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J. 8. NENATOE TAIV HTCK.
A Brief Reoertl ef His PaUie Ser-
vioa-HswHs is mesaxdea hyHla
Feraaer Ceastitaeats.
For the past few years some per-
oiBtent creature in Nebraska has been
occasionally goodiug us a railroad
organ printed in that State, ostensibly?
Republican in politics, with marled
editorials of falsehood and aMiTse of
our former townsman, Gen. Van
Wyck, who was many years ago the
Representative iu Congress from this
Congressional district now a resi
dent of the former State, representing
it in part in the United States Sen
ate. The malignancy of the articles was
so apparent that we threw the papers
aside. Those of hifc old friends and
former constituents who nad
journeyed with -him for, over thirty
years knew that his social, onsiness
aud political 'life during that. period
had beeu without reproach, aud that
no stain could be cast upon him by
disappointed politicians whose
schemes he had thwarted.
The patriotic services rendered by
Gen. Van Wyck in the halls of legis
lation and upon the tented field, a
brief record of which we present
below, are remembered with pride
and satisfaction by the people of thisv
bis old Congressional District.
Soon alter entering the profession
of law in Sullivan county, he was
elected District Attorney. He was
then a Democrat. The Anti-Renters
bad l be control and usually voted
with the Whigs and carried the
county. Gen. Van Wyck at his home
in Matnakating township, received
many Whig votes which secured hi
election. His first term was s
satisfactory that he was re-elected
the Anti-Renters voting for him, be
receiving a majority in every town
ship in the county.
Always opposed to slavery he was
with the Free Soil Element of the
Democratic party and was among the
first to take part in organizing the
Republican party. lie was active in
its conventions; in' framing the plat
form iu fact was present at the birth
of that great organization. He was
an enthusiastic worker in the Fre
mont campaign, speaking in nearly
every school district in Orange aud
Sullivan counties.
So in 1S58 the young party naturally
turned to him as its standard hearer
for Congress in this district. The
campaign was red -hot from the start.
Both Orange and Sullivan counties
comprising the district were at that
time strongly Democratic and while
the Democratic state ticket had over
1,200 majority in the two counties,
Gen. Van Wyck succeeded by the
same number.
The bitterness of political hate
culminated in the Lincoln campaign
of 18C0 when Gen. Van Wyck was a
candidate for re-election. The Dem
ocratic party wisely concluded to
venture none of its chosen champions
iu the race against him, but selected
one of the most popular men in the
district one of the solid men of the
old Whig party and known as a
"silver gray" Whig the Hon. Dan
iel B. St. John. The campaign wa
long and earnest, Gen. Van Wyck re
ceiving in the district more vote
than Lincoln.
In this Congress came the war
During the long term of 1861 some
members desired to go to the battle
of Bull Run, a few miles from the
Capitol.
General Van Wyck said to his
colleague, Mr. Ely, of the Rochester
District, "Our duty is here ; let us do
that, and then go home and recruit
regiments and come with them to the
field." Ely went out to the Bull Run
battle field aad was one of the cap
tured Congressmen. Van Wyck did
as he said. At the end of the session
be came home. Defeat bad dispirited
our people, enlistments were slow,
and Democratic orators and paper
were claiming that the rebels could
never be defeated. Gen. Van Wye!
took up the drooping standard, un
furled it, and commenced raising tb
56th Regt., known as "The Tenth
Legion," that being the then number
of this Congressional District. The
regiment had ten infantry companies,
one of sharp-shooters, two batteries
and two cavalry companies a legion
n fact as well as in name. He
rallied the spirits of the people and
filled them with hope and courage.
Seme Democrats labored to prevent
aud defeat enlistments. They every
where insisted that Van Wyck would
raise the regiment, take it to the
field, then leave it and turn the com
mand over to another. They claimed
the finances of the nation would be
ruined, that our money would be
come worthless, that when the war
ended it would be as it was at the
end of the war ot the Revolution
with th'e Continental currency that
a bushel of currency wyild not buy a
bushel of white beans.
. We well remember how Gen. Vau
Wyck dispelled both these charges.
