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II jC. " a- i. fv. s;4fcse Jfc?i 5. J-r.FH' . "" -&; jmrnraL m "" - - & VK-: :: WHOLE NUMBER 1,171. VOLUME XXm NUMBER 27. COLUMBUS NEBRASKA WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1802. CfflumMs i.-- -.. i j. I". - -I: .:- -; -.- -". -. -if. 1 . - . ---. - i'.-' V THE OLD RELIABLE Columbus - State - Bank ! ' (Oldest Bank in tho State.) V . I- :!; Pays Merest on Time Deposits .' ' -' Hies Loans on Real Estata . iSTifeS BIGHT DRAFTS CH Omaka, Chicago, New York amd at Foreiga Comntries. SELLS : STEAMSHIP : TICKETS. BUYS GOOD NOTES 'And .Helps ita Customers when they Need Help, MEANDER GERRARD.Trest. B. IL HENRY, Vico Tres't. ' JOHNSTAUFFER. Cashier. M.BRDGGER, G.W.IIULST. -OF- COLUMBUS, NEB. IIAS AN- 40MD1 W .Authorized Capital or500,000:.VVI1?,rf-nrcsIcntea-.tnat Q,lsl" ln ln. ' p-iiiliiirniiit.il - on'in-(legislature last winter, had aiea sua- . OFFICERS: C. H. SHELDON, TrcsV. - H.P.ILOHLRICII.Vicorret. C. A. NEWMAN. Cashier, DANIEL SC1IRAM, JUrt f'A. STOCKHOLDERS: C. II. Sheldon, .7. 1. Rercer, Herman I. II. Oehlrich. Carl Itienke. JtfmWWelch," W. A. McAllister, J. Henry Wnrtleman, II. M. Wiuslow, fieonro W. Galley. a. C. G rey. Frank Rorer. Arnold F. II. Oehlrich, Henry Loceke, Gerhard JLoeko. tyBaakordepoit; interest allowed on time ! SaSei ij be fight deposits; buy and Pell exchanpoon United States I Grace "Williams as she is well known andEaropf, and buy and sell availablesenritiea. in South Omaha, made an unsuccess W shall bo pleased to receive jonr business. We ' ful attempt to commit suicide, taking CStisit your patronage. 28decS7 a TfrTTd C1TPT TT -"- -L U ODJliljJ-ij DEALEB IK And all Kinds of Pumps. PTJM2S REPAIRED ON. SHORT NOTICE. Eleventh Street, one 'door west of Hagel & Co'a. 6juneS8-y COIL,TJlVIBTJS Planing Mill. We haT jnst opened a new mill on M street, ' . oppoeito Schroeners' fioorlnK mill and aro prr- pared to' do ALL KINDS OF WOOD WORK, . such as Sasli, Doors, . Blinds, Mouldings, Store Fronts, Counters, Stairs, Stair Railing, Balusters, Scroll Sawing, - Turning, Planing. BTEEL AND IRON ROOFING AND. SIDING.- tyAll orders promptly attended to. Call oa or address. HUNTEMANN BROS., jnlSm Colombia, Nebraska. PATENTS CiiTMta and Trade Marks obtained, and all Pat ent business conducted for MODERATE FEES. OUR OFFICE IS OPPOSITE U. S. PATENT ' OFFICE. We have no sab-agencies, all business direct, henco re can transact patent business in ""lees time and at LESS COST than those remote from Washington. . 8end model, drawing, or photo, -with 'descrip tion. We advise if patentable or not, free of charge. Oar fee not due till patent is secured. A book, "How to Obtain Patents," with, refer-, ences to actual clients in your state, county or ' town, sent free. Address :' C. A SHOW S& Opposite Patent Oflico. Washington, .-COME TO-. r QF ALL KINDS. IM M Mills Tlie J wrnal for Job tf o NEBEASKA NEW& STATE BREVITIES. Ileal Estate transactions in South Omaha arc on the increase. Bud Keene of broken Low was killed by being thrown from his horse. A Kingfisher, (Okl.) dispatch says that place is rapidly filling with" N braska people. At the recent Nuckolls county fair the attendance was larger and the ex hibit better than ever before. The citizens of Greeiey are arrang ing for a shipment of Hour to the loctced cut laborers at Homestead. The Hurlbut & Lefwrich circus which has just comoleted its season, arrived iu Norfolk last week, and have arranged lo make that place their win ter quarters again. Amended articles of incot oration of the Bank of Hay Springs were filed at the office of the secretary of state last week. The earjltal stock is increased froin $1,000 to$5,000. Cyrus Mead, a yoang man whose family live in Omaha suicided in Den ver last week. He was a hard drinker and had been out of work, tho two combining in a bad case of despond ency. "While Mrs. Coone., of Clay Center was out driving hist Sunday afternoon her horse became frightened at a bi cycle and ran away, thi owing her upon the ground and breaking her collar bone. "While Mrs. Ed Burnt, of Friend was out milking, the elder children acci- dently set the bed on lire, upon which was sleeping a C-months-old child. The infant was literally cremated, and only lived a few minutes after being discovered by tho mother. Sheriff Rogers of Sundance, Wyo., passed through Grand Island with two norse thieves, Tom Johnson and Billy Burke, whom ho was escorting back to the United States court at Clfovenne. whore they will be tried for stealing horses from the government. Intelligence was received last week in Dakota City, by telegraph from Chi cago that Hon. John M. Jloan, one of Dakota City's leading citizens, and Kudolph Altcnfclt of Norfolk, who recently bought the bakery business ot