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SFjSKC 5BB?Ka5.'..,'i- ?sii SlLMWiA4IP(WMaOJm'U.ML Pl'.lM ' - VMeEHiHBiHBHP9ninW!W3 5-W -SrfJPJKWLUWW!rgr TCH)MHBFrWSKTS.HMPVMMMH ,"t". ssry b.vgy.r ;;frsywj ..f.y5- :. " y--- -rrir-h -.Jitr.t&j? .. - - - - " ...-C " -' . '--" jA( . V :MW dfl .vj. "'J a V VOL. XX.-NO. 3 COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 1889. WHOLE NO. 991. -sss-t&e? t."'!?--'", ,53OTr-'t-iir-- ?:-' .& ?v "isaaBgsaBsa-c rTTr: ,;sArf s-.i r, v;.-' : ?-, i-; " --- . , i. u I i mrm-rmm i rr -nnTrTTWTTrrrr-w-nrrriirin--wr-'-- i .5 t AT.'. fc $.".""- ; ; . I k COLUMBUS STATE BANK. COLUMBUS, NEB. Cash Capital - $100,000. DIRECTORS: ..-LEANDER GERRAlil). Pres't. OEOT W. HULST. Vice Pres'f . JULIUS A. REED. R. H. HENRY. v J. E. TASKER. Cashier. Battle r aseatattlt. Olaraamt wptly !W II llatM. JPy latcreat Time Ito. ' 274 C0MHEEC1M ()F- COLUMBUS, NEB., HAS AN- AHtkorized Capital of $500,000 PaWiM Capital 90,000 OFFICERS: C. "if. SHELDON, Pres't. II. 1'. II. OHLRICH. Vice Prw. C. A. NEWMAN. Cashier. DANIEL SCHRAM. Aw't Cash. STOCKHOLDERS: C. II. Sheldon, J. P. Becker. Herman P. H.Oehlrich, ("jirl Rienjce J onas Welch, W. A. Mc Allwter, J. Henry Wordemnn, H. 5L Winslow, OeorceW. Galley, 8. Gflw. . , Frank Rorer, Arnold F. H. Oehlnch. ?Biink of deposit; interest allowed on tima dIMMits; bny and nell excliange on United State i . and Europe, and buy and ell available eeenrities. We hnll le pleaHcd to receive jour botineB. Wj Molicit jourtronaB. 28dec87 FORTHE WESTERN COTTAGE ORGAN -CiLl ON A. & M.TURNER r W. UIBLEB, TimTcllBK Umlf ITbeM organs are first-lass in erery par ticalar, and ao iraaranteed. SCIIFFXOTN t PUT!, -DEALXH8 IN WIND MILLS, uokty Mower, combintd, Self Binder, wire or twine. Pup Repaired m sitrt Bttiee door west of Heintz's Droit Stor. llth atrMt. Colambea. Nb. 17aov-U I CURE FITS! Wkem'X aty Cams I do not mean asertlj to tee them f or a une, mad then luve tbraire tin asate. Ixeas A RADICAL CUKE. 1 hare aaada the diaease of AMe-Iaacatadr. I wawuhtt aiyteiaedyte CSamtkewecat eases. Becaase others bar tawad Is aa reasoa tor not bow reeeinac a care Saaisl at eaee for a treatise and a Fkkb HOTTU f ar lxrauiBLE Bemedt. Gire Express sad Post Oaaoe. It cou yoa aotaiaff far a trial, aad.it wUl care 70a. Addrcaa H.O.0OT.M.C inrta.ST,MTMK HENRY GAS& XJNIDERT-AJKEIl ! CfTIIfASD METALLIC CA8I8 0 all kinds of Ufihol- BmiBaw'c!'pv2!BLt MST ISEllnJa TILE CAPITAL OF SLAMT BANGKOK AND IT RFTEEN MILES OF FLOATING HOUSES. A City as r Oat f Taa tha Uva a alw Water; CaaattylasalC The Kli Siam is onoof the out of the way coun tries of the world. None of tb great steamship lines of thePacinc or of the Indian ocean atop at it Few globe trot ten visit it. and it U about 1,500 miles out of the regular line of travel around the world. The great 8ianieae pentesola juts down from the east coast of duaa. It contains half a dosen different coun tries, the chief of which are Burmab, Siam and the French states of China. Siam itself is at the lower end of the pe ninsula and it bounds the greater part of the mighty body of water known as the Gulf of Siam. It is 1.100 saOes long, and at its widest part it is 450 miles wide. It is almost as flat as your hand, though it has here and there a few mountain chains. It has many big rivers, and the country is as much cut up with canals as is Hol land. During the rainy season It becomes a mighty lake, and the people move here and there from one city to another in boats. OX THE KITES MKXASL The greatest river is the Menam, which the Siamese know by the same name as the Indians knew the Mississippi. It is "the father of waters," and it forms the great highway of the kingdom. This river flows into the Gulf of Siam at its head, and it is about forty miles from its month that I sit here on its banks and write this letter in this floating city of Bangkok. Imagine a city as large as Chicago, of which ninety-alae hun dredths of the people live on the water. There are fifteen niiks of j'ltti-f houses on the two sides of this river, and these, with the king's palaces sad a few foreign buildings on the land, make up the capi tal of the Siamese people. There are six millions and more of these Siamese and their country covers a territory of about twice the slse of Colorado, four times, the siae of New York, and it is about five times as big as Ohio. The cocoanut and the palm tree line the lianksof this Menam river and the boats flit in and out of jungles which remind one of the swamps of Florida. I wish I could give you a picture of our ride up the Menem to Bangkok. The sides of the river are lined with these small floating houses. They are anchored to piles and they lie half hid den by the great palm trees on the banks. Here and there a canal juts off into the jungle and the houses on it makes this a floating street These houses are made of bamboo,with their sides and their roofs thatched with palm leaves. They are sometimes on piles high above the water, but more often they rest on iis surface. They are tied to poles driven into the bed of the river, and