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r-r ' ". .'rp w m i h- ! THE JOURNAL. ittouen evxry wkdnj-jshay. M. K. TURNEK &- tXX, , ' Proprietori and Publishers . T3T OFFICE, Eleventh St.. upstairs H Journal Building. TEKM8: lerycar Six months a Tlirce mqnths Singlecnpies COLUMBUS STATE BANK! COLUMBUS. NEB. CASH CAPITAL, - $75,000 DIRECTORS: LkandkuGkrbaui), Pre','. Gko. W. Hui.sT.Viee VV. Julius A. Rkkd. It. U. Uknkv. .f. E. Taskku, f'aihier. Bulk of lei"it OUtonwt Kid ETChauc?. Collection fi'fsiwpllj .jmI all llnt. l.j lulei-cwl on '"In- !.- Um. m HENRY LUERS, DKAl.KK IN CHALLENGE WIND MILLS, AND PUMP, Buckeye Mower, combined, Self Binder, wire or twine. Pimps Repaired on .short notice HSrOiie door west of Ileintz's Drug Store, 11th Street, Columbm, Neb. S HENRY G-ASS. COFFINS AND METALLIC CASES AXD DKALKU IN Furniture, Chairs, Bedsteads, Bu reaus, Tables, Safes. Lounges, Ac, Picture Frames and Mouldings. X3" liepuirina of all kinds of Upholstery Goods. e-tr COLUMBUS. NEB. Your Hair should be your crowning glory. 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I'o'uiUops slave mother, whOBe three sone fell for the TJuion.$ 00.00 Sporting Colonel Dick Winter smith, Washington man-about-towu, friendly at the bar and heir-Ht-law to hi bourbon gaii, who "tended don: " in the House of Rep-rt-f en'ativee and had served iu the Confederate army. Di incMuir case .1.f00 n z .!ohu Porter, disobedient fnivraml arrotram subordi :i4i ; New York Police Com-ni-iionfr ut 7,000, and in ut-Hfitrd u cuinnlative pen ron that Htnrts with 3,375 Mrs. (Jener.-tl Hunter, widow of Geueral David Hunter. Hue baud, gallant soldier in three ware serving bis conntry fifty vears. Obeyed orders until hi? heart stopped. Most dia tiusuiBhed quasi-military ncr vice, President 5nd Porter court mttrfial. Aged widow needrt help. Gels it in a horn 00 00 Grand total, ad footed up by entire public si-hool : Disunion and iuubordination.$6,87i) Patriotism ami the Union... . 00 00 Notk. Columbia, this, school w&uIh the old arithmetic just a-t soon an you can find copios enough to go around 1888 or sooner. Inter Ocean. Tiik Powek of Monkv, aiid what the small sum of twenty-five cente will do if properly invented. Ask any person the question, what is the dearest and mopt precious thing to yon, and the answer is most universally the same life and health. Where then is twenty-five cents or any other sum more powerful or val uable to you, than in saving life. That in the precise cost of a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, the great life saver. It is made for bowel com plaints and nothing else, and is pieasant to take and certain to cure. Sold by Dowty & Ueitkemper. 12-4t Milk is said to be helping the temperance cause in New York to a great extent. All the bars now sell it as much as they do whiskey. The way in which it is usually drauk is in fill a glass half or two-thirds full with it and then fill the balance with vichy. The drink is very refreshing, if not exhilarating. Milk, however, is mixed with other things besides mineral water at the bars. Whiskey and milk is a very common, not to say a popular, driuk. Still, the de mand for milk alone has increased so much of late that it is sold from a number of wagons on tbe street. Cuolkra is still doing its work in the east. The other day ninety-six new cases and thirty-five deaths, were reported at Brindial. Sixteen new cases and twenty deaths, at Latiano. At Fontenau, twenty-two new cases and twenty-six deaths. Venice, ten new cases and four deaths. A Caplais's FerlBBate 1Hm covery. Capt. Colemau, schr. Weymouth, plying between Atlantic City aud N. Y., had been troubled with a cough so that he was uuable to sleep, aud was induced to try Dr. King's Now Discovery for Consumption. It uot only gave him instant relief, but al layed the extreme soreness in hi breast. His children were similarly affected and a single dose had the same happy effect. Dr. King's New Discovery is now the standard remedy in the Coleman household and on board tbe schooner. Free trial bottles of this standard remedy at Dowty & Heitkemper's drug store. Thk government at Parislfias or dered 60,000 repeating rifles to be distributed among the troups, before August. This action is attributed to the conduct of Germany iu recently arming her battalions in Alsace aud Lorraine with similar weapons. TheM Are Slld Fact The best blood purifier and system regulator ever placed within the reach of suffering humanity, iruly is Electric Bitters. Inactivity of the Liver, Biliousness, Jaundice, Con stipation, Weak Kidnays, or any dis ease of the urinary organs, or who ever requires an appetizer, tonic or mild stimulant, will always find Electric Bitters the best and only cer tain cure known. They act surely and quickly, every bottle guaranteed to give entire satisfaction or