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.- : r:rj VOLUME XXVI. NUMBER 13. COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA, WEDNESDAY; JULY 10, 1898. WHOLE NUMBER 1,313; I -".-.:. & lv I- r. : i -i I '- I': ' . 1:. ". i. - WASHHPA'S GOLD. LD JONAS and hU companion, Robert White.' had strayed away from the mining camp and were alone In a wild, desolate part of the Rocky Moun tains. Jonas was aa old time miner, and - knew the mouatalmt as 'well as any man fc 7 living- Robert White was merely a boy. and a tomnarative tenderfoot. It was the noon hour, and the two had halted to partake of their small store xf rations. They had been eating for several minutes in silence when at last Jcpas said; "Looks kind o discouragin' at the present writ In' don't it?" , "Rather," Robert replied. ''We've been away from camp a week how." Jonas went on, "an though we've put in the time steady lookin' for Old Washita's great heaps o' gold, we hain't seen no nair nor hide of it so fer." "No." Robert admitted, "and It he Kins to look a little like we were not going to see anything of the kind." "It does look a leetle that way. fer a lact." Jonas agreed. "To my mind the chances air that the blamed Injun was lyln' all the time when he told 'bout so much gold." "Then you've about concluded that we are on a wild goose chase?" "Yps. Jest about. You see. Bob. Old Washita said the gold was to be found on this here slope, "twixt the foot o' the pur up thar an' the river down yon der." '"Yes. that's true." -' "Wal, we've searched the ground over -faithfully time an' agin, hain't we?" "Yes." . "An we hain't had a smell o' no gold ielther. have we?" -No." ' "Then don't it begin to look kinder like the old Injun lied?" "Well. It does look that way. Jonas; but yet I can't hardly believe he did. You know the old man was dying, and we had taken him in and cared for him. and I an't believe that he would hatch up a lie under such circumstances Just to get us to make a chase like this." "It don't look like he would, shore enough," Jonas admitted, scratching his head perplexedly. "But what puzzles me Is this. Bob. If tbar's any gold here like that old Injun told 'bout, whar is It? That's the question I'd like to have answered. If you please. "It's a question I can't answer, sure." Jlob said, with a shake of 'his head. "-Still. I think Old Washita was honest. tnd that the gold is somewhere In this vicinity." "I wish to gracious I knowed whar 'bouts In this vicinity," old Jonas said wHh a sigh. "I've counted lots on find In' that gold, an' flggered out how how .I'd go back East to my wife an' children an" make a nice home for 'em; an now it comes mighty hard to be disapp'inted an' have all my Ilggorin' go for nothin'." . "Yes. it's pretty tough." Bob admitted sadly;- "but it we can't find the gold we raa't help it. We've done our part "in searching for It faithfully." "Yes. an thar's nothin' more we kin lo. Tough as it Is to do so. we've got to give up the sarch an' go back to camp, an take to -work for wages ag'ln. Our dream o' wealth is shore knocked out." "It certainly looks like it." There followed a long silence, during which Jonas and Bob appeared very thoughtful. The failure to And the great amount of gold Old Washita had THE GOLD LAY IN SHINING HEAPS told about was a great disappointment to them both Old Jonas had spent years in the West seeking a fortune, and always luck had been against him. Time and Again he had been one of the first to reach a new goldficld and stake off a claim, and while others who came aft er, struck wealth all around him, his claims Invariably turned out worthless. To him it began to look as.though fortune-had decreed that he should never gain a stake. Bob was a new hand in gold-hunting, and as yet he had not received very many rebuffs from fortune. Only for a few months had he been in the moun tains, and consequently he had not had lme to get a taste of the disappolnt- ments. that had fallen to the lot of Jonas. Still he had come out full of confidence, and even a few months' de lay In the accumulation of a fortune . Was a great disappointment. Bob. however, was more regretful of their failure this time on old Jonas ac count than on his own. Two or three months before he had been very sick, and old Jonas, seeing that he had no friends near, took care of him as a father would, and nursed him back to health again. From that time Bob had loved the eld man, and had been anxious at nil times to do something to repay- his kindness. He knew how much Jonas wanted to return to his wife and children, and when old Washita, who came to them sick and dying, and -was taken in and " cared for by them, told them of great heaps of gold over on the slope to the eaSt.'Bob resolved that for Jonas' sake, more than his own. they would find that gold. But now they had made the search, and had made It thoroughly, and no geld had rewarded their efforts. It was a long time before either spoke, but at last Bob said: 'Jonas, what do you think we had better -do next?" I .hardly know." Jonas replied. "Shall we go, on .searching?" 