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COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1894.
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NEBRASKA NEWS.
Mrs. Addic Julian, wife of Dr. Julian
of Rushvillc, died last week.
A trout weighing six and one-half
pounds was caught in the Long Pine
river.
The till in the depot at Elgin was
broken open and the contents, about
$85, taken.
A local travelingmen's league, auxil
iary to the state league, was organized
in Fremont.
Thieves have been operating at West
Point, carrying off valuable timber in
broad daylight.
The membership of the Nebraska
City club presented company C with a
handsome siik flag.
Work has commenced on Hamilton
county's new court house. The struc
ture is to cost 80,000.
A large acreage of tomatoes is being
raised near Tecumseh for the use of the
canning factory at that place.
A new house belonging to a (icrman
named Mr. Welch was burned down at
Meadow Grove. It was worth about
SWX).
The llurlington and Union Pacific
roads have laid off their yard engines
and switching forces in Beatrice for the
present.
Howard J. Whitraore of Lincoln has
been appointed national bank exam
iner in place of John M. Griffith, re
signed. I). P. Wilcox has retired from the
management of the Aurora Republican
and lias been succeeded by L. W. Hast
ings, the owner.
Two young farmers tried to suppress
the Salvation army in Nebraska City,
but the3' were thrown into the bastile
and each given a fine of S5 and costs.
A party of Omaha Indians passed
through Iteairice the other day. They
had with them over 100 bead of horses
and ponies all in excellent condition.
Unoilicial information reached the
state house last week to the effect that
the sUit sustains a loss of SI, 500 by
the failure of the First National bank
at li rant.
The track of the Hurlington exten
sion from Sheridan to Hillings is being
laid at the rate of one mile per day.
Over sixt3 miles have been already
completed.
At Ponca a boy dropped a cow bell
from the roof of the house of Dr. Devon.
The bell struck the head of the doctor's
t'-y ear-old boy, cutting a deep gash four
inches long.
Christ Nielsen's residence in the
western part of Howard county was en
tirely destroyed bj fire with contents.
Value, $400; insured in the (icrman of
I'rceport f or SU'.IO.
On account of the destruction of crops
by drouth and hot winds, all hogs and
cattle that are in condition for the mar
ket are being shipped out of Hamilton
county as rapidly as possible.
The jury in the case of yilliam Cam
eron, a butcher of North Platte, who
was on trial for cattle rustling, return
ed a verdict of guilty. The case was
desperately fought on both sides.
Prof. I). K. Lillibridge, a man of na
tional reputation, has connected him
self with Prof. V. F. 1'oose, president
of the Omaha, business college. Prof.
L. was formerly with the State uni
versity. A frame barn in the southwest part
of Valley, owned by a Mr. Coles of Cal
ifornia, burned last week. Two hordes
were burned to death and some farm
machinery was destroyed. Loss about
5W).
At Nebraska City shippers aro pay
ing SI per barrel for apples to ship and
are forwarding large quantities of
them. The apple crop promises to be
fine if the dry spell is only broken in a
short time.
In a neighborhood quarrel in Pawnee
county two men were killed and two
seriously wounded. The difficulty grew
out of the trespassing of the hogs of
tie farmer on the farm and fields of
his neighbor.
Hearing the firing of guns, the 10-ycar-old
son of Editor Itackus of the
Dubois Item ran about half a mile out
of town aud becoming overheated soon
after died The guns were being fired
to bring rain.
Butler, Polk, Seward and York coun
ties will hold their tenth annual picnic
at (5. W. Lord's grove in lutlcr county
August '.. Able speakers and od
music, base ball, eta, will be the at
tractive features.
At Elmwood Mrs. A. L. Upham, a
rather heavy and middle aged lady.
was standing on a chair doing some
work and when she went to get down
in some way stepped a little sideways,
breaking her leg.
David Etherton, who was recently
brought back from Kushville, Mo?,
charged with horse stealing in Dodge
county, waived examination and was
bound over to the district court. Being
unable to give bond he was remanded
to jail.
J. D. Harnett, a prosperous farmer
living four miles south of Stanton, lost
his barn, granary, 500 bushels of corn,
several hundred bushels of oats and a
horse by fire. It was caused by a lan
tern exploding. Value, SI, 300; insur
ance, SS50.
Money will never be very plenty in
Nebraska as long as people send all
their money outside the state for their
supplies. Factories are employing labor
and put money in circulation. Far
rell & Co's brand of eyrups, jellies, pre
serves and mince meat; Morse-Coe
boots and shoes for men, women and
children; American Biscuit fc Manufac
turing Co., Omaha, crackers.
The church people of Hastings held
a union meeting to petition for rain.
Frederick Stegelman, a well-to-do
farmer living five miles west of Scrib
ner, died as a result of sunstroke. lie
was out in the harvest field during the
hot winds and was overcome by the
heat and fell unconscious.
The York County Farmers institute,
the largest farmers organization in that
county, will hold its next meeting at
McCool Junction, August 14, in the
Blue Kiver park. The citizens of
McCool are going to make large and
ample preparations for the accommoda
tion of she largest gathering of the
year in York county.
