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r "-?- "'y esrWsa" a5"mliSFf' ahm g-r- .. VVW COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA. WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 80, 1896. WHOLE NUMBER 1,390. VOLUME XXVIL NUMBER 38. i r. .riter -.- " . r ' . . -. wew r .em. hv i- w JJU5 4UUUIUU-- 1 ft. " -& - I BENEATH THE MISTLETOE. How do Sweet Margaret's dimples race Around the roses of her face! And I dare swear the force that stirs The flower that doth her bosom grace. Is that tumultuous heart of hers! Who'll wager on the dimple race? Sly glove, my glory and my hllss That love can catch them with a kiss! How do Sweet Margaret's finger-tip3 Shield the rare ruby of her lips! But I dare swear her snow-white hand. That doth the crimson so eclipse. Shall fall before her heart's command! Who'll race the rose-way to her lips? My glove, my glory and my bliss Love wins the ruby with a kiss. Frank L. Stanton. A CHRISTMAS SECRET. By Helen Forest Graves. SHALL never spend any more Christmases away from home, my lifts dear." said Aunt Chrystenah. ,, -.km She sat knitting by the kitchen fire her mild eyes fixed on the snow-Hakes - which weic flutter ing like tiny white butterflies against the window panes. Out in the distance beyond the square wooden turret of Traxall church, she could see the crooked white stone under which lay her old husband with leaf less rose-vines tangled above his coffin-lid. After all, what was there to wait for? "Don'ttalkso, Aunt Chrystenah," said Mrs. John Jones, who had come down from New York to see her aunt, ami also, if the truth must be told, to try to borrow a little money from her for Aunt Chr3'stenah had laid up some thing, and her niece had an exceeding great longing to be able, this Christ mas day, to give a little present to her patient, hard-working young husband. "No, Janey." said the old lady. "I'm obliged to you for the invite, all the name as if I went. But I'm too stiff in the bones and hard in the hearing to take much comfort away from home nowadays. You'll have to keep your Christmas without me, I guess, this year. And as for lending you money, I've but one answer to make, and that is no!" "Oh. Aunt Chrystenah!" "I mean to leave you all I've got," explained Aunt Chrystenah. "one o' these days. Hut not till I'm done with it myself. If I begin lending it to you in driblets, there won't be nothin left of it. It's all put away, safe and sound, and it'll be yours some day." Janey thanked Aunt Chrystenah. wjth a sickening at her heart, neverthe less. She fully appreciated the old lady's kind intentions; but, oh, if she could only have known how far far more acceptable a little of that money would be now! "I would pay you back in a very short time. Aunt Chrystenah," said she. "if " "No, you wouldn't," said the old woman, "because you won't have the chance, ami that settles the matter. And now, if you've a mind to go up stairs in the garret and get that old shepherd's plaid shawl I used to wear in the days when I was able to go to meeting, you're welcome to it for a Christmas present. It can be dyed, and will make a real nice shawl." "Thank you. Aunt Chrystenah," said the young wife, rather spiritlessly. She went slowly up the garret stairs into the great hollow, echoing space, shadowed by dark beams, with the two odd little semi-circular windows at either end, where she had been used to play as a child. Directly at the head of the stairs stood a great wooden chest painted blue which had belonged to some sea faring member of the Jenkins family. She opened it with something akin to awe in her childhood's days it had been a penal offense to meddle with the "big blue chest" and searched among its lavender-scented treasures for the plaid shawl. As she turned over the various articles something chinked under her hand, and. to her amazement, it proved to be an old gray yarn stock ing, full of twenty-dollar gold pieces, laid carefully among homespun blank ets and thriftily preserved articles of long-past wear. "Janey. Janey! you ain't a-lookin in the blue chist, be you?" It was Aunt Chrystenah's voice calling from the foot of the stairway. "It's in that chist o' iws clear out under the eaves, close the old spinning-wheel and swifts." "Yes. Aunt Chrystenah." Janey Jones started away like a guilty creature, and