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ohmbm jmmtal y vol. xvin -NO. 14. COLTJMBTJS, NEB., WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 1887. WHOLE NO. 898. m ba?1 COLUMBUS STATE BANK. COLUMBUS, NEB. Cash Capital $75,000. DIRECTORS: LtfAKDER GKRRARI). Pres't. GEO. W. HULST, Vioe PresX JULIUS A. KEED. K. H. HENRY. J. E.TASKKR. Cashier. Ba.sk ef lepealt IMttronai d. EichaiKC. '5UectteBH Promptly Made o mil PelatM. Pay latercMt on Time Iepos Itsu 274 COLUMBUS Savings Bank, LOAN & TRUST COMPANY. Capital Stock, 8100,000. OFFICERS: A. ANDERSON, Pres't. O. W. 8HELDON, Vice Pros't. O. T. ROEN. Trww. ROBERT UILUG, Soc "Will roooive time deposits, from $1.00 and any amount upwards, and -will pay tho cus tomary rata of interest. o CPWe particularly draw"yonr attention to onr facilities for making loans on real estate, at the lowert rate of interest- &rCitj, School and County Bond, and in diTidoal Hecnritiee are bought. lCjune'&iy FOR THE CALL ON A.&M.TURNER Or O. W. HIRLRR, W1I.IJM K1BLEK, Traveling: Nalcvmea. 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For circulars, advice, terms and to actual clients in your own state or (to OspoaWa Patent itbsseeTWasMnttofiTD! 'C. aaBlViflC cW3kIHCQ WESTERN COTTA&E ORGAN --C jrT-''- ai aaaamssr Zvl. aaMawT THE COLDEST COUNTRY. WHAT LIEUT. SCHEUTZE SAYS OF THE LENA DELTA COUNTRY. How the YaJcata Manage to Keap Warm la Northwestern Siberia. Hata and Their FUtalness Food sad Clothing. Eating Batter. Lieut W. H. Scheutre, of the navy, who was sent to the Lena delta ia northwestern Siberia to deliver to the natives gifts from the government of the United States to repay them for the aid they rendered him In bis search for the missing members of the Jean nette party, says in his report that the town of Verovusk, Siberia, is the coldest inhabited spot in the world.' The thermometer stood at eighty-six below zero when he was there, and he says it seldom goes above fifty below. I asked him the other day what the people did who lived atthia blissful spot; what they had to eat and how they liked it "Why," he replied, "they think it Is a pretty good sort of climate. 'Home, Sweet Home,' is the song ail the world over, and if the Ver ovuskers should come here they would won der what people did where it is so infernally hot They would another in this climate, and pine for a stiff northwesterly arctic gale. It is wonderful the amount of cold human flesh can endure. The natives of Terra del Fuego go stark naked the year round, and in their country It freezes every night It is much colder in tho Lena delta, yettha peo ple manage to keep comfortable, and mora die of amaSpox and scurvy than front the effects of the intense cold. Yon seldom hear of any one freeatag to death, and then it to those only who expose themselves impru dently who die in that way. More people aro frozen to death in the United States than in Siberia. HOW TO KEKF WAHX. "But how do they manage to keep wannl" "Well, in the first place the Yakuts are an enduring race and are born in that climate. Then they dress in furs, and have learned from their ancestor, or from their own ex perience, how to keep warm. Their houses are bunt of logs, smeared over on the outside and "'ri with manure and mud. In each cabin is a large fireplace, which is used for both heating and cooking. There is etMam more than one room in these oabins, and usually the owner's cattle, if bo has any, oc cupy one end cf the room in which he lives, being tied, or prevented from trampling on the babies by a bar. The houses are com monly very comfortable, but are awfully dirty, and smell there is no word to describe it Often, until I got used to it, I would rather lie down in the snow outside, with the thermometer fifty below zero, than sleep in one of these huts. But you've no idea what a man " stand when he baa to." "Have they windows in their housesr "Yes; ice windows. They use ice as we use glass. A clear piece is selected, about five or six inches thick, morticed in the window opening in blocks two feet, and sometimes as large as four feet square, and with water is made solid. The water is as good as putty. When tho window becomes dirty they scrape it off with a knife, and when it has been scraped thin they substitute a new pane." "Doesn't the window ever melt?" "Bless yon, no; it is freezing cold that far from the fire. If the room ever got warm enough to melt the ice the Yakut couldn't live in it, and would have to go out doors to cool off. At night the fire is allowed to go out, as they have to economize in fueL All they have is drift wood, gathered on the banks of the Lena river in the summer time." "How do they sleept Do they undress when they go to bedr "Always. They strip to their shirts, which are made of a thick sort of Russian cloth as heavy as our canvas. The men and women wear the same kind of garments, and never have more than one at a time. I took up a lot of thick flannel for them, enough to last the rest of their lives, and it will be a great deal more comfortable than the native stuff, although they don't like it at first When they undress they get into bunks built in the side of the house sometimes a man, his wife and all his children in the same bunk. They have reindeer skins under and over them, and curtains of the same banging be fore the bunks. The last man or woman to undress hangs all the clothing of the rest out doors over a pole that is kept for the purpose." GITTINQ RXD OF VXBMOT. "What is that forP "Tofreesethe lice. They couldnt live if they didn't do it, and it has becomes national custom. The lice get into the fur and that Is the only way to set them out By hang ing their clothes over the pole every might they can keep reasonably free from them, but the fur fills up again the next day." "Do they ever bather "Never in their lives; they haven't any word for bathing in their language, and the impossibility of keeping clean is one of the greatest hardships of Arctic life." "What do they eatr "Reindeer meat, beef they have cows, queer looking animals, about half as large as ours, with a hummock on their backs like a samel fish, bread made of black rye flour, tea, and imported