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The Columbus journal., 1881-05-11

Save your money aud buy trim
med and untrimmed hats at Kra-
mer's New York Cheap Cash Store.
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A No. l Stock Farm with hay and
water facilities, to rent. Apply to
ID. Anderson.
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Potatoes.

Hungarian, Millet and Blue grass
seeds at Herman Oehlrich 81 Bros.
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: COLUMBUS MEAT MARKET |
On Eleventh Street,
NOTICE IN ATTACHME ENT.

NOTICE IN ATTACHMENT
MINNIE BELL will take notice that
vi on the 18th day Of February, 1881,
G.. Il. Bailey. a justice of the peace of
Columbus precinct, Platte county, Ne
braska, issued an order Of attachment
for the sum Of $500 an action pending
before him, wherein W. n. Randall is
plaintiff and Minnie Bell defendant;
that property consisting Of one feather
bed. bedding, clock, carpet. iat-irOns,
books, ETC.. has been attached under said
order; said cause was last continued 10
the 10th day Of May, at one o'clock
p. M, 1881.
W. III. RANDALL,
Plaintiff.
Columbus, April Il, 1881. j7l-3
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Early Shaker Russets, finest quail
ity, for seed. ID. ANDERSON.
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For Sale.
Seeds.

Two teams of work horses, cheaE
for cash. HENRY SCHwARZ.
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SPECIAL NOTICES.
Land for sale.

lG0 acres. D miles west of Column
bus; - acres under cultivation, 40 acres
hay land; so sn acre, on easy terms
Inquire at JOURNAL Office.
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Three teams of good work horses,
cheap for cash. Call on
JOHN HANEY.
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communications, 20 Insure insertion
IN the next issue. should be in hand on
Mondays; if lengthy, on Thursdays
OF whatever class. should be in hand by
noon. Tuesdays.
Advertisements under this head Is
cts. a line first insertion, 10 cts. a line
ea,h Subsequent Insertion.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-01-20
News and Notes for Women.

The Princess of Wales has just passed
her thirty-sixth birthday.
Massachusetts can supply the world
with surplus females.
The most sprightly girls in the wor. d
are said to be the Spanish girls.
Two daughters of the sultan, not yet
fifteen years old, are about to be married
to Turkish cavalry officers.
The Fulton Times thinks that kissing
a girl on the cheek is like eating the
skin of an orange and throwing the
Juicy pulp away.
"We old maids" remarked Miss
Steubens, :" love cats because we have
no husbands, and cats are almost as
treacherods as men,"
A lady who had quarreled with her
ba.dheaded lover said, il, dismissing
him: "What is delightful about you,
my friend, is that l have not the trouble
of sending back any locks of hair
Kate Field expresses the belief thai
George Eliot was the only woman in thu
civilized world who has never beer
photographed. There is a crayon por
| trait OF her owned by the Black wood:
in Edinburg, out it has never been
copied.
An official return puts the feminin
"models" in Paris 675. The pay for
sitting is from fifty cents to $40. Most @
the models are Italians; thirty ar
Americans las have been in the hand:
of the police.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-01-20
Marriage or Money.

A singular story comes from Indian
apolis of a clerk in leading business
house in that city who became so in
volved that he needed $500 to extricate
himself from the diff culties. BY some
means he discovered that table girl at
one of the hotels had, by hard work,
saved up considerable sum OF money
and to her he applied for q loan. This
was readily granted, and a note with in
terest and day of payment, only six
months in the future, was executed in
acknowledgment of the same. The time
came and with it the same chronic in
ability on the part of the maker to
pay it. He pleaded for an extension
of time, but this the waiter maiden
refused to grant, and informed him
that he must either pay the sum
at once or marry her. The woman
was about forty years old, and much
more than corresponding ugly so that
the debtor demurred against the inposi-
tion of such hard terms. The woman,
however, was non-relenting. With her
it was either the money or husband,
and, on the whole, she seemed quite
anxious TO choose the latter. When the
hero saw the gravity of the situation
he perceived no way to escape it, and
finally capitulated, 50 the marriage was
performed. The man belongs to good
family, and is said to be greatly humili-
ated by the condition in which he so
un Willingly finds himself in being allied
by force to a woman so inferior to him.
self in social position and intellect. The
| woman, however, was so well pleased
that she rented and Furnished a house
and was ready for business before the
wedding day.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-01-20
A Brokers Romance.

