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All f"iMh'M. to secure atteation, mnl
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We reserve the tight to reject any auto user ;.t.
and cannot saraa to return Um seats. We ileoui
a r"rTfl-nrniidsat in every school-diklrici of
Plstte county, oae of jped jodxuient, nJ m
liable in every way. Write plainly eactfilt.i
teparetaly. Give as tacts.
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J. R. Yocdm committed suicide Satur
. ' day at North Loup by blowing the top
of his head off with a shotgun, putting
' the muzzle of the gun into his mouth.
He leaves a wife and five children.
Wii. JIcGkaw of Grand Island plead
guilty to having counterfeit dies in his
possession, ami was given two years in
the penitentiary by Judge Munger.
John C. Henry and Louis P. Carlson
were found guilty but not yet sentenced
for having counterfeit money in their
possession.
Secretahv Wilson is winning golden
opinions from the southern people,
among whom he has beeu in the presi
dent's recent trip to the exposition. His
hobby is the application of science to
practical farming, and he will do away
with all scientific departments under
him, but he will make them useful.
Last Thursday warrants were issued
for the arrest of Thomas J. Majors, jr.,
son of ex-Lieutenant Governor Majors;
Frank McKinney and Roy King of Pern,
charging them with statutory assault on
the person of Ruth Ellis, aged 14 years,
daughter of Prof. Ellis, late of the State
Normal School faculty. McKinney and
King are both young married men.
RAPID TARIFF PROGRESS
Senators Establish a New Rec
ord For Quick Work.
COVER iFIFTY-SIX PAGES OF BILL
Leading- Caadidates For Oivernor Are
Jade White or Webster City, Kx-Oot-eraar
Bales of Waterloo and J. It. Bur
gas af Ottaaawa The Ex-Governor's
Caaaces Are Improving.
Dxs Mioses, Jane 22. The Demo
crats, Silver Republicans and Populists,
who an to hold their state conventions
in this city on Wednesda y,- have com
penced to assemble. The candidates
with their backers are nearly all on the
ground. There is much speculation as
to how the conventions will be merged
into one policy and one set of candi
dates. There are slight differences
which may become acute. The har
monizers have their hands full. The
leading candidates for governor just
now are Judge White of Webster City,
ex-Governor Boies of Waterloo and J.R.
Burgess of Ottumwa. Mr. Boies has
been gaining and Mr. White losing.
For judge of the supreme court there
is some opposition to Chief Justice
Kinne, who has almost been conceded
the nomination.
The dissatisfaction grows out of the
fact that while he voted for Bryan he
has not recanted on gold. The triple
convention will be one of the largest
gatherings ever held in the state. The
platform will be for silver, 1C to 1,
without doubt with strong local flavor.
BEET SUGAR FACTORY AT OMAHA.
rtalschaaaa of Philadelphia Will Remove
to Omaha and Act as Manager.
Chicago, June 21. It has become
known that P. D. Armour and others
have made arrangements to construct a
large beet sugar and glucose factory at
South Omaha during the next eight
months, and have it ready for operation
by July of next year. The capital stock
is placed at $500,000 and Mr. Armour's
signature fer one-tenth of it, given last
Thursday, completes the list of stock
subscribers. The largest stockholder is
Fleischinan, formerly of Austria, where
he operated a beet sugar factory. He
subscribes for $150,000 of stock aud will
move to Omaha from Philadelphia, his
present home, to become manager of
the new enterprise. He is a nephew of
the Fleischmau brothers.the millionaire
manufacturers of east.
BISHOP
Mar.
BONACUM WINS ALL.
the
Free List Taken Up aad Completed la
Three Hofi-Wool and Silk Srhedales
Go Over by Agreement Pettigrew's
Aaaeadeat Lacks One Vote of Carryiag.
ease Amend the Alien Resolatlaa.
Washington-, June 22. The senate
aaade giant .stretches on the tariff bill
Monday, covering 5tf pages and estab
lishing a record for progress during this
debate. The last two schedules of the
dutiable list, covering paper and manu
factured, sundries were completed with
the exception of the paragraph on hides,
gloves, coal and some lesser articles
which went over. This advanced the
senate to the free list, which was taken
up at 2 p. ni., and completed in three
hours. Early iu the day the wool and
ilk schednles went over with an agree
ment that it would be taken np today.
After that the tobacco schedule, the re
ciprocity provisions and the internal
revenue portions of the bill, as well as
xoany isolated paragraphs passed over,
remain to be considered. The progress
was so marked, however, that for the
first time there was a feeling that the
end was not so far off.
There was little debate, the main
topic of discussiou being matches and
ruses. On the latter item an amend
ment by Mr. Pettigrew reducing the
rate to 10 per cent came within one vote
ox passing against the protest of the
finance committee, the vote being a tie
yeas, 24; nays, 24. While the free
list was under discussion Bacon (Ga.)
gave notice of au amendment placing
cotton ties on the free list, and McLau
tin (S. C.) gave notice of another
amendment taking raw cotton from the
free list.
NEW PLAN OF SUGAR TRUST.
Tropose to Purchase Peace la the Island
or Cuba For Cash.
