INTERNATIONAL PRESS ASSOCIATION..
CHAPTER XX.
HROUGH the dark
ness of the night
they flew onward to
Dumfries. As they
reached the suburbs
of the little town,
midnight was
sounded from one
of the church tow
ers. The cirriage
left the highway,
and rumbled on the
•causeway of the streets, adoul a
•quarter of an hour later It drew up In
Tront of the railway station.
All was very quiet and gloomy. The
-only human being visible was a soli
tary railway porter.
Caussidiere leaped out.
“At what hour passes the express for
the south?” he demanded.
“At half-past twelve, sir. You’ve ten
-or twelve minutes.”
Marjorie drew the hood of her cloak
closely round her face, and, taking her
lover's bands, descended from the car
riage and stood shivering and trem
bling on the pavement.
Caussidiere paid the fly-driver, and,
ordering the porter to follow with the
luggage, drew Marjorie’s hand upon his
arm and strolled into the station.
On reaching the platform, Marjorie
-cast a frightened look around, dreading
to behold some familiar face; but, be
yond a couple of half-tipsy commercial
travelers and a cattle-driver en route
for the south, no one was visible.
A little later the two were seated
alone in a first-class carriage and rap
idly whirling southward.
The train ran right through to Car
lisle, where they alighted. Hailing a
fly, they were driven to an inn, already
familiar to Caussidiere, In an obscure
part of the town. They were evidently
expected, and the hostess had prepared
•separate rooms.
After a light supper, of which Mar
jorie scarcely partook, but which the
frenchman made festive with a bottle
•of very bad champagne, they parted
for the night.
“Good-night, my darling,” said Caus
sidiere, fondly. “To-morrow, early, I
shall be the happiest man in all the
world.”
Nothing could be kinder or more re
spectful than his manner; yet poor
Marjorie retired with a heavy heart,
and it was not for some hours after
ward that she cried herself to sleep.
* * * • * •
The day following Marjorie’s de
parture there was commotion at the
manse. At early morning her absence
had been discovered, and to make as
surance doubly sure, the following note
bad been tound lying open on her dress
ing-table;
"Dear Mr. Menteith—When you re
ceive this, I shall be far away. I have
gone with one who loves me very
much, and in a few hours we shall be
married. Pray, pray do not think me
wicked or ungrateful; but I was afraid
to tell you how much I loved him, for
fear you should be angry at my choice.
He has promised to bring me back in
a little time to ask forgiveness of all
my friends. Tell Solomon, with my
fond love, how weary I shall be till I
see him again; he was always good to
me, and I shall never forget him. Tell
Miss Hethcringfon, too; I never had a
kinder friend; but she must not blame
me for following the wish of my heart.
God bless you all! Your loving
“MARJORIE ANNAN.”
That was the letter, and Mr. Men
teith read it aloud in utter amaze
ment. It would be false to say that he
exhibited any more violent emotion,
for he had merely a friendly interest in
the girl, and felt for her no overmas
tering affection. But Solomon Mucltle
backit. after listening thunderstruck,
uttered a wild cry, and struck his fore
head with his clinched hand.
“I kenned it, I foresaw it! It’s the
Frenchman, dawm him!”
“Hush,” said the minister. "No pro
fanity, my man.”
"Dawm him, dawm him!” repeated
the sexton, trembling with passion.
4,He has stolen oor Marjorie away. I
saw the deil’s mark on his face when
he first came creeping ben oor house
and fell sleeping in oor kirk. Dawm
him, I say—noo and for evermair!”
Then Mr. Menteith, not without diffi
culty, elicited from Solomon, who was
almost distraught, the whole story of
Caussidiere’s acquaintance with Mar
jorie, and subsequent visits to the
manse.
“After all.” said Mr. Menteith, re
flectively, “he is a gentleman, and as
they are going to be married-”
“Married!” ejaculated Solomon.
“Marry an awtheist—marry the deil!
But he’ll ne’er marry her. He’ll be
tray her and heart-break her, and cast
her awa’.”
In the limits of a small Scotch vil
lage news of any kind soon spreads,
and before mid-day Marjorie’s elope
ment was being discussed everywhere.
