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Sir lucrbcn jcbodj allc flnnclcgcn&cU ten imb lUeuigfcitcii, bic uoh befonberrn iUcbcuiung finb, uiifcrcn b c u t fd) c n greunben in bemfdjer 3prndiCiiiitrcilcn. a$ .Journal njirb in alien nnDcrcn Wc fidjtcn iud) wic nor oljiic Vlcnbcntng cr fdjeiuen; cs uirb luifcrcit i'efern bic grofjtc imb fccflc citmig fcin, bic in -Jjlattc ioimt9 Ijcrnitogcgcbca mirb. KooscTt-lt carries County !y :MM). Platte SKCOXIt TEIIM. Some of the eastern papers which have opposed President Roosevelt havo pretended to believe that he would be a candidate for another term after tho expiration of tho term to which he has jnrt been elected. It was recognized of conrso as a creation of their own imagination, but it seem ed possible since tho unwritten law against more than two terms migLt be held to msan two elections and two complete terms. At just tho right moment, namely, after his election, tho president lavs tii ?c nnn r.-minininir chost by an an nouncement in his own unequivocal way that public sentiment regards the substance and not the form, that therefore his present term is his first term, and that under no circumstances will he seek or accept another nomin ation. Tho field is open for Mr. Root, Mr. Fairbanks, Mr. Doliiver, or for you and me. Czar Theodore tho First has failed to materialize. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. On the result of tho national election there is not much to be faid. Judge Parker was an exceptionally weak candidate and Roosevelt a popular idol. Seldom has a man appeared in A merican politics who has had tho absolute confidence anil tho enthus iastic support of both the shouting class and thinking class of voters. If ever straightforwardness and above board methods were vindicated in politics, it is in tho election of 1M04. Roosevelt has shattered, so many pre cedents and utterly disregarded so many political suierstitions, thai the Roosevelt method has come to have a signiiiennco of its own. He is moTe like Jackson than any other political leader, but to tho qualities of Jackson ho adds those of the stu dent and diplomat. When Theodore Roosevelt retires froin office, as he has pledged himself to do at the end of the coming term, he will leave American governmental traditions and American political methods bettor than he fonud them. AT LAST. The inevitable has come. Good old Columbus, in good old Platto county, has felt the awakening of the spirit. For vears and years has the county of Platte, 6tate of Nebraska, been the abiding place of bourbonism, the dps pair of republican leaders and the gibe and mockery of republican Ne braska. And yet, th son cf Platte coun?T are just the same kind of men as those of other counties. It was inevitable. If it hail not come this year, it would havo come another year. " A generation or two aeo there was a democratic party that stood for something.' That party is no more. The younger gen eration finds nothing to attract it under the old party banner, and they have enlisted under the leadership of Roosevelt and progress. Already Mr. Bryan, Mr. Hearst and Mr. Watson aro reported to havo made arrangements for the formation of a new party, recognizing that the dem ocratic party of old is now no more. In the new;al!gnment, the followers of Mr. Bryan, Mr. Hearst and Mr." Watson will represent" the ultra-radical element, and the conservative, mbstaatial membership of the former democratic party, will go 'with the party of conservatism and reliability, the republican party. Withthwdi TimoB.' can i there be anv doubt as to tit petition of- Platte county's citi- Piatte county is republican; it will ty republican. This is not matter lor hyaterical exultation or offensive hallelujahs. It is not a triumph over th democratic citizens of Platte 2Lbit triumph of. by and for Sgy'aMtieTwith the think ing ili of the republican patfy. Let m he brethren together dyote fW W and for principles, nd not OLD PLATTE RepubUcans Have Swept City and County Hughes and Hoare Elected to the Legisla-ture-Hobart and Henggeler Make Close Race Koosevelt Carries County. Here is the result of the election to conal one between the candidates, a 1 i offices matter of qualification for the office, Hugh Hughes for state senator but Mr. Hobart has steadfastly refus carriea Platte county by 467 votes, ed to take advantage of his strongest He lost Oolfax county by 211. which weapon and make a personal campaign, elects him bv a majority of 276. He has been oonfident throughout the Fred Hoare for float representative campaign that he would be defeated was defeated in Platte county by three and has not felt that he could afford votes. He cirries Nance county by to tpend any money on the race or to 389. a net majority of 380. take advantage of his opponent's Present returns, which are complete weakness. Mr. Latham wins through though unofficial, show that Bender sympathy and the chivalry of his ad is elected representative overHenggel- versary. er by 30 votes. Ccnntv Chairman Ed Hoaro is just- For county attorney, Mr. Latham ly entitled to great credit for the cam is elected by about 100. paign which has been conducted. His McEilUp carries tlie county by C84 work has counted, and so has that of and Berge by 87. Dave Newman as secretary of the com- These figures show how the local mitteo. The truth has been put be cindidates have overcome the previous fore the voters and they havo dene huge democratic majority in Colum- the rest. bus and Platte county. Every candi- A late report from republican state date has made a splendid race. The headquarters suvs that the state ccm vote on legislative candidates stands mitteo is absolutely