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JJU8YBODZES. "It Is a fact , ns I'vo boon told Thatpeoplo in tiio dnya of old iGot rich in silver and in gold , No matter what they bought or sold , By minding their own business. TChoy did not try to wound one's fame Or Blander anybody's name ; They eared not when you went or oamo ; They pleased thomsolvcs , you did the same , 2f It was your own business. And if n man did what was right In his own mlnn and In the sight Of God nnd law by day and night , Ho wont ahead and fought the light. Determined on his business. But in degenerate modern days - There's qulto u change in people's waytf , And what a person does or says Must bo hold up unto the gaze Of ovcry busybody. -And if yo'i do not tell them , too , Where you arc going and what you arc going to do , They got into such an awful stow They'll oven watch and follow you , These very buybodies. And then they surely think they know Just when you coino and when you go , And they will whisper so nnd so To every friend and every loc , These very busybodlos. .But if wo take the pains to sco Who these suno busybodlos be , Wo 11 nd there's notu ho or she Who has it decent history Among these busybodies. Put let us no more notlco take Of ovll tongues , but , for their sake , We'll hope nnd pray they soon may wako .From wickedness , and money make By minding their own business. POLAR LIFE. Xrlj > a to Capo Beechy A Big Wolj Killed Beautiful Arctic Phenomena The Sun's Farewell. York Herald. While tiio first exploring party sen out by Lieut. Greely was on the way to Lincoln bay , he was encouraged by the open water in Hall's basin , to send i boat party , under Sergeant Brainard to Cape Beechy. The story that fol lows of their trip , and of camp life in the polar regions , is taken from Ser geant Rice's diary : This expedition to" cape Beechy en countered the greatest difficulties and experienced remarkable escapes from being crushed between the over-mov- .ing and changing ice floes that threat ened to close an on the party. When Mount Beaufort , a few miles short oi our destination , was reached , it was found impossible to return by water because of the crowding ice. Consequently quently the boat in which the party had come was hauled upon the ice fort , where it remained until August of nex't year , and so the return to the station was made by land. The time in which the round trip was made was from August 31 to September 3 , inclusive. On September 15 a party met a pack of nineteen wolves , but the animals , although apparently hungry , would not come within rifle shot. By Sep tember 20 it was concluded that , as the temperature was but ten degrees below zero , the party was in the midst ' of an Indian summer. Tfie increasing cold , however , soon drove the mem bers of the party indoors , although the outdoor work was still prosecuted vig orously. The working party were banking the house and piling and cov ering upthe provisions and commis sary stores. The scientific corps wore hourly observing the barometers , ther mometers and tide guage , watching the vagaries of the magnet , and mak ing photographs. By September 23d wolves had located themselves near the stationtheir prey being musk-oxen. A wolf weighing eighty-one pounds , and having "long white fur , sparsely intermingled on the back with black hair , " was shot almost in front of the door of the station , where it had doubtless been attracted by the pangs of hunger. The animal measured five feet nine inches from nose to tip .of tail , and stood thirty-three inches high. "We were , " writes Sergt. Rice , "struck with the great resemblance to our dogs , and could readily accept the theoryr that the Esquimaux dog is only a domesticated wolf. The tracks of both are similar , and the only differ ence that we could detect was in the size. " On Sept. 24 , Lieut. Lockwood , with four men. went with provisions to de partment "B , " near Cape Beechy , and three days later returned with a sec tion of a large and well preserved piece of driftwood , thirty feet long and tea inches in diameter , that had been found in St. Patrick's bay. The Fah renheit scale for September : Mean temperature , 10.9 ; maximum , 30 ; and minimum , 10.4. October opened with cloudy , dreary weather , and on the second day of the month the thermometer fell 22 de grees , from 9 degrees above to 13.3 be low. On October 4 "a beautiful halo accompanied the sun all day , and in the evening mock moons were ob