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Ifr-S '. Ftter- 3R--' ? T ?iiA-fe 5: !!' j'i ,. - -. . - - "Vv r r U" i VOLUME XXVIL NUMBER 40. COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA.JWEDNESDAY. JANUARY 13, 1897. WHOLE NUMBER 1,392. m (wtaias mvlxiwI. 'Y. :&: s U ' VKLT r&w fr it . . '.' r .' rtt -aim j..-? tm: !v-" Lv ! MAN ON THE PILE OF STONES By Robert Barf. "Tliere are more things in heaven and earth, HoraUo, than arc dreamt of iu your philosophy," said Hamlet to his friend. The statue' of my Lord Horatio Nelson stands between heaverf and earth, and has stood t there . for thirty-si years, more or less, unmo lested. "What Horatio dreamt of in his lihitosephy as he looked down ott all those generations of people uu the 'bus tops far below him, will never be known, but doubtless he was somewhat surprised the other day to see Mr. Har ii'ison climb over the brass crown df ' the tall pile of stones with the end of a wreath of flowers in his hand. We may Imagine Nelson in surprise say ing: "Hallo, Harrison! "What's up?" and Harrison replying quite truthfully: 4 "I am, my lord." Mr. Harrison is a celebrated stteple 'ack, and I stood watching him the other day work his way up the tali .Nelson pillar in Tralalgar square with ustonishing expertness and agility of limb, and the way in which he at tended to his hazardous business filled -me with admiration. I don't know how far bjw heaven Lord Nelson is, but he is ltd feet above the earth, and they gave Mr. Harrison the contract for reaching him, with the proviso that . he was to drive no spikes in the monu ment itself. The Nc.son monument in Trafalgar square is built of solid stone, and is therefore unlike most other shafts of the eaaic size and height. The tall column further down the street which commemorates the London fire, is hol low, and has a stair-case running up ..the centrr; so bus the Column Ven domn in I'.-.ris.ebuilt as it is of cannon, captured from .arious nations, and bent lino slioets like boiler plates. JJut the Nelson statue stands en solid stone, with the four huge lions, by Lundseer, . guarding the pedestal. "And what was Mr. Harrison doing up beside Lord Nelson?" asks the reader. Thereby hangs a tale, and also a green "wreath weighing nine tons. Mr. Harrison is usually engaged in the commercial business of putting caps on chimneys and things of that sort. He comes from the smoky town of Sheffield, and from a land studded with tall factory chimneys, which be sides furnishing bread and butter for numerous employes, also furnishes bread and butter for Mr. Harrison. How came he, then, to leave his com mercial occupation and tackle a memo rial that stands for war? I suppose that America had something to do with the elevation of Mr. Harrison of Shef field, just as it had with the elevation of Mr. Harrison of indiana, seven or eight years ago. Most countries have had something to do with Mr. Harri son of Sheffield and his giddy climb. England has been gettiug it in the neck from all over the place for the past year. The Englishman is a slow and stolid person, not given to panics or sudden excitement he is difficult to arouse to anything like enthusiasm, but he is at last gradually waking up. Within recent years Portugal, France, Spain, Germany. Russia and the United Statos have all been saying unkind things about him, even the de crepit, sensuous Turk thinks he can take advantage of this unanimity of SIR. HARRISON IS A STEEPLE JACK. dislike to have his little shy at John Bull, while John is afraid to make a move that might help the Armenians for fear he will set the whole shop ablaze. Public opinion in England has been getting red hot for some time past, but statesmen with responsibility on their shoulders, who know more than the ordinary map in the street of the dangers they have to encounter, have been moving slowly, and with caution; so the Englishman, unable to make his slow-going government move, has betaken himself to the amusement of decorating the monument of the late Mr. Nelson. There is no particular reason why this should be done this particular year more than any otber year. It is not the centenary of the event, the period when nations gener ally have a blow-out over times that are past; it is in fact, if I remember rightly, the ninety-first anniversary of the battle of Trafalgar. Why, then, should this not have been