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si""" X 1m&- gi - -. '-: 4-V . w. r- 'VJfjK- ' 7J' . - X .4" .&- 'V .--m: VOL. XXHL-NO. 9. COLUMBUS, NEB., WEIfifESDAY, JUNE 15, 1892. - , WHOLE NO. 1,153, Cokmtel tonrcl , t ..-r- .,' , t :- --c H,vv-.- Mr i: :l .. STi,: IB 1 ,--r- :i . fSr. THE OLD RELIABLE Columbus - State - Bank ! (Oldest Hank in the State.) Pays Interest on Time Deposits AND Makes Loans on Real Estate. - ISSUES HlfiHT DRAFTS ON Onaha, Cbloaga, New York and all . Foreign Countries. o SILLS : STEAMSHIP : TICKETS. . -o . BUYS GOOD NOTES And Helfw its Customers when the Need Help. OFFICERS AMI IMKITTOKS: LEAN DER GERHARD. PreVt. It. II. II EN It V. Viiv Pren't. JOHN STAIIKFKR, Cashier. M. BRUlitlElt. (J. V. 11ULST. -OF COLUMBUS, NEB., -HAS AN- Authorized Capital o( sr,(M,WK Paid in Capital - .MUHM OFFICERS: C. H. SHELDON. Pres't. H. I. II. OIILHK'II. Vice Pre-. C. A. NEWMAN, Ca-hier. DANIEL SC11HAM. Atw't Cadi. STOCKHOLDERS: C li. Sheldon. J. P. Becker, Herman 1. H.Oehlnrh. Carl Kienke, Jon&H Welch. V. A. 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As reported to the Senate the meas ure provides for the construction of j one hea-g-oinu- coast line battleship, de signed to carry the heaviest armor and most powerful ordnance, with a dis placement of about 9,000 tous, to have the highest practical speed for vessels of its class, and .to cost, exclusive of armament and premiums for speed, 5 , 000,000: for one harbor defense double turreted, arm or clad of 7,500 tons displacement, to have the highest possible speed, and to cost, ex clusive of armament and premiums. 83,000,000: for four light draught gun boats, from 00 to 1,000 tons displace ment, to cost $450,000 each, and for six torpedo boats, to cost SI 10,000 each. In order to afford as much encouragement to American industry as possible the bill provides that not more than two of the torpedo boats are to be built by the same firm. The addition which it is thus pro posed to make to the navy is very mod erate. The vessels proposed are pre cisely the types in which the navy is at present deficient. The powerful armor elada are urgently needed to make our great sea coast cities secure. The four light draught jjnn boats would prove of high value for South American and Asiatic service, and the torpedo boats form an essential part of the modern scheme of coast defense. The cost of these vessels will not be excessive. It will be distributed through at least four years' appropriations: and the ulti mate gain of their construction to the nation may be beyond the power of figures to compute. The action of the Senate committee makes the issue of naval defense be tween the two parties so plain that it cannot be mistaken. The Democrats of the House have placed themselves on record as squarely opposed to the crea tion of a nuvv adequate to protect American rights in every part of the globe. The Republicans in the Senate have been true to Republican prin ciples in advocating a naval force worthy of the resources and position of the United States. The Naval bill as amended will be sent back to the House for concurrence. On the Demo cratic majority in that body rests the responsibility of refusing to carry en the patriotic work of nwal construc tion which the Republican party has inaugurated. ENGLISH AGRICULTURE. How it Has Been Kuined by the Free Trade Party. At the Cotton Growers' convention, held at Atlanta. Ga., October, 1891. a res olution was adopted agreeing to reduce the acreage and production of cotton to the demands. This shows that the cotton growers are educated or posted as to the amount required, and now they propose to regulate the produc tion. And this is an example all farm ers should follow, as before indicated. The London Financial Times, re ferring to the report of the Royal Com mission on the state of British agri culture, says: On every page there was proof from all classes of witnesses connected with the cultivation of the lands, of falling rents, of the rapidly diminishing pro duce raised on English tarms, and an enormous acreage for which no tenants could be found on any terms, and which was either taken into the laud lord's hands or thrown out of cultiva tion altogether. Farms which, a few years ago, were in the highest state of cultivation are given up to weeds, and the homesteads, once the pride of the country side, are falling, in