served. These Arctic phenomena were of frequent occurrence during the au tumn. " During this time the temper ature outside was 24 and 25 degrees , and during October considerable snow fell , though this did not prevent small parties from being on the hunt almost all the time to Cape Baird and the Bellows for musk-ox meat. Mount Ovitus was also ascended , though this was attended with much difficulty , as it rises above the snow valleys and cliffs 2,600 feet. < 5There was , writes Sergt. Rice , "something awful in the impressive scene of desolation spread- around. No sign of animal or vegeta ble life bare , desolate and chaotic : 'a world unfinished by the hand of its Creator ; ' and such silence ! I am sure that ordinary quiet would have been an uproar compared to that which sur rounded us. Eugene Aram should have been transported by the poet to such a place to give full play to his study of a guilty conscience. " All this time the sun had been gradually curtailing its light , and on October 14 it disappeared for 136 days , and in de scribing this change the diary reads : "We all rushed out at noon , and , sure enough , "old Sol only showed part of his disk for a few moments , sprinkling the ice and snow with silver and crys tals , and then sank lazily back in a V beautiful glow of warm , rosy colors. It was one of the few glorious pictures vouchsa/cd the Arctic sojourner ; but one which carried with it too many shadows , as we thought of the night of months when even the recreant sun eaves and is away with our absent friends at homo. - Then succeeded a soft , misty , pearly twilight , merging a few hours later into darkness , and each day the twilight decreased ; until a week later Jupiter , Archiras , Ca- pella and Alpha Geminorum twinkled dimly at raid-day. In a few days they were joined by Mars , Polaris , Vega , Castor and Pollux , and the Cygni. " Light was still sufficient to enable a short trip to be made. Our party had gone to Beechy and built a commodi ous snow house for the accommodation of prospective sledge parties. Others had mined coals and taken them to Cape Murchison. Fourteen days after the sun had disappeared Sergt. Rico tested the active powers of the solar light by exposing a sensitive photo graphic plate one of Carbuttfs dry plates for an hour at noon , and got a very distinct impression of a land scape. The same experiment was re peated with almost as good a result the next spring , seventeen days before the reappearance of the sun. The minimum temperature for October was 31.1 , with a mean range of 9.2. These figures were noted from hourly observations , and were duly corrected as to show accuracy. THE I ATE EARTHQUAKE. What the Geologists Have to Say About It. Washlnzton Telegram. There is a great deal of scientific guessing going on here among the knowing chaps about the earthquake. Professor Taylor , of the Smithsonian institute , said to-day : "Tho line of greatest disturbance seems to have ex tended from Connecticut to New Jer sey. The range or area of the earth quake indicates that the center of dis turbance was very deep. If it had been near the surface the surface shock * would have been perceptible only in a limited area. When the cen ter is at a great depth , the angle being the same , the range is greator. We do not by any means understand all about earthquakes. It might be that if the crust of the earth was sujected to a severe strain the tidal influence of the moon or sun might supply the ad ditional force necessary to produce a disturbance , but in my opinion that in fluence is very slight. It is held by many and I fancy the theory is cor rect that the earthquake is simply the relief from tension in the earth crust in the process of shrinkage. ' At some point the tension will be so great that the crust will give way. Earthquakes are much more common than is sup posed. It is not right to say that they are increasing in frequency. The fact is that since the telegraph and newspa per have been in existence the informa tion concerning earthquakes is more promptly collected. If people in this city felt a slight shock they might set it down to an explosion or'some local cause , but when they learned that a similar shock was felt simultaneously in other cities they attribute the dis turbance at once to an earthquake. It is probable that many earthquakes in former times were unrecorded. Now earthquakes are observed more care fully , and the means of speedily collecting - , lecting information from various