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We desire a correspondent in OTery school-district ot Platte county, one otjppd Jadcment, and re liable in erery way. Write plainly, each iten. eparately. OiTe facte. WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 31. 1894. No special political significance is attached to the reconciliation of Em peror William and Bismark. The Grand Island high school has se cured the 81,000 piano that was used in the Nebraska World's fair building. Dk. Dana of the New York Sun calls his democratic brother, our own Nebras ka Brvan, "The Knight of the Brazen Cheek?' Neak Huntingdon, Indiana, a farmer was robbed by highwaymen of $8,000. Posses of men and dogs failed to find the robbers. The seventeenth annual encampment of the department of Nebraska G. A. B. will convene at Lincoln, Feb. 21, in rep resentative hall at the capitol. Majob J. D. Kluetsch, the well known German soldier, editor and pub lisher of the Lincoln Freie Presse, died Sunday last in his sixty-first year. Bath, Maine, sustained a loss by fire Sunday of S520.000. The waterworks Bystem was useless, a big break in the main line having occurred Saturday night. Seven thousand unemployed laboring men 'of Omaha,- with their families are now without the necessities of life, ex cept as they receive from t heir neighbors or through public aid. Kepresentatite Meiklejohn offered the sugar schedule of the McKinley bill as a substitute for that of the Wilson bill, but it was "no go," the house ina jority leing democratic. Koohaniu, Pebsia, was literally de stroyed by earthquake recently. Twelve thousand people were killed out of a population of 20,000. Fifty thousand cattle were destroyed at the same time. The stato inspector of oils has filed his report for 1893, showing the number of barrels approved, 77,078; number reject ed, 44,017; fees received, 812,232.50; sala ries and expenses paid 89,110.21 balance on hand 83,122.29. Andrew Franklin, a veteran of the war of 1812 who lives in Coffey county, Kansas, and is 102 years old, will be given a pension of $T0 a month if the favorable report of the house pension committee on his case is approved by congress. Another hay barn at Schuyler burned the other day by "siontaneous combus tion." When a hay barn at Schuyler is not burning by spontaneous combustion you may make up your mind that a murder is being committed in Custer county. Fremont Tribune. The Ottawa, Illinois, medical society, composed wholly of allopathic physi cians, have resolved not to countenance "homeopathic and other irregular prac titioners." Hereafter a patient must first discharge the homeopathic physi cian before an allopath will enter the house. A. D. Yotpm, several years ago a res dent of Hastings, this state, who created a sensation by killing his daughter's Beducer, was recently found at Pasadena, California, his present residence, with his throat cut. It is said that he will recover, and that it was perhaps a case of attempted suicide. There are a great many people who say that our venerable Uncle Samuel ought not indulge in the business of a money dealer. If he has a right to bor row, why not lend, and thus forestall the need of borrowing? There is just as much right or power about the one, as there is about the other. Sunday night at midnight the Haish manual training school at Lincoln, one of the two structures comprising the plant of the Nebraska Wesleyan uni versity was entirely destroyed by fire. Nothing was saved, the total loss was about 861,000, no insnrance, and the origin of the fire is a mystery. SrxTEEN years ago Andrew Lackey sold a farm in Canada preparatory to coming to this country. This week he received a letter statiug that in making out the deed a mistake was made and that Mr. Lackey is still the lawful owner of fifty acres of the farm and that it is worth 8100 an acre. Elmwood Echo. Tax Agent Whitney was in the city looking up the amount of taxes to be paid by the F. E. & M. V. and S. C. & P. roads in this county. The amounts are respectively 811,894 and S2.79G for each of the roads. Whitney wrote a check for the snm and handed it to Treasurer Nel son. And still people are prone to damn the railroads. Fremont Tribune. Farmers should keep their eyes peeled for the Russian thistle. The Nebraska farmer has never had so formidable an enemy to contend with as this weed. Many farms have been abandoned on this acconnt in South Dakota, and in many cases it has been necessary to bandage the legs of horses before they could be worked. Away this weed. Friend Telegraph. The Russian thistle occupies about 30,000 square miles in the two Dakotas and is troublesome in about half this territory. It is, however, a weed that need not be feared, except where farmers try to plow more land than they can cul tivate. The plant makes no progress spreading in sod land or land that is thoroughly cultivated, according to The Aserioan Cultivator. RELATIVE TO THE TARIFF. A Very Brief Summary of Congressman Meiklrjoan's Speech. Friday, January 12, Hon. George D. Meiklejohn of this district, in the house of representatives presented his views on the Wilson tariff bill. He began by saying that the nation today is in an anomalous condition. Blessed with bounteous crops, with uni versal peace at home and abroad, with an incomparable development in manufac tures, we are in the midst of an indus trial paralysis and financial depression unparalleled in our nation's history. The pledges of the democracy in their platform are then referred to as a prayer for the salvation of the country through a change of party, a change of adminis tration, a change of system, and a change of method. For the first time for more than a third of a century the executive and both branches of the legislative departments of the government were placed in the absolute control of the democratic party. Prior to this change, industry, the great heart of the arterial system of trade, was beating normally and regularly; her pulsations filled the conduits of com merce with the products of American labor, American capital and American genius. She blessed with wealth and prosperity the most