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VOL. XVIII.-NO. 9.
COLUMBUS, NEB.. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 1887.
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Hi-? weak as well as his strong quali
ties have been indicated. He never
learned the technicalities, what some
would call the tricks, of the profession.
The sleight jof plea and demurrer, the
legerdemain by which justice is balked
and a weak case U made to gain an
unfair advantage, was too subtle and
shifty for his strong and straightfor
ward intelligence. He met these man
oeuvre sufficiently well, when prac
ticed by others, but he never could get
in the way of handling them for him
self. On the wrong side he was al
ways weak. He knew this himself,
and avoided such cases when he could
consistently with the rules of his pro
fession. He would ofteti persuade a
fair-minded litigant of the injustice of
hi- case ami induce him to give it up.
His partner, Mr. Herndou, relates a
-peech in point which Lincoln once
made to a man who offered him an ob
jectionable eae: "Yes, there is no
reaon:tble doubt but that I can gain
your ca-e for you. 1 can set a whole
neighborhood at loggerheads; I can
di-tre. widowed mother and her six
fathcrle-s children, ami thereby get for
you six hundred dollars, which right-
mity nejongs, it appears to me, a
much to them as it docs to you. I
shall not take your case, but I will
give a little advice for nothing. You
seem a sprightly, energetic man. I
would advi-e you to try your hand at
making si hundred dollar in some
other way.' Sometimes, after he had
entered upon a criminal case, the con
viction that his client was guilty would
affect him mi: h a sort of panic. On
one occasion he turned suddenly to his
associate and said, "Swett. the man is
guilty: you defend him, I can't," and
so gave up his share of a large fee.
The -ame thing happened at another
time when he was engaged, with Judge
S. C Parks, in defending a man ac
cused of larceny. He said, "If you
can say anything for the man, do it, I
can't; if 1 attempt it, the jury will see
I think he is guilty, and convict him."
Once he was prosecuting a civil suit,
in uie course oi vvnicii evidence was in
troduced showing that his client wan
attempting a fraud. Lincoln rose and
went to his hotel in deep disgust. The
judge sent for him; he refused to come.
"Tell the judge." he said, "my hands
are dirty; 1 came over to wash them."
We are aware that these stories de
tract something from the character of
the lawyer; but this indexible incou
enieiit, and fustidiou- morality was to
be of vast service hereafter to his coun
try and the world.
The Nemesis which waits upon men
of extraordinary wit or humor has not
neglected Mr. Lincoln, and the vouuir
had to bring suit to compel them to
pay it. He spent what he received in
the education of his children, in the
care of his family, and in a plain and
generous way of living. The Century's
Life of Lincoln.
Sugar For Nothing.
The. English weekly newspaper Tid
Bits, lately offered a prize for the best
little story in the Scotch brogue. Fol
lowing is the sketch to which the
premium was awarded:
Last Saturday Betty and me were oot
getting our provisions, and in ga'ing
alaug a street in the Sooth Side, Betty
grippit me by the arm, and pointing
tae a shop window, says, "Guid keep
us, Jeems! d'ye see that? Sugar for
naething!" "Eh! what's that?" I nays,
getting oot my specs. "That's extra
ornar; trade must be dull atweel when
the've tae gie awa' the gudes for nae
thing. My ceity, it's a new gemm
this. Puir bodies! hoo can thev afford
a' that gas and a big rent? Betty," I
cries, "ye ken I've never grudged the
pay a fair price for oirything I buy; but
when folks offer ye a- thing for nae
thing I wid be staunin' in my ein licht
if I didna tak' it Gie me the basket
and I'll go in and get eight pun', and
after I come oot ye can 6lip in and get
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lawyer- of Illinois, who never knew
him, hae an endless store of jokes aud
pleasantries in his name; some of them
a- old as Howleghiss or Kabelais. But
the fact is that with all his Tories and
jest-., his frank companionable humor,
his gift of easy accessibility and wel
come, he was, even, while lie traveled
the Eighth Circuit, a man of grave and
serious temper and of an unusual in
nate dignity and reserve. He had few
or no special intimates, and there was
a line beyond which no one ever
thought of passing. Besides, he was
too strong a mail in the court-room to
be regarded with anything but respect
in a community in which legal ability
was the only especial mark of distinc
tion. Few of his forensic speeches
have been preserved, but his contem
poraries all agree as to their singular
ability and power. He seemed abso
lute! v at home in a court-room: his
great Mature did not encumber him
there; it -eemed like a natural symbol
of superiority. His bearing and gesti
culation had no awkwardness about
them: they were simply t-triking and
original. He untuned at the start a
frank and friendly relation with the
jury which was extremely eflective.
