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Comily Treasurer,
Tuk rt)iillir;m party very
unxioiH to Hcttle tin qiiful of pnrty
Hupreiniicy, with tin ili'iiiocr;itir
party, on t hi i4xiif4 of free silver
ami frre traili"
THE BOSSES RULED
is not within the scope nor is
It
it the desire of Till-: IlKWAU' to
make suggestions to the demo
cratic party, but now since the 110111
iaatioim have l.ei'ii in.ult wr .hnll
take the lil.eily l make a critieiHiu
upon their aetion in ehoosinir a
man a- .1 eanilitlate tor elei k ol the
ilistriel court.
Our fellow townsman, W. 1. lox,
the ilefeatel eaudiilate. was justly
entitled to the pi. lie. iinil lial he
l.een treated fairly hy his own
townsmen he would have received
just reeonnition at the hands of the
convention. Me was not ("opposed
I. ec;iuse of the lack'ol pialilica
tions. for it is ever) where conceded
that he ir peculiarly well tilled for
such a position; hut he w;,s opposed
from all appearances, to nil t f y the
leaders of a certain taction in the
party, who desired to show thcir'tht
power was stronger than their love
for party success and the county's
eood. The result was that a man
posscsMiie; every essential clement
of stiennth wenl down in defeat
ami a man nominated who will not
command his party vote. Surely
our friends have not such a decided
majority in this county that thev
can allunl to put up a weak candi
date and relegate to the rear a
strong one, without a rrasonahle
cause. The signs of the times indi
cate that the people will vote for
honest, capahle Dr. Salisbury, a
Mian in every respect qualified to
til I the posit ion wel I.
THE DISTRICT JUDGE SHIP
It is a suprise to nearly all that
the democratic convention should
nominate Travis for the judge-ship,
in view of the fact that the party
has within its ranks men possess
iug better qualifications, and men
capahle of poling a much linger
vote. He is not a man that would
grace the position with becoming
dignity, and the position could not
receive the respect, from the bar at
large, justly due. Mr. Travis is
everywhere regarded as a cronic
oflice seeker; a member of no par
ticular political party, unless there
is an opportunity to feed ut the
public trough; not a man who de
sires Jto attain positions through
the avenue of true merit, but rather
by wire pulling and other resorts
to thwart the true will of the peo
ple. In view of this it would not
only be an injustice to the citi.ens
of the district, hut it would be a dis
grace to Cass county to have this
ignoramus elected to the position.
BE HONEST.
A rumor is afloat in the west end
of the county that A. Salisbury, re
publican candidate for clerk of dis
trict court, is the same man. who a
few years since was a crooked dent
ist of Weeping Water. TUB llKKAI.K
desires it to he plainly understood
that A. Salisbury never resided in
Weeping Water. Hesides the
friends of M r. Salisbury, everywhere,
testify in 110 uncertain manner that
his integrity as a man, bis public
spirited qualities and business cap
abilities are above question.
It is evident that our friends, the
enemy have begun to resort to their
old method tnisreprcsation, for the
purpose of defeating the republican
nominees. It therefore, behooves
every member of the party to keep
on the outlook and lose no oppor
tunity to nail every lie to the wall.
TlIK IlKKAt.P believes that our
people have too much respect lor
the citizens of Otoe county and
think too much of their own credit
to vote for such a man even though
he has been forced upon the parly
as the most available man.
We are confident that the better
element of voters of all parlies will
vote for Judge Chapman, a man
who possesses every essential ele
ment for a (popular judge as indi
cated by his record in the past.
We cannot atford to dispense with
the services of a man who has been
weighed in the ballance and not
found wanting and elevate to this
position an incompetent, inexper
ienced lawyer and a chronic office
seeker.
The election of Kdgerton would
not only be a disgrace to the state
but a public calmity.
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Indication point to the election of
their republican county and state
ticket by creditable majorities.
In 'selecting a district judge there
should he no hesitancy between an
able jurist and apolitical shyster.