Washington. June 22. A story is
current that the sugar trust has evolved
an ambitious suggestion that Cuba is
avbatautially for sale, and might as well
become a sugar plantation for a gigantic
corporation supported by the sympathy
af this country. In other words that
we might have a West India company
ma England has an East India company
and a Hudson Bay company, each of
.Which aided vastly in the extension of
the British empire. It is said that the
Spanish minister to the United States
cabled recently to Madrid reports of the
'disposition of our government to decline
to interfere by force and also to sup
port Cuban autonomy and that this
cable urged the recall of Wevler when a
change in the Spanish ministry was in
-the air, and to send to Cuba Campos,
who closed the ten years war with cash
in hand, and might do the same job
now by the same means, much cheaper
than Spain can keep 200.000 soldiers in
the field. Colonel J. McCook is the
gentleman credited with the imagina
tion to conceive the capture of Cuba
With cash as a measure of peace. This,
as Colonel McCook understands it, is
merely a matter of business.
The idea ruus this way: Suppose
there was a company commanding
money to take up the whole Cuban debt,
with the war debt of Spain charged to
Coba. at its market value say $50,000,
000 and $,'.0,000,000 for the Spanish
rights in Cuba, and the Cuban rights in
the forests and mines, and in settling
American and Cuban claims agaiust
Spain and the United States would
guarantee bonds to the amount of $100,
000,000 at 3 per cent and supervise and
administer the customs of the ports of
Cuba for the payment of the interest.
Incidentally it would seem that there
; be an immense profit to the man-
i of what might be called the Cm-
. trust. The advantage totheSnan-
i would be peace and the extinction
of some hundred millions of hopeless
debt, for the creditors of Spain would
Mglad to scale its obligations, and
Spain could have a large earn for money
in hand instead of a Cuba of blood
and ashes oa its hands. The gain to
Gaba woald be government by corpora
tiam, limited, instead of a crown abso
fcte. ssU' Xomlaatlea CeaBrsaed.
Wasbjkgtox, Jnne 22. The senate
confirmed the nomination of Jacob E.
Zfcmtztobe collector of internal ry-
i for the iistnet aeonso.
Martlnelli Verities Against
Priests at Kvcry Point.
Aubukx, Neb., June 22. Father Fitz
gerald has received the decision of Mou
signor Martiuclli, and with it a letter
directing that the decision aud sentence
be not given to the press for publica
tion. It is learned that iu this decision
and sentence, which is quite long and
written in Latin, Monsiguor Martinelli
has undone all that Father Baart did in
the metropolitan curiae at Dubuque,
and has in no way censured the bishop
for the expulsion aud suspension aud
excommunication pronounced over a
year ago by the bishop against the
priest. The charges are taken up
singly. The document consists of 43
pages of typewritten matter.
Given to I lie .Iiiry.
Omaha, June 22. The fate of Joseph
S. Bartley, the ex-Mate treasurer,
charged with the embezzlement of
$201,884.05 of the money of the state of
Nebraska, now rests with the jury of 12
men, who have sat in the jury box
since June 9 listening to the evidence
introduced by the prosecution and de
fendant. The case was given to the
jury at 5:30 o'clock last evening and
members retired for deliberation.
tonand Lafayette. He rebuilt Grinnell
(la.) college when it was blown down
by a cyclone. Huudreds of other insti
tutions have been helped 'by him. Mr.
Blair is a widower, with two children
living. His daughter married Charles
Scribuer, head of the publishing house.
MANY DWELLINGS DAMAGED.
Pauie In a Monterey Chnrch Caused -by
San Francisco. June 22. Late re
ports regarding the earthquake show
that it was quite severe at Salinas, the
county seat of Monterey county. The
more prominent buildings damaged are
the armory of troop C, which had its
walls badly cracked and parted; the
Nance building, in process of construc
tion, will have to be taken down, and
the Farmers' Union building.; A sec-
tion of adobe wall in the Mission church
of San Carlos, in Monterey, tumbled in
on the congregation and a panic almost
resulted. Congregations were at wor
ship in various towns when the shock
occurred and iu some churches panics
were avoided by the cool headedness of
the ministers. A gcod record cf the
shock was made at the Lick observa
tory. Respite For Two Murderers. '
Cincinnati, June 22. A special to
The Commercial-Tribuue from Fayette
ville, W. Va., says: The governor has
issued a t0 days respite to Albert Viars,
sentenced to be hanged Friday for the
murder of Charles Gibson, also a respite ,
for Joy Brown, under sentence to be
hanged the same day. Clark Loomis
will be the ouly one hanged here Fri-'
day. Tiie reason for Viars' respite is a
confession he has just made of the
murder of John Cochran, in which he t
implicates Wiley Lewis and Wilbur ,
Slaughter. Joy Brown is to be given a '
chance to show grounds for a new trial, j
The people are much incensed at the
action of the governor. The sheriff, j
fearing that the crowd here Friday to .
see the hanging might do violence to '
the respited men, has taken them to '
Charleston
Cody Case Continued.
St. Joseph, Mo., June 22. In the
criminal court the case of the state
against W. F. Cody (Buffalo Bill),
wherein Cody is charged with running
a circus without a license, was contin
ued until July 10. Cody is expected to
be present iu person as defendant, and
says he will carry the case to the high
est court. The case has attracted a great
deal of attention, from the fact it will
be the first time where a court has de
cided whether Cody's show shall be re
quired to pay the license fee for regulat
circuses. Heretofore it has paid a much
lower fee.
Hail's lleuty Damage.
Sioux City, June 22. Reports are
arriving here from remote country dis
tricts indicating much heavier damage
by hail than was supposed. On many
farms the crops were beaten flat -aud
will be a total loss.
America., MONOTONOUS LIVES.
LIGHTHOUSES.
