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VOLUME XXV. NUMBER 23.
COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1894.
WHOLE NUMBER 1,271.
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NEBRASKA NEWS.
A political glee club has been organ
ized at Beatrice.
A democratic weekly paper has been
started in Lincoln.
The school year of Beatrice will not
open until September 17.
A number of forgeries have of late
been reported in South Omaha.
Independents of Nebraska have es
tablished headquarters at Lincoln.
Tim Lee, an Omaha man, was fined
S100 and costs for beating his wife.
G. A. II. posts of Nebraska City have
purchased ground for a memorial hall.
). II. Black fc Son raised twenty
acres of celery on their farm near Kear
ney. The Aahiand public schools opened
with a greater attendance than in for
mer years.
Rev. John Power has accepted the
pastorate of the Congregational church
at Kearney.
Managers of the Beatrice canning
factory complain that they cannot get
help enough.
Real estate in Beatrice is command
ing good prices and considerable of it
is changing hands.
Nelson wheelmen have put up S2.".0
in prizes for the bicycle races to be held
there September 'JO.
The Richardson county fair, at Sa
lem, September IS to -'1, offers ample
premiums in all departments.
The total number of children in
Dodge county of school age is T.S.VJ,
about equally divided as to sex.
To belong to the Old Settlers associ
tion of Dodge county requires a resi
dence in that county of twenty-eight
years.
The thirteenth annual convention of
the Nebraska State Firemen's associa
tion will be held in Norfolk, commen
cing January 15.
During a storm the Methodist church
at Cambridge was struck by lightning
and considerably damaged. There was
a heavy rain fall.
The -l-y car-old daughter of Reese
Williams of Verdon, was kicked by a
borse last week. The skull was frac
tured and death resulted.
l'cter llcesh, living near Grand
Island, is hunting for the fellows who
stole twenty bushels of potatoes he had
laid by against the day of starvation.
A large herd of cattle belonging to
John Barr of l'awncc City are affected
with granulated sore eyes, and lie is
puz.lcd to know the cause of the com
plaint. Prof. II. II Corbctt of York will de
liver the address before the Reward
county teachers' association on Septem
ber 'jr. on the subject, '"The Teacher of
Today."
Rev. P. Sjoblom. I). D.. has been
elected pastor of the Swedish Luther
an church at Wakefield, to succeed
Rev. J. P. Aurelius. Dr. Sjoblom comes
from Fergus Falls, Minn.
Sheriff Menekc of Washington count3
returned from Iowa last week with
AUwrt Kay, wanted for criminal as
sault on a young lady near Fontancllc,
Bay is a farmer, and married.
The news of the misfortune that has
befallen Maj. J. W. Pcarman at Omaha
in the loss of his mind, was received
with profound sorrow in Nebraska
City, where he formerly lived.
An old soldier named Franklin K.
Forsdick died at the soldiers' home in
Grand Island of paralysis. He had a
brother in Hamilton county, who was
present to cheer him in his last hours.
Rex Henry of Fremont met with an
accident while coasting down the hill
at Hooper. Ho was thrown from his
wheel and was unconscious for nearly
an hour and had to bo taken home in a
buggy.
The North Nebraska Methodist con
ference will convene in Omaha October
4, and continue in session five days,
with an anticipated attendance of lt.'i
ministers and delegates from over 100
churches.
The sugar factory at Grand Island
discharged all its employes who were
employed to clean up preparatory for
the coming sugar campaign, and it is
believed the company intends to ship
beets to Norfolk.
Kxpert Kxaminer Fowlic reported a
bhortage of 5:.770 on David Aekerman,
cx-clerk of Hall county for the years
lS;t"-7. Balance of the investigation is
not completed. Aekerman was clerk
from lssC to ls91.
The residue of the assets of the Red j
Cloud National bank were sold at au.- t
tion last week by Receiver Dorsey. On '
their face they amounted toovcrSl,- I
000. They were sold in several lots '
and brought Sl'-1..(. j
The three-months-old child of Mr. I
Wilkinson, of L'agle, was seriously in- j
j tired by a runaway team. Mrs.Wil-I
kinson sustained some very severe !
bruises, while Mr. Wilkinson escaped t
with a few scratches. j
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Gordon were on a '
journey from P.enkleman to their home !
at Pawnee City when their child was
stricken with an attack of inflamma- j
tion of the brain and died before they
reached their destination. i
When the wife of a laboring man or
farmer buys Nebraska goods she in
creases the demand for labor, makes it
easier to obtain profitable employment,
and makes a better market for the pro- j
ducts of the farm. Nebraska uiuoe i
goods are the best in the market: Far-
rell fc Co's brand of syrups, jellies, pre
serves and mince meat; Morse-Coe '
boots and shoes for men, women and '
children; American Biscuit fc Manufac- '
turiug Co., Omaha, crackers.
