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""-" i - f J Sc v0v'"?,r" J ,0-i-V-tf-T & vrfC-"5' "-s- Vf "-f.v ;; - V-" 4C".'-'"5' "" '", "K. .,- -r - -5 ftsa - "Sf " . trC '?. VOL. XX.-NO. 6- COLT MBTJS, NEB., WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 1889. WHOLE NO. 994. Che Imtrmd. ii&-v PL ' l ; . (.- 't i h r- fc m " COLUMBUS STATE BAM. COLUMBUS, NEB. Cash Capital - $100,000. DIRECTORS: -EJCANDKB OEU1XD, Fmt. GEO. W. HULST, Vice Pree't. ". JULIUS A. REED. R. H.HENRY. J. E. TA8KKR, Cashier. sale er eMlt, Dlacoaat aal Bncaaaajo. Clf3cttalr matly Made ill leImti. Pay latereat Time Ita. 274 BJUBll EM OF- COLUMBUS, NEB., -HAS AN- Authorized Capital of $500,000 Paid in Capital - 90,000 OFFICERS: C. H. SHELDON, Pres't. H. P. H. OHLRICH. Vice Pre. C. A. NEWMAN, Cashier, DANIEL SCHRAM, Ass't Cash. STOCKHOLDERS: C H. 8heldon. , . J- Bf r Herman P. H.Oehlnch, Carl Rienke. Jonas Welch, W. A. McAllister, J. Henry Wnrdeman, H. M. Wiuslow, fieoraeW. Galley. 8. C. Grey. Frank Rorer, Arnold F. H. Oehlnch. ryBank of deposit; interest allowed on time deposits; buy and sell exchange on United State) and Europe, and buy and sell available securities. Wo shall be pleased to receive yonr business. W.J solicit yonr patronage. 28dec87 FORTIUS WESTERN COTTAGE 0R&A CALL OS A. & M.TURNER r C W. UIBLEB, Xrarellaa Salesauta. vibm organs are first-class in every par ricutr, aad so gaaraateed. SCIIFF10T" PUT!, DIALXmS IX- WIND MILLS, ANDPUMPS. Buckeya Mower, combined, Self Binder, wire or twine. flaps Repaired skirt aetiee ETOat door west ot Heintx's Drag Store. 11th street, Colaabas, Neb. Mnov88-if I CURE FITS! Wfeea I mt Cons I do not mean meiely ta top them lor a time. "ir&SL tana again. I heas A RADICAL CBBE. I hive made the disease of 1TTB, EPHVEPSY or A Ufa-Mag etady. I wakkaict TJJfT Oim the worst cases. Bccaase others have biMitaMiei)BiornoiBow(nua 6esvd at OBce for a treatise anda FUEBBOl 0TTLS at my Iktalublis Kbmedt. Give Express - aad Post Office. It costs yoa nothing for a tTW Ana wm cuw jwu. H.O. BOOT, m.CmrtmTjtaYi HENRY G-ASS. UlSriDERTAKER ! C0FFINS AND METALLIC CASES wing of all kind of Uphol- I4f COLIT10UaVKl31AaA. BmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmVammT aTgTmmmmn KSSkH e gjftHi Jim. A RAGE FOR THE BRUSH. GRAPHIC DESCRIPTION OF A FOX HUNT IN GEORGIA. -Ola Kate" SeMta Bsfila Over Vaaaaa aa4 flowasl Oaa By tha Oia Gray Mala, Aa- tlier Bldaa a -Tbe brush! the bruahT It was the Mrminitlon of the most ex citing fox cbeee ever wimcescd In Hous ton. Just before daylight a party of eleven, all mounted om fleet hones, met at the home or Mr. J. E. Andrews. The fox bounds in the neighborhood had been collected tue previous night There were thirty-four of the finest dogs to be found anywhere. Aaiat.rayof light ooald be seen to the east when the party, led by the three veteran hunters of the county, Messrs. J. E. Andrews, John Bountree and Stonewall Hose, started off to the north. The horn was tooted thrice, and the dogs ran in front through the woods. For three miles the ride progressed without a sound from the dogs. 'IT'S A FOX, SUEE." Suddenly the leading horseman reined up. The almost distinct yelp of a dog could lie heard in the far distance. The dogs around the horsemen stopped and listened. "It's old Kater cried Andrews, "and it's a fox. sure. She never lies. The word had hardly been uttered be fore the remainder of the pack started off towards the sound at a full run. The horsemen followed, and as the dogs had not jumped the fox, but were only trail ing, hoon caught up. For twenty min utes progress was slow, as much of the ground had been burned off and it was dulicu It for the dogs to trail. However, in a short time the track was scented, and, with old Kate in the lead, the dogs started through an open field like the wind and every dog yelping at each stride. The fox had been jumped. The music of the dogs was grand, wild, exciting. Through the great open fields, immedi ately behind the dogs, eleven horsemen ran at a breakneck speed. There was a big ditch in the center, but over it they went like the wind. Both men and horses were excited to the highest pitch. Bonn tree, on a sleek black mare, was in the lead, and the others ran in a bunch close behind. The dogs seemed to increase their speed. The horses were going at a wild gait, but the riders were not satisfied, and urged their flying animals on with the spur. Suddenly a fence was seen in the dis tance. The dogs were scrambling over it. "Hadn't we better rein up?" cried one of the rear horsemen. "Not a bit of it," yelled Andrews, who was now running neck and neck with Rountree. "Come on!" he cried, and his fleet footed gray and the sleek black of Boun tree bounded the seven rail fence as though it was not a foot high. Tho re mainder of the party liad drawn rein a little and were somewhat behind, but upon seeing the ease with which the leaders cleared the hurdle each put