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T m 3 , Ai Ctrlumte jmnwL t?. - Jtr- WHOLE NUMBER 1,302. VOLUME XXVI.-NUMBER 2, COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA, WEDNESDAY. APRIL 24, 1895. -' .s IT 9k STORY OF A TIFF. HOEBE, a village jj. KHa oeauty, moaern ana ?,ALt3r 1 advanced. Miles, a laborer, slow, smoking and sensible. Scene A lane. Phoebe (with dig nity) I hev come, being asked partik ler and not wishful to do so, a-cause of the gals and that spile of a Sally Martin in especial a-pointlng at me as "That Phoebe as is too good for the likes of us has took up with a young man, vulgar just the same as anybody!" And I shouldn't hev come only bavin' something to say. Miles And what is there Vulgar about me? Phoebe Well it ain't genteel to be a smoking alius like you, nor to cut your meals with a knife out of your pocket, nor to stand constant on one leg, nor to be that stoopid when Squire, as ain't no better than none of us (and a lot wus, says Mary Anne, as has scullery maided for him eighteen months), talks to you and can't give it to him back and pulls his hair and says, "Yessir" and "Yessir." as ain't no sperrit and is down trod and pore of you, nor to drink beer common at the "Five Stars." nor to (pauses out of breath). Miles (comfortably and resuming his pipe) Give yourself time. Phoebe. Give yerself time. "Taint likely as you can get all my vulgarities into one breath, so keep yer 'air on and don't expect it. (Smikes placidly.) Phoebe (with Increased dignity) Not that I've come here, Mr. Jones, sly, as you may say, and a-damagin' to my character ef found out by the gals (par tikler to that Sally Martin, as is a little cat) to speak of your wulgarities. I've come to say as not to encourage yerself false. I don't hold with walking out. Nor kissings. Nor luv letters as when one of the parties can't spell nor put it genteel ain't pleasing for the other, es making her feel her young man isn't eddicated high. Nor Sunday afternoons. Nor rings. Nor marriage at all. So there. Miles You're right, Phoebe, no doubt. Gals nllus Is. I'm agreeable. Walks is Waste o' time. Rings is waste o' money. Letters is waste o' temper. And I'm agreeable ready not to be married come Michaelmas, as arranged when stoopid und kissing on Tuesday week in this re lane, as won't be repeated, and each'll live a long Fight genteeler were the word, weren't it? single. Plieobe Well ou take it pritty cool and easy I must say. and rude as you alius was, and is, and will be. Miles Yes, miss, I do. Keep yer 'air on, ls my xnotter. and a darned sight more sensible then them I see stuck up in foreign language on them little white plates in church. Keep yer 'air on. Miles. You air going to be married. Tek it easy. Hev yer pipe customary. Sit tlyht when her aunt (as Is a rare old beast and for all you know she'll grow ux like her) buzzes in, and says, "Hev you any money?" and you hevn't. You air not going to be married. Tek that easy, too. You air too wulgar. That's comfortable and a deal sight pleasanter than sitting genteel when you cum In tired from wurk and a puttln' on gentry manners as ain't nateral, and is darned stoopid. too, to please a gal as minces her words and has the best of eddlca- U &m&n: W.T VJ rAWW $&Wtr IV TAKE IT AISY. tions to teach her a pile o' things as she'd much better never ha' heerd on. And marriage beln' off. Phoebe, how do you purpice to occupy yourself genteel? Phoebe (still with dignity but in rath er an uncertain voice) Oh. there's lots of things. Mr. Jones, as a well a like ly sort of girl, as you might say. can turn her hand to nowadays, which you'd hev knowed ef you moved with the times, same as others. Miles I heven't moved with 'cm, miss. Right you air. Rut I've set by and watched them go to blazes without me. There's a lot of things as she can do. no doubt. There's dancin' on a stage. That's a very nice occupation, that is. There's skirt dancin. I know them skirts. And the stockings as I should say legs if not addressing such a genteel gal a-ieepin" thro", and the prime minister a darned old fool not to mek a law forbidding It. And there's novils. You could write novils, Phoebe, after being eddicated so genteel. Pict ure of a lord, disguised as his own valet on cover, a-klsslng of a duchess, dis guised (with dimond rings a-twlnkling on her fingers, and nobody surprised) as the cook. Them's the kind. You could turn a penny by them, Phoebe. And starve on It most elegant In Lon don, with an egg to your tea as 'ud make a respeeterble 'en blush to own it. Or there's weskit making' Phoebe. Wages thruppence ha'penny a week, find your own cottins, silk gownds, food and lodging. Pictur of gal a-trying it In this week's paper at that wulgar public, the "Five Stars." Gal with bones a-sticklng out all over her. food three reels of cotton and some needles, no drinks anywhere, moon shinin' pleas ant, gal a-dying with head on her arms (as is redooced to two small bones), and "'Wurk! wurk! wurk!" a-written underneath. That'll be very genteel. Phoebe. Phoebe (bursting into tears) Oh you old stoopid! Miles Me stoopid why, in course I am. And nothing for you to be a blub bering for neither. There's a sight o' things, says you a-tossin of your head as a likely sort of gal can turn her hand to nowadays. "Then po and turn it." says I, quite harmless and no offense meant. Phoebe (between sobs) It weren't anything to do with that you old ijut leastway Miles as I've loved true all the time, and as ain't no ungenteeler than others and me not wanting to do no novils or dancin' or weskits nor nothing, never. Only being put to by tliat little spite of a Sally Martin as ses, ses she