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About The North Platte semi-weekly tribune. (North Platte, Neb.) 1895-1922 | View Entire Issue (April 13, 1897)
IRA. L BARE, Editor A2TD Pkoprietob TUESDAY, APRIL 13, 1897. 8UBS0EIPTI0N BATES. One Tear, cash in advance, $1.25. Six Months, cash in advance 75 Cents Entered sttheNorthPlatte(Nebraska)postomceas e econd-clac b matter. , xue aiieg-ea tormation or a gi gantic farmers' trust to regulate the production and marketing" of grain, is being very generally dis cussed, especially east of the Mis souri river. The project was set on foot by an Ohio man, and it really looks as thousrh the trust will assume tangible shape. TEED IS ESf TEOUBLE. stories of the day. THE KORESHAN MESSIAH IN A TAN GLE OF LAWSUITS. Our free silverites are not likely to get much comfort out of the vote on the republican candidate for su preme judge in Michigan. He re ceived the full McKinley majority in proportion to the votes cast. In almost every town in Nebras ka where party lines were drawn in the election ot last week, repub lican gains were made. This is as it should be, and is evidence that Nebraska at the next election will again be republican. Watson's voice is a trifle tired, but it is still doing business at the old stand: "Compare the sales of Bryan's book now," he says in an Atlanta publication, "with those of Coin's Financial School' in 1894, and you get a iair idea of the de- IP you want your town to be cline of public interest in the single lively make it so. Don t go to sleep issue of silver coinage. Harvey's book outsold Bryan's at the Japan- The first Omaha exposition building to be constructed will be the Spectatorium, which will meet the demand for an auditorium for concerts and congresses, gatherings of every kind, and for notable theatrical performances. This building will be constructed on the west side of Twentieth street, on a portion of the ground which will later be donated to the city for a public park. The Spectatorium will have a seating" capacity of 3,500 and will cost not to exceed $35,000. The executive committee has a proposition before it from one of the best known managers of spectacular productions . in this country, who proposes to execute a lease of the building and guarantee an income to the exposition associ ation which will practically pay the entire cost of the structure, Woman Disciple Sues Mrs. Parsons, Her self a Defendant, Demands 82,100 From the Xeader The S trance Influence He Exerts Over His Converts. It is all over a paltry matter of $200, hut the whole fabric of Koreshan threat ens to tumble into ruin if the parties in the suit of Hoyt versus Parsons make all the disclosures they say they will. Koreshan is a religion, and the im pending destruction of a religion de serves at least a passing notice. The high priest of Koreshan is a certain Dr. Cyrus It. Teed, whose disciples are re cruited mainly from Boston. The prin cipal articles of his creed would appear to be that he shall be called "Christ," that his followers shall grovel in the dust before him and that all shall turn over their property for the uses of the society. Incidentally Koreshan teaches that we live in the interior of the earth, which is a hollow sphere. Next m importance to Dr. Teed in the hierarchy of Koreshan is the "moth er of Christ," who is known to the world as Mrs. Victoria Ordway of Chi- Interestlng Notes on Matters That Aro Talked of In Europe. Venice is about to celebrate the nine hundredth anniversary of the first in troduction of the fork for table use. The merit of its adoption belongs to the doge Orsolo, who at the wedding of his son produced a silver fork and a golden spoon. It was not until 300 years later that the fork reached France, while it was only in the year 1 60S that it was first adopted for table service in England. ese ratio of about 32i to 1. single issue of silver seen its best day." coinage The pop caucus has opered a glorious field to the lawyers of the' Lj0jn state which they will doubtless wel come with effusion in these hard times. Pretty nearly every act that it has passed will have to run the gauntlet of the courts and the people will have to pay the piper for the ignorance and bull headed ness of their lawmakers. "Where a law could have been made plainly constutional by the exercise of a little sense and judgment, these blunderers have enveloped it with but jret up and work for it, talk about it, and talk favorably. If you The nave property, improve it, paint has your house, clean your alley and back yards. Make your surround ings pleasant and 3Tou will be worth more in the market. If you are cr rn1 v11 nrKicr unur frifiirlc to come aud invest near you. Work for your home interest; trade at home, help your dealers; keep your money at home as much as possible and it is likely to help you in re turn. The