V. G. Lyman of Kearney received a
cablegram from Pekin, China, an
nouncing the death of his brother-in-law.
Rev. Leslie Stevens, formerly pre
siding elder of the Methodist church
for the Kearney district, but who has
been a missionary to China the past
four years.
Lindsay Campbell, S years old, was
drowned in the Elkhoru at Neligli. He
and another boy were bathing a short
distance above the dam, when Lindsay
accidentally got beyond his depth and
sank. Neither of the boys could swim.
The alarm was given and the corpse
was found by Lindsay's older brother,
who dived repeatedly for it.
Rev. W. S. Barnes, who for the past
four years has been pastor of the First
Presbyterian church in Kearney,
preacued his farewell sermon last Sun
day. He goes to Madison, Ind . and
takes with him the best wishes of a
large circle of friends, both out of as
well as in the church.
The closing of the Thayer county
normal last week ended the most suc
cessful session ever held in Thayer
county. The enrollment at the close
was 127. Great credit is due Prof. A.
J. Morris and his assistants.
Alexander Bates, arrested for burg
lary and attempted rape, was bound
over to the district court by Justice
Craven at Valparaiso. Failing to give
bond, he was sent to jail to await the
sitting of court Bates is thought by
some to be crazy.
The corner stone of the new brick
church building of the Christian de
nomination was laid last week at Fair
bury with appropriate ceremony. The
building will be the finest church edi
fice in that city when completed, and
will cost about 810,000.
Oscar Hale and John Conway, the
men charged with the criminal assault
on Miss Minnie Coulton, 10-year-old
daughter of Edward Colton, a farmer
residing near Tecumseh, were released
in Judge Brandon's court, as no case
was made against them.
Gust Sward of Omaha, who was vis
iting friends in Kearney, hired a team
of Webb Bros, and took a drive The
day being excessively hot and the horse
being driven so hard it afterwards died
aud Webb had Sward arrested. He
paid 825 and costs for the rig.
J. W. LaRue, living three miles west
of Steele City, lost two valuable mares,
and on account of the fact that he
killed nine rattlesnakes, one water
snake and one garter snake near to
where the mares died he thinks the
marcs died from snake bites.
At the preliminary examination in
Hyannis of E. E. Catron, charged with
stealing cattle from J. W. Longfellow
& Son, Catron escaped from the sheriff
and although pursuit was given by a
number of persons he succeeded' in
eluding his pursuers. It is said that a
reward will be offered for Catron's
capture.
Sheriff Allen and United States Mar
shal Cable of Springview were in Napier
last week with a warrant for R. I
Crosby of that place and O. V. Kenis
ton and Eugene Maxain, the former a
prominent attorney and the latter tho
chairman of the Butte town board,
who were charged with passing a bogus
check. They were taken to Spring
view. The saddest accident of recent years
in Litchfield occurred last week when
E. S. Greenalgh was drowned in the
mill pond. He had been in town with
a wagon load of hogs and was return
ing home and stopped to take a swim
in company with two others. He let
himself down, as they thought, as
though testing the depth, but he never
came up again, and before he could be
rescued was dead.
Labor Commissioner Erion, in his
forthcoming report, will give figures
relative to the amount of money paid
annually in Nebraska for saloon li
censes, with the estimated receipts of
saloons. From this report it is gath
ered that liquid irrigation costs the
people of Nebraska annually 53,424,000,
which means S3.22 per capita, or more
than three times the cost of running
the ship of state. There are 850 sa
loons in the state.
A fine residence in Pawnee City came
near burning to the ground during the
high wind last week. Mrs. James O.
Laughlin had just lighted the gasoline
stove and was in another part of the
house when, smelling something burn
ing, she ran to the kitchen. The oil
was dripping on the floor and was a
sheeet of llama She hastily carried
the oil tank out of doors and with the
assistance of neighbors subdued the
flames before any serious damage was
done.
All preparations have been made for
the annual encampment of the state
troops, which will occur in the month
of August at Beatrice. The encamp
ment this year will be entirely differ
ent from that of any gathering of the
kind ever held by the state troops.
Within the past eighteen months the
National Guards have been entirely re
organized. Many of the weak com
panies in small towns havo been mus
tered out- and new and stronger com
panies from larger cities added.
J. H. Randall was horribly mangled
and instantly killed at Grand Island
by a Union Pacific engine in charge of
Hostlers Ed Makclcy and Frank Rab
ley. Randall was walking along the
track and stepped in front of the en
gine, intending to cross the track diag
onally. The engine was backing down
at three miles an hour with the bell
ringing and the engineer saw nothing
of the man until he was dead. Ran
dall was a popular young attorney and
went to Grand Island from Omaha,
The committee in charge of the an
nual Grand Army reunion that comes
off at Grand Island the last days of Au
gust is making preparations for the en
tertainment of visitors, and without
any question will be up to the high
standard of former years. Camp Mor
row has been located on the same
grounds as heretofore and is now being
surveyed and the city of tents will soon
be a thing of reality. 1 he dry weather
and partial failure of crops will have
no influence upon the many features of
the reunion.
