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VOLUME XXIV.-NLMBER 43.
COttMBUS, NEBRASKA WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1894.
WnOLE NUMBER 1,239.
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NEBRASKA NEWS.
The Whi'e hotel at Tobias has
changed hands
There is taik of opening a cann ng
factory at Tails City
. Ciiadron expects to .-cure a new
". twenty-four stall round house in the
Knriti"
'lectins at .-airhuryisardjn
steauy employment to all men willing
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, ilon. J. i: Tate will speik at ins-
. worth on the sth of February in the in-
twest of the A. V. I V "
ihclton. according- lo the Clipper is
feeding more- heep than any oilier
point in the I'nited Mate--.
The News thinks Nebraska i ity will
be satisfied w th three new manufac
turing industries th:s year
Omaha is making a noble effort in be
.half of tlr poor, the deterrainat on
Icing that none sh ill .suffer
J'ct-ival meetings hare for some time
.been in progress in North Tend and
many conversions are r puitcJ.
A "Ha'-d limes' oaity given at Nor
folk turned out so well that there is
doubt about tnc I mes be ng as hard as
Wpn-ted
The suite sentxil stit.stics show that
c:ird en.uity has 3, 9- I school ehil-
drcn and receives $1 2r,. ifins its appor-
l.oiinic::.
John -iii res of II.ili county o.ins
l."iO acres of Ian i in on-body and
?t e'e I the ranch w-.tn imported sheep
of a high grade
Harvard's brass bamt, composed of
young men. is making commendable
progios benefit supper was re
cently given that netted -.r.o
The Talis ( ity hzyh s'-hoo s intend to
R-ntl representatives to Lincoln to the
Ivor anmve-ary of the Nebraska
Hate univeis'ty on Tebi ua- 1.1 and 1V
MienfF Finn of i ; roe-ley county col
lided with a clothes 1 ne in the dar
and w-.ts tin nun v olently to the earth,
sustaining a fiaetipe of the collar bone
I.'cv George ltorden of Michigan lias
Cccpted the oall of the Hrst Presby
terian chun-h o" tibuin The ii"w
m.nis'er is e.iu' ted about the middle
of March
.'olin Watson, a Scotchman, who re
sided three m Irs so ith of i:burn wa
found deail in ln house last week Ihs
dvili i-. supposed to h.ie been due to
in, advanced a'.'c.
n Omaha mm has ofTeic 1 to cstab
hsh a beet sug.ir fa-tory in Seward,
provide the 'anners will make a con
tract to rai-e .luo acres of beets for so
man j years
(J. (I I'roivn. editor of the Wave, fell
dead in his o (lice at Wstern from heart
troub'e while psepariiig to issue his pa
per, of which h- ha 1 only been in
charge two wools
.'ohn itolen. the N.incc county man '
who was p-oseeuied for shooting w th
intent io kill was found guilty and
sentenced to two years in the peniten
tiary at haid labor
The oflicc of the Plattsmouth Week'y
Herald was destroyed by tire last woc.c
Origin of ihe tiie N unknown. The
loss is al.iit sl.oiio. about half of winch
Is covered by insurance.
The t'ilt Kdge windmill property at
fVsiumbus has been sold to William
Wearn of Omaha, who wdIdoageuer.il
Foundry business an t conduct a ma
chine shop and plan'ng mill
Father Km.inuel Harlig of Nebraska
City fell, breaking both bones of the
left leg below the Mice Father Har
tig is one of the mot widely itnimn
known Cut hoi ic clergymen m tsiestMo.
Tnc T.ch.mge bank of Atkinson has
attached the stok of genera' iperehau
tiis( formerly be'ongi.ig to N Wert
fuld of P.utte The lan' of F.utte was
hold. ii- it under a chatM mortgage
for f-.K) ' anl a bill of sale
'5 no death of .lames nderson one of
1 remontV oldest settlers, is announced
i( diopsv. He fonncrlv o' ned most of
the lanii in North Trcmont and was re
ported wealthy He has been a great
suiTcrei for the past four ears.
While patting up ice at the packing
house at Nebraska City I I nderson
fel! from tne top of the chute to the
ground, a distance of thirU feet. He
was uucons-ious when picked up. bir
escaped without broken "bones
Tnc store of Menstroin, dry goods
merchant at trouisburg, was closed
last week under a chattel mortgage
given to the Simon-Gregory Dry Goods
company of M. Louis. Liabilities
S..00 toS.1.000, asseLs 500 to S1.000.
Word wms received in Auburn that
Jim Fisher and Hopkins, the thieves
who stole Mrs t'ooseman's horse and
buggy and other property about a year
ago. were located in Moberly. Mo
bherin" Glasgow left at once for Mis
souri. P.urglars entered the general store of
C. B Freeman at Elba, blew the safe
and rifled it, taking with them a part
ot tne contents, a oout sm Jherob-
bers overlooked a bill book containing
quite an amount of cash and other val- ' was about to make some common
uablc papers. place reply, when, thirty or forty
Scarlet fever has made its appearance
at Harvard, beverai children are down
with the dread disease, some of them
manifesting severe symptoms The
authorities, by rigorousquarantine reg
ulations, hope t)keep the infection
from spreading
Fred ltarton. one of the three pris
oners who escaped from the Burtcountv
jail recently and froze his toes while
tramping the country on a cold night,
and who was recaptured three days
afterward. h?d the toes on one foot
amputated last week.
