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THE TRIBUNE. NORTH PLATTE, - NEBRASKA. It was no less a distinguished judge of men than the late General Grant who said that Viceroy Li Hung Gbang of China was the greatest man he ever met. The men who fail and go down in oblivion belong to the class who .iiever advertise, advertise occasion- , ally or ' only as they think their " 4 n n rl A ' w t tt 1. ?t.r) v 4- 11 AUC II 111 ItUllUUl- The people in novels see such strange things. .Here is the hero of .'popular novel now in publication who as his eye caught the glance of the heroine "saw her face freeze suddenly," and it was not winter either. Possibly the phrase was em ployed as an euphemism for cold cheek. Probably the most hideous images in existence are the Chinese gods of war, who are invoked when a battle Is imminent Then countless chick ens and ducks and pigeons and fishes and cakes and baskets of rice are brought to the sacred temples as of ferings to the gods and to be eaten by the lucky priests. Leka Mehtiien-tiial of Chicago may have a foreign sounding name, but Bh'e showed true Americanism when ehe broke her engagement with her young man because he would not cel ebrate the Fourth of July. That was the day of freedom for Miss Lena, who is astonished and grieved at the despairing young man's suicide. Mosic typewriters have been in vented, one of which works directly and another is attachable to a piano forte bo that improvisations can Tie recorded. But the climax of inge nuity in this line will not be reached until we have a typewriter for Chi nese, and it must be able to print Chinese while you are punching the keys for English. The pacific speeches of Emperor William and other European rulers are of a character such as has been heard before and should not be taken without question. The German bud get estimates an army expenditure of over $150,000,000, which is a large advance on the expenditure of last year. Soft words are not al ways to be taken seriously. Is a recent magazine article Mr. W. D. Howells reports Nathaniel Hawthorne as saying in 186J: "I wish this country was out of the d d shadow of Europe." Had the clear-visioned novelist foreseen how that shadow would broaden and darken during the next thirty-four years, he might have expressed his wish still more emphatically. Ik these times when all Europe it eensitive about even the suggestion of war, it would be well to intimate to London editors that the bounda ries of friendly powers should notte tampered with. Here is Vanity Fair, London, moving Vermont down to Central America, declaring "Ver mont of Central America," to be the iwelling place of Kudyard Kipling. A vekv Daniel has come to judg ment at Champcourt, France, where a judge has decided that a man who fires blank cartridges at birds to scare them out of his crops is not re quired to take'out a shooting license. The learned judge said that if you want to shoot birds you must take o"ut a license, but you cannot kill them with blank cartridges, and the court was right. The public sentiment in favor o, a more rigorous restriction of immigration is gaining strength constantly in all parts of the coun try. Keep out the idle, the vicious, the r.estless, the turbulent, the dis orderly. America has been too long the wash pot of Europe. Restrict immigration. That is the urgent demand of truly patriotic Americans in this day and generation. In a recent bicycle race in Detroit not fewer than twentysix men broke the world's record for twenty-live miles because they had a good wind to help them. In trials of naval vessels allowances are always made for the influence of tides and cur rents. Ought not the same prin ciple to govern in bicycle races, wh,ere the wind is always an impor tant factor in increasing or retard ing siJeed? There is a law in England giving bicycles the same rights on the streets as carriages. It is called, by way of distinction, "The Cyclers1 Magna Charta.'1 In France a bill is pending in the chamber similar to the English law of cyclers' rights. In this country the cyclers took what they wanted without any law the rights of carriages in the streets and of pedestrians on the sidewalks. A little law is needed, not to protect cyclers, but for the protection of other people. A whiter in the London Athenaeum is now proving that Mrs. Browning was born in 1806, instead of 1801). A lively controversy appears to be rising as to whether Robert Brown ing knew that his wife was in her fortieth instead of her thirty-seventh year when they were married. This might make a good subject for dis cussion at the Browning society next winter. Some doubtful and complex line may be illuminated by