ADDITIONAL PERSONALS.
X "MRS. ANNA COLKMAN is very ill.
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II. C. GOODR is the new clerk in D.
W. Loar's drug store.
MKS. E. M. Cox and the children
ivere Oxford visitors , Wednesday.
J. H. BKOADY of Lincoln had business
in the valley's finest , last Saturday.
JOHN CHRISTNHR , the Hayes Center
politician and patriot , was a city visitor ,
Thursday.
li. G. GOSSARD 1ms moved from West
'
IVlcCook into the Westlaud dwelling on
north Melvin.
Miss LAUKA THOMPSON is down from
Benkelman , lliis week , guest of H. H.
Berry's family.
MKS. LKKOY COOPHRRIDKR visited
her sons and daughters , southwest of
Trentonlast week.
MRS.J. II. YARGBR departed , Wednes
day morning on 2 , for Rockford , S. D ,
on a visit to her son Oscar and for her
Jiealth.
MRS. H. W. Co B and children , who
liave been spending the summer in Gen-
eseo , Illinois , returned home , Wednes
day night.
WALTER PRICK ] of Yale , Iowa , who
lias been visiting W. T. Coleman and
family , departed for home , Tuesday
evening on No. 6.
MRS. L. R. HILEMAN and Miss May
returned from their long visit in Exeter ,
this state , Wednesday night. Miss Vera
is still visiting in Des Moines , Iowa , and
will return later.
Miss FLORENCE LONG , who has been
the guest of Mrs. S. A. McCarl and fam
ily for a number of weeks , departed on
last Monday morning for her home in
Brownstowu , Indiana.
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MR. AND MRS. N. V. COLE of Michi
gan city , Indiana , were in the ciiy , first
of the week , guests of Frank Carruth ,
brother of Mrs. Cole. They and Mr.
Carruth left , Wednesday noon , for Col
' orado , to spend a few weeks in the
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1i
i mountains.
Miss MARY STEVENS came up from
Lincoln , Wednesday , and has been the
guest of her sister , Mrs. Frank Kendlen ,
this week. Saturday on i , Mrs. Kend
len , her mother and sister , Mrs. Mary
Stevens and Miss Mary.'will go up to
Denver , to spend some time in the
mountains.
E. L. KIPX.INGBK , a former pastor
nnd oldtime friend of the deceased , who
conducted the funeral services. Sunday ,
over the remains of Mrs.T. D. McCarthy ,
returned to his home , Tuesday morning.
Formerly active in the Christian minis
try , he is how engaged ! ! in banking at
Loomis , making his home in Holdrege.
MRS. A. A. BATES and the children
went over to Oberlin , close of last week ,
on a visit to the home folks , who live
iear there. Ad will join the family
ithere , early next week , on a short visit.
They will return here and later will go
to Centraha , Wash , ( where his parents
and a brother live. ) to make their home
there fora while. Mr. Bates will retain
liis half interest in the barbershop here ,
however.
Wyominfir'Letter.
Dear Mr. Editor : The first impress
ion of Sheridan is very favorable indeed.
.First and foremost every one is glad to
see you. The charm of hospitality wins
a stranger's heart.
I met one of the boys at the round
house. He was glad to see some one
from McCook ; called with me on several
men acquainted with the best places to
iisli and hunl ; described the different
creeks , Goose Creek , Big Goose and
Little Goose , Piuey , Prairie Dog , Black
Canon , the Crow Reservation. But had
to turn for assistance wheu I asked
where the Congregational minister
lived. "Baptist minister will do just as
well , or Methodist. " Still no response.
"Let's step into this drug store and en
quire. " It was hard to control one's ex
pressions as we were leaving , to hear
The clerk , who was unable to give us the
desired information , explain that he
had not been here but a short time. I
met the ministers , however , and found
a very cordial fellowship.
Sheridan has a fine situation , plenty
of water , mountains dotted with snow
banks right at the door , fish in abund
ance , game within ada3'sride. Sheridan -
dan is to be the Colorado Springs of the
Northwest. I am no prophet or the son
of a prophet , but I notice that the Bur-
liagtou is OH to the idea. The town is
laid out on a large plan , and the best of
it is the plan seems to be a workable
one.
one.A
A man writing at the same time just
remarked that his party left New York ,
Monday , and would .be here today.
You have heard , doubtless , that they
liave started a college here. One of our
Congregational saints of Chicago has
offered to give$50,000 to endow a college
provided they could raise $25,000. The
whole town is interested in it. When
an entire community is interested in
any project success already has its date
in the calendar. May this be the history
of our own little city.
Tomorrow we shall be beyond postal
service. I trust , however , to be able to
send a bag full of fish stories shortly , for
I will not endeavor to compete with the
rest of my party when we return. They
haye a free field. Truly ,
W.J. TURNER.