spurs to his horse and away they went. Seven of the horses cleared it without a scratch, but two struck the top rail, fell and threw their riders into the freshly plowed ground, which probably saved their necks. But neither horses nor riders were hurt, and although delayed they were mounted again in an instant and renewed the chase with more intense ex citement. THE GRAT WON. The horses had run hard, but the fox and dogs were too fleet for them. They were away off in the distance and their yelps were not distinctly heard. The horseman drew rein and rode slowly through a clump of woods to a knoll which they mounted. Suddenly the yelps of the dogs be came more distinct. "They have turned,' shouted Hose. "Yes, and they are coming this way," cried Andrews. "Keep quiet, boys, and we'll see him." The sun was up and the dogs could be seen coming towards the party. Suddenly the fox, a big gray, with tail erect and tongue hanging far out, passed the foot of the knoll He was blown, but still running like the wind. Two hundred yards behind were the dogs. A big red hound was in the lead, while at his side was old Kate, the striker. Behind them the pack came, forming almost a solid triangle, extend ing fully twenty yards in the rear of the leaders. But they were running like lightning and gaining on the fox at every jump. It was an open field for two miles, and into this, right behind the dogs, the horsemen rushed. Both men and horses were wild with excitement. Every one wanted the brush, and all were running for it. Spurs were pressed against the ades of the already flying horses, and the riders leaned forward and yelled to their racers. The eleven horses were running in a buncli, while far behind could be seen two boys, one on a gray mule and the other riding a steer both without saddles. Tho field seemed cov ered with small ditches, but the animals jumped them without apparently notic ing the ground. We were within fifty yards of the dogs and the fox' was not ten ahead of the lead dog. But on they went, Suddenly the fox seemed to lag and in an instant thirty-four dogs were piled up on top of him and tearing him to pieces. The horsemen were then a hundred yards behind, and that hundred yards was run for the brush. It was a wild race and eleven horses were thrown ob their haunches almost in line right at tho dogs, but the rider of the fleet gray was there a nkk ahead. He seemed to go right over the head of his horse into the fighting pack of dogs, and in an instant had the body of the fox raised above hit head in triumph. Powersrille (Oa.) Cor. Atlanta Constitution. THE GORILLA. A Hcktor Way m Toac The goriDa is the prise fighter of Africa,'' amid Carl StecWlmann, who has personal knowledge of the Dark Conti nent. He had been speaking of aleop ard skin on exhibition in his widow, aad bad been teUincof the danger tared ia fighting with the original of tkeskin. -"OPlUa WiH jgjaJB ffJafJf aria In comparison wJtn that in wnfen on inust engage ta meeting the gorilla," he mid. "The gorilla is found in only a comparatively small portion of western Africa. He lurks in the woods along the coasts for several hundred miles north of the mouth of the Congo. I have never seen a gorilla in the open country, and, by the way, I think that the fact that he stays in the woods accounts for the fact that he is almost a biped instead of a quadruped. You see the gorilla in passing through the forests reaches out with his long anna, and, seizing the branches of the trees, rises on his hind legs and walks on them, supporting him self with hisholdon the branches. Habit has thus almost made an upright creat ure of ""- "The gorilla is as bravo as brave can be. The male gorilla does all the fight ing for the family. If yon approach a pair of gorillas the female will run screaming through the woods or will climb the highest ..tree, ottering all the whUe cries not unlike a woama in- great fright But the male gorilla will come straight at you. He does not know what fear is. He will fight any number of men." "How do you fight them? "With pistols. It is very unsafe to trust to a gun or to a poor weapon of any kind. The gorilla is so fierce and powerful that you have but one chance at him at the best The woods where he is found are so thick that it is impossible to see him accurately at any distance. If you fire at him as he comes at you down the tree a limb may turn the course of the bullet Before you can fire a second time he will be upon you. He drops from limb to limb and comes at a rapid, swinging pace. The safest way is to hold your fire until he is at arm's length and then fire steadily into him with a pistoL "The gorilla is easily killed. An or dinary pistol shot will have about the same effect upon him as it has upon a man. The hunter's danger is in not making the shot telL Once I was pass ing through the forest with a bodyguard of natives. The natives are furnished by the Dutch traders