successful towns have been made by property owners working together. Public improve ment is an investment that pays. Don't believe every little scandal ous rumor that is put in circulation concerning a lellow townsman To those who imagine that the very name of Siberia is calculated to send a cold chill into the heart of a .Russian, by reason of its association with ideas of exile in its most harsh and cruel form, the announcement that the Mus covite government has been compelled to stop summarily the emigration from Russia in Europe to Siberia will come in the nature of a surprise. It seems that the exodus in the direction of Sibe na has assumed such vast proportions that the authorities began to fear that north and east Eussia would he com pieteiy aepopruatea, tno railing on in revenue from the thus deserted portions of the empire having been very marked. The peasantry have now been ordered to remain at home and not to emigrate. This may be regarded as equivalent to a revival of the old law which compels serfs to remain on the lands on which they were born unless they received special permission to emigrate. The on ly difference is that, whereas in olden times the power of retention was exer cised by the landowning nobility, it is now monopolized by the government. A JnSEEABLE WIFE. fog and doubt merely through their Crush the report in its infancy in wantonness in obiectinjr to have their crass verbiage properly cor rected by members who know a statute from a stump speech. Journal. stead of breathing The twenty-fifth session of the Nebraska legislature adjourned at twenty minutes of 12 o'clock, noon, Saturday, after having been con tinuously in session since January 5th. It was the close of probably the longest session in the history of the state. From the time it met until it finally adjourned, the legis lature considered 683 house rolls and 384 senate files. Of the aggre gate of 1,067 bills introduced, 133 were enacted into laws and sub mitted to the approval or rejection of the governor. Of the bills sent to the governor, eighty-two were house rolls and the remaining fifty one originated in the senate. Of the total number of bills passed during the entire session, seventy four passed between the hours of 12 o'clock Thursday noon and 5 o'clock Friday evening. One of the crowning acts of the defunct legislature, s?ys the Jour nal, was its policy ot repudiation in refusing to pay the bounties granted by law to the sugar beet and chicory producers of the state. This took from the pockets of farm ers in the state who for two years have produced sugar beets that which the state promised to pajT them if they did the work. It was the repudiation of an obligation as valid and as honestly earned as aiiT claim ever presented for payment. To the men who had invested their means in factories it was takiug that which was guaranteed them and to the producers ot the raw material it was even more far reach ing as a policy of repudiation. It was not enough to repeal the law and strike at one of the most prom ising industries in the state, but the legislature went further and re pudiated all that had been guaran- a. 3 a . j t . iceu unaer tne law wnue it was force and effect. it to others. Don't waste your time over dirty quarrels and hold back your aid from good objects through spite, but work for some "rood and vou will find yourself benefited. People who are complaining now about the hard limes know nothing of what other passed through. generations A have Fredericks burg, Virginia, man writes to the Richmond Dispatch that "in 1842 and 1843, under the Van Buren ad ministration nearly everything the fanner had for sale was lower than at present horses sold for from $15 to $30, and it took an extra good one to bring the latter price; colts from $8 to $13, according to age; cows, fresh, from $6 to $8; dry cows $4 to $6, and calves from 75 cents to $1 each; sheep, at 70 to 90 cents; lambs, 50 to 75 cents; hogs, $1 to $3;bacon 5 cents per pound:turkeys 15 cents each; and chickens for the asking; eggs 4 to 5 cents per dozen; corn, 25 to 30 cents per bushel; flour $2.50 to $3 per barrel for the best; mill offal, 25 to 30 cents per 100, or 5 to 6 cents per bushel; hay at any price they could get, and everything else in proportion. Money, he says, was scarcer than ever known be fore or since, even the United States treasury being well nigh empty. AS UNITED AS EVER. Proportionately to the vote cast, the republican majorit' cast for governor of Rhode Island on Wed nesday was near to the largest on record. This is the first state election held since the inauguration of President McKinley. In Chicago and in Detroit local influences, de termined the election of a mayor. But in Rhode Island the simple question at issue was that of choice between a democrat and a republi can for governor. DR. CTRUS