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1 The Sioux County J ournal, VOLUME X. HAEKISON, NEBRASKA THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 1897. NUMBER 21. T i VIOLETS BLUE. Il imt ber dainty violets Tied up with ribbon white. And li between the silver atetni He hid Dote from night. "With these," he wrote Id manly phrmie, "I send my heart to you, And if you care lo keep it. lore, The itptr the riilet bine." Before the gilded i heml glass She donned heT natin gown: From ahonlder white and xleinler waist Ita richness rippled down. In folda of flame along the floor She trailed ita crimson hue: l cannot wear his flowers to night, Alas! that they are blue," Behind the little withered tem With allken riblmri tied. Too well the velvet blossoms kept Their aerret till they died. Two eolora more the hjm u -r Fate Into her ahnttle threw. The crimson of a alin (town, The TKileta tender blue. Truth. TH EM I DN I (j HT WATCH It was during the time of my connee. ion with the Blankhorough police force than the Imident related In the follow ing line occurred. Although there la nothing startling In the details, find the unraveling of tlio mystery with which they deal required no great amount of sagacWy on my part, still 1 am Inclined to think thnt there la sufficient Intercut about the affair to war runt making H public. I wan engjed with the superintendent one morning on some routine business when a note wax handed In from Mr. Bridgnorth, a well-known solicitor practicing In the town. The superin tendent read the mWrc and then turned to roe. "It la a cae of pilfering, Sampson." he said, "and the thief, of course, -an-not be discovered. There U nothing re quiring your service this morning -go and see what yon can do In the matter." I put on my hat nnd went. a directed. Mr. Bridgnorth's place waa well known to me and I wax soon the occupant of a sent In the private room at hi office. "I have been a good deal concerned of late," raid the solicitor, turning to the lmslneHa at once, "About the alwfractlon of certain sum of money from my caah U In my desk, and as I fear that I am being robbed by someone In flip oflloc, and cannot put my hand on the actual offender, 1 am compelled to seek the aid of the police." "Quit no. air." wild I, "and It will I Itoth the duty and the pleasure of the force, and of myaelf, to give you every pomible aMfllntance In the matter. Mow long have the pilfering lxen going on 7 I naked. "About a week or ten daya." was the reply; "and the rohlsrics always take place at night, after the office Is -loaed." "How do you know that?" "Because I count the caah In my desk very evening before locking up, when everybody baa left, and again flie next morning, lefore anyone arrive," said Mr. Bridgnorth. "What are the aunia yon bare missed?" "They have varii-d. One night IS wa taken, another 7, and a third .1 and so on. Altogether I have letl robbed of 55 sovereigns, and I don't know where It la going to end." "Hove you any simpleton aa to whom the thief may he?" "None whatever unlet " Mr. Bridgnorth hesitated. "tlo on, air," I aald. "Give expression to your thotighta: they may furnish a lcw." 'I waa joins to say," continued the solicitor, with Mime apparent relnc Utnce, "unless It ls Hartley, but I can not believe hint guilty of such a ihlng." lie added. "Who la Hartley?" I asked. "My confidential clerk," replied Mr. Bridgnorth. "He lias lieen with nie yever since he was a loy au(I tils cbarne n ii-r htiH nlwaya nt-a above suspicion." "Tbcn why should hia name occur to von In ciiiiupcilon wHIi tljcHc thefts';" I oneriiHl. J' Well. i la like thla," wild the aollc- J lior. "Hartley nnd I are the only per notiH who alcep on the premlaea, nnd jm there are no ai:ija of btirgl.trioim entry ihi the Ihcfta alniiya lake place In the nlglrt, I am. In apiic of mywlf, driren to a certain concltiHioit," 'The nnturnl one, lu Hie clrcimi atancc," 1 ventured. "Hut tell me, you keep aevenil clerka III addition to Hart ley T "Ve; four other." "At what time do they leave'" "Six o'clock." "When do you lix k up'" "AldUtl tl.'