Our courts of justice should not be
tampered with by elevating incom
petent men to the position of chief
tribunal.
We want every mother to know
that croup can be prevented. True
croup never upper without a warn
ing. Thejtirst symptoms is hoar
ness; then the child appears to have
taken cold or a cold may have ac
companied the hoarness from the
start. After that a peculiar rough
cough is developed, which is fol
lowed by the croup. I he time to
act is when the child first becomes
hoarse; a few does of Chamberlain
Cough Kemedy will prevent the at
tack, liven idler rough cough
has appeared, the disease may be
prevented by usingihis remedy as
directed. Korsalebx I, (i. Fricke
A Co. Druggist.
til Way.
An lnciileiit tlmt 14 narrated of Geo
end McCleliau tlie.s hlit on the ques
tion 6 i.flru asked Why did his wl
dler love linn w. denrly?
When the Army uf the I'ntonnc lefl
Harrison Landing it marched to Xw
port News, aloiu the north hank ol tht
James river The advance division Im
pin its march early in tho morning 01
A11.1; la. Inn the rear division did not
move out ol l amp until 4 o'clock 111 tht
al lernoon til the 1:11110 day.
Just at dusk a creek was reached
must he crossed, according to Bouthen,
custom, hy lorduiK "r by hiiikU' Ua
hy the roadside The soldiers, disliking
to till their nIi rs with water, were try
in;,' 10 cross on tin tingle leg which o'
course caused un obstruction to tho.-
behind, and renlly put tht roar of tht;
army in danivr.
Soon tk-veral officers rode up nnd took
In the Hitualiou. There was need ot
more hate One of the officers called
out:
'Wado ri'ht through, my men; wade
right through "
Some Burly fellow from the ranki.
growled out-
"Wade through yonraelf, nnd eo how
you like it,"
No sooner had he spoken than tin
officer dismounted and waded through
the creek. It wa.s theu ditteovered that
the officer was UoneraJ Oeore 13. Mo
Clellan The soldiers ptve him a hearty cheer,
plunged into the creek, and afterward
tho point was passed more rapidly four
ahreust
' The general might have reprimanded
tho soldier indeed, he might have had
lum arrested and dealt with severely.
IStit nud'T the circumstances he did just
tim right thing he went where he asked
Ins men to go; nnd his men were gltel to
go where he led. Youth's Couipauiou.
All hut One.
A shipload of fine horses was con
signed from Calcutta to Oomhay, under
the charge of a very honest but some
what dull agent in the employ of an East
India company. While the horses were
being landed at the blip, they managed
to break away from the men in charge,
ami ran like wild animals through the
the city.
The ageut caught one of them, and,
mounting him, gave chase. After sev
eral hours of exciting work, with th
help of his men, he had captured all but
one of the horses, as he counted them.
Finally he made his reluctant way to
the superintendent's office to give an ac
count of the matter. The superintend
ent came to the door and listened to the
story:
"And you say there were 124 horses in,
and you have eighty of them in the
company's stables and forty-three back
in the steamer temporarily?"
"Yes, sir; all safe but one, and we
cannot find him anywhere."
"What is that horse you are riding?
Have you counted him?" askea the super
intendent. "Well, 1 am an ass? Of course this is
one of 'em I" And the agent rode off in
diignst, while the superintendent roared
with laughter. London Tit-Bits.
Superstition Sign.
Two well known and energetic Detroit
merchants, who, though rivals in busi
ness, are good friends and fond of each
others society, were coming down town
one morning and the conrersation
turned upon jiopular superstitions, when
one of them stepped off the sidewalk to
avoid passing under a ladder.
"What did you do that for?" asked the
one who walked right along under it.
"1 don't know exactly." replied the
other doubtfully.
"Superstitious, I suppose."
"1 suppose so.p
"Well," hanterlngly. "I'm not that
kind. 1 don't believe iu signs sud what
they express."
"No kind?" with a faint smile.