money refunded. Sold at fifty cents a bottle Dowty & Heitkemper. Herbeut Beeches, nominated by President Cleveland for collector at Puget'e Sonnd, has been rejected by the senate. A young son of Thos. Williams, near Auburn, Neb., was instantly killed the other day by a kick in the stomach from a vicious horse. JcUlca AralCA Halve. The Best Salve in the world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rbeumr Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Eruptions, and positively cores P ilea, or bo pay required. It is guar anteed to ;ive perfect satisfaction, or osey ref fladai. Price 25 ceats per box. Pot sale by Dowty Jfc Heit- MayiY-iy The Sobc of the Hoase Brooas. I sinr tba crisp son of the house broom. So brisk and of nothing afraid. The emblem of order and neatness. In tbe strong- grip of mistress or maid. For whether the whisk, sweep, or freshen, I sing- and rejoice while at work, And ay honest borne thrust is at rubbish aaa dust Wheresoever they rally or lurk. In drawing-room, boudoir, and chamber I'm at home as in kitchen and hau. Upon doorsiu, pluzza, and stairway "Swish! swish!" souuds my coallenrinf call. Tm the tyrant Sloth's Nemesis; swiftly The chains of neglect I unloose. Room, room for the broom, inactivity's doom. Sworn roe to defect and disuse! Over Axminister woof and rag- carpet My march 1 impartially take. Wbllo my sister, the plumed feather duster. Head erect, follows fast in my waae. Not a corner so dark but I search It, Not a cranny too deep to explore; After wblcb, shoulder arms till tbe next day's alarms Call me forth, thorough-paced as before. My queen, lovely woman, impels me I'm her slave or dofender at need. As many a foe will bear witness Whom & broomstick hath put to bis speed. In her gTflsp, be It dimpled or bony. I'm the scepter or dredge of her will, Aud my besian-like course gathers deftness or fotce As the housewifely wishes I flit. I am the sprite of arrangement, I am the vassal of thrift; To woman for man's better comfort, I am civilization's best gift. While cleanliness so runs tbe proverb Is a goodlinoss nearest allied; Room, room for the broom, amid sunshine and gloom The housekeeper's glory and pride! Nathan D. Urner, in New York Sun. "BAXTER'S SAINT'S REST." The band was playing gayly. The gaudily striped awnings fluttered lan guidly, and the sails of the boats flap ped idly in the faint breeze that rustled across the waves. Crowds of idle pleasure-seekers sauntered to and fro across the snowy sands of the beach of Naid, a famous seaside resort A gentleman moodily contemplated the various phases of human life drift ing before him. He caught himself smiling at the gambols of a fairy-looking boy, with long curls, who galloped, or trotted, or sedately walked by the side of a young lady. Then the lady attracted him next. She had walked past him several times, and his gaze be came severer each time. She was slen derly but compactly formed, just tall enough for grace and to escape being called "dumpy." Her hair was lustrous brown, so were her eyes, and her com plexion fair beyond compare. When in repose there was an air of sadness, like a veil, over her features; but when she smiled or talked to the little boy her face became animated, and her flitting expression charmed the beholder. "I should like to know her," muttered Stanhope Baxter, at last "I will try to find some one to introduce me," He troubled himself so much as to follow her to her hotel. It was the same at wnich he was booked. There was a hop that night He caught a glimpse of the brown eyed lady, languidly dancing with a. friend of his. His heart beat a little faster for the sight. Fool that I am!" he sneered. who have weighed women and found them wanting I, to become interested in one for the hundredth time!" But irresistibly he was drawn to his friend as he saw him piloting the lady to a seat A hand on his shoulder caused the friend to glance around. Stanhope Baxter's gray eyes were on a level with his own. "Will you introduce me?" he breath ed. Mrs. Creer, allow me my friend, Stanhope Baxter." Mrs. Creer raised her eyes, then gave him a little gracious bow. "Are you foud of dancing?" he asked, for his friend had discreetly withdrawn. Not very," she answered, in a voice peculiarly rich anil sweet, with a thread of pathos ruuuing through its sweet ness. "If you are not too tired, may I ask you to' promenade? I detest dancing." "Thank you; but I am a little fa tigued." Then he sat down near her. How lovely she was! Stanhope Baxter slandered Himself when he said he was easily interested in women. Years ao a girl whom he loved with youthful ardor had jilted him for a richer lover. The blow had been severe and deep, destroying his faith, and he had walked the earth since then one of its inhabitants, but apart from them, a lonely, brooding man. To-day