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-F&G&p&v mnrnai (Mwmbm VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 21. COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA. WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 1, 1897. WHOLE NUMBER 1,125. f$$39FF r" m o mm IS s w . s! am. m n -; n . . . HER MISSION. (By Amy Randolph.) ND you think I'd really better adver. tise'" said the Rev. Septimus Hixon. "By all means," .rT JS; - jmi b 1 i c of Snag- lown; that's the only business way." Mr. Hixon, a tall, pale, close-shaven young clergyman, sal in his Gothic etudy, with a vase of rosebuds before his sheets of sermon paper, and a tack of new pens all placed ready for use. Maj. Clark, short and stout, with a fringe of white whiskers around his rubicund countenance, was smoking a cigar on the doorstep. Mr. Hixon disliked the odor of Havanas, and Maj. Clark despised the rosebuds. But they were both mildly tolerant of the other's weakness. Maj. Clark had an idea that it looked respectable to be on social terms with your clergyman, end Mr. Hixon, who had only recent ly accepted a call to Snagtown, de pended a good deal on Maj. Clark's thorough acquaintance with the peo ple and the place. ' And, to speak truth, the beautiful, rose-garlanded parsonage was not al together without Its thorns. Mr. Hixon knew nothing about housekeeping, and the old woman, who had always man aged the domestic helm for his prede cessor, had just retired from business on a legacy. An.l the topic which Maj. Clark and he were discussing at that especial moment was how to re place Betsey Ann Snedecor. So. Mr. Hixon took the major's ad vice and inserted an advertisement in the Snagtown Weekly Trumpet. The major gave it to the editor with the dollar which was to guarantee its prompt insertion. And the Snagtown Weekly Trumpet had not decorated the breakfast table of the citizens for half an hour on the Wednesday morning of its Issue when Mr. Hixon, studying out the "fifthly" of his next week's sermon, was startled by a tap at the door, and in walked a lady. A young lady. And rather a pretty lady, with a flush on her cheeks as red as the Rev. Mr. Hixon's own rose buds, pretty brown hair and dark blue eyes veiled with long lashes. "Ah!" stammered Mr. Hixon, rising rather awkwardly, "how do you do. Miss Lennox? A fine morning after the rain. Pray be seated pray favor me by occupying this chair!" For he had seen Barbara Lennox several times. ailed once nt her fath er's snug little farmhouse, and put down her name in his list of people to be visited frequently. He liked Bar lara. and he did not think that Bar bara disliked him. There are some people with whom wo feel that we should like to be better acquainted. And pretty Barbara was one of these, classed on the white pages of the min ister's memorandum book. So, of course, when she came to the "WILL YOU MARRY ME?" tudy that July morning, looking so fresh and pretty in her pink muslin flress and gypsy hat. with its wreaths of daisies, he was a degree or so more iwkward and clumsy than usual. "But I can't stay," fluttered Bar bara; "I have come to see you on busi ness, Mr. Hixon." "On business. Miss Barbara?" ""Yes." nodded Barbara; "I have een the paper this morning." "Oh!" said Mr. Hixon. reddening up !o the roots o' his hair, as he remem bered the advertisement. "Ah. yes! Have :ou any trustworthy person whom you can recommend?" "Myself." said Barbara. Mr. Hixon moed back his studv rhalr. thereby seriously inconvenie Ing the tortoise-shell cit. which was Rsleep in the sunshine close behind him. "You!" said lie. "Yes," said Barbara; "why not? I nm such a meic useless doll in the world now. Don't you think. Mr. Hix pn, you could find something for me to do?" Mr. Hixon rubbed his Greek nose. "There's enough to do," said he; '"not a question of that. But whether fou would like that sort of work " "Any work that is done for the church would please me, I know," said Barbara, eagerly. "Do you think, by dear Miss Len nox, that you are strong enough?" du biously asked the clergyman. She laughed a merry bobolink sort j Df laugh. j "I,' cried she. "strong enough? I rould do anything. Look at the frail, lelicate women who have successfully -fone out to our foreign missions!" "Ah. but this field of labor is very different," reasoned the Rev. Septi mus. "Yes, of coarse," said Barbara; "but it's doing good, just the same, isn't '.t?" "Ton have never done anything of the sort before." said Mr. Hixon, more nd more puzzled. "?fo. but there must be a first begin ning to everything," said Barbara, rheerfully. "The compensation is not high," aid Mr. Hixon. wondering what the old ladies of the parish would say to seeing Barbara Lennox In his