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E? t- & & j 'W & anxvsi -?z. i- . n- VOLUME XXV. NUMBER 2?. COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA WEDjTESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1894. WHOLE NUMBER 1,275. . ', - i&t3Sm&. S '-!? Sr fg. " : k if. r.l &V f-"- . v T was the last evening of the en gagement of Al corez, the French iugirler. at the Elysium Music hall, and the house was crammed. The prestidigi tator is not alwaj-s a popular "turn;"' he lacks piquancy and excitement, and very often originality; but Alcorez had got hold of one or two almost startling feats which current rumor gave him the credit of perilously btealing from Thibet. At all events his name on the bill was a feature, and he always took well. The conjurer himself stood at the bar waiting his call, and drank spar ingly with his admirers. He was in good spirits that night, for on the following week he was to start on a big American tour which was almost certain to result in further engage ments and assure his future. On the stage the Sisters dc Leari iv ere singing the third and last en core verse of their great success, "We Get There All the Same." At that early period they dressed as their grandmother. Thirty years later they will make up as nearly as possi ble like their grandchildren. Art de mands Mich sacrifices from its vo taries. Alcorez maUc his final adieus and went behind to his dressing room. The Sistcr.s de Leari gave place to a low comedian, then the curtain went up on Alcorez" s table and appliances, his name blazoned in letters of gold upon a black background. At different times and in all places tlicre are sympathetic audience and exacting audiences. Why, and what controls them, none can say. Simply they are there and have to be allowed for. As t he juggler bowed, hi ex perienced eye took in the sea of faces, and he smiled. He generally began with a very simple trick that is as easy as it look-, impossible, and older than the necro mancers. He would borrow a watch, get a stranger from aming the audi ence to come upon the stagj and hold it, and then cause it to disappear an 1 be found in someone elss possession. It is very absurd when you see how it is done, but it is capable of en Hess variations, and can always be made to raise a laugh, which is the conjurer's lirst object. To-night Alcorez borrowed the watch. Almost before he ha I male the request a man from the front row of stalls stepped upon the stage to as sist him. This alacrity was so unusu al mat .le-rez looked at tli man curiously, and wondeivd that th; faei seemed so familiar to him A wor I from theaudier.ee caught the juggler's ear and he turned quickly to the stranger. "Sir, are you my friend, my accom plice, my servant? A gentleman in the audience distrusts im. Is it so?"' "Certainly not." said the stranger. "Have you ever assists 1 me before and become familiar with my ways?' continued the conjurer. There was just the suggestion of a pause, but the "no" was firm an I em phatic and Alcorez proceeded. Generally it was easy to reduce the assistant to the necessary stnte of confusion ata very early stage. but the stranger did not indulge in any of the humorisins bv which the volunteers ! lay themselves open. Alcorez. a little , mizzled, placed the watch in a ban 1- j kerchief, gave the en Is to a stranger to hold, and crossed the stage. There was still an almost unfailing ruse. Few men those accustomed to powder least of all can face a gun or a pistol without a tremor. This gives the conjurer a double atlvan- .. . ... . lage; by means ot a weapon lie can bring a too observant assistant intj 6.WK a i.oxo. ornnuxt? sic.ii. such a condition of nervousness that he is unable to proeeed. and he cm, for a moment, stnrtle a whole audi ence out of watchfulness by the sud den Hash an 1 report. Alcorez picked up a glittering revolver, raised it i quickly, and drew the sight dead on the other's face. "Are you rea ly?" he called sharply, j "Quite," unflinchingly replied the stranger. Alcorez lowered the weapon. I "The danger is small." he said. I with a lightness he was far from feel ing at that moment, "but I like not to take a fellow creature unprepared, i Hut then' -with professional face- i tiousness "1 have killed onlv one man as yet." There's luck in even said the other quietly, shall be the secon 1." Alcorez shrugged his After all. it mattere I numbers,"' "I'erhaps I shoulders, little. He could croat? a diversion and make the pass afterward. "He toott up tin revolver again, judged the sight well above the head, and fired. The effect was instantaneous. The stranger pressed his hand to his fore head, gave a long, gurgling sign, and ; sank down on the board-, while from J the hall came the shrieks of women J and the horrified shouts and threats of men as they surged from tli3 doors and the stage. Alcorez stool for a moment stupe fied. In that short second a dozen possibilities whirled arounfj one