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Towards the close of a dull November day, in the year 186, a young man was standing, with his back to the fire, in a mall but well furnished apartment in street. Scattered about upon the table were several open and evil looking volumes, bearing, as their titles indicated, Bpon 'witchcraft,' spiritualism, mesmer ism and various supernatural phenom ens. Their appearance showed that they were frequently and deeply studied. Seated on the hearth rug, close to the young man's feet, was a small black and tan mongrel, very sharp about the muz- zle, very bright about the eyes, and very tremulous about the tail. Every now and . then she looked up into her master's face, . with tliat look of wistful wonder so oom aaon to tho canine features, giving at the same time c little whimper, in order to attract his attention. VWhatisit. Pickle?" he exclaimed at last, rousing from his reverie, and look .ing down at the dog: "what is it, my girl? MJB .w, wow, wcwl" ''That's a very general answer, my doggie."' At that moment some peculiar idea evidently flashed across his brain, for, looking earnestly at tho dog, he ex . claimed: "By Jove! I've a good mind to try the experiment. Let me just read It over again." He walked quickly from the fireplace to the table, and opened one of the vol amesat a marked place. For a quarter of an hour he sat, and never raised his eyes from the book; then, leaving it open, he pushed it a little way aside, ' and called his dog. It was on his knee in a second. "Pickle," he said gently, "would you liketotaikr "Bow, wow, wowr ' "No, not to bow, wow, wow, but to .talk like I do?" The dog put its head on one side and looked at him earnestly, with that pain ful endeavor to understand which every one who talks to a dog must often have noticed. "Let me see what it says once more," ' Buttered her master, and he turned to ' the book again. "ITmJ power of strong will condition produced by mesmerism experiment of Von Glaben act on brain and tongue transmitted capacity and sympathetic action on muscles. Tee, m do it, come what may." With these words he lifted the dog from his knee and placed it upon the table in front of him, so that its face was -level with his; then he raised his finger and exclaimed sharply: "Pickle, look at me!" The dog's eyes were riveted on his in a moment The last rays of the Novem ber sun had long ago departed, and the xoom was filled with that visible dark Bess which gives a weird aspect to the commonest of objects. In this obscur ity, relieved only by a fitful flare from from the dying embers in the grate, the pupils of the animal seemed to the young man to dilate under his glance and be come balls of liquid fire. Never for a moment allowing his steadfast gaze to . vary, he lifted his hands quickly from hk side and made the usual passes, add ing to them certain others evidently pre scribed in the recently studied article. At the first few strokes the dog trem bled violently, and the bristles rose round its neck like a ruff. Then it suddenly became rigid; the jaws dropped asunder, and the ears were pricked in the most painful tension. "PickleP exclaimed the young man, bringing hk face suddenly so close to 'the dog's that their noses touched; "Pickle, speak to me! Say masterr 1 The open jaws closed with a sudden saap; the lips twitched spasmodically; the working of the throat showed that the tongue was violently agitated. I "Pickle, if you love me, speakf 1 The words were this time accompanied , by a powerful attack upon the animal's brain and tongue. The same symptoms followed the second appeal; and then, troaa between the clenched teeth, there caaae, harsh and grating, as though tear fcg its way up the dog's throat, the word 1 .Pronounced in an unearthly tone, the word, half expected as it was, had a mo- effect upon the operator's but before the current of hisin- over the dog had been destroyed lMreOTredUmeelf and continued the "Do yoa know what I say to you?" This tisae the answer fell eaaflyand efflyfroaathe dog's lips. The unused of tne throat had. under the in- of VonGlabenstein. cot oukklT the trst shock and fallen at once into working order. "I understand all you say to me." "Can you speak except under the in atoauce? I mean could you speak if I withdraw my eyes from you-rso?" The young man turned away, and de stroyed for a moment the rapport be- the dog and himself. The animal powerless to reply. !?; the condrtaons the operator thencon- "Do you