almost every county, into ruins. The com mission had no difficulty whatever in finding a satisfactory explanation for this disastrous condition of things. It was only the inevitable result of our system of free trade. Speaking at Oxford. Lord Salisbury, the Prime Minister, said: There is one subject so deeply hateful that I hardly like to touch it. because I do not at present see any complete and sufficient remedy which I can offer to the evils which I see before me. The state of agriculture is simply deplorable. England's rapacious greed, seeking control of the markets of the world re sulted in the sacrifice of her agri culture. In manufacturing she is no longer supreme: her American rival distances her SIOU.000,000 a year, while her laborers who receive not aid from their well-paid American relatives or friends, and ve without the means of emigrating from the country of frcu trade to the land of protection, have but poor prospects for their old age the pauper's fate, tenancy and death in the poor-house. TARIFF PICTURES. The steady advance in wages in the woolen industry is one of the most gratifying results of protection. In 1880 the average annual wages of em ployes, including women and children, in the establishments that manufact- ure woolen and worsted fabrics were rtT-V- In 1SD0 they were $367. The silk manufacturing industry in the United States i steadily advancing under the protective tariff. In 1874 the product of establishments using siUc party or wholly in their fabrics was valued at 513.500,000, and the number of persons employed was about 25,C00. In 191 the product of American silk factories was over $(50,000,000. and the number of employes working at American rates of wages was-' ,-4,00Q. The savings banks deposits of the "workers of New York State are steadily 367,S3G,Syi In 1890 they were $58,425,420. This represents an increase of more than $22 per capita. It is facta like these that render the free trade cause hopeless. What Frac Wool Does. By reasons of almost free woe", the sheep industry of the United States has gone from 51,000,000 head to 42, 000,000 in five years, and during this time nearly 2,000,000 head have come from Canada, paying a duty of 30 cents per head. Since the McKinley bill went into effect they must pay SI. 50 per head. Suppose the farmers of the United States raised all the sheep as they should needed for wool and mut ton by the people of the United States, how much of an addition do you think it would require! The best authority I found, "The United States Wool Growers Association," estimates that it would require 60,000,000 more sheep in this country. Now to feed and care for this number, basing our estimates on what is required for the 42,000,000 we now have, it would take 40,000,000 acres of land, and would give employ ment to some 200,000 hands in caring for the sheep and in the manufacturing of the woolen goods we now import, which im 18X8 were invoiced at the custom house at $03,000,000, this sum, too, representing an undervaluation of at least one-half. Wages'in Kngland. It is undisputed that the wages of the American workmen are from 50 per cent to 300 per cent greater than those of his English fellows. The question then arises: Is the purchasing power of a dollar in the hands of an American workman the same, or is it more or less than the purchasing power of the equivalent of a dollar in the hands of an English workman? The answer is, $1 will buy more in the United States of such things as the working man uses than 4s 1 1$8 will in Safflaad. Mr. Joseph D. Weeks, in a letter published In Triumphant De mocracy, says: "It ($1) will hmy con siderably more flour, more meat, pro visions, bacon, ham, vegetables, eggs, butter, cheese, farm products of all kinds, tea, coffee, more oil, a little less sugar, and in many parte of the conn try, more fuel. As to dry goods and clothing, it will buy more sheeting, shirting prints and calicoes, and as much of many kinds of clothing, such as workingmen wear, but in some cases less." Its Very Plala. Democrat Why are ships built cheaper in England than in the United States? Republican Because ninety percent of a ship is labor, and American labor costs more than English labor. Be cause our workingmen cannot be ground down as European working men arc. In shipbuilding two things confront us: To reduce the wages of labor to what they