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T County Clerk lima 85 JOTTRNAL. J .' i ; tATKS Or.ATEHTIilN r 1 . ISSUED EVKBT WEDNESDAY, Bmsiness aad profaasioaalcarda of fiTIiBsor lsa,pr annual, Ht dollars. M "ST For time ad vertlsemaats, apply at this offlce. ETLagal advertiseaeata at atatata rates- TSTTox transitBt adTertiaUg, aa rates on third page. QT All adTartiaasaanta payable monthly. &AA roprietori and Publishers. OFFICE.--Eleventh-Jit., tj stairs urnal Jlu tiding. xkkmb: rear -onths VOL. XVI.--N0. J. r : months .. so 5 C0LDMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY, APKl'L 28, 1886. WHOLE NO. 833. e copies ' v -8 h : i W --; mmibjji (lulmnbns uarnat tCOLUMBUS ATE BANK! COLUMBUS, NEB. H CAPITAL, - $75,000 DIRECTORS: nder Geubabd, Pros' I. eo. W. IIulst, Vice Prcs't. Julius A. Heed. It. IL Henky. J. E. Taskeu, Cashier. laak or lepolt, ltKCont Exchange UectionM Promptly Hln.de Point,. ly Intercut m Time Wcpw. 274 ENRY LUERS, DKALKK IN IND MILLS, AND PUMP . Ikeye Mower, combined, Self Binder, wire or twine. Ips Repaired on short notice Onc door west of Iloiutz's Drug i, llth Street, Columbus, eb. 8 HENRY G-ASS. DERTAKEK! rlXS AND MKTALLW CASES AND DEALKU IS llture, Chairs, Bedsteads, Bu reaus. Tables. Safes. Lounges, &c. Picture Frames and Mouldings. 'Repairing of all kinds of Upholstery COLIIMIU'H. NEK. USE ALLS Vt getablo Sicilian HAIR ENEWER It U a medicinal preparation, and, at same tinio, an elegant and cleanly toibt Irle. Its action upon the scalp is heallh- It nourishes the glands which support i hair, and causes thin, dry hair to be ne thick, soft, and vigorous. It restores color of Touth to locks which have Dme faded with age or disease; and eves aud cures itching, caused by iors of the scalp. Dr. George Gra', fcb.ua, X. II., writes: "It gives mc SMirc to testify to the wonderful effects luced hv Ilall's Vegetable Sicilian Hair " wcr, as observed by me in very many s. It will certainly restoke : IIAIi: TO ITS OIUGIXAL COLOH. It aucs the head of dandruff, and leaves l Lair soft, glossy, and beautiful." F. T. hJheiu, 1010. Spruce st., Philadelphia, k writes: "Alter unavailmgly trying lumber of preparations to prevent my from falliug out, and, realizing that I fast becoming bald, I tried, as a last ' art, nail's Hair Eencwer. I have used ly four bottles of the Itcncwcr, and am rfectly satisfied that it is the best prepa id! in the market -for checking the ling out of hair, invigorating the hair )t, and promoting a new growth.' uckingham's Dye TOR THE WHISKERS umiends itself to aft who have occasion tie a dvo for the beard or mustache. will change cray, faded, or sandy Inkers to a beautiful brown or black, dehircd. Tlie colors produced arc kural and Ixstin. It cannot he wa-died I. contains no destructive ingredients, Hicaji, afe, convenient to me, and Mual. I'BEPARED BY P. HALL &, CO., Kashua, H. H., V. 8. A. Sold l)vll di-.-I'r-. in inediewes. FARMER'S HOME. pis House, recently purchased by mc, I will 1m thoroughly refitted. Board he day, week or meal. A few rooms pi; A share of the punuc pairou-ic -uciiea. teea stauie iu cuuuclhuh. Albkkt Littii. U4LYON&HEALY State & Monroe Sts.. Chicago. W Ulrcnd prmU to aay a-IrrastLlr for lft&S, -0 jutfes 210 tAfrmvinCi Iff ImtrumcnU, SaUt, Caps lilu AHn CATALUUUfe. I a Siama rwM trm. Ct.ir. and vromDML Eimnltl. UBumi"l n&ta, Iar.lrT iUBd Uatnu, itrr- patrfc for Am&ttr lWnW mtkl ft -nu, ffl laciuiia tituiui iH -"- e'CUfeatUnd Static, T)T) "T r7TH Sc,,d 8lx cents for J Mi I j fii postage.and receive ff whichwill help you tomorenaoney t Jffjr linn onvll.Inrr' ulsn in thlH I'U. All nf AitliAr nv alli'PPPll frORl liour. The broad road to fortune m bbbW before the workers, absolutely At nil Pa sHrlvoaa TmiK . Co.. THE HUMORIST. Be write of all beneath the Sun; Of ereirtlUuKln earth and air. He 6plns lii.s screed of mirth and fan; The plumber always gets his share; lie Jests at what wceat and wear, And cmcks his jokes in raewy glco, lto Uefpstodnvoaway dqtl9ire, -'ftciibach the fiprcadine chestnut-ireol ; Ho strikes at follies, every one Tho lover, and tbe-maUden fair, Hie fHther, and'tholntant son, Tho sliinjnff pates, the heads of ha!r. Ills sath-e have they oil to bear; Hfl8 restless as the-busy boo. And hunts the iceman to his lair. Beneath the spread inschcstnuWree I No end oi columns has he spun, And there Is naught he does not dare: un spills his ink scad mmdath none ft o, not a mortal does ho spare, The trato parent's boding plare, The rounderon his nightly spree. The j outh who by tho moon doth swear. All 'ncnth tho spreading chestnut-tree I ENVOI. What has this funny man not done? What is there that he does not 6ce, In hoary jest or ajfi-d pun, ltcnacth the spreading cbostnu t-troe? 1 - TitmiU. DICK WAKRiSGTON. How and "Wliy Ho Offered Up His "Wortuless" Life. lie had been a gentleman once, and a scholar, who had won honors at Cam bridge, and was regarded as one of the best men in a college at that time unu sually rich in promise. He had just seen one familiar companion of his in the old days pass into the New Law Cathedral, outside whose gates he was lounjnnjr. Tho famous judge gave a glance at the disreputable loafer as he went by, but never recognized him; if he had done