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OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS:
Leandek Gerhard, Pres't,
B. H. Henry, Vice Prest,
M. Brugger, Cashier.
John Stauffer. G. W. Hulst.
-OF-
COLUMBUS, NEB.,
HAS AN
Authorized Capital of - $500,000
Paid in Capital, - 90,000
OFFICERS.
O. H. SHELDON. Pres't,
H. P. II. OE1ILRICH, Vice Tres.
CLARK GRAY. Cashier.
DANIEL SCII RAM. Ass't Cash
niBECTORS.
n. M. Wntsr-ow, II. V. H. Oehmiich.
C. II. SnELDON. W. A. McAllister,
cJokas Welch, Caul Uieskb.
stockholders.
B.C. Grat. J. HExnYWcnDEJiAsr,
Gerhard Loskkb, Henry Loseke.
Clark Gray. Geo. W. Galley.
Daniel ScnnAM, A. K. II. OEHLRicn.
Frank Rouek, J. 1. Kecker Estate.
Rebecca Becker.
Bank of deposit; Interest allowed on time
deposits; buy and sell exchange on United
States and Europe, and buy and sell avail
able securities. e shall bo pleased to re
ceive your business. Wo solicit your pat
ronage. -THE-
First National Bank
COZVU2CBTJB. IfEO.
OFFICERS.
ANDERSON, J. H. GALLEY.
President. Vice Pres't.
O. T. BOEN. Cashier.
DIRECTORS.
O.AtfM3t80N, P.ANDERSON,
JACOB OuEIBEN, HENRY BAQATZ,
JAMES G. BEEDER.
SUtenent ef the Craiitira at tkc Closo
ef BKsiHf sb JiIt IS, 1893.
BEsorracxs.
Loans and Discounts. t 24I.4G? 5?
Real Estate Furniture and Fix
tures. .............................. 16,781 SI
U. S. Bonds 15.2.0 0)
Due from other banks $37,676 31
Cash on Hand 21.6G7 56 59,743 S3
Total
$333,100 33
UABnonxs.
Capital Stock paid In
Surplus Fund
Undivided profits
Circulation
jJ()OS1lS
XOlvAvl
... 60.001 00
... 30,000 0)
... 4,070 00
... usoano
... 225.11!) 37
.$333,190 30
HENRY OASS,
UNDERTAKER !
Coffins : and : Metallic : Cases !
S" Repairing of all kinds of Uphol
ttery Goods.
J-tf COLUMBUS. NEBRASKA-
GoHimhiis Journal
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COUNTRY.
L.UKOS OF CREATION.
Doctors statz that at the agj of 50
the brain loses weight.
The hardest work that any man can
undertake is to try to manage him
self. All kinds of fish except the cheaper
Borts eaten by the poor, ara taxed for
revenue in France.
The standing array of Hawaii con
sists of sixty-four inc, three of
whom are generals.
Cincinnati has startc:l a barber
school for g-'rls, wher ; a frz hair cat
snd a shave can be bad for the asking.
COMMERCIAL
SlOO Reward SIOO.
The readers of this paper will be pleased
to learn that there is at least one dreaded
disease that science has been able to cure
ia all its stages,ind that is Catarrh. Hall's
Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure
known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh
being a constitutional disease, requires a
constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh
Cure is taken internally, acting directly
upon the blood and mucous surfaces tof the
system, thereby destroying the foundation
of the disease, and Riving the patient
strength by building up the constitution
end assisting nature in doing its work. The
proprietors nnvo so much faith in its cura
tive powers, that they offer One Hundred
Dollars for any care that it fails to cure.
Send for list o'f testimonials.
Address, F.J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O.
3?" Sold bv Druggists. 75c.
Hall's Family Pills 5c.
Ills Nerds.
"Aaron's boy would do tiptop If he
had a string long1 enough,' said one
neighbor to another.
'I don't know what us;e a business
man can put a string1 to," said neigh
bor Number Two.
"Well, if he could tie up all the loose
ends that he leaves dangling, tie him
self down to his work, tie his pocket
book together, and then tie his tongue
so it wouldn't wag so busv, he'd be as i
useful a man as we have got in town.
Hut I doubt if it can be done. It would
take considerable string."'
The best a man can do is so poor that he
is usually ashamed of himsel".
Pains in the Back
" I had been afflicted for several years with
what the doctors called Diabetes, and suf
fered terribly. The pain in my back was ag
onizing in the extreme. Hood's Sarsaparilla
and Hood's Tills
cufed me. Now
I can go to church
and attend other
meetings w i t h
pleasure. I al
ways keep Hood's
Pills by me. In
my whole life I
never met any-
., 0 ) thing that did me
so luucii uuu as
Mr. John Branston Hood's Sarsana-
rilla. 'Experience teaches a dear school, but
fools will learn by no other.' I was once fool
ish enough to listen lo a druggist who claimed
to have somcthiug superior to Hood's, and
took another medicine. If I had thrown my
dollar in the street I would have been a gain
er." Joux Buanstox, care of John (Irectham,
"Wellington, Ohio. Get Hood.-? because
sTV -
Cures
nnAncii
pari'
Hood's Pills cure Constipation by restoring
the peristaltic action of the alimentary canal.
