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The republican electora of the Third congres sional district of Nebraska are requested to send delegate from their several counties to meet in convention in the city of Norfolk, Wednesday, April 22, 1896, at 8 o'clock p. m., for the purpose of selecting two delegates and two alternates to the republican national conven tion to be held in tlio city of St. Louis, Missouri, on Tnesday, June 16, 1E96, at 12 o'clock noon. The several counties are entitled to represen tation as follows, the apportionment being based upon the vote cast for the Hon. Geo. D. Meikle john. at the ISM election, being one delegate at large for Mich county and one delegate for each 90 votes and major fraction thereof, as follows: Antelope..... Boone Burt...... ... Cedar Coming Colfax Dakota Dixon Dodge Knox 11 12 """15 10 u 10 '.'.'.'.'.'.12 Madison Merrick Nance ......... sierco ..... .... ... Platte Stanton Thurston Wayne Total '. .18 .11 ,. 9 . 8 .12 . 7 . 5 .10 ..:... 203 It is recommended that no proxies be admit ted to the convention and that the delegates present be authorized to cast the entire vote of the delegation of the county which they repre sent. By order of the republican committee Third congressional district. C. C. McXisu, Chairman. Burt Mapes, Secretary. REPUBLICAN CITY TICKET. For Mayor, JOHN WIGGINS. lor Clerk, I). N. MINER. For Treasurer, FRANK WDRDEMAN. For Councilmen, First ward, H. T. SPOERRY. Second " E. H. JENKINS. Third " JAMES PEARSALL. Member of School Board, J. H. GALLEY. Coming Convention. State Republican, Omaha, Wednes day, April 15. National Republican, St.Louia, Tues day, June 1C. Democratic, Chicago, Tuesday July 7. Populist, StLouis,Wednesday, July 22. Free Silver, St. Louis, Wednesday, July 22. Prohibitionist, Pittsburg, Tuesday, May 20. Edison will shortly try the X rays on disease germs. Make no discrimination against any of the nation's natural products. bbbbbbs Coi Thomas P. Ochiltbee is serious ly ill at his home in New York City. "The demand for money is at all times equal to the demand for all other things." The only chickory factory in the state is at O'Neill, and it is said the fanners receive $10.50 a ton delivered at that place. Portions of the Indiana delegations are for McKinley, some uninstructed, and a few for Allison McKinley far in the lead. The republicans of Lincoln at their primary election voted their presidential preference as follows: McKinley 2,509, Mandereon 317, Allison 102, and a few others scattering. One of the new schemes afloat is to have postmasters add the latest weather forecast to the regular postmarks on letters. It will be introduced in New York, Chicago and other large cities July 1. "This nation, with its incomparable advantages, can lead all others is wealth, power, independence and continuous prosperity, if its own labor and capital are sufficiently encouraged and pro tected." At Lawrence, Kansas, the bite of a diphtheretic patient, a child, caused the death of Dr. B. J. Perrine. Another doctor who attended the sick child was also bitten and had to have a finger amputated. At Sioux City it is said the county commissioners have illegally plunged the county 9285,000 in debt in two years, and to have bankrupted most of the funds and illegally drawn large sums in excess of their salaries. The property loss was heavy in the track of a hurricane in Lincoln county, West Virginia, last Thursday night. Trees and fences were carried before the wind and a large store building torn from its foundation and totally wrecked. J. H. Ctjlveb of Milford, commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, de- partment ot Nebraska, is doing all he can for the good of the order in the state. He is taking a lively interest in every thing concerning the welfare of the old oldier boys. The World-Herald wants to know "Will Boss Hammond permit Willie Peebles to have a walkaway for the republican nomination in the Third dis trict?" Guess he's trying to let him out- wind himself. Boss is no spring chicken ! Fremont Herald (Dem.) Gbeat excitement prevailed in Creede last Wednesday, caused by Anton Frank sad O. H. Hyatt bringing in several rich samples of ore, containing large flakes of free moling gold. An assay showed 346 30-100 ounces, or $4926 in gold to the toa. No information has been ob tained as to the whereabouts of the claim ovt of which it was taken, but it is tboaght that it is within three miles of Creede. This district of Colorado has always been regarded as a putty silver lawifiet heretofore. The Next PresMeat. The Chicago Inter-Ocean has this to say of the man whom everybody is com ing to regard as the coming president: "There is no doubt that he is in touch with the republican rank and file, and that the mention of his name will open more mouths and raise more voices than that of any other man in America. Gov ernor McKinley is not only admirable as the champion ot protection, but a most loveable man in private life. Pure in nil his goings and comings, trne and strong in his friendships, generous and sympa thetic, he draws to him the best of all who come in contact with him. Iho storv of his devotion to his invalid wife, who, after all these years, is his sweet heart, has touched, in their tenderest places, hearts in every state of the nation. Blood is thicker than water, and affec tion more potent than intellect. McKin lev's splendid defense of right and de nunciation of wrong have made hira the favorite at the hustings, but it is these manifestations of the heart that have made him king about the hearthstones of the country." Sevebaii members of congress inter