J. C. Walters of Harrisburg was shot )
and killed in Enderly Bros.' store at
Harrisburg last week. The man who ,
did the shooting was L. F. Enderly, a I
well known business man of that place !
and a member of the firm of Enderly
Bros. It was during a quarrel that the !
shooting occurred. j
Last week the store and postofiicc at!
Eldorado was entered by burglars, the
safe blown open and SlO in cash and ,
about 10 worth of stamps taken. '
Everything in the safe was taken, even J
the books and papers, but later the '
books and papers were found in a box
car. scattered over the door. They also '
took a lot of cigars. i
Prof. J. S. Van Eaten, who was em- '
ployed as principal of the schools at
Ulysses, wanted to throw up the job ,
and accept a like position which had .
been offered at an increased talary. I
51, 100, at Schuyler. He was released!
and a man secured who was willing to
work for S75 a month. i
The Holt county board of supervisors
met in special session to consider the ;
petition calling for a special election to j
vote S1."0,C00 bonds to aid the Niobrara
River Irrigation and Power company to .
build the big irrigation ditch. Iirlga- !
tion meetings are being held nearly '
every night in different parts of the !
county. I
E. T. Horn, formerly superintendent
at Fremont of the Elkhorn, has been J
appointed general manager of the j
Macon & Northern, with headquarters 1
vX Macon, Ga. Mr. Horn is well j
known throughout the west, and was j
one of the best division superintea- I
dents the Elkhorn ever had.
The newly organized Law and Order
league held full sway in Columbus last
Sunday. Saloons were closed tighter
than a drum and no base ball was
played. The league proposes to abol
ish Sunday fishing and hunting.
Last week during the hard rain and
thunder storm, the barn of Willard
Davis, five miles west of Falls City, was
struck by lightning and consumed and
twenty-two tons of hay belonging to
John llossack destroyed. Loss, 5500.
F. E. Merrill, who has been station
agent for the Rock Island ever since
the first train ran into Pawnee City
seven years ago, left last week to as
sume the duties of agent at Fort Worth,
Texas. It is quite a promotion for Mr.
Merrill.
George Stohlman, a Cass county
farmer, slept on a porch outside his
house one of those hot nights and dur
ing his slumbers he fell off his perch,
sustaining injuries which will compel
him to keep to the house for some time
to come.
Willie Dillcnbeck, a 10-year-old son
of J. S. Dillenbeck, a farmer living four
miles cast of Milford, attempted to
take an axe out of a silo that had just
been completed. The axe fell back,
striking him on the head and making
a severe wound.
Lieutenant Donovan arrived in Kear
ney last week on his way from Fort
Russell, Wyo to Omaha on a bicycle
with all equipment for field duty, in
cluding tent, arms and ammunition.
His object is to test the bicycle for
army movements.
During the temporary absence of the
sheriff, several of the toughest prison
ers confined in the county jail at Blair,
made an assault upon a fellow prison
er, and had not the sheriff returned at
an opportune moment, murder would
probably been added to the numerous
crimes of the assailants.
Both saloons at Newcastle were
"pulled" by the sheriff on information
of Dr. Manning. The saloon men were
informed of the intended raid and re
moved all intoxicating liquors from the
buildings, consequently nothing but
temperance drinks were found. The
saloons are running without state li
cense. The fall term of the institute for the
feeble minded at Beatrice began last
week with ls", pupils in attendance. It
is the intention of the management to
semi four of the pupils to the state fair
at Lincoln with benches and other
tools to make brushes, in order to give
the public a visible manifestation of
the practical studies carried on by the
school.
Secretary Morton lias written to ex
Governor Furnas telling him that he
has on exhibition some samples of corn
which were sent him. These are kept
in the office of the Secretary of agri
culture at Washington, ami it is de
clared that they each and every one
cMcctually stand up for Nebraska's
reputation as a farming state before all
visitors.
At a meeting of the congregation of
the M. II church of Hastings, Dr. F. G.
Test was expelled for nou-attend-ance.
The doctor was formerly stew
ard at the asj-lum, lias been in the drug
business in Hastings for the past year,
but last week moved to Chicago. He
was fully apprised of the action about
to be taken by the congregation, but
was not much concerned over the out
come. O. O. Snyder, receiver for the Holt
County bank, paid the preferred claims
ordered by the supreme court 100 cents
on the dollar, and has been ordered to
pay a dividend to other depositors. Mr.
Snyder has notified such depositors
that the same will be paid after Sep
tember 1. This will put several thou
sand dollars into circulation and be
doubly appreciated by the farmers of
that vicinity who have suffered loss of
crops by drouth.
The sixteenth session of the West
German conference of the Methodist
Episcopal church convened in Clatona
last week, with Bishop Thomas Bow
man in the chair. Rev. diaries Harms
was elected secretary and Rev. S.
Krachcr treasurer. About ono hundred
ministers were present. The confer
ence embraces Oklahoma, Kansas, Ne
braska, Colorado and part of Missouri.
