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About Harrison press-journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 7, 1901)
i ! CZL tw IjlTg ht" " frw l com. Mid from tha Mat. afar. i Merit's shadow mm apnea: tba km - aaraathes nt bar vesper friamaoe art It close; JLmM yetvlar, godlik. gleams the vaaintr. U br; mti just enough ef , to fltasa Ita presence fait; thara U mm atlr A rsbto'a lullaby, a erlckat'a ehlrr Jfa avian; air In all tha traaa around. Tfcaa would I have Ufa's busy Journey ( With ahadawa sweeter than tha Clara t of day, i With muelo (oft, and In tha dappled any after after star, aa bcra and thara Mand tiidas forth to bleaa tha pilgrim old and cray. That, Ilka tha twilight, puta hla bur dans by. C. O. B. A Fcrtlrnsss. .,' BY DABNBY MARSHALL. (Copyright, 1M1: By Daily Story Pub. Co.) Ostensibly 81 was a farmer and blacksmith, and occasionally a cattle ttrover, but aa the agricultural region about blm was poor, and the pasturage though extensive was Interior, being covered chiefly with pine straw, a diet to which the cheep and cows did not take kindly and upon which with the 'perversity of dumb "critters" they re fused to fatten, the Income from even triple employment like this would seem to be necessarily limited. But genius is always superior to cir cumstances, so Emerson says, and SI exemplified the saying by always hav ing an abundance of the comforts of life and a plenty of money. His wife always appeared in a new dress at each annual protracted meeting, his beys woro store shoes, and always had powder In their gourds and shot in their pouches. As for 81 himself, he owned a breach-loading gun a drum mer might not disdain, and used jreal smokeless powd?r cartridges. His nefghbors told visiting friends from across the river In Amite county, that '81 actually paid two and a half cents piece for these, and the nelchbors beard the statement with unbounded wonder at such evidences of wealth. J When collections were taken up for ,lrtit iyi prcaclsf called "the spread Ing of the gospel of the sweet Savior among the heathen in China and the pore Catholics in New Orleans," 81 al ways put a dollar in the hat, Mrs. 'Hardsook fifty cents, the boys a dime each, and little Lodclla, the only girl life laUifly, a silver quarter, in con sequence Si passed for a deeply .e llglous man. and the parson always called him Brother Hardsook, .Nor was Si's generosity purely ec clesiastical. He had been frequently known to leave the railroad with as many as two one-gallon Jugs full ot "llcker" and arrive home with the Jugs, owing to a liberal sampling of their contents on bU own part, and a generous distribution of the same to all be met, who universally at first re fused to drink, but finally consented being as how it was Si as offered the llcker, and they would "moist a little, not as they were wlne-bibbers and gluttonous, but would take a swig for "the good of their Innards." Most of his. neighbors drank what was offered them and asked no ques tions and made no remarks. But some of them were deeply and audibly per plexed as to where SI got all this money. Certain circumstances con nected with 81 would linger in their minds and what waa worse break out on their tongues. They would com ment bow the cattle of neighbors near 81 bad a way of disappearing Just when they were "most fitten" for mar ket. But in that great unfenced coun try what was there to prevent cattle from straying? "Dumb critters." said 81, "are mighty blgglty and roaming some any bow, and will some times Just rash to their ruin." Some times also In the fall country tons near him were robbed and their safes blown open Just after the money had bees received from the town banks to pay for the Incoming cotton. It was strangs coincidence that after such robberies St bad mora money and dis tributed mora "llcker" than usual. But ft said "Ufa la full of coincidences and mystery according to the scriptures." "Leastwise," added ht. "that Is what the parson saya the Word says, and I ala't tba mas to dispute a ilcanaad minister of tha gorsepell, nor Is you nuther, neighbor?" ha would ask of bis listener as hs lovingly toyed with tba trigger of bis famous gun. "No, Indeed," replied the neighbor with alacrity, edging off a little. "I don't dispute the parson nuther you. .You air both right as fer as I knows on." . - .. ... " SUIT some folks would prove "too leaky of tongue' Ib regard to Bl's af fairs, and It waa strauge how the corn cribs and cotton bouses of these '"measly back-cappers," as 81 called them, had a habit of taking ftre In tbe dead hours of the night But one day the grand Jury actually Indicted 81 for grand larceny. He was . accused ot stealing ten head of cattle 'from Mart Bmlggles. The chief wit ness against 81 was Dune Swsrrington, a good-natured farmer too stupid to be dishonest whose farm adjoined the road over which 81 had to drive tha cattle to New Orleans. The testimony was strong tor the stste. 