UEN’L OFFICIAL DIRECTORY
BTATE.
governor.SUM H«rioomb
lieutenant Governor. VJ' “
Bretary of-State...Wm.F. Porter
^Treasurer.J&.VcSnZu
State Auditor.John l!
i Attorney General.L. J. Bmytne
Oom. Lands and Buildings.• • J. Y’ "JV.®**®
Supt. Public Instruction.W. K. Jackson
REGENTS STATE UNIVERSITY.
Ohas.H. Gere. Lincoln; Leavitt Burnham,
Omaha; J. M. Hiatt, Alma; E. P. Ro1™6®
Pierce; J. T. Mailaleu, Kearney; M. J. Hull,
Representatives Flvet District. J. D- 8trode
Second, H. D. Meroer, lhlrd. S. Maxwell,
Fourth, W. L. Stark, Filth, K. D. Sutherland,
Sixth, W. L. Greeu.
00 A (JRESSIONAL.
Senators-W. V. Alien, of Madisou; John
M. Thurston, of Omaha.
JUDICIARY.
..L Post
Associates!7/1.6. Harrison and T. L.Norvatl
FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT.
Jndire .M. P. Klnkald, of O’NelU
RenSrter ...........• • J- J- King of O’NelU
.W. H. Westover, of Rushvllle
Reporter.• ■'hn Maher, of RushvUle.
land offices.
o'nitL.
u.riii«r .John A. Harmon.
g&JSX" . .... . ....Elmer W.lllains.
COUNTY.
. .Geo McCutcheon ;
Judge.... v..-ab-irvtmr
Glerkofthe District Court ... "JohuSklrvlng
iSStV .. .Sam Howard
...Bill Bethea
ihfn.Ytv..Mike McCarthy
AMWt«mt0l*°°1,'.'.‘.'.'‘.-.-R™- W. R. Jaokson
oS^S?..'....'.'...Dr.Trueblood
Surveyor.
i Attorney.
...M.F. Norton
..W .R. Butler
SUPERVISORS.
T1HST ginaiOh
Cleveland. Sand Creek, Duatin, Saratoga, I
Hock Falla and Pleaaantvlew: J. A. Bobertson
SECOND DI8TBICT.
Shields, Paddock. Scott. Steel Creek. Wit
-uwdale and lowar-j* H. Hopkins.
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THIRD DISTRICT.
Grattan and O’Neill—Mosses Campbell.
FOURTH DISTRICT.
Ewing. Verdigris andDelult—L. 0. Combs.
FirlH DIBTBIOT.
Chambers, Oonlcv, Lake, McClure and
Inman—S. L. Conger.
SIXTH DISTRICT.
Swan.Wyoming,F*«^ew,
Valley, Sheridan and Emmet—O. W. Moss.
SEVENTH DISTRICT.
Atkinson and Stuart—W. N. Coats.
Oil Y OF Of SKILL.
Supervisor, E. J. Msok; Justloes,s. U.
Benedict and S. M. NVagors; Constables, Ed.
MoBride and Perkins Brooks.
OOCNOILMSN-FIBST WARD.
For two years.—D. H. Cronin. For one
year—0.. W. Hagenslok.
saooMD ward.
For two years—Alexander Marlow. For
oneyear-W. T. Evans.
THIRD WARD.
For two years—Charles Davis. For on#
year—E. J. Mack.
oitt omouRS.
Mayor, H. E. Murphy; Clerk, W. Martini
Treasurer, John McHugh; City Engineer
John Uorrisky: Police Judge, H. Kautiman;
Chief of Police, P. J. Blglln; Attorney,
Thos. Oarlou; Welgbmaster, D. Stannard.
OR ATT AS T0WS8E1P.
*u per visor. B. J. Hayes; Trearurer. Barney
ireevv; Clerk, J. Sullivan; Assessor Ben
mng: Justloes, M. Castello and Ohas.
dox; Constables, John Horrlsky and Ed.
Bride; Hoad overseer dlst. -6, Allen Brown
tllst. N>il John Enright.