IOCIAL DEMOCRACY OF
fcageae V. febs Explains-Werklugs of Mil
Co-Operative Scheme. I
Chicago, Jnne 22. At a meeting ol.
the directors of the Social Democracy
of America the following officers were i
elected: E. V. Debs, cluiirmau; Sylves. '
terKeliher, secretary; James Hogau,
vice president; William E. Barns, gen
eral organizer. The salary of the offi
cers was placed at $100 per month.
The constitution of the Social Democ
racy, which has beeu published, was
formally ratified and adopted.
Mr. Debs explained at length the aims
and purposes of the co-operative com
monwealth. A colony should be sent
to wasmngton, iroui wnicn piace, heival officer who is the inspector of the
said, an official invitation had been re- J district, he receives a full appointment;
ceiced. After establishing the colony t if he does not pass, he is dropped from
ne would secure control oi tne politics the service. A keeper must be able to
a quality of get there that makes the
audience interested. They've come up,
aud the artists think thev've gone down.
FOLLOWED BY THOSE WHO TEND THE ' The difference is between trying to do
faallflcatioaa aad Ketuuneratioa Kega
latioas Which Mast Be Observed to tha
Letter Provisions Made For the Com
fort of These Useful Servants.
A lighthouse keeper is appointed by
the secretary of the treasury on the rec
ommendation of the lighthouse board,
and at first receives ouly au acting ap
pointment. At the end of three mouths,
if he passes an examination by the na
of the state and start the cooperative
commonwealth.
"The first thing we would do after
getting control," he said, "would be to
call a special session of the legislature.
Then we would call a convention to re
vise the constitution aud get all the rot
out of it. We will hars control of the
taxing power and tx -.-yudicates and
land sharks out of in s :r.te.
"Persons shall be taxed according to
their means and shall have according to
their needs. We will have trusts,
nothing but trusts in our state, but we
will all be in the trust. The operatives
will not work 12 or 14 hours a day, but
four or five. We will be iu the field iu
1900 with a new party. These men who
represent the new life are going to
unite as if by magic for the overthrow
of commercialism iu the establishment
of the co-operative commonwealth, by
which the brotherhood of man will be
come a fact. I do not know whether
this question will be solved peaceably
or otherwise. I hope peaceably. But I
am one of those who believe in getting
ready for any solution that may be
necessary."
Mr. Debs said that in setting up the
co-operative commonwealth in Wash
ington the cslouists might be running
against the supreme court. He would
consult good lawyers and learn just
what the rights of the colonists were.
"We want to know our rights," he said,
"and make them the rebels. If they
send the military to invade our rights,
then there will be an army of IWK.OOO
patriots on the state line to meet them
ou that issue."
Grasshoppers In illtchcock County.
Tukxton, Neb.. June 22. Grasshop
pers are doing great damage to crops
iu parts of Hitchcock county. Rain is
badly needed iu some localties. but crops
generally are doing well where the
hoppers are not working.
Auotiu Adjudged Insane.
Portland, June 22. A. S. Austin,
the California lawyer who asserted that
he could furnish evidence which would
save Theodore Durrant from the gal
lows, has been adjudged insane and will
be taken to the asvlum.
Marriage of Editor Authnuy.
Leavenworth, Kan.. June 22. D.
R. Anthony, jr., manager of The Times,
and son of Colonel D. R. Authonj-, was
married today to Miss Bessie Havens,
daughter of Paul E. Havens, president
of the Leavenworth National bank. The
newly wedded couple left for New York,
whence they will sail for Liverpool.
They expect to lie absent about three
months iu Europe.
Keatuekiaus Opposing Burkner.
Cincinnati, June 22. A special to
The Commercial Tribune from Frank-
lorr, ny., says: xne nentueKy con
tingent of the Confederate Veterans
will go to the coming reunion at Nash
ville resolutely determined to prevent,
if possible, the election of General
Simon Bolivar Buckner of Kentucky as
commander-in-chief of the Confederate
veterans.
Big maze at Little Rnrk.
Little Rock. Ark., June 22. The
four story building at Coroman and
Second streets occupied by the whole
sale grocery firm of R. J. George & Co.,
was entirely destroyed by fire, with all
its contents. Loss, estimated at $50,
000. Fireman Julian Davis was wounded
by falling walls.
Fire la Brooklyn Navy Yard.
New York, Juue 22, Fire broke out
in the Brooklyn na,vy yard last night
and did damage to the extent of $100,
000. The bnilding known as No. 1 was
partially destroyed. It was occupied
mainly bv the orduauce department.
Bate For Old Soldiers' lteuuion.
Republican City, Neb., June 22.
The third annual old soldiers' reunion
will be held this year at Camp Wash
ington, near this city, Aug. It to 21,
inclusive.
Bonanza After Three Years.
Colorado Springs, June 22. The
Zenobia gold mine on Bull Hill, after
three years of fruitless work, struck
bonanza ore yesterday, $2,800 to the ton.
JOHN L. BLAIR IS DYING.
Cad Is Not Far OST For New Jersey's Oea
eroas Millionaire.
New Yoke, June 22. John I. Blair.
New Jersey's greatest and most gener
ous millionaire, is dying. For months
he has been in delicate health and the
end is not far off. A trained nurse is in
constant attendance upon him. He
spends most of his time in bed. But he
has "well days", as he good-naturedly
calls them, when he is able to sit for a
short time in his favorite chair on the
porch of his house at Blairstown, N. J
These are followed by dangerous sink
ing spells, during which it is very diffi
cult to keep him from dying. Mr. Blair
will be 95 years old ou August 22, if
death does not claim him before. He
kept np his interest in business as long
as his strength held out.
