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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 24, 1893)
1(5 ( TUTS OMAHA DAILY I3EE : SUNDAY ' DECRiMURIl 21 , 1893-STXTERN PAGES. THE SWEDES IN NEBRASKA History of the Nnmerotia Settlements in Saundcts County , THE REWARDS OF ENERGY AND THRIFT I'ovrrtjnnil I'rtvntlnni nf I'lnnerr I.l'o Succeeded 1 > y OcKcricd I'rmporlly KnMy . .ettlrra nml lliclr Ilomcatcniti. No county In tills commonwealth has so laiffoa pcrccntago of forclRti-boin citizens as SaunJcri county , nwl nowhere docs thn cosmopolitan imputation ll\o nntl Intormln- Blonsliaimoiiioiisly ns Is the ease In this county. I es3 tlmn a ccntuiy from now nil traces of forelRii birth ot nationality will bo , ns It should , entirely oulltcr.itcil , nncl In place thereof , moulded Into a harmonious oneness , intensely Aniciican. In these sctles of articles I have gathered and garnetcil the facts and incidents of the Swedish settlements of this state , which at the present time will bo Intciustlni ; reading , but will enhance in Miluo with time And lust now is tlio opportune moment , because - cause In a few jcars IICIILP thcso early pioneers neers will bo gathered to their eternal homo nnil the Information hoio prcseMeil , thatiUs to thocntctpriso of TUB OMUIA IJci : , vould bolrrpco\ciably lost. While I hue confined mjsclf to one na- tion.ilily nlono , because host qualified to that task , no sllpht Is Intended to others If I record what has been achieved through hard work , duprUattaint mid cconoinj by tlio Swedish pioneer fanner , the s imo is equally true cf tlio German , Irish , Bohemian , Scotch mid other nationalities. l'lr < t Soiliciiunt or tlio Cnitnt ) . In March , 1857 , P. Watbrlttou took up a claim on section ! H , township 18 , ranpo Si , .1. Stamh lu li and John Augho on section ICi , samu townshttiand ranpeaml the three built the two ( list sod houses In bauiuicrs county. Tlio lit at sotticis near tlio uUnltv of Wahoo weio 'lliotnas litssell in IbOland MOSLS StoikitiR in lbij" > . A tinsU.oithy ttiithotiti B.ijstliat not. moio than twenty people lived in S Hinders county in liOO The county was oigimlml in ISO" The llrst Sweetish sr-ttler was one Wall , who hailI buttled on band Crock , near the prrscnt site of Colon , some time botnceu l8U5and IfrlW 'ihls Wall mul family had como us far as Nubr.isk.i City with a lot of Mormon cinlinnnts , but there sepatatcd and made tlio settlement nfuiumcntloncil They resided in tins county until about ten jeats ngo , when they sold out and went to ball Lake City In the jear 18S3 omiRiatcd Irom Ilorjo Potsamlinir , ICiistianstad Uin , Swollen , the widow Johanna Hoipgicn , uith her son ; ! , N. II , A. lj. Olof and Aim tin. mul her daughter No'llo ' The family stopped in Chicago and the eldest son , N I ) , lotind work with the noted paiduncr ami horliuul- tniist. Air Peterson of Hose Hill , a suburb of Chicago , and noon ho became Air. Peter son's u listed foiemail Air. N U Ilerptrien was noiinf ? man of vim and eneitry Ho had heard of tlio oppoi- Utilities of tlte gicat west for \ounsr men In IhOO Ho went on a tour of m\estimation , and his ttip extciuled as far west ab Bu-t countj , w hois nhcady a S.\edish settlement Iuul been staitf.il Ho was well pleased with tiio land in s tld rounty , but hearing that the elate capital w,1/1 / to be mo\rd south of the Platte Ins business s-.gacitj suggested to Ills mind the ; uh.in tuft's of seeming land aearei the c.tpital of the state. Ho there fore crossed the Platte anil belteld the beautiful prairies of baundcis county. At thi't time thcro wcie no settlers in the m- tcitor of the count.v except Uisscll and Stocking , before mentioned. On the ptcscnt situ cf Lincoln the only signs of human habi tation wcto two sod houses. The follow ing jcar , lb ( > 7 , Air. HeiKsren rctiiincd to Notn.isk.i , and at Ficmoni se em d a wagon and team in conjunction with two gentlemen who wcio going to stake out n in til lottto to the now state L.tpital. Axes mid spades wcio taken along and when Wahoo ctcck was icachetl halt a day was occupied In btidging the h imo. On