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psssraecESra ?3?! ffitnral. S' "- : ,- ;"!SMe k -v1!- - VOLUME XXVIII.-NUMBER 14. COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA. WEDNESDAY. JULY 14, 1897. WHOLE NUMBER 1,418. W&fm&zx m !a. . un : V t " 3 v r .. A HOBO REUNION. IM. this la Van Raymond. He's been playing in high luck, but he's struck a snag, and I've asked him to go with us." "Well, you need n't; we don't want any greenhorns along. You are bad enough. We'd look well traveling with a dude, we would." "Oh. ho has some cash and can get a different outfit. Can't you. Ray mond?" "Certainly. How do you wish me to dress?" "Oh," inlerpcscd Jim, "if you have the stuff, you're welcome. We'll fix you out In no time. What do you want?" .. Til have to leave that to yon. I have never been a tramp before." "See here, my Christian friend, for the good of your health let me tell you not to say 'tramp' to one of our fra ternity. A tramp Is a man who never works and who walks from town to town. We are hoboes. We beat our way on trains passengers when we can, freight when wo can't do better. A hobo works when he can, but when out of work uses his wits to get him elsewhere. Sec?" "Yes, but I never heard the distinc tion made before. Arc we going to beat the railroad, and how are we go ing to do it?" "You are green! There's a hundred schemes for working them. If every thing fails steal the ride." Van went to the place of appoint ment, where he found his two strange companions waiting for him. "Everything lovely," was Jim's greeting. "A train leaves about an hour after dark. Say. let's eat. I'll hit the cottage. You idiots can buy sup pers, but I'll save my cash." Five minutes later he returned with a tirade of abuse against inhospitable people and frequent allusions to the tomahawk. Van at last said: "What do you mean? Did the wom an hit you with a hatchet?" "No, you gump! That's short for stating that her royal highness desired the extreme pleasure of my society at the woodpile while I got up an appe tite for my supper." Soon a freight train slowly passed. "Horo-'s an empty!" shouted Origi nal Jim, as he started on the run, the others closely following. Van was so excited that he could not vault in after the others, but they dragged him in and closed the door. "Now you boys be quiet until she gets under headway," Jim ordered, as he lighted a match and proceeded to sweep the floor with a bunch of weeds be had previously gathered. "Never travel without matches, Ray mond, and never forget to gather a broom, so you can brush up a place to sleep," quietly remarked Wilklns, whom Jim dubbed "The Silent" Soon Wilklns and Jim were sound asleep, while Van sat, Indian fashion, against the car, wondering whether it was not about to jolt off the track, and ii TELLING THEIR EXPERIENCES, how they could sleep amid such a racket. Slowly the hours, which seemed In terminable to Van, passed. At the third stop the door was suddenly jerked open, a lantern flashed, and a brakeman jumped in. Holding the lantern aloft he looked down, count ing: "One. two, three. Say, where are you fellows going?" Wilklns was now awake, but neith er he nor Van responded. "A car of mutes, I guess," muttered the brakeman, as he proceeded to kick Original Jim Into wakefulness. "Here, you fellow, get up out of this! Where Id thunder did you get In? The con Just came over the train and heard you snoring. This train is moving again. Get a hustle on you, for the con told me to see that you got off," he added, as mounting the ladder and swinging his lantern, he started on a run toward the engine. Jim caught up a plank, and hurried ly calling to his comrades to follow, again jumped into the car. They did bo, but Wllkins remarked: "The brakeman told us to get off." "Yes, but he meant to get in again when he said "Rememher, I saw you get off.' Now I'll wedge this door shut, and we'll have peace till morning, you bet!" Morning found them side-tracked in the Quaker City. Jim took his party to the outskirts of the town, where stood a deserted house in which a num ber of men were evidently having a jollification. Drawing near, they saw a gentlemanly six-footer advancing to ward them. He had on one red shoe and one black one. both lefts. The sleeves of his coat did not come much below his elbows, and the tails only reached his waist-band. "The Flying Sword," exclaimed Jim. as the man unbuttoned his coat, put one hand into the upper part of the left sleeve and drew out a tin trowel, over three feet long, remarking: "I still carry the tomahawk." "Where did he have that trowel?" '''an managed to whisper to Jim. "Oh, the handle was up his sleeve, " and the tip in his pocket It is not " " a trowel, you know, only a guy. Come in and meet the boys. Tb's well- , tressed chap is 'Diamond lit that M mm W L Mmm wis ' short one is Billy the Bat; yonder com Duty and Missouri Kid. Oh, we're aH hero for reunion but It's the first we've had north of Lexington. That's our pet place. After a general handshaking the party broke up Into groups, Wilkin? and Kit reclining on the floor smokini cigarettes. As he could not then talk with Wil kins Van proceeded to satisfy his curl oslty by questioning the one known as "Missouri Kid." "The Flying Sword? Oh, he got the name by carrying that tin trowel. He will go and ask for work, telling the boss that he lays brick, not by the hun dred a day but by the acre. 