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& THE JOtTRNAX. , ISSUED BVJEKY WEDNESDAY, M. K". TURNER & CO., Proprietors and Publishers. TES OP ATEHTltin4i is I bbbbI bbbbbI bbIibbV H AbH aaV abskWbbbVbbbv bbbVbbbT sVR bbbbV Saaam BBBvbY BBBll Baaa BaamJ asam. J aaaa- 1 Baaa aaam aaaa fl aaaa BBBbI BBBb 1 BBflll I Sw mmmi . St., upstairs TKKMS: Per year Six months Three months Singlecoples 5 COLUMBUS STATE BANK! C0LU5IBUS, NEB. CASH CAPITAL, $75,000 DIRECTORS: Leandku Gekuakd, Prcs'. Geo. W. IIui.st, Vice Prcs't. Julius A. Kekd. IJ. II. Henky. J. K. Task Eh, Cashier. Mamie of lio-it, aad Kxr.lia.iice. llsc-ouat Collection Promptly Jladc oi all PointH. Pay lalercHt itH. on Time epow- 274 HENRY LUERS, MKALKR IS CHCAI.XElSrGrE WIND MILLS, AND PUMP, Buckeye Mower, combined, Self Binder, wire or twine. Pumps Repaired on short notice 33TOnp iloor west of lleintz'a Drug Store, 11th Street, Columbus, Neb. 3 HENRY G-ASS. U2St:de:rt.ake:r ! COFFINS AND METALLIC CASES ASP DF.AI.KK IN Furniture, Chairs, Bedsteads, Bu reaus. Tables, Safes. Lounges, &.C., Picture Frames and Mouldings. Z3TIiepairiny of all kinds of Upholstery Goods. u-tr t'ni.IIM HI'S. NEK. For Mail As a reluble rciuurt, in rs-i of ":-ii. Whooping Couli, ir aiiiuku tuWs ami for the prompt iclicf am! cine vt throat and Iuh h..i jci, Aer- Cherry Pectoral : iuvahuble. -Mr.-. K. G. Edgei 1 y, Council Bluffs. Iowa, writes: " I considt r Ayer's Cherry Pectoral a most important remedy for home use. I have tested its curative power, in my family, nuny times during the pat thirty jears, and have never known it to fail. It will ic lieve tho most serious affections of the throat and lunge, whether in children or adults." John II. Stoddard. Petersburg, Vs., write: "1 hae never found a med icine equal to AYER'S Cherry Pectoral for the prompt relief of throat and lung dwcaM peculiar to children. I consider it au absolute cure for all such affection, and am never without it in the ho;ie.' Mrs. L. E. Herman, 1S7 Mercer St., Jersey City, write-: 'I have always found Ayer's Cherry rectoral ueful in my fam ily." B. T. Johnson, 3It. Savage, Md., writes: "For the speedy euro of sudden Cold, and for the relief of children aulict ed with Croup. I have never found any thing equal to Ayer's Ch-rry Pectoral. It is the most potent of all the remedies I have ever used." "W. II. Stickler, Terra Haute. Iml.. writes: "Ajer's Cherry Pectoral curetl my wife of a severe lung affection, supposed to be Quick Con sumption. Wo now regard the Pectoral a a household neeesMty., E. M. Breck enridjTti. Brainerd, Minn., writes: "I am subject to Bronchitis, and, wherever I go, am always sure to hare a bottle of Ayer's Cherry Pectoral with me. It is without a rival for the cure of bronchial affections." FROM RED BY Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Hast. Tor sale by all Druggists. NO HUMBUG! But a Grand Success. RP. BUIGHAM'S AUTOMATIC WA- terTrough for stock. He refers to every man wuo'has it in use. 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Tcc-Worken Kceeaapned t StStfrm- Con3ul-5oneral Jussen. at Vienna, send to the Department of State an interesting report upon the trade aad industries of Austria Hungary, and tke condition and habits of its people. A considerable portion of the report deals with the political and social features of the empire Mr. Jussen says: "There is not another political domain in Europe which unites under the same sceptre so many different tribes, races and nationalities, divided and estranged from each other by habits, language and traditions, as that confided to the care of the House of Hapsburg. The empire contains 22,080,000 of people, speaking no less than ten different lan guages. Naturally enough it is impos sible to find, outside of the Government and its ramilicationa, a single political party or faction whose members style themselves Austrians. On the contrary, they insist that they arc either Germans, Austrians, Bohemians, Tyrolese, Poles, Italians or any thing, in fact, but Aus trians. All this, of course, seriously impedes tho development of trade, in dustry and the commercial as well as the political progress of the people. The Austrian Government has little sympathy with the American nation, and dreads its rapid progress upon the lields of iudustry and commerce. But this dislike and contempt rarely finds expression in unmistakable terms. The public press simply ignores the United States, and the consequent ignorance of the majority of the people regarding this country is very great It is obvi ous that most of the Austrians never heard of the downfall of the Confed eracy, inasmuch as Confederate bills of exchange aro repeatedly presented at the Consulate for exchange into cur rent Austrian funds. The Austrian press print no news from this country except such :i3 will have a discouraging influence upon emigration; such, for example, as atrocious murders, confla grations, cyclones and strikes of labor ers. The massacre of a frontier settle ment by a band of Apaches is a God send to the Vienna press, which pub lish the news with its horrible details under display headings, and the im pression is given that such scenes are of the most frequent and widespread character. The condition of the laboring classes can