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.-.o. (JMimlra mrruai Gyr -- - VOL. XVIII.-NO. 31. COLUMBTTS, NEB.. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1887. WHOLE NO. 915. & '-yT5?y " y? r COLUMBUS STATE BANK. COLUMBUS, NEB. Cash Capital $75,000. lUKKCTOIJS l.KANDKK 5KIUt.UU. I'reVi. !KO. W. ItUl.ST, Viiv J'iwVi. JULIUS . KKK.O. K. 11. IIKVUI. .1. II TAdKKK, On-I.ier. j vu tno nost's lett, the other plaeo of honor I anil what a significant distinction to oc cupy tho:so prominent scat- Kit the jauntiest , individual of the whole jiarty. At first sight , it would liH've been difficult to say why- he had his share at this banquet of the ruined, , disapiointed, bereaved and afflicted. It was not his look nor his dress that told the secret, ! but his words. He was letter dressed than any I of his fellows, and a self satisfied expression j was upon his face. But you soon saw a blank I in the uiid-t of that self satisfaction the lack j of something, which mysterious something would have just put him beyond the palo of our friend's circle. He talked louder than the rest and held out the comfort of irresponsi- i. man m a rough j'acket, with a careless air, which was contradicted by his face, said: "Well, I fancy I have had n wider experience than any of you, if change of employment gives experience. There are few tilings I liave not tried, but I never succeeded in any. I have been an errand boy, a plow boy, a lieddler, a miner, an engineer and an express man. I have written dismal trash to sell to vilely cheap and mean mpcrs. I have taught mutate for it 13 in the jiou-er or each of you to imitate him a happy man. "He is old, poor, silent, and as the world would add, ignorant, sad and lonely. But listen to what he once told me: 'There is one who breathes, moves, converses constantly with me. I feel him, I hear him, sometimes I even answer him in my heart. But it is a speech without words, which wo understand without having been at school, and read JOHN WHITE'S THANKSGIVING. bilitv in the uresent and annihilation here after no God to restrain us now, and none ' a few cigar ends to keep the hunger olf this to judge us later; but the lack of that "some- morning. 1 would take any job; but people thing" made his facts grow ugly and hanl as don't seem to want j'obs dono j'ust now. They he expounded his theories, and his own ap- j, look ut me suspiciously and say: 'There's penrance was but a ioor argument in favor i lots of work if vou onlv liotir vourself and grown men to read in exchange for a crust ' without having learned to read in books.' ot bread. I have distributed advertisements Unit is one of the pillars that uphold the at street comers; uud now I am just where I j world for him his trust in God. The other was when I started. I liave no home. I left j is his trust in conscience. If you can imitate my last ltoanling place without iwying, but ' that the first will come as its natural conse left my only good coat liehind instead. I queaee. To live by the rule of my friend slept last night in a car dejwt, and picked up needs two things grace and a real "resolve. BdBll Ol" BkHftOMif, IMhcouiii HU1 f-:!lilUi. Collection I'romjUly JIh1 oa Mil Polul. TniL-;ivin.:! for what;" - Qiiri he muttered a curse -rvr t!iu plainest of frwu uinl tin empty purse; rt.ra.!ife.f liunl worU aul tin- shaMiieit clothes Lut it's iill.- ti talk- of a jt-Mir man's woes' I-t the ik'Ii pivftUauLs, k Is lliev who can; TIlLTO IS IlUtllill in llle tor u laboriuj? man." saiil .loan White t his good wife Jaue, !L'j.d uVr her face stole a look of pain. I I'say lulitrfsi I Cm. on lliue eOM- COLUMBUS Savings Bank, LOAN & TRUST COMPANY, Capital Slock, SI 00,000. OITICKK.S: A. A.NDKKSON. Pn-'t. O. SHKLDO.N, Vice PreVt. O. T. UOKN, Trwih. ItOHKKT UHLKi. Sec. ,, Jig(Vill receive time depoMts, from $1.00 anil uu amount upward, ami will paj tin- cus liMiiarj nil.- if interest. - o S2"W particular! draw ur uttetition to imr fncilities for making hulls on real estate, at the ltwet rati-of intercM. J('itj, School ami Count Bond, and in dividual securiths. ale Ih'llht. ItijUlle'sily i i Jvothiu;r, dear John?" ami he thought again; Then glanced more kijully down on Jane. "I was w route." lie said; "I'd forgotten you; And I've my health, and the baby, too." And the baby crowed 'twas a bouncing boy And o'er June's face came a look of joy; And she lissed lier John ns lie went away; And ln'Miid to himself, as he worked that day: '"1 waswionjr. very wronp: I'll not jjrninble aain, 1 should surely lie thankful for liaby and Jane."' FOR THE WE - I ALL ON A.&M.TURNER Or -. W. UI1ILER, TravcllnR Salrsman. i"Then tirnius are hret-tliwiu ever ar ttculur. and o guaranteed. SCHIFFROTH & PLATH, 1H.U Fhb l.s WIND MILLS, AND PUMPS. Buckeye Mower, combined, Self Binder, wire or twine. o Pumps Repaired on short notice J?fOne door went of Heint: flrvtt, Columbus, Neb. , Drugstore, lllh lTuovsii-tf HENRY GASS. COFFINS AND METALLIC CASKS AND DEALER IN Furniture, Chairs, Bedsteads, Bu reaus. Tables, Safes. Lounges, &c. Picture Frames and Mouldings. Z&r"Repciiring of all kinds of Uphol stery Goods. 