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IRA L BAKE, Editor and Pbopbietok SUBSCRIPTION BATES. One Tear, cash in advance, $1.25 Six Months, cash in advance 75 Cents Entered attheNorthPlaUe(Nebraska)po6tofflceas second-classmatter. TUESDAY, SEPT. 21, 1897. SEPUBLICA2T STATE TICKET. For Judge of the Supreme Court, A. M. POST. For University Kegents, C. V. KAXiEY, J. N. DRYDEX. The handsome and genial editor of tlie Sidney Telegraph, Chas. C. Callahan, has received notice of his appointment as postmaster at Sid ney. The aooointment has been worthily bestowed, o Five months of the municipal year have passed and yet tne ''re- form" city administration has not even suggested a plan for payi the just claims on file against the city. Are these honest debts to be reDudiated? Surely it begins to look that way. Middle-of-the-road populists who feel that they have been disgraced by Governor Holcomb and his state house ring, propose to put up ticket of their own. They can't swallow Sullivan's past record which shows him to have been the tool of railroads and monopolies. There are a good many ot the more honest popocrats who are now wondering how republicans knew McKinley was 'the advance agent of prosperity," and how they knew the show was coming. These are the ones who realize they have a show airain. Fremont Tribune. The saloons of North Platte have been enjoying a better Sunday trade this vear than ever before. The keepers no doubt feel very grateful to the present "reform" city admin istration for the privilege ot keep ing their back doors open, but how do the church people who yoted lor A. A. the "reformers," feel about the mat ter? There seems to be a tendency on the part of the more intelligent populists of the county to do what they can toward smashing the Kel- iher-Holcomb-Haultman-Buchanan political trust. Jiven tlie .bra is a little modest in pushing forward this combination which thwarted the will ot the delegates in the pop ulist county convention. In Nebraska the populists claim to have swallowed the democrats and the democrats claim they have swallowed the populists, but it matters little which have done the swallowing act, political dyspepsia and indigestion is sure to fol low. In the meantime the republi cans, not being troubled with crow diet, will proceed to re-elect Judge Post to the supreme bench. The Era "exposed" John Soren- son's method of conducting the city treasurership and as a result Mr. Sorenson was re-elected by one ot the largest majorities ever given a i 'candidate in North Platte. If the Era will "expose" the candidates who are nominated on October 9th their election is assured. The more mud-slinging the Era in- dulres in the greater will be the republican majorities. Another proof ot the generally improved business conditions is iound in the enormous' increase in the output of pig-iron. When bus iness generally is good the de mand for iron is good. It enters into the production of articles for the farm, for the railroads for build ing, for sea-going vessels.and almost every business enterprise, and has rightly been denominated a busi ness barometer. In Octobor of last year the weekly production of pig- iron m the United States averaged 112,000 tons. The average weekly i if . J C output ior cseptemoer ot tins year will average about 190,000 tons. jl liat is tlie ainerence oetween pro tection business and free trade idle ness, protection prosperity and free-trade adversity. The meetinj large attendance at the r of the republican county committee Saturday afternoon is ample evidence that the republi cans of Lincoln county are not sleeping; they are ready and anx ious to buckle on the armor and meet the enemy upon the political battle-'field. The return of a re publican to the White House fol lowed .by a rapidly increasing pros perity in every section ot the coun try, has renewed the republicans' faith, in, and zeal for, his party, and a number of those who last fall wandered from the fold after strange gods have seen the error of their way and are returning to the ranks. On October 9th the repub licans will nominate a ticket com posed of clean, competent men, and they will go into the short cain- 1-Mjgu wuu a vigor wiiicu means faUCCUob. Camphor is mostly produced in Japan, Formosa, and some parts of China and the Philippines. Secre tary Wilson, the. head of the de partment of agriculture, proposes to give the citizens of- the gulf states an opportunity to experi ment in this line. He is preparing to distribute camphor-tree slips to that section, and is thus likely to add another important industry to those of the agricultural element. "After a great smash like that of 1893 or that of 1873 there is nothing to do