John lTcythlacr. lias suddenly disap I peared, together with his entire bank account and the savings of his wife. lie has oeen marriea out six weeks and no cause is known for his strange ac tions. At Dakota City the coroner's jury on the bedy of George LuiTy. aiias Billy ( wu jviu, wno was Kineu in a prize dght in Covington Sunday night by IJackKeefe, brought in a verdict of j ueath caused "by rupturo of tho heart j produced by over exertion while en- I sulphate of atropia. The girl is about 1 years olu and is a waitress at Ward's oyster puriors at 2409 N street where she has been employed for about one month. Pnysicians" saved her life. U. rredencKson, a shoe dealer of Nebraska City, was the victim of a bo- ' gus check racket. A stranger pur chased a pair of shoes, tendering in j payment a check for $15, purporting to have been signed by Waio &ccles' 1 ston of that city. The check was pro- . tiounccd a forger but the stranger had ! Hon. I " I lnl --i .MftH .- nf M Z' . k. - . "''" ujciwiauw ui Vsiuy v-cuiur aro getting straightened around since the lire and all of them have found nlaces in whish to continue business. Other ! merchants and business men have been very kind in dividing their room and helping the unfortunate ones. Most of those who lost buildings are making j preparations to rcouiia. I August HoDner. a farmer living I south of Inland, went to that dace for jaloau of stone. Toward evening the team returned with the stone but with out the driver. A search was insti tuted by the family and Mr. Kopner was found in a ditch by the roadside with several ribs broken and scarcely alive. He was tatcen home where he died. The large barn of Joseph Shelly, living about six miles north of Bc'r trand was totally destroyed by lire to gether with fifteen head of valuabio horses, a number of cattle, grain, hay and farming implements. The fire was not discovered in timo to savo anything. Mr. Sheily's ioss is about $G, 000 on which there was insurance of $1,500. C. A. Meyer of Belle Rrairie pre cinct, Fillmore county, met with a horrible death Sunday evening. A little girl stuck a lighted mutch into a load of hay standing in the barn. Mr. Meyer discovered the flames and in trying to get his stock out of the build ing his clothing caught fiiro and was burned entirely off. He died about three hours after. Sunday traffic on the Burlington be tween Pacific Junction and l'lattsmuth was at a standstill, due to tho burning of thirteen bents of a bridge between the points mentioned. The fire was discovered by a small boy, who re ported the fact to the section men in time to arrest the freight and the fast mail, then overdue. The mishap nec essitated a transfer of business by way of Council Bluffs and Omaha. it. C Evans a brakeman on the Rock Island, was fatally injured at Alvo, a s$nall station on the line of that road in Cass county. He was in the act of removing an obstruction from the track when he was caught by the.wiecls. His right font was -crushed and his skull fractured. He was nut on a train and brought o Lincoln, but died before reaching there. Evans was about U6 years of age and un married. Wiiliam Nelson of Dixon should thank the clerk at the Merchants hotel, Omaha, that ho was given a large room, because if he had not had a large room; with the windowpartiaily open and tho transom up. he would be playing on a harp and singing psalms today. He blew out the gas and went to a sleep that would have been one that knows no waking if tho oder of gas had not been detected. It is stated that when the Armagost oase is calied in David City, Mrs. Ar- vnacosc win asu a cnango oi venue from liutler county. J ne grounds for J the request will be thai the public is prejudiced arainst her. a'nd that a fair any impartial trial cannot be secured. The fellow Fred Stewart, who is being held in Lincoln Is wanted in Be atrice on a "harge of forgery. He is charged with forging the name of C. jli Bennett, a restaurant keeper of mat city ana a former employer of Stewart to three $10 checKS. aii oi which were cashed in that city. Threshing is about done in Keya Paha county. Smail grain is as good as iast year, but not as plentiful. The average yield is about eight busheis of wheat per acre. Cofn is out of the way of frost. The crob is from very good to mtuiuiii and soma below me dium. Already the railroads are beginning to feel tne movement of grain toward the centers of trade and the cry for cars rivals that historic cry that came out of Macedonia. The Milwaukee is already negotiating for the building of a couple of hundred cars in time for the movement of corn. Tne lluck is land would Usee to borrow 1. U00 cars from some raiiroad company that has a surplus of that commodity while the Burlington and Union Pacific have sent out tracers