"Nary a sign." with confidence.
"1 thought so."
"Why did you say that?"
"Because I think so, that's why. And
so would any other man who road that
great big sign yon've got up over your
store inscribed, 'The Best Qoods in
Town for the Least Money.'"
"Oh!" laughed the other one, and he
took him in behind the first Indian they
met and gave him a fine cigar as a brain
tonic Detroit Free Press.
Bow, Where Bud When Accident! Occur.
To the question as to when, where,
and how accidents occur, the only gen
eral answer that can be given is: When
they are least expected. The commer
cial traveler who insures because he is
exposed to danger while ou the rail
draws indemnity for an injury received
while winding a clock. The dentist
who endeavors to protect himself against
possible personal injury while using his
tools is.disabIod by a cinder in his eye.
It s to lie noted, however, that more ac
cident! iu proportion to tiopulation oc
cur in the south, the southwest and the
west than in the northern, the middle
and the eastern states. The older and
more closely settled portions of the coun
try are the safer ones. As to the times
aud seasons, midwinter, with its icy
sidewalks, and midsummer, with its
great variety of outdoor occupations,
are esjiecially prolific of accident.
James K. Pitcher in Forum.
Sewflihe.
Sawfishes belong to the order of rays,
although their bodies have the shape of
ordinary fishes. They swim wholly
with their tails, and the long weapons
which adorn their noses are merely pro
longations of the snout, armed on either
Bide with teeth in sockets aud covered
with rough skin of great toughness.
With this formidable instrument they
attack their prey, tearing pieces of flesh
from its body or ripping open the abdo
men to feed upon the intestines of the
victim. There is something positively
abnormal about all these crestures called
rays. They suggest the notion of fishes
antediluvian, and it is not surprising to
find many largo and extinct specie
among the fossils of vanished epochs.
Interview iu Washington Star,
I lt.it Nvw Suit l.ehe.
if v.. tid J. Cone, who for the past yen
h .is been the aient of the Smthern Pa
rilie Uailrnad company at Sal ton, is at j
home 111 hoii. h Pasadena on a leave o
nlM nee lor u tew weeks. A reHrtertm
joyed 'i talk with lum about the Salloit
sea. or lake, t it 11 li.is caused so much iu
torest thi'.'iinhoui the country.
Mr. Cone Ktys a t'inerature of 113
and l'.'O ilea's, in tho shade is quite a
regular aud common thing at Salton.
but that the lew white people altout tht
statiou and talt works manage to stand
it pretty well They prespire profusely
and drink enormously, all the water
used at the elation being brought from
up the road by rail They find thai
mixing oatmeal with the water is nour
ishing ami that it prevents illness. De
spite the great heat, sectiotimen work
Out in the hot Hiin regularly, but, with
tho oxception of the boss, they are Mexi
rans.
Mr. Cone brought up some excellent
photographs of the lake, the station and
the submerged salt works, from different
points of view. He says the inflow and
tho evaporation of the water about coun
terbalance each other, and that there
fore the level of the lake remains about
the same, although the wind sometimes
carries floating debris back and forth iu
a way to lead to the lielief that the water
is rising or falling. He believes it likely
that the basin will continue to fill up
from the Colorado river to a level with
the gulf, ami that it will bo a permanent
body of witter, with Uie Colorado flow
ing through it to the gulf.
The salt deposits are entirely under
water, and that industry is ruined. The
warehouse and a small portion of the
Southern Pacific's track running lieyoud
the salt beds are still above the level ot
tho lake, but I ho main track is still l.lKiO
feet or more from its batiks. Pasadena
.Cal.) Star.
The Wnif of Wniiiiilml Ktuie.
On the through train which arrived
over the Rock Island route was a party
of editors from Des Moines, Conned
Bin ITs, Omaha, Lincoln, Beatrice aud
Fairtmry. They breakfasted at the Al
bany and were entertained by the gov
srnor and mayor.