so, he would probably have spoken, for he was a kindly-hearted man. But this very fact made the reprobate more bit ter. If his old friend had cut him, there would have been some ground for de- claiming ajrainst the hollowness of man kind; but Dick Warrington knew well enough that he himself had sunk out of recognition, and one'sjown worthless ncss is not' so cheering asubjccfcbf med itation aa the worthlessness of other people. He pondered over neither but -only gazed moodily after the retreating figure of his old-comrade, and then turned and sautered into Long Acre. lie was Hear ing his lodgings; they lay in a dingy court half a mile away when it occurred to him-that he had forgotten hi; mis sion. Tie had come out, witli tlie idle good'iiature that seldom deserted him, to buy wine for his landlady's-husband ding, the doctors .said, of consump tion. Dick's quarlerh pay had just arrived from the Jlcnrlh. for he contributed, to that shady serial, which is a ba.se imitation of the 'Family Ih raid with r.one of its virtue.-, and with all its vices. "Thr 'family Herald, indeed, has few vices: ror it is an excellent periodi cal, and you may obtaifi-Jirom the editor, for nothing, advice on any earth ly subject you choose to consult him up on, which advice will always be terse and deitnite.and improving. Also you may find essays on politics and social science therein, it you are intellectual essays that inspire one with a wish that the editor of the Family Hcrald,wcrc happily controlling the destines of our empire instead of the too patriotic cliques which control it at present. While, as for the tales but this is no place to rhapsodize, even over the Family Herald. Warrington was on the staff of the Social Hearth, which is. as everybody knows. a foolish and vulgar periodical, whose "criticism of life" is riot worth towpence. It paid very badly; but he contributed more or less to several other journals, of which Bow Bells was the most respectable. It was a marvel howhe with' his talent could write badly enough to suit some of these editors. He said it -took practice; but on the whole ho snececded admirably, and the stories and articles he furnished to the public showed better than .anything else how far he had fallen. And yet there was a battered remnant of nobil ity about 'him, hardly conscious of its own existence. As "some old picture may lie long in a 'dark lumber room hidden behind great masses of rubbish, till a kindly hand opens the shutter, lets in the fresh air and the sunshine, and disperses the piled-up lumber, a chance touch shakes away the covering from the forgotten picture, scatters its dusty veil, and, hardly dimmed bo xcars, its beauty fleams into the light again, so the "spiritual virtuoso may come across strango treasure-trove, acts of chivalry, of self-forgctfulness in the most unexpected quarter. Dick, bought the; wine and returned leisurely to Iris lodgings. He stole up tiously up the dark, crooked stairs into the narrow passage, and as he traversed it a strange thing happened. Through tho venerablo ancient air of a London lodging house that landladies always seem to fancy improves wkh keeping and, indeed, it does acquire a certain fine mellowness wherein, are combined tlie essences of many- different odors there came to him the .scent, of helio trope. With it returned the aicmory of a day when his sister had been to visit him "at college, and with iier one of her friends, a beautiful light-hearted girl whom Dick had cared for with a tran sient bovish passion. He had bought boquets for them, and among the flow ers he gave to his sister's friends was a sprig of the dim, gray-purple blossom. He did not pause to wonder why the old scent came back to him in this widely different atmosphere, but, pass ing on, entered the invalid's room. Mrs. Hartley was not there, but he saw, standing at the bedside, a -girl dressed in the garb of a "private sisterhood, with a cluster of flowers at her brooch. Her fignre.was slender andt graceful, and he could see readily enough that she was a ladv. i His'-acqnaintance in cluded several;women who had taken the "craze for humanity and typhus fever,"'aa he irreverently expressed it, and Iris Enderby's presence did not astonish him, though he noted her beauty with pleasure. The hair was the deep browm that has gleams of rnd dier color, and her eyes were clear and honest, and regarded one with a very steady and fearless glance. ,Sho turned her head as Dick entered and took him in completely, so he fancied, in about a second. There was nothing imperti nent in her scrutin3 bnt much that was painful to a man whose inner life had never been intended to bear investiga tion. Insight to character is all very well for the people who have tlie insight, but it is sometimes trying to the un Jucky character.andjjso Dick felt as rather defiantly 'be' met IriTEnderby's gl?Shc thinks,- he said inwf ruly-that lam one of the people it wdl not do to encourage. The girl had formulated no opinion so distinctly; but yet his guess "was not far from the truth. For there was no denying that Dick with his battered costume, liis rather dingy hands, and tho reckless devil-may-care expression on a faco grown coarse that had once been