but wait and let the business of the world settle itself, carefully keeping meanwhile the medicine men of finance with their feathers and rattles out of the way of the sick man. When public confidence is profoundly shaken it must re establish itself. It has been shaken by causes, and those causes must be removed. Speaker Reed on the business situation. THE SUGAR BEET. Fertilizers and RotationDoes Best Afti Wheat or Other Cereal. Since 'experience has taught that bots raised on fields freshly fertilized with stable manure are iuferior for purposes of manufacture, the rule has long bem established that not the beelr. but the previous crop should bo fertilized with this material, or that the beete should bo raised in rotation as the seccun or even third crop. This rule applies espe cially lo stable mauure aud night soil, as well as to Chile saltpeter, the misuse of which has produced such serious con sequences for factories, but not to phos- phatic manures, which usually esert favorable influence upon the crop. The opinion has generally prevailed among beet growers that heavy nitrog enous manuring, especially witn ni trate of soda, produces no injurious ef fect ou the quality of the beet. This opinion was based on the fact that in such beets the sugar per cent was only slishtlv diminished. Nevertheless the quality of a bert may be impaired even with little or no diminution of the sugar content by reasDu.of the increase of the percentage of nousuiiars present. Iu this respect it has been Ehown that heavy manuring with nitrogenous substances greatly injures the quality of the beet for sugar making purposes. Judicious fertilizing with nitrate of soda, how ever, is uenenciai, ami tins lorm oi nitrogenous fertilizer is in niauj' re spects the best known for beets. According to a bulletin on tbo sugar beet, issued bv t ho. United States de partment cf acriculture, beets do best after wheat or some other cereal. A good scheme of rotation is, first, wheat then beets: then clover, one crop of which is cut for hay aud the second crop plowed under; then potatoes, wheat and beets in the order mentioned. By this method, and a judicious use of stall maunro aud commercial fertilizers, the fertility cf the soil can ue main tained and even increased. Beetsshould follow wheat cr other cereal crop, be cause this crop, being harvested" early, leaves the ground ready for late autumn plowing, a prerequisite to successful beet culture. Sheaf Wheat For Pigs. " Serious objections to feeding pigs on sheaf wheat were developed at the Ore gon station. Observations made it np- noar that the pigs fed ou sheaf wheat did not relish their food. Tins inter fered iu obtaining gcod results. The pig will not make rapid gaius in flesh when it is compelled to work for its food. Rapid assimilatiou was prevented by length of time employed in securing the food. Much cf tho grain eaten by the nigs fed on- fheaf wheat was fouud whole in tho ercreta. It was not masti cated. The amount found whole iu the excreta was not as great as when pigs are fed on clean thrashed grain, but there was enough to account for consid erable of tho loss in the weights. The pigs fed ou sheaf wheat were not quiet m their pens. Their appetites seemed never lobe fully appeased. This unrest prevented tho proper digestion and assimilation of tho food received. More timo is required in caring for ani mals fed in this way In clearing the straw from the pens. More feed cannot be stored iu as small quarters as the thrashed grain. Mice, rats and other vermin will destroy more of the wheat in the straw than when thrashed and properly stored in bins. JUST A FEW SMILES. The Catchup King-. I put my 11101103-, every cent. Into n giant ti n.-. Became in time its president. And I am much discussed. 'Tis s:iid in liinsuajro far too plain In lwiibiess I'm supreme A pirate of tlie Spanish rn'u, Unworthy of esteem. Tlie papers all are most unkind. They say I want the earth And many, many reasons find To deprecate my birth. I did not know that God could make A man as had as I. If sinful spiiits broil and bake, I hardly care to dio. With candor, as the truth compels, I state my cause of woe. My trust owns mushroom catchup wells And markets all tlie How. I rashly once put up tlie price. Tho people lose a'nd said Some words that were not very nice About my heart and head. Th-y all averred my lad intent Consumers to destroy. I heard their ui:cious lament With all too litsle joy. But, oh, 'twas naught to what I now Experience I As I stroll I feel the brand upon my brow, Tlie iron in my soul. I'm made to mourn in passing where. By street or field or stream, Small dealers and consumers swear Their mutual esteem. Oh, I am thrice accurst