this re search. After all, what difference can ,it make, since they lived happily ever after and both died in peace. Ax Americas who brought a suit for the recovery of certain moneys in. a court In London, England, al though he won his suit, was not sat isfied wth the conduct of his solic itor, and. accused him of not being able to sreak anything better than London English. Thereupon the lawyer brought suit for libel, and has just been awarded $50 damages. It will now be in order for some Lon doner to bring suit against the jury for exposing to obloquy the Hinglish which 'as halways been spoken in London since the days of King Enery. SATED BJ A GIftL J - -u TTes, my hair is" white for a man of my years,' said; he, ruining his shape ly fingers through the snow-white locks. "But then I have seen a great deal of the vorld, you know. Sometimes I think it would have beei better if I had not." "But what caused your hair to turn so white? It can not be age, for if I am a judge, you are not over 40." The major laughed. "No. I was 40 on my last birthday, and my hair has been its present shade for the last ten years."' "Come, major, I'm sure there is a story here. Let's have it." Again the major .smiled, but this time a perceptible trenior shook his frame. "I never like to think of that time," he said. "But be it as you will. Have a fresh cigar; you will heed it to strengthen your nerves, I'm very sure." "When I was 80 years old I was em ployed by Uncle Sam to scour the coun try for moonshiners. My territory lay mostly in the Southern states. It was in 1S81 that I received an order from the chief of the division to go into the Tennessee region and locate several stills that were running out kegs of illi cit liquor near Little Tucksie. I was of a light-hearted, dare-devil disposi tion, and usually such an order would have spurred me to my best; but on this September morning, when, leaving civilization behind, I struck the trail leading up the side of the Little Tuck sie, a strange feeling of foreboding came over me. The birds twittered above iny head, and the purling brook rippled beneath my feet. All nature was at her best, and yet a feeling of indescribable dread oppressed, me. "On I stumbled, deep in my gloomy meditations, when suddenly I nearly fell over a girl, clad in a single calico garment, who was kneeling beside a hawberry bush filling a pail with the fruit. The surprise was mutual and she started up like a frightened fawn. Without disparagement of the sex I can safely say that no plainer women exist on the continent than the average female moonshiner. As the girl turn ed, however, she displayed a face in pleasing contrast with the characteris tic high cheek bones and 'ague' com plexion of that section. Her oval fea tures, brown as a berry, but regular in outline, set off by a pair of ruby Hps and jet black eyes, would compare fa vorably with those of any fashionable belle. " 'Wha' be you un a-goln'?' she asked with a startled air. " Tm an artist,' I replied, 'come to sketch some bits of scenery. I am looking for Jerry Bowman.' " 'Wha' you want wi' him?' " T am going to board at his house.' " 'Huh! Then you un wants Ole Hoss? "I was uncertain, but nodded. By this time I had drawn' a pad from my pocket and began making hurried marks on it. The girl peered over my shoulder and asked: " 'How long be you a-goin' tor stay?' " 'Just over night,' I replied. "She gazed at the scrawl and said: " 'Wall, I guess you un can come on. "Up the tortuous path, twisting now to the right and now to the left, we went, till suddenly the girl pushed aside the thick undergrowth and darted along a trail leading directly into the heart of the forest. T said not a word, but did considerable thinking; as now and then a protruding hawberry briar tore Its way into my flesh, or a stiff twig, bent forward by my guide, with a 'zip' flew back, striking me across the face. Suddenly I heard a low howling shriek. The girl gave .a low, peculiar whistle, and the next instant four large curs were pawing at her feet, and in a most uncomfortable manner sniffing at my heels. 'This is pap,' the girl whispered. 'This is Ole Hoss, the man you un us a-lookin' fur.' "Whence he came and how he got there I was never able to explain to myself; but there he was. armed to the teeth, a large hunting knife in his belt, a shotgun on his shoulder, and the mountaineer's griu on his face. " Wha' do you un want?' he demand ed. " T am an artist,' I replied, 'and Jim Bludsoe, whom I met in the vil lage, thought I could get board with you for a day or so.' " 'Jim's friends are mine,' he said, with a sidelong glance. 