'soldiers RELIEF C0MSI8SI0S.
Regular meeting first Monday In Febru
ary of each year, and at suoh other times as
Is deemed necessary. Bobt. Gallagher, Page,
chairman; Wm. Bowen, O Neill, secretary,
U. H. Clark Atkinson.
UT.PATRICK’S CATHOLIC CHURCH.
9 Services every Sabbath gt 10:30 o clock.
Vorv Bov. Cassidy, Postor. Sabbath sohool
Immediately following services._
Methodist church. Sunday
servloes—Preaching 10:JO A. M. and 8.00
p. M. Class No. 18:30 a. m. Class No. 2 (Ep
worth League) 7:00 p.m. Class No. 8 (Child
rens) 3:00 p. M. Mind-week servioes—General
prayer meeting Thursday 7130 p. m. All will
Ge"iade wetaome.
4 1 A. B. POST, NO. 86. The Gen John
VX. O’Neill Post, No. 86, Department °t Ne
/■, a u _tn maa# #nn flpar unfl tnlPu
braska G. A. B., wUl meet the tost and thlrd
Saturday evening of each month In Masonic
hall O’Neill 8. J. Smith, Com.
Invited to attend.
W. H. Masom. N. G.
O. L. Bright, Sec.
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Garfield chapter, h. a. m
Meets on tost and third Thursday of each
month In Masonio hall. ___ _
W. J. Dorrs Sec. J. 0. Harhish, H, P
KOI P.—HELMET LODGE. IT.D.
. Convention every Monday at 8 o olook p.
m. In Odd Fellows’ hall. Visiting brethem
cordially Invited. __
Arthur Ootkendall, C. C,
E. J. Mack. K. of B. and 8.
A'NEILL ENCAMPMENT NO. 80.1.
U O. O. F. meets every second and f ourth
n , •_.a_Add PaIInwa' M all
V u, U, V* unuu crwij guvuuu *r„ Tr
Fridays of each month in Odd Fellows Hall.
Ohas. Bright, h. P. H. M. Tttlbt, Scribe
T? DEN LODGE NO. 41, DAUGHTERS
Cl OF BBBBKAH, meets every 1st and 3d
Friday of each month In Odd Fellows' HaU,
Aohrs T. Bentley. N. G.
Dora Davidson, Sec.
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GARFIELD LODGE, N0.95,F.JbA.M.
Regular oommuulcations Thursday nights
on or before the full of the moon.
J. J. Kino, W. M.
Harry Dowling, Sec.
HOLTKJAMP NO. 1710, m. w. of a.
Meets on the first and third Tuesday In
each month In the Masonic hall.
Neil Brbnman, V. C. D. H. Oborin, Clerk
AO, U. W. NO. 158. Meets aeoond
• and fourth Tudsday of each month In
Masonic hall.
O. Bright, Uec. S. B. Howard, M. W.
PI DEPENDENT WORKMEN OP
AMERICA, meet every first and third
Friday of each month,
O. W. Hagensick, N. M.
O. J. Oomr, Sec.
POBTOFFICK OIRCBTOKY
Arrival of Mall*
F. a. IX.V.R. B.—FROM CHB BAST,
day, Sunday Included at.. 8:40 p a
FROM THB WBBT
mry day,Sunday laoluded at.10:04 an
PACIFIC SHORT LIMB.
Passenger-leaves 10:01a. m. Arrives 11 :55 p.m.
Freight—leaves 9:07 p. M. Arrives 7:00 P. M.
Dally except Sunday.
O'NEILL. AND CHELSEA.
.apart*Monday,Wed. and Friday at7:00 am
arrives Tuesday, Thurs. and Sat. at..1:00pm
O'NEILL AND PADDOCK.
Opart* Monday. Wed.and Friday at..7:00am
Arrives Tuesday, Thurs. and Sat. at. .4:30 p m
O’NEILL AND NIOBRARA.