done on the ninetieth, or the eighty-eighth, or the eightieth year, and why should the placid statue of Lord Nelson be sur prised this year with the mounting of Mr. Harrison of Sheffield? England, as a rule, is not given to celebrating victories, unless it is by a quiet dinner with something good to drink on the board; but she seems to have come to the conclusion that it would not be a bad thing his year to remind people in general that this little one-eyed, one-armed man annihi lated some years ago the combined fleets of France and Spain, and that he made a big Etir In several quarters of the globe before he was himself snuffed out on the deck of the well named Victory. ' It is a gentle intimation, by means of a nine-ton wreath of green stuff, that upon occasion England has been checked once too often, and when that happened somebody invariably got hurt. But as' I have said, my admiratiea the other day was not for Horatio Nel son, hut for the intrepid Mr. Harrison and Bis nimble assistants. He did the trick witk eighteen-foot ladders. He Blasted a ladder at the base of the MniuneBt and tied the top of it with ropes; then another ladder was run up m tfce tf t the trtt, the lower part f , m r"r iRS i"l the second ladder being roped to the top rounds of the first, while its top' was fastened firmly to the monument; thus Mr. Harrison went up and up in' an incredibly short space of time1. It was supposed there would be" soma difficulty in getting over the coping at ,the top of the monument, but this pre sented no difficulty to the active Mr: Harrison who speedily found himself in a position to shake hands with Lord Nelson a hundred and seventy-six feet tram the ground. Trafalgar square, where the monu ment stands, was laid out somewhat less than sixty-six years ago, af.d so is a comparatively modern feature df London. Sir Robert Peel called it the finest site in Europe, but in that 1 think he was wrong. I should give tliat title to the Place de Concord in Paris, or the top of the hill in Brus sels where the huge block of modem public buildings stands in a position where it can be seen from almost any part of the city, standing high above the town, and commanding the wilder ness of roofs that clusters at its feet England was somewhat slow in re cognizing Lord Nelson. He bequeathed to the nation his illegitimate daughter, and the nation paid not the slightest attention to his bequest. It was not till 1840 that this monument was erect ed at the cost of nearly a hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Even when the shaft was erected a long time elapsed before Landseer's lions were placed at the foot. The great animal painter took his time over the lions; and in one respect they were simiiar to the base of the statue of liberty in New York that Is, they became a standard newspaper joke because of the delay in placing them in position, it was not until 1868 that they were set to guard Lord Horatio Nelson, and then the papers unkindly said that they were not like lions at all, arid that the old lion at the top of Northumberland house refused to recognize them as be ing of the same species as himself. It was even said that the lions at the zoo framed a protest to parliament against the lions which Sir Edward Landsecr had placed in the most prom inent position-in London. Succeeding generations, however, have reversed this newspaper verdict, and artists of to-day claim the lions of Landsecr are the most noble effigies of that dis tinguished beast that mankind has yet executed. The tall monument took three years In building, and so far as I know has never been decorated be fore. The old ship Victory, on which Nel son died, still lies in Portsmouth har bor, and the otber day a wreath was placed on the spot where the admiral expired a few hours after victory was assured. The Victory, on the day the monument was decorated, was also cov ered with bunting, and lying near was a French yacht which made a sympa thetic display of color. Just as the old battleship and the new yacht lay in peace together, let us hope the recriminations between na tions will cease, and that lambs and lions all over this green earth will not disturb our meditations with their heretofore eternal row. HE RESIGNED. How the l'ftst master at 1'ony, Montana, Did It. In the early days of Pony, a mining camp in Montana, the postofiice con sisted