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ladies
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Over One Million People wear the
W. L. Douas $3 & $4 Shoes
All our shoes are equally satisfactory
They Rive the best value for the money.
They equal custoai shoes In style and fit.
Thsir wearing qualities are unsurpassed.
The prices are uniform, stamped on sole.
From $i to $3 saved over other makes.
If your dealer cannot sunply you wo can.
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BEST IV WIUUIXG
QL'AUTT.
Theoatorortap?o1M'
tends the whole length
down to the heel, pro
tecting the boot in dijr
ginir imJ In other hard
work.
ASK YOUB DEALER
FOB THEM
and don't ho juit off
with inferior Roods.
COLCHESTER. RUBBER CO.
Ely's Grsani Balm
Cleanses the Nasal
Passives. Alias's Pnin
and Imlntnmation,
'Restores the Senses of
Taste and Smell.
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Worms in Horses.
The only sure cure for pin worms In horses "'
Known is iieKeiee s iios unoicra uure. ;secr
fails to destroy worms in horses, hops, sheep
decs or cats: an excellent remedy forsiclc tow is.
Send sixty cccts In United States postage ami I
will send by mail. Cut this out, take it to drug
gist and pay hun fifty cents. Three pac-Vaves
for Sl.50 express paid. G. G. STEKKTKi".
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Cheanlr, Qaicklv and Comfortablv on the
Phillips-nocU Island Tourist KxcurMon
CHEAP, becau-e the rate in Sleepins Car i
but 56.00. QinCK, lecnoe you travel 011 the
fastest trains that run. COaCTOBT, because
you have a through Sleeper.
Fourteen yc:.rs" reiord. Over 100 OiW alrcadv
carried, and all like the ser:ce. Car leaes
De Moines and Omabii every Friday via tne
famous Scenic Soate. A special nianaccr
poes each trip to c:hc for the many ants of
patrons en rout . Wc tan t tell yen half the
benefits in this ad., but for jour California trip
j-ou should post yourself.
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FOR AND ABOUT THE LADIE9.
Dresses are sold by-weight in Japan.
Japanese women are almost wholly
vegetarians.
The girls of Gilliam county, Ore.,
make considerable pin money by
poisoning coyotes and collecting the
bounty on the scalps.
Miss Gould of London Is England's
only female recruiting sergeant. She
works among j-onug thieves arid the
very poor, and has done much good.
Mine, ftejane. the French actress, is
now recognize.! as the setter of the
fashions for laris, it is said. Her
hair is slight- redder than ma-hogan-,
and red hair is all the ratre at
the French capital.
Mrs. Xurich Hovr is .my daughter
making out in her art studies' Artist
Very wcllj Only she lays the color3
on too thick. Mrs. Xurich That's
all right; her father can afford to let
her have all the paints sho wants.
A lady in South Kensington, X. Y.,
has found a new .uss fordoes. One
muddy day lately she was seen in the
street with a parcel in one hand, an
umbrella in the other and an Irish
terrier holding the trail of her dress
in his teeth. He never" let the dress
touch the trroiind.
Young ladies now are making a fa!
of labeling their letters like business
lnen And keeping them in indexed
boxes. Letters to friends in Europe,
epistles to relatives, the gushing let
ters of school origin and the notes,
from gentlemen. coins under separate
headings an.l arc placed in different
boxes.
A story is told of a wealthy but
parsimonious woman who was not
easily alTecteU by the appearance of
miserv. Uehig informed that a hun
gry begg.ir was eating grass in the
front of the house, she exclaims 1:
"Poor man; take him ta the back
yard and let him eat the grass ther.1.
It grows higher."
The bo:ir.i of education of Passaic,
N. J., rec.Mitly made the teaching ol
cooking a regular part of tlfc curri
culum for the upper grades in tiie
female s?hool, Last week twenty
or thirty girls in one of tiie schools
madca;-nl:ul. Then the3' inadvertently
ate it and every blessed one of them
was promptly taken sick.
IN SMALL PARCELS.
Roman ladies liad safety pins closs
iy resembling the modern article.
More than four-lifths of last j-car's
murderers were men of no occupation.
As late as l."il tiie Frencli had no
scenery, and the performers never
left the stage.
Frozen turtle from the South seas
s now on its way from Queensland to
London as an experiment
Tiie most wonderful vegetable in
the world is the trullle; it has neither
roots, stem, leaves, flowers nor seeds.
An Oregon genius has succeeded in
grafting chestnuts on grub oak and
proposes lo fatten hogs on the nuts.
llrcoklyn clothing cutters say r.s
much clothing was made in Sing Sing
prison last year as in all Xew York
city. t
The protection of the deer in Ver
mont will extend until 1900, btit the
farmers say that if there were not a
little hunting the animals would so
increase as to b3 a nuisance before
then.
It is proposed to make the port of
ISristol, Knglan.l. accessable to trans
Atlantic vessels at all times by dam
ming the river Avon at its mouth and
using looks. According to the plans
of the engineers a constant depth of
thirty-two feet can be obtained and
the necessary docks and breakwaters
constructed for SI 1,000,000.
