7?3f "Tr t&Z33ir'lf .ImniioK ail dujxlal) ,vvi J - I f J i -. iu V'J-' ;-i aw -W rC'r- ."ifcv-R. f r" . ' nw"- tW .. J- ,. A:rLu it .ii .14 "A-' COLTJMBTJS, NEB.. WEDNESDAY, APRIL '20, 1887. WHOLE NO. 884. VOL. XVH-NO. 52. TT Ck $0unwL H i far . i H V . 7 8 St m COLUMBUS STATE BANK. COLUMBUS. XEB. , 5 Cash Capitar2 $75,000. iaaaaaaV aaar m - , i.r.vN'i)i:iiatHAnj. i'r--'t. . - ' T T5TTJ- r "" " m .5 c,r.o. w. ii ulst. vice i'r.vt. Xl-K jfi.ii's a. itr.i'n. K k. ii. HKNin. "aWfe V'aaaV I. l-TASKI'l' Ca-hier. Baak el" Isepoalt, a Eirhaage. llrMai I'ttllectloBM Promptly !Hlr ill PoIuin. Pay lalerexl I IN. em 'rime Ic; 274 COLUMBUS Savings Bank, LOAN & TRUS1 COMPANY. Capital Stork, 100,000. OlTlCKlW A. ANDKKSON, Fiwl. O. V. SHKLDON. Vice 1'r.Vt. it.'l'. KOKN. Trw. KOKKItl'UHUn. Sec. "Sr"Vill rrtviir linn- l--iti-, from $1.00 nuil mi amount iiwi'i-, mill v. 1 1 1 ' I la cu loiiiHrj rate of interest. "-ViMirtifiilarl) draw jour attention to our facilities for iu..kinr louus on nal eMate, at the lowe-t rale of iliter.fl o iaf"(it,StJiHil and Count Bonds, and in dividual ?-cuiities lire Ixuu'lit. ir.june'W.j TPOTfT. TITE CAI.I. ON A.&M.TURNER Or i. V. UIHI.F.R, '"ravelins; Sleia. . -The' .want- an- IirM-ol.iM in ever) r ticulur, anil ro miai-iutei-d. SCNIFFROTH ft PLITN, liKU.KI's IN- WIND MILLS, AND PUMPS. Buckeye Mower, combined, Self Binder, wire or twine. o - Pimps Repaired ou sfattrt uotifc. J3?Onc diHir west of reet, Coluuibu, Neb. Heint: Dm Store, 11th i;nu-lf street HENRY &ASS. COFFINS AND METALLIC CASES ASH DKtLKKIN nitnr chairs. Bedsteads, Bu- WESTERN COTTAGE ORGAK reaua. Tables. Safes. Lounges, cc.. Picture Frames and Mouldings. -RejMiirinyof all kinds of Uphol stery.Gooils. tttf . tX)LUMDUS, XEI1KASKA. v.. PATENTS C1IKTS. TalDE MARliS ASH ISP. BIGHTS Obtained, and all other burfnese ijiD.S. 'Patent OtEo? attended ti for MODERATfc FtoolfiH opposite the U. S. Patent Office, -ad .. can obtain Patents in let time than those remote from WASHINGTON. T . . toMlentabilitv free of chaiw: and make NO cffiiE UNLKSS WE OWTklS PATENT. We rerer bere to the Postmaster, the Sapt. of MoneyOtdr Div..and to official of the U.S. Patent Office. For circular, ad ice, terms and rrfereace to actual clients in jour own Stote or county, write to MOW et OQ ' vdppowtetentOswe,Waehiaton.D.C. VIGOROUS VETERANS. IT DOESN'T FOLLOW THAT MEN ARE OLD BECAUSE THEY ARE 70. Hea in Visor of Mind aad Body as Oc togenarians Worry Make Ac Faster than 'Tear Sam Examples Worth Following. We can match and overmatch Great Britain or the continental countries with examples of octogenarians of splendid vigor and perfectly sustained powers of mind and body. There are too many of these il last rations that could be cited to justify the belief that they are necessarily exceptions. They rather show that the chances are greatly in favor of years of continued strength and mental vigor for him who is approaching the scriptural limit in the un impaired possession of his faculties, and that the man who passes his seventieth birthday in good health is just entering the youth of old age, and not its limit. When David Dudley Field is seen walking erect, with vigorous step, clear eye, and ruddy cheek.-, down Broadway, doing his little breather of two or three miles daily and working in his law office like any young fellow just admitted to the ar, no one would think of calling him old. He is not. Hi-, years are over 80, but the eak iiees that make old ace are not his. and he. isj therefore, not old. How is. jit that he keeps so young? people ak. oil, there is a splendid inheritance from a vigorous an cestry, a life in which no sight drafts on old age have been drawn, the cultivation of th ioer of resisting all tendency to worry or anxiety, the habit of daily exer cise in the freh air, and the giving of free rein to a souse of humor. Barring the acci dents of lffe to which all mortals are liable, Mr. Field ought to be able to count on ten or a doten years more of activity. But that will make him i0, it may be said. Yet Mr. Field would not have to look far to find that men of vigor, good sound minds iu pretty tough bodies, are to be found ho haeiasMl their ninetieth year or closely approached it. There was his long time friend and neighlp-. Peter Cooper, whose mind was uncloud at 90, who was a presi dential candidate when long past 80 (and a very resiectable vote he got, too), and who said to the writer that if he lived ten years more he would see the peple accepting his views ou the government's power and duty of alone issuing paper currency, and on the national bank system. This vigorous man was no far wrong, either. Then there was Mr. Field's other friend, Tharlow Weed, whose mind was acute and memory unim paiied, and whose bodily vigor was good at 88. There was the late Judge Waldo, once congressman, once judge of the Connecti cut supreme bench, with whom Mr. Field has liad many a legal bout. He went off the Connecticut bench, because he was 70 years old, and at once took up a lucrative prac tice, whicn he did not quit till nearly 90. Then there is that remarkable man, whose ancestry, like Mr. Field's became strong men because they lived hardy lives on New England hills. Col. George L. Perkins, of Norwich, Conn. He is a tall, dignified man. His cheeks are ruddy. There are few wrinkles on his face.. His eyes are not blurred, and they light up with the enjoy ment of fun. He steps off from his house like a young soldier, and walks uearly a mile to his office, and he has served for more than fifty years as treasurer of the Norwich and Worcester Railroad company. Last summer he started off with his wife on a little pleasure trip. Yet CoL Perkins is now in his 99th year. Birthdays don't annoy him, and he fully expects that his century of years will find him as usual at his desk. Good constitution, exercise, the habit of content, fondness for fun, and the society of young people liave kept Col. Perkins young. He siuiplv would not allow himself to grow old. Almost on the boundary line between New York and Connecticut