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TES OP AIEKTISir: zteZ ETHusineasand professionalcarda of fivelineaor less, per annum, fiva dollars. ISSUED KVBItY WEDNESDAY, M. K. TURISTEH & CO., Proprietor i and Publishers. 2" OFFICE, Eleventh Sl.,y ,s tn Journal Suildiny. For time advertisement a. apply at this office. 12Legal advertisements at statute rates. JS For transient advertising, see rates on third page. J3TA11 advertisements payable monthly. teums: I'eryear Six mouths Turee mouths 6 ingle copies tf . 1 M VOL. XVI I. -NO. 38. COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 8. 1886. WHOLE NO. 865. THE JOURNAL. fw ulumtitts mpa. i COLUMBUS STATE BANK! COLUMBUS, NEB. CA SH CAP1 TA L, - $75,000 DIRECTORS: Leasoeu Gekkakd, Pres't. Geo. W. Hui.st, Vice Pres't. -Tclius A. IIkki. It. II. Hkshv. J. E. Task eh, Cashier. Ilaalc I" lepoit. it KxckaiiRe. IXmoohhI Collection Iroinjlly .nIe oi Bll Hointf.. Pay latere ItM. oh Time 274 COLUMBUS Savings Bank, LOAN & TRUST COMPANY. Capital Stork. SlOO.OtV). OFFICER: Ani)f.i:sv)N, Pres't. o. W. Siifi.imsn, Vick litKr. (. T. Uiikn, "I'iika. KoKKi:r !'if i.m, Ski. JSTWill rcreivi time deno-lts, fro:n $1 00 and any amount upwards, and will pay the customary rate of interest. 2S5Ve particularly draw jour atten tion to our facilities for making loans on real estate, .it the lowest r:t- ofhitere.it. J3T t. School :md County IJonr, ut,i iudhidual securities are bought. ti'junc'Mi-y FOIX TTII3 -CAM. OX A.&M.TURNER Or ti. W. KIIIIJKR, TraveliBR SalenronB. tSBTThes-e organs are tirst-class in over particular, and so guaranteed. SCHaFFROTH & PUTH, DEALERS IN C13CAEJL.ErGrI2 WIND MILLS, AND PUMPS, Buckeye Mower, combined, Self Binder, wire or twine. Pumps Repaired on short notice 32r"One door west of Hcintz's Drug Store, 11th Street, Columbus, Neb. lTnovetftf HENRY G-ASS. TJ2ST IDETflTAlEIl ! COFFINS AND METALLIC CASES AND PEALER IX Furniture, Chairs, Bedsteads, Bu reaus. Tables. Safes. Lounges, &c. Picture Frames and Mouldings. prSepalrlna of all kinds of Upholstery Goods. e-tf COLUMBUS. NEB. A.J.ARN0LD, DEALER IN DIAMONDS, FINE WATCHES, Clocks, Jewelry AND SILVERWARE. Strict attention given to repairing of Watches and .lewelry. pg"WHl not be undersold bj anybody. NeBATemae, Opposite Cletker Hease. LYON&HEALY Monroe Sts., Chicago. Will tni (null U My tdinu Uxir for INS. J (WO, J10 EBjimTiOi AND CATALOGUE, or Intrntacu. an uip. ". Sundry Bnd Oottu. BrHsf Km .aiftior. aula, ana tfc. &K ln?nds iBsinKvan . i for Atubar Html tkl 4 UUMCI fCkeUUbdMiM aHn BBBs3BjKA:-iA WESTERN COTTAGE ORGAN Jjyfiv aaRB State I- nJ I su Beading; Problen Fiaaacial Id one of hia recent speeches . in Pennsylvania Mr. Blaine forcibly de clared that "there has not been since the National election of 1860 a' finan cial crisis so urgent and pressing as the one which will be upon the Am erican people within the next 'two years." Indeed, the facts all go to show that the emergency must be faced within one year or less time than that, but at all events the next congress must provide against an enormous prospective increase of the treasury Burplus or confess itself in competent to perform a moet import ant duty. At the present rate the 3 per cent bonds will be retired by the end of the fiscal year, aud then unless congress makes a radical change in the revenuejaws there will be noth ing to prevent a currency contrac tion as severe as any the country has ever known. The Treasury state ments lor October shows that during the greater part of that month reven ues were pouriug in at the rate of $1, 000,000 a day, and in the course of three weeks the receipts exceeded the expenditures $12,000,000, although the expenses were unusually large. Undoubtedly receipts will not fall much below this rate if the present tariii'iri continued, aud as soon as the bond calls are stopped the Treasury board will be swollen by the un checked surplus revenues and the currency contracted for a series of years to the amount of at least $1,000 000 per annum. Certainly this will prove as grave a financial problem a the country has seen for years. In discussing the above the Chica go Tribune goes on to say : It is gen erally admitted that it would be wretched policy for the government to go into the market and purchase its own bonds at the current rate, which is now 1294 on 4 per cents, and which would doubtless be heavily in creased if the government became a buyer. Nor could congress be justi fied in squandering the public money in jobbery and wasteful appropriations eolely to get it out of the Treasury. What course is there left but to re form the revenue system In such man ner as 'to cut off surplus receipts while preserving as far as possible the noi-ded protection lor American labor? Mr. Blaine thus states the conditions of the problem : The main question, therefore, is