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YCXlUME XXYIII. NUMBER 30.
COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA. WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 15, 1897.
WHOLE NUMBER 1,440.
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ABOUT "BARB."
BY O P
A REGULAT1
barbarian!"
said. some-
times despairingly,
"And it's a positive
comfort to call him
'Barb' for short!
For his real name
will it be be
lieved of this poor,
helpless mite of
ebon humanity"
vas Barbarcssa Napoleon Bonaparte
Smith!
How his mother ever came to hear
zZ such a name always perplexed a
Of course, having heard of it. we did
not wonder at the selection, her rac?
has always shown a love for high
soundins cognomens. Barb's first ap
peartmce among us was in this wine
One gray November afternoon. Lois
and I were left alone in the house,
mamma having gone out on one of tLe
Good Samaritan errands, the sleet and
snow crove sharply against the win
dows, and the wind whistled defiance
to the fire that glowed and crackled.
Suddenly the door-bell rang a loud,
resonant peal, and I went and opened
the door.
There, on th upper step stood the
foriornest littl figure artist ever
painted' A small apparition, as bl2ck
as blackness can be compared wi:h
anything but itself With a jacket
and pants that suggested th "rags
and jags' of th nursery rhyme
"rV'itfc shoes like the mouth of a fish."
with a straw hat innocent of brim
with snow powdering his woolly hair:
sleet on his curly lashes: snow sifting
down his back, and drifting over hia
cad whirling around him. I surveyed
him a minute in astonished silent
and hf- returned my stare with round,
shining unwinking eyes Then h' in
quired, composedly. "Is Mrs Smith rt
heme" I began to say that he must
have mistaken the house, for no bud.
person lived her--, when Lois, whom
curiosity had attracted to the open
doorway, remarked that perhaps he
might mean our Nancy, whose last
name was Smith though we had
scarcely had occasion to recall that
fact in the sixteen years sh had been
in oar service. On this suggestion I
Informed the apparition that Mrs
Smith wasn't at home and wouldn t
be till late in the evemnc. but I wouiJ
deliver any messac. Hr displayed a
row of astonishingly white teeth in a
cheerful gnn stepped in. and first
carefully wiping his apologies for
Ehoes. and closing th door said, de
cisively. -Oh, if Mrs Smith lives
here, I'm a-gom' t- live here, too
She's my gran mother: I m 3arbarossa
Napoleon Bonaparte Smith. I've comi
to stay, and I m not gom' away again
any more at all."
Lois and I looked at him and then
Et each other, and then asked him ir.
We were soon in possession of the
"short and simple annals" of his II I
years. He satisfied us. past a doubt
that he was the child cf our Nancy's
son. whom she had left behind her in
Geortrta. when, sixteen years ago. shr
came North and entered mamma's
Fervice. He had enjoyed lif3 fairly
well, until, s.x months age, his
mother died. Seven weeks later his
father took another helpmeet, who .
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A 3LACK APPARITION,
reems to have proved anything but a
trader parent to Barb ' She jes:
made de house too debbie hot to hold
tne." he said, with expressive em
phasis. "Wasn't she a master hand
tr pinchin' and bangm' look-a-'ere ' "
tnd. with a sudden gesture, he rolled
his large, loose sleeve up to the shoul
der, showing on the thin little arm
marks and scars that made tender-
hearted Lois cover her face, with a lit- '
tie pitying cry. He had made up his
mind. Barb said, not to bear it any
longer, and one starlit night, without
s. penny in the world, and with half
R ccm-cake in his pocket, he had
started off to find the unknown grand
mother, -up Norf." How he reached
here he himself could hardly tell by
stolen rides on freight cars: by odd
"fobs on canal boats: by begging a
"lift" whenever he found a team
hound northward telling his simple
story whenever he could find a lis-
tener. he
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tound his way hither at
last, and now sat. a living illustration
of what perseverance can accomplish,
before our sitting-room fire.
Why should I try to tell you how
3arb became a regular and settled in
mate cf our household, when I myself
do not know how it came about? Was
it because of his own calm assurance
that it was so foreordained? Was it
because he had the most mischiev
ous eyes and the drollest langh in the
vorld? We never knew.
But :e: me have no claim to writing
Barbarossa's history for the two years
he was with us; for should I attempt
such a thing. Gibbon's "Decline and
Fall of the Roman Empire" would be ,
i mere sketch.
But what mischief wasn't that boy
uiity of? After overhearing us. one
cay. regretting that our little Scotch
terrier's cars should be so prominent.
didn't he stick that unfortunate ani
mal's frrs close to his head with shoe-
makers vax. and then proudly exhibit
him to us. as an instance cf the tri
umph of art over nature? And didn't
he bring desolation into Lois' dainty ,
room, in the vain effort to discover a .
secret panel there? Some street com- i
race cf his, as. ardent reader o? dime i
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novels, had related to him a thrilling
story, in -which secret panels figured
largely; and thereafter Barb's sole ob
ject in life was to discover such a
panel in our old-fashioned house. One
day he found that, beside the chimney
m Lois' room, the paper, upon being
i tapped, gave forth a holloa sound.
