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'f ImtntaL VOLUME XXVIII.-XOIBER 35. COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8. 1897. WHOLE NUMBER 1,439. abmkm TJ V .1 . M fc H ,f V i 1 ' . i 1. o 9 WATERS OF LETHE. - S .' . fl --v a .. f -" lil Ti;,i Irf t at present, i Will observe for a time and draw my conrl.r-ios from the past liy the future. Sit .lown here and tall: over those candy-and-ribbon days. One of ray n:en disappointed me at the last moment. You can more than take his place, if you will consent. If I had known you were here I should have sent fcr you. When did you come?" At noon. I brought some prisoners T is a dangerous thing to tamper l, Willi JlHe btMl-CSiCeill Ijl of a woman. If you ', hurt a man's pride ! ! ho will probably go off and sulk for a greater or les3 time, or it may be, J from Alcatraz. 1 meant to call on you Do if the case is very had. that he will een kill himself. But a woman will have revenge. You may think she has forgotten, you may fancy she is impotent, hut there Is still much of the Oriental in every woman that she can wait. Break her heart and she will still let it ho in the dust for you to trample upon, and she will find the pain pleas nnt; yet beware how you so much as scratch hr pride; from the wound will trickle a stream of poison, that may How slowly, hut will reach you in the end. James Dudley's case went to prove this. Very few knew why he came to the end he did. but this was the way of it: "When he was very young and just out from the Point, he was sent to a post miles from anywhere, and there ho became engaged to marry the 14-year-old daughter of Major Gorschkov. She was beautiful beyond the dreams of art far too gorgeous for a mere lit tle girl. She should have been his torical. Such as Semiamis, or the Queen of Sheba. or Zambia must have been, she was; therefore it was natural enough that Dudley should have thought himself in love with her. Hut he was a clever fellow, with a very fair share of brains, and she was an aver age child who was not old enough to return his love, but was mightily pleased in an innocent fashion at the importance the engagement gave her. At the end of a year Dudley was or dered away. Absence opened his eyes to the fact that beauty alone was not enough to make him happy in his wife. And he wrote to Esther and asked her to release him, and to her parents he sent an explanation of his conduct. The mail orderly put both letters into Esther's hands. She read her own first. She was 10 years old now, and very proud. She had also grown to care, in a vague sort cf a way. for the memory of thy lover cf her childhood. The letter cut her through the Russian down to the Tartar, and she hated the man whom she chose to think had humbled her. She tore it and the one to her father into .small pieces. There was one sentence In the former that she did not understand. The lieuten ant had said. "In time you will drink of the waters of Lethe, and forget me as utterly as I deserve to be forgot ten." , A few days later she told her father that she was not going to mnrry James Dudley. "Docs he know it?" asked the ma jor. 'Yes." "What Is your reason?" "Xoihing in particular. I simply won't want to." "Perhaps that won't satisfy him. However, it is just as well. 1 never Tins to mo now." Then Esther questioned him in her deep, swfvt voice. "How long shall , you stop here?" , ror a tortnignt, possibly. been j "Where are you stationed now?" She probably. , anew weil enough. i "At Apache. So you can imagine what a treat civil. zation is to me. How ! dees it happen that 1 find you here?" I "We are stationed at the Presidio. , You must come to see us." ; "I will." he answered. He would have done anything those red lips might ask him to do. The receding tide cf his love for her had swept back with a mighty force. "How beautiful you are, Esther," he said, after a moment. "I always was." "You have no more false modesty than of yore." "Why should I h ivc? 1 didn't make j myself, ami I'm not praising my own ' handiwork. And I frankly admit hat I if I were to have made myself. I think j I should have chosen my present mo del." "But there is more than mere beauty of feature, now." "Character. I suppose which I larked as a child. It is odd that char acter, even if it happens to be bad, can so improve a face." Then she turned her head and be stowed the light of her countenance on the civilian beside her, whose infatua tion was obvious. "Every man in the post ar.d the city will hate you with a deadly hatred if Miss Gorschkov happens to take a fancy to you for old sake's sake," Mrs. Graves warned him. "Even her fancy would be cheaply purchased at that cost." "Perhaps. A woman of her beauty is not born into the world once In a cycle, certainly. And Miss Gorschkov was pleased to ;ancy him. fahe advertised the fact. She was not one to fear any means that would gain her ends. She threw away her pride and came at his call. She forgave him the past and