The colleges at Mt- Pleasant, la., and
Warenton, Mo., were represented as in
a prosperous condition. The session
lasted several days.
A divorce suit somewhat out of the
ordinary has been tiled in Otoe county.
The plaintiff is James H. Rowe, who
lives near Syracuse. He alleges that
lie married his wife, Susan Rowe. fort'
years ago and that she deserted him af
ter four years of married life. Twenty
years ago he made application for di
vorce and at that time satisfactory evi
dence was produced to convince him
that she was dead and suit was with
drawn. About two months ago he
learned that she was still alive and he
now asks for ins long delayed divorce.
I). C. Horton, a leading business man
of Ewing and owner of a well stocked
ranch in the vicinity, says that in all his j
experience in the west he never had
brighter prospects for corn than at the
present time He feels sure that ho
will have an average ol forty bushels
per acre on his ranch. Other farmers
declare their corn is good and that
they count on from twenty to forty
bushels per acre. It is true that many
fields are absolute failures, there being
nothing to harvest but the fodder, but
tiiere are also a large number of fields
where corn is good.
The trial of the men who had plan
ned to rob a South Omaha brewer em
phasized the fact that there are all kinds
of ways of making a living. One of
the men, and the one who informed on
the others ahead of time and so caused
the failure of the scheme, admitted
that he had made it a regular business
in life to induce other persons to plan
robberies and had at an opportune
time informed the prospective victim.
In this way he not only secured immu
nity himself, but also as a rule was
given a reward by the man who was to
have been held up. He got three
months in the county jail.
Chris Meyer, a husky young man
from Colfax county, struck Nebraska
City with about 540 last week, and pro
ceeded to fill up on corn juice. He
visited various places of more or less
respectability, and was finally picked
up off the sidewalk, where he had lain
down to take a nap. He found most of
wad missing and had a couple of girls
arrested, but nothing came of it-
The remains of E. L. Keed, who was j ly room and the daily grind of the
killed in a mine at I Slack Hawk, Colo office, and time dragged by.
were taken to Weeking Water for in- a letter came at last from the trav
terment. The deceased was one of the i ir Thor l,al m-i-;,! vf..i,- ;
original founders of
, . ,
seeping aier
and was one of the most widely known
men in that country.
A young German named Herman Ott,
living near UsmonU, visited that place,
and after purchasing a load of coal,
proceeaed to get loaded himself. When
he left for his home he had accumula
ted a good-sized jag. When a mile and
a half south of Osmond he fell from his
wagon and the wheels passed over his
head, crushing it to a jelly. The body
was found by a farmer.
William lilouvelt, who is suspected
of being the assassin of Frank Rreit
haupt at Oxford, in duly, had a prelim
inary hearing and was placed under
heavy bonds to appear at the district
court. The authorities believe they
I have the right mr
A
DMAB
AND A
OU love me. Mar
guerite! Then,
nothing shall part
us; nothing but
death!"
Mark Thornton
drew the graceful
figure close to his
breast, and the
golden head
rested tend erly
th e r e, while
Marguerite
Clyde's to n d e r
heart beat madly throbbed sowildly
with its joy and rapture that it
seemed as if it would break.
"Nothing but death!" she repeated,
lifting her shy, blue eyes to her
lover's noble face. ''Oh, Mark, pray
that we both may have long, long,
years to be happy in! The thought of
giving you up is more bitter to me
than death."
"You need never give me up, my
sweetheart!" he returned. "This
parting is only for a brief time; then
we shall meet again, n ;ver to separ
ate while we both shall live. Trust
me, Rita; I will be true and faithful
true and faithful!"
She shivered slightly, as though a
cold wind was chilling her delicate
frame, and clung closer to her lover.
She was so frail, this little snowdrop
fair and delicate as a flower. Over
her life there hung the shadow of an
awful doom, for the deadly blight of
consumption had already ventured to
touch her fragile body. There were
those among her friends who believed
that Marguerite Clyde was not long
for this world. Her parents had both
succumbed to the dread scourge: a
brother and sister haJ also crossed the
soundless sea which washes the shores
of eternity; and it had come to be be
lieved, tacitly, that she. too. would
eventually be stricken down. She
was in a decline, the physician had
wisely decided, and must have change
of air and scene. A journey to the
south of France was prescribed, and
a wealthy relative, Mrs. Dallas, had
offered to accompany the young in
valid thither. So, it was all arranged,
and on the morrow Marguerite was to
6ail on the steamship New York. And
Mark Thornton was saying good-by to
her. Ah! it was hard bitterly hard
to let her go so far away from him,
nnd know that they might never meet
ngain; to carry a sad heart in his
breast all day, and lie awake at night
to grieve over the enforcsd separa
tion. A feeling of desolation, too ter
rible for expression, crept into the
young man's breast. If he could only
accompany his loved one! But that
was impossible. All their future,
should she be spared to him.depended
upon his efforts. He was working
early and late, to make a home a
pretty home for his darling; and
Marguerite would not listen to his
proposal to accompany her and Mrs.
