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s"i -( t"v. ' ,r sea?- - - - s. f 3wi-v- . " "'v t - i " "V. LS -: 5wr v ,-- lfa- VOLUME XXIY.-NUMBER 28. COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1893. WHOLE NUMBER 1,224. "C " " " T m&- -' Cfce muxml ourifflumtg .3. Mr3rn;t.v Hfcra ,,iv-:"'.' : v- - & . :-v- -..t -. U: -- -" V --: . . - ... : i .'':' ' . if. NEBRASKA. NEWS. . The Boyd county fair was a nattering -. .".success. Milkmen of Lincoln are talking of ." raising- the price. Gov. . Boies of Iowa is down for a 1; speech in Omaha at an early day. -." The" old soldiers of Dodge county have organized. a Veteran's league. . . . Fif ty Tecnmseh people took advan " --."tnge of the Chieago day rate and saw the fair, A chapter of the Eastern Star has ' . -'been instituted by the Masonic lodge at Tab!c Kock. Foni- tickets are in the field in Dixon county, and the campaign is growing . " decidedly lively. - '- . At the coming election Omaha will "Vv. vote UDon a proposition to issue 51,500, 1 - COO canal bonds. "". "Burglars blew open the safe of Sper- ."ling's drug store in Beividere an se- . jmred $4. They used dynamite. :... The White hotel at Tobias has -".changed hands, passing into the man- - ,. agethent of a Hastings gentleman. -" : The financial stringency in Dixon . county is easing up since the farmers . .have commenced marketing their crops. .t Since the Union Pacific went into the .. : hands of a receiver orders have been .' . issued for the shop men all along the .- line to work additional hours. - The wedding of Nick Hoffman and .'Maggie Ureenwald took place four ' - .miles southwest of Juniata. It was "celebrated in true German style, there being .00 invited guests. .The Burlington hotel at Wymore was lne . ; .-considerably damaged by fire. K "fire,men did valient work on the ; .-sion, preventing what at one tame "" promised to be a serious conflagration. : : .- The Hothwell brothers and others j .1 "implicated in the cattle stealing cases, j "'; -on trjal at Niobrara, secured a change i of venue. The trial will be held in An- ' -. " 4eIope county in December. Ail were r'.' released on oonds. . Johnnie Marrison of Hav Springs .-.."- tried to drive his father's team, but he '.. eouldn'f manage the team and they rad away, tnrowmg mm out. iiestrucKoni " .the back of his head and it is feared his -. .injuries win prove laiai. . J. M. Corbin, a Burlington switch- t '. man, had his foot crushed so badly at I ". Lincoln that it had to be amputated i below the knee. He slipped and fell ' ." .while in the act of cutting out a car and it passed over his foot. While out with a charivari party a son of Lawson Cook. n. nrominnt ( ..farmer in in Otoe county, met with an "accident that will crippie him for life. A gun exploded, striking the boy on . the knee-cap, tearing it completely off. i During the service at the M. E. :. , church in Fremont some miscreant " -took a new S'-O harness off a horse be- ' . longing to Sam Cole, who lives two' ' v miles southwest of that place and left . an old worn out harness in the buggy. ' , Jiist.two hours after his arrival at -" Albion to visit his son, Mr. Wm. Vail of Altamont, 111., died of heart disease. t-'.He was apparently in as good health ....as usual and .was giving some presents . to his son's child when he fell over and -. died. '' Henry Oerlie of Berlin. Otoe county, ' was placed in jail in Nebraska City, -charged with burglarizing Iiillman's ;: t store at Berlin. The store had been "'.robbed several times and a watchman . -was employed which resulted in Oerlie's capture. " Brakeman D. E. Poor was the victim of a fatal railroad accident at Stratton. He was'preparing to make a coupling when he fell under the wheels and was . fatally injured, dying in about an hour. "The remains were brought to McCook for interment. A large barn, twenty-five tons of . hay, a span of fine horses and harness, . -etc, belonging to Rev. N. G. TreL resd- ing east of Hartington, were destroyed by fire. It is supposed the children started the fire, as they were in the ". barn playing with matches. WiUiam P. Gordon, assistant cashier of the Thaver county bank, and nephew .of F. M. Wetherald of Hebron died after a lingering attack of typhoid "fever. The community is shocked over . this- 'untimely and particularly sad . death. .Mr. Gordon was a young man of .-sterling worth and marked ability, , loveu ana respeeiea oy evary man, wo man and child in Hebron. He was but tw.enty-five years of age. " , S.- E. Snyder, of Hay Springs, had a horse stolen by a man going under the Ina-me of Dick Stanley. Stanley had . -been in the employ of Mr. Snyder as a farm laborer. In the night the family was disturbed by cattle running about "'the yard and Stanley offered to goon horseback and drive them away. Mr. V Snyder helped him get the horse and . start the cattle, but has seen nothing -. of horse or man since. . . . A sensational divorce suit was filed in .. the district court of Otoe county, . wherein Mrs. Mary Fricke prays to be r. separated from her husband, WiUiam - S Fricke. The petition alleges cruelty .and non-support and that defendant, '."through fraud and misrepresentation. induced the plaintiff to shra deeds to : valuable property wluch was after wards transferred to other parties - without consideration. ..-." A few weeks ago a coaple of men - drove into Kearney and registered at "-.the. National hotel as Grant Blaekman . and J. H. Creasor. They remained at the hotel until last week without nar- ing, saying they were expecting money- . t - v.j. xiic uiuucjr aut coaling, I' the landlord got tired of waiting, they :. turned their horses over to him for se-"-curity. " That night however they stole .the' team from the stable and skipped. 