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i-xj- J '?? - -f-fi -vr -r. ."?. rs i --ftr r- ., " - v ' Vo. 3 f ; . l - WHATEVER IS, IS BEST. Tkataadwwch ink wroBejaoaaswharS TBereUestfce root of aUght; Iktt each narrow has to parpoee Wliit wish, fa boat. Tkaow that eacfaria&ri actios. As sure as tteait Map shade, lao tbe boar to loac ddayad. X know that tto aooi i aided Sonwltoes by the heart Ana to grow means often to Bat, whatever Is, is AS' UNEXPECTED VISIT. It was with the air of a man pro foundly indifferent to his own successes, that Gerard Strickland, twitching bit cuffs and stretching his arms, before let ting his hands fall into Ids lap, sank back into the luxurious arm chair by bis li brary fire, after throwing on the table the letter that announced his promotion to an enviable post in the civil service. As he thought of the post, his advance ment seemed to him no subject for con gratulations, but only one of those grim jests with which fortune delights to mock disappointed men. An old man servant, one of a sort "growing rare, entered the room with an evening paper. He laid it at his mas ter's ride, and stood at a respectful dis tance, waiting, lialf hesitating, with some anxiety legible in his countenance. "Well, Thomas?" asked Strickland. "I beg your pardon, sir; but do you remember what day it is today? "No, Thomas. "Your wedding day, sir!" Strickland's face clouded. "I did not know, sir, whether you would wish for dinner the same wine as as you used to liave." "No, Thomas; I shall probably dine at . the club." "I ordered dinner, as usual, sir, and a bouquet, in case" "Quite right, Thomas, quite right." For an instant the heart of the pro moted official sank. The fidelity of his old domestic was humiliating. How he would once have resented the suggestion that Thomas would remember this anni versary Ix'ttor than himself! And that it should fall to the old servant to order from the florcst the bouquet Gerard hiin "6elf ha:l loen formerly 60 proud to bring home, on this evening, to ids wife! But the slight sense of annoyance passed away quickly. It was with absolute in difference that, seeing the man servant still waiting, ho asked Anything else, Thomas?" "This morning, when you had just gone, a young lady called. Hearing you were not at home, she said she would call again this evening, about 6. She wished to see vou on important business. "ner name?" "She left none." "Did you see her?" "No, sir." "Did John say what she was like?" "Rather tall, sir; a young lady, dark, and fashionably dressed." "If she calls I will see her. You may go, Thomas." The servant left, and Strickland continued to himself: "Tall, young, dark, well dressed, business with me. Who can she be?" "The lady is here, sir, in the drawing room," said Thomas, returning to the library, after about ten minutes. ' Strickland went to the drawing room. At the door he paused a moment to steal a look at his visitor. She stood by one of the tables, idly turning the leaves of a photograph album. Her back was toward him, and he could distinguish only the tall and graceful figure of a woman, well dressed and wearing ex pensive laces. "Madam!" he said, advancing. The lady turned. Strickland started as if he had received an electric shock. To conceal, to tho best of his ability, his surprise and the sudden pallor of his face, he made her a profound bow. "I hope I am not inconveniencing you," she said, at the samo time returning his salute. Then, with a quiet ease, she se lected a chair and sat down. "Not in the least, I am at your service," said Strickland. "As I shall avail myself of your con descension, I hope that was not merely a compliment." "May I ask you how I can oblige you?" The lady stroked the soft fur or her muff, and once or twice lifted her search ing eyes to Ids face. Apparently she was hesitating to name the purpose of her visit. Meanwhile, Strickland gratified his eyes with a good look at her, lovely, fascinating still, as the first day he had seen her. Only her pure profile had gained more decision; and her eyes had a profoundcr meaning than when he last looked into them, as those of a woman who had lived and suffered. At length she said: "Do you still correspond with mj father?" "Yes. It is, however, a fortnight since I last wrote to him." "I received a letter from him yester day. He is coming to town to-morrow." This time Strickland made no attempt to conceal his surprise. "To-morrow! Your father, who never leaves homer "The medical men order him to the south coast, and ho will, on his way, stop in town, to spend the night with" She paused. "His daughter," said Strickland. "He says nis son. And so we find our selves in a pleasant embarrassment." She leant back, and with a small hand began drubbing a waltz on tho table at her side. "You call it pleasant," said Strickland. "I did not come here to discuss words, but to discover a plan of action." "I see none." "And you are a politician, a man of genius! If those subtle arts, that have been so successfully employed in your own advancement, could be, without prejudice to you, this once employed to extricate me'from" "Excuse me, madam: but your re proaches are scarcely likely to assist me to exercise my imagination." "Bah! Well, 1 have a plan. First, I do not wish, cost what it may, to let mv father know the truth." 