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it . Cowm amrol f - - i..- ." VOLUME XXIV. NUMBER 42. COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA; WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1894. WHOLE NUMBER 1,238. Ot .rf v. v.-: - M NEBRASKA NEWS. Measlcs prevail to quite an extent at iirer Creek. The second m.isieal school is to be cs:abli."-hed in Lincoln. A big wolf hunt in Custer county is billed for the -M:h inst. Juniata, and Hastings last week felt .slight shocks of earthquake. The Argus claims that Red Cloud has been cleansed of all iniquity. The ruins of the court house at Au rora are guarded day and night A series of cottage prayer meetings nave been inaugurated in rrcinont George Hlodgett sold his farm of 210 acres west of Ashland for SS.000 cash. rVrly pexsons have lately united with the Baptist church at Cedar Rap ids. A wolf hunt near Marquette resulted in the death of one coyote and 102 rab bits. York raited SsOO in less than an hour to provide for the needs of its worthy . 1 ' The Pcavj elevator at Hartington ' had a close cail from destruction by tire: There have oeen 1 5(1 tons of ice put up for the Kearney reform school this fccason. The Grant Sentinel claims that chol era has never affected hogs in that county. Uavne ha in onnortumtv to secure a planing null large enough to employ ten men. " The dedication of the .Methodist church at ttcnediet takes place on the L'sth inst. The village of Syracuse has asked permission to add to its territory about forty blocks. Steps are being taken in Fremont for the organization of a mutual fire insur ance company. Hamilton eounty gets :,.r00 from the insurance companies to apply on its new court house. A beaver weighing fifty-three pounds w.is i rappeo in tlie lme river, near Hoatrioe, last week. A mutual fire insurance company will be organized bv residents of t.'edar county. February .".'. Franklin county has purchased the brick creamery at Uloouungton and will transform it into a jaiL Vv. (teorge U Martin, chaplain of the Kearney industrial -chool. gives a lecture entitled "Onlva Hoy." One Bloom. an Omaha policeman, is on the rack for writing a threatening Jotter to the mayor of that city There is talk of organizing a driving nark association at . rand Island and holiiinir a summer trotting meeting. Paralysis of the bowels was the cause of the death of John Kappert of Chad ron. one of the best known engineers on the Elkhorn road. There are only two Chinamen in Richardson county and they have been notilifd to register as provided by law tr prepare to emigrate. Two Omaha boys under ten years of age imbibed the spirit of adventure and ran away from home. They were cap tured at Orand Island and sent back. A burglar tried to enter the postothce at Heaver rossing the other night, but two men were asleep inside the build ing and were awakened in time to scare away the thief. John Orr of Pakota City offers a re ward of 5")0 for information leading to the conviction of the parties who killed and mrried away three fat hogs be longing to the party p'.aintuf. Miss Kate Nicholson, of Nebraska Citv. who lost her mind during relig ous revival, died last week. The phy sicians attribute her ulness to the ex citement incident to the occasion. An order was handed down by the supreme court last week reouiring sev eral persons to appear January :., and tell what they know of the alleged rob bery of the Plain view Mate bank, which is purported to have Occurred July ' 1S0X " William Harwich, the H-year-old son of Henry Harstiek. accidentally shot i iumsen last week near his home in St. Charles township. Cuming county. The charge entered his right arm near the shoulder, tearing out the muscles and arteries. Last week wh.ie Mr and Mrs. Will iam .Miller, who live south of Kearney about a mile, were visiting for a few moments at a neighbor's, their house was entered and thoroughly ransacked. A watch, coat, vest and $6 in cash are the articles stolen. A systematic charity organization has been effected by citizens of York, with J. O. steinbach. president: Mrs. C. C. Cobb, vice president; Rev. W. E. Schell, secretary: N R. Lundeen. treasurer. A committee was appointed for each . ward in the city to find' those in need of helix The L mon Pacific depot at Cozad was I totally destroyed by fire. The night operator noticed dames issuing from the roof, but as there was no fire aDar atus in the vicinity, his efforts to quench tne flames were unavailing. The tire is supposed to have been caused by a defective chimney. Jonathan R Hall sued James Stur geon for $190.25 damages on account of alleged trespass, says the York Re- ! puuucan, and in li. H. JJowkcr's court ' ne got a verdict for $1.00, and most of the costs were assessed to him, as Mr. Sturgeon offered him $4.00 in open court to settle the matter before itcame to trial. December il. ISM, Abraham Hav bargcr of Shelton married Mrs. Ellen Tyler of tlrand Island and now he is sorry and wants a divorce. He alleges infidelity as the first cause among other cane& He has learned since marriage that his wife was at one time an in mate of a disorderly house and hasn't recovered. A young man named Rhodes was ar rested and had a preliminary hearing at ITtica on the charge of" forgery. About six months ago he went to one of the Utica banks to borrow S100. A note was made out which he took away, coming back two days later with the same of Peter Swanson, a well-known fanner, as an pnnnror s.rwi Virt tx-c; ffiven the monev. It now appears that &wanson never s.gned the note, and Ehodes was bound over to district court in bonds of Sroo. The poor of Nebraska want work, trill you aid then- by patroaizing Ne braska manufacturers and increasing , the demand for laborers. "Western poods for western people," is a good muiiiu iu udu over vuui uuur. rarreli A Ox's brand of svruos. tellies ore- servesand mince meat: Morse-Coe boots tne subject of irrigation at which and shoes for men. women and children; every ?ne "Crested in the matter is Consolidated Coffee Co.'s brand of cof- earnestly requested to be present. It fee. extracts and veast; Page Soap Co. 