The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, October 07, 1896, Image 1
WHOLE NUMBER 1,378. - - VOLUME XXVII.-NUMBER 26. t COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 7, 1896. '&' .. . y i ic c liSV l3- TIDDLYWIKKS. A Children's Story. FRAID? O, mo! Tm not afraid at any four-legged crea ture that ever grew!" aald Tiddly- l winks. -Tiddlywinks was a Partridge Cochin, a tall, fine-looking fellow, with beauti ful red and gold plumage, which glistened brightly in the spring sun shlae. His tail feathers were long and glos sy, proudly arched above his .back. . with a graceful droop towards the ends, aad he had a handsome red comb, which little Rosy declared looked like a scarlet poppy. Tiddlywinks was quite , a favorite with little Rosy, but be was not much liked in the barn-yard, oa account of his tyrannical disposition, and his boastfulness. He pecked the Ouinea-fowls unmercifully, picked a quarrel with the White Pekin duck on . every possible occasion, and would not '. allow the younger fowls to eat a mor sel, mntil he had crammed his own crop with all the corn or oats it would hold. He kept a respectful distance from . old Fadladeen, the bronze gobbler, and the White Leghorn rooster who were larger and stronger than himself, and would not have hesitated to give him , a good drubbing if they had caught him at his pranks; but he was selfish and cowardly enough to seize a fat bug. or a fine, plump cricket which some poor pullet had industriously scratched . up, and devour it himself, before her . very eyes. And when one of the hens laid an egg. Tiddlywinks would invariably cackle louder than she did herself, and make so much noise you would have ' thought he had laid the egg himself! Then, too, he was always boasting. He was standing on one foot, under a Ml pokeberry bush, one warm day, recounting some of his own brave ex ploits to a group of fowls who were gathered near. Some were pluming themselves, others taking a dust-bath . la the side of the ash heap, and others again leisurely picking gravels from a pile of sand, which had been dumped In one corner of the barn-yard, ex pressly for that purpose. "No." said Tiddlywinks, holding up his head and looking proudly around, " "I'm not afraid of any four-footed creature 'that ever grew! Why, if a fox were suddenly to pounce over the fence Into the barn-yard, do you know what I would do?" "I know what I'd do." said a snuff colored hen, who was wallowing in the ash-heap. "I'd run into the hen- house and scramble up on the roost cs fast as ever I could!" "And I," said Queen Anne, a moth . erly old hen, with a black top-knot , and a rat around her Beck, Td, iy op Into that big oak tree, doable quick." ' "Cluck! cluck! I'd hide nnder the Burdock bushes, with my chickens under my wings," said Madame Feath erleg. anxiously. "I dare 6ay." sneered Tiddlywinks, 'You are old hens, you know, and its the nature of hens to be cowardly. But I would not show the white feather! I'd Just ". "Cut, cut, cut!" cackled a long- (WM la ljy Jrg jWJ8sssssssyl aTT syC HOLDING HIM BY THE TAIL egged pullet, running full tilt from be hind the barn. "Cut, cut! O! I've had such a fright!" - '"What what what what was It?" '. stammered Tiddlywinks, while the baas k. clustered anxiously around him, as If . for protection? "O, dear! I don't know," panted the : pullet, still trembling wjth fear. "I I was scratching near the barn when it pounced right at me! Such a ter- .Tiblo creature, with legs and teeth! And it opened its mouth, and went " ..-Jgr r r !' and I ran away so fast I -i-1 I've lost my breath!" "Was it a a fox," gasped Tiddly ' winks,looking up at the oak-tree as if he were calculating the distance to its fl lowest branches? -'Nc, it w.sn't a fox. It had a short ;', tail," said the pullet. "Perhaps it was m 'possum," suggested the snuff-colored '.' hen, ruffling her feathers. "No, it ran too fast for a 'possum .'O! O! here it comes now! Look, look! Cut, cut, cut!" and the frightened pul let tried to hide under Queen Anne's 4 .wing, as a small, brownish-colored animal came frisking and frolicking from behind the barn. The fowls flew wildly about, some ia . ane direction and some in another. The white Pekin duck scuttled- away and hid herself behind the hen-house. - The Guinea fowls flew up to the comb of the barn, chattering with all their .-.