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NEBRASKA NEWS.
. Vrs. Dora I eterson of Cuming coun
lywas last week taken to the insane
asylum.
. Burglars who blew the safe of the
I . Hooper postofticc only secured 33 in
cash for their pains.
; . Monroe 1'cuniner of Crab Orchard
.. -.is under arrest at-Auburn charged with
stealing a learn of horses from a Nema-
.Ja county, tromsn.
The ticket oftice cf the Missouri
. . Pacific depot at Nebraska City was rob-
.bed last week and the cash drawer was
. " . broken open a'nd rilled. The thieves
:-. sccaicJ but littla booty.
Twenly-uvo new members were ra-
ceivcd.into the Method'st Episcopal
- "church at Glenco. These accessions
-.were chiefly the result of the meetings
'" -Jed by Miss Mae Phillips.
; . Mrs. C. V. Mosher. wife ot the convict,
.; returned to her home last week after a
"- -protracted stay at her former home in
. Illinois. She paid a brief visit to her
."' husband in the county jail at Lincoln.
."" - amnel Manleyand Ilezekiah Elliott,
" ,prouincnt fanner? from near Utica,
. got into a fight at the H. &. M. depot in
:.' steward, resulting in Elliott receiving a
.ediiipotind fracture of the left leg near
: the ankle.
Maltte Loch, driver of a bakery
wagon in Nebraska City, was held up
r in broad da' light by iwo colored men.
Loch showed fight and put h's assail-
ants to fight They were afterwards
"captured and lodged in jail.
"A probably fatal accident befell the
three-year-old son of M r. and Mrs. Sam-
.."jiel P. II cad ley. who live eight miles
southwest of Hca trice. The Loy was
riding from the field with his father on
.. a load of corn, when heslipped and fell
- " under the wheels, which parsed over
his abdomen, the wagon being heavily
-, loaded.
Joseph Hccnan, a loy about 11 years
of pgc, was shot at .lackson by .limmic
' . Parley, another boy of the same age.
'The boys were quarreling and the rc
. vrtlver in tlie hands of young Farley
..""yrcnt Off by accident, it is supposed. the
.:bullct entering just below the left ear
""and fracturing the skull. The attend
' ing surgeon thinks lie will recover.
1'our frame buildings at Wilbcr.occu
, "pied by Ed AVickoff, onfectioner; Will
. iam Waldorf, clothing: Havel tt Peck,
f .merchandise, and L. Libcrman, cloth
ing dealer, were destroyed by fire.
.- The los aggregates nearly S'-'O.OIO; in
surance about $MMH)0; cause unknown.
.'JTlic lire was prevented from spreading
west' by Waldorf's brick building,
" which was onby slightly damaged. The
. Wilbcr house, north, was only saved
by hard work.
m Immense flocks of prairie chickens
are drifting into this county from the
west, says the Papillion Times, and old
timers say their coming presages an
early and hard winter. It is recalled
ly many that for days prior to the
great snow storm in November, 1SGG,
Jhyriads of chickens swarmed into the
: shelter which this timbered locality af
fords, and it is prophesied by many
"that the birds have come again in
stinctively to our sheltered fields for
protection from impending blizzards.
A. P. Oilman of Lincoln suicided 03-
taking fifteen grains of strychnine.
Evidence brought out the fact that(il
trian had owned two shares of stock in
the Nebraska Savings bank, arid was
greatly worried at receiving a notice
that an assessment would be made on
it soon. It is thought that he brooded
over the matter so much that he finally
decided 10 commit suicide The de
ceased was pos-sessed of considerable
money, having between S.".t00 and $G,
OOJ out at interest and some property
of value.
Telcgrapic dispatches from Seattle,
Wash., state that Henry Fuhrmah and
L. H. drifhth, both former residents of
Jfrcmont, have in company withscv
, cral others, been indicte.1 b the grand
jury as accessory to the defalcation of
Henry Krug, Seattle's city treasurer,
notwithstading the fact that Fuhrman
repaid the money he borrowed from
Krug. and put up 525,030 as bondsman
for "Krug to help make up the amount
of Krug's shortage. It is stated that
(.riflith also raised considerable money
to reimburse the city.
Detectives have been sent over Dodge
- county to interview every juror in the
'late Carleton trial, endeavoring to
strengthen the grounds for a new trial.
" The reasons so far outlined are all
statutory, finding fault with theshcriff,
. county attornej. jury and even the
. court, that its rulings were not accord
. Ing to law and precedent. The case
wpl be argued at the adjourned term
,- oi court commencing November 13. It
is expected that quite a number of affi
davits will be filed charging irregular
ities anVl indiscretions.
The barn of Oswald Uhling, nine
- . miles northeast of Hooper, was burned
. last week, with its entire contents,
comprising nine head of horses, 200
bushels of old corn, hay, farming uten
sils, wagon, harness, etc. 1 he loss N
estimatcd.atS4.0C0. with no insurance.
". The barn was fired by .lames Nelson. :
boy aged 17. in the employ of Mr.
Uhling. He was taken to Fremont by
" Marshal Crawford of Hooper and
lodged in jail. Nelson confessed the
crime and was bound over in S1.000
bonds to the district court.
The new Sacred Heart Catholic church
at Hebron will be dedicated next Sun
day. The most prominent who will
participate in the dedication exercises
will be Kt. Kev. Pishop Ponacum of
Lincoln. Kev. .1. 1-1 English of Hast
ings, Kev. C. Poll of Crete, Kev. M.