' Coincidence. So did the paper in the
' yellow-covered novel. Is -was the work
of a moment for 3arb, in his eager
certainty of hidden treasure, to run
his knife around the paper, lift it up.
and oh. me' oh, me! The soot-bos
that hadn't been opened for twenty
years ! Th- soot that :n a thick, black
cloud settled on the fair, white cur
tains, clung to the counterpane, made
the whole dainty room dingy and
soiled and uninhabitable! Barb fled
Before me. on th screen. I see him as
he looked that mcht when we had dis
covered the disaster, searched for, v i
failed to find him, and were begin
ning to fear he had run away, and I---emerged
from the ash-barrel, wh-r-
i he had lain concealed all the afternoon
and stood among us, surelv the most
wretched figure that was ever seen.
It was after this but not long, that
we began to be troubled about Barb.
Often he was cone all day. returning
at night, unable to give a satisfactory
account of himself, often we heard o
him in company of boys it were bet
ter he should not know. Nancy's
threats. Lois' gentleness, mamma's pa
I tience. seemed to avail nothing. We
had almost made up cur minds that
Barb must leave us. when, one No
vember afternoon, about two years
from the day he had appeared among
us. we heard of Bart for the last time.
Oh. peer Barb peer Barb Down in
the crowd-d streets, he had joined a
crowd which a sudden alarm of fire
had called together, in his excitement
he had not heard th cries which
warned him of an engin"; being close
upon him There was no time to rem
in the calloping horses, no one had
been to blame. Oh. poor 3arb!
"Kp's at Station B. ma am." the offi
cer said. "The doctor says it can't be
long, for his lungs a: hurt bad. Hn
kept moaning for Miss Lois! Miss
Lois and as soon as we could make
out wiser1 ha cam from the chief sent
me to tell you."
We hurried on cloahs and hats and
followed the officer into the chilly No
vember dusk.
It was a little whitewashed cell.
Barb was lying on a low pallet, cov
ered with a rough gray blanket. His
eyes were ciosed and they did not
open as we came in. When Nancy
saw him lying so. the wan. stray shad
ow on his set. still face, she rushed
forward and thrpw herself on her
knees beside him, with
a passionate
Ye're djne
cry
"Oh. Bar
3arL:
com' to d.e ani y- haven't got relig
ion, and ye'L c-. into the fiery furnace
foreber and foreber!"
Lois gently crew Nancy away, and
knelt in her place taking both the lit
tle, bruised, black hands in hers.
Don't listen to her. Barb," she said.
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She doesn't know what she. says.
Dear, try to hear an-i understand what
I say. Do you remember the Good
Man I used to tell yea about. Sunday
nights? The one. you know, who
Iit-uieJ th? s.k. ani took l.ttie chil
dren in H.s arm' Ten are go.ng to
Kim. Barb, and Hp will Icve you. and
help you. and teach you how to live."
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The cray lips moved faintly. "Will He
l be good to me. like you are. Miss Lois?
I Will He let me get my tref, without
! its hurtin' me so orful?"
) "Dear." she said, "He will be better
, to you than you can ask or think.
1 3arb, I want you tc try and say to
Him the little prayer I taught you.
, Try, dear, try!.'
Into the silence the weak voice fal
tered, while Baro heid fast the kind
hands that seemed an anchorage for
him. who was drifting su fast away:
"Now I lay me d wn to sieep.
I pray de Lord "
No ned. oh. Bare' No need to fin
ish that prayer' Th1 &ru' you would
have commended to His holy keeping
had gene to Him.
SELL5 Tt'.ICE FOR A LIVING.
French Woman h3e Client include
Some Gre.it riir-lel-in.
Verily onr-half of ;h- world does not
know how thr: other half lives. Equa!
!y true is it that never before were
there so many curious ways of making
a living as there are at present, says
the New Ycrk Herald. There have
ben physicians in Paris for several
centuries but not unti! quite recently
did any of them think it necessary to
make a contract by the terms cf which
they are to receive a certain number
cf mice during the current year. The
general public was rather surprised
when it heard of this contract, for the
reason that the physicians, who art in
this matter as a committee of the fac-
ulzy of medicine, agree to pay a ccod
price for the mice, whereas there are
many persons in Paris who would be
only too glad to make the doctors a
present cf these ravenous animals.
The physicians, however, know what
they are about. They want mice. I ut
they don't want ordinary, everyday
mice. Only cultured, well fed. dainty
mice will suit them, and they have
given the contract to lime. Alexandre,
because they know that she is the only
person in Paris who can supply cr
demand any number of such desirable
animals. Yes lime. Alexandre's busi
ness in life is to furnish mice to Rich
et. Chantemesse and several other lead
ing specialists in Paris and elsewhere.
She also keeps rabbi
leeps rabbits and cuine.i nis
but mice are her speci
teen years since she first began to sup
ply animals to the Pasteur Institute,
the Uttnicipal laboratory and several
other such places. She has hardly any
competitors, and she has mere orders
than she can well fill. She feeds her
mice exclusively on bread and milk.
