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i - .J.--- J-Sil V t' ' a "C V-C"" . " V. ,'-'' " t '1.3 -' rtf- '.'" THE JOURNAL. ISSUED BVXET WEDNESDAY, M. KZ. TURNER & CO., Proprietor! and Publishers. &-OFFICE,-Eleventh St., up ntahrt in Journal Building. terms: 3 Per year Sirmonths se Three months 5 Single copies.. COLUMBUS STATE BANK! COLUMBUS, NEB. CASH CAPITAL, - $75,000 DIRECTORS: Lkixder Gekkaud, l'res'l. Gko.W-IIolst, Vice Preset. Julius A. IIeeu. R. H. Henkv. J. E. Taskeii, Cashier. fssmlc f epe.It- IIceo ud IhcfcanRe. Collection iTomptlF de oB all Felatf. Psvy I.terext o Time Depos HENRY LUERS, DEALER IN WIND MILLS, AND PUMPS, Buckeye Mower, combined, Self Binder, wire or twine. PiMps Repaired on short notice 3TOnc door west of llcintz's Drug Store, 11th Street, Columbus, Neb. HENRY G-ASS. COFFINS AND METALLIC CASES AND DEALER IK Furniture, Chairs, Bedsteads, Bu reaus, Tables, Safes. Lounges, &c.. Picture Frames and Mouldings. tSTIicpairing of all kinds of Upholstety Goods. 6-tf COLUMBUS, NEB. Your Hair should be your crowning glory. Aycr's Hair Vigor will restore the vitality nud color of youth to hair that has become thin and faded ; and, where the glands are not decayed or absorbed, will cause a new growth on bald heads. y tho youthful color and vigor fflA X of the hair be preserved to old age? Read the following, from Mrs. G. Norton, Somcrville,Ma5is. : " I have used Aycr's Hair Vigor for the past 30 years; and, although I am upwards of CO, my hair is a? abundant and glossy to-day as when I was 25." n-n assured, that a trial of Ayer's Hair JSJEl Vigor will convince, you of ts powers. Mrs. 31. E. G off, Lead v ille, Col., writes: "Two years ago, my hair haying almost entirely fallen out, I commenced iho use of Aycr's Hair Vigor. To-day my Lair is SO inches long, fine, strong, and healthy.'' VnrPTFVn and strengthened JUxllXl WXtlf by tho use of Avert Hair. Vigor, tho hair regains its youthful color and vitality. Rev. H. P. "Williamson, Davidson College, Mecklen burg Co., N. C., writes: "I have used Ayer's Hair Vigor for the last ten years. It Is an excellent preservative." iiw the use of Aycr's Hair Vigor, Geo. JJ X A. Dadman, Waterloo, Mo., had his hair restored to Its original healthy condition. He was nearly bald, and very gray. .He writes: "Only four bottles of the Vigor were required to restore my hah to its youthful color and quantity." fTflTWL Ayer's Hair Yigorcuresdis UBJJl V eases of the scalp. F. H. Foster, Princeton, Ind., writes: "I had been troubled for years with a disease of the scalp ; my head was covered with dan druff, and the hair dry and harsh. Aycr's Hair Vigor gave me immediato relief, cleansed the scalp, and rendered the hair soft and pliable." Ayer's Hair Vigor, PREPARED BY Dr. J. C. Ayer &, Co., Lowell, Haas,, U. S. A. For sale by all Druggists. FARMER'S HOME. This House, recentlv purchased by me, will be thoroughly refitted. Board by the dav, week or mea!. A few rooms to let. A share of the public patronage is solicited. Feed stable in connection. 2-y . Albert Luth. ILYON&HEALY I State Monroe Ste..Chtcago VU wtni ptnU to mny mJJno lb ' MMDCATAUraUE, I u, sou, upa, mn. TWm ManrS Staff, ud Bmrj Bud tol!.. Itefahtet hhlciUiljiiicaeB4 Ei- far Amateur Bui!, ul m ICmlT,Mmie. 4 TIH T TJ I? Send 8lx cfents for A Y 111 I Mi Vi POtage,and receive LX- J- AVAJ-LJ. free, a costly box of goods which will help you to more money rigacaway luau anyiuius eisc minis world. All, of either sex, succeed from" frit hour. The' broad- road to fortune eaeis before the workers, absolutely Bar, A ace attaress, ihi m w. iflli .BSSSSSSate aVai . fssss ssssl SB. BSm BBk V VOL. XVI.-N0. 50. LEGEND OF YELLOWSTONE LAKE. As Related by an Indian Guide. Once, when the wandering Sioux Traversed Wyoming's plain. And bold and savage warriors Were chiefs of its domain, A bounteous Indian maiden , Unto her lover spake: "If you would prove to me your love. Go bwiu o'er yonder lake." The air was raw and chilly; Ice floated in his wake. Hut manually nyalnl the waves lie si replied' for her sake. The maid upon the pebbly shore Saw his form recede from view, m Until ut last lie disappeared, Across the waters blue. Then down ghe sat and walteu For her lover to return; And Hie sIhjs icped down in Plleneo On the hills where camp-lircs bum. Dark clouds obscured the western sky. The wind howled weird nnd loud. And the wliStJ capK-d caks in tho far north west Gleiuned like a ghastly shroud. Bnt still upon the stormy shore Tim inuhleii iTeefis her Dent, And listens to the roaring surf That diushos at her feet. While from the nr-st the storm bursts forth In blinding snow and Meet. Tar o'er the lake, the gallant brave His arduous task complete Steals forth in seau-eh of elk or deer. To furnish him with meat. He spies an elk upon .1 knoll; Creeps forth In haste to slay. When lo! a grizzly in his path Causes his foot to stay. The monter notes his human foe. And quick to combat springs. One arrow two the moti6tcr brute Heeds not the fragile things; But down upon his victim's head His massive paw he brings. Tis o'er a crush ed and bleeding mass Is all that now remains Of tho dusky brave, who yesterday. Was chief of these domains. The maiden still, upon tho shore. Her lonelv vigil keeps, A heap of bones among the stones. O'er which the wild wave leaps; And far across the lonely lake. Her lover's bones Ho bleaching. Where coyotes bark and puma's growl, Miugle with ground owl's screeching: Bleached by the wind, washed bj the Hood, Their bones still whitening lip. And tho pale-face hears their s-pirits oft. When the blizzard whistles by. Dctivit Free Press. A WOMAN'S "GLORY." A Chapter on Her Hair as a Pow er in History. nuns: by a Hair Made Kich by One Knpc of 'Woman's Locks a Cruel Duch- cm and a Generous Countess. Toots have always shown a keen ap preciation of woman's crowning glory. That little, grand man Pope wrote: "Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare. And beauty draws us with a single hair." The particular hair which suggests this pretty ligureof speech could scarce ly have ornamented the head of the author's adored Lady Mary Wortlcy Montagu, for it was a notorious fact that the learned lady entertained a pro found prejudiccagainst brush and comb, nnd was wont to conceal her tangled tresses ncath a hideous cap. Dryden said of the" one hundred and fifty thou sandth part of a woman's capillary at tractions: "She knows her man, and when you rant and swear. Can draw you to her with a single hair." Carcw added his totimony in the lines "Theso curious locks, so aptly entwined, Who.'-e every hair a soul doth bind." That a solitary hair might prove as fatal to a man's neck as to his soul was shown in the execution of the California murderer, Waslelewsky, a few 3'cars :io. Judge liuhlcn, a grim satirist, sentenced the criminal and then sug gested that justice should be made pe culiarly retributive by an original method of hanging, in which a long, black hair from the head of the woman so brutally murdered, and which had figured in the testimony, should be the final nteiins when cut of letting the weight drop and sending the murderer into eternity. In the profession of quackery, it is often made the foundation of incanta tions and love charms, as the hair ma' come from the head of the loved or hated one. In olden I'mcs, when a monarch of F'anee condu-cended to pluck a hair from his royal head and bestow it upon a loyal subject, it was a sure indication of further and more substantial benefits to come. We are told, loth on scientific and scriptural authority, that the very hairs on our head are all numbered. Dr. Winslow, after many laborious experi ments, asserts that thc average num ber of hairs to the square inch on a woman's head is by actpal count one thousand and sixty-six; on the whole head from one hundred and tliirty thou sand to one hundred and fifty thousand. Take this number of hairs en masse, let it be long, fine, lustrous and pure in color, and whether it falls straight as an Indian's in unbroken folds, or in curling, clustering m'asses, or yet in graceful, shimmering waves and ripple, it does, indeed form a really glorious ornament, and one that any woman is loth to lose or part with. Do you remember that master-touch of a master hand poor "Fantine" sell ing her splendid locks that her child might have bread? I have known simi lar instances in real life; and among the hundred tons of human hair that are bought and sold each year in European marts, how many bundles of silky hair lying among the coarser grades from peasants' heads breathe of a silent sacri fice? For just as much as the hand and car does the hair betray good blood and fine breeding. In the great port of Marseilles one has a capital chance to test his acute ncss by examining the piles of hair col lcctcd'for exportation. That bundle of burnished golden locks, breathing a faint odor of violets, you feel sure is from the head of some voung virgin but yesterday made "the bride of Christ," for the Church, like the guillotine, demands a woman's hair before she quits "this world." Here is a package of shining chestnut curls, with such a look of life about them that it is easy to imagine the dark blue eyes, the pink and dimpled face they once en wreathed cut off, perhaps, to keep a roguish lover from prison. That luxur ious mass of long, blue-black perfumed hair. "How came it hero?" I asked the swarthy foreman, burnt under the Southern sun. "It was cut off the head of a young wife, .madam, whose husband left her here ill abandoned. She wished it to" bc sold to pay for her coffin, and she knew that dealers do not like to buy dead hair any more than they do'feath" ers plucked from a dead goose," he concluded in a most matter-of-fact way. Most pathetic of all was a package of soft, lustrous, silvery-white hair a mother's sacrifice, no doubt, and which, oh, grim Fate! will bring a higher price than even the heavy flaxen braids at their side. For the rest, for those pounds upon pounds of brown and yellow and, black tresses, one can look at them without emotion, for, take the sheep's wool, they were grown only to be shorn and for the"sakc of a few silver coins and gorge ous 'kerchief that tempers tho wind to the peasant lambs of Auvergne and Brittany. Two women, both celebrated in their way, deliberately cut off their hair. Charlotte Corday was one. She had no trinkets nor mementoes to distribute among her friends, so she forestalled the grim valet of the guillotine and cut off her beautiful hair herself, sending locks of it to her family and nearest friends. Of that proud arrogant and ambitious woman, Sarah, Duchess of Marlbor ough, wc might say she cut off her hair instead of nose to spite her face. To be more explanatory, it seems that tho Duchess nad very splendid hair, un usual in length and abundance, and ex ceedingly fine. The great soldier, hor husband, who was very much in love with her entertained for it a profound admiration, and was wont to say ho loved every hair on her head. Indeed, it was his delight to unbind her tresses himself and let them fall in a luxurious cloud about her stately person. Never theless, the noble couple indulged at times in very ignoblo domestic battles, in which the warrior was apt to get worsted; but on one occasion ho aid come out victorious, which so chagrined and enraged tho Duchess that sho de termined