Mcrkel of Fairbury, and many others.
In addition to the exercises the bishop
will administer the sacrament of con
firmation to a 1 lass of forty, after
Tvhich pontificial high mass will be cel
ebrated by the bishop, assisted by four
other priests acting as deacons.
Mrs. iloka T. Prown, a comely young
woman of less than 20 years, is in the
county jail at Hastings, on a complaint
. sworn out by her husband, Wesley C
Prown of Fremont, charging her with
.adultery. Chief of Police Wanze made
. the arrest at York, and Mrs. Brown
"will be given a preliminary hearing.
Her husband has not a very enviable
reputation, as he was once arrested for
beating his wife when he smashed a
guitar over her because-she persisted in
. playing the instrument in the Salvation
army meetings.
If Nebraskans would adopt the motto
""Patronize Home Industry," there
would be plenty of work for idle men,
.and a good home market for raw mate-
. rials. A large number of dealers have
'already adopted it. When you buy cn-
qaire fox the following brands of Ne
braska made goods: Farrell & Co.'s
brand of syrups, jellies, preserves and
mincemeat; MorseCoe boots and shoes
for men, women and children; Consoli
dated Coffee Co."s brand of coffee, ex
tracts and yeast; Page Soap Cb.'s Silver
Leaf and iiorax soap; Preston's self
raising bu k wheat and pancake floors;
American Piscuit .t Manafacturiag
Co. , Omaha, crackers; Omaha Silicon
Cos Hard Wall Plaster.
Frank Hulier in the -county jail at
Lincoln, tried to shuffle off by fft"g
BieftRe; -with his susp nders. He was
Hncousci.-.-js when cut down.
- A largrf.pr?portionof t(ie calls aade
'bdob the -i ar ty organization society
in L'r.co u ar or the purpose of secmr
ing work rather than charity.
O. H. Taylor, a P. & M. Prakeman,
living at Lincoln, was cut to pieces a
few miles west of that city. A special
train was made up and the superinten
dent, coroner and undertaker went out
and gathered up the remains. Taylor
was a single man, 29 years old and his
parents reside at Newcastle, Ind.
The following mortgage transactions
in Dodge county during the month of
October are shown by the records in
the county clerk's office to be as fol
lows: Thirteen farm mortgages filed,
S1S.839.33; nineteen farm mortges re
leased, 826,930.95. Twenty-four town
and city mortgages filed, S31,S01.43;
twenty town and city mortgages re
leased, 810,713.2::.
Hay springs dispit:h says: One of
the most destructive prairie fires in the
history of this part of the country
swept over the central part of the
county yesterday. The tire has al
ready burned over a strip of territory
twenty miles in length and eight miles
wide, destroying many houses and
barns and hundreds of tons of hay. The
f re is still burning and as the wind is
high it is impossible to check its pro
gress and the amount of damage will
depend upon the direction and force of
the wind in the next twenty-four hours.
The state board of public grounds
and buildings were in the city last
evening, says the Nebraska City Press,
and took a look over the institute for
the blind and had a quiet but decisive
talk with Professor Ebright about its
management The work done by Con
tractor Harry Wales was received and
approved. The question of the sewer
was brought up and it was given out
that the sewer would be built. It is to
be built along the line laid out by Mr.
Ed Evans, which will enable the board
to come within the appropriation. Mr.
Pierce's es'imate was $3,00, while the
slate appropriation was only $3,000.
The two negroes named Thomas and
Smith, who are charged with making
the attempt to hold up a passenger
train at Union, admit having boarded
the passenger engine, but say their in
tention was to steal a 1 ide and not rob
bery. The man Thomas U a very sus
p cious character, he and another
negro having held up a man at Ne
braska City a short time ago. These
men were seen loitering around Union
late Saturday evening. Officials of the
Missouri Pacific railway have requested
Freight Engineer Morehouse, whom
they tried to hold up on his way home,
to appear at Nebraska City for the pur
pose of identifying the men.
Wilson Keynolds, says the Fremont
Tribune, has just sold a portion of the
hay and grain raised this season on his
ranch northwest of the city, which
brought him the very comfortable sum
of 84,200. The purchasers are Messrs.
Wilson & Reid, prominent capitalists
and business men of Douglas, Wyo
ming, who will feed six thousand head
of sheep on the Keynolds' ranch during
the winter. They raise their own sheep
in Wyoming, making it a permanent
business and they come down into
l-ff.vpt, where corn and hay is plenty,
to fatten them. The sheep will be ship
ped from Douglas to Fremont sometime
this month and one of the firm will re
main here during the winter to see that
they are properly cared for.
The Louisville Times has the follow
ing in its Washington correspondence
iegarding two Nebraskans: For many
years Senator Plackburn of Kentucky
and Senator Manderson of Nebraska
have been chums. Whenever a vote is
taken in the senate on a political ques
tion and Senator Manderson is absent,
Plackburn can be depended upon to
say, when his name is called, that he
is paired with the senior senator from
Nebraska. If he were present I would
vote yea or nay, as the case might te,
and when Plackburn is absent Mander
son goes through the same formula.
They are associated together on com
mittee service and lunch together in
the restaurant and swap jokes in the
cloak rooms and committee rooms.
