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-:?- A. y .?. C"iVwk, .. itmamamafmmmme m olumkvi 0iiriraL "' 'Z. v VOL. XVUL-JTO. 15. COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1887. WHOLE NO. 899. IIP s feT .4 & P- COLUMBUS STATE BANK. COLUMBUS. XKB. Cash Capita! $75,000. DIRKCTORo: LKANDER GERHARD. IWt. OHO. W. HULST. Vic Pr't. j ui.iuh a. rked. R. H. 1IKNUY. J. i:. TASKt-.tt, faahier. Ruik or Irepenit, OlMfuiifti ad Excfeanre. Collections lremptly M nl II aelat. ly Inlfreitl iu 'a'tm scpo. Its. 271 COLUMBUS Savings Bank, LOAN & TRUST COMPANY. Capital Stork, SI 00.000. OFFICERS: A. ANDERSON. PrcVt. O. W. SHELDON. Vice l're-'t. O. T. ROHN, Tri. ROBERT U HMO, Sec. - o yWill rerirt time depo-itH, from jUiO ami any amount upnards, and trill iay the ciit. rcmary rate of interest. o i3yVe particularly draw jour attention to fiur farililiin for nirtkiuK loam- i.u real estate, at tbe loet rate of inlt-r.vl. - o JSCity. School :inl County Bond-, ami in rtividaal securitieenre lionidit. - -Mijuae'fctfy FOR THE -CALL OX A.&M.TURNER Or . W. KIIILGR, Traveling? Malmnmn. fssThee oran are firet-clas in every par tloolar, and so guaranteed. SGN1FFR0TH t PL1TH, -1.E1LEB8 IN - WIND MILLS, AND PUMPS, Buokeye Mower, combined, Self Binder, wire or twine. PiBpis Repaired on short not ire tyOn door wet of HeintzV Drug Store. 11th tract, Columbus. Neb. l7nov!-tf HENRY G-ASS. f4)FFIXS AND METALLIC CASKS AND DKAl.KR IN lawiltur. Chairs, Bedsteads, Bu- ceaus, Tables, Safes. Lounges, Ac. Picture Frames and Mouldings. fWSepairing of oil kinds of Uphol stery Goods. C-tf COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA- PATENTS CiVEiTS, TRADE MARIS AND COPYEIGDTS Obtained, and all other business in the U. S. Patent Office attended to for MODERATE FBES. Oar office is opposite the U. S. Patent Office, sad we can obtain Patent in less time than these from WASHINGTON Head MODEL OR DRAWING. W idriw iu topsteetabilitr free of cliarge: and make NO CHARGE UNLESS WK OBTAIN PATENT. wis rater here to the Postmaster, the Supt. of r uraer uiv-. ana to omciats 01 tne u. S. Once, ror circulars, advice, terms and i to actual clients in tout own btate or ooeatv. write to Opposite FtoestoSee, Wsahuitfoo7lrc. i-4 S:Vw $JS; !.!.! .54; ! WESTERN COTTAGE 0RGA1J ! BRIC-A-BRAC BURGLARS. CURIO COLLECTORS WHO STEAL RARE WORKS OF ART. A Queer Old Man with a Paaaloa for Quatnt Things Romance of a Keos brandt Thieves la the Libraries Sta dlo Sueaks. "We have to keep oar eyes open to prevent our stock being carried off," said a Broadway bric-a-brac dealer the other day. "You have no idea what really respectable men and women are tempted to steal a valuable piece of porcelain or a curio or a rare coin when it is put ho conveniently before them as the things are ki this store. We display everything very freely, but there is always one of the employes idling around in an unconcerned hort of wav who looks out for our interests." "Are your customers ever tempted to pocket your wares?" he was asked. "Well, now and then we have a case of that kind, but of course nothing can be done, and unless the article taken has some special artis tic value we say nothing about it, for we febtmld lose a good deal of custom if we did not overlook the eccentricities of the klepto maniacs. The collectors are the worse kind we have to deal with. You see that old man over there," pointing in the direction of a very respectable old gentleman with white hair awl a queer dried up face and clothed in a long and seedy ulster. lie was shuffling along from one shelf to another, examining every thing furtively with his sharp, little, fsrret like eyes. 'That man," said the dealer, "has one of the Quest porcelain collections in this city. He used to be rich, but now I guess he has to hustle to get his three meals a day prop erly. When he was well off I thought noth ing of selling him $1,000 worth of goods ev ery month, but he hasn't spent a cent here in years, and I have to watch the old chap half the time to see that he doesn't walk off with my best things, for there isn't a better judge of the value of a work of art than he in America." At theAstorand Mercantile libraries nu merous tricks and devices are used by un scrupulous collectors of prints to get possession of some rare picture or edition. They either cut the desired illustration out of the book, thus ruining it forever, or take the work away with them when they go, substituting another volume already prepared in ite place. Since print collecting has come to In so popular some elegant works belonging to the Now York libraries have been ruthlessly destroyed and very often stolen. The only way to put a stop to these depredations is X keep a constant watch, and even then sc tricky are the thieves and so fertile of device that they carry on their practices beneath the very eyes of the librarians. It was only a few weeks ago that a magnifi cent quarto was destroyed in a library by one of these vandals, armed with a sharp knife and a strong artistic desire to capture a rare print at the expense of bis principles ol honor. Artistic thieves are sometimes ol very respectable families, which the following incident, well known to most New York artists and Bohemians, will illustrate: A gentleman living in West Forty-second street owned among other paintings a real Rembrandt which he had purchased ir Europe at a good round price, and which wai a very fair specimen of that artist's work. The other pictures were all light works by American painters, but this picture, on ac count of its value, occupied a room by itself, and its owner was very proud of his posses sion. When bard times struck that family and the collector was compelled to band every thing over to the auctioneer it was then dis covered that the Rembrandt, that much treasured painting to which all Murray Hill had bowed in reverence, was nothing but a clever forgery. The gentleman who had owned it so many years, and who considered himself no mean judge of art, was dumbfounded and would not believe it. An investigation proved that the canvas on which the picture was painted had the stamp of a New York firm on it, and that a drying varnish had been mixed with the paint that was invented only twenty years ago. The fact that the picture