dull c entral fact irretrievable ruin Pos sibly he had mixed his cartridges; perhaps even, sotb one had tanper- -! u it'ti his pisto . Ah! after all the pc'Iruou might h.ivc only faiute I. He I rushed across beat down, and grew (ml y ghastly as he saw a red fresh streak on the fallen man's brow. Theatrical to the last, he faced the raging crowd and, tearing open his shirt, placed the weapon to his own heart and fired. A renewed burst of shrieks and cries greeted this. He neither fell nor moved, but stood with uplifted hands as if mutely calling on heaven to witness his innocence. They carried the dying man into a dressing room and placed him on a couch, while Alcorez followed, sickly with terror and agitated beyond words. The manager was there al ready. "See if there is a doctor here," he said briefly to an attendant. "There is no need," said the stranger suddenly, as he rose from the couch and stood firm. "I was not hurt." He took a cloth, wiped his forehead clean, and showed his hand smeared with fresh red paint. There was a hushed pause, broken by the sound of Alcorez falling heav ily to the ground. From the little group of men came a word: "Coward!" , "Perhaps," said tie stranger, un moved, "but listen. Once before months ago I stepped upon the stage to assist that man. Never mind why. I went to help him, that is enough. He repaid me by making me a laughing stock for all present. As it happened, it involved more than either he or I knew at the time. 1 have taken the only means I could of humiliating him. Ask him how it feels. Now we are quits." And be fore anyone could move he passed out of the room and was gone. He was more than quits. Alcorez's name appeared on the bills .no more. His nerve was completely gone, and from that night his hand never again knew its cunninir. Sclr.lnc the Opportunity. Lord Coloridgo sprang into nenco as a lawyer by adroitly ing a simple incident whilo he emi-sci.- was pleading the cause of a man ou trial for murder. In tho course of his long argument, a candlo in tho jury box flickered and went out, leaving the court room in darkness. Ho stopped speaking, and the silence in court for a moment was oppressive. Tho usher replaced tho light, and Coleridgo resumed his address. Gentlemen of the jury, you have a solemn duty, a very solemn duty to discharge. Tho life of tho prisoner at the bar is in your hands. You can take it by a word. You can ex tinguish that life as the candle by your side was extinguished a mo ment ago. Hut it is not in your power, it is not in the power of any of us- of any ono in this court or out of it to restore that lift:, when once taken, as that light has been re stored." The tone in which the word wcro spoken, the cadence of tiie voice, and the action of the ora tor, with the inspiration of the sceno and tho liou p odticcd a thrilling effect. Tho jmjr ciilueii j the prisoner, and Coleridge's fortune ; va- made. Argonaut. In Di-.tdlv I.IMZT. Tho following affidavit was filed in the court of common pleas in Dublin in m22: "And this deponent further saith, that on arriving at the hotiso of said defendant, situate in tho co in ty as Galwa. aforesaid, for tho purpose of personally serving him with said writ, h, the said de ponent, knocked three several times at the outer, commonly called the lrill door, but could not obtain ad mittance: whereupon this deponent was proceeding to knock tho fourth time, when a man. to this deponent unknown, holding in his hands a musket or blunderbuss loalcd with balls or slugs, as this deponent has sineo heard and verily believes, ap peared at one of the upper windows of the said house, and presenting tho said musket or blunderbuss at this deponent, threatened, 'that if said deponent did not instantly retire, he would send his (the deponent's) soul to hell.' which this deponent verily !- -. . I 1 1 -1 1 1 A ocueves ue wuuiu uavu uuno, uau not this deponent precipitately escaped. " Argonaut Temporary Change of Loilci'i?- At Monte Carlo a gambler had won the inain;um at "Rogue ct N'oir" three times in succession 'J here's a fellow running ofT with a splendid haul of bank notes " sai 1 a spectator. Oh!" carelessly interjected the croupier, that makes no t ifferenc-j with bank. It is merely a bit of our money sleeping oat for the night!" Theory of C'rratioi. -What makes you think that man was created after woman i" hist this: if man -had been created first ho would probably bo wanting a woman yet. Hut woman being created first, and making up her mind that she wanted a man. there was nothing to do but to trot hiin out in the shortest possiblo time." Supielo: ConllrintMl. Powell I see by your sign th.H yo i arc a dispensing chemist. Chemist Yes. sir. Powell What do von dispense with? Chemist With accuracy, sir. Powell I thought so. The last prescription I had made up here nearly killed my wife Truth. I'atr'otNui. Lisbeth I hear you have broken with Ambrose. What was the mat ter? Jeanncttc We fell out about lit erature. Ambrose is such a horrid Anglomaiiiac- He persists that Shakespeare is funnier than Billye wt Louis Post-Dispatch. A C -it ihlpratc KmjiJover. Publisher You look lame. Been kicked out much? Hook Agent 'Bout forty times Publisher, kindly Well, leave your encyclopedia here, aud canvass with this sample bible until your back gets well. X. Y. Weekly- what : ix:. Fckstein How much didt you lose in dot fire in your blace. Einstein Apoudt fifo tousandt in surance. A fool boliceman timed in der alarm peforc it got started!. An IrreUtihl Conc.mion. 