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V'tiPy- -. rHi.T JkSy-t -3 -r sr V- -s?- tiz.fv--- f p!pi. LI TU : V-'r X- I - -u I., &. 55r - - - :.-: A A 'It . T - r. - llmi' jaw (frolnmbns g0itrnal. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 35. 13W5. AN. TIME TABLE. Put. Freight. f eaver Colombos IWlwo.nl :; David City . " Seward &(Ttvee.-i! Lincoln 2:30p. at SdO " 4:15 p. m 7:45 10:50 " 7:20 " 7:41 " 8:43 " 951a.m. tlie -isjweneer Ipstm Lincoln at 635 p. m., and orrires at (Vriuinbus 925 p. m; the freight leave .I.inroln at ' a. in., nnd arrived at Colombo at 4KVIp. m. UNION PAC1FIOTIME-TABLE. " ' IHIINU EAST. OOIKOWK8T. Onl.-Loeal.... 6.10a.m Local Fr't.... 65a.m A'lnntlrEx... 7 05 a. n Limited 10:35a. m Or. In. Local. H:ftl a. m Nr. PI. Local. 1:10 p. m N. PI. Local. 1:00 v.m Fast Mail S20p.ni . Far Mail 20 p. m Or. Is. Local . 8:55 p. m " No. 3, Fart Mail, carrit? iaRBongers for through win!. Iloine w-nt at fii)R p. m., ar- -.rissat lVaer7:0n. in. No. 2. Inst Mail car. rlrtt passragerM to Fremont. Valley and Omaha . KoiuK east at 2ft) p. m. No. 81, freijrlit, carries kMBAnAWd twtaa o K1! A m ",Tli freight train leaving hero at 4:40 p. m. car- cavim Kene ri?a pawx'ngers from luene to valley. COI.UJiaXJS AND NORFOLK. Paw.uKTnrrivrrom Sionx City 1250 p. n 1 leaves for Sioux City fliJOp.m .Mitfd leaves for Sioux City 7:30 a. m Mixed arrives 11:03 p. m i FOB ILBIUN ASD CEDAH HAPIPH. Mixel leave Mixed arr;v .......... Pnecicar leaver arrives .. 6.00 a. m .. 80 p. m .. 130 p. m ..12:40 p. m gachte &otites. S3TA11 notices under this heading Trill clmrKe.1 at the rate of $2 a j ear. be A LEBANON LODGE No. 58. A. F. & A. M. IteKulnr meetings 2d wednewlay in eacn mouth. All brethren invited to attend J. D. Stiiie. W. M. It. Notkmtkix, Sec'y. gOjnly . WILDEY LODGE No. 41, 1.O. O. F.. t'- meets Tuesday evenings of each ..ilr t tlt.nr liil nl ThirtfHntll "" ttr.M.1 Visit in tr lisvtiirfn cordially itiviul. V. A. Way, N. G. W. K. NoTR-.TKiy.Hec'y. . -JijanM-tt COI.UMHU CAMP No. 35. WOODMEN OF the World, meets every second and fourth Thurwlnjs of the mouth, 7il0 p. m., at Oehlnch'a Hall. Thirteenth street. Itegular attendance is -erv desirable, and all visiting brethren nre cor dially invited to meet with us. jan23-'l5 REORGANIZED CHUKCH OF LATTER-DAY Stunts hold regular services etery Sunday t.'S p. m.. prayer meeting on Wednesday evening at their chapel, corner of North street and Pacific pe .A"wnue. .Hioiai All are cordially invited. tially H.y. Elder Hcison. President. EYANG. PROT. CHURCH. (Germ. Reform.) Service even- Sunday at 10:SC n. in. Raii- I isms. Bitmaps and funeral bermons are con ducted. by the 1 vict or in the German and English languages. Residence, Washington Ave. and Elienth streets. 14nov-'sl E. Dn Gellku, Pastor. ( Herrick for picturo framos. 4t Light on all public interests. Dr. JNuumann, dentist, Thirteenth street, tf Crowds of people were in (ho city Saturday. otiiei neminvoKNif ha1 at HernMi'j. 'ii U. P. Drake was down from Hum phrey Monday. Call and see our new picture mould ings. Herrick. 3t A. l. h.j .rx.:,.i...f i ii i ifc i ,,.,... v., ..v,.--.. r ,-..- -J ---0 it Dr. T. R. Clark, Olive street In ottleeat nights. C. A. Newman was a Schuyler visitor "Wednesday last. The doors of wisdom are never shut. Ben. Franklin. Have you seen those new library cases at Herrick'o? 2t Public oflico is a public trust and not ti private "snap." Dr. L. C. Voss, Homeopatliic physi Vfin, Columbus, Nebr. Mr. Bettis and Carl Beebe of Shelby were in the city Friday. . naru wire uan nun iiu nu. .twiud ""r Page on Eleventh street. Conductor Fox will move into his residence tho first of March. ' John Graft" is now in J. A. Barber's ". tore as one of tho head clerks. -The Cecilian club will meet with Miss Meta Pohl Monday evening. Diligence overcomes difficulties; sloth makes them. Ben. Franklin. - Win. Speice is still very sick, lint is not considered in immediate danger. We nro putting in a nice line of new ; joda. Call and see them. Herrick. 2t JL, Dre. Martyu, Evans & Oeer, office 'three doors north of Friedhof's store, tf No man was ever satisfied with barb ire. JSee me i-age on luevenm Bireeu Rev. Moore held services in tho Ives school house Thursday and Friday even ings. New goods for less prices than you an buy second-hand goods for. Her rick. lit George P. Billuus of Liindsay was . down Monday on business at the court house. : Mr. Smith of Platte Center haB leased the Spoerry building on Eleventh "street. Postmaster Davis was called to " Sehulerlast week by the illness of his : . father. Expansion nnd contraction has no V effect on the Page. See sample on Elev- ' enth street. 'm --Little Mary Burke celebrated her . fifth birthday with a party for several of her friends. . The sheriff closed the Meridian sa- 'u loon Monday night The hard times .. has struck them. George Schmid of Polk county was in the city Monday visiting his son-in- law, Fred Reitz. C. E. Kerr with his family moves to -." the vicinity of Monroe, expecting to go V today (Wednesday). i, Strength and elasticity are the car- Sainal virtues of the Page. See sample on Eleventh street. if the minority will not acquiesce, ' the majority must, or the government ' most cease. Lincoln. The Clifton house, Silver Creek, burned Thursday, loss $1,000; no insur . .anoe; incendiary origin. :- Freedom is one of the conditions of .. . ; development, and also one of the greatest - factors in development. . ..