kitchen. "As if I cared for that." said Bar oara. "My work is light." added the clergy man, "and of cp::tf you would have t great deal of time to yourself." A - Fi . ' fyd(t)- i 1 Maj. Clark, 'yi-Vff "piIt 'our?e,f in di" . MBjrw rct communication tfS Rrlrf'Tr' with the general Itll "Oh, but I Ki-nt to be kept busy," pleaded Barbara. "I I am afraid you are too young," said Mr. Hixon in desperation. "Too young!" cried Barbara. "What difference does that make?" "People might say gossiping, hl-na-tured things." reasoned Mr. Hixon, looking very hard at the tops of the cars of the tat. which had by this time jumped into Miss Lennox's lap. "And much as I should appreciate your kind offer" "If you won't take me." said Bar bara, springing to her feet with a red spot glowing on either cheek, "I'll go to Mr. Symington, the Baptist minis ter." "I don't think he needs one," said Mr. Hixon, also rising and looking per turbed. "Needs what?" "A maid-servant," explained Mr. Hixon in the blunt way in which your Latin scholar sometimes blurts out his facts. "But," cried Barbara, with very wide-open eyes, "who is talking about a maid-servant?" "You." said Mr. Hixon. "Aren't you?" "Indeed I'm not," said Barbara. "Didn't you allude to my advertise ment for a servant-maid, which ap peared in this morning's Snagtown Weekly Trumpet?" asked Mr. Hixon. feeling as if the world were all turn ing upside down, and he were losing his hold on creation in general. "So," said Barbara Lennox. "I al luded to an editorial in the same pa per which called the attention of the public to the lack of workers in the field of domestic missions." Mr. Hixon heaved a deep sigh. "Dear, dear," said he, "how very rediculous. I must have made myself " "What must you have thought of me?" cross-questioned Barbara, sud denly perceiving the weak side of her own position. And. without waiting fcr his response, she dropped the as tonished cat and flew out of the study, crossing the old orchard, where the cherries were winking their scarlet eyes through the leaves, and at length losing herself in the woods beyond. "I have ofTended her," said Mr. Hix on to himself. "How clumsy I must have been! I must go after her, at once!" He did so, overtaking her just where a rustic bridge spanned the quiet brook below the woods. "Barbara," he pleaded in piteous tones, "Miss Lennox I didn't mean to say anything which could offend you!" "Oh!" cried Barbara, "I am not of fended. I am only vexed and angry with myself!" "Barbara!" "Yes. Mr. Hixon!" "You are determined not to try the situation?" Her eyelashes fell. "I am not worthy even of that, Mr. Hixon." "Barbara?" ' "Well. Mr. Hixon?" "If you won't be my mission Sunday school teacher, will you be my wife?" "Mr. Hixon!" "We can at least work together, Bar bara, in our Master's vineyard," said the young clergyman solemnly. "And ever since I have been here I have felt that I lacked something to get force and energy to my daily ministra tions. I know now what it is a wife! Dear little Barbara, will you marry me?" "If if you think I am good enough," said Barbara, drooping her head so that he could scarcely see the shell pink glow of her cheeks. So they took the advertisement out of the Snagtown Weekly Trumpet, and were married quietly and Mrs. Septimus Hixon brought with her to the parsonage a faithful old domes tic, who asked for no better lot in life than to work for "Miss Barbara and her husband." And Barbara has at length achieved the great longing of her life a mis sion! She is a pattern clergyman's wife, an earnest worker, a faithful mis sionary In the home field. And Mr. Hixon has cut the little advertisement out of the village paper, and preserves it among his dearest mementos. "I didn't advertise for a wife." said he. "but I got one. Eh, Barbara?" New York Ledger. OURIOUS MONTANA CURRENCY Potatoes tiiren for Debt, Onions for Chance. Matches for Melons. Boys in thgJSast someti es think tBmr money ayscatce enoug ;- . , UUi they really know v lttlc aBoi ut it compared with ' t some of their West could tell cousins trom tne era. There often goes fgiaJBays ivithout sight 3f even so rqrch as a nickel and thfn the neonle?rcsort to all sorts oLqueer devices to "make change." mKn. Easternftan who had occasionto spend Jnauy months in Montarvtells of having seen a man buyJox of mdrfnes with a water mejmi, and reejave as change two mnskmelons. Another paid for sus renders in turnips, and got a carrot or two back with his purchase. "But of all the queer financial transactions that I have ever known," said he. "the oddest came under the head of 'paying the fiddler.' It had been noised abroad that a dance was to be given a little way up the mountain, and I agreed to go along with one of the boys