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Caaimg Events.
Fan-American Exposition, Buffalo,
New Jork, May 1 to November 1, 1901.
Maine has 175 factories in which fish
and vegetables are canned.
It seems as though re-apportionment
will be the great issue in congress for
awhile.
Seattle, WASH.,loet its public library
last week, 25,000 volumes, valued at
$30,000.
Cottos-seed oil is exported to France,
and then shipped back to this country
.as olive oil.
W. H. Finnet, a railroad traipman of
Lincoln, is supposed to have contracted
amallpox at Ravenna.
Jandabt 1, witnessed the starting of a
aw trolley system, at San Juan Do
Porto Rico. The people were much
.astonished.
The Philippines are known to possess
over 400 species of trees, and a more
careful survey will bring the number
nearly to 500.
Jexkeb's famous discover that per
sons who contracted cowpox while en
gaged in milking never had smallpox,
dates from 1796.
Sugar Crrv, Colorado, is seven months
old and has a population of 2,000. A
new sugar refinery costing SSOO.OQO has
jaat been opened.
A high wind at Cumberland, Maryland,
blew a flock of wild turkeys into the
streets, and quite a number of the strag
glers were captured.
A curious criminal law exists in
Greece. A man who is thero sentenced
to death waits two years before the exe
cation of the sentence.
A man who has just died in East Lon
don, England, retired some years ago on
a modest competence acquired by selling
hot water at lc a quart.
Gold to the value of 822,038,755.12 has
been taken in at the assayer's office at
Seattle, Washington, the past year.
Most of it is from Alaska,
Wishing to spend her summer months
in Sweden, Mme Adeline Patti (Baroness
Rolf Cederstorm) advertises her castle
for sale in Wales, Crag y Nos.
Chicago capitalists have purchased
the large ranch situated on the border
of Lake. Chapala, Mexico, paying there
for the enormous sum of 81,200,000.
aaaBBsesMi
, Neablt $10,000,000 of fruit is sent from
this country to England every year, yet
we buy vast quantities of jam and pre
serves from London manufacturers.
A harmless Indian curio collector
was captured last Wednesday, mistaken
for Pat Crowe, wanted for the Cndahy
kidnaping. He identified himself as R
G. Dennis of Boston, Mass.
Platte county has reduced its mort
gage indebtedness $90,000 during the
past year. If this thing keeps up even
Platte county may be willing to aban
don Nebraska's calamity party. Omaha
The Armour Packing company of
Kansas City recently contracted for
twenty-five thousand tons of common
salt in Lisbon, Portugal. The prices of
the salt trust here are said to be out of
sight
After looking at J. J. Crowe, Pat
Crowe's brother, Edward Cudahy de
clared: "He is not the one who stood
guard over me and if he bad anything at
all to do with the kidnaping I did not
him."
The World-Herald of Omaha is still of
the opinion that a well oiled and pliable
harness tug applied to the proper portion
of the cadet anatomy will eliminate the
cane of hazing at the West Point
academy.
The Aetna Real Estate company of
New York city are thinking of erecting
a thirty-two story structure 455 feet
high, next summer, to cost about $2,
500,000. The land is estimated to cost
$1,500,000.
-The 240-acre farm belonging to Robert I
uraaaaa, a lew miles east or .North Bend,
was recently sold at an even $50 an acre.
Ke doabt aboat Nebraska land being a
good investment and gradually advanc
ing in price.
Both Arkansas and Mississippi, which
are to have new state houses to cost
aboat a million dollars each, have, by a
aiagular coincidence, selected as the sites
far the buildings those formerly occu
pied by penitentiaries.
Mas Helen Keller, the famous deaf,
hbad, aad heretofore dumb girl, has
recently developed the ability to speak
no aa to be distinctly understood. She
made a abort address the other day at a
oka lancheon at Badclite college, Bos
ton. She is now 19 years old.
Da. Charles W. Little, the Lincoln
oatoopathint who has been having some
tremble with the courts, has asked for a
He waists there is a distinc-
between the art of healing and the
i of medicine. By implication he
aaya be doesn't attempt to practice med
ieine, nor does he attempt to regulate
the art of healing-.
i mncb to the credit of the battle-
nahmen at West Point that
naked' the government for a
, at the end of the first year, re-
tbe Ord Quiz. Woalda't it be
well far the anrvivors of some of the de-
1 boya that lost their lives through
there, to present claims to the
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Professedly a Free-Trade country, believing that
everything should be bought in the cheapest market,
Great Britain nevertheless cries out im anger when
British officials of the Egyptian or Indian service pur
chase railway bridges or locomotives in America.
Damai Taws
XVVSIUH WI.
At toTF. 8. Senatora.
