Image provided by: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE
About The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911 | View Entire Issue (March 28, 1888)
Ajgjg V CMumlra Iminral. r VOL. XVLII.-NO. 49. COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 1888. WHOLE NO. 933. jr V COLUMBUS STATE BANK. COLUMBUS, NEB. Cash Capital $75,000. DIRECTORS: LEANDKR GERHARD, Pnw't. GEO. W. HULST, Vice Pnw't. JULIUS A. REED. R. II. HENHY. J. E. TASKEK. Cashier. ale r Oepvult, !- eBt ExchaaKC CIIectlBn Prattly Slle ill rlBtn. ly latere! Time ee- ita. r -OF- COLUMBUS, NEB. CAPITAL STOCK, $50,000. OFFICERS: V. H. SHELDON. 1'reVt. w. a. McAllister, vice Pre'. ROBERT UHLIG, Cashier. DANIEL SCHRAM. Asa't Cash. DIRECTORS: J. P. BECKER, H. F. II. OEHLRICH. JONAS WELCH. CARL REINKK. H. M. WINSLOW. This Bank transacts a regular Banking Busi nw. will allow interest on time deposits, make collections, buy or sell exchange on United States and Europe, and buy and, sell available securities. ( We shall be pleased to receive your business. Wo solicit your.patronaue. We guarantee satis faction in all business intrusted in oar care. dec2J7 FOR THE WESTERN COTTAGE OBGAH CALL OX A.&M.TURNER Or G. W. KIBLER, Travrellsjsr, aHaleawaam. tari'hese organs are tirst-chit.8 in every par ticular, and so guaranteed. SCNIFFROTH t PLITH, - PK4LFIIS IN WIND MILLS, AND PUMPS. Buckeye Mower, combined, Self Binder, wire or twine. Piaps Repaired on short notice tVOne door wet of Heintc'fi Drug Store, 11th street. Columbus, Neb. 17novt)o-tf HENRY &ASS. COFFINS AND METALLIC CASES AND DBALXR IX rratimr, Chain. Badstaads, Bu- rMa,Tabla, Safes. Lonngaa, etc. Fictnra Framaa and Mouldings. JF 'Repairing of all kinds of UphoU ttery Goods. C-tf COLUMBUS. NEBRASKA. PATENTS Caveats and Trade Marks obtained, and all Pat entboainesN conducted for MODERATE FEES. OUB OFFICE IS OPPOSITE U. 8. PATENT OFFICE. We have no sub-agencies, all batinssa -direct, hence we ran transact patent business in 1ms time and at LESS COST than those remote Bead modsTdrawing. or photo, with descrip tion. We advise if patentable or not, free of i lull' Onr fee not due till patent 19 secured. A book. "How to Obtain Patents," with refer moastoactaaljcliesibvin your state, county or fntfree. AlOW fift Opposite Patent OBce, Washington, D. C. oomeeci m thBBBBBBSBBBauKBsBBaaV ajggfjgajpTV THE JANUS FACED DEMOCRACY. Free Trad far Ob Faction mad Protec tion for Another. For one thing President Cleveland is en titled to the thanks of the Republican party. He has boldly torn away the mask of disinterested friendship to workingmen behind which his party baa been masque rading for years, and committed them squarely to free trade. Of course he will be labeled protection in Pennsylvania, and, judging by all precedents, the Demo cratic convention will be able to formulate u platform susceptible either of a free trade or protection construction. It ought not, however, to require a very long course of reasoning to convince the ordinary mind that whatever they may say, they mean open doors to unlimited competition from all quarters of the globe. This Janus faced party ought to die, and its epitaph should be, "Suicided in an attempt to win English favor." Rutland Tele gram. PITH AND POINT OF POLITICS. Sharp Shots anil Keen Cut by Kcputtll ran and Protective Editors. Governor Hill says "no one man is es sential to the Democratic party." Mr. Hill's heart is right, but there is some thing the matter with his head. Rome Transcript. The declination of Mr. Blaine has knocked the bottom out of mugwumpery. Cleveland Leader. ' "Trusts" and "free trade" are two of a kind. Chicago Inter Ocean. There are many complaints in regard to the postal service. Economy is a good thing, but it is not to be pushed so far as to impair the efficiency of that service. Chicago Journal. Chairman Mills says Cleveland must be the Democratic nominee, whether he wants to or not. Oh, he wants to. Mil waukee Sentinel. The Hill "boom" has grown very, very small, since the meeting of the Democrat ic national committee. Albany Express. Like John Van Bnren, Mr. Cleveland has n contempt for a record over twenty four hours old. Once he favored a one term presidency, but at that time he had not been elected. Now York Press. When a Republican leader retires his party associates grieve. When a great Democratic leader retires bis party asso ciates roll their barrels out where they can be seen and intimate to the country that the sea still contains as good fish as ever were caught. Philadelphia Press. Now it is said that President Cleveland may write a letter declining a renomina tion. Such an epistle will not be accepted as genuine unless it has the indorsement of Frances Folsom Cleveland across the back. Minneapolis Tribune. The Wall of Free Trade. The Mark Lane ExpresB, in its review of the London breadstuffs market for 1887, calls attention to the fact that im ports of flour are destroying the milling business in Great Britain. It says: It will be seen that the total of wheat received in London is rather smaller than last j-ear, but that the combined quantities of wheat and flour are larger, owing to the very great increase in the quantity of flour. It is u startling fact that the bulk of flour chiefly from the United States which has come to London during the year 1887 la larger than that received in the form of wheat by a quantity equal to 280,307 quarters of wheat. Under such circumstances as these it cannot be woudered at that the trade has been dull and dragging throughout, and the facts as they stand are of serious import to the British milling In dustry. Sew York Tribune. Their True Ailment. This is what ails the mugwump jour nals: They made Mr. Blaine's nomina tion a shallow pretext for deserting the Republican party. They are committed to the free