whether you will exclude from the tarilT the protective idea or whether you will reduce toe rates upon arti cles from the duties on which yon gain no protection, and thus so wisely discriminate that, with a new tarifi adapted to $100,000,000 less revenue, you will still gain all the protection needed. Here theu is a question that calls for the best statesmanship aud busi ness ability of the country, and it is to be solved by a House dominated by the "Solid South," and iu which the influence of the commercial and manufacturing sections has been re duced to the minimum. As all rev enue bills must originate in the House the republican senate will be practi cally powerless. The present House has proved itself as stupid and incap able a body as ever sat in the capitol, and the principal question in regard to its successor is whether it will il lustrate Bourbonism and imbecility in a still worse degree. The situation could not be more promising for those who desire to see the democrat ic party loaded with the responsibili ty for appalling blunders and disas ters, but still the republicans,although in a minoiity, will be bound to do everything in their power to ward off the consequences likely to ensue from the election of a democratic house at this juncture. Instead of leaving the responsibility on the majority the re publicans must assume a part of it and help the democrats out. Left to themselves, the raging Bourbons would permit the country to drift in to a financial crisis. The republican minority mu6t seize every chance to cooperate with any faction ot the de mocracy that gives evidence of a ca pacity or judgment and thus save the country the consequences of charac teristic democratic blundering in the face of a grave situation. Hastings Gazette-Journal. A Timely Exaertatioa. It is one of the chiefest frailties of the American people that they go iuto politics only at intervals of two years or four years. Then they plunge in all over, head foremost. For a few weeks or a few months prejudice rules and passion distracts the country. Men are suddenly dis covered to be adulterers, thieves, liars and fools. The press and the hustings are devoted to scandal and vituperation. Sober consideration of the problems of government is im possible. All manner of improper influences are evoked to carry elec tions. Editors and politicians vie with each other to see who can shoot Subscribe WITH THE DAILY CHICAGO HAIL, Both Papers One Year, FOR 'the the loudest, stamp the hardest and lie with the greatest emphasis and pertinacity. The craze extends to the humblest voter and he becomes during his lunacy the exact reflex ot his favorite poltician writer or speaker. No wonder so little progress is made in the direction of good gov ernment, no wonder that abuses re main uncorrected and evil practice grow into habits. What is needed is an honest and steady consideration of politics all the year round. Every voter should read politics and study politics between elections with the same care ana forethought that be tween meals he provides something to pot on his table. Every man should carefully digest the industrial situation, its cause and how it might be bettered, to the end that he may really know -what is the best system lor the country. He should master the financial problem. He should analjzo the relation of corporations to the-people, and if there be iujustice or encroachment he should be pre pared to apply a remedy. He should look into the distribution of wealth and know whether the greatest good to the greatest number is being con served. He should do all these things at a season when he is tree from passion and uuincumbered by prejudice. This done and all is sure to come what is needed. From the deliberate aud intelligent and matured judgment of the people there is no need of appeal. It will right all wrongs and redre6Ball griev ances and fctnooth all paths and straighten all ways. Lincoln Demo crat. The School. From Prof. Hughs in Schuyler (Juill. Pupils waste the very best hours ot their school days over lengthy chap ters and exercises on multiples, measures, multiplication of decimals, compound rules, iuterest, present worth, stocks, etc., which as present ed in the ordinary text books afl'ora about 95 per cent, of "manual labor" to 5 per cent, of mental training and practical utility. Education is a means, aud not au end. Thin is the ground that Prof. Huxley take, when ho contends tha to do rather than to know is the ob ject ot 'education. It is not those who have the best knowledge that are the best and most active citizens. A talent in a napkin does not count, it is education lor the eye, the car, and the baud rather than lines of in digested learning that makes useful citizeus. School Supplement. Have your school rooms pleasant ; Jet your smile light