food made of chopped beef rolled into balls about the siaaof a marble, and covered with a dough. These they pound up and make into soup. Then there is a wood that is very nutritious when it is ground up ami boiled. Mixed with reindeer meat it makes a good soup. They often eat their fish raw. Of course they freeze solid as soon as they aro taken out of the water, and the native, particularly if he is on the road, cuts them off in shavings as thin as our chipped beef and eats them raw. They are palatable, and I have lived for days at a time on them, with a cup of tea made over an al cohol lamp by way of variety. The greatest luxury they have is butter, and they will eat it by the pound as our people eat confection ery. A poor sort of butter is made from the milk of uie native cow, that looks and tastes more like cheese, and they prize it above all other classes of food." "The amount of butter a native will eat when he can get it," continued Lieut Scheutze, "is astonishing. A friend of mine in Siberia told me of a man who ate thirty six pounds in one day, and then didn't get all be wonted, rney nave a way oi ponuaing up a red berry and mixing it with butter, which gives it a beautiful pink tint and im proves the flavor. Their drink is the Russian vodka, almost pure alcohol, and they will trade their shirts for it The liquor is scarce and expensive, so they ere necessarily a tem gerateeople." Percy Drummond in Chicago Inter Ocean. THE SEWERS OF PARIS. A Pleasure Trip Under the Streets of ths Gay Metropolis. Excursions under Paris farm one of the features in the movement for the benefit of the sufferers from the recent floods in France, and the gorgeous sewers are liberally patron ised by the fashionable world. A reporter of Ths Oil Bias gives thte description: "We started from the Place Chatalet at 3 o'clock and descended a little winding stair case, the steps and walk of which wars cov erad with a green cloth fringed by a red bor der. There is not the slightest danger of soil ing your clothes or of encountering the slightest disagreeable odor. On arriving at the foot of the stairs a fine display of fruits and vegetables was ths first thing to great our eyes. These products were from Genne uliers, and were grown" in gardens that are watered by the sewers. We got into a wagon, fee which were stats for twenty per sons. Off ws went, shoved along by solid looking fellows, all neatly dressed. Above as was a mass of tubes and pipes. They are ths water pipes, the two largest containing our drinking water from ths Vaaas and taw water of ths Ourcq, whieh is used for washing ths streets and sidewalk. Than there ars the pneumitio tubes. In which we can hear the rattle of ths dispatch boxes as they shoot along. "flsddenly ws heard ths passengers laths wagon ahead of us uttering cries of admira tion. We were under the Has dsBivoli, but soon we reached the srosttag of the Roe du Pont Nest This tunnel is lighted from end to and with garlands of colored lampa The effect k fairylike. Ths same effect to repro- i duced under ths Ras da Louvre, ths Rue de Richelieu and tasFIaos des Pyramides, where precisely under ths statue of Joan of Arc ap pear in luminous glass ths arms of ths city of Paris. Ws passed along, still following the Rue de BlroU, where each house has its num ber la the sewer, Just as in ths street, until we reached ths Place de la Concorde. There the electric fights, erasing their fires with ths re flections of ths Venetian lamps, turn the square into a sort of ball room. Nothing is wanting, not even the music. Ws all got out of the wagons to embark in large boats fur nished with cushioned seats. Ths music was in the first boat, which was decorated with flags and lamps. Ths boats were started. We followed the entire routs of the Rue Royals by ths light of fifty dascling electric lights. "After a quarter of an hour m this boat ws landed at the foot of a staircase, whtoa we mounted, and m three minutes ws were above ground at La Madeleine. It to much colder in ths sUeess than it was ia ths sew ers, where the temperature, summer and winter, is always uniformly pleasant" New York Sun. Table Land of Tennessee. There are peculiarities of climate that are not easily accounted for. Perhaps were any one of them to be left out. the charm would be gone, but altogether make it a marvelous place. The altitude ia but a little over 2,000 feet, but there is such a delightful breeze sweeping over the plateau, uninterrupted (by surrounding heights, .that no vestige of malaria could possibly lurk there. Then the water, while limpid and pure as spring water can possibly be, is strongly Impregnated with the minerals that underlie the mountains. If there is disease of any kind in the system, these waters will bring it to the surface, either in the form of boils or a fine eruption, which is not agreeable at the time, but which leave the patient well at last It must be the cfimate and water combined that do this, for until a few years past the diet was cer tainly adverse to health, being confined to bacon and corn bread. With the new civili zation, all the comforts and manners of the outer world have crept in, and as wjjd game abounds, the table need never be limited. In deed, I think the menu of a supper fgiven there a few weeks ago would compare favor ably with any one in our larger towns, be ginning with oysters and ending with Nea politan cream. Cor. New York Sun. Organised Charity la Chicago. The Provident wood yard is an institution for the confusion and discomfiture of tramps. It is in charge of a stonyhearted young fol low named McAuliff. It to under the direc tion of the Charity Organization society, and is self-supporting. When a tramp asks a charity organiser for help the charity or ganizer refers him to the central office and the central office sends him to the Provident wood yard. When he gets there Mr. Mc Auliff helps him to a bucksaw and a few large bundles of wood and shows him how to saw for a living. The tramp saws may be half an hour, and then goes on a strike, curs ing charity organisations and monopolies in I general, and the man who invented a buck saw in particular, cut u ne sucks to