this woman had uncon sciously stirred him to the depths. Why, he could not explain, for he had travel ed in many lands and seen the beauties of all nations. But this woman, with her air of faintly veiled sadness and her pathetic voice, seemed destined to ab sorb his soul. They met daily, and almost always the fairy boy was with her. She seemed passionately foud of him. He was sur prised one day when the little fellow called her "Auntie." "Why docs he call you that?" Stan hope asked. "Because I am his aunt He is the only child of my sister. She and her husband died of yellow-fever in Savan nah. The child was sent to me. 1 never had any children of my own, so that he has become very dear to me." "And yet you do not impress one as being an affectionate woman." She looked away from him. For a moment he saw a pitiful quivering of her lips as her lovely profile was turned to him, then her mouth grew firmer. "Once I thought I was, but now I think you are right It seems to me that I have lost all womanly softness," she explained, the natural pathos of her voice deepening. "Forgive me. I did not mean to wound you," he said, moving a little nearer to her, in his sympathy. "You have not wounded me, for you have only told me what many others have. A thrice-told tale grows weari some in time, but fails to wound." She smiled and the whole expression of her face changed. The greatest charm of a woman's face was hers the charm of expression. Quietly this man watched and studied her. Clearly she had suffered; but suf fering had not soured her nature. It had made her sympathies keener, her pity holier, and her forgiveness of di vine breadth. And so the golden weeks at the sea shore glided by uncounted by these two, with the difference that while she was unconscious of loving him he had come to regard her as a part of himself, one day to be his wife. Life seemed new to him. Earth, sky, and sea were radiant with a new light, and he felt as if intoxicated with strong wine. One day they sat idly under the awn ing of a sailboat, fastened, to the beach. A red parasol threw its beautiful re flected flame over her fair mot, while a book was carelessly clasped in oae fcWMi-SJ WM rjc&ijg; iadofeBjlj o COLUMBUS, NEB.. WEDNESDAY. JULY 21, 1886. the cusmons, while he sat slightly apart, but noting her every turn and gesture. Macy, her nephew, was scrambling in the sand near them, heedless of all else except himself and his tiny pleasures. Sndrlenlv StanhoDc moved nearer ' and took one of her languid hands resolutely. She looked up with an air of startled surprise. "Doris, I love you. I want you for my wife." With a shuddering cry she drew her hand and rose, trembling so that the boat gave answering tremor. "Mr. Baxter, O do you uot know?" she wailed. , "What?" and he, too, stood up, once more graspiug her tightly - clasped hands. "That I am already a wife!" "My God! Doris, you have killed me!" Without another word he leaped from the bout and strode away. With dry. hot eyes she watched him. Who was to Dlanio? He had thought her a widow. Had she deceived him? Not intentionally. Her husband was so notoriously untrue to her that she had separated nerself from him, but could not bear the thought of divorce. Occasionally he visited Tier, but always she denied his authority as a husband. She had her own fortune and her little nephew. She loved the latter, and spent the former in doing good. Now there came an awful void in her life. Too late she realized what this man. Stanhope Baxter, had become to her. How could she live without his com panionship and friendship? But man's laws arc uot made to fit human hearts, and social laws are more rigid than legal ones. She knew he would never seek her again; but all the same, a sense of cruel unrest drove her away from the seaside where she had unthinkingly drifted into something like peace and happiness. m Stanhope was furiously strapping his portmanteau when his friend, Lee Man ly, came into the room. He it was who had so fatally brought them together. "Where away, Baxter?" he cried, amazed at Stanhope's evident and fev erish haste. ""God knows I don't!" "Whj is it so bad as that?" Stanhope wheeled on him imperiously- "Pom are to blame for it all! Why did vou not tell me she was married?" "fVho?" cried his friend, aghast. "Mrs. Creer." "But I thought 3'ou knew her story. Til never forgive myself if you are un happy after this." "Unhappy! That docs not express it Life will be'a liviug hell! It has mur dered my faith iu all things! It has destroyed youth, hope, and joy forever! Good-byo!" and he was gone as if a thousand demons spurred him on. And they din. He traveled, he gam bled; he lived fast and furiously; but he could not forget! At the end of a year he drew rein to his hitherto un curbed passions. "What good does it all do? Night and day she is with