's . vras ecided at previous meeting held Silver Leaf and Borax soap: American ." Placc' a' which an irrigation Biscuits Manufacturing Co., Omaha, society was organized, to issue this call crackers; Union Life Insurance Co. of 'or a general meeting- of all the coun Omaoa. ties of that part of tne state interested . . , . .. in the subject, that a general inter A committee of comrades from the i :j :t.. v?i.:j j :S3S t"K3.S.Ki. ' ww jHWM Mi.M UUUVJ IMtK 1 If 11 M !- i. t -v- l l waters, iu uuiauauue oi taeir mstruu tiesof Kichardson, Pawnee, emaha, , 4t ,, ; ;c., ..n j iSf em,t0, .ant!astf Cfss and John- nlnf wdMedS Thomas Hutchinson of Kearney has completed drawings and written des cription on an invitation to carry elec- ' tricity along- the rail on electric street ' car lines and thus do away with the trolley. Th ere is a reward or -r.iD.oou to the inventor who will nerfect and , put in order such a system, and he thinks he has it. ! Mrs. Frank 15. Smith, wife of Bag I gageman ifinith of tie Ilock Island de I pot at Beatrice, committed suicide by shooting herself through the heart. i The cause of the tragedy is owing i wholly to temporary insanity. The de J ceased was but 11 years of age. and the I couple had been married but eighteen months. Thev have one child, born in j -'too:r last- On convening of court at Osceola the other day. Judge fcuiivan. in an ab'c ami exnaust've review of the arguments for and against the motion for a new ' trial in the Deheney case, overruled j that motion ana turning to the priso l ner. informed him that he had been , found guilty of murder in the first ae- gree by a jury of good men. . The judge I i then. J.n. 41 w,mtP. be ha",;' -" ftne 4tU.day.oLAlay. next.- Several weeks airo K. A. Kuseii. a uhotognipher from Arcadia, settled in Krownvii.e and was doing a thriving business. One nay ijst week Russell lured a 'cam to drive to Auburn ami from there he went to Xeniaha City, leaving the team at the livery stable and took the train for parts unknown. It now has leaked out that Ituvsel has another n ifein Minnesota whom he de- 'ertt-'i several year-, ago T. A. Fort of North I'j latte president of the state irrigation association, was in Kearney ami held a meeting in the eity hall. As a result the Uulfalo t on nt v Irrigation association was or ganized, with the following officers President, I Deets; vice president. Robert Kichards: secret iry, .1. W. Moshier: treasurer, V. S. Hand. The president will tail a public mass meet ing to be held in two weeks. The presumption of some people is wonderful, sas the holton Clipper. ; Hodge cmintv lias something like tittv or stxty thousand sheep within her br- lers and the Fremont correspondent of the Omaha Peeclaims that that is more than are being fed in any other county in the state. Why. bless your soul, shelton alone is feeding almost twice that number, to say nothing of those , being fed at Otbbon and other points in I l.urt'aloeounty. About thirty of the leading stockmen of sher:dan ami Western Cherry county and tiie part of .south Dakota adjacent tnereto met in dordon in convention and organized the Northwestern Mock association of Sheridan county. Nebras ka, and adopted a constitution and by- i laws The object of the organization I is tlie mutual protection of the interest oT those engaged in the stojk business and the enforcement of the laws relat ing to live stock. A. E. Russell, a photographer, located in I.rownville a few weeks ago and was doing a thriving business. He left suddenly for parts unknown, leaving , all his belongings. It now develops ' that a wife whom he deserted in Min nesota was on his trail, anil the fact had come to his knowledge. Russell. j when he left Minnesota, ran awaj- witii a servant girl and robbed his wife of a large sum of monev An effort will be made to capture him. ; The preliminary hearing at tiering of Milton Merting of Wyoming on the , charge of kidnapping one Harry Rob erts from eotts KliitF county and tail ing him into Wyoming without, legal process, resulted in the binding over to the district court of sterling under 5."oo bonds. Roberts, w ho was convicted and is now in the penitentiary at Laramie, is said to be the tenth man who has thus been carried into Wyoming from t western Nebraska in the last three or four yeats. I A Fairbury dispatch s.iys: The sale of eighty acres of land here yesterday recalls a little ii'story. The eighty in question is the one on which John C Fremont camped in ls4" and from j which camp he sent those messages to , Washington containing the famous statement: "It never rains in Ne braska. This is the great American desert " Yesterday that eighty sold for I S3"i0O cash, and the man that bouirhi it thinks it is a cheap slice of the "des ert." too. It is in section "ti. township I 4, north; range 1. east, in Jefferson eounty. t the meeting of the board of super- I visors at Beatrice the resolution passed at the last meeting of the board direct ing that suit be at once begun against . the indemnifying bondsmen of the Ne- I braska National bank to recover the I S30.000 of county funds that are lo-'ked up in the suspended ban was rescinded. This action was taken in view of tlie faet that the receiver of the bank noti- t tied the creditors of the bank that a dividend of 1" per cent will at once be ! paid on all outstanding claims against the bank. Tames J. Duffv lives at llraud Island and has four bright little children to his credit, but he is and has been since December 12 minus of a wife who ran away from home. After she had left he followed her to Lincoln and found her drawing a salary in a cheap hotel as a domestic They had an interview and they agreed to return home in a week if. he would precede her and care for the children until she arrived. He kept his part of the contract but she a,lei ant now she has gone to parts unmown. Ah Sam, the Chinese doctor at Lin coln, was arrested again last week on 1 a complaint sworn