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. i Tke fanei fl86. The people of Nebraska are on the eve of the most momentous political contest that has been fonght in this state since the memorable senatorial campaign of 1876, when the cohorts of monopoly were so signally over thrown. Ten years ago Jay Gonld came to Nebraska in person to pack conventions and legislatures with his cappers and henchmen. He succeed ed in capturing the republican state convention, but the people resented the outrage and their uprising was so general that a majority of the legisla ture dared not cast their votes for the monopoly candidate. Four years later, after a most desperate and ex citing struggle the railroad minions were again overthrown in the elec tion of Charles H. Van Wyck. The fearless stand which Senator Van Wyck has for five years maintained aB the opponent of corporate aggres sion, the relentless war he has waged upon the cattle barons, land grabbers and railroad highwaymen has made him the target of all assaults from these dangerous elements. Senator Van Wyck'e term expires on the 4th of March, 1887. The legislature to be chosen next fall will elect his suc cessor. Already the monopoly mag nates and the leaders of corrupt rings of all parties are organizing for Van Wyck's defeat. No stone will be left unturned, and no means unBpared to achieve that result. The issue in 18S6 in Nebraska will narrow down to Van Wyck and anti Van Wyck. The people regardless of party, and more especially the farm ers and laboring men will support Van Wyck, while the railroads, mon ey lenders, land grabbers and corrupt jobbers, will oppose him. In this great contest, the Omaha Bee plants itself squarely on the sido of the peo ple and in favor of the re-election of Senator Van Wyck. In this it only maintains its well known position as an unflinching opponent of monopoly. The election of Van Wyck five years ago was largely, if not wholly, doe to the efforts of the Bee to arouoo the people to an organized resistance to the ty mimical domination of the rail road bosses and the diffusion of anti monopoly principles among the masses through its columns. To the farmers and workingmen who consti tute the bone and sinew of this state the Bee again appeals to make ready for the coming conflict. It will be no child's play, but if the industrial class es are roused to their danger and present a solid and united frout there can be no doubt aB to the outcome. Organize Van Wyck clubs iu every school district. Agitate the anti-monopoly issues of which he is the champion, and circulate anti-monopoly doctrines through newspapers which are not subsidized or gagged. Among these papers the Bee has the right to preference. It has been often tried and never been found wanting. It is not only reliable on the anti monopoly issue but in every way worthy of the patronage of the farmer and laborer. Even its most bitter enemies concede that the Bee is the best newspaper this side of Chicago, and its weekly issue has no superior among the metropolitan weeklies in this country. The superb and costly premiums which the Bee offers to the patronB of its weekly this year, is unrivalled. The aggregate value of the premiums is $43,127.00. They comprise two eighty acre (arms in Iowa and Kan sas, and one forty acre farm iu Ne braska; farming machinery and im plements, among which are one J. 1. Case thresher with 12-horse power, complete; one new McCormick steel harvester and hinder; one six-hole geared mountain shelter and horse power; and mora than sixty farm mills, cornshellers and plows, varying in value from $S.OO to $175 each. There arc musical instruments, in cluding one Emerson upright grnud piauo, worth $800 00, live stock, household goods, silverware, cutlery, guns, knives, books &c. The award of premiums will bo made on Saturday, March 13th, 18S(, by a committee selected by the sub scribers, who may be present at the distribution. There will positively bo no post ponement. A premium worth at re tail, at le.-nt one dollar, i guaranteed to every subset iber who remits two dollars before the 13th of March. This is neither a new nor experi mental scheme, but will be our sixth successive annual premium distribu tion, the first having taken place in the winter of 1879-1880. While it amy seem incredible that we can afford to furnish a metropoli tan weekly for two dollars a year, give to every subscriber a premium worth at least one dollar, and to in clude among these premiums severa! hundred articles valued at from five dollars to one thousand dollars each, we are in condition to honestly carry on every promise or obligation which we assume aud still derive fair re turns from the paper. Nearly all the large premiums were secured in ex change for advertising. The most costly articles we have traded for so as to involve only a comparatively small outlay in cash. For instance, our lands were bought of tbo J. I. Case Threshing Machine Compauy and they take out $1,000 of the pur chase price in advertising. The same is true of the Case threshing machine, for which Vc pav less than oiio-fourth of the retail price in cash aud balance in advertising. Many other machine we have on the list are purchased without paying out any money. The minor premiums, such