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VOLUME XXV. NUMBER 7.
COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 30, 1804.
WHOLE NUMBER 1,255.
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NEBRASKA NEWS.
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Wcst Point has reduced tlie salaries
of its school teachers.
The croaker is abroad and it will re
quire rain to silence him.
Young Men of Mason City arc taking
fctepsto organize a band.
David "ity is perfecting arragements
for a good celebration July 1th.
otuitnstantling nam times ccwaru
is doing a great
t deal of building.
A fat and lean men's bae ball club
has been organized at West Point.
The late frost did great damage to
the crowing beets in the vicinity of
Norfolk.
The two men who made a race from
Omaha to lloldrcge against time lost by
six hours.
The corner stone of the new Herman
Lutheran church in Grand Island was
laid last .Sunday.
The Omaha V. M. C. A. base ball
team defeated the Mate University club
br a score of IS to ..
Juslav Mix, a German of Seward
oounty. was to badly injured in a run-
away that his life is despaired of.
The Woodmen of York will observe
Decoration day by suitable ceremonies
at the graves of deceased neighbors.
The police of I'eatrice made a big
haul of transgressors on the occasion of
the visit of Itingling's circus to that
place.
The base ball players of Atkinson and
Newport have staked S10 a side on a
game to be played at the former place
on the .'.tli.
The Illair canning factory will only
can sweet corn. It was too late to con
tract for peas after its recent sale under
:i mortgage.
Lincoln has a small-pox patient iin
deruarantine. The man is a stranger
in the city, having recently arrived
there from Missouri.
'I he people of Kavenna are boring a
welt to irrigate the cemetery grounds.
A last report the well was -0 feet
deep and no water in sight.
Fire bug- are responsible for the de
struction of the barn of I'eter Get, at
Kearney. A valuable horse and buggy
were lost in the contlagration.
The women of Meatrice have started
a crusade against beer by distributing
tracts telling of the dire consequences
of indulging in the beverage.
A rolling stone tumbled aerainst
Charles Crawford of l'awnee City and '
broke several ribs besides doinir con
sitlerable damage to his anatomy.
loci Lel'ard, an old-time brakeman,
was coupling Sells IJros.' circus cars in
Fremont, when his hand was caught
between the couplers and crushed.
David IC. Hull, a resident of Kulo un
til recently, was killed at Alton, III.,
by a heavy piece of timber falling on
him while he was helping build a oridge.
Among the announcements for the
Crete assembly is a special program for
the Fourth. Congressman llainer of
Aurora will deliver the oration of the
dav.
Another heavy frost in Dodge countv I
finished up what little of the fruit was
left after the night before. 1 here is
no further show for apples in that lo
cal 113.
The Dorchester Mar says that some
of the school districts will levy but a
small tax this year, as they have enough
leftover from ls.t;j to run them through
another year.
Miss Ida ' lark, who was brought to
Ivcatrice from Denver, charged with
complicity in a horse stealing case at
Wymore, was released from jail on her
own recogniz-aiiee.
Merna has a widow who supports
herself and three children by taking in
washings She owns a lot and the cit- .
.ens lately chipped in and built her a
comfortable cottage.
Ceorge IJoss, who shot and killed the
deputy postmaster of Cot ton wood Falls,
Kas., and was afterward hung to a
bridge by a mob, worked at one time
on the I'lade at Seward City.
John ("riser, a tenant living on John
Hanev's farm eastof Columbus, drown-
cti himself in the I'lattc river. He was (
a Pout u years old. Despondency on
account of crops is suppo-cd to be the
cause.
l'ev. 11 11 Wilson, pastor of the l'il
gcr church, will soon start for Chile,
where he goes as a missionary, accom
panied by his wife. John Shick has
been selected to till out the conference
vear at I'ilger
Onirics Jones, a notorious crook imi- !
fessing to hail from Omaha, Denver. '
Kansas City and a score of other points, j
was arrested last week in Ilea trice for
larceny ami sent to thc county jail for !
sixty days. 1
mammoth tooth in rood state of
preservation, weighing about nine'
pounds, was found bv workmen in a'
sand pit on thc Org faVm near McCool .
Junction. C. C. Noroucst of McCool'
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owns thc tooth,
A petition is being circulated in the
western part of Cherry county and will
be presented to the commissioners ask- '
ing that a vote be taken this fall to di-
vide thc county from north to south on ,
the eighth range.
At Fremont Conductor I. II Somers
was running along on top of his train, j
when thc car which he was crossing 1
was derailed. He was thrown to the !
ground, rendered unconscious and it is
feared internally injnred.
JJev. J. W. Kimincl. editor of the
Lutheran Kra of Tekamah.hasaccepied ,
the charge of the First Lutheran church
of Leavenworth. Kas., and is movinc
to that place now. He will publish Ins
paper irom mat place in tne future.
A number of tramps riding on the
roof of a Fnion Pacific car engaged in
a quarrel at Fremout. when a shot was !
tiretl by some one. When the train ar-
rived at alley a dead man was found
on uic iop 01 uic car, inn 111c murtierer
had escaped.
The suit brought bv Mrs. llnnhcr nf '
Nebraska City against the estate of the
late l'aul Schminkc for property valued
at SI, 000 has been dismissed, as it was
shown by the evidence that the woman
had never had any right or title to the
property in question.
