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r-. Cbi ohmk - i- ? . -.--ir- . -! - j '- - $"? -.- " t:4t'' --.-. .' .-.- . -.-ftfc-rt'J-M ll-'Jsi. --"-. - T '9VF -E. X K "''" SK--'Ji!fi5i8 - if fr -V ? "TV.- "-'i?' -- VOL. XX.-NO. 22. COLTJMBirS, IJEB., WEDIfESDkT, SEPTEMBER 18, 1889. WHOLE NO. 1,010. mvixml - r - Ft; c at. 15 r- Fr 1 1 - COLUMBUS STATE BAM. COLUXDIJS, NEB. Cash Capita! - $100,000. . - - vs-;. - sssaafssV. LEANDER GERHARD. Prw't. GEO. W. HUL3T, Vici Prest. JULIUS A. KEED. R. H. HENRY. J. E. TAriKElI, CaalJor. tk ef WHmcmmwLt Eichmace CaUmUmi Prweasslly .tlaMle iy laUerewt em Tl It. COMMESCIil Bii -OF- COLUMBUS, NEB., HAS AN Authorized Capital of $500,000 Paid in Capital - 1)0,000 OFFICERS: C H. SHELDON, Pres't. H. P. H. OHLRICH, Vict Pros. C A- NEWMAN, Cawhier, DANIEL SCHBAM, Aaa't Cash. STOCKHOLDERS: C, H. Sheldon, J. P. Backer, Herman P. JLOehlrich, Carl Rienke. Jmiw Welch. W. A. McAlh'ster. J. Henry Wanleman, IL M. W widow, W. Galley, S. C. Gn-y . Frank Rarer. Arnold F. H. Oehlnch. Ey Bank of deposit; interna allowed on time dffMwtts; buy and rntll exchnntfe on United States asd Europe, and buy ami well available securities. We shall be pleaswl to receive jour business. Wo anifasr jemr irstrraair" 2udocsJ7 FORTHE WESTEBM GOTTABE 0B&AM CAIX OX A. & M.TURNER r S3. W. KIBLEK. Xrmwelissc telcMHU. SaTheee onuna are first-class in every par Ocular, mad no guaranteed. SCNrraMTI t PUTI, dkalxbs ra WIND MILLS, kickeyc Mwer, combined, Self timir, wire or twine. Flaps Repaired shrt lttice m door west of Heintz's Dim Store, 11th ColBJBbea. Neb. 17noT4i FITS! WbcbImtCckx I rily f ata thaaa for a Uiae, aad thea have tiiK z kc grty. I yuatAaT r aav SJSSilrlSTiSSBS Gm It UNDERTAKER ! 1BTALLKC1S gf all kind of Upkol- LaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaLaaaLalaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaHf I CURE fgMjMnjaLaalaMallaraM FIGHTS WITH SHARKS. HOW THEY WHOOP THINGS Ul? FOR THE SAILORS. Am OM Mai Caaafr TOa ' a. Coaiate at Xm Feet la UMctk Tawlac Milca, "CauC Sam," said a little boy who v&tciiing a very red faced old fisherman way up the Maine coast, as he baited his trawl hooka, "what is the largest fish I you ever saw or heard of?" "WaU" replied the old fisherman, with out looking- up, "it stands to reason that Tve heard on some bigger ones than I ever clapped my eyes onto. Sailor folks is great ou yarning, there ain't any use in denying that. One of 'em starts a yarn, and it keeps a growin so fast that bytbetfnieifcgBte ashore th assm ssfcs started it wouldn't know it." "But there are some true fish stories."' persisted the little boy. "Sartin. saxtm," replied Capt Sam, "and I guess I've seen about as big a fish as the next one. When I was a boy not a mite older nor you my granther was owner and skipper of as fine a sixty ton schooner as cut the water in these parts, and as soon as I got big enough not to fall overboard and to pull on a herrin'or mack'rel line he took me along, and it was on this very cruise that 1 saw a big fish. BED HOT COALS ON HIS BACK. "We were fishin' on what is called the George's bank, away up to the north'ard aspelL The men were out in dories a fishin' an' only me an' gran'ther aboard. I was a foolin' around two lines, when I see somethin' black a lyin alongside. First I thought it was a shadder ot the keel, but it kept a comin' nearer and more distinct, until all at once I see it was a critter. First I thought it a whale, and sings out to my gran'ther that there was a big whale alongside. He came a running out of the cabin and took one look at it and said: 'It's a bone shark, and the biggest one I ever see.' "As far as we could make out it was sixty feet long a lyin' perfectly still, its back out of the water so tliat a man could have walked ten or twenty feet on his back. We had- a harpoon, but he didn't dare throw it for fear of losin' it, bavin' no boat to follow, so there the big shark stayed until finally the old man tuck a ton of red hot coals from the gal ley fire and tossed them on his back. Some of them stuck, and it wasn't long before he left. "When I got grown up," continued Capt. Sara, "I saw another shark almost as big, and helped catch it. I shipped in a sword fisherman as first man. We sailed from Boothbay, bst, finding- fish scarce, we put down toward Cape Cod, and when we got to the south'ard we found about all we could attend to, and in less time than a week bore away for New Bedford with 'a good Boston load.' We pat to sea. again oat avFxiciay. a. had day, so sailormen say, but this turned out good luck for us. We were about on what they call The Sisters when the lookout sighted what he thought was a swordfish, and we cleared decks ac cordin'; but when we got alongside we see it was a big bone sluirk. The skipper said it ought to pay $100 in ile, so we kept away while the man spliced a big ger line on to the harpoon and then wore around and came up on him again. "He was a-lyin' right in the slosh