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Itefcraslca'a Chuce.
Id most of the states of the Union
the people have but little voice in the
election of United States Senators,
but it seems that in Nebraska a law
was passed permitting them to mani
fest a preference as to whom they
desire tor this very important posi
tion, by voting on the question at the
general election preceding tho elec
tion by the Legislature for a U. S
Senator ; and Senator Van Wyck, the
present admirable representative of
that state in the U. S. Senate, ha
applied to tbe people for such mani
festation of their opinion.
The re-election of Senator Van
Wyck it not only important to th
people of Nebraska, but to tbe peo
ple of the United States. It is saf
to say that his presence in the Senate
has saved Billions of acres of pnbli
lands from the clutches of the land
grabbing corporations, and stopped
jobs which wonld have taken tens o
millions of dollars from the public
treasury. Ho has been the one man
upou whom the people of the whole
country could rely upon as
being always alert to protect the in
terests, and, of course, tbe great in
terests that be has antagonized will
pnt forth every effort in order to pre
vent bis return. This opposition will
not manifest itself openly, bnt it will
come to the secret, but effective way
in which corporations know so well
how to work; it will come through
fomenting jealousies, either personal
or in the party ; it will come through
printing contracts or Iosob to needy
uewspapera, the price of which will
be their support of some otlior man
claimed to be "just as good as Sena
tor Van Wyck," or it may come
through actual purchase of votes in
ho Legislature for tbo next strongest
candidate; but in any event, the peo
ple of Nebraska now have an oppor
tunity, such as the peoplo of no other
state have, to speak with no uncer
tain sound upon the question of
whom they want to represent them
in the Senate of the United States to
succeed their present Senator. Speak
ing iu behalf of the farmers and
dairymen of the whole country, we
simply hope that tho successor will
be Uon. Chas. II. Van Wyck.
American Dairyman.
It is said that apples are tailing
from the trees from premature rot in
Indiana.
A Xarrew Encase.
1 was suddenly taken very ill at
Eagle Lake, this state, the other day
with cholera morbus, and nsed
morphine to no avail, and I grew
wow e and., despatched a messenger
for a physician, who brought with
him a bottle of 'Chamberlain's Colic,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, and
gave me a dose which relieved me
instantly, and 1 firmly believe that to
it I owe my life and the physician
who was unprejudiced enough to
administer it when all others failed,
and I repeat again, I owe my life to
your great preparation.
I remain yours gratefully,
G. D. Waitk, Prescription Clerk,
With Chas. A. Gray, Waterville,
Minn. Sold by Dowty & licit-
kemper. 15-4
A dream club is the latest thing in
tbe fashionable circles at Bar Har
bor, Me. A number of young ladies
bold daily sessions, which are devoted
to the relating of dreams.
Itliracaleas Escape.
W. W. Reed, druggist, of Win
chester, Ind., writes: "One of my
customers, Mrs. Louisa Pike, Bar
tonia, Randolph county, Ind., was a
long sufferer with Consumption, and
was given np to die by her physi
cians. She heard of Dr. King's New
Discovery for Consumption, and
began buying it of me. In six
months' time she walked to this city,
a distance of six miles, and is now so
much improved she has quit using it.
She feels she owes her life to it."
Free trial bottles at Dowty & Heit
kemper's Drug Store.
It is estimated that the colored peo
ple of tho south pay taxes on $90,000,
000. Wever Give Up.
If you are suffering with low and
depressed spirits, loss of appetite,
general debility, disordered blood,
weak constitution, headache, or any
disease of a bilious nature, by all
means procure a bottle of Electric
Bitters. Too will be surprised to see
the rapid improvement that will
follow-; you will be inspired with
new life; strength and activity will
retnrn; pain and misery will cease,
and henceforth yon will rejoice in
the praise of Electric Bitters. Sold at
fifty cents a bottle by Dowty & Heit
kemper. One forty-acre field in Dawson
county, Neb., yielded 2,200 bushels cf
wheat.
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The Beat Salve in tbe world for
Cats, Bruleee, Sores, Ulcers, Salt
Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped
Hands, Chilblains, Cons, and all
Skin Eruptions, sad positively cures
Piles, or so pay required. It is guar
anteed to five perfect satisfaction, or
money relnnded. Price 55 cents per
box. For sale by Dowty A Heit
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Omaha's population is set down at
80400.
RIDDLED WITH BULLETS.
ThrilUar Scene at the Death of a Murder
er The Victim Gives the Signal
to Fire.
