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COLUMBUS, NEBV WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 1892.
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THE WHITE JESSAMIN K.
I knew she lay above me,
Where the casement all the night
Shone, softened with a phosphor glow
Of sympathetic light,
Ani that her fledgling spirit pure
Was plummpj'fast for flight.
Each tendril throbbed and quickened
As I nightly climbed apace,
And could scarce restrain the blossoms
When, a near the destined place.
Her gentle whisper thrilled me
Ere I gated upon her face.
I waited, darkling, till the dawn
Should touch me into bloom,
While all my being panted
To outpour its first perfume,
When low! a paler flower than mine
Had blossomed in the gloom !
Harper's Magazine.
DONE IN DARKNESS.
Thrusting my hand into my left
trousers pocket it touched a roll of
till. "I am tired, and could sleep
-comfortably 'if it wero not for this
money, xinougni.
The 10th stroke of the clock had
just reminded me that if I was to get
much sleep before taking the -1:30
train in the morning, I had no time to
lose.
I rose reluctantly and examined the
doors and windows. I then passed
from this room which had been flat
tered by the name of 'parlor." into
my bedroom and stopped before the
sole window of the latter. There lay
the weakness of my defenses. The
window was without shutters and
lacked ono pane, which left an open
ing so situated that fastening the
sash would have been useless. These
rooms wero on the ground floor, and,
by leaning out of the window. I
might have touched some of the
passers in tho street
The insecurity had occasioned me
no concern before, but money breeds
distrust aud I thought of ugly possi
bilities as I.stood in front of that win
dow. Circum?taucos forced mo to
keep money in my possession. As it was
necessary to be at the end of a lonp
journey in the afternoon, I could only
take a tram starting before banking
hours and the nature of my business
precluded the use of a check.
After all why should anything
happen to-night?" I thought and then
straightway remembered that thieves
have their detectives, and wondered
whether one had not seen mo paid in
the bank and followed to my lodgings.
I thought of several hiding places,
and finally decided to put the money
in a large dictionary, and. with a
feeble effort to treat the matter light
ly, remarked, that although money
was always to be found in a diction
ary, no ono would ever think of look
ing for it there Then into my mind
came tho whimsical idea of putting it
on the page which bears the word
money." Now. it oddly happened
that on opening the book; the first
word that met my eye was 'murder."
It was so significant that I shuddered.
It was like1 speaking of ropes in the
house of a hangman.
I am not what is ordinarily called
superstitious, but I must confess that
this incident annoyed me greatly.
I tried to drive it from my mind by
reading, looking at pictures, and re
peating verses; but every device
failed. I could not forget it -Perhaps
it is a prophecy, " was my morbid
thought Being a very persistent
man, 1 finally returned to my first
idea, and taking from my pocket ten
$100 bills, found the page containing
the word money," placed them
there, closed the book, and returned
it to the book-case. I thou put some
smaller bills in the toe of a shoe and
there remained only a low coins of
little value, which I left iu my waist
coat pocket
1 was practically alone, for it was
not worth while considering my land
lady, who was the only other person
in the house. She slept on the floor
above ma and was very old and very
deaf.
There were no street-lamps near,
and it was so dark I could not see a
yard from the window.
It would be difficult" I said to
myself, "for anyone to examine my
rooms without a light and that would
expose him to discovery from a chance
passer-bj"
That was some consolation, aud to
add to tho risk of using a light I took
the rolling curtain from the window
just be To re I went to bed. Assuring
myself that my revolver was under
the pillow. I closed my eyes. I was
Tery tired, and, in spite of my gloomy
apprehensions, soon fell asleep. '
How long I slept I have never been
able to determine. I was awakened
no doubt by the opening of a drawer
in my writing desk, for that was the
first sound of which I was conscious.
There was utter darkness. I
strained my eyes, but saw nothing. I
heard a rubber band snap and re
membered that one had fastened tho
top on a small box in the first drawer
of the desk. I felt a draft of air in
such volume as to convince me that
the window was wide open. These
were proofs of confirmation strong
enough.
