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w :7 Jri?v 5TV '"' y&ffrfJtrfg- v &A " y 'V '1m - -f" J- ' -if irrt t. I i -- T ;.T . --' t S . . . - I i e . : b '. -: ; : :. . "V i .-.: ...- - -. : .... 1 -. .-.- . s . - - . . " : .' . 7" -. v - '."- 4. '. . ... r - "." 'J O . :. i. if i- Yk u- & t- r." 0lumIxttsf0ttrtmL WEDNESDAY. 8EPTEMBEB 7. 1MB. Entered st the PoetoSce, Col wbaa, Near., as . esoond-class asail Butter. ISSTEB XTZRT WKDVMOAT Bt M. K TURNER & CO. Columbus, Nebr. ornMcnrnos: Oae year, to auil,poetae prepaid fLM ftlx eBOattssB.. !? .Tmiftft lathi " CONGRESSIONAL TICKET. ' Congressman, Third district, W. F. NOBRIS, Wayne. REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET. Governor, ." M. L. HAYWARD, Nebraska City. .. Lieutenant-Governor, 'GEORGE A. MURPHY, Beatrice. : Secretary of State, C. DUBAS, Wilber. Auditor Public Accounts, T. L. MATHEWS, Fremont. Treasurer, PFTER MOBTENSEN, Ord. Superintendent Public Instruction, . JOHN F. SAYLOR, Lincoln. Attorney-General, N. D. JACKSON, Neligh. Land Commiasioner, ' A. F.WILLIAMS, Elk City. JUDIOIAL TICKET. For Judge Sixth Judicial District, w. a. McAllister, Columbus. Float ReprewaUtivelCoaveatiea. The repnblican patty of Platte and, Nance ceaatles composing the 25th repreeaatatryedis trict of Nebraska, are requested 1 to sead'dele. -mimm fm thoir mmviira counties to meet in oaaveattoB at Gecoa, Nance coanty on Sater- day beptember iui ai l ociock p.. or purpose of placing in nomination a candidate .riaSM.nf flnnt. iwnrMMltsllTe of the 25th district, and for the transaction of snch other ' basiaeas aa may be incident thereto. , Tho coaaties composing saidTdistnet areen tiUed to the following delegates each: Platte county.. ............ ......... ......is Naace county... .... .... Dated this 30th day of August. 180g. K.O.STBOTHEB, W. W. CoBKaxroa, I 'Secretary. Chairman. 'Heavy loss around Terre Haute, In diana, by a wind-storm Sunday. Friday, Miss Minnie Davis, who was recently operated on for appendicitis, was reported dying. TwEiiYElthousand;troops were left to properly garrison Porto Rico, and four thousand sent, home, Gen. Miles with them. G. M. Hitchcock, owner of the Oma ha World-Herald, has been nominated as a candidate for congress in the sec ond district. ' Elbct Judge Norris to'congress, thus endorsing President McKinley's able administration and at the same time placing a capable man to represent the interests of this district. About two monoths of electioneering for most of the candidates. It is best to take matters as easy as possible, and wait for .October for the main work. A hcbbicane swept over St Joseph, Mb., Monday afternoon at 5, rain and hail accompanying the wind. Resi dences were unroofed, stacks and bams turned down and many buildings utterly demolished. Many 'families were ren dered homeless. Money loss placed at .SlfiO,dOa Ix 1888, J. Sterling Morton, er-Secre-tary of Agriculture, ran on the same tidket with W- A. Poynter, the populist candidate for governor this year, and he now says of him: "His political views are adjustable and can readily be fitted to populist, democratic or silver .republican bollot-slingers. Uepablicaa Coaveatioa. At 2 o'clock Wednesday the conven tion was called to order and W. O. Pugsley acted as chairman, W. M. Cor nelius as secretary. .The following were selected as dele gates to the senatorial convention: Ed. Leuschen, L. J. Niemoller, Chris Meedel, Eli Morrow, Tfaoe. H. Williams, A. M. Post, Fred Cuttan, Carl Kramer, F. M. Cookingham, J. Lanktree, John Tannahill. C.C. Gray. To the Float representative conven tion: W. O.- Pugsley, R. G. Strother, G. L. Humphreys, Arthur Watte, R C Anderson, R P. Drake, C. J. Garlow, Wm. Smith, Joseph Apgar, Roy Clark, Edward Irwin. Fred Meedel. Adjourned to Oct. 1. BTrrfs CoaltJoai Ttrnniv Vbjbs Anfc. A. It Wis an. iomwHi at Kairstein this morning that the oo-aditaom of Hon. Thomas F. Bay aid was UBchaaged from that of the past 34 hours. The physicians are in constant attendance. WAsmxaTOX, Sept. 6. Adjnnt Gea eral Corbin received a dispatch late to ight from'General Shatter announcing that he had assumed command of Camp Wikoff, Montauk Point. ad Deaftfa at Caaast McKlalay. Dxs Moms, Sept. 6. Private J. W. Croa, company A, Flfty-ieooad volon ter8,diedat Cottage hospiatd yester day. This is the second death at Camp McKinley. ' Howell Far Waterloo, la., Sept. 6. The Demo crats of the Third district have aomi- aated John H. Howell for LABOR DAY BASE BALL GAMES. IadJaaaawIla taw Oaly Clubs lS: Waahiactoa.1. Caieago, 8 ; nttakart, i. Ctedaaad. ; Clerelaad, 8. Philadelphia, 4; BattiauH,. Xew York 4 ; Brooklyn, 2. . AFTsaxees. Boetoa, : Waakiagtaa. SL rkiladalakia U; Baltlawra, Ml LaiSTili,e; St. I