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BUSINESS PROPERTY.
Full lot on Howard st. , $15,000.
8 business lots on Uodgo st , at a bar
gain.
i : 2 business lots on Douglas st. , u rare
"c bargain.
Lot 00x133 on Harnoy , $13,000.
Several stocks of goods to exchange
forOiunhn property or Nebraska lands.
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Lots nnd Houses and Lots.
2 lota S. 8th st. , near Market , $1,000.
r , : 8 lots i-atrick's 2d add. , 53,000.
3 lots Foster's add. , $3 , 00.
Lot 3 , block , Reed's 4th udd. , on car
line ; splendid for business , $1,500.
House und lot in Walnut Hill , very de
sirable , i2GOO.
Residence nud lot , corner Hamilton
and Irene sts. , $3,000.
10 lots in Kilby Place , $1,000 each.
8 lots in Wilcox's 1st add. , $500 each.
2 lots , 1 a corner , Kilby Place , $1,250.
2 lots in Kirkwood , $050 each.
3 lots Uimcbangti & Sauudcrs' add. ,
| 350 each.
E } lot 9 Howe's add. , $700.
Lot with small house , S. E. Rogo'r add ,
f2GOO.
House and lot. Clarendon add , $3,000.
3 lots , Clarendon add , $1,000 each.
Corner , Virginia and Popplcton avc ,
very desirable , $3,000.
Splendid residence corner 13th and
Dodge , favorable terms , $23,000.
Two lots in Lowe's add , $1,425.
First class residence lot on Harnoy ,
near 20th , $4,500.
Splendid residence with two lots , 1 a
corner , on Park ave. and Woolworth ,
$5.000.
N. E. corner 23d and Douglas , largo
ground , nnd houses.paying good income ,
a bargain , $12,500.
New house and lot in Ilanscom Place ,
$5,000.
7 room residence nnd good lot.Rcdick's
2d add , $4,500.
Hotel Baxter , in Harlan , Iowa , good
condition and doing a paying business ;
hotel nnd furniture , $0,500.
House and lot in Red Cloud , Neb , $1,000
LANDS.
Section in Gasper Co. , $0.00 per acre ;
easy terms. -
Section in Gasper Co. , $7.00 per acre ;
easy terms.
100 acres (120 ( under cultivatiou , Furaas
Co. , i raj rovcmcnts , 8 miles from rn
road , easy terms , $3,000.
100 acres , improved , Hurt Co. , well
watered nnd timbered , $27 per acre.
105 acres in Nickels Co. , $13 per acre ;
easy terms.
1020 acres in Howard Co. , $5 to $10
per aero.
100 acres , 120 under cultivation , in
Grcley Co. . $3,700.
480 acres in Grcclcy Co , $7 per aero ;
will exchange.
8 sections in Howard Co. , good for
stock ranch and cheap.
900 acres in Webster Co. , 800 acres un
der cultivation , will sell or exchange for
Omaha property ; worth $20 per acre.
Splendid steam roller mill at St. Paul ,
Howard Co. , Neb. , very complete , on
easy terms , $25,000.
Steam roller mill fit Scotio , Grecloy
Co. , Neb. , $16,000 ; all modern improve
ments , $10,000.
No 1 water mill , Schuyler , Neb ; nlllato
improvement , with 100 acres improved
land ; a great bargain. $10,000.
List your property with Hatcher , Gadd
& Co. , and secure quick sales.
BARKE & BARKALOW ,
Real Estate and Loan Agents >
Boom 21 Paxton Building , Cor. 15thand Far nam st.
following Very desirable additions. lots on monthly payments of from $10 to $60 in the
West Omaha Bark alow Place. Omaha View ,
Leavenworth Terrace , Orchard Hill , ,
Bedford Place , Sharen Place and Walnut Hill
Also some choice houses and lots on Farnam st , Burt Su. , Leaven-
wo rt st , Phil Sheridan and Cuming st. ,
We have bargains in property in all parts of the cityjeasy payments ,
Low rates of inte ® st.
FARM LANDS FOR SALE ,
Rents Collected , - - Taxes Paid.