work for two hours or so, until he has one-sixth of a cord of wood sawed into kindling, he earns a ticket which is good for a 10 cent meal or a 10 cent lodging. Then, when he has walked two mile or ao to the satin house and gorged himself on what his ticket calls for, be has received a good practical lesson in ths virtue and reward of honest toil. Chicago Tribune. Queer Funeral of aa Epicurean. A funeral of an extraordinary character took place in Yorkshire, when Mr. J. 8. Broderick, a well known follower of Epicurus, of Haws, in North Yorkshire, was buried. The interment took place in the deceased gen tleman's own land at Spring End, on the top of a bill. Mr. Broderick, who believed in the transmigration of souk, bad directed that no minister of religion should attend bis burial, and that no religious ceremony of any kind should be performed over his remains. Tho funeral, therefore, was almost of a unique description. The procession had to pass over Stagef ell, one of the spurs of the Pennine range, and as ths road was blocked in places over twelve feet deep with snow drifts the mourners had a most difficult task. The im mediate place of sepulchre was very rocky. It had been chosen by tho deceased gentle man, and Masting operations had to be car ried on during the whole of two days to com plete the grave, wBSch to nearly twenty feet bdow the surface. Pall Mall Gazette. Dinners la Large Cities. Dinners in New York, in London, in Wash ington, in Philadelphia, in perhaps all large cities, ars conducted on debt paying prin ciples, and therefore they grow very dulL Not that people desire Sdecorous pleasure, hut they get bored to death by gilded and overburdened splendor. Almost all hard working men in America are dyspeptic and only look at their hands during the three or four last courses. Two people ars brought together, perhaps, who have never met be fore. They have positively no subject in common. To relieve this awkward moment, to raise the dull, depressing cloud which set tles over the jaded senses, what better that an ingenious dinner card, with a quotation from Shakespeare or a few lines of original poetry f Here at least is an opening wedge, a text, a beginning, a subject of common interest It is worth a world to an anxious hosteaa. To see her guests thus amused, introduced, and put at their ease at once to worth much money. Mrs. John Sherwood in New York World. A Congressman's Troubles. Ahram 8. Hewitt, the new mayor of New York, when he was in congress, hired the up per story of one of the houses of Wormley, the colored caterer. He had three bedrooms. and it was his custom to go from one to the other in the hope of finding sleep in tho sec ond or third which he failed to find in the first The first night he was tormented by dogs. He complained, and Wormley re moved them. The next night, in bedroom No. 2, be found that the cats kept him awake, and he came down next morning and growled about them to Wormley. The third day he had a complaint to make about the birds, and Wormley was in despair. He said: "Mr. Hewitt, I have killed ths dogs and I have hopes of getting rid of all the cats, but the birds are beyond me." Ths matter was finally compromised. Mr. Hewitt to said to have bought up and killed all the cats and dogs in his present neighborhood. Ben: Parley Poors in Boston Budget. Life Insaraaoe by Telegraph. A Chicago merchant decided to surprise his wife by presenting bar with a $20,000 policy on his life; but be neglected to apply for the policy until ths day bsf ore Christmas. Then he was told that the application and the report of the medical examiner would be sent to ths New York office, and the policy would come back in a few days. This wouldn't do. The merchant suggested telegraphing. The medical examiner was sent for, his report and the application was telegraphed to this dry, and in less than six boars from the time of application the report was accepted in Nsw York and the policy received ia Chicago. This to said to be ths first traasactioa of ths kind. Nsw York Sua. A Disk for ths Shaku The shah of Persia and his wives were re ported some time ago to bs greatly delighted with a new dish prepared for them by a Viennese cook. Investigation showed that the new dish was nothing ska than simple Viennese rolls. Chicago Herald. VALENTINE'S DAY. HOW A BISHOP'S NAME CAME TO BE PERPETUATED. Ths Vulgar Valentine and Xta Baas Usee. A Weapon la Vogne with the Coward ly and Vile Demons of Spite School boys' Opportunity. The revenges of time aro very peculiar. There was Bishop Valentine. See what he was made to suffer for nearly 2,000 years. It was about 1,026 years ago that he was foully set upon, arrested, beaten with clubs, and finally beheaded. This was, to say the least, very harsh treatment of an elderly and respectable prelate. He had aroused local feeling in some way, of course, or all this would not have happened. But how! Many believe to this day that he was the author of the practice of sending love messages on Fob. 14, and that his punishment was not incommensurate with his crime. But history exonerates him from so serious a charge. Ths poor old man had nn pnpfdXL experiences that any one ever heard of. His offense was no worse than befriending the Christian martyrs in the persecution of Claudius IL On Feb. 14, 270, he was be headed. After that event some of his friends set about doing him honor. Pope Julius built a church to perpetuate his memory near Ponto Molle. "The heathens," as the Christians called them, were in the habit of having a festival on Feb. 15. The boys drew the names of girls in honor of their goddess, Februata Juno. In order to abolish this cus tom several zealous pastors substituted tho names of saints in billets given on this day, Feb. 14. So Dr. Valentino's name got started as belonging' to this day, and it was no time till the world was ready to give him the credit of the whole business. There was, however, no connection between the good man and the custom of St Valentine's day as it has been known ever since. It to sup posed to be of pre-Christian origin. DEQEA1RATE FESTIVAL. In a very modern work the 14th of Feb ruary is described as a "degenerate festival," upon which "jocular anonymous letters aro sent to persons whom one wishes to quiz, and these chiefly by the humbler people. Maid servants and young fellows interchange such epistles with each other, no doubt conceiving that the joke is amazingly good." This is a very tame description of the de generate side of 8t Valentine's day. In the vulgar valentine Love's mortal enemy. Hate, is represented. The other side of the story has a hearing. Originally Momus had a hand In it, but the returns became too heavy for him and he fled the field, leaving it to all the little demons of spite, revenge, envy and jeal ousy. The coward who wants to hurt some body and not bo known as striking the blow finds a weapon all ready to his hand in the vulgar valentine. He sends it and then sits down and laughs over the rage of the re ceiver, as ho pictures it In his mind. He fan cies that he has perpetrated the most uproari ous joke. It is a one-legged joke, and he owns tho leg, but that doesn't disconcert him. Men of cruel and low instincts have always laughed at the wounds they have inflicted upon others. There are still living persons who find cause for mirth in pulling a chair from under another person. Ideas of humor keep pace with the intellect The fun a boor expires over would be only gross and unpar donable rudeness to a gentleman. About this time the landlady of the board ing house gets a very large maiL She sees herself and her table, her daughter, her dress and her tastes caricatured without mercy. 8be knows that tbese printed and painted in sults emanate most likely from the men and women who sit at her table, but she is not in a position to escort them through the street door and tell them never to return. She feels these knives of malice very keenly, but she pockets her wrath and says nothing. COWARDS' VAKTAOK GBOUXD. Unmarried women in their thirties are blessed on St Valentine's day with numer ous coarse reminders of their years. Pictures of hideous hags are sent them as gentle hints that their youthful charms have departed; or they are represented as flinging nooses at every male creature they see. These polite offerings emanate from coarse minded rivals, or snubbed beaux of no particular decency of thought School teacbess are apt to get plenty of sealed envelopes on St Valentino's day. Many a small boy nurses his grudge patiently until the dreadful time comes round, and then unloads his pent up wrath by means of villainous lampoons, whose depravity he isnt even large enough to understand. It may be that a day devoted to exchanging insults is a necessity with a low order of mind. Otherwise the ebullitions might be more fre quent At all events, the day viewed as a vantage ground for cowards to mail lam poons to those they either envy or hate has become Important enough to establish a trade in its vile merchandise. Flash news stands drive a lively business for a fortnight before St Valentine comes round. The person who stands in need of a particularly incisive lam poon to send to his enemy can find one ready made and colored to his hand. The authors of these fearful documents have left no body unprovided for. They have the list of types of men and women made up with a complete ness that savors of genius. And they have brought printed insults down within the reach of the humblest and poorest For five cents one can get a valentine of the most in cisive and offensive description. Thk is no trade that caters to the rich. Anybody with a nickel ahead can treat his rival or his enemy, or even his benefactor, to a pang of discomfort Attacks on one's self-respect are thus made so cheap that anybody's enemy can arm himself with one or more of them. Gkbtbcde Garrison. A SADLY DUPED EMPEROR. A Curious Story Concerning Napoleon III and a Contract. I was lately told by a southern gentleman a very curious story, going to prove how thoroughly duped and deceived was Napoleon HI at the close of his reign, and how gigan tic were the frauds and peculations then being carried on by the imperial officials. This gentleman's father had been on intimate terms with Louis Napoleon when he resided in the United States, and the future emperor had often been his guest on his plantation in Louisiana. My friend was traveling in Eu rope in the year 18G9, and on arriving in Paris, and wishing to be presented to the em peror, whom he well remembered as having, when a boy, seen at his father's house, be wrote to one of the imperial chamberlains, setting forth his desire, and also the facts of the case. The emperor, whose kindly feel ings for the friends of his adversity was well known, at once granted him a private inter view. The French sovereign and the American citizen conversed long and pleasantly, and when the latter arose to take his leave Napo 2on asked him as to his next point of destina tion. "I am on my way to England, sire," was the reply. "Then," said the emperor, "I wish you would go to the establishment of Messrs. M , the great gunmakers, and ask them how the order sent them from our war office for 250,000 guns to progressing. They ought to be nearly completed by this time." The American undertook the commission, and called as requested at the office of the firm. The clerk to whom he first addressed his ques tion simply laughed in his face. "You must be out of your senses," ha said. "Such an order has never been given and the guns do not exist" My countryman became in dignant, and insisted upon seeing one of the members of the firm. Mr. M -, the senior partner, was summoned, but could only con firm the statement of the clerk. "I assure you, sir," he said, courteously, "that ws have never received an order of any kind from ths French government for ao much as a single gun." Yet these guns had been paid toi, though unordered and non-existent A strik ing proof was this incident of the vast pecu lations that took place during the later years of the empire. My friend forwarded a state ment of the facts to Napoleon III, but doubt less all precautions had been taken to prevent any such information from reaching the de luded sovereign, whose bright days were then fast drawing to their close. Paris