and see the fun. After going through the ela borate preparations of blacking his boots and putting on a collar, I saw my companion go to the potato bin and carefully select a dozen nice pota toes and put them in his pocke. No sooner had we arrived at the 'music hall' than he gracefully sur lendered his vegetables for an entrance ticket. But what puzzled me the most was that upon coming out after danc ing all night he was given two onions as 'change. I have been trying to make tip my mind ever since just what that dance was worth in the 'currency of the realm.' " San Francisco Chron icle. Still They Are One. "A man and a woman." remarked the observer of men and things, "are quite likely to look at a thing from opposite points of view; a man will see notbing bnt the outlay, where a woman has no eyes for anything but the layout.' l-'CLIUlL JUU1UOI. In the sixteenth century frogs were considered fish, and allowed on fast days. i GOODCROPSAflDPKICE PROSPERITY RAPIDLY RETURN ING TO THE LAND. Talk With a DUtlnffaUbe Statesman ad Agricultural Expert B. W. Snow Ilaa Some Interesting Views on Con ditions and Prospects. Washington, D. C, Aug. :, 1897. It is seldom that the eatire country is blessed with such an abundance as this year. In no section is there re ported "no crops." Illinois has pehaps the poorest wheat yield but her corn crop is magnificent and the small losses from winter killed wheat sections do not amount to any thing in the grand total yield. Mr. B. W. Snow, the ex-asslstant sta tistician of the department of agricul ture, who is still making a specialty of agricultural statistics, . Bald, in speaking of the great agricultural wealth of the country at this time: "With the bountiful crops throughout the United States not in prospect but actually in hand, with increased and Increasing consumption at home and a larger foreign dc-iimnd for American products and with prices on the up grade even while the crops arc still on the farms, this year of 1837 wil's be remembered as a year of great agri cultural prosperity and plenty." "Harvesting is so far advanced, Mr. Snow, that it is no longer a matter of estimate and conjecture as to the yield, but In many cjses you have the actual approximate figures?" "Ye3. The crop season is now so far advanced that the final results can be safely promised. Nevertheless the re sult is no less pleasing than the earlier prospective hopes of the most opti mistic. In no line of agricultural pro duction is it a light year and in moot the yields are heavy. Hay has rarely flourished as it has this year. The abundant rains have given us a very unusual crop and hay is a more im portant crop than usually thought. The rates of the new tariff law thor oughly protect our farmers in this re spect. The year's wheat crop is the second largest in the history of the country, running upwards of 300,000. 000 bushels and well distributed over the country. The corn crop promises to be a very large one. The oat crop is also well above the average. All the minor crops aro in promising form. The fruit crop generally promises good re sults. But these facts of large yield and good promise do not tell the whole story of prosperity. Prolific crops have been harvested before, but in some cases, have for want of consumption and demand, proven a burden rather than a blessing. It was a common saying that the farmer would rather have small crops with good prices than large crops and no prices. But this year come the abundant crops and high prices, a rare combination and one calculated to warm the cockles of the heart of the thrifty farmer. Prices are high and inclining upward. There is no reason to fear a reaction and slump because of the actual conditions of the world's crops. The United States holds the key to prices. The wheat crop of the world is known to be about 100,000,000 bushels short. Argentina, India and Australia have no surplus and Russia practically none. Great Britain, France and Germany arc far short in their production of their home demand. There was an American surplus of last year's crop of 70,000,000 bushels and the fortunate thing is that this is in the hands of the farmer. The advanced position of wheat developed before the farmer had disposed of his wheat to buyers and now he will reap the full benefit of the advance." "Is not the present crop larger than was expected sometime ago, Mr. Snow?" "It is, and the quality is of the fin est. In winter killed sections the wheat braced up wonderfully. Fields in Illinois whose plowing under was contemplated early in the season have made very fair yields and others with a supposed small yield have shown by the thresher enormous returns. The actual increase in money in the hands of the farmers through their wheat holdings throughout the country is an enormous sum. Wheat is worth now about 20 cents a bushel more than the crop last year and the advance for this year has just begun. The market will continue to rise. The ir.c-eased value of the wheat crop of Kansas alone this ye?r in comparison with last amounts to nearly or quite $23,000,000, while the increased value of the coun try's crop at present prices is in ex cess of $100,000,000 over that of last year." "What are the corn outlooks, Mr Snow?" "Most gratifying. Although the sea son started late the yield will be large. 