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obmhix iranral. VOLUME XXV. NUMBER 4. COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 1891. WHOLE NUMBER 1,252. m -i: r i i - V h': n -: is S :j NEBRASKA. NEWS. A wheelmen's club has been organ ized at Schuyler. 1'airfield has laid the foundation for a big ilouring milL The Sunday law is now being rigidly enforced in Hastings. Measles and scarlet fever are quite prevalent in Beatrice. The school grounds at Cozad are to be irrigated by wind power. A colt born at Fullerton had an extra leg, and its owner killed it. Evangelist Pearson is stirring up great religious interest at Aurora. O. D. Jones, a resident of Brock since 1 -G4, is dead at the age of 'X years. A series of horse races will be held on the Teeumseh fair grounds May 31st. Ilev. Mr. Miller of Chapman has ac cented a call to the BaDtist church of Orii. The Union Pacific depot at Shelton is to be enlarged and rearranged on the inside. Arbor day was celebrated in Schuy ler only to the extent of closing the banks. A Sunday school convention for Cedar county will be held at Harrington May 1.' and IX The city council of Grand Island has made a reduction in the salary of city officials. Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Durand of Verdon la.-t week celebrated their sixtieth weu Cing anniversary. Frank Hcrshey has gone to Oregon to purchase :M. 000 "head of sheep for his ranch near Gibbon. An effort is being made to secure the independent state convention at Kear ney the coming talL Harry Echols, a prominent ritien of Pawnee ity. fell from a hay loft and was quite badly injured. The Madison county teachers' insti tute will be held at Madi-on. beginning .June 11 and dosing June -1. The Nemaha "ounty Teachers insti tute will be held at Auburn June 1 and continue in session two weeks. Ilev. Mr Guy has resigned the pas torale of the hnstian church at Diller and will take a tour around the world. A fellow representing himself as an advance agent of Barnuin A. l$ailey"s show last week done up some of the people of Lincoln. Arrangements are being made by some of the tree thinkers of ibbon and vi cinity to try to secure a course of lec tures by Mr. s. P. Putman. The sheriff of Iawes county has started a routes" gallery, and the first irt.-os to adorn it are those of the men who rolibed the depot at rawford. The cst for coudiicting the prosecu te -n of the ri;.nnai can") before tue rr.uiinal court of I.ancaster county for the January term amounted to 5"Ta l. The Howells Journal say less :!ax wi'l be sown in thaT v:cin:tv this y ear lhan at any time in the last five years, a- the crop has not proved a paying oise. Mrs. Asbton of ewarl county was iast week taken to the insane asylum. Shu was sun struck last summer while ut the Worlds fair and has never been quite right ini-e A. 15. Haggerty. an ex-student of the Lincoln Hu-.ncss college, has been held to the district court in the sum of c'JUO bill for taking mail out of the postolhee on : forged crdcr. The bu-ines.- men of Meool Junction will I'e compelled to organize "Lloyds." Kowley's agency of Omaha on April 1 r. rated Mc a Junction and raised the rates -'." to -10 per cent. A Geneva man tried to have his wife's father put under bonds to keep the peare- Jut' the evidence was not strong enough to establish proof that the young man's pelt was in .my danger. Articles of incorporation were last week tiled by a number of citizens of 1 tecier-on, to bo known as the Hen derson Separator I reamery company. The amount of capital stock is Sl.30i." A Nlra-ka eity drayman, who ponds h.s -evenings and earnings down town, was eai.ed to account br his fai'i'ifi.. wife, who went after bun at lo p. in. and inuactd him to go nome by mashing a lantern over his head Denial us now given to the truthful-ne-ss of the report mat Mr. and Mrs. lieve'a-nd will spend a few days at Arbor Lndge, near Nebraska i itv in dime, as the guests of Secretary Mor ton. "ieddv"" Wilson, who at times has h;'i m itmaha aud done crooKed work hcre. was lynched by a mob at Mis souri Valley a. few days ago. He had shot, and killed the city marshal at tnat placiv The Norfolk foundry and Manufac turing company is putting in new ma chinery and. omerwise improving its pjant. The first boiler made in Nor folk, a fine p;ece of work, is one of the additions. Howard Clarke of Papillion. has be came such an enthusiastic bicyclist that he is about to make a tour of Europe s hi wheeL He starts for England Jiay "J and will spend the entire sum mer abroad. The Stanton canain.' factory, that has never been used since it was coin plesod last season, will probably be operated this year if the ousiness men of tnc town will give theentcrprise the proper encouragement. A prisoner in the jail at Osceola dropped the lamp on the tloor in the hope of burning his way to libertv. The oil spattered on his clothing and took fire, whereby he came near -retting more liberty than he wanted. The bonds of the school district of Schuyler, amounting to SSitO.oii), were sold last week to N. W. Harris .v Co. of Chicago. they paying therefor a premium of 5-1 i. The "bond- mature in twenty years and draw 7 percent in terest. Over thirty freeholders, the lecal number, have petitioned the village board of Nelson to grant a saloon li cense to Charles IL Kav of Hastings, so that after going dry for many rears Nelson seems liable to have a licensed salooa. Three Kenkelman bloods, while out painting the town, took possession of the streets and opened fire on everv thing in sight. They snot the lights out of the lamp post and did many oher acts of vandalism, yet no arrests were made. C. F. Popper and A. J. Sheridan have iL'ed with the secretary of state articles of incorporation to be known as the Paxton Irrigation company of the coun ty of Keith. The above corporation will commence business with a capital stock of S3, 000. An examination for those wishing to enter Vassar college will be held in Nebraska City under the direction of -cperintendent Skinner and Prof. Lord. June .. 