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riHMMMiWHMMiMMi ftjtt h-A. fcifai J.. m imtrmrl. Cfllumira V VOL. XVILT.-NX). 12. COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 1887. WHOLE NO. 896. COLUMBUS STATE BANK. COLUMBUS, XEB. Cash Capita! $75,000. niKKrrous: 1ttANDKK OEIUtAltl). Pre-'l. HEO. V. HUI.SI". Vic Pn-'t. JULIUS A. KEED. K. II. 1IKSKY. .1. K TAHKKS:. Cn-hier. HdMk of Itapewlt, ait'HMt u4 KvchastKe. Cfellectlm Promptly MbiIc ill ?. iy Iaterel oav Tle leMM- Ita. COLUMBUS Savings Bank, LOAN & TRUST COMPANY. Capital Slock, S 100.000. OEl'lCKltd A.ANDEiWON. Pi.-.'t. O. W. SHELDON. Vi.-v Prea't. O.T. HOK.N. Tn-ac. KOBKIM' UHLIO. S (i jT"W111 iwoite f iiii deposit, from $1.(10 huiI iiD) amount upward, and will i) the cut. fouiury rata of interest. o - J"Vo partit'ularl) Iihw our attention to ow facilities tor imtkin;; loaim mi real estate, at the lowest rate of intvr.-M. i Citv, School and Counts Hoiid.-. ami iu ditiduhl bet-untie nre hoiu;ht. lrtjune'Niy pon THE CALL ON A.&M.TURNER Or . W. KIIII.KK. WII.IMM kIBI.KK, 'l'ra.TliHK MnliHinea. t"Tlnf onnun. are hn-tM.-la.-n in every ikw tirulnr. bad KtiumuUetl. SCUFFROTH t PUTH, DKVLKKH IN WIND MILLS, AND PUMPS. Buckeye Mower, combined, Self Binder, wire or twine. Flaps Repaired on short notice o gyOnftdoor wrt of lleintz'n Dru Stoic, Hth vt, C-olunibu., Nvh. linot-tf trtvt, HENRY G-ASS. UNDERTAKER ! COFFINS AND METALLIC CASES AND DKALKK IN Furniture, Chairs, Bedsteads. Bu reaus. Tables. Safes. Lounges, - cc, Picture Frames and Mouldings. SgTRejHiiriiiy of allkhulsof Ujthol nitty Gooiis. 6-tf COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA. PATENTS CAYEITS. THADE MM 1XD COPYRIGHTS Obtained, and all other buines in the U. 8. Patent Office attended to for MODERATE FHES. Our oftce is opposite the U. 8. Patent Office. BpjBrliTagfHBJP WESTERN COTTAGE ORGAN M and eaa obtain r atenlii in leaa time Uian tliop '-3' rwnetofjom WASHINGTON. to patentability fn- of chun;: and make NO CHARGE UNLESS WE OBTAIN PATENT. W refer bre to tha Poatnuuiter, the Supt. of Money Order Div., and to official of the U. 8. Patent Ottce. For circular, advice, term and .-, - nfwwaw to actual client in your own Statu or county, write to Opposite PataatlbSMlwaahinstoarDrc. - W J- BILL ARPS JOURNEY. GOING HOME FROM THE WAR WITH TIP AND THE WAGON. A Pathetic Story or the Itetura of the Kef-jReea Crovtlng; the Etowah Night In an Abandoned School HosM-Home Again. About the close of the year, twenty-two years ago, we made preparations to go home. We loaded a covered wagon with our goods and chattels and some meat and meal and a supply of corn and fodder, and two or three cooking utensils, and a coffee pot, and some coffee made of rye and goob ers and sweet potatoes parched and mixed, some sorghum syrup, a puppy dog and a gun or two well loaded, and a few other primitive tricks, and felt amazing rich that we had so much to begin the world with so much tliat others did not have. Our oldest boy was then about 15, and had sense and self reliance like a man, for he had been with me in the army in Virginia, and had been bumped around smartly, and was used to trouble. So we started him and our faithful friend Tip with the cov ered wagon and team, and we followed after in a one horse rockaway. There were only seven children then and none to spare. The weather was cold and the roads in an awful condition, for they had not been worked in u year or two, and we had to cut our way uround the fulleu trees and patch up the little bridges and make haste slowly, but wo were going home, and that inspired us to encounter everything. Wo got along pretty well the first day and night, but on the second day, as wu ncared the Etowah river, we struck that doolate and deserted country known as Sherman's belt that ume Sherman "who was so careless about fire." Steele's bridge was ahead of us and was said to bo the only one left. Tho fer ries were all abandoned and the boats gone, so we pressed forward to the bridge, and as we mounted the hill that overlooked it we were surprised to see our boy and Tip and some other refugees carrying plank from an outhouse to the bridge. The floor was gone and they were contriving a way to get the wagons across. They picked up enough plank of one sort or another to lay two rows lengthways across the bridge, a row for the wheels on each side of the wagon, it was slow work and perilous work to put the plunk down on the open sleepers, itt kvluiiL liu'n An tliA atiuiii clatvirc but they did it, uud then carefully pulled and pushed the wagons across. The surging waters, away down among the rocks soino forty feet Mow, had no terrors to exiles going home. After getting the vehicles acro-w the bridge the horses and mules were short dfetanco be- r,.0!r :UT swum across the river low, and all were safely landed on the home ward side. The dark and dismal night caught us as we neared an old shell of a school house by the way, and so we halted and took posses sion und built up a rousing Are in the old log-built fireplace. The house had been used for anybody's stable, but wo cleaned up a corner and scattered the myriads of flea? around an 1 put them in circulation, and then spread down an old quilt and put a bed ujkju it and tixed up the mother and her babies pretty well considering that this was wir. An old log stable was near by and it had a long, old fashioned feed trough that was ! mode of half of a hollow log. Wo put our stock in the stable and fed them in ouo end of the trough and our big hoy slept in the j other end with his gun by his side. Tip kept ' up the Are all night and it shone brightly i through the big cracks, and kept the stable and the wagon in sight. Mules and horses I were precious- then more precious than ! gold. By daylight Tip was cooking break fast and making our coffee, and it did not ' take long to tnako our morning toilet. We had to get some water from a branch near by and wash our faces, and tliat was all. The sun didn't rise that day and tho mist and the clouds were thick and heavy. We were soon all altoard and