Senor Blanco, a man noted for his
desperate character, says a writer in the
New York Times, had in Dajabon
brutally and in a niostVowanlly man
ner murdered an inoffensive person 'for
some fancied slight The murderer es
caped into the swamps at El Cupey, but
the governor with commendable prompt
itude exertod himself with great vigor,
and after a search of ten days one of
the searching parties sent out by him
ran across the fellow in a part of the
swamp inhabited only by alligators,
and, tying him up, brought him back.
He was tried for the murder and sen
tenced to death. San Domingo, more
advanced than America, doesn t use the
rope to execute its criminals, but shoots
them, and a part of tho public plaza is
set apart for that unpleasant ceremony.
The criminal is brought out and, placed
with his back to a low brick wall built
for the purpose of stopping bullets, re
ceives his leaden death.
At the appointed time, Blanco a
magnificent specimen of a man, tall,
powerful, and with all the courage of
desperation was taken from his place
of confinement in the little jail and pre-
Sarcd to be marched out to his fate,
he heavy irons which manacled his
wrists and ankles were removed, and
he was allowed to make his last toilet.
This ho did, tightening his collar a lit
tle, and touching up the set of his waist
bands, and then, with as firm a step
and sb unfaltering an air as if he had
been going to receive the highest honor,
he Bteppea into his place between two
armed soldiers and waited quietly until
with measured steps the rest of the
rifled guard twenty-five in number
closed in upon all Bides of him. Obey
ing the order to "march" with as much
military precision as those who guarded
him, the condemned murderer started
to his death. The march was straight
through the heart of the town, the streets
crowded with peoplo who were going to
see him die, and Blanco glanceu at
them with a palpable sneer, disfiguring
his handsome mouth. His courageous
bearing impressed even those people,
accustomed as they are to scenes of the
kind, and, with a wondertul forbear
ance, they did not throw stones at him
or even attempt to deride him. Arrived
at the plaza, where the governor and
his staff, all in full uniform, and a
crowd of people were waiting for them,
the guard and their prisoner halted.
They stood at just the right distance
from the fatal spot upon which Blanco
was to stand, and which was already
marked by the grisly black coffin which
was so soon to receive its burden- At
a movement from the captain Blanco
stepped firmly forward, and in long
strides walked up to his position, and,
stopping, turned around and faced his
executioners. There was a pause,
broken by the clear voice of the murder
er asking for permission to give the
word to fire. The request was so un
usual that the captain was for a mo
ment nonplussed, but at a sign from
the governor he simply bowed his as
sent, and Blanco, apparently satisfied,
began calmly to take off his coat This
being accomplished, ho slowly opened
his shirt front, and, baring his pro
truding breast braced himself to meet
his death blow. There was a rattle of
muskets as the file, at a sharp com
mand from their officer, brought their
Sieces to "aim," and there was another
eadly pause as the men waited for the
doomed to give tho word to fire. It
was again broken by Blanco's clear
voice: "Shoot at the breast of a man.
Fire!" The blast which rang out from
those twenty-five deadly weapons was
deafening. Through the cloud of smoke
I saw Blanco. For a second after the
discharge he stood perfectly still, not a
quiver distorting his placed features.
His arms hung loosely down at his sides,
and his hands were tightly clinched.
Then, without any bending of the knees,
he fell forward on his face. As he did
so his arms the bauds unclinckcd as
he fell rose slowly above head, and,
reaching the ground, bis fingers buried
themselves in the soft, grassy earth.
For more than ten seconds did he re
main in that position, when, with the
last convulsive energy of life, and by a
movement which no athlete could re
peat, he sprang straight upon his feet,
his hands tearing away little bunches of
earth adhered to grass as he rose. Glar
ing at his executioners with a look of
hatred that shall never bo effaced from
my memory of this scene he, with a
quick movement, raised his two hands
and flung with wonderful power the
dirt straight at the heads of the soldiers
in front of him. Before the earthy
missiles had reached their destination
Blanco sank down upou and across his
coffin and was dead.
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A Tale of Mystery.
The villages of Gibsonburg and He
lena, lying about eighteen miles north
of here, writes a Tiffin, Ohio, corre
spondent of the Cincinnati Commercial
Gazette, are at present agitated over a
mystery which savors somewhat of the
tales of the Bender family and legends
of old. About thirty years ago a strang
er appeared in that vicinity and in
quired for a family named Miller. He
claimed to bo a bachelor from Pennsyl
vania who had $4,000 to invest in a
farm. He was shown tho Miller resi
dence and remained a short time with
them. In fact he was never seen to
leave, though members of that family
stated be had gone out west
The Miller family, consisting of three
brothers, one of whom was married,
had a bad reputation, but no suspicions
were aroused against them, not even
when, several months later, letters were
received from relatives of the missing
stranger inquiring about him and say
ing he had never neen heard from. An
investigation was then made, but devel
oped nothing. After a short time the
incident was all but forgotten.