October 12 , Ib07 , Air Uciggrcn llled on scotion IU , township 15 , tango b , and at the sime time illeil for fourteen other set- tleis , amoiiff whom wcie. L Cltristenson , Otto Iluekhndcr , A L ISeiguren , Joins Bandbcrir , I tte Pinwall , A. Plnmb rcn , Ptank Potcison , John Johnson and Is'cls Nelson. March f > , 1SC8 , Air X. D neiggrenand the rest of those who made their Jilings five months before , settled on their icspcctUo homesteads , and ftom them dates the lloui- ishlng Swedish settlements of Smindors county Letters wcie sent to Sweden do- Bciibini ? the rich nnd pioinisinjj land they had taken possession of , am ) the gt and op portunities it offcicd to sccute a homo. It brought foith icsults. Tlio Sweilcburg bettlcniriit. In the spiing of 1879 airived , direct fiom the same prounco of S\\cdcn that Air Hcie- Krcn hails from , thirty families , nil of whom Buttled mound wheie the two bwedcburg ihun.liC3 aio now located Among these were the following- A Aspcgteti , Ncls lonsson , lulls Pet son , John and Magnus IJtirkson , John and Nels Gibson , Jens and Mons Alnilinson , Ncls niluson , Hans llan- > on , Hans Hokanson and A. G Qjlut. In the fall of the sa-no jc.it this settlement re ceived a further icinfoiccmcnt of about 100 families It is impossible tn secure the names of all , but at the otgani/ation of the jhuieh on thoCOth day of Apiil , 1&70 , wo find tlio following names of mcmbuis not iltcadcnumi'iatcd. , . Htm Potcison , ( now Kopine ) , Aim tin Jeppson , Carl Cmlson , IJengt mid Oko Swcnson , batnuel i'otoison , ( Llnkoping ) , Olof Olson , A. O Olson , Peter Olson , P U Andeison , ft. J. Cioianson , C J Litbon , Swcn Swens- ion , A P. Wallln , Andrew Ullasou. Holtan Olson and Ttuls Hokatibon. llio Miihiio Si'ttlrniPiit. To L Isaacson , the Malmo crain and stock dealer , belongs the honor of being the Mist Swedish bottler in that p.nt of the tountj , Ho also hails from itiistlanstad Ltu KHt'ciPM. and emigrated in lbW. ( arilving in Omalri in tlio month of Ala.IhM. . Ho canio mid settled on tils homestead in Saundeis county in the spting of Ibi/J. Ho ilia not 10- main alone for moie than about two weeks when Air. Andtow lllomboig came ftom Omaha with a colonj of bweilcs ditcut fiom llio hlstotlo IXUe.irli.i , noted for Its btavo men and liandsomowomen , nnd located them on tlio beautiful and productive piahio sur rounding the ptcscnt Alaltno The follow ing is a list of those who settled mound Alalmo in the jeais IbOU and Ib70 1 > 1' , Httico , J Urcdeuheig , A Hellblntr , P llinco , H Hcllslng , ti Htuco , J Hullsing A lllombeig.A IJosenboifc'.J. NelsonJ Laison , L LJungstrnm , llcngt Olson and his thtco BOIIS , P. H.Olof and John and Alficd Ander- The tinco Unices above mentioned nro direct descendants fiom ttto noted Scot tish entertain , lltuco , tlio laiuiu having lied fiom Seotland to escape with their lives fiom the tjranin of tholirltlsli govetn- incut mid settled in Snci'on , but now trans planted nnd taken thin ami permanent root In thu soli ot the great republic. 'Iho lUilnn bctilument. In the car Ib07 the county was invaded liy a Swedish Immigration from another ijuaitcr , A llnptist colony settled seven miles 1101 tit from tlio ptcscnt site of Alcad , tuul was called the Kstlna settlement , front the postofilco by tlmt name. Thcso colonists < 'ntnu mainly from Minnesota and Alolino , 111. , ana were from the northein part of Sweden , Among them wo 1mvo collected tlio following names : Andrew , John A. , tnd ( iullklcYlcltlund , I . O. HJeltman , A. nu- nuist , L. V , Lund , Louis Anderson , P. Olson ( rranzcn ) , nnil in 1870 cumo 0 , U , Uppinan from llrooltljn , N , V , llio Alcail Setllcincnt. Tito settlement mudo by N , 13. Dorggren end hit company in IbCS can bo popularly classed as belonging to the Alead settlement , unii they lunlted and organized the llrst fcjwodlah chutch oiganlratlon in the county on tlio 15th day of January , 1670 , as will Do more fully ihouu la another article. Among the early settlers (166U-70) ( ) of this JCUlCKCUt icsy bo mcnlioueU Sncu Ileden- - , A. t/ ron , from Nykonlng , find Ida two