THE SIOUX COUNTY JOURNAL L J. IIMOH Ft. HARBISON', NEBRASKA. Paderewski U the Pole that knocks the gnancial persimmons. It is estimated now that the Nicar agua Canal can t built for less than 1 100,000, Vsi-but will It be? People who live in plans houses won't be worse off than the rest of us after this unless the Roentgen folks quit ex perimenting. A new word, "waruullujrated." mean ing enamored, has been added to the slang vocabulary. It Is nearly bud enough to be In the new dictionaries. A big steel trust is to be formed. We do not recall any trusts, larpe or small, which have not licen com posed of two pares 'steal and one part water. Now that the lan of the anti-Confederate legislation has been repealed, It 1 to be hoped that the Charleston News and Courier will t-oiue back into the Union. The Duke of Yeragua says Spain ha been misunderstood by-u. The inter preter may have deceived us, but. still, there is a chance we are also niia undenrtood. Sometimes a "frog in the throat" 1 dangerous. James Foley, of Wheat land, K. IT., has swallowed a live frog and the doctors are hard at work try ing to keep him from croaking. A woman has askea an Oklahoma court for a divorce on the ground that her husband bathes only once a year. It oughtn't to be necessary to go to Ok lahoma for divorce on such grounds. The catfcode rays are now said to have been known to the Chinese years ago. If some American would say he had discovered hades up would bob a Chinaman who had lived there for years. The King of Ashantee rules 8.000,000 people, and he has a supply of 50,000 rifles. While England is cultivating rows with Ashantee and Venezuela the Caar will look after the division of China and Turkey. The Cincinnati papers have discov ered that it costs gfioO a year to keep prisoners in the county Jail in slip pers. They must le unusually "slip pery or else Cincinnati ought to let a few officials slip. The dialect societies of this country and England have decided to prepare dialect dictionaries. As they will be the genuine thing the first rule In com piling them will be to exclude every thing found in dialect novels. A Boston paper didactically asserts that "there is no such thing as spring fever." Oh, there isnt, eh? Then what makes the women tie old towels around their heads, tear down stoves and move the heavy furniture out doors? The greeting between Mr. and Mrs. W. K, Vanderbllt Just as the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough sailed away to Europe suggests that Mrs. Vanderbllt has the "Marble House" at Newport and Mr. Vanderbllt the marble heart everywhere. Rich gold mines are said to exist In the Interior of Madagascar, and this fact is believed to be the real cause of the French invasion. The gold deposits on the borders of Alaska and Vene snela also explain the activity of the British in those regions. A cure for dilatory dressmakers has been found by Ida Oluck, of Minneap olis, mtoo, desiring; to be married in a ntnr gown, entered by force and took It That she was arrested afterwards makes no difference. Hhe surmounted aa erf of the times with the resource of genius. The Tatted States army reorganisa tion bill Introduced by Senator Sher man proposes to reduce the infantry and cavalry and greatly increase the artillery arm of the service. It is thought by military authorities In Eu rope that moat of the battles of the fu ture will be decided by the rapid and concentrated work of the artillery. According to a Paris geographer, the largest remaining forests are In Cen tral Africa, Southern Siberia and Norm and South America. With proper management North America -would remain In this Met permanently, trat it wiU soon drop out. A vast army of men with axes are slashing off the tree wherever they can make a dollar at It A Pittsburg steel company baa com pleted ail order for 10,000 tons of stsel rails for the Japanese government, and Alabama pig Iron is going to England la large quantities. These facts Indi cate that our iron and steel interests are steading their operations abroad, had that their prospects for the re Vital Of the prosperity that they once Bjsfsd are very good. The Gctftl returns of the Bute else tioa to Massachusetts show that oat of the 878400 women entitled to register gad oa the question of equal suf fer, ssly 2S.08R went to the polls; Cat to forty -seven towns not a woman ' TZZX aaj m 1 towns their rott arer r:l t3r Cases; and that la not a 'J ewaty sr strict was a majority given for the propositkn. It is quit evident that the women of the State most noted for their education and in telligence are willing to remain "en slaved" so far as political power is concerned. Figures gathered by the Agricultural Department show that the number of the horses in the United States have declined within two years from 1-5,-206.SO2 to 15,124,057. while their vmIim per head has fallen from $01 to Since 1893 the loss on the value of horses in this country amount to H'J2,000,000. As the most of this has been borne by farmers, perhaps they can get even by applying electricity to agricultural work. England may learn many things from the Japs. English travelers have U-eu accustomed to come over here. 