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Iff- i--"-- - ., - - ft fel ? 0untaL "IT. - - - l X. J S i .-w .- -i-.t- -.: lL -26?- zv VOL. XVIII.-NO. 29. COLTTMBTTS, XEB., WEDNESD4Y, NOVEMBER 9, 1887. WHOLE NO. 913. (MamMts m . U-J. I t COLUMBUS STATE BAM. MLUMBUS, NEB. Cash Capital - $75,000. DIRECTORS: LKANDERGKRKARD, Pn.-.'t. OEO. W. IIULST, Vice Pnw't. JUMUS A. UKKI). K. H. HKNKY. J. K. TASKKK. Cashier. m1 EichaK. CallecCleBM l'ramptly Made mil PelMtN. ly latercNl on Tin epe It. 274 COLUMBUS Savings Bank, LOAN & TRUST COMPANY. Capital Stock, SI 00,000. OFFICERS: rA. ANDERSON. l're-'t. O. W. SHELDON. Vice 1'ivs't. O. T. ROEN, Treas. ROBERT UHLia. Sec. - 33"WU1 receite time deposits, from $1.00 and any amount upwards, and will psy the cus tomary rate of interest. o iF"We particularly draw jour attention to oui facilities for making loans on real estate, at the lowest rate of interest. - --o fcTity, School and County Bonds, and in dividual securiti are lioueht. Ifijune'lMy FOR THE CALL OS w .XaaBBBBIc WESTERN GOfrAKE ORGAN I A.&M.TURNER mwr WW. WW m Travellaf; NnlcMMaa. C3R"Thes' organs are fiiM-class in every iir ticular, and so uuantuUvd. SCHIFFROTH i PLTH, DKILEKH IN - WIND MILLS, AND PUMPS. W ' Buckeye Mower, combined, Self Binder, wire or twine. Paaps Repaired 01 short lotice . SSOno door west of Heinls's Drug Store, 11th -Street, Columbus. Neb. 17uov-tI HENRY G-ASS. COFFINS AND METALLIC JaSES AND DKAUCR IN Furniture, Chairs, Bedsteads, Bn- reaua. Tables, Safes. Lounges, Ac. Picture Frames and Mouldings. F Repairing of oil hinds of Uphol stery Good. ft-tf COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA. PATENTS awM--- J CAYEtTS, TKilE MI1K MB CiPIWCITS y' Obtained, and all other business in the U. 8. patent UHice auenuea 10 lor auuuuiz. FEES. Oar office is opposite the U. S. Patent Office, mad we can obtain Patents in lees time than those 7mo(b Croat WASHINGTON. , . SasdMODEL OB DRAWING. -We advise as to patentability free of criarws and make NO C0ME UNLESS WE OBTAIN PATENT. We refer bere to the Postmaster; the Supt. of IbBwV Order Div.,sBd to official of Che U.8. BttatXMoeC For circulars, advice, terns and refsrsace to actual clients in your own State or Opposite PateatOSoe, Waehuston7DTC. EI Safe, safo in port! Ah! Hewed is that long expected hour. When, safe from all the cruel sea's dread power. From furied iitonns and tides and buffetings. The driven ship folds close its beaten wings. And o'er the peaceful waters of the bay Is heard tiie seaman's gladsome roundelay Safe, safe in port! Safe, safe in port! A!i! blessed is that longed for, hungered hour, When, safe from all life's dread and hurtful power. From woe of waiting drear and doubt's deep stiugs, The breaking heart no longer sobs, but sings; Ami, narbored in love, consecrate and leal. Through homeside bliss the soul's true love songs safe in port! Edgar L. Wakeman in Good Housekeeping. THE CANNIBAL ISLANDS. The" 'two vfctcmihost islands of the Sandwich group are known by various names. The English sailors call them 'The. Twins," the American sailor calls them '"Punch and Judy." They are lowuouthe English sailing charts of a few years ago as "The Big and Little Can nibals," with a note of warning that all boats sent on shore should be armed, as the natives area treacherous lot and eat human llesh. In the year 1875 I took a first mate's berth out of San Francisco on the brig Harry Iax, she having been sold to parties in Honolulu, and the owners having en gaged to deliver her there. We had no trouble in shipping a gixxl crew, and bet ter weather I never saw until we were within two days1 run of our port. Then we got a gale which dismasted us and swept two men overlKiurd; and when we finallv brought up it was under the lee of the Hig Cannibal, in a sheltered bay, with masts and sails gone, bulwarks nearly all swept away, lMiwsprit broken off, and the brig leaking so that we had to kike long spells at the pump to keep her afloat. We had not lieen able to secure an oliser vation for three days, and, although quite certain that we had fallen in with one of the Sandwich group, none of us had ever seen this particular island lefore. But for the help of a very powerful current which caught the brig as she was being hurled upon the weather side of the island not a man of us would have lived to tell the story. This current ran us along the shore and whirled us into a bay on the lee side, where our anchors found good hold irt; ground and brought us up in safety. It was two days lefore the storm blew itself out and the sea went down. We lay within half a mile of the shore, and had seen people on the beach every hour in the day. At night they had built fires opjosite our berth, as if to say that they wefe our friends ami to encourage us to be of stout heart. From this cireiim stauce our captain argued that we had not been driven to the west as far as at first supposed, and that we had at leat two islands between us and Big Cannibal. When the sea had gone down sufficient to warrant us in lowering a boat I was ordered to take the yawl and four men and pull for the" beach and ascertain our whereabouts. The weather had con tinued dark and cloudy and no observa tion could be taken. I went away in the boat without the slightest misgivings, and without a firearm of any description. We had settled it that there was nothing to fear, and I anticipated no trouble it. engaging a native craft to run for some of the islaud ports and secure us the ser vices of a steam craft. Almost opposite vrhere the hull of the brig lay pitching at her anchor was the mouth of a creek, and, although there was a bar and the surf was rolling pretty higli, we entered the creek without acci dent. Just as we were going over the bar it struck me as curious that none of the natives had been out to visit us. It wouldn't