'The unhappy truth!" She made a little grimace, and pro ceeded: "My father -would be cruelly hurt, and the sins of the children ought not to bo visited upon their parents. My remorse I beg your pardon, that is of . little consequence" here" she looked aside to warn him not to expostulate, and continued: "Hitherto, thanks to our precautions, the distance of my father's residence, and tho seclusion in which ho prefers to live, has been spared litis sor row. To-morrow our clever edifice of dutiful falsehood falls to the ground, and 1, at azaet. am unable to conjecture the ooneequencos." -AndL" "Mr. Strickland, it is absolutely nec essary to prevent this scandal. I trust you will assist me. My father must find e together; and we must avoid every thing that would serve to awaken sua picios." She spoke sadly, as well as earnestly. .4 deep shadow of concern settled on her hearer's face. Wrapt in thought, he de layed the answer. His visitor became impatient. Yc roar promised courtesy coats too fa." she demanded.. "No. I am ready. Bat I see many dmVnltipw. The servants?" "Give the new man servant I found here this morning a holiday. I win peak to Thomas." "If a friend should cam" "Yoa will see no one." "If we meet your father, people will see ns together. "We will go in a closed carriage," "Tew fattier -will stay here several hears. Good and simple hearted as he is, do yem believe it possible he will not vsooniae a bachelors house?" "IwiUsaad my work, my music, and so om, this evening. My room?" "Is as yo left it- It ill ihn to be 1 washsB BeactfttodsoalTftJfr. Greecry.' "By purine; tne anecoonate couple. Can yoa remember year grimaces and fooleries of two years ago?" she asked, sarcastically. "No: I have forgotten them." replied Strickland, with a frown. And the two looked into each other's eyes like two duelists, "When will yoa come here?" asked Strickland. "This evening. I will bring my things, and I shall slightly disarrange this and that. I hope lshall not incon venience you. Yoa are not expecting anyone?" "No one. I was going oat. If yoa wish, I will stay and assist yoa. My en gagement is unhnportant" "Pray go. We should have to talk, and we have nothing to say to each other." "Nothing. Will you dine here?" "No, thanks: m go home now, and return by-and-by." She rose. Strickland bowed in re sponse to her bow, conducted her to the door without another word, and re turned with a sense of relief to the library. When he returned home, shortly after midnight, the house had resumed an aspect long strange to it. Lights were burning in the drawing room, and a little alteration in the arrangement of the furniture had restored to the room a forgotten grace. Bouquets of flowers filled tho vases, and a faint sweetness of violets floated about the hall and stair case. The piano was open, and some music stood on tho bookstand. On the boudoir table was a work basket. By the hearth his visitor was sitting in a low chair, her little feet half buried in the bear skin rug, and her head reposed on her hand, while slip gazed wistfully into the fire. Was it a dream? Bertha's flowers; Bertha's music Bertha herself in Ids home again! Two years' misery can celed in an evening! In a moment rushed across his memory a golden woo ing, a proud wedding, happy montlis, and the bitter day of separation. Ho turned away, and passed to his room, saying, "Good night!" "Good night!" replied his wife, with out moving. The strange event that had taken place in Gerard Strickland's house prevented none of its inmates enjoying a whole some night's rest. Bertha, persuaded that to-morrow's comedy could effect no real change in her relation to her hus band, went to her room with the feelings of one who spends a night in a hotel. Strickland, similarly regarding the past as irremediable, read in bed for half an hour, and then fell asleep. To get married they had both com mitted a thousand follies. After meeting-her at a table d'hote, Strickland had pursued her lialf over Europe, vanquished the difficulties of an approach to her father in his secluded country house, and ultimately, assisted by the lady's prayers and tears, gained the old man's reluctant consent to surrender his idolized daugh ter. The young married people, passion ately attached to each other, enjoyed fifteen months of remarkable happiness, and then came the end. Bertha became jealous. Devoted to her husband, proud, hasty, immoderate in all her thoughts and emotions, she re sented, with nil the intensity of her nature, a meeting between Strickland and a former flame, a dance, a note, half an hour's conversation. The hus band unfortunately met her passionate expostulations with the disdainful in souciance of an easy temperament. The inevitable consequence ensued, a bitter misunderstanding. An impudent serv ant, a malicious acquaintance, half a dozen venomous tongues, lashed the wife's jealousy into madness. An ex planation demanded from her husband, was refused with a sneer. He had begun to think her a proud, unloving woman, and, under tho circumstances, judged self justification ridiculous. The follow ing morning she entered his library, and with marvelous calmness, without quav ering over a Eingle word, announced to him their immediate separation for ever. Taken by surprise, Strickland tried to temporize, acknowledged he had been thoughtless, did all in a man's power to avoid the rupture. Bertha only replied so proudly, and with so much se verity, that self respect forbade him fur ther self defense. They separated. Strickland externally bore his misfortune with quietness, and, in counsel with his own conscience, con cluded his life broken and ruined by his own want of tact The husband and wife met two or three times, as people who barely know each other. He de voted himself to professional duties, re- .sumed some of his bachelor habits, and amused himself as be could. She led a quiet, almost solitary life, restricting her pleasures to 6uch simple enjoyments as sho could provide herself at home, and seldom appearing in public. On one point both agreed, to write regularly to Bertlia's father, repeating