Her clients insist that the animals
must be white and plump, and she fj"tj
this diet the best for them. When
they are three months old they are
ready for the doctors, and she seldom
has any on hand after that ace. She
disposes of these hapless victims, not
only to her regular clients in Paris,
but also to several persons in London
and Geneva. The little mice are well
able to stand a long journey, and they
are as fresh when they arrive in Lon
don as they were when they left Paris.
Hadam is never short of mice. At
present she has about L00O en hand,
and as these animals multiply very
rapidly she will have double that num-
be: in an incredibly short time.
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SOOD SnORT STORIES FORTHE
VETERANS.
Toombs' Awful Threat He Declared
That He Would March Ajraltut the
Indians Ilejardle of HI liank When
. Gen. scott Told Hlni to Go Ahead.
In the Urate Dan.
L-OTK brave Sir Ru
pert. "Bring ny
swerd and wov
en armor tme:
To-day I cross my
trusty tlaie with
gallant young
Sir Hurh.
Thoush yonder
trav'ler sJtfc tfa-
p rurue hath laid
The pirv bare.
No fear will daunt
me enemy, in
S!rtj.linjr wj
be
taert
i ""Then forth in eUtierintr mail he rode, to
ke- his solemr Dlisfct:
For b- th- issu- irhat it may, 'tis honor
ru --s a knijrht.
Beneath t.-e As cist snn he fared, his
nelm-t xvhit with dast.
And lau-ntd at them who fled the plague
"Ve riy. as cowards must:"
At noon hr saw the town arise from out
the yeUow mist.
In -which St. Hilda's spires stood dark.
as cut in amethyst.
ide open stood th :ra:s, the sun was
whitemnjr th- square.
The still a:r stirred with son;r nor sih.
with laugh, nor moan, nor prayer.
No fountain leap nr lattice swung
across the empty sllL
like an enchantei town, it slept In si-
lenc- d--ep and chilL
""""h traveler spak- truth'" Sir Rupert
muttered 'ncath hts tri-ath.
""he city hath been swept tuli tare by
the black wines of death."
Beyond th farther wall.
a pi
;.1f?a
.re- and open space.
And
.hither Ituoert sanrred. in haste to
reaei' the meeting place.
I-o" wit.ou: armor, squire, or steed. Sir
HKh stood there, alone
His dauntless eye were stra-.zely bright:
bis cheeks with rever shone.
"Defend thee quick"" fc crid. "The
plague would steal this joust from
me.
3ut Ii: net yield to death, till I have
aimei one blow at thee!
My vassais Ced my sates, my kinsmen
lef: me there to die.
Kerr- hare I crawled : keep our tryst.
Thv pro-ress. I defy""
He leaned -pon his cood. broad blade,
that ben: beneath his weint.
His voi nas feeble but his words with
hta?ht scorn were great.
Down ran- Sir Hupert's armor then.
rreaves helmet, shlrid and all!
He nun? his baldric, set w.th perns.
asrainst the city Trail;
And low upon his knee ne bent. "I wii;
not tilt!" he said.
"- y.tli my sword. Now, an thou wilt,
strike thou a coward dead"'
Hush's sudden Hush ci scorn thriled to
his very Snrer t p-,
Dut, er- h- speke the plasu's .gray hand
was or. his quiVrjnr ilp-"
A rudiy mist roil-d round, and up, and
blottfi cut the skies.
And show'rs cf Serv. whirLng sparks beat
cr hi darkened vs.
His stout heart trembled ani stood still.
beset w.th vasue alarm
Sir liupert causht him. as he ie3. in
stroac and tender arms.
In shepherd's cot of sun-dried turf, upon
th- breezy hill.
His stricken fee he rently laid, and
nursed with care and skill.
Held water to the blackened lips; the
buminr forehead laved
Love i rvr rha kp b plighted tryst
and L-eath and Rjp-rt brav.d'
"n-h he. ho tosse I thrcurh fevered
days, a suerion sa'ned ct love
ror him cf tilt and tournament, who could
sr en tie prove.
Thus. siJr by side, in bloodless fray, they
vanquished death And when
The tbvims tide of life and health came
ncodiur back arain.
Tter- rod- away two armored knishts to
batti- side bv s!d2.
vvhD foucht trsether whllo rh- Hwf
and for
their s?vorUm died
Florence May Alt.
Toomb-" Awful Thrcat-
A good story is told m the Chicago
Times-Herald of how a soft answer
turned a self-confident. aggressive
young man into an exemplary, obe
dient soldier. The young man was
Robert Tocmbs of Georgia, then in his
twenties. He had raised a volunteer
company and joined General Scott.
who was conducting a campaicn
against the Indians m Florida. Toomb
was without military training, and had
never submitted to rules and discipline
at college cr anywhere else. Natural
ly when he met General ScGtt it wa a
case of oil and water thay w
ould not
ziix. Private James White.who served
in a Georgia company during the war
laughs to this day over a tilt between
C3ptam Tocmbs and General Sco.