presently she came downstairs with the old shepherd's plaid shawl over her arm. "It's very nice. Aunt Chrystenah." said she, "and I thank you very much for it." The first thing that Mrs. Jones did when she came back to the gloomy city flat that .represented home to her, was to go around to the jeweler's on Third avenue and purchase the seal ring with the onyx setting which she had so cov eted for John. She loved John so dearly she longed to see him decked out like other clerks in the bank with something which shou.u prove that he, too, was not utterly forgotten at Christmas. And, after all, she was only borrowing from Aunt Chrystenah taking what would one day be her own. What harm could there be in that? And yet Mrs. Jones had reckoned without her conscience, and that grim sentinel uprose in her heart when she least expected it. And as Christmas approached, with the shop-windows garlanded with holly and red berries, and the house-roofs glistened with snow, Mrs. Jones was a miserable woman. If only she could in some way earn twenty dollars to pay back that money to Aunt Chrystenah's blue chest be fore Christmas! "A thief! a thief!" she kept repeating to herself. "That's what I am! Peo ple don't know it when they pass me in the streets. The children in my 'Sunday-school class don't mistrust it when tbey stand at my knee. John .don't dream of it when he tells me what a neat, thrifty wife I am but I know it all the time!" "We'll keep Christmas in a small way, this first Christmas of our mar rift life, Janey," said the young bus- band. "We'll go marketing together for the turkey and the yellow pumpkin and the little jar of mincemeat, and Hi ask poor old Hale, the fellow at the desk next to rr.n v.-hn?P wife died last summer, and young Ferris, who has I no home but a boarding-house. You're such a capital little housekeeper that It'll cost next to nothing! And I shall be proud to have them sec what a home I've got and what a lome-malcer." j Janey smiled faintly. "Yes. John." she said. "I'll try to have thingc as nice as possible." And she added to herself: "He nsn't know. that I am a thief!" "So provoking!" said "sprightly Mrs. j Rayner. who lived the fiat just across the hall. "I had promised to do this copying for Lawyer Cortright, and now I've sprained my wrist so that I can't even lift a pen. A twenty-dollar job, too!" 'Can't I do It?" gasped Janey, feel- i.ng.as nif an. angelAfromahcaycnMh.a.drhSatiupTlate and rose earIy..Uiat JLmigltti 'come wiignnip ner dreary lot-wiin dreary his torch of promise. "I write a legible round hand, and I would take great pains to be accurate. Oh, please let me try!" "It must be done immediately," said the neighbor. "I would do it at once, even if I sit up nights to accomplish it," said eager Janey. "Well," said Mrs. Rayner, "I don't see why you shouldn't make the at tempt. Mr. Cortright has a righteous horror of type-writing, and one does like to earn a little money when one can." "But you must nromise not to tell John." Mrs. Rayner laughed. "I'll promise." said she. And to secure still greater secrecy Mrs. Jones did the writing in her neigh bor's room, pretending to John that she was spending the evening with this friend or that, and making all sorts of excuses and evasions. "Yes," said Miss Eloisa Elton. John's maiden aunt, who had not been in vited to the Christmas dinner, and who resented the omission highly. She stood in front of the little glass window in the bank where John Jones stood all day pajing out money in various sums, from thousand-dollar bills to packages of the corroded cents. "There's some thing very Queer about it. I've been thete several times of late, and found i her gone out. And there's been more j times than one, John, when I've been , pretty certain she's been to home all the time, only she didn't choose to open the door, (Yes, I'll Jake it in small bills. please twos and ones). And that ain'.t the worst of it! I've seen her with ' these eyes that's a ragged bill, John. ! and t ain't certain o' brin' able to pass ' it a-comin' out of them down-town j law offices with a reg'lar dude of a fel- i low holding the door open for her to ' pass out, and grinning vs polite as a 1 basket of chips. And I duuno what 1 you think about such carryings-on, John, but I'm of opinion they'd ought to be looked into! Much obliged to you!" and