not be termed satisfactory, even from a European standpoint The re ward of labor is divided in the reverse proportion to the amount of labor ac tually performed, the greater portion being reaped by those who never labor at all, while the most trying and ex haustive manual labor can not always rely with certainty even upon the most indispensable necessaries of life as a recompense for unremitting toil. In the district of Vienna the workers in machine shops and factories arc hud dled together in close, illy-ventilated rooms, where the stench is usually un bearable. The averaire rate of wages The average rate for males is $.'5.25 per week, and for females, $1.85 per week. The highest rate of wages paid in Vienna is. earned by those engaged in the machine in "dustry, where the average is 4.40 a week. The lowest rate of wages re ceived by the workers in any single in dustry is paid to those engaged in the textile industry, who receive an aver age of 2.40 per week. The hours in all branches of trade are not less than twelve. All the necessaries of life, ex cept clothing, arc quite as dear in Vienna as in the larger cities of the United States. Ham and petroleum are three times as dear as in America. Mr. Jssen says that the working men who live in hired apartments (and the exceptions are few where they own a home) pay fully one-third of their wages for rent, the accommodations being in many instances unfit for hu man beings. One instance cited by Mr. Jussen is that of thirteen laborers, male and female, who lived in the gar ret of a small house, twelve paces long by eight paces wide. An old man who made his quarters in a remote comer of the room among the rubbish paid for this privilege forty-four cents a week. Mr. Jussen appends a touching ac count of the miseries of the nail smiths in the district of Corinthia, taken from the report of one of the imperial-royal inspectors. In the town of Kroppa are 320 smiths, together with 120 women and children, who work at this trade. The nails arc made by hand. Everybody works, in cluding the children from eight years and upward. The smith commences work at three o'clock in the morning, and labors, with but two hours1 inter mission, until seven at night It is only the more skillful workman who can earn from SI. 12 to $1.85 a week. The others earn from seventy-tive cents to $1.50 a week. Out of these scanty wages the smith furnishes his own char coal. His food consists of a dough made of flour and water swimming in grease. Meat is a luxury in which he indulges only on holidays. The report adds that consumption and heart-disease are very prevalent among- them, their average life seldom exceeding forty years. Washington Letter. A GOOD VOICE. The Greatest Girt or tho Lecturer, Orator anil Political Speaker. A foreigner, after hearing Mr. Glad stone in tho House of Commons, said: I had never thought that the English language was musical, but I am now convinced that it is one of the most melodious of living tongues." The foreigner's confession illustrates the importance of a good voice to an orator. In facL- no one of his physical gifts is more important. He must conquer by speech, and that speech is the most effective, other things be ing eqnal, whose tones interest, please, 'soothe or rouse an audience. If pub lic speakers wouM take half the pains to improre their voices that actors and singers do theirs, they would find that labor can make even an ordinary voice an 'effective instrument. One of the greatest of singers Madame Malibran, used to labor for hours to acquire notes which she lacked. She sang, one day, at a concert, the rondo m " Sonnambula," and ended with a rery high trill, so that her vocalism embraced threo octaves. " Oh," was her reply to a friend, who expressed his admiration of the trill, "I have sought for it long enough. For three months I have been running after it I have poKsed it everywhere while arranging my hair, while dressing. Cbm morning I found it in the bottom of my shoes, as I was putting them on." Macready, the' actor, was heard one morning, while stopping at a Bos ton hotel, cryiag murder for two hours am was paasfuliy seeking itiojfw it the one iatonatiuBff which roold produce tho effect he Wished jwen scnooi-Doys nave ceasea to m VJ?LbJ H in ji iscmosmenes mouth full of pebbles, running apUIl while reciting, and declaiming toJffiQ noisy wave.. But though old, therffltistration makes it clear that a ' Btammcrinir. weak. sensitive voice may bo made an effect ive organ of public speech by hard drilling. Of&course, there are orators who triunfph in spite of an unfriendly Toiee, Shiel, the Irish orator, had a voice which resembled the noise emitted by beating- a tin van. He shrieked out the most thrilling pas sages, and held senates and assemblies In spito of a dwarfish body and a squeaking voice. But if mind does sometimes conquer matter, thatvis no reason for refusing brain matter so that it will help instead of opposing inind. Ximtli's Companion. .THE PALLIUM. Alt About the Iualgrola of ArchIpUeopal Authorltr In the Catholic Church. The barge painting in the nate of the subterranean church represents St Pe ter installing St Clement and invest ing him with the pallium, the symbol of universal jurisdiction. It may be said, en passant, that a Cardinal who is not an Archbishop can not wear it One of the first ceremonies after a Car dinal is elected ferVthe papal chair, al though he may be a Cardinal-Bishop, islp invest him with the pallium. St Clement became Pope in A. D.