trade policy of President Cleve land. Mr. Blaine's withdrawal leaves them without the shadow of an excuse for supporting Mr. Cleveland except free trade. They And themselves exposed in their nakedness as free traders, and they are agitated and looking about for flf leaves. New York Tribune The Democratic Dilemma. It's a funny dilemma, anyhow. If the Democrats renominate Cleveland they will indorse his tariff message, which has been adopted as a Republican campaign docu ment. If they don't renominate him it will be because they will nominate a man who represents the Republican doctrine of protection, and who will stand on a platr form with Republican planks in it. What sort of a rarty te tuis Democracy? New York Press. Jnst a Slight Mistake. Some of the Democratic papers hint that Mr. Blaine has withdrawn from the presidential field l)ecause his Paris letter relating to President Cleveland's message fell flat. They are mistaken. The letter did not fall flat, but it helped to flatten out the free trade boom, for ever since it appeared the president's friends have been trying to show the message did not mean what it said. Troy Times. BeTlsien, Xet Destruction. The tariff issue as presented by Repub licans is not an iron clad rule against needed changes in the present schedule. The tariff has been amended, changed and improved time and again, and under Re publican control this policy of correcting in it what is obviously for the benefit of the country will continue. Boston Trav eler. Three Qaestloas In One. There are, in fact, three great questions to settle in one the settlement of the tariff question, the removal of sectional Ism from politics and the new help of a great element of white men in the south to secure honest elections throughout the aouth as well as in the north. Des Moinea Register. This Editor Onght to Bead the Papers. The Republican party was never before In such a pitiable coadition as lifts now, when it is seeking to find, within its own ranks, a mai who is worthy of the presi dential office. Wilmington Messenger (Dem.) THE CHALLENGE ACCEPTED. Extract from Hon. Chauncey M. Depew'a Chicago Oration. The speech of Hon. Chauncey M. De pew, of New York, at Chicago on Wash ington's birthday has attracted wide spread attention, has been liberally quoted from and is generally regarded as the most intensely patriotic and thoroughly American utterance of the present day. He designated President Cleveland's mes sage to congress as a challenge to debate, and as one of the most fortunate issues of the campaign. Remarking that "doubt and debate are the safety valves of free. ! aom," ne toot up the message in the I course of his oration and discussed it as ! follows: It is vital to the success of our mission that all questions be boldly met. fearlessly I discussed, and promptly acted upon. The area of arable acres in the United states is 20 per cent, larger than that of China, which supports u population of nearly 400,000,000. Aa time is reckoned in the history of nations, in the near future there will be 200,000,000 of people in this coun try. All of them will be dependent upon industrial condition, and the larger part of them will be wage earners. Our prob lem is not, How can they be controlled? for they are the majority, and the majority is the government; but, How are they to be satisfied? Macaulay'a pre diction has been supported by the ablest political economists of the Old World. They claim that with the conditions of crowded populations always on the brink of starvation, with hopeless pov erty and chronic distress, such as prevails under European governments, the repub lic 'fill end in anarchy, and anarchy in despotism. Cheap transportation has ob literated the lines which -formerly divided the planters and the manufacturers, and engendered and embittered the sectional controversies. The new south thrills with the movement of mighty Industries which are developing her mines, utilizing hei great forces and resources, and found ing her cities. The flames of busy fur naces illumine her wasted fields, and near and quick markets awaken to hitherto unknown activities her dormant agricult ure. The hum of the spindles and the inspiring music of machinery sounds over the prairies and along the lakes, as well as among New England hills and Penn sylvania mines. Ninety-nine years ago, on the fourth day of July, 1789, George Washington signed the first tariff act passed by the young re public. Political independence had been proclaimed by the immortal declaration of 177G, but the country was still depend ing on Great Britain for every article of manufacture in metals or fabrics. With more gloomy forebodings thau those caused by the separation of the empire was this news received in England. It was the emancipation of raw materials and the birth of manufactures in the United States, and without them the re public had no "manifest destiny." At the close of an exhausting war, with an un paid, half clothed and riotous army, a worthless currency, shattered credit and an empty treasury, Alexander Hamilton, great in every department of mental activity, but the greatest of finance minis ters, was called upon to provide the moneys for carrying on the government, meet ing its obligations, and restoring its credit. In a report, whose argu ments have never been answered or equalled, he gave as the solution of the present problem and of future pros perity, protection to home industries as a continuous policy, and, when necessary. bounties and premiums besides. The closing year of the century of Hamilton's idea finds thirteen states grown to 38.400, 000 people increased to 60,000.000 and nominal national wealth to $60,000,000, 000. A manufacturing plant not worth $500,000 has expanded until its annual product is 16,000,000,000, and thr con Miiuption per