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The Sioux County Journal,
VOLUME VIII.
HAKKISOX, NEBRASKA THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 18.
NUMBER 42.
' HE ASKED FOR BUTTERMILK.
Amd the Wtarr Waiter Lived Over
Again tbe Jojre of Ihe Farm.
' "How's the buttermilk?" asked tbe
tired man; aud the weary waiter looked
the euuul he felt as be answered:
"Churned fresh every hour."
"Well, now, give tue a glass from the
last hour, aud let her be full," said the
tired man. Then he unfolded the mid
night edition, smiled as if memories
haunted him, and never seeing a Hue of
all the black type w hich tried to startle
sated humanity, lie was thinking of
buttermilk fresh from the churn, and
the big, staring heaiilliies were as blank
paper liefore him. The weary waiter
dlsturled his reveries.
"Buttermilk's all out, sir. '
He said the "sir" as one who follows
a vacant form, and meant nothing by
It
"I'm sorry," suld tbe tired man, tak
ing coffee and sandwich of course
and still conjuring up pictures of the
country.
"Gn-ut thing when you're tired," said
he, smiling, and looking past the weary
waiter and the coffee urn, and the
blank wall beyond. "I-a! I can bear the
soft chug of the churn dasher yet when
the butter Is coming. Gets lighter then,
and splashes Inside, aud the yellow
drifts wash down from the hollows In
the lid, and you hit twice half-way
and once clear down, andbutter's
come."
The weary waiter smiled without re
leasing bis stare at the street, silent In
midnight darkness.
"And they put the buttermilk down
In the springhouse In a great big Jar,
and the water swishes around it, and
there's a board on top, with a stouo to
keep It down. Aud Sunday morning
you curry the horses and turn them out
on th.j clover pasture, and dive off
the bank In the river and take a wash,
and put In a clean hickory shirt and
your Sunday clothes, and lay down In
the shade of the apple tree In the long,
soft grass, and catch the wind from
the woods and the music of the cow
Ml far away aud then you think of
the buttermilk." .
"That's right," snld the weary wait
er, as he rearranged the sugar bowl aud
spoon holder.
'And yon go down and dip It up with
a big tin cup, and drink It In great big
swallows, and the other boys come In,
and we all alt there and drink and talk
of the tough times we are having, and
charter afwiit the girls, and Josh each
other alxnit going home with them from
meeting, and after a while dinner is
ready, and we go In and ent fried chick
en and mashed potatoes,, and biscuit
and custard pie -"
"l'-ni-m," said the weary waiter, fer
vently. "And then again along In the after
noon," resumed the tired man, "we get
out there when the sun Is down, and
we have another cupful, and the whip
poorwill Is booming from some place up
In the clouds, and the katydid is telling
of the frost Just six weeks ahead, and
the cattle are standing along the barn
yard fence, with the smell of fresh
milk In the mellow sir, and the tin cup
has yellow flecks all over the sides, and
we fill It again and drink "
"Or In the harvest Held," said the
weary waiter.
"Yes, when the women folks send It
out In n Jug. with n slab of ginger bread
In the long forenoon, and we take great
swallows "
"A ml sweat "
"And sweat, and buckle down with
the cradle and the rake, and set tip a
Knock to shade the buttermilk "
"And a rain comes up and we run for
the barn." The weary waiter stood
erect, and smiled delightedly.
"Ah, yes! Ah, yes! That was life,
after nil."
The tired man took bis check to the
desk und waited outside for an owl car
to come along; but all the time he was
thinking of that mellow nectar, which
mingles the fields and sweets of rural
ecstasy, and all the tired Insistence of
his Journey home could not Impress the
city's hopelessness upon hlm.Cblengo
Times-1 1 era Id.
I 1 t'nelo Daniel.
I'riclc Ianlc was one of the charac
ter of the .Saeo Valley. He was al
ways bubbling over with droll speeches.
At one time he adopted a city-bred boy
who gave him great annoyance by not
fulling In with country ways. Uncle
Panlel tried hard to teach him to mow,
but In vain, and after a time the old
gentleman wus heard Inquiring at the
village for a "small boy about four
years old."
"What do you want him for?" some
one asked.
"I want him to ride on the lied of
George's scythe and keep It down, ' was
the answer.
Again, when It was the custom of
the tielghlmrs to "change works" In
dressing their pork, tho water had
cooled somewhat before Uncle Daniel's
hog was Immersed, and the bristles did
not yield readily. The other men, at a
little distance, were succeeding !etter.