assured that as a monumental vindication of the Mickey's plurality will exceed 8.3C0. republican revenue law at the hands P. E. McKillip arrived in Colum of the voters. For county attorney, bus on the noon train from Humphrey Mr. Hobart ran far ahead of his own today and conceded McCarthy's elec expectations. Tho issue was a per- tion by 2,000. UESVLT OF THE LATEST FICHT IXG iy MASCHURIA. Developing from a rear-guard action, after the first check, the Russian ad vance was made possible bv the ar rival on the field of several divisions which had been held in reserve north of MuKden for the purpose of prevent ing the cutting of the railroad by the Japanese. The terrible state of the roads, caused by heavy rains, and the exhausted condition of the combatants, forced a cessation of hostilities, and on October 20 the situation was quiet, with reports of flanking movements by Generals Oku and Knroki to the north of Mukden. Whether or not General Kuropatkin had received orders from St. Petersburg to advance, or whether his forward movement was really a desperate endeavor to cover his retreat beyond Mukden, the battle of Shakhe, or Shaho, may be remrded as a victory, although not a decisive one, for the Japanese who were too exhausted to follow up their success. The ability of the Russians as fishters to stand against the Jap anese has never been disputed, but it is evident that General Kuropatkin has been outgeneraled. The net result of the fichting up ro October 20 seem ed to have been (1) tho Japanese in possession of the field; (2) much heavier Russian losses in men and munitions than those sustained by Oyama; (5J)the capture by the Japan ese of many guns and mnch other spoils; (4) the positive and almost dis astrous check of a somewhat theatrical Russian advmce, and, despite the elation over partial successes, the deepening of the discouragement aud depression in St. Petersburg. An early Russian advance is announced from the capital, just as soon as the condition of the roads pormitts. From "The Progress of the World," in the American Monthly Review of Reviews for November. COLUMBINES. r.j. b. When yon find an alleged magician who i never broke, put him down for n fraud. V There i one time wlien ordinary people can Bloat over then nix-foot, 200-poundirn. anil that in when it come to ReitinR intotlw second trtory of a aleepinK car. FATHER (iOOdE. Tho moon looked over the barnjard fence. Sin $13.19. The black wolf barked np tho oossnm tree, Sing lley-diddle lloliddle Hi-diddle-dee. My name is Patrick of Humphrey town. To Washington I'm Roine down. A lelepram I'll eend riwht qnick To Davy Newman, houne of (ilueck. He'll have to pay for that teleRram, Ilejahlien), liejiorni, )ch bil!ljedain. For I am a man of conM-noonc.?, SinK 5U.W. EASY LESSONS. Please listen to reason and quit saying "Rot ten." Tho iwrfect tenoe of "Ret" is spelled R-o-t, and is proaounced the same way. "Gotten" was allowed fifty years ago, but that was fifty years ao; snd he who say it now is as bad as those wlio speak of "bouRhten" clothes. If something provokes you. say mo, and don't say it "makes yon provoked." If it had killed yon. we wouldn't say it made yon dead. Don't say "proRr'm." Program is another word that is pronounced just the way it is spelled. Just as well ay "egigr'm" and "tele- gr'm." Down ia Lincoln there is a disreputable mob of assorted aeopBdreU who daily and nightly congregate for the play of chess. We long had the extreme pleasure of being an active member of this infamous bunch, and we have read with gnat sorrow that the spirit of reform has lit Upon this oasis. This was a place which was purely Bohemian.' Then were no restrictions in the matter of language, of dress, of previous condi tion, or of general demeanor. Of course if a man should wantonly undertake to wear a stove- piie hat there, when it was a matter of common knowledge that he had other hats, he wonld very likely be protested. Bat barring the outlandish, everything went. As is usually the case with strong, simple and brave natures, the tender and chivalrous regard which this gang entertained for woman. lovely woman, was something fierce. Anvtftne a woman entered at the west door, every member who was facing west immediately stop ped swearing for such period ol time as wonld give mV a reasonable opportunity to escape. It was good to be there. Bat it is changed. The blighting breath of a pampered civilization has swept over this scene of primal equality, and another monument of all that ia near to nature's heart is shot to pieces. Thar have met and de- Uberatad, naolated and resolved, and they have dw" to reform and hereafter to be polite to strangers and decent to each other. It's a shame, a miserable, unspeakable, unnecessary shame. We are going down there Thanksgiving day and we fully expect to find a carpeton the floor. Uncle Paeon way can take another hypodermic now and go to sleep again. It's a aname that he was waked' up any way. . - - IS REDEEMED SAUSAGES ARE ANCIENT. rhey Graced the Banquet Boards aS Greece la Homer's Time. Tin origin of sausage is indeed pre historic, since, if we are to believe our Homer, sausages were not imknmvn to the heroes of ancient Greece, besides, Aristophanes, than whom nunc has giv en us a more faithful picture of bis own time, makes mention of the suc culent sausage as a. popular and estab lished article of Athenian diet. llut if the fastidious Greeks knew und appreciated Its worth it was Koine that raised its status to one of dignity and importance and imbued the sau sage with true artistic significance. Has not Juvenal left it on record na his unbiased ophilon that "the pig is an animal created for the banquet