as books, albums, cutlery, plated spoons, etc., are bought iu very iarge quantities at wholei-ale prices and with liberal dis counts. The margin between what we pay out for premiums, postage and incidental expenses is large enough to leave os a fair subscription price for the paper. Our list contains the names of thousands of subscribers who have patronized us lor many years. They attest that we have kept faith with our patrons and enjoy their full confidence. We could not afford to do otherwise. The Bee is now in its fifteenth year, aud its foun der, and editor during all these years is also the principal proprietor. He has a reputation at stake, and could not be a party to a disreputable or fraudulent scheme without being ruined, and destroying his paper which now occupies the front rank in western journalism. The subscription price of the Weekly Bee with premium is tw.o dollars per annum. Direct your remittance by money order or registered letter to "The Bee Poblishimr Co." Omaha, Neb, who will forward a numbered premium receipt which will be registered in our premium book. Etch subscriber aboald also give explicit directions as pMtoflce address. 2 THE FAROES. Ceataanalstlc System of Whale FIsbp lag Kb Vogue In These Northern IfIe. No one can visit the Faroej without Becoming very familiar with the word "grind" (short for Grindehval; Danish for bottle-nosed whale) before he leaves those happy, primitive Northern Isles. He also gets familiarized with the sight of bones and other relics of the creature itself. For, wherever he goes, whale heads, picked clean by the gray-crested Faroe ravens, excite his attention. They lie bleaching in the grass of the quaint little meadow-patches by the villages, indistinguishable at a distance from the white lichened boulders which surround them. They serve as build ing material in the construction of field walls. We have seen two set on end to compose a stile. Cows arc 'tethered to them. And in some places, more particularly after a comparative ly recent catch, they are stacked many feet high like a substantial and stimu lftting trophy of success. Next to the skulls the separated joints of the ani 'mal's backbone are most abundant. .But these for some reason are not so thoroughly divested of flesh as the skull, and are therefore like ly to displease one's sense of sight ,and smell. Again, hung outside the 'majority of the little wooden, grass ;roofed houses of the villages, are nu merous wrinkled strips of a black and brown substance, not unlike India rub bet. Sometimes this substance, ad heres to the sides of the house, and oc casionally it gets a trifle green in parts. But, be its condition what it may, to a stranger its appearance and color are very repulsive. This is whale-meat undergoing the process of being wind dried, whereby it may be kept and eaten months after the slaughter of the animal. And, lastly, for the tarred bladders of different shapes, bound round at one end with tarred cord, dangling here and there bv the houses, the fisher-folk are also indebted to the grind; these are its stomach and intes tines, and are used as floats for the fishing-nets. The excitement that pervades the islands when a "message of grind' is recognized is very remarkable. A boat out at sea may be the first to discern the creatures. Instantly a rag of some kind (a shirt, may be) is hoisted on the mast, and the happy news is thus sig naled to the shore. Thence the intel ligence is carried from village to vil lage, over mountains, across fiords and sounds, until hundreds and thousands of the inhabitants are informed of it The little children run about in a frantic state of glee, shouting the word "Grindabo!" at each other. The women bustle and chatter and hasten to put up some black bread and dried meat or fish for their husbands, sons and broth ers, who have already, at the earliest warning, run down to the beach and launched the whale-boats for the pur suit of the grind. And soon, from the still blue waters of the mountain fiords, boat after boat is seen pressing eagerly out to sea. This is especially the case when the grind is sighted primarily from the land; for then the boat which first comes up with the herd is entitled to the finest of the animals, after the slaughter, over and above its equitable share. Strategy has now to be excrcisod. The tide has to be considered, and the place; for a herd will not face a strong tide; and not every bay is suitable for the successful capture of the animals. If, however, no good landing place be near, and the tide be opposed to a pass age toward a better voe (as a whale bay is called), the grind are driven into temporary quarters; and there "laid by" until conditions are more favora ble. The seaward part of the bay is guarded by boats, and the animals calmly pack themselves together as closely as possible, and await their fate. So eager are they sometimes to get what protection they can from their own bulk, that they form themselves into a huge cubic mass, the topmost members of which are impelled out of the water. Stra' individuals now and again separate themselves from the rest, and either float tranquilly on the surface or tread water deliberately, thrusting their square heads above the waves; but all are safe