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VOLUME XXV.-NUMBER 21.
COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER b, 1894.
WHOLE NUMBER 1,269.
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NEBRASKA NEWS
A. Tj. Shaffer has started the thin
daily paper at york.
Humboldt will soon vote on a 512,000
waterworks proposition.
Ames is to have- a new school house.
Jt will be built this fall.
A stock thief recently stole 2."i0 ho,rs
from the yard of Jlobert Lucas near
loster.
T.jghtninfr killed a span of mules for
Tohn Williams of Imperial, Chase
county.
Lexington has voted bonds for the
construction of a ditch that will irri
gate OT,000 acres of land.
A fifteen-year-old boy named Athens,
at Cellar II lull's, has been arrested and
under $TS 30 bonds for stealing a Horse.
The annual meeting of the old set
tlers' asK'iation of Dodge county will
be held on the I'remont Chautauqua
grounds, September .
A fund of S5,.i00 was raised in the
city and county of York for the benefit
of the York college. It is now strong
er financially than ever before.
"Isaac Sch rock, a man nearly c0 years
old, a passenger on the cast bound 15ur
limjtou 1lyer, feil from the train near
Trenton and received fatal injuries.
A convention of spiritualists is called
to meet in Lincoln on I-Yiday, Septem
ber 7. All spiritualists .and liberal
minded people are invited to attend.
York college will open September 1 1,
under the direction of Kev.W. S. Kce.se,
111. AL. president. The former faculty
is retained in the main. The outlook
is very encouraging.
May Wales, the I t-year-old son of Kli
Ic, of Aurora, fell fourteen feet
uul of a tree and broke three ribs and
was badly injured internally. It is
thought he a-v ill recover.
";. T. Little and family, near Allison,
sutTered a severe loss hy lire. While
visiting away from home their house
ct . lire and was destroyed, to
gether with its contents.
Columbus is overrun with thicvesand
thugs. io less than twelve petty rob
beries were reported in one day. 1'ive
thugs bioi.c out of the city jail. I 'art
of the gang was recaptured.
Clarence, the Is-y ear-old son of 1'. 1).
Alcn.ie. near ItromtieM. was so badly
cut up by a steel corn fodder cutter
that it is doubtful if he will rocotcr.
He was cut ami bruised in a do.en pla
ces un his body.
The governor has notified the dele
gates appointed to attend the farmers'
congress in Js'.t:; that they have been
reappointed to attend the session of the
congress to be held at l'.irkcrsburg,
W. Va., on October .'!.
A pastor of one of the churches at
Weeping Water collected a big box of
clothing and sent it to a family in the
mountains of Colorado who had been
rendered destitute by a lire that burn
ed their residence and contents.
The new postollice building in l"re
lnout is rapidly Hearing completion.
The windows ami doors have been put
in and the interior oflice fixtures are
being put in this week Workmen have
started to put down the cement walk.
Marry Cordon, a 3'oung lad living in
Pawnee City, was driving a machine
for cutting corn, when the team be
came unmanageable and kicked him ofi
the cutter, lie narrowly escaped death
and it will be some time before he is
able to be aiound.
lack Mclcnie. a farmer living near
Stanton, was held up on his way home
from Norfolk and robbed of St0. the
pioceeds of his wheat crop. In the
tight to save his money he was slashed
with a knife anil only gave up his wad
at flic threat of a bullet.
" Samuel Vincent, Prank llurke and
t ha Jes I'rcwor. charged with stealing
eight head of hogs from the farmer on
Ccncral Van WcVs place, were ghen
n preliminary hearing and were bound
over to the district court. In default
of S'''0l bail they were sent to jail.
KluMiec- Lawrence of Hastings was
"bound over to the district court in the
sum of 100 bail, which he could not
furnish. Lawrence was driving a milk
wagon and eloped one morning with all
his employer's spare change he could
secure. He was captured in Michigan.
A good-sicd row is on letween the
Thurston Kitles ami the Omaha Cuaids
as to which should have the governor's
cup. awarded at the state military en
campment at Lincoln last week. The
guards hold the mug but the nlles have
filed a protest and propose to tight it
out.
For the first time in three years the
canning factory at Falls City is run
ning It is operated by Anderson X
Son of Oregon, Mo. Two hundred
acres of tomatoes were planted last
spring, but owing to the drouth the
output of the factory will be curtailed
one-half.
Mr. Tassler, an old gentleman living
four miles from tchi-on, went to
town to get a buggy repaired He had
hitched up and laid down the lines
when the team started. He sprang
for the lines and got into a wheel. The
ho:se! ran and he was carried several
ro, it) inc wneei. nc was picueit up
field.
The Western Ncrmal college. Lin
coln, Nebraska, has had a wonderfully
prosperous year. The next term com
mences Tuesday, September -1th. and
already promises to be very largely at
tended. The cause of the great popu
larity of this school is it is one of the
best in the country and its rates are in
accordance with the times. This is the
year to go to school, and there is no
better place than the Western Normal
college. Circulars free Address Win
MeCowan. president, Lincoln. Neb.
The Webster Countv Agricultural so
ciety is making the bicy.le la -is a spe
cial feature-of the fair to be held at
lied Cloud September .1. . and 7. On
these dates SC00 to gl.OK) in p-etiiiuiiis
will be distributed among tne wheel
men of the southwestern pjrt'on of the
state.
Nchawkawas considerably stirred up '
the other day by the arrest of oie of
its citi'-ens for the alleged soil ng of
spirituous drinks without a license. I
Deputv Hubbard, who made the arrest,
also subptcnaed a number of witnesses.