and thrice Bedamned with many a frown. For, meaning well, I've put the price Of mushroom catchup down! Ambrose Bieree in San Francisco Examiner. liar train Day. "Fo I have won tlio wager," ho said joy fully, "and the ten kisses uro mine. I will take them at once." "George," said tho beautiful girl, with a noble, generous light 111 ncr eye, "i tin not tho one to drive a hard bargain with you. Let us call it 999." At 10 o'clock tbo scare was vazt the 109 mat!;. Detroit Free Press. GEN. SCOTT IN MEXICO HIS DESPERATE BATTLE AT CHAPUL- TEPEC FIFTY YEARS yVGO. Sublime Daring; of tho American Volnn teera With a It ash They Carried tho Slopes and Outer Walls of Santa Anna's Stronghold Warriors Who Won Honors Copyright, 1897. by American Press Asso r elation. Book rights reserved. urrx years ago tho 13th of Sep tember Genera! Scott won the de cisive battle of his campaign to tho City of Mex ico: That day part of his army stormed and cap tured the castle of Chapultepeo, a seemingly im pregnable for tress overlooking tho city. The Mexican position at Chapultepeo was the key to the city. Santa Anna, the Mexican leader, had 25,000 soldiers iu his army of defense, so there could havo been no lack of men to garrison a citadel so important. Nature had doue much to make the position strong. The hill is an isolated rock, with steep, precipitous sides on the north, east and. south. Its height is 165 feet. The castle, with wings, has-- tious, parapets, redoubts and batteries, an or neavy stonewort, presented a front 1.G00 feet in length. At the timo of the battle there were two stone walls, strongly built and from 2 to 14 feet iu height, surrounding the fortrEss. One of tho outworks of Chapultepeo consisted of a group of heavy stone buildings known as El Moliuos del Key (Mills of .the King). Scott believed that tho mills contained the powder maga zine and ammunition stores of the Mexi cans, and also thought that it was the key to Chapnltepec itself, aud had or dered it to bo carried by storm on tho 8th of September. This had been ac complished by a bold dash iu which the storming parties lost heavily. It turned out that the mills were under the Mexi can guns cf tho castle aud the place could not bo held. IS was promptly abandoned, and Scott turned his atten tion to the City of Mexico, intcuding to force tho passage by an immediate and direct attack. The chief officers of the troops and the engineers were called together iu an informal council to dis cuss the best mode of advance. With the single exception of Beauregard, who was a captain of engineers, the leaders favored an attack upon the city's gates by passing around Chapnltepec. After listening to the statements of all of those present, General Scott said, "Gen tlemen, wo will attack Chapultepeo first, theu look to the gates." The word was given out in the camps that Cha pnltepec must be stormed. Volunteer parties of 250 men each were offered tho place of honor in advance. Notwith standing the frightful death list made at the storming of El Moliuos del Rey, the soldieis wcro eager to renew tho attack. So many volunteered for the storming parties that tho choice was finally made by lot. Tho divisions assigned to tho attack .were led by Generals J. A. Quitman and Gideon J. Pillow. Tbo storming parties of 250 men each took position in front of tho divisions. The whole column was led by skirmishers com posed of a battalion of voltigeurs aud foot riflemen. The commander of this battalion was Colonel Joseph IS. John ston. When the signal sounded for the advance, Johnston's men led off on a sun, he having received orders to force an entrance through the immense wall inclosing tho castle park. Under tho excitement which followed the skir mishers ran far ahead aud kegt the lead rnxougnouc uio name, iu tne lace or a steady fire from the walls the voltigeurs deployed and turned their rifles npaii the Mexicans along the parapet. in a iew minutes tuo enemy broke from the wall and ran across the park to a hue of iutreuchmeuts in the rear, The voltigeurs kept close at the heels of the Mexicans, Johnstci leading them in their reckless ruu. The flag of his battalion was tho first' American bauuer planted upon the outer walls. Johnston was alreadv wounded, but he advanced uis men across tuo parK to tho rear 1 r . 