met him more than half way. But Dudley was too much in love to despise or mistrust her for this. He applied for a two months' leave and spent every available moment of it with her. Mrs. Graves, in her quality of school chum of his mother's and an old friend of himself, warned him. "Esther has done the same thing before, James. Take care. She is as beautiful as Cleopatra, and there are many who say she is as bad at heart. Make love to her, if you chose. Caesar, but let loved or ever will love Is dead. you want me knowing that?" "Even knowing that yes." " "Very well." She spoke across the table again. "Captain Lawrence, do you happen to know how Mr. Dudley died? We might as well have the coroner's ver dict, since you have given us the other notices." "He died of drink," he told her, mer cilessly. "I never knew that he drank." "He never did until he went back from here a year ago. He took to It furiously after that, and would have I lnm fliemiccnA It . 1 1 . ,. ui.mic;tu ji Ut; UUU DOl OICU, Can you account for It?" j Miss Gorschkov smiled. "Perhaps I he fancied he was quaffing the waters j of Lethe." she said. Argonaut. NO FIEiND LIKE THIS. LAUGHED AS HE TOLD OP DREADFUL GUILT. HIS The Victim iVus Only Three Years OItt Tied a Stbne to ner Jfeck and Cart Her Iuto the Swirling Waters Tells Ills Story with Cheer. SPa:7B -f& AN AFFRONT RESENTED liclle of Town Got the Itlval Kven. "There was the most intense rivalry between two towns in Colorado and I was a resident of one of them." said the retired business man to the De troit Free Press reporter. '"It was not altogether a generous rivalry, and within certain classes disputed supe riority generally led to muscular dis cussion. Business men vied for trade ; in debatable territory, the doctors, the lawyers, even the ministers, said harsh things against the other town, but it was in social circles that the belliger ency was apparent at its heighLPeoplc who could not afford it would go ir for display, and when the two place. had a function in common the toiletij were chosen with special reference to snowing mat tney were vorv cxnon-i SHORT time ago the body of a 2-year-old girl, that was weighed down with a stone, was found in the Mis souri river at Kan sas City. For some days the identity of the child was a mystery, but final ly it was shown to have belonged to William Carr, a gocd-for-nothing, who was at once arrested and charged with murder. Ju3t how much of a fiend this man Carr is can readily be imagined after reading his confession, which was made son after arrest. A corresriondpnt tells about it in the following words: Carr's con fession is just the evidence the officers needed to convict the guiity man. They knew it would come, that Vt had to come sooner or later. The murder it self, most inhuman, cold-blooded and atrocious, a murder not of an enemy, but of a little trusting child, a mur der not of a stranger, but of a daugh terthe murder itself was the truest witness against William Carr. The murder cried out to be known, it would not be silenced, it gnawed at sive or to casting reflection upon the tne llcart f the brute, it played not rival city. At a mask ball held in the other place I had the hardihood and impudence to perpetrate what I thought a telling joke. I was dressed in a costume of newspapers and ap peared in the literary character of The Qu'ck and the Dead. Gradually it dawned upon the residents that the papers of my own town represented the 'quick,' while the papers of their town represented the 'dead.' It was an un pardonable insult. Indignation ran so high that I began to wish I had not been so brilliant. The sensational denouement came when a belle of the rival city took a little promenade with mc and quietly touched a lighted match to my costume. In an instant I was all quick and no dead. I rolled in the grass, and in due time the con flagration was extinguished, but you can see the marks yet. "Then the papers of the other town made a dead set at me, raked up my record even more thoroughly than If I had been running for office and made some remote locality look so inviting that I left." on Ins svninathfpc nnd his remorse. for he had none, but upon his fears, until at last he announced that he had given in, that the guilt was more than he Could bear, and that he would shift the burden from him. He would hang anyway; he was sure of that. The 'Jlvar- ," isSr 7-4Taj WM- ' r -ffc- i it i &&0$?rl iViI' 1 j" vMi A'jf v& 7 V.'iT W i "TvSta. 1 I U. 