No one knew anything of such offense '
having been committed, and the mat- '
ter was dismissed
The camp meeting of the order called '
"The Church of the Living dod" have
disbanded and returned to their homes i
after an encampment of ten days, in
Nemaha county They profess to have
the power of healing ami sanctitication
in their own hands. A lout 101 people j
were prcsem.
Captain Kent, one of the oh'cst of
Omaha's old-timers, was taken to the
assylum last week by Sheriff Prexel'.
having been adjudged insane. ( amain
Kent was the original founder of v oni t
land Itcach. It has been the captain's
uuiisiuu niai uc una au in-iiii oiiiu, i
to which he has fallen heir, wotth bill- !
ions on billions of dollars. j
The school linnni of Osmni'il line I
awarded to the United States School
ami rurnuure company ot L;uc:.gotlie I
contract to put the seats in the -chool j
house, and !. L. Nesbit of Fiemont'
'-:".- . has secured the contract for pun ing in !
the furniture. 1hc seating an I heat-
tog aparnt'.n will rst SI, .'),
S? ? "si f
armer Alex Coleman, near Aurora,
while the household was absent and
stole three watches, a lot of jewelry
and SS5 in currency.
The Lincoln Journal says that the
managers of the state fair are prepar
ing for the greatest exhibit in many
) lines that the state has ever witnessed.
The irrigated counties are coming
down with whole train loads of stuff,
and the other counties will try to
match them with some of the most re
markable dry weather products ever
grown.
August Lcssig, of Merrick county,
assaulted his step-daughter and was ar
rested. His wife agreed to withdraw
tne charges against him, but the girl
refused to do so. He drew a revolver
and began target practice on the girl
and his wife. The wife is shot proba
bly fatally. He tried to kill hiuiBelf
but failed. He fled to Hull county and
was captured.
The Russian thistle has made its a
pearance in Platte county. Several
large specimens have been found and
brought in and exhibited. They were
found by the roadside, where they were
passed and repassed daily by hundreds
of country folk, who doubtless thought
them the harmless tumblewced. So
far nothing has been found east of the
sixth principal meridian.
The tenth annual convention of the
Woman's Christian Temperance union
of the Sixth district met at York for a
session of three days. Mrs M. .1. Cool
cy of Lincoln addressed the convention
the first evening. The music of the
afternoon and evening sessions was
under the management of Prof. .T. A.
Parks. The district embraces Hamil
ton, Seward, Polk and York counties.
The sad news was received last Fri
day evening, says the Columbus Argus,
of the death of Michael Hogan, an old
resident of Platte county, living a few
miles north of the city. About ."i o'clock
Friday, Mr. Hogan started for the field
with a shotgun in his hand. In climb
ing through a wire fence the gun was
accidentally discharged, the whole
load of shot entering his body below
the chest, killing him instantly.
.lames Fitgcrald, the night opera
tor at the Missouri Pacific depot in
Falls City, had an experience with
tramps late the other night. He went
into the waiting room to put out the
light, when he was assaulted by two
men who had been sleeping there. He
I made a good light until one of them
gave him a knock-down blow from be
hind. Itefore he could recover they re
lieved him of fctr.'.aO and decamped.
I The West Point creamery, the first
I of its kind in the west, is in ashes. Fire
ing was saved. The expensive machin
ery, furniture, tools, milk, butter and
cream were all destroyed. Twenty
employes sleep in the building and it
vas with great dilliculty they made
their escape, losing their clothing and
personal effects. No water was avail
able, the building being too far from
the mains.
The Columbus Power anil Irrigation
company, composed of Leander Cer
rard, Charles W. Pearsail, A. Ander
son, Albert Stenger, C. W. Phillips,
Adolph .laeggi, A. C. Arnold, W. A.
McAllister, O. T. Kocn, Leopold .laeggi
and John If. Kersenbrock, has filed
articles of incorporation in the ollice of
the secretary of state. The capital
stock of the company is S I. V 1,000. The
object is to construct canals for irriga
ting and power purposes.
l'rick .v Dolcal arc preparing their
brief in the tnurdcrcascof the State vs.
('has. Carleton, which will be heard
by the .supreme court at the September
term. The brief is probably the larg
est ever prepared in a Dodge county
case, and will make over 100 printed
pages The argument is to secure, if
possible, a new trial for the defendant
on the ground of errors in the former
trial, ami to show that the testimony
in the ease did not warrant a sentence
of death.
A sad ease of j-outhful suffering has
come to public notice, says a Itcrlin dis
patch, in the ease of Mary Meyers, the
ten-year-old daughter of a farmer liv
ing near that place. Last spring she
was in the field where they were burn
ing stalks, when her clothing caught
tire and she was horribly burned about
the body. For four months the parents
tried home treatment until gangrene
had eaten almost to her vitals and she
was almost Uouuicu togetner. Stic
w ill probably die.
.lames Meyers of Odell was arrested
by shcrifi Kyd of Cage county on a
warrant charging him with embezzle
ment. Meyers was taken before .fudge
I'ournc. who released him on bonds of
?1,0C0, I-. A. :croggs of Hcatrice, for
merly of Udell, appearing as security
for Meyer's appearance for preliminary
hearing. The accused is well known
over the state. He has been a resident
of the county for many years and has
been connected at various times with
Udell banks and nierchantile houses.
The governor has issued his procla
mation calling attention to the fact
that the first Monday in September is
designated as labor day and that the
date this year is Monday. September .1.