Several years later the wife of the
married brother died, and just a few
hours before she expired she began to
talk in a wild, rambling manner of a
burial in a field. Her husband, who
was present placed his hand over her
mouth, almost strangling her, and or
dered everybody from the room. She
died in a few moments.
Immediately after the death of tbe
woman, at a certain place in a neigh
boring field, various parties noticed the
grass trampled down in a circle as
though done by horses attached to
horse-power, but there was no tracks of
horses feet This remained for several
days and disappeared. Fourteen years
later one of the brothers died, and the
grass at the same spot resumed the
same appearance of being trampled
and remained several days and again
disappeared. A week ago another one
of the brothers died, and the ground in
the same plsea in -the meadew, thoagh
aaviag been plowed a number of times,
again resumed a circular trampled ap
pearance. '. Thjsatlast taoroaralv aroused tbe
COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER
neighborhood, nnd an investigation has
been decided upon. It is thought this
strange acting ground holds the secret
of the disappearance of the stranger
of many years ago, and an attempt will
be made to wrest it away by excavating.
Several parties are already at work, but
have not as yet discovered anything.
The outcome of it all is awaited with
great interest by people from all sec
tions of this part of the country.
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Jackson and the Veteran.
Removals from office that places
might be provided for Jackson men
were the order of the day, but President
Jackson was not disposed to displace
any veteran soldier. Among other vic
tims designated for removal by the poli
ticians was Gen. Solomon Van Renssel
aer, whose gallant services against
Great Britain in tho war of 1812 had
been rewarded by an election to the
House of Representatives, followed by
his appointment as postmaster of Al
bany. He was a decided federalist, and
the petition for the removal was headed
bj Martin Van Buren and Silas
Wright.
Visiting Washington, Gen. Van Rens
selaer received a eordial greeting from
Gen. Jackson at a public reception, and
then, taking a scat in a ctrner, he wait
ed until the room was cleared, when he
again approached the president, say
ing: "Gen. Jackson. I have come here
to talk to you about my office. The
politicians want to take it from me,
and they know I have nothing else to
live upon." The president made no re
ply, till tho aged postmaster began to
take off his coat in the most excited
manner, when Old Hickory broke out
with the inquiry: "What iu heaven's
name arc you going to do? Whv do
you take oft your coat here?" "Well,
sir, I am going to show you my wounds,
which I received iu fighting for my
country against the English!" "Put it
on at once, sir!' was the reply. "I am
surprised that a man of your ago should
make such an exhibition of himself,"
and the eyes of tho iron president were
suffused with tears as, without another
word, he bade his ancicut foe good
evening.
Tho next day Messrs. Van Buren and
Wright callcd'at tho White House and
were shown into the president's room,
where they found him smoking a clay
pipe. Mr. Wright soon commenced to
solicit the removal of Gen. Van Rens
selaer,, asserting that ho had been
known as a very active advocate of
John Quincy Adams; that he had liter
ally forfeited his placo by his earnest
opposition to tho Jackson men, and
that if ho were not removed the new
administration would be seriously in
jured. He had hardly finished the last
sentence when Jackson sprang to his
feet Hung his pipe into the fire, and ex
claimed, with great vehemence: "I take
the consequences, sir! I take the con
sequences! By the Eternal! I will
not remove the old man! I can not re
move him! Why, Mr. Wright, do you
not know that he carries more than a
pound of British lead iu his body?"
That settled the question, and Gen.
Van Rensselaer remained undisturbed
as postmaster at Albany through the
Jackson administration, although Mar
tin Van Buren, when he came into
power, promptly "bounced" him. Ben:
Perley Poorcs "Ilcmifiisccnecs."
Sharp-Wltted and Close-Fisted.
This is one of the latest stories in
connection with the Scott act: Some
time ago a citizon ordered a barrel of
cider from a manufacturer not a dozen
miles from Guelph. The cider was not
delivered at the time appointed and a
few days afterward tho buyer asked the
seller why he did not fill the order. The
answer given was to the effect that he
would like to bo paid his money first
The reply was that the money was all
right and to deliver the cider at once.