'JT 1 'A 1 4i wl HE DIED OF DRIXK. supposed a childish affair of the sort would amount to much. You are old enough to act for yourself now." In fact. Major Goschkov had ambi tions that soared above a mere lieuten ant for his superb daughter. Esther was thankful to escape so easily. Pres ently she asked: "Papa what does it mean to drink of the waters cf L-e-t-h-e?" The major explained. "Oh." she said, "I cee," and her long eyes narrowed cruelly. Xow it might have happened in civil life that Dudley and Esther Gorschkov would never be meet again, but part ings can only be temporary in the ser vice. Some years later Lieutenant Dudley walked into a San Francisco theater one night after the curtain had gone up. The house was dark, and ne Kept nis eyes on the stage. At the i your wife be a woman who is above Dudley never spoke to her again. And he continued his fanatical cult of his goddess. His leave came to an end, and he went back to Apache. He who had been a light mocker and a philosopher of life saw the bottom drop out of his universe when he had to go from her. She wrote to him twice a day, for a time, then once a day, then once a week, and finally the mail orderly handed him a letter from Esther that was almost a verbatim copy of the one he had sent to her six years before, even to the closing phrase, "In time you will drink of the waters of Lethe and will forget me as utterly as I de- t rve." A light of memory broke, harsh and rude, through the rosy clouds that ad enwrapped him. But he said to himself that justice had been meted . ut to him, stern and untempered. And he made no appeal. Something more than a twelvemonth later. Esther Gorschkov sat at dinner beside the man with whom she was then playing fast and loose, and would not he warned by the fate of the many whose bodies were strewn upon the shores where this Cythera had trod. "You promised, you know," he said to her. "that you would answer my question tonight." "What question?" "Don't banter, please. I am in earnest." "You appear to be. And everybody can see it, too. Go on and eat, and look as though you were discussing the dynamite gun or something." "I will do whatever you choose. If you will tell me if you will niarrv me." "on: is mat wnat you mean? couldn't remember whether it was vou or May Why They T.ilic It. "I didn't know your folks took the Howler, Johnnie." "Yes, ma'am, we've been takin' it ever since the Poolers moved away." "Did you sub scribe for it then?" "Xo, ma'am; the Poolers forgot to stop it." Washing ton Star. watched, but she never came up. The river was dark. It was after sun down." iC6 one said & word. The story -was out. Carr lay upon the iduugt?, hia hd still on his hand, while the offl ters pushed their chairs In a close cir cle around him. it w&s dusk in the chief's office and the electric lampa made long shadows on the carpet. Out side the cable gongs were sounding and the people in the street below el bowed their way along the walks, un mindful of the little group in the office and the tragedy being disclosed there. Carr moved comfortably on the soft, leather-cushioned lounee. The con fession had put new life into him, had relieved him immensely. Suddrn'y he uurat into a laugh, more dreadful, more atrocious than anything he had said yet. It was a sound that made the men start back in their chairs and look in one another's faces; it came in the midst of the silenc2 that follow ed, the recital. It sounded as if the soul of the man had gone cut. leaving the brute with power of speech, and the brute had laughed! Officers say that no man like Carr has come within their experience, and that they have heard no sound so blood-curdling as Carr's laugh when he lay hack on his couch after he had ended his story. He laughed again and again, little chuckling s-uads of relief such as seme animal might make when it is being satisfied. His noe and heavy reddish mustache wont up to meet his eyebrows, his eyebrows went down to meet his no-e. his whole faca twitched spasmodically and lighted it- .-c-ii m a second. His story over, ha was all animation and eagernes-. He wanted to go to the spot where he had drowned the baby, he wanted to verify his recital He would go over the whole road with the officers, he wou'd point out every place. He would start ri3-ht away, though it was dark and ho had not yet had his supper. He was told hat he might sometime have a chance. This fiend now sits cower ing in his cell shaking with fear that ho will be lynched. There is no tell ing what would happen if he were con fined in a jail not so weil guarded a? is Kansas City's. EXECUTION OF LOUIS. UNHAPPY KING WENT DEATH BRAVELY. TO lie Prepared Himself for the Axe. but Finally Submitted to tl:s Last Indig nity of Wilding Hi Hands There Was 'o "Vivo ic KolS" r vc . sf-7sSJ2 PASSING OF TOMBSTONE. No Other Saathwrstrra Camp Had Snch n Meteoric HUtory. There never was another camp in the southwest like that at Tombstone in 1S73 and 18S0. Indeed, there have been very few similar conditions in the world. For over seven months the daily output cf ptccious petals aver aged about $50,000. says the New York Mail and Express. Over a dozen ruen Cy? N the Century there weni there penniless and came away" I !' i.: .