from escape un til daybreak, when they get restless, and are ready to follow the guidance of any bold grind who may make a rush for the open sea. Sometimes the boats have a hard chase before they can head the herd In one instauce the men were rowing in pursuit for three days, and covered nearby fifty miles of waterway ere they succeeded in the capture. But when a good bay is at hand and the tide is favorable the business is carried through very quickly. The boats form a half circle round the herd to cut off its re treat toward the sea, and the men reduce it to a state of terrified obedi ence by throwing stones after it, and by beating: stone and iron or tin to gether under the water. The sound distresses the grind and the bubbles caused by the falling stones excite an almost insuperable fear within them. They hurry before the boats and the shower of stones like sheep before a shepherd's dog; and thus they soon ap proach the place destined for their de struction. The boats now marshal themselves in three rows between the head of the bay and the fated grind; so that if by chance they take fright and attempt a bolt, some opposition may be made, and a turn if possible effected. Then one boat pulls into the herd and a man stationed in the prow wounds one of the animals with his lance. This wounded grind charges through the others, spreading the utmost terror in all directions. A panic ensues, and a rush forward is made by some of the animals, who thus get stranded on the sloping beach of the bay, where they arc speedily killed by the islanders in wait for them. The other boats of the first row in the meantime pull into the herd, and in a few hours several hun dred grind will be lying gashed and still, drawn up on the shore, there to be numbered and valued by the Crown officer and special appraisers. The apportionment of the grind, which immediately succeeds the death of the last animal, is a little compli cated for the understanding of any but Faroemen. But, briefly, when a tenth of the whole has been deducted (which tenth is divided equally between the Crown, the Church and the pastor of the parish), and certain allowances for damage to boats and individuals, board and lodging to the slaughterers, and general charities, also subtracted, the remainder is divided into four equal parts, of which the men engaged in the capture and the population of the parish jointly take three parts, the other part going to the land owner on whose property the slaughter and division are accomplished. An average grind will yieldjneat and blubber (which is for the most part melted into oil) in worth 3 7s. 6d. A herd of only two hundred grind, suc cessfully landed, will therefore be worth to the Faroese nearly 700 no small sum, remembering that the whole fund of the Faroe Savings Bank stands at only 106,861 kroner (about 6,000). But, in this primitive community, actual money (though well appreciated) is of less consequence to the people than money's worth. The whales" supply them with a store of meat; it is on ac count of this that they are specialby jubilant. For months after the capture there will be plenty of feasting in all the houses within the district of the killing. Some of the meat will be roasted and tkae eaten freak, though most of it will be pickled. As to the blubber, what Is not reduced into oil will be conjoined as butter, or dried, salted and eaten like fat bacon in England. London Satur day Revieic. A WAR ENGAGEMENT. AB Incident from Twain' "Private tory of a Campaign That Failed." For a time life was idly delicious; it was perfect; there was nothing to mar it 'ihen came some farmers with an alarm one da. They said it was rumored that the enemy were advancing in our direction, from over Hyde's prairie. The result was a sharp stir among us, and general consternation. It was a rude awakening from our pleasant trance. The rumor was but a rumor nothing definite about it; so, in the confusion, we did not know which way to retreat. Lyman was for not re treating at all, in these uncertain cir cumstances; but he found that if he tried to maintain that attitude he would fare badly, for the command were in no humor to put up with insubordina tion. So he yielded the point and called a council of war to consist of himself and the three other officers; but the privates made such a fuss about being left out, that we had to allow them to be present. I mean we had to allow them to remain, for they wcro already present, and doing the most of the miking, too. The queition was, which way to retreat; but all were so flurried that nobody seemed to have even a guess to offer. Except Lyman. He explained in u few calm words, thai inasmuch as the enemy were approach ing from over Hyde's prairie, our course was simple; all we had to do was not to retreat toward him; any other direction would answer our needs perfectly. Everybody saw in a moment how true this was, and how wise, so Lyman got a great many compliments. It was now decided that we should fall back on Mason's farm. It was after dark by this time, ani as we could not know how soon tbo enemy might arrive, it did not seem best to try to take the horses and things with us; so we only took the guns and ammunition and started at once. The route was very rough and hilly