'Come on.' "This was much easier than I had expected. Jerry, or 'Ole Hoss' was none other than the man I was after. "As we emerged from the wood into the clearing, a lank, slab-sided speci man of humanity approached; he was about to speak to Jerry when his eyes fell upon me, and he suddenly turned away. There was something familiar in his features, but I could not place him. " 'Ole Hoss' passed on and I follow ed him into his cabin. It was a small affair, with two rooms. " 'One we uns lives in,' he explained, 'an' the wimmen sleeps in t'other.' " 'Where do the men sleep? I in quired. " 'Oh. we uns bunk down thar in ther corner.' "The 'wimmen folks' retiredearly that night, and I sought 'rest on a blanket that had evidently seen several summers and innumerable hard frosts. I was verw tired, and though I intend ed to rise when all was quiet and take a view of the premises. I fell asleep. "I was awakened by the pressure of something cold against my forehead, and opening my eyes, looked into the muzzle of a revolver, while the voice of my host said "Ef yer moves a hand, off goes yer top-knot!' " 'What does this mean?' I demand ed, in my sternest tones. " 'It means that we uns are onter you un that's all.' "Several other figures now stood over my couch, and my genial host said: " 'Wall, shall we uns finish him now, or wait? " 'Le's take him outside,' one sug gested. "After they had bound me hand and foot I was carried info the open air. A short consultation was held, and I caught the yords. 'down ter the hut.' " 'Nawr said one brawny fellow,, 'he ain't bad es that. Besides, Pete may be mistaken.' " 'It ain't too much,' asserted my host. 'It's jest what he dissarves, and it'll prove an example to the others.' "There was ,some more discussion: then I was informed that on my arrival Pete Saudford. a member of the gang, whose still I had aided in destroying some time previously, but who had es caped from the officers, had recognized me as a detective who had come under the guise of friendship to laud them all in prison, and that I was to be left in the hut. "This failed to strike terror to my soul, however, as I supposed they would merely leave me there over night and I should then have a possible chance of escape. Had I known the true nature of my punishment T would have begged my captors to mercifully put a bullet through my brain. "They carried me to the hut, and one of the men carefully opened the dtr and peered in. He toofc a. torch anil thoroughly insj)ecfc?d every: noob before entering. Finally, bound . hand and' foot, I was laid on1 a pile of husks im one corner. Then the men departed without even closing the door. J. was highly elated at this oversight, and lay, endeavoring to muster strength to break my bonds, when I heard a rest ling, gliding sound in one comer of the room. Could it be that some other human creature was imprisoned with me? No, it must be the wind outside. Then from the long, dark opening, used as a fire-place, came a similar sound, another and another. What was it? What could this mean. "Suddenly I felt something glide across my legs as they lay bound on the foot of the bed, and the awf-il, hor ror of the situation that my persecutors had devised dawned on me. I was in a den of snakes? If I moved I was a dead man. Sick with terror, I became unconscious. "I awoke lying beside the road. The moon was shining full in my face, and bending over me was tho girl I had met in the afternoon. " "Twas a clus call for you.' she said. T heerd pap'n the fellers a-talking' ez heaow they left yer here, an' when I got er chance I come to you.' " 'How did you do it?' 1 gasped. " 'Huh!' I'm used ter snakes, but but "The girl began to sob. " 'What is it?' I asked, moved by her distress. " T I dasseut go hum. fur dad will kill me.' "That's how my hair got white," said the major, as he threw away the stump of his cisrar. "But the girl?" said I. "Oh, she is in the next room with the children; she is my wife." New York Journal. SHAPELY CALVES A $6 A PAIR. Splndle-Slianked Eastern DtmIcn Fill Their Stocking With I,muli'a "Wool. According to a reliable and well known New York dealer in sporting goods, a large percentage of the young men who have taken to cycling pad their legs, and also adopt equally radi cal measures in broadening their shoulders. Such a demand has sprung up for padded legs in New York that the pads find a ready sale at ?G a pair. They are now part of the stock in every first-class sporting goods store. These pads are made of the finest grade of cotton, and are stuffed with lamb's wool to any thickness required. The dealer said to an Evening Sun re porter. "You would be surprised to see the men who buy these things. They are always young fellows from 20 to SO years of