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THE JOURNAL. KATES OF ABTEITISMC FBmalaeasand profeaaioaalcarda of fivelinasor 1cm, per annaa, five dollar. ISSUKD EVERY WErNKSlAY, M. K. TURNEl-t fc CO., Proprietors and Publisher. J2T U FFICE, Eleventh St., upstair in fournaWuilding. TEKSIS: Peryear Six months ? Throe months Singlccopics "" For time advertisements .apply at this office. ITTiegal advertisements atstatat rates. 2? For transient advertising, sea rates on third page. Eb"A11 advertisements payable monthly. VOL. XVI I. -NO. 82. COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER I. 1886. WHOLE NO. 864. fk mmqml t flOLTTMBUS STATE BANK! COLUMBUS, NEB. CASH CAPITAL, $75,000 DIRECTORS: Leandku Gerhard, Vres'l. Geo. W. IIut.st, Vice 1'resH. Julius A. Heed. 1?. II. Henry. J. K. Task eu, Cashier. Kaik of Depowlt, d Eiciiange. IHhcobbi HectioBN ProinptS- Made ob ill Folniw. Pa. y Intercut itH. oh Time Sepo- 274 COLUMBUS Savings Bank, LOAN & TRUST COMPANY. Capital Slock, Sioo.oo; i. OFFICER;: A. As'iikksos. PiiKs'r. O. W. 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ARNOLD rEALi:u in DIAMONDS, FINE WATCHES, riockM, Jewelry AND SILVERWARE. Strict attention given to repairing of "Watches and Jewelry. 23TWill not be undersold by anybody. If ea JLToane, Opposite Clotker Hobm. LYON&HEALY Stale a Konroe Sts.. Chicago. WIU ws4 crnaM to may !i!mi Uicir i AND CATALOGUE, I for ISaS, JtO pacv. 210 tspmnup or InlnsMru. viu, t-zpt, tfeiu. PomreoL lw"H. tip-Unn, . SIabA-. Drnm SX&tor, StrnfT aad Scairr rnd Oattu, Iiiini Ittcmb, Lo lociada Initrncuon asa ntn lor Aatar ticai. aa rCkak!itiJUul BflBaBBBBmHTH EaBlflBfBBlslllfl f rnupTWJi A 1Sbbi" .bbbb-b?. wJSBg aKtssawy FOR TIIT3 WESTEBN COTTAGE OEGAS CALL ON ll. uXeMl' ' C.i:S A irS VIRGINIATURKET Caar Alexander Shake well, a colored citizen of Bridgevill, owned no turkeys, and his richer white neighbors had put theirs in sneeial security as Thanks-rivine Dardnw near. Mrs. Shakewell kept nagging Casar Huout a mrxey until ne aetermined to have one before another sun set, at any cost. He sat down before the fire in the twilight to btudy out some plan of action on the import ant question. It came to him quite readily, it appears, for all at once lie found himself carrying it out. Ho had noticed a loose board on Col. Fair gro re's Itack fence the day before. The Fair-gmve-s were easy-going people, not much gh en to hammer and nails, aud they would be sure to have a turkey in a coop in tho backyard getting ready for the annual feast. Sura enough, the board fell off at the bid ding of bis brawny arm, aud there in a pen in the corner was the bird of his hopes. The slals of his coop dropped before the same po tent force, as though they bad been mere mveliugs. It was no trouble at all to to tie his legs, cover his body with an old bag mid slip quietly away with him. Once at homo Caspar Alexander put him in a barrel an J laid heavy sticks of wood on the open top. Then ho called to his wife to coma and see him and to quit "jorrin' " him about their Thanksgiving dinner. She appeared, looked at the bird with eyes like saucers, and then grow very grave. "Whar diil y git him.'"' she asked, with something like awe in her voice. Worked for 'iiu, o' course," said her gen tle spouse, with a sneer. "-Knowed all tho time dnt 1 was to git 'im; but you had to bev yt;r 1111 1' jorrin' and complainhi' at me for a wuthiess nigger. Knowed it was no use to tell ye. Ye wouldn't b'lieve me till lucomo." Mis. Shakewell looked at her husband, a fro! i well of admiration springing up in her heart, lie was u suerior creature, to be ure; she would never doubt it ugain. HE HELD IT CP WITH PJUDE AND JOV. Ik'fore going to bed Caesar Alexander went into his vnall yard, lifted a stick or two of wood from the turkey's barrel and took a long aud fond look at his prize. Suddenly a hand was laid on his shoulder, and ho turned with quaking knees, exiecting to face tho village constable; but dark as it was he could see that the hand belonged to a gentleman of his own color, though one with whom he was entirely unacquainted 'a kind of old fash ioned lookiu' nigger," ho said when telliug the storv afterward. Reassured to uud tliat it wasn't tho law ho had to confront, he put. considerable bravado into his voice as he said: "Who are ye, anyhow; and what d'ye want in a gemman's 3-ard at nightf It's forenenst the law to creep aroun' honest folks' houses on the sly that way." -Ca.sar! Ca-sar!" said the other, without appearing in tho least intimidated; "I am 0110 of yer aincestoi-s, from 'way back, and I can't come to yer in daytime because I've lieendead a long time."' Here C.-esar's teeth chattered and his legs gave way under him. 'Brace up!" said tho ancestor, slapping him on the shoulder. 'BracS up! I'm here for yer good, not for yer harm. I want yo to terry that turkey back. Ye've done some thing to disgrace the name of Shakewell, and I won't stand it. The constable will be down onto 3-e to-morrow mornin' 'fore 8 o'clock if ye don't, an' there'll bo a neighborhood scandal about this bird that'll make the whole race o' Shakewells shake in their graves. Csesarl for the sake of your proud and honorable ain cestors take that bird back, and to-morrow take yer gun and go to the woods and git one o' the turkeys uv yer fathers an' its a bird that no nigger ought to turn up his nose at, jither." Hero the 'aiiicotor" sniffed delightedly at something invisible, something in his mem ory apparently, and then went on: "lt' u bird dut no man owns; it's de true Vnbginiah turkey. Tisn't u feathered bird; 'tisn't a fowl at all. It wears fur, an' has