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K', s, , -' "i &i THE. LITTLE COAT. era's tteltttteaMt-tattehl Whetelahewes Dos yea I Yeaaaar aaata fcni yon wM. Orar erahart. leli aaa hat YeaaaayUalthatMnlaordo AaythharthBt1iisroal Ahl This aniier Mat othhrt erj Utter worth a. I battel IUMT Of thalaahaada that play FOR LIFE AKD LOVE. Harriet Gelder was the moat provok ing, pretty and altogether charming litUa coquette that ever drove a devoted lover distracted with her capricious ways. Florian Coartland was handsome and 'winning enough to have enslaved some ether woman, but bis heart was bound up in the brunette beauty, who daily destroyed his peace. She loved him for all that, but he tried in vain to make her confess it. It was in the springtime of the year, and ft had rained incessantly for two weeks. Harriet resided with her aunt, yiaa Hannah Linwood, in Thomway, about eight miles away from where Florian lived. Naturally, the Impatient lover longed for fair weather, but as there was no immediate prospect of a cessation of the rain one Sunday morning he resolved to set the weather at defi ance, and accordingly sent for his horse and prepared for his 6tormy ride. If -be had been bound for any other destination, he would have turned back before going a mile, as the road appeared to grow worse every step, and his horse plodded through the mud, stumbling frequently in the many ruts and pitfalls. After traveling for what seemed to him to be hours, he reached the bridge which spanned the little river, two miles from Thomway. In the distance he could see the gray walls of the Linwood mansion, and in his impatience he was about to spur his horse to a gallop, when he noticed tliat the land at a little distance below the bridge was completely flooded, the river overflowing, having submerged it to a wide extent. A point or knoll of land close upon the river's bank formed a little island in the midst of the whirling flood, and upon this island stood a small wooden house, which Florian saw was occupied, for a thin wreath of smoke ascended from the chimney. If there were people in the house their position was most perilous, as the waiter was rising fast and would soon sweep away the house. As Florian rode towards the house he saw a f emalo form approach the win dow, and a handkerchief was waved im ploringly. Unhesitatingly he rode into the water, which soon grew deeper, and his horse was -obliged to swim. Florian urged him forward, and drawing near the house, the door was thrown open and ho cried out in surprise, for there stood Miss Linwood and Harriet Gelder. "Harriet!" cried Florian, "for heaven's sake, how came you here?" "Wo came to see a sick woman," re plied Harriet, with prompt coolness, "and the water rose before we" r ' "It is rising now, and fast," he inter rupted, excitedly, "and there is no time to waste. My horse will carry two; . which of you shall I take first?" ,Tho sick woman first," said Harriet, quietly. Florian trembled as he looked at the feeble old woman whom Miss Linwood was assisting from her chair to the door, and whom he had not noticed until 'Harriet called his attention to her. He trembled with the appalling fear that there would not be time to go and return twice before the swiftly rising waters should have torn the frail structure from its foundations, for there was already an . inch of water upon the floor. But he only cast one glance at Harriet's calm face and stooped to lift the sick woman up before him. Without a word he turned Ids horse toward the shore, and the good beast, with its double burden, struggled back through the flood. They were standing knee deep in water when he once more approached the al ready shaking building. He did not speak a word, but looked silently from Harriet to her aunt, his white face grow ing whiter yet as Harriet said, in steady tones, "Aunt Hannah first." "Harriet" commenced Miss Lin wood. "Go, Aunt Hannah!" "Harriet, I won't!" "You must!" said Harriet, firmly. "Harriet, Harriet! for pity 'a sake" "You are delaying her. Miss Hannah," exclaimed Florian, hoarsely. "Come she will not yield, if she dies!" With a groan Miss Linwood gave- up, and he lifted her upon his horse. The turbulent waters washed into the room, and Harriet staggered and clung to the wall for support. Florhan's face was ghastly as he bent forward and placed his hand upon her shoulder, whispering, in a choked voice, "Kiss me, Harriet." She put ber arms around lib neck and kissed him a long, passionate kiss, which was their first and might be their last. He strained her to him, saying, "Har riet, you do love me?" "Yes. Florian." Then she leaned against the wall again, us he went, and hid her face, try ing to shut out the sight of those yellow waters creeping up the side of the rooms, higher and higher with every wave that