year by our own pex .e of the output of our farms and our factories is not less than five times the consolidated capital of 1789. From an Increasing in debtedness to foreign nations, which drained all our resources, the returning tide of the balance of trade is flowing in enriching currents through every artery of our industrial life. Upon this golden monument, with $100,000,000 of surplus in the national treasury, and proud and prosperous populations all around, the culminating century finds President Cleveland proclaiming with equal bold ness, if less originality, the new depart ure. The celebration of the birthday of the father of his country recalls at this juueture the peculiar significances of the language of the law which received his first signature as president, and which had his heartiest approval: "Whereas it is necessary for the support of the government, for the discharge of the debts of the United States, and the encouragement and protection of manu facturers, that duties be levied on goods, wares and merchandise imported." Since that most fruitful legislation, whenever theory has overcome the plain teachings of practice, the penalty has been panics and distress. "The friend of the many against the profits of the few" Is the se ductive role which captivates the free trader, and its glittering allurements on a subject new to his thought and studies have led out to sea the strong common sense of Mr. Cleveland. It is the basis of the policy upon which he has staked his own fortunes and those of his party. "The tariff raises the price to consumers," he says, "of all articles imported or sub ject to duty, by precisely the sum paid for such duties;" and, as the consumers are enormously in excess of the laborers upon purely protected articles, he rushes naturally aad triumphantly to the con clusion that tariff laws are "the vicious, inequitable and illogical source of un necessary taxation." In 1816, 1832, 1848, the weapons which the president found iu 1888 won great victories, but like Sam sou's arms about the pillars of the temple, the result involved all in common ruin. The mill closed, the furnace fires out, the farmer bankrupt and the laborer a tramp, are the lurid lessons of these well meant experiments upon a delusive theory of the relations of the factory to the farm. tVhy Alabama Ova Free Tiad. There are few northern men who begin fairly to appreciate the marvelous devel opments of the exnaustless mineral and metallic resources of the southern states. The bare and cold statistics that tell the story of these developments during the past ten years are so phenomenal and startling that they have to be made grad ually familiar by reiteration and explana tion in order to become the realities in common appreciation that they are in fact. We are freshly reminded of this by the statements of that trustworthy Alabama newspaper, The Birmingham Age, which says that there will be built, this year, in Alabama, twenty new Iron furnaces, with an average output of 2,000 tons a day, or 700,000 tons per annum. This output, with that of the existing furnaces, will run the output of 1888 up to about 1,000, 000 tons, and it is hoped by the Ala bamians that in that year their state will contest with Ohio the honor of being the second iron producing state in the Union, the iron output in Ohio last year having been 975,539 tons. Thus, in 1889, the iron product of Alabama, estimated at fully $15,000,000, will be one of the three most valuable products of the state, rank ing above the corn crop, about $10,000, 000, and below the cotton crop, about $15,000,000. It is such vast economic char? 3 as these that are convincing those Al ami ans, whose future is not behind them, that the continuance of Republican pro tection is of vital importance to their in terests, and that the true way to reduce the surplus is by abolishing the direct taxes and thus adding to the power of the states to tax the whisky nanufacture, so as to limit its evils and to make it pay part of the local taxes which are made necessary by the liquor traffic. New York Mail and Express. A Very Common Complaint. New England business men are maldnf a strong effort to get better mail facilities. The movement is general throughout the country. It shows how the administra tion of the postal service has fallen away under a "refonn" administration. Roch ester Post-Expraja; ONE OF CHICAGO'S BUILDINGS. Largely Owned and Entirely Sfunagrd by m Woman Fads and Novelties. Central Music hall block might very properly be called the petticoat palace of Chicago. Largely owned and entirely managed by a woman Mrs. Carpenter a greater number of women pass through its doors each day than any other building iu town is honored with. i In and out they go all day long, and I ranging all the way from the beautiful I and enthusiastic young girl, who is iu 1 dulging in the dream that her voice will make her famous, to the decrepit old woman whom a friend or servant must assist up the stairs to the office of the woman metaphysican or Christian healer who has undertaken to remove her lame ness or her ills. Indeed, these extreme types are common enough at the doors of Central Music hall. In this building is a musical college which numbers among its pupils hundreds of young women, and one who stands for a moment at the storm doors and watches the throngs pass iu and out will find food for reflection in the bright faces, glowing eyes and merry words of the hopeful and san guine creatures with music rolls under their arms. He will not have long to wait for the more somber picture of a life whose sands have nearly run out. of a diseased anuMielpless and hopeless mortal whose day dreams of long ago have ended in the nightmare of reulity. There are in Central Music hall women doctors, wo men metaphysicians, women Christian