Mr. Blair is said to be worth $60,000,
000. He was born in 1802 ou a farm
near Belvidere. N. J. He began his
business career by working iu a store.
He went into banking and then cotton
manufacturing and the produce busi
ness, and in everything he engaged he
seemed to be successful. He was asso
ciated with Oakes Ames in the Union
Pacific. At one time he was president
of 20 railroads and improvement com
panies in the west. In 1866 his friends
f New Jersey persuaded him to run for
governor. He spent about $60,000 in
the campaign and was defeated. He
has given more than $500,000 to Blair
He gave $90,000 each, to Prince-
Two Killed by a Itunaway.
Dl'buquk. Ia., Juue 22. Mrs. Henry
Scott of Chicago and Mrs. Maria Hay,
formerly of Chicago, were killed by a
runaway.
Amends the Allea Resolution.
Washington, June 22. Chairman
Diugley.in the house, reported favorably
on the Allen joint resolution regarding
the suspension of the foreign laber ex
clusion act for the purpose of the Oma
ha exposition. Three amendments are
made to the resolutiou. the first
and second that the secretary
of the treasury shall determine the
number of persons to be admitted un
der restriction, and not the exposition
people, and the third amendment
changes time Chinese may remain in
the country after the close of the expos
ition from one year to three months.
It passed withont opposition.
President's Selections.
Washington, June 22. The president
today sent the following nominations to
the senate: John G. Foster, of Ver
mont, to be consul general at Halifax,
N. S.; W. B. Diokey, of Louisiana, to
be consul as Callao, Peru.
Albert G. Thompson, of Ohia, Alex
ander C. Botkin, of Montana aud D. B.
Culbertson, of Texas, to bz the commis
sioners to revise and codify the criminal
and penal laws of the United States as
provided for by act of congress approved
June 4, 1697.
Commodore Edmond O. Matthews, to
be rear ad inital.
Alleu Seekiug Information.
Washington, June 22. Senator
Allen has reintroduced his resolutiou of
last congress declaring that a master's
sale cf the Union Pacific or Kansas
Pacific railroad without additional leg
islation would not be binding on the
government and directing the commis
sion on Pacific railroads to inquire what
authority the executive department has
in the premises.
NEWS FROM THE WIRES.
From Chicago to Pittsburg in nine
hours and 25 minutes by rail is the latest
time Heating record of the Pennsylvania
company.
Emperor William has sent a tele
gram to the sultan requesting him to
take measnres for the evacuation of
Thessaly. ' There is no indication that
a settlement has been reached in the
peace negotiations.
A sanguinary eneaeement occurr
Wednesday at Managua, 15 miles from
Havana. The insurgents attacked a
column of Spanish and the latter lost
heavily. The rebels are certainly con
centrating around Havana.
The marriage of Mrs, John Graves to
Dr. Augustus Goelet has been an
nulled by Justice Dykman of the U'
prenie court at White Plains. N. Y., on
the ground that it was iuvalid. as one
of the parties was a Chicago divorcee.
Ooerlln Kxteads a Call to Sluenns.
Oberlin, O., June 22. Dr. William
F. Slocum. for the past 10 years presi
dent of Colorado college, has been ex
tended a unanimous call to become pres
ident of Oberlin college by the trustees
of that institution. It is expected that
he will accept.
National League Games.
Baltimore, 2; Npw York, 0. Nops and Bow
man: Riwie and Warner.
Second Game: Baltimore, j; Npw York, 6.
pond and Robinson: Meekis aud Warner.
Brooklyn. C: Boston, 1L Payne, Fisher and
Grim; Slobodan; and Yeager.
Cleveland, 5; LonisTille, C ToungandZim-
tner; Cunningham and Butler
Cincinnati. 8: St.Loqis.S, Breiteostein and
Peitz; Hart and Douglas.
Pittsburg. 2 : Chicago, 7. Tanaetull and 8ug-
den: Callahan aad Kittridge.
Washington. 9: Philadelphia. 2. McJi
aad H&guire; Orth and Boyle.
WB8TERS LEAGUE.
Kansas City, 11: Minneapolis, 7.
Columbus, 12: Detroit, 2.
St. Paul. 4: Ifiriraakee, 3.
Grand Bspial.H; itsdiraaaeUs, ft
MANY BURIED IN THE RUINS.
Walls of WatertoMii, S. !., tluildius
Give Away Without Warning.
Watertown, S. D., June 22. The
walls of the Mullhollund building on
Lake street, occupied by Berg & Olsen
as a saloon, gave way without wanting
about 7 o'clock last night, burying a
number of persons in the ruins. The
place was crowded at the time, a circus
having attracted a great mass of people
from the surrounding counties. A
number of bodies are believed to be ill
the ruins. The work of clearing away
the debris has resulted in the finding of
one body, that of Phillip Patterson.
Among those who escaped death, but
who were more or less injured, are the
following:
David Hall, riix hmken.
ts. McDowell. Malp wound.
D. W. Bradley, luck injured and cut
about the head.
Mrs. Austin, cut about the head mid
shoulders.
David WtillerhousL', fatally injured in
ter nully.
Deeide lo Krect Monuments.
Chattanooga, Tenu., June 22. The
ica-
Chic
Illinois commission for the
mauga-Chattauooga National Military
park were in session here today discuss
ing improvements contemplated for the
near future. The commission has al
ready decided upon the erection of a
monument ou Orchard Knob to' cost
$14,000; one at Braggs' headquarters ou
Mission Ridge to cost the same amount,
and six small ones ou Lookout Moun
tain. The national commission, with
all the members present, will meet here
Tuesday aud arrange lor considerable
work which will be doue iu the uear
future.
