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gtfffei-- 3" ."5srwr. . - v-v.r -m'mmi - IftF .. ? - -wa-j-. rag ;. VOLUME XXIX. NUMBER 7. COLUMBUS. NEBRASKA. WEDNESDAY. MAY 25, 1898. WHOLE NUMBER 1,463. v ;,-'e,rrT - ffltt- (Miim journal o o . .o o o o. o I . I r - ' n -. r -: o o ' . o o A" - .CAMPFIBE SKETCHES. GOOD SHORT STORIES FOR THE VETERANS. Staff to Atake BTerf Old Fert Tactagas Oae ef the Largest aad Matt Costly Straerarc of the Kind la the WofM With the 34 Iadlaaa Cavalry. To tho Aasarlcaa Eagle. Oh. wherefore do Jhine Iron talons bold The thunderbolts of Jove. Thou lordly bird of light and liberty. That long from seaside prove To midway sands '' , Of arid lands In might hast spread thy pionlons And seen expand O'er sea and land Thy prosperous dominions? Why dost thoc bear the arrows of the sky In all thine airy flight. Except it be to strike the tyrant down In Freedom's holy fight. Thou are the war-lord of the freemen's host: Their eyes are turned to thee; Thy, .wings unfettered, thou alone caa'st soar Above the AntiUian sea. Thy duty lies Where tropic skies Behold a nation dying. War-worn, and where Is seen in air - The Spanish vulture flying. There swells the war for manhood and for roan. There roars the noble fight That heroes wage, out-numbered and out ared. For the dear prize of right. I;t thy swift wings disturb the southern day. Thy shade on Cuba fall. Let thy red lightning flash from cloud to cloud. Thy volco to freedom call; - . Then everywhere. The sea. the air. Thy warrior gaze delighting, Will change to forms Of wrathful storms. Their myriad mights uniting. And breed a hurricane that shall upbear The vulture from his hold. And sweep him back beyond Atlantic's flood. Into his cavern old. Henry F. Thurston. Lively Firing at Nashville. When we reached Nashville, on our way south the first time (company G, 3d Indiana cavalry), we established our camp near the Institute for the Blind, on the road leading to Lavergne, about fifteen miles distant Here we remained for several days resting, and during this time there was considerable talk of capturing Lavergne, which was held by a force of confederates that were committing all sorts of outrages on the Union inhabitants, as well as having murdered a number of Union soldiers that had fallen Into their hands. It was understood that the cit izens of the town encouraged them in this, and there was a general desire throughout the army to wipe out the place. Finally a considerable force was sent against ifof cavalry, infantry and artillery. The 3d Indiana and 7th Pennsylvania composed the cavalry. We started at daylight, under the command of General Willich, cf the S2d Indiana Infantry. By noon we reached the outskirts of the town, and were "saluted with a volley from the rebel battery. Our own battery soon got into position, and the firing was kept up on both sides for some time. It was a kind of an artillery duel. In which little damage was done to our side. Presently, it was discovered that tho rebels had begun to retreat, and General Willich moved into the town, and with 3d Indiana and then 7th Pennsylvania, Col. Robert Klein com manding our battalion, held a confer ence with Gen. Willich, and it was de cided to burn the town. When this had been determined, the infantry mov ed back toward Nashville, leaving the town in our hands. When Col. Klein had told us what was to be done and given us our instructions, several men vrcre quickly detailed to apply the torch, while the rest remained on guard. The houses fired were vacant, the owners having fled with the re treating rebels. We had no time to carry away household goods, and these went up In smoke with the houses. When the destruction had been com pleted, we took the road to Nashville; but, hearing some firing in our rear, we Instantly formed In line of battle, expecting an attack, but the enemy failed to advance. We remained in line some time, looking at the ruins of the town. Its destruction was a large job completed in a short time. When we reached out Nashville camp, hungry and tired. It was nearly dark. Fort at Dry Tortngas. Fcrt Jefferson, at Dry Tortugas, which has been awakened from a thirty-year sleep, is not only one of the largest and most costly military struc tures of masonry In this country, but is also one of the most Isolated mili tary structures in the world. Passengers by the steamers from Key West to New Orleans, when four or five hours out of port, see three lone some structures, rising apparently out of the water, with no land in sight, and no foliage to protect them from the burning sun of the Gulf of Mexico. The largest of the trio is Fort Jefferson, which, during the civil war was the dreaded military prison of the Dry Tortugas. The second, a mile or more to the northwest, is the lighthouse bear ing the official