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WHOLE NUMBER 1,273.
VOLUME XXV.-NUMBER 25.
COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1894.
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NEBRASKA NEWS.
Cedar Rapids is to have a public
library and reading room.
Kearney lias 233 bicycles and of this
number 1.S are of high grade.
A dust storm at Exeter obscured
everything on the streets for an hour.
West Lincoln women of objectionable
stripe have been given orders to move
on.
The supreme court of Nebraska will
take up the Carlcton murder case in
October.
At the Hoopcngarner meetings in
I'lainvicw, just closed, 100 conversions
are reported.
The state association of Congrega
tional churches will meet in Xcligh
October 10th.
Lightning struck the residence of G.
AV. Kndgale of Oakland, but did no
serious damage.
Rev. C P. Hackney and wife of Ash
land were married fifty-eight ycars-ago
September Hi, 1S3I.
John Nightengale killed a rattle
snake at Whitmore's ranch in Douglas
county, l hat measured seventeen feet
in length.
The little son of George Lehman of
Columbus has been taken to the asy
lum at Norfolk. The doctors think he
will recover.
Rarrett Scott, the defaulting treas
urer of Holt county, will not be sen
tenced until October It), and then only
in ease he fails to get a new trial.
Field Secretary Rev. George 11. Tay
lor of Doane college has departed for
New Lnglaud, where his work will en
gage him for four or live months to
come.
The commercial bank at Weeping
AVatcr closed its doors last week. The
rciison is steady decrease of deposits
and inability to collect fast enough to
pay depositors.
The body of David Snively of lur
chard, 7t years old, was found in a cel
larway where the old gentleman had
fallen and died, it is supposed, from the
effects of the fall.
General Miles, Senator Sheiman and
Dan Lamont passed through O'Neill on
their way home from the wilds of the
west. '1 hey have been hunting in the
hills and inspecting forts.
The preliminary hearing of Jesse
Wheeler at Fremont on a charge of
stealing a cow from A. K. Dame, re
sulted in Wheeler being bound over for
trial in the district court in S500 l.omls.
Schuyler has a very prosperous so
ciety, having for its object tlie care of
the poor of the city. its president is
Mr. ISryant, anil good work is being
done in preparation for the coming
winter.
"V. F. Rox 21, Klba, Neb.," wants
a wife. He is fat, healthy, wise and
temperate, but has neither beauty nor
moi!c3'. Anyone thinking him a de
sirable "catch" can probably have him
by asking.
Sarpy county teachers have an inter
esting program in view for their next
meeting, which is fixed for October 12
and 13. Among other things, Mr.
John Speedle will expose the new in
come tax system.
The injunction suit against the SHH),
000 school bonds, successfully prose
cuted by William Fullerton was finally
disposed of last week, the supreme
court overruling a motion for rehearing
made by the attorney of the school dis
trict. Al Woodward promised one day last
week to build an opera hou-e for Win
bide if the people of the city would
raise S23t. The money was raised by
the next morning, and work on the
opera house will be begun at once. It
is to be 2x7l feeL
A young man by the name of War
ner, residing near Atkinson, acciden
tally shot himself while out hunting
pigeons. The charge took effect under
the right arm and ranged upward into
the shoulder. It is possible that ampu
tation of the limb will prove necessary.
The large warehouse, coal sheds,
machinery ware rooms and a carload of
corn which was on the I'nion l'acilic
side track at Platte Center were totals
destroyed with all their contents. The
lire is supposed to be of incendiary
origin, but nothing definite can be
Mated.
The Citizens' National bank and the
Norfolk State bank have consolidated
The name of the Citizens" National
bank is retained. The new organiza
tion will have G. A. Luikart, formerly
at Tilden, Neb., as its president, while
IL A. Stewart, former cashier of the
State bank, will be the new cashier.
Eleven stock trains from Wyoming
and western Nebraska passed through
Fremont one day last week over the
Elkhom road lor Chicago and South
Omaha. The shipment of stock will
last about ten days longer, when the
bulk of it will be marketed and the
roads will be practically out of a job
for a -niiilc.
Sam Wymore went into the barn of
Louis Fink, near Wymore. and hitch
ing a team to a wagon load of wheat,
struck out for Kansas. He was easiir
traced the next morning by wheat
streu n along the road, it having leaked
out of the wagon. He drove to Oketo
and sold the grain for less than S3 and
started on the return trip, but was
captured.
Money will never be very plenty in
Nebraska so long as people send all their
money outside of the stale for goods.
l'atroni.e home institutions: Far
rell v. Co's brand of syrups, jellies, pre
serves and mince meat; Morse-Coe
boots and shoes for men. women and
children: American Riscuit & Manufac
turing Co., Omaha, crackers.
John Schultz, who was seriously
wounded in a shooting allray near
Schuyler some six weeks ago, has been
improving so slowly that it was consid
ered advisable to remove him to a med
ical institution in Kansas City, which
was accordingly done. His cliauces of
recovery are not Uatteriug.