The fall term of the district court of
Dakota county reconvened in Dakota
'. ity last week. Judge Sullivan of Co
lumbus, upon request of District Judge
Xorris, presiding. The court room was
rowded to its standing capacity when
the case of Dakota county vs. Ex-Treasurer
Wilkcnson et al., was called. This
is an action brought to recover the
sum of S10,H(S2.40 claimed to be due the
county from Wilkinson during the
term of otlicc ending in January, 1SD0,
as reported by Simon Fritzson, an ex
pert employed by private parties to in
vestigate the treasurer's office follow
ing an investigation made by Ehomas
.1. Welty in behalf of the county. il
Iccnsen sett'ed with the county on the
report of Welty arid refuses to comply
with the demands of Fritzson and pay
his reported deficiency.
A Plattsmouth dispatch says: The
attempt to lynch the murderers of Mat
thew Akcsun, at Plattsmouth, last
week struck terror to the heart of
Charles W. Mosher, the man who, as
president, looted the Capital National
bank, of Lincoln, last winter, io es
I cape the conflict of authority between
I the federal and state courts at Lincoln.
Mosher had been hurried to the Cass
J county jail at Plattsmouth. The jail
is not a strong affair and could not
long resist the force of a mob, a fact
which was apparent to the bank wreck
er. He heard that Pcnwcll and Hill
were to be brought here, and he alst
heard that they would be taken out and
stretched to a couple of telephone poles.
This information caused him to weak
en, and on bended knees he pleaded te
be taken away for fear that a mob
might make a mistake and stretch his
worthless neck.
General Manager Dickinson, of the
Union Pacific sa3s that a very conser
vative course will be pursued by the
Union Pacific in meeting rates, and
raising them. "The S3'stem being in
ths hands of receivers," said Mr. Dick
inson. it will permit us meeting rates
that, had we been in the association,
would have taken days to put in effect.
What the outcome of this whole affair
will be it is hard to telL" "There is
a rumor abroad that the Union Pacific
will not pay salaries for several
months," said the reporter. "That is
a senseless rumor," responded Mr. Dick
inson, 4for not in twenty years has the
road been in so excellent a condition to
pay salaries as now. The order of the
court provides for" the payment of oper
ating expenses, and salaries are includ
ed in that department. The rumor is
like hundreds of others you hear about
town, absolutely without foundation.'
What might have been a serious
shooting affray took place at Smartville,
a village eight miles northwest of here,
says a Tecumsih dispatch. While un
der the influence of liquor. John Price
attempted to take the life ef R. S. Col
lister. The latter was awakened at his
home in Smartville before daylight by
Price calling to him. Dressing himself.
Collistrr started to open the door to see
what Price wanted. The minute Col
lister opened the door. Price struck him
over the head with a lantern and with
the exclamation, "D n yon, I'm go
ing to kill you, drew a revolver and
filed at Collister. Collister warded the
weapon off in time to miss the shot,
but the bullet penetrated his clothing.
He then knocked Price down, took the
'weapon away from him and proceeded
to this city and swore out a warrant :
for Price, charging him with aasamlt
with intent to kilL
"COME BACK,
SWEETHEART."
"And now, Vera, if that presumptuous
Itathrerne dares to show himself! nt
oar 'new house, I shall certainly sus
pect you of encouraging him," said Mrs.
Harvey, a youthful-iooidng widow' with
bright brown eyes, and with dimpled
checks the tint of peaches which ripen
in the sun.
"Mamma, if that entirely irreproach
able young llathvenie fails to present
himself at our new residence, then you
certainly may suspect your daughter
of meeting hlui elsewhere," Vera re
torted, in exact mimicry of her moth
er's tone.
She was a tall, lovely girL with a
flower-like face, as demure as a nuu's,
and with large, deep blue eyes, just
now scintillating with mischief behind
her wondrously long, thick lashes.
"I wish you would be serious, Vera,"
her mother said in a vexed and pet
tish tone. "You know very well that
I would 'never have undertaken the
expense and worry of moving at this
season, only I was determined to get
out of the Rathvernes' neighborhood."
A laugh'like the Warbling of a thrush
rippled from Vera'a coral-red lips.
"Why, mamma, the Rathvernes are
not in the neighborhood. They moved
away two months ago," she announced.
"Well, I'm sure I hope we shall
never see any of them again," Mrs.
Ilarvey declared, with energy.
"I think we are pretty likely to see
one of them, for 1 have promised to
be Gower's wife some time," Vera re
plied gently.
"You shall never be his wife. You
shall never marry a son of Ronald
Kathverne while I live to prevent it!"
avowed the mother, looking aggrieved
and angry.
Vera wasan obedient and affectlon
ato daughter despite her girlish mis
chief, and she would do nothing know
ingly or willfully wrong.
Put now she felt tliat her mother was
childish ami unreasonable.
The Rarhverne family was cne of
the most honored In the city. There
had never been an ungenerous deed or
unworthy motive imputed to any mem
ber of it. Gower was handsome,
wealthy, and a favorite in society.
"I can't understand why you object
to Gower, mamma," Vera said after a
little silence.
"It is not for you to understand; it
is for you to obey," Mrs. Ilarvey re
sponded with severity.
"You keep old Mr. Rathverne's pict
ure in your ivory box, anyhow, even
if you do hate him so," said Vera,
smiling.
Mrs. Harvey's unfaded. pretty feat
ures turned crimson. She darted a
sudden, almost frightened, glance at
her amused daughter.
But just then the front door bell rung
imperiously, and she seized the oppor
tunity to retreat from the room.
She returned in a moment, however,
and Vera noticed that she appeared
greatly disturbed.
