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T' U ?.. Mvaabm I-ms Oe e .. WHOLE NTJMBEK 1,308. COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA, WEDNESDAY. JUNE 5, 189o. VOLUME XXVL-NUMBER 8. ItattrM . &' "-.. 9 ".-.. . m .- t-B :. r .". 8; t . i-i ' ' " 1 :; ''' o ; : . : 3 ".. BR o Si ' " F ' . i . . . i- ' o 1 I 1 aBkw '.aWa BBST W - . a-.--'"-" '"a. a a o 1-' ; V M . - V m 'A LUCKY THIETEEN. 11 WO bright, laugh fr lng girls bent their curly heads to gether over a table littered with writ ing material. "There." said Jeannie. throwing down her pen and waving a sheet of paper with a tri umphant flourish, "that list is fin ished at last, thanks be to goodness! And it's just perfect; you see if it isn't just twelve names." Jeannie licked the ink off her finger a schoolgirl habit she had never been able to conquer and shoved the paper over for her friend's closer inspection. who exclaimed in surprise: "Why. Jeannie. you've left out Tom Cunninghams name!" "Well suppose I have?" replied Jean nie. "I didn't think." said Meta. slowly, "that you would give a party without Inviting Tom Cunningham." "Oli. bother Tom!" retorted Jeannie. with a scornful toss of her pretty head and a deepening pink color in her cheeks. "I ain't going to invite him. I wouldn't have the number thirteen at my birthday party for anything In the world." "Well, you can leave somebody else out," suggested Meta. "Oh. it isn't that." "What has he done lately to incur your dlsrjleasure? You don't soem as cordial to him as you used to be." "The reason is just this." said Jean nie. deesdedly. "he has moved to a new boarding house and the number of it is that dreadful unlucky thirteen." Meta burst into a tit of merry laugh ter. "Or all the silly girls that ever wore heard of you are the silliest. Jeannie Gray! If I were you I'd just invite him and break the superstition." "I couldn't do it." returned Jeannie. "I have ;i perfect horror of number thirteen, and. you know. Meta. this is my first real dinner party. I have ben looking forward to it for years, for mamma always told me that I could give a dinner party on my seventeenth birthday, and wind up with a dance in the evening, and anything that even suggested thirteen would spoil all my pleasure." "What did you do on your thirteenth birthday"? inquired Meta. "Oil!" gasped Jeannie. "It happened on a Friday, too! I had a big birthday party, but I didn't think anything about it till it was all over." "And'-.vhat dreadful misfortune hap pened to you''" "XotJfing at all." said Jeannie. feebly. "Ami didn't you enjoy yourself?" "To tell the truth. I never had such a good time in my life, but I was young .and giddy then." "And according to that." argued Meta. "the ill-luck accompanying thir teen exists only in your mature im agination." "Weil, so long as I think it." persisted Jeannie. "It would make me unhappy, and I can't help it." "I have found thinking a very bad habit." said Meta, "unless I thought risht, and you know sometimes we do that kind of thing: that is. we think we are richt. Now, you don't mean to say you are going to throw over such a nice, good fellow as Tom Cunningham VN . Km)' c, '&. "DREAM OF LOVELINESS." for a silly superstition. And you know well enough you won't enjoy yourself a bit if he isn't around somewhere." "Oh. won't I. indeed"" retorted Jean nk with a vain attempt at defiance. "He needn't be too sure of himself." "Oh. -Tom is not likely to show up "where he is not; wanted." said Meta. "and it would be only natural if he 'felt himself slighted. "In don't see what reason he has to "CKpect that I shnuld invite him to my . dinner party " "It seems to me he has every reason to expect if: you have always shown a marked preference for his company, and he has- always been ready to take vou wherever you wanted to go ami plve you a lovely time. Tm sure to snub "him now because lie lives at .No. l. seems too ridiculous for anything. Why don't you tell him the reason? It would be only fair." "He can find out the reason." re turned Jeannie. with willful petulancy. "I have invited my twelve for next week, and I am not going to have any thirteen amund. So help me to address the envelopes, like a good girL" "Have you all the invitations writ ten?" ;i had before you came in. but I have changed my mind about some of them, so will write them over again." "Shall I address the envelopes from this list?" asked Meta. holding the one recently completed in her hand. "Well, no." answered Jeannie. hesi tatingly. "I shall need that to correct "from." Here are some all ready." she added, taking a few daintily-folded notes of cream-laid paper from a pile and -placing them beside Meta. "These I intend to go. and as I finish the oth ers you can address them. I wish my handwriting was as clear as yours." Tlie girls worked busily and silently for some time; only once Meta looked a trifle perplexed as she opened one of the notes and she asked: "Did you say all of these were to go?" "Yes." answered Jeannie with a little sigh. And Meta continued her writing aft er marking the tears in Jeannie's eyes. When her work was finished she arose from her chair. "These are all finished now." she said, taking up her wrap which she had re moved on entering. "Do you wish me to post them for you?" f you will." replied Jeannie, trying to look bright and gay. "And now that the invitations are out I can think, about my dress and other fineries." "I suppose you will wear pale blue?" said Meta. touching a sore point. "I don't believe I will." said Jeannie. evasively. "I wore blue at the the last party I was at, you know." This explantion was rather lame, and she knew It. for Tom loved blue, conse quently for the past six months Jeannie had sported every imaginable shade and color of blue 15 .JS?.l jl i. -- -S-; ." 'i XV V,VV w. . r CV "Wtl i l "Oh!" said Meta. "Well, good-bye, I must be off." And she gathered up the letters and took her departure. Jeannie arranged the dinner table herself. All the decorations were blue and white. A broad band of blue satin edged with white lace ran down the cen ter of the table. A blue and white china jar occupied the center. It was filled with blue and white flowers, and a bunch of blue and white violets tied with blue ribbon was placed at the plate of each guest, and Jeannie could not prevent a great lump from bobbing up In her throat as she laid the dantiest bouquet at the place that should have been Tom's. Then she ran upstairs to dress her self, but when she saw a dream of blue loveliness spread out on the bed she just nestled her face in its gauzy folda and sobbed out: "Oh, Tom!" and sat down and had a good cry- 1 "What an idiot I am!" she said to her- i self when she wined her eyes, "to turn J my nose red and my eyes like two burnt holes In a blanket, all for nothing; for why should I care If he isn't here?" So she, put on her gayest smile and went down to receive her guests, a study in blue both inwardly and out wardly. The dinner wasn't half as nice as she had expected, although everything was very brilliant except the guests, and she thought them stupid; the man be side her bored the life out of her. And she was glad when it was over and i they all adjourned to the large parlors, where tea was served and the musi cians struck up some lively air, which soon set a few of the younger couples to waltzing. Jeannie had to confess that her pa rents had spared no pain3 to make her birthday party a success. "If only Tom were here," she kept whispering to herself. "I would be su premely happy. And. if I wasn't ashamed to add insult to injury I would send and ask him to come even now." Just then her mother's voice, behind her, said: "I think we have lamps enough; there are thirteen in this room." "Glad of it." spoke up her father, j "There's luck In odd numbers. Hello. Tom! better late than never. I was j wondering why you didn't show up be- i fore this." "Sorry to be late, sir." answered Tom's voice; "but a business matter i that I couldn't help kept me till too late i for dinner and too late to send a mes sage. Good evening. Miss Jeannie!" as ' she turned a radiant face toward him. "Many happy returns of the day. I have my apologies to make for not fill- j ing my place at dinner, according to your kind invitation, but it was lmpos- sible. I assure you. I hope you were able to till my place at the last moment?" j "We filled your chair," said Jeannie, in a flutter of shy delight. . "Thank you." he murmured in'her ear. "I am glad to know you. at least, cannot easily provide a substitute for my unworthy self." "Don't say that." pleaded she. "I won't." he answered softly. "If you think me worthy will you be my part ner in this waltz?" "With pleasure." she responded, giv ing him her sweetest smile. "And ever after?" he whispered. "Yes." TVVirtn tUni.. ni i nninrr TV:llfr ttrnI nrt- ed he left her in the flowery recess of a bay window while he went to fetch her I some cream. ! Just then Meta rustled to her. "Oh. Meta." cried Jeannie. "he's come!" "Of course he's come." echoed Meta, "when you invited him." "I didn't invite him." but I don't care now so long as he is here." "You did invite him." replied Meta. "for you gave me thirteen notes to ad dress, and his was the thirteenth." "I thought I had left his out." "Well, how do you feel about It?" "Very happy." answered Jeannie. : with shining eyes, "for, oh, Meta. let j me whisper. I have accepted Number i Thirteen, the luckiest number In all ' the world for me." "Ahem!" said Meta. AN ELECTRIC SWINDLE. HiH Rut Poison lit Sugar: a Battery Klll the Rodcntd. Enormous business has been done lately at French fairs by a man who professed to sell a rat powder that was perfectly harmless to human beings, but which struck rats dead on the spot. In order to convince the sceptical, the man first of all powdered a slice of bread with the stuff and ate a piece of it himself. Then he put the remainder under a glass case in which a rat was kept in activity. The rat went to eat the bread and instantly fell dead. At five pence a box the powder went off like hot rolls, and the lucky proprietor of the specific was in a fair way to make a fortune. But the police, who in France are very active in protecting the people from fraud, looked into the mat ter and found that the powder was nothing but ordinary sugar. They also discovered that the case was connected with a powerful electric battery, and that the moment the rat touched the bread the current was turned on.and it was thus his death was brought about. The man was arrested at the fair of Albi. Luther' Illrthpiace. The famous house at Eisleben, Ger many, where Luther was born, has been repaired and restored and newly opened to the public a few weeks ago as a kind of museum of relics of the great reformer. A FEW ODD NOTES. Within a few weeks Lord Roseberys hair turned entirely gray. Out of 17.000.000 inhabitants of Spain over 11.000.000 are ignorant of the art of reading or writing. To remove stains from clothing use benzine. To remove stain3 from the character use "sugar." A sporting Boer has two racing os triches, one of which has a stride of fourteen feet and can go twenty-two miles an hour. Efforts are about to be made to drive all the men out of the town of Beav er. O T. The women are organizing a brass band. There is a spring on Pecos river, in San Miguel county. New Mexico, which throws out a stream fifteen feet wide and three feet deep. Soonges, slates and slate pencils are no longer allowed hi the public schools of Cambridge. Mass. Paper, pens and pencils have been substituted. Hall Caine. the author ot "The Manx man." is said to write with such micro scopic fineness that he is able to put 700 words on one sheet of note paper. Dr. Jay W. Sever holds the position of associate director of the Yale gym nasium, but this does not prevent his being the bitterest foe that college foot ball has. A man with an eye for the curious In discoveries has found out that In England Smith is the most frequently found name; In Scotland it Is MacDon ald. and In Ireland Murphy. William Black, the novelist, while writing, is disturbed by the slightest footfall. Pinero. the playwright, on the other hand, thtntra out his plots and pens them in the best manner in a crowded and noisy hotel. NO MOEE INSAMTY. A SURE CURE HAS BEEN DIS COVERED. By Producing a High Fever on the Patient, Recovery Follows Rapidly The Care Given to the Public Same Notable Cares. N eminent physi cian of Vienna, Prof. Wagner von Jauregg, has made a discovery which gives promise of certain cure in many cases of in sanity. Medical science has al ways been in the dark when it un .v CanED dertook the treatment of mental dis eases. Any remedy, the favorable working of which can be foreseen and understood is a novelty, and of inesti mable value. Prof. Wagner's discov ery, in short, amounts to this, that fe ver is the remedy provided by nature for many and the most common forms of insanity. He and a colleague have satisfied themselves that insanity may be cured by fever produced artificially. The professor made public his theory and investigations at a meeting recent ly of the Society of Physicians of Vi enna. The principal object of his ad dress, ho said, was to make them ac quainted with certain experiments he had made in his clinic at Graz. He had been studying for six or seven years with the object of making fever useful in these cases. The discovery of Koch's tuberculine appeared to supply him with the means he has lacked for producing artificially the results of bac terial illness, or fever, without causing the patient to undergo the danger of the illness itself. In the winter of 1S90-91. in the Psychiatric Clinic, at Graz. he made experiments with tuberculine on the insane. In several cases he had ob tained favorable results, and in two cases rapid and complete recovery took place. It was to be remembered, how ever, that the clinic at Graz received only cases of mental affection, in which the prognosis was favorable, and re covery might not have been due to his treatment, but have merely coincided with it Later experiments have shown him that the improvement of the insane through treatment by tuberculine was in most cases very gradual. Months passed before the results could be as- certained. On this account he had . given the experiments up, in the hope ; of renewing them at some future time under more favorable conditions. Dr. Boeck. meanwhile, had resumed the professor's experiments in this di rection at Graz. He had chosen for treatment cases in which the mental disease was not complicated, but was of more than a year's standing, and in which there was little prospect of re- covery. By repeated injections of tu t berculine Dr. Boeck produced succes sive attacks of fever, the temprature not exceeding 39 centigrade. Beginning with one milligram the dose had to be continually increased to produce a fever reaction. Three cases treated in this way were completely cured, while others showed so great an improvement that there could be no doubt of their ultimate re covery. In the cases of the three cured, an improvement in the mental condition showed itself after the first fever reac tion. So wonderful was the change that the sister of a patient, who visited her the Jav after the first injection, came to the doctors and asked what they had done to her sister to make her sensible j all at once. The first injection, how I ever, was always temporary in its ef j fects. After each new injection there I was a further improvement, but re- lapses often occurred. In two of these I cases the insanity was of three years' and in the third of two years' duration. ! The patients treated increased in weight, and on recovery had a ruddy complexion. The harmlessness of the injections was demonstrated. It was not proved that tuberculine was the best substance for injection. The working of erysipelas, typhusand other fevers on the insane had been better established than that of tuber culine. Dr. Boeck had begun further experiments on the insane with steril ized cultures of the pyocyaneus bac illus. In another part of his address Prof. "Wagner gave a history of many cases bearing out his theory, and of obser vations of other physicians on the sub jecL As early as 1SSG, he said, he had de clared at the Psychiatric Union that not infrequently through an acute fe ver, occurring in the course of a men tal affection, the patient was so favor ably influenced that a complete cure followed. In other cases there resulted not a complete cure, but a great Im provement, which often was lasting. Such cures and improvements were ob served after typhus abdominalis and exanthematicus, intermittent and re current fever, after acute exanthemus, after erysipelas, after diphtheritis, after articular rheumatism, after phlegmon ous inflammations, etc He had then collected 200 of these cases from medical literature in order to investigate the subject as thoroughly as possible. From these it appeared that sometimes an acute fever influ enced the progress of a mentally dis eased person favorably, at other times not. It was evident that the age of the affected person was of importance. The younger the patient the greater was the possibility that his mental condition would be improved by a fever. The du ration of the mental affection was of still greater importance. The insane who had fever in the first six months after the development of the mental malady were cured almost without ex ception, even in cases where most un favorable prognoses had been given. But even in cases of insanity ot greater duration the chances were not entirely against recovery. In rare cases after insanity of two to five years' duration the patient was cured or showed per manent improvement. The fact that insanity might be cured through febrile illness appeared at first, sight inexplicable to him. But it lost some of its marvellous character when he found that he was dealing with no isolated cases. Not insanity alone was favorably af fected by febrile illness. The same w thing happened in other diseases, al though the cases showing this were few and scattered; Fever was especially liable to aid in the cure of chronic dis eases of the nervous system. It ap- peared that in many cases epilepsy was cured by an intercurrent intermittent fever. Observations on that matter were of remote antiquity, for Hippoc rates said: "Quartana epilepside vin dex." He himself knew a case where epilepsy of years' standing ceased after an attack of malaria. Prof. Schindelka had informed him that tetanus of the horse had in several cases disappeared after an intercurrent influenza. He would also recall to his hearers that the late Prof. Thaulliner had re- luieu, m an uuureaa, uiat . -i- . ( gressive atrophy of the optic nerve of J vears' duration had been cured by an attack of small-pox. An experience ot u own w, u a of disease of the nervous system was also in point. There came to the Graz , nerve clinic in 1892 a nineteen-year-old boy with symptoms of progressive dy strophia musculorum (loss of power in the muscles). xVfter seventeen days spent in the clinic he contracted ab dominal typhus which, after a course of nearly four weeks, passed into the afebrile stage. During the convales cence he and his colleagues observed to their astonishment that the distur bances of the motor power and the atrophy of the muscles from which the patient was suffering when he came, were gradually disappearing. Two months after the cure of his typhus the patient left the hospital, entirely free from symptoms of dystrophy of the muscles. ALLUVIAL COLD. Prolilrm tliat Hun ConfroiitiMl Australian Mint' Owners. Before the Royal Society of tint New South- Wales, a member recently pre sented a summary of the various rea sons which have been put forth to ac count for the existence of alluvial gold other than the old and accepted one, that it had been set free by processed of disintegration. Details are also given of a large number of experiments made with a view to determine whether a nucleus of gold, immersed in a gold solution and in the presence of such substances as would be likely to occur in nature, will increase in weight, the conclusion being that gold is deposited when the nucleus is in contact not only with metaliferous sulphides and arsen ides which form strong galvanic couples, but also with such substances as iron oxides, charcoal, graphite, sand stone, granite, quartz, clay, and mar ble, which form but weak galvanic couples with the gold nucleus. It Is ! pistols. Shots perforated and splinter doubtful, he thinks, whether the com- , ed the door all about him, but he stood mon assertion as to the greater fine- j there firing until his pistols were emp- ness of nugget as compared with coarse vein gold has any foundation in fact; with fine alluvial gold there is such a difference, but this is thought to result from the removal of silver and other impurities by solution, owing to the larger relative surfaces exposed. Furthermore, the author assumes that large nuggets could be artificially pro duced by methods used in his own ex periments, and that gold is probably being so deposited at the present day EIGHT SAVED BY A DOG. A nig Newfoundland Swa... out t a sinking ship. - Some vears ago a vessel was driven on the beach of Lydd, in Kent. England, The sea was rolling furiously. Eight poor fellows were crying for help; but a boat could not be got off. through the storm, to their assistance, and they -0 in ntnni- nnHi fnr nnv moment rhP shin was in dancer of sinking At length a gentleman came along the beach accompanied by his Newfound land dog. He directed the animal's at tention to the vessel and put a short stick in his mouth. The intelligent and courageous dog at once understood his meaning, sprang into the sea and fought his way through the angry waves toward the vessel. He could not. however, get close enough to deliver that with which he was charged; but the crew understood what was meant, and they made fast a rope to another piece of wood and threw it toward him. The noble animal at once dropped his own piece of wood and immediately seized that which had been thrown to him. and then, with a degree of strength, and determination scarcely credible for ae was again and again lost under the waves he dragged it through the surge and delivered it to his master. A line of communication was thus formed with the vessel and every man on board was rescued. LITERARY LIGHTS. Swinburne is 5S years old. Is five feet hish. and has a ghastly face and a head of unkempt hair. Aubrey Beardsley. it Is said, has writ ten a play In which the characters are to assume, as far as possible, the forms and features of his drawings. Walter Besant won't write a line un der the settled rate of 10 guineas ($32.50) per thousand words, and none of the publishers has struck against it. According to the Bookman the best sentence in Ibsen's new play is this: "Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad." The pleasant discovery has just been made at Galashiels. Scotland, of over a hundred letters written by Sir Wal ter Scott to Mr. Craig, the banker. The letters were discovered in a box filled with archives of the old Leith bank. A reproduction in a lasting material of the brain of the late Prof. Von Helm holtz has been made by Dr. Berliner of Berlin. The physicians who examined the brain considered it one of the most remarkable they had ever seen or heard of. George du Maurier and Alma Tadema were students together at Antwerp, and in those days resembled each other so closely that they were hardly distin guishable apart until Du Maurier lost the sight of an eye and began to wear blue spectacles. Mrs. Marie Robinson-Wright, the Mexican traveler and writer, received the highest price ever paid for a news paper article $20,000 in gold, paid to her by the Mexican government for an Il lustrated article on Mexico in the New York World. The personal appearance of Jean Richepin. who is described as the most versatile genius in all France since the death of Victor Hugo, must impress the stranger who meets him for the first time. He is pictured as a tall, burly man. handsome It. a brutal style, with a low brow, a thick neck, dilated nos trils and a general air of athletic calm. BULLETS FLEW FAST. BLOODY NIGHT NSWTON. IN EARLY How Gaatbler RUey Awtmgtui the Death of a Friend Jilae Cowboys Laid to Rest am a Result of the Gambler's Bfariuaaaaahto. N THE way of prompt and deadly shooting nothing in all the red' calendar of homicide in the- far west beats the record of the gambler Riley, at Newton, Kas., made one night in "1871.'' said C. B. , T JUI recent. Atnhisnn railroad had been ; ,,rinir tha vear and a flourishing town had grown up round the terminus to which the Texas cattle drives that had been going to Abilene now came. With the gamblers, cow boys and railroad men that thronged the streets it was a very lively sort of town, where dance halls and gambling places were in full blast, and pistol shooting often was heard by day and night. It was at that time that Boot Cemetery got its start, and its list of occupants who had met violent death numbered thirty before the town got quieted down. "On the night in question the Texas cattle drives were in for shipment, and the cowbovs were celebrating. Some of the Texans had a grudge against the ofiicers of the town, and so they came in that night prepared for trouble, and they set about making it straightway. They killed the city marshal, the dep uty marshal, and another man early in the evening. Later they poured Into Pinkham's dance hall to the number of twenty-five or thirty. The three men already killed were not enough to sat isfy them and they wanted more. Upon a bench at the side of the room a man was sitting with a girl on his knee. One of the cowboys walked up to him. slapped him on the shoulder and said: "Til teach you to hold my girl in your lap!' and shot him dead. "Riley was in the dance hall and the man just killed was a particular friend of his. Without a word Riley stepped back to the big double doors in the front of the saloon and closed them. Placing his back against the doors he drew a pair of revolvers and fell to shooting, one man against the crowd. Men tumbled left and right and shots rang out all over the room In response to the drum-roll cracking of Riley's tied. Behind the bar which ran along one side of the room he knew where the armory was ready for instant use. Leaping over the counter he caught up a revolver that lay on a shelf beneath and kept on with his firing. Before he had emptied the pistol that he found behind the bar, the men inside had forced the front doors open, those that could rushed out and Riley shot his last man in the middle of the street. When it came to counting up losses it was discovered there were thirteen dead men in the town due to that night'3 shooting, of whom nine cowboys had fallen to Riley's hand. How many I wounded ones rode or were carried ' away by their comrades to the cattle j could only be guessed at. "There was one curious incident of I this fight not generally known. Riley it was supposed was unhurt in the shooting. A doctor hastily summoned to the scene came to the side of a cow- boy who was dying. How is it doc?' asked the wounded man. 'Am I going to pull through? "The doctor shook his head. 'I am sorry, my poor fellow, but I cannot give you any hope.' " 'How about the man who shot me.' said the cowboy. '13 he dead?' " No;' answered the doctor. 'He was not even wounded.' " 'I know better than that,' said the cowboy. 'I know he was hit. I was right by the side of him when he shot me, and before I fell I fired and hit him under the arm. You examine him and you'll find that he's wounded there.' "When the doctor got round to Riley he examined him and sure enough found that he had received a flesh wound under his arm which in the ex citement of fighting he had not no ticed. Riley left the town after the inquest and didn't appear there again. No effort seems to have been made to arrest or bring him to trial for an act that was generally held to be justi fiable and praiseworthy. " 'I got a message some time after ward from Kansas City saying that Riley was there and asking if I wanted him.' said Major R. H. Spivey of the land department of the Atchison, .To peka and Santa Fe railroad who waa Mayor of Newton at the time ot the killing. 'I sent back word that they were perfectly welcome to keep him there. We had begun to build up a pop ulation in Newton and didn't need him.' " The Beat Signal-Light System. The best night signal lights are those invented by Lieut. Very, of our navy, and named, after him, Very's signals. They consist of a white, a red, and a green star, each fired into the air from a pistol, so that by firing one, two, or three of them in quick succession, and in different orders, with a pause be tween the groups, different letters or signal numbers can be made until a sentence is complete. They can be eas ily read from vessels twelve miles away. St. Nicholas. Water-Hyacinths Impeding- XaTfigatiaa. An assisted immigrant is making a lot of trouble in Louisiana. It is a plant, a water-hyacinth, which a man from New Orleans saw and admired ' about three years ago while on a visit to Columbia, says Harpers uazar. He brought some bulbs of it home with him and grew them in tubs in his front yard. In about two years patches of the flour appeared in Bayou St. John, which connects New Orleans with Lake Pontchartrain. In another year the bayou was full of it, so that navigation was impeded. Now all the canals near New Orleans are overrun and covered up of it at planting-time is returned to it. with this invading flower; great masses of it are floating in the lake; rivers running into the lake are choked with Ma l ifie v assf A fiym it, and It haa traveled a hundred mile to the westward of New Orleans. It grows enormously, spreads like rabbits in Australia, chokes all the bayous and streams it gets into, and is a tremen dous nuisance, the limitations of which are not In sight. In Columbia it is a harmless, flowering plant that grows In tubs, but in Louisiana the conditions suit it, and have developed it into the most flourishing and obstinate pest the state has known since she lost tho Louisiana Lottery. PLAYING FOR HIGH STAKES. A Chroalcler of the Gaaabllae t the Court of George XI Here Is a little picture of pastimes at the court of George IL and his queen. It is in a letter from Lady Bristol to her husband, under data of Jan. 7, 1729: "The miserable setting out which I had both in body and mind still continues its wretched course; my three days' journey- wa3 supported by as many doses of laudanum, the strength of which enabled me to go into court yes terday morning, where I was most gra ciously received and you were most kindly inquired after. I introduced Lady Hervey to the Prince of Wales, the most agreeable young man that it is possible to Imagine, without being the least handsome, his person little but very well made and genteel, a live liness in his eyes that is indescribable, and the most obliging address that can be conceived; but the crown of all his perfections is that just duty and regard he pays to the king and queen, with such a mixture of affection, as if oblig ing them with the greatest pleasures of his life, and they receive it with the utmost joy and satisfaction, and the father's fondness seems to equal the tenderness of the mother, so that I believe the world never produced a royal family so happy in one another: pray God long continue it. I thought to have told you of this and a great deal more by the coach, and set out this morning at 4 o'clock, therefore ex cused myself from all hazard at night to have the evening for that purpose: but as I sat in my chair I received a letter with a request from the Princess Amelia to come and receive 50 of her money for a share with me at all hazard, and that I must play; I thought it would not be civil to refuse her, be sides, the Inclination one can't but have to do whatever she desires; there fore, I sent to my old ally. Lord Godol phin, and the Duke of Grafton, who both offered their purses. We four lost 30 apiece, the king lost all of his, the queen part of hers, the prince lost 200, after having won double that sum, but the winning and losing was with an t equal good air, throwing at all; the Princess Royal won 464, the Duchess of Marlborough had lost 500 and rose a winner of 390. all of which she got j of the Duke of Grafton, who lost 300; the other three men I can t tell no par- ticulars of; they were the Duke of Norfolk. Lord William Manners and Lord Ashburnham; but I must return to the Duchess of Marlborough, whose spirits were beyond anything I ever saw for the whole time, tho' she was forced to be carried to the table in a chair, and fixed there, before the king and queen came; after this had com pany to sup, and sat up till between 3 and 4 thi3 morning." MISSING LINKS. There are twenty-five women run-, ning country papers in Kansas. The white house of the confederacy la now used for a colored schoolhouse. The lapidary who cut the famous dia mond Rose of Belgium is now worth $150,000. A man named Damet has just passed an examination in theology at Troy. Kan. The fiber of the coarsest wool 13 about the five hundreth part of an inch In diameter. At Frankllnvllle, N. T., a young wom an became a bride on what was sup posed to be her deathbed. She has Im proved steadily since the ceremony. The very finest of sheep's wool Is only one-fifteen hundreth part of an Inch In thickness. STUB ENDS. Frowning down a good cause i3 the modern way of stoning Stephen. The devil never expects to be hurt by the fellow who rides two horses. No one will ever shine In conversation who thinks of saying fine things. The man who is too nice to help In clean politics Is too nice for the world. A dead beat that is hatched from lazi ness is of few days and full of trouble. Some men will "bet you ten dollars" when they are at the end of their argu ment. Give the conceited man all the road; the more he spreads the less he de ceives. The man who becomes a successful hypocrite has to work at it every day In the week. There is no place like home, and that Is why so many men spend their even ings down town. Hate Is two points with poison tips one toward your enemy and the other toward yourself. Bill collectors pay little attention to the rules of etiquette, they never wait till a call Is returned. A good, frugal, sensible wife is the best savings bank a spendthrift can get. It Is a safe investment. SNORTS. Poverty never wears a large stomach. Want of good sense Is the worst of nnvprtv "--- -rf- - To ask a man to pay a bill Is as easily said as dun. A string tied to a sift is a great draw back to charity. Taking the cents of the meeting passing around the hat. The worst kind of writer's cramp is being cramped for funds. Lawyers are men who work with a wilL Doctors often put them in the way ot It. It is the experience of all conductors that strange things come to pass on railroads. The book agent frequently -has more brass than the man who travels for a hardware firm. A man generally leaves no stone un turned when he goes out in the fields looking for bait. "We expect other people to change their opinions, while we tenaciously cling to our own. When a man's mind is unsettled. It frequently happens that his bills are in J the same condition. When the peace of Europe Is rent will be a good time for somebody to put a patch on the seat of war. When a man attempts to warm his hands at a hotel register it is high time to inquire into his mental condition. "Will the coming man use both arms?" asks a scientist. Tes. if he can trust the girl to handle the reins. Texas Sif tings. AITEETHIBTYYEABS. THE BUCKEYE STATE CONTHIaU UTES TH13 STORY. w rd Taylor, of W .flsHaat lt JT. Y- T. I. TlaaUy wt , . TTat He V.. (From the Aahtafcala, Ohio, Beacon.) Mr. Fred Taylor waa born ana brought up near Elmlra. JT. T"., and fronl there enlisted In the lS9th regiment. IT. T.. JT. r . with which he went through the war; and saw much hard service. Owing to exposure and hardship during the ser vice. Mr. Taylor contracted chronic diarrhoea from which he haa suffered now over 30 years, with absolutely no help from physicians. By naturehe was a wonderfully vigorous man. Had he not been his disease and the experi ments of the doctor bad killed him long ago. Laudanum was the only thing which afforded him relief. He bad ter rible headaches, his nerves were shat tered, he could not sleep an hour a dajr on an average, and he was reduced to a skeleton. A year ao, he and his wife nought relief In a change of climate and removed to Geneva. Ohio; but the change In health came not Finally on the recommendation of F. J. Hoffner, the leading druggist of Geneva, who was cognizant of similar cases which Pink Pills had cured. Mr. Taylor was persuaded to try a box. "As a drown ing man grasps a straw so I took the pills," says Mr. Taylor, "but with no more hope of rescue. But after thirty years of suffering and fruitless search for relief I at last found It In Dr. Will lams' Pink Pills. The day after I took the first pills I commenced to feel better and when I had taken the first box I was In fact a new man." That was two months ago. Mr. Taylor has sines taken more of the pills and his progress Is ateady and he has the utmost con fidence In them. He has regained full control of his nerves and sleeps as well as In his youth. Color la coming bSek to his parched veins and he Is gaining fleah and atri-agth rapidly. He Is now able to do considerable outdoor work. As he concluded narrating