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ohmbu Imtnral. 1 " -jA." -Jr- .- " aSf' rnT -?mTtFA 'T. .' . 31 ? VOL. XIX -NO. 13. COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY, JULY 18, 1888. WHOLE NO. 949. """""""""""""""""'"""""""""""""""""""""" m v J . I' 8 z COLUMBUS STATE BANK. COLUMBUS, NEB. Cash Capital $75,000. IHKIICTOKS: LEANDEItCEItlKU. IWl. GEO. W. IlUliir. Vice I'res't. julius a. ki:ki. It. II. HENUY. J. E. TA3KEU, Cn-diier. Bask of lepolt, IMireMl amd Eacha-aice. CellectloBN I'remptly "vende nil "PolltlM. -OF COLUMBUS, NEB. (.AIMTAIj STUCK, $50,000. -o OKFICEKS: C 1L SHELDON. I'res't. V. A. MuALLISTEIt, Vice l'r. '. C. A. NEW-MAN. Cashier. DAN1KL8CHKAM, Ass'tCnsh. DlltECTOIM: J P. HECKEK. IL V. II.OEHLItiril. JONAS WELCH. CAUL ItEINKE. IL.M. WLNSLOW. o Thin liauk transact a regular Bankiutr Huii nees, will allow intn-wt on time deMeitri, innko collection. lm or well hxcIihuk on United S'utfsaiid Kurn-. mid l" nud -ll mailable t?curilieti. We. shall bo p!ear-d to ntvim jour hiiinis. Wo nolicit your t,ntronio;e. 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Tales of brigandage in Cuba during the past few years have reached New York from time to time, but the true situation is not known save to those who lire on the island itself, and it has become so familiar to these as to have little novelty. It is largely the result of the present almost bankrupt condition of the once proud and wealthy Queen of the Antilles. Poverty is uow almost universal save among the planters and merchants in the cities, and, unable to obtain a livelihood save by the precarious and scarcely remunerative oc cupations of cock fighting and lottery ticket selling, which appear to the tourist to be the main occupations of the Cubans, many of the half wild peasants of the in terior and roughs of the towns have taken to brigandage. They are most numerous In the central part of the island, between Matauzas on the north and Cienfuegos on the south, making their lairs iu the woods and hills of the center of the island and operating on the roads every place where there is any chance of wealthy persons passing. The eastern end of the Island has been singularly free from bandits, and travel through its still virgin forests and lofty volcanic mountains is comparatively safe. The Guordia Civile, as the Spanish soldiery is called, make periodical incur sions from Matanzas and other cities against the bandits, but as a rule these raids have little result. It is more than hinted that there is an understanding be tween the soldiers and the bandit. The Spanish government is always behind hand in its payment of its Cuban soldiers' wages, and there is a general impression that-the soldiers make up for deferred or uiijuiid wages by a share in the ransom paid by some wealthy planter for his re lease from captivity. Not that the Guard ja Civile are always unfaithful! A DREADED BANDIT CHIEF. Matagas," said our informant, "is now the bandit chief most feared. He is n mulatto and rules his followers abso lutely. He changes his location con stantly and has been rather quiet of late, but we may hear of him at any time. He has placed a price of $50,000 on the per sons of the Messrs. Stewart, who own the well known sugar plantation, Ln Caro lina,' near this city, aud these gentlemen have been obliged to use much caution in going to and from their plantation on Oieir visits to the city." 'Tell us about Seuor Casauova," we asked. "Well, Senor Casanova was driving through the back country one afternoon in a volaute, over a rough and lonely road, when the bandits .suddenly appeared from the chapparal. They surrounded the volaute so quickly that he could do nothing but) surrender at once. They ordered him to mount u mule, and at hid protestations that he was suffering from a bladder complaint aud that it would kill him to ride they only laughed. They carried him off to a little hut in the moun tain and kept him there a week. The old gentleman, -from the .complaint above described, could only subsbst on milk, aud as the bandits could not furnish this he nearly died Iiefore he was ransomed.' "How did they ransom himr" "The bandits had a note conveyed secretly to his friends demanding $8,000 for his ransom within a week. This his "friends raised and sent by a trusted messenger to a place agreed upon. Senor Casauova was produced, the money paid over aud the bandit who received it disappeared as suddenly as if the earth had bwallowed him. Casanova says that he was not treated badly during his short captivity, but imagine his state of mind aud suspense during the days he was a captive!" "Has no concerted action been taken to apprehend these bandits throughout the island" "No. It'isasort of local option with different places whether (they can drive them away or not. We're all growing so poor, however, that unless your good and great Uncle Sam will pity and annex us the bandits will soon suppress themselves for want of prey. BEAD THEM A LECTURE. "One place, however, has rid itself of the pest, aud in this way. You know it is very rarely that a Cuban becomes an officer in the Spanish army. The positiou is not considered worthy of ambition by a Cuban, and will not