent' in my actions. At the worst Mr. Wilton would hardly strike me, especially with my father there to protect me. Besides, he might not even know that I wrote for the papers. It was with a beating heart that I put the finishing touches to my toilet and walked slowly down stairs. The parlor door was shut, but I could hear voices in conversation on tho other side, among them that of a stranger Mr. Wilton. I tried to dis tiniruish the tones, that I might deter mine, if possible, whether they were those of a tenor or bass. This is some thing that can very seldom be decided, even when tho speaker is by your side, the singing voice and colloquial tones being in many persons entirely dis tinct I knew thy, and with a mighty attempt to be calm, opened the door and stood in the presence of Mr. Wil ton! ih Thank fortune! It was a gentleman with a blonde mustache whom my father introduced mo to by that namo, as I bowed to tho handsome tenor. For he was handsome as a god. Or so I thought I soon found that Mr. Wilton was as brilliant in conversation as he was handsome in person. He had been everywhere and had seen everything and above all was a thorough musician at heart To my father be talked about stocks, bonds, tho labor problem, the political situation and the relative merits of natural gas and bituminous coal as elements in the iron industry. I soon found that he had lately become a member of a prominent iron firm, and that he gave his services to the choir of the Fourteenth P. E. Church from pure love of musie. " Will you not sing. Miss Medland." asked Mr. Wilton, when he had been chatting for an hour or so." I felt a little nervous about singing before him, but as I knew I possessed a fairly good soprano, well cultivated, I did not hesitate. I sang two bal lads, and then came Mr. Wilton's torn. " Your must sing for us, Mr. Wilton. What shall it be?" I asked, carelessly running my fingers over the keya of the piano. " Have I anything that you know?" He was hunting over ray sheet musie and picking out a piece here and there. " Yes, hero are several that I have sang before. I will try this if yor will plav the accompaniment." He placed before me "I Fear No Foe." " Is not this in too low a key for you? I will transpose it, if you like." "No, I can manage it," was Mr. Wilton's confident reply. I said nothing, though as I began playing the symphony Iwondered how this decidedly bass song would sound when rendered by a tenor voice. The symphony finished, he com menced. Horrors! The excruciating baas that had spoiled the quartette! Yes. There was no doubt about it My handsome "tenor" was the bass, and the sweet voice I had credited to Mr. Wilton was possessed by the fieroe man with the black beard and eye brows! He got through the song somehow, apparently to his own satisfaction, and I did not ask him to sing again. He had not read my criticism then, but he saw it the next day, for he has told me so since. Mr. Wilton does not consider me a good musical critic, but he is satisfied with me in every other way, for it was only last night that he asked me to wear a diamond ring as a sequel to a certain quiet but earnest conversation. I was introduced to the fierce, black bearded tenor a week or two ago, and he is one of the mildest men I ever met. Oeorge O. Jenks, in Pittsburgh Bulletin. Generous Nellie Arthur. We heard a pretty story about Nellie Arthur the other day. Nearly two years ago, while the ex-President was out driving with his daughter, the horses very nearly trampled upon a little crippled colored girl out by the Boundary. The child was not injured, but was badly frightened, and Miss Nellie's sympathies were much excited. The President gave the crip ple's mother a five dollar bill, and con sidered the matter settled; but bis -daughter did not, and the next day sent out her solace in the form of a bouquet and a bundle of playthings. Seldom thereafter did the President's carriage go that way without -bearing other gifts, and, although Miss Nellie is at school in New York, among new scenes and associations, she does not forget her protege, for a little while ago there came a package of play things and confectionery by express for the cripple. Washington'CapitaL ei A Baronet's Liberality. Sir John Swinburne, an English Baronet, issued a set of instructions to the bailiffs of all his estates in North umberland in view of the recent gen eral election, in which he sets a fine example to his class. These are his in structions: "Sir: 1. On the polling days give all workmen employed by me a whole holiday, and pay their wages as il they had been at work. 2. Abstain from asking-them for whom they are going to vote. S. Do not ad vise any of them upon political matters. 