to do what she thought would outrage her husband' feelings the most so going to her tiring-room she took a sharp knife and slashed her su perb hair off. As the last locks fell to the floor the Duke entered with a jewelled peace offering in his hand. At a glance he took in the situation, and then, without a word, he stooped down, gathered up one long tress from the shinging h eap upon the ground, placed it in Lis bosom, and, with the tears rolling down his bronzed face, silcntby passed out. It is said this was the last violent quarrel the ducal pair ever had. Then there was the Countess of Suf folk, who wedded poverty and Mr. Howard. One must admire her for her pluck, as well as her beauty. When it became necessary for the couple to give a stale banquet" though their money chest was empty, the Countess did not hesitate to sell her exquisitely fine and fair hair, of which she had an abund ance. Twenty pounds (one hundred dollars) was the sum she received for it, and that, doubtless, provided a right royal feast in those days of cheapness and plenty! An old copy of the Protestant Mer cury tells of a Lancashire lass who sacrificed her tresses for even a more notable object- She was in love with a worthy youth, who hesitated to return her ali'ection, as she was poor and her friends would not give her the portion of fifty pounds that the mildly-smitten young'man demanded. Therefore, the courageous maid journeyed up to Lon don and sold her hair, which was long and of a tender j-ellow, to an honest chapman in London, who paid her sixty pounds (three hundred dol lars') for it, and soon sold it in wig to his advantage, To an Indian girl no humiliation is so great as to have her hair cut off. The matron of the London Institute, in giv ing me a description of the introduction to civilization of the young Sioux, Paw nees and Chippcwas, said: "It requires great persuasion to induce them to en ter a bath for the first time, and still more to induce them to desist from eat ing the soap, which they invariably take for something good to cat. To don the garments of the white woman and sit on chairs instead of floors their red skins rebelled against; but all these difficulties arc mere bagatelles when compared with the hair-cutting process. Persuasion, bribes and sometimes threats even have to be used to gain this sacrifice to the altar of cleanli ness." "How do you account for it?" Iasked. "Altogether because it is the Indian fasliion when mourning the dead to let the hair fall over the face like a thick veil, and which mufllcs the wailing the women give vent to. The mere thought that if any brave of their blood should be summoned to the happy hunting ground they could not mourn him in proper Indian fashion causes them ex treme mortification, and consequently when the coarse black braids fall to the floor in our little lavatory almost tragic scenes ensue. Later on, when they arc made to understand that cleanliness is the only condition imposed on its growth they become reconciled, for their hair grovs rapidly." Women m" prison, even under a life sentence, never give up all attempts to embellish themselves, and, I am told by the ollicials, find enjoyment not only in giving their hair extra attention, but even in scraping the whitewash off the walls with their finger-nails to use as powder, and substitute red ink for rouge. An incident of the unwillingness of woman to part with her hair was given me by a physician from one of the great London hospitals. A poor coryphee from the Globe Theater was brought to him in a most piteous condition from attempting to change the color of her hair to "the glorious golden," prom ised by the makers of a well-advertised "blondine." The stuff did metamor phose tho color. Tho pretty coryphee made up her complexion and eyebrows to match, and for a brief season she en joyed the special admiration of the high-collared, eye-glassed young cock neys in the stalls. But alas! frequent applications of the dye brought on pains in the head and face, which finally re sulted in a severe attack of erysipelas. For ten days before she went to the hospital neither brush nor comb could be touched to her head. Her eyes were closed, her features distorted, and the once pretty face frightful to look at; but when the doctor said to her: "The first thing to be done is to have all that hair cut off," the poor girl fell on her knees, and begged and prayed to be allowed to keep it. But said the doctor: "It is in a terrible condition; no human be ing could straighten it out, neither could yon endure having it tried." "Pray, sir, don't make me cut it off. I will comb it myself if you will let me keep it," she urged, -and the kind hearted physician could not resist her entreaties. In speaking of this he said: "Never have I seen a more touching spectacle of patience and endurance than that suffering creature presented for the next j fortnight Day after day she sat, rack ed witu pain and blinded oy tears, Dut persistently and tenderly, comb in hand, straightening out a few hairs at a time. It was two months before, 'she left the hospital, and by that tum,l think, $mmm COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7, 1886. was reconciled to the natural color of her hair." The darker and grosser passions are typified by artists and authors, as a rule, in brunette women, the good angels, whether of the material or spiritual world, being crowned with a glory of golden hair, and even the little cheru bim havo a halo of yellow rings round their plump faces. But this point opens up too broad a field of discussion, and leads one away from some curious facts in relation to the various uses that woman's hair has been "put