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THE CHIEF OF BIRD PESTS.
English Sparrows an Destroy em Conr
ageuuh. Hardy and Proline Creature.
"For downright pluck and persever
ance and cleverness give me the English
Bparrow: he'a a hard one to beat."
These were the words of one of those
Ieripatetic guardiaii3 of the law a Cen
tral park policeman. The man had been
a member of the force for several years
and in assiduous pursuit of his calling
had walked many miles through the
byways and highways of the park, dis
coursing in his own mind upon the
merits and demerits of these little for
eigners. "Now where do you suppose that chap
is going to spend the winter," he said to
a young man who had found him stand
ing, legs apart and arms akimbo, leisure
ly observing the toilet of a brown backed,
black breasted sparrow of the gentle sex
which jjerched on a swinging limb of a
middle aged elm combing its feathers
with its bill.
"Somewhere in the south, I reckon,"
said the perbon addressed.
"Nawp," said the philosopher, "don't
migrate."
"Don't migrate, eh! Well, in a box in
.some tree in the park."
"Nawp. boxes all gone rotted away
or taken down. I'll tell you where that
pewee'll bunk this winter; he'll stay
right around here in these trees and what
time he ain't llyin' about a'huntin' for
something to eat he'll be roosting on a
limb all puffed up as he is now."
"I should think it would freeze to
death."
"So they do sometimes. Many a win
ter morning, after an unusually cold
night, I've seen the ground covered with
their dead l.-odies, frozen hard. Pity.
Not much. If we couldn't get rid of
some of Vm by freezin' they'd take the
town in a year or two. They're the big
gest nuisance in New York city."
"Yet you admire their pluck"
"So 1 do; so I do. I admire pluck
wherever I see it, and you've got bushels
of it in these sparrows. When a few of
'em first came over here we fixed up for
'em in style, built loxes for 'em and fed
'em; but they never would use the boxes,
theyM rather look out for themselves,
which they've always done since I've
known anything about 'em. I haven't
the heart to kill one of 'em, notwith
standing they're such a nuisance."
"What do they feed onr"
"Crumbs mostly. So long's there's
babies in New York 60 long'll there be
sparrows: somehow they seem to to go
together. You'll see babies come tod
dlin' through the park or ridin' in their
carriages amunclun' of crackers and
cakes and tarts and all that and scatter
ing crumbs behind 'em. Sparrows al
ways on the lookout, gather up the
crumls as soon as they get a chance.
Then like most otiier birds they like
worms and bugs and flies such as they
can find in tile grass or weeds or on the
bark of the trees."
Determined war has not been waged
against English sparrows in this state,
but in Pennsylvania and perhaps two or
three other states bounties are paid for
their heads, so much a hundred. Boys
made ample pocket change for a time by
the use of rubber slings and bowguns,
but boylike they soon grew tired of the
sport of wholesale murder of the little
birds, and the sparrows, left to them
selves, continued to increase with re
markable rapidity. Statistics on this
point are intresting. The newly organ
ized division of economic ornithology of
tho department of agriculture is prepar
ing a series of bulletins upon the rela
tions of several common species of birds
of this country to agriculture. Among
the bird pests which threaten destruction
to valuable branches of fanning Dr.
Merriam. the head of the division, places
the English sparrow as chief. This little
creature has so multiplied and developed
among its new surroundings as to liave
become a vastly greater scourge than the
caterpillars and worms it was expected
to destroy. Its present rate of increase
is enormous, and the new territory which
it invades is estimated at more than 130,
000 square miles annually. It is essen
tially a town bird, but it talc es long vaca
tions in the fruit growing seasons and
"wreaks its fastidious appetite" upon
the largest and juiciest of grapes and the
daintiest of tree fruits, in which work
of destruction its aggregate of damages
is almost incomputable. New York
Tribune.
The Wrestler of Japan.
The average Japanese man will weigh
125 pounds. One of the wrestlers will
weigh from 200 to 2u0 pounds, and is
head and shoulders above the other
people. So marked is Vhe difference
that you see them several blocks away
as they tower above the crowds in the
streets. The women of this class are
fine physical specimens also. This is
probably the only instance in the world
where only the best physical specimens
of men and women intermarry, and the
result is 6uch as to deserve attention.
These wrestlers form troupes of fifteen
or twenty each and travel from town to
town, where they always meet a rival
troupe and the two,coinpanies give ex
hibitions. By these means there are no
hippodromes but genuine exhibitions of
strength, skill and activity.
