SALMAG-E'S SEfiMON.
THE QUEENS OF HOME. LAST
SUNDAY'S SUBJECT.
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So Solomon , by oin.nuke , set forth
the Imperial character of ; i true Chris
tian woman. She is n-ji alave , not a
hireling , not a feuboidinule , but a
queen. In a former sermon I showed
you that crown and courtly attendants ,
and imperial wardrobe were not nec
essary to make a queen ; but that
graces of the heart and life will give
coronation to any woman. I showed
you at some length that woman's posi
\ tion was higher in the world than
man's , and that although she had often
been denied the right of suffrage , she
always did vote and always would vote
I by her influence , and that her chief
dshire ought to be that she should
have grace rightly to rule in the do
minion which she has already won.
I began an enumeration of some of
her rights , and now I resume the sub
ject.
In th first place , woman has the
special and the superlative right of
blessing nid comforting the sick.
What land , what sti'cet , what house ,
has not felt the sinkings of disease ?
Tens of thousands of sick-beds ! What
shall we do with them ? Shall man.
with his rough hand and clumsy foot ,
go stumbling around the sick-room ,
trying to soothe the di. 'nu-ted nerves
and alleviate the pains of the dis
tressed patient ? The young man at
college may scoff at the idea of being
under maternal influences , but at the
first blast of typhoid fever on his cheek
he says , "Where is mother ? " Walter
Scott wrote partly inatire and partly
in compliment :
0 woman , in our hours of ease.
Uncertain , coy and hard to please ;
When pain and anguish wring the
bnnv ,
A ministering angel thou.
I think the most pathetic passage in
all the Bible is the description of the
lad who went out to the harvest field
of Shunem and got sunstruck press
ing his hands on his temples and cry
ing out : "Oh , my head ! my head ! "
And they said : "Carry him to his
mother. " And then the record is :
"He sat on her knees till noon , and
then died. "
It Is an awful thing to bo ill away
from home in a strange hotel , once in
a while men coming in to look at you ,
holding their hand over their mouth
for fear they will catch the contagion.
How roughly they turn you in bed.
How loudly they talk. How you long
for the ministries of home. I know
one such who went away from one of
the brightest of homes , for several
weeks' business absence at the West.
A telegram came at midnight that he
was on his death-bed far away from
home. By express train the wife and
daughters went westward ; but they
went too late. He feared not to die.
but he was in an agony to live until his
family got there. He tried to bribe the
doctor to make him live a little while
longer. He said : "I am willing to
< lie , but not alone. " But the pulses
fluttered , the eyes closed and the heart
stopped. The express trains met in
the midnight ; wife and daughters goIng -
Ing westward lifeless remains of hus
band and father coming eastward.
Oh , it was a sad. pitiful , overwhelming
spectacle ! When we are sick , we want
to be sick at home. When the time
comes for us to die , we want to die
.at home.
In our Civil War , men cast the can
non , men fashioned the musketry , men
cried to the hosts , 'Forward , march ! "
men hurled their battalions on the
sharp edges of the enemy , crying.
"Charge ! charge ! " but woman scraped
the lint , woman administered the cor
dials , woman watched by the dying
couch , woman wrote the last message
to the home circle , woman wept at the
solitary burial , attended by herself and
four men with a spade. We greeted
the generals home with brass bands
and triumphal arches and wild huzzas ;
but the story is too good to be written
anywheie. save in the chronicles of
heaven , of Mrs. Brady , who came down
among the sick in the swamps of the
Chickahominy ; of Annie Ross , in the
cooper-shop hospital ; of Margaret
Breckinridge , who came to men who
had been for weeks with their wounds
undressed some of them frozen to the
ground , and when she turned them
over , those that had an arm left , waved
it and filled the air with their "hur
rah ! " of Mrs. Hedge , who came from
Chicago , with blankets and with pil
lows , until the men shouted , "Three
cheers for the Christian Commission !