hallV" while Varro avers (we quote from memory) that the beast destined after life to be known and appreciated as pork is "nature's good gift to tho gourmet." Nay, has not Horace, too. sung its praises, aud Aplclus devoted whole pages to recipes on "sausage making" in his classic cookery book? While, lastlr. was It not a Koman culinary -artist who Introduced that "set piece" the Trojan hog (in touching memory of the horso so named), which pig appeared at table whole of body (even as the horrible looking hare does at the present day in this country); then, while the guests were trying to digest what had gone before, would be performed a little "jeu de theatre" simulated wrath on the part of the master of the feast, "Why had tho pig not been carved, by Jupiter?" A slave would be sent flying for the cook, and the cook would come trembling, as one who onined he'd done with life. Then indignant reproaches, respouded to by nbject apologies, when, hey. presto, me cook takes the knife. Inserts .it ia the monumental pig, und out tumble roast ed birds and tiny sausages galore, and the delighted guests set to again with knives and fingers, since forks, they had none. So much' for the sausage of .classic antiquity. As to its present home, the wurst, or rather the pig, which, after all. Is the embryonic wurst, had its first habitat amid those dark forests where dwelt the old Germanic war riors.. Clearly, then. It must have been the Xatin race that, finding so much pig fattening about the Teudeburger Wald, spread the art of sausage mak ing among the barbarians, although iu modern Italy there remains Httle to day beyond Bologna and Salami to tell the tale of Its former greatness sic transit gloria!" while In the land of its adoption the festival more espe cially of the crisp brown bratwurst Is one of perennial importance and Jol UGcatlon. Pall Mall Gazette. Fatal Etlsiaette. The rigid etiquette of courts has more than once come near making a martyr of the person whom the rules prevented from aiding offhand. In Spain these notions of etiquette were carried to such an extent that Philip III. met his death In direct conse quence of them. The king was ona day gravely seated by a chimney, where the flro maker of the court bad kindled so great-a quantity of wood that the monarch was suffocating with heat His grandeur would not suffer him to rise from the chair to call for help, the officers in waiting were not within call," and the domestics could not presume to enter the apartment because it was against the etiquette. At last the Marquis de Polat appeared, and the king ordered him to damp the fire, but he excused himself, alleging that he was forbidden by the etiquette to perform such a function, for which the Duke d'TJsseda ought to be called upon, as it was his business. The duk6 was gone out, the fire burned fiercer, and the king endured it rather than derogate from his dignity, but his blood was heated to such a degree that cry-, Imtloa lirnba rtllf tn tlist hf:ld the next I day, which, being succeeded by a. vio lent fever, carried him off. ner DeaTalttamaf 81a. . A little girl was called to court one day to be. a witness. She was so .small that the lawyers thought she might not know what an oath was. So they asked her some questions. "Do you understand the nature of an atbr" asked a lawyer. - "Yes. sir," said the little girl. -What !s itr "It is a swear." "What do you mean when you say, It is a swear?" ""Well. -It, to that I have to -toll the truth." "If you don't ten the truth, what then?' - . : "Tnat would be a sin.", - "WhaXisasln?"' ,""""". - bad1 mat from 66? " .They let -the child tea"-. what she new, and tby all .believed her. , , ' THE FIRST DIRECTORY. It 'Was laaaesl Ia EantaaO. Ia Qaaea Elisabeth's ReJea. The first directory dates from 15S3, Queen Elizabeth's reign. A copy of it is in the British museums entitled "The Names of All Such Gentlemen of Accompts as Were Residing Within the City of London." " The next does not seem to have ap peared for nearly a hundred years. It was called "A Collection of the Names of Merchants Living In and About the City of London." This was printed for Lee, Lombard street, in 1677. The names were arranged alphabetically, 1,790 in number. In a separate li3t were the names of no fewer than forty-four bankers under this heading. "Goldsmiths who keeprunning cashes.", twenty-three of them being then in Lombard street. This book contains the name of the father of Pope, the poet. The first directory, expressly so call ed, was compiled by Brown In 1732, who soon issued it annually and real ized through it a large fortune. The earliest postofflee directory appeared in 1800, and successive volumes have been brought out yearly ever since. London Telegraph. THE CURFEW BELL. OrifflBallr Raasr Blaralasr aad Evea Ihk to Give the Tlate of Day. The story of the curfew was but the unsupported assertion of one historian of the sixteenth century, which was repeated in prose and poetry till It was woven into the language. Like many other legends, there is Just a grain of truth iu it, but its suggested origin Is false, the derivation of curfew is erro neous, and the scuttle shaped instru ment which supported the theory were quite different articles of house hold use. Prolisbly the word is derived not from couvre feu, cover fire, but from carrcfour, in old French spelling car fou. from the Latin for crossroads, and is the name of the morning and even ing bell, which originally sounded from the crossroads or market plaees both in France and England simply to give the time of day. It was and is rung at 4 or 0 o'clock iu the morning and at 8 o'clock in the evening. One Inscription on an old