Assistant Adjutant General Trimble
was able yesterday to display, says the
Lincoln Journal, a beautitul I'nited
States regulation flag designed for use
by Grand Army departments. The
flag was just received by the depart
ment of Nebraska. It is 0x0 1 feet,
with the forty-four stars hand em
broidered, and the material is the best
imported banner silk that could be
bought in New York City. It is hand
somely trimmed and decorated with
gold cord and tassels and is fastened to
a gold-plated, jointed staff, surmounted
with a gold eagle. In addition to the
flag there are two guidons, 10x24
inches, made of blue silk, trimmed
with gold fringe and bearing the
words, 'Nebraska (J. A. R."
The fast freight on the Burlington
was wrecked at Holdrege by a mis
placed switch. George Oyster, the en
gineer, attempted to save himself by
jumping, but was caught and pinned
down by his engine, which toppled
over. He was rescued with difficulty,
and is badly injured. The fireman
jumped, and was but slightly injured
and bruised.
E. G. Burkling, one of the largest
implement dealers in Saunders county,
has failed. The liabilities are in the
neighborhood of 820,000, The assets
will be about 83,000 or 87,000. Mr.
Burkling attributes his failure to the
stringency of the times
Portions of Gage county were vis
ited with a magnificent rain last week,
which continued for three hours. The
precipitation was about three-fourths
of an inch. The corn, which was seri
ously suffering for rain, is wonderfully
benefited by the copious rainfall. The
rain was general throughout central
Gage couty, and has greatly revived
the hopes of the farmers.
The fast mail, west-bound, ran into
a freight train on the side track in the
Union Pacific yards at Columbus, the
tender of the mail train engine pene
trating the forward mail car and kill
ing an unknown tramp. There was no
serious injury to any other person,
AWIT0F
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CLOTHING
ONE morning in
Jtinn Aurrustus
Bunker received a
letter. It is not
such a very unus
ual circumstance,
in these days df
cheap postage, for
an individual to
receive a letter,
that we have seen
fit to chronicle it,
but by that letter
hangs a talc. It
came from Mr. Bunker's Aunt Mercy,
who resided in the little suburban
village of Tremont, We will look
over cur hero's shoulder while he
reads it a very impolite proceeding,
but the only one which will give us a
knowledge of the contents:
Dear Augustus As warm weather is at
baud, and tho city must be very hot and un
comfortable, I write to you to come out and
pass a few weeks with us at Tremont There
Is rood flshlnz in the vicinity, and finer walks
are not to be found anywhere than our city
can boast. Also there are a host of pretty
younx ladles here, which is no small recom
mendation, I take it My husband's niece
Miss Helen Browne a charming young girl, U
spending the summer with us, so you will not
be lonely. Please let us see you early next
week as possible. Your affectionate aunt,
"MEitcr Converse."
Augustus read the letter, and tossed
up his hat The very thing! He had
just been wondering where he should
go to rusticate.
Would he go? To be sure. Helen
Browne a pretty name the first of
it. and as for the family title it had
been borne, and was still borne, by a
great many respectable people. And
spelled with a final e it looked very
well written, but wnat mattered it,
any way? it could be safely merged in
the name of Bunker, and who would
be the wiser?
Tremont must be a paradise. And
he had heard his mother say that
Aunt Mercy was the very princess of
good cooks. And good cooking was
not to be despised by a fellow who
passed his life in a third-rate boarding-house,
where fried mackerel was
a treat, and boiled onions a luxury.
Those fine walks? He could explore
them with Helen. That capital fish
ing? He wondered if Helen could put
a worm on a hook without squirming.
Wouldn't it all be glorious? glori
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Suddenly his castles fell.
Jon.es and Smith were making him a
suit of clothes, and it was three weeks
yet to the timo they had promised
they should be finished; and Jones
and Smith, though excellent work
men, could not always keep their en
gagements. Augustus remembered
with a shudder that it had been just
nine months and three days after they
had promised to finish the last suit
they had got up for him, that they
were finished.
"Well, well,'1 remarked Augustus,"
"deuce take the tailors, and deuce
take the clothes! And I've not
a thing to wear this melt
ing weather. I can sympa
thize with Miss Flora McFlimsey.
But there are ready made clothing
establishments. Jenkins patronizes
them, and it's a pity if they can fit
Jenkins, they can't fit me!"
So that very afternoon Augustus
called upon Messrs. Pinch and Pullem
and looked at their wares. Their
stock looked well there was no gain
saying that, and Mr. Pinch warranted
the sewing to outlast the cloth.
Augustus tried on a pair of lilac-colored
pantaloons.
"Seems to me they ore a little
tight," he remarked to Mr. Pinch.
"Splendid fit, sir, splendid!" return
ed that enthusiastic gentleman.
"Look as if they growed on you! Not
a wrinkle, sir! and, by Jove! not a
single baggy look about them any
where! And they'll stretch, sir,
AND HE WENT IX.
stretch to your form those Scotch
cloths always do! Only piece of the
kind in America! Imported it myself,
sir! Splendid fit! I declare, sir, I
couldn't have done better if I had ta
ken your measure."