Pay Car Overdue Six Mouth.
St. Louis, Juue 22. A special to The
Republic from Lebanon, Iud., says:
Employes of the Chicago and Southeast
ern Railroad company's shops located
iu this city have gone on a strike and
refuse to return to work until wages
due them have been paid. It is alleged
the pay car is over six month overdue.
President Oawford wired from New
York that one mouth's wages would be
forthcoming if the strike would be de
clared off.
Lincoln Park Hyena Killed.
Chicago, Juue 22. Jim, the Lincoln
park hyena that gnawed his way out
of bis cage last Tuesday aud has been
the cause of more or less insomnia ever
since by lurkiug around cemeteries and
howling dismally through the night,
died today of lead poisoning. He was
shot to death near the Old People's
home at Harlem, about 15 miles south
west of Lincoln park, after chewing all
the courage and one leg from a bulldog.
The Clock Came Back.
A Louisville man has a cow with a
peculiar appetite. A housecleaning serv
ant left a small silver clock ou the
kitchen steps for a few moments, and
on her leturu the timepiece was miss
ing. Later iu the evening the small boy
of the household was iu the yard. Sud
denly a eilvery chime floated on his ear.
He listened. Another aud another, un
til five times the chime had sounded,
and he recognized it as coming from
the lost clock. There was nothing uear
but the cow. The boy searched all
around the yard aud then concluded
that the clock was in the cow. For
awhile there was a sort of paudemouium.
At 6 o'clock the family heard the hour
tolled from the cow's inside. A power
ful emetic did the work. The clock was
a little discolored, but was still ticking.
San Francisco Argouaut.
He Got Out.
It is related of the late General Pleas
ontou that one night while he was in a
Washington saloon a man entered aud
began to attack the character and cour
age of the Confederate soldiers. Pleas
antoq gave a start of surprise as he rtc
oguired the mau and asked if he remem
bered him. .The stranger said he did
not, whereupon the general said: "I am
Alfred Pleasonton. I had you drummed
out of my camp for cowardice before
Antietam, Get out of this place, sir!"
The man hung his head end hurried
out.
read and write, keep accouuts, sail aud
pull a boat aud have enough mechauic
al ability to make the necessary minor
repairs about the station and keep it in
order. There is only oue grade of keep
er recognized by law, but the custom of
the service has divided the keepers into
different grades, with different pay and
duties and with promotion ficui oue
grade to another. A mau may ba ap
pointed to the service and assigned to a
particular station, but he may be moved
at any time if promoted or if the inter
ests of the service demand it. At sta
tions requiring but oue keeper a retired
seafaring man, with a family, is usual
ly selected, aud in general men of the
seafaring class are most wanted. At sta
tions where there is a fog signal one of
the assistants is a mau who. has an en
gineer's license aud is something of a
machinist.
Keepers are paid on nu average about
$800 a year, but the individual sums
paid vary from $100 to $1,000 a year,
according to the importance of the sta
tion and the amount of service render
ed. The principal keeper at Minot's
Ledge light, just outside of Boston, re
ceives $1,000 a year for his services,
and this furnishes the only instance
whero tho pay of a keeper is specified
by law.
Tho keepers who live at isolated
lighthouses aud ou the offshore light
ships lead a very monotonous life, bro
ken only by the sight of passing vessels
and tho quarterly visit of the lighthouse
supply boat.
These keepers get considerable leave,
about two weeks iu three months, dur
ing which time they visit their families
on full pay. A lighthouse ou an outly
ing reef, for iustauce, is on the same
status as u lightship, except that it can
not be blown away and the keepers can
not leavo it except when they are re
lieved, as u storm might come up aud
prevent their return.
Much is done by the lighthouse board
to further the comfort of all its em
ployees, but most is done for those who
endure tho solitary life at the isolated
lights aud on the light;-hips. Libraries
are furnished tho keepers and their
families. Each contains about 40 vol
umes of works of history, science uud
poetry, with a fair supply of good nov
els. This complete library is left at a
station for three mouths, and is theu
transferred to another station by au in
spector on his quarterly visit. There- aro
nearly 1,000 of theso libraries in circu
lation, each in its little portable case,
and, by their judicious interchange, the
keepers of stations where they are fur
nished see about 200 volumes a year.
Keepers are forbidden to engage in
any business which will prevent tiieir
presence ut their stations or interfere
with tho proper performance of their
duties. Many have useful aud profitable
occupations which they carty ou at the
stations, while some fill pulpits, are
justices of the peace or teach school.
All keepeis are furnished with quarters
for themselves aud in some cases for
their families. In some ca?es they are
furnished with food aud rations. Other
stations have barns furnished for cattle
aud horse., and boats are furnished all
stations inaccessible by laud.
The discipline of the service has been
always rigid, as befitting a service
where uegligenco or inefficiency may
mean the loss of many lives aud much
valuable property.
Dismissal iustantly follows in two
cases where a keeper is found intoxi
cated aud where he allows his light to
go out. Keepers are traiued to consider
the care of the light aud the lighthouse
property above any aud all peinoual
considerations, aud it is rare indeed
When they fail to realize this high
ideal. There have beeu a number of in
stances illustrating the esprit de corps
of the service how the keepers of the
Minot's Ledge light first built went
down with the light and died at their
posts, how one keeper saved his lend
aud let his family look out for them
selves, aud instances whero they have
saved public property and lost their
own.