- ' Lawyer Mnnger of Fremont was in attendance on district court MoBday, . jadge Marshall coming to preside. - B. P. Duffy started Friday for Mary- viUe, Ma, expecting to take about two . weeks to finish some business left there. - -: The tensile strength of Page 11-bar, ; ' -" V 58-iach fence is 19,250; that of best iron " . V-Iaaw will break at 12,780 lb. See am .. .. pie on Eleventh street. O! woald the mm of mm oaee lkik their abo reason girea mem tmt to tndjr flies! Bee natnre in some partial shape. And let the aathor of the whole eMxpe; bnt to trifle; or, who most observe. To wonder at their Maker, not to serve. -Pope. The Farmers' club will meet March 6th, at the residence of George Galley, jr. A very interesting meeting is antici pated. Rev. Olcott preached for Rev. Moore Sunday evening. The latter held ser vices in the Ives school house north of the city. There were some fifteen young men from the Shelby neighborhood in atten dance at the masquerade ball Friday evening. H. M. Winslow shipped four cars of cattle to Chicago Saturday night. He and Chas. L. Stillman went with the shipment. D. J. Chesnntwood was in Norfolk Wednesday to attend the wedding of his sister, Miss Dora, to Dr. J. M. Smith of St. James, Minn. Schuyler ladies have organized a woman's club, with a good membership. We notice that Mrs. A. C. Ballou is one of the head officers. The Ladies' Guild will meet with Mrs. Lehman at the parlors of the Thurs ton Wednesday afternoon. A full at tendance is desired. Baptist church, J. D. Pulis, pastor. Services 11 a. m., 7:30 p. m. Subjects March 1st; morning, "Waiting on God." Evening, -The Sceptic." With snow in New York and the east and as far west as Iowa, attention has been again especially directed to Nebraska as a winter resort. Rev. and Mrs. Bross of Cedar Rapids, passed through the city last week bound for North Adams, Mich., at which place his sister recently died. F. H. Lamb started Friday for Phil adelphia. He -expects to leave in a few days for a trip to Europe, accompanied by his sister, who is now in Philadelphia. Henry Robert of Sherman township was in the city Monday and renewed his subscription to The Jocbxai taking with it the Lincoln Semi-Weekly Journal. What will be the next thing from the Australian shores? The new ma- cuine tor starting tiorses at a race, is said to be the only proper thing for the purpose. Harry Cressman was in the city over Sunday, stopping with H. P. Cool idge. He started Monday for his home near Reading, Penn. -He had been in California. W. C. Peterson of Fremont is confi dent his invention for manufacturing sugar from tho sugar beets will be a success and a great wealth producer for Nebraska. Al. E. Smith arrived in the city Sat- irday. He has been in Oregon lately in the hotel business. He went there for his health, and certainly looked well Saturday. Jerome can play chess all right enough, but when it comes to checkers and against C. E. Kerr, he takes second place, at least we learn that such was the case Monday. "HYed Reitz has a boot and shoe shtp on Eleventh street two doors east of Jodbkal office. He makes and re pairs shoes. Good work. Living prices. Call and see him. 4t Friday last a special train of forty cars of barb-wire and machinery passed through Columbus, bound for Salt Lake city. They were consigned to the Zion Co-operative Mercantile company. Hans Elliott moved his family into the city Monday and will occupy the Willard residence in the west part of the city. George Willard is moving his family to their farm near St. Edward. 1v Lost, between the corner at Fried- oPs residence and Chas. Matthew's residence, a lady's black silk mitten. The finder will please leave tho 6ame with Mrs. Matthews or at Friedhof's store. 2 Andrew Kunkel, on the James Carrig farm on Shell creek, S miles southeast of Platte Center, will have a public sale of stock and farm implements Friday, Feb. 23. The stock is all in first-class con dition. A telegram received by J. R. Meagher from St, Louis under date of Monday last says: "Please notify George Barnum and any friends that Mr. Barnum appears to be much better today." A b. Lash, formerly conductor on the Norfolk branch, and whose serious ill ness we noted last week, was reported Monday as dying at Wakefield, where his mother resides. -His wife is in J Oklahoma. W. H. Harris of Madison was in the city yesterday and gave us a pleasant call. He expects shortly to make a trip east. He has been in Nebraska twenty five years and the judge is well known to many of our readers. Harry Black of Moore's Hill, Indiana, died Wednesday from drinking half a bottle of cough syrup. This ought to 6erve as a lesson to some Platte county people, who are in the habit of the indis criminate use of drugs. Wash Goods, White Goods, tress uoods, the latest for spring and summer, 1896. Follow the crowd to . D. Fitzpatrick's, the White Front Dry Goods Store. tf Robert F.Geddes, after being absent for two months in the old country, re turned here but finding nothing open for him in the way of business, goes east to take a trip on the water, perhaps to the West Indies. Communications will reach him via Baltimore. The new comet was reported Thurs day as forty million miles from the earth and approaching at the rate of one million six hundred thousand miles a day. It is said that on March 1, it will take a new tack and sheer off from the earth. So astronomers say. About 10 o'clock Monday a team of horses driven by John Walburg, became frightened at a moving train, started up, broke a line, and became uncontrollable except on a side pull. They ran. against the electric light poet at Wiggins Si Lewis' office, broke off the post close to the gronnd, the wagon, loaded with hay, tumbling over in front of Borowiak's. The wagon was damaged somewhat, and with broken light and all, the electric light plant was damaged about $20 1 worth. No person hurt. Omaha Bee: The entertainment giv en by Prof. Backua and school children last night at