she went away with the proceeds of the cucclc she had been i haiing cashed, safclv clatped into her alligator-skin reticu'e, leaving her nephew with a heart as heavy as lead within his bosom. At this very moment Janey Jones was walking over the swiftly was walking swiftly over the snow-carpeted roads past the Traxall burying ground. toward the old red farmhouse with the wellswoep in its rear, and the , small, many-paned windows. "A merry Christmas, Aunt Chrysten- ah?" she said, burst 'rg brightly into in the United States was made at Hag the room where the old lady sat paring , erstown, Md. deep-red apples for a dumpling. "I've J The iron deposited by the galvanic brought you a pair of knitted slippers ; battery is grayish white and takes a to wear over your shoes when your beautiful polish. feet are cold, these windy nights. I j Mulhall says the United States pro made them myself. And. oh. Aunt duces one-third of the steel manufac Chrystenah, may I just run up to the ' tured in the world. & 'Mi II r i, -v-v mm -: .r.r ON HER KNEES. garret and get a bunch of dried bone set, John's cough troubles him, and your dried herbs are so much better than we can get at the druggist's!" So the twenty-dollar gold coin was put back among the blankets and shawls in the blue chest, and the hundred-ton weight was off Janey Jones' lionrt nt lnsf. I "Stop Janey!" called out Aunt Chrys- ' tcnah's shrill old oice from the foot of the crooked wooden stairs. "I've been kind o' thinkin' ence ou was here last, and I want you to open the old blue chest " "Yes, Aunt Chrystenah." "And look in the corner below the till, where Grandmother Biggitt's green striped coverlet is folded " "Yes. Aunt Chrystenah." "And take out two o' them gold double eagles you'll find there in an old stocking one for you and one for your husband. You're young folks, and it's 'most a pity you shouldn't enjoy a little of your inheritance. A Christ mas present, Janey, fiom the old aunt who may never live to seen another Christmas day." The tears were streaming down Ja ney's cheeks, as she hugged and kissed the wrinkled old fairy godmother; but she was obliged to make haste to catch her train, with the precious coins in her pocket, and the bunch of dried boneset in her hand. John was sitting solitary and forlorn by the ash-choked fire when she came home, with sparkling eyes and cheeks redder than Aunt Chrystenah's big red apples. "A.h, John, is it you?" she said, ?-yly. "Come, wo must make haste and do our Christmas marketing now. I saw some beautiful oranges at Lin st.ys, and such hollyberries, and trails o' :rincess-pine, and a cluster of real mistletoe only think of that!" John looked up with pale face and WTmu r&jwfl haggard eyes, but he made no motion to rise. "What is Christmas to me?" said he, "since my wife has deceived and be trayed me?" "John!" 'Go to your darling youn lawyer's office, Jane!" said he. "My home is no place for a married flirt. Ah. yon think I am ignorant of a'.l these things; but you see you are mistaken !" With a low cry Janey threw herself on her knees at his feet, and unbur- dened her soul to him. "I was going to tell you all to-mor- row on Christmas day," she sobbed, "but since these dreadful fancies have entered into your heart, it is right to know all now. Forsive. me, dear forgive me for the only fault I have cemmitted being too anxious to be rich." "My brave little girl!" he said. "And you copied all those weary folios, and i wear a ring on my linger. "lhat you might know how dearly I loved you, John. And, after all, I might have spared myself the theft i for theft it was for good Aunt Chrys J tenah gave me double the money at ! last." "I won't wear the ring," said John. "It's too dearly purchased. But I'll exchange it for the silver-plated coffee pot your housewifely soul has so long coveted. Eh, my love? And then we can both enjoy it to-morrow on our Christmas tabid." The dinner was a success. The poor little widower, with the bald head and shabby suit, was there; "so was the young man from the boarding-house; so was the gray-haired lady from the fiat above, who gave music lessons, and did not often have a meat meal. Mr. and Mrs. Rogers were also there and everybody said what a nice Christ mas dinner it was for a young house keeper's first attempt. But the most precious guest of all. who