parts are so much greater than formerly that we hear more of them. If the United States hotel disaster had been post poned one week it would have been charged to the earthquake and the owners would have been relieved of the responsibility. " Major J. W. Lowell , of the geolog ical survey , said : -Earthquakes in the eastern portion of the United States have been comparatively infrequent and mild. The most important was that in the Mississippi valley known as the New Madrid. A late earthquake in western Nevada made a fracture ibout 200 miles long , and the dis placement varied from five to seventy feet. The western portion of the United States , from the farther border af the plains to the Pacific , is a region af many and great earthquakes. It lias also been in very recent geologic times a region of great volcanic activ ity. Thousands of now dead volcanoes ire scattered over the country , and rast lava fields cover large areas of ; he land. Salt Lake City stands on ; he margin of an earthquake fracture , ind geologists have more than once prophesied that it will be destroyed by in earthquake. Geologists have concluded , from con sideration of a great variety of facts. ; hat the interior of the earth is in a ; reat fluid condition , due to pressure md great heat. We penetrate from ; he surface toward the interior of the jarth by mines and by boring for ar- ; esian wells and other purposes. The : emperature is found to increase at such a rale that a degree of heat vould soon be reached at which all aiow rocks would melt. Secondly , a rast number of volcanoes exist , dis- ributed widely over the earth , through he vents of which large quantities of nolten rock are poured out on the sur- ace of the earth , showing that a vast eservoir of molten metal exists be- icath the crust. Thirdly , it is known ixperimentally that all rocks would be : rushed and caused to flow by the > ressure of a few feet of superincum- > ent rock. Now , to understand the lirect cause of an earthquake , we must ippreciate that a comparatively thin irust rests upon a vast fluid. The text thing to be considered is that the and portion of the "earth is rapidly ransported to the sea by rains and ivers. Thus the land areas are being inloaded , and the ocean borders are weighted down. This loading of sea torders and unloading of land areas ipon a crust which rests upon a fluid ets up enormous strains ; but the rust , by reason of its solidity , does not icld at once to the strain , but they ac- umulate until at last sufficient stress 3 established to cause fracture and lisplacement through the miles of olid crust. When such a rupture oc- urs an earthquake is the result. Nearly all the old presidents retired o farms and spent the balance of their [ ays in the quiet pursuit of agricul- ure. General Grant has had a taste if farm life and may yet conclude to [ uit the hurly-burly of the large city .nd seek the quiet repose of the vcoun- ry. Moderate living and reasonable aving would yet make him rich , by iis handsome income alone , before he 5 a very old man. LITERARY XTOTE3. Miss Eato Sanbora has ready for the press a compiled volume of the "Wit and Humor of American Women. " New streets in Paris have recently been named after the following au thors : Hcino , Darwin , George Sand and Sainte-Bouvo. The "Stories and Sketches" of Ed mund Quincy , edited by his son , Ed mund Quincy , jr. , arc announced by James R. Osgood & Co. Andrew Lang is writing a letter called "Tho Princess Nobody , " which will bo published with Richard Doylo's well known series of pictures , "In Fairyland , " as illustrations. The memoirs , letters and sermons of the late Bishop Simpson will be pub lished , the editing of the material hav ing been intrusted by his family to one of his Episcopal colleagues. Pendleton King's biography of Gov. Cleveland , which P. G. Putnam's Sons have nearly ready , gives special at tention to Mr. Cleveland's veto mes sage , both as governor and as mayor. The Putnams are preparing an edi tion do luxe of Edmondo do Amicis's "Holland , " and will publish at once in their "Transatlantic Series" Os- Wald Crawford's "The World We Live In. " Mrs. Haweis , the wife of the well known clergyman and author , has just published a birthday book compiled from .pro verbs by Chaucer. She calls the volume "Chaucer's Beads. " Mr. Comstock , of Astor-place , has published a small work on cottages , to which New York architects have con tributed twenty-four plates of medium and