of the sea. There was a fair so west wind a-blowin', just enough to make the sea make a clean breakover his back that looked like a big log. and I reckon that" a what you'd a-taken it for if you'd a-seen it. Howsomever, we came a-bowlin along in great shape, the skipper puttin' the schooner within ten feet of him, and, as we shot by, me and the second mate let drive our irons into him, and the same minute the men hove over the keg an' line. "What did he dor said Capt. Sam. who, in the excitement of the old mem ory, had dropped his line and was looking- the little boy in the face, with a hand on each oil skin knee. "Why, he whooped things, and ac confin to my mind we got out of the way just in time. You'sV a-thought a volcano had bust right thar. Cp come a big tail fifteen foot in the air, with water and sprays a-flyin'; then down it went with a noise like die topsail of a fifty gun frigate in stays. There was a long cable or line on the harpoons, but it wasn't two minutes before we saw the kegs go under and up they came a hun dred fathoms away; and went along sending" tiie water aa high as ourtop- "It so happened, our luck bein' still on, that the fish bore away on the wind; if it had a' struck to the wiadward it would have beam good-by sure, the wind was our best pull, and two hour chase we came up with the kegs, bavin' kept 'em in sight the hull time from the tops.. Yob sea the kegs was painted white, so w comld see which way the fish was a-gsin'. "The big fish was about played snt; tarn miles or more at such a rats, had about knocked him, and we rounded tc and put out two dories and took the kegs in. 'Stand by V says the skipper, for the minute he feels us a-takin' in slack he's a-goin to takeoff agin, and sure enough he did. We got the kegs aboard, and the first pull we made I was nigh jerked overboard; but we hung to him, taldn' is a foot when we could and loam' one an' gainin' two darns' which be towed us a natter of three files or more; then we rackuaed he was about through,, and we took isi pretty fast. We got within 10Q feet, when the other dory ahead sMsfMd alongside aadgave him the lance the same war they kill whales. "I have heard of bona sharks seventy foot, bet fifty and sixty footers is all "i kia speak for sartin about, and I guess thaf s the higgestneh that swims today." PhflafHHphia A MYSTERIOUS PLANT. stsf fsrtotssa slBsa,sasLssBawtesefea raSy aakaowa west of CasssMskat, satva estate. The 1131, was the aSBBSSBBl VBBBBaL WSBBBBBB WSBSl SaSBaflit atW aaugraastfroam of ts body ot BaaTalo to canpedfor atde, not far nuaa was on Saaday,i been pay day had all their pay with haviBg; offared for trooea ram marf maar rations. Soon after they had two aaldjers, who were ware auuu about the the auddl of the afsarnooa. gaa was heard at the Hoaaoer froe tfa direction of the cacap. 5b attention paid to it, bat bail aa hoar later aoast who viaited the cmsm, where the area were etui amotilctering, discovered the dead body of a eeld ter lying ia the sashee cloea by. There was a ballet hole in hie taaeeie. The body had evidently been dnajjaate iae place dead soldier was at once forwarded to aeaaV qaartara. It wasfoand Mure that Privates John MmmUrr aaa Baxter were aneSBg. The body of the dead ' awa. was identified as that of Private VtnTaiiihev Search was seeds for Baxter, and he was taken iaso caetody at Baftelo. Bbedoa ak penoathe aaaoant of hie own pay and the aaeoaat that Alex ander had received. AIL the eo plainly ftaed the murder ef upon Baxter that a apeady ariaL conviction and esacatkn folewed. " A leTarwVrwaeBBiiedaear she spot where his body was fosad. The next year a plant never before seen in the region, and. of' a spe cies that was entirely uaknowa to anyone who lived in the valley, sprang ap on the mardered maa'i grave. Thai atalk was f ol lowed by the appesraare of two similar oaea, Aa they grew again the aaoceeamg-year in exactly the same spot and aewbere else, aad eppeared in the eases maanmr with, the com ing of every spring, hloaaoasog regularly at thethne wheat was ready for catting, they began to attract wide erswrlna. Mh-G. W. Clinton, of Buflakt, snaUy discovered that the plant wee of she spades known hi Con necticut as false gromweu. It was also learned that Alexaader, the aurdered sol dier, had come from a place in Conneeticat where the plant was common. How it came to spring' up in that soatsry spot, to mark the grave of a native of the soil to which it was itself inrngesnas, has plained, and its seed root anywhere eh hi the vfcmity iaa mys- "There is another vegetable cariosity in the vicinity of Avon Spriage which botaniats have fosad nowhere esie. Tr is a iiimeil aliln halbnwa root which formerly grew on the Geneaee flats in abandanca. It lies a few inches below the aarface aad grows hcriaon taQy to the length of four or five feet, and fraqoently attains a diameter of nine inches. It resembles a small log. From it springs a bright green vine, not anlike a strawberry