While returning home from Nebraska
City the horses driven by William Ram
boidt and Casper Schacht, farmers, be
came frightened and plunged down a
thirty-foot embankment Ileyond a
broken collar bonesustained by Schacht
they escaped uninjured.
A grand mass meeting for Februarv
3 has been called by the Buffalo Countv
Irngation society, to oe held in Kear-
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aiiw. & . ia. -".- i !. ail iir riiTT.ii
and several other speakers of national
n--.,, i-,,.-o t .:, '
note will address the people on the sub
ject of irrigation.
The line upright piano that stood in i
the parlor of the Nebraska building at
the world's fair now occupies a corner
in the assembly room of the Grand Isl-1
and High school, having been donated,
through the efforts of Commissioner i
Mobley. to the local school.
The farmers institute at Wilsonviile
was a big succes. both as to the num
ber present and the excellence of the
pjpers read before the institute. The
farmers all take a lively interest in a
meeting of this kind, and this is but a
sample of the characteristics of the
place.
The house and contents of Scott .Tor
dan, a farmer living five miles south-west
of Bancroft, was destroyed by t
fire. The blaze started in the kitchen.
It was not discovered until the kitchen
was almost consumed, although Mr.
lonjn was sitting in another part of
the pousc.
Word has been received in Nebraska
' City from Kentucky that Harry Prince
and Arthur Williams of that city were
In a railway accident in that state, and
thai I'nnce was killed and Williams
lost loth legs. The young men left
crasa ( itv three weeks ago for the
V-u hrrr. slte
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, M era Brazil some
IRiAl! years ago. we
'f(Sy camped for sever-
" "JE al weeks on the
ry5 llioBraiico, about
100 miles above
its jdnc'tidn with
the Rio Negro, one of the principal
' confluents of the Amazdn
Our partv consisted of eleven men
ten Americans and a newly caiight
Irishman "Teddy" O'Brien, by name,
who, more for the sake of "divilmint
and diTarshun"' than 540 a month, as
he had said, had engaged with us as
cook. -And a truly woaderf al eook h
was! While some members of our party
were amateur botanists, geologists,
naturalists or taxidermists, we were
all enthusiastic explorers and hunters,
and we fairly reveled in the wealth
of animal and vegetable life about us.
Jiut there was one amphibious am-
j mal, the manatee, and a semi-amphib
ious reptile, the anaconda, we had
not yet obtained. We had seen scores
of the first while ascending the river,
but had never secured one.
One evening we were bemoaning
our bad luck in this respect, when
Toddy observed: "An is it the quare
baste that's a cross betune a mermaid
an' a fish that ye re afther wantin"?
Faix it's tneself can put ye ahn to the
craythur thin in no time."
"All right, Teddy. "Let's have your
plan." said Tom Alden.
'It's aisier nor rowlin' down hill,
me bhyo. L'p Levant there's phwat
vez call a lacroon. an' the far ind of it
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runs up Ioike a lake intil thim thick
woods. Shure it's not tin shteps
acrass; an be the same token Oi seen
a bid man manistee is it'1 and a good j
lump av a yong wan frohekin' round
there bright and airlv this same
blissid mornin'. The wather in thim
parts is mighty shoal. I'm thinkin', J
for whin the old baste wasfeedin' ahn
the bottom, the naby 'ud schramble up
ivery now nnd thin an' roosht an her
back, kapin its own wee paddle av a
tail in the wather, koind of soshible
loike. borra bit av thrublc for some
av yez to consale yersilves attli both
sides av the lane an' bag the two
crathurs "
Teddy's idea seeming a good one. at
davbreak next morning four of us,
taking our rifles, a barbed grappling
iron and a coil of rope, set off for the
lagoon. We found its further or
northern extremity to consist of a
narrow creek, and this was closely
bordered on both sides by water
palms.
With so ae difficulty our quartet,
comprising Tom Alden two other
men and myself, gained the westward
margin of the watery lane, where we
ensconsed ourselves in the matted j
brushwood, deeming it imprudent to
take opposite sides for fear of acci- j
dents in possible cross tiring. I
We were perfectly concealed from
all observation except that of the jeei- '
ing monkeys, who looking down on
us from the r leafv heights, kept up a
ceaseless clamor of derisive cries. j
Directly frouting us on the east side '
oi the creek, there lay, extended along
the water's edge and not more than
nine vards away, the fallen trunk of (
a laureL tree, from which arose
several broken and partially decayed '
branches, the who'e being in deep
shade, as the sun had not vet risen
high enough to fully 1'ght that part j
of the island
While we
ing, Alden
whispered:
variegated
were
nud;
"See
moss
pjfticntly
red me
wait- i
and
what
covers
beautiful
one of
TAST I2k THE FAXGS OF
anacosha:"
A MOXSTKOCS
those limb stubs? We
must gather
some of it before we go back" to camp."
, yarus south ot us. i noticed a siignt
undulation of the water, and pres-
ently there appeared above its surface.
urst the head and then the back of a
full grown manatee, followed imme
diately bv a like emerging of a calf, a
comical looking little creature not
half as long as its mother.
After inhaling air for halfa minute
or so, the pair sank again and. as we
plainly saw by the ripp'es. began to
feed on bottom growing plants, along
the east shore and directly toward the
head of the lagoon.
The next time thev rose for air they
were twenty yards nearer us than be- i
fore, and I whispered to Alden: "Wait !
till they get into the shadow between 5
us and the big log: then, when their '
heads show, you take the old one and
I'll take the youngster, shoot straight
for the brain and they 11 never know
what hurts them." Tom nodded as
sent, and wc waited in silence.
