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All communications, to secure attention, must be accompanied by the full name of the writer. We reserve the right to reject any manuscript, and cannot agree to return the same.We desire a correspondent in every school-district of Platte county, one of good judgment, and re liable in every way. Write plainly, each item separately. Give us facts. WEDNESDAY, NOYEMBEB 30. 1887. The combination of coal dealers in the east is not agreeable there, any more than it is here. - ABBCEsrfire in Des -Moines, Isl, de stroyed the pork packing establishment of that city. Lobs 8130,000. The Liverpool steamship Dourne was wrecked last week off Cape Knisterre. Thirteen persons were drowned. The Evening Telegraph at Dublin says a warrant has been issued for the arrest of John Dillon anywhere in Great Britain. The Mansfield, (X, brass works were destroyed by firo at 1 o'clock the other morning. The loss of property will reach S12,000. Bepobts from the surrounding coun try at Memphis indicate general heavy rainfall and the quenching of the forest fires which had been so destructive. Jacob Schwah, of New York, the well known importer of laces, was instantly killed one morning last week by falling down an elevator shaft in hiB warehouse. The safe in the county treasurer's office at Centerville, Beynolds county, Mo., was blown open Friday night and robbed of about S20,000 in cash. No clue to the robbers. It is reported from London that in the recent raids upon the nihilists in the leading towns in Bussia 180 pereons were arrested. That nine officers under arrest have committed suicide. The attorney general has given his opinion regarding the law concerning indemnity lands. He claims that the rights of settlers under pre-emption and homestead laws must be protected. A bepobt comes from Detroit that ex U. S. Senator Jones of Florida has squandered all his money and is now in a destitute condition, living solely on the charity of his political friends. It is stated at Dublin that one hun dred and thirty of the Gweedore tenants have been reinstated. Their arrears of rent was reduced 2,500. There is great rejoicing among the tenantry. The Pilgrim Congregational church, worth 35,000, three large elevators, worth S1,000,000, at Duluth, Minn., were burned, Nov. 27th. The firo started from heaters in the basement of the church. m The fast express the other day at Somanauk, HI., struck a carriage con taining John Bose, an old settler, and his daughter Lillian. Miss Bose was instantly killed and Mr. R. dangerously injured. The extreme radicals of France are trying to prepare a charge of treason against President Gravy for his personal action toward the government of Peru and the French tribunals in the Dreyfus Guano affair. Burns, the socialistic leader, and Graham, member of parliament, have been arested in London, for participa tion in the Trafalgar square riot. Some testimony has been taken but the case was not disposed of. The Crofter raid for the extermina tion of the deer on the Isle of Lewes ceased on the appearance of a force of police. Troops have been sent to prevent . a renewal of the attempt. There has been a heavy slaughter of deer. Late London news speaks of the peace arbitration delegates, who ar rived at Qneenstown the other day, in the highest terms of their reception in America, and express themselves as hopeful of good results from their visit. Mb. A. King, the other day in the presence of 20,000 people, crossed the Charles river on a marine bicycle, from the bridge to the East Boston side, in nineteen minutes; distance one and a half miles. The water and wind were unfavorable. The window glass works of Hirech, Ely & Co., at Findlay, O., were destroyed by fire the other morning. The fire originated in the sand mixer. Property destroyed estimated at $67,000. The force of men, being 140, are now without employment. The timber fires were reported last week to be still burning in Tennessee, Mississippi and eastern Arkansas, and doing great damage. In nearly all the churches in Memphis prayers have been offered that showers might fall and de etruction cease. August Hatzka, of Chicago, is locked up in the police station for whipping to death his step son Max Gillne, eleven years old, with a strap that had a buckle on it. The boy was found dead in his bed with his face and body covered with marks of the strap. -Gxobgk F. Train changes his mind and sends a dispatch to a friend in Omaha from Bangor, Me, that he felt Sue, his daughter, and the children and birds of Madison square pulling him back, and that he had abandoned the idea of expatriation. Two thousand crofters on the Isle of Lewes, have commenced a campaign to exterminate deer in the forest. They claim that 6,000 crofters are starving who ought to be living on the land giv en up to deer, and that in adopting their present course they are actuated by absolute necessity. -- Settle It. The telecraph tells us that Carlisle and BandalL the