CINCINNATI STORE , KANSAS CITY STORE ,
200 , Sll nml SIS West OUi Street. 1135 Main Street ,
OMAHA STORE
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1317 and 1319 Douglas St.
GEORGE LOUIS & COMPANY ,
Furniture and Carpets. iu
Special attention given to furnishing houses , and hotels complete. iu
Consistent Opposition to the Encroachments
of Land Grant Corporations.
BILLIONS OF BOGUS STOCK.
Xho Necessity of n General Pension
Law nml the Increase of Ton *
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THE surnnMU COVKT AND inn LAND nr.-
PA HTM EXT.
The bill grnnliiig lo Iho Loavonworlh ,
Lawrence & Galvcston railroad Indem
nity lands being before the senate , Sena
tor Van Wyck submitted n resolution
asking the secretary of Iho interior how
much laud has been oortiiiod for railroad
companies since the decision ot the
supreme court of 1875 , as indemnity for
anils disposed of prior to the dales of
the respective grnnls. The supreme
court had expressly adjudicated that nny
laud transferred before the dale of Iho
granls did not pass to the railroad com
pany. The department was administering -
ing the law as the supreme court said It
was , and then Secretary Schurz found It
convenient to nsk the opinion of the
attorney-general. That is the favorite
way of disposing of such matters. Wo
hnvo the supreme court followed when it
is convenient for the department todo.so ,
and when thai will not exactly meet Iho
case , Ihun il is convenient for the attor
ney-general to review the supreme court.
Thnt was the moile of proceeding hero.
Carl Schurz clinractomes the decision ns
"tho remarks mndo in that case. " Wo
now simply nsk if the land department
has Ignored the decision of the supreme
court , aud continues to ignore it by
giving thousands and I know not but
millions of acres to railroad corpora
tions to which they were not entitled.
Strnugo things are taking place as well
in the supreme court as in tlio land de
partment in regard to this matter of land
grants. My friend from Iowa will con-
ccdo thnt very strange nnd mysterious
doings in the supreme court and the
circuit courts and in the lantl department
of this government have taken placo. 1
think my friend knows it by the suffer
ings of his own pcoplo from tlio adminis
tration of the law of railroad grants and
by the decisions of the courts. Some of
his own pcoplo have suffered the depriva
tion of their property , and sonic of them
the deprivation of their reason because
of the treatment accorded lo them.
On the suggestion of senators , Mr. Van
Wyck introduced the preamble lo Ins
resolution with the words , "Whereas , it
is alleged , " und jt wks passed.
NECESSITY FOR A GENERAL PENSION LAW.
I was happy to hear the senate ; ! ' from
Tennessee , when ho stated that if any
thing was given to this woman ( Mary P.
MncBlnin ) , enough should be given to
support her. 1 wns glad to hear him. lay
that down as n basis on which pensions
should bo granted. The senator from
New Hampshire says there are but few
such cases. Thcro nre many , if they could
reach Washington ; and the great ditii-
culty is that we have no general law
under which these cases cnbe reached ,
and I for ono have felt that wo should
stop hearing special cases in the com
mittee room and bring in some general
law which would reach everybody. But
most of the special cases are those which
como up to us from Washington , where
great social and political influences sur
round them , so that they can be heard.
And when wo can pause long enough to
frnmo some general law , the tragedies to
which the senator referred so eloquently
tlio tragedies , as ho called them , in the
pension department will no longer agi
tate us. That is whnt I desire. Ono thing
is remarkable that in the various cases
which como before the committee in
great numbers from the city of Wash
ington , the wives of rcar-ndmirais , nnd
of commodores , and of major-generals
are able to secure prompt attenllon.