was bo gus was definitely settled by the arrival in town of a wealthy Brazilian who said he had purchased in Europe the original of the paint ing, and that all the critics in London and Paris had combined in saying that he had a genuine Rembrandt Detectives were llually set to work to ferret out the mystery and soon made everything clear. The son of the American collector, who was a wild and dissipated young man, had taken an artist friend into his confidence and together they plotted to exchange the genuine picture for a copy. The friend worked on the copy at night and soon pro duced a fair imitation, while the son with the real picture went to Europe and there sue ceeded in selling it to the Brazilian. In Philadelphia another great picture was spirited away for a long while by much the same means and not returned until the wheels of the law were set in motion. Every now and then we hear through the press of the robbery of an art gallery, but hundreds of such thefts are committed which the public at large never hear of. Artists who go away for the summer on sketching tours often re turn to find their studios ransacked and some of their best paintings cut from the frames. The man who owns a fine collection of bric-a-brac or paintings or curios has more need to look after the visitors and admirers of his treasures than among the servants of his house. Many an amateur who is badly bitten with the craze of collecting curious works will buy what be wants as long as be can, and then when the money gives out he will steal at the first chance the coveted article which he admires and must own. The aver age thief has a royal scorn for artistic work, except when he considers it will bring a good prico. He would just as leave steal something less artistic and more salable, for a painting which is well known is hard to dispose of at a fence. An old Bohemian who used to sell art ma terials to the various studios was discovered to be a most notorious sneak thief. It was discovered that he carried on quite a business in disposing of pictures and sketches which be purloined while in the studios under the pretence of selling paints and brushes. Sev eral janitors were suspected of committing these thefts, but the real man was at last run down and prosecuted. In his room in East Broadway piles of canvases were found and portfolios full of sketches which he had sur reptitiously made away with during his brief but successful career as a sneak thief. The collecting mania is in its infancy in this country and consequently the poor collector is more clumsy as a thief than his European brethren, who could give the average sneak thief points in the business. The American, however, is steadily improving and in time may become as dexterous in making off with a peachblow vase or a Chinese god as the collectors across the water who have more experience. New York Journal. LIFE ON THE STAGE. The Work of An Actor Terribly Trying" to the Physical System. No, I cant see that men and women who work honestly, as thousands and tens of thousands of them do, upon the stage, can reasonably face an end so terrible more than men and women in other lines of life. But there is this to be said: The actors of America are treated like pigs. We bear of a new theatre with a magnificent entrance, with glass windows and gorgeous mahogany furnishings. We find a patent seat for the auditor, and all the gorgeous scintillations that can be dreamed of by science and outworked by art, to make the auditorium bright an! beautiful and com fortable. But across the stage sweep the wild winds of winter unchecked, and in the damp and dreary dressing rooms we find either an excessive, unchecked steam neat or a bitter, biting blast from the unclean cellar. Actors face the footlights, which burn and blazen up into their very eyes, reverting absolutely the idea of light as born in the mind of the Creator, which comes from above, not from below. They are compelled to fashion their faces in an unnatural way. The women dress to suit the times. Taking off, in their overheated or underheated dressing rooms the flannel for protection, they garb themselves for the delight and en joyment of the public in front in the garment of, so to speak, nudity. Those high up the ladder are well paid, and can command, al though they rarely get, comfortable quarters. But the little people of the stage, thousands and scores of thousands of them to whom $5 and $10 a week is the only straw between them and starvation, what can they geti What do they have So far as unnatural excitement of late hours, impure air, unprotectkm from cold and heat, the glaring of the blazing gas, the ius and outs of winter weather and summer bokticego, I dare say the life of an actor is made less comfortable, lew easy, less desirable than that of any other man who works with head mid body combined, but that this life would load of necessity to an unbalanced mind I am not willing to concede. Disap pointment, worry, apprehension, jealousy, a long, deep sigh for that recognition which so rarely comes, may work a headachy disposi tiou, carve deep lines in pretty faces, and draw deep scars across weary heart, but many of us know that disappointed hope and barrenness of heart do not necessarily bring that which, after all, may be a comfort and a solace a disturbed, unsettled brain. Jos Howard in Cincinnati Enquirer. The Powers of the Coialag Brala. We say that education is a process of train ing and furnishing the mind; but what is the mind That its ultimate essence is an ethe real something, without weight or dimension, we believe; but this Is beyond the province of practical edit -tion. The brain, for all prac tical purpose, : what we are called upon to educate. By studying this organ we find that it is composed of fibers, curiously and orderly arranged, and that the quality of mind in the lower nnimaU and man is determined by the number of its convolutions and the finenes of its texture. Could the brains of all the orders of animals, from a simple nerve center to the highest type of a human brain, be arranged in order before us, we should have an illustrated history of a mind. During long successions of eons the brains have been developing from the simplest convolution of nerves to