sat invisible at the right hand of both host and hostess, was sweet con tent of heart, Peoples' Home Jour nal. Strictly Truthful. Crimsonbeak "I'll give that man Windham credit for being truthful." Yeast "Why?" He got up to speak last night and he said he wouldn't i kecv the audience a minute." "And is that as long as he kept them?" "Yes: they all got up and left the hall." Yonkers Statesman. '' Dtiihinzin; Mrs. Shrill "So you won't get me that new bonnet?" Mr. S. "No, I won't." Mrs. S "Very well, then. I'll go to every temperance meeting that conies along and people will think the reason I ain't decently dressed is because you've look to drink." New York Weekly. THE MOST USEFUL METAL. stccl raiIs were first llscu for rail- j wavs at chalk Farm, near Loudon, in ir The hot blast was introduced into furnace use sometime between 1S32 and 1S3S. A large part of the finest iron and stccl of commerce is made from mag netic ores. A chemical authority states that sil icon, as well as carbon, renders iron more fusible. It is said that the first cannon cast Ships built of steel are said to be able to carry twenty per cent more freight than those of iron. The Bessemer method of manufac turing iron and steel was patented by Henry Bessemer Oct. 17 and Dec. 5, 1S55, and Feb. 12, 1S36. Iron is the only metal which appears in more than one color. It is found of every shade, from almost white as silver to as black as charcoal. In July. 1S67, an inventor named William Robinson, announced the dis covery of a short and cheap method for making wrought iron from cast jron. The tensile strength of Austrian gun iron is 30,000 to 3S.000 pounds per square inch: of Russian. 27,000 pounds, and of Swedish, about 34,000 pounds. The tinning of iron, or what is now called galvanizing, was invented by some unknown artisan of Bohemia, and was introduced into England in 1CS1. Although the different forms of iron arc almost innumerable, it is consider i cd in the arts, under three different ' names, wrought-iron, east iron, and steel. Mulhall estimates that the total val ue of goods manufactured from iron m the world in 1S90 was 212,200,000; of steel- 256,700,000. making a total of 30S.900,000. Iron pens are mentioned by Cham oerlayne as early as 1CS5; steel pens were made in the last century, and, in 1S20, steel pens were sold at 7 4s, or about $36, a gross. A strip of zinc soldered beneath a gun barrel will protect the piece from rust. Under ordinary circumstances, zinc will protect iron from oxidation by galvanic action if the zinc sur face equals only one one-hundredth of the iron. RAM'S HORNLETS. Every successful Christian life must be a life of faith. Growth in grace is often helped by having the grace to say no. If seme people would laugh more, their doctor bills would be less. As soon as thought finds a body, it begins trying to move the world. When a young lion is hungry, how much better off is he than a wolf? The wages of sin is death, no matter how promptly we pay our pew rent. When praise is going up, showers of blessings are sure to be coming down. Considering what God has done, will soon lead us to rejoice in what he will do. "Lest I should be exalted above measure," is the explanation of why some unaccountable things happen to 1 a any ol us. feKMev;fS l?zztr:si''Mtm'dM S&D aMOfa&niFsmHSm, SSL Mils ifSSoJmsK?, ise&e y T U i is , COaooocMBc - V 4 -2) I New Year's Duck. "Oh! Nellie, you should see the love ly duck I got as a present this morn ing it's a perfect beauty I am going to have it for our New Year's dinner," said Mrs. English to her fiiend Mrs. Lane, who had come in to see her dur ing the afternoon and talk over the Christinas celebration of a few days be- j fore t ..rc Is your duck dressed cr alive. Kate?" asked Nellie in some haste. "Oh! it's alive, I am going to dress it myself," answered Kate, "it's not much trouble to dress a duck do you think it would be?" "Well, Kate, I really pity you. I must tell you what a dreadful time I had with the one we killed last week, it yet makes me shiver all over only to think of it, it was such a terrible day the memory of it will neer fade away! I really think my back has not once stopped aching since I picked that duck." "Do tell me, Nellie, won't their feath ers come out, or what was the trouble?" asked Kate. "I am beginning to feel alarmed." "I'll