Florence was a success in every way, there being an audience of 350 present. The fan drill by sixteen young ladies, all dressed alike for the occasion, was -exceptionally well ren deied. Daniel Schram started Monday evening for Elizabeth, Colorado, called there by the very serious illness of his brother George, he having had two hemorrhages of the lungs and not ex pected to live more than a day or two at the farthest. George has been away from this city some ten years. Word was received here- by his brother of the Argus force, that Lloyd Sisson, formerly here as compositor on the Telegram, had died Wednesday last at Fitzgerald, Georgia; the burial took place Thursday, the S. of V. and G. A. R. taking charge of the funeral. Mr. Sisson with his parents, formerly re sided at St Edward. There has been a continuous pil grimage of invalids to Lincoln since the arrival of August Schroedor, the alleged "divine healer." He was born in 1871, at Green Bay, Wisconsin, and says that since he was 14 years old, he has had extraordinary healing powers. His method is laying on of hands, with mur mured prayers. ' J. D. S tires returned Sunday from New York and New Jersey, where he had been for about three weeks. He received a message from his brother's family be fore he left here, stating that his brother fwas very sick, and started east at once. While J. D. was there his brother died. Mr. Stires says it is rain and mud in the east and there is no place like Nebraska. The Newman Grove order of L O. O. F. have one of the finest and most com modious lodge rooms in central Nebras ka, being 28x60 feet in the main room with good-sized ante-rooms, fine furni ture of qnartered oak done in plush, pedestals being marble top. The floor is nicely carpeted and one corner of the room is adorned with a fine piano. Eighty members, $800 in the treasury and only two years old. What lodge can beat that? The Leigh World says that C. E. Graham of Creston took into Omaha a car load of cattle which he had lieen feeding from his Wyoming ranch C. C. Campbell has resigned as postmaster and George- L. Wagner been appointed T. L. Moore, of Ft. Collins, Colorado, arrived in Leigh Friday evening. Mr. Moore is a cousin of Mrs. M. A. Niccolls. Tuesday Mrs. Niccolls and Mr. Moore took the train for Craig, this state, and will visit there for a time. A convention of mayors of cities of the second class is talked of. We would like to see activity along the line of municipal welfare. The social wounds, 'bruises and putrifying sores are to be found in the cities more largely, more openly than in the smaller communities and on the farms. It is safe to say that neither men nor communities will live a belter life than they desire to live. The desire precedes the fact. We are glad to see signs of a wish to do better. A school entertainment was given Friday last by pupils of Miss Beulah Wheeler's school in the Adamy school house north of this city. Music, reci tations, dialogues and tableaus were given, and at the close a debate on "Re solved, That the United States w a greater nation than Great Britain." Affirmative, Miss Lenora Bisson and John Schroedor; negative, Miss Beulah Wheeler and Sylvester Bisson. The judges' decision was in favor of the neg ative. Carl Rohde and family arrived in the city Wednesday last from Geneseo, Illinois, where Mr. Rohde has been in business since he left here about two years ago. He sold out there to his old partner in business here, Frank Ander son. Mr. Rohde has considerable money invested in land here, and he wishes to be near it eo he can look after it per sonally. He has rented the Win. Schroeder property on Twelfth street, and expects to open out in the spring in the' saloon business. Word was received here Saturday by St. Louis papers that Hou. Guy C. Barnum of this vicinity had become a raving maniac, while at Hot Springs, Arkansas. The account in the city paper is rather sensational, and we do not believe that such a calamity has be fallen our friend. Doubtless he was angry and may have shown his displeas ure of righteous indignation, which to those southern people had a semblance of mental aberration, but we are not ready to believe that one of his age and matured strength, who has met and mastered so many difficulties in his long life, would succumb to what is said to have interfered with his pre-conceived arrangements in the south. The last word received from Mrs. Doddridge was that he was resting quietly, in the best place possible, and under the care of the best physician in St. Louis. In the beautiful little city of Albion last week was held the annual encamp ment of the Sons of Veterans. The ses sions began Monday and continued through four days. The delegates who attended were some fifty in number and included some of the leading members of the order in the Nebraska Division. To say they were a jolly crowd, would but mildly express it, and the good peo ple of Albion seemed pleased to have such a lively crowd of boys in their city. With the finest of weather and all dele gates in the best of spirits, it can be truthfully said that the Twelfth encamp ment of the order was the most harmo nious of gatherings. The drum corps were a busy body at night and at all hours could be heard the martial music or a crowd of delegates singing "My country 'tis of thee," preparatory to giv ing some brother a new degree, and lucky was he who escaped. Election of officers for the ensuing year resulted in: 1 Uolonei, u. r. woiz, .Fremont; Senior Vice, W. H. Davis, Wilber; Junior Vice, A. W. Whiting, Albion. Division coun cil, Clarence Howitzer, Omaha, E. J. Straight, Lincoln, E. H. Jenkins, Colum bus. Delegates to National encampment were A. Hine of Hooper and C