sons , Ixnvlft nml Oust Montcn Mr , Larson nnd his family came the 10th ilnv of .luno. ISO1. ) , 1 > . Hcmilng arrived in Oinahn June (1,18CO. ( nnd In November , 1S70. ho came nnd located his wife nn the homestead , while he returned to Omnlii to flndwoik. .1. A Allmcn , Andrew Hallncr , 1'ohr Olson , N. J , Iluldt , J Gibson , A I < arson and H A. Jans- son also nrrUciliti IhO'J. In the snrmg of ISC'J G. Saxclbcrg settled on section 0township 13 , range 0 , three mites from the present station of Memphis. Ho came without means , but today is the owner of 240 acjcs of land , veil Improml nnd well stocked nml out of debt. About the same time came Peter Thtilln , Andrew l/uson nnd Krlo Charling Mr. Thulin , In answer to mv letter asking for information relatl\o to ills experience as an cnrl\ settler , ho writes as follows 1 came to Ncbiaska In tlio spring ot 1SC3 with $10 In nn pocket , a sick wife to earo for , but no dilution Today 1 have a wife and ten children nnd own WO acres of the flncii luul tlie sun ulnncs on I settled la Snundcis countj in the swing of 1'J tea miles noilhwcsi of Ashlnml , on eighty acics orUmloKatn's land 'I he llrst twojcarsl llxed In a sod house ; hud to haul the water for household inn poses and stock two miles , from Wahoo LI celt ; iltank wnrmatertn tliu summer nnd suclied ko In the winter t have raised coin and sold the same from 10 cents tel a bushel , wheat , fiom 2."i cents to ? 1 'Jr. a bushel , hoes , fiom * 1 \ toS8 per 100 hmo bcui eaten u | ) by prasshopncrs nnd chlnt ? bugs ; jcs , 1 ha\o been hailed out , drowned out and dried up , and still I "hold tliofnit'on the old homestead. H would take $10,000 to buy me out of all my prop- city today 1 nm giving my childton a good education I have ono daughter and ono sun attending the \Veslc ; aii unuctslty , and am 50 jcars old. 1 ha\n now given the names and iccords of these w ho laid the foundation of the Inipc and llomishincr S.scdish settlements of Saumleia county Tlmt many dcsci\lng of notice II.TNO escaped my attention will no doubt bo hue , but I liaxo done the best that could bo uono under the ciiciimstnnc.es and ilie time de\otcd to the subject. In tliu next two articles wilt ho given some of the pmntions and cxpeihiiecs passed through by thcso carlv plonceis , how they have succeeded ns farmos , merchants , me- cliamcs , piofcsslonal men and ] iolitiiians ; tlio cliuiuhes they liinu built , the schools theyh.no founded , in shoit , the piogicss lliev h ucmado in mateiial , moial ami ie- llgiousaiUaiucmcnt Kuit , o 1 JiUU.lJtltA It. Dm ing the last month Yale has received $100,000 to be added to tier endowment fund. The ide i of a consolidation of the Uni- vcisltj of Now Yolk with Columbia college has come to naught. The will of Dr. Lucius T. Hlllincs of liatic , Al.tss , has bequeathed the sum of # .1,000 to Hat v.ud univeisHi , to bo kept nsa pcimancnt fund foiascholaishlp iti'tho ' medi cal dcpaitmcnc. It is el timed for Aliss Doiotha Klumpko of ban Tianctsco not only that she is the llrst woman to gain the degico of "doctor of mathematics" in Trance , but that shu can sh tipen her own lead pencils w ben she do- sites to engage in a computation. Thcio is n decrease in the number of stu dents in the liberal brandies at Johns Hop kins this \ car Thcro aio liOO students now at the univeistty. Of ttieso thiity-eight are fellows , 22'J graduito students , seventeen students of medicine and 178 undcrgiaduates and specials James A. Garland of New York has ar- langed a piactical gift to Harvard in the foim of four scucs of art lectuics , for which ho willpivtho cxucnses Mr Oarland has alicady mvcn to tlio Harvard unlvetsity museum VJ5,000 vvoith of iaro gems. Pi of Gcoieo II. Palmer of Haivaid unt- vcisiti and Alts. Alice Freeman Palmer , his wife , will move after Christmas into the house where Dr. A. P. Pcabody lived for so many j cars in the college v aril at Cambiidge. 