- I worth over S500.000 In less than a I 13 tX liltIMV. Ul- j ' 3l' . x. THE OLD RELIABLE. Columbus State Bank (Oldest Bank in the State.) Convenient Handle. The original idea of the Chinaman' pigtail was that it formed a convenient ; so w'eak that he had to be assisted to WILLIAM CAItR. irowued daughter had come out of the muddy water of the Missouri river and become the final witness in her fath er's guilt. Little Belle had won. "I might as well own up," he said, trem ulously. "I might as well own up. for you'll hang me anyway. You're just bound to hang me; you and the peo ple." Then Carr said that he would tell the whole truth without reserva tion, if only he might be allowed to see his wife before he was hanged. This promise was given him. Carr was handle by which, one day, he would be lifted to paradise. The curious be lief is still to be found among the natives. RECENT INVENTIONS. A handy pan for use in washing dishes has two separate compartments and movable trays to hold the soap and dirhcloths. Cigar holders arc being made with an outlet pipe in the side and two au tomatic valves by means of which smoke rings can be blown through the side tube. Pool tables are being made with in clined tracks connected with the bot tom of each pecket to return the bails to the head of the table as they fall into the pockets. A new belt which is designed to sup port the clothing has a strip of wire attached to the back and bent into a series of loops to which buttons or hooks can be fastened. A mechanical eraser just placed on the market has a rotary wheel of rub ber held on a wooden handle and re volved by pulling a cord as it Is press el against the surface to be cleaned. To do away with odore from-cooking food, a metal hood is provided which is placed over the cooking utensils after the stove lid is removed, so that all vapors will pass into the chimney. To assist in setting and sharpening circular saws, an adjustable arm is mounted on the shaft to support a steel frame which guides the file and determines the position of the teeth. Flower pots for orchids, ferns and I j similar plants are made of tubes of close of the act he looked abom nh ! sce wll-v -vou snoilld bother about that and the first thing he sawwas a worn- ' sort of lh!ns at dinncr- Why don't an whose beauty startled him. And ' you wait uatil the llance- Jt would be then he realized that she was the "one ' so much bettcr form- Fancy saying he might have married. She was in a ' 'no' to a man and lhen I'"u!nS a piece box with an older woman whom he ' l" a h?frml' 15ttIe bimb into one's knew. Dudley was seized with a ner- ' myuth" vous dread of meeting those wonder- ' "Are yon Eoinc to S2J 'R0?' " ful dark-gray eyes. He would tro at j "Gracious- but we are Insistent. once before he should do so. But as How shoill(I l know what I am going to say ; go on and eat. and stop hans- midn t rememoer wnetner it was you porous earthenware so that they can ,an("-. Mr. Clayton who had asked me. ' be filled with water, which will gradu- road ' T aybc it was both of you. But I can't I all percolate through to the roots of n.L-i he rose, the older woman saw him. and smiled, and beckoned to an empty chair beside her. There was nothing for it now but to go to the box. He was cold with fear of the low-browed, black-gowned girl with the magnifi cent neck and shoulders. She would not have forgotten him. He knew that; and he doubted if she would have forgiven. If she had been less- beautiful, he might have felt less culpable, for such is the nature of man. She smiled when they met with the regally indifferent smile that had been hers even In childhood. "Oh! I knew Mr. Dudley years ago." rhe said. "I was a little girl and was very fond of him because he used to buy me sutler's store candy and rib bons." If that was her view o! the past. Dudley ras3nted iL A mar. does not want a beautiful girl to treat him as an old friend of Infancy. the plant. To assist in stopping runaway horses a new device consists of a ring of spring steel to be thrown over the horse's head and provided with a rod which ends in a spiral spring, to which the handle is attached. A new mechanical stringed instru ment has a roller set with pins to operate a series of spring hammers, which strike the wire strings and pro- ing on my words, or I won't answer d?? the,milsic. the roll" being turn - -,, ........ eI bV a CinrktlTirlr mertiinicm uu sl an. it is so learrmiv conspic- , " olJ5 "I crrat motor, for use in running Even in his suspense the man could devnTl two1fleJc1.ln not but return. "Whence this new- fr'e' witf a .nf " atflating found dislike of being conspicuous- 1 l!? t!d fca anu cd rears nn tha ;nno. nn.i .. .i . - J ...v. iuugi llina UL LUU LJJ meters. the leather covered couch in the office of the chief of police, where he lay down, his face in his hands, trembling and shaking with weakness and fear. His face was purple between his fin gers, the "Adam's apple" on his throat throbbed and something in his throat made a sound like a death rattle. The officers, men accustomed to crime and criminals, say they never saw a man in so terrible a state. He thn told all (The most atrocious fiend on earth.) the details of his crime readilv nmi ; with little hesitation, as if anxious to i get through with it all. He told it J calmly with the utmost indifference to ; any remorse or other emotions. He I was beyond all emotion except the i emotion of fear. There was no feel ing ior tne cnnu in his recital. There was no pity for anyone except himself nnd the wife who must suffer. He was anxious to shield his wife, and sev eral times stopped to assure the offi cers that she did not know of his crime. The officers disbelieve this. I ".My wife told me." he began slowly I and deliberately, "that I had to get rid I of Belle. She was all time figlnin with the other child, and we couldn't get ! 