they rise and fall with the tide. Their average height is not more than ten feet, and eack looks liko two large dog kennels fastened together and covered with palm leaves. The river is winding. It is perhaps a quarter of a mile wide and every turn brings new surprises. As we near Bang kok the waters are alive with craft of all kinds. Little, naked, brown, shock headed youngsters paddle long canoes not over two feet wide and so sharp that the least balance would unseat the rower. There are half naked women with great hats of straw, which look like inverted work baskets, sitting bare legged and bare breasted in boats which they paddle along, and boats of all sizes are worked by all ages and sexes from babies of G to wrinkled old men and short, gray liaired women of GO. As you enter Bangkok the crowd increases. In stead of one line of floating houses along the banks there are three and sometimes four. The whole river is alive, and you turn your eyes this way and that, meet ing a maze of new objects at every turn. LIFE LONG SLAVERY. The king of Siam is supposed to own the people, and each man in the realm has to serve for three, six or nine months as a servant of the government. At a certain time of the year the entire popu lation is marked off to particular noble men or government masters. These masters, whenever the government de mands anything of them, can compel the men marked off to them to serve. All kinds of work are demanded, and the various marks put upon the men indi cate their trades or profession. Some men are required to give all their time to the government, and in this case they get nominal salaries. Those who give half their time work for the king fifteen days, and then have fifteen days off. The three months subjects get no pay, and during the time they are in Bangkok they liave to find themselves in food and lodging. This work practically enslaves the whole population of males, and slavery is common in Siam. Criminals convicted often become slaves, and they are sometimes marked or branded on the forehead. I liavo seen many men in chains during my stay here, and just outside the walls of the palace there are at least two score of men, bright eyed, good looking, lusty fellows who 'have great iron collars about their necks and chains about their legs and arms, who were making basket work, and who offered to sell mo their wares as I passed. The debtor who does not pay in Siam mubt become the slave of his creditor, who charges him from 15 to SO per cent a year, puts him in chains and takes his work as the interest on the debt There are hundreds of such slaves in Bangkok, and many of the men become slaves by gambling away their living. The nation, all told, seems addicted to vice rather than to virtue, and it is nearer akin to pure heathenism than any other I have yet seen. Still it claims to be progressive, and its king has made some steps to the front The whole; however, compares more to the colored republic of Hayti or to the blacks of San Domingo than to any other civiliza tion. The people are devoted to Buddh ism, and the priests are numbered by thousands. Frank O. Carpeuter. USELESS KNOWLEDGE. I am triad that there are a few asm in thkM oT the world like theoU farmer who once amid to me tkaft "wimsnen haeVt ao need o' rarnin' beyoad a imroledge of how to write their own BMuwasaniTeadfairiy welL Bat I do nanUani think that tail for woaiin should sKferauons as 10 wnai tnefrroture uvea are to be. This conviction was strengthened the' other day after I had read the account of a marriage of a young friend of mine. He is a plain, Jilodding, good naturedsortof ayouug cllow. of ordinary mental capacity, workiug for a very food salary, but 1 doubt if ho ever lias anything more than a salary, by way of income, and it was this part of the wedding notice that set me to thinking: 'The wide is a graduate of our high school, of the W Normal school and of K university. She has made a special study of the languages and speaks and reads French, German, Spanish and Italian with as much ease aa her mo ther tongue, while she is very profi cient in uianv acfcntiflc atactics." It occurred to me that a young wo man who had been educated up to this high standard must have had little time for the study of many things it behooves the 'possible' mistreat of every home to know. I wondered of what earthly nee herlraowleage of chemistry, of aatrosttsay aad geology would be in the home she would now liave and in the society in which henceforth she is destined to move. I bethought me of the mistress of a cer tain house, whose knowledge of bot any is very much greater than her knowledge of bread making, and she could discharge the duties of a college 8 resident better than she can direct ie affairs of her own' wildly disor dered home. Too close application to her books has greatly undermined her healthj and her husband and children are objects of general sympathy in the neighborhood in which they live. I recall the case of a liara workiug meclianic and his wife who made every sacrifice that their only daugh ter