for an vailable roiling stock. While Ticket Agent Will Loucks of Fremont; of the Union Pacific was at dinner, some one pried open the ticKet window and entering helped them selves to ail tho loose change in tne drawer, $0.00, and left for parts un known. An attempt was made a few nights before to enter the ticket olliee of the Elknorn. In aUemptuig to pry the ticicet window open tne fastening at the top was broken, but at the same time the glass in the wiudow was also broken wnich probabiy frightened the person away. A party of Ashland peop'.e, while out nutting, mot with an , accident which resulted in nearly killing one of the party. There were five of them, two women and two boys and a little girl. Tho horses tvere startled bv one of the boys throwing the tongue down when he look it Out Of the necic youe. the tugs not yet having been un hooked. The team were co.ts and easily startled. Tncy started to run and broke the tongue, throwing the women out and hurting Mrs. Hughes very badly. There arc "doubts about her recovery. Deputy United States Marshal Mel icic brought Hurtrel McGeorgo to Lin coin iast week, having found his pris oner at Bed Cloud. McGeorge was an employe of the B. & M. eating house at Red Cloud, lie is charged with opening a letter directed to Mrs. F. O. Fiiley of Lincoln and taking therefrom a certain amount of money. He was taken before United States Commis sioner L. W. Biilingsiey. The absence of an important witness made a post ponement necessary. Tne case was therefore continued. Knox county is considerably worked up over wholesale cattle stealing that has been going on for three months. Soino time apo Mr. Hall, living near Bioomrieid. lost three cars of o-year-oid steers which he has not been able to locate. Mr. Stiflin, living in the same neighborhood, recently lost twenty-nine head. Last week G. V. Gravonski had fifty-nine head stolen from his herd near Penn Va'tiey. Tnir-ty-one of these are young steers branded N on the right iiip; sixteen mixed branded S on tho left hip. The people aro thoroughly aroused and there is talk of organizing a vigilantes committee. Great excitement was created at Chadron by the discovery of a petrified man about two miles north of that city, near Natural Wail, one of tho creat wonders of that region. The body was found by Fd. Kossiter whiie engaged in gathering fossils. It is that of a man six feet tall, well de veloped, and in a perfrct state of pres ervation. It was found buried in butte ciay and weighs over five hun dred pounds. The teeth are plainly visible and tho skull head and lips are those of a necro. Tho finder was of fered $2,000 in cash for the specimen but refused. Two civii actions have been com menced in the district court of Dakota county, on behalf of Dakota county and against ex-Treasurer G. W. Wil kinson and his bondsmen to recover $13. -111. .'50 claimed to be due the eounty for the terms of the treasurer from 1SSG to 18'JO. An expert was employed by the county to make an examination of the treasurer's books and Wilkinson seitied according to his findings. Afterwards a private ex pert was put to work in the same of fice and he reported tho above addi tional shortage, which the county now seeks to recover. Nels A Kenstrom and Tills Lund of Oakiaud were arrested for breaking into the house of Oscar Lincoln, as saulting Mrs. Kenstrom. wife of Neis A. Kenstrom, and Oscar Lincoln. Mrs. Kenstrom left her husband about five wecus ago on account of cruelty. At 3 o'clock in the morning Kenstrom. in company with Tiils Lund, went to Mr. Lincoln's house, where IJenstrom's wife was stopping. Kenstrom de manded that tho door be opened, which was refused. He then broke it in and a general fight ensued, Mrs. Kenstrom being hurt quite severely. The of fenders wiil have to answer before the district court Prof. W. P. Kogers, principal of the commercial department of Wesleyan university had disappeared, leaving over $1,000 indebtedness. A weeic ago he departed telling his friends he was going to Lansas City to attend a wedding and he would bo gone about ten days. Although a single man he too'ic along his trunk. Last week a professor received a letter from him stating that he had given up his posi tion and was going to Aiasica. the let ter being written enrotite on one of the southern railroads. He gave as a reason for leaving that he was involved in love affairs and didn't know which one of the girls to choose. Piainview is in a great state of ex citement caused by the arrest of Dr. A. J. I.aw on the charge of commit, ting criminal assaults on his two step daughters. Edith and Beile Ellwood, aged respectively 17 and 13 years. The giris are both in a deiicate con dition, and it is said will become mothers in a short time. The young est girl states