2.000.000,09 bushels is a fair estimate as the ccreage is the largest ever planted. Every indication poiurs to advancing prices in corn. Last year at this time prices were shrinking at the prospect of a large crop; this year the tendency is upward. Millions of bushels of old corn now lie in the cribs in the west and with rising prices for this as well as the new crop, there can be but one result." "All along the line of agricultuia! production, including all live stock, there is a general steady increase! Large new flocks of sheep are con templated as p. result of the wool tariff and the demand has ire-eased the value of the sheep holdings of the country $10,000,000. "But the finest point in all these Increases is the fact that they come at a time when the farmer holds his products and that he individually will reap the full benefit. I have a little table here prepared some days ago for publication which shows the im provement in cash values of leading farm products. They are recent Chi cago quotations for 1S97 In compari son with those exactly one year ago. 1896 1S97. Wheat .58 .77 Corn .23 .27 Oats .18 .17 Rye .29 .39 Barley .27 .31 Flaxseed .73 .83 Hogs $2.90 to $3 .20 $3.40 to $3.60 Cattle $3.95 to $4.30 $4.40 to $4.90 Sheep $2.00 to $3.80 $2.35 to $4.00 "In these articles named, with the tingle exception of flaxseed this year's itoct supply is larger than that of last and the supply, as I have said, is In the banfr of the producer. G. H. WILLIAM9. The Maker and the Taken American Economist: There la no motive to make a product if you can't find somebody to take it The maker must find the taker. You will not em ploy labor to make a product if you cannot find a buyer for that product after labor has made it. President Mc Kinley. This is so obvious a truth that we may suppose that even a free-trader would agree to it. The conclusions in- Ai'ifnlilt .r...lt :.. rnn. iliSc tfltttl 0A equally' obvious.' Why the free-traders cannot see them is one of the mysteries of the nineteentii century. It ought to be perfectly plain thct if, by free-trade, th.2 products "of foreign manufacturers are brought into this country to under sell American manufacturers, the for eign "makers" will find all the "takers," and the reult will be that American manufacturers will not be able to find buyers for their products, and will, therefore, not employ labor to make those products. The leasoning is perfectly simple. But we have had something more than reasoning in re gard to it during the last four yean?. We have had a practical demonstration. The doctrinaires and hide-bound free traders may not et have had their eyes opened, but the people of the country have. And that's why William McKin ley is president of the United States Decatur, III.. "Republican." "Come In Out The Outlook for Wool. We congratulate the American wool growers upon their outlook. After nearly five years of steady deprecia tion in the value of sheep and wool, brought abei.e solely by the Democrat ic policy of freo trade in wool, our Am erican sheep owners will have protec tion restored to their agricultural in dustry and with it, we trust, an increas? in the number and value of their flocks. While we wish no harm to Australian sheep owners, the following extract from the monthly wool circular of Messrs. Goldsbrough, Mort & Co., of Melbourne, dated May 7, is of inter est: The pastoral position almoat through out Australia is at present one of great gravity; the severity of the drought is almost as acute as it is widespread. The preservation of stock requires in cessant effort, and mortality is increas ing with painful rapidity, while the prospects of a lambing season have sel dom, if ever, been more unpromising. Even in stronger confirmation of the unfavorable outlook for the Austral!an flocks, with a consequent decrease in the production of Australian wool, Sb the following extract from a printed letter dated at Sydney, Australia. May 8: "Here we are passing through a se vere drought one of the worst experi enced for many, many j-ears, and I think that nearly the whole crop of Iambs will be lost and possibly eight to ten millions