there lives a sin ewy, active man named David Banks. He thinks nothing of a walk of five miles into White Plains and back again in a day, and at a recent pi'.ic meeting in Greenwich this vigorous man spoke with all the force and fluency of a young lawyer, and with much betterlogic than Mm: of them are capable of. Yet he is 94 years old, and when asked about his age replies: "Age! I never think of it." That very active veteran, Mr. Henry B. Stanton, recently called attention to the death of the Rev. Dr. Shipmau, father of Judge Shipman of the United States dis trict court for this district. Nobody ever thought of the dominie as old, for he was as jolly and as active as a schoolboy, and he had a laugh that was so hearty that none could resist it, and keenly did he enjoy a joke, and delighted was he if he was himself the victim. His round, rosy, merry face was to be seen in all winds and weathers, here, there, and everywhere in the state, for he was a constant attendant upon meet ings of religious and educational societies. Yet he was almost 90 when he died, and he never was an old man. There was that prodigy of learning and industry, Caleb Gushing, sailing off to Spain when he was past 70; talking French like a native at Geneva, when according to the psalmist he should hae been in his grave; arguing with force and learning be fore the supreme court when he was ap proaching 80. working eighteen hours.out of the twenty-four. His time did not come un til he was past 80, and his fatal illness found him in the harness. There was knocked about an ocean steamer on a recent stormy passage a pleas ant faced man, with a long nose, a bright eye, a winning smile, and a sprightly step, a gentleman who recently resigned the presi dency of Yale college because he was 7.1 years old. Yet he has been jaunting about Europe this summer, without weariness, and has come borne to take up the work of a professor in Yale. He is nearly 76, but President Porter would never be thought of as an old man. The splendid intellect of the Rev. Dr. Leonard W. Bacon was not dimmed until be was past 80, and some of the best work of his life was done in the de cade between 70 and 80. There was ex President Woolsey, at 77, publishing works on economic subjects that are accepted as authority, and there is ex-President Hop kins of Williams, well on toward 90, but addressing audiences, as recently at Des Moines, without the slightest evidence of the impairment of his great mental vigor. Who is the veteran of the house of repre sentatives to-day? It is a man whose activ ity is so great, whose fund of good stories so inexhaustible and his glee in telling them so hearty, whose step is so quick, and whose duties are so energetically performed that he is about the last man with white hair who would be picked out as the oldest man in the bodv. This is John Turner Wait, of Connecticut, and his years are almost , but his intellect is as keen and his body as vigorous as when he was 50. He will go back to his old home in Norwich when his term to ended, practice law with vigor, and have all the fun he can out of life. There was Gen. Patterson of Philadel phia, who at 85 could outsit any younger man at the dinner table, and eat his share anfl smoke as many cigars as the best of them. And what quaint, delightful stories he told, and how erect was his body and firm his step. Age! He knew it not: yet ha was almost 90 before he passed away. There Is Gen, Simon Cameron, whose mind is as clear as crystal, who not only calls memory that reaches far away in the past to his service, but reveals that best test of unimpaired vigor, the power to weigh the future. Gen- Cameron is nearing 90, but you cannot call Ids mind old, for its vigor is apparent to all who talk with him and who hear his thoughtful comments on the is sues of the day. Nor can you call the body 9f man old Who thinks nothing of a fhoa- mux .. rai My. There is the leader of the Boston bar, M. Sidney Bartlett. He is part 80, but he charms the supreme court, of hit state with his arguments still, and he works with the assiduity of a strong mind in a strong body. New York Sun. PLAYING AGAINST BIG ODDS. "ProfeMloaal" Utterly Devoid or Pity. An Incident fn Driver Splan'Kareer. If a man sets out to gamble I want to tell him at the start that he is playing against .big odds. A professional gambler must be devoid of sentiment, conscience or pity, and be possessed of nerve, good humor and endurance. If you are built that way and wish to enter the lists do so, but what ever you do, don't cry out when you lose. If you cannot afford to lose, stay out of ttie game, for there is no compulsion to go in. I am not speaking of the country bumpkin, who knows only pitch and casino, and who is steered iuto a den and fleeced, but of the bright young ity man, who knows just what he has to expect, and then bellows when he is plucked. Why can't such a fel low content himself with progressive eucher Faro is the game for the aspirant, if he will not take this warning. "Poker takes too much nerve for ordinary men, but it doesn't count in faro. You put Iow n jour monev win or lose and quit when you please, and plav for ten cents or $100. The fast young man can throw away his patrimony verv handily on faro, and indeed by per severnuee itis possible to lose money even at billiards. With the exception oi cierg) meu I feel safe in saying that all profes sional men gamble, with a few exceptions, and outside of the stock market and I be lieve that it ha been held that this is gam bling. I think faro catches most of them. It is mo pleasant, you know, after a little supper topped off with a glass of Maischiuo and a fine cigar to drop into a room and play a stack or two. It is relaxation and fascination without dissipation. Then once in a while there's excitement thrown in. When the city is filled with turfmen or politicians then the layout becomes rather lively. All turfmen play faro, and I recall an incident in John Splan's career that will do to top off with. Ii was five years ago in