81 could al most hear the doors of tha penitentiary opening upon him. "It was an awful experience for a Christian," ha used to say In after years, but then he would add, "them the Lord loveth ho chases." H wont upon the stand and testified In his own behalf. He acknowledged that he told the cattle. It was trut fee was a farmer, ha said looking at tha farmer jurors, a stockman It they would. He was uneducated too. no - rajor arownd of lawyers and court -v -s. tar ha tbsvrst an honest tara- i rUao tit to e tela. est and so ha did not know much lav, but ha bus a Christian and an all lanes ana fir4 he hoped be did know what was right, if ha did not know what was lawful, -two mighty different things," he saM, "as some amongst you knows, what baa had homes elosed out under deeds 'af trust tor debts you never made and things yoo never bought" Tba sale ef tba cattle, be went on. bad coma about this way. Ha was go ing to New Orleans with a tins bard. Among than was a most likely male. "I wish' yon could bava seen blm, ledge." be said deferentially to that magnate.-"He had great shlney horns same as if they waa polished np fer powder horns, and curls Uka a city gall right down between them horns. And waa hlgb-steppln as a preacher or a railroad conductor." As he was driving this mala by Mart's pasture. Mart's heifers bad loped out and mixed with his cattle. He had called for Mart, but be could not make Mart hear. He himself had driven the heifers out of the cattle four times at least, but they Just would come back. The attractions of that male were simply terrible, no preacher was more powerful among the sisters. It looked like witchcraft or boodoo or something to him what wcrn't natural. Finally be tired out driving such contrary-minded brutes. "A man can't be expected even by the law to spend bis whole time fooling with a-pacsell of cows when he's got an honest living to make. ' Bo he wss forced to let Mart's old heifers go to thunder; but, would they believe it they had actual ly followed blm plumb to New Orleans. What was he to do with them? Leave them in the streets to be taken up and appropriated by the city folks? Not much! They already got a plenty of country folks' stuff any way by clos ing out mortgages and deeds of trust without Just miking them a present c! the finest cattle In Marlon county. So he bad been compelled to sell those heifers along with his own. Moreover he was tender of heart and could not "Don't shoot the kids, St" bear to pait them from that likely male. - It was true be had never of fered Mart the money, but he had not had time to do so. With his wire sick, and Lodelia punlng around all the time and grass just a wbooplus in his cotton, he had not been able to go over to Mart's and take the money. He was going to do so. on the very next day, when tbe sheriff bad come and Jailed him." "To show you gen tlemen," he concluded, "that I ain't got no hard feeling agin Mart, though I ain't saying be isn't treated me wrongful, I will give him the vally of them heifers here and now." With that he flung the money on the table In the court room. The Jury retired and soon brought in a verdict of not guilty. As the crowd was pouring out of the court room Si nudged Dune on the arm and said: "So, you swore agin me, did you, Dune?" "I bad to. Si; I war on oath to tell the truth." . - - "That's all right about the truth," said Si sarcastically. "We all knows you Just loves the truth. Just fattens on it And I ain't denying that the truth is a good thing In Its place, but I want to leave with you that the truth don't stop no lead." As he walked homeward Dune con cluded that a change of air would be good for bis wife's lungs. So be sold out bis little property at a sacrifice and moved to Louisiana. One night after family prayers Si's oldest boy said: "Pap, whan are you goln' to kill that hound of a Dune 8warr!ngton?" "When the crop Is laid by, Bonnie. I am too busy now to indulge In pleas ure. Business fust, my