Sometimes in ono year from Ihe time tlio
sod covers the body , or in less than a
year , the application of the widow will
go into nnd come out of the pension
ollico. Your widow in New Hampshire
cannot enter the pension office and get
out in a year ; your widow in Tennessee
cannot enter the ollico and get out in one
year. It is time that thiug was stopped ,
and when we have some general law wo
shall be able to stop il. I thank Iho sena
tor from Tennessee for declaring the
doctrine upon which pensions should bo
granted , nml I trust that the committee
on pensions will soon present a bill that
will increase the pension of willows from
$8 to at least $12 per month. If you give
a pension to those who are poor and
necessitous , then give them enough to
take them out of their impoverished con
dition. Will anybody rise in this cham
ber nnd tell melhat $8 n month is enough
for the widow who is loft with a family
of children to rear , and whoso husband
perished on the battle-field , his resting
place marked only by the board that
records the burial of an "unknown soldier -
dior ? " hot us see to it that the last days
of every man who fought for the union
are mndo happy by the generosity of the
government which will give him enough
to subsist himself.
TENSIONS TO MEXICAN AND UNION SOL-
pinits.
May 28. 1884 , Mr. Hoar said that it was
impossible the bill could bo enacted
without soon compelling congress by its
logic to take the next stop a stop which :
would put upon the covernmonl an an
nual burden of from $100,000,000 to IIS,1) ! , .
000,000.
Mr. Vau Wyck : I am in favor of the
Mexican pension bill. I am also n friend
of the soldier of the late war. Whatever
princip le the senate chooses to apply to
the soldiers of the Mexican war , 1 insist
shall bo applicd.to the soldiers of the late
war. Wo certainly can at this time put
the soldiers of tlmrepublic who served in
all wars upon the same basis. Wo have
a treasury so full thnt it is n source of an of
noyance to gentlemen every tiny in this
chamber , and to American statesmen in
and out of congress. The great policy of as
statesmanship tcf'dav nnd the great merit
of legislation is.Claimed to bo the deplet
ing process , tlioVxhau&tlon , Iho emptying
out of the treasury. The senator from
Alabama stated 'thof hardships , the great
victory und the greater results springing
from the war with Mexico. But 1 would
say to him that' they will not compare
with the hardships , with the brilliancy of
the victory or the /grandeur / of the results
sults of the war for the union. When the
union soldier followed the Hag of his
country , ho inarched against n braver
enemy and a better soldiery than our
army confronted on the fluids of Mexico : ,
It id true the victorious legion in the
Mexican war brought millions of acres tone of
the American republic , but when wo come
to the solaiers of the union , wo noM
attention to the fact that they secured hoed
whole American republic. They added
not ono more stripe nor ono more star to
the flag , but they rescued the whole flag
from the destruction by which it was im
periled. The soldiers ot the Mexican war
udded a part ; the union soldiers gathered T.
and saved the whole. Our attention of
bos been called to the fact thai many solen
diers of Iho Mexican war have gene olio ci
the crave m poverty. I pomt you to the the
fact thnt there are to-day union soldiers I )
exile ' , They are exiled In a home which or
the' charity of this nation gives , and iu nc
which they nro compelled to spend Iho
remnant of tholr days under har.sh and
cruel military discipline. We give a jail
to men who gave the best of their days
nnd their blood , not to ndd n portion but
to save the whole republic ! not tonddouo
moro star , however bripht Us brilliancy ,
but to preserve the entire constellation.
JunoO , 18S1 : I trust wo shall bo able
to place this bill upon such n basis as will
bo satisfactory when the time como * , if
it is not now , for granting not only nets
of gratitude , but substantial recognition
lo the soldiers who served in the army of
the union. This amendment was only
intended to roach the soldiers of the
union army who nro suffering by reason
of disability , no matter whether incurred
before or since thu war , nml these who
nro dependent. If this money is lo bo
taken out of the treasury , it Is far botlor
that it should bo given to the poor wid
ows who lost tholr husbands in thu war.
The pensions must bo increased. Iho
republican party has saido ; the demo-
cratlo party will say so- , the democratic
house has said so : tlio republican senate
has said so , Pensions must bo increased ,
nnrt my friend from Delaware and myself
must submit. That is the Judgment of
the nation. * * * 1 have found in the
committee room that which has excited
my admiration , iu regard to pensions on
the part of goiitlemou coining Irom an
other section of the country , whoso dead
were buried , and their widows nnd their
children are receiving no pittance from
the government. I have admired gcntlo-
men on Ibis floor coming from thatsec ,
tion , who advocated general and indi
vidual pension laws with Iho same degree
of alacrity and cordiality ns men from
the section of the country whoso pcoplo
are bcnefilted.