is, ft, Oaaia tt, 1; Cterelaad, L jCateago, 1; Kttabaag, . Wimwu Oatroit, ; Calaatkas, L ,4:MUlwamkees. ,1T; lS;Mflwaake,a. t ratbask. V. BanBBBBBBBBBBBnW auireds and let the school-master help the soldiers help the people to better life.Conditions. CROPS FALLING SHORT. Yield and Quality Not Meeting Early Expectations. HEAKA0E OF D10UTH TOO LATE. Taal rrlaetl of Wtator Wkeat Will sto !7aW ,, e.Baakala Present T Cava la Wot aa Ooo4 as It at A Mmmwy FalUac Off la Oaten Nbw Tosk, Sept. 6. The wheat crop f 1886 is not quite mp to promise, ac cordiafftothe report of the American Agricaltanlist, which will appear Sept. 14. It says: It appears the promise of wheat was not fulfilled in actual grain by what auut seem like a large margin, while in a number of states the rate of yield was even smaller than indicated on July 1. But with fall allowance for all dimppoiabment, the fact remains that the crop this year is the largest on record. The reported rate of yield in wintar wheat is 14.8 bushels, and in spring wheat 14.5 bashels. The final crop re sult will appear next month, but the American Agriculturalist says that it any not be" amiss to note that if the present rata of yield indicated shall be maintained the total production of winter wheat will be rather under 400, 000,000 bashels, and spring wheat fully 300,000,000 bushels, subject to modifica tion next month. The report of the American Agricul turalist on corn places the condition at 85.4, as compared with 65.6 a month earlier. The change, while slight, is a distinct disappointment, as it was gen erality believed the breakage of the drouth would advance the condition of the crop, at least to an average showing for this date. Taking the surplus states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Kan sas and Nebraska, it appears the present condition of this crop is 78.9, as against 79.1 one month ago and 80.0 one year ago. There is an unusually large per centage of healthy appearing stalks, which are bearing no ears at all, and a large proportion which have a single ear, and that short and approaching the nabbing condition. The effect of this will only be fully recognised when the crop is husked, and it is easily within the range of possibilities that the final report of rate of yield per acre will pre sent some marked surprises. The condition of oats harvested is placed at 78.4, or 2.2 lower than on Aug. 1, with the general quality not as good as last year. The same authority says the past month has brought further reduction in the potato crop, the breaking of the drouth not being followed by the re covery of condition. Swladler Works His Game. Washtnqton, Sept. 6. E. K. Valen tine, formerly sergeant-at-arins of the senate, has written a letter to Secretary Alger stating that some time ago the relatives of a soldier belonging to the Second Nebraska regiment, received a letter saying that the soldier was sick and in want at Chickamauga and ask ing that money be sent to him. The money was sent, but no reply was re ceived. A second installment was sent by registered letter, to which the sol dier replied, saying he did not under stand why the money was sent to him and had received none previously. He said that he was well and had not been ill and bad not requested any money. It is thought some swindler wrote the first letter. c Arkaatas Election. Little Bock, Sept. 6. Arkansas yesterday elected a full corps of state officers, 100 members of the lower house of the -legislature, 16 state senators, local officers in each of the 75 counties and voted on the adoption of two im portant constitutional amendments, as well as the question of the liquor license in the different counties. The Demo cratic state ticket, headed by Dan W. Jones, is undoubtedly elected, the only question of doubt being the size of the Democratic plurality. The vote on the two constitutional amendments is in doabt. One of these provides for the creation by the legislature of a railroad commission and the other for the levy ing of a tax of 3 mills for road pur poses, m Sever Steraa at Webster City. Webster City, la., Sept. 6. A severe rain, wind and hail storm caused dam age to the amount of $50,000 in an area three miles wide and 13 miles long, six miles north of here. The has was ex ceedingly heavy and many persons caught away from shelter were severely injured. Many small buildings were wrecked and the corn crop was com pletely destroyed in the region of the CerTera Arraagiag to Sell. Axsapous, Sept. 6. Admiral -CerTera of the Spanish navy, accompanied by Lieutenant Oervera, his son, left here today for Norfolk for the purpose of completing arrangements for the transportation to Spain of the prisoners bow confined at Portsmouth, N. H., who