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1 -, 'TT a;" ..-csri'vw- s WP t v: r-rj ?i -- v.-v .. VW"1 t8 -. i-v: v - - .i r te r 1 . f - K VOLUME XXVI.-NUMBER 31. COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA. WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER. 13, 1895. WHOLE NUMBER 1,331. , (LJj Ckmte linmoit t ,H -V?& "' ; v IT .:. - I i V i . . . s. - -5-' f y. i't,i r & . ." 9- ri r THE SOFT BLACK EYES HAT a trivial thins will color - the whole of a man's life! How small an incident, compared to the large future he has mapped out for himself! may make or mar it! I learned 'all this. L and more', one sal- try May day in Mexico, five -years -ago. I had been sent to Mexico, as chief of a surveying corps, to establish' the boundaries of llie Santa Antia grant, which lay. along the Rio Clara just out ride the city of Chihauhua. It was a responsible position for a young man and I held my head high. . . It -was the day of La Fiesta de Guada- . lup'e. The saint himself had been dead, I understood, several hundred years, but in Mexico that doesn't make any difference; the longer folks arc- dead there, the more they seem to be thought of, and the bigger a birthday party they have. Almost every other week con- . .tains the "feast day" of some dead saint ' or saintess, and trade and commerce .are suspended to do the occasion jus- , lice. The natives of Mexico are the most perennially pious people on earth. Why, I have known them men in my .employ to be eo enthused" over the posUmmous birthday of some long dead saint that they would get up in tlc gray dawn to go about celebrating it. This morning the morning of Guadalupe's feast day the whole force I of peons under me had struck. No Chinamen , no flagmen, no axtnen, were left. me. Only, Sims and Bailey, my two American assistants, stayed be hind. "When I began abusing them for the customs of Mexico, they said while they did not care even remotely for the saint -to whom it was dedicated, still , they were glad it was a holiday, and they thought they would go up-stream and fish awhile. They were only in different laymen, without any religious feeling. When T was left alone in camp, I AS WE TALKED spent a short time on my lield-notes, when it came over me that I was wast ing the day. Just outside the chaparral the river was laughing and murmuring in the open. It seemed to ask me to waik beside it. The adobe huts along its bank were tenantless;. their inmates had gone to the feast. But, strange sight, there at the end ' of the river where the waters were the "merriest, was a solitary worker, and whatever it was she was doing, she ' was doing it with a vim. A dark-eyed. dark-haired, dark-shawled daughter of Spain she seemed to be. and yet she was working and working hard on a "feast day!" A fit -of curiosity seized me to know what she was doing, and why she was doing it. I approached her with the question on my lips; at what did she- work, and por-kay? (I spell it "as I -said it.) Softly she raised a pair of melting, orbs., and sweetly 'and elo- qiiently she answered me. From -her -reply, in the-most musical language in "tSe world, I gathered that she would ' be at the feast, but that she must cleanse the soiled linen that lay around her on the sand, for the owner of it, a .gentlemen who was staying at the United States hotel, wanted it by noon. and td-morrow would not do (she said "this plaintively). If it were not done by noon, she -finished most pathetically, she" would get no dinero, and that she needed in the superlative degree. Dinero! Ah, the .most potent thing in - Mexico to-saints days is money!' . As her red "lips told me. this, her great black eyes wandered from the soiled clothes at her feet to the spires of the cathedral. in the' distance and the" waving foliage of the plaza where 'the feasting and merry making were going on. There was a look of sadness and longing in them as she -gazed. Be ing a tender-hearted man, I asked her if there was 'aught I could do fcr her. In" a wonderful mixture of Anglo Spanish, which .1 invented while in .Mexico, and which no one could ever . master but myself, I assured her I was at her j-ervicc if she. so desired, and f asked how I could assist her. The black eyes Hashed gratitude ere the scarlet month said, in silvery sweet tones:.-"Would I sit on a rock beside her and rub the shirts of the gentle man on a large rock with a very small rock?'