and rocky, and presently the night grow very black and rain began to fall; so we had a troublesome time of it struggling and stumbling along in the dark, and soon some person slipped and fell, and then the next person behind stumbled over him and fell, and so did the rest, one after the other, and then Bower came .with the keg of powder in hi arms, whilst the command were alt mixed together, anns and legs, on the muddy slope, and so he fell, of course with the keg; and this started the whole detachment down the hill in a body, and they landed in the brook at the bottom in a pile, aud such that was undermost pulling the hair and scratching and biting those that were on top of him; and those that were being scratched and bitten saying they would die before they would ever go to war again if they even got out of this brook this time, and the invader might rot for all they cared, and the country along with him and all such talk as that, which was dismal to hear and take part in, in such smoth ered low voices, and such a grisly dark Elacc and so wet, and the enemy may e eoming any moment. The keg of powder was lost, and the guns too; so the growling and com plaining continued straight along whilst the brigade pawed around the pasty hillside and slopped around the brook hunting for these things; conse quently we lost considerable time at this, and then we heard a sound, and held our breath and listened, and it seemed to be the enemy coming, though it could have been a cow, for it had a cough like a cow; but we did not want to wait, but left a couple of guns be hind and struck out for Mason s again as briskly as we could scramble along in the dark. But we got lost presently among the rugged little ravines, and wasted a deal of time finding the way again; so it was after nine when we reached Mason's stile at last; and then before we could open our mouths to give the countersign, several dogs came bounding over the fence, with great riot and noise, and each of them took a soldier by the slack of his trousers and began to back away with him. We could not shoot the dogs without en dangering the persons they were at tached to; so we had to look on, help less at what was perhaps the most mortifying spectacle of the civil war. There was light enough, and to spare, for the Masons had now run out on the porch with candles in their hands. The old man and his son came and undid the dogs without difficulty, all but Bowers'; but they couldn't undo his dog, they didn't know his com bination; he was of the bull kind, and seemed to be set with a Yale time-lock; but they got him loose at last with some scalding water, of which Bowers got his share and returned thanks. Peterson Dunlap afterwards made up a fine name for this engagement, and also for the night march which pre ceded it, but both have long ago faded out of my memory. Mark Twain, in Century. The Greatest Woman on Record. The New York World has discovered a woman, whose home is in Vineland, N. J., who has with her own hands built an eight-room addition to her house, laid the bricks, mixed, made and applied the plaster with the skill of a mason, roofed it and driven every nail from the foundation to the top; also dug a well thirty-five feet deep, and fixed herself so that she will be more comfortable hereafter. During all this time she has lived at a cost of nine cents a day, six cents for a quart of milk and three cents for a loaf of stale bread. " This remarkable woman, whose name is McMahon, has wealthy rela tives in New York, and is related to eminent people on both sides of the house. She is educated and refined, dresses plainly but tidily, keeps her hands soft and" white notwithstanding her hard labor, is something of an art- tist, though not painting much at pres ent; has a musical voice, a bright ej'e and rosy cheeks, notwithstanding her white hair, and is as chirrupy as a lark. Her relatives have repeatedly offered to assist her, sometimes almost forcing money upon her. but she declines their assistance, preferring the glorious priv ilege of being independent. Diseases in Canada. Blindness in Canada is commonly caused by small-pox, cataract, or in jury. Contagious diseases such as smallpox, measles, and whooping cough are more common than in Europe, especially in winter, when fuel is saved at the expense of ventilation. In the whole of Canada the proportion of the insane is one to seven hundred and twenty. Dr. Hingston states in a recent work on "The Climate of Canada" that the mortality commonly diminishes with the temperature, and that the colder parts of the country are in reality the more wholesome. iv. T Post. m m ' A couple in Franklin County, Ga., were married a few days ago, during the dinner-hour, while they were mak ing sorghum. They were dressed up, married and then dined and went out again into the field, where the groom began the honeymoon by feeding the mUJ, and the bride- by skimming the orgbum. N. T, Grophi ISMAEL PASHA. The Once Profligate Khedlre of Egypt la the Bole of an Economical Gentleman. lsmael Pasha's eccentricities and ex travagance while he was Khedive of Egypt have become proverbial, and it must strike the reader as something very new and extraordinary to hear that this great spendthrift has grown to be as penurious