He told the wives and mothers as
they gave up their husband or first
born, that he would aot only go, but
would stay with them in cawp and
ob the field Bntil1 the country was
destroyed or the flag floated again in
victory. And he kept the .promise
to the letter. la aaswer te the other
charge he boldly eteiec everywhere,
"If the country was tete. destroyed,
let the fiuscM go with' tit; if the
coaatry WM'-Mveel Iho AeMckaa
people would see to it and 'save its
currency. If he was compelled to
outlive his country, any money would
be of but little value." And he stated
in all bis speeches and on every street
corner that he would trust his
country and. its currency; that he
would take command of the regi
ment, go with it to the field and stay
with it to tho end; that he would not
take a dollar for his services or any
reimbursement for bis expenses until
either the Union was disrupted and
money destroyed with it, or until
peace came and the Union was re
stored, and then he would take the
pay to which he 'was entitled and if
the Democrats were right he would
take it in rags no betair than the old
Continental currency.
And this promise he kept to the
letter. -
With the exception of Company
D the Warwick company he ad
vanced the money to transport from
Orange, Sullivau and Delaware
couuties, by rail and stage, fourteen
companies to headquarters at New
burgh, and that money has not yet
been repaid. He went with them to
the field, stayed until victory came
and the Union was restored over
tour years remained on duty, some
time in South Carolina after peace
came and was mustered out. He
theu related the circumstance of bis
recruiting the regiment, what he had
promised and said, "Now 1 will take
the pay to which I am entitled."
Every one knew that at the ti ne he
enlisted bis regiment, he was also a
member of Congress ; that be fiuished
cut bis term in Congress, and was
here a few months while in command
f his regiment. The Paymaster,
with the knowledge of all the facts,
computed bis pay in the depreciated
currency, and when gold was worth
280, Gen. Van Wyck received the
first dollar iu the despised greenback
for his four long years of faithful
service. Probably he was the only
man, who served from the beginning
to the close of the war, not receiving
pay during the term. But he in
spired confidence in the people by
his promise, which be well kept aud
redeemed in 1865.
He was faithful to hU country aud
the men iu command. His men
"loved him as a brother." He was
always with them on the field, iu the
hospital aud iu camp. He established
a system of checks by which he sent
money home to the soldiers' families,
and at his own expense furnished
supplies of comforts aud luxuries for
the sick. Aud to-day, whenever you
find a soldier of the "Tenth Legion,"
you find a devoted frieud of the old
Colonel.
When the army of the Potomac
were following Gen. McClellau
through the mud of Virginia, tired
and hungry, Gen. Vau Wyck dis
covered provisions and stores be
longing to the Confederate wing aud
ordered some carts and oxen from a
neighboring plantation, loaded the
-upplies upon the carts and was
aking them into camp for an evening
meal, when" Gen. Andrew Porter,
hen Provost Marshal of McClellan's
;.rmy (the same kind of patriot as his
ousin, Fitz John Porter, whom Con
i rets has just decorated with an en
dorsement he did not earn on the
field) beard of this great outrage
upon the vested rights of the rebels,
and althongh the provisions belonged
to the rebel army, Col. Van Wyck
was ordered under arrest. 'The
bacon, meal and provisions were
ordered back and the Union soldiers
went 6upperless to bed, on the hard
eoil of Virgiuia. 3JThen Gen. Mc
Clellau was apprised of the facts, he
ordered Gen. Van Wyck to be re
leased from arrest, and- his sword to
be returned. There was a great deal
of history iu this little episode of the
war.
In 1866 the Republican party in
sisted that he should again be a can
didate for Congress, and he was
riumpbantly elected. Even then a
ew Democrats of the copperhead
brand claimed that during a few of
the last months of his Congressional
term he had also served aed been
paid as colonel of bis regiment ; but
the facts were so we'll known in -the
district that the charge only increas
ed his vote.
We were not then surprised that
copperhead meanness could make a
change so weak and despicible.
But to see copperhead malice fil
tered through Republican newspa
pers in Nebraska is certainly strange.
We will venture to say their editors
were uot soldiers in the war ; that
they never smelt the battle from afar
off.