expected to reach Rome and home by night. The road was hilly and rough and grew almost inijiassa ble as wc got into the dark chocolate land of Bartow. All tho day long we looked and longed to see some living thing a man, a boy, a negro, a dog, a hog, a bird anything to break the spell of utter desola tion. There was nothing animate except the buzzards that now and then took their heavy flight from some carcass by tho way. There was hardly a house left none that were occupied. No cattle or sheep, no roos ter to crow, or dog to bark. Night dark overtook us five miles from Rome, and those five miles are a horror to me now. I think I grew older that night by a 3'ear at least, perhaps five. The roail could not be seen, -and some of the gullies were fearful. But Tip and our boy never faltered nor wilted. Sometimes when the team seemed reluctant they would stop and one go ahead and explore and then try it again. Fences are sometimes a glimmering guide in the darkness, but there were no fences. We had not saen one all the day. When we reached the suburbs of town the mule team came square up against a fallen tree, and on exploring there were sev eral in the way, for it was an abandoned camp and the trees had been cut down for tire wood. It took us an hour to turn round and find another route. It seemed to me then that we spent half a night right there hunting for a way. But at last wo get into the town tho town where street lamps used to burn and a thousand wel come lights wore in tho windows of happy homes. Now all was dark and lonesome and as silent as the grave. By 10 o'clock we were in front of a kinsman's house, and a glimmeriug light shone through the cur tained window lattice. Oh, happy mo ment blessed relief. I actually felt weak from the reaction that followed from the long and intense anxiety. No wonder that the doors were locked and barred, and the light kept dimly burning. War is horrible enough, but the absence of all law and all restraint is worse, for the weak and defenseless are then at the mercy of tho stroug. Of course, we found our dwelling sacked and gutted of its furniture. We left it full and found it a skeleton; in deed, the whole town was a skeleton. A good portion had been destroyed by the very able man who was so careless about lire, and what was left was empty. Even the churches were empty not a pew nor a scat left. My own bouse had been used as head quarters, and the telegraph wire was still hanging in the parlor. There was not a pal ing nor plank around the premises. There was a new stable about sixty feet long for the horses of the general and his staff, and the troughs were made of the pews of the churches. We moved into our house and called it home. We borrowed some beds and bed ding and a chair or two from kind neigh bors and settled down. I had some Con federate money, but it wouldn't buy much. I gave $3,000 for a chunk of a cow. the only one I could bear of that was for sale in the country. I brought ten bushels of corn down the river and kept it hid out from the scouts and outlaws, but they cot half of it. anyhow. We lived through the winter a hard winter and I reckon we could do it again, but we don't want to, and are now thankful for the comforts of life and the security that comes from peace and well regulated laws. Atlanta Constitution. AN INTERVIEW IN THE WATER. How a Woman Once Interviewed John Quincy Adams. As a boy, being fond of bathing in the Potomac, I frequently resorted thither at early hours of summer mornings. The favorite point for such enjoyment was at "the sycamores," so called because a group of those trees stood on a certain part of the shore. The location was in the mmoirn vicinity of the present Washington monu ment. There I had sometimes the honor of atteskotiBK to rival the natatory skill of John Quincy Adams. It was his custom to seek the refreshment of the River of Swans Pow-tow-mack at the dewy hours of 4 or 5a.nL My young companions and I en circled him as minnows may swim about a whale, but with no fear, for among children he was as a child. A strange incident occurred there one day. Mrs. Anne Koyal, a stout, aged, and eccentric widow of a Revolutionary soldier, bad come to Washington some time before and undertaken the publication of a weekly paper entitled "The Huntress," in sise little beyond a sheet of foolscap, blurred print, and more typographical errors than lines. Biographical accounts of gentlemen of the cabinet and of congress were its main feat ures, with notices, too, of distinguished ladies of the metropolis. If the elite fur nished her, on her call, with proper data and proper pay, their lives were made glo rious in the next number of the unique jour nal, and they were also presented as angels, either masculine or feminine; but if her visit, as did happen now and then, met with refusal, the imaginative editor would in vent wonderful circumstances and attribute them to such personages. These, in publi cation, startled and even terrified the sub jects thereof and all their society friends. So it became necessary to buy off the venge ful madam and to obtain from her a pleas ant report. No paper of the period in Washington, not even the stately and venerable National Intelligencer, could compare in extent of local subscription with the list of "The Huntress." The active and resolute madam would have it, and made it so, by going from house to house, office to office, stores, departments of the government in a word, everywhere. The enterprising widow had long sought an opportunity to pay her respecta to the Hon. John Quincy, but somehow perhaps John Quincy know fate failed to favor her. She chanced to learn the early sum mer morning practice of bis late excellency, and tho very noxt day repaired to the river and tho sycamores. There he was, serenely disporting. She looked on with self con gratulation. The swimmer approached the shore at last, nearer and nearer, till he ob served her ladyship in waiting, then, the stream admitting, stood, head and neck ex posed above the surface. Thus situated, a prisoner, she addressed