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About The Sioux County journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1888-1899 | View Entire Issue (March 26, 1896)
A FARMER'S RAILROAD. Mm Whisk Frosslss Great to lirsts-ti rowers. Id La village of Irayton, on the North iMkotn aide of the Red Kiver of the North, Uvea a remarkile char acter known throughout that region mm Fanner Hlnes. He la regarded by bis neighbors aa the prophet of a new em In railroad building and oK-ruting, wbMi road will le built to primary market by tin? producers in the coun try they traverse, capitalized for their actual cost and om-rated with the clos est possible economy. Farmer lliui haa been preaching bis faith at couu try scboolhuuse meeting throughout tiie lower Hed KiviT Valley for two or three years lmst ami lust summer he lgau Junius his theories into ir.n lice. liy his talk aiid by the distribii lion of circular he succeeded in enlist ing so huge a body of adherents that he commenced to build a railroad with out Uiouey aud without credit aud act ually finished forty miles of grade U fore the froat came. Farmer lliuea studied the map t-Jle-fully aud fouud tluit the grain l'roin any central point in the lower lied Kiver Valley say Grafton la hauled 412 miles over the Great Northern line to reach the primary market at iMilurh. whereas a direct liue frotu Graftou to'I'ulutli would be only -Wl miles 'lt))r, saving 131 miles. The Great .Northern has four lines in that jtart of the valley, running north aud south aud eouvergiug iu a main line, which pies away off to the south a far as St. Cloud. Minn., before it striken our direct for the head of I-ake Supe rior. The Northern Pacific has ouly mil' line in that part of the valley. This parallels the Great Northern roads arid gives a grain route to Kulutli alsiut vighty milis shorter from comietiug points than the Great Northern's aver age haul. Farmer Hities' railroad runs across the valley east and west, and Is to go on through tiie woods region of Northern Minnesota to a connection with the IH1I111I1 and Winniis-g Hoad, already running for a distauoe of aliout one hundred and twenty-rive tulles west of ruluth. Hines calls his road the Farmer' Ibulroad and tlius far all the w ork on it lias been done by North Iak.i aud Minnesota farmers. His financiering methods are unique. He has now aliout two hundred men at work in the North . ern Minnesota woods cutting trees and clearing the rijflit of way. Each uiau gets his necessary provisions, 1W a month in money ba rely enough cash to buy his tobacco and pay for an oc casional glass of beer. 'Hie men are enthusiastic converts to the Hlnes the ory of railway i-onst ruction. The chief argument he uses is this: The average freight rate on wheat from lower Il.il Kiver Vallev points to Imltith is 11 cents per bushel. If wheat can be profitably battled 4i miles for 11 ceutu a bushel over roads capitalized at over Sri.tMKl a mile it can be hauled list) miles over a road costing not over fl-.ii jm r mile and jmy a good profit at 7 cents or S rents per bushel. And if the sav ing should le only .'i cents kt bushel the aggregate annual gain to tlie valley farmers would amount to a very large sum. ' Hines is a gturdv, nervous. Indefatig able sort of a man. only .'54 years old. The merchants of iMiluth recently made up a carload of provisions and shipped them out to his camps south of Ued Lake. A few thousand dol lars in money has also been subscribed here to aid his enterprise. Hint s told the DuhUh people lately that lie will have a hundred miles of road graded and furnished with ties ready for the road by the end of next summer. He is a very religious man. and at the last, meeting of his stockholders he wanted to put a -clause In the by-laws of the company prohibiting tlie run ning of trains on Sunday, but he was obliged to content with a by-law pro riding that tlie Sunday laws of Min nesota and North liakota shall not be violated. He also wanted a provision Inserted netting apa-rt 10 per cent, of the net earnings of the road for char ity, but the lawyers told him that the consent of every stockholder would be necessary to make legal such a dis position of any money belonging to the company. The old