Departs Monday. Wed. and Frl. at... .7:00 am
Arrives Tuesday, Thurs. and Sat. at...4:00 p m
O’NEILL AND CLTMMIN8VILLB
Arrives Mon.,Wed. and Fridays a . .11:30!p.m
Departs Mon., Wed. and Friday at.1:00 p.m I
DON'T HUBBY.
A Timely Word ot Warn Ins to Hnbltuul
Hashers.
Many sudden deaths occur every
year as a consequence of running to
railway trains and ferry boats, Jbe
victims are mostly persons, iniddiit
aged or older, who, without knowing
it, have some disease of the heart.
This kind of over-exertion, how
ever, does less harm than the com
mon habit of being continually in a
hurry. A habit that keeps the nervous
system at a perpetual tension leads t,»
excessive vital waste, undue suscepti
bility to disease, and in extreme cases
to nervous exhaustion. Under its in
fluences persons naturally amiable are
transformed into petulant and uois.,’
scolds.
The woman who is a wife and
mother is peculiarly liable to this
habit; she has so much to do and no
little time in which to do It, in these
days when so many outside things
crowd upon her domestio dut es
There is no doubt that hurry olairns
ten viotlms where hard work kills
one.
'41 The man of business suffers in much
the same manner. The hurried break
fast and the hurried skimming of the
morning paper are but the beginning
of a hurried day.' Yet it is unsafe for
him to aot in a hurry, or in the spirit
generated by it. The uncertainties of
his calling make entire self-control of
prime importance.
School children are vlotims of the
same evil. They must be at school
exactly on time. But in thousands of
cases the family arrangements are not
such as to favor punctuality, ’lhe
child is allowed to sit up late, and so
is late at breakfast; or the breakfast
itself is lata and the child must hurry
through it and then hurry off half
fed and fully fretted, dreading tardi
ness and the teacher’s displeasure.
Robust children may work off the
eiiect amid tbe sports of the day. but
many others are injured for life
Occasional hurry is hardly to be
avoided, society being what it is; but
the habit of hurry should be guarded
against as one of the surest promoters
of ill-temper and ill-health.
if necessary, less work should be
done; hut in many cases nothing is
needed but a wiser economy of time.
Some of the worst victims of hurry
are men who dally with their worn
until time presses them, and then
< rowd themselves into a fever; pitying
themselves meanwhile because they
are so sadly driven.—Youth's Com
panion.
TOO MUCH HAT.
A Granger Winds Oat That It Doesn’t Do
to ’i rutt m liurber.
A old granger dropped Into the
Sherman house barber shop reoently.
says the Chicago Tribune, who would
have proved a gold mine if Denman
Thompson could have captured him
for his rural drama. His hair looked
as if it had not been cut since the last
Blaine campaign, and after he had
passed through the hands of a barber
it is doubtful if his own family would
have recognized him. He paid tbe
check and the porter brushed the hay
seed from his coat and handed him
his hat. The old man put on his head
covering and it immediately sunk to
the level of his eara practically snuf
fing out its wearer like a candle.
“Here! See here! Tarnatioa that
ain’t my hat!” he cried, throwing it
down and glaring around the room,
every bit of indignation in bis giant
frame aroused.
■•Beg pardon, sah; but dat's yo hat.
sab, shore’s yo is bohn.” said the
highly amused darky.
“Don’t ye s’poae I don’t know my
own hat?” snorted the rural visitor.
■I’ve worn it every day fer the last
two years. Guess I oughter know it
purty well by this time.
The porter made no reply, but stood
holding out the hat and laughing at
tbe old man’s earnestness. Suddenly
the latter "turned loose” like a torna
do and the language he used would
have made his own cattle flee in ter
ror. The foreman of the shop hastened
forward.
■i don't want any of you fellers ter
think that I accuse you of talcin' it"
exolaimed the irate- customer. * 'But
I kin lick the lowdown sneak who
crept in here and stole it while I wuz
havin' my head shingled. And I shall
hold this shop responsible fer it torn
Cost $1.69, and I kin prove it.”