Dallas.
"No, dear," she had said, gently
and decidedly. "I will go with Aunt
Dallas; but you must remain at home,
and when I come back to you for I
will return, dear we will be so happy!
Be brave, Mark, and let me go, and I
will come back to you well and
fetrong."
"Heaven grant it!" he cried fer
vently, "but oh, Rita, I feel such a
strange foreboding of evil. I am not
really superstitious; but I have an im
pression a premonition of impending
sorrow."
"Nonsense!" she cried, with a sunny
smile: but the smile was somewhat
ghostly and vanished like a wraith.
"Do not give way to superstitious
fancies," she added, "they are un
worthy of you!"
And then Mrs. Dallas appeared
upon the scene a kindly, motherly
woman who insisted that Marguerite
THE AriwiUTicy.
was making too heavy draughts upon
her strength by this interview with
her lover, and so contrived to shorten
the parting sceuc.
The next day the New York
steamed out of the harbor, with Mar
guerite and Mrs. Dallas on board, and
Mark Thornton waving a last fare
well to the two figures standing upon
deck.
Hewatched the ver.sel until it was out
of sight, then turned away, & feeling
of sadness lying upon his heart like a
stone. i
"I shall never see her again, my i
poor, lost darling," he said, hopeless- J
ly. "I feel it. know it! Oh! Rita! i
Uita! my heart will break. This part- '
mg is more than I can bear!"
Hut he was a man, with a man's
strong heart and capacities for en
durance; sj he went back to his lone-
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outhamrjton. and were tn sr !
. rail to the terminus of their journey, j
i Rita was as well as usual, onlr Yer
tired and weak. The letter broujrhta '
tinv raj- of sunlight into his lonely
heart, and pave him courage for the
future.
Many weeks went by, and at last j
letters ceased to come. One night, in 1
the silence and darkness of his lonely
chamber, Mark Thornton awoke from
a troubled dream. A dream in which
he had seen his loved one lj'ing cold
and dead before him her blue eyes
closed forever, the white hands folded.
He awoke with a nervous start, to
find the corner of the room opposite
bis bed, brightly illuminated. With a
VISION.
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stifled exclamation he started up, aild
there before him faintly outlined
against the wall, a figure was dimly
visible. It looked like the figure of ft
woman; and as he sat with dilated
eyes fastened upon the apparent ap
parition, he was startled by the sound
of a voice a low, quivering voice,
sighing upon the silence, like the wail
of a wind-harp:
"Mark!" it said in tremulous accent;
"my beloved; I have come back to
you!" 4
And there in that strange, weird
light, he Caught a glimpse' of a fade; a
pale, wan face; with an unearthly
light upon it, and great, sad bind eyefe,
and a cloud of sunny hair streaming
over graceful shoulders. The face of
Marguerite Clyde the iovc at his life.
Trembling, agonized, be sprang to
his feet, and rushed to the corner" of
the room where the figure had seemed
to be. But it was gone no trade of
am livinsr creature.
His window stood open; he went
over to it and leaned "upon the sill,
and let the cool night breezes fan his
troubled brow. She was dead, itita
his Rita he felt certain of it She
was dead and her freed spirit had
come to him as she had so
often declared that she would come
to look upon his face once more. Stun
ned, paralyzed with intense suffering,
Mark Thornton sank upon his knees
before the open window and prayed
for help and comfort. He was weak
and nervous, and to his troubled heart
the vision appeared so real the sound
of her voice so palpable that he
could not shut out from his heart the
conviction that the woman he loved
was no more.
All night he walked the floor of his
room, his head bowed, his heart bleed
ing with bitter anguish. It was so
cruel! He had worked and striven
bravely. At homo till was ready at
last for his darling; and now, right in
the moment of his victory when for
tune had smiled upon him, and all the
world seemed fair and cloudless, she
must die.
In vain did he reason with the
strange superstitious fancy. It had
taken root in his mind, and added to
the vague uneasiness was a more tan
gible trouble.
He had not received a letter from
Marguerite in many days. It must be
true, then, she was dead; and oh,
heaven! how could he ever learn to
live without her?
Morning dawned upon as terrible a
night as man ever passed through.
With the morning came an urgent
.summons to another city, a business
summons. lie leit on tne tirst tram,
and ten days elapsed before his re
turn home. All this tima he suf
fered intensely acutely.
She was dead; he was positive of it.
The thought plunged his soul into the
blackness of despair.
He returned home at last, and, once
in his office, the first object that
greeted him was a cablegram. He
dared not open it his heart failed
him his hand shook. Pale and trem
bling he stood holding the fatal docu
ment in his hand, when there was a !
rap at the office door. His lips moved, !
but no sound escaped them; the knob
turned, the door opened.
