Danbury News.
School is in Hcssiun again after the
holiday vacation with the usual attend
ance. Geo. W. Hebe is the teacher.
The holidays were celebrated in Dan
bury in good old fashioned style, with a
Christinas tree on Christmas eve at the
ohurch, and a shooting match hi the
suburbs (?) on New Year’s.
The Danbury Literary society is in a
flourishing condition and rendered a
very interesting program at its last
meeting. A. C. Teel was elected pres
ident for the ensuing month.
Mr. 'J’eel, by the way, is a member of
the firm of Cramer and Tee), real estate
dealers, Indianola, and has headquart
ers in this burg this winter. The firm
is doing a substantial busiuess.
C. H.Ornan is on the sick list this week
—mountain fever—with the probabil
ity of a protracted siege of that dread
disease. Dr. DeMay is attending him.
The doctor has quite an extensive prac
tice up and down this valley of the
Beaver.
Our whilom railroad agent and oper
ator, F. O. Gray, received a promotion
the first of the year, going with his
family to Trenton last Wednesday.
Their numerous friends here gave them
a farewell at the residence of T. E. Mc
Donald on Tuesday evening, on which
occasion Mr. and Mrs. Gray were pre
sented with a handsome toilet set as a
token of our fond esteem and as a me
mento of the occasion. The ladies of
the village showed no little skill in the
culinary art of entertaining by the nu
merous delicacies prepared for and tak
en care of by the inner man on this occa
sion. But the time of parting came,
as it always comes on this numdane
sphere, yet not without the feeling that
we have been made better by our mut
ual association, mr without feeling the
truth of the sacred couplet:
;‘Blest be the tie that binds
Our hearts in Christian love.”
X. X. X.
Horses for Sale.
Way'son & Odell keep horses for sale
at their livery barn opposite the Cen
tral hotel.
One dollar will buy 18 pounds of
Granulated Sugar at Kninple’s.
(INDIANOI.A ITEMS CONTINUED.)
Born:—To Mr. and Mrs. George
Jarvis on Sunday last, a boy.
The extra meetings still continue at
the M. E. church with some interest.
C. H. Russell came on Saturday
night, to spend Sunday with his family.
Joe Hoag came in on No. 4, Tuesday,
to attend the Odd Fellows installation
and lecture.
J. J. Lamborn returned for Lincoln
last night, lie attended the state cou
gress while there.
G. 11. Purduin came down from the
city of car shops on Sunday to take a
look at his family.
Miss Nora iohnson, and Ida Lyons
of Denver, came in on Sunday evening
for a visit in our city.
A letter from E. S. Hill and wife
states that they are enjoying the sunny
clime of the Pacific country.
L. B. Korns lost a horse on Wednes
day night. He thinks the cause was
eating too much cane fodder.
The teachers and scholars acknowl
edged a visit on Monday, from Mrs. I.
M. Beardslee and Mrs. W. H. Powell.
A picket scene, representing thirty
years ago, will be exhibited at the G.
A. R. supper on Saturday night, which
every one should see.
Former residents of Ohio should
read The Weekly Ohio State Jourual
as it gives more Ohio news than any
other paper, and in addition to the gen
eral telegraphic news, Rev. T. DeWitt
Talmage s sermons, humorous writings
of Bill Nye and M. Quad, and a large
amount of choice miscellaneous reading.
As a special inducement, any person
who will send us twenty-five cents in
stamps for three 'months trial subsciip
tion will be presented with a copy of
our Ohio Statistical Annual which sells
for twenty five cents. Address the
Ohio State Journal Co., Columbus, O.
The character and tame of Lincoln
is expanding more rapidly and surely
than that of any name in history. Song,
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for his exaltation and it is not too much
to say that the love and admiration of
of the people will yet lift him into the
realms of the legend.
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EDWARD B. SHAW,
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HAS OPENED A
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INOIANOLA ITEMS.
V. Franklin was down, Tuesday.
0. Frost was up from the east end,
Monday.
J. A. Gragg has sold his restaurant
business to George W. Short.
J. W. Dolan and wife took their son
Paul to Chicago, this week, for medical
treatment.
Rev. J. M. Mann is looking for prop
erty in view of taking up his residence
in our city.
The contestants rested their case on
Monday and the defense commenced
the rebuttal.
Rev. VV. A. Boucher and M. N. Es
key attended the O’Neil lecture on
Tuesday evening.
John W. Dutcher and James Sadden
were appointed appraisers of the estate
of John Fischer.
Oscar C. Teel of Bladen, Webster
county, was a witness in the county
seat case, Monday.
Mrs. C. E. Phillips has bought a
house and lot in town and is building a
barn on the same.
Mrs. G. H. Purdum and son came
home from Missouri on Thursday,
where they have been on a visit.
License was issued on the 9th for
the marriage of William L. Rider of
McCook, and Miss Francenia Shepherd
of Box Elder.
The contest case closed on Wednes
day evening, but some time will be
given to sum up the case and submit a
brief to the judge.
On Saturday last the county judge
appointed Frederick M. Goodnick ad
ministrator of the estate of John
Fischer, Jr., deceased.
On January 10th Mr. William Kreag
er appeared before the county judge
and made affidavit necessary for per
mission to wed Miss Caroline Lelin.
Report came here today, (Thursday),
that C. H. Oman is dead. Mr. Oman
moved to Danbury some months ago
and purchased the drug stock at that
place.
License was issued on the 7th for
marriage of Mr. Alva Brown of Osborn,
Frontier county, to Miss Nellie A.
Campbell, daughter of A. W. Camp
bell of Box Elder.
State Superintendent Goudy says
that only six county superintendents
in the state made a correct report ac
cording to law, and we wish to say that
Red Willow was one of the six who
were correct.
Dr. J. M. Brown, who came here
from Iowa a few months ago, says this
is the finest weather he ever saw and
wishes that some of his friends in the
llawk Eye state #could step from the
30 degrees below zero to 30 above.
They might believe we have a fine cli
mate.
Don’t forget the G. A. R. supper on
Saturday evening. Supper will be ready
at 6 o’clock, followed by a lecture from
General Dilworth and a program of
recitations aud songs, after which, sup
per will again be served to all who are
hungry. The net profit to go to help
the relief fund.
Frank Colling, son of Nicholas Col
ling, whom we reported accidentally
shot in our last, died from heart failure
on Sunday night, and was buried in the
Indianola cemetery on Tuesday. The
large procession that followed the re
mains to burial showed the sympathy
of the kind friends and neighbors.
On Saturday last Edward Fitzgerald
was brought before county judge on a
complaint sworn out by Daniel Lehn
for assault with intent to maim and
disfigure Mr. William Karp. The pris
oner asked for one week’s time to pre
pare for the defense which was granted,
giving bonds in the same of $1,000.
On Tuesday evening the I. O. 0. F.
held a public installation at their hall
conducted by Dr. Welles of McCook as
grand master. The following members
were installed: Otto Webber. N. G.;
C. A. Gentry, Y. G.; C. W. Beck, Sec
retary; M. B. Noel, Treasurer; H. Crab
tree, Warden; C. B. Hoag, Conductor;
Wm. Brazee, I. G.; Charles Masters,
O. G.; Frank Fritsch and F. A. Puckett,
Scene Supporters; D. W. C. Beck and
P. Henderson, Supporters to V. G.; Dr.
J. M. Brown and Joe Hoag, Supporters
to V. G. A well selected choir ren
dered some fine music. The meeting
closed with an eloquent address on Odd
Fellowship by Deputy Grand Master
E. J. O’Neil which was appreciated by
all present.
THE CABIN ON THE CLAIM.
Lonely, you say, with mighty arch
Of s'.cy so grandly bending?
By bright hued clouds and glittering stars
A tender message sending?
Joyless? When out of crimson cloud
The suurise pours its glory.
Morn after morn repeating wcJ!
Aurora's cheerful story?
Peaceless? When night with noiseless feet.
Front fields of herbs and flowers.
Sweet odors in her mantle dark
Bears to this cot of ours?
Like faintest sounds of distant seas
Pounding some castle hoary.
We hear the great world's roar and fret
And trace her changeful story.
As far away white gleaming sail.
Turning a bend of river,
A noble deed with radiant flash
Makes every heartstring quiver.
So. thankful, where the kindly stars
Spangle the blue with beauty.
We look and breathe the fervent wish
That all may do their duty.
—Boston Transcript.
Gloves at Afternoon Teas.
Gloves, the crowning finish of a well
dressed woman’s costume in public, have
been of late years greatly misused in
American society. One sees them worn
at tea tables by the woman elected to
represent the hostess in pouring tea, and
even at dinner tables, where the wear
ers have been known to sit through
many courses with their right hands
bared, the hand of the right glove
tucked under the wrist, and the entire
left glove kept on. From time immemo
rial the habitual dinner goers of good
society have removed both gloves imme
diately after taking their places at the
table, and have resumed them upon re
turning to the drawing room, or after
using the finger bowls, and before aris
ing from the feast.
Any departure from accepted custom
that has only eccentricity or a desire for
innovation to recommend it should be
avoided; hence there seems no cause for
taking up the curious fashion just men
tioned, probably set in a heedless mo
ment by some leader of vogue or by an
unfortunate woman of rank whose hand
was made unpresentable by a disfiguring
injury.—Ladies’ Home Journal.
Jenny Und*s Frankness
Jenny Lind’s judgment of books,
though undirected by anything like lit
erary training, always showed independ
ence and penetration. She was a de
voted lover of Carlyle’s writings, and
the last book she read before her death
was Mr. Norton's volume of the corre
spondence between Carlyle and Emer
son. No doubt her admiration for the
great denouncer of shams was largely
due to the intense sincerity of her own
character, which made it impossible for
her to tolerate even those slight devia
tions from strict truthfulness which are
seldom taken seriously, but are looked
upon as the accepted formula of society,
“I am so glad to see you” would hardly
have been her greeting to a visitor whose
call was inconvenient or ill timed. But,
on the other hand, her downrightness of
speech had nothing in common with
that of Mrs. Candour; it carried no dis
courtesy with it.—R. J. McNeill in Cen
tury. _
Mixed Relationship.
There is a family in the southern part
of the county whose complicated rela
tionship beats anything upon record.
The family name is Runk. A few years
ago the Runk family consisted of father
and two grown sons. In the same neigh
borhood there lived a widow and her
two comely daughters. The oldest one
of the Runk boys married one of the
widow’s daughters. The young man’s
father married the other daughter. The
other one of the boys married the
mother. The question that now both
ers the father is whether he is his moth
er-in-law’s father-in-law or his daugh
ter-in-law’s son-in-law, and, if both,
which the most.—Mascoutah (Ills.) Cor.
Chicago Tribune.
Amateur Composers.
The amateur composers of England in
clude the names of the late prince con
sort, the late Duke of Albany, the Duke
of Edinburgh, the Marquis of Devon
shire, Lady Baker, Lady Arthur Hill,
Lady White and the Hon. Mrs. Malone
all having created melodies of more or
less lasting quality. The Earl of Dun
raven has organized two orchestras—one
at Oxford and the other at Cambridge—
of forty members each. Lady Mary
Dalrymple is a member of a very suc
cessful orchestra composed of ladies.—
New York Press.
Japanese Hairpins.
Japanese women put up their hair with
wooden, ivory or tortoise shell pins seven
or eight inches in length and fully half
an inch wide. The pins are usually
carved, and are often capped with pivot
ed figures, which dance with every mo
tion of the wearer.—Baltimore Herald.
A Startling Telegram.
Ten girls in a composition class were
told to write a telegram such as would
be suitable to send home in case of a
railway accident while traveling. One
of the girls wrote: “Dear Papa—Mamma
is killed. I am in the refreshment
room.”—Exchange.
Insanity was once looked on as the
work of demons. It is now regarded as
a purely physical infirmity, perhaps in
herited from those who had somehow
Violated physical law, or induced by our
own transgression.
According to an English scientist, the
red in flowers is a single pigment, solu
ble in water and decolorized by alcohol,
but capable of being restored by the ad
dition of acids.
In the Fourteenth century the French
set a fashion of cutting the edges of the
garments in the form of grape leaves.
The population of many Sonth Sea
islands manufacture their entire suits
from the products of the palm tree.
A number of the houses is Berlin are
numbered with luminous figures, which
can be easily observed at night. _ ,
ALMOST A CHOLERA SCARE.
An Incident of the Peculiar Fright That
Seized New York City.
“Let me tell yon how I came near be
ing the innocent cause of a big cholera
■care,” said a well known lawyer to a
reporter one afternoon. “It happened in
this way: 1 was breakfasting alone in
East Twenty-eight street at a private
Italian boarding house filled with the
leading people from several comic opera
companies, including ‘Robin Hood’ and
‘Puritania.’ My landlady, Mmo. S.,
whose English pronunciation is at once
the delight and despair of those who
seek to imitate or understand it, came in
and said: ‘Mista John, writa me una
note. Say Alda worn’ are down. Com
ma queek. You putta ma nom attabot,
Bophie.’
“I was in haste to get down town,”
continued the narrator, “and I wrote it
out as I understood it, ‘All the women
are down; come quick.’ I thought
that the message sounded odd. She
said, however, that it was ‘alia rat,’
and sent it to Dr. X. around the corner
in Lexington avenue. That worthy
young physician glanced at the note, and
thinking that it opened the way to fame
for him informed the board of health
that he had discovered an outbreak of
cholera in an up town Italian boarding
house. He telephoned the same mes
sage to several newspaper men of his
acquaintance.
