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COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 1892.
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On a July evening at dusk two boys
sat near the crest of a grass grown em
bankment by the railroad at the west
ern side of a Pennsylvania town. They
talked in low tones of the sky's glow
above where the sun had set beyond
the low hills across the river ; and also
of the stars and of the moon, which
was over the housetops behind them.
There was noise of insects chirping in
the grass and of steam escaping from
locomotive boilers in the engine shed.
A rumble sounded from the north,
and in that direction a locomotive
headlight came into view. It neared
as the rumble grew louder and soon a
freight train appeared. This rolled
past at the foot of the embankment
From between, the two grain cars
leaped a man and after him another.
So rapidly was the train moving that
they seemed to be hurled from it.
Moth alighted upon their feet. One,
tall and lithe, led the way up the em
bankment, followed by the other, who
was short nnd stocky.
''Bums," whispered one of the boys
at the top of the embankment
The tramps stood still when they
reached the top. Even in the half light
it could be seen that their clothes were
ill-fitting, frayed and torn. They wore
cast off hats; the tall man, whose face
was clean cut and made a pretense of
being smooth shaven, had a pliable
one; the other was capped by a dented
Derby.
'Here's yer town at last! And it
looks like a very jay place at that,"
said the short tramp to the tall one,
casting his eyes toward the house roofs
eastward.
The boys, sitting twenty feet away,
became silent ami cautiously watched
the newcomers.
"Yep," replied the tall tramp, in a
deep but serious and quiet voice; "and
right about here's the spot where I
jumped on a freight train fifteen years
ago, the night I ran away from home.
That seems like yesterday, though I've
not been here since."
"Skipped a good home because the
old lady brought you a new dad! You
wouldn't catch me being run out by
no stepfather! Billy, you was rash!"
"Mebby I was. But, on the dead,
Pete, it was mostly jealousy. I thought
my mother couldn't care for me any
more if she could take a second hus
band. My sister thought so, too, but
she wasn't able to get away, like me!
Of course I was wrong. It was boyish
pique drove me away. I didn't fancy
having another man in my dead
father's place, either. And I wanted
to get around and see the world a bit
After I'd gone I often wished I hadn't
I'd never imagined how much I loved
mother and sis. But I was tougher
and prouder in some ways than most
kids. You can't understand that sort
of thing, Pete. And you can't guess
how I feel, bein' back here for the first
time m fifteen years. Think of it, I
was just 15 when I came away. Why,
I spent half ray life here, Petie!"
"Oh, I've read somewhere about that
the way great men feel when they
visit their native towns."
The short tramp took a clay pipe
from his coat pocket and stuffed into it
a cigar end from another pocket Then
he inquired:
"And now you're here, Billy, what
are you go'n' to do?"
"Only ask around what's become o'
my folks, then go away. It won't take
long."
"There'll be a through coal train
along in about an hour, 'cordin' to
what the flagman told us at that last
town. Will you be back in time to
bounce that?"
"Yes. We needn't stay here. There's
little to be picked up in a place like
this."
"Then skin along and make yer in
vestigatioSs. I'll sit here and smoke
till you come back. If you could pinch
a bit o' bread an' meat by the way, it
wouldn't hurt"
"I'll try," answered the tall tramp.
"I'm goin to ask the kids yonder,
first, if any o' my people still live here.'
The tall tramp strode over to the
two boys. Ills companion shambled
down the embankment to obtain, at
the turntable near the locomotive shed
across the railroad, a red-hot cinder
with, which to light his pipe.
"Do you youngsters know people
here by the name of Kershaw?" began
the tall tramp, standing beside the two
boys.
Both remained sitting on the grass.
One shook his head. The other said
"Xo."
The tramp was silent for a moment
Then it occurred to him that his
mother had taken his stepfather's name
and his sister might be married. There
fore he asked:
"How about a family named Coates?"
"None here," replied one of the boys.
But the other 'said "Coates? That's
the name of Tommy Hackett's grand
mother. Don't you know, Dick old
Sirs. Coates.-'
The trampNdrew and expelled a
quick, audible breath.