'em to live peaceable together. She i was of a mean nature, Belle was. So my wife told me to get rid of her; to ".ake her to town and give her away." "Did she tell you to drown her?" ask ed Prosecutor Martin. "Xo, she didn't, answered Carr quickly, his whole b-dy trembling. "Let me go on. I left Lib erty at about 1 o'clock. I walked all the way, fifteen miles, with Belle sometimes in my arms, sometimes walking by my side with her hand in mine. ("Her little hand in her farhpr'a some one muttered.) Cn the found a piece of rope and I picked it up and put it in mv inside vest pocket." "Had you made up your mind what to do with the baby? When did you make up your mind?" "Well, I sort of made it up on the road. After I crossed the Hannibal tracks I came to the river. Then I walked along the bank back in the direction ol Liberty. Pretty soon I came to a dry creei bed. that opened into the river. I wanted to drown her there, but the water was -hallow and sluggish. There were sand banks and the place was no good." Carr had become perfectly calm. He told his story now without effort, with 1 sort of cheerfulness even. He seem d to grow stronger as the burden Jassed. He even smiled at timps .it MICHIGAN PROPHETESS. AdventisU Pray on Street Corner. and I ivailc Saloon. The Advent people of Battle Creek, Mich., arc greatly excited again. They have recehed a special communication from Mrs. White, the "prophetess," that the lime for the application of tlie parable of Luke 11. 1C-2S is now due, and are commanded to go out into the highways and hedges and give the "last call of the last call to supper." Under this impulse the principal street corners are occupied, and saloons in vaded by enthusiastic gospelers every night. In the immense tabernacle great crowds continue to assemble un der the leadership of Rev. Jones and Rev. Ballanger, expecting the Holy Ghost to come down with fire from heaven. To this end all are exhorted to i'nc-r.diM3r.a'.:y acre; t tLe visions of the prophetess, and to confirm to her prccep:s. which command them to pay tithes and to abstain from all flesh meats, butter, etc. (1 Tim., 4. 1-3). Hav ing ascertained that some 5'jO members are remiss in the matter of paying tithes, they have been repeatedly branded as thieves from the pulpit, and scores have been whipped into line under the scathing denunciations of the prophetess. Notwithstanding all this, real estate continues to chanye hands, the cattle trade receives due at tention, and marriage ceremonies are solemnized in due form among them. Battle Creek is the headquarters of tho Seventh Day Adventists church in America. The town of 13.000 people has over G.000 residents of that faith, and the great sanitarium, which has made Battle Creek known all over the world, is conducted by the church. EDITH HUFFMAN'S SUICIDE Hlnueir ner I-over I.Tltt H;i-1 Killed Spring. Edith E. Huffman, living at T.6 Gale street, Brightwood. a suburb of Indian apolis, swallowed an ounce of carbolic acid, with suicidal intent, the other evening. She died the next morning. For three years she had an affection of the throat, from which she was unable to get relief. Last spring her lover. Harry Phillips, committed suicide. These things, the girl's parents think, prompted her to end her life. She was 19 years old. Miss Huffman's mother says the girl had been despondent ever since Harry Phillips tcok his life. They had been sweethearts for several months, but tide on "The La! Pays of Louis XVI. a n il Mrie-Antol-nette." The 5 thor. Miss Anna L. t Bicknell, says: It ws3 a dark, misty, January t flSBSBBi m o r n i n g. T h o 3 presence cf the two soldiers precluded the possibility cf conversation; the priest therefore handed his breviary to the King, and pointed out appropriate psalms, which the King read devoutly and with per fect calmness, to the evident astonish ment of the gendarmes. The shop3 were shut along the way, and crowd3 of armed citizens stood on the pave ment as the coach, prec?ded and fol lowed by civalry and artillery, went slowly through the streets, v. hem nil the windows were closed. Lines of troops stood on each side, while drums heat solemnly, as if for a military fun eral. As the coach passed alrng the Boul evards near the Porte St. Benis, a few foung men rushed forward, waving 'words and crying