were captured in the naval fight off Santiago: Admiral Cervera and his son were driven to the railway station in Admiral McNair's carriage. Saertage la Aeceaata. Ckoosstox, Minn., Sept. 6. The soadamen of County Treasurer Beaudry today became aware of a shortage in the cash necessary to balance the books of that peace. The amount is believed to be about 8,000. The shortage is laid to Deputy Treasurer Joseph Matthews, who left early in July to attend the Omaha exposition and has not been heard from since. teGote Heaelala. Washington. Sent. 6. It is stated at the war department that- nothing definite has been determined as to the movement of troops now at San Iran cisco to Manila, which depends onin fiaauBtimi which is expected to be re ceived front General Merritt as to the necessity for such troops. Probably three regiments will be sent to Hono lulu if they do not go to Manila. . If General Merriam on his return reports that there is good camping ground at Honolulu the troops will be sent there if not needed at Manila. Caaaa CaeaaisMlea SaU. .NbwTokk, Sept. . Bear Admiral Sampson, Majar General Wade. Major Ganeral M. O. Duncan, and Lieutenant Colon! John OahM, memhers of the Cuban neutniiaeina, toft hare for Cuba all that has been ac- commerce and suooooe EIGHTEEN IRE KILLED: Fatal Collision Between a Rail road Train and Trolley Car. TEI M0SE WILL PB0BABLT DIE. 'Accident Oscars at Cehees, X. Y., as a Party of Xerryaaakers War Ketaralag Freea the Labor Da? Plealeat Keasalaer Park, Near Troy IKaagled Meal as Tfarowa Fifty Feet Iatu the Air. . Cohoes, N. Y., Sept. 6. An appall ing disaster ocurred in this city about 8 o'clock last night when a trolley car lof the Troy City railway was struck by the night boat' train on the Delaware and Hudson River road, at the west end of the bridge which connects this city with Lansingburgand its load of human freight was hurled' into the air. Eigh teen of the 35 passengers are dead and at least 10 of the remainder will die. The cars entering the city from Lan inngburg were crowded with passengers turning from a Labor day picnic at ensaalaer park, a pleasure resort near Troy. Car No. 192 of the Troy City railway was the victim of the disaster. It came over the bridge about 7:35 o'clock laden with a merry party of peo jple fresh from the enjoyment of the day. Accldeat at Grade Crossing. The crossing where the accident oe Icurred is at a grade. Four tracks of the Delaware and Hudson River road, which runs north and south at this point, cross the two tracks of the trol ley road. It was the hour when the night boat special, a train which runs south and connects with the New York city boat at Albany, was due to pass that point. The tracks, of the street line run at a grade from the bridge to 'the point where the disaster occurred. In consequence of this fact, and of the frequent passage of trains, it has been the rule for each conductor to stop his 'train and go forward to observe the rail road tracks. It cannot be ascertained whether that rule was complied with on this occasion, for all events prior to the crash were forgotten by those in volved. The motor car was struck di rectly in the center by the engine of the train, which was going at a high rate of speed. Caaae Wltaeat waraiag. LThe accident came without the slight t warning. The car was upon the tracks before the train loomed in sight and no power on earth could have saved it. The motorman evidently saw the train approaching as he reached the track and opened his controller, but in yam. wnn a crasn tnac was neara ior blocks the engine struck into the lighter vehicle. The effect was horrible. The motor car parted in two, both sections being hurled into the air in splinters. The mass of humanity, for the car was crowded to overflowing, was torn and mangled. Those in the front of the car met with the worst fate. The force of the collision was there expended to the greatest degree, and every person in that section of the car was killed. The scene was horrible. Bodies had been hurled into the air and their headless and lifeless trunks were found in some cases 50 feet from the tracks. I Victims Tonne People. . The pilot of the engine was smashed, and amid its wreckage were the maimed corpses of two women. The passengers of the train suffered no injury except a violent shook. The majority of the passengers of the trolley car were young people. They included many women. In 10 minutes fully one-half the pop ulation of the city were surging about the scene in an effort to see if relatives were among the unfortunates. The in jured were taken to the city hospital and to the Continental knitting mill, the former not having sufficient ambu lance service to care for them all. The corpses were placed in boxes and baken to a neighboring mill shed. Many of them were unrecogniaable. 