ested in the Sioux City and Pacific rail road appeared before the house com mittee on Pacific roads and gave their views upon the proposition recently made by Mr. Coombs, a Sioux City banker, regarding that branch. Repre sentative Meiklejohn of Nebraska, Per kins of Iowa, and Fletcher and Townoof Minnesota were prepared to speak, and presented petitions from many towns askins for the construction of a road southwest from Sioux City to North Platte, which was contemplated in the original Pacific railroads acts. The ad vantage of such a line, as presented by Mr. Meiklejohn, is that it would connect three systems, the Northern, the Bur lington and Missouri and the Union Pacific main line, giving an outlet to farm products and the benefit of lake rates. It was the request of these men that the committee include provisions for the building of this branch in any general bill it may report, and for the purpose they ask that $4,000,000 be used from the sinking fund, established by Thurman and invested in the bonds of the Sioux City. Several questions were asked upon the right of congress to divert the sinking fund to such a purpose, but Mr. Meiklejohn contended that the sinking fund was already invested in railroad bonds which would bring $15,- 000,000 if sold in the New York market, and that the proposition was merely to invest $4,000,000 in Sioux City bonds. Senator Aixen has received permis sion of the Indian committee, of which he is a member, to report with amend ment his bill to restore to the Santee Sioux of Nebraska and Flandreau Sioux of North Dakota all rights, privileges and benefits enjoyed by them and their ancestors under treaties of 1837 and 1851, which were abrogated by tho act of Feb ruary, 1863. Should this bill become a law. it will give in tho neighborhood of $1,000,000 to these people, tho only ones whose acts in tho Minnesota massacre have not been condoned. There are 3S installments duo these two branches of a famous tribe, which has played a great part in western history. The amend ment proposed is designed to quiet title of all lands that were taken away from them, and gives them i5 cents an acre for their lands in lieu of the original grant. Senator Allen stated that this bill would in nowise affect the interests ot settlers, who will be protected in their rights. EditouCaspek of tho Butler County Press, seems to have pretty nearly a3 much confidence in tho republican party (to which he is not an adherent) as ho has in the ability of tho entire body of the people for self-government. Speak ing of the primary system of nomina tions. He closes an article by saying: "Success killed tho democratic party. Unless conditions change, success will either destroy .the republican organiza tion or destroy a government of tho people, by tho people, and for tho people.' " One of the troubles is that tho people don't get roused often enough, or at the right time, and often not in the right way, and when they do get roused some body gets badly hurt. It is best to look out before tho catastrophe comes, and avoid it, if possible. And now the stock shippers of Dodge county are clamoring for reduced trans portation rates to the Omaha market, says the Bee, failing to secure which they propose to drive cattle to this mar ket. To the average citizen who knows nothing of scientific rate making it would seem that railroad managers can not afford to let this movement of stock shippers gain much headway in this section. Once demonstrated that cattle can be profitably driven fifty or a hun dred miles to market the railroads will lose an immense revenue. The policy of charging more than the traffic will bear has never yet been justified, nor can it ever be. When it can be shown that a business man can get rich by selling his goods at a loss, it may be demonstrated that the working man is benefitted by a fall in the price of the thing which his labor produces. So says the National Bimetal list. With this it should bo remembered that we buy money the same as we buy anything else, and that when money is increasing in value as compared with every other purchasable thing, the vol ume supplied by the money-making power is too limited, or the opportunities are limited for rightfully obtaining that which can be exchanged for money. If the postal system was a private monopoly tho wealthy and powerful would have franking privileges send their mail free while the people would pay two to five times as much postage as they do now, in which case it would bo advisable for the government, indeed it wonld be the duty of all the people to assume the work of carrying their own mail, at rates equally fair to all classes, and thus put an end to an unjust monop oly. And this should be true of all monopolies. Pakty machinists need not think for a moment that the single gold standard is fixed upon this country for good and all. Justice must be done by all our products, gold and silver, copper and iron, wool pnd cotton, wheat and corn, cattle and hogs, so on clear along through. We don't ask Europe to allow us to eat corn meal, nor should we be dictated to by them in our monetary afsirs. I Baled corn stover will replace hay just as soon as the feeders learn its value. It will take time to have city feeders learn this, bec-iuse country feed ers still continue to grovr the hay while they waste the fodder. The silo is not teaching the lesson of tho value of stover as the shock is, the inference from the one is not as direct as from the other. Other people are, however gradually learning to use the stover and turn the hay to other uses. Same one asks "What will we do with our hay land?" We suggest