A towering ghot wa laid in Hen
ton, l'a. It was a ten-font stroller in
black, which a colored girl on
her way to a store knocked
in half by hitting the under
lad in the foreiiead with a stone mug
she threw at the apparition. The lal
that stood on l!s shoulders got away
unhurt, but n?ithsr of them will play
ghost again.
Mr. V. L. Dallas reports that the
observations of twenty-five years,
made in the bay of ISetigal by the In
dian government meteorologists.havc
shown that the average temperature
rises during yearo that sun SDots are
numerous and sink when they are
few. When the number of sun spots
cxCeoded the average, the barometric
pressure was less than its average.
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MOWLEDGS
Brings comfort and improvement and
lends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many," who live bet
ter than others and enjoy life more, with
iess expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the world's best products to
the needs of physical being, wili attest
the value to health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in the
remedy. Syrup of Figs.
Its excellence is due to its presenting
in the form most acceptable and pleas
ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of a jterfect lax
ative; effectually cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
and permanently curing constipation.
It has civen satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
profession, becauHJ it acts on the Kid
iicv5, Liver and Bowels without weak
ening them and it is perfectly free from
every objectionable substance.
Svrup of Figs is for sale by all drug
gists in 50c and Si bottles, but it is man
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co. onlv, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup of Figs,
and being well informed, you will not
accept any substitute if oflered.
Great Rock I si find Route
Playing Cards.
If vou send 1.1 cents in stamps orcoin to JXO
SEBASTAIN, Gcn'l I"is. .-er.t. C K. I & P.
Ky. CUlcnco. you will receive postpaid the
slickest iacK of playinc cards you ever handled.
Beaut'ful steel engraved Whist Uules accoin
pans theni free.
l&iSlOiv! Wadjinlosi. D.C.
'Successfully Prosecutes Claims.
Tite Principal Examiner U S. Pension Bureau.
3yniulast war, 13 adjudicataig claims, atty t'uice.
PATERTS
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A NOBLE MGrHfl
AN feKfl'lNENT SOUTHERN LAW
YER'S LONG CONFLICT
WITH DISEASE.
Twenty-flTo Years of Prosperity. Adre
slty and SafTeflns; The Great Vlc
tory Won by Science Over a
Stubborn Disease:
From the Atlanta, Ga., Constitution.
Foremost among the best known lawyers
And farmers of North Carolina stands Co!.
Isaac A. Sups of Greenville. Mr. Sugg has
resided in Greenville twenty-two years.
"While nearly every one in Pitt countv
knows Mr S.'s history, perhaps all do no"t
know of his return to business again after
an illness of sixteen years. No man has
pone through more than he and lived. It
was a case of the entire breaking down of
the nervous system, attended by excruciat
ing, agonizing, unendurable rain. Opiates
and stimulants only quieted temporarily,
and all treatments failed him. Onlv- his love
of family and friends prevented suicide.
He told a reporter the following interesting
story:
"1 kept at my work as long as I could,
but nature pave way at last and I suc
cumbed to the inevitable. My entire nerv
ous system had been shattered by tho
stimulants and opiates I had taken, mv
blood had actually turned to water, mv
weight had dropped from 173 pounds to 123
"and it seemed to everybody that the end
was iu sight. Why, I could not bear the gen
tle hand of my wife to bathe my limbs with
tepi 1 water. I was simply living from hour
to hour. I had made my will, settled my
business aud wailed for the last strand of
life to snap.
"It was at this time that a somewhat
simi'ar case as my own was brought to my
notice. This man had suffered very much
as I had, his life had been despaired of as
mine had, and yet he had iieeu cured.
Think what that little word meant to me
CLTUED. The report stated that the work
had been accomplished by a medicine
known as Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Palo
People. 1 iuvrsticatcd the report thor
oughly and found that it was true in detail.
Then I procured someof Dr. Williams" Pink
Pills and began taking them and began to
pet better. I began to sleep like a health
ful child, sou.nl. calm and peaceful. My
appetite came b:vk and mj" nerves were
soothed and restored to their normal condi
tion and I felt like a new man. But the
greatest blessing was the mental improve
ment. I bcg:in to read and digest, to formu
late new plans, to take an interest in my
law practice, which began to come back to
me as soon as my clients realized that I
was again myself. After a lapse of ten
years I ride horseback every day without
fatigue.
-That Dr. Williams' Pink Pills saved my
I'fe is bevond doubt, and I am spreading
their praises far and wide."
Inquiry about the town of Greenvillesub
tantiated the above facts of Col. Sugg's
ease, and that many others are being bene
fited bv Dr. Williams' Pink Pills.
Dr. Wil iinis' Pink Pills are for sale bv
nil dmepists, or may be had by mail from
Dr Wi liams Medicine company, Schenec
tady, N. Y for 50 cents per box, or six
boxes for 2.53.
SMILE STARTERS.
