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Cflkmte Itfttnral. ic'd ,. j' . VOL. XVLLT.-NO. 17. COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1887. WHOLE NO. 901. m & COLUMBUS STATE BANK. COLUMBUS, NEB. Cash Capital - $75,000. DIRECTORS: LKANDER UKRRARD. Bres't. GEO. W. 1IULS1'. Vice Pn-Tt. JULIUS A. REED. K. 11. HENRY. J.E.TASKKU. Cashier. Raik r lenoit, SMm-uu Hi IS:chamsre. CallectleaN Praaaptly MMtlr All PalattM. rj latnreNl Tlr Ihk It. 274 COLUMBUS Savings Bank, LOAN & TRUST COMPANY. Capital Stock, g 100,000. OFFICERS: A. ANDERSON. Pro-'l. O. W. SHELDON. Vic PrwTt. O. T. UUKN, Treus. ROBERT UHLIG. Sc. - o jy WiU receive, time detiosite, from $1.00 and any amount upwards, and will pay tho cus tomary rat of interest. ESWo particularly draw jour attention to our facilities for malum; loans cm real estate, at tho lowest rate of interest. tWCity, School and County Bonds, and in dividual tiecuritiea are bonKht. lOjune'SHy FOR THE WESTERN GOfTiGE ORGAN CALL ON A. & M.TURNER Or . W. KIBrER, Trawellasr ilaa. (V"Tlie orirantt are fiit-clatut in every ;ar ticalsr, and mi iruaranteed. SCMFFMTH t PUTN, DKAI.KBS-IX WIND MILLS, AND PUMPS. Buokeye Mower, combined, Self Binder, wire or twine. flaps Repaired short lotiee tVOne door weat of He intz'a DniK Store. 11th tree. Columbus. Neb. 17novfi-tf HENRY G-ASS. U3STDEIIT AXEB ! COFFINS AND METALLIC CASES AMD PBALKR IN 4 TmmltMtm, Chain, Badataade. Bo--vsiaaa.TablM. Safe. Lounges, Ac. Picture Francs and MowldiBg. - .UT Repairing of all kinds of Uphol--" afe rg Goods. . -tf COLUMBUS. NEBRASKA. PATENTS CAfEiTS, THHE MARIS AM MP! EIC1TS ONaiwfirl. and all other basinee is the U. & VMrat Office attended to for MODERATE wcm. OBrosSoefcoaBosit the U. 8. Patent OfEce. ad w can obtain Patents in lea time than tbeee iwad from WASHINGTON. Bead MODEL OR DRAWING. W advise as tost tahilityfree of charge; and make NO CsfiJh&E UNLESti WK OBTAIN PATENT. W refer bet to the PostBaeter, the Bupt. of oner m., ana to osmosis or tbe u. B. OaVa, For circular, advice, terms and tea to acta! client ia jour own State or V wft fn "-. c.a.wmowoo at Otace, WaaUastoB, D. J.-C. ipBBS- XaL PROGRESS IN JAPAN. HOW THE PEOPLE BEGAN FARMING ON THE AMERICAN PLAN. MaaaraetHrlBg; Agrlcultaral Implements Under DlfficuUleaTrlal of ta Mrs Plow The Native Greatly Astoakaod. Watching Mowing ssachla at Work. In a few days I received the somewhat startling notice that the government had de termined to adopt ray advice, and that in a few days a force of native mechanic would be ready to work under my direction manu facturing the Implement. Aa I was no me chanic, and as I had always thought I had no mechanical ingenuity, I was in a very serious dilemma. To say that I could not do it was to loss all prestige. On the other hand, an attempt to do it would almost surely end in failure. I consulted with my American friends and they all encouraged me to go ahead and do the best I could. If there had been models to work from the imitative ca pacity of the Japanese would have been eqlu to the emergency, but we bad no models for thd more complex and difficult implements. However, I concluded that an American could do anything that anybody else had ever done and I accepted the responsibility, though with many misgivings. A small wooden building was put up and divided, one-half for a blacksmith shop and the other half for woodworkers. I started in on plows. We had to take the Japanese ingots of steel, the same as they had made their old swords from, and presumably the same as bad been used to make the old Damascus blades. It is the best steel now made in the world. With these little ingots these patient workers hammered away day after day as I bad directed until the first plowshare was finished. In the mean time the wood workers had made the beam and handles from the old oak in the Yeddo castle gate. When it had been pat together the plow had a very respectable ap pearance. TRIAL Or THE FIRST PLOW. Thk experiment had excited a great deal of attention from the Japanese officials, and I bad received notice that in a few days two or three cabinet officials would be present to see the plow work. At the appointed time they came, with a good deal of ceremony, and the plow was successfully tried. The astonish ment and delight of the officials were very great They invited me to a dinner and sent presents to tho mechanics who had made the first foreign plow ever constructed in Japan. Our little shop gradually grew until it became quite a factory. We made everything used on a farm except mowing and threshing ma chines. We even made thimble skein wagons, the thimble being east at the foundry of the navy department. I had to guess at the width of the track, having forgotten the width of the track of our wagons. When finished they looked well and worked well, but I now know that they were four inches wider than even the old Illinois wide track wagons. The most difficult task was to make spring steel fork tines and spring steel teeth for hay rakes, but we did both. HXMPKlf HARNESS. Iii the hurry of this work some oversights were bound to be made. One was in making harness. When all ready for that, we found that there was very little harness leather in Japan, and there was no time to import it. What was to be done was a very serioui question. My mental resources were nearly exhausted when I remembered having seen the negroes down south during the war plow ing with rope harness. Acting upon that, I had made 200 sets of hemp harness, every piece in the same shape as in leather harness, and they answered a very useful purpose. There was not a piece of leather about them, as we used canvas for the collars. When I arrived on the ground selected for the farm I found that I had not done with the plow question. Some portions of the pasture were covered with chestnut bushes, and the ground was full of large roots, so much so that no ordinary plow could cut them. In order to prepare this ground for plowing, men were put to grubbing out these roots. At even the extremely low price at which labor is paid there I soon saw that to grub out these bushes would be an expensive operation. I therefore had a plow made that could not be broken. It was made of wrought steel, cut a twenty-six inch furrow, and was strong enough to go through any obstacle. To this plow we attached nine horses, three abreast, and with it