Cor. Phila delphia Telegraph. Need of a Written Code. If a written code were enacted we should be able to set an example to foreign aristo crats, who baso precedence on real rank and defend it as a part of a system, a necessary adjunct of nobility. We could show that 'it may bo founded on tho most short lived grandeur or unsubstantial consequence; that it requires neither distinction, nor character, nor attainment, nor ago, which in certain spheres are supposed to be reasons for social deference but only rotation in office. Like logo's purse, " twas mine, 'tis yours, and may be slave tojtbousanda." But above all we could definitely extend precedence to wives. The English, whom I I mention because they are so generally ac knowledged as models for our social study the F.ngl h scorn the idea of a prime minis ter s wife having rank because of the official position of her husband. Mrs. Gladstone fol lowed every peeress in the land when Mr. Gladstone was at the head of the govern ment; and even the wife of the archbishop of Canterbury goes behind tho wife of an in ferior bishop who happens to be noble by birth. But we would give tho wife of a judge precedenco forever over tho wife of a senator, and entitle tho wife of a cabinet member to tho first visit from every Ameri can woman not in the government Then there would be no inoro New Year's disputes at he White House. No one could ask: "Whogavo these ladies tho place they de mand?" or "To what office wero they elected or appointed!" As it is, theso questions ore embarrassing, and the ladies should be re liovod. Tho rank of the widows would of course be determined, and tho ploco of the sous of senators and the sons' wives. There is a mighty task before the legislators, and, I fear, a still mightier before the political ora tors. Adam Bodeau in New York World. Boston Girl on a Toboggan. The Boston girl is herself on a toboggan, as everywhere else. In the first placo she modi fies and subdues the costume to suit her own personality. The wild eccentricities of the St Paul or the Montreal maiden are tamed by her to a charm as delusive and delightful as herself. The Boston girl does not take up toboggan ing because it is a craze, nor because of its possibilities of picturesqueneu and effective ness, as the New York girl does. Sho accepts it as one of the developments cf the progress of this last quarter of tho century, and goes into it with concentration and tho certain charming seriousness which is a part of her way of looking at everything. Sho is con scious first and last and always that all pleas ures are elusive and fleeting, but sho sees the philosophical beauty of change, and accepts tobogganing as she will presently accept whatever other good tho gods send her iu the way of fun. Tho Boston girl makes her own suit and gets up a gay little costume at a cost of f3 or $10, which would cost at least half as much again in the stores. Then she goes forth to Cambridge or Corey Hill or some other on chanting suburban slide and enjoys the moon light and the fun, and if she catches cold from overoxerciso or from getting tipped over into the snow she goes home and mindcures the cold away and comes forth the next day brighter and more self-confident than ever, with a new flush of pink arbutus for her deli cate face. Boston Record. Fainting; Still Life. I used to know a Frenchman who boasted that he could make money go further than any one alive. Ha was a dexterous painter of still life, and one of his favorite subjects was a sack of guineas and a package of bank notes lying on a desk with an account book and the trappings of a cashier's dok. He painted this picture over and over again, and got high prices for every replica he made. The original money had been loaned to him by the picture dealer for whom he bad painted the first picture. Now he has enough of his own to make studies from. We have in New York a very similar genius. He is also a painter of still life, and his microscopically accurate transcription of a 5 greenback, supposed to be mucilaged to an ebony panel, has been decided by the gov ernment to come under the head of a danger ous counterfeit He makes his money go farther than my Gallic friend, I fancy, for he can sell one of his $5 bills for $500, while it took some thousands of pounds of the Frenchman's manufacture to command as much. The painting of still life takes some curious turns, by the way. Portraits of men and beasts are common enough. Last week a musical enthusiast brought to a painter of my acquaintance a commission to paint him a picture which should include a portrait of his pet Stradivarius. The fine old fiddle is now in progress of pictorial immortalization, as the center of a composition which includes a music book, a rose in a glass and a tankard of Rhine wine. Alfred Trumble in New York News. Bismarck's Admirable Notion. Prince Bismarck is noted, at least, for his practical ideas, as may be shown by a recent circular he issued to ail the officers of his de partments commanding the adoption of a plain signature to all documents submitted for his inspection. This is an admirable no tion that might be utilized in other countries, as instanced by a very amusing incident that occurred recently at a session of the Flint towu council. One of the items for considera tion was a letter received by the mayor from the Prince of Wales relative to the celebration of her majesty's jubilee. The mayor read the letter and his reply. Ho said he had been un able to decipher tho signature to the royal letter, and consequently in sending back his reply to Marlborough house ho imitated the signature as nearly as ho could. The letter found its way to the dead letter office, where the imitation signature was deciphered as "Albert Edward." On bringing greater mag nifying power to bear upon the original sig nature he found that it really was "Albert Edward." The statement was received with great laughter, and the suggestion was made, that in future the priro sa. !d lie more care ful of his P's and Q's, clts,. those letters are conspicuous by their absence in the prince's signature. San Francisco Chronicle. A Prlte for an Answer. The