- might, and Tiddlywinks was just . ' spreading his wings to take refuge in the oak tree, when the strange animal ., seddenly rushed towards him. It'was a small brown creature, not so large as a full grown cat, but so plUmp as to be almost round. It looked indeed, more like a live cushion, with foar legs and a white nose and talL than any thing else. "Gr r r," it said, showing two raws ' af sharp, white teeth. Tiddlywinks, brave as he was. certainly seemed to he quite as much frightened as the hems. He was Just flapping his wiags, to fly up into the oak tree, when the trams animal made a sadden dart at his teas. -Be we woo! Grrrr It cried, savagely. And lay! went Tlddlywiaks, sprad- dUag his long legs, while "bee wee .wer went the enemy, diving past him and seizing a respectable toy-kast ham i hr the tali. -Iqnawkr cried the hem wha had a af her awm, and ramUafap her aha few at the saucy and gave It a savage peek between the eyes. "Take that for your impudence," mVt crleit "Yelp," howled the aggresser, half f rlghtemed eat of his wits, but spying Tiddlywinks streaking towards the hem hoase as fast aa his long legs would carry him. it suddenly turned and scampered after him. "Boo woo woo," It cried In such a ehrill voice that the poor Cochin stood still with terror, while the savage fot seised him by his handsome tail feath ers and stood shaking them and cry ing, "gr r r" triumphantly. Poor Tiddlywinks, more dead than alive, could .do nothing but stand stock-still and cry "Squak! squak-aw-awk!" at the top of his lungs. The hens cackled Im sympathy, making such a racket that Aunt Peggy looked out of the back door to see what on earth could be the matter. "Run. Rosy." she cried. "Something Is disturbing the. fowls!" And little Rosy ran quickly to the rescue of her feathered favorites. But when she reached the barn-yard and espied the tall Cochin squeaking with terror, while a tiny shepherd pup py stood holding him by the tall, and growling savagely, she burst Into a hearty laugh. "Come here, Roy." ah cried, and the fat puppy let go hit victim's tail, and went frisking to her with a ehrill little bark of delight "For shame. Tiddlywinks." said Rosy, "to be afraid of a little bit of a dog like Roy, who only wanted to play with you!" But Tiddlywinks, finding himself free, hurriedly sneaked off around the barn, and began pluming his ruffled feathers. He was well twitted by the other fowls, when they ventured to come forth from their hiding places. "You wouldn't run from a fox, would you," sneered the snuff-colored hen, maliciously? "Of course not," put In Queen Anne, shaking her feathers, and hopping over the pig-trough to pick up a grain of corn on the other side. "He la not afraid of any four-footed creature that ever grew!" "Quack, quack, quack." said the' Pe kin duck, waddling out from a buncb of tall grass, where she had been hid ing during the affray. "Pray, Mister Tiddlywinks, do tell us what you would do if a fox were to pounce unexpectedly over the fence?" "It's only natural for hens to be cow ardly." said a yellow-legged pullet, who owed the Cochin a grudge for rob bing her of a dragon-fly that morning. Even the guineas flew boldly down from the barn-roof, where they had been sitting in a row, screaming "pot rack! pot-rack!" during the contest "If it had been a great big dog, like Farmer Dill's Howser." they said. "It would be different But a little puppy, no bigger than a kitten! And Tiddly winks squawked as if a whole pack of lexee weresXter him!" And Tiddlywinks felt so shame faced, that he did not venture to crow for half a day. But he was never heard to boast of his own bravery again. And what was still better, he was cured of his other bad habits, and was never sgain guilty of pecking the guinea fowls, nor quarreling with the Pekin duck, or robbing the pullets of their food. And In time, Tiddlywinks and the other fowls became quite friendly with Roy, the shepherd puppy, who grew to be ouch a good watch-dog that not a fox, possum, or any other midnight prowler, dared venture near the barn yard. TESTING STRENGTH OP CABLES Tfcay Hut Ba AM t Kadara a Grast Strata UaSar All Caadltleaa. From the Boston Transcript: With the Increase In the use of high tension, high potential currents, cables are be ing made of greater strength and effi ciency. The copper core, which carries the electricity, is thickly covered with rubber, impregnated Jute or other in sulating material, and for some pur poses not only