we went through the chestnut bushes as though they had been rushes. When the horses were thoroughly broken and the plowmen had gained experience, one man could plow from three to three and one-half acres per day with this big plow. THE NATIVES ASTONISHED. Near to our operations were large old farm ing districts with a numerous population. By the time our plows and harrows were suc cessfully running the fame of the foreign farm had spread to these people, and they came flocking in, whole villages making journeys to see the wonderful foreign imple ments work. With their mode of digging up the soil with a mattock an eighth of an acre is a good day's work for a man. When the farmers, who hsd never seen any other than mattock tillage, saw this great plow turning its twenty-six inch furrow at the rate of three acres per day. they held up their hands and cried, "Wonderful! WonderfulH Through the whole of the first year our labor saving machinery drew crowds of native farmers, some from a distance of more than 100 miles, and these journeys were mostly made on foot A greater wonder than the plow, even, were the mowing machines. Some of the pasture divisions were clear of brush, smooth as a house floor, with fine grass for hay. A pair of Japanese ponies, with a fifty-four inch sickle bar mower, could easily cut from twelve to fifteen acres per day, while with a Japanese grass knife a quarter of an acre was a good day's work. The sight of these mowers cutting a swath fifty-four inches wide, as fast as horses could walk, took the breath away from these simple people. SANQEROCS CURIOSITY. How the machine did it was the mystery, as the sickle and bar when work was being done was hidden in the grass. Their curiosity would lead them directly in front of the ma chine, in spite of the warnings of the driver, audit was found necessary to have a mounted attendant with each machine to save the limbs of the curious. A com shelter was another marvel, taking in the ears of corn and discharging the shelled corn at one open ing and the cobs at another. But what struck them dumb was a self raking harvester. The construction of that could b explained to their minds only on the grounds that the in ventor was a wizard and dealt in the super natural. H. latham in San Francisco Chronicle. MARRIAGE OF UN EQUALS. Women More Likely Than Men to Marry Beneath Their Intellectual Station. The genius of Milton never found a sweeter theme than the ideal marriage of our first parents in Eden, yet he who wrote so beauti fully of the married state was himself the victim of an unhappy marriage. Indeed, men of genius have, perhaps, been more un fortunate in this respect than ordinary mor tals, because, living on a higher plane of thought, it was more difficult for them to find a helpmate equal to themselves. The same is true, although not to the same extent, of women of genius who have married men In ferior to themselves In mind, because a wo man's nature has not only more endurance, but more adaptability In it than a man's. The man soon grows impatient of the con versation of a frivolous wife, especially if she disturbs his mental occupations, but the wo man often feels a pleasure in the homage of a commonpUne husband, if only he be an hon est aad considerate fellow, aad with her more than with man "pity Is akin to love." Hence it Is that there are probably more clever and highly gifted women who throw themselves away, as the phrase is, upon good aatured simpleton, taaa or talented men who fall in love with wosaea who are sot la inteUectaal sympathy with them. The world "marries and is given in mar riage," and the wedding bells ring on from age to age unceasingly, and yet how few who j witness the life contract of brides and bride groomsstopto consider the tremendous im portance of so brief a ceremony. Upon the mental, moral and physical quantise of the man and of the woman may depend the ac tions and results of actions of a succession of human beings in generations yet to come. The ungoverned will descends from sire to son, and the secretiveaess or aquMtiveness uncontrolled by other qualities ia the fattier or the mother may make the thief, the liar or the miser, who, a few decades hence, will be the black sheep of the family fold. An ungovernable temper married to aa ungov ernable temper may beget the murderer whom society is forced to hang for its own protection, but who may be as irresponsible before the tribunal of supreme justice as the lunatic is now held to be before our earthly courts. It has been said, coarsely, perhaps, in the ears of modern refinement, but with perfect truth, that while we take every precaution to insure high qualities ia the higher types of dogs and horses, we seem to think it a matter of no consequence to insure a noble nature to our own offspring. Brooklyn MgM FROM PISA TO NICEl A JTearaev Tarragh the Carta District f Italy. That part of the Italian coast which was recently shaken up by the earthquake is his torical Posting on the Coriaohe road used to be pert of a liberal education. I ntadea trip in the saddle once from Pisa, by Genoa, and through Monaco to Nice, where my galled jade gave up the ghost, and I took to the railroad. It was a wonderful journey. At the start H was fat a pleasant country. Then we came into the shadow of the Apen nines, in regions bleak and black with bandit history. Ruins and poverty were on all sides. Even the noble carriage road was advancing in decay. The locomotive mocked as as it went by, scaring the ghosts of Byroa and Coleridge, of Keats and SbeUsy, Lever, Dickens and the rest of the storied solitudes through which we rode. All that was left of their time and the remoter past was the beg gars. These no locomotive whistle could charm away. They stood guard, or squatted it, along the road, much closer than the mile stones. I never saw such horrible examples of bodily deformity and mutilation in my life as there. One of our party, a young Neapolitan student, assured me that there was a man in Naples who manufaetared crip ples for this trade. He took children and maimed and distorted them to order, and, no matter how short nature's supply of mon strosities might be, contrived to eke it out I thought my pleasant fellow traveler was draw lng the leaf bow until years later, here at home, I read in an Italian paper of the breaking up of a cripple factory in his