such stereo typed phrases as "Bertha is well and sends her love. I believe she wrote to you a few days ago." "Gerard is well, and at present very busy. He will not this year be able to accompany mo to the seaside." It will be easily believed that, to go to her husband's house and to ask a favor of him had cost Bertha's pride a struggle. "For papa's sake; for papa's Kike!" sho repeated to herself, to steel her nerves to the humiliation, which, however, Strick land's cold courtesy had cjonnidi'ralilv lessened. If ho would Ik cmiallv m ' ' erate on the morrow, a little spirit, a little self command and some clever pretend ing might enable them safely to conduct her farther through the few hours to be spent in town; to see him off from Vic toria, and, with a polite bow, to separate and return to their several existences. Dinner was ended, Mr. Gregory smiled .contentment and happiness, and the two actors at the opposite ends of the table of necessity smiled too. Their parts had proved difficult. From the moment of the old gentleman's ar rival they had had to call each other by their Cliristian names, and to use the little endearments of two married people still in love. More than once a word, an intonation, that sounded like an echo of of the dead past, made Strickland pale and Bertlia tremble. Their embarrass ment momentarily increased. The more perfect their dissimulation the bitterer was the secret remorse that wrung the hearts of both of them whilst they ex changed for meaningless things words, looks and smiles, once the most sacred rigns of affection. With the fear of be traying themselves bv an indiscretion was intermixed another, a misgiving lest, while they acted affection, they should be guilty of real feelings warmer than the courteous indifference with which they desired to regard each other. On the stairs, when Mr. Gregory, pre ceding them, was for an instant out of sight, Bertha turned back and bestowed on her husband a grim look of fatigue that meant, "How are we to continue this? "Tis only till to-morrow. Bertha," he replied in an undertone, wishing to help her. But the Cliristian name (which, be cause he had in the last two hours used it so frequently, unwittingly slipped from his lips) caused her to turn her face away with an angry frown. By the fire in the back drawing room Mr Gregory appeared actuated by a de sire to ask all the most awkward ques tions, and to broach all the topics of conversation most difficult for his host and hostess. "Letters are welcome, Bertha." he said, "when people cannot meet, bat I have enjoyed my little visit more than aU the pages you have sent me, There Is very little in letters. Don't you think yanr wife gmw ha,nrlxwn?rt StriU? "I teU her so every day." "And so he tells me. Bertha. His let ters are all about vou. Yoa have a Baodel husband, my dear." "I have, papa." Strickland hung his head and regarded the pattern of the carpet. "I should like to see your house. said Mr. Gregory, after a mo- Tbe little party set out on a tour of the minam After an inspection of several rooms, as Strickland preceded them into the breakfast room, the father' stopped his daughter and saidi "Bertha, where isyoar mother's por trait?" - "The frame had got shabby and we have srot it to be re-suV replied the aaugmer. promptly . "Where does it generally hang?" "There." She assigned to the picture which she had taken away with her, the first empty space on the wall that met her eye. "I don't think that a very good place!" said the old man. "Oh, what a woman she was! What a wonderful woman! You should have known her, Strickland. You owe her your wife. When she was leaving me. poor dear! she made ma promise never to hesitate to make any sacrifice that should be for Bertha's happiness; and so. when ray little girl came to me and said, 'Papa, I can never be happy without Gerard;' I thought of my dear wife, and let her go. I feared, when I sent her abroad, I should lose her. Well, you were made for each other. Do yon remember your first meeting in Paris?" They remembered it The tour of the house was completed, and they returned to the drawing room, Gerard and his wife congratulating themselves, not without reason, that the good papa was not very observant, for many a token of something abnormal had been plain enough. With a common sign of relief, the two actors sank into their respective corners of their carriage, after seeing Mr. Gregory off the next morning from Victoria. Mot a work was spoken. Bertha watched the drops of nun that trickled down the windows. Gerard studied the back of the coachman. They had again become strangers. Presently, moving accidentally, Strick land touched his wife's arm. "I beg your pardon," he said. "Pray do not mention it." Perfect strangers! Yet both in the si lence were anxiously meditating every event of the last few hoars, remember ing the most trifling impressions, and studying all they signified. As they came near a cross street the husband asked: "Shall I drive you to your own house?" "I am coming to yours, to superintend the packing. Mymaidcannotdoitalone." On arriving, the wife at once went to her chamber. Strickland, conscious of utter purposelessness, returned to the back drawing room and took up the paper. Bertha passed backward and for ward. Once or twice he caught a glimpse of her moving about the room. At last he looked up.. "You will tiro yourself, he said; "can not I assist you?" "No, thank you. I have nearly done." A few minutes later she came and seated herself on the opposite side of the fire. She appeared tired. As sho sat, she looked around to see if anything had been forgotten. "I think it rains less," said Strickland, who had laid down the paper. "No. It rains just the same as before." "Is tho carriage ready?" "I have sent to know." Tho carriage would be ready in ten minutes. Those ten minutes seemed an eternity. When the servant entered to say the carriage waited, Bertha rose, and stood for a little while before the mirror, arranging her laces and ribbons, with difficulty, for her fingers trembled. Then sho slowly drew on her gloves, and turned toward her husband. He had risen, and was standing waiting. 