Berlin Weekly Echo offers a prize of twenty marks for the briefest and wittiest answer to the following conundrum: A young spendthrift who is able to borrow money only because his affianced has promised to pay his debts after the wedding, falls into a river to gether with her before the wedding has taken place, and both are on the point of being drowneo. A miserly creditor of the young man happens to pass, jumps into the water and saves whom and why? A New Marriage ltltnal. Tho Marquis of Qtieensberry, who is be ing sued for divorce, once proposed to substi tute in the marriage ritual of tho English church for the words: 'Whom God hath joined together let no man put asunder" the words "Whom tho government or nature may put asunder let no man attempt to keep together." Chicago Tribune. Lengthened Hla Days. "Stop smoking," said a Boston doctor to on ailing patieut the other day, "and it will lengthen your days." The patient stopped. The doctor's prediction was verified. The first day the patient declares was as long as hto whole previous Mfe. Boston Transcript A GREAT INDUSTRY. UTILIZING A PRODUCT WHICH SOUTH ERN FARMERS ONCE THREW AWAY. Millions to Be Made Oat of Cotton Seed. A Fertilizer and Stock Food Extrac tion of ths Oil Tho Poaalblo Futare. Stripping Lint from the Seed. For nearly a century the southern farm ers destroyed their cotton seed. One of the farm problems was how to get rid of it A few years ago somebody discovered that cotton seed was the one perfect fertilizer for tho cotton lands; that the seed held tho essential elements that the cotton crop took from the soiL Then everybody was ashamed of having destroyed the seed for so many generations. Slowly but surely every ton was utilized as a fertilizer. Later some body discovered that it was an excellent food for stock. Then the farmers began feeding with it Along in '70 an objection wasfoindto cotton seed as a fertilizer and stock food. It was too rich. The excess of oil in the seed prevented quick decomposition in the soil, and made tho wool of sheep too kinky. At the some time somebody discovered that tho objectionable oil would sell well in mar ket, so the first cotton seed oil mill was es tablished. The industry was immensely profitable, and in less than, five years 150 oil mills sprang up in the south. AN ENORMOUS INDUSTRY. A ton of cotton seeds yields forty gallons of oil, worth in its crude state $10. The hulls of the seed are used as fuel to run the f ir naco, and the ashes thereof sold for potash, and cotton seed meal stripped of itsoil is more valuable to the farmer as a fertilizer aud stock food than it was when it held tho oil. This season 500,000 tons of cotton seed have gone through the nulls, from which o,000,000 worth of crudo oil has been taken. Tho meal cake returned to tho soil without the oil has lost nothing, while tho south has gained $5,000,000. Tho crude oil, however, is ronfied, which quadruples its value. It is sold mostly for export, and returns to America as olive oil. The mills pay the farmer about $10 a ton for cotton seed, three tons of which will moke ono ton of cotton meal, which thoy sell back to the farmer for $18 for fertilizing or feeding purposes. Now, see the progress. Twenty years ago cotton seed was burned or destroyed on south ern farms. Then it began to be used as a fertilizer or stock food. Last year $o,000, 000 worth of crude oil was taken out of 500, 000 tons of seed without injuring its value for other purposes, which oil was refined up to a value of perhaps $20,000,000. This enormous industry, which as yet treats but 500,000 tons out of 3,000,000 tons of the full crop of cotton seed, has lately at tracted the attention of northern capitalists, it is said, especially tho Standard Oil com pany, and a remarkable company has been formed. Last season produced acid seed, very unfavorable for oil purposes. Tho mills, which had been making immense profits, lost money. Several of them applied to New York for money. Others were offered for sale. Tho American Cotton Oil Trust was organized. A score of mills were pooled, and agents of the company went to buying up until out of the 150 oil mills in tho country the company owns about 126. T'lese nulls represent a cash value of $3,000,000. Tho stock of tho com pany is $35,000,000. It is listed in tho New York Stock Exchange, and is now selling at about CO, so fiat tho $3,000,000 worth of mill property now has a selling value of $21,000,000. THK POSSIBILITIES. The possible expansion of this business is startling. Less than one-sixth of tho an nual supply of cotton seed is now being treated, and yet the crude oil alone yields $5,000,000, and tho cotton meal $3,000,000 and more. Tho oil when refined will yield $20,000,000. Multiply thus figures by six, and you see what the present income of this company will be. Tho monopoly once es tablished, the company can make its own prices for cotton seed. Already tho price has been reduced about $2 a ton. By shut ting up the small mills and concentrating machinery and management in the large ones the process can bo cheapened. The demand for oil is limitless. The export trade alone would toko the product of the entire cotton seed crop. The demand for cotton meal in Engand alone would exhaust tho present annual supply, but the farmers ore obstinate about letting it go from their land, and buy it readily at $13 a ton, which is $12 less than they receive for the three tons of seed necessary to make it, and out of which $30 worth of crude oil has been taken. Without counting tho sale of potash, the mills now get without refining the oil $48 out of three tons of seed, for which they pay$24. A short time ago the company paid $1,000,000 for an invention of a western chap for stripping the lint from the seed by aulphuric acid bath. The purpose was to make export of the seed in bulk, the lint left on the seed by the gin making it sweat and spoil in the ship's hold. Tho sulphuric acid burns into the black of the seed which holds the oil. After being tried the project was abandoned, but the western chap still holds his $1,000,000 worth of stoc The gin makers have improved their machinery, un til the seed