-.67. fit flenient in the painting Ls faqgg the ffeeople, as a priest docs when ho says "Dominus Vobiscum." His pallium "is almost the same as the new one now in use, with the slight difference tbat the ancient one Ls longer. It extends from the shoulders down in front of the body, to an inch or two below the knees. The pallium now used does not go below the breast. It is made cf white wool, dotted with black crosses . fastened by golden pins, studded with precious stones, and is about tho width of an ordinary suspender. It is put on over the head; the end hangs on the heart over the chasuble. When the Pope says mass in St Peter's it is the ninth article of his vestments which he puts on. When the person to be invested u not at Rome, the pallium is sent by a trusty messenger, always an ecclesi astic, who, for the time being, is com missioned the Pope's messenger, and who is bound to be received a such wheresoever lie may tarry, to receive all kinds of spiritual aid and comfort, and no one, under severe censure, is to hinder or delay him in bis journey. He delivers the packet contaiidng the pal lium to the person designated by the Cardinal Prefect of the Propaganda te receive it, and to no one else. He is not relieved of his responsibility nntu the act of investiture is concluded. Ho is a guest at the ceremony, and occu pies a place of honor throughout, be cause he Ls the Pope's messenger. He is generally the recipient of some valu able present from the invested prelate, who is bound forthwith to report the day of his investurc, the name of the messen ger, and of the prelate who placed tho pallium upon his shouldcrs.etc. The lat ter is invariably somo Bishop named at Home. The pallium is only worn on solemn occasions, as Christmas, Easter Sun day, etc. When the prelate dies upon whom it has been vestured it is buried with him, resting upon his shoulders, and pendant upon his breast as in life. The first Archbishop, the- late Dr. Hughes, of this city, received the pal lium from the hands of the late Pius IX, in 1850, at Borne. Cardinal Mc Closky was invested in 1864, in St Pat rick's Cathedral, Mulberry street To understand how important the pallium is we must bear in miud that, unlike the bull nominating a priest to be a BLshop, which Ls often sent by mail, the pallium must be and always'is carried by a messenger. It is true that bulls are sent by messengers when oppor tune, but many of them are transmit ted by mail to the metropolitan of the archdiocese wherein the inchoate Bish op resides. It will be observed that the number of Archbishops is quite small throughout the world. There are onlv twelve in the United States, one in "England, four in Ireland and one in Scotland. -.,lt is a very impress ive ceremony, but tf course not to be compared in length to that of a conse cration, yot the conferring of the pal lium always has been held in profound veneration because it Ls, as a whole, the highest stop one can attain in the Church. N. Y. Herald. fit" ft- ... ...... jmA' M IVIMIS HkUIUHIUH. How He Came to Ruin HU Prospective Captor's Mansion. A German, living near New Orleans, on one of tho bayous where alligators are quite numerous, finding his chick ens and ducks disappearing very fast, was unable to account for it, until one morning, about daybreak, he discov ered an alligator of unnsual size ap proaching the house, under which was kept the hen-roost Creeping along through the long grass, in a few min utes the animal reached the house, and at once broke open tho hen-coop and commenced his havoc, first with eggs and then with chickens at least with those that did not escape through the broken bars. The German, thinking it rather an expensive amusement, con trived a plan to capture the monster. Accordingly, he procured a long rope, and made at one end a noose or slip knot, and then, running the other through a block and tackle, attached it to a high pole which stood near the house. The next morning he set the trap near the chicken-coop, and watched for the alligator to make his appearance. About day-break along came the alligator, and as soon as he approached the place, and put one front leg through the noose, the Ger man gave the rope a sudden jerk, and commenced palling it with all his might The alligator was, however, too much for him, and it was not until his son and two or three nejrrocs came to help him that he succeeded in haul ing him up te the pole. No sooner, however, did they suspend him in the air than he commenced lashing his tail to and fro, and the pole being near the house, it was not many minutes before down went the house, furniture and all. under the heavy blows from his tail, scarcely giving the family time to escape. Christian at Work. Sheepkilling on the railroad track fa becoming a popular sport. The last exploit was that of an engineer running a train near Reno, who killed forty animals out of 'a possible seven hah-dred.