Thieves visited the farm of Fred Mer
edith, about three miles west of Ne
braska City, and butchered one of his
choice porkers. The men were traced
to that city and otlieers arrested Jack
Garie and two other men named Raker
and Rennett- The dressed porker was
found in a cistern at Rennctt's resi
dence. Herman Meyers, a well to do farmer
living about twelve miles from Lincoln,
now watches his stockyard with a shot
gun and woe to him who trespasses
thereon. A few nights since some
thieves entered his enclosure and drove
off eight of his fine porkers. He thinks
they went to Lincoln.
As train No. 2 pulled in at Friend the
other day Arthur Evans, in attempting
to board one of the cars, lost his hold
and fell against the trucks. One side
of his face is badly bruised and mang
led. Had the engineer not have
promptly applied the air brakes lie
would hare been kilted by the rear
truck passing over him.
Dr. William L. Cameron's b irn in
Palmyra, burned last week with a loss
of $300. His Hamblctouian horse Re
deemer and nine other raluable horses
and eolts, with sulkies and harnesses,
were saved. The fire started in the
hayloft. It is supposed to be uue to
mice, matches and clothing.
A Washington dispatch says: Ne
braska fourth-class postmasters were
today appointed as follows. Rutler,
Ruffalo count3', A. T. Davis, vice T. 11
Williams, resigned; Eessc.v, Gosper
county, J. M. Ralcom, vice R. S. Allen,
resigned; Glcnwood, Ruffalo county,
William Kaye, vice C. I Coke, resign
ed; Walnut, Knox county, Mart 31c
l'ikcn, vice W. G. Fredericks, resigned.
A man was found near the railroad
track in Rroken Row. He was in an
unconscious state. The left side was
paralyzed, his face bruised and left eye
swolen shut. From letters on his per
son it is thought his name is Robert
RIair of Sumner. He was in all prob
ability riding on a stock train and fell
from the cars while they were running
at a rapid rate.
Mr. and Mrs. Joel Parcel of Fremont
celebrated the ",oth anniversary of their
marriage. This worthy old couplo has
lesided in Fremont for many years,
and have the veneration and respect of
the entire community. Itcv. F. M.
Sisson delivered a neat address appro
priate to the occasion, and presented
! them with a purse of $00 that had been
contributed by friends.
1 Frank E. Swanson of South Omaha
came very near losing his life. He was
on a motor car returning from Omaha.
On Twenty-fourth street between L
and M his hat blew off. He jumped
from the car before it stopped and his
left leg was drawn under the wheels
and crushed from the ankle to the knee.
He was taken to the hospital, where
the leg was amputated just above the
knee.
J. M. Delaney of Nebraska City has
been given the contract for tilling the
trestle on the east end of the C. R. fc .
bridge at that place. The eontraet
calls for KO.OJO yards of dirt to be re
moved from the cut on the west side of
the bridge. There were several steam
shovel men bidding on the work. The
contract specifies that only Nebraska
City men and teams shall be employed
in the work.
Hon. Church How's barn burned in
Nemaha county last week. There is
no theory as to how the lire started.
The horses were all saved, but about
000 tons of hay. 2,000 bushels of wheat,
0(-0 bushels of oats, with several bug
gies and wagons, were destroyed. It
took hard fighting to save the house.
The loss will be about $12,000 and the
insurance is $000. It was the best barn
in the county.
William Crile, a farmer living two
miles northwest of Renuington, met
with a horrible death while digging a
well for his neighbor, James hnydcr.
Crile had been working for several
days and was down to a depth of
about eighty feet. He went to work as
usual, but he had not worked long
when the two men who were handling
the windless let go of the bucket,
which fell to the bottom, striking Crile
on the head and killing him instantly.
In the district court at Wilbur, a ver
dict for $1,300 damages was given
against the city of Friend in favor of
the estate of David R. Hiirlcigh, de
ceased. In December, l'.M, as Rurlcigh
was going home after night ho acciden
tally stepped on" an unprotected elevat
ed sidewalk, dislocating his spine, from
which he died February lit following.
The heirs sued for $3, 00 J damages ami
got a verdict for $1,300. The ease will
bo appealed.
V. C. Carr, one of the pioneer resi
dents of Harvard died last week. He
was quite advanced in years and had
been in somewhat feeble health during
the past year, though able to be about
most of the time, lie retired the other
night in usual health. His daughter
found him unconscious when she called
him to breakfast next morning and in
a few moments he passed peacefully
away. Heart failure is presumed to be
the cauc of death.
The new Catholic church at Hum
phrey was dedicated last week with ap
propriate and elaborate cxereises. The
building was erected at a cost of near
ly $30,000 in a little town of about TOO
inhabitants and is the finest church ed
ifice in Nebraska outside of Omaha. It
was dedicated entirely free of debt.
The Catholics are very strong in that
community and many of them are in
excellent financial circumstances. It is
a rare thing that so costly a church is
built in so small a town.