"Your grandfather Harvey is very ill,
and I am wanted at once," she ex
plained. "You will be obliged to fin
ish the moving without me; and you
need not be anxious if I am not home
until late."
After some necessary instructions and
preparations, she provided herself with
a latch-key belonging to the new resi
dence, and so hastened away.
Vera understood housekeeping and
its various emergencies, and thus, to
superintend the half finished work of
the day was to her an agreeable excite
ment, rather than a hardship.
When the last van had finally trans
ferred its load to the new house, when
her own and her mother's rooms were
made cozy, and when the culinary quar
ters were made ready for immediate
necessities, she was too gratified with
her unwonted achievements to be con
scious of much fatigue.
When there was no more work to be
done for the day she exchanged her
dusty working dress for a pretty house
gown, and stationed herself in a rocker
at one of the dining room windows.
She had not sat there long when
she heard eager footsteps on the flag
ging, and saw a manly figure pause
at the bottom of her own steps.
Gower Rathverne, her lover, had
come, as he intimated he might do.
In a moment she joined him, and they
strolled away in the dim, hushed twi
light, so entirely and rapturously happy
In each other's society that they hesi
tated to recall the mj-steriotis opposi
tion which threatened to sunder them
forever in this lower world.
"For," Vera said, very firmly "for of
course I cannot be your wife until
mamma is willing."
"Is your own happiness nothing, love?
Are you so indifferent to what I must
stiff er?" he expostulated.
"Oh, If I yield something, then mam
ma must yield something, too! She
must allow us to see each other just
as often as we like," said Vera.
Her lover smiled at the flash of
girlish spirit.
"I wish, my dearest. I could feel as
sanguine as you are," he answered.
"But I foresee years of pain for us
both, and perhaps estrangement in the
end. It will be hard for you. love,
but it will be harder for me. Consider
well, Vera; for if you yield at alL
rou must yield in everything."
"But a few years will not matter,"
Vera suggested.
"The suspense and uncertainty con
tained in those few years will matter
very much. I want you now, sweet
heart, or at least, the assurance that
you will be mine after a reasonable
dtlay," Gower protested, with aU a
lover's impatience.
But, plead or atgue as he might.
Vera 'would promise nothing more.
The time had passed quickly. They
had strolled far away from the house,
and they had soon loitered back, to
settle themselves on the topmost step
of the high stoop, and there await
Mrs. Harvey's ccniirg.
Vera was grateful that he did re
main that night.
She was very anxious at her moth
er's prolonged absence.
"She will be here before midnight
unless something has befallen her. And
it is almost midnight now," Vera said
at last in a tone quaking with nervous
fear.
Meanwhile something had befallen
Mrs. Harvey.
It was only a little after eleven
o'clock when she turned into her street
and ascended the steps of what she sup
posed was her new residence.
She had no need to use her latch
key; the door opened at a touch, show
ing that it had not been properly closed.
All the lower part of the house was
dark. But as she grcped her way up
the bread staircase to the next landing,
she espied a narrow line of light along
the door of the front chamber.
The door was ajar, and guided by
the light she stepped quickly across
the threshold of the room.
And there she stopped., motionless,
staring with wild eyes at the scene be
fore her.
The room was a superbly appointed
study, and 'before a big carved mahog
any .desk ant a handsome, stalwart
man. whose black curling hair and
rippling length of beard, showed a few
streaks of. gleaming silver.
"As she paused there, transfixed, he
trained a dark, somber face toward her,
f and gazed at her piercingly with a fa
of melancholy black eyes.
The astounded woman would, hate
fled shrieking, but she was as incapable
of movement as if her feet had bee
nailed to the floor; she was as frower
less td utter a. sound as if her tongue
w3ro paralyzed; she could only stare
helplessly at this man whom she had
"shunned foi years, and whose pros
race stirred within her i pain anu
bitterness Intolerable.
After the first omitted glaflee, his
own countenance expressed naught but
kind inquiry. He put aside his book
after a moment, and crossed the room
to where she stood.
"Are you in trouble, Ada is there
something I can do for you?" he asked.
"Do you think, Ronald Rathverne,
that I would .come." to yon In trouble
to you, who deserted me long ago
iu'tho darkest hour of my life?" she
demanded.
T never eleserted you. Ada. You
would have known that the next day,
had you allowed ine an opportunity to
explain," he answered quietly.
"It is useless to dlscnss the past,"
she faltered. :i came- in here, thinking
it was my own house; I could not see
the number, and cverythirg looked the
same. I trust you will pardon my mis
take. 1 am very sorry'
She was half way down the landing,
but his masterly hand detained her,
and drew her back.
"Lef me have one moment, Ada.
Or if you will go, permit me to go
with you. I suppose your house must
be in this row, where each Is exactly
like all the others. I am not surprised
you should make a mistake with the
nearest street lamp half a block away.
But it i3 a mistake which I shall bless
all the rest of my life, Ada. Oh, my
dear little girl of long ago. can you
not come back to me again?"
He was pleading as a man pleads for
what is more than life.
And while she listened with eyes
downcast, the years seemed to roll back
like a bleak mist before the glory of
the sun. She was living again, those
golden days of youth and love before
that dark and tragic hour, when she
was deprived of parents and fortune,
and when a false friend had persuaded
her to believe ill of her lover.
And he had been true!
He loved her then, and he loved her
now.
They were a long time In making
their way to her own house, which was
some half a dozen doors down the
same street.