TENSION TO SALLY MALLOW ( WIDOW OP A
UKVOLUTIONAUV SOLUIKR ) .
Mr. Van Wyck saidI could see noth
ing iu this case , nuiUier could the com
mittee on pensions , to make a precedent
which would bo injurious. The com
mittee have reported a bill giving her § 30
a month. The senator ( Mr. I'lntt ) says if
wo increase the pension of this widow
there are hundreds of others whoso pen
sions will have to bo increased. Precisely
thu sumo argument would have applied
with greater force when wo pensioned
tiio widows of presidents of the United
States. It would apply with greater
force when the proposition is made to
pension at $50 a mouth the wid
ows of officers of high rank in Iho army
and navv. This poor woman is asking
for this bounty because she has outlived
all her natural relations. This old woman
to-day has these patents of American
nobility : ono by reason of the services of
hnr husband in the revolutionary war.
where ho served llirco years and six
months ; another by reason of his servjco
m the war of 1813 : then she has a third
patent of nobility in the fact that she lives
to-day , the widow of the hero of two
wars. She has boon unfortunate to bo
poor , and she lias boon thrown by cir
cumstances into the frontier state of Ne
braska and into one of the frontier
counties of that state , aud at her extreme
ago she is upon tlio very verge where the
Indian nnd the buffalo roam on one side
and a rude clvili/ation exists on the other.
If there bo another like her , I trust that
when she comes to the American con
gress she will be received and granted
sufficient to give her n support through
life.
life.Mr.
Mr. Allison : Ilo\v old is she ?
Mr. Van Wyck : Nearly one hundred
years old. A year or two ago congress
was liberal in the bestowal of thousands
of dollars for n centennial celebration at
Nowburgh , where the great army of the
revolution was disbanded , anil whore
probably the most eloquent document
thnt over wont into American literature
was circulated among the officers of the
Americnn army , wherein it was charged
that their government hnd been unjust to
them ; that they must go back to tueir
homes devastated aud blackened by wari
their mere pittance of pay to bo in cur
rency which was depreciated. And we
recognized the great services of these
men ; wo cherished them by bestowing
thousands to celebrate Iheir memory.
Yet near thnt time was Iho birth of this
now aged woman , born in the shock of
the revolution ; and she , I trust , may not
be nilowed now to repeat whnt her sol
dier husband would have said , thnt the
government had been unjust to them.
Lot it not bo said ono hundrcdycnrs later
that when the widow of ono of those sol
diers came to the American congress , and
looking at us with her bowed form and
lusterless eyes , nml stretching out the
famished hands asks a pittance for her
support , she will bo obliged to repeat
whnt her husband declared ono hundred
years ngo.
The bill passed by a vote of 29 yeas to
14 nays.
nays.LANDS
LANDS FOB THE LANDLESS.
Tha following is from a speech on the
claim to a land grant by the Puyallup
branch of the Northern Pacific road : 1
say to my friend from Massachusetts ( Mr.
Hoar ) , wno lias just mndo n remark which
I overheard , that Henry Wilson , in 1870 ,
when the Union Pacific came hero to ex
tort moro land from the government ,
was uttering sentiments the same ns
those I am now expressing. Senator Van
Wyck quoted at length from Wilson's
speeches nnd said : The position of Mas
sachusetts is the position I ma trying to
uphold. Henry Wilson would legislate
for His country with his sympathies for
the settler and the landless , and could
propose that the price of the lands
granted to the railroad should bo $3.00 an
aero. He bid defiance to the power of the
railroad company. Yet it has boon grotv
ing and increasing from tlut ) day until
now. Henry Wilson , right then , would
have boon infinitely more right to-day.
They ( the rnilroad company ) seized pos
session of both political parties ; they
seized the executive departments ; then
they came nnd seized both branches of
congress , nnd they have gone so fnr as to
invade the federal courts. The railroad
property of the country to-day is ap-
praised'at nearly $7.000,000,000 , the actual
cost of which has boon only $ . ' 1,000,000,000.