him, introduced herself, and held sufficient talk to furnish subject for a fine article in the following "Huntress." which accom- , .. . . . -.;,. d ' mope ... . I ' "quiet on the Potomac." Seaton Donoho in Brooklyn Magazine. A War Correspondent's Style. Pending the perfection of tho plans foi "opening the river" at the Leland house, ' SprinsHell. IUs., I left Cairo, and by way of I Columbus went over to inspect Grant's forces. I found several new correspondents over there, among whom was one Randolph B. do Keim. Ho first attracted attention one day when several of the boheraians were gathered in a deserted house and were trying In various ways to kill time. All classes of subjects were brought up and dis cassed, and among others Shakespeare was placed on the tapis. Somebody quoted homething from the bard, and some other correspondent denied the correctness of the rendering. After a good deal of talk it was noticed that Keim was silent. "How is it, Keimr" was asked by some one who observed his lack of participation in the discussion. "How Ls what" "Blank's quotation from the immortal William. He says that it is so-and-so; is tliat correct!'" "I can't tell you. I never read Shake speare!" "Never read Shakespeare!" and there was a universal laugh of incredulity. "Never read Shakespeare Why not." ''Because, gentlemen, I am afraid that it would interfere with my style as a writerl" Mr. Keim is still before the public as a writer. Whether or uot he has been bene fited by his refusal to read Shakespeare, or his style lias been improved or the reverse by his abstinence, I am not prepared to say. War Cor. Chicago Times. rractlral Joking; by Will. Scientific people have just had a serious disappointment. When, 100 years ago, Sir John Sloane was gathered to his fathers, he left directions in his will that a certain cupboard in bis museum should not be opened for the space of a century. Ever since then the cupboard has attracted as much attention as that against which the late Mrs. Blue Beard was cautioned. Many have been the speculations as to its contents. Tho museum has already a chamber of hor rors, which very few of the professional public and not a great many others hive had the opportunity of exploring; and it was thought that the mysterious cupboard must contain something wonderful A few days ago the centenary came round, and in tho presence of trustees and lawyers, the long closed receptacle was opened. And what was found? No horrible examples, no curious mummies, no grinning skeletons, but simply a parcel of old letters and papers of no interest whatever to any one but him who placed them there. The disgust of the savants maybe imagined, and the conclusion outsiders have arrived at is that the late Sir John was a bit of a practical joker. London Cor. Philadelphia Telegraph. Benton and Fremont. Senator Thomas H. Benton used to reside in this house that I am doing business in, and it was from tho front steps of this building that ho kicked John C. Fremont, the path finder, who was paying his addresses to the senator's daughter, Jessie, at the time. Ben ton had an intense dislike for the suitor, but Fremont would not be bluffed with any sort of mild treatment like that. He kept on courting, and finally he and Miss Jessie were married. Some years after that Ben ton presented the maps and plans of his il lustrious son-in-law to the United States senate and expounded his cause with charac teristic eloquence. A friend of his, well knowing the senator's previous antipathy to Fremont, aked him how it was that ho then esteemed him sa highly. Thereupon Benton replied: "Oh, you sea, Jessie was a better judge of a man than I was." John Maguire in Globe-Democrat. He Sued for HU Salary. I never knew of more than ono preacher who sued for his salary, and he got it. It was in Franklin county. The leading men wrote him a letter guaranteeing that the church could and would pay him a good salary ono of these offhand letters which churches noted for not paying will write. He went and served them a whole year ac ceptably, meekly and patiently. In fact, they were astonished at his patience. Then he demanded all of his salary that was due. Again they were astonished to meet a man who was not willing to take just what the church had seen fit to give him voluntarily. But he told them they had caused him to contract debts on tho strength of the prom ises made by their official members, and those debts had to be paid. He went into court, produced tho letters written by the ofBciil members, obtained judgment and col lected it. And he did right. Rev. J. . Uodbey in Globe-Democrat. "Uncle Ittmoi" at Home." Joel Chandler Harris resides in a pleasant and comfortable homo in West End, a suburb of Atlanta, where he enjoys the companion ship of his wife and a family of six children, who absorb most of his thoughts and atten tion. Although having a large and inviting study in the upper part of his house, the author never occupies it when engaged in his literary work. His stories arc all written at night after his family has retired, and until the early hours of the morning the family sitting room is temporarily transformed into a library. During the day Mr. Harris de votes himself to his duties as editorial writer for The Atlanta Constitution, with which paper he is permanently connected. THE ARAB'S IIORSE. YOUNG COLT TREATED A3 MEMBER OF THE FAMILY. Tender Care Which Renders the Animal Remarkably Docile-Methods of Train- lnc One Bit of BusinessFed with Great Discrimination. The majority of Arab horse owners prefer to keep mares in then opinion "a mare that produces a mare Ls a fountain of riches;' ' in times of battle, mares can be easier kept quiet than horses and that, to the dwellers in the desert, is another recommendation. Stallions indeedtre very rare; only the mightier chiefs that can afford to keep one, as the stallion must have many servants to look after its welfare and see that it docs not wander and become lost. When an ' Arab mare drops her foal mighty conimo- tion is made, in tho belief that