Dllc glanced up and a wild cry
escaped him. Was he mad? There,
before him, standing upon the thres
hold framed in by the open door, was
Marguerite his Marguerite! Upon
her cheeks the faint tinge of return
ing health; the pallor and languor
gone; in short, no longer an invalid,
but perfectly restored.
Words cannot portray that meet
ing. The cablegram, which had been
waiting for him for ten days, had
announced her intention of sailing
upon the steamer Granada, returning
home, with restored health home to
her loved one.
And from that day to this, Mark
Thornton maintains a discreet silence
whenever the subject of spiritual
manifestations is mentioned. He is
convinced that they arc all optical
deceptions, and delusions, and snares.
A Lover Nook.
A Kentucky man sent hia sofa to a
furniture dealer to bo renovated;
tho following articles were found be
tween the bacK and cushion: Korty
seven hairpins. three mustache
combs, nineteen suspender buttons,
thirteen needles, thirty-live cigar
ettes, eight photographs. 217 pins,
seventy-six grains of coffee, forty-
seven cloves, twenty-seven cuu but
tons, six pocket knives, fifteen poker
chips, a via! of homeopathic medi
cine, thirty-four lumps of chewing
gum, lifty-nino toothpicks, twenty
eight matches, thirty-nine collar
buttons, eleven neckties, two love
letters, a few pieces of candy, two
dimes, thrco quarters, one nickle.
eight buck'es, five lead pencils, ono
pen and four button hooks.
A Genuine Hero.
A party of youiiir men were telling
what they would do were they
wreck. d far out at sea, and left buf
feting the waves without a plank to
assist them.
Each one gave his opinion except
Paddy Murphy, who, after being
asked for his, replied:
'13edaJ. ye cowardly set of spal
peens, ve'd lx: afther savin' ycrselvcs
an' not thryin' to save another.
Why, it's Paddy Murphy that would
swim ashore an1 sao himself, and
thin come back an' thry to save an
other. Sunday Mercury.
Gentle uml Docile.
Theic is a mistaken impression it
regard to tho nature of the blood
houn '. Most people imagine this
kind of a dog to be very ferocious,
when on the contrary, it is as docilo
as almost any other breed known.
The writer has raised a great many
of the finest strains of bloodhounds,
and has found them as domestic and
gentle as a dog should be.
Mis Lilly Flapjack ltrinikol.
Gus Do Smith recently called at
the residence of the Widow Flapjack.
The widow and her daughter. Lilly
Flapjack, received Gus in the parlor.
Mr. Do Smith, don't you think I
resemble my mother?'
Lilly," said Mrs. Flapjack, sharp
ly, "don't display your vanity and
egotism so much."
Y here Ice Is Always in Demand.
The consul at India in his recent
report states that the first ice factory
in India was built in Agra, about
70) miles from Bombay. There have
sinco been thirty-fourbuilt through
out that country, which never fail
from want of customers.
A COMEDY OP ERRORS.
That ITas Enjoyed by Ail Tarts St Oae
Wbnlari and tKa rftlict.
Paris is shaken with mirth ovof
the tribulations of a commissary of
police, says a correspondent o the
Philadelphia Telegraph. A certain
lady went to the Bon Marcho tho
other day and stolo a quantity of
valuable lace. Sho was arrested
forthwith and turned over to tho
police Tho culprit was invited to
dino that evoning, and bogged tho
authorities to lot hot notify her ex
pectant host, but as the authorities
aro not tender to thieves they calmly
ignored her request That evening
M. l'rclat. tho police official from
the left bank of tho Seine, hired a
cab and Went to tho guilty woman's
rooms.
There ho found so many stolen
goods that ho rummaged through tho
entire place, and packing all tho
stolen effects in a big black trunk
-got his cabman to aid him in taking
it down to tho carriage. The next
morning tho gentleman whose din
ner was spoiled by tho absenco of his
fair guest called to see what was tho
matter. Ho rang and pounded un
nvaUingly. so the concierge produced
a pass key, and they both stood
aghast at tho tcrribln condition of
the department The case was plain;
a malefactor, probably an anarchist,
had ono in on soma pretext; the
disorder of tho room denoted that
she had fought desperately for her
life, but ho had murdered her
and stuffed her corpse and all of
tho valuables ho could find into a
missing black trunk.
The friend lleW off with cries of
despair to notify tlte police of tho
quarter of this awful crime. Tho
concierge related the whole affair
to a knot of curious bystanders which
speedily expanded into a dense
crowd. Tno police tooic down tho
description of the criminal who stolo
tho black trunk and tho description
of the cabman who drove a white
horse, ordered tho locks changed on
the apartment so that no one could
enter without the knowledge of tho
police, and then withdrew with dig
nity. Half an hour later, while tho
crowd was till staring at the murder-stained
house, tho cab with tho
white horse drove up to the door,
and the supposed murderer alighted.