own city, and the condemnation of the miscreant who ran it to penal servitude. The most beautiful part of the Comicbe is between Genoa and Nice. Here the tropics girdle the temperate sons with fruit and blossom. The Mediterranean is a. plain of sapphire, netted over with the white crests of the breaking wavelets. The fishing villages and the farms on either hand are like scenes at the opera. The only people who work are tlio convicts breaking stones to mend the roads. You have plenty of company, for there are winter resorts all along from Sa von to the French border. Here the Alps come down to the sea, and the oasa frets the feet of the eternal hill. They bagia at about San Remo. VentlmigUa Is among them, Mentone, too, aad Monaco is on a miniature Alpofstsowa. It was at this point that the earthquake did the least damage, according to report It caused most barm ia the Ri viera, as the street is called, from Baa Remo to Genoa. But the swells at Cannes, Nice and Mentone had a dreadful fright. Alfred Trumble ia New' York News. Kxpease Kaaalas; a Circus. "Now, there's the matter of the expense of running a ckcus," said Mr. Cooke. "Few people understand or know aaythlag about la, When they look at their biH aad read the line At an eaonaoas expense,' eta, nine out of every ten of them smile iacredulously. By the way, all lag circuses employ a man es pecially to write the programme and other bfiangraatter. WesLthe auaaral public, as I said, looks upon all atatemeatsof thissort as snare figures of speech. But I eaa show you dearly that there Is no particular fun in owning or running a large drone, and that there is Uttte or ao exaggeration in the figures generally giTsaaa the upsass of operatiag the shows. "Before we exhibit in a dty at all the first expense we hMvfaskatrfadvsrtiemr This department aloas entails aa expense of about 1800 per day. This covers all the outlay neces. aary to bring the show before she pubUo eye, and the newspapers naturally get the lion's share of it The rest Is laid out la pictorial paper for the walk aad bill boards, la litho graphs for store windows, la bill posting, livery hire, etc. You see, we 'bill every town within fifty miles of that in which we halt, and each country road or school district k thoroughly canvassed by our bill posters aad mounted buglers the latter an Innovation of my own introduced a few years ago. These bugler carry huge bandies of bilk on horse back, and as they ride through the country, blowing loud biases at every farm or cross road, they create a great sensation. I have often seen the farm hands leave the plow and run a quarter of a mite or more ia the scorch ing sun to ascertain what was up, aad then, having found out, walk leisurely back reed ing our advertisements." New York Cor. Boston Herald. She rtxea HI Btouse. We had gone- into winter quarters at Charleston, W. Va. Some new recruits had arrived for the Thirty-sixth Ohio, aad oae of them was finding fault with the government for not putting more pockets In hk blouse . It happened that the wife of Gen. R. B. Hayes was on a visit to the general and was stopping at headquarters. Some of the boys told the grumbler that be could get a pocket put in hk blouse; that Gen. Hayes kept a seamstress at headquarters on purpose to patch their clothes aad sew on buttons. "Yes," said one, "the general k always on the lookout for the welfare of hk men. Only the other day he had a man arrested for sew ing on some buttons. The idea of a soldier patching hk clothes when the general has a woman for that purpose! If you want an other pocket in your blouse take it to the general; you will find the lady there. Tell them what you want and you will soon get it" He was soon on hk way to hosdqnartw . while we watched to see the fun. The recraftasarcs up and th general returned hk salute aad said: "Well, my good man, what can I do for your "General the boys told me share was a woman here to sew for the soldiers, aad I wanted to get a pocket put in thk blouse." Before the general coukl answer Mrs. Hayes spoke up aad said: "Certainly, certainly; leave your blouse for an hour or so and yea shaU have a pocket in it" When the soldier returned with the pocket in hk blouse, aad the boys told him who the lady was, we realised that we had carried the joke too far aad had laipnsml oa oae of the best aad truest women at the world. National Tribune. Peat as Factory FaeL The use of peat as fuel ia factories has b creased so greatly ia Russia that a peat bog has become more valuable than a well tim bered forest Many mauufartaieri are giv ing up the use of wood for peat Caicagc THE LAVE TRADE. AN OLD ENGINEER TELLS WHAT KNEW OF THE BUSINESS. HE Ia the Days When Negro Were Brought From Africa and Sold la New Or lean White Girl Sold to African Chiefs. ' "Yes," said William Jack Haynes, the cen tenarian, the other day, "I was in the slave trade for three years that k, I was engineer on the steamship Grampus, which ran from New Orleans to Africa for three years, buy ing negroes In Africa and Gelling them in New Orleans." "How did you get possession of the negroes to bring them overi" "I will tell you how we generally managed, and we always had a good load on our return trip. You know in those days, fifty or sixty years ago, the servant girls in the south were of a very ordinary and worthless kind, and would An mSninot anvthlnir Mnnv .nf thnm had no home, and few. if any, friends, andjj9- " descriptive geometry was pub so no one noticed their departure. The capT?bea In Paris by Professor Monge.