out by the Lancas ter County Medical association. ' This is the third time the doctor has 1 been arrested on the charge of vio lating the statutes of the state in re gard to praeMc.ng medicine, the only difference in the complaints being the time of the violation of the law. The medical society proposes to make a test case in order to see what force there is in the new medical law which requires physicians to secure a certificate before dealing out drugs or even professing to heal the sick. I The State Banking board, which took possession of the Farmers fc Mer- chants bank at Talmage, has received a report of its condition. The last re- port made by the bank to the board was upon December 19, when it showed it held deposits to the amount of S".iyt. The other PrinciPal liabilities are bill i':.uuuuuiul;..li The bank holds notes and discounts to the amount of 51s,04t. and of this amount Sl5,31H is secured by two or more en dorsers. The bank had but SjTs in cosh on hand at the date of its last re port. Depositors, it is believed, will get all their money in time. There will be a meeting held in " -cui on January .iu ana at to aiscuss plan formulated for mtilizmg the tf allv 5 aU who can, from adjoining towns and counties, to be HIS BERTHA. They left the steamer together, arm In arm; some of the other passengers looked after them, and one or two .i miled. "The Cook's tourist, circular among other things, advertise the f.iet that matches have been made ou Iheiraux cursions congenial persons being tlirown together, while doing Europe, who might novr else have met." said a sarcastic-looking lady to her husband, who stood beside her. "Oil. you don't mean to tell me so. my dear. ' said he. "iteally," she replied; "it" not Cook's same other of the same sort, quite as respectable ion niigtit drop a note to the managers of the line to add this item to their list of advantages." YOU lllillk the VOlinS neotlte Il.-lVO hit it off. I see." said the gentleman. - - C -A. - t. T believe he is going directly to papa Mua. HortoBabt-tlielBdyr ' "that is. if it is nor .in olnnement " "Scorns to be a nice fellow, said tlie gentleman. "And she is very pretty. "Pretty!" ejaculated the lady: "she hasn't a tra e of beauty. Stie knows how to dress, that's all. ' In spi; of this criticism.it w.tj a very charming girl who was walking up tlie long, busy street that led from tlie steamer wharf to Broadway; and the young man who walked beside her thought her the loveliest creature alive, i He had told her so many times dur ing the voj-age. Now he was telling her something more; he was making her an offer of his heart and hand. "I know you are an orphan," lie said, "and that there is no one to decide the question for you. The captain told me that ho gave you lots of information about me, as I asked him to. You know m not an adventurer, but a ro pectabl" business man with good pros pects, and it is only whether you can like me enough to marry me. Bertha." lie had never called her by her given name before, and as she hoard him ut ter it she thought for the first time in her life that It was pretty. "Oh. I think I could," she said softly. "You are likeable." "I wish we were where I could kiss you." he said. She laughed. "Ah. but you are not. you know." "1 shall not believe you are engaged t' me until I have kissed you," he went on. "Oh. am IV" ho asked. "Are you not?" he cried. "You said you could like me well enough." 'Wasn't that plenty for the first time?" she queried. "You frighten me." said he. "My darling, tell me you meant it." "Oh. I meant it." she said; "but you go o fast." "You will many me?" he persisted. She nodded. "Well. then, we are engaged," he paid; " ami j-ou'll let me go home with you. and introduce me to your old aunt, and tell her?" he went on. "No. Mr. Wheaton." she said, "it can not be done in tint fashion." "You must call me Will, or I shall think you mean to jilt me." he said. "Well. Will, then." she laughed. "Just think the affair over. You and I meet upon the steamer; the captain in troduces us; he tells me all about you: he tells you who I am. and that for six months I have been traveling companion to a lady who died sudden ly in Pans, leaving me to -g home alone. We like each other " I "Like?" he repeated. "Well, we like each other so much th.it I engige myself to you after an acquaintance of fourteen days." said Bertha. "I'm not frightened: I believe I know my own heart -Sjiir you must cont'e-.s that my aunt must be pardon ed if she thinks it very sudden. You must give me time to explain: 1 must show her that respect. I will go home alone, and the day after to-morrow you may come up to L'herrypoint. and 1 can prmie you a pleasant reception. Aunt will have on her best cap. ami you will be asked to lunch. You will also hear the family history of the .ui Wyeics. Don't you see that my ide.i is bettor than yours?'" "I mo that you have a right to ar range it -)."' he answered. "And 1 sup pose yuu will be easily lound. "Take the stage and tell them to stop at the Van Wyek cottage.'" said Bertha. "Miss YanWyck is my grand-aunt. She lives all alone but for a maid and a lit tle dog. I have no other relations but a sister. who is governess to some child ren. She has gone to France with tho family, so aunt is quite deserted. Don't come to-morrow day after to morrow, please.'" "I'll try to bear my banishm "at," he r.Dswored. "And now let us go and got some lunch together." Two hours later he had bidden his brtruhed adieu, and was sitting in his nnin at the hotel, feeling as it tt were all a dream. When ho starred on mat voyage of his he had no mor idea that he should return an engaged man than he had that he should become a Mohammedan. But ho was very glad, lie had never been so h-sppy in all his life. Tho hours passed slowly for him. tu spite of the fact that ho was very busy, and when he had actually completed his journey, and was walking up to the house door, ho could scarcely believe that it was only the day before yester day that ho had parted from Bertha. In his