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ft JULY Hi, 1893. I ! A y 1 1 7 1: cikkiacev srccin. rBXTO, ctsiits A5 hiextss. 8 00 SI 10 9! 35 ' OUT OOXTEBJ W THE THIlOMsCSERind giving him B MMtm Jtrstfiail ra evrry particular; iu;iy wrrnu-u raijii. A home institution entirely distinct from any aura concern. KANSAS CITY CARRIAGE AND HARNESS CO. 12 Walnut Street, KAKSAS CITY. WX Organ Fiy WamiiM for Hw Years! Price, $49.75. SEND FOR CATALOGUE. vAgents Wanted for the Kimball Pianos and Organs A. HOSPE, Jr,y Oipahay Neb, FARM LAUDS FOR 1 We have land or tale in Adams, ' r urnas, ureeiy, uosper, uaraeiu, oiwuuw, u.ui, uk, u., j.v-v v Loup. Lancaster, Terklns, Sherman, Valley and Webster counties in Nebraska. These lands belong to us, and we will sell them from $4.50 Per Acre Up, AND ON EASY TERMS. . ... e JA .i. tnm Ha namlnflf the. MXtni.V Af V.lintiA VDll wish s. buU lev urn w wuw usi tvi J to invest in. x. kj. Dunn a ouin, f 'Cloom 1 1, PurrPloclc. . v if nnwi IMS Pimm pa t. qp llllllklliv Miim-iiiii- in a rui T . by Union Pacific Railroad as their Standard freight car paint Best Paint In ' tne woria. froiecw iron iruu run, wuw MVV". l i- n nn ...... it tn .anf nA ra.11an. Tn barrels 60 cent. D6T callon. I U AJ TO KUtUH tUUi MV www Manufactured by CHAS. TRAPPER & CO S WHOLESALED Feed &d Hay Dealers. Corn In car low for feeders a specialty turns. Kefer to Missouri national ana. 12th 4 Hickory 8ts,tKantat City, Mo. Want 100 Farmer Agants Id Nebraska For 1893. The most coi plete line u. Wood nd steel pumping and ' fffiarrd i lilt and Beared mill as. machinery in use. Prices low and re" ichines the most reliable a durable in use. Agents wanted who have EFT iwitimint residents -jS and are known to be relia fff CP Die. it you or ny oi yam neighbor want any mna oi windmills thii year, wrlu now and aecure the agency. '" Condi 8. D., March ij. Goodhue Wind Bnirin Co., St. Charlea, 111: I am and 0 head ! cattfe and 6o neep, it loieaaooo be witho . it for anvthinari-- nol U I d to get anew jntt ; ' erery year. I can arnnd buaheli an hour with it In a uah My nelghborff I, liket h'i mlllVl.t Mr. Haikrll. first -rate: he haiail foot outfit, same aa mine, and . thinks there Is nothing like it fc m His son savs thev ran grind a bushel ot corn in two minutes with it. Mr, and Mrs. Haskel say it is the best thing they ever invested any money in on the place. Yours truly. Fbed Wilson. Goodhue Engine Co. St. Charles, 111. 'itterybody's Law Book' T the title of the new78 page work prepared by J. Alexander Kooaes, L. L. B., member of the New York Bar. It enables every man and woman to be their own lawyer. It teaches what are your rights and how to maintain them. When to begin a la w suit and when to sb un one It contains the useful Information every business man needs In every State in the Union. It contains busi ness forms In every variety useful to the law yer aa well as to all who have legal buslaess to transact. Inolose two dollars for a copy. 6r Inclose two-cent postage stamp for a table of contents and terms to aKents. Address Hsmj.W, Hitch cock, Publisher, 385 Sixth Avenue. New York, Nebraska Savings Bank IS and O St., Lincoln. Oapltal $e50(000 QIVK3 ABSOLUTS SECURITY. Writ Ui and We will Prort it Five per cent Interest on tartuse eeeouut cll rates on Ume deposit. Writ, ua or call tot bm veel pocket sasatt randuai kuoa. J. Q. trf awtec, M. K. Ttaoi-sr rreakleDl, tteaotef. HOC OHOLERA CURED : FREE. We will fttfwUh nwdxlne . 1 . ONI HIRO OF SICK MOCS la sack tonfcty Is Ue I 'mm4 Nmim CHKI I 4m eaiMM aa4 wt o4 .. A Utal any mil u tk tsrreM ikt.a and a neuff ut tM rl el ' w id A.M.a TMK M. HAI.I. UKOI.i U.l'AV,k4 Urn, Ms, Mwitwa thM . , Wi Sell 0trtct To tti Ccas:r AT WMOLISALK f ICS. ' KMto Patau. IWrm. M.4 a4 Hrki Palsts, Uuf direct tn-ea tke la tuf. UitMa4 Ryaaell lln Co., K W CS. Pnliua a Kiai i Cak Mv 1:1. m mil ii i m US 1. H"IJ!'