that Law has been prac ticing his heliish designs upon her since the was cieven years old. The family has lived here over two years and came from Elkhorn. where Mrs. Law's brother runs a hotel. The' father of the girls is said to live in Council BiulTs, Law is in jail in Pierce, xfie Irvine .llnrdcr Trial In Lincoln. Li:;colx, Neb., Oct. 15. The court ro$n was packed yesterday by a throng of people who had gathered to hear the evidence in tho Irvine trial. The day was uneventful as far as sen sational events were concerned. When court assembled the defense made a determined effort to have, the flourt's ruling appointing Judge McCulloch of Indianapolis as one of tho torncys for Ihe state reconsidered. Mr. Whedon stated that if the order were set aside no further objection would be made to 'Judge McCulloch's appearance in tho 'case. The object of tho defense was evidently to prevent the Indiana jurist taking any active part in Ihe case. They were willing ho should sit by and counsel and advise but nothing more. Developments of a lively na ture may be looked for in this lino. Tho long expected confession of Mrs. Irvine was read shortly before adjournment It was for this docu ment that the big crowd had waited so patiently all day, and when it finally came it was a disappointment to all who had hoped for salacious details. Mr. Irvine wiil go on the stand to day unless a recess is taken at noon until Monday. It may be positively stated that Mrs. Irvine will not go on the stand unless the state's rebuttal of the testimony to bo introduced by the defense makes her evidence absolutely necessary. In that event she will tes tify in behalf of her husband. The state will also introduce expert testi mony to rebut the expert evidence to be offered by tho defense. The prin cipal expert for tho state will be Dr. S. V. Clevinger of Chicago, author of 'Comparative Psysioiogy and Psychol ogy," and also of a wcric on "Spinal Concessions." Before adjournment of court the dc feuse offered in evidence two of the papers taken from Irvine at the time bf the shooting. One was a page torn from tho register of the Hotel Grace in Chicago, and the other was the much talked of confession of Mrs. Irvine's intimacy with Montgomery. It was as follows: Chicago, 111., May 21. To my husband. W. II. Irvine, I hereby make tho following statement and of my own free will and accord: I first became well acquainted with G. E. Montgom ery three years ago. He told me you were not treating me right. Ho treated me kindiy ana showed me attention; in fact, ho was very attentive. After dark we went to rido often. He kissed me and loved me by putting his arms around me. This friendship com nieuced when you were west. He told me you had gone west to have a good time and that you did not care for me. He was aimost constantly telling me that you did not love me, but that he did. Some time in February, 1S92, on my visit cast, I stopped at Lincoln. While there, at his request, Mr. Mont gomery and I made arrangements to go to Chicago together, ln the after noon of February 23 I left Omaha and met Mr. Montgomery. We came to Chicago and I met him at the Grace hotel. Our rooms joined and ho vis ited me in my room three or four times that afternoon and evening. Wo went to the Grace hotel separately at hiB request. It was agreed that when I should reach the hotel I should reg ister as Mrs. J. IL Miller. This name was suggested by him. Mks. W. H. luviyn.'' Nebraska on Wheel. HuXTiXGTOy, Ind., Oct. 15. Ne braska on Wheels No. 2 exhibited to a large portion of the citizens of this city today. The display of Gage county at tracted the attention of tho manager of Huntington's lime works, who at once ordered a quantity of raw mate rial from Nebraska, f nforraing the rep resentative that if tho consignment stood the test his company was ready to invest with ample capital for con ducting largo works. The advisory board decided today to keep the train out one week later, vis iting southern Wisconsin and southern Illinois. Winter I'roner.t in Wyoming. Ciikykxxk, Wyo., Oct. 15 For nearly two days tho severest storm ever known on the Union Pacific rail road has been raging hero and as far west as Ogden, U. T. In ail directions telegraph commu nication was cut off until early this morning when this dispatch was sent through on a temporary wire. All railroads have been blocked, the cuts being filled with snow which in somo places was piled up eighteen feot. Rotary snow plows have been hard at work between Granite and Laramie, the snow being five feet on tho level at the latter place. A haif dozen westbound trains were tied up here ail yesterday, but left after the return of the snow plow last night. At Granite canon Conductor Koberts yesterday was blown off the platform of a