R. TEED. cago. Attached to the rule that the ad herents of Koreshan must give up their wealth to the cause is a saving clause permitting them to withdraw their con tributions in the event of their leaving the community. If this proviso had been lived up to, the suit of Hoyt versus Par sons would never have been heard of. The plaintiffs aro Mr. and Mrs. War ren Hoyt Mr. Hoyt is the editor of the Haverhill (Mass. ) Bulletin and an ex state legislator. The defendant is Mrs. E. V. Parsons of Boston, who is asked to account for a cold watch, a chain, a trunk and more than 100 worth of dry goods which she is alleged to have ob tained from local storekeepers, who charged them to Mr. Hoyt's account The story told on behalf of the plain tiffs presents Mrs. Parsons in the light of one who obtained a powerful influ ence over Mrs. Hoyt, so that the latter was willing and eager to give her every thing she asked. Indeed nothing less occult than hypnotism is suggested as the explanation for Mrs. Hoyt's ameni ty to-her coreligionist's desires. On the other hand, Mrs. Parsons, the defendant, protests that she is a victim of Koreshan. She will not discredit the faith itself "sublime" is the adjective she applies to it but she has nothing but words of bitterness for Dr. Teed, its founder and "Christ;" for Mrs. Ord way, the "mother of Christ," and for others high in the councils of the mys terious order. She has instituted suits against Teed to recover 2, 100, which she says he induced her to give him. As for Mrs. Hoyt's property, she says it was a voluntary gift, rendered neces sary by the destitute condition in which she (Mrs. Parsons) left the Koreshan "heaven" in Florida. Mrs. Parsons is a physician practicing at 104 Dartmouth street, Boston, although her home is in Brockton. The Koreshan "heaven, " on Estero is land, Lee county, Fla. , is practically an absolute monarchy. Teed rules over it wjth a rod of iron, enthroned in a man sion which is known as Beth Ophrah. The "mother of Christ," whose title is transcribed as "Victoria Gratia Hoiesh" in the Koreshan tongue, reigns co-ordinately with him over a community of converts who are no better than slaves. Not only have they signed over to their leader all their worldly goods, but they aro compelled to toil unremitting ly, regardless of the weather or their physical condition. These deluded wretches are flattered with the term "angels" and aro supposed to be sexless. The two chief articles of their creed are the worship of Teed and the blind obe dience of his every order. There is no marriage among them, and whatever children enter the colony from the out side worltl aro tnnchfc tt hnHpTCQ Teed is their father, Dr. Cyrus Teed, the messialf;of this strange, sad colony, has jmpresed "s followers with the belief that(hewi11 die soon, but will risA frnm tJifi dead Austria has just celebrated with be fitting ceremony the centenary of her national anthem. The principal feature of the celebration was a state perform ance of the drama entitled "Joseph Haydn," who was the composer of the grand song. The performance took the form of a series of biographical pictures at the court theater in the presence of the emperor, and every one of the scenes represented, a phase of the great mu sician's life. To convey an idea of the terrorism which has been inaugurated at Vienna by the enormously powerful and fanatic anti-Semite party it . may be mentioned that the management of the Carl thea ter, which is achieving so great a suc cess with "Trilby," has not dared to make Svengali a Jew, but has convert ed him into a Hungarian bandmaster. The greatest pains aro taken by the emi nent aotor who plays the part to lead the audience to forget the Jew in the gypsy- Herr Krupp, the so called cannon king of Essen, having acquired the Ger- mania company's dockyards at Kiel, is now negotiating with the municipality of that city for the purchase of an im mense tract of adjoining land. Hen Krupp proposes not ouly to move to Kiel his great engine works at Tegol, near Berlin, but to improve the present dockyard accommodation at Kiel to such an extent as to meet all modern require ments. Herr Krupp's object is to make his Kiel establishment the foremost in Germany for the building of German warships as well as to be able to com pete successfully with any British ship yard as far as the merchant marine is concerned. The German government has already given Herr Krupp an order for a new aud fine cruiser. Bussia's government has just dis patched one of its shrewdest diplomats to Cabul for the purpose of securing the co-operation and sanction of the emir of Afghanistan for the construction of a branch jailroad from the capital of Afghanistan to a point where it would tap the great Transsiberiau line. Rus sia looks forward to extending eventual ly this branch road farther south until it finally reaches