-l ""I" l! W.im CATARRH tlVif ifVmf &2kf&Z ui ri4 It Mat ftr tuatl a mt e4 4rm rw Ikttiar jtU P liMhR, I v1m t a'e, lilia rs 1 t SrdH2 XJG-G-x F 858 O S65 R S70 WEST IXfLrSITtlT WITH the bAtfit ofraaonfactmrcr- price. lot ILLIS. TsUTHM KK-IL SALE IN NEBRASKA Butler, Chase, Custer, Dundy, Frontier, u" w vr j . - - - LINCOLN. NED. Fn RS PER HKN T. IKON. AdODtea National Oil Paint C0.t Omaha, Neb. s elalty,' Consignments solicited. Good sale.. Prempt re- J. E. JOHNSON, Manager. XT1 r Why is Strictly Pure VV nVV White Lead the best J paint? Because it will outlast all other paints, give a handsomer finish, better protection to the wood, and the first cost will be lest. If Barytes and other adulterants of white lead are "just as good" as Strictly Pure White Lead, why are all the adulterated white leada always branded Pure, or " Strictly Pure White Lead?" This Barytes is a heavy white powder (ground atone), having the appearance of white lead, worthless at a paint, costing only about a cent a pound, and is only used to cheapen the mixture. What shoddy it to cloth, Barytes is to paint. Be careful to use only old and standard brands of white lead. "Southern"" Collier" Re(j Seal " are strictly pure, " Old Dutch " protest brands, established by a lifetime of use. For colors use National Lead Co.'s Pure White Lead Tinting Colors with Strictly Pure White Lead. For sale by the most reliable dealers In P"I,rn?oUV.r.5, $'5 t. paint, It will pay you to send to us Tor a book containing inform", tion that may save you many a dollar; It will only cost you a postal card to do so. NATIONAL LEAD CO., 1 Broadway, New York. St. Louie Branch, Clark Avenue and Tenth Street. fDes Moines' Wire Reel' Fits the spool thatgoea with the wire. Just whatyou a e e d when building or mov ing fen ces. Fas tens In side or outside any wag on box. We pay (ha freight. Chsaf, Stsono, Krracrivi, Drop a card tot Circulars, prices, etc, Ds Moines Equalizer Co., Mfrs., D1.S MOINKS, IA. .MSTAOWS)sS Of ill III.) it liHislJtl Iroi fmlcu Wire work, poultry neUlng , yard aad gardtf f.trolog, wlndo guanls, eSlee reilUsT, eto. aoad for eauloeju. J.W. D MALL, St. Jiaef a, Ma, farmer! ay ih. t'remoal eaaa. Iauji oi July 7th. wha sum of the beat sMers of ifke touatry will be )feaL Hnkr titarL of Neya-U; k'rveld.at Uhkis, of the aatloaai sUU aOrvNi and others. Nortkereelsra Use to ChUao Lo raUev l aet tralas. QOU tiU 0 LJl Eal1srBVPaBBWMP OHIO populists. Steet on tbe Nrntloo'. Annlreraary and N'otulnete m Vail Ticket. Columbcs. O., July 4. The populLft state convention met In this city today with an unexpectedly large attendance, considering that farmers are in the midat of harvest. 405 delegates re sponded, nearly erery county repre sented. The following was tne ticket nom inated: Governor E.J. Bracken, of Colum bus. Lieutenant Governor Milton B. Cooley, of Vinton county. State Treasurer Wm. H. Taylor, of Champaign county. Attorney General J. H. Rhodes, of Clyde. Supreme Judge C. T. Clarke, of Columbus. Dairy and Food Commissioner T. N. Hickman, of Morrow. Board of Public Works-Matthew Baber, of Allen county. The following is a synopsis of the platform adopted, being but little diff erent, from tbe national platform adopted at Omaha last July: 8YNOFSI3 OF PLATFOHM. 1. That the money question is the predominating issue of the day. 2. Denouncing both the old parties as the enemies of silver. 3 Demanding the free coinage of silver at a ratio of sixteen to one. 4. Unrestricted coinage of both gold and silver supplemented by legal ten der paper issued exclusively by the government and distributed directly to the people without the intervention of banks. 5. Municipal control of water, gas, telephone, street car and similar fran chises. 6. Government control of railroads and telegraphs. 7. Government control and distribu tion of all intoxicants. 8. A graduated income tax. 9. A discriminating restriction of immigration. 10. Popular election of United States senators. 11. Direct legislation through the initiative and referendum. 12. Construction of public works without the intervention of contractors. 