scientists, women dentists, artists, mil liners, and what not. It is. too, a great place for fads, novel ties, new things, progressives of all sorts. On the various floors of the handsome building may be found, besides the mind healers, women doctors of the old schools, a woman manicure and chiropodist, mas sage practiced by both sexes, a school of languages in which Volapuk is taught, ocean brine bath, Swedish movement, compound oxygen treatment, a dramatic teacher, and, as one might easily suppose from the number of women who frequent the building, a millinery store, a candy shop, an embroidery bazaar and a photo graph gallery. Chicago Herald. A Word for Dakota. Writing of the late blizzard, an eastern paper says: "The people who live in this region of Ice and sleet and snow inhabit a far colder country than Lapland. If they continue to live there they must modify their habits so as to adapt them to the conditions of blizzards. If they are derelict in this matter, however, we may expect every year or two to be thrilled by reading similar accounts of disasters in this wind swept, sleet cursed region." If the blizzard is to be a regular visitor, the people of Dakota will soon adapt themselves to it become familiar with the signs of its coming and provide re treats for sudden emergencies, just as cyclone cellars have become a regular part of the home conveniences of people living in districts where that wild and unruly phenomenon has its plavground. Over a thousand miles north of the north line of Dakota people live comfortably and safely, and have done so for generations. The late blizzard, fearful as it was, will have no permanently damaging effect on our north ern territories, nor will it retard settle ment and immigration to any considerable extent. There is too much gold, silver and copper in Montana and Idaho and the wheat fields of north Dakota are too extensive and productive to lie neglected. The great tide of immigration will flow ou, no more affected by the recent storm than is the ocean's tide by the gales that sweep over it. Chicago Times. By Way of Hudson's Bay. Careful calculations have shown that the city of Winnipeg, for instance, is at least 800 miles nearer Liverpool by the Hudson's bay route than by the St. Law rence, and the difference in favor of the former increases, of course, the farther you advance northwestward. If, as has been pointed out, you take the central point of the agricultural lands of the Canadian northwest, you will find that the distance from it to Winnipeg is about the same as to Churchill, the finest har bor of the bay. Now the distance between Churchill and Liverpool is a little less (about sixty-four miles) than it is between Montreal and that great entrepot of com merce. The conclusion, consequently, is that as between the said center and Liv erpool there is a saving of the whole dis tance from Winnipeg to Montreal, by the use of Hudson s bay, which means iu miles no less than 1,291 via Lake Supe rior and 1,698 via Chicago. J. Macdonald Oxley in American Magazine. Where to Send Late Comers. Some of the churches in Chicago have adopted a rule for late comers which would be a blessing iu the theatres if it could be enforced. After the sermon is begun the late arrival is quietly directed to a seat in the gallery. The rule applied once never falls to have good effect. The fashionable McFlimsey girl, who stands be fore her mirror until 11 o'clock before starting to her devotions, will not linger again after she has failed to sail down the aisle in her latest attire. I understand that the first man who had the moral stamina to put his foot down on this late coming in is Rabbi Hirsch of Sinai. Sev eral other ministers in Chicago have sec onded the efforts with good effect. The theatrical manager who will have the grit to sell only up stairs seats after a certain honrmay not make as much money the first week he tries it; but in the long run he will get the crowd and get it in good season. Chicago MolL Their Own Guns Turned Upon Them. Cloth and clothing are cheaper and better than under any previous period of low tariff. "But," says the free trader, "that is because newly invented machinery has decreased the cost of manufacturing cloth and clothing." Admit it; but without the protective tariff there would have been no newly invented machinery in use in this country. Europe would have furnished all our cloth and clothing at its own price. Topeka Commonwealth. In Training for a Great Event. President Cleveland has profited by the example of the young men of Baltimore and is learning how to take walks. In thus taking time by the forelock the president is acting with commendable wisdom, for he may have to take a notable walk on the fourth day of March, 1889. New York Press. Sarah's Extravagance. Sarah Bernhardt says she is really ashamed of herself when she thinks that if she had not been so extravagant she might now give her children a miiliou in stead of a few hundred thousand francs. New York Tribune. The Unemployed. Listen to the free trade scream about the unemployed. Carroll D. Wright has Just issued a report which shows that in 1885 no less than 241,589 persons out of the 816,470 employed in the gainful occu pations in Massachusetts were out of em ployment What -a delicious statistical mouthful for Watterson, Hurd, George and the free trade newspapers. Nearly SO per cent unemployed. Of course the audience and the readers of free trade newspapers will be left in utter darkness as to what portion of the year they were unemployed. The aver age rree trader will never be candid enough to say that as a matter of fact in a working population of 816,470, only 822 persons, or hardly more than one third of one per cent were returned as having been unemployed during the entire twelve months. These are probably