an Eighth street room. The game had been rather slow until John came in with blood in his eye and a roll of bills as big as his .neck. "What's the limit" he demanded. The dealer sited him up in a minute. "From the green earth below to the blue sky above," he answered, suavely. "Good!" said Splan, briefly, and planked down a hundred on the queen. Near the end of the third deal Splan had $5,000 in hand, and he shoved the whole bundle on the ace. "Ex cuse me," said the dealer, "but we can't take that bet" "I thought you said I could raise 'em to the sky." retorted Splan. "So I did," assented the dealer, "but, con found you, don't you know that there are limits even to the atmosphere' All of which doesn't point a moral or adorn a tale. In fact, the whole subject i destitute of morality, and the whole advice to those about to gamble may be summar ized in one word Don't. Philadelphia Call. Not a Pleant Experience. A well known west countryman, who was in Newcastle a few nights ago, having lost his train, returned to the public house where he had been imbibing au extra doe of liquor, and secured a bed for the night. A candle was handed to him, and he was directed to hi room; but being somewhat "fou" his unsteadiness of gait jerked the candle out of its socket, and he was thus left in dark ness. He stumbled on till he found a bed roomthough not his own. Dofflng his gar ments, he groped about successfully for the bed, but found that it already accommo dated another lodger. He felt that his bed fellow was a more than usually "cold sub ject." "Man" said he, "ye're as cold as clay; yer feet's like icebergs." He contin ued to push his uncomfortable neighbor along till the latter fell out of bed altogether. "There, noo." exclaimed our hero, "ye can lie there." He soon fell sound asleep. Next morning he was awakened by the noise of two stalwart men fumbling with the handle of this bedroom door, and then noisilv entered with a coffin. The indignant corpse suddenly sat up and demanded to know why he had been disturbed. This was too much for the two joiners, who dropped the eoftin and fled. The sight of the eoflin reminded our hero of his bedfellow. He looked over at him for a moment, and then realized that his fellow lodger was a corpse. He jumped out of bed, hastily snatched up his garments, and rushed from the house, half dressed, to complete his toilet under the portico of the Central station. Newcastle Chronicle. Not "Docked" for Slckneaa. A New York correspondent writes that it was Henry J. Raymond who began the practice of payAig his men full salaries when disabled. .While repoi ting on The Tribune he contracted a severe cold in the line of duty. It was a month before he left his bed. On bis return to the office he found that Mr. McElrath had stopped his pay from the moment that he was unable to work. This touched him to the soul, for he sadly needed the money. He made up his mind that he would adopt a different rule if he ever had charge of a newspaper. The time and The Tunes came not long afterward, and from that day to the pres ent no man employed on that journal has been "docked" for sickness. The corre spondent says that The Sun is the only other New York newspaper that imitates the Times-in this. New York Sun. Will Not Adopt New Methods. Charles C. Haight, the architect who planned many of the improved tenement buildings that have beesVput up here of late years, said the other day: "It is very diffi cult to get tenants such as these houses are built for to adopt new methods of any kind, even when it is for their own interests to do so. For example that idea of the land lord supplying coal to the tenants at about cost instead of their buying it by the scuttle at the grocery shops has been tried but without success. It effected a saving to the tenants at from two to three cents a scuttle, yet they don't take to it at all. This is true of many other similar improve ments. Co-operative stores would never be made to work. New York Tribune. He Had Been Flcarlag-. "Well, it does beat all what fools people are gettin' to be," said an old farmer, who sat in a seat in the corner, pencil and paper in hand. '"Here I read in the paper that Mister Abbey gives Patti, the opera singer, $3,000 a night for singin', an' 50 per cent, of the receipts above $4,000. At a concert ia New York the gate money was $9,000, an' Mrs. Patti must have got $5,500 of that. Great gosh, what a farm that would buy out in Iowa! But I've been figurin' on this thing, and I want you to take a look at the results. The paper says phe sang fire songs. Jewhillikens, but that's more than $1,000 a song. It couldn't take her mor'n ten min utes to sing one of her pieces, an' that's $100 a minute or nearly $2 a second. By gosh, I'm goin' to have my darters educated to be singers." Chicago Herald. M. de Lesseps' Danghter. On ber return to Paris, after her recent visit to this country with ber father to see the statue of Liberty unveiled, the little daughter of M. de Lesseps remarked of the Americans sententiously: "C'est un grand peuple!" just as a great poet's golden haired baby is reported to have said pointing from a Sorrento hotel window toward the Neapoli tan gulf and the slopes of A"esuvius "The lines are flnel" Chicago Times. There are said to be about 88,000,000 acres of goverment land in California still unoc cupied, much of which, however, require ir rigation to be tillable. ,.. . A NORWAY HOTEL TRAVELER'S EXPERIENCE AT LITTLE POST STATION INN. A Fair Sample of a Country Sapper An Amazing Number of Small Dishes. The Landlord and His "Das Bor." "Mr. Brown." Now we rattle off at a terrific pace of at least fifteen miles an hour, for this train is tho night express to Christiania, and in two hours we reach our stopping place, Storen, where we are to leave the train and take carrioles. The engine gh'es a single, sharp, little toot (why is it that all trans atlantc locomotives have such poor voices?) and slowly pulls its load away. We cast a glance at our surroundings. Tho station is a pretty wooden