I A.IIPH'IKH SkKH HfcS1
The general knew the character of his ' themselves. Lieut. Goldthorpe cap
enemies, and was in no hurry to at- i tured his dog a couple of years aco
tack them in the positions which they i during the expedition against the Wa
hid chosen. He waited, day after cav. ' ziris in the Tochi valley. The doc is
cay.
determined not to move until the ncht
moment. The delay did not suit the
Georgia captain, and he made no ef
fort to conceal his contempt for the
slow methods cf his commander. One
nignt loombs felt that he could stand .
it no longer. He paid a visit to the
general s tent, wnere he toand Scott
engaged in a pleasant conversation
with a dozen ameers of high rank. The
Georgian was a man of superb phys
ique, the finest looking American of his
generation, and when he marched into
the tent with dashing eyes and defiant
look, everybody gazed expectantly in
his direction. General Scott greeted
him pleasantly and invited him to join
tne circle.
"General Scott." said Tcombs. in a
stern tone. "I desire to know. sir.
whether the army will march against
the enemy in the next few days."
"I am no; ready yet to answer that
question,'" replied the general, with a
smile.
"Then, sir" ccntinued the youthful
captain, "I will notify you that unless
the army marches tomorrow I propose
to go forward with my company in
to tne very heart cf the Indian terri
tory." When this astounding declaration
was made, the officers almost faintfd.
and they expected the general to ad
minister a withering rebuke. To th3ir
astonishment Scctt never changed hi;
g-Eu-ai expression. iis eyes twinsiea
with good humor, and he turned a se
rene and benignant face upon his auda
cious visiter
""sry eli. captain," was his quiet
-nswer. ery well, captain, use you
iur
own Pleasure, dv ail means. ias?
your company tomorrow and march in- i cup and pour into it a qu if n" r"
to the Indian country. We may fol- , and turpentine, eq-ual tr-arts Thin t-Sd
low you a :ewweeks later. But don't the cup over a fire so as" ?
wait for us. iake your company and roc ixh flirnes. Ifa. ; ' -"
go ahead. Good night, captain!" , on fe!i,, fn'n, JT
Private
White says that when '
Toombs heard this a look ol bewilder
ment, disappointment and anger came
over his face, but not a were fell from
his lips. He saluted th? commander
and bowed hirrself cut.
".uia he march his cot
ompany against
. was mj na.-
" the enemy the next day:
ural question.
"No," replied White; "he said noth-
ing more abiut it. He remained at his
j post and was an exemplary oScer dur
' ing the remainder of the war. And he
was not chaffed about the affair, either.
He was not the man to stand such
treatment."
I asked White why Scott overlooked
the captain's breach of military disci
pline. -Well." said the old man. refiective
ly. "the general was a good judge of
human nature. He knew that young
Toombs was a gallant fellow, who
would some day be an honor to his i
country, and he doubtless thousht that 1
it would be sufficient punishment to ;
answer him n b rl.l H could not
ha, c? dene a better thing. The cap-
tain had lots of sense, and he never
, acam placed himself in sucn an em
barrassing position."
Matin- Coin Circulate.
Napoleon Bonaparte was once con-
' fronted by the problem of getting a
new com into circulation. He knew
' Publius Syrus maxim. "Money alon
us syrus maxim. "Money alon
II the world in motion, but what
i sets
bothered him was to set the new
: money moving throughout France.
' How he solved the problem is shown i
I by a French publication, which says: j
1 Thousands of fire-franc pieces are !
split into two halves by their French '
i owners every year, in the hope of "dis- '
1 covering" an immense hidden treasure, j
This treasure, according to the legend .
, firmly believed in France, is an order
' to pay the holder one hundred thou
sand francs in silver five-franc coins,
i When Napoleon 3onaparte first set '
the five-franc piece in circulation, it
was very difficult to induce a French
man to receive the new coin. Hence,
according to the story. Napoleon gave
, it to be understood that he had or
dered a check for one hundred thou- '
' sand francs, wntten upon asbestos pa
per, to be concealed in one of the new
j silver pieces. !
From that day to this no one ha?
objected to the five-franc piece. ,
i II.iplil Flrins.
Two hundred shots per minute have
' been red from a rifie recently invented
' by Lieut. Cei. an officer of the Italian
regiment of Bersaglieri. It does no:
weigh three kilogrammes, and has a
I small caliber. A soldier using it car.
fire 20"' shots every minute without re
moving it from his shoulder. Th.
I Gifford rilie, which uses liquified gas
in lieu of gunpowder, discharges 33
. shots in two and a half minutes, or a:
the rate of 14" shots per minute. From
the Martini-Henry twenty-cue shors
have been fired in the same time. The
Lee-Metford has about the same rapid
ity. The Winchester repeater, with a
' magazine containing twelve cartridges
, can be fired twenty-four times in a
j minute. A cannon has been recently
1 invented at Chicago which claims the
, power of discharging 1.000 shots in
succession without undue heating :
, tnrowing dynamite shells three :eet
' long a d:st-n?c cf five miios. wh-r.
they explode from concussion. The
! Germans have constructed a nickel
shot cannon which fires a shrapnel
shell nearly five miles a: the rate of
i fifteen rounds per minute.