And when they finally arrived at the
bottom of the high steps they were too
much engrossed with each other to im
mediately notice the young couple sit
ting on a warm Persian rug in the
shadow of the massive vestibule pillars.
"Great Caesar! if that Isn't dad!"
Gower exclaimed in a whisper to his
bewildered companion. "Behold, the
serpent has charmed the pecking dove
the wolf has hypnotized the war-like
protector of the Iamb!"
"What on earth does it mean?" Vera
gasped under her breath.
At that instant the gallant elderly
lover drew his middle-aged sweetheart
into his arms and pressed a verv audi
ble kiss upon each of her unfaded
cheeks.
A sound suspiciously like a giggle
floateel down the high steps.
Both Mrs. Harvey and her escort
glanced quickly toward the vestibule.
Gower was smiling rapturously into
his darling's lovely, mystified eyes.
"It's pretty safe to say that you will
neither be constrained to make a mar
tyr of yourself, love, nor a victim of
me," he breathed ecstatically into the
little pink ear close beside him.
Then with exacirerated dnlihoratinn
he arose to his feet, assumed a conse
quential attitude, and looked benignly
uuwu upon ine pair Dcncath him.
"Come right up," he began in a the
atric voice, his elark eyes flashing with
boyish fun, "come right up. dad, and
receive the filial benediction."
Of the two older people, Mrs. Harvey
was naturally the most embarrassed.
But she underwent her ordeal nobly.
1 have wronged you, Gower, and your
dear father most of all. Forgive me,
my son," she said to him later.
Gower would have forgiven a hundred-fold
more with cheerfulness, now
that he wris certain he had gained his
heart's desire.
But it was years afterward before
he and his youug wife learned the ex
act circumstances under which the elder
pair had met and become reconciled on
that eventful evening.
"And so mamma walked straight into
the arms of her lete noir." said Vera,
laughing, "I don't wonder they have
1 kont It to themselves so Ions after she
actually went into his own house in
that fashion."
"It was a blessed mistake for us,"
Vent's happy husband eleclares.
Pari Xfeillfwomea.
An Inquiry made Into the condition
of needlewomen in Paris shows that
a workwoman cannot count on earning
more than L'CiO francs, or 44 a year,
which is about 3s Id a daj The de
signers and cutters out of patterns
and the fitters, of course, are much
more highly paid, receiving in some
cases salaries of 000 or 8J0, and per
haps even a share of profits. The aver
age earnings of the ordinary seamstress
maj be put down at a little o-er 2s
a day. M. Jules Simon in 1851 made
nn inquiry Into the matter, dealing with
101.000 ciiies. and he calculeted the
average daily wages as about lOd.
There were ameng the women concern
ed about 1,000 earning less than Gd a
day, and ale-ut GOO whose takings w;ere
about 3 fiancs. Ten years ago the
average earnings of milliners were val
ue el by M. el'Hyirsbonville at over 3
francs a elay, and of ordinary scant
stresses at between 21-2 francs and 3
francs. If all trades were taken into
account the result was a little lower,
as some trades were cruelly underpaid,
especially sack making, at which more
than 0d a day could not be earned even
by sixteen hours' work.
Knew the Haail.
Harper's Bazar has a story of a little
boy who, if he follows his natural bent,
will perhaps be heard from by and by
as an expert witness In forgery cases.
He Is the son of on author who writes
a very illegible and very inky hand.
The other day a fly fell into his ink
well The boy discovered the unhappy
insect, rescued it, and dropped it on
a sheet of paper, where presently it re
covered sufficiently to drag itself about.
The boy watched its motions for a
while, and then called to his mother.
"O mamma," he said, "come here!
Here's a ejercated fly. He writes just
like papa!"
Which la m Reflection f
Jones (to intoxicated friend) Good
heavens, man, here's your wife! Let's
turn back.
His -Friend No (bio). She'll never
she us. She's looking at her reflection
in the windows to see if her hat's (hie)
on straight. Vogue.
PausilB of Slcron. wan the inrrater et
A caustic painting, a method ot bandag oaten
Into wool or ivory
MADE THE JUDGE LtCTEH
fh CkMtCi Maikatte hat -
ayeetial Way mi Seearlas Attea
ttlra Judge Van Brunt -of New York has
1 habit' which sorely distresses members
ot the bar wad appeal1 before him,
particularly young men, of talking to
his associates on the bench while the
lawyers are delivering their speeches.
At times this becomes exasperating, but
according to the Tribune, the lawyers
have not as a rule the temerity to com
plain, for they recognize the power of
the court, and Judge Van Brunt, with
all his estimable qualities, has a manner
causing him to be held in dread by
most practitioners, who naturally seek
to maintain as pleasant relations as
possible with the court Mr. Choate
was about to make the closing speech
in a highly important case recently.
Forty minutes had" been allotted him
for the purpese. He had scarcely ut
tered a dozen words when Judge Van
Brunt wheeled around in his chair, And
began a discussion with Judge Andrews.
Mr. Choate ceased speaking Immediate
ly, folded his aims and gazed steadily
at the judges, bis handsome face a
trifle paler than usual. A hush fell
upon the courtroom. Judge Van Brunt,
noticing the stillness, turned around
and looked inquiringly at the silent
advocate.
"Your honor," said Mr. Chcate. "I
have Just, forty minutes in which to
ntakcimyflnal argument I shall not
only ueea every second of that time to
do it justice, but I shall also need your
undivided attention."
"And you shall Lave it," promptly
responded the judge, at the same time
acknowledging the justice of the re
buke 'by a faint flesh on his cheeks.