retain the remembrance of former life, or are you oblivious to stfll your little dog Pickle; and win you siva sat at fSm wa very long words." "Is yaw rendition altered? Do you niiilui anything that kappeaed to- Il names wiB you gira me that big bona :.'" rm man ulala ., jeatanaapway bb ji waca &y aar p- -.t-rntrjFAi-my night, if you are $ - gpuuVjtPaammll have a big bone after '- r a. mm gJhwBat fajso th Deonle's rrdaus ?,.?;- Wha lauujaa. asm feeur all you can. and l, 5-- p BasBauaawotaBBaKyuuaauas amaasau && ; mmmm ksst Irfaaasnunw I waut to k 'auuulaWaBuaaamV-aaki i aat nasfU any -. tr JhV fg&i W itariMaatlauftBaKataVauuuuu1auHaaak it rolled over on the rue;, and, heaving a deep sigh, went off It was evident that the ex- had prostrated the dog. and left k weak and lanfiukL For the mo- even the bone was forgotten. Not at first did the full meaning of the feat be; had" performed dawn upon PkJe's master. It was only by degrees, aa he sat thinking before the dying em bers, thart tfc revelation came to him of what he might accomplish with a talk ing dog. He never for a moment enter taisMl the idea of making the discovery public. Bather should it be to him a of- secret enjoyment, height by the knowledge that the whole proceeding was in direct viola tion of the laws of nature, and as un-' canny" as the wild revels peculiar to a witch's holiday. For many a night after that Pickle and her master talked together for a quarter of an hour in the evening. The doors were always carefully locked before the preliminaries commenced, and the Von Ulabenistic influence was limited to a short period, as the dog evidently suf ered physically if the interview was pro longed. An intelligent and observant nimat Pickle brought to her master many queer items of news about bis neighbors, and he encouraged her prying habits, having already conceived the idea of earning fame as an amateur detective, and em ploying the dog as an unsuspected agent When Pickle had anything of impor tance to communicate, her intelligence was rewarded with a choice bone; but when she had been spending the day with other dogs, and listening to them instead of to their owners, her conversa tion was not interesting to her master, and she forfeited the dainty honorarium. One evening she had been out all day, and returned long after her usual time, looking very muddy about the feet and very tumbled and dirty about the coat Her tail, usually defiantly poised in the air, was curled tightly be tween her legs, and she crawled rather than walked into the library, where her master was waiting for her. The door was closed and the curtains drawn, and then Pickle, looking the pic ture of downcast doggedness, was lifted upon the table and Von Olabenized. "You bad dog." exclaimed her master sharply, "what makes you so late? You've been playing with those low dogs by the canaL Look ai your coat!" Iso, I haven t been playing by too canal, and I don't know any low dogs." "Where have you been, then?" "Only next door." "Then,' you wicked dog, why didn't you coino into the house before?' "Because well, because I didn't want the police detectives to see rue." "What had you done, thenT "Don't be cross and Til tell you all about it You know little Tommy Bowles, who lived next door?" "The boy that comes after my apple treeT "Yes; and you said you'd cut his head off if vou caucht him acain. WelL somebody has cut his head off, for his father found him lying just against the garden wall without it, and I saw him picked up, and so I thought I'd listen; and presently I heard them say they be lieved you'd done it, but the difficulty would be to prove it" "But I never cut Tommy Bowies' head off!" "Yes, you did." "What do you mean, dog? Are you mad?" "You know you flung a broken plate over the wall this morning, didn't you?" "Well?" "Well, just as you threw it, Tommy Bowles was climbing up the wall to get at your apple tree, and it caught his neck and cut his head right off." The young man sprang to his feet in an instant A cold perspiration burst from every pore. He had taken human life, and his victim lay headless next door. He turned hurriedly to Pickle for further information, but the dog had left the table, and was stretched quietly on the hearth rug, gnawing a bone. The concentration of her master's will had been disturbed, the conditions under which the phenomena were possible had been destroyed. How must this awful danger be faced? For fully an hour he endeavored vainly to bring himself into a fit state