begin by telling you how we go: the duck," began Nellie. "One night after I had gone up stairs with the baby, and John was smoking his pipe it must have been after 12 o'clock there was a faint knock at the kitchen door. I li.eard John going to the door and speaking to some one. and then he and the some one went into the gar den to the chicken coop, and presently I heard a loud noise and fuss among the hens. It was Jim Peters. He had won a duck at a raflle at a tavern and asked John to let lilm put it in our hen coop until further notice. "Now, either the duck did, not feel very comfortable or the hens did not feel as much at ease as formerly, 1 don't know what caused it. but there was a constant war going on among them. Why, I didn't get one egg while that fowl was in there. So I told John to tell Jim to remove it or we wou'd kill it. At last John bought it from Jim and killed it, and said I should roast it for dinner. "Now, John killed it before he went to work, but I thought if 1 woud begin to dress it after 9 o'clock I could soon get it in the oven. Then I knew noth ing about ducks: now I am much wiser. "I asked ma you know ma just came the day before from the west; it's the first time she had been to see us since we were keeping house. I asked ma whether I should scald the duck or pick it dry. She said she had always picked hers dry and had saved .the down for her feather beds. So I began to pick it dry. "I picked and picked and pulled until my fingers ached it ssemed as though the feathers were grown in to stay, and it took so long I was beginning to get nervous, so when ma wasn't looking I poured some boiling water over the duck to hurry up matters. "But, dear me, then the real trouble began. The hot water made the skin so tender and greasy that it tore off in large pieces, and the down stuck like wax. I really think if I had saved all that down it would have been enough X I PICKED AND PICKED AND PULLED, for at least four large pillows. When I thought one side was nearly done it would be all covered with another coat of down and fuzz and pinfeathers. and I don't know what all that duck didn't have to cover itself with. "No wonder ducks never get wet when they go into the water. Why, this one's skin was one sheet of fat and feathers. "When the clock struck 10 that duck , looked perfectly dreadful. I wish you 1 nntilil lA fiAnn T f1l ! . - 1 u u "ttc cc" 4eu, ssusu i ciiiAiuai. tutu, iucu, uen uia. saw the tears in my eyes she said if I would hold the baby she would pick awhile. So I sat down to rest why, really, 1 felt so faint I could scarcely stand any longer, just fussing with that horrid fowl. lis 'Now you know how fretful the baby she is teething, and it takes one of . ., , of us to entertain her all the time or she annoys the family on the other side of the house every time she cries some one comes over to see 'what ails that baby.' "When John moves again I am going to have him move into a single house, and then I can let the baby cry all she wants to. "After ma had picked until she was tired a bright Idea came into my head, and I told her I would skin the duck entirely then no one would find any pin feathers and it would look smooth and sleek all over. It only provoked me that I had not thought of doing it before. I don't know why it is, but somehow my bright ideas always come too late. "So I gave the baby to ma and told them to watch this interesting per formance. "But it was easier said than done My, how greasy that skin was' It wa almost impossible to get a good tigii? hold I pulied and jerked and wishfH I had never had any bright ideas unli it was finally skinned and the clocT pointed to 10 minutes to 12 and no din ner. "Then I had to run to the corner grocery to get some dried beef I very . M i ttiV.J :?3 r i ":h . Jr -T v '" r-iV-iV -TT.-.