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1 The Harrison Press Journal. C C. BURKE. Proprietor. HARRISON. - - NEBRASKA. NEBRASKA NEWS NOTES Free city mall delivery will com mence in the city of York September I. Clarence Broderick of Fairfield, Neb., haa been appointed to the railway mail service. H. H. Wendt haa been appointed postmaster at Big Springs, Deuel coun ty, vice W. Kimball, resigned. The peach crop will be almost a to tal failure in Gage county this season. Cherries, apples and other fruit will possibly make half a crop. ' The Lincoln library board has elected Mrs. L. C. Richards a member of the board for the twenty-fifth time. Mrs. Cailen Thompson and Prof. Wyer were other members elected. Henry Miles, aged 69, and Mrs. Eliza Jane Wampole, aged 7, were married by Jnstice Hudson at Columbus at the home of D. N. Miner, whose wife is the daughter of the bride. The summer school opened for its third week at Culbertson with a large ly increased attendance. Students have been coming in since. The total enrollment now numbers about 225. John Jenkins, consul to San Salva dor, is in Washington settling up a Jew business affairs with the state de partment. Mr. Jenkins expects to visit Omaha before his return to San Sal vador. A plan to change the name of Post office avenue in Baltimore to Mercer avenue, in recognition of the services of Congressman Mercer in securing a postofflce appropriation for that city, was voted down by the city council. The Modern Woodmen and Royal Neighbors of lodge No. 2924 at Fort Calhoun, held their memorial services at the city park Sunday afternoon. They marched from there to the cem etery and decorated the graves of their dead. "While playing with a toy pistol on the streets of Elk Creek Saturday evening Carl Jones, aged 5 years, shot Jacob Burress, aged 4 years, In the face, injuring one eye and burning his face uuite badly. The eye will be saved. Plainview will celebrate the Fourth of July in grand style. The necessary money has been raised. The festival grounds will be located in the Chllvers grove, the finest forest in the county. The cadet band of West Point will furnish music. The livery barn of P. J. Smith at tincoln was destroyed by fire. Fifteen horses were killed in the Are. The loss will be about $15,000, which is only partially covered by insurance. The flames started in the hayloft and were beyond control before the fire depart ment arrived. The case of A. J. Gallentine against J. C. Johnson at Kearney for alleged practicing deception ,n aallfns mining stock was dismissed by the court for lack of prosecution. Gallentine was fully convinced that the business in connection with the mining stock wat being conducted In a legitimate man ner. The Retail Grocers' association ol Lincoln held a picnic In the Seward park. About 2,000 people came up on three trains and spent the day in various prize contests. Seward park Is a favorite resort for Lincoln people this being the second excursion during the last four weeks, while the train men will celebrate the Fourth here. The Lee Broom and Duster company have signed up a new contract with the state board of public lands and build ings for convict labor at the peni (entlary. The new contract raises tho price paid per man to 60 cents per day The former price was 45 cents. Th number of men employed Is reduced from 125 to 100. The 13-year-old son of Fred Hen kins, a farmer living northeast ol Hooper, was bitten In the right anklt by a snake while the boy was return ing from work In the hayneld. The lad was brought to town immediately and a physician summoned. The limb had swollen considerably and war somewhat discolored. He was takes home and It is thought will recover. The case of Mace E. At wood against Richardson county, wherein the plaint iff sues for 125,000 for the loss of a limb in a runaway accident, came up for hearing In the district court and was continued on a technicality. Mrs. At wood lost the limb by being thrown from a vehicle against a telegraph pot, which her attorneys allege wa permitted to stand too far in the road. A preliminary meeting" was held at Roaning-ton for the organisation of an sM settlers' association. A number of Um old-tlmen mot at the Base hotel Md over a dlaner alscu d the pre- r. B. Htbbard of Irvtae;- J. P. Tlmperly aad Nicholas Po of fiennlactoo woro appointed a eaansnJttee to perfect MM organisation at arrange for the sit my nest roar. will be held at Benaiagtoa. ebe Lane, a youag ta digging a wtil oa Sd. waifs at Weepta Water, ia which was Msad ta Mast rock aad a sherge Leas lawn at! ta taa tJtatotef. TIm wHl is tweaty-etght 1 Cat aad warn wtckta ave fart at Ci ? Una Mt at the basket rrri tta aa at head. tr rt3 to ta st Cat taa f Cm (m warn taa in Jiau Mai aad iNG NEW POSTILLION DRAPERY. Dainty little organdie gown showing the new postillion lace drapery at the back. It is made of figured organdie. The low corsage is draped with plain net The sleeve ruffles and drapery are of lace. Paris Fashions of Today. Paris letter: The reign of the sun shade is fully assured for the coming season although for