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c- jTl. rz-r-. i.wai H?- V 2&-Zj ri-vtL- X-J. a r. -Tj.-: wa -J .v- - -"" s,-. -'-" ' ji7C?VAX3i."..-'fc "t- s-i r-v'pf-u "t7- "ips ". Sfvi.Y w-r-. -re - jf t? " J OT - ZT 57 T-P ti , SgRK?eis3CS!l A.,. ; ?' ! na ; si-- SKSC J3? - ' .JSgSfe' 5r -?- -65iSS " X V- 5!Jii-- TC- V j r.7; .Iv- . TyL a SRft3EffP"ff?$ ' -3 -m aHs -51 J 7 VOLUME XXVII.-NUMBER 11. COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA. WEDNESDAY. JUNE 24, 1896. WHOLE NUMBER 1,363. Mraiigraw -. - -i .W- . ix. . T 32 vvsr 'S&r r'sm sr sT -'fs CLPlIsj VXB'V- B B MH B -n . B ) ! p v? ?:'B-LB' B B B B'B-B' "BB fl B. B T"1 " .-'- C-l- i .1 ii &.- JIGHT FOR A WIFE. T WAS WHILE on .a trip to tne Cheroltee strip that the writer was par ticularly struck I with the appear ance of a couple that were ia the same car. The man was an Americas, but there was some doubt as to the na tionality of his w ife. At Fort Smith the touplc left tho train, and I heard that 4he woman was a descendant of the no ted Chief Bushy head, and the husband an-cminent lawyer of the St. Louis bar. "A fin-de-siccie fiquawman," remark ed the doctor of our party. "You better corral 'at word, young felIerpu.ainltJikeIy to need, .it oa, this range," broke in a tall man with weatherbeatcn face and huge grey moustache, as he dropped into the next scat. "Adopted citizens' is what we air and what we rcckins bein called." Seeing my dismayed countenance he V.iist into .i Kood natiired I nigh, and ex claimed: "Don't you be skecry, missis, I ain't loogin full a light; 'sides I never pull my gun on ycarlin. But when I hcarn him usin' 'squaw-man" so kinder promiscus like, 1 jest dropped a poin ter, for't he ioi!c up 'ginst a cinren with a thiiiiiei hide'au inc." Our Ji. D. bravely smothered his re sentment at the term "ycarlin," and re sponded with good grace. Later on when our acquaintance dis covered that we had spent a week on old Frank Lyon's cattle ranch in Idaho, he fiimply overflowed with delight. "Why, Frank Lyons wuz the fust man I ever rode full! lie don't pritty mueh "but he's as square a man as ever lasso ed a steer. 'Course he wuz a squaw man; but. Lord, that uz 20 years ago, and there wuzn't nobody but Nez Pcr ccs closter an Lewiston." Later we learned that our new ac quaintance was Bill Ilalstrad, the mil lionaire cow-boy, and of high standing among the Chcrokees. We met him later and he insisted that our whole party visit him. We never had a more delightful time. His ranch was only three miles from town, and was a mag nificent strurturo. In the house we found his two children. . "This is her paw's honin' calfie," said Bill, stroking the little one's hair with a tender, awkward hand, "but Ches qua, over jander, genaluly plays her own ban.' Run along, honey, and tell Aunt LIdy to set the table on the side po.trch. She kin outplay me; I can't bluff her." "Why, one time." he continued, with a proud, half-worried glance after her, "when she wuz no mor'n five years old, she wuz cuttln' up didoes and her maw couldn't do nothin' with her. So I says to her very stem-like "If yo' uz to die tonight yo'd go to the bad place shore. The devil's down thar a puttin ail the wicked folks in a big lake uv fiah an' brimstone, an it's a blazln' up oer eni. an' him a pokin' "cm with his pitchfork, an' them a squlrmin' and siz zhn. Yo II he corry o' ain't bin a good firl whoji yo gits thar.' Do yo' rcH;on I sheered her? Xo, sirec, she jes kep' on her meanness, an" says she, cam as a. May niornin': 'Me say daddy debbil, me little debbil, too, lemme hep yo punch up the fia." We ain't never held no discourse on th" Old Harry sencc." fc9FH i .., I SjflK MkKCfPh7k. ' j-- -- r --- . 7.1 ABOUT THE CAMP-FIRE. .At this he arose and led the way to the . tapper table. ii v? at .-. barbecue on'' night that our millionaire acquaintance told us the story of his life. "Lots has been put in the papers . 'bout me "at ain't so," said Bill Hal- r,tead. "Some's told 'at I come from England, some taid way down in Ala- niiiah an blamed if one coot didn't "" Tow I v.uz a Yankee. They've called me . Cattle King' an' Cowboy million aire, saying I wuz a dead shot an' had laid out nigh a dozen men. Fact is, I was" born in old Missourah an I'm proud uv it. I'm a cow-boy all right, but I ain't no idyeah whut I'd be wuth if I wuz to round up complete. Cattle 'Cing's a name I don't cotton to. Oae thing shore, they ain't no dead men haunting me, fuh what shootin' I ever done (cept rustlers, an' they don't count) I done in clar self-defense. The . fust little onpleasantness I ever had was with Jim Stevens in Idaho, an if the blamed prarah dog's alive today, it ain't my fault. "At's why I left Lyons an' went over to Oregon sheep-herdin'. The wust days in my -whole life! Settin way up on the Blue Mountains. thouta soul but a deg anywheres, a-watchin them sheep a-browsin an a-browsin. Lord! got rc't I eoudn t think "bout nothing Lut o v still 'twuz an 'bout eternity, an" tiem stars an woi Ids a-goin' on an on, till I'd git skecry an' buggy in my head. Ef I wuz to call my dog I'd jump like as .if arunher man wuz talkin in my in sides. hsst oic dsy I got lost fum mp band, an' meandered around, silly like, all day. Towards night I seen a cabin down in a canyon an' broke fuh iL A bean-pot muz settin' on the ashes an I dived into iL 'At's cowboy and sheep herders rules take any feller's grub when jo're hongry. 