So the pantaloons were purchased.
Next came thfe coat Army blue
Augustus could wear nothing else.
He was patriotic to the backbone no
youag man had done more for his
country than he had. He had given
ten cents weekly to the soldiers' aid
society; purchased 82 worth of pin
cushions and watch-cases of the pret
ty girls at the sanitary fair and then
he had cheerfully yielded up his
cousins, and his uncles, and his next
door neighbors' sons, to help fight the
battles of his country and he had
been heard to declare, on several oc
casions, that he was ready to if he
could leave his business and they
called for him, but as he never went,
we must conclude that the army was
so full that they did not want him.
The suit was purchased, and three
days afterward Augustus, clad in the
new clothes, "might have been seen"
in the cars en route for Tremont He
had a silk umbrella to protect his
beaver if it rained, and a valise con
taining the proverbial change of linen.
Tremont was reached just before
nightfall, and at the depot he found
his Uncle Jack and a young lady
awaiting him.
Shades of Venus! That young lady
was the fairest feminine creature he
had ever seen. Her waterfall and
round-top hat were magnificent! And
her face was such a concentration of
roses and lilies and violets, and all
set in the gilt frame of golden hair
why, Augustus' head whirled and he
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felt weak in the knees, like one who
has taken a dose of tarjtar emetic.
He rode to his Aunt Mercy's beside
Helen, feeling very much like one in a
blissful dream. Like the boy we have
all heard of he didn't caro whether
school kept or not
Helen had such a voice and such a
hand and wore such charming bat
moral boots, laced with scarlet
Aunt Mercy was a real princess a
fairy god mother fully equal to Cin
dereUa's,he thought, and he gave the
old lady such a hug round the heck
that her. Collar-bone felt twisted fof
two hours afterward.
For three whole days matte rs went
on swimmingly. Helen and Augustus
walked, and rode, and played chess,
and wound stocking yarn for Aunt
Mercy, and pulled the cat's ears,
after the manner of young people
from time immemorial.
Of course Augustus fell in love, and
of course Helen thought him a little
the nicest young mail she had seen;
and Uncle Jack and Aunt 'Mercy
looked on approvingly.
On the fourth day of his stay thero
was a picnic in Maple Elm, a lovely
grove by the side of Swift river.
Augustus drove Helen over. Ho
looked at her pink cheeks and at the
pink ribbons in her hat, and
at her braided skirt over
which her buff chambray dress
was looped and his resolution
was taken. Before they returned
home, he meant to know his fate. In
consequence of making this decision
he was nervous all the morning. He
tied his horse by the handle of a din
ner basket, put the blanket over a
stump instead of over Dobbin, and
said j-es, sir, to Helen whenever she
addressed him.
But a man who is conscious of
standing upon the brink of fate may
be excused for making mistakes in
gender.
Augustus and Helen sat down a lit
tle apart from the others on a mossy
hillock close by the bank of the
river. The young man touched her
hand, which lay on her lap.
"My dear Helen," ho began, "it 1b
needless to disguise the truth! Con
cealments are " he had proceeded
thus far when a gust of wind lifted
Helen's hat, with the pink ribbons,
and sent it dancing off in the direction
of the river.
Augustus sprang up suddenly and
gave chase. He thought he heard a
strange sound, but he was too intent
in saving the hat to stop for mere
sounds. He stooped and caught it
just as it was going over the bank,
and began to retrace his steps.
"Oh, Mr. Bunker!" cried Miss Mer
rill the most delicately modest of all
old maids, and a little near-sighted
"You aro losing your pocket-handkerchief!
Goodness gracious!" cried she,
taking a better look; "it is 'not a
pocket-handkerchief! Oh, my soul
and body!"
Augustus looked at himself and felt
inclined to say oh, my soul and body!
himself for he came to the knowl
edge with one glance, th-it those
pantaloons which were such "a splen
did fit," had burst up like the boiler
of a Mississippi steamboat, and his red
flannel drawers wera striping him off
like the red paint on a barber's pole.
"The d dickens!" cried he, tak
ing a step backward, with some sort
of a vague idea of escaping some
where. That step was fatal he was
so near the brink of the river that
nothing could save him, so he went
in. Fortunately he could swim, and
not stopping to deliberate he made
for the opposite bank, which he
reached in safety. He looked back
and oh, horrible! There on the oppo
site shore stood Helen, and three or
four other girls and they were all
giggling.
This was a drop too much. Return
he could not, and at the top of his
speed he made for the woods. Toward
night he came UDon an old farmhouse,
and to the mistress he related his
melancholy adventures, and received
from her a loan of her "old man's"
bark-colored unwhisperables in which
to return to the city.
Augustus received a letter of con
dolence from his Aunt Mercy, and
Helen sent her love, and hoped he
would come to Tremont in season for
the blueberries but Augustus gave
vent to a hard word that looks bad on
paper, and burnt the letter.
A year afterwards he married a
red-haired widow with five children
and it is our opinion that the present
Mrs. Bunker owes her position en
tirely to a suit of ready made clothing.