Joseph Ricka wa killed by an Elk
horn freight train a short distance from
Rruno. When the train stopped at Lin
wood the engineer discovered blood on
the tracks while oiling up. The cars
were examined and traces of blood dis
covered on them. This was reported
to the dispatcher at Fremont and he
sent out some section men with a hand-
ear.
lien witiun about a Halt of a
mile of Rruno they found the body of a
man. The head and trunk were inside
the rails and the lower extremities on
the outside. The body had been cut in
two.
September was a red letter day for
Nelson, although cloudy and threat
ning. The crowd began to gather
early and by noon fully 2.30!) strangers
were on the streets to enjoy the pro
gramme and picnic of the old settlers'
association. The meeting was a grand
success. All parties were highly enter
tained. The speakers were all well re
ceived. II. W. Short delivered the ad
dress of welcome, ex-Governor Thayer
talked of "Citizenship," W. A. ReVg
stresser of "Nuckolls Countv." Colonel
Correll of "The First Trail" and Rev.
Tys.ni of "A Rackward Glance of
Forty-four Years."
1'iesident U. W. Furnas and Secre
tary John A. McMurphy of the Terri
torial Pioneer association of Nebraska
have called a special meeting of the as
sociation to be held at the Fniversity
building, Lincoln, Tuesday evening Oc
tober li. The object of the meeting is
to perfect and strengthen the organiz.a
tion. settle on a regular program, best
time of meeting, eta, aud to hae a
good time generally, by means of this
reunion of the earliest settlers in the
state now alive. The society was formed
at Lincoln, in May, 1.-U2, at the cele
bration of the twenty-fifth anniversary
of Nebraska's statehood.
Since Custer county four years ago
instituted a bounty for the scalps of
wolves captured in the county, the
number of applications has been grow
ing at an increasing ratio. Not many
days ago 101 scalps were brought be
fore the board. In lsUl $1,130 was
paid in bounty, and in the first half of
the present year the amount was no
less than $3.1)41. The question of re
scinding the bounty offer is now being
agitated.
The Columbus law and order league,
having stopped Sunday base ball, is
now out with llaming posters offering
$23 reward for the conviction of saloon
keepers violating the Sunday law.
As an cvidenceof the interest created
by the publication, says the Fremont
Tribune, of the official report on the
examination of a Russian thistle for
warded to the agricultural department
at Washington, it, may be stated that
two more samples have been sent to
the Tribune for identification. One
was brought in by C. T. 11 or ton from
Scribner. His was the Ruffalo thistle,
such as was forwarded from Pleasant
Valley. The other came from isner,
and was sent by Geo. F. Godell, who
secured it from the manager of J. I..
Raker's business there. The latter is a
sample of the genuine Russian thistle.
A
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extrcmelr
sorry. Jack, but
circumstances
over which I
have no control
will render it
necessary that
we should"
"Then vou don't
love me!"
"Now, Jack,
that's unkind."
"Rut it's true!"
"No, it isn't true, not one bit of it,
and you know it. Haven't I engaged
myself to you in spite of papa's cold
ness and mamma's positive hatred?"
"Hum!"
"Haven't I stood by you in spite of
everything people said about you?"
"AH lies!" cried Jack, hotly.
"I know it," said Adele, laying a
loving hand on his coat collar. "I
have always said that you did love me
and were not careless and idle and
improvident anil"
"And yet, when I ask you to marry
me, you say 'No.' Do you call that
love?"
"I call it common sense, Jack. Why,
you know you haven't anything but
your salary of fifteen hundred dollars
a year."
"Love in a cottage with a crust,"
began Jack.
"You know," she cried, "vou detest
suburban life, and like
ciinmpagne
better than crusts. Oh, Jack, do be
reasonable! Papa is not unreasonable,
and he loves me dearly. Mamma will
come round in time, aud then we can
have a decent wedding."
"That's enough," said Jack, calmly,
taking his hat, "We will not discuss
this matter any further, Adele "
Jack Ashton passed out very haugh
tily. "There isn't much for a fellow like
me to do," he said to himself, "and I
suppose I'll have to enlist as a soldier.
Still that wouldn't do. Precious little
soldiering, and plenty of wood-chopping
and road-making. If there was
only a war!"
It was the afternoon of the third
day. He had been to the park in the
morning, and had walked back. There
was a strange dizziness in his head,
and his kuees knocked together more
than once, and twice his eyesight
seemed to be leaving him. He was
hungry: he had not eaten for nearly
three days, but he thought he was
dying.
It gave him a eertain sort of grim
satisfaction. He would not have taken
his own life, but if death would come
without his direet aid And then he
looked at his reflection in a plate
glass window and shuddered.
It would never do to die in such
plight His clothes were dusty, his
boots grimy and scuffed, and he had
not been shaved for three days.
A by street ran off the thorough
fare, and half way down a slender red
and white striped pole protruded from
a door. Jack sauntered down to the
shop.
"Shave? Yes sir," said the barber,
in a voice quite in keeping with his
looks.
"A pleasant day." said Jack, dreari
ly, as the barber lathered him deftly.
"Exceedingly pleasant," said the
barber. "The weather is one of the
few things we can enjoy without
price."
The idea struck Jack as original,
and he smiled for the first time in
three days.