. Looking back "now in the" light of maturer wisdom. I can see that I should have declined that job on the grounds that it was anaesthetic. But I didn'i. On the contrary, I accepted it effusively. There "was a touch of romance about it that appealed to me the day itself began to appeal to me for the first time. I began to 'feel some thing of the enthusiasm for feast days that-had taken my men out before day break. I would cot be so bard en them again. I thought. Truly it was a very pretty custom," and I began to sympa thize with it and to understand it bet ter. If San Guadalupe had not been' so long interred, in the gladness of my heart I would have seat him a bouqaet i All this I tried to condde to Lucia. It touched her; it sounded, she said, like stories she had read in the convent. Her name was a poem in itself, Lucia Eulalia Garcia y Valdez. And mine? After that poem it seemed common to say that I was plain "Jack Biggs." But she anticipated me; she pointed to one of my business cards that had escaped- my vest pocket when I threw it on the sand. "Meester Beegs, que no?" she lisped, and it did not sound at all badly from her lips. . It was-pleasant to know that she did not dislike my name; this was one way of saying, as everybody knows, that its owner was not disagreeable to her. As we talked, we washed; and long before noon the gentleman's shirts were all floating in the breeze from the low chaparral along the river bank. ' Lucia Eulalia glanced gratefully and alternately at the snowy linen and at me. . My natural thoughtfulness led me to suggest that we might as well do the family washing : while we were about it Her brother, Antonio, tho sheepherder, whom she had mentioned with sisterly affection tfid not his things have need of water? "There wa3 no time like the present," I said; "it might set in to-morrow and rain for months who knows?" Lucia Eulalia looked at the contract ing blue of the skies, and laughed at my weather prophesies, but she ran to her adobe dwelling a few rods away and brought from it a bundle of An-tonio's""things."-. They had apparently been waiting for me for years. His wardrobe ranged from dingier overalls. As I warmed up to the ambitious task of cleansing them, under Lucia Eula lla's approving smiles, all nature seemed to smile; the sun shone warm and warmer; the river ran -blue and bluer for Lucia had "blued" it. She had also "allowed" the root of a whole soap-tree to Antonio's garments. She was right in doing this, but, somehow, in my struggle with the sheep-herding stains of six months, I had distributed a good deal of lather oyer my person. When this unaccustomed fatigue began to show on me. Lucia Eulalia asked softly if I 'had tire." "Oh! no!" J was declaring, "I have no WE WASHED. tire," when some approaching Amer ican voices were heard. Lucia clapped her hands tragically, and, running to the chaparral, began hastily to gather the linen therefrom. I caught from her manner that the owner of the shirts had tired of waiting. and was coming for them. I had divined aright, but I had not divined far enough. As they emerged from the alameda to the west of the river, I could see they were a lady and gentleman. I had almost managed a look of industry and Inno cence, as they approached us. and raised my eyes to Impress them with it, when gracious saints! Guadalupe and great Jehosaphat! Was that Max well! The man I had robbed of the valedictory in '87 at Ann Arbor? True, I had no grudge against him on that account, but my dream of meeting him again and. "making It right" had not been like this. Maxwell it was, with his stylish brid;.' He threw me-a care less glance at first; then I began to dawn on him, slowly but surely. He quizzed Lucia in miserable Spanish, in a cowardly way, I thought "Quien es?" he said, indicating me. Smilingly, as if pleased so to honor me, Lucia presented me to Maxwell and his wife as "Mi amigo, Senor Beegs." I could feel that the blueing, and the soap root, and the river water were all mingling in one grand river of per spiration toward the collar of my negli gee shirt I could feel that all the con stellations .in the heavens and all the' mundane landscape around me were waltzing giddily- together. An intense longing for home and mother came over me that mere words cannot depict For one wild moment I thought I would rush into my old chum's arms and tell him "all," like the wronged hero in the last act I would say vehemently: "This is not me regular-business-I'm-a- civ.