rolled in through the door. As Florian reached the shore a carriage was approaching in tho distance, rocking from side to side with the furious speed to which the driver was lashing the horses. "It's the carriage from Linwood," said Miss Hannah; "we have been afraid of a freshet and they have taken alarm and come to look for us." Florian did not hear her; he was urg ing his exhausted horse into the flood again. The poor beast trembled and hesitated; but Florian spurred him fiercely on, smiting him with his clinched fist and shouting at him in his fraatoo excitement. When the hurrying carriage reached the spot and Miss Linwood's niwiiin leaped to the ground, Florian was half way back to Harriet. Mistress and man atood with pallid faces and hearts that hardly beat, silently watching the beau tiful girl as she clung to her frafl sup port, and the young man, with his whit face, and his golden hair blowing back, as he dashed madly through the flood to While thev watched a ereat billow caase rolling in front the river, roaring fearfully, and tossing its yellow water as it clashed upon Harriet's refage. Miss linwood screamed, and her servant ut tered a Iwarse cry, for where thehoaae and dashers, and Fiorina's stnsrriiar. riderless, towards r saoment ana tney saw Harriet yet clang to the stating Florian was beside her upon it. a fcrtr board, as the ft within his reach. the frafl raft with it towards As he neared the land the r into the to Ids assistance, and hi a few mo ther were all aanndinr noon the laasLawet, dripping, but profosairy tioakfal party. They proceeded, as fast as the carriage could carry them, to Linwood, where they all found plenty of employment for the remainder of the day ia getting rid of the effects of their perilous adventure eo far aa they could do, so. It transpired that the sick woman had act received any injury; Miss Hannah .had caught a slight cold; Harriet had caught a severe one, and Florian had caught Harriet. Gaaa. A nalr recentlv brotuzht from Africa has been added to the Central park col lection of aaunals. "There is no particular value attached to the anf", except from their rarity,"'' remarked Director Conklin. "They are the first pair of Morocco goats probably that ever found then- way to this coun try. They are young, in their second year, quite gentle, as you see. and will eat out of your hand. But if startled, all their inherited wildness comes out I never saw such animals. They seem to have muscles of rubber, from the way they jump. I have never had so much trouble with the most dangerous animals we have Iiere. "The jumping of the thoroughbred hunters in Madison Square garden a few weeks ago doesn't begin to compare with that of these goats. 1 put them in a yard having a fence eight feet high, but they jumped it so easily that now I have a fence ten feet high. "The space within their inclosure is so limited tliat they cannot get a good start to go so high, or 1 would not trust them with anything less than a fifteen foot fence. Then, they are getting accus tomed to these quarters and are not so easily alarmed as they were, but I think, if startled, they might still clear this fence. Their leap is peculiar. They crouch a little, give a sliort jump in the air, and as they strike the ground bound upward again as if they were shot from a cata pult. Tho muscles of their legs are ex tremely tough, but the legs are not adapted for great rapidity or endurance in running. They have been developed by generations of climbing on the Mo rocco hills. As these goats get older and their bodies in captivity become heavier, they will probably become less active. Possibly our native goat has lost his faculty of high jumping, if he ever liad it, 6ince lie became partly civil ixed and accustomed :to a diet of brown paper." Scientific American. Tba Secret of Ills Power to Please. A venerable white haired clergyman hi one of the city churches recently preached in Nonistown. Ho had hardly got homo from the church before the door bell rang and a charming girl of 18 asked to see him. He received her, they talked about the serman and other things, until finally she asked diffidently: "Oh, won't you please give me a lock of your hair?" "Certainly, my child," said the old gentleman, flattered at the request. 