.VI or aeven." "Votl lock Jour difk and the olhVe lNir?" "Vea." "DtM-a anyone bcnldce youraclf oa. ft- keya of either?" "Hartley doc, of loth." "And you aay he alccM on I he prem- "Vea.M "No one elae?" "MyaeJf." "Bm jwi do not live here, Mr. Bridg north f "Quite m. My mittenee la on tJM ootafctrta of tto town, bat for mtotI ntglMi l -hart bUM sbMplBC ttw "in order to catch the thief if I Hueried. "Indeed, that waa not my motive, at 11," eaid the lawyer, quickly. "And aa a matter of fact the robberies have only occurred aince my sojourn Id the place; they never once happened before." "Very likely. But, aaaumlng that Hartley la the thief, can you auggeat a motive for hi pilfering?" I axked. "None whatever," was the reply. "AVhat kind of a life doe he lend? Steady r "Nolaxly mote so." "UoeKii't let nor gamble?" "Neither, to my kuowlidge. He la engajretl to a very nwpectable girl, and I know, 118 a fact, that he Hhortly con teuipUito hoiiMekeeplng." "Ah! there la a motive for pilfering, I said, with a ahrug of the HbouUlera. "How ao?" ake the ullc itor. "M'hy. a hojiae rwiuirea furnHure and funilliire ctmta money," I aald. "Then you think that Hartley la help ing himself to my cah in order to fit up hia boiwcT nald Mr. Bridgnorth, sadly. "It look reimtrkably like It," I re plied. "But we Hhnll probably we. Of conrwe, you have not charged him with the tueftx?" "No, for I cannot perwunde rnyxelf of hia guilt." "And he hua no knowledge of the ob ject of my vlalt?" "None, ao far aa I am aware." "Very well, let him keep In the dark for the pnwnt. Meanwhile, ran you tell me your object In ideeplng on thene premises the liiat few night?' "Well," nb id Mr. Bridgnorth, alowly; "It la thla. For aome little time 1 have found myaelf out of aorta. There la nothing really the matter with me, that I know of, but I have been apendlng a kit of refitleKt nJghta, either gotHng no aleep at all, or only eufnclent to do me little good. I'nder the Impreiwion that a change of nprtrtmenfa la aometimea a remedy for mwonmla, I de-lded, na 1 am a lrheor and have only myaelf to pleaaa, that for a night or two I would aleop here, where there la plenty of room and ample acfiommodatlon.'' "1 aee." "Well," went on the aollrltor, "the change answered admirably. From the very nrat night I slept aotindly. ave for aome poraiMeiM dreaming, which night ly hattnta me nnd leaven me notnewhat unrefrth(Hl iu the iiKirnlng. The old woman who come In to do for Hartley finds It little extra work to prejmre a dormitory for me, so I have remained for the prenofil. Thla l the explana tion. "Thank you, 1r. We will now try and run thla thief to earth. What I propose la very simple. Kind me a hiding place hen' to-night -a screen or a cupboard will do, for I am used to cramped quarters and I will see what la to be seen. Ijock your desk and door aa usual, but provide me with a key of the latter for ue if needful." Mr. Bridgnorth agreed, and sltortly after I took my departure. As I jajsaed through the outer room I got a look at the clerks, and In partlcubir at Hartley, which I was enabled lo do without ex citing suspicion. Judging from appear ances the fellow looked like anything but a thief, having n frank, open conn-tennm-e. and lurking altogether that shriftlnesa of rMon characteristic of 1 moM every rogue. Aware, however, that Ihere Is msthlng mora deceptive than externals. I went away llMle doubting that Hartley wan my man. Ite that evening 1 presented myself at Mr. Bridgnorth's door and was re ceived by thnt gentleman In person. The office wns closed, the clerk had all gone home, and Hartley was out, pre sumably love-muklng. Mr. Bridgnorth found little difficulty In securing nie a rot nut behind a caMnet w hich stood In one comer of the office, and here I en sconced myself with ns much iumfort as the clrcuumlances permitted. At K:.'Wl the solicitor ri-tlred. liK-king With his desk ii nd the office door Ix-forc going uiwtilrs. ,'iiul providing nie wilh a duplicate key of the latter, .is 1 had desin'd. Hartley would be home he lc foruied me, alxuit 11 o'clock, nnd would doubtless go straight to his room. The lawyer's estimate proved i-oriect, for nlmoMt exaclly on the stroke of the hour II key Hulled in the lock of the otfter door n ml the confident In I clerk entered. He hud