the past few weeks storm umbrellas have iieen the more useful article of the two to la belle Par isienne. Indeed the weather has been perfectly hideous and one has had no chance to show the lovely new creations with which it is one's intention to cha grin her dearest enemy. But the time for the sunshade must eventually come so I may as well de scribe some beauties which I saw a day or two ago on the Rue de la Paix, for it behooves us to choose our sun shades with as much care as we do our hats. One lovely effect was in daintily flow ered Chine silk, with enameled stick and particularly pretty top. One had floral designs handpainted and so deli cately done that the description would be impossible. Another very fashionable type was formed of alternate silk tuckings and lace insertions, being finished with a fascinating, drawn silk muslin (bril Anotber of Chine silk was elaborately covered with flowers and butterflies with the same drawn silk muslin (bril liant) lining. Yet another entrancing sunshade was massed with drawn chif fon and applied lace and frills. This was in a soft creamy dun, and forma a delightful setting for the lace of a pronounced brunette. Sunshades of Chine silk with pale colored back ground are seen in many colorings, del icate blues and pinks being favorites. These are lined with white brilliant and have aracia sticks with porcelain knobs. A sunshade which can be used either for half-mourning or other purposes has its frilling and drawings of white mousseline de sole applied with black lace and black satin stripingH. The stick Is of white enamel and the por celain knob is hand painted. A very pretty sunshade for half-mourning was of black moire antique with applica tions of ecru guipure and a pretty em broidering of narrow black ribbons. Plcturesquenesg is still the mode in costumes worn by elegant women. A frock which would have raised a smile 12 months ago. but which I saw in one of the most exclusive ateliers was formed of creamy ring-patterned Chan tiny net, bordered with gold filet inser tions painted in rose and forget-me-not and leafy colorings. This dainty trans parency was mounted on white louisine and had a pale blue sash with gold lace trimmings, being completed by a bunch of pink roses. The sash is to figure largely on this kind of frock, especially the trimmed and bordered sash of Louis julnze and ixuls Seise kind. With frocks of em broidered lawn or spotted muslin the simpler kind of louisine ribbon wound tastefully around the waist and culmin ating la a coquettish bow with long tassel led ends la a most suitable sash. The more elaborate frock suggests a ash made of silk and more intricately arranged. - The two conspicuous -points about evening frocks at the moment are del icate color affects aad gauiiness, with a shortening of the train where dance frocks an eoaearaad. oo noticeable la this feature oa some of the newest frocks that oae might almost feel safe to tot oae's train take care of Itself, The materials for evening gowns are not BJflaassHne de sot. Usee or lace Ioom of these fabrics are dreassa of the weaver's art. A beautiful net sees sparkled an over with the tiniest sued motaer-of-pean aad stiver sequins. The mlat shade of the mother-of-pearl soggeated a ajoanttaff of either the palest of pink or the palest of Mas In Um esse of pink nans aaaa taa aaoroarlata contrast von! ould formed by hart as a sash of onto We white, if bhM vara used for ssoaaUat, a pals ntok sash being the thins;, with Mas sash of rose pink would be worn. The auk coald ha raade either of silk af tsSstss. as taste dictated. A sots dinar gown, which yon will . trataa. m of nale bias mereer- l Itra. Tha wniot H iisejisiI ef bands of batiste, herring-boned. The sleeve, which fits to the elbow. Is fulled into a small ruff, following the same Idea as the waist The yoke of skirt is herring-boned and neamed in silk. A fctock collar with turnover of Honiton lace finishes the gown. A dinner gown of figured organdie, also pictured, has elbow sleeves, with ruffle of lace. The top of corsage Is draped with plain net, the postillion drapery being of lace. A novel effect Is shown in a gown of buff French pique, embroidered in red rings and French knots. The Russian blouse is fastened with red ribbon, the sailor collar being of embroidery. The npper sleeve Is small, as will be seen by of white batiste. A red belt is worn. The skirt Is tucked from front to below the hips and Is full at tne bottom. Thre Is a diamond shaped embroidery. An evening gown has the yoke of waist and skirt of cbantilly combined with accordeon pleated crepe de chine. One of the really new things that I SIMPLE DINNER GOWN. Mmple little gowa af pale Una saerosrlsed batiste. Waist composed of hands of tko battsta, harrlnfbonad together. Tha sleare, which fits to tha elbow, Is fathered lata n hand at tha wrist, composed of the narrow by berrlatbsna. must not omit mentioning is painted lace, which fits In appropriately with the prevailing vogue. Alencon and fllei laces are very pretty when artiflclallj colored and the fashion is likely to ex tend. The prettiest