be as long as the two peoples dislike each other as they do now. But in this place a son of a well 'known Cuban family was an officer in the Guardia Civile. He pursued and caught a body of baudits, Cubans like himself. Then he read them a lecture in this wise: " 'You know me and you know I under stand your position. I sympathize with your poverty and know the wretched gov ernment has made your calling possible, but I do not sympathize with your law lessness. I'll release you now only on your solemn oath that you'll leave this district at once. If I hear of any of yon here again I'll show you no mercy.' He meant what he said, and that district was troubled no more." "How are these bandits armed?". "Very poorly as a rule. They have old fashioned muskets and now and then a rifle. It is not their weapons, but their familiarity with the country and its hid ing places and the fact that they have relatives and friends and sympathizers in most of the villages, and even in the cities, that make them at all formidable with the wretched soldiery we have. A squad of Uuited States cavalry could probably rid the island of them in two months' time." "Does not their presence ra"V it unsafe for Americans to visit Cuba?" "Not in the least These bandits do not interfere with the railroad trains, on which a squad of soldiers always travel, more as a matter of form than anything else, and the bandits are not to be feared on the beaten lines of travel. Besides, they do not lie in wait for a tourist. They generally learn or know all about their man, his wealth and whether his friends will or will not be likely to ransom him, before they prepare to capture him. They would not be likely to attack a traveler simply on the chance of securing a roll of bills and a watch. They have also, strange to say, a high regard for Ameri cans. Like all Cubans, they look to the United States as a possible protector and ruler some day, and, perhaps, too, they've heard of six shooters and Yankee pluck. An American consular agent was caught by bandits some time ago, and as soon as he .announced his position they released him immediately aud apologized for what they said was a mistake." Cuba Cor. New York World. Tb Sikhs a Stalwart Bae. The people from Benares to north of Delhi are much more stalwart and manly than are the Bengalese, but they in their turn are greatly inferior to the men of th Punjab. This wood means and ex presses the country lying between the live great branches of the Indus. In this country is a magnificent race of men. The Sikh soldiers in the army are the handsomest body of men I have ever seen, and Indeed I have never seen any Euro pean or American who came anything like being a perfect model of manly beautr as several officers I have seen in tne native aucn cavalry. Today we wit nessed the practice of a native regiment at company target scooting. The oflicers on horseback are simply superb; afoot all show one universal de fact among the entire people of India an almost total absence of calf to the leg. Even in Punjab men aud women have none- I can say this of the women be cause up here there are two things quite antipodal to our customs. Men wear what seem to be skirts and the women all wear trousers and very tight ones, too, below the knee. The other singular thing is one sees hundreds of men with beards dyed a brilliant red. A gray bearded man is rarely seen from Lahore, to Peshawer, for they take on a bright vermilliou, evi dently not for the purpose of concealing age. but as a sort of beautitier. The men of Punjab proved themselves brave by giving England more trouble to subdue them than perhaps all the balanco of India. But when once they acknowl edged the supremacy of their new rulers, like brave men they have shown them selves true. They have none of the ser vile demeanor of tho Bengalee. They look a foreigner straight in the face re spectfully, but with an apparent con sciousness of their own dignity. Carter Harrison's Letter in Chicago Mall. Fascinating bnt Dauzarons Sport. The most intensely fascinating and by far the most dangerous way of hunting the Bengal tigers is the way most of the natives do it. They collect in throngs of hundreds and go to the woods, with half bred bull and terrier dogs, rifles of 40 caliber aud innumerable spears, and drive the tigers outof their jungles. The vicious dogs go in and hound them and snarl and howl threateningly. The tirs are grad ually driven from point to point by the howling dogs and shrieking natives, and are finally worked into a gigantic and strong netting nine or ten feet high and with interstices seven or eight inches square. Then the chetties. as these queer natives are called, range themselves along the 6ides, and when the tigers lunge at them they are met at every ioint by gleaming spears. Such howling and snarling, combined with the shouts of the natives, sounds like the wailing of tho damned. The native women are on hand, too, and lend their aid. and when the government officers join in the European ladies are perched conveniently in trees, to lend a bit of life to the scene. San 1'rauclsco Examiner. A Card or Photograph? "Would you rather have my curd or my photograph?" Two young men who