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About The alliance. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 1889-1889 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 21, 1889)
PUBLISHED BT THE ALLIANCES' PUB. CO. LINCOLN, - ; NEBRASKA. NEJ3KAKA NEWS. Dnat to lut.' Hastings special: Hon. James S. Laird passed ftwaj Saturday morning ut 10 :30 surrounded by a host of bis warm friend! t He began sinking rap idly after 7 o'clock. The body was im mediately taken" in charge of by the coroner,' wboiia now 'holding an au topsy. "" The theory that James Laird died of softening of the brain is dis pelled by an examination of his brain, which was found in perfect condition, wesgning fifty three ounces. His face was somewhat emaciated, but other wise he showed no signs of being a sick man. At this ? hour, 8 p. m., the au topsy has not been completed, and the doctors have thus far found no cause to which to attribute his death. A number of physicians who have been in attendance i at Laird's bed-side at tribute his death to blood poison, the result of a receut operatiob performed, but the cause of his death is still wrap pen in mystery . Laird will be interred in Park View enretery, in Hastings, alongside of hid father, mother and brothers. - His col leagues, Senators Manderson and Fad dock, and Representatives Dorsey and Connell -will act as pall bearers. The funeral wilt take place Monday at 1 o'clock at , the First Presbyterian church The Hon. J. G. Tate will conduct the services. The city is profusely attired in mourning, iirhejjublic buildings and business blcks are surmounted with flags at half mast. Silas Strictland post G. A. R. No. 13, of this city, will have charge of the funeral. The G. A. H. posts from central Nebraska and the Republican valley have wired their in tentions of assisting in the obsequies. Laird was of Scotch parentage and was proud of hia ancestry. At Rest at Ilia Old Home. Hastings spe3iai: 'ine remains of Congressman James Laird were laid in their final resting place in Park "View cemetery Monday afternoon with the most imposing ceremonies ever witnessed in, Hastings. Thousands of people paid a tribute of respect to the memory of the dead congressman, and special trains were ran on most of the- railroads leading into Hastings nd nearly every town in the district was, represented. Among the well known Nebraskans present were Gov. Thayer, Secretary Laws, State Treas urer Hill; Auditor Benton, Attorne? General Leese. Congressmen Connell and Dorsey Judge Post of York, Judge Chaney of Red Cloud, Adjutant Gen eral Cole. Mr. Laird's only surviving relatives, Mrs. Isaac Bey eu, an aunt, and William Bey en, a cousin from Oillman, 111., were present. The services were'held at the First Presby terian church. Rev. J. G. Tate of Shelton preached the sermon. The music was impressive and the floral decorations profuse. The procession marched to the cemetery by three routes. It was very long and in a single line wjuld have extended over two miles.'' Twenty Injured. The most serious wreck that ha oc cnrred on the B. & M. for years, hap pened Sunday morning, just southeast of Lincoln. .. No Oiie was killed outright but t wen ty passengers were severely injured. There were probably fifty persons on the : train and all received a severe shaking up, - " . The train was No. 92 from "Wymore, due at Liccolu at 7:25 a. m. Engineer Anderson and Conductor Haight were in charge. Tue wreck occurred at the switch leading , to the Nebraska Iron works, on west A street. As the smok ing car passed over the crossing at South treet the passengers felt a heavy blow agaiust tbe floor ol the car, caused by a .broken brake-beam. Instantly several employes of the -oad who wre on the train sprang for the bell cord and signalled the engineer to stop. Tbe .train, was running at a speed of thirty miles an hour and could not be checked before the accident occurred. etreet crossing is the switch that leads from the main line to the Boiler and Iron works on A street.. Between the two tracks is a gully twenty feet deep. When the smoking car reached the switch the broken brake-beam in some manner forced opon the switoh and the two passenger cars plunged out upon the side track, while the engine and baggage-car remained on the main line. The couplings between the smoking and the baggage cars were strong enough to drag the two rear cars from -the side track before the connection, was broken. In less time than it takea to tell it the two passen ger coaches were rolling over and over into the deep exca ation. So great was the momentum that the distance between the switch and the place where the smoker finally stopped w as over one-hundred feet. Before the cars topplod over