4. If any workman asks what are my politics, inform him that he must look to my public speeches for that, and in form him that I hope every man will vote accordingjto his own convictions and without regard to my views. 5. IT any workman asks yon about the bal lot, assure him it is quite secret 6. All workmen are to hare a holiday oa their respective polling days." a. F. Post. . . '" A perfectly petrifies, oak tree has been presented to the Kansas University. PITH AND POINT. Buttons Missus told me to come down and tell you she was not at home. Hufcut Go back and tell your mistress I say I haven't called. lYd-Bit. A lady was once lamenting the ill lock which attended her affairs, when a friend, wishing to console her, bade her "I look upon the bright side." "Oh!" she sighed, "there seems to be no bright do.'p "Then polish up the dark one," was the quick reply. Do not be too emphatic in the ex pression of your opinions, my son. I once heard your mother speak of the Bliggses as the scum of the earth. Since then the "scum" has risen, as it always does, first or last, and will have nothing to do with your mother or me. Burddte. A "young girl of sixteen years" writes that she suffers dreadfully from insomnia, and wants to know "what she shall do for it" "Go to sleep, daughter. go to sleep. "We never yet saw case of Insomnia that couldn't be cured by reg ular, healthful sleep. That's tho boss medioine for insomnia. Chicago Trib une. Fond father "How is your boy getting on at collego, Smith?" Smith "First-rate, I believe." Fond father "Strange; my boy doesn't stand well in his class at all; and yet I believe he is a very hard student What do you sup pose can be tho matter?" Smith "Maybe he's too hard." . T. Mail. It has been figured out that a good sized dog requires more food to Keep him in order than a six-year-old boy or Sirl. Poor people who keep a dog will o well to ponder over this andtako steps to get ndagf their six-year old boy or girl before severe winter sets in. Philadelphia Call. It is not considered bad form in Paris to kiss a young Woman on the forehead, however slight the acquaint ance. Etiquette is moro rigorous upon tho question of kissing in this country. He is favored, indeed, who can kiss a young woman upon the forehead with out getting a bang in the mouth. Bing hamton Republican. "The Second Reformed Oyster Sup per for the Benefit of tho Church" is an nounced in an exchange. From the ad verso remarks made concerning such suppers, we havo long thought there should be a reform in that direction. A reformed oyster must bo one where tho poor, forlorn oyster is not of a modest, retiring disposition, but becomes plural several times during the feast Norris toum Herald. Fenderson "Yes, I shave myself now. It used to cost mc fifteen cents a shave thirty cents a week. I estimate that it costs me one cent to shave myself, or two cents a week. So you see I save twenty-eight cents." Fogg "But you might do better than that If you should shave every day you would savo ninety eight cents." Fenderson "So I would! By George! I never thought of that I'll do it' Boston Post. She had iust dropped in for a morn ing call on her way down-town. "Do you know, Cicoly dear," said she, "that it is awfully warm; but I suppose I must wear this fur-trimmed dolman anyhow." "O, I didn't notice you had it on. Is it the same one you had last year?" No, it isn't, Td have you know. It's brand new and you knew it" It's a very bad practice, this making morning calls; al ways leads to the shedding of tears. Hartford Post. HOW HE KNEW. farmer Smith Proves That He Knows All About sv SwlndlUgT Dodge. A great man once wrote: "After the sting of folly has made men wise, they find it hard to conceive that others can be as foolish as they have been." An amusing instance of this occurred re cently, at a country agricultural fair. There was a man on the grounds wrapping ten and twenty-dollar bills in small packages of cleansing compound. The packages containing the bills were then thrown loosely into a box contain ing a number of packages of the com pound alone. "For only one dollar, gentlemen," the spectators were allowed to select six of the packages, with "almost an absolute certainty," as the glib vender said, "of drawing one or moro of the packages containing the bills." It really seemed an easy thing to pick out the valuable packages. The soap man did it easily. But, strangely enough, none of the bystanders could do it One man spent five dollars, and drew forth nothing but thirty packages of the worthless soap. Walking moodily away, he met a neighbor, who acoosted him thus: ''Hello, Johnson! What makes you look so blue?" "Oh," replied the dejected Johnson, 'Tve lost five dollars in that plaguy soap man's scheme." "Well, well," said Neighbor