6 and 7. A number of young ladies of the city are preparing to take the examination. E'r Pevries of the Fremont Herald has been appointed to take charge of the retay race that is to carry govern ment messages from Washington to Denver in August, his department being from Fremont to Schuyler. He adver tises for twenty of the fleetest bicyclists of the city to be in readiness. Deputy luited State-, Marsha1 Mullen arresten Harry Knight for the robbery cf the postoflice at Hubbard on the night of April -.M and took him to Oma ha. Knight also robbed a saloon and tapped the depot the same night at U:e same place, lie has confessed. After being out twenty -six hours the jury in the district court of Antelope county brought in a vtrdict of acquit tal for George W. Thomas. This ends the first of the Roth well cases. The Rothwell brothers will be tried at tne fall term of court. Anton Jaro-ki. a Pole, who burg'ar ised Scheidels hardware store at P.atte Center, and who was bound over by County Judge Hensley. guilty of grand larceny, was sentenced by .Judge Sullivanjto two years in the penitenti ary at hard labor. Mrs. Minnie Thompson, a widow re siding near Abbott, sent her hired man to Grand Island with a load of hogs, which he sold and on which he secured :;. 7".. He paid S.'3 taxes. S3 for lum ber and gave the lady S3, skipping out during tne n-ght with the balance. Thomas A. roach, a constable at Grafton wa arrested for attempting to kill Mary Crou-h lie imme l lately left the town and a diligent search was made for him at all the towns near and tinally he was found at Geneva, -ome people think he is a little off in the up per story. Word was re cived at I'n'on Pacific headquarter- last week to the etfeit that in the case of the Hook i-iand against the I u:on Pacific for rentils al leged to be due the fovner cotiiptny. tried in ti.e district court of Cok coun ty, the Hock Island was awarded is."',-4-1, havng sued for S130.C09. The standard Catt'c company at Ames, four miles west of Fremont has closed a contract with the Oxnard licet "'agar company to plant and cultivate 7' ij acres of beets tins season. The company planted ."-j acres last year, and had remarkable success with the .rop. n effort is being nude :n Lincoln to o-ganUe a state league of oiing Men's hr -tian association ball club-, with Hastings, (rand Island. Fremont. Oma ha Ijeatrice, Crete and York in thecir- uit. A commute consisting of John Cochran. A. J. McPhcrrin and C K.m mcror is at work on the project. Charles Fitch, a cattleman from Marysville, Mo., died last week at tue olonade hotel in maha from an over dose of morphine. nether the drug was taken with suicidal intent is not positively known, but circumstances i:i-ii'-:ito that it was merely his purpose to -eeure some sleep after a prolonged .-pree. An accident happened at Table Ho -k. in which William J. Brock lo-t his life. He was at wok about the circular saw in Feller's fence factory and fell on or wa- caught by the saw and literally sawed to pieces. The coroner's jury rendered a verd'et of accidental death. He was 1". years old ami leaves a wife and two children. Norman W. Peters ha- fiitd his bond of i.'O.oi u with. John Peters. C. T. Barns. LoranC.aik and M. P. Thompson as sureties, to perform failhfuhy the du ne's devolving upon him as deputy au ditor of public accounts, insurance de p irtmeiit of the state of Nebraska, dur lnir his term of ollice from May 1. l-'O, until his successor is appointed. Htm II K. Valentin;', says the Fre mont Tribune, was oen at the depot this morning on his way home to West Point from the ea.-t. where he ha., Lee'ii for about three months. He says the people in the west do not know what hard tunes are and that tne ana.e, :roing to Washington are crazy, f r it is alt they can do now to taite care of their unemployed. The citizens of I'niversity Place, the educational suburb of Lincoln, are anx lous to induce the Rock Island railroad to make that place one of the stations on its line. The road runs within a mile of the villace, and the e.tizens be lieve that a slight detle--tion from the present route could be made with but little co-t and with considerable profit to the company. sheriffs l'ew of Sioux county and Mo-esof Hot Spring-. S. D. . arrested two cattle ru-tler- twenty miles north-we-t of Harrison. Neb They are George uohband James I arnam. Tliey are well known in sioux county and were not su-pe-te'd of being concerned in cattle -te.iiinir. but when found they had two cattJe dres-ed an 1 four more in a pen ready to be killed. John P.oyd. who was sentenced to thirty-three months in the penitent -ary at hard labor for selling liquor to Indians, was granted a full and free pardon bj- the governor. He was con victed at tho March term of court in