1t is very touching incident. We
heard Southern editor telling it on an
elevated train yesterday and he was in a
great hurry to get home and put it in
uis paper and make an affidavit tnat it
was true. The scene of the romance
opens in a palatial mansion in New
York. A lady sits in a parlor filed with
the most costly luxuries. Diamonds as
big as filberts glitter in her ears. Lace
costing $36 per yard almost hides the
color of her dress from sight. A clock
costing $4,000 strikes the hour-4 P. NJ
At this moment her husband rushes into
the house, pale, haggard, suspenders
broken, hat bunged up, and his boots
all mud.
Have you-have you caught the
epizooticg" she gasps, as she start'
"Oh, wife! we are busted-ruined--
gone up-smashed fiat as shingle!" ht
moaned in reply.
How"
81 invested $4,000, in the Crooke,
River railroad at SO, and it has declir g
to A! Jay Gould has bought and con
solidated it! We must leave this palac
and all these luxuries and works of ar
and take two fourth-story rooms owe
in Brooklyn"
She laughed merrily and long. Ha,
the sudden news crs zed herp He though
it had; bu. he was green. She left tn
room for moment and then returne
with pillowcase containg $780, i
greenbacks.
"Let the Crooked River railroa
crook away!" she laughed, as she emp
tied the money at his feet. "You hav
given me this money during til
past five years, few thousand dollal
mt time, to buy little articles for toiIe
, l had saved it up to get me a pair {
, stockings for Sunday, but l cheerful
hand it over to my good husband to 81
him on his pins again. Take it, my da
/ ling, and if you can get a whack at Js
Gould bite him hard, and I'll back yo
: with the $4,000 had laid away to ser
to the heathen."
r They embraced. All was joy al
r peace Wall Street NeWS.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-01-20
Words OF Wisdom.

No man is wise or safe but he that is
honest.
Without earnestness one cannot even
jest to effect.
Even the weakest man is strong
enough to enforce his convictions.
Do what good thou canst unknown; {;
and be not vain of what ought rather to
be felt than seen.
1t is not only arrogant. but is profit
gate for man to disregard The world 8
opinion of himself.
la certain souls, more naughty than
tender, pardon is polite form, sort of
euphemism of contempt.
Look on slanderers as direct enemie,
to civil society; as persons without
honor, honesty or humanity.
The law can never make man hon
est; it Can only make him very uncom-
| Portable when he is dishonest.
The essence of true nobility is neglect
of self. Let the thought of self pass in,
and the beauty of great action is gone,
the bloom from soiled flower.
If men would spend in doing good to
Others a quarter of-the time and money
they spend in doing harm to themselves
misery would vanish from the earth.
To protect ones self against the storms
of life marriage With good W woman is &
harbor in the tempest; but with baC
woman II proves tempest in the har
Dor.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-01-20
Sudden Checking of Perspiration.

A Boston merchant, in lending
hand" on board one Of his ships on
windy day, found himself at the end of
an hour and half pretty well exhausted
and perspiring freely, He sat down to
rest, and engaging in conversation, time
passed faster than he was aware of. In
attempting to rise he found he was
unable to do so without assist
ance. He was taken home and put
to bed, where he remained two
years; and for a long time after
ward could only hobble about with the
aid of crutch. Less exposures than
this have in constitutions not so vigor-
Gus resulted in Inflammation of the
lungs-pueumonia- in death in
less than a week, or causing tedious
rheumatisms, to be source of torture
for lifetime. Multitudes OF lives would
De saved every year, and an incalculable
amount of human suffering would be
prevented, if parents would begin to
explain to their children, at the age o.
three or four years, the danger which
attends cooling off too quickly after ex'
ercise, and the Importance of not stand
ing still after exercise, or work, or play
or of remaining exposed to the wind, o.
OF sitting at an open window or door, o.
of pulling off any garments, even tn,
hat or bonnet, while in heat.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-01-20
HUMOROUS.
, spot-A detective.