According to Napoleoa "the '2
o'clock-in-the-morning courage is the
rarest That he explains, is the kind
that keeps the mind clear, when sud
den danger awakens one from a sound
sleep. I confess it is a courage that
is not mine. I folt on this occasion
the impulse to act like a madman, to
make a leap in the dark, to fly. if not
opposed, but to destroy, with the
strength of desperation whatever im
peded me. Such acts have often beeu
miscalled brave, when, iu reality,
they are the effects of terror. ,
For a few momeuts I labored under
a terrible excitement my heart-beat
were so violent that they seemed aud
ible, and had any new or nearer sign
or danger appeared, I could not have
remained quiet But a perfect still
ness prevailed, and I had time to col
lect myself.
Becoming calmer. I began to ho pe
that I was mistaken. A mouse might
have made the noise in the drawer
and caused the snapping of the rubber
band. But the air from the window?
Well, 1 had forgotten the missing
pane, and that I had taken do wn the
curtain.
"Bah!" I thought, -it's all imagina
tion: I will get up, light my lamp and
settle the question." But I had a
grain of doubt in my mind, and want
ed to have iry revolver iu hand before
rising. U was unJer the pillow away
from mec I turned to .reach it and
mv motion, made the bed creak: a mo-
ment afterwards I perceived the odor
of tobacco as it is in the breath after
sxoking.
r There was no doubt then that some
one was in the rooT, and had- ap-.
proached ir.e on hearing the creaking
of tho be1. 1 expected to feel hi
hand on me the next instant and icy
terror was not lessenel by the fact
that he had not made the least noise.
I was quiet but more from the par
alyzing effects of fear than from self
control. I could not tell how near the
danger was. but the hope came to mo
that if I could convey the impression
"that I was asleep I would not be mo
lested. For several moments the odor
remained unchanged; then it grew
fainter, and finally disappeared en
tirely. Ho had evidently moved away, but
I had heard no sound to indicate his
whereabouts. The darkness was so
intense that I could not see even the
vaguest outline of anything.
He ia satisfied that I am asleep."
I thought "and will return to his
search for the money. So long as I
am quiet I will not be disturbed. The
game we are playing has conditions,
then, and my safety depends upon
myself."
This thought was reassuring. Be
sides, familiarity with danger lessens
its effect 1 grew calmer, and began
to think less about losing my life and
more about my money. I decided to
risk moving a little hoping to gain by
slow degrees a position where I could
secure my revolver. It would bo of
little use in such darkness, but the
burglar might at last risk making a
light and in that event I resolved to
act at once.
I wab about to move when I heard
coins clinking. That was tho chango
in my waistcoat I remained quiot
"Having made that noise, he will
be very watchful for awhile," I
thought
I waited a few moments. My con
fidence increased. A gain of several
inches, and the revolver would be in
my hand. I stretched my right arm
to the utmost but without reach in ir
it This- caused a slight rustling of
the bedclothes. I waited. I was pre
pared this time, and when the odor
was again perceptible it gave me but
little concern; it would soon disappear,
as before. I heard the clock strike
three. This might last two hours
more, I thought but a moment after I
felt a hand on my right arm. It was
a light touch; no doubt there was a
suspicion that I was awa'e. but not a
certainty. It moved slowly along ray
arm toward my hand.
He suspects, I thoup-'it not only
that I am awake, but that I am reach
ing for something; he willlind the re
volver, and. then what? 1 suddenly re
membered the dictionary, and the word
murder" came before my mental
vision as distinctly as in print These
thoughts passed like flashes of light
ning. 'Now or never. " I thought
and immediately reached out vigor
ously for the revolver, grasped its
handle. and at the same time sat up.
The light touch on my arm instantly
changed to a vice-like grip. I then
heard a sound like the twisting of a
cork and recognized the odor of chlo
roform. A portion of dampened sheet
was thrust into my face. I did not
then know that chloroform requires
from two to five minutes to produce
unconsciousness, but believed that its
effect was almost instantaneous.
With a frantic effort I tore the
sheet from my face, and then, with
out further s'truggle. the other haud
that had held me relaxed its grasp,
and a moment afterward I heard the
sound of a heavy body falling upon
the floor. Perfect stillness followed.
What could it mean? 1 had neither
truck nor pushed my antagonist I
no longer thought of ar. and rose
without hesitation and struck a
match, which showed me a large man
lying on the floor. He did not move.
I lighted a lamp and e -amined him
more closelj; he was dead. The doc
tors said that his heart had been dis
eased and that the excitement had
doubtless brought on heart failure.
There were indications that the desk
had been examined. He had secured
the small change in my waistcoat
pocket but nothing more. One of
the clerks in the bank thought that
he identified in the dead robber a man
whom he had seen near me when I
drew the money.