car and hurled down a 150 foot embankment, the deep snow saving his life. Reports are being received of im mense loss of cattle and horses in northern Colorado and in Wyoming. Thousands of dollars' worth of theso animais aro known to have perished, and it is estimated that almost a third of the cattle and horses on the ranges have been destroyed by the storm. NKW ItltlKF.s. Cholera is spreading through the whole of southwestern Russia. The government of South Australia was defeated in the colonial parlia ment on certain financial proposals. All but two of tho judges of tho United States supreme court will at tend the Chicago dedication services. Jacob Lamert, a prominent citizen of Braxton county, Pa., was shot from ambush while walking in his garden and has since died. His son commit ted the deed. United States Consul Smith, at Three Rivers, Quebec, Canada, in a report on quarantine published in the Sanitary Report, rcl erred in scathing terms to the- filth of the town. Upon receiv ing the report the citizens became highly indignant, and the consulate was stoned. Mrs. Abigail Gregory .died at Garden City from the effects of a dose of med icine administered by Mary Cart-1 wriglit, who was not licensed to prac tice. The medicine contained corrosive sublimate, a deadly poison. Criminal action will be brought against Miss Cartwright. j FOREIGN MARKET OPENED IIOW THE FIVE MILLION FA It .71 tllS OF THE &.VND II.1YG IIEEX &EUVED. Their 1'roducts Uorno Succesfulljr Into Ever) Foreign Market .w Agricultural Opportunities Devel oped Cattle Disease Maniped Out Commuulcating witli tho l'coplc. t There are about 5, 000, 000t farmers In tho United Stated iind with heir families and laborers they constitute nearly one-half tho population of tho Union. Tho earnest work done for this vast body of people has frequently led to the denunciation of tho Harri son Administration by the Democracy as a "Farmers' Government " Gladly the contemptuous fling is accepted as a title of distinction by the Republican party, whose pioneers thirty-live years ago were largely recruited by tillers ol the soil. At the time tho present administra tion came into power profound de pression seemed to be the prevailing sentiment among the farmers. A slight but steady diminution in the prices of most of" tho staple agricultural pro ducts had been going on for some years. During tho very first year of President Harrison's administration, however, the adverse agricultural cur rent which seemed to threaten the country's prosperity was arrested indeed, it was turned back, and tho future once more holds out bright promises to the American farmer. A II.utv Choice in Uxcdi: Jukky" Krsit! Tho first step taken by President Harrison was tho choice of Hon. J. M. Kusk as Secretary of Agriculture. The official's success is the talk of the nation. Hitherto tho Agricultural Department had been regarded with indifference or,- what was worse, good natured contempt All this has been changed. Realizing that his nominee would be practically the first Secretary of Agriculture of the United States, and that upon him would devolve the responsibility of showing to the coun try whether tho elevaiion of tho de partment to its present rank was a wise or unwise measure. President Harrison chose for this portfolio a man of affairs, endowed with exceptional good sense, with energy and perse verance in thorough sympathy with farmers and ail their pursuits. OfLxixt; Fokeigx Makketsto Amer ican Meats. In the promotion of the live stock interests the Harrison administration has scored a notable triumph. When it came into power, vexatious restric tions, and in some countries prolonged quarantine, discouraged and hampered exporters of live stocir. while the meat trade, especially that in pork of the utmost importance to tho greatest number of farmers was practically strangled by oppressive regulations and costly inspections abroad, and, in the case of pork, by absolute pohiM tion In most of the countries of Eu rope. Tne growth of the pork trade, so thriving duriug the seventies, was pitifully reduced duriug the foliowing decade, and there was a disastrous glut of the home maricet. But it was not to continue through the Harrison administration. An ad mirable system of inspection has been devised in the teeth of opposition, and with no dearth of skepticism as to re sults. Restrictions against the admit tance of American pork havo been re moved by the following European countries: Germany, September 3, 1S91; Austria, December 4. 1SD1; France, December 5. 