pocket he had a ring of value: in his hand a wonderful bouquet of lint house flowers, and his heart throblnd with i love as genuine as the gem. and I as sweet a:.d delicate as were the j rises, lie hail never thought of any woman in tint way uetoro. lie reit th U he was better, as well as happier. for knowing Bertha, and that Provi dence had been especially kind to linn in bringing them tog-'ther. "'Tho Miss Van Wyoks are out." said tlie white-capped maid who opened the door when he had rung tho shining bell, i "Hut they'll be in soon if you'll please sit down anil wait, sir." So Will heaton waited In the prot- ty parlor, sitting in a chair that had a silken head-rest ti'd to the back, and laying his cheek against it when Uo thought that Henna's might have pressed it recently, he shut his yes and thought of her. and then suddenly hrt heard her voice. It came trom an adjoining room, separated rrom the parlor by a portiere; and what it said was: "Oh. do come in. Mr. Perry: 1 am so 1 .pleased to see you. 1 haven't had a call sincp I got homo. Perry who on earth was Perry? "Will Wheaton started to his feet and. standing where the folds of the por tiere lay against xhc dcor-jamb. peered into the next room. Yes. there wns Benha. She seemed to have just come in. and was seated in a rocking-chair. She wore that pret ty dark blue dress of hers, and th hat with the golden wing in it lay in. her lap, and she was loeking up into the cjes of a very handsome man who stood before her." "Do ait down. Mr. Perry," she said. "May I sit here. Miss -Van WyckK" queried the man. drawing a little root itocl to her side. "Why, ye, if yon tind it comfort tble." she answered, laughing. Will's blood was boiling. "i am going to see -his out." he satrt. "It may be one of those confounded mistakes men make in stories. L won t peril my own happiness by needless jealousy- btit.it looks bad. ' It looked worse the next moment, for IVrry took the little hands hi hhS uml kissed them. "Hav yo'.i been away :l hundred years?" he said. "It seems so." The girl laughed. "And the voyage w:us it pleasant?" he went on. "Awfully stupid." said she. "It could not haye been stupid for I coarse black hair was allowed to strag you." said Terry." You must have iked giefhi angles over hir face, ears and surrounded by admirer." i ,. tj i.: . .,. , , ...... v . you. Si "Admirers!"' cried th :.... H(.nr talk of admirrs. There was one man who tormented me all the way over the met conceit d. insutferable crea- tm- The cantata thoiiaat he was mak- in- thin: n.,.int fnr mo lr intrrw , -f, U.UM. .VUOM.ti. . . SJ -W ducing him. but. oh. how dreadful he was, L rcally.uelieve he thoni 3&tqi SuoilKTaccent hinf; And she lanirhetl. "Am I iroinjr nml. or dreamins a. dreadful dreamy heaion asked mm- self. "Do you know. I've boon afraid you'd a crept some of them." Perry was say ing. "1" c beu r-nrviching myself for letting you go without telling you how I felt but t was afraid. -Miss Nan Wyek. I don't bore you as that fellow did. o l?" "Of course not." the girl said. "I'm glad." said Perry, "for I love you so dearly. Darling, can you like me enough to marry me? i cannot live without you. The next moment Will Wheaton saw the man take her in his arms, and she hid her face on his shoulder; and when he said It is yes, dearest?" she an- swered; "Oh, yes. and 1 am very hap py." For a moment W lit felt ns though he must dash through tho portiere and stand before them, and upbraid the girl with her falsehood. Then he re mi'mbenil that he would only make himself ridiculous. It was plain that she had accepted him because she had abandoned all hope of a proposal from Pony whom she had loved all the time. Now she did not oven remember his existence. He must go away while he could, lo-iving no token of his presence bo hind him. allowing her to think that ho had only amused himself with a girl he met on the steamer. That would be some revenge. Trend ing softly, and clutching his bouquet. ho stepped out of the long. French ' window and hurried away, walking blindly in his wrath, and not heeding ' the way lie took. He was stunned j stupefied. As yet he scarcely realized , what had befallen him. j He had walked on for fifteen minutes ! before the spasm of acute agony which I was sure to come fell upon him: be I for he realized what this thing meant to him that life was no longer worth ; living: that he should really care for ! nothing any more. All uiihappj' lovers think that for awhile, and it is in this first flush of misery that suicides ar.- committed. ' Will Wheaton turned his unhappy glance upon the spot to which he hail wandered unaware, and saw that ho i had come to a lonely and unguarded j portion of the railroad. At that mo- i nient he hoard tho shriek of an ap I proaehing train, and the thought of i j self-destruction Hashed upon him. 1 "I will end ir all." he siM to him- I ' se'f. "I will stand qui-tly here until ! I it ill be impossible fur the engineer i to stop in time, and then walk upon 1 the track. No one will know anything about it; It will he reported as an acci ' dour. Nothing could b bettor." ' Ho took his place olo-o to the track. As he did so he lifted the roses he had brought for Bertha to his f-we. The rush of the train was in his ears; he diil not look up. "flood-bye." ho whispered to one. grear. white rose that had seemed to him so like her. "I loved you. though you never loved me. I loved j-oit so well that I cannot live without you." His foot was lifted for the fatal step. wh"ii suddenly four hands seized upon him. and two female voices screamed in his ears; "(h. come farther back: Oh. how reckless;" "I nearly fainted when 1 muv you. Oh. how could you:" A'midst these shrieks the train whiz .ced past, and ho saw that Bertha held him by one arm. while an elderly lady clung to his coat-tails. "1 suppose you lost -ourolf and came the wrong w.ty." said Bertha. "I never saw any one do such a stu pid thing before." said the old lady. "Bur it is a shame not to have a flag man here." "Oh. if you hail killed your"If before my very eyes I .should have gone mad." said Bertha. "I think I have boon mad myself." muttered the young man. staring at he- "Well." said th' old i .dy". "wo all grow bewildered occasionally. I come v.