and saving as he was liberal in his early days. The world knows that for years the ex Khedive threw millions of money out of the windows, so to speak, of his numberless palaces. His extravagance had reached its culminating point at the time of the opening of the Suez Canal. Thousands of his foreign guests en joyed his liberal hospitality for months, and became so enamored with the coun try of the Pharaohs that their pro longed stay, after the close of the fes tivities, had to be shortened by the soft but decided hint from a trusted Govern ment official, "that it was time the guests began to think of returning to their respective homes." One fine day lsmael Pasha had to relinquish his place to Tewfik Pasha and to take up his own gripsack. Since then he has traveled all over Europe, and havingtakengood care to lay op a dollar or two in case of unforseen eventualities, he has been enabled to continue his lux urious style of living pretty much as of old. His favorite resorts are Naples and Vienna. At the latter city he never fails to take up his abode in the hotel of the "Goldenen Lamm" (gilded sheep), which he had frequently visited while Khedive of Egypt, having been invited by the Emperor, Franz Joseph, to take part in some festivity or other. Times have wrought many changes since. But last year it w. discovered that one of the followers of the Khedive had made a serious finan cial miscalculation in his own not iu the ex-Khedive's interest, and that a sudden change was noticed to have overtaken the latter. Society of Vien na upon a sudden heard with great amazement that lsmael Pasha had be come economical; that he had dis charged his paymaster; that he audited every bill, even the smallest, himself, and that he scrutinized every charge and claimed it extravagant. It must not be supposed, however, that the ex Khedive has suddenly become apauper; to the contrary, although, as compared with his former mode of living, he may be called so, he still manages to get along very comfortabl'. He occupies, with his suite, thirty rooms in the "Goldenen Lamm," and recently pur chased three thousand dollars' worth of stoves for the new building he had erected in Naples for his harem. He knows that even Naples is occasionally visited by frosts, and being a personal friend of warmth he also wants his wives and their slaves to be comfortably housed. He does not take much inter est in his harem. It never did interest him much, and he only maintains it because it is a requirement of a Mussul man of distinction. Upon his recent sojourn in Vienna he was accompanied by his favorite wife, the mother of Prince Ibrahim. He docs not appear in public with her, but the well-preserved lady is often seen in company with her waiting-maid upon the streets of the Austrian capital, dressed in the roost elegant French toilet, and no one would suspect she was the wife of the well-known ex-Khedive. Figaro. mum FAGGING AT RUGBY. A System of Abuse Practiced Upon Yonng Scholars. A very important custom in which new-comers have to be instructed is that of fagging. They are purposely allowed a fortnight's grace that they may carefully study the duties exacted of them. It is with fagging as with foot-ball and harc-and-hounds. Its greatest days are past. Think of a boy having to warm three or four beds on a cold night by lying in them until the heat of his body has destroyed their chill, and then having to rise at four o'clock in the morning to run two miles to the Avon to attend to the fishing lines of the sixth-form boys, and then to be back in time for first lesson! Fancy his being obliged to form one oj of a team of four or twelve in harness, to be raced around the sohool-yard, or "close," by the praepostors of the Four-in-hand Club, and compelled to make flower-beds for the same mighty beings, having half a pewter spoon and a whole fork for his onby garden tools, and the flowers to be supplied by fair means or foul ! Yet these wcro a few of the services expected of fags in the days when "there were giants in the land," as a Rugby song says. Now they arc treated with much more leni ency. Only the sixth-form boys are allowed to have fags. Thc younger Doys must wait on mens at DreaKiast, tea and supper, run their errands to the nearest pastry-cook shop, clean out their studies, attend to their wants in the dormitories, and sometimes "field" for them at cricket. As in several other Eublic schools, when the sixth-form dy or praepostor wants anything, he calls out "F-a-a-g!" in answer to which call all the fagging boys must run, the last to arrive having to do the work. It is but for a short time, fortunately, that fagging is really a serious and per haps tiresome duty. For the rule is that during a boy's first term, he must run at the tinjst call; during his second, he need only answer the second, and so on; so at the end of his second school year he has comparatively little to do as a tag. Elizabeth Robins Penneli, in St. Nicholas. m EXCITING ELECTIONS. How Mexican Partisans Fight Parliamen tary Election Battles. Parliamentary elections must be rath er exciting in Mexico, judging from the liveliness which accompanies municipal contests in that delightful country. Even when local feeling runs high it is rare that these latter