have been anything extra of a swim for a native, while their little crafts will live in a sea which would roll a man of war rails under. It was now 10 o'clock in the forenoon, and I remembered that we had not seen a native on the beach since soon after daylight. There was no one in sight now, and we ran up the creek about a cable's length and grounded. There were two native !o:its there, but not a person in sight. I reasoned that a village must be close at hand. and. leaving two of the men to care for the boat, I took two others with me and set out to follow a broad and well leaten path, which I Ixilieved led to the village. In this I was correct. We had not gone above half a mile when we came to the village. We had scarcely caught sight of the first huts when we were our selves discovered, and three minutes later were surrounded by 100 dusky people. I anticipated a friendly welcome, and was n good deal put out at our reception. Most of the people were old men, women and children. There were not above five or six middle aged men. A circle was at once formed about us, and as soon as they saw that we were not armed we were seized, flung down and tied hand and foot. I had served with Kanakas alioard of whalers and knew the dialect of the islanders pretty well. It was therefore with horror that I soon learned we were on Big Cannibal island, and that the na tives were greatly rejoiced ut the prospect of the feast before them. I attempted to say -omething, but the noise of their shouts drowned my words, and each of us was hustled off by himself to a differ ent hut. I was taken in hand by two stout fel lows, and when thrust into an empty hut I turned on them and asked for an ex planation. They Were dumfounded to hear me using the dialect, and at once ex hibited a more friendly demeanor. They had expected the brig to drive ashore, and when she did not they feared slie had too large a crew for them to attack. They wanted to know where she was from, how iftiny men she had aboard and what her captain proposed doing. I told them my bjectin coming ashore, but they at once gave me to understand they would do nothing. Ittrould be far better for them if the brig was to'drive ashore. I offered as high as $500 in gold if they would get word of our condition to some civilized port, but the fellows were immovable. They were u set of outlaws, and held no intercourse except with the smaller island. A ship touched at the islands now and then for water or vegetables, but the na tives kept out of sight and would do so trading with the sailors. When I asked after the rest of the villagers they replied that upward of forty men were at the smaller island, where a wreck had driven ashore about two weeks before, but were expected home next day. "And what do you propose to do with us" I finally inquired. "Roast aud eat you," was the curt re ply, as they fastened the door and left me alone. It seemed more than likely. Why they had not gone to the creek to attack and capture the sailors and the yawl I could not understand, but it seemed that our coming among them rather surprised and rattled them. When they had secured us they formed a party of twenty of the best men and set off for the creek, and in half an Lour this party returned shouting aud singing. The sailors had suspected nothing and were easily captured. One of them was put into the hut with me, and he told me they supposed they were being invited to a feast of some sort, and that the natives had my permission to bring them to the village. To be honest with the reader, I did not think these islanders were eaters of hnman flesh. I had been told so by' Kanakas and others, but the idea of a race of men Mying within a day's sail of IN PORT. civilization and given to sucn horrible practices was too absurd for even sailor ! Jack's belief. They might be pirates and wreckers, but they certainly could not le cannibals. I am writing of twelve years ago. If I could not believe it then, who can believe it now? And yet this dispatch has lately leen published all over the country: San Francisco, Sept. 5. Information is re ceived that on one of the outlying islands of the Sandwich group a massacre of three boatmen be longing to the schooner Mary Anderson was lately made by natives under exceptionally bru tal circumstanoes. The boatmen were first se verely wounded to render them helpless, tied hand and foot, and then taken in canoes over to another island and traded for pigs. The pur chasers then finished them and had & cannibal feast on their bodies. I quieted the fears of the sailor with mc by affirming. that the natives yet hoped to see the brig come ashore, and by holding us they knew they would weaken the crew and render the event more probable. Shortly after noon they gave us a very liberal meal, and from what ontside words I could catch up I gathered that messen gers had been sent off to bring the vil lagers home to attack the brig. They came lwfore sunset, and they had scarcely arrived when a couple of guards came and conducted mc to the head man or chief. He was a short, stout, ugly look ing fellow, and I saw at a glance that all the people seemed to fear him. He had been told, I suppose, that I -could speak the dialect, and no sooner had I come into his presence than he shouted at mc: "So you dare laud on my island with out first seeking permission. Wo shall see about that." "But we are sailors in distress," I re plied. "Bah! What is your distress to me? Am I responsible because you don't know how to sail your ship safely? Where docs jour craft come from, and where is she bound to?" I told him truly. "What is your cargo?" "She is in ballast only." "How many men are left aboard?' "Seven, counting the cook." "Is he a negro?" "He is." "Well, you needn't count him. We will tiirow him to the sharks. I ate some negro once and it