his suffer ings, experience and cure to a Beacon reporter Mrs. Taylor said she wished to add her testimony In favor of Pink Pills. "To the pills alone is due the credit of raising Mr. Taylor from a helpless invalid to the man he la to-day." said Mrs. Taylor. Both Mr. and Mrs. Taylor can not find words to express the gratitude they feel or recom mend too highly Pink Pills to suffering humanity. Any Inquiries addressed to then; at Geneva, Ohio, regarding Mr. Taylor's case they will cheerfully an-awe- as they are anxious that the whole world shall know what Pink Pills have done for them. Dr. Williams Pink Pills contain all the elements necessary to give new life and richness to the blood and restore shattc-ed nerves. They aro for sale by all druggists, or may be had by mall from Dr. Williams' Medicine company. Schenectady, N". T.. for 50 cents per box. Qr six boxes for 32.50. T.onUon's Infernal Machine. A most interesting case is devoted entirely to infernal machines found In London. Some of them have simply been robbed of their explosives and nr in Tirmnnrance lust as thev were wnen jn the hands of the anarchists. A fevT having exploded are represented only by packages of torn and twisted fragments. The most ingenious of the former is made so that it I - J-ffi tTLlJZt J . . . Rwfj .- -xtemallv. merely w w - T . a tin can. The only reauy amusing thine; in the whole museum is in this car: It is a queer shaped affair with a cu."ving"neck, and was fonnd in front of the house of a very exalted person. Dismay was general, for it was taken for granted that it was a bomb. Subse quent investigation, however, devel oped the fact that it was a model for a baby's feeding bottle. BROAD TIRE WAGONS. There Is Xo Reason Why They SaoeJd 3Tot Be CTsetl Ererywhere. While the subject of good roads is be ing agitated in every part of the country those most interested In the subject ara doing their best to make bad roads still worse b using narrow tires on their wagons. Heavy Ioad3 are drawn over our mud roads on these narrow tired wagons and deep ruts cut Into them, that In wet weather make them almost, and sometimes entirely. Im passable. I have a sort of a pity fop a man who urges his team along a muddy road, all the time grumbling about the badness of It, when he might reduce the labor of his team from one third to one-half by using wide tires at very little additional cost to himself and to the great saving of team and temper. It is to be hoped that the first legislation looking to the Improvement of the roads of the country will be In the way of encouraging the use of wide tires, for one narrow-tired wagon will do more damage than a dozen with wide tires If the roads are at all soft. No one disputes the philosophy of wide tires, and no one seems to have any good reason to offer why they should not be used. Our farmers simply fol low precedent and go on using narrow tires because their fathers did before them. Lumbermen and freighters use wide tires almost universally and save money by doing so, but it seems that farmera do not care to economize In this direction. The condition of our roads costs us more than any other single item of waste In this country, and the common use of wide tires would reduce this waste of energy to a large extent. American Farmer and Farm News. Why Tlldea Xermr Married. Bigelow's Life of Samuel Tildcn: Til den never married only because he never felt the need of a wife. His health was always so uncertain; his mind from youth" upward was so con stantly absorbed with larga affairs, nublic and private, most of the time I with both; his temperament was so I purely nervous, and women were, so far as he could see, so unimportant to his success in any part of the enter 1 prises upon which his heart was set, Lilau uiiirriayu ucvui ucwuiv. .w -- j ject of leading interest, as it dees, for I :A Idier with rrrct. mon Tvrifcn- i U W11A4C ItOJfc, " wj- wU .. er they marry or not. In fact, he never knew any woman intimately enouga to fall completely under the influence of sexual charms. He seemed to have been betrothed in early life to hia country, and the Democratic party oc cupied with him the place of offspring until it was too late to think of having my other. In Effect May 13- Remember the new service on the Nickel Plate road goes into effect May 19th. Af ternoon train will leave Chicago at l :30 p. m.. arrive at Cleveland 11.30 p. m., Buffalo 6 o'clock a. m. Eveninc train will leave Chicago at 9.20 p. m.. arrive Cleveland 9:50 a. m., affording business men an excellent train service to those cities. Through trains between Chicago, New York and Boston without change. Superb dining cars. City ticket office, ILL Adams street. Talephone'main :S9. Thero is only one thin:? finer than the finest fUr and" that is fine penformance. Man has been born for two things think in? and acting. Billiard table, second-hand, for sale -rheap. Apply to or address. H. C. Asnr, 511 S. 12th St., Omaha, Neb. The largest gold coin In existence la said to be the gold Ingot, or "loof of An ham, a flat, round piece, worth about 1325, the value being written It in India, ink, THM OLD MELIAMLM Ccluffibus - State - Bwxk I YafffcgftAfJe nm t mAHmf t ram BUYS GOOD NOTES oracEss and dikectoiis: Leanteh Gkkxabd, Prea't, B. H. Hktbt, Vice Prest, M. Brugger, Cashier. JblCT SrACFFER. G- W. 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