the best brain yet evolved. All this, we believe, has been "worked up" undor the guidance of a supreme power, whose guiding hand has been active through all th ages in the multitudinous forms of progres sive animal and vegetable life, until we hold to-day the advanced position we now occupy. But creation is on an onward march, and education hastens it forward At no time in the history of the physical universe has mind occupied so high a place, whether we regard its quality or quantity, and at no time in thf future will it occupy so low a place 'as now. The powers of the coming brain will far ex ceed anything the world has yet known. The School Journal The Material for Caunon. A well known character of central New York is William H. Sweet, of Syracuse, of whom a friend said recently: "There fa only one Bill Sweet in the world." Mr. Sweet if at the head of an iron manufactory which hears his nanip. He was in New York a day or two ago. While in conversation with Mr. Sweet, the subject of government armament came up, when he said: "I have contended for twenty-five years that the proper material for making cannon is cast steel. As long ago as 16G4 I cast a steel ingot of 96,000 poundf weight and sent it to Washington, where it was tested, and I then gave my opinion that this was the material for cannon. The proper method of treating it is to cool the steel after manufacture to a point of 40 degs. below zero and then gradually heat it until it if medium rcdhot, and keep it in that condition for a week or ten days, and then gradually allow it to cool. When that has been done it has merely to be bored out for a cannon. It will be wholly superior to anything that hai been hammered. It will have the necessary elasticity and strength. There is no necessity to do anything with the outside except ta paint it over. Even if it is a little rough, it is not the outside that counts in a cannon; it is the bore. New York Tribune. New Form of Imbecility. The fade is the newest thing in the duds line. It or he, or whatever you choose to call this latest evolution in modern society, is an individual of the advanced order of the dudi species. There is no mention of the fade in Darwin's works. The idea, if a fade can be associated;with ideas, was first suggested by a smart Boston girL She defines a fade as a dudo who never smiles, is inclined to be sickly and seldom talks. When he does talk he says nothing. There is always a far-away look about a fade, as though he had not come tc stay. The same characteristics of the dude belong to the fade. He wears the high collar, cultivates the lim neck snd smokes ciga rettes. The mors cigarettes a dude smokes the nearer he approaches to a fade. Hi smokes and smokes, his collar grows taller and his neck slimmer until he just fades away and is gone forever. The fade is a warning to dudes. There are several of the latter, species in Baltimore that, unless checked is their giddy career, are in a fair way of de clining into fades. Baltimore American. Probably Much Overrated. We have quite too much of this continual comparison business, snd I am awfully tired of having all the old frumps say to ma: "Ob, you should have seen Rachel;" or "You will never see an actor like Burton." Probably I never will, and I dont care three straws about it; and why all one's pleasure ia to be spoiled by continual references to the past is something beyond my comprehension. I once knew an old lady who bad seen Rachel, and in a moment of great weakness she confessed to me, although an ardent admirer of the actress at most times, that she dldnt think so much of the dark, skinny little being, and that as for her acting it was very much over rated, Personally I have no doubt this is true about a great many of the remarkable personages of the past "Bab" In New York Htar. Honesty of Jewelers. The idea entertained by many persons that dishonest members of our craft have been known to replace the works of a handsome watch by inferior ones, while it was under going repairs, is preposterous. It is doubtless true that some owners of fine timepieces are absurdly careful of the hands intrusted with their property; but if a knowledge of our business was not generally confined to pro fessionals, it would be understood a jeweler would no more dream f miirinm TitvwM of the works in a watch than a wheelwright would think of exchanging wheels with a wagon under repair. Jeweler in Globe Democrat Accepting the Sitaatloa. Bobby (to young Featherly) Will you please pass me the cake basket, Mr. Feath erly f Mamma No, Bobby, you cannot hare any more cake. Bobby Why sot, ma? Mamma Became I have said no. You will have to take no for an answer. Bobby (resignedly) Well, I'm bo worse off than Mr. Featherly. Mr. Featherly (amased) How so, Bobby? Bobby Sister Clara says you'll hare to take no for an answer. New York 8on. The only medical Journal published in Egypt is called El Tbifaa ("the care") and is issued monthly in Arabic, its principal contributors being Egyptians and Styrian. Arkansaw Traveler. Lack of desire is the rkbes.- AMALGAM OF RACES. ! SPECULATIVE VIEW OF THE SO LIDIFICATION OF THE RACES. Humaalty as It May Exist Some Tens or Thousands of Tears Hence Wbea All Weakness Shall Have Been Elimin ated. One of the subjects which excites the atten tion of thinkers is the probablo outcome of the commingling of races throughout the world. The result is, of course, purely a matter of speculation, as there are no data whatever from which may be deduced an exact conclu sion. There are those who lean to the opinion that in the course of many centuries, all race distinction will dbapiear, and a human amalgam, homogeneous in its qualities, will take the place of the present interminablo variety. This country has more interest in this ques tion than any other. It is an enormous reser voir into which are being poured streams from all the racial soutossurJTIiii bbsjbtV ' geneous amalgam, if ever formed, will crys tallize on this continent: and here will be located the ultimate results of race admixt ure. What will be the nature of this com position f It is not a thing whose occurrence u so near that we have a personal interest in it; nevertheless, the inspirations of curiosity are such that we cannot help glancing