6-tf COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA. PATENTS CAVEATS, TRADE MARKS AND COPYRICITS Obtained, and all other business in the U. S. Patent Office attended to for MODERATE FEES. Our office is opposite the U. S. Patent Office, and we can obtain Patents in less time than thoee remote from WASHINGTON. Send MODEL OK DRAWING. We advise as to patentability free of charpe: and make NO CHARGE UNLESS WE OBTAIN PATENT. We refer here to the Postmaster, the 8npt. of Money Order Div, and to officials of the U. S. Patent Office. For circulars, advice, terms and references to actual clients in jour own State or county, write to C.A.SNOWJkCQ.. Opposite Patent Office. Washington, D. C. AN IDEAL TIUXKSGIVING. As there nre idnises the law cannot reach, so there me people no holiday includes. There is a time of the year i hen vagrants criminals, in a word, the destitute as a IkmIv are feasted with good things and made to share the comfort of the rich. But as com prehensive a this cliarity uiaj- le, as minute in its .search after recipients, as thoughtful in the choice of creature comforts, it u piti ful to think how many yet remain in the "highways and hedges" out of reach. Can you imagine a gathering of such as these.' We see much of the other side of the picture, hut it is startling to think that those ho come to the surface are only the minor ity. Ileneath every success, however modest and oliscure, there i a substructuiv of accu mulated failures; and for one or ten whom we tee in moderate comfort and unassuming ease, there are UK) or 1,000 who have been too weak to swim. 1 had lieen to main- fully spread boards, public and private, on this day of typical thanksgiving for all the blessings nnd good gifts of the year; but one to which 1 was ac cidentally introduced late iu the evening proved of greater interest and rarity than aii3' of the others. The host was a graj- headed man, wifeless and childless, rieh, odd, disappointed and generally supposed to be misanthropic. He had no aim iu life; no interest strong enough to absorb him, no will stable enough to hold the reins. He gave to every one who asked, but no work of charity interested. There was no pursuit, physical or mental, which could so sustain him as to turn him from vain regrets and impartial longings. He had never lound his place m life; had never known necessity, and therefore never tasted the excitement of the race for existence, which some time or other gives at least a dash of interest to the most unsuccessful career. He was not irreligious, but he be longed to no religious lnxly, and when any one told him that he liad much to thank Providence for he would fchrug his shoulders in wonder. As the years wont on this man brooded more and more over disappointed hopes, and took a morbid pleasure in rinding out cases of failure in all the various callings of life. Ha dwelt on the subject until it became a mono mania. One or two acquaintances he had iio heart it ieiid out of compassion advised him to turn t.eT brooding to practical use by benefiting men iu situations like his own. U. ; Iff w iSfoh Such was the singular host. As for the guests, they were as various in class, educa tion, birth and appearance as they conld be, even in a city where everything under the sun is more or less represented. All who are bankrupt and rained in reputation and po sition, or in their own estimation, had a rep resentation at that strange feast of moral equality. Every degree of bhabbiness, of dilapidation, in face or garment, was present; for no rule was made as to dress, and those whom fJiamw or idleness made remiss were as freely admitted as thej-ivho had made little pitiful attempts at decency. The talk was mild and characteristic, chiefly occupied with the past or the future as it might have been. On the host's right hand sat a man in rusty black, with nervous hands that clutched at things and trembled as they held glass or fork or napkin. He had never been a crim inal, never willingly harmed any one, never entertained a deliberately unkind thought, and yet to all intents and purposes he was a murderer and a suicide. His spirit was dead, or in its last agonies, and of this he was dimly conscious in a despairing sort of war. of his theories. A curious rivalry lietween many of the guest, attracted 1113' attention. Each thought his own misfortune the heaviest, and was jealous of the consideration which another won. Some even flung it into the faces of certain others that when they were enjoying prosjerity they had lieeu appealed to iu vain. Any cant about equality in spite of loss of money was promptly resented b3 those who had Ikvu in the attitude of solicitors. This least was no good place at which to air line talk not supported by nne character. The restrictions which obtain iu society less honest of speech, though more polished, wera laid aside and each oiu spoke his mind. AD told their worldly circumstances quite plainly. One said that ho lived with bis wife, three children and inotuer-in-law in twp minis in an unwholesome tenement house, and earned . a week iu a slop shop selling rotten cloth ing to greenhorns. Another said: "I started iu life with the notion of being a great author. 