He usually began, as the phrase ran,
by "giving awaj- his case;" by allow
ing to the opposite fide every possible
advantage that they could honestly
aud justly claim. Then he would pre
sent his own side of the case, with a
clearness, a candor, an adroitness of
statement which at once flattered and
convinced the jury, and made even the
by.-danders hi pattian. Sometimes
he disturbed the court with laughter
by his humorous or apt illustrations
youietimcs he excited the audience by
that florid and exuberant rhetoric
which he knew well enough how and
when to indulge in: but his more usual
and more successful manner was to re
ly upon a clear, strong, lucid state
ment, keeping details iu proper sub
ordination and bringing forward, in a
way which fastened the attention of
court and jury alike, the essential
point on which he claimed a decision.
"Indeed." says one of his colleagues,
"his statement often rendered argu
ment unnecessary, and often the court
would stop him and say, 'if that is the
case, we will hear the other side.' "
Whatever doubts might be entertain
ed a to whether he was the ablest
lawyer on the circuit, there was never
any dissent from the opinion that he
was the one most cordially and uni
versally liked. If he did not himself
enjo- his full share of the happiness of
life, he certainly diffused more of it
among his fellows than is in the power
of mosL men. His arrival was a little
festival in the county-seats where his
pursuits led him to pass so much of his
time. Several eye-witnesses have de
scribed these scenes in terms which
would seem exaggerated if they were
not so fully continued. The bench and
bar would gather at the tavern where
he was expected, to give him a cordial
welcome; says one writer. "He brought
light with him." This is not hard to
understand. Whatever his cares, he
never inflicted them upon others. He
talked singularly well, but never about
himself. He w:as full of wit which
never wounded, of humor which mel
lowed the harshness of that uew and
raw life of the prairies. He never
asked for help, but was always ready
to give it. He received everybody's
cojitidence, and rarely gave his'owuiu
return. He took no mean advantages
in court or iu conversation, and, satis
fied with the respect and kindliness
which he everywhere met, he sought
no quatrels and never had to decliue
them. He did not accumulate wealth;
as Judge Davis said, "he seemed never
to care for it." He had a good income
from his profession, though the fees he
received would bring a smile to the
well-paid lips of the great attorneys of
to-day. The largest fee he ever got
was one of fire thousand dollars from
the Illinois Central Bail war,, and he
amtner eight pun'; it ll na look so
greedy like. Jist wait a wee." And
in I goes. "I'll tak' eight pun' o that
sugar!" says I. "Certainly, sir." Put
ting it iu the basket, I shtttdoon the lid
and turned.
"Hey," cries the lad at the back o'
the coonter, "ye've forgot the tea!
There's two pun' o' tea goes alang wi'
that!"
"Save us, tea! tea did ye say?
Great criftens, this bates all"? Tea!
Certainly I'll take the tea," and I held
up the lid o' the basket and he popped
in a package o' tea, a' ready made up.
I thocht it was vera fortunate I had
seen the shop before the unemployed
got word o' it, or they wid a haeit it a'
rookit oot afore I got near it.
"Is there naethin' else coffee, or
onj'thing?"
"No!" he savs; "it's just the tea and
sugar go thegither."
Weel, I'm sure we oeht tae be
thankfu' for that same; altho', if there
wis a bit pun' o' coffee I widna object.
Weel, guid day tae je! guid day!" and
I cam' oot. He jumpit ower the coont
er, and grippit me at the door, and
shook me, and says, "The money, sir!"
"Money!" says I, perfectly" dum
foundered, "ye ne'er said there wis ony
money; but it's no ower late yet! Hoo
much dae ye gie? Ye're a perfect an
gel in thae bad times. I hope the mon
ey's na spurious."
"Ye've tae gie me the money," he
says. "Me!" I sa-s, "money for
what?" "For the tea," he says. "Did
ye no say it weut alang wi' the sugar?"
"Certainly." "And didna ye say ye
gied the sugar for naethin ?' "Yes."
"And what's the money for, thenf"
"For tho tea," he says, getting angry.
"Noo. look here. I savs. pullinsr him
intae o clo-e oot o' the erood, "let us
underslan each other. Tae begin ot
the beginning, did ye no sae ye gied
sugar for naethin'?" "We do." "Weel,
so faar, so good; ye gied me my sugar
for naethin', and when I wis coming
oot ye cried after me. that ye gied tea
alang wi' the sugar."
"But ye're tae pay for the tea."
"Tutftut! will I hae tea begin again?
Noo, look here aud pa3' attention!
Dinua ye ca' me back when I was gaun
oot well enough pleased wi' the sugar,
and no askin' for tea. aud said ye gied
tea alang wi the sugar?"
-I did."
"Weel, and hadua ye gien me the
sugar for nathing?"
"I had."
"Weel, and what hae ye tae sae for
yours!', eh? It's no "the worth o't
min' ye: but I'm no a man to be made
a ftile o t: hooevcr, there's my card
ye can summon me, but I'm thinking
ye'll get the warst o't. No, no! I
wisna born yesterday. I thocht
there wis some juckry-jxjekry aboot it.