-Chicag6 departure. The cap tain of the ship Grampus would induce a num ber of these girls to go on board as servants, and when we reached the coast of Africa we would cast anchor, and the captain and hk men would have the boats lowered and go ashore. They would soon ascertain where the chief or head man of the tribe lived, and then they would tako one or two or the girls ashore with them and pay a visit to the head of the Mivage tribe. The girls were always willing to go 'and see the country,' and when they reached the African chief they were made an article of merchandise, just as were the trinkets that we carried over with them. The captain would negotiate by signs when no interpreter could be had, and the bavage chief most always was charmed with tlio white girls, and was possessed with a strong desire to have them remain. He would give them all kinds of presents and nuke much ado over them, and it was by taking advantage of tins weakness that the captain was alimfet always successful in bartering them to him fores many negroes of hk tribe as be could carry away. Sometimes he would have to leave two girls if he brought back very many Africans." MORE OR LESS STRATEGY. "These girts were then forced to stay F "There was always more or less strategy used, and they generally consented to remain until the ship returned. Through tho over tures of the chief and the aurunce that everything the country afforded would be at their command, and partly through the threats of the captain and hk promises to re turn, they generally remained, seemingly con tent to wait for our return, but always waited in vain. We would moke up our loe.il of slaves, turning a certain nuir.N?r of them in each evening and storing them securely in the hold, and, by repeating this each day, we would, with the chiefs help, soon get as many as we cared to sail with. They were never obstreperous, and-seemed perfectly content as long as they got plenty to eat, and were joy ous in their barbaric conversations in the ship's bold. Occasionally one would die, and we would throw him into the sea, and then the others would make strange motions. I think they woi stuped the sun and moon when in their own country." "And could you get a ship load of negroes for two servant girls r" "Yes, sir; that's what we did. Of course, there were more or less trinkets given, but we never hoped to accomplish anything until we had made peace with the chief of the tribe, and thk could most always be done with two girls. We never left more than three with the bead of a tribe." "What kind of slaves did you prefer to bringr "We always picked up the young bucks, say from 17 to 20 years old. We also brought a number of females about the same age. Wo frequently brought them all up on deck, but when a storm came they would drop back to the hold in an instant at the wave of a white hand. They were obedient, and I never knew one to show any Inclination to be other wise." "What report would you give on your re turn of those girls who went out with yout" THET LEARNED THE TRUTH. "They were, as a rule, never inquired after, but on one occasion a girl whom we left hap pened to belong to a pretty good family, and when we returned to New Orleans her friends were on band to meet her, and when she did not appear they besought the captain eagerly as to what had become of her. He informed them that she had preferred to remain In the sunny land until the good ship returned. Thk did not at all satisfy them, and they pushed their inquiries day and night until they learned the truth, and Capt Johnson (for thk was hk name) was in danger of being mobbed, when he quietly set sail one evening and passed down tho river and out through the gulf, and I never heard of him after ward." "Then you did not return to Africa!" "No; it was just at thk time that I bad an offer to take chargo of an engine on the first steamboat ever run on the lower Mississippi, and I accepted it" "When you were in the slave trade did you ever return to the place from where you se cured your previous cargo" "No, Indeed; wo would always goto some other point, but we heard afterward that tho girk left there did much good for the natives, teaching them to sew, cook and work." "Did the Africans have any idea at the time that they were being sold into slavery I" "Not the slightest They thought from the signs that had been made to them that they were coming to a place where all was lovely; where the sun shone brighter and the moon looked larger, and to eat tropical fruit would be their chief employment Sad, indeed, must they have felt when they began to realise that they had been sold into slavery, from which it was as impossible for them to extricate themselves as it would be to change the color of their own skin." "How many did you bring to America in all r "I kept no record of thk myself, but on one occasion I remember well we had ono thousand on board, and we landed them safely in New Orleans. They were all sold in tees than a week. We brought six shiploads over during the three years I was with th ship, and I suppose the total number would be at least 7,000." "Where were they kept in New Orleans until they were soldi" "They were taken to what was known as the negro pen, which we an inclosure where a large shed was built In thk inclosure were cots of straw, and they slept there until they were driven off by their new masters to the cotton and sugar plantations, from which many of them were never released until death. St Louis Republican. THE ORIGIN OF GEOMETRY. The Discovery of Its Principle Ascribed to the Aueleat Egyptians. The origin of thk science k ascribed to the Egyptians, who, having their landmarks an nually washed away by Inundations, In efforts to devise a plan for readily restoring them, discovered the principle of geometry. From them Thales, of Miletus, one of the "seven wke men" of Greece, k said to have learned the elements of the science. He Introduced it into Greece about 600 B.C. Pythagoras, half a century later, having also learned the sci ence of the Egyptians, enriched it by the proposition which still bears hk name, to wit, that the square described oa the hypotheneuse of a right angled triangle k equal to the sum of the squares oa the other two sides. Plato, about 390 B. C, invented the study of conic sections, and through these and the as of the analytic method of demonstration he made great advances In the science. The elements of geometry ware compiled by Euclid. 