the plunged along on Jie ties and ground for fifty feet or more, bending rails and tearing up the embankment. The shock must have bfien terrible. Almost every window in the cars was broken. Seats were twisted and wrenched in every conceiv The last accounts received from the B. & M. physicians last night indi cated that all the injured would recover - n ii i and tnac n" cieatns woum occur. " All Over the State. In the election, at Lincoln, for the issuance of $20,000 bonds for the ex tension of its sewer system, the re suit was 502 votes, 68 for and 434 against, ; Gov. Thayer has gore to Massachu spt.ta. .He will be absent about two weeks and when he returns will bring Mrs. Thayer with him. A large numoer oi uermau eim- ' grants landed at West 1'oint.iast weeK. Farmers who peddle apples on tine streets at Leigh without license are ar rested. A Willowdale farmer jiamed Baker while working around a threshing machine dropped dead from a stroke of j apoplexy. : William Davidson, living at Elyria, Valley county, was instantly killed ODe day last week by the explosion of a gun which a blacksmith was repairing. The state prohibition convention met in Lincoln Wednesday, with Judge Martin I. Brower as permanent chair man and George H. Gibson of Douglas as permanent secretary. At a recent school election in Wilson ville, Furnas, county every lady in the distract marched to the polls, and voted, while the men were rele gated to the rear. The old settlers will hold a barbecue at South Bend on the 22d an give a free dinner to all who attend. . George Meisner of Lhelton has pur chased 5,000 head of sheap which he will feed at that place next winter. The Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley Railroad company, has com menced the laying of steel rails' be tween Clearwator and Neligh. E. Guenzel, who resides south of Ne braska City,- was arrested for stealing native wine on Sunday. After inflicting along lecture the i judge discharged him. The cry for a flouring mill at DuBois has been answered. ' The old veterans cf the late war will give Governor Thayer and Secretary of State Laws a rousjng reception at their reunion and camp hre on , the fair ground, at Champion. Omaha needs an ordinance compell ing drivers of vehilces to keep off the center of the street and drive to the right. Colisions are common " to the injury of wheels. An Omaha gentlemen was fined $7 and costs for making a loud and un usual noise while being belabored with a broomstick in the hands of an angry woman. Moral Don't cry out when hurt. ' According to the Plattsmouth Jour nal some religious enthusiasts styled "sanctificationists" are holding services every day and evening at Bethlehem, The way they carry on is a terror to the inhabitants, s , Mrs. J. L. Tout of Kearney caught a sneak thief in the house in possession of a valuable gold watch. In an instant she had him covered with a revolver, telling him to drop the watch, which be did and left the premises in a hurry. It is reported that a Fremont lady, recently deceased, had . become so strongly attached to her Jersey cows, which had supplied her stock of milk for some time befor e her death, that she insisted that at hei death they should both be killed. The sale of lots in the Hastings col lege addition has been completed and the condition on which the $15,000 gift from Chicago was to be received can now be met. Sixty lots sold brought over $37,000. The college opens September 4 with prospects for a prosperous year. W. T. Scott of Beatrice was stopped by a footpad and ordered to hold up his hands, which he did, but happening to have a dinner bucket in one of them he let it come down upon the highway man with the force oi a trip hammer. After getting to his feet the fellow fled. The pontoon versus a high wagon. bridge is having a hearing at Nebraska City. A pontoon man asserts that iron bridges are short lived ; that every time a dog goes upon one and scratches himself it is never the same bridge again. A high bridge advocate says every time a few sections of the pontoon float down stream it is never quite the same bridge again until repaired. Amateur burglars tried to blow open two safes in the ofice of L. F. Cornutt & Co., lumber dealers of Nebraska City. Neither safe was locked at the time, but when dials were knocked off it locked the bolt, thus keeping the wouJd-be burglars out. An entrance was also effected by a side uoor into' the Chicago Lumber companv and the dial broken off the safe in the same wav without access to the safe being obtained. Mr. and Mrs. Pinkus Fires tine of Fremont were unfortunate in losing a five month's old babe. Unfortunate, remarks the Herald, because when the bereaved frther first announces the loss to his