'llio Misbcs Pcabodi , his daughters , aio building a new house for themselves Though ex-Governor Urovvn of Georgia is in ill health and unable to participate in active aftahs ot any kind , the city council of Atlanta has clcetcd htm < v member of the lioaidof Education , and his mine is to been on the tolls as long as ho lives Ibis is in tccognition of his effoitb in behalf of publtu schools in that city. A recent visitor to Washington has Deen Senor Don Paul Groussac of Duonos Avrcs Ho is ptesidcnt of the national library of that tity and commissioner of education for the Aigcntino Kcpubllc. Ho is also con nected with La Isaclon , one of tlio most im portant napcis of the republic , boner Ciioussacis studjlng this countiy nnd will ttavel extensively hcto befoio icturning. Ho airived vn banFianciscoand lias visited tttc piincipal wcstetn cities. Aliss Helen Gould lias just offeicd a gicat faun at Irvington on-the-Hudson to the "Kindeipartcn and Potted Plant associa tion. " 'I he land will be dotted with a num ber of fiaino buildings , in which 200 or moio children ate to bo lodged anil fed duting the summer months These will bo ready June 1 Thcic will bo flow or beds ns object lessens , laid out bi expoiieneed naidrncis , but each child who is hi ought thcto will bo allotted a plot of giounil and taught to cultivate it. The executive committee of the- Western Heseivouravctsity has appointed Alts Alary NojcsColvm profc-bsoriof tomanco languages in lite' College for Women Airs. Colvin was giaduited""fioni Alount Holjoke , and after btudvlng and teaching several vcars she cn- toted for a degico at the LJnivcisity of Xuilch In rcDumry , ISSb , that univctsity bestowed upon her thodcgieoof Ph. 13 , sumina cunt laude , she having been the first woman to icccivo the doctor's degieofioui the institution. Or Alexander Alattin , vice president of Oop uiw unheisltv , is dead He had hold ttio choir of mental and moral science nt JJopauvv univetsity Mncc Ib75. In that time ho do- volopcd into ono of tlio foiemost expounders of Methodism in Indiana , being prominently mentioned for bishop nt tlio two last ecu menical eonfoicnccs. Ho took his seat as ptesidentof the college in 1870 and held it till IbbU , when ho voluntaiily resigned to lot a joungcr man succeed him. He was botn In bcotlund. ] Venezuela has 2,100,000 people and ono Ptolestant missiomiiy. Canon Tauar will put up In St Alaigarct'a cliuicli , London , of which ho is rector , a mcmoiial to the latoDr Phillips Htooka. Today , in India , thoio mo twenty-eight Ptotcstant theological scmlnaricn with itOO students undergoing training for Christian service. Ono of rutlior AIcGlj tin's old nsslstnnts in St Stephen's ctiurch , Hov. Father llcch- gcr , lias i enounced tlio Koirmn Catholic chinch and embiaccd Ptotcstnntism. Altulo Jamot , the peasant pill who founded tlio Order of Littln , ' 5istors of the Poor , died iccciitlj in IHlitany at llio ago of 74 * The outer lias now 2ISJ houses nnd 40,000 sisteis. A Lambcitvillo , N. J , pastor , who 10- ccntlj eomparcd these of his Hock who pluy inogtcbslvo ouuhro in tholr own homes to piofcssional gamblers , mills the membership dwindling. The Chinese Young Alen'a Christian nsso- ciitloninSin Fianciseo haa icccntly sent JI'.UlX ) to Canton , China , ns a contlibation by tlio Chinese of San Francisco for the evangelization of their countrymen. Among the honorary diplomas recently given b > tlioSt Andrew's ' unlverblty of Kd- Inbuigh Is ono awarded to.Habbl Albert Loown , the liist Instance of this distinction having been bestowed by u liiltlsti univcr- sit ) on an Israelite rajbbi. Bishop William Croswoil Doanovvlll cole- biato the twenty-first anniversary of his consecration nt Albany in Februmy next. A now chapter house Is to bo built at the Ca thedral of All Saints In Albany as a memo rial of ttio uUhop'a consecration. A recent lolig-Ious census of Scotland dis closed tlio fact that out of a total population of l.O''i.WT tlio vatlous denominations have 2'JG ' t.lliO in church communion 780 per 1,000 of the population. Tlio following is the di vision of the abo\.o named total , viz : Ks- tabllshed church ( Prcsbjterian ) , 1,140.247 , Proo chuich ( Presbyterian ) , 7nOJl. U. 0. churoh , 455,101 ; smaller Protestant bodies , 23J.010 ; Hoinnn Catholio chuiclt , U5J.747. Ibis