380 B. C. Thk author introduced a device of reasoning that has been found very useful where neither direct proof (the cynthetic method) or tho analytic method could be readily used; it consists in proving the truth of a proposition by assuming it con trary as truth and showing that thk implies a logical absurdity. Apollonlus was a geometer who lived about 230 B. C, and whose work in the science has not been sui passed by the most brilliant achievements of others since. Archimedes, a contemporary of Apollonius, first inscribed polygons in circles. Hipporchus, in the second century before Christ, and Ptolemy, in the second century after Christ, applied mathematics to astronomy. From about 550 to 1000 A. D., during the darkness of tho Middle Ages, the science made no advance and was little studied. Viet, who lived from 1540 to 1603, revived the ancient geometry. The demonstrations of Kepler, Roberval and Pascal in the seven teenth century greatly stimulated geometrical Investigation. But to Descartes, who pub lished a volume of geometrical problems in 1(337, the world owes chiefly the invention of analytic of modern geometry. Newton dis covered the differential calculus in 1CG5. In Inter Ocean. Novel Id la Advertising. In France, the original idea of substituting some fair damsels for the negroes, who, in our land, and for a consideration, sandwich themselves between two posters and perform the functions of an ambulating signboard, was based on the Salvation Army. A Frenchman, observing the quaint charm of some of the young damsete in their odd gowns and poke bonnets who offered tracts to an unbelieving public on a street corner of Paris, conceived tho idea of utilizing femi nine loveliness as an advertising medium for new costumes. The name and the address of the inodkte who creates the work of art are introduced tastefully in some portion of the garment, and the advertiser, who k naturally chosen for her aptitude in displaying this chef d'eeuvre to the best advantage, prom enades to and fro on a frequented street, so that all who walk may read. There k nothing grotesque in the introduc tion of the advertisement, so that as the costume knot impaired in its elegance, it k perhaps tho most effectual method of adver tising discovered in modern times. For it seems that the Roman hippodrome had its well filled bench of advertisers in tho sbspo of girls who were clad in tho lost fashion of peplums and trailing skirts, to be studied and admired by the excellent Roman matron, who in thk way was informed exactly where to shop on the following morning. Fashion able and witty women in Athens performed the same role for compatriots of their own sex not gratuitously, of course, but receiving proper compensation from tho Grecian modiste, who thus brought her wares before the public. The Argonaut Christian Converts from BuddhUm. I met a gentleman a few days ago who has hut recently returned from a residence of several years in India. He k well educated, and during bis long residence In the land of Buddhism he turned his attention especially to the effects of Christianity upon the fol lowers of Gautama. At first he was deeply impressed by the devotion shown by the ua tivea who professed to have embraced the religion of the western world. He found them faithful in their attendance at the ser vices held by the missionaries and very care ful in following out the instructions given them by their teachers. In fact, they were, as a rule, for more devout than tho members of the European colonies. After studying them for some time, how ever, my friend became convinced that a very large percentage of the apparently con verted natives were far from being sincere in their protestations. While parading before the Europeans as devoted Christians they were secretly as faithful followers of Buddha as even the most punctilious member of the Exalted Order of the Star of India could wish them to be. My friend found that the native of India, like the heathen Chinee; had a great deal that was "artful and bland" about hk character, and simply pulled the wool over the missionaries' eyes in order to keep in the good graces of the Europeans. He explained that a native who was known to have embraced the religion of the west en joyed a great many more advantages among tho Europeans residing in India than the one who failed to renounce Buddhism. "Ram bler" in Brooklyn Eagle. Sparring by Ladle. An opinion in suppoi t of the efficacy of the exercise comes from one of the leading actresses of the day, who thus speaks of spar ring by ladies: " If a lady engaged in theatri cal or operatic work could select but one of the many accomplishments to which we as a class are devoted I should recommend spar ring. The stately carriage, without which none of us can hope to succeed, k made the more easy by a knowledge of the principles of boxing, and it comes, too, without any teeming effort The grace of motion that some believe conies only after having spent days and weeks with the foils or under the tutelage of a dancing master k just as easily acquired by sparring, and I think in a much less time. Our most successful actors and actresses are those that include among their other accomplishments that of the principles of self-defense. Langtry, Modjeska, Fanny Davenport, Mary Anderson and others are all adept in the art, and I am glad to know that the younger members of the profession arc beginning to devote some attention to the matter." New York Mail and Express. Collected the Kisses. The other day while a young deputy post master was engaged at his work in stepped one of our bashful maidens of sweet 16 with a money order which she desired to havo cashed. She banded it, with a bashful smile, to the official, who, after closely examining it, gave her the money it called for. At the some time he asked her if she had read what was on tho margin of the order. "No, I have not," she replied, "for I cannot make it out Will you please read it to met" The deputy read as follows: "I send you $3 and a dozen kisses." Glancing at the bashful girl he said: "Now I have paid you the money and I sup pose you want the kisses." "Yes," she said, "if he has sent mo any kisses I want them too." It is hardly necessary to say that- the balance of the order was promptly paid, and in a scientific manner at that, and eminently satisfactory to the maiden, for she went out of the office smacking her lips as if there was a taste upon them she had never encountered before. Eastou (Pa.) Argus! Plates Snowed Vader. A Nevada newspaper says that a citizen recently saw two Piute bucks dig a hole in a mow bank, get into it, and wrap themselves In a single blanket, preparatory to a night rest In the morning he saw no signs of the Indians, but a mound of snow marked the ipot where they went to bed. He was sure that they had frozen during the night, and prepared to dig out the bodies, but the first thrust of th) shovel brought the bucks to their feet, with grunts of disgust Instead of seing frozen, they were moist with perspira tion. New York Sun. Glacer la the South. Ginger k said to succeed well in all