In what manner has this immense debt
because it is n debt upon the people
been built up ? Nero on the JSoston mar
ket nro $0,000,000,000 of securities that
actually cost" their holders only 83,009- I
000,000. Beyond tlmt nro $ 1,000,000,000 )
held ns mortgages on the states of Michi i-
gan , Oregon , Kansas , Nebraska und
others , for winch these gentlemen have
not paid n farthing , The national debt of
wo can pay ; this debt can never bo paid ,
They hold it forever. For every dollar ;
, actual money supplied they have three
dollars on which they are drawing in
terest. The ? 1,000,000,000 stands to-day
a mortgage upon the prosperity , upon
the wealth , upon the earnings of tlio
people , It was ut n time when they came
asking to make the width of their grant
130 miles that a senator from Massa
chusetts , in the face of the pecuniary aii
terest in liis owu state , was willing iito
stand up and declare that ho was for
justice to the nation , and justice to tlio
landless and to the settlers ou the hinds.
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Keep Quletl vit
And take Chamberlain's Colic , ra
ami Uiarrha-a Remedy. It euros pain in
the stomach almost instantly. ( Jet n 25
cent bottle , tnke nothing else. You will
need nothing else to euro the worst case in
Dlarrcua , Cholera Morhus or bowel to
complaint. This medicine is made erin co
bowel complaint only und hut ) boon in mi
constant use in the west for nearly 111bo
teen years. Its succe * * has been unhit
bounded and its nnmo become a houseth ;
hold word in thousands of homes. Try it. do
it.D. in
The first postmaster . of Rapid City , D. wi
. , was commissioned April.1 , 1877 , The on
oflice then paid $50 pur year. The prosno
cut income is $1,000 per year with a dogr
cidod < upward tendency. It claims to iebo ab
champion community for honesty in cii
Dakota ; , Goods of any value can bo left ; we
the street unguarded over night , and nnd
ono wilt evou wink at them. ca
THE HEROES OF THE BORDER ,
Nine Indians Kept nt BAJ by ft Wounded
Man and a Woman ,
Successful StriiBRlo for Ufa In
U CHI or u. Ncbraskn A Story of
Days on the Loun.
If the heroes nnd heroines of Iho last
llftcon years of Indian warfare In the
west hail their names nml deeds emblaz
oned on the pages of current history the
world could furnish no more glorious
record of I.orolsm. Hero and there n
name is known and a record of thrilling
experience Is Riven , but the great ma
jority will lire on unknown to the world
at large , or sleep their last sloop in graves
unmarked and nnhonorod.
One forenoon of a May morning n
stockman named George Webber wns
riding along the south bank of the I oup
fork , In western Nobrnskn , In search of
stray stock , when ho was fired upon from
n grove by Indians who had broken away
from ono of the agencies to the west.
Half a dozen shots wore lirod In a volley ,
nud Webber was hit in the calf of the
right leg. in the right sido. and raked
across the shoulder , and his horse
was also wounded. As soon an the
shots were llred nine mounted Indians
dashed out , and Webber put his horse
at the top of its speed and headed for the
ranch of Charles Moss , about four miles
up the river nml on the same side. For
the first mlle Webber had no hope , as
the Indians were close enough to use
tholr revolvers and arrows , and his horse
was n common animal. A s > core or more
of bullets were lirod at him , and fully
twenty arrows zipped past him , but the
wound his animal received , aided by the
continued shouting of the red skins.mado
him pull out like a born race horso. Ho
soon began to widen the distance , and
when ho dashed up to the ranch Webbci
was a full half mile ahead. His shouts
as ho noare.il the place gave the alarm
but to his dismay he dashed up to bo in
lormcd by Mrs. Moss that she was the
only ono a"bout the place , her husband
and his man having gone away nn hour
before.