On the spot-A detective.
The way for bad boy to go on
bender, is over his mothers knee.
Like ferryboat, 1881 runs equally wei
either end ahead -NeeO York Graphic.
"If you want me, drop me line,"
said the fish to the angler. r.-Philddelphi1
Sun.
A pretty girl may talk slang but she
never says, to her beau, None OF your
lipw
AS the sled is bent so is the boy in
clined; as.the slipper falls sois he made
to mind.
A burglar sometimes breaks into a
mans chest with false keys, butts woman
attempts to break into his heart by
means of false locks.
"I'm running this thins!" as the
infuriated bull remarked when in pur-
suit of the young man with the flashy
red necktie.- Yo1aberS Salesman.
Russell Sage has 1000, 900 per annum
income, Jaw Gould S5,000,000 and Van
derbilt $4,000, 900. These figures are
all the more disheartening when it is
remembered that scores of us have to
squeeze through year on only ,000,-
600.
This Is the season OF the year when
| the citizen is attacked with q severe
| case of economy and Immediately cuts
of his entire list of newspapers. There
| is one paper he does not relinquish,
however. 1t is his PAGER of tobacco
RocbIand Courier.
| If there is anything that will make a
m IN rip stavin, roarin, bilin mad, it is
to have the cook appear before him at
| breakfast with the announcement that
| Al, Of Ia h M yt1roI Iac
| ed by him the evening previous, during
the wee small hours disappeared down
| the capacious NAV of the family Thom-
as cat.
"Do you love me for myself?" she
asked, as she gazed dreamily through
the isinglass windows of the " Morning
Glory" into the glowing Goals, which
| threw back rich tint upon her fair
face. 81 do" he answered, pressing her
hand; 81 do. but am not selfish. l
nm willing to kiss you for your mother. y"
"Ah! l always knew you had good
neart." she murmured. Curtain.
Twas Sunday eve aud the small boy stood
With his eye TO the keyhole pressed,
And he saw his sister Bsssy's head
| Ol A5salom Thompson's vest.
Then he ran to his parent stern an told,
And the parent stern replied
| "Ihere amt no harm IN Vesti sllde out,
But the lad refused to slide.
" There amt no harm in the vest, know"
And his eyes flashed bright that minute,
" But isn't it dangerous, dad ;" he asked,
"When Absalom Thompson's in it,"
Lost Poet.
) 1t is difficult for any one to understand
how a woman can be happy whose seal
skin sack has been heightened by
, sewing on it piece Of fur. She knows
5 that her sack is short, and everybody
knows it is short, and she knows that
: everybody knows it, and everybody
knows that he knows it, and everybody
knows that she knows that everybody
knows it, and she knows that every body
d knows that she knows that everybody
j knows it, and everybody knows that she
: knows that everybody knows that she
e knows that everybody knows sthat sh'
t knows it.-Puck
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-01-20
True to Ones Self.

Speak thou the truth, let others fence
And trim their words for pay;
In pleasant sunshine of pretense,
Let others bask their day.
Guard thou the fact, tho clouds OF night
Down on thy watch-tower stoop,
Borne from thee by their swoop,
Though thou shouldst see thy hearts delight
Face thou the wind..s Though safer seem
In shelter to abide,
We were not made to sit and dream,
The safe must first be tried.
Show thou the light. II conscience gleam
Set not the bushel down,
The smallest spark may send beam
Ger hamlet, tower, and town.
Woe unto him, on safety bont,
Who creeps from age to youth,
Failing to grasp his liie's intent
Because he fears the truth.
Be true to every inmost thought,
And as thy thoughts thy speech,
What thou hast not by striving bought,
Presume not thou to teach.
Then each wild gust the mist shall clear
We now see darkly through,
And justified at last appear
The true in Him that's true.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-01-20
Pet Names.

Bishop Elder, of Cincinnati, has been
giving parents some advice, which is an
Improvement upon some previous sug-
gestions and worthy of general attention.
He advises parents to give their children
full Christian names, and not abbrevia-
tons or pet names. II they please to
make use of these familiarly in the
family, it is well enough. But when a
young girl is growing up it is not well
to allow every young man that speaks
to her to use pet name as if he were
as intimate as her brother. Although
this is only little matter in itself, il
contributes its share toward lessenine
the maidenly reserve which is 80 beau
titul and SO serviceaDle an ornament. L
likewise detracts from the Christian
dignity OF womsnhood for one to be'al
her life addressed as if she were a pc
child, instead of al lady owning
Christian name and entitled to th'
respect of having 1t used.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-01-20
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Farm and Garden Notes