might receive ah education better than that given her in the excellent fmblic schools in the city in which she ived. After graduating from the high school she was sent for four years to a well known college, and came home highly proficient in many things she knows nothing about to day, for she is now the wife of a hard workiug carpenter who cannot afford to keep even one servant for her, and she married in utter ignorance of some of the simplest rules of housekeeping. She has four children, and the sys tem of housekeeping prevalent in that home would drive a tidy housekeeper crazy. It does not, of course, follow that a highly educated woman must be either a slattern or an inefficient mistress of a home. But it cannot be proven that this so called higher education is of nny value to the wives of nine outof ten men. The education given in our public schools is amply sufficient for their needs, and if to this can be add ed the practical education necessary to conduct a home and a knowledge of how to make that home a place of rest and peace and comfort to her hus band and children,' she need never blubh because of her lack of knowl edge. Of what use is a knowledge of chemistry aud higher mathematics and hydrostatics to the wife of a man, who may have to do her own house work and care for her own children A great deal of fun and poor wit is poked at modern cooking schools, but what is taught at them might well form a part of every woman's educa tion, for the palates of a good many men have keener sensations than their hearts when they are once fairly established in their homes, and the best of them think "a sight" of what they are to eat, so that it behooves every woman to go to a home of her owu prepared to conduct its affairs in a wise and sensible manner. This is particularly true in this day of in efficient servants, when even wealthy women are sometimes compelled to discharge the duties of the kitchen and lauudry and pantry themselves. A clear conception of .her duties as a wife and mother should form a part of the education of every woman, even though she goes to her grave without knowing how to calculate the exact distance from the earth to the moon, or how to separate carbon from oxy gen in anything in which those useful elements exist She will most likely liave a husband who can forgive such Eitiful ignorance if she can mako his ome a place of rest and peace to him a home that is indeed a Lome for the spirit Zenas Dane in .Good Housekeeping. :aver sw a ataaraaa Train. "Do you see that long, lank girl with the pink calico dress and blue knit jack et standing over there?" said a station agent in a country town not far from Pittsburg the other day. "Pretty tall? Yes. she's about 28, and this is the first time she ever saw a train of cars. Talk about enlightenment: bow's that? "I know the whole family. They live over here in the country, about seven mile. I went over there to get some butter the other day. and I swear I thought 1 liad been transferred back to colonial times. Bare floors, rafters all bare, home made linen on the table, home made towels, home made dresses on the girls, home made cheese and bam and. egga for djnnereeryUuJhoniel maae: even toe 01a gentleman wore a vest of homespun. "One of the girls, nearly S3, has never seen the cars nearer then a mile, and never was in a city. And yet they are intelligent and contented to live within their gates, utterly oblivious to the great world outside, and eat, work and sleep in the same way that their fatherand fathers father had before them. Great world, isn't it?" Pittsburg Dispatch. Wlra. - The iaeidions character of the danger larking ia electric light wires in the street was eTemptiftert the other day in Baltimore. Two individuals conversing close by an iron awning po were ob served to fall suddely to the ground. A broken telephone wire had established coaamunicatiow between the electric light wire and the framework of the awning. The strength of the current was doubt less divided, aad the victims eventually recovered their senses. New York Tele gram. The Lewistoa city council that bought the city's, electric hghtamg plaatdaia wise act, the benefltof which we are reaping bow aad shall coaaaue to reap for assay years. Ja his JMUgaral Mayor Little was able to call attention to the fact that the cost of fully 1 Ischtiat: the dty is aa of aatf lightsag it taster ta old (M.)J A hotel ia.femviaVXVaaBUo TRICKS OF THE TKADE. HOW ADVANTAGE IS TAKEN OF THE IGNORANT PUBLIC. ratete aa Other SlanM Teaeered-Staa? SsM for ftaaM GM Which Is roarer Thaa a Gaaa At- t ticto r Hate Sauitl Pre. j "There is uo line of business in which j purchasers are so completely at the mer- cy of store keepers as the jewelry trade," said a leading dealer. "The masses are . caught by mere appearances. They know j what pleases them, but liave little idea j of actual value. Few know the differ- ; ence between machine made and hand made goods: still less can tell whether gold is six carats fine or whether a atone is worth $10 or $100. Public trust in these matters is