Equally contemptible is the alle
gation that Van Wyck is not a Re
publican. He was always the same
kind of Republican in the State of
New lork that he-has been in Ne
braska and in the U. S. Senate al
ways firm in his political convictions
and independent in his political act
ions. He did what he believed to be
right and what.the people generally
believed to be right. He punctured
all shams and tolerated no frauds in
his own party. He was opposed to
slavery and i favor of freed em to
all men, aid he is still the same un
compromising, enthusiastic opponent
to corporate power aad ia faver of
all measures tor the beaefit of the
toiling aiafises.- ;-
We remejaber when some. men be
gsaacqulriegfreet weelth from the
profits of army contracts and scan
dals were rife Geo. Van Wwck rais
ed a committee of Congress, always
known as tho 'Van Wyck Commit
tee," of which he was chairman, and
that it caused the annulment of
many contracts and broke down
ninny well-laid schemes to steal
millions from the public Treasury.
Of course, the balked schemers were
indignant. So, too, when he made a
iull investigation and exposed the
New York Custom House a few Re
publicans thought he would injure
his own party ; but the Republicans
of tho Nation and this district be
lieved in such republicanism, aud he
was re-elected to Congress in 186S,
making four terms he was called to
represent Orange and Sullivan. 'This
nomination he accepted unwillingly
bnt the party bolieved he was the
only man, who could carry the
District.
Tho year before Tweed at the
height of his power and wickedness,
had flooded this District with fraudu
lent naturalization papern. It was
well known that many of these were
to be ueed in this election. This was
demonstrated by the result, and
when a couitnittoo from Coiirenn
was directed to make inquiry into the
Iraudn, it appeared that at thtt elect
ion fiuuijreds of nahimli. itiiin pi-
pern were imported from Pennsylva
nia, known as coffee colored (or
coffee pot) papers, because tho vot.ir
foutid them in a cotiee pot in Port
Jervis, and many person were prov
en to have irregulurly and illegal! v
obtained naturalization papers iu an
engine bouse at New burg. Persons
were proven to actually vote on
iuch fraudulent papers at the election
more than enough to change the re
sult, and it was so declared by Con
gress, so that tho unmiuatiou of Gen.
Vau Wyck aud the Congressional
investigation saved the District.
Gen. Vau Wyck on the field aud
in Congress always bore himself
gallantly. We have not forgotten
that in the 36th Cougress when tot
two mouths John Sherman was a
candidate for Speaker of tha I louse,
day after day the "Fire Eaters" of the
South poured fourth bitter aud pro
voking speeches. The Republicans
made no reply, hut quietly voted,
and at last Hon. Win. IVnuingtou, of
New Jersey, was elected. Theu the
Republicans returned broadside af
ter broadside iu answer to the liu
rangues of the men of the South.
And Gen. Vau Wyck made a speech
acknowledged to be one of the most
effective delivered, which was after
wards published us a campaign docu
ment aud went through eight edi
tions. When roplying to the Soutb's
arraignment of tho courage of the
North, Mr. Crawford, of Georgia,
angrily iutorrupted and asked if he
would go outside the District of
Columbia aud test tho question of
courage with any Southern man. Mr.
Van Wyck firmly replied that he
raveled every where without fear of
any one and he did. Iu that speech
alluding to tho attempt to fasten
slavery on the territories, he said :
"Within a few weeks the legislature
of Nebraska has by law prohibited
therein, and the willing tool of this
administration vetoed the bill. The
people of that territory, now number
ing some forty or fifty thousand
along whose rivers villages arc
springing op as if by magic, whose
prairies are teeming with the fruits
of free and educated industry, and
told that they cannot frame their do
mestic institutions even to keeping
back 'the bitter water that causeth
the curse.' "
While encamped at Washington
Gen. Van Wyck designated one per
son in each regiment to use his trauk
on soldiers letters, (the franking
privilege was then in force) until the
city postmaster raised objection,
claiming that no one could sigu the
name bnt the member of Congress
himself. Gen. Van Wyck theu ob
tained rooms at the National Hotel
Letters from all the regiments were
brought to his rooms. He hired sev
eral clerks, and his name was by
them signed iu his presence. Tin
city postmaster endeavored to stop
this, but Van Wyck persisted and th
letters were frauked. This subjec
was agitated in the House by a reso
lution offered by him, when he said :
"I propose not only that the soldier
shall send bis letters tree, but tha:
the family at home shall be allowed
to communicate free, with the soldier
fighting the battles .for his country."