the first authentic statistics of the kind ever collected, and The Press is inclined to think that the showing is, upon the whole, satisfactory. The average length of time the unem ployed were unemployed was 4.11 mouths, while for all persons employed in gainful occupations, considered as a whole, whether employed or unemployed, the average of unemployment during the state census year was 1.22 months. It will thus bo seen that the working population of the state of Massachusetts was employed at its principal occupa tion for a trifle less than eleveu months. And 1885 was not as prosperous a year in a good many industries as the year just closed. Meantime it is the duty of protectionists to spread the real facts before the public. New York Press. What Did Cleveland Mean? In his letter accepting the nomination lor the presidency Mr. Cleveland wrote as follows: "When we consider the patronage of this great office (of president), the allure ments of power, the temptation to retain place once gained, and, more than all, the availability a party finds in an Incumbent whom a horde of office holders, with a zeal born of benefits received and fostered by the hope of favors yet to come, stand ready to aid with money and trained political service, we recognize in the eli gibility of the president for re-election a most Eerious danger to that calm, deliber ate and intelligent political action which must characterize a government by the people." The interesting question arises, What did Mr. Cleveland mean when he used this language? Clearly he must have meant one of two things. His words are properly to be regarded either as commit ting Mr. Cleveland to a declination of a presidential nomination, or they are to be regarded as buncombe. A doctor who re fuses to take his own medicines is looked npon the world over aa a fraud. New York Tribune. Sellable Information. The information comes directly from Roswell P. Flower that Governor Hill is a candidate for the presidential nomina tion. When Mr. Flower was in Loudon last summer he expressed the desire to re turn to the United States and devote him self to the defeat of Grover Cleveland. He was outspoken in his purpose to his intimate friends. He seems to have en tered upon his chosen work. We shall Bee whether the Flower will bear fruit In dianapolis Journal. Patriotism Above Partisanship. If the president's free trade programme should actually become crystallized into law it would injure the south much more thau it would the north, and, of course, drive the Democracy from power for a dozen years to come. As partisans, the Republicans have a special interest in offering no obstruction to the free trade scheme. As patriots, however, they must light it by every legitimate means at their command. St. Louis Globe-Democrat What Randall Really Represents. The great mistake of the free traders grows out of the fact that Mr. Randall has so long defended the principle of pro tection on the Democratic side that they have come to regard him as a personal enemy, while in reality he is the repre sentative of a sentiment that is over whelming in the states that decide fed eral elections. New York Sun. Cleveland Conld Carry Canada. A representative of The Press in Mon treal, Canada, the other day was met with this: "I believe you represent one of those blasted Yankee protection sheets. I think you are making a mistake, for Mr. Cleveland is very popular here." Of course he is, in the British provinces. But how about his free trade message in the United States? New York Press. It May Be a Blizzard by Summer. It is a pity that a Dakota blizzard can not be stored away like ice, to moderate torrid weather in summer. Still we shall have, as spring advances, the growing coolness in the Democratic party toward Mr Cleveland. Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. A Crushing Reply. The Democratic answer to the charges that Jeffersonian Simplicity Hill misap propriated $17,000 of state funds on musi cal clocks, billiard tables and other knick knacks and bric-a-brac: "Phil Sheridan was born in Ireland." New York Press. Bad Advice or No Advice. Mr. Cleveland has either listened to bad advice,-or he has listened to none. The former is the more probable. The certain thing is that he has made a bad botch of it and damaged himself irreparably. Men of sagacity and influence, who a few months ago were open in their praise of him, are today secretly plotting his de feat. He has gained no friends except those who have been paid for with office, and made enemies of men who have the power and the disposition to harm him. Omaha Republican. Right, aa Sure as Yon're Born. Real name of the next Democratic can didate for the presidency: ClevelanD, VoorheEs, McDoNald, RaXdall, Hlggins, St. John. Chicago Tribune. Jast the Article Wanted. This much may be safely affirmed as to the Republican temper in relation to the presidential nomination: It desires a man who is always a Republican, who is for protection to American industry, who is for a free vote and a fair count in all the states, and who will use all the means at his command to enforce it. Chicago later Ocean. Facts Never Trouble Them. There Isn't a free trade organ in the country that doesn't know that domestic competition has been built up by protec tion, and that it is this that has made'the prices of manufactured goods low to the consumer. -And yet we have never seen a free trade organ that was fair enough to even concede the tact Detroit Tribure. Where Does He Draw the Line. Will Chairman Mills never be satisfied until he can chase a ten cent sheep over the prairies of Texas in a 2 suit of clothes. Washington Critic. Syrup of Figs Is Nature's own true laxative. It is tho most easily taken, and the moBt effective remedy known to Cleanse the System when Eilious or Costive; to dispel Head aches, Colds and Fevers; to cure Habit ual Constipation, Indigestion, Piles, etc. Manufactured only by the California Fig Syrup Company, San Francisco, Cal. For sale only by Powty 4 Becher. 