A MYSTERY OF IMPORTED BEER Ifel Wm iMtwitni, While the Im ports Are Deerwelof. - It la regarded by some persona aa surprising that while the Importations £ of beer have fallen oft considerably In the last two years, the consumption of Imported beer has increased more than fivefold, aays a New York paper. Where ten years ago there were, perhaps, a dosen places in town at which Import ed beer was sold, there are now, prob ably, six hundred. It has become, In fact, a prime necessity In saloons of the first class to have on draught imported beer, and the multiplicity of such signs Is significant of the constantly Increas ing demand for the beverage. Some sa loons keep as many as six or seven va rieties of imported beer; but at the same time the receipt of barrels In which it Is contained—It is shipped In barrels, not kegs—Is constantly falling off. The explanation of the matter is one which can with much greater candor be given by a consumer than by a dealer In the imported article. The fact Is this: Very little of the so-called Im ported beer sold In New York city sa loons at present is really imported. It Is domestic beer of a different kind from that usually sold, and the differ ence Is to be found In the use of color ing matter and in the larger Infusion of alcobl. It |s alcohol that gives to Imported beer its strength and which, at the same time, preserves it during the ocean voyage and the constant changes of temperature to which it is subjected in its transfer over 4,000 miles of land and sea. Genuine im puneu peer noni irom uermany to United Staten contains a larger pro portion of alcohol than the beer sold and drunk in Germany. The distinctive mark of American beers Is that they are what Is called light, of amber color, and have a bitter taste, supplied in good beer by the hops. Kaiser beer. Pilsener beer, and some few other va rieties of German beer are light, but the great majority of beers sold in Ger many are dark, of a reddish-brown color, somewhat resembling mahogany In hue. Now many American brewers, and especially those In the city of New York, brew two varieties—dark and light The dark la heavy; the light Is frothy. The general demand of con sumerles Is almost universally for light beer, but the dark has some admirers, especially among those persons who like a heavier article, sometimes pre subscribed for medical use, and resem bling, to some extent, porter In its nu tritive properties. This dark beer, the product of American brewers, costs usually a little more than the light, but It costs considerably less than the imported article with the duty added to it So in many New York saloons the eo-called "Imported" beer sold over counters or at tables is really nothing more or less than the ordinary Ameri can dark beef, colored somewhat, and with alcohol added. Knowledge of this fact thoroughly explains the apparent paradox that while the Importations *of foreign beer have fallen off, the sales of foreign beer In New York are In creasing. During the last two years many American brewers have been ex tending their trade by the manufacture of a variety recommended to Invalids to whom, heretofore, porter has been prescribed. This variety of domestlo beer has largely superseded porter, and, Xi to some extent, ale, and the sale of it appears to be increasing. It Is brewed only by very large concerns, however, and considerable advertising work is neceesary to get It on the market. DmMtf« Bnun Lightning Hod. Albert Lund le a carpenter and boards at the Union Hotel at Deerfield Corners, says Utica Observer. He was sitting on the hotel veranda when the storm came V* up last evening. After one of the flashes Lund tipped over in his chair £■* and fell down like one dead. There were halt a dosen people who witnessed the occurrence. When they picked him up Lund was unconscious. For fifteen minutes he was unable to speak. Peter Schulte, proprietor of the hotel, walked him around and resorted to various measures to bring the young man to ' Ms senses. His efforts were finally sue* cesstul and Lund was soon able to describe the sensations he had expert* enced. He said that they were not al V together unpleasant The worst sensa tion was after the effects passed away. He felt sick at his stomach. Twice be fore Lund has drawn in his direction electricity from the clouds, and he be gins to think that he might properly be dubbed “the human lightning rod." On one of the previous occasions he was dumping a pail of milk into a can. He and the can were both knocked over. Another time he was so violently . shaken that his garments were rent Buaaard Conans ■ Ballrood Wreck. A bussard flew against the headlight of a locomotive of a train near De Funlak Springs, Fla., recently, and the oil, flowing out caught lire. The engi neer reversed the lever so quickly that the train jumped the track, injuring I’ several passengers. The Are was put out and the body of tbe bustard, thor oughly cooked, was found in the lamp. Y.,: t MnyavUlo People Shaken Up. At 1 o’clock the other day, Maysville, Ky., was shaken up by an earthquake. The shock lasted a minute and folks pore so scared they dug into the streets. Clocks were stopped, dishes were rat ?