-ry near being drowned once by trying to get on a frry boat after it had starr ed. I was thinking of something else; but I haven't ben introduced yet. have I? Bertha, do your duty." "Miss v.in Wyek. this is Mr. Wheat on." said Berina. "Will. Aunt Kath rine. And. by the way. I have some one else to introduce you to. When I reached homo I found my sister there uij- sister Dolly who hail returned as unexpectedly as myself. Dolly and I are twins you know, and people say they cannot tell us apart." "Thoy dress alike to make the resem blance greater." said Miss van Wyek. "Really, this morning I called Dolly Bertha" myself." "Twius"" gasped the young man. "twins! 'lood henvi ns! what an idiot I am that is i tind that very interest ing. I am glad to hear ir. I think it would prevent mistakes always to men tion it at once, flood Lord! how thank ful I am." Miss van Wvck decided at that mo- meat that Kertha's sweetheart had boon 1 eighty -four revolutions a minute. Tho drinking -unless he was out of his ! operator pur; ;h, hearing tubes in po mind. But Bertha herself guessed sition.listens for a second or two. while something rather near the rnith. , tho vi.-itor hear-; the far away sound However, not until she double wed- 1 of the distinct utterances, and present diug had taken place at Miss van , ly tho hand begin to nish over the kev Wycks cottage, and he was on his honeymoon journey with his wife, did j Will 'Wheaton mak" full confession. TTTSMiiy-ilv Ont Xap. It was on the two oiock up town elevated train on the Sixth avenue road yesterday morning. A fat. drowsy man stumbled into tho car. He beck oned to the guard and huudd him a quarter. "seventy-second street." he said. "Right." said the guarn. When the train reaehed Seventy-second srroer. the guard woke the fat man and the latter sleepily left the train. "Do you get many such patrons?" was asked the guard. "Oh. yes." was the reply. "St .Tie nights I make as much as S2. Otlicr nights I fall as low as a quarter. But have regular customers, so I can count on about $1 that comes to me on ac count of the drowsiness of mankind." New York Sun. ARCTIC HfJMA'NITY. of Eaiialuian Men, Women am? Babicn. u- TBese EsnuimaiiT were the onceres dirSst looking individuals I had ever m' , . . . seesu. Clad entirely in fur.--, they re- i5lnded me more of monkeys than of buen being IkWst. the man. was r.bot 0 feet '1 or 'A muhe-s In height, rovmi as .1 dumpling; with it Idrg., sni8etli, fat face, in which two little Made eyes, a aat nose and large expan stv&tn.nitk were :iIriot lost. His ' "-J l" "" ffuiuuuurs. niiuuci uuy ai- I tempt at arrangouent or order. His i body: was covered with a garment n-iiti i,s.isi-sn ,.n.i i. i, .. TZ.T. "' " 'rZ. 1". ' " "'if ""-, "-- i-v.niici.-, iu uiai "W. ami ouisiue or uus a garment .1 . , . -. 4l.M...i J9 At . ..A A rt i i r .k1 Al r . JhSLSffl.V&'n--4het.flirt,aathe outride, calleil "netcheh." These g:ir- meats, patterned ex:ictly alike, were ' nul' t t"" liuinv. cut short at the hips, and comiug to a point back and front; a dose-iitting h ioi was sewed to tiie nock of each gtrmonr. and invaria bly pulled over his head when he was on- of door-. His legs were covered with sealskin trousers or "naaookles," r-aching just below the knee, where they were met by the tanned sealskin boots called by the natives "kamiks." We learned later that sealskin trousers were word only by thoso men wh-4 were fortunate enough or able to kill a bear. In winter these men wear dog skin trousers, which are its warm as those made of bearskin, but not nearly so stylish. Winter and summer, thti men wear stockings reaching the knees made of the fur of the Arctic hare. I At first I thought the women's dresS I was identical with that of tho njan, and it puzzled me to tell oiio from the other; but in a day or two I made out the many little differences in th cos 1 fumes. Tlie woman, like tho man. wore the ahtee and netch"h. made re spectively of the birdskin and sealskin. They differed in pattern from those of the man only in the back, where an ex ' tra width is sewed in. which forms :l pouch, extending the entire length of the back of" the weilrer. and fitting tight around the hips. In this pouch or hood the baby is carried: its little body, ewered only bj- a shirt reaching to i the waist, made of the skin of a young blue fox. is placed against the bare j back of the mother, and the head, eov I ered by a tight-fitting skull-c.ip made of sealskin, is allowed to rest against the : mother's shoulder. In this way the 1 Esquimau child is carried constantly, , whether awake or asleep, and without j clothing except the shirt and cap. un til it can Walk, which is usually at the , age of 2 years: then it is clothed in , skins, exactly like the father If it is a boy. or like the mother if it is a girl, i and allowed to toddle about. If it is i the youngest member of the family, af ! tor it has learned to walk it takes ifs place in its mother's hood whenever it is sleepy or tired, just as American j mothers pick up their little loddler-4 and rock them. The woman's trousers or nanookies. an made of foxskin. and are hardly anything more than "trunk:" these are met by tho long-logged boots, or kamiks. made of tanned sealskin, and the long stockings, or allahsy." of rein door fur. Altogether this family ap peared fully as strange to us as we did t; them. They had never before soon woven material and could not seem to understand the texture, insisting that it was the skin of some animal In America. Mrs. Peaiw's Journal. PHONOGRAPH IN LEGAL WORK. ft TnkM Down nten at the Rate of Ttto Hundred W'nrih a Minute. The most wonderful of modern in ventions, tho phonograph, is destined to become an important factor in chronicling the happenings which form the great proportion of the business of the legal profession. The phonograph, so