-Pirps (Mm.) CknmitU,' COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY. MAY 26, 1886. A CURIOUS STUDY. Peculiar Trapses or Intelligence In Persona of Superior Intellect. Sir Isaac Newton constructed a house for his cats. For the conven ience of the cat he cut a large hole for entrance, for the equal convenience of the kitten he cut a smaller one. and it was not until his attention was called to it that he realized the fact, which one would suppose might be self-evident to the feeblest understanding, that the large hole would have served for both. The author of the "Prin cipia," one of the grandest works of the human intellect, failed to perceive that a kitten could go through a hole made for a cat Bichard Brinsley Sheridan hired a suburban villa, and two days later received a visit from a friendwho was told to climb the fence in order to enter the house. "But why not open the gate?" the friend in quired. "Because I can't untie the string." "Why don't you cut it, then"1 Sheridan looked at him iu amazement, drew his knife, cut the rope, walked through the gate, and, turning around, kicked it off the hinges. "If you love mo, please kick me in the same fashion," he remarked to his friend. The most brilliant wit of his time, the dramatist who could unravel the most intricate complica tions in stage situations, had. climbed a fence for two days for lack of the stroke of a pen-knife. A few years ago one of our famous, men was found dead under circumstances which gave rise to suspicion of suicide. One of his acquaintances remarked: "He was certainly crazy. One evening I called upon him and found him try ing to write a letter. I could hardly see my way across the room. He com plained that his eyesight must be fail ing, as it was hard for him to follow the lines upon the paper. In.surprise I turned up the gas. His look of aston ishment as he looked at Mm; light, at me, at the letter and at the light again, was something impossible to describe. Of course he was crazy. If he hadn't been he would have turned up the gas himself." So easily do we reach our conclusions; so easily do we take things for granted. Yet Sir Isaac New ton was never supposed to be "out of his mind," and Sheridan was never suspected of being a lunatic. The gas jet simply served to throw more light on the stupidity of a sensible man, in stead of proving by its feeble glimmer the corresponding feebleness of his in tellect Nothing is more constantly and completely surprising than these apparent lapses of intelligence in per sons whose intellect is acknowledged to be superior to the average. From a fool we expect foolishness, and seldom have we reason to com plain of disappointment. From the wise wc expect wisdom, though wc sometimes fail to lind it. It is said that it is only the fool who learns no wisdom from experience, but the foolishness of sensible people is generally of a kind which experience can in no way modify. It is occasional, variable, unexpected, of a peculiar qual ity, admits no argument from prece dent, gives no basis for calculation. Probably by contrast and incongruity its effect is heightened, and it seems more senseless than ordinary dullness because it is inevitably compared with the usual mental brilliancy. We learn from the entertaining "Letters of Gus tave Flaubert" that he had prepared a dictionary of "the stupid sayings of great men," and the volume is'a unique and amusing one. It was NapolcoL III. who made the profound observa tion: "The wealth of a country de pends on its general prosperity."' The famous Havin wrote, as if giving utter ance to a most valuable philosophical statement: "As soon :us a Frenchman crosses the frontier he finds himself ol foreign soil." Emerson says: "Men who have commanded great armies and taken great cities, who have made laws for an empire, or proclaimed the greatest discoveries in science, havi sometimes shown the utmost idiocy ir connection with the commonest aflVin of life." Phrenological Journal. HASTY JUDGMENTS. Why Life Should Not Be Jutlgit from u nient to Moment. Science is continually discovering the unsuspected uses of common things: noxious weeds and plants which have long been regarded as pests and nui sances by the gardener and the farmer, studied more closely, reveal the most beneticent qualities. It has been re cently discovered, for instance, that the Canada thistle, one of the most stub born and exasperating of all the farm er's foes, can be manufactured into a fabric of most serviceable quality. This is only one illustration out of'a thousand which make clear man's ig norance of the real uses of the things that surround him, and throw a broad and penetrating light on the difficulties and obstacles which surround his own growth and development. Every thoughtful man or woman remembers some experience, bitter indeed at the time, which, now that it has been passed and lies clear in the distance, is seen to have been a piece of rare good fortune. Many a man's disappoint ment in the path which he had laid out for himself has turned him into another field, where he has achieved a success and acquired an influence of which he never dreamed. Many a woman's sor row, bitter beyond tears at the moment, has revealed to her unsuspected re sources of power, and brought uncal culatcd wealth of hope and peace and joy. At this moment you may be con fronting some apparently insurmount