These exhibitions are generally held
in large buildings improvised from bam
boo poles for the purpose. They will ac
commodate thousands of people and
thousands are always there. The rival
troupes are seated on opposite sides of
tho house and the managers arrange the
matches. When it comes to the,meet
ing of the champions of the respective
troupes the interest is intense and large
amounts are staked on the result. The
favorites are stimulated by the offer of
large sums of money from their friends
in case they win. These entertainments
last a whole afternoon, and in the large
towns extend through a week or two.
These atldetic sports arc popular and so
well patronized that wrestlers of any
considerable note accumulate small for
tunes. The production of such a class of
giants in so short a time from so small a
race is proof of what might be done to
improve the physique of the human race
and measurably to banish disease and
all infirmities. Japan Letter.
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THE "VOODOO BAG'S" CHARMS.
The SaperlHIou bat Illimitable Faltk
of tho Negro la Their Virtue.
A voodoo bag is an amulet wliich calls
up and impresses in its dedp significance
the supersl ltious fears, dreads and hopes
of the southern negro. It is his guard
against all ills of flesh and fortune. In
appearance a voodoo bag is a flat, rough
ly made pouch of cotton cloth. Stitched
by unskilled hands, its edges are uneven
and raw. From being suspended around
the neck in its contact with the skin for
365 days of the year, and, in the case of
the one which was seen by a reporter
for twenty-eight years, the surfaces had
become begrimed and greasy. A cord
of cotton rudely knotted held the charm
in position and was like it soiled from
age.
It was with some feeling and only in
response to repeated and eager inquiry
that the lucky possessor of the cliarm, a
negro roustabout, who for many years,
"Sence befo' de wan," had been working
on the river, consented to allow its ex
amination. He would not part with it
under any consideration.
Without any difficulty the pouch was
opened at the top and an inventory of
the contents made. A wisp of hair much
resembling that used by plasterers.which
it was finally decided was from a dog's
back, came first, closely followed by a
lock which had seen service as the cover
ing of a cat before it became part of the
protector. A little deeper and a chicken's
feather, rumpled by contact with a piece
of rusty nail and a long, shaq tooth,
which had a place in the amulet, was
pulled out. A small piece of paper such
as one would get by tearing off one cor
ner of a newspaper, devoid of marks by
pen or pencil, concluded the inventory,
and when each was replaced, the strings
readjusted and reswung to its place oa
the breast of the owner, the cliarm was
to all appearances as good as if it had
just left the Iiands of its maker. Simply
these and nothing more could be found
in the bag.
Nor were there any evident signs of
arrangement. Rather it seemed the
whole had been jumbled together with
out thought, tho doctor being out of a
supply of the other ingredients some
times found in the amulets.
"'Deed, loss, I'so reason to know de
charm 's all rite. I could tell ye of many
times it's saved me. Dar's wunst when
I was at Louisville, three of us niggers
was runnin' along the gunnel of a barge
when define wewascarryin' gotcotched
and bof de man in front and do man be
hind me fell into do rivah and war
drowned 'd. I'se been through lots o'
sech things and I always cum out rite.
Whar did I git it. Dat's way back i
Mis'sippi. When I war a chile I wuz
sickly, and my dad got it foh to make
me well. I'se never been rite sick
sense."
Such is the faith, superstitious but il
limitable, that has taken possession of
the minds of those of the colored race
who from childhood up liave heard such
things sjKjken'of in solemn whispers, in
the half light of a cabin in the evening,
or preached by an old man whose im
pressive speech was mixed with meta
phor and bristling with horrible exam
ples wluch liave made the pickaninny
creep to his cot and lie awake half tho
night thinking of wliat he has heard.
It is growing to be a wonder to hear of
a colored man who practices or preaches
the voodoo belief. With the education
of the masses it has died out or been con
signed to the the darkest corners of the
colonies, whore its believers are ever in
fear of detection. To the negro whose
lineage goes back to an ancestor who
came from Africa the idolatrous super
stition is more predominant, as he can
see and Lelieve more fully that bj he
voodoo rites the gods may be placated.
The powers of the dcotor are inherited
from a father or mother who was so
gifted, and in the earliest days only
rested with tho descendants of one tribe
of Africans. Since they liave been free
these gifted mortals dwelt apart from
their brethren and practiced the black
art in solitude or in the presence only of
the applicant for the exercise of such
power. Into the practice entered all the
favorite and regulation tools of the
magician. The caldron boiling and
seething, the mystic wand and the mys
terious ingredients were there in abund
ance. The concoctions were not curealls,
but made for a specific purpose which
the doctor's modesty claimed was alwaj's
accomplished.
By the death a few years ago of the
queen of the voodoos, who made her
home on the borders of Lake Pontchar
train, Louisiana, the most notable figure
passed away, and with her many of the
rites and observances, such as dances, in
which the participants stopped only
from complete exhaustion, public invo
cations and offerings. Pittsburg Dis
patch. Pen Picture of Conltllug.