'Til send it to you to-morrow," and he did. On his return to the city ho had five more requests of the same kind, and he proudly boasted to his wife that he was glad to see that he had sot yet lost Ids power to please. He declared his trip had been most charming, and all went well until his wifo received this note: "My Deaii Mrs. X.: Won't you please ask your good husband to send me just a little lock of his hair? We have all been taking lessons in making liair flowers. So many of the other girls asked him and he sent it to them, but I thought I would rather ask you to get it for mo. Now, won't you please do this for me, it is so hard to get white hair for lilies of the valley?" This was a terrible blow, and the less now said about locks of hair in the mar ried gentleman's presence the better. Philadelphia The city of San Salvador, the capital of the smallest and most populous Cen tral American republic, was founded in 1528. It has been three times almost en tirely and eleven times partially de stroyed by earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. It Is eighteen miles from the sea coast, hasan elevation of 2,800 feet, and is surrounded by a group of volca noes, two of which are active, Ban Miguel and Izalco, and present a rftgniftnt display to the psnwngcrn of steamers sailing along the coast, constantly dis charging masses of lava which flow down their sides in blaring torrents. Izalco is as regular as a clock, the 1 eruption occurring like the beating of a nugnty pulse, every seven minutes, it is impossible to conceive of a grander spectacle than this monster, rising 7,000 feet almost directly from the sea, an im mense volume of smoke, like a plume, continually pouring out of its summit and broken with such regularity by masses of flame rising l,000f eet, that U has been named 1 Faro del Salvador the Lighthouse of Salvador. It is in many respects the most remarkable vol cano in the world, because its discharges have continued so long and with such regularity, and because the tumult In the eartivs bowels is always to be heard. Its explosions are constant, and are aud ible a hundred miles off. It is the only volcano that has originated on this con tinent since the discovery by Columbus. It arose from the plain In the spring of 1770 in the midst of what had been for nearly a hundred years a magnificent coffee and indigo plantation. Guate mala Star. flnnm nil rnaieanillna A local physician says the prevalence here of coughs, hoarseness and phlegm expectoration is not proaucea zrom fax ing cold, but from nhHng fine par- tides of quartz dust, with which the air has been rilled for severalmonths. These particles are carried into the lungs and throat and canes Irritation, and the fre quent coujdunjr is the ineffectual effort of nature to rid the system of the foreign particles. The physician further stated that constant inhaling of this fine quarts dust Will produce ajiiijiiiaiiaaliwistlilan- tical with and more speedily fatal than hereditary consumption. He eked the well known fact that the fatality among miners employed in the Crown Point ana Belcher is due to the upper levels of these rnines beb constantly filled with quarts dust, which has played havoo with the young mm employed there dur ing the past five years. The doctor re-, ferred to christened the disease "quarts, dust consumption," and says the only' remedy for it Is to eniigrato to moisten nnmama hita I WMfcinfffri fry.; titory or locate on sands that are salt from the kiss of the sea.1 The prevent-! Ive is to keep the streets thoroughly wet down and to cease fri Hatting fliam, wjtfc quartx. Virginia (Ner.) Chronicle. When the famous musirJan Banyan was dying, his confessor wearied him with a long homily, and he, rallying his failing energies, -"mffl "What on earth makes you come here and chant to me, Monsieur le Cure? Yon have adence of a bad voice." More than a century ago an actor nesned Paterson played the Duke in Shakespeare's ''Measure for Measure" (at the Norwich theatre). He bad jest delivered the beautiful speech: If I do kaa thea, I da last a thaw use bb HoavaeH Base, when he staggered back and expired. New London Telegram. "WelLmylitaeone,did you want to w - -.are yon a lawyer?" ; is it you want?" "I want," and rasa resolute rise in her voice. I wans a otvorce from nr A MIAM. sstiit.Him mesne if aw sin .a came of raat shadow aei haste. LatalaaJsi Dead-la thai ssniiala. imea, WUtaaamaarawiaatalaseihai MlftyefariBcaBtfseBaeC, There, h a at Bay seat. at the sas eras looking I. befall Touched, for em Lsariac avast la hh) Bufcaarenentaatl Ton with the battle Shamed for the f aha I Lol oa a aaddaa I fee, Warmth of hie Yea, of hie Of his eyas, hie Lore bad Hreeh. Thai Aatflaalty a With regard to the discoveries on the slopes of the Sierra de Managua, Or. Flint considers that the human bones prove indisputably the existence of man In Pliocene times. Still we must recol lect that in such an active volcanic re gion as Nicaragua, with its hot and moist climate, sudden upheavals and subsi dences may be expected to have oo currred, while the rich tropical vegeta tion would rapidly repair the ravages caused by the most devastating eruptions. The footprints themselves tell us little as regards their antiquity. As before men tioned, they present no evidence of be longing to an inferior type of man, while the sandal shod