Fortunately the service is not ham
pered by any question of politics, and
this fact, coupled with the excellent
discipline maintained, accounts for the
fine class of men now iu the service
men who take uu honest pride iu their
work, aud whose interest makes the ef
ficiency v-f the service what it is. It is
unfortuuate that the navy has no retir
ing laws for its seamen which would
allow men after 20, 25 or 30 years' serv
ice, depending ou the physical condi
tion of the mqu, to be retired aud
placed in the lighthouse service for the
rest of their lives. A valuable class of
men would thus be added, and the na
tion would be paying a debt which now
goes unpaid. Philadelphia Ledger.
something well, because it's the best
opportunity you've hud, aud taking no
interest at all in it because you've beeu
in tho habit of doiug what you think it
better."
"But isu't it better, as Sam Bernard
says, to be a has been than a never was
it?"
"Maybe it is, but it's rough on the
manager who pays bis money out for
them. I had one of them here, and he
was going to be so original that he
would not use the lines the author
wrote, but promised to tickle the audi
ence to death by some eutitely original
grinds of his own. When the test came,
he went on the stage aud did the same
things he had doue 1 1 years before. He
was never able to do anything else dur
ing the rest of the time. I had some
others like him, aud that is why I say
now that I ouiy want hams, not artists
hams that work hard and know how
to make au uudieuce enjoy itself, not
artists too hue for anything." New
York Sun.
BLOOD WON.
BECHER, iM k CO.,
Farm Loans, Real Estate
And Insurance.,
COLUMBUS,
NEBRASKA.
MONASTERIES OF METEORA.
fair Anna Was a Deacon Niece, but She
Enjoyed the Itace.
One of theio men who came in from
the coautry and hu3 climbed from
the bottom of the ladder to the top
likes to tell u story on his wife, whoso
tecoud beauty is crowned by u mass of
silkeu hair as white as cottou.
"We both lived on a farm then," he
says. "Anna was au orphan aud brought
up by a strict old uucle, who was a dea
con. She wa3 pretty aud bright,, but so
prim uud straitlueed (hat she would
eauction nothing to which the deacou
himself objected, uud no old Covenauter
ever drew the lines more closely than he
did.
"Next to Anna :uy affections wero
centered ou :: colt that was good to look
at aud developed a wonderful speed aud
gameuess that spoke of aristocratic de
sceut. I told this to uo oue but Auua,
and it was with great difficulty that I
induced her to rh'e one Sunday with me
to a camp meeting lehiud a leal trotter.
"Goiug to the meeting I regulated
the colt's pace to suit the day and the
occasion, and he was as sedate as the
deacon himself. The only girl of the
neighborhood who pretended to rival
Auua in beauty was there with a young
fellow who prid-(l himself ou huviuii
the fastest hoise.siu the county. Toward
suudown she told Anna that wo had bet
ter start home early. They would re
quire much less time uud would prob
ably pass us on.the way. That made me
mad and I thought I detected an un
wonted fire in her eyes. Ve were jog
ging homeward as decorously as we had
gone, talking solemnly as we should,
when there was a ru-h past us, a cloud
of dust aud a mocking laugh that bade
us 'goodby. My colt was prancing aud
pulling like a tugboat. 1 was bouud to
pleaso my girl, grinding as it was
" 'Let 'ergo!' came between her red
lips and white set teeth jut a a girl of
the period would wiy 'Let 'er go, Gal
lagher. '
"That was enough. Fences and trees
flew the other way Blood told, uud tho
colt seemed ou wing.-; When we were
nose and ijese. Anna was so excited that
she wanted to take the reins for fear I
couldn't wiu the Sunday race. But tho
gallant colt shot us through ahead. It
wasu't long till Auua wore a little jew
elry aud tolerated card to the extent of
playiug 'oid maid.' "St. Louis Re
public. WINDFALLS FOR GAMINS.
4a Kxtraoidlaary Scene oa the Macedo
nian Frontier.
Between the curve of the Macedo
nian froutier of the mountains of Khas
sia aud the open town of Kalabaka,
which terminates the long western
laiu of Thessaly, lie the mouasteries
of Meteora. A casual glauce gives the
idea of the whole puce being occupied
by Hues of bare hills but on a nearer
iuspectiou a curious amphitheater is
fouud, carved out amoug the moun
tains, aud this ia occupied by a most
extraordinary collection of rocks, on
which are perched, like storks' nests
or the turban ou a Turkish tombstone,
the aerial monasteries of Meteora. In
oue place a huge mouolith is fouud lit
erally crowued with buildings, aa iu the
case of the monastery of All Saints,
popularly known us liuglos Barlaaui; in
another a group of jagged rocks will
have one point capped by u monastery,
as is seen iu St. Nicholas. The most
striking featuie about these monaster
ies is the method by which they are
reached, either by loose ladders hanging
outside the perpendicular rocks or by
being wouud up by means cf a wiudlass
in a net at the eud of u rope.
From its beautiful position, its size
and the fair preservation of its build
ings the monastery of Haglos Barlaaui
is a very good specimen of these fifteenth
century monasteries, but what tuukes
this one of especial interest is that
the rope is said to be the lougest used
for tho purpose 340 feet. The ladders
to this mouastery are not so difficult
to climb as some, but inasmuch us they
pull out every time you grip them aud
oscillate frightfully it is pleasauter to
risk the net.
