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4UWI ??3sBssBssBssBssBssBssW9iHVJflE!SiRPJ9B3BSH"fl'VJBBB SBiPSHlSWBBlrSai Z32asijsS 5i r - ". "d" -it v A . -- ira ar f . -r - (."iy - ' -&vW --"? e "is. 'aufaS-.-? s- 'J rj ' A ' VOLUME XXVH.-ISTJMBER 42. COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA. sasjewrasrss?- - 7 -- r -"-- --5 --.w- -rt--vr -... i--- .. s5s " r&m es-Kg --. -- v i - ,- -w - 'w1 -? - '. -Haal (Evhrm WNESDAY. JANUARY 27, 18W. WHOLE NUMBER U3M. r 4 i T BUM, AND THE WSXJSSZSSXS HAT aftsniooa M. Ir Sanvallier received from his younger sen, lieutenant in the garrison at Versailles, the fol lowing letter: "My Eear Fa ther: I am threat ened with a fright ful disaster which affects you ac well as ae." I. write to you because I can .. never must never1 see you again. I am 'unworthy of you. Led away by a friend, I speculated at the bourse and kave become involved ta yesterday's downfall, in that unexpected collapse where so mazy fortunes have been . 'wrecked. I dare not tell you how much '. I have, l03t it must be, however, for the 'honor of th Sanvalliera Is involved. AiasL it means very nearly vonr com- plete ruin. I owe 468.000 francs: An: curse me! I am a wretch! Eut I did not suspect that such a thing could happen. After having tried in vain to : avoid this disaster I returned to my room, wild, my brain on nre, deter mined to end my life. But I learned lhat. they are' recruiting volunteer offi .eers for Tonkin, and I asked to be sent there. Out there, at least, my death . -will he useful; it will have nothing " about it to make yen blush and it will, perhaps, inspire you with a little com- passion for that guilty but unhappy . nad despairing son, who suffers keenly from the wrong which he has done you, and who bids you good-by forever! "CAMILLE SANVALLIER." -M. Sanvallier, a widower of several years' standing, one of the most es- teemed foundry owners of Paris, was Judge of the Tribunal of Commerce .and officer of the Legion of Honor. - He had two som, Camille, the lleu : tenant, and Auguste. a painter of some originality, married to a charming woman and father of a little 6-year-old girl, Andre. He had kept them away from all commercial enterprise, fearing their In ' 'experience and dreading for them the universal crue; risk of business. He also .exacted that after his death the business of the. foundry should be liqui dated and not sold, in order that it should not pass Into other hands, and thus be sure of preserving forever in tact the name of the Sanvalliers. And now, Jn spite 3f all these precautions, a misfortune greater than any which he could have fc-eseen had fallen upon him! . The sum must be paid the next day; he must procure It at any price. It was hard! The foundryman's fortune was composed of material and mer chandise; would such a forced realiza tion yield the necessary amount? He jdid not know yet. And then, afterwards, with the debt once paid, could he fulfill his con- tracts? By that time it would be fail ure the failure of Sanvallier! . ;.a ..ss...r - JT -. -v-U'iSyi.;. "" n"i- 4&&r-rv y. -5r wff v . ' . .--s - ,- 03L .TZTi.i!Z, KS2 S-.:2 SVnrjrVT U..-1 1 ? r , r LaaaaaV laM I bbbbbbbbbbbv I 5' fi in - ill V 3 i , TV! TT t , a hj . r w nv&BL w 1 IHHTV :.' ' ? S??! J- - ,Mje a I : --. 'U ii a- imr ATTACKED THE ENEMY. Fail! He, the officer of the Legion of Honor, jyjdge of the Tribunal of Com- , xntrce! Never! He would sooner kill .himself. And all night long the poor man ( searched, calculated, and contrived Combinations; in the morning he start ed out with anguish in his heart. ', He appealed to associates, comrades. Camille's debt was paid. Their honor was ssved, but M. Sanvallicr's fortune hal vanished. However, 'thanks to certain arrangements, he was aiiowea to continue in the prietorship of the foundry. pro" j Then he said to himself that he would work ret. in spite of his sixty years, thst he would work without rest, with the amicus desperation of those commencing life, vho are tormented with the care of the morrow. He re duced his expenses, gave up his apart ments to Hve with his son, sold his aerses and carriages, sent away his 'servants, diminished his personal needs. A dread haunted the old man, troub ling his sleep and arresting his thoughts in the midst of his occupa- - tiens; he feared to hear some day that Camille had speculated once more: that ' he was again In debt He forbade all mention of him iu his presence. He was henceforth the . wickel son. he of whom all are ashamed, the remembrance of whom. heavy as r.mcrse. saddens the paternal home and makes the meals silent. Down at Crenelle the foundry was seized with a fury of work, with an enormous productiveness. Its furnaces blazed in the shadow of .the sheds like piercing eyes: its power ful blast shook the currounding ground: the melted meral. smoking