Visitor Have you any new studies
this term? llo,y Yes'm; I'm studyin'
yclloeut'on.
tones What's the bhf policeman
clubbing' that little man for. Urown
I'ecaii'-e he's little.
Stranger What's the name of this
street? City I5oy Zoobloblezcet.
"Arc you sure?" "Oh, yes; I've heard
the conductors call it out, often."
"I wish you would mark down that
lot of ladies shoes," said tho mer
chant. "Yes, sir," replied the ex
perienced clerk. "In price or size?"
Patron, angrily 1'rnijr me some
lunch, Iletaur.int Waiter lint
you've alrea ly ordered a breakfast,
sir! Patron Yes, but it was break
fast time then.
Friend I wonder, Ethel, that you
allowed that Frenchman to ki-s you
in the cons-rvatory. Ethel I couldn't
help it. Friend Why couldn't you?
Ethel Ilecause I can't speak French.
Mother Johnny! On your way
home from school, stop at the store
and get me a stick of candy and a
bar of soap. Father What do you
want of a stick of candy? Mother
That's so he'll remember the soap.
Physician, with car to patient's
chest There is a curious swelling
over th heart, which must be re
duced at once. Patient, anxiously
That swell.ng is my pocketbook, doctor-
Pleas-w' don't reduce it too much.
IN FOLLY'S WAKE.
He, softly Is your pa in? She,
warningly Yes, but he seems to be
terribly out to night.
Mother The doctor says j'ou must
eat meat and fruit. Sick Hoy Well,
give me some mince pie.
"Was that a friend yon bowed- to
just now?" "Yes, one that I highly
value." "Any special reason?"
"Well, yes: he owes me Sr.OD."
First Lad, threateningly Did you
call me a two-faced thing, did you?
Second Lady, unabashed. Yes. I did;
and wot's more I don't know which
on em's the ugliest.
"Did you hear that Spiffins had lost
his money in a submarine invest
ment?" said Van llraam to Shingiss.
"What kind of an investment is that?"'
asked Shingiss. "He sunk it in a
pool."
Jag well What makes that hen in
your back j'ard cackle so ioud?
Wiggins Oh. they've just laid a corner-stone
across the street, and she's
trying to makj the neighbors think
sho did it.
Happiness consists in a virtuous and
honest bfe, in being content with a
competency of outward things, and in
using them temperately.
If conversation be an art, like
painting, sculpture and literature, it
owes its most powerful charm to na
ture; and the least shade of formality
or artifice destroys the effect of the
best collection of words.
Margaret Conn, aged i2 years, of Boston,
committed suicide by inhaling gas.
Nearly half of the 050 students enrolled at
the Qhicngo university are women.
There nre but sit buildings in tho world
larger than the Texas state capitol.
The fool thinks his death would leave a
ho!e in the word.
' Glass houses on whee's are now employed
by horticulturists lor forcing Hants.
When dentists go into partnership they
ought to pull together.
Grave Decorations.
Queer decorations are often seen on
graves in cemeteries. In one of the
older burial grounds of Brooklyn there
are faded photographs and evenambro
types of the dead, flowers made of
paper, cloth and tin, toys in glass cases
that the dead children used to play
with, borders and designs in knobs and
sea worn pebbles. One small grave had
at one time a litt'e house over it con
taining a torn doll and a pair of baby's
shoes. Another has a metal upright
terminating in a hook, from which is
suspended a wire basket filled with
seashells. Philadelphia Ledger.
Henry Keen -. w'.io die i in Hart
forl recently, at an advanced age,
leaving n fortune of mora than a mil
lion, had several strokes of exception
ally "gcol luck. One was his invest
ment of S2-":) in tiie stojk of the Hart
ford lire inviu-ance company in 1842.
Th;s stock, after yielding Mr. Keency
8124. SOI in cah d'vii.'ads. is at pres
ent worth more than ?S0.030.
PENCIL POINTS.
The best remedy for worry is trust.
Hops is the twin brother of happiness.
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Sunflower Oil.
-John Quimble, secretary of the Na
tional Grange, writes thus of the sun
flower as a producer of oil: The dis
covery of sunflower oil as a food was
an accident. It being recommended
lo a Russian farmer lo prevent sick
ness; he tested its remedial values and
then began to use it as food to his
family and cake to his stock. So pop
ular for oil and food has the sunflower
industry of Russia become, that in
i881-2 there were 367,S89 acres in culti
vation; in 1SSC-7, 704,490 acres. Seed
is of the large and small varities, the
latter used for oil, the former eaten
the same as peanuts. A Russian farmer
gives the yield of seeds at 1,450 to 1,G00
pounds per acre.
An American chemist, living in St.
Petersburg in 1SC8, made a compound
lard, taking sunflower oil as the base,
which was pronounced superior to
hogs' lard in every respect for do
mestic purposes. Some of this com
pound was,sent to a food exposition
in Holland, and took the first prize as
pure refined hogs' lard. He then pro
duced, from the same oil, oleomargar
ine, which also took a premium as
creamery butter. From the residuum
of the oil he manufactured line wash
ing and toilet soaps, which are stan
dard brands in Europe and South
America. Druggists use the refined
oils in preparing liniments, salves and
hair lotions. When properly treated,
it is used on the most delicate machin
ery as a lubricator.