Smith, "I'm amazed that a man of your age had anything to do with a humbug of that kind." "I don't bTieve it's a humbug," said Mr. Johnson. "I'm out of luck, that's all." "Bah!" was Smith's contemptuous retort "It's a glaring humbug clear through." "How do you know it is?" asked Johnson. "Howdolknow? Why, man, any one with eyes in their heads ought to see that How can a man sell twenty-dollar bills for a dollar?" "Well, it looks fair enough," said Johnson, doggedly. Oh, yes, ''sneered Smith, and then added, patronizingly. "But don't you be deceived by looks, Friend Johnson. I could have told you long ago that the man was a fraud." "How dW you know?" persisted John son. This seemed to mettle the erudite Mr. Smith, thoroughly, and he angrily and thoughtlessly cried out: "Know, man, know? How do I know that he's a scoundrel? Why, man, I I aint I lost five dollars on the thieving trick myself?" To this might well be added Horace Greeley truthful remark: "The gloom iest day in any man's career is that wherein he fancies there is some easier way of getting a dollar than by square ly earning it Youth's Companion. As the one o'clock evening train was pulling into Sawyer City, on the Buffalo, New York & Philadelphia Bail road, says the Detroit Free Press, a young man and his best girl happened to be the only occupants of the rear coach. The young man was improving the opportunity to do a little hugging udkunne just at the moment the hrakeman stuck his head into the door and yelled "Saw-yer! Saw-ycr!" As soon as the young man recovered he retort- ea: "i aon't care u you did; wve more wan two weeks." FIRST National Bank! Aitktrized Capital, Pa.4 U Capital, Sirplis aid Prelts, $250,000 60,000 13,000 OVriCSKS AND DIRKCTORS. A. ANDERSON, Pres't. ' SAM'L C. SMITH, Vice Pres't. O. T. ROEN, Cashier. 4-W. EABLY, HERMAN OEIlLRIcn, eW. A. MCALLISTER, G. ANDERSON, 1. ANDERSON. Foreign and Inland Exchange, Passage Tieatrau.Beal Estate Loans. -r 29-vol-lS-ly BTJ8DIESS CARDS. D.T. Martyjt, M. D. F. J. Scucg, M. D. Drs. KABTYH ft SCHUG, U. S. Examining Surgeons, Local Surgeons. Union Pacific, O., N. A B. II. and B. & M. R. R's. Consultations in German and English. Telephones at office and residences. 0"Office on Olive street, next to Brod feuhrcr's Jewelry Store. COLUMBUS, - NEBRASKA. 42-y W. 91. COStKKsMUM, LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE. Upstairs Ernst building 11th street. C. D. EVANS, 91. D., PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. E3T0fllce and rooms. Gluck building, lltb street. Telephone com muncation. y TTAMIIrO.X 91EAM2, 91. !., PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Platte Center, Nebraska. 9-y F. F. RUNNER. 91. ., HOMCEOPATHIST. Chronle Diseases amd Diseases of Ckildrem sv Specialty. ISroftiec on Olive street, three doors north of First National Bauk. 2-ly it j. uiittson. NOTARY PUBLIC. 2th Street, i doors wast ef lUauaond IIoaM, olumbus. Neb. -J91-J T 6. SEEDER, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Office on Olive St., Columbus, Nebraska 2-tf MONEY TO SuOAN. Five years' time, on improved farms with at least one-fourth tho acreage under cultivation, In sums representing one third tho fair value of the homestead. Correspondence solicited. Address, M.K.TURNER, 50-j Columbus, Nebr. M cAl'I'IOTER BROS., A TTORNE YSATLA W, Office up-stairs in McAllister's build ing, 11th St. W. A. 3IcAHister, Notary Public. TORN TIMOTHY, NOTARY PUBLIC AND CONVEYANCER. Keeps a full line of stationery and school supplies, aud all kinds or legal forms. Iusures against fire, lightning, cyclone and tornadoes. Office in Powell's Block, Platte Centei. 19-x J. M. MACFAULAND, B. F. COWDKRY, AtteraejiadKotiryPaWe. Cellsetw. LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE OF MACFARLAND & COWDBR7, Columbus, : : : Nebraska. J. JT. 9IAVOHAN, Justice, County Surveyor, Notary, Land and Collection Agent. ISTParties desiriugeurveying done can notify me by mail at Platte Centre, Neb. Si-Cm JOUN G. HIGGISS. C. J.'GARLOW, CollcctiosjfcUtorxey . HIGGHfS ft GABLOW, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, Specialty made of Collections by C. J. Garlow. 31-3m Tp H.RUSCI1E, llth St., opposite Lindell Hotel. Sells Harness, Saddles, Collars, Whips, Blankets, Curry Combs, Brushes, trunks, valises, buggy tops, cushions, carriage trimminjs, &c, at the lowest possible prices. Repairs promptly attended to. TAMES SAL.910N, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER. Plans and estimates supplied for either frame or brick buildings. Good work guaranteed. Shop on 13th Street, near St. Paul Lumber Yard, Columbus, Ne braska. 