M. Bran son of Lincoln. Officers appointed: J. A. Collins, adjutant, Fremont; W. B. LGilmore, chaplain, Waterloo; H. O. IChapman, inspector, St. Edward; C. M. f Bronson, mustering officer, Lincoln; Col. J. C. Adams, judge advocate; W. 8. Jolly, surgeon, Albion. E. H. JenlriBS and Bert Galley were present as dele gates, from the former of whom we get tkia report. Every day is adding to our list of subscribers, but there is yet plenty of room for more. We give you now. The Jousnaii and the Lincoln Semi-weekly Journal, both, one year, when paid in advance, for 92.00. Subscription can begin at any time. Now is the time to subscribe. The Lincoln Journal is issued Tuesdays and Fridays, and will give yon a mass of news that you cannot hope to equal anywhere for the money. Both for $2.00; Friday night last the Pioneer Hook & Ladder Co. gave their twenty-second annual masque ball at the opera house. We learn that the crowd was so great that if tho hall had been twice the ca pacity it would have been none too large. The hall as usual was very taste fully decorated with flags, bunting, pic lures and the paraphernalia of the Hookies. Dancing began at 8:30 and continued till 3 o'clock Saturday morn ing. Splendid music for the occasion was furnished by the Columbus orches tra of six pieces. It is supposed that the net proceeds will be about $93, some sales, at this writing, not yet being re ported; the total receipts were $146. The street parade at 2 o'clock, headed by the cornet band, was an attractive preliminary, there being two maskers to make sport for tho on-lookers. The ev olutions of the firemen in front of the Meridian and Thurston hotels and on Eleventh street attracted large crowds of interested spectators. Altogether, the ball was a grand success. You can best picture Tt for yourself. There was Postmaster Davis and Joe Tiffany fishing at Barnum's. Picture Joe in a boat, rowing and capsizing, going down into the water out of sight of his comrade on the bank. In that moment of profound feeling, Joe acci dentally hit upon a new method of fish ing. For want of n better name it may be .called the 4out-of-sight" system. Joe declares that when be was able to breath again the circumambient air, he had his pockets full of fi3h little fish of course, bnt still fish, and valuable for the table. Thinking he might duplicate his splendid haul, and that fishing the ordinary way was far too slow, he made another dive back into the stream, but did not come out with any fish this time, bnt was nearly froze to death. The fish got onto Joe's system of catch ing them the first haul and when he made tho second attempt, the supposi tion is they were in another part of the pond holding a private consultation with each other. When asked about his new-fangled way of catching fish, Joe is not of a unanimous opinion. Postmaster Davis admits that Joe is one of tho best (?) acrobats he has had the pleasure of seeing. On Thursday we interviewed' A. M. Jennings (who has located with the Georgia Soldiers' colony at Fitzgerald), in regard to that section. In answer to questions he said: Oats is now np for this season. The colonists expect to raise general garden stuff at first, they having new land; the country being densely timbered (mostly yellow pine 50 to 75 feet to a limb) with brushy tops; there are spots of soil ready to plant for garden. In February, during 13 days, there were six rains, all the way from light showers to heavy rains; three of these six were hard rains, in one of them, lasting a day and a night, five inches of water fell; during six nights ice formed as thick as window glass, and not "melt ing till 9 and 10 o'clock the next morn ing. The first railroad was completed into Fitzgerald the first week in Feb ruary, and another will be completed within 60 days. As to timber, it is mostly yellow pine; along the streams there are black gum, magnolia and spots of scrub oak. From the pine they hew sills 65 feet long for building purposes. Fuel is plentiful, costs the hauling, and on tho town site they are too glad to have you take it. A dry pine log near his quarters has kept a dozen stoves going. Coal at Atlanta is $3 to 85 a ton. Tho grass in the timber is green now, as here in summer. It is a wire grass, only good while it is growing, bnt when it stops growing, stock will not eat it; then is time for the cow pea, a kind of bean with a pod eight to ten inches long. Into this the cattle are turned before the pea gets ripe, and it makes very fine feed for them. He says the butter there is not good, but he believes it is because they don't know how to make it. As to corn it is now selling at 60 cts. a bushel and by using S3 worth of commercial fertilizer to the acre, they can raise 45 to 50 bushels of corn to the acre. People at the north have a wrong notion as to the fertility of the soil in that region. It is thin deep plowing is not a success there, it does not do to mix the under pinning with the soil. The two and three crops raised each year on the soil, naturally requires fertilization to keep it up to the standard. One field in the neighborhood had been in active use for 70 years. As to potatoes, they keep from one crop to another, they are something like our early and late potatoes. The south raises the model sweet potatoe; the northern variety does not begin to compare with it As to fruit, while some apples are raised, they don't claim any thing as to apples; the pears and peaches are fine; trees, two years' old when set out, bear the third year, sometimes the second, and these varieties of fruit rais ing will be one of the greatest industries of the colonists. Cotton is, as yet, the great production there, as wheat was in Nebraska 25 years ago, but