'If you doubt me look at my trowel.' The ridiculousness of his ways usually gets him a job, too. He is a very fair brick layer, but of course not so good as Diamond Kit, who Is considered the best In the United States." "How about our hobo stew?" now chimed in Wilklns' voice. "How much can we raise?" was Kit's practical supplementary remark. The sum of two dollars was collect ed, with which Kit and Wilklns de parted to do the marketing. Soon after they returned with vari ous bundles, a five-gallon tin sausage can and an empty tobacco can for each person present Van was interested, and pressed for ward to see what was going on. While Kit made the stew he sent some of the boys out for empty cans. He ordered the solder removed from them, and that they be flattened ont and washed. Each man had a tomato can, and a small portion of ground coffee with which he made his own drink, army style, and this was drunk with con densed milk. Slices of steak were fried on the pieces of tin which they had flat tened, and soon the first course was eaten, amid much jesting and laugh ter, for all hoboes are apt to be jovial when certain of one full meal in a day. After the coffee was drunk the cans were filled up with the rich, Bavory stew. As dusk came on the men reclined about the floor, telling their experi ences. Van determined to try to In fluence Wilklns Into telling the truth, as he was Interested in the man, who seemed above his fellows, so sat by his side and watched him stealthily while Jim told of his life, how he had start ed out from necessity, and so fallen In love with the wild freedom that he could not bear to give it up. Scarcely had he ceased when all were surprised to hear "Wilklns the Silent" saying: "I was born and raised in New York city. While yet a young man I learned locomotive engineering, and for years had a freight. That paid me about one hundred and forty dollars a month, and I saved my money. When I was twenty-eight I married. My wife ha.1 been one of a large family and I meant her never to be lonesome nor unhappy. I bought a nice house and furnished It cosily, deeding it to her. That used up all I had saved; but I had a good run, was considered one of the best men on the road, and everything went smoothly for a year. I was home every second night and my wife was content ed. "One day I had a sudden order to trade engines when I met a certain train, as that engineer's wife was sick and he wished tc return home. I never tired of my wife and loved to be with her, so was glad to go to her sooner than I had expected." Here he paused, and here all looked at him in surprise, particularly Jim, who muttered: "By God, he is telling the truth about his past, and I have not heard him mention it for years! Thought he hail forgotten it." To this Kit responded: "If there Is anything you don't want him to tell, go over to him. That man Raymond has him sort of mesmerized. I believe." Jim half started from his seat, but Missouri Kid drew him hack as Wilkins continued: "It was nearly ten o'clock when I reached home. What a sound of drunken revelry met my ears! Could it be there was no mistake? Was that house mine? "I asked a passer-by who lived there. "'The blindest fool in the world,' was his reply. 'He runs an engine on the New York Central, and his wife raises the roof when he is away. "One minute later I entered. The crowd, composed of my wife's brothers, sisters and cousins, quickly dispersed. I was too much hurt to remonstrate with her; but she, being guilty, could r.ot keep quiet. " 'You had no business marrying me when you could not support me the way I want to live,' she began. I have mortgaged the house and the furniture, and I've not paid a bill in two months. You may as well know it all now, and not have to find it out later. I've srent the money for suppers and good times. I'm tired of this life! I'm go ing on the stage. "That is why I'm a hobo." Curious French legend. It is asserted by the Industrielius Echo that thousands of 57-franc pieces are split into two halves by their French owners every year, in the hope of "discovering" an immense hidden