bell runs thus: I am called yc Curfue bell. I rlniren at VIII or more. To send ye alle to bedde. And wake ye up at IV. Pearson's Weekly. DEEP SEA LEVEL. Its Chances Illustrated la the Case of the Mediterranean. Changes In the level of the sea are well shown in the case of the Mediter ranean. M: Ph. Ncgris In a brochure presented to the Academy of Science furnishes interesting Information ot. this point, it being apparent that the sea has greatly Increased in depth as compared to ancient times. Formerly a bridge 3,000 feet long united Leucate to the continent Today it is sub merged, but the foundations of the work were discovered eleven feet be neath the surfuce. It may therefore be concluded, that since the construc tion of the bridge the sea has risen at this point over nine feet. In the bay of Amphissa, Greece, thete has been observed a mole that is over nine feet beneath the surface. At Rhenee there has been found a com pletely submerged dock, evidently of Roman construction, the depth of the sea above the dock at places being fully nine feet. From all of these facts one may con clude that there has taken place an Im portant Increase in the depth of the sea since the Roman period, the Medi terranean having risen at least nine feet in about 2,000 years. THE MINIATURE. Hew the Terns Came te Mean a Terr SasaU Portrait. Minlaturo painting originated in the practice of illuminating manuscript books, when small pictures were intro duced with the initial letters or upon the borders. These initial letters were usually painted in red, Latin minium; hence these small pictures were termed miuiatura. After the invention of printing and engraving this art entered upon a new phase. Copies in small of celebrated pictures were made, aud the demand was particularly great for portraits, and so the term miniature came to mean a very small portrait One of the most famous miniature painters was Holbein, and Samuel Cooper, a Lon doner, was also an expert. Milton sat to him, aud it is said that Louis XIV. offered 150 for his picture of Oliver Cromwell. Photography checked miniature paint ing for a time, but of late there has been a notable revival of tho art. In olden time miniatures were often paint ed on vellum or on copper or silver plates. Now ivory Is the medium com monly employed. CreansTThat Barns. In the great wheattields of Califor nia a boy, whose part In 1he process does not at first appear to the outsid er, skirmishes along near the reapers with a wet sack, pounding madly here and there. He is the fire tender. Once set off, this grain, baked as it is by a rainless summer, would burn like a flash. Hundreds of thousands of dollars have gone up in an hour on these delta lands, for here even the ground burns. The soil is made of matted tule reeds, laid down In suc cessive rotting strata by the river. When once uncovered and dried in the sun, it smolders with a slow persist ence, like a sawdust fire. The harvest ers work above a potential volcano. Everybody's Magazine. Ho Katlwnal Russian Di It Is curious that in a country so overflowing with loyalty, despite the nihilists, very few of the stage per formances have any national flavor, but so it is. An American resident of some time in Moscow says that during all his stay there did he see but one play with Russian characters, nor did he hear one stage song appeal to Rus sian sentiment as the "Bowery Girt or "Dixie Land" appeal to popular timent in this country. EdaeatleaaL. Penelope In Boston we saw the nicest thing. Pauline What was It? Penelope Ob, a slot machine. Yon thing of a word, put In a penny, and out drops the correct pronunciation. Puck. XUs Iatnadenee. Nell Yes, he actually had the Im pudence to kiss me. Bell The Idea! Of course you were indignant. Nell Oh, yes. Every time. Philadelphia Ledger. afavlaa- nfasle. ' A Were you moved by her musk? B Yes. It amounted to that I think we should have kept the flat -for ether year if it hadn't been f er her. LONG HAIR OR SHORT. Carlaas Casasnss Katlsas la Dars Tare. Among the ancient Greeks, all dead persons were thought to .be under the jurisdiction of the Infernal deities, and therefore no man could resign his life till some of his hairs were cut to con bercte to then. During the ceremony of laying ant clothing the dead, and sometimes the Interment itself,. the hair of the de ceased person was hung upon the door to signify the family was in mourning. It was sometimes laid upon the dead body, sometimes cast into the funeral pile, and sometimes placed upon the grave. At Patroclus' funeral the Grecians, to bow then affection and respect for him. covered his body with hair. Achilles cast It into the funeral pile. l Osiris, the Egyptian, consecrated his hair to the gods, as we learn from Dlodorus, and lu Arlans' account of l India it appears that it was a custom there to preserve their hair for some god, which they first learned (as that author reports) from Bacchus. The Greeks and the Romans wore false hair. It was esteemed a pecullar honor among the ancient Gauls to havo long hair. For this reason Julius Cae sar, upon subduing the Gauls, made them cut off their hair as a token of submission. In the royal family of France it was a long time the peculiar mark and priv ilege of kings and princes of the blood to wear long h:.ir. artfully dressed and curled, everybody else being obliged to be polled, or cut round. In sign of Inferiority and obedience. In the eighth century it was the cus tom of people of quality to have their children's hair cut the first time by persons they had a particular honor and esteem for. who, in virtue of this ceremouy, were reputed a sort of spir itual parent or godfather to them. In