Come awa, Bctt, here's oor catir."
gas and other illuminators, except dip
ped tallow caudles, to le disused, and
really to go back to the "good old
times," say for live j-ears. Then, if at
midnight on a cold, stormy night, a
doctor is wanted he must be sent for
instead of telephoning for hia. If one
wishes to send a message to a distance,
instead of telegraphing he irffist write
a letter and send it by stages to a dis
tant place aud wait patieutly for days
or weeks for the answer.
When one goes home on a freezing
night he can sit by a wood tire, roast
ing one side while freezing the other,
aud reading by the dim light of a tal
low dip instead of the blaze of a gas
light or the more agreeable, light of
kerosene. If he undertakes a journey,
instead of getting into cars aud going
where he wishes, the best he can do is
to take a stage at four times the cost
and ten times the discomfort of the
cars. Let these and other modern im
provements be forbidden, and the
"good old davs" be brought back.
long would it be before an extra ses
sion of the legislature would be de
manded to knock the "good old days"
Into splinters, and to restore the much
better modern das which we now en
joy, and for which we ought to be
more devoutly thankful? llridyeport
Standard.
Tfcve iu the C'attleii.
WIi4e-ret "latHicr, and was about ready
toyit down ami let the case go by de
fault, as it were, when a tall, homely,
loose-jointed man. sitting in the bar,
whtmi I had noticed as giving close at
tention to the case, arose and address
ed the eomt in lehalf of the position
I had assumed in my feeble argument,
making the points so clear that when
he closed the Court at ouce sustained
my demurrer. I didn't yet know who
ray volunteer friend was, but Mr. Ar
nold got up and attempted to rebuke
him for interfering in the matter,
when I, for the Jirst time, heard he
was 'Abe Lincoln,' of Springfield. Mr.
Lincoln, in his good-natured reply to
Mr.1 Arnold's strictures on his interfer
ence, said that he,claimed the privilege
of giving a young "lawyer a boost when
struggling with his Hi'st case, especial
ly if lie was pitted against an exper
ienced practitioner. Of course I
thanked him aud departed from the
eorUA proud as a vounir field mar-
!iL'9eJleVer S:lw Mr. Lincoln asrain.
anil lie flieit without ever knowing who
the young struggling lawyer was he
had so kindly assisted and relieved
from defeat in the maiden effort be
fore a Tinted States tribunal. Wash
i nylon Critic.
NTnatu Inland.
"The Good Old Days."
Men 90 yeais old remember when
there were no steamboats, but all travel
on the water was done by the slow,
uncertain means of sailing vessels,
wheu if one started for New York it
was doubtful "if he would reach there
in a dav or a week. Now we know
how many hours and minutes it re
tpiirea to make the trip.
Men now 60 years old remember
wheu there were no railroads, but all
travel on land was done by stages, by
wagons, by ox team, on horseback,
and on foot. Now a network of rail
roads covers the whole country, and
several lines run from the Atlantic to
the Pacific Ocean. Now it requires
only six or seven da-s to cross the con
tinent. Formerly that trip required
three months.
Men 50 years old remember when
there were no photographs, but onlv
paintings and drawings, made at great
prices, of objects now done better in an
instant at trifling cost.
Men of that age also remember when
no steamltoats crossed the ocean, and
it was believed that they never could,
but now hundreds of steamboats are
plowing every ocean, reducing the time
of crossing the Atlantic from weeks to
days.
Men 45 years old remember when
there was no electro-plating, but every
thing iu that line was done in the old
fashioned slow way.
Men of that age also remember
when there were no telegraphs, but all
messages had to be sent by the slow
going mails.
Men 25 years old remember when
there were no telephones, but all the
messages now spoken through them
had to be sent by notes or special mes
senger. All these grand and useful inven
tions have been made within the mem
ory of men now living. The younger
generation cau never appreciate them
as those who remember the want of
them, aud therefore the great conveni
ence they are to the world.
We often hear of the "good old days
of yore." Why deprive our children
of the enjoyment of thoe days? Why
not pass a law forbidding steamboats
from ploughing the waters, railroads
from running on land, telegraphs from
sendiug mes-ages, telephones from be-
I suppose Eve, as soon as she was
born, picked up the tirt bit of broken
glass she found in the Garden of Eden
and fixed it iu her hair. That was wo
manlike, but quite possibly Ad .-tin had
long before that taken a bit of rusty
wire, aud, setting a pebble in it, worn
it on 111- little linger as a ring, with
conscious pride. Historv doc not sav
that either wire or glass was known at
that time, but we don't know. We are
not half so sure of what history says
as we are of what it does not say. So
far as we can make out, Cain was
smoked early iu the beginning of the.
world, but history does not state it.
There is one week in the history of the
world that makes all the trouble. It
was the first week, ami it's just like
going into a new home or taking of a
new situation you're all wrong the
first week. Then you get all right and
things go perfectly smooth till you
want to move. Now about getting
married it's quite the reverse. The
first week's all right. Then the trou
ble begins. That first week of the
world is the battle-ground of all dis
putes, and, like other similar periods,
some people think it lasted O0U0 years.