footprint indicates a cer tain advance in civilization, since a man who wears shoesat all can hardly belong Lto tho earliest stage- of .human culture. lYvonsidering all the circumstances, there fore, it will, perhaps be wisest to adopt Dr. Brinton's cautious conclusion, that there is not sufficient evidence to remove' these remains further back than the pre ent Post-Pliocene or Quaternary period. Knowledge. Sapper Alter the Play. The Sun is asked "whether it is con tidered good form to take a young lady supper after a performance at the theatre." Authorities differ. If- you think the young lady is hungry, however, you might be justified in doing so, even though you should limit your own lunch eons for a week afterward to make good the expense incurred. Secondarily, it depends upon the girl. Plump girls are not,apt to order and eat as voraciously as thin girls. This is ac cording to Blax Muller and Professor Euxley. A judicious outlay for bon bons early in the evening, however, will often check the feminine tendency to ward terrapin after the play. Moreover, you should be guided in some degree by details of time and place. If you have been at the German opera, the difference of an hour or two In getting home will not weigh with the home authorities. But, seriously, if you have been at the theatre until say 11 p. m., if there is a married lady in the party, it is well enough to ask the crowd to eat, as they say in Leadville. But if you are escorting a young lady without a chaperon it is in better taste to say nothing about supper, since there is a distinct prejudice against young ladies going into restaurants at that hour except in a party where at least one married lady is apt to be found. This idea is sensible and good and most people see its fitness. Where young people are very old friends they may feel like taking a little latitude in such matters. There can be no possible liarm in the act, but as it is liable to provoke unkindly comment, the young gentleman should consider that any special comment by strangers upon a lady is in itself most undesirable in every way, and he should reflect tliat other people have no means of knowing that he and liis companion are more to each other than mere acquaintances in societv New York Sun. The Gimlet Man. "I should like to sell you a gimlet,' Baid a careworn looking man, as he walked into the office the other day. "We have no use for one," replied the cashier. "But you should always look into the misty future," went on the fiend, de murely. "Next winter you will want to make holes in your boot heels so you can get your skates on." "I use club skates no 6traps re quired." Youmay want to screw some hoards together some time. Tho old fashioned method of driving screws in with a ham mer ts pernicious, as it deteriorates tho tenacity of the fangs of the screws, as it were." "Nothing today, sir." "The gimlet also acts as a cork screw" "I don't want it." "It has an eraser, a pen, an inksiand,' a table for computing compound interest and a lunch box attachment.' "I can't help it: I don't want it.' "I know you don't. You're one of those mean men that won't buy a gimlet unless it has a restaurant, a trip to Eu rope and an Italian opera company at tached. You're the kind of a man who would live near an electric light to save a gas bill." And the pedlcr walked out with his menial plunge on tho perpendicular. Texas Sif tings. I'roaiotera of Existence. Disease is a mean fellow; it always strikes a man when he's down. Two men come into a car together one over worked, depressed, worried and exhaust ed, tho other interested in his work, which employs every faculty to the ut termost, comfortable and happy, with the conviction that his wife is the dear est woman in the world, his children as bright as any one's chUdren, and that he isn't a very bad sort of a fellow himself. A draught blows through the car as usual, striking both men. They both take cold; one has pueumonia and dies, and the other a cold in his head, which he sneezes away in two days; It is easy to draw the inference and with it to de duce the formula that comfort, cheer fulness and hopefulness are the best pro moters, of existences. DrJShrady. Keep tba Ceaaraaatlaai Awake. The first duty of a preacher is to keep the congregation awake. Instruct the sexton to let in plenty of fresh air. Without air, without life. Break out a few of those stained glass windows and admit the sunshine! Darkness always provokes a yawn. Clergyman In St. Louis Republic. Henry Golding, colored, wno lives near Leery, Ga., claims to be 121 years old. He says that he was years old at the commencement of the revotationary war. He belonged at the time to George Humphreys, of Richmond, Va. Humph reys sold himtoGeorge Heard, of Au gusta, who had owned -him ten years when the "stars felL" -In