companies operat ing roads in the Red River Valley used to look upon Farmer Hines as a harm let enthusiast Now they begin to be troubled about him. Chicago Times- HeraM. Change on the Moon. , Tbe widespread belief that no changes occur on the surface of the moon ha been much questioned of late. No poal tire proof of a visible change there ha lieen furnished, bnt a number of ob servation have been made, indicating tbe possibility. If not tbe probability, of tbe formation of new elevation and of -cracks In tbe rocky lunar abell. There la a popular misapprehension In regard to tbe power of telescope to reveal amall detail on tbe moon. Tbe fact ba re cently been pointed out by aatronotner that a new mountain a large a Jorullo In Mexico, or Monte Nooro near the Bay of Naples, both of which hare been uplifted by volcanic forrea wltMa his toric times, might he formed on tbe moon and yet he Invisible from tbe earth. One reason of the invisibility of volcanic change possibly occurring on tbe moon may be tbe absence of aa atmosphere, without which there can not be vast Toluenes of clouds sueh as Jim i sand the volcanoes of the earth when they are la action. OM Major. A '4a to tbe Humane I g trthote. "all I me," to Haje by same. Ills Uattf i Kg. lft-year-o4d hoy, and C tw wseyty attached to men W sna till tr r ! m IttMMrl kMt and Kft fk 'to Dowr. j- jgi Ua aMMter boo gage s ta mm tlaM to toart t to U p n wf fcj Ito Umm Mi bowl as if his heart would bresk. When a letter came from Ed he took the en velope, held It on the carpet between hi pawn, aud with hi uoa pressed upon it cried pitifully, great tear drop ping from hi eye. The family had two other pets, a cat and a canary. One day, while all hand were at table, Dick somehow escaped frotu the cage and the next moment was fluttering up aud down the room, with puss iu full pursuit. Before any one could act. Maje spraug up from hi nap on the rug, and as the bird swooped near him he opeued hi big laws, took tbe bird in and shut them wiih a snap. The bird" little mistress screamed, and every one was grieved and aston ished. That Maje should do such a thing as that! He seined to have swal lowed tlie bird at a gulp. There he stood, while one and an other upbraided him, till the cat was put out of the room. Then he went tip to the mother of the family, pushed hi nose against her knee, aud released the cuuary unhurt. OBEYED THE CUSTOMS. One Made a Man's Fortune, Another Would Hang Htm. Two gentlemen iu the lobby of the liiggs House were talking about Yan kee ingenuity, aud a Washington Star writer overheard the following good incident illustrative of tie subject: "You know Jim Putton?" said one. "Yes." 'Well, Jim made his money by paying atteution to the custom of the coun try. Near Brownwood, Texas, there are several large jiecau farms. Before the farm were established pe-aii8 grew wild iu great quantities. It is a valley which used to be called 'Sulphur.' al though why I have never lecii able to leant. The pecans were eateu by hogs, tlie animals growing very fat. Farmer turned their hogs iu aud allowed them to run wild. Each owner had a brand registered, and tlie possessor of a reg istered brand had the rigid to kill hogs whenever he needed meat and could hud them a sort of Bellamy socialistic arrangement. Hufton was very isr when lie went to Texas, but raised enough to pay 75 cent for a shote and get his brand registered. He turned the hog Into the valley and went gun ning for pork. The tirst year he killed 300 good fat hogs and sold tlie meat at San Antonio, buying cuttle with the money. 1 hese were turned Iihisc ou range and he succeeded iu branding six calves to each cow he owned tlie first season. By paying diligent atteu tion to the customs of the country he had a good bank account." "Why didn't he stay there';" inquired the friend. "There was another custom of tlie country he overliMked," was the reply. "When the vigilam-e committee began to investigate the matter of so strict an adherence to tlie other custom Jim went home to Maine and opened a summer resort, where enterprise wouldn't get him into trouble." How She i;eononii.es. "I study advertisement, and I know where and when and how to purchase tlie household supplies. My husband used to laugh