is denuded entircry of lint. Another process which the company will probably buy is that of treating the ctton seed with naphtha, as flax seed is treated in the west This process, it Ls said, will yield a larger percentage of oil at much smaller cost It has been tried iu a casual way in tho southern mills, but abandoned. Now York Sun. BATTLE OF CHICKASAW BAYOU. A Desperate and Gallant Charge Made by Gen. Frank Blair's Brigade. A charge made by Gen. Frank Blair on Monday, the last and bloodiest day of tho battle, was one of the most desperate and gal lant feats recorded in history. Separating him from the steep bluffs occupied by the enemy was a cottonwood grove, which had been felled by the Confederates, and which was an entanglement through which an un armed, unincumbered man could pass with only tho greatest difficulty. On the sido of tho cottonwood maze, next to the enemy's position, was a deep bayou, whose opposite bank was some ten feet in height On this bank was a series of abattis, whose pointed limbs barred the approach of a hostile force. Just beyond the abattis was the first line of rifle pits. Gen. Blair, with four regiments, was assigned to carry the position in front of him. Ho must make his way through the dense fallen cottonwoods, he must then de scend into, cross the deep and muddy bayou, climb its steep bank beyond and then break through the deep abattis that crowned its top, where he would find himself on a level, uncovered space swept by rifle pits, scores of guns and other lines of defenses which cov ered the foot of the sloping bluff beyond. One would fancy that the feat of charging across this space, every inch of which was swept by riflemen and artillery, would be an utter impossibility. Mounted and in full uni form, the gallant Missourian led the charge. How he ever forced his way through the fallen timber, descended into and climbed out of the bayou, gained a passage through the abattis, and all the time covered with a tempest of shell and bullet, and escaped an nihilation cannot be told. But he did it all, and accompanied by a single man, also mounted, bs rods into the first line of rifle pita, His regiments struggled after him, and secured lodgment in the first line of works, and held them for a time, but, being unsup ported they had to return to their original position. Blair waa a moat interesting man in every respect TaQ. wall formed, with a "sandy" complexion, light gray eyes, heavy mustache, clean shaved face, and a fine forehead cov ered with a mass of reddish hair, distingue in style and bearing, he wss handsome sad commanding. Ha was alow and deliberate in speech, like one accustomed to addressing large audiences; he was versatile,.. doing everything well, from leading a charge to uncorking a bottle, and in all instanows char acterised by a calm, dispassionate manner and a manner full of dignity. He never seemed to have the slightest knowledge of the composition of fear if he did, ha con cealed the fact so completely that oa no oc casion was its existence discovered. In con versation ho was a polite, attentive listener, and an engaging, unaaBuming talker. Be neath all his outward mlmmas be had a tre mendous force, a fact which was demon strated by the momentum with which he throw his columns against the bristling, deadly heights of Chickasaw bayou. "Po linto" in Chicago Times.'' Baby Kins; of Spain. To BaVJrview an adult emperor, king or full fledged president is not very extraordinary, but to look up a majesty only 0 months old implies that the force of interviewing can no further go-AJphonso XlH of Spain and his nurse Raymunda have been subjected to that Nineteenth century inquisition. Ths baby king to well and is engaged cutting his first teeth. All hisantourage whan alluding to him say "His Majesty." His mamma and wet nurso adopts tie familiar title of "baby." Indeed Raymunda a name of Madagascar origin occasionally alludes to him as her mioche. There was onco a Bourbon princess interred at St Denis at the age of 2 days. She was alluded to in tho court circulars as "The high and mighty princes3," with a string of et ceteras that would crack the brain of even a Spanish lord chamberlain to remember. Alphonse eats, sleeps and laughs sad plays welL Raymunda's sole duty is to give him the breast The couple are visited twice a day by ths doctors, the baby is weighed every ten days and the nurso' s milk analyzed weekly. Thero may bo death in tho breast as well as in tho pot His majesty has his own household; quite an army of mojor domes is told off to attend to his sjightest wants. A special guard of beefeaters watch the nurs ery, which is close to the queen regent's chamber, and for sixteen years still tho samo precautions will be taken. On that depends the stability of a throne and the happiness of 16,000,000 people. When her majesty wishes to pay a compliment to a friend or a dig nitary sho takes baby into her own arms and makes a double presentation. Whenever Al phonse looks supremely happy she has his photo at once taken. Quite a picture gallery could bo furnished of portraits of tho queen embracing her son-in-heir. All her husband's family are as true to tho widowed queen as tho needle to the pole, and sho finds in the routine of her state business the best anttdote for her bereavement Foreign Cor. Chicago Journal An Irish Horse Trade. The following story was told to a clerical friend in the west by a country man named Dinny Cooley: "Good mor row, Dinny; where did you get tho horse?" "Well, I'll tell your reverence. Soma time at) I went to tho fair of Ross, not with this horse but with another horse. Well, sorra a man said to mo: 'Dinny, do you come from tho aist or do you coma from tho wesht?' and when I left the fair thre washtn't wan to say: 'Dinny, are you going to theaist or are you going to the wesht?' Well, your rever ence, I rode home and was near Kilnagrosa when I met a man riding along the road fornins me. 'Good evening, friend,' said he. 'Good evening, friend,' said L 'Were you at the fair of Ross?' sez he. 'I was,' sez I. 'Did yon sell?' eez he. 'No,' sez I. 'Would you sell?' sez he. 'Would you buy?' sez I. 