'oun;-e about New Ycrk a wm of mouths, go home and write a book ou Anier lea. A Japanese gentleman came to this country to obttin material for book of travel, and within a week he saw a lynching, watched a football game, attended a meeting of the Chi cago city council, witnessed a session of the Kentucky legislature and start ed back home. The continental nations have been told so often by the English newspa per that the Monroe doctrine meaiw in ios latest definition that sooner or later every European state will have to get off rlie western hemltjpbere in obedience to our wish. We are accused of aiming to force tireat Britain out of Canada, and that our stand in the Venezuela matter is merely an Inrinia Uon of what we are coming to. France, corieiuently, which also holds terri tory in South America, and which has a dispute on with Brazil concerning the boundary, feels uneasy too, fearing that if we carry our point against Great Britain we will turn to it next. Then Spain appreihends notice from us that she must let Cuba alone, and so the alarm spreads. As a matter of fact, however, we have not undertaken the boss-ship of the western heml sphere. We have merely objected to the bullying methods of Great Britain here. We have only reminded the greatest of land thieves that what he lb haiiitually doing in other continents he cannot do over here without at least being asked for an erplanatiou of his conduct France, Germany, Italy, Spain practically all Europe- have from time to time and pretty con sistently protested against English ar rogance and brutality in dealing with weaker peoples. They were overload ed by the diplomatic red tape of cen turies, however, and their utterances did not stop the ruthless work of the despoller. An indication as to how the marriage of American heirewes and titled no bles is regarded abroad may be found in the latest issue of London Truth which declares that the Duke of Marl borough's marriage was largely due to a neeeMBiry of keeping up "that white elephant," the castle of Blen heim, "a- huge and hideous building which the late Duke, who was always of a pra-tical turn of mind, deplored could not be converted Into a hydro pathic establishment or something of that sort" The incorrigible I-atxm chere goes on to remark that "part of the bargain was that the Duke should lie a lay figure in the marriage festlvl ties, the aim and object of which seems to have been to squander mon ey in barbaric pomp." This, then, ia the happy situation in which the title- capturing American belTess finds her self. She ceases to be an American and loses the comradeship of her fel low-countrymen. And on coming to the land where she is to assume titled honors she is met with the brutally frank assertion that her husband mar ried her for her money, and that the circumstances In which the ceremony was performed were barbaric. It Is like the. case of the turncoat in war, roe heiress loses esteem among her former a Hies, and receives the open condemnation of ber new ones. Any other American girls who may be tempted by foreign titles would do well to reflect on what awaits tbem on the other side. No American criticism of the Duchess of Marlborough baa been a bit more brutally candid than that administered by one of the fore- moat of the organs of British opinion, Troth, and When to Speak It There are agreeable trutiie and dis agreeable truths, and it is the province of discretion or sound judgment to make a selection from these, and not to employ them ail IndiscriuUmteiy. Speaking ttie truth is not always vir tue; concealing It is very often judi cious. It is only when duty calls upon you to reveal the truth that rt is com mendable. A bale-teller may be a truth -teller, but every one dislikes the character of a person who goes from one bouse to another and communi cates all he sees or bears; we never stop to inquire whether he speaks the truth or not He is