God blets the women "at home ; " then
sitting down to take the last message :
"Tell my wife not to fret about me ,
but to meet me in heaven ; tell her to
train up the boys whom we have loved
so well ; tell her we shall meet again
in the good land ; tell her to bear my
loss like the Christian wife of a Chris
tian soldier" and of Mrs. Shelton ,
into whose face the convalescent sol
dier looked and said : "Your grapes
and'cologne cured me. " And ? o It was
also through all of our war with Spain
women heroic on the field , braving
death and wounds to reach the fa'Ien.
watching by their fever cots iu the
West Indian hospitals , or on the troop
ships , or in our smitten home-camps.
Men did their work with sfcot and shell
and carbine an howitzer : women Oid
their work with socks and slippers and
bandages ami warm drinks and Scrip
ture texts and gentle stroliings of the
hot temples and stories cf that land j
where they never have any pain. Men ,
knelt down over the wounded and said , i
"On which side did you fight ? " Wornj j
en knelt down over tl'.e wounded and ;
said , "Where are you ha : t ? What nice j
thing can I nao for you to cat ? What j
makes you cry ? " Tonight while we
men are sound asleep In cur beds ,
there will be a light in yonder loft ;
there will he groaning down the dark
alley ; there will be cries of distress
In that cellar.- Men will sleep , and
women will watch.
Again : woman lias a special right
to take care of the poor. There are
hundreds and thousands of them all
over the land. There is a kind of
work that men cannot do for the poor.
Here comes a group of little barefoot
children to the door of the Dorcas So
ciety. They need to be clothed and
provided for. Which of these directors
of banks would know how many yards
it would take to make that little girl
a drcts ? Which of these masculine
hands could lit a hat to that little girl's
head ? Which of the wise men would
know how to tie on that new pair of
shoes ? Man sometimes gives his char
ity in a rough way , and it falls like
the fruit of a tree in the East , which
fruit cornea down so heavily that it
breaks the skull of the man who is
trying to gather it. But woman glides
so softly into the house of destitution ,
and finds out all the sorrows of the
place , and puts so quietly the donation
on the table , that all the family come
out on the front steps as she departs ,
expecting that from tinder her shawl
she will thrust out two wings and go
right up toward heaven , from whence
she seems to have comn down.
0 , Christian young woman ! if you
would make yourself happy , and win
the blessing of Christ , go out among
the destitute. A loaf of bread or a
bundle of socks may make a homely
load to carry , but the angels of God
will come out to watch , and the Lord
Almighty will give his messenger hosts
a charge , saying , "Look after that
woman ; canopy her with your wings ,
and shelter her from all harm ; " and
while you are seated in the house of
destitution and suffering , the little
ones around the room will whisper ,
"Who is she ? " "Ain't she beautiful ! "
and if you will listen right sharply , you
will hear dripping down through the
leaky roof , and rolling over the rotten
stairs , the angel chant that shook
Bethlehem : "Glory to God in the
highest , and on earth peace , good-will
to men. "
* * *
Again , I have to tell you that it is a
woman's specific right to comfort un
der the stress of dire disaster. She is
called the weaker vessel ; but all pro
fane as well as sacred history attests
that when the crisis comes she is bet
ter prepared than man to meet the
emergency. How often have you scon
a woman who seemed to be a disciple
of frivolity and indolence , who. un
der oiif stroke of calamity , changed tea
a heroine ? Oh , what a great mistake
those business men make who ner
tell their business troubles to their
wives ! There comes some great loss
to their store , or their companions in
business play them a sad trick , and
they carry the burden all alone. He is
asked in the household again aiU
again : "What is the matter ? " But
he believes it a sort of Christian ? lut >
t < j keep all that trouble within his
own soul. Oh , sir ! your first duty waste
to tell your wife all about it. She , per-
hapsmight not have disentangled your
finances , or extended your credit , but
she would have helped you to bear
misfortune. You have no right to
carry on one shoulder that which is
intended for two. Business men
know what I mean. There came a
crisis in your affairs. You struggled
bravely and long ; but after a while
there came a day when you said :
"Here I shall have to stop , " and you
railed in your partners , and you called
in the most prominent men in your
employ , and you said : "We have got
tn stop. " You left the store suddenly.