a-tossing her head as you River said was pritty. only Sally ses you did. hevlng bin a story alius from quite small at school and ses Sally, "He'd . bin a-walking out with me if he could and ef you're that meek as to tek half a luv and you with the wast half all the time, you can. you mean-sperrited gal only not to say as you wasn't warned and and " (Phoebe sub sides into convulsive sobs.) Miles Tek your time, Pheobe. Tek it aisy. And throw, in a stop, occasional to &.r V in mrriLr inc ' u. a rsmm2n& Amli l "r.v ;i w .c-t.f ,:rv.) i imv:.4 vw zrv AW '1V7H ' v- ; mek more slnse. So it ain't as you thinks single's a genteeler kerridge than pairs? And me not so wulger but that there's two gals a-fightlng for me as ef I were aritocrussy and dooks and lords. Which is pleasin to the feelings. Tho a-hurtin' of 'em to see the gal, as I've never loved any other and never see as how I does, or thought it, or any think, a-taking on so bad. Phoebe (looking up) Air you sure o' that Miles? Air you sure (renewed sobs) as you've never thought as Sally w-as pritty through you not seeing aa her alr were put in papers tight every night and the curl not nateral or run ned arter her or nothing? Miles No, I've not. And be darned to Sally ef pleasing to you, Phoebe. And tho' she hev runned arter me, Sally being a bold un, and chaps as is un earning their ten shillin 'regler being scarce in these parts, I've smoked stead fast and not tuk no notice. And when she corned at Xmas, tho' Xmas beln' a time as you ain't so strict as custo mary, with a bit o' mistetoe stuck in viting In 'er 'at and she ses. ses she. coy-like. "D'you see wot I've got in my hat?" I answers stern and true-like: "Unless it's a bee in yer bonnet, miss, I don't see nothing" a-cause of me lov ing Phoebe true all the time. Phoebe (smiling through tears) Then I'm sorry. Miles. And I won't do so no more. And ef you'll tek me back Miles I will, Phoebe. And you not finding me too wulgar, and being partial to luv, and rings, and letters, tho' spelt pore .and a-walklng out, same as ever. And tho' novils, and lady's-maldlng, and dancing, and weskits its eleganter as perfessions than marrying, and nooer by a long sight, I'm darned If arter all, as perfessions go, marrying ain't Phoebe The likeliest. Miles. From Black and White. FROM RED TO PRICELESS BLACF Sly Kernard'a Coat Coiers a IVIdl ltance of Color and Coat. "Reynard the fox, represented by his skin, comes to us In four principal varieties," said the manager of a fur store to a writer for the New York Sun "In his led jacket he is the most com mon and least valued of all foxes, his skin being worth $3 In its natural tints. It is sometimes made into furs for wom an's wearing, but more often It is dyed. The principal use for the red foxskin is as the central figure in rugs and lap robes, and sometimes sleigh and carriage robes are made entirely from these skins sewed together with the tall Hip dangling from each. Red foxsklns find their way here from every part of the northern states and Canada. Hunters and trappers bring them to the fur trading stations and rural stores and farmers' boys the country over trap red reynard and find fine winter sport In running him with hounds, which they follow up on foot with guns. Here is the skin of another fox less com mon, but as widely distributed, the gray or cross fox. It Is believed to be a cros3 between the silver and the red fox you see It combines the tints of the two but its name probably comes from the black cross so plainly marked on its back. This skin Is worth ?0. In its natural color it makes up handsomely into any kind of furs we sell. An at tractive form of boa and other gar ments in dark tints is made by cutting out and using the black part of the skin of the cross fox. We do the same thing, by the way, with that of the lynx. The arctic foxskins come to us chiefly in two varieties, the white and the blue, but the last includes also the pied, the stone and the sooty fox. In this tuffed specimen of the white fox you will notice that the soles of the feet are thickly coated with hair, from which It gets its scientific name of Iagopus, or hairy foot. The white fox, although a beautiful skin, is the least valuable of all the arctic varieties, for its fur. though dense, is not so fine as that of the others. It is worth $15. Com pare it with this skin of the blue fox. with its silky bluish-gray fur, worth $30. The arctic foxskins come from Ice land. Siberia. Kamtchatka and North America. A curious thing Is told about the arctic fox. that he imitates the cries of the birds on which he feeds, and so entices them within his reach. Yet he is not difficult to capture as compared with other varieties. He readily enters a trap, and, when at large, will suffer the hunter to approach him within easy shot. He burrows with his fellows in groups, making villages similar to those of the prairie dogs, and. like that ro dent, he will pop his head out of the hole to salute the passer-by with yelps. Rut in the way of foxskins there is nothing here to compare with this mag nificent specimen In beauty or cost," and the manager took from a glass case and spread upon the counter a large skin with soft, dense, jet black fur, to which longer, white-tipped hairs im parted the tint of silver gray. In places the skin was almost pure black, no tably In a strip upon the back between the shoulders. "It is the silver gray fox. and this skin is so nearly black that its value is almost $300. The skin of this species Is used In making every kind of expensive fur garments, from a tippet to a cloak, and its value de pends on its darkness of tints. It is only in Russia that the pure