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GOLfjVY OK KKiJ'ctiS.
Treasurer,
J (m y Tieasurer,
Cl.-rk.
Jlepllty Clerk,
t liM k of Hi-met Court,
Ml.Tilf,
iJepiity Sheriff.
(Surveyor.
Attorney,
tiuot. ot I ii 1 Schools,
County Jn.liif.
1. A. CAM l-r.Kl.l.
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J.ouis Ch'ni.. Weeping W:iler
A. 15. 'I oii. ... J'l:il!siiiii!li
A. It. 1I USDS, - IIlIhw.mhI
GIVIG SOGIJ'il'IJ'cS.
riMCH) tA)lit',K Ni. M. A. O. V. W. YieTTs
every .il::rnat l'i May eveuinir :u K. f P.
hall. Transient hiotlier-i are resp-'rll ully in
vueil to alteml. K. K . W Lite, Master Workman ;
It. A, ' aiU'.lMuv.'nati ; F. J. Alurgun, Overseer ;
J. IC. Morns, Uecorder.
Tass cAMi' No..i.!.', moih:i:n woihimkn
v- of AtlieriiM Meets second ami foill lll M:!l
fl ay evening at K. of P. hall. All transient
brother are requested to meet with us. I,. A.
JSeweieuer. Venerahln Consul ; W.C. Willt-ifs
Wurihy Adviser ; P, Merges, Lx lS.inkcr ; .1. ii.
Morris, Clerk."
IJI.ATTS.MOUni I,(U)(iK NO. 8, A. (. I'. W.
JU'ct every alt -rnate Friday evening at
Koekwood hall at H u'kIock. All transient hroth
rs are respeetf ully invited lo attend. .1. A.
iiitsehe. M. W. ; S. C, tlre.-n, Korein.in : S. C.
AVilde. ICeeorder ; S. A. Newcomer. Overseer.
McCOifJJHIE POST 45 G. A. R.
KO.STKlt.
Bam. M. ('iiatman commander,
C. S. Twins Senior Vice
y. a. Hatks Junior "
John W. Wiioiis Ailjutant
Ai ii;.sr Takt.soji -l-
J:kn.i. llKMri.K Oliieeroithe liay.
John CuitKKSAN- inard
Js. P. Hoi.mmvav, Serjrt Major.
i:. 1C. 1.ivim;stox, Post siirtreoii
ALl'HA WliliaiT, Pot Clialdain
ICeular meelii''s. '-'nd and 4;h Thurxih-y of
oaeli month at 1'ost Ileaduuartert in Koek
wood lilock.
L McElw
DEAL12II IX
Watcliss, Clocks, Jewelry
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SDScialAttentGii nireatcli Rcnairing
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ALSO
Library - Lamps
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Cor. 12th :md Grnr.itc Streets.
Coairactor and Builder
Sept. 12-G:n.
JULIUS PEPPERBERG.
MASlTACTfREK OF A"D
VHOLESALE & RETAIL
DEALKIt IX THE
Choicest Brands of Cigars,
including our
Flor do Pepperbergo':.r.r.d 'Bi ds
FULL. I.ISE OF
TOBACCO AND SMOKERS' ARTICLES
Mavor,
;i-rk. -Treasurer,
Attorney,
I' llttlllclT.
rollo- Judge,
lM:irti:tII.
am,
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now
always in stock. Nov. 2G. 1SS5.
Latest by Telegraph, i
P.OKKOWKU AM STOLEN'.
Military for Manitoba.
Ottawa, On., Sept. 1 :i It is reported
here that affairs in Manitoba over the
interference of the Dominion govern- j
ment with the provincial rights in dis
allowing the charter of the Heil Kiver
Valley railroad granted by the local
government an: daily assuinin u more
serious aspect and the Dominion govern
ment has ordered militia stationed at
Winnipeg to hold themselves in readi
ness to suppress any trouble.
MAKING SUGAR.
ConfTviissjoner Colman Enthusias
tic Over the Ft. Scott
Experiment.