1 "What's .the use? W.e've gone over -the ground time an ag'in. an if thar was ahything'to be found, we'd shofely a-run across it before this. "Yes. that's true. Still. I hate to give -the thing up." "So do I. Bob. I hate it tarnation bad. Xou don't know how much I counted on .flndln'tbat stuff. anhow I've planned "and flggered on how I'd' do after I got " . It. . Bob." hie said softly. "I've .hoped - ever since OldjWushKa died to be -able 'soon togo back home, an thlnlrin ;."bont .my" wife an" children has set me . to yearnin"1o see,"m. an now this dis- acDolntment is almost Trillin. It lest .-.knocks me all to pieces, an" right now 1 ;iaw giad if a streak-o" HgntaUT wohm J. come'.down an" kill me. " ." " "Jonas.". Bob cried, "don't talk like , . that. We "Will find something yet. Other .'thing's will come up for us." and before long'our fortune will tura. aUr UWr'JJSsL "awJS fiBaKjBj .atfan9f aTaunMk aunnwM33uwBnB?tf - vfijflByB "Mine will never tarn. Bob. rva give It fair showln". an' it never turns. Ill die poor, aa I'll never see my wife an' children ag'ln. I give It all up." "But you musn't do it, Jonas," Bob remonstrated, laying his hand on the old nan's shoulder. "You must keep up courage and hope for the best." Bob did not feel very sanguine him self, but he was not ready to give up the fight. Having given up the 'arch for Washita's wealth. Jonas and Bob packed up their "traps" and started slowly back up the slope on their way to. the camp over the range. Thty talked along in silence, too sad to talk. ' When they had gone a short distance Bob noticed a small opening In the ground at the root of a large upturned tree. He stepped up close to It to ex amine It. though for what reason he did not know, when suddenly the earth gave way under his teet. and he shot downward and disappeared from view. Jpnas saw him go and hurried for ward, and. called after him. but re ceived no reply. Then he peered down In the hole, but-could see nothing. After a minute or so there came to Jonas' ears the noise of a terrible scufflling down below. He called again, but got no answer. The scufflling con tinued for a little longer, then there was the report of a pistol. Then all was silent. Five minutes elapsed and Jonas was beginning to grow frantic. Had Bob been killed, or why dlu he not answer? What was the meaning of that scuffling, and that shot, and the deathlike silence that followed? Jonas cast about for some means of descending Into the hole, but cou'd find none. He thought of the rope they had brought with them and decided to tie one end of It to a tree and let himself down, but then he remembered that Bob carried the rope, and that when he fell he took It down with him. "What can I do?" he cried aloud, al most wild with anxiety. Several minutes passed, and Jonas had Just resolved to leap down after Bob. when the latter suddenly ap peared, not more than ten feet below, and called out: 'Catch the rope. Jonas, and fasten one end to a tree, and come dowa and see what I've found." "Are you safe an' sound. Bob?" Jonas asked. "Safe and sound as a dollar, Jonas." Bob replied, "and rich as Old What's-his-name." "Rich?" "Yes. I've killed a bear and found Old Washita's gold. There's a wagon load of It Come down and see for yourself." It did not take old Jonas many min utes to tie the rope and descend Into the hole, which led back Into a little cave, where the gold lay In shining heaps Just as Old Washita had said. One look at the precious metal and then Jonas threw his arms around Bob and cried like a child. "It was the luckiest day of my life." he said, "when I went to nurse you through that sickness." "And the luckiest day of both our lives," Bob added, "when we took the old Indian in and cared for him." Jonas was silent a moment, and then be said earnestly: "Bob. this looks like a reward for doing right toward our fellow-men. don't it?" "It does." There was another long silence, then Jonas said: "Bob. I'll never