low cost houses , with working plans of the interiors. The Critic announces that Mr. Theo dore Roosevelt has recently become a silent partner in the publishing house of G. P. Putnam's Sons , and that Mr. Folsom , who has so long been known in connection with the house , has re tired. The new English judge , Mr. Justice Wills , is the author of two well known books , "Wanderings Among the High Alps" and "The Eagle's Nest. " Mr. Wills has the reputation of'being able to ascend any mountain without the assistance of a guide. Man as Man Is. Puck. Puck.Man Man that is born of a woman is small potatoes and few in the hill. He riseth up to-day and flourisheth " like a rag-weed , and"tomorrow or the day after the undertaker has him in the ice box. He goeth forth in the morning warb ling like the lark , and is knocked out in one round and two seconds. In the midst of life he is in debt , and the tax collector pursueth him wher ever he goeth. The banister of life is full of splinters and he slideth down it with considera ble rapidity. He walketh forth in the bright sun light to absorb ozone , and meeteth the bank teller with a sight draft for $357. $357.He He cometh home at eventide and meeteth the wheelbarrow in the path , and the wheelbariow riseth up and smitoth him to the earth , and falleth upon him and runneth one of its legs into his ear. In the gentle springtime he putteth on his summer clothes , and a blizzard striketh him far away from home , and filleth him with woe and rheumatism. He layeth up riches in the bank , and the president speculateth in margins , and then goeth to Canada for his health. In the autumn he putteth on his winter trousers , and a wasp that abid- eth in them filleth him with intense excitement. He starteth down stairs with an oleander , and goeth first hastily , and the oleander cometh after him and sit- fceth upon him. He sitteth up all night to get the re turns from Ohio , and in the end learn- eth that the other fellows have carried it. it.He He buyeth a watch dog , and when he cometh home late from the lodge the watch dog treeth him , and sitteth beneath him until rosy morn. He goeth to the horse trot and bet- teth his money on the brown mare , and the bay gelding with a blaze face svinneth. He married a red-headed heiress tvith a wart on her nose , and the next Jay her parental ancestor goeth under , ivith few assets and great liabilities , md cometh home to live with his be- oved son-in-law. A Ghastly Scaffold Scene. rienna Tetter to London Standard. A ghastly scene occurred to-day vithin the prison at Stein. This morn- ng a convict named Ferdinand Baum- rartner , who several months ago mur- lered a prison warden , was to be langed for the crime in the court-yard > f the prison. The spectators , who lad assembled to witness the execu- ; ion , included about seventy persons , n addition to a company of infantry specially detailed to preserve order. Che convict , who was brought from his ; ell at 7 o'clock , turned a savage glare m the assembled persons as he walked jast with a firm step to the gallows. Arrived there , the executioner's assist- mts approached for the purpose of rinding his arms. Muttering an ini- irecation he dashed the first assistant lown and began fighting with the sec- md and third. The struggle between ; he convict , who raved Tike a wild jeast , and the executioner's men went m for several minutes before the sol- liers were ordered to interfere. They ioon overpowered Baumgartner , and he executioner now threw the rope iround his neck. Another terrible struggle then ensued. Baumgartner , yho caught the cord with his teeth , cept his mouth shut , and held the rope with such force that the assistants ivere unable for some time to wrench t from him. .Even after they had first secured the rope the convict seized it igain with his bound hands , and , ut- : ering loud oaths , defied them to carry > ut the sentence. At length , however , he executioner succeeded in forming in irregular noose on the man's neck. For several minutes the struggle waq resumed , and it was only by the hangman using his hands and drag * ging him down that ho succeeded in carrying the law into effect , Baum gartner resisting to the last moment. During the night the convict , who had refused to sec the priest , had remained very quiet. Ho was a powerful young fellow , and had killed his jailor with a hatchet. ROOM AT THE TOP. Extract From Manager Talmage'a Circular to Employee , Globo-Domocrat. A circular will be issued to-day from the office of James Smith , general traffic manager of the Wabasn road , which is of great interest to employes of the road. The circular contains the announcement of the various changes and new appointments made by Mr. Smith in his corps of commercial and division freight agents , all of which have already been mentioned in the Globe-Democrat. It also contains in structions that tend to show the polic } which Mr. Talmage has adopted witl regard to employes. "There must b no friction , " says Mr. Talmage , through Mr. Smith ; "none will be tel erated. When vacancies occur promo tions will be made from the most competent potent and deserving men of our own lino/ Remember there is always room on top , " etc. There is an incentive to work in these words which will no doubt fructify in the most beneficia results to the road. Mr. Talmage , in a Napoleonic way , wants each man tc understand that there is a marshal's baton in his knapsack , and his policv in this respect is highly commendable for where the employes have an assur ance that their work will receive recog nition , they will labor faithfully and diligently. Further , the instructions show Mr. Talmage's good generalship in the matter of organization and dis cipline. "Agents will be expected,1' ho says , "to inform themselves if any business is being lost to the company by diverson to competing lines , am ; reason therefor. If passengers , the general passenger and ticket agent should be advised promptly. And , if at crossing points , inform themselves , as nearly as possible , of the quantity and kind of business brought to or ta ken from the stations by rival lines , and keep division station agents ad vised of that or any other matters af fecting the company's interest. Divis ion freight agents will travel frequent ly over every part of their respective divisions and make themselves person ally acquainted with shippers , hear complaints , redress grievances and endeavor to establish friendly relations and popularize the line with the busi ness hublic. " Also , "it is expected that each and every one in the several departments will unite heartily in the work and aid each other. There must be no friction. None will be tolrea- ted. When vacancies occur promo tions will be made from the most com petent and deserving men of our line. Remember there is always room at the top , and the officers who have at tained the highest rank in the service are those who have worked their way up from the lowest round in the lad der. " Mr. Talmage evidently'intends to put the Wabash road on a paying basis. " " * * A Southern Industry. The popular peanut grows so well throughout the south , that it is thought their large importation from Africa will soon cease. A correspondent of the Philadelphia Press tells how the peanuts are pre pared for market. He says that in Virginia they are called "peanuts ; " in North Carolina "ground peas ; " in Al abama "ground nuts ; " and in Tennessee " . " nessee "goobers. They are first put in an immense cylinder , from which they enter the brushes , where each nut receives fif teen or sixteen feet of brushing before it becomes free. After this cleaning process the nuts drop on an endless belt , which re volves very slowly. On each side of this belt is a row of girls , whose duty it is to separate the poor nuts from the good ones. Those of the nuts that "pass" go on to the next room , where more girls await their arrival and put them in bags , which , when filled , are sewed up and branded as "chocks , " with the Bgure of a rooster prominent on each sack. These are the "No. 1" peanuts. The poorer nuts , which were sepa rated by the girls at the endless belt , are all picked over again ; the best are siagled out and branded , after being put in the sack , as "ships. " The "ships" are not so large nor so Sne in appearance as the "cocks , " but ire just as good for eating. The third grade of nuts is known as "eagles , " and the cullings that are left from the "eagles" are bagged and sent io a building where the little meat that : s in them is extracted by a patent sheller. This "meat" for by this name it is inown to the dealers is put up , clean ind nice , in two hundred pound bags ind shipped for the use of confection- jrs and manufacturers of peanut candy. There is also an oil made from some ) f the nuts , and in this specialty , I am ; old , a large trade is done by wholesale Iruggists. Of the peanuts there is nothing wast- ; d , for even