sherulan county and waa received at the penitentiary Ann' 1. l-'.t.j. An Iowa man who doe- not want hi- name published made application for hi- re lease. Henry T Decker, who has been ar rested at Fort Collins. Colo., by Oliiecr Lou. s Grebe of maha. under a requi sition, was taken to Wilbur to answer the charge ot having caused tho burn .ng of the opera house at Oorcne-ter in August, i-tj. with intent to defraud tne Home Fire Insurance company for the amount of insurance, and the case -tands appealed to the supreme court. The present charge :s brought arainst him by tne company George P. e'.son. .iving about eifht indes northwest of ozad, was sum moned to hi- door and attacked by masked men who knocked him down anil attempted to murder him. No one was in the hou-e but the hired man. who was up -tairs. Hearing the dis turbance below be seized a shotgun and s'arted down. Gne of the intruders shot at him as he wa on tne starwav. He returned the tire and the rufiians tleii. Nelson was -eriously injured. Mr-. Catherine lifton. probab.y the oldest person in the state, died the other day at her home in Alexandria, she was born November '.. 17-7. in Lin coln county. North Caroana. and was therefore', at the time of her death, aired lu years. 3 months and 13 days, she lived in her native state until -he was 13 years old. and then moved to Tennessee. she afterwards lived in (hio. Indiana and Iilnois. and came from the last named state to Nebraska Aden Alford, a you ncr clerk employed in the otSce of Kiipatrick IJros. A: Col lins at Beatrice was found to be a for ger to the visible extent of 150. The firms name was forged to the cheeks, and the victims, so far as knownare i lark Browning for 530 J. F. Steele for 540, J. F. Smith for 5 53 and J. E. Uaidy for 523. The checks were all presented in payment of trivial bf.is. Alford receiving the fca ance in good clean cash. Youn- Alford has disap peared from town in company with tw'o young companions and a younc crirl. R. F Parney. who lives on his farm four miles west of Kearney, found a pe culiar looking substance that had been dug up by prairie dogs. He sent a small piece to Prof. Barber of the State uni versity and that gentleman found it to be ivory. The professor went to inves tigate the discovery further, and the workmen dug up one piece of the same substance five and a half inches in di ameter and another two feet long and five inches in diameter. Prof. Barter is satisfied the ivory is the tusk of ome huge mastodon ami hopes to find a part if not the entire SKeleton of the monster SJ$MAN5 'IB .IB, lin I S S Wanlnm yy WW W11 c here to Kl U M dav." fRJ m Mywifeglan iaV j9 l "pironi mo yxttin r letter which S?:t.X t .? P fortable seat behind the sil ver coffee-urn, with a look of mild surprise in her blue eyes. "Miss War dour! Why, wb. I Charlie! I thought that she and and you " 'Were once betrothed lover-?" 'Isthat.it, Daisy? Well, yes: it i true: but Florence Miss Wardour. I mean saw fit to break it off. I am sure I am under obligations to her, for, bad she not done so. I should never have had you, dear." Daisy looked uncomfortable. "But, Charlie, isn't it a little un usual, to say the least, for a lady to visit at a gentleman's hou-e, when she was once his intended wife? And to come without an invitation from me. seems odd at least." Now I Charlie Dane six months a benedict, a popular lawyer, and with a pretty home ani lovely wife, knew that Daisy wa.- perfectly correct. But some perverse spirit took possession of me. Surely I was master of my own house. And Miss Wardour's visit was merely a business affair. I was her lawyer, appointed to settle up the estate of her late father, and if I chose to invite my client to make my house her home during her stay in Philadelphia, why should Daisy make "a mountain out of n. mole hill," and object? I proceeded to explain the situation to my wife. Mis's Wardour had mado her home in the South with her moth er's sister. I had met her there, while on a Southern trip, became infatuated with her grace and beauty, propcsed, and was accepted. The course of our true -love ran very smoothly for a time; then ther was the advent of a rich and elderiy suitor Mr. Ches wicke who began at once to lay sieire to the affections of my betrothed wife. To my surprise she did not re pulse him and would not permit our engagement to be made public. There was nothing to do but submit. The result .vas that ono Florence returned my rin? and an nounced to me that she had changed her mind, and was going to marry Mr. Cheswicke. Of course I released her. That was three years ago. and I had since met my Daisy, anl we had been married half a year. Our home was in Philadelphia, and we were living happily, when old Mr. Wardour died at his home in the suburb;, and Florence was summoned to his death bed. She had no one else in the world; her mother had died when she was a child. I learned that she had not married Mr. Cheswicke an I there seemed little probability of it. But she hal written and asked me ceive her for a few days. IIov I refuse? to re could -t 7. (k, 'p? aai!i- a, 'V "& Vu wm Y7 5 2V& ' M "WHY DID VOL" JILT ME.1" At last, Daisy was brought over to my way of thinking.and Miss Wardour was received and made welcome. She was a tall, handsom; brunette, as un like my blue-eyed, sunny-haired Daisy as possible. As my gaze fell upon the Graceful figure in deep mourning. I was pleased to discover that my heart did not thrill, and I felt none of the pleasant sensations experienced when one cares for another. Thank heaven. my love was entirely dead, every trace and vestige e it. My eyes wandered toward Da:sr. She was welcoming her solf-invitel guet with easy grace, and I said to my-elf. "My darling little wife! I never loved that other woman as I love her!" "Ah. Charlie!" cried our guest, put ting both gloved hands in mine, and letting her glorious dark eyes rest upon my face with a dep intense gaze, "it's quite like old times to see you asrain! And you have not changed one bit!" t. It was. to say the least, in decidedly bad taste this reference to the dead and gone days: but I merely smiled and uttered some common-place noth ing. Then Mi.