1 Horrible Scenes. The crash was frightful in its results. Headless women with gay summer dresses, bathed in their own and the blood of others; limbs without trunks or any means of identifying to whom they belonged; women's and men's heads with crushed and distorted features; bodies crushed and flattened, these sights constituted a spectacle most hor rible to behold. The train of the Delaware and Hud son road immediately after the accident proceeded to Troy. The engineer stated that he did not see the car until he was upon it. He tried to prevent his train from striking ihe car, but his ef forts were fruitless. He thinks the motorman when he saw the train was bn him tried to get beyond the danger line. The grade made it impossible for him' to stop before he reached the tracks. It was the front end of his car that caught the crash and he was killed outright. The following bodies have been iden tified: Abcse Camnkau of Cohoes. James Temple of Lansingburg. Edward Babxey of Cohoes. Mxs. Johx Craves, Cohoes. Miss Kittie Craves, Cohoes. -Joseph Sexse, Cohoes. NEU.Tr. Sweet, 16 years old, Cohoes. Mrs. Elma McJClroy, Cohoes. Mrs. James L. Taylor, Cohoes. Mias Wisxie Craves, Cohoes. James LR'se, Cohoes. !MBS. ELLEX Sbaw. Cohoes. JOES Timmixs, Cohoes. Mrs. Jobs W. Sdtclikfe, Cohoes. Iajared. Isaac Shaw, Cohoes, skull fractured. I George Ankers, injured internally. I John W. Sutcllffe. Cohoes, head cut and ribs broken. Miss Lizsie McElroy. Cohees, leg broken. , Mrs. Lixennease, Cohoes, collarbone fractured and several ribs broken. ' She had a baby in her arms; it was crushed and will die. Emma Devaabire. Cohoes, skull crushed. Mrs. James Temple, Lansingburg, jaw fractured and injured internally. Mrs. Ira Dewey, Cohoes, head crushed. Death ef Dakota Fleaeer. Yasktos, S. D., Sept. 6. Hon. An drew Eaulk, well known throughout this section of the northwest, especially the two Dakotas, by pioneer residents, died last night at hut home in this city. Mr. Faulk was the third governor of Dakotaerritory, and it was awinly through his persistent endeavors that the opening of the Black Bulla to settle ment was secured. Chicago. Scut. . Miss Juliette At kinson defeated Mias Carrie Naary in the finals of the woasan's taunts touraa- TaBBeTUWM7,f,-7. GRAND ARMYjN SESSION Attendance of Veterans Sur passes Expectation. ABSEIOE .OF OLD OOMMaHDEES. t Berlena Ulaese ef Geaerel Swell, ,W Now CeasMered the - ? oT the Civil Wi Oohia aad Staff With Arrive. CiscrxKATi, "Sept. 6. TJai day of the32d annual iRisupmimt of the G. A, B. surpassed expectations in the attendance and in tha succaaaful progress of events on the' program of the first day. During tha labor day parade and other parades in escorting prominent arrivals from the depots to the hotels the city presented an un usually brilliant appearance with its elaborate decorations, which are dis played everywhere. Last night the iyhimipfltinns ynm in full blast every where from the trranrnhal arches in public places and at snvec intersections. Excursionists have been arriving by the thousands for the past two days, and with the arrival of Commander-in-Chief Gobin and his staff, Bear Ad miral Eelley and his staff, Mrs. S. J. Martin, president of the W. C. A., Mrs. Flora N.- Davey, president of the Ladies of the G. A. B., Mrs. Jennie Laird, president of the Ladies' Naval associa tion, and then respective staffs of ladies, Colonel A. D. Shaw of New York, Colonel L A. Sexton of Chicago and Colonel L F. Mack of Sandusky and their respective followers in the contest for the election of commander-in-cWaf , and others, the encampment of 1808 ms in full blast on the first day. "- The large music hall 'was filled to its full limit at the naval camp fire last night, while receptions and reunions were given at other places all over the city. There will be big camp fires at Music hall and Camp Sherman every night this week and smaller gatherings at other points. There is a notable ab sence of the old commanders, but they have passed away. Many of the com rades refer to the serious illness of Gen eral Buell, who is now considered the ranking survivor of the civil conflict. TO STUDY SOCIAL PROBLEMS. President to Appoint a Nonpartisan Ci mission of Nineteen Members. Washington, Sept. 0. One of the first matters to which the president is expected to give his attention is the selection of nine members of the non partisan commission, which, under the act of congress of June 18, is to collate information and to consider and recom mend legislation te meet the problems presented by labor, agriculture and capital. . This body is to consist of 19 persons, five of