In the party was a fifteen-inonths-old
Indian baby, which was found npon the
battlefield of Wounded Knee after tho
defeat of the Sioux by United States
troops. It has been adopted by Mrs.
Colby and was christened Zinl ke Lanuui
which means in the Sioux tongue the
waif of the field of Wounded Knee. It
was ou the fourth day after the battle
that the child was found beside its dead
mother. Its feet and one side of its fau
were frozen.
It was given in care of an Indian
woman to nurse ami soon showed no
trace of its exposure and suffering. Mrs.
Colby obtained permission to adopt th
child, but she was hidden by the Indians
and it was only by dint of bribery that
its whereabouts was discovered. The
Indiaus were given orders on the post
trader, and while they were making pur
chases she was smuggled out of camp
and driven to the uearest railway sta
tion, and thence taken to Beatrice, Ne
Mrs. Colby has legally adopted th
child, and proposes to educate her and
train her to a useful life. Denver Re
publican. Bering Kent In the Jitr.
"To Let" signs on flats ami houses all
over the city are coming down with the
returning rush from mountain and sea
shore. The number of returning fam
ilies who are hiring new dwelling places
calls attention to a way of saving sum
mer rents which is increasing in popu
larity each year as the summer vaca
tions lengthen. Families which expect
to be out of the city from two to threw
months now surrender their leases on
May 1, put their furniture in storage, go
to a boarding house for the four or six
weeks before the country pilgrimage be
gins, then return in September or Octo
ber arid hire a new dwelling place, iu
this way they save at least four, and in
some cases five months' rent, $125 to
fJOO, toward their summer outing.
Real estate men will toll you that it is
almost impossible to rent flats or houses
in the summer at any price. 1 know
one man who gave up an attractive flat
on May 1 for an outing in the mountains,
who will find the same home swept and
garnished for him at the landlord's ex
pense on his ret urn in October. Brook
lyn Eagle.
GlnbuUr l.luhtollif,.
A curious thunderbolt fell at Berga.
near Schlieben, in Germany, recently.
It appeared to be a ball of fire and came
down the chimney of a bedroom iu which
a man, ins wile aim tnree cnuuren were
sleeping. On emerging from the fire
place it broke into two parts, each of
which assumed a globular form. One of
these globes ran along the rafters and
disappeared, while the ether traveled
slowly toward the bed, on which it after
ward jumped. Thence the man watched
it roam around the room and filially dis
appear through the wall with a lout)
crash. None of the occupants was in
jured further than being teinporarly
tWfened. New York Recorder.
It Flit Monqiiltoe.
To clear the room of luosijuitoes take a
piece of paper ro.l-.-d around a lead, pen
cil to form a case, and fill this with very
dry Persian insect powder, putting in
little at a time, and pressing it down
with a pencil. Set this cigarette in a
cup of sand to hold it erect. An hour
before going to bed elose the room and
set the cigarette on fire. One will be
sufficient for a small room, but for a
large room two will be required. De
troit Free Press.
Impervious tn Cold.
A professor of the Paris Academy de
Sciences has been making experiments,
which have resulted in convincing hiin
that the rabbit iu, of all living things,
the most capable of wtohstandi'ig a very
low temperature. Inclosed all night iu
a block of ice, a rabbit was found next
day getting on very comfortably ami
evidently not aware of anything very
peculiar in his circumstances. New
York JouuaL
HEATING
house
LANKETS
Nearly every pattern of ty Hors "
Blanket i imitated in color an.
style. In most cases the imitation '
lnuks just as rroixl as the genuine.
but it litisn't tlw Wiiif (tnihis, ami
st lacks strength, .mil while it sells
for only a little less than the genu
incit isn't worth one-half as much'
The fact that -Yv Horse Blankets
arc copied is strong evidence
that they are THE STANDARD,
and every buyer should see that:
the ys. trade mark is sewed on
the inside of the Blanket.
( fi? n Fiv0 MM
rkv,Te,
HORSE BLANKETS
ARE THE STRONGEST.