the animal I will never afterward be frightened at hear ing a noise of any kind. Then, after the din has ceased, there falls to be enacted a little j ceremony; the foal is transferred irom the arm of the Arab who carried it in his arms j during the disturbance, to the master of the , tent, who placing the right dug on tho mare in tho mouth of the infant one, exclaims in a loud voice: "May Allah bless and preserve it and send us good fortune in abundance, with health to enjoy it!" All present join in making a suitablo response, usually ending with: "Let us all bless Allah, who has sent to tho family another child." Great attention continues to be bestowed upon the foal during the first seven months of its life. It is not only taught to suck its mother, but is also taught how to drink tho milk of the camel and the ewe, so tliat it ! may soon learn to do without its mother, which has to resume work as speedily as may be. In the ovent of barley ever becom ing scarce or of tho water supply running . short tho horse Ls able having been well taught to take "pot luck." Whon the foal ha attained tho age of about 225 days it is finally weaned and severed from tho com- ! panionship of its mother, on which occasion some, other little ceremonial of a simple kind is indulged m the women of the tent as- I semble and demand the animal. "Give it unto us," they say, "it has now no other mother; it has become an orphan which wo shall tend and feed and AUah will bless us." Tho foal is then given up and the women aro as good as their word; they feed it with milk and dates, giving it also pieces of their bread. It is doubtless their tender treat ment which renders tho animal so docile so docile that It can be easily handled by the merest child. Its education proceeds apace; each foal is, so to say, married to a child who rides him in search of grass or water. The child is fearless and the boy teaches the horse to fear no evil; the boy in time be comes a clever horseman, while the horse grows all that can be wished. The colt is left in charge of the child till it is 18 or 20 mouths old, when its "breaking in,: is begun. The training of the colt is begun by h'u being shackled with clogs; and persons who have seen this mode of breaking think it is a really admirable system. The clog sprevent the animal from entangling itself in the lialter, or from getting into the manger, or from lying below it and from a multitude of bad habits which aro incidental to other modes of training. Not till it is over 2 years old is the colt ever saddled or bridled, and then the utmost care is taken not to fatigue the animal; as a preliminary to tlie mount ing of a full grown rider they are frequently led up and down with a pack saddle on their backs and a bit in their mouths which is cov ered with undressed wool. At length the man mounts the colt in order to complete its education. Before it has only been allowed to carry a child on its back, now it is made to f3el the power of a master hand the great object in view being to accustom the animal to ungrudging olcdience. At first the colt gets only light work and is ridden without spurs and but little force is used. His owner canters him around among his belongings, using (as seldom as he possibly can) a light cane, just to remind his horse that ho has a master; immense pains are taken not to tout or harass tho animal, but to train him in the way he will have to go; he is always addressed in a gentle voice anil no opposition is experienced. One bit of business; it is deemed of the utmost importance he should be tiught from the beginning of his training, and tliat is to stand stone still while his rider is dismount ing and not to stir after ho has dismounted. The value of such training was seen when an Arab rider was shot and fell from his horse it stood still till it was remounted. The training of these animals is so complete that any person might ridoone of them to market pass the bridle over the horse's neck, let it fall to the ground, then placing a brick or stone upon it, go away on business, remain absjnt for an hour or two and come back in the certainty of finding his colt where he left it. From their earliest years Arab horses are fed with much care and discrimination, their food being in accordance with their age, temperament and work. As has been stated, the Arab horse H taught to drink the milk of the camel and the ewe. A milk diet is greatly approved of, because owners of horses think that it is good for the health of ' tho animal aud strengthens without fatten ing it. Camels' milk is also said to be im bued with tho power of imparting speed of limb to those who drink it, whether man or horse. Another point j-onnected with the feed of a home in the desert ought to be studied by trainers at home, that is, that the animal should be made to eat barley. "Had I not seen the mare produce the foal I should have aaid it was the barley," is an Arab saying. Another saying is: "When you purchase a horse feed him with barley till you know tho measure of his stomach a good horseman ought to know the measure of barley suited to his horse as exactly as tle measure of powder suited to his gun." I have now, perhaps, said enough to show the love of the Arab for his steed and the caro that is taken to render the animal of value, and his value being assured, care for the horse is inculcated. "When you dis mount, think of your horse before you think of yourself; it is he who has carried you and is to carry you again" a most excellent sentiment which should be printed and pasted upon the back of every stable door. Another Arab saying about the horse which merits attention is "Run not your steed in the teeth of a strong wind if you desire to keep him in good health." One more sentiment should be kept in mind: "Tho grave of a horseman is always open; when, therefore, a man mounts his steed he ought say, In the name of Allah!" Bailey's Monthly. CIRCULATION OF PARIS PAPERS. Their Large Profits Advertising- Returns. Newspaper Announcements. The Paris newspapers make a large profit on their