But I would not care to go through
a similar experience. "National Tribune.
A MISER'S HOARD.
An Old Frenchman' Queer Hiding Place
for HU Money.
The relatives and heirs of an old
man who aecently died in a small
French village have to congratulate
themselves on the circumstances that
his death took place during the winter,
and that, consequently, while waiting
in his cottage for the departure of the
funeral cortege to the church and the
cemetery, a fire was made to warm the
roam. The defunct was in humble
circumstances, and though of a thrifty,
careful disposition, nobody thought he
had left any property worth mention
ing behind him. The day of the funer
al being a very cold one, the old man's
store of firewood was drawn upon
more freely, possibly, than the thrifty
cottager himself would have approved
of, and this led to a remarkable dis
covery. As the flames from the crack
ling logs shot up, one of the clumps of
wood split in two, and out of it, to the
surprise of the assembled relatives,
rolled a golden stream of louis d'or.
When this precious log, which the de
ceased had chosen as the hiding place
of his savings, was emptied of its con
tents, there was found over one hun
dred and fifty gold pieces quite a for
tune for a man in his humble position
in life. People of a miserly disposition
are fond of concealing their hoards in
queer places. But it is probable that
none of the old cottager's relatives
would have dreamed of inspecting his
store of firewood.
Sinn wild blaster.
Mr. Billgate (entertaining a friend
at his suburban house) 1 have not
much elegance to offer you. but this
modest little home 'is the result of
years of self-sacrifice and it's dear to
me.
Hid Guest Oil. that is delightruL
By the way. who owns that elegant
mansion across the way?
B llgate- Oh. that belongs to one
of my commercial travelers. Spare
Momenta.
4bbW wSPSCQaVlBa SUkV
.. To the Relief Corp.
They nobly fouaht a gallant fight,
ThoHgh bloodless, yet as bre,
To keep the nation's honor bright.
The nation's Hag-Jo save.
All glory to each woman's heart!
To every Trilling hand
That bravely bore heroic part
To sa c our bleeding laud.
. Why may we not to-day rejoice.
All hearts from sea to sea?
Let patriots join with ringing volca
And sing sweet liberty.
Twas by our hero's valor won
And woman's faith and tears.
Its glory lus but just begun.
'Twill grow for countless years.
Vullct iu His Head.
A very remarkable survival with a
wound in the head has recently come
to light in the State of Nebraska. The
matter was made public through the
application of a widow for a pension.
Her husband had fought "through the
civil war in an Illinois regiment In
one of the last battles of that bloody
conflict he was left for dead on the
field with a jagged wound in his right
temple. When the ambulance was
making its last round, however, one of
the attendants noticed signs of life in
the wounded man, picked him up and
tenderly conveyed him to the hospital.
The surgeons thought the soldier's case
so hopeless that they did not probe for
I the bullet and this is, doubtless what
saved his life. Carter, that was his
name, laid in a paralyzed and comatose
condition iu the hospital for five weeks.
Then, under carefufnursing nnd nour
ishment, he began to recover strength
and consciousness with remarkable
rapidity, until in two more months of
confinement Ire was discharged as re
covered. But the war was over then,
his company had scattered to the four
winds of the earth, and he had no one
to substantiate his relations of
the marvelous recovery he had
just undergone. The company's
record showed that he was dead and
the hospital people knew nothing of
his identity. When he emigrated to
Nebraska, however, he was recognized
by ah old companion-in-arms, and his
record was properly established on the
company's rolls. He carried the bullet
in his head for twenty-sbc years,
and while following his plow
under a" blazing Nebraska sun
one day last summer dropped
dead in the furrow. On post
mortem examination it was revealed
that the sac that formed around the
bullet in his brain and held it in place
for so many years had broken, and the
rupture killed him.
Gen. Treuiont's Widow.
Mrs. JeSsie Benton Fremont, widow
of Gen. John C. Fremont, lias a just
claim against the government In 1SG3
Gen. Halleck telegraphed Gen. George
Wright, then commanding at San Fran
cisco, to "take military possession of
Point San Jose and erect a battery for
its defense, the question of ownership
to be determined hereafter." This was
done by order of Secretary Stanton.
Some of this property belonged to Gen.
Fremont, and a bill was introduced in
Congress some years ago to restore the
property; but it was defeated, it is
claimed by Mrs. Fremont, by Gen.