black fox is found, and there the value of his skin Is not to be estimated, as it is an at tribute to royalty." Tiger Hone a Medicine. Some curious items are to be found In the late lists of China's trade statis tics. Among those noted In the list for 1S94 is 19.000 pounds of tiger bones! What on earth do you suppose they use tiger bones for? Fertilizers? Not much, they are too costly. The item above mentioned cost the Chinese a sum equal to nearly $4,000. The powdered bones are used as a medicine in every part of the Flowery Kingdom, and all are un der the delusion that they impart some of the tiger s strength to invalids. SOME CELEBRITIES. The new editor and general manager of the Boston Journal is Francis M. Stanwood, a nephew of the late James G. Blaine. In the Maine senate Senator Hamlin presented a resolution to make Abra ham Lincoln's birthday a national hol iady and it was unanimously adopted by a rising vote. Mr. Edison, the great electrician, re ceives many amusing letters. Not long ago he was startled by an epistle from a western damsel asking him if he could not invent an electrical con trivance that would enable her to see the face of her future husband. John Jacob Astor's projected big hotel at Thirty-fourth street and Fifth avenue is the cause of a vast extension of William Waldorf Astor's hotel, the Waldorf, on Thirty-third street. This issures employment to a great number of laborers of many sorts for a long time on the two hotels but there is an unpleasant rivalry between the two cousins that is at the bottom of both enterprises. The Hibernian society of Philadel phia has presented to the city a picture of Commodore John Barry, "the father of the American navy." The commo dore came to Philadelphia before the revolution as an Irish lad and distin guished himself in 17S1 while in com mand of the frigate Alliance by com pelling two British vessels to surren der after a naval battle lasting an en tire day. THE HAUNTED HOUSE HOW THE GREWSOME MYSTERY WAS SOLVED. A Second Murder That Threw a Light Upon the Flrt Tragic Results of an Adventure of Young Officers of the American Navy. There is a legend which, I am sure, everyone having the remotest connec tion with the navy has heard. Twenty years ago, then, let us say, therecame to Tien-Tsin an Englishman 'and his son. The father was a retired army officer ofsome means, and they were traveling for pleasure. They took a fancy'to Tien-Tsin and decided to settle there for awhile. Looking about for a house, they were much attracted by one just outside the city, which stood near the water's edge and commanded a beautiful view Of the harbor. Their friends, and more especially their Chinese servants, cried out aghast; they must not think of such a thing. The house was haunted. It was as much as one's life was worth to even pass it after nightfall. The Englishmen, how ever, were not to be frightened off by any such silly stories. They rented the house and moved in. For several months all went well. Both father and son were delighted with the place, and finally decided to buy it. One evening the son, who had been dining in town, came home quite late. As he opened the front door he heard what seemed to be a scuffle in his father's room. Be fore he could reach the top c he stairs a soul-piercing shriek rose above the confused din. Then all was silent Rushing into his father's room, the young man found him lying on the floor in a pool of blood. There was no one else in the room, nor was there any apparent way for anyone to have left it without passing hira in tv hall. A knife was sticking in the 6reast of the wounded man a wicked-looking Malay knife, with a curiously carved handle. The young man stepped into the hall to call the servants to his father's as sistance. When he stepped back into the room, a moment later, the knife had disappeared! The associations of the place were too painful for his son to remain there longer. He offered a large reward for the discovery of his father's murderer, and left a minute description of the knife that had so mysteriously disappeared. Then he packed up his belongings and returned to England. Months passed, perhaps years; I do not know. But after a certain lapse of time one of our men-of-war visited the harbor of Tien-Tsin, says the Wash ington Star. Several of the officers were ashore one night dining with a party of foreign residents at the club. Some one told the story of the haunted house and the murdered Englishman, adding that the natives said the mur der was re-enacted every night at the same hour. Our officers expressed a lively interest in the narrative. "Let's visit the house some night," one of them suggested, "and see the show." "Why not tonight?" exclaimed a young Dane, whom we will agree to call A. "We have plenty of time, and the steward of the club has the keys of the house. The Englishman left them with him when he went away." The keys were called for. Some one pro duced a lantern. The rest filled their pockets with matches and candle ends. When they were ready to start they looked about for A. He was nowhere to be found. The party set forth without him. They had to hurry to reach the house at the intended hour. "There it is," said some one at last, and Lieutenant B., who carried the lantern, looked at his watch by its light and announced that they had just three minutes to spare. The door was unlocked with difficulty, for the fast enings had grown rusty from disuse. "By George!" cried the first man who stepped in to the hall, "there's some thing going on upstairs." "It's A," said his friend laughing, and they all started upstairs, Mr. B. walking ahead with the lantern. A cry of