the states bordering on the Gulf of Mexico, but it has not yet been demonstrated whether it will prove to be a profitable crop or not A Florida paper makes suggestions about the method of cultivating it Chicago Times. Why He Ws There. "Don't you dawnse, Fred?" "No, dear boy; I'm invited out for facial expression." New York Journal. my The New York court of appeals has re iffirmed a former decision that the elevated railroads in New York city must pay for lamages through loss of light and air to along the lines. Chicago Times. FINE HAND SEWING. A GREAT DEMAND FOR GIRLS WHO CAN DO GOOD WORK. Oae or the Oldest aad Moat Honored of Calling Safferlag for lack of Worhersi Good Wage for First Class Work. "There k so much talk nowadays about woman's work and the few avenues open to her, and yet one of the oldest and most hon ored of callings k suffering for want of work ers," said a well known lady the other day, whose connection with the Young Women's Christian association, the Women's exchange and other similar institutions has brought her into contact with workers of all classes teachers, dressmakers, musicians, nurses, saleswomen, factory and shop women, and all the great host who earn their living by doing something; which. Is considered "not menial" "I mean hand sewing," said the speaker. "We have constant oaUs to supply first class plain sewers, bus very few are on our list By thk term I do not mean those who can hem sheets or table cloths, or Anything of that kind only, but girk who can hem stitch and tuck, put on embroidery and lace, and do all kinds of sewing necessary in, the making of underwear, baby linen and fine bed linen. Such work requires a dainty hand, and k an art that the gentlewomen of a past generation put among their accomplishments. We find very few girk fitted for thk work, and yet there k a large demand for it" As k well known, people of wealth in New York do not care for machine sewing. Every article of underwear and all the household linen, and especially the children's garments, are oil hand sewn. Many families employ a seamstress by the mouth for thk purpose, but there must be a thousand others who would employ one by the day or week. FIRE HAND SEWING. A young lady who has made her living by hand sewing for the past two years was sought out and interviewed on the subject She was found in a neat little fiat on the east side living with her sister, who teaches in one of the public schools, and with her mother. At first she was not inclined to talk on the subject, but afterward consented to tell of her success. "I always thought I should like to lie a teacher, but my people were not able to kecj: me at school long enough, and I was kept at home by illness also. When I found out that 1 must earn my living some other way I ap plied for a position in a store and got it; but I was home ill in two months. 1 could not stand for so many hours. What to try next I did not know; but a kind friend said, ' Why not do sewing! you sew so beautifully.' So I advertised to do all lands of fine hand sowing, and also applied at tho Women's exchange, and soon I bad work. Now I have more than I can da" " How much do you make at It T" "Well, more than my sister, who has been teaching for three years. I charge two dol lars a day when I work at people's houses, and by the piece when I work at home. I confino myself almost entirely to malting fine underwear and baby outfits, and my mother earns considerable doing embroidery for the same garments. Many people employ me who once bought nil such things in Paris. They find that it can be done here for half the expense. Frequently they bring roo an imported garment and ask me to make a half dozen like it " I do not think working on fine white cam bric and linen- half so injurious to the eyes and lungs as general dressmaking. I am try ing to induce my sister to give up teaching and do work similar to mine. I expect to go to Newport thk summer, and am engaged by five different families. I shall go from one house to the other and keep all thu fine, white dresses and lingerie ia order, and make new ones when desired. I am always treated nicely, and I think going among refined peo ple k better than teaching in a public school or working in a store." ROOK AT THE TOP. Thk young lady k evidently at the top of the ladder at hand sewing, and it would seem as though there was plenty of room for others on the different rounds. From seventy-five cents to $1.50 are the. usual prices paid to band sewers, and this, of course. Includes meals. There are a number of women who earn a living by doing tho family darning and mending. In all households of any sizo thk k no light task; and three families would give many a woman constant employment; $1.60 a week would not be missed by thou sands of New York housekeepers, who would make double that amount in knowing that all the shirts were suppled with buttons uud the stockings nicely darned. A higher branch k the making of bed and table linen and keeping them in repair. Thk kmuch neglected in most households, and as there k generally no one on hand competent to mend fluo linen, it k used torn as it comes from the laundry, and much costly damask injured for want of a little care. "There k such a fashion at present for everything hnd made," said the amiable president of one of the various employment agencies connected with institutions in thk dty, "that I think 3,000 or 4,000 womer coukl earn a competency by doing hand sew ing. Wehavehadseversldemandsof latefrom would be employers, but were unable to find enough neat and expert band sewers. The trouble kthat very few girk are taught to sew by hand as they were some twenty yean ago, and gathers, gussets, fellings and such terms are hardly known to them. The work has its drawbacks, of course, but as other fields seem overstocked it k strange that more have not come into thk one." New York Journal Only An English Actor. "Great Scott!" suddenly said an old fash ioned American, "what is that P A simper ing young gentleman, obviously tminted, pearl white, rouge and block cosmetic having been freely employed to touch up a faco that suggested a juvenile edition of that aged London butterfly, Laria, Marchioness of Allesbury, suddenly presented Ihuu?lf. Flow ing locks, unmistakably guilty of tlio "aurif erous golden hair wash," framed this care fully prepared countenance. A