"In this world," pursued the bar
ber, "where a man has but one life,
and that of humble origin, he has to
iiIWHJI HJi
I c3 -Z.J- . -j I titifif
iifei:
HIS VOICE HAD STKKXOTH nXOl'CH TO
ci:v, "itEi.r! mlrdf.k!"
light for what others more favored
can have for asking."
"A Socialist!" said Jack to himself,
with the natural contempt of a bank
clerk.
"Therefore," continued the barber,
beginning on Jack's chin, "it is for
tunate that this life is but one of a
cycle: that the Karma of to-day is
but a preparation for another life; or
perhaps. Nirvana, who knows?"
"Ry heavens! a Ruddhist!" exclaim
ed Jack to himself.
The barber turned his limpid eyes
full upon him.
"Not exactly," he said gravely. "1
am a Theosophist."
Jack gave a little start and then a
cry of pain.
"I have cut you. or rather." said
the barber, apologetically, "you have
cut yourself. It is nothing a mere
scratch. No, sir, Theosophy. I con
ceive to be a civilized Ruddhism with
none of its faults and all of its virtues.
At the reincarnation a man may be
come either a god or the vilest im
aginable object. That canary in ths
cage mav have onee been a svbarite, a
trirler." "
Jack opened his blue eyes in amused
contemplation.
"Do you really believe such rub
bish?" he asked, with a smile on his
face.
"Certainly," replied the barber,
gravely. "I have already traveled
part of the way to Nirvana. I have
twice achieved Dhyana, during which
I saw my past stages of existence. I
was a Carthagenian general once, and
ages ago I was a tiger. I have ban
ished desire, love, hate, all the hu
man passions. I am a negation, with
no attachment for existence."
"Yet you exist?" ventured Jack,
feeling that he must say something.
"I have disposed of my business,"
said the barber, quietly. "I have
sold everything except the bird; I
shall give him his liberty before I go.
You are the last man I shall shave."
"Ah. indeed?" said Jack, making an
effort to rise.
fK lit-' "s.'iuir 1 1 .11 i i j n
"Pardon mc I have use for yon,"
the barber said; "you are necessary for
my entrance to Nirvana. I had a
fancy," pursued the barber, running
his thumb along the edge of the razor
and smiling, "to shave a certain num
ber and leave toit the determination
of the sacrifice to Ruddah. By inspira
tion I hit upon a perfectly just and
equitable plan. The third of last
July was my birthday, and from that
day I began to keep account of the
number of shaves. I set apart the
number of one thousand and marked
the thousandth for sacrifice. Yon
have the luck of being the thousandth
shave, sir."
"Rut," said Jack, and his tongue
seemed to thicken in his mouth.
"Oh. there seems no mistake,"
said the barber, cheerfully. "That
would not have done at all.
Sec, now, it is the fourth
of September nine weeks to
day. Just nine weeks I regard that
as significant."
Was it Jack Ashton who only a few
hours before had been contemplating
death with stoical resignation? Here
it was now a quick almost painless
death. What made his head buzz so
and the canary's pipe seem like a clar
ion trumpet?
"There is only one drawback to
your plan. You have made a mistake
in your calculations. This is not the
one-thousandth shave."
For the first time the barber's face
showed a gleam of anger.
"Impossible!" he said sharply. "I
have gone over the sum too often to
make a mistake, although I am not an
expert at figures."
4I am." said Jack, calmly, "I am a
bank clerk and never made a mistake.
I tell you your count is wrong it is
nine hundred and ninety-nine. What!
do yon still doubt me? Give me a
piece of paper and I will convince you
in a minute."
"It is very strange," muttered the
barber, as he laid down the razor and
opened a drawer in search of a blank
piece of paper. The eloth that the
barber had tucked under his chin was
of cotton, but it answered Jack's pur
pose. With a bound he was out of the
chair and had flung the cloth over the
barber's head. Then, with all the
strength of fear, horror and rage, he
struck with his fist the mu filed figure
and it fell against the cup rack with
a great crash. His knees gave way as
he dashed across the street, but his
voice had strength to cry, "Help!
Murder!" before he fell upon the
pavement.
Quickly a crowd collected.
"Save me a madman!" he gasped.
A policeman elbowed his way
through. Jack pointed feebly and
shudderingly across the way, where
the barber stood calmly by his chair.
The policeman shook his head doubt
ingly, as he crossed the threshold to
investigate.
"I've been told," said he, with a
smile.
Then the smile died upon his lips.
"The thousandth shave!" ericd the
barber as he sprang at him with an
open razor.
The policeman had just time to
strike up the arm with one blow and
the next he brought down with killing
force on the maniac's head.
"Adele!"
"Jack! Oh, I knew you'd come
back! And, oh, Jack, I don't know
why, but I think papa is more in
clined to like you, and I heard mother
say that"
"No matter now. Adele. Tell me
you forgive me?"
"Forgive you, Jack? Why what
makes yon look so pale? Have you
been ill?"
"I've been nearly dead," said Jack.
And then he told her all.
Kiddy Silting on Kite Kitten.