friends it was follawed with an off-hand estinv te of the probable cost of the burial. It. finally settled that one of Pinkus' Jewish brothers should become tbe funeral and take the body of the child in an ordinary grip to Omaha for burial, not to exceed $1U for the round trip. This occurred last Monday and on Wednesday the funeral returned with the grip and on Thurs day presented to the still dreaved Pinkus a bill for $23.y, wnicn so enraged Pinkus that he cast off the habiliments of mourning and threw "the funeral out of his store. A curious gavel will be now on exhibition at the O'Neil reunion. It is of black walnut, and was made ut of a piece of the work bench used by Gen. Grant in his tannery at Galena, 111. One made from the same plank was used in Chicago in calling the republican nat ional convention to order. There is no question as to the genuiness of the gavel, an there are quite a number of men in Galena who can make affidavit to the fact that the plank was once in use by Grant in his tannery. William Hoffman was killed almost instantly a few days ago by an engine in the Union Pacific yards at Omaha. He was track walking and did not heed the sound of the whistle and bell. The engine passed over his arms and body, and when the train was stopped and the crushed body taken off the rails, he lived long enough to give his name and address. His name was William Hoffman, aged about twenty-eigth years, lived in Sotith Omaha, had no relatives in the county, and mei his deathl through his own carelessness. It's an Elixir of Death. Cincinnati dispatch: Charles L. Steele, an aged partial paralytic, is at death's door, the result of Brown-Se-quard's life elixir taken last Saturday. That day, according to Steele's story, he was passing the house of Dr. Taylor of Linn street, when the latter called him in. Steele was told, he says, he would be given a medicine that would cire his paralysis. He says the doctor thereupon bared his hips and gave him two hypodermic injections. The or deal was a terrible one for Steele, who almost fainted from pain that night, and Sunday the agony was almost past endurance. Monday he' called on Taylor, who told him, he says, that the pain was an indication that he would get well. Yesterday Steelo's mind began to waver, and his friends called on Dr. Watson, an old surgeon, who says he was astonished at the pa tient's condition. His thighs are a mass of gangrene and his agonies un speakable. Watson says the case is one of the most outrageous he ever knew, and last night an attorney was employed to take learal action. Taylor will be arrested. He is a rich phy sician. He says thfe elixir was carefully prepared and fresh, and that Steele asked that it be tried on him. THE PATIENT DIED. Shamokin (Pa.) dispatch : George Robertson of Mount Oarmel has been suffering wich inflamation of the bow els and kindred diseases for years. Tuesday last, after his pnysicians had given up all hope, it was suggested they try the -Brown-Sequard elixir. The man was unconscious when the injection of a drachm was made in the left breast. The patient did not notice it in the least, but after a short time he rallied, and when a second injection was made in his arm he moved and complained of pain. Yesterday he ap peared to be somewhat better, but the improvement was only temporary and the patient died today. ANOTHER ONE DYING. Troy (O.) dispatch : William Fiedel is dying here from the effects of the elixir administered by Dr. Senoive for rheumatism. TbeNebraiska Tnrnerfest Fremont special ; The public and private buildings of Fremont were Friday gaudily bedecked in honor of the German Turnerf est, which opened for a three daysf session. Handsome banners are suspended across the streets in many places 'many of them bearing appropriate inscriptions; nearly every business; house is profusely decorated with flags-, (German and American,) bunting and designs in evergreen. The decorating committees of the local Turners have been efficient in creating a general interest in tlbe work and the result is Fremont never presented such a handsome appearance. Turn hall, which will be headquarters during the festivities, has been em bellished in a manner becoming the occasion. The first delegations arrived; in the evening, but the big crowd is expected to-morrow and Sunday when, it is anticipated, there will be two or three thousand visitors in the city. A grand banquet to tbe Turners was given at Turn hall. E. Schurman, of this city, made a neat address of wel come and several toasts were appro priately responded to. At Camp Crook. Fort Robinson special : Never since the thrilling days of 1876-77, when the entire fighting force of the department of the Platte was gathered in this