llfty teeth, a bristly tongue, a long prehensi ble" tail you ee, Casar, yer aincestor had laniin" and plantigrade feet, Casar, it ha plantigrade feet." Lgh" aid Ciesur, too dazed to utter an intelligible word. The -aincestor" continued: 'Its feet has as many toes on each foot as a man, and long, sharp claws 011 everv toe 'cept its insido one. Itusesdatasa thumo. It is a marsupial turkey, Caar." Here the ancestor smiled at the towering proportions of Ids own learning, but presently talked on. "Ali e it Las an odor yo can't mistake, au' roasted lie smells better nor a flower garden. Hc'ia bird w 01 th giviu' thank over. Now, take da! ole, droopin', white folks' turkey back to his vow ner, aud go out tcr-morrah aud git de ""ussism. de 'riginal turkey ob old Vah giniah, de turkey of yer fathers" uud, lo! the aneetor vumIicd. Perspiring at every pore Ca?sar Alexander bhouideitd the turkey and started toward Col. l'"airgi ove's. Just us he was about to enter the yard, through the break in the fence prevfou-ly inado by IiinwIf, he frit another hand laid on his shoulder with con siderable emphasis. Fearing that another aud stiil more terrible ancestor was about to havospttH.li with him, he sank to tiie earth, without daring to look around. Then the hand grabbed him more firmly and gave him a igoroiis Mia::e. 10 looueu up appeaimgiy aud conl routed the constable. With a groan tie fainted dead away. -What ye groanin' and carrying on like an animal furs" was the next thing ho beard. The question was propounded in his wife'a most ungentle voice. He opened his eyes slowly and in abject fear, and found himself pitting by his own fireside, the childivu in bed anil Mrs. Shake well standing by him with her band on his tlioulder. lie never was so happy in his life. CoL Fairgroves turkey was sate where it be longed; he had never stolen it, und he hadn't met any dead and gone ancestor at all, oidy in dreams. Furthermore, he inwardly re solved tbat he never would, if ancestors' visits only followed thefts. The next day when he set off with his gun be told Mrs. Shakewell that he would bring home a "VahginialT turkey. And be did. He held it up with pride anil joy ou his re turn, and was rewarded by a smile from tbat exact iug lady. The 'possum was eaten with gravy and grace, and Mr. Shakewell's standing in the community remained unimpaired. As he bent over his own fragrant thanksgiving board he had more than usual cause for grati tude. 'Vahginiah turkeys was good enough fer my fathers, and good 'nough fer me." be often says; but though he sometimes tells cf the encounter with his ancestor, he never tells of the cause of that worthy individual's visit to bun. Max Eltos. Subscribe WITH THE DAILY CHICAGO MAIL, Both. Papers One Year, FOR "tt cAnPENTERLAST sickness. Hi Thorough lavestication of the Fatal DinoaseStrirkrtn Down. It had been evident to Mr. Carpenter's friends for many months, if he could not realize it himself, that be was stricken with j tbat terrible malady called Bright's disease. The stalwart form had become so wasted tbat bis clothes bung loosely about him. There was an ashy pallor on his face, the voice had grown so weak that its silvery notea rose very feebly to the galleries. About a year before his death he consulted with Dr. Fox, who announced to him the aad fact tbat bis malady was Bright's disease, and tbat it bad advanced so far tbat his case was in curable. From that hour, said his physi cian, he was a man under physical sentence. Mr. Carpenter could not or would not be lieve it. He purchased many medical books relating to tbat subject, and studied the disease with the thoroughness which char acterized all his political investigations. He caused analyses to be made, and when cer- tarn symptoms 011 some days were wanting, would decide tbat his physicians were mis taken, and that he had a new hold ou life. He remained in torrid Washington all the summer. The physicians that be had con sulted in Jfew York advised him not to re move from a warm climate, through fear that the change to a cooler temperature ought result in a reaction that would provo injurious. Accordingly, through the heat aud malaria aud summer torture, he re mained in Washington, housed during the day time, devoting himself assiduously to bis extensive law practice, and at night, when the temperature was more moderate, riding about the streets hi an open carriage to get a breath of good air. Winter came and he was in bis seat in tho senate at the beginning, but be was seldom there afterward. He seemed to be conscious of his changed appearance. He was es(ieci ally sensitive at remarks about his health. He did not wish the report to get out that he was not a strong niau. He was reluctant to admit that he was losing bis hold upon life, and iossibly his absence from the senate was due in part to the fact tliat he did not care to enter into a debate which would show his in creasing feebleness. Three weeks before he passed away he took a severe cold, and hail an attack of pneumonia. It was then feared that be would not recover, but he was able to go to his office for some days, when again he was stricken down, aud in that last illness he died. A few days before bis death be called on the president and at several of the depart ments, and his manner was cheerful as he saluted his friends on passing them with a few pleasant words. Ben: Perley Poore in Boston Budget. Heating a Wooden Man. An amateur player, who had met and been defeated by all the experts who had visited tbe place, laid a wager that he could lieat the automaton that is on exhibition at a New York city museum. If