An attendant at the Rome Stato
Custodial asylum a dav or two ago
found a hen with singular maternal
tastes. The hen had shown a groat
predilection to set and was finally
found on a nest in the barn. The at
tendant took her out of tho nest and
was amazed to find that she had been
setting on five wee kittens. The
hen evinced so strong an affection
for her queer family that it was al
most impossible to keep hor away
from the nest. In spite of the pains
taken she was back on tho nest
again tho next day, but all except
one of tho kittens had been taken
away. It is supposed sho came
across the kittens in their home and,
after driving tho mother away,
a lopted them as her own. and that
when she was taken oil the nest the
old cat carried all but one of her
kittens away. Rome, X. Y., Sen
tinel. Ilp Had an Object.
Miss Lauderdale, who has just
been saved from drowning How can
I thank you sufficiently, my dear
Mr. Do Muir, for having saved my
life? I shall never forget your cour
age and unselfishness in jumping
overboard for my sake.
Re Muir, very much confused Er
er nothing at all. Don't mention
it. Miss Lauderdale. Er er the ob
ligation is mine. Any fellow would
be glad of the chance to get in the
j water on such a hot night Brook
lyn Life.
She Didn't 1.1k It.
Did you ever see a play. Aunt
Martha?" asked a lady of an elderly
aunt from the country, who was
spending a week in the city.
"Yes, Anne, I did." was the reply.
When your uncle and rac .vas mar
ried we come to tho city on our bri
dal tower, and we went to see one
of Mr. Shakespeare's pieces called
How Do Y'ou Like It?' and I didn't
like it a bit, and I ain't been since."
A a Moral Agent.
Belle I'm so glad Jack has got a
bicycle, it has helped his disposition
wonderfully.
Nan His disposition? Why, how
could it?
Belle Oh, when he gets up to
give baby a drink and step3 on a
tack he is so glad that it is in his
foot instead of his pneumatic tiro
that he doesn't swear at alL Cour-
I icr-Journal.
l-'iicltlvc Train.
"Fugitive trains" were added to
railroad nomenclature during tho
big strike. It applied ,o freights
that started out for a certain desti
nation not knowing whether they
would "get there' or somcwheie
else.
DATE ECKMANS COON.
BEFORE IT BECAME A PET IT
WAS RAMPAGEOUS.
John Gilbert, tho Travell.i- Grocery
man, Tells an Interesting Story Con
cerning n Schuylkill Connty Hunter
and One of Ills Friend.
"Davo Fekraan ol Schuylkill
county has a pet coon that ho thinks
tho world of," said John Gilbert,
tho traveling grocery man. "and yet
before that coon becamo a pet it
tried its level best to kill Dave, and
between itself and a tight-fitting
hollow log tho coon camo tolerably
close to carrying its intention to a
successful end. Dave Fckman. as
local fame lias it, is a great hunter
in that part of Pennsylvania. 1'e
lives in Rush township, and his
neighbor. John Hornbergcr, keeps a
good many chickens.
"The opposition of a fox to Horn
be rgcr's poultry raising continuin,',
Hornberger consulted Dave Kckman.
'Til go now,' said Dave, 'and
you can go 'long and soo me do it if
you want to.'
Hornberger said ho wan to 1 to.
and so Davo called his two dogs and
they started out to slay the fox.
This was in March, and there were
hero and there patches of snow on
tho ground. After the party had
gono a couplo of miles or so one of
the dogs and Hornhergcr got
tcparatcd Irom Dave and tno oth.'r
dog. Neither Davo or Hornherjjcr
can say just how this occurred, but
it occurred.
-Then Dave and tho dog I'eto wont
on. I'hey went may be a mile. Then
the open end of a hollow log filled
tho line of vision between Dave aud
what was on the further sido of the
log. This opening was no Ies.-J than
two feet across, and the 1 g was all
of twenty lcet long. The dog Pet
went up to tho opening'! sniffed at
it, stuck up his bristles, growled,
and then disappeared within the
hollow log.
Can't ha that th-i fox is fool
enough to crawl into that log,' said
Davo. Wonder if h ha.;?'
From out. of the hollow tree the
mud'ed sound of a dog's lni'k came
fitfully for a minute o.- so. and t.en
the sounds that issued were those of
a dog in dire troublo and distress
'Thunder!' said Dave. -That
careless dog ha--eed a wildcat in
a holler log! Now I've got to go in
ami save his bacon and choke that
wildcat dead!'
"Dave took oTinn-it all his clothes
and crawled something like te.i feet
into the log. Tnere ho came to a
narrow place in tho hollow on the
other ido of which his dog was in
combat with some active and deter
mined animal, and the coinb..t was
as terrific as the closo quarters
would permit. Dave squeezed half
way through the narrow spue;
From the wa; things sounded Dave
thought it would bo only doing jus
tice to his family if ho withdrew
from the log then and there, and let
the dog have it out with the animal
that he had, without p evocation,
dist irbcd in his- lair. Rut Dav?
found that while he had, with com
parative case, squeezed forward
through the narrow passage in the
interior of the log, he. couldn't
squeeze backward through it worth
a cent When Davo appeared on
the scene of battle his dog resigned
the combat in favor of his master,
and cuddled up in tho hollow to
await results. The animal that the
dog had disturbed wasn't abashed at
all at the coming of Dave, but glared
over the prostrato form of Pete and
challenged further fight.