“In less than twenty minutes a squad
of burly policemen appeared in front of
the house, followed by the doctor, six re
porters and several officers of the board
of health, whose instincts had been
wrought up to a white heat by the mes
sage. Mme. S. answered the incessant
ringing of the door bell in person.
She was attired in a becoming morning
gown, and being a large and remarkably
handsome woman, presented a dra
matic appearance as she explained the
situatiofi: ‘Gentleman, who eata brik
last now, no undastanda me. I tell him
olda worn’ are down, slippa down, you
undastan? Olda worn worka for me.
Falla uowna de stair. Hurta her side.
No worn’ down here at all. Dey alia
out. Goodaday, gentleman, goodaday.’ ”
—New York Tribune.
Dickens as a Dancer.
My father insisted that my sister Ka
tie and I should teach the polka step to
him ami Mr. Leech. My father was as
much in earnest about learning to take
that wonderful step correctly as though
there were nothing of greater impor
tance in the world. Often he would prac
tice gravely in a comer, without either
partner or music, and I remember one
cold winter’s night his awakening with
the fear that he had forgotten the step so
strong upon him that, jumping out of
bed, by the scant illumination of the old
fashioned rushlight and to his own whis
tling he diligently rehearsed its “one,
two, one, two,” until he was once more
secun in his knowledge.
No one can imagine our excitement
and nervousness when the evening came
on which we were to dance with our
pupils. Katie was to have Mr. Leech,
who was over six feet tall, for her partner,
while my father was to be mine. My
heart beat so fast that I could scarcely
breathe, I was so fearful for the success
of our exhibition. But my fears were
groundless, and we were greeted at the
finish of our dance with hearty applause,
which was more than compensation for
the work which had been expended upon
its learning.—Mamie Dickens in Ladies’
Home Journal.
Cruel Indifference.
“The other day a woman who spends
thousands of dollars a year on dress sent
for me and gave me an old garment to
make over for house wear,” says a dress
maker. “There weie trimmings and
linings to buy, but she gave me no
money. Of course it was taken for
granted that I would furnish those. That
was all right. When the work was done
the bill amounted to $11.30, and I had
less than $1 in cash. I wrote an apolo
getic little note to my customer when I
sent the dress home, asking for the
amount of the bill—if convenient. My
messenger returned empty handed. He
waited in the hallway of the rich wom
an’s house for half an hour, and receiv
ing no answer to my note ventured to
speak to one of the servants about it.
The servant kindly said that she would
inquire about it. Soon she returned
with the message that Mrs.- said
that she had no time to bother with petty
bills then. In consequence my little
family had a very ‘skimpy’ Sunday din
ner.”—New York Times.
The Welfare of Children.
There is a distinct advance in intelli
gent grownup interest in child life.
Mr. Howells, Miss Larcom and Edward
Everett Hale have all given us interest
ing books embodying their own recollec
tions of childhood. Mrs. Dc Land is
writing a charming novel whose main
interest is in problems of childish psy
chology, and Mrs. Burnett promises a
similar volume. During the recent
meeting of the Association of College
Alumna it was evident that one of the
most interesting branches of work taken
up by college bred women is systematic
and scientific study of the development
—physiologic, psychologic and ethical—
of very young children. This recogni
tion of the interesting points of the
young human animal is significant. It
not only promises better things for the
child, but better times for his elders.—
Kate Field’s Washington.
Advantages of Seasickness.
Nothing can be much more depressing
than seasickness, and for this reason we
should strongly advise all weak persons
not to encounter if possible the risk of
its occurrence. It is astonishing how
soon and how completely those who are
favored with a fair measure of constitu
tional elasticity recover from its depres
sion. In their case the benefits of a sea
trip may thus, with compensations of
air, diet and appetite, be enhanced by a
few hours of mechanical nausea. It is
in truth for such persons only that tours
of this kind are advisable.—London Lan
cet.
A JUVENILE HOKDE.
NEW YORK YOUNGSTERS SEE A
THEATRICAL PERFORMANCE.
Six Thousand Street Urchins Swarm Into V
a Metropolitan Playhouse and Make
Away with Everything Portable Within
Reach—A Pandemonium.
Fully 6,000 shouting, screaming, chat- f
tering, cheering youngsters attended the
performance of “The Scout” given for
poor children at Niblo's, and outdid the
Indians as regards noise and drowned
the reports of the pistols witli their en
thusiastic yells.