The seller accordingly went to the resi
dence of the purchaser a few days after
ward with the cider. He would not de
liver it until he had received the col
lateral. After some talk the purchaser
handed the man a $5 bill. As soon as
the order was taken from the wagon
the purchaser remarked: "Now, you
have played a pretty sharp trick on me,
doubting my honesty, now 1 will have
my turn. If you do not pay me back
that 85 I will inform on you for selling
contrary to law." The deliverer of the
cider was in a fix, so to speak, but ho
was equal to the occasion. After a gen
eral talk, in which it was understood
that the receiver should pay for the
cider at convenience, the matter was
apparently settled. The deliverer then
asked all hands to have a drink, which,
was served, when he immediately asked
for his $5, remarking that he was
not the ouly man who would be com
pelled to pay a fine of $50. It is need
less to say that the cider was paid for
forthwith. Guelph (Cum.) Mercury.
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ABOUT HYDROPHOBIA.
A Dealer In Dogs Say the DUeaie la Nat
Incurable Patients Die or Fright.
Anyone riding in the Fourth avenue
cars, says the New York World, oan
notice in passing through Broome street,
a few cages filled with chickens piled
together above a cellar door, and sur
mounted by the remains of what was
once a dog, who is there to signify to
the passing multitude that Mr. James
Young has more and fresher canines for
sale below.
That dog was once a triumph of the
taxidermist's art, and except that his
bark was out of order, no one would
know that be bad obtained Nirvana;
but wind and weather have worked sad
ravages, and left him bald as an old
kid glove. He sags in places, and his
wan, glass eyes bulge out too much, but
he seems to remind the world that his
owner holds some original views on the
subject of dogs who are called mad.
"There never was a dog what was
called crazy but you'd find when you'd
cut him open he'd something wrong in
his stawmick, something that oughtn't
to be there," 6aid the dog-fancier didac
tically. When Dr. Mott, who is experi
menting with Pasteur's methods in this
city, made a postmortem examination
of the dog who bit the first child he in
oculated, he found a hard ball in its
stomach, which appeared to be com
posed of the hempen fibers of a door
mat This was so remarkable a con
firmation of Mr. Young's statement that
he was induced by a reporter to tell
about it
"Yes, Isawthat," said the dog-dealer,
in reference to Mott's statement "And
it's just like I said before. When a
dog's what folk's calls mad, you'll al
ways find a ball like that in his staw
mick. Sometimes it's hair, sometimes
it's wool, and sometimes it's the door
mat but the trouble's always the same.
Here's the way it is: A dog that's kept
chained up in his kennel or in a city
house, the moment you let him out
where there's grass you'll notice he will
eat a lot of the coarsest grass he can
find, and then he goes a little further
and throws it up. Now, that's his in
stinct He knows he needs medicino
because shut up like that he doesn't get
proper exercise, and most times not the
right food, either, so he knows he's got
to clear out his etnwmick some way.
Dogs get a great deal of thoir own hair
inside of them from biting it and those
what's in the house breathes in a lot of
lint and dust of the carpets. Well, of
course, that dou't digest, and they begin
chewing the door-mat or eating straw,
and it forms a lump that the juices iu
the sfawmick makes harder and harder.
Why, niany's tho time I've seen lumps
taken out of a dead dog so hard j-ou
couldn't break them with a hatchet
Now how do you think you'd act. with
one of them lumps in your insides?
"I remember a year or two ago in
Jersey a man had a pair of greyhounds
and he'd refused $1,000 for one of them.
Well, he telegraphed some doctors who
were interested in the matter, that the
dog had gone mad and was chained up
in his cellar. The owner was afraid it
.might burst through the window, and
'so shot it, and sent it warm to the doc
tors fcr dissection. Well, now, inside
that dog they found a big rag. Grey
hounds have to be dieted to preserve
their shape, and one day when ho was
famished the oook dropped her greasy
dish-rag in his food by accident and
ho bolted it down witii the rest
"Dr. Mott was here himself tho other
day to buy sonic rabbits," continued
the dog merchant, brandishing his stick
at the noisy crew who were trying to
interrupt tho How of eloquence, "and I
asked him had ho ever seen a mad dog
that didn't have something in his staw
mick what had no right to be there?
'Well, no,' he said; he never had, now
that he came to think of it."