Caue of tho Volcanoes on tho Moon.
The best existing map of the
moon's surface, one devoted o pe
cially to the mountainous regions,
shows 132, 856 crater-shaped projec
tions, of which number upwards of
100,003 may be seen by aid of a tele
scope of only medium power. The
origin of these craters has been tho
subject of much discussion of late
among- the astronomers, it being the
opinion of many eminent authorities
that they were caused by tho lunar
surface (probably at a time when it
was in a plastic state) being bom
barded with aerolites or meteorites.
Dr. Gilbert was the first geologist of
high standing to favor this curious
opinion basing the idea on tho fact
that one of the craters in Arizona
was actually formed by the falling of
such a stone from the heavens.
Lion anl Ifnriie.
If a lion and a strong horse were
to pull in opposite directions the
horse would pull the lion backward
with comparative ease; but if the
lion were hitched behind the horo
and facing in the same direction, and
were allowed to exert its strength in
backing, he would easily pull the
horse down upon his haunches or
drag him acro-s tho ring, so much
greater is his strength when exerted
backward from the hind legs than in
forward pulling. Chicago Journal.
He Nreil Not Do i pair.
George, in despair I must be an
idiot I don't seem to be able to
find any suitable vocation.
Mabel, tearfully Never mind,
George. If worst comes to worst you
can become a diplomatist Chicago
Record.
A Universal Failing.
What's old Swizzles, the million
aire, looking so pleased about? He
just lost $10,00) in stocks."
Yes. but afterward he managed
to get a free tick t to a seventy-five
cent show." Chicago Record.
OWES MOST TO TH6 DUTCH.
Few of New England'! Culinary Idea
Can Be Traced to Old England.
Even in Connecticut was the skill
of, the Knickerbockers admired, says
Harper's Magazine. A new inven
tion or improvement was said to
"beat the Dutch." Tho Delft tiles
on tho hearth, tho crockery on tho
dresser, the blue tiles lining tho
front of the fireplaces ia the best
houses show haw the Dutch had a
part in the evolution ot thd New
England house, hundreds of open
fireplaces in New England were dec
orated with these tiles after the
Dutch fashion, arid contained not
only "proverbs ill pdt'celaiH," but
abundant biblical illustration. From
the evidences of relics, nearly as
much of tho imported fine furniture
in the northern colonies camo from
Holland as from England. Not a fow of
the old teapots and other table
service, which followed upon the
introduction of those di-iuiltal drinks
which drove out bear and tankard?,
did indeed coma over from Holland,
though not irt the Mayflower, as so
often anachronistical ly alleged: When,
too, tho Ofen fireplaco gradually
gave way to supposed improvements,
it was to a Dutch thing with a Dutch
name -tho stove. Not only in Ply
mouth, but olsewhero, numerous
houses had what can occasionally bo
seen throughout .New England to
day (nor do wo mean by this tho
latter substitute of tin) a Dutch
oven. It was under this spacious
dome of brick and clay that those
famous articles of yankeo diet, the
pumpkin pie, brown bread, baked
beans and fish balls had their.evolu
Hon. No smoker of tobacco in tho snow
white meerschaum rejoiced moi'o in
his coloring of the sea-foam clay
than did the rosy housewives of
Massachusetts bay in tho rich hues
of bean, bread and fish. Tho Brown
ing clubs of early days met in tho
kitchen rather than in the parlor or
vcndoine. Tho doughnut may havo
been too cosmopolitan an articlo to
claim invention at tho hands of any
one people; yet what yankeo "fried
cake" or doughnut ever equaled an
olekoek? Was not cruller, whoso
derivation confounds tho dictionary
inakers, who call it "a kind of"
doughnut, first brought to perfection
by Captain Kroll (pronounced and
sometimes spelled crull), the
whilom commander and Dutch church
elder at Fort Orange? To this day
tho "cookoy" (koekjc), noodles,
hodgepodge, stnearcase, rullichie),
cold slaw, and other dishes that sur
vive in New England farmhouses are,
despite their changed pronunciation
and spelling, proofs that tho yankcea
enriched their monotonous menu of
early colonial days by borrowing tho
moro varied faro of their Dutch
neighbors in tho West and South.
As for the popular American winter
breakfast luxury, tho buckwheat
cake, it was introduced from Central
Asia by the Hollanders, acclimated,
cultivated, named becchmast"
(bockweit). and in tho form asso
ciated with heat, sweets, aroma and
good-cheer is a Dutch invention.
BRAVE BOSSY.
The Co iv Saved Her Calf by Whipping a
Grizzly Bear.
"Usually a cow doos not stand
much chance when sho engages in a
hand-to-hand contlict with a grizzly
boar,1' said Michael Ayers. a Colo
rado stockman, "but several years
ago one of my cows killed ono of
these animals and came out of tho
struggle without a scratch. The
cow had recently given birth to a
calf. It being her first-born the
mother was exceedingly vicious, and
it was unsafo for a stranger to ap
proach her, as her horns were long
and pointed. The cattle-shed had a
thatched roof, and was scooped out
of the hillside a short distanco from
tho house.