and red. ran ..Ike its life-blood In the cru cibles. Auguste tcok the place of designer ' and his wife that of cashier at the foundry. And each went to his or her work, accepting their several tasks . without a frown. . At that time the campaign of Tonxir. was at its height- " The French soldiers fought desper- ately against a slippery enemy, always springing up afresh, in an unknown country, barrsseu with difficulties . without number. . The slightest success excited the pa - triotism of th populace. One morning Auguste entered his fa ther's privaTe office, looking very pale. and handed him a paper.. The latter read from the Latest the following dispatch from the intrenched camp at Dong Song: "Capt. Sanvallier attacked the enemy " this morning with great -vigor, fought all day against large forces, and took j . eaecessiully ro'tr redoubts. At last his soldiers gave "ay. crushed by the su 3rlar numbers of the foe. Although arievcusly wounded, he- Insisted upon Being carried Sy two men to rally his - eeaasaay and led them te tke aseaalt admir desper ate. I have placed the cross on his breast. This brilliant exploit will per mit me to enter Lang Song to-morrow. Twenty-seven killed, forty-thre wounded. "GEN. BRIERE DE LISLE." A strange emotion in which anguish mingled with joy caused M. Sanval Iter's heart to beat rapidly. For a mo ment he remained silent. Then, his gaze a little unsteady, his eyes wide open, with aad astonishment, he asked his son in a slow voice: "Do you be lieve that it is he? He would then be captain.'' Two hours later a letter from the minister of war informed the family of the event, and the next day all the papers were talking of Capt. Sanvallier. recalling the fact that he was the son of the honorable foundry owner of Grenille. Now the foundryman could" net go out without seeing Camille on eTerr side: in tne kiosks or tne oouievaru, at the corners of .the streets; Camille looked at him as he passed, followed him with his eyes as if he was living and only left hlin to meet again fur ther on. But, alas! tho dispatches which he received daily from Tonkin left but little hope. Would the ion of whom to-day he was so proud ever return? One morning, three months after wards, M. Sanvallier was working in his office when the door softly opened half way, and the early little head of Andree appeared. And suddenly she entered, holding by the hand Capt. Sanvallier. then cried in her sly little way: "Look. grandfather, -ere he is." Auguste and his wife entered the office In their turr. M. Sanvallier, who had not been pre pared for the arrival of his son, rose quickly, then stood motionless, choked by his emotion. He saw Camille with the scar on his forehead, the cross on his breast. Timid and embarrassed as a guilty child, Camille hung his head: he saw his father changed, grown old on his account. Than rery humbly, a little bent, ready to get down on his knees, he came forward with slow steps to his father's feet, but at that moment M. Sanvallier. with an abrupt start, seized him round the neck, crying In a voice suddenly broken by tears. "No, Ca mille! In my arms! In my arms, my child!" And father and son held each ether close, tneir shouldera shaking with sobs, while Auguste and his wife wept beside them. London Sun. POLICEMAN SAVES A BOY. The lad Was About to Be Craabe4 by a Car. Ten thousand people cross Broadway at Fulton street six days a week, and many have narrow escapes from being run down by cable cars and trucks that jam the thoroughfare at that point, says the New York World. One of them yes terday was 10-year-old Harry Fox of 100 Washington street, who tried to cross the street with his arms full of newspapers. At the same moment cable car No. S came bowling along uptown. "Look out!" yelled half a dozen men in the same breath. The boy jumDed just as the car bound the other way bore down on him. A cry of horror went up from the eyewitnesses. They expected to see the boy lying mangled on the track when the two cars rolled by. Instead there lay Policeman Wil liam Schrieber of the Old Slip station, at full length between the tracks, un canscious. Clasped tightly to his breast was the boy, frightened half to death, hut not a hair of his bead hurt. The policeman was carried into a store on the corner, where he scon revived. "Where is the boy?" wefe his first words. They told him he was unhurt and full of gratitude for the police man's brave act. Schreiger explained that just as he clasped the boy In his arms to lift him out of harm's way the handle-bar-of car No. 8 hit him on the shoulder and threw him violently tothe ground. Before consciousness left him. Schreiber said, he made a strenuous ef fort to fall so that he might lie between I the tracks. His head was badly bruised and his shoulder sprained, but beyond J that he declared tnat his injuries were too