Presently John Sutherland appeared at
the manse, looking pale as death. On
questioning Mr. Menteith, he soon
learned the whole state of affairs.
Mr. Menteith handed him Marjorie’s
letter. He read it, and his eyes filled
with tears.
“May God deal with him as he deals
with her!” he groaned. “Docs Miss
Hetherington know what has hap
pened!”
“Not yet,” replied Mr. Mentelth.
“I will go to her at once,” cried Suth
erland. “it is right that she should
know. Perhaps she can advise us what
to do.”
Breathless and wild, he arrived at the
Castle door. Directly he had sum
moned the serving-woman, he discov
ered that the news had arrived before
him.
“She’s like a wild creature,” said the
servant. “I'm in dread to face her, and
she’s ordered oot the carriage, and will
drive awa' at once. If ye must see
her, gang in yersel’; I daurna announce
your coming!”
Sutherland stepped into the hall.
“Wheesht!” whispered the woman. “I
hear her coming doon the stair.”
Scarcely had she spoken, when Miss
Hetherington, cloaked and bonneted,
appeared at the other end of the hall.
She approached feebly, leaning on her
staff; and as Sutherland hastened to
meet her, he saw that her face was like
that of a corpse, her hair disheveled
and wild, her whole frame trembling
with unusual excitement.
“Is it true?” she cried, gripping
Sutherland’s arm.
“Yes, Miss Hetherington.”
“Marjorie Annan has left tho
manse?”
“Yes, last night.”
"And in that scoundrel’s company?”
“I believe so; but in her letter she
mentions no name.”
“Her letter? What letter?”
Sutherland thereupon told her of the
lines Marjorie had left for Mr. Men
teith. She listened trembling; then
seizing the young man’s arm again, she
drew him into the drawing-room and
closed the door.
“Let me think, let mo think!” she
cried, sinking into a chair, and cover
ing her face with her hand.
When she looked up, her cye3 were
full of tears.
"She’s a lost lassie! And I might
have saved her had I known! Oh, Mar
jorie, Marjorie! My brother’s curse has
come home to us both at last!”
Sutherland looked at her in utter as
tonishment. He had expected to find
her angry and indignant, but her man
ner as well as her words were beyond
measure extraordinary. Before he
could speak again, she rose to her feet,
and said, between her firmly set lips:
“Johnnie Sutherland, listen to me!
Have you the heart of a man?”
“What do you mean?”
“While you stand glowering there,
she’s rushing awa’ to her ruin! Will
you gang after her, and In that villain’s
very teeth bring her back?"
“I don’t even know where she has
gone,” replied Sutherland; “and, be
sides, she has fled of her own will, and
I have no right-”
Miss Hetherington interrupted him
impatiently, almost fiercely.
“You have the right, that you loved
her yoursel’. Ay, I ken all that! Find
her, save her from that man, and I
swear before God you shall marry her,
Johnnie Sutherland!”
But the young man shook his head,
looking the picture of despair.
“It is too late,” he said; “and, after
all, he is her choice.”
“What right has she to choose?”
cried Miss Hetherington. “She cannot,
she dare not, against my wish and will.
I tell you he has beguiled her, and spir
ited her awa’. If you were half a man,
you’d be after them ere this—you’d
hunt them down.”
“But what ccjild I do?” exclaimed
Sutherland, in utter consternation.
“Do!” cried the lady of the Castle,
almost screaming. “Kill the scoundrel
—kill him! Oh, if I had my fingers at
his throat, I'd strangle him, old as I
am!”
Overpowered with her emotion, she
sank into a chair. Full of amazement
and sympathy, Sutherland bent over
and endeavored to calm her. As he
did so, she began moaning and sob
bing as if heartbroken.
Then suddenly, with eyes streaming
and lips quivering, she looked patheti
cally up in his face.
“The blame is all mine!” she ssbbed.
“God has punished me, Johnnie Suth
erland. I should have defied the scan
dal o’ the world, and taken her to my
heart lang syne. I’m a siDful woman,
and—Marjorie Annan is my child!”
CHAPTER XXI.
HE next day Caus
sidiere and Mar
jorie walked to
gether through the
fields until they
came to a quaint
old church standing
alone on a lonely
suburban road.