turning them -into pasture to give the animals grass as many days in the year as there is no snow on the ground. Exchange. Now here is something for the "tem perance" people to consider a sugges tion for practical line of work. There is a bill liefore congrecs to prohibit the government from issuing liquor permits on prohibition territory. It provides that the government termite shall only bo granted after a local license is obtain ed. This principlo recognizes home rule. The Rt. Hok. James Bbvce, M. P., author of that most popular and suc cessful work "The American Common wealth," has written an article for the April Forum entitled "Two South Afri can Constitutions' an elaborate analy sis of the systems of government in the two South African Republics the Transvaal and tho Orango Free State. The Sunday B..'d devotes a page to women lawyers or Nebraska. They are: Ada Bittenbender, Winona Sawyer, Mrs. Zara Wilson and Nellie Richardson of Lincoln; Mrs. Fuunie O'Liuu, Chadron; Elileda Wright, Scotia; Alice Miniek, Beatrice; Kate Hall. Ord; Mae Wood, Omaha; Vesta Gray, Fremont. The convention auditorium at St. Louis is to" cost $50,000. Tho work begins this week. Silk banners and heavy draperies will adorn tho walls. The ornamentation around tho hall will be very elaborate, consisting of bronze eagles, miniature lion heads and similar figures. THE OLD FREE TRADE CRY. It Worts Exactly the Opposite Iu Prac tice to Democratic Premised Theories. "Give us free "wool" for the United States used to be the cry of The Even ing Post of New York, and "the shoddy mills would shut up v.:ih much cursiug and execration of fe traders." The Herald's cry was that "shoddy is not exactly the thing to protect Americans against western blizzards: " Wo get frco wool. :.!id in one single year of free wool inti-orted nearly ten times as much shoddy us wo did in all the four McKinley years put together. This didn't make our shoddy mills "shut up, "though it is doubtful wheth er they can earn an honest competence when we consider tho class of goods that is coming here fiein the shoddy ceuters of England. The Manchester (England) Guardian, an old, conserva tive aud trustworthy paper, described them as follows : "How far local firms aro justified iu producing a showy, but half worthless cloth that will bo sold to the American retail buyers farmers, artisans and the like is another matter. The possibility eveu a very few years ago of manufac turing a cloth at Is. 6d. per yard was scouted, but today there are makers to bo found able to produce good looking masses of the poorest shoddy kept iu form by low cotton warp, at from la. 3d. per yaid." This is the effect cf free wool. It is the practical result of a great Democratic free raw material theory. It is a condi tion that confronts us. British manu facturers are sending us "a showy, but half worthless cloth that will be sold to the American retail buyers farmers, artisans aud the like. " This is a heavy grade of stuff, intended for overcoats, aud it costs but SO cents a yard, double width. This is tho fctuff that has closed our woolen mills aud will also mako our shoddy mills "shut up." This 13 the "good, honest English" stuff that is to clothe our "farmers, artisans and the like," though it is "uot exactly the thing to protect Americana against west ern blizzards." But it is tho result of the tariff that every Democratic paper in the couutry wanted aud worked for. A SUGAR TRUST PROPHECY. Tho Party That Disturbed Prosperity Has Come to Grief. John E. Searles, Jr., secretary of the American Sugar Refineries company, said: "I do not think any party would dare to do anything that would materi ally disturb the prosperity of the coun try. The country is too great to allow tho upsetting of any of its industries, and tho party that attempted it would joaio to grief." New York Sun, Nov. 11, 1892. Whilo Mr. Searles did not fathom tho depth of degradation of the Democratic party, to whose campaign funds in New York state the Sugar trust contributed liberally, yet he was a true prophet. The party that did attempt to "disturb the prosperity of the country" has 'come to grief." The Free Trade Liar. This amount which England annual ly purchases from us varies 9 little from year to year, but it averages 500, 000,000 annually. New York Herald. But in 1894 it was only $395,149,525, and in 1895 only f389.789.254. A free trade lie involving a little more than $100,000,000 a year is nothing to a Democratic editor, , m tetfisBM: aWiSIJ3 aBBBHLaHaBLaKxILamliV V BBBSSSSr 'BBBBBBBBBBB k(l J ABBBBBW VBBBBBBBBbV bVBBBW LmW WON'T LIE STfiAIGHT EDITOR AND HIS CARPETS ARE IN THE SAME PREDICAMENT. Tree Weol Increases Oar Imparts of Brit ish Carpets Selllas; Zjesa Carpets la Mar ket of the World Hard Use of the Hired Free Trade liar. McKinley newspapers toll their read ers that the imports cf carpets have been largely incrciKed under the present tar iff. This is not true. Compare hut year's total of $1,801,405 with the total of $1. 580,814 in 1893, under the McKinley tariff. Why, the annual average for the first three years of that tariff was $1, 413,211, or more thau last year's total. How McKinlayism has encouraged the industry of lying ! Now York Times. The freo trade Ananias of the New York Times is getting all tangled up with his carpets aud tacks. The facta won't indorse his theories. He twists and turns his figures, but still his car- pet lies won't keep down. His frco trailo tacks won't .stand against good, .strong protcctiou points. The r-tatistical ab stract issued by tho treasury department gives tho quantities aud values of our imports of carpets during tho four Mc Kinley tarift years as follows: imj'okts ok rAin-irrei. Tear ending Juno IA). Hiniaro ards. 1831 KB.CWS lw..i ........................... ' " . lbC... .................. .oout, lIxHt ........................... .! Iw Valuo. 