building, with flowers about it, and not very different from some of the newer and more tasteful railroad sta tions in New England. At a little distance is the hotel, a small, but very neat inn. At a word from us a couple of boys are on hand to carry tip the single small trunk which we have leeu advied to take with us. The Mi.tw 1 strap, bag and knapsack we bear ourseke-". Oiw look, at the green, moist sides of the mountains on either hand: at the blue sky overhead, bi itrht with the last rays of the setting sun; at the picturesque but s-mall and backward fields of ripening grain, anil at the neat home surroundings in front of us, makes us cry out: "Oh, if all the place we come to are to bd us pretty a this won't it be perfectly" ami the sentence is cut short by the opening of the door. It is the wife of the proprietor w ho conies. He, by the way, is also the .station master of the hamlet station in Norway always meaning a post station and, with a pleasant smile, she invites us in. We try, but in vain, to explain our wants iu English. The hostess understands us not. "Hurrah" we cry, "at last we have come to a place whero English is not spoken." But no, here comes her husband, who addresses us in our native tongue. PerhajB the reader would like to know what language is spoken commonly iu Norway and the answer might well be "English" for tho British traveler has so pervaded this northern land that the in iabitants thereof have been compiled, al most in self defense, to learn the language of the incoming uution. For no true son of Albion ever, in any country, speaks any language but his own good English. Of course, the proper tongue of Norway is Nor wegian, an offshoot of Danish and a descend ant of the old Norse. But English is taught in the public schools, and except in the re mote country districts, it is possible to travel in comfort w ithout knowing a word of Norwegian. In fact, it is difficult to learn the native tongue only, because all the educated people one meets, and almost every Norwegian is well educated, know enough English to wish practice speaking it with travelers. After we have explained our wishes to the complaisant landlord, wu are shown to the neatest of rooms, with clean, bare wooden floors (carpets are scarcely known and still more rarely seen), and "Aftenmad" is soon announced. It is now 9:"0, jet no candles are needed. In the autumn and winter, how ever, darkness comes much earlier, and the nights are long. But what are we offered at this, our first couutry supper, the supper which is a fair sample of what we are to find at everj' post station Well, lye bread of two kinds but no "fern (or white) brod," butter and milk iu quantity unlimited, and tea or coffee. There are sundry small dishes before us, each containing some one of the numerous varieties of cheese, or mj3 tic number, three slices of ham or smoked salmon, or three slices of sausage,, or three slices of another kind of sausage, or three radishes. The number of these small dishes is amaing. The nervous; little English ladj- sitting opposite, drawls out: "Oh, do j'ou like these little dishes? Oh, I think they are beastlj', don't j-ou? They get oue so muddled, j-o-i know," and we sj-mpatlize with her, for we, too, are discontented with these unsatisfying "mor ceaux." A bottle of Worcestershire sauce finds congenial compauj' in a neighboring jar of English mixed pickles with the ac cent on the "mixed." But these are simply appetizers or relishes; the substantial are yet to come. Meat, real Yankee "meat," of no particular brand or varietj', served piping hot, witliui delicious brown gravy poured in overrule thick slices, is now brought in ou a covered dish with a compan ion in the shape of a similar dish of boiled potatoes. AVe fall to, heedless of whether the "meat" be beef, mutton, or venison, for every traveler in Norway is blessed or cursed, as the individual case may be, with an in satiable appetite. Next comes that accom paniment of all Norwegian breakfasts and suppers, the Kitieut setting hen, whose por celain neat is alwajs full of delicious, fresh eggs, iv nere tne eggs come irom is a mj-s-tery, for hens are scarce, with the exception of this china table companion of ours; but though the fowls are rarelj- to be seen, there is no scarcitj of eggs. This unsolved riddle must be left to some future explorer to un fold and explain. This is our supper, and the breakfast is to be much like it, with, perhaps, a slight diminution iu the num ber of cheeses. But it is high time to retire if an earlj' start is to l made in the morn ing. The landlord comes with the so-called dag bog (daj- bo"k) in his hands and we learn what are tho liecessarj' preliminaries to obtaining vehicles at a Norwegian posting station. First, the name is to be inscribed in the dag bog, then the date, the place of destination and the number of horses wanted. In some of the older registers space is left where complaints or words of commendation may be written. Here are found the names of all who have passed over the road for the last two years or more. Especially prominent is the name of "John Brown, London, England," to which is adled oceasionallj-, "On foot," or "On foot with knapsack," written in heavy black characters. This name is in almost every dag bog we see. AVe finally meet Mr. Brown himself. He is a short man, with a brown beard, and, like all English men, is smoking a briarwood pipe. He is as familiar in manner as he is loud in speech, and wears huge hobnailed shoes. He is never weary of hearing himself talk, and, in fine, is what Frenchmen call "lefacheux" in plain English, a bore. It may be that he is a tradesman off for two or three weeks' vacation. He always succeeds in making himself disagreeable wnerever he may be, for he wishes people to understand that he is an Englshman and from London, England. When he reaches southern Norwaj', where English people are in greater numbers, he subsides a litt'e, and, fearful of seeing some one who knows him, decides that it is wiser to drop London and