the year 1006 there was a canon providing that such as wore long hair should be excluded from coming into church when living and not be prayed for when dead. Charlemagne wore his hair very short; his son shorter. Charles the Bald had none at all. Under Hugh Capet it began to appear again. This the ecclesiastics were displeased with aud excommunicated all who let their hair grow. Peter Lombard expostulated the mat ter so warmly with Charles the Young that he cut off his own hair, and his successors for some generations wore It very short A professor of Utrecht, In 1650, wroto expressly on the question whether it be lawful for men to wear long hair and concluded for the negative. WEEPING WILLOWS. The Cartons Manner of Their Intro duction Into Enarland. The Salix Babylonlca or Willow of Babylon, the English weeping willow, is a native of the Levant, the coast of Persia and other places in the east The manner of its Introduction into England I curious and has been de scribed: Pope, the poet, having received a present of Turkey figs, observed that a twig of the banket in which they bad been packed was putting out a young green shoot This he planted In bis garden where it grew into a fine tree, and from this original stock all our weeping willows have descended. This species of willow Is generally planted by a still pool, to which it is an appropriate ornament, and when, iu misty weather, drops of water are seen distilling from the extremities of its branches nothing could be more de scriptive than the title it has obtained of the "weeping willow." It is sometimes called Pope's willow, and the name Napoleon's willow has also been given to it, because a tree of this species overshadowed the emper or's tomb at St Helena London Globe. asallest She Had. Two women boarded a car, and It was very evident from their conversa tion, which was -pitched In an exceed ingly high key, that they were not used by birth to the good things which Providence had seen fit to shower upon them. 'One wore eyeglasses, which she constantly took off and then replaced. "I can't see right through 'em," she ex plained to her companion. Then she produced her purse and extracted a twenty dollar bill, with which she pro ceeded to wipe the offending glasses. "I find," she explained, glancing around the car to note the effect, "that the best way to clean 'em is with pa per money. A handkerchief don't seem to do no good." "You don't have to use a twenty, do your" asked the oth er woman. "Don't a one do Just as well?" "Ob. yes," replied the other languidly, "but ones has more germs.' they tell me, because they're so com mon. I'm usln' a twenty because it's the smallest I've got" The conductor and the man on the rear platform, who had overheard the conversation, ex changed significant glances. "And yet some people wonder at crime!" remark ed the conductor Philadelphia Rec ord. Shocks Front Bis Nawal Gaaa. It la a disputed question whether the men on modern warships serving the b guns Inside the casement or those serving the gun on the upper deck suf fer the more from the effect of the fir ing. Two distinct factors are to be taken Into account the effect of the explosion at the. muzzle of the gun, commonly known as the blast, and. sec ondly, the violent shock which Is trans mitted from the gun. This shock, al though producing distinct action on the skull, the spinal column and the larger Joints, giving rise to general shock, probably -does not damage the drum of the ear. The blast has far reaching con sequences. Officers say that in addi tion to violent shock a feeling of great depression at the pit of the' stomach is experienced. The ear suffers more dam age from big gun fire than any other part of the body. When the ear Is In jured tho surgeon generally looks for a rupture of the membrana tympanl or for a permanent deafness. The first, If attended to at once, is curable, but deafneas Is Irreparable. Maasel aad Melssoaler. A pathetic scene occurred between Melssonler and Menzel In 1867. Men sel's reputation had already been spread through the world, as his pic tures of Frederick the Great and his court and of Wellington and Blucber at Waterloo bad been placed high in the list of the greatest historical paint ings. Melssonler regarded him as the foremost of German painters, and Men. zel considered Melssonler the most ad mirable of modern artists. When they met in Paris just after the Austro Prussian war each struggled vainly in his own language to tell the other of this admiration, but the failure was' complete. After having exhausted all the possibilities of signs and grimaces without rwuching an nnderstandlng they fell In each other! arms and ex-1 pressed their opinions by means of sev eral hearty hugs, j RUSSIAN WOLFHOUNDS. hw AraKstwi as f the Canine fkullr. Beyond any question the aristocrat Of the canine family is the Russian wolfhound, otherwise the borsoi or baraoL which Is the Russian name for coursing dog. There is a refined ele gance coupled with the indication of speed and strength about the Russian wolfhound which no other breed pos- In western Europe he Is merely the ornamental, companion that he is In astern America. In the coyote section of our continent be can be made as useful as he Is In Russia, and to assist in clearing off that scourge of the cat tle ranches. When the borzoi was first brought to this country he was balled as a natural born wolf destroyer, aud we started business under the Impres sion that all oue had to do was to let a borzoi see a coyote und the hitter's death warrant was as good as executed. The result was a natural failure, be cause, like a bird dog. the wolfhound must be trained to the work. Amer ican