recognized brains of the democratic force to be in the House of Representatives, are to meet and agree on a policy to be pursued by their party, the coming winter. This is all very well to talk about, but the differ ences are not adjustable by mere word of mouth. From a tariff that will be more or lees a protection for our own producers, manufactories and working- men as against those of foreign countries, to a tariff that is as near free trade as can be got, is too steep a declivity to fix up with words, or patch up with make shifts. The truth is that the next presidential campaign should begin now, and it should begin in earnest on this very question. The political parties should say what they believe and contend for their princi ples; make up their issues from the ac tual, present needs of the country, as they understand these, and work strenu ously for the accomplishment of their purpose. Half-hearted platforms that are so carefully worded that cunning can construe them to mean anything and everything; sentiments put forth to order, for the purpose of catching votes merely, will not do in this country very much longer. The democracy is the party of free trade, so called. Republicans, on the contrary, are attached to the opposite idea. The country generally under stands this; now let the issue be made squarely, and let it be fought out and settled. The people of the United States have disposed of several questions that in their time were not only very threatening, but also very formidable and expensive. The right to enforce laws in sections where they are obnoxious to the people was questioned, but nullification, as a practical working principle, is dead in this country. The right to secede whenever the con stituted rule of government was not coming your way was set up as a thing to be worshipped, but the people said, after much tribulation, shedding of blood and expense of treasure, that the proper way to settle difficulties of all kinds in this country is by the ballot, cast and counted by law. The tariff question has, all along, been a source of contention. Now let the elements divide, take sides, contend squarely and abide the result. The question will then be settled,for a time at least. Whatever the American idea is, it will bo so firmly fixed as a rule of action for the nation that no political party will dare disturb it. We have no hesitation in saying that the people of this country, when the issue is fairly, squarely and without mixture placed before them, will be counted for the protection of American industries. Dakota. One of the outrages of our times is the attitude of the democratic party towards the community of people north of our state the Dakotans. A territory large enough, inhabited by good people and enough of them, there is absolutely no reason why they should not be admitted into the Union of states except that, Dakota is not democratic, and there fore justice must be denied her. The political party that expects to keep itself in office by such means will find a power in the independent voter not be fore suspected by them. The sovereigns of this country, who deposit their bal lots, are a well-informed body of men; they read the papers; they study the issues; they look into the motives of men and parlies, and they will place their seal of condemnation on this busi ness, when they get an opportunity to hit hard. The American people have a habit of letting things go wrong too long they are a little too patient and long-suffering of wrongs done and laws violated, but they are learning fast, and the democratic party will find out that they must work for the public good if they wish to retain power. Ex-President Hayes never said a better thing than that "he serves his party best, who serves his country best." The Price of Coal. The coal Barons have put up the price of coal, with a whole continent under laid with rich veins of coal easily and cheaply mined, with thousands of miners out of employment, with a steady de mand for it everywhere, the price of coal has gone up because a few capitalists sitting in a luxurious parlor saw a chance to squeeze the market. It don't matter so much to a rich man or to a poor man in the vicinity of mines, but to the poor of the great cities and to a state like Nebraska it works the greatest kind of suffering and injury. The fuel problem is the great problem of this state and the added cost of one or two dollars on a ton of coal will be felt keen ly by every man in the state. Yet with corn cheaper than coal as a fuel, with all the extortionate charges for trans portation some people throw up their hands in holy horror when it is mildly suggested that there is just a little anti monopoly feeling in thestate of Ne braska. Pierce County CalL A New Repabllcaa Paper. New York, Nov. 21. The New York Press company was organized today by the election of the following board of di rectors: Frank JEIatton, Bobert B. Pot ter, Elihu Boot, Marvellew Cooper and Edward Ammidown of New