Strangers do not reocgnlze Roscoo
Conkling when thev sec him in the
streets nowadays. The accepted por
trait of him, made familiar by the pen
cils of the cartoonists, is that of a man
of slim and elegant physique, with a
pouter pigeon chest, a slim waist and a
jaunty carriage. The papers are fondest
of representing Mr. Conkling standing
with his legs well apart, one hand thrust
in his breast and his head thrown back,
after the manner of a bad actor seeking
to assume the poise of a mighty monarch.
It is difficult to reconcile these carica
tures of Mr. Conkling with the man him
self. He passed me the other day on
Fifth avenue at a gait that a professional
walker might liave envied, but not one
stranger out of 500 recognized him as he
swung along. He wore square, heavy
and low heeled walking shoes, baggy
and ill fitting trowsers, a big and shape
less pea jacket and a soft felt hat that
came well down over his eyes. The point
of his beard has been clipped off, and it
has given a rounder and fuller look to
his face. As he moved along briskly he
might liave been taken by the average
visitor for a sturdy, healthy and vigor
ous street contractor or down town retail
mercliant, but never for a distinguished
and famous statesman. New York Cor.
Pioneer Press.
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JOHN ON HIS TRAVELS.
The Chinese Diffusing ThemselYes Over
Many Parts of the World.
"People have little idea," said Mr. A.
R, Shattuck, who arrived in this city
from Canton recently, "how rapidly the
i passion for emigrating is growing in
China. The whole southeastern Asiatic
coast and many of the Pacific islands are
filling with Chinese. In spite of our pro
hibitory law not a few Chinese still man
age to smuggle themselves into our coun
try, and they are fairly swarming in
many places where nothing is done to
keep them out.
"In 1871 only a few thousand Chinese
lived in Singapore. To-day the new
China town is tho feature of the place.
Singapore now has 80,000 Chinese resi
dents, and last year 150,000 Chinese
landed in the city on their way to other
parts of the coast. Cochin China, which
is now a French province, is rapidly
rilling with Chinese. Here, as in all
other parts of the southern coast of Asia,
the Chinese excel the natives in intelli
gence, education and business qualificai
tions. They assert their superiority in
many ways and treat most of the natives
as their inferiors. In Cochin China the
Chinese have absorbed most the greater
part of the trade. They can beat the
natives selling their own products, and
many of them are r ch.
"In Australia the Chinese are growing
in numbers. Thev- control the trade of
the Gilbert islands and are gaining
ground in Hawaii. In many of th
Pacific islands, like Fiji, where there is
considerable trade, a visitor is likely to
see a group of Chinese before his eye
lights on a native. The Chinese are
overrunning Burmah and there is a
large colony of them al Mandalay. A
large party of traveling Chinese mer
chants who were on the road in Burmah
a few weeks ago were mistaken by the
British troops for dacoits. The soldiers
fired upon them and several of the poor
fellows were killed.
"This increasing migration among tho
hordes of China is one of the most inter
esting signs of the times.
The Mongolians are gradually diffus
ing themselves over a large art of the
world a fact that deeply concerns many
nations and that is also indicative of the
great changes going en in China, from
which emigration would have leen im
possible years ago." New York Sun.
A Dajr'H Mean Trick.
A neighbor's loy he lived Jour miles
away through the woods came occa
sionally to show me some new plan for
a trap or snare or to conduct me to some
strange nest he had found. He was a
genius almost. I say almost: ho lacked
something, just the smallest something,
in his mental make up and so was slight
ly unbalanced. Ben was his name, and
Ben was known far and near as the
"owl" on account of his nocturnal wan
derings. He was truly a strange fellow.
He could not read, but nothing so pleased
him as to listen to me as I read aloud to
him some story or jioem. Scott's "Lady
of the Lake" ami "Rokeby" delighted
him to such a degree that I had to read
them over and over for him. His ambi
tion at times was to become a great rob
ber or pirate, and at other times he con
templated being a shoemaker.
Ho always had some new scheme in
his head when he came to visit me.
Once it was to run away and go to Texas,
and when I refused to join him he pro
posed a swim on the river from the
ferry to the fish weir, a full mile, and
we both came near being drowned in tho
rapids. All the mountain forests were
full of chestnut trees, and late in eacii
autumn bushels of tho brown, sweet nuts
L were gathered on the valley slopes and
carefully stored for winter use; but boys
were not the only busy gatherers of this
precious crop. The squirrels and the
woodpeckers get their full share. Ben
told me of a mean trick he played on an
industrious old squirrel. He watched
the animal and fonud out where it was
storing its chestnuts in the hollow of a
sweet gum tree; then he patiently waited
till the work was all done after which
ho helped himself to the treasure. Some
how I thought less of Ben ever after.