age and are novices 'in cyc ling. They want to make a good show- Before. After. ing as athletes before their best girls, and, of course, we help them out. Can you detect these pads when a cyclist is out for a spin? No. I don't think so. You see. they are made very carefully, so that they will not slip. A band of cotton slips around the sole of the foot and the pad is drawn over the leg just like a stocking after it has been filled out to meet the requirements of the wearer: A separate pad is frequently made for the knee and directly above it. AVhen it is on the stocking is drawn over it, the garter fastened above the knee and then 3-011 have a thin-legged swell with calves that woud rival those of a chorus girl. Ar they very warm in this weather? 1 should think they would be, but that never bothers the fellows who buy them. They are too proud of their ac quired possessions to allow the weath er to worry them. WINETANKS IN FRANCE. All the Country Xeedn In Pipe Lines to the Coaat. The railway .tank is introduced in Prance for the conveyance and distribu tion of wine from the vineyards, after the manner in which petroleum has in this country boen conveyed from the wolls to market, says the New York Tribune. The vintagers would be lucky if they could likewise adopt a system of pipe lines as the oil producers have done, and so diffuse their cheering prod uct with The maximum of celerity and at a minimum of cost. A network of pipes spreading under the soil from the Pyrenees to the British channel', run ning full with the crimsos. tide of St": Emilion. Haut Barsac, Hermitage and Chambertin. with spurts and gurgita tions of the commoner mixtures, ac cording to the fluctuations of demand, would be a subterranean development of extraordinary interest, and would be almost certain 'to be tapped by the thirsty here and there; but it is not like ly to come about, and the railway tank represents what is probably the linal reach of economy in distribution. The Aine-grower gets little for his product, the profits being consumed by the mid dlemen, who take tribute from it at every step, from the time it trickles out of the press till it goes down the throat of its consumer; and the indus try, which is one of the most important in France, is reaching out here and there for remedies. Wine at the press is now sold at 8 cents a quart. Last year the production was so abundant "that the ordinary storage receptacles were unequal to it. and anybody who would bring barrels might cany away ! the overplus free. Such an abounding 'harvest is rare, but "if comes now and ! then, and in such cases the railway tanks will be a godsend, as they will doubtless be useful in all times to the normal movements and operations of the trade. VELANCHTON'S RARE OLD TIMEPIECE. Use A Both a Watch and Clock y the German Reformer. Among the Melanchthon momento3 In Germany is shown a curiously shaped timepiece, which the great re former used as a watch and also as a table clock in his study. The watch was presented to him by an admirer during the Diet at Augsburg. Nothing more unique exists in this line. It is ball-shaped and four and one-half inch es in diauleter. The three little gold feet attached to the lower half of the case served as pedestals when it was used as a "standuhr" on Melanchthon's table. There was no glass to protect the dial and the movement is entirely of iron. It is plain and coarse four small wheels, a spiral spring turning to the left, and only one hand to indicate the hours. The case itself is heavily gold plated and tastefully engraved. Both parts of the case can be opened; under the upper cover the dial is revealed a ad under the lower the movement can HE HAS THREE VOICES 4VEER FACWLTY OS?" A CHICAGO COLORED MAN. nn Sing- SlmaltarieonaTy la Three Distinct Xotes in Imitation of as Many Different People Only, Re cently Discovered by a. Doc for, an Expert in Snch Cases. William Yancy, a pure-blooded negro md ex-slave from the South, had lived to past middle age and nlways had considerable of a struggle for exist ence, before he became aware of the fact that he was something of a phys ical monstrosity and an object of in terest to the medical profession be cause of that very fact. He glories in the possession of three distinct voices one pitched in the barytone key and two minor ones, soprano and alto. The barytone is his normal Dr natural voice, while the consonant production of the other two depends Dn his will and on his manipulation of bis vocal chords. When singing cer tain songs particularly adopted to those three voices of his, they produce together a harmony of notes, similar, In fact, to the chiming in of a rather well modulated barytone voice and of a soprano and an alto of less volume and power. In other songs, or pas- be plainly seen. Inside the case the following inscription is found Phil: Mela: Gott: allcin: die: Ehr: 1530. (Philip Melanchthon, to God alone all honor. 