The Sioux County journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1888-1899, May 05, 1898, Image 6
'Ibattteoh 3ournal. aao. a. caaua. m rnp. III, Onions bring lnt0 Mexico millions of ollars a year, besides many stvurs. The balance of trade seems to be in favor of Halifax when she give port tor La Champagne. This new carpet trust Is only In a line with others that run up price, la other words, rt Is nothing new on the carpet. The national debt Is now $13.41 for each person, and to avoid further trou ble kindly call and make arrangements for settling. The output of umbrellas In the Uni ted States has reached an average of 240,000 a week. This Is preparing for a rainy day and no mistake. Ttoe Kansas City Journal says: "Mr. Ptvecoais lives In Anderson County and Mr. Few close In Cowley County, Kansas. " Why not arrange a pair? Recently the record of a single night's ailing ot an American steamer beat the day run of an Italian railroad train. Thug the American night run beat the Italian dago. When a man sees his wife really an gry he says it is foolish to lose her tem per like that; when he gets the same way himself he says there is a point where patience ceases to be a virtue. Dr. Mary Walker has bn refused ad mission into the society known as the Daughters of the American Revolu tion because she wears trousers. Why doesn't Mary now join the Patriotic Sons of America? A man in Syracuse says he learned Id a dream the other night Just bow to build a "perpetual motion" machine. That fellow evidently has all the nec essary qualifications for a good Key West correspondent. Queen Victoria Is not yet 80, and she in pretty good health. This spring ber eldest great grandchild, the Prin pess Feodore of Saie-Metningen, Is to e married, and it Is by no means un likely that the queen may yet become that very venerable and exceptional personage, a living great-great-grand-mother. The humor of the situation in Africa Impresses Itself forcibly. Two thieves break Into a farmer's orchard. When k comes to gathering the stolen fruit one claims priority, because he got over the fence first. The other demurs be cause he put up a little imaginary fence f his own to define the boundary line sf the first -thief's domain. In these Strange ethics the owner of the orchard tee no status. If the time cornea when war Is neces sary the quiet, earnest American ctti sens will go to the front and do the lighting as they always have. And there will be some who will stay home and get rich selling whisky ami sup plies to the Government, as men of their thrifty habits have done in the past. Then when the war te over we'll have a new codfish aristocracy, btiilded on riches accumulated by these same thrifty patriots In trafficking with the Federal Government. Irrigation of white men's farms has o drained the Gila River on which the Pima Indians depend for water that they are In a condition verging on star vation: There are 4,000 of these In dians In Arlaona whose farms have been made unproductive by the drain ing of their river. The neighboring Ptpagoea are stealing to keep them selves alive, and It would be cheaper for Congress to make the appropriation for a reservoir to water the Pimas' farms than to try to feed them or pun bib them when they become mutinous under their wrongs. A young college girl with comtoon sense sod a taste for mathematics, list ened one oay to two older women talk lag of their privileges as colonial aames, and resenting the claims of cer tain acquaintances who had no "an ueahsi " "How many ancestors may a parson have, going back twenty gen tnrttons?" she asked. "I have Just seen working It ont" HA good many, I suppose,'' was the reply. "Yes," she angbed back, "something over a mill tan. Sorely among so many we must all average about alike In distinction. Rarely! toe occasional absurd I lies of saredisary patriotic societies to the con trary notwithstanding. TkaM Is a mors tototersble nuisance la the theater than the big bat. This anlsaaci Is tks late comer. Sometimes bs Is aJoae; bs baa dined heavily; be has bssn lats la deciding where to go; Im ssanterc Msarely down the aisle; bis ssat Is at least six places from the aksls; bs apologises loudly and ateps carefully oa male sad female feet Or as Is oa sf a theater party. He and Us friends cobs In the fully glory of venlng dfssa, but tbey come late. Titers are people on the stage, but the theater party does not see them as It sulsta- nor do those seated near them until the party, with much ceremony. Is seated. Press Hires pond ence from Washing- that she Asjrlcaltural Deaart say that their great trouble ', la esaascHus wttb ths beetaogar IB te kasa asopl from rosb- a tas project, wttare It Is sjaisX Mac saecass eaaaat crown Ctir eCsr aa4 that ssat eapaotat asaatt aaf fcSm irOiasalt. Tas beet tion of a craze in many sertlons, and, while the department oftidata have un bounded faith in the ability of the United Srat-s to produce ail the bee-tan gar necessary to supply our entire population, they say that there are comparatively small area In which very high per Perils of sugar can lie grown, and that the trouble lies In peo ple insisting upon going into the busi ness In sections where it is known that the beets grown will not contain a suf ficient percentage of saccharine to re-i turn a profitable Investment. The sta tistics for the sugar consumption In the United States Just published. huv, however, that there Is a vast field for the production of this crop and that there is no fear that there can be an "overproduction" for many years to come. The su'ar consumed in 'he United States during 1VC reached the enormous total of ltCI.routOo pounds, or over 1,imi,uihi tons, showing the very large increase over is: to of i.'72.:i.'Vl,o1" pounds. Of tnis total consumption, only 41.0HO tons was from lui-w grows i. this iiiuntry. 'Hie total United States production of sugar, including beet, cane, maple-sugar and sorghum, was X;t',.ifK) tons, lea vine a total of 1.7(i),ixni tons, or f!..y'l.fHii,(io pounds to be purchased abroad. This Is what the Agricultural Department wants to see raised at home, and their only fear Is that attempts will be made to estab lish factories, at large cost. In sections where the beets raised produce so low a percentage of sugar as to Je unable to compete with localities more favored by reason of rainfall, climatic condi tions, etc. If there were tn France to-day a strong, brave, self-reliant man, wit3i abilrlics as a leader, it is doubtful if the republic would be able to exist a month. It is no secret that the fore that has held the republic tojfphT f-.r the hist four or five ycarw has been the national pride and confidence in the anny. The trial and conviction of Dreyfus made the people suspicious of the integrity of some of the officers, who, it was supposed, were selling -"Hilary secret to the Germans. The prin cipal effect of this was to create an In tense a ntl -Semitic feejing In all of Prance. The fact that Dreyfus was a Jew resulted In a radical prejudice that came nar breaking out Into genenU violence and bloodshed. The French people had not lost confidence In the army; they bad conceived an intcti.se animosity against fie Jems. But when Zola, In whom the better classes In France had confidence, took up the causeof Dreyfus.andmade an open and positive assault on the Integrity of tfie army and the character of some of the highest military officers in France, the people were stmply stunned for the time. The populace generally took sides against Zxila. while buck of liira was the conservative element of the country. For Ws charges, upon which be fearlessly defied the tate to try b!m, he has been convlctod and sentenced. The trial at Zola has made maWcrs worse than they were before, for, wliile he Is under sentence, there are many people In France who believe be has ben sacrificed for the purpe of cov ering up irregularities In the army tbait the government dares not have ex posed. As It now stands, the large ma jority of the French people have lt confident In the army and they are only half-hearted republicans at le-st. The conviction of Zola hits created he terrible su.-ipiclon In the minds of the Frencfh people that Dreyfus was Uhe victim of military treachery, and tnat Zola Is punished for exposing a danger ous condition of affairs In the army. If a Louis Najioleon were In France the present system of government might be shattered to atoms In a nigbt and a monarchy established In 18 place. We should say that the virtue tn thrift, so far as there Is virtue In it and we have mot with It In some of the meanest as well as some of the noblest of mankind lay In the development which the jrractiee must give to the power of self-control. There are many higher occasions for the exercise of that high quality, but there are none, except In the case of 111 -tempered men, which recur so frequently. All men naturally like to spend, and to ! thrifty the resolve not to spend when ever expenditure Is avoidable must be acted on twenty times a week, and will In a short t.me exercise a perceptible Influence on the character. The man learns to resist momentary temptation, and becomes, therefore, a stronger man, Just as a whitj man becomes more enduring from the constant wearing of clothes. The weight of clothes 1s sel dom great, but the perpetual habit of carrying them almost Imperceptibly strengthen the muscles. The thrifty man Is more master of himself than the eitravagnnt man, and In self-mastery is one most fertile seed of virtue. But thrift In Itself Is not virtue any more than s plough Is agriculture or mathe matics accuracy of thought. The liest test of this Is that a Christian teacher, who In England would Inculcate thrift, would In many another country be com pelled to condemn It as of all qualities the one Which roost Interfered with freedom of the spirit. Now a virtus which Is a real virtue, and not merely an expedient practice, must be as In dependent of national manners as of geography. No dontt In England ths use of carefulness needs to be Incul cated, the typical Englishman, If he wants sjiarrows, being ready to shy at them with half-crowns; but It should be taught as arithmetic .s taught. Cot praised as s Curtetlan virtue. The two most thrifty people msntioned In ths New Testament are Ananias and Sap phi ra. aad their Shrlftlne was con sidered worthy of death. They were thrifty, na doubt, a the wrong time and In the wrong way, but still they were thrifty, sad It wss not counted ts then for virtue. A DtU lass reluctance te radar their balsace would la tasto eass at least bars beaa she ! ' nam , Tr ' ' mm art aVKi f. Tv ft - -V W vl L- mm T. UV U m SAVED THE TRAIN. KANK GREEK was a railroad crossing on the S. C. Rail road, about two miics from the divisional terminal at Mercer. It was In the midst of a scrubby pine forest, with a sandy road crooking out from the tree on one side and into the trees on the other. There were only two or three bouses, a tiuie general store with a porch like the visor of a military tup. and a nohoolhou.se, all arranged In a scraggy row along the railroad track. A dozen trains whirled through Kane Creek every day w ith only a shriek of gri--!ing and a whipping wake of tine sui.d. U:iiy two of them paid tlie slight est attention to the girl in a blue ging-i hum drcs who Mood In the little ob-, serration window, one of them was' the way freight, which stojsxid at Kane every lime It came along while the conductor banded the glri a bundle of yellow pnrw and welved another like It In return. The other was the night express, westward liound, from St. Paul, and running at forty mlb an hour. It was a splendid train- ten cars, with the finest engine on the road, big No. Hi. As its glaring eye flashed anmnd the bend In the direction of Mercer the girl in the gingham dress often thought of the great train as a powerful and ferocious beast snorting ud roaring westward on a race with the sun. and she knew the band that trained it. When the trjln was a mile away there were always two blasts of the whistle. Kvery one in Kane thought they meant simply "Wake up, look out!" for that Is what all locomo tives ay at every crossing, but the girl Id the gingham dress beard "Heir'). Polly!" and darted out on the platform and waved h-r handkerchief. As the great train thundered nearer a band was thrust from the engineer's win dow, and. although it was usually diirk, 1 she conid see the flutter of something white, and oftentimes as the engine ; darted pom the station she heard tlie blurred sound of a voice and caught a glimpse of a grimy face and a bhie Jntn Jacket, a ml then she went Iwck to her; place in the little station with a sigh of ; contentment. For it was a moment of great Joy to tried to warn her and fulled. Kobbers Tolly Marshall when her father's en-. ha1 held up the train and were pre glne w e-nt through. Polly wa.s the ata-' paring to rob the express ear. tion agent at Kane Creek. Any one; For a moment Polly was torn with couid have told tht a woman presided doubt and terror. Had they shot her In the little depot, for was there not al j father? She knew that he never would ways a bouquet In the window and ' submit to have his train captured w lth rtninty pictures surrounding the grimy out a struggle. Should she go to hlmJ time tables on the walls and a kitten! Then she remembered her station and curling upon the doorstep? At 17 Polly j the telegraph, and, without a moment's has gone In as assistant to leairn teleg-l raphy, and when Clark, the agent, was called to Mercer the company bad left the independent girl In charge. She and her father lived In one of the wooden houses a stone's throw back from the dejwt, and since Polly's mo4h er died tbey had been everything to each other. F.nglneer Marshall was a big, allam man, and his companions, some of them, thought him gruff and 111 -tempered, but to Polly he was always as tender as a kitten. Often when she was a little girl he took her with him to Mercer on Wa engine, and while she sat on bis black leacthcr seat at the rah window, dlngtne on with both hands, be explained to ber how the big black creature under them was started and stopped; what this brass crank wss for. and how, when the engine squeaked here or squaeked there, a lit tle oil was needed In this cup or In that crevice, and Polly had learned to know an engine as well as she knew the neat little pantry In the house at home. In deed, be bad more than once managed the levers and throttle, although It was ery heavy work for a girl to do. It was one night late In the fall that Polly Marshall had need of all ber knowledge of englnss. She waa sitting at ber desk In the little observation window, a shaded light throwing Its rays down on her telegraph Instru ments and the aoanding key clicking sleepily. Suddenly she was startled by the call of her number. Instantly her fingers sought the keys, and she gave the answer that signified that she as all attention. "Look out for " clicked the sonnd- er, and then It suddenly ceased, and . ry as she would Polly could get no (uriner communication from the sta tion next to the eastward. What could the trouble be? Polly sprang to ber feet, remembering that ths Bight ex press of which ber father was the engine-r was the next train due. Gould anything be the matter? Rhs raa oat sa the dark platform to see that bar lights were all In plsos sod that ths switches were properly set, sa that ths txp"as would slip psst ths station airassat an scHdent. she want hack aad called np Maner. "Oaa't you gat Pteckoes-r' aas askssk &m&zs .1 S I saw sss. - - 111? r! m Eent her the wanting dispatch so iiiys brious lnterru)tel. She knew the ope rator at Pinckney well. Kvery night he toid her of the approacli of her ratn er's train and whether or not It had left his station on time. "Pinckney iiilet. Can't get answer," was the renrt of the wires. "What's the trouble?" Polly answered as well as iie could, and Mercer made another attempt to arouse Pinckney. Her father's train was now due. It should be whistling cheerily at (he lower bend. Polly stepped out on the platform and peered up the track. Yes. there was the familiar headlight She would have known It among n hun dred. Then came lhe whistle. "Hello, Polly:" and Polly ran hack Into her oflW much relieved, and sat down to warn Mercer. At that instant she beard a peculiar cracking sound that sent her heart quivering deep In her lKsom. Then there was the Mirill scream of the locomotive whistle, sudd 'tily Interrupt ed as If the hand that had drawn the lever had bee-i struck front Its place. Polly knew It was a cry of distress. It seemed to say "Help"' In a long, tremulous wall. In-tantly Polly dart ed outside aud flew up the '.rack. Al- ready the express should have thun dered past the station, but she could see Its headlight a hundred yards or more away. With a hundred terrifying question Hashing through her mind. Polly ran on through the gloom. When she was almost within range of the big head light, she saw half it dozen armed men swarming around the engine, she heard fierce oaths, and then the engine start- ed up again. She saw Id an Instant that It had been cut free from the train. In the cab window, where hpr father usually stood, there was a big, unfa miliar figure managing the lever and thnrttle. Terrified Polly sprang to one side Into a clump of bu-hes. As the locomu'lvp passed her on its, way up t..c U'.i i. -!:' -.sw that the man in the cab woiv a M.n-ii mak on his face, and tiien she knew what had happened. She understood why PIncknev had delay, she was flying down the track toward the depot. She would end for "help to Mercer, but squarely In front of the little depot the locomotive stoped, and the black masked man cprang from the cab window aud darted across the platform. Hardly thinking what she was doing, Polly ran up on the other side the fireman's side of the engine and, raising herself up, jieered Into the cab. She had half expected to see her father's dead body lying on the floor, for she bad heard much about the ter rible doings of train robbers. Through the cab window she could see the robber sitting at her own little desk In the depot sending a message. It flashed over her all at once that be was wiring Mercer that (lie express was delayed, thus preventing any alarm. The robber bad pushed np his mak, and site saw him plainly. What should she do? She dared not enter the office, and she, a mere girl, could be of no service where the rob bers were making thHr attack on the train. If only she had the little revol ver that lay In the drawer of her desk! She set her teeth as she thought what she would do with It. At that moment three shots rang out, clear and Istinct, from the detached train. The msn at the telegraph In strument sprang to his feet ami ran to a side window In the waiting room and looked up the track. Now was ber chance. Hardly tlilnk Ink what she did Polly sprang to the engineer's cab, threw lsick the reverse lever and opened the throttle steadily. The big steel wheel began to turn, very slowly at first. Farther and far ther the throttle opened and faster and ,,,. tt) ,, H , m DOt g(J Uf fu, ,0 HJ Polly, who was now glancing fearfully over ber shoulder. Suddenly tb depot door wss thrown open, and she saw the robber darting np the track, fie had a pistol In his hand. He was pointing It at ber and shouting for her to stop, but the engine was now going st good speed, sod, run s he would, ths roib could not catc It, hut he stoppsd aad fired, the bullet ripping throngs Mis cab over PoHy's Ths casta was saw tsartac daws that It must be .-ed or It would not go far, and so, leading tlie throttle tqicn, she sprang to the coal jilt, flung open the flrehole, and with the heavy snovel in ber small white hand threw In loud after load of col. When she returned to her plai-e she could see the first sig nal light of Mercer already blinking into view. She pulled down on the whistle cord and the eng ne shrieked Its distress. Five minutes later Polly strained at the heavy reverse lever, turned hard on the airbrake and brought the great Iron horse to a sudden standstill. How she ever managed to stammer the story she never knew, but In a few minutes the engine was headed back wijb a half dozen armed men aboard of her. Behind them came another load of men on a switch engine and two men were racing up the street of Mercer calling the alarm. They heard the firing beforo reached Kane Creek, but it ceased soon afterward. The robbers had gone. Tbey bad taken with them much plun der from the passengers, hut they bud not been able to get into the express safe, although they were at wor't drill ing it open when relief came. From the time that the engine stopped Polly was missing. When the rescued and excited passengers and ex press messengers began to crowd around and inquire, the Mercer men rememliered her. A parly of them went out to find the girl who had trough! help to the beleaguered train. In a little dump of bushes they beard a man moaning, and an instant later they saw Polly kneeling in the sand with her father's head In her lap, cry ing bitterly, and they gathered up the brave engineer and his daughter and carried them down to the train, cheer ing all the way. Engineer Marshall was not badly hurt, and he wus able to be In Mercer when the general manager of the road thanked the blushing Polly officially and offered her a new and better posi tion in Mercer, and, of course, all the passengers and express messengers heard aliout Polly's brave deed and said a great many pleasant things about tier, but Polly, being a sensible girl, only blushed and said that she had to do It, ami that any other girl would have done the same under like circum stances. Which no one believed, of course. Later, when the robbers were cap tured, Polly was able to Identify one of them positively tbe one who had run the engine and through him the en tire party was convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary. Urooklyn Stand ard Union. DEGENERATE FRANCE. la Kverj I'a rt iculu r Mit- ! Fniltns In tbe K.cc of I ivltiziiticii. In tlie view of tbe rewt of Europe France Is seen at h'r worst since the tigur-like outburst of t!ir commune, writes Harold Frslerlck. Tlie scandal of the Panama canal corruption wss nmhlng by comparison, for thai Li'nt ed only a single case In public life. Nor was even the commune itself so bad, for then it was only Paris which went wild, and It was tie rest of France which roughly put H right. Hut In this abominable Dreyfus crime the dry rot penntes all of France, It Is easiest to describe the disease as anti-Semitism, as that Is what one