A Doc of War.
Probably the only dog cf
Afchan cr
Afridi breed ou:sid of its own conn-
AFGKAN DOG DAGAN.
try is Dacan whe oeongs t L.eut. F.
H Goldtncrp of th? 3d Punjaub cav
alry, an English seller m India.
The Afndis are well known as a
troublesome tribe, and this fall gave
the Britishers a lively campaign, and
their dogs are as fierce and savace a
a remarkably nne animal, but toward
strangers he remains nerce and treach
erous, like the race from which he was
taken. Toward his owner, however,
he exhibits a different spirit, and is
gentle and obedient,
Forty Year Serrfce.
I Sir Arthur HaltDurtou, the British
! under secretary of state for war, who
, has just retired after a career cf fortv
years in the public service, is a son of j
h ni'h'-
juui amajnoa. ot .Nova scotia. who
is known in American
lite:
ture as
"Sam Slick." He enjoy5 the distinc
tion cf being the only colonist who has
risen in the British imperial service to
the top cf one of the great departments
of state. New York Post.
A Utile 3Iiied.
A tail man who had been speakinc
with another man. and who wondered
why the other man acted so queerfv"
says the Cleveland Leader, saw abo'v
near his side trying to keep from
laughing. "What are you lauchinc
T" 1 5 "
. aii.ee. tne tau man of the boy.
x laugnin- a, wnat you said to that
"" iw ji-. -iitroa. nanus
n you.
answered the boy.
"I don't remembe-
tvt
t i saic anythmr frm-- . v;
"W ell. when he asked you if voc didn't
know him. you said. Tour m-,
;ax:ii,1.ir' bu: e2ll7 I can't recall your
face:
A Cere for Diphtheria.
ihe following remedy is said to be
... -. ur5-. i-ri.cajjg-j
c. oiphtheria in the throat of a child
l maze tne room ciose: th- rSv o -
d , orTr Tha '2'. n. "
- - o-.ciiituui mat-
ter, and the diphtheria, will pass ofL
No matter whether a plumber's work
i FHtiaiactcry or not he
tie bill
iiay 11 3
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NrtAA. b"A v
QOlORS ON OUR BILLS.
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' VARIED TINTS TO BE USED ON
PAPER MONEY.
Secretary Case's Scheme Explained
Each Denomination and Each Kind of
a Xotc to lie Dlstln;cUhed by Color
"H!Sh" Art Discarded.
new paper
ney, printed in
different colors,
will soon be in cir
culation. Some of
the designs have
already been pre
pared, and others
are being executed
at the 3ureau cf
Engraving. All of
k$M k
them will undergo
a g HE
I - mo
I
criticism and more or less alteration pounds of orange mineral. 500 pounds
before final acceptance. President Mc- 0 Indian red, 500 pounds cf Ita'.
Kiniey has expressed his approval of 1 izn burnt sienna, and 100 pounds
the idea in a general way. and Secre- Chinese blue. This does not inemtte
tary Gage is anxious to issue the notes zie ink required for the postage
and certificates as quicklv a: nossible.
j Being a banker himself, he fullv ap-
preciates the defects of the currencv
now in the hands of the people- It eTeT bil of which he is obliged to ac
may be artistic, but the various de- count.
nominations are not easily distinguish- TQ fiber paper is to be retained In
able from each other, and even the c n- currency. It is deemed an ex
numerals on them are obscure and Ira safeguard against counterfeiting.
hard to make out. This makes count- though criminals have found several
ing troublesome, and a person has to ' ays of getting over the difficulty,
look sharp if he would avoid civing a '
io note for a 51.
Secretary Gage is of the opinion that
everyday usefulness ii of more impor
tance in the currency of the nation
than high art. Pretty pictures of re
cumbent ladies and naked boys are
well enough in their way, but they cat
no particular ice. so to speak, in con
nection with hard and vulgar cash.
The most important point in a piece of
paper money is it shall be easily recog
nizable. Its denomination must be ap
parent at a glance, and its kind also.
whether treasury note, bank note, or
certificate. Of course, safety against
counterfeiting is not to be lost sight
of. It is believed that al! of these re
quirements are me
by the new de-
signs
Anybody who has a handful cf
these bills will be able to separate
them in an instant into their different
classes, so as to count them offhand
and without scrutiny. At the same
time, the greater simplicity of their
patterns will render them actually
more difficult to imitate successfully.
The very elaborateness of the notes
now in circulation confuses the eye.
For illustration, take the 1 bill. The
designs for this denomination are al
ready finished, and are very handsome.