-s Wardour proceeded to make her-elf perfectly at home in our pretty deimicile. No more tete-a-tetes for Daisy and me. Wherever we weht of course our guest accompanied us, though, on account of her recent be reavement, she was debarred from real society. The day- went by and still she lingered. Her small bu.-iness affairs were now quite settled, and there wa no excuse for her remaining: but she said to me, with a dazzlinrr smile, that she was so in love with our pretty home, she could not tear herself away. What could I do then, but tell her to remain as Ion? as she chqso? Time passed, and Florence an I I were constantly thrown together. Daisy pleaded household affairs and absented herself continually. I went on. unconsciously treadinj in a dan gerous path: my feet were upon the edge of a swirling vortex: one swift movement and I wculd be lost. It was certainly very pleasant for me to have the beautiful face of our guest oppo-ite me when I sat down to read at night to read aloud: with Dai.-v in a corner, quiet and unobtrus ive, keeping out of the way. because C8S -.t , lie ,1111'J I - ' J"- TfcflJ- in -W.ll.J5 she was too proud t interfere. And I blind fool never dreamed thi truth. One night. Florence sat at the piano, in the moonlight which flooded the room. She had begged that the gas should not be lighted: and there she sat, her white fingers touching the keys, while her sweet, low voice sang, softly, tenderly, meaningly, the words of a sad old song A Life's Regret: -Turaia? the leave in an ull-i vray. Of a 1-ooU I was sliiainiin r th ether dij, I round a line at the end ot a sonx Which keeps on haunting me all da? Ion-; With ltd sweet and mournful mcl-dv 'Oh. love inv love, had you loved hut me" Sadder a bunl'a cou.d nver be - Than, Love, my love, had you lore J but mat '-Few words and simple but. oh how much The s:user had to.d la thit little touch: Bo,r hjrd , .-lory of chance-i lost. Of brunt hopes b.ishtciL and truu lovo crosscJ. Ls heard in the whispered malodv: 'Oh. love, my love, had yoi loved but me!' To many a sorrow the key may be "Oh, love, my love. liaJ you loved bat mj.' " Her eyes met mine with a look in their depths which made my heart leap. It was not love thank God for that! but gratified vanity, which more than one man has mistiken for love. My hand went down upon hers and imprisoned the velvet fingers. "Florence!'' I murmured, "why did you jilt me? Why did you cast me off?" Her head drooped. "I will tell you frankly," she said. "I was mercenary, and you were not rich. Mr. Cheswicke was a million aire and and I madly threw as'de vour love for his gold! Oh, Charlie! Charlie darling, I have regretted it ever since! My heart has wept tears of bloo 1 over my mad mistake!" Now. it happened or had a kind Providence directed it? that I had heard a different version of this story that day had heard it from no less a person than old Mr. Cheswicke him self. She had engaged herself to him, but he distrusted the disinterestedness of iier motives, and ha 1 come to her one day ami told her that his fortune was gone lost in a mad venture, and ho vvao a poor man. Sh had promptly released him from the enragem.'nt. So. I know jiiit what value t tet upn the fair lady's "tale of woe " Butso.ue elevil prompted me and I stoope 1 an I kissed her upon the shin ing, dark hair, which she wore in a hujre knot at the back of her head. "Poor child!" I said softly. There was the rustle of skirts, a Hash of white drapery, and, with a irasp, I realized that my wife, stand ing unobserved besi le the open win dow, had overheard and witnessed the scene. With a muttered imprecation over my own ma Iness I dashed through the open window and followed hr. "Daisy!" I called aloud, "wait, dear! I wish to peak wth you!" But she never stopped, never turned to left nor right, and I followed in mad pursuit. On. on. slight and frail as she was. I overtook her and caught her in my arms. "Now tell me. my wife, what were you going to do?'" I whispered. she struggled to svt free. "I am goinir away." she cried, in dignantly. "You love that bad woman, Charlie-! I will go and leave you to your own devices." "You will do nothing of the sort." I returned, urmly. 