be couldn't vanquish a wooden man. he said, ho would quit plav ing chess and return to hop scotcli. Several friends went with him, and the party chartered the mysterious dummy for an hour, exclud ing the general public. The amateur de clared that he couldn't think clearly without a cigar between his teeth, and made somo re- marks of a theoretic nature about the effect) of tobacco in stimulating tbe intellect of an habitual smoker. For that occasion the rule against smoking was suspended. Lighting a large and peculiarly atrocious smelling cigar, the amateur placed the men on board, opened with the Evans gambit, ami puffed. He re marked that strategy was one of the great elements of the game, and when tho party assented to that proposition, he added that he would show them some strategy of a brilliant nature before the game was over. Automaton moved promptly. Amateur followed, and puffed clouds of smoke into automaton's beard. Dummy knocked over a bishop in making the next move. Amateur j up from depths of 2,000 to o.OOO fathoms, picked it up, and strategically replaced it on j and this throughout Polynesia, as far north as a different sxfunre, capturing it by his next 2 degs. or 3 degs. above tho tropic of Capri play. More smoke, and Dummy seemed to ! corn, and as far south as Australia. Hence, grow confused. He mifs.l a knight, picked ' it seems that what is now the bottom of a up a queen by mistake and placed it where I deep sea must once have been tho bottom of amateur could scoop it in. Amateur was ' shallow sea, such as Behriug sea is now. calmly confident, and nonchalantly puffed tho cigar. In ten minutes be said "check." 1 The automaton could not rescue bis king. and it was "checkmate." Amateur cathered in the stakes and blew a parting cloud of smoKo lurougn ino iiguresDearu A sepul chral sneeze reverberated in the mysterious interior of the automaton, and a convulsive j commotion among bis complicated whiskers testified to the complete success of the ama teur's strategy. Smoking in the museum is now absolutely tabooed. But it is demon strated that tho mysterious automatic chess player is mi inclosed human being whose eyes look through tho whiskers of the image. "Uncle Bill" in Chicago Herald. Scientific Training In Mining. There is no department of human labor in which there is greater need of scientific train ing than in mining. Its prosperity is largely dependent upon metallurgical methods and skill, and these things are taught in the min ing schools; and while a considerable knowl edge of these sciences is not an absolute neces sity to tbe miner, they are valuable aids, which sometimes lead men to avoid costly blunders. Tho best miner is tbe man who is trained to observe little things; who sees in a crystal or a seam in the rock a fact of value; who knows enough of geology to understand its relations to faults and deposits of various kinds, and who can group together a set of facts and read their language; who knows enough of engineering to avoid costly mis takes, aud understand when great skill and accurate work are required; who knows enough of mechanical principles of labor to understand the value of labor saving ma chinery, and when it cau be properly intro duced; who has been trained in studying and assaying ores until be knows bow to prevent wasting his valuable ore in the mine, or throwing it over tbe dump when it is raised to tho surface; who knows enough about gases and ventilation and the chemistry of explosives to protect the health and life of himself and his men. These are things which men are taught in schools. Mining is something more than handling a hammer, pick and gad, or putting in sets of timbers. It is an art and a science com bined, which is worthy the employment of the best thought and the best skill of which men ore possessed. And it is just because it requires intellect and thought and study that tbe occupation is more honorable and digni fied than tbe labor of tbe shoveler on the rail way grade. Denver Tribune Republican. Bis Astonishmeat was Allayed. A clerk in a certain law office of this city was horrified on going into the office yester day morning to find several eyes lying about having all tbe appearance of having been re cently gouged out It was evident to him that his superiors had been having a regular Oshkosh sort of a discussion the night before. His astonishment was allayed, however, when he learned that tbe society of natural sci ences had held a meeting in the office the previous evening, and bad been favored with a talk upon eyes by Dr. Laden Howe, illus trated by some pecimens of pigs' eyes, which had been left 00 the scene of action.-Buffalo Courier. for the WITH THE Mil STATE JOURNAL, Both One Year For ; A LOST CONTINENT. THE EVIDENCE THAT GULFED BY THE IT WAS PACIFIC. - Some Startling Kevelations of Modern Science Curious Facts Which Have a Hearing an the Question Two Appall ing Alternatives 1'resented. Little as we know of the prehistoric adven tures of the Atlantic ocean and the countries which border it, we know still less of the Pa cific and its antecedents. Reasoning upon the date of the earthquakes of 1S54 and 1SG4, Pro fessors Barho aud Hocks tetter reckoned the average depth of that ocean to be from 2.000 j to 2,400 fathoms. The Tusenrora, which t traversed tho Pacific from California to Ja pan via the Sandwich islands, taking sound- j ings on the waj- with a view to tho laving I of an ocean cable found a u average depth of about 2,200 fathoms, with depressions of :,000 fathoms. The Challenger in the South Pa cific found an average depth of about 2,500 fathoms; ulso