with a miserable gun, the barrel of which is made of gas pipe. The natives had learned to be suspicious of their guns. When they fire at any thing they point in tho general direction, pull the trigger and fling the gun at the object They throw the gun because they are afraid it will explode in their hands, as it very frequently does. Well, we came upon a gorilla. A native saw him dropping from a tree coming at us. Aiming at the descending form he fired and missed. He had not turned before the grim monster was upon him. Standing and throwing his arms around the ne gro's neck the gorilla seized his throat in his manlike jawsand wascruahing the life out of him when we came up and fired a pistol ball into him at close range. But the wounds inflicted were mortal and the native died in great agony." "Aro the gorillas numerous in the strip of country where they are fcund?" "They are scarce. In making -i trip once I saw two in one day, but that was unusual. They are the fiercest and brav estof animals. The male gorilla in going into battle sounds a fearful warning by beating its breast and giving forth sounds that make the dense forest resound. He is a dangerous antagonist, and you are all the time reminded by his appearance that you are contesting with a creature that has a man's faculties and appear ance, a giant's strength and a monkey's agility." Indianapolis News. Improvlag tb Eyes. The trials of "hanging committees," in determining the places to be held by pic tures at any exhibition, are great and rnanifnlil. An English artist says that when he once served as "hangman," pre paratory to an exhibition of the Royal Academy, his greatest embmrrassment was connected with a picture sent in by an old Academician who had once done good work, but whose hand had now lost its cunning. It was the portrait of a clergyman, and was not so desperately bad but that it might be admitted, if one peculiarity could in any way be dealt with. His eyes were exactly like those of an owl; the eyeballs were intensely black, with a circle of light bright blue encompassing them about "We tried him on the wall," says the artist, "but distance lent increased ter ror to his expression; he glared at us so fearfully, that in regard for the conse quences that might arise to unwary visi tors, we hastily took him down again. "'Now,' 1 said to a brother hangman, what is to bo done? It's of no use ask ing the old gentleman to withdraw the picture he won t " -No,' replied my friend, 'but I think we might take some of the enthusiasm out of those eyes. " No sooner said than done. A finger was' wetted, a little blanking taken from a shoe of one of the conspirators, the bright blue circle received a glaze of blacking, and the glare of terror inspir ing fury was changed into a softened, appealing expression. With that little alteration the picture took its place among the sest Youth's Companion. Dsagsrs ta taw Etactrle Wire. The insidious character of the dangei lurking in electric light wires in the street was exemplified the other day in Baltimore. Two individuals conversing close by an irou awning post were ob served to fall suddely to the ground. A broken telephone wire had established communication between the electric light wire and the framework of the awning. The strength of the current was doubt less divided, and the victims eventually recovered their senses. New York Tele gram. Maalclaal Bectrlc Ughtlng. The Lewiston city council that bought the city's elecMfc lighting plant did a wise act 'the benefit of which we are reaping now and shall continue to reap for many years. In his inaugural Mayor Little was able to call attention to the fact that the cost of fully and beautifully lighting the city is no more than -he ex pense of half lighting it under he old system. Lewiston (Me.) Journal. A well known Parisian bibliophile, Baron Double, has just discovered the presentation copy of a book written by Marat and given by him to the queen, Marie Antoinette. This book, entitled "Le Feu," is bound in green morocco and bears the arms of the queen of France, that is, the crests of France and Austria interlaced. Marat, who, before becom ing a revolutionary hero, devoted him self to the study of science, treats of fire and light in this book. New York Comv AdT LISTEN TO THE LION. HIS IMPETUOUS NATURE IS' HELD IN CHECK BY IRON BARS. Loofclaa Through Tkmm at Bis Captocs ba Calm DUdala Ha ladalgaa la Cetroaaaa ttoa Cenflacaeat la a Oea Is Irkaaaaa, bat"u Has to Staad It. "Aye, look at me! Crowd about and stare, you ojiened mouthed, hard breath ing mass of poor humanity! Note well the tawny beauty of my lithe form; the delicate fineness of my tremulous whisk ers; the languid droop of my long sleek tail Mark the powerful ease of my stride and leap to the shelf, where 1 can lie at all my indolent length, and see you far better than you can me. Crowd and crush about my cage" "Ah! 1 heard you, little girt. I caught the sorrowful, half whisper, 'Poor beast be does not like to be shut up.' Point with the rosy finger, half shy, half afraid of the big, strange animaL You are a tender morsel, you dimpled darling; but 1 heard the divine pity of your tone, lit tle one, and I would not harm you even if the tiny lund lay on my rebellious neck. I have had prey almost as dainty. 