'Come back to the huse with in my darling. We will cast out the evil sp'.rit. and henceforth only love and peace shall reign within our home." With Daisy on my arm, I re-entered the house, and there I told Miss War dour in a few well-chosen words, that I had fathomed her scheme to bring discord and ruin into a happy home. She listened in sullen silence: then -he arose and coldly withdrew. The next morning she entered my waiting carriage and was driven to the nearest station, she has gone to Canada to live, and nobody here mi-sos her. But, remember'.nc her snbil fascination the fasciuation of the serpent, I feel vry grateful that eld Mr. Cheswicke had appeared in time to keep me from falling into her wicked net- For even the strongest man is not always proof against a wicked woman's wiles. Japan's Cruel Divorce I ar. Hanniker Heaton has been gather ing somo very interesting marriage statistici concerning the customs in vogue in different countries, from which one reads with amu-ement, and perhaps a certain degree of amazement, that throughout Japan a man may get a divorce if his wife talks too much Ordinary people may suppose that thi- harsh law will have the effect of curbing loquacity, but it has not. Japanese ladies are the most talkative of their sex. and divorces are common among them. In Thibet ; woman is entitled to three husoands. In Melbourne a man may secure a divorce if his wife gets drunk three times, or if she habitually neglects her household dutie. N. Y. Sun. Well Built Trnsnifnti Model tenement houses have paid well in Lon.ion ;dr Sidney Water low made the fir-t experiment of the kind in 1-j when he built at his own expense four bloclis in Work street, t'insbury. The buildinrs ac commodated eighty families, rr 40") persons, and such was their suc cess that in three yea.-s. in con junction .vith several friends, he started the Impro.cd Industrial Dwellings company, of which he is chairman. That compan.' ha spent over 1."Hm,0uj ia the erec tion of dwellings on forty five estates in London. The dividend paid i five per cent, and the average rent of each room is fi.ty cents. The chopper's Weakness. Lady Shopper What? You ask 3 a yard for this cloth? Why. lean get it at Dreighgoods" for '2. Clerk Yes madame But we're offering this at our bargain counter. Lady hopper, taking out her purse Oho: Let me have ten yards please. Nothing to Fear. Bad Boy Com? out and play. Good Boy I can't. Mamma wen down town and said I mustn't go out until she got back Bad Boy Y'ou needn't bother about her. She'll get run over by a trolley car before -he gets back. Everybody does. - -Good News. A cotton vest ma le from a piece of cloth woven 11 year ago is owned bv dohn II. Perry of Dr.vn, Ga. The cotton va w.'-.-'j by Mr. Perry's great-grandmtb i i ELECTRICITY MADE BY WIND At Slight Ezpensa It U ToMtble to Fit Tour Iloase with Incandescent. 2scw York Press: Mr. J. A. Corcoran of Jersey City has just conip'eted a novel experiment in the application of a windmill to an electric lighting plant. The plant, though an experimental one, is now in operation without as yet a single mishap, and the storage cells furnish current for twenty four incandescent lamps in Mr. Corco ran's residence. Everything points to the complete success of the scheme. The mill has a diameter of eighteen feet, and at a speed of twenty milea an hour is capable of delivering three-horse-power. The dynamo driven by belt from the main gear charges a set of storage batteries. It is so designed that throughout the wide variations of speed of the windmill it maintains the potential constant Mr. Corcoran says that the application of a windmill to run the dynamos of an electric lighting plant will place electricity in the homes of thousands, who can thus secure their motive power from nature. A windmill is not a very costly struc ture, and any one who owns a bit of open land about his residence can erect one and fit up his simple electri cal apparatus inside of it. The thou sands of windmills one sees in travel ing over the country, if Mr. Corcoran's scheme proves a permanent success, may be utilized for lighting the resi dences of the owners and those of their neighbors, as well as drawing water for stock. One windmill will light half a dozen residences at the same time. The machine in Mr. Corcoran's wind mill occupies a tloor space of only thirty inches square and fifteen inches high. The dynamo has a maximum current capacity of thirty-five amperes at thirty-five volts and is put into action when the speed is Go0 revolu tions per minute, that is, when an eight-mile breeze is blowing. A great thing that deterred experi ments with windmills was the wind itself, but it is believed that success can be had with the average rate of 7'i miles per hour that can be depend ed on throughout the United States. While the maximum and the minimum rate, of course, vary during different seasons at the sea-coast and in differ ent localities, the average rate of 7 'i miles can be obtained at almost any point in the country. Near the sea coast and in eievated localities the average rate is much higher, and it is in such situations that the first at tempts will be made throughout the country to apply the plan of generat ing electricity with the aid of wind So it will be readily seen that the util ization of the waste forces of nature is steadily pushing itself to the front. Engineers now study applications which were hardly considered proper for a sane man to consider a dozen years ago. Impoliteness is derived from two sources indifference to the divine and contempt for the human. There is scarcely any popular tenet more erroneous than that which holds that when time is slow life is dull. o human being can come into this world without increasing or diminish ing the sum total of human happiness. One reason why there is not more good being done is because