more sheep, so that you may look for the numbers in this col ony (New South Wales) going down from 47 millions at December 31 last year to about 35 to 37 millions at the end of this year, because, even though rain may come now, there must be a tremendous mortality as the ewes are lambing and the sheep generally are in a very weak condition in most parts of the colony. The bad season will al so militate largely against the crops." If it be possible to collect a duty up on all foreign wool imported in antici pation of the enactment of a protec tive tariff, either in such manner as has been suggested by Senator Warren or by an internal revenue tax. then the improvement in the outlook for al! American wool interests will be even quicker, stronger and surer. Ilrmncr.it Not Free Trailers. There are a great many editors and a few public men who have deceived themselves into believing that the democratic party is a free trade party. We need not pause here to inqi'f.re how so confusing an error got afoot. It Is sufficient to say that the time has come to correct it. "Constitution," Atlanta, Ga. We are indeed very glad to hear it, and gladly do our part toward cor recting the misapprehension by giving the above Democratic statement the widest possible circulation among our exchanges and through our various pi ess services. Stimulating Conliilrnre. The protective tariff act when passed and signed will not act like magic to restore prosperity in a single. night, but it will stimulate the confidence of manufacturers in the future of their enterprises and work will be given to thousands who are now idle as a result of the untoward effects of free-trade legislation and free silver agitation. Detroit, Mich.. Journal. On Labor Brotr. It is too early rerhaps to speculate as to the issues of the next Presidential campaign, but it does look as if the silk nightshirt might be one of them. Fortunately no laurels can be gained among the poor by any talk of pressing a eilk nightshirt on the brow of labor. Detroit Free Press. of the Vict loiituiii M'LEAN A COLD BUO. Mr. McLean, it appears, has quite as great a fondness for gold as those other gentlemen with whom he vies in his al leged friendship for silver. While he evidently considers silver good enough for the poor man, he does not consider It good enough for John R. McLean. There are plenty of evidences of this in Mr. McLean's business transactions in the District of Columbia. In his In vestments, which have been numerous and large here, he has, where possible, selected those payable in gold, and has fone s far as ; to dlscaru any . , "uns wnicn mK ". i Mcmauy tailen into his nanus, so "" I f3h? to opportunity. An instance is related in which a few years ago he purchased a number of bond3 of the District of Columbia of two classes. These purchases were made indiscrimi nately without reference to the classes cf bonds, but were soon followed by a sale by McUan of a number of those wh'ch he had apparently bought as a permanent investment. Observation as lo the class of bonds of 'vhich he was disposing disclosed that he invariably retained the goM bonds and disposed of those which were not specifically made payable In gold coin, although they were guaranteed by the United States. Mr. McLean has made no con cealment of lii; tnotive in these transac tions, saying frankly that he wanted the obligation which he held as an in- j vestment payable in gold. On another occasion, wh"n one of Mr. Bland's sil ver me.isurps was pending in congress, and there seemed a probabllit that it might become a law. it is related on :;eod nuthoritv that Mr. McLean hitr licdly disposed of large quantities of Hiked Slates bonds, taking gold coin in exchange therefor and depositing if in the vaults of one of the great safe deposit establishments of this city, pil ing up many thousands of dollars of the yellow r.:etal against the possibility cf 'egislation in favor of silver, which, '.owctir. did not take place. Theic are plenty of circumstances of this kind which might be detailed to rliovv Mr. McLean's personal fondness for the yellow metal and his unwilling ness to accept obligations which could be paid in silver, of which he now lo?es as a champion. While these .ire interesting and plentiful, they are omit ted on this occasion in order to give space for the detai's of a single transac- ion showing his fondness for gold and distrust of the other classes of currency w hich he and his associates in Ohio arfc now seeking to force upon the masses. The transaction in question is that of a contract made by him with the Col umbia Athletic club of thk city in 189, in which he requires that organization to make sundry obligations, amounting to $70,000, payable to him