Twenty-two years ago Kichard
Brown, who lived near Columbus, had
a new harvesting machine broken up
me night by some vandal. Recently a
:nan of the name of O'Brien died at
Manberry. Mo., and left S100 to pay
Brown for the machine.
City Marshal Acton of Wymore re
ceived a telegram from Falls City to ar
rest and hold a traveling man and a
young girl who had accompanied him
to vmore unknown to her parents.
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Ihev were held until the girl s father .
rw ..Ti.t w.- i,r.t-, w '
arrived and returned home with her.
There has been trouble brewing in
the Alington house at McCook for sev
eral days. which culminated in Mrs.
Peterson having her husband arrested
for threatening to kill her. The court
placed him under bonds, which he re
fused to give and was taken to the
county jail.
The hired girl in one of the leading
fnmiliOQnt. ISlnir iTinl fi ciiit Vwlnnfr-
ing to her employer the other night and
ha: not been seen since she jrlided down
the street in the direction of the depot- ,
Mie left all her own clothes as a slight
remembrance to those who were left
behind to mourn her departure.
' A Petition is being circulated and
quite freely signed, says the Valentine
, Independent, asking the countv com-
j inissioners to employ experts to exam-
mc the countv treasurer's, clerk s
judge's and sheriff's books back to the
time the county was osganized.
M. M. Warner, editor of the Lyons
Mirror anil deputy district examiner of
Sons of Vet'cruns camps, inspected
Casey camp in Tckamah last week and
gave it a rating of HI per cent, the
i112-1PSt ratine pvct pivcii to anv
..camp in the state. Lyons camp stood
at the head last year at '.13 per cent.
Sheriff .lackson arrived in Reaver
Cit3' last week from Salt Lake with I".
II. Sclby, the Cambridge attorney
wanted for cmbcz.lcmcnt. The pris
oner was sick and was at once taken to
the hotel and placed in the care of a
physician. As soon as his health will
permit a preliminary hearing will be
had.
Never in the history of He Witt dur
ing any one spring, says the Times, has
there lcen as much house painting ami
general cleaning up of the entire vil
lage as has been this season. Kveryonc
appears btisv. A Coxev recruitinjr otli-
cer would get slim picking here. Wages
are from Sl..iU to S"J.."iO per day and idle
worKingmen are hard to find.
While Landlord .lerry Page of Deca
tur was absent on business one of liis
boarders, who has po-eil himself as a
gentleman of leisure the past winter,
suddenly departed, leaving his board
bill unpaid. -mith has been a suspi
cious character about town ami is sup
posed to have been connected with the
j bootlegging business the past winter.
Colonel II. II Kicker of St Louis, ex-
general superintendent of the St. Louis,
Iron Mountain it Southern railroad,
died in Weeping Water last week of
heart trouble. He had been ill for
some time and came to Weeping Water
accompanied by his wife and W. S.
I'olliciinis, to visit his brother-in-law.
". W. Norton, and with the hope of re
gaining his health.
Ira, the l'-'-ycar-old son of Hadley
Jennings, driving a horse hitched to a
cart, attempted to cross the track ahead
of an castbound freight train at Lib
erty but not reaii.ing the dangerous
proximity of the train he was struck by
the engine and instantly killed. The
train, which was a fast freight extra,
carried the body a distance of 1,0. ki
feet before the train could be stopped.
Talk about hard times ami no busi
ness! -Just come to Ilartington, says J
the Leader, if you want to see improve
iiienls that bespeak anvthing but hard
times, "earlv everv property owner
in town is, in some way, making im-. that classic l ural pastime of bump
provements this spring, and good, sub-! -nr. Among the students' were
stantial ones, too. New houses are two hoys, j0inl am Alf ('rigglehorn,
springing up on every hand and car-! &on3 of ,,, ,Vlc c-igglehorn, the
penters report all the work they can do. nmn wi() feomo tjmo . swwc Qa a
rhenextcncampmentoftheebras-l wa . ,hat ie COI,(l bu ;l weU
ha National guards will be held at the j k y , b . ,
state capital from August ') to . - - .
Tiiis encampment will be one of the
most important gatherings held at Lin
coln this year, as there will without
doubt be a full attendance, ami that
means over l.o.K) men. There arc
twenty-four companies of the guards.
l'vcnty-tw
two infantry, two batteries and
uvo ""
The supreme court of the state a f-
finned a case taken from the Hurt
countv district court, in which two or
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three thousand acres of accretion land
arc at issue. II. C. Lvdick. a wealthy j
farmer, began this case several vuai-s 1
ago, and fed lowed it in a forced contest 1
step by step, through all its ups and
(towns. J ne decision gives nun a line
to a large and valuable tract of land
along the Missouri river in Hurt
county.
l'hillip Andrews, an employe of tin.
ICrug llrewing company, committed
suicide in Lincoln, lie was discovered
in :i dvin'r condition A iihvsirian wa-
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before he arrived. I he physician as-
cribcil Andrews' death toa dose of lauda
num. Andrews was a single man, V
years old, and had lived in Lincoln
about ten mouths, going there from
Omaha. He had been drinking heavily
Tor several day--.