up the often dreary task of the little ones. Get into your own lives some of the glorious sunlight of God's loye and beauty aud then impart it to your school. We sometimes see. teacher whose wholo attention seems to be taken up in trying to detect so hide ous au offence as a smile. If you find your scholars growing restless and tired, don't storm at them, but have the books laid aside for a mo ment and relate some witty anecdote or have the pupils perform some simple calisthenics and you will soon see in the happy, cheerful faces of your pupils an eager desire for work ; the disturbance will be gone aud order will again reign supreme. - A Hew Departare. The actiou of the republicans of the second congressional district ot Wisconsin iu uomioating a candidate not a resident of the district, was a departure which has attracted a good deal of attention, and having elected him the district having hitherto been largely democratic the plan is also warm ly commended. The prac: tice has always prevailed in England of constituencies selecting candidates for the house of commons without reference to their place of residence, and there is nothing to prevent the plan adopted in Wisconsin from bo coming general in this conutry. In this case a popular and capable man was chosen, Mr. Guentber, who had represented the Sixth district in con gress three terms,and for the first time the Second district will be represent ed iu the next congress by a republi can. It is more than likely bad a resident of the district been nomi nated, the democrats would have been again successful, but in the caee of Mr. Guenther, who is a German American, the candidate bad no per sonal or local objections to combat, and the party had the forcible argu ment in bis behalf that he had had long experience in congress and proved himself a valuable member. It was a successful experiment that will very likely be tried iu other states, and may iu time become gen eral and popular. Omaha Bee. for the WITH THE WEEKLY STATE JOURNAL, Both One Year For A retort comes from Durban by way of London that general and ap parently successful revolt is in pro gress amoug the natives against the Portugese authority in southeastern A fries. Near Delagoa bay, the na tives rose up against the Portugese taxation and murdered the collector. And subsequently a battle was fought between 8,000 Portugese and friendly natives ou one side, aud 30,000 hostile natives on the other. The Portugese were defeated, aud routed, and the loss in killed on both sides is esti at 9,000 men. In Iowa 955 women own aud direct farms, IS direct stock farms, 5 own greenhouses, 30 manage market gar dens, 13 serve as county superintend ents, 37 manage intermediate institu tions ot learning, 125 are physicians, 47 are registered pharmacists, 5 attor-neys-at-law", 10" ministers, 3 dentists, 210 professional nurses, and one is a civil engineer. Chicayo Tribune. Cox, who has been elected to Con gress from his old district iu New York, will make a very popular dem ocratic candidate tor speaker of the house, aud one hard to beat, should the necessity tor a change arise. His i xperience iu legislative business will not be excelled by any democrat in the house who desires the position. A singular electrical .storm swept ver the center ot Gloucester county, N. J., recently. At several points the wires touched the treo branches along he streets and the electric current was so strong as to sot lire to the rccs. Ou the same day a heavy snow -torm prevailed in New York and northern aud western Pennsylvania. The schooner Coiuauche ladeued with corn from Chicago for Ogdens- turg, ran on a shoal near Point Pan nsula, aud sunk, one night last week. Fred Tuckers, a farmer, while rescu- ng the crew, consisting of eight per oii8, was drowned by the upsetting of his bout. T. W. Simpson, ex-couuty treasur er, who was indicted for the embez zlement of 8.000 of the county fuule, and who wan brought back to M- braeka City after a flight tor iiti?rty, was sentenced to iour years ot hard labor in the penitentiary. "The smoke of Battle having clear ed away, it is plain to be .Been that the recent democratic Ueleats were duo to two principal causes: (1) tl;e democratic tendency toward free rade; -2) the unpopularity of the present administration." Detroit Tribune. During last week fifty cases ot cholera and ten deaths were reported in the infantry barracks at Belgrade. Nine youths at Sidney, N. S. W., were sentenced to death last week for committing an outrage on a Ki-ye&rs-old servant girl. Thinos useful to have in the house; to take spots of paint oil of wood, lay a thick coating of lime and soda mixed together over it, letting it stay twenty-four hours, then wash off with water aud the spot will have dissapeared. A report comes from Wabash, Ind., of a rich find of