made me sick for three days. We will capture the ship and bring your friends here." "But why not carry word for us to some of the ports and thus earn a large sum of money?" "And be seized aud shut up in prison, or hung? Take the lean, long devil away and fatten him up. If lie won't eat you must cram the food down his throat." He hit the nail on the head when he called me long aud lean. I stood about six feet, was long armed and long legged, and weighed only 140 pounds. They might have hunted for a week without finding an ounce of fat. When I returned to the hut I no longer had any hope. I felt certain that we had not only fallen among cannibals, but tiiat some of us would surely be eaten within a day or two. I was greatly wor ried, too. about the brig. The yawl was the only boat left her by the storm, and our continued absence would puzzle the captain. He would have no idea of the mess we had got into, and would not therefore be on his guard against an at tack by the natives. I am certain they meantto make one, but Providence inter fered. With the going down of the sun a strong breeze set in from the land and before midnight, as I learned several months later, the cables which had so long stood the strain parted and let the brig drift to sea. She was picked up by a steamer next day and towed into Hono lulu, and the captain reported that we of the yawl had likely been capsized and drowned while trying to come off to the brig after dark. That report settled our fate, and nothing more would ever be learned of us except by accident. Our first night in tie village was a wretched one. The natives were awake all night long, singing, shouting and rejoicing over our capture, and, it lieing midsummer, we were nearly devoured alive by insects. I caught a few words now and then from the guards dur ing the night, and I thus learned that the sea was too heavy to permit the attack on the brig, and that none of us would be eaten until the people of Little Cannibal, wJf'ch was three or four miles distant, could cross the channel. This, they figured, could be done in another twenty four hours, but they were wrong. The wind held at half a gale for the next two days, and it was on tfie fourth day of our capture that the visitors appeared. A chief and about twenty men came, and were warmly welcomed. I had not seen any of the sailors except the one who lodged with me up to this time, but I knew the huts in which they were con fined, and by looking through the crevices of my prison walls I got an idea who would be the first victim. The fattest man in our crew had come ashore with me. He was a second class seaman named Philbrick, and was built like a porpoise. He had a smooth face, red cheeks, and was in the bloom of health. If the natives were after something fat and tender in the way of human ilesh they would certainly take Philbrick, and I soon saw they meant to. The choicest food thej- could provide was being carried to him, and it was evi dent they were stuffing him for the feast. He, poor fellow, evidently had no sus picions, or, with a sailor's proverbial reck lessness, was bound to live high while the opportunity held out. The visitors arrived about 9 o'clock in the morning, aud half an hour later I saw Philbrick led out. I do not think the men in nny of the other huts could have seen him. I think they had given him plenty of strong drink, for he acted tipsy, and as he came out of the hut he was singing a happy song. The people at once gathered around him and led him off to the woods in the rear of the village. Out guards went with the crowd, their places being taken by five or six boys of from 13, to 18 years of age. These boys were well armed, attended strictly to the business on hand, and any attempt to force our way out would have resulted in our death. It was 3 o'clock in the afternoon when the men returned, and I was soon aware of the fact that Philbrick had been killed and devoured. Indeed the people con gratulated each other on his excellent con dition, and the strangers departed for home with the promise to come back on the third day. It sxw seemed that tht programme was to kill and eat one of us alKmt every third day, and the sailor and I made up our minds to eat no more food than would barely sustain life. I was, as I have told you, in very poor flesh, and, fortunately for the sailor, he was not much better off, while he had a running sore on his leg. He had no sooner in formed me of this than I out with my knife and gashed the calf of my right leg, and then, by rubbing tobacco into the fresh wound, I got up an irritation which I knew would soon produce a sore. The next day after the death of Phil brick our allowance of food was greatly increased, but we scarcely tasted a mouth ful. They also gave us plenty of brandy, in bottles of English make, but we never touched it. I kept working at my wound and the sailor kept irritating his sore, and in a couple of days we both had fever, and really cared .very little about food. I knew we should not be the next victims, as the two other men were in better flesh; but still as the third day came around I was in anything but an enviable frame of mind.. I could not see the huts of the prisoners, but when the .visitors arrived, which was at about the same hour as be fore, the victim selected was a sailor called Sam His other name was on the.brig's articles, of course, but I had not learned it. He was an old sailor, blind of one eye, and when he had been brought out he probably suspected for the first time what was to follow. Wrenching himself from his guards, be seized a war club and laid about him with such fury as to hold the crowd at bay for four or five minutes. He had no. show, however, and was soon knocked down and dragged off. When the men returned after the feast I heard them discussing the meat. It was not