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S j- ""- . - .t T " Z-- . 1 -c- . ijf iv . -il - '-W..- --TS- -w k, T, T - -r -5 " Z. 3&4&&S$& -0tcf ea -:.:V5rcv a :-';:,i wc- t. -VJU " "4 v v.. iJt Him COLTJME JS, NEB., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11. 1889. WHOLE NO. 1,022. VOL. XX.-NO. 34. ? v -Zi J r iV -- . ir-'iir r r anamanae-ls. ?.lM?g Zx&t , ,-. t-s: ; -;, xify? 'V, ...; . SaenaWenBnwnwsanannBsssa- J "". '--""WJUmnnen-T-"- -Li . ATsV' iST ".--i. " ' .' "? " . t .1 . ... - i im !! fawwx. i i i .-,. i. M - , - Al " m . .S 1 v& r ? 3T I ' if1 K"$ j . r COLUMBUS STATE BANK. COLUMBUS, NEB. . Cash Capital - $100,000. DIHKCTORS: LEANDERGERRAIlD.Pres't. rSEO. W. HUL8T. Vice PreVt. JULIUS A. KEEP. R. H. HKSRY. J. E. TASKER. Cashier. aaiKr setit, ! Clleetlelraaaitly 5t All lata. vj Iere Tltsne 274 CUM -OF- COLUMBUS, NEB., -HAS AN- JUtfiorizetl Capital of $500,000 ; Paid in Capital - .M,000 . ' o OFFICERS: ' : C. H. SHELDON. Prea't. II. P. IL OHLR1CH. Vice Pre. C. k. NEWMAN. Cashier. ' DANIEL SCHRAM. Ass't Cash. STOCKHOLDERS: C H. Sheldon. ... J. P-,?er-. Herman P. H. Oehlnch, Carl Kienke. Jonas Welch, W. A. McAllister. . J. Henry Wunleman, H. M. Winslow. Ueoiw W. Galley, S. C. ;rey. . Frank Borer. Arnold F. II. Oehlnch. iy Bank of deposit; interest allowed on time deposits; bay and sell exclmnge on United States and Europe, and buy and sell available securities. We shall be pleaned to receive jour business. We solicit your patronage. 2xlec87 FORTHE WESTERN COfTABE ORGAN CALL ON A. & M.TURNER r G. W. KIBLEB, XrmTcltas; !. '.jyUM. organs are first-cUvw in erery par ticular. and so unaranU-etL SCUFFIOTH t PUTN, Dt.LIB.S IX WIND MILLS, Btfdctye Mower, combined!, Self Binder, wire or twine. Paats Repairei slitrt nttiee wr-One door west of Heints's Dnw 8tore. 11th Ktreet. Columbus. Neb. lmoTt PRINCIPAL POINTS EAST, WEST, NORTH and SOUTH -JkX- TJ. P. Depot, Columbus. Umartt HENRY GASS. UNDERTAKER ! CwfPDB ATALLIC CASH - of all kinds of UpkoU I JUBnl 0 SALE jmS! 'TmPEtCklti 4f C0TJM1U.JAA. INTELLECTUAL LABOPu ITS PECUNIARY REWARDS ARE COM PARATIVELY SMALL. Tbere Are Xaay Keasea Wky It la Wall Hurt This Sheald Be So Undereiurreata of Enjoyment The Superficial Way f Valnine tlie Works of Men. Tlje tendency of the present nge is to place a pecuniary value upon everything, ami to underestimate, or hold in con tempt, anything Tvhich cannot at will be turned into cash. That this is a superficial, incorrect and vulgar way of estimating the value of things cannot be questioned, but it is equally true that nowhere is this tendency more pronounced than in this country" Millets "Angelus' is likely to attract wider public attention and be valued more highly than any other paint ing, .siuip'ly because it lias cost more, and no other means of advertising could liave been niore effective. THEY NEVER STRUCK. Intellectual labor can claim no such advantage to give it charm Li the popu lar eye, nor can it hold out the attrac tion of great pecuniary rewards to young men choosing a career, such as many of the commercial activities of the present time can safely promise. "When it remembered that clergymen, lawyers, physicians, writers of all kinds and art ists are picked men, with more than av erage talent, and of many years of ex pensive discipline and experience, it is evident that their pecuniary rewards are small compared with tho$e of many other callings requiring no greater talent and far less preparation. The moment such a topic is suggested countless illustrations come to mimi of the inequality between the service ren dered to the world and the pecuniary return tliat the world has been willing to give. Hilton received 5 for "Para dise Lost;" a host of authors whose names are inseparably connected with the chief glories of English literature, including Johnson and Goldsmith, al most starving in London, Heine and De Musset dying in garrets in Paris, with the financial straits to which Carlyle, 3Iatthew Arnold and even Emerssnwere often reduced, are striking examples of the truth running all through ancient and modern history that great thinkers are not rewarded in money by the gen eration which they adorn. Of a certain class of literary workers this is always true. The works of Her bert Spencer, widely a3 they are known and great as has been their influence upon contemporary thought, have never yielded their author an annual support. Great pecuniary prizes are frequently won by striking some popular chord, and the growth of habits and of facili ties for reading have made the rewards of literary labor greater now than ever before; but, nevertheless, the world's thinking is still largely done for it gratu itously. Tlie greater number of literary aspirants arcbbliged, like the Edinburgh reviewers, to ''cultivate literature upon a little oatmeal," and the majority of professional men are compelled to live in modest circumstances and with the practice of a rigid economy. There are many reasons why it is well tliat this should be so. There is a certain degree of self denial which seems