trifiing to report himself ill, so ht went back to duty. The crowd cheered the plucky blue-coat again and agi, and many passers-by stopped long enough to shtke his hand. Schreiber has been on the force fifteen years, and has an excellent record. UNDER WATER FOR IS HOURS, a Submarine Aa Italian Inventor lias -Itlrrnrare. An Italian inventor, named Corzetto, says La France Militaire, has con structed an apparatus which he calls a "methydric sphere," and by means of which he professes to be able to descend to any depth in the sea. In his experiment at Spezzia he stored some two thousand cubic feet of com pressed air in his apparatus, which he entered with two friends and which was then lowered to a depth of some thirty feet. As after the expiration of nine hours the "sphere" had not yet been seen to reascend to the surface, a message was sent to the admiral in command of the naval department, who at once sent a diver to the spot. The "sphere" was found still resting on the sea bottom, but the diver heard nothing in answer to his knocks. Some barges having been brought to the spot by a tug. the "sphere" was hauled up with ropes, an.1 as soon as It emerged its door was opened, and the inventor appeared with a livid face and half asphyxiated. His two com panions were unconscious, but were quickly resuscitated. They had re mained eighteen hours under water. The inventor explains that so far all his experiments were successful, but on this occasion when he intended to return to the surface the air pressure at his command proved insufficient to expel the water ballast, of about two tons weight, which had so far kept his appliance submerged, and hence they had to remain where they were until rescued. At any rate, three per sons were enabled to remain under water for eighteen hours, and this ex periment may not be without signifi cance as regards tke muck iTIrreMend problem of submarine navigation. Ready for War France, has ept 230,000 tons of coal stored at Toulon since 1S93 to be ready ia case war should break out. I00K AT BIS PHIZ; WYATT EARP A BAD MAN AND HE LOOKS IT. Zc tke life mt a Coward1 West a Bight Always Tft Uvea." TATT EARP, whose purchased decision r e cently robbed Robert Fitx slmmons, the prize fighter, of tke purse. Is one of four brothers; two of whom. Julian and Warren Earp, are happily dead and out. The four Earp brsttewwria,tafc-t.T0 stone in 1881, 1882 and 1883. The com munity in 1883 assumed a positive at titude toward the Earps and presented a front to that household made up in the main of Winchesters and Colt six shooters. The Earps construed this into a lack of confidence on the part of the Tombstone public They resented it by shaking the dust of Tombstone from their feet forever. They migrated to the Gunnison country. They were subsequently run out of the Gunnison, and Wyatt and Virgil Earp went to California. The four Earps were named, respectively, Virgil,- Wyatt, Warren and Julian. They had a sis ter, Jessie, who was with them in Tombstone. Of her, as novelists say, more anon. Virgil was the oldest Earp, Wyatt the wisest, Warren the most foolhardy, Julian the bravest. and Jessie the most loving. As a re sult Wyatt and Virgil lived to get out of Tombstone and the Gunnison in ad vance of public opinion, and the bul lets that expressed It; while Warren was killed in Tombstone and Julian in the Gunnison by Die Clauton, who had married his sister Jessie, and whom Wyatt and Virgil subsequently killed at Socorro and Jessie, the loving one, wedded Die Clauton, with whom her four brothers had a blood feud at the time. Wyatt Earp, and, for that mat ter, all the Earps, were gun fighters and men of prompt and bitter cour age. Wyatt Earp himself is credited with ten men; one, his own brother-in-law, Clauton. Every one of the Earps had killed his men not man and were famed In Tombstone and in the Cochise country round about as qualified to pull and make a center shot In less than one-tenth of a sec ond. They had all filed the sights from their six-shooters when I knew them, in 1S81 and 1S82, and, eschewing the "intervention of a trigger, were prone to that prowess known as 'fan ning their pistols In a fight, whereby a Colt's six-shooter becomes for the nonce a miniature uauing. in tae early SO's there were two factions in Tombstone. Virgil and Wyatt Earp led one the Stage Robbers. Johnny Behan, Ike Clauton and Jack Ringo led the other the Rustlers. The Stage Robbers were in politics republican and stood up stages and plundered ex press companies for a livelihood. The Rustlers were democrats, and devoted themselves to cattle stealing, murder, whisky and faro bank as steady pur suits. In these days Johnny Behan was sheriff of Cochise county and Virgil Earp was the marshal of Tombstone. Behan, as stated, belonged to the cow thief democracy party, while Earp robbed