-engineer-at-twe-flfty - a - month - I'm-ohly-doing-this-for-fun," etc But while I was doing this how often are our .best intentions thwarted thus! Maxwell coughed. It was not a con sumptive cough. It was just a little grating 'sound .that contained more painful surprise, and pity, and regret that a volume of Browning could. That froze me as I-stood or sat Fixedly I gazed at the Sierra Madres over his head, as if trying to fathom the "lost" mines bidden there. Maxwell's watch ticked in the pain ful -silence. "Alice," he said, sternly,- "we must not miss that train." Out of my life they went, with the clothes I had washed for them, as sud denly as they came in. I strained my ears to hear them say; "Poor fellow! To seme to that rather bright at col lege, but this country seems to rob a fellow of ambition " Maxwell. I knew, .was never a secretive man; they are going east, and. well Lacla Eulalia gathered up the extra coins he had thrown for me, and said. softly: "Have yousad, seaor?" "Yes,1 I said. "I have aadaess. also stckness; I would go back to camp at once." As I drew on my spattered coat and vest over tired arms, I said, most earn estly: ""Lucia Eulalia Garcia y Valde. I sh?B never forget this day of th fiesta of San Guadalupe." Nor have" L DELICIOUS REED BIRDS. Oaly PUUddpfcteM Kaaw H.w te Ceek aad Eat Them. Philadelphia is the only city In the world where the reed bird can be found In a state of overrunning obesity, and the only place 'where it can be' cooked to. perfection. In New York the French cooks conceal Its delicate toothsome ness in rich dressing. There they know as little about reed birds as they do about terrapin, scrapple and pepper- pot. Recently there was given in this J city a dinner in which reed birds were served in thirteen different forms. Among the courses were soup made from reed birds, birds stuffed with blue point oysters, reed birds placed in side a hollow potato and roasted,-reed' birds stuffed with herb filling and baked, reed birds stewed with fresh mushrooms, reed birds split and broiled an abominable practice, by the way reed birds saute and a seeming pie, from which, when the crust was lifted, -two dozen reed birds flew forth and around the room. -But, after all, there is only one way to cook and eat the succulent reedies saute! Select birds which have .little clumps of yellow fat on both sides of' the part last over the fence. Place them in a saucepan or, better still, a chafling dish with plenty of the best butter, salt, black pepper and plentiful sprinkling of pap rika the sweet ungarian pepper which nowadays can be found in any first class grocery. They must not be split and their heads must 'not he' removed. Cook them for five to six minutes, ac cording to the size ofthe bird and the heat of the fire, but do not allow the yellow fat to become browned. Noth ing could be simpler, and yet, very few, cooks can prepare a reed bird without destroying its toothsomeness. There is an art also in the eating of his dain tiness, but it can only be applied to birds of the character and prepared in the manner described above. Wring off the head and sink your teeth into and absorb the brains. Then' hold the little darling aloft by the protruding bones of both legs, and, slipping him into a watering mouth.' crunch your way through his carcass until not a bit of him remains but the leg bones. Then cast your eyes above and .say grace. That's eating reed birds, that is. WON HIS CASE.. A Philadelphia Lawyer's Idea or Thilft and llow It Work.il. Over in Philadelphia dwelt a young law student who fell in love just as he was about to be admitted to practice, says the New York Journal. The girl's father also belonged to the profession and was ' reckoned pretty smart, as Philadelphia lawyers go. The old fel low gave a partial consent to the young man's pleadings, but concluded he would try the student and see if he was worthy to be his son-in-law. So he said : "The case of Blank against Blank has been on the calendar several years. It has been tried, appealed, decision re versed, tried again and comes up again for argument at the next general term. 1 am counsel for the plaintiff. I have had the case four years but now I turn it over to you. Here are the papers; see what you can do." The young man took the papers and went to work with a vim born of love for if he won the case should he not also win a bride? At last life seemed to him worth the living. He studied the case thoroughly.