Imtrttat m WHOLE NUMBER 1,189. COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22i 1808, VOLUME XXIII. NUMBER 45. fhmbm y ? ,v ..- -r.- -; -;.:..- .i 3 - ' THE OLD RELIABLE Columbus - State - Bank J (Oldest Bank in the State.) Pays Interest on Time Deposits AND ' Males Loans on Heal Estate. VSmSES BIGHT DRAFTS GH Ojukt, Chicago, New York and aU Foreign Commtrias. BELLI : STEAMSHIP : TICKETS. BUYS GOOD NOTES And Helps it Customers when they Need Help OFFICERS ASO MRECTdftS I LEANDEH GERRARD. Tres't. R. H. HENRY, Vice Tres't. JOHN STADFFER, Cashier. M. BRUGGER, G. W. HDL8T. -OF- COLUMBUS, NEB., -nAS AN- Authorizcil Capital of $500,000 Taid in Capital - 90,00f OFFICERS: O. H. SHELDON, TrpB-t. H. P. II. OIILKICII. Vice Pre. C. A. NEWMAN, Cashier, DANIEL SCHRAM, AsVI (late. BTOOKIIOLDERS: S). H. Sheldon, J. P. Hecker, Herman P. H.Oehlrich, Carl Riouke. Jonas WVl.li, W. A. McAllister, .T. Henry Wnrdrman, H. 51. Winelow, floorce V. Galley. S. C. C.rw Frank Rorer, Arnold K II. Oehlnch, ilenry Loaeke, Gerhard Loseke. iyjlank of deposit; interest allowed oa time deposits; buy and sell exchance on United State and Europe, and buy and sell available scaritie. W shall bo pleased to receive jour business. We OSlirtt yoar patronage. 25dec87 J. DTJSSELL, PIALEB IJt ind all Kinds of Pumps. PUMPS REPAIRED ON SHORT NOTICE. Eleventh Street, one door west of Hagel & Co's. CjuneSS-y COLUMBUS Planing Mill. We hare Jnst opened n new mill OK M street, oppoeite Sehroecioro' flouring mill and are pre. pared to do ALL KINDS OF WOOD WORK, such as Sash, Blinds. Store fronts Stairs, Balusters, Turning, Doors, Mouldings, Counters, Stair Bailing, Scroll Sawing, Planing. BTEEL AND IRON ROOFING AND SIDING. BT"A11 orders promptly attended to. Call on r address. HUNTEMANN BROS., ol2m Columbus, Nebraska. PATENTS Caveats and Trade Marks obtained, and all Pat ent business conducted for MODERATE FEES. OUR OFFICE IS OPPOSITE UTS. PATENT OFFICE. We have no sub-agencies, all business j less time and at LESS COST than those remote from Washington. Send model, drawing, or photo, with descrip tion. We advise if patentable or not, free of charge. 6nr fee not due itill patent is secured. a lok. "How to Obtain Patent " with refer. encestoactaal clients in your state, county or tows, sent free. Addreaa Opposite Patent'OfBos, Washington, D.cl -COME TO- The Journal for Job Work . QTAJAuXm. um m IDM M Wills NEBRASKA NEWS. STATE BBEVITTJEsV i Revival services are in progress Ir ! two of Ashland's churches. At Wayne the mercury last week went down to 29 helow zero. The Kearcey Plow company has sev enteen branch factories in the state. Norfolk and Fairbury both had fires last week, none of them very serious. Jim and Grant Harshberger of But ler county killed fifteen skunks in one day. Dworak, the Fremont crook, gets two years in the penitentiary at hard, labor. Over sixty persons have united with the Methodist church at Superior since tho revivals began. The alumni of the Blair Kceley in. stitule were royally banquetted last eanejiiay evening. Tho citizens of Tecumseh still com plain that there are gambling bouses conducted in the town. A lodge of Knights of Pythias hae been instituted :u Su Edwards vita. a membership of twenty. l'iattsmouth'f new roller miil will soon begin to pried. It has all the modern improvements. Cedar Rapids has perfected arrange ments for a creamery and is now stud ying up ome plan for lire protection. Several Hartington men Went to Texas to secure cheap homes They are back home again and have come to stay. The city treasurer of Lincoln threat ens to sei.o some cars unless the street railway company comes forward with taxes long since due. A colored man named Clark "swiped1 a $50 camera from a Blair pnotograph gallery, but was captured and will undergo trial for this offense. SeDastian Schmidt of Rulo went to Falis City ono day and toot: on too much tangle-foot, from the effects of which ho died on his way home. Two hundred tons of coal was stolen from the Union Pacific cars at Colum bus last year and the company is after the thieves with a sharp sticic. The Mercer is Omaha's newest and best hotel, cor. Twelfth and Howard streets, lialcs ?"2 to $4.50 per day. "150 rooms and CO connected wuh bath. Tho local sports of Hartington or ganized a wolf hunt, and the brave band returned at uight with ono "cot ton tail' as their only trophy of tho cnaso. The wife of a Fremont brakeman has disappeared in a mysterious man ner, and tho neighbors think she de- i liarteu Dacauao oi cruel treatment at the hands of her husband. Saunders county soil, says the Wahoo Wasp, is selling for good, stiff prices. You can't buy an acre of tila blo land for less than $35 and mauy are holding it at ?50 an aero. Otto Dewit, son of I'. F. Dewitz. got his hand caught in a corn sheiler nt Chris Eggbert s place, some tnreo miles