at me for reading adver- isemeuts so carefully, but he has long since learned that I save many dollars very month. I know of no liotter way o practice economy, and do you know lint it is a wonder how soon you learn i detect tlie real from the false. Intu- tively almost? I do not think I have ever tieen 'taken in ty an advertise ment; there is always something alHiut he false ones that repels inc. You hear a great deal nowadays alsmt the 'prac tical pages of magazines and news papers, but for me the practical pages are those containing the business an nouncements of reputable business houses. Tlie housekeeper who takes advantage of the practical hints in those pages, shows a great deal more ommon sense than does tlie one who trie to furnish a seven-room cottage with a lot of soap lioxes covered with denim worked in fancy stitch, and to feed her growing family with never ending reminiscence of the meal that went before. To the economical house keeper the advertisement are the most Important part of any publication. Womankind. Mice that Walts. In Japan there Is a breed of mice, white-speckled with black about the head, neck and tail, which bave a atrange habit of whirling, or. as it I called, "waltslng," for hours at a time with only brief stopiages. The desire to waits seizes the mice at the most un expected moments, especially at night. for they generally aleep during the day. Frequently they whirl In couples, but bo rapidly that tbey appear like spin ning lings of white and black. Mke Giant Despair's fits, the waltslng par- oxysms of these mice often scire them wben tbey are running, and if they at tempt to escape from I in prison men I tbey do not go far before they are ar rested by the irresistible desire to whirl. Tbe tendency la hereditary, and exblb Ita Itaelf as soon as tbe yonng mice Ite gln to run about. How to rrononnee " tows." It la said that a Yankee doesn't know tbe letter "a" at the end of a word, but always toras It into "er." Hpeaker Reed goes one better on some words. For In stance. "Iowa" geta to be "loway" at bia hands, with the accent on tbe last syllable. Mr. Crisp always aaya "Iowa. with the accent on tbe second letter, bence It la that neither of the dlatln gntabed gentlemen geta If tight. It la an Indian name, and should be pronownoed "l-a-wah," with the accent on the first syllable. - A Mir T' The faanleot Mt of news that we bawe rand la ito pesjera iweratly la tfsst Mate. Sarah Orsad, who la con tog orer torn im n raadlag tour, la sty. oto Utohm HELD OF VICKSBURG MOVEMENT TO MAKE TIONAL PARK. A NA- A Brief Review or the Military Opera tion Which Took Place in and Around tbe Confederate btrongbold In l2 and ltstlii. Consecrated Ground. A bill Is now pending in Congress to make the battlefield of Vleksburg a national park similar to that of Chicka mauga, thereby preserving to future generations the scene of a great and bloody struggle. Iu view of the pro posed change it is timely to recur to the military operation carried on around Vleksburg in ls;U and li'l. Vicksburg was one of the Confeder ate stronghold ou tlie Mississippi and with I'ort Hudson, 12 miles further south, also held by tlie Confederate, prevented the free use of that water- way by the (rovernment, while by It the Confederates were enabled to re ceive military supisirt from Arkansas and Texa. In May, 1S4J2. an attempt wa made to capture It by changing the channel of the Mississippi, thu leaving Vicksburg several miles inland, but it failed. In June Admiral Farra gut bomlwirded the place, with no bene ficial result, and thereafter for several mouth no effort was made to posset, the city. Iu Ieceniter Gen. Grant at the bead of 40.IKKI troop moved against the city, which wa defended by Gen. John C. IVmlM-rton with 34.(XX) men. Gen. W. T. Sherman was selected to attack the place, but, after difficult and. costly operations In the swampy region of the Yazoo river, to the north of the city, he wa forced to abandon his efforts. In January. 