individually in gold coin, both principal and inter est. The transaction related to the con struction of a club house for this or ganization, the Columbia Athletic club of the District of Columbia. In that year he made an agreement with the club by which he sold to it certain lots in the fashionable northwest part of Wnshinsrton. near tho War. State nml Navy Departments, and erected there- ..non 9 ,.nmmn,iin., nml cnMv oii.i, upon a commodious and costly club house, the price of the land and the club house being $70,000. This money the club agreed to pay on or before the 1st of March, 1909, and issued bonds payable to John R. McLean, bearing his name upon their face. These bonds he required the club to agree to pay ia "gold coin of the United States of the present standard of weight and fine ness," also requiring it to pay the "in terest thereon in like gold coin." There can be no doubt about the ac curacy of this statement. The bonds were prepared and signed by the offi cers of the club and turned over to him, and some of them have since passed into the hands of other parties who now hold them. Not only are these ' bonds still extant and readily obtain able by those who desire to verify this statement, but a still more permanent and unimpeachable record of this tran- saction Is found upon the official recordg of the District of Columbia. The dc-' ?:.,"!.. L m..i i-L - ' tails of the entire transaction between Mr. McLean and the Columbia Athletic club are set forth in a copy of a deed of ' trust jiiven in connection with this transaction Turaeil Over :i w Leaf. That "KnUtet Chain" Smalicl. The eagerness of importers to evade the new tariff had one noteworthy re sult. It smashed the Cleveland inven tion, that the drain of sold from the treasury was due to our currency, which furnished an "endiess chain" for the draving out of gold. The currency is the same to-day it was when Messrs. Clevelard and Carlisle were casting about f( r any reason but the true one to acco-.nt for their bond sales. The currency is the same and the treasury is not drawn upon for gold exception ally. The reason is the treasury has money enough to meet the govern ment's expenses. Republicans said all the while the drain of gold and the bond srles were due to the tariff for deficit snd would cease as soon as rev enue receipts equaled expenses. Utica, N. Y.. Herald. "Mvlng Wages.- v The purchasing ability ofjlhe great masses is what decides gooC times or bad times, and that ability comes of , "living wages." Globe, Boston, Mass. Ana tne living wages come only tinder a Protective tariff. TRADE. 0 Mfr2U TALE OF HYPNOTISM. THE WOMAN CHATS WHILE SCALPEL STRIPS FLESH. Not a Single Xerre Quivered After the Or ileal She Remembered Nothing hut Her Talk with the Surgeon While at Their Work. YPNOTISM prom ises to become a prominent factor in modern surgery. Considerable hyp notic experiment ing has been going on of late.but many of the most success ful investigators of this phase of psy chological science have refrained from giving or neglect ed to give the results of their work to the public, says the San Francisco Call. An apt illustration of the adaptabil ity and harmlessness of hypnotism in delicate and painful operations was furnished a few days ago in the case of Mrs. A. R. Clothier of Collinsville, Solano county, now residing at 2115 Webster street, in this city. An operation which is known among the surgical fraternity as "trachelorr aphy, was performed on her about ten day3 ago under hypnotic influence, but "perineorraphy" was performed later, and owing to aggravated conditions from the previous operation was a se rious ordeal. Dr. M. E. Van Meter was the operat ing surgeon, assisted by Dr. Charles Clark, who readily placed the patient under the influence of hypnotism. The only other persons present during the operation wcie the assistant surgeons and nurses. At the first operation the lady was hypnotized while lying on the couch, and walked at the bidding of the doc tor to the operating table, and after the ordeal returned to her former rest ing place. At the last operation Dr. Clark approached her as she lay on the operating table, and, placing a hand across her temples, which were covered with a handkerchief, said soothingly: "You are going to sleep now on this lounge, and will feel much refreshed when you awake." "Am I?" she said contentedly, and in a few minutes, being told that every one had left the room but himself, she failed to see or hear any of those mov ing about her. The surgeon bent over her and touched her forehead, but she showed no signs of consciousness, though she was aware of all that Dr. Clark said and did, conversing with him and acquiescing in every state ment he made