again And fault with fortune. If a man does bis duty and does it well fortune will smile on him in time." "I believe that," Bob acquiesced. "An' now, at last." Jonas went on, "I'll git to see ray wife an children. We're both rich, an' we'll go back east together, an' we'll enjoy life." "Yes." was all Bob said. But that was enough. He was too happy to see Jonas' Joy to say more. Unrivaled Cantag. In ivory and wood carving Japan is ahead of the rest- of the world; In lacquer work and In pottery and vases she has no rival. The work of the Jap anese artists in painting flowers and birds is not equalled. Yet no Japanese artist can paint a horse or the poatrait of a foreigner. They can't paint a horse because they have no horses that we would call horses. They are runty, rough-looking, knotty brutes. LITTLE THINGS. ' France is the greatest wheat-growing country In Europe, not excepting even Russia. Stockholm has the largest death roll from alcoholism of any city -.in' the world. Ninety in one thousand die from the excessive use of intoxicants. "Crocodile tears" are alluded to by several Latin and Greek authors, it being a superstition among the an cients that the crocodile after killing a man ate all his body but his head, and shed tears over that before eating It also. Sir Robert Ball, the astronomer royal for Ireland. Is said to believe that the time is approaching when posterity will be able to construct machinery that will be operated by means of glasses, with heat obtained by the direct action of the sun's rays. The love of display, apart from the art of self-adornment, is nothing but a survival of the patriarchal days, when the women were compelled to make their dress or their ornaments aa" ex ponent of the wealth of the man whose private property they were. WORTH KNOWING. A project is on foot to erect a monu ment to Lavoisier, the great French chemist. The sky is whiter over the cultivated than over the uncultivated portions of the earth's surface. A Malaysian spider, which is normal ly of a bright golden tint. Is said to have the power of "darkening down its bril liant coloring when frightened." Nearly every Japanese trading junk has its cat. because cats have the pow er to chase away the O-bake, the "hon orable ghosts" of men drowned at sea A cat of three colors Is best The unrolling of an Egyptian mum my, supposed to be that of a princess, disclosed a curious fraud. The priests who did the embalming probably spoiled or mislaid the body Intrusted to them, and for it substituted that of an ordi nary negro. Strasburger. an authority on veget able, biology, finds transpiration to have much effect on the else and shape' of Plant leaves; and deduces the general law that the more sunlight and the drier the atmosphere the thicker aad smaller the leaves will be. It Is now believed, and with high prob ability.of the truth of the theory, that the shooting stars which sometimes fall to 'the earth in, a semi-molten condition, are almost or wholly devoid of heat when they eater the atmosphere. They are set on Are by friction against the air. due to the rapidity of their motion. In the sixteenth century there was a curious enactment In England whereby street hawkers were forbtddea to sell phnas and apples, for the reason that servants, and apprentices were unable to resist the sightoof them, aad were consequently tempted to steal their em ployers' money in order .to enjoy .the costly delicacies; , "- J . DONE BY THE TURKS. MOM HORMBLC RECITALS OF BUTCHERIES. thtoty VMtewats of Mahasast YlettMM te tlwM sad AUrS Haartxcadlag at theDyteg. NCIENT, medieval and Modern his tory, should all their records be rolled Into one,have no tale more dra matic and horrible than that of the outrages on the helpless Peasants bf Armenia at the hands of a ferocious-Turkish soldiery. These atroci ties stand forth in the annals of Chris tendom as the very essence of cruelty, and as an instance of what the still un civilised Turk is capable, of accom plishing. The civilized World stood shocked arid appalled and the great powers of Europe stepped In and began an Inves tigation. Then followed a demand upon the Sultan of Turkey to put a step to these atrocities and to Institute such reforms In bis brutal government as would forever end another butchery of his Armenian subjects. And now the bloodthirsty Turkish despot defies all civilized Europe and refuses to In terfere to prevent a repetition of the persecutions and horrors of Bassoun. The story, brutal as it is. and exhib iting In the minor