'Cholly had a very thoughtful ex pression on his face," said one girl. Cholly's becoming deceitful,' re plied the other. ! FOURTEEN HOURS IrJ THE SEA. The Experience of a Youbc Eitllihmtn Who Tried to Swim Ashore. With nothing but a life preserver between him and certain death, Georgd Moore, of Bristol ( England, spent four teen horn's in the Atlantic ocean, off Cape Hehry,onSunday,August 22,1894, says the Boston Herald. Moore's case, which was brought to tho attention of Commissioner of Immigration Delhanty by Captain Wiley of the schooner Cac tus, is both remarkable and pathetic. Moore is 18 years old. He decided to steal his passage from Liverpool to America and concealed himself in tho hold of the steamer Tctnplemore of the Johnston lino. Here amid suffo cating heat ho remained hidden for nine days. Ho was discovered by ono of tho sailors when three days out, but, instead of in forming the captain, the sailor took pity on the youth "and gave him' tome bread and water when possible. Moore's rations, however, were short, as the sailor did not dare to run the risk of being caught offering succor to a stowaway. When nine days out tho engineer discovered tho utowuway and quickly informed the captain. When Moore was brought before tho captain he was threatened with imprisonment when the ship reached Baltimore: also with the treadmill upon leing re turned to England. The thoroughly frightened youth was finally set to work and given some bread and water. Possible imprisonment in two coun tries was not a very desirable outlook for the young Briton. At first there seemed to lie no way of escajie, but as the Templemore stood off Cape Henry in tho early morningof August 22 Mooro mistook the headlights on several sail ing vessels for lights on tho coast. Being a good swimmer he concluded that he could cscajH! by jumping over iMiard and swimming ashore. To think was to act. He hunted the deck over until he found a life preserver. He next took off his shoes and tied them to the pre server. Quickly getting his head and shoulders through the preserver he jumped into the ocean. Instead of swimming toward the shore ho went in the opposite direction, and when daylight came there was nothing to Ik seen of land. His position was perilous in the extreme. Death at any moment seemed certain. The M.a was rough and wave after wave rolled over his head. His endurance was remark able, considering the fact that for nine days he had barely food and water enough to sustain life. He swam and floated on and on for fourteen hours, until at last, when it teemed as if every moment would le his last, he was seen by" the lookout on the schooner Cactus, bound from Balti more to Boston. Captain Wiley of the Cactus lowered a boat and sent four of his men to the rescue. Moore was completely exhausted, and fainted when placed in the bottom of the boat, lit.-, in mi. race and neck were badly scorched, as he had no protection from the sun. Captain Wiley was proud of Moore's achievement, and so well pleased with his pluck that he shipped him before the mast. Lining the Hat. A gentleman lifts his hat when rec ognizing a friend, or in passing ladies who are in company with his friend, though he does not possess their ac quaintance. A loy should 1k trained to take off his hat to his mother, his sister, or to the little girls he knows. To lift the hat with the grace of good breeding is a much to lie desired ac complishment. Southern men remove the hat with fine gallantry and stand bareheaded when talking with ladies on the public promenade. The action is so dignified and so charming that one sometimes wishes it were imitated by men of equal politeness in other portions of our country. Harper's Bazar. Not In i Flowery 3Iooil. At the hospital the other morning, says Life, one of the patients was just recovering from an attack of delirium tremens, and, as is usual in such cases, desired to dress and go home more than anything else. It hapjiened that one of the young ladies connected with the flower mission saw him and, ap proaching, said: "I have some beau tiful roses here. Wouldn't you like some?"' No response. Again she said: "Wouldn't you liko to have some of these roses?"' Slowly his head turned, and slightly opening his bleary eyes, ho said, much to the embarrass ment of the young woman: "I'd a d d sight rather have my pants. "' IIHtorj of a Weight Stamford. The grain, the