less cotton and more corn is being advocated by the more knowing ones. They are in the Sea Island cotton belt, the product bringing almost twice as much per pound as the ordinary; he had seen one stalk 11 feet high, but it ordinarily grows breast high. They don't speak of land in sections but lots, a "lot" being 490 acres, seven-eights of a mile square. There are no heavy horses, the ordinary sized mule being the preferred animal for farm work. He likes tho people there; they are very friendly; they are glad the colonists came, and want them to know it Mr. Jennings reckons that the older pensioners who have given up fthe notion of ever getting rich, will be satisfied to make a good living on their allotments of five and ten acres, by rais ing general garden stuff, but that others with their larger tracts, will expect to make considerable sums of money rais ing fruit. Of course, everything is in the raw as yet so to speak, and many things will take time to bring to perfec tion. He was five days getting a tele gram from here, and five days, the best be could do, in coming from there here, but such matters will be set to rights imtime. laatltate. The program as published was as nearly carried out as such programs gen erally are,' or can be, R L. Dickinson as president and Win. Mayes as secretary doing their rail duty. After putting in type Mr. Gleason's paper on the horse, we found that we would not have space for the whole of all the papers read, and so we proceed to summarize. Mr. Stilson's address was closely lis tened to, and he paid Mrs. J. N. Heater of this city a very high compliment as a bee-keeper, saying that she was among the most successful known, making more money on a town lot here this season with bees than many a farmer on a quar ter section. He spoke aninst wasteful methods cf farming, such as raising corn and not feeding it on the farm and sell ing the manufactured product; burning of straw; letting corn stalks go to waste. All this wants to be changed. We must have a diversity in our farm products, and sell the finished product, as fat cat tle, hogs, eta, instead of grain, butter and cheese instead of milk, and on this line comes in bee-keeping, because this is one of the by-businesses of the farm. He gave-a brief account of the working of bees, and how to manage a hive to have them money-making. The bee takes from the plant nothing that is det-1 rimental to the plant, bnt on the other hand, the action of taking honey from the depths of the flower, and carrying the pollen to others, fertilizes them, and this is the purpose f honey in the flower.Honey is the nearest perfect food, (lie said, although some complain that they cannot eat honey. The t rouble is that, sometimes, in taking honey from the hive, the bees are angered and sting the comb, leaving there the poison of the sting (formic acid), which causes tho offensive taste. Mr. Gleason thought the Morgan was the best all-purpose horse known for the farm. There was some discussion as to the proper size and weight of a farm horse, the better opinion seeming to be 1050 to 1250 pounds. George Barnum's paper on cattle was largely historical. As to the practical part, he thought every man should rely upon his own good judgment, taking the best means to inform himself. In breed ing for beef the cattle raiser should select from full-blooded Shorthorns, Herefords or Aberdeen Angus; for milk or butter, the Jersey, Ayeshire or Hol stein. Breed for an object' Scrubs of any live stock equal the f nil-blooded in only two things amount of food con sumed and barn room. Mr. Stouffer mainly gave his experi ence as a private dairyman. He thought with such a splendid creamery as Co lumbus has the business in Platte coun ty ought to be greatly multiplied truth is that one township ought to supply as much as all the county does now. Aside from the Jersey for specialty, he thought for general purpose stock for the ordi nary farmer, the milking strains of the Shorthorn are most satisfactory. They are good milkers and also make good beef. As for feed, whatever could best be raised on the farm. Good ensilage is of course all right (a sample of which was passed around the room); alfalfa; corn cut up at the right time and fed with the stalks. In the dairying dis tricts, even these hard times, there is money for the farmers. At this point, D. L. Bruen stated that from 17 cows dnrnfgthe"pasthiontn7he had received for cream from Hagel & Stevenson 357.42. Mr. Stouffer said he had sold cream, made butter to sell, etc., but so soon as you begin to make butter on the farm your expense and labor double up. Mr. Stonffer's talk elicited remarks from Bruen, Gray, Hendryx, as to the kind of feed, the two latter favoring corn fodder with the corn in it and the former millet Mr. Nelson spoke highly of alfalfa under irrigation. C. C. Gray's paper on the culture of lawns was most excellent and it being a matter of prime interest and seldom treated at length, we will give it in full at some future date. Mr. Jerome's remarks on hemp cul ture are said to have been very good, which we doubt not, as he is a man of excellent good judgment and plenty of experience in the line which he repre sented, bnt we did not hear his speech. Mr. Mayes was very decided in his opinion as to the Poland-China hog being the best to raise, giving good reasons for it; corn-condenser contains his theory in brief. Later we will pub lish his paper in full, as we consider the hog, along with the cow and the chicken, as among the important products of Ne braska. Lawrence and Babcock on irrigation; S. C. Gray on corn culture; II. J. Hen dryx on mixed farming, and John Tan nahill on windmill irrigation, all exceed ingly interesting to those