-" yyli " '-. I i i kmJi I PUT IT IN THE OVEN, well knew John detested dried beef for d nncr, but they had nothing else, and when John came home he ate his din ner (?) in silence. But I promised to have the duck roasted for supper. "With this prospect in view I went to work more cheerfully, yet not very satisfied, I fear. In order to have the duck well done I put it in the oven soon after dinner, and was surprised to see how small it got the longer it roasted the smaller it grew, and it Icoked so funny, something like a skinned cat; when in comes John, bringing a friend with him to help eat the duck! "Well, no one can imagine my feel ings. When they sat down to the ta ble I noticed John looking around for something, and finally when he saw the horrid little shrivcled-up thing he burst out into a hearty laugh, saying Why. Nellie, is this all that is left of our beautiful duck?' I never before felt so mortified. John tried to find a tender piece for our guest, but it was impossible to find anything tender on that duck it was as dry as chips, worse thau the driest dried beef, and oh, so tasteless and so dark do you think I roasted it too long, Kate? "I hope I may never, never again see another duck." Anrlcnt ami Modern v Year'it Festival The first day (calends) of January. as marking the beginning of the year, was observed as a public holiday in Rome from at least the time of the Julian reformation of the calendar. Ovid alludes to the abstinence from litigation and strife, the smoking al tars, the white-robed processions to the capitol; and later writers describe the exchanges of visits, the giving and receiving of presents (strenae), the masquerading, and the feasting with which the day was in their time cele brated throughout the empire. Liba nius (c. 346 A. D.) speaks of it as being in his day the one great holiday com mon to all under the Roman rule. When, about the fifth century, the 23th of December had gradually become a fixed festival commemorative of the nativity, the 1st of January ultimately also assumed a specially sacred char acter as the octave of Christmas day and as the anniversary of the circum cision of our Lord, and as such it still figures in the calendars of the various branches of the eastern and of the western church, though oaly as a feast of subordinate imporlance. Three Kicnl of 189C. Eighteen huuured and ninety-six will always be memorable in literary annals as ending the lives; of three great female writers Harriett Beech er Stowe, the novelist, Kate Field, the Journalist, and Gail Hamilton, the versatile authcress. The Iatter's sig nature was a nom do plume, composed of the second syllable in her Christian name and of Hamilton, the village of her blrth-p'ace. Few identified her spinster appellation of Mary Abigail Dodge. 1. ft -''? 1 f, x M ' D - VOTED BY MACHINERY. the New Device Glvni i Thorough Trlcl at Itochentcr, X. Y. The Meyers voting machine was tried with a fair degree of success in th pre cincts of Rochester, N. Y., in the recent election. In spite of mishaps af all Rinds, uni versal satisfaction Is expressed with the machines. Voters were surprised at the ease and rapidity with which they were able to make their political preferences known. Thoso that voted the straight ticket, and had therefore to push only one knob, met with no per plexity whatever. They could march in and out with In and out at the rate of from two to totir a minute. Those voters that vote1 a solit ticket required a little mort time. They had to push a knob foi each candidate they voted for. StiU they voted with surprising rapidity OnttniimAo &l .A.&.n axK h & 4ltv a 1' Ar. ouiuvuuua uiu tuics nnv ui iuc i4i neralerfwomfnTuteTi seventy votes an hour was the average Had the polling clerks been able f verify names more rapidly the averaj would have been ssmewhat higher. I was they and not the voters that cause the most delay. One of the most sa'i factory features of the machine was th rapidity and accuracy with which it permitted the result of the election to be known. Within twenty minuUs after the closing of the polls the c m pany's central office was in possession of the result of the voting for prc-it'en lial and gubernatorial candidates in -1' the districts except half a dozrr.. The were obtained by 6 o'clock. By 9 o'cloc the results of the election in all dis tricts on all candidates were known a" curately. Tlio 'Whole ;iolo a Gniiej-in!. The Parisian doctors and speculative philosophers are great fellows for mak ing odd calculations on all subjects. One of the latest is one concerning the human family since the beginning of time. It Is a long magazine ar.iclf and gives much that is intere-Uing in the way of human family statistics, but the most striking portions are those which give figures on the num bers of human beings that have in habited the earth and have