1 I t . , a gates to cutoff a portiou of the garrison from retreat. This feat was accom plished in the face of a sharp and dead ly fire borne upon the voltigeurs from the terrace of the park iu their rear. Meanwhile the heavy infantry col umns and battalious of Quitman and Pillow had advanced aud seized the ground cleared by tho skirmishers. The ground over which the columns marched had been undermined and planted with explosives to be fired when tho advauco of tho Americans could bo staid iu no other way. The train of powder leading from the citadel to the, mines was dis covered by Private William A. Gray of Johnston's command aud destroyed, thus rendering tho mines useless. Some of the Mexican soldiers had been in structed to fire the mines should their advauco line retreat past them, but these soldiers were shot down by the skirmishers before they could apply tho torch. Pillow was wounded early in tho fight, and his column was brought to a halt in front of a heavy Mexicau redoubt soon after it passed tho mines. The guns of the castle far up on the summit thun dered furiously against Pillow's men, but nsthesoldierswereclo.se lo the base of the hill many shots went over the mark. At the redoubt tho contest was mora equal. Tho obstaclo Etcod directly in the pathway. This was carried by a quick dash inspired and led by Captain Chase of the Fifteenth infantiy. Chase's company was in the advance hue, .and when it reached tho faco of the redonbt promptly led it forward past the right flank. Another company of the ifteeuth regiment followed Chase's, and the whole of tho Ninth regiment brought up the rear. Beset unon their front and flank, the Mexicans who wcro packed in the redoubt abaudoucd tho work aud fell bock toward the castle. Pillow's men kept close to the heels of tho fugitives from tho redoubt, aud when the latter reached tba gates their comrades admitted them aud withheld their fire from the pursuers for fear of hitting friends. In this way Pillow's men gained shelter under the walls of the castle. The ladders which the storming par ties carried forward were quickly placed in position, and tho xcited Americans 10 ado, a rush for the t p Scrao v rcr shot from tho ladders arid others were killed after mounting tho wall. After several officers had been shot from tho ladders the American banner was plant ed upon the wall in the full face of the enemy. Seeing that, tho Mexicans lost heart and threw down their arms. Tho fight went on inside the inclosure. The Mexicans expected no quarter after the slaughter of El Moliuos del Bey. They m..Z .J - 11 xi e i a y leans nan appeasea tneir wratn ana yielded to better nature and the en treaties of their officers. Quitman's column inado an equally rapid but less bloody conquest of the southeast comer of the castle inclosure, some hundred yards distant from the scene of Pillow's attack. Pillow as saulted the west wall and Quitman the southeast corner. The ground in front of Quitmauwas comparatively level, but was out up, by ravines and well de fended by infantry and batteries. . The leaders of the storming columns were Bhot down, but the gallant soldiers went forward to, tho trenches and bat teries. By a bold dash the New Yorkers, South Caroliuians and Pennsylvania volunteers led by General Shields and Colonel John W. Geary made a lodg rnenfc under the walls. While forming column for4ieavy assault at this-" point tho Americans were surprised by a rush of the Mexicaus iu that direction to es cape the f nry of Pillow's men, who had crossed the western wall. Finding themselves between two fires, the Mexi cans gave up the fight. Then the united columns of Pillow and Quitman stormed the castlo itself. The garrison of tho castle consisted of national guards and a body of cadets belonging to a college established in the castle. An American who took part in the fight described tho cadets as "pretty little fellows from 10 to 10 years of age." lie added that they struggled ,hke demons, but it was useless: the en raged assailants bayoneted man and boy alike. wniio ugiuing was still going on arouud tho base , of the hill General Scott mounted to the dome of tho castlo to get a view of tho city aud its ap proaches. From there ho directed his columns upon the several gates which remained to bo forced after the fall of Chapultepeo. The City of Mexico fell under Scott's bold attack. Scott struck tho keynote of the campaign when he said, throw ing all other suggestions asido, "We will attack Chapultepeo first" His men were inspired by tho very thought, and the Mexicans were paralzyed at the spectacle cf such great gallantry. Officers and men in tho American ranks bore themselves with the most glorious courage. Over 50 of the noted leaders of the civil war were brevetted for personal -heroism at Chapultepec. Among tne army commanders were- Grant, Lee, McClellan, Joseph E. Johnston, Stonewall Jackson, "Fight ing Joe" Hooker aud Beauregard. Long street and Pickntt aud Annistead wore in tho front rank of heroes at Chapnlte pec. Silas Casey led a storming column. Robert Anderson was there and the gal- 1:1 1 SCALIXO TIIK WALL laut Nathaniel