52 6mo. pAMPBELL Sc ST. CL.AIR, DEALERS IX Rars and Iron ! " The highest market price paid lor rag. andiron. Store in tlieBubach building, Olive St., Columbus, Neb. 15-tf JS. MURDOCK & SON, Csrpentsrs snd Contractors. Have had 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 tunity to estimate for you. ET'Shop on 13th SU,one door west of Friedbof A Co's. store, Columbus, Nebr. 483-y RCBOYD, MANUFACTURER OF Tin and Sheet-Iron Ware ! Jos-Work, Hoofing and Gutter ing a Specialty. EITShop on Olive Street, 2 doors north of brodfeubrcr's Jewelry Store. 32-tf "GENUINE ENTERPRISE. Saeeeufal Baatoess Met f a City SUeet reiiilew. "Just watch that little game down there it works as slick ss if it was greased," said the big policeman in front of St Paul's Church yesterday as he pointed his club toward Vesey street. Fifteen yards further down Broadway, in the middle of the block, was a brisk young man with a big push cart full of hand mirrors, brushes and combs, which a big placard proclaimed "were the last of a bankrupt stock at half the cost price." In front of the cart, which stood up against the curb, was an ingenuous looking man with a long ulster and a well brushed silk hat. lie had iust bought five hand mirrors and was looking at. the brushes as the re porter came up and began examining the "bankrupt stock." "Wall. I declare! Did yon ever ate anything so cheap?" exclaimed the in genuous man as he turned to the re porter. "Here they're selling these mirrors for twenty-five cents apiece. Real Venetian mirrors and solid brass frames. I can tell that, for I was in the importing business once. They're worth one dollar aniece at the lowest! I've just bought five. I'm going to givo one to my wife and one to each of my girls." "You're right, sir," said the brisk young man behind the cart; "they're almost given away. Just look at one, sir, and you, too, madame," as he stopped wrapping up the parcel for the ingenuous man. and thrust ono mirror into the reporter's hand and another into the hand of a lady in a sealskin sacque who had heard the eulogies of the ingenuous young man and hod stopped for a moment in an undecided sort of a way. "Upon my word," continued the in genuous man in an enthusiastic tone that floated forty feet away. "I never saw anything like it yes, it's a real ivory comb and a genuine ivory backed English made hair brush I'vo dealt in 'em myself. How much did you say, nrjr man? What! only a quarter apiece? You may wrap me up fonr of each. I never saw anything so cheap in my life. Just given away; yes, given away is the word, sir," and again he turned his radiant counte nance upon the reporter. The lady's doubts seemed dispelled by this emphatic approval and she bought a hand mirror, brush and comb. A dry goods clerk, who looked as if ho was going to see his best girl, so re splendent was he, was also encouraged to the point of buying a mirror. Three shop girls fluttered up and bought two hair brushes between them. Messen ger boys sprang up from nowhere and stared. Small girls appeared myste riously and gazed with longing eyes at the mirrors and celluloid-backed hair brushes. Before the ingenuous man had gotten his change there was a crowd of fifty people around the cart wanting to buy something. "What's the game? I don't see any except that twenty-five cents is about twice as much as those things are worth," asked the reporter, when ho had at last disentangled himself from the crowd. "You're not vry fly," said the big policeman, pityingly; "that man in tho ulster is only a 'capper.' Ho'll go oft" now and wait till this crowd goes away and business gets dull again. Then the feller at the cart'll push it down or up Broadway a block or two, and the 'capper' '11 turn up again and buy a whole lot of things. He'll en thuse about their quality and cheap ness and another crowd' 11 co.lect and buy a lot tumble? I tell you, a couple of fellers working that way will sell as much as a good sized store will. I've seen that cart there emptied six times in a day. It's what I call gen-u-ine enterprise." N. Y. Herald. FAMOUS SPENDTHRIFTS. Tiberias Boat of Cedar, Covered Tilth Gold and Frcclons Stone. The ancients more than equaled the modern in their ingeniously profuse ness of expenditure. A history of the spendthrifts of ancient Rome alone would fill a good-sized volume and be of uniquo variety. Apicius, Crassus, Probus, Claudius, Nero. Yitellius and Caligula all squandered vast sums on most trifling objects. Apicius spent nearly a million pounds on his palate, and then, casting up his accounts and discovering that he had not quite one hundred thousand pounds left, imme diately hanged himself to avoid the privations of threatening poverty. Elagabalus rogaled the attendants oi his palace on the brains of pheasants, the tongues of finishes and the eggs of partridges. At his own meals toe peas were sprinkled with