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JVLATTSMOUTIl, NEBRASKA. THURSDAY. JULY 23, 1892.
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UVRUKOTUS MISSOURI RIVER 11. R.
V TIME TABLE.
OK DAILY PASSENGER TRAINS
GOING ERST
No. 2 5 : 17 r. M.
No. 4 lo-M.i.
Ho. a 7 ;t P. n
No. to i 45 a.m.
No.e 13:23 a. D.
GOING WEST
Nol... 3:45 a. m.
So. J. 3- P- ,n
vt c U -Oil 1L 111 .
No. T 6 :f p in.
No. I'. "
No. bi 7 :15 a. in.
... . . . i ....a In. lima li-.i ahnut two
eutcen.
MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY
TIME CARD.
No. 4 Acoomodatlon I-eave...
No SW - arrives..
Trains dally except Sunday.
.10.55 . m,
. 4 ;00 p. in
SECRET SOClETlh
A&H CAMP No. 332 M. W. A. meets every
CA2fCond and I Fourth Monday ev-iilnK iu
Kltzrad naT Vurttlnn neighbor we'coine.
"(HanTmT. V. C. : F- Werteuberger. W. A.,
8. CJ. wuue, iiorn.
CAPTAIN II B PAI.MEK CAMP NO ; 50-
Son. of Veteran, dlvlsi-.n 01 imm.
in ineir Wi-d tf ret
Visiting cgrarur .c - -- - -
litbus J. J. Kurtz, Commander; B. c
- latSeargent.
OBURB OK TH-r VJRLI), Meet at 7 : 30
every Monnay evening at the (irand A my
hall. A. F. Groom, president. J hos Walling,
secretary.
AO U W No 8 Meet first ami third K? '
day evening of each month atlOO K
ball. Frank Yermylea M V; J E Uarwick,
recorder.
GA. B-McConlble Poet No. 45 meets every
Saturday evonmg at 7 : 30 in tbelr Hull iu
bock wood block. All visiting comrade are
cordlaUv invited to meet with us. Fred Bates,
Aajniank: u. F. Niles. Post Commander.
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS Oa-untlet Lodge
i T M . - 1 .
iw-ti. iirr.9 cwry trti lit V rc-
ning at their hall over Bennet Je Tutt's. all
visiting knights are cordially invited to
attend. M N Oriflith, C C: Otis Dovey K of
K and S.
AO U W No W Meet second and fourth
Fridav eveninies in the month at I O
O F Hall. M Vondran, M V, V Brown,
recorder.
DAUGHTERS OF KEBECVA- bud of Prom-l-e
Lodge No. 40 meets the second and
fourth Thursday evenings of each month in
the i: O. O. r . haU. Mrs. T. E. llllams, S
O. ; Mrs. John Cory. Secretary.
fAEGKEE OF HONOR Meets the firsn.
and thiru Thrursday eveninjjs of eact
month iu I. O. O. F. hall, Fitzgerald blot'-.
Mr. Addie Smith, Worthy Sister of llouo.
Mrs. Nannie Burkel, sister secretary.
CABS LODGE, No. 148.1. O. O. F. meets ev
ery Tuesday night at their hall In Fitzgerald
block. All Odd Fellow, are cordially invited
to attend when visiting in the city. Chris fet
erten. N. G. ; S. FtQborn, Secretary.
DOTAL AKCANAM Ca Council No 1021.
" Meet at the K, of P. hall li. the Parmele C
Craig block over Bennett & Tutts, "'.siring
brethren Invited. Henry Gertug. Kegent ;
Thoa VT ailing. Secretary.
YOUNG MEN'S CHRIbTION -8(CIATION
Waterman block. Main Street. Koon.s
open from tdotmto 9 -.: ii if . For men only
Gospel meeting every Sunday afternoon at 4
e'elock.
According1 to the census of 1890,
Chicago takes rank, by virtue of her
population of 1,098,576 people, as the
eighth largest city on the globe.
Most of us desire, at one time or
another, to visit a city in which eo
.many persons find homes, and,
when we do. we can find no better
line than the "Burlington Route."
Three fast and comfortable trains
daily. For further information ad
dress the agent of the company at
this place, or write to J. Francis,
General Passenger and Ticket
Agent, Omaha, Nebraska.
Mr. Van Pelt, editor of the Craig,
Mo., Meteor, went to a drug store at
Hillsdale, Iowa, and asked the phy
sician in attendance to give him a
dose of something for cholera mor
bus and looseness of the bowels.