neces sary to the attainment of the strongest influence over mankind. The thoughts and labors of many a man, living in pov erty and sacrifice, have a weight which would never be given them if it were known tliat they were well paid. This has always beenTecognized by the great majority of literary workers, and con sidering the degree of their deprivations they have not been discontented at giving their labor to the world without ade quate return. They have never struck for higher wages. THE REWARDS. Few of the great writers of the world have not been more or less under subjec tion to this stern mother of invention. Whether this was best for them or not the world lias freely left them so. It has often refused bare existence to its most richly endowed members, except on condition of earning by manual labor the rewards which the fruits of their in tellectual toil were not thought worthy to receive.. It might liave been thought tliat the latter part of the eighteenth century could liave made a better use, for itself and posterity, of its most exquisite genius for song than to have made liim an ex ciseman in the Scottish lowlands; or that Charles Lamb or Nathaniel Haw thorne could liave been better employed than the one as a clerk in the India office and the other as a custom house officer in Salem. It was poor discernment, as well as inadequate reward of genius, to have left Thoreau with the larger part of the edition of "Walden" on his hands, and to have allowed Corot to have re tained an almost unbroken collection of his own paintings until he was CO years old. It would be unjust, however, to speak as if the rewards of intellectual toil were confined to, or mainly represented by, either the recognition of mankind or pe cuniary returns. la no othar sphere of life can so much happiness of a high and noble kind be found. Whoever has fitted bimsolf by whatever expense of time and toil to appreciate the best that has been said and done in the world, to take part, however humbly, in molding public opin ion, and in contributing to tne advance of the race toward better conditions, has entered on a career which may have its deprivations, its perplexities and discour agements, but has also an undercurrent of enjoyment that nothing can wholly disturb. The physician who has saved a valuable life, the clergyman who clears away the mists of superstition from the minds of a large congregation, and gives them a vision of religious things in their true rationality and beauty, or the states man, author or editor who aids in lifting his generation up above itself, can afford to be ill paid in mere money. Such men's payment comes in different coin in a daily increasing personal worth, in the satisfaction of thinking the best thoughts of the time, in the con sciousness of contributing to the world's advancement, and in the increasing grati tude and affection of the best men and women. Providence JotxmaL The Hindoos are early risers. In the warm season extending from April to October they sleep either Bpon the hoesetop or in the court yard, or in the veranda, if rain should be threatening, and are usually up at 5 o'clock or earlier in the morning. In the cokl. weather, when they sleep witaia doors, they rise laser, bat they are oat before 7. Sieiag m the MonuBc while kasha awake, the Hindoo-repeats the of Baas sev eral tistes. Hariniiiee to yawn, he im- is finger, though he does not know wny. He prepares for hie inorning toilet. He plucks a twig from the bitter seem tree, breaks off a span length of it, crushes one end between his teeth and extem porizes a tooth brush. He next draws up water from the well in. the yard with an iron bucket, and prepares to wash his hands and face. This is quickly done. He then throws on an extra garment, the thickness and texture dependingon the season and weather, lights his hooka, takes a few pulls with his euphonious hubble-bubble, and is ready to go out With a passing "Rama, Bama" to friend or acquaintance, and a neighborly gossip by the way, he repairs to his place of business. While going he will sedulously avoid those signs and sounds which may augur ill for the day. Should one sneeze, or should he hear the cawing of a crow or the cry of a kite, or should he meet an oilman, or one blind or lame, or see a cat cross his path, he would be greatly distressed as to the day before him. Oa tlie other band, if a fox crosses his path. if he hears a gong or shell summoning him to worship, or if he meets a Brah man with his head uncovered, he would rejoice, hailing it as auspicious. Some are so superstitious that if any evil por tent occurs on the way they return home, have a smoke or chew a betel leaf, and proceed afresh. Science. Eaztaeerlac Feats. It is a remarkable fact that nothing surpasses in modern engineering the pyramids of Ghizeh, built more than 5000 years ago. It is universally ac knowledged by the highest professional authorities in architecture and building tliat the maaonry of the pyramids could not be surpassed iu these days, and, moreover, is perfect for the purpose