intricate and yet so simple to those who understand it. will, in connection with the better-known typewriting nri chiue. turn out more than three times the amount of work turned out by the old methods of dictation. In one of the offices about a stone's throw from the new court house, where sits a busy young woman whose work must seem only a little short of mysterious to the uninitiated. Even those who are familiar with tho methods of pro cedure are constantly being astonished by what she accomplishes with the two inventions mentioned. It ,wa a little more than three years ago that a Bos ton firm conceived the idea of saving much of its valuable time by the use of the phonograph. Previously the members had taken the stenographic notes of the case from the court room to the office, where thoy read about sixty words a minute to a typewriter. Now. instead of doing this, they read their notes into a phonograph at the rate of '2tM) words a minute a rate with which uo expert on the typewrit ing machine could possibly keep up, even if she reached it occasionally. The wax cylinders of the phonograph will hold words enough to fill about two pages of copy; these cylinders are removed, placed on a hoard holding twelve of them, on which are wooden pegs that keep the wax from breaking. These are then dispatched to the type writer operator, who places them in position, according to their numbers, and touching a spring here and open ing a valve there, gets up steam. s0 to speak. A little wheel at the end of the phonograph whirls around, making board. What she hears is coming out at the tips of her lingprs. In this w derftil way the typewriter has h on- been Known to nm off X.OQQ words in in hour, and her employers are able to give il(r work enough in one day to keep her busy three days. It is not every one who can hope to acquire this difficult accomplishment. One must first be an expert on the type-writing machine. She must have no nerves to speak of. or the constant whirr of the phonograph will drive her distracted. She must be calm, have a faithful memory, never get tired, and work all day and half the night, if the requirements of a particularly hard case demands ir. Still there are com pensations. If a friend drops in when she has a few leisure moments, or the operator herself feels a desire for .1 bit of music, she whisks off the cylin der containing the dry legal technicali ties, puts in another, and relaxes for awhile, listening to the restful strains ot orchestral music, a speech, 1 comlo song, or a chime of bella from u church, tower. 1 TEE AGRICULTUB AL WORLD MTESEiJfi.VG ScflJECTS FOR THE rwiER '.,,. . , , -,... . i Pro&t Small Thlns-Irrlc tfl caiiforaia-Aii . Poorly nu aaccd Ratluas Short Farm Xote. We give a connle of illustrations. , not ns net profits, but rather as gross ' receipts The net protitn would vary J very mnei in different sections with dif ' ferent surroundings and cost Then it 1 is hot possible that every one" can real I ize the' same prices says a writer kt J Farm. Field and Fireside". I neighbor owned one cow, bought three more at $' each so the amount of capital was worth about SSO. From .rK? i-,ro..uec; L u-e ua f"1" yji . nuim m uuu. mc in.c iuuwuj, uuui .m in uuuer. me !; rauwus "' I anru tn T pnntt! rrt TrtiTHi lifvnrfn4 , - - -; - - - ""4'" .T 7' rZZi 1 iurni;uns ine ntim supply ior uiret; i , ; Kneanayiire-calVeaiund two plftsJ.1' were raised largelv ftrt the kim-tnillc. !Y.e . "P The pigs were bought about Ihe time the account was commenced Fur ?.".."(. and sold for $2". Of course they weru finl some corn .n the latter part of the season. There was an abundance of native pasture, bnt not any more, which was all they could eir. Then was much, doubtless, in good but tor-making, which all cannot, succeed in. and something fit good marketing. We had a narrow strip of two acres of sod around a forty-acre field which had been broken in early spring: we cut It twice with the disk and planted It to Folger's earl' sorghum with a two-horso planter, putting the hills about two feet apart, using three pounds of sed in the two acres. No cultivatiov of any kind was given. Tlie crop was made Into syrup, hauling off a part ourselves and a neighbor getting a part to make up, in all IA'1 gallons. At prices we have heed paying. ."0 cents,- worth $1"1. We could not for pressure of other business gather up the seed nt once, or thought we could not. sd hmch of it was destroyed by mice ami ii"ij.h- bor's calves. But from what we got then was easily twenty-five btishch which is worth at least $1 per bushel to us. We have made im valuation what ever of the leaves which were loft on the ground. They might have been gathered up or stock turned in. but we had uo use for" thenl. as rough fetM was in supply more than our demand. Irrisatiou in California. The question as to the value of irri gation in any region is not to be deter mined by the amount of its annua! rainfall. It is tho seasonal distribu tion, as much as tho quantity of rain, that makes the agriculture secure and enables the cultivator to dispense with irrigation. In many localities in Califor nia the idea has prevailed that because crops of winter wheat and barley can be grown successfully without Irriga tion, such use of water is not desirable for general rural development. But it is to be noted that in those districts of the state in which no irrigation is prac ticed, and where the lauds are de voted to wheat and barley almost exclu sively, little or no progress ban boon made in the past ton or twelve year. Dry farming has tended to decrease the number of farmers and to enlarge the area of farms through the absorp tion of small farms by the larger ones. The substitution of machinery for hand labor has helped to bring about this unfortunate condition of things. Small farming for whea has become unprofit able, and the tendency of wheat growing is still to enlarge rather than to de crease the urea of ranch properties. On tho other hand, whore irrigation has boon introduced upon plains formerly