Ono night a bear, having smelt
tho presence of a cow and calf,
mounted the roof of tho shed and
proceeded to force an entrance by
scratching through the thatch. Tho
cow at the same timo detected tho
presenco of tho bear, and hold her
self in readiness to receive the in
truder. Tho noise of a terrible strug
gle aroused me, and grabbing a lan
tern I rushed from the house, and
on opening the shed door, found the
cow in a frantic state, butting and
tossing to and fro some large object
which ovidently had lost all power
of resistance. It turned out to be a
good-sized grizzly, which had been
run through and through the body
by the courageous mother. The
little calf was nestled in a corner,
sleeping peacefully, and seemed un
mindful of the maternal struggle. I
suppose that as soon as tho bear
gained an entrance through the roof
it was pinned to tho ground by tno
cow's horn before it had time to do
any damage.
Sel'.ln; HU Epaulets.
A lieutenant in the reserve of the
Italian army and a resident of Genoa
was recently discharged on account
of his socialistic tendencies. In a
letter addressed to the paper Era
Nuova, ho has offered his epaulets to
the fund of propaganda for tho so
cialist cause. These ensigns of his
grade will be sold at public auction,
upon a first bid of 35 lires. or $7, at
which price a jeweler offered to buy
the epaulets.
Meat-Eater ThU Time.
There was great joy among the
vegetarians in Germany last year
over the fact that a vegetarian won
the annual walking match from Ber
lin to Eriedrichsruhe. The same veg
etarian pedestrian was in the race
this year, and it was generally ex
pected that he would win the match
again, but he was badly beaten by a
meat-eater."
Rather Topbeavr.
Boy That toy boat you sold me is
no good.
Dealer What's wrong with it?
Boy It won't 6tand up. Flops
right over as quick as I put it in tho
water. Guess you think I wanted it
for a man-of-war.
The Poetry of It
She I'd rather be a poet
than
anything in the world.
Poet You might be the next
thing to one.
She Oh, tell me how.
The Poet By becoming Mrs. Poet
(He get her. )
DOWN IN THE SHAFT.
SWAHM9 OF RATTLESNAKES
IN A DESERTED MINE.
He Was Hard Up, so lis Took the Job
of Cleaning Them Out for Ono Hun
dred Dollars Wouldn't Care to Repott
the Experience at Higher Rates.
"I earned $109 onco in loss than
two hours working in a mi no," said
Charies Campbell, a compositor,
but I had to kill 126 rattlesnakes to
do it I wouldn't do tho job otror
again for less than $1 per snake. I
Was in hard luck on tho coast, and
happened to drift into tho fino gold
district of tho San Joaquin, where
a company was working the White
Quartz mine. At the timo I dropped
in on 'em thoy found that thoy had
to bring back into tho sorvico again
a shaft that had been abandoned sev
eral yoars before. The shaft was SO
feet deep, and there was a tunnel at
tho bottom of the samo length.
Through long disuso tho shaft
had become choked with debris at
the mouth of the tunnel, and it had
to bo cleaned out before tho shaft
could be used again.
"The very day I got thero tho
company had sent two workmon
down tho shaft to dig out tho debris,
but they had hardly landed at tho
1m ttom beforo thev signaled frantic
ally to bo hauled up. When tho
bucket got to tho top tho two men
woro cowering in tho bottom of tho
bucket, palo as ghosts, and so nearly
scared to death that they had to bo
helped out It was some timo be
foro thoy woro able to give any ex
planation. Rattlesnakes was what ailed
thent Tho shaft, they said, was
full of rattlesnakes, lying about
everywhere, big and ugly. They
were so thick, they declared, that
the noiso of thoir rattles in the
depths of the shaft, when tho men
disturbed the colony, almost made
them deuf. Tho men had not dared
step from tho tub. but had signaled
hastily to bo raised to tho surface.
"A lantern lowered to tho bottom
of the shaft showed that tho men
know what thoy wcro talking about.
Tho depths woro literally alive with
big rattlers, and they writhed and
tumbled about, furious at tho intru
sion of the light among them. Somo
of the savage old chaps struck their
fanjjs against the glass of the lan
tern, so that wo could hear the sound
of tho contact whero wo stoo.l gazing
down on tho cheerful sight from the
mouth of the shaft, and tho noise of
tho licrco chorus of rattles was liko
the rasping of a field full of
locusts. The sight and sound mado
lne homesick. I haven't seen or
heard anything liko that for years
not since I loft my nativo place in
the big coon country, Tonncsscc.
"That rattlesnako music at tho
bottom of the mine shaft "way out on
the Pacific coast made me homesick.
I began to pine for the big coon
country, but I hadn't a cent. If I
hadn't been so homesick I don't ba
licvo I'd havo jumped at tho oiTer
the superintendent of tho mino mado
after he found there was no other
way to get those rattlers out of that
shaft.
1 will givo 100 in gold,' ho
said. to any ono who will clean out
them snakes'.'
"I stopped to tho front.
"Make it $10) in gold and a quart
of whisky and I'll go you!" said I.