It was an exhibition of genuine cour
age, but one that was more fully appre
ciated by members of the profession
than by the laymen who witnessed
it
Dlas "Set a Thief to Catch n Thief
aai Soea Get Rid ef Them.
Apropos of the recent train robberies
in this country, a Western railroad man
suggests to the New Orleans Times
Democrat that wc. should adopt the
Mexican plan of dealing with them,
which proved so effective there. Mexico
offers greater advantage over this coun
try for train robbing. It Is thinly set
tled; the land is cut up with mountains,
offering hiding places for the robbers
and a safe retreat; its people arc not
as advanced in civilization as ours, and
there "is a much larger dangerous ele
ment' ex-bandits and revolutionists, to
whom train robbing would come as a
natural trade. The railroads, moreover,
are a new institution, and it was natur
al to suppose that train robberies would
be numerous. During the first exten
sion of our railroad system into Mexico
they.wcre so frequent that a passenger
thought himself lucky to get from the
Flo Grande to Mexico without several
stoppages from these "knights of the
road." Detectives, blood-hounds and
other means of sr.ppressing the evil
were tried, but with little more success
than in this country, when President
Diaz, on the old theory of "set a thief
to catch a thief hit upon a happy
idea of utilizing the bandits r.Ld rail
road robbere to protect the roads by
organizing them Into a police force
known as the rurales or the rural
guards. He had some of the men who
were suspected of this business sum
moned before him, and offered them
an opportunity of entering the govern
ment service as mounted police, and
told them that if they did so he would
furnish them with fine uniforms, im
proved firearms and the best horses
that could be bought But if they did
not he would have the soldiers hunt
them down. They knew that Diaz was
a man of his word, and they entered the
government service, and being dare
devils, as far as courage Is concerned,
and thoroughly acquainted with the
ways and methods of the train robbers,
to whom they showeel no mercy, they
very soon suppressed these roblieries.
When a train was held up, the rurales,
who knew even mountain recess, never
stopped until they had hunted down
the last robber. The plan worked splen
didly, and there Is to-day less Interrup
tion to railroads in Mexico than in this
country, although the chances for rob
bery are so much better there.
Sare ef aa Oflcc.
Office seekers, like fishermen like oth
er fishermen, perhaps we might say
are commonly of a sanguine and pa
tient temper. One of the latest exam
ples is furnished by the Boston Courier.
"Did you see the president about your
appointment when you were in Wash
ington?" asked Mr. Nagger.
"No," said Mr. Noodleman, "but I
saw his secretary, and from what he
told me I should say 1 was sure to
win."
"What did he say?"
"He said that the president had re
marked, when my name was submitted,
that I was -persona non grata.' "
tWhat's that?"
"Why, It's Latin, and means 'no per
son greater!' Pretty high praise to
come from a president eh?"
Too Bad.
Edith's grandmother had come from
Maine for a visit, says the New York
Times, and the young woman she Is
abJBOBt ten years old took her into the
parlor to show her a lion's head done
in crayon. Edith made the picture
and is proud of it.
Grandmother adjusted her spectacles,
amd cased admiringly at the drawing.
"You don't know what that Is,
craadaa,'' Edith said.
"DoM't know what it is!" responded
grandmother, a little touched. "Lived
on '. farm sixty years and not know
a calf's head when I see it!"
He Wai Weaderfaar.
Winis I was just wondering about
the old hen and her little ones.
Mamma What were you wondering
about them?
Willis I was just wondering how the
old hen gives them a bath.
Milk with dry hands. It is far too
common to keep the hanOs and the
teats dripping wet with milk. ' It may
bva little easier to mflk with wet
hands, but it hi a fllthy habit
There have been enough tests mad
to fnnilal proof that dry corn fodder
cam be sfci'i fulb made Into ensilage
tar wvttsjc It aa It goes into the silo;
Max torn or ire fall of water to
?9B THE YOUJTO PEOPLE.
tommasTixo ubadiso for ma
BOYS AXD GtRLS.
The Fatal Kxeerleace et a Sank
aaai-A Mother' Way Kccea-
tvleitlctf 111 Palace A Care fer
Ftaaaateriatf
tiett. Campbell, in his "Indian Jouf
naV says that whexi he was on (Jcu
Dalryn pie's staff at Trichtnopoll there
was a dry well in the garden, which
wa A favorite haunt of snakes. One
morning he discovered a large cobra-de-capello
at the bottom of the well,
basking in the sun. He rail to fetch his
gun, but mean-abHe some of the native
servants pelted the snake with stones
end drovi- it into its hole In the brick
work. Gen. Campbell sont for the
snake charmers to get It out.
Two of these wcrtbles having arrived,
re lowereel them into the well by moans
of a rope. One of them, after perform
ing sundry incantations, began to play
tt shrill, monotonous ditty upon a pipe
ornamented with 6hells, brass rings and
beads, while the other stood on one side
of the snake's hole, holding a rod fur
nished at one end with a noose.
At first the snake, which had been
considerably annoyed before it took
refuge in its hole, was deaf to the
notes of the charir.er, but after balf an
hour's coistant playing the spell began
to operate, and the suake was heard
to" move. In a few minutes more Its
head was thrrst out, and the horse
hair noose was dexterously slipped over
It and "drawn tight We hoisted up
the men dangling the snake In triumph.
They carried it to an open space and
released it from the noose.