It docs not concern us particularly,
except that if we hail been there at the
time we would have altered things
considerably. We would have had
even one of our neighbors made dif
ferently: wv are all right ourselves.
However, it is too late to brood over
what has been fixed, and 1 am afraid
we've got to take it as it is. But to
resume. Can't you see Eve fixing a
blue and pink shell to a grass string,
putting it around her neck, and stand
ing by the summer water's edge try
ing to get a peep at herself to see
whether it wasn't handsome? It might
be that Adam, in the first burst of af
fection, caught a gold beetle and stuf
fed it and made it into a brooch for
her. Let the imagination try to fancy
how she pinned it on, but she'd get it
on somehow if he gave it to.her.
It was some old poet who had ideals
and fautasies, and never went out into
real life or had to buy a Christinas
present, that first called woman a jewel.
The term is not inapt nowadays, for
the modern jewelry is very expensive
in the setting, and I am told that some
jewels are not worth as much as the
gold they're set in. I can hardly be
lieve this to anv great extent. The
number of people who are real experts
about women is rs small as the num
ber of diamond experts; but the num
ber of people who think thev are is
much larger. It is hard to tell dia
monds; you see a flaw and the fellow
who's selling the stone explains that it
has met with some trilling accident iu
being polished, which does not in the
faintest reduce the value. It's the
same with a girl. You speak to her
mother about some little defect, and
she explains that when she was very
young she fell on her left ear, and
she's been subject to little infinitesimal
fits of temper ever since. The poet
that first struck the simile builded
better than he knew, and would be dis
gusted, perhaps, to find how numer
ously it fits. Woman is a jewel, but
she always wants other jewels and
they're not other women. Sun Frim
cisro Cltronklr.
ingused, all furnaces, steam-heaters,
etc., to be taken out of houses and
other buildings, all grates for burning
coal be taken out, all stoves to be
melted for old iron, all water-works in
cities to be left empty, the use of all
Joe Blackburn' Story.
Senator Joe Blackburn, of Kentucky,
was as is well known, a dashing
Southern leader iu the late war. At a
social gathering a few evenings ago
the Senator paid a glowing tribute to
the exalted character of Abraham Lin
coln. He said he considered Mr. Lin
coln the fairest man that ever presided
over a nation, and that his taking off
by the hand of an assassin was the
most cruel blow the South received
from the war. Then the Senator re
lated the incident of his first meeting
Mr. Lincoln, which in substance was
as follows: "When I was 19 years of
age I located in Chicago and commenc
ed the practice of law. One of my
first cases was iu the United States
Court, which was presided over bv
Justice McLean, of the United States
Supreme Court, and Judge Drummond,
of the Illinois Circuit. The opposing
counsel was Isaac N. Arnold, then at
the head of the Chicago bar, who was
subsequently a prominent member of
Congress and the author of the first
biography of Mr. Lincoln. I had filed
a demurrer to Mr. Arnold's pleadings
in the cause, and when the case was
reached on the calendar 1 was quite
nervous at having such a formidable
and experienced antagonist, while the
dignity of the tribunal aud the pres
ence of a large number of lawyers in
the court all aided to increase mv
timidity and embarrassment. I was
young, inexperienced, and naturally
felt diffident and nervous, iu fact, I
was willing that any disposition should
be made of the case' so I could be rid
of it. I was ready to adopt anv sug
gestion of the opposing counsel which
would relieve me of the embarrassing
situation. I wanted to get away from
the ordeal as soon as possible. Mr.
Arnold made an argument in which he
criticised my demurrer in a manner
that greatly tended to increase my con
fusion. "However, I had to make an effort.
I said but little, and that in a rerv be-
The story of a wonderful volcanic
outbreak on the little island of Niuatii,
situated iu dov proximity to the
Friendly group iu the South Pacific
ocean, was mirratcd by a sailor to a
San Franci-co Chrunirlr reporter.
The man had been serving on the
colonial steamer Suva, which plys from
Leouka. Fiji, around the South Sea
islands, and was on the steamer when
she visited the -ccne of the disaster.
The main incidents were told to him by
a trader who was on the island.
The island of Niuatu is small and of
a round shape. Iu its center there
used to be a large, clear lake, studded
with islets, and it looked as if the lake
occupied the crater of some extinct
volcano. A very lovely spot was this
island before the eruption, covered as
it was with vegetation, cocoauut trees.
bananas, breadfruits, ami gardens
where the natives cultivated patches of
yams, taro, and sweet potatoes. But
now it looks like a great gray mass of
volcanic rock, covered with ashes and
lava.
On the night of August -JS, 1886, the
natives were startled by earthquake
shocks, heavy lightning and thunder,
and rain. They were so scared that
the six villages on the east side of the
island were abandoned, and in com
pany with three white traders the
natives went to the lee or west shore.