me; in my dreams she is close to my heart; waking, I feel her presence near me. I will go to her!" He did. The next steamer saw him en route for America. He sought Lee Manly. "Tell me where she lives." Lee gazed curiously into his friend's high-bred face. "I must not" "You shall!" "What good will it do?" "Much to me; perhaps also to her." "She lives in Charleston; but for heaven's sake man, make no scandal. Her name has always been unsullied." "And it shall remain so if it depends on me." He was gone. He went straight to her home. He would not send in his card, lest she should refuse to see him, but told the servant to say "an old friend from Europe wished to see her for a few moments." She came down to him at once. He strode to her side, aud almost fiercely threw his arms about her, strain ing her hard to his heart, which seemed strangling with its quick, suffocating beats. "My darling, lam mad; but 1 must see you." Sue looked at him piteously, strug gling in his embrace. "Mr. Baxter " she faltered. "Do not struggle I shall not let you go, and I shall not stay long. Be kind to me for a little while." She fell to weeping bitterly. "Are you unhappy, too?" he asked, tenderly stroking her soft hair away from her hot throbbing temples. But she answered never a word. "Dar ling, I shall end all this. You must get a divorce." "No, no!" "But you shall," masterfully. "Shall two lives be sacrificed yours and mine for mere sentiment? Choose where you will live, for I go now to build us a home. I shall call it 'Baxter's Saint's Rest' You will be the Saint and it will be nij- Rest Choose now: North, South, E:tst, West." "I cannot!" She had ceased to strug gle, and looked bravely into his face with the tears yet hanging to her long lashes. "Then I shall. We are both south erners, and our home shall be in the South. Perhaps I had better go now; but may 1 write to your "What good will it do? write." "But I shalL" Kissing her repeatedly. No, do not ho left her. She sank down with a moan: "Now I must go away where he can not find me." She left Charleston at once. """ Stanhope traveled about till he had found what he thought the most beauti ful site in the South. Here he erected a noble mansion. Tbe lodge-gates bore the legend: "Baxter's Saint's Kest" Whereat the neighbors wondered, but no one could guess why the place bore so curious a title. In six months it was completed and furnished, so potent is the agency of money. He had written repeatedly to Doris, but his letters were fruitless. Now he sought her personally, but was met with the intelligence that no one knew her address. "She is cruel, cruel!" be exclaims frenziedly. "She, my saint!" But it gave a new impetus to his life to seek her. He went North. East, West South. Once, on the Union Pa cific Railroad, there was an accident One man was killed. By the aid of numerous letters and business cards in his pockets, and by the evidence of a handsome woman who was traveling with him, he was easily identified. "Drewry Creer! He is dead and my darling is free at last!" The news reached Doris in due time. Theft she returned to .Charleston aaj waited tremulously. There he found her. "Darling, are you ready now to go to Baxter's Saint's Rest?' " ho asked, folding her in bis arms closely. "In a few days." she whispered. "To-morrow!" he commanded. !But the indecency," she urged. all in your imagination. Are you to feign for a worthless man a period of mourning which you do not feel?" "But my self-respect " "Nonsense! What have you and I to do with the world and its opinions? You shall be married as quietly as you please, but thu marriage shall be to morrow." It was done as he said, and they im mediately went to their beautiful home, "Baxter's Saint's Rest" which, as the years passed, proved no misnomer. "While building this house I partly forgot my desperate unhappiness in be ing separated from yon. for I knew that it would bring us together." he told her, as he bade her "welcome home." "Thank God for 'Baxter's Saint's Rest, at last!" she whispered reverently. Annabel B. White, in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newgpuper. . m Some Points Aboat Feet. I don't believe it is when a woman has a small foot that she wants to show it just a little. I am open to serious cor rection, but there seems to be quite a satisfaction to a woman in knowing that she has a pretty foot, and a woman has a way anyhow of believing every body knows what she knows, unless it be a secret. Then she never believes that anybody else knows it even if she's told it them a dozen times. But when a woman has a small foot and has had it all her life, aud knows it aud been told about it for twenty years I beg pardon, no lady is ever over that age, say ten years she gets so accustomed toit that'it ceases to be a piece even of her vanity. It's the woman