When they enter
ed it was quite
empty, and Caus
siaiere, grown very serious now, looked
at his watch and walked restlessly a
bcut. Marjorie entered one of the
pews, and, falling on her knees, prayed
silently.
How long she remained there she did
not know; a hand laid gently upon her
shoulder recalled her to herself, and
looking up she saw her lover.
“Come, Marjorie,” he said; “come, my
love.”
She rose from her knees; he put his
arms about her and led her away.
What followed seemed like a dream.
She was only dimly conscious of walk
tag up the broad aisle and taking her
place before the altar rails. She saw
as in a mist the clergyman in his white
robe, and a man and a woman who
were complete strangers. She was con
scious of the service being read, of giv
ing her responses, of her hands being
clasped, and of a ring being put upon
her finger. Then she was led away
again; she was in a strange room, she
signed her name, and as she laid down
the pen, Caussidiere clasped her in his
arms and kissed her.
“My wife!” he said. . ***’
Yes, it was all over; the past was
done with, the future begun. Marjorie
Annan had been by that simple cere
mony transformed into “Marjorie
Caussidiere.”
The ceremony over, the wife and hus
band returned to the inn, where they
had a private luncheon.
Then she entered tho carriage which
was awaiting her, and drove away by
her husband'3 side to the railway sta
tion.
CHAPTER XXII.
IIE revelation cf
the true relation
ship between the
minister’s ward
and the proud lad.v
of the Castle fairly
stupefied John
Sutherland, it wa:
so utterly over
whelming and un
expected. Tlier.
was a Ions pause
filled only with the low monotonou.
wail cf the miserable woman. At last
Sutherland found his tongue, though
to little purpose.
“Oh, Miss Hetherington, what Is this
you are telling mo? I cannot believe
it! Marjorie your daughter! Surely,
surely you cannot mean what you
say?"
“It is God’s truth, Johnnie Suther
land," replied the lady, gradually re
covering her composure. "I thought
to bear the secret with me to my grave,
but It’s out at last. Grief and despair
wrenched it out o’ mo ere I kenned
what I was saying. Gang your ways,”
she added, bitterly, “and spread it like
the town-crier. Let all the world ken
that the lino o’ the Hetheringtons end3
as it began, in a black bar sinister and
a nameless shame.”
"Do not say that!” cried Sutherland.
“What you have said Is sacred between
you and me, I assure you! But Mar
jorie—Did she know what you told
me?”
Miss Hetherington shook her head.
“She had neither knowledge nor sus
picion. Even Mr. Lorraine knew noth
ing, though whiles I fancied that he
made a guess. Only one living man
besides yoursel’ ever found out the
truth, and maybe ere this Marjorie has
learned it fra him. God help me! she’ll
learn to hate and despise me when he
tells her all.”
“You mean the Frenchman?” said
Sutherland. “How is it that he-”
“Curse him for a black-hearted dev
il!” said Miss Hetherington, with an ac
cess of her old fury. “He came here
like a spy when I was awa’, and he
searched amang my papers, and he
found in my desk a writing I should
have burnt lang syne. Then he threat
ened, and fool-like I gave him money
to quit the place. He has quitted it,
but with her in his company, wae’s
me!”
And she wrung her hands in despair.
Then quick as thought her mood
changed, and she rose trembling to her
feet.
“But there’s no time to be lost. While
we stand blethering and glowering, he's
bearing her awa’. Johnny Sutherland,
let me look in your face. Once again,
have ye the heart of a man?”
Suiting the action to the word, she
gazed at him as if to read his very
soul.
(TO BE CONTINUE!!.)
In the Chinese Quarter.
It is an experience for one who has
never been in the Chinese quarter to
go into one of those dark hallways,
say in Pell street, and take either the
stairway at hand, or cross the br.eii
area and take the stairway of the rear
tenement, writes a New York corre
spondent of the Pittsburg Dispatch. The
air is suffocatingly sweet with the
odor of opium. On the stairs you meet
Chinamen, smoking cigarettes that
give out a curious Oriental smell. At
each laundry are four doors, each with !
what looks like a Chinese laundry
slip pasted between the upper panels.
And if your step is unfamiliar, many
of these doors will open. Then you
get a glimpse of an Oriental interior,
luxurious with couches, rugs, soft
burning lamps, delicate china and all
manner of costly wares from the east.
And blocking the doorway stands the
hostess. She will be Caucasian. She
will be comely. She will be clad in a
loose gown of some gaily flowered ma
terial. She will have high heeled shoes
and a slight showing of a gaudy silk
stocking. In her fingers will be a
lighted cigarette. In her eyes will be
that shifting, dreamy expression that
tells the opium smoker as plainly as
the stained fingers tell the cigarette
slave.
Mlm.d the Nightingale’. Song.
An amusing story is told of the late
Jean Ingelow. Once when she was
staying with some friends in the coun
try it transpired that!, although she
often wrote delightfully of nightin
gales, she had never heard one sing.
So one night the whole household went
out in the moonlight especially to hear
them, and after, by an effort, holding
their tongues for five minutes while the
nightingales sang divinely, they were
startled by Miss Ingelow asking, “Are
they singing? I don’t hear anything!’’
With a Londoner’s dread of draughts,
the poetess, before going out into the
night air, had filled her ears with cot
ton wool!—Philadelphia Record.
THE APPROACHING CONVEN
TION AT LINCOLN.
Extcnslre Preparation* llolnp Made for
the Gathering—The Program Include*
Many Tempting Feature* for the De
lectation o? the Pedagogue* of tho
Antelope State.
State Teachers'* Meeting.
Extensive preparations have been
going on for somo time past for the
holding at Lincoln of the thirty-sec
ond annual convention of the Nebras
ka State Teachers’ association. It is
expected that in point of numbers in
attendance and of important business
transacted that the coming convention
will be the best ever held by this or
ganization. It takes place December
27 to 30 inclusive.
In addition to the yearly routine
work to be done, a number of special
attractions have been announced.
Among these will bo an address by
United States Commissioner of Educa
cation William T. Harris, who has
been abroad many years, studying
educational methods all over the
world, and who has but lately return
ed home; an address by Dr. David
Starr Jordan, one of the most prom
inent Pacific coast educators, and
manyothers.among whom is President
John W. Cook, of the Illinois State
normal school. A most pleasing fea
ture of the convention will bo the
musical carnival, which occurs on
Wednesday, December 29. This event
has been arranged so that lovers of
college glee songs will be afforded a
rare treat. Several of the best colllego
quartets and vocalists in the country
have been secured and many rare old
gems will be rendered.
The convention will be in charge of
President J. W. Crabtree, Lincoln;
Secretary Lillian U. Stoner, Valentine,
and Treasurer C. R. Atkinson, Fair
bury. There will be an executive com
mittee composed of E. N. Brown, Has
tings; W. H. Clemmon, Fremont; J.
F. Taylor, Lincoln, and J. W. Crab
tree, Lincoln. Special committees have
been appointed to take charge of the
college section, county superintend
ents’ section, high school work, gram
mar school work, primary sectibn,
the Nebraska Libray association, So
ciety for Child Study, Nebraska Teach
ers of Literature, Nebraska Teachers
of History nnd the Association of Wo
men.
Half rates on all railroads have
been secured and the same may be
said of the first-class hotels of Lin
coln. The books for the enrollment of
members will be opened in the library
room in Lincoln Monday, December
27, at 1:30 p. m. A list of member
ship will be published each morning,
together with hotel addresses, so that
old friends may visit each other. All
meetings held will be free, with the
exception of 'the evening entertain
ments at the Lansing theater, admis
sion to which will be by ticket only.
It has also been arranged that the
state board of examiners will hold a
special session at Lincoln during the
convention for the purpose of issuing
professional state certificates and the
board and the state superintendent
will hold open offices during Monday
and Tuesday of the convention week.
A debate, “Should Hawaii be Annexed
to the United States?” has been plan
ned and will be participated in by
membejrs from Lincoln, Hastings,
Beatrice and Crete.
The first business session of the con
vention will be opened in the library
building, room 23, Monday evening,
December 27, at 8 p. m. The officers
who will have charge are Prof. W. A.
Clark, clerk, and Prof. C. E. Bessey,
vice chairman. The session will be
given to the reading of reports from
the county schools, normal schools,
colleges and to legislation.
Not Entitled to Compensation.
Recently Attorney General • Smyth
received a letter from G. S. Gillnn,
county attorney of DawArn county,
asking for an opinion as to whether
county judges were entitled to com
pensation for services rendered in ap
pointing judges and clerks of election,
there being no statute providing for
such compensation.
In reply to this the attorney gen
eral has written Gillan giving his
opinion that not only is the county
judge not entitled to claim pay for
such services,but that no binding con
tract or agreement to pay him for
such services can be made by Urn
county officials.
In the opinion the attorney general
cays in part:
“I am of the opinion that he Is not.
The right of a public officer to com
pensation is a creature of statute and
does not arise by reason of contract
Those who accept public offices which
require them to render services to the
state must take the office cum oncrc
The rendition of such service is gra
tuitous unless by express statutory
provision compensation is fixed, and
an express liability for its payment
imposed on the state.
"State vs. Brewer. 59 Ala., 131 A
promise to pay an officer an extra fee
or sum beyond that fixed by law is not
binding, thougn he renders servlcec
and exercises a degree of diligence
greater than could legally have been
required.
Aalm for Writ of Mandamog.
In the supreme court Judge J. If.
Broady asked leave to tile an appli
cation for writ of mandamus to com
pel the governor, members of the state
board of public lands and buildings
hoard of purchase and supplies, th i
state auditor and state treasurer to
allow the claims of the officers of’the
Society of the Home of the rriend
last /uT saIarles and BUPPHes since
The InnnranoA Pepartnirnt.
In his semi-annual report just filed
Willi the governor State Auditor Cor
nell shows that the insurance depart
ment of his office on the 31st day of
May had on hand $7,938, and that the
fees col elded .or the t’x months ate
as lollows: Jut.c. $4-'4.50; Juh -<i.
/.ucurl, $12.50, September, $212; Oc
tober, $294.40; November, $25-50
mrling a total of $10,246.40. lVit-in<
thc six months the auditor made pa- .
nients into the state treasury as fol
lows; June 4, $1,000; June 29, $6,100:
August 31, $900; October 22, SI 000
making a total of $9,000. ’
FARMERS’ INSTITUTES.
How to btt Them and tho Kales Govern
ing Assignments.
The last legislature placed at the
disposal of the regents of the univer
sity of Nebraska a sum not to exceed
$1,500 a year for the purpose of car
rying on farmers’ Institutes in the
state. This sum is very little more
than has been In previous years sub
scribed by the various state societies
and liberal minded Individuals. Hence
no great expansion will be possible
during the present biennium.
At a conference held at the univer
sity In May last, to which were In
vited representatives of all the so
cieties who participated In the work
last winter, it was agreed that the
proper course to pursue would be to
increase the institutes In efficiency
and quality, but not in numbers.
Consequently there will perhaps be
fewer this year than last, but the de
sire Is to make those that are held
in every way as strong and helpful as
possible.
The university of Nebraska, the de
partment of public instruction, the
state agricultural society, the state
horticultural society, the state dairy
men’s association, the state poultry
asosclatlon, the state bee keepers’ as
sociation, the improved stock breed
ers’ association, the state beet sugar
association and the state manufactur
ers’ and consumers’ association will
all supply speakers.and from the num
be so supplied, two, three or four, as
may be agreed, will be sent to each
Institute.
a program for each institute will
usually cover two days of three ses
sions each, commencing at 9 a. m.,
1:30 p. m. and 7:30 p. m., respective
ly. The speakers sent by the central
office will each use about half of the
session in which they appear and the
rest of these sessions, as well os the
sessions in which no speakers are pro
vided by this office, should be covered
by home papers. Programs should not
be too long and speakers should be
given to understand just how much
time they have to use and should be
expected to Immediately yield the
floor when their time has expired in
order thnt others may have a fair op
portunity.
The central office will send, upon
arrangements with the local chair
man, speakers, providing their rail
road transportation and traveling ex
penses are paid.
One of the speakers Bent from this
office to each institute will arrange
to stay during the entire meeting ex
cept when permanent organizations
are maintained and then if desired.
It is hoped that this arrangement,
by which an experienced Institute,
worker will be present at all sessions,
will greatly increase the helpfulness
and efficiency of the work.
First—Entertainment for the speak
ers assigned to each Institute must be
provided and paid for by the local
management, preferably at a hotel.
Second—A printed program is to be
issued long enough in advance to
make its general distribution possible
before the date of the meeting. This
program should also be printed in all
the newspapers of the vicinity. Too
much stress cannot be laid upon the
necessity of thorough advertising.
There has never been a failure to have
good attendance and good Interest in
an institute in Nebraska, which has
ben thoroughly advertised, except In
a few Instances where extremely se
vere weather have interfered.
Third—A large sized hall must be
provided, lighted and heated. This
should usually be the largest avail
able.
Every lecture or talk offered is in
tensely practical and it is the inten
tion to offer nothing else. At the close
of each lecture there will be an op
portunity for questions to be asked
and in this way information of partic
ular local interest may be gathered.
It is expected that all of the regular
series of institutes will be held pre
vious to March 1, 1898. Four or five
Institutes will be held wherever pos
sible in each week, the speakers pass
ing from one to the other and appear
ing in thnt many institutes on succes
sive days. This makes the expenses
extremely light and in most cases
merely nominal.
A full list of speakers and topics,
ns well ns further Information, will
be sent on request. The time is short
and prompt action is necessary.
F. W. TAYLOR,
University of Nebraska, Lincoln.
Wanted In Nebranka.
A requisition has been issued for
the return of Charles Prince from
Johnson county, TexaB. Prince is
charged with being implicated in-the
recent robbery of the State bank at
Adams, Gage county. The robbery was
committed on the night of October 22.
the vault having been blown open and
the building badly damaged. The bur
glars secured $24 in cash, a $10 re
volver and a $10 watch. The cashier
of the bank, as well as several other
citizens of Adams, have Identified
Adams by means of a photograph tak
en since he was arrested in Texas.
They recognize it as being the picture
of a man who was in town the day
before the robbery was committed
and who visited the bank on the ex
cuse that he wanted to look at a map
that was on the wall.
Tlie llmnrcli-MooreN Case.
The reply in the Broatch-Moores
cafee was filed in the supreme court
by the attorneys for Broatch. It is in
effect a general denial of the f acts set
up in Moores’ answer, and alleges
that Moores was never legally elected
and has not lawfully been mayor of
Omaha. It denies that $6,027.56 was all
the money Moores collected as fines
and penalties and denies that he has
paid all such money collected to the
proper officers, but that he has wrong
fully withheld $2,060.83.
Oops Innane.
Columbus dispatch: John Welin, a
Swede farmer living in Woodville
t.owr.ship, was adjudged insane by
the commissioners Tuesday and was
taken to the asylum at Lincoln by
Deputy Sheriff Gentleman. Welin is a
well-to-do farmer about 50 years of
age and has lived in this county for
many years. He is a religious fanatic
and it 1b this subject that has unbal
anced his mind. His friends believe
that a course of treatment may prove
beneficial and may eventually restore
bis reason.
FUNDS FOR SCHOOLS. '
—
THE LARGEST APPORTIONMENT
EVER DISTRIBUTED.
The December Seml-Annnal Apportion,
ment—B377,303.00 to be DUtrlboted—
Hie Scarce From Whence Domes the
Amount—A Fraction Over *1.06 PM
I'uplL
A Lurte School Fond.
Lincoln dispatch: State Treasurer
Meserve today certified to State Su
perintendent of Public Instruction
Jackson that there was on hand for
distribution among the public schools
of the state in the' December semi-an
nual apportionment of temporary
school funds tho sum of J377.365.90.,
This is the largest amount ever dis
tributed, overtopping the last June’s
apportionment some 816,000.
The treasurer In his certificate sets
out the sources from which this Bum
to be distributed is derived, It being
the total sum of moneys received on
account of this fund from the third
Monday in May last to the first Mon
day in December (today.)
These sources of revenue, as set out
in the certificate, are:
rran situe scnooi tax, .m;
Interest on Rchool lands sold. $146,
239.20; Interest on school lands leas
ed, $71,887.89; Interest on United
iStates consols. $150.00; Interest on
.state bonds, $826.67; interest on coun
ty bonds, $77,817.50; interest on state
funding bonds, $10,950.69; interest on
school district bonds, $1,435.04;
amount not apportioned last appor
tionment, $1,045.28; total, $389,865.90;
less amount in suspended banks, $12,
:500.90; amount to be apportioned,
$377,366.90.
This amount will give to the school
district of the state a fraction over
!$1.06 per pupil. The state superin
tendent has reports from all of the
districts except one or two, and these ^
reports show that there has been an
Increase of 6.104 in the total number
of children of school age in the state
since last year. The amount to be
apportioned to each county will be
ilgured out and certified by the super
intendent to the auditor as soon as
the district reports are received.
Unlverwltjr Winter School.
The University Winter School of
Agriculture opens December 28th, free
'to every Nebraska boy or girl.; twelve
weeks term. Common school educa
tion is the only requirement of ad
' mission. Entrance fee of one dollar.
Board and lodging costs about $2.75
per week in private families.
Thorough instruction given in alt
sciences and modern applications of
them .to agriculture, stock breeding
and feeding, dairying, fruit growing,
stock diseases and their treatment,
etc. Besides these Instruction in
chemlBtry, botany, mathematics, Eng
lish and history.
University scientific collections, li
braries and lectures by beBt scientist*.
<of the day open to students.
• Tho aim is to give a thoroughly
practical education—one that will fit
;young people for their duties as citi
zens. and especially for the Intelligent
application of knowledge and skill
to the different branches of farming.
Moors Rtlfuud on Bond*.
Lincoln dispatch; A bond for
Eugene Moore was presented to Clerk
D. A. Campbell of the supreme court
at 1 o’clock today, the bondsmen
having qualified in the sum of $40,000.
Mr. Cnmpbell took the entire after
noon to investigate "the qualifications
of the bondsmen, and at his request
one more was added, bringing the total
amount qualified for up to $50,000, or
double the amount of the bond. Theso
were, approved at 5:30 and Moore was
released. The bondsmen and their
qualifications are as follows: Mrs.
Amanda Erhart Stanton, $25,000; L. J.
Horton, Stanton, $5,000; Atlee Hart,
Dakota City, $5,000; J. H. Culver, Mil
ford, $5,000; C. A, McCloud, York, $10.
000.
Fnrm«»rfi* InAtttutciii
The University of Nebraska has Just
issued its annual circular of informa
tion regarding farmers’ institutes for
the coming winter. The university
acts in co-operation with the various
Argicultural, Horticultural and Stock
Associations of the state in manag
ing these institutes and has the very
best practical and scientific minds of
the state upon its list of lectures and
conductors. It will furnish any of
these free to any county desiring to
hold a farmers’ institute—the local
management furnishing hall and hotel
bills. The appropriation for this
work is limited and those desiring to
hold such an institute should address
Prof. F. W. Taylor at the university,
soon.
Jnd(< Sullivan's Successor.
Columbus dispatch: As the time
draws near when Hon. John J. Sulli
van, supreme judge -elect, must resign
as judge of this, the Third judicial dis
trict, the question of who will succeed
him is growing decidedly interesting.
It is practically assured, however, that
the selection will be from this city.
It is also believed by many that Gov
ernor Holcomb will choose a democrat
to fill the vacancy. If this should prove
to be the combination then Hon. W. N.
Hensley of this city has the lead, but
if the plum should fall to a populist
then Hon. I. L. Albert, also of this
city, wll be the only logical candidate
in the field.
A. C. Sloan, of Bellvue, claims to be
the free silver corn husker of the
state. He drove two miles and husk
ed thirty bushels of corn in two hour*
and forty minutes. He challenges all
gold bugs.
The ('hll'lrrn Will Aid.
Grand Island dispatch: The Board
of Education at its regular meeting
last night acted upon the communica
tion received some time ago from the
Board of Directors at Omaha pro
posing to the children of the public
schools to take shares in the Chil
dren’s building at the exposition at 5
cents a share. The committee to
which the communicatibn had been re
ferred reported allowing the teachers
to collect the contributions, provided,
however, that they impress it upon
the pupils that subscribing on tbelr
part Is voluntary.