iron and lead ore iu Miami county. Hundreds of citizens have been attracted to the place and a mining company, with a capital stock of $5,000 has been formed to work the mines. A bottle of turpentine should be kept in every family, so it cau be ap plied to bums or cuts. It will take out ink stains from white mu6liu, wheu added to soap, and will help to whiten clothes if added to them when boiliug. Chloride of lime is an infallible preventative for tats, as they flee from its odor as from a pestilence. It should be thrown into their holes and spread about wherever they are likely to come, and should be applied once or twice a week. A report comes from Brussels that several Englishmen have been arrest ed on suspicion of being connected with the robbery of registered letters from the mail carriers of the Offend express. Black tongue was prevailing among the 6tock last week in the southern part of Wabash county, Ind., and is killing the cattle to an alarm ing rato. They die in a short time af ter being attacked. Louis C. Starkel, of Illinois, hn9 been appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury to be Analytical chemist in the Internal revenue bureau, un der the olemargarine law. It is claimed that Indiana'and Ohio producers are Belling new corn in New England cheaper than Chicago shippers can furnish old corn to con suming points. President Cleveland has ap pointed Bishop Gordon, of Minneso ta, to bo receiver of public moneys at Redwood Falls, Minn. John Dillon will defend bimsolf in the, case brought against him by the English government. COLUMBUS WITH THE 8HAIA WEEKLY BEP1ICJI, Both One Year For $175. PANTOMIME SONGS. "ARTISTS" MAKING READY FOR THE HOLIDAYS IN LONDON. Gsort Songs In Abundance and at Iw Figures Successes In the Music Halls. Wide Differences In the Public Tasto. Political Verses. Tho pantomime "artists" are already giv ing to tbo songs they meau to sing that atten tion which outsiders might fancy is only be stowed ou their dresses. Ah a matter of fact, the dresses, and even the dances, have now become subjects of secondary consideration. The chief engagements for the coming season bid 'signed" bj' this time; whero there is an important vacancy it is f wing tosomo person eugaged having "didapjxHuted." Many les sees engage their complete pantomime com pany early hi the summer, and their stars the Christmas lefore. It is common for the manager to make u roimd of the principal provincial theatres during one pantomime season iu hope of getting a ugood thing" for thtjfcxt. As a rule, the comedian who has the most 'fetching" topical songs is most worth looking after; tliis holding even when the player is a lady. One song that takes the popular ear brings moro money to the man ager than a X'oO transformation scene; and it is not so much tha song that takes as the way it is sung, the singer w ho "score.-." in one pan tomime will probably repeat Ins success in another. As a profession the writing of pantomime oiigs would not pay. The competition is so keen that popular .singers need not give an order for a new song: they may go to bed any night ii confidence that a song from somcoim is sure to lw delivered with their let teis in the morning. Thus the singer is pretty certain to ger something that will suit him sooner or lati-r: and. of course, songs sent for approval aiv wry cheap. Full lights can easily !x got ft.r fjuiinu, or even for less. suecKssri'L soxos. On the tlier hand, there are well known "shops" tor the supply of the article, aud the singer is measured for it, so to sjieak. The loet has to write to his customer's voice, to be uiatriotic," or 'topical," or "sentimental," according to instructions. In most cases he is Ioth writer and eomjioser; but songs sent on -approval" are generally without music. Five pounds N a good price for a song, oven when it is ordered of a well-known writer; but once produce a iopular intoiuimo song and tliomiHic halls will lind you plenty of employment. The iim.t successful pantomime song of rcent years i.s a music hall ditty, in which the priucijia! Ixy says to the principal girl: Ducky darling, ducky darling, I love you.'" That song overran the pantomimes all over the country for a year. It is dead enough now: but the composer made a name .by it, and will doubtless prolit thereby for the next decade. A well-known dramatist has had soma great successes with pantomime songs. Mich as -U'st, wst, wst'nlikludiov.