He was instantly denounced by tho
irato concierge, and boing utterly
unconscious of his own supposed
misdeed, was nearly lynched by the
furious mob before lie riiiflicientlv
TOalls:i.(1 thc situation to produce his
police badge, when the crowd re
spectfully dropped him. Tho unof
fending coinissairo thou found l?im
self locked out of the apartment,
owing to the precautions of fho
police.and was forced to send for his
colleague to open the door for him.
His search for stolen goods was suc
cessful, as ho netted about $o,0J9
worth.
The only people in Paris who did
not perceive tho farcical side of this
situation arc, first, M. Piclat. who
L'amo near being lynched, and was
knocked about roughly by tho mob
for the perpetration of a critno that
never was committed; tho officious
friend, who raised all this bother,
and tin; lady herself, who is gloomily
meditating behind prison bars on
the inconvenience attendant on her
breach of the eleventh command
ment, ' Thou shalt not be found out."
DEHUMANIZED BIOLOGY.
No Other Specie l Thinking About 01
AVorkin-i for Humankind.
Charles Itcade, who said so many
wise and philosophic things, said
ono wise thing which might bo
written in letters of gold on every
building in every city. I quote from
memory: "When 3011 go into a room
you fancy everybody thcro is observ
ing and noticing everything about
you. llut they aro not. They aro
doing just what you aro doing
thinking about themselves.
Darwin applied tho sclfsamo prin
ciple to plants and animals. "You
men fancy." he said in effect, "cery
other specie is thinking about you
and working for you; that corn and
fruit trees bring forth grain and
apples entirely for your sako; that
thorns and thistles aro trying on
purpose to hurt you. Hut thoy aro
not. They aro doing just what you
are doing thinicing about them
selves working for their own kind
and their own offspring. Not for
you or yours docs any part o; oran
of any plant or animal oxist, but
simply and solely for that plant or
animal. Each species tries to util
ize other species for its own ob.ects,
but it never does anything for tho
sake of the other species any more
than you sow corn or plant pip,. ins
out of abstract love for the wheat or
apple tree."
And because IJarwin says he be
came the Copernicus of zoology and
botany. He decentralized and de
humanized biological conceptions.
Xo man of science now ever be
lieves, says (Jraut Allen in the West
minster Ihidget, that any ob.'ejt in
nature is designedly placed there for
1.. V . .t r .1
I lit comer unon the scene of earth.
found tne stage already filled by 1
4 . T .
1 -ll 1 ,
certain plants and animals, with
seeds and fruits and wool and fur
that subserved certain needs in their
own economy, and he made what
use he could out of them. Put not
for man did plant or animal make
them. Old-fashioned people still
ask: "What's the use of such and
such a specie?" No man of science
ever frames that question. Men of
science only ask: "Of what use is
such an organ or structure to the
species that produces it?" And when
they have answered the query they
have done all that science now war
rants them in doing.
liis Explanation.
"Got anv- little job or work ma'am.'
inquired the dusty pilgrim at the
back door, "that I can do to earn a
bite of grub?"
"You've often asked mo for cold
victuals," replied the woman in sur
prise. "Put this is the first time you
ever asked for work."
"Ycs'm,' rejoined the tourist
cheerfully, "I'm on my vacationi"
The Secres Mistake.
"inat, ioriune xeuer must nave ;
thought I was an heiress." j
T, .. ... .. I
"N hy. dear.-" I
"She said I was
to marry a poeti
and live happily ever afterward,
AN EDITOR ON LINCOLN.
HORACE WHITE TELLS HIS
VIEWS TO KATE FIELD.
lie Was an Intimate Acquaintance of
the llllnolsan for Seven Yea r.4 Some
thing About tho inside History or a
Famous Speech.
It is easier to catch a ttoascl
asleep than to interview ono who " l" weV " " -
causes others to undergo tho inter- ?nd a (ox" "'f lro ,of a St yoi
viowiug operation. But I caught a I low cooi uml slouch a,"njr as lf 'h0if
real live metropolitan editor the i susI?ccted ovory o Xhay mot of
other day in most interesting fash-
ion. Wo had driven out to llocle
Creek cemetery to see tho wonderful
statue by St. Guudcns that marks
tho grave of a brilliant woman, and
as wo drove away I asked my escort,
Mr. Horace White, one of the editors
of tho New York Evening Post, what
he thought of tho silent bronzo fig
ure to whieh all Washington visitors
make a pilgrimage.
"It seems to 1110 that St. Caudcns'
statue represents Agnosticism. It
seems to say: 1 do not know
wnciuer tnc.o is a mture state or
not. If there be one. 1 do not know
what is in store for mo. In any
event, I am helpless; to resist or
complain would be useless- That is
all the statue says to me. If this be
the artist's conception it is a work
of genius. At all events St Gaudens'
statiic of Lincoln, in Lincoln park.
Chicago, is si masterpiece. It has
brought out tho inner thought of
Lincoln when about to address an
audience.