to control tho animal's wilL At last by a mighty effort he succeeded. "Pickle, goon; tell me all you heard." The influence was evidently weak, for Pickle, instead of answering, casta wist ful glance at the half gnawed bone on the hearth rug. "You shan't have that bone again at all, if you don't answer," cried the master, angrily. For a moment the dog cocked her head on one side, and appeared to be thinking; then she resumed her narrative, but in a hesitating, timorous manner, not usual with her when talking. "Did any one see the ah accident, Pickle?" "No; but Tommy Bowies' father and a neighbor who'd dropped in said they'd heard you threaten to do it over and over again. Then one of them said, 'Ah, if that dog of his could speak, it would tell us all about it, I warrant;' and then" "Go on, go on!" "Hush! Perhaps somebody's listening." "Whisper." fc "Well, then the detective jumped up and said, 'By Jove! it wouldn't be the first dog who'd hanged a man! and then said presently, 'If that dog saw it done and ten to one she did 111 have it out of her, see if I don't'" "What did he mean, Pickle?" "Why, he's" found out that you Von Glabenize me, and make me talk; wnd hell do the same if he catches me. When I heard this, master, I sneaked out of the room and ran for my life; and I went, oh! 6uch a long way round, and waited till it was quite dark, for fear he should see me come in; and that's what made me so late. I may finish that bone now, maynt B" Freeing the dog from control, the young man flung himself heavily into a chair. His position was desperate. The little harmless dog, gnawing away at its bone as if nothing had happened, had his life upon his tongue. Why, in the hands of a man like the detective a man who evidently knew the secret he fancied he himself alone possessed the dog's evidence would hang him twenty times over. He felt his collar tighten around hisneckashethought of it Who would believe it was only an accident? His threat to cut off Tommy Bowles head had been heard all over the neigh borhood. He had flung the fatal plate; the dog had seen him do it; the dog could be made to speak, and the detective knew bow to make it Suddenly the thought struck him. "Pickle is the only witness who could prove the actual deed. .How if I were to her out of the wayr" worst! Great powers! Why, at the myrmidons of the law might be hammwing at hit door; hi aright be in jail, and Pickle in the power of that confounded, awddling detective. Not a second was to be lost e e e e Late that night a young man stole cau tiously down the steps of the house in and hailed a passiai the folds of his of a little dog. and dog stood "What is the man of the first mg over the bulwark The man shaded his eyes and lotthad. "That? Oh, that's a We're out of our course, through the fogs, a good bit, or we shouldn't be it" "Don ships go nearer than this to iff" "No fear. There's generally aesty rocks off such places. We always keep as far away from 'em as ever we cam," That night, shortly after dark, the captain, walking round his ship, have noticed an unusual appearaa the port side, for one of the boats missing. And so were the man and the dog. . And the man and the dog were sitting side by side now, as this fxmfcasion was written, and the boat is high and dry on the desert island, where it has been then hut and home for ten long years. So ends our confession. "Bow, wow, wowr "All. my. doggie, if you'd never been able to speak any language but that, we shouldn't be here now. Still, it was best we came, Wherever we had gone amongst the haunts of men, we should have been recognized. A man and a dog full description $2,000 reward! No, my poor old Pickle, we should have been caught; and you wouldn't have liked to hang your master, would you? By Jove, Pickle, I've a good mind to Von Glabenize you again, just to talk over old times, t have never done it since that fatal evening. Shall we have a talk again, just for once? Shall we, old girl? "Why, if ever a dog said yes with eyes and tail, you do now. So I will, then. So! look at mo well while I make the passes. Come, that's it! Why, you go off easier now, my dog, than you did ten years ago! Steady! Now for a try. Pickle, why, how fearfully you tremble!" "Masterr "Why, what a tone! Are you fright ened, my dog?" "Master, I want to talk about Tommy Bowles." "Hang it, my dog! some subject than that, now please. "But, master, I've been wanting to tell you about Tommy Bowles for ten years. Oh, master! you didn't cut his