On the matter of raising a commit
tee to inquire into army contracts
July 17tb, 1861, he said "in the few
months of the war there has been a
system of plunder which exceeds in
audacity any that has characterized
previous administrations. Before
our army could get through Balti
more ; before the 8th Massachusetts
and the 7th N. Y. rested their armies
from a weary march in this very
capital, the army of contractors had
arrived. I appeal to my Republican
friends, let us be true to our former
profession and see to it that plunder
and peculation shall not follow the
track of our army. Let us take care
that the contractors shall not feast
and fatten upon the free will offer
ing of the Republic" The resolution
was adopted by a vote of 81 to 47.
Afterwards, Feb. 7, 1862, when
making a report on this subject, be
eeid:
Noarly every man who deals
with the Government seems to feel
or desire that it would not long sur-
viye and each hada common right to
plunder while it livod Your
Government ' retains meu whose
-s ,
hearts are filled with treason and
their miuds with rebellion. I have
a right to speak to an administration
which. I aided to elect, to whose prin
ciples I am committed. Five hun
dred thousand meu are iu armies
against the rebels but twenty mil
lions are in armies against the crew
of 'plundering dealers." 3fiddle-
toton Daily Press, Aug. 4.
A Harrow Kmsvc.
I was suddenly taken very ill -at
Eagle Lake, this state, the other day
with1 cholera morbus, a.nd used
luorphine to no 'avail, and I grew
Wertte and despatched messenger
for a physician, who brought with
him a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic,
Cholera aud Diarrhoea Remedy, aud
gave me a dose which relieved me
instantly, and I firmly believe that to
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At Minneapolis the other day De
tectives Valentine and Fero, of the
Union Pacific Company, left, haviug
iu custody a young man named Wal
ter Morris, who is wanted for em
bezzlement. Morris is a telegraph
operator, aud was employed by the
Union Pacific Company at Silver
Creek, Neb., where he worked nights,
aud, while acting as ticket agent
marked tho ticket coupous lower
than the price he received for the
tickets.
A committkk of colored men from
Pennsylvania, Maine and Boston,
have decided io call a national con
vention of colored people to lie held
at Philadelphia in October. It is es
timated that the monuments aud
grounds will cost about one million
dollars. The proposed mouuments
will be raised to John Brown, Wil
liam Lloyd Garrison, Charles Sum
ner, Wendell Phillips, Abraham Lin
coln, Richard Allen aud others.
As elect! ical storm prevailed in
tho vicinity of Papillion, Neb., on the
vl2tb aud 13th iusts. Reports of
lightning strokes were received from
all parts of the county. Many stacks
of grain were fired by lightning.
Jacob Mauss's houue, near town, was
struck aud one eud tore out. Several
cattle on the Liukkotter farm, five
miles west, were killed.
Lieut. Stevens returned to Johns
town, Neb., the other day and reports
the affair nothing but an Indian scare.
The Indians . stole nothing, neither
molested any oue, except by their
presence at the ranch when the wo
men were alone. They have left now
for the North Loup country.
Christine Nilsson wa9 married
ou the 13th iust., at Paris to Count
De Capa Miranda, of Spain. The
marriage ceremony was private.
A WalkiBK Skeleton.
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Cholera is sweeping away the
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According to the report of D-.
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A company ot one huudred and
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4.UO vbubii nuouH.
Bnt of the Cuban woman's loveliness
there can be no question. She is beau
tiful in form, in movement, iu face.
From the nifia or little girl to old age
she is still beautiful. She is winsome as
a child, lovely as a. maiden, entrancing
as a sweeinearc, aaoraoie as a wile,
dear and sweet as a mother, and again
charming and winsome when the days
have come wherein she is a child again.