Under this heading we purpose giving,
from week to week, such information and
speculation as may be of current inter
est. Ed. Journal.
The republican newspapers, with but
very few exceptions, all over the state
are making very favorable mention of
Hon. E. H. Hinshaw's candidacy for
United States senator. Indications now
are that there will be one of the biggest
fights of the kind ever known, this win
ter, and that Hinshaw of Fairbnry will
be in it. Plymouth News.
The candidate who now goes into the
race with perhaps the" least personal
opposition is Meiklejohn, whose career is
a credit to the state, who is a figure of
national importance, and who would go
into the senate with prestige abundant
to make him capable of splendid work
for Nebraska. As stated, we believe he
has no opposition whatever as the reenlt
of personal enmities or old political
feuds. While the contest this winter
will be spirited and the republican mar
gin if not large there is no reason to
doubt the selection of two senators from
the field who will give Nebraska a worthy
representative. Gering Courier.
AS TO NEBRASKA'S FORESTRY.
From President C. S. Harrison's ad
dress we gather the following:
We have done an immense amount of
individual plnnting, but the experience
of 30 years has proved our system to be
wrong. A large part of deciduous trees
planted on the divides 100 miles west of
the Missouri river are dead. Many of
the evergreens of which we had great
hopes are a failure. Yet we have found
out what will succeed in our great, rich
valleys. There, deciduous trees have
done well and there we can have im
mense and grand forests. The intelli
gent tree has an instinct which will find
water when 15 or 20 feet from the sur
face, and when once its pump is set
going, there is no further trouble.
The United States government is about
setting aside land for several parks in
Colorado, Wyoming, Washington, Min
nesota and elsewhere. And a very stren
uous move is now being made to have
the general government purchase and
set aside for a great nationaUpark quite
a portion of the Appalachian range where
North and South Carolina and Tennessee
meet. We hope our congressmen will
favor all these grants, and also insist on
the government setting aside at least
$100,000 for tree planting in Nebraska
either as a gift to the state or for a
national forest.
All Nebraska citizens are urged to
make common cause in this matter.
TnE Journal knows of no single subject
of such universal and commanding inter
est as this of planning for the future
forests of this state. Within the memory
of the middle-aged man, Nebraska has
changed in climate wonderfully for the
better, and still the change evidently
goes on. There is no longer question of
the growth of forest and shade trees of
different kinds, f rnit trees suited to this
latitude, and even some varieties for
merly regarded as impracticable. Let
Nebraska men keep thinking; keep work
ing at their problems in a practical way;
confer with men of other states situated
like ourselves, and bend every energy to
making of this spot of earth the grandest
zone of life in the country.
Philip D. Akmouk, philanthropist,
financier and multi-millionaire, head of
the vast commercial establishment that
bears his name, died at his home in
Chicago, Sunday afternoon, death hav
ing come after a few weeks illness of
pneumonia. Mr. Armour had been sick
for two years previous visiting different
places seeking health, but was spending
this winter in his Chicago home. Mr.
Armour made himself famous by his
wonderful business ability. With a
business of 8100,000,000 a year in the
packing department alone, a grain busi
ness of half that amount and practically
the owner of a great railroad system, the
estimate of his wealth is enormous.
Mrs. Cynthia Prentice, of La Salle,
Illinois, now has seen three centuries
during her lifetime. Born May 8, 1797,
she has seen the closing of the eighteenth
century, the entire nineteenth century
and the dawn of the twentieth century.
She is a remarkable woman, in that she
reads without the aid of glasses, takes
care of her own apartments and walks to
and from her carriage daily without
assistance. Of the five children born to
her, three eons, aged respectively 81 76
and t0 years, are yet alive. Among her
immediate relatives she numbers twenty
seven grandchildren, sixty-three great
grandchildren and eighteen great-greatgrandchildren.
An additional $13,000 has been offered
by Mr. Cudahy for the apprehension of
Pat Crowe, to say nothing of his con
viction. - Separate rewards have also
been offered for the arrest of the second
and third bandits, and also for the wo
man in the case of the kidnaping of the
Cudahy boy. Descriptions have been
Bent oat broadcast everywhere, and the
authorities say that with the apprehen
sion of Crowe they will have the key to
the situation. Since the break of the
cowboys in arresting a Boston curio
collector, amateur detectives seem to be
more cautious than they were.
The Chicago & Northwestern railway,
on the first of the year put into effect
its system for pensioning its old and
deserving employes, the amount depend
ing upon the length of service. North
western officials claim that the new
system will benefit 80,000 persons on
their lines, and that the cost will be
aboat $200,000 yearly.
Carl Morton, vice-president of the
Glucose Sugar Co., and general manager
of its plant at Waukegan, III., died Mon
day morning of pneumonia. He was
fourth and youngest son of J. Sterling
Morton of Nebraska City, and a native
of Nebraska. He was 35 years old and
leaves a wife aad two children.