able obstacle, bearing some almost in tolerable burden, sitting in the shadow of somo overwhelming sorrow. These things are unspeakably dark and bitter to you. You arc sure'thcre is no good in them, and that they mean only calamity and loss. But how do yon know that in this hard and stony seed there is not concealed the flower of tho sweetest joy of your life; or that in this terrible discipline you are not being prepared for a responsibility and a service which you covet above all things else; or that in this unspeak able loss there is not being developed in you that power of affection which is beyond all comparison the highest and me most permanent return of love? Do you judge your life from moment to moment; wait until the ulterior pur poses are disclosed; wait until the un suspected uses are revealed; wait until the great plan which you are working out lies clear and complete before you. Christian Union. In Mexico if you ask a native in regard to the sex of a baby he will not say it is a boy or a girl, but "el hom bre" (a man) or "la mujer" (a woman). All efforts fail to make him say "bijo" (son) or "hija" (daughter). TBE FIRST National Bank! OF COX.XJjatBXJS, NEB. HAS AX Authorized Capital of $250,000, A Surplus Fund of - $15,000, And the largest Paid 1st Cants Cap ital of any bans: in this part of the State. EdfDeposlts received and interest paid on time deposits. J3TDrafts oil the principal cities iu this country and Europe bought and sold. KSTCollections and all other business given prompt and careful attention. STOCKHOLDERS. A. ANDERSON, Pres't. S AM'L C. SMITH, Vice Pres't. O. T. 1EOEX, Cashier. .1. P. BECK Kit, HERMAN OEHLRICH, O.SCHIITTE, W.A.3ICALLISTER, JONAS WELCH, JOHN W. EARLY, P.ANDERSON, G.ANDERSON. Anr28-'8Ctf BU8IHESS CAEDS. D.T. Martyn, M. D. F. J. SCHUG, M. D. Srs. M AKTYN & SCHUG, U. S. Examining Surgeons, Local Surgeons. Union Pacific, O. & B. II. and II. & M. R. It's. N. Consultations in German and English. Telephones at office and residences. 85rOniee on Olive street, next to Brod feulirer's Jewelry Store. COLUMBUS, . NEBRASKA. 42-y T 91. COIOliMUM, IT LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE. Upstairs Ernst building 11th street. OULLIVAN Sc REKDEK, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Ofliee oyer First National Hank, Colum bus, Nebraska. 30-lf r . KVA."NS, 91. D., PHYSICIAN AND SUItGEON. t5TOuiee and rooms. Gluck building, 11th street. Telephone communication. 4- H AI1ILT03I MEADE, III. . PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Platte Center, Nebraska. 0-y TIKKMAX KATKSTKUT, BLACKSMITH AND WAGON MAKER, l.'itli street, east of Abt's liarn. April 7, a;-ti pottKLL not; mi:, PLATTE CENTER, NEB. Just opened. Special attention given to commercial men. II us a good sample room. Sets the best table. Give it a trial and be convinced. ftO-Hmo TOIl KUSDEft, COUNTY SURVEYOR. 3TParties desiring surveying done can address me at Columbus, Neb., or call at my office in Court House. OmaySO-y 1 F. RUXHEK, 91. !., HOMCEOPATHIST. CkroBio Disease aad Diseases of Children a Speoialty. EtTOflice on Olive street, three doors north of Firnt National Bauk. 2-ly ItlOIVEY TO A.OAIV. Five years' time, on improved farms with at least one-fourth the acreage under cultivation, in sums representing one third the fair value of tbe homestead. Correspondence solicited. -Address, M. K.TURNER, 5U- Columbus, Nebr. II TcALLlSTEIl JBKOM., A TTORNEYS AT LA W, Office up-stairs in McAllister's build ing. 11th St. W. A. McAllister, Notary Public. J. M. MACFAKLAND, Attcrsij sd Noury TxXi e. B. R. OOWDERY, Collietn. LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE OF MACFARLAND& COWDBR7, Columbus, : : ; Nebraska. JOHN G. HIGGINS. C. .1. GARLOW, Collection AttorAey , HIGGIHS1& GAEL0W, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, Specialty made of Collections by C.J. 3-1-m uariow P H.RUSC11E, llth St., opposite Lindell Hotel. Sells Harness, Saddles, Collars, Whips, Blankets, Curry Combs, Brushes, trunks, valises, buggy tops, cushions, carriage trimmings, Ac, at the lowest possible prices. Repairs promptly attended to. TAMES SALJICKV, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER. Plans and estimates supplied for either frame or brick buildings. Good work fuaranteed. Shop on 13th Street, near t. Paul Lumber Yard. Pnlnmhin V. braska. 52mo. pAMPBELL A CO. DBALKRS IN Racrs and Iron ! The highest market price paid for rags and iron. Store in tbe Bubach building, Olive st., Columbus, Neb. 15-tf J. 8. MURDOCK & SON, Carpenters and Contractors. Have bad an extended experience, and will guarantee satisfaction in work. All kiads of repairing done on short aotice. Our motto is, Good work and fair prices. Call and give us an oppor !aJJlttoe8tin,ltefryou. f-Sbop oh 13th SU, one door west of Frledhof Co's.sUre.Celassbni, Ksbr. 4-T "WORK AT HOME." gwladtora Who Make It Their BosIbcm to Defraud Industrious Women. Everywhere, but perhaps more es pecially ia the rural districts and small towns, are to be found women with eager ambitions toward wage-earning, whose circumstances and surround ings, eat them off almost wholly from opportunities to satisfy those ambitions. Several causes have conspired to make this class larger than ever before, among which Ave