boy." One morning when the last Yarrow had been plowed, and there was no blacksmith work to be done, 81 said to bis wife: "Mammy, hand me ' my gun, I guess I've got time to kill Dune how." A two days' ride brought him to Dune's place. He slipped through tha pine brush to tbe edge ot the held where Dune was plowing. Hi slowly trudged bare-footed behind a steer that dragged a worn out plow. HI white wool hat tull of holes, flapped over bis face, bronsed and drawn, hunger and over-work written all over It Not far off Dune's largest boys were hoeing, followed by their sister, all bare-footed and ragged. Further and near tho woods vu a six year old youngster. Dune's baby chap, with a long slrader polo minding the gap In tha fence Dune had not yet had time to mand. 81 suddenly confronted him with his gun. Tsken by surprise Dune started, and trembled a little at first, but soon recovering faced bis enemy without blanching. "Don't shoot the kids, SI," was all be said. But Si replied: "Don't be nowise on easy, Dune. I have rode a hundred miles to kill you, but I guess you are worse off hero than you'd be In boll. 80 I forgives you. Fully and freely forgives you." 81 then started off, but wheeling sud denly pitched a silver dollar ever In the Bold to the ajnaced Cvse, saying: "Core, bay that air -freed r vn''l tcft C"V f!l Irti Mr cast SaiWs aa Earth. At tba Washington navy yard tha government has thai largest pair of scales In eslateatee. They will wvtgb anything up to 150 tons and. what Is equally remarkable, tbey will accur ately register tha weight ot objects so light as a single pound. Wall raid Janitors, . The school commissioners of New York City have Just mad public tbe list of Janitors of school buildings for tbe coming year. It appears that the average pay of Janitors If about one third greater than tbe average pay of teachers In the public school. Twelve Bs-Oovaraora. Vermont Invites Inspection of her twelve ex-governors as examples of how conducive the states cold winters bow conducive the state's cold winters boys have always been long lived. They don't run to flesh, but they last Senatorial fads. Several United States senators are base ball enthusiasts. Among these Mr. Clark ot Wyoming 13 one of the most ardent, while Senator Malloy of Florida was once catcher on the Georgetown college nine. A WISE PRIOOIST. pa as.Oe Ha Qaaraataei to Da That for Wbleh a Lady Offar Him 0)1 00. Kansas City, Mo., Feb. 25, 1901. (Special.) Some two years ago a lo cal druggist engaged In a transaction which was in its details somewhat re markable He was visited by M sj Anna P. Nichols, who had a doctor's prescription for rheumatism, which tbe druggist was filling. In the course of conversation the good lady said: "I would give one hundred dollars to get well." He Immediately replied: "Give mo five dollars and I wlU guarantee to cure you." ' She agreed, and he at once banded her a box of Dodd's Kidney Pills, say ing: "They are 60c a box. Two boxes may cure you, but I am quite sure that ten will." Miss Nichols tells the story as fol lows: "Dodd's Kidney Pirs are verit able life preservers. I was troubled for live years with Rheumatism, so that at times my right arm seemed paralyzed and I could on walk with difficulty, and cou'd not go ou ot doors it the air was damp or cold. I took so much medicine that I think my system was poisoned rather than helped. One day when my druggist was putting up a prescription for me I remarked to him that I would give one hundred dollars for a remedy that would make me better." " 'Give me five dollars and I will guarantee to cure you,' he said. I readily agreed and he handed me a box ot Dodd's Kidney Pills, siying, 'They are 00c a box. Two boxes may cure you, but I am sure that ten will.' I left my prescription Intact and, in stead, took these Pills, and I found them, as I said before, to be veritable life preservers. Before I had finished the second box 1 had my first perfect night's rest in years. I gradually im proved. I had determined to use the ten boxes before I would give up, but imagine my surprise to find that be fore half that quantity waa used I was completely cured. This was two years ago, and I have not had a twinge since." Miss Nichols Is Vice Grand Baxter, Rebekab Lodge I. O. O. F., and is one of the best known and most highly respected ladles In Kansas City, snd her experience will be read with Inter est by her many friends. Dodd's Kidney Pills never fall to cure