Switzerland cars are run vp ton hotel 2,100 feet above the lake, level by rope traction, the drum being worked trelectrie motors which arev driven by dynamos two and a half miles distant. iiaM.ihw.aare A POTLATCH IN ALASKA. CURIOUS FESTIVAL OMEIIVED BY THE THUNKETS. A "iiotlatch" is asocial Institution pe culiar to the natives along the North Padflo coast. The word means a "big feast." but that does not signify all that the same words do to the white races. Blankets are the signs of wealth among these people. To have so many blankets Is among them to be just so rich. These blankets are stored up And boarded just as the miser hoards his gold, but for a totally different purpose. The idea is to have a big "potlatclT some time. Often this takes place when tlie owner of the blankets gets past middle life and feels that the time lias come when he can af ford to make tliis social display. Again they are laid up and treasured so that a big "potlatch" may be held after the owner is dead. The Thlinket village just north of and adjoining Sitka now has about 1,500 win ter inhabitants, those who are out fish ing and working at the canneries all sum mer having come in to stay until work begins again in summer. Though .they have been brought under some- civilizing influences they are very reluctantly sur rendering their native' customs. Among those to which they still cling is the cus tom of the "potlatch." . ALASKAN POLYGAMY. ' At 1 o'clock a cannon shot was heard ver in the village, to the astonishment tf many of the Americana here. In quiry disclosed the fact that ono of the head men of the village had just died, and tliat the cannon shot from an old Russian carronade was to announce the death. When the whites first'began to make inroads among these natives polyg amy and slavery were settled institutions among them. Both still exist to some extent at points of the greatest distance from civilizing influence. The Russian church in Alaska has steadily pur sued the policy of breaking up polygamy among the natives ever since its missionaries began their work more than a century ago. The headman of the Sitka village was brought within the fold of that church, but attempted for a long time to conceal the fact that he was indulging in a plu rality of wives. When off at distent fishing and canning stations he could do tltis with impunity, and with little or no danger that any of his people would ex pose him. They will not testify against each other if it can be helped. When he came into the ranch or village last fall ho was detected in this mode of living, and, in u manner, coerced into surren dering his youngest and most attractive wife. Ilo had been married to the first one "United States fashion," and as the Russian church does not recognize di vorce he could not put her away in favor of the younger one. The result of this was that this stolid, taciturn Indian, whose appearance and general conduct would indicate that not a particle of sentiment entered into his character, actually pined away and died of grief. Nothing that his people could do would stimulate him to any exertion.. None of the blandishments and caresses of his first wife, and she was kind to him, could arouse him from his stupor of grief, and this stout and lusty fisher man, who had braved hundreds of fierce storms in his cedar canoedied actually of a broken heart. THE POTLATCH. Now comes the "potlatch." He had been laying up blankets against the day of a royal, roistering "potlatch" in his lifetime. A score of natives visited the trader's store and bought nearly a ton of stuff for the feast Canned goods, boxes of crackers by the dozen, and everything that could be obtained to eat were liauled over by them to the village on trucks to be consumed in the "pot latch," which will last for several days and nights. A "potlatch" without something strong to drink is a compara tively tame affair. The sale of whisky to these people is carefully guarded against, and when detected, which is quite often, severely punished. They buy large quantities of molasses, how ever, and from this surreptitiously distill an intoxicating drink called "hooche noo," with which they enliven then potlatches.' Tho first night of this one has just passed, and the howling and dancing which went on hi the huge house of the dead headman showed that considerable 'hoochenoo" liad in some way been pro vided for the occasion. The house has no chimney, and the smoke from the fire, built in the center of the floor, es capes through a hole in the roof. The walls glisten with black soot. The dance has no figures, but is simply a cadenced step in a circle around the Are, the time being given on a sort of tomtom or tam bourine. When each dancer gets tired, he squats down anywhere to eat and rest. So it goes on all night long, and day in and day