with the long foot and the high instep that wants to show them. The high instep some times goes before a fall, and that is why people with high insteps are said to have plenty of pride. When a wom an has succeeded in pinching a big foot into a very small suoo sho does not propose that all that trouble is to be gone to and all that agony suffered for nothing. So she always makes a point of having it displayed somehow. I beg pardon of the ladies for thus drawing attention to something I have no busi ness with. I think the rudest thing I ever heard of was what one of the papers said of Mrs. Langtry, that after one of her scenes several of the ladies threw flowers at her feet Mobbing her was all very well, but throwing flowers at her feet was carrying things too far, and an outrage. Did you ever see a woman try on a pair of shoesP You have! Then you're either married or engaged in a shoe store, I hope. She had a lovely foot and her visitors were admiring it. They were ladies of course. A man who is not a shoe-maker dares not mention such a thing unless they arc alone iu a dim corner of the drawing-room where nobod can over hear. "What a beautiful foot you have, dear?" Yes; pa says when we go to Europe he'll have a bust of it made." Song! San Francisco Chronicle. An Unnatural Mother. The Paris correspondent of the Lon don Telegraph writes that a horrible case of barbarous ill-treatment of a child has been brought to light in that city. The victim, he says, is the little son of a commercial traveler living in the Rue Boulle, near the Boulevard Richard Lenoir. For the past two years the boy, who is now 10, has been kept in a dark closet, scantily clothed, and fed on small rations of bread and salt, even his supply of water being limited. He was frequently beaten by his unnatural mother, who threatened to kill him outright and he did not even know in what country, street or house he was living. The poor child, who had Ixvn previously put out to nurse in tin country, had been brought to the hou.su at the risk of his life in a box, and the neighbors were actually in complete ignorance of his existence. A few days ago the boy was handed over to a woman, who took him to the hos pital, and bis terrible condition at once showed the surgeons to what inhuman treatment he had been subjected. The police were communicated with, and after much trembling hesitation the little victim, who had learned from the woman where his parents lived, gave them the address. Even then tbe police had some difficulty in finding the house, as the concierge innocently declared that his family only consisted of the father, mother, and a little girl of 12. Questioned by the police, the mother at first stated that the boy was not her son, but at last was compelled to admit the fact as also that she had broken sticks iu beating him. His sister spoke of the poor child with the utmost cynic ism. She had begun by saying that she had no brother, and it appears that she had assured her aunt that he was boarding out As for the father, he was often absent from home, and left his wife to do as she pleased with the little martyr. The child is in a de plorable condition. Although 10 years of age, he does not look more than 6. His body is frightfully emaciated and covered with bruises, and until he went to the hospital be had not lain in a bed for two years. He has no hair, it having all been torn off his head by his mother, and his scalp is one great open wound. So savage was the indignation aroused in the district by these dis closures that the wife of the commercial traveler had to be taken to jail by a strong body of police, or she would in evitably have been lynched. A Charming Princess. The Princess of Wales is really the most beautiful woman I have seen of late years. There used to be as hand some women formerly, but I have not seen one so handsome for twenty years. She has not a wrinkle or a sign of age; her complexion brilliant her eyes dazz ling, her lips red, her teeth perfect, her features commanding, her expression that mysterious thing we call beauty, her smile enchanting. .She was dressed in lilac, and it became her magnificent loveliness. That such a woman can be the mother of a grown-up son is pre posterous. Her daughters are very plain. How the Prince of Wales can see beauty in any one but his own wife seems impossible. The Princess Chris tian, whom I have met at the house of a friend, and who is a most unaffected, agreeable, cordial woman, with much bonhomie, stood next to the Princess of Wales. She encouraged me in my progress past royalty with a cordial smile and look "of recognition. She was in black and scarlet and looked welL London Letter. imtpitt Pat This in Yoar Pipe and Smoke It. "Four men out of five smoke," said a cigar dealer, "and about three out of the four smoke cigars of one. kind