whom are to bo members of the senate, five of the house and "nine other persons," who shall fairly repre sent the different industries and employ ments. ' The 'senators and representatives' have already been appointed. For the positions to be filled by the president there are on file at the White house about 125 applications, embracing the names of many well known labor lead ers and others prominent in the discus sion of questions incidental to the bet terment of the farmer and the laboring man. The lifetime of the commission is to be two years, the salary of the members $3,600 per annum and its pow ers and duties are comprehensive in scope. Public hearings may be given if neces sary and authority is given to visit any part of the United States for the pur pose of securing the information lieces sery to make its report to -congress.' Senator Kyle, who by virtue of his of fice, is expected to be chairman of, the committee, has reported that he would be ready to call the body together" for organization by Sept. 15 and the presi dent gave him to understand the per sonnel of the committee would be com plete by that time. Among those men tioned in connection with the appoint ments are ex-Representative Philips of Pennsylvania, former chairman of the house committee on labor; Mr. Sargent of the Firemen's brotherhood; ex-Representative Farquhar of New York, Major Hansen of Georgia, Captain E. A. Sniythe of South Carolina, the two latter being candidates presented by the cotton milling interests of the south. HAWKEYE TROOPS CONTENTED. Colonel Loper Says His Men Are Wilting to Go to Hawaii. San Francisco, Sept. 6. Two pa tients in the division hospital have died since Sunday morning. Privates Oliver F. Mock, company D, Fifty-first Iowa, of spinal meningitis and Jacob Ebert, company A, Twenty-third infantry, of typhoid fever. Six patients have been taken to the hospital. Of these two are suffering with malarial fever, two with measles, and two with mumps. Twenty patients have been dismissed to their quarters and one discharged as cured. There are now in the hospital 315 pa tients, 84 are out on furlough and nine are in other hospitals and three are being cared for in private residences. Colonel Loper of the Fifty-first Iowa, declares that his men are contented in the service and that they are willing to remain until General Merriam gets back and it is settled whether they are to go to Honolulu. If the regiment is not to be sent away the colonel says he is as anxious as any of his men to re turn home. . . Editors Fleck to Deaver. v ., Denver, Sept. 6. Editors of news-' papers, many of them accompanied by members of their families, are pouring into Denver from all parts of the country on regular and special trams. They come for the purpose of attending fbo thirteenth annual convention of the National Editorial association. Tarn Down Cyclone" Davie. Houston. Sept. 6. The Populist state executive committee met at Waco yesterday and made changes in its state ticket, pulling down "Cyclone" Davis as a candidate for attorney general and putting in C. H. Jenkins, who was de feated for congress two years ago. WaaU the Third Seat North. Lincoln, Sept. 6. Governor Holcomb wired Congressman Stark last night, calling attention to the increase of sick ness in the Third regiment and ashing him to confer with the war department relative to having the regiment re moved to some northern camp. Preacher Changes Pmlptta. Sioux Crrv, Sept. 6. Eev. G. W.L. Brown, pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal church of Sioux City, will leave Sioux City, Oct. 1, with the in tention, it is said, of accepting the pas torate of the Prospect Methodist Epis copal church in Des Moines. To Saceeed Bishop Perry. Cedar Bapids, la., Sept. 6. A spe cial diocesan convention for ihe election of a successor to the late Bishop Perry is being held in Davenport. Dr. Thomas E. Green, this city, and Dr.'Uanll of I Chicago are the VjRdfuy oaadidstai. S JaBeUK-VVwaJVV - X . . J -, .. .- r - ,, ! SAYS WHITE WONT SERVE. Yacaacr Still Kxiste la Perseaael .ef Peace Ceaaaaiaetoa. Cleveland, O., Sept. . Secretary of State Day and Mrs. Day arrived in this city this afternoon. The secretary had lunch at the Union club with Sen ator Hanna, Andrew Squire, Judge S. E. Williamson and other friends. At 3 o'clock he took a train for Ash- tajbula Harbor, O., accompanied by Mrs. Durilfrs. Barber, who is a 'sister of ' ntr. McKinley. Mrs. Lynch and Miss -Lynch., all of Canton. In. the evening the party left Ashta bula on the steamer Corsica for Ksca naba,Mich. Secretary and Mrs. Day will go to Washington after about, five days. To a press representative Secretary Day said he intended to hand in his resignation on the 12th of this month. He said. there was nothing new to be told about the peace commission, but gave it as his understanding that Jus tice White had decided not to serve as one of the commissioners. FACTS ABOUT THE NAVY The Speed, Armament and Han-, dling of Sea Fighters. gum; poidebous battleships. Cialssra aad IVaw Swuav- lac Monitors Which. With Pall alas;. aad Shotted Gene, Watch . Gabaa Porta ar Seek Spanish Soi The marines in the navy use the Lea rifle, which has a magazine holding five cartridges.