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4fe , , Vf , - ,. - - - .. - - IP , Cfllttmte mtrml j-j :v --- i " ' v VOLUME XXV-JfUMBEft 43. COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1895. WHOLE NUMBER 1,291. Y 1 fjaj B.S. PEASLEE had been a widow for two years, and did not want to be any longer. She was very unhap py. being1 a widow. Not that she had so much re gretted Peaslee oh.no! Indeed, if the truth were told, she had rather felt as if Peaslee were doing the handsome thins by her when he caught the measles. He was seventy-eight or nine before he did this, and having escaped the contagion during his first childhood, he had a perfect right to it in his second; but it went hard with him, and, after an interesting illness of four days, during which he "swore the very hair off her head," as Mrs. Peaslee informed her neighbor, Mrs. IJrown, he passed on. He was a man of propert-, and, of course, Mrs. Peaslee wept becoming ly nt his funeral, and made herself as gloomy as possible with crape folds and bombazine. She employed Paul Julius, the vil lage poet, to write sixteen verses by way of an obituary notice verses which Mrs. Julius, who was not ro mantic, declared touching enough to wring tears out of a gridiron. She also had a sixty dollar tomb stone set up to his memory, with a Very much bent over angel, with spreading wings, reclining against an urn which looked like a patent coffee pot; and underneath the announce ment of Mr. Peaslee's age was in scribed this sentence from the Span ish: "Mas vale tarde que nunca." She had asked one of her nephews a wild young chap, just entering his senior year at college, for some expressive sentence from some for eign language to put on his Uncle Eben's tombstone, and the young ras -' cal had imposed upon her this: "Bet ter late than never!"' assuring her it meant "There is rest in heaven!" When Peaslee's will was opened, the widow was raging mad. All his property had been willed to a certain Jonathan Ebenezer Peaslee, a rela tive of his, and the widow only had her thirds. But she charged the tombstone, angel and a"Tto the cs tate,""and recovered the price of it. After that, finding hhe was a desper ate woman to have around, Jonathan Ebenezer bought out her interest, and the widow set us a house for her self. Directly crape began to give way to lavender ribbons; and when a wid ow begins to don lavender, the fact is significant. Mrs. Peaslee was still young she owned to 30, but was really about 40 and a verj good-looking woman. I suppose she had an undoubted right to look around after a second hus Land. liarzilla Bodge was her first flame. The courtship was made easy. Every thing was lovely and the course of true love ran smoothly. The wedding-dress, white silk, with pale lav ender trimmings, was ready, the day F I ' i L & I UM I I he west rr tvas set, and the cards printed. But, to use the language of the nineteenth century, life had soured on Barzilla, and a week before the wedding he was seized with cholera morbus, and in a few hours was no more. Mrs. Pea-lee was again a widow. She put on the old mourning it was by no means rusty and wore it three months. At the end of that time she got a little bilious, and black was not becoming, so she went jback to the lavender. Squire Lcgro began to visit her. The squire was a man of wealth, and Mrs. Peaslee considered herself very fortunate when he proposed. Again the bridal-day was appointed; but, alas! fate was still unpropitious, and stepped in between the widow and her fond hopes of felicity in the shape of Annie Tracey, the squire's seam stress, who threatened to ue the squire for a breach of promise. This was too much for that worthy gentle man, and he packed up his movables and escaped. His hat was found on the shore of Swift river, together with a note directed to Annie and the widow, saying that he preferred death to disgrace, and announcing his in tention to "shuffle oil," etc.. His body was never found, and a year afterward he was seen in the flesh full ISO pounds of it in Chica go, along with his wife, and a pair of twin babies. So, of course, he did not die when he expected to. A month or two after the squire's xoius, John Nugent came to town to engage in the very striking business of putting' up lightning rods. Immediately the widow was siezed -with a terrible dread of lightning. She had rods pnt on all her buildings, the hen-honse included. Mr. Nugent took a room at her house. When it thundered, she flew to him for protection. He protected her. "When it did not thunder she was afraid it was going to, and sought of him consolation. He consoled her. There was more lightning than Usual (hat summer, ft&d Mr, NujrMt IsfiariPy ka4 his hands full. Altogether, it was a delightful time. Everybody was happy. August the 5th was set for the wedding-, but, alas! on that day of all others, appeared at the Wi dow Peas lee's front door, inquiring for Tim Jenkins, a freckle-faced woman, with five children. Mrs. Peaslee told her that she had not the honor of Mr. Jenkin's acquaintance. And ishe called Mr. Nugent down tojprotect her from the woman's abuse. At the first glimpse of him, the woman darted forward and seized him by the arm. "Oh, Timothy' yflu UeartlesS, on feeling man, you! To desert your affectionate wife and all your inter esting family of children!" And then there was a fearful scene, during which a good deal of hair changed hands and everything was badly mixed up. And it all ended by Mrs. Jenkins marching Jenkins off with a young one on each of his shoulders, and the others hanging to the legs of his pantaloons, begging for cents to buy candy. Again the Widow Peaslee was a widow. At first she thought of falling sick like the heroines in novels when great emergencies occur; but, on second thoughts, she changed her mind, and sought consolation in various little proverbs about "patient waiters." Scraps of poetry also came to re lieve her mind. She thought favor ably of the wonderful production which begins, "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again " Then she remembered the spider: "Threo times the spider tried his web to tie fast to the Mam Three times to cross the main had people tried tcforo Columbus. I will not give up to spiders, Spain, or au;ht but death " quoth the widow courageously, and she bathed her eyes, for she had been crying a little, and prepared a plate of toast and jelly for old Peter Pray, who was sick, and a bachelor. But the widow Jones was before her, supporting old Peter on her arm, and feeding him with mutton broth. Mrs. Peaslee was too late. She gave the toast to Jellison's dog, and went home almost in despair. But Providence favored her. A rail road was laid out in her vicinity. It was constructed, and brought a great many strangers that way. Mrs; Peaslee took boarders only single men. Tames Juniper was one of them. Juniper was a rock-worker, and had charge of blasting operations on a ledge a little distance offk The widow fascinated him, and in due time they were engaged. The day before they wer6 to be married, a blast of powder went off without any notice, and as poor Juni per happened at the time to be stand ing directly over it, he went up. When he made his ascent he had two legs and two arms; when he de scended, it was found that one of each was missing. The widow received him at her house what remained of him. He lifted hispowier-blackened face at sijrht of her, and said faintly: "Hannah, be you going to give me up? Because, if j-on be, I won't have none of them doctors a-sawing off my bones; but if you'll stick, let Vm saw and he darned." But the widow was loyal, and James was raised up to life again, though one of his legs is a wooden one. and he has only one arm with which to hug Mrs Juniper So you see that patience and perse verance always bring forth their fruits, and when you feel inclined to despair, think of the Widow Peaslee. and renew j-our courage. Homin Horns. Some remarkable work ha been carried out in Germany for the de termination of the earthworks and walls which marked the limits during the Roman period of the frontiers between the provinces of the Rhine ana the uanuoe. lne commission was half archaeological and half mili tary in its composition, and the re sults are highly interesting. The lines between Upper Germany and Kha?tia, as the Romans traced them, are now fairly well shown. One curious fact comes to light, showing old methods of laying down lines. It was not sufficient to build a wall, or a fosa. because stones or ditches might be torn down or filled up bv floods. or by enemies. It was found that running outside of the fixed line was a trench, and in this trench had been planted "rows of stones or bits of Roman pottery, wood and iron, which had been purposely covered over.'' This was the hidden line which, in case of dispute, would de termine where the wall had stood, if the wall had been ever overturned or washed awav. Expemlve to Be Rich. Any one acquainted with the living expenses of persons who esteem them selves fairly comfortable finds a sig nificant moral in the commands laid upon the rich by their physicians. Not only is the wealthiest patient bidden to substitute costly table waters and even imported champagne for ordinary drinks, but every detail of his daily life seems regulated with a view to spending the most money for his needs. The whole world is ransacked for food that his weak stomach can digest, for clothing sani tarily suitable for his body. The in fants of the rich are required to drink milk at fifty cents a quart, anl to wear tiny garments that exceed the cost of plain adult clothing. It may very well be that a child under two hrears old, fed and clothed according to a aoctor s prescriptions, may cost more per annum than the living ex penses of a wholesomely clothed, fed and housed adult. A Slisht Delay. Lady Is Mrs. Binks at home? Servant No'm. "Can you tell me when she will be at home?"' As soon as she gets the parlor dusted, mum, an' she's almost finished now." Tit-Bits. Hide I'er Heart. "Your eyes don't deceive you, cer tainly.' "I don't care about that, said the nm iia ctnnlt mitl alt -l . -i .a -3 cuy otber folks, "Detroit Tribuafl. THE RETIRED BURGLAR. ail Carious Experience Kit Xu Who Hallooed. Once," Baid the retired burglar, "I ldoked from the- upper hall of a house that I was in into a room that was so dark that you literally couldn't see into it at all. It seemed as if they must have had the "windows closed, the blinds shut, and the shades all down. It was blacker'n a cave. I turned my light in around on tHe fl&of to get the lay of things and to get 'em fixed in my mind so as not to stumble over anything. Over by the bed I saw a chair, and hanging down from it a pair of trousers legs. Then, of course, I knew there was a man in the bed and that it was his clothes that were stacked up on the chair there. I shut off my light and started. I knew the way and I went very quiet ly, but when I got about half way across the room the man in the bed began to holler. "How he could see me I couldn't un derstand, but I just halted andwtited. He didn't holler very loud, though he was trying too, hard; but he was so scared that I was surprised to hear him holler at all; it sounded as if it was all he could do to catch his breath; I was afraid he'd scare himself to death right on the spot. I didn't dare back out of the room for fear I'd meet somebody coming id. I thought I could dodge 'em better after they got in: so I just stood there in the middle of that dark room with that man hollcrin' the best he could, and I wishing I was somewhere else and wondering what was going to turn up next. 'Well, sir, in about half a minute ho stopped hollerin' ftltopetheiS and for a minute or two he did not broathe. Then I was scared; but in a minute more he began to snore. You see? He wasn't scared at mo, what he was scared at was a night mare; he didn't know I was there at all. But it was a mighty uncomfort able position to ba In all the same. be- cause of course, he was just as likely to wake up somebody hollerin' in his sleep as he would ha' been if he'd been wide awake: he might have waked himself up. as far as that's concerned. But he didn't, nor nobody else, appar ently, and when he'd got to snoring again, and everything seemed quiet, why. I just went ahead and collardd his trousers.' N. Y. Sun. GOVERNMENT TAKEN IN. Uadlxoa M.iiimcript for Which 030,000 Wat P.tld. In 1S37 congress appropriated f.30, 0 0 to purchase from Mrs. Madison the 'manuscripts of the" late Mr. Madison.' After the lapse of half a century the general public is permit ted to know what was comprised in that purchase, and No. 4 of the bulle tin of the bureau of rolls and library of the department of state contains a calendar of the manuscripts. A cursory examination of its con-4 tents gives us an exalted idea of the simplicity of the" government officials who performed the transaction. The jrold brick" and "green goods" ex changes are nearly similar, cons'dered from the standpoint of the purchaser. We do not mean to assert that the -ale was a job. but the government was certainly taktJn in. The attorney general decided many years after that Mrs. Madison was entitled to what she retained, but we marvel at the blindness of the official who dealt with her. The real Madison letters were scat tered at auction two years ago. There" i only one series Of letters to Madison in the department calendar worthy of note the noble &erie of Jefferson letters. Turning to "Washington, says the Nation, we find copies of five or six letters. The originals of many (nearly 10 )) usually long and interesting let ters from Washington. Pendleton. Ed mund, Randolph, Joseph Jones. John Armstrong and others were scattered at the sale just mentioned, and could have been purchased for one-half the sum paid for the collection obtained in i ,. 1S:'7. In historical value there could be no comparison between the two lots, and yet the government made ho ef fort to secure the more valuable let ters sold in 1891. Kn;Io and I on A farmer named Sam Jones set a trap for a fox the other day in a clear ing in Seabury settlement, Now York, and when he went to see if he had caught anything he found that the trap was gone, notwithstanding it had been secured by a chain and a heavy staple driven into a log. The chain had been broken off and fox tracks led away, leaving a tolerably plain trail in the dead leaves. This trail Jones followed until he reached a small opening some dozens of rods away, where on the moss lay his fox dead and holding fast by the throat with its jaws a dead eagle. The eagle in sailing over the woods had spied the fox in the trap and had swooped down upon it. but the fox, though crippled by the trap, had made a game fight and killed his assailant while yielding up his own life. Newfoundland- Trouble. Newfoundland is feeling the effect of her isolation in the present crisis. Her two chartered banks having been forced to suspend, the notes they is sued have lost their value as currency. Money to pay workmen cannot be had. Advances are not to be obtained on the large stocks of fish in merchants' warehouses. Outside help might greatly mitigate if it did not cause the crisis to quickly disappear. Out siders who could help have, however, no such direct interest in Newfound land's affairs as to lead them to exert themselves in her behalf, and it may be some time before the local finan ciers can make such arrangements as will enable the island's business to re sume its old lines. Thn Death Rate. It is interesting to note that while the death rate among children has been perceptibly lessened that among adults has increased. Nineteenth cen tury progress and research protects the life at one end, only to overtax and snap it off suddenly at the other- A Princely Gift. The prince regent of Bavaria gives presents on his anniversary day in stead of receiving them. His last gift was 100 bottles of diphtheria serum for the Hospital for Poor Children & Munich, "DOPING" THE HORSES RACE TRACK METHODS OF CROOKED HORSEMEN. ew How Gallant Racers Are Cruelly Mis used to Make Them Lose Few Such Tricksters Ever Have A ay Money Leas Dangerou Dress Used. The recent alleged dosing of the American Derby winner, Rey el Santa Anita, and the suspension of "Coun selor"' Bill Brien, trainer for the Bald win string, recalls to a Sjin Francisco Call writer, some incidences 5t famous racers that were "doped"' and the methods most used by crooked train ers and unscrupulous horsemen. In England the crime of dosing is called nobbing," and was much practiced in the early part of the pre&ent century- In the year 1825 Dan Danson was caught at the nefarious practice in that country., was co'ndemne 1 to death and executed. The most celebrated case of recant years was the dosing of Orme, the favorite for the English derby of 1S92. The horse was given a drug a short time prior to the great event bj some Unknown miscreant, and his owner, the duke of Westminster, was com pelled to scratch him, thus throwing thousands of pounds into the book makers' coffers. A large reward was offered for the apprehension of the offender, but no trace of him was ever found. Great excitement was caused in the country at the time by tho poisonirg' bf the" great hide horse Warner, at Nashville. Tenn.. when lie suffered defeat from the gray mare Gamma.ndt as good a race horse by many pounds as Wagner. At St. Louis in the summer of 1S02 Ed Corrigan's great son of Longfel loVs Ffeelartd. was pojsoned in a most fiendish manner. A hole was puric tured in one of his legs, and the dead ly drug inserted therein. This threw him out of training and he ran no more that season; but he recovered and was a fine 3-year-old, and practi cally unbeatable as a 4-year-old. Annther ease, the details of whirh were siniilat1, was the poisoning" of the great filly Clipsetta. belonging t8 T. J. Megibbn.the well-known Kentucky distiller. She was treated in the same manner at Chicago shortly after the Freeland case. She had beaten all tho best fillies in the South, and was a hot favoritP for the Ladies' staKe, out on tne nignt n fore the race this fiend in human form, by some means, gained access to the stable, and she met the fate of Freeland.only with much more serious results, and the splendid filly died in awful agony on the day the stake was run. Miss Woodford, who became the qUeeh of the turf: wdn the event eas ily it being her first start hi public. But of late years, as in every other science and profession, horsemen have grown wise, and less dangerous drugs and methods are ued that answer as well and leave no ill effects on the animal. One very ingenious method that has been used is to insert small silk sponges in the nostrils of the horse. After running well for some distance his breathing becomes laborea, and, in the language of the swipes, he will "cough it up." Another "stopping"' drug that is used is ether. It is said that two or three drops of this on a lump of sugar given to a horse will make him think he has passed the wire when about three-quarters of the distance has been traversed, and ho will slow up despite all urging on the jockey's part. But, unless well cooled off after the race, this is apt to have an injuri ous effect on the animal. A good bran mash, with a liberal supply of salt in it, is a pretty sure guarantee that the bookmakers will not be troubled with paying off many tickets on that horse. A very clever trick was once worked at the Bay district track by some parties that owned a very fast sprinter. A piece of gut was tied very tightly around one of the animal's legs. She was then taken out and warmed up through the stretch, and of course pulled up "dead lame." This report spread around the ring and the horss from favorite immediatelv became a Iong- j price in betting. The owners then played their money, the piece of gut was removed and soon after the race they had plenty of money. At the last jockey club meeting the horse Alto Mio was said to have been run in a race shod with lead shoes, and finished in the rear of his field. But this became noised about and he was never cut loose for the intended killing. At another meeting the horse was started with shotted boots, and was supposed to be a "dead one." The owner 'and his friends on the inside then proceeded to play another horse in the race; but the "dead one," get ting on in front, ran like a wild horse, and was never headed. But the method most in vogue when an owner figures that his horse will be favorite at a short price is to run them "short," and is entirely harmless in its after effects. For in stance, if the race is over a distance of one mile, the horse will be worked three quarters, and after that distance has been run in the race he will 'blow up" and finish with the also rans. These are but a few of the many tricks that can be resorted to by crooked horsemen to fool judges and public: but the best proof that honesty is the best policy is in the fact that very few of the horsemen who resort to the methods above referred to ever have any money. They generally get to the end of their rope with one lonely plug as a sorrowful reminder of the days when "Bill and me used to get the stuff." Government o!d. It is contrary to law for a private individual to buy gold from the mines of Transvaal. The entire products of the mines must be sold to the Dutch government at rates fixed by statute and any person found with uncoined gold in his possession is liable to severe punishment. This somewhat singular law is being enforced rigidly, and quite a number of well-to-do peo ple have been sent to prison for violating its provisions, VERIFIED IN SECRET. A Featare of Uaslness 1'e'rfarBtsd hf Public Accountants Artar Iarc: In many business offices there is transacted a business at night of which none of the employes are aware. It is the auditing of books, a feature of work fter fdrnle'd by several well known public accounta8ts Of course in the majority o'f sucli cases the partners in the concern have had some reason to suspect some of the office force of dishonest practices. A times, however, one partner may suspect another; dr" soma reason may arise where the firm desire td ascer tain their standing at an unusual time of the year, and without it bsing known to the bookkeeper. "It is1 by no means an unusual feat ure of my work," said a well-known public accountant in speaking about the matter"recently. Many a time when a large mercantile house has closed for the night and everybody has gone home my men have entered the store, taken tho books from the safe, and worked over them until day break. "In such cases they never ouch a peri or pencil to the books. They merely verify the figures and tran scribe the entries on paptr. The re sult of each man's work is kepo by itself, and turned over to another person in my office, who obtains the final results. Every care is taken in handling the" books and rep'acing them in the safe to give r.0 grounds for suspicion of what is going on. "No doubt many a bookkeeper and cashier in this city would be surprised to p2ep into his office at night and find a force of men working over the books, as familiarly as he and his fel low clerks have been doing in the day time for years. Tho night forco speedily become acquainted with tho names of cu-torners' arid the pages of the IeJger accounts, turning td them without reference to the index, like old hands. "Sometimes, of course, the fact of dur working at night over the books never become's" kndwri to the clerks. If the accounts are found straight there is no occasion to let them know that they are suspected. At other times they discover that their figures have been overhauled when confront ed with the UUmlstakablo evidence in figures of their false entries' 7h- Ffost Flh. A curious fish, the "frost fisa" of New Zealand, has been recently ex hibited in Edinburgh. It was brought over to England by on2 of the mat arr$'injr steamers in the refrigerator, and is described a3 nearly fivp foet in length, with flau sides about dur inches deep, and at the thickest part not more than one inch through. It has a long, hard, sharp head, armed with several sets of formidable teeth, a most delicately transparent back tn running from head to tail, about as fine as ft film of gelatine, the taper at the, tail not more thad a quarter of an inch acrdss.and the tail is of very small size for such n fish. measuring not more than two inches and a half sterols tho outer edges. Judging from it prscdt appearance the fish in its natural state must bo as silvery as a herring, though without scaler The "frost fish'' is said to b3 excellent ending. Explosion. Substances liable to explosion are, as it were, says Professor C A. Mitchell, in a state of unstable equili brium, and often a slight cause is euffioient s t disturb that equili brium that a fresh arrangement of tho particles takes place in other words, an explosion. A somewhat analogous instance of instability, he adds, is seen in the case of water cooled slow ly below its freezing point, without solidifying, as occasionally happens in bedroom pitchers. When tho pitcher is lifted the movement destroys the equilibrium, and the water suddenly becomes ice. A Wonderful Financier. There is in New York city a police man, who has managed on pay never exceeding 1200 a year, and without opportunity for unlawful gains, to put one son through a famous college an 1 to graduate him in medicine; to get another a commission in the navy, and to send two daughters to one of the best women's colleges. THE WOMEN FOLKS. May Why have you quit using powder? Was it injuring your com plexion? Mollie No, but it was ruin ing Charlie's new coat. In these days of shifting domestic ass'stants it is worthy of note that a woman died lately in Allentown, Ii., who had lived as a servant in one family for a period of sixty-seven vears. The Prussian state attorney recent ly pleaded for three months' punish ment of a jrirl of 17 who had spoken disrespectfully of the imperial family. But she was let of with a reprimand, in view of her age. The doctor who pulled the old ameer of Afghanistan throujh h.s late illness is a young lady of Ayr shire, Scotland, Miss L. Hamilton, M. D., who took her medical degree three years ago in Brussels, and practiced in Calcutta bafore she went to Afghanistan. The steamboat Neztcha, plying on the Lower Mississippi, has a crew of women. The captain is a Mrs Leathers, and the pilot, clerk, first mate, first officer, steward and cabin boy are of the geutlcr sex. The only men on board are those who do the heavy, muscular work. A proposition is now well under way to erect on Monat San Miguel, an observatory with the largest telescope in the world, an observatory in which all civilized nations shall have not only a scientific but a financial in terest. Mrs. Richard A. Proctor is at the bead of the. scheme. The only woman insurance broker in Chicago is Miss Mary Steenberg, but that city claims more women lawyers than any other city in the United States. It possesses at least a dozen barber shops conducted by women, as many women dentists, a number of physicians and several un dertakers of the so-called weaker sex. There are also boot and shoe shops, laundries and photograph es tablishments run by womeu. One woman manages a butcher shop, an other has a milk route, a third carries on the largest cooperage business in the city, and there is a wogian pen sioa agent in Chicago. TOIL AND ANXIETY. PRODUCING A PLAY IS NOT SO EASY AS IT LOOKS. Jhoaad HasarUed am the Verdict of Fickle FmbUe Datlea f the Stage Manager. 8eene ralater, COSH aa4 Other reople. Outside' 6l ihose engaged in some department of the theatrical busi ness, very scant knowledge exists of the labor entailed in producing' play. The manager's anxiety and troubles have only fairly begun when he has ehtfsefl his play and decided on the date of opening. Usually the play has cYHBe" to him from his agent, whose business it fe to receive authors, examine.' tho. scenario,- or full description of the play, and tHe3 ttlrn It over to readers, who report on the merits of tho work. This sares the manager tho'so Im portuning visits from budding authors. After the manager has his play secured, usually as above shown, or maybe it is an ambitious soubrette, wlio, having found "an angel," wants to star in something strong, work begins in earliest and the bank ac count begins fo nielt a Way. Tho thea ter i3 Pxed dn, after driviilg a hard bargain to secre the best possible terms. Usually, where d run" is contemplated of a number of eeks, tho arrangement is on the basis of dividing tho receipts, the lessee or owner of the theater taking the first $3,000 or so and tho remainder, if any, going to the manager of the at traction. Then tho painter is an important man about this time. It takes weeks and weeks for the lithographer to turn out thoso three-sheet stands that are to so materially contribute toward claiming thd public's attention. Ar tists design and twist and reconstruct sketches' until all hands agree that they have a good stand. Then the order is given. From three to five Btyles of bill-board printing is tho usual assortment. Then, if the com pany" i to travel, a supply is sent on in advance", that tho rural bill posters may proclaim on dead walls the mo mentous event About the first and for daj-s the all absorbing concern of the manager is the formation of tho company, says the New York Advertiser. Ho sets one estimate on thd talent of an ap plicant; while the actor has A very different idee. After days, during which, in Wall street parlance, they are "wide apart,' contracts are final ly signed one of those elastic instru ment's that Daniel OTonnell must have had in mind when he remarked that any lawyer could drive a coach and four through a certain paper. The ink is hardly dry on tho agree ment when the actdr wants an ad vance. He pleads that he must "dress the rart well," though he has only just beon given a typewritten excerpt from, the play containing his "lines,' as his speaking part is called, pro fusely animated witti h'eroglyphics telling him where to stand and whan to enter ami leave the stage. If the play is 0116 iht requires cos tuming, the players are sent Jd have their measures taken by an expert eostumor, who has had long talks with the manager and stage director. Drawings are turridd fver to the cos tumer just as they were to the sceno painter, who has been buy for day. A toy stage has been constructed. This is to the stage director what a set of architect's drawings is to the contractor an arbiter and a source of continual reference. Wonderful irigenility is displayed in constructing and arranging the pro perties. The stuffed turkey is papier mache, the grass is excelsior that has been stained in dye. and so on with 6ach of the hundred and one retire ments or exigencies. Four weeks before the date fixed for the opening, rehearsals are going along briskly and every menibeV of the company is presumed to be per fect in his part. There is rarely any trouble on this score. The stage di rector i3 now as busy as the manager. Details are thought out and provided for and complications forestalled there being a substitute or "under study" provided, against the possible non-appearance of a principal at the last moment. Frequently the partic ular identity of the respective under studies is guarded as a great secret. It is presumed that the company now getting together is an ideal one and no quarrel has engendered to add another care to the shoulders Of lha manager. As the time draws near for the first performance dress re hearsals are held. Everything is gone through with and the stage is set and lighted just as if the great gloomy auditorium, where the upholstery is covered over with ghostly white can vas.were packed with "first nightera."' Even the gas man is rehearsed. The manager may be found in the back of the silent house timing the production and ruminating. He probably stands to lose every cent he possesses, besides involving friends. He has hazarded all on the whims of a whimsical public. His mood for the intervening period is not an enviable one. At last the Lrteiul night arrive. There has been no rehearsal that day, that every one may be fresh and of fine fettle for the evening work. But there is no rest for the manager. With nerves at their greatest tension, he is busy until the electric light3 flare out their intimation that twilight is at hand. After visiting a barber he dons a dress suit. In a few hours it is to be either the approval of a victor, whose triumph will be acclaimed by the plaudits of admirers, or tho somber hued garment of a mourner. Tho curtain is rung up and there is applause always applause, just as there are always flowers, for the man agement knows that one, like the oth er, must be provided. Bnt his keen ear waits for the outburst that must come after a particular situation on which he has relied. It comes at last. Was it that spontaneous greeting that puts the players and public en rap port? Was there an electric-like thrill of recognition of the dramatist's art? Success or failure, the same amount of work has been done. Nothing had been left undone but to await the flip of the penny the verdict of tho pub lic. lcHer Bcojn t itlxea. The new laY requiring all enlisted en of the army to be citizens of the United States has begun to work results ia this direction. Many of the soldiers have begun to realize what the new law means and, in an ticipation of their re-enlistment, have taken steps to make themselves eligible. About a half-hundred of those stationed at Fortress Monroe recently obtained leavo of absence and went up to Norfolk, where the United States district court was in sesssion, and took out their naturali zation papers. DOING BUSINESS IN SIBERIA. An Enterprising Ytnkeo Who Hu AWed for Many Years Abroad. The story of Enoch Emery's life in Siberia is full of interest to the whole world. It is of peculiar interest to tbo people of tho cape, as he is a na tive of tho country, says the Province town Beacon. He went from Yar mouth a boy. Hi ambition led him to the generally uninviting country of Siberia, the land of suffering, the dumping ground of Russia's convicts. Mr. Emery has now resided in Russia for twenty-seven years, where he has established an extensive general mer chandise business, with headquarters at Mo-cow. He has made eleven tours of tho world, always via Siberia, and naturally has had many thrilling experiences while traveling through this Country. While en route from Nijni-Novgo'rod toVladivostock he has changed his horses as many as 500 times'. He has become greatly inter ested in the construction of tho rail road across Siberia, which ho do scribes as one of the greatest projects undertaken. Tho road, he says, will probably be completed about 189S, and will result in the rapid develop ment of tho Siberian territory. The line, when completed, will bo 6.700 miles in length. Its starting point is Chelbinsk, on the western extremity of Siberia, where it connects with an English system of railways running to St. Petersburg by the way of Moscow. About 25,000 men. mostly exiled con victs, are being employed in the con struction of the road, which is entirely under" the supervision of a government commission, of which tho czarowitz is president, and will, of course, be operated under the direction of tho government when completed. Since Mr. Emery weut to Russia from this country ho has accumulated a large fortune. His stories of wild sledge rides by night over the ice and snow and of the tigers of the Obi and Amoor are in the highest degree inter esting. He met George Kennan the first time he went to Russia and has maintained a close acquaintanceship. Although ho is a Cape Cod yankee, from his long residence in this country lie has become thoroughly Russianized. He has a Slavonic accent and dresses a'ter the style of the Russian. He is a " tall, spare, dis tinguished looking gentleman, with flowing beard, parted in the middle. Mr. Emery's life and experiences are a striking" esamplc of what tho ad--enturous ardor of an American can accomplish in the faco of almost insur mountable difficulties. Ho says that he hae lived so long in Russia that he at times almost doubts his identity with the little yankee boy who left his New" England home so many years ago. The Carpenter Bee. Tn America it has been scrvea that bees often bore tubular corollas in order to get at the nectar of flow r?. instead of entering by the mouth, as humblo bees do in Europe. In es sas on the crOsf-fertilization of flow ers this supposed anomaly has been the subject of much comment. It now appears that the humble bees of Eu rope and America have identical habits in regard to the manner in which the visits to flowers are made, and that it is the class of insect? known as the carpenter bee. or the borer, which works in the outside manner indicated. lhe Novelty of It. "There's only one game that's mort wonderful than base ball," said the umpire, "and that's football." "Do you like it better?" "I can't exactly say that I like it better, but it is astonishing to stand and watch em play, and see somebody ettin"- the worst of it besides tho umpire."' QUEER ACTS AND FACTS. A few years ago the great bulk of the orange crop went to the North and East. Now the West is a great consumer and takes more oranges every year, and the shipments, there are correspondingly greater. A single cargo of cotton which has left New Orleans for Havre is worth S."..0,000. The ship carrying it is the Maroa. and the number of bales car ried 15,320, the largest number ever loaded on any ship in an American port. Nathan Whitj of Rutherford coun ty, North Carolina who was born June 20, 1794, still works on his farm. He plowed every clay last spring, split rails and mended hU own fences. Although unable to read, he has a cumulated a modern fortune. There is a timbered chute out in ; the Oregon mountains 1.3JS feet long. where the logs come whizzing down the mountain side Into Columbia river with a velocitv of a cannon ball and make the distance,which is about I three-fifths of a mile, in twenty ; seconds j A woman rea'ly died of broken i heart lately in England. She was an J old lady of ST, who fell dead while 1 buttoning her granddaughter's dress, ; the post mortem examination show J ing that the left ventricle of the j heart was ruptured. Only one other I Mich cases is on record Reports, from Gibraltar say that owin:r to threatened revolts the one- eyed elder brother of the sultan of Morocco has been walled up in his prison at Widah The door and win dows of his cell have been blocked up, leaving only a small opening through which food is passed to him. Dr. Zakharin, the late czar's physi- 1 cian. has lately devised a new method of stanching the flow of blood. Steam is injected into the wound through a catheter for a minute or less. The patient, under chloroform, feels neither pain nor any evil effects from the steam. Experiments on animals show that portions of the liver, spleen, kidneys, lungs and to a cer tain extent of the brain, may be re moved withontloibs, of blood and with out fatal results. Colmnlms - Slate - Bank J Pan IitottfnTiii Dots!!! lite LttB n Seal Esfeli Kv lewk ami a mil i mAMinf : hgiits. BUYS GOOD NOTES whm1tMvZIdJU OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS: Leakses Gerrard, Pres't, B. H. Hejtry, Vice Prest, M. Bruqqer, Cashier. Johx Stauffer. G. W. Hulst. COLUMBUS. NEB.. HAS AN AuthorizH Capital ef - $500,000 Paid in Capital, - 90,000 OFFICERS. 0. . SHELDON. Pres't. H. P. H. OEBLRICII. VIcb Prea. CLARK GRAY, Cashier. DANIEL SGURAM. Ass't Cash DIRECTORS. H. JL WrrsLOw. II. P. H. Oehlrich. O. II. Snxuo:, W. A. McAiximaa, Josa Welch, CablKixskz. STOCKHOLDERS. . O. Qkat. J. Hmt WCKDBMAM, OzBBABO Losm, Hexbt Loskkx. , Class Urat, Geo. W. 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