treasure. This treasure, ac cording to the legend firmly believed in Frarce. is an order to pay the hold ei 100,000 francs in silver 5-franc coins. When Napoleon Bonaparte first set the 5-franc piece in circulation the con servative mind of the French revolted against the numismatic revolution, notwithstanding its zeal for political revolution, and it was very difficult to induce a Frenchman to receive or proffer the new coin. Hence, accord ing to the story. Napoleon gave it to be understood that he had ordered a check for 100,000 francs, written upn asbestos paper, to be concealed in one of the new silver pieces. From that day to this nobody has objected to the 3-franc piece. Womanlike. James "Do you always write a let ter in such large script as you are vt ing now? I could not help noticing it Henry "No. This is to a girl. Yoa know they always size a fellow's re gard for them by the number of pages he fills'"- -Cincinnati Enquirer. DEMOCRATIC SPIRIT. PRESIDENTS COME AND GO BUT IT REMAINS. No Life Tenare In the Diplomatic Ser vice of the United State Oar Bepre sentatlrc Must Be Kept la Tone With American Sentiment. LONE among all the great Powers of the world, says the New York "Tribune," the Uni ted Stales has no regular diplomatic service. Its am bassadors and mln ictpra hold their fgSTF office only for the term of the ad ministration at Washington to which they are Indebted for their appoint ment, and then step aside to make way for others who are as new to the duties and to the responsibilities of their mission as their predecessors at the time of their nomination. Just at the present moment the resignation of all those who have held oflice abroad un der President Cleveland are being on file at the state department, while President McKlnley is busily engaged in the task of selecting their success ors, and as usual the question which has become a regular feature of each change of administration has been re vived as to whether it would not be more advantageous for the United States to organize a diplomatic service similar to that of foreign nations, and to appoint men trained in the profes sion to the offices of ambassadors and of ministers, instead of adhering to the present practice of nominating those devoid of diplomatic experience. Fifteen years spent in the foreign service of a European power, during the course of which I have enjoyed a considerable amount of Intercourse with the diplomatic representatives of the United States in various portions of the globe, may serve as an excuse for offering In print a personal opinion to the effect that the interest of this country abroad, far from being In any way injuriously affected by the ab sence of trained men at the head of the missions, arc, on the contrary, benefited thereby. And these views are shared by most of the foreign offi cials, statesmen, politicians and court dignitaries with whom I have had oc casion to discuss the matter. They hold that this great commonwealth Is far more appropriately and efficiently rep resented in the Old World by men of sufficient eminence at home to lead to their selection from among the candi dates for the post by the president and the senate of their native land than by trained diplomats who would owe the ortlce to seniority and promotion, the major part of their lives having nec essarily been spent out of America. The distance between this country and Europe Is so great that even the most patriotic citizen of the United States gets out of touch with American Ideas after having lived for a few years abroad. He becomes susceptible to local influence, and, losing the broad American manner of looking at things., gradually grows to view them as Eu ropeans do. This Is apparent in the correspond ence of almost every American jour nalist who goes abroad to represent his paper, and it Is only by frequent trips home that even the most bril liant of them can manage to suppress the tendency to be unduly Influenced by the character of their surroundings and by the atmosphere in which they live. If this is the case with news paper men, it naturally follows that an American diplomat, who is daily and hourly brought into contact with thos foreign bureaucrats and officials to whom etiquette and conventionality are a gospel and the concealment of thought, as well as of sentiment, a creed, will sooner lose his American breadth of view and freshness of mind than the American newspaper corre spondent THREE HEROES OF THE FLOOD One SolMcrilted for His Own Jlc.lal Under Embarrassing Circ-ninstanccx. From the Kansas City Journal Jake Admire tells a very funny story about a thing which happened at Guthrie the other day. During the flood three young men had been particularly gal lant in rescuing people and the citizens determined