York; Geo. West of Ballston, and James Phillips of Fitchburg. Mr. Hatton was elected president, Mr. Potter, vice president and secretary, and Mr. Ammidown, treasurer. The Press will make its first appearance about December 1. It will be a one cent morning paper with a two cent Sun day issue. There will also be a weekly edition. The paper will be republican in politics, and will advocate the protect ive policy. Messrs. Hatton and Potter will be the editors. Patents granted to citizens of Kansas and Nebraska during the past week, and reported expressly for this paper by C. A. Snow & Cfcx, Patent lawyers, opp. U. S. Patent Office, Washington, D. C: H. G. Hood, Wellington, Kan "force pump; J. M. Baker, Paola, Ksil, signal for telephone instruments; J. T. Carrington, and A. J. Sleeper, Clay Centre, Kan., music leaf turner; L. D. Libber, Wyan dotte, Kan., cable grip; H. Itartin and F. G. McHenry. Bloomington, Kan de vice for spooling fence wire. D. John son, West Point, Neb combined pulver izer and corn stalk cutter; G. N. New comb, Omaha, hand loom. These is about to be a general stir ring up among some of the politicians of Indianapolis, InL, .where it iB claimed that a large number of election frauds have been committed. Some prominent in managing elections liave been indict ed for various criminal offenses,, among which are said to be perjury in making false affidavits, bribery of voters, swear-, inf in illegal voters, and voting illegally. "The parties will be arrested and com pelled to answer for their unlawful pro ceedings. A telegram under date of the 27th, at Chester, says: "Gladstone looks unusu ally ill and the death of his intimate friends, Lord Wolverton and Lord and Lady Dalhousie, has evidently had a bad effect upon his nervous system, but he was able to attend church this morn ing. He has been ordered by his physi cians not to chop trees in wintry weather, however much he may chop logic in his cozy Hawarden library." At Limerick, on Friday an attempt was made to hold a demonstration in honor of the Manchester martyrs, but was suppressed by the police. The fleeing people were pursued into their houses. A serious disturbance occurred at night, the police acting in a reckless manner and using batons and bayonets. Thirty persons had their wounds dressed at the hospital. The convention fund- at Omaha has increased to $37,000. $50,000 are want ed. The Bepublican National Central Committee will do well to call the con vention to meet at Omaha. It is cen trally located, is fully up to the times (like the party) and will accommodate all who may come. "Westward the star of empire takes its way." Washington society circles are ex cited because at the funeral of Henry P. Hay, his two sons denounced Mrs. Lou isa C. B. Wickersham and her daughter, with whom Mr. Hay had been living, as infamous women who had wrecked a once happy family and brought afflic tion upon a loving wife and affectionate children. A crowded meeting was held the other day in Dublin to protest against the treatment of O'Brien by the Tulla more jail authorities. Lord Mayor Sul livan acted as chairman, and seven English members of the house of com mons were present. Gbonebing, the mayor of Council Bluff's, is not winning many laurels in his office. The other day he gave orders that the gambling houses should shut off certain games. They shut off entire ly, and then the mayor declared it was better "while the grand jury was in ses sion." The striking sugar hands at Thibo leaux, La., one morning last week fired upon white pickets who were guarding the place. The white men returned the firo and a brisk battle ensued in which twenty-five negroes are said to have been killed and two white men wounded. Last Friday Grevy. formally informed -Bonvier of his resolution to resign the presidency, and said that he would send a message to the senate and chamber by Thursday of this week. NEBRASKA NOTES. Valentine's saloon at Hastings was destroyed by fire last Saturday night. The thermometer registered 36 be low zero, at Valentine, the night of the 26th. The village of Donaphin, north of Hastings, was entirely destroyed by fire Friday night. Two men, names unknown, are report ed frozen to death near Grant, on the night of the 26th. There will be an examination for state and professional certificates in Aurora Dec. 28, 29 and 30, 1887. The post offices at Abington, Colfax county, and Thompson, Holt county, have been discontinued. A fire at York last week destroyed seven stores, including the Union and Masonic blocks. Loss $100,000. Another fire at Hastings Sunday morning burned the Palace hotel. This building was a wooden structure and partly insured. The police of Omaha arrested Peter Baxter the other day upon the charge of murdering a Minneapolis street car driver last AuguBt. Burglars visited the clothing store of Goodrich & Noreen, of Fremont, the other night and got away with goods worth in all nearly $1,000. There is no clue to the thieves. Martin Brannan, of Fremont, fell