struggles give rise in the United States to anything worse than strong language. In Mexico, on the contrary, deeds are considered far more effective than words, especially when carried out with revolver and bowie knife. Thus, we read without surprise that at Buztamente the other day the two factions turned out heavily armed, and fought in the streets for several hours. After a time, too, they appear to have fired and stabbed quite promiscuously, without caring whether they killed friend or foe. The fighting, we are told, "was of a perfectly indis criminate character. When hostilities were at last suspended by nightfall the state of the battlefield demonstrated the prowess of the combatants. Six dead, fifteen mortally wounded and a large number of less damaged Mexicans were included in the list of casualties. The result was not considered satisfactory, however, from an electioneering point of view, and the leaders consequently agreed to renew the struggle on the fol lowing morning. We are not aware how often municipal contests take plaee at Buztamente, but if they are of fre quent occurrence the population must be in a fair way to reach its vanishing point. Brooklyn Eagle. A man writes to the Philadelphia Press from Oxford, Pa., tp inquire in regard to the word "elmidical." We can tell the man all about the word. It was coined by an enterprising poet who was in search of a rhyme for gid dy gal. It would have appeared in both .Webster and Worcester tut was crowded out of bothelictionaries owing to the pressure of their colnmns It is patented but county rights are for salt at prirfse to rait the times. COURAGE. Aa Kxampfe Showing: That Timid Boys Often Stake Courageous Men. Who is afraid? Even body! There is not a creature living who 'does not suffer from fear, reasonable or unreas onable; and, upon the whole, there is not more fear in the world than there is need of. It is indispensable. We could no more do without fear than a watch could do without its mainspring. Some good and brave boys suffer from the fear of being afraid; 'others, from the fear of being thought afraid. Hav ing learned to admire courage and courageons deeds of heroes, when they find themselves alarmed-at anvthing, they say to themselves: "Am I really a coward, then? If I am afraid of a cow, a dog, a dark room, or a clap of thunder, what a sorry figure I should cut if I had to be a soldier!" But let us reflect a moment. A boy even a man ought to be afraid if a big, strange dog coming toward aim, with red mouth open, panting and glaring. Per haps he ought not to run .iway, because tkat is a dangerous kind of strategy; but he ought to be so much afraid of the dog as to keep a sharp lookout until he discovers the intentions of the brute. Courage does not consist in not being afraid, but in meeting a dan ger we arc afraid of. That person is brave who does a duty he mentally dreads, and many a gallant fellow has gone into peril trembling and pale with alarm. But he went! When the late J. P. Kennedy, of Baltimore, formerly Secretary of the Navy, was :."!. .!: of age, the country beiit - .i.-.;)ly agitated by the prospect ' w.iv with England, ho made up his mi:id that when war canio he would join the army. One thought held him back: H. was awfully afraid of the dark, having been terrified by ghost stories in his childhood. In order to cure himself of his fears, he used to go at midnight to an extensive forest near his fatiiL-r's house and walk about until morning. This he did until he was as much at ease in the woods at two o'clock in the morning as he wjis in his father's garden after breakfast. Although at first he saw enemies and ghosts at every step, he persevered until even these startling experiences ceased to alarm him. When the war was declared in 1812. lie went to tho front, took part in the battle of Blad ensburg, and ran away, with the rest oj his regiment.' But his running away was glorious, too! "We made a fine scamper of it," he says. "I lost my musket in the melee, while bearing oft a comrade whose leg was broken by a bullet" Another proof that even heroes run away sometimes. If heroes, why not boys? Every good soldiei knows that there are times when dia cretion is the better part of valor. Youth's Companion. MODOC STRONGHOLDS. Scenes of Numerous Iudlun Slassaeres Subterranean Lakes. Commencing in the northern part of Siskiyou County and running south and east into Modoc and Plumas counties, is a succession of lava beds, of which little is known except bj those who have seen them. As they are actually beyond description, when described as wild, desolate and barren, it does not give one that creeping sensation which an actual peep at them does. To cross one of these lava beds much caution is necessary. The lava is an obsidian cast, very hard, sharp and rough. The up heaval has been so violent that great caves and fissures are formed. The arches of these caves are very danger- out to pass over, as the displacement ol a single rock would cause the whole top or roof to fall in. Subterranean lakes are found. One was discovered the past summer near Dry Lake, Modoc Count-. This lake is fifty feet wide and runs back under the cave apparently a long distance; as the end can not bii reached no one can tell how far it doe run