circulation when they have any. The Petit Journal sells for a sou, but tho other dailies are rated at two and three sous apiece, and, as mentioned, their com position and press work, and the small quantity of paper their editions require are vory cheap. They are, however, under some expenses of which American newspaper publishers have no knowledge. In Paris, for example, every newspaper is distributed by its own carriers. There is no general distributing agency and no carrier under takes to "serve" more than one paper. The carriers, too, must bear the papers to the venders in the kiosks. All this means delay and outlay for the publishers. Nor are the advertising returns to be compared with those of American or Eng lish journals. The theatres do not adver tise, the railway companies do not advertise, and the advertiser generally is a rather shy bird, except when the newspaper is of ancient f oundaton and wide repute. On the other hand, there are daily journals in j winch every line is made to pay, and to pay J handsomely. In one of the great dailies, following an article by tho chief editor, one ' often happens upon a aragraph announc ing, for instance that "M. Brown," the new novel, has reached its fiftieth edition." The writer adds: "This is not at all won derful, when one takes into account the re markable talent of the author, M. Robin son." Inquiry at tho Librairie Nouvelle Laving djiosej the fact that the original edition of "M. Brown" is still on tho pub- usuer's shelves it u plain that tho news paper's announcement is a reclame, and a reclame of this sort is quoted at about 500 francs. It is almost tho rule for local managers and European impresari i to enter into d con tract with two or three of the principal newspapers for a certain quantity of space, to bo filled by them annually, at stated pe riods. From 13 francs to 2.1 francs a lino is demanded for this privilege. A year or two ago one of tho leading dailies mailo room for a news item announcing the be trothal of a j'oung American girl to an Ital ian prince. Although no names were used the persons referred to could not le mis taken. The mother of the maiden advised -ctbe editor that the report was groundless and asked him to so proclaim it. This he refused to do. Then she sent him a letter with a request that he would print it over her signature. Tho editor was willing, but the letter, ho said, must be jwid for. It ap pcared in print, and 50 francs a lino was the price exacted and paid for its publication. New York Times. Stones Which Lovers Buy. "The girls are growing more mercenary every year," remarked tho senior member of a Broadway jewelry firm the other dav. i "Why, if the young men only knew but then it's none of our business. Hero comes another, I'll bet." A fair creature enveloped in sealskins and wearing the jauntiest little bonnet ever turned out of a milliner's hands walked up to the counter with a business like air. Div ing into her reticule she brought forth a tiny jewel case containing a diamond. "Will you tell me, sir, what it will cost to have this duplicated!'" The expert in diamonds looked at tho young lady severely aud inquired if she de sired to liave tho setting exactly similar. "Oh, yes, I must have something the exnet couutrrpart," she replied, somewhat embarrassed. Examining the stone the jeweler stated that ho could furnish a similar ono und set it for $90. "Well, I declare, I thought it would cost at least J250,' exclaimed the fair creature. "Tell me, is this not u pure white stone " "No, madam, it is not. It is off color and has not tho requisite fire. But it is a fair stonoforJ90." After the lady had departed tho jeweler sighed and said that she made the tenth. "You see," said he, "nearly every young man believes it the proiK-r thine to urcsent his best girl with a diamond. Many of them cannot afford to pay for a gem which is of ! the liest grade, so they buy a stone that is off ' color, thinking that the young lady, not being an expert, will never know the differ- . euce. But bless you. tome aro a match for ! them every time. They simper and smile and exclaim: 'Oh, how lovely!" but as soon as convenient they slip aiound to a jewelry stole and find out its true ulue. Now, tliat 4 young lady has no idea of getting a duplicate. j She took that means of sizing up how much uer dear Ueorge loved her. We aro both ered to death with such visitors." New York Mail aud Express. Advice to Newspaper Contributors. Write only when you have something to nay. and then charge a price for your work. Not the price that you wish to get but that which the overstocked market is likely to pay. And, though Maurice Thom-soii did say: "The waste basket is the true cradle of literary art," do not cradle your own work in jour own basket unless you are quite sure that its ill success is duo to lack of worth rather than to tho fact that you sent it to the wrong stall. Vegetables won't do for boutouuieres, remember, any inorethuu roses will satisfy the pangs of hunger. So send your farm products to the green gro-er's; your crisp facts to the daily press, not to tho magazines. It is so true that ignorance of the section where readers wait to absorb just what you are waiting to print consigns a forceful message from your brain to theirs to an untimely grave in the waste liasket. Ijist, if a manuscript is not satisfactory when completed do not Knd it out, but lay aside until one day you pull it out of its pigeon hole for reperusal. Then to o-wn it will prove either a pretty good thing, or when j-ou come to your well cooled ideas as to a stranger's the ono thing lacking will k at once apprtheuded aud supplied. Make it money's worth aud claim your wages or leave the field for those who are living to work and working to live. Trcbor Ohl in The Journalist. What Might Have Been. Had Pari t seen Helen attempt to shoot a cow out of the back- yard, it is safe to say that the Trojan war would never huvu been waged and Homer would have been obliged to take the Haymarket riot for an epic. Had Anthony seen Cleopatra chase a