Rheumatism. They are 50c a box, six boxes for 12.50. Buy them from your local dealer If you can. If be can not supply you, send to tha Dodds Hadictne) Cu., Buffalo, K. Y. Among every 70 births there is a pair of twins. I f-VA A A A 0. o Back up a sewer, and you poison the whole neighborhood. Clog up liver and bowels, and your atomach Is fun of undigested food, which ours and ferments, like garbage In a swin-barrel. That's the first step to untold misery Indigestion, foul gases, headache, furred tongue, bad breath, yellow skin, mental fears, everything that Is horrible and nauseating. CASCARETS quietly, positively stop fermentation la the stomach, make the liver lively, tone up the bowels, set the whole machinery going and keep It In order. Don't hesitate ! Take CASCARBTS to-day and be saved from suffering 1 1 ) 5 aJby' brV. wv 1 MSrf wuMaeea to trvCASCA t , I S "N. X X 1 BbBVbV I wlU Barer be without (hem In tba 'T S S S X vr sonaa. My Urar waa In a rary bad shape. obV i' S ji aa4 ssv head aabea eed I aa4 staajah trou- tj, Pi S I - 11 ' bMw paw. ataee ftaaisg Oasoarete. 1 feel Cos. i S S. I I 1 leh lay wtiraaanaed tteat with Psne&oUl meat t I ( V I ''! tmVF&., M a II V V J J SW Coajrsaa St., gt. Loans, Mo. play, I I y V! His Snaa. ! ! X CEQT FOR BOWELS AND LIVER. , ' 1 TUB B X. I f -ZCZ' J0c & !vvt Mime s&p H WE TAELET DRUGGISTS The gloomiest mountain doesn't a shadow on both sides at once. Poa't Oat roMMKl Mac roUT-KASK. A certain cure for Swollen, Smart ing, Burning, Sweating Feet, Corns and Bunions. Ask for Allen's Foot Ease, a powder. Cures Frost-bites and Chilblains. At all Druggists and Shoe Stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Ad dress Allen B. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y. In the ladder of success there are many rounds of failure. ri Thtor WeedTerOae Hundred Dollars reward for any eaaa of Catarrh that casitot be cured by HaU'a Catarrh Care. F. J. CHENEY CO.. Props.. Toledo, a We, tbe undorslgnud, have known . F. X Cheney (or tba last It yasrs and baUeva him perfectly honorable la all business transactions sad nunc tally able to oarry out any obligs tiona made by their arm. Weat A Truax. Wholesale Ttmrwimtm Tnlndn O.; Welding, Kinnao Marrta, Wholesale Dragglata, Toledo, Ohio. Hall's Hatarrb Cure Is taken Internally, aet ata direct; v upon the blood and mucous surfaces of tbe system Testimonials sent (roe, Price neper bout. Hold by allrfi-uggtate. oau a run; rail are vae peat. Ingratitude is a vice that renders all others less disgusting. It requires no experience to dye with PUTNAM FADELESS DYE3. Simply boiling your goods In the dye is all that's necessary. A long walk is a severe trial for the human understanding. Teacher What are the Belgians noted for, Willie? Willie Hares and blocks, ma am. Ask your grocer for DEFIANCE STARCH, the only 16 ox. package, for 10 cents. All other 10-cent starch con tains only 12 oz. Satisfaction guaran teed or money refunded. The bank tovel Is a sort of finan cial crash. f vu in ...... wu r, ' - ...... ...... self. Something Is always wrong. Oet It right . tm nm nnml Imnt wlttl film. One wav to kill time when there Is snow on the ground is to sleigh it. $148 will buy new Upright piano on easy payments. Write for catalogues. Schmoller & Mueller, 1313 rarnam street, Omaha. About the only thing anger Im proves is the arch of a cat's back. La Grippe conquers life Wizard Oil conquers La Grippe. Your druggist sells Wizard Oil. Great Rfi.rinatory for Glrla. There is now being erected In the town of Bedford, N. Y., one of the largest reformatories for women ever built in this country. The reforma tory, which Is to cost $300,000, is de signed for girls and women from 16 to 25 years of age who are guilty of first offenses. The cottage system is to be used and the plan will be ready for use next summer. Bet His Vote Away For Life. Among the tost curious election bets on record is one made by John P. Courtney, Democrat, and Harry Wal lace, Republican, two plumbers doing business in Minneapolis. The agree ment was that the loser must for his life cast his vote as the winner shall dictate. Courtney, who was a candi date for alderman in the recent cam paign, was tlie loser and is now en gaged in earnest but so far unavail ing efforts to substitute some other penalty. Wallace is obdurate and sweats that Courtney irnut in future vote the Republican ticket. Don't Want a Chance In Climate. A recent Northern visitor to West ern Florida reports