"Davo scrunched and scrimbled
and twisted for an hour, but he
couldn't worm himself out. The
dog Pete lay low, and tho animal at
the far end of the hollow log glared
in fury. Dave had given tip all hope
of getting out of the log alive, when
he heard faintly some one calling:
" 'Dave! Yon, Dave Fckman!'
"Then Davo went to kicking and
scrambling inside tho log, and yell
ing at the top of his lungs. Some
one stuck his head in at the opening
of tho log and sa'd:
" Be you in there, David?'
In hero!' yelled Dave. lf I
ain't in here you can have my farm!
And I'm in here for keeps, I bet you!
And so is Pete! And the wildcat,
too.'
"It was John Hornberger who was
making inquiry about Dave. Somo
how he had missed Davo and the
dog Pete, and after circling round
had got on their tra Ic and tracked
them to the log. When he received
the intelligence from within that
Dave was holed up John tooic off his
coat, crawled into the log, grabbed
Dave by the heels, and after a few
strong and hearty tugs, yanked him
through the narrow pass and drag
ged him out of the log. Dave was
mussed up considerably, and seemed
inclined to lie at full length and be
inert for a while, and undoubtedly
would have resolved himself into
that state if he hadn't seen some
thing else lying at full length and
inert near the log. This was the
carcass of a fox. Dave got to his
feet in a jiffy.
' 'Thunder!' said he. 'John Horn
berger, did you go and kill that fox
yourself?" sr.ys a writer in the New
York un.
" -Yes.' said John. Mc and the
t dog Job done it-'
Pave looked hurt, but before ho
found words to reproach Hornber
ger for doing it the dog Pote came
crawling out of the log. He was
slashed and bloody, and seemed to
feel that he hadn't many feathers in
his cap.
"f'onsarn that wildcat!' exclaimed
Dave. 'He's got to pay for this!'
"Dave hunted up some pine knots,
heaped them about the log. and set
fire to them. The log was soon
ablaze and by and by a bundle of fur
and claws came tumbling out of the
hollow. The dogs wero onto it in a
second.
" 'It's a goll darn p'ison coon!'
shouted Dave.
"And so it was. It fought like a
tiger, and whipped both dogs. Then
Dave threw his coat over it and had
it foul. He carried it home alive,
put it in a cage, and by and by got
to thinking a heap of it. In time it
got tame, and Davo taught it all
torts or things. It is a great pet
now, and smart"
TALE OF A RUBBER DOLL.
rasscngen Indignant by Wlwt Appeared
to He Cruel Treatment.
Tho train was just about to start.
Thoro wero three of us in
tho carriage myself and two
ladies when a young man thrust
himself in. carrying a baby. Ho
looked very young to bo engaged
in such a manner. Young nion of
about 22 years of ago (and ho looked
no order) io not travel about with
babies; at least I never had seen any
before. Ho seemed very awkward
with it, aud it protested every now
and then. Tho two ladle bagan
talking and I listened.
How nice it is for a young man
to bo so domesticated."
Yes, indeed: what a little darling
it is, too so quiet"
Aha! ha-a! ha-a!" remarked the
little darling in a shrill tono.
Shut up!" said tho young gontlo
man. roughly pinching it
Raahaahaaa!" said the baby.
1 he young man gavo it a violent
shako. Tho ladies assumed a threat
ening aspec".
sir." said one of thstn. "babies
in convulsions are not usually treated
in that mauucr.and unlossyou desist
at once I shall feel it my duty to
call the guard."
"I shall do what I like." said tho
young man, and taking the baby by
it long robe, he began to swing it
round an 1 round, so that its iiead
came in contact with the door frame
after each revolution, the shrieking
became terrific.
I got up and pushed him away
from the door; beforo I could put my
head out of the window to summon
the guar!, however, ho had laid his
hand on my arm and placed tho
baby on tho seat of the carriage,
says a contributor to Tit-Bits.
"L- ok here, sir." he said, "you
may call the guard if you like, but
recollect that this baby is mine;
therefore. I've a right to do what I
like with it. It's mine I paid for
if
You what, sir."' I gasped.
The train stoppel. Ho got out,
leaving on tho scat a broken rubber
baby.
A Horned ii:i'c.
S. P. Jeffords ot Waycross. (Ja ,
tells of a peculiar reptilo which he
encountered in that section four or
five years ago. It was a jet black
snako something like six feet in
length, and had tw boras. c.i"h
about three inches in length, an 1 s
situated on the head that they
pointed toward each other. From
observations made on the monstros
ity as it was rapidly disappearing,
Mr. .Jeffords thinks that it possessed
the power of moving the horns at
will.
A IKs-ujrecalil-j llili'.t.