1530.) This is perhaps one of the first time pieces intended to be carried on the person. In the beginning of the six teenth centuiy the first watches were made. The inventor, Peter Henlein, died Nov. 1G, 1542. The watches were then nicknamed Nuernberger eier (Nu ernberg eggs.) Specimens of these are now so scarce and valuable that at an auction of antiquities in Paris a watch made by Peter Henlein brought 12,450 francs. ALL EUROPE READY FOR WAR. The Grent- Nations Prepared for n Declaration of Hostilities. After the dreadful Franco-German war of k1870-lS71 the principle of pro longed military service and of dimin ished annual contingents was given up, says McClure's Magazine. The mon strous principle of universal service was adopted instead. By this princi ple the whole nation is under arms. A country is no longer a country; a people is no longer a people; a nation is now nothing but an army, and a country is only a barrack. Everybody wears the uniform. Everybody is sur le qui vive. If war breaks out to-day all professions become deserted, all functions abandoned; the life of a na tion stops so that national activity may be said .to begin again only with the blood that is shed. Moreover, be fore two hostile armies, that is, two na tions which are enemies, join in com bat, each of the two armies, that is, each of the two infinite hordes which traverse their several countries to meet eventually on the field of battle, will leave behind it a country in famine, its factories silent and its trade para lyzed. Again, enormous stocks of food supplies must be accumulated on the frontiers where the two armies are likely to meet; but before reaching jtese infrThajtf tible . magazines the SJrBMtfBjrtHMV'fed while crossing tlaMiskliailew, and that requires mimeifP aV:tat, evea before the first gas Is ir';Kh ry 111 have ex peaded enwswig sums and left in its traia towns' and villages stripped of me, asd 'beasts, the cities in famine, the .country without a single tiller of the field. -vs. I'll come permanent, and tQ trhicav doubt, the frequent lioareenesfTof th subject is duev His. prolessipnal.bpin ion may be summMmth'esffew words: Abnormal conditions, bat not phenomenal ones'; both fancy's triple voice and his venfrlleqnism owing to the abnormal vibrations of the vocal chord. Before undergoing this exam ination by Dr. Ira D. Isham Mr. Yan cy gave an entertaining exhibition of his gifts. He sang "Hold the Fort," "Roll Jordan Roll," "Way Down Upon the Suwanee River," "When the Rocks In the Mountnins." the tonal scale and some other selections and in them all the peculiar conditions of his voice, as mentioned above were apparent. Some times the flowing together of the t'ce voices produced a perfect harmoiiy, but more often it did not. A little ven triloquistic scene, of Yancy's own in vention and very comical, demonstrat ed the man's perfect control over the changeful timbre of his voice. He en gaged in an apparent quarrel with some body outside the door who wished to come in and whom he would not ad mit. Without any apparent effort on Yancy's part' his voit-e changed off and on, from its natural tones to those of a man and then of a small darkey child outside trying to break in tho door. "STOP HIM! HE'S DEAD! It is proposed that a monument to the memory of John Brown be erected at Harper's Ferry. Chicago will prob ably object, and insist that any monu ment In honjr of the eropicipator be placed In the old engine house where he made his last desperate stand, and which is now located on Michigan ave Me la the Windy City. Tall Girls and Short. Opinion has always been very much divided upon the subject of women's height. The novelist and designers of fashion plates incline to the view that the female form divine should be somewhat of the altitude of a life guardsman. Tall women have unques tionably been in the ascendant in more senses than one of late. It has been expected of us to be verj- much nearer six feet than five, and we have very successfully contrived to fulfill this ex pectation. Notwithstanding, there is a great deal to be said on the other side. There are those who will declare that there is more fascination, more charm, more vivacity about a little woman. She is, they will say, more energetic, and beside her the average young man does not feel the drawbacks of early and incessant cigarette smoking and the degeneracy of his sex; she can coax and pout and flounce into pretty little