to besido that of decorating the head of her own kind and furnishing material for senti mental watch-chains, painful memorial pictures and agonizing jewelry. The Japanese, for example, have shown particular ingenuity in utilizing it, and on a grand scale. The women of whole provinces are shorn to manu facture a single article that requires tho strength, durability and elasticity only to be found in the human hair. In the construction of the splendid Budd hist templo at Kioto, which cost, by the way, over threo million dollars, a whole ton of ropes made of hair, furnished by devout women as their contribution, was used in the construction of the building. At South Kensington is exhibited an extraordinary coil of rope, weighing six hundred pounds and eight hundred feet long, made in Japan by order of a Tycoon whose name I can not undertake to spell from memory. During six years all the "spare hair" of one entire province was consumed in its manufacture, but at the time it was completed an English nobleman traveling through tho country was so struck with it as a curiosity that ho offered in exchange for it the-finest steel cable that could 00 made in England. His Japanese Majesty accepted the offer, and the hairy hawser was after ward presented to the great Kensington collection. The idea that savages are the only members of the human family that delight in wearing hair as an ornament is quite a mistake. Lace made of it is an ancient invention. In the "Cheva lier aux y Eppcs" a beautiful ladj- de mands of the King Kis a silken mantle fringed with the beards of nine con quered Kings, and hemmed with that of King Arthur, who was yet to con quor. Queen Elizabeth valued highly her "pointe tresse" lace, made of silvery white hair, and the most expensive and rare of its kind, woven, by the way, en tirely in Bedfordshire; hence Turner's allusion "And Bedford's matrons wove their snowy locks." Tho Countess of Lennox presented her beautiful daughter-in-law, Mary Queen of Scotts, with a "pointe tresse" collar made from her own hair and woven by her own lin gers a tribute of affection which his torians claims would scarcely have been given had the Countess believed her fair daughter-in-law guilty of Darnley's dreadful death. In concluding this article I must men tion the most superb head of hair ever seen in this country that of the Mar quesc Conception Montalvo do Queue of Cuba a very beautiful woman, who has made occasional visits lo New York. Of exquisitely modelled figure and tall, her apparent height is added to by mass ive plaits of hair wound tightly about her lincly-shapcd head in the form of a coronet and fastened with a small dia mond dagger. When these plaits are unwound the' fall in a shimmering cas cade of burnished brown to the floor, eighty inches in length over two yards and as fine as spool silk. One's pen rather lingers on the picture of the Mar quise, for her hair was only one of her personal charms. Her skin was as soft and pure as a garden rose; her large dark eyes had the peculiar freshness and open look of a child's; her mouth was lovely enough to drop nothing but pearls and rubies, which I am sure it tliil in the shape of pretty speeches, and her manners befitted a Princess Charm ing. Cincinnati Enquirer. THE INDIAN STOREHOUSE. A Hut Designed for the Preservation ot Dried Fishes and Game. Upon the plantation and near the res idence of Colonel Seaborn Jones, known as Mill-Haven, in Screven County, Ga., may be seen, in excellent condition, one of those structures at a remote period in general use among the Southern Indians, and designed for the temporary preserv ation of dried fishes and game. For quite a century and a half it has main tained its identity. It is located upon the declivity of the right bank of Briar creek, in proximity to that stream, and in the midst of a beautiful forest of oak, holly and pine. Cylindrical in shape, this receptacle has a diameter of cijrhty feet, and is about six feet deep. The excavation in the ground was at first carefully andrcgulanymadc; and when completed its sides and bottoms were covered with a uniform layer of well kneaded red clay four inches in thick ness. These clay walls, tho interior surface of which were pressed hard and smooth arc still nearly perfect. As one looks upon the structure it presents the appearance of a huge cylindrical terra-cotta vessel let into the earth. To Briar creek, and especially to this neighborhood, did the Creek Indians re sort to fish and hunt. The adjacent bluffs and fields givo token most abund ant of former and long-continued occu pancy. Village sites may still be recog nized, littered with fragments of earth ware flint chips, spear and arrow points, scrapers and other objects of primativc manufacture. Even now this stream abounds in fishes, turtles and alliga tors; and its dependent swamps at an early period were filled with wild tur keys, deer and other game held in re pute by the natives. Doubtless, during tho use of this receptacle, it was fur nished with a roof or covering which long since perished. It is probable that in it were stored from time to time the fishes caught by visiitng Indians. These, having been previously dried, they ac cumulated until the season arrived for the homeward journey, when they were removed and transported to the perma nent abodes of their captors. Physical proofs of the prior occupancy by the red race of our region are each year be coming more indistinct, and it is hoped that care will be exercised in the pre servation of this i nteresting object. Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle. The Atlanta Constitution records a specimen of Confederate wit during the war. A soldier was caught in a persim mon tree by General Longstreet. When sternly asked by. his commander what he was doing there, the veteran at once disarmed wrath bv saying: "L'm eatin' some green persimmons to Iraw my stomach up so it'll fit its rations. Each Congressman, gets this year six thousand five hundred "packages of. vegetable seeds, besides five hundred packages of flower aeedax, . FIRST National Bank! coLxrasBXTS. neb. Authorized Capital, - - 8250,000 Paid In Capital, - 60,000 Surplis and Profits, - - 13,000 OFFICERS AND DIKECTOKS. A. ANDERSON, Freslt. SAM'L C. SMITH, Vice Preset. O.T.KOEN, Cashier. - J.'AV. KAKLY, HEUMAN OEIILltlCn. W. A. 3ICALLISTEK, G. ANDERSON, I'. ANDERSON. ' Forejer. and Inland Exchange, Passage Tickets', Inu Real Estate Loans. 2Ii-vol-13-lr BUSINESS CARDS. D.T. Martyx, 31. D. F. .1. Sciiug, 31. D. Drs. MARTYN & SCHUG, U. S. Examining Surgeons, Local Surgeons. Union Pacific, O., N. & 15. II. and K. & 31. 11. It's. Consultation in German and English. Telephones at oflice and residences. jgrOflu'c on Olive street, next to 15rod feuhrer'a .Jewelry Store. COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA. 43-y TIT M . COJRNJEI.HJS, ilir AND COLLECTION OFFICE. Upstair Erntt building 11th street. ATTORNEY AT LAW, Office on Olive St., Columbus, Nebraska 2-tf p 1. HVAWS, M. rilYSICIAN AND SURGEON. JSTOIlieo and rooms, Gluek building, 11th btreet. Telephone communication. iy -TTASIILTOX MEADE, M. ., rilYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Platte Center, Nebraska. H-y S F. RurvrviER, HI. ! HOMCEOPATHIST. Chronic Disoases and Diseases of Children a Specialty. EirOifii'c on Olive street, three doors north of First National Bauk. 2-ly TT j. uuiMioau NOTARY PUBLIC, 2th Street, '2 doors nest of Hammond Hobm, Columbus, Neb. 491-y SJO.KKY TO LOAN. Five years.' time, on improved farms with at lcast one-fourth the acreage under cultivation, in sums representing one third tbe fair value of the homestead. Correspondence solicited. Address, 31. K.TURNER, r,o- Columbus, Nehr. M BbfE'n-'.K BRns.. , ;.(.-. A TTOllNEYS A T LA W, Office up-stairs in McAllister's build ing. 11th St. W. A. 3IcAllister, Notary Public. "vro-riuK TO TKACIIKRS. W. H. Tearow, Co. Supt. I will be at my ofiice in the Court House on the t ird Saturday of each month, for the purpose of examining teacher:.. u!Mf .1. SI. MACFA UI.AKP, K. COWPKRY, Attcrejj ai Hetir7 Prtl e. Csllaster. LAW AM) COLLECTION OFFICE OK MACFAR1jAND& cowdbry, Columbus : : ' Nebraska. J. J. MAUCillAIV, Justice, County Surveyor, Notary, Land and Collection Aycnl. KSTTartics ilcsiriug surveying done can notify me by mail at Platte Centre, Neb. r.l-Oin JOHN G. 1IIC.GINS. C. J.GAKLOW, Collection Attorney . HIGGINS & GARLOW, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, Specialty made or Collection. by C. J. Garlow. 31- in Tp bi.ki;s;ui;, llth St., opposite Lindell Hotel. Sells Harness, Saddles, Collars, Whips, Blanket. Curry Combs, Brushes, trunks, valise, Uuguy tops, cushions, carriage trimmings, &'c., at the lowest possible prices. Repairs pn mptly attended to. TAJIKS SAIjMOiV, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER. Plans and estimates supplied for either frame or brick buildings. Good work guaranteed. Shop on loth Street, near St. Paul Lumber Yard, Cciumbus, Ne braska. S'iGmo. riAMPBKLL & CO. DEALERS IX- ssr 3RaorS and Iron ! a The highest market price paid for rags and iron. Store in the Bubach building, Olive St., Columbus, Neb. 15-tf JS. MUKDOCK & SON, Carpenters and Contractors. Have nad 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. 835"Shop on 13th St., one door west of Friedhof & Co's.itorc, Columbus. Nebr. 483-v RCBOYD, MANUFACTURER OF Tin and Sheet-Iron Ware ! Job-Work, Roofing and Gutter ing a Specialty. JSTShop on Olive Street, 2 doors udrtu of brodfeuhrer's Jewelry Store. r 32-tf , rfE HAD NERVE. The Gall Displayed Iqr ft TrTeUa Prtatcr ta aa Iowa Towa. I had been devil in tho Bugler office, in a town in Iowa, about four months, when the editor was one day called away. Tho man who was acting as compositor, pressman, job printer, col lector, solicitor and so forth, seized the opportunity to go off on a spree, and I was thus left in sole charge. Just after dinner, as I was washing the roller and cleaning up generally, in walked the first old "printer bum" I had ever seen. The duds on his back weren't worth a silver quarter, his hair was long and unkompt, his face cov ered with dirt and bristles and his breath scented the room. He was rag ged, dirty, homeless and penniless, and had been let out of the county jail, eight miles away, that morning. " Howdy, boy," ho said as no camo in, and without a second glance at me lie took a seat at the desk and attacked the remains of my lunch. When he IkuI eaten the last crumb he picked his teeth with the editorial pen, peeled off his old coat and commanded: "Boy, hunt me up a job stick." I obeyed, and as he took it he walked over to the rack, slung in two or three lines of display typo and then stepped to the small pica case and set up tho bod of a circular reading: ne uas aruiveo! THE WORLD RENOWNED PROF. PETERS! VentrihiquM! 