Maurice Thompson.
A. H. Stephens Mangled ITand.
Ben: Perley Poore says in his recent
book that Mr. Stephens, in a memorable
encounter with Judge Cone, was perma
nently disabled. He states tliat "a sur
gical examination showed that one of
Cone's knife stabs had penetrated to
within less than the sixteenth of an inch
of liis heart, while his right hand was
so mangled that he was never afterward
able to write." This is not a fact. That
good right hand was badly mangled, but
not permanently hurt so as to prevent
the use of a pen. The writer received at
least a peck of letters from Mr. Stephens,
written by his own hand, and this was
the experience of many other iersons.
We have seen him write thousands of
times, and although his chirography
was the terror of printers and correspond
ents it was not any worse tlian that of
numerous statesmen who never had been
injured at all. Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle.
Fashion and Physic.
"Perliaps you don't know," said a
Detroit physician the other day, "that
the practice of our profession has been
greatly curtailed by a change of fash
ion." "In what"
"In wearing false hair. It is still
worn, but in sense and moderation. A
few years ago, when it was the fashion
to load the head down with coils and
baids, we had hundreds of patients as
the direct result"
"Severe headache, pains in the neck,
wek eyes, scalp diseases of various
forms and half a dozen other things. I
know of several ladies who became bald
from the practice of wearing false liair.
Keep the feet warm and tho head cool
is a piece of advice older than the hills,
but as good as ever. I'm out of pocket
by the change of fashion, and am partly
compensated by increased practice
among those who use cosmetics. Most
of them contain poisons which cause sore
eyes and cutaneous diseases, and the
doctor has to be called in to give a
remedy." Detroit Free Press.
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THE DESIRE OF THE STAR.
I am lonely I call tlwe misprising
Tha might of the heavens above;
On tho wings of the whirlwind arising,
Oh, come to me. thou whom I love!
Would I scorch thee as earth lights that beckoa
From flowers and perfumes and dew?
Como upward, thou dear one, and reckon
The old by tug new.
The North Star sliint-s cold in its splendor,
Tlw comet in glory sweeps past;
They are splendid and strange and untender,
AuJ heaven seems lonely and vast;
For I lo;i with a passion supernal,
A yearning no spell can remove.
To clasp thee in rapture eternal,
O, thou whom I love I
Through the dark that presages the morning.
Ere dawn springs iu joy from the sea,
Unheeded of silence or scorning,
Sly voiou cries aloud uuto thee.
In my heart will I hold thee, and never
Our low shall pass out from the sky.
Though the spheres, fixed and mighty forever.
Should crumble, should die.
J. K. Wetherill in The Critic.
THE DAY OF THE DEAD.
iIlow It i Celebrated In Paris .Tombs of
Celebrated Men.
But few of those who have not been in
Paris on the lut of November have any
idea of the general manner in which the
"Day of the Dead" is celebrated by all
Paris.
The practice of laying flowers and
wreaths of immortelles on the graves of
loved ones who have gone before is a
pleasing one, and it is creditable to the
French, who are generally credited with
dispositions so frivolous that the day is
rather more than less universally ob
served as the years roll by.
I joined the throngs that were taking
the direction of the principal cemeteries,
found much food for thought in the ex
periences of the afternoon. The crowd
was something enormous, and there was
scarcely a grave but that had its
wreath, witli women piouslj' kneeling or
men sianuiug in aisorueu contemplation
over the spot where reposed all that was
left of some one who had been loved and
lost.
Of course the toinl of celebrated men
attracted the greatest attention. In the
Pero la Chaise is a new monument to
Michalet only erected this year. It is by
Antoine Mercier and found many ad
mirers. The burying place of the Hugo
family was naturally surrounded by
crowds of those who revered tho great
author and what Frenchman does not?
Near the "rond point" of the Avenue
Delavigne in the same cemetery are
grouped the graves of Balzac, De Nerval,
Nodier, Souvestre, Soulie, Buloy, Barye
and Delacroix, the latter in a magnificent
mausoleum copied from that of Scipio
Africanus. It was to the last resting
place of these men of genius that the
crowd first turned on entering the ceme
tery after having stopped at the ever
popular tomb of Abelard and Heloise.
At Montmartre it is again the men of
genius who are most honored. Theophile
Gautier, Merv, Goylan, Murger, the Ver
nets, Halevy, Adam, Nourrit and Dela
roche were all remembered by the surg
ing populace. Around the tomb of
Offenbach it was difficult to make one's
way. Tho little German composer has
lost noncof his popularity in the land of
his adoption, although his operas may
not be heard so often as of yore.