armored with heavy twisted metal rods, but covered with lead. In this way a cable for very heavy currents may be elaborately brought up to a diameter of two inches or more. The increase in the capacity or cables within the last few years has been extraordinary. When Mr. Feranti, about six years ago, said he would sup ply current from the Deptford (London) central station at a voltage of 10,000 he was laughed at by many electri cians, who maintained that no Insula tion could be made efficient enough to withstand the commercial use of such a current Nowadays such an insula tion would be taken as a matter of course, and cables have to stand a much more Intense strain. Alexander Siemens recently gave some interest ing details of a very complete test to which a large electrical firm had put a cable of their manufacture. They first put it under pressure of 45,000 volts, "but it did not mind," he said. They increased the voltage to 60.000 and left it on for half an hour. But still the cable held out Then they tried the bending test and put on 50,000 volts, and it-stood it all' right After that they stripped off the lead covering and soaked it in water for tweaty-foui hours, and again tried it with 50.00C volts, with the same result They then put it In a hot room, 160 degrees Fahren heit and kept it there for three weeks, after which they increased the tem perature to 212 degrees for twenty-four hours, and they finally tested it with 50,000, but it still held good. After such aa ordeal, Mr. Siemens main tained, there need be mo fear of the cable standing im India or anywher else. iaal te tha Armiy. The bicycle will soon be put to prac tical test in the army. A detachment of eight mem of the Twenty-fifth in fantry has been momated on wheels and im charge of a lieutenant win rids over the Montana trails. A bicycle j?e pair ahap haa been established at Fort Missoula, where the mem are statioaed, aad the instruction ia regard to riding la repairing nader an bicycle mechanic The wheel will ha thoroughly tasted im rapid com Teyaace af mssssgw from Fortius aoala to other forts; with aad wlthemt relay; pratiee rides with riles, blank- shelter teats; read natraHIas GUIANA GOLD HELD. A MINER'S RROSPECTING TOUR AMONG THEM. Tha C a rraacaauw's TTaw WWwa; Abaat Haw Territory Is Ops ft Dfscavaty. HOMAS Dalgleish, an old Arizona mi ner, has written an account of his own personal advent ures among "The Gold-Fields of Gui ana," for the Cen tury. Mr. Dal gleish says: The first fine pla- cer on the Cuyunl was found In 1898 by a Frenchman named Jacobs. His outfit was fur nished by two Portuguese named Car rara and Rosa. They took out from two hundred to three hundred pounds a month for two or three years, the gold being worth one-hundred and ninety-five dollars a pound. When I reached there, in 1893, the placer was la full working order. Jacobs is said te have disposed of his gains at Monte Carlo; Carrara died insolvent; Rosa left a few thousands; that Is, in brief, the history of the owners of one of the richest placer-mines in that coun try. The mine was sold In 1895 for fifteen hundred dollars, and Jacobs Is now simply an employe in the placer. The Barnard syndicate has taken out a great deal of gold from placers situ ated on the Potaro river; but it Is my Impression that placer-mining is about over unless new territory Is opened up. Quartz-mining is still in its infancy. DERVISHE8 Im the supplementary exhibition of "Old Buda" stands a reproduction of an Old Buda mosque, built of stone, a&ajolica and wood, in a mixture of Turkish and European architecture, with minaret and cupolas, and a small kiosk in the Indian style for a sleeping fakir, writes I. Zangwill, the novelist Here Moslems and Dervishes assemble to say or dance their prayers, and for a florin you may ascend the gallery and watch them below. The mosque opened on the holy night of Bairam, the most solemn feast of the Mohametan year, and quite a crowd planked down their silver to listen to the pious worship pers. Is it not shameful? I am happy to say I did not pay for my seat Even in Budapest I was a persona gratis. Twas certainly a remarkable scene, its solemnity emphasized by the thunder without, that drowned the voice of the Mueddin calling to prayer, and the lightning and rain-torrents that sent the pretty little al fresco waitresses scudding about with their serviettes on their heads to tend the few