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srii 0ttrtraL Kr 7 VOL. XVIIL-NO. 51. COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 1888. WHOLE NO. 935. raillts I COLUMBUS STATE BANK.! COLUMBUS, NEB. Cash Capital $75,000. mnE(;ro!: LKANDEU GERHARD. FreVt. flEO. W. HULBT, Vice Piw't. JULIUH A. KEUI). K. H. HENKY. J. E. TASKKK. t'a.hir. Bank of l-poxll, (Hmouhi sutd Eichance. CelleclloBM Promptly Inde all Paint. Pay latercMt Tle IepM- Itw. 274 COMUERCUL BUS OF- COLUMBUS, NEB. CAPITAL STOCK, $50,000. OFFICERS: C. H. SHELDON, l'res't. w. a. McAllister, We rre ROHERT UHLIG. Cashier. DANIEL SCHRAM, Aw't Cash. DIRECTORS: J. F. BECKER. H. I H. OEHLRICH. JONAS WELCH. CARL REINKE. II. M. WINSLOW. Thin Bank transact a regular Ranking Busi ness, wiR allow interest on time d.ioitB. make collections, buy or sell exchnngn on United States find Enroll, and buy and. wll available securities. o We shall tw i1hb1 to rocohe our business. We solicit your patronage. Wo guarantee satis faction in all business intrusted in our care. deo-AJ-S; FOR THE CALL ON A.&M.TURNER Or . W. KIBLKK, TraTellMK Malwnaa. jyThes organs are fint-chis in every par ticular, and no guaranteed. SCHftFFROTH ft PLITH, DKU.KRS IN WIND MILLS, AND PUMPS. Buckeye Mower, combined, Self Binder, wire or twine. Pmps Repaired on short notice fyOne door west of Heintz'u Drug Store. 11th street, Columbus, Neb. 17nov9&-tf HENRY G-ASS. COFFINS AND METALLIC CASES AND DEALER IN Furniture, Chairs, Bedstead. Bu reaus, Tables, Safes. Lounges, Ac. Picture Frames and Mouldings. &" Repairing of all kinds of Uphol stery Good. 8-tf COLUMBUS. NEBRASKA. PATENTS Caveats and Trade Maries obtained, and aU Pat ent bnsine conducted for MODERATE FEES. OUB OFFICE IS OPPCSITE U. 8. PATENT OFFICE. We have no ub-agncies, all business 'direct, hence wo can transact patent business in leasttme and at LESS COST than those remoU 'gend modU drawing, or photo, with descrip tion. We advise if patentable or not, free of chaise. Onr fee not due till patent is secured. Abook.'"How to Obtain Patents," with refer ences to actual clients in your state, county or town.ntfree. -., fi Opposite Patent Office, WaahiBfton,D. ;. WESTERN COTTAGE ORGAN NATIONS AS TALKERS. LEADING CONVERSATIONAL CHARAC TERISTICS OF DIFFERENT PEOPLE. The English Peasant's Gift for Empty Meditation Irish and Scotch The Chattering Nations of Europe Biling ual Itace The Jew Teutonic Peoples. The Scot, even if he will not converse, will usually argue, and the Londoner will tell imecdotes; but the English peasant is, a a rule, a person with a gift for empty meditation. The Irish peasant, on the other hand, talks readily and pleasantly, in short sentences usually full of expres sion; so does the Italian, who knows less than the Englishman; and so does the Bengalee, who knows hardly more than the animals around him. The latter, in deed, talks frequently and with anima tion, though almost always on a single subject money. It has been said by one wht wrote after years of observation, that if two Bengalees talk for five minutes the word paisa (pence) will always be heard; but talk they do, with remark, answer, rejoinder and repartee. What is the cause of that difference Professor Mahaffy suggests an answer which eeins to us to savor of artificial L profundity, and therefore to be very un- liko Profeasor Mahaffy, who usually says his true thought, even if it is a little out of place: "I fancy the causes of these so cial differences are rather recent than primeval; they do not depend directly upon climate or atmosphere, and if I may quote the opinion of a wise friend on this large question, I should say that one chief cause of the talking or social ability of some peasantries over others, is the fact that their proximate ancestors were a bilingual people. Thus the great major ity of west Irish and north Scotch peas ants are descended from grandfathers whose talk oscillated between Celtic aud English, and who were, therefore, con stant ly educated in intelligence by the problem of translating ideas from one language into .-mother, not to mention the distinct inheritance of the special ideas peculiar to each and every language. This is an education in expression, in thinking, and therefore in conversation, wholly foreign to the English midland boor, who has never heard more than 200 or 300 words ot a very rnde provincial dialect of English, and therefore com mands neither the words nor the ideas of the outlying provinces." A theory of that kind should explain the facts, and this does not explaim them. If it were true, the women would be as si lent ns the men, having even less of cul ture, but they are not. On the contrary, the wives of those silent rural folk can often chat agreeably, and give and take in conversation. They do not only narrate; they discuss and are capable even of rough badinage, which helps the argument directly on. Moreover, the chattering peoples the Neapolitans, for instance are not bilingual; and the best talkers in the world, the born Parisians, spring of ancestor who knew no language but their own. The border peoples, too, are not exceptionally talkative, as we see in Wales; aud the Swiss peasantry, for all their linguistic acquirements, are ex