of an old tea-box, into which all the letters were dumped, the citizens helping themselves, says an exchange. There were only forty citizens in Pouy, and, there being no money in the office, it was with considerable difficulty that the storekeeper was persuaded to ac cept the postmastership. One day a stranger rode into camp and called on the postmaster. "Don't you know." bt began, sternly, "that it is illegal to allow people to plek out their own letters like that?" "Waal, stranger." said the postmas ter. "I don't know that it is any of your business how this office is run." "Rut 1 am a United States postofflce inspector " "In this case," said the postmaster, "we will finish up this postofiice right now." He took the tea-box. placed it in the middle of the road. and. with a good run. kicked It clear across the gulch. "Now. then." he resumed, "you go right back to Washington and tell the department from me that the accounts are closed and the postmaster at Pony has resigned." rresrrln;j Wood. There have been a number of pro cesses patented for preserving wood. One of them, very generally used, con sists in immersing the timber in a bath of corrosive sublimate. Another process consists in first filling the pores with a solution of chloride of calcium under pressure, and next forcing in a solution of sulphate ol iron, by w'lich an insoluble sulphate of lime is formed in the body of thq wood, which is thus rendered nearly as hard as stone. Wood prepared in this way is nonv very largely used for railroad ties. Another process con sists in impregnating the wood with a solution of chloride of zinc. Yet an other way is to thoroughly impreg nate the timber with oil of tar containing creasote and" a crude solution of acetate of iron. The process consists in putting the wood in a cylindrical vessel, connected with a powerful air pump. The air is with drawn, and the liquid subjected to pressure, so that as much of it as pos- sible is forced into the pores of the wood. The processes above given not only season the timber so that it is not subject to dry rot. but also keep It from being injured by the weather, or being attacked by insects or worms. A Larger Arm- Callrtt For. In his annual report to the secretary of war, General Miles, commanding the army, renewed the recommendation for an increase of the enlisted force. He would have the enlisted strength based on ttie population, at the rate of one soldier for every 2,000 of the people as a minimum, and one to every 1,000 of the people as a maximum. This would give us a force ranging from 35,000 to 70,000 enlisted men, t the discretion of the president. The army has re mained stationary at 25,000 for many years, although our population has in creased rapidly. The new coast de fences which congress has authorized, require more men to garrison the forts aad man the guns than can be fur nished BBer the prtMut Uws. 914r$ Pathptin Sn&nflft . ...w..v v.i.vv.i. ...w x ww.w.j The Rev. Dr. Philip Anderson, who has returned to his home in Pomona Valley, in southern California, after an absence of two years among the islands in the southern Pacific archi1 pelago, last summer preached 16 prob ably the moat remarkable congregation In the world. The doctor is the mis sionary of the Pacific Ocean Evangeli cal Missibn union, and his duties caused him to spend much time in the Hawaii an Islands. He preached in Honoiuld for several weeks, and there attracted the attention of President Dole, of the Hawaiian republic. The doctor desired to visit Molokai, the famous island to which lepers arc exiled by the national board of health of the Hawaiian republic. No one except- the officers of tho national board is permitted to land at Molokai, and even the officers are guided by strict regulations as to where they go and what they do in the leper colonj-. Pres ident Dole gave permission to Re?. Dr. Anderson to go to Molokai for one, but he was constantly to be accompa nied by a physician in the service of the national board of health. A Tragedy 0f rovc atul Scjr sacrifice. A pathetic love tragedy is being played in the leper colony of Molokai. A beautiful native girl fell in love and married the man of her choice. Soon he developed symptoms of leprosy. They were slight, and might have been concealed, but were not. The young husband was banished from Honolulu to Molokai. His beautiful girl bride