Chief of Police Kump of McCook did
some clever detective work that re
suited in the arrest of a gang of shop-
lifters and the recovery of a largt
amount of stolen property. For sonit
time several of the merchants have ;
been missing goods from their stores ,
ami the same was reported to the polic-,
who succeeded 111 running tlie outfit
.low.,. The women were well prepare.!
for thc work, having dresses made with1
double skirts, which would hold a
whole bolt of cloth besides other smallei I
articles.
The raf ton correspondent of tin. t
Fairmont Signal is responsible for this
story: J. 1. Johnson brought in a
ireaic ol nature. It was twin pigs born
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' 'es. ni ni. one nea.i, eigni icet
t'.1 t'lls ,al."' f,,l,r p:'is. On the baclj
"f t1,e he,a'1 ,s. ''e e-vc- -lie one head
was perfect in form On the back ol
i tlie liead appeared to ue tne lormation
of thc second head.
The two bodies
were perfect.
A Superior dispatch says that tin.
iuteistatc reunion committee has se
cured 400 of the Kansas state tents, r,'
II. also the headquarters tents, for tin.
use of the coining reunion at Superiot
July ."''i to August 1, inclusive. This i
the fourth time this reunion has been
located at Superior, and the prepara
tions that are being made this year art
the most extensive ever attempted by
this soldiers organization. The de
partments of both Kansas and Nebras
ka will unite and vie with each other
in the pleasures of the reunion. Thc
high reputation of the interstate onran- !
ization will be fully sustained in pro- .
curing sneakers of national reputation
and entertainment of the highest order 1
will enliven the camp. J
sheriff Kyd of Cage county was the I
unwilling victim of one of the greatest
surprises of Ins life the other morning
wnen ne uniocueu ine outer door and
entered the corridor fronting the cell
room of the county jail. It took but a
glance of his practiced eye to discover)
that his family of enforced guests had
greatly diminished in number during
the night- At his feet lay thc small
iron door tnrongn wliicli articles are '
sometimes handed the prisoners from ',
the outer corridor, the bar on which it
had swung having been sawed through
and broken off. An inventory of the '
occupants remaining fell eight short 1
and four cells, in which at 7:30 the pre- '
vious night the double quartet had
been securely locked, were vacant.
Mt st of the number were in for trivial 1
ofTeuee-s. I
For several years complaints have j
been made by sto-k raisers near Curtis ,
concerning the loss of stock bv thieves.
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Sheriff Lvncn received a tip that a lot
( i ' ,,, t, . , r Y
.f pork would be stolen from I. Powers '
.v. ton. hog shippers. I he sheriff and I
his deputies repaired to a point near '
where the proposed raid was to be
made. About midnight the expected .
occurred, and about fifty head of fine
fat porkers were driven out of the cor- j
ral and started down the canon. When '
about a half mile away from the pen j
1 ne oineers uipe.ireu anu commanded a
halt. The order was not obeyed and a
Kt-oitt fnnt mpo niir Th V.-rt-l
were finally captured, and proved to i.e
John Kiehman. J. W. Davis ami Honr,-
Johns three substantial farmers living i
'uva.A.iWi
' near, who had never been suspected of :
being anything but fctraightforward I
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THEGRIGGLEHOKN BOYS
Men who term themselves social
philosophers tell us that the lime ia
rapidly coming when we shall have
no distinctive typ's of the genus
homo in this countrv. Thev declare
that we are all lending toward phy- , such extreme, were willing to re
sical and mental uniformity and that sort to almost any competition and
in a few centuries from now wo shall . the teacher declared that it would bd
all be a sort of human field of peas, a rare joke, it was so awfully furtrty.
I think that this is Kindly thrown i Tho boys wont home, called up tho
out as a hint to writers who arc en- dos, divided them into two separate
deavoring to p rtray character; a packs and started out. It was
reminder that if they have charac- ' agreed that the. should dclivor tho
tors whom they wish to delineate. ' marsupial fruits of their hunt at
they should do so at once or run tho , their father's hoilsc. The old mail
risk of losing the opportunity. Hav- . hid said that he would conduct tho
ing inu?cd over this hint and having , teacher thither in time to reach a
accepted it In all its warning aigniti- ; decision, it must have been nearly
cance, I hasten to give the following , 12 o'clock at night when th- boys ro
true story: I turned. Alf came first with an onor-
A number oT years had elapsed , mom 'possum, but John soon fol
since there had Iwcn a school in that ! lowed with one fully as large.
thin settlement" of Ka3t Tennessee,
which lies some ton or fifteen miles
west of Tom Hughes' Knglish co'ony.
In the winter wild animals slept un-
der the old log school hous;, and in
the autumn rich clusters of grapes
hung from the caves. The bovs had
grownup in so strong a contempt of
education that once, when a dapper
little vacation sophomore came up
from Nashville and attempted to
open a school, they sei'.cdhim rough
1 and, carrying him down into the
den-e woods, bumped him urgently
against the uneven bark of a red
oak tree. Tho sophomore, upon
gaining his liberty, caught up his
Derby hat and vanisheJ.