1 am over 4(1 now, and glad to get MJ a week iu a book store. I have covered reams of paper and made about ?l,0X) altogether iu little sums, but .110 one knows my name. I carried a novel and an epic from one publishing house to another for tm years, and never could get any editor even to read them. I'ani try ing to save- a little money now to get the poem published after my death, with a little autobiography which may teach the world w hat it has lost, and make eople sorry that they let such a man die a miserable death after so disappointing a life." "They say some people have forced them selves on the public by the manner of their death," said a wild, melancholy looking man by the author's side, ''and I think it would be worth while to try such a scene to make my Romeo and Juliet sell.' "You talk of death like a child," said a croaking voice acra-w the table. "Hero amT, an old woman, once Minnie St. Angel, the famous actress, but none the less a starving, broken down drudge now. Never despair while you nre j-oung; it is onry the old who know what trouble is. To have been '.some one,' and then fall to being nobody, that is the hardest thing of all, much harder than to have been unknown all your life." "Well, I think it is harder for those who never had a brief hour of success at all," said a thin woman. "I was the daughter of a theatre hack, and was on the stage from a child. But as I grew up plain and not clever I was used in all the common parts and never knew what it was to have an individuality. I have never had a home, and since my father died have never even had a friend. Now I am wardrobe woman in a low theatre, and glad yes, thankful to have the place, too." "It is hard to work for no paj-," said a rough voice opjosite. "I was a soldier of Napoleon's as a lad, fought in Algeria and iu Russia; and because I took part in some plot they called it revolutionary I lost my little pension, and starved in consequence. I ran away, and once here could find nothing to do, and I am trying to beg money enough to buy a hand organ and camp stool." look for it!" "Von and I are much alike," said a man opposite. "I have looked for work both in and out of my profession. I am a musician, young and unknown. I huve heard you all talk of being poor, but when a man loses many a lwtssibfj good chance in his business .. iiieurst is never wauting. You can count on it whenever aud as long as you make up 3iur mind to furnish the other thing, a fixed resolve." This and much more said our host, and wh".-i he ceased we noticed there was 0110 Jjuest less at the table. He had gone; but no one sjwke. Then, hero and there one from out this strange company came forward to thank the rost with tears of genuine gratitude in their e3es. ftonic went away without a word. through the want of a iOstage stamp at the Soon all were gone. The loaded table disaj uiii. nine, 1 ieu 3011 uu Knows sonieiumg 01 . pearcti, ouc 1 uearu 1113 host say with j03-ou.s IHnci-13-, inougu ne may nave a good coat on ee:o:i: "that is what wo propose to do Ins buck. In our profession iwverty isa mat ter of course. Wo 111:13 '" oven famous and starve. Meanwhile 1 am obliged to keep up upifcKirance.s and live in a decent house.' 1 " Vis.," said a woman near him, "and I dare sa3' not -our own house. Well, if poor boarders have their troubles, don't thin": that the Ixianliug house keeper sleeps on u IknI of roses. There is a hopeless side to iov cri and a contented side, and an exiectuut side. But I know of another. It is the ludi crous side. 3ty husliand died in debt. There was only tho weary old way to support my velf. I opened a boarding house. I wish ladies could go lov.cr down t make nioiuw. I liad not the strength of mind to do diuereut'3' from others of mj- set, and I think with us women tllat is one of the great causes of our troubles. We don't dare to face the world"; talk, even when there is nothing to ! ashamed of. I had 11 hard time with inelii cicni servants, for I did not thrive and could not pa3' high enough prices to secure good ones. Rut I sent for two of nry nieces, as jioor as 1113--self. and together we did tho work and shared the profits. Iet me sa3' to you that if 3011 nrojiooraud h.tve tolerable health, do your own work. 113" that means wo got on and had order and cleanliness, and though life is not exacth- delightful to us. it is tolerable. "As to tho ludicrous side of poverty. Wo see enough of it. So mam' little shifts and pretenses, though tlm- are pathetic enough sometimes. I began b3 asking rather high prices, and if the3' were refused, let the rooms sta3' empt3. But 1113- purse began to get empty too, and I was obliged to compromise. Sometimes I did not like a man's maimer or a woman's costume, nnd I was stiff, which lost 1110 considerable moiiex. Then again, some men's business was not to my taste, though the3" were very silent and unobtrusive themselves. I lost