“But Mr. Butler, are you quite
sure that—began the foreman, bal
ancing the hat in his hands
“Butler! How in thunder did you
find out that my name’s Butler?”
"It is written on your hat band
here- 'See? 'Abner Butler. Piper
City. I1L'"
The old man hastily snatched up
his hat jammed it upon his head and
rushed out into a cold and cruel world
again, saying several things which
can not be put into cold type.
Flailing for Merman.
One of the old stories is that in the
year 1619 two councilors of Christian
IV. of Denmark, while sailing between
Norway and Sweden, discovered a
merman Swimming about with a bunch
of grass on his head. They threw
out a hook and line, with a slice of
bacon, which the merman seized.
Being caught he threatened vengeance
so loudly that he was thrown back into
the sea.
Time Enoughs
Mrs Bingo—Are you going to the
theater in your dress auitP
bingo—Of course I am.
Mra. Bingo (wildly)—Then why
don’t you put it on? Lear. dear. I am
almost ready and you haven’t done a
thing.
Bingo—Don’t worry, dear. I have
ample time to put it on while you are
seeing if your hat is on straight —
Clothier and Furnisher.
Had Bead of Them.
Father—My eon, don’t you often
feel ashamed of yourself for being so
lazy?
Son—No. dad; not when I think of
I all the great men who were notorious*
1 ly lasy in their youth. —Yankee Blade.
THB ROYAL MESSENGER.
V British Official Who Used to Bo Vei'7
Important on the Rood.
When m messenger returns to Lon
don from foreign service be is placed
at the bottom of the list of those at
home available for duty, and may
thus reckon on perhaps a fortnight
clear at his own disposal, says the
Quarterly Review. It is not well
however, to count on any precise
period of leisure with too much cer
tainty. os is shown by the following
veracious tale which has been re
pented many a Ume and eft in Down
ing street: "Captain A- having
just returned from St Petersburg,
saw his name well placed at the bot
tom of a goodly list of names ready
for duty, and judged it expedient to
spend his anticipated fortnight in the
sunny south of France. About a
week after his arrival at Monte Carlo
he was startled and annoyed by the
receipt of the following strange ani
apparently impertinent telegram:
'Chief Clerk, Foreign Office, to Cap
tain A-: You are fast and dirty.
Koturn at once.” Having puzzled
awhile over this enigma it occurred to
him that, whatever might be the ex
planation of the first sentence. the
last was an order which his sense of
duty compelled him to obey. He ac
cordingly packed up his traps and re
turned forthwith, to find on his arrival
at Downing street that the telegram
os originally dispatched ran as fol
lows: "You are first on duty. Return
at onca ” Thirty or forty years ago,
perhaps even more than now, the
messenger was a personage of the
first importance on the road, claiming
the earliest attention from guards And
porters, civility and expedition at
every customs frontier, and the best
places in train and steamboat In the
present day. traveling always by train
among the ever-increasing crowd of
tourists, the comfort and prestige of
a journey with dispatches is some
what on the wane; and except in
times of war. the adventures of the
queen’s messenger are reduced to the
possible chance of a railway smash.
Only a few years have passed, how
ever, since most of the habitues of the
mall route between London and Paris
must have been familiar with the
bluff and burly preseuce of Major
X-. the Ajax of the corps of
queen’s messengers and hero of a hun
dred tales. We can see him now,
striding from the train to the boat at
1 over, followed by two porters bear
ing the dispatch bags. Passengers
scatter right and left as he calls in
loud, commanding tones: "R-room
for her majesty’s dispatches!” and
tbe little procession, headed by the
major, steps across the gangway and
finds its way to the proper reserved
cabin.
DUST AT SEA.
Strange a* It May Seem the Phenomena
Is Recorded
Tbs British ship Berean. which
recently made the voyage from Tas
mania around Cape Horn to England,
encountered a remarkable, but not
unusual phenomenon at sea, via, a
storm of dust, declares Sobool and
Home. After crossing the Equator,
she fell into the northeast trade winda
and when about 600 miles west of the
Cape de Verde Islands .the nearest
land, "the Berean’s sails and rigging
were thinly coated with a very fins
powdery dust of a dark yellow or
saffron color, scarcely discernible on
or near the deck, but profuse on the
highest parts of the rigging," so that
the sails appeared “tanned."