neighborhood engaged in hostile oper ations against the Sioux, has there been so much excitement as at present prevails in the valley of the White river. Two battalions of infantry and cavalry, equipped for active campaign ing, are already in the field, one moving rapidly up the valley to inter cept the approaching Seventh infantry, and the other with pickets and flank ers advancing in solid ranks eastward to join the command of regulars from Fort Niobraia. It is still five dys before general orders will be fully car ried out by the concentration of all commands at Camp George Crook, but the visiting columns, when they do arrive, will find department headquar ters on the ground awaiting them and all preparations fully made for the pitching of tents, the hanging of camp kettles, the sound of the sentry and! the blare of martial music. The postmaster of Kearney applied to the postoflice department some time ago for the establishment of the free delivery service in that town. The application was followed by a visit by one cf the special agents of the depart ment, and his report is said to be favor able to the establishment of the ser- vice there. It is likely that the service will be ordered established about the 1st of October. Miss Fisher Gets JHker Money. Detroit (Xichi); Suaday Sua. Jaly 23. Mies Amanda Fisher, of 201 Champlain street, lias suddenly stepped from compar ative poverty to affluence. , , S he is the fore lady in one of the flats of Gray, Toynton and Pox's candy factory In this city. On Saturday, the 6ih of July, Mis Fisher bought a one-twentieth part of x ticket No. 42,738 in the July 14 drawing of the Louisiana State Lottery. On Tuesday last she received a teietrram in which she was notified that her ticket netted her 8 15,000. Of course, I am delighted at my good fortune," said Miss Fisher to a Sunday San man. "Did you experience any difficulty in getting the money ?" "Ho; I put my ticket in the hands of one of the banks here, and they got my money forme." "I suppose your friends are delighted at your good fortune." "Yes; I must say that I have received many congratulations. Of course I am delighted for I shall not have to work so hard." The money was paid to Miss Fisher at the Commercial National bank, this city, Wednesday. . " For Sale. One-half interest in one of the best weekly papers in the state. Polities republican. Is the official paper of the city and county. A good job office in connection. The owner has other business, and will sell a naif interest to a practical man, who will devote all his time to the paper. $500 cash is the price, and unless you have the money and mean business, don't write. Italic Space, Care of Newspaper Union, Lincoln, Neb, THE HOUSEHOLD. BlBts for the Horns. Lawn tennis sashes for gentleman are all the rage, and come in all col ors of plain or striped surah. White and yellow are used in chil dren's costumes, producing 'an ad mirable combination. An insect in theear may be drown ed out with tepid water or killed by a few drops of sweet oil. A pint of mustard seed added to a barrel of cider will keep the liquid sweet for an indefinite period. The turban and favorable sailor hat are being worn again this season, and are alike becoming to your;g misses and ladies. Apply to grass stains on the chil dren's clothes molasses, just as you would soap, and wash as usual The stains will disappear . entirely with no injury to the fabric. For dyspepsia try wandering milk root, and it will stop the burning sensation almost instantly. It is paid to be a sure cure for this pain ful disease. Delicious Waffles. Half a pint of cold' boiled farina, half a pint of rice flour, two tablespoonfuls of wheat flour, one pint ol milk, neteaspoon hil of butter, two eggs well beaten. In case of a cut, smoke the wound with burned red flannel on which has been placed a small quantity of sugar then tie up, alter sprinkling with sul phur, and it will heal immediately. A London medical man savs: "Fo careful in your dealings with horse raddish. It irritate? the stomach farm ore than spice, and an over dose will bring on au unpleasant sen sation for days." To Can Pk as. Fill your can with peas after being washed," put in pnough water to cove them, put tho lid on loosely, and put in ii boiler of water, bring to a boil and boil two and a half hours, take out and seal. To cleanse porcelain saurppani?, fill them half full of hot watr and put in the water a toaspoonful of powdered borax and let i? bolJ. If this does not remove all the scour well with a cloth rubbed vitb soap and borax. When eggs are scarce put a7 t night a cup of mashed pota' o-s, i to which has been nnrJ ;i tfapocn ful of sugar; beat w-'l put, into vr pancake batter in the murnini T