He says: "I felt so much better the
next morning that I concluded to
call on the physician and get him
to fix me up a supply o '. the medi
cince. I was turprisrd when he
handed me a bo tleof C j-mberlain's
Colic, Cholera and D'urrhc. 7 c
dy. He said 1 e prescribed it regu
larly in his practice and founu it
the best he could get or prepare. I
can testify to its efficiency in my
case at all events." For sale by F.
G. Fricke & Co.
MVER INHABITANTS.
A FLOATING VILLAGE WHERE PEO
PLE PASS THEIR LIVES.
A Wandering Settlement of Strange Folk.
Who Make Their Home, on One of the
Tributaries or the Mls.ls.lppl They
Pay No Kent and Spend Little.
Up wboro Wolf river, treacherous and
insatiate na the animal for which it is
named, empties its yellow waters into
the great flood of the Mississippi, ia a
cluster of odd looking craft, half house,
half ljoat, that lio moored to the bank
and form a part of a great floating sub
urb of Memphis, of whose existence the
average citizen is totally unaware.
Nevertheless, strange as it may seem,
the inhabitants of this floating village
are bom, live, marry and die in their
movable homos in much the same man
ner as ieoplo in similar walks of life
whose houses have a firmer foundation,
and, stranger still, they like their river
life and would la) extremely loath to
gi it up.
Who tliej- are and where thev
from, whithei they go and how they
live, were question that aroused the cu
riosity of the writeJ- all)i induced him to
make a tour of inqu:ry among the hotise-
lioats, as tney are c"re)l
These are of all shapu3 an(i sizes, from
the moro pretention, home of the well
to do shipbuilder to he humble abode
of the itinerant fish)rman Some of
them are named ant BOme are not.
Many are neatly Painted and show
glimpses of interiors-in which lace cur
tains, carpets and pi-ures combine to
make not inharmonious settings. Social
lines are not very tightly drawn in the
village of the houseljos;s, and the homes
of whites and blacks -e mixed indis
criminately, without regtrd to race, col
or or previous condition0f servitude.
Wanderers by natnre,he term water
gypsies may lie applied Dt inaptly to
the inhabitants of the viUge. It is not
to be wondered at thereore that the
colony is by no means conpoggQ cf those
who are to the mauneryjm. On the
contrary, it is made 0f representa
tives from nearly all of tie twenty odd
states that are drained by the Missis
sippi or it; tributaries. Vrere a census
of the fbating village taken tomorrow
it would show some interesting statistics
concerning the birthplaces of its inhab
itants. Here one can find a man who
has drifted down from the Black Hills
of Montana side by side with a native of
Pittsburg or Cincinnati, while their next
neighbor may be from St. Paul or Knox
ville. From far up the Missouri, the Missis
sippi, the Ohio and the Tennessee rivers
they come, resting here like birds of
passage for a time, till, moving ever
southward with the current, they become
merged with the cosmopolitan popula
tion of the Crescent City, hundreds of
"riles below, even as the waters of tho
Mississippi become lost in the great Gulf
of Mexico.
There is but little doubt that the
dweller in the Mississippi houseboat
has successfully solved tho problem of
living on next to nothing. Believing
that the river is free, and that it owes
him a living, the waif of the father of
waters does not find it very difficult to
collect the debt. Just what the ice fields
are to the Eskimo, the desert to the
Arab, the plains to the Indian, the river
is to him. It is at once his place of
abode and his means of support. Land
lords, or, more properly speaking, water
lords, are unknown to him, and rent
daj that nightmare of the poor, is
fraught with no terrors to his mind, be
cause he pas no rent.
The law provides that any one moor
ing a lxat to the bank of a river is sub
ject to a rental at the option of the
owner, but in the case of the houseboat
dweller this is rarely enforced. For fuel
he catches the driftwood brought down
by the river or gathers that which ac
cumulates along the bank. His princi
pal article of food is fish, for which he
turns o7iee more to the river, and from
its yellow bosom draws the juicy cat
fish, the buffalo, the perch and innumer
able other varieties that abound therein.
Only his clothes and a few other baro
necessaries of life are not supplied by
the river, and the means to obtain these
is readily secured by the thousand pur
suits open to the sturdy longshoreman.
Scattered among the houseboat colony
are here and there a family who have
virtually taken to the river out of neces
sity. These are refugees from the flooded
districts of the upper Missisippi, who
have been rendered homeless by freshets.
Ruined by the encroachment of the
river, they have collected such of their
effects as the waters left and embarked
on a hastily constructed craft, built as
likely as not from the debris of their
former homes. Memphis Appeal-Avalanche.
The Record of Pigeon Flights.