agonized despair startled the smiles from their lips and quickened their steps to a run. B. pushed open the door of the room from which the sounds had come. As he did so, and before he could see anything, his lan tern was dashed from his hand, and the door slammed behind him. He stood still in the darkness for a few awful, terror-stricken seconds. Then he took a step forward and tripped over some thing on the floor. He stooped over, and his hands encountered a pool of warm oozing liquid. It flashed on his mind that this was blood, and that the thing he had stumbled over was a man's body. His heart almost stopped beating. He was afraid to move, afraid to breathe. At last the door was open ed. The young men crowded in with their candles. There at their feet lay poor A with the Malay knife in his heart! Explanations are always an anti-climax. But the explanation of the foregoing tragedy is too curious to omit, though its pretensions to being a ghost story are thereby destroyed. After this second murder the authori ties were aroused to a display of tardy activity. The house was carefully searched, and the discovery made that the walls were double, containing se- i cret doors, staircases and storage cham bers. One of these secret doors ac counted for the murder's escape and his return to get the knife, which he evidently felt would be a dangerous clew. In the secret chambers were found a considerable supply of arms and a large quantity of valuables of the most varied description. It was evi dent that the place had been used as a refuge and storehouse by Chinese pi rates, its close proximity U h water making it more convenient. The owner of the knife and some members of his gang were subsequently captured and put to death. Depth of the Pacific. One of the deepst spots yet discov ered in the Pacific ocean is near the Friendly islands, in latitude 24 de grees 37 minutes south, longitude 175 degrees 8 minues west. The depth there found was equal to about five English miles and is said to be some thing like 5,000 feet greater depth than had yet been found in that icinity. The coins of Siam are made of porce lain; those of Japan are made princi pal of Iron. HYPNOTISM IN A COURT. They Use It In Their Intrigues learned Men Pronounce Opinions. An interesting case was recently brought before the criminal court of Munich. A Polish adventurer named Lubirz-Czyuski had appeared in Dres den as a professional hypnotizer. Dres den has many rich people who have nothing special to keep them employed and the man with the unpronounce able name found plenty of faithful fol lowers. Among them was a lady of good family, beautiful and rich. Tho "professor" declared his love to her, she accepted him, and there, under or dinary circumstances, would have been an end to the matter. Unfortunately, however, Czyuski had already a wife, and he tried to get out of the difficulty by a sham marriage, asking his new spouse to keep their union secret. But the high born lady's relatives got wind of the affair and had the adven turer arrested, accusing him of having hypnotized his victim. Half a dozen learned men, says the Berlin Echo, were summoned from as many univer sities to decide whether it was possible to influence a person to such an extent that all resistance is impossible. The jury failed to be convinced that such is the case. The charge against Czyus ki, of having made the lady subservient to him without her consent, was dis missed, but he was found guilty of disorderly conduct and of criminal acts against the public morality and sentenced to three years' imprison ment, with five years' loss of civic honors. The Berlin Nation says: "We do not believe that hypnotic influence is irresistible. When we see the ex hibitions of professional hypnotizers we are led to think that they command obedience. If a hypnotized person is told, You are a dog,' he will begin to bark and crawl on all fours. But we be lieve that all such people are only somewhat stupid individuals, who fol low no other influence than the wish to appear Interesting or to please for some reason or other tho hypnotizer. I have often discovered proofs of this. One man, for instance, was told that in a certain place there was a wall too high for him to jump over. He went to this place and began to jump, but he always jumped backward! None of the great scientists who inter est themselves in hypnotism have ever declared that they themselves could be influenced. It is impossible with a person feeling his responsibility, and neither judge nor jury could be influ enced." HER SECRET KNOWN A Marquise Faints When She Meats the Chief of rolice. M. Hyrvoix, chief of polico at Paris tinder the empire, one night was awakened and informed that one of the most prominent ladies of the im perial court had just been arrested. With the assistance of her maid she had attempted to place in a cab the dead body of a young man arrayed in full evening dress. At the police sta tion she explained to Hyrvoix that her husband had gone on a shooting expe dition and would return on the follow ing morning, and that she had taken advantage of his absence to receive a young admirer, who had died at 2 o'clock in the morning of aneurism of the heart Appalled by the possibility of the body being dscovered by her husband, she was in the act of getting rid of it when discovered and arrested. M. Hyrvoix, aware of the emperor's desire to avoid public scandals at all cost, immediately ordered her release. Some years later, after the war, M. Hyrvoix happened to be present at an afternoon reception on the Faubourg St. Honore, at Paris. The death of the empire and the fate of the exiles at Chiselhurst