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Pumps Ki'iiaired " short notice Jj3"0:u: dour west of Hi-hits'.' Druj Store, 1 lth Street , foiunibim, Neb. S HENRY G-ASS. TJJSTDKIlTjtVKlKR ! COFFINS AND METALLIC CASES ANI DKAI.KU IN "Furniture, Chairs, Bedsteads, Bu reaus. Tables, Safes. Lounges, &c. Picturo FrameB and Mouldings. ZZT Repair inu of all kinds of Upholstery (foods. 6-tf COLUMBUS, NEB. Ayer's CherryPectoral Should Iu l.cpt constantly nt hand, for use in emergencies of tho hou-hoM. Many a mother, iisrlleil in the nhrht by tin- ominous pounds of Croup, find the I'tlb sufferer, with red and swollen fine, gasping for air. In such case-; Aers Clierry I'eetoral is invaluable. Mrs. Liiiinii (iedney, 13!) Wt 123 St., New Yoik. writes: "'While hi tho country, la.t wiutcr, sny little boy, three years old, was taken ill with Croup; it seemed as if he would die from strangulation. Aye'' Cherry Pectoral was tried in f-ninll and frequent doses, and, In le.s than half an hour, tho little patient was breathing easily. The doctor said that the Pec. oral saved my d-irlim:- lire." Mm. Cha. B. Landon. Guilford, Conn., writes : "Aycr's Cherry Pectoral . Saved My Life, asid also the life of my little .son. As he N troubled with Croup. T dare no: be without this remedy in the houe." Mrs. J. Grer, Lowell, Mass., writes: "My children have repeatedly taken Ayei's Cherry Pectoral for Coughs r.nd Croup. It ;ives immediate relief, followed by cure.' Mr. Mary E. Evans. Scnmton, Ta., writes: "I have two little boy, both of whom have been, from infancy, subject to violent attacks of Croup. About mx months ago we began using Ayei's Clu rry Fccloral. and It act like a vhaixn. In n few minute after the child ?:ik if. he breathes ea-ily and rests wvll. ).iy mother ought to know what a blo-ing 1 have found in Aver.- Chen;. Pectoral."" Mr. Win. C. K.id. Freehold. X. J., w rite-: "In our family. Aver.-! medicines hae been hleins for many jear. In east of Colds and Cough, we take Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, and the inconvenience is soon forgotten." r-REPAnnn r. Br. J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass. Sold by all Druggists. FARMERS HOME. Thi- House, recently purchaed by me, will be ihoroushl refitted. Board by the day. week or meal. A few room to let. A share of the public patronage it? solicited. Feed stable iu connection. 2-V A LHKKT LUTIT. iLYON&HEALY I State 4 Monroe Sts.. Chicago Will Mud -ff-rtmVJ t any wj Jrrsj tLeir i for '&. sOO pW, "" fcxTtnci 01 IttlinCKBU, oaiu, -- utitm, IPhmwim ""tanbU. ! n f lliiisi "Uu. Sundry Hand Oattta. nrr"rnf aueT"fBJ) BJ0 IDC1UJO iriNnwuvu miu ba-t i w a Mtunr luniu. tcj m. i.a rctcka uul Niuta. AT)) 1 y Tp Send six cents for I IV I it Pj po.tagc.and receive J XUXtJAJ. frce a costly box of goods whieh will help you to more money right away than anything else in this world. All, of either sex, succeed from first hour. The broad road to fortuue opens before the worker, absolutely sure. At once address, True & Co., Augusta, Maine. THE MAN AND THE FOXES. It was a farmer. Brum and jrraff; The foxes came and spoil'd his vines His orchard, and gome other Stuff To which the rustic mind inclines. Rhrtit bitter ran the farmer's blood Each morning, ere the sun was up, As. t-t:itucjue With rage, he stood .And view'd the havoc in his crop, And vow'd br nil tliut'c orthodox. With blood and thunder in hi9 tones, Tho very first marauding fox Ho cniiirht hcd fry hie very bones! II set a trap. At last one day The foxc came, and one was caught: (Of course the others ran away Ae any prudent foxes ought). tcai-e had the dawn begun to Fhlno IJc-roretho jiil'ilHii! larmcr camo: A bunch of tow, some turpentine, And lucifrrri to start the tlamo Were in iiis hands. He took the tow. And steep'd it in the turpentine; And then he took a yard or so Or may tic more of common twine; And, tHd'ziujr on the j;orjjcous "brush, Ho wrupp'd it in tlie dripping tow. And i fed, and kindled. With u rush Away he lets poor reynard ko. Oh! 'twas a pleasant sight to see The meteor motion of the blaze. O'er field nnd fen. ly tower and tree. Through lanes and ninny devious ways I Til! o'er a low-set hedge il Hies Into the Augut-iellow wheat: B"hod the spreading flames nrise! Wido rcas ot tlie in vision greet Ills preeitiii Held his golden grain Oone in a Hash before tl." w.iid! "O! should I catch a fox :iva::i." He groaned, "some saler way Til find To I'Uiiish him, hiu! less unkind." Tlie moral is not hard to seo In x'cng hiicc it is best to tie Not cruel. Every human fox, flT course i dangeious to your flOCkSJ Will pluck a purple grape or two. Or. other I rilling damage do; Nay, with the deadly dynamite, Hay blow up buildings in tlie night: Still, foxe Mmk'd in llaming Hat; Leave worse destruction in their tracks. Deal even jiiftiee out to all With ineicy tempcr'd where you cau; T!ie liest of men mtytrip ami fall, So dark the night, so frail the maul Ileal mercy even to your loe, fcparing the turpentine and tow. Unless j on know ii'iir.'i tnruhf'ltgit. John Muy, in Current. GEN. JACK'S DIAMOND. How It Was Brought to Him by an Honest Man. Tretiy much everybody has heard of General .lack's penchant for diamonds, ami a rre.it many of us know the man liim-cif, a .-turd character, sound and firm on his feet as a horse-Mock. A ilorid face, rather hard, a square chin, determined lips closing over whito teeth, cold gray eyes looking right at you from under a hedgo of eyebrow samly in color, dusted with gray, a large, straight nose, broad and ilcshy you've seen the man. Dressy in his way, but not as gentlemen dress, and wearing rings upon his fingers, and a big diamond in his expansive shirt-front. His voice is deep and stern, rather hoarse, too, and harsh; its volume is tremendous when it comes freighted with a craslt of oaths. General Jack is elf-made: began as a driver of a pair of mulea on a canal route, then took the lion car of llerr llrochcr's menagerie, became finally' ring master to a circus, owner of his own circus, keeper of a livery -stable, millionaire, art patron, political leader. His wife was on the stage once, and a charming creature she i; and General Jack is universally known and liked by tlie profession but it i about General Jack's diamonds I am to tell you. "First .hing I ever bought," says General Jack, "when I got to be ring master, after I was properly fitted out in the clothes department, was a dia mond, and I've been buying 'cm ever since. It's a weakness, and I've paid for it. Tiffany people alwtys send for me when they've got anything new, and the Amstcrdamers know me." It is said that those who want to come it over General Jack no easy thing to do always approach him on his diamond side. He takes it as a compliment to he asked to show his collection, and does show it. Uut he is a good judge of char acter, for all. The story goes that some thieves conspired to rob him by profiting by his pleasure in showing his treas ures. There were three of them nobby English fellows who came over expressly to do the job, and throughly posted. They made his acquaintance at a down-town hotel, where he is often to he found, and in due course procured the invitation to sec his diamonds. They claimed to be sporting men, ardent turf ites, but connoiscurs in such things. They came to Jack's house one forenoon, in a coach, and he received them alone, opened his safe, displayed all his treas ures, went into their history, etc. "This,' he said, "is my golconda specimen not very large, but remark able for its brilliancy ana pure water. Thi is 1113- Brazilian it is a hit off color, a suspicion of a canary tinge' whack! smack! thwack! "You would, would yon?" and with three succes sive Wows of his fat white list his three English visitors were knocked down and put hors de combat. It was a mere suspicion on his part something he saw in the men's faces, read in their eyes but it saved his diamonds. He summoned aid, locked the safe, se cured the men and found them fully armed pistols, burglar tools, hand cufl's, rope, gag, chloroform, red pepper. lie disarmed them, bundled them into the coach and javc them twenty-four hours to leave the country. "As 5"o came hero on my invitation, I i,ut cache you, but git!" And lie still preserves the gag. the handcuffs and the Cayenne anions; his trophies. t)ne day General Jack had a visitor, a man of forty year;., with grizzled hair and a stoop in his shoulders a pallid face, somewhat bloated from long in dulgence in liquors. You don't know me. General Jack?" said the man. The General was puzzled a good deal. -Hombrc, I've teen you somewhere. Stop I have it. Good Lord, Cary, what have j-ou done to yourself?" "It's fifteen years ago, General," said Cary, apologetically. "Only fifteen! bounds! Yon were a handsome young fellow then; I thought you wero a gemus. And your wife was lovely." Don't mention the past she's a wreck six children to c&rc for; and I am what you see. I want you to do something for me before the black dog devours me." "Hombro, its the drink that does it." "I want you to save mc from the drink, General." "This man" (the General says, when he tells a story) this man, Mark Cary, was what you might truly call one bf these here geniuses. When I knowed him, and loved him, too, as cveybody had to do, ho was editing a neat little paper in a Virginia town, and happy as a June bug. One of your Apollos tall, square, a step like a spring-board, blue eyes full of fare, Hyperion curls like a man, every inch, tfhe things he couldn't do with the dumb-bells weren't worth try ing he could beat my best man at a square leap; sat a horse like Center or a Comanchy, and put a pen in his hand, or cali on him for a speech, and, by Bounds, you couldn't mate him nowhere. I used to get hini to write my bills and advertisement'? for mc; he'd been a treas ure in that line if he'd only taken wages. As for poetry well, I'm no judge, lut if he couldn't pnmp all these here cen tenniaHers, I'm Dutch! His wife was just tlie sweetest little lady ever you see, and could pour out tea like an augoL And now here he was gone to seed. How come it, Cary?" It was the war, poverty, sickness, long struggles in adversity, long lassi tude and loss of spirits, chagrin all that turned in. "I think I'm gone. General, but Mar garet won't hear a word of it. She told me to come to see you and ask you to help me." "Where is the little woman, Mark?" He named a wretched tenement house. General Jack drummed on the table with his fat fingers a moment. "Not in want, I hope, Cary?" said he, at last. "Not quite. General; but the times are hard; I can't get away, and there's no telling how long it will be before that comes, too." "Come, let's go and seo her," said the General, and Cary, without a word, led the way to his poor lodgings. The General doe3 not say much about the interview that ensued, but I know from other sources that the wife and children had a good supper that night. "Come to nvy office down town; here's the number to-morrow at two, Mark, and I'll talk with you. -Madam, I'll see you again," and the General withdrew. "Sec here, Mark," said tho General next day, "you'ro broke down. The little woman can'tdoanythingwithyou, and your own backbone s turned to in-jun-rubbcr. You an't worth a rap!" "That is just about the conclusion I am coming to myself, General" said Cary, with pathetic sincerity. "I know oelter !" cried Jack, vehe mently pounding tho table with his fist; "I mean to lake you in hand now, and make a man of you!" "I wish to heaven you would!" cried Cary. "I mean to! You're the very fellow I've been looking for this year or more. Your' re honest and capable you know all about geology, mineralogy and that sort of thing, don't you? If you don't j'ou can learn. Stop! Listen! You arc tin to my diamond passion; well, there s where I want you! I want a man, an honest man, a capable man, to go to South Africa for me and find me the biggest diamond there a dozen of them if you'ro so minded! Will yon go? Stop! I'll take care of tho little woman if youdo.and provide for hor if you don't come back. The sea voyage will give you a chance to taper off, drop the drink, build yourself up, and all that When you get thero you'll be all right again, and then you can use your brains in finding mo that diamond. I'll pay j-ou good wages and all you find is mine. Is it a bargainP Strike hands on it if it is." "If Margaret says yes, I'll go. Gen eral. And God bless oa anyhow !" "Conic home Jo lunch with me, then, and we'll ask her she'll likely be there." Not only she, but all the children were there, and in the newest of clothes, for Mr. Jack had been at work, too, and Mrs. Cary told her husband with tears in her 'eyes : "We needn't go back to that dream of horror any more." So it was all settled in a very few minutes. Cary's family was to have the cottage on the General's farm and an ample allowance, the eldest boy and girl to go to school and Cary himself to go after the big diamond. In a week Mark Cary sailed, with a chest full of books in which to study up the subject, and the little woman and her children were happy on the farm happy, at least, as they could be, with Cary away in quest of a big dianirJhd. Ilow did that quest faro? I must let General Jack tell it in his own way, as he takes the key of his safe from his pocket, preparatory to opening it, and stands on the hearth before the grate warming his stout calves and emphasizing his narra tive with gestures of the key. "Never was mistaken in a man In my life before that! Made all my money by looking in people's faces to see if I could trust 'cm or no. And this here Mark Cary well, there's half a million o' diamonds, great and small, in this here chist, let alone bonds, and I'd left him here with the safe open and nobody else in the house and gono off, say to Europe or the Sandwich Islands, perfectly easy. But, you sec well, there's such a thing, perhaps, as tempting people too far. Cary got along splendid at first. Ho wrote to his wifo and mo regular all along the voyage, and when he got to the Cape he sent a photograph that we might seo how ho was spruced up. I could see the old curls was oommg back to his hair, the oW firo to his eyes and the old roundness to hisoheeks and the little woman was more in love with him than ever. He went up country and by and by his letters began to come regular again, and diamonds, too small ones, but one or two good-sized ones, so that in their sum they might be taken to be worth full us much money as I had put up for him. One day he sends mo a real brilliant two-carat fellow and simul taneous draws on me for 500, saying he was going to another place in hope to find a diamond worth the venture. "After that no moro from Mark Cary. More than a year went by, and not a word did I get from him, nor did his wife no more than me. The little woman was well nigh crazy, and as I had no good news for her 1 didn't tell her any. I had written in a private way to a correspondent of mine at Natal, and heard what I was afraid of that Cary had gone all to tho bad again and it cut me deep; but I never Jet on, not even to my own wife. No news eighteen months and more went by, and not a single word from Cary. I kept out of the little woman's way all I could, for the sight of her would have distressed a politician, let alone a stone wall; but one stormy night she burst in upon my wife and me as wild as she could be. 'General Jack,' she says, wringing her hands, but never shedding a tear, and turning on mc a face I couldn't look at for the pity of it; 'Gen eral Jack,' I can not be the pen sioner of your bounty any longer! You arc the best man that ever lived and I'm the most wretched of wo men, but that's no -reason why I should keep on imposing upon you.' So I says to her: 'What's up?' for I was pretty sure now she had news of Mark, and nothing good. 'Have you heard from Cary?' 'General Jack,' she says, solemn like, 'I know my husband is dead! I know that he has been false to vou, and it killed him! It's killing me!T I was struck all of a heap, 'Never mind, little woman, never mind!' I was going on to say, when my wife broke in, 'How did you learn all this, Margaret?' she asked. 'In a dream, a dreadful, awful dream!' said the poor creature, and then she broke down, burst out crying and couldn't say any more. So we sets to work to console her best way we could, but didn't make much headway at it I told her I would bo cruelly hurt if she didn't let mc keep my promise to Mark, but her last word was she couldn't, daren't and wouldn't live on me. "Just then the front door-bell rang, and when William opened it the rag- fedest buzzard of a man broke past im and came rushing into the sitting room here where we were. He hadn t a whole stitch nor a clean stitch on him, that fellow hadn't; his hair was lo'ig and wild, and his beard also; his feet bare, and his face would have won the premium over a Connecticut hatchet for sharpness. All the same, that little woman knowed him as soon as he stopped at the door, turned white as a sheet, held her two hands together light and just sighed between her set teeth, 'Mark!' I thought she'd go over, but -she was too true grit for that. He never noticed her, nor nothing else. He came straight up to me, and kind o' steadied his staggering feet by holding on to the table, and looked mc in the face and said, cool and calm-like, but in a monstrous thin, reedy voice: 'Gen eral Jack, I've been a thief and a trai tor, a sot and a vagabond for more than a year; but I have lived long enough to make you amends. Here's your diamond; take it quickly, for I am dying!" and he put a bundle of rags about as big as your two fists in my hand, and went over just like he was shot! "The little woman gavo one cry, half joy, half terror, and had him in her arms the next instant, his head in her lap and she smothering him with kisses, while my wife, cool as a statute, turns to William and says: -Have some soup made,' and first thing I saw she had the brandy bot tle and a spoon and was down on her knees beside him. 'He's just starved to death. General, that's all,' says she. And I wasn't nowhere in that ring, while them women were bringing him round with little doses of beef tea and brandy, kisses and pattings, and calling him all the loving names in the diction ary. By and by he site up. 'Where is it?' says he, and makes me hand that par cel of old rags out of my pocket where I'd slipped it in the hurry of the moment, and unwrap and unwrap until out there shincd but sho! there arc somethings jou can not describo!" And at this point in his narrative the General always unlocks his safe and produces his great diamond. "There he is! Biggest diamond in America! Finest jewel in the world! Look at it! That man watched him for me all the way from Africa by way of Australia, and hadn't a cent in his pocket half the time! Didn't I tell you I never was mistaken in a man's character in my life? Hadn't had a bite to cat from Omaha here, but held on to the diamond and said nothing only starved. "Well, he told mc all about it not that I believe all his sentimental trash, though. People with this sort of face are honest because it's their nature. If they get wrong their nature beats and kicks them and pulls their cars till it sets them right again! That's all of it. His story is that he hadn't been at tlie new place more than a week before ho lighted on the big diamond kicked it up with his toe. He no sooner saw it than he knew it was a fortune for him if he kept it Then, he says, the devil entered into him and tempted him, and he got on an all-fired rolicking bust, oud run away to India to sell the stone to a rich Maharajah there. But, just as ho was concluding the bargain, he ran away again he don't say the devil tempted him this time, though. Then he landed in Australia, and kept up his jollification until he hadn't a red left; but all this timo he held on to the diamond, because it was mine, not his. So one day he makes up his mind to como home, and works his passago across to California, and then for fear lest he should be tempted again, or get robbed, begs and borrows his way home. Now, that I call pretty much of a temptation for a poor man to over come; don't you ? Look at the stone it's worth $80,000 as it's cut, and that Mark Cary didn't know he was going to get a penny for it, outside his wages, as agreed on. But he brought hor on, all safe ! It isn't every man would do it but the way I got rich was by look ing in men's faces and seeing if they're honest And I never was wrong in judging a man's character in my life." General Jack will not tell you what is nevertheless the fact that, after his famous diamond was cut he had it ap- iraiscd, and paid Mark Cary its value, ess the advances made to him and his family. He will not tell you of Carj''s fino plantation and his fine prospects; of how he is a temperate man, a good citizen and the best of fathers and nus bandn made so by General Jack's min istry. But he will show you the big diamond, if you call upon him, with ex quisite pleasure, and 'relate to you with much gusto such portions of his history as do not reflect too much credit upon himself. Ar. Y. World. A QUEER CHARACTER. A Mending Cobbler unci (lie Industry Origr inatetl by Him. Raj- is really a boot-maker by trade and it is only in recent years, since ma chinery has been employed for so many purposes in the trade, that he has been reduced to the condition of a mere mender and patching cobbler. He buys in Petticoat Lane half a dozen pairs of boots, a specimen of which is exhibited at the end of a grimy fist Some are in bad repair; others are mere bundles of leather shreds. You would consider them unworthy to rescue from the gut ter; but Ray. understands better than we do the possibilities of each, and iu what to our inexperienced eye is an utter wreck, he sees the frame-work of a presentable boot Of the six pairs, perhaps two will be quite beyond re pair; they must therefore be cut to pieces, that their constituent parts may supply patches for the more promising material. A judicious darn here, a patch there, an exchange of soles in a third case, and a plentiful application of blacking over all, will give to four of tho pairs a reasonably attractive ap pearance. With these in his hand he will probably repair to "the Lane" on the following Sunday. There, amidst the seething crowd, he will not lack buyers; but should the prices fall short of his expectations, he will, if there is enough money at home to carry on the household for a day or two, make a round with his stock among the poorer second-hand shops in all parts of the metropolis. A pair of boots which originally cost him twopence may, after passing through his experienced hands, produce ninepencc or a shilling. Perhaps he may trudge about all day and not effect a single nale; at other times success may crown hu; venture before he has gone a milt; from home. CasseWs Family Mogas'tu. FIRST National Bank! COLUMBUS NEB. Authorized Capital, - - $250,000 Paid In Capital, - 60,000 Snrplus and Profits, - - 13,000 OFFICERS NP DIRECTORS. A. ANDERSON, Pres"t. SAM'LC. SMITH, Viccrrcs't. O.T.KOEN, Cashier. J.W.EAKLY, HEltMAX OKHLKICH. AV. A. MCALLISTER, G. ANDERSON, 1 ANDERSON. Foreign and Inland Exchange, Passage Tickets, ami Real Estate Loans. 29-voMS-ly BUSINESS CARDS. D.T. Maktvs, 31. D. F. .1. Sciiuo, 31. D. Drs. MARTYN & SCHUG, U. S. Examining Surgeons, Local Surgeon. Union Paeilie, O., N. Si, 11. II.. mil IS. A 3I.R. R's. Consultations in German and English. Telephones at ottiee and resitlenecs. jgrOfliec on Olive street, next to Brod feuhrer's .lewelry Store. COLUMBUS, - NEBRASKA. I-'-v ITf ll . t'OIKK 1211 I'M, LAW AXD COLLECTION OFFICE. I'nsUiir.s Krust lutiliiing 11th utreet. i i. ici:i:ih:k, ' ATTOJIXET AT LAW, Olliee on Olive St., Columbus, Nebraska J-tf (y I. K1A3N "!. -, 'physician and sun a eon. "STOHieti hihI rooms, ("luck huildiu, 11th street. Telenhone communication. TTAniliTO"4 itlKAH'E, .11. 1., 1'IIYSICIAN AND SUli GEON, IMatte Center, Ncbraoka. l-y F. V. KUiKK, tl. D., HOMCEOPATHIST. Chronic Diseases and Diseases of Children a Specialty. JSTOHiee on Olive street, three doors north or First National Rank. .My Tj j. iBUisor, NOTAHY PUBLIC. 2th Street, 2 doors nest of Hammond Hoait, Columbus, Neb. 401-y MOX-BY TO L.OA.N. Fivc years time, on improved farms with at least one-fourth the aerca;o under cultivation, iu sums representing one third the fair value of the homestead. Correspondence solicited. Address, 31. K. TURNER, no.v Columbus, Nehr. M 1MTKII ltKOtt.. .1;,...-,- - A TTOllNEYS A T LA W, Office up-stairs in McAllister's build ing, 11th St. W. A. 3IcAllister, Notary Public. N OTIi'K TOTI.ACIIKKS. W. H. Tedrow, Co. Supt. I will be at my office in the Court House on the t ird Saturday or each month, for the purpose or examining teachers. -f J. M. MACFAKLAND, B. R. COWDKRY, Attcrtej isl H:tir7 Pati e . C:Uer.sr. LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE OK MACPAR1.AND& COWDERY, Columbus. : : : Nebraska. J. J. JflAl'C-HAIV, Justice, County Surveyor, Notary, Laud and Collection Ay cnl. USTTartics desiring surveying done can notity me by mail at IMatte Centre, Neb. ftl-Gm John ;. 11 mo ins. c. j.'.garlow, Collection Attorney . HIGGINS & 6ARL0W, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, Specialty made of Collections by C. .1 Garlow. 54- m F. ll.KUSCIU't llth St., opposite Lindell Hotel. Sells Harness, Saddles, Collars, Whips, Blanket.-. Curry Combe, Brushes. trunks, valises, buggy" tops, cushions, carriage trimmingo, ,te., at the lowest possible prices. Repairs pn mptly attended to. TAIE SA1..J1:, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER. Plans and estimatee supplied for either frame or brick building. Good work guaranteed. Shop on 13th Street, near St. Paul Lumber Yard, Columhue, Ne braska. .V2 6mo. pAtlIKELl. fc NX. :1,A1R, DEALERS IN " Eao-s and Iron. ! "$& The highest market price paid lor rags and iron. Store in the Hubach building, Olive St., Columbus, Neb. 15-tf JS. MURDOCK & SON, Carpenters and Contractors. Havehad an exteiiflea 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 tunitytoestimateforyou. ISTShop on 13th St., one door west of Friedhof A Co's. store, Columbus. Nebr. 48S-V H. C.BOYD, MANUFACTURER OK Tin and Sheet-Iron Ware! Job-Work, Roofing and Gutter ing a Specialty. "Shop on Olive Street. 2 doors north of llrodfeuhrer's .lewelry Store. 32-tf BOYCOTTING. Tfc0 Growth off System Wfelcb. "Tew Tears Ago, Was Unknown. A recent number of BradstrceCs con tains a long and elaborate review of tho spread of that novel mode of business warfare known as boycotting. An as tonishing Increase is shown, tho num ber of case reported during 1885 being seven times as great as in 1884. Dur ing these two years 237 "boycotts" have bean mentioned, and of theso the labor organizations claim to have conquered1 in ninety-nine cases and admit that they have lost twenty-four. Tho unions say that 114 boycotts are now iu progress. In forty-ono instances the boycott was directed against employers of Chinese labor, and it is claimed that forty victo ries have been won. Tlie following table shows the details of the investigation by BradstrceCs: Total Clalmod Admit- Still Tho Hoycottcd. No. sained, ted lost, on Newspapers 43 13 H.it mfr's nad ulr ) Mf 4 Cigar in f r's and air's 20 11 Cnrpet mfrs and dlr'9 11 .. Cloth's? mfr'u and dlr's 11 1 Nail lufr'n and mills 10 . Dry goods dealers 7 . Hoot and shoe infr's and dlr'd.. 7 .. Stove maker ami It) 5 1 it 10 u in 7 3 1 3 3 "i a Flour mills 3 Hotels and Jiubllc llOtlS'W 4 Breweries 4 Pi Inters, etc a "takers - Excursion stam- Silver factory, watch cases.... 3 Tailors 4 Theaters (must- . Publishers 'i Strct-t railway.... 1 Steamship Com'y 1 A bpeelnl bovor- a.o 1 Postmasters '2 Stnroh makt-r.... 1 Baiting powder maker 1 Can uinkei'K .. .. 1 Stereotype platet 1 I'miio " ami or Kaiis 1 Itrooui maiitifac- inrer 1 Cooper work.... 1 Box manufac turer 1 Knit i;ooils lnan- fiiL'ttirer 1 Chineso employ- 1 1 'il 40 Totals "J7 M 111 Exclii.tlnx Chi nese boycotts.. 1W 3'J i til It will be seen that boycotting Ims been tried against uni plovers of all kinds and oven :ig:iinJttwoPo5tni:i-ters. and it evidently must be considered henceforth one of the permanent and powerful weapons used in social and business contest1'. A few years ao when Captain Boycott's neighbors reftt-ed to Jiave any dealings with him, the novel attack was looked upon by most people as an amusing exhibition of Irish pug nacity and eccentricity, and few imag ined that it would ever become a com mon form of coercion in purely busi ness disputes. Now 'boycott" is a name, and "to boycott" is :i verb in common usage, and it is hard to guess the limils which boycotting will finally reach. Cleveland Leader. A PARROT'S GRIEF. The Carious l'lirnoinenon Observed In A11 Intelligent I'lrd. In the Revue Scicnlijiquc, M. de La-caze-Duthiers describes a curious phe nomenon which he has observed in a parrot belonging to him. Tho bird is very intelligent, having an excellent memory for his friends and his enemies; of this trait and other marks of intclli srence the writer gives several instances. The point of the article, however, is this: Tlie parrot has manifested an ex traordinary affection for a little boy named Raymond, but usually called by the Southern diminutive. "Momon.'' The child called M. Duthinr's attention one day to the fact that whenever ho played with the bird, the eves of the lat ter became quite red. When the boy went away the parrot would call out his name perpetual!-; when he returned, it would walk to and fro on its perch, ex hibiting every mark of extreme pleas ure, anil its eyes invariably grew red. At such times it would allow no one, however friendly, to approach the cage? it would not eat lis most favorite food. When the boy hid himself for a mo ment, the eyes Iwcanie jvllow, but suddenly- reddened again when he reap peared. This phenomenon was observed only with this particular child, and with no one else. When the boy went to school, or when the bird wan brought to Paris from the country, it ceased com pletely. "It is curious," concludes M. Duthiers, "to see a phenomenon, regard ed jus independent of the will in the su perior animals, thus found in tissociation with feelings and acte which determine joy or anger, and which is apparently as voluntary as the movements of the feathers and aU other essentially volun tary acls." ---- A FEW LONG WORDS. An Ammlnjj Collection of ("ood-fdzed En. Sllh Word. A correspondent ha asked for the longest word in the English language. There have been a large number of an swer, some of them ijiiite amusing. Here is a list of words, with tlie number of letters in e.-teii: i'niloprojjenltiviini'ss- liieomprohf.iisiliIcii--.-s I)!Huroportlunablei:css Sut loons! I tutinual 1st Ilonoritlclhllltiidinity Veloeipeilcstrla'iistiat Triinsubitiintlonableiittss rroantltlonsubstiiutlonist ......20 ,, -jl 21 2T 2S Only the first three words are to be found in the last edition of Webster's Dictionary, and dispruporlionahlcncss undoubtedly is the I011ge.nl word in that volume. The correspondent who origin ated Iionorilicibilitudinity de.liues it as honorableness, but it certainly has not honorahlencss enough to untitle it to a nest in the unabridged. Veloeipedc-itri-auistical likcwi lacks age and respecta bility, but it may find its way into Web ster "in time; it certainly has good loco motive powers. Suliconstitiitionalist is doubtful, and we do not believe even a mandamus would get it into the diction ary. Transubslantiationableness might get there if Webster wasn't looking. Tho man who invented proantitionsubstan tiationist says it is a good English word, "derived from a short and simple Latin root, and means one who dissent from tho doctrine of dogma of the so-called real presence." That may all be, hut he ought to be condemned to pronounce the word twice a day as long as he lives if he tries to introduce it into the speech of honest men. But speaking of long words, what is the matter with Llanfairpwilgwyngyller-trobroHgerchwynnbyllgogerbwlIzantto-siliogoggogoch, the name of a village in Wales. Rochester Post and Eivress. WEDDING DRESSES. Toilettes ad Gowns for Brides wilt FMfc lonable Notions. Tho regulation dress of many lus trous satin veiled in costly laces is still seen, bnt it is no longer tho special favorite; bnt the effort to extinguish the popularity of orange blossoms as the dowers for brides seems to have failed if ono can judge by the quanti ties used to garnish the elaborate toil ettes prepared for this season. They are, however, intermingled with tho dainty perfumed flowers of tho whito jessamine and tho Instrous myrtle, re lieving the ivory clearness of the dress, and sprays of buds and blossoms which were onco used without leaves, the green of the stems being tho u. ly color visible. In referring to the change of fanoy from plain surfaced fabrics to thoso with cords, a Parisian authority states that ribbed silks are decidedly favored and that tho dross of such a silk is made in the most simple style, the skirt plaited all round, tho bodico peaked in front and at tho back, the points cither plain or plaited in flat plaits slanting from the shoulders and conveying to tho waist. If lace is employed for the bridal