At Montparuasse the graves of mili
tary men aloimd. Here is all that is
mortal of Dumont d'Urville, the four
sergeants of La Rochelle, Gens. Pon
celet, Loverdo, Frinois and Varrean, tho
student of the Ecole Polytechnique who
in 1830 captured tho barracks in the Rue
de Bahylone.
That I may not seem to exaggerate the
number that thronged the cemeteries on
the first I append tho official figures.
At La Chaise there were 180.0C0 visitors,
at Montmartre 40,000, at Montparnasse
35,000 and at St. Oueu 130,000. Cor.
New York Graphic.
Sleep as a Mechanical Operation.
A writer on the philosophy of sleep de
clares that sleep is prevented by an ex
cess of blood in the brain and proposes
as a remedy to pump the blood back
from the brain by a peculiar method of
breathing, for which directions are
given as follows: Having assumed the
usual posture of sleep, the person is to
inhale slowly and steadily long breaths,
devoting the whole attention to making
the inhalations and exhalations exactly
tho same length the length to be much
greater than that of ordinary breathing,
although not sufficient to disturb the cir
culation by working the lungs to the
utmost capacity.
In supiort of this theory reference is
made to the feeling of faintness pro
duced by filling the lungs with all the
air they will hold and then expelling it,
repeating the operation rapidly three or
four times: the resulting faintness is at
tributd to the withdrawal of the blood
from the brain, and the same effect, sub
stantially, follows any sudden and ex
treme emotion. So violent a disturbance
or the system, however, is not advised
for the purpose here sought, but a steady
and gradual diversion of the blood from
the brain to tho lungs and body. Ex
change. The Isle of Man.
The Isle of Man is fast becoming a
most popular seaside resort. The great
natural advantages it possesses, tho
purity of air and water, the picturesque
and romantic scenery, its objects of an
tiquity within easy reach, the blending
of sea mist and mountain air, the gen
ral salubrity of climate, its innumerable
places of historical interest.a happy and
contented people enjoying their "home
rule," render the island most desirable
for a visit from all Americans. Cor.
Courier Journal.
A Matrimonial Aphorism.
They were talking about second mar
riages when a j'oung woman was moved
to enunciate this aphorism: "She who
marries a second husband does not de
serve to have the good fortune to lose
the first."
Much More Difficult.
The Chinese code of morality does not
say: "Wives, obey your husbands," but
"Wives, respect your husbands." This,
it will be seen, is very much more diffi
cult of compliance than the first version.
Lowell Citizen.
JOURNAL,
WITH THE
PRAIRIE FARMER,
Both One Yew For
The Cripples of Milan.
Men here, as a rule, are rather low
statured. They are, nevertheless, strong
and wiry, although the amount of food
they individually "put away" is very
small and of inferior quality. Sinewy
and brawny limbed giants like Artevelo
and Caboche, the peasant bora cavaliers
of the middle ages, seem as utterly ex
tinct as the race of Irish wolf dogs. It
is, for instance, a rare sight to see in
Milan an individual over six feet in
height, while dwarfs waddle up against
you at every street corner. Everywhere
your eye falls on cripples, hunchbacks
and otherwise deformed unfortunates of
both sexes the percentage of such folks
being enormously large from one end of
Lombardy to the other.
After having made a very minute in
quiry into the causes of this anomaly, I
am in a position to inform you that it is
the result of marriage in the forbidden
degrees of kinship. Lombardians are
very clannish in their customs. First
cousins wed first cousins, and uncles and
nieces, unable to get their union offically
sanctioned, ignore the law the result
being that the children born of such
par ents are, in some way or another,
miserable deformities cripples, dwarfs
and hunchbacks, or idiots and lunatics.
Gentlemen having the welfare of their
nation at heart are doing their best to
combat the evil; but I am sorry to say
that they have signally failed in their
efforts.
This moral and material nuisance is
furthermore aggravated by the fact that
these deformities themselves intermarry,
and in the majority of cases beget mon
sters like themselves. 1 know that male
and female cripples, who arc professional
beggars, make some money on the high
roads of Italy by exhibiting as their own
well proportioned children to the tour
ists' gaze; but most of these mendicants
are rank impostors. Girls of stately
stature and symmetrical build never
espouse dwarfs, although female dwarfs
or hunchbacks provided with a fair
amount of hard cash can find little diffi
culty in securing a good sized pauper for
a husband any day in the 305.