remote part of the nation; she fed the bread-winners of the land with the produce of American soil and made a home market for the Ameri can farmer; capital had a field of invest ment; labor, employment; transporta tion, trade and commerce; manufactur ers, a demand for their products. A picture is then drawn of the changed conditions, a panic transcending in seve rity the panics of 1837 and 1857. The threats against the policy of a third of a century have only been less damaging to the nation than their enactment and consummation. A million sons of toil are barred from employment. The avenues of business and trade are 6trewn with lost fortunes and financial wrecks, while the people patiently plead for relief. Even the democratic president, forced to call eongress in extra session, said: "It may lie true that the embarrassment from which business of the country is suffering arises as much from evils ap prehended as those actually existing." The evils apprehended, said Mr. Mei-' klejohn.nre those arising from threats of the party now in power to abolish pro tection, repeal the tax on state banks, and destroy reciprocity. Better times were promised on the unconditional repeal of the Sherman law, but they have not come. Physical prostration is not relieved by aggravat ing its inducing cause. It is folly to presenile revolutionary legislation as a remedy for our industrial and financial depression caused by fear of such action. The excess of exports for 1891 was 8142,- 000,000 and for 1892 897,000,000. The decrease of exports over imports in 1892 was 845,000,000 and 843,000,000 of that reduction was in the months of Novem ber and December, 1892, under prospect ive democratic rule. An array of authorities gives the statis tics for our depressed industries, and the remedy is touched upon. If you would answer the prayer that comes daily from the millions of American toilers for an opportunity to work for bread, declare that articles for American consumption shall le made by American labor on American soil and in American manu factures. The policy of protection has been the foundation of our great indus trial system and the corner stone of American prosperity. The revolution gave us national independence. Protec tion has given us industrial independence. The pending bill layH a mailed hand upon every American industry. To some it extends the donbtful clemency of a lingering death. Mr. Meiklejohn then sets forth at length the ruinous effects on agricultural products of the passage of the Wilson bill, and closes by saying: pass this bill aud you will lock the vaults of American resources; sign the death warrant for American industries; issue a proclama for the enslavement of American labor; declare for the destruction of our home market, the depletion of the national treasury, the placing of labor on a plane with ryots, coolies, and kanakas, and the transfer of American manufactures to foreign shores. Near Binghampton, N. Y., three men while hunting a fox discovered oil. One of .them, with a crowbar felt around a ledge of rock for a hole where the fox might have entered to escape its pursu ers. Suddenly the crowbar slipped through his fingers and went down a small fissure. He lit a match and droppefl it into the fissure to find the bar, when a Hash and explosion oc curred. A jet of flame shot upward higher than the tree tops and illumina ted the surrounding country. About 100 feet below the place where the blaze started the men discovered a flow of oil issuing from a crevice. The stream was large enough to fill a two-inch pipe. The village is excited over the find. The crowbar was found again and bore un mistakable signs of the "third sand" upon it. The hole in the rocks is sup posed to be a natural seam, extending probably 2,000 feet downward. Speaking of the meaning of "current funds," a phrase of the law directing treasurers in the loaning of public funds, the Fremont Tribune says : "A test case involving the same point has been taken to the supreme court by State Treasurer Bartley, and the duty of the state treas urer and the county treasurers under the law will soon be determined. Mean while Treasurer Nelson should invite propositions from the banks of Dodge county for the use of the surplus money in his hands. The people had just as well have three or four per cent interest on it as not. The supervisors at their meeting in March should take action in this matter if the treasurer does not do so before that time." This year will witness more irrigating companies and associations organized in Nebraska than any previous one in its history. Hastings, McCook, North Platte, O'Neill, Columbus and Omaha are already active in that direction, with more to follow. Irrigation seems to be the mania all over central and western Nebraska just now, and with the intelli gent discussion now going on it will be a permanent feature in the future develop ment of the state. Nebraska Farmer. UOVEKNMENT OWNERSHIP. Railroad Must Eventually be Operated 1b the Interests of all the People. There are a multitude of acknowledged evils that only government ownership of railroads, (with proper safeguards as to duties and rights of men in employ to run the same), can, in our opinion, do away with. Under one system, the Hun garian methods could be adopted with doubtless equally as good results as they have had here, and the service would be as uniform and satisfactory the country over as is now the price of postage stamps. The distribution of the surplus products of the different sections of the country is of course the chief business of the railroads, and this, under govern ment ownership, could be as effectually and as satisfactorily done as now be t ween nearest farm neighbors. Mines of all kinds would be developed by private enterprise, when investors of capital could be assured of facilities for trans portation at living rates. This alone would give rich employment for all men now idle, doing nothing for themselves, and making life a burden to those who try to do their share of the world's work. It would make of the western mountains a vast workshop, with prosperous com munities here and there, and