13. Favoring the taxing amendment to the state constitution. 14. In favor of woman's suffrage. The ticket Is considered a str jng one and the populists hops to poll a much larger vote than they did in 1892. Tbe Right to Strike and Boycott. How plausibly the critics of organized labor play with tbe Idea of freedom. In this free country, they say, employ ers should be free to hire any laborers they want, union or non-union, and non-union workers should be free to work for any employer. This means that these critics would not bsve union men to be free to stipulate the terms under which they shall sell their owa labor. Here is a paradox freedom at cross purposes with freedom and up to this paradox specious pleaders for the em ploying classes carry their thought through a series of discriminations, sometimes to this point just and admir able, leaving on their bearers' minds the impression that they are battling for freedom, while they ignore the query they provoke as to the freedom of which the union men are to be deprived, or sopblstlcally declare that such freedom is Immoral and Intolerable. But n ) need today for any one to flounder in this paradox. It has been cleared away. It rests flashing on the mind several times in rapid succession the idea of freedom in several conflicting applications. The term freedom, used unrestrict lvely, Is vague and indefinite. It is but the correlative of the term restraint It is applicable alike to things and to men. Its Import is neither good nor evil, moral nor immoral, attractive nor repellant. Only when the werd freedom is spe cifically applied can It Impart to us a concrete idea and arouse in us a senti ment. When we speak of a free country that is, a free government we refer to political freedom (one of the many ap plications of the abstract Idea of freedom). It the term political freedom stands for any principle which may rest on scien tific definition and analyst, It signifies the absence of any statute laws excepting those providing for an equal freedom (and a corresponding eq lal restraint) for all men in the use of their faculties; and if one or miny Individuals go beyond the degree at which all may be equally free, such legal restraint would be destructive of the first principle of free government. In practice this principle of equal free dom permits any man or class of men, at any time, in the absence of legal con tract, to withdraw their labor from the hire of other men, and If we revert to contract our principle ds us back to freedom of contract, aud that in turn to the prerequisites of free contract, and these bring us to the original state of self-sovereignty in which man, being wholly free, may, to provide for bis physical necessities, exercise bis facul tie (tits power) on nature. He who ran not do this Is not politically free; Initial basis freedom Is not his. On the other band, when the word free Is oaed to describe the conditio la which employ. rs may be free to employ bob. union Uborere, and by Uw compel union laborers tu work with the nro unionists, such condition i4aiaty lavotvee depriv ing the union msa of their equal (re, doin with other mea, since equal free dut would leave to them the light ot fr cootr t. ? : . 1 And, again, whea the freedom Is de manded far nosi-untoa mea to work fur any eapiyer who desires their service, the reply to that la the pelUlcal at) nt uuk mea have last freedom now. And further, if the, be rejoined that unto ate should be tteprited of the fre.ltu that permlta them o work with ana-ualoa men, because suoa freedom U Imattwtl. the reply le that under a law profldiaf for such a deprlvaUoa a tree uMBMet would f We place to tyranny, Ike vnernmeat would luelf infringe the iVU-lpU of equal fisku, lUo', lrv taste delufttoae. It I clear that the strike (the right k cm work) aad the bvoo (tte ftht to ba? or not to buy) are elementary political rights under freedom A to a freedojj which may be immoral, what are morals and what must a gov ernment do to enforce nioraisr Morals are