Aa Cfflr Story of Urnjfnay.
Here is one of Robert Crawford's ate
ries about TJrnguuy "Two men enr
prised a farmer and his wife in thei
little hut while it was broad daylight
The man was seized and bound , and tli
two villains proceeded to torture him
to make him disclose the hiding plac
of hia hoard. The wife begged and
pleaded as the horrors increased , the
man proving obdnrate.
"Finally she said she would tell them
where the treasure was if they wouk
follow her. One of the two accordingly
went over to the chest in the corne
with her. She opened it , fumbling about
inside of it for a moment until she
found what shewae looking for. In an
other moment the thief at her side wa
dead and his fellow covered by a larg
revolver in the hands of a small bu
eager woman of the people. Do go
away before she could quite make up
her mind to shoot him too.
"Then the husband was released an <
the neighbors , tome miles away , callec
in. Word was finally taken to the cen
tral police authority of the state ; the
officers came , viewed the dead thief
and identified him as their attorney
general. It is not unlikely , " Mr. Craw
ford adds , "that his accomplice was the
judge of the criminal court. "
"
A MlrnunlotiM Eacape.
It happened that in the last month o
the reign of Charles I a certain ehi ]
chandler of London was foolish enongl
to busy himself over a barrel of gun
powder with a lighted candle in hi
hand. He paid the price of his folly. A
spark fejl into the gunpowder and the
place was blown up.
The trouble was that the man who
did the mischief was not the only one
to perish. Fifty houses were wrecked
and the number of people who were
killed was not known.
In one house among the 50 a mother
had put her baby into its cradle to sleep
before the explosion occurred. Wha
became of the mother no one ever
knew , but what became of the baby
was very widely known.
The next morning there was fount
upon the leads of the Church of Al
Hallows a young child in a cradle , baby
and cradle being entirely uninjured by
the explosion that had lifted both to
euch a giddy height.
It was never learned who the chile
was , but she was adopted by a gentle
man of the parish and grew to woman
hood. She must surely all her life have
had a peculiar interest in that church.
Sir Walter Besant's "London. "
Ice Explosions In Siberia.
A recent Siberian traveler relates
"At Sadonsk in the intensely coif
nights the silence was sometimes broken
by a loud report as of a cannon. This
was the bursting of one of the ice bub
bles in the river , a phenomenon I liar
neither heard nor read of before Tne
streams coming down from the hill
were frozen on the surface some six to
nine inches thick. The water brneatl :
flowed faster than it could escape , and
the pressure , on the principal of a hy
draulic press , became irresistible.
First , the elasticity of the ice was seen
by the rising of circular mounds from
six to eight feet in diameter and from
four to five feet high. The bursting
point came at last with a report like an
explosion. The water escaped , but soon
froze again. I have seen scores of these
ice hillocks in a few versts of the
river "
A Bridge of Collins.
When the British force ? were march
ing to Peking in 1860 , after the capture
of the Taku forts , one of the rivers be
came so swollen with the heavy rains
that it was rendered almost impassable.
While in this quandary a bright idea
suddenly struck one of our officers. Be
ing well aware that the Chinese gener
ally order their coffins years in advance
and keep them on the premises and also
that they are perfectly airtight , he con
sulted with his brother officers , with
the result that orders were given to
search all the houses of the village and
collect every coffin. With the aid of a
few empty casks the soldiers construct
ed a pontoon bridge of coffins sufficient
ly strong to bear the artillery , and the
river was thus passed in safety
Where the Tail Went.
Do you remember the story of Harry's
and George's rabbits how Harry's rab
bit got out of its hutch and disap
peared for a week and at last crept
home without its tail to die and how ,
when Harry cried bitterly over his dead
tailless rabbit. George tried to comfort
him :
"Don't cry , Harry , dear ; don't cry.
It's only the body you seel The tail
has gone to heaven. " "Memories and
Fancies. " by Lady Gordon.
Weary's Friend.
Weary Willie and his friend Frowsy ,
strolling along the seashore , stop before
a sign reading. "NoticeI Bathing Is
Dangerous. Qnicksands. ' '
Weary Willie Dere , Frowsy ; dere's
true public spirit for yer. Dat man's a
true public educator I don't know
wlio dat feller Quicksands is , but he's
got de right idea uv t'ings an ain't
afraid to say so. an if he wuz here I'd
take off me hat to him. Leslie's
Weekly
Holding His Job.
"I think the man who works at that
place across the street is the most faith-
fnl and conscientious workman I ever
saw. He never takes a holiday and al
ways labors away till it's too dark to
eee any longer. "
"Faithful workman ? Great Scottl
He's the proprietor of the shop ! " Chicago
cage Tribune
Ineligible.
Pilson Are you going to take part
in that guessing contest ?
Dilson Oh , no ; they'd rule me out
as a professional
Pilson Professional ?