jynr f RPifSfl "I NEVER FELT SO SAD AS WHEN THESE 350 AFFLICTED MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN ENTERED THE CHAPEL. AMONG THEM WERE SEVERAL AMERICANS WHO HAD LIVED IN HONOLULU AND HAD CONTRACTED LEPROSY AMONG THE NATIVES. THEY CAME IN LIMPING ON CRUTCHES AND CANES. EVERY ONE IN THE STRANGE ASSEMBLAGE UORE MARKS OF LEPROSY." Rev. Dr. Philip Anderson. followed. She preferred the place with its hideous menace, to Honolulu with out her husband. Now she attends di vine worship in the leper colony, and is a pathetic figure among the con demned, into whose limping ranks the dread disease will soon push her, for none that live at Molokai ever escape. It is. in fact, an unwritten law of j the Samoaus that a bride shall share j the fate of the husband if he contracts . leprosy that she shall go with him to the leper colony and there, without! hope, await the approach of this hor- ' riblo, lingering death. The young bride, whh the pathos of despair on her countenance, looking sadly but re signedly upon the miserable men and women about her, was noticed by the Rev. Dr. Aiu'eison standing at the edge of the strange congregation to which he preached. The island of Molokai," said Rev. Dr. Anderson, in relating his exper iences there to a Sunday World corre spondent, "is about ten miles long and fair wide. Its name means land of precipices. There is but one landing place on the Island, and that near the colony, so even if it were possible to ASBESTOS BANDAGES. They lUir Come Into tVe as Surgieal DreesingK. Asbestos has come into use as a sur gical dressing. Its softness to the touch and glistening, silky appearance com mend it as being unirritating to the skin and cleanly, says the Philadelphia Press. But the chief reason for its use is its indestructibility by fire. This quality makes it possible to render as- bestos surgical dressings absolutely j free from germs. No other form of I lint or cloth can be thus sterilized. An- ' tiseptic surgery was introduced a little after the death of President Garfield. The original idea was to kill all the germs and microbes in an operation wound by means of strong disinfecting solutions, such as carbolic acid or bi chloride of mercury. All operations v.ere carried on .under a spray of an tiseptic solutions until the surgeons began to poison themselves by too free ise of them. Next the surgeons founu that if they boiled all their instruments and dressings they could dispense with the spray and many of the "antiseptic precautions." The ingenuity of instrument-makers and surgeons was ex hausted in devising new forms of ster ilizers. All hospitals in the city have a great number of devices for steriliz ing dressings with superheated steam tinder a high pressure. Instruments are boiled in various solutions or baked in ovens. The chief material used is purified gauze, which has taken the place of lint. Immense quantities of it are used every day in the large hos pitals, for a gauze dressing is never used twice. Asbestos dressings can be used over and over again, for no germs can stand the heating that asbestos can go through, and each time it be comes as good as new and absolutely germ-proof. It will be chiefly used for military surgery. The great problem for army surgeons is how to be perfect ly antiseptic' or aseptic, which means simply absolutely clean in a surgical sense, with the limited means at their servir, .A handful of asbestos can Iks sterilized instantly in a soldier's camp- in ths I filter Hnlnnv cross the towering cliffs and fearful' gulches and canyons, no one could get away from Molokai. Ait At fiil Picture: i:The territory occupied by the iep'efs. contains about i8,000 aerC3. It lies iM a little valley, well watered and pro tected by mountains from the wiud3 of the great ocean. Orauges, lemons and bananas grtiw wild.. The chief product is rice. The iepcrs are cared. for at the expense of Hawaii: There are now nearly 600 leper in the c'olonyV A few of them have been there for twenty-five jxars, but most of them 'bavo been' transported to, Molokai in the last ten years. The lepers know there is absolutely no hope for then? to leave the lepercoloay and that the joys of home are forever denied them. "The very air In the colony seems heavy with leprosy, for there is a pecu liar sweetish odor wherever one goes among the homes in Molokai. As I went past the