back. Again, fissures and crevices reaching for miles and several hundred feet deep will appear. South of Chalk Mountain there is an immense ice cave, which contains tons of fee the year round. This cave is surrounded with lava of several different kinds and ol all shades of the rainbow. Large blocks of obsidian or volcanic glass are mixed in with the lava, making in all a beauti ful and wild scene. Glass Mountain, a few miles to the northeast, is indeed a great curiosity. Imagine a terraced mountain seven thousand feet above the level of the sea and composed entirely of this volcanic glass, shining and glittering in the sun lijjht, casting off the sun rays as if it were a diamond. Terraces, castles and forts are faithfully represented. A glance at this mountain by moonlight is grand; a sort of soft, wierd light is cast on. which fills one with unspeak able admiration. Ice Cave No. 2 is situated from Glass Mountain north and west twelve miles. This cave has also an inexhaustible supply of water and ice. Here our party found water and plenty of food for our exhausted animals. Aftor searching nearly two days for water this cave was accidentally discovered, and a Godsend it was for both man and beast. Our party camped here one night recently, and were kept awake most of the night by the screams of several Uantornia l:ons, who came un comfortably near our beds, and would scream and decamp; we had shut of! their water supply. The unearthly scream of these animals and the howl ing of several large owls, taken with the thought of numerous Indian massacres which had taken place in this vicinity, caused our brave hearts to quake. Ten miles north of Ice Cave arc Tule Lake and Captain Jack's stronghold, and directly across the lake is the famous Bloody Point. Captain Jack's rille pits are of natural formation in the lava, being sinks and flows probably five hundred in number. They command all entrance to the cave. A handful of men could hold twenty times their numbe at bay here lied Bluffs (Col.) Sentinel. SELECTION OF LAND. Geology an Unreliable Guide to the Nature of Soil. In choosing land for agricultural pur poses it is very unsafe for the farmer t be guided by any loose notions of the geological features of the locality. Ge ology in this respect and for this use is one of those things of which a little knowledge is dangerous. There are few places where the overjying soil has been derived from the breaking down of the underlying and outcropping rocks, and these can only be detected by an expert geologist and mineralogist. Generally the soil is made up of drifted materials, which have been brought from distant places by the force of great floods of water of vast bodies of ice, and have been spread over the sur face and moved back and forth in much the same manner, but to a much smaller extent, as we see them now. It Is onlj where the rocks lie near the surface and in the inst ancient geological formations, as in Northern Michigan, Eastern Canada, and all along the Alle ghany ranges, as far south as Alabama, that this primitive condition of the soil exists. Elsewhere the character of the rocks of the neighborhood can not be safely taken as a guide to the nature of the soil. JV. Y. Times. One-half of the world does not know how the other half lives. Of course, this does not hold true in communities which boast a ladies' sewing-circle. Bolton Trcnu&ript. MISCELLANEOUS. A man at Merced. CaL. who ! sprained his ankle while gunning lately hait to crawl on all fours a dis tance of eight miles to the nearest house. 1 The man who advertises counts his money at the beginning of the year. The man who does not will be equally J busy counting his stock on hand. CAi- eayo Inter Ocean. The Indians call Boston Mess-atsoo-j see-hence "Massachusetts." Thevwho , do net find this satisfactory can fix up something of their own. Lowell Courier. j Baggage may now be checked, ac- cording to the American plan, from Now ork to Liverpool at the rate of J fifty cents apiece. This includes the j cost of delivery in Liverpool. V. Y. OUU. - Uncle Sam has just run his hand into his long wallet and counted down ten thousand clinking dollars, and all for a hole in the ground a one thou sand five hundred-foot artesian well at Marc Island, Golden' Gate. San Fran cisco Call. Parents who can't givo their chil dren decent names ought not to have any. The other day a young man died in this citv burdened with the name of Philadelphia Careless, and a boy named Prosperous Crammer was run over bv a wagon Thursday. Philadelphia Bulle tin. A well-dressed lady with her dress securely fastened by two shawl-pins to the frock of her little girl, attracted attention in a New York dry goods store the other day. The careful moth er was from the country, and she had struck upon this plah to keep her daughter from being drawn away from her in the crowd. X. Y. Mail. A colored prisoner in jail wrote the following letter to his father: "Dear Father i will ask you if you please get up the Money to By me out Because i see tha Will find me guilty in spite of all the lies we can tell i ffrst thought i could lie out of this But now i dont think i can get up all the Money you can if you dont i am gone up." Chica go Junes. The Crusader is the name of a large brig which has been equipped for carrying oil from Philadelphia to Liv erpool in a new wav. She has fortv- five tanks, which hold 177,000 gallons of pil each. These will be pumped full in America and emptied on the other side by a large pump run by a twenty-horsc-powor engine with which the ship is equipped. Philadelphia Press. Every mechanic should remember that there is nothing better for burns and scalds than the white of an egg. It is soothing and easily applied. It is the contact with the air which gives the extreme discomfort experienced from the ordinary ace-dent of this kind, and anything that excludes the air and prevents inflammation is the thing to be at once applied. Chicago Times. AVhen a man get "good and rich," ns the darkies just over the Delaware line say, about the first thing he does is to build a big house. Such is the case with the millionaire electrician of Cleveland. Charles F. Brush, who has about finished for himself the finest house in Ohio. The building, which is of Amherst buff stone, glorifies the glo rious Euclid Avenue up by the lake. It is probable that Mr. Brush will not burn tallow dips in his new house. Cleveland Leader. An eminent citizen called upon an eminent physician the other day to con sult Jiim about his eyes. "Theyseemed all right up to three" or four days ago," said the eminent citizen, "but then I noticed that the left one was failimr." "Do you wear glasses?" asked the physician. "O, yes." "Let me see them." Thov were passed over and after a brief inspection the physician burst into a hearty laugh. "TUtf trouble is with the left eye, eh?" he queried. "Yes, sir." "No wonder. Look at your glasses. " The left-hand glass had been lost out. Detroit Free Press. An Eastern paper says there is only a single instance of one man rep resenting more than one State in the United States Senate, and he was the late General Shields. He was first elected for a full term by Illinois, but declared ineligible because not natur alized the necessary period, He was re-elected, admitted and served his term of six years. Some years there after he served an unexpired term as Senator from Minnesota, and his last official service was a very brief term as Senator from Missouri. Time out of mind a big white stone at Woodstock, in Talbot, down on the eastern shore of Maryland, has been used as a carriage block in front of a moss-covered dwelling. The other day along came a geologist, playing a tune of joy upon the stone -with his mallet and astonished the townspeople by telling them that Agassiz would have gone into ecstasies over the prize. For, indeed, as the geologist said, the stone is a piece of white rock picked up by an iceberg in the Patapsco River and and carried clear across the Chesa peake to the fiat lands of tidewater Talbot. Robert Garrett has at Mount Clare, near Baltimore, a school for fhe train- inw of apprentices in the employ of the Baltimore & Ohio Railway Company. Of the five hundred apprentices on the line, forty are now in the school. These pupils are taught the common English branches, algebra, geometry, physics. drawing, the chemistry of oils, mechanics and. indeed, everything needed to discipline their minds for in telligent work when they shall be men. Nor are the hands idle, for the lads are trained as machinists', brass finishers, steam and gas pipe fitters, molders, upholsters, draughtsmen, painters, bridge builders and engineers. Balti more Sun. Peculiarities of the Gulf Stream. Some fresh information about the Gulf Stream is given by a Boston scien tist. It is a stratum of warm blue water not more than fifty fathoms deep and it flows due cast at a rate that would take it to England within one hundred days. Off Cape Hatteras this northward flow ing stream Ls in the form of a fan, its three warm bands spreading out over the Atlantic surface to an aggregate breadth of one hundred and sixty-seven miles, while two cooler bands of an aggregate breadth of fifty-two miles arc interposed between them. The inner most warm band is the one that shows the highest temperature and speed, ita velocity being greatest where it is pressed laterally hy the Arctic current, so that the rate of four miles an hour is occasionally observed. The peculiar blue color of the water probably is be cause the river silt washed into the Gulf by the Mississippi is held in suspension. Chicago Herald. Not Anxious to b a Guest. "What do you mean by this sort of treatment, waiter? Here you've kept me waiting a full half hour for my din ner, and yon haven't brought me a sin gle thing I ordered after afl." "I done de bes' I could, suh." "Perhaps you did, but yon ought to be more considerate. Remember that this is a country where the most unex pected things frequently happen, and you may not always be a waiter." "How so, suh?' "Because some of these days you lay have the bad luck to be a goast yourself." "Fo' deak life. I hope aot, nkF Chicago Ledger. THE BEST boon over li-Mowinl uikmi uir.ii !.. perfect health, and tho true way to :n.:re health is to purify your h!ood vi:h A -it's Sar:i. pari!!. Mrs. Eliza A. CSou-a. Si Arling ton St., Lowell. JIn., writi: "Every winter and sprin? my family, including myself, u-c -venil Iro!t!.o? 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