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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
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DERTAKEK!
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AND DEALKU IS
llture, Chairs, Bedsteads, Bu
reaus. Tables. Safes. Lounges,
&c. Picture Frames and
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ENEWER
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i hair, and causes thin, dry hair to be
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color of Touth to locks which have
Dme faded with age or disease; and
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" wcr, as observed by me in very many
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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
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)t, and promoting a new growth.'
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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,
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Consultations iu German and English.
Telephones at ollice and residences."
ESTOllieo on Olive street, next to Brod
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LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE.
Upstairs Erubt building llth street.
oullivax At ki:edi:k,
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Ollice over First
bus, Nebraska.
National Hank, Colmn-50-tf
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llth ttrcci. Telephone communication.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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."
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