-. He consulted the authori ties and was loaded and primed for a brilliant argument when the court con vened. He made his plea and won the case without any trouble. With a heart overflowing with joy he returned to his prospective father-in-law and, slapping down the papers, he exclaimed: "See here, sir; the case is won! These are the proofs. What j'ou tried for years to do I have accomplished at a single term of court. Now, may I have your daughter?" The bid fellow looked up with a smile upon his face as be replied: "I think you are a fool and you can't have my daughter. But I will just give you a little gratuitous advice. It is true I had the case four years without win ning it, and it is also true that I made thousands of dollars out of it. But you have gone and settled it; and what have you made? About $50. No, sir, you can't have my daughter!" RAM'S HORNS. Faultless people have few friends. The bearer of good news always has a sweet voice. . One of the best helps toward heaven is a good mother. Wherever God's will is law, nothing but purity can exist . . Many a supposed giant has turned Ing. but God never has. Everything good lost in this world will be found in heaven. Let flowers bloom all the year round. Christ teaches, he is no longer our Lord. " Do right yourself, and you will help some other man to behave himself. The" poorest people in the world are those who try to keep all they get The devil fears no man's profession' when it is higher than his practice. Make home like heaven, and you will make the children want to go there. Every trial God permits us to have, is to teach us something new about Christ The man whose heart is set on things perishable, loses all when ...ey perish. - As soon as we begin to -have peace with God, we begin to have war with self. Prove that there is no devil, and every man in the world will be your friend. As long .as love has a drop' of blood left, it has something it is willing to give up. The better a man Is pleased with him-. self, the better the' devil is pleased with him. The devil will get a hard blow in the face, on the day women is given the ballot If fame people would think twice be fore they speak, they would keep still most of the time. There would be Bore revivals.' if I more of the arearfeiar pra 1n .. slaaera la the chnrch.-Ram's Hon. IS A 500,000,000-AIRE: EXTRAORDINARY RISE OP BAR NEY BARNATO. All EacUad Bajra lilt Stoekt Once" a Street Fakir aad Circus l'crfomvr, .He'Haa Made XUU.M la Seata Afri ca's Mlalaf Booaa, IS came is Barney Barney Barnato and he is one of the very richest money kings 'In the world. . Bar nato is the Kaffir bonanza king, and his fortune to-day is estimated at $500,000,000. That's the 'figure to-day; what it ma be next week no one can tel!, for Barnato is the central figure in the most gigantic and reckless spec ulation since the famous South Sea bub ble. This speculation has -plunged En glishmen and Frenchmen and Germans who have a dollar to risk into a fever ish -and unprecedented craze to buy and sell "Kaffirs.". On the London, Paris and German exchanges "Kaffirs" is the name of a confusing multiplicity of South. African mining stocks, the lively ups and downs of which have for the past few months been making and -unmaking fortunes. ' This' wild and Insane craze has led to the -upsetting of financial values in all American stocks, and has caused Wall street to hold its breath, as it were, pending the antici pated bursting of the Kaffir boom. Barney Barnato,' the man. who has really launched this unprecedented speculation, has himself made millions out of it, and when the crash comes, if come it must, it is believed that he will still be an enormously rich man. Most of his fortune is said to be on paper, but he .holds the upper hand in all the big deals and he is not the sort of man who has let the "dear public" in on the ground floor without making them pay nim'a profit. Of his origin.as little is known-as of the astonishing rise of the boom' he has created. It is believed that he was a London street Arab. He is still young not yet forty slightly over 5 feet in height, fat, squat and short-legged. ! His appearance is altogether ugly. All sorts of vague stories are told of .his career. - He is said to have been a bar ber, a -second-hand clothing dealer, a bagman, a broker's crk. a messen ger, a street faJor. a tumbler, eircus performer, contortionist and prestidigi tateur. He has dealt in South African diamonds, and about their spuriousness nasty stories are recited by his enemies who knew him in the mines. He left there when he was about eighteen years old. . Three years ego, penniless and un known, he appeared in London. Not long after there sprang up among spec ulators and investors' great interest in South African mining stocks. Com panies were formed to develop these mines, and European capitalists, ljig and little, were invited to take stock. It was easy to find money backings for i these enterprises. Africa was a name M m i 'm ' - .