SOCKET Y EVENTS.
Two Very Pleasant Receptions Held
Last Evening.
THE V'WOODMEN" LOG ROLLING.
That Society Install Officer For the En
ntoK Tear, and Gives a Very Fleas
ant Entertainment ami; Sup
per I.aat Kvtnlujr.
Modern Woodmen Install fMHcer
The local order of the Modern Wood
men of America last evening installed
their newly-elected officers for tbe en
suing term. Tbe Woodmen, who are
noted for their hospitality, extended
an invitation to their families and
friends to be piesent, and, although
the weather was extremely disagreea
ble, about two hundred people braved
thesnow storm to witness the cere
monies, and none had occasion to re
gret it. One of the best, if not the
very best programs for a like occasion
was then carried out, including vocal
music by a quartette of ladies and gen
tleman, several choice instrumental se
lections by Messrs. Harry Green and
John Coleman, of the Tuxedo Mando
lin club. Mute solos by Dr. Humphrey,
with guitar accompaniment by Frank
Xieman and a very pretty recitation
by little Miss Clara lirown. The
Woodmen marchinsr club, with their
handsomely-painted wooden axes, gave
a very neat drill, and a fantastic exhi
bition of one of the neighbors "riding
the goat" was funny in the extreme.
Installing-OfHcer J. L. Root performed
the installation ceremonies, which
were impressive and interesting. The
guests were then cordially invited to
partake of refreshments, which they
did with alacritv. Two of the cakes
on the tables are deserving of especial
mention, and would do credit to a pro
fessional pastry artist. One repre
sented a log cabin complete, w hich,
when lighted up, presented a very
pretty appearance. The other was a
handsome affair with a large chicken
perched on the top. These were sold
at auction at the close of the entertain
ment. The following were the officers
installed:
Venerable Consul U. IV Gering.
Worthy Advisor Wm. A. White.
Excellent Banker D. 1$. Smith.
Clerk W. L.Thomas.
Guide D. K. ttarr.
Manager Val. Burkd.
Chief Forrester Harry Barthold.
Sentry II.. Piestrup.
Mr. and Mn. Uennett Entertain.
Last evening the hospitable home of
Captain and Mrs. L. D. Bennett xa."
the scene of a most enjoyable earo
party. The host and hostesssustained
their well-earned reputation as enter
tainers, and those fortunate enough
to be present will have occasion to long
remember the event. Mrs. Ella
Cooper and Misses Bertie Bennett and
Nellie Leonard very ably assisted in
receiving and caring for the guests
After a seasop of progressive high-five
elegant refreshments were served, in
cluding some very delicious home
made candy. After the refreshments
card playing was resumed until a late
hour. II. X. Dovey and Mrs. O. II.
Snyder succeeded in carrying off the
honors of the occasion, winning sorat
fourteen games apiece. Those present
were- Messrs. and Mesdames O. II.
Snyder, V. V. Leonard, A. B. Todd,
W. D. Jones, II. X. Dovey, Julius Pep
perberg, Mrs. J. X. Wise, Mrs. Ella
Cooper, Misses Alice Eaton, Bertie
Bennett, Nellie Leonard, Messrs.
John Duke, John Tutt and W. B.
Wise. .
A IMeasant Party.
The hospitable home of Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Ilernpel, at the corner of
Seventh and Marble, was tbe scene of
a most enjoyable gathering last eve
ning, the occasion being in honor of
Miss Ella Dalton of Omaha, a cousin
of the hostess. The parlors were tast
fully decorated .with hot house plants
and flowers, everywhere showing the
handiwork of the artistic hands of the
hostess. After several games of high
live, a delicious lunch was served, af
ter which there was dancing, singing
and speaking. The recitations by
Misses Ella Dalton and Hose Hyeis
deserve special mention, and a trio
sung by Miss Hose Ilyers, Henry Ger
ing and Judt?e Spurlock was rendered
in so pleasing a manner as to win them
loud and repeated applause. In ad
dition to tbe these features, the in
strumental music rendered by Miss
Kate Neville must not be omitted, as
it formed a very pleasing part of the
evening's entertainment. There was
a bushel of fun and joy for all, and j
it was not till an early hour this
morning that the jolly crowd dispersed.
Those invited were:
Misses Verna Leonard, Ella Clark,
Kate Neville, Barbara Gering, Rose
and Bertha Uyers, Kate and Theresa
Ilempel, Dora Swearingen, Delia
Tartsch and Dora Fricke; Mesdames
A. Coleman, J. Klein, and A.Clark;
Messrs. Henry Gering, Guy Living
ston. Emil Wurl, Judge Spurlock,
jiev. r . 1. x reuna, u in njera, jouu
Davies, A'ch Coleman, liert Combs
and Tom Parmele. '
PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE.