so many people want to wait until to-morrow to begin. To be zealous of good works doesn't mean to sit around and whittle while your wife is hard at work trying to make a living. As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth im partially his beams, so mercy mast encircle beth friend and foe. PROGRESS OF INVENTION. Street cars were first ued in this country in 1-jO and in England ten years later. Artificial wood for furniture, roofs, insulators, etc., is now made by burn ing magnesite together with wood, shavings, sawdust, cotton, hair or wool. A German officer has invented a mo tor in which a fine stream of coal dust is utilized to drive a piston by explo sion in the same manner as the gas in ! the gas engine. A useful hand lamp is simply a vial filled with heated olive oil into which a small piece of phosphorus has been dropped. The light will shine when ever the bottle is uncorked, admitting the air. The new magazine rifle which the French army is experimenting with can be fired 100 times without being taken from the shoulder and the cartridges weigh only half as much as ordinary ammunition. In the British navy is the most sin gular ship in the world, the Polyphe mus. It is simply a long steel tube, buried deeply in the water, the deck rising only four feet above the water's level. It carries no masts or sail', and is used as a ram or torpedo boat. At a recent meeting of the Japan society in London the chairman made a practical suggestion. He said that the sound produced by bamboo pipes was very soft and mellow; that it was largely u.-ed by the Japanese in the manufacture of musical instruments. I and it seemed possible that organ ! builders might derive advantage from the use of this reed for organ pipes. An Egg Data. A Paris plumber was repairing the tiles of a house, when, his foot having slipped, he fell off the roof into the street below. Just then a market gard ener's cart happened to pass by the house, laden with baskets fnll of eggs, and osier-cages containing live poultry, and the man, falling into the midst of this load, crushed two cages, killed about a dozen, fowls, and finally was in gulfed in an enormous basket of eggs. When withdrawn from his liquid tomb the plumber looked like an omelette, but, excepting a few slight bruises, he was safe and onnd. 'Hello, Banks. Been losing at the races again, haven't you? Just your blamed luck." '-Not much; away ahead this time." "I thought so. 1 Can you lend me a five?" I Aspiring Poet I'll set the whole world ablaze yet. His Wife I do hopo you wiU, dear. Would you mind mak ing a fire in the kitchen stove just as a matter of practice, you know. Mr. Isaacs I sells you dot coat at a great sacrifice. Customer But you ' say that of all your goods. How" do ' you make a living? Mr. Isaacs Mein frient, I makes a schmall profit on the paper and string-. TA r.KTVf; WTTTT FiOXnOY iaiiA.i.Mj n 1111 iaju,j. VOICES MAY SOON BE HEARD ACROSS THE OCEAN. A nimetaliie Wire Which Will Accom plish Wonder The New System lle m quires no Patented Attuehuients to Work It Cheap itntl simple. it begins to look as if we would bo able pretty soon to "ring up" Europe over tho 'phone, saya the New York World. Tho question of ocean tele phony is being earnestly studied and for a month past experiments tend ing toward that end have been car ried on. The results that have been obtained are the talk of tho se'icn tilie world. Keen attention to the subject has been caused by the invention of a new electric wire, and according to some eminent authorities, it may revolutionize tho present system of long-distance talking. The problem, of how to b ing both sides of the ocean within speaking distance of each other has been ren dered difficult because of the b cak ing up of the sound waves, the leak ing of the i.isulution and several other technical obstacles of a like nature. But it looks at present as if all theie might be overcome, for the now wire carries ouid perfectly ana does not need anv insulation at all. Strange as it may seem, however, this very wire was known eleven .. . r -i - - t i -. w-- v . ku-iw b'capvAA ipj y " nvi sf did not know it and remained ignor- ' ant of its great possibilities. It is composed of a steel wie coated over with copper, and simple as the combination is, it apparently solves the problem of long distance communication. Another point in its favor is that it may be used with any style of transmitter, so that there will bo no interference of valu able patents to increase the cost. Also, as communication can be made ! by it at the rate of 1.3 words per minute, the advantage over the present cable methods, which will only allow twenty, is apparent. i Early in 1$'S the Postal telegraph ' company, in extending its lines to the West.employed a wire consisting i of a steei core u: on which a thick , layer of copper was do, oited. This conductor had a tensile strength greatly exceeding that of any similar line theretofore employed, and. in ' addition, had a much greater con- , ductivity. The results obtained with this wire wcre telegraphically so good that they at once suggested the possibility of employing the line for the tole honic transmission as well. The voice could be easily heard be tween New York and Chicago, aud between New York and Cleveland the j ordinary Bell magneto-receiver used i as a transmitter was sufficient to ' carry on a conversation. But these good rcsultj were