There are only two, one for the face
and one for the back, because all $1
bills will have the same patterns,
whether certificates, bank notes, or
treasury notes. When you see a bill
with a big spread eagle in the middle
cf the face, you will recognize it as a
, SI. without even looking at the large
numeral beneath. How. then, are you
t to understand what kind cf a Si bill
it is" The answer is. simply by the
cninr in wh-h thp hi? nnvm- n rf--
numeral of de-
nomination, the treasury seal and the
number of the bill are printed. If it
is a treasury note, these will be in
red; if a silver ct-rlificate. they will
be in green: if a bank note, they will
be in blue, ihere will be no other
differences, except that each kind of
bill will have its own legend. But peo
ple do not want to stop and read the
legend in order to and out whether a
bill is a bank note or a certificate.
They do net have to do so. inasmucn
as the color shows that.
A: present there are three different
iesigns of 51 bills. Under the new
arrangement there will be only one de
sign, the sole variation being in the
colors, as described. It will be the
sam way with the S2 bill: instead of
three patterns there will be one. This
scheme will be carried out through all
of the denominations of paper money.
There are nine denominations in all.
Running from $1 to $1.0.'. Under the
present system
re are 27 patterns.
Just think of it 27 sorts of paper cur
rency! It is enough to confuse the
people, especially when it is consid
ered that during the last few years the
designs have been undergoing radical
changes with every new administra
tion. Obviously, counterfeits are much
mere likely to be detected if the users
of the currency are thoroughly famil
iar with its appearance, so as to be
struck by anything that is not exactly
as it should be.
For the new 52 bill a head of Wash
ington has been chosen provisionally.
On either side of it two classical fig
ures of the allegorical sort will re
cline. Thus something will be done I
for art tnc.dentally. t: vould be a
mistake to suppose that the new mon-
ev is to b
be executed in a snirit of !
commercial Philistinism: on the con-
trary. it will be very handsome indeed
One thing very noticeable about it is
the bread blank spaces which are Ief:
on both face and back of each bill.
Something like one-third cf the entire
area of the note in each case is a
blank. The back has net so much as
one-half of the usual amount of lathe
worZ encraving. The purpose of this
modification is twofold. It will show
the distinctive fiber in the paper much
mere plainly, and the eye in examin
ing a bill will be less confused.
One of the largest items of expendi
' ture in the Treasury department is for
colored inks used in nrintinc the p--
per money, revenue stamps and post
age stamps. Nearly 2J'.f pounds
of these are required annually. The
materials are bought in the shape of
dry colors, which are mixed with lin
seed oiL The colors must be the verv
finest, and some of them, particular i "mates that the population "of Aus
red. are very costly. They reach the ' tralia. including Tasmania and New
3ureau of Engraving in the form of ' Zealand, was last June 4.352.755.
fine powders put in barrels, and there -A- Whitingham (Vt.) jury heard a
are prescribed formulas for the mix- three-dollar suit there the ether dav
tnrss required for various purposes,
r ur tne zaces ot tne treasury notes and
certificates for example some Prussian i
blue Is added to the black powder to
Sive brightness to the black ink. The
mixture is thoroughly stirred and sift
ed, after which it is combined with
li-tseed 0n 2Ed fed to a machine with
steel rollers. The machine crinas it,
and finally ejects it as a beautiful,
smooth printing ink. It is poured into
iron buckets, which are labeled "Legal
i.sn.dsr." this being the technical name j
for the' particular preparation d
scribed.
Tot the brown backs of the national
bank notes the mixture is composed of
Venetian red. crangc mineral, vermil
ion the best quality from quirk-nlver
ore and some black. The gold figures
on the faces of the gold Certificates ar
cf chrome yellow, vermilion and White
lead; but tile treasury is not printing
any gold certificates nowadays. The
most important color used is chrctne
green, 2S0.CO0 pounds of which are
used annually for the greenbacks
alone. It is a beautiful emerald pon
der. All the mixtures are converted
Into ink in the same way. with llnseeJ
oil. Every twelvemonth the treasury
uses 50,000 pounds of Paris white. 6$.
000 pounds of hard black. 33.000
pounds cf soft black, 2.300 pounds of
vermilion. 1.50t pounca cf Venetian
red. 7.000 poun 's of Prussian blue
2 000 pounds of chrome yellow. 4.0 y
stamps. The money is all printed by
ha:-d- d each printer i
morning his day's allowanc
;ets everv
ice of it. for
JUST A FAMILY AFFAIR.
The Umpire of the lSateball Game
Go
! KverTbody Into Troablo.
"Of coarse I used to play base ba!!,"
declared the old resident to the De
troit Free Press man. "Very few
healthy men have grown up m the
last forty years without indulging
more or less in th national sport and
I'm convinced that we're a ha-dier peo
t pie for having adopted it. But i; has
. its drawbacks and I'll be content for
' the rest of my days just to reid about
I some of the most interesting caraes.
without making comments or offering
an opinion. Last fall we had our fam
ily reunion. We are a large relation-
ship and nearly a hundred were pres-
ent at the gathering. After a few o!
the patriarchs had made their
speeches, telling stories and cracking
jokes that we hear every year, some
of the young and middie-aced men
proposed a game of baseball. My
blood warmed right up and I was as
eager to play as wr my crandson. but
thy let me down by choosing me for
, umpire. I was disappointed, but be-
' ing rather an influential member of
the tribs I accepted the responsibi'ity.