the British Indian railroad system. When that is com pleted, people will be able to go all the way by rail from Paris to Calcutta without leaving the railroad carriages, The construction of a trolley car lino from Cairo to the pyramids has now been followed by the placing of a steam boat on the river Jordan, which makes the journey from Jericho to Tiberias that is to say, from the Dead sea to tho lake of Galilee in about seven hoars. If matters go on at this rate, we shall before long witness tho installation of electric light in tho mysterious caves beneath the mosqno of Hebron and Roentgen rays applied to tho mummies of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and the other patriarchs who are supposed to repose there. "Yes, professor, I am afraid I shall have to rent or sell tho farm; my wife is so miserable. I cannot carry it on without hiring, and hiring eats up all tne profits." I looked at the speaker admiringly. Ho was about 50 years old, and as ro bust as a man of 30. His whiskers were neatly trimmed, showing a full, red cheek. He wbre a jaunty hat and natty- cutaway coat, and below his vest huna? a single fob and heavy gold seal. I was proud of him. Ho was such a perfect specimen of a JNew York gentleman from the rural districts that I wanted to imprint his picture on my memory. "So your wife is miserable?" "xes. Kinder drooping, with a dry cough and no ambition. She just kinder drags around tho house and looks so peaked and scrawny it gives me the blues. It dees, I swan. " "Naturally weakly, wasn't she?' She! Oh, no. when I married her, she was tho smartest girl on tho creek. She used to work for my father, and the way she made tho work stand around took my eye. She was a poor girl and her industry got her a rich husband." Here he took out a gold watch, looked at the time, put it back and adjusted the silk fob on the front of his nicely fitting trousers. "So she did well, getting married on account oi nor industry?" "Why, of course. Sho was getting only 2. 50 a week, and she became mis tress of a farm." "Excuse me, but how much aro you worth now confidentially, you know? I am a scientific man and will never use such facts to your injury with the assessor." "Well, professor, I could crowd $50, 000 pretty hard." ' 'That is good. How long have you been married?" "Thirty years next Fourth of July. Wo went down to Albany on a little teeter, and I proposed tho match and Jane was willing. " "How much do you suppose you have made in these 30 year?" "Hum ryn lemmo see. I got the Davis farm tho first ten years, then I run in debt for the Simmons place, got war prices for my cheese and squared up both places. Well, I think I have cleared up $30,000 since we spliced." 'Very good indeed. And your wife has been a great, help all this time?" 'Oh, you bet! Sho was a rattler 1 She tcok care of her baby and tho milk from 20 cows. I tell you she made the tinware flop! Why, we have had four children, and she never had a hired girl over six mouths in that time." 'Splendid, and yon have cleared $30,- 000 in that time?" Yes, easy." 'Now, how much has your wife made?" She? Why, durn it, professor, she is my wife." "I know it But what has she made? You say she was poor when yon married her. Now, what has she made?" "Why, you beat all! Why, she is my ! wife, and we own it all together." "Do you? Then she can draw on your bank account? Then she has a horse and carriage whim sho wants them? Then she has a servant girl when sho wants one? Then she rides out for her health, and has a watch and gold chain as you do? Is that so?" "Professor, you must bo crazy. No body's wifo is boss in that shape. Who ever heard of such a thing?" "Now, look here. You say she did well in marrying rich, and I cannot see it. If she was getting $2.50 per week when you married her aud had saved her wages, she would have had 3,000. If sho had invested it, she would have had $5,000. Now yen tel me sue is uroKeu nown, used up and miserable, and looks so badly she makes you sick, and sho has no money, no help and will probably get nothing but Scotch gram to tombstone when she dies." "Professor, if "And then hand her a nice wallet with steel clasps and with five nice new $20 notes in it, and tell her to do her own trading1 after this, because you have got tired looking after so much money." "I will, as sure as you live." "And then, when the tear starts in her eye, and the same old blush comes out that you thought was so nice when you went on that teeter to Albany, if you would kiss her" "It's all right, professor." "Then, my friend, I should begin to think sho had mado something by mar rying a rich man." " You 'ro right, old man." "Then I think you wouldn't have a miserable wife any longer. Then you would no longer want to sell or rent tho farm, but would bo showing tho mother of your children how much you respect