Lyon. Generals Stevens, Reno, Thomas Williams, Israel Richard son and Sedgwick, who were killed while leading Federal divisions iu the civil war, earned their spurs at Chapul tepee. Among the Confederate leaders who came' out with honors won at Chapnltepec were W. H. T. Walker, tho cavalryman; G. W. Smith, Huger, Ed ward Johu?on, WillcGX, Ewell, Loriug, G. B. Crittenden, John G. Walker, D. H. Hill, Mansfield Lovel, Earl Van Doru, Roswell Ripley aud General Archer, whoso Tennesseeaus opened tho fight at Gettysburg. Then there were Hancock; Gordon Granger, J. M. Braunau, J. P. Hatch, the cavalry leader; Hunt, the artiller ist; J. J. Peck, Fitz John Porter, J. G Foster, Charles P. Stone, William Hays aud Steele, the noted Federal com mander bc3,cnd tho Mi.csissippi. Every form cf heroism was displayed by fneso officers at Chapnltenec, charging can nou, runuiug their cannon up to the 1 - r a 1 r iuuzzccs ci 1 tie inexicans pieces, cany- ing orders under fire, scaling the ene my's walls and risking life to inspire their men to exalted deeds of courage. Geokge L. KlLilEli. j-iju iuugesc urioge in rne world is the ouo across tho Daunbe at Ozerna- ml. i . , - veda, where there is a wide region of annual inundation. It is 13,325 feet Jong without the approaches. How's This! Wo offer One Hundred Dollars Re ward for any case of Catarrh that cannot bo cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O We, tne undersigned, have known F. J, Cheney for the last 15 years, and be lieve mm perfectly honorable in all bus iness transactions aud financially able to carry out any obligations made by their nxm. ' West & Tbuax. Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O Walpip, Jvinfan & Marvin, Wholesale Druggists. Toledo, O. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internal ly, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Testi monials sent free. Price 75c per bottle Sold by all Druggists. Hairs Family Pills are the best. l-O-'J NEBBASKA STATE FAIB. On the occasion o the Nebraska State Fair, Carnival of the Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben,and other special at tractions at Omaha, the Union Pa- ciGc will make a very low rate from North Platte Sept. 21st and 22d only.ol $6.00 plus 50c admission for the round trip. For full particulars call on ' N. B. Olis. Agent. 1 j- ii "Jbg-rfJ . A I ii II :1 !u - 1 CAJ. Z ITti THE ARROW AND THE SONG. I shot an nrfpw into tho air. It fell to earth, I knew not where. For, so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its llight. I brcaed t song into the air. It fell to earth, I knew not -where. For who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward in an oak I found the arrow still unbroke. And tho song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of n frioml. rienry W. Longfellow. A BROTHER'S KEEPER TTTI wnen a man wno is yet young ar rives at thoiconclnsion that life holds nothing more for him and that he can only devote himself to tho Rood of others, there is plenty of keen wretch- redness in store for him. If he gets up alter a bad blow and is actively miser able and somewhat hateful and resent ful, he can yet bo happy. But self iin molation is not natural, and anything unnatural brings its own punishment. Another person and other people can not be the center of the universe for very long. There may come a jar that rwill put you out of plumb for a bit, but you swing back to your normal posi tion. The jar that came to Osborne was a hard one. The girl to whom he was en gaged told him that her parents were forcing her to marry a certain rich man; JNow parents in these days do not force one to marry anybody, but Osborne would have believed whatever ihe girl had chosen to tell him. He be lieved this and thought she was a beau tiful, suffering martyr, and there was a tragic scene, which she did cleverly, and a parting. After that Osborne lost even ambition, which had been a ruling passion almost abovo his love. The girl was mean enough, too, to keep his mis ery alive by writing to him now and then bewailing her gilded captivity. Life, he told himself, was henceforth a vain thing, only fit to be used in the service of others. It is not easy to serve others picturesquely in the army. Thero are no needy and no fallen ones, be cause when they fall they cease to be in the army. So Osborno bethought him of his brother Alexander. Alexander lived on a ranch, as Os borne had done. He was 17 years -old. At 1G Osborne had been the support of widowed mother and two children. He had had no boyhood in particular. It had all been work making the ranch pay. Only those who have tried it mow what that means. Alexander was not afflicted after this fashion. He lived on