! giving fair notice that there should
be no appeal rrom my decisions. All
went merr.iy enough till I called one
of my big nephews out on a foul
1 bound. He was so mad that he could
do nothing but sputter at first, but he
i finallv cot cut the announcement that
I was about as unmiticated an old i
chump as it had ever been his fortune j
to encounter. I insisted at first on
havinc him put off the grounds, but
' there were -difficulties 'onnec.ed with
I this because of tne Lacking that ral-
. ued to his supper;. 1 drcpjci tae ma.-
ter after givinf him and his supporters
a piece of my mind. A few minutes
later I called a little grandson out for
knocking the ball over the fence He
talked so recklessly about the matter
1 that I took him over my knee. His
mther interfered, there was about as
lively a five minutes as yoi ever saw,
th" game broka up and next year there
will be no reunion."
Snppoe lie Trie WliLky.
From the Cleveland Leader: A
learned scientist says that the whole
human system is full cf microbes, and
that a person is healthy as lone as his
microbes are in good condition. The
question now is what can a fellow
take that will always be good for hi?
microbes?
FLOATING PARAGRAPHS.
In Mexico Gty Hop Lee advertises
an American restaurant.
A house in Lempster. N. H.. is now
without a tenant for the first time in
120 years.
A tramp wearing a shiny silk ha:
was one of the sights in Portland. He..
the other day.
Cigar jars of cut glass are a beauti
ful noveity :or the smoker's table.
New York Post.
In the number of murders Italy leads
Europe. In the number of suicides
Russia is ahead.
Russia's population has increased
during the last 1(K' years a fraction less
than I.flOy.OQo annually.
There has this year for the first time
beei1 a British pilgrimage to Lourdes,
j It numbered sixty persons.
in the
Host all the buttons used
United States are rsinnfarrnretl in
western Massachusetts towns.
A diver in the Clyde recently worked '
for forty minutes at a depth of IS6
feet, which is a record in Great 3rit- I
ain.
luberculosis is in England and
Wales the cause cf 14 per cent of all
male and 13 per cent of all female
deaths.
Aubum, He., is congratulating her
self upon a death rate of only 1 1-5 per
cent, the smallest in New England, if
not in the whole country.
I TT 1-3 . I
euumg presents onginatea in a
feudal tribute from the vassals to
their lord; when feudalism ceased the '
presents became voluntary.
Sweet almonds and chestnuts have
i been raised with success in parts of
i Oregon, where it had been thought no
I palatable nuts would grow.
j The Australian Statistical Society es- '
and after due deliberation brcucht in
a veruict tor one cent carnages,
St. Louis has one church to 2M nf
population. New York one to 2.453,
Chicago one to 2.GSI. Boston one to
L00 and Minneapolis one to 1.054.
Eagles do not have different
mates
each season, as do birds generally; '
thev Dair tor life, and sametiTn n
py the same nest for
my years.
!
f3
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There are S.220 railway sti
g'nj
LIOHTINC NIAGARA.
Momtrf Searchlights aid Gelatine
Screen to Illamlaate be Gcrs.
An experiment in lighting the gorge
of the Niagara river, which ras tried
m connection with the convention of
elecif 1 -ians. is likely to tear import
ant results and has furnishfd a spe-
t2"'fi of extraordinary magniS'tence,
says the Ilochester Post ac3 Express.
The illumination tm arranged under
the personal direction Cf Luther 5fi-
ringer, file mm who designed and op- '
erated the illuminations and electric
fcnr.tains at the World'a Fair. On the
platform ctr. between two opsn cars. )
he took six manatcr electric search
light" and a number of colored gela
tine screens. At 10 o'clock it: the even
ing the start wai made down the
Gorge rosd The search lights tnk
their electricity from the troltcy wire
2El when thpy were directed uyjn the
shores and tumbling river, and til?
lights in the open car were turned off.
thj scane was rarely beautfuL It
looked ai fhonzh such (moon") "light
as never was. on land or sea." had
transformed the scene. But a? the cars
noTed on and Mr. Stieringer changed
the screens, far raor magical, wonder
ful and startling eSa-s ?r secured.
! Now it looked as though fitia -ere" sw
ing with Dante eyes, so red and Scrcfi
was the 3cene. and so darkly red the
shadowy banks between which the
river tossed waves of bload. Further (
down, beneath the new steel arch ,
bridge, where the furious rapids were
tossing the spray fifty feet or more
in the air. red and green lights urere
used. Then the plain lights were
shown again and then, where the
rapids are stranccst and wildest, the
red screens were used with an effec
whos
her
spec:
was absolute silence in the cars
then a cheer c! admiration broke out.