formed the principal topic of conversation. As usual, small mercy was shown toward the fallen dynasty, and among the most bitter in their de nunciation of the corruption and im morality of the empire was a lady in whom M. Hyrvoix recognized the heroine of the adventure described above. He made his way up to her, and, bowing low, exclaimed: "May I be permitted to pay my homage to Mme. la Marquise? I fear that you have al most forgotten me." She looked up at him, says the San Francisco Argonaut, and, on recognizing who was speaking, fainted. Nor was she ever afterward known to open her lips on the score of Bonapartist immorality. American Flour In China. Undoubtedly the low price of wheat has materially stimulated its consump tion, enabling those who usually eat bread to buy more of it, and inducing its use by others who hitherto have managed to live without wheaten bread. It is reported that a greatly ex tended market has been found for our flour in China. It is now going to that country by the shipload to take the place of rice. Of course the great ma jority of the Chinese will continue to eat rice, and very few will adopt wheat flour to the exclusion of their historical food staple. But there is room for a great consumption in that country, and perhaps this will be one of the changes -to mark the introduction of western methods of thought and action thatrill follow the war with China: SELECTIONS. Nearly in the center of Cheboygan, Mich., is a pile of sawdust 800 feet long and sixty feet high " Theyemigration from Ireland last year b the lowest recorded since the collections of returns commenced in 1851. In 174G a storm began in Scotland on Jan. 25 and lasted six weeks,killins nearly all the'' stock in Eskdalemuir. All the farmers except six were ruined. The cjp" of Paris has Recently come into possession of a hoard of money amounting to morefthan 5,000,000 francs, bequeathed by an old lady, Mile. Marie Tainis, who died as she had lived alone and in seclusion. When Frederick Douglass was living at Rochester and when his children were young they were not allowed to attend,'the public schools nor could white teachers be hired to teach them at home. Mr. Douglass was obliged to send to England to procure a governess for his children. That was Rochester then. On the day of Frederick Doug lass' burial in Rochester he lay in state in the city hall, crowds of citi zens came to look upon his face, and business in the city was suspended THE KINETOPHONE. Mr. Edison la Now Eiperlmentlns; oft Ufe-Slie Figures. The kinetoscope is the name decided upon by Thomas A. Edison for his la test contrivance. It is a combination of the well known kinetoscope and phonograph, and it gives sound as well as action. The new machine resembles the kinetoscope closely, with the addi tion of rubber tubes and ear pieces by means of which the voices of the sub jects shown may be heard. The mat ter of combining the two machines was, according to Mr. Edison, very simple, the only obstacle being to get them to work in perfect accord. That is, the kinetoscope and phonograph had to be started at exactly the same time or the action and sound would hot come in together. The machine in its present state is small, and the pic tures produced are only the ordinary small ones of the kinetoscope. The problem that Mr. Edison has now set out to solve is the production of life sized figures, and he says he will get the machine in working order in three months. His idea is to throw the life sized pictures of the kinetoscope upon sheets by means of the stereopticon, and to produce the sounds through trumpets attached to the phonograph. In experimenting for the production of life-sized pictures many obstacles have been encountered. The machine re quires a larger film and a more power ful light, and the pictures produced must be flawless. In the small ma chines slight flaws are not noticeable, but when these pictures are magnified 500 times to make them life-size, the deviation of a hair's breath will amount to an inch when shown on the paper. The slightest waver will spoil the pic ture. Mr. Edison is enthusiastic over the kinetophone, and he says he will be able to produce grand opera with it, besides many other things. "In fact," he said to a Sun reporter yesterday, "the field of usefulness of the kineto phone is without limit." THE 'WIDOWS' MARINES. Recruiting Officers Get the Pick of England's Men. The other morning Fleet Surgeon Edward E. Mahon said to me: "Would you liko to see an examination of re cruits?" Of course I said "Yes." The examination was held in a room in tho infirmary of the Eastney barracks. When we entered the room Dr. Moore had one end of a stethoscope on a man's chest and the other against hi3 right ear. The man was stark naked. He was square and broad shouldered. He had a waist. His chest was deep and his hips were broad. The whites of his eyes were clear and the color of red was in his cheeks, though indica tions were not wanting that he had been in situations in which he felt more at home. The candidate looked as if a month or so of solid feeding would do him good fill him out, so to say, but he was a strapping fellow, six feet without socks, if he were an inch. The fleet surgeon had a go at him and could find nothing wrong. Finally Dr. Moore said: "I think he is good enough for ours." Then the man was told to put on his clothes a pair of corduroy trousers. "What are you?" said Dr. Moore." "A country lad, sir," replied the anxious one. "Oh, a laborer," said the doctor. As we walked toward the mess, the representative of the Pall Mall Budget said to tho fleet surgeon: "That fellow looked big and strong enough for