parties in the leafy square-that dined on regard less of diluted wine or under the pro tection of umbrellas. How the Turks further whetted them selves by complex ablutions in the tank (meydlah) in the courtyard without, how they removed their shoes and, en tering the mosque, knelt on their car pets facing towards Mecca, and turning their backs on me, a serried array of long-robed figures swaying and falling forward with automatic regularity, and showing pairs of heels not always clean, while the Iman chanted heart breaking dirges overhead, I shall not detail, for everybody has read of Mo slem services. But I do not remember to have come across any accurate de scription of a service of Dancing Der vishes such as followed the more ortho dox ceremonial. There are at present two quartz mines in operation on the Barima river with a good showing; but they are in the disputed territory, and, I think, have been obliged to shut down. Quartz on the Cuyunl Is finely defined, although there Is not a quartz mine on the river at present; but in all probability good quarts mines will yet be worked in British Guiana. At present it is Impossible for a poor man to prospect to advantage in that country. He must purchase all his provisions at Georgetown; buy or hire a boat; pay big wages to his captain and bowman; aad give security for the wages af his mem, and pay for their food. I have known only one or two poor mem who have made a stake eat there. After prospecting three or four months, which is very fatiguing and trying to tha constitution of the strongest, a mam may find nothing; but he will hare learned a good deal Them ho may take a motion, if he has a few haadrsds left to buy another satflt Tala time he may find a creek that will pay him one or two ounces a day la the tarn. Whea that much la I MKkyAfXr ssBmW a ialh. 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Soma tmjak this very disagreeable, but I see msta iag objectionable in the law, which, 1 a great protection to the placer-ewaer. the object being to prevent Uhaters and' others from stealing gold. At Georgetown he must carry his gold to the commissioner's office, where- he gets a permit to pay the royalty at an other government office, after which he may sell it to the banks. Miners are not allowed to sell aald In the bush er in Georgetown. Bach day a miner must enter his And InAie gold-book, and if an inspector shasjd come along and find gold that, was mat. entered he might confiscate it This is why a miner must buy his entire outfit in Georgetown, and havo-jpeaey. -emengh to see himself through -"before he starts. All the British colonial offi cials, at least all that I came in con tact with, are polite and gentlemanly. I have met foreigners who think their laws are very stringent, but I would rather be where there Is some law than on the other side of the Yuruan, where there is none. Aaetavr Frtak. One Peter Brossoit, of Belle River, Canada, distinguished himself some time ago by carrying off prizes at the county fair for embroidery, crochet, beadwork, etc., and the papers pub lished paragraphs on "Canada's new man." He has a rival in a town of Ontario. In preference to playing marbles, shinny or boyish sports, a youth of that town used to sit with girls and surpass them in the use of the needle. One day he appeared with DANCING ON A SWORD AT OLD BUDA MOSQUE. All the mere Mussulmans having re tired, the Dervishes sat around cross legged, forming an oval. Presently they began to say some phrase, presumably Arabic (it sounded like es klabbam vi vurah), which they repeated and re peated with the same endless, uniform, monotonous intonation, swaying from right to left and from left to right till I felt the whole universe was this phrase, and nothing else would happen till the end of the world, and the world would never end. At last, when I had reconciled myself to living forever and over with this sound in my ears, they broke into a pleasant melody with rhyming stanzas and a refrain from "Hazlee." Then they started on another word with endless iteration, and then they repeated "Allah, Allah, Allah," sway ing and swaying till the universe began to reel. I became aware that their chief, who was seated on a special red carpet, was counting on a rosary, and I drew relief from the deduction that an end would come. It did, but worse re mained behind, for the Dervishes got up and formed a ring around