passions with greater grace than a "daughter of the gods," she needs a protecting arm in a crowd, and she does not take up so much room in a railway carriage, or dwarf her part ners in the ball room. There was never yet a little woman who could not command attention and flirt five times as furiously as a tali one, and no amount of height ever pro duced more dignity than a small wom an can assume on occasion. It is, of cpurse, by comparison that everything is thus and thus, and so it is only when judged by the standard of some exceptionally tall sister that a short woman will permit herself to tie so described. She will always indignant ly disclaim a brevity of inches under any circumstances, though no woman ever yet objected to the epithet, "lit tle woman" used as a term of affection. 'Lady's Pictorial. ' Microbe Photograph. Prof. Marshall Ward has made a cu rious discovery in photography. He has found that direct sun and electric arc light, and more especially the blue rays, kill microbes. Hence, if he cov ers a plate of glass with gelatine over a colony of microbes and exposes it to the sun, the gelatine remains clear in tho light-, but grows black in the shade by reason of the development of the organisms. By this means he has suc ceeded in taking photographs of per sons and landscapes. It is stated that no sensitive film or developer is re quired, and that the picture simply forms on the plate during exposure. Gxhaast Steam Soaad-Hedaccr. A sound reducer is being introduced in. Germany, which, it is claimed, en tirely overcomes the noise occasioned by exhaust steam. The apparatus is applicable to all kinds of exhaust en gines, steam, gas and petroleum en gines, while it at the same time serves the purpose" of - an oil, and water separator. A large reducer, 14 feet high, has: recently been constructed! for use in connection with a 400 horse power "winding engine at a Westpha lian colliery. - ; Prof. William Yancy. sages of them, the three voices which simultaneously emanate from his throat, sound discordant. He has by dint of many years unass'sted train ing, reached that degree of skill in "handling" his assortment of voices that he can sing the solo part of his song in his normal, clear barytone, reserving the wierd effect of the three voices in conjunction to the chorus or refrain. Besides this abnormal profi ciency in emitting a job lot of notes, Mr. Yancy is likewise the proud owner of ventnloquistic power., and the lat ter he knows how to use to even bet ter effect than his vocal talents. Is Janitor of a. Chnrch. William Yancj is now the janitor of Quinn chapel, that large and hand some church at the corner of Wabash avenue and Twenty-fourth street, of which Rev. James Townswell is the pastor, and to whose congregation be longs thousands of the better class of colored people in Chicago, says the Herald. He is eminently respectable and, though his hair is turning gray, he carries his 56 years with ease and a certain amount of buoyancy. Yet William's life has not been so full of 6unshine as it might have been. He was born of slave parents down South and at the age of 5 he was sent to the big slave market of- those days, to Richmond, where, after spending a few days in Lumpton's jail for safe- keeping,- he was knocked down &t sec tion te Samuel Bowmaa, the price being $300, and was carried off to the Shenandcah valley, in Rockingham county, where his new master had a large plantation. He never spent a day at school, and the little he now knows of reading and writing he taught' himself, as he did his singing and ventriloquism, in after life and without a bit of assistance. He was "raised" in Virginia, the old state and the West Virginia, and whan a youth he was sold to another master, Peter Rolla, now at Harrisbnrg, W. Va. Aft er the war he drifted to Chicago, in 1SG7. and has since made this city his home, living for eight years of the time at 718 Third avenue, and travel ing for a long while iu the capacity of assistant to an advertising agont for a big New York buckwheat firm, all over the country. For a time, too, he sold a cough S3rup of his own making, and in this semi-professional capacity he was honored with the title of "professor." All through, though, in slavery and since, he has been an honest man, of good repute, has re mained a gay and festive bachelor and has always enjoyed good health. His powers of observation are keen and his conversational ability considerable, the enjoyment of it heightened for the hearer, perhaps, by Mr. Yancy's un diluted negro dialect and his predilec- as to now ue came xo discover m peculiar gifts, above described, that was as follows: Being then a boy of about 12, and