"Then," he said, "this Mrs. Coates
must be the mother of Tommy's
mother. Do you know what Tommy's
mother's first name is?"
"I heaid Mom call hsr Alice once."
The tramp's eyes glistened.
"AndIr. Coates?" he inquired.
"Oh, I never heard of him. I guess
he died long ago."
"And Tommy Hackett's father,
who's he?"
"He'fi.the boss down at the freight
station. Agent, I think, they call
him."
"Where does this Mrs. Coates live?'"
"She. lives with the Hacketts. Would
you like to see the house? Me and
Dick has to go past it on the wavhetue.
We'll show you."
"Yes;.!, would like to see the house."
The'boys arose, one of them rather
sleepily. They led the way across the
railway amfiftJiy'f lot, Ojem alogga
sparsely built up. street, and around a
corner into a more populous. but quiet,
highway. At the corner was a grocery
and dry goods store; beyond that were
neat and airy two-stor houses fronted
by yards closed in by iron fences. One
of these houses had a little piazza, on
which sat two children. From the
open half door and from two windows
came light
"That's Hackett's house," said one
of the boys.
"Thanks, very much,' replied the
tramp, continuing to walk with them,
the boys looked surprised at his not
stopping at the house, but they said
uothing.
At the next corner the tramp spoke
up: " I think I'll go back now. Good
night, youngsters!"
The boys trudged on and the tramp
retraced his steps. When he reached
the Hacketts' house he paused at the
gate. The children, a boy of 8 and a
girl of C, lnnkea et aim carloHsly froai
the piazza. " -"
"Are j on Mr. Hacttett's little boy
and girl," he ashed.
The girl stepped back to the hall
door and stood there. The boy looked
op at the tramp and answered: "Yes,
sir."
"Is your mother in?"
"No; she's across the street at Mrs.
lohnson's."
"She'll be back soon," added the
girl.
'Grandmother's in, though," contin
ued the little boy. "Would you like
to see her?"
"No, no! Don't call her. I just
wanted to see your mother."
"Do you know mamma?" inquired
the girl.
"Well no! I knew her brother,
your uncle."
"We haven't an uncle except Uncle
George, and he's papa's brother,' said
the boy,
"What! Not an Uncle Will Uncle
Will Kershaw?"
"O h! yes," assented the boy. "Did
you know him before he 'died? That
was a long time ago."
The tramp made no other outward
manifestation of his surprise than to
he silent and motionless for a time.
Presently he said, in a trembling voice:
"Yes, before he died. Do you remem
ber when he died?"
"Oh, no. Tuat was when mamma
was a girl. She and grandmother
often talk about it, though. Uncle
Will started West, you know, when he
was 15 years old. He was standing on
a bridge out near Pittsburg one day,
and he saw a little girl fall into the
river, ne jumped in to save her, but
he was drowned, "cause his head hit a
stone and that stunned him. They
didn't know it was Uncle Will, or who
it was, at first, but mamma read about
it in the papers, and Grandpa Coates
went out to see if it wasn't Uncle Will.
Grandpa 'dentified him and they
brought him back here, but what do
you think, the doctor wouldn't allow
them to open his coffin, and o grand
ma and mamma couldn't see him. He's
buried up in the graveyard, next Grand
pa Kershaw, and there's a little mon
ument there that tells all about how he
lied trying to save a little girl from
drownin'. I can rend it, but Mamie
3an't She's my little sister there."
The tramp had seated himself on the
piazza step. He was looking vacantly
before him. He remained so until the
boy, frightened at his silence, moved
further from him, toward the door.
Then the tramp arose suddenly.
"Well," he said, huskily, "I won't
wait to see your mamma. "You needn't
tell her about me bein' here. But, say
could I just get a look at at your
grandma, without her knowing any
thing alout it?"