that the negroes of that section of the state to a man are opposed to ita proposed annexa tion to Alabama. They say they do not like the climate of Alabama, that It is sickly and unhealthful, and If Western Florida is annexed they will all move out, believing that annexa tion will bring in that objectionable climate. A divorce suit makes an appropriate traveling dress. Mending watches and clocks is one way to improve time.' Ask your grocer for DEFIANCE STARCH, tbe only 18 ox. package for 10 cents. All other 10-cent starch con tains only 12 oz. Satisfaction guaran teed or money refunded. A benevolent man owns stock in tho happiness of all mankind. The Bast llarb Tan. Garfield Tea Is msde from HERBS; there are no harmful drugs In ita com position. It is tho best blood purifier known to medical science. The best net for catching an Amer ican heiress is a coronet Ask your grocer for DEFIANCE STARCH, tbe only 16 oz. package for 10 cents.' All other 10-cent starch con tains only 12 oz. Satisfaction guaran teed or money refunded: , . . Champion Smoker. Judge Ray, one of the New York delegates in congress, is said to be able to smoke a cigar faster and to smoke more cigars In a day than any other congressman. He' never neg lects an opportunity to smoke. Many a small man has a large heart and vice versa. "Vale'a New 'Oldest.' The successor to the place of oldest living graduate of Yale is Judge L. W. Cutler, of Watertown, Conn., born in December, 1807, and graduated in 1829, who has served five terms in the Connecticut house of representatives, two terms in the state senate, and was 24 years probate Judge, retiring at the limitary period of 70 years. A DlSenlt Feat. A New York police commissioner declared the other day that it was easier to hang a man for murder there than to dismiss a policeman. "Last year," he said, "the board bad to pay out $130,000 in back salaries to men who had been reinstated by the courts." Profits on "Bomola." George M. Smith, the London pub lisher, in his "literary recollections publishing in Cornhlll, says that George Eliot got $35,000 for "Romo la," and might have had $50,000 if her artistic conscience bad allowed her to divide the novel into sixteen parts, as Mr. Smith wished. Suicide Epidemic. The number of suicides in Paris is very large at present and the chief cause is thought to be the general retrenchment following the exposi tion, which has thrown many people out of work. Throughout France however, suicides seems to have been Increasing for some time. In the five years ended January 1, 1901, tho num ber of suicides was no less than 27, 000. In the senate on the 18th a number of tributes were paid to the memory of Judge Samuel Maxwell. Seven Joints were closed in Great Bend, Kas by officials as a result of demand by citizens., ESTABLISHED 1S86. tOWEfi'e. BLACK os.YC.UdOW ia rl.l e).La a ungmii aiiiMi WLL rttp vou pat in 1 TMt HARDEST STORM. Adapted to wants ot the Fanner, Flahcrmsn, Teamster, Motorman, Bancbraan. Miner, etc. Tans No SnasTrrvTCS. race Catalog; uts SHOwme f uil Lias o, Oanhchii mo Hats. S J. Tpwaa. Co. Boto . M. ErIPTCnC33 WHO ABB ALT7AV8 TITIX "I do not feel very well, I am aa tired all the time. 1 do not know what is the matter with mo." You, bear these words every day; an often as you meet your friends just ao often are these words repeated. Mora than likely you speak the same ojfnift cant words yourself, and no doubt you do feel far from well most of the time. Mrs. Ella Rice, of Chelsea, Wis., whose portrait we publish, writeatliat she suffered for two years with bear-ing-dotvn pains, headache, backache, and had all kinds of miserable feelings, all of which was caused by falling anal Inflammation of the womb, and attar doctoring with physicians and numer ous medicines she was entirely cured by fey Mm. Ella r.icn Ljdla E. Flakham's Vegetable Com pound. If you are troubled with pains, fainting 6pells, depression ot spirits, reluctance to go anywhere, headache, backache, and always tired, please- re member that there is an absolute remedy which will relieve you of your suffering; as it did Mrs. Rice. Proof is monumental that Lydia E. Pink hum's Vegetable Compound is the greatest meuiciue toe Buffeting xromcs. Ko other medicine has made the cures that it has, and no other woman has helped so many women by direct advice) as has Mrs. Pinkham ; Iter expericne is greater than that of any living per son. 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