"I saw him in that attitude main
times on tho stump in Illinois, and
while I never saw so much dignity
(itul grace of form as the artist has
depicted, it is nevertheless true and
urtistic in the sense already men
tioned. It represents tiu thought
and purposo of Lincoln when en
gaged in a political debaU. Tho
figure is penetrated with truth, high
purpose nnd responsibilit,. Lincoln
never within my personal knowledge
t addressed an audi-mco for the pur
j pose of amusing or entertaining
them. I have read soino of his
1 earlier speeches in which humor was
I tho most striking feature, and I
I have never seen a man whose sense
I of numor was keener:but at the timo
I speak o', his power of ridiculing
un opponent was rarely exercised.
When ho presented himself to an
audience seriousness was in all his
1 ways. He seemed to feel that all he
said would havo some iniluouce upon
the nation's fate. This feeling was
1 so expressed in face and gesture
that his hearers wcro penetrated
I with it by sympathy . That is why I
say St. Gauden's statue at Lincoln
park is an inspiration. Ho hasyiven
I it an expression which will go down
j to posterity as tho inmost thought
j and purpose of the man Lincoln."
I "Did you acco r.pany Lincoln on
this campaign in 1S5.S?"
"Yea; somebody had to write it
I up and I was selected by tho editors
of tho Chicago Tribune. Accord
1 iiigly I presented myself at the first
I meeting of his regular campaign and
l followed it to the end. Of course,
i the seven joint debates, where both
I Lincoln and Douglas spoke, were at
tended by a great number of news
I paper men from different parts of
1 tho country, but tho smaller meet
I ings, at which Lincoln alone spoke,
I seldom had any chronicler but my
i self. I noted then, as a remarkable
J circumstance, and I still consider it
so, that Lincoln never repeated him
1 self."
1 'Did he differ from Douglas in
' this respect?"
Yes. all the time. Douglas acted
on the belief that the thing he said
in the beginning touched the vital
' point an I could not be repeated too
often, and I don't know but he was
I right. He certainly won the cam-
' paign."
j "What wan Doug as' plea3"
j "The people of the territories had
tho right to regulate their own do
mestic institutions in their own way '
just as the states had.
"Lincoln's keynote, A house di
' vided against itself, etc,' never was
1 repeated by him unless asked for, be
cause the people understood it. He
launched upon a sea o" debate from
this point, while Douglas repeated
one speech verbatim, except at the
' seven joint debates."
j "Did you compare the two men?"
"Indeed I did. All my sympathies
were enlisted with Lincoln. This
fact predisposed mo to underrate
' Douglas' power.-. Looking back
ward, I now think tiiat Douglas' in
tellectual gifts at least equaled Lin
coin's, while his personal magnetism
' and his power to command men were
far greater. On the other hand. Lin
coln's moral superiority was such as
to dwarf Douglas. L'ncoln never
J could deceive anyone in debate nor
would he allow anyone to be deceived,
! if ho could help it Douglas was a
master of trickery, and dealt it out
everywhere, at all limes."
"Didn't he know how to bo hon
est?" I "The fact is that Douglas was
riding two horses at once North
and South. Deception was mcvita-
.... l
utu
. . ,,
Did you think Lincoln ugly phv-
sically?""
1 "In a room he was awkward.
When speaking his honiv-iy features
became animated and actually hand
some. Ills act. ox: was angular, but
not ungraceful Thought positively
transformed him."'
"What quality of voice hal Lin
coln?" "A thin, piping treble voice that
was heard at a long distance, much
further than Doug!;1.-.' deep, oratori
cal voice."
Was Lincoln companionable?"
"More so than any man I ever
knew. Full of anecdote, full of the
milk of human kindnos. there was
no end to his capa-ity for entertain
ing company. His good fellowship
amounted to genius." Kate Field in
vate Field's Washington.
Onf- l'nrmi!itli?:i.
Pirdio McIIennenin aul her broth
er were at the seashore.
"O. see that " exelaimcl Hirdie.
"Sec what?" inquired the stoical
John.
Why. cc that iittlo cloudlet just
above the wavele4; liko a tinv Inallnt
-----. j
cancing o'er the score."
-O, come, yon hal batter go out
to the numnlet in the. back v.-nillft
and soak your little hcadlet." Texas
I .-iiuii.
t DOCS TAUGHT TO BARK.
Costa Hlcan lz Do Not Do It Naturally
and Mint Iern How.
'Thcy'vo got the queerest dosrs
dowu in Costa Kica you ever hoard
of," said Henry Coy no of Lycoming
county. Pennsylvania, who spent
several years in that tropical coun
try with an engineer corps, to a
Now York Sun reporter. "When
they aro grown thoy aro about the
!1Z ol a ""I" "- . """
I fa? a Vn ,ca" a'7 in;e"won V
, '"stomnff it to their tails lhc
queerest unu? auoub'iuu vu. n-
doss is that if they livo to bo 1.000
years old they can't bark unless thoy
aro taught when thoy aro puppies.