into the remote future with the hope that we may get a glimpse of the product of the process of distiUatioi:. One may not see anything with precision at this distance, but the imagination may discover a condition of things which, if not exact, may at least be characterized by curious qualities. THE FINAL SOLIDIFICATION. The believers In the final solidification of the various races conclude, of course, that the distinctions now prevailing between white, negro and Indian in this country will be ob literated. The processes of absorption will not only necessarily wipe out these three races as such, but they will include and dis pose of the diverse nationalities which already, in the presence of German, Irish, French, Scandinavian, Spanish, Italian and the like elements, form so large a portion of this country. If such a work shall be done, it will be one of the grandest ever undertaken by nature. Nothing in the labors even of the chemistry which has constructed universes from a few simple gases would be the equal in magnitude and importance of this colossal effort If the teachings in regard to heredity are reliable, then we may I e certain that in the final composition there will bo noessentitd traits now in existence that will be wanting. In a more attenuated form, but nevertheless existent and tangible, will be a strain of Yankee shrewdness, of British obstinacy, of Italian subtlety, Indian craft, African gross ness, German transcendentalism, French suavity, with possibly a taint of the tastes of the cannibal and something of the coarse gustatory tendencies of the Esquimaux. It is logical, in view of the teachings of modern science to conclude that the stronger of thee qualities will prevail, aud that while none of them will ever become extinct many will be come merely rudimentary, modifying to a very limited degree the characteristics of the whole. The fittest will survive, and hence we may frame a guess as to the rough outlines of the compact result. SUBV1VAL OF THE FrmtST. Grouping the more potent of the race quali ties which will be likely to survive in a recog nizable form, we may construct the man of the far future as one who has lost the hue cf white which now dominates civilization. The blood of the African will darken the cheek of the coming man until there will come a time when the existence of races of whites will have passed into the regions of the legendary. His will not be the tint of the mulatto, but the result of the spreading on a white ground of a mixture, black, yellow, red, and other darksome hues, and which will be a rich bronze, equally removed from the repellent black and the effeminate jiallor of the ruling races. Exposed to the desiccat ive influence of this climate, he will be thin ner than the average man of the continent at this time, and will possess an endurance, a longevity, a healthf uluess far above those- of the present period. The extent of the life of this man will be far above the century, for in the evolution of qualities the more robust will survive. He will very largely have increased the size and value of the human brain, and hence will occupy an immcasureably higher intel lectual station. The political and social experiments and the mechanical achievements of a period like the present one will seem to him if there shall remain any record of what we have done as crude and barbarous in the extreme. He will have mastered the most important secrete of nature, and, aided by this knowledge, will be able to wield powers and command results which we now would ascribe as the especial property of om nipotence. He will have bridled the cyclone and put a harness on the earthquake and the storm. Containing iu himself all the better qualities strained through a thousand centu ries, with the evil, the weakness, of the present numan nature eliminated be will be a god. Chicago Times. UNCLE SAM'S CAVALRY. What a Blan Has to Go Through to Be long to It How the Men Save Moaey. "People have an idea that the recruiting of fices of the United States army take most anybody who comes along," said a newly en listed inan in the cavalry service to a reporter. "But that is a great mistake. 1 took pains to find out something about this when I entered my application and learned that only about one man in thirty of those who apply to en ter the cavalry service are able to successfully pass examination. Last month out of forty four who applied only eight were accepted. Inttesrl of jumping at a man, as people sup pose, they put him through the most rigid and thorough examinations, and after it all they ask him over and over if he is sure ho knows his own mind and is fully satisfied to give his services wholly to the army for five years. You nave got to be sound mentally and physically, and your eyesight and hear ing are put to very severe teats. "They way they tried my eyesight was this: A man holding a pack of cards stood at a dis tance of twenty feet from me and the doctor put one hand over one of my eyes. The man with the cards held up one after another in quick succession, and I had to call off the number of spots on each card. If you fail in telling one card correctly you are rejected. In testing my hearing they turned me so that my back was toward the man at the other end of the room and the doctor placed his band over one of my ears. Then the man called off, in low, monotonous tones an im provised and incorrect multiplication table, such as 5 times 8 is 30, etc., and you must re peat what be says without the slightest hesi tation. Men often get caught at this, hear ing only part and supplying the rest as if it were correct multiplication. "I learned, too, that some men during the fire years save as much as $1 ,000, becoming teachers and doing extra duty for which there is extra pay. Others lend money on in .terest to their comrades and make a good deal that way. Besides this, there is a sort of sav ings bank established by the government which pays interest on the savings of the sol diers. One can also save on the allowance for clothing and the home fare allowed after your term of enlistment fa over. Three quarters of the western ranchmen, I am told, ars ax-soldiers who have invested their' sav ings in land out there. A great many who enlist in the