head off." "What!" "Nobody cut it off it wasn't cut off at all. Oh! do forgive me! and there wasn't any detective; and. please. I made it all up." '"But surely confound it, Pickle! I don't understand! Ain't! a murderer, then?" "No." "But, in the name of all that's canine, why should you mako this all up?" "Because I had been playing with low dogs up by the canal all day, and I thought you wouldn't give me the bone if I didn't tell you something, and be cross with me, and so I made it up about Tommy Bowles." "Oh, Pickle! Pickle! and for ten long years have you and I been on this desert island because you told a lie! Why the deuce didn't you undeceive me before?" "How could I? You never Von Glaben izedme." "Pickle, old dog, we've been friends too long to quarrel over this. Give me your paw. I forgive you." "Master, do men ever, when people want news, and they haven't got any to give them, make things up like I did that night?" "Certainly not; only a foolish dog would do such a thing at that Halloa! there's a boat coming, Pickle. We're discovered!" "Bow, wow, wow!" "It comes nearer! Never mind, we don't dread it now. Why, Pickle, look! That face in the bows! Why, I'm blest if it isn't Tommy Bowles!" From The Times, Aug. 13, 187- The ship Jemima, Capt. Bowles, with iron rails and cutlery, from Ujlji, arrived this morning. She brings with her a gentleman and hi dog. who were discovered by Capt Bowies' son Thomas, on a desert island where they bad been cast away ten years ago. There is no reason now why this con fession, written on that island, should be kept from the public. Pickle is agree able to its publication; and if she is not ashamed of her share in the story, I am sure I need not be. George R. Sirnnm. Mother aad Wife. In no country in the worldhave moth ers more power than in China, and in no place is filial affection more suown. How Qua, though 49 years old, obeys his mother as well as when he was 10, and he would not think of going out at night without asking her permission. Not long ago he was invited to our consulate for dinner. He replied: "I would like to come, but I cannot tell till I ask my mamma" Still, How Qua is nearly 50 and his mother 69. The Chinese mother selects the bride for her son, and How Qua, during his visit, seemed much prouder of his mother than his wife. He introduced us to the old lady, who was sitting in a chair wrapped in furs and powdered and painted. Her, seat looked out upon her flower garden and she had two maids beside her. Upon her cloth cap was a great button of diamonds as largo as the biggest full blown rose and of about the same shape. It was made of numerous stones and the central one was as large as the egg of a robin. Pearls hung in her ears, and what inter ested us most were the "golden lilies" which shone out beneath her embroid ered petticoat. "Golden lilies" is the Chines'; expression for the grnftltest of ladies' feet, and Mme. How Qua had shoes not more than two inches in diame ter. Their soles were round rather than oblong, and their tops were embroidered in silver and silk. They were so small that she could not walk alone, and this old lady, who has for years controlled a fortune greater than that possessed by Miss Mary Garrett or Mrs. Mark Hop kins, cannot move from one room to an other without the assistance of her maids. Frank G. Carpenter. Iatprestlae; Esaettaeats, Try the following simple experiment and it will explain the interchange of fluids in the lungs. Put a mixture of water and alcohol in a bottle and leave uncorked, the water and alcohol have a greater affinity for air than for each other. Alcohol having the greatest af finity for the air will be diffused through it more readily than the water when there is no intervening obstacle; but tie a piece of bladder over the mouth of the bottle, k it stand a few days. The water will leave the alcohol and pass through the bladder. The presence of carbonic acid and watery vapor in the expired air can be proven by the following: Breathe into lime water, and in a few minutes it will become a milky white color. This ie ow ing to the carbon given off by the breath uniting with the lime forming the car bonate of lime; second, breathe upon a cold, dry mirror, and it will quickly be covered with moisture. This k con densed vapor from the lungs, which in warm weather is invisible in the expired air, but on a cold, dry morning in winter is quite obvious. The lungs give off other impurities beside carbon, the qual ities of which vary in different persons. The disagreeable aad offensive breaths of people may be caused by decayed teeth, but aaoreoftemby ascretfoaeiuthe of i haae or iiaseaiiia arhhsh .i i n.1. rrr. .. ; ... rr - . i . """ -j a, a bwbbb, ok ezneaseoz near him. .