to present them with med als. A young man was started out to collect subscriptions for this purpose, and presently be came up to several young men standing upon a corner, among whom was McCartney, one of the men for whom the medals were to be procured. "Boys, I'm collecting money to buy medals for McCartney, Willis and Piatt Will you help?" "Yes," replied McCartney, with a wink to his companions, "but, while I am willing to help in getting medals for Willis and Piatt, I don't think Mc Cartney deserves one. He simply fell into the river and had to be helped out" "Well, between you and me," confi dently responded the subscription tak er, "I don't think so either, but folk are afraid he might feel hurt if he was left out, so they counted him in." McCartney paid over his subscrip tion, but he didn't do any more wink ing. The Cannlnr Industry. A few years since there was not a canning factory west of the Alleghany mountains, but now they dot the prai ries and plantations of the Mississip pi basin and are increasing year by year at a rapid rate. There has been a steady increase in the demand for canned goods. Their consumption was enormously increased by their low cost so low, indeed, at present that there is no profit in the industry, which shares the depression common to business in general in recent years. In prosperous times the trade is a vast and profitable one and is only in the first steps of its development New York Tribune. Nearly Beventy round towers, from thirty to 135 feet high, are found in various parts of Ireland. They are believed to have been used in the ceremonies of fire worship. un VICTIM OF HIS OWN HUMOR. Bui Fellow-Clerks Say It Served HUB KlrhU . There Is a clerk in the war depart ment at Washington with a keen sense of humor, who, for the purpose of identification, I will call Daniel Web ster Scruggs, says a writer In the Washisgton Star. He is what people call "a funny man." He spends about half the time he should devote to his official duties thinking up conundrums, puns, practical jokes and other dis agreeable things. When his fellow clerks find mucilage in their ink-bottles and crooked pins in their chairs they always bless Scruggs, hot he. has been warned by the chief of bis dlrl s'.on so many times that he is less humorous in the office nowadays than he used to be. But at home, "With his wife and six children, there is no one to restrain him, and the neighbors are-good-natured. Mrs. Scruggs is a pa tient, long-suffering woman, -an says, she is "so used to It" that "she doesn't mind him any more." She Is nursing Scruggs just now with a devotion that shows her genuine affection for the man who ha3 been a perpetual tor ment during seventeen years of mar ried life. For Scruggs Is a victim of his own humor. About a week ago Scruggs conceived the idea of shaving off his abundant whiskers, and one evening after oflice hours, without saying a word about his intention, left them on the floor of a barber shop. When he got home he thought he would have some fua with the chil dren. So he turned his coat and hat inside out, let himself into the hall way of 'his resider.co with a latch key, and, hunching up his shoulders like a tough, made some queer noises. The children rush ed out of the sitting room, followed by their clog, which is about as big as a flour barrel, and stopped with alarm as they saw what they supposed tu be a tramp. But the dog was not at all frightened. He sprung at the strang er with an eloquent growl, and in an instant he and Scruggs were rolling over and over on the hall floor. The children screamed, and their mother came hurrying from the kitchen. Scruggs shouted and coaxed and swore, but the dog didn't see the joke, and didn't recognize his voiC3, and Mrs. Scruggs and the oldest boy were a long time separating the combatants. They sent for the doctor, who cau terized the wounds and bound them up carefully. He says that Scruggs had a narrow escape and will not bo able to return to his duties for a fort night. The clerks in the office say that it was good enough for him. 39a Married for Money. Mrs. B. (to her hubby) You said you would die if I didn't marry you; how would you have died? Would you have shot yourself? Mr. B. No; starved to death. New York Tribune. GEMS OF THOUGHT. Truth is the object of our under standing, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be de lighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil. Drydcn. The ideal citizen is the man who be lieves that all men are brothers, and that the nation is merely an extension of his family, to be loved, respected and cared for accordingly. John Ilabber ton. Home may be a gypsy's tent, a la borer's cottage, a shopkeeper's house, a merchant's residence, or a nobleman's mansion, if