but social conventions, widely varying in different ages and countries, largely derived from fetish worshippers' fears, savage Impulses and conflicting religiout dogmas, and only recently in any measure from philosophi cal Inferences. What has logically fol lowed legal enforcement of moral law Has been the inquisition, the established church, the blue laws, the suppression of thought If it be averred that the refusal of union men to work with non-unionists is immoral, the reply U, first, that if so, much immorality lies outside the jurisdiction of a free government, and secondly, that probably, the way to put an eni to tnls and much other so called Immorality is to make tbe govern ment really free; and such a government would recognize the political freedom which gives all men access to land. In such case, the strike and boycott could deprive no one r( work, or, consequently of existence. Twentieth Century. CURIOUS CULPRITS. Anathemas of tb i t.u. cU Against Bios qultues mid CaterpllWr. History supplies many instances of curious culprits. Vermin have in all ages proved devastators. It was the custom in mediaeval times for suf ferers by their depredations to have recourse to the church, which in due time, fulminated anathemas against the culprits. The procedure in such cases resembled that in vogue in the ordinary legal tribunals. The plaint iff appointed counsol, the court ac corded one to represont tho defend ants, and the eccleciastical judge summed up and gave sentence. Bartholomew de C'hasseneux, a noted lawyer of the sixteenth cen tury, was a great authority in this department of law and custom, be ing author of an exhaustive treatise on the subject said to combine re markable skill with vast erudition. He was also a successful advocate in these peculiar trials. On one occa sion he was appointed counsel for the defense in a case where a horde of rats were sued for devastation committed in the harvest fields of a large portion of the province of Burgundy. Chasseneux's defense in this important trial was considered very clever, although to modern ears it sounds like a tissue of nonsense. He showed that the rats had not received formal notice, says the Chi cago Times, and obtained a pro nouncement that the persons of the afflicted parishes should announce an adjournment and summon the defend ants to appear on a certain day. On the adjourned trial he complalnor that tho delay accorded his clients had been too short to allow of their appearance, in consequence of the road being Infested with cats. He succeeded in obtaining a second ad journment, and finally a verdict was given. In early times there was a superstition that cocks laid eggs, and that from these eggs sprang basa ltsks, or horrible winged serpents. Gross rotates that in 1474 an aban doned cock In that town was accusod of having laid one of these eggs, and was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death. The culprit was delivered to the executioner, who burned it publicly, along with its eggs, in a place called Kohlonberger, amid a large concourse of people, assembled to witness such a ludicrous execution, Felix Malle olus relates that proceedings were in stituted at Mayence, in the thirteenth century, against some offending mos qultos, and states that the judges be fore whom these unwelcome insects were tried pronounced sentence of banishment against them. Snails were sentenced in a case at Maoon, In August, 1487, while in 1585 a plague of caterpillars suffored the penalties of excommunication. Her Wedding Anniversary. When I got back from my last trip, says "A Drummer" in the New York Tribune, I went home at something after 9 o'clock in the evening. There was my house lighted up from top story to basement; carriages were leaving the door, and affairs seemed to be going on inside on a large scale. I let mysolf into the basement with a latch-key and walked into the dining-room Strains of muslo came from the back part of the hall, and the mingled laughter and conversa