out, until the supplies are ail gone, and the blankets all parted with to buy the means of keeping up the "pot latch." The duration of the "wake" depends upon the supply of blankets. The "pot latches" invariably end in the impover ishment of those who give them. A na tive who gives a "potlatch" and retains any of his property afterwards, is dis graced. Tho widow, in this particular case, has entered eagerly into the festivi ties, and yet realizes that it will take the last blanket before it is all over. Some idea may be formed of the way these "potlatches" end when L state the fact that the steamer brought up two Indi an women and one "buck" from a village 200 miles northeast of this, ail of whom liad their noses bit off in a "hoochenoo potlatch." They all got drunk and the man bit the noses off two of the women. Sitka Cor. New York Times." Clara . Said an attache of the theatre one night as Clara Morris wasnearingthe conclusion of her play: "It will be IS o'clock before Miss Morris leaves the house. When the curtain falls on this act she will sob and scream all the way to her dressing room, and there she will sit for an hour recking back and forth until she gets quieted down. Then she will put on her street costume and leave, the theatre." Apropos of this I shall never forget the first night of "Jane Shore," Don Piatt's play, at the Brooklyn, theatre. Clara Morris was interested In the play and practically produced it It was a failure, largely due to imperfect rehearsals and the most scandalous mismanagement it has ever been my misfortune to witness. Morris was frantic. Through the per formance, as she began to realise the in evitable result, ber excitement became almost uncontrollable. The curtain did not fall on the last act till nearly 1 o'clock. I was there by special invitation of Miss Morris. After the performance we. with her husband, Harriot; adjourned to an oyster hones to get some supper. She wastoonervous to eat when the food was pat before her, so she ordered Har riot to have a fry put ma box and bring it home with hiin. We went out WV walked up one street, down another. Harriet folknriac us all the time with aff WaaKh-Savtaej Vp ha Ba Abee se Glaa a Big Haw Oat The Leaves the WreT SSs eBsajHBBBSBBBBBj m ejajaaajaje) 4 o'clock before the poor I- etedand ahe could be inireced home with Harriot and the fry. Walkbagtbosci Brooklyn stree bitter winter night I learned more of Clara Morris than I had ever known be fore. What I learned has no place to print, bet I inay my this, that from that time I have looked upon her with a deeper feeling of respect and a deeper feeliag of sympathy. Chicago Herald. The vaxiptr of mrticlea) that niano era find in pianos remarkable. It is also extraordinary what a receptacle of lost articles a piano can become Inthe course of a few months. A tuner was conversing with a Gktbe-Democrat re porter recently about some of the singu lar pluses of bis calling when he inci dentally let drop the statement that he found four diamonds in one piano and had recovered a verytabetantial reward for bis discovery from the lady who had employed him. "You can understand the shock given to a ring," he said, "when a lady Is playing and brings her fingers down in a crescendo. "If a. stone happens to be loose away it goes, and with that rare affinity which valuable things have for getting Into strange places, it promptly gets between the keys and works down Into the frame work of the instrument. And little things like gems are not the only ones lost hi this way: I have found coins of all sorts or denominations In a loosely set piano, hairpins, ordinary pins, visit ing cards and the like. "Where there are children around the accumulation becomes greater, for the little rascals have a fashion of stuffing pianos full of every email thins; they can get their mischievous little fingers on. Of course the tone of the pianola very much injured by the presence of anything beneath or behind the keys, but very few persons who use the instru ment can distinguish when it fa a quar ter tone out of the way, especially when they are using the piano themselves." St Louis Globe-Democrat. TeadUae; ChOdrea ha Obey. The father of the best disciplined boy the writer has ever seen says: "1 never siruck the little fellow, and should hate very much to see any one else strike him. I want him to feel that I am the best friend he has, and yet that he must mind instantly because we are good friends. I think children an nagged at too much, and told not to do too many things. If they disuliey in some trifling thing noth ing is said, and so they learn disobedi ence, A child should be made to obey every command, the small and great alike, but should not receive too many orders. One disobedience is the father of another, and perfect discipline fa only obtained by