any corps in the service." "Yes," he said, "not a bad specimen, but we are very careful. We reject men sometimes that would be taken by any other corps. The marines are a picked lot, and they are the finest fellows in the service." YOUNG IOWA PRODIGY. Dale Stough, O Years Old, Knows More than Some Adults. Considerable interest is manifest in Creston, Iowa, over the wonderful pro clivities for learning of little Dale Stough, the 6-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Stough. Little Dale's re tentive memory and his capabilities for learning are extraordinary. He first began to develop these powers at the age of 2 years, when his father bought him a set of alphabet blocks. These ho learned rapidly and upon some of them being lost told which blocks were miss ing and the letters upon them. He started to school last September and his rapid advancement was a source of con siderable worry to his instructors. Pro motion followed promotion In quick suc cession, and finally some of the teachers went to the parents and complained that he outstripped his classmates so quickly as to make it almost Impossible to grade him. Dale is at present read ing the fifth reader and studying his tory at home. He locks horns with al most any one In a spelling contest. Take the first readers. In which his ear lier studies were, and pronounce words from it at random and he will tell you the page and lesson where the word Is found, and If you should introduce a strange word to entrap him he will know it. Mr. Stough, his father. Is a railroad man and his time table Is of great interest to Dale. Early in the morning before his parents are awake he will be sitting up in bed deciphering the meaning of the intricate column of figures. Some time ago Mr. Stough happened to allude to the date the pay car would arrive a month or two in ad vance, and named a certain date that he figured it would arrive. Dale in stantly denied this on the grounds that the date mentioned would be Sunday, nd examination proved him right. Revival of a Pretty Old Fashion. A pretty old fashion, the fashion of Leech's Punch days, is being revived, the fashion of white linen cuffs and collars. Despite all the folded satin collars and rosettes and ruches, and bands of tailor-made gowns which formed a hard and fast line of color round the neck, one's soul wearied for just that little white edging, finishing off the dress, and looking so dainty and neat, which is now reserved for the nurse's uniform. A clean collar, a bit of turned down spotless muslin or lin en, formerly gave the exact touch to a lady's dress which the well brushed silk hat gives to the gentleman's now. But by degrees these prejudices were swept away with the fashion of caps for young matrons; we grew accus tomed to the unfinished appearance of a gown without a tucker, we even learned to associate it with an idea of smartness, and now our hardly earned ideas must be dispelled, and we are ordered to return to the era of collars. Already neat little collars of muslin, edged with lace, have made their a- pearance in the dressmakers shops. ! just that little white edging, finishing, gal Sft to follow A WAB ECHO. EVERY HONORABLE VETERAN DESERVES HIS PENSION. And the Lone limb Is Not the Only Beaton for m Government Re ward Either. (From the Journal. Lewlston, Me.) Samuel R. Jordan has Just given t' o Journal an account of his life, which in view of his extremely hard lot for the past few years fs of great interest. "I am 48 years old and have always lived In New Portland. I enlisted in the army in 1862 as a private in Com pany A, Twenty-eighty Maine Volun teers. My army experience injured my health to lome extent, although I worked at blacksmlthlng some part of the time, when suddenly, several years ago. I was prostrated with what able physicians pronounced Locomotor Ataxia. At first I could get around somewhat, yet the disease progressed quite rapidly until I had hardly any feeling ln'my legs and feet; they felt like sticks of wood, and I grew sd much, worse that I could not move for three years without help, as my neighbors and friends could testify. I employed several physicians In my vicinity, and elsewhere, find they nil told me that medicines would not help me. that they could do nothing to effect a cure and that in time I should become en tirely helpless. I became discouraged. I was a great care to my wife and friends. Shortly after I met an old army comrade, Mr. All. Parlln. a resi dent of Madison, Me., and he incldently mentioned how he had tried Dr. Will iams' Pink Pills for a Severe case of rheumatism and a spinal and malarial trouble, that he had suffered with con sequent of hl army life, and had been greatly benefited by their use. By his earnest recommendation T was induced to try the pills. After taking them for a time I began to feel pricki sensations in my legs and a return of Mrength so I could move them a little. After a few weeks I began to feel a marked Im provement in my condlton. I soon was enabled to walk around a little with the help of crutches. After taking for some time 1 can now walk without crutches, my general health is much Im proved and 1 have regained my old time vigor. I can walk about and enjoy life once more for which I feel very thankful, and this happy result Is due to the use of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills." Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale Peo ple were first compounded as a prescription and used as such in general practice by an eminent physician. So great was their effi cacy that it was deemed wise to place them within the reach of all. They are now manufactured by the Dr. Will lams' Medicine company, Schenectady, N. Y., and are sold in boxes (never in loose form by the dozen or hundred, and the public are cautioned against num erous Imitations sold in this shape) at DO cents a box. or six boxes for $2.50. and may be had of all druggists or direct by mall from Dr. Williams' Med. Co. AUTHORS AND OTHERS. Walter Uesant has started a move ment for the erection in London of a statue to the late Robert Louis Stev enson. The author of "The Manxman" writes so microscopic a hand that he gets 700 words onto one sheet of note paper. For at least two years tho income of Mr. Stanley Weyman, tho novelist, has not been less than the rate of SoO.000 a year. Melle Stanleyetta Titus is the only woman who has been admitted to the bar in New York city. She comes from Dutchess county. Her family are Quakers. Disraeli was tho last novelist who received 850,000 for a single work, and that proved so disastrous to the publishers that the author offered to return part of the money. August Strindberg, the well-known Swedish novelist, while engaged in making somo chemical experiments recently, burned his hands fright fully. It is feared that he may die from bloodpoisoning. Du Maurier is writing another nov el, but he frankly acknowledges that it will not mako the hit achieved by "Trilby." Those who know some thing in detail about the work upon which he is now engaged speak of it as a much more artistic story than either of his former novels, but fear that the tremendous popularity of "Trilby" will operate to hurt the sale if the new book. Interrupted Explanation. "Apropos of the peculiarly American tendency to explain things," he was saying, "there occurs to my mind the attempt sometimes made to account for the derivation of the compound word Welsh-rabbit. I regret to notice that Webster falls into the common er ror of considering the word rabbit a corruption of rare bit. Now, as shown by lexicographers who have had the advantage of a technical acquaintance with facts relating to the origin of the word, Welsh-rabbit is merely a slang term and not a corruption at alL It never was anything but Welsh-rabbit, and in its genesis it was essentially a slang term, yet by reason of its long habitude in the language it has lost or outgrown what mujht be called the coarseness of its origin, and is now en titled to a place in the accepted vocab ulary without any apology or fanciful explanation. In proof of this I may cite other examples, notably " "Wendell," interrupted the mother of the little Boston boy, "you weary the lady with your chatter. Run out now and play awhile." Chicago Trib une. This Means Business. On the principal lines of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railway passenger trains are electric lighted, steam heated and protected by block signals. With these modern appliances, railway traveling at high speeds has reached a degree of safety heretofore unknown aud not attain able on roads where they are not in use. Electric lights and steam heat make it pos sible to dispense with the oil lamp and the car stove. Block tignals have reduced the chances for collisions to the minimum by maintaining an absolute interval of space between trains. "The Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc," beginning in Harper's Maga for April, will show Joan as a daughter of the people; the incidents of her girl hood among her rustic playmates and in the midst of bucolic associations; her childish superstitions, peopling her earth with strange presences suggested by fairy folklore and stories of the saints; her distressful solicitations for her count3 fed constantly by tidings of defeat that pierced her heart and opened there the fountain of prophecy; the heavenly voices and visions that nourished the hope of deliverance that should surely come through her; her conquest of a corrupt court; her martial triumphs; her betrayal and martyr dom. Winter Toarlst Tickets Yl the Wabash Railroad Are now on sale to all the winter resorts of the South, good returning until June 1st, "25. Also Bjlbvxst Excursion Tickets to all points south on excursion dates. In ad dition to above, Railroad and Steamship tickets to all points in the U.nitbd States and Ecaorx, at lowest rates. For rates, tickets, excursion dates and full informa tion or a copy of the Home Seekers Guide, call at Wabash Office, 15U2 Farnam street, or writ G. N. Clatton, N. W. P. Agt, Omaha. Ntb. OBSTINATE SENECA LAKE. Frozen Over In Warm Weather and No Ice When It Is Cold. Seneca differs from nearly all of its many sister lakes in this section of the state In the matter of its seldom freez ing over, says the Rochester Democrat "-I Chronicle. This is duo to the great depth of the lake and the fact that it is fed largely by springs along its shores, and, as many believe, at Its bottom. During the summer season the lake absorbs a vast amount of heat, but. owing to the non-conducting proper ties of water it is slow in throwing it off in the winter. For this reason, on many cold winter mornings the lake's surface is covered with vapor, which indicates that the water is warmer than tho atmosphere. This vapor is always densest over the deepest por tions of the lake, showing that the water along the shores In the shallower parts haJ, to some extent, become colder. As the surface of the lake cools the water gradually commingles with that below, and finally the Whole body of the lake becomes cooled. In addi tion, a heavy body of snow melting in the spring and Mowing into the lake, especially in caso of a freshet, tends to cool the water and render tho lake liable to freezing if the surface is not too much disturbed by wind. For these reasons the lake sometimes freezes over very late in the spring, even when the temperature is from 15 degrees to 23 degrees above zero; as. for instance, a thin film of ice covered the lafce surface on the mornings of May 5. 