John Coburu, then a member of
Congress from Indiana. This happened
in 1870, and since then some fifty
persons, wiio were dispossessed by this
order of Secretary Stanton, have had
their property restored. The grounds
upon which the bill for relief of .Mrs.
Fremont failed were, that the property
had grown enormously in value, and
the government had erected too many
valuable buildings upon it Justice
Field of the United States Supreme
Court says that Mrs. Fremont has a
perfectly just claim, either to have the
property restored to her, or be paid its
full value. There is little doubt but
that Gen. Fremont's heirs will some
day be reimbursed for their property,
and it ought to be scon, for the family
are in poor circumstances. National
Tribune.
An Interesting Itemini'ceiice.
The Pueblo Chieftain telU an inter
esting reminiscence of Maj. John Fay,
who died iu Pueblo a short time ago.
It is claimed that in that memor
able and never-to-be-forgotten tijjlit
between the. Mcrrimac. nnd Cuin&r
land, in which the proud ship carrying
the stars and stripes sunk beneath the
waves, her colors were shot away JMst
before she settled, that the hand of
John Fay caught the flag and climbing
with the rapidity of lightning up the
ropes he raised it to the mast, so the
old war ship went to the bottom with
her colors flying. To those about the
death-bed of Maj. John Fay the history
of the Cumberland was brought vividly
to mind. The old sailor, as his mind
wandered, was once more on board his
ship and on duty. "One bell," ho
feebly breathed; a minute later, "two
bells," then "three bells," "four bells,"
and he added, "a storm is coming on;"
a moment later, "five bells, how it
blows;" "six bells, and the storm in
creases;" "seven bells so dark."
Those about him strained their ears as
they saw death fast approaching, and
they heard "eight b " the sailor
wa off watch forever.
The Mexican Flags.
The bill which was rushed through
the Senate to restore the captured battle-flags
to Moj-ieo is gathering a good
deal of dust in some obsuure pigeon
hole in the House. It has been dis
covered that Mexico does not care a
straw about their return. If we are
going to give anything back she wants
California and a large slice of Texas.
By the way, the western entrance to
the War department is graced with a
couple of splendid brass guns, which
"Mad Anthony" .captured at. Stony
Point with the bayonet They are or
namented with he British arms, and
also with, .an injcriDtipn MUar the
story of their capture. R" fs only a
question of time when some Mugwump
will urge that in the interest of inter
national good will, that they be sent
back to England, with an elegant note
of apology for "Mad Anthony's" incon
siderate and offensive act Tribune.
President Llacoln'a Letters.
A number of President Abraham Lin
coln's old letters . have recently been
discovered In Chicago. In one of then),
addressed to Mrs. Browning, the wife
of O. H. Browning of Quincy after
ward Secretary of the Interior, the
future President writes concerning his
rejection by a young woman to whom
he Had paid court: "My vanity was
deeply wounded by the reflection that
I had so long been too stupid to dis
cover her intentions, and at the same
time never doubting that I understood
them perfectly, and also that she
whom I had taught myself to believe
nobody else would have had actually
rejected me with all my fancied great
ness; and to cap the whole, I then for
the first time began to suspect I was
really a little in love with her. But
let it all go. I'll try and outlive it
Others have been made fools of by the
girls, but this can never be with truth
said of me. I most emphatically in
this instance made a fool of myself. I
have now come to the conclusion never
to think of marrying, and for this rea
son: I can never be satisfied with any
one who would be blockhead enough
to have me." v
I n eUs' Dos Story.
Gen. Horace Porter in his address at
a banquet in New York, on Grant's
birthday, told the following:
I shall have to tell Ingalls' dog story.
It was just before we got into Rich
mond. We had been camping there so
long that the illustrated papers had
had lots of fun over it
Ingalls went up to Washington and
brought back with him a spotted coach
dog. That was the most extraordinary
looking coach dog aud he had a beauti
ful kink in his tail I think that In
galls had to nay $10 extra for that
kink. Anyhow that miserable dog
would follow the horses around right
at their heels and was always under
everybody's feet in the way. One day
the dog wandered into Gen. Grant's
tent when Ingalls was there. Gen.
Grant looked at the dog and then at
Ingalls and said:
"What on earth are you going to do
with that dog? Do you expect to take
it to ltichmond?"