attributed to the large amount of copper in the wire, and it was not thought that the steel had anything to do with the in creased transmitting property of the wire. Among those who witnessed the experiments on the wire stretched from New York to Chicago was Wil- liam H. Eckert, general manager of the Metropolitan telephone company. and a brother of General Eckert, prcsidont of the Western Union tele- rraph company. Mr. Eckert attri- outeu tne rreat success of ttie wire to its coin- composeu 01 ootn steel mortal alliteration otherwise than a. and copper, but his theory was a iesi. laughed at and the affair wa- drop ped. During the last month he made a series of experiments with a sim ilarly constructed wire, and the won derful success obtained is what is low the talk of the scientific, and especially of the electrical world. The experiments were carried on near I'lainiield. X. J. A fine wire compo-ed of steel and copper was laid w'ithout any in-ulation on it for a mile and a half through the water, mud and slush of a country road. When that length had been stretched out a common, ordinary telephone receiver was placed at each end of the line and whispers were distinctly ' heard by tne men at the other end. A heavy truck loaded with stone ran across the wire, but it was mere ly pushed deeper into the mud, and the talking still went on. A remarkable fact about this line is that only one wire is Used. The earth takes the place of the other wire. The fact that part of the line ran through a brook seemed to make no difference in its workings: hence ' the inference of its working across the ocean. Mr. Fckert, who helped to carry on the experiment, says regarding it: "From its performance I have no doubt that it would work perfectly well across the ocean. Of course that is a point to be arrived at, but the little experiments that have been . tried ought to demonstrate its prac- tieai utility. -I was present when the experi ments were made between New York and Chicago. The distance is. I be lieve, but l."d miles, and the line worked perfectly. Had it Leon stretched to San Francisco it would have done just as well. In fact, strange as it may seem, distance seems to increase rather than retard its working. The distance between New York and an Francisco and Xew York and the nearest point on the other side are about the same: therefore, the scheme is feasible. Un the long premis -s is said to be a long court room where persons inimical to t'le society are tried and condemned in their abs-nce. Officers are selected to discover the so-called cu'.prit and d al with him as directed by the court. These officers are called salaried so'diers. and have been found armed with a coat of mail and a belt of weapons concea'ed be neath fieir blouses. The chief of police has in his possession a photo graph of a document bearing the seal of the Chee Kung Tcng at Vic toria. B. C. , purporting to be the commission of one of these salaried soldiers. It was found on the person of one of these thugswhen a-rested. Tne paper promised that if. fn the discharge of his dutv. he should hap- pen to be slain, -5'0 would b paid ' to his family; if wounded he wis to The repentance practiced before a receive free medical attendance and ' sin is committed is the kind that need $10 a month; if maimed and inca- ' eth not to be repented on. pacitated for fu-ther-ervice. h? was ' Excess of grief for the dead is mad to receive ?'." i and a free passage ne.ss: for it is an injur, t the living, home He was directed to wound and the deal Kno - itn)L and kill persons when so ordered by the Ton aml if-for so doin he wa3 j sent to the state prison. ?l) was ' promised his family until his sentence had expired. NEARLY TEN MILLION MEN. N Th Army I'rntu Which Cncle Sam 3liT L'nir should Occasion niulre'. An army of t90Oi)O men! How I Napoleon's legions dwindle beside this, and tho host which Grant. Sherman and i-beridan led shrink to pisrmid. says tho Boston Journal. , This enormous figure represents all the able-bodied men in the L'nited . States available for military service. But of course no such swarm of fighters could ever bo mobilized in this or uny other country. It would overtax eveu American energy and ' resources to elothc and feed and arm and maintain them in .idleness. The figures have no practical military value, but as a suggestion of the ' mighty military potentialities of the young republic they are not without their interest t the world. But when we come to enumerate tho men actually under arm- in the l'nited States as trained and disciplined soldiers we realize our present mili tary significance. Besides the little regular army of -.3,000 men thete is a more or Ie-s thoroughly organ ized and equipped force of 112, 1'JO men in the national guard and mi litia. That is. only about one man in 10J of those of our citizens able ' to bear arms regularly engaged in mastering the rudiments of the sol dier's profession. New York, as miukt bo expected, has the Iarcesc military organization tot omcers and U.7i men. Pennsylvania has .1)11 officers and men: Ohio. t.r'.3. Then comes Massachusetts, well up in the list, wich .".titjti. Fiery South Carolina, with J. 1 1 officers and men. has an armed force out of all proportion to its wealth and popula tion, 'lhe New England states, o it side Massachusetts have respectaido little armies, ranging from Vermont s 751 to Connecticut's i7W. lhe