stages and voted with- the- re publicans. The Earps Wyatt, Virgil, Warren and Julian had treated them selves to many a killing. But there was no money in murder; nothing but relaxation. So they devoted themselves to holding up the stage- Virgil Earp had a combination with Barshel Wil liams, then the Wells Fargo agent at Tombstone. When big money went out on the stage, Williams tipped it off to Virgil Earp. The hold-ups were then planted in a convenient canyon. When the stage came along, at the word, 'Hands up!' Warren Earp, who was a stage company guard, meekly put his hands over his head. Then the -hold-ups went through the express pouches and boxes like the grace of heaven through a camp meeting. There i was never any shooting: it was" from all standpoints a family affair on the part of the Earps Often they got as high as I25.C00. After a robbery Jie "Earps made further money, enlisting themselves ith a passe comitates and chasing themselves. Virgil, as mar shal, would enlist Wyatt, Warren and Julian, together with -Curly Bill, their cousin, and hunt the hold-ups. It was a great Industry, and by thus playing both ends against the middle, first rob bing the stage, and then pretending-to chase the robbers, Virgil. Wyatt, War ren and Julian Earp axed opulent. ButitalLcameoutonthem. Williams, tke Wells-Fargo agent, confessed! After following the -varying phases of tke feud between the Earps and tke opposing faction ia the Tombstone j tolA'mwmmmmmutmWlrf&&J! I mmmmXt J00 jm WYATT EARP. war ef extermination, as reel the Kaaams City Star f "Dan Quina" coacisdes am follows: "His last public appearaaea Is a nlxv M In that bfTU iB'a 1 f Mayor Kelly ran Lake Short at uoage City, and the fugitive uase saaa moned Wyatt Earp, Doe HoHiday; Charley Basset; Bat XastenoA'aai Shotgun Collins to aid him in tke re covery of his own. They reiastated' Luke and. he and Kelley divided Dadaja City between them. Wyatt Earp-araat now be 45 years' old. He is- griai, game and deadly. He never took wai ter. But he doesn't kill as he used ta Age has cooled his blood, maay wotmda have brought him cautioa. over, the communities he hoaaea wttk his presence won't stand tkeaa gay-- etles which marked Wyatt Eary'a earlH er career. And Wyatt has grown like a quiet life. -As a result sot taken a scalp for years. His business Just aow-aaoald he that, of kiaekley gattMefrcrtokeetaa tC hind leg. If there are any honest hairs in his head they have grown since he left Arizona. He is exactly the sort of a man to referee a prize fight if a steal is meditated, and a job put up to make the wrong man win. Wyatt Earp has all the nerve and dis honesty needed to turn the trick. The mere name of Wyatt Earp as referee shows that Fitzsimmons was against a hard game." A STORY OF LONGFELLOW. 3frs. Fields TelU aa Iaterestlag- Aac- dote of the Author. Speaking of Longfellow, in her re cently published volume of literary reminiscences, Mrs. Jane FieTds says: "His kindness and love of humor car ried him through many a tedious in- terruption. He generously overlooked the fact of the subterfuges to which men and women resorted in order to get an interview, and to help them out made as much of their excuses as pos sible. Speaking one day of the persons who came to see him at Nahant, he said: 'One man, a perfect stranger, came with an omnibus full of ladies. He descended, introduced himself, then returning to the omnibus, took out all the ladies, one, two, three, four and five, with a little girl, and brought them in. I entertained them to the best of my ability, and they stayed an hour. They had scarcely gone when a forlorn woman in black came up to me on the piazza and asked for a dip per of water. "Certainly," I replied,, and went to fetch her a glass. When I brought it she said: "There is an other woman just by the fence who !s tired and thirsty; I will carry thi3 to her." But she struck her head as she passed through the window and spill ed the water on the piazza. "Oh, what have I done!" she said. "If a had a floor cloth, I would wipe it up." "Oh, no matter about the water,"" I said, "if you have not hurt yourself." Then I went and brought more water for both and sent them on their way refreshed and rejoicing. It would be both an endless and unprofitable task to recall more of the curious experiences which popularity brought down upon him. There is a passage among Mr. Field's notes, however, in which he describes an Incident during Longfellow's last visit to England, which should not be overlooked. Upon his arrival, the queen sent a graceful message aad in vited him to Windsor castle, where she received him with all the honors; but he told me no foreign tribute touched him deeper than the words of aa Eng lish hed-carrier, who came up to tke carriage door at Harrow, and asked permission to take the hand of the man who had written