ceptionally taciturn. Nobody would say that an Alsatian, accustomed from child hood to two languages, and those among the richest in the world, was more con versable than a Lyonnais, who hardly knows of the existence of two, while a Parisian seems nimble in talk by the side of a Bruxellois, who is never for an in etant out of the hearing of two tongues. The man who is bilingual, either in fact or by tradition, has no doubt a larger command of words; but is the command of words the key to the secret? If bo, why do the women, as we said before, talk bet ter than the men, and why are not all the cultivated equally capable of conversa tion;' How often can a professor's com paratively ignorant wife talk well, while the learned husband is incapable of con versation! And, finally, it the difference is a question of knowledge of any sort, why does wine so often, and up to a point, brighten talk and talkers? It cannot add thoughts, or increase a limited repertoire of words. At most, alcohol, iu any form, can but impart courage, and per haps a little speed to the movements of the brain. We should say that the power of talk, in the sense of conversing, came first of all from the wish to talk, the de sire to manifest one's self to others, and that this was in the first instance exactly what the professor says it is not a race peculiarity. Nothing runs more com pletely iu families than the habit of con versing much, and a race is nothing but a big family. Did Mr. Mahaffy, in his whole life, ever meet a Jew who could not talk, or who did not wish to talk, or who, if circumstances favored him, did not talk a little too readily? Persians and Arabs, who know nothing, chat twice as readily as Scotch farmers, who know much; and the populace of Naples, men as ignorant as the fishes of their bay, talk, and talk well all day. The Greeks have been chat terboxes for 3,000 years, and have lived for 800 of them side by side with Turks, who in the lower classes scarcely converse at all. It is not even true, so far as our observation goes, that, outside the Teu tonic race, class makes any perceptible difference, an Italian or Greek or French workman talking quite as readily as his superiors, and enjoying talk quite as much. We fear that the truth is one which Professor Mahaffy's courtesy induces him only to hint, viz., that the Teuton of all three branches German. Englishman and American though he is filling the world, and may possibly master it, is a slow witted being, who does not by nature enjoy talk, but rather feels it a worry to be called on to understand words and make a response to them so quickly. He does not take in readily, and therefore has little pleasure in hearing talk; and he cannot give out quickly, and therefore suffers in uttering it. As to the cause of such a peculiarity of race it is tiresome, or at all events useless, even to speculate. Spectator. CURIOUS WIND PHENOMENA. The "Sand Angers" or the Plains Tricks of Baby Cyclones A Collapse. "A curious phenomenon," said Pro fessor F. E. Clarke to a reporter, "is some times observed on wide plains where the atmosphere is hot and dry. It is tho forming of miniature cyclones, or rotary storms, which, when occurring on a grand scale, as they do hthe western states, are known as tornadoes. "When the Union Pacific railway was being constructed the workmen had fre quent opportunities of witnessing the formation and progress of such whirl winds, which, on account of the peculiar action they had on dry soil, were called 'sand augers.' They were especially fre quent is Lodge Pole Creek valley, through which the railway, leaving the Platte river, runs northerly to near the base of the Black hills. This valley Is quite nar row averaging about a mile in width and is bounded on either side by a range of low, uneven hills. "The first indication of the approach of one of these 'sand augers' would be the formation, here and there in the valley, of little whirligigs of dusty winds, picking up bits of straw, paper and other uncon sidered trifles, sometimes waltzing Into camp and flirting with the canvas tents or scattering the embers and ashes of out door cooking places. "These baby cyclones would increase In number quite rapidly, and then be whisked away by strong currents of air. eomjag irom no one knew where, but all drawing across the valley toward the eastern range of hills, over which would then be seeu advancing a funnel shaped cloud, like that seen over waterspouts forming at sea. "From the under surface of this low lying cloud a swaying tongue of lead colored vapor would prolong itself toward the earth, from which, to meet it, would rise a cloud of dirt and sand. This earth column would risa higher and higher, with a whirling motion, becoming more compact all the while, until the blue black vapor and the brown mass from below would unite above, and the com pleted, swiftly whirling column commence moving slowly down from above on its way across the valley. While its forward progress was usually slow, its rotary motion about its vertical axis would be very rapid; and so dense would bo the mass of sand gathered up by it that when the column touched the earth it would scoop out a shallow channel like tho dry bed of a small