demanding all the surplus farm products of these vast western prairies. Cheap, good coal would no longer be a hope to be realized in a dim-distant future, but a present, felt realization. We could afford to send our beef and pork to California and every farmer in Nebraska could afford to have his table loaded with California fruits, because" of living freight rates under government ownership of rail roads. A thousand instances of good results could readily be named, and pub lic opinion is pointing the way and is fast crystallizing into shape. It is pos sible that the final step may be taken, at the suggestion of the railroad owners, themselves, and as a relief to them from their burdens. It is gratifying to those who have for years advocated governmeut ownership of railroads to see the bulwarks of con servatism falling in Hue. The Chicago Times of a late issue has this to say: "Seventy-one railroads in the United States went into the hands of receivers in 1893, being 13 per cent of the entire railway mileage of this coun try. Up to date nearly 40 per cent of American railway interests have been overtaken by bankruptcy, and it is noticeable tint the bankrupt roads established the fortunes of the Hunting tons, the St an fords, the Yilliards, and a host of other railway millionaires. And still people argue that in private owner ship and management of railways justice and economy are conserved." A Moral Reorganisation of Education. The controversy about the teaching of religion in the public schools has sug gested to Professor J. H. Hyslop of Columbia College, whose work is the teaching of ethics, the preparation of a very suggestive article for the February Forum of the complete reorganization that is necessary in our educational system to bring about anything like a real moral force in our teaching. While one faction contends for the teaching of religious formulas in the schools and for the observance of certain religious cere monies in our colleges, and while anoth er faction contends that these things will bring about an undesirable union of church and state; everybody seems to forget that moral teachiug is a very diff erent thing from the teaching of relig ious doctrines. For our educational system from the primary school up to the university to become the moral force that it ought to become in shaping character, it would le necessary radi cally to change the current methods whereby teachers are chosen. They are chosen now for their learning and for what is ordinarily called "good moral character"; but not one in ten thousand is ever chosen with direct reference to his conspicuous fitness for the building up the moral fibre of those entrusted to his care. Jpdoe Emory Spear of the U. S. dis trict court of Georgia, in a portion of his address to the grand jury recently, ex pressed his views at length, holding that the condition of the south is very much better than if the rebellion had succeed ed. The judge is a native Georgian, entered the Confederate army at sixteen and afterwards represented the state in congress. If the entire south could come to see as this judge sees, what a change in affairs there would be. And he is right, in noting the difference letween the United States government, in victory over the hosts of rebellion, and other governments: "Suppose the people of Poland with far greater reason had at tempted to throw off the Russian yoke and establish an independent sovereign ty, what wonld have been the result of their defeat? Their leaders would have died under the Russian knout or wonld have expiated their lives in the quick silver mines of Northern Siberia. Vae victis is the maxim under the monarchic or despotic governments where people revolt and are defeated, but here we wit ness in this great government which we tried to overturn and in this court the object lesson that the Marshal and the District. Attorney were gallant Confed erate soldiers, and that the Judge him self had the. impudence to fire on the flag of his country from the outworks of two of the cities in which be now holds his court. Certainly such a government, so magnanimous, deserves the full, free and unreserved support of its people." TnE daily papers of last Wednesday contained the following news: "A large barrel of oil, twelve pine railroad ties; a tree, and a wagon were placed on the New Jersey and New York railroad tracks near Oradell, N. J., just before a passenger train was due, Engineer Ack erman saw the obstruction and stopped his engine within a few feet of it The train was due in Jersey City at 9:15 p. in. The passengers were much frigh tened. Detectives were hunting for the would-be wreckers all night, but no clew is reported. The oil was stolen from the Oradell depot. It is supposed that the oil was used so that in case the train was wrecked the barrel was to be broken and the oil set on fire by the engine, which would communicate it to the cars and cause loss of life by burning. It took the united efforts of six men to remove the trucks and ties. The truck weighed 1,000 pounds." So long as there are creatures in human form who are guilty of such cowardly and fiendish deeds, be lievers in total depravity will have a basis to argue from. Oar Neighbors. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Hollings head.on Tuesday, Jan. 23d, a son. Both mother and son reported as doing well. Monroe Looking Glass. Died, Wednesday evening Jan. 19, TM, Thoa. McPhillips aged 20 years. Deceas ed come to his death by quick consump tion. Funeral services were held at Shell creek church Died, Wednesday even ing Jan.l9th,94,Jbhn Retheran of inflam mation of the bowels. The funeral took place at St. Bernard church. He leaves a wife and five children. Lindsay Post. The new board of supervisors of Sew ard county have an injunction suit on hand. They virtually presented the county clerk several hundred dollars which was coming to the county in fees, it being what was left, over and above the expenses of tho office. Some of the citizens have decided that the money belongs to the people and shall not be disposed of in that way, hence the in junction. David City News. Fremont had a 85,400 