continually insisting on obedience. Once a child knows he must mind lie yields readily to authority." Another good authority submits the following: "Teach a child to mind as you would teach him his letters. You don't expect him to learn them all In a minute, but one at a time. Insist on a child obeying you promptly In someone particular until he gets it learned, then take up something else, and so on until, instead of minding once a day as at first, he obeys every injunction." New York Sun. Seltlas Cattle ly "Weight. A writer in Mark Lane Express se verely deprecates tho custesi in rogue in England with buyers and sellers in estimating cattle, or buying by the bead instead of by actual ascertained weight By this system he believes farmers are cheated and robbed of much of the profits in raising cattle, and advises them to supply themselves with weighing ma chines of their own, so long as butchers and salesmen remain averse to buying by weight There can be no doubt that in such cases the farmer is at a great disad vantage with buyers, whose opportuni ties for determining the dead weight of living animals are so much !-otter, from the nature of their occupation, and the wonder is that English farmers should have submitted to such a practice so long. Much of this business of buying by the headsays the agricultural editor of The World, has iteen done in this country, and, it is scarcely to be doubted, quite generally to tho farmer's disadvantage: but of late years the system of selling at actual weight has been growing hi favor, and cattle scales are now so cheap as to have become common in towns, as well as on stock farms, so that there ia no longer any necessity for the element of chance in the buying and selling of stock as it is picked up through the country by butchers or shippers. -No good reason can be given why a fanner should aell a bullock on an estimation of its weight that would not apply with equal force to the buyer after the meat was dressed. It is true that the percentage of dead weight varies considerably in different animals according to breed and feeding, but an accurate knowledge of the live weight is an important factor in deter mining the value of the animal before it has been slaughtered. A Peaalty of UBcoaveatioaalltjr. A young man who dared to break through stern custom and go to see an Oakland young lady during the eclipse last New Year's day was, upon retiring, rewarded with a remark which must be regarded as rather mean if the young lady understood the full significance of ber words. She said as she was closing tho door: "I hope you will call again the very next time we have another total eclipse." Now he is waiting for an answer from Professor Holdcn to know if it be a fact that we shall not have another such for 110 years. San Fran cisco Report eB - A Mather BeepeaelbfUtj. Unfortunately not every mother thinks it necessary to teach polite manners to her children. Her boys do not take off their hats when they come Into the pres ence of ladies; ber girls interrupt rudely to conversations. It fa a common occur rence to our street cars to see an elderly gentleman give up his seat to some, okl woman wnile a e-year-oia youngster spreads over room enough for two, and with his mother looking on apparently ignorant that ahe fa rearing a son with the selfish manners of a cub. The .be havior of her children fa a pretty clear mirror of the mother's own nature. It is from her they learn courtesy and gal lantry and chivalric respect to women. Lookers on at the rude or bad behavior of the child cannot have a very flatter ing opinionof' that child's home influ ences. New Orleans Picayune. "Where have yon nainil your tionr" asked one clerk of another. -At the beautiful little village of Z." "Is it a healthy locality?" "Healthy! It's so healthy that to or der to start their new cemetery they were obliged to assassinare an inhab itant" America. Of three women living in one house in (Valker county, Ga., there are two wives. two awjtbers-in-iaw, two deaghters-iar m .. -. - S law, cures mowers, two A pretty garter clasp consists of a row of three diamonds between two rows of rttoEtrascugold. the fry in the 'box. it GOLD DUST A wonderful discovery of the 19th century Is now per fected and in the market. fc P A APtiu f o i ATaaaaaw TlO fm P aBBBBBBBBsl BslRBBSBB. BalBBsl a taLjrBtSaaLlSl-ijBf S Af" V-L i Tasa1-' a S3 With 'mazJn dettojht we Introduce to you. 5 FAIrbank's Gold Dust, which to aumptn new. 3 . SSFOR EA8Y Uae K. K. Fairbank & Co.'s "Gold Dust" Powder. It is the best. Ask Your Grocer for Free Sample. Take Jt home and try it. ft S.fmirbank's "Faiiy" Simp is Whit and it will Float. Navar Beard Ot Farmer Homespun (on a New York Central train, to a fellow passenger) Ever been west? Fellow Passenger No. "Great country, the west." "I've beard