stream. Hence its name of sand auger. "The diameter of theso augers seldom exceeded fifteen or twenty feet at the ground, but their bulk increased with their height until they were merged into the broad surface of the thick, murky vapor from the cloud above, from which electric flashes frequently played. When this occurred large hailstones would be formed, which would bo thrown, by cen trifugal force, apparently out from the re volving storm. They would be found to be, almost invariably, in the shape of flat disks, sometimes three inches in diameter and an inch thick, and mado up of layers of ice and sand. "One such 'sand auger' passed near an engineers' camp where I was at work and carried off a tent or two. It then grazed the edge of a corral near by, cutting away one angle of an adobe wall, and. sweeping by the house itself, left every pane of glass in the one window as neatly ground as if done by a sand blast machine. "Passing on. the tents the 'auger' was carrying off became entangled in the tele graph wires running through the valley, and after dragging down two poles the cyclone collapsed, leaving beneath, when it broke up, a mound made up of sand, bits of adobe, some old boots, a sprinkling of empty tins, part of a bale of hay and a dog eared poker deck of cards. The lat ter were afterward carefully gathered up by their owner, a genius called Slim Jim, who always deplored the fact that the re covered pack was imperfect, there being but four aces left in it by the sand auger." San Francisco Examiner. The Evolution of a Hat. A Park place dealer in head coverings displays In his window "The evolution of a hat." It is a unique exhibition. First there is a grave and sleepy white rabbit in a cage. Next to his apartment, as a reminder of his possible fate, is a mass of rabbit fur from the bodies of some of his departed fellows. Exhibit 3 in the collec ion is a long, conical affair about th color of a hornet's nest, and scarcely sym metrical in form. It is labeled: "Form ing the fur into shape." The fourth stage in the evolution is illustrated by an ex hibit entitled, "Shrinking the body." The large gray cone has been contracted to half its sire, but looks as Ungainly and as little like a hat as ever. Exhibit 5, however, looks very like a hat. The gray mass has been dyed black and stiffened, and but for its frayed edges it would make a very decent headgear. The sixth sample shows the finished hat, as hand some a derby as ever graced a cranium. Its edges are bound, its interior uphol stered with white silk, aud is such a per fect hat as would make the sleepy rabbit, marked Exhibit 1, almost willing to die to produce such a triumph of art. New York Evening Sun. High Living at Washington. Iu the meantime I hear continuous complaints about the high prices of living in Washington, and there is no doubt that a radical change has gone on in this regard. The rich men who have come here entertain so grandly and dispense their money so freely that, as Senator Cullom told me the other day, the poor statesman has a hard time to keep within the limits of his salary. Senator Cullom said he has made nothing since he has been in politics, and that he has lost his money making sense by working in the field of statesmanship. The days when congressmen could board on $1 a day have long since gone by, and the man who gets along now on $20 a week does remarkably well. If he has his wife and children with him his bills run well up in the hundreds per month, and if he has not the chances are that the allurements of Washington life will carry him fast along the road to per dition. Carpenter's Letter. Dakota Editor's Complaint. "We greatly dislike to find fault with any of the customs of our beautiful little city," says a Dakota editor, "but we must nevertheless insist that people keep their swine out -from under the office of this paper. While engaged at our desk writ ing our leader on 'The Stability of Our Territorial Institutions,' for our paper this week, one of Senator McBride's razor backed hogs humped up its spine and be gan scratching its back on the beams under the floor, jarring the whole build ing and making it necessary for us to stop our work on the editorial, crawl under our office, and welt the critter along the bide with a column rule. This interrupted our train of thought, and the editorial fc not what we could wish." Paints That Arc Dangerous. While an American mill was closed for repairs, the long iron tulte conducting the water from the cKual to the turbine was painted with a mixture of benzine and asphaltum as a protection against rust. While the work was in progress the super intendent, passing by, heard sounds of hilarity within, which were not strictly in accordance with workmanlike conduct, and on looking through the manhole saw the half dozen employes iu boisterous mirth, danciug around, painting each other's faces and clothes. On seeing tho superintendent they invited him to come aud be frescoed. Suspecting the cause of the unusual proceedings he summoned a larger force of men, and much difficulty was experienced in removing tho men, although before all were taken out the re maining ones were already in a state of partial stupor. The open, air revived