Somehow tbatsort of thing, all the way
along, would seem to comprise condi
tions out of which good women could
secure the truest worship, the happiest
lives. And I believe they do here
in tho physical beauty of the Cuban
woman the commanding features are
the foot, whoso daintiness and symmetry
are marvelous; the supple, willowy
grace of movement of person; the ex
quisitely modeled form, and tiie eyes
which novcr lose their luster and glow.
Cuban women wear shoes no larger
than the No. 1 size for women in the
states. Nor is this diminutive size the
result of any pinching process. She is
bore that. way- JTuat.is her loot . You
could hold two of them inyonrone
hand. And. whatever the woman's
weight or size, the foot is universally
this dainty and beautiful thing. Its
arch is wonderful. But one thing about
it offends the foreigner's eye. That is
the high, narrow heel, two or three
inches loug, and scarcely a third of an
inch at its narrowest part. One feels
afraid of accidents and contretemps
from it But this urettv-footcd woman
is a sure-footed one. She is the most
graceful woman on her feet, in her walk
and carriage, in the promenade, or in
the dance, you eversaw. So this sinewy,
lithe grace must also be inbred, a part
of the grain, liber, blood, and the very
spirit back of them. Ot" her form, it is
perfection. Nine women out of ten you
meet are models of symmetry. I should
aay.they were rather under the size of
our average Auifricau women. There
is a greater delicacy in line and propor
tion. They do noil so torture their er
sons or themselves. They do not eudea
vor to abo)ish the action ot" even- vital
organ, and tlioe organs themselves, in
an eflbrt to rival the hour-glass in form.
They are themselves. Many American
womeu ruin themselves and' sicken the
public endeavoring to be something be
sides women all around. Thee womeu
are just as God made them. All wo
men are physically beautiful when they
let God alone in thee matters. AH wo
meu who do otherwise make themselves
hideous to even men who pretend gal
lant admiration. E. L. Wakanuin, in
Chicago News.
A Lullaby Night in Camp.
I recommend the wall tent, rather
than the "A" or wedge tent. We have
both varieties in our camp, but when
the winds are boisterous the wall tent
has a few fancy steps that the "A" tent
can never hope to imitate. Night has
fallen. On the other hand, the wind
has gotten up. I retire to the cot that
sags down like a watering trough to re
ceive me, and the circus begins. I am
not afraid that the lent will blow over
it takes a terrific wind to capsize a well
Sinned, neatly adjusted tent But I
on't sec why it can't stand still. I
hear the wind waving among the trees.
I look at the cot where the prince is
sleeping and half wish 1 hadn't brought
him out into this land of furious storms.
I lie down again, look at the swaying
lantern, and think I will get up and put
it out. Suddenly the tent squats down
like a collapsed balloon, aud then be
fore I can throw my arms over the
prince to keep the ridge ik1c from hit
ting him, the tent stands straight up
three feet higher than its best standing
record. Another roaring tempest
through the trees; the four sides of the
tent bulge' out until it is as round as
a Sibley tent; then it collapses and
sucks in until there is hardly room in
side for the lantern. Then three sides
stiffen up like sheet iron, while the
fourth. flaps itself mad for no particular
reason. The tent squats again, and
when it stands up this time, the fly be
gins to flap and ponnd over your head,
faster than you can think, with the roll
of a muffled drum, varied now and then
by a crack like the shot of a gun. A
moment's lull suddenly the winds seem
to be rending the forests, aud both tent
poles, fore and aft, are seized with the
delirium tremens, and shiver and shake
and tremble in oscillating spasms,
while the walls dance up and down,
flutter, bulge, collapse and stretch, and
the frantic fly, "as fast as mill wheels
strike," smites the top of the tent in
furious, loud-sounding whacks that
make the very lantern burn blue with
fear; the moaning of the'wind in the
woods rises to a shriek; under the im
pression that the whole mountain is
flowing away, I spring to my feet rush
to the tent door, tear it open.
The bluest skies, the brightest stars,
the loveliest night in all this land greets
me with the blessing of peace. The
night wind is singing sdftly iu the gent
ly swaying tree tops, a lullaby of the
summer night, a liquid whisper, the
very undertone of the' zephyr, scarce so
loud as the purling murmur of the
drowsy little brook, crowing itself to
sleep in the starlight That is all.