telling of it a lust. rapine and violence that could hardly he Imagined, is all the more remark able because it is not war. Had the Armenians been fighting His Majesty the Sultan and resisting his fanatical troops, some shadow of excuse might there be. But, instead of this, when the Turkish brigades appeared In the coun try the Armenian men and women ran to them like little children and gath ered under what they thought were protecting wings agalnBt the ravages of the marauding, savage hill tribes, the Kurds. Without a sign, without a signal, while the peasants were yet hailing them as the representatives of govern mental authority and as the military delegates of their monarch, the Turks cut and fired, cut and fired again. No novelist's pen could depict a tale of tor ture half so graphically as comes down In the simple ungarnished statements of the few survivors that somehow made their way beyond the reach of bayonet, bullet and aword. ' The blood that was shed has hardly yet grown cold, but even now all Eu rope la ablaze with shame and regret that such cruelties could be perpetrated in these Christian modern times. A commission of inquiry, formed of dele gates of Great Britain, France and Rus sia has been on the ground for some weeks, and has actually visited the scenes of the death-dealing tortures. All the other European powers are ready to act with them. There Is little of previous history to rehearse, little explanation to be made. The story of the outrages stands out in broad detail. The feeble defense has been made by those close to the Sub lime Porte that the savage and no madic Kurds themselves were alone re sponsible for these dreadful crimes. That this la not so can be proved by the fact that early in June, a year aga, the Turkish government commenced to send brigades to Armenia and to rein force them by detachments of savage troops, men whom it was fondly ex pected would shoulder all the responsi bility for what was to be attempted. In broad daylight the deeds were done. At dawn the little villages of Semal, Shenik and Aval were attacked by Kurds and by Turkish soldiers, dis guised as mountaineers. There had been no provocation, no excuse even for retaliation. The day before a few Kurds had stolen some of the villagers' sheep, and the shepherds, naturally, had engaged In a hand-to-hand con flict with them to recover their prop erty. Four to one the Hamldiehs, the Bakranleea, the Rlshkotlees,' the Khi anlees and Zllaases, together with the disguised troops of the Saltan, outnum .bered the Armenians. .In terror .the 'latter fled, leaving in then- alarm the old aad wounded behind. It waa then .the atrocities began. It needed little discernment on the. part ef the Turkish troops to perceive that' .the Kurds were not warriors at all. 'Throwing on all disguise, the' soldiers ef the Sultan entered .the villages, bay onet and aword in hand. The bugles I'senndad" and the cannon boomed. With erles that were' piteous, under sleaihu nothing save that an awful ealassJty waa new upon them, the old Wagers who had" been, left behind snae tumbling aut of their houses as the seMkrs with calm ferocity .applied the terea to the buildings. These old ts flung themselves pitifully at ef even the common soldiery, a -'nVII BBnUTSTUL saaflssaM k. :ilHafil .BtaSMsMn '"JJeSBmS j4J5f9aBBKSp'- Viiflrir ' C BaBwBlaBBBBPaBBBBflaBVam? 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The killie is most widely distributed; it is found In Canada.and in all parts of the United States,' and in Mexico and Central America, and in South America, The several kinds of killies found in. this country range at fiili grdwtH from one td six inched in length, and they also vary greatly" in form and appearance; there are some that are beautifully marked and some that are almost transparent. Of the kind commonly known as the bass, mummy, which is used as a bait for striped bass, the female killie is marked with stripes running lengthwise and the male with bands of vertical stripe, in the south the killie is called a mum micbog. There is a mummichog whose brown aides are adorned with stripes of black made up of tiny round spots i'-IsrV-f1"' ijsikiw- in line each at the base of a scale. This killie has a high back fin, which is of pearly tint and marked with blue spots. In Central America and in South America the killie attains a some what larger growth than in this coun try, and many of them there are gaily colored as tropical birds are. Even the plainest killie takes on brighter colors in