north of West Point and "lacer ated the thumb so badly that amimta- tion was necessary. Intelligence has been received in Lincoln of the death of II. W. Weir of Boise City. Idaho, one of the lawyers who successfully defended Mrs. Mary 2heedy two years ago. when tried for the murder of her husband. Howard Raley, an Omaha druggist, will have to answer to the district court for having lired his store for the purpose of getting tho insurance. A negro employed to do tho job gave information of his employer's rascality. Chris Gardner, a telephone lineman. was brought back to Lincoln from Beatrice to answer to a serious charge preferred against him by Christina VYetei. but ho concluded hide to his own and tho girl's shame by marrying her. Hunker Bros, aro about to organize u mammoth stock company to build a a large elevator in West Point. It is ihe intention to get a large number of the farmers to take stock in the insti tution and insure its success from the start. George A. Berlin of Auburn, baker and dealer in confectionery and fancy groceries, made an assignmentin favor of his general creditors. He gave tho Key of his business house to the sheriff of "the county. Assets, about $2; 000; liabilities not known. Tho coroner's jury impaneled to in quire into the real cause of the death of E. Beckwitb, found dead in the road south of Ansley. found that me dead man's back was broken and his smill fractured by being run over by his loaded wagon. Rasmus .Seison ot Madison county offers to assign his interest in the state bounty to any responsible individual or corporation that will sink a shaft on his farm. He also agrees to board the worKtnen free of charge, and guar antees that coal will be found in pay ing quantities. David Brown, ayounp man of Beech vihe. Custer county, is ono of those "bad men' who go around with a re volver in their hin pocket. At a dance a few evenings ago nis gun fell out of his pocket to the floor and was dis charged, and the ball entered his own foot at the heel. He was a stranger and they took him in at Superior. It was a game of poker, and after losing $165 thestran gor concluded that he had been swin dled. He thereupon proceeded to clean out the ranch, and paused not while there was a whole piece of furni ture in the den. While Herbert Brown, a young man about fifteen years oid, living three miles south of Pawnee City, was eal louing oast a wagon loaded with baied hay, his horse fell throwing him un der the wagon, the hind wheel pass ing over bis breast and severely injur ing him. It is feared he may be in jured internally. Two Indian murderers of the cattle men who escaped death at the hands of the Indian police were brought from Fine Ridge to Rushville and turned over to the custody of United States Marshal Fry and Deputy Chris Matn ieson and taken to Deadwood. The prisoners were escorted from Pine Ridge by a detachment of ten mounted Indian police, unaer command ot sec ond Lieutenant Joe Bush. The citizens of West Point were rather startled when they heard of the closing of the doors of 8. Mannefeld's lar?e shoe store in that city. The I liabilities are in the neghborhood of too much stock and poor collections. Nebraska Legislature. Sexatk. The senate again convottcd on the lGth aftet' fY'iil days adjourn ment. IMlVs were introduced: To re hire railroad companies to construct private crossings. To repeal sections 3.V.-CO-r.l-iV2 of the consolidation, stat utes. This is the old law relating to building and loan associations which was not repealed two years rtgti wlien the new law governing these ass'dcl: tions was passed. To amend, the "VavL relating to state.depditi'r"ir. 'IV. amend the law prescnWrtg Itle manner of draw ing names Of petit jurors To prohibit the manufacture and sale of cigarettes contain opium and other poisonous urtigs. House rolls Nos. SI ntul SO? were read the first time. Tho latter Is the bill making the appropriation tor the current expenses of the guwritlrtenl. Senate file No. 24. JM-Ovidihg for the ap pointment of a police matron in cities tf rt.000 or more, was lakcn un and passed. Packwood's bill to reduo. the railroad commission from five members to three and cut the .salaries of Hie -v-retaries from .2,ui)0 to $1,000 was laid over one week. Senator Darner's bill, scltaiy I'.ie No. IS, providing that hanks of deposit shall give a bond to the county commissioners in a sum not h"-s than S-.",000, provoked a lively discussion, in which the author of the bill defended it vigorously. It was finally luid over un til next week. Horsi:. The house was tardy in as sembling after the Week's iocess. and it was 2:30 vhert the gavel fell. There WtM-e -eventy-seven members present. Telegrams announced the sickness of Mr. WilMJii of Buffalo und Mr. Hag gles of Dundy. They were excused for the remainder of the week. Several petitions were introduced from the women of various counties praying for the enactment of a law providing for the adequate punishment of crimes against women and girls. Tin' ho'iM. took up the consideration of committee reports: Nos. '2'1, ISO, 1 :',, LM7. ':; and 1T4 wefe reported for passage ami the report adopted. Nos. lG'j. 1-Ti. l.'