grains of gold, pearls were scattered in dishes of rice, and the costliest amber was used to render palatable a dish of beans. Crassus made a great feast for tho populace during his candidacy for the office of Consul, at which ten thousand tables were heaped with luxuries. Even this was surpassed by Caesar, who, at the funeral feast on the occa sion of his daughter's death, spread seventy-two thousand tables, accommo dating three guests at each. Tiberius, like Cleopatra, gulped down precious stouts, crushed and mixed in wine; and he heaped the plates of favorite guest with gold and 5ewels for them to carry away. It was Tiberius, too, who caused to be built boats of cedar, covered with gold and precious stones, and large enough to admit of their being turned into float ing gardens, in which were planted flowers, a-vines, and fruit trees. No scene from the "Arabian Nights' En tertainments" could have equaled this in splendor. But it is to Nero that the prize for senseless prodigality must be awarded. In the simple recreation of fishing he used lines of purple silk and hooks of gold. His tiara was estimated to be worth five hundred thousand pounds, and he never wore the same costume twice. When on a progress through his dominions five hundred asses fol lowed in his trail to supply milk for his daily bath. Had Elwes, the fa mous miser, who performed bis ablu tions in a convenient nook and dried himself with sand to save the expense of soap and towels, been a spectator to this reckless extravagance, he would, in all probability, have gone clean out of his mind. Saturday Review. m A Kansas man points with pride to the phenomenal fact that his wife has worn one bonnet twenty-two years. She mest be blind, or else she never goes out of the house. N. Y. Journal. n It takes four things to be a gentle man: You must be a gentleman in principles, a gentleman in your tastes, a gentleman in your manners, and a gentleman in your person. Oeeident. NEW YORK PAUPERS. STeCtaeeeaT lete Faeperka. A gentleman who is connected with a charitable organization that con tributed to the relief of about nine thousand distressed people in this city during the past year, when speaking of the liability of differentgrades of work ing persons to come to want, said: "My experience shows that no class is exempt from absolute pauperism, but it is very plain that some trades furnish better livelihoods than others, and that any trade is better than no trade, unless it is the trado of seam stress for a woman. Thus we were called on to relieve 549 laborers and only 55 carpenters, 79 'longshoremen and 7 plumbers, and that shows, too, the difference between trades. Amoqg builders we notice a striking peeu- liarity. Relief was given to 86 paint ers and 26 masons and bricklayers, ' while only 6 hod carriers were found to be in need. I think this is due to the solid front presented by the Hod Carriers' Union. Among the metal workers we relieved 12 brass fitters, 7 boiler makers, 23 blacksmiths, 26 machinists, IS molders and 15 tin smiths. I wa somewhat astonished to find that 21 engineers were needy. They were men 'rained to care for sta tionary engines in nearly all cases. Horsemen seem to bo as well off as most age-workers. Wo relieved 19 coachmen, 63 drivers and 23 truck driv ers. The clerks and salesmen relieved numbered 105, but tho saleswomen numbered only 5. Against this small number wo have to place 389 seam stresses and 656 washers and scrubbers. There are 34 nurses on our lists also. The servants of the city, considering their number, are not badly off. We relieved 49 cooks, 64 waiters and 35 other servants. Among other trades we supplied the wants of 41 printers, 1 press-feeder, 2 shoe cutters, 1 trapeze performer, 67 tailors, 1 undertaker, 3 watchmakers, 1 rope maker, 5 millin ers, 4 paper hangers, 18 seamen and 3 photographers. Tho professions were not exempt, for we had 5 physicians, 1 organist, 5 clergymen, 13 teachers, 4 lawyers, 4 artists and 1 editor. Thero are no paupers among the reporters." N. Y. Sun. LIMEKILN CLUB. Brother Gardner Discourses on the ITse rad Abaae of Mottoes. "I doan' go much on mottoes an sich," said Brother Gardner, as ho opened the meeting on the usual de gree and winked to Samuol Shin to raise the alley window. "I once knowed a man who sot out in life wid de motto : 'Excelsior.' He was proud of it, an' he stuck to it, an' de las' time I saw him he was in de poo'-house. He got so tired of luggin dat motto around dat he couldn't work obor three days in do weok. "I once knowed a man who had de motto : 'Time is Money' hung in ebcry room in his house. He invariably rushed in his co'n ten days too airly, an' den tried to aivcrage up things by El an tin' his taters twenty days too late. c only 