The cabin stood on a rise of ground
about twenty rods from the stream , and
could be approached from any side. The
Indians halted at long rillc range to see
who was about the placo. und this cave
Webster time to nn/to explanations and
do a little planning. Ho knew his pur
suers were "bud" Indians , who nail
skulked off the reservation , nml realized
that if he could keep them oil'for nn hour
or two reinforcements would como to
him or the enemy would withdraw for
fear of their identity being discovered.
"What arms have you got ? " ho asked ,
after explaining the situation.
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Colt's revolver.
"I have a Winchester rifle. Wo must
holu 'era off until aid comes. Help mo
off. "
The woman assisted him to alight , and
he gave his horse a slap-and sent the ani
mal galloping off up the trail. Some of the
Indians pursued , but without avail. The
Jirst while mun whom the horse encoun
tered would understand thut something
was wrong , and that his assistance was
asked for down the trail.
The house was n primitive afl'air , di
vided into two rooms , with only a lower
sasli in each window. The only point
from which tlio Ihdians could approach
with shelter to cover them was the east
sido. They could approach this side
within revolver shot by creeping up n
rnvino. Webber realized that if Iho nine
ehnrged logcther from thjs ravine , with
only the Tire from a single window
directed nt them , not more than two or
tliree could bo stopped. If the others
reached the house the game was up. Ho
therefore insisted on taking up liis posi
tion outside the house , without even a
twig to shelter him. His back wns to the
logs nnd the ravine in his. front. For
fenr some of the Indians might approach
the house singly from another direction ,
the woman was Instructed to first fasten
all the doors and then pass from window
to window and maintain an active obser
vation. She was n woman of thirty-live ,
who hnd boon tenderly reared in nn
eastern stnto , nnd had been in the west
loss than two years. The sight of a snake
would have made her scream out in
affright on that very morning , nnd Iho
thought of nn nttnck by Indians would
have been sufficient to chill her blood.
Yet , when brought face to face with the
terrible menace , she was a heroine. With
pale face nnd compressed lips , and
stopping not to question the policy of tlio a
wounded man's plans to save their lives
she promptly obeyed.
Tlio Indians must have known thai
Webber and the women were alone , am
that ho was wounded , but they did nol
dnro make n rush. Mucli as they desired
scalps and plunder , they did not care to
recklcbsly expose themselves. They It
crept up the ravino. as was expected , or
started to , when Webber saw that thojr
ponies had been loft within range of his
Winchester. Ho opened flro nt ouco nml
dropped three of them to the grass before -
fore the redskins discovered what ho was
at. This caused a halt in tlio proceedings
until they could remove the other six to n
place of'safety. Ho counted them as
they returned to the ravine and saw that
three were missing. The Irio had separ
ated from the others lo creep upon Iho
house , nnd this fact was announced lo
Mrs. Moss. In Iho course of fifteen
minutes the six hnd gamed the position
sought for opposite , and Webber gave all put
his attention to thorn , trusting to the
woman to watch nnd defend the house
from the others.
From the house to the rnviuo wns n
gradual slant , the ground being covered
with grass nnd entirely clenn. Wobhor
sat thcro , ns plain n target ns n man
would dcsiro for his pl.stol , the blood
from his wounds soaking into the ground ,
and his eyes watching the ravine with
the knowledge that ho was ono to six. No
day
Indian could flro on him without raising
his bond above the bank , and the first
ono uj ) got n bullet through il , and one
redskin tumbled back n corpse. Thid in
was n caution to the others , and instead
raising tluiir heads they rested their tlio
rifles on the bank and fired blindly.
Thirteen bullets struck the log within six a
foot of Webber , and others did not miss
him except by a shave. It was simply u
question of lime , if the firing were kepi dle
up when n bullet would hit aud finish
him. ers
Meanwhile the throe bucks who hud
left the main body were creeping toward that
the house from different directions. Mrs.