no occasion lo come Into ilu oflice In order to reorh his iiiiirtnienl. but on Ills way pant he paused (i moineui and trie) iu. Imndli of tl.e door, Mild linding ll faslencil went on his way. A minute later I heard the dosing of his chamber door and my watch liegnii. The time passed slowly away. Twelve o'clock struck, then 1 nnd -', and I had begun to think that my vigil would ts In vain, when In the stillness of the night I Iwnrd a dr softly o'ii ed alsvc nnd a cautious fiMtstcp slowly diweiul the slnlrs. It paused at the foot of them, close fo the dsr of the room In which I lay hid. and I next heard the Jingling of a bunch of keys, aa If the Kssessor of them were select ing the right one to fit the Us'k. A mo ment later the portal opened nnd the pilferer entered. ,!Tie place was lo darkness and I had to train my eye to watch hia move menta. The lantern I had with me I did not dew! re to use nntll the right mo ment, for It wim my hope to rapture the Mf In the very get of hia larceny. I bad not vary long to wait. Wrapped In kmg fowa Bad without choaa on hit fwt, tto pttfMw flitted tealthlly to Its dank, and trrJnf kajr Into th lock Ufted the M. He then open the caaft box and took out aome of the coins. . Now was my time. Slipping from' my biding place I turned on my lantern and confronted the culprit. As I did M I gave stare of surprise, for the man I encouAtered was Mr. Bridgnorth him. aelf, and I could tell by hia closed eyei that he was fat asleep, and, of course, quite unaware of what he was doing. J Seeing that the light from my lantern bothered him somewhat (for he paaaed J Ms hand several times dreamily acroe j hia face), 1 replaced the shade and th ' souiuHmbullut at ouoe closed and faU ened the desk, and then walked out of the office, locking the door behind him, Noiselessly I reopened It, ami followed him. He retraced hia trteps up the stairs, and. going to a cupboard on the landing, stooped down, rummaging a aecond oi two among some old rubbish at the bot tom, and seeming to deposit hia coins there. He entered a chamber adjoin ing. Peering cautiously Into this, I saw ! the sleeper divest hjmself of hia gown and get unconsciously Into the lsd be had a few minutes before left. Well, Samison," said Mr. Bridg north, when he came down the next morning, "what la the result of your watching? Have you discovered tn thief?" "I think I have, air," was the reply. "And it is-ls It Hartley?" Inquired the solicitor, anxiously. "No, sir, it is not Hartley," I said. "Tlwuik od for that!" ejaculated, the lawyer, fervently, aa If the statement of the fact relieved him. "But, then," he aked with some surprise, "who is the culprit?" "Before I tell you that," I replied, "kindly see how much you have boon roblifd of during the night" He went to his desk, counted over tb coins, and said: "Four pounds!" "That makes In all '!" I queried "Fifty-nine!" "(lorne with me, Mr. Bridgnorth," I said. "I should not be surprised If I can put yon in possession of your money !" With a puzzled air the lawyer fol lowed me up the stairs to the cupboard I have mentioned, the door of wMeh I opened. A pahied expression came over the man's fare as he watched me. "How strange!" be murmured, half to himself, half to me. "I have been dreaming every night of thla recess In connexion with these pllferlngs, and the things InMide, it all seem familiar to me, though 1 have never once seen tbem before!" "Stoop down, sir, and feel In that cor ner," I said. He did ns I bade, and drew out sov ereign after sovereign. "Count them," I sold, when lie bod got all that be could find. "Fifty-nine!" he exclaimed, going over the pieces one by one. "The exact amount of my losses!" ".lust so," I said, "ami now, If yon, will come Iwck to the oflle, I will telj you who Is the tbief before Hartley comes down." We returned to his room ami there Informed him, to Iris intenae aMtouiahi meiif, of whnt I had witnessed. "It you will pardon the liberty, sir," I said, at the corvclisoon of the narration, "i should advise you to see a doctor. You are evidently atiffeting from some mental affection which, if neglected, may develop Into a disease the effe! of which you nnot foresee." The lawyer acted upon my sugges tion and called In a seciaMni. who or- . dered hltu a prolonged rwt. A trying ; ami complicated case In which he has ' lsen recently engaged had npimrcully ! proved too much for him and brought on this s-ctillar form of bruin trouble.1 When last I heard of him he had re- j turned, seemingly quite restored, nnd Hartley, his confidential clerk, niar. rled to a charming wife, was hIhuiI to U taken into partnership with him.- ' Tit Hits. Druggist I to Date. 1 1 irii.'glts keep alsiul hs eme watch of I he season as any people In the world When the spring days appear and la dies are thinking of putting a way tlnir furs the drug store windows suddenly fill wilh moth balls, powders and pre parations w arranti-d to knock the ssi's off a moth at forty rods. When the sun gel up u lilile higher the moth twills disappear ami tan and freckle lotions and preventives for mosUlto nnd fly annoyances fake I be public eye. When the blazing heat of summer Is wilh us. cool soda with pure frull syrup slns nestle up ngaitial corn remedies and . root lieer packages. The fall comes ' on and then the cough lozenge Is hatch-! ed. Alongside It re sure cures for la gr!pM, cobls, Influenza and toothache. ' while hot soda steams mid sizzles at your asking. Horning MeteoraT j It Is supHised that meteors begin lo burn when 'hey are within alKut J2.1 miles of tb- earth, and thnl combustion Is completed ami I bey disappear at from thirty-five lo fifty miles aoove tht earth. When we see a falling star,1 therefore, we may consider that ws have watched It through a flight of about W) miles before It. Anally burns cut nnd disappears from view. U4la Ink.. India Ink rs made by somn acrst pra cess whhh la closely gnsrded by Its la ventnr. the f!hlness STYLES IN SLEEVES NOW MORE BEAUTIFUL EVER BEFORE. THAN Tarda sad Tarda af Material Are tJaed Is Drapiaa Klaboratian la Ornate at the Haad-Laces, Frllla, Ixopa and Funnel-shaped CuflV Weekly Faahloa Letter. New York eorrfapoadeoce: that art na ever done toward beautlfyiDg dress sleeves is now drawn upon, and the result of this draft upon many years of past fash ions Is that sleeve are now more beau tiful than ever be fore. The contour of the arm la sug gested from wrist to shoulder, and no ugly and preposter ous outline is made by stlffenened protuberances. Yet yards and yards of material are used in the draping of the arm's natural taper from shoulder to wrist. At the hand the elaboration of the sleeve is ornate. The most beautiful laces, frill ing, loops, funnel shaping of the cuff, slashing and so on, appear here, any thing to add to the apparent length of the arm and to emphasise the grace of the hand, whether It has any grace of itself or not. Sleeves, as a rule, from the bouse gown to the street garment, are tin- Ished with some elaboration at the wrist, delicate lace for the house dress, a rich fringe of tails or a cuff of fur for the street tig. But while but few sleeves are left plain at the wiistx, a great many are entirely plain from tlx.' wrist elaboration to the shoulder wherw finish Is given by the neck accessory, which often la extended into epaulettes or frills that fall over the shoulders. Or, perhaps the finish at the annhole of the popular lolero serves to give the required apread at the shoulder, for onr dainty women refuse to like the perfectly plain sleeve and rounded shoulder. There are. liowever, but few general rules, for the sam freedom of choice that now prevails In other dress mat ters holds In sieves, and there's no end to the original designs. Iu the first pic ture la a pretty one. itself an excep tion to one of the few general rules, In that there I no ornamentation at the wrists. These sleeves were of the ma terial of the bolero, faille shot with steel, pink and mauve, and were wrin kled from wrists to puffs, the latter lielng caught up on to the shoulders. This made the puffs, which were really small, look somewhat full because much of what little fullness there was was pushed up above the shoulder line. This Is quite ns usual as the absence of wrist llnish. since be the cuff large i.ar rt rra for trek pats. or small It rarely la permitted to lis above the abonlder, Walts aUk em broidery edged tbla bolero, a&d It was revered with a lattice-work embrekWry f rati -colored apaidaa. Beneath It a blouse ef acsordiea-pleated PUFFS 0A1KCD 11 T SLABPING. moussellue de soie, which was slightly bagged and was threaded with narrow black velvet ribbon. More according to set rules as to out line and wrist finish were the sleeves of the next' gown to have the artist's attention, but with those points passed, all conventionality ended. Their ma terial was that of the dress skirt -black satin, but wide slashes that be gan Just above the elbow, were filled with full puffs of white chiffon. White chiffon covered the white satin bodice. Its stock collar being to match and TBIMMEO SOLEI.T FOR TBI HA. IP'S 6AKK black velvet giving Its peasant girdle. The ornate bolero was white satin or namented with silk embroidery and edged with rich lace. Similar silts to these are frequently made for purposes of ' elaboration, but even though they should have the exact slse and location of those Just describ ed it would not bring dose resemblance between the two patterns, proving thla was a velvet sleeve silt from the top of the shoulder to the elbow, the edges falling away to show close fitting under sleeve of satin. At the elbow the velvet sleeve was close to the wrist, where It spread In a funnel cuff, the satin Inner sleeve being here sug gest ed by a close wrist band. Now and then slashes come below the elbow, and It was an Ingenious pre tense of this that was used on a satin sleeve made to fit skin tight except for little lengthwise puff of the material that ran on the Inside of the arm from under the shoulder to the wrist. Un der this puff was a bit of delicate elas tic which allowed the sleeve to give to the arm and yet hold the skin fit. This model adapts Itself charmingly to chif fon sleeves, the elastic being concealed under satin ribbon. Thus the chiffon may be laid in many folds from wrist to shoul der and fit around the arm very closely, yet not tear out at the elbow and under the muscle of the tipper arm at every move. Another lovely sleeve for the chiffon bodice still so popular Is made on a tight foundation of satin. The chiffon Is ariiingi i' n a scries of fluffy frills, tapering from cuiuiilerahle width at the shoulder to n mere edge at the ' wrist, and spreading :i;:;iiu over the lin ml. Elbow sleeves are still seen, .and would be more worn were they easier to prepare In a novel milliner. On the theater waisl of this third sketch '.here were puffs thai now count as large i think of that and then recall whnt we wore two years ago! These puffs end- j ed half way from shoulder to elbow, I where a fitted section was made by ' shirriugs Hint ended In a ruffle. Hut! you'll see a great many sleeves that! are entirely plain but for a tiny bit i of ornamentation for the hand's sake.' In the next picture are sleeves of this sort, and -while the dross seems sim plicity Itself, 11 was planned to do serv-j Ice ns n reception and calling rig. Of all these pictured sleeves the final two are the ones that make the least con-1 cession to the new styles. Yet thougb they are full, they conform to the cor rect outlines. Cnpy right. IKH7. A 1'rodlKtoua Memory, Spinster of Uncertain Years (to younn. debutante) I retnemlier well, my dear, what a senestlou l produced when I made my debut la society. Why, H seems only yesterday. Young Dnbutante (tanoreotly) Ah, what a conquest ef memory over years! DM yon know Gen. Putnam of fne rev- olnt1oa?-Texss MftlMp. width rao.M tinnier: trimming. KUBLAI KHAN. The Bcv elt of Nayaa, a Great Chief, Aitainat Hi Nephew. Now this Cublay Kaan is of the right Imperial lineage, being descended from Chingis Kaan, the nrtst sovereign of all the Tartars. And he Is the sixth Iord i that succession, as I have al ready tUd you In this book. He cane to the throne in the year 12M, and the Emplr fell to him because of hia abil ity ami valor and great worth, as was rlgbt Cud reason. His brothers, la deed, and other kinsmen dksputed his claim, but his It remalued, both be cause maintained by his great valor, and bm-ause it was In law and right his, at being directly sprung of the Imperial line. I'p to the year now running, to wit, 12ft8, he hath reigned two and forty years, and his age Is about 85, yo that he mifst have been about 43 years of age vrtien he first came to the throne. Before that time he had often been to tar wars, and had shown himself a gallAnt soldier and an excellent cap tain. But after coming to the throne he never west to the wars In person, save once. This befell In the year 1286, and I will tell you how he went. There was a great Tartar Chief, whose name was Nayan, a young man of 30, Iord over many lands and many provinces, and he was rnele to the Kmperor Cublay Kaon, of whom we are speaking. And when he found himself In authority this Nayan waxed proud In the Insolence of his youth and his great power; for indeed he could bring Into the field 300,000 horsemen, though oil the time he was liegeman to his nephew, the (ireat Kaan Cublay, as was right and reason. Seeing, then, what great power he had, he took It Into his head that he would be the Great Kaan's vassal no longer; nay, more, he would fain wrest his empire from him If be could. So this Nayan sent envoys to another Tartar Prince called Oaldii. also a great and potent Lord, who wan a kinsman of his, and who was a nephew of the Great Kaan and his lawful liegeman also, though he was in rebellion and bitter enmity with his sovereign Lord and Ui'cle. Now the message that Nayan sent was this: That he himself was making ready to march against the Great Kaan with all his forces (which were great), and he begged Caidu to do like wise from his side, so that by attack ing Otiblay on two sides at once with such great forces they would be able to wrest his dominion from him. And when Caidu heard the message of Nayan, he was right glad thereat, nnd thought the time was come at last to gain his object. So he sent back answer that he would do as requested; and got ready his host, which mus tered a good hundred thousand horse ment. "The True Story of Marco Tolo," St. Nicholas. The Capture of an Orchid. Among the flowers of tropical lands none are more pristed for their beauti ful and curious forms and fragrant scent than the orchids, which grow in all sorts of odd places, but mostly oa the ground, or perched high up among the branches of the trees. The orchids of the (Julana forest! provide a home for the black ant--"tm, gratis and for nothing." Why? Because they prey ujon th cockroaches, which would otherwise detyroy the plant by eating up Its Juici est portions. So that when a human orchid-huntei trU to capture a plant, he has to reck od with thousands of tiny foes thai firtt to the very . liter the plant has been dislodged fryi the tree no easy task it is usu al attach It to a long bamboo pols ur."( throw it Into the river, unril the aOsi are thoroughly washed out of it. nd all the time the boat has to be kept up stream and the pole carefully wlttched lest the ants come aboard. 3y-aud-by the Insects confess them staves beaten, and the orchid-seeker retires with his dearly won prize. Mind and Health. The mental condition nas far more Influence upon the bodily health than ! generally supposed. It is no doubt tr'oc that ailments of the body cause (('"pressing and morbid conditions of tke mind, but It Is no less true that sorrowful and disagreeable emotions pjoduce disease in persons who, unin fluenced by them, would be In sound h.-nlth; or, if disease. Is not produced, Ite functions are disordered. Agreeable emotions set In motion nsrvous currents which stimulate b'iiHid. brain, and every part of the sys fm Into healthful activity; while grief. disapiMilntnient of feeling, and brooding over present sorrows or past mistakes depress all the vital forces. Tu be physically well one must, In gen eral, be happy. The reverse Is not al ways true; one may be happy and cheerful, and yet be a constant sufferer In body. The Turtle Formerly the turtle was taken by means of harpoons or spears; but thla process Injured the creature. It la now taken In nets or raptured upon the beach. Certain fishermen prefer to dive and take the animal by haad, Imt when tk reptile Is powerful this la not accomyUabed without some difficulty. M leery may leva company, but peo ple de uot, 5 i