02ca.shun when ho got eben wid time was when he jumped his clock half an hour ahead. De only timo when he had a decent crap was when he lay sick an' his wifo worked de truck patch. "I once knowed a man who carried de motto of 'A Penny Saved am a Ponpy Aimed' in all his pockets, an' no pu-j.son eber found him wid a dollar in cash to his name. He was all on de save an' nuffin on de aim. "Doan' you git de ideah inter yer heads dat a motto or a maxim am gwino ter feed an' clotho yc an' whoop up rent an doctor bills. It's mo' in de man dan in de maxim. I kin show ye fo'ty pussons in my naybnrhood who sot on de fences all snmmor an' keep dcir eyes on de maxim: 'Industry am de Road to Wealth. I kin show ye fo'ty mo' who han up do motto of 'Providence will Purvidel' and sot down fur Providence to do so. If de wife aims a dollar dat's Providence. "Stidy work at fair wtges, wid a do mestic wife to boss de kitchen, am motto 'nuff fur any of us. If anything furder am wanted let us strive to be honest, truthful, charitable an' virtu ous. Wo needn't bang out a sign on de fences dat we am strivin', but jist git dar' widout any Fo'th of July fire works to attract public attenshun." Detroit Free Press. THE JEZREELITES. Ceremonies of a Strange Society ef Re ligions Cranks. A writer in the Chatham and Rochester Observer, England, describing the se cret rites of "the Jezreelites," or the members of "the New and Latter House of Israel" a strange religious sect which has gathered at New Brompton, Kent says that among the ceremonies carried on with closed doors, and to which only the initiated are admitted, is that of "washing the feet of the saints" a duty which is performed by the women. A sword and a bunch of keys, representing Pe ter's keys, are introduced into tho ser vice ju. mystic symbols, the Scriptures are interpreted in the light of the "Flying Roll," and hymns arc sung of a lewd character. Tho terms of mem bership are based on strictly commer cial rrinuples. A candidate for ad mission into the faith must undergo a probationary course of six months. At the expiration of this period he is required to write out a full account of his or her past life, omitting nothing. Thus having passed the "sec ond sword," the tenth part of his worldly income is to be given to the "common fund," and should he possess a pension or property the same is to be yielded to "the Church." Insubordi nation on the part of the members is a punishable offense. The adult mem bers are chastened in various ways. In one instance an aged couple, for a month or more, were placed upon a diet consisting of biscuits and unleav ened bread (six ounces for two) and water for breakfast; boiled peas or beans or dough dumnling and maize for dinner, no milk, jsalt or pepper be ing allowed. Another ana perhaps milder form of punishment is being denied the privilege of eating at the same table with "the Messenger of the Lord," or Queen Esther. The juvenile offenders are attired m red coats, with the letter P written on their backs as a symbol of punishment. m When a young and beautiful but poor girl marries a rich old man, it may be that she loves him truly and sincerely, but it is all the world to an orange that she'll never repeat the ex perience if she becomes a yonngwidow, says a wise oldtnan. Br.zlmi Past. RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL. A graduate of a theological seaai nary in New York has been-refused a Iiccnso to preach because he lived too expensively and dressed too fashionably. N. Y. Tribune. The Female University at St Pe tersburg, the first institution of the kind in Russia, was dedicated recently. The royal family took part in the ceremo nies. The Sabbath is held in such great respect at Thurso, Scotland, that the cemetery is not allowed to be open ess that day. Even burials is considered a desecration. In Japan it is the custom to preach sermons an hour long, or even longer. Sometimes in ono church or mission chapel as many as seven such serssons. are preached in tho course of one Sun day. Christian Union. The school superintendents of Bos ton, as the Journal reports, think that the teachers are -more overworked than the pupils. Teachers require mors) physical exorcise and more recreation, with less worry and less hot coffee and study at night. The most valuable possession of a city i the reputation of its professional classes, and of all classes the reputation of its teacher is most precious, since they stand at tho very fountain head of public intelligence and practical moral ity. Journal of Education. In Swain County, North Carolina, is a church of nature's own workman ship. It is called "the natural rock house." It stands on the Nantasala River, and rcsomblos the ruins of an an cient mansion. The