MOSJ could see two of them , but the third
crept along a doon furrow , and finally
gained n point from which he could fire agon
upon Webber at fair range. From this
point the reds tired nine times nt Webber's ' the
right side , which was exposed to his nnd
view. Ho either had n poor gun or was from
much excited , for not one of his bullets
counted , although some of thorn whistled
uncomfortably closo. mic
"I know whnt was up , " said Webber ,
modestly telling his story , "but I had
trttst to luck. Ho was not where J of
could hit him , and if ho happened ( o hit are
it would Imye boon no worse than itr ito
killed bv the others in front , After
first bullet I didn't ' oven turn my head they
that way , The woman came to the win ilo i
dow near mo and said the other two were
sight , nnd I Instructed her lo open flro
with the revolver. Hho hnd fired a pisipl )
only n few times , and I did )1d
count on anything beyond her
giving the bucks something to think
about. It must hnyb been entirely by ue
cidont thai at her very first lire she
wounded ono of the follows in the hip
he at once crawled away to take
care of himself , The other one sen
three bullets through n window nl whlcli
she wns standing , but Flic kept f---
nwny at him nud sending so much
nroiiud his cars thnt ho dare not
vauco. "
The fight in front lasted about hnlf nit
liour. Whenever Ihero was a lull in " 'o '
llring Webber looked ( the
o see Imlni ! * <
spring up and nmkc a rush , nml to pre
vent this ho liroti at random along the
bank , tearing up tlio sod and Ilinglnr
dirt over the red skins in hiding , lie hud
no idea that help was nt hand.imd was yet
depending upon himselfwhen the Indian *
suddenly censed lit lug and beat n linn / ,
retrent , anil ten minutes later Moss i\J
his men rode up , having been met on hti
open prairin by the riderless horso. fctf
retreating from the ravine llio Indian *
carried away their dead warrior , but tk
ono wounded by Mrs. Moss WHS loft to
take cnro of himself. Ho wns found h >
the dry furrow nud despatched. The
heroism of Webber in taking and main
taining his position , severely wounded M
ho was , nml of the woman in obeying Id4
orders , hopeless as the defense must havg
npponrod to hnr , deserves n place cu tha
pngcs of undying history.
EARLY DAYS AT KEARNEY.
A Circus Man'fl Kxporlenoo rhirliijja
lluo m.
Chicago Herald : "Circus men havu
some qiieoroxpiirionctw. ' ! ! nn ndvaiioy
agent , ns lie put his feet upon a sent In
front of him lu the smoking ear aiu |
lighted another cigar "I'll never for
fet the time 1 took a show out to Kcar
ney , Nob. It wns about ten yeas ago
and Nebraska wasn't as much nottloi
then as Ills now , When \vo were lavlu
out our route the boss was n little uub (
oils about going any farther west thnn
Grand Island , but I showed him tlnil
Kearney was ono of the booming towns
of the west ; thai 11 bad five daily ue\ys-
pnporj , etc. "Thoy claim 8,000 popula
tion , " say I , "but , of course , they haven't
got as much. Ycl , as thcro nro live daily
newspapers there , it must bo a good doa
of n town , " So wo decided to go ns fa *
west ns Kearney , and 1 went
out to make the arrangements and do tha
advertising. 1 found there wore livencwsi
papers all daily sure enough , but it
was the sickest-looking town for oven
ono daily newspaper to live iu , lot alone
live , that I had over scon. I toll you the-
honest truth when I say that 1 mndo a
sort of a count of Iho number of pcoplu
thcro , and it wasn't above 050. mitt ho
leading men told mo Hint Iho country
around was rich and thickly settled , nuo\ \
that the farmers and stock men would
come in by the thousands If wo billed our'
show. There had aoyor been a
circus there , they said , and tun
whole country would go wild over
il. The editors of the five daily paporn
talked encouragingly and promised to *
do all they could for us , and so I sailetl
in. Well , I paid $100 for a city license ,
I paid each of these fiva newspaper *
nn average of $75 , and I pnidf
$10 for Die use ot the thousands ,
of vacant lots. I expected a biji
boom from the country , aud the towu
men said there weren't more pc9plo ia
from the country because it was harvest ?
time nntl they wore nil busy. I sent of
gang of my mou out south over the 1'hittot
to bill the country. In two dnys they returned - *
turned , saving they hnd found nothing In
stick a bill on but ono sod house And twtj
dug-outs , one ruined shanty , a relic ol
sti : o coach days , and n few buffalo car1
cashes whitening in the sun. Not another ,
blessed house could they find. Tlibn I
sent thorn north , over toward Wood river ,
nnd in a couple of days they returned ?