Major Allatt warns us against some
6tories regarding long flights by trained
pigeons which have been put forth on
high authority. It was at his sugges
tion that an apocryphal tale of pigeons
sent out to and returning from the arctic
regions, which has even been imposed
upon Yarrell, was expunged from the
last edition of that writer's "British
Birds." An equally false account of a
pigeon flying 1,500 miles in America is
also extant.
' Major Allatt believes the greatest dis
tance pigeons have flown of which we
have any accurate record is in the races
which have taken plce two or three
times from Rome to Belsrium. a distance
of between BOO and V00 miles, uut in
every one of these cases a very large
proportion of birds have been lust.
London News.
HE FOUND FATHER'S BODY.
Though He Had Laid In a Nameless
Grave for Many Years.
"Now this is a true story," said a
gentleman whose office is a door or two
off upper Broadway, "and the question
is, was it fate, psychic attraction, an
overruling Providence or but I'll tell
you the incident.
"When the war broko out my brother
and a classmate of his, to whom ho waa
much attached, both enlisted at the
same time and departed for the south,
leaving behind in the little town in
western New York their young wives,
to whom they had been married but a
short time. My brother's chum, whom
we may call Ned Brown for conven
ience, had, I think, been a husband but
Bix weeks when he left for the front.
Brother Jack was soon after transferred
to the adjutant general's department, so
saw little of active service, and Ned
was in the division of the army which
remained in the vicinity of Washington
for about a year. Then came the Battle
of the Wilderness and with it tho
startling intelligence to Jack that Ned
had been mortally wounded and had
sent for him. He made all haste to the
side of hW friend, who soon after his
arrival died in his arms.
"As was usual after great battles, the
dead were buried, many together, in
large trenches, and my brother was
much troubled over the probability of
there being no means of locating or
identifying the body, when, as he felt
sure, the family would wish to send for
it. There had been a little son lorn to
the young soldier in that far away vil
lage by the lake, and he felt that the
child, who had never looked upon his
father's face, would one day want to
know at least where his body lay.
"The men in charge assured Jack that
the body should be placed at the head of
the trench, and if any mark could be
left upon it it would bo easily found.
For some time my brother wondered
what he could do. Then an idea struck
him. He found a bottle, and placing in
side of it a paper upon which was
written the name and regiment of his
friend, he tied it about the neck of the
corpse.
"Some time, afterward when friends
o? the dead soldier came for the body
oti-.er trenches had been dug near the
first, and it was impossible to identify
the spot, though the grief stricken
widow could scarcely be prevailed upon
to give up the search.
"Well, just the other day a j-oung
commercial drummer from a Rochester
house found himself in the quiet town
of Petersburg, Va., and to pass away a
dull Sunday went out to the soldiers'
burying ground. After he had wan
dered around for a time among the
green mounds he suddenly saw painted
upon a wooden slab a name that made
Ids heart leap.
"It was his father's name. And this
was Jack's boy, the boy the brave young
soldier had so longed to see. Years ago,
when the bodies were removed from the
old trenches and reburied, the bottle
with its bit of paper had been the means
of identifying one at least.
"That night there flashed over the
wires this message to the soldier's wi
dow, 'I shall bring home father's body
with me next week.'" New York
World.
Testing Counterfeit Coin.
"Here's the way we test coins in tho
treasury." And the expert swiftly poised
the dollar piece horizontally on the tip
of his forefinger, holding the thumb a
quarter of an inch away from it and
gave it a brislr: tap with another coin. A
clear silvery ring sounded out. "Good,
but here; listen;" and he repeated the
operation with another coin that gave
out a dull, heavy clink that ceased al
most as soon as it began. "Type metal
and lead; molded too. That is a
wretched counterfeit." "How do you
tell that it was molded?" He held the
two coins so that the light struck on
their edges.
"Just compare the reeding, will you,
or milling, as most people call it? In this
genuine coin this is very clear and sharp
cut, in the counterfeit it is coarse and
dull. That is because it is molded instead
of being stamped in cold metal like the
government coins." "Why do the
counterfeiters not use the same cold
process?" "It costs too much and makes
too much noise. With a mold, you see,
a counterfeiter can carry on his work in
a garret and if a policeman comes in he
can shy the whole outfit out of the
window. But it takes great power to
run a die. Still some high flying counter
feiters do use them, and. their work is
usually harder to detect, though it is
never so perfect as that of the govern
ment mint."
"What is the surest test for counter
feit coin for popular use?" "The looks
of the reading, as I was telling you
the milling, by the way, is on the face
of the coin and not on the edge, as most
people think. That's the surest and
easiest thing, but of course other tests
have to be used, especially for weight
and thickness." Springfield Republi
can. Marriage Experiences.