loudly; "Come, all who would save the King!" There was no response, and they were oblig ed to flee for their own lives. They were pursued, and several were ar rested, with fatal consequence..!. The King, absorbed in prayer and relig ious meditation, had not even pcrreiv ed the vain attempt to effect his deliverance. The coach had at last readied the Rue Royale and the Place de la Revo lution, where the crowd was immense. The fcaffold stood a little to the left of Uie Place, where the Ob?lisk now stands, but nearer the Champs-Ely-sees, toward which the guillotine was turned. A mass of troops formed a square around the fatal spot. The coach stopped at a distance of a few pares. The King, feeling that the mo tion had ceased. looked up from his prayer-book, say'ng quietly: 'Ve have reached the pl.ico. I think. One of the executioner's assistants opened tiie door. The King earnestly commended the priest who accompan ied him to the care of the gendarmes, nnd then stepped from the coach. Three men surrounded him and tried Co take off his coat. He calmly pushed them back and removed it himself, opening his shirt-collar and prepaiiag his neck for the ax. The executioners, who seemed at first disconcerted and almost awed, then again came around him. holding a iop?. The King drew back quickly, ex-llaiming: ' tt'Iiat do you wan? to do?" "To tie yn-'r hands." The King exclaimed indignant!'.-: "Tie my hands! No. I will not subm't to this. Do your duty, but do not at tempt to tie me; you shall not do it! TI executioners persisted, and spoke loudly. The King looked to ward the Abbe Edceworth. who at one saw the impo.-nibility of resistance, and said gently: "She. this last in sult will only provide a fresh point of resemblance between Your Majesty and the God who will be your recom pense."' The King looked up to heaven. "As suredly His example alone could in duce m-. to submit to such an indig a!ty." Then holding out his hands: "Do as you please; I will drink the uip to the dregs." His hands were tied, and with the assi&tance of his confessor he ascend ed the steps cf the scaffold, which were very steep. V.'hcn h reached the top he broke away from the Abbe, walked firmly across the scaffold. ?i lecced the drums by a glance of au thority, find the.-: in a vcice so loud that it was audible on the opposite side of the Place de la Revolution, he uttered these words: "I die innocent of all the crimes im puted to me. I forgive these who have caused my death, and I pray God that the blood you are about to shed may never fall on France." There was a shudder that ran through the crowd like a great wave, but at the word of command the drums L-sat a prolonged roll, and the voice could no longer be heard. The King, seeing thP all further addre:s to the crowd would be fruitless, turned to the guillotine and calmly took his place on the fatal plank, to which h was fast ened. The apparatus turned over, and Lhe ax fell. It was then a quarter past ten o'clrck a. m. of the 21st of January, 1793. The executioner held up the severed head, turning as he did co to the four sides cf the Place. The Kin? of France was dead. "Le roi est mort!" But no one dared to cry the tradi tional response. "Vive le roi!' "Le roi!" The heir to the enre glo rious title was now a poor little ehUd weeping bitterly in a prison by the side of his widowed mother. year, ar.d six or seven men struck it rich and sold out for $1,000,000 each. Fully hah ib population walked hun dreds of miles to get there. No rail road ran through southern Arizona in those day, and the awful Colorado and Mojave deserts had to io crossed in wagons or on foot by the taultl tmle of fortune seekers from Califor nia. Desert sandstorms were encoun tered, and for days travelers to Tomb stone endured a temperature of over 130 degrees in the shade. Many a man died on the hot, windy plains. Miners on their way to the new camp from the east and south toiled across the Arizona alkali plains through im mense cactus areas, and risked tKeir lives in the then hostile land of the Apache Indians. . When Tombstone was reached there were new privations and more physi cal distress for tho greater number, especially for those who had hastened from offices, stores, clerkships and their pastor's study. Over one-third of the men in camp had vry little money, or none at all. and Knew no way of earning it except by the hard est kind of manual labor, to which they were unused. It cost $1 a night to sleep in a dirty, rough, pine bunk. Water sold at 20 cents a gallon, a small dish of beans at f9 cents, a tal low candle at two bits (1T cens). com mon overalls at $." each, smoked hams at $12 each, and cowhide boots were disposed of as fast as they could be hauled to camp across the desert from Los Angeles and Yuma for $.T a pair. I 1SS1 all the Tombstone minis that paid well were in the hands of a few persons and the population of the place had gone down from 10.000 to 5.000. In 1SS3 the mines, with two