. and J0:t were reported for indefinite post ponement, and the same actum taken Xo. 103 was the beet sugar bil'. and the republicans endeavored to have it placed on the general file, but th'ir efforts were unavailing. The governor scut in a message calling attention to the fait that in 1801 the section was n. pealed 'v which he was authorized to appoint .s commandant of the soldiers and sailor-' home, and he asked that the inadevert ant mistake he remedied. Suter intro duced a resolution calling for the cen suring of the federal court fr accept ing a S10,00 bond in the case of C. W Moshcr. A t.cper In Viiihin;toii. Washinc-ion. Feb IS. The llawaiin commissioners last evening spoke of Senator Vest's allusion iu his speech about the introduction of leprosy into the states in consequence of annexation as not well founded. "Whv." said Mr. Castle. -I saw a leper walking the streets of Washington yesterday. There was no mistaking the symptoms, with which I am familiar. Now such a thing as that would be im possible iu the streets of Honolulu or any other city iu the Hawaiian islands, under the laws for segregation which is a feature of government here. We keep the lepers together and if the present efficient system is noi uisuirncu the disease will in time be wholly erad icated. The number of unfortunates in the settlement has been reduced from about 1.200 to slightly in excess of l.uO'.i. "The situation in the I'nited States is not such," continued Mr. Castle, "as to warrant opposition to annexation be cause of the fear of the importation of leprosy from Hawaii. There has Wen leprosy in Louisiana for ""00 years, and Wisconsin is cursed with the disease brought from the countries of Northern Europe. In neither of these states is there any such effective laws against its spread as are in force with us. Why. in a New York hospital there is a lep er's ward. The disease is not new nor strange in the United States, and there is no danger of it spreading here be cause of the annexation of Hawaii. The Vice President-Elect. Bloomingtok, 111., Feb. 18. A fare well reception was giver, last night by the Bloomington club, of which the vice president-elect is a member, to that gentleman and his wife. The af fair was a delightful one. The club rooms were elaborately and beautifully decorated. The national flag was draped across the end of the reception hall against a background of potted plants and flowers. Mrs. Stevenson wore a simple and beautiful gown of lavendar silk, and diamonds as orna ments. Five hundred persons from Bloomington and vicinity were pres ent. There was dancing after l::;0 o'clock, and an elaborate lunch just before midnight. This is probably the last social event in which Mr. and Mrs. Stevenson will participate prior to their departure for Washington on the 27th. Deadlocked Agaiu. riiKYENXi:, Wyo.. Feb. IS. The dead lock is again on with full force and there seems to be no way out of the difficulty. There were three ballots yes terday, making twenty-seven in all. The first ballot stood: Warren, rep.. I.".: Brown, ind.. 11: Clark, rep.. : Hor ner, dem.. 4: Baxter, dem.. .": Richard, rep.. .": Thompson, den... .". The second and third ballots did not differ materially except that Thompson on the last ballot fell to one. A strong effort will be made tomorrow by both sides as there are but two more days of the session. There is little hope now of an election. The republicans will be satisfied to have the governor appoint for two years. Raa Off with Tonne Man. Grf.kxcastle, Ind., Feb. 17. Ex Treasurer Holdingsworth of Vincennes was here yesterday on the hunt forhis daughter Laura, a student in Coates College at Terrc Haute. She disap peared from the college Friday and took the Big Four train for this city in company with a young man named Harry Bryant, son of the proprietor of the transfer line at Terre Haute. Bryant was formerly a student in De Pauw University. The girl is only 18 years of age. A thorough search of the city was made, but Laura was not found. Anti-Options and Flour Trout. Detroit, Mich., Feb. 17. Yesterday the following telegram was sent to Congressman J. Logan Chipman, De troit's representative at Washington: "Please note the immense North western trust already formed, as "out lined by morning papers, anticipating the passage of the anti-option bill. Please ventilate. Is it possible that our legislative bodies at Washington can be longer deceived as to the real incentive for this vicious bill? T. G. Ckaig, "President of Detroit Board of