so." " "Iain't half appreciated yet." "NoT "No, sirt Greeley understood it, though. Go west, young man,' was what be said, and he knew what was good for a young man.' "Guess lie did." "Yes, indeedy. Now, we had a young fellow up in Chemung county, whero 1 live. Smarter'n a wlup. Could do any thing. You'd orter sec him .speak in the debatin' school. But, bless ye, he hadn't no sort o chance around there. All the good places filled." "Why didn't he go westT "He did. That's what I'm gettin' at But he didn't want to go at first. He kept hangin round, thinkin something would turn up. but it didn't. Folks said if he would only go west with his tal ent he would knock tho spots ofTn every thing. He would be a big man, sure. 80 finally he went." "It was the making of him. prob abryr "This was only two years ago, and now, sir (rising in his seat and speaking with great animation), and now, tliis young man who hadn't no chance in York state, where do you suppose he faT "I dont know." "Well, I dont either. We haven't heard a word from him since he left." Texas Sittings. Advice to Csatrlbatera. You beginners seem to write nothing but your views on politics, and your re flections on art and your theories of life, which you sometimes even think origi nal. Editors wont have that, because their readers dont want it. Every paper has its regular staff of leader writers, and what is wanted from the outside is freshness. An editor tosses aside your column and a half about evolution, but is glad to have a paragraph saying that you saw Herbert Spencer the day before yesterday gazing solemnly for ten min utes in at a milliner's window. Fleet street at this moment is simply running with men who want to air their views about things in general. Each thinks he is as original as he is profound, though they have only to meet to dis cover that they repeat each other. They should write of the things they have seen. Newspaper readers have an in satiable appetite for knowing how that part of the world lives with which they are not familiar. Write on politics if you will, but dont merely say what you think yourself; rather tell what fa the political situation hi the country parts known to you. When a Man's Single Barrie. Tba Chora Girls' Tights. I have referred to the frequent changes of dress required, and I am credibly in formed tliat getting out of ono pair of tights into another is no easy matter, to say nothing of the other portions of the scanty attire which have to be put off and on. To properly attire herself hi a pair of silk fleshings requires no little practice and skill on the part of the wearer. Tlie finest sort of silk tights are first gathered in the hand and drawn on over the feet like stockings, the shoes being laced on before the tights are finally drawn into place. The waistband fa formed of strong webbing, so as to guard against the danger of tearing the frailer silk, and by this the tights are pulled into place and smoothed and stretched and rubbed, much as a woman rubs on a new glove, so as to cause all wrinkles to disappear. The tights are provided by the management, and tlie girls are to a certain extent responsible for their safe keeping. St. Louis Globe Democrat. A Russian analyst, writing to the papers, gives the following as a test by which tea can be proved to be genuine or not. Take a pinch of tea in agues, pour vpon it a little cold water and well shake Kup. Pure tea will only slightly color the water, while a strong mfasion is quickly got from the adulterated or painted leaf. Now boil both sorts sepa rately, and let thein stand till cool, and the difference between them will be most marked. The false tea will becosoe still stronger after long standing, but will resaain transparent Whereas the pare tea will becoaao muddy or milky. This last appearance arises from the taa alo add which is a natural property in pure tea, but which In artfAcial tea is entirely absent. New York Telegram. PedoJer--GanIsellyoaacakeofpoUsh-iag soap, mum? It will brighten your silverware like new, wffl put a shine on yon piano so yon wouldn't know it It cleans Jewelry like magic. Try one cake, only ten cents, mum, and yon never will be without it again in your life. of .the nones reflectively)-- Didn't I buy a cake of that yon four years ago? Paddler(hastily--3ood day, mum, ex- 7 WASHING "Sm "Washing A Eratucky Hermit. A curious hermit bus been discovered hi Russell county. Ky. lie lived in a rude hut of the most primitive construc tion. He is very tall, and about 60 years of age. Hi clothing consisted of a few rags tied around his irson with strings, and lib feet wore naked and badly frost bitten All that be would tell about himsrlf was that he was "Jim Billy." He bud often boen seen by hunters, but always eluded pursuit. 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