them, although it was followed by p true Hue Monday headache. Engineer1 g. Sensitive Photographic Plate-. Photographic plates can now be pre pared which are more sensitive to light than even the human retina; they sub serve au excellent purpose iu astronomical photography, for by their use it is possible to map out stars in the heavens which are so dim as to be totaHy invisible to the eye looking through the telescope. The plato is fixed aud allowed to remain behind the eye piece of the telescoje, the rays of light invisible to the eye gradually producing the change in It necessary to the produc tion of an image. It is claimed for them that they will photograph the eruption ot scarlet fever some time before it is visible to the eye, thus permitting the trouble to be recognized earlier than formerly. -Chicago Nhts Fata-oula's Giants. The ranch talked of giants or Patagonia have at last lxm measured, and seven of them have been found to average six feet two inches iu height. They are regarded as the tallest men la the world. Chris tian Union. MODERN MAGICIANS. WONDERFUL TRICKS SHOWN A GER MAN WHILE IN CAIRO. A Performance In the Open Air Myste rious Disappearance of Transparent Balls A Necromancer's Method of Killing Dogs A Strange Death. When Frederick Gerstaecker accom panied the Duke of Coburg to eastern Africa, the incognito of his sovereign friend was dropped at Cairo, where a German banker treated them to a dinner of fatherland fare, followed by an exhibi tion of local talent: fife concerts, Arabian dances and legerdemain. The exponent of the latter accomplishment produced a copper dice box and repeatedly emptied it ou the carpet, alternating his throws with predictions that were lust upon the for eigners; but after a series of similar pre liminaries invited !j audience to au open terrace, and in the plain light of the even ing sun flung up a number of transparent balls, that disappeared at au apparent height of some eighty feet above the, foot of the esplanade. The globes were color less aud pellucid like white glu.s, but as light as gum, and were repeatedly sub mitted to the examination of the specta tors. After passing from hand to hand they wero put in au open vessel, shaped somewliat like a short handled dipper, and leaning hack till !' outstretched arm nearly touched the- ground, the wizard then dung them straight up iu the air, where they could be seen glittering for a moment like icicles or large glass pearls. WHAT I1ECAMC OF TIIEM? But nobody ever saw them fall down ngain, though the scene of the experiment was surrounded by a large, level lawn; the air seemed to have swallowed them like globes of dissolving vapor. Could they have evaporated or exploded into a spray of minute particles (after the man ner of "Prince Kupert's drops")! A sleight of hand trick was clearly out of the question, but a more tenable explana tion of the phenomenon would have puz zled a chemist as much as an optician. Gerstaecker tried in vain to bribe the wizard into a hint on the composition of his missiles, and was not much luckier in Batavia, where a Parses juggler treated the Dutch residents to a novel matauzn, or killing bhow, in the circus of the old city bull ring. His victims were a number of worthless curs, which their owners or captors had brought along with the distinct under standing that their entries would not sur vive the incidents of the performance. With no weapon but a light stick (possi bly a tube), some six feet long by au inch iu diameter, the performer entered the arena, and then invited his patrons to start their pets, one at a time. A lank hound, almobt hairless with mange, opened the festivities by making a rush round the ring, but stopped short on find iug his way barred by the still lanker profe.-sor, ami retreated, after displaying his few remaining teeth. The necro mancer held his staff at ana's length, sdill faciiii: the dog, who presently began to stagger, and two minutes after had ex pired in convulsions. A second cur man aged to run the blockade by leaping over the extended staff, but boon after began to show signs of distress, and before the end of the third minute had Hhareri rbe I fate of his predecessor. A I'OST MORTEM INQUEST. Dog after dog entered tho ring In quick succession, some of them stopping in sur prise and suitling at the corpses of their dooiuc I forerunners, but all finally ap proached the possessor of the fatal secret, or even snapjied at his naked shins, and not one of the thousand spectators saw him strike a direct blow or defend himself in any way suggesting a mechanical ex planation of the uniform result. He would merely lilt his staff with a men acing gesture, or permit a blockade runner to touch it in darting by, hut in uj in stance was there occasion for repeating that touch. The victims had hardly time to complete the circuit of the ring before their gait underwent a peculiar change; they would drag themselves along and stagger, or start as under a sudden blow then roll over and die iu the couvulsious characterizing the effects of certain viru lent drugs. They had evidently been poisoned; but how? A post mortem inquest failed to reveal as much as a scratch or a puncture. A poisoned arrow could not have