hospital, the odor of the seventy or eighty lepers who lay on cots in the dooryard, or who sat idly about the broad porch, was dis tressing, i met the Rev. Father Drake, who voluntarily went to Molokai front Syracuse, N. Y., to take the place of Father Damien,' who, himself a vigor ous young man, went to live in Molokai to work among the lepers lintil death released him from the inevitable year's of pain and disease. "Father Drake told mc that he had suffered the first stages of leprosy, al though he had avoided the disease a year or two by extreme care in his mode of living and association with the lepers. He said that the earliest symp toms of leprosy were constant head aches, slight nausea ami later numb ness of the fingers and toes, so that one might hold his fingers or toes to any unbearably hot substance and feel no heat. Then the fingers and toes begin to mortify at the joints, and later to drop away. Father Drake had lost but one finger joint when we saw him, and he believed he might live ten years more. He said he was happy that he could minister to the suffering and dying at Molokai as no one else could, and his only desire to prolong his own life was to cheer and convert those about him. Heroism of Women. "There ar3 Tour young nuns who have gene to a living death at Molo kai. One is from Syracuse, N. Y., two arc sisters from Newark, N. J., and the fourth came from Philadelphia. Two have been attacked by the dread dis- case, one -is probably jiot yet innocu- i lated with leprosy, while the other bad been mildly attacked when I was there: j I fire. Asbestos is made from a mineral substance and consists of fine crystal line clastic fibers. It is quite cheap. A single fiber of asbestos fuses to a white enamel, but in the match it is capable of resisting ordinary flame. The an cients used it to wrap around bodies to preserve the ashes of the dead when on the funeral pile. A workman in an En glish foundry was accused of witch craft in the early part of the century, for having a pair of stockings which he cleansed in a furnace instead of a laundrv. Anecdote of nro,, ruo.-L-. Thc cffort bein made ,n ters t0 persua(le a jll(ge to , u i.,Tf !; . s.i ' 7 i I f " , " anc- dote told of Bjron Pollock when bo was Chief Baron Pollock. On one oc- , . , casion someone hinted retirement pretty broadly to the baron, entirclv with a view, the person urged to the prolongation of such a valuable life. As soon as he saw the drift of the speaker's remarks the old man rose, and with his grim, dry gravity said: "Will you dance with me?" Naturally the well wisher stood aghast at the chief baron's strange re quest, but the latter who prided him self particularly upon his sturdy legs, began to caper about with youthful vivacity. Seeing his visitor standing surprised, thc baron tripped up to him and said: "Well, if you won't dance with me, will you box with me:" and "squaring up"" to him, half in jest and half in earnest, 'literal ly bo-ed the gentleman out of the room. After that tht old h , had no more visitors anxiously inaulr- I ing after his health and suggesting re tirementWestminster Gazette. Child CharSt with Murder. Annie Isaac, 13 years of age, is in jail at Columbia, S. C, -charged with murdering her" 12-year-old cousin, Rosa Joseph. The deed was done with an axe. London has 75,000 street lamps, Paris 50,000, and New York 28,000. Mi Mnlnkia khnrl ,. ...w.vmu .w...u. These ntif.s go into the little frame homes of the lepers'; sit by them id .their -hours of pain and suffering in the hospital, and minister to the .re ligiouftLwelfaie of the dying. The little girfsja Molokai, who have been torn from their homes In Honolulu and oth !er" Hawaiian (Owns, almost worship tho nuns, and have found much' sofrice ill :the presence of the heroic American .women, who have gone to the colony as heroes and heroines in this world those meficans at Molokai are heroic. f "I was the first white -iJefsdfl; e- icept Father Drake, who had preached an tbVlittie chapel at Molokai. When ?fc became known in the colony that Jih3' strange- white man' Jttns going -to preach in the chapel, nearly every leper in the place who could get about came immediately on the ringing of the bell. The physician who accoms panicd me had the windows and doors of the little wooden structure opened wide, so that there might be fresh air in the meeting. He also advised