cv will be pleased wih the lihtursnnd sweetness of the cakeb. A nice accessory to a closet with. out drawers, suitable for laying in a nxee dress, is to make one or more bags, to cover over a nice dress, nd thna protect it Irom dust. Tiicso bajrs aie made longer than the dress skirt and button up and are hung up by loops. Coflee Grounds Make a Good Fil ling f.r a pin erashion. They must be dried perfectly before using. Put then in a bag and hang behind the kitchen stov till you have enough dried! to fill the cushion. They do not gather moisture, consequently do not rust the needle. Shirt-bosoms never blister if starched on the- right side, but if they are-wro-mr-side out when starched they are apt to do so. Pour mixed staich into boiling water, instead of Douring boiling water on the starch, in, that wav never usinjx more starcb than fs nfc-eessafv, . as the simple starch and water can be saved. Oatmeal. With Lemox. Put into a large pan a quarter of a pound of fresh oatmeal, six spoonfuls of white sugar. Mix with a little warm water; then pour oyer it one gallon of boil ing water, stirring all together thoroughly, cook fifteen minutes and use when cold, adding the juice of a lemon to the mixture. This makes a nutritious ami strengthening drink. A srlue which wilt resist the action of water is made by boiling a pound of glue in a sufficiency of skimmed milk. To make a strong glue for in laying and A'eneerinfr. take the best light brown glue, free from clouds or streaks, dissolve it in water, and to . every pint add. one-half gill of the best vinegar and one-half ounce of isinglass. Green Corx Puddixg. Take twelve ears of corn," fully ripe and grate them. Have ready a quart of rich milk and stir into it, by degrees, a quarter pound of butter, a quarter pound of sugar; beat four eggs till quite light, stir them into the milk with the grated corn alternately, a little at atimo. Put the whole into a buttered dish and bake it four hours. For sauce take butter.sugar,. and nutmeg. If you choose you can. boil the corn and then cut it from the cob, and it will then take but two hours to bake. Home instructions and religious training, as useful as they are, can not always be relieved on as a safe guard for young people who drift be yond parental protection. Parent, your children need your vlgilaui rare every day and every hour. There are too many alluring forma of vice in this world to trust them far away from you any length ol time. ' Never leave a stone pot having a ?over of the same material in a place where anything hard is liable to fall in or be thrown against it, as, for instance, under nails on which skim mers, iron spoons, etc., are hanging. Even so light an article as a large tin funnel, when accidentally knocked Irom its nail, has been know to hit rind nick the cover of a crock happen ing to stand under it. When a cover is once notched it will soon crack en tirely across and then sooner or ater, Ireal:. Where kweet corn is used ,in the family or sold in the market, tho stalks on which it la grown sh3uld be promptly cut and fed to the cows: they are better fodder than they will ever be again, and all the better if a few imperfect nubbin remain on the stalk. Some farmera foolishly save these for seed, leaving the stalks to dry up as they grew, and the nub bins' atter all yielding little corn, and that pooT,- Only the largest and earliest ears should be saved lor seed if the value of the variety is to be maintained. If to be used for the farm, o not allow the hay to get too ripe; f to be sold for baling, the purchasers do not mind the hard stems they think that there is more "substance" in it. So there would be in shingles, and in anv kind ot wood. Theleginning of flowering is the proper time to begin cutting clover, as well asthegrasses. Timothy becomes hard and woody much more rapidly than orchard prrass. It makes better hay to sell, but not o good to feed out. According to Professor Sargent, an authority on all matters pertain ing to forestry, the strongest wood in the United States is that of the nutmeg hickory of the Arkansas re gion, and the weakest is West India birchw The most elastic is the tama rack,, the white or shellbark hickory standing far below it. The least elastic .and tho lowest in specificgrav Ity is the wood of the Ficusaurea. The highest specific gravity upon which in general depends value and fuel, is attained by the bluewood of Texas. Mr. John Gould, of Ohio, thinks that the sooner tlairymen get out of the "rut" that milk is all alike, pound for pound, or that there is men a thing as a special cheese cow, the sooner the dairy business will be put tipon a paying basis. While the butter performances of cows are pub lished broadcast, the yields