with deep spots reaching occa sionally y,500 fathoms. But in tho northern Pacific a very different state of thmgs fe found. In Behriug sea it is au exception to fljd a depth of KKI fathoms; twenty-five, thirty, forty uud fifty fathoms are the rule. Round the fur seal islands St. Paul and St. George bottom is reached at twenty-five, thirty, forty and fifty fathoms; in the center of Behriug straits the depth marked on tho coast survey charts is twenty-tivo fathoms. Again, at the south the average depth of the ocean between Chili and Xew Zealand is known to Ite about 1,'tOO fathoms. Thus, so far as wo know and that Ku precious little the Ixisin of tho Pacific is u circular lowi about :j,0(K) fathoms deep in the deepest part, with a well dulined rim on the western, north ern und eastern sides, and with inuumerablo islands cropping up all over, like the teaks of the mountains of a submerged continent. On tho southern side tho rim is broken off uud the bowl merges into the Antarctic ocean. IIASIN OK THK PACIFIC. Assuming that this is a correct description of the Pacific basin which, from want of adequate soundings, we are far from being sure of it compares curiously with tho At lantic ocean, atiout winch we know u good j deal. The latter ocean has a bench or ter- race, varying from ."50 to 100 miles in width, and from nothing to 100 fathoms in depth, which ltorders the continents that inclose the ocean. Beyond this Iteuch deep water in places as deep as :!,500 fathoms comes sud denly. The ocean basin is traversed from north to south by a plateau, extending from the Azores, or oven furhcrsouth, to Iceland; on either side of tho plateau is n deep valley of water. On tho plateau deptlisof 2,000 fathoms are rare; 1,50: 1 fathoms is the usual average. But just outside the edges of the plateau there are places where no bottom is found at ,000. The theory of cosmogonists is that this plateau was enco dry land, and that it sun!: to a depth of nearly two miles beneath the surface of the ocean in a convul sion of nature. It was by coupling this hy pothesis with Plato's remarkable account of tho lost island of Atlantis, from which, ac cording to the Egyptians, they and the Greeks, and indeed all the enlightened peo- ! pies of ancient times, derived their civilizu tion, that Ignatius Donnelly constructed his interesting theoiy of a lost continent. Sir William Dawson has not furnished tho public with the reasons that induced him to suppose that the Creator's work is finished in the Atlantic and unfinished in the Pacific. It cannot have leeii that he argued that there had been no sulisidence of the bottom of the latter, for the evidences of such a catastrophe were long ago pointed out by Dana und Dar win. Tho coral insect will not build below 100 or 150 feet beneath the surface of the water. Yet coral detritus has been brought SOME VEP.V CUIIIOUS FACTS. Again, tho colossal remains on Easter island show that at some time or other that island must li.ivo been connected with islands now lying 1,000, 2,000 and 5,000 miles further west. They could not have been erected by the natives of an island which cannot feed its people, much less provo a home for art The islanders could not have sailed to Easter from 1 Polynesia, for the3" cannot bisit to windward in their light draught canoes, and tho trade winds blow- from the cost and" southeast for eleven months in the year. Nor could they have come from the west of South America, for they are men cf a different race from any that ever lived on this continent, being, in fact, obviously members of the Polynesian family. Hence, "the former existence of a South Pacific continent, though not abso lutely demonstrated, is rendered so probable that no man of science would lie surprised at the discovery of absolute evidence of its bav in been. Geographers have amused themselves by reconstructing the lost continent, as Don nelly reconstructed Atlantis. They have taken existing islands for the tops of moun tain ranges, and Imagined valleys ltetwcen them, spreading from range to range. Thus, Dana imagines two principal mountain ranges, one starting from the Hawaiian group mid running south to the Meudana, Society and Pearl islands, and another start ing from the Society group and running westwardly through the Navigators, the Fiji group, tho Solomon group, New Guinea, the Spice islands, Celebes, Borneo, Sumatra and Joining the continent of Asia at Malacca. Perhaps this theory of cosmogony is as recon cilable with the facts us any other. It involves two alternatives, each more ap palling than the other. If there was a Pa cific continent, how did it disapjear Did it fall crashing down through the waters, hi nn instant, in some mighty earthquake which burled millions of human beings iiitoeternity with such awful swiftness that no one knew what was happening to him Or did it sub side gradually, the area of cultivable land becoming less each year, so that men fled to hilltops to escape the inexorable advance of the surging sea, and while a few made their escape and bore to distant lands the story of the deluge, the great bulk perished miserably of hunger or in the battle for the food which was too scanty to suffice for all? Are such catastrophes likelv to occur' San Francisco Call. A Friendly Warning. Lieutenant I would like very much to have a leave of absence for three days. Colonel Going on a picnic? "Yes, colonel, wo are going to have a little fishing party out in the woods." "Going to ba ladies in the party!" "Yes, colonel, quite a number of young la ladies will be in the party." "You can go, and I hope 30U will enjoy yourself, but