or an other. But not one man in twenty knows anything about cigars. The nineteen conldn tell a gootTcigarfrom a poor one. Even the people who pay pretty good prices for their cigars do so because they are proud. They judge cigars by their cost Not many smok ers know that a cigar worth fifteen cents one day mav not be worth a nickel the next day. Taking care of cigars is an art. It is impossible to buy a good cigar in a drug store or other shops where the goods are displayed in a show case, with the lids of the boxes open. Good cigars spoil quickly if ex- Ksed to dry air. They should always kept in close, slightly moist zinc boxes. A man will buy a box of cigars and pay $8, $9, $10. or perhaps 12 a hundred for them. He takes his box home, puts it up on a shelf in his bed room, or in a hot, dry closet, which is next to a chimney. As like as not he leaves the lid of the box off or imper fectly closed. Next morniug his box of cigars is worth about $3. The flavor is gone. They are dry and burn hot and fast If the mau's" pride iu his own judgmeut as a buyer of cigars, aud that confidence in and" admiration for his own, which every man feels, do not de stroy his taste he" comes back and makes a big kick and swears that we have palmed off on him an article much in ferior to the one he has been smoking and which he liked so well. There's an other thing which smokers of good im ported cigars would do well to remem ber. A cigar carried in a man's vest pocket two or three hours is absolutely spoiled, so far as flavor is concerned. I would rather smoke a common nickel cigar than a 15 cent imported which a man has carried in his vest pocket from the time he left home in the morning until after dinner." Chicago Herald. m m Extraordinary MeUcal Skill. One stormy nignt, when the roads were well-nigh impassable, a son of Erin came into a doctor's office aud de sired the dispenser of physic to go to see a friend who was "jist a-dyhv." He would not take no for au answer; so, putting the saddle-bags upon his horse, the physician started out upon his jour ney. As soon as he saw the sick man he knew it was nearly over with him, and remarked to the courier: "Peter, you told the truth; your friend is just at the point of death." "Can't ye do ainytheeng for heem?" replied Peter. "No; it is too late." "But, docthor, aiut ye goin' to give heem ainything at all at all?" "It will do no good." "But docthor, ye have come so far, it would be too bad to go back without doin' ainything." For the peace of Peter's mind, the doctor now took a small quantity of sugar from a phial, and placed it upon the dying man's tongue just as he was drawing his last breath. Peter, seeing his friend's head drop back, looked up at thedoctor with big eyas, and said, half in a whisper, "Oh, docthor, an didn' ye do it quick!" Harper's Magazineor July. The Violinist. I know that one of the greatest violin ists I have heard told me that Paganini's studies were at the time so unusual and so difficult that they were considered an enigma which verv few undertook to solve, and it woufd be interesting to know how many would now be able to solve it in a satisfactory manner. He played ou two, even on three, strings at the time without doing what Ole Bull did, cut the bridge straight; he played arpeggi in double stops, or made a series of staccati marking the melody in pizzicato. He passed, as I have be fore said, for having achieved such supernatural tours deforce by a super natural pact and the superstition of some people who credited this nonsense went so far that a lady who heard him in Italy, and would not believe that any human being could so far surpass all his fellow-creatures without extraordin ary means, followed him to the stage door, where stood his cab with a black horse. She swore he never touched the ground; that there was a fiery cart with two black horses, and he went away through the air. So in Italy they told little Mozart that it was his bewitched ring which accomplished all his feats on the piano, until he took off the ring and quietly put it on the desk. Iu an unpublished letter of Vieuxtemps, this great violinist when, at the age of 14, e heard Paganini here iu London, seems unable to give au idea of his ad miration aud delight at Paganini's per formance of "Le Streghe"(TheWitches). In one paragraph he says: "His bow was fabulous in rapidity"; his certainty stupefying, never even a doubtful note; he was infallible." Vieuxtemps, one of the most remarkable composers for the violin during the second quarter of our century, and himself one of the great celebrities, says iu that letter: "How can I give "an opinion of him mot, pugmeef' Paganini, in the boldness of his new ideas and in their execution, in his harmonics in thirds and sixths, was amazing. When he played the prayer from "Mose" on the G string alone, he