vine, wmch bean a small purplish hkasom. The TTawg relics and reminders of whose occupancy of those rich flasi sou abound, called this root the man of the groand.' They attributed great medicinal virtues to it, bat if it has any it ia yet to be diacovered by the white people. Bed Jacket, aa the tra dition is, annually camped where the present Avon Springs station of the Erie railroad is, for the parpoae of collecting this root, as well aa to take advantage of the laineral waters. ties of which were well knowa-to the Ttwjim long before the Geneaee csantry was known to the whitea." Hanuncadsport (X T.) Cor. New York Sun, 'rla 3(a Unless an author has a name which will carry anything he chooaae to send oat it is almost a waste of time nowadays for a rising writer .to spsnd bid evenings on a historical noveL By that I mean publishers are afraid to venture upon hwtnriral fiction. I saw a practical illttstranon of mis not long ago. A 2ew York author of fair reputatkm conceiv ed a novel of historical plot and characters. He seat the manuscript from one publishing house to another, untu it had ran the whole gauntlet inSew York, Boston and Philadel phia. In each case it was rtituruui, and every time the reason was given Oat "historical novels are unpopular with the pahuc.n AH agreed that the literary merit of the story was unusually good, aad deplored the fact mat so well written a novel should have been hktorical in its scenes and In five of the letters the author ly urged to submit "a modern novel, with people and events of today." I could not liiir ttiiiiiIit n r ttiia em miiiu, 1m i iiaiiiswii j , fi take the moat popular novel '-n-j for years, "Ben Hur,n and the recently iiiiifnT novel, "The Two Chiefs of Danboy," and both are historical. Sot only that, bat the fiction record for the past ten years will show that of every ten historical novels pub lished nine were successful. On the other hand, take the "modern novel,n so called, and but one in about tahtv-i ve. I beUevcis jji i u niaiji nisi iiii 1 1 rin laaaaotpiaaa- ing f or the historical noveL bat doesn't it seem strange that pubhahers will reject a style of fiction which can show saora distinct lurrcMHs man any other of an elevanae; character! But the advice is good. Boat write a historical novel if yon would, have easy acceptance oc your work. Cor. raua dehwia Tunes. We crumble a a hotel or on board ship if our food is not exactly what we desire, bat few have any idea of the one of the American liners. The oa the Boyal Mail steamship Ueabria, on one of her vojages from New York to Liverpool, rrmsnmrd thefoubwing: 9,50s poRadeof beef, 4.000pounds of mnttoa, 39 pounds of lamb, 258 pounds of veaL ISO pouade of pork, 1-10 pounds of pickled legs, of poric, Ms poesads of corned tongues, TOO pounds of rnrnrri beef, 2,000 pounds of fresh sen, 30 possess of calves' feet, is pounds of calves' heads, 49 fowls, 33 spring chirk i, I3B dado, 50 texkeys, 50 geese, 000 aauaha, 308 tine of esrdines, 300 plovers, ITS poanirs of aanssges, 1,300 pounds of ham, 500 pease of bacon, OeWeggs, 2,000 qsarts of saiik,700 peandsof hatter, 410 ponsfta nf rnilrn fTTnranels irftra.100MiBaihi of sugar, 100 pounds of rice, 300 pounds of barley, 100 jars of jam aad jeuy, 90 bottles of pickkn, 00 beetles of masm, 30 barrak of 14 basse of hen raw, 18 boxes ef tosaof setetaeaaebarrefeofBtoer. Everything- is sbsb to lave its para site, and the cable at tha bottean of the sea is no exception. Cables taken up from a depth of a half with the hesmp covsasig; badly away, andatadavskof overssJf arnfle strong cnziescts of the ocean aatve rasped the ariBaved wires on. the rockybottom. yet li tss ssim il As fail Isatinc fiuslities ef have bsei in the censer of the. river, or akass; the river side. sther have kt the i Idoat know the I the praeieas day sad Dsadmiraay of it Tto Isft the spot Jail lud ess. Toward he raoort at a and a rrptmrm nas not show ne signs ef ihlsfiui itii.ai after hsis beam in the water far ssure than tharty-tve years. Water, and easjeaa!!r "I think,' said east Detroiser t sai esher ties other amy; "that what we sjeed for that risnih shi sssat yosv Sfssast ahoes best I ala shank tsast sea enajVt as have along: tha rttr ssslsv SBBsav ipasl ssrssenmap aascsa--3htfssBSE'arseei Vsbbbl. wiawuiassHBv aHcwat axaS) asBB FIVE LITTLE CHICKENS. Said tue snt Uttfe cWckea, With a 4ueer little aqtarmr -Oh.wiaaIcowldeBd A fat little worea Said taeaaxt little Wabaa o.UUttla -O.lwfcihlcouldftad r AfatUttltt'ouR"- Sald the ttUnl UttJe caickea. With aKiiarp Uateaqural: -On. 1 xchtU I could fled Some oiit yeUow taealf Said Uu fourtb Uttla chicken. With a small aigh of irriair- -On. I wish I could flo.l A tcrem little Itsar Said ttte artb little caickea. With a Catat little moan: -Oh, I wish I could and A wen sravel atone!" "Sow aee here. aaiU the motoec From the green garden patch. -If you wane any breakfast; You juet cobm aad acratcbr" BROTIIER FRMCIS. sfeaaaeman. isuppoae. ever carried