name of Tortugas light, but locally known as the Loggerhead Key light. The third building, almost within pistol shot of the fort, is a rough, temporary house of boards, cheerless and forbidding enough to seem what it has been for some years the pestbouse of the Tortugas quar antine station. As the vessel approaches the build ings it is seen that each stands upon its cwn little islet of sand, and these three sand keys are all that remain of the Dry Tortugas. With its double row of ragged portholes, its six great bastions, each large enough to be a fort In it self, and its broad, granite-walled xroat. Fort Jefferson looks far more Imposing than the modern fort of earth worts. Congress made the first appropriation of J50.000 for the construction of the fort in 1844. and the work was begun In 1846. The Hyata Saved Wa Ufa. The Presbyterian prints a war anec dote of an unconventional sort. Differ ent readers will read more or less into it. according to their different habits cf mind, bnt all will ind it interesting. Some Americans who were crossing ' (he Atlantic met Im the cabin on Son. fry sight ty slag hymns Astneyarag the last hymn, "Jesus, Lover of My Soul," one of them heard an exceed ingly rich and beaatiful voice behind him. He looked round, and although Jie did not know the face, he thought that he knew the voice. So, when the music ceased, he turned and asked the man if he had been in the civil war. The man replied that he had been a confederate soldier. "Were you at such a place on such a night?" asked the first man. "Yes," replied the second man, "and a curious thing happened that night which this hymn has recalled to my mind. I was posted on sentry duty near the edge of a wood. It was a dark night and very cold, and I was a little frightened, because the enemy were supposed to be very near. About midnight, when everything was still, and I was feeling homesick and miser able and weary, I thought that I would comfort myself by praying and singing a hymn. I remember these lines: " 'All my trust on Thee is stayed. All my help from Thee I bring; Cover my defenseless head With the shadow of Thy wing;' "After singing that a strange peace came down upon me, and through the long night I felt no more fear." "Now," said the other, "listen to my story: I was a Union soldier, and was in the wood that night with a party of scouts. I saw you standing, although I did not see your face. My men had their rifles focused on you, waiting the word to fire, but when you sang, " 'Cover my defenseless head With the shadow of Thy wing, I said, 'Boys, lower your rifles; we will go home.'" Grant's Illness. Notwithstanding all the good argu ments that have been offered against the evils of excessive smoking it can hardly be claimed that the habit is en tirely responsible for the production of cancer of the lips, mouth or throat, says the New York Herald. Since the illness of Gen. Grant it has been the popular belief that the dreaded disease from which he suffered was caused by his overindulgence in tobacco. Thus it may be easy to believe from a report that another victim of tobacco has been added to the long list of similar suf ferers. The facts, however, in these cases do not by any means confirm the theory. It was well settled in Gen. Grant's case that tobacco in Itself was not the Ini tiative cause of hi3 throat trouble, but merely induced a subsequent aggrava tion of symptoms by the extra irrita tion of the smoke passing over the al ready diseased surface. It is quite true that cancer of the lips is very common among pipe smokers, but the real factor of harm is not the tobacco or any special poison it may contain, but the persistent, localized ir ritation of the pipe stem. Clay pipes, above all others, are particularly harm ful, as they are most easily heated, have a rough surface for the lip, are mostly used by persistent smokers and are usually held stationary on one side of the mouth, all cf which tends to fo calize and intensify the irritation which determines the malignant growth. The first indication of the disease is a warty patch on the lip at the usual point of contact with the pipe stem. When dis covered early it is perfectly amenable to surgical treatment, the percentage of cures being larger than that of any other form of cancer. 