Recently some of the more .iberal
minded men of the community de
cided that the youths and maidens of
the land must be educated, and.
knowing that their lau lable object
could not be accomplished by male
teachers, decided to engage a wo
man. Miss Flora Hightower. an old
maid of frisky shyness and hcmplikc
hair, was engaged. She was so frail
in structure and so innocent of ex
pression that the anxious fathers
and mothers knew that their boys,
rough but manly, would not turn her
out of the house, and, moreover,
would rally in her defense, should
the girls, scarcely less rough than
! the boys, attempt to lead her
oil
i into the woous and carry her through
; if nun lliu 3Ul;uuil il. lit iiuraiiiiu.i 111
head with a piece of -hect-iron. he
remarked that he had ever been open
to conviction and that his estimate
of that goat had been revised
Shortly after the sjIio 1 win
opened the ('rigglehorn boys foil in
love with the teacher. Thev were
.Wiited and so 'ealnns that one
wou,d not cl.init tIlc othul. to ,ee
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her alone, and at evening, when she
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set out Ior thc '-0 whur hc
hoarded, they marched along with
her, each bent upon choking olT
, what the other attempted to say
One evening, when they had been
walking for some time in silence,
Alf icmarkcd:
Miss Flora. I wantcr say that 1
iove yon strong enough to move a
saw log. The truth is. I have seed a
good deal of cil'co in mv life, but
that you air about the stuunincst lot
or goods I ever seed. An' now I
wanter say suthin' that I kain't git a
chance to say in private, tint I want
you to fling up this here school an'
marry me. I r.on't kere a snap
about ed cation so long as I kin git
you. Hear me?''
Don't pay no attention to him.
Miss Flora." John spoke up before
she had time to reply. lies alius
saving suthin' that he don't mean,
It has been my aim ever sense I fust
sce,i vou lo niarrv V0ll, an- 0f vm
kuowvhich side yo' bread is biittoi-
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ed " ' " "lU ,e.t h,m !'!I,lc an takc
'V0' for am :l hone-v fn,m w.v up
tl,e cr''ek whllc hc ls a slouch from
tno '''- pond."
-Oh,"' Miss Flora giggled,
happy could I be with cither
tuthcr dear charmer away."
You bet I'm a charmer.'
how
were
said
Aif. ..-, chariiior enough to make
. hotter husband than this
knock-kneed thin:
that is walkin'
along with us."
-That's all right." John r? joined,
but when it comes to e'larmin I'm
that-."'
-Oh. boys. I real'v don't know
which of you to takc. I had thought
that I hould never be married I
had read so much of the unhappi-ncs-
of the matrimonial state that I
had determined to live on in single
contentment, but ah. my dears, you
have completely up?et me."
-Hut which one of us ha; upset
you the most?" Alf demanded.
-Keally. my dear. I can not say.'
Don't "you sorter think I have?"'
Ji-hn asked.
-Oh. my dear, 3-0:1 must not ask
me such a question. Both of vou
make my heart gush with joy. and
-'t c-acli of you makes me sad ah.
sad, for I cannot marry but one of
you and I do not know which one to
accept."
Tiiis recital, with but slight varia
tion, was gone through with day
after day. Old Pete, the boys'
father, was deeply amused, and
sometimes he would come over to
the school-bouse at evening, and,
walking a short distance behind the
lovers, would follow them home,
laughing in first one sleeve and then
the other. He divided his mirth be
tween the two youngsters, and was
careiui. Mich being nis strong sCnc I
of justice, not to laugh in one sleeve I
more than he did in the other. j
One night while thc boys, sitting
by the log lire in the teacher's board- J
inrr.1i mtn irnin nnin(in in ai.l . K..i
,..D ....t.. ..v,.v. ra.,.iujS in muu out 1
strong colors
pictures of their
adoration. Old Pete came
after a time remarked:
in and
I have been a thinking as to the
best way to settle this here affairs,
boys, but like the teacher. I don't
know which one's claim to urge: but
it ought to be settled soon, for the
school will bust after awhile an'
then the teacher will have to go
awav. Now let mc sec '
He mused for several moments and
then continued:
You bovs out to be wilhu' to
arrce to mo"5t an-v sort of settlement
1 would suggest rasslin or uoxm 01
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something else in that line, but we
air settiif most to civilized up here
to resoi t to si'h. Now, I tell von
what you do as an improvement 011
th? ol1 an' worn-out methods. Pi-
vido tho dogs an go out in tno
woods in different directions, art thd
one that can ketch the biggest pos
sum may have tho girl. Do you
agree?'
The bovs, having been driven to
-"Wall, this do b"-at anything I
cvoi' did see," said tho old man. The
teacher tittered musically, and said
she had never ?cen anything half so
funny. And," she added, "how did
( they manage to got them the same
size?' It wouldn't occur again I
( don't suppose in a hundred yoars.
and it shows that the possums arc so
just in this matter that they are not
willing to render a decision in favor
of either dear party. I never saw
the like, 1 am sure.'
"Hold on,'" said John. "I think
you aro too fast. My possum is the
biggest, an' I will bet money on
it. Hisn inout bo the fatter, but
mine's got the biggest frame. This
hero is a serious matter, an' I want
these possums weighed.'
Now you hit mo!" Alf exclaimed.
I know mine is thc'bigiycst. an' I'll
i bet my oars on it. Come, fetch out
the weighin' machine."