thing I have yet seen In painted lace is a pale blue llsse ballgown with Insertions and applica tions of painted Alencon lace. A very dainty suggestion of golden coloring led one to Imagine that the whole thing was intended for a beauty of the Dres den China type. With the passing of boreal weather the boa will give place to the new ruffle which is an effect produced by a mar riage of the boa and fichu. These ruf fles are very prettily made up of either chiffon, tulle, silk or lace. They are eape-iike in design and so billowy iii their laefness as to make them a most dainty toilet accessory. One of the prettiest I have seen Is of pale blue louisine silk with a Chine design of very Impalpable pink roses. It is formed of three cape-like frills, each of the Illustration, with full undersleeve which is bordered with hemstitched tucks of white chiffon. There is also a collar of the chiffon. Another pretty one is of point d'esprit in deep vandyke points which are bordered with black satin ribbon, neat tulle bows being scat tered about it profusely. Many of the fiat pleated mousseline ruffles are bor dered with roses or velvet rose leaves appliqtied at the edges. Yet another ruffle is made of tulle formed Into cape like ruches, the long stole ends of pom padour silk being trimmed with cut steel buttons. The summer gown is to be wonder fully elaborate. A creation to be seen soon on one of our grande dames Is of Ivory mousseline voile, formed Into tiny box pleats, strapped with narrow stitched bands of silk, a lace-edged flounce a perfect cloud of ruchlngs and strappings festooned around the hem in the loveliest way and surmounted by a gold bordered band. The dainty sleeves are of lace, as also is a part of the bodice, the rest being small boull lonnes of voile, straps of silk and dashes of gold. A day gown seen in a leading ateiier is of delicate pastel blue crepe-vone-The front of the skirt Is arranged in long narrow pleats strapped at inter vals with silk of the same shade, at tached by tiny gold buttons. The lower part is encircled by deep tucks, the bodice also being kilted and tucked, pouching over a sash of soft silk and relieved by a collar of guipure lace. With this will be worn a smart walk ing cape of blue cloth of (he same shade reaching Just to the waifct The cape opens in the front to disclose a waist coat of natural tinted linen printed In several soft colors and trimmed with rosettes of blue velvet, a roll collar crossing at the waist. A charming dinner costume, also il lustrated, Is of glacier blue liberty satin elaborately spangled with silver pailles. An evening waist shown in the same illustration Is of pink mousseline do sole. The corsage is formed of large tucks, with trimming of gold and pink embroidery. The full lace sleeves are fulled at the elbow to form ruffle. An anonymous benefactor has just founded a traveling scholarship for Journalists In connection with the City of london school. Commenting on this, the London Graphic says: "Traveling should be part of the pressmen's educa tion no less than of the artist's, and money spent in giving aspirants to the calling something analogous to the Prix de Rome or the Radcllffe Travel- ing Fellowship to compete for will be money well Invested." in Norway two traveling scholarships are annually awarded to the journalists by the state. The yoke aad seams at um skirt are A FEW TALL TRUTHS. SPRINGTIME STORIES THAT BEAR THE GOSPEL BRAND. Snakes. Californls Onions, Shelled Corn in Gourds, Big Trees, Crazy Cattle and Other Veracious Ele ments of a Plain Unvarnished Tale Such Only Pioneers Tell. Quite a group of mining veterans sat around a table in a restaurant toe oth er evening telling stories of hunting and mining in the great West. They were all men of wide experience and reputation, with mining knowledge .u their fingers' ends and big money in their pockets. They recalled the days when Mark Twain was one of them, until he be came a reporter on the Virginia City Enterprise and took up his residence in a lonely cabin on the slope of the great mountains. His stories made him famous because they were true, they said. No man could live in Ne vada, tell lies and survive. It was the cold truth or a lynching. "Tell the same stories in New York and no one would believe them." said Captain Burbridge, the engineer and mining exnert. "For instance, when prospecting once, I had a rattlesnake adventure that was gospel truth. I had 10 or 12 men and a wagon load or supplies and a mining outfit. We were all armed and on the lookout for game as we Journeyed. "One day, on a plateau of barren rocks. I saw a lot of rattlers just ahead of us, and hurried on to get a better shot at them. Like a flash they disap peared. We found the rocks of vol canic character, full of holes, and un der a little ledge was an opening to a cave. We cut a pole, tied a dog to the end of it and shoved It down, to see If there were any rattlers at the bottom. Of course, the dog would bark and give warning if there were. Catching Snakes With Dog Meat. "You never heard such a screeching and howling as came from that