The boy took his sister's hand and
withdrew into the doorway. Then he
HE SLOWLY READ THE INSCRIPTION'.
said: "Why, of course. You can see
her through the window "
The tramp stood against the edge of
the piazza upon his toes, and craned
his neck to see through one of the
lighted windows. So he remained for
several seconds. Once during that
time he closed his eyes, and the mus
cles of his face contracted. . Then he
opened his eyes again. They were
moict
He could see a gentle old lady, with
smooth gray hair and an expression of
calm and not unhappy melancholy.
She was sitting in a rocking chair,
he hands resting on the arms, her look
fixed unconsciously on the paper on
the wall. She was thinking, and evi
her thoughts, though sad, perhaps,
were not keenly painful.
The tramp read that much upon her
face. Presently, without a word, he
turned quickly about and hurried
away, closing the gate after him.
When the two children told about
their visitor later their mother said:
"You mustn't talk to strange men.
Tommy. You and Mamie should have
come right in to grandma."
Their father said: "He was prob
ably looking for a chance to steal some
thing, ril let the dog out in the yard
to-night"
And their grandmother: "I suppose
he was only a man who likes to hear
children talk, and perhaps, poor fellow,
he has no little one of his own."
'ihe tramp new the wa to the cem
etery. But first he found the house
where he had lived as a boy. It looked
painfully rickety and "surprisingly
small' So he hastened front before it
and went up b a back street across
the town creek and np a hill, where
at last he stood before the cemetery
gate. It was locked; so he climbed
over the walL He weatr still further
up the hill, past tombstones that looked
very white and trees .that looked very
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green in The moonlight At the top of
the hill he found his father's grave.
Beside it was another mound, and at
the head of this was a plain little pil
lar. The moon was high now, and the
tramp was used to seeing in the night.
Word by word be could slowly read
upon the marbte this inscription:
'jWilliam Albert, beloved son of the
late Thomas Kershaw and his wife
Rachel; born in Brickville, August ,
ls62, drowned in the Alleghery river
near Pittsburg, July 27, 1877, while
heroically endeavoring to save the
life of a child."
The tramp laughed and then uttered
a sigh.
"I wonder," he said aloud, "what
poor bloke it is that's doin' duty for
me under the ground here?"
And at the thought that he owed an
excellent posthumous reputation to
the unknown who had happened to
resemble him fifteen years before, he
laughed louder. - Having no one near
to share his mirth he looked up at the
amiable moon and nodded knowingly
thereat,,as if to say:
"This is a fine joke we're enjoying
between us, isn't it?"
And by and by he remembered that
he was being waited for, and he strode
from the grave and from the cemetery.
By the railroad the short tramp, hav
ing smoked all the refuse tobacco in
his possession, was growing impatient
Already the expected coal train had
heralded its advent by whistle and puff
and roar when his associate joined
him.
"Found out all you wanted to know?"
queried the stout little vagabond, start
ing down the embankment to mount
the train. t
"Yep," answered the tall vagrant,
contentedly.
The small man grasped the iron rod
attached to the side of one of the mov
ing coal cars and swung his foot into
the iron stirrup beneath. His compan
ion mounted the next car in the samo
way.
"Are you all right, Kersh?" shouted
back the short tramp, standing safe
above the "bumpers."
"All right," replied the tall tramp,
climbing up the end of a car. "But
don't ever call me Kersh any more.
After this I'm always Bill the Bum.
Bill Kershaw's dead," and he added
to himself: "and decently buried on the
hill over there under the moon." ,
RoHKirr N. Stephens.
GOING TOO FAR.
lie Had a Somewhat Fastidious and Re
fined Appetite.
Have you any cold vituals?" in
quired the rusty looking pilgrim, "to
spare for a hungry "
No!" snapped the woman at the
kitchen door.
Perhaps I was wrong in asking for
cold vituals," he rejoined, apologetic
ally. If I had suggested tenderloiu
steak with baked potatoes, madam,
and a cup of cocoa "
You wouldn't have got that
either."
H'm! My own preference. I ac
knowledge, would have been roast
turkey with cranberry sauce, chicken
salad, a morsel of Roquefort cheese
and French coffee, with perhaps a
glass of "
- "It wouldn't have done you any
good to ask for that either, you im
pudent insulting vagabond! You
ought to go to work!"