and obeying him as a child would. In the meantime the operator had ar ranged his instruments and began his work. A slight stream of blood fol lowed the glittering .scalpel, and she still quietly discussed the topics of the day with her companion. Needles, scissors and knives were bereft of their terrors, and the faintest hearted could I but lose hlrase!f in intcrest a,ml wom1cr ' as the operation progressed. Every moment or so the doctor said to her: "You can feel neither touch nor pain; you are resting perfectly," and she re peated her affirmation of each state ment and lay as quiet and motionless as if in slumber, the muscles relaxed, the respiration legular and normal and the voice subdued. At times she complained of weariness and asked to change her position, but subsided at a word, believing herself perfectly comfortable. She asked for water and drank from an imaginary glass with perfect satisfaction to her self. At last the task was finished and the physicians prepared to lift the patient from the tabic tr. her bed. Dr. Clark's Influence was again brought to bear, and she became rigid as if frozen, so perfectly did she respond to the "hyp notic suggestion." After being placed i.MM K-.1 ottrh Inv r.rcciin on1 -wl.wn.i "" "" " " "T " i """:" , 7 .. n would feel no pain or weariness. "Post- hvpnotic suggestions," as they arc called, seem the most lemarkable of all, for they control the subject after waking, leaving him free from the in fluence of the operator. After the lady had been comfortably placed the surgeons withdrew. Dr. Clark stepped back from the bedside to the middle of the room and watched her closely without speaking. As though lie had uttered his com mand aloud she began to count "One, two, three." and on reaching "twelve" she threw back the handkerchief from her face and opened her eyes. She re membered nothing with the exception of her conversation with Dr. Clark and ther was no appearance of exhaustion or pain. Later she complained of a smarting sensation, but was persuaded by further "suggestion" that she was quite well. A Wonderful lisli. The Bohemians have a proerb, "Every fish has another for its prey:" the wels (Siiurus) has them all. This is the largest fre.sh water fish found in the rivers of Europe, except the stur geon; it often reaches five or six feet in length. It destroys many aquatic birds and we are assured that it does not spare the human species. On the 3d of July, 1700, a rea&ant tool: one near Thorn that had an infant entire in its stomach. They tell in Hungary Df children and young girls belsg de voured on going to dra- v.-ater, and they ever relate that on the frontiers of Turkey a poor fisherman took one that had in its stomach the body of a woman, her purse full of gold, and a ring. This fish is even reputed to have been taken sixteen feet long. liunine'. "She's going to ride a wheel to reduce her weight." "No!" "Yes. and she means business, too. You ought to see the lovely pink chiffon sweater she's having made." Now and then the hand that never rocked a thing would, nevcr heless, develop very great capabilities along certain lines. Detroit Journal. Freshy Professor, is it ever pos sible to take the ereater from the less' Prof. Potterby There is a prettv c!ob approach to it when the cocesit Is tav-n out of a freshman. Indianall Tmimai pip WALKING ON WATER. American Inventors Make Many VUna to Do It. A Boston man named Cook proposes to walk all the way from Pittsburg to Cincinnati by river route; not on the river banks, but actually on the water. Hecxpcctsto do it by means or peculiar shoes invented by himself. Mr. Cook is the latest of a large number of in ventors who have tried to solve the interesting problem of walking on water. Next to flying it has always been the most attractive problem left to man to solve. The records ift the patent office in Washington show thl. One of the most recent patents in the class of "aquatics" was granted to Benjamin C. Morreale. of New York city, for a water skate, with tin-like at tachments which swing out from the sides when the foot is moved back ward. W. C. Sonle. of Savannah, N. Y.. in another genius In this line. He pro poses to attach to each foot a curious sort of boat by the aid of which he de clares that it is practical to "move over the surface of water as on ice, though not so rapidly." A dozen different kinds ot bicycles that run on water in stead of on land have been invented. One has been inverted In this country by a Spaniard named Fernandez. Tlic wheels of this machine arc big hollow copper disks provided with rubber tires. Weights are carried below to prevent cipsizing. The driving wheel is provided with blades that catch the water. In other respects the machine