absolutely pitiable; L Popular pride and ambition are atupaa doBa. Mere looks aad alleged price are practically all the buyer has to go by, and the honesty of the dealer is his only safeguard. Then in addition to actual grades of quality there are numerous 1 snide practices that are resorted to by disreputable inercliantti and manufact urers, so that if a person contemplates buying anything where the risk is con siderable it behooves him to know some thing about the man he deals with. PACmSO AND VKXKKRIXa "Two diamonds, for instance, may be of the samesize and cut. yet one will be worth twice, thrice or perhaps a dozen times as much as the other. Yellow white diamonds are common and blue white are scarce, and even experts find 1 difficulty in giving the intermediate shades their proper place in point of dol- j lars and cents. Among irresponsible ' dealers it is a common practice to 'paint' tlie stones so as to make the yellow dia monds whiter and the white diamonds bluer. The paint will not even resist . soap and water, aud will wear off more quickly than the thinnest possible film of gold n a brass ring. Yet for a time it nuikes the Ktoue look twice as valuable , as it really is. A few days ago a gentle- j man brought a couple of diamonds to me j to determine their value. After I had washed them in soapsuds he could scarce- j ly believe they were his own jewels, they j were so yellow. It is a common trick of j confidence men to paint diamonds and then get a loan on them of twice or j thrice their value. I will venture to spy that two-thirds of the people could not tell a paste from a genuine diamond. j "Then there is the process of veneer ing other precious stones. A piece of glass or crystal of the desired color and appearance is taken as a body and a thin ' covering of the genuine article is super t imposed bo as to convey the impression ' of being genuine. Such a stone in :t setting designed to cover up the de ception would make dupes of half the purchasers. The danger of being taken in would not be bo great were people j better posted. Show a man a lot out on 1 the prairie and tell him it is worth $100 a front foot and he will laugh at you for presuming upon his ignorance, but show him a ruby or sapphire and tell him it is worth $1,000 and he will believe you. The masses know nothing about relative values in gems, and the bcope for de ception is enormous. SOLID AND STUFFED GOLD. "Then as to quality of metal and work manship. There is jewelry in the market sold for solid gold which is so low in purity that a respectable plate would be far preferable to the so called solid stuff. A certain amount of alloy is, of course; necessary for durability, but the gold that is actually manufactured into jewelry varies in purity all the way from four or six carats fine to twenty. Four teen carats fine is the standard, but there is an immense amount of 'solid stuff of the low grade sold aunually, and a good share of it is palmed off for the standard purity. This cheap stuff is often dipped In a bath just so as to color it. The mul titudes who are ignorant enough to ac cept a guaranty' that an article is solid rarely think, perhaps, of degrees of purity, and they are wofully taken in. As a rule, there is something about all plated and cheap stuff that betrays its quality to the experienced eye Every manufacturer has his own designers, and, though copying is rife among the workmen, you will rarely see goods cheap in price without finding them cheap in design and workmanship. "As a rule, I think people have crude ideas about our profits. The price of jewelry is due principally to the scarcity of the material used and the amount of labor expended upon it. ldo not think that we get more than 25 per cent gross profit on the average. When it i3 borne in mind that styles are constantly chang ing, that a large amount of capital la bound up, bearing no interest, and that the value of the goods is constantly de preciating, owing to the flux of styles, this is not above or even lip to the ave rage. If we could turn our money over rapidly and not suffer loss from depre ciation we would liave a pretty good thne: but the numerous failures in the jeweiryTHisiaearpear winter iownarr say about small margins of profit Dia-4 mond dealers have possfbuittes or mak ing great profits legitimately, since, when bought in the rough, the stones often turn out exceptionally well. 1 have known a diamond valued at $1,500 to be recut and then sell readily for $3, 000.' Chicago News. A SAMPLE DAY AT HARVARD. A'BaaMealaa Tells Mew His Tlase to Saeat la CeUege. Counting undergraduates and special students together, there are 1,140 young men between the ages of 17 and 24 now residing at Harvard college. The writer enjoyed aa interview with one of the Buffalo boys, who was at home for a brief recess, a short time ago. "You will understand," be said, "that I am neither a 'grind' nor a loafer, but anav- erage student, and the vast aaajority of them live just about as I do. A picture of my college day is about as follows: I turn out anywhere between 7:80 and 8 ia the morning, and go overtoMesnorial to breakfast at 8 or 8:30 sometimes earlier than that, so as to go to chapeL Players come at 8:45, aad are well at tended, though we dont have togo unless we choose. After this recitations aad lectures take up nearly the whole fore noon, and I have one in the afternoon three times a week; On four days of the week I have three redtatioas, on the others two. Other man have them dsf- feresAly,accordiagtotaeJectiTthey take. 