Madam." interposed the rusty
tourist with dignity. "I can overlook
your total inability to satisfy the gas
tronomic requirements of a man with
a somewhat fastidious appetite, but
when you apply offensive epithets and
offer unsolicited advice, you are pre
suming altogether too far. Madam,
good morning."
And as he got around the angle of
the kitchen ho could plainly hear the
dipperful of hot water strike the wall
of the house opposite with a horri
bio swash. Chicago Tribune.
A Brave feoldler. But Not a Warrior.
The soldier is always more or less
brave," remarked the veteraa -and
even when he is not at all inclined to
heroism he will whan the tug of war
comes rise superior to himself and do
great deeds of valor. It is funny to
hear a man you know, who will go
right up to a cannon's mouth when it
is loaded to the muzzle and a man
standing at the vent ready to pull the
string express his feelings when the
spirit isn't moving him. Onco when
we were down there before Peters
burg, when the shot was tearing up
the ground in iO places at once. I was
lying in a safe corner with a man who
had only a few hours before come
throuirh a perfect ram of fire, carrying
the flag to a point where he could
shake it in the enemy's face. We got
to talking about war in general and
this sort of righting, and I said to hira:
"If you had your choice wonld you
have war this way or out in the open,
face to face?"
-There's only one way I'd have
war," he said sharply.
How's that?" I asked.
"Have it over, and that
quick." he replied, and 10 minutes
afterward he was doing a deed that
won him his shoulder-straps. Detroit
Free Press.
Wool Is a riant.
Wool is a kind of hair, and that hair
is simply a species of plant rooted in
the skin of animals. Through the
whole range of human, plant, goafs
hair and sheep's wool, however, nature
shows such close gradations that it
would be difficult to draw an exact
line or to distinguish beyond a ques
tion of doubt between wool and hair.
Consumption In Prison.
Between the ages of 20 and 40 prison
ers die of consumption much more rap
idly than people outside of confinement,
but whether this is owing to the con
finement or to the previous lives of the
convicts is not clear. Few criminals
of any kind live to be old men.
SUe or the Body.
It is stated that the height of the
human body is generally ten times the
length of the face; the face is as loug
as the hand; the arm is four times the
length of the face; the sole is one-sixth
the length of the body, and six times
the thickness of the hand equals the
thickness of the body.
A Coatlv Dinner.
The costliest dinner set ever made
was by Tiffany. Mr. Mackay brought
from his mines $75,000 worth of bullion
and this the jewelers made up into a
service, asking $20,000 for the work,
making the cost in all $95,000, and no
sovereign in Europe eats from cask a
. STATEJEWS.
EIRASKA MISCELLANEOUS 'MATTERS.
August rribiCtii a farmer a?ed J'2,
living two miles west of Hastings, who
suddenly disappeared from home two
weeks ago, was found dead the other
day in a grove or thicket half a mile
irom home. The body was dacom.
I posed and was only identified by the
mvuiiug ana a revolver wnicn lay oe.
tween his arm and body. The coro
ner's jury decided it a case of self
destruction, but the neighbors seem
inclined to think it a case of murder.
A tabulated statement has been
prepared at the olice of the bureau of
industrial statistics showing the re
sults of the efforts to promote irriga
tion in Nebraska by means of artesian
wells. Tnere are ninety-one artesian
wells in the state having an average
depth of 247 feet The average cost
of eaoh well was $172 and theayerage
.ducharce tier mlaute is' thirteen rat
ions. These wells are confined to five
counties, Holt county having forty
two, Cedar thirty-six, Knox eight,
Dixon four and McPherson one.
A meeting of representative citi
zens was held in Hastings for the pur
pose of organizing a county auxiliary
to the state world's fair commission.
W. W. Cox, superintendent of agri
culture for thirty-four Nebraska coun
ties, was present ana addressed tne
meeting. An organization was per
fected by the election of James N.