You could rardly make up your min.1
to pass through the street and ever
en the ferry-boat. You felt everybody
would be looking at you , and blaming
you , and denouncing you. You hast
ened home. You told your wife all
about the affair. What did she say ?
Did she play the butterfly ? Did she
talk about the silks and the ribbons
and the fashions ? No. She came up
to the emergency. She quailed not
under the stroke. She offered to go
out of the comfortable house into a
smaller one , and wear the old cloak
another winter. She was the one who
understood your affairs without blam
ing you. You looked upon what you
thought was a thin , weak woman's
arm holding you up ; but while you
looked at that arm there came into
the feeble muscles of it the strength
of the eternal God. No chiding ; no
fretting ; no telling you about the
beautiful house of her father , from
which you brought her ten , twenty ,
or thirty years ago. You said : "Well ,
this is the happiest day of my life. I
am glad I have got from under my
burden. My wife don't care I don't
care. " At the moment you were ex
hausted God sent you a Deborah to
meet the host of Atnalekites and scat
ter them like chaff over the plain.
There are sometimes women who sit
reading sentimental novels , and who
wish that they had some grand field
in which to display their Christian
powers. What grand and glorious
things they could do if they only had
in opportunity ! My sister , you need
not wait for any such time. A crisis
ivill come in your affairs. There will
be a Thermopylae in your own house
hold where God will tell you to stand.
There are scores and hundreds of
louseholds today where as much brav-
? ry and courage are demanded of woni-
? n as was exhibited-by Grace Darling ,
) r Marie Antoinette , or Joan of Arc.
Again , I remark it is woman's right
o bring to us the kingdom of heaven.
: is easier for a woman to be a Chris-
ian than for a man. Why ? You say
he is weaker. No. Her heart is more
esponsive to the pleadings of divine
ove. She is in vast , majority. The
\ct that che can more easily become
: Christian I prove by the
that three-fourths of the members ci
churches in all Christendom are wom
en. So God appoints them to be the
chief agents for bringing this world
back to God. I may stand here and
say the soul is immortal. There la a
man who will deny it. I may staml
here and say we are lost and undone
without Christ. There is a man .visa
will contradict it. I may stand here
and say there will be n. judgment day
after a while. Yonder is some ono
who will dispute it. But a Christian
woman in a Christian household , liv
ing in the faith and the consistency ol
Christ's gospel nobody can refute
that. The greatest sermons are not
preached on celebrated platforms ; they
are preached with an audience of two
or three , and In private home life. A
consistent , consecrated Christian serv
ice is an unanswerable demonstration
of God's truth.
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Lastly. I wish to say that one of the
specific rights of woman is , through
the grace of Christ , finally to reach
heaven. Oh , what a multitude of wom
en in heaven ! Mary , Christ's mother ,
in heaven ! Elizabeth Fry in heaven !
Charlotte Elizabeth in heaven ! The
mother of Augustine in heaven ! The
Countess of Huntington who eold her
splendid jewels to build chapels in
heaven ! While a great many others ,
who have never been heard of on
earth , or known but little , have goie
into the rest and peace of heaven.
What a rest ! What a change it was
from the small room , with no fire and
one window ( the glass broken out ) ,
and the aching side , and worn-out
eyes , to the "house of many man
sions" ! No more stitching until twelve
o'clock at night ; no more thrusting
of the thumb by the employer through
the work , to enow it was not done
quite right. Plenty of bread at last !
Heaven for aching heads ! Heaven for
broken hearts ! Heaven for anguish-
bitten frames ! No more sitting until
midnight for the coming of staggering
steps ! No more rough blows across
the temples ! No more sharp , keen ,
bitter curses !