The water shoaled so rapidlv now.
tii-it. riTT inn Timi I no n m i k vfrr
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aoreast
of u, and within three feet
of the laurel log. the mother's rounded
back appeared above the surface, and
the l ttle one using its handlike nip
per to climb with, scrambled upon it,
riding exactly as I have seen the young
of an African hippopotamus.
In another moment the old mana
tee lifted her head: and, making a
sign to my two other companions not
to shoot. Tom and I quietly thrust our
rifle barrels through the bushes, took
careful aim and were about to fire.
That instant, however, Tom's "'beau
tifully variegated moss" leaped into
sudden life. A flashing streak of
black, tawny brown and yellow shot
out from the dead branch, and in the
twinkling of an eye the calf s muzzle
was fast between the recurving fangs
of a monstrous anaconda.
Then, while the helpless creature
rolled off its mother's back, there was
a gleaming whirl ot circling rings, a
cyclone of concentric coils, a churn
ing of the water into foam, and al
most before we could realize the
startling scene tne mighty- serpent
had crushed the life out of its prey.
Bnt as the reptile compressed its
overlapping folds tighter and tighter,
two simultaneously fired bullets shat
tered its flat head, and its great
length, siowty uncoiling st-aightened
out ftlon' the bloodstained surface of
i tlje creak.
Apparently paralyzed by fright, the
mother still stood, with her head
above water, staring at the floating
serpent and her dead calf. One of us,
with more presence of mind than the
rest, put the beast out of misery by a
shot through the brain.
Thus, most unexpectedly, we killed
at one time the several specimens we
were anxious to obtain
THE OYSTER'S ENEMY.
This Quirt anil WeU-Behved Bivalve
H m Uangeroiu Var.
The "borer," a pest about the size
of a nniall strawberry, is working
great havoc among tho oyster beds
in Delaware bay and tributary
streams. Captain Moses Veald of
the oyster schooner White Lily says
that the destructire powers of tho
borer hare been knowrt to oysterniert
only a few years. He had followed
oyster digging nearly thirty-live
tears, and the irst borer ho saw was
abtrtt,teTieaTsuidrbut "tKe'Irirkr
ages in tho oyster beds were com
paratively unnoticed until last year,
says the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Captain Vcalo said that "last year
tho number of dead ovsters with
holes
made bv borers in tho shell be-
came s-o great that oysttirmen were I
alarmed. This seaso nthe work of tho I
borers .has become a grave matter, j
and if it continues many biys will j
become depopulated of oysters.
From one bed we dredged on this
trip we got 1,:00 baskets of oysters,
but out of these only 200 were good,
the dead oysters having been killed j
by borers. A peculiar thing about .
tho ravages of the borers is tlieir
apparent selection of tho best oyster I
beds. Wo have found this to be true
several times this season. Wc have
fo'ind a bed of small oysters almost
entirclv free from borer-. This bed
will be separated from another bed
of larger oysters by 200 feet, but t
this latter bed will bo so badly af
fected by the creatures that it will
hardly pay to work it
From what I can learn from
oystermen, the destruction wrought
by boiers is more severe in Delaware
bay than in other places.
"The work of the borer this season
makes a double misfortune, for the
oyster beds were badly damaged by '
the big storm in August and Septcm- ,
be . Very few people who are not ,
in the oyster-dredging business know
anything of the methods of the borer.
When I tirst took notice of its work
I secured several oysters just after
the borer had fastened itself to the '
shell. When the borer fastens itself
it hold on like a leech, and it is '
with difficulty that it can be re- '
moved with the fingers.
Sometimes the borer fastens it
self to the oyster shell near the edge, '
and then the oyster is not killed. I
When the hole of the borer is made
near the center of the Shell the
oster is attacked in its vital parts
and dies in three o; four days after
the hole is first made.'1
Some of the bed-owners near
Maurice rher have lost large sums of
money this season on account of the
borer. Thomas Muusey, who has a
number of large beds, it is said, will
ioo lo,0 ) i. Several other men
nave lost nearly a much through
this unlooked-for calamity and a
number of men have lost in the
neighborhood of i,0)0 or :'.0i)0.
All oystermen say there can be no
way of taking away the borer with
out destroying the oyster beds-
IN THE CRIMEA.
A Flag of Truce Sent for the Sake uf a
I.oit Itui-tUn Iialiy.
A mandate had gone forth to the
effect that a certain suburb of Se
lwistopol should be raided by a select
body of Knglish. The attack was to
lake place at midday, when the
enemy were at dinner. The venture
wa so quickly executed that it was
completely successful. The occu
pants of the cottages had fled, leav
ing their dinners untouched on the
table and the canaries in their cages.
In one cottage was found a baby
about six months old clothed and
asleep in its cradle. An officer car
tied away the little one as a prisoner
of war and sent the news of his cap
ture to headquarters. Word came
at once from Lord Raglan ordering
that a Hag of truce should be sent
out next morning and that all pos
sible search and inquiry should be
made for the mother of the child.
5ome of the officers were amused that
so much trouble should be taken for
a stray baby, but the chiefs orders
had lo lie obeyed. No mother was
forthcoming, however, to acknowl
edge the lost waif. But there was a
woman in the rifle brigade who had
a baby a few weeks old who was will
ing to undertake double duty.