devoted exclusively to the production of grain, a remarkable improvement has been brought about, as in tho south ern part of the San Joaquin valley. There the constmction of irrigation can als and the boring of artesian wells has made wonderful changes for the better in population and wealth. The irrigated districts are peopled by small fanners and fruit grower- whose pros perity has built up large towns and given vastly increased traffic to rail roads. Southern California, likewise, presents nianelous proofs of the great advantages of irrigation over depend ence upon rainfall. Similar examples of prosperity and progress through irri gation are ro be found in scattered lo calities of Northern California and nu merous other localities, particularly in the foot-liills on the eastern border of the Sacramento valley. Callforuian. Cement Floor. Cement is largely replacing boards for flooring of summer kitchens, poul try and (lain houses, for stables, pig geries, cowsheds, walks. h'M'ever the place, tho prineiple is the same; Dig out sufficient to admit from 1" to 'JO inches of stone. large at the bottom, with smaller to till in the chinks. Pound the ston well together, so tivre shall be no attcr settling, and to leave as little space between as possible. Mix one part best cement and two parts sharp sand with water, to be thin enough to pour, and use tor tilling among the stones. The next coat should bo thicker and bo a couple of in ches above the stones, and not used until it hardens. Whether walk or tloor.prepare always for the wash: that is, have a slope to a drain that will prove a water shed. The beauty of the floors, aside from their indestnicfi bility, is that they can be washed, hut to have all the good that should follow flushing there must bo a drain. Som say cement floors are too cold for poul try and cattle sheds and pig pens. No one questions this, but no one supposes such floors are to remain bare, but are to be covered with litter. Tons of leaves have already ben githored for the poultry huso. n one place several loads of earth have been brought in and is already scattered inches deep over the floors. The droppings, raked up once a week, go into barrels under cover for ue In the garden nexr spring. In the cow and pig pens ami in the sta bles the litter is straw, and a good gen erous bed of it. The floors in the horse cow and pig houses should have drains for carrying the liquid manure to res ervoirs prepared to save it. W1I v. Poorly iliilancftl Ration. From a late bulletin of the Maryland agricultural station, on data as between a well balanced vs. a poorly balanced ration, we give a summary o" conclu sions as follows: For fattening steers a well balaneed , ration is very much more profitable than a poorly balanced one. j Steers fed on a well balanced ration made an average daily gain of 1.7S pounds; those given a poorly ljalanced ration, made .m average daily gain of LTO pounds. The increased profits from this tst showing a difference of 7.t0 per steer were in favor of the well balanced ra- ' tion. "With, a well balanced fcwl ninrv dav5: " amme timo in which to prepare an animal for market. Wbare the more nitrogenous fooda T nsed. It fe believed nearly a? good daily gains eac be made by mizing the grain with ctif corn folldcr as though hay were used. The use of cut corn fodder. Instead of ; hay in feeding cattle, may make the I difference of a profit instead of a loss. ! Ttf'y per cent more manure was j hi-tan from the animals receiving the I well balanced ration than from thoso I receiving the poorly balanced one. ' Tlie manure 3 also inucu richer in plant food. Seed Potatoes. It is of prime importance In success ful potato culture to secure as nearly perfect seed as possible. A very good plad L to select seed as you take the potatoes front the hills in the fall. But , I it is not done then, the seed supply ; should b? secured before storing the- , crop away tor the winter. S"Iect well I ,,,,, .....w -;tl, ,r.r.th snr- I ,uuu-.ii iiilj ",uv' face and free from seau. MeiUum sizes rt these an more anc to be. ripened'. tDd 'more nearly" perfect: I !int-el-ie fhr r'lMlSJ ll!ir' liei'll Kent growing until all the tubers were fully ripe, the smaller ones m:'ki as good seed a.- any. The important thing is to get ripe tubers. We have always .id- vised stnritig in out-of-door pis. covered just enough U keep them from fnvz- J ing. If there is danger of an urly thaw in the spring ir might bo well to eover the pit with a layer f straw. See;! ooratoes should not be kept hi a cellar." The eyes will start before planting season and much of the sub stance of the seeii will be lost. nt Way nt Mnkln liar The poor n en in Finland acc'.dontly discovered the best w:iy or making hay. Having no meadows of their own they cut the grass oir waste lands, and for want of roads thoy stuffed it among the branches of neighboring trees to wait th winter snows when they could carrv it homo on sledges. After a wet season tne tanners noticeu mis hay was bettor In quality than they t made from bettor grass, so they made Imitation trees by setting up p"l'-s 1" l wet season the farmers noticed this feet ioftg with long traverse pegs, and heaped the grass loosely upon them: the result was excellent Kven to wet weather only a small portion of th- outside was dissolved while the inner nortlons exposed to - tlf air beneath T'oSatZ can be carried on in spite or wind and rani and when once the grass is placed upon the drying pob-s ,t may be letr without selimw damage until the weather change. Short Farm .ratc. I Feeding apples in small quantities stimulates the appetite of most cows. 1 Now (hat the weather is cold put plen ty of straw on the floor and add a little meal to the cows' rations. It is best to have cows go dry not over live or six weeks. About ten montlis of the year ought to represent the time a cow can be milked. Cora kernels having a flinty, glazed surface contains an excessive amount ot starch while tin dull-colored, shrivelco ! grains have an excess of sugar. One million acres of oats- were sown in Scotland last spring and the value ot the crop is estimated a: SI.'