6tnff to Make neroes Of. At the Annapolis naval academy, on Saturday, thirty-nine cadets who had taken the four years' course were drawn up in line and handed their diplomas. The honor man. Cadet Lieutenant-Commander John Halligan, Jr., of Massachusetts, made a little speech, but there were no ceremonies. Usually when a class goes out in June the exer cises are elaborate. Halligan Is very popular. He led the footballers on to victory last fall and has been at the head of cadet affairs generally. The second man in tho class, Henry Wil liams, hails from Maryland, and the third. W. C. Watts, from Pennsylvania. Nearly all the graduates are now on board the warships in Hampton roads. Halligan and four others have found places on the flagship Brooklyn. Six are on the Minneapolis, 6ix on the Co lumbia and five on the Massachusetts. Four go to Key West for berths on Capt, Sampson's flagship, the New York. Story of Jeffersoa Dart. Mrs. Lillle Deverenx Blake told an interesting story of the Goddess of Liberty on the Washington capltol the other day. It was during a discussion of the life of Jefferson Davis. "Yon may not know," she said, "that Davis was one of the committee to select the statue of liberty for the top of the capitol. The goddess usually wears a little cap, you know. This Is called the Phrygian cap, as it was given to their slaves by the Phrygians, when emancipated, as a badge of freedom. Davis said the statue should not have such a headdress, so instead she wean a helmet with feathers. "American liberty was never a slave," he amid; "she shall wear no badge bnt the feathers of the eagle of freedom." Secret societies have charms that are often displayed on watchchalns, l ' 5 o; p. o mX UNNECESSARY FEARS. Che Heat Was Merely Tlpey, Hot voagefeJ. Some time ago a well-known Cleve land man had a slight altercation with a prominent local official, in the coarse of which he made a remark that at the time must have seemed extremely of fensive to the other party. He rather regretted making it after he walked away, bnt it was too late to recall it, says the Plaindealer of that city. What was his surprise, therefore, when not long after the squabble be received an invitation from the aggrieved man to attend a select dinner at a promin ent hotel. He was quite ready to bury the hatchet and promptly accepted what he considered a peace offering. It was a dinner party for men only and a number of well-known citizens sat around the festal board. The host was directly opposite the man who had hurt his feelings and the latter was rather startled to notice that the entertainer regarded him with a decid edly malevolent glare. Then he thought he saw it all. Instead of desiring to bury the hatchet the host had Invited him there to denounce and humiliate him. Every time he looked up that cold-blooded stare met him. The guests talked and ate and drank, and made little speeches, but the host con tinued to keep his stony gase on his uncomfortable victim. Several times the latter thought the moment of de nunciation had come. The entertainer appeared to point at him and to ges ticulate in a menacing way, but each time something occurred to turn him from his purpose. Finally he gained his feet "My time has come," mur mured the unhappy guest With a steady stare the host raised his arm and with finger outstretched, pointed directly across the table. He opened his lips, but no sound came from them. Then he slipped back in his chair and by gentle degrees slipped to the floor, where he lay in peaceful slumber for an hour or more, his guests meanwhile cheerfully singing his praises. Then the man who tells the story understood it all. The host had evidently come to the banquet board heavily loaded and what the guest had mistaken for a malevolent stare was merely a des perate effort on the entertainer's part to fix and hold his rapidly scattering senses to something tangible. "He was Just holding on by my eyelids," says the man who tells the story. COSTA RICA BANANAS. Delicious Fralt Comes from the TFest Iadlan Islaad. "The best bananas grown In the rorld come from Port Llmon, Costa Rica," said a New Orleans man to a Washington Post reporter. They are shipped from" Port Limon, and the country grower gets about 30 cents per bunch In gold. He is notified by wire from the seaport when to cut, and has two days in which to gather and deliver at the railway. Trains composed of well-ventilated cars take the fruit to a fast steamer, which is waiting to convey it abroad. The bunches will average about fourteen hands each and each hand has from seventeen to eighteen bananas. When the bunch gets to New Orleans or New York they are worth about $4 each, a tremendous advance over the price paid the Costa Rlcan producer. The planter, however, is surer of a safe profit than any other person handling the fruit Jamaica negroes do all the labor attendant on the planting, cul ture and cutting, being better adapted to the work than the native peon. Ja maica bananas often make a finer ap pearance, but are not so prolific as the Port Limon product The best plantations of Costa Rica are subject to overflow and the waters deposit a silt that greatly enriches the soil. Crops are ready for cutting the whole year round." Advertising. Tramp "I called ter see, lady. If I could do sum work for ye." Kind La dy "What can you do?" Tramp "I'm