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Capital City Latter.
(Special Correspondence.) The legis
lative members were later than usual in
arriving at Lincoln this year. Usually
the lobbies are crowded a week before
the session opens, bnt this time the hotel
space was practically all taken by the
school teacherj. One reason why the
members took their time was that there
was very little bitterness injected into
the preliminaries of the speakership
fight, and consequently there was no
rush on part of the partisans to get on
the ground early.
One of the notable features of the
teachers' association meeting was the
lecture by Rev. Newell Hilhs of Brook
lyn. The appearance of this great
divine here was all the more interesting
from the fact that he was once a Ne
braska boy. In the early days his home
as well as that of his parents, was on a
farm near Pawnee City.
The "clean sweep" idea adopted by
the new republican officials has not been
carried to an extreme, as is evidenced
by the appointment of one or two of the I
employee of the old administration,
whose work has been creditable, and
who had strong republican friends to
help.
Those who have not received them will
be interested to know that the tickets to
the inaugural ball given on Thursday of
last week at the auditorium read as fol
lows: "Inaugural Ball, tendered by the
Union Commercial Club to the Governor,
State Officers Elect and Members of the
Legislature. Tickets $2.50. Admit Gen
tlemen and Lady." This will explain
how the ball came to be on such a large
scale, and how the guests came to part
with their prosperity coin at the door.
Another attempt will be made by the
legislature to revise the revenue law, but
the prospects of success are not flatter
ing The last two sessions wrestled with
the problem in vain. One bad feature of
the present law which ought at least to
be remedied is that the figures sent out
from this state, and used in quotations
and compilations the world over, repre
sent only one-fifth the actual values.
The law now on the books provides for
an assessment at actual cash values, but
the absence of a penalty has allowed the
undervaluation to become general. To
send out the real figures would be a good
advertisement for the state, and would
mean no increase in taxes. It must
make eastern people smile to read of the
83 cent hogs, the $3 cattle and the $C
horses in the great state of Nebraska.
But under our present system that is the
way the figures look.
While it is well known that the state
institutions are terribly disorganized
under the present management, it is cer
tain that the new officials will not bring
on further demoralization by demanding
an unreasonably early knock-down-and-drag-ont
policy. The changes will bo
brought about in a business-like way,
the first announcement being that at
Kearney the present superintendent will
be allowed to remain in charge until
February, so that the changes may be
made in an orderly manner.
Adah Granger.
The citizens of Niobrara propose to
harness the river of the same name and
make it furnish power for operating an
electric road that will connect it and
towns west of there with a city market.
Towns along the northern border of the
state have never had convenient trans
portation facilities and the inhabitants
hope that some scheme may be success
fully carried through that will place
them in closer touch with the markets.
Norfolk News.
Judge Munoer of the Federal court
hns 'rendered his decision in the habeas
corpus case of Corporal John S. Fair of
Fort Crook, who, with Private Henry H.
Jockins, killed Samuel Morgan, a deser
ter and escaping prisoner whom they
were pursuing at La Platte, November
17, a year ago. The decision of the
judge was that the soldiers were doing
their duty as they understood it, Morgan
failing to halt as they had commanded.
TnE county superintendent of Page
county, Iowa, has charged distinctly that
several superintendents of public schools
have received money from a publishing
firm in return for having their books
used in tho school libraries. That ques
tionable work'of that kind has been done
in Nebraska by more than a few county
superintendents does not admit of
question.
As the result of an election bet, two
black bears will march in the. inaugural
parade id Washington next March. W.
M. Hoey and William Taggart,of No-
gales, Arizona, made the bet. The for
mer won and by the terms of the wager
will lead the bears, which were captured
in the Santa Rita mountains. After the
parade they will be given to the Wash
ington zoological gardens.
Germain Towl, a member of the
Fighting First Nebraska regiment, and
who, along with other duties aa a soldier,
did good work as a correspondent for
several papers of the state, writing many
interesting letters from the far-away
Philippines, has become half owner of
the Plattsmouth Journal and is now in
the newspaper harness.
The State Historical society make a
custom of gathering together a number
of copies of leading daily newspapers of
the week of election, and binding them
togethe. in one volume, thus making an
interesting souvenir of the last campaign
week of presidential election.
Ignatius Donnelly, politician, author,
sage, aged 70 years, died at 12:03 on the
morning of the 2d, while visiting at the
home of his father-in-law, Barton Han
son, in Minneapolis, Minn. The doctor
in attendance pronounced his trouble
heart failure.
It Girikstka Glebe.