their chief, and began swaying right and left and backward and forward, undesist ingly, remorselessly, getting quicker and quicker, till there was nothing in the world but swayings this way and that way, back and forth. At last the movements began to slow down and to sweep over larger carves, and suddenly they stopped altogether, only to recommence as the fanatics started singing a Joyous hymn. Alas! thought I, one-half the world is a laughing stock to the other .half, If indeed not rather a source of tears. For now the chief, whose fine gloomy East ern face still haunts me, was bowing to his men, and they were responding with strange raucous cries compounded of the roars of wild beasts and the a pill-box in hand and exclaimed: "I've made the most delightful little pillow sham." He brought forth a miniature piece of work exquisitely finished. He not onlydid plain sew ing and fancy work but tried his hand at the family millinery. His fine em broideries were noticeable at fairs and wedding presents to his girl friends were the work of his fingers. He is now interested in decorative art and earns his bread by embroidering and hanging portieres, lambrequins and other interior decorations. New Tork Tribune. SatUed' Taeak "We had a scare out at the summer resort a lot of scientists came there." "Well, they didn't hurt anybody, did they?" "No; we had a girl graduate with us and in half an hour she simply knocked the whole outfit silly." Oma ha Bee. Mr. Symaer of SammerviUe, Ga., ia his ninety-seventh year, haa put seven bullets lata a two-inch hull's eye it a nag af Uity feet. ANIMALS' ILLUSIONS. Are Meet C tha TtoUaM. Birds are perhaps mora cemmealy the victims of illusions tham other ami muds, their stupidity about their egga being quit remarkable, says Ua Spec tator. Last year, far instance, -a has got imto the pavilion of a ladles' gait club and began to sit on a golf ball im a corner, for which it made a nest with a couple of pocket handkerchiefs. Bat many quadrupeds are not only de ceived for the moment by reflections, shadows and such unrealities, hut often seem victims te illusions largely developed by the imagination. Tha horse, for instance, is one of tha bravest of animals when face to face with dangers which it can understand, such as the charge of an elephant or a wild boar at bay. Tet the courageous mad devoted horse, so steadfast against the dangers he knows, la a prey te a hundred terrors of the Imagination due to illusions, mainly these of sight for shying, the minor effect of these illusions, and "bolting," In which pan ic gains complete possession of his eouI, are caused, as a rule, by mistakes as to what the horse sees, and not by misinterpretation of what ha hears. It is noticed, for instance, that many horses which shy usually start away from objects on one side more fre quently than from objects on the oth er. This Is probably due to defects in the vision of one or other eye. In nearly all cases of shying, the horse takes fright at some unfamiliar ob ject, though this is commonly quite harmless, such as a wheelbarrow up side down, a freshly felled log or a piece of paper rolling before tha wind. This instantly becomes an "illusion," Is Interpreted as something else, and It is a curious question in equine neu- panta of locomotives. Hu! Hu! they roared In savage unison, Hu! Hu! mo. notonously, endlessly, making Strang motions. Hoarser and more bestial grew the frightful roars, wilder and wilder grew the movements, the headgear falling off, faces growing black, the chief standing silent with his hand on his breast but in his pale face a tense look of ever gathering excitement. And then two of the Dervishes held out a curved sword, and the roars redoubled and the chests heaved with wilder breaths; and suddenly the chief, throwing off his stocking-wraps. Jumped on the blade with his naked feet and balanced him self upon it, the muscles of his face rigid, his teeth clinched. Four times he stood upon the bare sword-edge amid this hellish howling and this mad swaying, the perspiration running down the foreheads of the de votees, some of them foaming at the mouths. And then they moved round ' in a. circle to the right howling He! He! an Armenian Dervish in a tall brown hat varying it by Ho! Ho! and another worshipper singing in a high voice. The chief bared his breast, and twirl ing a heavy-hafted dagger, plunged it into his side. When