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10 THE OMAHA * DAILY HEE : SUNDAY , AUGUST 13 , 1803-STXTKENT PAGES AN ILLINOIS TICHBOURNE Komarkablo Oaso of Mistaken Identity De- yolopod in Court. PERSONATING A DEAD SOLDIER FOR PENSION A I'rlza nf 82ffboo rrndncri Ainnxlne Tes timony In favor of n llngu * Claim- niit lllntiirr of the Cnio niul Incident * of the Trlnl. A remarkable trial occupied the at tention of the United States district court at Springfield , 111. , during the greater part of July. A prize of $ if ! ,000 in back pension was Involved , nnd as might bo expected the lawyers made n vigorous light for tins prize. The re markable feature of the case , as devel oped In the trial , was the attempt of the defendant to establish his identity as William Ncwby , n veteran of the civil war. The jury pronounced his preten sions fraudulent , declared ho was none other than Daniel Uonton , alias "Rickety Dan. " a character well known in that ecctlon of the country , nnd that ho was ullty of attempting to defraud the "nitcd States out of pension money. White county is in southeastern Illi nois , and is a rather primitive region. It adjoins Poscy county , Indiana , which is famed for an abundance of hoop poles nnd a , lack of "book-larnln' . " The people ple of White county do not hear much about the progress of atlalrs In the big world outside , and perhaps do not trouble themselves greatly about them , either. But when the civil war began the men enlisted in the union army in largo num bers. Among those was William Nowby , or "Bill , " as ho was always called. No why nt hlilloh. Early in 1801 Bill enlisted in Company D , Fortieth Illinois infantry , along with many of his old White county acquaint ances. Bill was a private. His regi ment went to Cairo , 111. , and then did Bomo campaigning in western Kentucky. After that it moved down into Tennes see with Grant'a command nnd was at the great battle of Shiloh or Pitts burg Landing In April , 1802. During the battles Nowby'o regiment was posted in line near the front. Many men still living in White county were with him. Ono wns by his eldo. The confederates were then driving the union forces back upon the Tennessee river. But the Fortieth Illinois was lighting bravely. According to the accounts of his com rades Nowby was lying on the ground end loading and firing at the enemy , llo would Ho upon his face and fire , and then ho would turn over upon his back and reload. After ho had fired many times and was turning upon his back to reload , he was struck upon the head by a fragment of an exploding shell from a confederate battery. According to the testimony of ono of his companions , who is still living , and was a witness in the case here : "Bill kinder quivered and uttered a little cry , and I never saw him move again. " A few minutes after this the Fortieth Illinois , was unable to withstand the rush of the confederate troops , and re treated , leaving the dead and wounded where they lay. Among these was Bill Ncwby. The next day , as everybody who hag read history knows , General Grant was reinforced by General Bu'oll , ' and the tables wouo turned , on , the con ; federates. When the field was regained' , and the battle was won over , the Fortieth Illinois began to seek its dead. Nine men in company D , according to the reports , had been killed. In this list Bill Nowby wns included. Ur. R. II. Miracle is n physician who has lived in White county all his life , and but a half milo from Bill Nowby , whom ho had known' intimately since childhood. Moreover they were tent mates nnd messmates in company D. Dr. Miracle was a member of the burying . lie testified in court hero that Early. o found the dead body of Nowby lying with several others. Ho and his assist ants buried nil the bodies on the Hold , and ho put Nowby's name on a shingle at the head of his grave. But ho had not been told previous to finding the body that Nowby had boon killed. Ho was quite certain , however , that the flead body was Nowby's. The facts of Bill's death were duly re ported to his relatives and friends in White county. His widow grieved and the government allotted her a pension , which she drew for thirty years at the rate of $12 a month. Another Xowl > y In the riold. Bill Nowby had Leon forgotten. The Bhinglo with his name on it that Dr. Miracle placed , over the grave on the Bhiloh battlefield had rotted away many , many years ago. Some of his children