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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.
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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
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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.