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as the best in the world, extends round
the earth. It's the one perfect healer of
Cats, Corns, Burns,. Bruises, Sores,
Scalds, Boils, Ulcers, Felons, Aches,
Pains and all Skin Eruptions. Only in
fallible Pile cure. 25c a box at 'Still
man's Pharmacy.
A DIPLOMATIC LIBRARIAN.
at Please the Paiitietaa WHkMt
GiTtaar hi. Friem a fwIUm.
- When Mr. Putnam was the head of
.the Public library in Boston, a ward
leader of that city called on him to rec
omuumd a henchman for a place to the
library.
- There was no reason why the libra
rian should not have refused at' once
and peremptorily to appoint him," -but
he chose to follow another course.
After a few minutes' talk -with the
politician Mr. Putnam asked him
whether he bad ever been through .all
the departments of the Institution. w
"I never have, but I'd like to see It."
replied the politician. k
"It will give me much pleasure to go
with you," said Mr. Putnam. '
Mr. Putnam took him behind the
counters and through the building
from top to bottom, explaining the
character and the magnitude of the
work in detail. He further pointed out,
without seeming to do so, the varied
duties of the employees and the attain
ments they must possess to do the
work. When the tour was ended,- Mr.
Putnam said:
"I'm pleased to have had a chance
to show the library to you, and If, your
friend will fill out an application blank
and send it, and if he passes the neces
sary examination, I think there will
be no difficulty In placing his name -on
the waiting list." .
The politician, however,' had seen
enough of library work fo convince
him that his constituent could findvno
place on the staff, and the blaiikvos
never filled out But to the day he left
Boston Mr. Putnam had no warmer ad
mirer in that city than this same' ward
leader. Collier's Weekly.
HOW TO LIKE WAGNER.
Seeale Accessaries Are Keceasary-
t
a Perfect Reallsatlea.
The strict Wagnerite refuses to hear
the music of his favorite composer in
the concert room. It was never intend
ed, he will tell you, to be performed' by
Itself, but to be played as an accompa
niment to the action, for the purpose
of heightening the effect of the intense
ly dramatic situations coupled with
gorgeous stage pictures that are-. In
separable from Wagner's famous art
work.
The most important part of a Wag
ner opera, according to the composer
himself. Is not the music, but the
drama, which. Indeed, the beginner
should closely follow with the aid of
the book of words, since the music Is
usually sung in German words.
The intending Wagnerite should also
begin with the master's most popular
works, "Tannhnuser" and "Lohengrin."
He will then at once recognize the fa
miliar music he has already heard so
often at concerts, and, struck by its
beauties, he will attend many perform
ances of these two. Next year he will
want to hear these again, supplement
ed by "Tristan und Isolde," that won
derful music drama so charged with
intense emotion and passion. Having
heard "Tristan" and liked it, he there
upon becomes a full fledged Wagnerite
in the true sense, and the season after
be attends performances of the "Ring
der Nibelungen," or he may make a
supreme effort to get to Baireuth.
From Baireuth he returns the ardent
disciple of a musician whose name he
terrifies his friends by pronouncing In
the German fashion, not Wagner, but
"Vaachkner." London Mall.
Aa Tet He Had te SaUle. l
She was telling tales on her brother,
who was an extravagant chap when be
had money, which was only for two. or
three days each mouth after, he receiv
ed his allowance. "Bob was sweet on
Jessie," she said "and wanted to -give
her something nice. So he went to4 'the
florist and ordered one dozen American
Beauty roses to be sent to her address.
They were 73 cents apiece, and that
ftieant $9, enough for Bob to pay. But
what does the foolish fellow do?
"He sees some extra long stemmed
anes standing in a vase near by, and
he prices those. 'One dollar and a
Quarter apiece,' says the man. Bob Is
feeling very generous that day. His
allowance has just come In. 'Give me
a dozen of those instead of the cheap
ones 1 took,' he says and hands over
the extra $0.
"That night he calls on the girl to see
the effect his present has made. She
hasn't received the flowers yet. They
come while he Is there. This just suits
him, because he will be able to see the
expression of astonishment on her face.
She opens the box, sees Bob's card
and lifts up the roses with a cry of rap
ture and an 'Ob, Mr. Wentwcrth, how
sweet of you!' Then she looks around
everywhere for a vase tall enough. You
see, she hasn't any of those that staud
on the floor, but only an ordinary
chrysanthemum jar. She takes that
down and measures the flowers, then
she lays them on the table, and with
one skillful whack of her little pearl
handled knife she chops off half the
length of the stems. Bob says it turn
ed him cold to see $G go Into the waste
basket like that We say at home it
serves him right" New York Herald.
Aacleat Saadlals.