for heaven's sake, young man, bo careful It was on just such an innocent picnic tbat I came to be gobbled up by tbe old lady in there." Fliegende Blaetter." Prince Carl, of Sweden, is such a beauty that his photograph is found on every toilet article used by Stockholm women. COLUMBUS WITH THE OMAHA mm BEPBBLICAI. Both One Year For $2.75. : delightful ufe in alaska. The Itrier Kighls of Summer and the Al- j most Endless Nights or Winter. Tbe stagnation of life in Alaska is almost , inconceivable. The summer tourist can i hardly realize it l.eausehe brings to the eet ! tlement the 011I3- variety it knows, and this j comes so seldom once or twice a month that the population arises as a man and re joices so long as the steamer is in port. Please tq picture this people after the excitement is over, subsiding into a comatose state and re maining in it until the next boat heaves in sight. One feels one's self mechanically; takes one's constitutional along the shore or over one of the goat paths tbat strike inland, nodding now and again to tbe familiar faces tliat seem never to change in expression ex cept iluring tourists' horn's and then repairs to that bed which is tho salvation of the soli tary, for sleep and oblivion are tbe good angels that brood over it In summer tho brief night barely forty winks in length is 60 silvery and soft that it is a delight to sit up in it even if one is quito alone. Lights and shadows play with one another and are reflected in sea and sky until tho eye is almost dizzied with tbe singular loveliness of the scene. I believe if I were banished to Alaska I would sleep in the day time, say from 8 a. m. to 5 p. m., and revel in tho wakeful beaut- of the other hours. But the winter, aud tho endless night of winter! When tho sun sets in discourage ment at ." or 4 o'clock hi the afternoon, and rises with a faint heart and a Mtlo face at 10 or 11 in the forenoon; when even high noon is unworthy of the name, for the dull lumi nary having liarely got nbovo tho fenco at 12 ociocK, backs out of it and sinks again into the blackness of darkness which it is destined to endure for at least two-thirds of the four and twenty. Since tho moon is no more obliging to the Alaskans than the suit is, what is a poor fellow- to do: Ho can watch the aurora until his eyes ache; lit) can sit over a game of cards and a glass of toddy you can always get the latter up there; he can trim his lamp uud ch::t with his chums and fill his pipe over und over again; but tho night meanwhile thickens and tho tiiux begins to lag; Ii looks at his watch to find it is only 0 p. 111., and there are twelve hours between him und daylight. Alaska Cor. San Fran- eisco Chi oniele. Charm at American Women. The Jersey Lily, who find royalty and aris tocracy ut her feet, is the best possible proof that the aristocracy of imture eclijtses that of birth and rank even in the most pretentious und exclusive spheres. No duchess while I was in England eujoyed a triumph to be compared with that of Mrs. Langtrv, who may now lie seen in her glory, gowns and all, without a presentation at court. And yet the American women, at least tho fashiona blooncs, are nlwu3s hunkering after aristo cratic advantages. If they only know it, they surpass tho. whom they envy. Ameri can women have a natural charm, often an innate distinction of manner, that has made them sought at every court in Europe. Not long ago I was talking with a country woman w ho knew as much nliout foreign society as any other American, or, indeed, as many Europeans of tho :uo;t favored class, and wo amused ourselves by counting the compnt- rtois wo uau personally known who had be come countesses-, umbassadresscs, duchesses, princesses, not to say queens (for Eliso Heus brsat very near a throne), and there were 124. Somo of theso women had boon clerks in tho war or treasury dejtartnient in Washing ton, and several wore not at all of tho society that calls itself "good," no matter how bad its members may be. I remember how the Washington bolles shuddered when a little Georgetown girl they did not visit bore off a baron in triumph before them all. But she demeaned herself as bravely as any of her new sisters, 1 have been told, und hns held her own at more than one Eurojtean court Adam Badcuu's Letter. Administering the Chicken Oath. George Sam, tho lauudryman who recently took uuto himself an American wife, ap peared as Sang Leo's friend and counselor, mid when he saw Hop's confusion insisted that t ha rooster bo killed. Judgo Hutchins gracefully descended from his previous de cision, and decided that if tho court got the carcass of tho chicken tho oath might be ad ministered in tbat way. When Hop heard this his knees began to shako and he glanced nervously around tho room. A bucket was secured to catch tho blood, mid Sang Lee whipped a butcher knife from his boot leg. Before tho decapitation of tho fowl it is cus tomary to read mi oath to tho witness. Sang had one prepared, and in a sing-song voice like tho f.h:ig of a saw, he read the document. The other Chinamen put their fingers in their ears so us not to hear tho words. Hop kept mutteriug to himself, and when Sang finished readings-aid: "Mono takee money." Sang lit a match, mid, applying it to tho paper oath, allowed it to be consumed. George Sam remarked to a reporter, as ho pointed to tho paper: "Him go to heaven now. If Hop Lung no tellee truth him die in sixty duys." But Hop was not to Ite caught When tho chicken was brought forward he refused to kill it, and reiterated his statement that he was innocent Sam Ijm was iierfectly willine to cut tho rooster's