Some of you will have no rest in
this world. It will be toil and strug
gle and suffering all the way up. You
will have to stand at your door , fight
ing back the wolf with your own hand ,
red with carnage. But God has a crown
for you. I want you to realize this
morning that he is now making it ,
and whenever you weep a tear he sets
another gem in that crown ; whenever
you have a pang of body or soui he
puts another gem in that crown , until ,
after a while in all the tiara there will
be no room for another splendor , and
God will say lo his angel : "The
crown is done ; let her up. that she
may wear it. " And as the Lord of
Righteousness puts the crown upon
your brow , angel will cry to angel ,
"Who is she ? " and Christ will say , "I
will tell you who she is. She is the
one that came up out of great tribula
tion , and had her robe washed and
made white in the blood of the Lamb. "
And then God will spread a banquet
and he will invite all the principali
ties of heaven to sit at the feast , and
the tables will blush with the best
clusters from the vineyards o God
and crimson with the twelve manner
of fruits from the Tree of Life , and wa
ters from the fountains of the rock
will flash from the golden tankards ,
.Mid the old harpers of heaven will sit
there , making music with their harps ,
and Christ will point you out , amid
the celebrities of heaven , saying , "She
suffered with me on earth ; now we
are going to be glorified together. "
And the banqueters , no longer able to
hold their peace , will break forth with
congratulation , "Hail , hail ! " And
there will bo handwritings on the wall
not such as struck the Babylonian
noblemen with horror but fire-tipped
fingers , writing in blazing capitals of
light and love , "God hath wiped away
all tears from all faces ! "
DIFFERENCES IN WOMEN.
An Odd Jlltistration of the Customs of
Different Generations.
It was a vary hot afternoon on the
Southeastern railway , says the Acad
emy. In the carriage were two ladies
who were young and happy , a lady
who was elderly and apparently single ,
and a little girl. At Orpington there
entered a tall , fresh , loose-limbed boy ,
cf 19 or so , carrying surveying poles
and a large basket , who took the seat
opposite the two ladies , who were
young. As the train panted along and
the carriage became more and more
stifling , the boy was noticed to be
growing restless and nervous. Twice
or thrice he made as if to speak and
each time thought better of it , and
then , suddenly reaching out the bas
ket and displaying its contents to the
two friends , he gasped , indicating one
of them with a timid eye : "Would
you mind taking some of these ?
They've just been given me , but I
couldn't eat them all , you know , and
* * * hot * * *
so very and.
really , if you would be so kind
* * * ? " The basket was loaded with
strawberries and he was quickly as
sured that his request was not an
impertinence. , He then turned to the
little girl ; who no sooner observed his
intention that she crossed over to the
basket side , and , seating herself within
range of the fruit , saved him further
trouble. To the elderly lady , how
ever , he had to repeat his invitation.
Frigidly accepting it. she took two
strawberries from the basket with
much ceremony. At New Cross the
boy gathered together his property
ind jumped out. "What a dear boy ! "
said one of the two friends. The lit
tle girl looked wistfully after him.
'I have never , " said the elderly lady ,
tightening her lips and turning to the
ather two , "I "nave never been so em
barrassed in my iifo "
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LINCOLN , Neb. . Sept. 10. Prohibi
tion workers assembled in this city
in state convention. No candidate was
put forward lor supreme judge. For
regents Charles E. Smith of Richard
son and Rlbert Fitch of Merrit , were
nominated. The following platform
was adopted.
"We , the prohibitionists of the state
of Nebraska , in convention assembled ,
renewing our allegiance to Almighty
God as the sovereign of all men , de
clare in favor of the following princi
ples , viz. :
"The absolute suppression of the
traffic in alcoholic liquors for bever
ages purposes ; the complete enfran
chisement of women as an equal with
man ; the initiative and referendum. "
JJoiul lucHtii > : i Krsi
HASTINGS , Neb. , Sept. 1C. ' ] ae city
council passed an ordinance calling a
special election on Monday , November
C > next , at which time the question of
voting $20,000 for an electric lignt
plant will be resubmitted to the people.
This proposition was voted on some
time ago ? nd was carried bv a big
majority , but owing to insufficient ad
vertising of the election it was found
the bonds would not be legal if issued
and the matter was dropped for the
time being. Recently a petition was
circulated asking the council to call
another election , and it was upon this
that action was taken. „
Captain J'orby' * Kmly Hero.