It Is probable that the earliest sun
dial was simply the spear of some no
mad chief stuck upright in the ground'
before his tent. Among those desert
wanderers, keen to observe their sur
roundings, it would not be a difficult
thing to notice that the shadow short
ened as the sun rose higher In the sky
and that the shortened shadow always
pointed in the same direction north:
The recognition would havb' folloWeaV
very soon that this noonday shadow -changed
to Its length from day 'to d&
A six foot spear would give'a shadow
at noonday in latitude 40 degrees of -12
feet at one time of the" year, of-less
than two feet at another. . j?
This Instrument so simple, so easily
carried, so easily set up, may well have
begun the scientific study of astrono
my, for It lent Itself to measurement,
and science is measurement, and prob
ably we see It expressed In permanent
form in the obelisks of Egyptian solar
temples, though these no doubt were
retained merely as solar emblems ages
after their use as actual instrument
of observation had ceased. An upright
stick carefully plumbed standing on
some level surface may therefore well
make the first advance upon the natu-
ral horizon. A knob at the top of the
stick will be found to render the shad
ow more easily observed. E. Walter
Maunder to Knowledge.
Tae Pltcalas; af am Oeeaa Uaer. ?
E. W. Howe, telling In the Atchison
Globe of his experience during, a voy
age across the Atlantic ocean, says:
"I believe I made a discovery in sea-,
sickness. One night when the 'ship
was pitching badly I remarked that
when there was a particularly hard
lunge the screws came out of the wa
ter and whirled round so rapidly-as to
almost throw me out of bed. I was
aleeplng with my head forward, and
after awhile I discovered' that, the
screws seemed to come out of the wa
ter when the prow was hi the air. Then
It occurred to me that this was lmpos-
sible. Of course the screws came oat
when the stern was In the air.
, "So uiy discovery was that to eea-
sickness, particularly when you are to
I bed at night or have your eyes dosed,
j the ship really pitches apward when
you think it pitches downward. This
confusion may assist to muddling the
brain and stomach. I certainly had
this experience all through one might.
When my head seemed to the air, the
acrewa came out of-the water, although
my 'heels were really to the air at the
time." . l .
If you deposit money to a bank aad
leave it there for over six years with
out adding to it drawing on It or deal
tog with it la any way, It conies under
the statute of limitations and Is lost to
you forever.
Suppose you bought a gold ring and
without saying anything about pay
ments or delivery you turned ftund to
examine a clock and a magpie flew to
and carried off the ring It would be
your loss. You would have to pay the
jeweler, while he need not give you
another ring. If you bought a horse
and said you would call for him In the
evening and if the stables were burned
and the' horse destroyed before you
called, you wouldbave to bear the con
sequences. But If anything remained
to be 'done to the property purchased
the seller would be responsible. Sup
pose he undertook to put a nail in the
horse's shoe or suppose the jeweler
said he. would polish up the ring, then
the loss would fall on him, not you.
If you wrote from London to a miller
to Bristol offering to sell him a cargo
of wheat at 30 shillings a quarter and
he wrote a letter accepting your offer
and posted It the same day, the con
tract would be completed. Suppose,
now, the letter got lost, you concluded
that he was not going to buy and you
sold the cargo to some one else, you
would be liable for damages to the first
buyer, and the worst of It Is you could
get nothing out of the postmaster gen
eral. London Answers.
He Praye Bar.
An old man in Georgia named Jack
Baldwin, having lost his hat in. an old
dry well one day, hitched a rope to a
stump and let himself down. A wicked
wag named Neal came along just then
and, quietly detaching a bell from
Baldwin's old blind horse, approached
the well bell In hand and began to ting-a-ling.
Jack thought the old horse was com
ing and said: "Hang the old blind
horse! He's coming this way sure, and
be ain't got no more sense than to fall
in on me. 'Whoa, Ball!"
The sound came closer.
"Great Jerusalem, the old blind fool
will be right on top of me in a mlnit!
Whoa, Ball! Whoa, haw, Ball!"
Neal kicked a little dirt on Jack'a
head, and Jack began to pray:
"Ob, Lord, have mercy on whoa.
Ball! a poor sinner I'm gone now;
whoa. Ball. Our father who art In
whoa. Ball! haUowed be thy gee,
Ball, gee! what'll I do? name. Now I
lay me down to si gee, Ball!" Just
then to fell more dirt "Ob, Lord, if
you ever intend to do anything for me
back. Ball! whoa! thy kingdom
come gee, Ball! Oh, Lord, you know I
was baptized in Smith's mill dam
whoa, Ball! ho! up! murder! whoa!"
Neal could hold in no longer and
shouted a laugh which might have
been heard two miles, which was about
as far as Jack chased him when be got
out Atlanta Journal.
Blasts la the Directory.