ed her for her life of devotion. Then she would know sho was a partner in that $30,000. Then, if you mado your will all right, and she had a good rest, I think sho would some time be an eli gible widow." "Think so, professor?" "I know it. Woman is a plant that wants sunshine. You have been leaving your wife in the shade too much. Sho has lost her color. You have made her given up all hope ot admiration ana love, and is only waiting to die and get out of the way. Suppose you were treat ed so?" "What me? I am all right." "Yes, I know. Women pity you be cause you are tied to such a sorry look ing wife. Foolish old maids and silly girls whisper behind your back what a nice looking man you are, and what a stick of a wife you have, and you aro just soft enough to wear tight boots and oil what little hair you have left on tho top of your head and go around figuring up how long before your wife will die. " "Say now, see here, professor, there is a limit to endurance. I am going. " 1 'I am coming down to seo you next week. Will it be all right?" 'Yes, if you drop this kind of talk and won't tell of my complaints about my wife. I'll try your medicine. Would you stick for that prescription about the pocketbook and $20 notes?" 'How much did you say you have made together?" "I cave. The dress will bo all right, and the pony aud phaeton will bo handy for tho gals. Come down and see us, old man, but not a word about this talk. If you wasn't an old man. I'd" Tipping his derby back on his head and shaking the wrinkles out of his tight trousers, ho put his hands into his pockets and sauntered away. 'There," said I, "is one man who has taken the only legal and God given way of getting rid of a miserable wife. " Exchange. The Perversity of Fate. They tell mo Sally Brown has been A-making eyes at me, "Which I, -with eyes on Molly Smith, Had no eyes left to see, While Molly's eyes were fixed npo-n. Jim Donaldson, and ho O'erlooked the fact because hi3 gaze Was fixed on Mary White. And Mary never noticed, since Her eyes brought all their light From Abner Jacobs, who, in turn, Could see but Alice Knight. Sweet Alice was oblivious To Abner's looks because Sho had no eyes for gallant swains. Excepting Eddie Hawe3, Whereas he followed Susan Gates Without a stop or pause. Now, Susan smiled on Herman Lake, And ho on Sally Brown, Who's said to set more store by mo Than by an Easter gown. And so the luckless lot of us Aro chaffed by all the town. That fate has slipped a single cog ' Is plain for all to see, " ' Whereby twin souls the whole way- round One place apart must be. vl Just one correction and they're all . In fullest harmony. How wonderful the difference So slight a change would make! ' Then each tho ono that each desired In perfect bliss would take provided I my Molly got . And Sally Brown took Lake. Detroit News,-- HOW WEARY IS OUR HEART I Of kings and courts, of kingly, courtly ways In which the life of man is bought and sold,--How weary ii our heart theso many days! Of ceremoniofcs embassies that hold Parley with h-?ll in fine and silken phrase, . How weary is our heart these many days! Of wavering counselors neithor hot nor coldy Whom from his mouth God speweth, bo it told How weary is our heart theso many days!" Tea, for the raveled night is round the lands; And sick aro wo of all tho imperial story, Tho tramp of power, and its long trail of pain; The mighty brows in meanest arts grown hoary; The mighty hands That in tho dear, affronted name of peace Bind down a people to be racked and slain: ' Tho emulous armies waxing without cease, ' All puissant, all in vain; The pacts and leagues to murder by delays. And the dumb throngs that on the deaf thrones gaze; Tho common, loveless lust of territory; The lips that only babble of their mart. While to the night tho shrieking hamlets blaze'; The bought allegiance and the purchased praise, False honor and shameful glory Of all the evil whereof this is part, How weary Is our heart -How weary is our heart theso many days! William Watson: IT AYE TAK'S TWA V CA' THE KYE. Meat and Grain. For the successful production of eggs at any season of the year it is necessary that the hens should have a mixed ani mal and vegetable diet. During the sum mer months insects and worms are abundant, and fowls having a rango can easily supply themselves with animal food, but in the winter this necessity must be supplied if the best results are to be obtained. Meat scraps and green bones are the best substitutes and should be fed at least twice a week. When farmers feed more wheat and less grain, they will have larger profits from poul try. The introduction of the green bone cutter also lessens the cost, as cheap bones and meat can be cut fine and fed without the necessity of cooking tho meat. A fair comparison between grain and meat will show that meat is really now cheaper than