the breeding season, as almost all fishes do. The killie is wonderfully prolific, and it will live in water warm enough, it would almost seem, to boil other fish. It is always on the go, an alert little fish, moving in 'schools, and sometimes in lines of perfect front, like so many soldiers. There is a southern killie called the top swimmer, from its habit of swimming on top of the water with its head out. FrofeMor Langlry'a Flying Machine. The Langley flying machine, it is re ported, flew a distance of 1,000 feet, at a test, down the Potomac a few days ago. The machine is now propelled by storage batteries placed under the wings and moves independently of any control from the float from which the flights are made. It is now believed that the machine will fly great dis tances. Professor Langley has already spent more than 150,000 in the experi mental work; he believes that before long he will be able to build a practical machine. All of the' recent tests have been for the purpose of 'developing certain facts in relation to' propellers of different size and shape. It is un derstood that Alexander Melville Bell and Alexander Graham Bell, the in ventor of the telephone, have placed at Professor Langley's disposal a sufficient sum of money to enable himto work freely without fear of financial embar rassment." Expected Royal Babies. The interesting fact Is made known . that within the current year the Queen expects to have the 'number of her great grandchildren increased by" three. The royal mothers-expectant this year are the Duchess of York, the Empress of Russia and one of the Duke of Edinburgh. ua.uely; the Crown Princess of Roumacia. i. 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On Friday afternoon a reporter's at tention was attracted to a crowd sur roundingan organ-grinder at One Hun dred and Twenty-Fifth street and Lex ington avtntie. -The nan waa accom panied bjf a woman, who ptiyed a tarn borifie more or less in time with the doleful walls of ihi organ. In front of them were several children dancing. The crowd, out of sympathy with the little ones who were apparently enjoy ing the music so much, was not. nig gard of its pennies. After playing about five minutes the wandering minstrel moved on to One Hundred and Twenty third street and the same avenue. There the same performance was re sumed. The singular thing about it was that two little girls, scarcely more than ten years of age, who had danced at One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street and Third avenue, reappeared at One Hundred and Twenty-third street, al though when the organ-grinder had moved away from One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street they had gone in a direction. opposite to him. From One .Hundred and Twenty-third street the mbsician and the woman went to One Hbndred and Twenty-first street, be tween First and Second avenues. There the same two children turned up. They always formed the nucleus for a danc ing party. The children were poorly dressed and their toes peered through the ends of their worn shoes. Their pale faces showed that they were very tired. "Are those your children?" asked the reporter of the Italian. "No." he replied In a surprised tone, "girls of my friend." When pressed with further questions the Italian said that a man whom he knew in Spring street, near Mulberry, Ricardo by name, made a practice of hiring children out to organ grinders whom he knew at 50 cents each for an afternoon. The children liked the work, he said, were well looked after, and were always at home by 10 o'clock at night. He believed the parents got half of the money paid the agent by the musicians. He did not think he was doing anything in violation of the law, for the children never complained. The supply, the Italian said, was al ways greater than the demand. "Do you make money by this scheme?" For answer the Italian jingled a lot of coins In his coat pocket. This proved that he was making money and that the New York public loves children. LIFE'S LITTLE IRONIES. The Indians will very soon be, on the average, the richest people in the coun try. Some tribes of them are now worth several thousands Der head. A man in Auburn. Me.. Just had to sneeze the other day when his mouth was full of carpet tacks. One went down his throat, but the doctor got it cut. . There's a good story afloat of a man who has a 5.0ftO Bank of England note and makes a good income renting It out for weddings, where it appears as the bride's fathers' gift. Customs officers