fire Tuesday night of last wiek, fully covered by in surance. It is supposed to have started by the explosion of a gasoline stove in the rear of the confectionery store of Mrs. L. R. Collier. One or two lines of hose, says tho Tribune, were froze up by the extreme cold, and the firemen who were inadvertently deluged with water were soon wearing a coat of ice mail. Mrs. Claudius Jones met with a serious accident on Saturday morning last. She stepped out of doors for a bucket of water, when she slipped on the icy walk, falling in such a way as to brenk both bones in one of her arms, near tho wrist. A young man named John Riddle came to Seward on Saturday, Jan uary 13th, from DeWitt, Saline county, with two new wagons and a set of new double harness, which he employed W. S. Loiter to sell for him at auction. It now turns out that he procured the stuff by giving straw mortgages of some kind. He also procured wagons iu the same way at Wither, which he sold in Friend. This is a new scheme in finance, but the young man came to grief at Friend when an officer from Wilber arrested him. Seward Reporter. John Grohl of Toledo, Ohio, a wealthy retired merchant, was recently fleeced out of 86,000 by an oily young man who palmed himself off upon the unsuspect ing old gentleman as his nephew, long absent in the west, and where fortune had prospered him in mining. After de tailing news of friends in the west, with whom the young man was seemingly familiar, he asked the loan of 80,000 of Mr. Grohl for just a few days. Getting his note for this amount, he had no trouble in cashing it, after which he dis appeared from Toledo, but wrote a letter to his "uncle" explaining how he had been buncoed. THE FARM AND HOME. SUGGESTIONS FOR THE IM PROVEMENT OP ROADS. The Water and Stone in the Roads Beet for Feed The Art of Pulling: Heavy Load Farm Notes and Home Hints. Improved Roads. It is gratifying to observe the in creasing interest shown throughout the country in the improvement of the public roads, and many suggestions are for those of costly construction, requiring several hundred and even thousands of dollars for a mile. Tax payers are frightened with these sug gestions, and while public interest has greatly inc. eased, the public toads have not improved at all in most lo calities. In a few instances, few and far between, short specimens of fine and expensive broken-stone roads have been made, costing several hundred dollars a mile, but the interest which brought them into existence was not kept up; they were neglected, were not repaired, and this neglect resulted in badly cut wagon tracks which had they been mended in time would have cost little, but with greatly increased expense afterwards. One of the greatest difficulties at present, is the want of interest and knowledge on the part of a large portion of the community generally. How can this interest and knowledge be imparted? By a continued and wise discussion by competent speak ers and writers, says the Country Gentleman. One of the best things to be dono in the first place is to call attention to making the best of the means we now have For instance, get rid of the loose stones the road? in a large portion of the country have more or less of them and the cost of removing them once a month, or even once a week, would be trifling com pared with the advantages. We havo seen one mile of road, taken as a (air specimen, and better than many others, that had by counting and esti mate, 500 loose stones in the track, varying in size from that of a man's fist to half the size of his head, in this mile of length. From twenty to fifty wagons passed it in a day. and strik ing these stones or a portion of them, the wheels were struck with a force not unlike that of a sledge as they passed, and of course the owners of the wagons suffered a formidable loss in the durability of their vehicles. If each of the owners drove over this road fifty times in a year, and re ceived fifty severe thumps from these stones against his wagon wheels, or not less than 2, 500 thumps in a year, and each farmer within three miles did the same, the whole damage would amount to a large sum. And yet, the whole cost of removing these loose stones by hand would not havo been 5. Fixed stone3 could not be cleared out so easily, but they would exert in many cases even more damage. We nave a law requiring me stated re moval of stones, but in the majority of places it is very rarely observed. If the proposed cost of a macadam road were applied to the expense of keep ing a public road clear from loose and fixed sones, it would keep all the roads in each of several whole counties free from this costly annoyance. Another common cause of bad roads is water. Dry earth makes a smooth track; water converts it into mud, which is quickly cut into deep ruts. Good drains at roadsides, and one or more tile drains filled with gravel or broken stone, running lengthwise un der the track, would make a great difference in the character of public highways. Using the beat material for tho track is of great importance and often overlooked. It is common in some places to scrape up what is called a turnpike," made of sods and rich surface soiL The deep ' bed of rich soil thus made would be an excellent place for raising a fine crop of pota toes, but when, .during a wet time, it loot deep, it mak s is cue into ruts a heavy traveling. Vo havo seen u fine example of tho reverse, where the natural soil, rich and soft, had boon scraped away from tho hardpan be low, and left a hard, baro surfaco for the wagonway, at a cost of less than fifty cents a rod. the roadway thus formed remaining comparatively smooth and hard during tho wettest seasons. These three modes of improvement removal of stones, efficient drain age, and making the track of the best hard material if efficiently used and with judgment through the country generally, would be worth more than a single costly macadam road, beyond the reach of nearly all the farmers, who would have to be taxed for it when living twenty miles from it. A mistake is sometimes made by citing the example of the old Euro pean countries, whose public roads ars famed