toilette it is put on braces upon the bodice and in a short tunic over the skirt, looped up on ono side. If the veil is of lace it covers the top of the head only and hangs at the back; if of more tulle it falls lower than the waist in front and down to the eiige of tho dress at the back. When satin is used, if not underlace, it is most elaborately embroidered in pearls or crystals, or the embroidered net is so placed over the plain parte that it lias the appearance of being a portion of the material. While the pearls create a soft and pleasing effect the cut crystals are by far the most brilliant, as they throw out iridescent illuminations with every movement of the wearer's body. The coiffure is something between a high and a drooping one. Part of the hair is massed at the top of the head and part is arranged to droop in the neck. The classical wreath is no longer worn, but only small sprays of orange llowcrs placed here and there. As for the bouquet it is exchanged for a short garland fastened upon the left shoulder. Very simple and pretty for a young bride is a dress of velvet and gauze; the skirt of faille francaise, in ivory white, is trimmed round the foot with a narrow plaited flounce of the silk; the skirt is covered with ivory silk gauze, the folds secured beneath clusters and spra3"s of orange blossoms and myrtle; the round skirt is put on in thick gathers round the waist; the bodice is of white velvet and comes down in a rounded-off basque in front and at the back. It opens into a point over a narrow plastron of ivory-white faille and is put on over a gathered chemi sette of ivory-white silk gauze, which is three-quarters high in tho neck and has short, puffed sleeves. Philadelphia Times. m t A DESPERATE CASE. The Experiments of a Man Who Deserves Public Sympathy. A melancholy man entered a Sixth avenue toy store the other day, and wearily seated himself on a stool. "Anything I can do for you, sir," asked the clerk. "Yes," sighed the man; "I want to He. I am tired of life. I want to commit suicide." "I don't think I can do anything for you," responded the clerk; "wc don't keep poison or tire-arms here." "I don't want either. I have tried them. I have tried everything. This despondency came on me a month or so ago, and since then I have done nothing but search for death. I went to a skating-rink, got over heated and then went. out door without my overcoat. Instead of killing me, this cured a ciironic case of bronchitis I have had for ten years. Next I called the biggest man I knew a liar. He admitted the fact without a struggle. Then I refused to buy my wife a seal-skin sncqtte, and she didn't whimper. A few days later, maddened by repeated failures, I drank a quart of whihky at one pull, on a wager of one hundred dollars. I won the money without turning a hair. You see how I have suffered?" "You have had a hard time, it is true," sympathized tlie clerk. "That isn't all," continued the suf ferer, with a Mgh: "The oUier day I went hunting, and pulled my shot gun after mc over a rail-fence. It was no good. Then I blew into the muzzle to see whether it was loaded. I didn't even snap a cap. I next tried horoic methods. I got a friend of mine to point a pistol at me that he thought wasn't loaded. The ball mibsed mu by half-an-ineh, and broke a seven ty-fivo dollar pier-glaus. Oh! I'm wretched." "Well, what can I do for you?" asked the clerk. "I am tired of temporizing any longer.' said the unhappy man f "I am goirijr to make a sure job of it this time. "How can T assist you?" "I want to hit' a toj'-pistol, and if that doesn't do the work. I shall swal low a pound of dvnatnile, and sit down on a banana-peel. If this fails me, I sliall move into an absolutely fire-proof building, and light the kitchen fire with nor.-e.plo5-ive kerosene. Go(rd- hyeV'Pte. Protection of Wa4er-Pipes. A device has been brought forward for protecting water-pipes against freez ing, the arrangement being bas'tl upon the fact that water in motion will re main liquid at a lower temperature than water at rest. One end of a cop por rod, placed outnidc of the building, is secured to a bracket, and the other end is attached to the arm of a weight ed elbow lever; to the other arm of the lever is secured a rod whieh passes into the building and operates a valve in the water-pipe. By means of turn buckles the length of the copper rod can be adjusted so that before the tem-pcratun- reaches the point at which there would be danger of the water in tho pipes freezing, the valve will be opened to allow a flow of water; be yond this point the valve opening will increase am! the flow become moro rapid an the cold becomes moro intense, and as the temperature rises the valve II closed. This plan sets up a current in the pipes, which replaces the water as it grows cold bv the. warmer water from the main. Whether the valve be opened or closed the service-pipes are always in working order. N. Y. Sun. Harry Brown, a colored man ninety-five years old, still living at Texas, T. Y., was onco the slave of Governor DeWitt Clinton, and obtained bis free dom under the State MannmUsion act, Jul j 4. 