handsome, looked a dis reputable character, with whom a refin ed girl could have nothing in common. Therefore Iris withdrew her eyes with calm indifference, and went on meas uring somo medicinal compound. Her face, with the indiscribablo air ef fearless innocence about it that somo faces will wear to tho end, awoko in Dick a novel sense of embarrassment. Ho hesitated, but the desire to speak to her was too strong, and he crossed over to the Invalid's side. "Con I bo of any use?" he asked po litely. "No, thank you, said tho girl a trifle coldly; but her voice was very pleasant and musical. "Mrs. Hartley will be hero jiresently.' She turned. a paasmg glance on him as sbo spoke, distrustful and yet indifferent. But Dick paid no heed to tho restraint; he spoke again, warming to tho old man ner. "I have brought him some wine," he said, in a careless undertone, dis burthening his hands as he spoke. "I thought it would be needed, and they have very little money. You see I havo lodged hero now for two years, and I am sorry ho has broken down. There is no hope, I suppose?" he added, in a yet more guarded voice, though the paucnt was sleeping heavily. The girl turned again, and looked him full in the face. He fancied he could trace in her eyes some regret for having judged him too harshly, and her voice was more cordial, though in all her intonations when she spoko to him, then and afterward, he thought thero was a suspicion of disdain. He never blamed her, and ho knew instinctively that if his old social standing had still been his, that clement in her voice would havo been rather more pro nounced. "There is very littlo hopo, I am afraid," she said gravely. "Has Mrs. Hartley any friends who can help her? The doctor said he would require con stant care." "She has been earning for them both for some time," said Dick, 4tand her hands are full already. I do not think she has any friends who are likely to bo of any use. If over vou are in need of a helping hand I hope you will rely upon mc. I can easily sit up with him at nights and noverfeel it" And, indeed, he looked as if he were so used to sitting up all night that a few additional times would make no difference to him. "Thank you," said Iris, and was si lent again. The real or imagined ha teurinher voice annoyed Dick unac countably. "Unless you are too fastidious," he said, in a sndden tone of bitterness that astounded himself, "to take help at tho hands of a poor blackguard like me." The girl looked at him with a strango blending of compassion and repugnance in her eyes. "You could have been a renUeman if you had wished,", she said, calmly, "ff you are what you choose to be, wny blame me for taking you at your own valuation?" There was something terribly and relentless about her words, true and Dick winced under them as the most violent reproaches had ceased to make him wince. "Thank j'on,' ho said. "You show me what I have to suspect from people of a higher moral standard. And yet what right havo you to assume that I am worthless?" "It is your own appetite,' she re turned tranquilly. "But forgivo me to a certain extent men write their char acters in their faces." . Dick nearly swore a heavy oath, but he checked himself just in time, and spoke in tones of exceeding suavity. "What excellent discrimination you have! Then you havo ascertained that my characters too far gone to allow of my associating with -ou, to however small an extent, in a work of mercy." A half smile broke ovor the girl's face, faint and transient, and yet it lit up the whole countenance and softened its youthful austerity. "I did not say that," she returned, relcntingly. "Who am I that I should look with scorn on any human being?" (This, by tho way, she should have thought of before.) "Indeed, if you care to give it, I believe that we shall be grateful for your help." "Thank -you," said Dick, his anger melting as incomprehensibly as It had arisen "I am at your service." He sat up that night with Hartley, fulfilling mechanically whatever offices were required of him, but thinking very little of the invalid and a good deal about Iris Enderby and his own social status. He fell to drawing the most in vidious comparisons between himself and his old companions, who had walked in the light as persistently as he had walked in the darkness; between himself and his own relatives, leading unimpeachable, if prosaic, lives in tho West End. When he gave place to Mrs. Hartley and slept at last, it was to dream of bishops, prayer books and church institutes, ovcry thing calculated to awaken a senso of sneaking de ficiency, and he woke still drawing in vidious comparisons between himself and all of them. If Iris Enderby was to have this startling effeot on his moral nature, he thought the less he saw of her the better; accordingly, ho fell into a long and interesting speculation as to whether sho could ever be persuaded to tolerate him. He would find out. There passed five strange, wild weeks, the most miserable, the most rapturous in Diek's life. It is not nleasant for a man to be scorned, knowing that he de serves scorn; but before a week was over Warrington was so madly in love with Iris Enderby that he thought he would rather be scorned by hor than