may mention the in creased desire for articles of luxury, consequent upon the spread of educa tion, and tho enormous cheapening during the last quarter of a century of means of labor-saving machinery, of line materials for clothing and decora tion, which the middle classes, twenty J rears or more ago, regarded as hope essly beyond their means. To this wo may add as the more immediate cause, the commercial depression of the last two years, through which the families of farmers, mechanics, etc, have found their supply of spending-money so greatly reduced that the fall iu tho rices of luxuries meanwhile has ecu of little benefit to them. The ex istence of this large class of women, eager to undertake any thing that might bring them an income indepen dent of the poorly-iilled and seldom opened purses of their fathers and hus bands, has brought into being a num ber of schemes for supplying women with "work at home." It is possible that some of these schemes may have been started with honest purpose, but wc have not yet learned of any. With out exception, those which have come to our knowledge have been unadulter ated swindles. " It is a case of the gath ering of the vultures by the mere ex istence of the helpless creatures they can prey upon. The firms advertising work for women at home are to be found in every city in the United States, bcinu most nuin-.rous, perhaps, iniHJsiou. Aiiere are in mat city no leas than twelve or littceu so-called agencies for employment of t!i kind which offer knitting, rug-making, painting on glass, velvet, etc., and crochet work. It is therefore lilting that the first effort to circumvent these "swiudlers of women" should origin ate in the "Hub." The "Woman's Educational and Industrial Union,'' which is managed by ladies of the highest standing and repute, and whose address is 74 Boylston street, Boston, Mass., offers" to investi gate, without expense, all advertise ments which oiler to women "work at home." Ladies who dcoirc to an swer such advertisements arc requested to write first to the Woman's Union, at the address given abov, and ask their advice iu the matter. They have made out a list of linns which they know to be only carrying on the busi ness to obtain money without giving any just equivalent, and will look into the character ami standing of any others that may be started in similar lines. Asa rule these doubtful liinn carry on their business in such a man ner that the law can not attack them directly. For instance, the offer is made to teach knitting gratuitously and to provide all the work that can be accomplished. When the applicant calls she is told that she mut first pay fifty cents for a book of instructions. After that she is told that hc must buy all I he yarn there with which she is to do the work. After that she is shown a couple of immense specimens of work, and is told that if she will make one similar to these she will be paid twenty-live cents each, or thereabout. As the task usually requires a week's work most women decline further em ployment at this stage. But if the ap plicant, uoes actually perioral a piece of work and brings" it she is refused payment on the ground that the work is not done right. Another concern offers rug-niakiug. On application it is found that it wfll bo first requisite to buy a machine for rug-making, which causes a primary cost of oue dollar. Next fifty cents is asked for teaching the art. These rug firms guarantee all the work that their pupik can undertake. An instance is given of a woman living some miles trom t!ie city of Boston who bought one of thes-e rug machines. She be came proficient in the. art and applied for work. She was given one rug, and on liuishing it was paid twenty-seven cents. She wxs then offered one more rug, but declined to take it, as she could not afford to work in that way. She lived out of town, and it cost her about twenty-five cents to come to the city and return home. She was willing to work for the firm if they would only give her a week's work" at oue time, but this they refused to do. As, by their system of giving out work, the woman in question could only make sixteen cents a day, of course she had to suffer the loss of one dollar and fifty cents, which she paid out to the sohemers. Her experience in testing another of the firms is thus given by one of tho managers of the Woman's "Union: "I answered an advertisement," she said, "of a firm offering porcelain paint ing. I paid a dollar and received a bit of porcelain and a small lot of cheap paints. I had supposed I should re ceive these articles for nothing, and that the dollar was for the instructions which were given me. I was told that when I had painted the bit of porcelain I would be paid fifty cents for it when I brought it back. To test the sinceri ty of this offer I gave tjie porcelain to my daughter, who is quite a fine artist, and asked her to paint it in her best style. When it was finished I took it back tothc place where I had got the porcelain and submitted it for examin ation. The man in charge looked a little surprised when he saw it, but said that he could not accept it "Why can you not accept it?' I asked. "'Is it not painted well?' "Oh, yes, he answered, 'it is painted well, but it Ls not painted right "As