aa episto- swyfiirtatioa ob to an actual proposal of marriage without seeing the object, or. except what her tom nun. wuuout raowiaj aomeuung abouc her. Sententious Moxaxise Writer So much for the conclusions of self conceit. Man has done that tiling.. I know a case in point. Don't I? 1 think I do, forasmuch as I myself was-it3 dom inating idiot. I, age 31; name, Francis Howland: usually known as Brother Francis not of ecclesiastic brotherhood Heaven forbid! I got the sobriquet from a trick my sisters there are eight of them, four older and four younger than I a trick the girls had of always designating me with that misleading ' prefix. I was thus known far and wide. Would be witty people used to send penitents to me to confess, and strangers, on being introduced, took to addressing me as "Your Reverence,'' and that be fore I "was out of my teens. O, and wasn't it galling? I loved the girls, though, the whole eight, even Martha the oldest, who had married and gone to the next town to live before I entered those teens, and Catherine, whom she had taken off with her she was next to her in age then Harriet, the sensible one, who, after our mother's death, had taken her place as head of the house. Fliry number three, is a frisky maiden, two years older than L She talks ever lastingly, and never says anytliing-worth hearing, only I like the rattle of her tongue. Then the little ones Florence, Maud, Blanche and Edith. If anything could have reconciled me to my hated prefix it was bearing them use it. How they used to tousle me around, and run races over me, and make the business of existence a perpetual scramble for me. Edith was only five years old when my twenty-first birthday came and I started for the west to seek my fortune. And now I pass over nine years.. It wduTdTbe hUe to teIToftne struggles anff hardships, the disappointments and suc cesses of those momentous times. Suffice it that, after various ups and downs, I took up government land in Colorado, a corner of which, very soon after, was fixed upon by the ruling magnates for a great railroad center, and presto! change! I was a rich man. I declare I've been living in an Arabian night ever since. I wrote directly home, telling of my good fortune, and I built a house and furnished it, and laid out my grounds and stocked them with a magnificence which accorded with my means. But here was my grand stumbling block. I am a quiet, reserved man. Indeed, I never, whatever society I may have been mixed up in, could identify myself with the spirit of my surroundings. I was alone, always alone. I understood Adam's predicament if anybody ever did. but however deep a sleep might fall on me, never the withdrawal of a rib diminished my either side. Up to the day when I was SO years old, and rich, my whole time on my hands, I bad been too busy to give the mntt01 much thought. But now this skeleton in my closet made up all my do mestic society. It wasn't sociable. Is it any wonder that L like many another victim of uncongenial fireside companionship, was much from home? Not that I went abroad in search of per sons with whom to exchange ideas. I rather think I was a tolerable wet blan ket when I dropped in among those in clined to that recreation. One day, saun tering into the railway station, I picked up a scrap of newspaper somebody had tossed by, and in my lazy, nimlesF super abundance of leisure began to run through it. Eureka! Here was the message I had waited for! Thereon I read that some body oh, the deliciousness of that sug gestion! some man, another as yet full ribbed Adam like myself, no doubt solicited the correspondence of the wo man "whose hand the fates had knotted into his." Upon that hint I spake, or rather I wrote. I don't think a forcing pump could liave got the words off my tongue though the very woman whom cf all the world I would have chosen had stood there with her ear open to receive them. But could- not I, trusting the "divinity which shapes our ends." so put forth my hand with faith, with that unconquerable force of will which should summon out of the unknown that completion of mv being which my soul craved? I went home, dashed my appeal on paper and hurried it off to thar beneficent little journal by the earliest maiL Could I wait for the time when an an swer was possible? It was no easy - but I managed to do it and what? Had my earnestness multiplied its demands? Had the editor secretly set me off as an inhabitant of Utah one in excellent standing; too? Fifty-seven letters the pofcCuaster Iianded out to me in answer to my first- call. 1 carried them liomt with a quaking lieart. Coulil they ail be addressed to tue? Yes. every one. and ia every one the writer erpresfil a l. lief that she had Found hrr other self in ma. Thev wn varumsiv written rrh I can't bear to think of taens. Before I'd- msrajlnapnt half through the clerk came ranking to my door with another. had been a second nil My bursting with theni. More than a hundred