were dead. The others were getting on towards middle life. Hezekiah , the youngest , was now nearly as old as Ills father was when the latter wont to the war. Bill's ' widow was living with rela tives in Texas. His mother , now 01 years old , was still allvo in White county , Illinois , and several brothers and sisters of his were bcattored about the cquntry. Shiloh itself was getting to bo a dim recollection to the old soldiers , when in March , 181)1 ) , a tall , smooth-shaven man , with gray hair , appeared in the streets of Cnnnl. Several old soldiers saw him ami bald there was something familiar in his appearance. Creed A. Lay , who had been a member of company I ) , Fortieth Illinois , met the stranger face to face on the Btreot. Ho stopped him and took a good look at him. ' ' "Why , It's Bill Nowby'ho ' exclaimed. "Allot us thoughtyou were dead. Where have you boon all this tlmo ? " "Yes , I am Bill Nowby , " said the man , tlniply , "nnd I have come bnck homo. " The man was asked to tell where ho had boon for thirty years , and why ho had not uomo homo sooner to his family and friends. Ho enld that the blow In- lllcted on his head by the fragment of nholl at the buttlo of Shiloh had af fected his brain and Injured his reason. Ilia memory dlHappearecl almost en tirely. Ho could not connect events , Ho wns not oven faiiro of his own name. But ho had short periods of eanlty , ho said , and could recall a portion o'f his history after ho was struck ! > y the frag ment of bhull. r < When the union troops retreated nnd the confederates advanced ho recovered consoIouMiebs and arose from the ground. But the confederates were all around him nnd ho was. taken prisoner. They eont him to Hello Isle prison at Richmond mend , Vu , His head was very bad while ho wns there , nnd ho had but n faint and disconnected recollection of the events that happened while ho was in the prison. Hut ho was turo that nn uncle named Charles Nowby got him out of the jiribon , but when or how ho did not ro- mombcr , and took him to Florida. Neither docs ho rcmombor how long ho stayed In Florida , how ho got away or what became of the uncle , Charles Nowby , His next recollection was of being in the poor house at Mount Vernon - non , III. By this time ho had about for gotten who ho was , and ho wandered about Kentucky , Indiana , Ohio and Illi nois , spending most of his tlmo in poor houses. A 1'uor lloiue Veteran. According to his own account ho mubt huvo been iu fifty poor houses altogether. Ho had como lo the Mount Vernon poor house ngnln in 1890 , and whllo there the second tlmo his head grow much bettor , nnd his memory improved , ho ald. Ho bcgnnto recall who ho wns. Gradually events grow clearer. Everything ran back to a great blurr of llamo and smoke , and the roar of cannon nnd the shouts of men. Ho tried hard to plnco .that jumble of sights nnd sounds. At last ho remembered that it was n great battle. Ho had been there and ho was Bill Nowby. Now ho knew why the pcnr was on his head. Bill's sister , Mrs. Pauline Camnboll , who lives in Wayne County , Illinois , said she did not believe the man was her brother Bill. Ho was taller than Bill had been. Ills hnir was straight , while Bill's had curled a little. Bill's ' lists were bigger than this man's. She re membered also that Bill had a mole near the middle of his upper Up. Tills mole rose so little above the skin that ono would not notice it without looking closely. She asked the man to lot her sec if ho Imd such a molo. Ho said that a mole of that kind hud been on his lip , but ho had cut ItolT. The old soldiers sent to Texas after Mrs. Bill Nowby. She camo. The man wns put before her , She looked nt him. Then , after the fashion on the melodra matic stage , she exclaimed : "It's my Bill ! " and foil Into his arms. There wns no disputing the stranger's identity after that. When his own wife said it was Bill Nowby what right had any other to deny it ? So Bill was feasted and made much of. His wife notified the government that she would no longer draw her 812 n month pension. Instead , Bill put in a claim for a pension for himself. Under tlio law , for such a wound as ho had received - coivod at Shiloh , ho would be entitled tea a pension of $72 n month , and back pay it the rate of $72 n month since 1805. This back pay at the present tlmo would amount to about $29.000 , or what would bo n fine fortune in White county. The old soldiers , with sympathetic zeal , liolpcd Bill yvlth his application. When the facts In the case were re ported to the government some sus picions worb aroused at Washington. A preliminary examination increased Lheso suspicions. The government de cided to investigate thoroughly. T. II. McBride , a pension examiner who is sta tioned at Cincinnati , ono of the most in dustrious nnd skillful in the department , was detailed for the case. Ho is a re publican who hold ollico under ilio last administration , but has been reappointcd by Mr. Cleveland - land for meritorious service. Mr. Mc Bride wont into southern Illinois and spent a long time on the case. Then ho made a report to his superiors at Wash ington. That report was startling. A Hogus Oliilnmnt. The claimant , Mr. McBride said , was not Bill Nowby. The real Bill Nowby was killed at Shiloh , as was at first re ported. The claimant was named Daniel - iol Benton , or in full Allen Daniel Benton - ton , commonly known as "Rickety Dan. " Ho was born in White county , Illinois , but at the ago of about 8 years he Imd removed with his parents to Ten nessee. Ho had grown up there into a worthless man. Ho had been tried for horse stealing , convicted and sen tenced to fifteen years' imprisonment in the Tennessee penitentiary at Nashville. Ho had served twelve years and nine months of that time , the remainder being commuted 'for good behavior. After that ho hud wandered around the west and south , spending most of his time in poor Houses , Mr. McBride said ho could account for every year of the claimant's ' life except 18GG , , The wound in his head , ho said , had' never been' made by a piece of shell , but by a wagon bow. A wagon bow is a piece of slender but strong timber. Ono and is fastened In a btaple on ono side of n wagon. Then the other end is bent over und fastened in a staple on the other side. Thus the bow forms an arch over the wagon , and a cover for the wagon and the goods it may. contain is stretched over it and other bows. Mr. McBride said that while the claimant was stretching such a bow the end How out of the staple nnd struck him on the head with great violence lence , causing a very severe wound , which loft a deep scar. Much Murrlcd. Moreover , Mr. McBride said ho could nroduco a woman , Hannah Stewart , who had lived with the claimant at the Pilto county , Indiana , poor house , and had loft there with him in 18711. She had two children by him , though they wei o never married. She und Dan went to Tennes see , arriving there in 1874. Shortly after that Dan was sent to the peni tentiary for the horse-stealing episode. The moro fact that ho had lived with such a woman did not have much bear ing on the identity of the man , but the prcbonco in court of a living son by the woman , now 10 or 20 years old , did. This young man , who was produced in court hero , is exactly like the claimant , who acknowledges him as his son , as ho also does the other statements about Hannah Stewart. The resemblance be tween the two Is wonderful. This boy has the "rickets , " IIo has a teetering - toring walk precisely like his father's. Now , the "rickets" is a hereditary disease. Bill Nowby never had it. Neither has any of his children hero in White county. In fact , the dls- ease is not known in the Nowby family. Therefore , pays Mr. MoBrido , if this man IB Bill Nowby , his hon by Hannah Stewart would not have the "rickets. " The claimant , ho f-ays , has the "rickets , " just as his son has , and the scars on his logs were caused by the disease , and not by bullets. A physician might bo able to dotormlno how these bears woio pro duced , but no such evidence has boon in troduced. Mr. MoBrido Bald ho would produce a cloud of witnesses who would swear that the claimant wns Daniel Benton , and they would trace his life back to a period before the ' .far , To this the man replied that ho had been known as Daniel Benton - ton , but ho had not given his nnino as such In the first place. At * ono of the poor hoiiboj In which ho had been stay ing some one hud called him Daniel Bon- ton. That was when his mind wns very bad. But ho know enough to know that ho was not Daniel Bentoti. liiillrttMl for rruml. On the strength of Mr. McBrldo's re port , however , the claimant was indicted by the grand jury of the United States court at Springfield in March 1801 , on three counts llrsl , n fraudulent attempt to obtain a pension ; bocond , making false nlUdavit to a pension claim ; tlrird , perjury , The penalty for conviction on each of these indictments is ono to five years in a United States penitentiary. Acquittal would ho equivalent to ebtnb- lishing his identity as Bill Newby , and ultimately obtaining a pension of $72 u month , and a back pension of about $25,000. The claimant was arrested , and Bomo time uftorward ho was tifken before United States Commissioner Kidd. Ho waived examination , and Commissioner Kidd hold him in 82,000 bull. This bail was furnibhed by about twenty of his old soldier friends. Judge James A. Crolgh- ton of the circuit court of the district , who believes that the man Is really Nowby , ulsoobecamo ono of the bonds men. These preliminary proceedings lint consumed some time , and hud tukon the case far Into 1802. The trial was thei not for the 1803 spring term of the United States dlbtriut court , before Judge William Alien of the southern district of Illinois. All of the claimant's old soldier friends rallied around him. In fact , there was a great storm of indignation in White county. There wns loud talk against McUrido. It wns even said that it might bo dnngorotis for him to appear igain in White county. It wns also said .hat the national government wns trying to cheat an honest but unfortunate old soldier out of his rights. A longuo wns organized to protect and defend Nowby , or "Rickety Dan , " and secure his rights for him. About 1,000 men are in this : > ody. It has no name , but it is in formally known as the Newby league. The Trlnl. When the casa opened It was ono of the hottest days of the year. With the freedom of n small city nearly every body appeared in shirt sleeves , except Judge Allen and the lawyers. The claimant put almost In frontof the judge. Mrs. Bill Nowby , who says she knows it Is her husband , nnd Ilczekiul , who is equally certain It is his father , sat bo- sldo him. Nowby were no coat , but had an nn old at my vest of blue with brass buttons. Ills trousers were blue , his shirt was blue llunncl and ho were heavy shoos. He walked into court with the teetering gait that ho says IB duo to gunshot wounds in the legs , and that Mr. McBride Bays is duo to the "rlckots. " But there is a strange contrndlction in the cnso that neither side can reconcile. Bill Nowby was born sixty-nine years ago. "Rickety Dan" Benton was born forty-nine years ago. This man looks neither so old as Bill Nowby nor so young as "Riclcoty D.in. " Tlio examination of the witnesses wns Interesting. It disclosed nn oxcltod state of popular feeling in White county. Some of the witnesses said that people were afraid to testify that the man was not Bill Nowby. Some said that these who were confident ho was not Bill Nowby had boon bulldozed by Bill Nowby's sons. A complaint that bull dozing \vas attempted in open court , in the very room sacred to Uncle Sam , was made. MUnlug Link * . The first important testimony wns offered by John Sawyer , an old man of 80 , who lives at Knoxvlllo , Tenn. Ho said ho had known the claimant as early as 1859 , at his brother's house in Tennes see. His nnmo was Daniel Bonton. IIo was then n little boy of 8 or 9 years , and was rickety in his limbs. He said ho saw him frequently between 1859 and 1801 , and also afterward in the peniten tiary , when "Rickety Dan" was confined there for horse stealing nnd Sawyer wns n guard. Mrs. Bottio Fudge of Knoxville - villo , Sawyer's daughter , and many others testified to the same clTect. Dr. R. H. Miracle is the man who said bo put the shingle , with the nnmo on it , over Nowby's grave. The doctor had weakened somewhat and had written to Mrs. Nowby in Texas that the man was her husband , but ho said on the witness stand that ho had been intimidated by Bill Nowby's sonsbccauso soon after the man's arrival ho had expressed a belief tha ho was not Ncwby. This , ho said , bad induced him to write the letter to Mrs. Nowby. Old Carroll Nowby swore the man was not his brother Bill. Ho said Bill was shorter , lighter of complexion nnd much broader and heavier than this man. Moreover , Bill , despite his largo frame , had a small head , wearing a Ci hat. This man has a largo head. The voices , also , were different. IIo admitted that the man had a remarkable recollection of early events in Bill's life , and knew much about the family , but ho believed ho was prompted by somebody. Iiit iiiltlatniR Witnesses. Mrs. Pauline Campbell of Wayne county , Bill's sister , next swore that the man wns not Bill. Bill , she said , hud been her favorite brother. She wished ho were alive again. But this man was not ho. Hero she began to cry. After a while she continued and described nil of Bill's characteristics. While she was talking a juryman arose suddenly in his box and exclaimed : "Mrs. Bill Nowby is trying to intimi date the witness. I sco her shakintr her fist at Mrs. Campbell , and looking at her threateningly. " Mrs. Nowby was sitting in a revolving chnir , near Mrs. Campbell. Several persons besides the juryman said she had been making the threatening postures. The claimant seized Mrs. Nowby's revolving chair und turned it around , until Mrs. Nowby's back was toward the witness. Then the case proceeded. Pressloy Nowby , another brother of Bill's , when the man first came to Carmi , had identified him as his brother. But on the witness stand ho swore that ho was not. But the defense , on cross- examination , proved that Pressloy had once said to n crowd that It would take $500 to keep him from swearing against the claimant. Pressloy said ho had made the remark jokingly. Alice Stowos , another ono of the women with whom the claimant had lived in almshouscs , Bald that she had always known him as Dan Benton , nnd Dan Benton only. Some more army comrades of Nowby's testified against the claimant. Ono of the last witnesses for the prose cution was William II. Chatman of Carmi. After describing Bill Nowby as ho had known him , ho was risked if the man before him wus Nowby. "Yes , I am satibfied that is Bill Nowby , " ho answered unexpectedly. The prosecution- taken by surprise , nnd Mr. Shutt exclaimed : "This Is not the Chatman wo want. This is ono of the defense's witnesses , " ' The witnessed for the defense were just us positive us these for the prosecu tion. There were IJO men and women , most of them people who had known Ncwby In White county from his earli est childhood until ho went to war. They said the rosomblunco wus perfect , nnd they could not bo mistaken , Some of them had boon his comrades in the Fortieth Illinois. The mnss of contradictory evidence wns sifted by the jury und a verdict ol guilty roturncd. Tin : isfti > yionv op Ki.inm JOXES. boinaviUc Journal , There never WHS a liottor man TimM Klder Simon Junes , Hn rcekuil with Hoodlums , oven to Thu marrow In lib Imnc-i ; And liu'd liavu boon boatlllod l.Dii yearn nsco , I lnu\v ; , It nt fur his fatal tendency To bay : " 1 told you so. " Nn mutter wlrnt nilKlitcomo to pan , No bliiulow of HiirurNo Wus nvor M'on liy any onu In Klclor Jimcv oyes. He'd hlmiily listen to tlio tale Of Kladiiu s or of woo , And whtin It nil was llnUtied he'd Kumarlc : " 1 ( old you wi. " A morooMisperiitlni ; man , The nuliihhors all UKIOOU , They 110or knew , liowuvor good IIo wus In word and deed ; 1'or when the most unlookod-for tilings Had sol tlicm in a k'low , The stolid Jonus would only nod And iiiy ; "I told you bo. ' Wall , finally the older died , Abuvon peed moil must. llln mortal frame way laid away To mingle with the iliist. Hut whun hU soul to judgment came Its Conrad wan turnud holow , And till thi ) niiifuU shook their noads And blghed ; " 1 told you to. " Tlioroaro tlireo things wortn savin's Tlmo , Trouble nnd Money and Do Witt's Little liiitly Risers will save thorn for you. These liulo pills will s-ivo you tlmo , as they act promptly. They will s.ivo you trouble , as they CUUBO no piln. : They will save you money us they economize doctor's bills. DOUGLAS ( S008IY ROADWAYS A Comparison iof-itho Costs and Values of Earth arid 'Macadamized Roads , THE LESSONS t OF EXPERIENCE REVIEWED Moilnrnte ClrnHe * nn Important I'nctor Abnmloiunoiit of the 1'rcsont n Ncccn- inry l'rrl ilo to the KUnhllMunout or n Correct Ilcmil Il\l \ Curt'ti C. Turner. V. This table shows graphically the loads that ono- horse can haul on different kinds of roads , nnd also the cost of con structing these roads : Bl 3 § s § § 00 UO N1 M n to 06 Tlio Mulii ytioHtlon. We now como to the question of paved or macadamized roads. In this connec tion I do not wish to enter into any ar gument to show the necessity or utility of paving or macadamizing our country roads. Neither do I propose to discuss the merits of any special kind of artifi cial surfacing. I do wish to show , however , that our roads nro not in a fit btato to receive nn artificial surface , and that before wo un- doi'tako to cither pave or macadamize wo must locate now roads that shall con form to the lines