From that point to the end of the road
the colors were changed rapidly, with
beautiful effect, and at midnight the
party returned to the falls. It is said
that the success of the experiment in
sures the illumination of the gorge by
searchlights next season and that
means the addition to the attractions
of Niacara of a wonderfully thrilling
nicht spectacle and one which, once
seen, will not be forgotten.
Former visitors to Niacara will re
call that when the state reservation
was private property there was for the
las" season or two a successful illum
ination of th upper rapids and of the
falls themselves and a heizhteninc of
their wildness and weirdness and
beauty by a similar use of colored
screens. The scene was one to re
member and Niacara visitors have rea
son to congratulate themselves that
private enterprise acain nroposes thus
to enhance the night wonder o Nia
cara. For you may creak as you please
about "natural" beauty, nature is too
prone to veil her beauty at night; and
if esthetes be shocked at an artificial
coloring of the water and find no com
pensation for loss of naturalness in
surh b-w::ir:nc rl-t-ttr-e" of color
and grtesT'53 as cn can hardly
dream of. even they must approve the
lights which make visible the natural
beauty when darkness would other
wise veil the scene.
Not a l'oor Stan' Country.
At last the church has raised its
voice in words of warning acainst the
Klondike. 3ishop Nicolai cf the Rus
sian Orthodox church declares that
poor men have no possible chance for
making money in that region from
mining. The bishop's see includes
Alaska, and ho is thoroughly familiar
with the country, rie dec lares that a
thorough knowiedce o:
Lf ;sls
large capital are absolut
for financial success there.
PERSONALITIES
lae Queen of Italy has sent Cardi
nal Gibbons, archbishop of Baltimore.
a large photograph of herself in court
costume. The queen gave the photo
graph to Hiss Virginia HacTavish to
present to the cardinal, with a re
quest for copies of all the booss that
Cardinal Gibbons has written. Hiss
HacTavish will take these books to her
msjty on her return to Italy. .
, Cev. Cassius H. Clay, whose mar
riace at the age of w to a blooming !
' ycung bride, was recorded some time '
! age. is renewing his youth by having
' a cataract removed from his eyes
j Gsn. Clay necotiated the purchase cf
) Alaska from Russia and now says that
h? knew at the time that there was
gold there, which the Russians were
i too Indolent to extract.
Aig-non Charles Swinburne, the
! poet is one of the most eeceutn- in
dividuals in England. He is a perfect
mnste- of Greek and French, but it is
h!3 delight to pretend to be entireiv
ill terate and, though he left Oxfcr '
with a great reputation, he never took
his decree. Hr. Swinburne lives near
Lot con. but he is rarely seen in so
ciety. One of the most Dleastnc traits
, in his character is his devotion to
children.
The Hunshi Adbul KareeL . who now
ccrpies his own snug abode in the
grcuLds of Balmoral, has received ex
traordinarily rapid promotion since he
came to Windsor in the capacity of i
"personal attendant" to the queen in
liS7. He was then cnlv 23 and as a '
clerk at Agra earned only S3 a month
He scon commenced giving lessons in '
Hinccostanee to the queen, who now
not only speaks that lancuace Suently ,
but can write it with more than aver
age ccrrectness in the Persian charac- j
ter. So devoted is her majesty to her
oriental studies that when the munshi
went to India on leave they were con
tinued by almost daily correspond
ence. ,
The French minister cf fcreicn af
faire, it is said, asked the King of
Siam why he did not leave his foreign
minister at home to take charge of '
things. "3ecause he is my brother."
returned Chulanlongkom. with a grim ;
smile; "I should probably have found
him on my throne when I get hack !
to Siam." "3ut you have your other
brother with you." "Yes. but his na- I
ture is even less benevolent. He would ,'
aot have seized my throne hut cut off
my neaa as cuicsir as i returnee-"
"i"03 H seem on excellent terms to- ;
cetner, " exclaimed the astonished
Frenchman. "Exactly." said the king,
"and as I like to be on good terms with
their. I always take them alonz."
a wierdness the contrast vastlv Oflllllr nOI I I 13 111
?B.KKl bn MMhK fl KANK
acle that for several minutes ther? .1 1 III 111 I 1 1 1 jril Urll'lll
tltv.
THE OLD RELIABLE.
Columbus State Bank
(Oldest Bank in the State.)
Fays Interest on Tme Deposits
lata Loans on Heal Estate.
xssrxs ught drafts os
Omaha, Chicago, New York and
all Foreign Countries.
SELLS STEAMSHIP TICKETS.
BUYS GOOD NOTES
And helya lu customers whea they need hel
orrrcETis asd itcectoxs:
LttAS-DER GnnuAnD, Pres't. J
E. H. IIexey, Vice Pres't.
1L EccGGns, Cashier.
Jons' SrACTFEU, "Wii Iscc&eis.
OF
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HAS AX
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Paid in Capita!, - - 90,000
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C II. SHELDON'. PreVt.
II. P II -HLi:i' Vice Pre.
DAMFL 'I'HRVM. Cashier.
FfcANK ItuiiEB. Asst. Cash'r.
DIKEt'T H:
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Jon-s Welch. ". v. Mcalxjstes,
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