so good as in the previous case, and they laid it to the fact that Sam had heated his blood. It was suggested that the next victim he made drunk before he was taken out, and it was that suggestion that saved my life Tliat evening my companion and I were inspected by the chief and his two doc tors. They came to our hut and ordered us to strip. Our lean flesh disgusted them, and when they saw the sores they were furious for a time. The doctors were ordered to put us on a diet and give us something to purify our blood, and as they went away the chief, who seemed to .asVaVa personal srjrteJTgniust me, gave me a slap in the face and exclaimed: "Ah, you lean, long waisted devil; I'll roast you for my dogs if you don't fat ten up!" The visitors were to come again on the third day, but on the second a gale set in, and continued to blow aud kick up such a heavy sea that they could not cross until the sixth day. During this interval the two of ns turned over many plans of es cape, but the guards ucver gave us the least opportunity to carry any of them out. Our hut was stoutly built, the peo ple around us were as keen as foxes, and no outlook could be more gloomy. We refused to eat or to imbibe the blood med icine left with us. and the sores were by this time in a very bad state. It would be a long time before the natives found us choice morsels; but what I feared was that they would become impatient und knock us on the head. It was plain that the chief had taken a dislike to me, and I felt sure he would not allow me to live an other week. On the sixth day, as I have said, the people from Little Cannibal came over again, and everything was ready to feast on the third sailor's body. He was a powerful youi'g fellow named Kilder. He must have realized the fate in store for him, and the liquor which they plied him with made him desperately furious in stead of quietly drunk. When they led him out he broke away, backed into a space between two'huts and there, armed with a lance he had wrested from one of the men, he held them at bay. There w;is immediate and great excitement. There were two guards at our door. One ran away at once. After a moment the other called to a boy of 14, and left him in his place. The boy was excited and anxious, und gave us no attention. As soon as I saw this I went to the far cor ner of the hut and kicked out enough of the poles to permit metocrawl through. My companion stood at the door to watch the boy. and when I was ready I called to him. He was crossing the hut when I slipped out into the grass and bushes and started off. The sailor who was fighting for his life must have given them a ter rible battle, for he held them fully ten minutes and drew the whole population around him. No one saw me as I glided away, and I had made a run of a quarter of a mile before I found that I was alone. I supposed the sailor was close at my heels, but it seemed that he had taken a different direction No hunt was made for us until after the feast. I crossed the island, found another fresh water creek, saw two or three sail in the distance, and then looked about for a hiding place. I went to the top of a very thick tree, and for the next three days aud nights I did not set foot on the earth. A vigorous and per sistent search was kept up by the natives for that time, and then they seemed to argue that I had thing myself into the sea. For five days I lived on the wild oranges and berries glowing in profusion around me, and then a small boat from a wrecker came into the creek for a cask of water, aud I was taken off. Unfortunately for me the schooner got hold of a wreck next day to the east of us, and this upset the captain's plan to put me aboard the first vessel bound for Honolulu. He needed my muscle aboard the craft, and it was exactly two months from the day of my capture that I landed at the capital of the Sandwich islands. The brig had come in and reported the yawl and her crew lost. I went to the American consulate, but the consul himself was off on a junket, and his suliordinate took no interest in the case. I went to the British consul, but as I could not assure him that any of the sailors were British subjects he would make no move. I went to the captain of an American man of war lying in the har bor, and he heard about half my story and brusquely dismissed me. New York Sun. A Very I'retty Fashion. The Broadway milliners have inaugu rated a very pretty fashion. It is to deck their windows with natural flowers. The rule seems to be to display only a couple of bonnets and to attract attention to them by a superb basket of cat roses or whatever other flower happens to be the star for the day. Nothing could be finer than one of these windows thus arranged. Only a woman's taste could hit upon the idea, and it is certain to find general ac ceptance. Indeed I have noticed that some other shops beside the milliners have commenced to adopt the practice, and I buppose we shall soon have it carried to the usual extreme that will rob it of all charm. It will be a flattering tribute to the inventor, but a pity for the invention. Alfred Trumble in New York News. Truth on Hoard Ship Truth is the foundation of honor, and this is strikingly illustrated on the world of waters. Every duty on lioard of a ship must be performed truthfully. The most debased sailor that ever lived, if sent nloft in a dark and stormy night to inspect the condition of sail or yard, would not dare to make a false report. Again, if the captain were on the forecastle and hailed the man at the wheel how the ship headed, he would implicitly believe the answer re ceived. Now for the result of this truth fulness. We nlways have many millions of property afloat, yet who ever hears of crews running away with their ships or embezzling their cargoes? Look up and down the lists of bankrupts ashore, and