for their excellence, in that they are constructed at a very low cost for labor, while in this country of wide distances, the-same amount of work would require a greatly ex ceeded expenditure. We should not therefore cite their example. Herts for Feed. A man who has had experience in beet raising, answers some questions concerning the same through the Kansas Farmer. He says: 1 could not tell how to prepare the sandy so'X but should think the same as any other soil. That is. plow fairly deep, pulverize well with har row, and mark off lightly from two and one-half to three feet apart, and drill the seed. I deem them more sure than tur nips, and of a greater value. Man gold (or mangel) wurzel (Long Red) is a good variety, and very produc tive, said to go seventy-five and eighty tons per acre in England. I procured one pound two years ago, paying 5(J cents a pound, which planted two and one-half spaces in the orchard, of which the half space was lost, and raised two good wagon loads and thought two tons; one load was put in tho cellar for spring use. cording up two sides like as much cordwood, and filling inside promiscuously. The other load was buried in the ground for p esent use. and kept fresh and nice while those in tho cellar wilted some. This answers How long will they keep?" About tho time to plant corn is the time to plant beets, or as soou as the danger from frost is past. Seed can now bo bought for lift cents per pound, and one pound will plant one-sixth of an acre. 1 consider tho mangel wurzel beat an excellent food for hogs or milch cows, as both eat them readily, and they do not taste in the butter, as do the turnips. ( orn being scarce that winter and fed sparingly, and feeding some beots. hogs came through Iu a better condition than they did the next winter with all the corn they could lay to. They eat them raven ously. Tho above variety grows up well out of the ground and is easily harvested. I think it pays farmers to grow them for a change of feed as an antidote for cholera. The Art of Fulling Heavy Loads. As much importance is attached to training horses to pull heavy loads as thero is in the development of speed. The values of these respective per formances depends upon the breed to which the animal belongs and the uses for which he is intended. Suc cess in either roll depends very much upon the trainiug. It very often occurs that a team of heavy horses refuse or are unable to start a big load that a much lighter team will pull with ease. It is all iu the early education; the heavier horses refuse because they have not been properly trained in the art of pulling, and have been loaded beyond their strength in the beginning, the effect of which is to discourage making the attempt The greatest care, therefore, is re quired in training the young draft horse in the work to which his life is to be devoted and never to overtax his strength. It is far better to make an extra trip, and thus divide the load, than to require the horse to move one that is beyong his strength or that demands extraordinary extremes, until ho be comes familiar and accustomed to the line of work required of him. The subject is one ttfat should engage tho attention and study of the managers of state and county fairs. A class of prizes ought to be offered for heavy drat horses, the test to be actual per formance in-pulling the load, the stan- dard being willingness to obey the word of command, steadiness, and ability in proportion to the weight of the team. Such an inducement would stimulate action and result in more careful and thorough preparation of tho hoavy horse for tho duties his special breeding renders him so com petent and suitable to perform. Indi ana Farmer. Farm Notes. The breeding and feeding of live stock is the salvation of impoverished farms. The offspring bred greatly dissimi lar parents should never be used for breeding. The improvement of tho grass lands should be an important consideration with every farmer. Good pastures are the farmers' principal dependence and they should be well cared for. German millet makes a large growth in a short time and furnishes an excellent food. The harrow should bo used not only in preparing the land for the seed but in giving the first cultivation. A merciless system of weeding out may be practiced on the majority of stock farms to a good advantage. Clay lands especially are benefitted by growing clover, as it loosens it up and helps to supply vegetable mat ter. The stable doors should always have a convenient way of fasten ing them open, as well as when shut Earliness in getting the crops plant ed is essential in order to give them the advantage of tho best season for growth. Feeding should be subdivided into regularity, quantity and quality, and then apply to all kinds and classes of stock. Household Helps. If troubled with headache try the simultaneous application of hot water to the feet and back of the neck. Housekeepers are reminded that asparagus is one of the most desirable vegetables for canning. If the toes of the stockings are habitually worn through first, they may be darned or run closely on the wrong side the same as the heels. When hoarse speak as little as pos sible until the hoarseness is recovered from, else the voice may be perma nently lost, or ditliculties of the throat produced. To prevent fruit juices from soak ing through the botton of crusts of jile, first moisten the crusts with the ' peaien wnito ot an egg beiore putting iu mo iru.u Tho simplest way in which trout can be cooked is the best; and the smaller fish, weighing from a quarter to a half-poucd each, are the most esteemed by true epicures. A true game fish like tho trout requires bo addition to its own flavor. For broil ing it should bo seasoned simply with salt and pepper and rubbed with button and broiled about four minutes on each side. The simple way in which the farmer's wife fries her trout in sweet butter is one of the best ways in which this fish may be served. Cash, credit aqd comfort are inter changeable in advanced civilization. Values are public opinion crystallized and registered in exchange. The simpler the wants of a people the