Clarke, president: Isaac Le Dioyt sec
retary, and E. S. Fowler, treasurer.
A committee was appointed to wait on
the county board at its next meeting
and solicit aid to the enterprise.
Today, says a Beatrice dispatch,
was the closing day of the school year
at the feeble minded institution, and
both pupils, teachers and attendants
were busily engaged in making it ap
propriate to the occasion. The vaca
tion at this institution lasts two
months. A few only of the inmates
go home during the interim, henca the
officials and attendants practically do
not enjoy a vacation. The closing day
was observed in much the same man
ner as do our public schools. Special
exercises tending to show the devel
opment of mind and advancement of
scholarship, together with something
in the line of entertainment went to
make up the day. The success of su
perintendent Dr. Armstrong and hU
assistants in caring for these unfor
tunates, is really remarkable.
A YOUTHFUL CONJURER.
Ills Wonderful Tricks Would Interest a
Herrniaun or Kellar.
A very clever little boy he is only
ten years old astonished a great many
people Friday night at the Niagara
panorama on Fourth avenue, says the
New York World. He was advertised
as a conjurer and professor of various
EDDIE ABBOTT.
occult sciences, and those who visited
the exposition expecting to be bored
by the usual infant phenomenon were
agreeably disappointed.
A handsome little youngster is
Edward Abbort, and clad although
he is an American in full court cos
tume, even to the silk stockings and
breeches, he fairly bewildered the
audience. The stage that used for lec
tures is not very large and any op
portunity for hocus pocus is lacking,
so when this child began his work he
was coldly received. People thought
the performance would consist of a few
tricks, dull and tiresome, and when
this youngster took three pieces of
paper, rolled them up in his tiny palms
and evolved an American flag, every
body began to think that perhaps
Master Abbott wasn't so much of an
infant after all. Next he took a paper
cone, and this trick is a chef d'oeuvre
with De Kolta, Herrmann, Kellar and
other adult professional deceivers.
After it was inspected the small boy
rolled up his sleeves and proceeded to
shake nearly a bushel of flowers there
from. Next he evolved a curious state
of affairs. He borrowed a lady's ring
and ater pouring several sorts of wine
out of a bottle, proceeded to crack the
bottle and extract therefrom a live
guinea-pig, and the ring was found at
tached to a ribbon about the little
animal's neck.
The grace and ease with which the
little boy performed these feats was
only equalled by the clever little run
ning talk with which he supported
them. As a final exhibition he "grew"
a rose tree, which compressed couldn't
have been put into an ordinary trunk,
but which dropped out of its covering
in a remarkable manner.
Kat What You Like Best.
As a rule people digest most easily
what they like best There is a dys
peptic in this town who suffers the
agonies' of death if he eats a piece of
white bread or drinks a cup of tea, and
yet he will eat a large piece of fat pork
and a plate of baked beans swimmkur
in grease without experiencing the
slightest annoyance. He says he likes
pork and beans, and nobody can doubt
it after seeing him eat them, and he
unquestionably furnishes an illustra
tion of the maxim that dyspepsia is an
unaccountable malady.
Marriage in Borneo.
The marriage ceremony practiced by
the people of Borneo is very short and
simple. Bride and groom are brought
out before the assembled crowd with
great solemnity and seated side by
side. A betel nut is then cut in two
by the medicine woman of the tribe,
and one-half is given to the groom.
They begin to chew the nut, and then
the old woman, after some sort of in
cantation, knocks their heads to
gether, and they are declared man and
wife.
'A Pl ,'
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SHE LIKES POLITICS.
DOES THIS BRILLIANT NEWS
PAPER WOMAN.
Short Sketch or the Career of Marg-herUa
Arllns Hmm, Who Has Woi Faaae
la the Kast A Writer at the Early
Age of 15.