-If you pick up that interesting annu
al, the city directory, you will find It
filled with bluffs. Here is a man down
as a superintendent. You know he is
only the foreman of a labor gang. An
other is designated as a general mana
ger. Three or four, men are subject to
his "general" management, or, as his
5-year-old-son, who inherited his pro
pensity to bluff, put it, "he's the head
man of three other fellows." Over ou
this page is another chap who Is given
as the political editor of a newspaper
of some political importance. Don't
believe it. He's merely a reporter as
signed to gather political news, and ev
erything he writes is carefully "edited"
by another man with a title of much
less Importance. This man down In
the book as a merchant sells shoe
strings and collar buttons in a cubby
hole between two buildings made avail
able when an alley fell Into disuse.
"Mme. Blanque, modiste," Is merely
Mrs. Blank, dressmaker, making a
French bluff for which she collects aft
er the cutting out and fitting are done.
But what is the use of picking them
out? The directory is filled with them.
Pittsburg Press.
Wltadrawlas; a Jarar.
One particularly amusing Incident
characterized Congressman Burton's
early experience at the bar. For some
reason It became necessary to request
a continuance in a case In which he
was counsel. After Mr. Burton had
explained why there should be a con
tinuance the court told him simply to
withdraw a Juror and the case would
be marked continued. For the moment
the young attorney was nonplused,
but after glancing at the court to satis
fy himself that the Judge was In earn
est he walked over to the Jury box,
eyed the Jurors for an Instant and then
firmly seized a large, portly German
and endeavored with no little effort to
drag him out of the Jury box. In the
midst of the) general laugh which fol
lowed, the court came to the rescue of
the discomfited young barrister by ex
plaining that the term was simply
technical and need only be written on
the docket Saturday Evening Post
A Child's Pallesapar.
It is one of the prime secrets of hap
piness to recognize and accept one's
natural limitations, but philosophy of
this kind is perhaps hardly to be ex
pected of children.
A little girl bad sent back her plate
for turkey two or three times and bad
been helped bountifully to all the good
things that go to make a grand Christ
mas dinner. Finally she was observed
looking rather disconsolately at her un
finished plate of turkey.
"What's the matter, Ethel?" asked
Uncle John. "You look mournful."
"That's Just the matter," said EtbeL
"I am mor'n full."
And then she wondered why every
body laughed. Stray Stories.
Aa It Seeaie fa Her.
A little girl who was In the habit of
tearing her dolls to pieces to see what
was inside somewhat surprised her
Sunday school teacher.
"What was Adam made of?" asked
the teacher.
"The dust of ibe earth," glibly an
swered the child.
"What was Eve made of?"
After a moment's hesitation, "The
jawdust of the earth." New York
Tribune.
Mast Have Beca Bara Lackr.
"How did you make out with that
effort to break your uncle's will?"
- "Fine! After It was all settled up
and the lawyers had the estate I didn't
owev.them a cent" Chicago Times-Herald.
The staaslaas.
An Englishman In Russia says that
"we may dkulke Russia as we will aud
perhaps moat but there is no denying
that the men and women of Russia are
good lookera." The men are "tall aud
well -built The "women, especially
those of the upper classes, have a grace
and fascination that is all their own."
The writer adda: "I am tired of hear
ing English people say that this Is all
ahow and(tnat If I knew them better 1
should bVcreatly disappointed. B
bind good looks and refined manners 1
bare found the depth and sincerity of
the Scotch combined with the wit and
humor of the Irish."
Seriaas Caatlalat.
Asklt Whatever became of that pa
tient of yours you were telling me
about some time ago?
Dr. Sokun Oh. lie's got a complaint
now that's giving me n great deal of
trouble.
Asklt -Indeed! What Is it?
Dr. Sokun It's about the amount of
my bill. Philadelphia Tress.
Bad Forn.
Mrs. Hlgbb!ower Don't forget, my
dear, that In conversation the Interest,
must not be allowed to flag.
Clara But I'm sure 1 do my best,
mamma. . .
" "Maybe so. but while the pianist was
playing I thought once or twice that 1
detected you listening to him." Life.
"The first book ever printed In Swlt
serland bears the date of 1470.
Weataar leport.
- Review of the weather near.Oenoa for
the month of December; 1900.
MetBtonperatareof the month
Mesa do mbm month last jesr:..-.-.
Highest duljteaperatun? on Kth
Lowest do ob the Mat .-!
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H teh aiads-dajra.
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Cloudy dajn ,
Kaioor hbow fellduriniciortionof tlajt
Greatest ant precipitation in ?l hours....
Inches of rain or meltMi enow
Do same month lat yrar ,
Inches of snowfall
Do same month last year
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Prevailing winds S.W. to N.W by E.
Lunar corona on the 7th.
Very foggy on the l.rth.