the shells are made useful , jeiiig put in immense sacks and sold : o livery men for horse bedding , and a rery comfortable , healthy bed they uake. He Gave It Up. jlfe. "George , dear , " cried Eveline , "do fou suppose heaven is as nice a place is people say it is ? " "Well , really , Eveline , as 1 have never been there , I jannot say , but , from what I hear , the society is very select. " "Everything s bright and golden there , isn't it , jeorge ? " "Yes , darling ; tke streets ire payed with solid gold blocks ; gol- len bricks make the houses , and only specie payments are allowed. " "Well , ; hen , George , " archly said the maiden , is she nestled closely to her lover , "if jyerything is so golden , why don't the ? ilty get in ? " But the answer came lot. He had gone to be a cowboy. STENOGRAPHY AT WASHING- TON. Hoio the 'Work { Done on the Congretnlonal Ilecord , Washington Corretpondent Cleveland Leader. The cream , however , of shorthand writing in Washington is obtained from the government. The president , all of the cabinet officers , the heads of bu reaus , each of the seventy-six senators , and the chairman of committees in the house of representatives , have clerks or private secretaries , who receive { sal aries of from $1,600 to $2,500 a year , and the stenographic work for the Con gressional , Record costs i\ \ cool $50,000 every session. The president's steno grapher has an annual salary of $1,800 , Secretary Folger's $2,000 , Secretary Lincoln's $2,000 , and Secretary Grcsh- am's $1,800. The shorthand man of the bureau of engraving and printing gets $1GOO annually , the one of the civil service commission $1,600 , and the one employed by the commissioner of internal revenue $1,800. Private secretaries of senators and committee clerks are paid $6 a day , and some of them are employed the year round. It costs $245,000 to print the Con gressional Record , and this does not include the $50,000 paid for the official reporting of congress. Twenty-five thousand dollars is allowed for the re porting of the debates of each house. In the senate the contract is given to one man , Mr. Dennis Murphy , who em ploys a certain number of assistants to help him , and in the house five official stenographers are employed at a salary of $5,000 a year each. The reporters of the house sit at a long , low table below the speaker's desk , facing the members. They use foolscap paper , and write with both pen and pencil. They take turns in reporting the proceedings. One man will write for an hour , say , and then geoff off to a little room in the basement of the capitol , where the matter is to be written out in long-hand , and another man will take his place. These repor ters must be very expert , and must be able to take 200 or more words in minute. During an excited debate speeches are delivered even faster than this , and in animated colloquies they have to leave their tables and stand or sit among the members speaking , in or der that nothing miiy be missed. Some times it happens that certain passages occurring in debate are left out , but this is of toner due to the desires of the speakers thau to' the negligence or inef ficiency of the reporters. These official reporters do not write their notes out into long-hand them selves. In the transcribing room in the basement they have a number of short hand amanuenses , and to these they read their notes. These transcribers , whose salaries range , perhaps , from § 15 to $25 a week , take down the notes in their short-hand and then write them out in long-hand for the printers. So you see a congressman's speecli is writ ten out twice in short-hand and once in long-hand before it goes to the printer. Ihese notes as written out are carefully L-evised by the official reporter before being sent to the printer. All of the proceedings and speeches of congress to-day will be given in full in the Con gressional Record of to-morrow morn ing , and when it is considered that this record often embraces more than 100 pages as large as the pages of the big gest family bible , closely printed in two columns of small type , some idea san be gained of the immense work it represents. The senate reporting is done in the 5ame manner as that of the house , as tar as the work is concerned , and it is i curious fact that Dennis F. Murphy , ; he chief of the reporters here , and Mr. McElhone , the chief of the reporters of : he house , were in the same steno graphic class in Philadelphia in 1849. Women at