'Later they were arrested. , The trial of ex-Treasurer L W. Wil-'- kinson of Dakota county for embezzling "over &3,C00 of the county's funds, is : .called for the term of district court now in session. The testimony in the case promises to be quite interesting, as some of the most prominent citizens are said to be implicated. The state's j, attorneys hare succeeded in having " Judge Norris call an Omaha judge to the bench to hear the case Deputy United States Marshal Hub , bard. went out to Pleasant Dale this morning, says the Lincoln Call, and re tained with a young man named Charles Moore, who is wanted in Den . ver for forgery. The crime was com mitted in August last, and consisted in forging and passing a postal note for fifteen dollars. Moore lives in Ohio ?,, . ana -was visiting acquaintances at Pleasant Dale when taken in. A member of the Si Perkins dramatic company, supposed to be Professor Douns, was arrested in Beatrice after Che performance on a charge of bastar day made by a German girL whoa members of the company say has been following them for three weeks, ud since their appearance in Savannah, .HL He was given a hearing and re leased, the girl, coBclading she had caused the arrest of the wrong- man. . The Nebraska Tdepkose company rebuilding its line from Fremont tc Celambas, and the spar across from North Bend to Morse MtmM. The poles are being placed closer together, new . wire pat np ana wnen the work is BietedthecomaaBjwiU have a liccireuir As Union Pacific, passenger train No. 5 was coming into Fremont from the cast, a stone or some other hard mis sile was thrown through one of the windows of a coach, which it was stated hit a man on the head. The train ran by to the depot, and was then backed to the place where the stone was thrown, when two boys were captured and taken on the train to the depot, where they were delivered to Sheriff Milliken. Several attempts have been made to burn the residence of Julius Theile of West Point, who is at the world's fair with his family. Saturday night sev eral window glasses were broken, and Wednesday night some one broke the" large front glass and saturated the tioor and curtains with kerosene and upon this threw a bunch of burning rags and paper. For some reason, the curtain and carpet were burnt only part ally. As Wesley Carleton, brother of Cbas. Ca rleton, who is on trial in Fremont for his life, was out hnntino- with his uncle John Carleton, about five miles from Fremont, the gun he was carrying in the cart was accidentally discharged, lodging the contents in his right side, lie eancot live. His sister in Chicago was sent for and a request was made that Charles be permitted to see him, but in the absene of the sheriff no one would take the responsibility. At Beatrice, after being oat sixteen hours, the jury in the case of the State vs. Taylor, who was charged with rape, brought in a verdict of acquittal. The case was one of more than local interest owin-r to the fact that the parties to the suit were more or less known in var- )ious.partsot tn estate, layior, wnue having formerly lived in Beatrice, was ante mortem statement of his step daughter which caused his prosecu tion. The Auburn Herald says a fake is mak.ng the rounds of the country and getting away with the dollars of the un -uspocting youth in a somewhat o.-ig nal manner. On arriving at a tow u he g..t- all the boys ht can to sell pictures of the world's fair and requires each of them to put up si as guarantee 0f jT00d :aith. He gives tnem a tew .. . ' pictures worth about one cent each, and while they arc trving to sell them the fakir disappears with the dollars. Grand Island dispatch: "Billv" Gib- ' : I,...., .?..... i "j,j. .!..! left Grand Island. Paul was an em-1 a, too. demand what I had done with plove of the sugar factory and t.ibson my sisrer?-my beautiful sister! onoied the position of night barten-. "ny, Lucia, jou need not be fnght der for James t'o ey. It is known that ened; it is only I," said lie, turning and the two chummed together and that Ha hten was seen by a friend on board Saturday nights train for the west. He shouted he was going to North l'latte. Two bairirages were checked ,r ortli l'latte on the same train and i about S300 is missing from Foley's safe. , Telegrams have been sent to various j points instructing policemen to be on , the lookout . Lizzie Preufer, a German girl 10 years old, committed suicide fifteen miles northwest of Kushville by taking mor phine. Under the name of Bessie Cody she. in company with Camilla Hansen, a Swede, a'chieved considerable notor iety about two months ago by tramp ing from Chicago to Kushvifle. She said her father lived in Blue Island, near Cnicago was well off and was a c .oper by occupat:on. She left a note bidding her friends and relatives fare well and saving she had no home and was tired of life. Burglars broke into the store of Kirk patrick of North I.oaisvillc and secured some shoes and groceries. Kirkpatrick lives over the store and was awakened by the noise and rushed to the window with a shotgun and shot at 1 he burglar j and succeeded in fetching one of them ' to the ground. He probably wounded J him, but the man got away. Later Marshal Sponce caught one of the three and landed him in jaiL hen searched t, 1-..1 .. ... 1 1- l,:., n,.r ctWn to A,- ,nntr u; uuua idui auu it;uivci uu uia Inp n lin-?nT nc t?,o 4orl w-ic Artne in ..: ! aa Z a :;. that county. Jncoln dispatch- This afternoon -which neither tears nor prayers would Judge Tibbetts is hearing the famous ever cleanse awav? cases of Dan Laucr and Farm Boss And we were so happv together once Fnink Hubbard, charged with forging mr beautiful sister and I." the names of farmers who supplied the Sisley was two years older than I asylum with beef and with making out j -jva and T had" only passed my seven fa s-e vouchers and certifying to the teenth birthdav r-ame. The case promises to excite ; SIsley vns and &ir a foz&mz much interest as the two men in ques- , blonde pp blue 6s aD(1 tion tvere indicted by the grand jury , j perfect 1(J w of j which investigated the asylum .charges , fresh from mine, She d last fall, and two dozen indictments and yet gente and and were found against them. DG Court- sweGt as a newly-blossomed white lily, nay wil defend Lauerandt. J. loss of s;W wn i;i. .. ,... t .jf t rete will appear for Hubbard. Frank E. Hnlliken of David City has been selling trinkets at South Cmhha. He won the affections of Miss Nellie Godhcrd and the two would have been married had not a Mr. Russell spoil d it all oy showing that Hullihen already has a wife. He sent her word to David City to come to South Omaha.and when she arrived he caused her to put in an appearance at iiss Gcdherd's home while she was having a visit from Hul liben. To make matters worse she cirried her crosseyed baby with heJ Hullihen owned up and went home with his wife, loaded down with Miss Godherd's execrations. Ky his father. Henry MicheTs, an 11-yca--old lad of South Omaha, brought an action in the district court by which "he hopes to recover a judgment of S2o. 000 against the Union Pacific railway for the loss of a leg The plaintiff al .eges that one day during the month of May. Is02. he was crossing the compa ny s track in the vicinity of the Swift packing house, when a switch engine . ame along and amputated the leg. As a cause of action, the plaintiff alleges that at the time the atxident occurred the engine was running at a much greater rate of speed than provided for by the ordinances of the city. Nearly twenty large hogs belonging to Frank Floves of Cuming county were poisoned. The wretch who poisoned them was not satisfied with this, but tried to poison one of the family also by placing poisoned plums in a cup and putting them in the granary. 3Ir. Floves, who came across them, brought them into the house and gave them to his child, thinking his. wife had picked them. Shortly after the child, was at tacked, with convulsions and 3Irs. ir loves was told of the plums, and see ing the cup was a strange one. was con vinced that some one had tried to poi son them. The child was revived. An O'Neill dispatch says: The pre liminary hearing of Dell Akin, who was arrested in El Paso, Tex., and brought to this city by Slate Agent Daugherty on the charge of aiding and abetting Barrett Scott in embezzling about $04,000 of the county funds, was held before County Judge Bowen last week. After several witnesses had been examined and the attorneys on both sides had concluded their argu ments the jadge put Akin under S7,50O bonds to appear at the next term of dis trict court. His friends came down from Atkinson and they promptly furnished the bond demanded, and. Akin left for his home in that place. Cassias Belden, who caused a furor by shooting into the wheat pit on the I Chicago board of trade, wounding three people, was consigned to the Kankakee insane asylum by Juibre Brown. Bel- i de ic a former innate of tbe Mjlu MY OWN SECRET. ."Where is your sister, Lucia?" What -were the f eeiing3 of red-banded Cain when his father asked hiin where was Abel? Did his limbs tremble beneath him? Did icy sweat drops ooze from his brow and his eyes look through a scalding, glindlng, blood-red mist? Did a viewless something seem larking beside him, mocking 'his guilty terror, ready to denounce him. bat fiendishly prolonging his torturing dread and sus pense? This is bat a jot, a tittle of the tor ment I experienced at my mother's harmless inquiry. "How should I know where she is? Am I responsible for Sfeley's going and r . ,. , , . coming" I replied rudely. I had never spoken disrespectfully to tour sweet ntue mouier ueiure, auu now she looked at me in surprise, her dear eyes brimming with tears. But she did not rebuke me for my churlishness. "I am getting anxious about your-sister," she said gently. "Sisley has been gone since dusk nearly three hours ago. It isn't like her to stay away so late, especially when we don't know where she's gone. t nn- nntipnt little mother's uneasiness , maddfi ned me. Her gentle presence 1"-i"ut , was a reproacn i coiuu uui cuuu. I whirled away from the window where I had been standing in the shadow of the pretty silken hangings, and started toward' the door. It was open, admitting the soft night hrporp nnd the rich summer odors from orchard and meadow, and thi song of , the nightingale which was tunning in the underwood along the river bank. T was heedless of the fragrance, deaf to the melody. I rushed away like one ,.,!-, a i.. vt,ai,nii i ran j uimu. auu uu uu-- .. -t inresuoui i , straight into the arms or a genuem.1,1 who had just ascenileu tne porcn sieys. I shrieked, aloud ana nea past him i creature .ua.-m.-. Wns he about to sfize me? j? Would i Jiaziiij; aner me m .muuBuiuiui. . called to see your sister. Do you know v here she U?" "How should I know? Why do yon ask me?" I answered harshly as I sb pr.ed in the path. My unwonted uncivility distressed and perplexed him. Before I could continue my wild flight he was beside me. "Are you angry, dear little Lucia?" he asked anxiously. "Are you dis pleased because I am to be your broth er? I suppose Sisley has told you how we love each other, and that she has promised to be my wife in a few weeks?" "Ton? Phillip Dcrne?" I cried fran tically. "You? I thought. Oh, heav en, what have I done?" Before he could utter a syllable I darted away from him and fled down the path through the shrubby old gar den. In the darkest shadows, amid a tan gle of neglected jnponica and tamarisk bushes, I flung myself face down upon the Ions, dew-wet crasss, and won dered if one so wicked as I had any right longer to live- It was no use to repent no repent ance would undo what I had done. It was no use to pray heaven would not listen to the prayers of such a3 L There was no use In anything anj more. -l- "lil- UiUUJClll. , - At that moment I, Lccia Romer, was . . . ,, t. -- t unaouDieoiy mau. .out was i any less maa man a was a mue wnue ueiore. when I had yielded to a crazy tempta tion, and stained mv sold with a sin -.j , Mt, ai VILLI XXJ-JLAATTJ.-, X U3 like the father, whom we could barely recollect. ' I had his olive complexion, his tarry black hair, his coal-black eyes, and rud- I dy cheeks. I had, too, his passionate and jealous nature. Bur I was fond of SIey. and I had never envied her for her surpassins at tractions. I was never jealous of her for the greater love she gained and re taineduntil Keith Saxon came to our village. We lived on the outskirts of this charming river-village, which was quite a popular summer resort for people , who liked a quiet retreat not yet in vaded by the usual butterfly crowd, i And it was here Keith Saxon came. early in the season, with his friend, Philip Deane. T was not surprised that both young men seemed attracted by the alluring graces of my beautiful sister; It was al ways so; she was loved by alL and she could have wedded whom she would. She was not a coquette. It was no fault of hers that she could count her lovers by the score. She could no more i help being captivating than the lily can I help being tall and white. It was I whom Keith Saxon first met. My sister chanced to- be away that week that happy week! No other man had ever possessed the smallest attraction for me, and from the beginning I loved him. And he seemed devoted to me as weH His fair, boyish face, would always look so bright and eager when we met; and his laughing blue eyes would always grow sober, and look after me so wist fully when we parted. But all this changed when mj: beauti ful sister came back. There were no more happy strous in the moonshine, no more rowing over the shadowy Inlet where the water lilies grew, no more rambles through the dim, balmy wood on the hillside. The man I had believed my lover was always beside beautiful Sisley, and because the sight of their gayety mad dened me. It soon happened that I held myself aloof from them, and from everybody, and declined any share in the amusements of our small social coterie. I felt very bitter against aiy beauti ful sister. She had many lovers. I had but the one, and could she not have left him to me in peace? X was unjust to her: I knew that even when I biased her the most. I knew it bat I would, not admit ft. And ao I afaat myself away from ilfeMn all llama wlfc (C kbV and fierce jealowv which were fast coiwumtn all thegood within me into a creatHre ov- whom the angel mxxt save wept i I was brooding In my savage and ra reasonable fashion on that fatal dusk when I was coming along the river path on my way home from the Til lage. I was passing a clump of laurel, when t heard a rattle of stones and dry clay somewhere just below the path. Gazing through the thick foliage, I saw my sister. She was standing on a narrow ledge "which comrranded a magnificent view of the winding river, a. range of low gieen hiEs on the opposite bank, and th- long picturesque road traversing the pretty village and vanishing among the wooded ondulntlcns in the distance. How fciaiitiful she locked as she stood there in her soft white gown with her exquisite- face outlined in ifc lily-fa ircess against the dusky grn:n foliage. But there was caught in my heart of tenderness. Only for her and her reslstliss witch eries my life would, not be desolate, and. my love would le my own againl As I gazed at her unoliserved. I sud denly began to wender how she had dared to venture upon such a perilous ledge, with such a giddy depth be neath her. The narrow shelf was merely a thin layer of slate, entirely detached from the rock behind it, and held in place solely by the thick turf which Lipped it here and there. A fall down the steep and rock-studded river bank below would be a cer tain and Instant death. I was still wordering at SIsIey's reck less (hiring, or Indifference, when I turned to leave the spot. But even as I turned, my steps were stayed by that evil spirit which I had nourished in my bosom for so many bitter days. "It needs but a torch, and all will be over, and my love will be my own again!" the tempter whispered. I went back. It was less than twenty pncs, and the laurels covered me on every side In a tent of greon. I bent, and pulled fearfully at the ragged edges of the overhanging turf. It needed but a touch, indeed. For with that apprehensive and almost ten tative effort, there was a soft, girlish cry. a crash, and then With my hands pressed over my ears I fled down the path like the guilty wretch I was. nor paused until I had gained the shelter of my own room. And now, long years after I had yielded to a mad, momentary tempta tion, I knew that it was Philip Deane whom my beautiful sister loved and who loved her. I could understand that Keith Saxon had never ceassd to love me, unles3 I had turned his heart from me by my j obstinacy in holding myself apart and allowing him to believe that my own fseelings were changed. Was it any wonder that I threw my self down on the tangled grass, wet with the night dews, and writhed in torment? Was it any wonder I felt too wicked for prayer, and that my misery was be yond the relief of tears? How long I lay there I never knew; it might have been only a few minutes, and it might have been as many hours. And then I saw the light of a lan tprn tinkering through the shrubbery of the fragrant old garden. A second later I heard approaching footsteps, and then a voice, a soft, sweet voice, which pierced my senses with an electric thrill- It was that of my beautiful sister, whom I believed Tying somewhere . I among the deadly rocks at the bottom of the steep river bank. "I am so sony that dear little Lucia was alanned about me," she was say ing. "It's all Flirt's fault that I was not at home before dark. Doggie had a gieat fright up on High view Point and run away as if he had seen a ghost. I never overtook him until he had taken refuge in Cousin Sarah's kitchen. And one can never get away from Cousin Sarah, she always has such a lot of amusing nonsense to say to one." "What frightened Flirt?" our little mother inquired. "I haven't the slightest Idea," Sisley answered carelessly. "He was down on a ledge where I had been standing a few minutes before, and nil at once he came scudding back like a small O clone. I dare say it was all his poor little nerves; but he quite startled me, he had managed to set a big rock crash ing down the bank, and I actually screamed, for I couldn't imagine what had happened." It is but "one step from the sublime to the ridiculous," has been aptly re marked by somebody. And It requires very little sometimes to turn tragedy into comedy. But if there were any comedy In the denoument of that night's events, it was for othere to appreciate and not for me. It had been too reaL too terrible In Its seeming reality. My sister was alive; and such a heavenly mercy was beyond the expression of human grat itude. But would anything atone for my wicked purpose, even if my guar dian angel had frustrated the deed? The lantern light was flickering through the bashes which concealed me. The footsteps were very near. As I crouched back I saw somebody com ing eagerly down the garden walk, and then I heard Keith Saxon's dear, fa miliar voice: "Is Lucia with you?" he asked. Oh. the love, the anxious, tender, abiding love, in that dear voice. A cry, the sharp, tense cry of a tor tured soul was wrung from my lips in spite of my will to keep silent. I stagsrered backward, crashlne into i the tamarisk shrubs and stumbling over the edge of a little rockery. At the noise there was a rush in my direction. The lantern light flashed over me; and the next instant my lover's arms were around me, and I was weeping on his breast. Tender little dove! Where have you been? You need not have been so alarmed; your sister Is safe. I am afraid yon have fretted about her until yon will be ill my loved one," he said, oh, so tenderly, so touchlngly. But for a. long time I wept like one who would never be comforted. They thought I was hysterical after my fright at Sisley's prolonged ab sence. "I do not wonder such a trifle should overcome you" Keith said, with loving sympathy. "Yon are such a tender hearted little thing, and you are so fond of Sisley. And, besides, you have been nearly ill for weeks; I saw it, even it you did try so bravely to hide it. How I longed to kiss away your pain, my beloved; you were cruel to shut yourself away from me as you did." I did not undeceive him. I have been Keith Saxon's wife fo several years. But I have never con fessed the truth of that awful might, nor of the miserable weeks preceding It would only grieve the dear hus band who idolizes me. nil u wnni benefit nnhrvtr it is stfll my own secret -a secret which sometimes tunrs mV hear? wfcem T oaH lS'lSS A DEBATE. ; aoaM arMwerTace Vmt Ulsftsetf Aaotner "Wife. A. farty of women were having ft lit tle confidential chat the other-day, giv ing their views in turn upon the sub ject of their husbands marrying again if they were ever In a position to do so without being arrested for bigamy. Said one, a wife of a year, with great trusting blue eyes, "I think it would kill me if I knew for certain that Tom would ever love another woman. I think marriages are made for tinio and eternity and I am perfectly certain that it was never intended for a man to have more than one wife. It looks positively .indecent to see three graves, marked by headstones, each oua of which bears a different name, but all representing that 'Here lies the wife of John. Jones,' while in all probability Mrs. John Jones the fourth is at that very moment prancing around in full and vigorous health. It is decidedly confusing at any rate." "A man needn't necessarily have four wives," objected a mild-voiced matron, who had been mairied twenty years, "and for my part I think It is compli mentary to the dead wife to have her husband plunge again into the sea of matrimony instead of acting as though he had experienced such agony with the first wife that one experience was enough for him. All I ask is for my husband to wait a decent length of time before bringing home wife number two. "Men are so helpless, you know, that they really need a woman to look f ter them. I don't see any use of a widow marrying again, but with a man it Is very different," Now, I've been mar ried twenty years, and yet I do not believe that John could find a pocket handkerchief, even though it was placed right before his nose. He always rumples everything in the bureau draw ers, and then declares that the object that he. is looking for is not there, and in the summer when I go away he loses half his wardrobe either at the laundry or in trains or restaurants. "I believe that man was never meant to live alone, for the simple reason that he Is the most dependent creature alive and needs more fussing over and coddling than a six-months-old baby. Therefore, I say again, I don't blame widowers one bit for getting married again as soon as possible." "Ynnr rpmnrlrs nrf all verv trno." pouted the bride, "but just the samo I don't want any other woman to do tha petting and looking after. I'd rather I think of Tom roaming about th world minus collar buttons and umbrellas for i t the rest of his days than dwell upon the thought of another woman actm as understudy to bis memory for him. Philadelphia Times. HAVERLY'S BAD LUCK. X Tomgh Ru of Card Once Cost mat a2T,ooo la a iosr siese. Anderson M. Waddill, probably the m Mhin ,mMon in tii Soutt.diodln Luuvn.0 rocenuy .andjf e W,!! since his demise.a flood of stories have j PU(i t h:tst ne most mie,,,! been set loose regarding high play in j cat in the world. New York Observer. recent and long-past tunes. It is said I that the largest amount of money lost I W1,y tu L'a Trembled. In Louisville at a single faro sitting , Wha'1 Mr- Hudson was in Tatagonta was dropped by "Jack" Haverly In , bL" became much interested in a sc-.u; one of Waddill's games there about j b thc of Sosa who 3 famous . n it nna Sntnrrfnv . f"r tlw almost prctei natural kHcnness night, after the minstrel show was I over, that Heverly and a party of friends entered the gambling houe, and after watching the games for some time decided to play. Jack Haverly walked over to where Waddill was sit ting watching the games, with appar ently sleepy eyes, and he said: Mr. Waddill, I'd like to play with you a while to-night. Are my checks good?" "Yes, sir. Have a seat here. Your chpeks are eood for anv amount," re-1 oiled the gambler. The game was started, Haverly giv- lu " ulc,-,k . '" Until past midnight Haverly won, hav- .:. i JLa AnZ u J: ..- -i., t t . i i.i Waddill's chips stacked around him at one time. Then his luck changed. He began to lose and to bet heavily in the hope that he would win back what he had lost By daylight Waddill held $0,000 worth of Mr. Haverly's checks. But the game did not stop there. Hav erly played high stakes, sometimes bet ting $1,000 on the turn of a single card. Luck1 changed again, .and toward the close of the day the minstrel had won back nearly all the lost money. Earij in the action the crowds had deserted the other games, and all with bated breath, watched the cards as they slid from the smooth tin box. This play was continued, with brief interruptions for eating and sleeping, for three days and nights, and when Jack Haverly threw up his hands and said he bad fin ished, at the close of the third day, Waddill had ?27,000 worth of checks "to the good," and he cashed them, too. Obeyed Order. "Bridget," said Mrs. Morse, instruct ing her new waitress, "when a lady comes to call upon me. you must hand her this tray, and bring her card up stairs to me." "Yis'ra," replied Bridget, promptly. The next afternoon Mrs. Morse was surprised by the appearance of Bridget, bearing a card in her hand "Why, Bridget," she remonstrated, "didn't I tell you yesterday to hand the little silver tray to the callers ? "Yis'm," replied the smiling maid, an r did hand it to her, an' it's herself was nnwuhn to tak it; but whin I tould her it was my -nisfhress's ixpriss ortbers, she give In, quite mild an pleasant like. You'll find It safe wid her down in the parlor, ma'am." And sure enough. Mrs. ilorse, when she had made a ht-sty descent, found her visitor holding the card receiver, while her mouth wts twitching with amusement. "I didn't dare refdse It," she said, meekly, "as long as Bridget was so ur gentr "What causes the greatest number of fires in dwelling-houses, according to your experience.2"" asked a person of an inquiring turn of mind of an insur ance adjuster. "Frictfam cames about as many as anything else," replied the insurance ad juster. "Friction? repeated the other. Yes, friction, retnrnea the Insuranc ajer. "Bat aerhaps not what you're acenstoaed to- call friction. What I Man la the result of rubbing a thou sand-dollar policy en a six-kupdrekk lax I REiMXG FOB THE TOTOG. CITEKKSTIKO MISdXLAXT iTOtNG rKOPLC- FOR rollv'a Gbad aa4 Wkt tt Tamed Oat tu Be War tkt Trem- MeO Do Ds I'adcntu W 3fattcr-r-Faet. "O, Mamma, jrammar cried Polly, running into a neighbor's house with a white, frightened face, "there a ghost over at home, a ghost, mammal and Nrnjy and I are afraid" -A ghost, Polly, and In the day timer said Mrs. Small, stalling but petting her arms nround her little girl and trying to quiet her. "But mamma. It must be a ghost and Nancy says sa. The parlor bell I r.mg and when she opened the door there wesn't any one there. She9"all frightened to pieces, mamma." "Then we must go back to her at once," said Mrs. Small. Nancy was the hired girL She was a good girL but Ignorant, and was so ttrrifled by what bad just happened that she wanted to leave the house for ever, as soon as Mrs. Small returned. A little persuasion and kindly talk, lu-wever, Induced her to stay a while longer, for Mrs. Small assured her the trouble could come from nothing that could not be explained in some way. She hprself thought rats had probablv touched the wire In the cellar, and told ht-r she must try to forget it. She hid almost forgotten it aud was singing at her work the next afternoon ...1...- .l. ,. .!.:.. 1....nul ntn Hutu uic a.iiutr iuui ifcnn'cui.-u uyiiu. "An" at the same hour by the dock;" she said excitedly to Mrs. Small aftor said: which she threw her apron over her -"7 friend, can you tell rae why it head and groaned as If in pain, saying . is that Artemus never has had a monu r.o money would tfinpt her to be In meat erected to his memory?" the house again at that hoar. "Weil stranger. I guess I kin." wai Tt wn Pniiv hnwovpf. wim :ivf hpr the reply. "You see. arter Artemus mother more uneasiness, for though she died three or four hundred printer did not say much, she would start and fellers down la New York city got to shiver at the least sound and would f gether and passed some beautiful reso- look round as if she expected to see a ghost every few moments. I The next day she was sent to spend the afternoon at a neighbor's, and Mrs. Small stationed herself on the front piazza, where through the slits of a blind she could see Into the parlor with out being seen from Inside. Later in the day she sent for Polly and told her she had seen the ghost, and hid opened the door for it her self. Such a funny ghost, she told bor; the wanted her to see for herself; so f I the next afternoon there P" of eyes looking through were tivo the slats In tho blind Mrs. Small hud tried to , pt-rsuade Nancy to make a third, but f mthln& would induce her to go near the room. Before long, however, I 'oily , rushed at her excitedly, crying with kiic7 whjax trjt-a. "It's pussy! It's pussy! S3"' It's pus- Sure enough! Pussy hid wakened from a nan bpforw the- tiro. h:il tumivwl ' into a chair and pulled the long bell nype, and then stationed herself close J t0' qq rea(iy to a3 n a-j , U was opened. l sue naa learned a number of tricks of his senses. In most other lespecs he wad. as 3Ir. Hudson says, a ilgawr ate being. In particulir, he was an Inveterate horse-thief- a fact which was largely overlooked by the irJloritis on account of the exceeding xalue of liis services In times of Indian war fare. In 1S01 Sosa hid found It prudent to disappear for a. season, and in the onnpaLy of five or six other gauchos ! also offenders against the law, who Laa flVd to the refuge of the desert ho amused himself by huntiug :trichs along the Rio Colorado. On the 12th of JIarch the hnutere VCOrii mmtuwl Ivdilu trrrrt .-f Ttllvti i - ' ,zy7 . , , , . ":". , ... fn 'he i alley, and about 9 o clock ttm I evening, while they were seated about the fin. roasting their ostrich n:at. Sosa suddenly sprang up and Ii.Id his hand high above hit Uead for souv? moments. "There Is not a brvth of wind." he said, "and yet thi- leaves of 'h trees are trembling. What can this portend?" The other tuen stared at the trees, but could see no motion, aiul began to laugh and jea; at Sosa. Presently he sat dovs, again, remark ing that the trembling oad ceased: but for the rest of the evening he seeme-l greatly disturbed In his mind. He it-marked repeatedly that such a ung lid never happened to him before He could feel a breath of wind beforo the leaves felt it, and there had bepn no wind. He feared it was a sign of some disaster that was about to over take the party. The disaster was not for them. On that evening an earthquake destroyl the distant city of Mendoza, crushing 32,000 people to death In Its fall That the subterranean wave extended east to the Plata and southward into Para gonla was afterward known; for in the cities of Bosario and Buenos Ayrs clocks stopped, and a slight shock was experienced in Carmen on the i'io Negro. Tito Good Shot. During the war a chaplain in a "Vir ginia regiment stood upon a slight knoll watching the operations of the enemy's batteries beyond Several me:i were about him, lying on the grass and under the trees, als3 watching the firing. The great balls cr.uld be seen in the air as they ms'j and fell, and the soldiers about estimated very closely where they would lijmt. and ' Cave that spot a wide berth. Suddenly, as a gun boomed and a tiny black spot appeared in mid-air, the n2n moved hurriedly. "Parson, shouted one, "that's mant for yon better loolc ont! And acting on the suggestion, the chaplain stood r aside. Just. In time, too. it was. ffir i as h moved away, the Knoll upon luei1 "" "u uuiures. which he had. been standing was r " yt find it diilicnlt to sell ycu pfcusched by the immnse mass. pictures?" said the lady ft the house That was very good shootinr on one j to aD artL5t wbc bd bfen Perfectly si df and cimtt prt ran tint? nn th nth- ! lent er. and another ptorv or nnc marfct- maaahlp is equally Interesting. Two rinsfe-gun batteries were hiving an ex- duel, until finally one of the gm got annoyed- They were soaic apart, and only the ugfy buck of the guns could be seen whan rhey cam to shoot. "Lientsasmy cried the- aggrieved aimnsr at Lmrth "TO. Mrttlr thut M- low If ycull stand on this slat form j I with yaur glass and Inform nform ma ta.Hr L So tea lieutenant took hte glass and noted. "They're ramming her!? he crieiL after a moment. -Now they re running her oat; the gunner has takers. his stand; he has hold of the lanyard; he is about to " Bang! went ihe cannon at his side, and the lieutenant almost fell from his perch, but recovered his balance in time to see the other gun knocked over and ver by the well directed, ball. The next Uay the lieutenant and his soldiers were to possession of the en emy's camp, and looked up the disabled cannon. It had been knocked end ways, for just as the gunner had pulled the lanyard the ball from- the lieuten ant's gun had struck the cannon square ly in the muzzle and wedged, itself there, causing the gun to burst by its own explosion. It was really a most wonderful shot. iA What Titer Cot. - When Artemns Ward died the press ' 0f England and America was filled, with tributes to his tnemorj. Jn 3cv i York a meeting of nawspaper people was held, at which it was resolved, that bis memory should be perpetuated. The matner In which it was done was anusingiy illustrated by a stcry told in Harper's Magazic-c some years ago. Whether or not the anecdote would lie true to-day. we do not know. A few summer's ago I passotl a wk's vacation at Waterfcrd. Me.. and dtring my visit went t6 the village graveyard to view the final resting place of Artemu3 Ward. With some trouble I frund the grave, there being nothing about the plain white slab to distinguish it from many similar ones around. Whde thinking and wondering that no monument had ever been "erected to the humorist, a -. -- . countryman approached, to whom X I lntions. savins that Artemus should have a monument, and they would pay for it then and there; and then they took up a collection, which amount ed to ?20.C0, so I'm told; and since then this town haint seen either the monument or the money; but, stranger, we did get a copy of