nis new steptatner and was envious of his brother. Now, when Osborne brought Alexan der on to San Autouio the first evening of his arrival he spoke to him thus: 'There's a first class school right in the. town, Alex." (Silence. "I want you to study hard, youngster, to make up for the time yon ve lost up there iu the wil derness. Alex braced his feet against the porch railing and tipped back his chair. It strikes me I've lost more fun than about anything else. It ain't fair, Herbert You've been having a picnic for the last eight years, while I've been slaving in the fields, and I dou't see it iu the light of settling down right away to digging at bocks. I want a swine. " If a nature is ambitious, it cannot be altered. The ambition may transfer its object from self to some one else, but it will not die. Osborne's had transferred tself to his brother. So his heart sank. But he had learned toleration. "Well, 11 give yon three mouths, but you must study to make np for it." 'Three mouths nothing! What's the matter with six?" 'A gcod deal is the matter. You'll be nearly la 111 six. mouths, and you don't know as much as the average boy cf 14. Of course I ra not blaming you for that. You haven't had a fair chance." Osborno forgot that at- 18 ho himself had passed the competitive ex amination. "1 guess I haven't at that or any thing else." Young Osborno had gone barefoot all his life aud had never had a whole new suit of clothes to his back or a dime to call his own. Osborne gave him danc ing -pumps and various seemly suits and a reasonable allowance. But he thought the allowauce small. "Say, Herbert, I can't make out with that measly ten. Make it 15, will you?" he complaiucd. "No," said Osborne. Osborne's "noes" were always defi nite, but Alexander persisted. "Why not? You've a lot more than yon'ueed." "I know best about that. Ten dollars is enough, pud it's all I can give you. I've your education to pay for, recol lect. Yon've no expenses ontside of an occasional theater ticket and tenuis ball or you shouldn't have. " "You always did catch all the .plums," said Alexander. Then the mail crderly gave Osborno a letter from the girl. Osborne locked himself in his workroom and read it and believed every word of it. Aud living even for others seemed a hard thing for tho next few days. Alexander felt his oats promptly. He excelled at baseball, he learned tenuis and dancing by magic and he rode well. Osborne had never been so popu lar. He had served tho Manimou of ambition exclusively until ho had transferred his allegiance to the god of love. Since then he had been a martyr r and martyrs are more pleasing in stained glass t ban in life. And now he returned to the first cult, and ambiticn filled him. He rejoiced in his brother's beauty, which was cf the Bertie Cecil type, in his magnificent stature, in his' agility aud his athletics. He mouuted him on the finest horso to be had in that part of the country and wore a shabby uniform himself all winter. He read with him for two hours daily and was well pleased when the boy remem bered just enough to give his conversa tion a peculiarly brilliant turn. He ar gued great things from this when Alexander snuuld whsn ho went to go to school, school Csborne But saw the truth. "Alex, the accouut of you is very bad. You've barely scratched through ou two tilings, ami you ve tailed on mathematics altogether. I've told you that mathematics is ihe (est at tbo Point," Osborno admonished. "Ob, come, I say, let up, Herbert. I'm trviug fti learn this piece." He picked on with beautifnl absorption at the guitar the lieutenant had given him. "Put up that thiqg and listen to me." Alexander obeyed, as all men did when Osborne willed. Awarded Highest Honors World's Fair, Gold Medal, Midwinter Fair. W CREAM BAKING PflWWR A Pure Grape Cream of Tartar Powder. 40 YEARS THE STANDARD. "I am going to get you into West Point at 20. When I say I am going to do it, yon know it is going to be done. Don't you? None of it depends on you except the study. I can't make you drink, but I'll tako you to water and keep you there until you find it will be easier to drink. You can go back Jo the ranch if you like, but I'm not afraid you'll like it. I don't want to treat you as a small boy unless you act tho part of one. You can learn and you must learn or the theaters will stop, aud tne hops will stop, and the guitar will stop also tho tennis. You have been cutting time, but henceforth you will study four hours a day and I will sit with you to help you and see that it is done. " So four hours out of every 24 Osborne put to tho use of teaching one who did not wish to learn. Density can be bored through with patieuca It is the iudia rubber of iudiffereut