died and been buried in it since the first man was created. According to these cu rious figures, the earth has been peo pled by no less than CC,C27,S 12,337, 075.2CG human inhabitants since the beginning of time. To bury this vast number the whole landed surface would have to be dug over 120 times. Had you ever thought that you were living in the midst of such a gigan tic cemetery? St. Louis Republic. AVc Don't Want Tlieni. Lady Henry Somerset is a woman who means well and who does a great deal of good, but she lets her philan thropy carry her too far when she ad vocates a subscription in England to pay the passage of destitute Arme nians to the United States. The sum required is $2." each, and Lady Som erset's coadjutor. Miss Frances Wil lard, has a plan for providing the im migrants with work when they reach here. It may be an ungracious thin:: to say, but the Armenians are not wanted here. V.'e have too many pauper immigrants already. Philadel phia Ledger. Tlio Kingdom of God. The kingdom of God begins with but it is to make itself manifest with out. It is to penetrate the feelings habits, thoughts, words, acts of him who is the subject of it. At last it n to penetrate our whole social existence to mold all things according to its laws So there will be discovered beneath all the politics of earth, sustaining the order of each country, upholding the charity of each household, a city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God. Frederick Denison Maurice. The Hour of Kcclioiiln. "Mr. Meckton," she said, severely, "I want you to explain a remark that you made just as you left the house last night." "II really don't remem ber saying anything." "I asked you why you were opposed to woman's suf frage and you replied: 'Because we're bossed too much as it is.' " Washing ton Star. Card. The eyes of the wicked queen glit tered fatefully. "If I play my cards right," she hissed, "my hated rival will be overwhelmed." But even as she spoke she paled with terror. "What's trumps?" she gasped, glaring into space. Detroit Tribune. THOUGHTFUL OBSERVATIONS. There is hope for the man who does n't have to fall down more than once to learn how to stand up. Hard speech between those who have loved is hideous in the memory, like the sight of the greatness and beauty sunk into vice and rags. Never hold any one by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for .f people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them. The difference between an emausias: and a crank is the- difference between great earnestness in sensible work and great senselessness in advocating much-needed reforms. Close familiarity with a few greaj books will do more than anything els? to enrich and discipline your mind. It we walk day after day with some illus trious writer we will naturally fall into his pace. Real merit of any kind cannot be concealed; it will be discovered, and nothing can depreciate it but a man's showing it himself. It may not always be rewarded as it ought; but it will always be known. A man that only translates shall never be a poet; nor a painter that only j cenies; nor a swimmer that swims al ways -with bladders; so people that trust -wholly to others' charity and without industry of their cwn, will al ways be poor. To lenow how to learn, so that when nr.icher of lnueh ability ninistcrs to need arises knowledge may be quickly them. obtained, Is a better provision for the Mr?. J. A. Meenk, of Alto, "ui3., late business of life than is afforded by the iy deceased, left her entire estate to tha largest or richest store of information , pacr.ed away m the memory perhaps so packed as to bo inaccessible when wasted. 1 TOLD BY THE PLANETS FAMOUS ASTROLOGER GIVES SOME FREE READINGS. flow the Lives of 3Iea nud Women Are Intlacnceil by tlio SIrus or the Zoiliao - -Kevlral of tlio Ancient Art ot tlio lvsypttaus. STROLOGY: Thl3 art cr science en ables the astrolo ger to read from the horoscope, or map of the heav ens at the time of a person's birth, many useful, curi ous and important things relating to one's life, charac- i lorlstlca. lift r-. riase.retC'The'fact amdevl justify at all times and to all persons the conclusion that some are natural ly fortunato while others are Just the opposite and some just an average. The astrologer always finds a marvel ous sympathy existing between