The enraged suake Immediately made
a rush at the bjht: nders. putting to
flight a crowd of iiatlve wrvants who
had assembled to witness the sport
The snake-charmer, tapping It on the
tall with a switch, induceel it to turn
upon himself, at the same time sound
ing his pipe.
The snake ceiled itself up. raised its
head, expar.drel Its hood, and appeared
about to strike: but Instead of doing
so It remained in the suae position,
as If fascinated by the music, darting
out its slender, forked tongue, and
following with Its head the motion of
the man's knee, which he kept moving
from side to side Within :t few inches of
It as If tempting It to bite.
No sooner did the music cense than
the snake dashed forward with such
fury a3 to require great agility on the
part of the man to avoid It, and then
immediately the snake ran off as fast
as it could go. The sound of the pipe,
however, Invariably made It stop, and
it remained in an upright position as
long as the man continued to play.
The charmer now offered to show us
bis method of catching snakes. With
his left hand he seized the reptile,
which was about five fe?ct long, by
the point of the tail, slipped his right
hand along its body with lightning-like
swiftness, and grasping It by the throat
with his finger and thumb, held it fast,
andforced it to open its jaws and dis
play its poisonous fangs.
Having now gratlfieel my curiosity,
I proposed that the snake shonlel be de
stroyed, or at least that Its fangs
should be extracted, nn operation easily
performed with a pair of forceps: but
the snake being a remarkably fine one,
the charmer was unwilling to extract
Its teeth, as he said the operation some
times proved fatal: anu he beggeel so
hard to be allowed to keep it as it was
that I at last suffered him to put it in a
basket and carry it off.
After this he frequently brought the
snake to die house, still with its fangs
entire, as I ascertained by personal
Inspection, but so tame that he hand
led It freely without fear. But one elay
the snake bit the charmer and ended
his life.
Hard to Manatee.
In Mr. Winshaw's "Out of Doors In
Tsarland" there is a humorous descrip
tion of the author's first experience
with snow shoes. These, he explains,
were not of the Canadian type, but
long, narrow, wooden ones, six or seven
feet in length by six inches In width.
The foot Is secured by a strap over the
Instep and another behind the lieel.
The beginner's first attempts are na
turally pretty awkward "hopeless and
heart breaking." Is Mr. Whlshaw's
phrase. He had starteel out on a wolf
hunt with several companions, lie
says:
My plight was pitiable, for this was
almost my very first attempt to mani
pulate, or rather pedlpulate, these slip
pery engines. Gavril and my friends
n ere up and away, gliding with easy
grace over the smooth surface, as If the
thing were as easy as walking. Anx
ious to keep up with them, and full of
the sense of responsibility awakened
by A s instructions as to absolute
silence, I, too, endeavored to slide
along with grace, but my efforts were
only partially successful.
A told me afterward that when
ever he lookeel round I was "just get
ting up." Once, at the bottom of the
hillock, he turned to see how I was
getting on, and nearly jeopardized the
success of the battue by bursting Into
a roar of laughter, a catastrophe which
he averted only by stuffing the thumb
of his huge glove into his mouth.
I had Just arrived, breathless, at the
top of the hillock, he says, and was evi
dently Intending to stop and straighten
my shoes before attempting the d-scent.
But my shoes had no thought of stop
ping even for a moment, and started
down the slope on their own account
one pointing southwest and the other
northeast
This state of things was bound to
end badly, and the expression in my
eyes, A said, was one of anguish
and boded catastrophe.
The next instant both feet were in
the' air, high up. and my head in the
snow, after which I rolled the rest of
the way down the hill, a confused
mass of legs, arms and snow shoes,
with occasional visions of a face bear
ing an expression ftf agony and alarm
quite uncalled for by the circumstances
of the case.
I believe this to be a distortion of the
facts; but I admit that I did have a
tumble while going down the hill.
Fertltade la SafTerlaar.
Our bite war famished many In
stances of great heroism and fortitude
of wounded soldiers of that time were
much better off than those of the Revo
lution. A hundred years ago, says a writer
In Harper's Young People, the unfortu
nate people who came into the bands
of the surgeons, generally soldiers or
sailors who bad been hurt in action,
were forced to undergo the operations
necestary to the prolongation of life
without taking ether or chloroform, as
is now adminlsteied to make the pa
tient unconscious and so free from
palm attendant upon the operatloB. To
Mcure quiet often the patient had to be
bj roaea, so aa anuah aa h
j might desire to -rince li-was utterly 'ja
awe to ao so. uoeaayinj uww
would show remarkable fortitude at
the crisis of their troubles, but bob
ever showed more than a soldier, who,'
on the morning after the battle of
Yorktown (Oct 19,1781), was brought
into the hospital, having been shot im
the knee. It waa found necessary to
amputate the limb, aad tna surgeon or
dered the nurses to bind the man fast
preparatory to the operation.
"Never!" protested the soldier. "You
may tear my heart from my breast,
but you shad not bind me! Can you
get me a fiddler
His request was emplleel with, and
he proceeded to time the instrument,
after which he Bald. "So. doctor, now
you can begin." And he played dur
ing the whole of the operation, which
lasted forty minutes, without uttering
a single false nofe or disturbing bis
features In the slightest
"Flavin Feel.'
' it U net every man who recognizee
the folly of his etourse before it is too
late to make amends for bis actions.
It was otherwise with the young shoe
maker In the following instance. How
much better, however, it would have
beca had he never entered upon hbj fool
ish course at all!