In purchasing bulls buy mixed varie-
ties of the hardy sorts.
Never breed from vicious sire; tem-
per Is hereditary in animals as well as
in man.
Constant cutting off Just below the
surface of the ground will in time eradi-
cate poison ivy.
Clover that sends its roots deep into
the earth is considered the best sub soil
ing agent to be had.
Many farmer pays out large sums for
fertilizers, while he allows those of his
own barnyard to run to waste.
Fertilizers should be applied to house
plants only when they are in a growing
state, and should be applied in the Ii
quid form.
Tea roses are to be preferred for the
house. both for fragrance and beauty.
They are free growers and bloomers
under almost all circumstances.
The National Live Stock Journal thinks
that wildness and bad temper in a mare
may be remedted by breeding them, and
cites several instances where this has
, succeeded.
Water is a much better deodorizer
than is generally supposed. 1t has
great absorbing capacity. Fresh water
running through milk room keeps it
| free from odors.
Roses need very rich soil to bring them
to perfection, thriving best in a mixture
of well-rotted manure, sand and garden
loan, and to stint them of nourislment
is indeed poor economy.
| Filling a horse rack with hay, as some
persons do, and permitting a constant
supply, is one of the most probable
means of producing disease, and the
most positive 20 render animals unfit
for fast work.
In England it has been found that
seven pounds of sulphur mixed with
one hundred pounds OF ground bone
and allowed to slightly ferment for q
few days before being applied to the
soil, will effectually defend the young
turnip plants from the attacks of the
fly.
Spreading Manure.
1t is always better to spread manure
as it is drawn than to put it in heaps.
When put in heaps large portion of
the soluble matter is left ia the ground
under the heap and makes these spots
too rich, and of course depriyes the rest
of the ground Of its proper share. When
it is spread as drawn there is no waste,
the soil s equally benefited, and when
the ground is worked over in the spring
with the wheel barrow or the cultivator
the whole is well mixed together. There
is also saving of labor, as one hand.
ling is avoided.
| Household Hints.
Cut bread fine for filling for fowls
this is better than to crumble it. Nc
sogginess.
Cold boiled potatoes used as soap
will clean the hands and keep the SKIN
soft and healthy. Those not over-boilec
are the best.
In boiling dumplings of any kind, pu
them in the water one at time. Ii they
al put in together they will mix will
each other.
Charcoal powder is good for polishing
knives without destroying the blades
1t is also a good tooth powder whel
finely pulverized.
Simple and tasteful table covers fo
bedrooms may be made of pale blue Can
ton flannel trimmed with antique lace
or with velvet ribbon feather-stitcheC
on, and finished with fringe made o
blue split zephyr or Shetland wool.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-01-20
FOR THE FAIR SEX.
Miss LolIipop's housekeeping.


Miss Lollipop thought she must help
To wash up the dishes and wipe off the shelf
To brush off the table, and sweep up the floor !
And clean of the stains from the paint on the
floor.
She put on her apron and pulled up her
sleeves
She didn't want work that was only make
believe;
"For muzzers who've dot yittle chillens,
said She
" Must have yittle honsekeepers; dat's what
Pll be-"
Little Miss Lollipop went through the room,
whisked the dust high with the edge of the
broom,
Broke the poor cup which she dropped on the
floor,
Lett the paint twenty times worse than before.
spattered and splashed-but oh +! how could [
chide
The little heart swelling with sweet helpful
pride?
" For how would my muzzer be able" said
she,
"To get fro her work if she didn't have me "
Dearer the love in the sunny blue eyes,
Than the dust she is raising, which fades as it
flies;
Better to miss the best cup on the shelf,
Than chill the dear heart which is giving ITSELF
Dear little Lollipop we.are, like you,
Spelling the work we are trying to do
But surely the Father, who loves US, will
heed,
And take in His kindness the will of the deed ,
-Wide Awake.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-01-20
Vale |!
oh. the swift wears !