street car down a dusty avenue of Cairo, it is safe i to state that he would havo fled disen chanted back to Octavia, and tho divorce court lawyer "decree quietly secured; no publicity" would never have made a cent from him. Had Dante seen Beatrice fire a ' half brick at the vandal hen which pros- i pected for seeds in her flower bed every spring, it is again safe to say that he would j havo sent back her notes, her white mouse ; pen wiper, the lava smoking set with "Merry Christmas" painted across the stern, and dis continued that rocky courtship which he sub sequently celebrated in a poem called "The Inferno." Chicago Inter-Ocean. Memorial to III;liluiiil Mary. The memorial of Highland Mary has taken definite shape. It upiears the pro posal originated with the Glasgow Cowal society, who ask the co-operation of all Burns clubs in the erection of a memorial to Highland Mary at her birthplace, Dunoon, in Cowal. The site they have off ered tho rocky ridge of the Castle Hill, between tho road and tho sea is very prominent, and the memorial, when erected, will be seen from a great distance, and all the Clyde steamers will jkiss within a stone's throw of it. The subject and tho site alike demand a handsonio structure. Cleveland Leader. New York and Brooklyn. New York is badly in need of homes, but there is small prospect that any persons, ex cept those of considerable wealth, can ever hope to own homes here. During the last year 4,097 new buildings were projected, of which the average cost was $14,500, exclu sive of tho ground. In Brooklyn :t,05l! build ings were erected at an averag3 cost of $1,750. This marks the difference between tho two cities. Brooklyn becomes more and more a city of homes', while New York be comes a city of millionaires, hotels and apart ment houses. New York News. HEART SERENADE. Eilent as the music of a cloud, I'll not sing my serenade aloud; The uch thine eyes are closrsl In happy Bleep, Well 1 know thy heart its tryst will keep. And will hear flow through the tranquil night, My singing heart, and understand aright Throw a thought of love from thy repose As a wakened maid nu'ght throw a rose. George Birdscye. It is charged that the doctors in the city of Mexico write their prescriptions in cipher, which can only be put up at a certain drug store. A beautiful thought. Justice is the soap suds with which wo wash the flannel shirt of wrong. Idaho Free Press. OUR SEALS AND COINS. A PROTEST AGAINST NATIONAL OUT ! RAGES UPON HERALDIC ART. The Objection of a Venerable Designer. 11 U Keaou Why The Bald-Headed Eagle lu HU Abturd Pones An Appro priate Dovice. "J. Goldsborough Bruff," as he signs himself, has invited the attention of con gress to the "unprecedented irregularities" and "absurdities" of tho heraldic devices adopted for seals and coins by this go em inent. Mr. BrufT explains that owing to a lack of knowledge this government made a foLw start. The art of heraldry was unknown in this country's infancy, he says, and stand ard works were unattainable. "In conse quence thereof the new republic was unable to obtain a proper device for its national signet until July 20. 178"2, and the device then adopted of admirable symbolism, is a baseless fabric, not being blazoned upon an escutcheon or shield, and henco we havo never had a national escutcheon of heraldic arms, unprecedented in tho annals of her aldry. Being thus deprived of that Itasis. the requisite of all heraldic achievements, tho government utilized a subchargo of tho arms proper, nd as popularly denominated the national shield or escutcheon, which it is not nor ever can be." Huviug no genuine escutcheon, no basis or standard to start with, this government has gradually collected an accumulation of designs which Mr. Bruff characterizes as "ranging from indifferent and peculiar to absurd." He goes on to say: "All nations of the civilized world savo our own have enstumied upon their gold and silver coinage the true heraldic arms of their individual sovereignty, and with strict numismatic propriety exclude irrelevant, fanciful ideas. 'Tho American bald eaglo' is displayed in every conceivable attitude and position, aud degenerated to numerous species of the United States mint genius. FREE AND EASY ART. "Tho peculiar style of distributing tho elements of the national arms over the faces of the coin, including mottoes and legends unregardful of significant propriety, is a re markable art exhibition of the genius of our free institutions. Compare the dignified propriety represented in the devices upon some of the earlier coinage: Observe, a classic bust with legend 'Liberty,' and re verse, tho national arms as adopted, which compare with the handsome female head filleted 'Liberty,' though crowned with grain, etc., as if aiso to represent the god dess Ceres or Abundance, doubtless a multi fold genius, as tho motto overhead would in- ( timute, 'E pluribus unum.' Upon close ex amination a sumll cap is seem amid tho ' redundant ringlets, apirently falling olf. Reverse, a crucified eagle (severely) 'dis played,' minus 'the escutcheon on his breast,' or the eagle volant (without its appropriate motto, Exce!io- ) As though disgusted with his vicissitude and general bad treat ment by the luling poweis he has discarded his 'shield of tho Union,' olive branch and three arrows (typical wesupMsdof thirteen) and ascends to the starry regions of purity and truth. (The square, heavy jierspectivo is good, but why extend his legs, as storks and herons do?) THE MAO EARLE. "In another issue an enraged eaglo has discovered the discarded 'American shield' prostrate in the weeds, aud having picked up the arrows aud branch (lounces upon tho debased escutcheon, defiantly warning off the despoilers. Mottoes become legends, and legends mottoes. The Goddess of Lib erty, duly labeled, rests her.--If uj)ii a rock, with staff aud cap and escutcheon, but looks back apprehensive of some mishap. This is another phase of the ever varying obverse. Reverse of which may Ik.