purchasers have no occasion to worry about that, however, for the dog's high courage is the result of edu cation and encouragement; without It they are docile and obedient and fit companions for the ladles of the house, a role which they are pre-eminently fitted to fill by reason of their hand some and unique appearance. Country Life In America. MONSTER SPIDERS. ff the Bird Eaters Are M early aa Bin- as a Bat. The bird eating spiders of South America, Africa and Australia are beasts of prey worthy of their tropical Jungles. Their appearance is repulsive. They are of Immense size. Some which have been caught have been nearly as big as a rat They are of a dark, dingy color, either quiet black or brown verging upon black, and thav hair with which they are covered Is mixed with short, coarse bristles. Like other beasts of prey of tropical forests, they are essentially creatures of the night During the day many ot them hide in some natural crevice la the ground. The more indolent or am bitious pick out a promising hole in a fallen trunk or in a living tree and line it with a soft, delicate web. Oth ers elaborately spin for themselves a long tube in which they lie concealed throughout the day. Curiously enough, they reserve their spinning powers for their nest build ing, entirely disdaining the use of webs for the trapping of their prey. Their feeding time is at night They go out to seek their food, prepare to leap upon and devour any living creature that they come across. Their name comes from the fact that they have been found In the act of devouring small newly killed birds clutched closely be tween their hairy claws. The Title ef Klnar. The title of king Is a shortened form of the Saxon "eying," which can be traced back to the Sanskirt "ganaka." a father. This word "ganaka" is used with the meaning of king in the Big Veda, the most ancient part of the sacred books of the Hindoos. . The age of the Rig-Veda Is not known with certainty, but It can hardly be less than 3,000 years, and it may be 4,000 years. The father came to be called the king because in the process of social organ ization the family existed before the state, and the term was extended step by step from the family to the tribe and from the tribe to the nation. An other name for king found In the Big "Veda Is "rag." It means a leader, or perhaps steersman. It appears In the Latin "rex" and has thence descended to the French "rol" and to the Italian and Spanish "re." Shennlaar Tratfa. AsLondon paper quotes a shopgirl as saying that the Englishwoman can generally be persuaded to take this or that, whether she wants it or not, aud that she does not often see that she gets value for her money. Tho English are also courteous andconsklerate. It appears that Americans, on the other hand, give the greatest trouble of all. They are afraid of being cheated, they want to make sure before they buy that they could not get the same thing for less money elsewhere, and they are never courteous. As shoppers It Is Frenchwomen, however, who command the greatest admiration, we are told. They always know exactly what they want and will take nothing else. The Throne ef Persia. Probably no ruler of modern times has a throne of such barbaric splendor as the shah of Persia. It is said to be shaped like a bed. nine feet in length by four In height and Is high enough to require three steps to enter. The body, steps and legs (which resemble elephants' trunks) are heavily lacquer ed In gold and incrusted with Jewels, says the Upholsterer. On the gold em broidered rug rests a gold chair, be hind which rises a sunburst of dia monds with a jeweled bird on either Me. Hew She Was Wea. Old Friend So you have at last con sented to marry same one. How did It happen? Miss Flippant Well, every, man that has ever proposed before has aid. "Will you be my wife?" But Harold asked If he might have the hon or of being my husband. Detroit Free Press. The Backet Shoe. "Dad," said Httle Reginald, "what to a bucket shop?" "A bucket shop, my boy," said that father feelingly; "a bucket shop Is aj modern cooperage establishment to which a man takes a barrel and brings hack the bonghole." Bhr Wot of Frenaratl "Our landlady is awfully clever. The other morning she asked us If we knew that a constant diet of sour milk would prolong life." "Why did she do that?" Well, we discovered a little later that the milk wasn't as sweet as it should have been." Cleveland Plcin Dealer. Miseries ef BIsTh Life. He Yon look tired. SheI have been to my dressmaker getting fitted. But you look tired too. He Yes. r met my tailor, and be gave me its. A man is never so on trial as In the moment of excessive good fortn-a. Wallace. ' Two Onfaleas. Parson Do you take this woman far better or for worse? GroomWell, ner folks thinks it's for better, but thinks It's for worse. aeh Talk. ' Browne To' what do you attribute the troubles of the world? Towm-T Ihe mobility of the lower jaw. He who to destitute of ptindptos H feverned by whims JacobL t ARISTOTLE AND, ENGLISH. The Ctaasle Author's 'Many Ceaarlse . tnn te ar Yeenhsrifcurr. . During ihemkkUtes Aristotle-was practically the only - secular author read In Europe, for the priestly class were the only readers, and their learn ing was mostly confined to ecclesias tical treatises. ' It was during this-period-that-the English language was deveioplag into its present form. Aristotle treated of every subject" which came within the range of thought In bis time and introduced many new branches ot inquiry which have since become sciences. The terms used by him were adopted by every later writer and are still la use all over Europe, although variously cor rupted. The following