sky blue moucboir was thrust into a white waistcoat "What kit, I say P roared the old fashioned American. People began to titter. The ex planation was easy only an English actor, who plays and recites and mocks the garish light of day with a "make up" unlike most other actors and actresses, who have quite enough of "painting their noses" when they ore obliged to do so. "English I I knew it! English! Thank God!" ejaculated the old fashioned American. "Come; let's get out of thk! The hansoms, the 8 o'clock tea and and that are too much for me. Let's go and have some terrapin and duck." If you use your eyes and ears very much in New York you will soon ask yourself seri ously if the American people have the mental and moral stamina to profit by inheriUd wealth. You will wonder if leisure k not the very worst thing that can fall to the lot of a lad. Americans ought to have good, strong, tough fibers enough to stand such things with out going down under them. But is it so J In most countries it k the clam of heirs to wealth and idleness that seta the standard of literature, upholds art and encourages science. But if either one of the trio were to depend, sven slightly, upon that same class in thk country it would find Itself leaning on a reed. Clara Belle in Cincinnati Enquirer. Five Minute Kaough. "You were speaking of Stephen Field as a grave and sedate justice, now that he is full of years and honor and occupies a seat in one of the greatest judicial bodies in the world," said another of the party, "but I remember him when he was as gay and rollicking a lad as the best of us. When the mining camp at what k bow Nevada City was first organised young Lawyer Fkld was elected a joaticoof the peace. Probably the toughest member of the new camp was a noted desperado. Jack Keyuokk by name. One day Reynolds was arrested on a charge of horse stealing. It was a trial by jury, with Justice Field pre siding. The evidence was not strong enough to convict, but as everybody was anxious to get rid of Reynolds the verdict was: 'Wo find the prisoner at the bar not guilty, but if be k wise he will leave the camp in thirty minutes.' The verdict amused the young justice immensely, but he repeated it to Rey nolds with due solemnity. Reynolds, whose sense of the ridiculous was quito as keen as that of the jury, calmly replied, as be gave hk trousers an extra hitch: 'Gents, if the mule don't buck I'll be out in five. -Cincinnati Enquirer. CURIOUSLY MIMETIC INSECTS. How Maylayan llotterflle Hide Them selvesFlies Which Kesemble Wps. There k a certain butterfly in tho islands of the Malay archipelago (its learned name., if anybody wishes to be formally introduced, k Kalima paralekia) which always rests among dead or dry leaves, and has itself leaf like wingsall spotted over at intervals with wee speckles to imitate the tiny spots of fungi on the foliage It resembles. The well known stick and leaf insects from tho same rich neighborhood in like manner exactly mimic the twigs and leaves of tho forest among which they lurk; some of them look for all the world like little bits of walking bamboo, while others appear in all varieties of hue, as if opening buds and full blown leaves and pieces of yellow foliago sprinkled with the tints and molds of decay had of a sudden raised themselves erect upon six legs and be gun incontinently to perambulate the Malayan woodlands like vegetable Frankensteins in all their glory. The larva of one such deceptive insect, ob served in Nicaragua by sharp eyed Mr. Belt, appeared at first sight liko a mere fragment of the moss on which it rested, its body being all prolonged into little thread like green fila ments, precisely imitating tho foliago urouud it Once more, there are common fiiei which secure protection for themselves by growing into the counterfeit presentment of wasps or hornets, and so obtain inmitmity from tho at tacks of birds or animals. Many of theso curious mimetic insects are banded with yel low and black in the very image of their stinging originals, and have their tails shar cned, in tvrroreiii, into a pretended sting, to give oint and verisimilitude to the deceptive resemblance. More curious still, certain South American butterflies of a perfectly inoffensive and edible family mimic in every spot and lino of color sundry other butterflies of an utterly unrelated and fundamentally dissimilar type, but of so disagreeable a taste as never to be eaten by birds or lizards. Conihill Magazine. Big Clrrua Pay Knits. Tho salary Iit of a good sized circus runt anywhere from STiOO to$l,.VX) a day. Forc pnuglTs jay roll calls for the latter amount, and the list of the Bariium blmw Ls claimed to be even higher. These figures include tho jiay of performers, agents, hostlers, cnnvai in.ii, grooms and trainmen, or "razor Iwick.s," (ls the latter aio faietluliily called. Of course, the jierforiiiers get tho most money. Lost season the Mai mini people paid an English trio ot trnjezo ierforiners Loin, Lola und Sylvester tho latter a man i'H) a wi-ek and their expense. Foix-i.tugh ixiys William Showles, the bareback rider, "250 a week, and yet has some eijuestiians in his employ who draw as low as i'Si or $30 weekly. Acrobats are always well paid when their act k graceful and diverting. They generally navel in teams of two and three and do what are known as "brother nets.' Tho three Lamartine brothers, for instance, draw $150 a week from Forepaugh's iny clerk. Many of these performers do two or thi ee different acts, and, indeed, they will tackk almost anything from a dying trapeze to a horizontal bar, whij nearly all the good tum blers and leapers, are easily und advantage ously used in "the grand tumbling and tin ale'' so familiar to circus goers. There nro many groups of performers who turn themolu into "families," and by doing it daring act of some novel kind are often able to get f-XX) or $300 a week. Clowns are exceedingly plenti ful, and may be engaged for 03 low as f'JO a week. Still, good jesters like Billy llurke, Johnny Purvis, Charley Madden and Billy Conrad get $75 a week. Boston Heiuld. Got There Nevertheless. A city hall official was standing on tin Woodward avenue steps of that strut-tuns yesterday when a man who had his baud ot hk stomach came up and said: "Beg pardon, but you have the look of a physician au eminent physician." "Oh, I'm no doctor," was the