The quakes and storm continued for
three days, and on the 'list of August a
huge pillar of flame shot up from the
center of the lake, accompanied by
columns of boiling water and showers
of stone and pumice. The waters of
the lake boiled aud seethed, aud then
from its bosom a cone of land started
up. lour craters upon this new up
heaval began to vomit fire, stones,
ashes, and scoria, covering the island
and burning up every particle of vege
tation. 1 his war of the elements con
tinued for ten days, and everything
was covered with volcanic dust to a
depth of many feet. A canoe in which
the native used to go across to another
island for shelter wiTs buried thirty feet
under ashes and lava, and they had just
succeeded iu digging it out when the
steamer Suva lioe in sight. It was
found that the natives had but five
day's provisions, and that although the
volcanic convulsions had ceased, they
were very much frightened. As the
Suva could not carry many passengers,
she went over to Tonga, and two
schooners were dispatched to the relief
of the sufferers. A plentiful supply of
breadfruits, bananas, taro. and j-ams
were taken, ami the natives will be
transported to other islands, as the en
tire crop of their lands on Niuatu has
been destroyed.
The captain of the Suva sounded all
round the island, and ascertained that
the water in the harbor had increased
iu depth. Land aud sea birds that were
numerous before the eruption had en
tirely desert ed the islaud. and where
was a smiling landscape is now a deso
late lava and pumice covered scene.
Volumes of steam were ascending from
the lake when the Su:i left ou her "re
turn trip to Jrijt.
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Dressing a Wound.
riage if he were defeated. The whigs
and democrats, who recognized in him
one of the most popular young men in
the state, vied with each other in giv
ing him their support. When the re
turns were counted Mr. Ransom was
elected by an almost unanimous vote,
and the accomplished daughter of
Roanoke became the wife of . North
Carolina's favorite sou.
Mrs. Ransom is one of the most
highly-educated ladies in the south.
She reared and fitted each one of her
six sons for college. To-day she has
the proud motherly satisfaction of see
ing two of her "boys" rising lawyers,
one a prosperous farmer, another'with
the senator as his private secretary,
and two at the University of North
Carolina. Her only daughter, Esther,
also received her" rudimentary and
preparatory instruction from her moth
er, and has just completed her educa
tion at some of the finest female in
stitutions of learning at the south, and
north. She is skilled iu languages and
painting and will make her entrance
into society next season. Mrs. Ran
som's health is somewhat delicate.
Gen. Ransom's sister Eugenie married
(Jen. William Butler, brother -of the
senator from South Carolina.
Ounder'M Last Kvperience.
"Been swindled again, I suppose?"
observed S'ergt. Bendall as Mr. Duuder
showed up the other day for the first'
time in a couple of weeks".
"Vliell, sergeant, I pelief I vhas dis
couraged. I pays taxes iu two wards
and vhas headquarters for campaign
clubs, but somebody beats me all der
time."
'What is it this time?"
"Yesterday two mans come in my
place. Vhas I Carl Dundee? I vhas
All right. Der schniallest man says
he vhas my friendt. und he likes "to
put me on der latest racket. I shtep
oudt in der pack yard mit him, und he
whispers:
" Mr. Dunder, if some stranger
comes here und savs he vhas house-
root inspecter und dot you must shovel
der shnow off your roof or pay some
fines, doau' you pelief him. Dere vhas
no sooch official, und dot shnow vhas
all right. I vhas your friendt, und I
doan' like to see you scliwindled.' "
"I see.'
"Vliell, we go in, und I treat him
two times, but. he doan' be gone half
nn hour pefore I miss a box of cigars."
"Which the other man took, of
course."
'I pelief so, too. Doan' I haf some
protection by dis bolice force?"
"You must first protect yourself. It
won't be three days before someone
else will come some game on you."
"Won't it! Sergeant, look at me! I
vhas going home. Pooty soon some
feller conies in und asks if 1 vhas Carl
Dunder. I vhas. He likes to try my
telephone or read der gas meter, or
I should clean off dot sidewalk.
"What does that mean?''
"Eef I ring twice dot means he vhas
run oafer by some ice wagon und can't
lif but half an hour! Eef I ring only
At night, before seating himself in
the renovated chair, which was hii
favorite resting place. Mr. Jones cau
tiously raised the cushion to see if it
were safe to trust his one hundred and
fifty avoirdupois therein.
Seeing the new seat he smiled a lit
tle, contemptuously, remarking: "Last
about two days." Then he "sat down
upon it" and did not fall through.
Mrs. Jones did not miud the depre
catory remark; she knew the seat
would "last" aud it did last more thtm
a year. Mrs. C. H. Potter, in Good
Housekeeping.
Mr. Davidfton'-t Sagacious Dog.
Mr. Davidson has a farm bell on his
premises, which is erected on the top
of a twelve foot post and which is rang
by a rope. Not long since the bell be
gan to ring at night alout 11 o'clock.