He recommends that "all places of I
business bo closed, in order that oppor- ,
tunitv be given those who toil bv hand
and bram to celebrate the day in such
a manner as is calculated to recognic
and teach the worth of honest effort, to
elevate and dignify labor and improve
the condition of wage earners in our
midst. '
While the outlook is very gloomy,
says the Arapahoe Mirror, yet we arc
pleased to say that few are giving way
to despondency. In fact nearly every
one is laying plans for the future and
many are busy planning to secure feed,
shelter, fuel, etc, for the winter. We
are pleased to chronicle these facts rel
ative to our people, and the courage
and activity of mind and body which
they are exhibiting proves conclusively
that when the angel gets ready to
smile again this particular part of Ne
braska will be found ready to reap a
rich reward.
Nels Johnson left at this oflice, says
the I'remont Tribune, a sample of su-
gar beet from his farm cast of the city. '
It weighs nine pounds and as he has j
had one acre counted and finds there !
are .T.ooo beets on it, it will le seen
that the total weight of the beets will
be "s (too pounds provided thev are ,
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all as large as the sample submitted. I
That would bent tons, which at S'.
per ton would be S7.'0. That figures .
out pretty well for a dry season, but of I
course the beets have not yet been dag '
ami weighed and delivered. (
Two hundred tons of hav belonging
o y
II. Williams were burned on his
farm ten miles northwest of lieatrice.
Farmers, do you know how to pre
serve vour corn fodder? Yes, savsonc.
I put up my fodder in large shocks; an- ,
other one says. I put up my fodder in
long shocks and my corn fodder always
comes out bright for winter feeding, i
Stack your fodder before it becomes j
thoroughly dried. It will go through '
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the corn fa and cattle will eat it I
mfl, owedilv and cleaner. In thi '
usual way 0f shocking the corn fodder
;.. i.i. ti, cniwtir nmi nnrimr,t
dries out and" the stalks become hard'
and worthies,
pay you.
The experiment wiftl
rtf- .
lit
OMTE Philippe
de Kosny.agood
looking bachel
or of tolerably
easy fortune
and morals, ha-l
taken to himself
wife at .land 30
years; hot that
he wanted a
wife with any
particular f e i
Vor, for love or
passion lie had
Kolery becadse" it
the men df his
never known, but
was the diistom of
world Id marry at that age.
Marriage, hdwever, he found to be
a bondage, and he was bored to death
with it, when, approaching his for
tieth year, he began to amuse and sol
ace himself with the pleasures of pho
tography a solace suggested to him
by the accidental winning of a prime
Kodak offered as a prize by a Certain
journal of Paris to which, for years,
he had subscribed.
Front that tnomerit his hew born
passion took on a ehnracterof Selfish
ness, df personal indulgence in his
fad that swept the money from his
pockets faster than once had done the
had done tha necessities of his stable
of racers training for the Grand Prix.
New "films," new "baths," new "ob
jectives" or a patent "new" some
thing or other every day of the week.
A pungent odor of chemicals per
vaded tho house turned to a labora
tory from mansard to cellar, kodacks
were in the salon, tripods in the cor
ridors; madairtc's own boudoir, even
seized to provide him with A dark de
veloping room a seizure for which
she avenged herself by passing nearly
all her time promenading on the arm
of his friend Victor, which, of course,
set the tongues of the gossips wag
ging, and was finally, this gossip,
brought by a friend to the photogra
pher's ear.
"Yes," answered he tranquilly, "it
is true my wife and Victor take not
the slightest interest in my experi
ments. Hut what they do, talk of,
amuse themselves with or approve of,
is their own affair. Moreover, if they
want to marry each other, divorce,
too, is theirs, but they must first ar
range to furnish ine with a reasonable
pretext. I ask nothing better than to
find myself alone again iu my own
house, with no one to mix up iny bot
tles and upset my proofs."
One day it is always the case the
lovers committed an imprudence.
Yielding to the solicitations of the
maniac, they had consented to pose
for him in the garden, in broad day
light, arm in arm with each other.
And while the husband dallied in an
interminable "sighting" under his
square of velvet, Victor, forgetting
that h? could see them through his
black chamber, bent ardently forward
and dropped a hasty kiss upon the
tempting nape of the young wife's
milk-white throat.
She uttered a stifled cry, but the
operator under his black square never
budged.
"He saw nothing, thank heaven!"
murmured, relieved, the two lovers
clasping tenderly each other's hands
They were wj-ong; he had seen and
was laughing in his sleeve at an idea
JIKXT ARDENTLY OVER.
that had suddenly come to him, a cap
ital farce! It amused him so much
that he upset his water bath and
ruined his proof; but this time he
didn't care: ho had other things at
that nioment than "proofs" in his
, head.
I That same morning at table, Vic
J tor, as usual, lunching with them, De
j Kosny said to the culprits:
t "In weather so beautiful as this the
j light is simply superb to operate in
I the open air. What do you say to
going to-morrow to eat a fritter at
t Itas-McudonV"
And as the day was still young and
the others willing, he set out at once,
alone, for the restaurant to select and
! rent a cabinet- It opaned upon a
glass covered gallery so arranged
that it formed this gallery, a huge
projecting window to the cabinet pro
per, and overlooked a wide expanse of
sunny terrace stretching between the
cabinet and the river. Nothing could
have been better for his plan. De
Kosny, delighted, demanded of the
waiter:
"This beautiful spot. Has no one
ever attempted a photograph here?