is much like an ordinary bicycle. W. H. Richardson, of Mobile. Ala., is the inventor of a queer contrivance which he CiIIs a swimming machine. The op erator is held up by an inflated rubber bag, on which he lies; with his hands he turns a wheel. The wheel actuates a propeller, a-id thus he is supposed to progress through the water at a great late of speed. An "aquatic glove," which is intentled to be worn in swim ming, is the inention of G. Ashman, of Cincinnati. The fingers of the glove are connected by a web. like the toes of a duck, so as to in effect expand the hand when opposed to the water in making a stroke. Wolfe Adclman. of Jersey City, is the originator of a swimming shoe with a rubber role that spreads out when the foot strikes tho water and collapses as the foot ia drawn toward the body. A t'ottl.r Strike. The officials of the London Cabdriv ers Trade Union have issued a state ment of accounts with reference to the late strike of privileged railway cab drivers, in which it is stated that tha total cost of the dispute, which lasted eight months, was 20,000, 19.000 ot which was subscribed by the street cab drivers. Sar.tli Want Fireproof I)rMi. Sarah Bernhardt, who has always had a morbid dread of lire, is attempt ing to have all her stage dresses mado of fire-proof material. SCRAPS. In Bombay the plague is carrying on 500 persons a week still. It is now of ficially declared that the plague exists in Jiddah. the port from which Mecca is reached. A Mcridcn (Conn.) clothing dealer, who is a shrewd advertiser, has bought a tract of 3." acres south of the city, and will lay out building lots, which will be offered as prizes to buyers of I is goods. Roszilin, in the coal-mining district of Silesia, is collapsing rapidly, owing to reckless mining close to the siirfac. One thousand people are already home less and $."00.000 worth of buildings are destroyed. Daughters of the American Revolu tion in Maine are endeavoring to col lect Revolutionary arms wh'c'i Massa chusetts gave to Maine when she be came a state, in 1820. and were sold by the state in the sixties. The Japanese government now is sues every day three weather charts, which include observations in China and the Lin-Kin islands, enabling cap tains to ascertain the movements cf storms several days in advance. Peter L. Hoist, of Ch'caso, is the old est man who ever applied for na'ural ization papers in this country. He came from Norway, and though ninety-two years old, expects to enjoy at least twenty-five years more of life. "How is it that your son's head seems to be drawn to one side? Only a year ago he was as straight as aa Indian." "I ran only account for it through the fact that ho did the court ing on a tandem." -Detroit Free Press A Wcstficld man is feeling dog-goned mean. He got up in the night to k:c'; his howling dog. and awoke in the morning to find that the faithful ani mal had been trying to warn liim of chicken-thieves, who got away with some of his choicest bis ds. Boston Herald. In Sonoma county, California, there aie wemen who are taking an active part in public life. One woman is postmistiess at Sonoma, another an at torney at Santa Rosa, two are physi cians, one a sign painter, one an under taker, and another a member of tho beard of education in Petaluma. EDITORIAL SNAP SHOTS. One good point about the horseless carriage is that it declines to run on a' bad road. The most fertile farm in all Iowa is the one on which Farmer Uiagham has just plowed up $S00. A woman may go about in her shirt sleeves, but the most a man is allowed is a wheelman's sweater. A war with Japan would have an ad vantage the Chinese would probably run away at the fim shot. Millionaire Bradbury, whose wife was hypnotized away fiom him, seems to be something of a hypnotist him self. Many chickens have been hatched in Kentucky by the secent hat, and it is to be feared that the mint crop has been withered. The Kansas City, Kas., women pris oners will not wear pantaloons, their friends having paid them out of dur ance. If the authorities would now turn about and resolve to put the male prisoners in petticoats the jail might be cleaned ont. THE OLD RELIABLE. ColumbusStateBank 1 (Oldest Bank in the State.) Fays Merest on TiK Depoats AKD Makes Loans on Real Estate ISSUES SIGHT DRAFTS 09 Omaha, Chicago, New York and all Foreign Countries. SELLS STEAMSHIP TICKETS. BUYS GOOD NOTES And helps its customers when they need help OFFICERS ANO JMRF.CIORS: Lkandkk 1i:i:i:.vi:i, Pros't. K. II. IIk.nkv, Vice Pres'c 51 llRUGflEK. 1'asliicr. Joiix SrAUFFLi:, Wm. ISuciier. or COLUMBUS. NEB., HAS AN Authorized Capital of - $500,000 Paid in Capital, - - 90,000 OI'riCKRN: O. n. 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