"Is your 'bout ready to hang up,
Daniel?" Inquired a brother butcher
across the way.
"Yes, Joe," was the disgusted an
swer, "If you want to hang him up by
the hair of his head."
Ills neighbors complained that the
squirrels were eating their corn, but
Undo Daniel boasted that be bad no
trouble at alL
"But how do yoi prevent It?" they
asked.
"I never plant any outside rows," be
answered, wisely.
Then It was remembered that he did
Dot plant corn at all.
A gentleman once asked him If be
could remember his grandmother.
"I guess I can," said Uncle DuuIeL
"but only as I saw her once. Father
bad ben away all day, and when he
came home he found I bad failed to
do something he expected of me. He
caught up a rough apple-tree limb, and
walked up to me with It Grandmoth
er appeared on the doorstep with a
small, straight stick In her hand, and
instantly handed it to my father.
"'Here, Joe, said she, 'lick Daniel
with a smooth stick!' And he did.
Who wouldn't remember such a grand
mother as that?"
Iter Diamonds.
The Innocent Ignorance of much-engrossed
men of science as to ordinary
matters Is illustrated by an amusing
anecdote of Geoffrey Salnt-Hllalre the
younger, a famous French zoologist.
Monsieur Salnt-Hllalre was accus
tomed to bury himself In his labora
tory, where he did not allow the affairs
of his household to disturb him; and
Madame Salnt-Hllalre, Indeed, wai
careful to guard him against all worry
of domestic matters.
In bis latsiratory he was accustomed,
being a naturalist, to have various
strange animals. Of these, a monkey
was his favorite. His wife possessed
a necklace of diamonds of which she
was naturally proud. One day this
necklace was missing, Madame was
In despair, and had the bouse searched,
with the exception of Monsieur Salnt
Hllaire's room. She knew his dislike
of being disturbed, and moreover she
had not entered this room for a long
time, so that she could not have left
the diamonds there. :
Monsieur Salnt-Hllalre was hard at
work on some researches at the time,
and she Instructed the servants not to
mention the disappearance to him. But
the house was again turned topsyturvy,
and no diamond necklace was found.
A few days Inter, at one of Madame
Salnt-Hllnlre's "at homes," her hus
band appeared; and a lady jmong tho
guests, who supposed he knew of the
disappearance of the diamonds, asked
him If they had been found. "What
diamonds?" he asked.
He railed his wife and questioned
her: "What sort of ft looking thing
was this that you have lost?" She de
ser!led the diamond necklace.
"Ah," said the zoologist, "for several
days my baboon has had In his pos
session, generally worn about his
neck, a similar thing to that descrllted."
"Hut why did you not tell me?" bis
wife exclaimed In Indignation.
"Why," answered Monsieur Salnt
Hilalre, "I supposed that It belonged
to him. He seemed to be very fond aud
proud of it!"
Long Hf nlciH e.
It was the desire of Itev. Augustus
.Tessopp, for many years a country
clergyman In England, to be welcomed
by his people as a neighbor and friend
rather than as n clergyman; but he con
fesses that he was often pulled up by
a reminder mote or less reproachful
that if lie had forgotten his vocation,
his host had not! "Kver been to Tomb
land fair, Mrs. Huwl?" he asked during
a parochial vislr, which h,. describes
In "The Trials of a Country I'arsoti."
Mrs. t'awl had a perennial flow of
wordx, which came from her lips In a
steady, unceasing and deliberate mono
tone, a slow tickle of verbiage without
the semblance of a stop. She began:
"Never been to no fairs sin' I wits a
girl; bless the Lord, nor mean to 'xcept
once when my Betsy went to place
and father told me to take her to a
show and there was a giant, and a
dwarf dressed In green petticoat like
n monkey on an organ, un' I says to
Betsy my dear they'g the works of the
Lord but they hadn't ought to be
showed but us the works of the Lord to
be had In remembrance, and don't you
think sir as when they shows the works
of the Ixird they'd ought to begin with
a little prayer?"
Mr. Jessopp admits that he had no
reply at hand, and believeg that Mrs.
Cawl ever afterward privately consid
ered him an irreverent heathen.
Hlie Wus "Out."
The admission of women Into the oc
cupations which were formerly deemed
the exclusive possession of men Is neat
ly satirized by a contemporary.
This paper represents, In the warfare
of the future, a feminine ald-de-eanip
rushing In great excitement Into the
tent of her "generaless."