But why should it sound so like Bed
lam inside the tent? That's what 1
want to know. liurdette in Brooklyn
Eagle.
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The Torn-Check Swindle.
A new and ingenious swindle has
been, detected, as follows: A check, say
for $10, is obtained from a depositor at
a batik anu a blank check exactly like
the filled-in check is secured. The two
checks are laid one upon the other, so
that the edges are exactly even. Both
checks are then torn irregularly across
and in such a way that the signature on
the filled check appears on one piece
and the amount and name of payee on
the other. The checks haviug been
held together while being torn, of
course one piece of the blank check will
exactly fit the other piece of the filled
check. The swindler then fills in one
piece of the blank check with the name
of the payee and the amount to suit
himself, say $5,000, takes it with the
piece of genuine check containing the
signature of the bank, and explains that
the check was accidentally 'torn. The
teller can put the pieces together, and
as they lit exactly the chances are that
he will think that the pieces are parts
of the same check and become a victim
of the swindle. The trick, of course,
suggests its own remedy. The teller
should refuse to pay any check that is
mutilated. Boston Transcript.
The champion stingy man turns up
in Fresno this time. He hired a worn
an.to do a day's washing, she was to
' begin at 5 a. m. and quit at 6 p. m.
By-hard work she got through at 5:30
odock. The man paid; the bill, but
made her give him a couple of cabbages
oat of her garden in lieu of the half
hoar she bad saved by extra hard work.
Fre$iu (Cal.y Expositor.-
National Bank!
OK
COXaTJaWBUfs.
HAS AN
Authorized Capital of $250,000,
A Surplus Fund of - $15,000,
Aud the largest Paid 1st Csutlt Cap
ital of any baUK in this part
of the State.
USTDeposit received and interest paid
on tiiue deposits. .
iSTDraftson the principal cities in this
country aud Kurope bought and sold.
ElTCollectious aud all other business
giveu prompt and careful attention.
STOCKHOLDERS.
A . A N DE KSON, 1'res't .
SAM'L C.SMITH, Vice Preset.
O.T.KOKX, Cashier. '
.1. 1. KKOKEK.
HKKMAN OKIIMUCH,
Q.SCHL'TTE,
W.A.McALLISTElt,
.JON'AS WELCH,
.IOIIN W. EAKLV,
1 ANDERSON,
O.ANDEUSON.
AprJS-'S:tf
BUSINESS CARDS.
1.T. M AfeTVN, M. I. F. .1. SciiUG, 31. D.
Drs. MARTYN & SCHUG,
V. S. Examining Surgeons,
Local Surgeons. Union Pacific, O., N.
&. B. 11. aud It. & 31. K. R'.
Consultations in (Jerinin and English.
Telephones at ollice and residences.
IsSTOfliee on Olive street, next to Urod
leuhrer'a Jewelry Store.
COLUMBUS, - NEBRASKA.
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HI. C'OatrVI-Il.lUM,
LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE.
Upstairs Krust building llth street.
oui.i.iva a ki:i:di:k,
A TTOJIXEYS A T LA W,
Otliee oyer First National ISaiik, Colum
bus, Nebraska. ."0-tf
C.
. KVAX, M. .,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
37Otiice aud rooms. Clink huildin,
llth street. Telephone communication.
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AMILTO. J1KA UK, .11. .,
PHYSICIAN AND SUIIGEON,
Platte Center, Nebraska. !-y
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KNIil KATIMTKDT,
r.LACKS3UTH AND WAGON MAKER,
l."th street, east of Abt's barn.
April 7, 'Stf-tt
T)owi-:i,i, hoiik:,
PLATTE CENTER, NEli.
lust opened. Special attention jriven
to commercial men. Has a good sample
loom. Sets the best tattle. Give it a
(rial aud be convinced. .'0.:iiio
IOHi EVMUEK,
COUNTY SURVEYOR.
gSTl'arties desiriug surveying done
t-au address me at Columbus, Neb., or
call at my otliee iu Court House.