J.D.Ferguson of Louisville was in
town yesterday.
B. L. Kirkham, of The Jodunal,
made a business trip to Omaha this af
ternoon. The county commissioners were in
adjourned session yesterday, allowing
a number of bills.
Dick Streight drove in from South
Bend yesterday. He says the roads
were in splendid condition.
Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Reed returned
to their home in Council Bluffs this
afternoon after an attendance here on
probate court.
Is. C. EickholT and Frank Dickson,
both of Louisville, were visitors at the
court house today. The' seem to en
joy private life as a luxury.
Judge Archer says that it is too bad
that Moore should have been bound
over yesterday, after Attorney Graves
had made a "valiant ficht for his re
lease."
Mrs. W. A. Swearincen, who has
been quite ill for the past two weeks,
is still very sick. She
tended bv It mother.
i.s being at
Mrs. Green-
slate of Elm wood.
The will ..f the late Dr. John Black
was admitted to probate today with
out a contest, and what looked for a
time like a hotly contested legal bat
tle has blown over.
Star lodge No. I, Degree of Honor,
A. O. U. W.. will give a festival and
ball with supper attached, at Water
man hall, on Friday evening, Feb. 14.
lhi. Tickets for dance T0 cents.
Gerald Drew gave a tally pull to the
teachers and members of the graduat-
iiff class at his home on East Vine st
last evening. A royal time is reported.
iid the company did not separate till
a late hour.
In order to disprove the charge of
cruelty to his daughter. Fred Patter
son brought the child to town yester
day, that the county attorney might
see for himself what grounds there
were for the charges.
Conrad Schlater and wife, of Eouis
ville, are in town, bavins come
down for a visit of several days. Mr.
S. is congratulating himself on a re
turn of health, after an illness with la
rrippe for several weeks.
There are now live prisoners in the
county jail, and the prospects are good
for four of them to draw rations froti
'he state for some time t" come. Th
Gillispie brother?, En. Moore and
Frank Douglas will ail probably draw
;!;.es running from one year up.
PERSONAL, POLITICAL AND PERTINENT.
Col. Folk, of the Xews, called at
his oCice this morning and offeied t
"set up tbe cigars" if Thk Jol'knai.
would say nothing about a certaii
"scoop ' in last evening's News. The
colonel furnished his readers with an
item that no one else in town even
dreamed of, and where he obtained his
information is a puzzle. If he will
nrmg around those cigars, however,
we will "let 'er go at that."
Perry Lathrop has received an offer
of a position with a large wholesale
grocery firm at Kansas City, but has
not, as yet, decided whether or not he
will accept the same. Nebraska City
News.
By the strangest coincidence three
men met in the house restaurant in
Washington the other day, whose
names were Wheat, Oates and Barley.
They began to hunt around and found
another whose name was Rye.
The Lincoln Call remarks that' With
twenty-five prisoners in the county
jail for crimes ranging from murder to
petty indiscretions, it may be truly
said that our new sheriff and his assis
tants have their hands full."
The Cinderella club last evening
gave another of their pleasant dances
at Memorial hall. It. VJ in the
nature of a farewell to one of its mem
bers, George Mollring, who leaves for
Crawford, Neb., in a few days to make
his future home, and also in honor of
Miss Minnie Christie, of Flattsmouth.
who has been in the city some time
visiting Mrs. II. D. Aocrar and sistPr.
n
MissMaher. The evening was most
enjoyably passed in tripping the light
tcntastic and a delightful lunch was
served during the evening. Nebraska
City News.
Thomas Goss, a Maine farmer
eighty-three years old, skated three
miles on the Kennebec river to eat
Christmas dinner with a friend, and
after dinner skated the three miles
back home again.
A girl in St. Joseph, Mo. , has eloped
with a Sioux Indian. Contrary to the
usual run of aboriginies, this fellow is
said to be quite a well red man. Chi
cago Dispatch.
Judge Sullivan, who went down to
St. Iouis, as attorney for Mrs. Shry
ock, in her insurance case, reports
that he has every reason to believe
that he will win. The case wasap-
peaieu irom me lower courts to the
U. S. court of appeals at St. Louis.
NOW.
(Written for Thk Journal.)
'hither come those drops of crystal ?
Are they beads that some fair vastalg
Dropped by accident telow
Are they smiles the saints are flinging
Or the notes the saints are singing
Floating down so soft and slow ?
Are they angel's feathers maybe ?
Or the crumbs that some dear baby
From his heavenly bread let fall?