for which they were intended above all, to endure. After the building of pyramids was once commenced it was the fashion for about ten centuries to erect, huge, meaningless, pointed piles of masonry. Of the hundreds" erected about seventy have resisted the ravages of ages, and may still be seen. Many of those re maining contain enormous blocks of granite from thirty to fifty feet long, weighing from 300 to 500 tons, and dis play the most consummate ingenuity in their construction. A more, difficult operation 'than the mere transportation of immense stones' tliat of erecting obelisks weighing 400 tons was performed with precision by the Egyptians 300 years before the time of Christ. Of the ancient method of raising immense stones nothing is now known it is one of the many lost arts. The ancient Peruvians had a method of transporting immense blocks of stone that would be a fortune to the modern engineer did he possess it. The Romans were also eminent engineers, and by some authorities are set down as even exceeding the Egyptians in that di rection. Immense stones were used in constructing the temple of Baalbec; one lies ready quarried which is seventy feet long and fourteen feet square, and weighs 1,135 tons! Chicago Times. The Desecratloe of Rome. In order not to wander too far from the main subject I will cite one item only of these annals of destruction. I will mention what happened in the val ley of the Forum between 1540 and 1649. In less than ten years' tune the men em ployed by the contractors of St. Peter's to search for building materials crossed the valley of the Forum from end to end, like an appalling meteor, destroying, dis- mantling, splitting into fragments, burn ing into lime, the temples, the arches, the basilicas most famous in. Roman his tory, in the history of the Old World, together with the inscriptions which in dicated their former use or deuign, and the statues and bass-reliefs which orna mented them. In 1540 tlie podium, steps and pediment of the temple of An toninus and (Faustina were removed to St. Peter's or otherwise made use of. Between 1541 and 1545 the same fate be fell the triumphal arch raised in honor of Fabius Maximus, the conqueror of Savoy; the triumphal arch raised in honor of Augustus after the battle of Actium; the temple of Romulus, son of Maxentius, and a portion of the Cloaca llaxiuia. In 1546 the temple of Julius Caesar was leveled to the ground, to gether with tlie Fasti Consulares and, Triumpliales engraved on its marble basement; in 1547 the temple of Castor and Pollux was dismantled: in 1549 the temple of Vesta, the temple of Augustus and the shrine of Vortumnus. Black wood's Magazine. A Great Qaeatleai Settled. At the high school, in the first class, an interesting debate was had on the subject, "la the Mind of Woman Inferior to That of Manf Andrew M. Bush, Jr., and Harry Macomber took the affirma tive side of the question and Miss Julia Hunt and Miss Edna Tobey the negative side. Tlie girls argued that the most temperance work is being done by wom en. The boys replied that all the greatest temperance lecturers were men. To this the girls retorted that it was easier to talk than to work. The boys remarked that the average weight of man's brain was greater than that of woman's. "A fool's brain weighs more than a wise man's1 was the answer of the girls. "But we said ihe average weight," replied the boys. A girl said: "I think quality should be considered rather than quan-' tity. The clincher came when one of the boys arose and said: "AsIunder-! stand it, God is a man, and if the mind of woman is superior to man God would have been a woman." At this climax a vote was taken and favored the afirma-: live side. New Bedford Standard. AdaltenUeA Cia Tea. The heathen Chinee, who is nothing if not economical, has an ingeniously simple method of eating his cake or, rather, in the celestial translation, drink ing his tea and having it also. He makes the tea, drinks the first delicate infusion and then dries the leaves again, packathem in those mysteriously lettered boxes we know and exports them to the western barbarian, who, he has found out, likes his tea strong and stewei. It is true that the tannic add apt to some out of tho leaf in the second ix,.uaioa may injure the British etossarh Thatie not John Qunaman's business; he knows the beauty and profit of adalteratioa. New York Telegram. Well McFingle There is a firm in Minneap- alis that goes under the style of Fierce efc Quest. JfcFangle WeD, what abowt MS McFiagle Nothing, esdy 1 was tWak- iag that fiMir employes mart iMvetosaiad J their Fs asdjj's. Lswreace QUEER TRADES IN PARISL ODD CRAFTS THAT ' SURPRISE THI YANKEE GLOBE TROTTER. Xetbeaa T Xaktas; the M Cehhler Vm Bae Made F Oet T Aarte BlgSteriea Al There are many queer trades in Paris. One of the oddest is that of "painter of turkeys' legs." This artist is known only to the poultry dealing fraternity and is a highly useful member of the community. By his artistic skill he enables the trader to palm off a bird of patriarchal age, with a certain