how rarely or never do we see the names of masttr marines. Boston Bulletin. Methods ot Heading Hooks. It is easy to read, yet no two men, who have made anything of themselves, ever read the same book In a similar way. Neander, the church historian, read a book carefully through, making notes on the margin. Dr. Johnson, on the contrary, used to dip into n book at random, lie read enough to seize the leading ideas and then threw it aside. Daniel Webster began with the table of contents and only read such parts of the text as would give him new ideas or add to his stock of knowledge. Youth's Companion. An IngenloBt Bargain. "Please, mum, gimme a slate pencil," said little Fred as he entered a store on his wav to school. "Look here," said the old lady, "yon didn't pay for that; I want a penny." "I hain't got a penny." "Then give me back the pencil " "No, I won't." And breaking the pencil evenly in two he added, offering the old lady one half: :There, that pays for my part." The Epoch. New England papers assert that job can't get any satisfactory milk in New York. They say there is too much humid ity in it EMBARKING THE MAILS. .)..' v SCENES N AN OCEAN STEAMER AT QUEENSTOWN. A Peep at the Steerage Passengers As the Tender Draws AlongsideFresh Beauty Irish Children Coantlng the Kail Bass Outward Bound. He must be a very unimpressionable person whose Interest is not roused by the scene on an American mail steamer on the day after she leaves Liverpool, as she steams along the Irish coast in the bright suaUght of a breezy morning. The vary ing terms and color of headland and shore wotdd alone be worthy of notice; but the curious mass of humanity gath ered on the great ship is perhaps more in teresting. -Ai4jtjaKstbe.admitted that the saloon passengers taken as a whole, have to the observer loss of interest and character than the miscellaneous throng who collect in the less favored quarters of the ship. There is a monotonous appear ance of comfort and prosperity about the saloon passengers each with his private chair wnich renders them a little dull. But every step among the steerage pas sengers gives rise to a guess or a reflec tion. Here is a sturdy fellow from a Yorkshire iron works on his way to the states to seek for employment. Close by the saloon door is a laborer from Wilts tall, raw boned, with a couple of children and a weary wife. The whole family have an air of despondency about them which does not augur well for their future. A couple of Italian masons are laughing and joking with very light hearts indeed; and so one by one, each differing from the other sad or glad, liojief ul or despondent, full of confidence in the future or feeling that across the ocean life cannot be harder than at home the miscellaneous throng moves about the ship. MOVEMENT AXD BUSTLE. But the white buildings on Roche's point gleaming in the sunlight tell that the vessel is neanng Queenstown, and a feeling of movement aud bustle comes over passengers and crew. There is talk of a run ashore; there is an eagerness to see the last British port, a haste to post the last letters to friends in England. Trie ship slowly steams up the harbor, past the heights of Carlisle fort, and on as if she were bound straight to the white terraces of Queenstown. Gradually she ceases to make headway, and comes to a standstill between the little village of Whitegates and the bleak sides of Spike island. The tender is approaching; but already boats full of untidy girls, selling apples and with baskets of bog oak ornaments and lace, have surrounded the ship. As the tender draws alongside it is evident that the mails have not arrived; there are only piles of luggage and a crowd of passengers. Some are English or Americans who have crossed through Ireland to shorten the voyage by some sixteen hours, or to visit Killarney; most are emigrants from Ire land. Soon the throng of Irish pours over the gangway a widowed father carrying his infant, followed by half a dozen brown eyed gentle looking children; a stalwart youth with a comely sister; a bard wizen faced old farmer in a coat of frieze down to his heels, with his wife. Nothing is more striking than the fresh beauty of the Irish children and the withered hardness of the middle aged and elderly men and women. Most of them carry their wordly goods in a bag or a handkerchief. Their heaps of bedding, with the tin utensils for the voyage fas tened to them, are pitched one after un other on the deck, while the owners vainly try to push past the line of seamen to secure their property. It would be a sad sight, this hurrying of these people from their homes, if one could forget the squalid misery from which they are escap ing. But the tender has been emptied, and is off again for the shore to meet the mails. The train has just drawn up, and soon flies of porters, like a line of ants, arc putting the sacks on board, and the tender is prepared to make her second trip. COUXTTXG THE MAILBAGS. This time she has scarcely any other Burden but the mails; and so, when she comes alongside of the steamer, a doze i of the crew are very soon at work piling them on the deck of the ship. An officer counts the bags as they come on board "one, two, three, four, five,six,scvcn,eight, nine, ten, tnlly." So they go over the gangway by tens. They took up a great part of the since on the tender, and they make a Luge pile on the steamer; some 300 sacks of letters and papers make it possible to realize the vast correspondence of the present day. But for some time the great ship has been slowly moving seaward with the tug attached to her amidships, and the line of seamen hurry ing, each with his sack, across the gang way. The long dark sides of the mail steamer, and her lofty upper deck, quite dwarf the tender; the captain looking down from his bridge seems far aloft. The