present, closed the institute proper. The songs by Prof. Leavy's and Prof. Britell's pnpils and by the Cecilian club, and the recitations by Miss Myrtle Clark and Mrs. Brindley added greatly to the pleasure of the occasion, and everybody congratulates the managing committee. The Report. The Journal is one of the papers designated by tho board of county su pervisors for the publication of their proceedings. We prefer to give the official proceedings of important trans actions, as furnished by the official clerk of the board, but there are none fur nished for this issue. Hence we say that the board are in session; that last week they heard the reports of their committee with expert Newman as to the affairs of different offices, and, as we understand, they are in very brief that ex-County Judge Hensley owes the county nothing, neither does the county owe him anything, and that there are on his books unpaid fees $727; that the clerk of the district court owes a bal ance of $111 and that besides he has failed to account for unclaimed witness fees amounting to $534.85; that the sheriff owes the county some $690 and if he was charged with uncollected fees it would amount to $1,800; that ex County Clerk Phillips owes the county some $2,418, if it shall bo decided that he is not entitled to extra pay as clerk for making out tax-lists for 1890-'91, and preparing and correcting assessment books. Experts Fodrea andGeddes report ex Treasurer Lynch's shortage on his first term as $175.10; the second term $30, 728.54. Return envelopes at this office for 1 60 cents per hundred. The Fi PKKSONAL. Jay Merril of Omaha was in town last' week. C. A. Perkins of Cedar Bapids is in the city this week. Miss Nellie North is visiting her sister, Mrs. Dr. Evans. Lee Stanley returned last week to his home in Chicago. Frank Mallalieu of Kearney is visiting the Ziegler family. Mrs. F. W. Herrick is expected home soon from New York. Bev. Pulis went to Lincoln Tuesday to visit with his family. Miss Cora Sumption of Albion visited Mrs. E. G. Brown last week. Miss Lydia Bloedorn of Platte Center visited friends here Saturday. Miss Jennie McCann expects to make a trip to Chicago in a few days. Miss Anna Murphy of Seward is visit ing her cousin, Mrs. S. J. Ryan. Misses Lena and AnnaGeitzen visited relatives in Humphrey Friday and Sat urday. Judge A. M. Post of the supreme court was up from Lincoln the first of the week visiting with his family. Mrs. H. F. Considine started Friday for Fairbury, BL, where she will visit for a couple of months with her parents. Rev. Moore on Sunday, after the sermon, introduced the subject of war between England and America, and stated that it was desired to take a vote of congregations in all churches of the two countries as to whether they were in favor of war or arbitration. There being a littte room for talk before the vote was finally taken, H. T. Spoerry and Wm. Mayes had something to say on the question. We were" not present bnt understand that Mr. Spoerry said, in substance, that this was not a matter to be settled by the yes or no of congrega gationB. The president of this country, the congress and the public press gener ally had taken a stand on the matters of present interest, and now if the congre gations and societies should take a diff erent stand, it would look as though the marrow of the backbone of the American people had weakened and was really of little account This country is different from all other countries in the world; there is' no other can be even compared with it in respect to the liberty of person, liberty of conscience, etc. It is the American policy and has been not to interfere with European powers as to the government of Europe, and to brook no interference by them or any of them in American affairs, and that, as he under stood it, is the stand of the American people. His sentiment was that tho right ought not be jeopardized by sub mission to arbitration. Take, for in stance, Alaska, we should not submit to arbitration, our right to what we had bought and paid for. It might be a means of robbing us of our right. Mr. Mayes said that he had lived in England about as long as he had lived here and had a number of relatives living there. The English people of the so-called mid dle and lower classes there were not in favor of war or troubles of any kind. England ought to do right with the United States, or tronble would of course come. When in Omaha it bad often oc curred to us that it was costing the city or the lot owners a good deal of expense to grade the streets and leave tho dwellings 20, 30 or 40 feet above the natural lay of the land. A recent su preme court decision says: Under the constitution of this state providing that private property shall not be taken or damaged for public use without com pensation a city is liable for damage re sulting from a material change of tho grade of its streets from the natural surface. Harmau against City of Oma ha, 17 Nebraska, 548. The measure of damage in such cases is the depreciation iu the value of the property occasioned by the change of grade. Omaha Belt Railway company against McDermott, 25 Nebraska, 714. Card or Thank'. Words fail to express my feelings towards the kind brothers, friends and neighbors for the assistance given to my family in our great afflict iod, nnd it is all the more appreciated because of my absence. In behalf of my motherless children I wish to return our heartfelt thanks, and assure'onr friends that thoy will always be held in grateful remem brance. A. M. Jennings. Program. The Epworth League give an enter tainment this (Wednesday) evening at the Methodist church, admission 25c. Chorus. High School Chorus Class Piano solo Mrs. Page Yocal solo Mrs. Garlow Piano duett . . ..Misses Martha and Alice Turner Vocal solo Miss Mary Turner Piano solo. Miss Elsie Morse Yocal solo Miss Rickly Piano and Violin duett Mr. nnd Miss Schroeder Vocal solo Mrs. Reeder Piano solo. Mrs. Geer Vocal solo .