this had been re peated three or four times, pandemo nium ceased. The Holy man, with an air of supreme exhaustion and supreme ecstacy, reclad himself In his white n'antle, and the faithful ones wiped their brows, and re-squatting on the ground exultantly vociferated "Allah" about a hundred times, nodding their heads, and finally changing their cry into "Bou!" "Bon!" After a little sing ing and shouting of "Din!" "Din!" they pressed their foreheads to the ground with a shout of "Bou!" and. suddenly rose and decamped. The scene waa s trying one. ropathy to know what it is that the horse figures these harmless object! to be. When Russian ponies first be gan to be shipped to Harwich, they usually objected to pass near a donkey. This reluctance was explained on the hypothesis that the ponies seldom saw donkeys In Russia and mistook them for bears. Syaiaathj'. A mother was explaining to a di minutive juvenile the meaning of a pic ture representing a number of mar tyrs who had been thrown to 'some hungry lions. She tried to impress his infant mind with the terrors of the scene .and thought she had succeeded, when sud denly he exclaimed: "Oh, ma! Just look at that poor lit tie Hoa behind there! He won't fa amy." Answers. Ha Waa Caadld. A friend of ours noticed that a box of cigars which ho had only hrokea imto the day before was half empty Turalag' to his servant mam he amid: "This is really goiag a bit too far, Jo seph, my man. We smoke a great deal too muchr-HrUadftrd. HUHTINGFOSSILS. PREHISTORIC QUADRUPEDS f ROM THE ROCKIES. f Glaat CaaatMaa Am AfMf tmmg am alUag Qaatfc ROF. HEKRY FAIRFIELD Otf BORN, Curator of Vertebrate Paleon tology in the Amer ican Museum Of Natural History, contributes a paper en "Prehistoric Quadrupeds of the Rockies," to a cur reat magazine. Tha article la illaetrated by drawings by Charles Kaight, giviag careful recon structions of these strange beasts. Prof. Osborn says: Before describlag the animals themselves, we may stop to note what our present knowledge of them haa cost In human skill and endurance. Every one of these pic tures Is drawn from a complete skele ton hewn out of the solid rock, and each of these skeletons represents years and years of arduous exploration in which Wortman, Hatcher, Peterson and others sent out by the American Museum, by Princeton, or by Tale, have become famous. Our party found the Tltanethere In a broiling alkali canon of South Dakota. Its head waa protruding from a hard sandstone cliff, and the chest limbs, aad trunk were chiseled out by tha man under a rude shelter which lowered the noon temperature to 106 degrees. They were encouraged to think that the whole beast had been mired in a stand ing position. This was probably the case originally, but suddenly they came across a fault; it appeared that the hind limbs had been swept away; and it required two years' more search ing before bones of an animal of a cor responding size were secured. Every other skeleton has its own story of de termination, disappointment and sur prise. The old lake basins, once on sea-level and enriched by the moist, balmy winds of the Pacific, are now elevated from four to five thousand feet The only redeeming feature of then present aspect of absolute barrenness is that the absence of vegetation leaves the old graves and burying grounds bare. Fossil bones and skeletons are not plentiful far from It; but a trained eye sees a great distance along the bare gnjlies, cliffs, and canons, and your daily scramble of fifteen to twen ty miles enables you to prospect over a vast stretch. Tou are off in the morning stiffened by a frosty Bight Ton know by sad experience that the Ice in the basins does not promise a cool day. Tour backbone is still freez ing while the sun begins to broil and blister your skin, and you are the liv ing embodiment of the famous dessert served by the Japanese a hot crust without an ice within. Tour trail be gins on the upland, which may be the actual level of the old lake bottom; and aa if walking through a graveyard, you never look for bones until the land breaks away by erosion. When you reach the edge of this upland, you look off into a sea of rock, sometimes wild beyond description, and yon plunge dowithe slope to a cer tain level. Then you follow this level round and round and in and out Here you are on a seam which bears fossils. Above and below it are other similar fossiliferous scams, and between them are barren seams where you will not find a bone If you search till doomsday. This level, perhaps, represents the delta of a great mountain river which swept the animals out wtih coarse sand, peb bles and debris. Sometimes yon walk miles and miles, up and down, day after day, and see nothing but com mon turtle bones, which are so decep tive and tempting at a distance that the fossil hunter profanely kicks them aside. Turtles are found everywhere because they swam out basked in the sunshine in the mid-lakes, and occa sionally sank to the bottom, while the carcasses of land animals were burled in the deltas or nearer shore. In such fossil-barren land the heat seems twice as torrid, on the buttes your muscles and back ache doubly, your tongue lies parched from the last gulp of alkali water, your soul abhors a fossil, and longs for the green shade of the East and the watermelon, when, all of a sudden, a little project ing bone strikes your wearied eye. Tou fall on your knees, and breathe gently on the loose sand; a little scraping, and you see the signs of a skullper haps of some missing link. The thrill of discovery spreads like an elixir through your frame, and two or three hours later, after carefully cutting out the prize, you walk vigorously back to camp, every inch a man. Thus fossil-hunting is a life of vic issitudes and emotions. The fossil hunter is predestined te his work, like the sportsman. He returns East in the autumn, vowing he will never go back to the Bad Lands; but as the favora ble months of spring come round he becomes more and more restless until he is off. The country that is as hot as Hades, watered by stagnant alkali pools, is almost invariably the richest In fossils. Here, in fact, as you find the greatest variety and number of bones, you enjoy the most delightful flights of the scientific imagination; when parched and burned, you conjure before you the glories of these aacient lakes. ratal. "I guess I had better give these b:s euits to the first tramp that comes along," said Mrs. Hunnimune, with pathetic candor. "No," exclaimed her husband, nervously, "don't do that He might throw them at the dog." Washington Star. Taa raav. Walker Thia "middle-of-the-road" platform won't catch any of the bicycle vote. Wheeler No? Walker Naw. They want the whole darm road and the sidewalk thrown In. Ciadaaati Eaqairer. Sir Christopher Wrem built forty-two fhurches im Loadoa. Hla greatest work is St Paal'i cathedral THOUGHT IT WAS A HORNET. raaary Caarfcffc Cam i A etawtnr storX la the seemo et Lcartoas happaatags, aaya tha Philadel phia Times. One or thee oecmrrw n a small village im the ap per part of Duchess ceaaty. Tha dork waa a bright, smart, active country lad who waa equal to an emergeaclea. Ho frame! that a certain demlzem et the place. named "Jake Browa," always feaad a eeavemleat slttiag on the coaster Im th farther part of the store aear the cracker barrel aad that when the clerk's ey were aot upom him the old mam'a position allowed him to pil fer a aamher of blsoalts. The clerk sooa crow tired of this and he ar ranged a good-aUed meedle . with a spriag la a hole OS the couater uadeT the oilcloth coverlag. with a leas string, which could be palled at aay polat Im the store. Oae extrtmcly hot day im Jama the eld ma smterei the store and took his pesitiom aa as?ml on top of the counter near the cracker barrel. The clerk waa apparently en gaged with a customer, hot had hie eye on "old Jake," aad when he waa reaching for the crackers thestrlag was nulled. "Jake" weat ap la the air. landinr on his" feet In the middle of the store. He felt for the object of stuck, he weariag only overalla. Not being rewarded in his search, he mounted the counter a second time and was about to make another at tempt at cracker raising when ho felt another thrust which lifted him la the air again. He started for the attic above the store. His prolonged ab sence caused the clerk to go up to the attic, where ho found it aa hot aa an oven, to see what waa going on. He found the old man distracted and near ly disrobed la the middle of the floor, shaking his overalls furiously. The sight was laughable.' The clerk asked him what was the mstter. He replied: "This morning, while mowing in the meadow, I struck a hornets' nest, and one of the pesky things has crawled up the leg of my overalls and has struck me twice, and I'm hunting for It" The clerk wore a smile. SUea and Foar. Im society we And two extremes, tha very rich and the very poor. The rich God has made the stewards of hit earthly goods. He gives to them tha ease and the advantages that accom pany wealth. On the other hand he haa given do the poor his spiritual riches. He tries their souls in the flery fur nace of tribulation, but he has prepared for them a kingdom of glory. Aa the poor are dependent upon the rich for the necessaries of life, so the rich, by the grace of God, are dependent up on the poor for the sracea of salvation Rev. W. F. Payne. Koaa far a Tlra. A wheelman who happened to be a man of resources had his tire punc tured while on the way home from Coney island a few days ago. He re moved the tire, substituted a piece of heavy rope in its place and rode to his home, a distance of about eight miles, without discomfort The clab of which he is a member is so proud of his ncrformance that it has had tha rope framed. New Tork World. Tha WldaW Vatodroa. Unscrewing the cover from an old. locked melodeon, that the instrument might aid tf - choir at the funeral of a childless New England widow who lied last week, the decedent's rela tives came upon 912,000 in United Statea bonds stowed away inside. Ia tha Light af Exaarlaaea. The Newly Married Man (on his first night off, sadly) I wonder what my wife will say when I get home? The Other When you've been married as long as I have, old man, you'll know beforehand. Truth. THE CHURCH MILITANT. The meetings lately held at Fort Dodge, la., under the ministration and preaching of Dr. L. W. Munhall, were a splendid success, it is reported. Bishop Stephen M. Merrill, of the M. E. Church, is prostrated by a stroke which is believed to be paralytic. This is the second attack of a similar na ture the Rev. Dr. has lately suffered. It is said that the Rev. Samuel D. Merrill, now of Rochester, was the first white child born in the territory, now state, of Nebraska, when his fath er was laboring as a missionary among the Indians. Reports from the various camp meetings, that have been held all over the country, indicate that this year, whatever may betide in the other af fairs of the nation, the open air wor ship of the living God has been well and fruitfully attended. The Evangelical Lutheran Church of the United States and Canada held its annual conference at Evansville, Ind., lately. Officers for the ensuing year were elected as follows: President, Rev. John Badring, Milwaukee; vic9 president, Rev. Peter Brant, Pittsburg. Pa.; secretary, Prof. John Schallcr, New Ulm, Minn.; treasurer. Chris Tan sen, Detroit; chaplain, Rev. C. C. Schmidt, St Louis. The sum of 118,000 has been -raised for the semi-centennial in honor of. the Rev. Dr: Richard S. Storrs, pastor of the Pilgrim Congregational church, Brooklyn, and the sum is constantly growing. The special, committee hopes to complete the full amount of $25,000 by November 19, when It is proposed to celebrate the semi-centennial of Dr. Storrs' pastorate in the Church of the Pilgrims by special services in the church, and in all probability a great mass meeting in the Academy of Music. An immense crowd of people partic ipated in the twenty-sixth annual Methodist camp meeting at Pitman Grove, N. J., under the charge of Rev. D. B. Harris. The dosing days of the last week were married by the prostra tion of Rev. Dr. S. M. Vernon, who waa overcome while delivering a sermoa. The speaker bad been discoursing for about a half hour whea his auditors wore startled by seeing a pallor spread over hla face. Evangelist Boawell, detecting his eoadltion, supported him to a chair aad ho was afterward re moved from the platform, aad, after a quiet rest la the miaieterial room, ho ftvlvtC (UTmlms - StaU - Baak I flats I asm, at fpaj fAii Task Mat al BUYS GOOD NOTES QmmmABD, Proa's, B.H.HaamT,VicePreet, M. Baueram, Cs shier. Jam Stauitks, Wm. Bucmmxv COLUMBUS, NEB., MMrial CaiU if $SN,NI PaM d CaaitX, N.ttt om A . MIXDON. Frcs't. R. P. B. OEBLRIOH. Ties Free. DANIEL BOMRAM, Cashier. FKANK KOBEB. Aaa'tCsshiat DIRECTORS. C R. Bnaxnos; H. P. H Osnuucw, Johas Welch. W. A. McAixiSTaa, Garni. BiawKK, 8. 0. Gbat, Fbahk Roaxa. STOCKHOLDER emWABB LOSXKB. J. HS.1BY WPB IW. Class Gbat. Usury Losbkb, DAiinti. BcHRAttt Geo. W. Galley. A. F. H. OEBLBICBi J. P. Beckeb Estatb. Bbbbcca Beckeb, H. M. Wibslow. Columbus Journal ! 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