"The enemy are advancing In force!"
exclaims the nld-de-camp.
The "gcneraless" looks up calmly.
"Tell them," she says, "that I am not
at home!"
She. Wrote for George,
The first successful woman editor
ami proprietor of a newspaper In this
country was, according to the Hart
ford Couraut, Miss Watson, who edit
ed the Courant 120 years ago. She
numbered among her subscribers
George Washington,
A new novel declares that the sweet
est place to kiss a woman Is on tbe
back of ber neck. And get a mouth
full of balr? Baufbl
WHAT WOMEN WEAR.
2? ;
STYLES FOR THOSE WHO WANT
TO LOOK PRETTY.
Changea in Phlrt Waiat Style Said
to Be Freaklah Jacket of tbe Novel
Zouave Pattern-Tnla eaeon' Ideaa
ia Graduating Gown.
Faahlon'a Late Fanciee.
few York corresp-juileiic:
X shirt waists the
changes from last
year's styles are
freakish to a con
siderable degree.
vv, but though there
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but little sense In
the changes, they
must be followed
carefully or gar
ments that are
plainly unfashion
able will , result.
In one respect
the sleeves the
change Is a decided Improvement, for
nothing could be cooler or more com
fortable than the full, loose bishop
sleeve. In considering Its generous di
mensions. It Is bard to believe those
dressmakers who are prophesying tight
dresssleeves by autumn. Still that may
come; women must expect that smail
sleeves will return as soon as all the
changes have been rung on full ones,
and It does seem as If that had al
ready been accomplished.
It hardly seems as If any sensible wo
man need be told that the neckgear
of the tailor rig pictured with the In
itial Is the correct thing, yet women
are seen who, having acquired a hand
some and stylish tailor dress, will Just
ruin Its appearance by adding to It
neck fixings that are all frills and
A KOVKI, ZOfAVE JACKET.
lalry bows. This gown's finish is se
j verity Itself, Its material being blue
I moluilr, and beneath the Jacket there Is
! a manly double-breasted vest of blue
pique (lotted with white. This Is topped
by a stltlly starched chemisette, stand
ing linen collar find black stock. One
caution should be pointed here. It Is,
don't risk a made tie if you have to
depend on a metal hook and an adjust
meiit of It over the collar button to
hold the tie In place. That book may
not show to yourself, but be Is taller
than you are and as he looks down si
you that fatal metallic gleam catches
his eye at the upper edge of the little
bow Then all pretensions to tailor
made correctness are declared to bo
fakes.
Bodices that are quite clnlonite are
frequently worn this summer with
shirt waists, but In such cases the waist
Is no less dainty than as if it were to be
worn outside. Then again the outer
garment may not be highly wrought,
and yet may be of novel design, as Is
the one shown In to-day's second Illus
tration. Hero Is a zouave Jacket of
bluet cheviot; which Is also the skin
material, that U slashed on either side
ANOTHER !CIW CUT OF JACKET.
so that the shirt waist shows through.
Crossing the slashes are silk cords held
by cloth-covered buttons, and confining
both waist and Jacket is a belt of white
leather that ends In a fanciful silver
buckle. Tbe waist Is pink dotted Swiss,
4 m
Mm
its turned-down collar almost bidden
by the jacket's plain high collar.
Another Jaunty jacket of the sort
that Is frequently worn over shirt
waists is presented In the next sketch,
Its costume including a sleeveless
blouse of faintly flowered white dimity.
A belt of white leather shows In front,
and the Jacket's wide revers are held
down by cloth straps and buttons.
Topping all is a wired plain collar. The
goods is nickel gray mohair, and the
ripple basque may be lined with white
silk as desired. Whatever Is worn be
neath such a Jacket, let Its nature be
readily determined; that Is, don't wear
OF OR '
a transparent lawn shirt made to take
tailor-finish collar and cuffs. Let a
shirt waist be a shirt waist, or else have
it a fancy waist, and be done with It.
In purchasing shirt waists the woman
with a narrow back may find difficulty
In getting fitted. Her best way is to
look for a size that Is very uarrow
across the frout. All shirts are made
with such full fronts that they will fit,
though not perhaps with as much full
ness as was Intended. The back will
be proportionately narrow. The neck
may be a little snug, but you can put a
little silt In at the lwck and It will not
show when the collar is adjusted.