1.2S3.K7 1,5ASU Protection a?orr.?o. 13S3 .arr.TTs Ji,2y9,;ixj Free trado increase 275,7ft) $12S,8M The 1895 figures aio for tho calendar year, this boiug tho only completo 12 months under free trade in wool. Wo leave our readers to imagine in what di rection "the iuduitiycf lying" has been encouraged. Again we quoto : "But a very large part of tho imports classed as carpets is composed of eastern handmade rugs. The value of real ma chine made carpets brought into this country is small." We suppose that tho "eastern hand made rugs," made possibly by labor that is oven cheaper thau the miserably paid British help, do not take the place of Americau carpets, that people buy both when they need ouly one, placing the rugs on top of tho carpets, or per haps feed them to moths in the attic. No matter where tho rugs or carpetH come from, each cue of them takes the place of an Americau product. Now let us see how "small" is the proportion of machine made carpets. Last year the United Kingdom rent us 550,267 square yards out of a total of 873,558 square yards of carpets import ed, over (50 per cent of tho whole. Other Europeau couulries sent us 245,090 square j'ards, leaving only 7500 square yards sent here from Japan aud other countries iu the orient and elsewhere. As for our exports of carpets they were 75,000 squuro yards less under free wool in 1895 thau in 1894. There used to bo some display of skill and artifice iu the mendacious methods of tha New York Times, but we are sorry to note that it has now degenerat ed into nothing better thau a blunder ing, don't care u hang, every day sort of liar, so that a ready reference to tho official Democratic statistics promptly exposes tho fraud. But we suppose it must lie for a living. DEMAND OF RAILROAD MEN. Protection Creates Prosperity For the ItnadH and Their Employee. Wo prefer u protective tariff, provided, however, that such a tariff is made to apply en all such products of tho United State? as aro marketed in tho United States iu competition with liko imported products. Onr Nevada products are prin sipaUy mineral iu character, aud we know by ample experience that wo car ried u greater tonnage of same, aud at a greater reveuue, under the higher pro tective tariff provided for by tho tc call ed McKinley act than under the reduced tariff of tho succeeding so called Wilson act. Theso products consist principally of silver, lead, borax, soda and wooi. Under tho lower and prevailing tariff we have had reduced tonnage, freight rates, wages, with many moro unem ployed men. But the protection uiuit be general wo of tho west supporting a tariff for tho protectiou of tho products of the manufacturing aud agricultural states, upon the ethical idea that the greatest geod to tho greatest uumber wonld result thereby, and you of the cast upon tho same grounds supporting a tariff for the protectiou of our mineral products. Tho wishes and judgment of the peoplo of each section as to the amount of protectiou necessary for their respective products to prevail iu legisla tion to accomplish the object sought for. Wo believe that protectiou and bi metallism should be associated ; that the silver bullion product of tho United States should be protected from the ex isting free importations of the article from Mexico and other cheap labor countries, such legislation to be supple mented by legislation providing for the free coinage of silver aud for the with drawal from circulaticu of all paper money aud all gold coins of a denomi nation under 10, in order to maintain and greatly increase the use of silver as money. We believe, further, that such legislation in favor of silver would tend to advance its market value in the gold standard countries and bring about within a few years an international agreement to promote bimetallism. D. A. Bender, 6. F. and P. A. Virginia and Truckee R. R. Co., Caroonand Colorado R. R. Co. Carson, Nev. THAT TARIFF FOR EUROPE. A Title Well Earned by a Distribution Abroad of S3 13,040,005. Among its many and fitting cogno mens the Wilson bill has often been de scribed as the Democratic tariff for Eu rope. No title has been more justly earned or deserved. All of the Europeau countries together, including the United Kingdom, bought from the United States $66,367,330 lees of goods aud sold $136, 436,159 more of their goods during tho first Wilson bill year, 1895, than in the last McKinley year. This made an en tire gift of $202,803,4S9 to Europe by the Democratic administration aud con gress out of the total gifts of $213,946, 965 to all countries, leaving but little more than $11,100,000 to be divided among all sections of the globe outside of Europe. Briefly summarizing the ef- SsBBtHbbTbTs'v 'BBTBBTBBTBBBTf sBBaBB9sasBjr $bbbbbbbbbbbb1 i4i Fancier yyjfj feet of a complete year's Deaocratio 'tar iff history, as compared with the last year of the McKinley protective tariff, we have the following: DEMOCIUTIC VBXK OUT DlHTBlsHlTlOB, To all countries ISlStMMB To Europe ScJMMM To John Bull 11B,7UM New York Commercial Advertiser. Capttal The large amounts of capital for merly employed in manuf acturiBg aad other industries are seeking invest ments, and holders thereof find no leld so inviting as that of loans to the na tional government on its bonds. The failure of the present tariff to provide sufficient revenue for current expenses of the government affords the oppor tunity, and this condition