smallest weight standard in general use, was so called from originally being the weight of a grain of wheat. A statute which lx rarao a law in England in tho year 1266 ordained that 32 grains of wheat taken from the middle of the ear, or head," and well dried, should make a pennyweight, 20 pennyweights one ounce, 12 ounces one pound. Some centuries later there were some radical changes made in the above, such as dividing the pennyweight into 24 grains, etc This make's .7fi0 grains in a troy pound, as now used. That liretl Freliiis. Business Manager Whv do von al ways insist on having the advertise ment of your remedy for that tired feeling placed at the bottom of the col umn? Advertiser When the people who read your paper have read to the bottom of one of its- columns, they are more liable to feel the need of my celebrated remedy. Profitable Advertising. Her Manaser. English Nobleman, after two hours' acquaintance I weally assuah you. Miss Billions, that I avc learned to love you! "Pon my soul I American Heiress, interrupting and pointing to her father in the next room Pardon me. but that is my business manager. Truth. The Maiden's Wish. I'd like to be a fine, large, bank check.' remarked the girl who was very pretty, but poor. Why?"' inquired her companion. "Because its face makes it valuable.'" The Blesslaz of an Ontiar Trip. "There's nothing does a man more good than an onting trip.' Think so?' Yes. sir. It makes a man appre ciate his home.' A BABY AT EIGHTEEN. STILL AN INFANT IN MIND. SIZE AND A Girl Who Haa Xot Developed In the Least Since She Wa Eight Months Old A Case Which ruirtei the Scien tific Men Her rarent's Care. Ono of the most romarkablo cases of non-development on record in this state or any adjoining one is that of the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry, of Aspen street, says the Philadel phia inquirer. Tho daughter was born on May 15, 1876, and is named Mary Frances. Tho young woman is now in her 19th year, but develop ment stopped both physically and mentally when sho was 8 months old. J.'he case is one which hasnotonly puzzled medical scientists, but others of profound skill. Many conilicting theories have been presented. The child at birth was an unusually healthy and well developed baby, and for the first eight months she showed signs of the usual development in children. There was no lack of growth, no lack of appetite or anything else that could for a moment make cither tho parents or any medical attendant doubt that the child was not natural and normal in all respects. Indeed, in health and appetite the little one has novel given any trouble. Sho seems to-day, except in the matter of eyesight, to en jo.- all the senses. Tho first intimation that the fam ily over had of tho child's lack of development was when it reached the end of the first year of its ex istence, when it was noticed that tho little one made no attompt to talk or even to creep or walk. The mother on observing this at once consulted several doctors, all of whom made examinations but failed to discern anything pronounced in lack of development. Some of them stated that tho little one would, in a few years, or probably a few months, rearain what tho mother thought was a lack of energy. Time went on and yet no improve ment took place In the little one's peculiar state. In duo time the child was baptized by Kev. Dr. Fitzmaurice at tho old St Agatha's Roman Catholic church. As tho year 1877 drew to a close the mother became uneasy about the child. Drs. Hughes, Prcndergust, Uakor. OAeill. ('oedman and a host of others were acrain and again con sulted, but all failed to come to any direct conclusion. Hospitals and doctors innumerable were visited and consulted, but all to no avail in giving the child renewed vigor. Some doctors pronounced the child only backward and bade the mother have patience, assuring her that in due time the little one would make up iui iuui, .i. v -o wic ago of threo years one doctor said that the child would rally, although he admitted the case was puzzling. Mary Frances, at the age of 3 and I years, showed no more signs of de velopment than when she was a baby of 8 months. The little one has never caused any trouble, nor showed any signs of disease, but nas in all those lonsr 18 years remained the samo baby she was when S months old. Tho only difference to-day in the young woman, now over 18 years old, and the baby of 8 months is that the head may bo a littlo larger and the lips a little more prominent. She still subsists upon baby food. No stronger sound proceeds from tho 18-year-old child to-day than when she was 8 months old. She has never made any attempt to get on her feet and her arms and legs are just as small and dimpled as when, in babyhood, sho prattled on her mother's knee. Everything possible has been done to make the little ono comfortable and she seems as happy and bright to-day as the ordinary babe- She moves but little, even when placed