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VrOTICK TOTKAi'HKKIi.
W. H. Tedrow, Co. Supt.
I will be at uiyoiticeiu the Court House
the third Saturday of each mouth for the
examination of teachers. 00-tf
F. F. RUNNEIS, IM. D
HOMCEOPATHIST.
Caroaio Diseases aad Diseases ef
Ckildrea a Specialty.
t5T"Ottiee on Olive street, three doors
north of First National Bank. 2-ly
jVrcAI.LISTEK BKON.,
A TTOJtNJS YS A T LA W,
Office up-stairs iu McAllister's build-
in j,'. ntu St. W. A. McAllister, Notary
Public.
J. M. MACKAKLAND, B. K. COWDRKY,
Attsrat? isi llotiry PbcI e. Collector.
LAW AND C0LLFXTI0N OFFICE
OK
M ACFARfcAND & COWDBRY,
ColianbHs, : : : Nebraska.
John o. iimniNs. c. .1. carlow,
Collection Attorney.
HIGGIHS & CTABLOW,
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW,
Specialty made of Collections. by C..I.
Garlow. o4-m
T H.KIJMVHK,
llth St., opposite Lindell Hotel.
Sella Harness, Saddles, Collars, Whips,
Blankets, Curry Combs, Brunhes, trunks,
valises, lug;y tops, cushions, carriage
trimmings, tc, at the lowest possible
prices. Repairs promptly attended to.
TAMES KAIOiV,
CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER.
Plans and estimates supplied for either
frame or brick buildings. Good work
Guaranteed. Shop on 13th Street, near
t. Paul Lumber Yard, Columbus, Ne
braska. r2Umo.
pAMPBKLL A CO.
DKALKKS IN
Racrs and Iron ! "
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The highest market price paid for rags
and iron. Store in the Bubach building,
Olive St., Columbus. Neb. 15-tf
JS. MURDOCK & SON,
Carpenters and Contractors.
Haveead an extended experience, aad
will guarantee satisfaction in work.
All kinds or repairing done ob short
notice. Our motto is, .Good work aad
fair prices. Call and give us an oppor
tunitytoestimateforyou. eceTSaop ob
13 to St., one door west of Frisdaef
Co's. atere. Columbus. Nsbr. - St-T
Wattersoa oa the EajgHsa.
I am afraid that some of my readers
will have got an impression from the
Sirusal.oi these letters that 1 am preju
ced against the English. I simply do
not like them either as a nationality or
as a race of men. In both characters
they are an epitome of all that is pow
erful and offensive.
They are hospitable to the last degree;
but their hospitality is much in their
own conceit, and lacks the sweet aroma
of true generosity, which is at once wel
coming and unconscious. They have a
winning way of making themselves dis
agreeable. It comes natural to them,
and they prefer it They are an honest
people and a brave people, with big
bone, and sinews, and appetites. Th
brute is strong within them. They lore
to eat and drink, to argue and brow
beat, to swagger and bully. Beacons
field, who was a Jew and a gentleman,
understood them perfectly, and when
be started a policy of jingoism he knew
that he was representing a nation of
Jingoes. The lines:
Weeeaotwaatto-ssrsti bas, sy Jame; tf we
do.
We've got the ship, we've cot the aca, sad
we've got tae money, too
tell the whole story, snd leave little
more to be said.
I truly believe that, in a single-handed
contest, England could whip any
other nation, the United States alone
excepted, and, as matters stand, she
could batter down and burn all our sea
ports cities before we' could fairly take
the field. Her resources, save only as
to food, are enormous. On the land
and on the sea she is equipped for every
manner of enterprise, either of war or
of peace, and she is our enemy and rival.
Lord Randolph Churchill, who is per
sonally a blatherskite and blackguard,
derives no little of his undeniable popu
larity from his outspoken abuse of the
Americans.