StrXFLOWBIt OIL CAKK.
The annual output of all the sun
flower oil mills in value is estimated
at $1,700,000 for the oil only. Oil cake
is put at 8600,000. The oil cake is
largely consumed in Russia, Germany,
England, Sweden, Denmark and Hol
land, as feed for cattle. The stock
raisers and fanners of these countries
regard the oil cake as the best food to
be obtained for cattle. They claim for
it superiorit' over hemp or rape seed
for producing flesh on beef cattle, and
equally as good for increasing the sup
ply of milk in milch cows. A German
farmer reports that he increased the
flesh on an ox three pounds per day by
feeding on sunflower oil cake. These
people also hold it in high esteem as a
horse feed. They say it produces
flesh and gives the hair a lively, slick
appearance. The dried cups arc fed
to sheep, and the faulty seeds are used
as feed for barnyard fowls. In many
sections where wood is scarce the
stalks and shells are used as fuel,
which answers as a good substitute.
The ash from the sunflower contains a
large per cent of potassium. Experi
ments have proven that 1,000 pounds
of dried stalks yield 57 pounds of ash
and from 1,000 pounds of ash 3,ri0
pounds of the best potassium is ob
tained. According to the analysis of
chemists, the ash of the sunflower
contains about .10 per cent of potas
sium, and it is also claimed by these
scientists that if the soil is very rich,
the plant will take up 50 per cent of
potassium. The ashes are sold to soap
makers. From the fiber of the stalk
is manufactured the finest varieties of
writing paper, which bear a close re
semblance in color and texture to
parchment.
Flax Culture In Kurnpr.
Our principal tupply of the raw ma
terial, says Chambers' Journal, is im
ported from Russia, where the plant
has long been, and still is cultivated
more extensively than in any other
country in the world; but there the
culture of the crop and preparation of
the fiber receive less care and atten
tion than in any other flax-producing
country. This neglect may be ac
counted for by the immense tracts
under erop and also by much thinner
sowing than is practiced in other coun
tries in order to give the plant greater
strength and more numerous branches,
to prevent it being laid during the vio
lent thunderstorms that prevail about
the time it is in flower. The result of
this treatment, however, is a course
fiber and also a very much inferior
yield to that grown thicker and under
more favorable circumstances of soil
and attention in its early stages. Ger
many, Austria and France will follow
Russia as flax producing countries, and
in each of these an average area of
over two hundred thousand acres is
kept under this crop. In Holland flax
is grown principally for the seed, and
the planting and growth of the crop,
as well as the time for pulling, is regu
lated for this purpose. By properly
maturing the seed the quality of the
fiber is injured and renders the subse
quent process more difficult; but the
Dutch farmers are amply remit ncated
by the high price obtained for the
seed, which has for agricultural pur
poses a world wide fame, and is chiefly
sown in Britain, although Riga seed is
also used.and preferred by some grow
ers as being more hardy. It is Bel
gium, however, to which wc must turn
to see flax in the highest state of culti
vation, where nothing is neglected
that can in any measure improve the
quantity, and more especially ot the
quality of the crop. Here proper ro
tation of the crops, superior tillage
and liberal manuring of the land aie
attended to in a manner not seen else
where, and to this the careful, plod
ding Belgian farmers owe their suc
cess in raising other crops as well as
flax, and which has earned for them
the reputation they enjoy of being
the most successful agriculturists in
the world.
Irrigation In Utah.
The success of the work of reclaim
ing arid lands in Utah by extensive
irrigation systems is attracting to that
territory many of the immigrants from
central and western Kansas, who have
been forced to look elsewhere for homes
because of the failure of their crops,
says the New York Evening Post. A
colony of more than a hundred Kansas
and Nebraska farmers have within a
a few daj'S settled in Millard county.
in the western part of the territory,
where they have purchased for a cor
poration 10,000 acres that are under
irrigation. The remainder of the
land in that locality that is under the
water system is yet in possession of
ii
the government, and is open to entry,
perpetual water rights being fur
nished at 810 per acre. The
reclamation of this land was begun
in 1S91, 8250,000 being expended
in the construction of an irrigation sys
tem. The reservoir covers an area of
7,G72. IS acres. The waters from this
lake are distributed through two large
canals,thirty-cight feet in width, and
can-ying five and one-half feet of water,
with over fifty miles of branch canals
and laterals. In the center of the
county a company is constructing a
canal system that will reclaim 15,000
acres. In the southwest part another
company is preparing to furnish water
for 230,000 acres. When the present
projects for supplying water are com
pleted Millard county will have re
claimed 350,000 acres that have hither
to been considered worthtess save for
grazing purposes. The same thing is
being accomplished in othercountiesof
the territory. In Westwater valley
10,000 acres of fine fruit lands are to be
reclaimed, and in the Bear River val
ley thousands of acres are being con
verted into prosperous homes.
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How the .Minlcskin Cost So Much.