long, arched pil lars give it a very majestic appearance. It has five rooms, the largest of which holds about thrco hundred persons, and is used for a church. The dedicatory sermon was preached last month. Rev. Joseph Neeaima, of Kioto Japan, Principal of the Theological Sem'nary at that place, addressed the student ;of Yale Divinity School reeeat ly. After giving some statistics regard ing tho country, Mr. Noeshna stated that thirtcon churches have been formed within tho last yoar. A graduate of the theological seminary organized a church of six numbers, and at its fifth anniver sary this year it numbered 375. if. T. Post. Thero is in Atlanta a beautiful young lady who is deaf and dumb, but m spite of her infirmity sho is a regular attendant at church. Unable to hear a word of the sermon or a note of the musir., she is nevertheless a devout wor shiper. Last Sunday an old man sat near her with an imraenso ear-trumpet levoled at the preacher. Tho spectacle of these two people worshiping God at nch a disadvantage was a severe robuko to moro fortunate peoplo who seldom go to church. Atlanta, Ga., Constitution. An English professor has been trac ing the codrso in lifo of 1,000 college medical students, taken at random front a London Institute. Ho found Rat twenty -seven out of 1,000 achieved dls tingnfshod success; sixty-six had consid erable succerr; 07 made a living; 124 had a very limited success, not having made a fair practice within fifteen years after graduation, and fifty-six failed ut terly. Nearly ten percent, (ninety-six) of thd whole number left- tho profession after beginning either study or practice, eighty-seven died after entering prao s"c?, and forty-one died when students. Chicago Herald. a 1 WIT AND WISDOM. Hope is the yeast that cause the cup of life to bubble over. "What is the 'Light of Asia?' " asks a subscriber. Wo have never been there, but presume it m the sun. Jf. Y. Graphic A mar who wanted to see the last eclipse go. ito a cab and told the dri ver to take aim as close to it as he could because he was near-lighted. Chicago Herald. The true test of civilization is, not the census nor the siae of cities nor tho crops no, but the kind of man that the country turns out. Emerson. Mor.ey and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unbappiest of all mortals are thje who havo moro of either than thev kirow how to use N. Y. Mail. Pretty Teacher. "Now, Johnny Wells, can you tell what is meant by a miracle?" Johnny "Yes, teachor, mother says if you don't marry tho now parson it will be a miracle." Teachcr "You may sit dovvr." Life. Johnny (at the dinner-table) "Will you tell us about your escape after din ner, Mr. Feathcrly?" Young Mr. Featherly (a guest) "About what es cape, Johnny? I have had no escape. Johnny "Yes, you have. Tho fool killer, you know. Pa told sister yester day that he wandered how you had es caped him so long." Methodist Advo cate. A customer went into an eating house where they sell basins of soup for a penny, and having consumed his basinful, began complaining that he had not had his pennyworth, the soup was bad, and he had found a piece of worsted stocking in it. "Did yc think we can put bits o' silk stockings in soup at a ?enny a bowl?" was the reply. Boston ost. Minister (just before church scrvics) "How is our worthy brother, ljeacoa Smith, getting on, doctor?" Phvsician "He is in a very critical condition. I was at his house" three times yesterdav and once this morning." Minister (wfjh concern) Indeed! I will ask tho prayers of the congregation in his behalf." Philadelphia North American. A California critic was listening to a vocalist, eminent, indeed, in her pro fession, but rather a tree ted in manner, who Tjas warbling to her own great sat isfaction, "O, would I were a bird," when I-e gave vent to his feelings in echoing notes with these words, "O, would I Chronicle. were a gun." Pittsburgh "Now, you tell me I have a fair memory, a great capacity for learning languages, and a well developed head generally?" "You have," said the phrenologist. "Is there anything," asked the man under examination, in the exuberance of his joy, "that my head needs to mako it absolutely per fect?" "Yes." "What is it, prayP" asked the man. "A shampoo." CAt eago Tribune. Vac Hen and the Swan: A farmer one day came upon a Hen and a Swan which were having a Fierce Dispute, and when he Inquired the cause of it the Hen explained: "Why, I expressed my Belief that tho Swan's neck was too long." "Ob, as to that," replied the Farmer, "I was about to Suggest that your own neck was Altogether too short, and that you are Sadly in Need of new Tail-Feathers." Moral: Don't criticise a man who Toes in when yon run your own Koots uver at the Detroit Free Prcs.