"They navo to teach these dogs to
bark down thoro just as somo canary
birds havo to bo taught to sing.
Whon tho pups aro a couple of weeks
old tho Indians ovory person down
thoro is an Indian, so called tako
them and either put them with a
dog that has learned to bar. so
that they can hear him and imitate
. j him by degrees or bark tho lessons
to tho puppies themselves. lhc
latter is the surest and most satis
factory way to teach a Costa Rican
dog to bark, because a dog dowu
there that has mastered tho voice
that is natural to dojs elsewhere
may not take it into his hoad to bark
once in six months, and if a puppy
doesn't receive lessons in voice cul
ture before ho is six months old ho
will be muto all hi.s life. So the In
dian usually make sure that their
dogs shall bark by giving tho puppies
lessons themselves.
-The funny thing about teaching
these young dogs that thoy havo a
voico is that their instructors can
teach them to bark in any tone.
The eager puppy will imitate tho
sound his Indian teacher emits, no
matter whether it is a deep bass, a
1 mellow baritone, a plaintive falsetto.
or a fiendish shriek or a yell in no
tone at all.
"So you can well imagine that a
family of Costa Kica dogs trained to
sing after the varied methods that
the whims or inclinations of their
teachors dietato may be able to givo
a concert on a moonlight night
which would startlo a stranger when
he first heard it.
A CASE OF BIG
HEAD.
This
Italtiinore .linn Can Not
I'iiul a
I'at to lit Him.
A man with a head two feet ono
and five-eighths inches in circumfer
ence is a curiosity, ami when Moses
Hall, colored, of Owings Mills,
walked into the store of ('. 1J. Pates,
Mr. I'ates was nota little bit surprised.
At first glance Hall's head looked as
if a 1 hat would fit it That is an
unusually largo size, but whon that
hat was tried on it was too small.
Then Mr. l'atos linthouirht himself
of an o'd derby which he had had in
His window off and on for over a
year, with a placard stating that it
would be given to any one it would
fit. Tho size was 7j, which is tho
largest Mr. I'ates has sold in all his
ten years' experience.
After some search the hat was
found and tried on, but to the dis
gust and astonishment of the store
keeper it was too small. It rested
on the back of Hal's head as a ten-year-old
boy's hat would rest on that
of an ordinary man. Mr. Pate then
measured the man's head and found
that it would require a hat H size.
That is twelve sizes larger than the
average hat worn by man. Palti
raorc American.
Large anil Virion lliimiiiliirf I5irl.
Thcro is a species of humming
bird in Carrucca, East India, that is
about the size of a pigeon. It is
very vicious, and the natives say it
subsists almost entirely upon a hard
shelled nut, which it breaks open
with a blow of its wings, all th
while humming loudly.
Falic to tho Lnst.
Miss Wanterneau Do you
that men are born deceitful?
Mrs. Weeds I don't know.
think
Put I
know they die deceitful. When my
husband died I thought he was worth
five times as much as he was.
LORDS OF CREATION.
Each voter in Hawaii must speak
the language lluently and be worth
S 1.000.
"Come, ye disconsolate.'' was by the
famous Irish poet, Thomas Moore, and
appeared in his acred songs in 1S10.
Never bjar more than one kind of
trouble at a time. Some people bear
three kinds all they have had, all
they have now and all they expect to
have.
"I taw several cyclone cellar, while
I was out West." remarked the visitor.
"I)eir me," exclaimed Mrs Tocker,
"who on earth would want to buy a
cyclone .'"'
The oldest members of the French
cabinet are M. Dupuy and M. Del
cas.se, and they aro only VI. The
minister of public works is the young
est being 31.
Mrs. Hanks Is tiiere any one, dear,
you would like to have me marry
when you die? Mr. Hanks No, dar
ling: I hold n-j bitter grudge against
any man living.
"Chinner is a great taiker.isn't he?"
"He is." "Wmildii't you like to know
as much as he know.'" "Well, not
exactly; but I w-juld like to know as
much it) h i think.-, he knows."
'Just as I a:n" first appeared in the
"Invalid:,' Hymn Hook," in l-aO. It
was the work of Charlotte Elliott,
who became an invalid in 1-il and re
mained such until her dath in 171.
Jaquero Roman.), a young Russian
resident of Harlem, New York, has in
vented a chemical process by which
he says almost any fabric folded to
the thickness of in inch can be made
bullet-proof.
She Hefore I consent to marry you,
John, I wish to tell you that people
say I havo a temper. He I don't
mind that. "You d'on't?"' 'No; all
you need to do is to take care of it.
Don't lose it."
A suit for divorce before a Newark,
N. .1., judge, developed the fact that
the complainant, the wife, sought di
vorce on the ground that the erring
husband had ceavd to call her "Pet,"
and now invariably addressed her as
"Yon red-headed tiling." The judge
! mercifully allowed the separation.
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