perhaps ail the worse for speak ing the truth, for truth is paMcnlerl offensive in such cases, and never fails to set families at variance. Silence in (Hscre-don, and concealment of facts Is Judicious. Horseshoes. A process for making cast steel horseshoes has been patented ia Glas gow. The steel, which is stated to have very great fluidity, Is a sppetal make. . A Handsome Tomb. The finest tomb in Great Britain Is undoubtedly that of the Duke of Ham ilton, In the grounds of the Duke's seat. It cost over 11.000,000. People are never so Indifferent as when a good man runs for office. A man should bar common sense with bis patriotism. MY PATRIOT BOY. Did I tell too, O friend, of a proud, nd day When n; beautiful boy went oikrvblnf away To a far-away battle-neldT Whca our country's rail was beard by me And sJI mo! iters clutt sons were needed to fight For Gud and our country and the cause of right- Bat Buy heart stood still and it seemed that a pall Wrapped roe aa the worKIs wrapped by the night. And I thought as I wrought while the days west by And I prd to my God, whose tbrone Is oa high " And who eareth for me to care for my boy. To bless our land and five us Joy In the light of liberty's sun. Then victory canie, but 'twas purchased dear, The bella pealed out from far and near. And I heard loud shouts ring In the air. And the feet of men rush here snd there. I called aloud: -Is there news for me? What news for meT Mr tear-dlwnjed eyes can scarcely And I beard for answer, so Hke a knell: 'It la well wits your boy. It Is well." And then I knew my child no more Would come to me as Is days of yore. And thus the Father had answered my prayer By taking from earth to the home over there My dirllnr child, so brave, so dear, His sweet "My mother" I'll never more hear. And yet 'twas a glorious death, and he Med for the life of our dear country. And your children's children w ill peace enjoy, Bought with the life of my precious boy. WHERE THE BAT TLE WAS FOUGHT. OLD up your right hand, my man. The witness held (p3 li II up his left hand, and T-k I isb tm? ju'ilf. Mieving i V'Wa7 that he was defiant said with a show of anger: "Hold up your right band and take the onthr Again the left nam! was raised, and the judge, turning to a deputy, shouted: "Arrest that man for contempt of court He refuses to hold un his right hand. "Judge," said the man. a dilapidated specimen of humanity, "I can't hold up my right hand 1 left it at Gettysburg a good many years ago. But 1 can swear all right with my left band. There was a sensation in court. No one had noticed that the artificially stuff ed sleeve w as tucked into the coat pocket at the wrist, giving the figure that defiant air that ban aroused the anger of the pre siding officer. Now when they knew that no hand was there, a thrill of sympathy ran through the crowd, and the Judge w as visibly agitated and even apologised. "I did not know that you bad been s soldier," he said gently, os if that fact were excuse enough for any lapse of duty on the present occasion. "I am a soldier yet," said the man in the witness box; "once a soldier always a soldier, is my creed. I'm under march ing orders and likely to join my regiment any time. It's many yars since I first went soldiering, i was a likely chap then, judge." "Yes, yes," said the judge, who had been staring fixedly at the man while bis face, flushed and paled with some secret emotion, "but this is hardly the time or place for reminiscences. Your testimony in the case on hand is all that is required now. Counsel for the defense will exam ine this witness," and the judge turned to other business as if the subject no longer interested him. But be had not done with it. When he went out of the court house on his way home, the one-srmei soldier was waiting for him, and he stopped with an impatient air to hear w hat he had to say. It was evident that the mnn had lieen drinking, and his general apiiearaiice was more down at the heels than before. "Judge," be asked, with tipsy gravity, "might your name be Shields'" "Yes. my name is Shields. Have you any further business with me? I am in something of a hurry." "Ko'tn 1, Judge Shields. I've been wait ing over thirty years to ask you a ques tion snd get an answer. You don't hap pen to know me, judge?" "No," came the low answer as the judge looked into the face of the soldier with 8 shifting earnestness, taVing in the whole figure in that uncertain way, "I don't think I ever saw yoa before." "Think again, my friend you are my friend, ain't you did you ever know a