made ap tins last batch all tothesaasetune! HeavensL I lifted up say voice aad wept. But the end was They came pouring is day and In less than forty-eight hones I oouldltioother than whasIdsaC .a , m . lime tosena nan and different rahaliwtie they went off in smoke, but the was hateful to my nostrils. It plain I was on the wrong track. scttl tliey came. For thne weeks 1 stood the target for awih I ni;ver answered orre- t airy read one. Tliey all went in theChi 1 Basse mail to their ancestors, and I was at peace. Then there was a lulL No lectera fur a week. At the end of that tkste there came one, a dainty, per fssned. most artistic looking little mes senger, which mv inner consciousness at i once announced aa tlie foot for the glass supper; the dreamy, mawkish simpleton ! I was! I swallowed the bait, hook, line, ! fisherman, alL And. forthwith there . began a correspondence that might have melted a pathwav to the North Pole. I tokl the lady all about myself, except the matter of say worldly condition. That, r ask, wan unworthy the attention of T&isireeaSBny anworhily being; We exchanged photographs Did not that face which I used to carry in my vest pocket to draw out and study at j every odd minute realize my very ideal . of the face I could look upon forever? ft aa very- blonde, very thin, too re- markably thin hps. The head tipped sugnuy bade in all the particulars it indicated a character exactly my oppo site. I need more self assertion and a sharper tongue. Thus supplemented "mark (in me) the perfect man.' To prove our entire faith in each other, we decided not to see our future spouses until the bridal day, which was te be in about three months :tfter our engage ment. She being a resident of Indiana, and I of Colorado, we decided upon meet ing to consummate our vows in Burling ton, la It was just after this interchange of pledges that I received from home the news of my father's death. Poor, dear girls!" My heart was so tender just then it actually seemed to me I must fly back and take the whole six in my arms and shelter and provide for them. I had kept up an irregular correspondence with Harriet bless her! How could she care for the little ones? We never any of us had been over fond of our father, but bis death had taken away the prop of the house. I sent Harriet a thousand dollar draft, requesting her, if she need ed more, to draw on me; and, somehow, not in this act perhaps, but in getting so near to the sympathies and affections of old times, I felt ten fold more the rrtnn than I had felt before since I became rich. Life itself seemed actually more a reality to me. After this episode it was not so easy to shut myself out from all material surroundings and sit down to the business of dreaming out the para dise into which this woman was to con duct me. The next letter I had the privilege of pondering began "Dear Frank." To me! If I had acted the donkey in pri vate, no one had ever yet, since I had left home, presumed to address me with that off hand familiarity. Aside from 'thai sect of. say leaded estates, I had al ways held my personality in a way to compel respect. Here was one of the inevitable annoyances, however, I must learn to face, and that eoonl Matters were hastening- to their culmination. She had written to notify me that she would "probably arrive at the station" the letter specified that in my town; its platform touched one of my park gates "on the seventeenth." Whew! What could it mean? We'd agreed on Burlington as our 'mlr" way station, and the catastrophe was not to come off under three months. "The seventeenth. It was now the tenth. I stood aghast. Struggle to ignore it as I might, a cowardly, ignoble sense of dread at the prospect of meeting, face to face, this pen and ink idol of mine, a dread I had all along been conscious was lying dormant in my soul, pressed itself to the forefront and overshadowed every other sentiment- "Dear Frank." Only one little week. Oh. for the old honest, heartsome Brother Francis! Hark! was I dreaming? It was sing ing in my ears. Girls' voices, multitud inous, in familiar welcoming chorus. Was this a mirage? On my lawn? An optical Twas they! themselves! The girls! "Brother Francis! Brother Francisl" The stone walls of my house took to vocal speech and echoed, tearing the words into six different keys, every one straight off from a real flesh and blood larynx and tongue and pressed on by a great, loving- heart that throbbed behind it. It was they! Jly very pen loiters for one ecstatic moment to live over again that joyful surprise. The little girls grown into young women. Did ever Sutter such bright ribbons, or rustle cri, fresh sum mer muslins like to those? Such animat ed, glad young faces; such skipping feet! Was ever old bachelor embraced and fondled and passed about from hand to hand-to be exulted over and admired as I-nras! They had simply come home, and,, bless the Lord, my heart and my house were roomy enough to -hold them all Not a doubt luid ever entered any one of their innocent heads as to my wanting them and needing them. The question was. how ever liad I managed to live without them? My John Chinaman got up a dinner such as I never hoped could grace my table l-efore the arrival of its mistress ou:) Croquet sets, lawn ten nis fixings, side saddle ana saddle horses six six very beautifully fur nished chambers, parlor attractions with out stint, or count everything young lirtjiam could crave was at their dis posal before sunset. For the next six days we held un broken festival in honor of our reunion. Oh, but there was a lump of lead at my heart Could I tell them? What would our. sensible Harriet say? How Elian would chatter over the romance cf Brother Francis! And the little ones! Had I a right to show myself, I whom they ao bonored and looked up to, as the ridiculous fossil I was spooning over a Dandle of old letters, the writer of wfaiea I had never set eyes on? Would I re joice to sea one of them playing the role she'd played? 5b; a million times no! Tboae sjesplu, fresh hearted girls. Only tosmsarTasthat it could be ia the heart ofwomaa to do it, would have brought the bssjsh to every one of their young; faces. Only one day saore. 1 locked myself in nry chamber to re-read my liraae's fsst letter. "Signed,' it said, "for the least, rime, Lizzie- Sent. Just now, I own the touch of the thing; was repap;- tosaa. Bat the event tt heralded for me to nauee. Why, I had overlooked Lwiea itaemy,. is aa after thought, this; "Look for dear Frank (Til stop that wnasmss if I kve),.OH the train which reaches thereat 4 o'clock p. m. If I am belated, I will telegraph from KansaCky." 5b dispatch had come. Of course the trains were on time. Only tweaty-iour hoars. Well, the emergency ssast he met, and there waa no way I could think of but to take Harriet into mycoan deace. Harriet is not a person given to PTrkmattoH points. I hated to lower myself, aa I knew I must, in her eyes, by the relation. If it was a fact that the advent of the girls had swept my mind clear of the befogged aentunentalism which had reigned there in my loneli ness, it waa equally a fact that this ameer had not in her tha capacity to beMeve that aav man in his wewsiw would be guilty ef tha follies with which I had been. mtnrtsiBiag, myself for the twelve patiently, studying my face, with something; of the look with which a pagan might have gassd down on the remains of his shattered idoL There were sorrow, pity and deep solicitude in it. But she uttered no ungracious com ment. Of course she had set me down as insane, but she waa mindful of the trite maxim for such cases, "humor the patient.'' Entirely ready she was to advise with me on the preparations. One might have supposed, from the way she en tered into the business, that this was a matter of every day occurrence with me. She agreed it was not best to men tion the purport of the ""'"'"g ready to the little ones or even to Eliza. They might imagine a surprise party was oa the docket. One was. for that matter. All took hold. She and I played the mysterious, and such a jocular, hilarious time as they made of it! I didn't feel especially hila rious. Before 9 o'clock the next morn ing the house was decorated as for the reception of a princess. Edith said so. I groaned. Eliza planned the reception programme. I think she had a hint from Harriet. And the hours sped by! Three o'clock! Half past! We issued forth. I, alone in the little basket phaeton, three mounted sisters moving- as guards on either side. The railway gate was at the farthest cor ner of my park, the road to it winding, zigzag, measuring a full half mile. There! the train bell! The cars, insfrad of moving in, were moving out, and that was a thirty minutes' stopping place. I glanced at Harriet. I knew it hazily. She had put back the clock. The pre cious girl! saving for me and them a half hour's respite. But what was that? The gate was opened. I was to pass through, enter the ladies' waiting- room, find and snatch my bride (and dear knows how I should pick her out in the crowd, I am short sighted), bear her to my car riage, seat myself beaide her. turn back again, pass through that gate John, with his cue lengthened by a yard cf white ribbon, standing" with k in has hand ready to close it after me my escorting cavalcade was to tak6 up again its lino of march, the direction being home again. I said we had reached the gate. John had opened it. I. in pursuance of '" portion of my programme, was about urging my horse through when a smart buggy, containing two persons, dashed into the space and stopped. It was Frank Howard, the showiest beau in town, and a lady, a stranger. "Ah. Mr. Howland! Mr. Howland." he started off effusively, taking off his hat and bowing low. low enough to do reverence to all my sisters ten times over. "Congratulate me, Mr. Howland!" His face waa shiny enough to light a match by. "Let me introduce you to Mrs. Howard." taking the lady by the hand and doing the bow overagain. "My wife, Mr. "Howland! My wife, young ladies! Hatf an hour ago Miss Lizzie Kent. Now! now he swelled up again "Mra. Frank Howard" "Hurrah" I fairly shouted. "God lie praised!" I heard ejaculated from the li'i of our good Harriet. My whole being echoed the thanksgiv ing. It seems she had been holding the manacles ready for me or both of us. It was a paper Howard had thrown away that I picked up. He had then got through tlie mountainous experience that marked mv Fuiriatorv work. My Lizzie had !eeii correspondm;; with liim for three weeks, ami he took me up and kept mi- alon;. because, you know, if anything should hap pen to despoil her of the first, it would be well to have a second in the house to fill the gap. That "Dear Frank" letter was intended for him. Tn the hurry of getting- it off she uuxed up our names. Harriet found that outMimehow I'm a free man and there aren't hi all the forty -two states aix prettier, nicer giritt than are my sisters, and there isn't a prouder, happier oh! bachelor than i their brother Francis. A. T. Perry in Horie.rjnmaL Casan It's to talk than to apod hearts in Young people saoafd be A good rider suet study his It would be ae beautiful to be to people's bet- have little tisee for a tasacis the thiaa: mnlf. A fool could make a whet men aaasay, a ha looked at him long enough. It's as difficult to realise santhsr man's One may be ss aawnuem as aa old mulev but one does not aha It thrown hi one's race. Everybody work. Be atteQigeBt, but oa aa acsount origauu. Ittaaeranaforaamuaa seal to sal issaif. WJ a"" ai wvai vw iswasBrsem love. Don't run shortsppsaliag The great world paspee riinaufsl rilindssln epinina, whether he care tor sanaasghbor or sot Lovers may not asssaast to Bench, hut may talk about. SoeistyilsmBiirlibsavuuarpsrsaato act lite in old easier is a lilaa aiajiag, ia lie ss sU'BLtise or SBBjerier. Bseacha WiUsa How ard at Ta. Open Deer. " ' n t n-TT rraiiiif s lead lr faawea sense net that tha Saw Jersey k elm iteesTsi live. "That theaeewy aarm- whsthaahssasamby tbeaaessd eyudarmg tha last Ifty yearn. mOOs, wheat Mey ! MAiING COD LITER OIL METHOO OF EXTrtACTTNG THE USE FUL. ARTICLE Tha Uvea of the cod, haddock, pollock, bake and cusk are used in tha turn. Only about ose-third of the can output of this oil ia procured cod livers. From September until March tha liv ers are fat and in the bast mnrtifina A bucketful of livers wul then yield about six quarts of oiL Only four quarts of this, however, can be ssade suitable for modiria-il purposes; the n iiuiiiiait" two used by curriers. From March to- June the livers thin and inferior and will yield only anehalf as much oiL Cod liver oil for medicinal purposes must be made from livers of ash that have not been dead over forty-eight hours. Fishing; vessels on their long- trips to the banks save the fish livers in hogsheads and sell them to the oil manufacturers for thirtv cents per bucketful. From these livers aa in ferior quality of oil is made, that is used by tanners. araxxaa thx uvkbs. Up to about fifteen years ago the most primitive means were used for obtaining oil from livers. The results were very unsatisfactory, and the best portion of the livers was wasted. The old rafthnd was to expose the livers to the actioa of the sun until the oil was dried out. Only a small percentage of oil was thus se cured, and the residue was thrown away as useless. Now every portion of the liver hi used. The method is to put the livers into a large tin lined vat having a coil of perforated steam, pipes in tha bot tom. A pressure of thirty pounds of steam is put on the boiler, and the steam escaping through the perforations in the pipes saturates the livers with hot steam and thus tries out the oiL In hJf an hour after steam is turned on all the oil that can be procured by trying out will have risen to the surface. The livers, now termed "blubber," will have sunk to the bottom of the vat. The oil ia bailed off and put into barrels to cool and settle, after which it is refined by being allowed to freeze till it is of the consist ency of thick mush, when it is put into drilling bags and the pure oil pressed out in a heavy iron press. - The oil that is pressed through tlie drilling is considered refined, and after being put up in new barrels of forty-five gallons each is sold to the wholesale druggists for about thirty-six cents per gallon. From these it passes to the re tail druggists, who sell it for $4 or $5 per gallon. Running the oil through char coal and sand has been tried as a refining process, but it waa found to be vastly in ferior to the freezing- and pressing- pro cess. Refined cod liver ou, when sub jected to the same temperature at which tho crude oil was frozen, will change its color and assume a milky appearance. The refining process leaves in the bags a substance resembling lard in color and consistency. It is stearme. or "tanner's grease," and is used as a dressing for morocco. The blubber left in the bottom of the vat after the trying- out is allowed to work and ferment for forty-eight hours, and is then pressed. After the pressure baa continued for fourteen hours all the ofl is secured that remains in the blub ber. It is inferior oiL of which there are six grades; it is worth about twenty- five cents per gallon, and is used by cur riers in dressing, tanning and coloring leather. There is left in the bags a sub stance of the color and consistency of dry mud called "scrap," which is sold to farmers as a fertilizer at 99 per ton. STarCX TH2 RIGHT SPOT. The best quality of cod liver oil comes from Norway. It is much clearer and whiter than the American oiL It is put up in tin casks holding thirty gallons each, inclosed in wooden barrels. The claim, is made that no livers except those of the codfish are used in its manu facture, but .American manufacturers strongly suspect that it owes its remark able clearness to its having been mixed with seal oiL Twenty dollars per gal lon is considered a low price for this oU, and it sometimes goes as high as $28. America is the largest buyer of Norwe gian ofl. Newfoundland cod liver oil ranks next to the Norwegian oiL It is made en tirely of the livers of young-cod caught off the Labrador coast. Portland has a cod liver oil factory that produces 50 barrels a year 300 barrels of refined oil for medicinal purposes and 200 barrels of "curriers oiL" Cod liver oil has Ioajc been recognized aa a valuable remedial agent, but it is not generally known that sometimes when the oil fails to effect a cure the steam arising from, the trying- out vat will succeed. A consumptive here, in almost the last stages of the disease, happening to pass through a cod liver oil factory, stopped, inhahrl large draughts of the usually ossBuave vapors as taougn tney were tha sweets of a flower garden, remark ing: 'There ia something here that seems to strike the right spot," and. although a wealthy man, obtained permission to work in the factory. At the end of a month he had gained thirty pounds, had greatly unproved in appearance and foaliag, his appetite had returned, his fraagh was gone, and finally be com pletely recovered. Singers also some riaaea resort to cod liver ofl factories to Twhsla the fumes arising' from the vats. They assert that their voices are there by strengthened and cleared. Portland (Me.) Letter- One of the earliest of tha famous buc caneers was Cape Cromwell, who had been a commoa saflor ux New c-gtyj In ICaf he was ia command of three fast sailmj brigantines, filled with armed men, aad was driven into the harbor oi New Plymouth by a storm. Cromwell and his men soon afterwards came tc Boston, and while in that city prfaented Governor WTnthrop with an elegant se dan chair; captured in one of his prizes. Boston Budget. Tha art of etching waa introduced tha ssiddle of tha Fifteenth cen tury by Thomas Finignerra, a Floren- L tine. In value met waa prompt recog okion in Franca, Italy and Germany, but it waa reasrved for later times to carry Sawswesseea Caw CeasaeaeaeaaMw American cod liver oil is made have. txnasBBj eBBBsTesVwet- i nil nlMHI HH aesaJabna!Bsfe - ssam at haal- SBBssaweaBBBWaBSslaTBBBBBW. .jp ssBBSSBae'wH wsaa fssssea BBsajsaum gjanssssslsassBsssst fMuaaBBSasen ssaSBBBsmasm matsssssm tae aJsjsw EnsssBB eBfnmmpeeBBBH. asmmaayweja mmHfBBBBBn.,... 4BsBBaa earn t aceae ana osaer eaaa i BtlU of other Baaaa .. ...... TavSS Xieaele seal cents SS 84 Specie 4X3 73 Leeml MdH-seto IMS 80 Kedsssptiea faad wka CtCTraaaar er (a per ruat. of cin iilatiies). A. A3DERSO!f. Pnwt J. H. GALLEY. T ierW. OLT.aBJaXCa G-.UiMJettH. P. ASDeUBsOBL JACOnUhJaastX. aMSttSSaiOZ, JOBJ.8CLUTAf. J." DEUTCHER ADVOKAT, Osgce over Colnmbna State Nebraska. CILUTAI a 1 ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Otlce oTr First Satioaal Jiehraaaa. J EIlfeeftK. coevrr scs vryqr SeVParuae it iiinu mil lajiea deee ilreae me at Colambue. NebL. ur call at intoannocML L.J CO. SUPT PUBLIC SCHOOLS. IwuHeiaayoaw ia the Coart H third Satnrdar of each auiatk far t .nte tiua of auplicantu tor f i artiMV rurriBralas. aad iur uw uamwuui oi oiaer aeftom I raatw T sa. cepeKi;5, DRAT and EXPRESSJfAN, Light aad heavy hauliair. Honda handled with care. Hvedqaartera at J. P.lVcksrAC.aosSce. -leiepnone. 33 aau 3. FAUBLE BRADtiHAW. Ufuccrsaoi to Funhir Buxhell), brick: makers i 2r"?ontractora and heildera will Bad oar brick flrwr Ha and oSVrvd at neaneaeJe ratra We are also prepared to k all kiatia of Meat TWf K. TUaUsXat CO.. Proprietors ami Publishers of the SSUnaSS Zg23A ama ka SXE. FAXTTT lasrsar r.L Both, port-paid to anj addreaa. fur L0S a year, strictly in adraaee. F.nn.T Jocauf.tu L0S a yr. W. A. MCALLISTER. rcALIJHTEI W. M. COsHiELiUtt tC0sBKaLII7a ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Columbus, Neb. Office op stairs over Emiit 4 Srawarx's atom oa Eleventh street. UsssBytBI JOHN G. BIGGINS. C J. 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