Of the two sexes, therefore, the male
cripple, dwarf or hunchback is the most
unfortunate. He may belong to a very
honorable family and have thousands of
francs to his credit in bank, but neither
his gold nor respectability will induce
any buxom maid or widow to share her
lot with his. Battled indiis effort to get
a decent looking wife he usually weds a
diminutive monstrosity like himself and
becomes in due course of time the father
of a very interesting family. And so
tho race degenerates. And sc the chil
dren of Hercules by a gradual weaken
ing and wasting of blood become so many
grinning Liliputians sad and woebe
gone spectacles alike for gods and men.
It is tho same old story once more of the
painting spoken of by Horace in his
cpistlo to the Pisos. The head is tho
head of a Venus but the tail is that of a
fish. Milan Cor. San Francisco Chron
icle. Use of the Cocoa Leaf.
One of the greatest articles of consump
tion of the Indians is the cocoa leaf. It
is universally used by them. Many of
them do not even know what tabano is.
The Indians only use it. The so called
bon ton have cast it aside. It is consid
ered not the thing to chew long. To this
I ascribe this invaluable herb not being
more known and used abroad. I gave it
a thorough test, desiring to study its
properties. For five days before starting
I took my regular fig. In place of break
fast I consumed about twp ounces of
cocoa leaves, chewing them and swal
lowing the saliva. I was astonished at
the result. I went all day without eat
ing, traveling on mule back. In the
evening I not only felt no bad effect, ex
cepting a little restlessness, but arrived
quite fresh. I feel confident that too
little attention has been paid to this in
valuable natural stimulant. The Qui
choas have used it for centuries and have
thrived with it. They travel forty and
fifty miles a day on foot with no other
food than a little cocoa tied round their
necks in small pouchos. One of these
Indians is more grateful to you for a
handful of fresh coco'a than for money.
Bolivia Cor. San Francisco Chronicle.
The Conceit of Ituslness Men.
They talk of tho conceit of singers, of
actors, of literary men and of profes
sional men. But I don't think that any
one of those classes who, with the ex
ception of the lawyers and doctors, are
more or less despised and can show any
thing like as much conceit to the square
inch as the business man who is making
a little money. I don't know that any
body need liave any conceit at all.
There's precious little to be conceited
about when you figure it all down with
most of us. But the way a man who
buys and sells things will shrug his
shoulders and turn up his nose at an
artist, the calm assumption of almost
pity for a fellow who devotes himself to
scribbling, the dignified patronage with
wliich he looks upon all things that do
not come in sacks or boxes or tins are
quite worth studying.
If he likes a fellow he'll openly express
his regret that ho is wasting his talents
in newspapers. He thinks somehow that
all journalists are ne'er-do-weels, liable
at any moment to strike him for a dollar,
always hanging about for drinks and
never knowing what a good square meal
is. "He's only a reporter," he says.
Well when a man's making money in
anything he does not want to change his
occupation, but the fact that so many
men keep in business is rather evidence
that they are not fit for anything else,
just as much, at. least, as the fact that a
man is a reporter suggests that he is not
fit for business. I don't think that the
average artist, tho average newspaper
man, the average actor makes less
money than the average clerk, and he
has a good deal better time. San Fran
cisco Chronicle.
Seedless and Corele Pears.
In the Trinity college botanic gardens,
Dublin, a tree has produced some seed
less and coreless pears from a second
crop of blossoms, which lacked vitality
to forma core with seeds. Arkansaw
Traveler.
2 a year.
ADVERTISE IN THE JOURNAL
If -yovC -want to sell or buy
anytblnst if you want to lend
or borrow anytnlng; If you
-want a situation, or If yon
wanthalp.
Manufacture of Tobaeeo.
There have been a great many changes
in the manufacture of tobacco since I
began tho business, forty-two years ago.
In making plug tobacco then hand power
presses were used in place of the
hydraulic machines now in use. It took
six men to work a screw press and near
ly twice as much work as they accom
plished altogether is done now by a
single man running the hydraulic press.
Where expert handicraftsmen wero for
merly necessary boys and girls are now
employed; no special skill is required, the
only thing needed being attention. Now
adays the process through wluch tho leaf
passes before making its appearance as
plug tobacco is very different from that
of the olden time. To-day the leaf is
first stemmed and run through gum rol
lers of immense size, then laid on a rack
and put into dry houses, after which it
is steamed, flavored and bulked. After
remaining in huge masses for twenty
four hours it is passed through the mold
ing machines and made into plugs.
The old fashioned way was to dampen
the leaf just as it came from the hogs
head; it was then stemmed and formed
into plugs all by hand. There was little
or no flavoring, tho natural taste of the
tobacco being preferred. The introduc
tion of foreign substances began about
twenty-five years ago, and has, Bince be
come general, so that now all plug and
fine cut tobacco is more or less adulter
ated. Tho hurley leaf, named, I believe,
after one of the pioneer growers, is now
about the only kind of tobacco raised.
It is a larger leaf, more spongy and has
not as much nicotine as the older and
now forgetten varieties, such as the
"Yellow Prior," "Little Frederick" and
the "Orinico." Tho greater part of the
hurley is raised in Missouri. Kentucky
and Ohio. The use of tobacco has in
creased at a wonderful rate in recent
years, and I believe is now better than
ever before. At present the market is
suffering from overproduction, and as
a consequence the prices are lower than
they have leen since the war. I was
the first tobacco manufacturer in St.
Louis, but since the fire in September
have decided to retiro to private life.
Henry Dausman in Globe-Democrat.
Old Kalu-ln-the-Face.
Old Rain-in-the-Face, who claims to
have killed Gen. Custer, has been seized
with a desire to gain a liberal education,
which is quite unusual for a man of his
time of life and previous occupation, and
has written to the commissioner of
Indian affairs asking to be sent to the
Indian school at Hampton, Va. Some
of the young bucks of his tribe havo
been to the schoool, and Rain-in-the-Face
lias evidently be-n tempted by their
stories of the pleasures of civilization.
He is one of the ablest Indians in the
country and one 'of the handsomest,
whilo his record as a warrior is long and
bloody. He got his name from a birth
mark that is conspicuous on his cheek
and looks as if a few drops of blood liad
fallen there. When he is angry the
blotches stand out with great promi
nenco but arc always apparent as far as
one can see his eyes. Washington Capi
tal. Siberia as a Penal Colony.
Statistics just published by the Russian
jrovernment give some interesting facts
about Siberia as a jenal colony. The
number of convicts and political exiles
sent to Siberia from 1754 to 1884 num
bered nearly 1,000,000, men and
women. Fifty thousand were sent be
tween 1863 and 1873, whilo tho number
sent out during the present reign reaches
146,380. The number of escapes during
the past twenty years has amounted to
24 per cent. Women form one fifth of
the total number of exiles. As most of
them aro over 40 years of age very few
marry, and to make matters worse mar
riage is prohibited for the first five years
of exile. Two thirds of the crimes com
mitted in Sibria are committed by the
exiles, and !ecause of this, of their mis
ery and of tho numerous escajes the
Russian government is seriously con
sidering the advisabilitly of abolishing
the present system of Siberian deporta
tion. Detroit Free Press.
A Princess' Dainty Appetite.
Apropos of the Princess of Wales' ap
petite few persons have any idea how
poor an eater her royal highness is. Only
the most delicate dishes tickle her palate,
and even of these sho takes scarcely
enough to feed a canary. Sanguinary
meat is her special abhorrence. She is
also very particular what she drinks, a
very small quantity satisfying her. It
may interest ladies to know that her
royal highness is a devout lover of a cup
of tea, but it must Ixj carefully made,
"drawn" to a second, creamed to a
nicety and sweetened with one moder
ate sized lump of sparkling white sugar.
If it is not all this the princess will not
drink it.
Curbing the French Press.
French writers havo to exercise ex
treme caution in dealing with men and
things. Even if an accident occurs they
havo no legal right to print the names
of the persons concerned that is to say
if they do so and the persons complain
the newspapers can be made to pay dam
ages. A curious case was narrated to me
in illustration of the somewhat depress
ing conditions uncer which French news
gatherers ply their trade. Le Matin, an
enterprising morning newspaper, recent
ly published an interview with M.
Clemenceau, a well known deputy. The
next day 31. Clemenceau denied "tliat he
had expressed tho views attributed to
him by tho reporter. Le Matin pro
claimed its confidence in its representa
tive. Then 31. Clemenceau sued the
paper and obtained damages, the editors
of Le 3Iatin not being permitted even to
offer evidence establishing that an inter
view liad taken place. New York
World. -
What Is a Fad?
A "fad" is something or somebody tliat
occupies, indeed dominates, the fashion
able mind for a few weeks each winter;
it may be a skating rink, a Festina Lente
or an Englishman gifted with some
knack or talent wliich wins the appre
ciation of refined idlers. The fad, when
it is a man, bear3 invariably the stamp
of British aristocratic approval. New
York Letter.
RticU I -' Arnica Muivc
Tiii: li-st SilVe in ": u.ilil for
Gutt, Bruised, Sores. TJi'-er-, S"a't
Rheum. Fever Sores, Tetter, (Jhnpped
Il:ind-, Chilblains, Corn, and all
Skin Eruptions, and positively cures
Pilep, or o j pay required. It is guar
anteed to jive perfect satisfaction, or
money reloaded. Price 25 cents per
box. Foi Sale by Dowty & Heit
kBpr. may 17 ly
THX FXRST
National Bank !
or
COLUMBUS. MSB.