already pointed out. The principle that I wish to bring out most c'cnrly ia ono that is recognized by practical road builders everywhere , but does not seem to bo realized by these individuals who advocate the indiscriminate paving of coun try thoroughfares. It is this : Grades , which are objectionable under any circumstances , become moro objec tionable as the surfacing of the roadway is improved. This is for the reason that the force of gravity on an ascending grade offers just as much resistance to haulage on a paved roadway as it does on an unpaved roadway , and , as it in desirable - sirablo to haul heavier loads over a paved roadway than can bo hauled over an unpaved roadway , therefore wo BOO that as soon as hills are encountered it becomes 'necessary to either diminish the load or else employ extra horses. This point will bo clear , I think , after an oxdnlination tif tho'following tablo. The rcsult-8-horp. . given are compiled from deductions from the experiments of mnny engineers nnd practical road builders. Tlioy show the loads , includ ing the weight of the vehicle , thnt can bo hnuled by n single horse over differ ent surfaces and on different mean grad ients. It is assumed that these loads renrcsont what sv horfeo is capublo of doing when working all day long , day after day , without injury , under the conditions of gradient and surface indi cated. Any horbo might do hotter for a short timebut wo are here dealing with average conditions : unit Hauls. In examining this table it will bo no ticed thnt the loads that ono horse can haul on different gradients decrease with a much greater ratio on the mac adamized ronuSyay thnn on the earth roadway. Or , in other words : "Grades become moro objectionable as the sur face of the roadway is improved. " For example , referring to the table wo BOO that when the road Is level , throe times as great a load can bo hauled over the macadam surface as over the earth sur face , but on the other hand when the road has a mean gradient of 3 pop cent only twice as much win bo hauled by ono horuo over the macadam roadway as over the earth roadway. Finally wo see that , when the mean gradient rises to fi per cent , ono hortio can haul no moro on a macadamized surface than ho can haul on a hard dry earth roadway with a mean gradient of 2 per cent. In the previous discussion of this ques tion wo huvo seen that it is not practical to undertake the reduction of our section line roads below a menu gradient of 3J per cent , whereas it is quite easy to secure correctly located roads on a mean gradient of H per cent. From the ubovo tublo wo select as follows : Table showing the loads that ono horse can haul under dilTorcnt condi tions of gradient nnd surfnco : Ucioil lUmdt I Loads , In the column of ratios wo BOO how the loads may bo increased by improving a road. Hero .wo too thnt while wo cnn increase the loads 47 per cent by build ing correctly located earth roads , wo can only increase them 1)3 ) per cent by going to the great expense of macadam izing the improved toction lines , whllo on the other hand by building and macadamizing correctly located roads the loads cnn be increased 211 per cent ! Could unythltig bo moro absurd thnn to talk of macadamizing thcbo section lines with such llgurca blaring us in the faco. Lot us look into the question a little further and sea how the cost of the dif ferent roads would compare. From the bids received by the county commission ers last spring wo know thnt it will cost $15,000 per milo tu mncadamizo a 10-foot roadway , Taking these figures In con junction with the estimates of cost made In the second article of this sorlos und wo have the following tutilo of costs and loads hauled : The above cbtluiutcs of cost inuy rcqulro GREAT REDUCTIONS It will pay you to investigate what we arc offering in carpets this month. We want eve-x rything new 'for the new store , and shall sell1 out all spring patterns at , "f ! . ! * . * ' Great Reductions * i FKOH Regular Prices. : An overstock of matting received too late for spring business will be sold at about one- half. It pays to buy wh < m goods arelow , Douglas , Between 14th and 15th , t seine modification , but for the purpose of comparison they nro substantially cor rect. In other words , the advocates of paving section line roads propose to spend $10,800 , to secure an advantage of 05 per cent , when by spending 10 per cent moro they could secure nn advan tage of 211 per