are in Europe, or to have our forests and mines unde veloped, and thousands of working men without employment. We have the finest forests on earth, and iron beds that are inexhaustible. We have the mechanical skill to construct these raw materials into the finest ships that plow the seas; but we can never suc ceed at shipbuilding unless the wages of the workingmen are lowered to the English standard. A tariff equal to the difference in labor alone will keep the foreign ships out of our ports. Origin of a Protective Tariff. Q. When and why was protection recognized by the founders of our gov ernment. A. The principle of protection to American industries and American la bor was incorporated in the-acts of our first national Congress by fixing a tariff upon foreign manufactured articles. These duties were increased in 1801, 1812, 1821, 1923, 1642 and 1861. The object was to encourage manufactur ing by our own people; and history jus tifies the statement that when tariff duties were the highest, manufactur ing by our people invariably increased. "Protection" keeps the foreign made articles from coming to our country. This encourages our people to produce these articles at home, and sell them to Americans, instead of buying and using the foreign made articles. Washington, Hamilton, Madison, Jef ferson, "Adams. Jackson, Webster and Clav were all "Protectionists." It's All Bight. In 1887 there were 72, G6 head of beef cattle imported into our markets, thus adding to our surplus and depreciating the value, paying $2 per head. The average importation for the past five years has been 88,000 per year. Now the act passed by the Republican party says to the Canadian (most of these cattle come from Canada) "you must pay us a tax of $10 per head if you want to sell your steers in the United States." Is not this all right? Felt by Canadians. Prof. Goidwin Smith, president of the Commercial Union club of Canada, speaking of the McKinley bill before this club, said: "The agricultural schedule will bear very hard upon the Canadian fanners who particularly desire in the United States a market for their eggs, their barley, and their horses. It is a great disaster, and will be felt much more by the Canadian farmers than by those having nothing personally to lose by it." Brides la India. In Singapore the bridegroom must secure his bride in a race, and this cus tom of bride-chasing is quite common throughout Southern and Eastern Asia. In Singapore a circular course is marked out, half of which is traversed by the maiden encumbered only with a waistband ere the word is given for the would-be possessor to go in pur suit, in the hope of overtaking her be fore she has thrice compassed the cir cle; that achieved she has no choice ' but to take the victor for her lord. The new pompadour tea gowns are . of China silk, French cashmere, challis ind soft satins ,in both light and dark shades thickly1- strewn with small I brilliant jardiniere designs.- They axe jrns.de with a square yoke and rather ' full belted front and with a thickly plaited Wattean fold in the backfall- H!9KL99njgg8 tney were m STATE NEWS. NEIRASKA MISCELLANEOUS BATTERS. A Welsh church in Wayne county was dedicated Sunday. Scribner wiil spend S500 for a Fourth of July celebration. A new hotel, to cost $100,000. is among improvements contemplated at Beatrice. . Wolves are numerous in Sioux county and colts and calves have been devoured. Jane George, living near Superi or ran a thorn in her eye, destroying the sight. A bicycle club of about twenty five members has been organized at Nebraska City. Ten thousand Sioux county sheep were sheared last week, yielding three carloads of wool. The Kearney District Ministerial association will meet at Broken Bow. June 7. 8 and 1. The new Odd Fellows hall at Plainview has been dedicated with ap propriate ceremonies. A. B. Grow, living near Alliance, ruptured an artery in his leg, and it had to be amputated. Remonstrances are being circu lated in Lincoln against closing the world's fair on Sunday. Nearly all the freeholder of Wakefield petitioned the county board for an election to vote $7. 