-ar... . . . . - . . . . . Am. mri "JJ b ifc mill itii 1 1 IB IfLLgil w - m.. . TiiiiLl --vr- I - ' - r f I a . i r -- m. z 2 m -" Htm ked that a? aaaeeVeaav Tkewvridistteeeketeesattaekau-.-Kow, Aeathe little tastaam' thai AedfelttetesBssB, l5a ENTERING IN. Ike church was dim sail ale With the huah before the i Only theaoleam trembliag Of the orgs stirred the air. ' Without, the sweet, sttl ahtue; Within the holy cahn. Where priest sad people waked ForthesweWBg of the Sknrhrthedoori Aad a tittle baby giri. Brows eyed, with brows hslrfattag, Ib essay a wavy curi, . With soft cheeks Sushiag hotly. Sly gtaaces dowaward throws, Aad small hands clasped before her. Stood iafJM 13 aloae. Stood half abaatied, half frighteaed, Unkaowiag where to go. While like a wind rocked flower Her form swayed to and fro; And the changing color fluttered In the little troubled face. As from side to side she wavered With a mute, imploring grace. It was but for a moment; What wonder that we smiled - By such a strange, sweet picture From holy thoughts beguQedf Up then rose some one softly. And many an eye grew dim. As through the tender suence He bore the child with hka. And I, I wondered, losing The sermon and the prayer. If when sometime I ester - The many mansions fair. And stand abashed and drooping In the portal's goldes glow, Our God will sead an angel To show me where to got -Sunday School VWIor. FRENCH LUXURY. Sarrewadiag of Cabinet and Tnelr Wives. I often wonder whether it is, after all, an evil for French ministries to be short lived unless for the ministers and their wives. If they were not often over thrown the number of persons to taste the sweets of office would be so much less. The constant shuffling of the cards and new deals have also the advantage of preventing the formation of a govern mental caste, which would be the most unendurably conservative one that ever existed, and, I doubt not, the most inso lent and puffed up. You have no idea in England of the magnificence in which members of French cabinets live. They are housed in palaces, at once handsome, luxurious and snug a rare combination. Admirably trained footmen are thrown in with the palaces. Lords chambsriain and masters of the ceremonies might take lessons in deportment from the re served, respectful and self respecting ushers in black, with steel chains round their necks, who show visitors into the presence of the minister on the ground floororoftheministresson the first floor. Thefuniture of a ministry is all very handsome and imposing in the ground floor rooms. All this splendor takes away the breath of an Englishman fresh to Paris, who has been used to the dingi ness of the Irish office, and the plain brick house at Whitehall in which the G. O. M. resided when in office. At a French ministry, the foot sinks in winter in the deep pile of the carpets. In sum mer the oak parquet floors are beauti fully polished, giving a charming sense of coolness and dustlessness. Tmmfntm windows of the folding door model thrown wide open, if the weather be sunny, afford prospects of velvety turf, old trees, shrubberies and flowerbeds in bright bloom. There is not a ministerial residence that hae not a garden spacious enough to deserve the name of a park, and the atmosphere of Paris is free from smoke blacks. The ministress lives generally on the first floor of the official residence, which is just as spacious and handsome, but more gay and elegantly coquettish, than the ground floor rooms. The sitting rooms of the outgoing prime ministress the nicest one we have had for an age were done up for the Duchess do Per signy when she was running her curious rig under the empire. For her pleasure the Garde Meuble, which is an infinite wealth of beautiful furniture, was rifled of some of its most lovely Eighteenthcen tury treasures. The duchess was, on her father's side, the granddaughter of Ney, the cooper's son. On her mother's side she stood in the same relation to Jacques Lafitte, of financial celebrity, who came to Paris with worn out shoes and an empty pocket, but who won the heart of a miserly banker by stooping to pick up a pin in bis courtyard, and so was able to make his way to fortune. Yet the duchess was as dainty as if her ancestors for centuries