"Washington, I). C, Sept. 12 Com-tn'H.-iuncr
Colinan lias just returned from
fin oilieirtl visit to Ft. Scott, Ktis., where
the department of nyric ulture is conduct
ing experiments iu making sugar from
sorghum hy tiie difi'usion process, and
ca presses himself as heing delighted with
the results obtained ulready.
lie says the experiment consists of the
trial of a new process in making sugar in
this country, which dispenses entirely
with the costly and ponderous mills,
steam engines, etc., and uses a far simp
ler and less expensive method for extract
ing the juice hy which all the saccharine
matter is obtained instead of about Lr
as heretofore. The new process is cul.u
the difi'usion or saturation process. The
cane is ci 'rt "'"' " ' "' "I iu! a
battery of iw.iv-viir, e.:-i h. i ii.ig a
ton of chips. Hot water is then applied,
which rapidly exhausts the sacchaiine
matter and so thoroughly that there is
scarcely a trace of it left. The cells are
entirely practical, being speedily filled,
manipulated and emptied, one man at
tending to the operation.
The mill at Ft. Scott is capable of
working up every twenty-four hours 150
tons of cane, making therefrom 18,000
pounds of sugar or more. The yield of
from ten to 100 tons of caue per acre was
being secured, which would produce by
this new process from 1200 to 1500
pounds of sugar. This sugar is worth,
by the carload, 5 cents per pound. Nor
is this all. To every ton of cane nside
from the sugar in it, there arc some ten
or twelve gallons of molasses and also
the seed raised upon the cane, amounting
to about five bushels per acre and just as
good for feeding all kinds of stock as
Iudiun corn.
Indeed the seed, it ii estimated, will
pay for the raising of the cane, which is
a merit possessed by no other sugar plant.
The department is also conducting
satisfactory experiments in New Jersey.
The result of these experiments upon the
country will, it is believed, be most ben
eficial. The nation is paying $100,000,000
annually to sugar producers of other
countries, and if it can be demonstrated
that it can profitably produce sugar on
its own farms it is a matter of the high
est importance to the country. It wid
not only keep this money at home, but
will save $50,000,000 annually in cus
toms and duties.
"I cannot see why our people should
not go to making sugar. A complete
sm;ar factory will cost about as much as
a flowering mill and can be ;un tit a great
profit according to the present experi
ments. Farmers jare glad to raise cane at
two dollars a ton and at that it pays
better than other farm products.
"I look upon these experiments as im
portant to this country as the invention
of the cotton gin. They have demon
strated that we h ive a sugar plant that
can be grown and converted profitably
into sugar south of the thirty ninth par
allel (out of reach of the early frosts)
to the Gulf of Mexico, and the country
can and will be independant of every
otiier nation for sugar." This new pro
cess will be tried on the Southern cane.
We have this day reduced the price
of lead (best brand) ooc, per hundred
lbs., lins cd oil 5c., per gallon, mixed
paint 10c., per gallon. On account of
our large purchases at reduced rates we
are able to make these changes. Allow
us to make you prices when in need of
any kind ot paint.
"W. J. "Wakrick.
Piattsmouth. Neb.
Sept. 12-S7. dCtw4t.
Lead, Oil, Varnishes, Brushes &c. at
Warrick's good goods and low prices.
dGt-wft
"Warrick asks you to compare his
prices and stock of school books with
others. Second hand school books at
very low prices. dGtw4L
ivny to ft, Iiowevcr, although I felt the cold
Inspiration stanrl out upon my forehead.
In the distaueo I Leant u jKjotmriui
splosh faintly, then tho owl hooted again in m
l.iii'l of unnatural screaming note, and tba
wind lxiKnn to moun plaintively through tho
trees, milking a heart chilling music. Above
vls tho lilack hosom of tho cloud, and
lit'iicatli mo swept tho Mnek flood of tho
water, uud I felt ns though I and death wen
utterly alone between them. It was very
desolate.
Suddenly my blood seemed to frcezo in my
veins and my heart to stand still. Was it
fancy, or wero we moving? I turned my
eyes to look for the other canoe, which should
bo ulonsido of us. I couM not see it, but in
stead I saw a lean and clutching black hand
lifting itself above tho gunwalooftbe liltla
boat. Surely it was a nightmare! At the
same time a dim but devilish looking face ap
peared to rise out of the water, find then
ratno a lurch of the canoe, a quick flash of a
knife and an awful yell from the Wakwall
who was bleeping by my siilo (tho samejpoor
fellow whoso odor had been annoying me),
and something warm spurted into my face.
In an instant the spell was broken; I know
that it was no nightmare, but that we wero
attacked by swimming Masai. Snatching at
tho tirst wcajon which came to Land, which
happened to bo Umslopogaas' battloax, I
struck with ull my force in the direction in
which I had seen tho flash of tho knifo. Th
blow fell upon a man's arm, and, catching it
against the thick wooden gunwale of tho
eanoo, completely severed it from the body
just abovo tho wrist. As for its owner, ho ut
tered no sound or cry. Liko a ghost ho camo,
and like a ghost ho went, leaving behind him
a Moody hand still grip ng a great knife, or
rather a short sword, that was buried in the
heart of our poor servant.
Instantly there arose a hubbub and confu
sion, and I fancied, rightly or wrongly, that
I mado out several dark heads gliding away
toward tho right hand bank, whither wo
wero rapidly drifting, for tho rope by which
wo had been moored had been severed with a
Li.aU: As soon as I had realized this fact, I
also realized that the scheme had been te cut
tl.o boat loose, so that it should drift on to
tho i ij'ht bank (as it would havo dono with
tho natural swing of tho current), where no
doubt a party of Masai were waiting to dig
their shovel headed spears into us. Seizing
one paddle myself, I told Umslopogaas to take
another (for the remaining Askari was too
frighteiK I and bewildered to bo of any use),
and together wo rowed vigorously out toward
the middle of tho stream; and not an instant
too soon, for In another minnte we should
havo been aground, and then there would
havo been an end of us.
As soon as wo wero well out, wo set to wof k
to paddle the canoo up stream again to where
the other was moored; and very Lard and
dangerous work it was in the dark, and with
nothing but tho notes of Good's stentorian
shouts, which he kept firing olf at intervals
liko a fog horn, to guide us. But at lost wo
fetched up, and were thankful to find tha
they had not been molested at all. No doubt
tho owner of the same hand that severed our
rope should have severed theirs also, but was
led away from his imrpose by an irresistiblo
inclinat ion to murder when ho got the chance,
which, v. hilo it cost us a man and him his
hand, undoubtedly saved all tho rest of us
from massacre. Kad it not been for that
ghastly apparition over the side of the boat
an apparition that I shall never forget till my
dying hour tho canoe would undoubtedly
havo i'. -if ted ashore before I realized what
had Lappened, and this history would never
have been written by me.
CHAPTER III.
THE MISSION" STATION.
Wo made the remains of our rope fast to
the other canoe, and sat waiting for the dawn
and congratulating ourselves upon our merci
ful escape, which really seemed to result
laore from the special favor of Providence
than from our own caro or prowess. At last
it came, and I have not often been more
grateful to see tho light, though, so far as my
canoo was concerned, it revealed a ghastly
sis'ut. There iu the bottom of tho little boat
lay tho unfortunate Askari, the siinc, or
sword, in his bosom, and tho severed baud
griping tho handle. I could not bear the
sight, so hauling up tho stone which had
served as an anchor to the other canoe, we
mado it fast to tho murdered man and dropped
him overboard, and down he went to the bot
tom, leaving nothing but a train of bubbles
behind him. Alas! when our timo comes,
most of it?, like Lim, leave nothing but bub
bles behind, to show that we havo been, and
tho bubbles soon burst. Tho hand of his
murderer wo threw into tho stream, where it
sank. Tho sword, of which tho handle was
ivory, inlaid with gold (evidently Arab
work), I kept andusftdes a hunting knife,
and very useful it moved.
Objected to Too Many of Them.
Within the borders of Lincoln county
and not over twenty miles from old Lin
cclnton there lives a respected citizen
who numbers in his family some as pretty
daughters as can be Kmnd in Dixie. As
usual, his house was the rendezvous of
the neighborhood gallants, and one fa
vored young man wooed, won and wedded
one of the fair ones. Not long since a
brother of the proud bridegroom ap
proached and astonished our hero by ask
ing the hand of another one of his daugh
ters. "Good Lord! do you think that I
raise my girls to give away to one family
How many more of you want raj to save
up my girls any more?" "Yes. sir. .
think brother Ed
wants one." Lincoln-
Lincoln as a Dry Goods Clerk.
When Abraham Lincoln was a clerk in a
dry goods store he sold a woman a little bill
of goods, amounting in value by the reckon
ing to $2,063". He received the money and
the woman went away. On adding the items
of the bill again to make himself sure of cor
rectness, he found that he had taken 6
cents too much. It was night, but closing
and loching the store, he started out on foot,
a distance of two or three miles, for the house
of his defrauded customer, and, delivering
over to her the sum whose possession had so
much troubled him, went home satisfied.
This is a very humble incident, but it illus
trates the man's perfect conscientiousness, his
sensitive honesty, better perhaps than if it
had been of greater moment. Toledo Blade.
It has lately been discovered than an Italian
nobleman, who frequented the most exclusive
London society and dabs at night, sells tin
ware from a handcart in the suburbs during
I in the suburb during j
(he day.
LOVE'3 SEASON.
Th time of lovers Is brief:
IVom tut fair urt Joy o the rrlaf
.5
That tells when 1ot la grown old,
From thn warm, wild kiss to th ooM, "
From tho red to the white rose leaf,
They Lbta but a enaaon to seem
As ros learws lost on a eta-warn, "7V;
That part nnt and poaa not apart.
As a spirit from droam to dretuu.
As a sorrow from hwart to heart.
--Swinburne,
HORACE GREELEY'S FARM.
The Famous Philosopher Hot Xotnd for
Manual Dexterity Fond of ForoRts.
Everybody who has been at Chappaqua re
members the plcturesqueness of the Greeley
farm aud the beauty of the woods, the d?ep
avine, the stream flowing through it and the
broad meadows, rescued from a swamp hy
drainage, below. It has a number of springs
at accessible points, where Mr Greeley used
to stop and drink, rarely skipping one as he
went along. A tin cup adjuceut to each
might be found always, whun no ill iuten
tioned wayfarer had spirited it away. Once
I amused him exceedingly when a cup was
missing at ono of the springs by folding up a
capacious leaf and improvising a cup from it,
from which we both drank. He had no idea
so simple a trick could be done.
I am sure manual . dexterity is something
to which I can lay but the feeblest claim, but
now I think of it I do not remember that Mr.
Greeley ever exhibited it even in a primitive
form. No utensil on the farm was ever con
structed or repaired by him, I imagine; nor
Lad he any faculty, you would observe, in a
mechanical direction. He could chop down a
tree, but more often his work was trimming
the trees up and cutting away the under
brush on the hillside. Ho often poinUd with
pride to the tall branchless polos in Lis woods,
from which the ship builders might select
their masts if occasion demanded.
I once asked him, when ho was vigorously
at work there in May, cutting down the al
ders full of sap and leaf, if spring was not
tbe wrong season for that kind of work. And
I mildly suggested that if they were cut iu
the fall his toil would be much more effective
But he said: "Now is always my time for
anything. Pretexts for putting olf work are
the lazy man's argument." He had a fond
ness for forests, as if tho spirit of the Dryad
naa somehow infected him.
lie was proud of his meadow, converted
from a swamp, but tho woods he worshiped.
He bought eighty acres or timber land, I
think, at one time, find sowed tho portion
that had been deforested with locusts and
chestnuts. He thought that every barren
Knou or rocky summit that the plow could
not ameliorate should be sown or planted
with trees. Joel Benton iu The Cosmopolitan.
Civil Service In En eland.
A large portion of the real work of the do-
pnrtmeuta in England is done by what are
known as "writers," who are paid thirty
shillings, or about $7.50, per week. Theso
men are employed by the hour, and a 'tem
porary tenponny," as he is called, is bandied
aboufc liko a shuttlecock from one department
to another. No matter how much ability
those men have they never rise, and some of
them havo been known to remain thirty years
in tho service at this rate. Marvin, ths author
of "Our Public Ofncrs," declares that merit
is a term not recognized in the civil service of
Great Britain. Advancement abovo the line
proceeds by means of seniority, incessant re
organization, or influence. The system, ho
says, "puts a premium on incapacity; and if
it makes a mistake now and again iu getting
rid of a man of merit, it i wf. -tickc 't .u
its noodles."
The underlying rice of the British system
is utter lack of ambition aud idleness. The
efforts to kill time take various forms in the
departments. In some, newspaper reading;
in others, political discussions, and in others,
tippling. Many of tho government clerks, I
am reliably informed, keep liquor of all kinds
in their desk, and refresh thomselves behind
the lid. A man has to be a confirmed drunk
ard, indeed, before you can dismiss him from
the British service, if he happens to be a
clerk. The work required of him being prac
tically nothing, his habits do not interfere
with that, and his associates, as a rule, make
no complaints. The beads of departments
have no authority over the clerks, for they
come and go, but the barnacles go on for
ever. No supervisory visits tro ever made
to any branch of the service, and the clerks
who cannot be removed are masters of the
situation, and, as a rule, laws unto them
selves. Whenever a spurt of work comes on,
enough "tenpenny writers" are put on to do
it. Robert P. Porter in Chicago Inter Ocean.
A Strange Mixture of Blood.
Probably the strangest mixture of blood
that can be found anywhere iu this country
among what are known as the upper classes
occurs in our northwestern cities, notably in
St. PauL In the early days the French
voyageurs and the Scotch employes of the
Hudson Bay company frequently intermar
ried with the Indians and brought up large
families of half breeds. These intermarried
with the Americans who settled in this sec
tion of the country, and in the course of a
few years became the social leaders in the
cities that grew up as if by magic. Indian
blood, therefore, U, in the northwest, never
considered as a disgrace, and the most sty
lish young ladies thought nothing of enter
taining their grandmothers, who were Indian
squaws. The Indian men seldom appeared,
but the women were very fond of visiting tin
cities for short periods and then returning to
their tribes.
In one case the ancestress of one of the
most prominent families in St. Paul used tc
visit her descendants twice a year, but never
could be induced to sleep in a house, and the
entrance to the handsome mansion was occu
pied by the tepee of the old grandmother
whenever she paid a visit to her grandchil
dren. This was not an isolated instance, but
one of a number, and thirty years ago tht
spectacle of a lady dressed in the height oi
fashion, accompanied by a withered squaw
clad in skins and a blanket, was so cornmor
on the streets of St. Paul as to attract littlt
attention. George L. Bostwick in Globe
Democrat. Quick Work.
Upon a bet a Kansas man killed, cleaned,
cooked and ate a chicked in less than fifteen
minutes. Lots of women take longer tlm
than that every morning pounding the dish
rag to make the next door neighbors believa
tbey are cooking beefsteak for breakfast.
Phiiadejpnia Herald.
This space belongs to JToscnh
V. Wcckbach.
many goods and
not write an ad.
We Announce Without Further Notice a
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Commencing TO-DAY, JULY 12th. and continuing untQ
September let.
Valoes Wi in
ffl
-AS THIS IS
without reserve, it will be to the individual interests of all citisen
ot Cass County to take advantage of the
nparaiEeled Bargains Offerei
Having in view the interests
multitude to share the benefits ot
consideration sell to other dealers
under this clearance sale.
DO MOT DELAY!
We go to New York soon to mko our Fall Purchase,
and we kindly request all of our friends indebted to us to
call as early as possible and adjust their accounts.
Yours Respectfully,
SOLOMON & NATHA3XL
White Front Dry Qtwfc House.
Main Street, - Pletfcmoutn, Nob
He is receiving a&
is buy h can-
lor a few daye.
REDUCTION
al:
A POSITIVE-
ot our customers, and to enable th
this great Bale, we will under 110
wholesale lots of goods embraced
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