outside tho house. She is happy when sho hears others singing or playing around her -and will then hum to herself. Une of her eyes has partially given way, and the child shows a desire to use the left eye more than the right one. Dr. J. F. Prcndcrgast, who has been ono of tho physicians attending Mary, speaking of tho case recen ly said, "It's one of the most mar velous I have ever seen or known. Tho head shows tho Mongolian type of imbeciles. There is a lack of both mental and physical development, and tbo cause is very obscure. It may have been duo to natal influ ences, which did not show signs un til long after birth, or to shock af terwards. There may have been a lack of nutriment or simply a lack of non-development of brain matter at or previous to birth. It might be due to au accident after birth, as an injury to the brain or spinal cord. Yet the parents are not aware of any such injury. It might oe due to the lack of development in the nerve centers that control growth and de velopment, or it might be hereditary. The latter cause, however, is not in dicated by the family history, all the members having attained full growth. It might be caused by a disease of the brain after birth, or some acute disease." Itetter Than Herb. "Anxious Mother There is a cer tain very eligible young man that I want my daughter to fall in love with. Do you deal in love philters? Modern Magician No, madam: but I can bring the match about in another way. "Oh, thank you. What shall I do? "Shut her up in a boarding school for a year and then arrange 3-our plans so that this youth will bo the first man sho meets after she gets out" N. Y. Wecklv. : Komance at Advanceil I'rice. "Marie and George have separated, you know. He told her one night that when he was out of town he always felt as though he would give $10 for iust a word with her.' "Well?" "And so the next time he did leave town she put him to the test by calling him up on a long distance telephone and making him pay the bill. Chica go Record. THE ENGLISHMAN. V' WM Qeer UeeaaM tto Had Studied Ceorfapfcy While at School. The tall girl with the yellow hair and'wkito dress had announced her intention o! having fun with tho youaf Englishman who was a guest at the house where she was staying. He had ' but lately arrived in this country and was here for a fsw days on his way to a leisurely inspection of thf West I suppose, Mr. Choi medley,1 the tall girl said when sho got her purpose victim ranged up beside a lot of other girls who wanted to see and hear the fun. "I supnoso you find this country much different from England?" "Indeed, I do," replied the young Englishman, politely, "it is very different" "How dp you like it?'' . "ijiardlv know vet- 1 have seen -burTvery little of it, you know." "Disappointed, aren't you?" "I can't say that I am." "Weren't you grieved becauso you didn't find any Indians in Central park in New York waiting to scalp unwary Britons? You surely thought Indians would bo there." "Pardon me. but 1 had no such idea." "Well, you expected to hunt buf falo on Long island, I'll bo bound, and looked for cowboys and Mexi cans on the wharf, to say nothing of bears aud deer in the Battery?" "You arc entirely mistaken. I ox pected to find none of the things you have mentioned." "But you didn't know how large this country was. You had au idea confess now -that you could run up to Bu'Talo in half an hour from New York?" "1 knew it was a ten hour ride.' The tall girl was rather discon certed by this time, but she bit her lips and continued the battle. "Had no idea of going out to California aud back on the same dav?" -.No.'' "Didn't think that most of the people hero were savages. and dressed in skius when they dressed at all?"' "Certainly not ' "All our habits, customs and in stitutions were strange and o'.itland ish to you, no doubt.'" "Some of them strange, but nono of them outlandish." The girl was nonplus ed. Tho other girls were laughing at her is comiiture. She ncrvioiisly twiste I an i untwisted her handkerchief an 1 finally sai i: "Well, you are a queer sort of an Englishman. How i it you know so much?' in tones icy enough tocau-e a drop in temperature the young English man replied: "Becauscmiss.I studied geographv when I was at school." Then whilo the tall girl blushed reil as a peony, he continued: ! also studio 1 deportmcnt.something which 1 f0;ll. -. - i i -- ji ' rlculum " The tall girl was so mortiliol that she didn't leave her room for two da s. WITH THE VIT5. "Did you tell your mistress that 1 called yesterday when she was out".'"' Maid It wasn't necessary. She saw you coming. As the express dasher through the station -'Oh, pjrter, doesn't that train stop here?" Porter No, mum; it don't even hesitate. "What do you think of Sohkeni's liabilities?" asked the anxious creditor. "Well, as far as I can ju lge, the principal one is his liability not to pay a ny thing." "Arc you a district messenger boy?'' asked the near-sighted old