"I hope to," replied Ingalls, "he is a
long-lived breed." (Laughter and ap
plause.) Discharged.
Justice Ljon's greatest bother in
court, is with woman, says the Chicago
Youth. Sometimes, however, he man
ages to get even with her. Recently
one of those strongly developed fe
males who are guilty of legal irregu
larities was brought before him for
some ordinary offense. A decent re
gard for accuracy compels us to state
that-she was not lovely of feature.
"What are you here for'."' asked tho
judge.
"My beauty. I recken."
"Your what?"
"My beauty."
"Are j'ou certain of that?"
"Bedad there's no mistake."
"Then I discharge vou; vou're not
guilty."
The woman from "the first gem of
the say" emerged from the presence.
Major Haldermau's Gift.
Maj. John A. Halderman, First Kan
sas, has given to the Young Men's
Christian association of Leavenworth,
Kan., his large and highly prized col
lection of bric-a-brac, books, curios,
mementos, relics, and hundreds of other
things, collected from various parts of
the world, civilized and savage, and
which have been accumulating for a
quarter of a century. Among other
things is a collection of rare and valu
able coins, for which Major Halderman
has refused $500. There are also some
valuable paintings, a bottle of water
from the Jordan, some from the Dead
sea, bowlders from the far North, flow
ers from the Cape of Good Hope. South
Africa; statuets exhumed from Pompeii,
the buried city, and mementos from the
Holy Land and ancient Rome.
Grate of tVashiiiglou's Mother.
A case affecting the sale of the grave
of the mother of George Washington
has just been decided by the circuit
court of Fredericksburg, Va. The
owner of the land on which the grave
is ki-ated sold it and a small tract of
laud for S2,500, but refused to make a
deed because of the threats of his
neighbors. The speculators in town
had agreed to sell their purchase for
820,000, and when they could not de
liver the ground brought suit for dam
ages. The court decided against them
because the "grave was tco sacred to
sell," and the supreme court of the
United States refused to entertain an
appeal
Gone to Their Reward.
The deaths of two interesting old ne
gro women occurred recently, e At Craw
fordsvillc, Ind., Aunt Cassy Ketchum,
the nurse of Gen. Canby, of Modoc war
fame,,departed this life at the age of
102 years, and at New Orleans on the
same day Mrs. Francis A. Arm gave up
the ghost Mrs. Arm was 104 years
old. In the days of her chilhood, when
she was a slave in Virginia, she saw
Gen. Washington several times, and
he waited upon Lafayette at the table
when that distinguished Frenchman
visited New Orleans in 1825.
Virginia aad Its Nickname.
The authorities in the colony of
Virginia, at the time of the contest in
England between the Stuarts and
Cromwell, appear to have been de
voted to the Stuarts, and when the
Cromwellian government threatened
to send a fleet to reduce the colony to
submission, its officials dispatched a
message to young Charles, who was
afterward King of England, under the
title of Charles II, but was then hiding
in France, asking him to come over
and be king of Virginia. It is said
that Charles was on the; point of start
ing, when the collapse of the common
wealth and the Cromwelliau regime
took place, which sent him back to the
English throne. Charles never forgot
this devotion of Virginia to his for
tunes, and that colony was subse
quently classed with England,. Scot
land and Ireland as one of the main
portions of the empire. r In this way
Virginia came to be known among the
American colonies as the Old Domin
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With Dolly la May.
Under the trees, in the loveliest place.
Where the shadow sad sua were playing.
Faaay sad Ud aad Lottie aad Grace
And Dolly aad I west xnaylng:
But the flowers were lost or hidden away
So safe we could scarce And any
So we made the Dolly Queen of the May
Cause she wouldn't need so many.
We gathered moss for a throne of green.
And with violets blue we crowned her:
We played that she was a Fairy Queen,
And gaily we danced around her.
A robla sang to us overhead,
A squirrel capered and chattered:
Then a little gray mouse popped out of his bed,
And O how we jumped and scattered!
Table Manners.
Probably there is no people in the
world so uncivilized as not to have
among themselves a code of manners,
more or less strictly defined. Mr. Bishop,
while on his thousand-mile walk across
South America, was impressed with this
fact.Ue describes a rude meal which he
shared with a company of cart-drivers
"almost savage gauchos" In whose
company he was then traveling.