list will -give some idea of the number and power of Aris totle's word coining; which is revived in modern everyday English: Maxim. nrinclDle. subject matter, form, end, final, cause, motive, energy. mean, extremes, metaphysics. . He called his investigations aboi'i animate "histories," whence we call oor science, which has the same end in view, "natural history." and in our universities the term "faculty" is a translation, corrupted in its passage through the Latin, of Aristotle's term for art A LIVING SWEETMEAT. The War native Mexleaun Eat the Honor carina: Ant. The honey bearing ant of southern Mexico and Colorado works at night storing the honey in curious fashion After a foraging expedition on the plants of the Schrug oak the worker ant on Its return forces the honey by muscular contraction from Its mouth Into the crop and abdomen of the "honey bearer." This crop is walled by ten muscular plates and Is capable of great expansion. When filled the abdomen becomes extraordinarily dis tended, the "bearer" resembling a sac of amber colored honey, with the head and thorax like small appendages on one side. The "bearers" being rendered almost helpless by this chauge of condition. are carefully attended by the other ants and kept In suitable compart ments, where, clinging to the roof, they hang down like amber globes. The ants as they need food apply their mouths to those of the "honey bear ers," when a slight contraction of the muscles forces out miuute drops, whleh are licked off aud consumed. These ants are used by the natives of Mexico as dessert to their feasts, the honey being extracted by pressure between the teeth. A LAMB AND ITS DAM. The- Way the Ewe Beeoamlses Its Own OaTsarlaar- Although sheep can see and hear very well. It Is undoubtedly by the sense of smell that the ewes recognize their own offspring. Sir Herliert Mux well relates an interesting example of this odd fact, citing the case of a Cher lot tomb which had fallen into a river and, owing to the steepness of the bank, could not climb out An angler, who was fishing In the stream, rescued the shivering animal, and It staggered away, bleating pit ously for Its dam. It found her with out much difficulty, but the mother, sniffing "disdainfully at the dripping lit tle wretch, pushed it off. refusing to recognise it The angler appealed to d shepherd who happened to pass that way for an explanation of the ewe's behavior. "Ob," said he, "the bit beastie's been In the water, ye see. and the auld ewe canna smell It She'll tak It back as soon as it's dry." And so It turned out The fleece was noon dried, the natural odor returning, and the mother and child were recon ciled and reunited at once. of Mexican Etleaette. Mexican etiquette is peculiar, ns is shown by the following quotation from a letter written by a Spanish wo man while traveling In that country: "There Is one piece of etiquette entire ly Mexican, nor cam I imagine whence derived, by which it is ordained that all new arrivals, whatever their rank, foreign ministers not excepted, must. In solemn print, give notice to every family of any consideration in the cap ital that they have arrived aud put themselves and their homes at the dis position of the residents, L.ng in which etiquette the newly arrived fam ily will remain unnoticed and un known.' Weddtasr. RmI1m bridesmaids there are brides men, these latter being obliged to pre sent the bridesmaids with sweetmeats. A personage follows the procession bearing an elegantly mounted picture of Christ in gold and silver, which is stationed against the altar. The brides maids do not all dress alike, and their number to unlimited. The bride's old nurse superintends the removal of the dowry from the bride's home to that of her future husband and is a most Important member on the day of the wedding. A witness, a connection of the family, pays the priest's fees, and the number of assistants, each with a separate duty allotted him, is often great. Giant Xetttoc The giants of the nettle family are. first the Urtiea atlmulans and Urtlca Cienulata of the East Indies, specie whose attack upon one's hand is suffi cient to cause the ana to swell with a most frightful pain, which lasts for weeks. But even these are milk and water nettles by comparison with the Urtlca urentisaUoa. which grows in Timor, where It bears the significant title of Daoun setan, or devil's leaf. The effects of Its sting last for a year sad have often produced death. The Steaaa Easrlac. The steam engine was made perfect ly automatic by a lazy boy who was employed to open and close the valves. Desiring to play Instead of to work, he tied a string from one part of the ma chine to another, thus making the en gine itself attend to its own business. He was never heard of aga. and even fcto name to unknown, but perfect en gine was the outcome of his laziness. Sethlna-. Weary Willie I'm a wictim of po. lice persecution, lady, dat's what I am. Why, de first time I was arrest ed I wasn't doln' nothin' at alL Mrs. Goodart Poor fellow. Here's a dime for yon. And what charge did they trump np against you? Weary Willie Vagrancy. Philadelphia Press. the Joke. "These," said the epicure to the bright Philadelphia girl, "are snails. I suppose Philadelphia people don't eat them for fear of cannibalism." "Oh, no." was the answer. "It Isn't that We couldn't catch them." Washington 8tar. - The hand that has a long time held a violet doth not soon forego Its fra- gMMtmimnf ui inummifiiBmutiiHfg (: f-i $-. 