The ringing continued for some time,
and Mr. Davidson's family were badly
frightened. They got-'out of bed,
opened the door, went to the bell, but
not a soul was m sight. The night was
during the moonlight, and everything
outside was almost as clear as day.
Mr. Davidson was astonished. lie
went indoors, but noticing the dog in
the house, made the animal go outside.
The family had just got into bed, when
the bell souuded once more, and the
ringing kept up until the outside door
was opened, when it ceased. The dog
was noticed at the kitchen door when
the door was opened.
Mr. Davidson could sec no one aud
he was greatly mystified. Thoughts
of ghosts entered his mind, and he
weut inside, but remained at the
kitchen window, where he could see
the bell. He hail closed the door but
a few moments and got to the window,
when he noticed the dog acting in a
strange manner. The animal would
run to the kitchen door, and from
there to the bell-post. It kept this up
for at least Mxa minutes, when it jump
ed on a box that stood directly under
the bell. It seized the rope in its
mouth and the mystery was soon dis
pelled, and the bell clanged menily in
the clear December air. The dog now
sleeps iu the house, and the family is
not awakened at night. -Jyp" was
cold ami wanted to go into the house.
AViniAcf ( Ii.) Sews.
B FIRST
National Bank !
or
COZ.TXI'BTJ8. -fff-EB.
-HAS AN-
Authorlzed Capital of $250,000,
A Surplus Fund of - $20,000,
And the largest Paid fat Caak Capital of
any bank in this part of the State.
KaT Deposit
time deposit.
receitetl ami interest paid on
?y Drafts on the principal cities in thin coun
try and Europe honi;ht unit sold.
UpCllections and all otlwr Luslntm iTn
prompt and careful attention.
HTOUKUOI.PthS.
A. ANDKBSO.N. fres't.
HKttMAN l H.OKHLMCH.
Vice Pres't.
O.T.KOEN, Cashier.
n- &?&&? HERMAN OKHI.R1C1I.
a. sriuiTrK, v. a. aicaljjhtkr
mrMTssJtt AiXiir.Koii.
r. . a. .... .. . .
KOBElCr UlllJll.
CAl'MtEINKK.
Api-JsVgtftf
justness arils.
i).
1'. 31 UlTYN. M. 1). V .1 VL-w.-.i M 11
Drs. MABTYN ft SCHUO,
U. S. Examining Surgwns,
(.. N. A
once, und laugh
ha! ha! in der tele
phone, dot means he has been deadt
ten minutes, und I like some doctors
to examine me uud find dot emo
tional insanity! 1 vhas a shniiged
man! It vhas my duty to protect my
self! Good dav!" IMroit Free IWs.t.
In dressing a
wound that discharges
two basins are required, a sponge aud
a piece or glazed India rubber cloth.
One basin must hold tepid water, the
other Is to catch the water wheu the
wound is washed. The cloth can be
laid well under the injured part and the
edges turned up to form a sort of
trough leading into the empty basin.
The sui-face of a wound should never
be touched as it disturbs the healing
process, the water is squeezed over it
from the sponge. In removing strips
of plaster take hold of both ends and
draw upwards toward the middle, not
to pull the edges of the wound apart.
A little spirits of turpentine will re
move, the sticky marks left on the skin.
In bandaging care should be taken not
to draw the bandage too tight. If af
ter the surgeon leaves the limb swells
and there is great pain this cause
should be suspected, and he should be
sent for to remedy it. When a linger
is badly cut it should be tied up and
left alone for a day or two; the blood
dries on the outside and forms a case
within which the injury may heal with
out further trouble. If a child has the
misfortune to have a finger cut offit
should be replaced and bound up.
Sometimes there is a perfect union, and
there is great hope if the smallest shred
of skin remains imsevered. Elisabeth
ItobiiiAon Seovil, in Good Houstkeepiw.
A FmnIiIoii that Pleases Youug Men.
A thing that rejoices youug men
more than the downfall of the theatre
hat is the progress of a fashion inaugu
rated three years ago by Miss West.
eldest daughter of the British minister.
In a society including so many young
men of slender means. Miss West
thought it unjustifiable for girls to ex
pect and accept costly boquets from
their partners iu thegennan. To each
man asking her to dance agcrnian with
him she frankly said: "I never carry
any flowers, so you must not send me a
boquet. T can not accept it.'
For three winters and now for a
fourth. Miss West lias gone to balls
without a boquet. She is one of the
most beautiful young women here, pop
ular in all soeicu. and a reigning young
belle for the whole diplomatic corps,
and her popularity with the youug at
taches, lieutenants and ensigns is un
bounded, tier two younger sisters car
ried boquets ou the nights of the balls
with which their father introduced
them to society, but never after their
debuts.