Dilson Yes ; you know I am con
nected "with the weather bureau. Co
lumbus (0. ( ) State Journal
t t . , iijtNtrvcr. .
"It seems iilmiijt incredible , " said
the railroad man. "but I saw a man
the other day that couldn't give an in
telligent description of his wife. He
came to the office to get transportation
for her , to which lie was entitled , and
under the present rules we must have a
description of the person that is going
to use the transportation.
On the margin of the ticket are
places where the agent can punch out
a very good description of the person
that is entitled to use the ticket in
his pctsession.
"I asked the man first how old his
* .vire was. He could not tell within five
years.
"Next 1 asked him how tall she was.
The best I could ascertain was that she
was not very tall , neither was she very
short. I punched out the word 'medium'
and let it go at that
"Next I asked the man what the col
or of his wife's 0368 was. He stndied
for a full half minute and said he be
darned if he was sure whether they
were light blue or gray.
"When it came to the color-of the
woman's hair , he was again in a quan
dary. He was not dead sure whether it
was dark brown or black
"The only thing this husband was
sure of was that his wife was slim. "
Duluth News
Hook's Lordly Tip.
It required such a man as Theodore
Hook to cope successfully with the ra
pacity of the gentlemen of the hall , in
contradistinction to the road , and on
one occasion , at all events , he proved
himself equal to the task.
It is related that once when dining
out he , before the entertainment came
off , provided himself with several bright
farthings from the mint and that when
proceeding after the festivities to his
carriage he discovered several servants ,
including the cook , awaiting him in
the hall , he forthwith slipped a coin
into the band of the latter. The man
glanced at it , noticed the size and
bowed low in thanks , under the impres
sion that he was a sovereign richer ,
while Theodore , dispensing largesse of
a like nature to the other servants ,
went on his way rejoicing , nor did he
c mse doing so when , as he stepped into
his carriage , one of the footmen , who
had discovered the real value of the
pourboire. ran out. saying , "Sir. I
think you have made a mistake 1"
"Not at all , my good man , " replied
the humorist , with a gracious wave of
the hand "I never give less. Coach
man , drive on. "
Then He Was Mad.
A Scotch university professor , irritat
ed to find that his students had got
into the habit of placing their hats and
canes on his desk instead of in the
cloakroom , announced that the next ar
ticle of the kind placed there would be
destroyed. Some days later the profess
or was called for a moment from the
classroom. A student slipped into his
private room and emerged with the
professor's hat , which he placed con
spicuously on the desk , while his fel
lows grinned and trembled.
The professor , on returning , saw the
hat , thought some rashly obstinate stu
dent had been delivered into his hands ,
and , taking out his knife , he cut the
offending article to pieces , while vainly
attempting to conceal the smile of tri
umph that played about his counte
nance. He was in a very bad temper
the next day
Likes to lie Kicked.
Hall Caine confesses that he likes to
be kicked , as long as the thing is done
in public and makes him conspicuous
or notorious. He says in the London
Mail : "Even the silliest personal refer
ence I ever see , however inspired by
paltry feelings , seems to me by implica
tion a tribute and compliment , being a
recognition of the fact that I am a
factor worth counting with and an ad
versary worth fighting. And when the
most false , the most mean and the most
belittling of the kind has ceased to ap
pear I shall know that I am no longer
of the least account. ' '
A Cold NlRht In Cliina.
One of the facts that we ineffaceably
cut into my memory during my first
winter in Newchwang was the finding
on one morning about New Year's time
33 masses of ice , each mass having been
a living man at 10 o'clock the preced
ing night.
The thermometer was a good bit be
low zero ( F. ) The men had just left the
opium dens , where they had been en
joying themselves. The keen air sent
: hem to sleep , and they never wakened.
North China Herald.
City Boy's Idea.
A Gallatin county farmer hired a
joy from the city to assist him through
the summer The farmer told the kid
to go out to the barn lot and salt the
calf. The kid took a quart of salt and
ndustriously rubbed it into the calf's
lide. The colts got after the calf for
lie salt and had about all the hair
icked off the animal before its condi-
ion was discovered. Montgomery
Ills. ) News.
Knew What Poverty Meant.
"You have never known the pangs of
poverty ! " he exclaimed bitterly.
The heiress' eyes softened , though
iquid to begin with
"Indeed I have , " said she warmly
'I went to a bargain sale where no one
knew me and found I had left my purse
t home. " Indianapolis Journal.
Their Limitations.
"Some of those postoffice people are
rery clever They can read illegible
vriting and deliver letters when the
ddress is worse than a Chinese puzzle. '
"Tes , but they can't help out the
nan who forgets to mail his wife's let-
ers. " Brooklyn Life.
The Hope of the Future.
There is no other educational insti-
ution equal to a well regulated home.
Dallas News.
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every two weeks dating from Dec ir.
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