cleverness that re sists. After some of the struggles Os borne would lie awake for the rest cf the night from Eheer nervousness. The boy slept with unruffled brain. The lieutenant almost came to forget the girl, but never quite. A letter would como when Alexander was most inert, and Osborne would stare straight in front of him and grit his teeth aud wonder that a man could live with both sides of bis nature thwarted and nut back. ,But ho had his reward. Alexan der went into the academy at 20. He was the handsomest and most popular cadet in his class and he failed in the first year. Just how such things are done no one is ever quite sure, but in Osborne's case it must have been sheer force of deter mination. Alexander was reappointed, and he himself was made instructor at tho Point. He stood over the cadet with the stiugiug lash of his ambition, and Alex ander was graduated. Osborno un wisely took some credit to himself. "Nonsense!" said Alexander "I'd have doue it alone. The first miss was only bad luck. Don't think it's your circus. "Itdoesu't make any great difference to me whose circus it is so that you come out all right. I'm only glad you're gettiug some ambition." 'Ambition be hanged! It's tho one word in your lexicon. I'm sick of the sound of it It is thoin by which the angels fell. Look out you don't fall, angel brother. " 'I'm not likely to fall, but I should not mind it if it put you on amcuutain height." "No heights for me. I can't breathe rare air," answered the younger. Now in the course of army events it came to pass that a straugo fate made Alexander Osborne second lieutenant iu the troop of which his brother was first heuteuaut, aud tho first lieutenant continued his ambitious goading. Alex ander was independent at present and resisted to some purpose. He would not spend his nights in study and his days in wire pulling. The war department did not reward that sort of thing, he said. It was action it approved. Wait until his time for action came. Then he would satisfy his brother. And the time for actiou did come, but the action was disappointing. They marched 200 miles and then marched back again. Alexander complained loud ly that ho had had no occasion to dis play his prowess in battle. He should havo been quite safe in this, for that eveuiug they would be once mere iu Grant. But the Indian host is not to be reckoned with. At sun set, within ten miles of the post, tho Apaches caught the battalion in a ra vine and kept it there until well into the night. Tho mocn came up and showed to the bucks hiding behind the cedars aud scrub oaks on the rise the soldirra pen ned iu the gully below them. Jt was merely for tho latter a question of hold ing out and having a few u:t 11 killed. The dancer was not creat unless the Apaches should be re-enforccd or the conriers should not reaclt tho fort. So the men took shelter behind bushes and rocks and fired at the flashes of light in the darkness above them. The officers walked about in the deep shadows, fir ing, too, and giving orders. First Lieuteuaut Osborue was with his sergeant and another lieutenant when he came upon Second Lieutenant Osborne crouched down between two rocks, his arms clasped over his bent head aud his carbine dropped on the ground beside him. There was no mistake to bo made. The other lieutenant hesitated, tlie ser geant drew back, but Osborno went up and touched his brother with his foot. "Lieutenant Osborno," he said to tho junior, "go am' report to the officer iu command, Captain Clarke. 1 Khali have preceded you and have reported you for cowardice." He went iu search of tho captain and made his report, aud Second Lieutenant Osborne was sent under arrest back to the dismounted horses in the rear Then the first lieutenant threw open his blouse aud covered his breast with a wide, white silk handkerchief that gleamed even in the shadow and walked put into the full mooulight. Jtwas a matter of only a moment her fore the hidden Apaches saw him with, the white target on his bosom, and two pf them at least took aim at the target and hit it full in the center, aud First Lieuteuaut Osborne pitched forward ou the stones. Gwendolen Overton in San Francisco Argonaut. j The corn law passed ' by the Indiaua legislature, which provides that 68 pounds shall constitute a bushel of corn, is a dead letter in thatstato, says an ex change, and much complaiut has beeu mado by farmers because of it? evasion l?f the corn bovers. " A COURTIN CALL niiil Ee dressed hisself from top ter toe Ter beat the latcs' fashion. He give his boots a extra glow. Trig dickey glistered like the snow. He slicked his hair exactly so. An all ter indicate "his passion." He tried his hull three ties afore He kep