mc to handle nothing in the church, and to touch no one there. "I never felt so sad as when these 330 afflicted men, women and children entered the chapol. Among them were several Americans who had lived in Honolulu and had contracted leprosy among the natives. They came in limp ing on crutches and canes. There were, too, a few Englishmen who hob bled down the harrow aisles. There were two English women, who could not have been over thirty-five years of age, who were without fingers but had preserved their fresh complexion. About half a dozen Frenchmen and three Germans were in the throng. They had all been sailors and had con tracted leprosy in the Hawaiian is lands. All the rest were natives of the islands. Every one in the strange as- I semblage bore marks of leprosy. rat li tic liny ami ;irl Lepers. , "The little girls and boys who came to hear me preach were the most pa thetic of all. A few were attracti re in spite of their sad, pinched and tev.'ful faces. A few children were as young as ten years, and about twenty were between fourteen and eighteen years. One little girl, the child of parents from San Francisco, who had been born in Honolulu, was carried to a bench. She had lost both her feet and several fingers. She had been in the colony for four years, and the nuns said she went to sleep every night weeping and longing for her father and mother. Another Hawaiian girl of fourteen had lost one hand and an car Her remaining hand was so weak that BOOKS AND AUTHORS. Mrs. Humphrey Ward is ha-d at work unpn a small play, to which she is said to be deoting some of her best energies. It has been proposed by citizens of Portland, Ore:, to build a bicycle path from that city to the base of :-ount Hood, a distance of fifty-four miles. A writer in an English literary pub- t lication declares that Jules Vernp never made more than $1,000 in any one year. Zola's annual income is believed to be about $00,000. The great linguists have nevei h:en ' "" "- 4" ""-" aiicciauj. .NO crrnot corn in hnii nrtnn.:. areat linguist was also great as an ... r?i t -t-. . , -i a& an T ' , " '' " 1, lan"r"SC3 docs not sceni tc coexist with taleit in othr line 1 1 In Another novelist who has taken to ' Play writing is sr Walter Besant. Ho . as JUSI DIOlIs,1L om- a uok of draw- ing-room pieces written in collabora- j tion with W. H. Pollock, and dei.end- ing for interest on the course. of the plot rather than on sparkling epi ;ram. 'SCRAPS. There are said to be over 3 000,000 deities in thc Hindoo mytholog,. Two million glass eyes a:e manufac tured yearly in Germany and Switzer land The largest theatrical building is the Grand Opera of Paris, which covers three acres. In proportion to its size, Britain has eight times as .many miles of railway as the United States. An apple contains as much nutriment as a potato, and in a plcasanter and more wholesome form. In some of the farming districts of China pigs arc harnessed to small wagons and made to draw them. After long agitation on the subject, a monument to Jules Simoii, the i French statesman, is soon to be erected. a stffififtar friend held the hymn hoolt for the littfe one so that she could sing with the others. Tlwre were several little boys,' bright-eyed and evidently from good Hawaiian families, who had lost ingers and other members. They seemed nlor cheerful than any of the others probably because they did not realize that they were never again to teo home and parents anu friends. "Wha all were seated crutches ami tall canea ek up here and ther all over the chapef. A few persons re clined on their benches because of in ability to sit up. I gave a half-hour talk on the blessings of a resigned Christian life and the joy that awaits Christians in tho other world. I think two-thirds of my audience knew En glish sufficiently well to follow mc. Lcprr Tray for a Cure. "When I had finished a tall Scotch man, evidently a former sailor, of about fifty years of age, arose and of fered prayer. Wfcert he had finished a native of Honolulu, who, 1 was told, had been a rich rice growcF Jrf tho islands, spoke for about five minutes. He said he wanted to tell the Ameri can man how glad the lepers of Molo kai were td have a person from the outside world come to see them, and that the event Avoiild never be forgot ten by any one in tho colonj as long as life remained. He broke into tears and said he