3Icm:rii! PhrcnntitqUtt Prof. Poters has cngn.icl Snydsr's Hall for tho evening' of Septombor i. 185S (to-morrow evening), and will g-ivo tho citizens or fanner Cit vim exhibition of bis wonderful power In ventriloquism, mesmerism nnd phrenotcjey. Will imitate tho note3 of all b'rds: will speak to you in sixteen lanjninjres: will wasrvr StOJ to S" that ho can mesmerlzo any person in tho uutliiMieo; can rend your character by feelinjr of your head: will forfeit ?.V.O if ho fails In a single case. McJals from all the crowned heads of Europe. Flattering presa notices from tho Icmlinir newspapers of tho world. Every body turn out. Admission only - cants, children free. He placed this matter on a galley, pulled a proof and correctcd.it, and then cut a lot of print paper to the right size and said to me: "Get up the roller and roll for me." I complied, and he worked off two hundred of tho circulars. He was not only a good compositor, but he wrestled that old hand press around like a man who had never done any thing else. When we had finished he said: "Take the tin pail and get me a quart of beer. Tell 'em lo charge it to the ofiice." I was afraid of the man, nnd I got the beer and paid for it out of my own money. He drank the whole quart with only one breath. "Now then, take these circulars out and distribute 'em," he said, as he put. away the pail. "Bo a good boy and I'll givo you two tickets to this great en tertainment." That was inducement enough, and in two hours, with the help of another boy, I had billed the town. When I returned the "bum" had washed up. combed his hair, and had on a new suit of clothes. He had gone to a clothier's and bought them and had thcin charged to tho office, claiming that he had been engaged as foreman. Further than that, ho had been and en gaged the hall. I had been back only livo minutes when the boozy compositor came in. He had scarcely entered the door when the "bum" rose up, waved him back and tragically exclaimed: "Go hence! This is no place for tho depraved! How daro you enter my ofiice in your present condition?" The "comp" backed down stairs drunker than ever, and after the stran ger had questioned me as to when tho editor would return he went to tho hotel and engaged the best room. I had heard that somebody held a mortgage on the ofiice, and it struck me that this must be the man's agent. I was young and green, and had never seen a display of tramp printers' gall. Next morning he took possession of tho ofiice. When the now sobered compositor arrived tho "bum" selected copy for him and bossed him around, nnd there Was no rebellion. He wrote and set up several editorials himself, and made up the outside pages of the paper in a neat manner, and worked oil" two jobs for which three dollars and seventy-five cents cash was" paid. Dur ing the day two subscribers paid in four dollars, and all the money went into tiie stranger's pocket. The editor was to be gone two days, nnd the man took such complete pos session that we believed in his right, and did not kick. During tho day he got a hat ami a new pair of boots tho same way ho got tho clothes, and he drank three quart of beer at our ex pense. Prof. Peters' circulars filled Snyder's hall that evening to overliowing, and it was the old fcum who stood at tho door and took the moncj'. When the last person had passed in, the door-keeper slid into the darkness, and tho people sat there for half an hour before they realized that they had been duped. Then a grand man-hunt was organized. But it was too late. The bum had stolen a skiff and dropped down tho river, just about one hundred and fifty dollars ahead of our town. N. Y. Sun. QUAKER MARRIAGES. A Class of reoplo Anion- Whom Divorces Arc Virtually Unknown. Divorces are actually unknown among the Quakers, and this absence is ac counted for by the extraordinary pre caution employed when two young per sons desire to be united in marriage. The parties place their proposals of marriage in a written form, which is referred to the society of which they arc members, and is acted upon at a "preparation meeting" thereof. If all the attendant circumstances are in every respect in accordance with the views of those present the proposal is approved, and is then introduced at the "monthly meeting," when it is again passed upon a committee of in vestigation into the characters, habits and circumstances of the engaged twain is appointed. These committees always consist of two members of each 6cx. The committee, after a most thor ough examination and investigation, niake its reports generally at the suc ceeding "monthly" meeting. . This ends tho preliminary arrangements, and tho twain arc at liberty to proceed in the acomplishmentof their marriage, a committee of two of each sex being appointed by the meeting to sec it or derly conducted and the marriage cer tificate delivered! to the recorder. As a ruJc the impressive ceremonies are generally conducted at tho home of tho Gride, and occasionally in the "meeting-house." At the nuptial ceremonies the certificato is given to the couple, whitth, after receiving their own signa tures, is in turn signed by every person S resent, and frequently contains a hun rcd names. Engagement or wedding, tings 9X0 rarely given. Interior. . WHOLE NO. 830. A GRAND BURST. Tho History of the Kccentrlc Oil Well at Stannard Corners. "The eccentricities of oil wells are numerous," said a former operator in the petroleum regions, "but if there ever was a funnier oil well than tho one they put down at Stannard's Corners, in what was the Wcllsville territory, then I never heard of it. Tho people of Stannard's Corners got the oil fever bad, and made up their minds that if there was oil lurking around anywhere in the bowels of the earth the lurking placo was straight down under Stan nard's Corners. So they hustled some money together amongst 'em, and started tho drill to tap the lake of jrease that was roiling and tossing down among the subterranean rocks. The whole, town fifty men, women and children, all told hung around that drill every day, and after two or threo weeks the tools tapped a vein of gas. The town went wild over this news, and performed a regular green corn dance around too well. Tho driller