-as !iis.t heard iu the mui halls. The common impression is that the writer of the iiautomime writes the songs as well, or at least arranges with the manager what songs are to le introduced at certain points. He has nothing to do with is. The leading Ierformers are entitled to introduce their own songs and dances, and that Ls why two songs very like each other are often sung in the same pantomime. If the local town coun cil has lieon having a squabble the fact of the low comedian's introducing it into his song does not prevent the principal boy's intn ducing it into his. It has been said that the actor who makes himself a name in one pantomime can generally keep up his reputa tion. There are, nevertheless, comedians of one song, as maunders occasionally learn to their cost. The comedian's attachment to a song that has made him popular during the pantomime season is often remarkable. His hojie is to lj allowed to sing it, with new words, perhaps, in next year's pantomime, and the manager's remonstrance that ''it is old now" has no effect. It may be old, but "it goes down." ran rrnuc taste. A comic singer whom accident makes the sole proprietor of a iwpular song likes to keep it to himself. He is, as a rule, a music hall singer except at pantomime times, and when his song liecomes talked about it is to his ad vantage that it should be coupled with his name. However, the imitations that at once spring up are so like that this exclusiveness does not always iiy, and so he may dispose of his rights to one or sixty or fifty other singers, and thus the samo song is sung in the same way in twenty jwintomimes. It does not, however, take equally well in each, and the fault '. not necessarily the singer's. Just as a song may be redemanded two or three times on one night and fall quite flat the next in the same theatre, so the public taste in one town differs from tho public taste in an other. Flayers who have been long on the -road" know, or at least plume themselves on knowing, how to adapt themselves to the tastes of different places. A comedian now on tour with a burlesque company does a recitative song that takes immensely in some towns, while in others it is so ltttle appreciated as to make him feci alxished. It contains the information that when he sang that song in California the audience flung sovereigns at him. He re peals this iu so pointed a way that his hear ers can hardly fail to see what he means. Sometimes tuey rise to his meaning at once, aud pit and gallery pelt him with pence. Unless they do this there is no point in the lines that follow. When the audience is slow to assist him with his "business," coins are flung from tho wings just to give them a ktart, but the hint is not always taken. Political songs succeed aud fail in the same way. Some audiences are so taken by them that they insist on having them over again from beginning to end. Other audiences re sent the introduction of politics with hisses and shouts of "So politics!" On the whole, the safest hit in a pantomime is the topical song that is all alout the election of the board of guardians, or the town baud, or the disappearance of tho grocer round the cor ner, or the way in which the streets are lit That appeals to gallery and dress circle alike (stalls are uot commou in the prov inces) and as soon as the comedian arrives in the town for rehearsals ho sets to work to acquire the local gossip. St James Gazette. tJntrustworthiness of History. In a recent paper on Lord Timothy Dexter, Mr. William Cleaves Todd, of Newburyport. disposes of the tales of Dexter's sending warm ing pans and English Bibles' to the West Indies. In illustration of tho untrustworthi ness of history, 3Ir. Todd cites Professor J. U. Butler, of Madison, Wis., whose grand father, an eye witness, often told him, in re gard to Ethan Allen's "in the name of the great Jehovah and the Continental congress," that what the surprise) I commander at Ticon deroga actually heard was: "Come out of here, you d d old rat." This matches Taylor's reply to Santa Anna- "Gen. Taylor never surrenders," translated by a skillful aide-de-camp from the vernacular: "Tell him to go to h 1." The Argonaut A writer in Tho Birmingham Age says the negroes iu the state of Alabama will be gravi tated from the farm to the factories. JOURNAL, WITH THE PRAIRIE FARMER, Both One Year For $3 VARIOUS DIETETIC FALLACIES. Consult lite Patient's Stomach la Pref erence to HI Cravings. L That there is any nutriment in beef tea made from extracts. There is noue what ever. 2. That gelatins is nutritious. It will not keep a cat alive. Beef tea and gelatine, how ever, possess a certain reparative power, we know not what. 3. lhat an egg is equal to a pound of meat, and that every sick person can eat eggs. Many, especially those of nervous or bilious temperament, cannot eat them; and to such eggs are in jurioua. 4. That, because milk is an important arti do of food, it most be forced upon a patient Food that a person cannot endure will not cure. 5. That arrowroot is nutritious. It is simply starch and water, aseful as a restora tive, quickly prepared. 6. That cheese is injurious in all cases. It is, as a rule, contra-indicated, being usually indigestible; but it is concentrated nutri ment and a waste repairer, and often craved. 