wished I would tell the white people what a horrible thing leprosy was and to urge the white doc- 31iil5il3 tors lo discover some cure for the dis ease. Between his sobs he said that if it had not been for a hope of hap piness in heaven there would be sui cides in Molokai every day. He said they were all living as best they knew how, hoping for speedy death to re move them from miserv. As he nro- ceeded the congregation began to weep, and the lamentation of the girls and young women was the most affecting thing I have ever bah eld. "The physician with me said he never had seen &uch a heart-breaking scene, and he had witnessed many among the people who were forcibly taken to Molokai. I started a familiar hymn, and in a few minutes had the weeping people under partial control, for all Hawaiians love music dearly. Then tne congregation was dismissed, and while the lame and halt went on crutches and canes slowly down the road to their cheap little homes, ray companion and I silently walked to the dock, where we took the government boat for Honolulu. I've witnessed some very touching scenes in my life, but that at Molokai was the most affect ing of all of them." An t'nlucky t'intl. Some time ago an Austrian peasant, who was cleaning an old picture for his j aunt, round uO.ooo florins in paper money in it. He claimed the usual 10 per cent as reward and got it. There were two aunts and 'as each claimed i the picture as her own an expensive lawsuit resulted. Finally tho sisters decided to go halves, but when the bank notes were examined they were found null and void, the government's term for redeeming them having ex pired. The peasant refused to return the 5,000 florins which he received in current money, wherefore his aunts have now sued him. Exchange. Our 3Iami-j-s Astonish Them. American and English manners seem bald and often astounding to well-bred people in many parts of the continent of Europe. We lift our hats only to ladies. AH over the continent nodding to a man without lifting your hat is treating him as an inferior; in some parts of the continent no one thinks of entering a shop, a restaurant or a rail way carriage containing other human, beings without taking off his hat and wishing them good morning. New York Post. The Yule Lojf. The yule log in England is a relh of Druidism; its name is believed to bo a corruption of the wheel log, a wheel in Druidical symbolism typifying the march of the sun. The lighting of the yule fire is reminiscent of the sacred fires kindled by the Druids at mid-win. ter in the round towers which yet re main in many parts of Great Britain, Ireland, France and Spain. The Wonderful Uroirth of CJiieago. The population of Chicago in 1820 was 70; 1840, 4,S33; 1843, 12,088; 1850, 20,063? 1S55, 60,227; 18C0, 112,172; 1863, i7c nn- i8?n 2is vrr- is?? ?iu ?.77- issn 503,185; 1884 (estimated), 675,000- 1885 (estimttsd), 727,eoa; 1SS6 (estimated), 750.000; 3887 (estimated). 700.000; 1889 (estimated), 1,000,000; 1S3G, L730.000. SIGNS OF THE PL AHETS INDICATIONS THAT AFFECT EVERY HUMAN LIFE. mf. CaanlBsham Free Krutlinc for Our Header llava ISrconae Very Toputar Some Instructions for the Guidance of Applicants for Horoscope J) HE astrologer is receiving many rc quests for free " readings through these columns. &T Each request Is i n numbered when ro- Xf eclved and every SANnnn tcill lf 511- r'(P swered in Its turn. pi The astrologer again calls atten tion to the fact that each request must istate-thcdate, placeand hoiirdf'Ijfcth also sex and color, with full name and address of sender. The initials only and place of residence will be usd in the reading. ile exact about the hour of birth. If applicants do not know the date or hour they should send two two-cent stamps for special instruc tions. Persons wishing their horo scopes made immediately and forward ed by mall must send twelve two-cent stamp to cover expenses. Name and address must be plainly written. Ad dress all communications to Prof. G. W. Cunningham. Dept. -i, 191, So. Clin ton street, Chicago. This weeks readings are as" follows: lletsejr: Monroe, Slicli. According t6 data, you are a mixture of the signs of Taurus and Gemini, and therefore Venus and Mercury are your ruling planets or significators. You are medium height or above, and medium to dark hair, complexion and eyes; the eyes have a peculiar sparkle and sharp light; you