---.-. ''''iSmBmWB'J, '" HltlillMulKtomaaT 4r Kr h ' f hi wKmMK W' -- - " ' 1 1 1 I Inl I B laUaraHaaalw. J7 -i TaPamaamflK. iSft? . I w i tin 91 iWmi . 'lawSUr i ' -. iii tMIMKaVL it U - fifNBV' yarn. Mfflain : .'!.,;" iif,7J mSPWkrSaaPaMR'l '' aEsKBf'l a nUarBaaV4aHl!laaaaa 5 f s-." H H iAkHra9Sa9miW!9sia. &4&r W3H1 ritHHIIllI twmXGBm'' UTJf SKaiaaamiaSjmaaamtililliMUi WZW i1 LJ : ,JiH9aaPNaHrM f ' "i; iwmm- mm mmS0 ii mmm rJBmmm zmsmsriM IP' mmBK mmuBr :" :M 1 !!. lift? al in Ull. v SaaPVaVaaaamaT .JKa af .1 te conjure by. The Dark Continent was a mystery not unmixed with ro mance. Its resources were unlimlt able, its possibilities incalculable. New strikes of rich veins were reported. With each strike sprang up a company to work it. Kaffir stocks were in every man's mind. The English newspa pers helped on the widespread public interest by publishing long letters and despatches from the scene of activity. Conservative English papers inveighed against it. but tho people-gave no heed. Barney-Barnato got into the Kaffir swim. He plunged deep. His natural daring and cool effrontery stood him well. He won enormously. Then he branched out independently and drew about him his -own following. It' was another case of the lucky gambler lead ing the way for the unlucky. He or ganized companies to float "Kaffirs," There were Barnato "companies," Bar nato "groups."- Barnato "shares," but there were never any Barnato losses. He made money even more rapidly than the great bonanza kings of Cali fornia in the. palmiest days of the Ar gonauts. Shrewdly he made a conquest of Sir Edgar Vincent. Sir Edgar and Barney became financial bosom friends. Sir Edgar gave the plunger position, which he never had in 'spite of his fortune. Barnato bad been blackballed at the BARNEY BARNATO. London clubs. The rich turf set cut him, in spite of his heavy support of races and his fine string of horses. Sir Edgar made sure first of all that Barnato and his South' African enter prises were "safe." He went out to South Africa with Barney as Barney's guest, and was accompanied by his wife, the beautiful Lady Helen Duns combe, sister, of the Duchess of Lein ster. What Sir Edgar saw in Africa convinced him. He took Up Barnato, gave him financial and social prestige, not in London,-, but in Paris, -and by clever maneuvering secured for him the ear of the great Parisian financiers and boosted him -forward in Parisian society. Sir Edgar now shares with him the title of "King of the Kaffirs." Barnato's latest coup was the crea tion of the "Barnato Bank, Mining and Estate Corporation, Limited." It needed no prospectus; the mob. were only too eager to tumble over each other getting "oa the inside." By the mere stroke of a pen Barnato created an enormous capital-out of nothing.. The nominal capita! of this bank was 2,500,000. The shares were 1 each, and on the morning of the -issue there were 1,500 brokers, with orders to buy hundreds and in some cases' thousands, J vl rumea tt me iuarKeu i tie saares opened 'from 34 to 4 premium, and the capital of the bank is now valued at nearly 9,000,000! At the last set tlement, when there was talk about dif ficulty in carrying over stocks, Barnato announced that he would lend 10.000 000 on the stocks of companies in which he was interested. The trading in these shares devel oped one of the most startling scenes ever witnessed in the London market For a time there was an almost Inde scribable frenzy, and the shares were bid jp to more than four times 'their face value. They subsided later, but the confidence or the public is well at-' tested by the fact that they are still quoted at over three times their fact value. The blind faith of the English people in this modern Midas nnseta all theo ries of their national conservatism. It Is estimated that not less than $150.