About three weeks elapsed and
then Raglan the (Jood sent another
message to his staff, who had forgot
ten all iout the adopted child, di
recting that inquiry be made after
"the mother and her twins." Word
came back that the two children
wero thriving admirably, but that
the mother herself lookod worn and
tired. "How many cows are there?"'
asked Raglan. One, sir," was the
replv. Then, said the self-denying
chief, "send the woman down a
bottle of milk every morning." After
this the little army protege became
very popular. A chaplain christened
her Alma, and at the end of the war
the queen adopted her and cave her
a liberal education.
HI Motherin-L-w DM It.
Friend So you and your wife have
separated?
Bouttown Yes. My mother-in-law
is to blame, bhe was always
making trouble between us.
I shouldn't wonder.'
Yes. every time I told my wife
anything that wasn't the exact
truth, that mother-in-law of miuo
would find it out and tell her.'
Mrs. YoaugaB Explains.
Litfie Son What is bricks made of?
Mrs. Youngma Bricks arc mado
of clay.
"But clay is soft, ma."
"After the clay is shaped, the
bricks are baked."
Oh. yes. I know now. Like you r
biscuits.'
Where the To; Comes io.
George It's easy enough to marry
a rich woman if you wish to.
Gas Fh? How can it lie done?
George All you have to do is to
steer e'ear "of the dowerless little
anffele who want to marry you. i
FUTURE OF. ALUMINUM;
A Htal That I Most CMfel to til
BoUdar Good Bool g HaMrUl.
Alumidum, which of itself posses
ses a high degree of specific het
does not readily absorb heat itself;
and thus is-not liable to the chief
objection to iron buildings in hot
countries. But apart from the light
decorative purposes, such as bal-
I conies, cupolas, finials and verandas.
it is as a roofing material that alum
inum should be most welcome to the
builder. In plates or scales two-.
thirds lighter than copper, nncor-1
roded by air, and unditnmed even by
the sulphur of London smoke, it
should make a roof fit for a palace
of romance, says the Spectator.
The humbler elements of health
and comfort in the house, hardly less
important than its external defenses
against the weather pipes, cisterns
taps and gutters, now made of iron
which rustsjjr lead, jrhich poisons-
would be more enduring and far more
healthy if made of this light and
cleanly metal, which might also tako
the place of all water-holding vessels
now made of heavy, brittle earthen
I TCarc .or Painted tin- An aluminum
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oam is among me prooaoie luxuries
of the next century. But it is not as
a mere acesory to comfort and con-
venieuce that real development of
the new metal should lie. it Is for
use at sea that its most marked qual
ity of lightness obviously fit.
The marine engineer and tho naval
architect, who are already looking
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in this direction for a reduction
in
tno weignt wnicn is mseparaoio
from a loss of efficiency, whether in
speed or cargo, cannot neglect the
possibilities of a metal which, when j
mixed in the proportion of 1 to 50,
l gives to aluminium bronze a hard-
i ness and toughness which make it
almost as reliable as steel, and which, I
itho proportions could be reversed
and strength preserved, would reduce;
the weight of ship and machinery
aliice bv two-thirds That is a prob
lem whieh awaits the metallurgists
for solution. The reduction in cost,
judging from analogy, can only be a l
question of time and research.
The best steel now costs littlo
more than half a penny a pound, whilo ,
the aluminum is fifty times that .
price. But aluminum exists in far
greater quantities than iron, is more
widely distributed, and neither tho i
limits of time nor the history of
metallurgy forbid us to conjecture l
that, as the world has seen its age of i
stone, its age of bronze and its age
oi iron, so it may berore long have '
embarked on a new and even more
prooperous era the ago of alumin- '
im.
, Excursion to South Teza..
I Remember that all lines of railroad
j run an excursion at about half fare,
good for thirty days,
1 Texas, starting on the
ruary. .
1 The land of everlasting spring, ever- j
blooming flowers and delicious fresh
fruits invites you. t
The only real estate activity in the
j L'nited States is in and around Hous- '
ton, Texas. Retter lands than you own
i can be bought for $10 an acre, within a ,
few miles of Houston. Better lots than
you live on. with every modern con-
I venience (electric cars, electric lights, '
city water, complete drainage, beauti- j
ful location) can be bought m Houston
.--- c- r-- ;mr.f fnnt .r.T-H cnm n
being given away).
Write Daily Post for information if
vou can not join the excursion. Hous-
ton Heights will send you free beauti
fully illustrated book.
Houston, Texas, has between forty
and fifty thousand population, four
teen railroads, more factories than
any other city in the state, and does
more business than any city twice as
large in the I'nited States Look up
its clearing house reports.
BRILLIANTS.
The next door neighbor to pride is
hame.
Love can live where all other good
would die
Spiritual dyspepsia is harder to cure
than any other kind.
It never makes the day any brighter
to growl at cloudy weather.
We cannot always ob ige, but we
can always speak obligingly.
You can always be happy if you are
willing to rejoice with others.
If some of our heads were not so
big our hearts would grow faster.
When people are hired to be good
they will stop as soon as the pay stops.
When you want to walk straight
yourself don't watch somebody else's
feet
Truth needs no policies nor strata
gems nor licensings to make her vic
torious. Some temptations come to the in
dustrious, but all temptations attack
the idle.
The man who seeks his reward in
this world never get3 a price that
suits him.
Some people who aro over sensitive
( in feelings are underly sensitive in
I consience.
He who proclaims himself ready to
buy up his enemies never wants a sup
ply of them.
When you want a friend don't
choose a man whose children are
afraid of him.