main' a good boarder the first 3ear b3' standing too much on my dignit3 If a dancing master general'3- teaches 'deportment' to his pupils, I think some one should teach a banker's daughter, in view of certain possibilities, how to attract and deal pleas antly with boarders. If it were not a good thing to be nierrv under tho worst circuni- 1 stances, I should not detain 3-011 so long with inj- experiences; but if we iersistently ignore the humor that is concealed in almost ever3' stage of povert3', we are making ourselves more miserable than God intended us to be." Then she went on to enumerate tho ludicrous incidents which her poor lioarders treated her to da3' 113- ikn-. "If money troubles were everything," said n liuxxh-man, "3-011 would all be quarreling who was the worst off among 3-ou. You might be rich iu nione and 3et broken and worthless."' Mvhost next year." It was onlv then I realize! thf. I had not assisted at a veritable banquet. AVe had talked ourselves into tho belief that our longings uud imaginings were facts. Could we not do something like this To restore self respect is even better than to fill with l.ivail. But, understand, that although in maiv instances the latter can bo done with out the former, in most cases tho former must rest on tho luisis of the latter. Thanks giving is a good day to begin things. Still el try i!a-may (kh-oiiiu 11 tlunksiving for hose who seek out the hungry, lioth in body ami in spirit, to feed and the naked to clothe. B. M. A CLAIRVOYANT HEN. What lui llefore Thanks- Mixr .lust Klilu?. We never know just what is going on in the minds of those about us. If we did con tentment would bo much rarer than it is, aud apprehension and nuxiety would hold the ery earth up y tho ears. Yes, it is a fine thing we are not all mind readers. New thought has a wa3' of diffusing itself all around, while certain eople who keep the windows of their minds closed to shut it out are very comfortable in the belief that nobod3 is entertaining it because they are not. It was just so at tho Teny farm. The leople of the house had 110 idea what was going ou in the fowl minds about them. Tho truth was, new fangled ideas had gained won derful headwa3' in tho barnyard. Many of the hens were pronounced equal suffragists, and went about talking equal rights in a way that would have got them into serious trou ble twentj--five 3-ears ago, if they had been alive at that time. A few of tho biggest brained cocks espoused the cause. Two of the mediocres also took it up and enjoyed themselves amazingly making speeches. If they- had a fault, it was that thc3 were too fond of oratorj-. When the heus had a convention these two seasoned fowls were always there, and took front scats on the platform. Tho mo ment tho meeting opened both bobbed up to talk. The president, one of the most intel lectual bens in the whole state, and also blessed with high executive ability, alwnys found it difficult to decide which one to recog nize, so simiiltaueouslv did thev spring to ! their feet. Before the first one was throutrh speaking the other one was up and read- to begin at the end of his rival's last word. Iu this way the' monojKilized the entire time of every meeting, and famous binls from a dis tance who had lecn invited to tho meetings to sjieak went homo with all their music iu them. Tho hens didn't like this a bit, but lieing hens nnd not roosters they were obliged the marshal of St. Louis; and as for my ! predictions you are quite welcome to doubt them and take the consequences." "Really, madame," he said, "3-our Oriental lore interests me. I must study deeper into the mysteries of eastern thought." "Ono feature of Buddhism will strike you with force, I think," said the wise hen of Brahma, drawing down oue eye suspicious!-. "That is, it forbids the eating of flesh." Tho big turkey changed color again. Flesh eating was a distasteful subject to him, and ho always avoided distasteful subjects. The clairvo3'ant shut her eyes, stiffened her body and began to see things. She said a dark day was coming for the cutire race of fowLs, and oven certain quadrupeds ou this hemisphere. It would occur about tho latter part of JNoveniber. They who esca;.l that ilay were tolerably sure of thoir lives for an other month, at least. There was but one courso to take to escape the doom of that black Thurstla-; that was to get out of tho way of the flesh eating animal man. At this point a small white pig came up and HiiiiTcd derisivel-, and then trotted off to eat tho food which the fowl neglected for Oriental wisdom. The pig was a noted skeptic. The Brahma hen looked after him and smiled pityingly. "Ephraini is joined to bis idols," she tiL "SeltUhness jwys its own lenUy. We get what we cive. The mind that is hot wholly on thU world reaps its harvest in this world, uud it is often a regu lar whirl wind." Tho Rrahuu hen was certainty ver3' deep. Tho fowls of over3' order gathered around her to di ink iu her wisdom. She was a believer iu rviucamutiou, but was iu no hurr' about it She said it didn't matter to her how soon her bonus