- 000 000 - has been subscribed, a larg part of It by small Investors, la the schemes and enterprises of the plausible Barney. He was and is to-day the speculative foe of Cecil Rhodes, and resembles the latter in the scope of his enterprises and nerve with which he backs them, Rhodes companies aad Barnato com panies are rivals for the favor of capl tal. wherever "Kaffirs" are quoted. AFTER EATING HASHEESH. Th. Peculiar Meatal Ceadltlea Which Caai. te Oa. aad All. During quite a good half hour I felt death; we make a deadhouse and call it nothing in anyway abnormal, but when civilization. Scarcely a single race caa the meal was drawing to Us close a bear the contact and the burden. And subtle warmth,, which came, as it were, then we talk. 'complacently about the in gusts to my head .and chest, seemed t mysterious decay of savages before to permeate my body with a singular ( white men." Of the modern Egyptian emotion, -says the Cornhlll Magazine. ' under the influence of Anglo-Saxon civ Later on the conversation around me ilization he says: "The Europeanlsed reached my understanding, charged Egyptian is in most cases the mere blot wlth droll significance.' The noise of t. ting paper of civilization. Ton a fork tapped against a glass struck my manufacture Idiots.- Some of the peas ears as a most harmonious vibration, antrv.are tauzht to read and write, and The' faces of my companions were trans- formed. The particular animal type, which, according to Lavater, is the basis of every human countenance, ap peared to me strikingly clear. My right hand neighbor became an eagle, he on my left grew into an owl. with full projecting eyes; immediately' in front of me the man was a Hon. while the doctor himself was metamorphosed Into a fox. But the most extraordinary circumstance was that I read, or seemed to read, their -thoughts and penetrate the depth of their intelligence as easily as one deciphers a page printed "in large type. Like an experienced phren ologist I could indicate accurately the nature of their sentiments; in this analysis I discovered affinities and con trasts which -would have escaped one in a normal state. Objects around me seemed little by little to clothe them selves in fantastic garb, the arabesques on the walls revealed themselves to me in rich rhymes of attractive poesy, sometimes melancholy but more gener ally rising to an exaggerated lyrism or to transcendent buffoonery. The porcelain vases, the bottles, the glasses sparkling on' the table all took the most ludicrous forms. At the same time I felt creeping all around the region 0f my heart a tickling pressure, to squeeze, out, as It were, with gentle force, a laugh which burst forth with noisy violence. My neighbors, too. seemed subjected to an identical in fluence, for I saw their faces -unfold like peonies victims of boisterous hilarity, holding their sides and rolling about from right to. left, their counte nances swollen -like Titans. ' My voice -seemed to have' gained. considerable strength, for wLen I spoke it was as if it were a discharge of .cannon, and long after I bad uttered a sentence I beard in my brain the reverberation, as it were, of distant thunder. Wagge Is it possible! No wonder he died! TId-Bits. THAT ADDRESS ON EGYHT. I , rt Frtri. MekU That Arab Cfcaaat ! "' Flinders-Petrle's paper beterc e British association on the electa modern civilization is one of the Meet remarkable contributions of our day te th literature of education. According I to h,m "every civilization is the grow- leg product of a very complex set of conditions," and "to attempt to alter such a system apart from its conditions is Impossible. No change is legitimate or beneficial to the real character ef a people except what flows from convic tion and the natural growth of the mind." To force upon other races a civilization "developed in a cold coun try, amid one or the hardest, least sym pathetic, and most self-denying aad calculating peoples of all the world, is the' result of this burden which their fathers bore not is that they .become An Egyptian who has had reading and Egyptian who has bad reading aad writing thrust upon him is. in every. case that I have met with, half-witted, silly, or incapable of taking care of himself. With the Copt this i3 quite different; his fathcr3 have been scribes for thousands of years. Observation of these people leads to the view that the average man cannot receive much more knowledge than his immediate ancestors. Our big oted belief in reading and writing is not in the least justified when wc look at the mass of mankind." Concluding, he said: "It is the business of anthro pology to step in and make a knowl edge of other civilizations a part of all decent education. The origin and util ity of the various customs and