grain, because it increases egg production and also contains less waste. A grain fed hen appropriates a large part of it to the storage of fat, which is not desirable, while lean meat is almost entirely nitrogenous. Tho food which produces no eggs is decidedly tho most expensive to use. Outside of Detroit the republicans and remain on earth, the active though held their own in the recent local invisible deity of Koreshan, till(tae end in Speaking of the recent fusion legislature the Lincoln Journal says: The economists have made a tremendous record with the aid of the pop caucus that will entitle them to the admiration of posterity. Bill after bill and amendment after amendmentwere introduced cutting down salaries and reducing expen ses and in the preliminary pro ceedings they were supported by a rapturous majority. Pop eloquence flowed like froth out of the bunr hols of a beer barrel whenever these economies were brought up from time to time for public exhibition. And so the great work went on until the last day or two of the ses sion, when the "government" closed down on the whole business. Maret, Edmisten and Edg-erton hammered the stopper into the bung- hole and everything- was put back where it was before and Maret's salary was increased to 52, 000 per annum. It was all wind from the beginning and when the proper time came the wind was shut off and the govern ment" looked after its ducats in good shape." elections throughout the state of Michigan, and it was so in Ohio, excepting in Cincinnati, where, as in Detroit and Chicago, the people made protest against certain acts of the republican leaders. Nor do the local elections in Illinois indi cate any falling off from the repub- New York Journal. lican vote. Whatever the issue was "republican or democrat" the re publicans have lost no ground. Where the main issue was in abev- of the world. In the meantime'"6 Pro fesses to perform miracles and rmploy8 his subjects in tho reclaiming and m" proving of property that will prve m" mensely valuable. So much is known about Ko1, Mrs. Parsons threatens to tell mt tell so much that the Florida authori- maybe prompted to interfe18, The Turkish colony at Pari3. .which is both large an&-J"mnait"" has just laj.i - .K.ntrieet of Emperor William a fulsome address of gratitudo for the sympathy which he has manifested in favor of the sublime porte in its conflict with Greece. That Emperor William should have accepted it is surprising, ana even ms, bestirienu areof the opin ion that he has made a political mis take m thus demonstrating to the world that he has more good will for Moham medans than for Christians. ties . 1 I A 1 I ance, ana wiiere me contest was waged upon factional rather than upon party lines, that has befallen the republican party which befalls most dominant parties when their strength is Avasted in support of rival leaders instead of being united against the common foe. But, surveying the whole field of action, now that the smoke of bat tle has cleared awa, the republican party is as united as ever, and as strong" as ever upon national issues. Inter Ocean. Order For a Sixteen Inch Gun. The Watervliet gun factory has6611 ordered to manufacture a 16 inch fm which, on completion, will be shipped the Sandy Hook urovinjr Grounds to fln dergo tests to determine the advisabilitj linnf: Oft ffvnc oiirl rifK o Vo-rvA wxsuv w VtJfj II Alii t tUlUjjg J. 1,060 pound? of brown prismatic pow der, is expected to throw a solid steel projectile six feet in length and weigh ing 2,300 pounds oyer a range of ten miles. The most remarkable feature of the report just presented to the Engilsh parliament with regard to the condition of Egypt during the last 13 mouths is ket ph.ietonj that tne description by the British resident, without a ladder. .Lord Cromer, of the success that has at tended the new experiment of state ad vances to tho natives on the security of their crops. Until now the only people to whom the peasantry could apply for loans of this character wero the Greek, Syrian and Hebrew money lenders, who invariably exacted from 30 to 40 per cent interest. The government has now inaugurated tho practice of making ad you was a youuger man, I would lick you quicker'n spring lamb can jump a thistle." - wnac iorr i am stating tins case fairly, am I not? Ycr.rwifc is no longer young. She-is no longer handsome. Her hands are as hard as a lecal editor's pheek, aud t;ho has stooped over a milk can until sho has a hump on her back like a peddler." "Shut up, will you?" She has raised fonr children. One of them is at college. One is taking mu sic lessous in Boston. The other two are teaching school. Sho is at homo alone, going around in a treadmill life which will end in a rosewood coffin and a first class country fnneral" - -"amir mac, professor, will you?" "While you are still a handsome man, with