had been of the due's class. A crumpled rose petal on her couch would have made her cry out. She afterward had to slave in the house of her second husband in Egypt (Le moyne, an Orleans attorney) like -her great-grandmother. The sitting rooms, the use of which Mme. Floquet enjoys, are done up with rare old brocades and old pink Sevres and Dresden porcelains. Tho bedrooms are just as elegant, and the dining room is a bijou. All the year round ministresscs can have what flowers they please from the state green houses. How, then, could they help regarding themselvesas sovereiim ladies, were their husbands' tenure of office long? London Truth. A Cheese la the Prince. Hidden away in the weekly gossip col umn of The Birmingham Post is the fol lowing remarkable account of the change which lias come over his royal highness the Prince of Wales: "We are all Socialists at heart," said the Prince of Wales the other day, when talking to a statesman of the old school, who was lamenting the progress of So cialism, "and this conviction renders the outward semblance of Conservatism more and more difficult to maintain." This feeling on the part of his royal highness, combined with the necessity of upholding the old institutions at court, must have rendered the prince's position irksome at times. Report declares that he has for many seasons been using every endeavor to establish 'discipline among the ladies and gentlemen of the court circle by observance of the strict rules of etiquette established in the early part of the present reign. During the long retirement of her majesty after the great affliction which befell her, the discipline she had estab bshed grew somewhat relaxed, and vari ous court scandals served to point the moral and adorn the tale of the stump orators and brawling demagogues, who remained unmolested in their attacks, until it became difficult to put them down. The Prince of Wales was only awakenedtotbe necessity of aasuming theresponsibUity of hk position by his own name being unjustly comprouiised, and he then resolved to restore the dig nity of 4he court, which had been suf fered to become a prey to the slanders of the Socialistic party. He has been for tonwrjorsuuighjs task, not of re- " " J antsMU OK m " - 41 !a to be the first step in this direction; and, it ai avid, easauates from the prince who, bsmg present at a court a Vienna, was struck with the dktnky and propriety of the dresses of the ladies. averse to the but it eo earnestly that yielded at length. Boston Herald. A ton's once said, in Weltinay tnat great generally the sign of great talents, and Ub1 Nknnienn- wiwi m .hL. outaoldieTemieviewsaadcantikaaby aametostopoutoftheranks. "Thatieagrea mistake," replied the .ii. npii ii w u- ...j :. . .. . - - . - 7ZZ hurXTTZTSr1 ready for him a list of soldiers to be called out f rout each regiment. When Napoleon rode up opposite to a regiment he would call out the name of the soldier to be honored, and the man would step forward that was alL "I also doubt the goodness of his mem-1 cry,' conunuea tne auke, "from the looseness and inaccuracy of his state ments. In his works I mean all that he has ever written you never find a thing related precisely as -it happened. He seems to have no clear nor distinct j recollection; scarcely once has be ever tripped into truth!" In another conversation Wellington said that Napoleon's genius made him so pre-eminent that all of his miti seemed inferior to him. "He suited a French army exactly, and at their bead , there never was an vthinz like him. I mere never was anyuung use nun. 1 used to say of him that Ids presence on the field made the difference of fortw thousand men." The devotion of the French army to Napoleon is illustrated by the fact that several of the French prisoners wound ed at Waterloo shouted duringtheagony of amputation, "Vive rEmpereur!" Youth's Companion. EagUah Novelists aad Their With regard, writes a well informed correspondent, to a paragraph in your i "Literary Notes" of Saturday, on the , subject of the gains of novelists. I be-' liana .