No? Kh bien. then. I'll try it to-aior'
row-: the pictures of some friends of
,ninc 1Jut the ,;ht is not ri(rht j
TOcr. ,. : : .c ". t-
must change it. it must come from
. t .i i i
?lbove: -vct ,,f .' Ver Jh W.h.le
ba.v ,n-v Proof W,U be to black !,r,n?
me a blind, please. Eh? ou have
none? A curtain, then, a blue curtain
preferred, like those I saw down
stairs as I entered."'
And there, in his shirt sleeves in
the brilliant sunlight, he worked for
two hours arranging and rearranging
his curtains, whistling and humming
to himself like a worker whose heart
is ia his work, his mouth full of nails
and hammering away ardently. Then
he had brought up from the smoking
room below an old sofa. With his
own hands he installed it invitingly
in the corner of the bay directly fac
infr !he entrance to the cabinet so
l,,al II "" " " ""- "" wiuic
the moment the door opcn2d.
Back of the sofa he draped another
blue curtain to irive it the '"'nrenared"
effect of a theatrical "accessory,"
tood a table n tho corner, with a
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I aW-i -mtt.
bracket above it, and on the bracket
again a pot of flowering palm.
"Capital! Capital!" h murmured
adrairingl3:, arid turne I his attention
next to his arrangements in the corri
dor, simply the chalking of the exact
spot on the floor where the camera
tripod must stand, proper range of
focus by seating the waiter on the
divan and finishing the business by
giving him a louis to hold his tongue
and to keep the camera safe in a
closet for him until to-morrow.
"Next morning, at tli2 mo
ment of taking the bott that
was lo carry thdrrt to Uas
Meudoii, 1K Ilosny stopped suddenly,
struck his hand to his brow an I said
to his wife and Victor:
''Heavens! 1 have forgotten my ac
tinometre Co on without me. I'll
run back and get it and rejoin you in
an hour."
He climbed to tho quay again;
waited till the boat had backed from
the dock and passad from sight under
the bridge; then entere.I a neighbar
ing cafe and scribbled hastily the fol
lowing note:
"Actinometre oat of order: must
stop at a shop. Lunch without me.
Will reach yoit by 'J o'clock. The" sun
will still bd high enough." The mes
senger bearing thi- note arrived just
as the hungry turtle doves for even
turtle doves grow hungry if too long
deprived of lunch were growing
thoroughly impatient.
And the two convives fell to feast
ing with hearty goo 1 will, merry and
amused as two children on a lark,
ltut pleased as thsy were, they were
still not half sii pl-ased as llt3 hus
band behind the door.
At last cani the scraps ot two
chairs pushed back at the same time,
thert steps oil the lloor, a low, pro
testing plaint from the spridgs of the
divan, a silence, a soft sigh.
Quick as a flash de Hosuey stood up.
pulled off with one hand tho camera
cover, with the oth.r threw back the
door, shouting his usual sacramental
phrase:
"Ita still! Don't stir!"
It was 11 o'clock the niht of that
same day. The lamp in the eommis
saire's ofliea was covered with a yel
low paper, and with the tell-tale cam
era stationed between them, the mag
istrate and Phillippa de Kosny, his
liberty he thought so, at least con
quered at last, faced gravely each
other.
"Yes, M. le Coram issai re," said he,
"I ins'st upon developing the slide
here in your presence in order that its
accuracy cannot be questioned; tint
no one, when I apply for 1113- divorce,
as I certainly shall do at once, cau
possibly accuse 111 of having re
touched it. The idea 3011 323, is such
a new one, so thorougliH- fin de siecle,
perhaps, also, a trifle American In
stead of stupidly riddling H12 culprits
with bullets from a revolver, I snap a
camera at them and, voila! the thing
is done."
And with infinite precautions, he
drew the slide from the frame and
plunged it into the reservoir. Tho
commissaire bent to look over his
shoulder; the opal of the gelatine was
coloring, the image appearing
lut suddenU the operator tore the
proof from the bath, held it between
him nnd the lamp, gazed blankly a
second an I a strangled cry escaped
his throat. Had the3' moved, had the
camera not caught them, had the
actinometre really refused to work?
Oh. no: worse than (hat. The
picture was perfect: the window, the
bracket, the flowering palm, the big
blue curtain, so carefully arranged as
a background for the sejiie, onl3'--thc
curtain, a solid blue wall, with
out a wrinkle, hung now in front of
the divan. If Victor was kissing
again, his, Dj Uosn's wife, no 0112
was the wiser, for no one coul I see it.
Mist I'nintt-r Shot tlirs Tr.mp.
Two tramps waylaid Miss Lizzie
Painter of Hopewell, Pa, ono oven
ing recently, and on3 of them re
ceived a pistol bullet in his arm.
Miss Painter, who is a music teach
er, was driving from tho home of
one of her scholars to Hopewell, in
a lonel3- part of the road, when a
man, evidently a tramp, jumped out
from tho roadsido and commanded
her to get out of the wagon. For an
answer Miss Painter raised a revol
ver and shot, and with a cry of pain
tho man dropped his hold on tho
horse, with a bullet in his wrist. At
this moment another man ran out to
catch tho horse ami the young woman
fired at him also, but missed. Tho
horse became frightened and rushed
down the road before the second
man could stop it. Since then a dil
igent search has been made for the
tramps, but tho- hae not yet been
found.
A Vli l.n:s-.3or.
In the mathematics clais at Will
iams college Professor S- who was
rarclj male tho pubjeet of college
jests, was excessively amoved br
some man "squeaking" in a small
rubber bladder, says Harper's Ua:ar.