railings are lined with hundreds of faces there are fully a thousand passen gers on the ship watching the mails come on board. Every one except the regular passengers between New York and Liverpool, of whom there are always several on board, look a little anxious. Most of the pcorer men and women are sad. It is a curious spectacle to stand on the bridge of the tender and look along the sides of the ship at the great vessel and the varying faces on her. But the last bag is on board, the bell on the steamer is sharply struck, aud a few friends of the passengers, a newspaper boy, and some other miscellaneous persons hurry on board the tender to go ashore. The haw sers are cast off and the little tug steams ahead of the big ship, rounds to for the shore when she has got some lengths ahead, and is soon, with the quick, rapid strokes of her wheels, making for the quay at Queenstown. The great steamer steals away to the sea with a kind of irre sistible and almost imperceptible motion. The passengers' forms soon become invisi ble, and the big, black hull and high masts gradually grow less distinct as "the liner" passes away by the mouth of the harbor, beading for the west. As the ten ds touches the quay side the mail steamer is rounding the headland by the sea, and in a few minutes all that can be seen from the shore is the distant line of smoke which tells of her course o cross the At lantic. St, James' Gazette. THE IRISH JAUNTINQ CAR. An American Coriespondent's Amusing Experience in Dublin. Therjaunting car is the great feature of street life in Dublin. It is the popular method of conveyance. It will hold two people on each side besides the driver. The regular fare for their use is two shil lings for the first hour and eighteen pence for the next. You learii this after you have paid all kinds of prices, These jaunting car drivers are perfectly merci less in their charges unless you makes bargain with them beforehond. No mat ter bow liberal you may think yon are in paying them, these drivers always look as reproachfully at you as if you were at tempting to rob them. The Irish drivers in the streets of Dub lin are the most wreckless of any I have ever seen. Their horses are tough and wiry, and are always driven nearly on the dead run. At the slightest opportunity the driver forces his horse into a gallop. As the streets are very uneven and badly paved, riding on a jaunting car gives much more exercise than ordinary horse back riding. The first driver I had overcharged me in such a stupendous . way that he could not keep his race straight when he named his price. Then, after roaring at his own avarice, he calmly lowered the price himself and an nounced that he would take so much. I paid it to him, telling him that I knew it was double his fare. After he had re ceived it he burst out in another roar. "You are right; it is about double, but it isn't every day we get a chance," and then went off in .perfect convulsions of amusement over his successful strike at the stranger. Tho excessive volubility of the drivers is marvelous. They won't drive you well unless you let them talk. They get sulky directly and make it up by extra charges. They are much better natnred to each other than the English cabbies. The first night I was out my driver ran the shafts of his car f nil tilt into the back of another car. I thought for a moment that he would take the back of the head car off. Bnt he backed his horse off, and when the driver he had run into looked angrily back at him he said: "Look ahead of you, my boy. Never look behind when you are driving." And with this he swung out to the right and passed his friend's wheel by about a quarter of an inch; going on the dead bolt down Sackville street. The aggrieved fellow grinned ut the assurance of his associate and stopped looking behind. The last man I had continually called my attention to tho beautiful black Irish mare attached to his car. He told me she could make ten miles an hour day in and day out for years. He would let her go for sixty guineas. I pretended to mis understand and said I did not think she was worth six guineas. This mode ray driver indignant, and he spent the next fifteen or twenty minutes in trying to tip me off, by whirling suddenly around corners, or spinning his car along ou one wheel down some dark street or slippery lane. But yet on the whole they were so much more interesting aud amusing than the English cabbies, because they met every possible situation with such wit ami with such assurance. Wednesday afternoon I asked one car driver how much he would charge to drive me out to the horse show and back, about a mile dis tant. He promptly responded half a guinea, without a blink. The next man was ready to go for two shillings. This extraordinary drop did not decompose the first driver. He stepped forward as if I were going with him as a matter of course, saying in the most contemptuous way, in speaking of the two shilling mau, "He will not be able to give you such a drive as I will." As I was not engaged at that particular time in buying any fanciful kind of superior Irish driving at a high class figure I went with the two shilling man. T. C. Crawford in New York World. NEW YORK JANITOR'S LIFE. Not Altogether a Happy Kxistene His Arduous Duties Wuges. "A janitor's life is not altogether a happy one," said the janitor of a large down town building devoted to banks, in surance companies and lawyers' offices. "His chief enemy is the office boy. Any ' office boy who sets his mind upon it can CAS,,'. tln l'7la.. s 4n, - lTmitf o-u.. vu uu,.t.f,; V. l JU&U.UA. All.. He musses up his employer's office, scat ters papers about, gets the employer angry, and lays it all on the janitor. The boy protests with the Innocence of a heathen Chinee with a deck of cards up his sleeve that he found the office just that