tion indicated a host of guests. rreently my wife came into the din-ing-ioom dressed like a prlncoss; she ran up to me, saying: "Oh, Jack! Tm so glad you've com home so early." So'ra I," said I; "what's the racket surprise-party ?" "Surprise-party f she said, with a pout) "no indeed, it's the anniversary of my wedding." "Tilda." I said, "you're off; you're way off! This is the month of March it was in summer we were married!" She serenely replied: "I know that very well; this Is the anniversary ot my first marriage. Go put on your drese-sult, dear." The eons tan t demand ot the traveling publto to the far west for a comfortable and at the same time an economical mode of traveling, has led to the eatab lUhment of what Is knows se Pullman Colonist Sleepers. Thee ear are built on the ansae gen eral plan as the regular flrat-claM Pull man Sleepers, the only difference) bo I of that Vhey are not upholstered. They are furnished eomplete with Eood eotaf or table hnlrmattiee, warm laaksvs, snow whit line a eurUtoe, plenty at towels, combe, brushes, eta . whluh secure ta the ooeupant of a berth as muea privacy m U to be had la Irst. class sleepers. There are also separate toilet roums for ladle aad gentlemen, and smekisg Is abswlJits'T prohibited. iVr full Ufortcettoa teed IW Pullman Cotoalet ttleeanr leaflet J. T, Maartx, C T. A. 1M a It., K. R, SUMMON, lies. "J Meb, TekeTttt A turn's jNsraNaNT, A SILENT WITNESS. The Old Man Entertains Hut Compan ies Wit a Mory. The drummer had just finished one of his unequaled stories, and a gray haired man in the smoking compart ment with him looked up a if he could tell a story himnelf if he were sufficiently urged, says the Detroit Free Press. "Go ahead with yours." suggested one of thoe sympathetic khid ot men who know things intuitively. "It Isn't much," said the gray haired man, modestly. "That's what the boy said when he was looking for the definition of the word 'paucity,' but that's all right give us the story," replied the intuitive person. "Well." said tbe man, straighten ing up, "some years ago, when in a certain section of the West the sleep ing cars were a novelty, they had a white man on one of our roads for a porter. He was a mean follow and bad a way of domineering around that wasn't pleasant He was a cow ard, though, and afraid of a man that met him face to face. One night I got on at the town where I lived and this porter was uglier than usual o ugly, in fact, that I pulled a gun on him and at the muzzle of It I chased him up and down and kicked him from one end of the car to the other. There were eight or ten passengers in the car with me, and by midnight, when the porter was about half drunk and we were ready to go to bed, they advised me to watch him, as he would probably try to get even by some underhanded method. 1 laughed it off and said I wasn't afraid, but just the same, while the porter was dozing in a seat in the corner, I fixed up a dummy to take my lower berth and I got into a vacant upper on the other side of the car. The next morning I was awakened by some one calling for the porter, but no porter answered, 'He's dead drunk out ' there in the smoker,' I said, sticking my head through the curtains. 'i guess I'll go and see,' said tbe Inquirer, and I got up, too. "We found two or threo of our party ahead of ua " 'Hello!' said one to me, 'did you have any trouble with the porter in the nlghtPV Of course not,' I said; 'where is he?' "Don't know; thought maybe you had thrown him off the car.' "But I hadn't, and then we began to look for him, and the conductor appeared and couldn't tell us any thing, either, Then an Idea occurred to mo. 