cavalry are well educated college bred men." New York Mail and Express. The Caapsales ef airlas. ThecotnpaBionof Biriss fa getting ao'close to Its daxding cosarade that even with the most powertui telescopes it can only be gCmpaed with difficulty. Soon it will com pletely disappear from viow in the over powering light of Sirius, and even the great Lick telescope will be unable to detect it But after several years it will again emerge to sight and move away from the Dog Star until comparatively small telescopes will show it This wonderful companion of the brightest star in the heavens is a great puzzle to astronomers. They have calculated its orbit anil know that it makes a journey around the great star once every forty-nine years or thereabouts. It is easy enough to understand that, but the surprising thing is that, while this singular star is probably half as heavy as Sirius, it possesses several thou sand times less light It is either a perishing or a dead sun; and in the latter case, of course, is simply an enormous planet shining with the reflected light of Sirius. But such a planet staggers the imagination. Our sun if more than 1 ,000,000 times as large as the earth, yet in comparison with the com oiiiou of Sirius he would appear so insignifi cant that we might bo ashamed to acknowl edge him as the great boss of the solar system. The genius of Voltaire, which accorded to Mars his two moons more than 100 years be fore the telescope had proved that they really existed, also foretold that a huge planet, the birthplace of the giant Micromegas, revolved around Sirius. So the imagination of the great Frenchman twice anticipated the most unexpected of astronomical discoveries. But nobody could be more astonished at the ful fillment of bis guesses than Voltaire himselt would have been. Two Incident of Army Ufa. Among the many incidents of my army life, two have always remained impressed upon my memory with especial clearness. The first of these occurred, I believe, at the battle of Fair Oaks. Gen. O. O. Howard, an officer as brave as a man need Ie. in spite of his decidedly ostentatious holiness, was brought from the front uoii a litter, evidently severely wounded. The gallant Gen. Phil Kearney saw him and went to his side, saying: "Gen. Howard, I am really deeply grieved to see this. Where are you hitf" Howard, point ing to Kearney's empty right sleeve, a relic of his Mexican war service, replied: "General, wo can buy our gloves in Paris now." The other incident occurred during Banks' famous Redriver expedition. Admiral Porter despised Banks as a military man, and was inclined to treat his plans with great contempt Banks one day, after some rather heated correspond ence, undertook to order Porter to place his gunboats in a certain position. Porter's answer was short and to the point: "Tell Gen. Banks," he said, "that he may be a king on land, but I am supreme on the river." Banks' fury at this reply may well be imagined, but it stated the facts, and the general had to sub mit. Uol. L. J. Hartley iu Globe-Democrat Offered a Vacant Throne. An amusing story is told in The Berlin Echo that is strongly remindful of the plot of an opera bouffe, turning as it does upon the offer of the vacant throne of Bulgaria to Polojuchtow of Karkotr, the most celebrated confectioner of the Russian empire. His honey cakes are famous all through the land, and bis ambition is said to bo equal to his culinary reputation. He is, moreover, very popular, having been a great contributor to the churches, monastries aud to the poor. He possesses a large collection of medals, testimonials and orders; but outride the range of business a very small degree of com mon sense. A few days ago he was waited upon by three gentlemen, who represented themselves as deputies from the Bulgarian sobranje. They told him that it was the earnest desire of the parliament and people of Bulgaria that be should accept the vacant throne. While they were speaking, a telegram ar rived from Sophia with tho same request Polojuchtow told his visitors that he could not regard their strange offer as credible. Meanwhile, however, he invited them to dine with him, promising to return in half an hour. He put on his unifonn (for he is a member of the city council) and drove to the rector of the university to ask his counsel in the question, whether it was his duty, supposing the offer to be genuine, to accept the post The rector advised him not to go to Bulgaria, but to the lunatic asylum I Polojuchtow began to see that ho was being hoaxed, and drove back to his house as fast as possible. The deputation from Bulgaria had not waited for dinner, but had carried off all the valuables, money and papers which they found in his bureau. San Francisco Chronicle. New Postage Stamps In England. Tho eleven new postage stamps just issued by the British postmaster general form a miniature picture galley in themselves. The cent stamp is a bright yellow, two cents red brown, three cents purple mid green, foui cents grccu and crimson, five cents purple and blue, six cents a color described as "pre sumedly yellow," eight cents green, ten cents purple and blue, twelve cents pink, eighteen cents purple with blue fringe, twenty-foui cents green and white. Every known law of sestbeticism is ruthlessly broken by one oi other of these combinations, and the only re deeming feature of the series is a still further act of barbarism. A figure is printed right over the queen's head showing tho number ol pence each stamp is worth, and this destroyi whatever pretense to beauty would otherwise exist Chicago Herald. ' Mrs. Lincoln's Lilac Silk Drettv. A current story in Washington even yet is that at the funeral of CoL Baker Mrs. Abra ham Lincoln wore a lilac silk dress with bon net and gloves to match. She was much rid iculed at the time by the papers, and Wash ington society circles felt outraged. So much was said of it that ladies who wished her well at last persuaded an intimate friend of Mrs. Lincoln's to tell her of the impropriety. The friend went to her, barely worked up to the point of remonstrance. Mrs. Lincoln met her in the vestibule, ex claiming: "I am so glad you have come. I am just as mad as I can be. Mrs. Crittenden has just been here to remonstrate