the one on that he won. nsal All afternoon she laid abed Ter make her featur's brighter, Bho tried on every geonn sfho hed, Sho rasped her nails until they bled, A dozen times she fuzzed her head. An put on stuff to make her whiter. An fussed till she'd n-cried, she said. But that 'Id mako her eyes so red- THEM I They sot together in the dark -J 'Ithout a light, exeep' their spark. ' -An neither could have told or guessed: What way tho other un was dressed I P. E. Y. Cooko in Buffalo Courier. MINERAL WATERS. Why and How They Benefit Those That Drink Them. When a patient reaches a mineral water health resort, he is examined by the resident physician and ordered to drink. certain quantities of the water at certain times duriug the day. These are increased from day to day nutil the maximum quantity Jieeded is reached. He is ordered to drink one or two glass fuls upou rising, two or three glasses between breakfast and dinner, the samo qnautity in the afternoon and a couple of glasses before going to bed. The pa tient is urged to take it whether ho wants it or not. Ho may say that ho is not thirsty, but that makes no differ ence; ho must tako it as a medicine. The quantity is increased until we have known 80 glasses per day to be taken. A part of the benefit derived is bo- cause of the rest and change of scene. A part, perhaps, is from the small quantity of the salts and other bases contained in these waters (we are not speaking of cathartic or chalybeate wa ters), but the benefit from this source is very slight. Tho secret of the cure is iu the quantity of water taken. If the wa ter be pure, free from organic matter. and taken in sufficient quantity, the re sults will be substantially the same, re gardless of tho "traces" of lithia and small quantities of sodium chloride and other salts. You can perform theso cures at home with tlie ordinary drink ing water, if of good quality, if you will require the patient to tako it in the same quantity as at the springs. It is very easy to add lithia if desired, but you must not lose sight of tho fact that the quantity of water (not lithia) taken is the important tbiug. It aots by flood ing the kidneys, by washing out tho bladder with a copious, blaud and dilute urine, ny unciogging tne liver ana clearing the brain. Tbo patient feels better from day to day; he is better. Irritable bladder is relieved, the kid neys act freely are "washed out" and many effete substances are carried out with the flood. This clears the way for the liver to act freely aud normally, for there is an intimate relation be tween the liver and kidneys. New York Ledger. Elephant Flesh an African Delicacy. The flesh of the elephant is eaten in its entirety by several of the African tribes. A detail of the process of butch ering the animals is not pleasant read ing. The tools used are the. assagai and hatchet. The rough outer skiu is first removed in large sheets. Beneath this is a subcuticle, a pliable membrane, from which the natives make water skins. Tho elephant yields large quan tities of fat, used in cookinc the na tives' sun dried biltong, or dried strips of the elephant's flesh, aud also in the ' preparation of vegetables. African ex plorers" of the Caucasian race agree that one part of the elephant's carcass, when properly cooked, is a succulent dish that will regale the most delicate taste. This part, very straugelyj is the first joint of the leg below the' kneey which one would suppose to be the toughest portiou of the animal. To prepare tho. joint a hole three feet deep is dug in the earth, and the sides of it are baked bard by means of largo live coals. Most of the coals are then taken out, and the elephant's foot is placed in the rude oven. Tne nole is tlien mied with dirt, tishtlv nacked. and a blnzinc fire built on top, which is kept replenistiealjij for three hours. The foot is thus evenlv strong, tough meat fiber, it is of a ge latinous consistency that may be eaten with a spoon. Philadelphia Lmicet. Fit anu I'klight. One would have thoucht'thig an Americauism, but I find it iu Garrick's "Miss Iu Her Teens," where Tag says to Flash: "Oh, pray let me see you fight! There were two gentlemen fit yesterday," etc. (act 2). Notea and Queries. Cinderella's fairy god-mother, with one touch of her magic wand, transformed the maiaen'a rags and tatten into the richest silks and sat ins. There are thousands of young- women to-day who need a fairy god - mother who will touch thera with the wand of health, A girl's best gift is hex health. Everv girl may be a healthy girl and become a healthv wife and a capable mother, if she will but take the proper care of herself in a womanly way. 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