cruder their financial methods. Exchanging the sur plus of states cannot bankrupt a nation. Credit is as elastic as value. Shrinkage in stock values may equal reduction of capital. Exchanges and clearing houses promote frequent liquidation. Their fluctuating totals mark the ebb and flow of domestic trade. Diversified wants and diffused intelligence are strong in repose and majestic iu action. The future of desire has always credit at the bank of energy. Clapp & Go's. Weekly Market. Keduced in Price. On November 15th, the price of the Omaha Weekly Bee will be reduced to 65 cents per year. No other paper in the country publishing 12 pages or 84 col umns of matter, can be had for less than 81.00 per year. This extremely low price is made by the publishers in order to enable overy English reading family in Great West to read the greatest news paper published in the west. In order to induce readers and others to raise clubs tho following ujTer is made: Two subscriptions will be received for 81.25. Five subscriptions will be received for 83.00. Ten subscriptions will be received for 85.00. On clubs of more than ten the price will be 50 cts. for each subscription. Do not fail to take advantage of this offer. When sending in your own sub scription, send us one or more orders for your friends and neighbors. Send ns an order .for your friends in the east who should be told of the great resources of this state. The Bee publishes more western news than any other paper in this country, aud makes the best immi gration document that can be sent east. Address all orders to Tiik Bek Publishing Co., Omaha, Neb. The Jouicnal is supplied with a fine variety of the latest new faces of job type, ns well as a full line of the old standards, and is turning out for its nu merous customers the finest work done in the county. See for yourself when ordering. We make our prices to suit the times. We do not slight our work in tiny particular, aud complete it as promised. tf When Baby was stck, we gave her Castoria. When she ..as a ChilJ, hue cried for Castoria, When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria. When ! had Children, she gave t her u Castoria. ExoLisn Spavin Liniment removes all hard, soft or calloused lumps and blem ishes) from horses, Blood Spavin, Curbs, gplints, Kinjr Hone, Sweeney, Stitles, gprains, Sore and Swollen Throat, Couili3, etc. Save Sf0 by use of one bottle. "Warranted the most wonderful Blemish Cure ever known. Sold by C. B. Stillman. druggist. 26novlyr Rheumatism Cured in a Day. "Mys tic Cure" for Rheumatism and Neuralgia radically cures in 1 to odays. Its action upon the system is remarkable and mys terious. It removes at once the cause and tho disease immediately disappears. Tho first dose jjreatly benefits, 75 cents. Sold by A. Ileintz, druggist, Colum bus, Neb. 14-y St. Patrick's Pilus are carefully prepared from the best material and according to the most approved formula, and are the most perfect cathartic and liver pill that can be produced. We sell them. C. E. Pollock & Co. and Dr. Heintz, druggists. Children Cry for Pitcher's Castoria. The Efrvrntli Strrrl TAILOR! Does all kinds of work in his line of business. Suits or Farts of Suits Made to Drier. fiSTGoods and most fastidious. prices to please the SljanSm W. A. McAl.LISTfM. W. M. ("ORNF.I.ICS. McAllister a Cornelius, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, coLUMnrs, NEBRASKA. Sljantf LBERT 8c REEOER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Office over Fmt National Bank, con'Mnrs. NEBRASKA. 3ljnntf DR L. VAN ES. VETERINARIAN. Graduateof Ontario Veterinary College. Office over poft office. 19aprtf Legal Notice. 'I'O all whom It may oncern: 1. 'I he board of supervisors In regular session January . lW. declared the following section lines opetied as a public road, viz: Commencing at the iiw corner of section 26, township 18. ranges west, and running thence e:ist one-half mile aud terminating u. the ne corner of said nv 1-1 of section w. township 13. range 3 west und known nnd designated as the "Joy road." Now all objections thereto or claims for damages caused thereby, must be filed in the county clerks office on or before noon, March 10th. Iti9l or the same may be located without further reference thereto. Dated Columbu. Nebr. Jany. 6tb. ISM. 1-lHt G. V, Phillips, County Clerk, What is Castori is Dr. Samuel Pitcher's prescription for Iafnats and Children. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic substance. It ia a harmless substitute for Paregoric, Drops, Soothiug Syrups and Castor Oil. It Is Pleasant. Its guarautco is thirty years' use by MllUons of Mothers. Castoria destroys Worms and allays feverishness. Castoria prevents vomiting Sour Curd, cures Diarrhoea aud Wiud Colic Castoria relieves teething troubles, cures constipatiou and flatulency. Castoria assimilates the food, regulates the stomach and bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. Cas toria is the Children's Panacea the Mother's Friend. Castoria. "CaatorU ! an Trrllcmt mnllrinrt tor sMI drea. Mothers have repeatedly told me of iu food effect upoa their children." Da. O. C. Ohood, Lowell, Mass. M Caatoria to the hot remedy for children of which I am acqaaiated. I hope the day U r.o: far diatant wbea mother will coasider the real interest of their children, and use CastorU in stead tf the Tarkteaquackattitrui&swhich are deatroylag their loved one, by forciag opium, morphiae, aoothfng ayrup and other hurtful agent dowa their throats, thereby nmling them to premature grTe." Da. J. F. KmcHKbOK, Conway. Ark. Th Csatawr Craafjamy, TZ Nut ire nr Sale Under Chattel Mortjcatfp. NOTICE ii hereby given that liy virtue of two chattel tnortxaKPo. out tinted on the 17th (lay of November, lbW. and duly filed in the otKof of the county clerk of Platte county. Ne braska, on the 17th day of Novemlter, IMW, and executed by Put rick S. Griffin to Albert Stenxer to Hernre the pajiuent of the sum Of $M), and upon which there is now due the um of $UZ. Default having been made in the payment of said sum, and no suit or other proceeding at law having been instituted to recover itaid debt or any rt thereof, therefore I will cell the prop erty therein described, viz: One three-year-old iron grey mare, (now hix yearn old), one four-year-old bay mare (now seven years old), one black two-year-old horse colt (now five years old), one black yearling horse colt (nnw four yenrit old), one sucking, bay mare colt (now com ing four year old), five head of cowt. f nun two to rive yearn old. (now from five to eight year old), also on the llth day of January. IsVtt, the said Patrick S. UrirHn gave n mortgage art addi tional security to the above described note on two Poland-China brood sows. 18 months old. (now about two and one-half years old), and thirty-eight head of shdats. at public auction t the farm of Patrick 8. Griffin, in Hismark town ship, Platte county. Nebraska, on the 21st day of February, l&M, at one o'clock, p. m., of said day. Albekt Htenokb. 