It was the lot of a young parson to be
embarrassed by the appeals of two young
women who wanted to marry the same
bridegroom. The first comer of these
had scarcely told how her faithless lover
had actually put up the banns in the
tsast n.na pansn wnen tne delinquent
turned up with an idiotic grin on his
face and a gayly appareled young wom
an on his arm. What could the parson
then a young and bashful curate do
but invite the trio into the vestry room,
there to discuss the business. Luckily
for him, it speedily leaked out that there
had ln-on no legal residence in his par
ish, which afforded him at once a suffi
cient ground for declining to perform
the ceremony.
On another occasion the awful dis
cover)' was made that the bride had by
accident lieen described in tho marriage
license by her pet name. It was sug
gested that an affidavit of identity sworn
at a neighboring police court might re
pair the blunder. This was done just in
time to complete the cereinony within
canonical hoiiro, but the accommodat
ing clergyman afterward received a
stern admonishment from high quarters
"not to do it again." Cornhill Maga
zine. The Care of Ilrislies
Do not neglect your paint brushes.
Dip them in an old can containing ben
zine, kerosene or turpentine, then wash
thoroughly with soap and hot water.
Pearliue is even better than soap; it re
moves the color rapidly and does not in
jure the bristles if they are well rinsed
in clear water afterward. Put your
brushes in a jar, handles down, and
leave them to dry. One of the oddest
sights in an artist's studio is the number
of brushes disposed in various artistic
bits of pottery in nooks and corners.
Some painters pride themselves on
owning many hundreds of brushes of
every possible style and size. Handsome
brushes are ruined if left dirty; it makes
the hairs come out, but the large brushes
used in common work will not be in
jured by being left in water over night
if yon intend to use them for the same
colors next day.
Bum your paint rags when you have
done with them. Oily rags are very in
flammable and sometimes take fire spon
taneously when left in a heap in some
corner. Harper's Young People.
King llunibert'H Stables.
The stables of King Humbert of Italy
are exceptionally fine, and contain at
present nearly 150 horses, chiefly Eng
lish bred. The double row of stalls
forms a regular street, so beautifully
kept that it is a pleasure to walk
through it, and each animal has his
name printed in large letters on a little
board above the manger. Among the
English horses may be noticed such
names as Flirt, Milord, Lawn Tennis,
Epsom and Gentleman.
Up stairs are the state carriages and
those used on special occasions. Some
of these are magnificently upholstered
in white satin. The carriage in which
the queen drives everyday is very plain,
but this simplicity is counteracted by
the brilliant scarlet liveries of her
coachman and footmen. London Tit
Bits. The Lady Was Not the Ghost.
An Irish family once had a ghost so
troublesome that they sent for detec
tives. One of these men late at night
fell asleep in his chair. The lady of the
house chanced to come into the room
and could not resist the temptation to
groan and rattle her keys. She had
never played ghost before; it was a mo
mentary indiscretion. But the police
man did not, and could hardly be ex
pected to, believe this. He said it was
hardly worth while to bring him from
Dublin, and he withdrew in dudgeon.
Yet the lady was not really the ghost.
He was sulking in retirement. Hence
doubt has been cast on the ghosts of
haunted houses, even among reflecting
minds. London Illustrated News.
Eclipses Every Day on Jupiter.
Eclipses are everyday affairs on Jupi
ter. Three of its satellites are eclipsed
at every revolution of that mighty
globe, so that a spectator there might
witness during the Jovian year 4,500
eclipses of moons and about the same
number of eclipses of the sun by moons.
Providence Journal.
A Real Train.
Uncle George I hear you have been
traveling.
Little Pet Yeth, thir; I went in a
weal wailwoad twain of cars.
"A real train of cars, was it?"
"Yeth, thir. It went wif out a stwing."
Good News.
Of 1,000 school children more than
300 were found to be more or less near
sighted. Scarcely any of these were
under nine years of age, and the percent
age of myopia increased regularly from
grade to grade.
Omitting a few Eskimo exceptions,
all other spear throwers appear to be
ambidexterous. The development of a
purely right handed implement points
to a southern origin for the original in
ventor. The gay feathers of the parrot are par
ticularly valuable to many Indian tribes,
and some dances cannot be held without
them, though the Indians have to travel
hundreds of miles into Mexico to get
them.
W. J. Florence, the comedian, once
offered $5,000 for a catch phrase about
which an American comedy could be
written. Nobody supplied the demand.
The chief cause of the decline of popu
lation in France is the vast standing
army, it being impracticable for the
soldiers to marry.
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I strongly recomrraad ii to all sing
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