had been discuss ing a bottle of wine in an uptown picturo gallery were preparing to part. "Your card will do; I dont want to put you to so much trouble." "No trouble at all. If you like I'll put, niy portrait on the back of the card." He thereupon drew from his ocket a email rubber stamp and imprinted on the back of his card a very creditable likeness of himself. An inquisitive reporter, who overheard the dialogue, took pains the next day to learn to what extent tire fad had gone. lie loiinti that mere are several concerns iu the city where tiortrait stamps are made, similar iu style to the rubber stamps, containing one's name and ap- pended to It a iockct lead pencil. These stamps cost from $2 to f a each, and are from one to three inches square. All the stamp makers require is a tintype por trait of the customer and a money order. The stamps wear well aud are much af fected by young clerks and East side busi ness men. New York Mail aud Express. A Once Noted Cavalryman. A small man, with a gray mustache, n slouch hat over his blue eyes, and a walk no longer as chipper as it once was, is recognized by few people here when he makes his occasional visits from Wash ington. He is Gen. Pleasouton, whom many think one of the greatest cavalry commanders of the war, aud who un doubtedly fought aud won, perhaps, the greatest cavalry engagement of the con test between the states. It was at Brandy Station, where eighty regiments of horse men contended on one field with no in fautry or artillery nearer than ten miles away. Sometimes the battle flags of the contending generals were not further sep arated tbau the two sides of Broadway. Pleasonton, Kilpatrick and Custer were in a single group. Detecting a crucial point in the opposing line, Pleasonton cried: "Custer, go right in there!" Cus ter's mounted band at once struck up "The Star Spangled Banner," and in ten minutes he had carried. the position. Cus ter and Kilpatrick are dead. Pleasonton, barely 50 years of age, seems to be out of gear with the world. Cor. New York World. The Itursuan and His Food. The Burman is a rather peculiar feeder, not being very nice in his selection or preparation of food. He is not, however, so varied a caterer, nor does he take in such a large selection, as his near relation tho Chinaman. The Burman draws tho line at rats and mice, which delicacies form no portion of his daily fare. He is lorbiddeu by his religion to shed the blood of any animal for food purposes alone, although he may and does catch fish, -and eats them. His conscience finds a salve in the fact that after the fish arc caught they are left to die; he will not bleed them, although he may often give them a sly knock on the head to accelerate their decease. He may keep cattle, hogs, chickens, etc., and, being of a kind and humane disposition, he feeds them well, keeping them in good condition, but he does not do so to replenish his larder. He uses the milk of the cows, often of the tame long horned bnffalo or of goats, for his family or for sale; he will also eat the eggs of fowls. San Francisco Chronicle. The Burglar la a Gentleman. "The popular idea of the average burg lar is all wrong," said a detective to a re porter. "He isn't a man with a dark lantern any more a rough and ready brute who delights in killing people. The burglar of today will do everything in his power to escape, and the taking of a man's life is his last resort I have known many burglars in my time, and they were the most gentlemanly men I ever met Nervy? Yon could bet on that They have to be, but they will not take human life." Chicago Tribune. Origin of a Phrase. "It is difficult to account for the origin of a great many phrases in current use," remarked McSwilligen, "or even to sec their relevancy. "Yes," replied Suildig. "Now there's that expression, 'on its last legs,' meaning something about to end. Its appropriateness is very doubt ful. For instance, a kangaroo is nearly always on its last legs, but where can yon find a more striking example of vitality?" Pittsburg Chronicle. Making Proper Allowance. Mr. Hoi worthy Believe me, Clara, you have no reason to be jealous; I have been devotedly true to you true as as the needle to the pole. Miss Vassar I take it then that I am to make proper allowance for magnetic variations. Town Topics. A Sonar Minister. After one or two gentle efforts on the part of the collector to awaken Deacon Jones, the minister said from the pulpiti "Never mind, Brother Layman, aa Deacon Jones has not heard the sermon, perhaps It would not be right to expect him to pay anything for it" The Enoch. NAVAJO TRADITION. HOW ALL ANIMAL LIFE WAS FINED IN A CAVERN. CON- Freedom First Foasd by a Locust Tba Itadger Follows Prisoners Free at Last. Dispate Concerning- the Use of Night and Day. The Navajo Indians of Arizona have a tradition to the effect that while the earth was young and destitute of auimal life the Great Spirit created twelve people six men and six women together with many species of animals, and confined I them iu a cavern of the San Francisco , mountain, where they lived as a great, happy family for many years. But in , course of time a restlessness possessed ; the prisoners. Though they bad known nothing of freedom, all felt the oppres sion of their narrow limits, and vaguely yearned for a greater fulfillment of the dream or reality of living. But what could they do? All speculated on the situation to no purpose. Daily they jos tled each other, little and big, clumsy and nimble, bipeds aud quadrupeds, feathered aud furred, winged and wingless, timid and bold. Every successive period of time was but a repetition of the past. OPEXIN'G THE WAV OUT. None of the many puzzled brains could offer means of breaking the monotony, till a happy thought struck one of the most insignificant of the living mass. For want of other occupation a locust bored a hole in the wall aud thereby opened the way for the enthusiasm and progress of the host of its comrades throughout the length and breadth of their underground world. The Great Spirit had so decreed it. They were there only for a time of Incubation. At the destined hour, as the eaglet bursts the shell that imprisons it, so the locust's tiny burrow should lead to the escape of all into the open world, where each could fol low his inclinations unhampered. The laboring locust had but a solitary witness. A badger watohed with growing amusement the diminutive tunnel making. His ejeu sparkled with interest as the locust labored energetically. He lay rest ing with his head between his fore paws in a most lazy attitude, but his face ex pressed animation and eagerness not much longer to be retained. As the tail of the lo cust disappeared the time for exertion had come. To follow the locust's movements further necessitated like energy. The locust's hole was too small for the badger's access, so he started a tunnel inalriiig of his' own. By the time he reached the locust he was in no mood to give up the chase, so he passed on. scratching his way through the solid earth until he broke through the outer crust of the mountain, aud in the joy and ; excitement of the moment he sprang into the ample space before him. The moun tain side was steep, and he "landed " in the shallow edge of the lake in Monte zuma valley. As he fell his fore feet struck deep into the mire, and his progeny even unto today have inherited black fore paws lwcaiiMj of this incident of the j world's llrt peopling, The Navajocs within the cavern, noting the departure of the badger, began a prospect Finding the hole large enough for exit, they crept out, one after the other, and a train of all sizes and species of animals followed in their wake, as from Noah's ark. FRIGHTENED THEM AWAY. As soon as all the prisoners were free, fire and smoke began to issue from the hole that had delivered them. This frightened them far away into the valley, and there they prepared to make them selves comfortable aud live as their new advantages permitted. Food was plentiful iu vegetable forms, but some varieties needed heat to make them good. At least the Nuvajoes thought so, but they had no means of kindling a tire. This ditliculty was soon overcome by sending a bat, a wolf and a squirrel after the needed element, tire. Going to a hole iu the mountain, the wolf tied some pitchy splinters to his tail, then turned and held it over the little volcano till it began to smoke and iguite. The bat then fanned It into flames with its wings and the squirrel carried it away to the Navajoes. The people were delighted at getting the one missing essential to a happy life in the open world, and when, long after, a time came when the world's plenty had pampered their wijls and fostered their greed and selfishness to the point of preying upon their fellow creatures for food, they still had the honor to vow never to eat wolf or squirrel flesh. Neither would they move camp without a live coal among their possessions. Aud even today the Navajoes gratitude to the trio is observed as tho promise made to the fire getters of the tradition. Between the Navajoes and different ani mals there sprang up a dispute over the Great Spirit's intended use for night and day. All agruud that one should be spent in sleep and one in action, but which should serve the one and which the other? It was settled at last. Those that wished to roam at night should do so and sleep by day, and vice versa. The heroic badger was among thoso who chose the mysteries of the darkness or the immediate da.vn and dusk for thought pnd action and the bright and sunny hours as fit to be slept away in his cool underground nest. As the sun sank in the west upon their busi ness meeting, tho owl, bat, moth, and mauy other animals scattered out into the valley borders on their foraging exploits, while many kinds of birds Hew to roost in the trees. Other animals lay down to sleep in sheltered parts of the forest, and the Navajoes spread their waterproof blankets, the trophies of the women's in dustry, and enjoyed their couches under the st-irry sky in peaceful dreams. Over land Monthly. VANDERBILl'S MAJOR DOMO. Ills Theory of Dining as a Fine Art The Advantage He Claim. Joseph Dugnlol, the cook to whom it is said Mr. W. K. Vauderbilt is to give $10, 000 a year, is a well built little man only about five feet tall. He was born in Bir mingham, England. He looks like an Englishman, and speaks the language with a strong cockney accent, and he has an Englishman's love for -boxing, and uses the slang of the ring. His parents, ho says, were French. "If I were rich enough not tohavo to work," he said, "I should still do my business for the love of it. I am an artist and I have invented a new school of dining. Because a man is rich he can not eat more than a poor man, and yet the idea of a fine dinner has been to give a great number of courses. It is a mistake. When a man has eaten his oysters, his soup, his entrees, his fish, what chance has he to enjoy his mutton or fowl? When he has eaten all, his stomach is so!" and he raised his hat with both hands slowly above his head to indicate the effect of the fullness. "I make him want to eat First he must be hungry, and then I put things before him so that he wants them. If I want him to eat oranges, for Instance, I offer them to his neighbor. He sees them and asks for them." He comes from tho Maison Paillard, in the Chaussee d'Antin. "It is only a little place," he said, "with only sixteen tobies. When I went there the business was all ran down. I built it up by treating each person as if he were my guest, and study ing his tastes." The little director is an autocrat at the table. He does not let his guests have whatever tbev like, for fear it may clog their appetites. i make tneui as tor things and keep them waiting. Suppose I have served a dinner like this today: A soup, some fish, and a woodcock, with coffee and fruit To-morrow my customer asks for woodcock. 'I am sorry, sir, but I cannot prepare it' But in a day or two he will ask for it again, and then I let him have it. If I let him tire of anything, then my art would be gone." A great odvautage which Mr. Dugniol claims for his system is that it leaves him so much greater variety of food to offer on different days. "Suppose," he said, "I cook everything that is to be had for one great dinner, what is there for to-morrow?" It is not to be supposed from this lan guage that Joseph is going to cook any thing with his own hands. He does not even profess to be able to do this, although his father was a restaurateur and Joseph grew up in the business. "I can cook many things," he said, "and I can carve as few men can, but I can tell the cook how to prepare his food and warn him if he has failed to secure the proper flavor." X may be interesting to know how TJoseplI'will serve a woodcock to Mr. Van- derbilt. It will be cooked only ten min utes before it is brought on the table. "I will bring it on while the fish is beinz eaten, and I have an alcohol brasier on the table. It has a sauce of red wine and gravy iu it. I carve the bird and put all the bones and back into the sauce. The odor and appearance of the bird excites the appetite. It takes twenty-five min utes to cook a woodcock. The bird has only been cooked ten minutes when I carve it. Now I send the meat back to tho oven for fifteen minutes, and the back and the bones, in which the richest flavor is found, are left to stew. When the meat comes back it is on a hot plate, and I strain the rich sauce over it" New York Sun. Following Slight Mistake. It is surprising to know that a great failure of a business house will sometimes follow the very slight mistake of a clerk. Only a short time ago I feared we would have to record an unpleasant occurrence of this kind in St. Louis. Two young men are doing a prosperous wholesale business here, in whose house a small error hap pened recently, which might have caused a collapse of the firm. According to cus tom a list of notes falling due at foreign luniks each month is given to the book keeper or some proper person around the office, who is expected to go to the home bank with which the firm deals and have all the notes paid. The bookkeeper of this particular house was given a list of the notes for one mouth, but inadvertently failed to report one of the bills dne in New York, and, of course, it was not set tled by the home bank. The note went to protest before the firm knew that it had nut been paid, but when the error was dis covered a settlement promptly followed. Suppose that the creditors of the firm had heard that the note had gone to protest, they would have jumped to the conclusion that the firm was financially embarrassed. All the creditors would have rushed In at once, probably, and under the Immense pressure a disastrous failure might hnve Iwcn precipitated. The genius of a suc cessful mercantile man lies iu his accurate knowledge and careful supervision of the details of his business. J. B. Young in G lobe-Democrat. Of-trlch Farming in Africa. The chicken feathers are first plucked at nine months old, and look only fit to be made into dusting brushes. In the second year they are a little like the ostrich feathers of commerce, but stiff and nar row, and it is not till the third year that they have attained their full width and softness. During the first two years the male and female birds are alike; but at each molting tho male becomes darker, until the plumage is all black, except the wings and tail, which are white. In each wing there are twenty-four long feathers. During the breeding season the bill of the male bird, the large scales on the fore part of the leg, and sometimes the skim of the head and neck, assume a deep rose color. After a good rain ostriches begin to make nests. At this time the male be comes savage and their booming is heard n all directions, The bird inflates its neck like a cobra, and gives three deep roars, the two first short and staccato, the third prolonged. Saturday Review. Forests aud Kalnralu Forests are known to diminish evapora tion and preserve moisture, and this has been explained by the lower temperature aud greater huindty which exists under their shadows. The most important fac tor iu the production of this state of af fairs is. however, the resistance which is offered to the winds by the woods. The force of the winds being greatly reduced under the trees, the air is changed more slowly, and the moisture less readily car ried away. The quantity of rain increases 1 in the vicinity of a forest. During the rainy season the moss and herbage of woods store up the moisture for consump tion during the dry season, and it is in this way that luxuriant forest growths are permitted to flourish in regions where it never rains except in the fall and win ter, as is the case on the coast of the Caspian sea. Globe Democrat. When th Singer Cliokea Down. It is related of a certain manager of a variety theatre in Peoria, nis., that every Monday night when a company of new per formers open for the week he takes a seat near a large coal stove at the bock of the theatre, and, when the serio-comic makes her appearance, listens attentively to learn how her singing pleases the audi ence. If she happens to turn out what is known as "queer" the manager gets up, seizes the shaker and proceeds to shake down the stove as briskly as possible until the serio etc., has finished her turn. The reason for this is obvious. Detroit Free Press. 1 Great Actor's Methods, Clara Morris, in speaking of actors aud acting recently, said: 'The really great actor must be capable of doing something more than to merely touch the biggest fool of the audience. He must make his audience absolutely forgetful of itself and be himself the direct and not the indirect cause of the emotional state Into which it is thrown. To do this the actor must be himself a person 'of intense feeling and must for the time at least 'experience the emotion he is seeking to portray. Really great acting is a matter of feeling rather than of reasoning intelligence, and I doubt whether un actor who studies and puzzles over the subtleties of the author's meaning is uot iu danger of checking the manifestations of his own histrionic sense. No amount of art can make up the want of one real touch of nature," New York Herald. Onniiiig Introduced. According to Camden, gaming was introduced iuto England by the Saxons, and the loser was often made a slave to the winner, and old in traffic, like other merchandise. SjTHp of FJg Is Nature's own true laxative. It is the most easily taken, and tho most effective remedy known to Cleanse tho System when Bilious or Coetivo; to dispel Head aches, Colds and Fevers; to cure Hnbit ual Constipation, Indigestion, Piles, etc. Manufactured only by the California Fig Syrup Company, San Francisco, Cal. For sale only by Dowty & Becher. 27-y THE MILKY WAY. ITS ORIGIN AS ACCOUNTED FOR IN VARIOUS LEGENDS. Tbe Story as Told la Greek Fable Tne Sheaf of Straw Saxon Tradition The Bushmen's llellef Meteorological Phe nomenaForecasts. The brilliant appearance and prominent color of the Milky Way have not failed to give rise to many curious names and to many legends as to its origin. According to the Greek fable, it was produced by the milk of Hera (Juuo). Children born of Jupiter's illicit amours could only inherit divine honors if suckled by this lawful spouse of the great Olym pian god. Hercules was thus introduced to the goddess, who became so angered wheu she discovered tbe substitute Infant that she threw him from her breast, and the milk flew across the sky, forming the galaxy. Ilyginus says the Latin legend substituted Ops, spouse of Saturn, for Juno, and the occasion was the presenta tion of a stone to her for the trne child. A Sicilian legend says the milk was from the Madonna's breast, lost while she searched for Jesus. A curious class of legends accounts for the creation of the bright band of stars across the heavens. One of these, from Wallachia, relates that Venus purloined a sheaf of straw one night from St Peter's mills, and in her hasty flight toward her celestial abode scattered it across the sky, where we see it now on cloudless nights. A Dalmatian tradition ascribes the loss of the straw to St Peter himself, and calls the galaxy "the Straw of St Peter." Ac cording to a Crotian legend, it was caused by a man who, having stolen a sheaf of straw from his foster father, was hasten ing away with his burden, when the bun dle broke and the straw scattered about To recall for ever the theft, God placed the straw in tbe heavens, where it still glitters. Tlue name given to the galaxy in Servia and Albania is "Godfather's Straw." Similar traditions must have giveu rise to names bestowed upon it in other couutries. It is known as the "Strawy" in Boznia; as the "Straw Road" in Sardinian, in Magyar, in Modern Hebrew, Coptic and Ethiopian; as the "Road of the Straw" in Arab, Rabyleand Syriac, and as the "Scattering of tho Straw" in the Magyar dialect An Ar menian appellation is "Stealer of Straw." and Persian titles are "Path of the Car riers of the Cut Straw" and "Way of Car rying Chaff." The peculiar whiteness of the Milky Way is also evidently referred to in it its Transylvaniau name of the"Floury Way," and its Westphalian titles, the "Road to Mill" and the "Sandy Path." There are other legends to account for its appear ance. A Saxon tradition relates that the world took fire some ages ago and burned until it was consumed. God gathered to gether the cinders and united them in a furrow. They went out little by little, leaving a whitish brilliancy, in the midst ot which still burn some live coals. About the entire heavens are dispersed other burning emliers. Sometimes a spark shoots from a hidden bunch of them, be coming a shooting star. Bushmen say the galaxy is formed of ashes cast there long ago by a young woman, so that her parents might be able to find their way home. Another legend assigns a different origin to it. A young woman, angry with her stingy mother be cause she would give her but a small quantity of a certain red nut to eat, cast quantities of it from her into the sky, where it became the stars and tho Milky Way. Like the rainbow and other prominent celestial appearances the Milky Way is connected iu popular tradition with meteorological phenomena. Iu West phalia it is called the -Weather Stripe," "Weather Street" and "Weather Tree," and is also given the name of "Wind Tree." A Welsh name for it was "Road of the Wiud," and iu Picardy it is called "Foot of the Wind." Tahitiaus call thj bright band "Flying Cloud" and "Solid Cloud." It is "Band of the Aurora" in Maygar lands, and the "Evening Ray" in Westphalia. In the latter country the galaxy is said to be iu the middle of the world and the suu stops there regularly nt meridian. It is also believed to turn with the sun, and hence first appears from the quarter in which the sun has set. Similar notions of the cosmugraph ical importance of the Milky Way prob ably gave it iu Arab name "Mother of Heaven." An old Arab poet alludes to it as the "Mother of the Confused Stars." Appearing only by night, prognostica tions drawn from the luminous way are not so numerous as in the case of the rainbow. Estbonlans Judge by the more or less brilliant appearance of the amount of snow that will fall during the coming winter. If by the end of September the northern end of the galaxy is very brill iant, snow will not fall until Christmas is past) but if the south eud is more brill iant in appearance, snow will fall long be fore Christmas. If the whole band is very bright, snow will fall before and after Christmas. Icelanders also prog nosticate the winter weather from the ap pearance pf the Milky Way in autumn. In our own country, many people believe that the edge of the Milky Way which is the brightest indicates the direction from which the approaching storm will come. F. S. Bassett in Globe-Democrat. "WORKING ON SPACE." Results of Paying for Newspaper Work "by the Yard" The Bohemian's Hope. One of the most demoralizing features of newspaper work is the space system as it is practiced in many newspaper offices. It may be the cheapest for the paper, but it is neither fair to the writer nor the public Under the space system the man who knows enough to stop when he gets through has no show. The successful writer is the man who can reel his story off through a wearying eternity of ver biage, and who has the skill to write so that it is difficult to cut his matter down. Thus the public, which pays for the pa pers, frequently gets a minutely circum stantial and heavily padded account of some matter which might well be con densed into a few lines. Quality does not seem to enter into the question, aud brains are sold, like calico, by the yard, and they do not bring much better prices in same markets, cither. The supply of wordy writers has become so much in ex cess of tbe demand that space rates have steadily gone lower and lower. It is the conscientious men, too, who suffer most The writer, honest to his paper and himself, who writes his story for all it is worth and no more is handi capped by the facile "fakir," who has the knack of writing columns and saying nothing. Again, tbe unfairness of the space rule is seen in the fact that in most offices the writer has no guarantee as to the size of type his matter may be sec In. It may begin leaded and run down to solid, or a story may be finished in a smaller face of type if the exigencies of make up demand it The Harper's sys tem of f 10 a thousand words is fairer, and, In a weekly publication, is the only method of fair compensation which can be made. But the great objection is the element of chance iu the space system, which tends to demoralize the working newspaper man and keep him poor. His "string" may only measure up $20 this week, but there is always the glowing hope of a "big sen sation" next week, which will run it up into the eighties or hundreds. As a mat ter of fact the worsi&s Journalist makes as mucn money as tne average young pro fessional man. But his business makes him a gambler in spite of himself. He is always looking for a change in his luck. He may stumble on to a "big story" to morrow, which will pay all his debts and enable him to take a vacation besides. It is not from choice that there aro so many Bohemians in journalism. They are forced to Bohemia by the men who buy their work. The ambition to make large papers has been one cause of the space system. The value of a newspaper has' come to be judged, not by the amount of news it contains, but by the number of pages its news items are stretched out to cover. When news is beaten out to cover so much space, like gold leaf, it becomes very thin. Tho Journalist When Japanese Children Die. We stopped one day at a pretty aud rather modest temple shrine, where sat a clean polled, benevolent looking priest, with big rimmed spectacles astride his little nose. Before and above and about the shrine hung little children's frocks, their tiny shoes, pretty little belts, dolls, aud other playthings. "What is this?" we asked our guide. "When little children come to die their mothers bring their dresses and olav- thiugs here, and put a little money in this box. Every day the priest offers prayers that tbe little ones may be made happy after death, and have nice things and pretty playthings when they go to stay up there with God." As we talked, a heart stricken mother came aud tossed her coin into the box, and as she placed the little bundle of her dear one's pretty clothes in the tender priestly hand, we thought there was but one thing better than this, the saying, "Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not." Japan Letter. Making an Artificial Silk. Chardonner recently announced to the French Academy of Sciences the results of his experiments in making an artificial silk, which are certainly of a remarkably ingenious nature. To a solution of nitro cellulose (gun cotton) in .alcohol and ether "is added a solution of ferr- nose chloride in alcohol and also some alcoholic solution of tannin. The liquid thus obtained is ejected from flue ducts, like the apparatus in a silk worm. As the thread comes from the duct it is received in water acidulated with nitric acid, from which it is drawn out, dried rapidly and reeled up. It can be obtained of any color by coloring the mixture from which the thread is made. This new thread is trans parent, pliable, cylindrical or flat, and in appearance and feel like silk. It is very strong. It burns, but the lire does not go beyond the place heated. In every way it is a remarkable invention, and no one can tell to what it may lead. New York Mail and Express. Catching Kunaway Slaves. I learned yesterday a historical canine fact, which will, I fancy, be as new to some of my readers as it was to me. A negro stevedore, as strapping and power ful a fellow as I have seen for a good while, fell into conversation in my pres ence with a bulldog, remarking that be had a great fondness for dumb animals. He seemed to greet the dog as an old friend, and he displayed considerable fa miliarity with that kind of beast Nat urally I joined in the talk, and the man told me that dowu in North Car'lina, where he was a slave in slave days, bull dogs, sometimes white and sometimes brindle, were trained to catch runaway or refractory "niggers" by the neck. And they did it so nicely, he said, as uot to break the skin or soil the captive's shirt collar; they would hang on until told by their masters to let go, but without doing any injury. Boston Post Earthquakes Versus Nerves. Many persons who experienced the eavthqiinku iu the Hiviera have since suffered seriously from nervous shock, although they did not at the time appear to be greatly disturbed. This indicates that more injury may be done to the nerves by au undue excitement than is perceived at the time. The nerve centers may, as an English medical journal sug gests, be likeued to batteries, and re garded as apt to be discharged suddenly and sometimes unconsciously; aud when once their residual stock of energy is con sumed it can be restored only after a long time and by the exercise of extreme care. Public Opinion. Japan's Foreign Improvements. The regeneration which Japan has in recent years experienced, through the in troduction of foreign improvements, is credited to the United States. While eminent Frenchmen have been called in to organize the army, Germans the schools and English tho navy, to Americans have been given the supervision of the depart ments of finance, postofllce, telegraphs, railroads, telephones and lighting by electricity, embracing the newer and more progressive arts. American institutions are in high favor in Japan, with tho possible exception of modern politics aud baseball. Cincinnati Commercial Ga zette, Phase of the "Faith Cure." The blood of dying gladiators in the ancient amphitheatres was popularly be lieved to be a remedy for the "falling sickness," or epilepsy. It was eagerly drunk while still warm by the sufferers from the malady. The practice denounced by Celsus as a "miserum auxilium," has not died out even in the Nineteenth cent ury. 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