just enough gray in your whiskers to make you look interesting. No doubt you have been thinking of some nice young girl of 18 who would jump at tho chauco to marry your 30 cows and 20 acres of hops." Professor, I won't stay here if you don't let up on that." And your wife does not look well in that new Watertown wagon, so you take your hired man and neighbor's girls to meeting. Your wifo never goes anywhere, so you do not get her a watch like your own, nor a new silk dress, nor a ponyjthatishe conld drite, nor a bas- rfie could climb into of constructing this type of gun fof coast defen.se purposes. It will weichv vances at 6 per cent interest and is aliln !jto show a profit to itself, as well as a -rase economy ot cost to tne natives. his new scheme is but one of the many benefits conferred upon the land of the Vile by its British protectors. New y0Jk Tribune. It has been said that there could beno cure for interna! piles without a surgi cal operations, but over 100 cases cured m Council Bluffs, Ia. by the uso ot Hemorrhoildine proves the statement false. There is a cure and quick perma nent relief for tall who suffer with blind, 1.1 J . I? I T. oieeumg ana protruding pnes. its use causes no pain, even m the most aggra vated cases. It is also n cure for consti pation. Price 51.50. For sale by A. F Streitz. Bucklen's Arnica Salvn The best salve in tho world for cuts bruises, Eoreg, ulcers, salt rheum, fever a j y ..... sores. iBier, cnappea nande, cnublams corns, and all skin eruptions, and posi tively cures piles, or no pay roa-jired. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfac tion or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by A. F. Streitz Maccaline will cure any case of itching piles. It has never failed. It affords instant relief, and a cure in due time. Price 25 and 50 cents. JUJe by Fosfe Manufacturing Co. and sold by A. F. Streitz. young student lately presented himself' for examination and ignomiu f ously Jailed. To his family, anxious to near efv his success, he telegraphed Jhus: "gxamhiations splendid; profess frs enthufiasta They wish for a see ;nd in October. "Tit-Bits. "Look aKbc succcssf"1 mcn in life," said tho phVosophcr. "They aro not the fault finders. Vehc-V.arc uot V,'0 PlQ whc make a EtuuyF grievances. ' "Humph!'' cphctl h:s irritable friend. "That Is casil' explained Thc5arc sc situated as to Kl;bl" Ti0 wown way about thing "-Washington fctar. She never says any thing, so yen have not got her a set of teeth like your own, gold and rubber, and her nose is pushed up into her fore head and her face wrinklaq. Sho nevei goes out. She has to work in the kitchen, so sho gets jio nice shoes like yours. " uarn ray skm if I don't" "No, yoii won't. Ton will just let her work right along, and then you will marry somo hih flier who will pull every hair out of your head and serve you right too." "Professor, for mercy's sake, stop!" "When you know, aud I know, that if your wife had a chance to rest and had nice clothes like other women she would be one of the best looking women of her ago in tho town. " ' 'I swan I believe it " "And, old as she is, if you were fo get out tho carriage next Sunday and drive around with the colts and fell her you wanted her to go to meeting ,with you,, sho would actually blush with pleast je. " "Darned if I don't do it. " -'Then, Monday, if you were to tell her you were going to "hire a girl, and that she must sit in the sitting room by tho new nickel plated coal stoyo and work on that new silk dress you are go? ing to buy her" "Professcr, that's me." A Bad Sign. A Welsh county court judge recently had before him a case in which a printer sued a pork butcher for the value of a large parcel of paper bags with the lat ter's advertisement printed thereon. The printer, having no suitable illustra tion to embellish the work, thought he improved the occasion by putting an plaborate royal arms above tho man's pame and address, but ultimately tho latter refused to pay. The judge, looking over a specimen, observed that for his part he thought the lion aud unicorn were much nicer than an old fat pig. "On.-wrli.i'.nsw.ered tho butcher, perhaps your honor likes to cat ani mals like that, but my enstomers don't. I don't kill lions and unicorns. I only kill fat pigs." verdict for defendant. London An swers. Bonnio Bessie, sonsio lass. Thro' the heather as yo pass, Gio a kiss tac ino. Eka day'll bo fair nn fino Gin thy smilo upo'nie tiiino. Will ye, Besslo Leo? Foot eao Hcht an face sao fair, . Form sao cracefol, puat compare, Prood am 1 1' seo. Dinna lnik aboon me, girl! . i Wad yo gio mo sio a dirl? Wilfu Bcssio Leo. Ca' tho kyo! Tho day is gane. Will yo folloiv them alano? . Thero Is nano t see. Gin thy jimp an bonnio waist Hao an airm aboot it placed. Is there, Bcssio Lee? J. L. Heaton in "Tho Quilting Bee." THE SPORTING ARENA." The