exceptions, began to peter out and the population dropped to 3.000. Since then it has gnno down slowly to less than 1,000 souls. Fays Interest on Time Deports Aim Males Loans on Heal Mi ZS8UI8 SIGHT DRAFTS 0! Omaha, Chicago, Now York and all Foreign Countries. SELLS STEAMSHIP TICKETS. BUYS GOOD NOTES And helps lis customers wbcn they need hclf orncEits and directors: Leander Geuuaro, Tres'L R. IL Hexrv, Vice Pres't.. SL Brugger, Cashitr. John SrAUFrER, Was. Jtucnen. COMMERCIAL if OF Klondike. The Cleveland Plain Dealer prints an interesting talk of Prof. Henry W. Elliott about Alnska and the Klondike country. We extract what he has to say concerning its salubriousness on the one hand and Its "vilest pest" on tho other: "Alaska is a healthy country, with no malaria or mountain fever. A curious fact is that any one afflicted with neuralgia or rheumatism is completely cured of it in that cli mate. The clear, dry atmosphere and the rapid changes of the body's tissues doubtless a count for this. One'8 ap petite is tremendous there. A per sonal incident will show yon what an Alaskan appetite is like. I was one of six men, who having had a gcod breakfast, sat down at noon to a din ner of roast gocse. Six large geese, none of which weighed less than eight pounds, had been roasted and stuffed, and were served with coffee, bread. butter and pickles. At the ciose of the meal every bone was picked clean, and not a vestige of goose remained. We all ate a hearty supper that even ing. The talk that there Is plenty of game to be had there is entirely mis leading. A camp of two hundred men would clean out all the game In a tract twenty miles square, in a few weeks. Food, plenty of it, is the one great ne cessity, and a man to succeed must be well fed. The vilest pests of Alaska are the mosquitoes. I have battled with these annoying insects in New Jersey and Central America, hut thfy cannot compare with the Alaska spe cies for venom and numbers. In May the tundra becomes a great fiat swale, full of hog-holes, slimy decayed peat, innumerable lakes, .shallow. Mngnant. and from all places swarm mosquitoes of malignant type, i'very precaution is tal.en to guard against them. Net ting is tied over the head and mittens are worn on the hands. Ointments are rubbed on the flesh, and attempts are made to smoke out the insects. Horse1; and cattle, i'tid even dogs, die from thei;- bites. Not until November do they vanish. COLUMBUS. NEB., HAS AX Authorized Capital of Fair! in Capital, - $500,000 90,000 orri':KM: ii. suni.nox. pres't. 11. T. II. oMliJMi II. VIrcPrc. DANII.I. MllUAM. r:isiIor. I'KAMC i:ui:Ki:, Assu Ca-sh'r. MUKrT K: f, n. Snni.no.v. I!. 1. M. Orni.n.rn. Ion'as Wki.cii. V. . .MrAi.MsTEii. L'.i:i. Uiunki:. S. C Ciiav. I'icank Kniutiai. f-TOUCll L!r.KP: 5MIEI.DA Cl.I.IS, .1 Ilr.Mir WlTR.RMA!?. ( i.viik i.iiav. llr.Miv ioskki:, D.wiri.cmtAM. ii:i. . Cai.i.kv. A. V. II. Ouii.ku.vi. .1.1 III ci;i:it Ksr.u KcflKCCA ItKCKClt. 11. M. WlN.SI.OW. "Wonder of Wamcr." The hcus .f the Berlin electrician. Dr. Sieme:i. Is known in Germany as the "wonder of Wanspr." The dining room, kitii-rn and cllar are connected by a miniature electric ra'Iway. which, by pressing a button, conveys articles almost instantaneous,!- from one apartment to the other. EDITH HUFFMAN. : Miss Gorschkov smiled slowly . started to answer, but a voice from . across the table stopped her. "What is it, Captain Lawrence?" she ! asked. ' "Have you heard of Lieutenant Dud ' ley's death?" i "No. Is he dead?" j "He died at Apache a week ago." j "I'm so sorry; but, frankly. I don't ', think a dinner table the place fcr fu neral notices." she rebuked him. He ; disliked her, and she saw the purpose i of his announcement The flanges are mounted in opposite directions on the cylinders, so ; asJ act oa both sides of the cogwheel. ) Filtet beds can be cleaned without j the necessity of shutting off the water j surply, by a patented apparatus which j has a pump for continuously lifting j successive portions of the filter bed. a , screen for separating the water and , impurities from the filtering material, a cenduit to carry off the former and : another conduit to deliver the latter to the bed again. lhe still faces of the men listening to tin. "Tli... T it. -j .. . ... :uu- " a k.meu ud ino river : nror ;,. le continued "looking around for the ' thought he acted qiieerlv at ight place. It wasn't long till I came the morning of Slav 2S h ITor rlpnd-trhito ! --- - ..v. i . . skin could turn no whiter, and her i A 3iassacnusetts man has patented smiling red lins were nainted. a wa-: mac;jle tor examining jew "Cold-hearted devil," the .o where the water was deep and the iurrent ran swift. I laid Belle down and got out the rope and tied Belle's arras around her. There were " 'Was she awake?" "Yes," said William Carr. "There were stones around .here, lots of them, and I " "Did she seem to realize what you were about to do with her?" "No; she didn't. I picked up a stone that weigh