'Good morning, sue said, bowing eligh ;ntiy. e bowed, but made no reply. She turned, and quietly, with calm, even steps, walked from the room. She could hear that he followed her. They were in the halL Suddenly he stepped to her side. "Bertha! You are not going without first forgiving me?" he exclaimed, iu a voice in which grief mingled with pas sion. She turned round, and in an instant had thrown herself into his arms. "Darliigl you wiU never leave me again?" .., No. no. love. Never!" Henry Cres- wcll iu Biumiy's Magarine. WHALE MEAT AS DIET. It la Net Only Wholeasaae tost Alio Very Palatable. Talk of batchers shops. A whale Is a whole meat market in itself. It is a float ing Smithfield, a marine edition of Copen hagen fields, an entire Billingsgate. Nobody need ever starve when whales are in season. A few of them would provision a city for a long siege. Fortu nately, as the world grows older, it learns to judge more fairly of neglected kinds of provisions. It is a pity that the true value of whale flesh has not been dis covered long ago. How many poor families might have been amply fed if only "whalo extract" had come into fashion years back. Gourmands should also show their gratitude for the gift of a fresh flavor. It must be admitted, with regret, but without hesitation, that the list of ordinary articles of food is very limited, and that beef and mutton are apt to become monotonous, even when varied with fish and poultry, and aU the eat able fruits of the earth as well. The edibility of the whale is, therefore, an exciting discovery." Tho only drawback the pleasant picture which arises Vam the mind con templates 50,000 people dining off one animal is contained in the thought that whales, when they are proved to be val uable for dietetic purposes, will be hunt ed until they become scarce and perhaps extinct. To guard against this danger we have no doubt that whale breeding would come into fashion. People who found other forms of food culture unre munerative might remove to countries where the climate allowed whales to live in comfort and establish whale farms at the mouths of tidal rivers. There is, in fact, no end to the opening for enter prise and ingenuity which are available owing to this remarkable addition to the domestic larder. Medical Classics. THcka mt Indian Jugglers. Some of the tricks are performed by every juggler you meet; others again are of 6uch an astonishing nature, and bor der 60 nearly on the miraculous as to be beyond the capacity of an ordinary per former. Of this character are the orange tree trick and the burial trick. If, after having witnessed these feats performed in broad daylight, one is of the opinion that it was an optical delusion produced by the mesmeric power of the operator, I can only say that the ability to obtain an absolute mastery over every faculty of the observer is no leas astonishing than would be the actual performance of an apparently impossible feat. The most noticeable feature in the per formance of the Indian. Juggler is the entire absence of any kind ofapparatus. His scanty clothing affords no oppor tunity for concealment, and every feat is performed simply by manual dexterity or is a delusion effected by mesmeric in fluences. The famous wizards of Europe and America were nothing without ap paratus, and a great deal of the effect of their performances was due to then mag nificent and costly paraphernalia. In genious mechanisms and expert assist ants were absolutely essential to the success of their delusions. As an illustra tion of this I may mention that Anderson who, by the way, was the poorest wizard I ever saw, considering his repu tationmade oath some thirty years ago in an English bankruptcy court that his apparatus, destroyed by the burning of Covent Garden theatre, London, was worth over 980,000, and that the effort to replace it was the cause of his insol vency. This amount, of course, included stage properties and everything neces sary in his business. A 75 cent carpet bag would hold aU the appliances deemed necessary by a Hindoo juggler. Even in the beautiful butterfly trick he manu factures hMpaper butterflies as occasion rvqnrtftAm R. Remain In THa fin. mopolitan. "How far is it to the next station, air?" ""Bout two miles by rafl." "What's the name of the place!" "Barker." "Barker? Why, that's the name of this town. -Yes. but. ve see. the road takes a Vin cIiaa nnfA ' amhas In Iwnft mm 'bout a couple of blocks above."