statement leaves l.OOJ.Sll fc'cotbuicu ' 'chuichless.1' ' Dobbins , Jr. What you readln1 ? Domino , Jr "Daredevil Dan : or , the Dan gerous Dago. " Dobbins , Jr. Is ho any uo. Domino , Jr. Well , s-a-i I ill's out of sight. ' It takes ninety-eight chapters tor kill 'iui , 'an he comes near glttlu1 soaked fer keeps o\ory chaptcrl in icr/a Tlio tltno draw * near , tlio blrtli of Chrlitl Tlio moon Is hid , tlio night Is still ; The UirlsttnnM ttctls from hill to hill Answer oncli otlieT In the mist. Pour voices of four hiunlots round , I'rotn far nnd near , on mend and moor , Snoll out mid fall , as If a door \Vcro shut betwenn tno nnd tlio sound : Hndi voice four chances on the wind , That now dllulc , nnil now < locrc.T-ci , 1'caco nnd Koodlll , eood will nnd ponce , 1'cnco nnd good will to nil mankind. IU o , Imptiy morti ! rise , holy inornj Hr.-uv fortli tliu cliccrftil dny from nlRht ; U I'lithcr , touch tlio east , nnd light Tlio llglitthatshono when Hope was born. THE SISTER WITCHES. A long time ago , I cannot say how many vcars , thcro lived out on the Military road , just tills side of Irvington , n itiistcrlons old woman Her abodowasa rndo log and sod hu' , but what her name was orv\honco she came nobody pretended to know. bho was always called the Overland Witch. She was a scrawnv , shrunken , wrinkled sot t of tiling , with an cnoimous hump on her back nnil u largo beak of a nose. Her c cs wcio sin ill and sunken , and overhung with n mat of gilzrlcd blows , which ( , 'avo her nn extremely repulsive look. Her hair was thla nnd gray , nnd alwajs sticamcd loosely from beneath 11 tin ban of dlrtv led llanncl. Thcrovvasno telling how old she was , but nil the old-timo cmigimits who pissed over the Oregon Halt mot tier thotc , and after Omaha had pi own to ititto | a llouttshlng settlement mul farm houses began to dot the pialrie about the lovely valley vvheio livlngtou now stands she was still thcto. She looked no older or picttier as thu j ears tolled on , and no ono could even guess how she lived Her solo companions wcro an old black cat , with e.vcs of a reddish hue , and an enormous praliic owl , said to bo u demon in disguise Surprising as it may seem , this old hag had many visitors. They came almost evcty day , but never at night Nobody had over dared cal at her forbidding hovel after the shidcs of night had settled down , and ue- latcd fanners would htiity by the spot as if thei feaied some appalling lutim would 'inp- ' pin them. Ono dark , stormy night , however , the old witcli was stailied bv : i loud Knocking at the door bho was notonli suiprised but angti , because the disturb inco came in vho midst of her prcpai.Uions for supper. The black cat sat like a sphinx before the open lite- plico and the owl peiched weirdly on the back of ttio old woman's chair. "Whomsoever jou may Do , go away ; this Is no t line lorentottalulng vlsitois ; .vou can not come in lieto " And the hag stirred the Uettlo in which she was boiling some sott of mixture of gopher llesh , licibs and leaves. Hut the bulging at the iickety door was icpcatcd , and with n vicious iinpiecation the Overland Witch aiose , hobbled spitefully - fully ncioss the lloor and. unbolting the door , she opened it sufficiently to peek out. She could just make out the appeiranco of the intruder. Stic was a woman nnd dressed in garments blacker than the night itself. "Whit seek jou licte , woman { " hissed the vv itch viciouslv. "A bit to sup nnd shelter from the stoim : 1 have loit mj way and cannot proceed fui- ther. " "That mulcts not to me , begone " "Oh , good dame , \ou will not deny mo nourishment and ptoieclion on a night liUu this' " "Won't I , though ? " and the old witch slams and bolts the door , then lifting her voice to a high pitch , she shucks : "Begone now , lost I let my biiil and tat out , the > would make short woric of such as JOlll" "Ho ! ho ! > ou miserable hag nnd con- jnrcr , " ciinc hick fuintly , but vindictively , "vou do no reck whom It is jou have re pulsed Irom vour wretched hovel. I nm jour sister , 'llic sauio motlier bore us , but bowaie , .11 v ail