'Walt a minute,' I said, and I went back to the berth the porter had made dowq for me, and throwing open the curtains I found my dummy covered up comfortably just as I had left ' it, but driven through, right where - the heart ought to bo, was a knife at least twelve inches long in the blade. "Then I called in the crowd. " Thero,' said I, 'Do you seo tho the hilt of that knifeP I'll give 1590 to know where the porter is.' "They stood aghast for a minute, but nobody clalmod the $500 and that porter was never heard of again." HIS CLOTHES DIDN'T PIT. Aad the Young Man Was Started on the Kond to Aftiuenne. A group of well-dressod and prosperous-looking business men sat about a table in a famous New York restau rant a few days ago, chatting on all sorts of topics and watching the smoke wreaths from their cigars float up to the frescoed celling. Tbe conversation drifted after a time into tales of business successes, and the oldest and most imposing member of the party did his share by telling the following story: "I owe my present prosperity," he began, "to the fact that when I was a lanky youth of 17 my clothes did not fit me. To be more explicit I was at that time In dreadfully hard luck. My people were dead. I hadn't a friend to whom I could tura I had lost my six-dollar-a-week situation and was half starved, and my one suit a cheap John affair had shrunk until the lower edge of the waistcoat and the band of the trousers were absolutely divorced. One Sunday morning in December I was trudging along Fifth ayenue, principally because my room was even more comfortless than the slushy streets, and I remember how I railed at everybody and everything. I was passionately fond ot muslo and I went into the first church I came to at tracted solely I must confoss by the thought of the warmth and mel ody 1 would enjoy within. "I was too bashful to sit while the congregation stood, and therefore rose every time and as my waistcoat ard trousers displayed a wide lone et shirt front, I was forced to l-an -ward in a most devout manner all tne time, "As 1 turned to go out at the close of the service an old gentleman be hind ma slipped a card into my hand and said; 'I like to see reverence In a young man. You look as if you were having a hard time ot It. Come to see me to-morrow and 1 may be able to help you,' "I went and got a good berth, la his office, and from that worked my self up to compet el We wealth, (jueer. Isn't Hf lualad tfce Fditor I don't see anything la this -tloU It's dreadfully stupid a great pile ot listless twaddle on i subjut that no oua rams aaythlaf shout hy da jw bring It ti sue) hpee WriterIt' a beat o all the other papers, :utur-Whoop! Writs tdt e4 uuim mora of It and ruh H up be fur H oVtfHik. Tell the leader writer te work up a twe voluisa ed lariat calling elteatiua U U NEBRASKA NEWS. Abbret iated Kesr. From All farts of tbe State. Th new paper at FuIIerton Is called the News. Hot winds prevail in certain port'ona ot tbe s'.ate. Plain lew has a lady member on Its school board. The Fourth was duly celebrated by Nebraska towns. A Knights of Pythias lodge has been organized at Osmond. Lincoln citizens suffered from sneak thieves on the Fourth. Eighty-two per cent of the farmers ot , Nebraska own tbe soil they till. The Elsie waterworks are paid for, and the town feels good over it Hartlngton claims to be the great butter and egg market of Northern Ne braska. -... Nebraska can boast of wore first class newspapers than any of her timedlate neighbors. Lincoln has raised the assessed vattj atlun in several of her wards from I W-v 40 per cent. f Chris. Mudell of Duncan dragged a eatflxh from the Loup that weighed sixty-five pounds. The Plattsmouth Herald has been "doing business at tho old stand" for almost thirty years. , Albert Abbott narrowly escaped death by asphyxiation In an Omaha hotel, lie blew out the gas. The town of Savage has a new paper called the Chieftain. May ths Savage Chieftain live long and prosper. A local corporation has been organ- ' Ized at Campbell, for the grand and glo rious object of building a city hall. Cart Luedtke of Platte 'county was thrown from a wagon by a runaway team and broke his good right leg. Students of tbe Wayne Normal Col lege have organized dramatic troupe for ths presentation of "Enoch Arden." A Plattsmouth thief robbed the clothes line