of things can be remedied only by a return to a tariff system that will protect American in dustries from foreign competition and also provide sufficient revenue for the governmental expenses. Under such a system capital will no longer seek bonds at low rate for investment, but will find ample demand and larger re turns in the manufacturing and in do mestic trade. Senator McBride. Orteatal Cosspetitloa. There is competition on this Pacific coast from China and Japan in rice and matches. We import direct rice, rice flour, matting, bric-a-brac, tea and eggs. Those are the only things at present Eggs come here in lime water. Rice is not so dear, but is sold for 1 cent less than American rice, and 1,000,000 pounds were entered at this port in 1895. Japanese matches are retailed here 12 hunches for 5 cents. Japan at present is furnishing this market with rice, silk, teas, eggs, matting, spirits, rice flour, bric-a-brac and matches. J. P. Clark. Astoria, Or. ' " A LESSON TO LABOR. Free Trade Kaperieace la Wool Applies to All Other Iadustries. Every American wage earner, wheth er a worker iu a woolen mill or not, is directly intoiested iu the results of last year's experieuce with free trade in wool. Precisely the samo effect would follow in other industries if the tariff on the manufactured articlo were placed on as low an ad valorem ua&ia as it has been iu thecasoof wooleu goods, flenco it is the earnest duty of every wage earner to study the following statement of onr imports of foreign woolens dur ing the four years of McKinley protec tion to wool and the one year of free trade in that raw material: IMPOKTS Or WOOLEN 3IANITFACTCRE3. JXSUl. ., UWAj!! X3 ul Wid) lW XOJUm 4X maIO aMAJ XOaFW XUfOaUf wlsJ Protection average &&. .. 29.f.5J.&3 ... C0.251.34l Free trade increase $30,599,813 Loss to labor 15,299,U7 Last year the Democratic gift of free raw material to woolen manufactures mote than doubled our imports of for eign woolen goods as compared with tho average value of similar imports during the four years of McKinley protection. The exact increase was $30,599,813. If we take one-half of this amount as tho value of the labor employed in making such goods, then the loss to American labor employed in our woolen mills was $16,300,000 in a siugle year of free trade iu the raw material of ouly one industry. But the loss to our wago earners has been more than this, aud for several reasons. In tho first place the imports of last year's woolen goods, so called, very largely cousisted of the cheapest quality of stuffs, in which rags, lanugo and shoddy formed the bulk of the com ponent parts. Hence the increase In value does not fairly represent the in creased quantity of goods imported, whiciiavas greater than the value indi cates. Another reason is that when tho purchaser of these cheap goods begins to complain of their bad wearing quali ties, he is informed that they are American goods, and that he had better buy foreign clothing hereafter. This tends to check a subsequent demand for the produce of our own mills, and thus it checks their output and again the de mand for American labor. As the value of labor is so much less in Europe than here, a better grade of goods than we imported so largely in 1895 could undersell American goods of similar quality if existing tariff condi tions were continued. As the value of labor in most American industries repre sents more than half the cost of the fin ished article, the estimated loss to labor is greater than we have stated in the case of lost year's woolen imports. La bor in every industry would be affected, in precisely the same ratio as labor in the woolen mills, if the tariff in all in dustries were ou tho basis of the woolen schedulo of the Wilson bill. Hence it is tho duty of labor to reflect, not only upon its actual position of today, but upon the possibilities of its future con ditions, should the free raw material craze be, by any possibility, extended to every other American industry. Labor has had its lesson. Labor knows the remedy to vote, at every opportunity, against every candidate for congress who favors free trade. Anxiety at Chemalta. The hosiery buyer for oue of the largest houses in this country certainly the largest in the west has been in Chem nitz for four weeks past eating bis head off, as they say in racing parlance. He is ready and willing to place a big order for woolen hosiery, but the emergency tariff measure now in the senate stands in the way. And no wonder. If the tar iff is raised, goods now costing $4.50 a dozen would be $5.50 a dozen, and so on. Tho house has said to its buyer: "If the bill goes through, we will place the order with domebtic mills here. If it is killed, the Chemnitz manufacturers get the business. " To all of which the buyer murmurs complacently, "Amen. " The question now arises, How long is he go lug to stay there?. Lowell (Mass.) Mail. Seaator SIcBride'a Poiat. The re-establishment of the Repub lican protective tariff system will large ly increase the balance of international trade in 'favor of the United States, thereby to a great extent preventing the exportation of gold and making prac ticable an enlarged use of silver in our domestic exchanges, without disturbing confidence in the maintenance of the equality of values of all the dollars is sued by the government, whether of gold, silver or paper. United States Senator George W. McBride. FTpeae Their Sebense. The multiplying signs that free silver is going to cut through both parties and make itself the controlling issue in the next presidential election will give gen eral satisfaction they certainly will to the friends of sound money. New York Post. The recent strife in the United States senate has been playing directly into the hands of the Cobden club and its Amer ican ally, the Tariff Reform club of New York, which has been flooding the country with tariff literature under a currency cover, many Republicans and protectionists having contributed to the campaign funds. The whole movement I has been jKdeljr imMfrltiih interests. 