with me for wearing my lilac suit to Col. Baker's funeral. I wonder if the women of Washington expect me to muffle myself in mourning for every soldier killed in this great war." The lady here said: "But, Mrs. Lincoln, do you not think black more suitable to wear at a funeral, because there is a great war in the nation?" "No, I don't I want the women to mind their own business. I intend to wear what I please." Portland Oregonian. The Barroom Crank. The barroom craftk is one of the characters of the town. No metropolitan bar is complete without its crank. At such swell establish ments as the Hoffman he is commonly a man of means, whose wits have been worn thread bare by overindulgence. In smaller estab lishments he varies in quality from the Jack of the bar room who sweeps the place out for tho privilege of banging around and picking up what drinks he can, up to some well-to-do customer whose cash makes his eccentricity excusable. This species of crank is the most interesting because he presents such an infi nite variety of oddity. Some ore sour tem pered and others merry; some kick at the quality of their liquor, and others would drink vitriol and water without grumbling. There are humorous and melancholy cranks and the wise and foolish ones. Indeed, I know no quality of mentality that is not rep resented among them. Alfred Trumble in New York News. A Screen from a Harem. In Washington dwell two young women who own so much bric-a-brac that they have moved into a larger house to accom modate it Amoncr other rare thinr is screen, such ss fa used in eastern harems, J w carvea wooa, wiu canons. inue j wunows wmen open ana snut use aoors. Chicago Times. The fete 8ir Moses Montefiore was one of the lest persons In London who went about in a sedan chair, with four bearers. SCIENCE AT WORK. NOTHING IN THE WORLD UNWORTHV ITS NOTICE AND ANALYSIS. Relentless Daetrnctlveaess of a Noted Iconoclast Some Important Discover ies Incentives to Crime Often Found ia Neurotic Conditions. It is curious that science finds nothing un worthy its notice and analysis. It equally concerns itself with a polyp and a universe; it measures siderial spaces and applies its tape line to the expansion of the amwbe; it concerns itself with the colors of tho lines of Sirius, and tho components of a rudimentary organ iu a mosquito. It affords us essays on food; it devotes itself to a study of nutrition; it analyzes inebriety; it takes cognizance of atoms, molecules, the utility of the wings of a bat, aud the superstitions of the ignorant. In some late papers Felix Oswald a tre mendous breaker of images annihilates the prevalent belief that a monkey has imitative faculties, and sneers down contemptuously thetimc honored belief that if an ape sees his master shaving himself be will attempt at tho first opportunity to do tho same thing. He says, with scorn, that "it would hardly be au overestimate to say that 999 of 1,000 men persist in the belief that monkeys have a passion for the imitation of their two-handed kinsmen." With equal relentlessness be de stroys the beautiful parrot beliefs by assert ing that under no circumstances whatever does this loquacious bird attach any meaning to what it says, and it simply repeats it does not talk. "They rehearse phrases as they would a tune, and oue might as well credit a telephone with the ability to originate a logical combination of words." OTHER DELUSIONS. The alleged serpent charm is also a delu sion, and so is the joint snake and most ot the other beliefs of the world iu regard to many animals and their habits. Another innovation is one that relates to inebriety in various forms, and which, if ac cepted, will revolutionize the moral teachings of the church and render necessary a revision of our criminal practice. Dr. Crothers has discovered new incentives to crime, which lie not iu the total depravity of the human sub ject, but in neurotic conditions. Many of fenses are the consequence of diseased nerves, and as such should be treated as is smallpox and other maladies, and not by police officers, judges, and striped suits in penitentiaries. He has found four classes of "inebriate mani acs." The first and second of these include the people who commit murders, assaults, and the like under the influence of alcohol and narcotics. Such a victim is iu most cases a "ufurotlc by inheritance. In other words, he was born with a defective brain and organ ism, and both growth and culture have been imperfect Any general history of the crime reveals delirium, hallucinations, delusions and maniacai impulses." THE THIRD CLASH. An examination of the third class of "ine briate maniacs" is of the greatest interest, for the reason that it explains a present condition of affairs that has been either grossly misunder stood or else a profound mystery. This class is composed of men who for years have oc cupied respectable positions iu a community, who have been unexceptionable in their lives up to a certain period, when they have sud denly committed some grosg offense. This covers the cases of defaulting bank presidents and cashiers, and trusted clerks. "Hardly a year passes," says Crothers, "that bank de defaulters, forgers, and swindlers do not ap pear among men whose previous character has given no intimation of such a career. When their secret history is known, the use of alcohol, opium, and other drugs is found to be common." It is impossible at this point to follow this new scientific discovery into all its details. Suffice it at present that the conclu sion from this state of things, if generally ac cepted, will be to the effect that a runaway cashier, a "boodle" alderman, and the like, in place of being moral are neurotic criminals, and their acts, in place of being the result of a depraved nature, are due to damaged co ordiuating brain centers. These offences being of a psychological ir stead of a moral character, they cannot be treated by the pulpit or the bench, but must bo taken in charge of by experts in the man agement of the insane. In fact, if this new theory be true, the jails, bridewells and peni tentiaries should at once be changed into asy lums for the treatment of "iutbriate maniacs" alias fugitives across the Canadian borders. Chicago Times. AN AFFECTIONATE