way when he came in. His em ployer believes him and complains of the janitor, and if the thing is persisted in he perhaps makes it a personal grievance. It's of little use for the janitor to deny the charge of negligence. If he does he is put down for a liar as well as a drone, aud his departure is likely to be hastened." "But do not janitors hold pretty steadily to their places?" "No, the contrary is the fact," replied the veteran janitor. "I have been here nearly twenty-eight years, but I can thiuk of but one other building, even among those of recent construction, in which there have not been several changes of janitors." "What is the reason?" "One reason is that the duties of a jan itor are very difficult to attend to prop erly, although a contrary 'impression is prevalent. As I have pointed out, he must keep on good terms with the tenants of the building, and this requires tact as well as industry, aud even these will not always accomplish it if there is a mali cious small boy around. Another reason is that tho duties of the place are not healthy. A janitor goes into an office after the occupants have gone, and at cer tain seasons of the year he finds the win dows closed. He opens the windows and begins sweeping. While the draught of cool air plays upon him from without, his lungs inhale the cloud of dust that rises within the apartment. This cannot be healthy, and pulmonary and other diseases are the frequent result." "But you have at least the satisfaction of living high up in the cool air in these hot summer months." "That is true; but there, again, the janitor's lot is not as happy as it seems. The air up there is cool, it is true, but it is also laden with all the foulness and ef fluvium that naturally rises from below; and ou damp, hot days it is extremely op pressive near the top. For my own idea of comfort give me tho first floor. It i3 certain that the families of janitors are frequently visited by sickness and death, and this does not speak well for the healthfulness of their quarters. But jan itors have one advantage, and that is com parative seclusion for their families from the associations of the street. They are enabled to bring up their children in com parative privacy." "How are janitors paid?" "In the largest buildings by the owners, at rates varying from 100 to i?150 a month; in the smaller buildings by the tenants, at from $ 2 to $100 a tenant' Jn the large buildings offices are let with the services of the janitor. Of course the janitor's rent is free. Not only the clean liness, but the preservation of a building depends much upon having the right kind of janitor. See that marble," pointing to a well preserved marble flooring; "but for the care with which I have that washed night after night it would present a very different appearance, and soon be in grained with dirt that could not lie got out. After awhile owners wfil learn bet ter than most of them know now how much the value of their property depends on the janitor, and then janitors will be more carefully selected, and hold their places longer when selected." New York Sun. A Wonderful Surgical Experiment. A miraculous surgical experiment has been performed at Buffalo by Dr. George E. Fell, professor of physiology at the University of Niagara. Pr, Fell Is an en thusiastic vivisectiouist, and has made a number of experiments whereby he claims he has discovered a means of saving hu man life after the patient has taken poison Several weeks ago a nun named Patrick Burns, who had been on a de bauch, took a large dose of morphia, and was given up as dead. After Burns had been unconscious for five hours, Dr. Fell was called in. It had occurred to him that if he had an artificial respiratory ap paratus he would be able to briug back the patient to life. He had often applied artificial respiration to dogs and ails at college during his lectures, to show the action of their hearts and lungs. Burns was a poor patient, and the physician had very little hope of being successful. There was no pulse, and only a slight flutter around the region of the heart, which showed that it had not ceased to beat. There were a number of physicians pres ent, and the experiment was considered a chimerical one as far as success was con cerned. An incision was made in tho throat, and a respiratory tube was placed in the trachea. The blood which oozed from the wound was a dark coffee color. The lungs of the patient were useless, and when air was blown into them they were so stiff that they conld not contract. Ar tificial means was used, pressure on the chest to expel the air and cause the expi rations. This was kept np for fifteen minutes be fore any change was noticed. The blood soon became more arterial in color as it came from the wound, and the face as sumed a lifelike expression. The mns cle6f the eyes twitched when pressed by tlvtfjpger. After a time the eyes opened, and the legs and arms began .to move. Water was placed to the patient's lips and he drank greedily. For two hours the artif cial breathing was kept up. The tube was removed, and the wonnd was closed with antiseptic dressing. The pa tient, an hour after breathing was re stored, hod an attack of delirium tremens, the result of drinking. It took five men to hold him, and the wound commenced to bleed afresh. This was stopped, and when the poison passed from the system, after three days the respiration increased, and it was evident that the patient would recover. In two weeks he was able to go ut and attend to his business. Dr. Fell used a very crude apparatus which he employs in vivisection. He is now per fecting an instalment which can be used by an operator in such cases as tho one described. The discovery is a valuable one, and will be of great use to the scien tific world. Demorest's Monthly. Prlvncjr in Telegraph Messages. I