worshiped bv any other woman. He did his utmost, humbly and porsistently, to win her toleration. To do him jus tice, it was always her toleration, never her love. Dick had most of the vices in the calendar; but there was no cold blooded calculation about him, and but little self-conceit He knew that he had nothing to do with Iris Enderby, yet he was fain to conciliate her by word or action, by the delicate courtesies that please women. He had'been a gentle man once, he said bitterly to himself; ho would try to fall into the old ways again for the last time. It was easier than he had thought. But Iris never changed. She was al ways courteous, sometimes kindly; but the look of scorn iu her eyes seemed to Warrington s embittered vision never to pass away. For five weeks he saw her daily deft, tranquil, gentle, the light of that dark time; at the end of those weeks Hartley died. His death was sudden at the last, and only Warrington and his wife were with him. Iris, who was to have watch ed that night, came aa hour later. When entered with flowers in her hands. for she had brought fresh ones every day to please the invalid, Warrington was alone in the room. A dull pain was Upon him, heavier than his grief for the dead man, tho hard, bitter conscious ness that ho should see Irra no more. He rose as she entered, and though ho did not speak his look warned her of the truth; and she glanced hastily at tho quiet face on the pillow. Her lips quiv ered, and the roses dropped from her hands and wore scattered, spots of gjowing color on the dingy floor. War rington, hardly knowing what ho did, fell on his knees and began gathering them up, with a wild longing to speak at all hazards, to call her his saint, his divinity. "Give mc a rose," he said, huskily. The guTs voice faltered as she ans wered him; but it had a ring of indigna tion in it that touched him to the quick. "This is no time to talk of roses, sho said passionately. "Oh, yon do not understand," ho ex claimed hotly. "You have no pity for the living." He did not glance up as he spoke, or ho would have seen a strange look pass ctfer her face. It passed like a shadow was gone; sho turned away, and tho next moment he heard her 'voice, all sympathy, speaking to Mrs. Hartley. Then, feeling like an arrant coward, ho slunk back to his own room. Iris left an hour later. Some rela tives of Mrs. Hartley's had come, and she could do little more. Dick reap peared as she was quitting the house, to offer his services as escort "Thank you," she said, not unkindly, but with quiet decision. "I would rather walk alone." "It is very late," urged Dick. "I am not nervous," she said in a cool tone of dismissal, and lie fell back. But he was not to bo baffled" so easily. Iris might walk solitary if she liked; but 6he could not prevent his following at a suitablo distance, at all events, till she reached the main street He took no pains to keepiiider cover, for he was reckless, and-,' indeed, had she turned, his tall figure and careless gait would infallibly havo betrayed him. But whether or not some "instinct warned her of the truth, I can not tell; but she never cast a glance behind, not even when her quick footsteps brought her into an alley rather too riotous for her liking, twice. and he saw her hesitate once or But further on. when they en tered Garrick street, ho himself hastily lessened the distance between them, for things were beginning to look ominous. Half a dozen sailors, Britisli aud foreign, but all drunk, and all very much ex cited, had just poured out of one of the worst public houses in the quarter, and were commencing a free light among themselves. A little throng gathered, cursing and cheering, and obstructing the pathway, and Iris stonned. a irood deal frightened. Dick noted one police man on the extreme outskirts of the disturbance leisurely whistling for help, and then it all happened in an instant a drunken Lascar broke out of the throng and caught Iris by the arm. She uttered a low cry. Tlie next moment tbat LMu-ww.lpnR on the pavement, to which Dick had flung him with per haps unnecessary force. Not for long. He was up again, with a demonical look of rage'on his face, and he sprung at Dick like a wild beast Something Hashed in the crimsoa tavern lights. Then, as in a wild dream, tho throng melted away, with fierce cries and ejaculations, and Iris was kneeling at Dick Warrington's side chafing his hands. There was a surgeon standing by and one or two constables, looking down compasionately on the prostrate figure, and some one had said: "There is no hope." For the Lascar's aim was not made false by passion, and he had struck at the heart A strange and wild dream, a life thatshc had tried to scorn, passing away for her sake into the darkness. Dick seemed to wake from a heavy sleep, with the sound of the sea in his ears as it thundered against far distant rocks. Stay, was it the sea or the tumult of the great city? The city was growing silent now, wrapt in an ever-deepening tranquility. Then memory came back to him; he knew what had come to pass: knew that he was dying. With a pang of regret at first, but when he raised his eyes, and saw Iris Euderbj's face bending over him, he was well content. It w:is as