Trade." Advocates of the repeal of the Sher man avt will make one more effort to accomplish their purpose FAEM AND HbttSEHOLD. SELLING GARDEN STUFF DI RECTLY TO CONSUMERS. The More Profitable Way Corn ftnd Corn AdiUteraMd ttoney Qaln"- fces Stock Notes and Honsft linld Hints. helling Truck. American farmers havo some queer notions, and among them is tho ono that it is "small bUsineHs'' tosnll Bar don stuff (lirecily to The consumer-:: If the average farmer could sell truck to the dorn?r grobfel; in his illhgc it would ikot hurt his feelings at all, but before be wilt peddle out a load that would yield him a profit he will spend his timo raising wheat and sell it at less than it would cost hint, t live nesr a village of less than 2,000 in habitants, and have been told dozens of times that truck farming would not pay in this vicinity because there ws no market near. I did not believe this, for while I have not been en gaged as a regular truck farmer I have always raised more truck in my garden than my family could con sume, ttnd I hive Had ilo trouble Hi 'disposing of it kf a good price to pri vate families. I began doing this by merest accident. One day I was at the grocery when some ono came in and asked for somo green peas. Tho grccor told him that he had ordered them from the city but could not get any ns tho market was stripped of llioni. 1 had a lot of thorn ih my garden, and said so, and the grocer asked ine to go home and get thani. Ho said if I had any string beans'" to spare to bring them along, writes Bert Carroll in the Farmers Voice. I went home and picked a bushel of each, peas and beans, and was back with them in two hours and got $2 for the lot. Tho hotel keeper saw mo bring them in, and as I pased tho hotel ho told mo that he would liko for mc to bring him anything in the way of garden truck that I might have to spare, and he would take it at the price he had to pay at tho grocor's, as he preferred to get it fresh, nnd I got to taking Fomething to hinl whenever I wbnt to town, and I found that it was casing up on tho cash drain for family su--plies wonderfully. Ono day as I was talking to tho landlord as he was paying for somo stuff, a guest re marked that ho would like to have somo eoltage cheese, nnd I paid that my wifo knew how to make tho -best I ever nlc. The landlord said he loved it dearly and wished I would bring some .in. The next time I went to town I took in two quarts and ho gave mc half a dollar for it, and after that and to this day that hotel takes all the cottage cheeso wo can furnish at the samo price. Then wo got to selling eggs and buttor to tho hotel and to others, and I worked up quite a trade in tho town. Last season I had other things to attend to and could not raiso garden truck, and a young man in my neigh borhood, whoso father is a farmer, failed in health and gave up regular farm work for tho year, but to have something to fill in the time with worked what ho was ablo on a truck patch that was laid out on ono side of a field. As his stuff got ready for use he found that ho had been so success ful that ho was going to have a large surplus, and he concluded to try to sell it in the village, and he not only sold all that he could spare but ho bought the surplus of all the neigh bors and sold that. Now he finds his health restored, and as the result of his work for the year ho has more mon ey than he would have had if he had raised regular farm crops. No one thinks the less of him because he has been a truck peddler, and tho people in tho village are better off because they have had fresh vegeta bles delivered at their doors. I do not notice but my neighbors aro just ns cordial to me ns they would be if I raised large fields of wheat instead of small areas of berries and truck. If they think any less of me they have an admirable way of concealing their feeling and I am not the wiser. This I know: In my own vicinity truck farming is coming into favor with everybody except the grocers, who find their trade in vegetables serious ly interfered with by the supplies that aro brought from tho country. The village people only buy of them now when they cannot get a supply from fhc country. Adulterated Honey. By recent experiments made by Prof. Cook of Michigan, with chem ists to see whether they could always detect every change from real honey, it was proved that when pure sugar syrup was fed to tho bees it was so perfectly changed and given the real honey taste, either from tho peculiar odor of the bees in the hives, or more like some subtile chemical and physi cal action of the bee life while in the bee's honey sack, that they could not detect it, while glucose adulterations could be detected. A Virginia beo keeper is authority for the following: Some 12 or 1 1 years ago I put glass dishes on some hives to get them filled by the bees, but the Vionpy season ran out just as they got fairly started to make comb -in them, and so I fed them granulated sugar syrup and forced them to fill tho dishes up. I found that I had to feed much more syrup than I got honey, and also learned that the flavor of the syrup had been changed to hat. of nice honey. I never tried the experiment again. In the winter of 1889-90 my bees flew out and gathered honey from the old field pines forty-two days, though many of j them only for a few minutes. Ihe pines some days were literally cov ered with drops of this honey, as pure and white as the morning Jew. When evaporated, as it soon was, it tasted like sugar syrup; but after it was stored away in the hive it was a little darker in color, and had the honey taste. This pine honey when gathered by the bees has more sac charine matter in it than any other I know of. It will granulate in the comb in the hives in July. This year I commenced to extract Jul 14, as my bees got no surplus up to July 1, and I found full- one-fourth so thick that it could not be thrown out by the most rapid revolution 1 could ive it with mv geared ex- tractor. The Western bee papers hftve much to say about their honey- dew honey not being good. I chafc lenge tho world to beat our pine honey Journal of Agriculture. Corn and Corn. Farmers who aro buying corn to feed should beat in fflitid that all corn is not ot equal value; says the loWft ftotac!"tead.. Nor is seventy hounds ot cork el-rays cqdai to other seventy pounds. Wo are speaking now not of the different amounts of cob that there may be in tho samples, nor of tho amount of chaffy earn or grains. mcot the difference Usually recognized bj farmr3.rhSn buying corn: The' point wb wish to maifo is.Jhdt fc'ord grown on iands rich in nitrogen, as1 for insjanbe clover" sod, has more feed ing value, pound for pouHd. than corn grown on old lands tnat nave utau worn out by successive crops. It must 3hyays bo borne ill mind that it is tho nitrogenous or albuminoid, or in other words, flesh-forming quali ties of corn or any other grain that give it it9 special value, and hence corn grown on clover sod is worth moro than corn, apparently as good, grown on old ground. We have frequently heard armors Who buy corn from different pttrtloa claim that one lot. of Corn scdmed to do tho hogs rd good wji'ld th6.r fat tened on another sample' apparently no better. Tho facts abovo stated we think go far to explain the reason, and whether our readers agree with us or not it is at least worth thinking about in buying grain to feed. Outs and Elbow Cireasc. Yhm will brepders larn thitt oats and elbow grease are hec'ess'lry" ad juncts of a successful horse show, thai the man who , trusts to pasture grasses, west winds and frosiy nights to give finish, has only himself to kick if his stock is out of condition, thin in flesh, rough in coat, and un able to present good qualities to the judges. To-day, in order to win a premium, a colt must be in good, healthy condition, and to show its worth must not be only halter-broken' but trained to show at the halter. These conditions arc not exacting, but proper, as they all serve to add 'to tho value, nnd without these thero can bono profitable breeding. Cole man's Uliral World. Ouincc Not Hearing:. It is undoubtedly the fact that more disappointments occur to growers of quinces than to growers of almost any other "kind of hardy fruit. The 't.-ees arc often killed outright by se vere winters in exposed localities. If not killed the trees arc unproductive. Quince trees requiro rich, deep soil, kept moist enough through tho win ter so that it does not freeze deeply. Dressings of wood ashes arc especial ly beneficial to quince trees. Ashes not only furnish mineral fertilizer tho treo needs to perfect its fruit, but they also keep tho soil moist and open for the reception of rains. American Cultivator. Household Help. Soapsuds aro said to be excel lent for making plants grow and blossom, on account of the potash therein. It is claimed that one of tho best home fertilisers for house plants is a teaspoonful of ammonia in a quart of water. A paper devoted to women's inter ests says that fatigue is as fatal to good looks as a scorching wind. Rest when you need it. When you buy a new broom select a dozen of the smoothest and largest splints, pull them out and lay them away to use in testing cake when it is baked. An experienced cook says that if a stalo loaf of bread is soaked in some wator for a minute or two, then baked for about half an hour it will bo liko new. A littlo lavender upon the shelves and floor of the wardrobe, or bits of camphor gum or cedar wood or laurel arc said to be excellent in keeping away the moths. It is well to know that whisky will take out every kind of fruit stain. Tablecloths and napkins which have i become almost ruined by stains may be made as good as new by pouring whisky upon them before washing. Very dusty clothes should he well shaken before hcing brushed, and much of the dust should Iks rubbed off with a dry cloth. For the brushing process the dress should be spread upon a board and should be brushed the way of the ''nap' of the cloth. The brushing should bo done quickly nnd lightly or the brush docs more harm than good. Stock Notes. Another essential item is judicious feeding and proper caro in every re spect. Everything that will add to the comfort of a steer is a gain in his favor. On6 essential in the growing of a good beef is the having of a good beef breed. One important point in cattle feed ing is to sec how much wc can pro duce from a given amount of food. By sheltering and providing prop er feeding arrangements, thero is no waste of feed by tramping under foot. One advantage in feeding tho roughness to cattle instead of selling is the making of a good quantity of manure. The cattle that produces the most meat and not fat and bone arc the ones that will bring the highest price in market. If you arc raising heef, breed for beef: if you can" carry other qualifica tions with it all the better, but breed for beef first, Good clover hay fed with good straw makes a very good ration for a growing steer. A little bran makes it still more valuable. As with other classes of stock one thing that hurts good cattle breed ing is the total unfitness of many that attempt to breed them. After the first use of a full blood male has proved a success do not waste what has been secured by go ing back and using a grade sire. The farmer that thinks that any body can take care of cattle is gener ally one who also things that any kind of care is good enough for cattie. The skim milk of a dairy is worth mere to feed to calves in winter than in summer. I but it should be fed warm and can still be further improved by ! the addition of a little out meal, Nebraska CAN DO MANUFACTURING AS CHEAPLY AS ANY STATS )N THE UNION. Xa !ts seUIeat ef OctfcMaar ib rroblcm U For gtflted. rt'hile waikisif down Broadway i xt v--ir ,.:.. aivint nniK ariti daF I saw a crowd of people that almo. blocked the sidewalks on both sides of tnS stwfS" 'Ihe were watching a very arg'e safe vV!iicK nas bemf hoiste.t by pulleys and ropealu frost of high building, evidently intended U fc taken into the fifth story through one of the" window. It was at the fourth story and I sloped with the crowd and watched iu bardij per ceptible movement. Suddenly, without warning, tM ropes broke with pistol like report and the safe shot down through the air faster than my eyes could iollow it. There was a great noise, the ground under my feet shook, th crowd surged backward; Sortie falling under" foo Men and Women screamed, and fright ened horses plunged through the crowd. Every one was either awed or panic stricken by the presence of grea danger. Tho safe had crashed through the pavement into a sub-sidewalk base ment out of sight. The force of the fall had broken the great flag stones Of the pavement for many feet on both Aides. The plate glass windows were scattered and evCn the show cass o the inside of the basement store were ruined. The fall had been about forty feet. It was a striking exhibition of the power of the falling of agrsat weight. At Gothenburg, Neb., they have a direct fall fifty -three and a half feet of a body of water heavier than that enormous safe. It falls on a turbine water wheel of the latest and best make. This wheel supplies power enough to run dozens of the largest facterics in the State of Nebraska, and furnishes it at lens expense than the coal costs to run one factory in Omaha. The Commercial Club tt (iothenburg will nromntly jrive information either about the town, the surrounding coun try, or the water power. By electricity the power to drive the largest mill in the State can be txams mittcd or taken from this wheel on a wire not larger than a clothes line, ono, two, three, six or a dozen miles away A "few years ago this was not possi ble Power had then to be taken from a shaft. Later a wife cable was sue cessfhlly used for short distances, but now by electricity power can be trans mitted under grodnd, under water, elevated in the air, in any direction, not only yards but miles. We are passing from the time of steam to the time of electricity. Plans and estimates are now being made to use electricity instead of horses to draw the boats on the Erie Canal from Buffalo to Albany. Every reliable water power in the country has been suddenly given a value almost inestimable. Either wood or coal is indispensable in making steam. Nebraska has no coal mines, no forests Cost of freight makes wood not possible as a fuel and coal very expensive. The place that has a water power needs neither one. Tho water power places will in the future do the manufacturing, will be the best markets and rapidly make the largest cities. The rush to Goth enburg, which has had its power plant completed but little more than a month, shows how keenly alive the Western people are to business advan tages and commercial developments. CUAS. T. WOBTHAK. Kcf-ordlns lllitli Heat. A method has recently been intra duced at the great Djwlaia iron works of automatically recording the tem perature of the air blown into the furnace. There aro six new blast furnaces at Dowlais. In the hot-blast main of each a pyrometer has bean placed, consisting of a thermojunction Of platinum and platinum-rhodium. The wires from these six thermo junctions are brought to a switch in the laboratory, where they can be con nected one after another with a gal vooometer. The spot of light is thrown upon a cylinder, which is cov ered with sensitive photographic pa per, and which revolves once in twenty four hours. A line representing the required temperature is first drawn, to that the distance of the iine traced by the spot of light from the datum line indicates tho variation of temper ature of the blast. A l:tleiiiMi L.n-!clrm opportunity. A New York woman who has bidden good-by to the first bloom of her youth, but is making out extremely weil on the aftermath, has succeeded in fully solving the problem of quench ing other women's" inquiries with re gard to her age. "Whenever a woman has the cheex to ask me what my age is,' she explained. "I always beem upon her suddenly and exclaim: Ob, my dear girl. 1 am a great deal older than you are a whole year at least. And then, before she can find time or breath for another question I aad: And, by tho way, what is your exact age. dear?'' The woman, taken by surprise, lies heroically, of course, and consequently makes me out at least five years younger than I would have dared to make myself.' Qilfi-ii Vieiorln'n lilorfs. The queen has a large hand. She takes 71 gloves. Her fingers are ex tremely short and out of proportion to the size of her hand, says the Edinburg Scotsman. The queen will wear noth ing but black gloves. She commenced to wear one button gloves at the be ginning of her reign. Today, when no shop girl thinks anybody a real lady without six button gioves. the queen has only cot to four. She re fuses altogether to conform to fashion. She wears only about twb dozen pairs of gloves a year. Each pair costs 8s 6d: in fact, the queen of Great Britain and Ireland and the empress of India is decidedly economical in her giove bili. There are a great many fashionable women who think nothing of a giove bill if it only comes to $100 a year. Many women will spend $20 on gloves during the six weeKS of the season by wearing two or three pairs a day. Economical. He My dear, why don't you try to be economical? I don't believe that Mrs. Lakeside is as extravagant as I y vou are. 1 She Perhaus not in some things. I understand she wore tne same ttiuurniug dress for three husbands. a CITY'S cooii Fortune. -Loata Abont to JcdT st Million Sfc. Dollars fros Cauull 8oorcs d4rattaal AdTaac. St. Louis, Feb', io. Before the eno of the year St. Louis "Will have a million dollars which it will not Itffrm how to spend. The sale of the old city hall, and its site, Th1ch will be abandoned by all the city offices thiir snwiner for the great building in Washington Parfc,- has been decided on, and the Union Mat' ket, ugly but valuable, will follow. The two are worth together consider ably over a million dollars, but part of the tdoney obtained by their sale will have to be spent in buying an other market place for the hucksters. City officials generally believe mat this money should oe speni in a ininp. but there have been a dozen ways pre ssed of spending it The city may build a c3fldm system; it may run another great sewe" along the bed of fhe River des Peres, or it Ifcay estab lish free baths. The money will be gat-iif h for oae of these objects but not all , . .. St Louis was the first lty in the United States that took front Germany the plan of teaching children in kin dergartens nnd from here the idea spread all over the country. This whole rreeli has been devoted by the teachers or thd city to the celebration of the twentieth ariniycrwiry of the nn.ninr nt thn kindergarten here. Ex"- hibitions of kindergarten work were given in some of he schools each day, and thero were several lectures and essavs on the system, amoilg them one " by Prof. William T. Harris, tile first superintendent of public schools here, and after that one of the teachers Id the famous Concord School of I hn ofcophy. Visitors td the St Loni Exposition this year, as well as the tourists at the World's Fair, will be surprised by the exhibit . thi city will make at both places of the excellent work its manual training schools are doing. Educators generally so well understand tha superiority of the St Louis schools of tb kind that one-fifth of the entire space reserved at the World's Fair for this sort of exhibits has been given tc our manual training uieu, uu m-ji will make a much more complete show of the work at tho local Exposition. The manual training classes here are attended by the sons of the very wealthiest parents, and many a young heir to a fortune, coming out of tho University witn his degree, is as well able to build his own house as his father is to pay for it Signal Officer Hammon is a man of very original ideas, and all which he has put into operation in the weather office here have proved to be of great advantage to the people living in tne country. it is we "; whom tho Observer wants to benefit He was the first to send out through the country tho weather signals by whistles of the mills in the country that warned the farmer of approaching changes. He has just begun to collect weekly reports from all the great wheat-growing sections of the West, showing how the weather is affecting the wheat in those parts. These re ports he sends out free to the small country towns and the farmers are thus kept advised of the crop pros pects quickly and satisfactorily. If snow is hurting the wheat in the Northwest, and is coming this way, the farmer learns of it two or three days before it gets to his fields. . .A SA.fc Mm T U CAME BACK TO BE SHOT. V Touching- Story or a UaTrocne oi xuo French Commune. The order had been issued to Paris in 1871 bv the new republican author- hies that communist insurgents who were taken with arms in their hands should be put to death immediately. Tho order was being relentlessly ex ecuted, when. In tho garden of the Elysee Palace, a detachmont of re publican troops camo upon a Bmall band of insurgonts. Among tnem wa- a boy of 15 year still in short trousers. The band was conducted to a larger p;rty of communists destined for ex ecution. On the way the 15-year-old broke out from among his compan ions and place i himself in front of the colonol who commanded tho escort. Making the military saluto with a good deal of grace, he said: Mistor. you're going to shoot me. I suppose?'' Certainly, my lad." said tho colonel. Takon with arras in your hands, it's all up with you. That id the order." All right!" said the boy. but see here; I live In Miromosnil street. where my .mother is conciorge in a house. She'll wait for mo If I don't come home and sho'll worry a great deal. I just want to co homo and quiet her a bit, you know, and thon again. I've got my watch here; I'd liko to give it to my mother, so she'll havo as much as that, anyway. Come colonel, lot ma run homo little while. I give you my word of honor I Hi come Dacic to do snou The colonel was struck with aston ishment t the boy's demand. It also began to amuse him a good deal. You give your word of honor eh that you'll return in timo to be exe cuted?" My word of honor, mister!" Well well" said the colonol. this young scamp has wit as well as assurance. A rather young robot to shoot, too." "Well his assurance has saved him. Go homo, boy!" The youth bowed and scampered oft "The last we shall see of him." said the colonel. Half an hour passed by; the colonel, who was now indoors in his headquar ters. had forgotten in tho press of his terrible business, all about tho boy. whom ho regarded as having been definitely set free. But all at onco the door opened and tho boy commun ist popped in. Hero I am. mister 1" he exclaimed. I saw mamma told her. gavo her the watch and kissed her. Now 1' m ready." Thon the colonel did what perhaps none but a rough soldier would have done. He rose, came over to the boy. soized him by both eara led him thus to the door and kicked him out of iL exclaiming: Get out you young brigand! (Sot back to your mother as quick as vou can!" With a red face tho officer returned to his chair, muttering to his cum p.miorn as he waved his hr.nd toward a party ot tne conuemne.t insurgents: -'o they havo their heroes thea those scoundrels'" -THE- First National Bank COZ.XJ1CBX70. It SB. IlItEOTOTt A. ANDERSON, Prs't. J. H. GALLEY, Vic PreX O.T.BOEN.CMWsr. v C.E. EARLY. AM'tCsakta . ANDERSON. P. ANDERSON , JACOB GIUUBEN. ... HENRY BAOAT JAMES O. REKUER. .Statement ef Ceadltlea at the Clese tf Baslaess Sept. 30, 1892. xisoORCxa. Cwfi nnil Discounts .... . J19.g6S.8f lft.701 S3 Iteal Etat,FoniUnr snd Fix tnrs . .. ..-..... U.S. Bonds bu from U. S. Treasurer. f ?" D:if trom other banks M,,J;2 12 O'ta. on hand 28. 3&( 13.-0000 87.03S.1S I3J0,0I&M LIABILITISS. THpltil Stock paid la-. Surplus Fund Uiutlvided profits rirculstlon ....... .. ...I eo.OTO.oe ... avmoo 3.aox .... li.'iOOOO 33? 719.90 $310.083 93 D-jkhIu .. gusmess gprds. 3. n.KllMAIV, DEUTCHER ADVOKAT, Ofiico orer Columbus Stato Bsak. Columbaa, Nbraaka. 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