The noise seemed to come from near
a certain Jack Hollis. and after
querying each of his neighbors and
receiving a negative answer Pro
fessor S said sternly, "llollis.do vou
know who is making that unboara- '
bio noise?'' Hollis. who had been
the guilty person all along, assumed
an air of stoical bravery and said
calmly: "I know. sir. bat I prefer
not to tell "
Professor S 's angry face grew
calmer and with evident plcasuro ho
replied i "I respect your scruples,
Hollis; they do yo;i credit, and
should shame the guilt- man. sir'."
K. Y. Journal.
A Horn CJrntloman. j
Ihe small boy was at a table where j
his mother waB not near to take care !
of him, and a lad.v next to him vol
unteered her services.
-Let me cut your steak for 3-011."
she said: -if I cancit it the way you
like it." she added with some degree
of doubt
"I thank you ' he responded, ac
cepting her courtesy; ! shall like it
the way you cut it, even if you do
not cut it the way I like it." and the
lady actually reached over and kissed
him.
An Appropriate Title.
"I think 'ou do well to call your
book Fugitive Verses.' "'
"I'm glad you approve."
-Yes. it's very appropriate, though
I th'nk it's u great pity Uioy don't
escape." Juugc.
STAGE
Sometimes Thry Aro Koto 1'ujirtr
Tit.ul
In Drslrc.l.
A child playing in "Driven From
Home,-" says the Uoston Globe, is
asked the" question1 id the" play, How
bid are yoii. thy cfil'.d?"' Tfie" Iddy
plaj ing her mother is id dnsvdr':
She is 1." The child had been bor
rowed for the performance, and when
tho lady answers 'Slid is 4" the lit
tle girl proudly corrects her, "No". I
am 7." A bal'3 borrowed one even
ing for a scene in which sho was to
be brought to her motli3r in a ding
condition, having just fallen from a
high Veranda, Is brought on by the
did triad, who is jtist abo-.tt t hand
the dying child to her mollicf, when
tho baby vigorously spriilgs dp. jerks
oil the old man's wig, and laughing
loudly, holds it aloft.
A liltlo sirl was asked if she
would like Id go to the theater ono
night und play with tile company.
Tho child was delighted with thd
idea, so sho was engaged lo pla.
little Willio in "East Lyntic." It
was not necessary to givo her a re
hearsal, as sho was onl.v required
for the deathbed scene. Sho accom
panied one of the ladies of the com
pany td the theater that everting and
was taketl into the drcssitlg-i'doni.
She had hover been irt a theater be
fore, and tho ght thd proposition
was to plaj' gam s. M10 was elated
at finding such a large, nice place
for playing, anJ. jumping up and
clapping her hands together, she
gleefull' exclaimed: "Oh, this is a
lovel' play-house! What wi'l we pla'
tirst?' Then, noticing tho ladies
beginning to Undress, sho cried in a
distressed toilc: "5Jh. 3 on told
me you wei'o coming liei'n to
play and now 3011 are all undress
ing to go to led." She was
quieted by tho assttranco they gave
her that it was necessary for tho:n
and also for her to ehatlgo their
dresses before beginning the plaj".
So sho was kept in the dressing
room. Mie diJ not guess what was
going on on tho stage until her scene
came. She was placed in the cot to
d'e. When the curtain rose it re
vealed Lady Isabella bent over the
dying chi'd. Underneath tho rot,
Was a very stottt lady to spenk littlo
Willie's lines. She was concealed,
from the audience bj' the long drap
er' of the couch. When the cur
tain wits up, and tlu little girl
strained her head al'ound rtud saw
that thero was an audience there she
sprang from the deathbed, taking
the draper with her. ran from the
stage, and all that was left was Lady
Isabelle. looking in surprise after
the vanishing littlo iisrure, ami the
fat lady, lying under the couch with
the book of "Fast Lynne" In her
hand.
THAT BOTHERING DE3IRE.
Caused t!i Stun Ht tile Strap to l.osp tlio
1'cspect or All ill file Ciir.
Thc-conditctor wont through tho
car collecting fat'os and then took
his accustomed place on the back
platform. Presently he started for
ward to get a new fare on tho front
platform, according to tho Chicago
Hecot'd, nnd the malt hanging 011 the
strap said, "liots see, didn't I give
you a dime? '
"I don't remember. If you did I
gave you a nickel back."
No, I didn't get any change an I
I'm suro I gave 3-011 a dime."
You should have spoken about it
at the time."
"Do you mean to say that you
won't give me any change?"
"I'm always careful about these
things, and I don't believe you gave
me a dime."
The conductor went forward and
the man addressed the other pn.sen
gcrs. He said he didn't mind losing
a nickel, but he didn't proposo to bo
swindled. The passengers appeared
bored and most of them watched
tho scenct'3". He went on talking
about taking numbers and getting
witnesses.
"I'll givo a cent toward making
up a purse for this man." said a
heavy set passenger.
So will I," said another, and in
a moment the amount of o cents was
pledged.
"(icntlcmen," said he. "this i. no
joking matter. I'm standing for a
principle."
.Inst, then thn nnniliirlir "i-nr
back and another argument ensued I
Hather than have any trouble!
I'll liist. rrivo VOI1 .i conk nut. nf mv t
. j r.- - - j
own pocket," ssiid he.
N , sir; no, sir. I don't.
want
any 01 your money, i want my .1 i
cent--.
For heaven's safco give him his
live cents." said the heav man. who
was evidently looking for trouble
"1 take this monc3" because it be
longs to me," said the outraged pas
senger. "I wouldn't accept it un'cs;
it was mine. "
He was silent for a block anJ thn
he said:
If
an- man
here will !
testify that I didn't give him a dime
I will return the nickel." 1
The only response was a groan '
from the heav3"-set man.