3l-Jan-3 Mortgagee. l.KGAI. XOTHK. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that bv virtue "of two chattel mortgage, one bearing date'of January Hth, 1SU3. and duly hied and re corded in the office of the county clerk.of Platte county, Nebraska, on the 7th day of January, 1893, and executed by Win. J Ktienman to Adam Brady, to secure the ;,tyment of the sum of $70O.OU one bearing date of March 7th. 1SD3. anil duly filed and recorded in the office of the county clerk of Platte county, Nebraska, on the said 7th day of March, 1HU3, and executed by the Maid Wm. J. Eisenman to the aid Adam Brady, to secure the payment of the nam of $7S5.00. and iiKn both of said mortgages there is due at the tirnt publication hereof the sum of $2y9.l."i. Default having been made in the payment of the sums mentioned in ewch of said mortgage and no suit or other proceedings at law having ben instituted to recover raid debt or any part thereof, therefore I will well the property in both of said mortgage described viz: One bay mare with white star in face, 9 yean old, one hay mnre 7 years oltt with white Ktur in face, ulo tu. black hoie colts folded spring of H'.tt, and being the increase of said mare, one iron gray horse 7 years old, one black mare IU yeurs old, two set of double harness, two lumber wagons, one wooden beam smoothing harrow, and one Reindeer cul tivator, at public auction in front of the livery barn of George Willafd in the Third ward iu the city of Columbus, in Platte county, Nebraska, on the 10th day of February. ls'JI, at 2 o'clock, p. m., of said day. Adam Ukuiv, 81jan2t Mortgagee. STATEMENT Of thf condition of the Calmahwt Limit, Loan unit Buililinij Aociatiou Colittuhift, AV frniku,on tltr.Hlth titty of DrcfmluT, li-Kl. ASSETS. First mortgage loans $.r2,7U( 0t) Loans secured by stock of thie an- ciation 7.700 00 Expenses and taxes aid . Cash with treasurer 1.90T. 75 501 75 Total . $.52,207 SO LIABILITIES. Capital stock, paid up Premiums paid , Interest received Fine collected , Entry and transfer fees received . $!7,8rig 90 .'..lift 90 7.711 no 703 60 H77 SO $2,207 .10 Total State of Nf.br sk a. Platte County. S " I, Henry F. J. Hockenlierger, secretary of the above named association, do solemnly swear that the foregoing statement of the condition of said association, is true and correct to the bet of my.knowledge and belief. He.NKY F. J. HOCKKNBKJHIEK, Secretnry. Hubscrilied and sworn to before me this tHh day of January, 1691. K. Il.t HAMBKHH Notary Public. Approved: (J. A. Hcott. :i J. 8. MCRDOCK Directors. V. H. We web 17jan3t LEGAL NOTICE. At a regular meetingof the Board of Super visors of Platte county, Nebraska, held at the court house in Columbus, on January llth, 189. the following estimate of funds necessary to defray county expenses for the ensuing year was unanimously auopieu oy me ijoam, viz For rxiiensas of the district conrt .$ 10,000 CO support of the noor " ofificers salary, fuel, etc " records, stationery, etc support of agricultural society Total general fund 2,000 00 7,.'i00 00 2,000 00 400 00 21.900 00 7.000 00 9.000 00 rer county road fund " " bridgefund " soldiers relief fund ' interest on $25,000.00 Columbus precinct It. K. bonds " interest on $10,000.00 Columbus township bridge bonds " interest on i;,000.(JO county re funding bonds " poor house fund an oo 2.000 00 600 00 r..ooo oo 4.0W 00 Grand total $ .VJ.lOO 00 By order of the Board orHnervisors. January llth. A. D. 191. G. W. Phillips. ITjantt County Clerk. I.ejCHl Xntlce. pO all whom it n'nx oonnern; J- llo-ird of supervisors In regular session. January llth. 1W4. declared the following sec tion line open as a public road, viz: Coiniuenc tag at the southeast corner of section 12. town 17, range 2 west, and running thence dee north on the section line one-half mile and terminat ing at the Intersection with the "Blyer road" and known and designated as the ".Stub road." Now nil objection! thereto or claims for damages caed thereby, must be filed in the county clerk's office at the court bouse In Col umbus. Nebraska, on or before noon. March 19th, 1691, or the said road may le located without further rfere:ce thereto. Dated, January 1Mb. 1891. O. W. Piiillii-h. M8 4t C'ouniy Clerk. Lsal Notice. 'lillE iperlal commissioners appointed by X Platte and Colfax counties to view and rrport upon the feasibility of locating a pub.ir roail duly pe-ltioued lor. commencing at the northeast corner of section 1. town 17. range i east of the Gth principal meiidian and running thence due south on the section Hue ilivlding Platte and Colfax counties four mile and ter minating at the south east corner or section 21. town 17. ange 1 east, luve filed their resrt favoring such location as above described ex cept as In the east side of f out h 3 of section 13. wherein they recommend that Hie full width ot said road lie taken jrom the east side of the and se4 of ne?4 of said section 13. Now all objections thereto, or claim for damages caused thereby must be filed In the county clerks office in Platte county, Nebraska on or Deiore noon, 3iarcn izm. l-m. or me saiu location may be made without further refer ence thereto. Dated, Columbus, Nebr.. January 8, le91. G. W. Phillifs. l-ll-W County Clerk, ENEstoLIEIEaBlKailaafSEH Castoria. " Castoria is so well adapted