- Mrs. Warren Chorus High School Chorus Class St. Catharine Reading Circle. Will meet Wednesday evening, Feb. 26th, at the home of the Misses Mc Mahon. Roll call. Quotations from "Dante" and "George Washington's Maxims." American History Period 3J. Discussion on Astronomy. Instrumental solo, selected. Miss Geitzen. Recitation Miss Agnes Fitz pat rick. Paper, "Strikes, their Causes, Effects and Remedies" J. C. Byrnes. Music Mae Cashing. Paper, Character Sketch of George Washington Mrs. Geitzen. Duett, selected Misses Geitzen and McMahon. The PhiloMthiaai. The Philomathian club met with Miss Maud Hatfield Feb. 21, and a very in teresting program was rendered. It will meet with Miss Jessie Williams, Feb. 28. Following is the program for that date: Recitation Stella M. Elliott. Vocal duet Carrie Parks, Frank Mc Taggart. Recitation Grayson Moore. Vocal duet Alberta Post Bart Moore. Vocal solo Carl Johnson. Vocal duet Clara Hohl, Fred C. Williams. Paper Angie Early, Lillie Keating, Esther Johnson, George Wilson. 1HRT RAGATZ k CO., Staple and - ... I Fancy Groceries, I- J CROCKERY, .GLASSWARE CLAMPS. Eleventh Street, - We invite you to come and see lis. We regard the interests of our patrons as mutuaf with our own, so far as our dealings are concerned ur part of the obligation being to provide and oner Good - Goods - at - Fair Prices. EVERYTHING KEPT that is expected to be found in a first class, up-to-date grocery store, j The Hnra. The horse is tho farmer's best friend. No subject can bo of more importance to tho farmer than the intelligent and prac tical breeding of tho horse for his own use, and for market. That it is possible for every man of observation and good judgment to improve his stocK is equally obvious. There is no line of work which horses are called upon to perform that has not its peculiar requirements. It is a matter then of the plainest common sense that every one who means to raise a horse for his own use should consider beforehand to what purpose he will devote it. If it is designed for market, he needs no less to consult his interest by deter mining what markets he will raiso horses for, aud what kind of a horse would bring the most money on that market. Xowit will bo necessary to use tho best stock that is adapted to that ond. It costs less to feed a horse of good blood than it does a scrub. It costs no more to shelter him; his movement is smoother and steadier; his temper is better, he has more pluck and energy, and whon you put him on tho market h brings a better price. Tho service of a stallion known to be of good, generous disposition and pos sessing adequate powers of transmission must of course cost more, and again there must be a dam adapted to the ob taining of a foal of the best type from such a sire. But tho foolish policy of refusing to avail yourselves of these ad vantages when in the bounds of reason is too apparent. Then we will tako it for granted that the finer and pnrer the horse is, other things being equal, the more useful, the more easily maintained and will sell for more money. It is a fact that this kind of a horse is wanted cowhand will always find a market. Now as to the kind of horses, there is no ques tion as to the breed for draft horses. The Percheron and Clydesdale are the best kinds for heavy work. The Per cheron ia tho best of all draft horses, being the liest build and as good style with the finest head nnd neck nnd a good body with good feet, good bono and sinews, in fact a good horse in every respect and a eoller on any market. A good number of his colts are sold for good prices on the present markets, when scrub horses only bring 5 to $25 per head. There is one other class of horses that should be raised by the farmers antl this class I will call roadsters and horses of all work. These horses must weigh from 1000 to 1250 and bo good walkers, havo good style and have plenty of life and fine action, nnd yet must be patient and trustworthy. There is and always has been a market for this class of horses and always will be as long as there are horses raised, and if they are well broken, singlo nnd donble, they will find a ready market in this or any country. I have a customer now for n team like this. Where will you tell me can I find them? Not in Platte county. Now to raise this kind it will be necessary to use great care in selecting a horse to breed from, and you must have a good mare also. Yon must not think that you can raiso a horse that is worth on the market $250.00 from an old broken-down $4.00 mare. All kinds of horse talk will bo given you by men who are interested in the differ ent breeds, and yon will have to use your own judgment in selecting the kind you want to raise. Bnt I must say n word for what I be lieve the best all-purpose horse in the world and always has been since the breed was known, it is the Morgan horse. This breed can put on more style and do more work on less feed than any other horse in the world. In harness he is quiet, but nimble, and has an eager movement. Ab a breed they aro long lived and some of them aro very fast. The Hambletonians, Messenger and the Arabian are all fine bred horses and have their place and are very popular, as is also the English thoroughbred. But I do not think that the common farmer can afford to spend time to care for trot ting stock. It 13 too much risk and takes too long to get returns. C. F. Gleason. Males and Horse. wii wish to sell a car load each of good work mules and work horses have too many to keep. I will trade them for mnle colts, cattle or hogs, or will sell them on nine months' time, good banka ble paper. Patrick Mcbkat, Residence 2)j miles west of Columbus. Address Columbus post-office. 