entirely disappeared, while a gaseous poison would have betrayed itself by its odor or by its effects on the person of the performer. After the conclusion of the matanza, Mr. Gerstaecker secured a private interview with the artist, and in vain offered him a liberal inducement to explain the modus operandi of his trick. The Parsee seemed bribe proof, but at last took his tempter aside, and in a whisper guaranteed the results of his professional assistance if Mynheer should wish to try the efficacy of his art by an experiment on a two legged subject the amount of the prof fered compensation having evidently sug gested a conjecture that the enterprising foreigner was contemplating the removal of some obnoxious fellow biped! Felix W. Oswald iu The Cosmopolitan. What Cau He Dot The great test in life, says Gen. Thomas J. Morgan in a paper on "Training as au Element of Education," is rather what a man can do than what he knows. Can he use his eyes? Has he good judgment? Is he a man of common sense? Can he think? Does he reason correctly? Has he power of adaptation? Cau he organize? Has he executive force? Is he practical? These are the kind of test questions that are put to the graduates of our schools. Can the "sweet girl graduate" cook a din ner, sweep a room or superintend a house? Does she have an intelligent interest in passing events? Has she robust health, good habits, self reliance, energy and power of endurance? Can the young man lay aside his diploma and keep his father's accounts, write an article for the news paper, make a business trip to Chicago, give an intelligent account of the morn ing's news? Can he lend a hand at home, and turn to some good account in the daily duties of life some of the accumulated stores of knowledge amassed in years of study? Does his education render him more industrious, more skilful and ef ficient, more ingenious, more persistent, more practically masterful in whatever he undertakes? If he has been trained to use his senses, to acquaint himself with natural phenom ena at first hand; if ho has been taught to think, to make careful comparison, noting essential differences and significant similarities, making patient inductions and wise generalizations; if he has been led to form fixed habits of thoughtfulness, self reliance, moral easnestneas, inflexi bility of purpose, persistent industry, promptness, punctuality, fidelity, un swerving devotion to duty; if, in short, as a result of his school life, bis training has produced a well rounded character, he will be able to meet all the reasonable de mands that society can make upon one who lacks practical experience in actual business. He will readily acquire skill and efficiency Iu any calling for which bis special talents have fitted him. Training gives potency to all the soul's possibilities. Popular Science Monthly. New Kind of Luncheon. A very gorgeous novelty in society is called the "Rainbow Luncheon." Two o'clock is the hour that has been fixed upon as most suitable, though oddly enough an accompaniment of the event iv W lighted lunch room, wltk tkt Jftt shaded by globes of various tints, curtains of silk being employed to shut out the ob trusive daylight. At one of theso rainbow parties a group of mandolin players, half concealed by tall flowering plants, gave an Oriental touch to the entertainment. Over the oriel window was fitted a rainbow arch four feet long and composed of roses of seven different shades. There were three tables, aud at each plate was a hand painted menu card with the guest's name and a miniature rainbow ou the back. The first table was all In yellow, with glittering cut glass and silver decorated in a repousse of Marguerites. The brass candelabra iu the center rested in a fiat basket of yellow wax tapers and yellow shades. The fringed doylies were embroidered in gold threads and the damask napkins in yellow roses. The china for the ten courses was all in yel low, but different in design for each course. The second table was decked in red, with napkins embroidered iu red roses, and the bisque candelabra set ou a base of jacqueminot and lighted by red tapers shaded by red globes. Tho chlua for each course was also of shaded red. The third table bad blue appointments. The napery was worked iu blue forget me nots, and tho tapers and shades were blue, with a flat basket of white roses. The blue points came on in cut glass dishes, and there were rainbow ices in miniature pyramids, and punch glasses filled with ices of various colors. Louisville Courier-Journal. Cirlm Humor of Fate. I don't think that I ever encountered a more sardonic exemplification of the grim humor of fate than iu connection with Gerster's reappearance. At a concert a few weeks ago, where Di Murska sang in the wreck of her once showy voice, Mme. Gerstor Rat near me in the audience. She made no effort to conceal her amusement at tho wretched show poor old Di Murska made of herself, and before tho latter' arias were concluded she had herself dis covered that she was being made the gibe of her young successor. At that time Gerster had broken down, but was sturdily telling everybody that sho was getting better and would soon be completely re stored to voice again. Ou Friday Di