I want what's mine and no more," 1
said he, after another pause. '
-I ho conductors a poor man,
too." responded some maliciou-. per
son.
This invited another speech Put
he got off at the next corner and
everybody on the car sighclwith
relief when he did so.
Ieel of Two :.
When attention was first called t. j
the practicability of a canal from j
the Mediterranean to the Bed sea '
(by the tirst Napoleon) a corps of,
surveyors was sent out to "run ths 1
level" They reported that the ,
scheme would necessarily have to be
abandoned because the level of the
Bed sea was :0 feet (P. inches higher
than that of the Mediterranean
That report put a damper on the
canal project for several years. In
1M7, however, some "doubting
Thomases" prcvailc 1 on the "great
powers" to rcsiirvey the route.
Kngland sent Kobert Stephenson;
Austria. M. Talbot. an.i France. Sig.
Ne
-relli. They found that the two j
i had exactly the same level, and
seas
the Suez canal is the result of their
labors.
A Vind-Wrecklns ik.
"It is impossible:" she exclaimed.
"I am foiled," and she threw tho pen
despairingly from her.
-What is the matter?" asked her
mother.
I was writing to Herbert, un I
Iriqd topcll bin eoliego yoji. '
(JHiLbREN N THE
MYSTERY OF COLORADO.
IT IS UrtEAHTHED BY THE PEN
ROSE BROTHERS.
..,.,, ..
Suspicion I xcltcil ly tho
flic- Dreadful
ljl(f df Woman" Hair Cut I1T an-l
Strewed (lCr the l'loor Tha itory
Tota by tho I'rp,ctof.
Tho Black mountain mystery of
Coldrado hitd been brought to li ht
through the ttte'ilJtlin of three Phila
delphians, who were' Oil prospecting
in that region. The sconC of the
mystery is in Park county, about 103
miles from Denver, thirty mile
n , .
fro 11 tho railroid and lift, in
from Hny railroad station, in a sec
tion -tIfH)lttlaIy void of inhabitants,
but plentifully irrigated, and re
ported rich in minerals- Professor
H. A K. Penrose of Chicago univer
sity, determine 1 wit'j his brother,
SpOitcor Ponroso and Charles I
Tell, to start f out Cripple Creek
with light Litggagd tifid explore and
prospect in thvi Itlack mountain dis
trict for a week or more, says the
Philadelphia Times. The results
of the expedition are best told in the
professor's own words.
"I pros .me wo hal gono about
fdi'tV miles" in our two days' iaunt
vhdrt -vo entoro 1 tho torr.l,.o bioo.Iy
-tin, On. wheiv voum before lighting
nds of Lldlaia had sc -Uorod each
ither's life blood 0:1 thi wall Tlii-i
-anvon opens into t'10 Mack moun-
whort Vd entoro 1 tho to:r;b.o hloo.lv
edit
1
o
canyon ope
tain district, aa 1 seeing nothing
there to warrant our prospecting wd
pushed on to tin 1 a favorable spot in
the open fo camping. It win about
. o'clock In tha afternoon, wo had
left the canyon about two mile- be
Itm 1 us and hal reached the lop of a
m-isa. when byo:id and below u iu
a remarkably Hue country, we saw
a good size i and rich-looking louse.
Itu-tts a surprise to all of tl& Wo
fdile to tho ontriucoof the drive,
and the lirokun gatcwa; and ha'f
down fence told thou'stoiy. Hiding
on through we approached the bouse,
to lind the front door cpon as Well
as several windows, but not a sign
of life.
Directly in front of us on enter
ing the hall were two iow.-. of boo'c
shelves, covered with dust and hold-
Jig only about a do.0it musty bo ks.
'I'ivm i-nn-iK nn-iifl to f"r- fi Til. ml
left respeethely from this hafl stair-
case. jip ono
Tli- ono to th ri .lit had evi-
dciltly been used as a library o -a den
of some sort Unlit in th wall was
a mineral cabin t containing some of
its specimens, while the rest wrrc
thrown all over th floor On the
wall wer a riling crop, a p-ir of
foils an I masks, and a mirror. It
win decidedly strange, not another
bit of furniture outside of a rug
adorned this dust covered room. Wo
walked o it into the liili J-ipin an 1
into the other lvom, and it wa? there
wo got our surprise.
"lit the center of tho floor Ia3"
Ion,' trcssc.- of br.iwii hair, sureh a
woman's. Two strands of I lie hair
were thick and pressed together.
They looked as if tlicy had been a
double handful squcc.cd up and I
thrown there, and tho ends were cut
in a .'agge I manner by a dull knife
Well, we had come there for mineral,
not murder, and the whole teeno was
appalling. Wo didn't stop to inves
tigate further, but concluded that
the open country several miles bd
vond would suit us better for bunk
ing out that night. It was getting;
dark oillsldo, but we ha-l good op-
poi'tunity for seeing kitchen utensils
scattered all over the ground Ex
pensive things tliC3' had been, but
were now covered with rust. We
took a peep into the barn. It was
as deserted and ghastly looking as
the lionso. It was sifter wo had
eaten our supper and sat down in
our blankets before the lire, about '.)
o'clock 1 imagine, that tho breaking
of a twig close by brought us all to
our feet. It was a prospector like
our-clvcs, with his burro loaded up
with his outfit and his only burden a
Wiin-h-'stci'.
"floMo, paftnero: what luck?'
When asked h'w the new camp
looked he became communicative, if
not encouraging, and questions and
answers brought u up to the inter
esting one to its that doscrte 1 house.