reply. "Sorry for that, but perhaps you can giv me some information. What are the symp toins of poisoning;" "Have you been poisoned!" "Well, I have queer feelings in my stom ach." "Is it a burning sensation?" "No." "Do you have spasmodic pains?" "Not ytt" "Feel shivery, with a great thirst and heatP "No, nothing like that 1 feel a complete goneness for about a foot up und down here, and every tlmo I think of ham mid eggs my mouth waters." "Why, it may be hunger." "I shouldn't a bit wonder if it was, being I haven't eaten anything for thirty -fix hours." The official uttered a "Humph"' looked the nan over three or four times, and then handed him twenty cents and said: "Better get some now scheme. It takes too long to come to the point in this." De troit Free Press. Beating the Company. Said a gentleman connected with one of tho street railway lines: "You would be sur prised to know bow many people attempt to beat tho companies out of a fare. Two labor ers near the terminus of the road will board a car in the early morning, put a fare in the box, tender tho other to the driver and jointly advise him to get all out of the road lie can. If he accepts neither of them ever pays that driver again, and they generally wait for his car. But such a practice k not confined to that class. Young men ride on the front platform to smoke, and by adroitly abusing the company manage to pay the driver, who takes the chances of discharge. "A certain business man has caused the dis cbarge of several drivers. He hands his money for change, leaves a nickle with the driver, fumbles at the box while the lever k jerked down and fancies that no one will dis cover that the company has been robbed." Louisville Courier-Journal lle First American irlag. 8. 8. Stafford, of Baltimore, say that Sam uel Bayard Stafford, of Trince George county, Md., has bequeathed to him the first American flag ever made, which was hoisted on tho Bouhouinio Richard at the time of the battle with the British frigate Scrnpis. The flag was tlie property of Lieut James Staf ford, the father of S. B. Stafford and the grandson of Col Jacob Stafford, who fought under Stark at Bennington. Chicago Tribune. A Mythical Church. For years New Yorkers have been con tributing to the support ot s. "little colored church" supposed to exist in their midst An 'investigation showed tho church was a myth, and the supposititious pastor, who has been living on their bounty, has been "sent to the island" for three months. Chicago Times. The tombs of La Fontaine and Moliere, in Perw LaChuise, are crumbling rapidly to ruin, ami scarcely a letter of the inscriptions k now visible. Idoan' belief half I hear ouless it vbss icandaL Den I belief it all and more too. Carl Dander, National Bank ! OK COZ.XJ-AI-I3XJ8. NEB. -HAS AN- Authorized Capital of $250,000, A Surplus Fund of - $20,000, And the lariceet Paid ia Cask Capital or any buuk in this iart of the State. KleoitH received and intcrtMt paid on timedeiHwitH. CJT?DrnfjH tin the princ ii nl citim in I l.it coun try and Knnim bought and Mild. OTolloctioun and all other Imxiuttut k!i'U prompt and careful nttetitiou. HTOCKIIOLDrH.H. A. ANDKHSON. Pn-i't. 11KKMAN l H.OEHLltiril. VicePrea't. O.T.KOEN. Cashier. J. P. BECKER. HERMAN OKIILKH'll. O.STHUTrE, W. A. MoALLlSTKIL JONAH WKLt'H, JOHN W.EARLY. P. ANDERSON. O. ANDERSON. KOKK1CT UlILitJ. CARLKEINKK ApraVStftf justness &ards. D. T. Martvn, M. D. V. J. Scnro. 31. l. Drs. HABTTH & SCHUG, U. S. Examining Surgeons, Ixx-al Surp-onH, Union Ilu-ifiV. O.. N. & B. H. and 11 A. 31. 11 Rh. CoiiHultation in (ionium und KiikIMi. Telo phouen at otlico uud rce idences. 3?-Oumi mi Olive street, next to Rrodfueh rern .leu.-lrj Store. COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA. 42-y Dajiimoa mkau:,:?.. 1 j'hysicux axl sum; box, I'lattetVnter. NnhrasKa. l-j w A. .UcillJJNTKK, ATTIWXEV ,f XOT.IKV 1'UHLIC. OHiee iifctair in Ih-urj limldiiiK. i-orm-r of Olive ami tltli btrtftx. iuiKl-b7) vv. - -ok:i.H!a. LAW AXU COUJU'TIUX OFFHJU. L'liatiiiid l'riet Imililiiu;. Hill utre. t. '-.. JOAI, PLARTEREK. JST Orders Hft at Arnold's or Hi. hm iii, will ivie prompt attention. JlaylsW-iini OUI.IMYAft .v :. it:st. .1 TTORXEYS AT LA 11", OHice over First National Bank, CoInmhuM, Nebraska. jf VHVSICI.IX AXI SUM.noX. i-Otjieu and rooum, Olu.-k huildinir, lllli stritt. It'iepl. on-communication. y ATTOKXKV .r XOV.IL'V i'CltUC. fcerotlio. over Fir-t National R ink, Colum bus, ifl. nir.lt. i. roii. fr:iJKi::Y. COL'XTV .SL'Kl'KYOR. MfrVrtitB deuirinx Mirvejiiu: done c;in ml dreHrt me at ( oluinhua, .NVI... r ,-ull at my othco in ( ourt IloiiM'. riuinj'i-y lyTOlU 1'. TOTKACHKHM. W. H. Tedrow, Co Supt. I will be at my otlicein the Court Bounetlm third .Nttun!a of eiu-li month for tl. examina tion of U-arJit rw. X'.Mf D It. J. II, IX. Wll.l.u., UKIJTSC 'HKR ATZT. ('olimil)UM, Xt-hnixka. ,f "0iee llth Street. Consultations in En-Klii-li. ritncli and (iirumn. SlmarBT UTAI.IJKAI' KKON, S3rKXP-KESiiMEX.-&ai Coiney KiMnlti lirtween any Mintr of tlie city, hand ruitnble for plimteriiu; and hiiildiui; pur pown, furnished in any part of city or on hoard earn ut reasonable prices. 3Uumrt7y JOHN (111 IilOINS. C. J. .HARLOW, Collection Attorney. HIGGINS & GABL0W, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, Secialty luiule of Collections by C. J. (Jarlow. 21-m v. v. kij:v:vc:k, ji. d., HOMOEOPATHIST. Chronic Diseases and Diseases of Children a Specioltv. ,W Otliccon ()lieMret. threw doors north of First National Bink. 2-ly rp if.ici:s4:3iK, llth St., opposite Lindell Hotel. S'Hm Hami-H, Saddles. Collars, Whips. Blankets, Currj Comln. Brut-Ins, trunks, tuiiM. huggy tops, cushions, carriaK ti-inmiinj;f. Ac., ut tlio lowest iMissiblu prices. lYp.:irn promptly at tended to. R. C BOYD, MNtirtUTUIIKK OF Tin and Sheet-Iron Ware ! Job-Work, Roofing and Gutter ing a Specialty. fcf Shop oil Olive strt-et, "J ilin.ro north or Brodfuelirer'n Jewelr Store. Xi-tt gll1"1 'Vf at home, and innko inoro W 1 1 1 1 money M work for us. than at anj I Ithinc !- in the Hoild. Capital not I VVnKilrtl; on are started fr.-.-. Roth sies. all u-s. Anyone can ilo the work. Ivtrux earnings sure from first start. Costly outht and terms frwe. Better not d Ihj. t 'oris jou notlnui; tosfiid us jour address and tmd out; if jou arn wis- you w ill do so at once. II. 11 llktt A. 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