register himself Birmingham, where his home really is. This is but one form of the impudent "Britisher" often met with in Scandinavia, always annoying sometimes amusing. Boston Herald. The Ratio of Reward, "It is a note-vorthy fact," said a thought ful railroader, "that the men who operate the railways pf this country get more money out of them every year than their owners. In other words, $400,000,000 is paid to the employes, while the owners of the stocks and bonds get in dividends and interest $350,000,000. As for ratio of reward, how ever, the capitalists appear to have the best of it In round numbers $8,000,000,000 is invested in American railwajs. Three hun dred and fifty millions is 5 per cent, of that sum, showing that the average annual return made to holders of railway securities is 5 per cent. In point of fact, it is much more. In this country there are about 125,000 miles of railway. That would make their cost $65,000 a mile. The actual cost of road and equipment has not been in excess'of $50, 000 a mile, and possibly less. It must be re membered that two thirds of the mileage lies west of Pittsburg, north and west of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers and east- of the Rocky mountains, where railroads are not very expensive. The emploj'es, on the other hand, can't water their stock.. And inasmuch as the 800,000 employes earn only $400,000,000 a jrear, it follows that their average earning is $500. Paj the high salaried staff officers out of that and see vviiere the workers are. Chicago Herald. She Found His Fault. Some iiersons' conceptions of Christian conduct are am absurd as that of a very penin ions old woman who was invited to tea at tho hoiu of a family with whom a verj' worth and dearly beloved clergyman was staying. He was a man of remarkable puritj' of character and gentleness of man ner, and was universally loved nnd re spected. After tea ha excused himself on .account of a headache, and went to his own room. "Were you not greatlj pleased with him?" asked the lady of the house of this old lady, after the minister had retired. "Oh purty well," was the doubtful reply. "I knew you would be." said the lady, warmly; "he is one of the loveliest Christian characters I ever met." "But he ain't perfect," was the cold reply. "Oh, no, perhajis not: none of us is ub-solutelj- iierfect, but I really think ill B comes nearer erfectiou than any man I ever met in my life." "Well, that iuaj- 1k yet he has his faults." "He has never revealed them here,"' said tho lad', a little irrituted; "and I am sure he would try very haid to overcome them if the were Kinted out." "Well," said the discoverer of faults, -ever body has their own way of thinkiti', but when I see a mail, asl saw that man to-night, put two heajiiu' teaspoons of sugar in one cup of tea. why. I've got my ow n idc 'bout his Christianity, now, that's what I have." "That is not a great fault." said the host. But the old lady sh,ok liar cap solemuly. Arkansaw Traveler. Curing Ho; Bristles. The portion of Chicago which lies around the big packing houses has never leen par ticularly noted for its balmy and refreshing odors. Proliably it never will be, but at least one source of impure air is about to le abolished. The immense hog bristle cur ing fields, which for many years hae been covered with thick laytrs of white and fra grant hair, w ill not exist alter this season's contracts have expired. A local physician has invented a machine which will cure tho hair within doors in four hours. At present it takes four months' exposure to the air to do the work. The packers have combined and Iwught the doctor's iiatent. Hereafter thej will cure the hair from the hogs they slaughter themselves. At present the hair L, bought by a middleman. He has his men in the slaughter house, and the moment the poi ker comes out of his scalding bath they are at him with nippers, picking out the big, thick bristles, which, are packed separately. Then a shaving machine is run over the carcass and iu half a minute the hog is as clean as an egg The hair is spread out on the 100 acre field, turned and returned like hay, and when it ceases to be odorous, is .shipped in ban-els to the brush makers in New York. New York Mail und Express. A Lightning Change Thief. A search of her person by the matron at the station revealed a new phase of criminal cleverness, which Las lold as it is ingen ious. The young woman was ai rayed in the garments of a lightning change artist, and could, w ithout the removal of an ar ticle, change her dress into four distinct stvles. AVhen the prisoner saw that her trick was discovered she did not hesitate to illus trate its operation for the entertainment of her captors. When arrested she wore a black cashmere dress, a tight bodice of the same color and material, and a hat with a w ide brim. A swift displacement of hooks, eyes and but tons; atlef: adjustment of unseen fastenings here and there: a crushing squeeze of the hat, and the lady stood with a brown wool en dress with corded front bodice, and a neat little turban upon her head. Another set of manipulations nnd the dress was transformed into a gown, the turban gave place to a coif, a chapelet fell from the gir dle, ami the woman stood arrayed as a brown nun. Once more, presto change, a tug of the skirt, a yank at the coif and waist, a flash of hands everywhere at once, and the nun was transformed into a young lady of aspiring fashion iu bright colored alpaca and the oiiginal wide brimmed hat. Chicago Inter-Ocan. A Disappointed Kdltor. The editor "of The Blue Knob Eagle came to town the other day purposely to make the acquaintance of the editor of The Daily Ad vocate, Col. Brooks. Brooks had copied so many items from The Eagle that the editor of that sheet knew tnat he would lie a wel come guest. When he entered the office of the great dail. instead of introducing him self to tho editor, ho sat down carelessly, chuckling inwaiillrnt the surprise which he would create. After u while he said: I see that j'ou copy a great deal