young man a robust, strapping fellow named Leonard Hurst?" "My God, num. Leonard. Hurst died during the war be was killed in the bat tle of Gettysburg, and is buried up in yon der cemetery." "Is he? That's news to me, Hiram Shields, and it's a lie. He bad a friend a young man like bimself no, not like him, for Leonard Hurst would have given bis life for that friend, and thought it no sacrifice but the friend didn't enlist. He staid at borne, and while Hurst was fight ing the enemy at the front. Shields, his friend, won his promised wifo away from him. married the girl leonard Hurst had loved all his life." "I'll hear the story at another time," said Shields, who was in a panic of uerv onsness over this strange recital. "You'll hear it now," retorted the other man, swaying back and forth, yet speak- "CAVflHT HIM BY THK TIIBOAT." lug with tbe utmost distinctness. "Leon ard Hurst went away with drums beat ing, and flngs flying, and he was gone three yearij. One of those years he spent in s Southern prison the fortune of war. He came home s wreck, to lie nursed back to life and strength by those for whose sake he bad suffered be came borne to find bimself a dead man!" The dry lips of tbe Judge worked con vulsively, bat be ssid no word. "His friend hsd buried him. A stone st the foot of his grave bad his nsme snd number, gathered from tbe prison hos pital. He was dead snd burled, sad bis friead had married his iwsethesrt." fs li Qav 1 vt;., "You are excited," said Shields, finding his voice; "come home with uie and " "You haven't heard it all yet. Maybe you thin it was hard to stnud in front of a fire of shot and shell, uud be torn asunder by cannon balls. Why, mau, that was nothing, to tb- soldier, to what he suffered when he came home and found himself shut out of the ranks of living men read his own name on a gravestone, and heard his friends talk of bis death. And that was oothing to the fact that the girl who swore fealty to him had married his false friend. When he knew that, the bitterness of death had passed. It was there bis first anc last real battle was THE SOI.DIKR I.irTP.0 HIS S1IARBT CAP W1TU RXVKIlKXt g." fought, when he conquered himself, and let the man live who had made earth s bell for bim." "Have yon no pension?" asked the judge suddenly. "Tension? Do they pension dead men?" The judge was trembling violently. As the effects of tb? liquor wore off, the sol dier became more excitable, snd erratic lights flashed from his sunken eyes. His whole expression was a menace to the man who stood trembling before him. But when bis strange companion with a sud den wift motion caught bifn by the throat. Shields made no resistance, and the other holding him thus a moment, threw him off contemptuously. "Tell me to my face lam dead," sneer ed the soldier with livid lips, "you who robbed me of the dearest thing I had in lif and of life itself I Assassin! She, too, is dead perhaps you killed her?" "Hurst," said Shields, wiping tbe drops of ghastly fear from bis pallid face, "if you are indeed a living man, listen to me. It may be some satisfaction to you to know that Msbel never loved ine, al though she was my wife. She died with your name on her lips. She believed you dead, and kept your grave green with her tears." "Sny that again!" cried the soldier. "Oh, my God, it pays to have been dead and buried all these years, to know that after all she was true. I had it in my mind to kill you; yes, I meant it when I bad my hand st your throat, but those words have saved you! God will settle tbe ac count between us!" 'He has settled it," answered fifaields solemnly. "He closed the account when he refused me Mattel's love when He took ber from me as the worst punish ment He could Inflict. But I honestly be lieved tbst you were dead that it was your shattered form I brought from tbe battlefield and buried up yonder." "Tbst gsve you s right to love Mabel V" "No" Shields bung his bead in bitter grief and shame "I I bad tried to win her before that, but she would not listen to me she never would hive listened, but for your death and, Hurst, tbst knowl edge killed ber. Hhe was my wife in name, bat her heart was with you." The soldier lilted his shabby cap with reverence. He rnin-d hl eyes to the blue canopy of heaven, and bis lips tuorc-l in prayer. "1 have fought my l;it battle," be ssid, extending his one poor blind to Shields, "we are friends from this hour, comrade." "You have called me comrade," snid Shields, his eyes filling with tetirs; "I stn no soldier, but 1 know what that word means. We