27-y FARM AND GARDEN. A DEVICE FOR BREAKING A HORSE PULLING AT THE HALTER. Comparative Value of Cora, Cornmeat and Oatmeal for Pigs Causes of and Remedies for Feather Eating: Hens. Douches for Husking Corn. For husking corn under shelter or in the open field, a husking bench is a great convenience. In the accompanying cuts are shown two styles of husking benches that were recommended and illustrated a short time ago by Country Gentleman. PIO. 1 HCSKINQ BENCH. The bench shown In the first cut re quires no description. Any one can make one liko it, without other guide than the figure here shown. To use it, tip it down against the shook, grasp the top of the shock and tip It back with its load. FIO. 2 HUSKING BENCH. Fig. 2 shows another form of husk ing bench. It is made by using two small benches connected by two pieces of wood two by three inches and ten or twelve feet long, with cross boards for seats. The shock is thrown on the bench between the hnskers. When enough stalks are husked for a bundle, they are bound, without the husker leaving his seat, and thrown to one side. The seats have cleats on the lower eide to prevent dropping. They are most convenient when about twenty-seven Inches high. By the use of this bench, either in field or under shelter, we find that a man will husk one-fourth more than in the ordinary way. Growing Lettuce in Cold Weather. There are four ways of growing lettuce for market in cold weather in the green house, where steam or hot water is used; by steam heat under dirt in beds; by team or water over the lettuce beds, and in the old way by manure heat. This last and easiest way is described by a cor respondent of American Garden. He uses one cord (128 cubic feet) of manure, to fill under eight or teu sashes; one foot in depth of manure in this latitude, un der eight inches of dirt with six inches of Bpace between gloss and soil is about right. The sides of the beds on which the glass rests should be cf two inch plank well nailed to posts or joists made tight to keep out cold, well protected on the outside with soil. If sunk almost to the level of the ground, frost is kept out better. The beds need to be sheltered by buildings or a high fence. Sash should be 3x6 feet and two inches thick, made from pine and have two coats of white paint. Glaze with 6x8 glass, double thick, bedded, tacked and puttied on the outside with oil and whiting putty. The correspondent referred to uses solid shutters of pine boards to cover sash with iu place of mats and likes them better. For heating, horse manure is employed. The plants for setting he obtains by sow ing a small bed iu December. One ounce of seed under two sashes gives plants enough for thirty sashes or more. The plants in time of setting should have four to six leaves and be set six to eight inches apart. Wanning "(Vater for Stock. The practice of warming water for Btock, especially milch cows and animals being fattened, is growing every year in sections where the winters are long and cold. An Iowa advocate for warming water for stock describes a plan which he has found both cheap and easy. The cut 'nEATER FOR WARMING illustrates the heater used by the WATER. Iowa advocate, and said to do the work effectively, at the minimum cost of con struction and running. It is made of galvanized iron. A is a cylinder twenty inches in diameter and eight inches high, provided with a four inch smoke pipe (the longer one as shown in the cut) C, made long enough to carry off the smoke, and feeding pipe, B, eight inches in diame ter, and high enough to come just above the edge of the water tank, in which it is to be set. This must be soldered abso lutely water tight, and can be made by any tinner at a cost of from $2 to $2.30. A cover must be made to fit over pipe B, but supplied with a small hole, for slight draft. Next take a kerosene or other strong cask of equal size, and saw off one end, making a tub ten inches deep, inside measure. Set this tub in your water tank, put the heater in the tub and secure the latter by a movable cross piece, which must press firmly on the tub's edge and be held in place by projections on the in ner Bide of the tank. Now fill the tank, tub and all, full of water, the heater be ing totally submerged, which must always bo kept so while there is a fire in it. Put some live coals in the heater, drop in some kindling, and then some short, hard bits of wood or soft coal; after the fire gets well started put the cover on pipe, B, and the fire will burn slowly, but will heat very rapidly, for the reason that not a particle of heat is radiated except through the water. Sweet Pickle for Hams. The principal point is to get the hams just salt enough to keep and not so salt as to injure the flavor and cause the meat to become hard. A real nicely cured ham from a young hog is one of the luxuries of the table. Make a brine just strong enough to float an egg, stir in sugar or N. O. molasses enough to give it a slight sweetish taste, with two ounces of saltpetre dissolved in every six gallons of the pickle; stir, and skim off nil Impurities before using, and keep the hams weighted down and covered with pickle for from four to seven weeks, depending on their size and the weather; if exposed to a freezing temperature, more time will bo rcq''ed; and small and large hams should c. pickled separ ately, otherwise the small ones will bo too salt. Smoke with .hickory wood or cobs. Silage Wlthowt s SUo. Minnesota Farmer tells about silage without a silo. About the end of Octo ber corn, unhuaked, and oat straw were cut with a feed cutter fine, half an inch and less, and piled into a