1803, Grant took com niand of all the forces operating against Vicksburg and marching the bulk of hi army down the western bank of the Mississippi crossed to the Vicksburg side several mile below the city. Iu this movement he was aided by Ad miral William I). Porter. Grant's ob ject was to reach and capture tlie State capital, Jackson, mid then fall upon Vicksburg in tlie rear. The tirst en gagement fought after the crossing of the Mississippi wa nenr Port Gibson, where the Confederate force wa rout ed by the Federals under Gen. Me demand. At Klchmond, still further on the road to Jackson, the Federals gained another victory over a small force sent out from the capital by Gen. J. E. Johnston, who wa In com mand of all the Confederate forces in Tennessee and Mississippi. On May CHAMPION BILLS BATTi.K OKOl D. 14 Jackson fell Into the banda of the Union forces and after destroying whatever might be of aid to tbe Con federates Grant began bis backward march upon Vicksburg. At Cha. pion Hills (ien. Pemberton, who bad marched ont of Vicksburg, had taken position with a force of 18,000 or 30,000 and attempted to check tbe prog reaa of tbe Union forces. He waa burl' ed bark to tbe Rig Black river, where tbe battle waa renewed tbe following day. Again the Confederates were rooted with a loss of 242 killed and wounded and 1.000 prisoners, and the Union troop passed on to tbe attack on Vicksborg. On tbe extreme right waa tbe a nay eorpa of Maj. (ien. Hhennan, next to It that of Maj. Gen. 1. B. McPberaoa aad on the left tbe corps of Maj. Oea. Me Oeraard, who waa subawqentiy aoe coeded by Maj. Oea. Ord. On May 19 Ooa. hinasia began aa attack on tto city, hat waa forced to abandon It Another and asaaral aasautt waa aa aedfartaadaadthe praaadlag abjht GEX. i. C. PFMBERTOJt. CAVKS NEAR VICKSni'IU'r I'SKP AS HOMKS. Admiral Porter kept up a steady bom bardment of the place. At 10 o'clock I on tbe 22d an assault by Grant' whole line wa begun and wa Joined In by Admiral Borter. aud until night the battle waged with virtually no ad vantage to the t'nlon troop, but with a heavy in killed and wounded. The failure of this assault determined it a ,i. f.UANT's HEAlKfl AKTKKH. Grant ujm.u a regular siege aud tlie arrival of reinforcement, under Maj. (Jen. Herron and Gen. Iuman, which swelled his forces to 7J."X" men, en abled him to closely Invest tlie pluce. For a mouth the investment of the city grew closer aud closer, while day and night, with little Intermission, the gun of Admiral Porter and of the land force hurled shot and shell Into the city and it suburb. Many of the Inhabitant left their home and took up their abodes In cave dug In the steep bank where streets passed through the hills. Here they lived practically secure from tlie Iron hull that plowed up streets anil demolished house. Many of these enreg were neatly furnished aud had carpeted floor. Meantime mining wa actively carried on by Grant and June 25 a mine under Fort Hill bastion was fired. Fart of the fort wag thrown down and through tlii breach the Federal sought to enter, while the Confederates sought to keep them out. Hand gren ades were used and the conflict wagd was desperate, with the advantage ou the side of the Confederate. Another mine wa exploded July 1. Meantime Gen. I'euilierton, shut up In Vicksburg and with no hope of be ing relieved by Gen. Johnson, who was unable to collect a Huttielently strom force, was placed in the position of either surrendering or starving. July 3 he proposed by means of a letter to grant the appointment of a commission to arrange term of capitulation and the following day the surrender wa effected. The Confederate forces to the number of 27,nsj were paroled. CAVEHorSE INTERIOtt. Hnring the entire oeratiou from the crossing of tlie Mississippi by Gran to the surrender of Vicksburg the Union loss In killed, wounded aud miss ing Is placed at 8,575, aud the Confed erate loss at 10,000. " r st her Is lomlng." The Nineteenth Indiana had for Its first commander Colonel Solomon Meredith, famou a a stock raiser at Klchmond, Ind., before the war. He was tall, awkward, uumilitary, but grave. Ill son Samuel was a lieuteu ant in the .Mneteeutu. tie wa a tall, a little more awkward and a little lean military than his father, but, like his father, brave. Lieutenant Sam Meredith was officer of tbe division guard one day early In tbe history of tbe regiment Tbe custom was then as it is now, to have tbe guard fall In and salute wben a Held or general ofll cer approached. Colonel