7. Tliat the cravings of a patient are whims, and should be denied. The stomach often needs, craves for and digests articles act laid down in any dietary. Such are. for example, fruit, pickles, jams, cake, ham or bacon with fat, cheese, butter and milk. 8. That an inflexible diet may lie marked out, which shall apply to every case. Choice of a given list of articles allowable in a giveu case must be decided by the opiuion of the stomach. The stomach Ls right and theory wrong, and the judgment admins no appeal. A diet which would keep a healthy man healthy might kill a sick man, aud a diet sufficient to sustain a sick man would not keep a well man alive. Increased quantity of food, especially of liquids, does not mean increased uutriinent, rather decrease, since the digestion is overtaxed aud weakened. Strive to give the food in as concentrated a fonn as possible. Consult the patient's 6tomnch in preference to his cravings, and if tho stomach rejects a certain article do not force it Journal of Reconstruct tves. Stonewall Jackson's Peculiarities. "Do.you know," said Gen. Rosser, tho Con federate cavalry leader, "that Gen. Jackson had a number of very remarkable idiosyn crasies, and they were so peculiar as to con vince some people that ho was insane.' But if we had had more such crazy men iu the Confederate army it would havo been better for us. "For example, Gen. Jackson had au idea that one side of his body was heavier than tho other. It was his right side, aud he used to carry weights on his left to make up the difference. Once, when he was president of the Military institute of Virginia, he went up to a water cure near Oswego, N. Y., to lie treated for the complaint, and when the doctor told him it was nothing but imagina tion he became indignant, said he was uot a child to le humbugged, and started home. He saw no end of physicians about it, and although they all told him the same thing, it didn't make the slightest difference, and he went on under the delusion till ho died." "Another thing that was peculiar about Jackson," said Gen. Maury, "was his intense abstraction. When he was thinking on any subject nothing could disturb him or distract his thoughts. Ho sat for hours sometimes, with his eyes fixed on some distant object, scarcely moving a muscle, absolutely ab sorbed; and the lioys used to say tliat the old man was in a trance. He lielioved iu inspira tion, and that at these times he gathered knowledge aud wisdom from ou high. But his habitual condition was attraction, both before and during the war. When he walked his ejes would be straight before him, and he would not hear any sound that was made or see any object on either side. One day while he was president of the college the students decided to make a test of the old man's al-sent-mindedness, and, getting a brick, took it to a room that looked out on tho walk where he usually exercised in the afternoon. Pretty soon the general came along and tho boys dropped the brick on tho (lavement directly in front of him. But he not only did not dodge, but apparently did not notice that anything unusual had occurred. Ho might have thought a leaf had fallen, if he thought at all." Chicago News. A Lesson iu Cheap "Art." There are in New York four firms which make a practice of putting into the country newspapers cards informing tho reader tliat they have a sure method of enabling jieople out of work to make a comfortable living without canvassing. To the thousands of in nocents who apply for information circulars are sent setting forth that the firm iu ques tion is engaged in the manufacture of a cer tain kind of picture called allograph, ivory graph, etc., for which the demand is simply tremendous, and that they need a large num ber of ladies and gentlemen to make these pictures. The process is said to be so simple that any child can do the work, and the re cipients of these circulars are told that they must not think themselves unfit for the work because they have had no experience. All that is required is to mount the picture aud apply a few simple colors. The linn will fur nish a dozen of the pictures upon a deposit of $1, and will pay twenty-five, cents apiece upon each finished picture returned to it The outlay of tho victim will be $1 for a cheap sot of water colors furnished by the firm iu ques tion, and worth perhaps fifteen cents, and $1 sent in deposit for the unmounted pictures. When the victim has furnished his or her $2 for women seem to be the most frequent victims she will receive by mail a dozen cheap cuts on a peculiar kind of tissue paper, with instructions as to pasting ou cardboard and coloring. When the experiment is made, the worker finds to her astonishment that water seems to melt the