Oh, the swift years
Pleasure, dismayed, beholds them hurry on;
And love, strong love, looks back through
passionate tears;
Like the bright meteor that scarce appears,
Soon are they gone.
Oh, the feet hours
Why what is man? their puppet and their
slave;
At first his letters wreathing with fair flowers
Then CALLED and worn and robbed of all his
overs,
Gaining grave.
Vale we cry,
Watching in youth the sweet June roses fall ;
They bloom agau-smali matter if they die.
All YES, they bloom but canker worms will
lie,
Doubt not in ALL
Vale The word
Later has smtten us with mortal pain;
Rung out the death-knell OF dear hope, or
stirred
The lips whose earthly voices may be heard
Never again.
Then does il wake
Sad recollections, haunting thoughts that
grieve;
We know the cruel wound some larewells
make,
We learn 10 drea1 the nothingness the break
Parting may leave,
So the years run
Vale We soon must bid this brief estate
But for that heritage which shall be won
When the freed soul with time itself has done
Trusting, we wait
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-01-20
The Banana.

The Cuba correspondent of the Bos-
ton Commercial Bulletin writes: The
manner in which the fruit is developed
is quite interesting. From the midst of
the leaves and at the top appears large,
smooth, purple cone hanging down
gracefully at the end of a stalk. The
flowers are all wrapped up in this cone,
which consists OF a large number OF
closely packed spathes. By-and-bye the
uppermost of these spathes disengages
itself from the rest, curls up and dis
closes row of three or four long bios.
SONS, with the young fruit OF each be-
ginning to form.
While this row of fruit is tender the
spathe remains hanging over it like y
roof, but when the fruit has acquired
some size and strength the protecting
shield drops off and the next in order
rises up with a similar row of young
fruit over which it stands in the same
watchful attitude till it also drops OFF,
to be succeeded by another.
When one circle OF fruit is completed
| another is commenced below, and III
| due time another, while the common
stem around which the fruit is disposed
| grows constantly longer, and the cone
| of spathes diminishes in size, till 1T II
| all unfolded, and q monstrous bunch o
bananas is finished, which seldom
weighs less than twenty or thirty an(
sometimes as much as seventy or eighty
pounds. OF all kinds OF vegetable nutri
ment the banana is perhaps the mos
productive, and most easily raised.
After plant has produced its buncl
of fruit the stem is either cut or is sui
fered to witber and fall on the spot. i
the former case it is good fodder fo
cattle; in the latter it forms good man
ure for the young shoots which hav
been springing from the root, and whic
| are soon ready to bear fruit in the
turn. From these shoots or sprouts II
plant Is propagated'
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-01-20
+" Garden of China"

Around Shanghai lie $4,000 square
miles which are called the Garden of
China, and which have been titled for
countless generations. This area is as
large as New York and Pennsylvania
combined; it is all meadow land, raised
few feet above the river-lakes, rivers,
canal-a complete network OF water
communication; three crops a year are
gathered; population is so dense that
wherever you look you see men and
women in blue pants and blouse, so nu
fair coming on, and all hands turned
out for holiday.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-01-20
Fashion Hints.

Some odd styles are said to be in prep
raation for simple muslin and wool
dresses for the spring and summer. Thus
there are waists contrived without shoul-
der seams, probably by being cut bias on
the shoulders, and still Others have the
entire sleeve cut in one piece with the
waist of the dress, the only seam of the
sleeve being on the inside of the arm.
The seam down the middle Of the front
is also bias, and there is bunch OF
waist line. Shirred yokes, and basques
years ago, and, it is said, will be revived
for thin lawns and grenadines of next
season.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-01-20

Mr.. Kimball the church debt raiser,
has visited about $50 churches, and has
raised about S5 ,OOO,0 900 for the payment
of church debts. He estimates that
some "a 10000 more have been raised
or saved, in various ways, under the
influence OF this work.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-01-20
An Aching Void,

A troubled young man beglns a poem
in the Breakwater Light as follows:
al cannot love another now,
Since thou hast proved untrue,
Another's lips upon my brow
Cannot this aching void subdue."
1t is an awful pity for the young poet
that he has to carry an "aching void .
around in his head. Nothing is more
distressing than an "aching void" par.
ticularly in ones head, and the dis
tressed young man ought to fill it with
cotton. If "another's lips" won't
"subdue" it he might try mustard
plaster. MtddletotOn Transcript.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-01-20

According to Kolb's Universal Stats.
tics" the average length of life among
those in comfortable circumstances il
fifty, among the poor thirty, among
ministers siEty-tive years.