the resolutions!" Do Doe Umlerfttanil Wordaf H To a boy on familiar talking term3 with a dog this question may not sound absurd, but there are many learned men who maintain that while dogs oft en understand our meaning, it is not our words but our tones, looks and gestures that they comprehend. But almost every child who loves a doc could brim: some story to con- tradict this theory. Here is a true story on the subject wil1 Please all tony masters of 1 bright dogs. ! A traveler in Portugal purchased a na- tive &B klch soon became much attached to him. When spoken to in 1 English, even accompanied by the most , f108"1-' """ """ . " "" ter could command, the dog appeared i States and Europe, and buy and sell avail puzzled, and he seldom found out what able securities. We shall ba pleased to re was required of him. But when his "LTJour bustnes- w soDcIt jour pat- master aauresseu mm m rorruguese - "... badly as his master spoke it, the dog i joyfully executed his wishes. After a time, by repeating the words alternately hi Portuguese anil in Eng lish, the dog learned the latter as well as the former, and would obey as readi ly. But the same command given in French reduced him to a state of de spair again. . Afterward the dog was carried to France. After lesidrng thf re come time he became as familiar with the lan guage that he understood duectlons given to him, though perhaps because he had grown older and a new language was harder to acquire he nver re sponded quite so readily as to com raands in Portuguese and Erglish. President Arthur's Amiability i rTesiaenc Artuur is rememDereu oy those who knew him as a most kind and courteous gentleman, always ready to do a friendly act or speak a word of encouragement. Julian Ralph, hi t "The Newspaper Correspondent." pub- lished in Scribncr's Magazine, says that he reported President Arthur's nshing ' trip to the Thousand Islands, and for all that newspaper men are supposed to be troubh-some. Mr. Ralph recalls but cnt occasion whtn he disturbed tho president He gives the occurrence a- a ptcof of Frtsident Arthur's amia bility. Oii that occasion I had sent off my dispatch and returned to the hotel at 2 o'clock in the nrcrtlng. to find all tu doors Iorketl and all the lights, ex cept these in the president's suite of rooms. gont out like the Israelites from E3pr. Cspr. It. F. Coffin, now part of a treasured memory, and Mr. Me Dona were with me, and we battered at a side door to wake the servants. In time the door wa c jened by the President of the United States. Know ing him only as a jonrnallst must know all men. without too much awe of place cr power, we j t were chagrined at having disturbed and brought to the door a. president r.nd particularly one of so charming a personality as hi., and we beggod 1- s pardon. "Why, that's al! right." he said. "You wouldn't liave g.t in till morning If I Lad not come. No one is up in the house but me. f could liave sent my colored loy. but he has fallen asleep, and I hated to wake him." 3Ia t riJ-Faet. Some years :i there lived In Perth. Scotland, a man of weak IntI!eet well known by Ins Carlstlan name, Jamie. One dark night an acquaintance found Jamie lying at the foot of an outsTde stair. "Is thrt you. Jamie 2" asked the acnuaintan e, in a voice of the- greatest astonishment. "Ay. it'c me,"' reP11 Jamie, in a tone ot complete risfgratioa. "Have yoti f.ten doon the stairr" was the i-cxt question. "Ay! I fell doon; but I was comln' dcon. whether or no. To Illustrate further the raatter-of-factness of the Scottish people. David Prjde mentkns that a cempany at ai. artists nouse were tailing about No." said he. ir a slow voice; "it's no difficult it's Impossible." A ctuDtry dector mfct one day the ten of a patient of bis who had' been very HL "WeD. my lad," said thc doctor, "how is your father tbh rrorning? "He's deid," replied the boy. "Dead" cried the doctor. "Was there a medical nran b.de him when he died?" -". answerei the lad; "he jist I deal fcJfMLY' THE OLD REUAKUB Colnmlms-SUti-Baakl Pais UtaBtn Ek Dtjufi! ; labs Imb bat Mat M-RD-urnes IW Teak mm al XKLLf : ITIIMfsTT? : TIOIITf. BUYS GOOD NOTES aad-Uastts fflCOs al MBlCttft tZASDIB OESBARD. Fto. L V. sTJENBT. TlcaftWt, -- Sfcf- 3033 STATJTm, 1LBXUGGEB. .W.HUXS& L -or- COLUMBUS, NEB., -HAS AX- Authorize. Capita! if - $500,000 Paid in Capita!, - 90,000 OFFICERS. O. H. SH.ELDOX. Pros't. H. P..H. OEHLRICn. Vic Pres. CLARK GRAY. Cashier. DANIEL SCnRAiT. Ass't Cash DIRECTORS. n. M. 'Wnrsi.ow, H. P. Fl. Okbxkich. U. H. Sheldon, W. A. McAr.r.iSTitB, Ginx. Ribsxk. JO AS V ELCH, STOCKHOLDERS. 3. C. Grat. J. Hetbt WtransacAir, G EllH ARD LOSEKS U Cf BT LOSKKS. clarx Grat, Geo. W. Galixt. Daxiei. Schoax, a. F. II. Oehzjuch. Frajx Borer. J. P. Beckeb Eszaxb, Kxbecca Becker. Bank of deposit; Interest allowed on time ilatuMlta hi,v and aII ATuhnnifA nn TTnffpci . 0w- -THE- First National Bank orncKss. A. AHDERSON, J. H. CALLET. President. Vlca Pres't. O. T. ROEN. Cashier. DIRECTORS. 0.AJtEkMO5. F. AUDtftWTf. JACOB (i&glSET. HESBI lAQAIZ, JAKES 0. BX1DIS. SUteHeat tf the CmJUb at the Close rBtsiaess Jilj 13, 189X RESOCBCZS. Loans and Discounts S ZtUKT 07 Keal Estate Furniture and Fix tures 28.731 0) U.S. Bonds J5,2j0 0) Due from other banks 137,878 31 Cash on Hand .21.807 36 59.7W SO Total $333,130 3(5 UABnxms. Capital Stock paid in f 80,000 00 Surplus Fund 30.000 01 Undivided profits 4.573 00 Circulation lX5fQ 00 xoraXa .4333.198 38 LOUIS SCHREIBER, BlartsiWWa'oiIte (All kills f Reiairiig die Sfctrt Artiee, biggies, Wig- is, etc., mzia to arder, aid all wsrk Giar- aiteei. AIM Mil tit wvld-fiuuu Walter A. W mA Xawers, IitMri, Caabia- i XaeaiaM, HarrMttx. aii lelf-ltiafjn-tia Mat Shop on Olive Street, Columbus, Neb., four doors south of Borowiak'e. 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