picture, tissue paer and all, and the most delicate manipulation results in a complete botch. Expert photog graphers who have tried, as an amusement, to see if anything con really be done with the tissue prints umt out by this firm find that it is made purposely impossible. Brooklyn Eagle. Secretary Fotger'a Idiosyncrasy. The late Secretary Folger had an idea that there was a charm in the figure 3. When a boy, and later on iu life, he bad a fashion of doing a thing three times that only had to bo done once. Ho would eat three (eaches no more aud no less. If he had four he would throw one away. If he should eat uioro than three he would eat twice three or three times three. If ho was to rido on horseback he would mount three times before starting. Up to his death he had a way of saying "good day" three times to those he met, and in letters to his family he invariably wrote on three pages. Judge Folger often alluded to this idiosyn crasy. He said that from his earliest remem brance he had had an overpowering belief in the cabalistic power of tho uuruber 15. He thought it had been transmitted to him from his father, or that ho had received if. from a superstitious nurse. Wheu a small boy he walked a mile to' school, and he afterward acknowledged that ho had, on more than one day, traversed the distance three times, mak ing six miles hi all, before he felt safo iu en tering the school house. Exchange. Gen. Sherman says tie has never voted and never will. 2 a year. ADVERTISE IN THE JOURNAL If you wont to sell or buy anytltlnm If you -want to lend or. borrow anvthlmr lr -vmi I want a situation, or if you -vranthalp. THE FIRST National Bank! OK COI.XJSCBXJS. NEB. IUS AX Authorized Capital of $250,000, A Surplus Fund of - $17,000, And the largest Pal la Casts Cap- Ital of any bauu iu this part of the State. STDeposits received and interest paid on time deposits. JSTDraftson the principal cities In this country and Europe bought and sold. ."Collections and all other business given prompt and careful attention. HTOCKMOLPEKS. ANDERSON, Pres't. SAM'L C. SMITH, Vice Pres't. O.T.ROEN, Cashier. J. P. BECKER, HEKMAXOKHLRICH, . SCHUTTE, W. A. MCALLISTER. JOHN V. EARLY, 1. ANDERSON, G.ANDKRSON, ROBERT UHLItJ. !.., .., t1.t" Apr28-'S6tf BU3IHESS CAEBS. 1.T. Martyx, 31. D. F. J. Scuug, 31. D. Drs. XAfiTTK & SCHUO, U. S. Examining Surgeons, Local Surgeons. Union Pacific, O.. N. & B. II. and B.&31.R. R's. Consultations in German and English. 1 elephoues at office and residences larOfliee on Olive street, next to Brod feuurer's Jewelry Store. COLUMBUS, 4'J-v NEBRASKA. VAT M . tOK KIM I;, LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE. Upstairs Ernst building 11th street. oiiLiiirAK A: ki:i:ii:k, ATTOKXEYS AT LA W, Office oyer First National Bank, Colum bus, Nebraska. SO-lt rilYSIVlAX AND XUt UEOA'. 35Toffi:e and rooms. (JIuck building, lllh street. Telephone commuuicitiou. 4v TTAMlBVro: MEAUIWI. -. PHYSICIAN AND SUJIGEON, Pluttc Ceuter, Nebraska. !-y TJKRMAiX MATlMTKI'r, BLACKSMITH AND WAGON MAKER, loth street, east of Abt's barn. April 7, 'HG-tt D R. J. CHAM. WII.1.V, DEUTSCHER ATJZT, Columbus, Nebraska. BSTOlllce 11th Street. Consultations n Kuglish, French and German. 2-J-Om powKi.L ii oust:, PLATTE CENTER, NEB. Just opened. Special attention jiiveu to commercial men. Has a good sample room. Sets the best table. Give it a trial and be convinced. f0-ymo TOI1.K US1EI, COUNTY SURVEYOR. 83TPartie6 desiring surveying done can address me at Columbus, Neb., or call at my office In Court House. 3may66-y VrOTIVE TO TEACHERS. W. B. Tedrow, Co Supt. I will be at my office in the Court House the third Saturday of each mouth for the examination of teachers. 30-tf F. P. Ri;EK, .11. IK, HOMCEOPATHIST. Ckreaio Diseases aad Diseases of Cklldrea a Speolaltv. aTOffice on Olive ptreet, three doors north of First National Bank. i-ly IfcALMMTKR BROS., A TTOBNEYS A T LA W, Office up.tttairs in McAllister's build ing, 11th St. W. A. McAllister, Notary Public. J. M. MACKARLAND, B. R. COWDKRY, C:Ui::er LAAV AND COLLECTION OFFICE o MACF ARIjAND & COWDBRY, Columbus, : : ; Nebraska. .I01IX o. HIGGIXa. C. J. GAKLOW, Collection Attor:ev. HIGGINS & GARL0W, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, Specialty made of Collections by C. 34-m J. Uarlow, rp II.RUHCIIE, llth St., opposite Lindell Hotel. Sells Harness, Saddles, Collars, Whips Blankets, Curry Combs, Brushes, trunk9t valises, buggy tops, cushions, carriage trimmings, Ac, at the lowest possible prices. Repairs promptly attended to. J. S. MURDOUK & SON, Carpenters and Contractors. Havehad an extended experience, and will guarantee satisfaction in work. AH kinds of repairing done on short notice. Our motto is, Good work and fair prices. Call and give us an oppor tunitytoestimateforyou. J3TShop on 13th St., one door west of