"That is a very fine minkskin you
you have," said a citizen to Mr. Frank
Botefuhr. ''It ought to be a good one,"
was the reply; "it cost me enough."
Further inouirv elicited the informa
tion that the mink had been killed on (
Mr. Botcfuhr's place, up on Cornell
mountain. It had made way with four
teen of his prize chickens, valued at
S14, and was then caught in a trap set
by a man in charge. When it was
found that the animal was trapped, the ,
man took out a fine shotgun to kill it, '
but, concluded it was not worth while .
to waste the powder and shot on so '
small a varmint, struck at it with the
butt of the gun. The mink dodged the
blow, and the man, becoming excited,
whaled away at it again and smashed
the stock of "the gun. The making good ,
of this damage cost 12 more, so the '
minkskin cost S20 net. Mr. Botefuhr,
is not anxious to get enough skins at '
the same price to line an overcoat. '
Portland Oregonian.
Abandoned Farm.
The members of the Massachusetts
State Board of Agriculture, who wore
requested by the executive committee
to assist in obtaining further informa
tion in regard to the "abandoned or
partially-abandoned farms in Massa
chusetts." have reported 511 farms
which were not included in the last
edition of their catalogue, while 24
farms were reported from other sour
ces, a total of 505 farms. Of these the
secretary of the board has received des
criptions of 113. which will be added
to tiie fifth edition of their catalogue,
which will soon be ready. The num
ber previously described was 400, of
which 150 have been sold, 79 withdrawn
from market for various reasons, and
125 wish the description continued in
the fifth edition, while Hi have not
been heard from. The 150 farms sold
contained 15.1101.. acres, and sold for
29,125, an average of 81,527.50 each,
and the 79 farms withdrawn were
valued at 8125,925, an average of 81,
593. 9S each. The expense, previous to
beginning the canvassing for the fifth
edition, was but little more than 1 per
cent of the value of the property known
to have been sold, and the total ex
pense to date is but 82,300.51.
The Unexpected Discharge of a Cannon
Close by would no! have a more disturbing ef
fect upon nerves which are vigorous than an
ordinary 110N0 upon taoe that are weak and
unstrung. Asa nervine, Ho'tetP'r's Stomach
Hitters is unrivalled. Hy promoting digestion
and assimilation they oercome that gastric
disorder, which is the mot pro'.itic cause of
nervous debility, and which, so long as it exists,
defeats in large measure the action of sedatives
and opiates. Such remedies, moreover, neces
sitate the use or increasing doses, and llnally
cease to act altogether, except in dangerous
quantities. They never reach the fountain
head of the trouble, and quiet the nerves only
by semi-paralyzing them. Equally objection
able aro tiery unmeditated alcoholic stimulant.
Kidney, bladder and liver trouble, malaria, cou
stipationand rheumatism are relieved by the
Hitters, which also promotes appetite and
nightly repose.
Emerson's Method of Writins-
It was Emerson's practice to set
down in his journal his detached
thoughts as soon as they had taken '
shape. Whenever he had a lecture to
prepare, he selected from his journal
those sentences which seemed to bear
on the subject of his discourse, adding
whatever other illustrations or anec
dotes suggested themselves to him at
the moment. "In writing my
thoughs," he declared, "I seek no order
or harmom', or results. I am not care
ful to see Iiow they comport with other
thoughts and other words: I trust them
for that. Any more than how any one
minute of the year is related to any
other remote minute which yet I know
is so related. Tiie thoughts and the
minutes obey their own magnetism,
and will certainly reveal themselves in
time."
I mil entirely cured of hemorrhage of
lungs hy Piso's Cure for Consumption.
Loi ISA "Lixpamax. Bethany, Mo., Jan. '. t'i.
Property ISiiiht Anions llird-i-
Meehans' Monthly: Birds and other
creatures apportion the eartli among
themselves just about as man does. A
bear has boundaries beyond which his
fellow bear does not trespass with im
punity the wild rabbit you see on
your lawn is the same little innoient
creature you have been seeing every
night all the summertime and even
tiie robbin that gathers the early worm
for his breakfast from your garden will
show light when another comes mar-'
a tiding on his preserve. Nor does this
last a year only, for tiiere is good evi
dence that the same bird will come
back to the claim it staked oif the year
previous. !
Awfully Embarrass'inff. ,
Sue Did you hear about Blanche's
terrible embarrassing experience at the .
theater the other night? :
V,.llXo: toll me about it. I
"Her hair came down."
"Iiow excessively annoying."
"But that wasn't the worst of it. It
rolled under the seats and was only re
covered after a good deal of trouble,
and then you can fancy what condition
it was in" Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph.
I.ou Kate Excursions January I,, IMil.l.
On the above date, tho Mi.-souri Pacific
Railway and Iron Mountain Route will sell
tickets "at half rates 'plus 62.(10) from it.
Louis, Cairo and Missouri rr.er gate-ways
to all joints on their Mnes in Arkansas,
I.ouisinua, including points on the K. (.
. 4c G. : to a!l roints in Texas. JJeming.N.
M.. and Pecos Va'ley points in Xew Mexico.