! per 8 .Bazar. AnornetSewuitotbemoath of Har- Sanaa. near Syracuse, and rave him a sting which resulted in his death. TO AN ELECTRIC LIGHT. Twinkle, twinkle, BttJearc, Sickly, blue, uaeertala spark; Upabovea head you swbnr. Ugly, arrange, expensive thfeg. When acroai tto foggy air Does tto traveler tat tto dark Blew your rartlsaoe, little are? When yoo fade web modest bias. Scarce mora bright than farthing Would be know which way to go If yoa always taiakled art CokLi re ao aotioB what too are; How year woadrone 'fristta" works. Who ooatrola its Jaaaps aad jerks. Youna faster Hke tto day! ffftaarty, gieta, taeoearant ray l No; where'er they worship yoj AUttoworUfebleckorbtae. Thongs your Hght perchance surpass Homely oil or vulgar gas. 6UH a doee with this remark) I detest yoo, ettle arc! fit. James Gazette. THE PROMISE OF SCIENCE, raw Is Beady BeSara the OM Is Oat a Beach Everybody knows as well as The Loo don Tunes that the world is wearing out that the time is coining when we will have no coal to burn in our grates, and no iron to make our grates out of. even had we the coaL A close record of the output of 'the oil fields discovers the fact that the petroleum reservoirs are run ning dry, and investors have not the faith in the inexhaustible flow of natural gas that the sellers of wells could wish. We know tliat precious metals are dug out in less quantities than formerly; that the diamond market, in s-iu of Kim berly, is cornering itself: thai iiialinjraiiy and pine will some day he things of tiff past, liko the buffalo rote and the dixlu. We are confronted with the fact th:;t the guano deposits will not last fon-ver. thai there is a human limit to the prixhu'tioii of electricity, and tliat our children m-v era! times removed will have nci'.in'i auinino, chloroform nor aii:i!i;w lyiv.. If course this general exhaustion ! oK! earth's treasure house is some tiiueuhcati of us. It will not happen in our ibv nor in the next century. We csi ;? oa burning the candle at Itoth rails for a few hundred years before humanity has to adjust itself to the newer and inure economical conditions. But, despite tiie fact that the time of stress is so far ahead of us that wo can look back to it jokingly, it Li pleasant to learn that science is getting ready fr the rainy day. We are on the eve of a new age and on the threshold of a new civilization. Aluminium, according to Nature, is making ready to take the place of steel, and it will be cheaper, lighter, stronger, and a thousandfold more plen tiful and cheap. Its price now puts the new element m the debatable land be tween pure chemistry and practical com merce, and it is a question of time merely when we sliall build our houses, our telephones, and our air ships out of the silvery core of our common clay, instead of heavy and refractory iron. Heat and food, according to science, we are to gather from tho sea in proper fish culture and wise electrical work. The economist brightly believes tliat we will solve the labor problem before the middle of the Twentieth century, and solve it to the satisfaction of both parties. The Religio Philosophical Journal is equally confi dent about the proper rearrangement of wedlock and religion in the same time. So tliat if with every glance backward there is uneasiness, with every look for ward there is hope some of it real, if much of it is false. Humanity will fit itself to the new conditions, or perhaps more probably fit its environment to itself. Sir William Wallace, could he have dipped into the future, would have feared that there would not be Jedburgh bows nor cloth yard shafts enough to arm the soldiery of Germany of the 1880s, yet the men are fairly armed. Hence we may believe that the roaring loom of time is weaving a very comfort able web for the Young America of Anno Domini 4888, and we mat consent to let posterity take care of itself, with a sanguine confidence in the result. Chicago News. Area Kaesay U the Hamsa Tefea. The Wagner school of musk) has proved itself the arch enemy of the human voice and of all rational modes for its develop ment. The unnatural demands made upon the vocal organs, through Wagner's total ignorance of tho art of singing, aad the abnormal development of the orches tra, through the impatient yearnings of his unquiet soul, have banished for the time aU chance of melody in music, and, as Wagner's utterances are the outcome of an age of noise and hurry, of ruined faiths and tragedies of passion, his genius must have its day and work its full meas ure of barm upon the voices chosen for tho inhuman task of personating his su perhuman creations. But this time will come when the pres ent mad havoc with the lungs and throats of singers shall cease. Just as men begin to see that war must be abolished, be cause the weapons of war have reached too high a power of destructiveneas, so the thunders of drum and trumpet in the modern orchestra must subside, if that sweetest music, the tones of the human voice, is to be preserved to tho race. The reaction must come. When the orches tration is made so magnificent and so suggestive that the voice is an unwel come interruption, and when the instru ments are so noisy that nothing of the voice can lie beard beyond a screech or a howl, it is time for the two departments of expression to be separated; tne orches tra should be left to itself, and recitatives should be delivered over to the spoken drama. There is no denying the genius of Wagner. His power of converting musical instruments into echoes of hu man passion has never been equaled, and will probably never be surpassed; "Lohen- gin. "Tannhauser"and "DerFliegende ollander" will live forever in poetry and in song; but all the same, Wagneris to be feared and shunned by singers as the great destroyer of the human voice. Detroit Free Press. AsaerteaBJi More Hospitable. "Between the American and English systems of club management," said Crawford M. Kendrick, a prominent member of the University club, to a Republic reporter, "there is a vast dif ference, which is especially noticeable to an American visiting London for the first time. The leading American clubs, while exclusive enough for all sensible purposes, are conducted with a view to their members being enabled to extend the privileges of club life to visitors from other cities or countries, and there isn't a club in the United States where a stranger, properly introduced by a member, would not be at once hospita bly received and made to feel at home. That's ono of the beauties of our club life. But