Among the women who have, within
the past decade, distinguished them
selves in newspaper work but few have
made any success in the field of poli
tics. The women who can write an in
telligent political article or interview
are few and far between and the
woman who does that sort of work"
--ai
JIISS II. A. HAMU.
from choice is a very rare bird indeed
in the newspaper offices. Fashions,
society gossip, special articles about
the care of babies and the construction
of 50-cent dinners for $1.50 have been
lookca upon- as woman's legitimate
sphere in journalism, and editors have
been jealous of allowing her to pass
those narrow limits.
The clever young writer whose por
trait appears in this column has gone
through that wearisome grind, as
almost every woman ambitious for
journalistic distinction has been
obliged to do, but some of her best work
has been done in fair and square com
petition with men and in political in
terviewing where men are supposed to
enjoy exclusive privileges. A part of
her success in this line is owing to her
indefatigable industry, but more from
the fact that she enters into political
questions with a thoroughly masculine
zest, studies them carefully and is able
to discuss them intelligently. She has
done considerable work injthis line and
is uniformly successful. In April, of
1839, she had an interview with Cleve
land on the tariff which was printed in
the London Times, and her Bar Harbor
interview, last summer, with Blaine,
is of too recent occurrence to have
been forgotten. ' It was vigorously
denied, at the time, by the special cor
respondents who were ignominiously
"scooped" by the plucky young girl,
and its truth was admitted, later, by
the very men who had been loudest in
their denials.
Miss Hamm was born in St Johns,
Canada, and comes naturally by her
studious disposition and her penchant
for politics, her grandfather on her
mother's side having been the Rev.
Harold Jean Spencer, a well-known
Episcopalian divine, and the author of
a number of controversial pamphlets.
Her paternal grandfather was Gen.
Pierre Hamm. a man prominent in the
Liberal party in Montreal.
Miss Hamm began writing for the
press when she was but 13 years old,
and when she was fifteen she was reg
ularly on the staff of the Boston Herald.
She did all sorts of newspaper work in
Boston, from society news to police as
signments, and after several years of
this best-of-all training she went to
New York and was taken on the staff
of the World.
She has done special work for most
of the New York papers, writes a regu
lar weekly letter for several western
dailies, conducted the woman's depart
ment of the United Literary Budget,
and has charge of the woman's pages
of the New York Journalist
This does not, by any means, cover the
amount of work which she turns out
every week, for "with true newspaper
instinct she catches a good story
wherever she sees it, and places it in
the most appropriate market She is
enthusiastic in her love for her profes
sion and she studies as hard as she
works. .
Curiously enough, for one whose
taste runs in the direction of political
problems, she has a pretty knack at
rhyming and has written verses which
contain genuine poetic feeling. Miss
Hamm is young, clever, ambitious and
plucky, one does not need the gift of
prophesy to predict for her a brilliant
fmturc in journalism.
WELLS. THE' PLUNGER.
The Mas Who Wins Enormous Sams at
Monte Carlo.
Here is a picture of Wells, the Eng
lish plunger at Monte Carlo. Imagine
a common-looking, bald man, with a
black beard,Jand clumsy hands be
decked with diamonds which thejeorner
man in a nigger troupe might envy,
seated at the Trente et Quarante table
nearest the door, playing persistently
with a perfect haystack of thousand-franc
notes before him, and you
have Mr. Wells. The crowd is thicker
and denser round the otable than
usual, even when the season is at its
height, .and when fashionable and
other Monte Carlo celebrities abound
with maximums. Three times has the
bank had to send for more money
through the persistent winning of the
so far triumphant Wells. In the even
ing he is still there, and the haystack
of mille notes looks larger.
But as to the Wells system, the most
knowing people declare he has none, !
and 1R nimntv u nlnnirArut !..,. .Ia1a I
winning heavily when he is lucky, as
on the first notable visit, and lueiujr
when unlucky, as at his beiond a few
weeks ago. Up to the present, Fortune
has been in hit favor.
Uallke Neceaelty They Kaaw Law.
There are now tweaty-one law firms
in the United States composed of hus
bands and wives, and there are about
200 American' women who practice
law- in the courts or manage legal pub
UcattoM. Journal of Educatioav
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1 TRf!H raBMfatinn baa If a stwm
problems, its own achievements, its
own sorrows and joya If it is wise
! it learns something from the past
but having its own life to live it is
never profoundly and continuously
impressed by antecedents.