" 'Well, boys.' juld our visitor. 'I
don't know much about that ratty j
o'd house, and care d - less. You '
see, I watched it four years ago over !
by Sherman's, that's about two miles
over the mount tins I saw it iro up
und the owner
was always around.
1
11c Kiii one 01 incm rngiisii uuuc ar
ran-ciwnt-. wore ai
hi overgrown cap
... , ", '
a kind of a sport.
an'i yoiiow uoois a Kind o a spor
Never took no notice ofnoboly. Had
! o.u of them (Jjd Almighty airs with
mm. oncmaii ,111 t mo wero on
the range that year, that is the
year she arrievd. Mie win a buto"'
sure. He had lived out here and got
the house up. an I spent money on
it. fi" Hey
hauled the stu.T
' ':n Balfour and Alma '1 hen he
h'ft f'"' three month-, and came hick
an -he was with him I've seen
them in-iny a time riding togethc.
:in-l d me. I ne.cr s:iy sin-h hair
:l- that gal ha!. It was just about
two ya.-s ago tins spring, they both
SKippe 1 I.O'I Know
sav lliey di In't skip
v. here. Some
That's riot my
bus'-ioss. At an. rate another Kng
lishma'i. an old fellow, put in an ap
pea anc an-l that's the last of th
ou:ig feliow an' t'lat girl with the
line lojks. Nov. sourj say tho old
man wa her husl-an 1. and she had
sk pped with that Kngii-h legging
dude an 1 thr old man had followed
them but that's nob'uly's business.
Knough form: I uiuldn't put 1111
in that shanty over night for all tho
j,oW in coin,"-.,,!,, for Vne d- place
is haunted.
I"rlpr linn :t Sfe.nji Fo-j-'inrn.
"While traveling through South
cm t aliforn'a a few years ago." said
Matthew L d'regor' of Minneapolis
"1 came acro-o an interesting curi
osity known as the w'ui-tling well.'
It was on a farm and had been dug a
number of years previo is and aban
doned, a- no v.. -iter had a tiearel. A
sho:t time after it ha I been dug it
WIta noticed that a strong current of
air kept rushing in an 1 oat of the
well. 1 nd a Hat stone with a hole in
the center was piac d over it. Into
Ihit- hole a whistle was .astened,
which changed it tunj as the air
was drawn in or blown our. and it
was soon fe.ind U b- a reliable
weather barometer. In pleasant
weather tho whistle was piieut. but
If a torin was biv.vlng ft approach
ie warning shrieks
tho air rushed in
and out of tho welL When the
storm passed the current of air
changed and the faithful whistle told
I the story by its chanired tune. ot
! Louis CJlobo llomocrat.
I .
CHARLIE IS NERVOUS.
AnI
T-itsln-r III .rl Alans- t
th.
IlcntlU l.ul'ieil III Cluncr.
1 "I don't think." said tho girl with
tho sailo hat. "that you used Charlie
I right. There ho had gono to a. lot of
expense getting ready to marry you
and you had not given him an inti
mation that you had any other
I thought than that of becoming his
t wife. Then yon threw In 111 over 111
a mtnuto. J mi vo oi-okcu his uvurt
, and I know if "
! Well." said the girl with the silk
waist, "I'm suro thought I wanted
' to inhrry him, but l just couldn't.
' You wouldn't cither if you had gono
through with what I did."
Tell tne." said the girl with the
sapor hat. imperatively.
"You see, Charlie is nervous. I
think he is a goo I deal of a coward.
too. but that didn't matter much.
Only otu day he told me that it was
necessary for him to go to tho don
1 list's and have sumo teeth fixed, and
1 ho said he just couldu t bear tho
, idea. I u talked so much abo t he
l:n and all that -ort of thing t la
! ".'" l w" . tt!?"f .?"'
I c,w; "!mi ." lc "d '',at !
,d J' splendid, ail that
idea. I'd lalked so much about the
thins that
nd
that
t
with mo uro'ind he was sure he coulo
stand all sorts of pain without a
wninlper We went up to the den
tist's lu-jt 2-aturday afternoon. We
had to wait a good while in the
auto-room, but Churliedidn't seem to
mind it much. I really think that
my being there made him feel better,
and I was glad of it,
The time came for him ti go into
' t"C operating room, and ho wont in.
' nr.st squeezing ni naiui ami u-uui
mo to Ktav there until h- came out.
I sat over near tho door and could
hear the conversation. The dentist
took one of those horrid nokey littlo
thinirs and pried around in Charlie's
mouth Then he said there were
two teeth that would have to be
pulled. 1 heard Charlie give a givat
gasp, and ho asked tho dentist to lot
mo come in tho room and stay there
until the teeth wore out. I didn't
' W3'H to a bit. but I went forCharlio's
! & " "en wc V,u.,v- . .
Charlie lying bade 111 tne chair witu
his mouth wide open and I was
shocked. He is a fairlv good looking
Tellow usually, but with that mouth
open ho is a fright I couldn't en
dure living with a man who looked
like that, so I just left the place and
sent Charlie back the ring."
I or Value K-c-'vcl.
King Milan of Scrvia once went to
the hotel of a distinguished lady
' who was giving a bazaar for tho ben
! ctit of the poor children of Paris. As
l soon as the king appeared upon the
scene. she advanced toward htm with
H splendid silver salver in her hand.
on which was beautifully emblazoned
tho family arm . On it lay a prett,"
I little bunch of violets- "How much.
madainc?" asked the king. "Twenty
four louis. sire," was the soft re
sponse. Milan paid her the sum sho
usked with a courteous bow. took
the salver from her hands, placed
the bouquet in his button-hole and
walked o!T with tho tray under his
j ""
Argonaut.