to chltdr I recommend itaasuperiortoaay preacripttoa kuowu to me." n. A. Aacaaa, M. D.. Ill So. Oxford St, Brooklyn, N. T. " Our physicians iu the children's depart ment have spoken highly of their experi ence in their outside practice with Castoria, und although we only hare anionj our incdicul supplies what is known as regular products, yet we are free, to couf eaa that the merits of Castoria has wo us to look with favor upon it." Unitm Hospital and Dispkhsabt, Huston, Atxix C Smith, iVe.. M array Straat, New Terk City. LEGAL NOTICE. Notice N hereby given that by virtue of a chattel mortgage date.1 on the IStli day of Janu ary. 1SIU. and duly filed anil reconted in the office of the county clerk of Platte county. Neb., on the t.'ith day of January, 1111, aud executed bv Koester . Me.ver, a ftartnership, and also signet! by Frederika Koester and Louis Meyer, the Indi viduals composing said partnership. toTheodore Wolf to secure the payment of the sum of $2..rt4.S7 nad upon which there is due at the first publication hereof the sum of $2,r.i.l7. IVfnult having been made in the payment of said sum and no cult orother proceedings at law having been instituted to recover said debt or any part thereof, therefore I will m11 the prop erty therein described, vt: A stock of general merchandi: consisting of men':, and hojs ready-made clothing, ladi' and gentlemen's furnishing gool. hats. cap, boots slioas. ulip Iiers, gtoe-. mitten, rubbers anil uvershoe. glasHware, qiieenaware. crockery and cutlery of various makes.sizes and description, a quantit) of tinware, also hardware, consisting of saws, square, hammers, hatchets, oil, seven show cases, two small counter scales, cigars, chewing anil smoking tobacco, one Mosler & liahman fire-proof safe, aNo a (piantity of groceries, con sisting of tea, eotTee, sugar, spices, canned and dried fruits, and vegetables, nuts, candies. Hour, crackers, biscuits syrup. potatie, apples, boxes, Itarrels. shelves, tubs, wash boards, wringers, brooms, mop, etc. Also a stock of jewelry consisting of rings, pins, cutl buttons, etc.. also two peddling wagon, one Studebaker lumber wagon, one light spring wagon, one single top buggy, three set of double work har ness, one Uny gelding 12 years old, weight about 1.000 llw.. one bay gelding 9 yearn old, weight about 1.000 llw., one bay gelding tl years old. weight about 1.0U0 lbs., one brown curly gelding 10 year old, weight ulxmt l.OUO lb., one grey gelding (5 years old, weight about 1,100 lbs., one gray gelding 7 years old, weight about l.lOUlb.. also one large scnle, anil one ice chest, at public auction in the village r.f Creston, Platte county. Nebraska, the said merchandise will be Mold in the store buildings located on lot 9, in block 5. and lot t", in block a, in said Creston. the saLI buildings lsing the ones formerly occupied by the firm of Koester Jc Mejer.and the said horses, wagons and harness will Is sold iu thestiwt in front of said building, on the 15th day of Feb ruary, li9J. at Pi o'clock, a. m., of said day. Dated this 5)lh day or January. lb'.H. Tjikodoue Wolf. -tjanlt Mortgage!. NOTICE OF SALE. NOTK'Ei hereby given that the following described persona! property will be sold at the residence of thtj widow of Henry Hell lniHoli, deceased, on tho 'uthwest quarter of section 7 towndiip 19, r.mge I east, in PlaMo county, Nehra!:n, about ft miles south of the village of Creston, on the Soth tlwj of Jituudii, 1-HI4, at 10 o'clock, a. m., at public veudue. to wit: W) milch cows, 1 bull, 7 yearling heifers, II calve. 3l brood sows. 31 hog,!", pigs. 1 Isxir, I colt, H yearling colts, I 2-year-old colt, 3 ponies, 3 3-year-old horse. i 4-yettr-otd horses. I ludr of Butialo scales with nick, 1 hog chute, .1 ahorse wagons. 3 hay racks. 3 buggies, I cultivators. 1 corn planter. 4 plow. 2 mowers, 1 stalk cutter. ." pair fly nets, 4 sets double harness, 1 set single harness. 2 hay rakes, I 4-section harrow. 1 seeder. I grinder and shut ler, 2 water troughs, 4 feeding Isixes, spades, shovels, forks, etc., 2,000 buxhel of corn, 300 bushels oats, SI tons hay. tkkms or sLK: Cash on all sums not exceeding $10. AH atsive that sum, ten months time will L gtvon upon good notes with approved security blng given with interest at Iu per cent, or 3 ervnt off for cash down. Hk.kmn P. II.Oeui.hioh. John Bof, AdminiMratorsof theestateof Henry HellbiiM-h, deceased. lOjiui.t NOTICE TO KEItEEM. To the heirs of H. A. Sexonr. or whom it may concern: YOU are hereby notified that on the 17th lUy of .May. A. I). 1H92. I purchased id the county treasurer'. office of Platte county, state of Nebraska, the following decrited property, to wit: Iots number 5 and l in block numlsi one hundred and forty-two (112), in the city of ( olnmhus. county and state aforesaid, as deig nated on the recorded plat thereof for taxes dti and delinquent thereon for the years liHU ami 191, inclusive. The naid lots were taxed iu tin name of B. A. Sexour nnd the time for the re Wption will expire on the lbth day of Mn, 2jnn3t John D. Bhewkk. CAUTIOX. If a dealer offra IT. . Douglas !Boa at a rod need pric. or aay noHsiuicni witaout name stamped oa DOOB9,pilCttJl ,250 W. L. Douglas S3 SHOE THE WORLD. W. L. DOUGLAS Shoes are stylish, eay fit ting, and give better satisfaction at the prices ad vertised than any other make. Try oftcpair and be convinced. The stamping of v L. Douglas name and price oa tho bottom, which guaranteed their value, saves thousands of dollars annually to those who wear them. Dealers who push the ale or" W. L. Douglas Shoes pun customer, which helps to increase the sales on their full line of goods. They ran afford to sell at a less profit and r. e belie, e you can save money by buying all your footwear of the dealer advertised below. Catalogue free upon application Addicts W. I DOUGLAS, Brocktuu. Mass. Sold r GrRIFFEN fc GrRAY. Sjanom MTY t ENSELUN, UKALF.KS IN FRESH AND SALT MEATS, Eleventh Street, Colnmbna, Meb TR. H. J. ARNOLD, ' Iowbmi fraud AoO-rOo ?tA uumt vino rursiciAx a si surgeon. Office two doors north of Brodf uehrer' jewelry tore. Office open day and hight. Telephone No. 12. 9a'9lWy-p, Cownm-g, Nosaska, A i si v