working one day in tho cornfield on the plantation of Mr. Bow man, he suddenly discovered, while singing some darkey tunes, that he could 'strike two voices, when he sang j very high." He tried it again and again and then ran to his mistress Miss Mary Bowman, who had always been very kind to him, and told her of his dis- 1 covery. "But how can you do it Wil liam?" she said in amazement. Where upon he started off with that fine old negro hymn: When the rocks in the mountains will all flcee away, I shall find a new hiding place there. Ha sang it, pitched in a high key of his youthful voice, and, sure enough, the vibrations in the roof of his mouth suddenly sounded double, then treble, and Miss "Mary stood and wondered and said: "Oh, how strange it is?" But that was all. No further ado was made of the queer facts in this case. His white-skinned employers then and since may have looked upon these phy- 1 sical abnormities as a new phase in ' negro nature. And William went on j through the even tenor of Ins ways, hoeing corn and feeding cattle and at tending to other chores, reserving his peculiar gifts for his own private amusement in the evening, and not thinking much about it. He Enconnters a Professor. Thus it was until recently when Dr. Ira D. Isham, whose specialty is the voice and chest, and who is a profes sor of physiological diagnosis in ,the College of Physicians and .Surgeons, noticed the elderly negro on one occa sion and was treated to an exhibition of his special talents, both in singing and in ventriloquism. Dr. Isham, in the presence of the writer, made an examination of Wil liam Yancy and found the epiglottis in a normal state, the roof of the mouth exceptionally short, but the space im mediately back of it abnormally long and extensive, so that there is more space for the resonance of tho vocal chords than is usually the case. He also found the vocal chords themsel ves slightly congested and inflamed an abnormal condition which has be- Mrs. Willing: Frantic Cries as She Chased Her llabanil Up Street. A man rushed out of the Hotel Ellejt, on Ellet street, Dorchester, at about 8 o'clock last nlghr, says the Boston Traveller, and started up Ellet street on a dead run. He was hailess and coatlcss. He hadn't goie ten yards when a woman dashed out of the same door and. screaming at the top of her voice, started olf in pursuit of the man. "Oh, stop him! Stop him-" cried the . oman. "He's dead. He's just taken poison. Catch him and call a doctor!"' By this time the man had sprinted around the corner, having easily dis tanced the woman, and the crowd who had gathered at hearing the unearthly shrieks thought fie was exceedingly lively for a dead man. Some of them started off in pursuit of the man, as the woman sat down on the curbstone in a state of collapse. She told the crowd that her name was Willing and that she had only been married to her husband three weeks. She could not see how she could do such a thing. It was her husband, Willie Willing, who had hustled around the corner a moment before. While Mrs. Willing was talking to the crowd, assuring them that her husband must certainly be dead, as he had swallowed a whole bottle of laudanum, a policeman of Station No. 2 was struggling with Wil lie around the corner. He had seen the man running with the other in pursuit and had taken a hand. He quickly headed him for the patrol box as soon as the others said that the man had taken poison. The patrol wagon responded quickly, and Willing was hurried off to the station-house, where a physician was in waiting with a stomach pump. He went to work on the man. who was struggling and evidently trying hard to speak. Time was precious, however, and the doctor pumped Willie's stom ach quite dry. Then Willie got a breathing spell and started to talk. He said that he had not taken poison. He had had frequent quarrels with his new wife, he said, and threatened to kill himself. Yesterday he got a bot tle of laudanum and showed it to his wife, to scare her. But he poured the laudanum out and filled up the bottle with Peruvian bark. He retained the old label. When the customary quarrel hegaiJas tonight ,hedrewutbo-J).ottle and driak the contests. Then he rim est. Mrs. , Willi came breetUeasly Into th sitatloB house while tfce pawn ing was goiag on. When she saw how she and the'rest were fooled she made nip with .Willie and she went home. ' - NEW KIND-'OF UNICYCLE. frhea tha liver SeaateMd. Da For eur neglect of Itby Infllctlag upoa glck headache, by dyelnsr' thB kin vsllaw. t, coating- the tongue with fur, DroducIncTeV D, r - AUU adUflB I. - breath, we are little lesj taaa lunatics if w disregard the chastisem-nt. IfwecallHes tetter's Stomach BItteis to our aid, traar qulllty and health follow speedily, and with' the departure of tha synptoms mentioned, departs also irregular t 0 tho bowels, which invariably atte d disorder of the liver. In malarial com aints the liver is always Involved, and it a fortunate cir cumstance that this fine inti-bllious medi cine is also the anest t 3clfie in existence for every t rm of inalai I disease. Nor is it less efficacious for dj pepsia. failure of appetite and strength, te vousnes- and :l rheumatic tendency. 