1 TAKE TO WASHING. WHY THE CHINESE LIKE THAT BUSI NESS IN THIS COUNTRY. the thousands of in this city few. besides the store and restaurant keepers on Race street, fallow any other calling than that of laundry van. Consequently many Americans believe that the majority of China's millions are lanndrymen, who, when not squirting water through their teeth npoo shirts and linen, spend their time eating rats and puppies or indulging in the questionable enjoyments of the "flower boats." The truth is that the Celestial Kingdom's 450.000,000 of tea drinkers do a smaller percentage of washing than any other largo country. What little washable clothing they wear is cleansed in the paddy fields near the wearer's home, and only the Europeans and richer class of natives require the assistance of a washman. That important item of expense, the wash bill, is reduced to a miuiraum in China, where tho European's clothing is eagerly sought by young and old male natives, who are glad to do np in first class order white shirts, whito waist coats or anything at all for 75 cents per hundred. This will partly explain why onr Chinese residents prefer to do our laundry work to waiting on onr tables or sweating on a farm, as the money re ceived for ironing and finishing a single whito shirt will support him two days in his native country. Another reason is that when at work behind his ironing board, breathing the close air of his lit tle shop, he appreciates tho one hundred and one conveniences that he could not afford in China. Tubs, hot water, self actiug soaps aud washboards havo not yet been introduced iu his native homo and have never been thought of by the poor beggars doiug up bhirts at three quarters of a cent apiece. There they stand on the lowfahores of a paddy field, ankle deep in the mud and ooze, and after soaking the clothes slap them against tho smooth stones put there for this purpose uutil tho dirt becomes loosened aud can be rubbed out with the hands. Within the limits of tho American settlement of tho treaty port of Shang hai are several ponds filled with from two to four feet of rainwater. In sum mer these ponds aro used by the wash men aud for irrigating neighboring paddy and rice fields, while in wiuter the ice accumulating is carefully pre served. The Chinese themselves do not use ice for any purpose, the most refreshing drink to thorn in the hot spells being boiling hot tea without milk or sugar. Since the advent of the foreigner tho Chinaman has fouud that it pays to pre serve the scanty ice of Shanghai during the short winters. The icehouses sur rounding the ponds are low structures formed of wood, mud and thick layers of salt hay, with the floors raised slight ly above tho level of the water. Adhering to his general rule of doing everything directly opposite to us "bar barians," John Chinaman does not be lieve in allowing the ice to form three or more inches, hut as soon as a thin skin ha3 formed he breaks it up aud pushes it all through the narrow open ings of the storehouses. The breaking of this thin ice makes it necessary for the poor natives to wade up to the hips in the water of the ponds and with rakes and hooks manage the ice so that it can reach the storehouses. But to return to the workmeu, who must work aud live in winter as well as in summer. Not having hot water boilers and other luxuries, he must re sort to the dirty ponds no matter how cold the weather. The ice, broken in the center of the pond, is allowed to get quite thick along the edges, making it necessary very often for the washman to cut through it before be can immerse his washing. The stiffened linen is then slammed up against the smooth stone, which soon turns into a small mound of ice as layer after layer of water is thrown upon it. The native keeps his feet incased iu a covering of old cloth ing, rags and hay, while around his body are wrapped one or more blankets. As he goes through his cheerless as well as soapless operation he is gradually covered by the ice, which forms as soon as the water reaches his clothing. Tak ing into consideration all the trouble, hardship and inconvenience the laundry man in the Flowery Kingdom is com pelled to endure while rendering white the foreign devil's linon, he does it much better than his more fortunate brother in this country, who returns our laundry in such a caieless and independ ent fashion, and who receives, after de ducting rent and all expenses, oight times more pay iu return. Philadelphia Times. T&e Keasoa. Tot tie (aged 7) I wonder why babies b always born in the night time. Lottie (aged 8, a little wiser) Don't you know? It's C03 they wants to make quite sure of flndin their mothers at home. Philadelphia American. tigbbors. Albion Argus: It is strange; Albion has no saloons and still any day you can observe some fellow hauling along a comfortable jag. But then, they have saloons at St. Edward and Petersburg, and we had nearly forgotten that. Ulysses Dispatch: Ed. Richardson has made a nest out of his stiff hat and placed it close by the hard coal burner for four little hairless timber squirrels that he captured iu the woods a few days ago. The squirrel crop has started early which is another sign of a big corn