-This arm is of .28 caliber. In naval warfare the shell has re placed the solid shot in all calibers down to the 1 pounder gun, adding vastly to the destructive effect of a cannonade. All modern guns on ships of war are breecbloading and rifled. From the highest calibers down to a 4 inch diameter of bore guns are designated by their caliber. From a 4 FIBIHG FBOM A MONITOR'S FIGBTIKO TOP. inch caliber down to the 1 pounder they take their name from the weight of the shot they throw. Everything be low the 1 pounder is in tho machine gun class. Male applicants may enter the navy between the ages of 14 and 35 years. Boys between 14 and 1? years old can enlist only as apprentices. While in the army ihe private soldier may rise to a major generalship, in the navy the limit of the bluejacket's possi ble promotion is the position of warrant officer, as gunner, boatswain, carpenter. The highest pay of a warrant officer is $1,800 a year. Bluejackets are better paid than sol diers in the United States service, and when in active aervioe have what the soldier is seldom sure of, the assurance of good food and comfortable quarters, A landsman in the navy receives in the beginning $18 a month, and his pay in creases at each step of his promotion to the rank of ordinary and of able seamac. From Key West to Havana is a dis tance of 90 miles measured in a direc tion almost due south. To cruise on a warship in the Carib bean sea is a far more healthful and pleasant business than to campaign on land. It is cooler upon the water, there are no venomous reptiles or insects to make life a burden and but little lia bility of malarial or epidemic disease. For fighting in warm climates the United States seaman wears a uniform of white canvas jumper, canvas trou sers, knitted watch cap or white canvas hat, black necktie and lanyard with knife. For boarding or repelling boarders in a naval engagement the United States aailor is provided with a aevolver and cutlass. When handed as Infantry, he carries a Lee magazine rifle. There is nothing cleaner than the decks and equipment of a warship. All woodwork is scrubbed and brass work polished daily, and there is no end to painting and scraping and totheohip ping of rust from anchors and cables. Every man-of-war's man knows how to sew aad does his own mending. Many of the old hands would rather buy the materials and make their own clothes than draw a ready made uni form anit from the government On warships to which a chaplain is assigned a small white pennant with a blue cross flying from the gaff gives no tioe that divine service is being held on board. No punishment involving bodily Buf fering, such as the old time flogging, branding, tattooing of offenders, can be adjudged by any court martial or in flicted upon any person in the navy. In modem naval fights the battleships are ranged in the first line and bear the brunt of attack. With them are the monitors and armored cruisers which protect the flanks and rear of the line of battle. Protected cruisers, torpedo boats, dispatch boats, hospital ships and torpedo boat destroyers form the second line. Torpedo boat destroyers are large tor pedo boats which are equipped so that 1 they may launch torpedoes at the en emy or with guns and rams sink his torpedo boats. The cost per day of maintaining in commission an ordinary warship is $1,500. The present outlay for the United States navy is $50,000 per day. A single charge of ammunition for a large caliber gun costs $500. It costs from $7,000 to $10,000 to fill the bunkers of a man-of-war with coaL Until the recent naval fight off Ma nilla only one sea fight had oocurred to put modern war vessels and arma ments to the test the battle of Yalu, in 1895, between the Chinese and Jap- Our modern steel built, armorclad navy had no existence, even on paper, 16 years ago. At that time the United States had but 87 war vessels available for cruising, of which only one, the Tennessee,' was a first rate ship. The sroothbore muzzle loader was the pre vailing gun in the service then. Many of the war craft of that period have beau sinee laid up as superannuated. The first clans battlaahip Iowa is the powerful open sea fighter, and the Minneapolis, which a speed