gentleman of an urchin on the street. "No, sir." was the reply: "it's my sore toe that makes me walk that way. " "Uood morning, my boy, is your father in his stn ly?" "No, sir: papa has gone to the dentist's to have mamma's teeth attsnled to." "Oh, indeed!" "But mamma U in " A six-year-old was seated in a bar ber's chair. "Well, my little man," said the barber, "how would yon like to have your hair cut?"' "Oh. like papa's, with a little round hole at the top." His Father Tommy, how do you like your new toy horse? It's the best I could buy. Tommy, surveying it critically It's awful nice. But I'd like to know how it's going to be broke strong l'ke that. MANY MATTERS. In naming their war ships the Chin ese had an eye tj political effect. "T.'ng Yuen" means "Future Secur ity'" and "Chen Yuen" is translated "Guarding the Future." It is said that in ten years the city of Nashville lost S10.000 ODJ in various boom schemes and wild speculation ventures, and of this vast sum not ten per cent was spent at home. There is a store in New York where a person m-iy have a song set to music while he waits for fifty cents or SI, the price depending on the time it takes for the lightning cone poser to satisfy the applicant. Italian grape cnlturists are now making illuminating oil from grape seeds from which they get a pro luet of from ten to fiftaen per cent. It is clear, colorless and inodorous, and burns without smoke. An Auburn, Me., woman, expect ing a cousin of her husband whom she had never seen, introluced a book agent to her houschol I. mule him kiss the childreu, invited him to the best room to cool off and was simply astounded when he began to talk bus iness. The mosquito plant of Japan is so called beeause it emits a secretion whose odor attracts moquitos i:i swarms. The insects are entrapped in the fluid once they put their pro boscis into it and millions of them to gether with vast swarms of gnats and tleas arc devoured by this curious plant every season. One of the most curious statistical records that has been compiled this century is that l- Dr. Salzmann of Essling, Wurtembnrg, on the average duration of life among phj'sicians. lie found on going over Ihe ancient rec ords of the kingdoci that in the sixteenth century the average dura tion of life among that class was but 36.5 years: in the seventeenth century 4.".8; in the eighteenth, 49.S: and at the present time they reach the fa vorable average of 30. V. BATTLE WITH A BOA. ITS FOLD WRAPPED ABOUT WINDPIPE. r!13 An Incident or the Hunt Id Vensmiela 1'rofessor Kelllj's rescue of Ills Na tive Servant From the Embrace of m Giant Serpent. During my snake-hunting progress eastward through tho Venezuelan forest, writes U. R. O'Reilly of the Ireland Royal zoological society, when over for any length of timo I made my headquarters in any village or settlement. I almost invariably had one or two young fellows trained un der my own eye. to capture alive, without fear, the largest and most deadly kinds that the primeval wilder ness could "produce- Tedro Vargas, a swarthy-skinned stripling of 17, clad only in shirt and trousers, with a palm leaf hat upon his head, liarcfoot and bare-Iegged to the knee, was the quickest and bravest of all my daring serpent-chasers. One lnorning at sunrise Pedro and I started off for the forest in search of a huge boa constrictor reported to have been seen by some hunter on the pre vious evening. Before we had pro- cecded far tho sounds of gunshots in tho distance attracted our attention. We soon camo up with the shooters, and were delighted to find that they were the very hunters who had yester day encountered the boa we were in quest of. Over the forest-clad hills for some two miles we with difficulty made our way, continually slashing a road with our cutlasses, to where there was a deep ravine. It was among the rocks on the precipitous side of this ravine that they had seen the boa on the evening before. Ptdro. meanwhile left us, and. going down to the dried up river lied. lK'gan to seek him lie neath the bushes overhanging the sandy margin. He was very soon suc cessful. "Santa Madre." he shouted. "Que 1 grando cabeza!" j On hearing this we all stood still, i anxiously gazing down at him. won ! dering what it was ho had discovered, i As he uttered the words we saw him I in the act of ascendinga huge bowlder. i overs had owed l a snivauinir fan- palm's spacious leaves. 1'or a mo ment ho was lost to?iv. The palm leaves swayed and rustled violently, and before we had time to move a step there was Pedro rolling oil the bowlder down to the sand Inf low, with the enormous snake coiled with its mam folds around him. There he Jay on his hack holding the great loa. with one hand clutched about it t throat. There was coil upon coil of the monsters length wound around his neck and arms and bod v. His le-s uiny were iree. ami uitn these lie tried vigorously to jw mi Jiiu ro.. i...i i vain, for the weight around his neck and shoulders, as well as the pinion ing of his arms, completely prevented any such action. When we reached him he could sjwak no more and his face was fast growing livid, though otherwise he was conscious enough: but the pressure round his throat was too much for him. The swollen veins stood out upon his forehead and his eyes appeared bulging evidently the snako was strangling him. while he still kept it clutched by the throat, for though a boa constrictor cannot crush one's ribs, he can easily squeeze a neck quite enough to choke. Now the le.