crop. Fremont Herald: A train of three emigrant wagons passed through Fre mont yesterday returning to Nebraska, after the parties had made an unsuccess ful pilgrimage to the south. T. F. Mark talked with these same people as they went through here several months ago. He saw them again yesterday, and they had changed their tune materially. They now state that Nebraska is all right after all and will once more go to farming here. They are headed towards the northern part of tho state. David City Banner: Our school "dad" in Dist. No. 52 a few weeks ago had a pugilistic round with one of the boys and he came out first best. He being so elated over his pugilistic action he thought he would try one of the other boys, but by the time he got through he found .himself out of doors on his back and the lads astride of him. The boys asked him if he was ready to behave himself and his reply was in the affirma tive. David City Press: Col. Fred Jndevine of Savannah township was in the city Tuesday. It is suspected that the col onel ia looking up his chances of warm- b CaJaar-WaabJac i laaCwca reads aad aaaaac Oat tfca Dart WMa Maaas Vac Taty Saaall Fay. Anoag H imm m tktthnSMBtnf vsasMasasiatrwM . -- z , next winter. The colonel set to be a little nervoa about the aon-partieau silver moveeaent in this connty and cyn ically remarked that it ia a pop move taeat, apparently forgetting that the nee of silver as money ante dates the popu list aaovement by a number ot centuries. North Bead Argus: A train of eleven ears of cattle left North Bead for Chica go Tseaday afternoon. Seven cars were loaded by the Bay State farm, two by Thos. Killeen and two by Thos. Gaugh en. Among Mr. Gaughen's cattle wero eleven head that averaged 1746 pounds, one of the eleven tipping the beam at 210a The shipment by Mr. Ganghan was as fine a bnnch of cattle as has ever been shiDtwd from this station. In the evening of Tnesday, H. Tehrs shipped ono car of cattle, and T. B. Pnrcell one car of hogs, to South Omaha. Schuyler Herald: Hammond Bros. are putting down a tubular well for Mar tin Havican of Colfax precinct. When they had reached a depth of about 100 feet they struck a bed of rock and havo drilled 40 feet into the eame, and expect to have to go considerable further. About one year ago they put down a well for John Ryan who lives on the same section. When down 110 feet they struck rock and had to drill through 175 feet of it, but in the end they made John a good well with a never ending supply of water. Mr. Havican has dug four wells in the past two years only to have them go dry after having been used for a short time. He now proposes to havo a well that will last and has taken the right way to get one. Bring Yoar Friradx to Nebraska. The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R. R. publish a sixteen-page monthly illustrated newspaper called tho ''Corn Belt," which gives in an interesting way information about western farm lands, particularly those in Nebraska. The regular subscription price is twenty-five cents per year, but if you want it sent to any of your friends living e:ist of tho Mississippi River, send ten cents in stamps for each such person, giving name and full address and tho p::per will be sent for one year. The B. .v. M. li. R. Agent will show you a sample copy of the paper on request. Help your State and induce your friends to immigrate. Address the Corn Belt, 200 Adams Street, Chicago, 111. ISmchS Kins Solomon's Notion That Thero is nothing now under tho sun" does not always convey the truth. Especially is this true as regards the new composite cars now operated daily via The Chicago, Union Pacific anil Northwestern Lino between Salt Lake City and Chicago. These handsome Buffet Smoking and Library Cars aro entirely new through out, of latest design, contain all modern improvements, and are well supplied with writing material, the leading daily papers, illustrated periodicals, maga zines, etc. The fact that these cars run dailv via "Tho Overland Limited" and that the Union Pacific was the line west of Chicago to inaugurate this service should commend itself to all. See that your tickets read via "The Overland Route." justness glottic. Atlwii;n!,iU nmter thin ht"ul ti?e cents a linecii'h insertion. WM.SCIIILTZ makes boot an J shoes in the lieet 6tieu, and nees only tho very UMt stock t tint can da procured in the market. 52-tf COLUMBUS MARKETS. C2Ou 1 (UotM ions of t he market t aroulit hi g1 Tuesday afternoon, nnd aro correct and reliiibi at thetime. GKMX.ETO. Wheat ro Shelled Corn i. Oats 13 Kye 21 Flour in 509 lb. lots $ 4 MG8 10 PUObCCK. Bntter il'l Eks S Potatoes SOti.10 LIVE STOCK. Fathoms 3 COG:! 40 Fat cows $2 (032 0 tf &X HtCviB IIU d nil Feelers si 50S2 75 W OOSLKY & STIHES. ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Southwest corner Eleventh anil North Streets. ltjnly-y CoLiJMBns, NrnnsK. LEGAL NOTICE. SEALED BIDS are asked for a poor farm. Said poor farm to contain not less than 1 acres nor more than 3i0 acres. All of said farm must be in one compact body and bo not more than five mile from a railroad station in tho county. All bids shall be filed with the connty clerk on or bofore tho first day of Jnly. 1SJW. Each and every bidder shall file with hi bid a certified check for $100.00 payable to tho connty board for the faithful performance of his agree ment, which sum shall be forfeited to the connty if he refuses or neglects to make good his bid, if the board decides to accept the same. The Imard reserves the right to reject any and all bids. The connty agrees to iy cash for any bid which the board accepts. ,- , E. POHL. A.mcli2t County Clerk. LEGAL