CAT. A Maltese Thomas Which Shows Decid edly Caaiae Traits of Fidelity. It is universally held that the cat cannot experience sufficient affection for a person to develop the passion ef jealousy, which every one knows fa common enough in the canine race. I am prepared to produce at least ono cat that will dispute this aspersion of its kind. It is a superb maltese thomas of the pur est bread and bears the name of Trisco, conferred upon it as a diminutive for San Francisco. It has been brought upfromkit tenhood by its present mistress, and has de veloped all the traits of fidelity common to the dog. It follows at its owner's heels about the house and even attempts to pursue her when she goes out. It watches for her return at the door, and after any prolonged absence exhibits sulkiness at what it evidently regards as unjustifiable neglect The only period of the day or night at which it voluntarily leaves her side is in the morning, when it scratches at the maid's door to wake her up, and fawns upon her for its breakfast At all other times it avoids the girl and will permit no fondling by her. A few days ago a stray kitten wandered into the house and the women fed and fondled it and permitted it the run of the place. 'Frisco was frantic and gave it battle at once. The kitten found the handsome basket in which 'Frisco sleeps on a sheepskin mat, and coolly took 'possession of it The owner of the basket tormented the air with back fence lamentations. The interloper was reclaimed next day, much to the satisfaction of 'Frisco, who had spent most of the time spitting at it or sulking in a dark corner, where he could watch It, growling incessantly. Since tho fateful hour at which the kitten bad slept in his basket be has refused to enter it When his mistress puts him in he speedily escapes and hides himself. He follows her about as usual, but whenever she makes the usual ap proaches to him he utters a petulant mow of protest The eat it as wild with jealousy as any woman ever was, and is perfectly femi nine in the manifestations of the passion. He Ls at present being fed on tenderloin steaks and broiled quail, in the hope that he will consent to make up and be friends again. But he resents all advances, though he leaves nothing of the quail but the bones. Alfred Trumble in New York News. A Paris Detective's Shrewdness. It is so seldom that detectives in real life actually do anything very clever that it is worth while recording their achievements, however slight, when they show some degree of ingenuity and devotion. The hero of this story is Detective Blusset For two or three weeks he bad been watching three men whom he suspected of practicing crime by the theft of teams and wagons left standing in the street With a brother detective, Gamier, Blusset a day or two ago saw the three thieves following a wagon loaded with four casks. Presently the teamster stopped at a saloon and went inside. Immediately the thieves got to work. Two of them remained on the ground to keep watch, while the third mount ed briskly to the driver's seat and drove rap idly away. Leaving Gamier to see to the arrest of the two watchers, which was soon accomplished, Blusset set off on a run in pur suit of the flying wagon. It was not long before be was blowing like a porpoise under the nsasasl axsrefajuand be began to think that perhaps he would better give up the chase, when the horses became suddenly un manageable and the wagon stopped. The animals in all probability were restive at the sound of a strange voice directing them. This was Blusset's opportunity, and, run ning forward with an air of great good nature, he assisted the thief to get the horses undor control. He could have arrested the fellow then and there, but there was where ho showed his cleverness; he wanted to arrest also the thief's accomplice, so he let the wagon proceed again, after having received the thanks of tho driver for assistance. But as it rolled away Blusset climbed upon the steps at at the tail board of the wagon, and squatted there out of sight should the driver happen to turn his head. When the thief finally stopped it was before the establishment on the boule vard Menilmontant. Blusset quickly dis mounted and retired. He saw the thief greet the concierge of the establishment and with his assttance begin to unload the casks. The detective ran for a policeman and with the aid of the first one he met succeeded in arresting both the thief and his accomplice. It is not of ten that a crime is so thoroughly worked and all parties to it secured at a single blow. Paris Cor. Philadelphia Times. AN EXPERT BRICKMAKER. The Story Told by it Chicago Man. (lathering Methods and Tolnts. No man in Chicago is possessed of mora in formation on the subject of brickmakingthas. George M. Pullman. Though probably with out personal experience in the mixing and burning of clay, Mr. Pullman might bo set down as an expert brickmaker. As illustrating tho thoroughness with which Pullman uses preparations before embarking in an enter prise, a well known brickmaker tells a very good story. Some years ago, when Pullman was preparing to engage tn the brick business on tho shores of Lake Calumet, this brick maker received an invitation to call on the sleeping car magnate and talk brickmaking. Having in view the inferential possibility of a co-partnership, or contract, or other profit able connection with the Pullman town building enterprise, the brickmaker gladly availed himself of the opportunity thus offered. Pullman received him graciously, and in private showed him samples of Lake Calumet clay, asked questions concerning brickmaking methods and materials, and lis tened quite patiently while the brickmaker, warming up with his subject and naturally anxious to make a good impression, some what enthusiastically related his experience during the last twenty years, and described many of the processes which ho had hitherto held almost as secrets. The Interview over, Pullman said be would take the matter under consideration, and that his caller might ex pect to hear from him again almost airy day. As yet the brickmaker has not heard from Pullman. He was not long in learning, how ever, that half a dozen other skilled brick makers liad been similarly favored by the