'Would you make a clean swop?' sez he; 'horse, bridle and saddle and all?' sez he. 'Done I' sez I. "Well, your reverence, I got down off av me horse, not this horso but the other horse, and tho man got down off av his horse, that's this horse, not tho other horse, and wo swapped and rod away. But when ho had gone about twenty yards ho turned round and called after me. "There mver was a nmn from Ross,' sez he, 'but could put his finger in tho eyeav a man fromKilnagross,' sez he; 'and that horso,' sez he, 'is blind av an eye,' sez he. Well then, your reverence, I twjpcd upon him and I called out to him: "There niver was a man from Kilnagrcss,' sez I, 'but could put his two fingers in both the eyes avaman from Ross,' sez I; 'and that horse that I swopped with you,' sez I, is blind in both his eyes, 'sez I." The Spectator- Not So Expenstvo Now. Mrs. Muggins And so your daughter has married ono of your boarders? Mrs. Wug gins Yes; he was tho most expensive boarder I've had sinco I came to Omaha always in the house, keeping the fires blazing and the gas burning; why, he liked to ruined me. "But your daughter married him" "Yes; ho spends his evenings at the club now." Omaha World. The Coast of New Jersey. The Atlantic coast of New Jersey is ninety miles long, and a generation ago was a bar ren waste of sand and scrub oak. Then the property, where aro now thriving hamlets and prosperous seaside resorts, was valued at less than $3,000,000; to-day the same property to assessed for taxation at upward of $100, 000,000. Boston Transcript. Good Management. One of the partners in an Indiana grist mill which had been closed up by the sheriff was explaining to a New Yorker tho other day that it all camo about through tho good management of his partner. "Good management in a failure!" queried the Yorker. "Exactly. We keep no books and cashier. Tho ono who was around tho most pocketed tho most money, and he managed to be around tho most." Object to the Word "Daco." L'ltalia, an Italian newspaper of Chicago, objects strongly to tho word "Dago," as applied to Italians, and says that they consider it a gross insult This word which is used very often in the west in speaking of Italians, particularly of tho la boring class, is almost unknown in tins city. Now York Sun. The Diamond of Kimberley. The United States consul at Sydney, New South Wales, in his last report on tho dia mond mines of that region, oints out tho suggestive fact that the famous Kimberley mine, of South Africa, has produced more diamonds during tho last fifteen years than tho wholo world had produced for two cen turies previously. New York Commercial Advertiser. The Kara of Criminal. Tho president of tho Berlin police calls at tention to the advantages accruing to police authorities every where by taking profile pho tograplts of criminals which will distinctly show the left ear. He says that while the features of tho faco change in the courso of time, the car retayis its shape forever, and furthermore, there aro no two persons whose ears aro identically formed. Boston Trans cript A Splendid Memory. Wealthy Slerchant What! You here again! Why, I kicked you down stairs and out into the btrcet thb morning, you impu dent fellow. 1'edillpr Tsh tint sn? Vm a splendid memory! I bad forgotten all aliout ic uoirt you vant to puy a icuuer duster peforo you kick me out bomo more. Texas Siftings. Metal llts, worn by a certain class of women in Paris, have already lx-en intro duced here. Tiny toboggans now "dangle from the bangle" worn by the progressive girl of the period. National Bank! OF COI.TJ3IJ3TJ6. HEB. -HAS AN- Authorized Capital of $250,000, A Surplus Fund of - $20,000, And the largest Paid ia Cask Capital of any bank ia this part of tl-e State, ESDeposita received and interest paid on time depoeit. J3PDraft3 on the princ iral cities in this coon try and Europe bought and Bold. "Collections and all other business given prompt and careful attention. STOOKnOLDKBS. A. ANDERSON. Pres't. HERMAN P. II. OEHLRICH, VicoPrea't O.T. ROEN, Cashier. J. P. BECKER. HERMAN OEHLRICH. G. SCHUTTE, W. A. MCALLISTER, JONAS WELCH, JOHN W. EARLY. P.ANDERSON. G.ANDERSON. ROBERT UHL1G. CARLREINKe! Apr2S-'S6tf justness ards. D.T.Mahtyn.M.D. F. J. Schco, M. D. Drs. XABTYff & SCHUG, U. S. Examining Surgeons, Local Snrgrons. Union Pacific, O.. N. & . H. and R.&M.R. It's. Consultation in German and English. Tele phones at office and r-idencet.. JSF-Offic on Olive ttre-t. uest to Brodfaeh rer's Jewelry Storn. COLUMBUS. NEBRASKA. 42-y H AMILTW MKAUCM. IK, MYSICIAX AXD SCHOEOX, Platte Center. Nebraska. P-y LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE. Upstairs Ernst building, I lth street. B II.I.V JUiiKS PIASTERER. r'-OrdtTS left at ArnoM'n or at hi homo will receUw prompt attention. MnymVMlm O LCI.IVA.H A: UKKUKK, ATTORNEYS AT LAM', Office oyer Firt National Hank, Columbus. Nebraska. M)-tf G. . kva;vs m. ., rtlYSlCI.lX AXD SCRGKOX. SOtfio. and rooms (Slack building, Uth fetreet. Telephone communication. 1-y M vALMNTEK imOM., A TTOIiNE I 'S A T LA V, Office up-Mnirs in Henry' bniMing. corner of (line and 11th etreetH. W. A. .MrAllim.p V-- turj rublic. .- m .-- y .is. :wLu-Aa$s.,t..-'a. ATTORXEV .- XOTARY VUULIC. kTpffico over First Nitiou.il Rink. Colum bus, Nebraska. roiii Ki,sii;:v, COUXTY SURVEYOR. BE" Parties d-siring surveying dono can nd-dre-. me at Columbus. Noli., or call nt mv office in I ourt House. 5inajeC-y tt'i'itK JOTIAtllfKS. W. H. Tedrow. Co Supt. I will be p.t my office in tho Court House the third faiuruaj vi each month for the examina tion of lPaoiiTs. iU-tf 1) J at., tt a.- i. l)KlrJfc? '1 11-At .liZT. Columbu. Nebniskn. S ptr.ee llth Street. I oncultations in En ghrh, lrot! j, i tI. r .-itai. u 3? Ai iiiO. .'ji.'.-5iit Convey goods, betw.-eu nny point.- of th city. bfind suitable for pIistcn-K and building pur poses, f umihed in any part of city or on board cars, at reasonable prices. 30mar&7y JOHN (i. IIIuClNS. C J. GAKLOW. Collection Attorney. HIGGLES & GAB10W, ATTORSEYS-AT-LAW, Specialty made of Collection,, by C. J. Gorlow. Sl-m HOMCSOPATEIST. Chronic Diseases and Diseases of Children a Specioltv. 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