the in dications of horoscope and the life of the person born at any particular time. For the benefit of the readers of this paper wo will publish FREE in theso columns: The- zodiacal sign rising at your birth Including your ruling planet and a brief character reading by As trology. Those wishing readings should send the following data written plainly in ink: Sex, raco or national ity, place ot birth including state, county and city, year, month, date, hour and minute of birth, A. M. or P. M. as near as possible; also give namo or Initials and address under which you wish yoar reading published. If you know the date but do not know the time of birth and wish a reading send two 2-cent stamps for further instruc tions. Letters will bo numbered as re ceived and the readings published In regular order so those wishing to take advantage of this liberal ofTcr should write at ence for wo can only allow one column in each Issue for this depart ment. Addrea Prof. G. W. Cunning ham, Dept. 4, No. 101 South Clinton St.. Chicago, 111. Note: The following readings ato given according to data furnished. The description may vary slightly in somo points in accordance with which sign the ruling planet may be found. It al ways partakes of the indications of tho sign in which it is placed at birth, also the planets in configuration with it: ?lls Mnry, Potnilt. You have the zodiacal sign Sagit tarius, whica Jupiter rules, rising at your birth, and therefore Jupiter Is your ruling planet or signiQcator. Sag ittarius usually denotes a person above medium height; a well proportioned and commanding figure; the complex ion clear and healthy; the hair near a chestnut coior growing thin and form ing a notch above the temples; the forehead is full and broad: the ejes ex pressive; the laugh is loud, merry and cheerful; you ere jovial, happy, gener ous and charitable: you are kind to an imals and fond of a fine horse; you are not as conservative as you should be and are liable to get into too largo deals; you are a natural leader and have plenty of courage to carry any scheme through that you know is legit imate; you always have a certain kind of good luc"; that does not seem to come to others; you may apparently be on the brink of a financial precipice and just ready to tumble over, yet something will turn in your faor and pull you through all right. r.iul C Clilcnwo. You have the zediacal sign Taurus, which Venus rules, rising at your birth, and therefore Venus is year ruling planet or siguificator. The sign Taurus usually denotes a person with short, but full, strong and well-set stature; broad forehead; dark, curly hair; dark complexion; broad full chest and shoulders; short thick neck; wide nose; full, pouting lips; you will have a habit of shaking your head sideways when talking earnestly. You are very qu:et, peaceable and patient in your disposition, have great love for the beautiful in art and nature; you are ery fond of the fine arts, such as music, painting, drawing, sketching, etc. You are fond of gcod living and generally man.gc to get it; yen are subject to at'acl-.s of the blue.; without any apparent vocd caute. Yt:i seldom lose control of your temper, jot when jcu do you become furious, "on dis-!i!-e to change your business or loca tion and have great love for home and its pleasant surroundings. Ho I'o.insl On:. A good East Winthrop, Maine, deacon got into a discussion the other day with a ncwsp.per man relative to the size of a hole a horse could go through, i he solution came quicker than he an tic.pated. Going to his stable, he found that his horse, weighing over 1,000 pounds, had fallen through a ?cutt!e Into the cellar, ten feet below, without receiving a scratch, although the dimensions of the scuttle were fifty-four inches one way by 13 the o;hc-r. Ex. Auotht-r tiortor hrsde i ire; a ai.st kis8 hi . i c au-c t u'iu is tko sir n.j. A West Chester (i-i., i.: ;id;.i c:f s mortgage with nine hundred aiiver dol lars. The Portuguese say that no man can be a good husband who decs not eat a good breakfast. People who soli newspapers in the streets of Moscow .re compelled to ap pear in uniform. The syndicate has been formed to tunnel the Crc-at St. Ucrnard, connect ing Turin and Lausanncby rail. Oregon is :.ch in markswomen of note. 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