Are they star rays crushed and broken Y
Are they leaves sent for a token
Thrown out over Heaven's wall ?
Ara they from blue seas yonder?
Are they butterflies that wander
From the blessed world above r
Are they promises to preet us
Are they souls sent out to meet us
From the ark, like Noah's dove?
Isai-.kl Uichkv
lCnglaiMl and Cuba.
The war department should hasten
to put the Atlantic squadron in fight
ing condition. There may be nothing
to the reports covering the object and
destination ot the Hying Fqiihdron, but
conditions are such that we me en
joined to be on the alert and be pre
pared for the outcome, whether it be
peace or war. If Great Britain intends
to purchase Cuba, and if the United
States does not propose thai she shall,
the time for the United States to inter
fere is before, not after the purchase
is made. If we do not interfere before
the transfer, interfering afterwards
will place u? in a much more disadvan
tageous attitude, as we would then 1 e
m the position of reclaiming territoiy
from a foreign country rather than
preventing a foreign country from ac
quiring territory. In the disposition
of Cuba, should Spain undertake to
ell it to England or any other foreign
country, the United Stats has certainly
-i right to dictate. Cuba is so clo.e o
ur shores as to be a most valuable
and stragtic point in the event of war.
and, ignoring entirely ci mmeicial ben
efits, we might as well let England sic
quire part of Florida as patter all ot
Cuba. The Globe does not believe
that England is courting war with the
United States.' This she cannot do.
For England to take this step would
be an act of hostility which the United
States could neither tolerate, nor con
lone. The United States should be
prepared to sei e notice on England to
desisi the moment the tacts are known,
should the report relative to Cuba
prove true. (Jive England to under
stand that her rights to Cuba can be
established only by the bayonet and
mllet, no matter what sort oi a com
part she may make with Spain. Th
iieir apparent, to Cub:! is Uncle Sam
Council BI nil's Globe.
The republicans are growing im
patient about an increase in taxes (i. e.
ihe tariff) as the only panacea for the
nation's ills. If they were to try the
remedy (if giving the people bitnei
illism, so that more .money would How
into circulation it would seem a far
more natural feasible plan. In med
icine it used to be the theory to bleed
the patient when he was sick. In fact
it is generally believed that the father
of his country ,George Washington, was
bled to death because his lungs were
congested. Medical science has evolved
a more modern and rational plan since
then. It would seem that when the
people are suffering from a want of
money it would be better philosophy to
give it to them than to tax them out
of what they have.
Dr. Marshall, Graduate DENT
IST, Fitzgerald block.
NKItUASli UAl'l'KNINfiS.
The Orleans Progress notes unmis
takable signs of returning prosperity.
Good enough !
Iieferring to the suggestion of an ex
change that the people get together
and run the government, the Seward
Democrat says that a majority of them
are not able to run a ten-acre farm.
Another coal find is reported near
Plattsmouth, The vein is a thiu one.
but increases iu thickness as the work
ers advance toward the heart of the
bluff under-which it reposes.
In attempting to club Henry Gaunt
from a lamp post to which he clung for
protection, the marshal of Culbertson
received an upper cut which, according
to the Era, peeled the bark from the
south half of the northeast quarter of
his elegant physiognomy.
Mrs. I. E. Striud of North Platte
met with a very serious accident while
washing. She was lifting clothes from
a boiler of hot water, using a broom
handle for that purpose, when the
stick broke and the dripping garments
landed on her head. Her face, neck
and chest were badly scalded.
Another prerogative of tbe new wo
man has just been discovered in Nor
folk. At a dance in tbe city. last
week, a ladies' choice waltz was on the
program. One of the young men
present, who dad been engaged for
the waltz, failed to fulfil his obliga
tion, and as a reward had bis face
slapped by the deceived new woman.
Articles of incorporation of "the
Union Stock Yards company of North
Platte, (Limited)" were recently filed.
The incorporators of this company are
John Bratt, John Burke, M. 13. Burke
and E. Bratt. This company will con-
tinue the stock yards business for
merly conducted by Charles Burke and
John Bratt, and starts in with abun
dant capital, fully paid up, and is re
garded as a very solid company.
A full line of Gunther's celebrated
confectionery at Fricke &Co's.
A Fresh. Start.
Of Mr. Arthur Coventry, the English
raco track official, this story is told. On
his way to the milepost one day the
official was accosted by a broken down
but gentlemanly looking man.
"Yon don't know me, Mr. C," said
the man, "and I don't wonder at it.
I've comedown in the world. But I was
at Oxford with you. My name's Toin
linson. "
",ro, I don't know you," eaid Mr.