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UKKKNUuOIi, SIX.
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Wivsitleiife, the Ivl IVich I'ropcil) .
I f people would tnke the ndvice:
of I'. (i. Frieke A Co. the drumriHl
they never would nt.irt on ;i journey
withoet ii liottle of t lianiliei liim'H
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upon iind i pleiisitnt to titke-
ARG0NAUTS IN VERA CRUZ.
rioM Hunter i.f '40 Vlilt a Meileeu Oltf
nil Henoiue DUoouref eil.
It was Sunday morning when we drop
ped anchor near St. Juan de Ulloa, with
its quaint ancient tower, and the city of
Vera Cruz just before us.
The uniformed customs ofllcials speed
ily boarded ns from a small boat, and
while the clanging of some scores ot
musical Spanish bells from the cathedral
towers filled the air, the officers were en
tertained by an encounter between two
of our puguacious gold hunters, who
struck vigorously from the shoulder. We
received a speedy permission to laud, a
the ofllcials did not appear to enjoy our
oompamonship. ttuuday was passed in
looking at the sights in the old Spanish
city, battered and bombarded as it had
been two year before by the artillery oi
Ueiiei l Scott.
Walls and buildings constructed ol
coral rocks were shattered as he had left
them, fragments of bombs and solid shot
lay about the streets where his cannon
had tired them, and along the beach were
numerous dilapidated wrecks of surf
boats where he had abaudoued them.
Numerous aruiy wagons, caissons and
artillery carriages were scattered about,
and thousands of Yankee made pack sad
dles were offered us for onr journey.
These aud much other paraphernalia, the
production of army contractors, had only
served the purpose intended that of pu
nching the contractors.
The only pack saddle found useful wan
the Mexican one, consisting of two great
pillows of leather connected aud bun1;
astride the mule, and weighing without
the "cargo" some eighty pounds, on tin
top of which or suspended from it woulJ
be a load of some -00 pounds.
As our war with Mexico had jont
closed, and the ignorant masses yet held
us in the same enmity with which they
had regarded their conquerors, matter
did not look favorable for a peaceful
passage over the whole extent of Mexico,
especially as we exjiected to follow the
route taken by Scott's army and to pass
over battlefields where, as we learned,
bleached skeletons lay still uuburied.
The govenimeut, iu fact the whole conn
try, was yet in a state of demoralization,
and guerrillas and robbers infested al
most every mile of the way.
Besides this, merchants of intelligence
in Vera Cruz warned us that we wer
almost sure to be robbed and murdered,
that if we should escape this fate we
could not find provisions on our journey
for men or beasta, anil that wo would
most surely break down our animals and
lie glinl to resort to horse or mule meat
to sustain life. Impressed by these tales
(which found fulfillment to some extent
even as to mule meat, with rattlesnakes
added), about fifty of the most pro
nounced and boastful among our com
pany took a return passage on the vessel
for New lork. Colonel A. C. rerns in
Century.
Strange Facte Ahonl Arclilut.
The collection of large groups of facts
about accidents which litis been made
uecessary by the development of acci
dent insurance has made a contribution
to one department of social science that
is by no means uninteresting. For in
stance, it is a curious fact that a man i
much more likely to lose his left hand
than his right hand, or his left eye than
his right eye; statistics show, too, that
when a man insures himself against ac
cidents he thereby greatly diminishes
the risk of accident and this is probably
explained in this way: When a man's at
tention is called to a danger he dies his
mind on it, and thereby consciously or
unronocioiisly makes unusual effort to
avert it. It therefore happens that a
man is more likely to be a victim of an
accident of a kind that he never thought
of than of the kind agaiust which he in
sures himself.
A man, for instance, who handled
sharp tools will insure himself against
an accident from t bo tiso of them, ami
the first tliinr; he knows lie will be draw
ing t'ii.v froj.i iii 'n'i"ir"-e coiup iny 't
an injury done by nernc,' a eiwl " !. ...
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