from The Blue Knob Eagle." "Yes." "Rather like its matter, eh?" "Oh. it doesn't amount to much.. You see I copy it because The Eagle has so little circulation that no one has seen its stuff, which is consequently new when I get it. If the jiaper had any cii dilation I wouldn't clip n line from it." Tho disnpjK)iiited editor did not introduce himself. Arkansaw Traveler. Extraordinary Meetings of Crows. In the northern part of Scotland nnd in tho Faroe island-" extraordinary meetings of crows are oceasionallj" known to occur. Thej collect in great numbers, as if thej had been all summoned for the occasion; a few of the flock sit with drooping heads, and others seem as grave as judges, while others again are exceedinglj active and noisy; in the course of about an hour thej disperse, and it is not uncommon, after they have flown awaj', to find one or two left dead on the spot. These meetings will sometimes continue for a day or two before the object, whatever it may be, is com pleted. Crows continue to arrive from all quarters during the session. As soon as thej' liave all arrived a verj' general noise ensues, and shortly after tho whole fall upon one or two individuals and put them to death; when this execution has been per formed they quietly disperse. Boston Budget. King Hnmbert'H Wreath. King Humbert, of Itaij-, has been pre sented with an enormous wreath of bitwise, surmounted by a golden star, in recogni tion of the bravery and humanitj' displaj-ed bj' him during the cholera epidemic in Naples. It was pail for bj popular sub criptions limited to one cent each. Chi cago Herald. Future of the Mormon Church. President Taylor of the Mormon church has sent a letter to. Secretary Lamar, in which he says that the future of the church over which he presides "is indis solubly connected with the land. ' ' He thinks it possible that in the future the Mormons may found colonies outside of the United States. Chicago Tribune. All men are not capable of getting a, living noiy. Ponio are not cunning enough, not strong enough, not stingy enough. CoL Cob Iugeraoll. Isaac Murphy, the colored- Americae Jockey, Is tho nearest approach we have to Fred Archer, his annual earnings feeing placed at from $10,003 to $15,000, BEFORE THE BREATH OF STORM. Pefore the breath of storm, WhUa yet the long, bright afternoons are warm, . Uader this stainless arch of azure sky rhe air is filled with gathering wings for flight; Yet with the shrill mirth and the loud delight Comes the foreboding sorrow of this cry Till the storm scatter and the gloom dispel. Farewell!'' Farewell! Farewell: Why wfll ye go so soon. In these soft hours, this sweeter month than June f The liquid air floats over field and tree, A veil of dreams where doye And the stlnj;! A gold enchantment sleeps upon the sea .And purpled hills why have ye taken wing? But faint, far heard, the answers fall and swell Farewell! Frrewell: -Farewell! Charles D. Rolierts in Outing, IN THE MINING DISTRICTS. What Journalism Used to Be Some Years Age A Reporter Experience. "If j'ou want to see independent journal ism, j'ou go into the country, the mining districts especially," said the young man, between the courses. "I was once a great friend of au editor of a paper in a rather wild mining camp. . I-liad. an. idea I'd like to be a reporter, so he kindly gave me a chance "This journal," said he, "is abov- all fearless and independent. AVe don't care a dam for anybody, and so go ahead." I went ahead. One day, being down town, I got in full head on the biggest sensatiou the town had "mowi for j-cai-s. A cold blooded murder with extraordinary ieculiar ties of atrocity altogether a very big thing. I was so earlj in the fray that I took care of the murdered man. shot by a notorious character, until he died. Then, in the full glow of excitement, I wrote tho affair up. I spread mj'self on it I gave a pen picture of the murderer and a close and elaborate account of the place a public house where the shooting had taken place. I gave all tho names of everj'body who was within a mile of the occurrence. It was a splendid story, and flushed with importance I marched into the editor with my "copy." He took it and read it, and he began marking whole sheets out of it "You see, my boy. Jim Bullivar did tho shooting, and if they nab him he his several big revolver fellows who will walk, in, and the trouble with those fellows is that they don't give j'ou time to argue. You get it and there you are, so we'll cut his name out and simplj say a well known citizen. Then you say that he did it deliberately. That'll never do. I'll just put iu that it niaj have been an accident, because, of course, it may have been, j'ou know. I see you give the names of the other men who were there. Do you want to bring tho whole gang down on us in a bodj'? Here, I've made some little changes. You take the copy to the business manager and let him look at it. I took it to the business m inager. "Great Scott!" said he, "what are j'ou doing? You give the name of the saloon and the address! Don't you see that they'll take their ad. out and inebbe come up here with shotguns? And j'ou haven't given the name of the doctor. He'll be mad. All those ieople j-ou've connected with this thing will be sure to kick. Young man, j'ou'll ruin. this pnier." "Well, what am I to do?" "Just saj there was a shooting scrape in town j-estenlay, and somelmdj", supposed to be a notorious bummer, got killed. He's dead. AVe can't help him. Let us save the living." There were two "sticks" about the murder in the next daj''s paper, and I retired. San Francisco Chronicle. IN THE OZARK REGION. Where Deer, Bear, Panther. Wild Turkeys, Qaall and Rabbits Tin ive. "I wish that some of j'ou fellows w ho lika to talk about the sport j'ou have bunting hero in the cold east could just pack up your traps about now and go back with mo to a country that a cliap can live iu with pleas ure and comfort while the gales and snow and frctof this Atlantic climate aro getting their work in to the best kind of advan tage," said "Chip" Macguire of Spring field, Mo., the other night. "Game is al ways plenty iu southern Missouri," said he, "but this j'car it seems to have outdone it self in abundance. I came over the old Kansas City, Fort Scott and Gulf railroad, and although that was earlj- hi the season for the birds to be making themselves con spicuous, I'll bet that I counted a hundred Hocks of wild turkej-s, and there wasn't a flock out of which I couldn't have shot ouo or more of tho splendid birds from mj' win dow in the car. The railroad in one placo runs on trestles over a swamp for several miles, and in tho extensive ponds and baj'ous of that wild stretch of country thousands upon thousands of wild ducks and geese of all varieties were feeding, some of the water being covered for acres with the fowl, until their groups looked like islands in tho lakes. These fow 1 seemed to be so used to the noise of the trains that I did not see one move its jKJsition through being startled by the can iu all thai, distance. "The day before I left Springfield I saw a bushwhacker come into town with a mule team load of deer carcasses of the finest kind. I bought one simply to obtain the magnifi cent head and antlers and all I paid for the whole business was $1.25. There were at least 200 pounds of the beat venison included in the purchase. You could not get that head and these horns here for less than $15. Among the other large game reported pleutj' and waiting for the hunter is bear. This gentle creature more particularlj- affects the jungles and swamps of northern Arkan sas, aud if an unsuspecting sportsman is going into "these parts he will have to keep his eyes skinned to find thoroughfares un obstructed bj bruin. The rynx, and now and then that lelic of the daj-s when the countrj- belonged to two-legged as well as four-footed savages, the Aniercian panther, still hold a land tenure in that garden spot of the southwest, and I am told, greet visitors after the manner of their kind. I never dallj- with game of this kind, but I know men who do, and what thej- saj maj be depended on. "I went out for a rabbit hunt a few daj-s before I left home, and I got tired of tri"i ping over them. That is no exaggeration, for I give j'ou mj' word that thej' jumped out from every bunch of brash and leaves that laj in your path. After- bagging all I could carrj I went to shooting quail for a friend who was with me to bring back home. These "birds actuallj paid no attention to the gun at all, but the flocks I shot into kept right on feeding as if nothing had hap pened, and rather objected to mj- picking up the ones I had shot. AVe .sjcak of graj- and black squirrels out there as you might refer to sparrows here, for they take possession of towns and villages in about the same way. Tho beauty of it all is that the later the season grows the better the weather gets, and any of you fellows can come out there New Year's and strike it right, and spend the remainder of the winter in clover. You won't be apt to see much snow. The Ozark region is the greatest couutry I know of, and the water out there is immense. If you want to have a good hunt come out and see me, and leave all your medicine at home." New York Sun. Ton Balow Wanted "Musical Beer," I remember, when Aron Bulow was here, I met that disciple of the ultra classic in musical art frequently. On one occasion it was at a Harvard concert, if I remember right. Our seats chanced to be side by side, and all through the performances he kept murmuring. "Beautiful! Beautiful!" in an ecstatic manner, but invariably ac companying these little breathings of de- light with a discontented grunt, I thought at first that, while admiring the music, be was disiileased by the manner in which it was interpreted; but he invariably applauded at the end of each performance, aud with every appearance of suncerity. This was perplexing; but the great man was eccentric, and I attributed his grunting to some peculiarity that bad fastened upon him. At the end of the concert we went forth together, and were scarcely in the street when he touched my arm and said, without further preparation: "I am dying to be vulgar, commonplace; anything but respect able. Respectability is driving mo crazy. I want to hear some common music. Take mo where I can be Irunk on musical beer. I am tired of musical Burgundy!" I thought he was posing for effect; in fact, I think so now; but he assured me that he was iu solemn earnest; that he was eager to hear what he called "some de lightful disreputable music." in some place whero he could lie back aud listen to "ex quisitely incorrect harmony and charmingly disgraceful tunes, only sixteen rhjthmical bars in length." He desired to obtain this luxury iu some out of the way place not likely to bo visited by the tone elect, and forced, "as the son-in-law of Liszt and part owner, with AVagner, of Mrs. Von Bulow," to blush for his degraded musical appetite. I made au appointment with him to go to a musical show, when he grasped my hand heartily, and greetal.nuias his "lieber Mephistopheles." Before night, however, I received a note from him, iu which he said: "Paradise is not for me. I am a coward. I'm chained to high art. I dare not go. AA'eep for nie! 1 have Iwught a collection "f negro melodies arranged for the accordion. Over these I will gloat in the privacy of my own chamber. Come to me .to-morrow. AVe will enjoy them to gether. If you know au accordion virtuoso bring him with you. But remember; to him I am not Von Bulow, but Mr. Schultze." Boston Saturday Gazette. SEVEN WAYS OF MARRYING, With Attending Kxene Varying from SI to fcl.OOO The Most Popular. There are seven searate and distinct ways in which the nuptial knot may bo tied, the attending expense of the different modes varying from 1 to $1,000. The least exieiLsi w, and the one seldom adopted, except in cases ot ulopeiuent, is that afforded bj the justice's office. There a couple can be firmly united iu the space of a mmute for a small sum. It is customary for a groom to dress as he may please