Old Crumpps ' uro that girl loves
you in .tea I of your mumy? Son
Absolutely. Why. sho actually keeps
count of tho kisses I give her. Old
Grumpps -Hum! That':: bad. Hie
mav keep it up after marriage. N.
Y. Weekly.
Gotid I'riday in Chili.
A few years ago no man dared
ride through the streets of any
Chilian city on Good Friday. Even
the cars were not allowed to run.
No sound of human labor was per
mitted to distirb tho religious si
lence. AMUSING TRIFLES.
Judge How old are you. miss? Fd
derly Female I am I am Judgj
Itetter hurry up: eery moment makes
it worse.
Author Well, professor, how do
you like my new play? Critic
Splendid! Wonderful! So realistic!
Especially the burglars in it. Even
their dialogue is stolen.
Friend Yon still employ Dr. Ilarl
head. I sec. .Mrs I)-' Sty L He's ju,t
lovely! My husb.md and I both like
him. When we are ailing he always
recommends old port for my husband
and Newport for me.
Mrs. Litehart My husba-i I gave me
some money this morning. Mrs.
Spendit And are you g ::ig s'ipping
to-day? Mr L. Xo, indee I. no shop
ping for me to-day. I'm going down
town to buy ;-o nething.
In connection with the Chines' oath
a story is told of a ivpres'iitative of
the middle kingd m who onej ap
peared to gi evidence in court. lie
was politely em..iltel as to the
method he wonl I pivfer to b; sworn.
"Oh," sai.l he, with a brea 1th of out
look not common in Sir John Rridgo's
court, "kill 'im coj':. br' ik 'im plate,
smell "im b ink, all samev."
WOMAN'S WAY.
Mrs. Ren ja min G.ilbait'i of Mays
ville. Ky.. rcc ::tly presented her
husband w'th 'i foarth sjt of twins.
Miss Fran-re; E. Willarl attrlb-if-.
her gain in h.aUh an 1 weight to the
fact tlr.it while she was visiting in
England the m i Ij lur cat live
hearty in -als a d:ij.
It frequently happens tiat, t'i ; pret
tiest maiden ; do not obt'tin husbands.
It was thus in ane'ent day;, for it is
well kno'.vn th it the Three Graces re
mained old m:ti 1 ;.
"Who is that man to wiion Mrs
Muehwed is sp aking? SI12 seems to
know him very well. l- h' a eonnej
ttcn?" "A dlsttnt o:r. She was, I
believe, his tceon I wif-."
"Mrs. Rlimb-'i is verv norvoi , about
tilers lining thirteen a. tV; tabh; to
night." "Doo; sJiethin'c something
unpleasant will happjn?" "Yes; .she
has only a do.'-a knives, and forks."
It is very much easier for a girl to
stand before an audieri" r in a white
silk dress anil tii-r cois-.vio'.isn-'ss that
she is looking well, and talk of th
nobil'ty and connive that meet life
boldly, than it is to lie patient while
wishing dishes.
There are now three women physi
cians on the sanitiry corp. of the
New York board of health Drs.
Alice Mitchell, Helen In:ght and
Frances G. Deane. They are under
the same rulei and are required to do
the same amount of bar! work as
their masculine associates.
Woman journalists an f rbidden in
Japan. Rut Japanese ladies do not
lose much by this prohibition, inas
much as the most suessfiil Japanese
writer of serial stories, who spends
his whole day at the de.vc, just inau
ages to make S-1 a month -is, in a
word, passing rich and fam ,us on SCO
a year.
A MOTHER'S ST0EY.
iiirnsEss comes after tears
OF SLTF.KRINU.
The Territdo Experience of Well Known
tinici:irjVlfc A Story That Ap
peals to Every Mother In
the I-nnd.
From the Chattanooga. Tenn., Tress.
No county official in East Tennessee
b better known and more highly esr
teemed than Mr. J. U. Wilson. Circuit
Court Clerk of Rhea County, at Dayton,
the homo of Mr. Wilson. He enjoys
the confidence and respect of all class
es, and in the business community his
word is. as good as hi- lond. Just now
Mr. Wilson is receiving heartiest con
gratulations from his numerous friends
because of the restoration to robust
health or his estimable vife. who has
for years been a helpless invalid. Mrs.
Wilson's high standing in society, nnd
her many loveable traits of character
have won her a host of friends, and her
wonderful recovery has attracted wide
spread attention.
As the 1'rcss was the medium of
bringing to the invalid lady's atten
tion the remedy that has elfccted her
remarkable cure, a reporter was sent
to Dayton to interview Mrs. Wilson, in
order that the general public might
have the benefit of the sufferer's expe
rience and be made aware of the treat
ment that wrought such a marvelous
change in her condition. The reporter
was welcomed at the Wilson home, and
the enthusiastic lady with becoming
reluctance gave the history of her af
fliction and the manner in which she
was relieved:
"Yes," said Mrs. Wilson, "I was for
S years an invalid with one of the most
distrcsing afflictions woman can suffer.
For S years I moped around, dragging
myself with difficulty and pain out of
bed. My little ones went untrained
and were greatly neglected, while I
looked listlessly and helplessly at tho
cheerless prospect before me ami them.