000 for water works. John Nord. of Omaha, while in toxicated fell down a stairway leadiug from the street, receiving fatal in juries. Gov. Boyd has appointed W. S. Poole as chief grain inapector for Lin coln to succeed Joseph Morgan, re signed. Phil Sheridan, a stone cutter of Dakota City, died from drinking Cov ington whisky made from alcohol and tobacco. The young man Kclley at Valen tine, recently adjudged insane, was taken to Norfolk by Sheriff Johnson last week. Fires have been started in the boilers of the B. & M. shops at Have lock, and the machinery will move next week. Beatrice proposes to raise a fund that will enable all her industries to be represented at the manufacturers' exhibit at Omaha. Beatrice is going to make a strong effort for a soldiers' home. Senator Paddock has been petitioned by the local G. A. K. post. J. M. Lucas of Arnold was driving some cattle Saturday, when his horse fell, throwing him violently to the ground and spraining one arm quite badly. , Joseph Bochmer has been elected president of the German National bank of Lincoln to fill the vacancy caused by the death of C. E. Mont- gomery. Scott Maryman, the fireman killed in the railroad wreck at Deadwood, S. D., has an aged mother, three twis ters and three brothers living at Dor. Chester. After eating canned peaches, th family of Charles M-inn of Pender were taken very ill and their lives were only saved by prompt medical attendance. The Woodman Linseed Oil Works of Omaha have a daily capacity of sixty-five barrels of iinseed oil and thirty-five tons of linseed cake and meal per day. It is likely that some Nebraska cities which desire to make as good a showing as possible, will take a com plete census in connection with the school census. Railroad men have incorporated the NorfolK railway employes' hall as sociation with an authorized capital stock of $2. 500. A ciub house is to be erected at Norfolk. Because J. C. White, a farm hand; accidentally threw a forkful of hay on Farmer Hibbard of YorK. Hibbard struck White with a pitchfork handle and shattered his jaw. Wayne and Bloomfield have a rivalry as to which has built the most new buildings this spring. At last accounts Wayne had thirty-five and Bloomfield thirty-eight. The Northwestern has generously offered free transportation from Chi cago to Omaha and return for 1.000 tents and necessary poles for use of the approaching military drili. The A. O. U. W. of Alexandria is preparing to erect a fine brick hall twenty-seven by seventy feet, with a store room underneath, and when com pleted wiii be an elegant structure. An eight-year-old daughter of Rev. Hotteil of Swanton suffered a terrible accident dv falling upon a piece of glass, causing a wound in the abdomen, from which the intestines protruded. She wiil recover. John Patterson of Humboldt was riding in a light sulky. His horse scared at a train, stumbled, and turn ing a complete somersault, threw sulky and driver over its body a la by cycle header. No damage but a few bruises. Among Nebraska's most promising manufacturing industries is that of rubber goods. The Omaha Rubber company is now running a large force of men at their factory, and the work turned out is equal it not superior, to that of eastern factories. Guy C. Barton, president of the Omaha smelting works is in Washing ton. Mr. Barton is very much inter ested in the proposed scheme to eredt a United States mint in Omaha and is furthering it to the best of his ability during his stay at the cupitaL The ladies of Hastings are busy getting up a public library. The mayor of Hastings has ap pointed a special policeman whose duty it is to take care of the tramps which now infest the city. As train No. 5 on the Union Pa cific was slowing up to stop at Wood River John Stone, aged 21 years, tried to board the train and was thrown be tween the depot piatform and train and the wheel ran over his left wrist. His arm had to be amputated below the elbow. The Union Stock Yards Co. Horse and Mule Market is about to erect an auction house' and make other im provements at their sale stables in South Omaha. This, .will iuriMl. home Bttarket'forebraska's horses, and will result in better prices for good stock. Eugene Cotter was exercising a stallion at Greeley Center, when the animal became enraged and bit off his third and fourth fingers with a piece of his hand. The cords and tissues were pulled out ot his arm for several inches. The animal would have killed him only for the timely assistance of others. Diphtheria has again made its appearance in Hartington. Last win ter several victims were called away and several this spring, and now the