took the barytone voice as written, then the soorano voice an octave higher, and led into the major part with such triumphant power that Rossini, who had composed it. said it was doubtful whether Paganini did not effect as much on the violin string as all the singers in theater put together. Temple Bar. m e Lawyers are not all bad. They have feelings if you can only go deep enough. A lawyer up in the country was called to defend a Mexican for some serious crime, and he got him off. "What fee did you get?' somebody asked him. "Weil, the fellow was very grateful very grateful. After the trial he came to me and he emptied his pockets. He had $20, and a watch, and a jack-knife." "And you " "I took the $20 and the watch. I gave him back the jack-knife. it you didn't expect me to rob the poor devil?" San Francisco Chronicle. m m To Care Damp Cellar Walla. The following, it is said, will accom plish an admirable result: Boil two ounces of grease with two quarts of tar for nearly twenty minutes in an iron vessel, and having ready pounded glass one pound, slaked lime two pounds, well dried in an iron pot and sifted through a flour seive. Add some of the lime to the tar aud glass, to form a thin paste only sufficient to cover a square foot at a time, about an eighth of an inch thick. - m Nantasket Beach was strewn with shingles Wednesday maming, the re sult probably of a spanking breeze. BoUon Commercial Vuikim. WHOLE NO. 845. National Bank ! OK COX.XTBCBXJ8. NEB.. HAS AX Authorized Capital of $250,000, A Surplus Fund of - '$15,000, And the largest Puil in Cah Cap ital of any hanK in this part of" the State. SSyOeposits received and interest paid on time deposits. I3yDraft3on the principal cities in this country aud Ktuop Imtiglit aud sold. tSTCollection1 and all other business i;iven prompt aud careful attention. SIOCKHW.DKKS. A .AND K ItSON , J'res't. S AMM. O. SMITH. Vice J'res't. O.T. KOKN. CWtiVr. .1. l liECKKK. UK UMAX OEIILKiril, O. St'Hl'TTK, W.A.McALLISTKIt, .IOXAS WELCH, .IOUX V. KAULV, I'.AXDKKSON, U. ANDERSON. Apr28-'SCtf BUSINESS CARDS. D.T. Martvn, M. I). V. .1. Schur, M. D. Drs. MARTYN & SCHUG, U. S. Examining Surgeons, Local Surgeon1. Union Pacific, O., N. B. II. and . A M. It. R's. Consultations iu Oeriuau and English. Telephone: at olliee mid residences. EiTOlSiee on OIie .street, next to Brod iVnlircr'.s .lewelry Store. COLUMBUS, - NEBRASKA. 4J-V W. XI. ('OKXKI.Ii;.. LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE. 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Paul Lumber Yard, Columbus, Ne braska. .12 timo. riAfll'KELL 4c CO. DKALKHS IX Rao-s and Iron ! The highest market price paid for rags and iron. Store in the Bubach building, Olive t., Columbus. Neb. 15-tf JS. MURDOCK & SON, Carpenters and Contractors. H&vehad an extended experience; and will guarantee satisfaction in work. All kinds of repairing done on short notice. Our motto is, Good work and fair prices. Call and give us an oppor tunitytoestimsteforyou. ISTShop on 13th Stone door west of Friedhof A. Co's. store, Cssluaibus, Nbr. J83-T BATES ? AaYBMTItJlN fiPTBaalHaaaaBd profaaaloaalcarda of firaliaesor less, per annasa, It dollars. tTTor tiata advertisements, applr at this oflce. E7Itegal advertisessenta at statata rates. J3Tor transient advertising, aaa rates on third page. I3TAU advertisements payabla monthly. PUKEGKIT. Seaie Experlracee of the Sm m tfce Ceasdrate Alabaasa. I was one of the first men who signed papers with the much-Taunted confed erate cruiser, the Alabama, and my ser vice in her did not end until she sailed into an English port with the confede rate flag flying. You will thus realize that I participated in the capture ol several dozen federal merchantmen and whalers. There was a sameness about our manner of making captures which we were glad to have broken now and then. It was but rarely that a vessel was overhauled during the night II we were in chase of her we simply kept her in sight, or tried to, until daylignt came. While we could not anticipate any stubborn resistance, the right sort of a skipper might fire a volley into a boat's crew or go to some other uncom fortable extreme. As a rule we had only to close in on our victims, fire a solid shot across his course, and be would heave to and put the best face possible on a bad matter. The first lieutenant would be sent off to him with a boat and half a dozen marines, and in the course of half an hour his fate would be de cided. If it was thought best to bond him the papers were made out and sign ed and be was permitted to go his way. If his craft was to be destroyed the men were allowed to bring up their clothing and knick-knacks, the officers to pack their personal effects, and inside of an hour the craft would be ablaze, and we would be sailing away in search of an other victim. When we ran around in