OMAHA , Neb. , Sept. 10. The body
of the late Captain Lee Forby of Com
pany G , First Nebraska volunteers ,
who was killed in the Philippines , ar
rived in the city and was escorted from
the depot to the armory of the Thurs-
ton Rifles , where it will remain until
after the funeral services , which will
be held tomorrow. Captain Forby was.
shot on March 25 , 1899 , and died two
days later. When stricken down he
was leading the charge on the Filipino
trenches ; ' .t San Francisco del Morte ,
a fortified town a short distance from
Aliinila.
Horses and Harness Stolen.
PAWNEE CITY , Nel ) . , Sept. 10. R.
R. Lepley , who lives just across the
line in Kansas , was in town and re
ported that a good team of mares , six
and seven years old , was stolen from
his pasture. A set of work harness
was also taken from J. M. Story's
barn. A. pair of bridles was taken from
James Can-oils' . These places arc sev
eral miles distant from each other ,
but the supposition is that all went to
gether and the thieves arc now driving
? rig out of this part of the country.
Onia ! : : ! I'lnsician Honored.
OMAHA , Neb. , Sept. 1C. Dr. W. W.
Purnell , a prominent colored physician
of the city , has been appointed assist
ant surgeon of the Forty-eightu infan
try , one of two regiments oC colored
men now being recruited. Dr. Purnell
says he will accent the appointment
and expects to receive orders at any
time to report to Fort Thomas , Ky. ,
where the troops are oeing mobilized.
Dr. Purnell was formerly in the Eighth
imnumes , stationed at Fort Thomas
iiul later at Chickamausa.
It ath of Joseph II 3aili ! < u.
LINCOLN , Neb. . Sept. 1C. Joseph
H. Mallalieu , recently appointed clerk
of the district court lo succeed Sam
E. Low , died of heart failure , resulting
from blood poisoning. Mr. Mallalieu
had been confined at home several
weeks , but none of his friends were
aware of the serious nature of his
illness. The deceased was a younf
man of wide acquaintance.
ils Vt'orkinj < . 'hnlroii.
CHADRON , Neb. . Sept. 1G. Frank
0 Neill , whil < j under the influence of
liquor , was robbed of his watch by an
unknown man , ana William Moffatt of
Cheyenne , who stopped off here a day
on his way to Hot Springs , S. D. , was
robbed in the rear of a saloon by un
known persons of quite a sum cf
money and a gold watch.
.7n(12c Kinkahl's Sivt.-r Dies.
CHADRON , Neb. , Sept. 1G. Judge
\Vestover left here to hold court at
O'Neill for Judge Kinkaid , whose twin
sister , living in West Virginia , died
suddenly. A jury had been impaneiei
and the trial of a case was about to
begin when the news came. Judge Kin
kaid took the first train for the south
Keiinion at Tonj : Pine.
LONG PINE. Sept. 1C. The annua.
reunion of tlfe old soldiers and W. R.
C. in Brown , Rock. Cherry and Keya
Paha counties will be held on the
Chautauqua grounds September 25 , 26
and 27. The program is now being ar
ranged and it is the intention to mak <
it the best ever held.
Has His Lcp Amputated
BLCOMINGTON , Neb. , Sept. 1C. W.
P. Stratton. who was kicked on the leg
several years ago by a mule ind later
was injured by his team running away ,
has his leg amputated close to his hip.
The operation was successful , but be
ing 50 years old and in poor health , his
recovery is doubtful.
Thieves Tie a Grant Merchant.
GRANT , Neb. , Sept. 16. E. D. Eng-
ier's general store was broken into by
burglars and $18 taken. Mr. Engler
was awakened by two men command
ing him to lie still , enforcing their
order by striking him with a revolver.
Then they bound him and gagged him.
Ilorsej Sold Well.
SOUTH OMAHA , Neb. . Sept. 16.
The Fred Terry Commission company's
sale of range horses yesterday was con
sidered a a success. There were nearly
800 of them in all and most of them
found ready sale to Iowa and Nebraska
farmers and stockmen. The drivers
took v/ell , and the unbranded colts
were in great demand. The unbroken
2-year-olds , it is stated , sold fairly
well. The sale is one of the largest
held for some time , and its results
pleased Mr. Terry , who feels that he is
building up one of the biggest horse
markets in the country.