Iittle G-year-old Andrew Brust of
New York is a born kleptomaniac.
From the time he was old enough to
walk he has shown
! steal.
i
a propensity to '
I "Treasure Island" heads ths list of
' Mr. Stevenson's popular successes. It
is in its forty-eighth thousand. His
j latest book, "Catriona," is in its fif
teenth thousand
i Every crowned head of Europe,
; with the exception of that of Turkey,
is descended from one of two sisters,
the daughters of Dnke Lndnig Ru
t dolph of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel, who
lived about 150 years ago
I After one of Revivalist Moody's
great efforts in Providence an old man
walked up solemnly and laid two
cents at his feet on tha platform. Mr.
Moody seemed pleased at tha tribute
even if the old man had only doubled
up on the widow's mite.
The Branswick. Ga., Telegraph an
Bounces mat on account or sickness it l
wm not puonsn tor a few issues. Sir. '
A. G. Tenney, editor, is confined to tho
house. Mr. G P. Stinchfield is also
sick, and all of the compositors are
down with the grip, the only one of
the whole foree able to be on duty ba
ing Mr. John H. ftuamsg, locii editor, t
FAfiM ANU HOUSEHOLD.
1
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yiNTERlNG CALVES CHEAPLY
AND PROFITABLY.
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A ItHy Growth Mn.t B Maintained-
RivetlMT Htrae'K Stnrit UortMtffttf
. as Milken sheep siiaarfiw and
Mouahold iletp
Wintering; Calve.
,To make raising cattlo for Deef
profitable on the farm, it is very nec
essary to tnaihtain a steady growth
from birth to maturity, and the stock
must bo of a quality of grade that
when given good treatment they will
make a quick growth and mature
early, a steer that must be ted tin
til he is between three and four
years old before it can be properly
finished for market, cannot, under
present -conditions of farmiasr,
'b-made a very -profitable aaiv
mul if tho value of the feed
is to be considered. As with all i
other stock it is very Important to
keep growing, and it is also very
easv to stunt during tho hrst winter.
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( recover from the a.Tcet?. With both
cuttj0 an j jloga ;f the yst profit ia
J becure.l the growth must bo pushed
I t..nm thn nt.-irr. ninir o n- of omirsn
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to securo the best gain at tho lowest
cost. " So long as there is good pas
turage, calves will thrive with very
little looking after. If they havo
plenty of salt, water and grass they
' will grow right along. But during
, -intor this cannot be secured.
' arui jf tney aro kept growing it must
be upon food that is supplied to
them, and while
s it is necessary to
winter economic
;ally, it is never a
good plan to stint tho feel at tho
expense of the growth of the stock.
With calve, as with oher stock.
, writes N. J. Miepherd in tho Journal j
j of Agriculture, a matter worthy of i
i consideration in wintering cheaply. I
is in providing good shelter. With
comfortable quarters calves can
readilv be kept thrifty with good
roughness and very little grain, and
1 this will be found to lescn the cost.
In fact it i difficult to secure as .
i rapid a growth as ii really necessary
' for profit if the calyes are without i
I shelter. It will save feed if good
mangers or racks are provided in
which to feed the roughness, and '
boxes or troughs for the grain. I
When it can be secured at a fair
price, wheat oran is a urst class ma-
, terial to feed
calves, in connection
with their roughness. Some corn
may be usually gien with profit
The amount of the rations can in
I nearly all cases be best determine 1
i by the condition of the calves, and
1 while there is no advantage in wast
1 injr feed, it is very important, if the
to Houston, ! growth is to be pushed, to Teed lib
13th of Feb- I erally. giving generally all that they
will eat up clean at each meal. It is
only by this kind of feeding that a
rapid growth is possible. Unless a
good growth is secured the food sup
plied is in a large measure wasted:
an addition to the cost of the animal
without a corresponding profit.
Calves may be wintered at a straw
stack, but will usually weigh less in
the spring than in the fall, and un
der this treatment wiil require a
year or more of time to grow for mar
ket, and this lessens very materially
the profit. In fact it is questionable
i if anything like a fair price is
J harged for the feed and pasturage
f Valf manaSel in this waJ" vvil1
I Pai ls COfck
Shorthorns as Milken.
The Chicago exposition has had ,
one good result in bringing promi
nently before the American dairy- j
i men the good qualities yet temain-
j ing in the one time pre-eminently '
I excellent shorthorn cows as dairy '
1 animals, a century ago they stood '
I easil first in this respect, but by
I neglect of this quality and by con
stant cultivation for beef alone, they
havo degenerated from their high
position as milk and buttor cows.
But some of tho old tendency of the
blood still remains, as may be dis
covered by the example of a cow of
this breed which recently appeared
at the London, Eng., dairy show.
and which gave fifty-six pounds of i
milk in the twenty-four hours, with '
a test of 5.3'J per cent of fat in the i
tnnrnintr millr and K.0f twr I'ftnt. in !
milk and 6.06 per cent in j no sunnower is prooaoiy tno , at an nours oy a motley crowd of wor
jnT Xhe per cent of solids coarsest and rankest of garden weeds, shipcrs, says If. .Marion 'raw-ford in
om 14.98 to 16.62. yet in Russia the oil of ifs seeds is , Scribner's Magazine. Leave behind
the even
aried from
'I his is a most remarkable instance
of the reappearance of ancient char
acteristics after many years. This
breed of cows were once noted for
their high percentage of fat in the
milk, and their large yield. The
first Duchess, the progenitor of the
great family of this name, was a
twenty-four-pound-a-week cow. The
milk, twenty-eight quarts a day.
when skimmed, was sold for two
cents a quart. Tho income of this
cow was the pleasant sum of 10. 5U
a week. And this was on pasture
alone. This seems to show that it
might well be worth while to rein
state this unexampled breed in its
old productiveness, and by attention
to this still inchoate and recover
able quality make it the most useful
of all cows. Colman's Rural World.