were bleaching white and bare on the earth, save for one thing. That waa that she wanted to spread her doctrines a while yet. Chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese and pigeoui all went to bed that night in a frame of mind. Even tho most skeptical of them were more or less troubled by the fortuneteller's prediction. Your skeptical people are never skeptical when bad is predicted of them. They believe even what they don't want to believo while loudly proclaiming their lack of lattu. Two days before Thanksgiving the Brahma heu told her faithful followers that the time was at hand when the3- must flee from tho wrath to come, and tue3- flew. " Whj", dear me," said he whose busineas it was to kill the Thanksgiving fowls, "I cant find a feathered creature ou the place, except those two old uois3 cocks, which are so tough a lion couldn't eat them. These are our friends the orators, who were too conceited to take warnings of 1U13 kind." LJi !V it'l VI I yO ii'i 9 iittfi tmjmvmi&Lttix Vtst W"jv trII3flaBJU.wliiiiV' "A Brn SIl I I vn.l BbSs PvSll -4 frriifg HI H$ "WM" THE FOIST National Bank! OF or a second the tin ladle m MaoMotfat's hand rattled faintly on the platter's edge, "Sister Elia, would -ou mind running up the iuxt flight to Duganse's and asking him to lend me the loan of his almanac till I see n datci" said MacMoffnt. Sister Eliza was cV accommodating as she was stupid, and did not mind it a bit. The quiet around the table was unbroken. An unseen form was at the board. Aunt Eliza's careless words had turned the e3"o of tho heart upon tho face that had inssed awa3' in the last spring. The tin hullo stopixxl its rat tle on the platter. Maciloffat laid it down. He did not trust his eyes with the six little faces around tho table, but gave them to his heart to see" tho face that was there 3'et in visible. "Yea. dears," ho said, slowly and softly, "she's here, but maybe wo can't sou uor, uu ue s iiere. aiomer s nero witn us, children. We are all, all here," COX.X73IBXJ8. -HAS AN- Authorized Capital of $250,000, A Surplus Fund of - $20,000, And tho largest Pal Cask Capital of any bank in this part of the State. SUepoiti timedenooita. received and intenwt paid oa JCSD rafts on the princ ipid cities in tbUeoua try and Europe bought and nold. E"Collections and all ottmr businuM glraa prompt and careful attention. STOCKHOLDERS. A. ANDE11SON, PrWt. HERMAN 1 H.OEHLRICH. Vice Prea't. O.T.ROEX. Cashier. r 'vH'iftS&P' MERMAN OEHLRJCH. VaS&S "; W. A. McALUSTER, 0N?JKELCH. JOHN W.EARLY. P. ANDERSON. (. ANDERSON ROBERT UIILIO, CARL RElNKE. Apraj-'eatf ts"LokS'7 j VflHlSA!3UBBP I ik 0s. ls,s''BB- I A POOR MAN'S THANKSGIVING. Let Lira who eats not, think he cats, Tis one to him who last year said, "My neighbor dines on dainty sweets. And I on coarser bread." He who on sugar uuels fores Hath pangs lieneuth his silken vest; The rougher lifo hath fewer cares Who fasts hath sounder rest. If lean the lied-, lijjht the uings; nis fancy hath more ergo aud room. Who feasts upon the wind that brings The flowers of hope to bloom. ci Insured to mo that this man to go slow m moving against tho enemy liad lost his faith in woman. Then ho pointed, out a pale woman in good but not showy clothing, who was 3et more wretched thau the oores.t at the feast Her husband carcu nouiiiig ior uer. one was uvmg ot a Near him sat a prim old body in a shiny black silk gown. She seemed rather shocked by the mention of the organ and stool, and remarked that as he was a man he could surely find some work to do. She went on to sa3: "Although I am onty a woman, I set to work at once as soon as our fortune was gone. I got a teacher's place in a school, and ever since I have taught and supported m3self. But it is very hard for a lad3' tenderly brought up, and not taught ver3' thoroughly as people were not iu my da- to mix with common people and be knocked aliout in the world, lly father was a rich mau and a gentleman, and we have good blood in our veins for man- generations back, long before our fami'3' ever crossed the ocean. Our name is known in the history of the county, and there was never one bearing it who dis graced it." "A good pedigree is a fine thing if it be genuine," said a crippled man near the old lad "But if I had it, and could exchange it for a straight back and sound limbs, I would gladl3 give it up. Yet I believe I am happier than most of you here. I set out to get ono thing and got it, though it brought little else with it. I was a poor man's son and had no family to boast of, aud the one thing I wanted was learning. As I was a cripple and good for nothing to work, I got books from kind neighbors and taught myself sitting by the kitchen fire in winter and on the door step in summer. Sometimes I got to school, when I had clothes good enough to wear, and at last, through the compassion of neighbor, to college. But I grew more infirm as I reached manhood, and, indeed, but for this I should have no right to be here among you. I have earned m3 livelihood teaching other young men; and so I jog on land my books; and though