-,t way to unloo-c a coiled boa is to commence at the tail, so for that I jumped at once and found it stoutly cnlappcd around the stems of the bushes. I proceeded to untie it, but as fast as I could get it off from one place it instantly twisted afresh around unothcr. As it was clear that thisdelay might have serious consequences. I at once prepared for other tactics. I knew that if I threatened the excited reptile while Pedro remained perfectly still and quietly let go his hold on its throat, the beast would at once attack me by biting, but not by winding around me, for this last they never do. except with animals they intend to swallow or when held prisoner, as Pedro was now holding this one. Pre paring myself, therefore, for the onset by taking the hags we had with us and wrapping them around my hands to protect them against its teeth. I stood off a little by the reptile's head and shouted to Pedro to let go. which he had till now lieen afraid to do. In pugilistic attitude. I took my position before the hissing snake, and. with ! lxith hands protected by the bags, as i with boxing gloves, feigned a blow at j him the moment Pedro unloo.-ened his grasp. The enraged aniuril. seeing i me thus menacingly moving in front i of him, gave vent to a mo-t terrifying hiss, and bit toward me with widely- gaping jaws, lie struck right toward my face, but fell short of his mark, for he was too much entwined around the boy to reach out far en-iugii to catch me. His folds now begun to loosen on Pedro, all iiis rage Ijcing directed to me. For several minute.-. I kept the angry snake biting at me. and as after each attack h" would unwind another twist of his body Pedro, whom I repeatedly warned to .tay qui-t. was soon almost entirely free, while I sparred vigor-ou-Iy with my hi -sing antagonist, without, of cour.-e. vv allowing him to catch me. Now that he was far enough away. I gave the word to Pedro to jump up and cut a gr,od--bod pole in the thicket. With 'AU we loth managed to press down hi- neck, pinning him firmly to the ground, upon which he tried vainly to turn and bite the of fending wood, and twisted himself around it right up to our very hands. Quickly at my call the other hunters came to our assistance and while they held on. som" to the po!" anl some to the snake. I caught him firmly, just a Pedro had don" before, around Xhn neck with both hands. Now that I had him bv th" ha'l. Pedro by the tail and some others by th" middle, we soon got him loo-.-? from the pole and in triumph bore him off homeward, through the forests, for none of the bags we had with u.s was anything like large enough to f-tow him in. Then ant! Now. At one time the retailer hunted up the jolnVr. A large force of indoor salejinen were required an 1 no travel- ing salesmen were mplove.l. At u later period 1 raveling salesmen noti fied the merchants in the towns on their circuits when they would show their samples in their city, and the re tailer called and gave his orders. In recent years, "indoor" salesmen found it necessary to grab the gripsack and hunt for orders in tho retailers store. To-day. the- crovded representation ou the road eomiek wide-awake houses to help their agents by the powerful aid of printers' ink. and the houses who do not advertise must sooner or later be relegated. Grocery World. SACRED RIVER OF INDIA. The Gange May Xot II no Considered by lllniloot After Next Year. The ancient prophecy that tho sanc tity of tho river Ganges will pas to tho Narbada in 18lU-9." has been quoted very widely by the Indian pres and is said to bo creating moro uneasi ness than the mango-smearing, iays the New York Evening Post. It .ap pears that, what with indignation meetings in every part of the country to protest against the sacrifice of In- j dian finance to the Manchester voto, , the murderous feuds of tho Mohum- j medans and Hindoos, the criminal ! trials for slander which have sprung out of missionary misrepresentations on the opium question, and the de mand for the public prosecution of a J leading missionary journal for insult- ing native unrest is religious lieliefs. a wave of iirain nilssing over India, 'Hie czarowitz. in his account of his recent travels in that country, dwells at length upon the prophecy and the silent revolution which lie declares to lie proceeding without any suspicion on the part of the British. A writer in the London Times says of the predic tion: "It derives, of course, no authority from the Veda. Nor have we. after some inquiry, lieenable to discover a reference to it in any text lielongiug to the classical Sanscrit iieriod. The earliest authentic notice has been traced no further back than the Rewa-Khanea. a local sacred poem in honor of the Xarbada. Sixty years ago Sir Henry Sleeman mentioned it in his journal as current in the Narbada region of the central provinces. About the year 1880 Sir Monier Monier-Will-iams heard a good deal concerning it from the Brahmins of Western India at Ahmadabad. The change was to take place in I8."l of the Samvat era, cor responding to 181) !