ambitious town builder, and that from all of them the host had drawn descriptions of their favorite methods and many valuable points concerning materials and machinery. More over, it was soon learned that while these brickmaking gentlemen were thus talking to Mr. Pullman in that gentleman's private of fice a shorthand man was industriously at work behind a screen making verbatim record of all he heard. No one of the expert brickmakers was called for a second time by the sleeping car landlord, but in a few months they all heard, with what chagrin may be easily imagined, that Pullman had engaged in the brickmak ing business on his own account Chicago Herald. Death by tho Carrots. As I stood on an elevation overlcoking the scaffold, I was able to observe all the details of the last scene of the tragedy. The con demned man mechanically yielded himself up to the executioner. The latter made him sit down at the foot of the post, with his back to it, and then tied his bands find feet hard and fast. He did all this without hurrying himself in the least, mid with all that digni fied indifference which characterizes the Sjvin ish functionary in the discharge of his duty. If the preparations had lasted even a few seconds longer, I believe I should have lost all my own self control. I could hear my heart thumping within my breast, and t-very moment or two something like u veil came be fore my eyes. You could not hear even a whisper in the crowd. Whilo ono of the priests pressed a crucifix to the colorless lips of the sufferer, another was murmuring wonls of consolation and hope into bis ear. But tho wretched man was not listening. His expressionless face had a waxen pallor, mid his eyes, as they wandered over tho ocean of faces before him, already dim with the dimness of death. He started considerably when the executioner placed tin iron collar about his neck; and I observed LL' mcuth contract. Then, however, a white covering thrown over his features hid then from further observation. The executioner then gave two or three turns of the screw con nected with the instrument of death. The bones of the neck cracked, a long trembling ran through the whole body; the arms twisted outward, the legs inward. Alvarez Olive was dead. Madrid Cor. New Orleans Times Democrat Remarkable Civility In Paris. The manner in which civility grows anl flourishes in Paris during the mouth of De cember is very remarkable. Your concierge, who is more likely than not to bo very dis obliging ten or eleven months out of th year, will begin to put on gracious manners In the first days of December, and will be come steadily more gracious, more smiliug moro anxious to serve you, until she has re ceived on or about Now Year's day the object she has had iu view in expending upon you a whole month's civility. All manner of peo ple are on the lookout, for etrennes show you various little attentions as the year is draw, ing to a close which they forget to show at other times. A favorite bit of strategy is to give you an almanac, so that by the time the new year opens you are in a position to hang a eaten dar hi each of your rooms and offer some more to your friends. People whose oecupa tions you know nothing about, or would rather know nothing about, look up between Christmas and New Year's day and inform you of the duties they have been in the habit of performing for you as well as others. Al together, the new year is a very bad tim for those whose incomes are as tightly fitted to normal conditions of existence as a hoop is ta a barrel. It is no wonder that some people actually run away from Paris for a month oi six weeks to pscaj)e the etrennes season. Paris Cor Boston Transcript A Question of Validity. A colored brother came to town a few day ago to consult a lawyer as to the validity of baptism. He said when be was baptized the I weather was rt-ry cold, and tho preacher, not t being very well, deputized two deacons to j take him down into the water and dip him, i while the preacher remained on the bonk and I repeated the ceremony. He bad been told by a white man that he had not been properly baptized, and he wanted to see a lawyer to ' j -... , . i- i , . rii ana out wanner it nma wgat vr uuu i.nw- ton (Go.) Leader. Pearls Before Swiae. There is a genuine case of pearls before swine at Merced, CaL At that point the San Joaquin river is very low, and in many places the river bed and the bottom of the large sloughs are covered with fresh water mussels. Pearls of fair color are sometimes found in these bivalves. At present droves of hogs are eating the mussels, pearls and alL The pork of the pearl fed swine la not at all palatable. Eau-as City Times. Abstractly, we do not believe in laws to force men to behave themselves. But con cretely, men must be helped to do right if they won't do so of their own accord. The Earth. THE PIRST National Bank ! OF COLUMBUS, If -HAS AN Authorized Capital of $250,000, A Surplus Fund of - $20,000, And the latwwt Paid im Cask Capital of any bank in this part of the State. J2eDeioMit received and interest paid on time deposit n. SSDrafts on the princ ipnl citiis in tliit coun try and Kuropc bought and sold. SSCollectiona and all other business Kifsa prompt and careful attention. STOCKHOLDERS. A. ANDEKSON. Pres't. HERMAN P. H.OEHLRICH. Vice Prea't. O.T.KOEN. Cannier. J- P. BgrKEIt, HERMAN OEHL1UCH, O. 8CIIUTTE, W. A. McALLJSTErl JONAS WEL4 II. JOHN W. EARLY. P. ANDERSON. (1. ANDERSON. ROBERT UlILlo. CARLREINKe! Aprfs-'aitf justness ards. l.T.Mum.v,M.D. F. J. Schco. M. D. Drs. MAETYH ft SCHTJG, U. S. Examining Surgeons, Cpn-ultation in Oermn und Emjliih. Tele phones at otticti and residences. "Om'ct. on Olive strtv-t, neit to Brodfush rer Jewelry Store. COLUMBUS. NEBRASKA. iZ-y TTAMII.TO: 9IEAVK, I. ., PlIYSlCrAX AXD SURUEOX, Platte Cwiter, Nebraska. 9-y LAW AXD COLLECTION OFFICE. Upstain Ernst building, 11th street. B II.I.Y" IOiF.M, PLAST-fiRER. tf-Ortier left at Arnold's or at his boas will nwive iiroir.pt attpntion. Aiayl&'SI-fim Ol I.I.IVA. A kKEIiCtt, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Office oyer First National Bank, Columbua. ZWI.rar.ktt. .r.0-tf r . i:vas, m. ., PHYSICIAX AX SURCKOX. ,1 ?ml ruouw. !luck buildtnK. 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