"He added the whisk and wo
closed the deal right there. I bor
rowed a pair of buckskin leggings
and a pair of buckskin gloves Arm
ing myself with a long club and the
bottle of whisky, and taking a lan
tern, I jumped into tho tub and they
lowered me to tho bottom of tho
shaft I hadn't intended to be hoist
ed until I had bagged all tho rat
tlers in sight Hut, after threshing
away for twenty minutes at the
snakes as they hurried away to hid
ing places or showed fight, and kill
ing all that I could get my club on,
the poisonous odor that exudes from
these deadly reptiles when they aro
angered was too much for me. Kven
Pacific coast whisky couldn't coun
teract it. and I felt myself growing
dizzy and faint.
1 had thrown into the tub the
rattles I had killed, and was gotting
into it myself to signal for a hoist
before I succumbed to the noxious
rattlesnake air I was breathing,
when, in a niche in ono sido of tho
shaft, even with my shoulder, not a
foot and a half away from my throat
I caught sight of a big rattler coilcJ
and ready to strike.
Mejhanically I threw my head
and shoulders back, just as the snako
launched his big. arrow-like head at
my throat. That movement of mino
saved me. The rattler's aim fell
short His fangs were buried in the
collar of my coat, an inch from my
jugular. I instantly clutched the
reptile with one hand around its
neck, and with the other, as I tum
bled unconscious into the tub. I
pulled the rope.
"I did not know when I reached
the top, but the superinten lent told
me when I came to thai when the
men who were at the windlass saw
me in the tub and what I was bring
ing up with me, they dropped the
crank and ran. But for the fortu
nate presence of a stalwart Mexican
(a giant miner named Valarez who
caught the crank as it came around
, and held it. I would have gone
i plunging back to the bottom of the
! shaft, and my fate would not have
been pleasant
And I can't say that I blame the
men much who were manning that
windlass. Lying in the bottom of
the tub. apparently deal. I was still
clutching the big rattler by the
throat, his fangs almost in mine. and
lying about m were twenty-seven
enormous and hideous looking rat
tlers, victims of my club. Seems to
me I'd have dropped something my
self and ran if I had seen such a
sight as that coming up out of tho
dark depths of a mine shaft
I revived in a few minutes, and
was soon feeling in shape to go down
and finish my contract I don't
know how I could have done it, but
in the twenty minutes I was in the
shaft I had drank half of the quart
of whisky. I remained in the bot
tom forty-five minutes that trip, and
I brought out fifty-seven dead rat
tlers to the surface. I had to chase
some of them into the sloping tun
nel. I hal absorbed the remainder
of the whisky, and when I made my
third trip ton rainut09 after I cam
up, I took down another pint I
was down just forty-livo minutes. I
garnered forty-eight rattlers, anil
finished tho third pint of whisky.
"If thero was another snako loft
in tho shaft or tunnel I could not
find it, and the superintendent hand
ed mo over fivo twenty-dollar gold
pieces.
VENICE BUILT IN A SWAMP.
Tho City Founded a Refus From
Savage Northern Invader.
Tho city of Venice is approached
from behind by a railroad construct
ed over a stretch of swamp which
is not vory unliko tho near ap
proach to sovcral Now Jersey
coast towns. Thero is a tritlo moro
water and not so much grass, but
according to a writor in tho Phila
delphia Telegraph, tho rido into tho
city is anything but a subject for a
chapter of fino romanco. Out be
yond this swamp was another swamp
which was a little higher. It had
been out of tho water longer, and
had caught enough of seawoed.sand,
shells and sodiment to bo lit for birds
to nest on. 'Ihero was ono island
called the Kialto, which was really
quito securo, and around this ono
thero was said to bo about soventy
fivo or eighty other islands, which
to-day nro occupied by tho city of
Venice. Somo of theso were origin
ally not islands at all. They woro
mero high places in a groat
bog, which, by tho cutting of
channels and by artificial means,
were convertod into moro or
loss fit places for the orection of
buildings. Without consulting his
tory, ono could almost guess that
such an unfavorable spot as this was
not selected as tho sito for a city
out of freo choice; and, indeed, it
was not. Venico was started during
tho fifth and sixth centuries. Tho
inhabitants of Padua aud a few more
north Roman cities, chased out by
tho Huns, tho Goths and othor
trfbes of barbarians, took refugo
thero in an Adriatic lagoon- Tho
savages of Asia had no boats, so
that the settlement was very safe,
and. leading an independent life,
prospered by itself during tho mid
dlo ages at a surprising rate. It
was a monstrous work to mako tho
city secure from the sea. Ship
loads of stone woro brought from
other coasts. Dams and canals woro
built at great cost, and the residonts
finally got enough of dry land about
them to feel modoratcly safe. It
was still, however, a difficult thing
to find foundations for tho houses,
especially as many of tho rich mon
desired to put up heavy marblo pal
aces, and it frequently costs moro in
Venice to-day to sink tho rocks and
piles for a house than it doos to put
on the superstructure. Few cities
have ovor been built under greater
difficulties.
Shells Still Servn as Moner.