JUrn. HockIngrt Sulrldo.
HASTINGS , Neb. . Sept. 1 , " . Mra.
Hocklngs , the woman who was bunieu
Monday evening , died from the effects
It has developed that she had closed
the doors and then saturated her cloth
ing with gasoline and ignited it.
Vnlloy f'nuiity
ORD , Neb. , Sept. 15. Valley county's
mortgage record for August is : Seven
farm mortgages filed , $15,787.50 ; six
satisfied , $1.41:9.75. : Two town mort
gages filed. $500 ; two satisfied. $129.87.
Ninety-three chattel mortgages filed ,
? 37,808.91 ; thirty satisfied. ? S..T77.1S.
t < Kamsry Niiiiilim uil.
NEBRASKA CITY. Neb. . Sept. M.
At a joint convention of the democrats
and populists of the Second judicial
district held in this c. .y Judge Basil
S. Ramsay was nominated by acclama
tion as the fusion candidate for district
judge. Judge Ramsay addressed the
convention.
Crops It.id atVolliacli. .
WOLBACH , Neb. , Sept. 11. Good
rains have fallen here , but too late for
the corn. The hot winds had done much
damage and the gra.n will be light and
chaffy. Pastures are in bad shape ,
while wheat is making from four to
seven bushels to tne acre and oats
from ten to twenty-five. Small grain
will not pay expenses and hay ts r.
short crop.
Itoyc to lt 1 rlr l for a Wreck.
BEATRICE. Neb. , Sept. 15. Two
boys , Craig and Wittov/ski , were ar
raigned In justice's court charged with
attempting to wreck the Rock Island
train near Ellis a few days ago by pil
ing ties on the track. They were bound
overd to the district court in $1500 each.
Two other boys suspected of complicity
are still at large.
Hastings College Prospect * .
HASTINGS. Neb. , Sept. 15. Hast
ings college began its fall term this
morning witn an attendance of nearly
f:00. : President Pattison spoil. * : m
chapel of many improvements soon to
be made in buildings and grounds , and
said it would be but a short time be
fore the attendance would be doubled.
There is no change in the faculty.
; ; for Street I'alr.
HASTINGS , Neb. , Sept. 15. Hast
ings is busily preparing i"r the big
street iair. Three band stands have
been erected , a great number of booths
are under construction , and conces
sions are being arranged for at a lively
rate. The town is thoroughly alive to
the fact that the biggest event ever
pulled on in Central Nebraska is soon
to occur here.
Horse Tlilei'i-s lit Work.
PAWNEE CITY. Neb. . Scit. 15.-
Rcuben Lepley , living seven and one-
half miles south of here , just across
the state line , had a very valuable span
of mares stolen from his oa&ttire Mon
day night. A buggy and harness were
also stolen from Mason Story in the
same neighborhood. The bloodhounds
from Beatrice are expected here today ,
and it is hoped the thieves may be
captured.
3Iiiy Students I"roii Oreoi. .
OSCEOLA. Neb. , Sept. 15. Oseeola.
is furnishing its quota of young ine'i
and women to the colleges. Depart
ures of students to date are : To Doan"
college at Crete. Janie Pulver ; to the
state university at Lincoln , Edna
King , Eva Hazlewood , Laura Whaley ,
Thomas Mills ; \Vesleyan university ,
Marie Mickey ; to the Peru Normal ,
Daisy Kunkell. A number of young
people will leave for several training
schools next ec-k.
A Landmark J : < - ; < K > \ cil.
HASTINGS. Neb. , Sept. 14. Another
of the city's old landmarks , up.on
which Father Time has hud his clutch
es for several years has succumbed to
the inevitable. It is the old frame
livery barn which has stood at the
corner of Denver avenue and Third
street for twenty-five years. A gang
of men v/ent to work to demolish it
and clear the land of the debris , to
make way for the big pavilion whore
Her Majesty will hold the big opening
ball of carnival week.
. " \Vill Ho n rout ; lit Knelt.