Meredith aud denly came upon tbe guard without being noticed. A soon aa Lieutenant Saw aaw him be railed out In a loud voice: "Turn out the guard, father's coming!" Poor Rain never beard the last of "Turn out tbe guard, father's coming." Tbe balance of tbe brigade would call out, all along tbe line, when ever Ham put In an apearane, and occasionally wnen Mereoitn, nr., was aeen, and after he hecatu? a gener.il and had command of tbe brigade, be would hear: "Turn out the guard, father's coming r and Indulge In one of tboee Sol Meredith grin tbe boy used Ut enjoy. Both father and eon died long ago. For yeara one of Gen era I Meredith's daughters In-law wis an extenalve raiser of and dealer In blooded stock on tbe Meredith farm. near Richmond, and It took a sharp Yankee to get the beat of the bargain when dealing with her. Lnnsatmaf Book. Oen. Loagatreera dook baa provoked a storm of outbern criticism, but tto fact resaalaa that bla statements art backed by personal knowledge of the rants that to daacrltoa, and by a rec - ord of asunary aervice that la not aur- by that of any other Confedorate Tto area teat forces upon which ourlfT 1. TTirg..V-T. r 1 WnawKIIa GOWNS AND GOWNING WOMEN GIVE MUCH ATTENTION TO WHAT THEY WEAR. Plane s Vsnclss FssslaiB, FrlTSlona, Majbap, and Yet Offers tn the Msps that the Bending ProTa Bastfal to Wearied Womnnkind. Oonslp frem Oar Gotham. lark corrooiiilsae: K F O R E Dame Fashion can con vince her devotee that It 1 time to ' taka up plain bod ices, she will have to stop the present flood of new acces sories and adorn ment for bodices. Those who keep their ears to tbe ground so as to be the first to get warning of the Dame's decrees thought they heard a thunder ing demand for plain waist sever al months ago, but there's no sign of popularity for such as yet. All sort of dainty device calculated to charm a simple gown Into delicious elaboration have kept coming in. To bring the puffy sleeve Into proper line ut the shoulder there are stiffened epaulettes that fit down over the shoulders, ex tending In width out to the widest por tion of the sleeve puff. These epaulettes are of the same width along their en tire length, and are long enough to ex tend from the shoulder-blade line at the back to the bust lino In front. The stock I attached to the epaulettes, and from the stock, filling the space be tween the sides of the epaulette down BAM1KH WITH rmF.StlKX R1BBOX. the front. Is drawn a soft panel of chiffon that reaches to the belt, the belt In some case llng the final portion of the entire accessory. Sometime a cor responding panel Is et between the epaulettes at the back. You see, when an affair of this sort Is worn, very little of tlie ttodice proper shows. This epau lette front, a it Is called, may lie made of odds aud ends If you like; the epau lette may be of one material and color, the panel front of another, and still a third stuff and shade be employed for Is'lt and stock. The licit of dresden silk sashing, ending at the back In a lovely baby sash-lsiw, make, perhaps, the very prettiest finish. The readiness with which 1bl acce sory adapts Itself to left-over bits 1 common with many other devices of the same ornamental bent Indeed, we need look no further for the expressed belief on the part of fashionable dress makersfor they were the parties that had their ears to the ground that the prophetic rumbling meant plain bod- Ices. How can a high-priced dressma ker hoe to excel when her best work can Is successfully copied or even Iro proved upon by any woman that Is rich in Dlece bags? A result of this situation Is that our beat designers are now ex perlmentlng with waist that are very simple almost perfectly plain and making tbe slight trimming of a matert al that will not be found In the left over odda and ends. Tbe waist put at tbe bead of this column la of this sort Made of beige surah and merely gather TatMMBP WITH aADIATWO LOOP. ad at neck and waist It had over the shoulders velvet straps edged with lace and lnlabed with roaettea of white I aatln ribbon. A chiffon rarbe about the 1 aor waa tto only other trimming. Raw tto evtdaaee of canning an tto naatgner'a part lay la tto r arret, which waa white, it woaM to aa an anna I - -- k ' mammtaUm