1 SoisW:siinBmaniimmii!ur; uuJ (From files of Journal April' l'J JS7S. ) The Pawnee boys -took away from tl.e depot, last Tharfdav.sevcatecn wagons to.be used by them on Che Reserva tion, We .notice the following new bniid ings In coaise of erection. --' ' Rev. J. E. Elliott a new dwelling west of the court house. O. H. Math ews' bow house west of Nebra-k avenue. The .union Methodist Enis oopnl and Presbyterian church will soon be completed.' From Herman Wiekhn we learn that on the afternoon of Friday Kngel ken Banes who lure two miles north of Shell Greek, lost by fire about ."0 north of valuable, property. The prairie was on fire a naif milo dis tant, the wind from the north-wtt aud Mr. Basse attempted to save his buildings by burning strip as a fire break, when it got' beyond his con trol and burned his machinery, x tons of hay, chickens etc. (From files Ar-ril 2G, 1ST I) -J. C -Lewis. L. H. Korth and X. J. Panl have been appointed commissioners of Howard county under a special act of the legislature passed last winter. O. O. Dake of Fremont, a local his torian, has contributed a book "No braeka Legends', and poems the first one of which is the" Weeping Water." The facts upon which the poem is founded are given as follows: "The Omaha and Otoe Indians, being at war, chanced to meet on their common hunting ground south of the Platte river in Nebraska. A fierce battle ensued, in which all the male warriors of both tribes being slain, the women and children came upon the battlelield and sat down and wept. From tho fountain of their tears arose and ever "flows the little stream known as No- hawka, or Weeping Water." Now we recard it as altogether impossible without the intervention of miraculous power, that the stream called Weep ing Water should flow from the eves of these squaws and papooses. We un derstand from good authority that a certain aged Indian, upon boing asked in regard to the above story, denied emphatically that there was any truth in it He said, that Ne-hawka did not mean weeping, crying water, but it meant murmuring, rippling water no cry. no pain. The story of tho "Raw Hide" in the same book is Utile less dubrious than the fact9 of the Weepinng Water and are disposed to classify both stories as legends. The story of the Raw Hide is as fol lows: "A certain man of a email comny moving up the great plain of the Platte in a spirit of bravado said he would shoot the first Indian he met. which he did. having short Iv afetrvrard found a Pawneo woman a little separated from her tribe. But a baud of warriors. parBuing.deuuind ed from his companions the surrender of that man, which being refused, tho Pawnee made ready to slay the whole company of whites, whereupon the offender being given into their hands they flayed him plive. From this cir cumstance the littlo j-t ream ou whso banks it occurodj takes the nnme of the ' ' Raw Hide. ' ' D. Green of Dny ton, I1L, writes to Mr. J. G. Higgins what he believes to bo the origin of the Raw Hide story, and as the Journal is anxious to securo the troth as near as possible in regard to early history of Nebraska we publish part of his letter, lha Rev. M. Dake has given in the story, the substance of a report which in 1S-I1 found its way into nearly every newspaper in the United States and no doubt but he, together with 'many others, in good faith and very "innocently believes that such ' a tragedy did really take place as stated, but tho whole story is a base and unmitigated falsehood from beginning to end. The hoax was gotten up in Magnolia. Putmatt county. 111., in a bar room to gull n gaping crowd, without any thought of its going any farther, bnt some one present took it to be true and com municated it to the editor of a paper published in Lacon, III., from which it was so extensively copied. On re ceipt of yours 1 write to Hon. Wm.E. Parret now of Winona. III., about the time the storv wn gotten up he re sided in VngLolia. 11L. and in reply be says, two men by tho name of D. P. Fyfe and David Law of Magnolia, got np the hoax ont of -vhoio cloth. The said Mr. Fvfo of Magnolia, over his signature of th& 27th iutt says 'it originated here ami was known to bo a hoax I merely give you the above tbit you may know where tho report originated.' Mv father, two broth ers, ami somo twenty or thirty others from this coantv were the company referred to, and my brother Joseph Green was the reported victim, who would havo Wen tho last man in the world to niako any such throat or be guilty of anv such rash act." A LAND OF W0HDE1S. The Sightseer Finds Many Thing ef Intercut in California. California has nnmerous natural bridges, caves, etc. of no little interest. T1m M.'iinotli Cuvo of Calaveras, diB covend by ntttiers in I&V); the Alabaster Cave; the Crystal Paluco Cave, contain ing a number of attractive snhterranesn appartnietitH, such im the luidal Cham ber, the Chryetnl Puluce iioom. A enri ouBsppartmont called .Music Hall, where the deposits of aqueous origin not only " take the form of organ pipes, sounding hoards etc., bnt emit, when struck, mnsi-. caiaonedsand vibrations. Kear this cave are two natural biidges which the tour ist can visit and return to the railroad within half an honr. The only natnral way to reach these scenes of interest is via The Overland Limited, Route," comprising the Union Pacific and South ern Pacific, now realy one 'line. The only line running through trains to San Francisco from Omaha, its fast trains, arming sixteen hours ahead of all com petitors. Pamphlets and maps describ- -jog the wonders or California, and fuil information about the most comfortable and direct route to the Pacific ContP, can be obtained of E. L. Lomax, O. P. T. A, Omaha, Neb. Get a Journal wail chart yourself and. tell your friends how to get it. - Il y -f-vsiz ggEsafcg---S-S-Kzar :-i!rjl ggSs7rgggPtg?gagrT;Twjrje -'?, . Th.'ftT 4ilit- ." -