near Belgrade recent ly seized a lot of human bones consigned to a Vienna bone-boiling house. They had once belonged to Russian and Turkish soldiers who fell in the war of 1878. Lewis Pierce of Batavia was wounded twice in the last war. and has been struck by lightning once, twice ship wrecked at sea. and smashed and crushed In several runaways. The other day a finger was crushed. LEGAL BRIEFS. A Philadelphia woman who put hei money In Atchison before the slump In prices sues the president of the com pany for deceiving her In his roseate reports of the condition of the road. A St. Louts decision runs to the ef fect that a woman has an Insurable in terest in the life of her fiance even Lwhen the man Is already married, but designing' getting a divorce to marry the new sweetheart. The Massachusetts Supreme court, has decided unconstitutional a law com pelling the railroads to sell at ruling rates mileage tickets good on 'any rail road. Michigan has, however, recent- ) ly passed a' similar law. After a fatal runaway accident in Polk county. Iowa, the coroner was persuad ed by several of the leading citizens that -there was no necessity for an in quest as to the cause of death. They wished, as' taxpayers, to avoid expense to the. county, but the coroner has now begun'sult to recover his fees. A Are broke out in a butter factory near Madison. Wis. After all the water on hand was used z.aeo gallons of milk were used In Its stead and the Are- was put out. Now the insurance 'company' .Is not quite certain whether it should pay for the mill" as well as for the slight sasMge done to the bnildlag. WOOD FOB CLOTHES. WONDERS OF NATURE BEINQ UNVEILED A JKtm ay WTBtek ir Other PROCBShae discovered by which a malarial closely resentbling silk may be mannfactared from wood. MS v. en now walking about the streets ef European titles to themeet elaborate gewM ef sUk In the factor 6 Wale the worm had i In fact, the silkworm has lest Its eocu patioa. The palm for thie valuable uiv covery In chemical science must ge td Switzerland, for a native of Zurich. Dr. Leaner by name, is the inventor of the process; Borne years ifd a began te make observations on the habits and physi cal characteristics of the silkworm and beeame deeply Interested In the subject. He discovered the chemical action which took place ill the worm In pro ducing lbs cocoon, and at M ttmee sought to counterfeit the work df na ture. So convinced did he become of the feasibility of his Ideas that he soon abandoned all ether work aad devoted his tlmd td tills single study. In which he has achieved t signal triumph. In theproceas of manufacturing the sew fabric the principal lngredlenta Vied arq spracewood pulp, cotton or jute waste, etc., combined with a large qual ity of alcohol. The use of the substan tial or solid materials mentioned creates a market for what was hitherto of td use whatever, being burned in factory furnaces to get it out of the way. Spruce sawdust now has a market value, for this, an well aa the other ma terials, are digested by a chemical pro cess In which alcohol plays an Impor tant part. The material Una digested la so much like the.eoeeon spun by the silkworm that when the twe are placed side by aide In a finished state K tikes an expert to determine which la which. The artificial material at one state Is In n llald state, aad of a density about equal to the ordinary syrup of com merce. When In this state a machine of Dr. Lehner'e invention, which may be called an artificial silkworm, comes into play. This machine, which Is very simple In construction, resulting so little attention that It can be kept at work with about aa muck labor aa la de voted to a twenty-feur hour clock, per forms exactly the same mechanical work that a silkworm does. It draws from the liquid a continuous, unbroken thread of even diameter and unlimited length. Aa this thread la spun another portion ef the machine takes It up and twists It Into any desired thickness ef yarn with perfect regularity. Thus the fabric can be made of any deelred weight or thickness, so that It will be seasonable at all times. This artificial silk has been spun In Bradford. England, and worked up Into a large variety of fabrics. In the dye ing, weaving and finishing of these no special treatment has been found nec essary. It has been dyed in all Imag inable ahades and colors, and owing to the peculiar qualities of the material It takes a dye more readily and gives a more brilliant effect than the natural article. In texture It la the equal