Rlretln; Haraess Strap.
Broken straps may be mended by
use of rivets, if one is not provided
I with the requisites for sewing. To
' make the work still more reliable,
cement may bo used in connection
with the rivets: however.rivets alone
l 0I" tne proper size and well put in.
make leather work very firm. A
rentleman writes: I make and mend
all my harness with copper belt
rivets. The process is so simple, the
work so secure, the time it takes to
do it so trifling, and the cost so
small, that any owner of a horse
ought to provide himself with the
requisites. Two rivets are enough
for almost any joint in bridles, bug
gy harness, lines, etc. The pieces
are lapped about an inch: two holes
are punched upon a piece of lead,
or a hard piece of wood, with the
hand or hammer punch, as the
case may be; the rivets are put in
from the under side (with the head
end always toward the horse, so as
not to chafe the skin). The ri.-ets
should be cut right length before in-
ertmg. The rivet is now headed
down bv
a few light taps of
hammer, and the new
the brad
head smoothed down with a few light
taps of the driving end of the hammer.
and the joint is complete, and will !
never give away till the leather rots. !
and it U all done before you can rnaks
"" orfT ?0 .f "ld
j make the holes with the awl, xf you
had the end ready. One cautioa is
necessary; a beginner is very apt to
, head down ida hard, bjr which, means
I the head end of the" ritei is forced
"rOUgn me leatner OH mo uuur
!, and the joint
unbuttons. as
soffietiaes called, and is worthless.
A little Care will obviate this trouble,
i Farmers Void a
Tha Secret of SMccesa.
The most important se'cr'Ct irt suc
cessful fruit-growing is this the
trees should be fed with as much
liberality and care as the best of all
the crops gown in tho fields. The
demands of the tree are not only for
the fruit, but for itself, the increased
' growth of it taking from the land
eacn year quite as mucn ot tne iertii
ity of tho soil as a crop of wheat or
corn, Of course, it will be admitted
that only a healthfully growing tree
will bear a full crop, and doubtlessH
tho reason why trees bear only al
ternate years is that the tree itself
takes the first contribution from the
soil, and this being imperative, noth
ing is left for tho fruit in tho second
year, the crop of the proceed ing year,
with the increase of the tree, having
exhausted the land And as tho
mineral elements are mostly needed,
nothing else will be so useful as
lime, applied freely to the land.
M.irketlnir Stnll Load.
The waste of time in marketing
small loads of produce is enormous
with some farmers. They often act
as if their timo had no rppreciablo
value, hitching up a single horse
and liirht watron to draw to market
I wnat sometimes little more than
, pays tnelr 0Xpei)!.
pays tnelr expenses while away from
home. It is often common for farm
ers who have business in tho city or
village to put up somo kind of pro
duce to sell for the purpose of pay
ing expenses. This may bo a neces
sity occasionally, but tho tendency is
to make the practice of going to
market with Ught loads a habit. It
is one that few farmers can afford to
acquire. The timo spent on tho road
is wasted as far as farm improvement
goes. Thero is no farmer who can
not if he will find profitable employ
ment on his farm at nearly all sea
sons of the year. American Culti
vator. slieep Sheirins-t.
Keep no sheep that is too
old to
feed well.
Watch the maggots on the sheep.
If they are found, smear with tur
pentine. Dipping sheep, if the sheep is
good, makes the skin more healthv
and improves the wool.
Cood feeding, good breeding and -
good management mean good wool as
I
well as good mutton.
This is a good time for keeping
your wool iu a dry, dark place. The
' world will yet need your wool and
will be willing to pay for it
The man who buys sheep when
they are at bed rock nric $, stands a
better show for profit than the man
who bought when they were very
high.
1 he sheep has been compared to a
t government bond. It carries its
1 coupon right on its back. You can
! clip it and collect your interest an
nually. Sheep are not onby valuable on the
, farm on account of their wool and
' mutton, but they improve the fertil
ity of the land more, probably,
than any other kind of stock.
Tho sheep and wool business is at
least down to hard pan. All that
sheep breeders are hoping for is to
make a reasonable profit They do
not expect to get rich at once.
Some writers deny that the
Dorset-Horn is dog-proof. But they
all admit that the Dorset Horn had
as leave fight a dog as to fight any
thing else, and that goes a long way
toward self protection.
When dressing mutton do it
quickly. If tho entrails are not
quickly removed the meat will havo
a "woolly taste," though it is not a
woolly taste at all. The flavor comos
from the absorption from tho cn-
trails,
Iho
ltoaeholil Help.
sunflower is probably tho ,
used on salads, and its stalks are good
as fuel.
A piece of chamois skin cut to fit
the inside of tho shoe will not only
prove very comfortable in cold
weather and to tender feet, but it
will save the stockings from wear.
Thick woollen rugs arc tho only
ones to be used in front of a lire, if
any should be used there at all. In
such rugs, if they are very thick,
even a slight flame may be readily
smothered, while cotton rugs aro
ery inflammable.