the 'Voices of the Night. " Cities Pvried by Saaaatoraa. Sven HedUn. the Norwegum traveler, has discovered on the north side of tha Kuen Lun Mountains, and in. the eJge of the great desert of Gobi, the ruins of towns which he thinks were buried by sacd-storni3 about 1000 years ago. The largest town was nearly two m'l" and a half long, and a canal connected it and surrounding country with the Kerija river. The houses had walls of plaited reeds covered with mud and then coated with white plaster, and on these plaster walls were well exe- cuted FaIctings of men, animals and Sowers. Poplars, anrlcots art a niim. trees had evidently flourished there be fore the invasion of the sand. Americaa Wmea. "We hear," says the London Athen aeum, "that between forty aad Ifty ladies, mostly Americans, have in scribed their names in the register of the University of Berlin, although tke Docenten do not countenance the ad mission, of women to university lec tures. At Zurich the number of ata dentinnen has risen to 150 and they have already begun to agf ate for tke acquisition of the same rights as belong to the studeaten. and tke question kas actually sprung up "whether the Tner term saoaid not be considered m mamia generis." " feii k rHOTO A MCYCLISTS. 'PLAHETARY SIGNS. TRANSPORTING EXPLOSIVES. Jm&$J!!m"u " -. GOOD AND EVIL PERIODS IN aa tar Wfitaa. PiBLMjfcPlIDmL ftca P .'. FTOTwsm. w HUMAN LIFE. gansaeraan m. uim., m SHIa.- I'JIU H'JnaT jtfcjdc kBBvovesMmf. makes jota aaade with the wind. YackJoarnaL The It tor delated, develepe ex Usjfc speed. Tke Inventor, ef Commercy, France, de- tkat by; he plan the cyclist may a. aaeed-ofr from twelve to flf- a hear with ao-exertion at taat required la guidia the Tke contrivance is itt form- eta tmraiae arraagemeat, eoate- Uke a fMird hollowed oat, cat in . aad tke "fores" turned a lit- their axe. This tarbiae Is o deal rede, verLcJ y attacked forward wheel of tie bicycle A me center of-tha oatward, and to this is at- rtke top of the tarbine. The eatchea :At8lB;tsf " gtre- wheel an added impetus. No matter from what direction the wind blows the turbine catches it, and by attachment with the hub of the front wheel com municates some of the farce of the wind to the wheeL The turb-ne practically neutralizes the effect of a bsam wind. The twisting of the turbine In its rotary motion works on the ro3s that attach It to a ratchet wheel, which revolves about the hub of the front wh-el. These rods work up and down like the piston rods of sn engine, and in that way accelerate the motion in great de gree. This Invention is a marked de parture from those designed to give motion to a bicycle without the rider's aid. Gasoline, electricity and pe troleum have all been incorporated I the different Ideas which have taker shape as bicycle impclera. The sIl icg bicycle is also an adaptation o! the same Idra. and has been fa rly suc cessful when under the control of a ekillful rider who is also a master of the art of h'ndling a saiL On the wes'ern pra'ries where the wind fcl wa strong and steady the sail on a bicycle has been utilized wi h fine results. Vr Way t Catch Drer. A Wisconsin man recently undertook tha novel feat of catching a deer by the tall. While hunting he espied a fawn at a water hole. After it had finished drinking it lay down by a log. The farmer resolved to capture it alive if possible, and taking advan tage of the noise made by the cattle going Into the water hole to. drink, be stole cautiously up and seized the fawn by its hind legs. In the struggle that ensued he lost that grip, but managed to obtain one on Its tail. This he held during an exciting chase of a quarter of a mile. The underbrush that the fawn then, ran into compelled him to relinquish hi3 hold, and he had the satisfaction of seeing the animal rejoin tke doe. CURIOUS FACTS. The flags to be hoisted at one tlm in signaling at sea never exceed four. It is an interesting arithmetical fact that, with eighteen various colored flags, and never more than four at a time, no fewer than 73,642 signals car be given. In Persia, among the aristocracy, visitor sends notice an hour or two be fore calling, and gives a day's notice If the visit Is one of great Importance. He Is met by servants before he reaches the house, and other considera tions are shown him, according to re lative rank. The left and not the right is considereC the position of honor. Scott's Waverly Xorela. Scott Is said to have written "War erly" in less than six week3. Gibbon devoted over twenty years of his life to the labor of reading for and writing the "Decline and Fall." It Is one of the most stupendous literary feats ever accomplished by the labor of one man. Glaas Eyes la Switzerland. Two million glass eyes are manufac tured yearly in Germany and Switzer land. PERSONALS. The daughters of the Prince of Wales could swim before they could 'read. Mr. Ruskin is in good health again, but still abstains from all literary work. Orchids the color of pale gold are the favorite flowers of Mrs. Oliver Iselln. Melba has $100,000 invested in gowns, it Is said, one of them having cost $15,000. Robert Louis Stevenson's grave in the Apia mountains is said to be pain fully neglected! CoL Frederick" D. Grant ha3been vis iting the old Grant homestead, at East Windsor Hill, Ct Mayor Houghton of North Adams. Mass., has given his $1,000 salary for the local hospitaL Mrs. Sidney Lanier is giving read ings from her late husband's works, and Is meeting with great success. Mrs. John Rockefeller Is as devoted to hospitals where her. charities are concerned as her husband is to uni versities. Miss Victorlne Thomas Artz of Chi cago has"made a gift of $10,000 to the Boston public library as a Longfellow memoriaL The Queen of Greece Is an accom plished yachtswoman, holds a master's certificate and is an honorary admiral in the Russian navy. The sultan has appointed five Chris tiansone an Armenian, the others Greeks as deputy governors of differ ent provinces in Asia Minor. Mr. Kato, the secretary of the Jap anese legation in Paris, has just been appointed commissioner-general of Ja pan at the exposition of 1900. Got. Bradley of Kentucky, who is at Cincinnati undergoing treatment for his throat, is so far improved that he was able to appear on the street Dr. Milo A. Jewett, United States corn sal at Sires, Asia Minor, is in Boston sa awleave of absence, after about five years' ceatiaaoas service in Armenia. Or- Daniel 6. Briaton has proved that tke arst heltfa an American antl fir wkkk horses were used, was that at ' CfatlftV to Tkaeee. Mexico, i March, so hwiww am mwul. xiue sum- MamMamt av abST SJaesMaic m Csbk HVKV It ISrClaiaaadV develepe ex- V . - '.. Mjpaijme C Commercy, France, de- - -- "" ' " elaastaat by ha plan the cyclist maj . tafc tfsapnss a hear with no- exertion at i .l.temut that required in gaidiaa; the sK eta tarbine arraaajeateat, aoate tMaklike a teord hollowed oat, cat in avaaa tie piaM mi ajaaBsrojeeai freat a i ! m ua J: ,a3Bc t . " T. -- . . r-' . k - rj v'rSsaRuKs ' irtworks, aad, 1b fact, all kinds ol .lllUl.lallflll. IMIill HE astrologer agate calls the atteatkm of appllcaata for free readies la this column to tke fact that full name aad address plainly written most ac company every re- euest. Only the J initials will be pub lished wham tke readiaga appear, la case that tke ap- "i Rials, seme other meaas of ideatiaca tion can be giv.en. Sack as "Lorene" Topeka, or any other name the appli cant may choose. Those who have neg lected to send In full name and ad dress with their applications should do so as soon as possible. .It is often necessary to send special instructions. Those who do not know the hour or date of birth should send TWO 2 cent stamps for particulars. Their horo scopes can be made by the astrologer's system of calculation. Our rrivate readings by mail are becoming very popular. Apnllcants for private readings must enclose 26 cents in stamps. The horoscope will be read at once and forwarded to the appli cant's address. Persons who do not wish to wait for newspaper reading can avail themselves of this means of get ting a quick reading. Address Prcf. G. W. Cunningham. Dept. 4. 194 Sa Clinton, St. Chicago. IlL The following are th readings for this weea: ! 3t: AToca. Io According o the data the sign Libra, which Venus rules, was rising at your birth, therefore Venus is your ruling planet or sign iflca tor. You are medium height or above; graceful figure; medi um to dark complexion: blue eyes: chestnut hair; rather a youthful ap pearance in general. Your are usually cheerful, jovial, youthful and happy; fond of the fine arts, as music, paint ing, drawing, sketching, etc: you take delight- in going to theaters, parties, dances,, and any place where a good jolly time will be had. You are quite yielding in your nature and very much dislike to see bloodshed. You love to see justice rendered to all and would make a good teacher or judge. You will have a very eventful life and be a great traveler. You are not prom ised an early marriage but your hus band will be a model man and mar riage will be far more than average fortunate far you. Space is too lim ited for me to give yon his description 8. A. C: Clarfcsvnie, Iowa. According to data you are a mixture of the signs Scorpio which Mars rules and Sagittarius which Jupiter rules, therefore Mars and Jupiter are your ruling planets or signlficators. Saturn Is co-significator because on the as cendant. Ypi are medium height or above; medium to dark complexion.hair and eyes; full face; the hair grows very luxuriant You are very ener getic and ambitious; you naturally take the lead in anything you become in terested in. You dislike a subordinate position of any kind and should al ways be at the head of your depart ment You will be subject to chronic headaches in the early part of life. You have a fine Intellect and can readily learn almost anything. You also have very good command of language. You are quite secretive in your nature and do not tell everything you know. You Bhouid secure a finished education and make a salaried position your main ob ject by which to secure your money; You will not be very fortunate In any thing connectea wim love and mar riage. "Lenae: Topeka You have a refined, sensitive and confiding nature and anything rough or boisterous jars on your nervous sys tem and has a tendency to reduce your vital force. You will manifest consid erable enthusiasm with very little en couragement and will appreciate and treasure up a kind word to the same extent that you will remember an in jury If anyone abuses you. You will forgive but cannot forget them. Your talent rune in the direction of some of the fine arts but whenever you have made any attempts to study anything you have found it necessary to over come obstacles in your path. You are a firm friend on every occasion. Your love affairs do not run smooth long at k time and If married, your hus band has a spirited temper and will not permit anyone to interfere with his business no matter if he is right or wrong and as a rule he Is not able tc successfully execute what he plans. 2nee, Fleaaaat Practice. Policemen went to the morgue In New York the other day and fired many bullets Into corpses there for the purpose of learning If powder burned the skin at a distance of three feet. Exchange. STATISTICS. The largest state of Mexico ia Chl huihua. with in area of nearly 90,000 square miles The Vermont Legislature has adopt ed a law requiring heavy wagons to have wide tires. Bowling, billiards and card playing are anlawful in Michigan, according to some dead-letter statutes. Joe Jefferson's son possesses aa al bum of thumb prints, some of which, be long to very famous people. Among the Egyptians engagement rings were always of Iron, indicating the mutual sacrifice of liberty. The first theater ia this country to he lighted with gae was a theater at Phil adelphia, which vat ia gas jipes in 1816. There are $, distilleries la tae United States. Norta Carolina leads with 1.824. aad Virgiaia is aezt with 1,352. Accordiaaj to tke recent rim ess the population of Greece ie 2,41&utiv souls. or am tae is- urea atlSM. "The ttansfevtatiea ef dynamite, artworks, aad, 1b fact, all kinds ol txfleelvee," said a lee d tag amaanfac tsrer of dynamite to a New York Trib aue reporter recently; la almost as cemmem aa tnat of dry feeds er 'gro ceries. HIgk explosives are skipped to all parts ef tke world ky rail and by water, aad whether they are on land or sea, they are sot particularly dan gerous If they are properly stewed aad cared for. I wouldn't be afraid to make a voyage aroend the world la a state room Hied with dynamite if It was properly stowed and there were no-fulminating cape te Ignite 1L Dynamite does eat explode by spontaneous com bustion. It is carefally packed, for ship ment Is paper cartridges, which are placed la. sawdust in strong wooden sexes; marked eat tke tope aad sides: Expleetves. Dangerous." Steamskips- which carry passengers have magazines for dynamite, and, in fact, also for black powder and all kinds of explo sives. When the explosives are prop erly placed in the magazines and not Interfered with afterward they are not a source of danger under ordinary cir cumstances. When they are shipped on railroads they are generally placed In separate cars apart from other kinds of freight. The rate of freight on explo sives is about the same as that on dry goods or any other commonplace com mercial commodity. .The rate of in surance Is also about the same as on other goods. There are some English and American insurance companies that will not take risks on explosives, but there are plenty of companies hich Issue policies, so that there is no trouble experienced In having ship-1 menta fully covered. Dynamite with proper care can be handled as safcl .s any ordinary commodity." A proai inent producer of fireworks said: "Fiic works can be shipped by most line? ol railroads and steamships, but only at first-claus freight rates. The Sound steamer? will not take fireworks, bat th Vetrorolitan outside line wl'l. becnu.-e they carry no passengers. Most of the fireworks sent east from here are shipped on th- New York. New Havea & Hartford railroad. The Old Domin ion and othei southern steamship lines will carry explosives, but only in sep arate compartments on their upper decks. Fireworks and other explosives are also shipped on canal boats with out difficulty. No large"stocks of ex plosives are kept an hand In this city. There are four magazines for -taring them near Fort Lee, and as they are transported in small quantities, the danger is reduced to a minimum." MACADAMIZED WITH CEMS. The Coatllest Paving- on Record la KIui berlej, Soata Africa. The costliest macadam on record is, without doubt, that which once paved 'the streets of Kimberley, South Africa and which was so thickly studded iwlth diamonds that mill ions of dollars' worth of gems vere taken from It, says .Literary Digest How this prince? roadbed came to be laid down is related in an interesting note in Cosmos (Paris, November 14), which we translate bo low: "The South African diamond mines were discovered thirty ycara ago quite accidentally. A peddler who was traveling from farm to farm on his business noticed a brilliant stone amid the pebbles with which some children were playing on a farm situated neai the Vaal. The Idea occurred to him that perhaps it might have some value. He sent It In an unsealed letter to Dr. Atherstone of Grahamstown, who was Bomethlng of a geologist; he recognized in the stone a fine diamond. The fame of this discovery grew, and soon the. diamond fever led many into the field?. Mines were discovered and a camp was quickly formed, which received the name of Kimberley. Water wa3 scarce near these mines and, nevertheless, it was almost indispensable for washing the diamond-bearing soil and getting the precious gemg out easily. Many workmen tried to do without it and to find their diamonds in the dry eart!. with the result that a great number o: the stones remained in the debris of the diamond-bearing soil that had been subjected to search. The city of Kim berley, growing rapidly, soon had a municipal council, which, among other things, undertook to macadamize lis streets. The debris that wa3 In tho miners' way wag found excellent for this purpose. The city undertook, to the great satisfaction of great numbers of workmen, to rid them of their rub bish heaps." Dictionary Hlstorr. Many an interesting hour may hr spent In the company of a good dic tionary; It should tell you that kin? were in the earlier times merely "W thers of families," while queen mean at first "wife" or "mother." An ear was an "elder;" pope was the same z "papa" and czar and kaiser both mean "Caesar." Lord is the Anglo-Saxc hluford, meaning "Ioof distributor. "Huzzy" wa3 once a respectable hous wife; "knave" was simply a boy, an "caitiff" meant a captive. From th name of the laborer on the villa of a . old-time Roman gentleman we get th: name "villain." A "pagan" was or.g: nally a countryman, while "varlet" i the same word as "valet." Our stu dents should study, their dictionaries ;t little mere closely than the majoritj do- Salmon's Leaf Joaxaey. Two Chinook salmon, captured In Coos Bay, Oregon, were discovered tc be peculiarly marked. A circle Inclos ing Chinese or Japanese characters wa branded on the jaw bone. This circle seemed to have been burned into th bone with a redhot iron. It is though that the fish, after having been brand ed in Asia, left their native rivers ami encountered the Japan stream, which they followed until they reached tha American shores. This theory, if true, upsets the one now held by piscatorial experts, which is that the salmon al ways returns to the stream where it was spawned. The fish commissioner will make a thorough investigation to discover if possible whether these fish were really branded in Asia. 5w KaglUa Railway. Proposals have been made to coc atract a new railway between Liver tool and Manchester, so' as to meet the eeaiaeUtiea offered be the ship caaak I THCOLO RSXIABUC. (Oldest Beak in tke at) FOSttntiTisBtpaB lata Lkb MlttL ear vumo KeT( SELLS STEAMSHIP TICKETS. BUYS GOOD NOTES Aad helps its custoawn whea taey seed help OFFICtBI AXD LcAxnav Gnaaiao. Pres't. K. H, Hsxkt, Vice Preal. M. Bacoexx, Cashier. Jons STACTTsa, W Bccra COMMERCIAL BANK or COLUMBUS. NEB., Au:ficriz3j raiital cf -Fail ii Capital, - - $500,099 90, raw C. H. SHKLDON. Pres't. U.P. H.O-HLKl F.V!e-ee, DAXTFL "CHKAM. C:tsaler. FB A N K Itu RES, Ask. Caaa' DIKECT RS: c. IT. Swecdo. n. P. H. Ornxmcw, .To.vas Welch. W. a. McAiuszaat Cabi. Risske. & C. Gray; Fbaxk Kohbxs. 5TOCKH LHER9: Saitcuja Erxu. J. Hsar Wurbcka T..riK (.RAT, HKSBY LOSKKX. D-ixiklSchiuuc. Geo. . Oiu.it. A. F. U. OEnr-nrcw, J. P. Bxckkb Estats, Rebecca Beckzb, H. M. Wout. Bank of Deposit: 'ate rest allowed cm ttmm deposits: buy aad sell exehaare oa Caitaa. States and Earope. and. buy aad aall avail able securities, we shall mi iaaieasedta saficis yeas eelve year basuesa. We roaaze. weekly newspaper de voted the bestial COLUMBUS THECOMTYGFriATTE, The State of Nebraska THE UNITED STATES AM THE REST OF NUMB iwtta $1.50 A YEAR xr taxd nr ibti Bet ear liaise aeefeli is not areaeribee! by dollars and ceata. baniBie sent Iree te any i HENRY GASa UNDERTAKER ! 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