V.i;i also sell from and through St. Louis to
1 obits in Mis-ouri South nnd West of Har.
risonville: from and through St. Louis,
Kansas City, Leavenworth, Atchison, St.
Joseph and Omaha to joints in Kansas, Ne
I rcska and Colorado. For particulars re
pardin' imit. stop-over privileges, and fur
ther information, see nearest ticket agent.
H. C. Tow.Nsr.xn.
General Passenger Agent. St. Louis.
' Income in Country and City.
Five thousand dollars in a country
j town is affluence, if the beneficiary is
; content to stay there: but in a city the
family man with only that income,
provided he is ambitious, can only just
; live, and might fairly be described as
' the cousin german to a mendicant,
1 And yet there are some worthy citizens
still, Who doubtless would be aghast at
these statements, and would wish to
I know how one is to spend 85,000 a year
I without extravagance.
Chinese Dentistry.
The Chinese dentist makes artificial
teeth from the femur of an ox. and in
serts them by passing a copper wire
through them and fastening them to
the adjoining teeth.
How a locomotive engineer can make his
own headlight by drinking too much.
In Canton, China, SCO.fcOO rive in house
l.oa ts.
- We punish ourselves when we hate other
people.
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Tat Faith in the Doctor.
"One of the most remarkable cases of
faitli I have ever seen," said a well
known physician, occurred when I
was a student in Philadelphia- I had
a patient, an Irishman, who had a
broken leg. When the plaster ban
dage was removed and a lighter one
put in its place, I noticed-that one of
the pins went in with great dithcutty. j
and I could not understand it. A week .
afterward, 111 removing this pin. 1
found it stuck hard and fast, and I was
forced to remove it with forceps. What
was my astonishment on making an
examination to find that the pin had
been run through the skin twice in
stead of through the cloth. 'Why,
Pat,' said I, "didn't you know that pin
was sticking in you?' 'To be sure, I i
did ' renliod Pat. bllt I thoutrht VOll .
knowed your business, and so 1 hilt me
tongue.'"
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.Icfrrrsnnian .Simplicity I'linctured
A pleasing story of Jefferson's inau-1 far below that of other animals in In
guration that has long been current, j dia. Thus in India, in 1SS5. the tiers
represents him as riding to the capitol ; hilled S28 persons and 12,423 domestic
and tyin" his horse to the fence, and animals: wolves uuieti 1.01,1 persons:
then entering almost unattended to leopards. 1S7 persons and 10.15S domes
take the oath of office. This fable has . tic animals: while the elephant w
been dispersed. Current accounts re- charged with but sixty-one persons
late his ceremonial installation into of- hilled and six domesticaniuials. Loguc
lice surrounded by martial music, ban-i tigers, wolves and leopards are far
ners and guns. Salvos of artillery an- more to be dreaded than rogue de
nounced his arrival and departure from ' phants.
the capitol. and the militia paraded in! 11,,.,,,,,,,'irnnipiinr triti. isiyrrrim.
front of his lodjriugS before he left for Curt-t n.ipni Haiiilsaml K:ieiTVml-r or iMr rVw
the ceremonv. bcribners. .
ltetter Ktery Year.
Time was when the "glorious e'imate of
California" did not attract tourists But
venr after year the tide of travel sets in
stronger mid stronger every fall and winter j to provide for his being buried beside
toward this favored region. There is no j his wife. 'J he guardians decided that
cliinnto like it on this continent for a win- as ilc was not destitute lie had no busi
ter resort, and tho usual fine service on the ess ; the workhouse, and ordered
Union Pacific System has this season Leen him tQ turned QUt M dinner lht
.roiigni tu o ..w ui inu ........
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For further information call on -our
nearest ticket agent or address
E. 1 I.OMAX.
General Pass, and Ticket Agent,
Omaha, Neb.
When to Sell.
A potato grower of long experience,
discussing the question of whether it
was better to sell or hold the crop says:
"My opinion is that it is undoubtedly
best to sell at 50 cents per bushel at
digging time, even if one were assured
of double the price four months after
storing. Handling, shrinkage and de
cay in four months usually reduce the
amount stored about one-third, and I
have never found out when to market
a well-grown crop.
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Itailroid
ArP now on sale to all tho winter resorts of
the South, good returning until Juno 1st,
:
Also Hakvest Kxci'ksios iiokets 10
nil roints south on excursion dates. In ad
dition to above. Railroad and Steamship
tickets to all roints in tho United States '
and El hope, at lowest rates. For rates,
tickets, excursion dates anil full informs- '
tion or n opv of tho Home Seekers (Juido,
call at WaLash Ollice, 1502 Fnniam street,
or write
G. N. Clatton-,
N. W. P. Agt, Omnha. Neb.
The 3I:indolin'i I'npntarity.
Perhaps the mandolin is stealing
some of the popularity enjoyed by the
banjo. At any rate, the former instru
ment is becomintr a greater favorite in
society, and shop windows show them '
much more frequently now than here
tofore. Formerly all the mandolins
used in this country were imported
from Germany and Italy: now nearly
all that are used here--and a great!