vague romance as to the date of its decease, upon a misguided housewife, or even upon an experienced buyer, who has learned to judge a tur key after the manner of cookery book writers. Turkeys when freshly killed have shiny black legs and claws, brat as. the day of their death becomes more or les3 a matter of ancient history their lower extremities assume slaty, dingy gray color. Old turkeyn.ioo, hare long claws and horny looking beaks, which the ingenious artist pares and varnishes. The artist goes round to his' customers three or four times a week, paints the feet of the birds with his solution (which was sold as a trade secret to the present owner for 40). carefully pares the nails and beak, and there you have a turkey that will fetch half as much again. It is only during the desperate struggle with the ancient lieast that ensues at dinner time that you realize how fraudulent are its pretensions to juvenility. rHE CAT INDUSTRY. "Cat killers'' are not numerous, but the few who monopolize the trade make a great deal of money out of it. They walk through Paris about midnight with a sack and a couple of terriers, and when they catch sfaht of a stray puss off go the dogs, who seldom return to their master without their prize. Their skins are sold to furriers and their flesh to the keepers of eating houses in the suburbs, where "rabbit stew" is a favorite dish. But for stewed rabbit one likes to be sat isfied that a bunny has been sacrificed, so the workmen who delight in this dainty require to see a rabbit's head as a proof of the bona fides of tlie dish. This would puzzle an ordinary individual, but the "cat killer" la a genius and a French man, and is not so easily disposed of. He also deals in rabbit skins, and has an arrangement with the cooks in the neighborhood to let him have the heads at the same time as the skins of the rab bits for his penny or two. By this in genious method he is. enabled to send out to his customers two or three cats' bodies, minus the tails, with aeach rab bit's head, and one more dainty dish is added to the Parisian menu and eight or ten shillings to the well filled purse of the exterminator of the feline race. The French capital harbors the largest num ber of cats Ou any city in the world in proportion to its size. Whole colonies of them are to be found in the vicinity of the markets, where they feed on broken victuals and make incessant war on the rats. At the Halles Centrales their numbers have increased so rapidly of late tliat a portion of them had to be destroyed, as they roamed about in bands like wild beasts, and were beginning to be dan gerous. Puprez, the well known tenor singer, has earned the title of Le pere des chats, for he daily feeds hundreds of these animals at his own expense. The prefecture de police likewise entertains a large colony of cats which are placed under the care of an old woman of 70, who supplies them with daily rations of meat and milk. "AST FARMERS." "Ant farmers," though only number ing half a dozen or so in Paris, are by no means to be overlooked in our study of odd trades. One, for instance, rejoices in the name of Mile. Blanche. She is not prepossessing in appearance. Her skin looks like dried pippins, and is tanned like crocodile hide. She has leather gauntlets and trousers, a regular coat of armor, but notwithstanding this she is knawed and bitten by her ungrate ful stock to such an extent that she is perfectly hideous. She sleeps in the middle of the sacks of ants, and her epidermis has become so insensible to the bites of those insects that she slum bers soundly and sweetly while hundreds of them are endeavoring to extract a meal from her thick skin. She was some time ago compelled to remove her quarters to a spot just out side Paris, because the neighbors not unreasonably objected to the stray mem bers of her farm skirmishing on their own account in the pantries of the ad joining houses. Mile. Blanche supplies breeders and keepers of plieasants, the zoological gardens, aquariums and large bird dealers with ants eggs and receives never less than ten large flour sacks of ants a day from Germany and elsewhere. By keeping ihem in a great heat and feeding them well they are induced to lay a vast quantity of eggs. It is inter esting to record that Mile. Blanche is by this time possessed of a handsome fortune. Horseflesh is still eaten by the Paris inns, much as such a statement may horrify my readers across the sea. At least a thousand horses are killed here every year to supply this meat -to the capital. About thirty shops sell nothing but horse, mule and donkey's flesh. Many of them have over their doors boucherie hippique, and do a rushing trado among the working population, who have no foolish scruples about eat ing portions of wha$ fs certainly the cleanest of animals. It is no secret that the major part of the "beefsteaks" at the restaurants as well as nine-tenths of the sausages come from defunct gee-gees. The thin flattened sausages from the north of France are made from horse flesh, and the Lyons sausages from