thought he'd wait for later de velopments, so ho drew his tools and drove a big wooden plug in the casing. Then ho bored a hole In the plug and put in a pipe to carry off tho gas. But tho plug wouldn't stay put, tho gas hav ing a strong head. So the people got three or four dry-goods boxes, filled thorn full of stones, and piled them one on top of tho other on the plug. "When bed time camo that night the peoplo left the well and went home. They all got up bright and early and took their positions at the well again. Tho boxes of stones were then all right, and tho peoplo fet that they had tho oil-well fastened as tight as a stick in a vise While they were all discussing about what amount of oil sho would fiow as soon as tho real sand was tapped there camo a sound as of a bat tle close by. Tho store boxes shot up ward and onward. There was a shower of stones and splinters around the town for about ten minutes, and the people took to the woods. That's all there was to the oil well. They went to work again, and put the drill down so far that it seemed some Chinaman must surelj grab it and pull it into his back yard, but they never got another smell of gas nor any more sign of oil than if they had bored into tho walls of tho Astor House. That ono grand burst of imprisoned gas exhausted the whole business, and the Stannard's Corners oil-well passes into oil-region history as about tho only one that ever went dry without there being a drop of oil in it to go dry." V. Y. Suit. A WITNESS POWER. Need of the Oath In the Various Courts of Justice. I would abolish all oaths of oflice, or "promissory" oaths. Tho only value of these, as it seems to me, lies in their setting forth tho nature and the duties of tho ofiico undertaken, and thus im pressing these on the mind of the per son undertaking it. But this end would equally be attained by a declar ation, while tho failure to discharge these duties is now guarded against by ample powers of dismissal. There is, in short, but one class of oaths which I would retain namelv, those taken in courts of justice or in those legal pro cesses which arc connected with such courts affidavits, sworn interroga tories and the like. And I would do so because a court of justice is the one and only placo I know of where a pow er beyond all legal restraint, or at least beyond all immediate legal restraint or prevention, still remains, and therefore still needs all the checks upon the ex ercise that wc can devise. No barbar ian warrior with his foe at his feet, no baron of the middlo ages, with dun geon keep and right of pit and gallows, ever possessed more tremendous power than that which is nowadays possessed by the witness or tho jurymen m a court of law. A word from his mouth may consign an innocent man to the gibbet or to life-long imprisonment; may strip him in a moment of all his pos sessions or blast him with a social out lawry as terrible :is the terrors of the excommunication of old. Againstsuch a power as this wo do well still to take all the security that an oath can givo us. For this reason, and for this alone, would I, while abolishing all, or nearly all, other oaths, retain this only. It is the only one which seems to me to completely fulfill the conditions which make oath-taking expedient or even morally right. Contemporary lieview. CUPID'S PRANKS. The l'rctty anil Kiu-ouraglug Ko:nunce of a Co il Mote. One day last fall, after talking until his throat was sore, a Detroit stove dealer succeeded in selling a widow a coal stove, but it was with the proviso that if ever thing didn't work satis factorily ho was to make it. Two days after delivering tho stove he got his first call. A boy entered the store and said: "Mrs. wants j'ou to come up and fix that stove. The house is full of smoke." A man was sunt up, and he found the trouble to bo with the chimney. Only three or four days had passed when the boy came in again and said: "That stove is puffing and. blowing and scaring tho widow to death. She wants the same man lo come up again." He was sent, and it was discovered that she didn't know how to arrange the dampers and drafts. Every thing seemed to run well for a week, and then tho boy walked in to announce: "She sent me down to have you send that man up again. The house is full of coal gas. The man went up and applied the remedy, but inside of three days the stove got to puffins; two days after that the fire wouldn't draw; then it drew too much: then gas escaped again. At length the dealer went to the-housc and said: "Madam, j-ou gave me thirty dollars for the stove; how much will you take for it?" "I wouldn't sell it." "But I can't be sending my man up here every two or three days all win ter." J "You won't have to. I've concluded to marry him in order to have some one here in case of accident." And three days ago they were quietly and happily married. Detroit Free Press. Mr. John W. Mackay's grandson, called the "young Prince Colonna,' was christened in grand style at a cost of six hundred dollars, which, says the New York World, i said to be more than the child's father receives in a v car for serving an an officer in the Italian army. YavmTisuie . - . ' ETBmaiMMs and prolMaioaaloarda of fivallnasor lM,px , ! dollars. - 931 For time adTcrtlMatHta, apply at this offica. S23Legal advrtisBiBts at statat fates- CSTFor transient adTsrtlalaf rates on third page. 23TAU advertlseeaeaf payable monthly. ;, PERSONAL AND LITERARY. Lotta, the actress, has a penchant for bestowing diamond rings on her friends. Chicago Journal. Michael. Gordon, a widower of forty, was married to Annie Hawley, a girl of twelve, inNbw York-recently. "How to Be Happy Though Mar ried," is the alarming title of