on a bad piece of side walk in that city some time ago and broke bis arm. He brought suit to recover damages, the jury awarding him $500. The State vs. Beers for murder, on trial at Lincoln, resulted Saturday last in a verdict by the jury of murder in the first degree. A motion was made by his attorneys for a new trial. The steam elevator of Clark, Heaton & Co., said to be one of the finest in the state,1ocated at Clarks,was burned to the ground. Loss on building and grain about $8,000, insured for $4,000. Newman Grove merchants are com plaining that Lindsay pays better prices for grain and thereby takes trade which rightfully belongs to them. "We cawn't 'elp it, ye know." Lindsay Sentinel. Mrs. B. A. Wilson of Plum Creek at tempted suicide Nov. 26th, by taking a dose of opium at her lodgings. She had received a letter from her husband stat ing that he had secured a divorce from her. Norfolk is said to have in prospect a canning factory; with her waterworks completed and furnishing an abundant supply of water; her citizens rejoice in her future prospects and present com forts. . At Grant much' dissatisfaction pre vails in parts of the county over the vote in that precinct on county division, Lisbon, the first town west of Grant, has organized and raised a fund to contest the election. Mrs. Kate Spears, at Friend, hanged herself in her room one day last week. She left a note saying: "I want Lonise to go to her grandfather. I cannot bear any more trouble." The trouble referred to is supposed to be between her di vorced hMbaad and herself. Mr. Craig, a brother of John Craig of Schuyler, was in Leigh last Thursday and Friday -with a view to buying more land near town. Mr. Craig is well pleas ed with Leigh and was much surprised at its growth, as he had not seen it for six years. Leigh Advocate. The Tecumseh Chieftain says: "Up wards of eleven thousand hogs were re ceived at the Omaha 6tock yards on Tuesday of last week. At this rate Oma ha will soon overtake the present Pork opous Chicago. While F. Brown and wife, of Spring field, were on their way to a surprise party, their horse ran away, overturning their buggy and throwing the occupants out Brown's collar bone was broken and his wife was badly injured. A burglar effected an entrance through a window of the county treas urer's office at Plum Creek, Thursday night, worked the combination to the vault door, and went away with $430 in money, $15 of which belonged to the county. As Levi Gutru was coming into town with a load of hay, yesterday afternoon, the wagon tipped over on the edge of the bridge on the county line, east of town, and his team was nearly killed. Levi escaped with only slight injuries. New man Grove Era. J. C. Jensen, of Fremont, met with an awful accident the other day, which may result in his death. While on a stack of hay he fell or slipped to the ground in such a way that one prong of the pitch fork entered his groin, inflicting a deep and very serious wound. Corey Shaw, aged 17, went hunting last week near Homesville. He did not return for dinner; search was made for him and about dark he was found lying dead not far from home, with a wound in his left side. There can be no doubt but that he was killed by the accidental discharge of his gun. A. F. Parsons, late police judge of Lincoln, who was removed from office by the council a short time ago for mal feasance, was arrested Saturday last at the instance of the school board, charg ed with embezzlement. His bail was fixed at $800. Nebraska officials are coming to see the necessity of enforcing the laws. What was supposed to be a genuine dynamite bombVas found placed on the steps of the bank at Wymore last Fri day morning. No one knows any mo tive for placing it there to blow up the bank, and no clue to the person who did it. The fuse had been lighted but went out. The bomb was to have been tested the next day. One day the children were having an object lesson on the blue heron. The the teacher called attention to its small tail, saying: "The bird has no tail to speak of." The next day she asked the scholars to write a description of the bird, and a little girl wound up by say ing: "The blue heron has a tail, but it is not to be talked about." The latest news from Paris states that the crisis has been reached and that President Grevy has agreed to convene the Chambers and then resign his office. It is understood that in his address he will place the blame of the trouble where it properly belongs. It is said the chamber of deputies will form a new cabinet, among the members of which will be Goblet and Peves. On Tuesday last while Geo. Whitcher was bringing a load of hogs to this place and when near Ed. Johnson's place the wagon tipped over and the wagon and load fell upon Mr. Whitcher, rendering him unsonscious. Mr. Johnson aided him in getting out and at this writing, although quite severely injured, he is getting along fairly. Newman Grove Era. Bbuno Mueller, of the printing firm of Mueller & Co., of Chicago, was bitten by a dog while protecting his ten years old son from the dog, who was also bit ten in June last. Six weeks later the boy died. On the 18th the father was stricken doi n and from that time until the 22d suffered untold agony, at which he was relieved by death. Physicians say both cases were well defined hydro phobia. Judgments of various sizes rendered in the courts as damages against saloon keepers is one of the things which tends very strongly toward making saloon keeping unpopular. Since the passage of the Slocumb law two or three have been rendered in this county, the largest of which was for $2,000 just awarded against J. N. McElroy. Fremont Trib une. The moves made this week by the B. & M. folks are rather extensive. First, and what interests the people most, is the fact that the grading to the north, north of the U. P. track, has commenced. Charles Clark has been awarded the con tract for a mile of grading and has com menced on it. There will not be much this fall above this grading, but when spreng comes the work will be pushed on. Schuyler Quill. Mr. Cannon, an ex-policeman of Lin coln, having been discharged from duty for cause, left his home the other day for parts unknown, without saying a word to his family. Mr. Thompson of that city, learning their destitute con dition, sent them some coal and had a fire built. The clerk he sent over found the children barefooted and hungry as well as cold and destitute. Mr. Thomp son supplied their present wants in fuel and groceries. Mrs. James F. Brown came up from Kansas Sunday and is stopping with friends in Schuyler. She has had no definite word as yet of her missing hus band. A body was found washed out on the shore of the Missouri below St Joe a few days ago, a partial description of which would correspond with the missing man. Mrs. Brown is awaiting further details from the coroner who in vestigated. Schuyler Sun. Last Saturday, there were two coffins sent out to Peter Nelson's near Praha, one for a child a year old, the other for a child three years old. Sunday they sent for another for a four years old boy, and Monday came the fourth order for a per son seventeen years of age. This is four deaths in one .family within three days by the dreaded disease, diptheria. Sever al cases of diptheria have been reported from Butler county also. Schuyler Sun. Our friends in the east will think that November is a queer month in which to harvest and yet yesterday morning Nov. 7th our friend, N. H. Miller, set two har vesters at work in a forty acres field of flax. Mr. Miller hits already harvested, threshed and sold this season over 1,300 bushels of ilax,and expects with this late crop to swell his receipts from this staple alone up to $1,500 the product of 100 acres. Wayne Gazette. Judge Brewer, the other day delivered his opinion in the celebrated casoof con tempt against the mayor and city coun cil of Lincoln for disobeying a writ of injunction. His opinion is quite lengthy, but he concludes it by imposing a fine of $50 each upon the mayor and three councilmen, and upon the other eight councilmen a fine of 8000 each, and that they bo remanded to the custody of the United States marshall until the sum is paid. The judge evidently believes that it is good to respect all the laws, includ ing the orders of the courts. About the worst sample of railroad ex tortion that has been practiced lately came to light in Neligh this week. Chas. Terril shipped to this place a carload of apples from a point about seventy-five miles from Council Bluffs and - the freight charges on the car were $201.68. The entire distance is less than half the distance to Chicago and the freight charges more than three times as much as they would have been from Chicago here, Bimply because there was no com peting route between these two partic ular shipping points. Neighly Leader. It may not bo generally known, but it is a fact nevertheless, that among the natnral resources of Seward county are ledges of as fine lime stone as is needed for any purpose. The quarries are situ uated in A township and steps are being taken to get a spur of the Northwestern railroad to run out to them. The one now in the best shape is on the farm of John Olney, who has taken out a large amount of building stone during tho past summer. Specimens can bo seen in the foundation of the new school house at Germnntown, and also at Bee station in the foundation of the new U. B. church. If a railroad can be secured to that point it would materially reduce the price of building stone in this city and wo hope the Northwestern people will take the matter in hand. Seward Reporter. The meeting of the board of directors of the canning company brought out some interesting facts and figures con cerning the business of the season just closed. The season's output was seventy cars of goods. These goods went east and west, and all over our own state, and are becoming known everywhere. The pay roll for October showed the names of seventy-five persons, an indication that the canning industry is becoming a per manent one. Theso seventy-five persons are not the only persons among whom the company's funds are distributed. The farmers and gardneru, and they are not few, who raise tho products, receive a share. Thus it will be seen that the can ning factory is the means of distributing a goodly sum among the people of the city and country every season. It is the intention to do a larger business next year than ever before. The Democrat trusts that the Beatrice canning com pany will continue to prosper and be a leading industry in this thriving city. Beatrice Democrat Engineer Markham and his fireman had a terrible encounter with a panther the other night on the B. & M. road be tween Minden and Axtell. From some cause the train came to a stand still. The engineer and fireman both got off the train to right matters, when the pan ther gave them notice by a frightful yell, and the next moment sprang upon the engineer and buried his claws in his shoulder. The fireman with a heavy wrench which he held in his hand struck the animal on the head, which stunned him and he loosened his hold on the engineer, but in a short time he made a leap for the fireman and buried his claws in his left hip. By this time Engineer Markham had drawn his re volver and by a lucky shot struck the brute between the eyes, killing him in stantly. Both men were badly hurt and will l)e laid up for some time. The pan ther measured nearly six feet including his nose and tail, and weighed nearly 200 pounds. We shall presently have a revolution a peaceful revolution in this country, growing out of the gradual decrease in the earnings and profit of the producers. With the wheat, the corn, the potatoes and the wool of the country bringing a less and less market price year after year, the farmer is beginning to inquire how long it will be before he will be forced to put a mortgage on his property to pay the deficit between its earning power and hiB expenditures. It is all well enough to say that he must economize, cut down his expenses, curtail his luxuries and so. on. But he has had plenty for so many years that he begins to understand that legislation and governmental interference can materially improve or injure his pros pects. When he has studied out the ef fects of legislation that tends toward free trade, his efforts will be directed toward securing a return to the prosperous times he enjoyed when protection to American Industry was the recognized, dominant, unchanging policy of the Government. Kearney Era. Washington Letter. From our regular correspondent. The congress about to convene I re gard in many respects as the most im portant that ever assembled under our form of government Never before has a similar contingency existed where the party in power propose to elect a speaker whose right to a seat is very questiona ble, and will be most seriously contested. There are numerous indications to strengthen the belief that the adminis tration intends to hold a tight reign, and needs just such a man as Mr. Carlisle in the chair to effectually carry out the programme. The possibility that the election of the president may be thrown into the house, renders the organization of that body of the utmost importance. While the republicans have a majority of the states in the house, the democrats have a majority of the members. It only needs a change of two seats to give the democrats a majority of the states, and Mr. Carlisle's committee on elections will be organized for that purpose. Indiana, for instance, has seven repub licans and six democrats, and the seat of one of the republicans, is contested. Suppose Carlisle's partisan committee seats the democrat Indiana then passes into the democratic column. So with California, where there is another con test, and so with Michigan, where there is another contest and so with Michi gan, where there are strong intimations that a case will be made up. The ad ministration is ready to resort to des perate means to hold its power, and the struggle will be a fierce one. Several weeks ago I alluded to Mr. Mills, of Texas, a radical free trader, as the probable chairman of the committee on ways and means, He says the ques tion is settled, and that he has that committee, which signifies red-hot war on the present tariff system. I want to predict further that it will end in blus ter, and that after all there will be no very material changes. The democratic party is good on "dress parade," but sadly deficient in materializing legisla tion. During the war yon will remember that a large amount of paper fractional currency was issued, and the books at the .treasury show that there is still outstanding over $15,000,000 of that currency, though it was called in more than twelve years ago. There iB none in circulation now, and the question comes up, where iB it? Has it leen destroyed, or is it held in bits by the people as souvenirs? In this connection it is es timated that $20,000,000 