Simplicity rules In graduation ef
fects, but any amount of expense is
gone to In many cases to secure ex
quisite needlework, hand run tucking
and Insertion, and thread lace can be
added till the expense will suit the
fondest mamma, yet her proud daugh
ter will hardly look the sweeter for the
money hidden away In the details of
her gown, and the dotted muslin miss
next to her will not suffer a bit In con
trast. Still there was never yet a class
of considerable size graduated that
some of Its members didn't pass beyond
the mark of good taste In striving to
outdo the others. One method of trying
to escape the rut of conventionality is
to dress In the quaintly demure man-
A HK(ONI SENIOR.
tier of grandmother's day. This Is not
Infrequently resorted to, but seldom
with better results than are shown by
the last picture. This dress Is of while
China silk, plain for the skirt, and in
the bodice gathered u to a white satin
belt. The bodice Is lilted at bust and
shoulders, and lias a collar of the same
satin that Is used for the belt. The
sleeves here are elbow puffs that are
: t by long gloves, but ordinarily long
sleeves are worn.. The only bit of gar
niture dominates the whole, belli)' the
Marie Antoinette fichu of white moiis
seline de sole. This Is edged with an
embroidered ruflle anil Is tied In a knot
In front with ends hanging down on the
skirt. Of the two graduation rigs
shown, the first Is the safer, Just be
cause It Is on conventional lines. It Is
a temptation to essay something "dif
ferent," but these attempts are seldom
entirely successful and most of the
dresses are wisely planned. Time was
when a girl's graduation dress w;.s ns
useless thereafter as her wedding
gown, but It Is not so now, the dainty,
girlish gowns being made are eminent
ly suited for Incorporation In tbe ward
robe of the summer to follow.
Copyright, IRtW.
The Queen of England receives frcsn
the civil list IMSm a year, or about
$300,000, ns salary, and there are ex
tensive provisions made for house
room, provisions and servants.
iff Mm
HOUSE-CLEANING TIME.
RUSSIA MOVES FORWARD.
Aaaadom. the Depreciated Silver Moaey
Standard aad Adopta Gold
After more than half a century's ex
perience with silver monometallism and
fiat money Russia has adopted the gold
standard.
This has been done in pursuance of
Russia's determination to press forward
In the march of the nations.
In 1889 the silver ruble was estab
lished by imperial decree as "the legal
and Dualterable metallic unit of the
money current in the Russian empire."
Russia has found that she cannot keep
the pace of other great nations with a
silver standard and has therefore
changed to the gold standard.
Silver will still be freely used in the
Russian currency as it is in the cur
rency of all nations which have the gold
standard, and 140,000,000 ounces of
silver are to be purchased to take the
place of about one-fourth of the Russian
paper currency.
The adoption of the gold standard
will therefore result in a great im
provement of the monetary system of
that country. Twenty-five years ago the
Russian ruble had a purchasing power
of 74 cents in gold. It has fallen to
about 40 cents, owing to the immense
increase in the production of silver and
the general adoption of the gold stand
ard by the dviliwid world.
Russia has acted wisely in abandon
ing a depreciated money standard, and
the adoption of the gold standard will
make the empire a still more powerful
factor in the affairs of Europe and the
world. Atlanta Journal.
Whnt Do Tfaey Care For Experience.
To open the floodgates and permit the
world's volume of silver to flow to our
mints to be coined at 16 to 1 in the hope
and belief that tho market value of sil
ver would be thereby advanced to $1.29i
an ounce seems to me to be a dream so
extravagant as to be beyond the possi
bility of realization. If free coinage by
this country alone would not only ar
rest the decline of silver, but restore its
market value, why is it that such a re
sult lias not been attained in the coun
tries where free coinage is permitted?
The mints of Japan, Mexico aid several
of tho countries of South America Pe
ru, Bolivia and Equador are today open
to the free and unlimited coinage of;
both gold and silver, yet in no single !
instance can it be shown that the bul-1
lion vulne of silver has been kept at a ;
parity with its coinage value. More
than this, no nation on the globe today ;
has its mints open to the free and un- j
limited coinage of both gold and silv r
that is not confessedly on a silver basis
with gold at u premium. What reason
have wo, therefore, as a nation to ex
pect any different results if we should ;
venture on such un experiment? From i
reason and experience I am forced to
the conclusion that to open our mints to
tho free mid unlimited coinage of silver
at the ratio of 16 to 1 without tho co
operation of tho leading commercial na
tions of Europe would quickly plunge
the nation to a silver basis and create
such a disturbance in our monetary sys
tem as to involve its total destruction.