This young thoenaker. though an
energetic aad industrious workman, fell
into the habit of spending much time
at a saloon near by. One by one hia
customers began to desert him. When
his wife remonstrated, with him for
so neglecting his work for the saloon,
he would carelessly reply, "Oh, I've
Just been down a little while playing
pool." His little two-year-oldnxiught
the refrain, and would often ask, Ts
you going down to play fool, papa?'
Snathe tried In vain to correct this
word. The child persisted in his own
pronunciation, and day by day he ac
costed his father with, "Has yon been
playing fool, papa?" This made a
deep Impression on the shoemaker, its
he renlizxl that the question was being
answered iu the falling off of his cus
tomers and the growing wants of the
household. He resolved again anel
again to quit the pool table, but week
ly allowed the passion of play to hold
hlni a long time. Finally he foimd
himself out of work, out of money and
out of flour. Sitting on his bench one
afternoon. Idle and despondent, he was
he;inl to exclaim,
"No work again to-elay! What I'm
to do I don't know."
"Why, papa," prattled the baby,
"can't you run down and play fool some
more?"
"Oh, hush, you poor child!" groaned
his father, shame-stricken. "That's just
the trouble; papa has played fool too
much nlreatly."
But he never pl.tyed It again, and to
day his home Is comfortable and happy-
A Mother's Way.
When the Rev. Horace Bushncll was
a boy, he was very desirous of knowing
something about music. No one In the
family could teach him, however, and
his mother, with that divine patience
and insight which belongs to mothers
in general, found that if the lad was
to have his wish at all. it must be
through her. She obtaineel a book,
and soon taught him all she knew,
the scale, the keynote and how to find
it and the time of the notes.
This was only "book-learning," how
ever, and the question was, to adapt it
to the use of the voice. Little Horace
wanted to sing by note, and that his
mother could not teach him. She could
sing by car, however, and the two hit
upon a species of reverse process; the
mother sang familiar tunes, and the boy
watched the notes, observing how the
Intervals and time ran along, and, as
he expresseel It, "soon began almost
to sing with ns.'
And from singing airs they knew
into notes that bore no meaning, they
finally learned to sing airs they did
not know out of similar notation. The
method liad been unlocked, and further
progress was easjf. The mother's heart
had found out the way.
Eccentricities la Pnlace.
Tlie king of Slam, who, according
to late reports, has had a palace con
structed which be can submerge in the
sea at will and so live under water
whenever he chooses. Is tot the only
monarch who has Indulged In eccen
tricities of tlds sort!
For Instance, history has preserved
the memory of the ice palace built by
the Russian Empress Anne, who pun
ished several of her dainty courtiers
by compelling them to pass the night
In this great chamber of state, where
they were alracst frozen to death.
The Czar Paul, ancestor of the pres
ent emperor of Russia, const racted a
room formed entirely of huge mirrors,
where he spent hours walking to and
fro In full uniform a singular taste
for the ucliest man in Russia.
One of the native princes of Java
cooled his palace by making a stream
fall In a cascade over the gateway;
end the Indian despot TIppo Sahib
pbced beside his dinner table a life
size figure of a tiger devouring an En
glish officer, the roar of the beast and
the shrieks of the victim being imi
tated by hidden machinery.
A Care far Stammering
A gentleman who stammered from
childhood almost up to manhood gives
a wry tlnipie r:-n:cly for the misfor
tune. He says: "Go into v. room
where you will be quiet and alone, get
some boo!; th: t v. hi interest but not
excite yon and -.it elowu and read two
hours aloud to yourself, keeping your
fertk together. Do this every two or
three days or on- a week if very
tiresome alw: y.s taking care to read
slowly and dis :nc;ly. moving the lips
but not the teeth. Then, when con
versing with others, try to speak as
slowly and distlnetiy as possible and
make up your mind tliat you will not
stammer.
"The first result was to make my
jaws ache that is. while I was read
ingand the next to make me feel as
If something had leosencd my talking
apparatus, fcr I could speak with less
difficulty immediately. Tlie change
was so great that every one who knew
me remarked it I repeated this rem
edy every five or six days for a month,
and then at longer intervals until cured.
HI Reaana.
The Sixth Michigan cavalry of the
renowned Custer brigade was com
manded by a gallant colonel, formerly
a member of the Michigan bar.
In the early morning of the last day
at Gettysburg, while his regiment with
others, was in line awaiting orders,
the men grew noisy in their conversa
tion and laughter.
Turning nervously to them the colonel
roared out'" "Keep silence there!"
Then he addeoVdn an apologetic tone,
"Not that I care, but it will sound better.'
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OFFICERS.
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It P. n. OEHLRIOB. Vice Pre.
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DANIEL SCII RAM, Aaa't Cash
DIRECTORS.
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STOCKHOLDERS.
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OFFICERS.
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DIRECTORS.
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JACOB 08X18X5. BXNBZ MAQATZ.
JAMlt O. XXfOXK.
SUteneat af the Oaaltlaa at the Clase
ef B-hIecss Jilj 13, 1893.
RESOURCES.
Loans and Discounts. f 241,467 57
Real Estate Furniture and Fix
tures. .............. J6.10I 91
D. 8. Bonds 15,200 0)
Due from other banks.. ...137.878 at
Cashonliand .210? 66 59.743 W
Total imM36
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Capital Stock paid In
....I 60.000 00
.... 30.000 0)
.... 4.576 00
surplus tuna
Undivided profits
Circulation ............ ..
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. 1300 00
. E3.119 37
Total.,
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