thero is one family under the roof, and that family bound by the ties of affection as well as blood. Rev. E. B. Bagot. I am an optimist, and instead of thinking everything is going to ruin, I think everything is going to salva tion; and instead of it's being 11 o'clock at night with our suffering and dying world, it is half-past 5 o'clock In the morning. T. De Witt Tnlmage. There is no better foundation for public or private usefulness than a meek, modest temper, gentle, indeeJ, and ready to yield as far as good con science will allow but yet standing firm and stable amid contradiction and opposition. Canon Erskine Clark. Narrow-minded and uncultivated persons can easily find fault, and can usually mingle some degree of truth with their harsh conclusions. They judge rigidly and blame severely, not because they are wise, accurate or dis cerning, but rather because they are deficient in some of these qualities. Colton. Do you mean to say the pun question is not clearly settled in your minds? Let me lay down the law upon the sub ject. Life and language are alike sa cred. Homicide and verbicide that is, violent treatment of a word with fatal results to its legitimate meaning, which is its life are alike forbidden. Oliver Wendell Holmes. MIXED PARAGRAPHS. The fiour mills of Seattle are said to be running night and day because of the great demand for breadstuffs from China and Japan. They are telling in Maine of a family of five paupers who used seventeen bar rels of flour in one year at the ex pense of the state. "Has your aunt's will been admitted to probate yet?" "No; there is so much trouble about the pesky thing that I almost wish aunt had never died." Life. A Scottish railway company hes en gaged a first-class speaker to give free illustrated lectures In cities and towns, descriptive of the beautiful summer re sorts in Scotland. Three rash San Francisco men played with a drunken bear Saturday. The hospital authorities say that, with good treatment, they may be ible to be out in about a month. French universities were partly de centralized and made more iudependent of the state last summer. One immedi ate result has been that donations and bequests by private individuals hava begun to flow in. The "cutest" canary in Deeriug, Me., is in disgrace. He was allowed the freedom of the house, and got nothing but compliments until he selected the inopportune hour of a swell tea party to take a bath in the cream pitcher. It is a mistaken idea that loud talk gives tone to society, CAMPFIRE SKETCHES. GOOD SHORT STORIES THE VETERANS. FOR Where Soldiers Are Bit In Battle The Snaee and Keck Offer the Greatest -f Xamfcer of Opportunities Our National f Kasblem by B W. Beecher. I- Oar sivrocs OWN In the wild crass the star llowcrs blos som Above In the sky tleccy clouds bend low; Zephyr and sun beam are danc ing together. The season has set the earth all aglow: Spring wlth.i . arias full of bloc:n and rare beauty. -ow that fatr Summer Is conitaf0 "!!: Flees with her "festivals over the thres- But the liest day Is left-the event of the year! A day for loyalty, tears and devotion Day for remembrances, tender and t Weaving of laurels for dust-covered heroes , - Men who died bravely for me and for you! Open thcEook of the Tast! See Its pagc3 Dear are the names we find registered theie , Soldiers who fell by the way or In battle Soldiers beside us with silvery hair! Now on lifc'3 beach our old heroes are standing, Thin are their ranks, and the tide ebbing fast; Boats arc in-coming and boats are out going Over the sea a great armv has passed. Do we not sec on thvbe'calm, wrinkled faces Shadows that tc!l of the Journey to come? Give tlim. while living, bright llowers of nffeetion They will not need them when they have gone heme! Years will creep by, and we children of roldiers Know wo must witness their passing away: Dut. proud In our grief, we shall weep for our lotd oiks. And honor their graves on Memorial Day. Sacred thrse mounds as a shrine to tne pilgrim, r.-msc wo before Jliem with reverent fret. Bruircri llowers nlll die. but their llfe ,,.. Riving fragrance ill use up like incense most subtle and sweet! The world lies before us! We children of feoldieis Are loaI of heart as our fathers of yore: The flag they upheld and the land thov If feiitlcil Arc precious to us for the burdens tSu-y bore. Bright lie the stars in that glorious ban ner. May nations rite up and call it thrice blest; And peace to the ashes of those who tip- boie It Long may it wave o"er the place of their i est! Sumner. Iowa. Km ma Kgclecon. Wlu-re KoMlt-r.4 Arc Hit. A great military authority says that when a well built man of six leet Is facing the enemy, he presents a surface to be shot at of one thousand square inches. His face lias an area