We encamped near a swamp, and
supped upon sliced pumpkins, boiled
with bits of meat, and seasoned with
salt. The meat was served in genu
ine pampa fashion; one iron spoon and
two cow's horns, split in halves, were
passed around the group, the members
of which squatted upon their haunches,
and freely helped themselves from the
kettle.
Even in this most uncivilized form of
satisfying hunger there is a peculiar
etiquette, which the most lowly peon
invariably observes. Each member of
the company in turn dips his spoon, or
horn, into the center of the stew, and
draws it in a direct line toward him,
never allowing it to deviate to tho
right or the left
By observing this rule, each person
eats without interfering with his neigh
bor. Being ignorant of this custom, 1
dipped my horn into the ineas at ran
dom and fished about for some of the
nice bits.
My companions regarded this horrid
breach of politeness with scowls of im
patience. They declared, with some
warmth, to the cook that gringos did
not know how to eat, and, "as they
lived upon dogs in their own distant
country, they came to the great Argen
tine Republic to get food and grow fat
on the gauchos."
I apologized as weli as 1 couId"nd
endeavored thereafter to eat according
to gaucho etiquette.
Novelist aad Cook.
When Balzac, the famous French
novelist, was actually engaged in the
labor of composition lie lived in the
most frugal manner, absorbed in work
and neglectful of the table. Rose, his
cook, used to fall into despair wheu her
master, during theue mouths of produc
tion, neglected her dainty dishes. One
of his friends writes:
I have seen her come into his room
on tiptoe, bringing a delicious con
somme, and trembling with eagerness
to see him drink it Balzac would
catch sight of her; then he would toss
back his mane of hair with an impatient
jerk of the head, and exclaim in his
roughest and most surly voice:
"Rose, go away! I don't want any
thing; let me alone!" ' "
"But mossicu will ruin his health if
he goes on in this way; mossieu will
fall ill!"
"No, no! let me alone, I sav," he
would thunder. "I don't want any
thing. You worry me. Go away!"
Then the good soul would turn very
slowly muttering, "To take such pains
to please mossieu! And such a soup!
How good it .smells! Why should mos
sieu keep me in his service if he doesn't
want what I do for him?"
Thin was too much for Balzac. He
called her back, drank the soup at a
gulp, and said, in his kindest voice, as
she went off radiant to her kitchen:
"Now. Rose, don't let this happen
again."
Yet it did happen again whenever
the stress of composition began, for so
beloved was the great worker by his
servants that they would brave abuse
and displeasure for his good.
Poebet Flre-Kscape.
A correspondent of the American
Architect describes the successful work
ing of a novel fire-escape. If the inven
tion is what it appears to be it is very
ingenious, and likely to prove of great
benefit to mankind. A public trial of
it was made from the top of the new
Masonic Temple at Chicago.
The pocket fire-escape consists of a
metallic tape one-quarter of an inch
wide and a thirty-second of an inch
think, running on a steel reel which is
fastened to a web belt passing abont
the waist
The reel is provided with a brake, by
means of which the person can control
the speed of his descent There is also
an automatic brake to keep a required
tension'on the tape, and thus prevent a
sudden drop. The end of the tape is
provided with a thumb-screw, which
can be fastened to the window-sill or
any object in the room. In appearance
the machine is like a fisherman's reel,
and is about twice the sixeof a spool of
thread.
The beginning of the experiment
seemed perilous in the extreme. Tl e
inventor fixed the thvmb-screw. fas
tened the weO belt about his waist,and
stepped off apparently into space from
the twentieth story.
At first he descended slowly, then
faster and faster, till it seemed as if he
must have lo.t control over the little
machine, the slender tape of which
could scarcely be seen, and at any time
looked no larger than an ordinary cord.
At the tenth story he stopped sud
denly, and then descended again,
rapidly, and slowly by turns, until he
came to the scaffolding' where were
antral workwu Tkart he fek three
J men on the '.'escape" witli him, and
' thus dropped to the ground.
Only an Amytower.
...Close by a prosperous church, in a
Kansas town in a district known as
"Tennessee Town." populated entirely
by negroes. The pastor of the church
had long made efforts to organize
classes of the young colored boys for
me purpose oi giving mem instruction
in literary and scientific topics. II
was only, partly successful. Nothing
that he could get for the entertain
ment or amusement of the restless, idle
lads seemed to have any effect on them.
He tried magic lanterns and legerde
main, and all kinds of "clubs," but
felt he was not succeeding in the least.