of a colored preacher, gen erously sparing tbe articles of least value. Auburn has a paper devoted, half and half, to poultry and bee culture. There Is nothing like knowing how to culti vate bees. C. II. Swallow, editor of the Leigh World, has broken faith with the bach elor brotherhood and "gone and got married." The Crete Chautauqua Is drawing Im mensely. Crowds are in attendance dally and time Is pleasantly as well as beneficially passed. The premium llstof the Dundycounty agricultural society announces a fair at Ilnnkelman to last four days, Septem ber 27, 28, 29 and 30. The state board of purchase and supplies resolved to buy, as nearly aa possible, home-produced goods for tbe different state institutions. Frederick llartlett Rlggs and Miss Adelaide A. Kldeout, teachers at the Santee Indian agency, were united tn marriage at Niobrara. Reports are current that although small grain Is not a blooming success In Nebraska this year, old King Corn will come out all O. K., as usual. ' The Fonrth was enlivened at Wake field by two runaway' accidents In which to wagons were badly shattered and one .man laid up with a broken head! "Corn, potatoes and vegetables," says the Lamar Leader, "never looked better at this season of tbe year." It also says that wheat and oats will yield half a crop. Tbe men who were given the post offices at Hetnlngford and Alliance are announced by the bourbon organ of that section to be "straights" with no "pap taints." In the diving contest at Burlington Beach, July 4, Jacob North made a phenomenal dive. Ho arose about 100 feet from where he disappeared. lie was under so long fears were enter tained that be had met with some acci dent A petition has been freely circulated In Dixon county, praying the county fathers to call a special election, to vote on removing tbe county seat from , Ponca to Allen. The latter place Is wtthln four feet of the geographical center of the county, while Ponca Is In the northeast corner. J. E. Murphy, a Utlca brute' who ought to be locked up for a thousand years, Is under bonds of $1,500 to answer at district court for a most brutal assault upon an aged and feeble man, whom be knocked down and then kicked and stamped until both bones of one akle were broken, and other Injuries inflicted which are likely to prove fatal. Geneva citizens, regardless of politi cal faith, pleasantly surprised the re tiring postmaster, W. 11. Stewart, and and his daughter Cora, who acted as hla assistant, this last week. Mr. Stewart turned over the office to bis successor the first of the month, Ths citizens gathered at his home and presented hlmwitba handsome gold watch, and MUsl'ora was the recipient of anew typewriter. It was a splendid compli ment, and shows the high esteem enter tained fur them by their townsmen. Messrs. Hart A Smith, editors and proprietors of the Dakota City Eagle, made an announcement to the publle, of which the following Is apart: "It coaies to the publishers' ears that cer tain babblers have been circulating the report that the Eagle Is offered for sate. This ts done vu'th a view of Injuring our business and destroying the ton 8d nee that business man and subscribers should have In the publishers at their hotua paper. To one and all we wtil say that the Eagle Is not tor sate, real or lease. You cannot buy, bluff or run ut out The Essie Is here te stay." Te men from Iowa the ether dsey ma over te t'tstlsmouth, the pa perl say, in a skiff ai Urge as a rick of hay. I W fare returning one had jag as large at life aad It mad him sag, while bis tuber companion "chewed the rag," Hack Into the boat the return al all at, and the man with ths jag tost hla balance quite aad tell eff In the river, out et sisal IIH Mead whe was aobsr saw kite fall, lal (Meats tA tsllov a retluus haul, "ru4 the ferteelaf," jag sad alt. This tela has a moral deep aal ke ever ths siieam tf life we glide, 1 bust to steer steer et the "lus t" lu.tde, lt vr S la Ike surging H4e sad sertth etsfaellr, hair and hde SW'""