the. meat of the docile donkey. Cor. Phila delphia Times, Carlfle sad the One morning, a fewminutes before the school hoar, when most of the pupils had arrived and they had gone into the school, a donkey was entering the playgroaad. Bill Hood and I were so far on oar way, rushed to mount the animal and begsM to guide and force it into the schooL With desperate sparring the donkey was in duced to carry its rider over the thresh old, and what a reception both of them got from the juvenile crowds! Bags of books were at oace fastened to the tail aad around the seek of the ass, sad so basywere BQl and half a dosen compan joas ia nrgjag the fbrfeto cmtet aroaad the school aad to ascend the short stair of the sshr's desk that they did not ao- &tfccwtiaM they coald ressove the stranger Mr. Car lyle appeared. We expected a Ueuica doue explosion of wrath, bat he burst into a roar of laughter each a roar, however, as, instead of tempting as to join ia it, prodaced a sadden and complete hush, and that roar was renewed again and agaia, when the ass, withdrawing its fore feet from the first step of the desk stair and turning round, took a pace or two slowly' toward the master as if to salute hiy. ' "That," exclaimed Carlyle, "is the wisest'' and best scholar Kircaldy has yet seat me; be is At to be your teacher." He tapped the donkey's head, as he was wont to do ours, and said: "There's something here far more than in the skulls of any of his brethren before me, though these skulls are patted in fond admiration by papas and mammas, and though that far grander headpiece meets only with mercQess blows." ' He then gave some hard taps on Bill Hood's head, and would not allow him todjesaouat, Teat feraesadty ordered hum to rluVopand-down the school for an' hour, while the boys who had been most active in helping Bill-to go through the farce had to march in pairs before and behind the perplexed-looking ass. He did not require the other scholars to attend to their school lessons, but silently per mitted them to stand as spectators of the grotesque procession. Then he himself, seated within the pulpit-like desk, sur veyed Bill and his company with a strange mixture of mirth, scorn and fury. Cor. Edinburgh Scotsman. Ia Keataekr Cave. Provided with lanterns, several young men started in the entrance known as Coleman's Cave Spring, near Harrods burg, and went eastward three miles, where they could distinctly hear the trains on the Cincinnati Southern road at Burgin, which is four and a half miles from this place. They found a stream of water running the entire distance ex plored. In this stream they found fish and frogs innumerable. Tlie passage was from seven to fifteen feet wide and about the same height, except occasion ally narrowing down to a fat man's mis ery. Not far from the entrance the ex plorers found a large room, twenty to thirty feet, studded with stalactites. In the center of tlie cavern is acirculai chamber thirty feet in diameter and ne less than fifty feet high. This is a veri table rotunda, covered, as it were, by a high, well shaped dome. Over the en trance is a large curtain formed by the' union of stalactites and stalagmites, fif teen feet wide and as many high. The most unique thing found by the explorers in the cave was the fac-simile of a side saddle, all of solid sandstone, opposite the doorway in this chamber. The young men attempted to sing tlie "Star Spangled Banner," but were forced to desist on account of the terrible rever berating echo that filled every nook, corner and recess of the cave. They found a number of bones of small ani mals, but aside from the fish and frogs no living creature was found. They will explore the cave in a few days, going a different direction from the one taken by them yesterday. Near the outer opening of the cave, cut in stone, was found the initials "D. B.," and numerous figures and designs of animals and birds. The initials were supposed to be for Daniel Boone, and those who saw them say they look to have been placed there years ago. Louisville Courier-Journal, Proverbs Aboat RaJa. When there is unusual clearness in the atmosphere, and objects are seen very distinctly, there will probably be rain. When clouds are gathering toward the sun at setting, with a rosy hue, they fore fell rain. Evening gray aad morning red. Pus on your hat, or you'll wet your head. If rain commences before day, it will stop before 8.a. m.; if it begins about noon, it will continue through the after noon; if not till 5 p. m., it will rain through the night; if it clears off in the night, it will rain the next day. If it rains before seven. It will clear before eleven. If it rains before sunrise, expect a fair afternoon. If it rains when the sun shines, it will rain the next day. If clouds appear suddenly in the south, ex pect rain. Bain from the south prevents the drouth. But raia from the west in al ways best When rain comes from tlie west, it will not continue long. If rain falls during an east wind, it will continue a full day. If an assemblage of small clouds spread out