is blacker than yours ! " And at this very juncture a hugo boulder come tumbling down the sod chimney , nnd crashing into the witch's kettle ot soup splashed it nil over the loom , scalding the cat and making her yowl horridly and at the same time burning the fate nnd arms of the old hag fearfully , and to tier screams and the cat's weiid mctviiijr llio owl ilappcd bis deathlike wings and added tils dibinal hoot- ings. \\as not tint a hoirible scone ? But to make it woiso even , the black sky opened in a quick , iierco glnnco of lightning , dtsplavinq ttcmeiidous clouds , tumbling and lolling over the piairic. A gro'vl of thunder succeeded Then came another glare , icddcr , lieicer , and a peal was launched tlmt lanly split the old witch's car. car.It was an awful stoirn , the like of which the old hag had novcr known before , The lightning kindled an almost stationary blaze In the tumul'uous clouds and ihcio was a continuous and aDpilIIng roll of thunder. All Ihis the Overland Viteh beheldin such rage as she hadfcnever felt before , Ihtough tholitllecubbi holoofa window. Tito tain slicamed down in rivers , vvhilo llio awful loanng told that the wind had spread its pinions and llio whole outside woild glared in fiercest cilmson. Ihc witch , ttio cat and the owl fairly howled with lagc nnd fear , bul suddenly the old woman seized her oaicen staff , tinow open the door and sptan , ? out into the awful stotm , intending to administer duo punish ment upon the being who had wrought all this fiightful turmoil. &ho aimed a wicked blow at what she thought was the evil ono , but her staff only > vhl72cd through the black air , and by the force of her own exertion the old vv itcli fell heavily lo the giound upon her face , w hero she lay insensible until the cat , which , by puirlng and licking her wimklcd fuee , btought tier back to consciousness. Tlio stars wcio peeping lot tit fiom iljing ftagmcnts of elojds , and the stoim was tum bling a'nd tnultci ing off in tlio cast , The old hug was suiosho hcaid n shriek of eldritch laughter as she tuosc and hobbled Into her hut , where she found everything in disoidcr , 'j ho Hie was out , thu kettle smashed and the lloor strovui with litter She was in a fur.\ and heaped the most unholy impreca tions upon tier sister and swaro by the bat's oj omul the adder's totiuuo she would have lovengoupon her. Hut howl bho did not oven know that she had a sister , let nlono wlieio she lived Yet thctowas nothing beyond the cunning of the Ovci land vVitch , and stroking tlio mot tled back of the ow 1 she said something in a sort of gibberish in his ear , picked him up and tossed him out into tlio open air. With u lugubtious hoot tlio bhd spread his wings , ami , noiseless as the thistle down , sailed away in tliu wakoof thoHioim , Then the old vv itch mounted the cut , stuck a li.iii- pin Into his ilbs. nnd with his fur bustling out like the ( nulls of u putcupino , ho spninz nvvav so swiftly that bho kept beneath the soil ing owl. At last the bird i cached his destination It was a ramshackle , tumble-down timomont that stood on the outskirts of Omaha , o/io of Tom Alurrav'a very near tlio spot where the now public llbtary Is now being built , which was then nothing but a. vast hole , a stoop and rugged hill loimlng up where llio court house stands This was nil tlio Ovoiland Witcti desiicd lo know just then So calling the owl , mid taking the cat up in her aims tutntbout being fair plaj stio hobbled down lo ColT- man's livery siablo , which stood on thu bile of the lalo Uoyu's opera house , and blind thu hostler lo dtivu her and her nets home Once moio in horown tint the old witcli began to cudgel her cunning biain to dovlso vvajs and means of getting o\en with hot sister. She spent days and nights at tins work , went through all soils of demonical Incantations , drank magic broth of load's and vipers' fat , and mudo\\ hole meals of the stingers of buinblo bocs and tlio wings of green beetles , Pinally by the aid of these and the wise counselling of tlio blacic grimalkin and the owl , sheanived at the only plan of uepilv- ing her sister