1S91; Spain, May 21, 1S92. From Seutember, 1S91, to April, 1892, more than 30,000.000 pounds of inspected pork have been exported. This prosperity reminds the producers of the good old days be fore 1881. By that timo foreign coun tries had absolutely refused our hog products. In the years in which these prohibitions wero enacted our export trade absorbed IG.o per cent, of the entiro quantity turned out by tho packing houses of the United States. So with cattle. It was estimated that the requirement of immediate slaughter by Great Britain depreciated tho price of American cattle in that market from $10 to $15 per head as compared with Canadian builocks ad mitted without restriction. This meant for the period during which the pro hibition had been enforced, a direct loss abroad certainly of $4, 000, 000; and, the depression affecting the price of every steer marketed in the United States, the homo loss has been estab lished at $25. COO. 000 annually. The republican administration took hold of this matter vigorously and sagaciously. Tho allegations of the existence of disease among American cattle often falsely made by foreigners to justify the restrictions which made tho trada unprofitable havo been disDroved when false; and a tireless fight waired for the extirpation of plcuro-pneumo-nia in the one or two comparatively insignificant sections of the country where this menace to the cattle inter ests could bo discovered. This task was tremendous. It involved co-inspection by representatives of the de partment in Great Britain of all ani mals inspected by the British author ities, inspection on this side of animals shipped abroad, and a system of num bering and tagging some 400,000 ani mals so that any alleged case of dis ease could be traced from its original source. TnEWoxii:nrt;i. Inspection Service Under the present administration all this vast amount of work has been un dertaken and carried out; so success fully, indeed, that on the single item of insurance of cattle in transit, shippers-are saving annually $2. 000, 000 on the prices paid three or four years ago. An idea of a part of the labor of this bureau can be obtained when it is known that in two years it inspected 59,483 herds, 594,417 animals; tagged 102.S01; purchased and killed 4,440; hac made 103,145 post mortem exam inations and disinfected 7, 96d promis ee. Not a case of the dreaded disease has been found in any part of the country where it previously existed during tho last twelve months, with the single exception of one county in New Jersey, and there over two months have eiapsed without a new case hav ing been discovered. Yet this is a disease with which Great Britain and many other coun tries have been unsurcjssfiiliy coping for forty and fifty year.- with the re sult that many authorities declare that its thorough extirpation is Impossible. Of the new markets opened to Amef can farmers by this administration, mention is made elsewhere. Tho in vestigation of the resources and con ditions of bther countries which might be made available as markets for our surplus crops has fallen largely to the Agricultural department The intro duction of our American Indian corn into Great Britain rind Germany, es pecially for use as human food, gives promise that before tho present ad ministration closes an American pro duct hardly known abroad, save as a cheap substitute for cattle feed, wiil be in demand all over Europe as a cheap and nutritious substitute for other cereal foods. No longer will an abundant corn crop mean low prices. In the last decade but four per cent of the crop has gone abroad. Better things ahead! NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR FARMERS. The policy of this administration, as regards the food supply of tho na tion, is to have our own farmers pro .duco it. It is a matter of surpriso to many to find that every year American consumers pay for eigners between 1250,000.000 and $275,000,000 for farm products which can and ought to be successfully grown on American soil to the profit of the American farmers. For instance tho administration has revived the cour nge and energy of American sugar producers. Why should every living American be levied upon to the extent of $1.(50 annuaily to support tho for eign sugar-producing industry? Tho department of agriculture has found scores of incidental ways to prove use ful to the farmer and the country. New methods havo been developed by which the farmer is now enabled to save a large portion of his fruit crop from the ravages of insect pesta or plant diseases, and so with his cerca! crops, hi3 cdtton, potatoes, hops and tobacco. Van Wyck'a Double Play. We have a law on -our statute books it would be wellforouralliancefriends to read. Section 1763 reads as follows: "Sec. 17G3. No person who holds an office, the salary or annual com pensation attached to which amounts to the sum of two thousand fivo hun dred dollars, shall receive compensa tion for discharging the duties of any other office unless