nothing which I could say would induce him to accept a really excellent piece of work, it was plain that he did not want it Obviously, the profits of this concern lay in the salo of cheap material at a high price." Chicago In ter Ocean. Nearly all the successful funny men in literature are graduates from the printing office. "'Mrs. Partington" (B. P. Shillaber) was once a printer so was Mortimer H. Thompson ("Doc sticks"); so was Charles F. Browne ("Artemus Ward"); so was Mark Twain;" ditto "Nasby;" ditto "M. Quad" and others. With all their hard work and tribulations, the press gang are a funny lot of fellows. Chicago Journal. Just what particular style of ar ranging the hair now is most 'fashiona ble would be hard to decide. Anjr style, almost, is fashionable.4nclu4inaT HMWift-Jr; Y. Mail , WHOLE NO. 887. COLUMBUS Roller Mills! SCH&SSER BROS., Proprietors. MAXUFACTUKKKS ok Flour, Feed, Bran, Shorts And Meal, AND DKALKRS IN' All Kinds & Grain. OUR FLOUR BRANDS: "WAY UP," Patent, "IMPERIAL, "BIG 4," "SPREAD EAGLE." "We guarantee our flour to bo equal to any flour manufactured in the state. We call the attention of the public to tbe fact th.it we make a specialty of ex changing flour, bran and 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. JST" Satisfaction guarantee!. Please give us a call. iM-Feb-'G-y SUMMER SCHOOL. Savk Time .nd 3Ionkv. Pkusons who Willi TO 1 ..TKII HL&IXKSS OKKICKS TIIOKSJUG1II.Y I'UKIMKKD IX 11IK SIIOIU KsT T1MK - - -- PKACriCAllLK. Sl'KC'l AI. AKRAiX.i:.n i:htn lo prepare teachers for the state cfiinty fX:iiinii;iiioii next summer anil and Fall. THE FREMONT NORMAL AXIJ BUSINESS COLLEGE, Kueouraged by its rem.trkab'e success and tbe request of teachers and others a ho wish to study during the summer liionths, will not cIop this year until Assenwt 13. Sil'oknts can'kntks at ANY TIMK. NKW CLASSICS KOK.MKI WHEN KKguiKKD to enable students to work to the best possible advantige especially in May and curly JIub; and oit Jnlye. Penmanship, Book-keeping. bbort-hand .mil Type-writing are taught by experts, and Elocution, liittrunicutal and Vocal .Muic, Painting and Drawing by .supe rior instructors. For particulars, ad dress the I'rtident, AV. J. .IONKS, Fremont, Neb. lMaylmo TRASH'S SELECTED. SHORE -flZETCi , M THIS Will. SiBES llJiMfsn m Cheapest Eating on Earth; lartvn, gioczs fob teek. TRASK THE ORICINAL and ONLY GENUINE! Take no other Brand PAT CAVEATS, TRADE MARKS ASD COPIRIGIITS Obtained, and all other business in the l'. S. Patent OUiee attended to for MOD ERATE FEES. Our office is opposite the U. S. Patent Oflice, and we eau obtain Patents in less time than those remote from WASHING TON. Send MODEL OR DRAWING. We advise as to patentability free of charge: and we make NO CHARGE UNLESS WE OBTAIN PATENT. We reler here to the Postmaster, the Supt. of Money Order Div.. and to oflii eials of the U.'S. Patent Office. For cir culars, advice, terms and references to irtual client-) in your own State or ci unty, write to C. A. NIVO W Sc CO.. Opposite Patent Office, Washington, D.C. TTTJ1T T)for working people. Send 10 II rJlJI cen,s P'J!,ae, and we will J------- mail jourec. a icval, val uable hampte box of goods that will put you in 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. All oi uoin sexes, oi an ages, grandly suc cessful. 50 cents to $.1 easily earned every evening. That all who want work may test tbe business, we make this un paralleled offer: To ail f ho are not well satisfied we will send $1 to pay for the ttouble or writing us. Full particulars, directions etc , vent free. Immense pay absolutely sure for all who start at once. D.-u't delay. Address Stinson & Co., Pottlnnd. Maine. . OTICE to n;A HKR. W. B. Tedrow, Co. Supt. I will be at Huraph-ey tbe iMlh, Platte Center tbe first of 31 ay, and t my office in the Court House on the second of 31 ay, all for th examination of teachers. a0tf QTBnsiness aad profssslonalcarda of nreliaesor lssa.per aanusa, fiva dollars. 19 For time advertisements, apply at this office. tStTLegal advertisements at statnto rats. aTor transient advertising, s rates on third page. E7A11 advertisements payable monthly. SODA WATER. rh DlftVrrnt Ktndof Laborer Kinployt In "I'm l'Hrtnrltr." While a certain proportion of skilled labor is required tho majority of tho "hands" employed in soda water estab lishments come, as a rule, from the bottom strata of tho laboring classed. Of lato vears machinery and the gen eral uso of siphons, so far as city trade is coucerned. has so simplified the work of manufacture that very little experience at the work will make a person tolerably proficient. Neverthe less there is a largo eloment of danger in the employment, and to a green hand not a little bodily pain. Despite the multiplicity of ""fountains" in drug stores, refreshment shops and on the street corners, a vast amount of the soda water consumed every day is sent from the factories in bottles, and it is surprising to luarn through how many different hands a bottle of soda water has to pass before it is ready for the consumer. Whether an empty bot tle is 'returned" or comes out of the packing straw new from the manufac tory it is carefully washed, rinsed and dried in the soda water establishment by men employed to do this work and nothing