colorless as his own; but there was a new expression mingled with its intenl ness, a look that ho had dreamed of seeing there, but had never thought to see in walking life, that touched him with a vague fear. This is good of you," he said, faint- "I think it will not be for long." Can vou foririve me?" said the crirl iy- in a low "voice. "You have laid down L vour life for me." Dick looked at her with amazed eyes. The surgeon had turned away; the two constables were speaking to each other in husky undertones. "What have I got to forgive?" he asked, wonderingly. "But I will never forget you. Ah. I wish my life hail been worth your taking! A poor, poor failure! If I had known you sooner, I might have had the heart to begin again; but I lost hope early God knows why. You will never let ft trouble you, this happy fate of mine?" "It will trouble me," she said, slow ly, "all my life." "Ah, no: he said, eagerly; and in that instant a strange look of nobility irradiated his face, a look it had not known for many a year. "Forget it. I am not worth- of one regretful thought from you. Indeed, indeed, I am not worthy. And how could it end more happily? For if I had lived I should have sunkyet lower, and now I am not wholly ba'e." He paused. His words were growing incoherent "And you will give mc the heliotrope you arc wearing to take into the dark ness, and I never shall be lonely." "1 have no heliotrope," said the girl clearly, though she shivered in the August night, "but I will give you a rose." The rose she had worn was drooping now. She laid it in his hand; then stooping suddenly she kissed his fore head with a Ion anft. kttlu A linrlit flashed into his face, and au expresion so brief, so transient, she never knew whether it had been of joy or pain. Then all grew dim. For years after there was one street that neyer echoed to Iris Enderby's footsteps; but now, of all dreary haunts in London, she loves Crarrick street the best, and the children have learned to wait for her coming there, with out stretched hands, and the scent of helio trope as she passes floats on the heavy air. May Kendall, Longminmi's Mag azine. ., w.w ....-. .. .aa.w A mince-pie as big as the- head of a barrel and four or five inches thick vas served at a dinner recently, but the size of the dreams of the guesU u Rot recorded. Chicago Time. National Bank! OK COLUMBUS. NEB. HAS AN Authorized Capital of $250,000, A Surplus Fund of - $15,000, And the largest Paid ia C tisU 'ap- itul of any bank iu this part of the State. SSJ-Dcposits received and interest paid ou time deposits. ISTDrafts on the principal cities in this country aud Europe bought aud sold. ESTColIcction? and all other business given prompt and careful attention. S1OCKII0LDKKS. AN DKRSOX, Pre'. SAM'L C. SMITH, Vice Prcs't. O.T.ltOKN, Cashier. .1. 1. UECKEU. IIEUMAX OEIILKICH, (J. SCUUTTE, AV. A. ilcALLISTEK, JONAS WELCH, JOHN V EARLY, I'.ANDlMtSON, G.AXDEUSON. Apr2S-'SGtf BUSINESS CARDS. 1).T. ilAiirvx, 31. D. F. .1. Schuo, 31. D. Drd. MAETYN & SCHTJO, 1. 8. Examining Surgeons, Local Surjreons. Union Pacific, O., N. &1J. II. and II. .t 31. It. It's. Consultations iu German and English. Telephones at ollice and residences." ESTOllieo on Olive street, next to Brod feuhrer's Jewelry Store. COLUMBUS, - NEBRASKA. 42-y TTT Itl. CORNELIUS, LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE. Upstairs Erubt building llth street. oullivax At ki:edi:k, ATTOIiXEYS AT LAW, Ollice over First bus, Nebraska. National Hank, Colmn-50-tf C. i. i:va;w, 9i. ., PHYSICIAN AND SUHGEON. J57"0!licc and rooms, Gluck building, llth ttrcci. Telephone communication. TTAJlISl'O: MEADE,.D., I'll Y.S1 CIA N A ND S UR GEON, IMattc Center, Xcbraska. !-y HOMCEOPATHIST. Chronic Diseases and Diseases of Children a. Specialty. 3J37"Olliee on Olive street, three doors north of Kiit National Hank. 2-ly TT -B. aalllMOn, NOTARY PUBLIC, 2 Mi Street,'.! doom nest of Huramonil House, Columbus, Neb. 4'Jl-y iiioxKi: to t.Oirv. Five years time, on improved farms with at feast one-fourth the acreage under cultivation, in sums representing one third the fair value of the homestead. Correspondence solicited. Address, 31. K. TURN Ell, T0.y Columbus, Nebr. lircALMSTEK BROS., l TTOIWEYS A T LA W, Ollice upstair in iug. llth St. W. A. Public. McAllister's build McAllister, Notary J. M. MACFAKLAND, Att:rC7MllT:Ur7?sM e. B. It. COWDERY, Collictcr. LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE OF MACF&RLAND& COWDBR7, Columbiws, : : : Nebraska. JOHN c.. II mo INS. C. J. KAKLOW, Collection Attor-.ey HIGGINS & GAEL0W, ATT011NEYS-AT-LAW, Specially Garlow, made of Collections by :ji- c. Ill Tp 1I.K1ISCHE, llth St., opposite Lindell Hotel. Sells Harness, Saddles, Collars, "Whips, lilunkclx, Curry Combs, Brushes, trunks, valises, buggy" tops, cushions, carriage trimmings, A:o., at the lowest possible prices. Repairs promptly attended to. TAJIKS SA-LHO:, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER. Plans and estimates supplied for cither frame or brick buildings. Good work guaranteed. Shop on 13th Street, near St. Paul Lumber Yard, Columbus, Ne- braska. 