These three English girls. Miss Mat
tie Mitchell, aud a few others are now
conspicuous at all balls and gentians by
not being cumbered with oue of the
huge, heavy boquets that other girls
carry. The big boquets in some cases
have beeu a great drain ou the girl's
pin money, as they all like, to keep up
appearances aud carry a bushel of flow
ers to outshine the rival with only one
modest armful of roses.
One ill-tempered young miss, who
was holding a heavy bunch of carna
tions, called, to a rival one night:
"Where'd you buy your flowers, Jen
nie?" Shaking up a bunch of roses as
large as a wheat sheaf, the rival calmly
said: "At the same place where you
got yours. The man told me how you
tried to beat him down, aud thought
30 cents a dozeu too much for carna
tions." Cor. St. Louis Qlobe-D,-inocrat.
A New Kna-Iand Trait.
About fifty years ago there lived on
a New Hampshire farm a man by the
name of Severence, rather poorly off iu
this world's goods, ami commonly set
down by his neighbors as nit her un
social and disobliging. His nearest
neighbor, a Mr. Davis, who lived about
a mile beyoud, was a man "Well-to-do."
and iu every way quite the op
posite of Severence. it often happened
that Davis would In going to the vil
lage a few miles distant, and Severence
frequently shared a seat with him,
haing no good team of his own.
After getting through with their "trad
ing" and getting their weekly papers,
they would start for home, and Davis
always found Neighbor Severence very
uncommunicative, ami rather a poor
companion for a cold winter's night
drive, never entering into conversa
tion, and Usually answering in mono
syllables when spoken to. More than
this, Dais til way noticed that upon
leaving Severence for the night, he
would never respond iu any manner
upon his bidding him good-night. One
cold winter's night, as Severence
tumbled out into the drifts opposite the
lane which led to his house. Mr. Davis
bade him good-night as usual, and as
he received no reply as he drove along,
thought possibly he ditl not make him
self heard, so he shouted again, at the
top of his voice, "Uooil-niyht, Mr. Sev
erence!'"' and iu impatient tones there
came floating back on the winter's
blast, "I hear ye: I hear ye." Edi
tor's! Drawer, in Halter's Magazine.
Qualifications for Office.
1.oh! SuofM.ni.. Union I'ni'ihV.
II. 11. ami II. A 31. H. If
Consultation iu (ttrmun and KutclNh. IVIa
photiHs at otlicu Hliti r.-r-id.'iu-,-.
CSOlliis on Olive ninvt, nxt to llrotifiieh
rr Jewelry Store.
COLUMBUS.
NKWtASKA.
43-y
TTAt1IIIO rtl-KAIt-r-, at. .,
riirsiciAX am sci:(;t;t,.
Fliittw tVntw, Nebraska.
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r Jt. 4 OKIX-KIMI,
LAW AXD COLLECTION OFFICE.
Upstairs Emut buihlinur. 11th ftiwt.
Oir-LlMVAN & RKKUER,
A TTORXE YS A T LA U
Kirxt National
OHmv oTer
Nebraska.
liank, Columbus,
So-tl
I . KVAKN, M. .,
Hinmci 4X AM sinusox.
JS-Otjicj. and mnmi, Uluek bnitilinjf, 11th
otrwt. lelt-phuntfconiainniratiun. -l-y
AeAI,I.IMT-EK URON..
ATTORNEYS AT LA II-,
y's building, c
W. A. McAJlii
wince up-Biuirs in Hi-nry s
wove anil lllh streetr. W
tary ntnlic.
corner of
ster, No-
ron rr:uxih:,
wtL ATI SCRl'El OH.
6Farliea di-uinna surveying done can ad
dress me at Coluinhu. Neb., or call at my offico
in Court lloure. Draaysel-y
MOTICK 'I'O TKACIIKRS.
W. H. Tedrow, Co Supt.
I will bo at my office in the Court Hcnsetlie
third bat unlay of each montn for the examina
tion of teachers. 39-tt
touching things I
A gentleman said yesterday:
"Une of the most
ever witnessed is the consideration
with which the officers of the natioual
poultry show treat Mr. Grady, their
president. He accepted the office
.simply to help out the new southern
industry, and, of course, does not
know one chicken from another. The.
executive committee soon discovered
this, and whenever their president ap
pears iu the hall a committee is sent
around with him to answer questions
addressed to him and preserve the rep
utation of the organization. It is .said
that an agreement was finally reached
between President Grady and" the com
mittee to this effect: That if the presi
dent would learn the difference be
tween the dog show and the Multr"C
show, so that he could at ofl-haud dis
tinguish one from the other, no more
would be required of him.
And one of the committee said:
"All we ask of our president is that
he be able to tell that a Wyandotte is
not a dog ami that a Skye terrier has
no feathers." Atlanta Constitution.
-pvlt. J. CHAM. W If .1,1-,
DEUTSCHE! ARZT.
Columbus, Nebraska.
.JO"1"' I,tM SH""-. Consultations jn yMm
Klisli, rmich and Herman. marsT
JOIINd.HKHJINS. c. J. UAKI.OW.