A notable incident of tho storm of the
2d was that tbongh the wind blew from
the northwest with the velocity of a gale
for more than 21 houra aud during this
time the barometer rose nearly ono-half
inch, yet the thermometer showed very
little change in temperature.
IFGOING EAST
or south of Chicago ask your local
ticket agent to route you between Omaha
and Chicago via the
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the shortest line between the two cities.
Trains via this popnlar road depart
from the Union depot, Omaha, daily,
connecting with trains from the west.
Magnificently equipped trains, palace
sleepers and free reclining chair cars.
Dining cars and buffet, library and
smoking cars. All trains lighted by
electricity. For full information alxut
rates, etc., address
F. A. Nash,
General Western Agent, 1i4t Farnam.
St., Omaha.
H. W. Howeli
Trav. Freight anil Pass. Agt.
Thoasaads Seat Into Exile.
Every year a large nntnler of ioor
sufferers whose lungs are sore and rack
ed with coughs are urged to go to an
other climate. Bnt this is costly and
not always sure. Don't be an exile when
Dr. King's New Discovery for Consump
tion will cure you at home. It's the
most infallible medicine for Coughs,
Colds, and all Throat and Litng diseases
on earth. The first dose brings relief.
Astounding cures result from persistent
use. Trial bottles freo at Stillman's
Pharmacy. Price 50c and $1. Every
bottle guaranteed.
$500 for letters About Nebraska.
The Burlington Route offers twenty
prizes, aggregating $500, for let tors
which can be used in encouraging immi
gration to Nebraska.
The first prize is a round trip ticket
from any Burlington Route station in
Nebraska to Yellowstone Park, and a
complete trip through tho Park, includ
ing stage transportation and five and a
half days' accommodations at tho hotels
of the Yellowstone Park Association
value $100.
The second prfce is a ticket to Denver,
thence to the Black Hills, anil 325 in
cash value $75.
Particulars can be obtained by ad
dressing J. Francis, G. P. A., Burlington
Route, Omaha, Neb. 2janftt
A Deep Xyitery.
It is a mystery why women endure
Backache, Headache, Nervoueness,Sleep
lessness. Melancholy, Fainting and Diz
zy Spells when thousands have proved
that Electric Bitters will quickly cure
such troubles. "I suffered for years
with kidney trouble," writes Mrs. Phebe
Cherley, of Peterson, la., "and a lame
back pained me so I could not dress my
self, but Electric Bitters wholly cured
me, and, although 73 years old, I now
am able to do all my housework." It
overcomes Constipation, improves Appe
tite, gives perfect health. Only 50c at
Stillman's Pharmacy.
the Journal
For all kinds
-of neat
job Frinti.no.
lltWm tO AtOaU.
The old idea that the body sometimes
needs a powerful, drastic, purgative pill
has been exploded; for Dr. King's New
Life Pills, which are perfectly harmless,
gently stimulate liver and bowels to ex
pel poisonous matter, cleanse the system
and absolutely cure Constipation and
Sick Headache. Only 25c at Stillman's
Pharmacy. -
PROBATE NOTICE.
Ib tho coutr conrt of Platte county. Nebraska,
Is the nUer of the estate of Lewis White, de
ceased. Notice of final settlement and account.
To the creditors, heirs, legatee and others in
terested is the estate of Lewis White, deceased.
Take sotice that Martha White has filed in the
coastr coart a report of her doin as adminis
tratrix of the estate of Lewis White, deceased,
aad it is ordered that the same stand for heanBg
oa the ttta day of January, IBM, before the
coart at the hoar of 2 o'clock p. .. at which
tiaw say person interested may appear and ex
cept to sad contest the same. .
This aorice is ordered givea in Tmt CohVmm
JobbjuXi for three coBsecntiTe weeks prior to
the Mth aay of JanBarr 1W1.
Witaeas air hand and the seal of the county
coart at Columbus this 19th day of December,
IMS.
T. D. Robisoh ,
dce-M4 ' " Gosaty Judge, '
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Cat This Oat. It
1 10 WEEKS
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the moat competent speeialiata in every branch of agriculture-depart- x
S menta devoted to. live stock, crops, the dairy, poultry yard, orchard and
x garden, farm machinery, veterinary topics, irrigation and the markets. S
S The farmer's wife, too has her share of space, with recipes aad suggea- x
tions on cookery, dressmaking, fancy work, care of Mowers, aad matters
H particularly pleasing to her, while the children have a department edited
Sj for them exclusively. Four or five pagea are devoted to a complete review
of the news of the week, covering both happenings at home and abroad.
S and news in particular interesting
are lae stories, choice poetry and hamor, and all the good things that one
likes to read after the lamps are lighted aad the day'a work is done.
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and Family Weekly... flP Jodr.
Cut this out and send it with a dime or five 2-eent stamps
s to The Twentieth Centokt Farmer, s
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KOTICE.