I suffered the most intense pains in tho
small of my back, and these seemed
even greater in the region of tho
stomach, extending down to the groins.
I suffered agony sleeping or awake.
Despair is no word for the feeling
caused by that dreadful sensation of
weakness and helplessness I constantly
experienced.
"I was treated for my trouble by sev
eral local physicians, but they wero
able to give me only temporary relief
i bv the use of sedatives and narcotics.
1 had almost given up all hope of ever
securing nerinancnt relief when I saw
an account in the Press of a cure which
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills had effected.
I decided to try them, as I knew the
lady who had been cured aMl had great
confidence in her statement. I began
to take the pills in October, IS'J.I, and
in two months I was doing light house
work and attending to the children
without any bad effects or weakness,
such :.s I "had formerly experienced.
Hitherto, I had been unable to retain
any food, but now my appetite grew
stronger, aud with it came back that
old, healthv and hearty tono of tho
stomach. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills
cured me and I assure you the cure has
brought a great change in our home.
I can now rejoice in 1113- husband's suc-cc-s,
for I feel that I have something
to live for. Who has a better right to
feel this than a mother? One thing
more. I have recommended these pills
to others, and many of the women of
Dayton have taken them with good re
sults, and it is my greatest pleasure to
recommend to every suffering woman
a remedy that has done so much for
mc."
An analysis proves that Dr. Williams'
Pink Pills for Pale People contain in a
condensed form all the clemcrls nec
essary to give new life and richness to
the blood and restore shattered nerves.
They are an unfailing specific for such
diseases as locomotor ataxia, partial
paralysis, St Vitus' dance, sciatica,
neuralgia, rheumatism, nervous head
ache, the after effeetsof la grippe, pal
pitation of the heart, pale and sallow
complexions, that tired feeling result
ing from nervous prostration; all dis
eases resulting from vitiated humors in
the blood, such as scrofula chronic ery
sipelas, etc. They are also a specific
for troubles peculiar to females, such
as suppression, irregularities, and all
forms of weakness. In men they effect
a radical cure in all cases arising from
mental worry, overwork, or excesses of
whatever nature.
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Palo Peo
ple are now manufactured by the Dr.
Williams' Medicine Company, Schenec
tady, N. Y., aud are sold in boxes (nev
er in loose form by the dozen or hun
dred, and the public are cautioned
against numerous imitations sold in
this shape) at 50 cents a box, or rix
boxes for Srj.fiO, and may be had of all
druggist0, or direct by mail from Dr.
Williams' Medicine Company.
The Frigate Bird.
"I ecc," says 3I: "helot, "a small, blue
point in heaven. Happy and serene re
gion, which lias rested in peace ubovo
the hurricane ! In that blue point, and
at an elevation of 10,000 feet, royally
lloats a little bird with enormous wings.
A feitll ? No, its wings are black. An
eagle ? No, the bird is too small. It is
the wean eagle, first nnd chief of tho
winged race, and daring navigator who
never furls his sails-, the lord of the
tempest, the bconu-r of all peril the
man-of-war or frigate bird. We have
readied the culminating point of the
series, commenced by the wingless bird.
Here we have a bird"which is virtually
ithing more than wings ; scarcely any
body barely as large as the domestic
rx-k while his prodigious pinions nre
fifteen feet in span. The great problem
of Hight is solvul nnd overpassed, for
the power of ilight seems useless. Such
a bird, naturally sustained by such snp
port, need not allow himself to be borne
along. The storm bursts ; he mounts
to lofty heights, where lie finds tran
ouillitv. Thepojtic metaphor, untrue
i -whin applied to any other bird, is no
exaggeration when applied to him ; liter
ally, he'fJccps upon the storm. When
hecliooacs to soar his way seriously, all
distance vanishes ; he breakfasts at tho
Senegal ; he dines in America."
TCarf rinrcr Kxt Tn,
T'iTi-:it i:i1liuiitl-r.Ki-frshn"sn"l-!im"
Utli,jl.on:iiU;xiu:iaiiil:urrt Constipation. :5cSva,9L
Tiik police of New Orleans discovered
an opium-smoking den in the city, and
arrested the Chinese proprietor. Tho
place is said to have had customers who
were well-dre.sfd women.
3 liomrsrekrrit KxctirsIortH .South tI the
Waliasli Kallroad.
On Sept. 11th. 2Cth nnd Oct C-th the
Wnl ash will s-e'l t Meets at half fare plus SJ
to a 1 1 oints in Teiine-s-ee. excort Memphis)
Mir-sissipii. Alabama and Iyiui.-aua, (except
New Or.eansi Arkansa., nnd Texas. For
rates, ti 4-ets or a homeseeers guide riv
inj; full derij tion of lands, climate, etc.,
or for steamship tM;ets to or from nil
parts of KuroiC, tall at Wabash office, 1503
Farnani street, or write
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thing that i not right.
Billiard Tat.le, second-hand. For sa!e
cheap. Applv to or address, U. C. Akix,
ill S. lrith St, Omaha, Neb.
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