of 33.7 knots, is the swiftest ship in the navy. KawYcrkdtyisak)a74 6fTets of uvssfoti about msuusnuenMH 1 S APVUltHeU SVC1U aUUmajseanaasanMnaOT There ie not, with either youag peo ple or old, either in literary, or any lmes,' any more originality, any more individu ality or spontaneity than there ought to be, and in educational matter, especi ally where teacher himself is a stere otyped copy-book, there is far-too little originality tolerated in the school life. The JocaXAL believes that whatever is determined upon as au accomplishment should be worked upon steadily, stated 'it by well-considered means, and- as thoroughly as possible. One line of original work is better than ten copied or appropriated. The study necessary to compose one fairly-Kood piece of music, is doubtless of more real value, as mental education, .than 'the study to reproduce, in voice or on instrument, ten fairly-good pieces of somebody else's composiug. But the uiuis advuntage or good -lies in the houest endeavor to grasp difficulties and overcome thorn; to understand first principles, und to up ply them; to bo what you seom to be, and when you read an essay, or deliver an oration, presumably your own, that your own it shall be, whether good, bad or indifferent These remarks have been suggested by the following from' the Fremont Herald. The merits of this particular case we know nothing of: "The Schuyler Quill accuses F. E. Schaaff, formerly of the Normal, and winner of the prize medal for oratory in 1896, of having bought his oration that it was written for the occasion by Doc Bixby, of the Lincoln Journal, apd the latter has never been able to collect pay for the brain work applied. This assertion going the rounds is a great in justice to Mr. Schaaf if it is untrue, and we suggest that the latter who has many friends here get an authoritative denial from Mr. Bixby that will cover the case. Alaska. The last Schuyler Snn prints a letter from Dawson City, Alaska, by A. B. Hughes and Son. that contains some facts not generally known. They 'were three quarters of a minute going the mile and a half through the White- Horse rapids. "This is a great country. It never gets dark. Yon can see to read the finest print any time of the night. In fact I can tell but little difference, only the sun does not shine. There is a place fifty miles from here on a high mountain, where on the 21 of June you can see the sun the whole 24 hours. You can dig down a foot and a half and find ground frozen so -hard that a pick will not break it. Yon have to thaw it 'out with fire. The top of the earth is covered with moss about a foot thick. In the middle of the day it gets so hot you cannot stand it and that is the reason they cannot work .the mines. The water runs in and fills up tho holes when one is digging. All the creeks are a kind of marsh or swamp and in sum mer you will sink knee deep in mud, or as deep as it is thawed out. Dawson City is Built on a swamp. There are some big log houses here. There are five saw mills turning night and day. Lumber is worth 25 cents a foot. I will give yon the price of some things. Work runs from $10 to $15 a day but is hard to get. Team work is $100 a day. A' good dog sells for about $300. They use them to pack grub into the mines and work on sleds in winter. Flour is worth from $15 to $20 per hundred. Beef steak $1.50 per pound; eggs about $10per dozen; sugar; beans and coffee runs from 50 to 75 cents per lb; tobacco $3 per lb; bacon 30c;, butter $2; a broom is worth $12. As I was walking up the street the other day I saw an old stove setting out on one side of the street with a sign on, ''only $1000." Hay is worth $750 a ton. I saw a cow the other evening that sold for $1100. They had a great time here on the Fourth of July. Just at 12 o'clock at night they commenced shooting off re volvers and make the biggest racket you ever heard. It was like a big battle. It scared all the dogs in town nearly to death. Just below Dawson City there ji an Indian village and when the firing began about two-thirds (of rthe Indians took to their canoes and started down the Yukon river. It took the priest a long time to get them back. They thought the Yanks were' killing all the English police. When you write put your letter in two envelopes and address both. When Bome letters get here there is nothing left but part of the envelope as they have so far to come. Hope this will find yon well as it leaves us." Prehistoric Cora. Qeo.E. Barnum has left with us a specimen ear of this corn. This particu lar ear is nine and a half inches long, seven inches in circumference, with eighteen rows of kernels. Mr. Barnum bought a peck of seed at a cost of $2.65, and listed two acres. It is said that