Murska aat among the audience at Stein way hall. She listened gravely while Gerstor sang. When she had concluded she sent her a bunch of roses from her corsage, and having done so, she got up and went out smiling, such a smile as it would have done Gerster no pleasure to have seen. If ever a woman had her revenge, the raddled old Hungarian bravuristo enjoyed hers out of that hand ful of yellow roses at a quarter of a dollar apiece. The deadliest blade ever forged could not have dealt a deeper or more bit ter stroke. Alfred Trumble in Pittsburg Bulletin. Fighting with Bare Knuckles. Yon will hear a number of so called fighters nowadays talking of their ability to tight with bare knuckles, but the truth is that but few fighters have the courage to fight with the raw 'uus. It requires great pluck to face a determined fighter and look at the hard, uncovered knuckles playing carefully in front of you, and ready at the owner's will to be driven into your faco or stomach. Thus men who will fight with the greatest determination with even as small as two ounce gloves, will quail when brought face to face with a pair of uncovered fists. No amount of coaching or training will cure them, either. The fear of a bare fist seems innate with some men and they can never conquer this fear, although their pluck has never been questioned when engaged in a glove contest, no matter how wicked. This peculiarity is noticeable mostly among the Germans, who have a holy horror of being hit with a naked fist. There have been plucky Germans, who have fought like tigers with gloves, but put them up with nothing ou their hands and they are too nervous to do themselves justice. Globe-Democrat Interview. Mexican Women. Love seems to be the mainspring of life among the Mexican womeu. They adore their husbands in a worshipful man ner that I grieve to say my little woman doesn't approve of; they love their chil dren with a brooding tenderness that finds constant expression in the sweetest and most loving words, and they love each other and all the world besides; even on their animals they bestow the utmost affection. Their very language lends itself particularly to the expression of their ab sorbing mother love, and children are Precioza, Adorado, Cara, Mia, Cartazimo and Alma Mia, besides numberless other caressing titles. And so the little woman, tired as she was, found herself rested in the fullness of the abounding womanly sympathy. And afterward Bhe told me that she adored Mexican women. On one of our excursions we saw two young Mexicans, a lad and young girl who had been held captives by the Indians nearly four years when they escaped and managed to find their way home again, only to be taken to the grave of the mother wlue heart had broken with longing and sorrow for them. Mexican Letter. Klto Flying In Japan. One of the most popular amusements is kite flying. At certain seasons old and young, rich and poor make unto them selves kites and hie them to the hills. You will sometimes see several thousand j people gainereu togetner to watcn tne sport or to take part. The kites are often large and fly very high. Some have gro tesque paintings, others JEoliau harps, a few are of odd shapes. The lines are wound upon reels and are generally dusted with powdered glass, so that if you man age to foul your line with that of some one else it may cut his line and his kite be lost, while yours still soars. The more kites you cut loose the bigger feather in your cap. In this lively amusement Miss Yum-Yum takes her full share. Tolrio Cor. New York Tribune. Carries It in His Pocket. It is a remarkable fact that tho Demo cratic party has been entirely corraled and captured by Mr. Cleveland. MUwaukee Sentinel. An Aching Told That None Can Fill. When Brer Randall is kicked out, who will till the holo in the Democratic party? Chicago Inter Ocean. A Vital Spot Touched nf mnifulinta nm annminA intnnminaftii. ' year, touches the pockets of the southern people and will play havoc with preju dices. Cincinnati Times-Star. There Are Always Exceptions. "Max O'Rell," the witty Frenchman, said recoatly: "You Americans Mm to bo always in a hurry." We do, do we? Look at congress. Chicago Journal. Too Late to Mend. It will not profit the president to curry favor with the soldier element by signing pension bills at this late clay. His pensiou record is made. Indianapolis Journal. Syrap of Fign Is Nature's own true laxative. It is the most cosily taken, and the most effective , remedy knowu 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 California Fig Syrup Company, San Francisco, Cal. For ale only by Dowty 4 Beobar. 