hole when the dog touched bottom. He seemed suffocating and we hauled him up. There must have been 200 snakes hanging to the brute by their hooked teeth. He was already dead and swell ing up. We killed most of the snakes and prepared for vengeance. "I sent my colored man Bob to the , ,mm., u- r,t jn pounds of giant powder Into a gunny "a Iiatre. tholifb ho had sack, dropped in a couple of sticks of ! "7" Bff,n ni"ra, " uft dynamite, with a cartridge attached toi'119- ald we J ':r camp ,0n K a hand battery, tied the sack firmly and lowered it into the cave with the pole. When I touched the bottom there was a muffled explosion that shook the earth, yet no sign of snakeB. "But the odor wag worse than a thousand chemical factories. Having some mines to prospect 10 miles over the mountains, we loft, to return a day or two later. We couldn't stand the odor of the place. When we came back and dropped In a few pine knots to light up tne cave. It was one mass of dead rattlesnakes. The pile was as big as a hay loft, and by blowing out a section of the ledge we found that the cave extended under the ground ' for a quarter of a mile, and it was full Af annlroa all tha vav "By careful measurements we esti mated that there were between E0.OO0 and 60.000 dead rattlers. After pull ing them out with books for an hour the smallest we saw was eight feet Vmg and had 19 rattles." Oysters Grow on Bushes. "Then i had another experience in Lower California down on the old Spanish peninsula. The rocks are full of gold there, and along the sea shore you can find everything from pearls to emeralds and oysters. That reminds me, the oyster bushes of old California suow the resources of that remarkable country. The bushes hang like willows into the water, literally alive with oysters the sweetest, Jucl- est oivaives lmagmauie. mere are miles of them Erowintr on the bunhos under water. Tbey fasten themselves to the twigs when young. You can run a boat along shore fur hundreds of miles and club them off lik apples, the finest oysters on the globe . nnbllng Into the boat by the wagon load. I have never seen any good oysters since. . "About 200 miles below Ran f)lego we came to a wilderness around a lake. There did not seem to be room enough In the lake for the ducks, so they roost ed on the trees for miles about. There were enough to supply a city. "Toward evening we saw a lot of deer coming down to the lake, with mountain lions In close pursuit. The deer plunged Into the water, and we after them on a raft and got tip so close that we killed half a dor.en of them with a sort of harpoon we had for spearing seals on the coast. A Kansas Story That Isn't a Dwarf. "Now, if you really want a little fable listen to this: You know the California onions are really wonderful. They grow anywhere from the elze of a skillet to a coal hod. Colonel Jim Taylor, of Kansas, who had been pres ident of the Agricultural society at To peka and thought he knew something about big vegetables, having cracked up Kansas as the most fertile state In the union, threw up his bands when he saw the big onions raised around I xf Angeles. He took a couple of bar rels to his gasconading friends In Iowa, and one day when they were stuffing a Connecticut man with big stories about Iowa vegetables the colonel said: 'Did I ever show you any of the onion seed we raised down In Kansas? The Iowa man said, 'What about themr 111 bring some in and let you see for yourself.' Ooing to the door ha whis tled for his colored man to bring In the California onions. Ha dumped them on the floor, aa big aa water buckets, and said: Them's our ordinary ooioa sets that we raise around Topeka.' "Of coarse that It aa fable, but Cali fornia raised the onions all right gjha other day I was at tho Palmer hco e, In Chicago, where soma Sangamon country farmers were tetuag stories about their big crops els gourds on a hill of corn, with a quart of shelled com In each gourd. "A Port Wayne man said: That's nothing. In Philadelphia I hare seen a doten policeman sound asleep on one beat' That's another fable. Hera's s Tsll Timber Story. "Bat bore Is a true story about lbs big timber of Pnget sound. We were out prospecting for timber and running a survey line when we came across the Anest timber country In the world. Tho (rer are not so large as tboas la Cali fornia, but tbey stand as thick as bam- boos and as stralsbt as arrows wlth- ouTa limb for 200 feet from tha ground. On 40 acres they cut i.000,000 teet of lumber. In the redwood district in California they cut from one tree ,- 000 feet of clear lumovr, ---Ing a lot of shacks' and slave and several carloads of shingles. From an other tree toey ouiit a rami four churches. Once on the Russlan-rlver we tiad a m.guty interesting enc in get- ting across nu a uuuv - --- river was clear up io banks, running like a aillrace with t,i, n ic an big as freight care shooting the current We traveled for to ford. Suddenly we saw an enormous redwood undermined Dy me cu.ii. lying across the river. 