Friedhof ft Co's. store. Columbus. Nebr. 488-y AT)T) 1 n I? se"d s-lx cents tor J n, . flj pohtagc.and receive - ----i---- j,ce, a costly box ot goods which will help you to more inom-y right away than anything else in this world. AH, of either sex. succeed from tirst hour. The broad road to fortune opens before the workers, absolutely sure. At once address, Tkub & Co., Augusta, Mala. Jfcys CasaMltlan ea Medl clae. "There Is two kinds of medicine besides the kind you Rub Oo aud the tirst kind is the Soft Kind which you take with a spoon while A man holds your Head and you kick and Riggle some because it Tastes so aud the other kind is the Hard kind which is called Pills and it Is the Hardest of the whole because it is so Hard to go Down but it does not make any Difference which kind you Take when you get it Took you wish you Had not for It makes quite a Row in your Stomach and Riots Around." Evidently Johnny's experience in medicine does not include Dr. Pierce's "Pleasant Purgative Pellets," which are easy to take and do their work quietly and calmly. Neither does it include in the way of "Soft Medicine"Dr. Pierce's "Golden Medi cal Discovery," which though pow erful to cure all chronic derange ments of the liver and blood, is pleasant to the taste and agreeable in its effects. TJnequaled as a remedy for all scrofulous diseases, pimples, blotches, eruptions, ulcers, swelled glands, goitro or thick neck, fever sores and hip-joint disease. Thk fact that Malinda Johnson, of Blue Springs, Neb., died from mal practice was developed the other day by a Coroner's inquest. Hrace Up. You are feeling depressed, your appetite is poor, you are bothered with Headache, you aro fidgety, nervous, and generally out of sorts, and want to brace up. liraco up, but uot with stimulants, spring medicines, or bitters, which have for their basis very cheap, bad whisky, and which stimulate you for au hour, and then leave you iu worse condi tion than before. What you want 19 au alternative that will purify your blood, start healthy actiou of Liver and Kidneys, restore your vitality, aud give renewed health and strength. Such a medicine you can find iu Electric Bitters, aud only 50 cents a bottle at Dowty & Hcitketnp cr's drug store. A Thanksuivini: dinner was thrown skyward at the Liudell Hotel, Lincoln, by tho explosion of the can from which the cook had been filling the gasoline tank. Werne (ban a Fire Alarm. One ot the most dreudlul alarms that can be eouniled in a mother's ears is produced by croup; dreadful, because it is known to be danger ous; tho more dreadful because tho life of a loved one is in jeopardy. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is a never tailing satcguard against this daugerous "disease. It.- reputation an a preventative and euro for croup is fuliy and firmly eritabiinhed. In fact, it is the only remedy which can always be relied upon. Sold by Dowty & Heitkemper. Aftek an investigation in New York, the jury returned a verdict that Blind Tom is mentally unsound and incapable of managing his own affairs. Their BaalacNM Rooming. Probably no one thing has caused such a rival of trade at Dowty & Heitkempcr's drug Btoro as their giving away to their customers of so many trial bottles of Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption. Their trade is simply enormous iu this very valuable article from the fact that it always cures and never disappoints. Coughs, Colds, Asth ma, Bronchitis, Croup, aud al! throat and lung di-eascs quickly cured. You can test it before buying by getting a trial bottle free, large size $1. Every bottle warranted. Tiiirty-tiikee vefBfcls and forty one lives were lost on the Lakes dur iug the past season. Itch, Prairie Mange, aud Scratches of every kind cured in 30 mir.utes by Woolford's Sanitary Lotion. Use no other. This never fails. Sold by 0. B. Stillman, druggist, Columbus. Is northwestern Arizona seven hundred Hualpal Indians are report ed as starving. Fifty CVbim Is the price of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, the safest aud bent Cough Medicine iu the uiirket. Sold by Dowty & Heitkemper. I.v two counties in Indiana 'one thousand cases of pleuro-pueumonia are reported. "Golden Medical Discovery" will not cure a person whose luns are almost wasted, but it is au unfailing remedy for consumption if taken in time. All druggists. A man living at Cornell has made 500 gallons of molasses this year. ltMcltlea Aralca Walve- The Best Salve iu the world for Cuts, Bruises. Sores. Ulcers. Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Uauds, Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Eruptions, and positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guar anteed to ;ive perfect satisfaction, or money refunded. Price 25 cents per .box. Foi Sale by Dowty & Heit kemper. mayU ly