of lifty-six inch es, and his neck ot twenty-tin ee inches, and out of every hundred men wound ed in battle fourteen will be wounded in these parts. They arc the mo.st exposed parts of the body, whether the combatant is in a trench or behind a tree or wall. The trunk offers nearly four times as lare a target, but it is usually protected by some form of de fense work, and is therefore hit only nineteen times in a hundred. As Scraps says, it seems extraordin ary that the arms have as great an area almost as the body. That Is to say, what the anatomist calls arms, which include the shoulders. They measuro two hundred and twenty-six inches, and receive thirty out of the hundred hits. The reason they are oftencr wounded than the body is that they have to be exposed so much in firing. The legs, including the hips, have the largest surface of all, measur ing four hundred and twenty-two 6quare inches, or nearly twice as much as the arms. But they arc nearly al ways protected by breastworks, rising ground, trunks of trees, etc., and so they are wounded only thirty-five times out of the hundred. When lighting at close quarters the head and body suf fer very severely, but when lighting from behind trees, the arms, having to be put forward to fire, receive an un usual number of wounds. A curious fact, which every veteran knows to his cost, is that when the ground is hard, bullets are reflected upward and wound the legs and lower parts of the body, while. If the ground were soft, the bullets would bury themselves in it. Our National Kmblein. When a man of thoughtful mind sees a nation's flag, he sees not the Hag only, but the nation itself; and what ever may be his symbols, he reads chiefly in the flag of tre government, the principles, the truth, the history, which belong to the nation which sets it forth. When the French tri-color rolls out to the wind, we see France. When the new found Italian flag is un furled, we see Italy restored. When tho other three-cornered Hungarian flag shall be lifted to the wind, we shall Eee in it the long buried, but never dead principles of Hungarian liberty. When the united crosses of St. Andrew and St. Gecrge on a fiery ground set forth the banner of the Old World, we see not the cloth merely; there arises up before the mind the noble aspect of that monarchy which, more than any other on the globe, has advanced its banner for liberty, la and national prosperity. This nation has a banner, too: and wherever it streamed abroad, men saw daybreak bursting on their eyes, for the American flag has been the symbol of liberty, and men rejoice in It. Not another flag on the globe had such an errand or went forth upon the seas carrying everywhere, the world around, such hope for the captive, and 6uch glorious tidings. The stars up on it were to the pining nation like the morning stars of God. and the stripes upon it were beams of morning light The history of this banner is all on one side. Under it rod" Washington and his army: before it Burgoyne laid down his arms. It waved in tho high lands at eWst Point: it floated over old Fort Montgomery. When Arnold would have surrendered these valu able fortresses and precious legacies, his night was turned into day and his treachery was driven away by the teams of light from this starry ban ner. It cheered our army, driven from New York, in their solitary pilgrim age through New Jersey. It streamed In the light over Morristown and Val ley Forge. It crossed the waters roll ing with ice at Trenton; and when its stars gleamed in the cold morning with victory, a new day of hope dawned on the despairing nation; and when at length the long years of war were drawing to a close, underneath the folds of this immortal banner sat Washington while Yorktown surren dered its hosts, and our revolutionary struggles ended in victory. Let us twine each thread of the glorious tissue of our country's flag about our heart strings; and looking upon our home3, and catching tho spirit that breathes upon us from the battle fields of our fathers, let us resolve, come weal or woe, we will, in life and in death, now and forever, stnnd by the stars and stripes. Henry Ward Beecher. A Tinr Soldier. A small boy only three and a hall years old, living in New York, is the son of a soldier. His father and moth er had promised him that he should see his father and comrades march en Decoration day. When Decoration day came this little hoy's mother could not go. His father did not want to disap point him. It was decided that his father should take him to a place in the line of the procession where a friend of his mother's had promised to meet him, and view the procession. When the small boy and his papa got to this place the lady was not there, and thero was not time for his