my meals of ten consist of bread and milk, I am not unhappy. I said I would give noble blood in exchange for good health and strong, sound limbs; but I would not give my books for health or good blood, nor even health alone for a long pedigree." The host smiled at us and said: "There is the man who is really monarch of all he survey" "sy J-'35BBBBf mJ 7i Mmbm It was saddening to turn from 'the cripple to the others. Many of them were equally gifted intellectually, yet they bid never at tained his contentment with his lot. broken heart. aud woman whom no recital seemed to affect. Their onty child had been suddenh killed a few weeks liefore. M3- friend pointed out a man at the bottom of the table. Ho had an uncas3 e3'e nnd a restless conscience. I asked what this man had done. "Set traps for the feet of others," said my host. "In old times, legends sa3', men sold their own souls. He has sold those of others. Ancientry, to trample on tho Cross was the worst sacrilege a man could commit; but he has trampled leneath his feet the vciy iinage of God. Such as he are called 'men about town.' I need not tell 3-011 more." Near him sat a woman with a faded shawl, a soiled and rakish bonnet, brazen face anil dirt3- liamls. No teaching, no help, no good example, no chance of good had ever come to her. And there was a woman in a Parisian dinner dress who sat lxitween two men of tho homeless kind in upper life the la3' figures of soc'et3 She was more lioness looking than her neighbors. She had no work. No object save pleasure ever stirred her. Then 1113- host told me in low tones, while the others were talking among themselves, how he had gathered these people together for this extraordinaiy Thanksgiving feast. Some he had met b3" accident. Others he hunted up, going into dismal places to find them. The most despairing were the ones he choso. He said: "To some I sent formal invitations bj-post. I knew- it would please them. The invitation itself, put in language they had not known for 3'ears, would be more of a blessing thau the mere feast to which the3 were bidden. The moral pleasure given, or the self respect induced b3 these invitations, is more than 1 half the loon of my Thanksgiving feast. To 1 a few tho mere food is much, but then to j these far snnk in the mud, animal cornfart must precede a moral impression. When people are comfortable they like to listen to good talk, and when 3-011 have laid the foundation in eorjHirenl works of mercy 3-011 j may safeh- begin the superstructure of tho spiritual. Indeed, the plo'sical parts of their j trials are really the least, and the uhv- ' sical reward of a good feast also com-parativerv- small Some of. them diao well cver3 ihn- of their lives, and 3-et liave no pleasure in it or airything else. They who do not find more pleasure in the comfort, the security tho absence of anxiety to-night than in the mere abundance of food. Those who are poor do not mind hard work and scanty- fare, but they- do mind the uncer-taint3- of their lives, the lack of a home, the want of appreciation of themselves, the want of sympathy and understanding, tho cold drawing back of the prosperous, the divided attention, the fair words and no deeds, the barren good wishes in short, the whole repellent attitude of the world." "Do 3-ou see," he said, "that old man at the foot of the table.' He has peace enough to bathe us all in it, patience enough and joy enough to share with us alL He does not know bow to read, but he knows the thing that St. Paul counted a higher knowledge than all his Hebrew- learning and Greek subtlety. He had a great misfortune in his youth no matter what it was and if ever there was a child of God. fashioned bv God's own hands and chastened in his own way. it These two strong woman's riehts cocks were not wholly- consistent. I11 theirspceches the3- soundly berated all men who did not make a bold stand in favor of woman suf frage: but it was whispered around that thev Just opjwsite her were a man ere the last fowls to get up and givo their seats to hens in u street car, and that when lhey employed hens to scratch b3" the day for 1 them they paid them merely enough to keep j soul and body together. I . But at the beginning of autumn suffrage talk rather gave place to occultism. There was a perfect wavo of metaphysical interest in the land, and it found a fine soil in the j brains of these advanced binls. Mind cure. Buddhism, theosophy, clairvoyance and all pluses of occultism blossomed like the rase. So nbsorlH.il were many of these feathered disciples of new thought that tiny bcarcely ate any of the unusually' tempting food given thein with a view to increasing their corpu lency for Thanksgiviug. Braced up by the lK-lief that tlay were in possession of mighty 1 secrets unknown and unheeded by the rest of the world, they went about with their beads quite in another world. Indeed, some pro gressed so far as to believe aud assert that they need never die if they didn't want to. "We can boil them till they are tender," said the mistress of the house. Then soma food was held