dreaded' disease comes again, claiming two victims last week. The disease is likely to spread, as many attended one of the funerals, not knowing the cause of death. A story is told of a Plattsmouth young man who being bantered by the members of a girl's club for not get ting marred .agreed to marry the girl thatVcMfcWieclot ballot ejected to be his wife. There were nine girls in the club, each got one vote, the man is still single, and the club is broken up. Fritz Ayzer of Gretna is stopping at a hospital and meditating on the fool ishness of monkeying with a buz-saw. Fritz made a few gestures while talk ing to his companions in the Gretna mill and during one of them he brought his right hand down forcibly on a circular saw. He has three less fingere than he had. Al E. Reid, a young man of Fon tanels, was drowned in the Elk horn at Nickerson. He was crossing the river with a lady named Bischoff, when the boat was overturned in two feet of water. A valise belonging to the lady floated away and Ried waded out to secure it when he stepped into a deep hole and was drowned. Last week the accommodation train to the Chicago. St. Paul Minneap olis & Omaha was wrecked about two miles south of Bancroft. It was caused by the breaking down in the middle of the train of a freight car loaded with lath. Five cars were ditched, four of which were loaded with stock. Some of the stock was killed. During the month of May there were, according to tne ceaar county mortgage record, sixty-seven farm mortgages filed, amounting to $61, 981.83; twenty-five released, amount ing to $21,893.60; town mortgages eleven, $6,4S1. and one released, amounting to fld.'i.oO; 210 chattel mortgages. $48,184.65. and 100 were released amounting to $37, 906.64. Charles Murray, a young man. living southwest of Plattsmouth. has skipped the country with his inamor ita. Charles sued for a divorce from his wife at the last term of district court because she left him on account of ill-treatment and she immediately filed a cross bill of a sensational char acter. Judge Chapman tried the case, but it was continued. Young Murray 'is thought to have gone to the state of Washington. Mayor Bemis of Omaha signed an ordinance which practically licenses gambling houses in that city. Tho ordinance imposes a monthly fine of $25 on proprietors of gambling houses and provides that all games shall be run openly and not behind closed doors. The ordinance is in direct vi olation of the slate statute, which be came a law four years ago, and under which all the gambling houses in Omaha were closed. Dr. C. Gee Wo, Omaha's famed Chinese physician, against whom the state board of pharmacists brought suit for illegally practicing medicine, lost his case last week in the Douglas county district court. The doctor, however, not discomfitted or discour aged, "continues to do business at the old stand. ' and has appealed his case to the state supreme court, sanguine that the higher tribunal will overturn and set aside the rulings ami decisions of the lower judiciary. Henry Hasiip. aged eighteen, met a horrible death justsbuihof Herman. He was driving along the road on a field roiler when by some mishap he lost his footing and was thrown in front of the roller and in some way was caught so that his head was drawn under the roller. Tne team trotted alonjr tne road for a distance of 300 yard? before assistance could reach him. It was then found that the un fortunate young man was dead, his neck tjeinir broKen and his head and face being horribly mangled. A meeting of the members of the Nebra-Ka Columbian commission, iast-j im: aii day. was heid in Beatrice the otner day. Among the most import ant matters di-posed of were the grant in r of a request from the state ento ,iiiiorit for an impropriation of $400 to niak't) an exuibit; also a request from tne .-tale pres asocialiou for an ap--rupnation of 43.000 for an exhibit of newspaper worK. which was granted, naif ot tne amount to be appropriated now. the balance to be forthcoming ia:-: Tne design of Henry Voss of ' Miiana fo'- the world's fair building wa accepted. It contemplates a struc-t'.'-o ; cn.-t about $15,000. is of old t'oiumai -lyio of architecture with (irtt i.-iii nurtico in front, two stories in ueijnt and tia a frontage of 60x iO'J feet. Y. P. S. (.'