a sort of dentist, mum. I want ter advertise; so I'll put a set of teeth into a good pie fer nothln'." Pick-Me-Up. FOIBLES OF THE FAIR SEX. The sad fate of the president of an Iowa "Don't Worry Club" has Just been learned. Business difficulties cause! her suicide. In France it is proper for a girl to pray for a husband; for a youth, first to decide to marry and then look around for his ideal. Rumor has it that cx-Empres Eu genie will leave a handsome fortune to Queen Victoria's favorite daughter, the Princess Battenberg. Gum chewing women will be glad to learn that In the opinion of a promi nent New York denttet, the habit is a healthful one for the teeth. It is said of Ming Jung, the profes sional footbinder of California, that sh3 has an income of $15,000 and pays taze3 on 150,000 worth of property. Item containing food for thought: The American women of today who are distinguished for their literary attain ments are not college graduates. The evils attending the emancipa tion of women thicken and increase. Here is a man inventing condensed food tablets that do away with the ne cessity of cooking! A sister of Buffalo Jones, the Kan sas and Nebraska celebrity, says an exchange, has become insane in Lon don, where, under the nom-de-plume oi Ilda Orme, she has won recognition as a song writer. Upper class Italian women are re ported as being as ignorant of the needs of the poor as was unfortunate Marie Antoinette, who once exclaimed: "Why do the peo;le cry for bread when they can get nice cakes?" WHY? Why isn't a fireman a hose-supporter. Why Isn't a telephone girl's occupa tion a calling? Why isn't a dude who wears gaudy ties a Beck-romancer? Why shouldn't a home for old people be called aa orphan asylum? Why should womem have two ears and only oae tongue whea everybody kaows they woald rather talk Ave hoars than listen ire siiautas? The Nawa, - - FLYING SQUADRON WONDERFUL FLEET UNDER COMMODORE SCHLEY. Could Give Oattle to Air Earopeaa Na- tlea and Come Oat with Colon Fly lac Two Ilaadred aad Forty Fear Can la All. The function to be performed by Commodore Schley and his flying squadron at Hampton Roads in. the naval campaign, to be waged by Uncle Sam against Spain as planned by the strategic board of the navy depart ment at Washington is a very impor tant one. The commodore has at his command the cream of America's fighting Bhlps, says the Philadelphia Times of May 7. With them he could at short notice strike a blow at any of Spain's Atlantic possessions which would be paralyzing in its force. He. could as well concentrate his fleet' at any poiat aloag the Atlantic coast that might Te threatened' by ' Spanish 6omf bardment and invasion. He could if necessary hurry to the assistance of Admiral Sampson before Havana and reinforce the blockading squadron be fore any attack could be made upon it by any considerable Spanish fleet. He in short,' occupies with his ships the central position In the Atlantic field of action and is bound to be called upon to engage in the first battle of Importance that is fought here. On him, therefore, the attention of the American people will be centered. His action will Indicate more truly than any other symptoms the approach cf a crisis. In his present position he stands really as the defender of the Atlantic coast lice. His two scout ships, the Minneapolis and the Columbia, have been engaged off New England in pat rolling the course of the Paris. They have not lost sight of their, primal duty In this particular assignment Had the Paris not been expected to ar rive they would still have spent the past week engaged in some such work. They will continue in tho next fort night unless some more active duty presents on the same line and will sound the warning to their fellows in the Chesapeake of the approach of any Spanish force upon any portion cf the American coast. THE FLYING SQUADRON COMMANDERS. Meanwhile the four big fighting en gines, the Brooklyn, the Texas, the Massachusetts, and the Katahdin, have nothing to do but wait develop ments. This condition will continue until the new fleet being organized for Commodore Howell is ready to relieve the flying squadron of the task of coast defense. Commodore Howell is ready to relieve the flying squadron will never be withdrawn a consider able distance. Their operation may include some work at Havana, but as long as there is the possibility of a Spanish attack they will not cross the Atlantic to engage in any aggressive campaign. The action of the Spanish forces will undoubtedly depend on the state of Blanco in Havana. Spain will certain ly not abandon Cuba without a severe struggle. Her only chance of holding it is to defeat the American forces in Cuban waters. Unless the United States precipitates a Cuban crisis by invasion and occupation her action will be delayed as long as