of these special cheese cows are notabljr with held. The weight of milk daily is taunted abroad, but the pounds of cheese it made, is conspicuously ab sent, simply oecause it isn't there in ?reat amount. The butter yield of sta,ndard milk is a test of its cheese making quality. "In the west, where the vast expanse Df prairie has rendered the planting Df forest trees a necessit3T,thecotton nood has come into favor on ac-. :ount of its rapid growth. But it 3oes not deserve its popularity. At the recent meeting of the Association d! Ameriean Nurserymen Mr. Carpen ter, a Nebraska nurseryman, stated: :I am doing all I can to discourage the planting of it. It is a thief; it kills all the other trees around it by starving them to death and then ;ommits suicide;" being killed to the pound some winters even when six inches in diameter. The western cat ilpa is the tree which should take Che place of the cottonwood. A Story of Two Morels. Despite all that one can say or irrite against novel-writing, I sup pose the fictionfst will go on and vvrite. But the fact remains, never theless, that the average novel does lot pay the author for his trouble, and often does not cover the type writer's bill. I know of two recent aovels upon which each of the authors spent the best part of a rear in writing and revising. Both aovels are, according to tho popular acceptance of the term, successful that is, they have been widely written about, paragraphed in the press froni one end of the country to an other. English editions have been printed of each and to every literary person the names of both novels and authors are thoroughly familiar. Now, what have the -authors re seived,in hard cash for their year's work? I will tell you exactly; of one 1,700 copies were sold. No royalty was paid upon the first thousand to cover manufacture, etc., and upon the remaining 760 copies the author received the regular 10 per cent. The book sold for 1. The net revenue to the author was, therefore, 70. His type-writer's bill '.was $61.50. Net profit $8.50, and the book has stopped sellinjr. The other author was a trifle more unfortunate, in that hi3 novel reached a sale of 2,000 all but live copies. Like the first, lie received a 10 per cent royalty only after the first-thousand copies. Un fortunately,! bought so many copies of his own book for f riends that when his publisher's statement came it showed a credit in his favor of just $39.50. Had. he typewritten ' his manuscript the- novel would have thrown him into debt! And these are but two of a score of instances within my knowledge that I could cite. They are sufficient, however, for budding authors who see visions of tame andfortune between the lines of their manuscripts to ponder over. Fame they may get, perhaps; fortune, a very small one. W. J. Bok in St. Louis. Republic. Killing Flies bj the Million. A Louisville druggist kills the swarms of flies about his soda foun tain in a novel manner. He diseov ?red that insect powder is of almost ns rapid combuscion as gun powder, though the flame lives several sec onds. By a further investigation lie discovered that a portion ot'the pow der, thrown from the bellows through the flame of a lighted match held six inches away, produced the required flame, and was capable of destroying flies by the million. He therefore puts out some bait for them every morning. When they have collected in sufficient numbers hegets his pow der and match, and the work of de struction is sure and swift. No guilty fly escapes the scorchintrof the wings. 3y this means all the flies in the store can be destroyed in a few minutes. JL F,UX0t tVEL CUmn Bwery J G' ' The Philadelphia: Tress1 offered, n prize for the best story of personal bravery. The.following is one of the contributions: I have considered the tamons duel in 180G, between- Gen. Andrew Jackson, afterward president of the United States, and Charles Dickinson, of Nash ville, Tennas an unparalleledexhibition ofcourageand fortitude on the part of the former. Dickinson was a dashing young blood of Nashville, and considered the best pistol shot in the state, lit had fought several duels and alway killed his opponent.. The cause of the duel is imma terial here, but Jack son being the challenging party "pis tols were of course named by Dick inson, and the distance eight paces-. The- dueling ground lay a good day's journey Irom Nashville, and early upon the appointed day Dick inson set forth accompanied by a ehosen party of sporting friends, and was followed few hours later by Jackson and his second. All during that long days travel the general was constantly regaled (?) at the different inns and taverns upon the road with such evidences of Dickinsons's confidence in the result