52(mo. "1Atlllti:L'Ll A, CO. PKALEKS I!f- Rao-s and Iron ! "a The highest market price paid for rags and iron. Store in the Bubach building, Olive St., Columbus, Neb. 15-tf J. S. MURDOOK & SON, Carpenters and Contractors. Havebadau 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 tunitytoestimateforyou. "QTShop on 13th St., one door west of Friedhof & Co's.ntore, ColumbUH. Nebr. 483-v R. C. BOYD, MANUFACTURER OF Tin and Sheet-Iron Ware ! Job-Work, Hoofing and Gutter ing a Specialty. "QTShop on Olive Street, 2 doors north of Urodfeuhrcr's Jewelry Store. 32-tf THE IRREPRESSIBLE BARNUM. He Will Be on Haad sad His Plans Car rlcd Oat According to Programme Am Enormous Aggregation. "This," said J. L. Hutchinson at the Madison Square Garden on Saturday, "is tho sixth year of tlie compact bind ing together P. T. Barnum's 'Greatest Show on Earth1 and tho 'Great London Circus,' and they are to make a tour of tho Western States until the fall, when tho whole show will bo shipped to Europe for a tour. The people of Europe never saw an American show, one that owns its own railroad cars and puts up and takes down twenty-six tents covering ten acres of ground in one hour and iorty-five minutes. Since the consolidation of these shows we liavo gone on from season to season constantly adding to the various de partments and consequently increasing our monoy investment and making a proportionate advance in our daily ex penses, but it is all justified bv our growing receipts. Our expenses each day arc now nearly 87,000, while our capital invested in properties, etc, is fully $4,000,000. With such a largo amount at stake we must keep faith with the public in all matters, and we eould no more afford to jeopardize our business prospects than a merchant or baker or head of any other immense mercantile business who has millions of invested capital. "To give you an idea of how our show has increased. I may say that formerly we carried our show in twenty railroad cars. Xow we use eighty of our own specially constructed cars, making one train a mile long, besides seven adver tising cars. Our pay roll contains 800 names and our expenses last season were 1,038.000. We employ about 200 men in advance in all capacities. This year our exhibition will be similar in the main to that of last season. We shall have three rings, an elevated stage, a museum of living wonders, a Roman hippodrome, two double menageries, an aviary, an internation al congress of giants and giantesses, with Chang and many others, and midgets headed by Lucia Zarate, be sides Mile. Christini, the double-headed girl, Arabs, European specialists, jum bo's skeleton and skin, and Alice. Jum bo's widow, and a herd of elep1 nts. I can truthfully say that this year show will be the biggest and best we ever had." X. V. Tribune. A RAILROAD INCIDENT. Kxtremrljr F.ivomlde Conditions for Which tho Conductor Was Waiting. One evening a passenger on a Da kota "mixed" train got disgusted at tlie rate at which they were progress ing. He was very anxious to get lb his place of destination. It was so dark and he was so little acquainted with the country that iie did not care to get oil' ami walk so he called the i-ondm-tor over and said: "See here, aren't we going slower than usual?" "Yis. st HtLlo." "I suppo-c you have an engine hitched on the front end all right enough?" "Yes. of course there's a locomotive on the train." "I am very glad to hear it is a loco motive. 1 was beginning to think per haps it was a stationary engine. "No, it's a locomotive, but you see we are going up grade." "How long is the grade?" "'Bout six miles." The passenger settled back in his scat and soon dropped into a light sleep while the conductor went for ward and began the transfer of coin from the company's pocket in his coat to his own private safe deposit pocket in his pantaloons. After a half hour or so the passenger was awakened by the motion of the car and started up to find it running very rapidly. He was very much pleased and went over to the conductor and said: "Ah, got up motion at last" "Yes." "This is more like it, guess I'll get through after all." "Yes, we are running about forty miles an hour." "As fast as that? Why in thunder don't you run that way all the time?" "Well, we generally do under the same conditions." "Conditions? What are they?" "Why, you see our train broke in two just before we got to the top of the grade and this car and the four box cars just ahead of it are .running back. We'll be at tho foot of the grade in about five minutes, and I expect to meet a freight train just beyond and I'm making calculations on that stop- ping us, if we don't jump the track before." Eslcllinc (D. T.) Bell. ENGLISH POVERTY. Underfed School-Children and tho Iuttt tution Organized for Their Relief. To meet the case of poor, underfed school-children there has for some time past been a prctt- general movement in England for getting up for such warm, wholesome and so far abundant dinners for a penny. This enterprise can not be said to have failed, but it could not meet the case of those, all too numerous, who can not secure the necessary coin. In order then to be friend this still lower .stratum, the half penny dinner has been established at Birmingham, and, we are assured, it is not only doing a great deal of good, but is actually, as far as it has