Fine dust falling on vessels in the
Atlantic near the Cape de Verde arch
ipelago has often been reported, but
it has so often been of a reddish hue
that it is known among sailors as
■red fog," and has been generally
supposed to come from South America.
The observation on board the Berean
appears to overthrow this conclusion,
and to determine the African origin
both of the Atlantic dust and the so
called "blood rains” of Southern
Europe.
Admiral Smyth many years ago re
ported, during his stay in Sicily, on
the 14th of Maroh. 1614, a “blood
rain," which fell 'in large muddy
drope and deposited a very minute
sand of a yellow-red color"—quite
similar to that now reported by the
Berean.' He then regarded it as
■sirocco dust" from the Afrioan
desert, crowning the beautiful theory
of atmospheric circulation." Both
on the Atlantic ocean and in Europe
these rains of dust have almost in
variably fallen between January and
April—a period of the year in which
the Sahara is most arid.
Unique In Their Way.
When Sheffield first became famous
for its cutlery a peculiar shaped knife,
designed for a variety of usea was
made with great care and sent to the
agent of the cutlers’ company in Lon
don. On one of the blades was en
graved the follewing challenge:
London, for thy life,
Show me such another knife.
The London outlera to show that they
were equal to their Sheffield brothers,
made a knife with a single well
tempered blade the blade having a
cavity containing a rye straw 2J
inches in length, wholly surrounded
by the steel; yet, notwithstanding the
fact that the blade was well tempered,
the straw was not burned, singed or
charred in the least, —Times-Star.
| A Uad Shut.
Daughter—First he kissed my hand.
Mother (severely)—An essentially
low proceeding.
Daughter—But, afterward, he kissed
me on the forehead.
Mother (more severely)—Then he
went too far.—Smith, Gray & Co.’a
Monthly.
Country Bumpkins,
Little Miss De Fashion (at the
opera)—I guess those folks in that
box is from the country.
Mrs. Do F—Why dear?
Little Miss De Fashion—I can’t hear
a word they say—Good News.
A REAL OHOST.
seen and Vouched for by • Judge While
Living la Nebraska.
“So you really believe In supernat
ural visitations? 1 had sized you up
for a man of too muoh mental power
to be a believer in ghost*” said
Judge-,
■•Well sir," said L “lam not am
bitious to be classed with the supersti
tions, but 1 do here affirm that if ever
a man'saw a real ghost it was 1,"
"If it is not a long story toll us
about it" said the judge
“Well, the supernatural visitation
occurred near Halveys ranch, in Ne
braska several years ago. It was a
bright moonlight night in May. I
had been to the ranch for an even
ing's visit Between the hours of 10
and 111 started to my home on Little
Sandy, a mile distant Asoendlng
the hill I turned to the right taking
a by-path which was called the •>eut
o.f, " which led into a strip of wooda
Just before entering the timber re
gion, and while musing on the events
of the evening, 1 suddenly confronted
a figure draped in white lying on a
partly deoayed log just at the right
alongside the path. Halting quickly,
my hand dropped involuntarily to the
pistol in my belt but before I had
time to draw the weapon the ghost
t-rned its head and fixed its gaze upon
me. Its great dark eyes were fringed
with white hair, and while it looked
more in pity than in anger, my heart
rose and the pulsation quiokenod to a
quiver—every hair of my head felt as
though an electric current was opar
a* iin iwn nuu my uruaiu
seemed dogged—my nerves were par
alyzed. The great melancholy eyes
of the apparition seemed mockingly
to say, “Come to me; your weapon is
harmlesa I am as the air—invulner
able! I am a real ghost! Sinee that
time I have been in Area wrecks and
batttee but under no conditions have
my nerves been so severely tested or
my courage subject to a more serious
trial I oould see the eyeballs move
—great liquid orbs—and the eyelashes
quiver in the great moonlight Re
membering the injunction of my
mother to never retreat from a ghost
under any circumstances, no matter
how positive I might be of its ghost
ship; but to always advance to it I
made a desperate effort to approach
the ghostly figure with eyea ears and
in the image of a being which imag
ination fashions for the spirit world.