1 have seen tho young fawn pant and struggle and die in my relentless grasp; I have tasted the hot blood that flowed from its dappled, wounded side, and, licking my chops with satisfied tongue, I have crouched in my deep forest lair and slept content. "Lying snug on a winter night when all the world was wrapped in snow and bit er, piercing cold, 1 have heard tho mountain shudder and complain in their icy winding 6heet and the streams gurgle and battle chokingly under their heavy frozen fetters. I have seen the 6tars in the violet sky shine out like great globes of fire, almo3t within reach, bunting in tho glorious arch with a full soft luster the dwellers in these lower places can never know. I have watched the small denizens of the hills steal by on fearful feet to the air hole in the water course below and because of my great content have let them go unharmed adown the perilous slopes. And now, to lie on a shelf and be stared at Bah! 1 hate you all. Gu-r-r-r-r. You needn't jump, I can't get out; but if I could, oh! if I could! how you would scatter before mo like spray before the wind! Do yon think I would stay here in this hot stifling, curious eyed city? Ah, no! I know a better place than this, far away in tho path of the setting sun. A canyon so cool, so deep and dark that lapping at midday from the turbulent mountain btream I have seen mirrored therein the silver stars in tho noontide sky. Ah! that is the place for me! Steep and dark are its 6ides, murmurous with tho wliispering of tho great pines, fra grant with balsamic smells, and alive with stealthy, gliding forms and whir ring wings. There are mossy caverns and flashing waterfalls, a soundless car pet of pine needles and freedom! "Sometimes I see the gleam of your, lake tlirough my prison bars. I do not care for it. 1 know another, not so vast, but thrice as lovely. Bluer than yours, too, and cool and calm and clear, fed by silent springs that steal tlirough the gold veined heart of the mountain; encom passed by wooded slopes that hide many of my kin in their tangled depths. 1 swam it once. "There is a fort there, but I heeded not. 1 plunged into the pure wave in tent only on reaching the opposite shore, but some one saw me, and then what a fuss they made. They woke tho sleep ing echoes many tongues in that land with their clumsy firing. The echoes were frightened. From peak to peak they called and murmured and reiterated the startling news. I did not care. Down under the blue wave for a moment or two, and then I rose far beyond their guns and shouts. "There were fishers on the lake. A boat with three children for crew. Hardy nestlings of the great eyrie of the west, they knew not fear, and the baro legged beys only shouted as I rose beyond them, and the tousled, curly head and brave blue eyes of the little girl turned and stared in wonder at the 'great cat swim ming the lake.' "Doubtless they were gathered close to the maternal bosom when the adven ture was recounted and duly told what a fearsome thing I am to meet at home in my own mountains. But here, bah! SYMPATHY FOR OTHER CAPTIVES. "I am told there are two Polar bears in as dire imprisonment as myself. Cooped in a rocky cage fenced in with iron bars, they who have known the wide, white sUences of the frozen sea have no hint of their lost home save a tiny stream that dashes its puny spray over the pallid exiles. "As they sit motionless do they muse in desperation on the far off icy north, that wondrous region that defies tho en trance of man; that holds in its vast bosom most of those who dared try to unlock its mysteries and assail it in its might? Do they dream and long for the sullen roll of the icy sea, the crash and grinding of the great white floss, the pale phantoms of towering berg, and the wondrous radiance of the Polar lights? "Does a loaf of bread tossed and crum bling on .the sweltering stones compen sate for a juicy seal caught napping or a white fleshed fish drawn from the great refrigerator of the universe? 1 know there is an eagle here, for once I heard him cry: just once, but it was a strange, sail Bound, stifled with captivity. I have seen and heard him in our western home, when with outspread wings and curving neck he dropped straight from the imperial vault of the mountain sky to his eyrie on some bald, scarred crag and feeding there the brood of callow eaglets, gave voice again and again to his triumphant bcnse of power and freedom. "I hear it all again at times in my sleep. The rush of the wind, the roar of the storm, tha murmur of thu pines, and the musical tinkle of tho tireless down leaping streams. I snuff thu fresh pine rents of the mountains, and turning un easily in my narrow prison I wake to captivity and despair "Chicago 7:uerf. Mr. W. H. Boat, secretary to Harrison at Barber, horse slaughterers, told torn Pall Mall Gazette reporter the other day that they have seven slaughter houses in the metropolitan area, the largest being that in the York road, Camden town. They slaughtered 25,000 horses a year. When a horse broke a limb or sustained other irremediable injury on the street the police at once communicated with their .nearest depot The company had fitauently riaai ahaami with cruelty.in slowing maimed horses to tie alsout for aWrs before sending men to end their searings. The truth was they were particular in this respect, and if delays occurred it was through no fiamlt of theirs. Was horseflesh much aad for food? Yes. to a considerable extent, he should say. Their charter did not allow of their selling horseflesh for food purposes, but there were such establishments in the city. Qe had himself eaten horsemeat utjFrance. and at the company's annual dinner it waa served. to the guests, some of wjjom declared they would not have known it from beef, bad they not been told. Fine fat horses were slaughtered every week, horses that were perfectly sound, except for some accidental injury, and He saw no reason why this flesh should not lie eaten. He had often seen street gamins buy a slice of dried horse flesh,' place it between two bits of bread, and eat it as a sandwich! Of course, most of the prepared horseflesh passed fender the name of catameat but it "seemed incredible that the cats could consume it alL Every part of the horse was put to some use flesh, hide, hair, hoofs and bones. Now that (and Mr. Boss held up a small vial of beautifully transparent oil) was horse oil. One would scarcely think such oil as that could be got from the horse. Those other bottles contain oils of inferior quality. They were used for lubricating purposes and for soap making. Most soaps nowadays contained horse grease. Armed with a cigar and an order from the secretary of the company, our re porter made his way to the premises in York road. The obliging manager said they had had only four horses in today. But about 7,800 were slaughtered here annually. Most of the animals were cab, 'bus or tram horses. The establish ment turned out about twenty tons of horseflesh every week. They had forty six dead and twenty-one live horses in now. They contracted with the various cab, "bus and tram companies for injured horses at 80 shillings each, alive or dead. Most of the live horses they got in were injured internally by overwork or fall ing. A few were gone with congestion of the lungs. The work of slaughtering went on day and night, there being two gangs of men for that purpose. Horses were killed at night by three "knack ers." Fifteen horses were considered a good night's work. The sufferings of the poor brutes were soon at an end. as they were rendered insensible by ; blow from a heavy ax. Pall Mall Gazette. j A Prophetic Dream. Some days before the late disaster at Samoa the wife of an officer at Mare Island awoke from her first sleep, trembling and jn tears, and related to her husband a fearful dream experience. She thought 6ho had been in her dream transported to the island of Samoa, and from the shores of tho harbor of Apia ; looked upon the American and German fleets. Suddenly a storm arose, and the harbor was swept by a fierce tornado. .Ship gaiter ship went ashore, and the spectators united in offering up prayers for the preservation of the remaining vessels. Lastly the Vandalia and Tren ton dragged their anchors, and, as the former vessel was dashed upon the reef and almost immediately sank, Mrs. witnessed the death of Capt. Schoon maker, Lieut. Sutton and Paymaster Amies, the three officers who were the victims of the actual disaster of March 16. The picture was so vivid and real that Mrs. for days was nervous and agi tated, thinking only of her dream, and relating it to others, always insisting that the vessels and friends so recently gone from Mare Island must certainly be exposed to some fearful peril, and when the fictitious story of the sinking of th j Nipsic reached us she concluded this to be the interpretation or her dream. The falsity of this story being proved, Mrs. was, of course, disposed to mako light of her vision; but now comes a tale of disaster infinitely more sad than the fiction which agitated our country for so many days an event corresponding most closely with this apparently prophetic dream. In this storycapable of perfect au thenticationwe have a good record for the archives of the psychical seventy. Yallejo Times. A Ship lii a Cyclone. What a Samoan hurricane is like and what chance a ship has while ut its mercy, may be imagined after reading Abercromby's "Seas and Skies in Many Latitudes." He says: "Much has been written about han dling ships in hurricanes and elaborate maneuvers have been described which they are to perform near the center of typhoon. Many a ship has been saved by skillful sailing on the outskirts of a cyclone, and even after the characteris tic squalls and driving rain have begun. But when near the center she gets in the kernel, as it were, of the hurricane, and the wind comes in great gusts which no canvas can withstand, when the roaring of the wind is so tremendous that 'no voice can be heard, when the sky and cloud and spindrift are mixed up in distinguishably from one another in a general darkness, then it is as impossible to give an order as to obey it. and the sailor can only hope that her timbers may not ojen so as to spring a leak, and that her steering gear may hold so tiiat she may not broach to and l over whelmed by tho waves." New York Telegram. Sexuality la Atom. Mr. Mason Kinne is a quiet gentleman who has lived for many years in this city. He is an enthusiastic member of the Mi croscopical society, an honorary member of several foreign scientific societies and contributes to several scientific journals. He is an indefatigable investigator. Some time ago he declared that he had discov ered sexuality in atoms that is, after examining the smallest fragments of in organic matter, iron and other mineral snbstances, he had discovered certain traces that led him to believe that all atoms, animal and vegetable, are either male or female, and reproduce their spe cies. The importance of such a discovery cannot be estimated. If verified, and Mr. Kinne is confident that it can be verified, it means the revolution of science a new alphabet for geology, chemistry and natural philosophy. San Francisco Call The Xattea's Great Mea. "Pa, where was Capt Anson bom?" "I don't know, I'm sure," "Where was John L. Sullivan bom? "I don't know that either." "Pa, 1 wish you would buy me a his tory of the United States." Chicago Herald. BLESSED GREENHORNS. -1 SO SAYS "AMBEB," AND ALL WHO READ ECHO THE SENTIMENT. . ! Batter Fall Dasra Oaaa ta a Walla Who I Not Qalta Parfaet la WeUwaas la This Shrswd aad Practical World. j "I may not be .quite so wise as Solo mon," remarked a man in my hearing the other day, "but anybody who ex pects to get the best of me will get badly left!" I looked at the speaker, at his shrewd eyes, with their all-ways-at-once manner of looking at things; his mouth, pursed and puckered like a dried up pepper pod; his smile, as sharp and wintry as a frost sparkle; and I said in my heart "Well, sir, I would rather be the biggest greenhorn that ever trod the sod tlian be you!" Veoplx wk no kot nkkd. When a man gets so wise that he has nothing left to learn, the best place for him is a bookshelf. When he gets so cunning that you can never catch him napping, the best place for him is among the stuffed owls in the National museum. The world has no need of fossils outside of caves and archaeological collections. What a dried up channel is to a land scape, such, to the world he lives in. is a worldly wise nature which has become in vulnerable to a sensation and incapable of a mistake or an enthusiasm. He has outgrown his chief charm who has out grown his freshness. He lias become a mere petrifaction, who has attained unto a state wherein he is unassailable by the blunders to which other men succumb. W( do not need Mich people any more thau a full mooned August night needs signal lights. Better fall down once in awhile thun git to be so ossified you can't bend out of the perpendicular. Per fection is all right in butter and eggs, but a man. to be a good comrade, wants enough of the imperfection of human nature left in him to render him capable of an occasional blunder. 1 would rather live with the statue of Liberty on Bed loc's Island than attempt to dwell with a a person who has outlived the possibility of ever being "taken in," or has soared above the weakness of once in awhile taking a leap without knowing exactly where he is going to land. Why, bless your heart, my dear, the man who always looks before he jumps misses a fine tumble in, the clover! Chil dren playing together in the haymow would mi&i tho lest elixir of their sport if they measured every distance and computed the safety of every risk. And life, a good part of it, anyway, is nothing more than the venture of children romp ing in the dark. A pretevnaturally wise child and a sharp man make poor com rades in either play or work. What gives to childhood its first and greatest charm? What more than its freshness and its capacity to enjoy a delusion? When the child outgrows its belief in Santa Claus and fairies it ceases to have tho nature of a child, and the wiser it gets and the further from the humbug geries of youth the more of that first divine fresline-ss and innocence it loses, until it becomes, like too many of ua older ones, a withered stalk, with neither dew nor blossom left upon it KEEP US FROM TOO MCCU CONCEIT. When we pray for pure hearts let us add to our petition that, in the grind and turmoil of sordid living, we may preserve a little of the "greenness" of life's springtime in our nature. Keep us, good Lord, from too much conceit in our own cunning. Help us now and then to take the attitude of little chil dren who have something to learn. Make singing birds of us rather than sly old foxes; shrubs of living verdure rather than dusty specimens mucilaged inside of a herbarium. Half the people one meets are only specimens. They are types, samples in stock, anything but individuals. They have been brought up to be conformists, and they are perfectly content with their labeling in the com pany of the t rreat Alike. Usage plucks them early, as a botanist picks a rose to classify it rather than to enjoy its beauty, and conformity is the musty old herb arium wherein they ore pasted and let tered for all time. Give me the weed blowing in the meadow, wet by showers and shaken by storms, trodden under foot by happy children and browsed by contented herds, rather than the finest specimen of flora that any scientist has in lys withered and dried collection. A green leaf with sap in it is better for re freshment than a forest of dead cedars. Bless God, then, all you who retain enough May time in your hearts to keep you green late into the season. Blessed be the young man or maiden, the elder ly man or matron who. in this age of precocity and progress, policy and nerve, retains euough of the primal innocence to blush and be abashed on suitable oc casion, and are not so wise in their own conceit but what they may sometimes get the worst of a bargain. The presence of such a person in this shrewd and prac tical old world is as welcome tm the sight of a buttercup in the alkali desert April is never behind with her willows and catkins, May never forgets her con tract with the apple orchards, and June Is never late with her roses. The robin always arrives promptly, although he comes in a snow storm, and the bluebird tarries not in uncertainty, but flashes his azure wing on time along the misty hedgerows. If human friends were half as constant to the tryst of love as birds and blossoms are to their season this world would never need be exchanged for heaven. Amber in Chicago Tribune. intemperate Tie ot Coaea and -sea. Intoxication may ensue from drinking either tea or coffee. There has existed for several years in London a club of newspaper reporters, which meets every Saturday night for the purpose of in dulging in tea drinking; its members not infrequently become intoxicated. Cases of delirium tremens from the use of tea have been reported. The poisoning qualities of tea aro most apparent when it is eaten. When first introduced into England, about the year 1665. it was served in n bowl like spinach, as an arti cle of food: and the effects of eating It were such that for a long time after ward, it was considered to be a deadly drug, and its sale was regarded as dis reputable. Those who chew dry tea leaves extract from them the alkaloid, which is a very powerful poison. It first produces a pleasant exhilaration, but its subsequent effects are deepfessness, delirium, an un natural state of mind and abnormal de sires. The habit seems to be most in dulged in by servants, who, having the at help themselves from it pmen as n tune. The smell alone of coffee, when it is stored in great bulk as in the hold of ships produces deadly nausea, dizziness and faintness. When cargoes of coffee thus stowed become shifted in a storm, one of the most dreaded duties of the sailor is to go down into the hold and re store them to their places; the boys and weak stomachs find it impossible to keep at work above half an hour. The habitual coffee drunkard has thin features, a drawn and wrinkled face, and grayish yellow complexion. His sleep is troubled with anxious dreams. His pulse is weak, frequent and com pressible. It is asserted that coffee more frequently injures people's eyes and ears tlian does either tobacco or alcoboL It does not produce absolute blindness or deafness, but very annoying disturb ances. That coffee Is the cause is seen from the fact that when it is lefftxT the trouble ceases. The symptoms of chronic caffeistn, or coffee drunkenness, are loss of appetite, insomnia, trembling of the lips and tongue, dyspepsia, neuralgia, pain in the stomach, giddiness, convul sions and obstinate constipation. Boston UerahL Why Be Was Not There. Sheridan Knowlesliad many acquaint ances, and his memory did not always serve him in recalling their names, but as the following incident shows, he was never at a loss in such circumstances: It is said that Knowles was talking to a friend in tho street when a gentleman came up to him and exclaimed, in rather an abrupt, and even angry manner: "Why did you not keep your promise to, dine with us last Thursday, Mr. Knowles? It was a distinct engagement made between you and me. You kept the restof tho company waiting for near ly an hour. It is really too" "Me boy," said Knowles, "ye don't know how vexed I am. No, I did not forget ye. Ask Mrs. Knowles if ye don't believo run. I was ill, me boy; but it's thankful I am to say 1 am better now. Give me another chance. Name your own time. Any day next week." "You really will? Well, say Thursday again; and you will not fail us? Same hour 6. Will that suit you?" "Perfectly. Oh, you may depend upon me, never fear! I'll be to the fore that day." With a hand shako to Knowles and a bow to his friend, tho would be host walked away. Knowles looked after him, lost in thought, till ho disappeared. "That man's face is familiar to me! Do you know who he is?" 6aid the author to his friend. "No, I don't," said tho friend. "Devil take me if I do, cither," said Knowles. Frith's Reminiscences. Traveling Electric Light. A traveling electric light has been used in Germany with much success. The arrangement is a very simple one. A dynamo, with an engine to drivo it, is mounted on a wagon, something like that of a 6teara fire engine, containing boiler, fuel box and water tank, com plete for a night's service. A supply of wire and a number of poles correspond ing to the number of arc lights required, are added to the equipment, which is then drawn by a pair of horses to any de sired place. On arriving there, the poles are set up where required and stayed with wires fastened with stakes driven into the, ground; tho lamps aro then hung to them and properly connected, and the engine is set in motion. The lights immediately kindle, and from one to fifty lamps can be operated, accord ing to the power of the machine As the lamps can be suspended anywhere, and are not affected by wind or rain, tho advantage of the apparatus to contrac tors and others who have to carry on night work 9 is apparent. New York Commercial Advertiser. Sand Showers aad Drifts. Dry, loose sand, wherever it occurs, U constantly being shifted by the wind, and often buries cultivated lands, buildings and forests. On the shores of Lake Michigan are drifts 100 feet deep, and those of Cornwall reach 300 feet in depth, while the drifts of the Gobi desert are 40 miles long and 000 feet high in places. On tho shores cf the Bay of Biscay the drifting sand travels inland 16 feet a year, in parts of Denmark 24 feet, and in southern India 17 yards. In some places walls and barriers of vegetation have been created to stop tho destroying drifts. Fine sand is taken up to a great height in the air, and deposited many miles away. In 1883 Iceland was visited by a remarkable sand storm, lasting two weeks, which bid the sun and objects a few yards off like a dense fog. and caused the death of thousands of sheep and hones. New York Telegram She Dreamed It. He (about to ask for a kiss) I have an important question to ask you. She (playfully) I know what it is, Charley. You want me to be your wife: I dreamed it. Well, take me. He (rather taken aback) You dream ed it? She Yes, I dreamed it last niht. and I answered you a3 Iain answering vo:i now. and you took me hi your aruis and kissed nu. What cou!J Cliar!ey do? Chicago l uer. Force of Habit. Congressman It affords me pleasure, Mr. Scribb'eum. to present you this com mission as postmaster. I have brought it to you myself as a little surprise. Editor Scribbleum CoL Greathead, you have, indeed, taken me by surprise and placed me under infinite obliga What! is tho blamed document rolled? Sir, I reject it! Chicago Tribune. Tha Swaying of Chimneys. Observations upon the swaying of tall chimneys during high winds show tiiat one 115 feet in height and four feet in total diameter at the top waved twenty inches during a heavy gale, and another 164 feet high, but with six and one-half feet diameter of flue, moved through an arc of only six and one-lialf inches. A Washington territory farmer was digging a post hole on the banks of Smoke river, when he unearthed a skele ton richly dressed in old fashioned cloth ing. The coat was especially fine, and was adorned with velvet collar and cuffs. The place where the skeleton was found had been used as a horse' coral for the past fifteen years. Mrs. Sheets, bom Handolph. mistress of Gunston hall. Virginia, b the couein of five presidents, among them President Harnviii, whose inauguration she wit- National Bank! rMBsTJa. -HAJ5AN- Aitthoriztm Capital tf $250,000, aayhaaklatUaaaitof IVDepeelU received aad iatarast paid ea time deposits. tsTTJiana ea the acme ipal eftiea in thiecoaa tnr and Karoae hoaght aad sold. IV-CoUeetioaa sad all ether hastosm give roaataad earefal smnmnAsme. A.ANDD80M.Pnat. J. H. GALLEY. Tie Prest. O.T.BOd. Cashier Q. ANDERSON, P. ANDEMON. JACOB OKEI8EN. HENRY KAOATZ. JOHN J. SULLIVAN. J.O.MEklDRR. ApraVSStf fwsuuKXmis. 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