•: tied and crockery broken. Some folks prayed who haven't offered a petition ; r.ji te the throne of grace In years. 1T-Toai-OM Bor daw Dp for Ufp George Chesbro, the 17-year-old Y youth who was convicted of murdering Y his grandmother, Mrs. Levi Pierce, July 8th last, near Grand Haven, Mich., has p?:-been sentsnssd to life Imprisonment at Awarded Highest Honors—World's Fair, DU BAKING mm MOST PERFECT MADE. A pure Crape Cream of Tartar Powder. Free from Ammonia, Alum or any other adulterant, 40 YEARS THE STANDARD, POX RAISING IN ALASKA, Hopeful of Realizing Largo Profits from the Sale of Many Pelts. Fox farming in Alaska, which has as* sinned immense proportions, was orig inated by a Pittsburgher. In 1879 George Wardman was traveling about the coast in the steamer Rush. He saw a valuable black fox skin sold for $200, and conceived the notion that farming the fox would be profitable. He got Peach Taylor, Thomas F. Mor gan and James C. Redpath Interested, and a company was formed. The gen tlemen are agents of the Alaska Com mercial company at St. George. Morgan suggested as a place for the experiment the Semedies group of seventy rocky islets, sixty miles west of Kodiak, which produced nothing but sea birds and sea lions, and are unin habited. At the seal islands of the Pribyloft group the Alaska Commercial Company catch 1,000 to 1,600 blue foxes every winter. The black foxes are scarce, while the blue fox is not nearly so valuable. During the winter of 1880 arrange ments were made with an agent at Ko diak to get some black fox cubs. He secured half a dozen, and while he was away on business the natives killed the cubB by klndnesB and by overfeeding them. No more of the cubs could be found, and no further effort to carry out the scheme was made until the sum mer of 1884, when about twenty blue fox cubs were caught. They were taken in a steamer to Unalaska and thence in a chartered schooner, with a quantity of seal meat, to the Semedies Islands, where they were released. The islands are inaccessible except In calm weather, which helped the en terprise, as it kept poachers and Indians from catching the stock. At first It was difficult to get any right on the land. The treasury department, however, ad dressed a letter to revenue steamers and the provisional government of Alaska, to give their protection to the fox farmers under the law protecting squatters, and the company has not been molested in its enterprise. The foxes eat eggs and catch birds in the summer. They are also adepts at killing sea lions, which serve them for food. They are very intelligent. They take the eggs in summer and hide them in the thick moss, which is like mattresses, and leave them until they get hungry in winter and can find nothing else to eat. It they hid the eggs in the dirt they would be unable to scratch the frozen ground away from them in winter, hence the wisdom dis played in covering them with moss. The foxes have been watched during the months of July and August on the cliffs searching for eggs, and have been tracked to their hiding places. The blue fox pelt is valued at $15, and as seals become scarcer it becomes more valuable. All attempts to catch black foxeB have proved failures, as they are so scarce. Natives are hired to live on the island and watch the foxes. The latter are trapped in certain seasons, killed, and skinned. The car casses are valueless, as the Indians, who will eat almost anything, will not touch the fox meat. The number has multiplied from twenty cubs to about 6,000 foxes, and they have been trapped every season since they were large enough to be of value. Mr. Wardman sold his Interest to Byron Andrews of Washington. LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS. NOTICE FOB PUBLICATION. Land Orrica atO’Neiij,. Nkb. I „ September 8,1865. f Notice U hereby given that the following named settler has tiled notice of his Intention to make final proof In snpport of his claim and that said proof will be made before the register and receiver at O'Neill, Nebraska, on October 18,18011, via: „ ESTES CONAUGHTON. H. E. No. 14431 for the 8Wt» section 4, township 31, N range 0, west. • He names the following witnesses to prove his continuance residence upon and culti vation of. said land, vis: J.B. Freeland. V. V. Hesenkrans, llan Blnkerd and Newton Carson, all of Dorsey, Neb, 10-6 JonN A. Harjson, Register. NOTICE OF CHATTEL MORTGAGE SALE. Notice is hereby given that by virtue of a certain chattel chattel mortgage executed by I rank J. Toohlll. on December 31.1804, to the State Bank of O'Neill, to secure the pay ment of one certain promissory note in the sum of *63.00 due July 15,1895. Said chattel mortgage having been duly filed iu the oflice of the county clerk of Holt county,Nebraska, the mortgagee by viituejof the powers coi j tatued In said mortgage has taken possessliin .. ..— . hiw in.