-'.." of our era. The ciremonial cycle of the Hindoos is ono in twelve years, and the bathing fes tivals on the Ganges have oach twelfth year a special religious value. At the last of these cycle anniversaries tho devotion of the populace was stimu lated ly the rumor that they had liet ter take advantage of it lest the sanc tity of the Ganges should depart lie fore the next occasion arrived. Un precedented multitudes Hocked to the bathing places along its banks, and the demonstration was considered of sufficient importance to find its way "iit tbo nOiiiil it.ii1 if the neriod." A Mill Willi ill and I.uiiC. The academy of natural science has just come into possession of a rare fish, which can Ixiast of a pair of lungs in addition to the gills with which alone less favored fish are endowed. The necessity of these two sets of breath ing apparatus is readily seen when the habits of the animal are known. In Africa, where the fish lives, it inhabits lakes and ponds which are often com pletely dried up during the dry f -ason. As long as the water remains the lung IWi lives as do the other memliers of the finny trilie. and breathes by means of his gills: but when the ponds dry up he burrows down into tho mud and makes a round nest, where he lives in a semitorpid condition, breathing by means of his lungs, until the rainy season releases him again. Philadel phia Record. Tlie 1'oiver or the Court. "We are likely to have a tornado in two or three days." said the weather man to his assistant. "You'd lietter run down to the court and get an in junction." "Do what?" "Get an injunction. Isn't that what injunctions are for to restrain the lawless elements? If his job had not lieen a feder al ono the assistant would have re signed. Woman' tiriolty. She Women haven't a bit more curiosity than men. so they haven't. He No. but it is manifested in dif ferent lines. For instance, a woman might own a sewing machine for years without finding out how it was made, but she wouldn't have a seam stress in the house a week without knowing all about her. A tin- Hratlirn S-e It. "hinese Warrior Whattee Fir-t j this Clistian science? ! Second Chinese Warrior - -Machine I guns i CRAIKS OF COLD. The power of pleasing is founded on the wish to please. A mother is a mother still the holiest thing alive. People who hunt for faults seldom find anything else. Slander not other-, because have slandered on. Society is what people are they know they are watched. The only true riches are tho they when 2 that death cinnot ta'3 from us. Some people stop praying the min ute they put their h inds on money. After all th-? main thing we do in this life is to wish it was to-morrow. A man's manners are a mirror, in which he shows his likeness to tli2 in telligent observer. The heart is rejuvenated by well doing, memory bv exercise, and life by remembrances. Modesty and the dew love the shade. Each shines in the open day only to b2 exhaled to h'aven. One reason why some people never do much good, is because they are not , wi'Iing to do a little at a time. Stern dutici need not speak sternly. ' He who stood firm before the thunder worshipped 'the still, small voice." Moderation is the insensible com i panion of wisdom, but with genius has not even a nodding acquaintance- Now abideth Faith, Hope and Love, these three. But tha greatest of these is Love: for Love is the seraph, , and Faith am ' which it Hies. 1 Hop. are but w'ngs by THE OLD RELIABLE Colnmbns - State - Bank I oiii fan btenstnluu Denslli Asm fibs Ink n Eeal Estate Mta HSR DlAITt ei Oaika, &!. Hi Tark rat tA v-Hrttjie mil : VOMMSMa : TICKETS. BUYS GOOD NOTES LaA ! its Cuteaan wkm tkar toad Malm Ofc'FICKRS AND PIUECTOUS: IjEasder Gerhard, Pres't, B. H. Henrv, Vice Prest, 31. Brugger, Cashier. Tons' Stauffer. G. W. Hui-st. COLUMBUS, NEB., HAS AX Authorize Capital of - $500,000 Paid in Capital, - 90,000 m OFF1CEK?. C. H. SHELDON. Pres't. H. P. II. OKIILKICH. Vico Prei. CLAHIC GRAY. Cashier. DANIEL SOHHAM, Ass't Cmsh DIRECTORS. II. M. WIXSI.OW, II. P. II. OEHLRICn, ;. II. Sheldon, 'A'. A. McAllister. Jonas elch. Carl Kik.nkc STOCKHOLDERS. 8. C. Orat. J. Hesry Wcrdemaw, GEnllAlll) I.OSEKE, IlENItrLOSEKE. , clark Gray. Geo. w. Galley. Daniel Sciiham, A. I". II. OeiiLRicn. Frank Uorer. J. P. 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