hay mow with out pressure or weight or exclusion of air, beyond such pressure as was furnished by a man's own weight. The mass heated, and after a while the top for a depth of three or four inches molded a little. This food has been fed to milk; cows for tome um - - time now, and with no other rations than a little ground oats. The animals are re ported to thrive on it and give more milk ' since so fed than before. Protecting Trees Aglst Rahhlta, A method for protecting trees against rabbits and ground mice, practiced by Mis souri farmers and indorsed by the Mis souri State Horticultural society, consists in covering tho trunk of the tree around with wire cloth. If this be inserted an inch or two into the ground, it is claimed that it proves an equal protection to ground mice, which often girdle trees at and below the surface during the winter. In the Vegetable Garden. Cabbage, Irish and sweet potatoes do beat on a coarse, sandy loam, the latter, however, attaining size at the expense of quality. Watermelons, cantaloups and sweet potatoes grown for fine quality flourish best ou a loam of about 60 per cent of very fine sand and 40 per cent, of clay. Plant cantalenps early, five feet apart each way. Make the first planting on one side of the hill; a week later plant the other side, and when well up thin to three of the best plants in the hill. For watermelons furrow eight feet apart each way, and proceed in all respects as above, and cultivate until the vines meet. Sifted coal ashes gives tho best satisfaction in preventing tho attacks of the melon bug. In arranging dates for planting vegeta bles for a succession, it should be noted as the season advances and becomes warmer that peas, and in fact all kinds of vegetables, grow faster and overtake one another. The date for planting the dif ferent sorts does not lead to correspond ing intervals iu gathering the crops. For instance, though live days' difference in date of planting peas in April will make about as many days' difference in the time of harvesting in June, yet five days difference in planting in May will make hardly auy visible differenco in ripening in July. Swnshlne for Bees. Numbered with other queries of gen eral interest sent out among leading apiarians all over tho country, by the edi tor of The American Bee Journal, was the following: "In wintering bees outdoors, would it be better to have the apiary on the south side of a hill facing south, where the hives get plenty of sunshine; or on the north side of a hill facing north, and no sun shine, as some have contended?" In the twenty-one replies received all, excepting one, favored the southern slope and the sunshine. J. P. H. Brown said: "I prefer the apiary on the north side of a hill in a warm climate, and on the sonth hide in a cold climate." G. W. Damaree replied: "I would prefer a southeastern slope to any apiary ground. But I have had my apiary on four sites in the past, differing widely from each other, and I have really seen but little difference as to the results." The editor of The Bee Journal concludes the replies with the following advice: "In tho northern lati tude, place the bees on the south side of the hill. In the south tome prefer the hives to face the north, bntall desire them to have as much sunshine as possible." Live Stock of the Country. A recent report of the department of agriculture shows an increase in horses, mules and cattle, with a decrease in sheep and swine. The largest rate of increase is in horses, amounting to 5 per cent. The incraise in cattle is nearly 2 1-2 per cent, comparing closely with the advance in population. The total of cattle shows an aggregate upward of 49,000,000, or 82 per 100 of population. In sheep the de cline appears to v& between 2 and '& per cent., the aggregate of flocks being about 4:,.'500,000. Swine have declined in num bers less thanl per cent, leaving the total upward of 44,000,000. The aggregate vidue of all farm animals is $8,000,000 more than a year ago, the total for cattle being smaller by about $64,000,000. The horses represent a total valuation of $946, 000,000, the mules upward of $7."i,000, 000, cattle $978,000,000, swine $221,000, 000 and sheep $89,000,000, a grand aggre gate of $2,309,000,000. Safe Device for Handling a Bull. A farmer in Rural New Yorker gave recently an illustrated description of a de- vico for holding bulls that has fJ'rfrSZS proven con- r sO,? venlent, durable and Bafe. It is simple and any blacksmith can very quickly make one. Put it ou and let it re main on as long as the bull is be ing handled. It is not in the way of anything or at at any time. It DEVICE FOR HOLDINO A ? "dth BL "" a rope or staff and bitch in the nose ring or above as you see fit This farmer had a heavy, stout har ness snap put on the end of the chain to hitch in the rinz in the nose, and another snap to hitch the ring half way between me nornB. fit a ring on toe horns under tho nubs. If any bull is too harsh for com mon brass nubs and tears them off, have a blacksmith make a heavy Iron nub with a heavy thread that will stand tho racket. A postal card directed to "Experimental Station, New Haven, Conn.," requesting the bulletins of that institution, and giv ing the writer's name and address, will bring these documents as fast aa issued and free of charge to any person in any ate of the Union. A Famous Doctor Once naid that the secret of good health consisted in keeping the head cool, the feet warm, and the bowels oen. Had thin eminent physician lived in our day, and known the merits of Ayer's Pills as an aperient, he would certainly have recommended them, as so many of his distinguished successors are doing. The celebrated Dr. Farnsworth, of Norwich, Conn., recommends Ayer's Pills as the best of all remedies for " Intermittent Fevers." Dr. I. E. Fowler, of