'I tell you what you do. boys,"
said old Pcto: 'dress the beauties
an' then we can see how much they
weiirh. Hurry up "
Tlie boys agreed, ani when the pos
sums had boen dressed the old man
remarked : -Now wo kill git at t'ie
jastico of the matter. I dcclar', boy.s,
I never did sec two animals so near
of a size: an' do you know I thought
sutin' of that sort would happen. I
never did see such a courtship. Yes.
an" I wa- might'ly interested, so
much so that I concluded not lo de
pend on possums that might turn
out tho same size, an' f spoke to the
teacher here, an' while you. fellers
wa a INtonin fur the dogs to tree,
w'y 1110 an' her went ovc to .see a
jestice of the peace an' was married.
Say, boys. Iling them possums up on
the roof of the house an' let the
frost fall 011 'em and to-morrer we'll
have a weddin' dinner that will make
oltl Andy Jackson waller in his
grave." Opie 1. Head in the
Courier-Journal.
CAN IT BE?
A ll.iliertknlirr's Wory C'onrtTiiiilj;
tlif
Clrl Who Makes Itmton'ioics.
"Look here," said tho customer,
-tlicsc cuffs have buttonholes on ono
side only."
Thc haberdasher looked at tho
cuffs and shrugged his shoulders re
signedly, says the X. Y. Sun.
I am very sorry to have put you
to tho trouble cf returning them,"
he said, -but our girls catch us oc
casionally in spito of our watchful
ness. Wo employ l'5'l of them, and
nearly every one of 'em. is just
watching her chance to run in a job
on us. You see they get a cent for
every buttonhole they make.
There arc five buttonholos on a
cuff, and thc cuffs arc put in boxes
containing a dozen pair each. Wo
look through every box, but can't
take thc time to examine each cuff
separately. They know that, and
take advantage of it. It costs us
dear, too. for if each girl fools us on
only one buttonhole a day it costs
us about 10 a week, which catsup
the profit on a good many dozen
pairs of cuffs.
'In the ramc way thy get tho
nettur ol us on thc pearl buttons wo
use for our shirts. They cost us a
cent apiece, and tho way they
disappear is wonderful. Scolding
doesn't do a bit of good, for thoy
look as innocent a angels. Frequent
ly they have the nerve to wear the
buttons they have taken right in
our shop. I have often caught a
dozen at a time with our buttons on
their dresses. When I make them
surrender them they arc cross and in
dignant. I tell you they arc daisies."
l!crioir in tht son t Invest.
History repeats itself in the south
western territories in the recent
building of great storage reservoirs
for the turning of the desert into
a able land throigh irrigation.
These things were done in the same
region, in davs before Columbus, by
a race of Aztec kinship, now sur
viving only in a few scattered vil
lages. Traces of their ol 1 reser
voirs, canals and ditches are still
visible in tracts now being again de
veloped by 'own and irrigation corn-
panics The town of Kddy. in Lin
coln county. New Mexico, and the
productive ountry about it is ono of
the b"st examples of the results of
this modern application of old modes
of agriculture. The con-truction of
dams with proper escape ways for
the carrying away of Hoods and silt
has passed the experimental stage
and has been reduced to a practical
and profitable science applied on u
vast scale. Thc cost of thc dam re
cently built at Kddy. which is to form
a distributing reservoir, was 12o,-
0l Above this a great dam cost
ing -.'00.00 ). built for reserve stor-
age of the river's How. expands in a
hiko larger than Lake Chautauqua,
These reservoirs are indispensable
to the agriculture of that re-ionat
all seasons, for already the farmer
t .
anu iruit growers are preparing to
irrigate their wheat, alfalfa .-.n.l
orchards. Chicago Herald.
Probabilities of I.itinp.
At twenty years of age a temperate
person is supposed to have a chance
of living for forty-four years. Should
tho same person still living a tem
perate life, reach the age of sixty,
the chances are that he will live
fourteen years longer.
An Ai-titi? Model of the Heart.
A French physician has constructed
an aeting model of the human heart-
It is of the same hue. size and con-
sistency of the natural organ, with
every detail, and a red fluid courses
through it and throu-'h artificial
arteries.
AN UNEXPLORED ISLAND.
Its Oncer Population or ImH.int, Irot
lly of .M oilcan Origin.
Jamos Millar, who has long ro
sided on Prince of Wales island, and
who. by reason of his being thc first
whito settler and now controlling
the largest interest, is reforred toaa
thc monarch of that island, is in San
Jrranciseo. Mr. Millar is located at
Hunter's bay, where he has been for
four years engaged in the business
of catching and salting salmon, says
the San Francisco Chronicle-
The strange island of Princo of
Wales, on which Mr. Millar has
elected to make his home, lies at tho
mouth of Dixon's entrance, and only
about three miles from the northern
lino of British Columbia. Tho island
is about ")) miles long and from ten
t thirty or forty wide. It is singu
lar in its make-up, having a fringe
or lowland all around. Toward the
center are ridges of mountains, some
of thenl reaching lofty heights and
covcrod with perpetual snow. There
is magnificent timber in great quan
tities. It consists of spruce, fir, hem
lock, splendid yellow cedar and a
very suporior red cedar.
-The island has never been sur
veyed nor explored." said Mr. Mil
lar, -and some day it must prove, 1
think, a most inviting field for ex
ploration. Thc Indians of whom
there ai'e probably some '',0) , arc
scattered around tho island shores
in little villages, usually of about
10U inhabitants each. They consist
of many different tribes. Most of
those I came in contact with arc
Hydahs. There are between ''00 and
l' of them at Hunter's bay. and
they are qui to industrious as fisher
men and sailers of the salmon. The
Hydah Indians came up from tho
Ojiceu Charlotte islands many years
ago and made con U0st, driving the
nattvo tribe out. Tho former are
very superior Indians. They are in
telligent, and pick up anything very
quickly. I think they originally
came from Mexico, as they much re
semble the Mexican race. Some of
them, I have noticed, have as fine
faces as any white man, and as full
and fine boards.