....M.I ...... innili. ?, fl?c j.n,,n '
llKlliv arc iiscu ..iu ui.uii; ..--. .....
try. " In the past year and a half or
two vears the mandolin has become
very popular here and its popularity
shows no signs of diminishing. The de-
maud for mandolins comes from all
over the country, and it is so great that-
wholesale dealers in musical instru
inniln in this country are now usei
throughout the land, and they are also
exported to all Spanish-American coun
tries. Philadephta Bulletin.
Experieme in IIok Feeding.
At the South Dakota experiment sta
tion the hogs fed ground wheat requir
ed 4. SI pounds and those fed whole
wheat required 4.91 pounds for one
pound gain in live weight. The ground
wheat fed returned 58.39 cents per
bushel: the whole wheat, 55.83; corn,
1:0 cents, and peas, 05.30. The qualitj
of pork obtained from ground wheat
and corn was about equal and was
superior to tnat liom wnoie naeai, (
peas or mixed feed.
Diamond.
The diamond is believed to be of re- j
cent geological formation, and a micro-
scopic examination often discloses in ,
its substance minute plants and vegeta-
ble fibers.
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For twentv vears folks
mcnisarenoL aiways. juuc w ! t tlu. a;m 0r u,e publishers of a book ot
with it promptly. It is said that we g written iu plain but chaste
make in this country mandolins better .L on tlle 1Iatlirt svniptoins nm!
than the imported, and the same is culhnju by home-treatment, of scli
s-aid of American guitars. t.tutars y ' T, hook w:jj i)e SCI,t sc:dcd.
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rheumatism, neuralgia, ana an omer pains uhu ucura uy mi
using St. Jacobs Oil. There must be something in it, Tj
for you couldn't fool all the people for so many years. f J
year (52 weeks) FREE on receipt of 25c to pay postage. I-till of latest tel
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riches the mother's milk and gives her strength. It also
makes babies fat and gives more nourishment to growing
children than all the rest of the food they eat.
Scott's Emulsion has been prescribed by physicians for j
twenty years for Eickets, Marasmus, Wasting Diseases of Ohildran, v
Coughs, Colds, "Weak Lungs, Emaciation and Consumption. ?
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Mystifying Kentucky Amlienro.
Colonel Kaintuck Talking abotr
slight of hand, the most mysterious
trick I ever saw was in a little town
down in Kentucky. The man wasii t
a professional, either, but just a bright
young fellow who has a irenius for such
things. He took a glass of water and
held it up before us all. and then we
turew a Mig tablecloth 01
two ra;nutes hc threw olT
over h:m. In
the cloth
and there was the glass- empty; yes. sir,
not a drop in it.
Friend Perhaps he drank it
Colonel Kaintuck By Jove! Maybe
he did. Never thought of it. New
York Weeklv.
It the Baby la Cutting Tcctli.
Bo uure ami ne that oM ami well tricl rvnwU-. Mas.
WswwSootiiiN.-JSVKi-rforCUIMrenTw::Ulnrf-
Victim of Willi Auiui.tU in Inrii.i.
Ferocious as the rogue elephant ap
pears to be its record as a man killer i
KiiiIciI tin- I'inlirr:isHiiiciit.
An old man in a Cheshire workhouse
lately admitted to the poor law guar
dians that he had i.'5 in bis possession
iwd a kn.fi.
av the poor man
cut his throat and so relieved the guar
dians of their embarressment.
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Warrantiil idruu-or i...iih- ivr.iiulfu. As'.; Jour
druKiJit for It. Iti. i 13 fin.
If every I oily was perfect what would tho
cossijis do for interesting material?
A good printer can always tell how ihc
case stnnd-i.
lMHinrd Tnlue, second-hand. For !o
(.heap. Applv to or nddress. If. C. Akis.
5'll S. 12th St..Onialm,Ne':.
These may I o plenty of room at the top.
but happiness doesn't always get there.
It N I etter to fail in
than it is not to trv.
trying to do good
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cheerful spirits and the ahilitv to fully
enjoy life, come only with A healthy
body and mind. 1 lie young
man who sufiers from nerv
ous debility, impaired nietn
or, low spirits, irtita-
lile temper, and the
thousand and one de
rangements of mind
and body that
result from, un
natural, pernici
ous habits usual
ly contracted in
youth, through
ignorance, is
thereby incapac
itated to thor
oughly enjov
life. He feel's
tired, spiiitlcss.
and drowsy ; his
jsleep isdistitrbid
and does not ic-
frcsh him as it
should : the will power is weakened,
morbid fears haunt him and may result
in confirmed hypochondria, or nielan-
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epjIeps. . f,ts ; ,p paralysis, loct
( . aI(1 cveI (,reail ilisjll,;u..
nrain.
locomotor
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unfortunates to health and happiness, is
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ical Association, Buffalo, X. Y.
For more than a quarter of a century
physicians connected with this widely
celebrated Institution have made the
treatment of the diseases above hinted at
their specialty. Thousands have con
sulted them by letter aud received advio'
and medicines which have resulted in
permanent cures.
Sufferers front premature old age. or
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