mmtmm 1 Admmm -H mm. slt t4. mm fit tator. even though the model waa far from complicated. Bodices whose trtwming la In con trast with the great elaborateuesa of so many of the Louis Jackets are often made of daintily figured goods, and of this sort Is the second selection of tbe artisfs. which Is of figured gray stlh- its skirt Is banded on either side of tbe k front with dresden figured ribbon, the same appearing on the bodice at either side of the fitted vest. The bodice la worn without a belt, and the lining fas tens In the ceuter, tue vest unnus over. Over it there Is a short cap of gray cloth which has three tuck around the hem and a wired collar, and which turn back In revere. It I lined with pink silk. Ribbon is to be usd freely In trim ming dresses during the spring ana summer, snd not a few bodices are lit tle else than alternate strip or ribbon and insertion. These schemes of con struction permit some very novel and A SI'IRAI, STHIPE EFFECT. beautiful effects, a will be seen from the following description of a garment of thl type. It wa a filmy lawn and lace blouse swathed in bands of ribbon, band that went spirally about the fig ure from waist to throat The lawn showed between, and the ribtoi ended at the waist In a great knot. So well wa the model carried out that It really looked a If the bodice would be re moved by unwinding the ribbon first Used in this way the ribbon is more like material than like trimming, but when used strictly as the latter, it I often employed with the utmost lavlsb- ness. An example of this comes next In the pictures, a waist of white satin hooking In front and draped with white chiffon gathered at neck and waist. Its garniture consist of light-blue velvet riblsin In loop and straps that radiate from the collar, which Is surrounded by smaller wired Imps. The center band Is long enough to ls tucked into the bolt, which Is plain satin matching the rlblsm in color. The ellsiw sleeve are also draped with chiffon, and a black silk rrepon skirt completes the cos tume. Where ribbon may le Justly consid ered the material of the Isidice. the sleeves are made either by sewing to gether the widths of riblsin at tlie arm- hole and lapping them towards the wrist to shape the sleeve, or by allow ing the bands of riblsin to pas separ ately over an under puff of organdie. In the latter case the ribbon may finish below the elbow, the organdie contin uing on, or not, as you like: or the widths can come together below the ellsnv to make a solid rlblxm cuff. Who- A FIXIHH THAT HA A STHOMU HOLD. ever designed such bodices must have bad a mania for devastating pocket books and for bringing seainstreases to untimely ends, for what a taak It ill means! Somewhat tbe same effect can be produced with solid goods, an ahown In the fourth sketch. One critic of tbeae aleovea said taat tbe spiral tripe would lead her to look for the wearer's thumb where her smallest finger should he, but a garment that is aa stylish and novel aa this Is should not be condemned, even If It at list seems sultsble only for a contortionist These aleerea were of green and white striped satin, finished with lace ruffle and epaulettes, while tbe bodice Itaelf waa of emerald green velvet and had a white satin vest veuen wun oeep cream lace, finishing In a stork collar to match. The fronts were ornament ed with green aatln ho we, each with a larg rblneatone buttoa In the center. Tbe bag front atlll lingers, though Ita past popularity baa been of Just tto art that kills many a fashion by mak ing It too common. Tto real secret of tto pouch front's tenacity Ilea In the fact that many women realise that tbe round walat effect at the hark la often becoming to a figure that cannot stand tbe round belt In front No the new designs often Include this effect, as doe the last one shown.- Here tto ataterial Is figured gray and sapphire bine silk, tbe bodice being' covered half wag from aerk to waist with Mae velvet, below which the silk Is slightly Moused. Tto velvet la trial ased with crescent shaped shoulder pteeea, aad at the shoulders fall raaattas af Mas velvet araptoead. Two patatai strips of Ma relvot totojttofaint atrirt at tto hlpa. Taa aiaay gtrla have too naay hv laiaV. , SMissswisnnM nsaSMS as: i