To William M. Miller. .Ufcntlant:
You will take notice that ou iho U.h day of
December. WOO, the Commercial National Bank
of Colninbu. Nelirnka, plaintiff hereia.Hled it it
lonuiuu in inn uiKinci connpi naiie county.
tteuratiia.nKainsi )ou.tiauii!ienuanr. I ne object
and prayer of which'nfe to" recover judgment on
tuo certain piumixsory note, one for $3 10 aad
interest at 10 percent per annum from the lith
day of September, lsitl. und oae note for $iC.(0
and interest at 7 icrceut ier annum from the lat
tay of July, 1SU7, nnd to mU the aouthweat imsr-.
ter of section twenty-His, in townehip Mventeen.
north of rutiKo three wet or the Sixth 1. M., in
Platte county. Nebraska, to pay the above de
scribed notes and interest and cost. The above
deecribed land havioK been taken on an order of
attachment isnued out of the Raid district court
of Platte county, nnd levied on the above dee
cribrdland by the Kheritf of Piutte county. Ne
braska, on the lith day of December. 10. that
there in now due on the said note the sum of
$173.40 for which Hum with interest from thii
date, at 10 nnd 7 per cent per annum on the res
pective notes, plaintiff prats jadgment, and that
theiihove described premises of defendant may
be ordered sold to satisfy the amount fivmd due.
You are required to answer said fietition on or
before the 4lh dav of February. 1901.
Commkrci M. K vtion u. HXK of t oiuutbus.
!t Ml'Al.USTKR it roHSCKLICH,
Its Attorneys,
Dated Dec. :tiih, l'.W. 2u-dec-4
-WASTKD-AtTlVK MAN OF (iOOP Char
acter to deliver and collect in Nebraska for old
established mannfactnrine wholtsale hoube.
$900 a year, sure pay. Honesty more than expe
rience required. Our reference, say bank is any
city. Enclose self-addressed stamped envel
ope: Manufacturers, Third Floor, :B4 Dearborn
Ht..i'hieaK". 12mrh
CONSULTATION
FREE TO ALL!
DR. DASSLER,
SURGEON AND PHYSICIAN.
55? V .Jr a.
Has permanently located at Colum
liUb, Neb , and solicits a share of your
patronage.- Special attention given to
female diseases, diseases of the womb
and reutnm, piles and all chronic dis
eases successfully treated.
3TNight or Day Calls in the Country
promptly attended to.
Office Telephone 59.
R.1
laved to Niewehaer Black, Thlr-
teeatfc aad Olive.
isoptr
M. C. CASSIN,
PHOPKIKTOH OV THK
Oiala Meal Met
Fresh and
Salt Meats.
Game and Fish in Season.
Highest market prices paid foi
Hides and Tallow.
THIRTEENTH ST.,
COLUMBUS,
NEBRASKA
2SAPif
J. M. CURTIS,
Justice of die Peace.
CgT Would respectfully solicit a share
of your business.
OTFZCE:
Over First National Bank at rear of hall
ISaprtf
V D. STIKE8.
ATTORHET AT LAW.
Office. Olive St., nptaim in Firat Nations)
Hank Uia-g.
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W. A. McAllister. W. M. Cobhkliu
WeALUITER A COBVHZXIUS.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
OOKTJlfBTJS,
intaasaaa
tijastf
WHEN IN NEED OF
Briefs,
Dodgers,
Sale bills,
Envelopes,
Catalogues,
Hand bills.
Statements,
Note beads,
Letter heads,
Meal tickets, ,
Legal blanks.
Visiting cards,
Milch checks.
Business cards,
Dance invitations,
Society invitations,
Wedding invitations.
Or, in short, any kind of
JOI PRINTING,
Call on.or address, Journal,
Colujubua, Nebraska.
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to the great farming west. Then, too, -3
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FCCORSETS
Make
American Beauties.
We have them
in
all styles and
shapes to fit every
figure, and every
corset is sold
under this most
liberal warrant-
c
Money refunded after four
weeks trial if corset is not
satisfactory.'
Look for this
Trade Mark on
inside of corset
and on box.
KALAMAZOO CORSET CO.
Safe Makers. Kakmajoo, Mica.
FOR SALE BY
lMfr3m F. H. LAMB at CO.
Blacksmith and
Wagon Work...
Everything iit our liHe
aMd everything guaranteed.
WagOHs made to order.
Best horse-shoeiNg in the
eity.
A fine line of Buggies,
Carriages, ete.
2T"I am agent for the old reliable
Colnmbns Buggy Company, of Colum
bus, Ohio, which is a sufficient guaran
tee of strictly Brat-class goods.
LOUIS SCHREIBER.
25octtf
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