A sense of fear prevented a retro
grade movement—fear that the figure
would spring upon me. Bracing my
nerves and summoning all my cour
age, recalling the early preoepts on
the point of supernatural visitations
I made a step; or plunge rather, like
one leaping over a precipice to escape
death, and quick as a flash the illu
sion was blasted—it broke in twain.
One half of the horrid being trotted
off on four legs*’
• What was it,” breathlessly ejacu
lated the judge
Nothing but a sheep. Two of them
had mounted the log to air themselves:
They had stretched out, one at the
lower qpd of the other, and with his
head obscured, forming a figure about
the length of a man. The moon was
directly overhead, and shone upon the
eyes of the one whose head was ele
vated. greatly magnifying the eyes
and eyelashes. I remember distinct
ly the hideous aspect of the upright
ears. I recall too the foreleg, which
was extended when my eyes first be
held tbe object but imagination,
quickened by a sense of fear, trans
formed the two sheep into a tangible
ghost ”
NEW TREASURY NOTES.
Peculiarities That Make Them DIAenlt to
Counterfeit.
Perhaps the principal object of the
revision of the Unitod States paper
money is to make the backs of the
notes more open—that la lessoovere.d
with the engraving, so that the silk
fibres shall be more distinctly visible.
The distinctive paper now in use no
longer has the two threads of silk run
ning longitudinally through the note
says the Paper World, but in their
place are two stripea each halt an
men wide or so, of short red and blue
silk fibres scattered thickly in the
paper, in such manner that they show
only on the reverse of the bill
These two fiber stripes practloally
divide the note into three sections of
about equal size, and this feature of
. bre in the paper is held to be an al
most absolute safeguard against suc
cess'ul counterfeiting. But that is
only one of several devices employed
to insure tbe inviolability of the cur
rency.
Each note has an entirely separate
desig:’, the work of which is so open
as to show readily any error of an
ittemptcd counterfeit, and no portion
of the design is repeated on the same
note, so that no small part could be
engraved by a skillful operator and
then duplicated by mechanical pro
cesses to fill any amount of space, as
has been the case with some of the
previous "paper money" of the gov
ernment
The geometrical lathe work of the
new designs is said to be the most ex
quisite and complicated ever executed,
and such as to utterly bafile any at
tempt at its illicit reproduction.
Johnny w« Rl(kt
Mother—Johnny, go Into the bed
room at once! You neglected your
piano practice to-day and I am going
to flog you for it Don’t you know
that you can never become perfect in
music without practiceP
Johnny—Yes, but practloe on my
ernatermy ain’t gonter to make no
perfeok music.—Boston Courier.
Oar modern Hosnu.
Mrs. Lincrusta Walton—1 like the
design of this wall paper very well;
but I cannot take it
Salesman—Why not?
Mrs. Lincrusta—It is too thlok. It
is my flat 1 am going to paper and 1
have to economize space as much as
possible.—Puck.
FIOHTINO WITH LA89Q8.
Angry Cowboy* Hot* ■ Hntl h< Es*
citing Dn*l on the Plain*.
A fierce, unique duel was fought at
Tombstone, A. T., recently by two
oowboys, Buster Billings and Jim
Collins. They bad quarreled over
one thing or another every time they
had met Finally, they had a fierce
set-to in words over a story one of
them told In a barroom about bis skill
in lasso throwing, the usual frontier
insults were uttered, and the one
whose skill had been sneered at—
Bus tor Billings—declared that If he
were outside be would fling his “lass”
over the other one’s peck and drag
him to the place that Isn’t mentioned
in polite society. Jim dared him to
oome on and try it and off they
started.