never like to send a telegraph message containing important matter, points on a market, or orders to buy or sell, other thau in cipher. The telegraph companies take every means to secure the safety and privacy of messages intrusted to them, but it is beyond their power to a great extent. Say, for instance, that I have secial information ar.d want to order an agent or advise a principal to buy or sell something. The ojierator knows it's an inside tip, and says, "1 guess I'll go in on thut." Ho tells another. That is the way operators get racing tips. Then there is another danger. So many people nowa days understand telegraphy, and can stand outside of n counter and read the tick, either sending or receiving, just as well as the operator can. I recall an amusing instance in my own experience. I went into an office in the West End one day, where there were two instruments. The operator, a young man, was working vigorously at one of them, aud in reply to an inquiry of mine as to calling up another station said the other wire was down and that one was working bad, and he was then trying to get the main office to order a line repairer out. He was in reality talking to his girl at an other station, and their talk was very ten der and sweet, concluding with arrange ments for a meeting down town that night. At last lie shut off, qiving up in ilespair the idea of get fit: a line repairer. I told him I'd like to lake a seat at the table, a. I thought I civild straighten out the difficulty, and his ciiiu fell a foot. He blurted out something nl.out not knowing I was an operator " 0?rator in Globe Democrat. A Story of Bishop Simpson. An incident showing his gifts is related by his uncle. Lite one Saturday night he arrived at a town in the mountainous region of Pennsylvania, where lie was a total stranger. The next morning he made his way to the Methodist church and accosted the pastor, telling him he was a brother in the ministry. Simpson being extremely awkward and plain in appearance, the pastor was half inclined to omit the courtesy due a brother preach er, of asking him to deliver a sermon. If lie inquired of the bishop as to his name he must have failed to catch it, for he certainly had no idea to whom lie was speaking. His request for the stranger to preach was therefore expressed in the most formal and constrained manner. The stranger readily agreed to fill the pulpit, and the pastor's chagrin was evi dent, as he resigned himself to his fate. The bishop preached one of his powerf ul sermons, and everybody in the audience whispered to his neighbor, "Who is he?" Before he had token bis eeat the pastor had him by the hand, "What did you say your name was?" "Simpson." "What! Not the bishop?" "That is what they call me." The minister instantly sprang to his feet and shouted, "You have just had the privilege of listening to Bishop Simpson. Ix;t us sing 'Praise God from whom all blessings flow.' " American Magazine. The Persian's Lack of Cleanliness. As the Persians are filthy lieyond be lief in their personal habits, it is no un usual tiling to sec a high dignitary giving himself airs in a coat glittering with pre cious stones and resplendent with gold, while vermin are daintily picking their way lictwccn the clusters of diamonds on his breast, in full view of his royal master. Their public baths, although they num ber by the hundred in each of the larger towns, prevent cleanly habits rather than promote them. The water in the common tanks not alone serves for the ablutions of hundreds, but is changed only twice u week as a rule, while the towels furnished are never washed, and only hung out to dry in the broiling sun along the mud walls of the bathing establishment. Dis eases due to or aggravated by uncleanli ness are, therefore, frightfully common in Persia, even among small children. As for their clothes, they put them on, like the Chinese, layer after layer, as the weather grows colder, and peel them selves again in the same fashion as the sun waxes fiercer and fiercer. They always sleep, men and women, in at least one full suit of clothes, and during the winter in a half dozen, covering their heads tightly with a quilted skull cap, afterward drawing the coverlet over the head, and thus preventing the fresh air from getting into their lungs. Wolf Von Schierbrand in The Cosmopolitan. Oeorgie'i Applied Zoology. Little Georgie, after his mother had pre pared him for bed, while still in her lap used to say his evening prayer. One night he said; "I don't want to say my prayers in this way," and getting out of his mother's lap he knelt down before her and, placing his open hands together, re peated his prayer. When his father heard of this he was much interested. He al ways felt that this was the proper attitude in prayer in the family and in the closet. As nothing had lieen said to Georgie on the subject, lie thought it was evidence of a sort of natural religion. "Georgie," said his father, "do you suppose God likes to have you say your prayers this way better than the way yon used to?" "Oh, I don't suppose God "cares anything about it. I was thinking of the- kangaroo." Ho had lately been to the menagerie and seen that animal sitting on its haunches with its fore feet placed together s-omewhat as he placed his hands in saying his prayers. The father, in relating this incident, says that it took all his notions that it had any thing to do with natural religion out of him. Boston Traveller. Syrup of Figs In Nature's own true laxative. It is tho most easily taken, and the most effective remedy known to Cleanse the System when Bilious or Costive; to dispel Head aches, Colds and Fevers; to cure Habit ual Constipation, Indigestion, Piles, etc. Manufactured only by the CalifQriia Fig Syrup Company, San Francisco, Ci. 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