Di.iinom! rnt!rtli-4 tli.imoit ?
The art of cutting and polishing
diamonds is a vo old one in the
Kast. and the early jewelers of India
and China knew how to dress dia
monds by means of diamond dust
long before Europeans did. It was
a Itclgiun lapidary, one ltergtiin of
Burgos, who accidentally discovered,
in 1 1")', how one diamond can bo em
ployed to polish another- It was he
who constructed tho first polishing
wheel, wherewith, by moans of dia
mond powder, he could dress dia
monds as well as other stone j could
be dressed by emery.
Il's-fiiintin-; :t Mcliti-iJ-te.
It is an evening company arid th
banker's daughter is about to sing.
Laura," her father implores,
feelingly, "li-den to me. Don't sing.
If vour tiaucc should hear you he
might insist on half my fortune
your dowry." I-'liegende Bhtettcr
a-j
FACTS AND EVENTS.
Thcannuil rainfill of St. Louis is
.r'il t li! li" inches: of Lon Ion. -": of
1 x. .. , , ,
. New 1 ork, 4 1.
,..,.. . ,
nsiiingiuu is 10 uavi: ii inns-inn j
for all sorts of curious lif- saving ap-
p!i::nc?- imIu ling the c:irli"st kind-. 1
of life boats, r.iccc-ts and l:f. preserver-.
A lam in urn ib'tum are p-ov.n - i.iost
sucee-sful in th Prussian unliUiry
bands. Not only are th-v lighter,
than the o-.lin-iry kind, but they are
said to ffiv.' 01:1 a mile 1 fuller and
riher sou 11 i.
Prof )..vai has demonstrated that .
metals augui -nt the'r 111 ignetic quali
ties and increase in strength by dim
inutio.i of temperature Inm at ISO
degrees can endurj do ib'e its normal
ten -ilc sti-.iin
There is :in o'd hindmark on tin
Marietta .v North (I "orgii railroad
:u'ar Klijav. which is oft -a pointed
out to pa ! r -r.-. It i. a grave on
the side of a steep hill. O.vr it a lit
tle VvO d mi boil." Ii.is lwc:i built, and
a lightning ro I is atta.hc I to cither
en '.
(' -ivi'ar 1- -prts "-ho v th it tie eon
.umptioi of K.rypli in c-jtt'n b.- the
New Knglan.l cottoi m'lls has gr"ivn
from notlKiix ten -cars ago to m re
than 40,0011 large bale--, corresponding
in weight to'iO.on mrrican I ales,
and npproiinat -ly -value 1 at S'l,
00). 0)0
Lemon jn:ce. squeezed in f.iliforn'a.
treated with a preservative process
and sent Kist by the banvl. is sold
in earthen iugs containing fnm half
a gallon to ten gallon . It is used for
all sorts of dom-'stie purpo-.es. for
lemonade and fur ina!;:ng mied
drinks at the b.ir an I iu clubs.
One of the eurio-ities of Minking
water canon. Wyoming is the alum
cave. The cave appears to be an ex
tinct geysT an-l is about fifteen feet
across an I easily accessible. The alum
is along the side-, and abr.ut six feet
in thickness. The country is a former
geyser basin, of which nothing re
mains but hot sulphiii- spr.ug-. and the
extinct craters.
! was heralded by tl
i of tho whistle as l
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i
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LcAXifEu Gekraki", Pres't,
B. II. Henrv, Vice Prcst,
M. Itm'tidER, Cashier.
John SrAL'FFi'.it. -L W. Huir.
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COLUMBUS, NEB.,
HAS AX
Authorized Capital of
Paid in Capital,
$500,000
90,000
OFFICEKS.
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CLAKK GKAV. Cashier.
DAM KL SUH UAM. Ass't Cash
OIKKCTOKS.
II. M. Wixsi.ow,
('. II. Sheldon,
Jonas Wki.ch.
II. P. ll.Or.111.n1cn.
W. A. McAi.msteii,
Caul. Uii-nki.
TOC'KllOMKlt5".
S. t C.flAY, J. Henut WonnEMAW,
CEIUIAKIt I.OSEKE, IlK.MlV I.OSEKE.
I.AIIK "UAY. UtAi. W. ("ALLEY,
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FllAXK llOKEH. J. P. IlKUKKll ESTATE,
KeBECCA liECKEIt.
Hank of deposit; Interest allowed on tlmo
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COZ.TJ1CJBT7B. HEB,
OFFICERS.
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ANDERSON. J. II. OAI.T.F.V.
President. Vice Pres't.
O. T. KOEN. Cashier. 1
DIRECTORS.
n z
n
O.AtlMRSON. P. ANDERSON,
JACOB QREISEN. HENBI BAQATZ, '
JAMES 0. BEEDEft.
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Statement of tbe Condition at the Close
r Business Jaly 12, 1893.
nnsocncr.3.
Loans and Dirount $ Sll.f," 67
Real I-sfite Furniture and Fix
tures lfi.TSI JO
U.S.Honda loUO 0)
Duo from other hanks frrr.STB 31
Ca-di on Hand 'Zl.kfu 5 59,T 8
Total
.S333.UX3 3J
LIABILITIES.
Tapltal Stock paid In..
Surplus Fund
Undivided profits
Circulation
Deposits
XOIliltt-!
....$ w.ono 00
.... 91.000 01
.... 4,37 00
.... WJW
.... 2-3.119 37
....t.T-53,lrjG 30
HENRY GASS,
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