They mounted their ponies and gal
loped off at breakneck speed, followed
by all the men who had or could get
horsea Four or five miles from town
they stopped; each one picked out two
friends from the crowd to watoh pro
oeedinga and halt a dozen othera
now re-enforced by strangers who
galloped out from town sat on their
horses in a little group and cheered
impartially.
The duelists were mounted on mus
tang ponlea trained to the habits of
lasso throwers and quick to obey the
slightest motion of a rider's body.
The men with their colled laMats in
hand, their faces distorted by anger,
oircled around each other for a .mo
ment and then the battle began The
lasses flew hissing through the air,
the men dodged, the ponies sprang to
one side, the ropes were ooiled again
and went spinning and singing to
their atm with such rapidity that the
spectators could scarcely follow their
movements. Sometimes a lariat
would fall on a pony’s back and make
him plunge and rear, while his rider
did some adroit dodging and ducking
until he got the animal under control
again. Sometimes it would fall on
the shoulder, back or arm of the man.
The bodies of both men after the
fight were a mass of black bruises and
livid welta
Tbe fight lasted for bait an hour,
say* the New York Sun, and all who
saw it agree that It Was the wildest
and most exciting half hour they ever
pasted The marvelously quick turn*
lag and wheeling of the pqnien the
grace and skill with whloh the men
sat on their horses, their quiokness of
eye and hand, and the agility with
whioh they avoided the noose and.
above all. the rapidity and skill with
which the lassos were thrown, made
a scene of breathless excitement
At the end of half an hour both men
were nearly exhausted, but neither
was willing to quit When Collins
swayed a little in the saddle his oppo
nent quick as a flash, took advantage
of hie temporary weakness. The lasso
went hurtling through the air and the
noose fell over Collins’ head and
shoulders and a sharp jerk pinioned
his arms to his body. Billings gave
a fierce yell and started off on a gallop
dragging his vanquished enemy be
hind him. It was his purpose evi
dently to carry out bis threat of
dragging Collins to death, but the
spectators put spurs to their horsea
headed him oft and compelled him te
be satisfied with his victory.
UNHORSED THE PICKETS.
the Clever Bose of a Rebel Cavalryman
to Beeure a Mount.
The confederate cavalryman was
often puazled as to how to provide
himself with a horse. The authori
ties gave him the choice to keep
mounted or go into the ranks with
his musket, as horses were not fur
nished by the government To be
dismounted and become a foot soldier
was worse to him than a court mar
tial. and he would risk much in bis
efforts to get a horse from the enemy.
In the fall of 1868 a rebel cavalry
man had his horse killed in a skir
mish near War ronton, relates the
Chicago Herald, and as his best
chance was then to oapture one from
the enemy, he put his wits to work to
devise the ways and means. He was
then with the outside pioketa and not
far o% on the pika were the oavalry
pickets of the enemy. He procured a
piece of telegraph wire from the rail
road. and when twilight came on
stretched this across the road, fas
tened one end to the fence and the
other to a convenient tree just high
enough to catch a oavalryman about
the belt When matters were thus
arranged to his liking he started down
the pike and stopped in plain
view of the enemy. It was not
long before three of them
gave chase mounted on good horsea
It was now too dark for them to see
the wira and on they oamn de
term ned to have a prisoner. The
chase was sharp and quickly over, so
that by the time the rebel schemer
bad passed through and wider his
trap the enemy was upon him. The
Washington Post thinks the sequel is
not hard to guean Two of the pur
suers were quickly and most uncere
moniously unhorsed, the third being
so much astonished and frightened at
their fate as to turn and beat a hasty
retreat The two horses without
their riders continued down the road
and were easily captured by the con
federate, wha by his olever ruse,
became their owner and kept his
place in the oavalry. The two pickets
left te themselves hurriedly made
their way back to their comrades as
crestfallen and astonished as two men
could well be. The hero of this In
cident tells the tale himself, and adds
he rode one of these horses to Appo
mattox and from there to his home
and that it was one of the best he
ever owned.
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