1 ordered every man to get his axe and construct an could mount the log. It took ttiree uays' hard work to build the ap proaches on bota sides. Then we urove the cattle over, but found 40 head missing. They didn't fall into the river, they didn't stampede, and there were no Indians around to steal them but they had disappeared. 'After a two days' search, when we wee about to give it up. 'Bill' Thomas gave a shout and we saw a lot of horns sticking out of a knot hole. We inves tigated and found that the 40 head in their scramble to get across tho river had strayed into a hollow limb. and. not having sense enough to go back ward, they were trying to get out through the knot hole. We finally rescued them. "I tell you that was a dandy red wood, and I have no doubt It Is there to this day, big enough to carry an army over. I have never told this story except to Western men and peo ple who know me. Tell a story like that east of the Missouri rlvor and you'd be run in by the police." Continuing. Captain Burbridge said: "I might go on telling tbope storie by the hour, every one of them solid truth from the ground up They are the original source whence Mark Twain got his Jumping frog and other tales. How Indians Stampeded. "One of the most curious adven tures 1 ever had was when cronslng the Sierra Nevadas. in '52. We had a big wagon train, were well provided with provisions and ammunition, with plenty of beef on foot for fresh meat. One night we were going Into camp In a crove of trees In a valley. But : a cautious tenderfoot, who was aa ln- ground, that we might not be prised by Indians. "Privately I thought It was a good Idea myself, but had seen none and did not bellev" a savage was within two days' Journey of tho place. We went into camp and were sleeping soundly, when one of the steers got loose and. nosing around the rump for fodd?r, rammed his head Into an empty salt barrel, the steer began to whirl around as If crazy with the blind staggers. Then bellowing like a mad bull, with the empty salt bar rel making his noise sound like 40 calliopes, the steer started down the slope at race horse speed, with the barrel over hla head and his horns sticking out. "There were K0Q Indians camped all around us, and we knew nothing of It until that steer with the barrel on his head, bellowing like a fog horn, stampeded the Indian ponies, and In an instant tho trees were shaking with war whoops and frightened horses. The Indians took ono look ai iiiti horns and iiie barrel com inn directly at them, and followed their ponies, with the medicine men shout ing that the devil was after thorn. "That steer, which cost us 20 In Kansas City, saved our camp and all the women and children, besides driv ing off the Indians. Next day we cap tured about 100 Indian ponies. Own tlemen, that episode occurred In 1852, ana a letter from my gon-In-law, In i Calaveras county, received veslerdav. iniorms me that those Indians are running yet." Denver Republican. STICK TO TH FARM. The Charms of City Life are no Com pensation for the Country Com forts. It Is said thai tha unnnal lnfr of Chicago's population In from 60. 000 to 70,000. and among the new comers every year are young men from the country who are victims of the notion that opportunity awaits them In the cities alone. Under this delusion they condemn tnemselves very probably to the disappointments or an overcrowded labor market. If they get work it la at a small wage or salary, they must live In cheap boarding-houses pass from them to (heap tenements If they have the courage to marry, find more and more that their position Is one of anxious uependonce, and that the Imaginary charms of city life disappear to lesve nothing but the depressing reality of buildings Jammed together to the ex clusion of light and air, of an all pervading B.lse end dirt, of a routine which L-ves little but a bare subsist ence In the present and holds out no promise for the future. In the vast majority of cases such must be the result, and while country life may have suae serious draw backs It Is plain that these young mea make a capital mistake whan they come to consider the question of op portunity through ao Ignorant con tempt of their familiar surroundings. If Instead of Indulging la dreams of fortune building In the city tbey ware to master thoroughly all tha work of a farm, cultivate an Interest la It, add a new Intelligence to It, take over tha lands of their fathers, or acquire oth ers by purchaaa. put into tabs Ufa all tha ambition of their dreama, they would do better in tha aad thaa at .cBt. ?'..th dty . tore greater Intellectual sttmalua ra their employment, gat a greater eajoyaMat out of living, and attain to aa envi able Independence. .kThJ?.l?por,.l,Brt'r to e,0 " they will only see It aad H adds to tha anomaly of tho sltaatloa that while they are neglecting their natur al advantage disillusioned city mea post tho prima of life sre "retlriag' to farms, where they waste their sub stance in foolish experiments owiag to a belief that anyone can be a farmer. But these poor competitor do not count, and If the farm boy will stick to the farm and make a science of se riculture bis success Is astured.-CU-cage Trlbaas.