-,-. twv vi.V. : i.. k.. .u behest orico ever"na?d faTS 1 English work of fiction was the 13.000 which Lord Beaconsficld received from Messrs. Longman for "Endy raion," and, by the way, they made a very bad bargain. He also ob tained from the same firm nearly as big a price for "Lothair." George Eliot, who received 7,000 for "RomoU." meH ftvTm Ant loo niAin wt i. .ti.utnm.iur.i. i. -ut'u -ii w .. .. wuw u ., US HIUUI HIV, retained a large share of the copyright. Including American and foreign rights, Dickens was to have received 9,000 for "Edwin Drood." Wilkie Collins received 5,250 for "Armadale.'' Of Sir Walter Scott's novels, "Wood stock" produced about 8,200, and as he was writing at the same time the "Life of Napoleon,' the first and second edi tions of which realised 18,000, ho made (including sums received for reviewsand other minor works) 28,000 in the course of eighteen months! Thackeray was to have i received a very high price for "Denis DuvaL," the story ho was writing when he died; but the largest sum he ever was paid was, I believe, a trifle un der 5,000, which he obtained for "Tho Newcomes," Going back a hundred years, we find Miss Burney obtaining 2,000 guineas for "Cecilia," her second work, and this was probably the highest price paid unta the Waveriey era. St. -SJUMralsv- Cases eT IatexleatJea. A prominent military man. who had drunk moderately during the war and had abstained from that time on, while attending a dinner with his old comrades, where most of them were intoxicated. suddenly became hilarious, made a fool ish speech, and settled back in his chair ma drunken state, and was finally taken home quite stupid. He had not drunk any spirits and had only used coffee and water, and yet he had all the symptoms of the others, only his was intoxication from contagion the favoring soil had been prepared longago in the army. Another case was that of a man who had been an inebriate years ago, but had reformed, says The Popular Science Monthly. He was recently elected to office and gave a dinner to some friends. Among them was a physician who has been greatly mterestod in these studies. He sent me a long report, the substance of which was this: On the occasion referred to many of the company became partially intoxi cated, and the host, who drank nothing but water, became hilarious and finally stupid with them. He was put to bed with every sign of intoxication, but re covered, and next morning had only a confused notion of these events. The third case occurred four years ago. A reformed man, of twelve years' sobri ety, went on a military excursion with a drinking company, and, although he drank nothing but lemonade, became as much intoxicated as the others. This event was the subject of much comment and loss to him, socially and othciwise, although lie protested, and others confirmed bis statements, that he did not take any spirits at this time New York Journal. erVaeFOC I have just returned from Springfield. Mo., where, in the shops of the St Louis and San Francisco road, I saw a furnace in operation that at oncesolved the prob lem of smoke consumption and the re daction of coal consumption to the mini mum. Itk bound to revolutionise the entire system of steam """g It k the invention of Carney, the master me chanio of the road, baa been in operation for nearly a year, and k a complete suc cess. To put it briefly, by Carney's process the highest degree of beat is se cured by burning with every pound of coal twopoundsof water. In fact, water gas k made, and I wonder that no one ever thought of it before. The alack coal k mixed with water in the propor tion of one part to two, and the result k the formation of .the gas. Every part of the coal k consumed. At the end of twenty-fourhours there were but three wheelbarrow loads of fine ashes carried away. Had the furnace been fed dry there would have been from eighteen to twenty barrowfuk of ashes and cinders. There was actually no smoke escaping from the smoke stack, which was but twelve f est high. I was struck by the shortness of the stack, and remarked it to theeughsssr, who replied: "Why have it any higher? Nothing goes througnn.- as my request the water was cut off, aad the furnace was fed dry for two hours, with the result that the furnace was uusbls to make eefWrlnat steam to run tss uisrhlatrj hi the shop. Thk water WMnahhi furnace k to my nundthe greatest mventioB of the past twenty-five years. Boiler Maker hi Globe-feiaocrat. A Gssw as the Peehet. Several youaBaarried Isdksia a cer tain private hnsrsaag house ia St Paul era justaewhaviagoceaasof fan at the aaussB? Vl w.- VaaihSaUaanmeK caaieaTsaaaaaaai ! io onai wimtM f I ". -" ,Tw ferret V N. Y., was written. Of coarai thehuebead wee asked toexidass? at could not, aa he had act beawaicf of it had beau placed there by a toubc tail- . I bhw. KXKUto dowovs such a advice of her wrote to the address given, sat she was avounc asau wao aaa oouga ine coas. latae " .J . , J; the affair audaj waited impa- SSSttXTJSiTv'Jf . wwEiaa h was aa iae nuaoaan auspectea. The writer was willing tocoatiau. the if the etc, Another letter ie now bring I wonder how the girl will feel i she discovers that her address fell the haadsof a female instead of into gay deceiver? St. Paul la the Iandes district of western France, on the Uironde, the soil is sandy aad will grow little but pines, of which forests have been successfully culti vatecL The inhahksnts subsist almost excla sivelyupon the revenues derived from the production of pit props,' railway tfes, tolefaph poles, fuel and resin. The annual shipmente of pit props from Bordeaux to bglaad now amount to 175,000 tone, which ie twice as much as we shipped ten years ago. The tiea and iwlan era need malnlw In Vrmk 1 T TliZTJi i , 4 J22 T"S 7W 1 fko ""PP England for manufacture into paper. Tne poorer classes, especially those farthest from transportation facili ties, give their .attention to resin, but there is said to have been a serious de cline in the exportation of that article from Boideaux through competition from the United State, which has greatly in creased its exports, and ie the chief source of supply. This has been a serious misfortune to the inhabitants of the Landes district Pine oil ie made from the refuse of resin left in making turpentine. It is used ex tensively in-Bordeaux as an illuminating MMa r J burn, brightly, is cheaper thai petroleum and is non-explosive. It is also prepared and sold to some extent in this country, patents having recently been taken out for ita production. In France the pine does not appear to suffer from the extraction of resin, where care is used, but on account of it the wood is said to be better fitted for certain pur I P" " meuui: poses, such as the manufacture of paper nd pyrolfgneous acids. The Landes -.-,,-. - - I. forests are of comparatively recent ori- gen. Northwestern Lumberman. A BeyeT the "It appears to me," said another man in tho party, "that the youngsters nowa days go ahead much faster than they did when I was young. Now, for instance, the other day I overheard my small son call his little sister a 'chippy.' I reproved him for so doing, when he answered, 'All boys is kids, and all girls is chippies,' as though wondering at my ignorance of the current vernacular. When I awoke the other morning I found the bov wide awake in his crib beside the bed.' As I turned to look at him he saw that my eyes were open, and he said to me: 'Pa, I've got a new one for you.' Of course, I naturally expressed a desire to hear it Raising himself upon one elbow, he looked me square in the face and recited this: M 'A bicbal pap waaa carted rp taO, A very sbmH boy with a Me a pail; They tried this scheme, but tt, would eot do, Aad they karladtke boy waeretaedekacs grew.' "Well, of course, I howled. If I had ever bad the nerve to spring such an epic on my own father when I was his age I would have been obliged to stand up to my meals for a week. It only goes to show the precocity of the youth of the present day." Chicago Herald. WiUCarletonk41 years of age and looks five years younger. Hk hair k slightly gray, but he has the figure of an athlete, the face of a youth and the hearty laugh of a schoolboy. He lives in Bedford, a suburb of Brooklyn, and writes hk poemiat home. Hek devoted to outdoor exercise, swings a pair of In dian clubs for fifteen minutes daily, and says long walks saved him from con sumption. Mr. Carleton does a certain amount of reading and writing daily. but at no stated time, although, like most literary workers, lie finds morning hours most productive. For hk famous poem, "Betsy and I Are Out," the poet received ne compensation, as The Toledo Blade, in which it was published, could not then afford to pay contributors, but tho verses were copied' into hundreds of papers and attracted the attention of the Harpers, who gave Mr. Carleton an order for a poem. He wrote for them "Over the Hills to the Poorbouse," for which they paid him $30. Current Literature. After Tea. Said Mrs. G. to Mrs. D. (Twss over aeap of fae Bones): napuwuMM iia looks sarpraHaaiy; ss well seweQcsa bet ifctUcsaselwoader." naeseaaea Wketi 8mldMrs.D.toMrs.G., AndtrirfSSaSBSedy: Wkkk did so anek foryoa sad a Pierce's favorite Prescription." For DOkrasness, sick, headache, in digestion and constipation, there is no remedy equal to Dr. Pierce's little Pel lets. 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