1827. Troy Timet. RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL. Costly livine iseiTcn as the of the loss of student at Talo College. Tho Indian boys in tho Educational Home at Philadelphia are to be admit ted to the public schools. Tho Bible Society of Great Britain has sold in nlno months 950,000 copies of tho penny Now Testament Jacob Haisb. of Colorado, recently subscribed $50,000 to the Methoiwt University of Denver. a During forty years fSOO.OflS.OOO havo been expended by members of tha Church of England in building and re storing churches. Tho Presbytorian3 of Paris have bought for $30,000 tho church in which tho American Episcopalians have hith erto worshipped. Their congregation is made up of English, Scotch, Irish and American Presbyterians. Philadelphia is justly entitled to tha proud distinction of being the loadiaa; city in tho United States for. Sunday school work. There aro in that city 668 Sunday-schools, with 155,348 scholars and 15,363 teachers, constituting in all nearly one-fifth of tho population. Christian Union. At a recent meeting of tho Board of Managers of the Evaugclical Allianco of the United States Rev. Dr. James M. King was made Honorary Secretary, the office formerly held by the lato Dr. Samuel Iremuus Prime. Dr. King has been for some time a member or tho Board of Managers. N. Y. Tribune. An Illustration of th? fact tha' school attendance during epidemics largely contribute to the spead of in fectious diseases, it is stated that during the lato serious outbreaks of diphtheria in the ironstone villages of England tho closing of a school proved in evory in stance an effective means of bringing each local epidemic to an end. Chicago IIcraUL Professor Eaton, of Yale Colloge, in a recent lecture to tho students, told Jiem that it was not certain Evo tempted Adam with an apple in tho Garden of Eden. He thinks it probable it was a quince, "because the apple of tho present day was propagated from the crab apple, and it I.- not at all likely Adam would have been taken in by such a puckery little bait." 'I he following from the early town records of York, Me., wcgivo verbatim ct literatim: "At a Legal T5wn meeting holden in York Jscpt. tho 25th. 1717. Voted that this Town will havo a Gram'r School Master for one year to Teaoh our Children in the Lamed Tung and to ltcadc write Cypher: to keep said School in the Center of cur said town of York: which said School Master w to be paid and subsisted by our said Town.'' The Tuskegeo Normal School, at Tuskogce, Ala., which was organized four years ago, hxs boon from the flrst under the control of colored teachers. During these four years five hundred acres of land have been secured; two large buildings havo been put np, be sides half a dozen smaller buildings. The institution opened with ono teacher and thirty students. There aro at pre ent 17 teachers and 225 stndenU in tho normal school and 13G in the training school. The school is largely dependent on charity, there being an annual ex pense of about :? 15.000. Chicago Timet. WIT AND WISDOM. Contentment is more to be desired than a horso that can "go it" iu two minutes. Chicago Ledger. With what an air of calm sspnrior ity a hen will gobble a worm after the rooster has .scratched it up! Thero aro lots of hens in the world. The Judge. The cry that nixes arc in diMiinnd comes from the far Weal, and yet the Chicago pork packing houses turn out tons of spare ribs every day. 1'hilade' plua Herald. He that putteth money in his pursa is liable to be rubbed, but he that en richcth his mind putteth wealth whers the sand-bagger ran not come at it. Don't judge if moral character by the countciian('. The frog in more in nocent than mnnj an animal that has a hamlsomcr physiognomy. Occident. It's many vir ago since the pool wrote that "beauty draws us with a single hair." It gen-rally takes a fiftcea dollar switch to do it now. Chicagm Tri'.une. Mine. Greville. in a recent lecture, said: "Once there w.w a young maa who fell in Iov.- with a young lady." This is tnio. Wc were intimately ac quainted with the young man. Norri. town Herald. Counsel (to witness): "Then you think he struck you with malice afore thought?" Witness (indignantly): "You can't mix me up like that. I'tc told you twice he hit mc with a brick. There wasn't no mallets, nor nothin' of the kind about. N. Y. Ledger. Sparin' the roil will spoil the child; yes, but so will sparin the parent's love, and sparm' the (cIiooI-!uHise, and sparin' civiliz&l home surroundin's. You can't rai-e children without sun shine any more than melons. Chicago Journ d. "Vesuvius is again in a .ttc of eruption," read a boy to his grand mother, who was interested in Canadian matters. "Well. I declare to good ness," ;-he answered, "that's what comes of being so foolish ami not get ting vaccinated." Oil City Derrick. While a London chemist was test ing a bottle of milk it exploded with a loud report, scattering fragments of glass all over the room. Professor Huxley's theory is that the cow had been eating dynamite, bnt we think his hypothesis is wrong. A more plausible explanation is that some fiend had thrown nitro-glycerinc into the well. Norristown Herald. A little boy had gathered a flower in the London Botanical Gardens in de fiance of the rules of the society. His mother, a stately and somewhat pomp ous dame, approached one of the keep ers, leading the culprit with one hand, and holding forth the flower in the other, and, in solemn tones, said: "This is the delinquent.' "No, beg vour par don, ma'am," replied the civil oflicial, "that there's a polyanthus." The Way of the World. De Baggs Have you met Tuffboy yet? You know he has just returned from Australia? D- Kaggs Tuffboy! That ne'er do well who failed in J ii-micss about eight times! I should think he would ba ashamed to show his face. "You haven't heard then that ho has made a fortune in sheep?" "Made a fortune! What a lucky chap he U Where did you say he was 8to pi.iK?" Philadelphia Call r-.'""