head off, but ho was not allowed to do so. "This is tho most intricate case I ever tried," said Judgo Hutchins in his summing up of the evidence. Cleveland lA'ader. Ilroken Dishes at Hotels. Hotel managers here say that the fracture of dishes china, glass and earthen ware is a more serious item of exjienso fhnn any out sider would suppose. Although the- make it a rule, for their own protection, to charge broken dishes to the servants w hen they are plainly careless, tho rale does not relieve the hotels from serious loss every year. The greatest amount of breakage is in handling and washing; di-kt-s may not bo actually broken nt first, but thoy are constantly nicked mid cracked, and, after that, soon go to pieces. Largo houses, like tho Fifth Avenue and the Windsor sustain a loss of fully 1 10,000 annually in this way, independent of what the servants pay for. Managers say that it would bo 50 K;r cent, greater except for the system of fines imposed on the domestics, who are made by it less heedless. Any house holder may judgo from the destruction of dishes in his own kitchen what it must be in a great hotel. New York Commercial Ad vertiser. Colored Worshipers at Wunhlngtun. There is a large Catholic church in Wash ington attended exclusively by colored peo ple, with black saints in the niches and other things to corresjond. It is attended by a colored aristocracy, and a membership in it i3 considered a sign of tone by some. There is a fine choir of negro voices, and masses are sung quite as well as in those attended by the whibs. There is also a colored Episcopal eliureb, the rector of which is a graduate of Trinity college and a man of much ability. But aside from the two Presbjterian churches nearly the entire colored population uttend worship at those of the Methodist or the Bap tist faith. Washington Letter. Since the fare on the New York city ele vated railroad was put down to 5 cents the volume of travel has increased wonderfully. JOURNAL, WITH I HE PRAIRIE FARMER, Both One Tear For S3 SCHOOL FOR THIEVES. AN ENGLISH CONVICT'S WAY OF TEACHING BY EXAMPLE. Showing Them Conclintiveljr that the Way of the Tramtg-ressor U lfarilA Backhanded Method Tear Shed by Young Keprobaten. An English ex-convict tells this story to a reporter concerning a school for thieves which he has the reputation of keeping: "Oh, it isn't a school at all," he replied, with a laugh, "and it is all nonsense calling it one. It got the name of being one a long time ago, mid it has stuck to it ever since. It became known that I used to have lads up here of evenings, and I was waited upon by a police iiusjtector. 'I have come to warn you,' says he, 'that we have information that you keep a school for the instruction of young thieves. If it is so you will have to put u stop to it or you will find yourself in your old quarters.' 'All right,' says I, 'you shall come and hear for yourself what it is I teach them.' 'There would bo a lot of good in that,' says he; there would be a rather short attendanco if it was known that I was to be present. Besides, if they did come, you wouldn't be such a fool as to give 'em their or'nury lessons.' I said, says I: 'That you should bear for yourself, not that you should be seen, if you wouldn't mind passing an hour tins evening iu that back at tic; there is only a thin partition between it and this one, and lots of chinks you can (ieep through. You can satisfy yourself and no body but you and me need bt any wiser.' A BACKHAXDEU WAV. "And tho inspector agreed to the plan, and came and slipjted iuto the back attic at the time mentioned, and there ho staid till the entertainment was all over and the boys bad gone. And then ho came out, and says he: 'I shan't trouble you any further. Jerry. It is rither a backhanded way you have got iu getting at them, but it is better than no way at all' And he civilly wished 1110 good night, and I liaven't been interfered with by the police since. And so it is whut may be called a backhanded way," continued Mr. Duff, "and it isn't, pr'aps,a respectable way, and it might be objected that there is under handedness and artfulness in it; but, what od-ls about that so that good comes of it i It isn't reading and writing that I teach them. I am far too ignorant a man for that I tell them stories stories of my life in the differ ent prisons and of the crimes that got me there. That was tho bait that I held out to them when I first began to put the plan I had long thought of iu practice. They were too young to know anything aliout me them selves, but they hud, no doubt, heard all about mo from the older hands and there are plenty of them living aliout hens and they were proud of the compliment when I asked them to come up to my room, smoke a pijto und hear me spin a yarn concerning my life ninl adventures. And having been in the cnKikt-d way over since I was ! till I last left Portland, when I was tfJ, yon muy guess, and having a good memory, I hod plenty of stories to tell. "But the stirring adventures and tho date devil deeds, which, of course, thoy liked to hear alvout, was only the augur the pill was coated with. What I wanted them to understand without making too much of it wus that for every six;icnu'orth of pleas ure obtained by crime it always, sooner or later, meets with a pound's worth of pun ishment It don't do to press this view of it too hard on them, or they will at once think you ure gammoning. The way is to put it so that they find it out for themselves. They sometimes make their comments to tliat effect when 1 have finished a story I have been tell ing them. 