It is recognized by all that the
world has entered upon an epoch
in which the victories of peace shall
overcome those of war. The greatest
statesman of the age wears as his
laurel the glory of having changed
his country's policy and made the
work of arbitration take the place of
war.
The best thing oae can do la to quit
thinking about the comparative re
spectability or ladylikeness" of dif
ferent employments, and remember
that honest worSTofany tlad is "hon
orable, and that if you are a good
woman you are worthy of a respect
and reverence to which no form 'of
ladyship'' can add anything what
ever. in tms iree country no social odium
should attach to honest work of any
kind, and the mistress who views her
housemaid as other than a worker
for wages, whose obligations end with
the rendering of so much toil for so
much money, is as great a snob as the
shopgirl who cuts the acquaintance of
an associate! for choosing the kitchen
to the factory. There is a duty laid
upon parents and the public schools
in this regard.
Charity,' as Richard Whiteing
aptly 8ay is "but an ointment for a
cancer." If charity opens cheap
lodgings and restaurants for working
girls, these benefactions enable them
to live for lesa and in the end they
will get just that much less for their
work. The operation of the iron law
of wages, pressing the toiler down
to the point of bare subsistence, is
not to be permanently interfered with
by the emollients of the humane,
however well meant
The age is eminently a practical and
gain-seeeking one. Our education
follows the tendency of the age.
Literature no longer directs public
movements but follows them, and
poetry, which has no more intrinsic
pecuniary value than music or beauty,
suffers, A poem cannot be used as
an asset or serve for profitable specu
lation, like a work of art it can not
even be utilized for revenue like a
play or a song. And accordingly
poetry is aeelected.
Humanity is becoming too strong
and sensitive, too responsive to relig
ion and civilization to permit the old
fashioned duels between nations to
settle dispute and civilization has
encouraged development of genius
until it has made the weapons of war
so terribly destructive that nations
hesitate to feed their people to death.
Civilization is doing its work; it is
refining the world; humanizing it and
leading it to find satisfaction that is
greater than hatred, revenge and
savagery can suggest
The mission of civilization as rep
resented in the European partition of
Africa bears a curious resemblance to
savagery. So far as it is made effect
ive it drives the natives from their
lands and supplants them with the
white race. Where only a pro
tectorate" is undertaken and an at
tempt is made to put it into effect it
is found to consist in selling to the
natives by force of arms clothos which
they do not need, and rum which they
ought not to have, and shooting such
of the natives as object to the white
man's control- In contrast with civ
ilization the barbarism that minds its
own business has some moral ad
vantages. The 'servant girl" matter must be
settled by the abolition of the word
"servant" Said a Turkish states
man: -The first step towards the
settlement of the Albanian question is
the extermination of the Albanians,"
and the first step towards the settle
ment of the 'servant" question in this
country is the abolition of the words
servant
service" and -bervant
girL" Try some other name if a
designation is necessary. In New
England, in simpler days when all
the members of the family worked,
the young woman who came in to
work with the family was called the
-help." and she fully deserved the
title. "Help" might fit the present
emergency, but certainly not ser
vant" For from three to six months in the
year the country districts are barred
from the outside world, except for
foot travelers or an occasional daring
horseman. During all this time'th'
products of the farm aro unmarket
able, the necessaries which it requires
cannot be supplied, the desolation of
lcse'.iness and stagnation settles down
up iti intellectual- and social life,
farm animals and vehicles are useless
and have to be maintained at a dead
loss, and even the work of education
is interrupted by the impossibility of
sending children to school. This is
the country road at its worst estate.
But there are other months when,
though it may bo traveled, it requires
two horses to pull the load of one.
consuming even then double time,
and there is but a comparatively short
period when the ordinary highway
performs the office for which it was
destined. The ensuing loss, direct
and indirect is simply incalculable.
vWorway . has i watsfjusef faffsr
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