ed four or five pounds. I tied it good and fart around her. Then I was ready. last summer Phillips was told she was receiving the attentions of another man. Phillips asked her to marry bim, and she refused. He brooded refusal, and his friends times. On he rode his ! mcycie nome irem nis work, put it i away, went into the parlor and shot a bullet into his body. He lived for j several days an4 had a constant ' nurse in Miss Huffman. She prom j ised him that should he recovevr she i would marry him. Miss Huffman was a popular girl in Brightwood, where most of the people knew her. I'ull Particular. Says a Philadelphia marriage license clerk: "Probably r0 per cent cf those who come to us for licenses to marry imagine that before they can get the necessary permit they will be com pelled to tell all their family secrets. Dne man who came in one day last pring was actually prepared to under go a physical examination to prove '.hat his heart and lungs were all right. tVo mnrln mil n lianr.n 1nt .. i r ..v. ......... ,..v c ni.;u;v lust v.eeit ior a St. Tanl's Oran. A thorough renovation of the large organ of St. Paul's cathedral in Lon don is taking place, among other addi tions being a celestial organ in one of the aleoves of the dome, tha connection with the large instrument being made by electricity. Rank of Deposit: interest allowed on tlmo deposits: buy and well exoliario on Unitt'tl States and Kuropo. and liny anil s:II avail aide s-ecHrltlen. Wo shall bo pleased to r c'lro your business. We solicit your patronage. Columbus loud! A weekly newspaper de voted the bcatintercstsof COLUMBUS THE CONNTY OF PLATTE, TUg State o? Nebraska THE UNITED STATES AND THE REST OF MANKIND The unit of measure wltfc us is S1.50 A YEAR, IT PAID IN ADYAKCB. But our limit of nsefnlnc Is not prescribed bv dollars and cents. Sample copies sent free to any address, HENRY GASS, 1'rei-iom Stone. In popularity precious" stones now rani: .the pearl first, the ruby second, and the diamond third. OVENS HOT AND COLD. If anything is put into the oven to bake at the same time cake is put in the cake will certainly fall. The oven door must be opened and shut gently wnen one is watching a cake's pro gres. When a cake is done turn it o::t 1.4111111 .i - "You might suppose, Mrs. Graves," J muttered, as she turret! tort m ,h i lDe rayE a. EUPPrt f' the jewel opa i e's consisting of means for producing J lifte(J be; up aad " "She was no: asieep: iou are sure of tlnf" "Xa- he told the other woman, "that she had ! man at her 'de been a toddling child and I a crusty i "So von w.in: mo i ,,,.,.,- , j - - -- - m.xit Jli que to jignt, but transparent to the Roentgen rays, a screen for covering bachelor in whose pockets she felt fcr . will. Eweetmeats." : n-t,,. I tlrt mvp inrn i;1.t -r.. . But I want ycu to understand I ,hS ,5" Z'ZJT r . j, ,, ukAAWA IUI iCilCtL' T : l. - . r il lis ufc;iiuf i "arc !.- limn.. , . . . -i sau suppos, mu, m ; toM aat a. 0Dls. ;,; ; - ys22-"- '"" sne was awaKe. i ntted her up and and I threw her ir,, far out. with all my might." "Like drowning a cat, eh?" said an officer. "She made a big splash!" said Carr meditative:-. "She made a big splash, and I watched and top-Sided Wetldln Trip. A crowd of people at Worcester, Mass., went down to the station to meet a ccuple who had been away on their wedding journey. The husband stepped off the train alone, explaining that the bride wanted a longer tour, and as business had called him home, she decided to continue the trip with out him. gertly cn the bottom of the cake tin. roung fellov who had prepared with ! remove the oiled papeer and let the some pains evidently the following his- i cako c0l. for never under any con tory of his bride, which h" left with us: ' side ration must it be touched or cut 'Miss , aged 2S, in Phil, eight years', j wh!j warm. lather and mother Both Living Both Tht old-fashioned scheme of test "A'illing grandfather and mother Both ' ins cake by running a broom straw ia dead. Mother 55 yrs old father r,r, m ! to the center is vorv enntl if tha UNDERTAKER ! Coffins : and : Metallic : Cases ! fW Repairing of all kinds of Uphol ttery Goods, Ut COLrMBUy. NEIJRASKA- old grandfather 7C when he died grand mother died when father was 18 yrs old all from delaware, Sussex Co.' " Columbus Journal ia racPARro to renxisn axytoino REQCHIED or A PRINTING OFFICE. u straw comes out clean the cake is done, but if any dough adheres more baking is nec??.ary. Ii ca!-2 brewns immediately on being put into th- oven, the oven is too hot. It fm !; cooled quickly by lifting a lid from tr. top of the stove. A piece A Thirteen .M::iion IVrr. Chin proposes spending $13,000,000 in fh construction nf n nnr nt i-i - - . tvviaai i .1 ur: .. :,., rru . i - i . . ' i ci nsosto- paper on tne oven shelf eTnL- ? w" leS1SR,Cd t0 Gml 1 protect the top of the cake, b employment .or a large number of idle , plpcr is Iaii. over the cake it Is likely mBD to mako it fall. nn ins- THI COUNTRY. LM