In continued use of the ayes, in
such work as sewing, tyjie-setting,
book-keeping, reading and studying,
the saving point is looking up from
the work at short intervals and look
ing around the room,
practiced every ten or
utes. This relieving the muscular
tension, rests the eyes and makes the
blood supply much better.
A fiiteen inch square of red cheese
cloth, with narrow, brier-stitched
hem and two strings of worsted braid
sewed across one corner, does not
sound like anything remarkable, but
when one learns it is to
r;ip up
shoes or slippers for bag or trunk
the full value of the notion appears.
Shoes are the meanest things to pack
or wrap in paper, but the soft cotton
wraps them close and the strings
keep them in place.
The most effectual way to air beds
and lied clothing is to throw the
clothes over a chair and lift the
mattress partly over the footboard
in a round, hoop-hke fashion, and if
a feather bed is used, pull it off upon
a chair. Then open the windows
and doors so that a current oi air
can pass through the room, and let
it remain so for two or three hours,
or even longer. Beds thus aired aro
always healthful and will induce
sound sleep in their occupants
Each member of the family should
be trained to do this daily, and never
allowed to leave the room until it is
so arranged. Boys as well as girls
can be taught to do this, and thev
will reap the benefit of it through
their lives an 1 be sure to havo their
children trained m ! same v.-.v..
REAL ESTATE MOVING.
MR. JO. W. CRAWFORD'S VIEW OF
THE SITUATION,
IloaatoH. Texas. Rapidly Coming t tha
rroot The Keal Kate Market Ac
tire So Boob, lint Healthy Coadl
tloas rrerall A Good Opportunity torn
JaTcstors.
Globe-Democrat
Jlf. O. y. Crawford, secretary of the
National Kcal Estate association, in
talking over the situation, said: It is
interesting to note the plaints of the
people. ou tec by what small limits
human v'fcion is tircuriscribcd. When
this term of financial depression com
menced, lnbored editorials appearing
in hundreds of newspapers, put a tale
of woe in the mouth of the whole peo
ple .14 is, sUiDiagly traer that thg.
masses spesk th. wordstha t'tnepress
gives them to Apoak.
The country was suffering a relapse
from boonvng. The real estate men
had promoted the boom- those Pan
dora Hoxcs. S?o saii the press Kight
here let me say that real estate men,
simon pure, are not boomers. The
boomers are the lawyers, the doctors,
the liverv stable men. professors, hoard
ing house kecners and carpenters, who 1
i unasked and unneeded. Hood our ranks.
and like .lonah's gourd, come up in a
night. They serve no apprenticeship;
, without knowing the multiplication '
table, they tackle the most abstruse '
problems "in the calculus of our busi- .
ness. I
! There has been no malignant real I
i estate fever in the I'nited States for
several years. The last was in (.ali-
, forni:. and that was almost ancient
history when these bad times set in.
! The papers have since found in tjrn
' several all-sullicicnt causes for full bank
vaults and empty factories. The press
said free silver or silver that is not free.
The people took up the shout. The
press now exclaims. 'Too much tariff
or Too little tariff " Thank fortune
they have stopped talking about real
estate booms
There is only one place in the I'nited
States that I know where there is any
marked real t state activity. That is at
Houston, Teas Hut it cannot grow
into a boom, for the agents told me
when I was there last week that the
' purchases were small and 90 per centof
them for cash. The clearing house re
ports have advertised Houston's business
as out of a'l proportion to its popula-
t-on. All railroads run about half fare,
round trip excursions, once a month to
Texas. The net one starts the 13th of
February. They arc all alive down there,
let me tell you. Kverybody is helping
to advi rti-c their fruit lands. The New
Hutch ns hous sends free a bcautifully
illustrated book of several hundred
pages, to every on who writes for it.
I believe that the cash now hoarded
in lanss. and which by the way don't
belong to tne banks, out to tno poop..
......-....
Will J.C IUVCSICII III ICiH isi.llt. ic
large subdividers in Chicago tell me an
unusually large percentage
sales are for cash.
of their
Chinaman Bum.
Two ounces of butter, one tablespoon
ful of salt, three eggs, one pint of milk,
one half cup of yeast or half of a com
pressed cake. Put the milk in a farina
boiler to scald. I at the eggs until
light, pour over them the milk, add the
butter and let stand until lukewarm;
then add the cast and salt and suffi
cient Hour to make a thin batter. Beat
thoroughly and continuously for five
minutes: cover and sfcind in a warm
place over night. In the morning add
one cup'ul of Hour, beat thoroughly
and then add sufficient flour, a little at
a time, working ail the while with tho
hand to make a soft dough. Take out
on the baking board and knead lightly
for ten m. nines lit must not be as stiff"
as bread, l Put back into the bowl.,
cover, and let stand in a warm place
until very light. Then take about one
half of this dough out on the baking
board, roll it o.it info a thin sheet,
spread lightly with butter. cover
thickly w ith sugar, sprinkle w ith dried
currants and cinnamon, ank loll tightly
in a long roll. Cut through this roll
about every two inches, place the buns
flat, closely together in ,i greased pan.
Roll out the remaining dough in th
same manner, cover, and stand again
in a warm place until very light Bake
in a moderately quick oven for about
a half hour. Turn them out of the
pan while hot
The Mu43iilinnn' Deration.