HAS AN
Authorized Capital of $250,000,
A Surplus Fund of - $20,000,
And tbe largest PaM la Cash Cap.
Ital of any basic in this part
of the State.
13" Deposits received sad interest paid
oa time deposits.
X3Drafts on the principal cities in this
country and Europe bought and sold.
'Collections anil all ntK.r K,.un..
given prompt and careful attention.
STOCKHOLDBKS;
A . ANDERSON, Pres't.
HERMAN t. U. OEHLRICH,
Vice Pre3 1.
O.T.ROEN, CaAfer.
J. P. BECKER,
HERMAN OfiHLRICll,
O. SCHUTTE,
W. A. MCALLISTER.
JONAS WELCH,
JOHN W.EARLY,
P.ANDERSON,
G. ANDERSON,
ROBERT UHLIO.
CARL REINKE.
Apr28-'5tf
1USLE8S CAJLDi.
D.T.Mabtvn,M. D. F.J. Sciiuo, M.D.
. MABTYS 9c SCHUG,
U. S. Examining Surgeons,
Local Surgeons. Union Pacific, O., N.
Jfc U. 11. and ll.M.R. K'.
Consultations In German and Kngliih.
telephones at office and residences.
XSTOlncc on Olive street, next to Brod
feuhrer's Jewelry Store.
COLUMBUS, - NEBRASKA.
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OULLIVAN Ac Ki:i:iER,
ATTORNEYS A T LA W,
OlBce over First National Bunk, Colnm.
bus, Nebraska. ao-lt
f M . COK Kl.l UN.
LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE.
Ui-tsirs L'riiHt building 1th street.
fy I. KVA.HK, 91. IK,
PHYSICIAN AND SUL'OEON.
U3"Oflii:e and rooms. (Jluck building,
tlib otreet. Telephone coinmuuication.
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PHYSICIAN AND SU11UEON,
Platte Center, Nebraska. !i-v
j. m. mackakland, b. k. cowdkry,
Attsrst? isl Ha:7 Piil e. CjllKwr
LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE
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MACFARJjAND & COWDERX",
ColumbM. : : - Nebraska.
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K. J. CHAM. W ll.l.l,
DEUTSCHER ARZT,
Columbus, Nebraska.
I3rOftit:e 11th Street. Consultations
in Knglish, French and tieruian. HJ-Gui
T)OWEI..L. noimi;
PLATTE CENTER, NED.
Just opened. Special attention given
to commercial men. Has a good sample
toom. Sets the best table. Give it a
trial and be convinced. 50-3mo
TOII RI .HWK.V
COUNTY SURVEYOR.
ETTarties desiring surveying done
i an address me at Columbus, Neb., or
all at my office iu Court House.
3may8-y
lOTICE TO TEAi'HEHK.
W. H. Tedrow, Co Supt.
I will be at my office in the Court House
the third Saturday of each month for the
examination of teachers. 3i tf
F. P. KUiHrVEst, yt. D
HOMCEOPATHIST.
Ckreaie Diseases sad Diseases of
Ckildrem a Sscialtv.
tSTOflice on Olive street, three doors
north or First National Bank. ti-ly
llf CAE.E.I8TEK BROS.,
A TTORNETS AT LAW,
Office up-stairs in Henry's building,
corner of Olive and 11th Sts. W. A. Mc
Allister. Notar Public.
JOHN G. HIGGIN3. C. J. GAKLOW,
Collection Attorney.
HIGGIHS & GAKLOW,
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW,
Specialty made of Collections by C.J.
Garlow. .'M-in
P ILRUSCHE,
llth St., opposite Lindell Hotel.
Sells Harness, Saddles. Collars, Whips
Blankets. Curry Combs, Brushes, trunki,
valises, buggy" tops, cushions, carriage
trimmings, Scc, at the lowest possible
prices. Repairs promptly attended to.
pAMPBF.I.L. St CO.
DRALKKS IS
& Racrs and Iron ! "
The highlit market priee paid tor r:i;s
ami iinn. Store in tbe Hiil.ach builtlitiir,
Olivi: t.. Columbus, Neb. l."i-tf
A.J.ARN0L1),
ItKALKK IN
DIAMONDS.
FINE WATCHES,
Clttckft, Jewelry
AND
SILVERWARE.
Strict attention given to repairing of
Watches and Jewelry. fc7WHL sot be
undersold by anybody.
MeVA-Teaae. Opt atise Cletaer Msmis.
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