cent ! Could n moro ab surd proposition bo presented ? Before any system of roads is built it is imperative that the future should bo looked to with yreat care. Future gen erations will have to pay for the mis takes of the present generation just as surely as wo are now paying for the er rors of past generations. Many of us will find ourselves in the runlcs of a fu ture generation. Shall wo blindly olobo our eyes to our future rights and neces sities and bo content with immediate re sults , no matter how unsatisfactory they may bo ? Or shnll wo by a little careful forethought make things easier for future GTonorutions , and by this sumo careful forethought secure moro satisfactory re sults for ourselves ? I'olly of Indifference. Shall wo sit supinely down nnd by stupid indifToronco endure the evils to which wo nro acoustomed rather thnn fonso ourselves from our benighted lethargy and reach lor bettor things ? Custom is the argument behind which every cankerous growth that has af- llicted civilization faces fit to entrench it- bOlf. bOlf.But But unless custom cnn give an excel lent reason -for its existence it is hardly a safe guide for public policy. Custom , backed up by a state law , dic tates that our county roads must follow section lines. Never did custom have less reason for existence than hero ! Designed for the benefit of fainglo individuals , it has had the olTcct of n boomerang , and at this day the section line road is stealing yearly moro money from the pockets of the&o very individuals thnn ft saves to them in a decade by means of the single advantage that it confers. Its stealings will increase with every year until heroic measures are taken for its sup pression. It can bo suppressed moro cheaply today than cvor again. It is the duty of the farmers of this county to demand that the Board of County Com missioners have now roads surveyed ; that they exorcise their authority of eminent domain und purchase the re quired right of. way. Such roads will como hifh pobsibly $ . ' 1,000 , or $1,000'per milo when built complete ready for tralllc but no greater boon can bo con- fen cd on the people of Douglas county than the construction of just biieh ronds. Roads , understand mo , tint turo to bo lo cated and built , intelligently and im partially , on n comprehensive , well di gested plan , not to accommodate Mr. A or Mr. U , but rends surveyed , located and built bclciitilicnlly with great cnro and after mature deliberation. When Douglas county does this thing then another great stop will have been taken in the history of our local civiliza tion. liusy people Imvo no tlmo , nnd sensible people have no Inclination to use pills timt make them sick n day for every Uoso they take. They Imvo learned that ttio use of Do Witt's Little Knrly Risers iloos not In- turfero with tliuir noalth by causing nausea palu or grilling , Thcso little pills nro per fect In action anil result , regulating the stomach and bowels so that lientlaches , dlzilncss and lassitude are prevented. They cleanse tlio blood , clear the complexion and ono up the system. Lots of health In tlieso little follows. The rocking stone of Tandll Is ono of the wonders which Americans will no to sea when the intercontinental railway begins to carry tourists lo South America. On the summit of a low lilll on a great plain of the Argentine Republic looms this great mass of roclt. It weighs 2,000 or ,000 tons. A thousand horses couldn't roll u over. Yet a man can stand under the cdga of it and , put ting his hund against It , ecu move the entire mass until it rocks to and fro. If u bottle Is put clojo to the under cdgo of the muss , anil two or three pusffes nro given , the rock will roll back and smash the IxHtlo. There Is a picture of this curiosity in the Argentina ox. hlblt. _ Mental exhaustion and brain fatlguo Promptly cured b.y JJroino-Seltzer. Mrs. Lease is an Irish woman , and the chief charm of her oratory Is her graphic Irish way of putting things. She says she never has any trouble in keeping her audience right through to the end , except occnblonully when nho sees "tho head of boino Hossiun editor twinkling in the uoor. " i With a steady Increase In Its production for the past forty years , Cook's Kxtra Dry Imperial Champagne now takes the lead. Tn Shakespeare's tlmo the prices of admls- Ion varied from u pcuuy to u slihliuk' . SAVINGS BASTK. SIXTEENTH AMD DOUGLAS STREETS. 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