or become thicker or darker, expect rain. Small inky clouds foretell raiu. Dark clouds in the west at sunrise indi cate rain on that day. If the sky after fine weather becomes heavy with small clouds, expect rain. Boston Journal. The Other Way. A well known Chicago attorney tells a good one anent the quick wit and ready tongue of that brilliant lawyer, the late Emery A. Starrs. It was after the ven erable Justice Skates had left the Illinois supreme bench. The justice liad specu lated a good deal and had been unfor tunate. He had been sued to recover certain claims, judgment had been en tered against him, and attachments against his property had been taken out But none of hi3 property could be found and the attachments remained unsatis fied. On account of the prominence of the justice, the case was well known among lawyers. Not long afterward Mr. Storrs was defending a heavy at tachment suit, and the lawyer on the other side took occasion to cite a certain decision of the Illinois supreme court in support of his position. Storrs was on his feet in a moment. "Whose decision is tbatr he asked. "It was written by Justice Skates," replied the other attor ney. "Well,'' said the witty Storrs, "'Skates on attachments' may be all right, but attachments on Skates ain't worth a cent!" Chicago Herald, A lease fa SaeUIae;. Pay great attention! What does this spell Gboughphtbeightteau?- Well, ac cording to the following rule it spells it spells Do you give it up? It spells po tato, viz. gh stand for p, as you will find from the last letters in hiccough; ough for p, as in dough; phth stands for t, as phthisis; eigh stands for a, as in neighbor; tte stands for t, as in gazette, and ean stands for o, as in bean. Thus yon have p-b-t-a-t-o. Who will give gnother? Yenowine's News. Haw Va Spelled It. Jessie Don't you agree with me, Mr. Doodkigh, that Miss Jiltem is the most artless of girls? Doodleigh (an ywiiucressfal wooer) Certaialy. Awfully artless. (Sottovoce.) BjaiXsaeil it with aa"h.' LAND OF KING ARTHUR, SIGHTS SEEN ON A JOURNEY ROUND THE CORNISH COAST. Jutting far out from England into the furious AUaatie is a bit of rock-but. tressed liml of most singular shape which snati'ns a distinct and interestiag peo ple. Iu geographic contour suggests the curious silhouette of some coachant gi gantic mastiff, or huge wild beast. It b easy to see ia its southernmost out reaching, its two powerful fore feet; fa its northern coastline its braced aad brie tliag back; in its most northern projec tion an erect and pngaarious tail; in iss eastera Devonshire houadary its hsnacsss aad laMfeet, the eternal granitaof Devon. A WIDK TTSW. Standing upon Hehsbarrow, one of its drear and highest peaks, one can see smiling Devon to the east: almost to Land's End, its farthest westward wall; to (Lizard Head, its remotest southern headland; across its entire reach of hills and inoorlaads far out upon St George's channel to the northwest, and over the white sails of fisher and coaster to the southeast, where the savage sea lashes and fumes in vain about 'the most furi ous of all mariner's beacons, the won drous Eddystone light But standing there, with all this majes tic cyclorama before you, desolation only is apparent to the eye. The moor lands stretch dolorously as if in bound less loneliness. The tors and hills are bleak and bare. The whole face of nature seems torn and scarred, as by tremendous elemental struggles. A myriad hissing fragments of exploded planets hurled in awful upper rain upon this land could have left no more un .sightly hurts upon it Yet all these caverns and chasms which disfigure it were made by the hand of man. Its granitcv shale and slate hide copper, tin and iron. For more than 3,000 years its surface has been cleft, and its depths gored and bored, until its face is pitted as if with extinct volcanoes, whose bases were honeycombed to a mile's depth, and, laterally, so far outward' beneath the ocean, that its very shell was cracked and broken, until, to prevent the sea dropping through, the bottom was stuffed and plugged and soldered like a leaky basin! m Almost unto today, as time is' meas-. ured. this land to the rest of England was a veritable terra incognita. "West Barbary" it was called to fitly describe ifcj uncanniness, its supposed ignorance and its popularly accredited semi-barbarism. Of its 400,000 souls, one-eighth, from youth to death, in darkness pick and blast in shift and drift beneath its wind swept moors. Until a century since a distinct Ianguago was spoken, areached and taught Today in the larger towns "the purest English spoken" is said to prevail; but again today not a league from these towns among- fisher folk, miners and peasants, an ordinary Englishman or American can scarcely understand a word uttered. KDJQ ARTHUR'S LAND. Yet here are lifevand scene of the greatest fascination; both life and scene of simplicity, beauty and grandeur; while romance and legend glow wonder ously in every tor, combe and stream; romsnee and legend the oldest and most winsome in all England. For here