. K. at New York. .Inly 7 to 10. Tho official route to New Yorkjor the Nebraska Delegation is via tho Union Pacific, the Chicago &. Northwestern, the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern and tho New York Central nnd Hudson River R. R. Through chair cars and sleepers, a short stop in Chicago if de sired, a view of majestic Niagara Falls and trip along the lovely Hudson by daylight are but a few of the advantages offered by the Official Route. Tickets at one fare for the round trip. For ad ditional information or accommodation on the official train apply to J. R. Meagher, Agent Union Pacific System. 70S-4t Omaha, Neb., and return, one fare for the round trip. Tlie Union Pacific will sell tickets to Omaha and return at one fare for the round trip to those 'de siring to attend the National People's Convention which meets July 4. For dates of sale and limits of tickets or'any additional information apply to J. R Meagher Agent Union Pacific system. Columbus. 69-8-4t ' SOME TRADE THICKS. HOW CONTORTIONISTS CEIVE THE EYE. DE" Yet Thay Parform Maay Feata that Are DURcalt la tho Extromo Baadiag Backward tho Moct Difficult or AU Feata. You can't bend bones, but you can stretch cartilages. That is where a great many people who go to see a contortionist twist and bend himself out of all semblance to the human form divine are misled. The human snake, the living cork screw, the man with the rubber bones. "YOUR CHEST OX THE FLOOR. YOUR TOKS UNDER YOUR SHOULDERS." the man who has no bones and all the rest of the list of contortionists who earn a livelihood by amusing and in teresting the public with their feats do not and cannot bend their' bones. But they seem to do so. A performer crosses his arms and twines his legs. Then he turns his wrists and ankles and twists his hips at the hip joints, turns his tibias and jibulas, his ulnuses and radiuses, and that is all he can do with those parts of his body. The real bending, twist ing, turning, and contorting is done with the back. In some cases the neck is of tise, and that, too, is twisted. This sums the ability of the contor tionist up in a general statement. But to tie one's self up into knots, or even into one knot is a physical impos sibility. Of all contorting, back bending or turning backward and twisting the body out of shape is the most difficult Forward bending is comparatively easy, because the backbone is con structed so as to bend forward natur ally. The cartilages of the backbone, which lie like thick wafers between the vertebra of the backbone, are thicker on the outside than on the in side, and so offer less obstruction to bending forward than they do to bend ing backward. Forward bending is done with the performer standing on his feet or with a portion of his body lying on the floor. To be a good backward bender a man must also be a good hand balancer, be cause the best and most difficult work is done by bending while the weight of the body rests on the hands. Of course it is good backward bending to stand on your feet and bend over backward until your head is thrust forward between your legs at the knees, and to tlo a do.en other things of a similar character, lint it is more difficult to stand on your hands and bend backward until you sit in an upside down position on your head. That is hard and but few can do it. Another and a more difficult feat is to get your chest on the floor, face downward, and, bending backward, place your toes under your shoulders. TEETH IJAI.ANCI.MJ. But even that, which as vou readily see is quite difficult, requires no bend ing of the arms or legs, although these members seem to be twisted out of all shape. The most do that I call my teeth the onlv one difficult thing to know of is what I balancing acL It is which causes me any inconvenience afterward, and that is so slight and momentary as to be hardly worth noticing. A strong iron rod is fastened upon a pedestal, which must stand firmly on its legs. The least tremble might re sult in throwing me over and breaking my neck. The termination of the rod is bent to an angle of about thirty de grees, and the end is covered with leather, so as to be comparatively soft for my teeth. I stand on the pedest-il and bend backward over the rod until my hands touch the pedestal bchiud me. That is, I simply "bend the crab." Then I grip the leather-covered end with my teeth and gradually lower my body by bending my knees until the small of my back rests upon the crown of