Bridgeport, Conn., says: "Ayer's Pills are highly and universally spoken of by the people about here. I make daily use of them in my practice." Dr. Mayhew, of New Bedford, Mass., says : " Having prescribed many thou sands of Ayer's Pills, in my practice, I can unhesitatingly pronounce them the best cathartic in use." The Massachusetts State Assayer, Dr. A. A. Hayes, certifies : " I have inada a careful analysis of Ayer's Pills. They contain the active principles of well known drugs, isolated from inert mat ter, which plan is, chemically speaking, or great importance to tin ir usefulness. It insures activity, certainty, ami uni formity of effect. Ayer's Pills contain no metallic or mineral substance, but the virtues of vegetable remedies in skillful combination." Ayer's Pills, Prepared by Dr. J. C. Ay sr 8c Co., Lo wsll, Msss. Sold by all Dealers la Medietas. MP tbe rxit.m National Bank! OF COLUMBUS. H -HAS AN- Authorized Capital of $250,000, A Surplus Fund of - $20,000, And the largest Paid im Caak Capital of any bank in this part of the State. rarl)epoit received and Interest paM time deposits. EVDrafts on the priao ipal cities la this try and Europe boaght and sold. tVCoUectiona and all other linslsiss givs prompt and careful attention. STOCKBOLSBSa. A. ANDERSON, Pres't J. H. GALLEY. Vie Pres't O.T.ROCI. Cashier. G. ANDERSON. IDKBSOH. JArOHORFlUK JOHN J. SDLL1 ApraVSM gusmess ards. D.T.MABTTJf,M.D. F. J. Bcsxa. M. D. Bra. XA&TYB 8CHTJ0, U. 8. Examining Surgeons. Local Surgeons, Union Pacific, O., N. ft B.B.andB.AM.K.K's. Consultation in German and sgii Tele phones at office and residences. -Office en Olive street, next to Brodfasfc rer's Jewelry Store. COLUMBUS. NEBRABKA. TTAMILTOl EADE,H. IK, PHYSICIAN AXD SUROSOy, Platte Center. Nebraska. B-y TA. ItlcALsLISTEK, ATTORNEY NOTARY PUBLIC. Office op-stairs in Henry's building, eorssr of Olive and 11th Htreets. auglQ-87y W. 91. COKIV:i,IU8, LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE. Upstairs Krnht building, llth street. OUIJlVAi k HEEDER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Office over First National Bank. Colombo. Nebraska. 5041 c. . EVANM, M. ., PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. COffico and rooms, filuck building, lltb street. Telephone communication. 4-y J. ifl. nACFAKLA.HU, ATTORNEY r NOTARY PUBLIC. , ST'OHice over First National Bank. Coluta buh, Nebraska. TOIIX EaJlIv, COUNTY SURVEYOR. aSf-Partii desiring surveying done can ad. dress me at Columbus, Neb., or call at my ottoe in C ourt House. 5mayMJ-y T J. t'KAnEK, CO. SUP'T. PUBLIC SCHOOLS. I will lie in my office in the Court House, the third Saturday of each month for the examina tion of applicants for teachers' certificate, and for the transaction of other school business. lSjanby W AE.C2MAF BMOS., DRAY and EXPRESSMEN. Light ami heavy hauling. Goods handled wi-th ca". Headquarters at J. P. Becker 4 Co.a office. Telephone, 33 and 34. SOmarOTy DR. J. 4J11AN. WILLY, (Deutscher Arxt.) PHYSICIAN and SURGEON, Columbus. Neb. EYEDI8EASES A SPECIALTY. Office: Telephone: Eleventh Street. Office No. 46: Residence UtaJSt. 22mars7 JOHN G. HIGGIN8. C. J. GABLOW. Collection Attorney. HIGGIffS & GABLOW, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, Specialty made of Collections by C J. Garlow. M-m RCBOYD, suKcricTcaoi or Tin and Sheet-Iron Ware ! Job-Work, Booflns; and Gutter ing a Specialty. EVShop on OliTe street, 2 doors north ef Brodfaehrer's Jewelry Store. X24t nrmEA .WONDERS exist in ..ywoQuuiai oi iorms, nat are sor Mrr r passed by the marvels of invention. 1 Those who are in need of profitable work that can be done while living at home should at once send their address to Hallett & Co., Portland, Maine, and receive free, full in formation how either sex, of all ages, can earn from $5 to 225 per day and upwards wherever they live. ou are started free. Capital not re quired. Some have made over SS0 in a single day at this work. All succeed. fi7dc8By SSOORawars! We will pay the above reward for any ease of liver complaint, djspepsia, sick headache, indi gestion, constipation or costiveness we cannot cure with West's Vegetable Liver Pills, when the directions are strictly complied with. They are purely vegetable, and never fail to give satisfac tion, ijurg" ooztw containing au sugar coated pills, 25c. For sale by all druggists. Beware of counterfeits and immitations. The genuine manufactured only by JOHN C. WEST A CO.. M2 W. Madison St., Chicago, 111. decTWy INVENTION! has revolutionised the world during the last half centnrv. Not least toons the wonders of inventive progress is a method and system of work that can be performed all over the country without separating the workers from their homes. Pay liberal; any one can do the work; either sex. young or old: no special ability required. Capital not needed; yoa are started free. Cut this out and return to ns and we will send yoa free, something of great value and im portance to you, that will start yon in business, which will bring yon in more money right away. than anything else in the world. Grand outfit free. Address True 4 Co.. Augusta, Me. dcS WewspapER A book of 100 pages. , Tho best book for aa advertiser to oob sult, bo he experi enced or otherwise. MgyEBTOlNCJ It contains lists of uewan i newspapers ana estimate of thecostof advertising. The advertlserwho wunta to spend one dollar, finds la It the in formation he requires, while forhim who will Invest one hundred thousand dollar te ad vertising', a scheme is indicated which wu meet his every requirement, or earn fteatow to do toby alight chariot muiljf arrrnd at By ear respondent. 149 editions have beea lamed. Sent, port-paid, to any address for lOeaata. Write to GEO. P. BQWUX A CO-. NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING BUUAU. UQ3oruoat.PrIaUngaotts3.), Kawfotk.