Collection Attorney.
HI60INS & GARL0W,
ATTOKiNEYS-AT-LAW,
Specihlty made of Collection by C.J. Cj.rloa
31-m
ft, ft. R-J.V1ER, .11. IK,
HOMGEOPATHIST.
Ckromlc Diseases aad Diseases of
Children a Specialty.
"aOtficeonOliiet-ttiet. three dci.rs notth of
First Natioual Bank. ;.iy
A C'ienfuejios,
How a Senator Won HIh Bride.
The wife of Senator Ransom, of
North Carolina is a remarkable wo
man, says a writer in the Philadelphia
jT'i-mcj". She was Miss Hattio Exiuu, of
anold family of wealth and influence
on the Roanoke river, where thev still
live. She is also a near relative I Gen.
George H. Thomas, the commander of
the Army of the Cumberland. A story
is told of the senator when he ran for
his first officethat of attorney general
of the -Old North slat,-." There were
many suitors for the hand of Miss
Hattie Kxnm. the belle of the Roanoke
valley. The senator was then a whig,
one of the true-blues of the "Tarstate."
It was noised about that Miss Hattie
would not accept his proffer of mar-
51 r. Joneft'a f-'asy Chair.
The seat of Mrs. Jones's one large
easy chair gradually gave out till at
last even the fat cushion she hail made
to hide the worn place failed to "fulfil
its mission." and Mr. Jones arose from
it one night with the remark, --That
chair must be set aside till he could
spare money to pay a man to reseat it."
But Mrs. Jones rose to the emer
gency and, instead of putting the
chair away to set for an indefinite
length of time iu dilapidated disuse,
she took off the cushion and cut the
old cane seat entirely out. Then she
took a piece of sacking stout, coarse
hemp cloth and cut out of it a piece
a little more than an inch larger than
the seat, so as to be able to turn it iu
all around to make it stouter to hold
the tacks which were driven through
it into the frame of the seat at a dis
tance of about one and a half inches
apart. A hole was made for each tack
with a straight, stout awl, by which
method they were successfully driven!
Mrs. Joues knew by experience that to
have undertaken to drive the tacks
into the hard wood of which the frame
of the seat was iaada, without first
making holes, would have resulted in
a complete failure.
Cuba, newspaper con
tains the particulars ot the kidnaping
and release of the little son of Senor
Roig. The father came upon the
bandits after sixteen days' search. The
party unmbeivd twelve and were head
ed by Malagas. Senor Uoig offered
Matogas f-J.OUO if he would n lea the
boy, but the bandit said he could not
abate his original demand for $7,000.
for if he did so. he argued, all other
persons whom he may kidnap would
insist upon the same consideration.
The eleven other h.mdTts at this junc
ture picked up their arms and threat
ened to for-ake .Malaga- command if
he did not accept the $2,000 offered
and release the child. Then the chief
yielded. The child -as the robbers
treated him kind!, and even gnve him
new clothes.
A little lot who had advanced to
words, of four letters was told that
wheu spelling words like good, wall,
seed, he was not to say 0-0 ore-e-, but
double o, double e, and so on. One day
in his reading-lesson 4cciured the
sentence, "Up! Dp! Ned, for the sun is
up," and when the bright, little fellow
electrified his mamma by reading:
"Double up, Ned, for the sun is up
t'
A poor
wretched
woman, coming from a
arret in an inland manu
facturing town for the first time to ee
the seashore, gazing at the ocean, said,
"she was glad for once in her life to
see something which there was enough
P n.Ki;Njiift:.
Ilth St., opposite Lindell Hotel.
Sells If arnesti. Saddles. Collars, Whips, HJnukets
Curry Combs. BrucheH, trunks TaliM-s, litipity
tops, ciiKhions. cnrriaRw triumuiiKS. Ac. at thu
lowest possible prices. Kepairs promptly
leuueu 11,.
at-
T m. .1IAJFAKI.AI,
" ATTORNEY AND NOTARY I'UBLIC.
LAW AM) COLLECTION OFFICE
o -
J. M. MACFARIAND,
Columbia, Nehraxka.
K. C. BOYD,
JtA.srFACTCHKB OK -
Tin and Sheet-Iron Ware !
Job-Work, Hoofing and Gutter
ing a Specialty.
2"8hop on Olive street, 2 doors north of
Hrwlfnehrer's Jewelry Store. 32-lf
A.JARN0U),
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DIAMONDS,
FINE WATCHES,
dork, .Vwelry
AND
SILVERWARE.
Strirt attention when to repairioK of Wntrh-a
and Jewelry. Cf-VilI not be under-old b
anybody."
He JLvemue. Opposite Clotliei- Hsum.
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earnioKs sure from first start. Costly outfit end
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to send us your address and Cud out; if you ate
wise j ou will do so at once. H. Ham..tt & Co..
Portland, Maine. decZS-'Wy
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