of the best ef Chinese and Italian silks, being soft and silken to the touch. It Is ex pected that It will be used largely In combination with natural silk and cot ton for producing brocaded effects. These latter have been so expensive lately aa to be out of reach of ail but the fattest purses. The new Invention will greatly reduce the cost. It would seem that thie new process would give an Immense Impetus to the manufac ture of textile fabrics all over the world, and it probably will, but Dr. Leaner alee differs from the average inventor In that he combines financial cunning with his remarkable genius, so that every yard of this new material made will put'nennlee into his pocket. patents on the process have been ob tained in most of the European coun tries, and an application for one In the United States Is now on file at Wash ington, as well as in the patent office of the Canadian government A com pany with a capital stock of $1,500,000 is about to be formed in Montreal to manufacture the material. There has already been formed in England a com pany having a capital stock of $640,000, the Inventor receiving $160,000 in cash and $180,000 in full paid shares, the re maining $200,000 being used as a work ing capital. ia tadastry. There are numbers of villages In Rus sia In which begging is the staple in dustry. No one does anything else. It Is stated in the labor commission report on that country that "nearly 3,000 out of the 3,100 persons In the districts of Inzer and Saransk are beggars," and that the whole population of the village of Marlnin live by means of begging. And these are by no means isolated cases. In many other districts precise ly the same style of things prevails. In a real beggars' village, all the in habitants. Including even the starosta, and other local dignitaries, are enrolled in a company, whieh is divided into parties. These parties go out In turn on begging picnics. The. booty they bring back Is regarded as common property, and the population depends, upon it for their support. 'The Modish Phrases. It Js not at all proper to say "In Philadelphia,", for example, one may say "at Philadelphia." It Is "quite the mode" tc-adopt another essential .phrase to speak of what is or Is not in vogue. But to say that anything Is "in style" or;'out of style" is disgraceful In the eyes of the smart set Kapt Ward." A JtSBsaa man advertised la the'lo eal.paper that he would move his stock and fixtures .the next day and within twenty-four hours the town waa visit- ad by a double-barreled cyclone, and he kept his word. Andyet people iaaulre If advertising la rearTuaerntlve. BBBnmm BBB till VAvnm. .nVBBBataavZ tale op A Mfurrru-b -cat. m - ;.r - WW UaMga-sayeaL ftftehas .been ta the family fer seven yean and her mistress thinks she waa fully It years aid when she came uninvited nnd took pcasisslstv Her charms make her welcome and visiters, aa n rale, pet er to. her heart's aatiefnctlea. StlU. she shews her. loyalty to her mistress by many feline felicities, saya fhe Boston Transcript One day a young man earn for a short visit He was in Inveterate tease. As there wss no one else fer a victim, he took Blenseem in hand. in spite of pleadinga and protestations. Her ears were greeted' with the strange terms, "eld rascal.". "seaaeBrndg,' "tramp." and kindred names, till th netennded cat did net knew what had come to her. Her pretty ways dleap neasod, eheled from his approach, and kid whenever aha could until ha was out of the.heuM. One morning she wss missing for seme hours, aad was not te be found In nny ef her hiding; fllteea, A loud cry from the chamber maid revealed her whereabouts. Men sem had revenged herself en the fist tor's nightshirt, which lay In tatters en the fioor. Pussy was scolded and every one waa cautioned te keep the door shut In vain! The cat would find her way la and hide till the cham bermaid waa through fer the day. aad then the claws went to work, first en tke visiter's clothes, if any could be found, aad then on the pillow cases. The yenng nun tried to soothe her feel Inge, but the would have none of him. and he was glad to cut short his visit. Blossom quickly recovered ker usual demeanor aad has never been hnewn to destroy anything from that day to this. , MAKING CONTINUOUS RAILS. CtHUlag a Draws ay Success seems to attend the produc tion of coatiauone rails for' railway tracks, with tke simple use ef n porta ble foundry cupola, mounted en wheeie. so as to enable It to be drawn easily by a pair of horses, saya the New York Sua. Ia