father to take him home. He put the small boy In front of a post, and said to him, "You must Eland here until papa comes back. You must not leave here with any one. Stand still just where I put veil until I come back. llemcmber,you are a sSldicr's son, and must obey." There the small boy stood over an hour all alone. People puzzled by his loneliness in such a crowd spoko to him. To each one he answered, "I am waiting for my papa; he told mo to stand here." There he stood, a lit tle picket on duty, a little soldier in truth, though he did not wear a uni form. He had learned the first lesson of a soldier's duty obedience. Trsting a Wttran Sanity. Judge Douneliy's court room at Chi cago, 11!., was the scene of a reunion of three war veterans the other day. Col. George Hilton, formerly of Ohio, was on trial for his insanity. To convince the jurors of his mental soundness, he recounted some experiences of the re bellion. As the sishtless old soldier told his story two of the jurors became greatly interested, and finally over stepped the bounds of the juror's code of ethics by coming down from the jury box and grasping tho colonel's hand. They were at one time members of his regiment. Colonel Hilton claims to be the victim of a conspiracy on the part of his wife, who secured his com mitment to the insane ward of the Day ton soldiers' home in order, it is said, to diaw his pension. After he had en tered an Ohio asylum a guardian was appointed. The decision of the court was that the colonel was sane. Judgo Donnelly will communicate with the Ohio court and have the decree of guar dianship set aside. Tower of Ulg duns. Some interesting calculations in re gard to the power of big guns are made by the Engineering and Mining Jour- ' nal. The ICO-ton gun, with a 550-pound chargo of powder, throws a projectile weighing 2,020 pounds at an initial ve locity of 1,715 feet per second. It com municates to it, therefore, a livo power or kinetic force of 92,907.000 foot pounds. The thrust exerted by the gases duo to the ignition of the pow- der lasts less than a hundredth part of a Eccond. The result is that during tho j active period of the work of the pow- , der in the gun the mean power is greater than 87,000,000 foot pounds per j hundredth of a second, say, 8,700,000,- 000 foot pounds per second. This rep resents a power of 12,000.000 kilowatts, or 17,000,000 horse power. Although largo guns are extraordinarily power ful, their active life is essentially ephemeral, since after 100 shots, they aro generally out of service. They have then worked actively one sec ond! The Hiirnieuc Character. The Burmese, writes Mr. H. Fielding in Blackwood, are a wonderful nation. In the villages the private charity Is very great. It must be remembered that in small communities half the vil lage arc usually kin to each other. A man will marry a girl of his own village, who brings him a further cir cle of relations in addition to his own. And relationship is a very sacred tie to tho Burmese far closer than we have any Idea of among ourselves. A man who U slightly better off than others has always a large circle of re lations to whom his charity can flow without going afield for It. So it is that although the amount of privato charity that is given is very great compared to the means of the people, enormo'is yet there is no show of ft. There are no subscription Ilets, no col lection boxes, no public distribution of alms, If a man of means can in these hard times manage to keep his rela tions from ruin and starvation, that 13 as much an he can do. And on the bet ter off among the community, those who have managed even in the hard year to reap enough or earn enough to have a snperflu; y, the monks and monasteries are dependent. In every small village there will !e a monas tery, however poor, and one monk at least. In large villages thre are many. Besides ministering to the re!igiou3 nee-is of the people, these monks aro schoolmasters. Every monastery is a school, where all the little boys aro taught giettiitously. And these mon astTioG have no endowments. Tho monks and novices are all of them de pendent on tho daily charity of tho villager. So for in only one or two esse.'; of villages reduced to veriest des titution have I heard cf a monk hav ing ben olllccd to go elsewhere be cause the people could notcupport him. Even in thes sses it has been but a superfluous monk, not the principal one of the monastery. As long as there is a man left in the village with means beyond his daily wants, tho mGnks will bo fed and the schools kept up. Even upon the famine camp3 a little food will be spared to give the mocks as they come round in their morning procession. Charity, unosten tatious, heart-felt charity, is one of the greatest virtues of