27-y FARM AND GARDEN. A VERY DESIRABLE VARIETY OF EARLY SWEET CORN. Making Poultry One of a Aeries of Rota tion Crops How Farmers Feel About Dehorning Cattle One Way to Layer the Grape. Numbered with experienced southern horticulturists is Mr. T. V. Munson, of Denison, Tex. In an article on "Horti cultural Surgery," in Texas Farm and Ranch, occurs the following: FIO. 1 LAXERISO THE OSAPB. In Fig. 1 it is desired to produce new individuals by layering. We must first partly stop, by a wound, the food supply from the parent, cause the layer to heal the wound, and at the same time secure its food from mother earth itself. We do this by cutting the branch partly in two from upper sido, as at "a", so as to get all the young roots on your layer, and not as at "b," by cutting on lower side, causing generally weak roots to start both from the layer we wish to move and the old stock, which damages both the mother plant and the young sought, with no ad vantage otherwise. Another quicker, and about asgood way as any, Is to give the branch a quick twist, as though in tending to make a wither, but twisting only at one point; then bend down in trench and cover, leaving top out with leaves on. In fall, cut away from old plant, take up and transplant. That is for layering, in summer time, young growing wood. no 2 LAYERING THE GRArE. For spring layering the grape, proceed as shown in Fig. 2. A trench some four or five inches deep along row is made so as to be out ot way of cultivation. A good strong cane is selected, pinned down as at "c, c, c" in the trench while yet dor mant, and left uncovered till buds expand and grow branches,"b, b, b," reaching sev eral inches above surface of ground, then begin gradually tilling in flue soil along trench till level. By fall nearly every shoot will have taken root near the old vine when it sprung. Then cut apart at "a, a, a" and "c", remove aud plant as a separate vine. Some varieties, very hard or impossible to grow from cuttings, cap be quite readily grown in this way. Dehorning Cattle. The practice of dehorning cattle is rapidly increasing, not only in the west but in some sections of the middle and eastern states. The chief objection urged against dehorning has been the cruelty of the operation; a lesser one is that it de tracts from the appearance of the animal. The second objection remains, but the great majority of those who have prac ticed dehorning contend that it is no more painful, if as painful, ra other operations generally practiced. However this may be, it is fairly safe to conclude that de horning, carefully performed, is not a dan gerous operation. The arguments advanced in favor of de horning arc: First, the prevention of ter rible accidents iu haudling vicious cattle, especially bulls; second, that tho dehorned cattle can be turned looe in sheds and stalls without fear of their injuring each other, even if they are more or less crowded. The subject has received considerable attention this season at the farmers' in stitutes and clubs, and if reports of these meetings may be relied upon the farmers and breeders who have experimented in dehorning their cattlo almost with ono ac cord favor the practice. From these and other sources it appears that the preferred age at which to dehorn is iu the second year of the animal's life, and spring is tho season favored. The operation, it Is averred, is more successful in moderate weather, then in either extremes of heat or cold. Preparatory to the operation the ani mal's head is made fast; then the horns are sawed off with a suitable saw close to the hair, where a soft placo occurs in the horns. Double Bans for Poultry. The importance of double runs for poul try is not appreciated by the majority of amateurs who try growing poultry on a comparatively small scale, and yet these double runs are of untold value. The ob ject of the double run is to supply the birds with fresh ground, and thus prevent any tainting of it, so prolific a cause of disease in small yards. Only one run at a time ought to bo oc cupied by the fowls, and the other maybe profitably employed with growing vegeta bles, which will be found to thrive aston ishingly in such a place. One not only gets the profits of some quick growing crops by this practice, but the soil has at the same time been purified and brought Into good condition for the poultry. If each run is thus alternated by fowls and crops, say every four mouths, the diseases so common in confined poultry runs will be few and far between. The efficacy of this plan has been proven to the writer's own satisfaction, and is well worth a trial. There appears no reason why farmers should not mako poultry one of a series in a rotation of crops, as by this means the land occupied by the fowls is well manured, aud before being used again by the birds is purified by the crops grown thereon. It may happen that the smill poultry keeper cannot give these double ruuj. In that case a good plan would bo to lay down the one run he has in gravel, as that can be more easily removed and re newed than earth, and then it in not so readily contaminated by the droppings at is soil. Preparing Conipoat. Contrary to a prevailing opiuioi', says The Southern Cultivator, it is not In practice a matter of great Importance to determine nnd adhere to fixed proportions of ingredients in compounding a mixture of fertilizing material, or compost, for a particular crop. Where home materials are to be utilized, it is generally safe to use a good deal of latitude in the relative proportions according to the respective quantities of each ingredient that may be available? Bv a sort of common consent, to some extent suggested by the fertilizer laws of the 6tate, in Georgia, a standard fertilizer for cotton, and most other crops, should contain the three valuable ele ments in about