The mouastery of Haglos Nikolaos
appeared to be iu a totally dilapidated
couditiou and entirely deserted when
we visited Meteora, while the ladders,
which rise from u neighboring peak uud
hang from the bare rock, are impractica
ble. All these monasteries are uuder
the archimandrite, a man of command
ing presence and saintly countenance.
The village of Kastraki is jammed in
between the outer rocks of this curious
amphitheater, and iu the slit of this
rocky wall at the back of the village
stands a most peculiar hourglass look
ing monolith. The rocks on either side
are perforated with strange holes,
which in the fourteenth century were
inhabited by the monks of St. Anthony.
Loudon Illustrated News.
M. C. CASS IN,
PBOPBIKTOB OF THS
Ua Meat Met
F'resh and
Salt M eats.
Game and Fish in Season.
$0rHighest market
Hides and Tallow.
prices paid for
THIRTEENTH ST.,
COLUMBUS, - - NEBRASKA
25aprtf
UNDERTAKING!
EnKspiEj . CrHflHPflHL WjH W
We Carry Coffins, Caskats and
Metallic Caskets at as low
prices as any one.
DO EMBALMING
HAVE THF. BEST HEARSE
IX THE COUNTRY.
FRU. W. HERRICK,
Y. A. McAllistkh.
W. M. COU.NKUC9
JJeALLISTER A CORNELIUS,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
COLrJMBFS,
aijantf
NEBRASKA
Wise Ia His Generation.
Irate Father What you need, young
man, is a sound thrashing.
Delinquent Well, pop, my Sunday
school teacher says that the Lord will
supply our needs, and I don't mind
waiting Sew York Times.
Destitute Englishmen abroad can de
mand to be sept home.' They apply to
their consul, wjip gives potice accord
ingly to captains of ships about to sail.
Wine tasters eat a small piece of
bread, with a scrap of cheese, between
samples, to insure an unprejudiced taste.
Mignonette and yellow, pink or white
ruling cam bin ft hpanrifnllc- fra o i I
i ; w ... j wiurw i
i vx tne center of a dinner table,
WANTS HAMS, NOT ARTISTS.
a Mnsic Hull Manager's Complaint of Ac
tors Who Are AJjave Their Busiuess.
"I don't want any more artists, '' said
the music hall manager who gave the
burlesque. ''The people I waut are
hams and nothing but hums. Whenever
I get an application from an actor who
palls himself au artist, I'm going to
tear up the letter for fear I might lose
my presence of mind aud engage him.
If the play's a success, the artist did it.
If it's a failure, it was the author.
Sometimes I wonder, wheu I hear these
artists talk, what is the u?e of their ever
having plays written for them at all.
They're independent of the dramatists,
and I should think they would just step
on the stage aud talk their plays. But
they don't do that. They merely con
tent themselves with refusing to speak
this, or that line because it's 'rotten, '
substituting something of (heir own,
and theu saying it's the fault of the au
thor that nobody laughs at their stupid
gags. I happened to have a bunch of
'cm here, and that lasted me for the
rest of mv life. Hereafter I'm out of
it."
"What are artists;" asked the inno
cent. "They're chiefly actors who're con
demned to come aud act in the musio
halls for three times as much as they
ever got iu their lives before. What
they do is to call everything rotten, de
cide thaf they know more about tbe
play than the man who wrote it and
walk around, as though it were beneath
(hem to do anything morp like acting
than that when it came to the question
pf acting in a musio hall. ''
''And hams, what are they the sort
of bams you mean?"
' 'They're chiefly variety actors accus
tomed to hard work, rough maybe, with
Two lavish Uifts Bestowed on a Pair of
Bright Boys.
Quite recently the pretty wife of a
prosperous manufacturer was looking
into a ccufeetiouer's window when a
barefooted 1ml of about 10 coolly walk
ed up to her uud placed his rugged arm
through heis.
"Excoo-'e this liberty, mum," he
said, with comical ceremony, "but I
aiu't got a mother o' my own, au I feels
lonely. Will ye kiss me':"
For a moment the lady was tco as
tonished to speak, but the sight of tho
dirty face turned so audaciously up
to hers drou away her indignation.
Much to the amusement oi the passers
by she kissed the lad soundly, asked
him where he lived uud dismissed him
with a few coppers. But that was not
the end of the little incideut, for some
weeks after the Loy was hunted up by
the lady's husband and presented with
100 "payment for the kiss takeu in
front of the confectioner's window,"
the lady said.
A good uatured gentleman who is
very etout, uud ou that account does
not care to stoop, once dropped his brier
pipe in the middle of a busy street.
The pipe was a great favorite of his,
but he dared not run the risk of beudiug
down, aud after gazing regretfully ut
bis falleu treasure he decided to aban
don it. Before he could do so, however,
a little htreet urab tsuw his plight, and,
running forwaid, picked up the pipe
aud restored it to him.
The gentleman stared at tho boy
without speakiug for awhile, aud then
pulled a handful of gold out of his
pocket.
"Take this, kiddie, aud be careful
how you spend it," he sail). ".Mind al
so that whatever you do with it you are
not to speud it ou butter scotch, for
that's the stuff thut made me fat."
He theu walked away, leaving the
astonished urchin iu possessiou of a
windfall amouutiug to over '60. Lon
don Telegraph.
The Sacreduess of 1'rajrer Rags.
Verses from the Koran and other pas
sages considered sacred are generally
stamped on the fabrics used as prayer
rugs by the Mohummcduus, and it is
criminal iu oriental law to export such
pieces. This is doubtless because use by
the occidentals means the treadiug of
the sacred words under infidel feet, aud
when you think it over it is net to be
wondered at. A few years ago an Amer
ican succeeded in getting two such
pieces us near home us Paris, but the
inducements offered to him to return
them to the oriental dealer were potent
enough to elite t their purpose.