search ol whalers we came upon a Yankee skip per who didn't know what surrender meant. We were just well to the west of the stormy cape, when, one morning after breakfast, we raised a whaler. He was headed up the coast, and about noon we overhauled him. He paid no attention to the first shot, and it wan only when the second one hulled him that he came into the wind. It was then seen that he had fifteen or sixteen men aboard, and that all were armed with muskets and meant to defend the ship. The lieutenant was sent off with his boat, but no sooner was he within fair musket range than the whaler openod fire on him, killing one man and wound ing two at the first volley. The officer pushed ahead, and demauded a surren der, but he got another volley and tho reply that the whaler "would go to the bottom before he would surrender to a d rebel!" The boat was recalled, and our gun ners were instructed to hull the whaler with solid shot. We approached hiiu within rifle-range and opened tire. Every one of the balls plumped through his side at and above the water-line, and he answered with his muskeu, severely wounding two men. He wad repeatedly hailed to surrender, but in reply he encouraged his men to main tain their tire. We soon had the sea pouring into his starboard side through a dozen holes anil when it was seen that he would soon go down we ceased firing and again demanded his surren der. I can remember just now how he looked as he sprang upon the rail tall, gaunt, hair flying aud eyes blazing, aud shouted in reply: "The Ben Scott don't surrender! Come and take us if you can." Five minutes later his craft settled down bow first. We lowered the boats to save his crew, and strangely enough not a man was lost When we brought them aboard the Yankee skipper walked up to Semiues. bare-headed, bare-footed, and coatless, and said: "If I'd only have had one old caunon aboard we'd have licked ye out of your Lutes! Here we arc, and what are ye going to do with us?" He was voted a jolly good fcliow, and the men were better treated than any other ever forced aboard. In order to give them their liberty the very next capture we made wa bonded and they were put aboard to sail for home. Detroit Free Press. How He Fooled Scotty. "Scotty" is a very cute barkeeper at a verv prominent down-town hotel. He has served more drinks and been "beat." fewer times than any mixer of cocktails in the city. I.ut to-day he was out witted. A man who wa3 decently dressed sauntered into the bar-room from the olliee. talked leisurely about the climate, and expressed pleasure that he had emigrated from the East Then, thrusting his hand deep into his pocket, he asked for "a little whisky." The bottle was placed upon the counter. "Well, as this is the first to-day, and my blood is sluggish, I guess I'll take a big drink," he said. Then he filled up the glass and drank the contents like a veteran. While fumbling in his pockets :is if searching for a bit the customer said that when he came to Sacramento he knew but one person, and that was "Lame John son." I never heard of him," said Scotty. "What? You don't know Lame John son?" queried the fellow "Lame John son, who walks this way?" Stiffening his right leg and pushing his hand deeper into Tiis poeset, he limped across the bar-room, suddeuly struck the swinging doors with his hand, darted out "and rau away at full speed. The beaten barkeeper rushed to the door, gazed down the street, and philosophically said: "Well, I guess the fellow earned that drink, but I would like to black hia eye." Sacramento Bee. I SI The Apostle of the Lepers. We regret to hear that the Apostle of the Lepers of Molonai is beginning to pay the penalty of his heroism. Shut away from all civilized and healthy humanity. Father Damen has for years been a willing prisoner in the island, in which are collected and confined the lepers of all the neighboring Sand wich group. For a long time, though cnt from the outward world. Father Damen continued in good health, though alone among the dead. But tho stroke has fallen at last In a letter written recently he says: "Impossible for me to go any more "to Honolulu, on account of the leprosy breaking out on me. The microbes have finally settled themselves in my left leg and my ear, and one eyebrow begins to falL I ex- Est to have my face soon disfigured, ving no doubt myself of the true character of my disease, I feel calm. rwaiempd. nil himiv amonf mv DeODle. Almighty God knows what is best for my sanctification. and with that con-, viction 1 say daily a good fiat voluntas tua." Where is the heroism which will vie with this? London Tablet. m i "My good man," said the philanthrop ist to the street laborer, "do you never have cause to grumble at your position?" "No, sir," was the answer; "I took my pick at the atart." Lowell Citizen, r h&" , --, .