a volume that has been presented ta Princess Beatrice. Judge Samuel Lumpkin, of Lex ington, Ga., says for tho last five years ho has never lain down at night owing any man a cent He pays cash for everything. Dr. Harvey Lindsly, prcsldont ot tho Princeton Alumni Association of Washington, is eighty-three yoars of age, and tho only survivor of the class of 1820. William Mitchell, of Milford, Pa., has just discovered that an old packago of Mexican bonds which have served as playthings for his-chiklrea for yoars are worth over one hundred thousand dollars. Pittsburgh Post. Joel Chandler Harris ("Unole Remus") is himself actually an African by birth, for ho was born at Joel, on tho northeast coast of Africa, while his parents wero engaged, in missionary labor in that country. Chicago Trib une. Mmc. Patti at Vienna received on the stago a gift in tho form of a tree, the branches of which wero interlaced with a golden chain, each link of which boro in diamonds tho name of an opera in which the prima donna had ap peared. Ceremonious and statelv as sho has become in later life, Queen Victoria re tains tho fondness for children that was such a marked feature of her early years, and sho keeps a record of the bright sayings and doings of tho little ones that come to hor notice. Leonard J. Thomas, of Salisbury Cove, in the town of Eden, Mb., being over eighty years old, is probably tho oldest postmaster in tho United States. Ho has held tho ofiico almost continual ly for nearly half a century, under tho different Administrations, and has nev er changed his polities, being an old fashioiied Democrat. Boston Post. Thero is not a school-boy or a school-girl who docs not feel that Bos ton is a better city to dwell in be cause Dr. Oliver H. 'Holmes lives in it, and tho semi-publicity of his later days gives something of tho radiance of Kis old age to tho atmosphere of a city which Is proud to call him its oldest, if not its only poet. Boston Herald. " Huxley and Tyndall," says tho manager of a literary svndicate, "will never write any thing for publication unless they havo something to say. I havo tried them many a time, and with good offers of money, too, but always unsuccessfully. Thoy care too much for their famo. But when they havo any thing to say they are ready "to say it, and to charge forit, too." Tom Ochiltree says: "Of all tho wealthy men I ever knew, John W. Mackay, the Bonanza king, is tho best diner. Every day while here in New York he has" six plates spread in a private dining-room in the Hoffman House, and friends who drop in are in vited to partake of that which does their hearts good. I suppose Mr. Mnc kav spends irom sixty to ono hundred dollars every day for his evening meal, and it is as line as can be pro cured. Next to him comes Roliert Garrett. Ho knows how to cat nnd can order as lino a meal for as reason able a prieo as any man I ever knsw." HUMOROUS. "Hello! old man! How did "you come to fall down?" "Huh! Couldn't fall in any other direction, could I?" Philadelphia Press. A young lady should not allow her head to be turned by flattery, but if a new bonnet passes her on tho street she may turn It a little. N. O. Ptc ayunc. American "What do the letters H. II. II. mean when applied to the Prince of Wales?" Englishman "Such bloomink hignornnco! 'Is Rovai Ighncss, d'yo see?" N. Y. Sun. Puritanism has so permoatod soma of our rural communities that a gentle man was recently invited to leave a town on the Manitoba road on account of his "winning wavs." Ho was a gambler. St. Paul ifcruld. In speaking of the high price of eggs, a Boston paper sagely says, "eggs are eggs." This takes a great load from our manly breast, for wo sup- Sosod all along that they were beans. loomi nylon Eye. Time to Leave "Why arc you so very shy?" he asked, tenderly; "surely you are not afraid to look mo in tho face?" "No, George," she replied, un easily, as ominous sounds came from tho room above, "but just now I am looking the clock in the face." Puck. "Little Johnnv(toMcrrit) "Won't you take me fisliing with you some day?" Mcrrit (surprised) "Why, I never go fishing." Little Johnny, (as though he had got him cold) "Oh.ycs, you do. Cora told me the other day that you wero always fishing for com pliments." The Judge. xV Smart Girl Esmeralda Long cofiin "I believe, Mr. McGinnis. that vou think I am a stupid creature. ' Hostettcr McGinnis "Oh, no, nothing of the kind.. Nobody can be called stupid who can so accurately divine tho thoughts of another as you have douo mine." 1'exas Sifliflgs. Young Mrs. Vassarline: "You are 3urc this is real English breakfast tea, Mr. Groscr?" "Oh, yes, wc warrant it." "Well, I'll take a pound if you arc sure. Our visitors are from Lon don, and I should bo dreadfully morti fied to givo them Japan tea by mis take." Chicago Tribune. It does one good to see the lolly fat man sneeze. He throws back his massive shoulders, opens his cavernous mouth to its fullest capacity, shuts both eyes and fairly raises the dead with his "ah-schoo! ah-schoo! ah-schoo! Tid-Bit3. Two gentlemen were recently dis puting over the correct pronunciation of the wonl "either." One was positive that it was ec-thcr, while the other was equally positivo that it was i-ther. It was agreed to refer it to a man eloso bv, find he confounded them both by saying, "Bedad. it's naythcr, for it's ayther." Ar. Y Ledger. Ono of tec brethren, who had a habit of moaning out "Orh, y-c-s!" at regular intervals during the service, was rather broken up on Sunday night. He had just wakened up whon the preacher asked the solemn question. "Brother, do you intend to spend eternity in hell?" "O-h y-e-s!" sang wit Uip devoted brother. Ilunntvr PutL .m ..-