At this moment it looks as though
Mr. Gladstone is overwhelmingly de
feated. In England proper he is, and
that is largely a reaction against the in
termeddling of America. I do not won
per at this in the least. My wonder is
that the English arc not more demon
strative than they are in their hatred of
us. That they do hate us is a fact as
reasonable as it is true. For my part I
respect them for it and cordially' recip
rocate the sentiment, aud only wish that
the space between us were, ilistead of a
ferry, a lake of lire, dangerous in .win
ter and impassable all the rest of tho
year. Henry Watterson's Letter to
Courier-Journal.
Preparing f - Christmas.
"Few people swelteriug in thfs July
heat have any idea that we have women
hard at work at the present time rack
ing their brains over what shall be the
new designs for Christinas cards next
winter," remarked a Broadway dealer
to a Mail and Express reporter. "Not
only that, but it would .surprise you.
perhaps, to see some entirely new and
elegaut models for next Christmas al
ready made- Just wait a moment aud
I will give you such a surprise."
The dealer brought out from a small
back room a pile of large flat pasteboard
boxes. They contained the cards refer
red to. Most of them were in w hite
satin and plush. There were fifty dif
ferent designs. One was a banner 8 by
12 inches in sixe, with white satin fold
ed down each side and tied back with
gold cord to represent curtains. The
picture represents an angel, the face be
ing remarkably pretty. Another was a
standard banner, leaf-shaped, covered
with white plush and having a border
of gold cord. On the ceflter was a re
presentation of an artist's palette, con
taining a hand-painted picture. Through
the palette was put a bunch of dried
grass. Another handsome design was
a pin-cushion of white satin, with white
plush border and containing embossed
flowers in colored plash. A very beau
tiful design was a jewel-box, 18 inches
long by 6 inches wide, covered with
plush and bordered with gold cord. On
the top there were embossed flowers in
friusb, and the whole was lined with
ight-green satin. A number of the
models were made in Japanese silk,
which is to be a prevailing novelty for
the coming holiday trade. One of these
was a wall-pocket in white, with a cor
ner turned back. Ou the front there
were embossed flowers in plush. An
other odd design resembles a pocket
book. It is covered with pink plush,
and the corner is turned over, showing
a lining of green silk. The point where
the part turncd'bver meets the plush is
marked by a bug of white plush aud
gold wire. A very pretty design is a
white satin satchet bag on which is em
bossed in white plush a half-moon and
an open lily with natural colored leaves,
all in plush. Designs of autumn leaves,
in white plush and gold, with hand
painted winter scenes and gold-wire
buo at the stem, were also shown.
Barbadoes.
The island of Barbadoes is the most
densely populated part of the earth.
This island, with an area of 10G.G0O
acres, contains a population of over
175,000 souls, that is to say, an average
of no less than 1,054 people to each of
its 16C square miles of territory. The
Chinese provineo of Keang-su, which
was at one time ignorantly imagined to
be the most uncomfortably crowded
district under the sun, contains but 850
moon-eyed celestials to the square mile,
while East Flanders, in Belgium, the
most thickly populated neighborhood in
Kurope, can boast of only 705 inhabi
tants to the square mile. Coming near
er home, Westchester county. New
York, with a territory three times as
large, has only four-sevenths as many
people as are packed upon this thronged,
man-ridden Carribbce island. If the
Empire state were as thickly settled as
Barbadoes if would boast a population
of 60,000,000. Of the 175,000 souls in
this island 9 per cent are whites and 91
per cent are blacks or of mixed blood.
The Catholic Columbian.
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Knew Him Too Well.
A man in attempting to start a retail
lumber yard down in a small town in
Ohio gave a jobber the name of his for
mer employer for reference and left his
order. The report received by the job
ber, although slightly ambiguous, was
not of a nature to induce him to hustle
very much in the execution of the ship
ment. It is so subtle, and withal so
honest, that 1 am tempted to subjoin iu
"Mr. has worked for me twelve or
thirteen years, and has always been a
faithful man, and I respect him as a
true friend; but if I was a stranger to
him and knew his failings I would not
want to trust Iiim." The Lumberman.
Grocer (to clerk) "Cover up those
raspberries to keep the flies oft" Clerk
"Shall I cover up the currants, too?"
Grocer "Of course not Flies and cur
rants are.so much' alike that the differ
ence is sever discovered natil it is too
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