sees on the surface The cheap newspapers which have the largest circulations, have been for years openly preaching de stitution to 4he Jews until they have tilled tihe weak and ill-balanced brains of their hundreds of thousands of read ers with the tnut cavnge Ideas. But in reality anti-Semitism Is a symptom ami not the disease Itself. Tbe true makidy Is degeneracy. The French are no longer aide to kce.p up with the re of the woTld under the tremendous j-traln of the pace at which contempo rary civilization moves. Tbey have broken down by the wayside. Their adults cannot adapt tSiemtelves to ths new conditions;. Their yonth are piti fully below the standard of any post generation of Frenchmen we know about. From every standpoint, numer ically, commercially, financially, men tally and spiritually, they perceive themselves dropping further and fur ther behind rhclr rivals. Nobody any longer treats French opinion with In tellectual respect F.vcn Ritssln, hav ing borrowed more of their money than they could spare, laugtbs In their faces and makes open overtures ta their enemy. U Is the disordered, in formed and more or less vehement rags st the vague perception of tbeaa things which Is the matvsr with ths Fmich masses. It needs no prophet to see that they will be mnch worse before they are better. Another Delusion. Mrs. Fadde, Faith Curlst-How Is your grandfather this morning, Brid get,? Bridget He still has the rheumatics mighty bad, mum. "You mean he thinks be hss tbs rheumstlsm. There Is no such thing as rheumatism." "Yes, mum." A few day later. "And does your grandfather stIU per sist In bis delusion tbst be has ths rheumatism?" "No, mum; the poor man thinks now that be Is dead. We burled urn ylstsr day" Mlgaa 0f the Times. With a slasd break about foursssa miles at teaata at is sow posafble ta ga In traatey ca4 from lYovldeaea, B. I, ts Nashua, N. fl., a dtetancs af essaad erabty aver 100 miles. This hi a strik ing reminder m how the a4 ever Hew Baglasd last tsa ysasa. bsstsa J lab swuat yaar rsacaaas aaasaa , wm t t He What is the us of putting thst trimming on the back of jroor hats? Do you suppose any man can sea the back of yoar ht when he meets yooT Shi No, but every womsn will when she passes me. Caged lions, tigers, pum and Jagutrs lake no notice of the men and women nasing in front of them, but if a dog lie brought anywhere near the cage they pliow their savage n iture st once. If y mi see it in the yellow journsl you sonder if it's so. I a man doesn't think right it's im-P'le-ibie for him to behave right. If a woman is ever devoid of mercy it's when she gats a uiotue in a trap. If you would fly high don't attempt to use the wings of your imagination. If the hueband mske a living by gambling tlie wife usually hss to supp rt the Umily. I! the avenge man could live his li'e . . , i - over again he would proDsoiy u bigger ioA than ever. If, as Colonel Ingersoll declares, tbe dog is man's natural companion, the new woman will have to stick to cats. He whom gook Ink nor bad Ink has no tffekt upon, it more thsn huff a hero. Ihe wicked rpread tnemm.ta use s green biy tree; it in only tne rtgnteous fiat are perekutcd. It izn't so rnutrh what men ken't do that makes them full fhort oe suckoess, as it iz what they won't do. Whv is it that we seldom see an au burned haired old maid? Why in't a grveynr1 the last meas ure a man tevirts to? Why doesn't a msn lead a double life when be is Ix-tide liiuiPell? Put the hive ner the orchard. Uncie Sam Says: This is America'i Greatest Spring Medicine. Take it How to Sharpen Your Appetite, Vitalize Your Blood, To Overcome ThatTired Feeling. Co to your druggist and get a bottle of Hood's Sarsapanlla and be gin to take It today, and realize at onca the great good it Is sure to do you. Hood's Sprsaparilla Is Amrni-n't (irsatm Spring M'Jiclne. "I saahrsd Ui lorlarM of tbs stasia wttb pruimdinf pll hroucrht on by ooutlp. tioa with a,cb I wm ftlTUotd for twenty Learn I ra urou your CASOARKT8 In ths iiotl Nawall, It,, and nrvor found anjtblns tnrqus! thm To-dy 1 am entirely re from plies sad toel Uke mr.m mn." C H.Ksitx. 1411 Jones hi .Sloui City, Is. Planum, PeleiSMa. rowat. Tuu Good. D Sea he?e Siekes. WMkea. y Srti. ISo, 3tc, Mm. ... CUMt CONSTIPATION. ... SMtof Um4i St. OlMae.Siiliiil. ttt. lit - w-ww m w vw m laa Tosseeo UsMi. SLICKER WILL KjBEP YOU DRY. aeiiiiirniiiiioi3 i that MS krp you dry is mt htti- n 7 ins nan manm SJirker. If e tar h la ar town wriie t.jr ritetofu o A. 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