"Though Prince of Wales island
has many resources. I do not think
it will bo of any use for agriculture.
When I left, on December 1 1, there
was sonic snow at Hunter's bay, but
still it Was not cold. My nearest
whito neighbors are at the Presby
terian missionary station of Howkan,
twenty-live miles away. At ray place
there aro no white persons, except
my wife and children, and they arc
away for the winter.''
Mr. Millar is of middle age and has
a pronounced Scotch accent. He is
of a type of the hardy pioneer only to
be met st such faraway outposts.
Nihility in strijl.-'S.
An uncle of thc present Lord Bra
bourne was hung in Australia, not
fyr one murder, but for about a
dozen offenses of that character. At
the present moment two Italian
dukes of Villarosa, aro serving tirao
in thc great Italian penitentiary of
La Magdalcna for a peculiarly cow
ardly murder. Then there is Count
Schleinitz who is doing time in (!cr
many for blackmailing, and, as I
stated the other da.., Comte dc
Moien in France, who h.is j.ist com
pleted a term of servitude, for at
tempted murder. So it is in almost
every country whero titlo- and aris
tocracy exist. A largo percentage
of the long-term convicts in Siberia
bear thc titlo of princo or barm,
and it was only a few weeks ago that
we read of the eldest son of an Fng
lish peer, and the heir to tho title,
confessing in open court that he had
forged the name of his mother to a
promissory note. This only goes to
show that there is no family, no
matter how high in rank, that does
not have its domestic skeletons and
black sho p. London Letter.
A I5;l ro MiiirrM.
Spangolitc, a very rare mineral,
has b.-en found in some British
museum specimens of copper ore
from thc St. Day mines of Hcdruth,
Cornwall. It occurs in deep emerald-green
translucent crystals of
hexagonal form, ending in trun
cated pyramids, ana is in reality a
hyd rated sulphate and chloride of
copper and aluminum. Only one
other sample of spangolitc is known,
namely, that described by Mr. Pen
field in thc American Journal of
Science, lX'JU, and discovered in the
district around Tombstone. Arizona.
A f'rntlrn I.:nv.
There are sixteen states in which
a medical diploma of itself is no
license for practice, and in which an
extra and independent state examina
tion is demanded by law before the
applicant can be qualified. These
states arc Alabama, Arkansas. Florida.
Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi.
Xcw Jersey, New York, North Caro
lina. Xorth Dakota. Pennsylvania,
South Dakota. Texas. L'tah. Virginia
Washington and portions of the
Indian territory.
Tlie Sproa'l K:ii;i-.
The spread eagle signifies an eagle
with two heads. Porney tells us the
reason why the emperor of (Jcrmany
bears an eagle with two heads, viz :
-On the union of the kingdom of
Bomania. its arms, which wore an
eagle displayed sable, being the
same as those of thc emperor, were
unite! into one body, leaving it two !
wings as they are now. Charle
magne was the first emperor of Ger
many, and adde 1 the second head to
the eagle for his arms."
Recruits in Afghanistan.
Military recruiting in Afghanistan
is practiced under sonewhat pecu
liar circumstances. The ameer has
just commanded ono of his chiefs to
enlist 100 foot and twenty-five horse
men as a body guard. If the fall
number are not forthcoming within
a month thc chief's income will be
cut down in proportion to thc num
ber of men deficient
lap Colony for North Carolina.
."ecretary Bruner of the Depart
ment of Agriculture of North Caro
lina is in receipt of a letter from
Japanese Commissioner Koidzumi,
who state? that he guarantees to
raise SloO.OW, if a like sum is made
up in this country, to bring Japanese
colonists to North Carolina and
manufacture porcelain ware out of
kaolin.
A MAN WITH A HISTORY.
The Terrible Experience that Befel
John W. 'Ihunias of 'Ihcfa,
Tennessee.
Afflicted tVilh a recnliar Iilseane lljr
Bodj Cotcrcti ttith Lump Conltl
Not Cat and Thought lie VfarC.O'
lag to Dry Vp Hi I5ccoerj'
tlirMnrrrl of Triinece.
From the XaMiviUc, Tenn., Kuiincr.
Mt. John W. Thomas. Jr., of Theta,
Tenn., is a man with a most interest
ing history. At present he is interested
in blooded horses for which Maury
County is famous.
"Few people, I takc it," said Mr.
Thomas to a reporter w ho had asked
him for the s'ory of his life, 'have
passed through n remarkable a chain
of events as I have and remained alive
to tell the story.
It was along in lSsl, when 1 was
working in the silver mines of New
Mexico, that my troubles began: at first
I suffered with indigestion, and so
acute did the pains become that I wedt
to California for my health, but the
trip did me little good, and fully im-
Ercssed with the idea that my last day
ad nearly dawned upon mc, I hurried
back here to my old home to die.
"From simple indigestion my malady
developed into a chronic inability to
take anv substantial food, I was barely
able to creep about, and at times 1 was
prostrated by spells of heart palpita
tion. This condition continued until
one year ago.