Buddhism is one of the many beautiful sides of the j Burmese character . DANIEL BOONE. A SpaaUh Subject Cowlnc Teua Wenpcrado. About tho year 1797 tho old pioneer Daniel Boone went over Into Missouri and settled in what was known as the Femmc Osage (Osage Woman) settle ment, says the St. Louis Itepublic. This W33 on the Missouri river, in the dis trict of St. Charles, about forty-five miles trcst cf St. Louis and about twenty-five miles above the town of St. Charlos. This portion of Missouri was then wild and picturesque just such a country as he loved. Soon after his arrival In Missouri Daniel Boone i enounced hi3 allegiance to the government of the Unltl States and became a Spanish subject. On June 11, 1S0O, Delasstis appointed him commandant, or syndic, of the Femmc Osasc district, a position which he ac cepted. The oflice was both civil and military. In time of pc-ace he acted as an adjudicator cr judge over the peo ple in hi3 district and in time of war he was their commander. The matters on which he had to pa judgment were such as required hon esty anX practical common sense rath er than a knowledge of law. He was fearless and upright in his decisions. On one occasion a desperado who had been terrorizing the people of the Femmc Osage district was public'' rep rimanded by Boone. The man. who prided himself on his power to over awe the people, cried out: "If yon were not an old man I should not take that from you. "You arc a great cjwanl." responded Boone, shaking his clinched fist close to the man's face; "if you want to get revenge on mc for what I have said don't let my gray hairs stand in the way. Old as I am. I am young enough to whip yoi." Quito crestfallen, the fellow slunk away and was never again heard to tay anything against the old pioneer. FAITHFULLY REPRESENTED. I'roor of tli C.pt:iiii t'onilltion Ciirn lj Hit Fill lit Aclintt-n. From the Wave: A gallant captain wns called up by his eoloned to ex plain his assaulting the sentry on his return to barracks after dinner o the previous night. The captain had for gotten the incident entirely. The sen try declared that the officer was evi dently diunk. The captain? Irish sol dier servant, however, emphatically protested that his master was sober. "How is it that you are so sure that he was sober?" asked the colonel. "Did he speak to you?" "lie did, corr." "What did he say?" "He tould me to be sure and call him early in the morning, sorr." "That seems all right," caid the col onel; "and did ah did the captain say why he wished to be called so ear ly?" "He did, sorr. He said he was going to be Queen of May." Kvntly. Gilgal The members of the club fairly gormandized themselves at the annual banquet. Perkaisc - Then it was a stuffed club. New York Trib une. THIS AND THAT. Mine. Bcrliot lbhen, daughter ot Bjornson, and daughter-in-law of the dramatict, has just made her public debut as a vocalist at Chrintianla. Site intends to adopt rsiubic as a proiesslon. 'ihc record loc rapid building in Chi cago, which until recently was held by the i-'idicr building, has been broken by the Fair building, whoso nine steel stories were put up in t.veuty-xune days. "A pretty old trio, that," remarked a Farniington. Maine, man as two gen tlemen, age ninety-four and eigiity two years respectively, rode by behind a horse that had seen thirty-four imrn niers. Butcher I need a boy about your size, and will give you twelve shillings a week. Applicant Will I have a chance to rise? Butcher Yes, I want you to be here at 1 in the morning. Tit-Bits. Dcalis in Chinese lanterns, awnings and other goods of that kind in New York city report that the craze for pri alc roof gardc-ns has created the great est demand for their goods that they have ever known. Australia's rabbit pktgue bids fair to come to an end, owing to the lae exportaticn of frozen rab'nU; for the London market. From Victorit a!on 12.000 rabbits a d?y, or over l.COO.OOO a year aro now rh'ppc-'l. France has a diakvt soriety. the So ciety des Parlcrs de Frani wh.-sa president is M. Gastoi. Pjijm, of tho Academic Francaise, which is collect ing legends and songs in all parts of France by means of the phonograph. FUNNYGBAPH3 She Arc you Mire you will like mrr r:ed life as well as you do your club? II" -Oh. yes! She Ai.il are you so awfully fond ct your cl.ib? He Not very. Tit-Bits. Little Willie Pa. why do they call them 'minor poets'? Pa Because they ought to be working with tho pick and shovel instead of writing poetry, my &cn.- Cleveland Leader. "What hate you against this hotel?"' thundered the landlord. "Almost "ver thing is extra' except the meals. They're the worst I ever contended with." Detroit Free Press. Mr?. Brown I am the mother of seven boys. 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