A small part of tho commerce of
tho world is still carried on by tho
use of shells as a medium of ex
change. Tho Portuguese found this
sort of money in use by the natives
of tho eastern coast of Africa when
they opened up trado in that region
and havo found it to their advantage
to continuo tho practice. Fortunes
aro said to havo been mado by col
lecting tho shells on one part of tho
African coast and putting them in
circulation at a point only a fow
hundred miles away. Theso shells
aro sold by weight Tho price varies
according as tho supply compares
with the demand. Prices have been
known to double and even treblo
within a few months. Tho prices
also vary greatly within short dis
tances. What has cost the merchant
from fifty cents to $1 in the market
will often bring him $7 or $3 worth
of goods.
A DiftVrenca of View.
I am almost afraid. Miss Squeers,
said tho impecunious young man who
had taken her to an after-theater
supper, for which he had been hoard
ing money for months, "I am almost
afraid to ask you to eat such a meal
as this just before going to bed."
"Oh, never mind," answered Miss
Squccrs. smiling pleasantly. "If it
doesn't answer we can easily order
some more, you know." Chicago
Kecord.
Colors.
Kcd denotes courage; blue, truth,
white, purity; green, jealousy, yel
low, inconstancy: black, mourning;
brown, melancholy; gray, remom
branco; violet, sympathy.
Tnennionla in ValparaiKO.
Nearly ono-lifth of the deaths in
Valparaiso are from pneumonia. In
Itombay the deaths from the same
disease a-c in the ratio of only
twenty-six in 10,0 J?.
JESTS AND JOKELETS.
liaenn They say .Mrs. Shrew's mind
is all gone. Egbert I'm not surprised.
She used to give her husband apiece
of it every day.
"ISrifkins has graduated from the
law school, hasn't he? ' "Yes." "Prac
ticing?" "Not yet He's looking for
somebody to practice on."
Ethel Was the wedding a very
brilliant one? Gladys Oh, very.
They had to employ four detectives to
watch the wedding presents.
Jiubje If I let you off this time,
will you promise not to come bae'e
here again? Prisoner Yes, sir. The
fact is, I didn't come voluntarily this
time.
.Mr?. Slimdict Why do you bring
the dog into the house? Cook Please,
mum. the boarders always inquire
after him w'en there is sausage fer
breakfast
"Aw, Uimkins is socially ostra
cised." "Yes." "Completely an out
cast" "Completely. His social status
is so low that he couldn't even lend
money to a titled foreigner."
"Fitzgoober's wife leads him a ter
rible life; she's constantly quarreling
with him." "Indeed; why I didn't
think she ever lost her temper." "She
don't; it is always with her."
"You spoke to them in French, I
noticed. Why was that?" "I wanted
to discover if he was an American."
"And he was?" "Of course, or he'd
never have understood my French."
"Gotrox has sent that wooden
headed son of his on an ocean voyage.
I wonder what for?" "I understand
somuli dy told him if there wa any
thing in the boy th sea would bring
it out."
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Paid in Capital, - 90,000
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OFFICERS.
O. H. SHELDON, Pres't.
H. P. II. OEIILRICII. Vice Pres.
CLARK GRAY. Cashlor.
DANIEL SOURAM. Ass't Cash
DIRECTORS.
n. M. WlTf stow. II. P. 1 1 . Okbtrich.
C. II. SnKLDOW, W. A. McAllister,
Jo5as Welch. Carl Rikmck.
STOCKHOLDERS.
9. 0. Ghat. J. Hesry Wcrdema?,
Gerhard Losses, IIenrt Loseke.
Clark Grat. Geo. W. Gallet.
Daniel Sen ram, A. F. II. OEHLmcn.
Frahk Borer. J. P. Becker Estate,
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Bank of rtepostt; Interest allowed on titn
deposits; buy and sell exchange on UhlteU
States and Europe, and buy and soil avail
able securities. We shall bo pleased to re
ceive your business. Wo solicit your pat
ronago. THE
First National Bank
OFFICERS.
A. ANDERSON, J. n. GALLEY,
President. VIc Pros'U
O. T. ROEN. Cashier.
DIRECTORS.
.lfctMo. r P. ANDERSON.
JACOB OBBIBXN. HENRI BAOATZ,
JA9U1 aTBBBDSB.
StateMcHt f the Cemiitloa at the Close
r Basiaegg Jalj 12 1893.
resources.
Loans and Discounts f 241.407 5?
Real Estate Furniture and Fix-
turea 16.781 jo
U.S.Bond!- 15,3.10 0)
Due from other banks 137.878 It
Cash on Hand 21.8C7 58 59.. 43 89
Total 1333.198 38
LIABILITIES.
Capital Stock paid la 60.000 00
Surplus Fund 30.000 01
Undivided profits 4.576 00
Circulation 13.500 W
Deposits.... .................... ....... 225,119 37
Total .1333,190 38
HENRY GASS,
UNDERTAKER !
Coffins : and : Metallic : Cases !
EJ" Repairing of all kinds of Uphol
ttery Goods.
Ltf COLUMBUS. NEBRASKA.
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is preparfd to rcBNisn anything
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COUNTRY.