NOTICE. To all whom it may concern: The board of supervisors in rwrnlar pension February 20th, 165. declared the following sec tion line opened as a public road, viz: Commencing at southeast corner of Section 12, in Township 19 north, of Ranee 2 west. Platte connty. Nebraska, and running thence due west on section line one mile, and terminating at the southwest corner of Section 12. in Township IU north, of Range 2 west, of the Sixth principal VTi . .. " "B nown ana uesignateti a the "Schure" road. Now all objections thereto or claims for damages caused thereby, must be filed 'in the county clerk's office, Monday, April -20th. 1698, or snch road may be established without fur ther reference thereto. Dated, Columbus, Nebraska, March 11th, 189t5. f a . .. - POHL. 18mch-4t Connty Clerk. NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT. In estateof John D. Dicke. deceased. In county court, Platte county, Nebraska. To the creditors, heirs, legatees, and others in terested it the estate of John D. Dicke. Take notice, that Frank Koch has filed in the county court a report of his doings an guardian oitne minor children of said deceased, and it is ordered that the same stand for hearing the tu aay oi April, a. it. law, before the court at the hour of 1 o clock p. m., at which time any person interested may appear and except to and contest the same, Aad notice of this proceeding is ordered given in The Columbia JocaxAL. a legal newspaper of general circulation in said connty. Witness my hand and the seal of the county court at Columbus, this 17th day of March, A. D. 1KW. ., . . J- - KiLiAjr, 18mch2t County Judge. PROBATE NOTICE. The State of Nebraska. I County of Platte, " In the eoaaty court, in and for said county. In the matter of the estate of Charles K. (5 rip deceased, late of said contty. At a session of the county court for said connty, holden at the county judge's office in Columbus, m said county on the 13th day "of March, A. D. 18l present. J. N. Kilian. county judge. On reading and filing the fluly verified petition of Amanda Andersen praying that let ters of special administration be issued to willard Baker on the estate of said decedent. Thereupon, it is ordered that the 3d ilay of April, A. D. 18W. at 1 o'clock, p. m., bo assigned for the hearing of said petition at the connty judge's office in said connty. And it ia further ordered, that due legal notice be given of the pendency and hearing of said petition by publication in TheColvmbcs Jour nal for three consecutive tveeks. (A troe copy of the o;der.j J. N. Kilian, Dated Cohuabas, Neb.. Mar. l llw? iftqctft PROBATE WOTICE. Sots or Nbbbaska. Pttt mHfllr Ia Uesaatyconrt,ia and for said coaatar. ia tbaawtterot the estate of Lawreaee faUtlBsv deceased, lata of said coaatx. At a awsioa of taa eoaaty eaart far said eoaarjr.aoldea at taa eoaaty jadaVadfae to rtassML ia said eoaaty a taa ftk day af Marea,A7l. MM, prniat. J. W.KUiaa,eoaaHr iada. Ob readiaz aad taedalr aatkiom of Israel tilaek. ataxia that ef adadaiatratioa be isaaed 1 & to Mat oa tfca of said decedent. Tkereaaoa.it isordemd taartfee Sttkdayet March A. D. vm, at 1 o'clock, p. at., a assiajaad for the asanas; of said petitioa at the eoaaty lodge's oKee ia said eoaaty. Aad it is farther ordered, that dae le 1 aotica. be jcivea of the pendency aad aeariaa; of said petitioa by pabJicatioa ia Thc. Columbus Jouk X.U. for three consecutive weeks. (A true copy of the order.) J. N. KlUA!f, Coaaty Judge. Dated Colambas. Neb., Marca 8, 18S6. llmarS Chicago Inter Ocean and Columbus Journal, one year, in advance $1.75. tf Attention. Farmers ! I WILL SELL YOU A FENCE from 24 inch to H8 inch and close enough to stop rabbits. I can soil you a hog fenco, :! 1-inch, for 10 cts. per rod, and a 53-inch, 11-hnr, for general farm uue,' for Si cts., warrant.il to stop all domestic ani mals. All this fence is fully warranted by the PAGE WOVEK.WIKB FENCE CO., and pnt up by me. I will be at my office across the street east of Hughes lumber jard, just south of U. t track. Wfebtf C. S. EASTONv Agent. Eota.t3lloti.e5. 1Q32. THE First National Bant, COLUMBUS. NEB. Capital Stick Paid in $100,000.00 C??i:XS3 AKfl 8I3EST313: A. ANDEKSON. Pres't. J. If. OALLEY. Vice l'res't. O.T.ICOEN.Cashir. JACOB HKE1SEN. A. K. MILLEK. (i. ANDEKSON. 1. ANDEKSON. J. F. HEUNKV. COAL! GOAL! We keep on hand at all times a full stock of the best grades of Penn sylvania Anthracite Coal. Rock Springs and oth er soft Coals always on hand. Give us a call. C.A.Speice&Co. iHait tf M. C. CASS IN. -PKorniETon or tiie Omaha Meat Market Fresh and Salt Meats. Came and Fish in Season. SrHighest market Hides and Tallow. prices paid for THIRTEENTH ST., COLUMBUS, - - NEBRASKA. i'uprtf UNDERTAKING ! We Carry Coffins, Caskets and Metallic Caskets at as low prices as any one. DO EMBALMING HAVE TIIE BEST HEARSE IN TIIE COUNTRY. FRED. W. HERRttaiT"' Dr. CLARK'S INSTITUTE ron TIIE TUEATXEXT OF THE Drink Habit . Also Tobacco, Morphine and other Narcotic Habits. Wr-Privct treatment given if desired. COLUMBUS, - - NEBRASKA. I2lrlf W. A. McAllister. W. M. Cohnelidk eAZXISTOl at CORNELIUS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, colcjiduh, NEBRASKA Sljantf B. P. DUFFY. WM. O'BRIEN. jyjrrr o'srieh, LAWYERS. Special attention given to Criminal Law. Office: Corner Eleventh and North Sts. COLUMBUS. : NEBRASKA. JIMEMT REEDER. ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Office over Firt National Btak, COLUMBUS, JnCUUSKA, TT! I '! "? TT1"TTTT7fc BBBB-HBlPr JPHBBBBIBIBBBBBBBBJHBBrABBaaKagWf Sljantf V r I t i - .... i .y$f7frHMr ISC --2r; Blft. BstaassusmWm iKiracsCg ZSkyJkmAAjUi&JAM& iiS-t&i&ir&JL ""-