possible. When the time comes for the United States to strike such a blow Spain's first idea will be to divert our naval forces so that co-operation will be impossible. Gaining this end the na val and military forces would Clash separately, but falling, Cuban waters would still see the first naval engage ment of consequence. In such an engagement Commodore Schley would figure prominently. The armament which his fleet carries is the most formidable of any six vessels in the American navy. The Brooklyn stands first in the list of American vessels, carrying twenty guns in her main batteries alone, while the Massa chusetts follows closely on her heels. Even the Minneapolis and the Colum bia have eleven guns in their main batteries and compare very favorably with the other first-class American ships. The Katahdin, of course, is not measured in strength by her arma ment She is still acknowledged to be one of the most terrible engines of de stractioa which modern naval con atractioa has evolved. Her turtle back ram could do a. marvelous work y mmflmW mmmmmmmmmtV aSanaamBmm ajeawajm mi mmww RaT? mT w7TmmmmmmMaKmB amfl j" f VT ITl '7mr mC mmmmmmmmELmmH 2mn)t$mVteft. H 7fc0wPCPRHk amC0i THmmWil Jff HI mnBammBmV at" mPmmmST Vmf? mWE ilu25mB' JamBa9mma! SSV T kVMmwtrrrJ mWAmml mmmSmlammmmmmmmmtl-aJ "'aXaRmV Jgflmjrellu - SrmmTWmm3a?f"f - a a battle where the larger chips uld be powerless. She completes a ost remarkable squad. Cutsldc of a battle in the vicinity f Havana the squadron docs cot look r any severe actions in the near ta re. A bombardment of any of the orthcrn ports would be attempted if t all by a comparatively small num- er of Spanish ships. The approach of e American fleet would doubtless rive them off in speedy retreat VThs possibility of an attack on Span- possessions is the only other likely, rto Rico might become the object atttack and attention might even distracted to the Canaries. Neither (ferns to be more than remotely pos- ible. This work will devolve, should be decided upon, on Schley's fleet, d an attack on Spain itself would be by them. ,v-The new squadron under Commo- rc Howell, which will relieve Schley tax me worx oi aeicnaing me coast, is a strong fleet. Its duty will be. addition to defense of the coast, the aWtractipa.qf JSpanish commerce on tho fflghseasrV5anFranc!ico and the New Orleans will be the main fighting ships in the squadron, while the Oregon and Topeka will doubtless be added to it when they are home ready for service. The liners the St. Paul, the St. Louis, the Harvard and the Yale are four more of Howell's boats, while the Panther, the Badger, the Yankee, the Dixie, the Yosemlte and the Prairie complete the list. The new ships cf this auxiliary fleet are most interesting. The New Or leans was the former Brazilian war ship, the Amazonas, while the Topeka was formerly the Diogenes. The others were all transatlantic liners. The following l!st cf the fleet will be most Interesting. Ship. Former Name. Class. Guns. San Francisco ICruiser 12 New Orleans Amazonas !Cruiser 12 Topeka Diogenes Cruiser 10 St. Paul Cruiser 24 St. Louis CruisT 24 Harvard New Yort Cruiser 24 Yale Paris Cruiser 24 Yorktown Gunboat 14 Badger Yumuri Cruiser 12 Yankee El Nord Cruiser 22 Yosemita El Sse Cruiser 22 Dixie El Sud Cruiser 22 Prairie El Rio Cruiser 22 Main battery only. Protected cruiser. AND ITS The Preacher TVa Iite. The Cherry Street Baptist church has one of the swellest colored con gregations in the city. A great gath ering of the church members and many mere outsiders no less fashionable than they assembled at the church to wit ness a very select wedding. Joseph Meredith Bradford had come all the way from Washington, D. C, to carry off as his bride Miss Marie Louise Fon tain, of No. 1214 Pine street Promptly at noon, the hour set, the bride and groom appeared at the altar. A ripple of admiration following the advent of the bride was succeeded by an embar rassing silence. The minister Rev. W. A. Creditt, was not on hand. The groom fidgeted nervously, and the bride, growing a3 pale as possible, showed a disposition to faint Mur murs of dismay began to buzz through the church. Ten, twenty, thirty min utes the anxious couple waited. Then they determined to go elsewhere. They were leaving the church when sud denly the minister appeared and the wedding went on. Philadelphia Rec ord. Aa Awfal Possibility. Wandering Willie Great Scott, pard, y' look all broke up. What's the matter? Thirsty Theodore (drawing a deep sigh) I went inter that there blamed drug store and when the clerk wasn't lookin' I drank a lot of stuff I thought was whisky, an' den I seen by the label that it wuz bichloride of gold. Wandering Willie Pshaw! Dat won't kill yer. Thirsty Theodore I know dat, but s'pose I shouldn't want ter drink any more! Harlem Life. A Better