are comrades for the rest of the march we w-ill part no more. l'r this hour my home is your home." Tims it came al-ont that these two tie came to each other even as Iiavid and Jonathan, united by a friendship surpass ing the love of woman. Nor is the un known soldier who sleeps far from home and friends forgotten. On each Memorial day Hags wave and flowers bloom over bis dust and a white-haired man and a one armed soldier sit there to talk over the strange enigma of his Inst renting place. "Knough if on the page of war and glory, Some hand has writ his name." THEY ARE BROTHERS NOW. The cplrit that r lists Between Veterans of Itoth l-lrl. Although the horrors of war are the mors conspicuous where the conflict Is ttelween brothers and the strnwle i a long and destx-rate one, the evidences are numerous mat, unuerneatn the passion and bitterness o. our civil war, there were counter currents of kindly feeling, a spirit of genuine friendliness pervading the op posing camps. Ibis friendliness was something deeper than the expression (if mere human instinct; the combatants felt that they were indeed brothers. Acts of kindness to wounded enemies began to be noted at Bull Hun, while in every cam paign useless picket firing was almost unl- iormiy oiscountenanced, and the men shook band at the outposts gnd talked confidingly of their private affairs and their trials and hardships in the army. This feeling, confined perhaps, to men on the very front line culminated at Appo mattox, where the victors shared rations with their late antagonists and o..,,. ously offered them help in repairing the wastes or oatiie. When the t'ulon veteran returned i tK. North he did not disguise his faith In the good intentions of the Southern fighting man. The spirit that moved Lincoln to say In his last Inaugural. "With malice toward Done," has continued its holy influence. That which must appear to the world st large a startling anomaly, is in truth the simple principle of good-will, unfolding itself under favorable conditions. The war, that is. the actual encounter .n i. field, taught the participants the dignity ui ameni'sn ma ncter. Their Annual Reunion. The Man of Ihr Musket. Koliller. pa on from I rage of renown. This ant hill, c .iimiotlou and strife, Pane by wto-re the iimrhles and hroitxet look down With their fat frown gestures of Mfe, Ob, out to the nsmrle silio lie 'neatb lh Kt'ftiUl 'f the pitying r),rcK and pine; Your man Is the imm of the sword and tbs plume. ittit the man of Ihe riitisket Is mine. I knew him! liy all that Is noble. I knew This commonplace hero I Home: I've camiwd with him, marched with him, fought with blrn. loo. In Hi swirl of the di-rce battle tlaiu; Laughed with blm, cried with him takes a part Of his canteen sin! blanket, snd known That the throb of this chivalrous prslrls boy's heart Was an answering stroke of my own. I knew Mm, I tell yn And. alo. I knew When be fell on the battle swept ridge. ILat the poor battered body that lay there In blue Waa only a plank In the bridge Over which some should pass to I fame That shall shine while the high stars shall shine! Your hero Is known by sn echoing nsme. Hut the man of the musket Is mine. I knew hi,,,' a through hi in the good and the ba4 Hun t'lgether sml eouslly free; But I Judge as I trust Christ will Judge th brave lad. For death mane hire noble to me! In the cy. ione of wsr, In the battle's eclipse. I.lfe shook out pa lingering sands And he died with the ,, lhit 'b, ,oVwJ ou hla lips. Ills musket ..ill grasped In his handsf ? rl'," ' " " a'T soldier went down, III the salient front of the llns; You may take for your heroes tb men of reilown, Il'it the msn of the musket Is mln! The flonrtMina in Mpaln. In none of their many sovereignties had the Incapacity of the Bourlwns been more completely demonstrated than lu Spain. With Intermittent flick rings, the light of that famous land Lad been steadily growing dimmer ver sln.-e Iuls XIV. eiiiltlngly de clared that ,iie Pyrenees had ceased to exist, Strlt rtttWl tit 111! a-istt, t .. I .reiimey. shattered In naval power, re luced ,o pay tmmto b, Krai.,, she bHiked silently ou while Napoleon traf-fVk-ed with her lands, mourning that even the memory of her former glories ss fading out In foreign countries. The proud people themselves had, how ever, never foririitlen ,i u unat, wim each suc-esslTs humiliation their Irrl tat on grew more Mlmn(! and srter Trafalgar they made an effort to organise under it.. 1 . xo Zli L h""' ""."ht rrw,fb W T. Z om ,n wl", country SLSz&S: mo,t wi -