habits need to be pointed out, and in what way they are reasonable and needful to the well being of the community.' And, above all, we ought to Impress on every boy that this civilization in which he grows is only one of innumerable ex periments in life that have been tried: that It is by no means the only success ful one, or, perhaps, not the most suc cessful, that there has been, that there are many other solutions of the prob lems of community and culture which arc as good as- our own, and that no one solution will fit a different race, climate, or set of conditions. The books required for such reading should cover the life of Greece, Rome, Baby Ion, Egypt and Mexico In ancient times; and China, India, Persia, Russia, Spain, and one or two low civilizations, such ss the Andamans and the Zulus, in modern times. Neither histories nor travels are wanted for this purpose, but a selection of the literature which shall most illustrate the social life and frame of the community,- with full explana tions and illustrations. Where no literature is available a vivid study of the nature of the practical working of their civilization should take its place." Daft lp a Jar Container Old Cola. Thomas Moore, Jr., and two other workmen, while excavating for pipe connections at Market square in Ches ter, Pa., on Thursday morning, un earthed a small preserving jar con taining gold and silver Spanish coin estimated to be worth at least $150. Some of the coin bore the date of 1800 and other pieces a later date. Ah old market house erected in the last cen tury stood on the site where the money was found and it was torn down in 1857. It is thought the money was buried by one of the markctmen. Philadelphia Ledger. PEN POINTS. . All good men don't make good hus bands. What we know about yesterday doesn't seem to help us much with' to morrow. The. world contains many "tired women" who wouldn't rest if they had the opportunity. " - A woman won't lie for her own sake nearly so easily as she will for the sake of somebody else. Most sentiment is liable to mildew if not carefully looked after. Cupid shoots his arrow through a pocketbobk when he doesn't take aim. A woman can't be any more con stant than a man, but she can keep It up much longer. Cupid Is represented as a-child, be cause an 'adult Cupid would be chased out of the country for reckless shoot ing. HUMOROUS. ConductorDid I got your fare? Pas eng;r I guess so; I didn't sec you ring it up for the company. Roxbury Gazette. "Help! .Help!" cried the man who was being robbed. "Calm yourself," said the highwaman; I don!t need any. assistance." Town Topics. Johnny Papa, what doe3 it mean when they say a man is 'his own worst enemy?' Papa It generally means that he drinks like a fi3b. Puck. "He didn't have the sand to propose, did he, Bessie?" "Ves; but she rs- jected him. She said that while be ba'd toe sand to propose he aiun t have tne rocks to marry." Harper's Magazine. -Lawyer Have you formed any opin ion on this 'case? Juryman No, sir. "Do yon think after .the evidence on both sides is all in you would be able to form any opinion?" "No, sir." "You'i! do." New York Weekly. A moni after the elopement She I got a letter from papa to-day saying that he had made hi3 will. lie Do we come in anywhere?- She Not di rectly; but he has left ell his money to an asylum for idiots. Indianapolis Journal. Ada How can you be so insincere? You said you were sorry you were "out when he called. Ida No; I said I wa3 .iorry he called when I was out- Ada Well? Ida He Is likely to call some Ilea when I am in. New York Herald. '-'Do you think it hurts the poor oys ter to be put in the stew?" asked the kind-hearted girK; -"It seems cruel." "Yes," replied her escort; "it does'seem cruel. There's nothing more terrible, you know, than solitary confinement" Washington Star. i THE OLD RXXIABLB- CdumbiLS - Slate Bank J lty Herat a Tiie D9HS1 lata Las nbalEsttlt MOTDtimef Hww Tack as al IILIf t HUM HE? : TI0XXTI. BUYS GOOD NOTES omens ahd DiuECToaM Lxakde GmxARD, Pres't, B. H. HnxBT, Vice Preet, If. Bkugoxk, Cashier. Jonx STAcrrcR. Wm. Buqher. COLUMBUS, NEB.. BASAX ". AitiMrizti Oifital if - $500,000 Paid ii Capital, - 90,000 OFFICERS. O. SHELDON. Pres't IL P. 1!. OEI1LRICI1. Vice Pros. CLARK GRAY. Cafcbler. ' DANI EL 3CIIKAM. Aai't Cash DIKECTORS. IT. M. Wncstow. n. P. 1 1 . Ocat.aicit. C II. Shklpox, W. a. McAllister, Joxas Wklch, Cabi. UllUtKK. STOCKHOLDERS. 0. C. GBAT. 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