Such an audience has never before
been inside the walls of a playhouse.
There were boys there with dirty faces,
and boys whose natural color did net
give one an opportunity to see if they
were dirty or not. Little girls were
there, too, some white and a few black,
and they took as much delight in the
performance and made as much noise
as the boys.
The doors of the theater were besieged
as early as 7:30 o’clock, and by 8:30 there
was a tremendous jam about the Broad
way and Crosby street entrances. Once
the doors were opened there was no use
trying to collect tickets. The boys sim
ply swept everything before them. In
an incredibly short time every seat con
tained at least two occupants, and every
available place from which the stage
could be seen was occupied.
The boys hung on the posts like mon
keys, occupied the stairs, stood on the
radiators, and if it wasn't for the ten
big policemen who were there to preserve
order there is no knowing what they
would have done. The youngsters talked
to each other from all parts of the house.
“Hay, Yaller!” shouted one urchin
across the gallery. “Did you see me
brudder?” “Naw,” came the answer.
“Hully Mo!” shouted back the first
speaker, “me mudder will slaughter
me.” “Hi, Red,” shouted another young
ster, “where’s Mike?” “Oh, he’s down
in the parkay eating oats,” came the an
swer.
al wuH u uiock wnen congressman
Timothy J. Campbell came before the
curtain and addressed the boys. At
least he tried to tell the boys to be good
citizens, but they heard him not, and he
concluded in pantomime.
One little girl wearing a big red hat
occupied a chair all by herself in the or
chestra. “Take off your hat, Mag!”
shouted the little one behind her, but
she paid no attention, and in an instant
that hat was sailing down the aisle.
When she got it back it was in ribbons,
and to quiet her cries a policeman lifted
her into a box, where she spent most of
her time sticking her tongue out at the
other girls.
How the boys cheered when the cur
tain went up! They applauded Dr.
Carver like mad, and when he threw
the villain in the big tank they yelled
furiously. The comic Irishman and the
darky pleased them immensely, and they
marveled at Dr. Carver’s aim when he
broke all the bottles in the saloon with
rifle balls.
The actors soon discovered that it was
useless to talk, as they couldn’t be heard,
and they went on a great part of the
time in pantomime. No villain was ever
more heartily disliked than Cherokee
Jake, played by Mr. Sommerfield. One
boy in the gallery threw a half eaten ap
ple at him, and an Indian picked it up
and finished it. In the fourth act cries
came from all parts of the house to
throw Jake into the river. There was
tumultuous applause when the horse fell
through the bridge, and there was more
when the play was over. It took just
seven minutes for the house to empty,
and it seemed a miracle that no one
was hurt. Had one boy stumbled while
coming down the gallery staircase the
result would have been appalling.
After the house was emptied Manager
ComBtock went in and viewed the wreck.
Every other row had a broken seat, and
in one place an entire row wa3 demol
ished. The urchins broke open the opera
glass machines and carted off the glasses,
and in some cases took the machines
and all.
"Well,” said Mr. Comstock, “they
had a good time, and I don’t care as long
as they left the four ■walls and didn’t get
hurt.”—New York Herald.
Disuse of the Hat.
A London correspondent complains
that he cannot take his walks abroad
with his head uncovered without being
exposed to gibes and flouts and sneers
and treated as a lunatic. “And yet,” he
asks, “who but the hatter would suffer
by the almost complete disuse of the hat?
The advantages would be many. We
should entirely avoid baldness (which
our hats induce); our heads would be as
cool as our faces (which we never think
of covering, though they are less pro
tected with hair than our heads); we
should save our money and a great deal
of trouble. In this climate we need not
be afraid of sunstrokes, and we should
avoid colds in the head. It is a mistake
to suppose that either chimney pot hats
or bowlers shade the eyes. They do not
do so any more than women's bonnets.”
Alphabet Suppers.
“Alphabet suppers” are getting to be
quite a craze in some parts of the coun
try. The young people of church so
cieties arrange for an evening lunch, the
name of every article of which begins
with the same letter. Each member is
instructed to provide a portion of the
feast, and forfeit is levied against de
linquents. A “B” supper, for instance,
would include bread, beans, butter,
bananas, beef, brick cheese (by an elas
tic construction of the rule), bologna,
etc.—Exchange.
Their Weight in Halfpence.
It is said that a tradesman was lately
residing in London who had disposed of
eleven daughters in marriage, and as a
fortune for each he had given their
weight in halfpence. It is suggested
that they were rather bulky, as the
lightest of them weighed fifty pounds,
two shillings and eightpence.—London
Tit-Bits.