else. It requires more prac tice than a novice would imagine to do it rapidly and thoroughly. The wash ers don't know what it is to have on ury ciouies wnite at worK, rney rig themselves out in cast-off garments and splash around all day until they are as wet as so many wharf rats. After they are dried tho bottles are stacked in crates and carried off to tho "tillers." If intended for lemonade or lemon soda they go tirst to another squad of men, who dip in the required amount of syrup with a ladle. In bot tling the aerated wateris pumped into the bottles just as it conies from tho generators with a pressure of fifty pounds and over to the square inch. If a bottle has a Haw in it or the man handling it is careless the glass will burst into frag ments and kcattcr all over the room. Au accident of this kind usually means trouble, .sometimes quite .serious, for others than the man who happens to be handling the bottle. In most factories the men protect themselves with devices for guarding the head and arms, but every season adds to the list of men disfigured for life through their own or somebody else's carelessness an eye gone, a finger or two missing, or a .scarred face. The young surgeons in the city hospitals " are frequently called upon to attend Mich cases. The man who fills a bottle corks it and passes it along to a "wirer." who sits close beside him. It is the wircr's duty to draw a wire over the eork and fasten it securely around the neck of the bottle with a pair of pinchers. This, also, is a work requiring nimble fingers and some skill. It is a painful process for a new hand to learn to wire. The thin wire lacerates tho tlesh badly, and it is a common thing to see a lad's hands running with blood after a brisk day's work. After a few weeks at the business, however, the fingers get callous, just as oakum piclcers' fingers do, and the wirers get along very comfortably. When tin wirers are through with the bottles they are staked in crates and carried awa- for another washing. A few pails of water are thrown over them and they arc left to dry before going to the labelers. After labeling and polishing they are put away in cases ready to be sent off in delivery wagons as fast as ordered. Tlw process of filling siphons and patent bottles of numerous make is much i upler. more rapidly done and with 1h- risk. But they arc not suited to all branches ot the trade. - N. Y. Times. GOSSIPY HISTORY. Home Interesting Facta Coiit-rrnliig' th Serreturla of th. Troatury. If you will look baek over the. thirty-live Secretaries of the Treasury which the country has had, you w.!l find that the most of them havo been men of good education, ami many noted as scholar before tiieir appoint ment. Alexander Hamilton was a scholar though he had not received a college education. He was noted as a lawyer and statesman before his ap pointment, and his articles published in the newspapers form some of the best literature of his time. Oliver Wolcott, the second Secretary of tho Treasury, was a graduate of Vale, and Samuel Dexter was schooled at Har vard. Albert Gallatin, on the election ot Jefferson, was offered the Secre taryship of the Treasury, but Dexter would not resign, and wanted to con tinue his administration under Jeffer son as he had done under Adams. Ac cording to his theory of Civil Service reform the President 'had not the right " to change his Cabinet at will, and ho did not take Jefferson's hint that his resignation would be acceptable. Jof fer.son appointed Gallatin overDcxter'.s head and he had to step down and out. Gallatin was a very accomplished man. He was a graduate of the university at Geneva, Switzerland, and he acted as a tutor in Harvard College when he first came to this country. At the age of thirty-two he was elected to the Lnitcd States Senate, but was re fused his seat because he was not a cit izen of America. He reigned longer than any other Secretary of the Treas ury, and was one of the ablest finan ciers of our history. Gallatin's suc cessor, George Campbell, of Tennessee, was a Princeton graduate. Kichard Rush graduated at Princeton. Roger B. Taney, whom Jackson appnintetfto remove the deposits, was educated at Dickinson College, and Levi Wood bury went to school at Dartmouth. The eldet Ewing, whose daughter mar ried General Sherman while he was in the cabinet, graduated at the little col lege at Athens, O., and John Sherman, though not a college graduate, had been well educated at academies, and had had many j-ears of training in that larger school, the Capitol of the United States. Tom Corwin had received a similar education to that of Sherman, and William H. Crawford was also a well'educated man. Salmon P. Chase was noted as a scholar and a states man. High living had much to do with his decline shortly after his ap g ointment from the Treasury to tho upremc bench, and Tom Corwin died of paralysis here at Washington when he was just one year older tnan Man ning is now. Carp, in Cleveland Leader. A poet recently in Floridia writes: I watch the waves and only ask that I may in their sunshine bask, to sit and dream my life away on Pensacola's peaceful by' The idea of basking in the sunshine of waves is novel and food, but the ambition ia that of an alligator. 0. Puayvnt, AIIHUtJUIH.