Forty. Boston Herald. The period of dry rot in the lives of nen is said to begin at the age of fifty fears , thongh a recent essayist makes t date at forty , and if this is so , the period of decadence for women may beset set at least ten years earlier. There is i time generally acknowledged in so- ; iety when men and women have cached their ultimate , when the forces ) f youth are spent , when the environ- nent of life is apparently fixed , when t is possible to go on for awhile on the ines that have already been formed , , vhen one seems to have accomplished iis career , and can rest awhile upon , vhat he has done. This is the point of langer to men , especially to profes sional men. It is the point when cler gymen and lawyers or doctors feel that ; hey have reached something fixed , md need not put forth further effort. [ t is also the point where women , if named , are apt to say to themselves : hat they can settle down into the fixed ; hings of their homes , or , if unmar- ied , are apt to withdraw their interest Torn active life and retire into them- ielves. It is the season of danger with iither sex , perhaps the season of most langer to women , because they have ess to call forth their latent energies han men have , and are more suscepti- ) le to the agencies that promote or di- ninish their happiness or usefulness. Spouting Geysers. hnaha Herald. Colonel E. D. Webster , who returned resterday from an official tour through iVyoming , Montana and Dakota , ) rings an interesting theory , born of : lose personal observation , of the for- nation and motive power of the won- lerful spouting geysers in the Yellow- itone region. Mr. Webster is of the ( pinion that during the volcanic age he great deposits of limestone in that sountry were burned into lime , and hat this lime is being constantly laked by subterranean streams of wa- er or the chemical action of minerals. [ ? he steam from this slaking lime pours nto the pots or caverns below the wa- er , and when it accumulates sufficient orce , having no other vent , throws the rater up into the air , and escapes pre- isely as steam confined in a boiling : ettle will lift the lid when the spout is ilugged. The theory is a new and ilausible one , and deserving the at- ention of scientists. The grape-growers of Florida expect .n income of $100 per acre this sea- on. STOCK DIEEGTOKY DENNIS M'KILLIP. Ranch on Red Willow , Thornburjr , Hayes County , Neb. Cattle branded "J. 31. " ou left Blue. Yeuujr cattio branded same as above , also "J. ' ' on left Jaw. Uncler-slope right ear. Horses branded "E" on left shoulder. VV. J. WILSON. Stock brand circle on left shoulder ; also dewlap and a crop and under half crop on left ear , and a crop and under bit in the ricbt. Ranch on the Republican. Post- office , Mar , Dundy county , Nebraska. HENRY T. CHURCH. Osborn , Neb. Range : Red Willow creek , In south west corner of Frontier county , cattle tlo branded "OLO * > onrlphtside. Also , an over crop on right ear and under crop on left. Horses branded " 8" on rhiht shoulder. SPRING CREEK CATTLE CO. . Indianola , Neb. Range : RepublicanVal- icy , east of Dry Creek , and near head of Spring Creek , in Chase county , , J. D. WELBOIIN , Vice President and Superintendent THE TURNIP BRAND. * Ranch 2 miles north of McCook. Stock branded on left hip , and a f ew double cross es onlkftsir1p. . _ .J > ERCANBRACK. STOKES & TROTH. P. O. Address , Carrico , Hayes county , Nebraska. Range , Red Willow , above C.ir- rico. Stock branded as above. Also run the lazy ei brand. GEORGE J. FREDERICK. Ranch 4 miles southwest of 3fcCook , on the Driftwood. Stock branded "AJ" on the ieflbip. P. O. address. 3TcCook , Neb. JOHN HATFIELD & SON. ' 3IcCook , Eeb. , Ranch 4 miles southeast , on Republican river. Stock branded with a bar and lazv a on left hip J. B. MESERVE. Kanch , Spring Canyon on the Frenchman River , in Chase county , 2ieb. Stock branded as above ; also " 717" on left side ; " 7" On risht hip and "L. " on right shoulder- "L. " on left shoulder and "X. " on left | aw. Half under-crop left ear , and square- crop right ear. JOSEPH ALLEN. Ranch on Red Willow Creek , half mile ibj e B'bom , PO002Cattle branded on jght side ana hip above. 3.4 FOR SALE Improved Deeded Farm md Hay Land. Timber sad water. Two arm houses , with other hnprovementa Convenient to No. 1 school privileges. SitI ' * * < * KepublIcan rirer near SwuUfof led Willow creek. Call on J. F. Black in premises , or address him at Indianola' ! *