.OOO.imx) Onry J.Ni.OW) acres were devoted to th prodtietion of other cereals. Practicing rotation in the production of crops is nor only a most excellent course for preventing soil exhaustion, but the best mi-uis for preventing the multiplication of weeds and insects. Keep the cows indoors during the win ter if you are aiming for butter anil milk only. nxcnt that a short rime out of doors ought to be the cow's right when the weather is warm. When baling hay. don t employ a man with a poor old press; get a good machine, it don't cost any more to send your hay to market In an attrac tive manner. The average price of Irish butter in the home market has advanced during the past three years, and may be part ly attributed to 'the introduction of so para tors and the creamery system or butter making. , It -s climated that -.indr the most unfavorable- circumstances an acre of properly cultivated willows during the tirst three years will produce from .:. 01)0 to .-,i)i)i" peeled willows, ready for market. 1 The rec"iit introduction of so-called self-bleaching varieties of celery has also very much reduced the work and cast of bleaching, high banking with Th spade and shovel now being tin necessary with those varieties. ' An easy and it is claimed 1 success ful way to oil harness ,.; to use crud" petroleum. Add a little lamp black I and applv without v. .1 dung the leather. The oil will not only take off the dirt but will soak into th. Icithee. softening it and making ir waterproof. If the cattle are stanchioned all day do not m-gleef to give them .1 brushing or carding. When Ioo.se they can ar t"nd to if themselves, cither with their tongue or by nibbing or by both. Win n you change their surroundings do not deprive them of this health-giving privilege. Ice can be kept in the simplest kind of a structure. 'I lie essential -ouditions are that it shall be packed in a mass, that there shall be 110 air spaces at the bottom, that ir shall be surrounded by a. non-conducting material, and that it shall have ventilation and be seure from wif. The rhubarb and asparagus beds should be well manured now. so that the fertility can be sinking down iu the roots as the snows of winter melt into the soil. The mon generous you are with the maniiK the mo'V profitable will you tind these irems of your gar den. Fertility tends to make fertility, flood crops grown from the land, fed to good stock upon tho land, and the by-products returned ;o the lind with due care, will make better land, biggei' crops. and enable the feeding of more stock. Then you have more manure again. ' rnd the same round g.es on and grows more money as it does so. Ir is foolish business to plant seeds without re-ting rh ir gereiinating rov or. It is so iMiiy done that there j- u exeuse for omitiing ir. l'!.ie ih.-m be tween two cloths a .id kip thm '! , and in a warm room for a fw da. -I'l-olriMj n.or will germinate ihesttjiii in the e-irth. bur if '.) p-r -n prove good you may snMy plant tV m Decaying matter of any Mr even piles of rotten wood about the premises, is .1 eoust.inr menace to health and a breeding place for inse-rs that will do damage to 3-onr crops Do not think that becaiw the now covers ih-m up that ir prevents them from doing hor:n Get all sueh things oe'ir-d nt before you consider yourself ready fr.r wintt ' There i one thing that must be avoided in buying a inn-down fa mi That is. the effort to make it yield good crops ar once, and to improve In condition while doing ir. Suci a conrv 1 will only make the. land poorer. Be con- tent to do one thing ar a timt and let the first: be the building up of thu suli. Then the good crops will com iu their own good time. THE OLD RELIABLE Columbus - State - Bank J (OUMtBuklatkafjMfc) Pan Intend 03 Tiielleia lata Loans mi M State SfeS SMUT SBAXTi CI CKaTia, Ckioac. Ifw Trk rnrnM. al Tricm Camatrlmv , SELLS . STEAM3HU : TICKETS. BUYS GOOD NOTES lad Helsa 1U Coatomara whaa tky 5ad Mtim rflCSBS A5B DIIXCTifSl LEAXD2R GERHARD. Prw't. B. H. HENRY. Vic PreaX JOHN STAUFFEH. Cufcli . If. BBTGGEB. G. W. HULST. - 1 j -OF- COLUMBUS, NEB., HAS A" Authorized Capital of - $500,000 Paid in Capita!, 90,000 OFFICERS. II. SHELDON. Prcs't. II. V. II. OEHLRICH. Vlco Pres. CLARK GRAY. Cashier. DANIEL SOIIRAil. Aas't Cash DIItECTOKS. n. M. Wisi.ov, II. P. II. OEntnicw, r. II SllEUDO.V, W. A. MeALLISTEil, Caul IUkske. JOXS v ULCU, STOCKHOLDERS. 5 C. GrtAT. J. IlENnT WCtlDBMAS, UEIlIIARD LOSEKS, Hexry Loseke. ! lark Uray, Geo. V Galley. Daniel Schiiaii, A. V. II. Oehlricit. I'liANic Korku. J P. Heckkr EsxAra, Rebecca Becker. Bank of deposit: Interest allowed on time deposits; buy and sell exchange on United states ami huropo. and buy and sell avail able securities. We shall b pleased to ro ceivo your business. Wu solicit; yourput ronaso. -THE- First National Bank COLUMBUB. XVSB. o-nncEKS. I A. ANDERSON', J. H. GAL LET, President. Vlco Prcs't- O. T. EOEN. Cashier. DIRECTOE3. G.AJTDEnSO:-?. P. ANDEItSOU. 1 JACOB GBEISES. HENRI BAGATZ. JAMiiS Q. BESDStt. Statement of the Condition at the Close of Business Jalj 12, 181)3. nES0Citc3. Loan..and "Discount? $24t,4G7 57 Ueal i-stitto 1'urnlttiro and FIx- tisrrs lit,T3t 9) IT. S. Bond"? 15.0 0' Due from other banks 37.P7i 31 Cash on Hand IU..S67 M 59.74.T 89 Total.. $333,194 33 LIABI1UTIZ3. rapltal Stock paid In.. Surplus Fund Undivided profits Circulation Ut pOSI Lo. ..$ OT.00O 00 .. 30.000 01 .. 4.37B CO .. 13.500 M .. 25,119 37 .5333.193 38 LOUIS SCHREIBER. All kinds of Repairing done on Short Notice. Baggies, Wag ons, etc., made to order, and all work Gnar anteed. Also sell the world-famous Walter A. Wood Mowers, Reapers. Combin ed Machines. Harvesters, and Self-binders the best made. Shop on 01iv Street, Columbus, Nab four doora south of Borowiak'a, ELEKRY gass, TJISHDEIITAER ! Coffins : and : Metallic : Gases ! X3T 'Repairing of all kinds of Uphoi ntery Goods, Utf COLUMBUS. SEBRASKA- -COME TO- The Journal for Job Work 1 BlMMlaMMfe