out to these worthy ranters, and some flattery heaiied upon them, and the conceited things, thinking they were to take part in a convention where they could do all the talking, stepped up to the enemy and were cau.'f lit and beheaded. Before this tho small pig which had sneered at talk of the dark Thursday predicted by Mme. Devachau was ready for roasting. Ephraini was iudeed joined to his idols for ever more. The two orators and the skeptic graced and greased the Thanksgiving board, although not exactly iu the characters they would liave chosen. Tho next day the big turkey and all the other fowls who had taken Mine. D.'s warn ing returned to the farm and settled down comfortably to lifo again. Over the bones of the skeptical pig and the two blustering orators they told each other how thankful thev were, "laving particular stress on their gratitude for the boon of minds receptive enough to accept new thought, . Ihat evening they gavo u swell jiarty to Mme. Devachau und loaded her with honors. G. G. A THANKSGIVING DINNER. I ; . xr iClsJ W - f?r- xS?Y - Is he." Hero the host stepped forward, and raising his voice said: "There is one among you, mv friends, who has no word to speak of his troubles and disappointments, yet they have been harder to bear thau all yours, save those miseries born of guilt. I did not invite him here because he was unfortunate, but because I needed something you could all join in being thankful for. He has that treasure; he has the secret which would turn all your misery into joy. Instead of showing you only a full board, I have brought you the most beautiful thins on earth to see and to Among them was oue quite an adept in the wonderful. She was a Brahma, and much did she boast of her noble Eastern blood Mme. Devachau was her name. Her age no fowl could find out. Some said she was a female Mahatma nearly 500 years old Others said she was 80 years at least. Mean time the madame smiled when the subject was hinted at, and looked to bo on the sunny side of 40. Mme. Devachau was a wonderful bird. She was very learned. She read Sanscrit as easily as sho eoulj fly over a fence. She wrote a good deal of very obscure and mystic literature. She could drop down apparently dead and bo flung around almost anyhow, and when she got tired of that pick herself up and go on as before. At such times she claimed tliat her spirit was out of her body and floating off seeing things in two hemi spheres. Besides- she was a clairvoyant and told fortunes. At this she did quite a thriv ing business. About Nov. 1 she warned the big turkey that something unpleasant, not to say dan gerous, was hanging over him. At first ho whistled her down tho wind, and declared that he put no faith in predictions. He wasnt superstitious; not he. Nevertheless, when Mme. Devachau told him that she saw blood clairvoyantly and also an ax suspended suspiciously near his head, the red died out 01 his comb, and with a piteous face he begged her pardon for his previous skep ticism. "You will Icaru," she said, "that my sex (the uneducated clairvoyants always say sect, but Mme. D. was very learned and always spoke correctly) is coming to the front; that what somo of us say is not to be put down as the idlo clucking of ignorant old hens. Out in Kansas there is a town with a woman mayor; another with a board of -female aldermen: and Phebe Couzins is now ROSE TERRY COOK'S BILL OT FARC. Roast turkey. Cold boiled ham, Rosst ducks. .. , . Chicken pi. Mashed potatoes. Stewed celery, Stewed salsify, .Sweet hoted potato. Cranberry sauce. Wild grape Jelly, Celery, Spiced peaches, PicMed canliflouer. Pumpldu pie. Strained apple pie. Cranberry tart, Cocoanut pie, 0 Baked Indian pudJiug. Apples, walnuts, raisins, almonds, ginger. Ginger for dessert should be the sweet, dried ginger bold for such purposes. JULIET CORSON'S BILL OF FAHX. Atypical dinner near the New England coast would be somewhat as follows: Baked tautog. Boiled chicken with oyster sauce. Potatoes. Beeta. Onions. Mashed turnips and squash. Beef a U mode. Roast turkey with cranberry jelly. Roa Tenison with currant jelly. Assorted pickles. Roast or baked partridge or wild duck. Plum pudding. Various cakes. Apple, mince, squajh, pumpkin and custard pies. NutH. Apples. Ralslni. Coffee. IX TBS IXTZJUOR. Fried oysters, or oyster stew. Baked chicken pie. Sweet and sour pickles and catsup. Mashed potatoes and turnips. Boiled whole potatoes. Boiled onions. Baked b?eti. Squash. Roast Rpareribs with stufllug and apple sauce. Koast turkey, goose or chicken with cranb-rry sauce. Fried sausage with fried apples. Baked Indian pudding. Steamed fruit or cracker pudding. Mince, apple, squash, pumpkin aud Ix-rrr pics with chte. Doughnuts, crullers, cookie, cup cakes, gold and silver, marble and s;iouKe cakes. Various preserves. So, if no smoking tin key grace This day my clean but huinliLi lioanl, . I'll think what miht have been my case If riclt, and thank the Lord. No gout awaits my i-ouiingage. No bulbous uose like lolter re J, To vex my teinpe r into ragf. Or fill my daj s with dread. Leave to th