St. Louie the method le par sued by uniting the rail ends by merely running, a casting ef Iron around the Joint by meana' of a special kind of molds, and tks molds are heaped up near the line of the track, and n fire built around them, no that by the time they are to be put around the joints they are a dull red; them Is also a lining in each pair of molds which requires renewal after each twenty Joints, but Its composition has not yet been made public, nor the exaet mix ture of metals used for the cupola. The iron is poured Into the molds from a ladle, as In ordinary practice, aad the union between the Iron and steel of the rails la represented aa similar to that which takes place In n good weld. After the Iron has been poured the melds are allowed to remain about tea mlaatea before takea off aad used at a second Joint; every other section of n trach is cast in the morning, aad la the aftemeoa the remaining Joints are made, this being dene to prevent aa far as possible the severe strata of con traction and expansion, for when the Joint Is hot It heats the rails fer some distance and consequently there Is con siderable expansion. CliMlaars Os reilty. There le no fund to pay the ex penses ef the funeral of a cabinet of ficer, while on the other hand, de ceased senators and congressmen snd senators are buried at public expense, each such funeral costing about $6,000.' In the case of the Oresham fuaeral not a dollar of Its expenses will be allowed to fall on the slender estate which he left. It is understood that President Cleveland himself insisted on defraying the cost, save for the funeral train, which was tendered by J. W. Doane, the Pullman magnate, and its transporta tion, which was the voluatary act of the Baltimore r Ohio railroad com pany. A TLasy Bfaa's Derlr Near the little town of Clare. Iowa, lives a man who had a well that needed cleaaing badly, but fearing the treach erous quicksand at the bottom he was afraid to undertake it. He hung hie coat on a post near the well and went Into hiding fer a few days. His neigh bors, missing him and finding his coat near the well, surmised that he had sunk beneath the quicksands, so they worked with a will to find his dead body. After the well had been thor oughly cleaned out in their efforts to find his body, the wretch suddenly came back. ABOUT WOMEN. Twenty-one neighboring farmhouses In North Paris. Me., have sent out. twenty-four schoolmaams. New black lace butterfly evening bon nets are studded with tiny rhinestonea, with very brilliant effect. There .are said to be over 1.000 women In New York, who, in one way or an other, make their living by their peas. It Is said that the ex-Queen Isabella of Spain Is the godmother of more chil dren than any other woman in the world. In Albania the men wear petticoats and the men wear trousers. The wom en do all the work and thir husbands do the heavy standing around. Mrs. Alice Shaw, the whistler, who was once all the rage In London aad Paris. Is now puckering her lips for the entertainment of the habitues of a Ber lin music halL Mrs. Flora Ann Steel, the author of "Tales of the Punjaub." Is the wife of a retired Indian civilian. She has spent more than twenty years of her married life in India, and. In order to pursue her studies in folklore, mastered five ef the native dialects. Mrs. Emmons Blaine has presented to the First Presbyterian church of Rich mond Springs a new pipe orgaa and an addition to the church bujgdlBg as a memorial to her husband. It was ,1a this church that they were married. The first woman publisher la- this country was Charlotte Fowler Wells. She went Into business In 1841. aad still continues her calling. She saya she Is so fond' of her work and so oc cupied thaf'she has no time to realise that shSM growing old. Miss Agaes Brlggs. daughter of Prof. Charles A. Brlggs of the Union Theo logical seminary, will eater 8t Luke's hospital. New York, to the capacity of nurse, and will remain there darhm the coming summer. She will thus complete the course of Instruction In the practl-f sal care ef the Men. preparatory to taaw lag the vows of a deaconess ia tho Protestant Eptseepel cauieh. . tahfe'luBaitl V. - -. -. - -s. )MiM-flflie! ' '' auntt antaf efanft ttflnV .wit em. BUYS GOOD NOTES AD MBJkTTOnej LairiXB GmnAni), Pren't, M. H. Hamr, Vice Preet, af . Bausons, Cashier. Joan SrAOTTKB. O; W. Hplst. CDHIfflLM COLUMBUS, NEB., SSBtJssiI(BBs fMBllSl hl WWWWWB' riM wtpniii b anLgwnxDON.PrM't. nT. P. . 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