how different with the large, first class London clubs. They have an enormous membership, running up sometimes to 6,600 or 7,000, and all own large and magnificent club houses. But they are tho sacred and inviolable re treats of members, and no stranger passes beyond the reception parlors. You may go that far and send In your card, but your London friend, no matter to which one of the swell clubs be may belong, cannot get you an entree to the inner social life of his club, and is unable to extend any hospitality that way. Londoners who have visited New York and other American cities, and en joyed the benefits of our more friendly system, are beginning to complain of this, and to protest against the rigid ex clusivenesB and selfishness of their own dubs. St. Louis Republic. Care. An army surgeon was one night an noyed by the coughing of the sentry out side his tent. Unable to sleep, he de cided that something must be done for the man, and so compounded him a strong and very disagreeable done of mflymA. Then, going out, he ordered the man to take it. The sentry at first refused politely, and afterward angrily and "emphatically. But the surgeon sternly fnristpd upon his rights, and the man was mnaUr induced to swallow the conoonnd. The result was evidently satisfactory. Tne souna or coognina; ceased in the camp, and the surgeon went to sleep with the consciousness of having done good deed. The next morning he was summoned bythe officer in com mand, who said to him: "How is this, air? I hear serious complaints about you in relation to the sentries. One of them has reported that In the middle of the night you came out of your tent and abased him in the most dreadful man ner. He said you made him swallow a drink which must have been poison." The guard had been relieved while the surgeon was compounding his mixture, and be had cured the wrong man. Army and Navy Journal. In the bazaar, Teheran, tbure are the flversmiths fusing the metal into ingots and bars, hammering at tho plates, de signing, engraving, chasing and solder ing: the work is -seen in progress from the very beginning, and woe be to the unfortunate wretch who shall be de tected in using alloy or an unnecessary quantity of solder. The workers in leather, in copper, in iron, the manu facturers of textile fabrics, all give a continuous industrial exhibition of their own, which is open to all the world, "free gratis, for nothing." The confec tioner produces his sweet stock in trade under the eye of the purchaser. The Persian likes to have everything made specially, and sits by to see it done, to make sure that what he buys fa fresh, and that he isn't cheated. It is not to be wondered at that the bazaars are the favorite lounge of the middle and lower classes. All day long the great arches of the bazaar are thronged by a noisy, pushing crowd, hurrying and gesticulating, but all in high good humor. Here come the moun tebank, the buffoons, tho proprietors of dancing bears and monkeys, the street conjurors, and the man with the tame lion: the itinerant venders of flowers, lettuce, nines and hot tea: the sellers of eggs and poultry; tho dealers in weapons : and second hand clotliing. and innu merable liawkers. It b not to be wondered at tliat Ae European traveler finds it very difficult indeed to tear himself awav from the in- l numerable attractions of the Persian .ba- zaar. The bric-a-brac hunter may come ! upon a priceless piece of faience, which j he may possibly secure for a few pence. I Here one may occasionally pick up a 1 numismatic treasure, which the owner is . glad to jKirt with for a little more than : the price of the metal: but here the ! stranger must beware, for skillful for 1 gcries of old coin are not unknown, even in Persia. But there is one honest cus- torn invariable in the Persian bazaar: if a purcliaser is dissatisfied with his bar gain the seller is always ready to return him his money if he brings back what he has bought within twenty-four hours. This is a custom never departed from. Good Words. Mexican aail Spaniard. The average Mexican, like the average American, is free with liis money neg lectful to those little economics which Europeans understand so well, and, therefore, when a rich Mexican land owner is in need of a manager for an es tate he looks about for a frugal, thrifty Spaniard, who, if he does make money for himself, does not neglect bis employ er's interest. It is a common error among Americans to fancy the Spaniard as a boasting, proud fellow, averse to toil and preferring gentility in a faded velvet coat to hard work and comfort. A witty Spaniard lias said somewhere that all Spaniards are cither Don Quix otes or Sancho Panzas, and there is some measure of truth in this saying. The Sancho Panza class of Spaniard has the hard, homely sense of tho New England farmer, and not a little of the dry humor which the Yankee possesses as by birth right. The Spanish language has thou sands of sharp and racy proverbs availa ble for every day use, and the hard working Spaniard makes free use of them. Another Anglo-Saxon misconception is that the Spaniard is a man who is ever seeking a quarrel and whose temper is fiery and uncertain. There are streaks of romanticism in the Spaniard, and any amount of good qualities that wear well in every day life. Ho is patient, good humored, and will share his meal with an unfortunate countryman. There is much sturdy fiber left in the Spanish nation, which, we must not forget, dis puted the control of this hemisphere with ourselves for centuries, ana left never to be erased marks of Spanish domination. The Spaniard resembles the Anglo-Saxon in his propensities for colonization, his willingness to emigrate, his capacity for hard work and a certain arrogance tho Anglo-Saxon or Spaniard never loses. Cor. Boston Herald. Odd Devices for Photographs. There are various ways for providing surprising results in photography, things that in One age would have been called magic, but in ours recognized as scien tific tricks. The ghost picture, for in stance, in which a shadowy ghost through which material objects are visi bleis seen between natural attitudes and occupations. This is produced by an almost instantaneous exposure of the figure that is to do duty as tho ghost, followed by a full exposure of the figures and properties that are to appear nat ural. Another novel trick was shown recently in a photograph reproduced by a prominent trade journal, which pre sented the photographer, seated at a table, playing chess with himself sitting on the opposite side of the table, while he himself stood up in the background looking at his two selves playing. Tho figures were all on the negative, which was produced by three successive exposures of the plate, parts thereof being masked each time by a black vel vet shutter. Still another trick is that by which a person who likes that sort of thing may appear to bo photographed riding upon a flying goose, or a fish, or any other desired style of ridiculous lo comotion. This is done by the subject holding upon bis lap a huge piece of white or sky tinted card with the fanci ful figure drawn upon it His face ap pears above the upper edge of the card and seems, in the picture, joined to the funny little body mounted on the goose or fish. The statue picture is made by about the same device. Photographic Review. Bhr Meaey Made hr Tags. "What is the most money ever made by a tag in one trip?" was asked of an old tag man in South street. "The very largest money ever obtained was when two tugs picked up a derelict off Sandy Hook. She was in good con dition, but bad been abandoned by hei crew, who were panic stricken. She was drifting ashore, and the courts al lowed a salvage of $28,000 for the two or $14,000 for a day's work each. But that wasn't a towing job. The biggest price ever paid by a ship for towing at this port, so far as I know, was when a ship captain had beat his way up to the lightship after a long winter voyage from Manila. Reaching this point, with the harbor before him, the northwest wind became a gale he could not face, and he saw the shores of Staten Island fade, and began to think he had Ber muda hard aboard. Ho couldnt stand that prospect, and was compelled to pay $1,500 by a heartless tug captain of about my size snd disposition. That is a sober fact. Yoa will near tug men tell stories of larger sums, but then those men were Intended by nature for fisher men." New York San. Worn by a The superstitious and believers in the supernatural attributes of dreams will find a seeming confirmation of their theories in the experience of a Nashville young man. He retired one night, in a normal condition, it may be stated, and, falling asleep, was soon on the race course. In the dream he backed a par ticular horse which the "talent" consid ered wholly out of the contest, and In dreams saw that hone dash under the wire an easy winner. The excitement such as to awaken him, and, after amikmr at his folly, he once more fell asleep, only to fall under the spell of the same dream aad awaken as before. Coming uptown the next """f; be dropped b a pool room and saw the -ojacsooarowu as aOtol shot. Ashamed of bain iaaTnt. encea oy a aream ne stanea oat Tram, then sheepishly said to himself: MrDgo you- $3 anyhow, for fun." He did so, and then he went on to his day's labor. That evening he dropped into the room again, and thereupon the board aawa ring, the winning mark, around the name of the horse be had backed. Pre senting the ticket he received in $43, and went home to court mot happy dreams. The horse was Biavoura. Nashville American. Several noble KentucTdans have rashly wagered their money on a dispute aa to which city of the Celestial empire has the greatest population, and ask that The Enquirer shall deckle the bet. Of course the race is simply between Can ton and Peking', but it ii far from easy to settle even that. The censuses put forth by the Chinese rovernment are notoriously open to suspicion, and even ! these are grouped as to provinces and not as to cities. All statistics as to the ' latter are little better than guesses. Lip- i pincott's "Gazetteer" (latest edition)' gives' Canton 1,500.000, and says that Peking's population is estimated at 2,000,- ! 000, but adds, "This is undoubtedly far ! In excess of the fact." "Martin's States-' man's Handbook' (Great Britain), which is largely made up from the "Almanach de Gotha," gives Canton 1.500.000, and Peking, 1,000,000. Spofford's "Ameri can Almanac" gives Canton' 1,500,000, and Poking only 500.000. Cincinnati Enquirer. Chinese Marriage Castes. In one respect, at least, China sets an ' example which all the world would' do . well to follow. In this empire every one marries and no one ''boards." Hence, generally speaking, there ere as many wedded couples as there are men ana women above the marriageable ago, and , as many centers of borne life as there ' are couples married. j The one modification to this rule exists In the fact that a newly married pair finds its home in the family of the hus band's parents until the bride is herself a mother. With tho marriage ceremony the bride loses absolutely and finally all connection with her own home, and be comes an integral part of the family of her husband. In it sho is only a servant, performing the most menial duties and . condemned to a life of hardship and I drudgery until she is a mother. Then, j at last, sli9 is entitled to a certain amount j of respect and recognition, as something : uigner man a ueasc us ourueu. vor. Chicago Herald. Something New la Fishing. Fishing by artificial light is not a new thing, but the way some fishermen along the coast of Maine are using tbe electric hght is new. The old way was to plunge an incandescent lamp into tho water, the !. - -1 T m 1 1 . connection being made with some source 1 of electricity on board the fishing vessel, and tho mains to the lamp often got foul . of tho fishing tackle or the cable of tho vessel, destroying its usefulness. Now a Frenchman has adopted a better way by adopting a lamp worked by a primary battery, the whole of wluch can be thrown : overboard and regained when the trip w ended. The battery consists of six Bun- sen cells, m wincn, however, chromic acid 13 placed Instead of formerly used. The cells are in tension with a twelve-volt Edison lamp. Tho success of the experiments lately naa presages the general adoption oy our coast ushermen or this new covery. Lewiston (Me.) Journal. dis- Glaea for Many Soak half a,pour.d of glue over night in a quart of good milk and boil it the next day; it will dissolve moisture much better than glue dissolved in water. An adhesive mucilage for labels, suit able for bottles orglass, may be prepared by soaking glue in strong vinegar; then heat to boiling and add flour. This Is very adhesive, and does not decompose when kept in wide mouthed bottles. The following preparation Is very use ful for gumming large sheets of paper, which may be kept on hand ready for use: Starch, two drachms; white sugar, one ounce; gumarabic, two drachms; to be boiled with a sufficient quantity of water. Jewelers' Becord. A Psttlriaalra Kuls a Cow. One of The Chronicle boys who was out poesum hunting the other night stummed over the dead body of a cow in the Little river -swamp. The cow had crumpled horns, from one of which was dangling a huge rattlesnake. The Indi cations were that the cow had seen tho snake coiled and hi the act of springing upon her, and had accordingly hooked tho reptile, tho horn penetrating the snake's body so that the rattler was una ble to free himself. The cow's horn killed the rattler, but the rattler's fangs killed the cow. And yet tradition says a rattlesnake's bite doesn't harm a cow. Washington Chronicle. GTew to maw nweaj Mr. F. H Shelton says: "I took off from over the pipe some 4 inches or 5 Inches, just a crust of earth, and then put a couple of hushels of lime in the space, poured water over it. and slaked it, and then put canvas over that, and rocks on the canvas, ko as to keep the wind from getting undemeatlu Next morning, on returning there. I found that the frost hud been drawn nut from the ground for nearly three feet. You can appreciate what an advantage that was, for picking through frozen ground, with the thermometer below zero, is no joke. Since then we have tried it sev eral times. It is an excellent plan if you havo time enough to Kt the lime work. In the daytime you eaunut afford to waste the time, hut if vou havea spare night in which to work.it is worth while to try it. Scientific Aniericun. Forty-four Mile of Cub. The spectacle of forty-four I1 miles of cabs is enough to make any one shud der, yet that to the length to wluch the London cabs would extend if they were E laced in a line. We owe this interest ig calculation to Sir Charles Warren. It cannot be said after tluj that he died no good as chief commissioner. But we are also told that there is only standing room for twenty-three miles of cabs, so that we have twenty-one miles of cabs always wandering about the streets of London, No wonder there are numerous complaints about "crawlers." London Court Journal. Keaort. At last the United States census report of 1880 is completed, the twenty-second and last volume bavmg been Issued. The work contains over 19,000 pages and has cost the country nearly 18,000,000. It i said to be the most elaborate undertak ing of tbe kind In the world's history. New Tork World. Baal Article. "So you will wear diamonds at the reception next week, Mrs. Shoddy? re marked Mrs. Featherbrain. "Yea, Mrs. Featherbrain: real Pari sian diamonds. My buslamd always gets the best of everything.'' Jewelers weekly. The Xadoaaa aad the Tab, of whom Miss Phelps writes, was a gen uine specimen of health and strength. She doubtless heeded the warning of her predecessors, and understood and ap preciated the matchless qualities of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription, which re lieves and cures so many ailments pe culiar to the sex. As a powerful, invig orating tonic, it imparts strength to the whole system, and to the womb and its appendages, in particular. For over worked, "worn-out," "run-down," debili tated teachers, milliners, dressmakers, seamsteresses, shop-girls, housekeepers, nursing mothers, and febel women gen erally, "Favorite Prescription" is the greatest earthly boon, being unequaled as an appetizing cordial and restorative tome. 'For ncaxttot uwureania or constipation, sick or binoos gran- Sold by C. B. Stillman, druggist, Co ; pnrely vegetable. One a dose. umbaa. 6-ly ules; "Did n't Know 'twas Loaded" May do for a stapid boy's excase ; bat what can be said for the pareat who sees his child laagsfahiwg daily aad fails to recognise the want of a tonic aad ' blood-purifler? Formerly, a course of bitters, or sulphur aad molasses, was the rale ia well-regulated families ; but bow 'all intelligent households keep Avar's Sarsaaarilia, which is at once pleasant to the taste, aad the most searching and effective blood medicine ever discovered. Nathan S. Cleveland, 27 E. Caatoa at.. 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