lived, or were born to deathless legend, Arthur, Launcelot and Guinevere, and the brave old Round Table Knights. This wild and sturdy land is King Arthur's land. It is CornwalL The writer began his journey around the Cornwall coast from the little sea port bathing place of Bude,onBude bay, not more than two leagues from the northern boundary of King Arthur's land. Beyond this for a dreary distance, above you stretch treeless downs, below youaro jagged cliffs, and beyond these, notliing but myriads of sea fowl and the measureless sea. At High Cliff one stands over 700 feet above the ocean, where every landward sound is annihi lated by the thunders of the sea, but one of the finest coast views in all England is provided. Not four miles further down the coast you come as to a Mecca of hallowed romance to wild and drear TintageL What matter it whether ro mance or fact coined the sterling gold that rings through the legend old. Call it fact because it was good, and made a 'stainless king." So there before you on that wave lashed, almost island pro montory, stands today the still easily traced remains of Tintagel of old! Here was the very landing place of King Uther. Here Uther Pendragon besieged the duke of Cornwall in his twin castles, Tintagel and TerrabU, slew him, and the same day married the dead duke's wailing wife, Ygrayne, to whom in time a boy was born. The enchanter Merlin reared the child Arthur under good Sir Ector's care, and restored to him the kingdom of Cornwall on Pendragon's death. The noble Arthur instituted the Order of Knights of the Bound Table, whose saintly acts, in the service of God and man, until they fell into sin, are the most shining deeds of all tradition; he loved only and married Guinevere,whom Launcelot, his dearest friend, betrayed; and at last, receiving his death wound in the battle with his rebellious nephew's forces, just over there at Camelford, but two leagues from where yon stand in the ruins of Tintagel, Arthur bade his last loyal knight, Sir Bcdever, carry him to Dozmaro Pool also but a little distance away, where the Cornish demon Tregea gle once had his dwelling fling his sword Excalibur therein, when a boat rowed by three queens appeared. These queens lifting him in, wailed over him, and they all sailed away over the mere to the "island valley of Avillion" that his "grievous wound might be healed." Cor. New York Commercial Advertiser.' A Talesele Asm Chair. -The Lodz Zeitung states that an extra ordinary discovery was made in an old lumber room at Lodz. An old arm chair, winch had belonged to the present own er's grandfather, and had bees pot away man attic for want of room, was brought cut the other day to be recovered. When tho old cover was taken off a large packet was found staffed into the seat of the chair, containing three bank notes of 1,000 roubles each, 800 roubles in gold, a receipt from the bank, dated 1817, fee 0,500 roubles, aad several aoadc The chair has bees in the pnssfsiiiisi of the reseat owner for aoma years, aad was looked upon as a useless piece af aid far akure.' 'Loadoa Glahe H1AT IS TAIIO ABOUT. TaTXKB are esdy two ex prcsideaai Mr iafl Hayes aad CSevelaad aad but aae vice areaidsat Himlai. Tu charters of some t have been revoked by the secretary ef state of Missouri for failure to comply with the anti-trust aad pool law caacted by the last session of the legislature of that state. The companies areall reported as continuing business at the old stands and awaiting the further actioa of the Missouri authorities. Weathkk Ppophet Blakk of is out in another ktter warning the pub lic that December will be a cold moath; that the coming winter will be a cold winter, and that the sunmer of 1980 will be a summer of extremes ia temper ature and rninfaJL Cmzr MaybH, ef.the has issued a Thanksgiving proclamation in which he sets forth that the original Thanksgiving celebration in this coun try was the annual "green corn dance' of the Indians, a mystic ceremony of praise and thanks to the Great Spirit for the gift of maize. HaNsOleson of Preson, Wis., was very unpopular at home, and when a mob of citizens called at his house oa Tuesday night his wife and son joined the party and helped to pull the rope that strangled him. A Turkish ship with 500 Mohamme dan pilgrims on board went down in the JEgan sea. All perished save the cap tain and two of tlie crew. Seattle has risen Phoenix like from her ashes and offers $25,000 for a finish fight between Sullivan and Jackson. Negotiations are in progress for tlie sale of the foreign patents on the Griggs Schroeder gun to representatives of En gland. The Americans who control the invention will realize about $600,000 by the sale. The highest wages paid for labor any where in the United States an average of $2.25 per day are credited to the smelting anil refining works at Argen tine, Kan., the largest institution of the kind in the world. Fifteen mines in Boulder county. Colorado, representing a daily output of 2,000 tons of coal, closed down, the oper ators and miners holding different views