of the duel as strings hanging "from tree boughs with papers attached stating that they had been cut by Dickinson's bullet at eight paces. J ust before reaching the ground he fired four balls, each at the word of com mand into a silver dollar at the same distance, and tossed it to the landlord as he rode away, with the request that it be given to Gen. Jackson when he arrived. The latter's re venge for these cruel taunts and con temptuous nonchalance was even more fiercely sweet than poets dare to fancy, as the sequel will show. The conditions of the duel were that the combatants should face each other at eight paces, thereby making the largest possible target of their bodies; the pistols to be held down ward until the word" was given to fire, when each man was to shoot at will. The chances of success thus lay entirely with the party who com bined in the greatest degree quick ness and accuracy. Dickinson -was not only a marvelous shot in a state noted for its good marksmen, but he required no aim, firing at sight, and it was in view of this that Jackson suddenly horrified his second with the announcement that he intended hold ing his fire until Dickinson had taken his shot, and all expostulations failed to turn him from this suicidal course. The principals reached the ground and took their positions without evi dence of trepidation on tho part of either. At this stage of affairs bets were brutall v made by the spectators on the result, as if they were at a cocking main or a dog fight, great odds being placed on Dickinson, who pointed out to his friends a certain button on Jackson s coat, over his heart, by the side of which he pro posed to put his bullet; and, like his friends, eacerly bet in his own favor. "Are you ready? was asked of each. "Fire!" and Dickinson raised his pistol and fired. A puff of dust was seen to fly from Jackson s coat and his left arm was raised and press ed across his breast, but otherwise not a muscle moved. His gaunt face became as whitely set as chiseled marble, and his eyes remained fixed on his antagonist with a supernatur al erlare. "My God!" cried Dickinson, start ing back and dropping his pistol,, "have I missed him?" "Stand up to the mark!" shouted Jackson's sec ond, drawing his pistol. Jackson's pistol arm slowly rose Avithout a tremor, and aiming deliberately he fired. Dickinson fell mortally wound ed. The general immediately walk ed away, followed by his second and the surgeon. They had proceeded but a short distance when the surgeon observed that one of Jackson's shoes was filled with blood. Then nature gave way, but not until he had demanded that all knowledge of the wound would be kept from the daring Dickinson, so deep was his revenge. At the time of the duel Jackson was dressed in a loose fitting frock coat, and being a very slender man, Dickinson was de ceived as to the exact location of his heart. His aim, however, had been perfect, the ounce ball breaking two ribs, shattering the breast bone and inflicting a wound from the effects of which Jackson eventually died. The incidents of this tragic affair thoughtfully considered, represent to the writer's mind: the mostexalted type of physical bravery, devoid though it may be of those higher moral qualities which marked Jack son's subsequent cureer and which made his entire life a powerful illus tration of the fact that "desperate Qourage may make one-a majority." A Diploma Xot the Only Iieqnsite. The nineteen young men who have been studying journalism at Cornell have been pronounced graduates aft er a year's study and turned out to make their reputation in the harder school of professional work. The ease with which they learned a busi ness requiring the best efforts of a lifetime by those who do not get to Cornell will not be a bar to their ad vancement. In nearly any well man aged office they can now get three or four days' work on trial, at a salary which will about pay their board, and if they show the skill of any or dinary reporter they may eventually, work their way upward. If they don't they will eo out the big front door more quickly than they came, diploma or no diploma. Sheepskin is all right in its place, but in the newspaper business it takes some thing more to make a mark. Phila delphia Inquirer. t A creaking hinge can be ourod by the use of a bkick lead pencil of the fioftest number, tki point rubbed in to all the crevi-ps; of the hinge. FOR THE FARMER. 7ly-nets nrehot a luxury, theynrtr a necce?sity Tlie worry they save the teams- will more than make- up for their cost: The best for farm horses are' made from thin cotton goods of light color. This kind ans wers for a protection1 from the sua and flies alike. According to' the Agricultural De partment reports the .number of sheep in Vermont has fallen ofl in t he past year from 393,301 to .'155,770; in New Hampshire, from 205,000 to 194,770; in Massachusetts, from 02. 