Demonstration. "Newton discovered the law of gravi tation by noticing an apple fall from a tree, didn't he?" "Yes. If he hadn't been so previous somebody might have discovered it by seeing a beginner fall from his bicycle." Members of a secret society do not go to a physician for the grip. 3pgy'Sammr-1 A'.ASKAN INDIAN WOMEN. They Have Artistic AhUlty Despite Thais Tollaome Uvea. The huge, expressionless face of an Alaska Indian woman shows but little evidence of any ambition or ability to perform even the simplest features of domestic art, and yet the skillful and artistic results of the handiwork of these untutored aborigines is much sought after by the tourists who visit their villages during the summer. Moreover, though the 'women are all fat and lazy-looking, their lives are not uninterrupted ease, notwithstand ing that their needs are few. Abund ance of fuel Is all about them, and feed, which with them is synonymous with fish, swims almost to their doors. But the procuring as well as the pre paring of this food is all accomplished by the women. During the summer they leave the villages and towns for the islands In le3s frequented waters, where they camp for weeks at a time, catching and curing the fish for winter use, while the men lazily watch them or paddle and canoe, or otherwise amuse themselves. If an Indian's wire is in ill health or too old to work he marries another younger wife, usually a relative of the first one. who is expected to provide the food, while the first wife cares for the house and children. Fish and ber ries furnishing almost the only food of these people, the woman have little scope or ambition for developing culin ary art, but in matters of personal adornment they take keen delight. Dur ing the long, dark winter they weave beautiful blankets and baskets for their own use and to sell. The blank ets are made from the strong rough wool of the wild mountain sheep. Yet some of these are as soft as silk, and in beauty of coloring and intricacy of design rival the oriental rugs and hangings. It usually takes a woman six months to complete one blanket, but many of them sell for prices rang ing from $50 to $200. The much-sought-after, genuine Chilket blanket is about four feet long and two and one-half feet wide at each end, but as one side Is pointed, the center is a foot wider than the ends, and on this side is ornamented with a 10-lnch fringe. These are worn in the dance, thrown around the shoulders, with the pointed fringed side hanging down. The de sign is grotesque, consisting of conven- tionaltzed faces of men ssd animals in pale green outlined with blsek en a white ground. Scncttacs dull blue takes the place cf tfc pole green. A pe culiarity which stamps their genuine ness Is a fine thread or efcavlng of deer skin in the center cf each h:rd twisted strand of wild sheep's wool yarn, of which they are made, rendering them almost indestructible,-a)Womas's Home Companion. As She Understood It He When a man begins to get absent-minded you may know that he is succeeding In business, or, at least that he is devoting all his energies to it. which, in the end, mu3t bring success. She Oh, James. I'm so glad to hear you say that Now I begin to believe that the future holds some thing in store for us. Yon kissed me this morning when you went away. Reduced to Figure. A Glasgow paper thus analyzes the music of thebagpipes: "Big flies on window, 72 per cant; cats on midnight tiles, 11 per cent; voices of infant puppies, 6 per cent; grunting hungry pigs in the morning, 5 per cent; steam whistles, 3 per cent; chant of cricket, 2 per cent" New York Trib une. DON'T. Don't envy the alligator his great snap. Don't Judge the sheriff by the com pany he keeps. Don't expect a man on his uppers to be a whole-soled fellow. Don't think the experience of others often influences a man's actions. Don't think that conscience prevents many men from posing as heroes. Don't worry about things that can't be remedied. Make the best of them. Don't tell a woman that you take her to be an artist, Judging by her face, unless you-are looking for trouble,- Chicago Daily News. QUIPS AND CRANKS. Willv Slim How mach caa I get oa this overcoat? Uncle Aboat asmaeh as yon have paid oa it, I gaess. "I believe in love at trst sight" "Why?" "Because at tho first sight you don't really know the girL Indignant Old Lady Yonr boys are constantly throwing apples at people, and you do not stop them. Fanner Why should 1? We have plenty of them this year. The Ink Stand The postage stamps bet the envelopes this morning that they would never be licked. The Pen Wipcr How did "it come out? "Ob, the stamps got stuck!" "Who is that talking in the next room in such a high key?" "That's McChatter. He's trying to negotiate a loan." "What a pity it is that a man can't raise money as easily as he