Hon. J. C. Burrows.
Simple Qnentlon For Silver Leaden.
Who would be benefited by adultera
tion of the currency? Not the farmers.
They oould not be better off if they got
two B0 cent dollars where they get now
one 100 cent dollar, and that is the ut
most Tillman would bo able to give
them. But the fearful contraction of
the currency caused by a collapse of
standard money to the B0 cent cheap sil
ver stsndard would create such hard
times tPat for years worklngmcn would
get hardly more 60-ceut dollars than
they get-now 100-ccnt dollars. How
would that benefit them? Neither Alt
geld nor Tillman has ever explained
this simple question. Chicago Tribune.
California Moat Remain a Gold State.
California was a gold state when it
wits admitted and has remained a gold
state since. None of its debtors bas
anything to gain by a radical change of
standard, not even th banks, which,
under a silver standard, would be able
to pay all depositors 60 oentson the dol
lar. The derangement of business and
temporary destruction of credit that
WotilixejEnJlJroip sucha )jane would
probably br .m most or tns b-uuka in
California, includ'ng perfectly solvent
institutions. Los Angeles Herald.
LefUlatieu Never Gave Valoa.
There is not a single instance in the
history of the world in which legal
tender has been relied upon to give
value to currency but that it has ended
in speculation, robbery and wholesale
repudiation and bankruptcy. D. W.
McClung in "Money Talks. "
Third. That It cannot hope to carrj
tbe house of representatives upon thai
issue. The majority against free coinagt
has increased from 13 in the Fifty-seo
ond congress to 125 in the present house.
There are no signs of gains for sibrsj
anywhere this year.
Fourth. Being unable to elect eithn
a president or a house upon this issued
do its supporters hope to throw the elec
tion of a president into the house? Ii
that case the choice of the Republican
candidate is absolutely oertain.
Conceding that the free silver Demo
crats will be able to write their ide
into tbe platform, what can it proflj
them? What are conventions for if no(
to improve the conditions of success 01
to put the party in the way of a triumph
in the near future? Is the free silver tat
all there ia of Demooracy for our friendi,
at the west and south? "Only common
sense is necessary" to show them the ut
ter futility of their present course..
New York World.
Largely a Question of Freight.
The principal reason why the highlj
civilized aud commercial nations hav(
gradually abandoned silver and adopted
the gold staudard is that value for valu
silver is 80 times as heavy as gold. S
that, if the cheaper metal were used t
settle balances in trading between tw
countries or between" distant points ol
the same country it would cost 80 timet
more to transfer it than if payment wat
made in gold. The foolish idea thai
business men have conspired todiscredil
the white metal in order to increase tht
valu of gold is merely a cheap monej
delusion. Merchants and bankers are in.
terested in having the best possible ma
tcriul for use in measuring values am)
milking exchanges, and the fact that U
millions of transactions the handling oj
money the greater weight of silver mean
a larger cost of transporting it was of it
self a sufficient reason why gold should
be preferred.
Left to themselves, men always choost
the easiest known method of doing any
thing. Since it is far easier to use a sub
stance having great value in small bull
than one 80 or GO times heavier, it ii
only natural that, whenever it is pos
sible to secure sufficient gold, that metal
should be used instead of silver. Woo
is uow generally used instead of steel
for bicycle rims because it is lighter.
Steelitcs who should claim that thi
wood conspirators had demonetized steel
rims would be laughed at Yet theii
arguments would be just as sound at
those of the silverites.
The People Who Uny Things.
There is one class of people in the
United States which is specially inter
ested in tho agitation for free silver,
with its openly avowed purpose of rais
ing prices twice as high as they art
now. This is the consuming class, com
posed of all tho people who buy things.
To thnm the most important question in
regard to the currency is, "Will oui
money buy few or many thinga? We
now have an industrial and commercial
system in which wages are paid and
products bought and sold with a cur
rency whioh rests on a gold standard
and has a high purchasing power. Ii
we were to adopt the silver standard,
our money would buy only half ths
quantity of goods that it does now.
How would that help us, the 70,000,
000 American consumers?"
Free coinage politicians who are try
ing to gain votes by setting one class of
citizens against another would do well
to remember that the largest class in
this country is that of the people who
bay goods. When they can show those
people that it is to their Interest to pay
higher prices for what they consume,
they may have some show of snncsss.
Until then their scheme is doomed ta
failure.
Fichus grow more and more elabo
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