- ono variety (there are several of them) of the lame eagle: dexter wing horizontally ex tended, and sinister, or left, nearly cloved and vertical, and the usual distribution of stars, motto, etc. The latest absurdity, so eminently puritanical, not in keeping with the times, unauthorized by enactment, is tho Gothic legend between the wins of the cru cified eagle of 'In God we trust.' "Our patriotic fathers put their trast in God and kept their powder dry. Oliver Cromwell had engraved uion some bronze guns 'Teach us to shower forth thy prai-e, O. Lord.' Too lengthy for our coin, but so applied more beneficent in diffusion of wealth. The most appropriately consistent device for embellishment of the coin of our country would be obverse: A bust of tho laureatcd head of the Father of His Coun try", with motto of Lilierty. Reverse: Tlie precise heraldic arms of the United States of America, and no other stellar ornament than the constellation crest, and no other legend than the title, value and date, and motto of arms. Such would be creditable to our nationality, and place us among tho most favored nations of Christendom." G lobe-Democrat. HIRING FURNISHED HOUSES. What They Cost In New York Duriajr the Winter Season. No European city has better hotels than ours, and foreign tourists have been long used to spending time and money in them. Now they aro coming to demand greater home comforts, and of course, at greater cost; but cost is about the last thing to bo considered when a rich man is m search of tho pleasures of life and travel. But the cus tom of hiring furnished houses in Now York for the winter season is growing, and it is said by a well known real estate agent in this city that more uptown mansions have been let by their rich owners this winter than ever liefore. In renting a furnished house for from four to six mouths in tho winter every thing is included in tho furnishings except linen, silver plate and fine china. Delicate bits of bric-u-brac are commonly put away by tho owners, because tenants prefer to lw free from tho care of them und without re sjionsibility for their .safety. Tho causes w Inch bring these fashionable und elegantly funiNhed houses into tho market for a part of tho year are various. Many New York families send their winters in EurojK.'. Sometimes a death in tho family makes it desimhlo to look for rest and change of sur roundings in travel. Again, Washington is developing a fasluoiiable social bet in tho winter, and many New York families repair thither for tho time and let their homo mansions. In this way they aro relieved of the care of their houses, and the cost of tho winter's travel is reduced, if not, in fact, quite offset. Many well known New York families do themselves live in furnished houses in the winter und sjwnd their bummers in travel abroad. It ccst.-i no more than to maintain an establishment all the year round ami live in it, and tho arrangement has many ad vantages to those who love to roam. Tho demand for elegantly furnished houses in fashionable neighborhoods begins early in the autumn aud lasts until about tho middle of December, tho lest customer.! usually coming at tho last lecause they stay in the country as late as jios.-ible, know ing that, as they aro willijig to pay almost any price, they aro sure of getting a house when they want it. For jeriods of from four to six mouths rentals range from 500 to $1,000 a month for a very elegantly furui-hrd house, und in the spring tho temporary ten ant has but to pack aud store his silver and linen, and take flight for tho country or sea side. New York Sun. Loan as an Orator. Gen. Logan never had either tho habits or the tastes of a student. He was thoroughly posted on war topics and political hbtory, but seldom reading anything except tho newspapers and poetry, of which ho was very fond. He could recite many cf the plays cf Shakespeare from memory, and tho poems of Macaulay, with their martial measures, were his favorites in verse. He was fond of Burns, also, and recited his lines frequently. H was by no means an illiterate man, for be had a good education for the days in which ho lived, aud graduated at a Kentucky col lege. His carelessness in speech gave him tho reputation of being a poor grammarian, but he could have corrected his own manu script if he had chosen. Mrs. Logan always revised his written seeches, not because ho was not able to do it, but because ho pre ferred that sho should. Perhaps tlie best specimen of his oratory was an address ho delivered at the dedication of the monument to Gen. Mcl'hcrsou in this city in 1S7S, and it was really a line production. He wrote tho most of it in encil wln'Ie on his way from Chicago to Washington on tho cars, and after his arrival he shut himself up in his room all night revising the manuscript. Mrs. I,ogau was uot with him on this occa sion, and she never saw the speech until it appeared in print Now York Sun. l'osftibto Cuiisck of Discontent. It is tho little kindness it is the little cruelty that makes and mars all the human relations. It is the iersonal interest it is the iiorsonal neglect out of which the uni versal order of disorder grows. Who knows how far the public discontent has been fed by tliat 10,000 span with which you drove past houses from whoso windows invalids too Ioor to buy tho air of heaven watched you daily? How far will it bo affected by tho cost of her toilet, as reported by th-a Monday re ception, of which tho titarviug wives of drowned fishermen will read in tho local paper on Saturday night? How far by tho washerwoman whom I forgot to pay Or tho shop girl to whom you refused tho chance to sit down from dawn to dark? Or the hcanistres-s whom wo underpaid? Or tho sick clerk to whom wo gave no vacation? Or the tramp to whom wo were surly? Or the old fellow selling tissue iaper flowers on whom wo cast a look of disgust or contempt? Somewhere tho hurrying life has driven too fast around a corner. Somewhere some body's rights or sensibilities havo been run over. Somewhere somewhere there has come "the little jolt." Elizabeth Stuart Phelps in Courier-Journal. A Famous Lithographer' Meginiilnj;. I