On the 11th of April, 1S03. I suddenly
collapsed, and for days I was uncon
scious, in fact I was not fully myself
until July. My condition on Septem
ber 1st, was simply horrible, I weighed
but seventy pounds, whereas nvy nor
mal weight is lti.l pounds. All ovet
my body there were lumps from thc
si.e of a grape to the si.e of a walnut,
mj fingers were cramped so that 1 could
not more than half straighten them.
I had entirely lot control of my lower
limbs and my hand trembled so that I
could not drink without spilling thc
liquid. Nothing would remain on my
stomach, and it seemed that I miihtdry
up before many days had passed.
"I made another round of the pli3'si
ciatls, calling in one after thc other,
and by the aid of morphine and other
medicines they gave mc, I managed to
live though barely through thc fall."
Here Mr. Thomas displayed hisarms,
and just above thc elbow of ench there
was a large irregular stain as large ns
the palm of the hand and of a purple
color, the spa-e covered by the mark
Was nulikcn nearly to the bone.
"That,' said Mr. Thomas, '-is what the
doctors did by putting morphine into
Inc.
On the llth of December, lS'.ir;, just
eight months after I took permanently
to bed I shall never forget the date
1113 cousin, Joe Foster, of Carter's
Creek, called on me and gave me a box
of Dr. Williams Pinli PiUsfor Pale Peo
ple, saying they had cured him of par
tial paralysis, with which I knew he
had all but died. I followed his direc
tions and bcgr.n taking the medicine,
ns a result I stand before you to-day the
most surprised man on earth. Look at
nry hand, it is ns steady as yours: my
face has a healthy iook about it; I have
been attending to my duties for u
month. Since I began taking the pil's
I have gained SO pounds, and I am still
gaining. All the knots have disap
peared from my body except this little
kernel here In my palm. I have a good
appetite and I am almost as strong as I
ever was.
Yesterday I rode thirty-seven miles
on horseback. I feel tired to-day but
not sick. I used to have from two to
four spells of heart palpitation every
night: since I began the use of the pills
1 have had but four fnells altogether.
"1 know positively that I was cured
by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, and I be
lieve firmly that it is the most wonder
ful remedy in existence to-day, and
every fact I have presented to you is
known to my neighbors as well as lo
myself, and thej- will certify to the
truth of mv remarkable cure."
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale Peo
ple arc not a patent medicine in the
sense that name implies. They were
first compounded as a proscription and
used as such in general practice by an
eminent physician. So great was their
efficacy that it was deemed wise to
place them within the reach of all.
They are now manufactured by the Dr.
Williams' Medicine Company, Schenec
tady, N. Y., and are sold in boxes
(never in loo-e form by thc dozen or
hundred, and the public are cautioned
Against numerous imitations sold in
this shape) at oO cents a box, or six
boxes for Si .. anl ma- be had of all
druggists or direct by mail from Dr.
Williams" Medicine Company.
Pay or French Legislators.
It may not bo uninteresting to onr
readers to give a glance at the differeLt
deliberative Assemblies which have suc
ceeded each other in this country sinco
1789. In that year the number of
representatives was 774 nine per de
partment and three extra. Each mem
ber received 18 francs a day, and thus
the Assembly cost 13,832 francs daily,
or 331,968 francs a month for twenty
fonr sittings. The whole cession of
nine months, therefore, required 2,99",
622 francs. In addition, 51,300 francs
was allowed for the Bureau, making a
total of 3,038,922 francs. The members
of the Corps Legislatif, which came
after the Representatives of the People,
had 10,000 francs each per session, with
the obligation of having a carriage for
two legislators. Under the Restoration
the Deputies received no pay. Tho
President alone received 100,000 francs
to meet the expense of receptions.
Under Lonis Philippe the members
did not have anv salary, but the Pres
ident received 120,000 francs. In 1843
the Deputies of thc Second Republic,
who were 900 in number, received 23
francs a day, or 540,000 francs
per month. The session lasted
nino months and cost 4,905,000
francs, including the President and the
Questors. Under the empire, that is to
say from 1852 to 1870, there were 283
Deputies. They received at first 2,000
francs a month during time of the ses
sions. Afterward they had a fixed sal
ary of 12,500 francs. The President of
the Legislative Corps had a fixed allow
ance of 100,000 francs, and 30,000 franca
for coBts of receptions. The sessions
of the second empire absorbed 3,530,
000 francs. In 1871, the Assembly at
Bordeaux was composed of 750 mem
bers, who were paid 750 francs a month,
or 9,000 francs a year. They had their
salaries even during thc months when
they did not sit. The allowance of the
President was reduced at this period to
70,000 francs, and the Questors to 15,
OOOfrancE. Since 187G the Chamber
is composed of 548 members, including
the representatives of the French colo
nies. Each member has a fixed allow
ance of 750 francs a month. The Pres
ident's salary is 70,000 francs, and that
of the Questors 15,000 francs. Inde
pendently of their salaries, these three
functionaries have numerous privileges,
each as lodging, firing, lighting, attend
ance, etc
A HORSE AS WITNESS.
It X Very Important Ktltlrm-e lit a
Tninraore Sitirtlor 4nc.