when the marriage is to be performed by a justii-e, und a dress suit would be sadly out of place iu the musty law office. The one great ad vantage of the justice shop marriage is its cheapness. As some people object to toing married by a justice of the peaisj, preferring the sanction of the church in addition to that of the law, the young ieopIe may visit a parsonage instead of a justice's office with the same preparation. The ceremony may be fully as informal when 'lerfoimed at the uunister's home, the only difference biiig that not less than :, and, letter still, $5 or 10, should Ihj paid for the service, although there is no fixed sum charged. The most popular cere nnuy uuioiig lUl'le who do not class themselves as in "society," and also among many w ho do. is a quiet home wedding, where the bride is attired in a suit of plain white or a traveling dress, and the groom in a plain black or brown busi ness suit, where oulj a few friends and relatives are present. The affair is infor mal, perhaps a modest supier or lunch being served ufter the ceremony is performed, and the entire expense to the groom leiug covered by $20, or even less. This is the most popular wedding ceremony, aud this is the waj- in which fully 25 per cent, of j'oung people are married. Next in point of favor an-1 inexpensiveness is the informal church wedding, being simi lar iu all things except that the service is performed within the jwrtals of the church. If the affair is stiictlj private, the bride and groom niaj" Ik? unsupported, or have brdiesmaids ami groomsmen, as they please. In the latter case full dn-v. suits should lie worn, increasing the exeiis. "The full dress wedding," as it iifty le called when the ceremony is performed at home, is next in favor. Elaborate trousseau, full dress suits, bridesmaids unit groomsmen , flowers iu abundance, and a host of invited guests are the requisitesT followed bj' a leception, feast or lunch, as the contracting iarties may desire. The seventh and last, and most popular, is the full dress affair performed iu church. Among people who desire to create a stir in society this is the favorite. It is expen sive, and iu many cases unsatisfactoi-y. Brooklyn Magazine. Cigar Lotting Their Flavor. Not long ago a iriend sent me from Cuba a box of cigars of a brand we used to smoke with great gusto during our wanderings together through the ever faithful isle. AVhen I lighted the first one I found it hor ribly ill flavored, i tri.xl another with the same result, aud so learned that the whole lot had been spoiled. The ship had, it seems, a rough passage, with much wet weather, and the damp air of the store room had taken all the flavor out of my Patriotas. Happening to mention this fact to a nicotine expert, he said: "That happens verj" often. Cigars of certain brands have to be packed scientific ally in order to endure a voyage'without in jury. Others do not seem to suffer at all bj the change of air. Cuban tobacco stands the, sea air better than unj- other. The best cigars made in Santo Domingo, for instance, cannot be exported at all. They become perfect cabbage leaves on their voj-age and never recover their flavor. Yours will get most of their flavor back when they dry. Damp weather injures all cigar, anyhow. Take notice on the next wet day how differently jour pet brand tastes and how badly it bunts. A moder ate amount of moisture in the air is neces sary to bring out the flavor of a good cigar, but too much just as certainly destroys it." Alfred Trumble in New York News. Jay Gould's Son George. "The other day I rode on the elevated road opposite George Gould and could not help observing that he is much more j'outh ful in appearance than his age as given in the newspajiers would warrant. He is often credited with being 27 or 28 j-eors of age. In fact he was O- ruiint rilil . tHo J.., .,. w. third day of February last He wasonly 18 or 10 years old when he had been made vice-president of the AVestem Union Tele graph company and a director in most of the Gould properties. Under the old con struction iu the courts requiring directors to be of legal age, Mr. Gould could not have occupied a place iu any directory if his acts bad been challenged by any of the stockholders. By decisions of the higher courts, however, it is now held that if a majority of the directors are of legal age the actions of the board cannot be success fully disputed. New York Tribune. HU Last Trip. It ws at Liverpool docks. A jiarty of American tourists were about to take the steamer for home. As they stalked along the gangway to the tender's deck, one of the three paused in the center, and stretch ing out his encumliered hands, dramatically addressed the surrounding scenery. If there is," he hoarsely exclaimed, "one blar sted Britisher on this confounded island that I haven't given a quarter to, let him come forward txnl get it. It's his last chance!"' Theu he stalked ou board with an air of great relief. The Argonaut. A New Paint for WU. For painting walls or other objects ex posed to dampness, a mixture has come into extensive use In German formed of verj ti"e 'ron fillings and linseed oil varnish. AVhen the material to be painted is subject to frequent change of temperature, linseed, oil end amber varnish are added to, the first two coats. The paint may be applied to wood stone or iron, and, In the case of the latter, it is not necessary to free it from rust. New York Sun. THE rxitsx National Bank! or COX.XJAIBYJ8. MSB. -HAS AN- nd the largest Paid i Cask Capital any bank in this part of the State. of Authorized Capital of $250,000, A Surplus Fund of - $20,000, " Deposit receded and interest paid on time deposit. JSfDrafu on thi princtp d cltia ia thi coun try and Europe bouxht aud sold. fctf-follectioas and all other busina-w rflvda prompt HUtl carufid attention. ," TOCkUOI.PKRS. ANDKKSON. Pres't. 1IKKMAN P. ILOKHLKICH. Vice lre't. O.T.KOKN, Cashier. J.P.1IKPKKK. C.SCUUTTE. JONAS WKU'H, P. ANDKKSON. KOKKKT UlllJt;. 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