my head. Then I raise my feet from the pedestal, which throws the weight of my body on my head and so on my teeth. Then getting a perfect balance by spreading my legs far apart, I raise raj hands and fold my arms. My face is then at right angles with my back and I can look right out between my legs. An inconvenience results if I remain in this position too long. I have stayed so for a minute and a half, but I don't want to remain in the position more than a minute, and that is long enough to frighten some audiences. I frightened an audience of physi cians quite badly recently this way. After about fifteen seconds I closed in y eyes. They thought I had fainted.antl some of them arose. Then I opened my eyes and winked quietly at one of the doctors. They laughed then, but they told me after I got down that they were afraid I had fainted and wonld fall over and break my neck or my back. Like most difficult bending, getting back again in this is the hardest part But when I get my hands safely on the pedestal I am all right to get my feet back. When I was a boy I found I could bend well. I was 7 years old when I began to do it a great deal. Ten years ago, when I was but 10 years old. I made my first appearance in public. .Winter is the hardest time forcon- tortioniatg. They do not;. .Bersmre. so ' JgP"sngf 4?w nl . - sv:--':' : wtsi&HlmflJmmmmK3Ss' aSJSaislgM''HSP'o freely then ana the skin stiffens a little. Consequently a contortionist lias to do more practice work in winter than in summer. Joiix Ames. GENERAL HORACE PORTER. The Man Who U Pushing tho Grant Monument. The very decided impulse which has recently been given to the movement for the erection of the Grant monu ment is due entirely to the energy and sagacity of Gen. Howard Porter, the new president of the Monument asso ciation. The indications now are that this patriotic project will be speedily carried to successful completion. Gen. Porter's plan of campaign is aggres sive at every point, and will so inti mately touch all our important busi ness and social interests that the response can hardly fail to be general and satisfactory. The popular demonstration on the occasion of the corner-stone-laying, last week, was certainly conclusive on this point The difficulty with this monument project hitherto has been the want of a definite, sagacious, and comprehen sive plan. As a result years have been frittered away in spasmodic efforts which have counted for nothing in their results. Gen. Porter has deep ened his hold upon popular esteem by OEX. HORACE PORTER. the magnificent way in which he is carrying out the purpose which he is led to undertake. THE ERIE CANAL. Soma Facts Which Go to Prove lta Great Value to the Country. Although, on account of the practice of vessels going "up" light, ouly about 30,299,000 tons of freight were trans ported during the season of lrJ90, they were carried an average distance of five hundred and sixty-six miles; so that, multiplying the tons carried by the distance in miles, we have more than seventeen thousand million ton miles, or a freight distribution equal to almost one-fourth of the ton-mileage of all our railroads. The lake freightage has been done at an average charge to shippers of 1.3 mills per ton-mile. The shipments by railroad, on the contrary, are averaged by the Interstate Com merce Commission at 9.22 mills per ton mile: so that they are saving on each ton transported by this water-road over the average charges by railroad, for an equal distance, of S4.48, or an aggre gate saving, to be divided between the producers and consumers of this coun try , of more than S13.",SOO,000. As the government has appropriated not quite $30,000,000 for the improve ment of the great lakes, their harbors, and the rivers that run into them, the people of this country received through the cheapened distribution made pos sible by this expenditure, in the single year of 1390, four and a half times the total cost of the improvements: or, to state the advantages of this improved water-way in another way, the cost of lake freights was six and one-half per cent of the value of the goods trans ported : whereas if they had been trans ported at the average charge for rail road freight, the cost would have been fully forty-six per cent of their value. This percentage would have obviously taken so large a part of the value of a considerable proportion of