FREMONT , Neb. , Sept. 14. Sheriff
Kreader , after some days cf detective
work , found the whereabouts ct' Fred
Hipke , the young man who is "wanteu
on a charge of bastardy , Laura Ander
son being the complainant. He is
safely lodged in jail at Ida Grove , la.
Hipke will be brought back on the
charge of statutory rape , as he has
refused to come without requisition
papers. The girl who accuses him is
only sixteen years old and is a very
fragile creature , looking scarcely more
than a child.
Victim of an Explosion.
HASTINGS , Neb. , Sep * . 14. The
deadly gasoline explosion claimed an
other victim here. Mrs. L. C. Hook
ing , wife of a Northwestern railway
employe , went to light her gasoline
stove to prepare the evening mea' ,
when the can exploded and she was
enveloped in the burning Quid. Neigh
bors extinguished the fire in her cloth
ing , but the flesh on her face hands
and arms was cooked to the bone an'l
the attending physician thinks she
cannot possibly live. The fire in the
house was extinguished with only
nominal loss.
Hunting of CnpMaitd.
OMAHA , Neb. . Sept. 15. A special
Lgent cf the American Surety company
of New York was at last accounts in
Baltimore , following up clues to Ned
opeland , the defaulting late Burling
ton teller of the Nebraska National
bank of Omaha.
The American Surety company ,
ivhich bonded Copeland. has paid th °
bank the sum of $5,000 , the amount of
; he bond in full , through the resident
igent , Philip Potter. This sum , with
: he $5,000 found in Copeland's private
jox in the bank , makes the bank good
'or the $10,000 that he took.
TX CKXICKAf. .
Officials In Washington regard the
Venezuelan situation as critical.
A bust of ex-Speaker fleud IH being
executed in bronze for the Maine legis
lature.
The war department ha chartered
the steamer Dublin , which will carry
f > r 0 animals to Manila.
General Miles has accepted an Invi
tation to act as marshal of the Dewey
parade at Washington , D. C.
In the past eighteen months Presi
dent McKInley has heen the victim of
camera Heads over three thousand
times.
An insane merchant of Berlin named
Herman Uordasch has heen arrested
at a hotel in Lelpsic for threatening
to kill the king of Saxony.
Mayor Iluck of Portland. Me. , a gentleman -
tleman 75 years of ajje , has just com
pleted the font of walking to the sum
mit of Mount Washington , N. II. , and
buck again.
The owner of Stonehenge. the old
Druid monument on Hallshury plain ,
threatens to sell it to the highest bid
der unless the British government will
give him $ iur,000 ; for It.
The directors of the Mergenthalei-
Linotype company has declared tin-
regular quarterly dividend of 2VG ! > < - '
cut and an extra dividend of - % P r
cent payable September 'JO.
Edward Bulwcr Lytton Dickens , sou
of the novelist , has heen appointed a
rabbit Inspector by the New South
Wales government. He was formerly
a member of the colonial parliament.
Experiments are about to begin in
Louisiana for the manufacture of paper
from refuse sugar cane. Paper mude
from sugar cane should be in great re
quest for the correspondence of sweet
hearts.
The house in which General Sherman
died In Nov.- York , has been sold by the
heirs for about $3f > ,000. It is situated
on West Seventy-first street , and was
purchased by the general a year before
his death.
A platform car recently completed
at the Boston Maine railroad shops ,
in Salem , Mass. , has a carrying capaci-
ay of 100.000 pounds , 40,000 pounds
more than any other car on the rya. j.
It is thirty-two feet long.
ThecelobrationsofOld Home week in
New Hampshire towns were so suc
cessful this year , the lirst of its ob
servance , that tney are likely to be
repeated annually hereafter , though
the date may be changed.
Smallpox spread in Altoona , Pa. , and
the town board of health ordered thu
killing of all dogs and cats in infected
houses , that they might not distribute
the germs of the disease. Tin- bodies
of the animals were burned.