Tho horse has boon knovn to act
In tho capacity of a detective, ac
cording to the Hostoti Herald. Thus,
In Shelby county, Tenn. a shocking
murder was committed, and the trial
nf tln itiii-lirnt ramc lift" in :t ilis-
V-. ... ...... ..w.w. - --- .
triet which wa$ divided from ono of
another jurisdiction by tho highway ,
on which thc deed was committod.
Tho body was found a few yards
from tho road, from which it had
evidently boon dragged, and tho
doubt arose as to which civil district
the murder had been committed in.
which gave rise to the probsbility
that thc murderer wiuld cseapa con
viction. Several mont!i5 passed away be
fore tho trial wa- commenced, when
ono of tho witnesses, mounted on tho
horso of tho deceased, and accompa
nied by a number of persons, was
riding toward the court house.
When the hors.- reached tho vicinity
of tho scene of the murder he began
Jo shov symptoms of alarm, which
conduct greatly surprised all who
witnessed i!, for the other horses of
tho company betrayed no indications
of fear. As the party proceeded on
ward the agitation of the horse it:
creased, and when he reached a
point in the road opposite where the
body was found his exe'teniont was
so great that he became unmanagea
ble altogether. The gentlemen
present came to a halt and looked on
in perfect astonishment. His llesh
quivered, his nostrils dilated, and.
his eyes glancing into the woods
near by, he stood snorting and neigh
ing, a picture of the wildest excite
m nt.
One of tho gentlemen present, sus
pecting the cau-e of tho horse's
agitation, suggested that he should
have a loose rein, which being
granted, thc noble animal rushed
into the thicket, and coming to a
certain tree commenced pawing at
its roots-. Then making his way
farther into the forest, ho circled
round and returned to thc same spot,
where he stood trembling with agita
tion and pawing until he was vio
lently forced away, and whenever
afterward he passed that same spot
his conduct was invariably the same.
No blood had ccr been seen upon
tho road, and no appearance of any
unusual struggle had ever been dis
covered. If the murder took place,
in the highway, the horse would
have known nothing of the trees in
the neighboring thicket: if it was
committed where the body was found,
then the court had no jurisdic
tion and the murderer would go cot
free.
I'pon tho trial this testimony of
the dumb animal against the prisoner
p oved most startling. His sagacity
was proverbial in thc neighborhood
where he belonged, and his attach
ment to hio master was such that he
followed linn round like a dog. In
unmistakable pantomime he enacted
thc committal of the murder, pictured
thc decoy into the wood, the assas
sin's demand for gold and thc death
struggle under the tree, and thus
the doom of the prisoner was scale I.
At Vet I'olni.
Violet Dowers, being shown thc
pightri Who is that splendid look
ing fellow walking un and down so
proudly with a gun'' Everybody
seems to he admiring him.
radei; Flatbael: That's- Hotspur
walloped a fourth-class man He's
got tt) do sixty hours' extra ;uard
duty and may bo court-martiai d.
And what do you stipposo is tho
matter with this poor fellow com
ing? He looks as if something awful
had hap; ened to him."
No wonder: he's just been re
ported for having a button off tho
tail of his dress coat." Puck.
'1 In- Modern May of I-iulil ins.
Professional Pugilist Did you send
my last challenge to all tho papers?
Secretary Certainly.
"And publish the card calling that
policeman a liar and a coward?"
"Of course."
Anu tell the reporters how I
licked four fellows last night?"'
Yes, sir."
Then I'll get out There's a fel
low coming around who's threat
ened to lick mc, and I don't want to
meet him.''--Texas Siftings.
I The Comini; IliimorWt.
Tohnnie You ought to give mc a
nickel 1 was at the head of my
class ycterdav instead of discour
aging me with that switch.
I Mother I'm glad to hear that you
knew your lesson so well.
j Johnnie We didn't have any les
I sons, because I was the onlone in
, the class All thy lest are at homo
down with the measles. Texas Sift
' ings.
A liricoii Out ll:tt-k.
Cab fares are pretty high these
d:ys."' .-aid. Dawson. "You can't get
1 a cab for less than a dollar wherever
yon want to go.'
I got a haek for fifteen ceutsthis
morninc. said Wit hum p.
Where?"
"At a Sixth avenue barber shop.''
Town Talk.
Tin- Objei-t of rh.irlty.
Tramp, piteous'.y Please help a
poor cripple-
Kind Old fientlcman. handing him
some money Bless me: why, of
course. How are you crippled my
p-ior fellow?
Tramp, pocketing the money Fi
nancially, sir. Truth.
To Hear :t Ttii:iiil-ptrm in the sun.
In a somewlmt spe -illative conclu
sion of a recent paper Mr. Preece
mentioned tho effects of an aurora
on telephone circuits and stated that
it was not a wild dream to say that
we may hear on this earth a thun
derstorm on tho sun.
Answereil.
Wonder I see that Life has started
tho query. "Is there an.-thin that a
rirl won't marry?" Do you think
there is?
Aster Yes. I know it.
What?"
Mc' Texas Siftings.
Modern llrrnitm.
Weary Watkins Say. ley ain't no
real heroes nowadays.
Hungry Hig-fins Dey ain't, eh?
W'y. right here in de paper is a fel
low adveitisin' dat ho ain't afraid of
woric - Texas iftiiii's
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Real i-state Furniture ami Fix
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