with the same kind of a report. Thot
had gcen four white men , two etooK-
ranchcs. and 400 Indians , who bogged all
the whisky and tobacco the men hatj
with thorn and then stole most of theit ? ' Qi
grub. Bv this lime mailers hud pone sa -
far I coufdn't stop "em , and the show
came on from Grand Islaud. Wo gavoM
nn afternoon performance to just Cti < K
pcoplo. I veritably tiojievo every ,
man , woman nnd child in lowft
wns present and that's nil. Whco wo
came to count the tickets wo found time
150 had como in on newspaper passes ,
ton on account of railroad , Iwonty-tlvo on
account of city council , forty on account
of police , and so on. Our cash receipt *
were about $140. That night wo closed
our tents , the whole gang of us got
drunk , were arrested , nnd the next day f
wo had to give up thu $140 and more be
sides , and sell four horses in order to pay
our lines. Wo wore out of funds , and
before wo got through the lowu of Kear
ney had just about absorbed our show.
' 'I afterward learned that Kearney wan
one of the 'boom' towns , living on hope
and sucli suckers as slruyeU that way.
Wo helped 'cm out amazingly. Four ol .
the daily papers wore printed by land
and town lot speculators , anil another by
syndicate tliat wns trying to run all ol
the politics nnd offices in the county , nnrt
doing it , too. I have never since taken a
circus as far west ua Kearney Junction. "
Reduction in JlourH of Imhor.
Uoston Herald : Hand in hand witli
increasing earnings has gene a corresponding
spending reduction in the liouru of labor.
is n positive tnot that the working
hours are shortest to-day in countries \i
whore wages anil productiveness are
highest. While the working week iu
England averages Jiffy-four to fifty-nix
hours , Germany's and France's week
averages seventy-two hours , with many
Industries nt seventy-eight hours.
Massachusetts has fixed sixty
hours by statute without having ex
perienced any incursion by comparing
neighboring s'tnte.s , which still adhere to
longer hours. It has been the common
experience , wherever tried , that the
shorter hours onublu the workumn to
more energy into his work. In the
curly part of this century , in Knglisli j
cotton factories , the week extended to & * *
*
seventy-four hours ; from 181K1 it was re
duced to sixty-nine Hours. From this it
went ' gradually down to sixty , and in
1874 to fifty-six and a half hours , which
may bo considered the normal working
time of the wiel ; in Great Britain ; al
though thori ) nro trades where fifty to
fitty-iwo hours is the rule , lu the
United States , the oxlont of the working
in cotton mills is riuoted by Mr. At
kinson ns having boon thirteen hours in
1810 , This WIIH gradually reduced to
eleven hours , nnd smco l m Io ten hour *
Massachusetts , with other slate.s be *
ginning to uiovo in the .sumo direction ,
fituto of Hhode Island having iiUoi/tetl
tan-hour day within n month of thi.i
writing , lu NjKMikiug of the building
trade and of the normal working day of
eight hours in thu latter part of ( do mid
ages , Thorold Rogers nays : "Kmploy-
were very likely to discover that tlio
laborer's resistance to an excessively
long day wns not entirejy personal , and
the work might suH'nr from thu work
man's weariness and uxhaiirttioii , " The
excellence of the work , huting through
, when more recent constriiotioiia
disappeared entirely , is oveu u
more eloquent proof of the soundness of
economic views of our forefather *
the voices which are raised
tlio grave of yellow parchment.
Germany , Uiiin at the head of Kurope in
commerce and manufacture , the econo
ruler of the world , thu bunker and
trader of Europe , held to the uuiiiu rules
during its nigh tide of prosperity. All
which shows that reasonable hourd
not at al [ incompatible with great
activity nnd productiveness ; nay , that ,
are n necessary condition to their'
achievement ,
, w gar * L r Coitori- ,
ViTien the'wM * Child , he cried for CutorU ,
Wlien ibo becune'UUi , > be clung ( o CutorU ,