"Says I: 'Doctor, there's lots of im
agination what helps to kill your pa
tients,' and says he: 'You're quite
right Young, there is.' And 1 told him
he was free to come down here any time
and inoculate me with virus from any
of his rabbits or from his dogs either,
and that showed pretty plain whether I
believed there was such a thing as hy
drophobia. He asked me whether
ever seen a man with hydrophobia, a
said if I had I never would forget it
"Well, now I'm not going to say tha
folks can't get blood-poisoning from the
bite of a dog, because I know they can.
Come hero, Peter!" and he took up his
little blind Yorkshire terrier that was
running about tho lloor and opened his
mouth. "Now you see that black stuff
'round the top of his teeth? Well, some
dogs has that and some hasn't; it's
what wo call a foul or a canker mouth.
Some is born with it. Well, if a dog
bites you so as that gets into the bite,
you're apt to have blood-poisoning uu
less you're careful with the wound, but
if it's properly washed and cauterized
there an't a bit of danger. For that
matter, if you was to have a bile from
a man whoso teeth had tartar on them
you'd run a great deal bigger risk. Dr.
Mott said himself that he d rather a dog
would bite him than a man; it wasn't
as dangerous.
"I knew a man whose dog bit him in
the lip. The place was healing up and
he hadn't thought anything of it till
about a week after, some fool said to
him: 'By Jove! I'd hate to have that
wound in my lip. Yon stand a good
chance for hydrophobia.' Well, the
man got as white as a sheet and ten
days after they tell me ho had to be
smothered in the hospital.
"Now.yon can just say -this in the pa
per." as the dog-dealer finished his lect
ure on hydrophobia, "that what will cure
mad dogs or prevent 'em from going
mad is to give them a handful of table
salt whenever they look sick and
droopy. That'll act as an emetic, and
its simple and every one has it handy,
and I'll guarantee no dog that has that
every month or two to clean his staw
mick out is going to go mad. They col
lect so much stuff in their stawmicks
that if they don't live in the country
and run all tho time they needs an
emetic every two months or so. And
you might say, too." he concluded,
"that when people wants to get rid of a
dog it's kinder to kill it at onco than
lose it out, as folks do, and have it
staring round wildly and rushing from
place to place, as a lost frightened do
will, so that everybody says 'mad do
and chases and stones it to death. Irs
that what starts all these mad-dog scares
in the country, and you'd be astonished
to know how many people turn their
dogs out when one of them scares comes
along and the papers gets to crying out
about it"
ART STUDY.
A Picture tf Glrl-StuiieuU' Lire In a Parlfl
Atelier.
Better than any words of mine, says
a writer in Harper's Bazar, is what one
of these girl-students says herself in
some notes which I asked her to make
for me, in addition to the sketches made
by another girl at the same atelier. I
give them just as they are:
"For any girls coming to study art in
Paris, to live as wo do in a quiet hotel
is far better and more economical than
to board with a French family or pen
sion, unless with a wish to master the
language. Nothing can bo more simple
than our habits. We have one room,
and we descend to table d'hote when
we choose not otherwise. We cook
our own breakfast over a spirit lamp at
8 A. M., and go straight to the atelier,
where we work till 12. Then dejeuner
at a crcmcrie, and work again till 5 P.
M. Returning to our hotel we can dine
if we like, butfinore often we boil our
kettle, have tea and an cg, and spend
the evening over a book. It sounds
rather a monotonous life, yet we all
find it very attractive, and; the weeks
slip by only too fast.
"Even the regular morning walk is
pleasant At the hour the Ouartier
Latin is filled with street sellers wheel
ing their stalls about, housewives mar
keting in their white caps, and little
children in black pinafores (not white
ones) being taken to school by their
bonne or garcon. Streams of men, too,
on their way to business, a newspaper
in one hand and a roll in the other, im
ply that hard-working Paris is waking
up to its daily life.
"Our atelier gives us every opportun
ity for the study of character, for in
daily work together most people's na
tures are clearly displayed. There is
the elderly spinster, prevented from
study in her youth, and alwavs enwinsr
the younger students who have their
life before them. Beside her is a patient
artist who has been toiling for years
without making any visible progress,
but who still hopes to succeed one day.
Another, equally hard-working, with
her whole soul in her work, scorns such
a thing as outward appearance, and her
dress, once aesthetic, looks like a worn
out robe de chambre slowly melting in
to a bundle of rags. But a few who
combine the love of fashion with the
love of art comeiiere in costumes more
suited to the Champs Elysees than to
our crowded studio, where they are in
serious danger of rubbing against palets,
knocking down easels, eta
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15, 1886.