as to the value of overtime. The scenes of the big fire in Boston in 1878 were re-enacted last week in the same district, the losses aggregating in tlie neighborhood of ten millions. With the exception of temporary incon venience to business firms and the em barrassment of some of the weaker in surance companies, tlie effect of the fie will not be materially felt in general business circles. One notable fact de veloped by this conflagration is tliat the word "fire-prooF' may not be correctly used in connection w'th buildings in tlie compactly built cities, for solid blocks, apparently of stone and iron, burned, cracked, and fell, offering but little re sistance to the flames. The officers of the ltouse or the Fifty-first congress are as follows: Speaker, Reed of Maine; clerk, McPherson: ser-geant-at-arms, Holmes of Iowa; door keeper, Adams of Maryland; postmaster. Wheat of Wisconsin. TnE action of the late silver conven tion is likely to be felt during the pres ent session of congress. The Republican congressional caucus has finally settled the speakership ques tion by the selection of Mr. Reed of Maine. Mr. Beed is less popular among public men than either McKinley of Ohio or Cannon of Illinois and his selec tion was due to the division of the west and south and the almost solid vote of the east in his behalf. An Iowa man was recognized in the selection of the caucus Hon. A. J. Holmes, for ser- geant-at-arms. New York's world's fair guarantee fund has finally reached the live million post and in comparison with the action of the Chicago fund seems to be growing no larger very fast. Tliese guarantee funds are somewhat deceptive on tlie face. Under a strain of local patriotism and nerved up by a hope in the future, men have promised bums which in many instances can not and will not be paid, and when the fortunate city lias been se lected, and the committee attempts to realize upon the liberal contributions, the matter of shrinkage in the fund will be come painfully apparent Ten millions in contributions will be none too much to cover the five millions in money. Hox. W. H. West, who headed the Ohio delegation to the silver convention at St Louis, has made a repot to Gov ernor Foraker, in which lie intimates the call was a delusion and the convention itself a snare. Instead of 2,000 delegates he found a couple of hundred in attend ance and nearly all from states and ter ritories west of the Mississippi. He de clares the wlwle proceedings to have been in the interest of wliat he terms tlie sil ver clique. An attempt lias been made to assassi nate M. Tisza, the president of the Hun gerian council. Four men placed a quantity of dynamite under the pave ment in front of the lower house, intend ing to explode it as the premier came out M. Tisza raade his exit from the rear and thus escaped death. It seems that a brass band concert accompanied the exercises of placing the dynamite,and that the premier was ad vised of the cheer ful fate prepared for him. Sumway Mr. Fangle, may I take you apart for a little while? Fangle Do you think you comd pot s&e together again? Munsey's Weekly. First PoliticiaB Where are you going? Second Ditto To pay a gas btlL "Ah! I see. Paying off year stomp r W mt "Bea Har"ha recently been trans lated into -Dutch, as has also "John Ward, "n-ff&'i4.-F-s, IAX. G.AS DOelOM. BOKUaAlf. JOHNJ P. JACOB O aUQMU .SUIAIYAR. First MM Ink tMin u.a. i Other Seal Estate. taraHaes i Dae frees stair hsalrs.. ..a " '" U.bVTrMearr. S73.e Cash oa Head 17.sW.a- attla7. fmjMK UAarxxrrsa. Capital aad Sarplo.. g 8t.SSt6S av BIlTlaia9lm piQsHi.i, swuVs aW Natioaal Bank aotee owtsf artiac .... eV3U) Rediscounts .... "S.SSI 14 Due Depositors Ill JOS St tar.ase ApraB--8atf daap aueawaueeaaTaweT 0BK' ejasae7e H. CIEJA-'l, DEUTCHER ADVOKAT, over Cohuahaa Celassaaa, Nebraska. O ULJLITAIt e ATTORNEYS AT LAW, OaW over First Ifstioeal kanaka. X aUJa-UBK!-, COUXTY SUKVMTOM. tW-Partis il tile. iii - dreasBse.atCoteaibaa.Neew.orcaUati ia loan hi CO. SUPT PUBLIC SCHOOLS. I will ha I w -m- - ik. f. third Sataidar of each aeath for the uwh oc appuraaut ror rieiasis ei for the traasactioa of other school "."Mam T at. CdhwKlJM, DRAY and EXPRESSMAN. Li-ht aad heavy luuuW floods Handled with care. Headqaartem at J.P. Brcker Co.'s osare. Telephone. and 31. ZbaaiSStf P UBLE A BRADBHAW. taacccasor lo taulUe er BuaAtU), BRICK MAKERS ! r-Coatractors aad builders will fad par brick first-ckue aad offered at n aniiiislils rates. We are also prepared to do all kiads of brick JJf K. TUaUrXa-L At CO, Proprietors aad Pabliaaers of the eeLtnoro xnsALtu tiara. riuLr jwxa Both, post-paid toaayaildreM. for g&M a year. strictly in advance. Fawu JocasAL, 1.00 a year. w. a. McAllister. w.m.cornkuub McALUgTEB e Csft-KUIjS ATTORNEYS AT LAW. ColBBbas.Neb. Office ap stairs over Eraet Srhwan's store oa hleventh street. MawytsJ JOHN G. HIGGIXS. C J.OAKLOW. HiQonii outtow, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, Specialty made of Collectioae by C. J. Garlow. 3J-m It. C. 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