'Well, after all, Jerry, 3 ou didn't get much of a pull. You paid prctt3' dear for what you did got, Jerry.' To which I re ply 'I nover did get the pull, and I alwoys paid dear for what I got I had twenty -six 3'ears of it, and oighteen cf these were spent in prison, and, after all, here I am, making footstools at two pence ha'penny each, and working fourteen hours a daj- to earn enough to buy me a bit of victuals and pay my lodg ing, and I tell you I never was half as happy in all 1U3- life.' LESSON'S OF EXPERIENCE. "It isn't only of my own experiences I tell them," continued Jerry, the schoolmaster. "While I was at Dartmoor something went wrong with my insides, and I was put in the infirmary as a nurse, and was there eighteen months. I know lots of stories tliat the patients, being there sick and brought low, have told 111c, some of the men being tho most wicked mid desperate; but it was always the same tale with them when it came to tho lost They are the yams, as the- call them, they like best to hear, though terhaps you wouldn't think it. But it is a fact The worst young reprobates will go to the play, and shed tears over the affecting parts of a piece that pleases them, and go again and again to see it. I've had them pipe their eye here many a time when I've been telling them of a dying prisoner a -oung fellow, perhaps and of the tender messages he sent to his mother and those at home. "And, what is more to the purpose," said Jerry Duff, proudly, and with something very like tears glistening in his own eyes, "I've had many a one como creeping back here, sh- and ashamed like, when the others were out of sight, and wanting to know if I knew anj- more stories like the lust, mid, if so, would I mind telling him all by himself mid on the quiet. I nover say 1103-, you may depend, sir. They are the Itsh I am angling for in in' luickhaiided way. They are rare, but wheu they do bito thoy are worth land ing." I could do no more than agree, and as I have already said, I shook bauds with Jerry Duff, and wished him better luck w ith his story telling. Loudon Telegraph. Coal Dust and Seaweed. A considerable foreign industry has sprung up, consisting in mixing tho dust of coal with an extinct obtained from boiling ordinary seaweed or other similar vegetable matter producing, when boiled, a mucilaginous or adhesive solution. Iu the system of manu facture pursued, the plan is to first boil sea weed or some other vegetable product caa blo of yielding, when boiled, the desired mucilaginous or adhesive solution; with the latter there is then mixed a certain distor tion of coal dust, in the samo maimer in which cement, mortar or other materials of that nature ure treated. The combined sub stances are subsequently molded to any re quired slnqte b3 hand, or b3' means of a brick making or some similar apparatus. By combining tho solution with sawdust, filter ing blocks are formed. Boston Budget A Station Indicator. A station indicator is tho latest invention, recently patented by a young lawyer of Nash ville, Tchil The machines can be attached to each car in a train, and by the pulling of a cord a brakeinan registers tho approaching station. The dial on which the words are priuted is in full view of the passengers. Chicago Times. Teu thousand acres of undeveloped land in Mississippi will be put in cultivation by northern capital next year. 2 a year. ADVRKTISE IN THE JOIiRNAL If you want to sell or buy anything! If you. want to lend or borrow anything 11 you 'want a situation, or II you wnntjaelp. t , i TBE FIRST National Bank! -OK COLUMBUS. 1E. HAS AX Authorized Capital of $250,000, A Surplus Fund of - $17,000, And the largest lald im Cauls Cap ital of any bans- in this part of tho State. ISTDcpositM received aud interest paid on time deposits. EiTDrartaon the principal cities in this country and Europe bought aud sold. "Collections uud all other business given prompt uud careful attcution. 610CK1I0LI1KKS. A . A N DER.SON, PresU. SAM'L C.SMITH. ViceJres't. O.T. KOEN, Cashier. J. P.BEl'hTEK. HERMAN OEHLKICH, G.SCUL'TTE, G.ANDERSON. ROBERT UHLIG. ApriS-'SCtf BUSINESS CARDS. !.T Makty.n, M. I. F. J. Scute. M.D. Drs. MARTYN & SCHUQ, U. S. Examining Surgeons, Local Surgeons. Union Pacific. O., N. & B. II. and B.&M.K. It's. Consultations in German and English, i elepbones at office aud residences. . JETOlIicc on Olive street, next to Brod leuhrer's Jewelry Store. COLUMBUS, 42-y NEBRASKA. LA IV AND COLLECTION OFFICE. Upstairs Ernst building nth street. OIJi.l.lVA" KKEIIKR, ATT0112TEYS A T LA ', Office oyer First bus, Nebraska. National Bank, Colum-0-tf kvaiv, at. ., PHYSICIAN AND SUIWEON. EQTOflioe aud moms. Gluek building, lltli street. Telephone eommuuicitiou. 4v ljA.Mn;ro. ui:aui:,m. ., PHYSICIAN AND SUEUEON, Platte Center, Nebraska. !-y TTKKMAM aATKrVSTKOT, BLACKSMITH AND WAGON .MAKER, lUtk Ktreet, east of AbtV barn. April 7, 'MM! D K. a. (IIAN. WIII.Y, DEUTSCIlKli ARZT, Columbus, Nebraska. jSTOflice 11th Street. Consultations in English, French and German. 'Ji-Cm powiiM, iioisi; PLATTE CENTEIi, NEIL Just opened. Special attention given to commercial men. Has a good sample room. Sets the best table. (Jive it a trial and be convinced. .tO-;;mo COUNTY SUIiVEYOE. t3TParties desiring surveying done nn address me at Columbus Neb., or all at my office in Court House. ruiay8ti-y TOTICK TOT-ACIIKK9. W. H. Tedrow, Co Snpt. I will be at my office iu the Court House Ihc third .Saturday of each mouth for the examination of teachers. ;i!)-tf V. V. Kt !.