1 -enews the ability to sle p, and jrreatly omotes convales cence after wiistinj; dise es. A Stcamfthlp on I ke Titicaca. A triumph in engin 'ring is reported from the mountains ' Peru, where a twin screw steamer o ;iQ tons, 170 feet long and 30 feet wide as been success fully launched in Lane Titicaca, the highest navigable wa: rs in the world, more than 13.00:j fee above ' the sea This steamer, which 1 longs to the Pe ruvian government an-I is to be used for freight and passenger traffic, was built on the Clyde, then tak;n apart in more than J, 000 pieces and shipped to Mol lendo by sea. It was then carried to Puna by railway and transported over the mountains on the backs of llamas and mules and put together by a Mr John Wilson, a Scotch engineer, with great skill and success. Shiccgo Kecord. " v Snre Fit. - 5 . "What have 3011 named your nen coyy "William.' I wanted to get a name that would be sure to fit." ..r .3 ... i --a uoii t quite caicii on. "Why, don't you see? If he grows up to be a real nice, good kind of a 3'oung man he will be called Willie, and if he should happen to turn out pretty tough he can be called Bill." A Superb Display. Talk about energy! Has. any ont more than the wqnian- Vjhq yorks the beefsteak pounde'r that' w'akes'ou tip in the mornin"'? Atchison Globe. A Machine Wlilcii tlie Inventor Thinks Will ltun by Its Own Mo mentum. A novelty in the cycling line which has been 'attracting considerable at tention in New York is a unicycle in geniously contrived to run along by its momentum after it has been fairly sot sioinir bv th usual iiedalin? meth od, savs the Sun. A forward inclina tion of the rider's body keeps the wheel revolving, and it is said it can be easily stopped by leaning backward. The same simple law of gravitation causes it to spin unerringly round any curve toward which the rider leaus on either side. The nn chine has no stear ing gear and is said to require none beyond the tendency given to its direc tion by the poise of the rider's body. The motion is generated as in .a safety bicycle until the small inner wheels set the outer or traveling wheel spin ning. It does the rest and covers so much ground at each revolution as would enable an average rider to com pass a mile well under two minutes. The inventor thinks a record of half that time within the possibilities with an expert in the saddle and is at pres- There are over nOO.OJO te!ephqn$ in ser vico in the United States, f jyf( In Hot Weather Something is needed to keep up the appetite, assist digestion and give good, healthful sleep. For these purposes Hood's SarsapariHa is pecu- Hood's 8ars- A -1 parillm liarly adapted. As a AC blood purifier it has no U.A? equal, and it is chiefly by its power to make pure WfWfW blood that it has won such fame as a cure for scrofula, salt rheum and other similar disease. Hood's Pills cure headache aadiadigeBt Ion. W. L. Douglas 9 OUnHlnT IS THE BEST. V OnWtNOSaUEAKINO. S. COKDOVAnl. 5.5FfUCE.3Sous. EXTRA FINE" 2..7BY3SowlSho. LADIES SEUD FOR CATALOGUE WL-DOIMpLAS, BROCKTON, MAS. tr-Ernrlag the rlu 3.00 Skee. . Itmit. 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Davis & Rankin Bldg. & 2Ifc. Co. Agents Wanti:t. Chicago, 111. Patents, Trade-Marks. Examination and Advire o to Patentability of Invention, fk-nd for " liivet.tnn'MejOr How to Get aratent." TAZZZZ VASSETSTOy, S. C Bni from thir Attorney C WOT HEAR I I ortheromm!onef.willwritetoaJATHAII ftlCKFORD. l'enslon A laient Att'y. 14 .St.. Washington. 11. C.. they winrecetvea. prompt reply. !-SjSSnHnnnneBnVE The. Wheel, cnt engaged on Improvements which he claims will obtain universal recogni tion for the contrivance. The inventor's brain has been revolv ing in cycles since he conceived the idea of a bicycle thirtj' years ago Some -four years ago it occurred to him to electrify the wheel world by intro ducing a unicycle. and the present ma chine is the result. He completed it a year ago and had it tried with satis factory results at the Syacuse Arm ory. As the wheel now stands it meas ures six feet in diameter and weighs ISo pounds. It costs all told about $G00. 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