Yeni .tami is one of the beautiful
mosques of Mamboui and is frequented
at all hours by a motley crowd of wor-
you the glare, the hurry and the rush
of the thronged street, thrust your feet
into the wide slippers at the door and
enter the beautiful buildingatthehour
of prayer. The contrast is sudden, sol
emn and grand, and something of the
deep myetcry of Oriental life is all at
once made clear to you. In the cool
shadows Mussulmans of all ages are
prostrating themselves before the Mih
rab the small shrine which in every
mosque shows the exact direction of
Mecca or before the sacred writings
in other parts of the wall.
There is profound relief and devotion
in their attitudes, gestures and accents,
a belief as superior to the idolatrous
superstition of the far cast as it is be
yond the conviction of the ordinary
Christian in simplicity and sincerity.
It is indeed impossible to spend much
time amoncr Mussulmans without ac-
This may be quiring the certainty that they are pro
lifteen min- foundly in earnest in religious matters.
and that the unfurling of the standard
of the prophet which is occasionally
hinted at as a vague possibility would
be productive of results not dreamed of
in the philosophy of Europe.
One Ilnmlreil Miles an Hour.
THf renl rfannor in inirAicii.r. !,.
speed of cxprestrains driven by steam
noes not. lie in accidental risk. It is
not denied thst a modern locomotive
might be built which could run up to
r.O or possibly 100 miles a'l hour, if the
lines were straight. It is the curves of
the existing lines which render such
speeds impossible, unless the weight of
the engines and trams were in rcased
far beyond what the bridges and per
manent way would bear. At the first
sharp curve the 100-mile express would
fly off the rails. The necessary rela
tion of these curves to speed is accu
rately known, and it is that, and not
the want of power, or novel dangers
from wind pressurs or boiler explosions
which sets the limit to modern train
speed.
As the force tending to throw off
the line a train running at the speed of
I'O miles an hour woula be about six
and one-half fmes greater than that
wbi- h a steam express tram resists at a
curve when running at sixty miles an
hour, it is plain that the Dresent lines
could not be used for the "lightning
cxp-ess," even thorgh the electric mo
tor were substituted for the steam en
gine. The line-, mrst not onlv be
stronger, but stra.htei tian would be
pcss.tde by any uut'tlicat on of their
preset form. '1 as Spectajor
THE OLD RXXIABU
Wxunlras State - Bank I
(OlaWsiBsak (attest)
PaTSltkrest tm Time Deiositi
fates Urn 01 Real Estate
HQ1T DIAITi el
Cfcleac. Hew Tark ssm1 al
FeraJsm Gsmatri
HL1I ! STUMSE : 170XIII.
BUYS GOOD NOTES
lad Balps its Customers whsa tasy Nasi Bala)
mcits m BiBicrtMi
LBASSXR GERHARD. Prest.
B. M. HENRY, Tics Prsst
JOHN 8TADPFKa.Casals6
ILlBUaOEB, O.W.HUL8T.
-or-
COLUMBUS, NEB.,
-HAS AN-
Authorized Capital of - $500,000
Paid in Capital, - 90,000
OFFICEIW.
j c.U. SHELDON. Pres't.
J n. p. h. OEnLRICH, Vice Pre.
CLARK GRAY. Cashier.
DANIEL SUHRA1I, Asa't Cash
DIRECTOi:S.
FT. M. TVufSLOw, II. P. II. OEnr.nicit.
V. II. SiTEi.DON, V". A. McAllister,
Jonas Welch. Caul Uienku.
STOCKHOLDERS.
3 C. GBAT. J. HEXUT WCBPEJLUf,
(JEIIHAHD LOSBKB, IlEXRY LOSEKB.
Claiik Gray." Ueo. W. Gallet.
pAXIEL S-ClIIlAM, A. F. II. OEULRICH.
tuaxk korer. j v. hecker estats,
Hebecca Becker.
Bank of deposit: Interest allowed on timo
deposits: buy and sell exchange on United
States and Europe, and bur and sell avail
able securities. Wc shall lw pleased to re
ceive, your business. We solicit your pat
ronage. THE
First National Bank
OITXCEBS.
ANDERSOX. J. H. GALLEY.
President Vies Pres't
O. T. ROEN. Cashier.
DIRECTORS.
0. ifftftlolf. P. AJf01SO!f.
jacob awnsE-f, henm baqatz.
JAMXS 0. mXBD)Ut.
Statesseat of the Coalition at the Close
f Basiness Jalj 12, 1893.
RESOURCES-
Loans and Discount' t 241.467 57
Keal Estate Furniture and Fix
tures .............................. 1.791 Ot
U.S. Bonds 15.2.0 0)
Due from other banks $37,676 31
Cash on Hand 21.867 53 59.743 S3
Total 333,1!MM
LIABILITIES.
Capital Stock paid la....
Surplus Fund
Undivided profits
..I 60.000 CO
.. 30.000 0)
.. 4.575 CO
.. 13J0O0U
uircuiatioa
Deposits 223.113 37
Total 1333.196 36
LOUIS SCHREIBER,
11
All kiids of Repairing doie 01
Short Notice. Biggies, Wag
is, etc.. Bade to order,
and all work Guar
anteed. Also tell tho world-faaons Walter A.
Wood Mowers, Beapers, Combin
ed Machines, Harresters,
and Belf-hinders the
best nude.
Shop on Olive Street, Columbus, Nsb.,
four doors south of Borowiak'a.
HENRY GASS,
iftxXAsw
ga c$&w&il
rrN"DERTAT-TEIl !
Coffins : and : Metallic : Gases !
X3T Repairing of all kinds of Uphol
ttery Goods.
Utt COLUMBUS. NEBRASKA-
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