expressly author ized by law." Sec. 1222, page 215 of the U. S. Re vised Statutes reads as follows: No officer of tho army on the active list shaii hold any civil office, whether by eiection or appointment, and every such officer who accepts or exercises the functions of a civil oflico shall thereby cease to be an officer of the army and his commission shall be thereby vacated." According to section 35, page G, each representative and delegate is en titled to a salary (except as to the Speaker) of $3, 500 a year. Van Wyck was elected to congress in 18G1 and ho was there two terms, which carried him to 18G5. During this timo he was the colonel of the 56th New York. He was paid as congressman as follows: .Iu!y iiv, in ?l,ST-.) Ditr-zuber, 1S51 1,5.0.1 u .Ian . 1M5. J Fib. 1!"., 1S32 Ml W M.inlr-M. lie." ::vj.oi M.iyi. l!-C5 l.V) (O Decl.-isi! VW ( I)c.MN!5 '..-. 0 Jan. SO. IS5.1 :0).0 lli.5.-. 1SG,.... ............ ...... .... im '-' Mc!i4,Uri SK.W These partial payments were re ceived up to the Fortieth congress, when he drew $10,000 salary and $241. GO mileage, (and rodo on a pass at the same time) and after tho war had closed he drew his pay as a colo nel. In regard to this the paymaster of the army wrote: War Department, rtment, ) il's Office, 15, 1878. ) Paymaster General Washington, June 'Sir: In reply to the letter for warded by you I have tho honor to in form you that the records of this office show that Charles II. Van Wyck was paid as colonel of the Fifty-sixth New York volunteers from November 4, 1861 to October 17, 18G5, bj paymas ter Yedder. Amount paid was $10. 294.38 and was inclusive of three months extra pay proper. Payment was made April 1, 18G6. Very res pectfully. Your obedient servant, Benj. Alfori, Paymaster General U. S. Army." During that timo he received up wards of $15,000 as congressman, and as there was a law on tho statute books which said he shouid not receive one dollar as colonel of the Fifty-sixth New York he waited until he was out of congress in 1866 and then diew pay for the whole in direct violation of the law. He is the Iriend of the farmer; he is the sacred guardian of the treas ury, but when it is unlocked, and he is there alone, he don't hesitate to put in his arm to the cibow? We hear a trood deal said about Van Wyck being a soldier. That he was paid to be a soldier is a fact. But what battles was he in? On what charge did he lead his regiment? Ac cording to his own story he had to be elected colouel before ho would enlist He staid with his regiment when it camped on the Hudson, but lit out for Washington when the regiment struck the Rappahanock: He wasn't afraid to shoot off his mouth to induce boys to enlist in his own congressional dis trict, but when it came to shooting guns in North Carolina, he was be hind his fortifications o'f Washington and the only raids in which he partic ipated, of which we havo a record, aro those on the national treasury. The only military duty he was ever known to perform was to pay flying visits with other pleasure seekers from Washing ton to the camps, and frank a few let ters for the boys, although any sol dier will tell you that letters from the front were carried through the mails free of charge. Where Wa He At. Where was Cleveland at" when Harrison saved the day at Peach Tree Creek? Playing seven-up in a Buffalo saloon. Where was Cleveland "at" on Mem orial day, when mourning millions decorated with flowers tho window less mansions of the heroic dead? Gone fishing. Yet he was the chief magistrate of the nation those heroes had preserved. Where was he "at"' when his sub stitute George Brinski died in an alms house? Sitting in the White House, writing a pension veto in order that some other old soldier might meet a like fate. Where was he ''at" when the mob burned tho Orphans asyiutfl Jn New York and the draft riots threatened the metropolis of the nation with firo and pillage? Safe up in a back county which has yet t be heard from. Where was ho "at" when rebellion struck a death blow at tho nation's life and war sowed sorrow in trenches ploughed by shot and shell, when tho nation cried out day and night for men to fight its battles? Holding down a fat office and working a private snap in Erie county. Now York. Whero was ho --at" when tho gov ernor of New York refused to enforce tho draft or to fill that state's quota of men? He sccondel the motion. Where was ho "at" when the dough faces wanted to return tho flags cap tured in battle? Ho was on deck to hustle out tho "rags." Where was ho -at" when Jacob Thompson who was Jeff Davis' secretary of war died? In the president's chair and writing an order to place the flags on public buildings at half mast as a token of respect to Thompson's men ory. Where was he "at" when 'tK draft caught