two to eleven ears grow on one stalk. On Mr. Barnum's he has noted one to five ears growing, and on one stalk found twelve ears started, but not filled out. It is said that the seed was found among the pottery in the tombs of the prehistoric people of Arkansas, and esti mated to have been buried there three thousand years ago. George thinks there must have been giants in those days, and that they husked this kind of corn, because it is ten feet up to the lowest ears on some of the stalks, and the field looks somewhat like a forest the corn stalks are so tall and so big. George has promised Thk JouukaXi a mature stalk with its ears entire, so that our callers msy see for themselves. It is claimed that 250 bushels to the acre can be produced. There are two peculiar things about this specimen, one is the color, the like of which we never before saw in corn a singularly, light yellow tint at the top of the ear, the lower part, a smoky half-parched appearance. What Next One of the latest greatest inventions in harvesting machinery cuts the grain, throws in on a canvas arranged on roll ers, taking it up into the thresher, where it is threshed and cleaned- It is then carried to the opposite side, falls into ban, which aa thev are filled up, are r oj - tied up and thrown off. Ordinarily fif teen acres a day is the work of two men aad four horses. ! Inuu IBBB MssSHHMifiSHiinMHijBBnj liiiE- UOAajriftstouunteKfenr ppBnuOlutSnVrBttai HOTKsYKCOTIC BBwAiaBnnnUnTa"sT nUUUnPUaBBBam vH suSSaa t . .sJ I AuulUluVsUBwyforttaha- t S-SSS H I KACT-eosvrwuaWM. H WHILE WE" MAY. Frances K. Willanl. The hands are such dear hands; They are so full; they tnrn at our demands So often; they reach ont With trifles scarcely thonght about, Soitnany times; they do Ho many things (or me, for you If their fond wills mistake. We may well bend, not break. They are such fond, frail lipa That speak to us. Pray, if lore strips Them of discretion many times. Or if they speak too slow or qnick, sack crimes We may pass by; for we may see Days not far off when those small words may be Held not as alow, or qnick, or oat of place, bat dear. Because the lipa that spoke are no more here. They are such dear, familiar feet that go Along the path with ours feet fast or slow. And trying to keep pace if they mistake Or tread upon some flower that we would take Upoa our breast, or bruise some reed. Or crash poor hope until it bleed We may be mute. Not turning quickly to impute Grave fault; for they and wo Have such a little way to ko can be Together snch a little while along the way. We will be patient while we So many little faults we find. We see them; for not blind Is love. Wo see them; but if you ami I Perhaps remember theiu como by and by. They will not be faults then glare fuolts to you and me. Hut jnnt odd ways mistakes, or even lees llemembrances to bletw. Days change ho many things yes, hours. We see so differently in sun and showers. Mistaken words tonight May be so cherished by tomorrow's light. We will be patient, for we know There's such a little way to go. Went a Gaaaiap. The habit of riding rough-shod over people is not commendable at auy time. It is always best to be considerate of other people's rights and privileges, be cause when you are not, that very fact arouses opposition, and there is likely to be trouble which may result in some thing that all would serionsly regret the remainder of their lives. There is certainly nothing better than to do right, and live peaceably. The Neligh Advo cate says that last Monday afternoon Mr. John Baser, son of Antony Kaser of Sherman township, was instantly killed while scuffling with John W. Drayton for the possession of a gun. The fact bo far as we can ascertain are as follows: Mr. Raser and Geo. Ludwig were driv ing over John Drayton's farm, sup posedly for the purpose of hunting chickens. Mr. Drayton met them and forbade them shooting chickens on his land, threatening to have them arrested if they did. Words wero exchanged and Drayton climbed on the side of tho wagon and attempted to seize a gun which was laying on the wagon bottom. Baser resisted and a scuffle ensued in which the gun was discharged and shot off the top of Mr. Baser's head, killing him instantly. WHEN IN NEED OF Briefs. Dodders. Sale bills, Envelooes. Hand bills, Statements, Note heads, Letter heads, Legal blanks, Yiaitim? cards. Business cards, Dance invitations, Society invitations, Wedding invitations, Or, in short, any kind of JOI PRINTING, Call on or address, Journal, Columbus, Nebraska. To Chicago aad the East. Passengers going east for business, will naturally gravitate 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. 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