can raise his voice." TMrs. Benedict You don't think so much of me, Charlie, as yon used to before we were married. Mr. B. Of course not, Carrie. Yoa and I, yoa know, are one" now, and it womkl be egotistical to think too much of one's self. Father MoralityThus saith the scripture: "Six dajsshalt thou labor, but on the seventh thou shalt rest" Grccnisle Faith an as there's been a contryvarsy about which is the rale Sabbath, to be shure Oi're made up mc moind to rest the whole sivin. Circus Manager I tell you, fellows, when those masked robbers boarded the train, and with rifles and pistols leveled at our heads, told us to hold up our hands, wc all did! Voice from the Rear I didn't Manager Who fcpoke? Chorus of Freaks The Arm less Wonder. "Mr. Courtney asked me to marry him last night," he blnshingly told her mother. "And what did yon tell him?" "I told him to ask you." "Ask mc?" echoed the startled parent "Why, Mary, surely you wouldn't have your dear old mother commit bigamy, would you?" FACTS WITH FIGURES. London has about 173 rainy days in a year. Italy's estimated population is 30, 000,000. The Chinese language is spoken by fully 400,000,000 people. Uncle Sam pays about 8103 a minute in interest on the national debt About 170,000 wolves are killed an nually in Russia for the fur market. The cost of a first-class battleship, carrying 0,000 men, is about 95,000,000. Ten per cent of the inhabited houses of England and Wales are in London. The number of women lawyers in the United States is now more than 100. It is estimated that the annual salt product of the world is fully 7,300,000 tons. Krupp employs about 10,000 men at Essen in manufacturing his enormous guns. The czar has an income of 512,000. 000 a year, derived from his own es tates. Arctarus, the "g:antof the planets," js estimated to be about 550.000 times the size of the sun. The total revenue of the church of England is S29,767,735, of which sum one-fifth is derived from rents. Seventeen cities in the United States arc each of larger area than Berlin with its population of 1,579,000. There are 161,010 persons on Eng land's pension list and they draw 133,000,000 a j car from the treasury. Iowa Farms for sale on crop payment. 81 per acre cash, ba'ance '.4 crop yearly aa til paid for. J. Mulhall. Sioux City. Iowa. Observation Is the most enduring of the "pelasures of life. During the past two months the Bal timore and Ohio Railroad company has received 1,110 new bex cars. 1,239 double hopper gondolas, and 224 coke cars of the order of 5,150 recently plac ed with Pullman's Palace Car com pany, the Michigan Peninsular Car works, the Mlsseuri Car and Foundry company and the South Baltimore Car works. Deliveries are being made as rapidly as the cars are completed. Of 51.000 breweries in the world, 25, 000 are in Germany. Important Iowa Inrentloas. Among the subjects of recent appli cations for patents prepared by us is an acetyline gas generator that may be small and used as a hand lamp or large to supply a multiplicity of burn ers and located wherever desired Tn usual gas holder telescoplcally con nected with a water tank and valves and valve gearing are dispensed with, and the flow of water and gas auto matically regulated by hydrostatic pressure and ga3 pressure. D. D. Harge of Prairie City Is the inventor. An apparatus for illustrating the phenomena of thunder and lightning mounted on a portable platform gen erates and stores static electricity ir. an artificial cloud suspended above tho platform in such a manner that when a minature building is placed on the platform visible zig-zag cur rents will leap from the cloud and make splinters fly from the building as sharp reports in imitation of thunder shock tne ears of the behold er. W. Dodd and A. D. Struthers of Des Moines, Inventors. Valable Information about obtain ing, valuing and selling patents sent free to any address. THOMAS G. & J. RALPH ORWIG, Solicitors of Patents. Iowa Patent Office, Des Moines, low-. May 11 1898. "Some are ready to go to war the moment they are needed," remarked the observer of men and things, "and others the moment they are not need ed." Detroit Journal. " Thomas B. Reed's Income as a writer last year was nearly four times as great as his salary as speaker of the house. Just cow he is declining all offers from publishers. "What is the baby's name. Uncle Rastus?" "Jawge Wash'n'fn Abra ham Lincoln Jeff'son Davis Robert C Lee Johnsing, sah." Chicago Tri bune. "Old Grabber ought to be satisfied with the money he asks." "He !s satisfied so much that he wants a lot more of exactly the same kind." Tid-Bits. "Some queer poetry has sprung out of this Cuban affair?" "Yes. Isn't it marvelous how war has been staved off eo long?' Philadelphia North American. THKOLDIWLIABLS. 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