of currency is annually destroyed by firo and ship wreck, and possibly thore is where this fractional currency has gone. Candidates for subordinate official position in the organization of the next house, are multiplying daily. The southern states are turning them out by the score, and one would think from the clamor that that is the only section of the country that can furnish good dem ocratic material. They want everything from clerk to postmaster. Northern democrats are disgusted with this exhi bition of arrogace, and threaten lively times in caucus if this packing process is to continue. For the past three days there have been all manner of rumors in regard to cabinet changes, but up to this writing no decisive action. The most plausible story is that Vilas will remain where he is; Senator Colquitt, of Georgia, take Lamar's place, and Governor Gordon succeed Colquitt in tho senate. Col quitt is not a talking man, Gordon is, and the administration needs more of that sort in the senato to meet the re publican giants. Ex-Secretary Chandler, of the Navy, now senator from New Hampshire, has several big guns loaded which he will let off in due time about certain naval contracts under this administration. Chandler never talks unless he has something to say, and Secretary Whit ney may have to stand up and explain some very dubious transactions. It is understood here that Chandler is well equipped for the fray. In his annual report, the Inspector General of steamboats estimates that during tho past year 500,000,000 passen gers were carried on steam vessels, and out of that vast aggregate, only 220 lives were lost. This would indicate steamboats as the safest mode of travel. Figures at tho Postomce Department show that the amount of money sent by money orders and postal notes during the past year reaches nearly SloD,000,000. It seems fabulous, yet the records in the office of the Commissioner of Bail roads actually show that over eight thousand millions of dollars are repre sented in tho railroad system of this country. Prof. S. P. Langley, of Pennsylvania, one of the best knowm scientists of the country, has been elected secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. This se lection has no political bearing, and is most worthily bestowed. b. dUucano iu vfMiiuKijt, , 1 Helps te nsterest la Written Work. It has been my experience that pu pils like to have their work put up where it can be seen, if it is well done, or if it has been painstaking even though not well executed. There are numberless ways of creat ing an interest in written work, which are at once simple and within the reach of every teacher. My first plan is, to provide myself with a yard of black cambric, and fast en it by the end to the top of the blackboard, or in any place that is not required for daily lesson work. In every school room there is some cor ner that is of little use for blackboard work, and this corner makes the best place for the cambric. Have it fasten ed only at the two upper corners, but have it hung perfectly smooth. On this can be pinned, at will, specimens of any written work done by your class. One day let it be language, another, examples, and a third, the perfect spelling papers. You will very soon see how the pu pils will linger about that corner at recesses and after school, and, if you will, you can hear some very good com ments on the papers exhibited. The children will 'learn much from the criticisms of their mates, and as pupils almost invariably wish to stand well in the estimaiion of those of their own age, it proves a wonderful incentive to care-taking in the preparation of papers. It will not be long before you will find the pupils watching anxiously for the correction of their papers, to see whether or not they merit exhibition. Any method is wrong which excludes the pupil from active participation. They should have something to look up, to inquire about to read and study. Even beginners in geography who are taught orally, shown pictures and taken on imaginary journeys, should have something to learn, to remember and to recite. If not given in the text books in the best form, or if these are wanting, sentences should be written on the black-board or dictated to the pupil and these should be committed to memory, or the substance of them learned and recited. Becitation is an important part of tho process of acquir ing an education. American Teacher. Do not talk so much. Givo the children a chance. Require prompt answers, but en courage the slow. Have a plan of conducting the reci tation with a clear notion of the points to be made. Secure order, if possible, without corporal punishment; but secure order at all hazards. iter Historical GaaM with Cartfa. Ob tte Hktory of th United States. Directions tor pteylac tweaty-two game are given. Child mi axe deugbted with then, and tbae iataeed to tad? History with a new seel. In neat box, full directions. 