the proportions of am monia, 2 to 3 percent.; phosphoric acid 8 to 13 per cent., and potash 1 1-2 to 2 per cent., and this is about the average of the commercial fertilizers sold iu Georgia. If these proportions are approximated within wide limits in mixing a compost, its practical maximum value will be real ized. Stable manure being one of the principal Ingredients in point of bulk usually employed in composting, and varying greatly in composition. It Is mani festly lmpractlcaoie to formulate any near approach to accuracy. Value of Safe Well Trained Horses. The value of a gentle and safe horso is difficult to estimate. Dollars and cents, says National Stockman, do not always ex press it. Without any trouble in the way of upsets or runaways the true value of a sturdy and reliable horse is often lost sight of. This mutter presents itself iu its strongest light, perhaps, when driving and carriage horses of a high order are placed uiHJti the market. Such horses fiud the lxst buyers, people who are will ing to pay the mo-t money for them, among the wealthier class of the citizens of ottr great cities. These buyers are generally obliged to trust the handling of their teams to servants and drivers, and to them safetj means a great deal, some thing that has an absolute market value. People who are able to afford the luxury of carriages and horses are in a position to pay for what suits them, and when they And combined iu the same animal style, size, action, endurance and a gentle disposition they are generally willing to pay a good round sum for it, the disposi tion playing no small part in the makeup of tho value. When a wealthy man has to trust his own life and tho lives of hl3 family behind a team which he doea not need to be ashamed of as far as spirit and mettle are concerned, with the reins in tho bauds of some coachman who he is not positive is entirely trustworthy In the way of handling horses, it is not to be wondered at that he looks toward the dis position and gentleness of the horses when he is estimating their value. The moral then to bo drawn from all this is tlint thorough training Is the only kind that it pays to givo to good horses. There are but few horses that cannot bo made gentle and quiet byihe proper kind of treatment, and if the owner of a horso is not capable of giving this kind of train- j iug it will pay to employ some ono who la. Varieties of thu irl. Among the first flowers brought to thi3 country by our flower loving ancestors was tho sort known at the present timo under tho various names of iris, fleur da lis and flag. The pioneer in this country was the old English iris In two colors, dark blue and pure white. The irises are hardy perennials, showy, beautiful, easy to grow and general favor ites. There is a large assortment of species and varieties, and of recent years many new and worthy sorts have been in troduced. Nothing among hardy herbaceous plants, says a writer in The American Garden, from which journal the accom panying is reproduced, has created a sen sation for a long time like that produced by the iris kaempferi, which is daily gain- K THREE VARIETIES OF IRIS KAEMPFERI. ing favor with the public. They are natives of Siberia nnd Japan. But we are indebted to hybridization by those clever gardeners, the Japs, for upward of a hun dred varieties. They are often cultivated as sub-aquatics, and like plenty of water during the growing season. They do well irrown in pans, with the bottom placed a couple of inches in a tank of water. Soino of the flowers measure ten inches across, and, if lens veined than others, areppottcd. striated, splashed and dotted with vivid colors in a truo Oriental style. Tho flower are flat iu form, distinct, beautirul and large, and in ease of cultivation seem to equal the old German iris. Care r Ml k Cnws. When cows are first turned to grass in the spring, if feed is abundant, they ought to be allowed iu the pa-sturo but a few hours each day for !everal days; in a word, the change of food should he gradual. Carelessness on this really im portant point has resulted often in serious consequences. To the oft repeated question, "Shall grain be fed to cows in summer?" tho general answer is, "No, not if the animals have an abundance of good grass." Tho most natural, and at the same timo healthful, food for milk cows In summer is the green grass of a good pn.sturc. When shorts and bran are obtainable at cheap rates, and grass begins to fail, these may be wed to excellent effect in supple menting the grass. Mingled with the hay and foil to cows, the milk gives a larger percentage of cream, while the quantity of milk is also increased. It often happens that when cows are giving an extra quantity of rnilk they in cliue to become thin and weak. This con dition should be prevented by the judi cious use of concentrated food. The strength and condition of the animal must be kept up at all timta for best results. Things Farmers Tell Ono Anolhrr. Mr. 11 S. Carman names the "tele phone" as one of the licst of the interme diate peas. Sweet corn, generally speaking, thrives better when planted in rows than iu hills; thin to about eight Inches apart in the rows. 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