of her unearthly powcis , which Bho was convinced must bo oven greater than her own. This was to pluck out her eye winUers , which were to bo but tied at midnight , Just cro llio dawn of ChrUuius , in a tire mudo out of goat's milk , stones and pieces of scrap Afier weeks of weary watting she at J-tst inado up her mind to t > co how tlio plun would work. So shovvcutaortii to llio Puppio , on whoso InnUs even unto this dav crows n rnro herb , which , If ramla Into a proper emulsion mid spread thidMlyovcr the face for ono nleht , will rcstoro to the oldest midmost withered fnconllittio appearances ofouth , mid pnlhorlng n fimnllty of this marvelous plant , she inado tlibdecocMon nnd subjected herself lo the ticocscary itcnlmcnt. Thonexl morning on looking Into the mirror she was llattcrcd on beholding a beaming , innocent face , with checks full of blooming chrvsin- thcmums mid eyes sparkling with nil the rognlshncss of Innocent childhood. 'I ho old witch was excessively Jubilant nnd she tr.ado speed In completing her plans , which weto to nrrnj herself ns n common farm hoi nnd at night , just before Christ inas , proceed to the tencmcnl IIOUBO of tier slBler in the hollow near Omaha Secreted in her coat she carrlcvl n purse of shin plasters , and a bottle of subtle ophto , which she Ind compounded from the toots of llio rag wci'l and b irk of the giound cherry , which vori mue-h lesctnbled a half pint bottle of Kt up a cabinet lager. 'lite old wilrh knocked fallcr'tiRly nt the etc iky door nnd was admitted Her sister was tall , slender and llou-o looklne. with ou-s that seemed to bum holes In everything they vvctts fastened upon. Hut the witcli \\ltliBtood her piercing sciutiny witli bccottt- ini } foil undo , and on being nskcil in a snap pish voice tliu nature of tier unand , she said bashfully : "AH good woman , tticv toll mo tint you are the lo vet's ft lend , nnd I sorely need > our aid , and if iou will give it mo I will piy theo well " "You speak Hue a manly boy. Now what can 1 do to belli > ou ( " "I wiinta love powder I love sweet Alllly Miller , who lives in the niuffs , but fain would bellovo she docs not look vvitlt fn\0r upon m.\ \ suit You can niaku her return my holy passion ? " "Avo , easily , coj .votitlt ; but place In my pilm my row aid , and though .vou boa hun dred fold more green than .vou are. Alilly will ndoroouuiailly. . Hut it will cost .vou two tlollirs and llftvcents 'And fifty cents1 "A\e , this love pntion is a sccict be- knowiut ottlj Ionic , and I cannot , afloul to give it nvvny " ' 1 ho countii bumpkin demurred no longer , but producing live fifty-ient shlmilastcis ho deposited them In llio tall woman's hand. In tutn she went to a cupbotid and tcachim : up among , i lot of dusty bottles took HOVMI ono containing a dingy looking liquor. "Kub this bottle , jou need not uncork it , over jour sweetheart's cars , and no power on earth can win hei fiom thec " "Oh , good dmne , how can I thank vou enough , and 1 v.ill not leave until jou drink with mo to llio health of inj fair Alilly I have a bottle of 1.110 wild grape wino help , which was sent to mj fattier fiom Ucd Oak , Iowa " _ _ "Indeed 1 will , genetous v.ouih , " and the tall woman pioduccd a goblet. Into Him the old witch poured naif of tlio powctful opiate nnd handed it to the tall woman. bho took it and had just touched her lips lo the rim ot the gl tss when tlio liu o can dle , which sat on the imntlo piece , splut- li'icd mid went out , "Ho ! ho ! liailor , Ingralc , do jou know thy f.uo ? " The old Ovethnd Witch tuincd lo flee. Hut Iho lull woman caught tier , and seiz ing a lollincr pin , began lo beat her unmet ei- fullj' , when to her wild delight the old witch suddenly assumea her nitural sliapo The beating had destuojed the powers of tlio lag weed emulsion. Tlio tall woman then knocked her down , and taking two clothes pins she fastened ono on each ear. and ran all atound tlio room with her , finally ding- ging her upstaitb to the seventh stoiy and Hinging her out of the window. blic fell on a pile of paving bricit and would have been killed , but she were a