4t Chicago Inter Ocean and Columbus Journal, one year, in advance $1.75. tf V5 The Paradie of the Pacific. grand tonrs to Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands, "The Paradise of the Pacific," via Union PacSc system and Oceanic Steam Ship Co. Leaving Omaha the moraine of Jan. 16th, Feb. 11th, end March 6th. Only nine days from Omaha to Honolulu. $205.00 for the round-trip, including stateroom and meals on steam ers. Tickets good for nine months, with stop-over privileges. For information and tickets apply to J. B. Meagher. COLUMBUS, NEBR. I ti$hhtt. Looking Glass: The ten subscribers met in the bank on Tuesday and elected Sam'l. Terry, S. W. Lightner, and Clar once L. Gerrard to sink the prospect. It is proposed to sink the prospect in the center of the town of Monroe and to go 750 feet if it can reasonably be done. Good for Monroe. Schuyler Quill: The gorge in the Platte river still continues and the slough is taking most of tho water. Travel from Butler county is cut off, ex cept by the B. & M. railroad or by foot over the B. &: M. track. The water is doing little damage now, except to wet hay in the bottom, but many fear that it will cut channels and leave sand and spoil much hay land. Genoa Populist: Tomorrow the Kent Cattle company will ship twenty car loads of cattle from Genoa to Liverpool, which shipment will bo followed on Tuesday by twenty-fivocar loads, and on Thursday by twenty more. Shipments of cattle by this company to the Liver pool market have become such a common occurrence as to excite bnt little more than passing comment Judge Sulli van was in town last Saturday, to pass npou tho bids made on notes and other assets of the late lamented Genoa State Bank, at tho salo held Feb. 8th. The bids were found to aggregate much less than that bid by an Iowa man, to whom tho sale was awarded for $8,500. This amount, it is thought, will enable the receiver to make another dividend of 15 per cent. Grand Island Independent: For some time past, Col. Cody ha-i been in Wash ington, completing arrangements where- I by he and a company of other gentle men secure nnder n recent act of con gress a tract of .'I5t),000 acres of land in the Big Horn basin of Wyoming. This land is sold by tho government to the company at fifty cents per acre, the land, or as much as possible, to be covered by the irrigation ditch now under construction by the company. It is understood that a part of the tract will bo fenced for a gatno reserve, in which will be protected a number of the wild animals to be found in that section. Burwell Progress: Some years ago a settler by the name of Merrilield found soiuo small particles of gold in the stomachs of his chickens which he be lieved they had picked up from the dirt which came from the bottom of his well. His neighbors ridiculed the idea, and being a poor man, ho did not push the investigation. It was gold, however, and it ban been the private opinion, pub licly expressed, of some of our citizens who know the country adjoining Bur well pretty well, that gold lies buried beneath the hills in this vicinity, by reason of the fact that thoy have seen traces of it in many places. Recently one of our farmers living east of town came across a bank which was rich with the supposed gold, and he called the attention of an old miner, who had spent twenty years in California mining gold, to it, who pronounced it gold. R. P. Wright earao in Tuesday with a speci men of rock which is believed to contain gold. It was taken from a bed of black sand which is also mixed with fine par ticles of the yellow substance. If it proves to lie gold there is almost bound less wealth hidden all around us only waiting to be washed out. AIVKRTIS?EME.NT. Grand Island, Nebraska, February 15th, 189C. ) Our books are now open for contracts and will remain so until the Eleventh of April (Saturday) unless the required acreage shall be made up previous to that date. No contracts will be accepted from any other than parties purposing to give the crop the beat of attention, and who either own or rent desirable land adapted to the growth of the sugar beet. Not less than three-acre contracts will be accepted. Blank contracts can be seen by applying to John Kryzeke, Columbus, Nebraska. 3 Oxnard Beet Sugar Companv. To Chicago aid the East. Plsse atral ssengers going east for business, will natf rally gravitato to Chicago as the great commercial center. Passengers re-visiting friends or relatives in the eastern states always desire to "take in" Chicago en route. All classes of passen gers will find that the "Short Line" of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul Bail way, via Omaha and Conncil Bluffs, affords excellent facilities to reach their destinations in a manner that will be sure to give the utmost satisfaction. A reference to the time tables will in dicate the route to be chosen, and, by asking any principal agent west of the Missouri river for a ticket over the Chicago, Council Bluffs & Omaha Short Line of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, yon will be cheerfully furnished with the proper passport via Omaha and Chicago. Please note that all of the "Short Line" trains arrive in Chicago in ample time to connect with the express trains of all the great through car lines to the principal eastern cities. For additional particulars, time tables, maps, etc., please call on or address F. A. Nash, General Agent, Oaaaha, Neb. I"! ? i .! . iifttrr T "4-jKl..aa"cike.-.. 3-' f:gji ... . . ... ...