-: KK, .11. D HOMGEOPATHIST. Chronic Diseases and Diseases of Children a Specialtv. lcroilice on Olive street, three doors north of First National Bank. i-ly ircALIJNTKR 1IKOM., ATTORNEYS AT LA W, Office up-stairs iu McAllister's build ing, 11th St. W. A. McAllister Notary Public. J.M..MACFAKLANI), Ar.jra97sletir7PaSl :. IS. K. COWDKKY, C:Ui:tsr LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE OK MACFARX.ANO & Columbus, COWDBRx. Nebraska. JOHN ,. IIICCIXS C. .1. GAKLOW. Collection Attorxey. HI00IHS & GABI0W, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, Specialty made of Collections by C. -4-U1 uarlow P h.ri'sciik:, llth St., opposite LIndell Hotel. Sells Harness, Saddles, Collars, Whips, Blankets, Curry Combs, Brushes, trunk, valises, buggy tops, cushions, carriage trimmings, Sc, at the lowest possible prices. Repairs promptly attended to. J. S. MURDOCH & SON, Carpenters and Contractors. Havehad 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 tunitytoestimateforyou. EyShop on ISth St., one door west of Friadhof & Co's. store. Columbus. Nebr. 483-7 A PRIZE. B six cents lor se.and reccivi a etistly box ot goods which will help yon to more money right away than anything eNe in tin world. All, of either sex, Mircecd from first hour. The broad road to fortune opens before the workers, absolutely sure. At once address, Tkiik & Co., Augusta, Maiae. . A.. MCALLISTER. JONAS WELCH, JOHN W.EARLV, P.ANDERSON. New grain elevators are being con atructed at Oakdale and Keligb. Kxclf eaten t la Tcxbk Great excitement haa beeu caused in the vicinity of Paris, Texas, by the remarkable recovery of Mr. J. E. Corley, who wag so helpless he could not turn iu bed, or raise his head ; everybody said ho wa? dying of con sumption. A trial bottle of Dr. King'a New Discovery was seut him. Finding relief, he bought a largo bottle and a box of Dr. King's New Life Pills ; by the time he had taken two boxes of Pills aud two bottles of the Discovery, he was well and had gained in flesh thirty-six pouuds. Trial bottles of this Great Dis covery for Consumption froo at Dowty & ileitkeniper's. A woman in Michigan visited her son in jail, changed clothes with him and remained in his cell while tho boy, in his mother's attire, passed out with his hands to his face, sob biug pitenusly. "Mwecl Maad nailer." Wbittier's beautiful ballad contains a touching allusion to the many cares and sorrows which wear upon the "heart and brain" of a wifo and mother. Thousands of weary suf fering women have found Dr. Pierce's "Favorite Prescription" a marvellous recuperator of wasted strength, aud of sovereign elKcacy in all those de rangements and maladies peculiar to their sex, by reason of which the vi tality is gradually sapped, and the check robbed prematurely of its bloom. Price reduced to one dollar. By druggists. Frkmont normal school opened last week with a largely increased membership. Mrs. W. P. Jones is a very capablo lady. r Worse thoB a Fire Alarm. One of the most dreadful alarms that rau bo sounded in a mother's ears is produced by croup; dreadful, because it is known to be duiigcr ous;the more d nail nil because tho life of a loved one la in jeopardy. Chamberlain's Cough Kenu-dy is a never tailing fau'eguurd against this (numerous disease. It reputation as u preventative aud euro tor croup is fully and firmly established. In tact, it is tho only remedy which can always bo relied upon. Sold by Dowty & licit keni per. Dki.awakk still keeps up tho cus tom of public whipping. Six ne groes ana two whites were whipped at Newcastle the other day. Itch, Prairie Mange, and Scratches ot ever kind cured in '.0 minutes by Woolford's Sanitary Lotion. Use no oilier. This never laita. Sold by C. B. Siillnmn, druggist, Columbus. Skxatok JoNF.b, ot Florida, though reported to have fully formed, Bt ill linger in Detroit. al-rc- Thc Verdict Uaaaiiuoa. W. D. Suit. Drugsht, Bipp;t, Ind , testit'ei: "I can recommend Elec tric Bitters as the very best remedy. Every bottle sold has given relief iu every casd. One man took bix bot tles, aud was cured of Rheumatism of 10 years' standing." Abraham Hare, druggist, Bellville, Ohio, af firms: "The best selling medicine I have ever baud led iu my 20 years' experience, is Electric Bitters." Thousands of others liavu added their testimony, so that tho verdi 't is unanimous that Electrlct Bitters do cure all diseases of the Li?cr, Kid neys or Blood. Only a half a dollar a bottle at Dowty & Hcitkemper' drug store. Rf.v. Lores Beki:y, of Plnntsviltt, Conn., has accepted a unanimous call from the Congregational church :t Fremont. Can consumption be cured? Yi. Ono man only, discovered the laws of gravitation. Oue man only, din covered the virtue of vaccination. And one man after years of study and reflection, has discovered the cure for consumption. Dr. Pierce's "Golden Medical Discovery" ". it specific. Send two letter stamps and get Dr. Pierce's pamphlet treatise o i consumption. Address, "World's Dispenpary Medical AsFOciatio s Bull'alo, N. Y. Skcretaky Bayard, it is saidt in his comiug report, will recommend native Americans and honest me.t for consuls. Fifty CealM Is the price of Chamberlain's Cougi lJPlll-d. It..- Ml'i.-t s.J.1! be- duij-h Mi'il-ciin- in tin' hi ii kit. Suld by DoWtV & Iir"i -.,.- IJ B. IIayis i-i! i- i'" Mi'viving ex-Pri's-rt nt '-.f ' IIit"'vl S'-itt-s DacTklea- Araica .Hn :-.-The Best Salve in th; w -:UI fr Cnts, Bruises, Sores, U er-. "'alt Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Cnippc-d Hands, Chilblains, Corns and all Skin Eruptions, and positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is gu-ir-anteed to jive perfect satisfaction, or money refunded. Price 25 cents per bx. For; Sale by Dowtv & Ileit krmper. Ma 17 ly KKABstY now has gas works.