rich his roast nad wlae; Death waits on him w ho waits for oil; The doctor will be there by nine. By twelve the priest will call. Lord, In all wholesome, moderate ways Keep me. Iet it should hap mo worse; Teach one to nil his mouth with praise Who net er fllltil Ins pursu. Flonis B. Tlimpton Carbonic Acid Gat as an Kxtiuguiittier. The fiery, untamed soda water tank, which has chiefly distinguished itself since the advent of hot weather this year by bursting and killing or iimimintc its at tendants, has made a new departure, and now appears in the role of a most efficient extinguisher of fire. Some davs ago at Louisville, Ky., a boy carried a lighted candle into the cellar of a dniff store, and In some unexplained way set lire to a ves sel full of varnish, which blazed up through a grating in front of the building as high as the second floor. Before, how ever, the flames could Kain headway in the building, the heat had melted the lead pipe conuected with the newly charged soda fountain, and the flames were in stantly extinguished. Fire nnd Water. The Sword Dli-m. A skillful armorer forged the sword Dliani which came into the possession of the celebrated Bedouin poet-hero Antar. That famous blade was made from a thunderbolt that had slain one of tho chief's cnmcl? and when the smith deliv ered It, with natural pride, to his patron, he observed: "This sword is sharp, oh chief of the tribe of Chaylib sharp in deed; but where is the smiter for this sword?" Qnoth the chieftain: "As for tho smiter I um he," and Instantly struck off the smith's head, so that there should never lie another sword Dham! Notes nnd Queries. Kussla'a Increasing Population. According to Gen. StrelbitskJ, Russia, by the normal increase of her population, will in 1037 have a population of 150,000,000. As nt present she has only seventeen persons to the square mile, she can carry the wholo of this increase and then only have twenty-seven to the mile. Germany has now 80, Great Britain 119, and Belgium 201. The birth rate of Res et Is a far more formidable factor in inter national politics than all the maneuverings of her generals in central Asia. Boston Transcript, MOTHER WAS THERE. The Silent Figure at the Little Table la ttu MacMoffaU' Home. Six towheaded MacMoffats stuck their heads over the rim of the pine table and looked anxiously but cheerfully at thoir Thanksgiving dinner of boiled codfish and potatoes which Mr. MacMoffat, with his band in a sling, from a fali be got from a scaffold last August, was commencing to ladle out to them. "It's Cape Cod turkey!' exclaimed Master John MacMoffat, who was the wit of the family, and all laughed. "Our turkey roosted too high this year," said Mr. MacMoffat, at which they all laughed again, though a broken arm and idleness and doctor's bills bad scared off the turkey. "Turkey makes your feet sore," said the family wit, and there was another laugh. 'Td rather have well cooked codfish than tough turkey, for my part, any day," re marked Visa MaryEBea MacMoffat, who was aspiring to be a young lady. "An pie," suggested the youngest tow head, at which they all laughed again, for there really was to be an apple pie, with 4 piece all roved, at the ead of the meal, though it waa as yet held to be too good to be talked about. "Well, it great blearing that we're all bere'aasl te good health," remarked Miss Kim MsiMielss.thssss-astsragBt, somewhat dlslly j sjsjHe Irrelera-tly. f osilft hagfc fell oa the etoftlesB table. He Did Not Get Away. "You never drink or smoke, do you, George, dear?" she said. "You know I could never marry a man who drinks and smokes." George, in u broken hearted tone of I voice, admitted that he did smoke and drink a little. But a pair of white, 27-year-old arms were around his neck in a moment. "Never mind, George," said the girl; "perhaps my wifely influence will induce you to give them up." New York Sun. A Plp for the Captain. Whenever James Gordon Bennett crosses the ocean blue he has a pipe made for the captain of the steamship in which he sails. His hobby is to have the pipe presented in a silver cape, with tho mono gram of the captain engraved on the out side. About a tlozcn sea captains of ocean greyhounds have been remembered In this way by Mr. Bennett. New York Evening Sun. A novelty in cano handles Is of smoked Ivory In the form of a serpent, the mouth of which springs open to the pressure oi the finger and shoots out fiery fangs. Syrnp of Figs Is Nature's own truo laxative. It is the most easily taken, and the most effective remedy knoWn to Cleans the System when Bilicua or Costive; to dispel Head aches, Colds and Fevers; to cure Habit ual Constipation, Indigestion, Piles, etc. Manufactured only by the California Fig Byrup Company, San Francisco, Cal. For sal only by Dowty Beoher. 27-y gnsittess Igards. D. T. Martt.v. 31. D. F. J. Sctnro, M. D. Dm. MARTY1T & SCHUG, U. S. Examining Surgeons, I.ocal Spnwons, Union Pacific. O.. N. x H. II. and & & 31. It. U'a. Consultation in German and phones at otiice and residences. 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