'Bout time I'd cleaned out the pot, T cast up my eyes an seen my own coat hangin' on the wall! I wuz that dazea an tarnal fool ish 'at I'd been stealin my own beans. 'At let me out I shook my job when the packer cam round an" made a hee line fob Texas. "I wuz ridin" four year foh Colonel Benson. He uster rent range from old Chief Bushyhead and drive the cattle off in the dry mesquite up to the nation an get 'em rolin" fat We alters stayed over regular at Aateloye Wells, Jest af- .' ter we pase4 th divide, they wo the blandest lot ov springs yo ever scent squirtla up all round an' makitt' the rankest kind uv green feed. One time 'at we wuz thar, two Injum famblys camped "bout a mile past us at the Need les, three sharp rocks settin' on a little monad 'at humped up all uv a sudden on the prarah, and doggoned If they didn't look like they was needles a pint in' up outen a green plncushia. "Thar wax a mighty peart little squaw in the bunch, plckin' dewber ries alongside her grandmam an' pap. She wuz pritty as a speckled pup an' I took a notion to go over thar evenin's after round-up, and set round drinkln' connahany an' joshin' the little aatas ka. She'd be a beadia'-moccasins an' 'ud laff a heap at me talkin' Cherokee. I never meant a mite uv harm; reckon I done it more to devil a young buck 'at 'ud be hanging round an' scowlin' very ferocious. 4V. . - "Well, it wuz lowerin' an sultry the night afore we wuz to pull stakes, an the cattle 'uz contrary as mules. It wuz plumb dusk 'fore we got 'em bunched. They kep" on movin' constant and !W lowln. It was a quare sight to see them thousands uv horns tossin' an wavin'. I wuz clean tuckered out, an' some skeery-lookin' clouds wuz comln' up in the west, but I 'lowed to say adios to the matuska, an' throwed my saddle on a fresh hoss an' lit out. " 'Bout half way I hear a rustlin' in a little thicket uv pawpaws, an' some thin' jumped out sudden, makin' Dandy jump an' squat. 'Twas the squaw. " 'Go back,' eays she a pantin' like a lizard, 'go back. Heron Feather heap mad, kill you.' "Thar come a streak uv chain light nin, rippin' down the sky, an big drops uv rain spattered on her skecred face. She wuz in a turrible way. My dander flew right up. 'I reck on not.' says I. 'I 'lows to come in an call the red gentleman's hand.' "But she grabbed holt uv Dandy's bri dle an' swung to it, beggin' and cryin. It wuz thunderin' and lightnin', strom in' Hckety split, an' thar we stood pala verin' till all at once I beam a turritile roarin' a bcatin' an poundln", 'at wuzn't thunder an' rain. My horse rar cd an' snorted an' bust loose from the girl an stood tremblln. " 'My God!' I holowered, 'the cattle's stampeded!' I give one look back. Foh a minute it wuz light as day, an' I seen the whole herd comln' like a whirlwind an shakin' the earth. We couldn't git out'n their way, they wuz too clost. We'd got ter lead the stampede! "I reached down an' swung the squaw up behin' me. "'The Needles,' says she, tery low and calm, as she caught me roun' the middle. They wuz nigh half a mile off, but thar wuz a chance fuh us if Dandy kep the lead. I never throwed my leg over a gamer hoss. He tore over the groun' like a racer. "It wuz thunderin' and lightnin' like the judgment day, an' hailstones as big ns hPtis' eggs wuz peltin' our heads an' shoulders, an drove them wild steers so plumb crazy 'at they wuz tromplin' down the thickets like grass. 'Last the double load wuz too much for the pony an' he begin to slack up. His Miles wuz heavin' an' he wuz lungin' along in a heavy, uncertain gait He wuz play ed out. They kept gainin'; peared like we could feel their hot breath blowln' on us. We give up to die under them hoofs. The little squaw was game clar through an' never made a whimper, but a big lump come in my throat whrn I thought uv my poor old man in Mis sourah. "Jest then the lightnin' glared agin; we wuz right in the Injun camp, an' the Needles wuz loomin' up before us. I give one rousin yell, an' bearin my weight on his neck, jammed my spurs clean through my pony's hide. He give two or three long jumps an' staggered an fell as he got to the rocks. I grab bed the girl an' shoved her clar up onto the hill, then I wuz knocked over an didn't know nothin more. "When I come to. the stars nu: shinin' an' she was bath in' a gash in my head with water from the spring. Old Dandy lay thar dead, on' it ud been a close call fuh me. My ribs wuz stove in an' my right arm broken. If it had n't been fuh them strikin' the hoss fust and then the hill spllttin' 'cm into two bands I'd shorely passed in my checks. "'At settled IL Them rampagin' steers tromplcd the life out'n the old folks 'fore they knowed what wuz coin in', an' the poor little thing didn't have no one to swing to but me. "I fenced up all the range 'at my wife wuz lowed (a whole lot in them days), an' in a year or two I wuz drivin' my own steers up from the Brazos. "I'm 46 my next birthday, but I feel as limber an' sassy as a boy." conclud ed Bill, rising and stretching his good ly figure to its full height in the fire light. THE PRINCE OP MONACO. Proprietor of the Fmmnm Cumins Krsart Receive Prestilrnt Faare. Attention is called to that intereiilng nerson the prince of Monaco by the fact that the president of the French repub lic has just paid him a visit, says the New York Journal. Monaco is a prin cipality within the borders and under the domination of a republic, and its internal government is at the same time a despotism compared to which the prince has himself said that of the czar's is mild. His revenues from the gambling tables of Monte Carlo are very large. The principality is eight square miles in extent and includes the old and picturesque town of Mo naco and the wicked but beauti ful Monte Carlo. The prince leg islates with the aid of such ad viers as he chooses and a law goes into force by his decree only. The name of the royal family is Grimraldi and it hasreigncd for 900 years. The present prince. Albert, is 48. He mar ried first a sister of the duke of Hamil ton. Eleven years later he was divorced for reasons that are not publicly known, the pope consenting to annul the marriage, a very unusual proceed ing. The prince afterward married the widow of the due de Richelieu, who is also a kinswoman of the poet Heine. Ftherhed. To be a husband and father is the crowning glory of manhood. All other relations, positions, pursuits, offices and honors are mere incidents and by plays subordinate to this great end. Rev. Dr. Ckerington. 2s: A FLYING MACHINE. NO HUMBUG ABOUT fROK LANQLEY'S INVENTION. ra litnuty t th 8ltrMalaa la StttatlMi Mas teTat4. a '8tm-Piw yHwl, Wlc Aartft tkst Rm Alf Aj M-m4 Mm TmI. HE . problem of the flying machine has been solved. Those who read this article are reading of the ful filment of a world-old dream. Men have thought of flying since Daedalus spread his s. fabled wings 2,700 years ago. Perhaps be fore that. No man has as yet really flown, but on May 6 a machine did. With that ma chine men will fly, says a writer in the New York World. These are facts, and here is an accur ate picture of the machine, printed for the first time. At Occoquan, Va., not far from Wash ington, on the day above mentioned, Professor Samuel P. Iangley, of the Smithsonian institute, sent up the model of a flying machine drhen by a small steam engine. The machine rose 200 feet and flew steadily about half a mile. The fuel a't this point gave out and the machine gently sank to the ground. The engine was restocked and a second flight Was made as successfully as the first. Professor Alexander Graham Bell, the Inventor of the telephone, was a witness of these flights, and describes them over his own signature. There can be neither mistake nor deception about iL This simple statement comes to the World to-day much as the announce ment of Stephenson's locomotive came to the world three-quarters of a cen tury ago. Then as now it w?s impor PROP. sible to understand what changes the new invention was destined to bring about. But to-day we are on the thres hold of a more important application of science even than the steam locomo tive. Professor Langley's Using ma chine that will fly introduces a revolu tion in transportation more radical than that which any invention has wrought in the past, because at last land and water transportation is transferred to the frlctionless air. For the World Professor Bell has described Professor Langley's inven tion as follows: "Last Wednesday, May 6. 1 witnessed a very remarkable experiment with Professor Ianglcy's aerodrome on the Potomac river. Indeed, it seemed to me that the experiment was of such his torical importance that it should be made public. I should not feel at liber ty to give an account of all the details, but the main facts I have Professor Langley's consent for giving you, and they are as follows: "The aerodrome, or 'flying machine, in question was of steel, driven by a steam engine. It resembled an enor mous bird, soaring in the air with ex treme regularity in large curves, sweep ing steadily upward In a spiral path, the spirals with a diameter of perhaps 100 yards, until it reached a height of about 100 feet in the air, at the end of a course of about half a mile, when the steam gave out, the propellers which had moved it stopped, and then, to my further surprise, the whole, instead of tumbling down, settled as slowly and gracefully as it is possible for any bird to do, touching the water without any damage, and was immediately picked out and was ready to be tried again." The Hying machine carries a small steam engine of one-horse power. The whole contrivance weighs twenty-five pounds. Its light stcel'framework holds extended horizontally three sheets of thin canvas, one above the other. The length all over is fifteen feeL The en gine runs two propellers. The machine cculd fly 100 miles, or even a nuch grater distance with a sufficient supply of steam. But the small engine employed is not of the condensing pattern and has no means of using the same water over and over. Professor Langley will soon construct a flyer of large size, which will carry a proper mechanical equipment and be capable of extended flight. The one described is only a model for experi mental purposes. The inventor has not troubled himself to any extent about the question of a suitable engine, which could be furnished easily enough when L needed. The problem was to make a machine that would fly, and fly in the right way; this accomplished, there was no difficulty in supplying the power re quired for a long trip. In short the difficulties are greatly lessened by the enlargement of the ma chine. A flyer of this type eighty feet long would have a sufficient area of planes to sustain a powerful steam en gine and a car carrying a number of passengers. The steam may be obtain ed from liquid fuel or by burning gas bsbsbbTbbmibs3tbbbbbbbbs5bsm&,W tiSfL,393f-SXtfrFr'rrJmt S i'''w E?T'g.'Z-w - I "PS5S5?5S&S:V&S''. "0"?.-9Btx "A V x X- r--- '?ftffi3'i- rr--- ' " '"" - " -- .y. sCKVsl' rt3dsb t"""J tant has been compressed and leaded into cylindrical reservoirs of thin drawn steel tubing: Such a reservoir can be made to bold 100 times its cubi cal contents of gas, and thus th alf ship is able to 'ie on board a great quantity of fuel in a very small com pass. The four-horse power Copeland engine now on the market weighs only twenty-seven pounds and occupies a floor space of but ten inches square, its height being twenty-one inches. Professor Langley calls his jdacfkitlt an "aerodrome" or air runner. It trav els at the rate of eighteen miles an hour. The inventor regards it as an important point of advantage that it is able to go so slowly. This will be un derstood when it is explained that the sustaining power required by theair ship becomes less in proportion to the increase of its Bpeed. A man can skate over thin ice which would not bear hlnv If he -stood-still. The asterhe.goe the thinner the ice needed to hold him up. if he go fast enough he could run over the surface of a pond of water, The same principle applies to the aero drome in its progress through the at mosphere. If the aerodrome is able to sustain itself when flying only eighteen miles an hour, it can carry twice as much weight when going twice as fast. Until recently it has been imagined that the atmosphere was not dense enough for propellers to act upon it effectively. This belief is now exploded. Pro fessor Lahglcy's experiments have proved that it ifi ohly necessary to make the propellers revolve fast" enough in order to force the airship .'along at a rate almost indefinitely fast. Also, he has ciiscocrcd that the resistance offered by the air to the aerodrome is only one-fiftieth part of what was sup posed, implying that so much less mo tive power is needed. The speed at tained by the airship of this pattern will be 100 miles :m hour cr more if desired. Such an airship will be able to traverse space at a rate far exceed ing the llight of the fastest birds, -and LANGLEY'S FLYING MACHINE IN MOTION. (Drawn by the Inventor.) a journey across the continent will be accomplischcd in scarcely more than a few consecutne twinklings. The theory of the aerodrome is wholly diffeicnt from that of the bal loon. Unlike the latter, it does not aim to float by reason of being lighter than the air. Professor Langley's machine weighs about 1,000 times as much as the air which pupports it. It relies upon the air currents, as does a soaring bird. In fact, its principle is derived from the suggestions offered by birds of the vulture type. There is no better ex ample of soaring than the vulture, which, though a large and heavy ani mal, will remain for a whole day in the air without a single wing-beat, sim ply opposing its wings to the air cur tcnts and thus obtaining support from them. Most people have seen the magician Herrmann throw playing cards from the stage of a theater into the third and fourth galleries. This is an illus tration of the sustaining power afforded by the air to thin planes moving swift ly through it. The same principle ap plies to the aerodrome. Suppose that such an airship is on its way from New York to Chicago at a speed of fifty milci an hour, the day being perfectly calm. Of course this means a fifty-mile current of air in effect. It opposes the progress of the vessel very slightly, be cause the latter presents merely the edge of Its planes to the breeze. The captain at the helm inclines the planes upward a trifle at the front, so that the powerful air current i3 made to exercise its lifting power and keep the craft afloat But whichever way the current comes, the planes are governed accord ingly. The wing planes on either side are slanted slightly upward, so that any tendency to lilt will develop greater pressure in that direction and thus re store equilibrium. People commonly think of flight in the air as implying an ascent to great heightr, but for that there is no neces sity. All that is required for practical purposes is that the aerodrome shall travel at a level high enough to be clear cf houses and trees. The start must te made from a height. Not the best flyer among the scaring birds can make a start from the ground without much difficulty. The eagle takes a long run before it can rise, thus gathering mo mentum. The sky-searching condor of the Andes gets a start usually by drop ping from a lofty crag. An important part of the problem of human flight is the question of landing safely. People arc not going to travel in a vehicle that is apt to wind up its journey with a smash-up. Professor Langley believes he sees the way out of this trouble, but he guards his ideas on the subject very carefully. It may be that the aerodrome of the future for passenger traffic will be mod ified on the plan of a trolley for the sake of safety. Suppose a line of poles carry ing a crolley wire to be erected from New York to Chicago. The airship overhead would be connected with this wire below by two wires. The connect ing wires would travel along the trolley wlrt. By means of this arrangement the power for running the propeller fans could be furnished from dynamo stations at suitable intervals along the rente. Thus all necessity for carrying nil engine on the atrial vessel would be Obviated. The airship might fly at a height ef loo feet of so above the trolley. It would carry suspended beneath it a car fer passengers. Who can say that ten years hence we may not see such a line as .this running across the contin ent, with a continuous flight of aero dromes departing and arriving at 30 iHUte intervals? One important ad vantage of the trolley idea is that the wire would control the flying machine, and no steering would be necessary. Fifteen years ago a man who had the temerity to deliver a serious lecture on the prospects df navigating the air irould have ruined his professional rep "station by the indiscretion. Now the .much-dnrided "cranks" are having their innings. The foremost advocate of the practicability of aerial volitation. Pro fessor Octave Chanut, was not long ago elected president of the American So ciety of Engineers. This question is the last transportation problem remain ing for man to solve. When the first dread of the air has been conquered, when the horror of empty space has been mastered through habit, the human flyer, having successfully imi tated the birds, will doubtless be able to improve on their methods'. KlBfl-IIemrtail. judge So you claim to have entered the room at night without any malice? Why did you take off your shoes then? Burglar Because, your honor, 1 heard that there was A sick person in the house. Bolond Istok. Growth. Men and women are developed chil dren. We grow along the lines of a past evolution. We can make no leaps in growth, either physically, intellectu ally or morally. Rabbi Elkln, ADVANCE OF WOMEN. In 1890 there were in the United States 4,455 women doctors against 627 in 1S70. Three hundred and thirty-seven women dentists, against 24. Two hundred and forty women law yers against o. One thousand two hundred and thirty-five women preachers against 67. One hundred and eighty women land surveyors and engineers against none at all in 1870. Twenty-five women architects against one. Eleven thousand women sculptors and painters against 412. Three thousand women writers against 159. Eight hundred and eighty-eight wom en journalists against 35. Three thousand nine hundred end forty-nine actresses against 692. Thirty-four thousand five hundred and eighteen women musicians against 5,735 Twenty-one thousand one hundred and eighty-five shorthand writers against 7. Sixty-four thousand and forty-eight secretaries and clerks against 8,016. Twenty-seven thousand seven hun dred and twenty-seven women book keepers against none in 1870. GREATNESS FROM WEAKNESS. Newton, was so small and frail at birth that his life was despaired of. He lived, however, to be 85, which was also Voltaire's age. In some lands children who arc de formed arc destroyed at birth. If this practice was followed by civilized coun tries we should have missed some of cur great writers and noted men. Jean Jacques. Rousseau says: "I came into the world sick and infirm." Up to e age of 5 the life of De Thou, the historian, hung by a very slender thread. Fontcnelle, whose mental faculties remained unimpaired to the day of his death he was almost a centenarian was so delicate in his infancy that he was not allowed to be taken out in the open air. Walter Scott was an invalid before the age of 2. His right leg was para lyzed and he had to support himself with a crutch. After being sent out into the country, however, he came back cured. Victor Hugo in his "Autumn Leaves" tells how delicate he was as a child and how anxious solicitude "made him twice the child of his persistent mother." , Little boy The preacher said there is no marryln in heaven. Little girl Of course noL There wouldn't be men to go 'round. North La Crosse Argus. A POSTMASTERS WIFE A LEEDS WOMAN WHO ASTON- ISHED HER FRIENDS' AND NEIGHBORS. fTear t Death feat KMterM 9m Cwptotaty Tfcat she Has Bm Accepted By a Ufa XaMraace Caaapaay aa a Kfafr. From the Journal, Lewiston, If. A bright little woman, .rosy and f resit from her household duties, dropped Into a chair before the writer and talked with enthusiasm shining la her snap ping:, black eyes. The people in the pretty -village of Leeds Centre, Me., have watched With some interest the restoration to com plete health of Mrs. W. L. Francis, wits of the postmaster. So general were the comments on this interesting- case that the writer who visited Mra. Francis aad learned from her that the statesseata regarding her troubles and her subse quent extrication therefrom are entirely true. AH of her neighbors know what has been the agency that has performed this cure, but that others may bebene flted by her experience. Mrs. Francis has consented to allow her story to ap pear in print. "If there Is anything on earth X dread more than another," she said. "It Is to see my name In the papers. But In this case I ronquer my repugnance and give publicly the SSrrie credit to the savior of my life as I would la one who had dragged me from a death beneath th waves. In fact. I have extolled my preserver so enthusiastically and un reservedly, have sought out sufferers and recommended the remedy to so many friends and acquaintances that already my neighbors Jocularly call m, Pink Pills Francis. But really, my re covery Is something that I consider wonderful. I know that there are so many testimonials of medicine in the papers nowadays that people do not pay as much heed as formerly, but I do wish folks who are" tHifferln? would remem ber that what I say conies right from the hart of a woman who feels that she had a new lease of happy life given to hr. "Eleven years ago I was afflicted with nervous prostration. $!y existence until two years ago was one of dragging mis ery. Anyone In the village will tell yo Of my condition. My blood seemed ex hausted from my veins and month after month 1 erew weaker. I was able to undertake 6nl? the lightest household work, and even then 1 could perform It only by slow and careful movements. During all these sorry months and years I was under the care of this doc tor and that, but their medicines helped trie Only spasmodically, and then I fell Inio relapses more prostrating than ever. "In the nleht I used to be awakened by the most excruciating pains in my heart and side, and was obliged to tHW pellets: of powerful medicine that tha doctor gave me for relief In such at tacks. At ast my condition became so grave that I went out only Infrequent ly. We live Upstfllrs, you notice, over my husband's store, and In descending the stnlrway I frequently Was obliged to sort of fall and slide over the Stew In order to descend, such was the strain Oft tny system resulting from even ehls slight exertion. Occasionally I visited Ihe neffehbOrt, but I was obliged to sit fthd rest lo recdVer breath while ascend ing any elevation. In short.-It did sot seem that t could live. Stich was my complete physical prostration. "Ono day I saw an advertisement of Df. Williams" Pink Pills for Pale People, and although my faith in remedies was weak by that time, I sent for a box and tried them. That was two years ago. Now I call myself a well woman. Isn't It wonderful? "I haven't had one of those excruciat ing pains In the heart for a year and a half. Why, even the first box of pills helped me. I can walk miles now; can do my work easily; have gained In weight constantly, and you would scarcely believe It. but a little while ago I was examined for endowment life Insurance and was accepted unhesi tatingly after a careful examination by the physician. "Do you wonder that I'm shouting 'Pink Pills' all through our village? I haven't taken any of the remedy for some months for It has completely built me up. but at the first sign of troubl I know to what refuge to flee. "Last year my aunt. Mrs. M. A. Blos som, of Dlxfteld, P. O., was here visit ing me. She was suffering from a lack of vitality and heart trouble, but she was skeptical about my remedy that I was so enthusiastically advocating. At last, however, she tried it and carried some home with her when she went. A little while ago I received a letter from her. and In It said. 'I am cured, thanks to God and Pink Pills. She also wrote that her husband had been prostrated but had been restored by the remedy. One of the persons to whom Mrs. Francis recommended Pink Pills Is Sta tion Agent C. H. Foster, of Leeds Cen tre, and the reporter found him patrol ling the platform awaiting the arrival of the morning train. Mr. Foster, who Is one of the most trustworthy, capable and energetic men in the employ of the Maine Central railroad, appeared In un usually good health and spirits and we made inquiry as to the cause. "Do you know," replied he, "I think I've made a discovery, or at least Mrs. Francis has for me. I have been In poor health for a long time with a heart trouble variously complicated. We have been so fully interested In Mrs. Francis' wonderful recovery that I at once determined to give the medicine recommended a thorough test. 8o, about two months ago, I bought the first box of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. Only two months, please note, yet already I am so much Improved, so much better able to fulfill my duties, so sanguine that I am on the road to recovery, that I feel like a new man. "I can now walk, without the fatigue I once experienced, my heart affection appears to be relieved, and I have joined the Pink Pills' Band in our com munity." Dr. Williams' Pink Pills contain all the elements necessary to give new life and richness to the blood and restore rhattered nerves. They are for sale by by all druggists, or may be had by mall from Dr. Williams' Medicine Company. Schenectady. N. Y for 50c per box, or six boxes for $2.50. Summer Excursion Via. the Wabash R. R. f St. Louis June 13th to 15th. HALF I St. Louis July ?.'d. FARE ) Washington July 3d to itb. Buffa'o July oth and fith. Now on a e. Summer Tourist Tickets to alt summer resorts good returning until Oct. 31st. Thos. Cook & Son's special tours of Europe. For rates, itineries, sai! iag of Steamers and lu 1 information re garding hummer vacation tours via. rait or Mater rail at the VTa'ash Ticket Office, No. 1413 Farnnn St., (Fa.xton Hotel Wlock), or write C-. N. Clayton, N. AV. P. A., Omaha, N el r. Three for a Dollar! Three what? Three charmingly exe cuted posters in colors, drawn by W. W. Denslow, Ethel Reed and Ray Brown, wi'l be sent free of postage to any address on receipt of One Dollar. All who are afflicted with the "poster craze' will immediately embrace this rare opportunity, as but a limited num ber of the posters will be issued. The scarcity of a good thing enhances its value. Address Geo. IL Heafford. General Passenger Agent of the Chi cago, Milwaukee & St Paul Railway, Old Colony Building, Chicago, Ill All Aboat Western Fan TLaad. The "Corn Belt" is the name of an illustrated monthly newspaper pub lished by the Chicago, Burlington St Qnincy R. R. It aims to give informa tion in an interesting way about ti farm lands of the west. Send 25 cents in postage stamps to the Corn Belt, 209 Adams St, Chicago, and the paper will be sent to your address for one year. 0ROKE UP THE DANCE. Th OM leMWr 'Cae DWtrtfcatai IIU Lead f Bw. The eld soldier with th honest blue eyes and the steel bowed spectacles resting en the tip of his nose drifted into the "Broken Shutter" once again last nigbt and insinuated himself into the conversation ef the sports and all nighters, says the Washington Post. "Say, any of you feller ever have a 'coon fer a pet?" was the way he at tracted .attention to himself. "Get out!" three or four of them cried. "What are you giving us?" " "That's straight," continued the old man and bis mild blue eyes twinkled merrily. "I mean a 'coon a raccoon. Why, gentlemen, a 'coon makes ono of the inest pets in the world. Of course its temper is a trifle uncertain and its teeth are sharp. My coon used to make raids on my neighbor's chicken coops. but fer all that he was a goed pet He was a3 playful as a kitten and as mischievous as a monkey. I used to put a few marbles in a basin of water and the 'coon would amuse himself by the hour. And like sweets well, you Just ought lo have seen him. Thought as much of candy as a girl and as for honey well, that raccoon would go miles to raid a bee hive. "I was living out in Missouri in those days and one night the folks at our house gave a shucking bee in the barn and after the corn shucking was fin ished they had a dance a regular country affair. 'Balance to the right: partners all: birdie in the cage and all hands around." you know, fellers; you've all been there." The old soldier was patting time now and as he gave out the dance calls in regular country style the boys were at a loss to know just what turn his story would take. "All the hovs and Elrls of the dee- strick were there girls in loose necked dresses and boys in Uppity-flap trous ers, wide at the bottoms and baggy at the knees. "Well, my 'coon had ben out a-hunt-in a bee hive and he found one. All the bees were to home and they just lit into Mr. 'Coon. He remembered. then, that he had business at home and back he come to our house, just a ilyin' and about a bushel of the busy bees a followin' him. He come right into the barn, where the dance was a goin' on. He jumped around, squallln .vlth pain and sheddin' about fifty bees a jump. "Well, that was when the fun com menced. The bees made for the boys and girls; went down the girls necks and up the boys' trousers. They got on the bald beads of the old folks ;ind seemed to think the hands of the fid dlers were choice things to make into honey. The folks tried to get out of the door and they jammed it up. """he men swore and the women screamed with paira and all the time the 'cooa Kept running around shedding bees. Well, it ended the dance and killed the 'coon. I guess, fellers, that was a leetle bit the liveliest shucking bee that there ever was in Missoury." THE CAUSE OF AIR-HOLES- Decajlan Animal or Vegetable Matter nl Ita Oa. Silas Jones is an ancient waterman living on the left bank of the Hudson, a little north of the city line, who makes a precarious livelihood from and on the river, and who possesses much lore gained from Intimacy with nature, says the New York Herald. "Air holes," said Silas to me, as he pointed toward a large opening in the Ice 200 feet from the shore, "are pecul iar things. When a child I was taught that they were hole3 left by Providence that fish could get air. Afterward I was told the books paid they were made by springs that were in the bottom of the lakes and rivers. Now, springs that have a flow of water warmer than that of the rivers may have something to do with it, but they are not the principal cause. It Is more often air and gas fro cause. It Is more often air and gas from decaying animal and vegetable matter In the bottom of the rivers. Matter that is rotting gives out much of warm air and gases and these floating to the surface will lodge in any depression they find on the under side of-the ice. There they begin the work of melting, which goes faster and faster as it pro ceeds, as more and more gas collects. I have seen a little bubble beneath clear ice that in a few days worked its way through and finally formed a large air hole, that the continually rising gas kept open for months. I have known the sunken carcass of a horse or a cow to keep an air hole clear of Ice all win ter. Out In the river bevond the end of a run where waste matter carried by it finds lodgment you nearly always find an air hole and it takes very cold weather to freeze it, for the ice protects the surrounding water and keeps up its temperature." THE WEEPING WOMAN. It She Most Do It, l Ilrr Elicit Tctra Artlnt!r.illy "Should women weep?" is a topic o! discussion by the readers of Woman, a London publicaticn. One contributor puts In a most emphat "No!" The crying woman, it is mniL .oined, is out of date she belongs to the '49"s and '50's, not to this end of the century. Woman was then a rubm;siivc slave and man the righteous ruler. Now all is changed. The new woman is here and she rules; therefore, she should not cry. In the opinion of another writer. a woman should cry provided she does so "cciEelessIy." "If her !ce begin? to swell, all wails should cra-.e and she must not sniff, gi'lp, cr ct'acr.vise make an object of herself. If she does all the pathos of her crying is zoic. ' The ijea is thrown out that "style" in weeping should be cultivated; for there are sev eral "forms" of weeping. "Some .".cep alone to their pillows in the dead of night." This, it is held, :c a mistake, because it makes the weeper eld and ugly before her time and (;jc3 not do anybody the slightest good. Then there is the Woman who is crying at every opportune and inopportune moment. That is bad form in weeping. The "whimpering style, with a grievance, usually found in the past middle age lady," is to be shunned. The worst form of all is the "red facet! cry of tem per," which usually asserts. I self in an injudicious stamp of the beautifully arched Trilby and ends in a general stampede of the assembled multitude. Instead of waiting for your ship to come in, send out another ship. Cdttmlrox- State- Bask I 10! nra nil mm fttit ijt nil fthfr BUYS GOOD NOTES mWtKEMM AHD MJUCTOKf t IdUUTDKB GnutAKD, Prea't, B.H.HmmY,VicePrest, M. B&raott, Cashier. John Stauffer, Wsl Bucker. L COLUMBUS, NEB., HAS AX AitlNrizii Capital if - $500,000 PaMii Capital, - 90,000 OFFICERS. C. B. BBXLDON. Pres't H. P. B. OEHLRIcn. Vice Free. DANIEL SOn K AM; fishier. FKANK KOICEK. Asa'tCasfeief DIRECTORS, r. IT. FnKi.not II. P. II Okhi.rich. Jonas Wkixii, W. A. McAllister, OaBI. KlENKK, S. ('. tSKAY, Frank Roker. STOCKHOLDER?. Gerhard Losekb, J. Henry Wuhdcmax, Clark Gray. HexryLoseke. Daniel Sen ram. CSeo. W. Ualley, A. F. 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