proposition of certain billiard experts to introduco " a cushion with curved corners has met the approval of most of tho great players. For a number of years the ordinary straight rail was played by the experts, and so methodically did they play that in the early eighties runs of 800 and 400 were common. The first long run was made by Ed McLaughlin in a match game with the late Kandolph Heiser in Philadelphia, when he scored 804 points, which concluded the gamo and created a record. Tho climax was reached when Jake Schaefer, in a match game with McCleery in Frisco, scored 8,000 in an unfinished run. McCleery had only scored 15 points when Schaefer gathered the balls together and ran 1,000. The straight rail style of playing then Became so easy tor tlie experts that tho corners of the table wero chalked off diagonally, so that hugging the rail was an impossibility, excepting between tho lines of demarkatiou. This game was soon mastered, and cushion caroms wero proposed. Then came the balk lino game, lines being drawn six inches from the cushion, only a certain number of shots being allowed within the boundary line. Experts galloped over these ob stacles very rapidly, as they did the 8 inch, 10 inch, 14 inch and the 18 inch lines. So much improvement has been shown by tho experts of iato years that nothing seems to stop them from scoring almost at will. It is under these circumstances that a move has been made to render scoring still more difficult by tho uso of mo i-nrvea cnchinns M. Zola on .London. M. Zola doubts whether he will write a book about London. He says: "If I were to do anything in that wav. it would be based on what I saw of Lon don's great waterway, the- Thames. which has been tho source of all the wealth, power and grandeur of the cap ital of England. Whoever has not seen the Thames cannot explain the greatness of London, whose heart and pulse it is. T -I 11 i -i . ". Kuunui certainly po attracted by tho hames in anything I might be induced O write. I no nofc knnw flio nonnlo . - r I ...fc .uj however They are perfect strangers to me. 1 was comparatively at homo in Rome, you know. It was to me as tho Eouth of France, where I was brought up. I could enter into the spirit of a kindred Latin race, to which I partly oeiong; cut jbngiand is different. That ASf r .1,-lr S?",B ?c le mere j assassin who steals in at midnight o rob and slay. Without 1 qualm these same people face the deadly advances of a foe infinitely mpre dangerous AH the robbers and assassins in the history of crime did not sl.ayas many human hcinJI as consumption kills in n c,-i" -pcU???i sixth of thf nnnntn,v Vi. .vne: this rirfllxr nnctils... . . ' this deadly pestilence. jesqf """b. uu ij5i.u.u j,i uium-ut, xnac I hone pnd in ,-,- vr.v.V , '"' in every hit of seethhur water, rl.n nb.nnnol t ral?r,nc.publ cPlacc1 waiting fdr . " ' " xixk.m is put one nrnlt;n. iween us aurt Aluion is mi nlwKs n rmlf nirainst it. The mmr which separates the two countries mor- IS3? Pf safe.I defied by those who keep ally as well as niateriallv. No. I renllv "Ti i ""V" U55.e Duiidine think that I candouothinfrdnpnwith snnnHwl irfth ,3 w "ci r..Ib,&. Ju"KS. if England any more than I can with America, which people are asking mo to visit. It would take years to study these countries, and I am no longer -ii. lurics in everv :ior tion tion their blood rich in tissueuildingTlemeng young. . MECCA CATAKKH KEMEDY. ' For colds in the head and treatment of catarrhal troubles this preparation has afforded prompt relief; with its con tinued use the most stubborn cases of catarrh have yielded to its healing power. It is made from concenstrated Mecca Compound and possesses all of its soothing and healing properties and by absorbtion reaches all tho inflame,! parts effected by that disease. Price 50 cts . Prepared by The Forter M ftr . Hn Council Bluffs, Iowa. For ealo bv A T? Streitz. the greatest of all known blood-pSr? It is the best tonic and invigorator. As a Ssh builder it has no equal. It has cured thon sands of consumptives who have been irn" nounced incurable by physicians Tf i?" the arteries with rich, fed tR-nJ lUa blood, and drives from thVsfj?2 ease perms. TVi its merits. aave lestified to Mrs. Ursula Dunham, of sf.i .-tt . v. va., writes : " I should haw t 1 yiV Co not been for your medicine I "dra ,,ad when I began takinirDr WJJl"- dead discover had but 1 Wil.H nrinrp I wne 1 f baby is now nearly a year old sfctEJV0 March. After she wa.s bora I had lof-r1 kst I could not stand up Ion? Si1 witness, dishes. IaSteS SnSVnh the Favorite rTcscriptiou. Itook th if 5ft Plcrce'3 currf me. I n now do KyhorktV.and U baby was two months old shefok w -fi1 had phthisic. She wheezed I Sift?,ad.S?Id an her about a third of a botdj "if 1 Wrf 1l H'? Discovery.! She dels not whJlp?dcl1 Melica ccpt when she has a taSd 3By mor "! v - J J. ill