him at this government under took to compel him to do his duty? Acting as deputy county attorney and ho took $200" out of his salary and sent another man in his stead. Where was ho "at" when the loyal men, women and children of this na tion were pouring in contributions to tho Woman's Saitary Relief commis sion? Pocketing his saiary to gratify his vices. Where was ho "at" when the brave fathers and sons of this nation bid adieu to wife, mother, sister and sweetheart and went to the war? Sit ting in his bachelor quarters in Buf falo scheming to be sheriff. Where will he be "at" on the Sth of next November?, Let tho veterans and sons of veterans answer. Van Wyck is trying to mako capital out of his efforts to secure the forfeit ure of 15, 000, 000 acres of tho Southern Pacific Land Grant. Ths facts aro that mainly through the efforts of Lor enzo Crounse when ho was a congress man, a biil was passed taxing railroad land grants. Much of the land granted the Southern Pacific was" sand ana al kali country, on which nothing except cactus will grow. It in the great American desert devoid of water, an imal life or vegetation. It was worth less then and worthless now. No per son or corporation would pay taxes on it So tho Southern Pacific sold ail of its good lands to its land company, and got A'an Wyck to introduco a bill to forfeit tho balance to the government The opposition to tho bill came from senators who thought that the com pany having selected tho good lands and been benefitted by them should pay taxes on the poor land. But the railroad and its lobby backed Van Wyck and the biil carried. Do tho people opposed to railroad domina tion in politics want such a leader to direct their efforts? Van Yi rcit'A Land Oram to Itnllroadu A'an Wyck introduced a bill giving to the Midland Pacific railroad com pany a grant of land equal to every other section for a distance of ten miles on eachside of the road. This bill provided not that the road should take odd sections and therby give the ac tual settiers on the even sections some benefits from the road, but for the road taking both odd and even sec tions, and when tho even sections were taken, the road could reach out into any part of Nebraska and take lano wherever found unoccupied. Yet to catch tho farmers' votes he is now howling about land grant "steals." There vo :i Httl- iirm. Ami In h ill a little khii. And I'VfrylioJy MiiJ his name w..s Peck. IVck, reck. He iiultal both trisKer.'. And shot a lot of niters. And he hit th" Cleveland party in Ihe neck, neck, neck. HERO WORSHIP. Uen Arc Seldom Heroes In Their Fellow Kycs Until They Aro !)!. Men havo n poor oyo for the truest heroes round about them in their own day; their hero worship is concerned chic!ly with tho past" says Edwin 1). Mead in his Editor's Table in New England Magazine. "Emer son said of Wobster, at tho time of tho Fucltivo Slavo law. when Garrison and Phillips and Parker and Whittier were waging their great fight: Ho knows tho heroes of 1776 but cannot seo those of 1851 when he meets them in the street.' However severe this view of Webster may be, the word is true of a thousand men. It is as common to-day as it was in Csrist's timo and boforo Christ's time, for men who busy them selves in painting the tombs of tho prophets to be just as busy in stoning the prophets sent unto their own gen eration. Carlylc himself, tho great est of all our hero worshippers, whoso name rushes to our lips nt the very mention of heroes and heroism, had but a poor eye and car for tho heroic figures and voices of his own epoch. Ho never caught Mazzini's vision, ho hardly understood what Mazzini was about in tho world, even when he had him for his neighbor and went in and out with him day by day. There had been no considerable exhibition of heroism in England, according to his vision, for two centuries no real body of heroes sinco tho Puritans. It may well bo doubted whother. had ho bean the contemporary of Cromwell or of Luther, whom he celebrated so well, he would not have been found their enemy and counted them mal contents, busy-bodies and disorderly fellows." "Tlnw'.cal Item. Mr. Jones being on a visit to a friend in a Texas town, and having a good voice, was urcrcd to sing in tho local choir. Ho at last yielded. I hear you havo at last consented to sing in our choir." said a lady in mooting him." Yea I havo at last yielded. I fce lievo that when you aro in Rome yo should howl with tho wolves. Texa Siftings. Conltiu't Ito It. -; "I was frightened almost to death yesterday, Clara." What was the matter?" ' A big rat ran by my feet" Mercy! Didn't you jump on chair and scream?" No; I had thoso ugly brown stock' ings on." EhW Uerry What is your definition of faith? 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