C, "but what do you want?"
"Well, things have gone all vro:g.
I'm broke, and I want you to give me a
fresh start."
"Certainly. Come along here a bit."
They went on down the course, and
presently at the end of the "straight"
Mr. C. stopped short, raised his flag for
a moment, Jet it fall and cried "Go!"
Wasted Figure.
He Then everything is fixed, and
wo can bo married in May, can't we?
She There is only one thing I have
not spoken of, and mamma insisted that
I must.
He Certainly, my angel. What is it?
Bid me go through any trial for your
dear sake, and I'll do it. Ask for the
golden fleece, and if such a thing is in
existence I'll get it. Aye, even though I
must swim the seas, climb the loftiest
peaks, or search in the fuming craters
of mighty volcanoes, I'll do it.
She It isn't much, my dear. Mam
ma said I must ask you how much you
intended to allow ino a week for pin
money.
He Um er how much are pins a
paper now? New York Weekly.
Good Listeners.
Iu conversing with one's friends noth
ing is so chilling as an apparent lack of
attention and sympathy. It might be
added that nothing is more vulgar,
were not the listener's indifference com
mon to the majority of our most cul
tured people. If, when one is addressed,
she will remember to incline the body
slightly forward, an attitude of rapt at
tention will soon be unconsciously as
sumed, and, whether really worthy of it
or not, new recruits gained for the al
ways popular, as rare, class known as
"good listeners." New York Times.
In the fourteenth century the slaugh
ter of women and ohildim after a town
or castle had been taken by storm was
one of the most common occurrences of
war.
The chemical pronei-ties of coffee
beans are caffeine, fat, caffeic acid,
gua, saccharine, luni'n and cellulose.
PcpeV favorite.
Pope deemed the "Lssay cn Man" bis
most polished production, but was so
fond of revising his poetry that the
printed copy contained almost one mar
ginal note for every line. If his wishes
had been fully carried out, the second
Iditiou would have had so many changes
as to be practically a new work.
fUSiJt04I TM5E TABLE
II. 1. K. K
EAST HOl!Nr.
No. 2, dally 5:.il. p. ra.
No. 4. daily 10:24. ft. ra
No. 10, from Schuylerexcept Sunday. 11:55, a.m
No. 12, daily S:25. p. rn
No. 92, daily except Sunday 12:23. p. ra
No. 30, freight from Louisville 2:50, p. in
WEST HOUND.
No. 3, dally
No. 5. daily
No. 7, fast mail, dally
No. 9, to Schuyler, except Sunday
No. 11, dally
.,3:43, p. id
..?:-, a. ra.
. .2:1?. p. ra
.4:00 p. m
..4:50, p. in
No. 29, freight to Louisville.
.8:C0.a . in,
M . P. K. K.
GOING NOItTII: Leaves.
PaHsenger, No. 1 4:50 a. m.
No. 103 5:03 p. m
Freight, No. 127 (dally exc'ptSunday) 3:35 p. ro
GOING SOUTH":
Passenger. No. 2 lo:43p. m.
No. 104 11:52 a. m.
Freight, No, 12 (daily exceptSundav) 9:35 a. m
Union and Lincoln accommodation. No 3t3,
arrives 12:55; departs. No. C, 4:00 p. ni.
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Which are beyond question the best Stoves made. Call and see.
His stock of FURNITURE, both in quality and quantity,
is the largest and best in the county.
No. ll2 Main Street,
Are Invifcii to Call and iv e
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THE POPULAR BUTCHERS.
And get prices on Cattle, Hogs, Calves. Chickens, Geese, Ducks
Turkeys and Hides. They are always ready to buy for cash.
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: not. Xo contestant can enter more than one sentence nor combine with
ilp-r competitors. Residents of Omaha are not permitted to take any
irt. directly or indirectly, in this contest. Piano now on exhibition ;ii
Hiiyden Iiros.' Music Store, Omaha, Xeb.
This remarkably liberal otfer is made by the Weekly World-IIekam.
..: which the distinguished ex-conirrp.ssman,
WILLIAM J. BRYAN, is Editor,
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Yon. I'm the pioneer cash ineater
of this municipality. lra the in
troducer of Ked-Ilock Prices nJ
will sell you
MORE MEAT...
For your money than any other man
In town. "Cash is King" Money
talks anl at 2233. OilVEK'S
New Cash Market is the place
where it will tuythe
MOST MEAT,
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WHOLESALE ond RETAIL
DEALERS IN-
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AND THE BEST CIGARS.
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Deliveries made to any part of the
city or shipped to anyplace.
WM. NEVILLE,
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