™ pus of the following personal property, to-wit: Two counter scales, Fatrbank make; o 2 — »»■ «»ii» iu.iwj; one plat form scale, Falrbank make; one toe box; one sausage machine; one suusage stulTer; one marble top counter; two butcher blocks; one desk; two saws; racks, knives aud etc.; one kettle and all other tools and butchers imple ments formerly belonging to F. J. Toohlll aud now in use bv E. P. Hicks; also one slaughter house and feed shed and two large kettles, and will, at the Palace Meat Market In the city of O'Neill, on the 10th day oi October, 1*85, at 10 o'clock A. m. offer said property for sale and sell the same to the highest bidder for ossh. at which time and place due attendance will be given by the undersigned. » certain trust deed or mortgage executed ami delivered by the defendants Henry C. Meyers and wife, Martha J. Meyers, to E. 8. Ormsby, trustee for P. O, ltefsell upon the fol'owlngdescribed real estate situated In Holt county, Nebraska, towtt.: That certain tract of lund numbered on tho platt as lot No. three (3.) and bound as follows: Commencing at a point fifty (60) links south and fifteen hundred sixty-five 11605) links east of the one quarter (5£) stake on the section line, dividing sections number thirty-two (32) and thirty-three (33.) of town ship number thirty (30.) north, range number fourteen (14,) west of the 6th p. M.. thence running easterly seven huudred seven and one half (70754) links, thence running south erly seven hundred seven and on half (.7075-4) links; thonce running westerly seven hun dred seven and one half (70754) links, tnence running northerly seven hundred seven and one half (70754) links, to place of begiuing, containing five (5) acres more or less and situated In the northeast quarter (NE54) of southwest quarter (SWii) and the north west quarter (NW)4I of the southwest quarter (8W5*.) of section number thirty-three (33.) In township number thirty (30.) north, range number fourtoen (14.) west of tho 6th prin cipal meredlan and containing five (5) ucres according to the United States government survey. Said trust deed or mortgage being given to secure the payment of of a certain note or bond for the sum of $440.dated August 10.1886, due June 1,1801, and plaintiffs alllege In Bald petition that said trust deed also stands security for the payment of cortalu extension notes made and delivered by the defendant Meyers to said P. O. Refsell on tho 2lst day of May. 180i, und plaintiffs ullego in said petition that they are the owners of said note or bond and extension notes, and said mortgage and trust deed securing the same, und that there Is due them thereon at this time the sum of 1660 together with the sum of 166 taxes paid on said real estate by tho plaintiffs to protect their security. Plain tiffs allure that they are the owners of s« Id note or bond and extension notes and tho trust deed or mortgage given to secure the same, and pray for a decree that the de fendants be required to pay ;he same or that said premises may be sold to satisfy the amount found due thereon, and that tho lion or interest of all of said defendants bo decreed to be subject to the lien of these plaintiff,a tru at deed and for other equitable relief You are required to answer said petition on or before the 30tli day of September, 18W5. Dated this 10th day of August, 1895. >-< K. It. Dickson, _ Attorney for Plalntlfi's. NOTICE OF SALE OF LIVE STOCK; For payment of Hen herding and care there fore . To all whom It may coneorn: Notice is hereby given that by virtue of seotlon 8# of the consolidated statutes of the state of Nebraska for the year 1803, an act to provide for liens upon live stock for tlielr keeping, un affidavit as required bv said section having been on the Hth day day of September. 1895, filed In the office of the oounty clerk of llolt county, Nebraska. The undersigned to satisfy the lien accrued by such section and perfected by such affi davit so filed, will, on tile 7th day of October, 1833, at 10 o'clock A. M. on his farm to-wlt: the southwest quarter section one, township thirty-two, Irangc eleven west. In l’addock township Holt county. Nebraska, offer for sale and sell to the highest bidder, for cash, the following described property, to-wlt: Two geldings, one sorrel and one grey, aged two to eight years. Nineteen horses as follows: beven buys, five sorrel, three black, 1 one grey, one cream and one hrewn, ages from two to nine years old; one spring studd colt, two mules, one horse aud one mare. The above stock being known ns the Kinney herd and being In possession of the undersigned. 'l ne amount now due upon said lied is the sum of #190 together with the necessary and actual expenses for publishing this notice, tiling the affidavit as required by statutes, and the expense of said sale, and persons in terested in said stock are hereby notified to be present ut that time to protect their Interests. Hated this 8th day of September, 1895. 10-4 J. B. Berry, Lien Holder. THE FRONTIER is the OLDEST PAPER and the BEST PAPER in HOLT COUNTY. Its office is fitted with the most most modern convenien ces and machinery, always has the latest faces of type, the best workmen, and is thereby enabled to turn out the most satisfactory kind of job work. 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