W
OOdLEY A 3T1KKH.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
9uth-Bt comer Eleventh and North Streets.
Hjuly-y Columbus. Neirissa.
Indiu'd pearl fisheries have been fa
mous from the remotest time. Iu the
Persian gulf the industry has existed
from the days of the Macedonians.
MwnaiaaHmaiBnicufeduaiaiHMaBa
S.im ir.-itr. .t NVw uvk via the Kaltiiuore
& Ohio K. U.-.wuMi- 'lY:u-hiT
National Association.
June 21 io 2G, inclusive, the Baltimore :
Ohio ltailroad will sell Excursion
Tickets to New York at rate of a fare
and a third for the round trip on the cer
tificate plan, account above meetiug. On
this ba&ia the round-trip fare from Chi
cago will be $23.70.
Tickets will be good for return leav
ing New York until July 1, 18t7.
The B. A O. ia the only line via Wash
ington. Stop over of teu days will lie allowed
at Washington, D. C, ou return trip, by
depositiug tickets with B. & O. Ticket
Ageut at Washington.
For further information call on or ad
dress B. N. Austin, Gen'l Pass'r Agent,
Chicago, III.
Low Kales to .Milwaukee.
July 3,4 and 5 via the Burlington
Route, on account of the annual meet
ing of the National Educational associa
tion. One fure pins 82 for the round trip.
Special train of sleeping and reclining
chair cars leaves Omaha for Milwaukee
at 5 p. m., Monday, July 5.
For tickets and sleeping car reserva
tions, see nearest Burlington Route
agent.
J. Fkancis,
3 Gen. Pass. Ag't. Omaha, Neb.
Now is the Time
-TO GET YOUR
iuijiii . lira
-AT GREATLY
in its l
Altogether Too Wise.
. The engaged girl was thoroughly
modern in her ideas, while the girl who
was not engiiged was given to old fash
ioned romanticism.
"Tell me all about it," said the girl
who was not engaged.
"Oh, there isn't much to tell," an
swered the engaged girl. "I suppose
the method of procedure is about tho
same in all cases."
"I presume," said the girl who was
not engaged dreamily, "that he looked
soulfully into your eyes and asked you
if you loved him?"
"Not a bit of it," returned the en
gaged girl quickly. "He was altogether
too wise to ask any such question as
that. He merely asked me if I'd marrv
him." Chicago Pot.
New Koute.
Commencing Sunday, June 13th, the
Union Pacific will inaugurate Through
Tourist Car Service to Portland, Ore
gon and Washington point3 via Union
Pacific and Southern Pacific R'ys, there
by giving passengers the benefit of two
tourist routes via Ogden to Portland.
This route will take them up through
the beautiful Sacramento Valley, dis
closing all the notable features along the
Shasta Route, from Sacramento.
lor rates, time tables and full infor
mation, call on J. IJ. Meagher, Agt. 4t
We are prepared to
make the following
clubbing rates :
Chicago Inter Ocean (semi
weekly) and Columbus Jour
nal both for oue year 8 3
10
usintss &otit?s.
Advertisements under this head fife cents a
lineeach insertion.
Murk Antony's liebt.
Mark Antony held aloft the blood
stained toga of his murdered friend,
Cwsar.
"That rent" he pointed toward the
reeking garment "is due to Brutus."
A voice from the gallery broke the
breathless silence:
" Why uuder the sun don't you pay it
to him then?"
And the thrower out put in his dead
ly work. Pick Me Up.
TZ7M.SC1IILTZ makes boots and shoesinthe
ww best styles, end uses only tht very best
stoekthbt can be pmcart-d in tho market. 32.tr
Royal Trades.
The Prince of Wales is said to have
learned iu his youth to make stockings.
His son, the Duke of York, learned the
trade of roppmaking. His couhin, the
Czar Nicholas II, pun plowp sow and
reap. The Emperor William is a practi
cal typesetter. KingllumLert is not ou
ly an excellent shoemaker, but cobbles
also to perfection. Oscar cf Sweden
handles the ax with dexterity.
LEGAL NOTICE.
In the district court of Piatt county, Nebraska,
in the mnttw of the entate of Daniel Schucker.
deceased.
This cnum came on for hearinj? upon the peti
tion of Walter (,. tiaine. executor of the estate
of Daniel Kchocker, deceased, praying for
licenM to sll the northwest quarter of the
southwest quarter of section thirty-one. town
ship nineteen, ranee four west, in Platte county.
neorassa. or a sumcient amount oi tbe same to
bring the sum of $700.00 for the payment of
debts allowed against said eatate, and the costs
of administration, there not being sufficient
personal property to pay said debts and expenses.
It iibtherefore ordered that all persons interest
ed in said estate appear before roe at the court
house in Columbus. Nebraska, on the &ith day of i
June. l?yT. at 2 o'clock d. m. to show nnu .,-
a license should not be granted to said executor
to sell so much of the above described- real es
mij- vi mju urerasfu an ertai) oe necessary to pay
said 'debts and expenses. '
It is therefore ordered that a copy pf this order
be published foar consecutive peeks' in The
I.olcmbch JovujtAU , a weekly newspaper, nnb
liahed m Cclnmbae, Platte county, Neruaska.
Oatedthis 9th day of Ma. 1W7. """
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