are energetic and am bitious and will make a great effort to rise in the world, yet you will find many obstacles to overcome and will not be appreciated or paid in accord ance with what your ability should command, yet you will succeed far better than the average of people. You are a natural' born orator and if you take ordinary care of tho mouey you get into your possession you will be come wealthy. C. A. !., Webster City, lovra. According to data, thc sign Leo, which the Sun rules, was rising at your birth, with Mercury and Venus on the ascendant, and therefore the Sun, Ve nus and Mercury are your ruling plan ets or significators. You are medium height or. above; medium to light complexion, hair and eyes; you will be disposed to baldness early in life; you will be active, ambi tious, energetic, and will hold a good position in any locality: you. will always he regarded as a leading man net so much from your wealth as from your ability. You will also be noted as hav ing a great gift of language and as an orator you would make a great suc cess. You are very popular with the ladies- W. A. XV., Dubuque. loir.i. You have the zodiacal sign Virgo rla ing and therefore Mercury is your rul ing planet. You are medium height or slightly above with a well proportioned figure; the complexion, hair and eyes from medium to dark; you are rather reserved in your manner until you get well acquainted. When young you were quite bashful, modest and avoided strangers. You are active, energetic, ambitious and industrious; you are very humane in your nature, kind to all, make many friends, and will be very popular with the ladies; you are gifted in one of the fine arts and very fond of any kind of art work; you have good command of language. You will rise to a high position in life, and If you avoid hazardous speculation and take good care of the money that comes Into your possession you will become quite wealthy. It will be hard for you to keep money after you make it. (aertnirte, St. .losepii. Mo. You have the zodiacal sign Cancer rising, therefore the moon is your rul ing planet; you are medium height or above, with rather well proportioned figure; thc shoulders good width, the complexion fair; eyes light; hair me dium; you are fond of making changes in certain ways, and will be rather of an emotional nature, and will some times change your mind very quickly and apparently without any good rea sons for it. Your constitution is not of a robust kind, and you arc subject to feverish ailments and especially severe headaches when these attacks come on. You are fond of having your own way and are liable to rebel if opposed strongly. You are endowed by nature with strong intuitions, and might easily develop some mediumistic powers if you would make some effort in that direction. iSemurkuliIe Confidence, She: "It is remarkable what confi dence that Mrs. Storms has in her hus band! Believes everything he says." He: "Well, why shouldn't she?" "Why, man! he's a clerk in the weather bureau." Yonkers Statesman. JOSH BILLINGS' PHILOSOPHY. The man whom prazc allwuss makes humble, iz an ironclad. In youth our pashuns keep its bizzy; In middle life our ambishuns; in old age, the rumatlsm. The more intelligent a man bekum3, the less he thinks of himself, and the more he thinks of others. Adversity is tru and honest; it iz the test that never deceives us. Prosperity iz allwuss treacherous. If a man will tell me what he thinks of his nabors, I can tell him what his nabors think ov him. I have seen people spend a large share ov their time and tallents gitting religion, and a very small share in practicing it. When a man has done me one abso lute good turn he kan't kross it off from mi books, I don't kare how mean he may be afterward. When I waz a young man I waz all wuss anxious to beat other men at their own game; now that I am old, if I kaa beat them at Bine I aa satisfied. J Hi P THE OLD RELIABLE. ColumbusState Bank (Oldest Bank in the State.) FajsIiltratHTw Depute AND Mats Ins h Beal Estate. ISSL'US Str.HT lKArTS OS Onmha, Chicago, New York ami ilft(?&-si--aB5g' SELLS STEAMSHIP TICKETS. BUYS GOOD NOTES A nd helps its customers when they need help OFFICE1U AND KlKKCrOUS: .Lkandku. Gkri:aui, Pres't. 1L H. Hkxkv, Vice Pres't. M. BitffirtKi:, Cashier, .loiix Sr.vuKKKi:, W.u. IIucukk. ov COLUMBUS. 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