gone, a financial success. Each child has the choice of hot milk and bread, or thick soup with bread. As a second course the little diner has a piece of bread with either cheese or jam. It seems frohi experience that milk or jam are the favorite dishes with poor children. The soup is of such a quality that it is popular with the ladies and gentlemen who com prise the voluntary staff". Tickets are sold to charitable ladies and gentlemen at one dollar and twenty-five cents per nunureu, leaving something of a mar gin for working expenses. These tickets are distributed among the poor children to whom penny dinners are unattainable luxuries. It is sad enough that there should, in what is called "Merrie England," be so many school-children so underfed tliat even a half-penny dinner is be yond their means. Most people may be inclined to think that there is no such pitiably abject poverty in Canada. We hope there is not; but it is not quite at all an established fact that no such dinners could with us, even, find customers. We venture, on tlie con trary, to say that not a few in this very city, and these adults as well aa children, would be only too glad to avail themselves of such cent dinners, and that not from stinginess, but ab solute need.--T0rote Ulobe. COLUMBUS Roller Mills! SBBQEB BUS., fnpriitort. manukactuhkks OF Moiir, Feed, Bran, Shorts And Meal, AND DBALKRS IX All Kinds Grain. OUR FLOUR BRANDS: "WAY UP," Patent, "IMPERIAL," "BIG 4," "SPREAD EAGLE." Wo guarantee our flour to be equal to any flour manufactured in tho state. We call the attention of the public to the fact that we make a specialty of ex changing flour, bran aud shorts for wheat, as good flour and as much of it as any other mill in this part of the state; also the exchange of corn meal for corn. We have put in special machinery for grinding rye flour and buckwheat flour. Z3T Satisfaction guaranteed. Please give us a call. JM-Feb-'G-y COAL & LIME! .I.E. NORTH & CO., DEALERS 1N- Coal, Lime, Cement. Rock Sping Coal, Carbon (Wyoming) Coal. Ehlua TJowa) Coal ..$7.00 per ton .. G.00 -.. .00 " Blacksmith Coal of best quality al ways on hand at low est prices. North Side Eleventh St., COLUMBUS, NEB. 14.3m PATENTS CAVEATS, TRADE MARKS AND COPYRIGHTS Obtained, and all other business in the U.S. Patent Office attended to for 3IOD ERATE FEES. Our office is opposite the U. 5. Patent Office, and we can obtain Patents in less time tban those remote from WASHING TON. Send MODEL OR DRAWING. We advise as to patentability free of charge: and we make NO CU ARGE UNLESS WE OBTAIN VATENT. We rcler here to the Postmaster, the Supt. of Money Order Div., and to offii cials of the U. S. Patent Office. For cir culars, advice, terms and references to actual clients in your own State or county, write to C. A. SIVOW Ac CO., Opposite Patent Office, Washington, D.C. A.J.ARN0LD, DKALKK IN DIAMONDS, FINE WATCHES, Clocks, Jewelry AND SILVERWARE. Strict attention given to repairing of Watches and Jewelry. jSTWill not be undersold by anybody. Neb. Aveaue, Opposite Clotker House. TTT7IT Tfor working people. Send 10 rl Wi I i r cents postage, and we will " ! -- mail you free, a loval, val uable sample box of goods that will put you iu the way of making more money in a few days than you ever thought pos sible at any business. Capital not re quired. You can live at home and work in spare time only, or all the time. AH of both sexes, of all ages, grandly suc cessful. 50 cents to 5 easily earned every evening. That all who want work may test the' business, we make this un paralleled offer: To all rho arc no, well satisfied we will send $1 to pay for the trouble of writing us. Full particulars, directions etc , sent free. Immense pay absolutely sure for all who start at once. Don't delay. Address STINSON & Co., Portland, Maine. A GIFT Send 10 cents pottage ind we will mail you free a royal, valuable. sample box of goods that will put you in the way of making more money at once, than anything else iu America. Both hexes of all ages can live at home and work in spare time, or all the time. Capiial not required. We will start you. Immense pay sure for those who start at once. SnNfeON Co., Portland, Maiue. 38-y OCHfcSON'S iota, to aajr Mwa. nitutrates and luu ercnrihlngfor LUe'. Qcau. Children and InfAnta' mar uul Riii.kMiia. fZunAm a. I . .. a1 ?. poods, at price lover tban those of any house in the- Ualtad States. Cailete Mtlafaetlaa rmimiarmf n, mrniw m. money re. h Ave. he -Md. K PERSONAL AND LrTERAftY. About 150,000 cophp , of Haw thorno's "Scarlet Letter" hare feci issued. The " House of Sey Gables" did not reach more than naif fiat num ber. A draped shaft of Italian marble twenty-five feet high is to be place over the graves of General Toombs and his wife at Washington, Ga. It will be made in Italy. Horatio Seymour died on Abraham Lincoln's seventy-eighth birthday, and General Hancook died on the sevenjgr second anniversary of Samuel J. Tu den's birth. N. Y. Sun. Mrs. M. E. Do Geer, of Scott City. Kan., has pre-empted land, founded several towns, built soveral hotels and established several paying newspapers in Kansas. Chicago Sun. Talcot Williams, managing editor of the Philadelphia Press, has' a collec tion of biographies