537 to 59,505, and in Connecticut from 49r0O0 to47,000. The Western" World nays a gentle man who has unusual facilit ies for acquiring accurate information touching the cattle range question, remarked in. our hearing, a few day ago, that tho production of cattle on the range that is, theactual raising of calves has fallen off at least GO per cent within tho past three years. Professor 'Robertson of Gue!ph, Ont., states that a cowr in full milk will shrink fourteen per cent, if de prived of salt for ono week, and that the average consumption per day by dairv stocK. if allowed free access, is four ounces. It is an excellent ar rangement to place a lump ot rock sale where the cow can reach it when in the stall. The New York Tribune tolls of a farm "up in Manitoba, "the principal growth of which is not ostriches or peppermint, but of young English men, the sons ot wealthy parel .ts, who stopped their wild oats sowings and sent them to the charge of two brothers, who charge them for their board and instruct them in farming for nothinjr. Sheep naturally huddle-together, and this is especially hard on those poor in llesh from age or other causes. All the ticks in the flock will find their way on to the poorer sheep. They will be crowded from feeding troughs by their stronger compan ions. The only remedy is to- keep weak and strong in separate - apart ments, putting only a few of the poorer together, giving them es pecial care. Tho reasons of a cow giving bloody milk in some injury to the udder,gen erally from bruising qr being chased by boys or dogs. The udder, then full of milk, is bruised by the - legs or coming in contact with brush or briars, by being bitten by dogs,part ies throwing stones and injuring the udder. Keep the animal quiet in a stable or small pasture for a few days and bathe the udder twice a day with hot water. Misfortune of a short hay crop may tf nntrnliroil ir n. tlmnlir c -? inn- P several crops that may be fed out fresh, or converted into hay. Millet ((Iprmnnl nr TInncrnririn lrm tnnv O " ' 7 be sown for a crop of hay, especially on well fertilized land. Sow the fall turnips, yellow stone nnd Aberdeen, at once and nn abundance of white turnips, such as redtop, strap-leaf, next month. Fodder corn may still be sown. As a general rule the natural life of animals is about five times as long as tho period required to attain .naturity. This rule may be modified by artificial condition. Thus certain" breeds of cattle, sheep and swine have been brought by careful systems of breeding and feeding to mature nt a much earlier age than tha original period, without materially shortening- the length of life. But "these ex ceptions do not affect the "general rule. A few years ago a New York, man imported some wild hogs from. Scandinavia and turned them into some swampy fields he had to eat up the snakes. They extirminated; all the snakes and frogs in the enclosure and then broke out and took the woods, where they, have multiplied until theyare a terror to the sur rounding country. They are said to be as sa vage and more powerful than the historic Toxas peccary or Moxi can hog.. It is perhaps, fortunate for farmers that city horsemen perfer geldings for their own use. They have no opportunity to breed from them to advantage, aawl therefore leavt the mares-to-be kept on farms. Now shrewd manager can get a good deal of work out af a mare kept as a breeder. If care is taken she can labornearly upto thetime of foaling, and with very little interruption thereafter. The value . of. two or three coltsyearly is a very handsome addition to the farm profits. Ground squirrels have become so great a nuisance in California that the farmers in some counties are or ganizing against them. It is pro posed to pay a bounty raised by lo cal taxation of so much per acre, to every farmer wdio shall keep his land free from squirrels, and to appoint squirrel inspectors, whose duty shall be to destroy the pests when the owners of the land neglect to do so, and who shall bo paid for their ser vices by the community. Grain farmers who crow potatoes need to keep a sharp lookout: against the potato beetlo during harvest time. One or two days' neglect will easily destroy all the results of pre vious labor. Some of tho work in destroying bugs may be dono early in the morning, while dew is on, so that the grain cannot be cut or prof itably handled. The grain farmer is apt to have at this season nn extra force, and two or threo hours work by all hands in the potato field is perhaps the most profitable work tho help can bo put to. i