At last he purchased a small box of
chemicals, practised a list of experi
ments, and announced an illustrated
lecture on "The Wonders of Little
Things."
The little hall was packed with an
enthusiastic audience, and the experi
ments were successful. Curious te
know the reasons for the large attend
ance on this particular occasion, the
long-suffering lecturer called up one of
the brightest lads at the close of the
entertainment and qui&tioned him.
"What made so many boys come out.
to thclecture to-night?"
"I 'specs kase we 'lowed you- was
gwine ter blow yosef up!"
"What! Do the boys want to see me
blown up?"
"No, aah," with a grin. "But dey
years 'bout your 'speriments, "an dey
wants ter see what might gwine ter
happen!"
"Don't you know there's no danger
with these things if they are rightly
bandied?"
"Yesrsab, but we knowed you'se
only an amytower!"
That was the last chemical lecture in
the course.
A War Relic.
Among the many relics of the war on
exhibition at the W. R. C. fair in Pitts
burg recently, waa as altar for a post
room. It was made of a log about
three feet long and over a foot in diam
eter placed Upright on a board on roll
ers, and a board 2K feet by IK feet on
the top formed the table. From the
side of the log protruded the end of a
shell, which had penetrated it years
ago, t and around which"? the tree
had grown for nearly three decades,
A silver plate above the shell bore this
inscription: "A log procured on the
battle-field of Chickamauga through
the personal efforts of T. L. Kennedy
of Lookout post No. 3, G. A. R., of
Chattanooga, 1801. Presented to Du
quesne post No. 259 by George W. Mor
ris, in honor of his father, of the Thir
teenth and One Hundred and First
Pennsylvania volunteers, and a mem
ber of this post"
Fortunes lu the Mood.
Children, especially of the South,
have many ways of telling fortunes by
the moon; the most popular one is this:
When the new moon is seen for the
first time three steps are taken back
ward and these words repeated:
New mcon, true moon, true and bright,
1(1 have a true Ioe. let me dream of him to
night:
If I'm to marry near, let me hear a bird cry;
If I'm to marry far. let me hear a cow low.
And if I'm never to wed, let me hear a hammer
knock.
Then the flight of the turkey buzzard
is always noted, especially if flying
alone, and the bird is addressed thus:
Hail, hail, lone turkey buzzarJ!
Fly to the East. Hv to the West.
Fly to the one that I love best:
Let me know by the nap of the wing
Whether he (or she) loves me or not.
The bird's direction of flight is noted,
also the motion of the wings. If they
flap it is considered a true sign that
the lover or sweetheart is true.
Sot the Garb ot n Gentleman.
Not one man In fifty knows how to
put on a cuff properly. The swell who
buttons both his cuffs' on the same side
thinks he's perfection, but he isn't. In
other words, the cuff should be but
toned the same as the wrist-band, left
toward left, right toward right Ex
amine yours and you'll see what 1
mean. But if you really want to be
proper you mnst wear link buttous, as
they are the ones that give the proper
shape to the cuff. And the nuglo
maniac who turns up his "twousahs,"
but wears a dip, thinks he is in it, but
how mistaken he is. In England the
silk hat is the badge of a gentlemau,
and it only should be worn with his
London clothes. Loud flowered vests,
Tuxedo evening coats and red puff ties,
however much fascination they may
hold for the lovers of extremes, have
got to go. They are not the garb of a
gentleman.
Who the Bad lloya Were.
Bobby and Harry were brothers,
eight and nine years of age. Coming
late from school one day the mother
said: "Why are you late, boys0"
Bobby, the younger, was usually the
spokesman on suca occasions, and he
answered: "We stopped." "What
did you stop for?" said mamma. "To
sec two boys Ugh tin'." "Indeed! And
who were the boys?" "Harry was
one." "Ah, indeed! And who was the
other?" "The other was ine." an
swered the unabashed Bobby. Yankee
Blade.
Got the Words Crooked.
"Trot," said mamma, who was dig
ging among her flower-beds, "run over
and ask auntie if she would like some
narcissus bulbs." "I am afraid I can't
remember the name."said Trot, but off
she went saying it over and over to
herself. "Auntie," she said, wheu she
got there, mamma wants to know if
you would like some molasses buds."
Youths' Companion.
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Patont Medicine Man (to editor)
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Editor How?
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place."
I did immediately preceding the
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i'es; nnd the hr-it death notice on
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