of noted persons ready to- be used aa obituaries on their demise, whieh is insured for $3,400. N. Y. Tribune. "With my own eyes," said Dr. Theodore L. Cuyler to some Yalo stu dents, the other day, "I havo seen Mr. Gladstone kneel by tho side of a com mon streot-swecper and pray for the salvation of his soul." The St. Louis Olobe-Demoeratsa,yst "The recent death of B. Gratz Brown carried off the last of the National can didates of 1872 Grant. Greely and Wilson having gone before. And the death of Horatio Seymour carried off the last of the candidates of 1868, the1 others being Grant, Colfax and Blair." General Hancock was married in St. Louis in 1850 to Miss Almira Bus sell, of that city, who survives hirn. Probably it was her full name tho dy ing man was trying to pronounce when his utterance broke into "Allie," "Myra," as given in some of the re ports of his last moments. St. Louis Fost. Elder Thomas Parker Dudley, of Lexington, Ky., is said to be the old est Baptist minister in America. Ho is ninety-four years old, blind and very feeble. Ho began preaching in 18&, and has preached in Kentucky, Ten nessee, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michi gan, Missouri, Kansas, Virginia, Dela ware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York. Ar. Y. Times. The richest woman in the world has lately been discovered. Donna Isidora Cousino, of Chili, is the lucky individual. No one, not even horself, knows the exact amount of her wealth, which is derived from land, oattle. mines, house and ship property to any extent. In addition to these" sources of income she owns the only coal mines in South America, from which she draws about 16,000 a month. It is stated that Donna Cousino is a "remarkable businesswoman." HUMOROUS. Society's favorite flower tho dandy-lion. N. Y. Morning Journal. A "Young Lady Reader" wishes to know what will remove grease spots from a silk dress. A pair of scissors. N. Y. Herald. "Mr. Jones, you said you were connected with the tine arts"; do vou mean that you are a sculptor?" "JSo. sir. I don't seuip myself, but I furnish the stone to the man what aoes." Brooklyn Eagle. LwtLt. itugKar-'iPJcase give me a penny to buy a loaf of Dread." tja Party "But you can't buy a loaf of bread with one cent." Little Ueggar "No, but I'm buying on the installment plan." The Judge. An old man-of-war sailor, who had lost a leg in the service of lib country, became a retailer of peanuts. He said he was obliged to be a retailer, because having lost a leg, he could not be a whole sailor. The Judge. Sick husband "Did the doetor say that I am to take all that medicine?" Wife "Yes, dear." Sick husband "Why, there is enough in that bottle to kill a mule." Wife (anxiously) "Then you had better bo very careful, John." N. Y. World. "My son." said a stern father to a seven-year-old hopeful "I must dis cipline you. Your teacher said you were the worst boy in the school." "Well, papa," was" the reply, "only yesterday she said 1 was just like my fathor." Montreal Witness. A farmer demanded free admission to a show on the strength of being in tho same busine.-s. "I fail to see." said tho manager, "how you make that out." "Well, I'll tell you," responded tho farmer. "I make my money by selling specked apples, and you mako vours by selling spectators." He was admitted. Lowell Citizen. An album containing the photo graphs of twenty million stars is being prepared by a French astronomer. We believe that is about the number a man sees when he sits down in an inverted position on the 103- sidewalk, but how tho astronomer managed to get instan taneous photographs of them when in such an awkward position is difficult to understand. Xbrristown IL-rald. Wife "I think, mother, we had better bo starting for our shopping. By the way, John, what are tho weath er probabilities?" John (reading from the paper) "Heavy rains, followed by snow, hail, sleet, blizzards, eyclones, tornadoes. Minoons, hurricanes and earthquakes." Wife "H'm, how pro voking! Shall we venture out, moth er?" Mother "Certainly. We aro not made of sugar." Life. A certain divine, who had wan dered, in the course of his travels, be yond the conveniences of tho railroad, was obliged to tako to a horse. Being unaccustomed to riding he said to his host: "I hope you are not so unregen erate in these parts that you would give me a horse who would throw a good Presbyterian minister?" "Wall, I dunno." was the reply. "We believe in spreadin' the Gospel!" N. Y. Indc ptndcat. Not a Hopeless Case. Mose Schaumburg had loaned Sam Bingtom seven hundred dollars. As- Mose had not seen Sam on the streets of Austin for several days it oc crrred to him to call at Sam's house and find out how he was coming on. He did not see Sam, but Mrs. Bingtom was at home. She looked very sad, and had black rings around her eyes. "I am in groat distress, Mr. Schaum berg." "Vat vash de matter?" "Mr. Bingtom has lost his mind and has heen taken out into tho country." "Did he leave dot money mit you to pay dot note what comes due next week?" "Oh, no, Mr. Schaumburg, he is not crazy enough to do that. He has not lest his reasoning faculties eatirely." Te-xas Sijtings. M. " :. 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