One of Pension Commissioner tevnns *
critics recently accused that official of
having a "literary bureau. " Mr. Evans
replied emphatically : "Yes , I have ,
and it consists of every reputable
newspaper in the I nitcd States. "
The wooden belfry of famous Faneuil
hall , Boston , has been replaced by onw
exactly similar of iron , ami H is nop : -
that the work of altering anil strength
ening the historic building will u
completed by the middle of September.
A hearing in the action . ? ! the state
of New York to recover ? l"jO,000 : ( ) in
penalties from Armour & Co. , of Chicago
cage , for violating the anti-oleomar
garine laws , was to have been held in.
Albany yesterday. It was adjourned
ur.til September 'M.
Theodore Tilton , who spends Ins time
between Paris and London , has lost
none of his aptness for repartee. The
other day a friend asked him when it
is a man begins to foH old. I le replied
at once : "I'll tf > il you when. H is
when he is a sophomore in college. "
Twenty-eight boa.I of specially fed
Aberdeen-Angus cattle , 2-year-olds ,
raised in Indiana , near Terre Haute ,
by John Mi-Fall , sold iu Chicago Sep
tember ( I at § ( ; .8. , the highest price
paid for cattle there sincf Christmas ,
1892 , and the highest in September
since 1881.
The peculiar disease from which the
czar is said to be suffering is known as
aphasia , and in plain English is using
one word when another is meant. If
his majesty wants his hat and cant't
remember the word "hat" he asks for
something else , and he is unable to
recollect the meaning of words whf-n
he reads them.
The report reaching Texas from
York that Charles B. Loving has made
his big cattle syndicate with $10,000,000
capital stock a success awakens much ,
interest in cattle circles , inasmuch as
there is some opposition to the pro
posed syndicate among cattle men.
Those of Indian territory and Kansas ,
it is said , will join with the Texas cat
tle men in fighting Lovink's syndicate ,
making probable a temporary reduc
tion in the price cf meet on the hoof.
LIVE STOCK AND PRODUCE.
Omaha , Chicago and Xc.v V rk Slitrift
OtotatioiiH.
OMUIA.
Butter Creamery separator. 17 ts 18
Butter-Choice fancy country 15 'n IS
Eggs Fresh , per doz OMt > U
Chickens..Spring , per Ib O'i " f W
Pigeons JL.lv , pfir doz 75 "fit tft
Lemons Per box 175 ft-ZSfJ
Cranberries Jersey , per hbl. C 25 < < K Si
Apples per barrel 3ft "ft 2 25
Potatoes New. per bushel. . 20 ff 37
Sweet potatoes Per bbl 20' ! C'i ? 2 25
Hay t pland. per ton 500 < ? i C OJ
SOUTH OMAHA.
I legs Choice light 1 25 < tl 1 M
Hogs Heavy weights 417 'ft 4 25
Beef .steers MO ( is C 10
Bulls a W H 3 GO
Stag ? 310 fir 3 25
Calves 4 ( M fi 8 25
Westerns 4 SOic 5 25
Cows 3:71 ? , : 55
Hfcif rs 305 Tr 4 00
Stockers and feeders 3 SO ? / 115
Sheep I arnbs 475 fi 4 S )
Sheep Feeder wethers 363 ( ft 3 iO
CHICAGO.
Wh at No. 2 spring 67 Tf C7i
Corn Per bushel 31 fc 31 = ;
Barley No. 2 3 ; ( ft 41 !
Oats Per bushel 2J ft22Vi
Rye No. 2 55 < & > 57
Timothy seed , per bu 2 2"J fa , 2 25
Pork Per cwt 720 Si S 05
Cattle Stockers and feeders ! 20 J2 4 55
Lard 5 17 i 5 23
Rangers J 00 Tc 5 i
Hogs Mixed 420 fo 5 Cl
Sheep I imbs 475 ft 5 23
Sheep Native wethers 4 35 ff 4 50
NE\V YORK MARKET.
Oats No. 2 23 - ! ? 2SV-
"VVheat No. 2 red 7 ! < ! c 74 %
Corn No. 2 red 33i > 8 > 40
KANSAS CITY.
Sheep Muttons 3 7 > O5&J
Hogs Mixed 4 25 @ 4 31
Cattle Stockers and feeders 3 * > r 4 la