40 cents postpaid. A. FLANAGAN. lMBaadela St. fee Ml Ceteioroe of Oeemes, faeaksjs. ett. ERNST & -MANUFACf UREUS aSBBBBBBsf MLaaWaaVMCBBBW MTW AmmWf 1V DSBBBBBBsl HsBBftB &xJ"'1BV M m aTsmW WfcV " r r mi. 'i - t n, i ,( . . n sBBBBBBBBBBBBEPCWCK2S'3sW-,'f "- SUPERB LAMP FILLER AND GOAL OIL im?'1y C??J&?' S.P'AP'iinot leScelUM.. . It embodie- th pinions."' AbluTera. VM&TMttl&?tJ& or ouUide of can. Ue it ono and vqu will not & wthont it for H "e 1men U clt ltwoVkfa. law cans as well as smaH otifta. theKoj savinjc tho f rtnent and annointrip"to1he ,, witu a small oan. Lry can made of ihe very bwt tin. and warrnb! to work sf.irtorily CMitJt sample can and cetsneca. ' uanust .SSBSBBBBBBBniaBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBmrMi IjEjLSSBBBSSSSSSVISSEiSSSSSSSl '-''BSBHBSSnBSSVBBBiBSBKBABSSSSlSi C."-!KKfjaHSSSSSSBTBa h -T t-i SSHSaSSSSSSSSSSajSSSSI'SB fiiiSrF & ST " iT'BSmisV ' M III 't i M r u ' jtxjaFW K -T CTSFiSes BAKER PERFECT STEEL BARB WIRE. tanfyoutmyityongeUOOroOsof fence from 100 pound-) of wire, which no ether will di.J Eleventh Mckinley & carnahan, M0MTG&GE MMEm9 COIiUMBUS, NEB. Money to loan on improved farms in this and adjoining counties, at current rates. We are 'prepared to close loans promptiy, in all cases where title and security are satisfactory. Office up-stairs in Henry Building, corner of Olive and Eleventh streets. juiymetr SPEIOE & ISTOKTH, General Ayent.tfor (lie sale of KBAL E1ST-.T Union Pacific and Midland Pacific It. It. I Jind for wile at from $3.00 to 10.00 r acre for cash or on five or ten jenre time, in uniiur.l imjinentH to unit purchnwerH. We huHluoii large and choice lot of other lnnii. improved ami uuimproved, for bale at low price and on re.tronnlile term. Altto businena and residence loti in the citj. We keep a complete ulwtract of title to all real entitle in Platte County. COLUMBUS. NEBRASKA. ,;-' W. T. RICKLY& BRO. Wholesale and O z Game, Poultry, and Fresh Fish. AH Kinds of Sausage a Specialty. JSyCash pul for Hides. Pelts, Tallow. HfcheHt market price paid for fat cattIe.lS-2 Olive Street, second door north of First National Bank. The American School ranks among the best educational magazines. Its arti cles are practical, short, to the point, and are calculated to help the teacher in her actual school room work. Its subscription price is only 50 cents. Every teacher in this county should invest this mm. Send it to L. W. Applegate, Boom 5, Hamilton Block, Chicago. We advise all yoim? persons who are looking for something to turn up to stop :t and turn something: up. WeV by commendations that the students or the Ccutral College of Kclectlc Shorthand, 92 Dearborn street. Chicajro. are re markably successful in the use of :orthaud and typewriting aul we advise all who are interested to send to the College its circular. Clbji Ctfrgi f B uas aid Ptouiukip. 130 Madison St.. Chicaoo. The Leading College of Builaess, Penmanship and Shorthand in the Northwest The compre hensiveness of the studies embraced In each of the several courses, the liberal tuition rate, the careful individual instruction and attention. ead a esrdb's trial free, are some of the superior features of this College. Remember, also, the area advantage in 4ttendtng a college in a great commercial city like Chicago. A business edu caUoa should be received in a Business College in a btalnesBCitr. Your chances of securing a good position as book keeper, pen artist, or sten ographer are then ten to one. SCndtcsu BOOK-KKEPING. 81NGLK AND DOUBLE I EN TRV.BUSINKJSPRACT1CE.AXDOFFICEWORK. Ctmmmainl Law. Oentnirctal Arithmetic. Eng lUk Grammar. Reading. Wntna. Spftva OtOQ. w.iung ButiitM CortoAet, Wat Hoiu aforkeaf . ftc DeBartsaentst thxprbparatoby. commercial oabusi NspecIalpenmakshipandsuorthand AlfDTYPEWRITlSG DEPARTMENTS each un der the management and Instruction of an able eld experienced teacher. No vacations: students oaa enter at any lime. Heaaut. well lighted rooms. TulUon the lowest. No other school In Ohteaao rives instruction In four syrtems of aboetKno-Graham's. rumen's. Marsh's and Writs for Catalogue aad partlctila.'a. Informs ttog!adl7Svea7 WllON 4 CONDRING I The Priacipal will board six stodsau. SCHWARZ, AND DEALERS IN CAN COMBINED, GARL1KD STOVES AND RANGES . A LWA YS FOK 8 A L E AT MIST & WWWW ERNST & SCHWARZ. 1-2C HEHH7 ?i:-t." I CO, Have a Fine Line of Staple and Fancy GROCERIES, Crockery and Glassware, Which v.ero bought eheaj for c:h,l and will be sold at very low price. Street, t'oluisihug. Nebraska. mvl0-tf Itetail Dealers in 3u.tr TBE mm AIO FIIEST STOCK west of Omaha, at GREZSEN BROS. The best manufactories of the country represented. Not to bo undersold by anybody. Come and see prices at GREISEN BROS. Artrmw ,. . Jr " 4 PM Yiss svser TDaerirTTYaT- 1 BAWfft w larewcti. mm i n iitini ni i iliiii'M (Via aama nwnr-nef avi aea at Ka w - - - - a a. toavenleat to put on and the top can bo aUHtf! Is U any an felo by simply martas uW bottOMs AWHsWU GREISEN BROS. 18th Oct. 'M-tr .aSJaSSSsss fatt ComgrW 'B-M awssssl "JasasVIJIVHP afUUl c saHsB a BBBarsaW c s --V - 4 I