'My ssudiss are ever for ties day atf p. ss., aad they , aw mu, .11 .i rraaleTsaday. Tarn lay 1 mill la.atUetina.aaA anernoon rrotn 3 to 520 is spent in the gymnasium, or in outdoor athletics in the season for them. Part of our train amgia suitable weather, consists of a run ef two miles, to Porter sstation and back. The gymnasium is always crowded, and you get pretty well heated up by your exercise, whatever it is. Then, after a cold shower and a brisk rubbing, you feel like a king, and don't you just sleep nights, though! 1 find that my athletic traiaiag helps my studies greatly. Din nercome at 6, and I generally study evepjwgu. though not always. I've been to she theatres some eight or nine times this term, but 1 don't like to go to Boston much. It takes too long and you have to be up late, wluch wont do when you are hi training. ."Many people have the idea that you can et your studies go and loaf, or worse, until two or three weeks before the ex aatiaetions, and then cram up. This is 1 utter nonsense. It is simply impossible to keep up with your class in that way. "ualesymaeed; you can spend $100 or $150 for private tutors, and even then 'you wouldn't be safe. As for cutting recitations, if you made a practice of do ing it uftener than twice a week, you d be investigated, sure as fate and that is not at all pleasant "On Sundays 1 go to church some wheresometimes to Boston to hear Phillips Brooks, sometimes to the college chapel, sometimes elsewhere. There are usually 400 or 500 at morning prayers, and more than that at the Sunday even ing service, though you dont have to go to either unless you want to." Buffalo Express. Cltea.Be Banks. The vary latest importation of an English notion in New Yorkis an inno vation in banking circles, known as the cheque bank, which has opened up a branch of the London institution. The sy Jteiu is totally different to that of any other banking institution, for the reason thjt its assets are invested in govern ment securities, and tliat.it does not dis count notes or bills like other banks. In addition to this they never issue a check until the value of the check is deposited in the bank. A customer opening up an account with the bank deposits, for in stance, $1,000 and receives a check book, with checks to the value of $1,000. each having its value distinctly printed and peforated upon its face. The customer may fill out a check for less than its face value, and the difference will go to ids credit, cash for which will be paid or added to a new book. It is intended to furnish these checks cheaper than the rates charged for international exchange, arrangements being made with desig nated bankers in 2.000 cities of Europe to honor them, and ultimately they will be accepted by shopkeepers. St. Louis Globe-Democrat Antics of a Cent An Ellcnville lawyer, who was in Kingston the other day, said to a Free man reporter:' "While in the woods a few days ago I came across a surveyor whewaa puzzled. The surveyor liad 'been engaged to run a line, but ho found every time he leveled his compass, to use a surveyor s expression, 'his line ran in the air.' "The surveyor said his coiupass had never cut up that caper before, and he didn't know what ailed it. The north star must be all out of gear. I said: 'See here, what sort of a hat have you on? The surveyor took off his hat. 'Why, oil ordinary hat with a stiff briuiJ 'Yes. a stiff brim,"and there is the trouble. If you examine you will find a steel wire in it Ilang your hat on your compass and see wliat it will do.' lie did so, aud up went the needle. 'By Jocks! that beats me," said the surveyor. He tossed his hat behind him, and his faithful compu?s did its work welL" Kingston Freeman. A Xew Moral. A family residing at Capo Elizabeth have two boys, one aged 4 and the other 3 J years old. The older boy fell head foremost into a tub of water. He kicked and screamed, but no one was near to help him. but his little brother taking in the situation, began tugging away to pull him out. His little hands were not strong enough to do so. AH at once an idea struck him, and he left the room to return with a switch, which he began to apply quite vigorously to that part of his brother hanging over the tub, nearest to him. The application of the" switch aroused the temper of the boy in the tub, who by a dexterous use of bis legs and the help of his little preserver raised himself and backed out. Moral: Spare the rod and drown the child. Lewiston Journal. " Offsaaley an Ante! tTaawsres. Mabel Mother, I have broken my en gagement with Arthur. No woman could be happy with such a brute. Mother Horrors! What have you learned? "Last night I asked him to tack the cover on my workbox and be hit his fin ger with the hammer, and, mother, he mid damn." -, "foe. TTt iUari arswtiil tfw room and swore a blue streak a yard long, and threw the hammer out the Window, and kicked the workbox to pieces, and called you a gibbering idiot, and" 'Why, no, he didn't; he only said ''damn,' and went on tacking," "What? Is that all? Oh, you foolish child! You have lost an angeL" Phila delphia Record. aa Uahappy Btother. Among the letters of condolence which Emperor Francis Joseph received on the death of his son was one signed by the "Mother of Oberdank." In 1889 Ober dank was arrested for having a shell in his possession when the emperor visited Trieste. He was tried and condemned to death. His mother sent an appeal to the emperor for his pardon. So did Victor Hugo. His majesty refused the pardon and Oberdank was executed. "Unhappy father!" says the mother in her letter to the emperor. "I regret that on account of the tragic death of your only son you are compelled to feel the same pangs that La poor abandoned mother, felt on the morning of Dec. 20, 1883." Detroit Free Press. Excited Lady (rushing into editorial rooms) Oh, Sir. Editor, cant you print an obituary notice of my bus band in this evening's issue! Editor Certainly, madam, if you will give us a few particulars. When did your husband diet Lady He isnt dead, sir, though the doctors give him up; but I thought if you printed the obituary it might save Ins life. I have beard of so many cases. of that sort. Burlington Free Press, 1 IT LOOKS LIKE MINE. PEOPLE HAVE OFTEN SAIO THIS A30UT AN UMBRELLA. - Tfcey Were Bicht fa the Make, eat the inventor af a Stsdsre ladastrj ataa ef Caaee aatl Parasels A dingy shanty within the shadow of the city hall shelters a singular industry, the leading feature of the establishment being the exchange of umbrella handles. A visit to the thrifty proprietor un ravels the mystery of where unreturned and otherwise missing umbrellas go to. You lose, in any of the too numerous methods by which the feat can be ao comphahed, the shield which art inter poses between dvilised liuauaity aad the weeping Iseavsac You-scan the procession that paaaaT your window the next wet day far the hope of detecting the maa witii perverted morals who has appropriated your property. In vain. You may see a handle Take that attached to the umbrella that once was your brown silk, but the covering is black, hence the hope raised by the sight of the peculiar form of the stiver or ivory top is dispelled when your eye travels to the dripping cover. a war to thk "nzsa." And yet you may have been right in your first guess, though the man who was saving his silk hat from the dam aging effect of the downpour may have been innocent of wronging you directly. The black silk he is carrying was possi bly ornamented by a liandie of totally different pattern when it left the shop and was subsequently loaned or left in a corner of the saloon where the proud purchaser -set 'an up"' for his fellow clerks on the stiength of his investment The peculiar handle was too easy of identification attached to its original silken superstructure and the aforesaid dingy shanty was hastily visited and an excliange effected. The visit was made subsequently to that of the successor to your property and that is how you came to have that evanescent ray of hope flash through your frame. This is 110 fancy sketch. The "ex change" was visited in all innocence of its real character by a man whose lack of opportunity has hitherto preserved his honesty pure and undeliled in the matter of umbrellas, the temptation to absorb which seems to be irresistible to the average mortal, and In is no better than his fellows in other respects, and given the right conditions he might with Iiis fellows fall beneath the influence of a lonesome but lovely specimen. But this time he was a victim, not to the loss of his rain defler, but its metal handle. Unequal expansion between it and the stick, combined with faulty ce ment, liad caused a divorce fatal to the good looks of the relict "Abe r wo fat der anderer griff?" asked the "repairer," his gesture supplying the meaning of what otherwise would have been unintelligible to his visitor. "The other handle? Why. I lost it, and that's why I camu to you to get a new one." "Ach, that vas all very veil, but look in your pocket and dont mind me. I know all about dat business. Day all lose dose handles until dey find oud bow to know de ropes a little bit Look again, now." "DEY YOOST 'HAKES' HTM." The visitor being innocent was imper vious to the implication. "What do you mean?" he asked the grinning proprietor of the 7 by 0 shop. "What 1 means? Vy, dat you 'made' dot regenschirm you know what dot means and you vants to change dot handle for another, so de oder man knows him not again alretty, eh?" "Do 1 look like a thief?" "Atief, is it? Vyyoumustbedumm, nopody schteals einen regenschirm, dey yooat 'makes' him. He is lying arount and you cooras along or some oder man cooms along and takes him up. Den dey all cooms here by me and I puts a new handle on and de next Sauntag dot re genschirm to der kirche goes rait de man and de handle stops mit me. "Aber if you are so dretfully particu lar I put you a new handle in him for teventy-fife cents or half a tollar and you keeps de oder handle and puts him in the stove alretty, eh?" Not knowing at this stage of the pro ceedings but that the handle he should select might have come from an um brella of the same shade and general ap pearance as his own, and thus lead to awkward complications with the loser of the one it originally graced, and not car ing particularly to do business with a man who had such loose ideas of the rights of property, even in umbrellas, the would be customer was backing out there was scarcely room to turn. "You needn't be feared dot I gife you avay. I put you a handle dot vas on a black one, and de von you hal is brown. eh" But the comparatively fresh air of the milay InnillM n till, nnitnl 'ifang" liff'l been reached ere this hut inducement bad been offered, and the job went to a more honest or cautious man. Chicago Times. CowteaSlas with Bweks. In the autumn when the nuts are ripe the rook is busy. Walnuts are lib es (iecial favorites. You will not see a bird near the place until they are ready for thrashing down: but when that time has come a solitary pioneer will appear first, high up. inspecting the tree or trees. The next day he will be joined by one or two .more. After wheeling' about and over the place they will settle and ex amine the state of the crop. If the outer rind is loosened from the shell of the nut a problem soon solved by the birds' biting a piece off, they will fly away and give information to the rest that luxuries are to be had. Then a number come, nipping the nuts off in the most whole sale manner and flying off with them. In the first field or meadow they dine; with a dig or two of the powerful bill they split off the outer covering, and then with one more dig open the nut and eat the contents, They are quickly back for more. "Hi! Gip! Books!" cries a man's voice, and a fine old dog dashes over the lawn a dosea times a day, harking hk loudest to scare them off. for if left to themselves they will clear the heaviest crop from the trees ma very short time. It is no aas thinking of shooting them; you may poiat a stick at them and flourish it about as much as yoa sst, sad will ass distarb them Ja the least, A gun Is a daCereat awtter; only let lttaw their rooeenes la aa and deliberate manner, ae Is their way. they will clatter into the treat hawks wlien they get a chance, nip the nuts and fly away. The only effectual plan is to trap I once kiw the experiment tried. One of them hopped htto a common trap, set openly, only so secured that the Bird could not fly off with it1 Finding kias self in trouble the rook yelled oat his note of alarm. Up the others clattered, cawing their loudest and dropping some of their plunder. All their friends round about came to see what was the matter aad to join hi the uproar. Flying round and dashing down to him as though to get him out. and finding this no use, they were frightened out of their win by their comrade's fraatio shouts, aad they mounted high up in the air, cawiagtaeir loudest When tlwcaptiveliadlusaecktwieted, aad he was spread angled out on a stick I for afccompaaeoa .hweertiiia. the hasi- aesswaasetuaa; aot a.Btngw reoa aas been near the place from that time. I have of ten proved the fact that shooting some does not affect the rest ia the least; but trapping one upsets the whole rook ery for a long time. When that calamity lias once taken place it Li put down in their notebook, and no matter what may be the attractions of the locality, it at shunned with the greatest caution. Cornhill Magazine. Not only is Russia the greatest mili tary power in the world, but she is the European power with the largest homo geneous population and the greatest ex pansive force. Territorially she has the largest empire, possessing a vast shareof the Old World, and hers is a people full of patriotic and religious spirit and so well disciplined that all except an infini tesimal minority obey cheerfully and without question under all circum stances, whether good or evil; the will of a single man. Yet, although subject to what, with our parliamentary ideas, we are disposed to style despotism, the Russian people are full of spirit and of thoi-e qualities whieh we consider spe cially Anglo-Saxon "pluck" and "go." Russia has absorbed with rapidity, bat with completeness, the greater part of Central Asia, lias drawn steadily nearer and nearer to our frontier and lias made herself extremely popular with the peo ple she has conquered. Her policy throughout the century has been appar ently fixed in object, bnt pursued with patience; and while there eeems to be no reason to suppose any probability of a speedy collision, which England will do nothing to provoke, it is impossible for those who are charged with the defense of India to shut their eyes to the possi bilities or even the probabilities of the future. Sir Charles Dilke in Fortnightly Review. She Was Net OeaL m In London recently a well known ar tist of the camera was called in to photo graph the body of a young lady who had just died under peculiar and distressing circumstances. The body was laid on a sofa in the drawing- room and presented a singularly beautiful spectacle. The photographer was left alone in the room with the body and took a negative. After inspecting it he was not satisfied that the exposure had been sufficient, and he took another. And then, to his amazement he discovered that tho two negatives were not alike. The body must have moved. Not having lost all his nerve by 'tins extraordinary occur rence, he took a third negative, which was exactly like the second. He instant ly summoned the nurse who had been in attendance on the deceased girl, and af ter some difficulty and delay had the doctor fetched. To cut a long story short, the young lady was not dead at alL This is a true story. Atlanta American. Nataral tUg C. W. Russell, a prominent business man. wears the biggest hat in town, if not in the whole country. He b a huge, well proportioned man, and one would not for a moment imagine be wore an 8fhat It is a fact,, however. There is only one establishment in the country where they have a block large enough to build a hat for Mr. Russell, and that is located at Bethel, Conn. In all prob ability Russell would have to go liatless if the manager of the Bethel factory had notmadeabkaexpresdyforhim. Mr. Ames exhibited this enormous hat to a large number of persons yesterday. It fitted a man who wore a 7 liat like a circus tent over a balloon. A box had to be made specially for it The brim b a fraction over three inches wide from the body to the rim all around. Chicago Herald. .sea auots awa. First, a nase took a torch and went to the wardrobe where the bedding was kept The articles were brought out by the keeper to four yeomen, who made the bed, while the page held the torch at the foot One of the yeomen searched the straw with lib dagger, and when he found there was no evil thing hidden there hit laid a led of down on the straw. aad threw himself upon it. Then the bed of down was well beaten and a bolster laid in its proper place. Then the sheets were spread in due order, aad over these was laid a fustian. Then came a "pane sheet," which we now call a counterpane. Finally the sheets were turned down and some pillows laid on the bolster, after which the yeomen made a cross and kissed the bed where their hands were. And then an angel carved in wood was placed beside the bed, and the curtains letdown. After tide a gentleman usher brought the king's sword and placed it at the bed's head, and the whole was then delivered into the custody of a groom or page, who watched it with a light burning until the king retired to rest. Cleveland Ameri can Union. A story b now going the rounds about Mr. Joseph Chamberlain's recent wooing and marriage that may interest Amer ican readers. By a romantic coincident Mr. Chamberlains son, Austin, played aa Important part in lib father's mar riage to Miss Endicott The young man had met the lady at Washington tho year before Mr. Chamberlain went there to negotiate the fisheries treaty. On lib re turn he gave such glowing accounts of Mks Endicott that hb father determined to meet the secretary's family and took an introduction from hb son for tine purpose. The sequel b known. The spell of fascination was cast over the father, as it had been ever the son. and In experi- of the heart. the lady, whob youacer taaaaayaf tato chiMrea, for lua bride. National Bank! rM-fBTJTa. -HAS AN- a say hank ia sals aatt ef real a1"tVbawMvAsa. saaahsatvaaaea' eaaaafi B""jnnmBja gfncmaw;awjpj manag saVDiafh) ea the arise iaal ekiea ia (Met tryst set -T-najK-ar- aiocanoutaaa. A. ANDaWHI. FMet J. H. GALLEY. Tie Preet. O.T.1 JAOraeWUsitN. Ha-astiMSuiTZ. waui . auiiidVAA, J. u. J"' DEUTCHER ADVOKAT, QaVa over Cohmhaa atasa aaak. C JJICHARD CCNNDfaHA, Attorney aad CeeaeeHer at Law. . Osfee la i'niawtlal aae, mea. all caratevaad OULAJYAH ex 1 ATTORNEYS AT LAW, UBir over First Natioaal Beak. C Nebraska. X. MACrABaLAnaX ' ATTORNEY NOTAKY PUBLIC. ava IKm wr-t ni. ji Ims, Nebraska. l EVingR, COUltTY SUXVJCYOX. EPFartise dsairias sarteyiae; aeae can aa- T CslAMEat, CO. SUFT PVBUC SCHOOLS. 1H1 beiaavgefce. ia t Cont Ho. MU " asowaiortaeeaaai tioaot applkaato for teachers' esrtiaeatea. lOjaaSH AMBAF ML, DRAY and EXPRESSMEN. LiU aad heavy haalinz. -1 natlse aits Telephone. SS aad S4. XfcaateTj PAUBLE 3c. BRAD8HAW. (HutxtvHtrt to Faubte a? Btukttt), BRICK MAKERS ! Joatraetore aad baJlders win tad oar bnrk ant-class aad offered at nasi 11 sliln rates. We are also prepared to do all kinds of brick work. M-ajSat If. at -nrAMKat A CO, Proprietors aad Pahlhesra ef the evMinmtaAi,iuawtM.tAiaumMBMH BoUju port-paid to aBy address, for $SM a year, strictly ia advance. Family Joe at. SJ.W a yflauT. W. A. MCALLISTER. W-. M. 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