quite often encounter in the street the father of the American Christmas card. Mr. Louis Prang divides his time pretty equnlly between Boston and Now- York. He is a halo and energtic elderly gentleman, whoso busy bruin is constantly conceiving new ideas full of credit ami profit to their origi nator. In I860 ho was a small lithographer in Boston. H had an establishment that did not earn a living for him. He had no capital but his intelligence, and that made his fortune. When the war broke out he published a map of tho oeniug of the camKiign, and it sold as fat as ho could print it. Ilcmudo a great deal of money on war ma)., und got into chromo lithography as his means im proved. When dull times came instead of discharging his aitists uud pi inters ho -tt them to work on novelties for whh h ho n.aJo a market. The fiist chromo ot anv ahi3 published in America .amo trom his press. They lepioduced picture-, by famous artists. Ho risked thousands in thesv ventures, und though he suffered heavy looses his gains were proportionately great. He grew with tho time. Ho improved lithography in every direction, and ho is to day tho master in that art of the whole world. - Alfred Trumblo in New Yoik News. Taking Dispatcher Typewriter. "The system of taking dispatches by tho typewriting machine," said un old teleg rapher yesterday, "is proving a great suc cess. By the new process tho cap-u-ity of u wire is increased 25 ier -ent., thus enabling the comiiany to jierform greater feats of tele graphing than ever liefore It takes somo time for the operator to leai n how to manip ulate tho machine with Mitiicient sjiovd to keep jaco with a good 'sender,' but when ha once masters the thing ho can jcrforiii 25 ler cent, more work than ho can with in or stylus, and perform it, too, with far less exertion uud inentul strain. So export havo somo of the ojierutors lecoino that a great deal of press matter is ent in abbreviated form for no other reason than that the sender cannot whoop' the stuff through fast enough by tho old process to kvp the re ceiver at his knitting. There isn't a sender living who can 'put it up tho Kick' ot tho expert typewriter artist." Chicago Herald. News ItfiuH from the Holy l.aiil. Tho introduction of soap, it is said, is doing much to civilize tho peopleof the Holy lmd. A large soap factory has been established n the site of nncieiit Shechem, and tho jieoplo are ltegiuniug to use it on their crous in stead of trying to eat it, as they did at first. Along with tho introduction of soap other reforms aro going on. Bethlehem has been rebuilt, ami tho streets aro lighted with j;as. Cesenra is having n building boom. Naze reth is becoming tho heiulquurters of big olive oil speculators. Corner lots in Joppa are u)iug up with a rush, aud real estate in Mount Carmel is largely held by speculators for an advance. AM around Shechem there is a lively demand for good soapfut, aud tho sleepy inhabitants of lvamoth Gilead think of building a glue factory. Jerusalem is waking up also. It has a street cleaning bureau, big clocks on its public buildings, and its suburls aro living built up rapidly. Even in tho vale of Gehenna the price of land has gone up. Chicago Herald. Charles Francis Adams. The late Mr. Charles Francis Adams was certainly one of the most successful and tho most respected of the representatives that America has ever sent to St. James', and ho won his success ami tho rosiect of the Eng lish jeopIe at a time of eiuliar difficulty. Perhaps the mot famous episode in Mr. At lams' career was the occasion when he wrote to Lord Russell to protest against tho departure from un English jrt of iron rams built in tho Confederate interest. Ho wrote and wrote again warning Lord Russell of tho imminent dciarturo of the rams. At last when they were about to sail he wrote once more, jointing out tho fact, and add ing: "It would Ikj superfluous in motooint out to your lordship that this is war." Tho rams did not jail, and the friendship be tween England and America was strength ened by tho incident. Whitehall Review. What the Motto Meant. Years ago one of tho masters in the High school of Edinburgh had the reputation of punishing unmercifully the boys whose par ents wore comparatively jxxn- and being at tho same timo very lenient toward tho sons of the richer classes. One day, after severely thrashing ono of tho unfortunates, ho wound up with tho exclamation: "Now, sir, you're a stupid fellow. I don't suppose you even know tho Latin motto of this school." "Yes, sir, I do." "Well, what Is it?" "Nisi dominus frustra." "Now give tho English of that." "Unless you are a laird's son you needna come here." r.asy to do Itlght. The Count do Beaujoaucy, who teaches French for "amusement" and a high con sideration, is vory thin and very pious. He WC3 seen coming out of Mgr. l'restxi'a church the other day by Joe Howard. "It's very easy for him to do right," said tho veteran journalist, "wo havo the world, tho devil and the flesh to fight; ho has tho ouly tho world aud tho devil." A Congressman's Last Words. The last words of tho late ex-Representative William Kimmcl, of Maryland, were, "I am nearing port, but fear not the break ers; the captain is aboard and all is well." Wolves are very numerous in the Tezaa Panhandle. National Bank! OF COLUMBUS. NEB. -HAH AN Authorized Capital of $250,000, A Surplus Fund of - $20,000, And the lurgcxt Paid im Cask Capital f any ban in tins part of the state. JSDeoiti rect-iird und intert'i-t paid on tiniedeptMitit. CsJ""Drafti on t!n princ ipd cilii in lliix coun try and Europe Uxight and mM. WColloetioiiK aud all otlior hiiMncrM given prompt anil careful att.nliou. STOCKliol.nritH. A.ANDKKHUN, Prra't. HKKMAN . II.OKllI.ltlCH. Vice I'reVt. O.T. KOKN. Coiliier. J. V. BECKKK. HEIOIAN OKHLUIOH. tl.SeilUTTK, W. A. .Mi-.UXlSTKrt. JONAS WELCH. JOHN W. KAMA. 1. ANDKKSON (I. ANPEKSON. KOHKltT UHLlo. t'AKL KELNKe! Apr'.X-'NStf giiziness ;trds. D.T. MumN, 31. 1). F. J. Scum. 31. 1). Dre. KAETYK & SCHUG, U. S. 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