"Companionship is one of tho pleas
antest bits of student liic. Our frugal
tea parties, when tho hostess boils the
kettle and sets tho table, and we all sit
round tho fire and discuss the last ex
hibition, especially our own professor's
work therein, or the success of one of us
iu getting into the salon, which is held
as a universal triumph to all. Conver
sation never flags, for some of us have
lived at the ends of the earth, and can
describe them well, and others are
political spirits who belong to a debat
ing society, and wish to reconstruct the
world after their pattern which the rest
good-naturedly but resolutely disap
prove. Then where to spend our Suuday
afternoons is always an important con
sideration. Nearly always we go out
of town by road or rail, aud alter sfk
days spent in tho atelier, its close at
mosphere reeking with oil and turpen
tiuc,the smells, sights, aud sounds of
tho country are only too delightful.
"Such are our pleasures; but after all,
the most interesting thing is our wort.
Every Monday we have the excitement
of posing the new model. We begin
enthusiastically, but Tuesday, after the
professor has criticised our drawings, our
spirits usually sink a little. Lower still
they get Wednesday and Thursday; by
Friday, when the secoud professor
comes, they are usually down at zero.
Saturday finds us in" deepest despair,
only comforted by the resolution to do
better next week, and that day is gen
erally devoted to water-colors, or pen-and-ink
sketches, or portraits of some
picturesque fellow-student, usually kept
as a souvenir when the time for leaving
the atelier comes, and the girls who
have been working together all wiuter
go their several ways to meet again
when and where, who knows? Proba
bly never."
But still they have done good work,
poor girls! and mingled it with a great
deal of innocent enjoyment. And
though Paris is, most will agree, not a
desirable place for a girl to study in
alone, still necessity has no law, and in
community is much safety. Then youn"
students seem to go through the ordeal
unscattered. and, so far as I could
judge, without being unfeminized. For
they are workingwoincn, and, as they
honestly say, have."no time" for any
thing but work. It is idleness which
breeds the follies, or worse than follies,
of many young people, teaching them
to substitute flirtation for love, and the
craving for more admiration instead ol
that self-devotcduess which, however
sad, is at least more noble than the self
ish vanity of a conquering beauty. The
busy life of a workingwoinan may hard
en her a little, but it will never degrade
or deteriorate her; and very often, in
good time
If love c-)ino8. he will onter,
.Ami soon nnil out the way.
But should he never come, the woman
learns to do without him, aud will be all
tho happier and -letter woman for hav
ing put her life to useful account Anr
therefore, as a help to the many girls
who must work, and do work, 1 have
given this simple, truthful, and faithful
picture ol how they work in a ran?
atelier.
SHORTHORN CATTLE.
The Qualities ttiid CliHracttritIc4 of Amer
ican PeilitrriMi Shorthorns.
The number of breeders of thorough
bred pedigree Shorthorns in the United
States, its Territiories, and Canada can
be safely estimated at full four thous
and, with herds of half a dozen to sev
al scores of cattle each. They extend
all over North America between the
Atlantic and Paciiic shores, aud to the
lower southern States, Texas, and New
Mexico, wherever climate and soil arc
suitable and proper forage is produced
for their sustenance, and in numbers
too large for accurate estimate Al
though considerable numbers of other
good flesh-producing breeds for several
years past have been imported from
abroad and successfully bred, chiefly
in the western States, in competition
with the Shorthorns, the demand for
Shorthorn bulls is greater than that for
all other breeds, to cross upon and ele
vate the quality of common cattle, not
in their own localities, but also for the
extensive grazing ranches of the farther
West, to improve the beef quality of the
coarse bovines long existing there.
Many hundreds of young Shorthorn
bulls are annually taken to the ranches
for breeding purposes.
When not fatted to excess, it is distri
buted all over tho carcass, finely mar
bled in combination of fat and lean.
They mature to profitable slaughter as
veal" calves at six or eight weeks old of
much greater weight than common on
equal supplies of milk from the udders
of their dams. The steers at two and a
half years old, when properly fed, at
tain a live weight of 1,500 to 1,000
pounds, and are ripe for the shambles.
At three to three and a half years they
attain a live weight of even 2,000
pounds, after which longer feeding is
seldom profitable. The American ex
ports to Europe Great Britain chiefly
for the six months of the year 1885 of
live bullocks was more than 82,000
head, aside from the largely increased
weight of dead carcasses in quarters of
fresh beef, almost exclusively of Short
horn blood, the quality most salable in
foreign markets. The best beef for con
sumption in our American cities and.
towns is also of Shorthorn blood, and
commands a price considerably above
that ol common cattle.
For longevity and hardihood in all
climates where used they are remark
able in both sexes. Numerous bulls
both in England and America might be
named which have continued successful
sires to twelve, fifteen, and even more
years of age. The American bull. Baron
of Oxford 2525, bred by Mr. Becor on
Long Island, one of the most successful
sires, maintained his vigor until nearly
fourteen years old, when a fatal acci
dent befell him.
The cows, as milkers, when bred and
educated for the dairy, have proved
equal to any other breeds, their docility
of disposition and lymphatic tempera
ment highly promoting their lacteal
product In England from their earli
est days large numbers of them have
proved extraordinary milkers and but
ter yielders, and in the metropolitan
dairies for milk supply, as well as on
farms for cheese and butter production,
they arc extensively used. In their ear
lier importations to America, the cows
as a rule, were abundant milkers, as
many now continue to be; but theii
early and rapid tendency to flesh, more
particularly in the western beef-producing
States, has led to a neglect of
their dairy qualities, butter and cheese
production there being less followed
than in many other localities. Yet in
thoroughbreds, or high grades from na
tive cows, they are largely bred and
kept for dairy use in many of out
States, and profitable through life on
average pasture in summer and whole
some keep in the colder months. Many
cows might be named as continuing
constant breeders and large milkers un
til fifteen, even twenty, yoars old, and
fatted into profitable 'carcasses of bee
tat the end. Lewis F. Allen, in Earp
frp MannS f c 1.
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THE FIRST
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OF
columbus, iri
HAS AS
Authorized Capital of $250,000,
A Surplus Fund of - $15,000,
And riio largest Paid in nIi Cap
ital of any tctiiK in rhis part
of the State.
J3TIeposits received and interest paid
on time deposits.
E5?Drafts on the principal cities in this
country and Hurope bought and sold.
SSTColIections and all other business
given prompt and careful attention.
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O.T. liOEX, Cashier.
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Srs. MARTYN & SCHTJO,
U. S. Examining Surgeons,
Local Surgeons. Union 1'aciflc, O., X.
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Consultations iu German and English.
Telephones at otlice and residences.
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Jewelry Store.
COLUMBUS, - NEBRASKA.
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ill. C'ORELIIIN,
LA W AND COLLECTION OFFICE.
Upstairs Ernst building 11th street.
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PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
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TTKK.nArt rtATErtJtTKirr,
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l.'Hh street, cas.t of Abt barn.
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to commercial men. Ha.i a good :unple
room. Sets the best table. Give it a
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can address me at Columbus, Neb., or
call at my office iu Court Uoue.
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I will be at my office in the CourtIIou.se
the third Saturday of each month for the
examination of teachers. ay tf
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OF
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Sells Harness, Saddles, Collars, "Whips,
Blankets, Curry Combs, Brushes, trunks,
valises, buggy tops, cushions, carriage
tnminiu(;s, Arc, at the lowest possible
prices. Repairs promptly attended to.
TAMES MALnoX,
CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER.
Plans and estimates supplied for either
frame or brick buildings. Good work
guaranteed. Shop on 13th Street, near
St. Paul Lumber Yard, Columbus, Ne
braska
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Olive st., Columbus. Neb. 15-tf
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Carpenters and Contractors.
Havebadan 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
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How Animals Practice Medicine.
Animals set rid of their parasites by
using dust, mud, clay, etc. Those suf
fering from fever restrict their diet, keep
quiet, seek dark, airy places, drink.wa
ter and sometimes plunge into it When
a dog has lost its appetite it eats that
species of grass known as dog's grass,
which acts as an emetic and a purga
tive. Cats also cat grass. Sheep and
cows, when ill, seek out certain herbs.
An animal suffering from chronic rheu
matism always keeps, as far as possible,
in the sun. The warrior ants have
regularly organized ambulances. Lat
reille cut the antenna; of the ant, and
other ants came and covered the wound
ed part with a transparent fluid secret
ed from their mouths. If a chimpanzee
is wounded, it stops the bleeding by
placing its hand on the wound or dress
ing it with leaves and grass. When the
animal has a wounded leg or arm hang
ing on, it completes the amputation by
means of its teeth. A dog. on being
stung in the muzzle by a viper, was ob
served to plunge its head repeatedlyfor
several days into running water. This
animal eventually recovered. A sport
ing dog was run over by a carriage.
During three weeks in winter it remain
ed lying in a brook, where its food was
taken to it This animal recovered. A
terrier hurt its right eye. It remained
under a counter, avoiding light and
heat, although it habitually kept close
to the fire, it adopted a general treat
ment rest and abstinence from food.
The local treatment consisted in licking
the upper surface of the paw, which it
applied to the wounded eye; again lick
ing the paw when it became dry. Ani
mals suffering from traumatic fever
treat themselves by the continued ap-
dication of cold water, which M. De
anney considers to be more certain
than any of tho other methods. In view
of these interesting facts we are, he
thinks, forced to. admit that bygieno
and therapeutices as practiced by ani
mals may, in the interest of psychology,
be studied with advantage.
Many physicians have been keen ob
servers of animals, their diseases, and
the methods adopted by them in their
efforts to cure themselves, and have
availed of the knowledge so brought
under their observation in their practice,
New Orleans Picayune.
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German Girls.
There is less difficulty in German girls
of the middle class finding suitable
partners for life than is the case in the
same class in England, says a writer in
the National Review. German girls,
as a matter of course, take their sharo
in household work. This docs not pre
vent their being frequently very accom
plished, often excellent musicians, but
it docs prevent a great deal of restless
ness and vague discontent A young
man who marries in that class knows
that he may reasonably expect his bride
to be a good housewife. If he is in tho
upper middle chiss for instance a shop
keeper his wife often keeps the ac
counts of the shop. 1 have wondered
at the close attention to business details
shown by women who might have ex-
r;ctcd to be spared such exertions. But
was assured they preferred to be thus
occupied; partly in order to save their
children. It seemed to me that the
master and mistress in most shops were
on friendly terms with their assistants,
who were permitted to rest at intervals
during the day in a room behind tho
shop.
There are in Dundee, Scotland, eight
companies dealing in mortgages and
cattle in the Western and Northwestern
States. In Edinburgh there arc eleven,
and in Glasgow three. The land and
cattle companies in the United King,
dom operating in the United States hold
in fee simple 2,016.833 acres, and by
lease 1,445,790 acres. Their dividends
in 1883 averaged over 8 per cent but
fell to only a little over 4 per cent in
1885. The causes of this decline arc
found iu the rapid growth of capital in
the United States aud the gradual de
cline in the rate of interest which hat
occurred all over tiie world.
Dower Right.
A down-East "Bachelor." writing to
a daily paper, gives as one reason why
he has not married, his objection to the
annoyances of a dower right It seems
he deals in real estate buying or sell
ing in his own name and fears that
his spouse may interfere with his busi
ness. "It is somewhat remarkable,"
says he, "that a determined effort has
not been make to get rid of this absurd
relic of tho past Laws should, of
course, be enacted giving the wife a fair
interest in her husband s property; but
there is no sense in singling out real
estate and making that bear all the
burden. In the complications of modern
marital life husbands and wives some
times disagree, and then the man can
not dispose of his real property. Every
one conversant with legal disputes
knows what practical hardships have
resulted from dower rights invalidating
title deeds. It is quite remarkable, in
view of the assertion of rights by the
advocates of women, that men havo not
asserted their right to buy or sell real
estate on their own hook,' just as they
do personal property."
The Dangers of Kissing.
"If I was a woman and could see the
faults of my fellows as well as the aver
age observant man can I'd form a so
ciety for the abolition of kissing. It's
got to come to that anyway, within the
next ten years. All that keeps it alive
is its qualities as a foil for the genuine
article." So a very worldly and very
bright little woman told me, in a burst
of frankness, a few hours ago. Said
she: "If women didn't kiss so automat
ically aud insincerely they wouldn't
know what the beauty of the real kiss
was." And I guess she was right
Apcmantus, my old friend of medical
proclivities and cynical instincts, growl
ed when I asked him what he thought
of it, and said: "An elegant dissemin
ator of disease. Fever is spread by it
so are lung troubles, and such physical
scythes as diptheria. etc. I'd drive
kissing out of the land and save one
tenth of 1 per cent of human lives every
year if life saving is the end and aim
of science, which you know I doubt"
Toronto Globe.
An Arkansas justice of the peace, who
had just married a couple, turned to a
man and said: "I don't believe that
the woman will love, serve, and obey
him." "I don't know," some one re
plied, "she seems to be a very amiable
woman." "I don't think she is," the
justice replied. "Why so?" "Because
she used to be my wife."
Kaiser Wilhelm has accented the god
fathership of tbe eleventh son of a
butcher at Bremen.
i i
There are in the United States 1,024,
801 tenant farmers.