heavy liver pad nnd that bavcd her life She arose sorely to her feet and began to hobble up the hill tow aid Fatnam street , but lie'r ears vrero so long fiom the stretching they had received thai she attracted llio attention of a lot of boys who wcio out lute and thov hooted and jeered and pelted her with brick bats nnd mud until she i cached the shelter other own hovel vay out on tlio Ahlitary road. Formers coming into town Cluistmas morniiig were dumbfounded to discover that the old hut of theOetlanditch was gone , and hunt as haid as vou muy , nven today , jou cannot find a stnglo icstigo of that wietchod hovul , or anj' poison who can tell jou what became of either the old witch or her tall dark sister who did live in lite hol low at Omaha. SANDY Guisvvoi.u. 3/iomas / natlcu Ahlttch d < Scitbnu's. In youth , lieklde the lonely sea , Voices and visions eauiu to me. Tilnnln mid her furtive broods VAuio my familiar- thu woods. 1'ioin ovety llowe't that broke in llamo , borne hulf-uitlculatcd whisper came. In every wind I fall the stir Of boniucelcstlul mcsiciigui. 1-itcr , amid thu city's din And toll and wealth , .uul want and .sin , Thov followed me from street to sttcot , Thu dic.uiib that , inado my boyhood h\vcut. As in thu sllcncc-b uinteil glen , bo , mid the clouded v. ays of men ; Slrnngo lights my errant fnncy led. bttmi o uatclicio sat bubidu my bed , III fortune had no shafts for mo In tillacilul company. Ixow ono by ono the visions My , And ono by ono the voice's ( lie , More dlitantly the accents ring , Moio fmiucMit thu ri'cedln win , ? . I'ull dull ; blinll bo the days In store , \ \ hun voice and vision cuinu no more. iui : i-.ir..tTi : . Over 000,000calllo arc annually slaughlcred lo inalto beef exiiact for soup. The woiln puts on its victuals every year $3,000,000 vvottti of black poppei. Iho hog packers of this country last year killed and packed 20,012,000 hogs. The Amci lean limit h is annually scouted with 15,000,000 bushels of onions. Ono disti let of Tennessee ) exporls annually over 10,000 quails of bluckbeiiics. I'lio world's sugar plantations pioduco ovety jcar (1,000,000 ( tons of sugar. Ono countj in Now Jcise.v sends to New Yotk ten cat loads of lettuce n day. riatice and Italy i.uso 0.1,000,000 bushels of chestnuts fur homo use mid oxpott Over li,000,000 ! bushels of buckwheat were lust j ear nmnufactuicd Into cakos. In Kali Insloar 10,000 tons of checso wcie du\oiiied , with 10,000 tons of coffee Ono fitm of ojster pickers nt Haltimoro claims a capacity of To.OOO cans a dav , The American sweet tooth is annually sat isfied with JO.UUOitons of maple bu/nr. Tlio people nf this couittty annually consume - sumo oaclt 10) ) ounces of lea and eoffco Swil/uilmid suuds lo fiance oviyycar 20,000 ions of iiillli and 1,000 ! ) of cheese. Paris in Ib'.M .petfumed its bicath with 0,000 tons of onions and TOO tons of gat lie. The Germans < colleclivoly rofiesh them selves with b,000 ) , tons ot ileo every year. Canadian hens * lay overj jcar JM.000,000 eggs , to bu inadoiuto ; omelets and cggnog. Tlio Auiorican people last jear drank ttio dccoclion fiom l JU,000,000 pounds of cofteo Hcslautant SOUP is paitly fiivotcd In this cotmtrj with M,0 X,000 ) bushels of canots Russia raises JVJO ( j ounds of grain and fifty-ono pounds at meat to each li.lmbitant ' 1'heio are -MXcHXI ) pounds of icd himppers sent fiom riotldA lo New Yorkovei.v year Ono dlstilct in rioilda sends annu illy to the New Yotkmaiket 50,000 ciales of fiuit The world's veast powder Is estimated lo amount to aji annual valuation of $20,000,000 IS TIEE BEST. RELIEVES PnOMPTLY nd CURES QUICKEST u PROCEEDINGS OP THE WORLD'S COLUMBIAN And Religious Congresses ! COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME OF OVER 1,000 , PAC'iS ' , FOLLY ILLUSFRATED. Authentic , Reliable , Impartial , Non-Sectarian. A FASClWfATWG STOl Y OF THE MOST WONDERFUL EVENT THE RELIGIOUS WORLD HAS EVER KNOWN. THE WORK EMBODIES : Origin of the Parliament of Religions. Biographical sketches of Dr. John Henry Barrows and President C. C. Bonney. 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