the goods that the labor and profits of their pro duction and distribution must have been lost to the community if depend ence had been placed on i-'lroads alone ROME ON THE DECLINE. Decay or Most or the Princely Fatnille or the Old Empire. The great Roman Princely families re ruined. Prince Sciarra is almost a bankrupt. He secretly sold his pic tures against his will. Louis, Prince di Borghese. lives in the country, his whole fortune, which is inalienable, consisting of 12,000f., when formerly the income of the Borghese family was l.OOOf. a day. The fortunes of the bourgeoisie are also diminishing. Seven hundred Roman families sold their horses and carriages in IS91: i;oo did the same thing in the preceding year. Besides, property in Rome is losing its value. Numerous old houses, be cause they have no tenants, can no longer pay their taxes, and especially is this true of the new quarter. Chautauqua Aeildy :it I'eatrire. Neli.. .lime ::ot!i to July i;th. For those desiring to viait the Beat rice Chautauqua, tho Union Pacific offers a rate of one faro for the round trip as follows: 1st From all points in Nebraska, tickets to be sold June UUtli and :10th, good for return until and including July 17th. 2d. From points in Nebraska and Kansas within ISO miles of Beatrice, tickets to be sold Juno 29th to.7uyl('th, inclusive, good for return until and in cluding July 17th. For any addition. information apply to R. R. Meagher, Columbus, Agent Un ion Pacific System. 7W-5t The wisdom of him who journeyetb,is known by the line he selects; tho judg ment of the man who takes tho Bur lington Route to the cities of the east, the eouth and the wc6t, is never im peached. The inference is plain.-f Mag nificent Pullman sleepers, elegant re clining chair cars and world-famous dining cars, on all through trains. For information address the agent of the company at this place, or write to J. Francis, general passenger and ticket agent, Omaha. 52-12 -THE- First National Bank DIRECTORS! A.ANDKKSON.Pres't. J. H.HALLKY, View Pres't. O.T.ROEN.Cashisr. G. ANDERSON. P. ANDERSON; JACOB OKEISEN. HENRY RAOATZ, JOHN J. SULLTYAN. Statement of Condition at ths- Close of Business march 1. 1892. RKSoniCKS. Loans and DiM-ouctH S'JW,71 44 U. S. 1linli .'. ir,stooo IJenl Jwtate, Furniture imd Fixtures.. 19,510 22 Due from other iKtukrt. ,.$3.,4Si. " " U.S.Trfwury 07r..u Ciwfi on Hand 20,ri;.it7 .W.tin 05 $ Mld 71 I.IAMLITIKS. Capital Stock jwid in $ UO.OCO CO Surplus Fund MO.noy inr Undivided profit J.lt)l U5 Circulation 13,500 (W Ht-disvouuN .V.ff.M 40 Deposits 197,131 S21N.4 i;17l justness gurtls. T I. KII.IAI. DEUTCHEli ADVOKAT, Office over Colunihim Stute ltiuilw. Columha. Nebniska. -j-j A AI.HKKT A K-r:s-:st:t, ATTOHXJiYS AT LAW, Office hut Firnt National lUuk, Columbus, SehniMka. u-tt jyj" K. TURNER & CO., Proprietor and PuMihherx of the COLUKE-JS ;072AL aai :S Ki:3. ?AULY JOBSUil., Ittlt. iMt-pai.l toimy uddret. for $2.00 a jear, ntrictly in miiatu-e. Family Journal, jl.uo J ear. Y. A. MoA LUSTER. j. CORNELIUS. M' oAi.i.iixrr.K a cok.m-:i,ii;m. ATTOIIA'KVS AT L.HI'. Coluuilmri, Nelt. E. T. ALLEN, M. D., Eye - and - Ear - Surgeon, Sifretary Ni-bra.-ka Slate Hoard i of Health, Xrt 1C okik Rlock. UMAIIA, IVK U iiutf "R.C. BOYD, - MANtlFACrcr.En OF fit Fin and Sheet-Iron Ware! Job-Work, Roofing and Gutter ing" a Specialty. Shop on Neiim-ikii Avenue. Inn diMir north of i;jthiiiHM.--nV. V. K. SEARL, ritoi'itiirroK or tiik !) rial The Fiurst i'ii Tlw ('. J-"The only nh. on the South Sid... Colnui l)UK. Neliranka. "jMtlcl-y L. C. VOSS. M. D.. HoiiKEopalliic Physician AND STJStaECXSr. Oiicetvert,-i.t o!!ic". Sim-i'iuIimI in chronic dlheiise. Can Till ull.-iilion given to ;;i-iirnd praetire. WliolUm A STRAY LKAF! DIARY. THE JOURNAL OFFICE FOH- OAKDS. l-:.VVKI.OPh'S. ,OTK UK ADS, lilL-L UK A US, CIRCULARS. DODO KltH, ETC. LOUIS SlUIUKlBKlt. InnlrntniHi mid 11 All kinds of iti-jiait iii done on Short Nutin'. Unties, YV;t ous. iMi., m.'tde to order, ;ind ail work Guar anteed. Also sell the world fumniis Walter A. Wood Mo'.vi-rfl. Reapers, Combin ed Mai-hints, Harvesters, and Self-hinders the best made. Shop on OIiv Street. (Joltimtjud, Neb., four dtKira tMuth of liorowiuk's. HENRY G-ASS. UNDERTAKER ! COFFINS AND METALLIC CASES jar Repairing of all kinds of Ujthol itery Goods. Pari iffAftAli llrtlrM-ft itiiuriwr jtJBLjL Jh 1-tC COLUMBUS. NEBKASSA. -. .-jV ?-V .VI