Southern states have large militia organizations as a whole; the West ern states very small ones. But tho national guard is steadily growing everywhere in numbers as in efficien cy. It is fulfilling in a satisfactory way its purpose of perpetuating a knowledge of military art. and it would be found to be a respectable nucleus for a host of volunteers to rally on in an emergency. Tlio Tlircf !. The famous toast to "the three RV "reading." '-ritinir'' and "ri th ine tic" is usually accredited to Sir j William Curtis, lord mayor of Lon- j don. in the year 17U.3. and for many , years one of the wardens of the j tower. He proposed it at a dinner I given by the London board of educa tion in the days when Dr. Boll and "Quaker" Lan caster were pleading for increased educational advantages for the poor. It was received with great applause ami drank amid much . merriment. But though recognized at the time as a jest, it was after- I wards taken up in earnest by Sir William's detractors, who have handed his name down to posterity as a blundering ignoramus. A late writer in one of the leading English , weeklies siivs that an atred ex-metn- ber of the board of education, now dece ised, assured him that sir Will- iam (jiirtis, although a man of lim- itoj education, was very shrewd, and that it wa tho height of Dresump- tion to sl,pposo that he used his im- t Hath Money. "I expect these rich men are very j often blackmailed?" Indeed they are. U hy. it was only a year ago that George Gould was obliged to pav husn money. ' You don't say so. I'm surpri-ed that it is not in the papers, bo he had to pay hush m 'iiey. How much was he bled?" "He only had to shell out twenty five cents. It was for a bottle of paregoric, or soothing syrup for the baby. It squalls so that it scares tno oata OIt tIie r0'- -lexas Mir ings. tiriou- Lantt In the Adironilaek-i. Much of the land classed as 'meadow' in the Adirondack region is a curious swampy soil, covered with vegetation that ri-es so as to hide the underlying cold, dark water. One ma walk for miles upon such a meadow, the feet sinking into it as into a wat r-oaked sponge, and deer frequently feed upon the gra-ses of the meadows an t seemingly en jo - in midsummer the perpetual cool foot bath of their pasture. Ill la-t Reort. "How did Brown come to ve a lit erary critic?"' Failed in the grocery busins.'" BRILLIANTS. The noblest mind the best content ment has. The pure refreshments life aro the moral and intellectual. You will soon become poor in earn est if you try to keep all you get. Iiood will, like a fstntd name, is got by many actions, and lost by one. Keep in a good humor with the future it never did you any harm. j A mans opinions are usually of much more value than his arguments. J Benevolence without love has no ' more heart in it than an auction block. A lie has a dagger in Its hand, no matter how well meaning it may look. Don't fool with sin. Whoever plays with knives will sooner or later get cut. As much hati can sometimes be put I into a word as can be fired out of a musket. If no drunkard can go to heaven, what is to become of the drunkard maker? Some men are bound in the devils ' ropes because they didn't try to break . nis tnreais. i Walk bodily and wiselv in the light thou hast: there is a hand above will help theron. If the old world likes you right well, it is a sure sign that you are ike the world. THE OLD RELIABLE Columbus - State - Bank 1 (Oldest Basic la th SUU.) Pais Merest on Bias Bepsifc V HaSes Loans on Real Estate tSjSfe SIGHT DRAFTS CI Otfkaks CXiicaco. Nexr fork aad a3 Forvigm CemmtriM. BSLL3 : STEAHSHE? : TICKETS. BUYS GOOD NOTES And Help its Customers when tho? Need Qalp OFFICERS 15D DIBECTOSJ I LEANDEIt GERHARD. Prea't. IL E. HENRY. Vice Pr-s'L JOHN STAUFFER. Cwthiae. if. BRUGGEIL G.W.HDLST. -or- COLUMBUS, NEB., II V.S vv Authorized Capita! of - $500,000 Paid in Capital, - 90,000 C.n.IIELDON I'r-s't. U. V. II oEIII.KK'1!. Vice Pres. ULAItK tSK.YV. Cashier. DAN I fc.L S H UA 31. Ass't Cash WIKKCTOItS. n M. Wixslo'v, H. p H Or.iu.nicu. ". II .-HEI.DOV, W A. M-Lt.isrEit-, X AKL UlENltE. Jo:os Welch, STOCKHOLDERS. ? r. flrair. J. IlEvnv WcnocMArf, Or.uu kd T.oeke, Henry Loscke. t L.VHK I. HAY. LiEO. V. ti I.LEY. I VXIEL StllHAM, A. I'. H. OEltUUCH. Frank Hoiiek. .1 P Hccxeh Estate, Rebecca Beciceu. Rank of deposit: In t Brest allowed on time !'ptts: buy and sell 'XPh:in-4 on United -Jaff-and Hirup." and buy and -ell avall- if-. eihaiir pit'a-'i to r buslness. e solicit your p:it- I'fifi' your roiiaif. -THE- First National Bank COX.XJSCBX7S. NEB. OFFICERS. A. ANDERSON. J. H. C. LLEY. President. Vice Pres't. O. T. UOE Cashier. DIRECTORS. g. A!rtEnso:;. ' r. andekson. JACOB GKEISEN. . HENRY RAGATZ, JA.MH3 G. '&EKDEK. Statement of the Condition at the Ciose of Business July li, 1S9& RESOCnCES. Loans anl Discount- 5 2t,M7 3? Real Fstate Furidturu and Fix tures ... ItiTt 9 C . Bond'. . ... IjyJ OJ Due from oth;r banks $37. -TK 11 Cash on Hand -...ltiTK 50.7 tt D Total SJn,lM Ti'r LIABILITIES. Capital Stock paid la... Surplus Fund Undivided profits Circulation Deposits Total .; 60jfOOfl . suo(j) . 1 J7S W . i:wro at . ZZ,IU) 37 ELEXEY GASS, UNDEETAXEE ! Collins : and : Metallic : Cases ! 3T Repairing of allkindsof Uphol stery Goods. Ut 'COLC1IBCS. NEBRASKA- THE GoiumDos Journa IS PttEPAKFn T" Fril-M-H 1AYTIUSG KCvjl UtLD OF A PRINTING OFFICE. OTjTJBS -WITH THE -OF TOE- COMMERCIAL COUNTRY,