1861, May 15. 1872, May G, 1S73, and April 26, 1S84. On many mornings during the last month and a half the mercury has been down to zero or below, and at Monterey one day last week the ther mometer registered 30 degrees below zero, yet the lake has not sufficiently cooled to freeze over, for no snow water has run into it this season. In a description of Seneca lako Apple ton's cyclopedia states that it was never known to be frozen over until March 22, 185G, but, according to a pub lished statement of the late Hon. Wil liam C. Coon Burdett, he and a party of about twenty skated across the lake from Glen Eldridge to Watkins and back on the morning of Feb. 28, 1855. The ice was then five inches thick in the middle of the lake and was clear and solid. On March 3, 1S6S, the lake again froze over, and in 1875 for a pe riod of four weeks and two days prior to March 14 it was frozen over so that persons could cross it many miles from the head. On Feb. 21, 1885, it froze over from shore to shore out as far as the eye could reach and four days la ter a grand carnival was held on the ice in the evening. About 1,000 persons assembled, coming from Elmira and other places by train and from all the surrounding country in sleighs. Tne moon, nearly full, rode high in a cloud less sky and the scene was one of a most inspiring nature. Chinese lan terns and torchlights lent their charm to the surroundings, while the glare of rockets and bombs lighted up the sky Harding's Cornet band of Havana was present and dancing and skating were among the sports enjoyed. Jan. 16. 1893. an unusually early date, the head of the lake froze over from shore to shore, out a distance of about twenty rods, but the ice lasted only a few days. By observation many people have come to expect the lake to freeze over once in every ten years, and, according to such a series, it should freeze this win ter, for by reference to the dates men tioned above it will be seen that it froze over in 1855, in 1868, in 1875 and in 1885. ELECTRICAL HEATING. It Is Now Applied to Warm the Iater lor of a London Theater. The Vaudeville theater, London, England, has recently been heated en tirely by electricity. At first it was contemplated to use a system of hot water heatinsc. but. after carefully con sidering the matter, the management decided that electrical heaters afford ed a more advantageous system. Twenty-two "box" or wall radiators and four large portable radiators, all of the "Crompton-Dowsing" type, are em ployed, and they answer the purpose admirably. The temperature of the theater is maintained at 60 degrees, while the corridors may be as low aa 40 degrees. The heating arrangements are under absolute control, and any portion may be turned off or on at will. The electricity used is taken from a public street circuit from a central sta tion. With electrical radiators there is no danger of a fire, as there Is no combustion, and the temperature is about the same as that of hot water pipes. Some difficulty was at first experienced with regard to the fire of fice and London county council, but all authorities appear now to be con vinced that electrical heating, when properly installed, is very safe, and perfectly suitable for public buildings. It is stated that electric radiators are often used in an auxiliary sense where sufficient heat is not obtainable in buildings heated by hot water. They are also useful for chilly evenings, and at times when it is not cold enough to work the whole system of heating, but a little warmth is required in any oarticular room or portion of a room. An Interesting: IJellc. Andrew J. Cobb of Aalanta, Ga., hat in his possession one of the most in teresting relics of the confederacy. It is the pen used to sign the constitution of the confederacy. It has never been disturbed since the hand of Gen. Howell Cobb laid it in its case, and the ink used then can he seen now where it has dried upon the pen. Nature Is Kind. Nature has enabled some animals to see objects behind them as well as in front, and that, too, without turning around. The common hare or rabbit has this power in a marked degree. Its eyes are large, prominent, and placed on the side of the head. The deer is another example of an animal of this Mass. African Dancers. Gallini, in his "Travels in Africa," declares that the people of the west are exceedingly fond of dancing. He once tried to tire them out, but as long: as he could raise his hand to his violin they continued to dance and he wag forced to desist. 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We solicit your patj rosage. ' THB- First National Bank! OFFICERS. A. ANDERSON. J. H. GALLEY, President. Vice Pros't. O. T. ROEN. Cashier. mmxcTORS. 4.AMM6V. F. AjmtJMO. "ra58? SAGATV Stateneat tf tin Crailtira at the Close f BhIbcm Jly IS, 1893. BMOCBCM. Loans and Dlacouata. . WtKT CT Real Estate Furnltura and Fix- turea. " U.S. Bonds., -xa-ii'i " Due from other bnka.....tW.8W W Caahonllaad JU.I67M 59.. 43 83 Total 1333.100 34 HIWUMfc Capital Stock aldU .. M.000 00 Surplus Fuaa "vzxi YA Undivided prolU.,... ...... A't'?. i Circulation ,i. ,..... ..,.. ?'' 2 Deposits ..'' Ea.u Jf TotjL,...,,,.,.i..,MjiyMMl333,193 33 HENRY GASS, X Coflini : and : MttftUlo : Cases ! trBatHngmf mUhUtdaof Uphol UeryGoodM. ut 4Xumui,aiBBAnjL GoiuiiiDuS Journal XS FUTABJV CO FCmXW AHTTUIXCJ msQUiaxDO a PRINTING OFFICE. COUNTRY. CilRCUll BANK aaaaaaaaaaaaLVIHaaV W LaVLVk 'SaMaaLBslv fu t L L -r- -?:
