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FARM SCENE IN WASHINGTON COUNTY.
HB sama atmoephere and iur- tlon of the Territorial Government In ISjl
I rounfllng that prompted the The proclamation dividing the territory In
I I ranee horse to buck, prompted countlea, was Isued by acting ccen.or
I II ,.. . M Ohnmaa Tl 1 1 m I I Iir nn ItlB HllV if
ton county to beoorae boqmera. October, 1854. The iurface of the county
It vu an toch of bunted prenta a beautiful diversified aucceeKlon
hopea and" unfulfilled proapecta. It waa a of rollln Prairie land, hlila and valleya.
period of the moat brilliant aapecta ot Th countjr ' we" wtere1 bv numerous
financiering .nrt wim... a streams, which flow In a general easterly
they made little effort to cultivate the soil Ono man who. between 1R53 and 1856, trav
to any greater extent than to have It bear eled as a steamboater from St. Louis to
enough for their subsistence. Speculation the head of navigation at Fort Benton,
eremrd to possess all. More claims were Mont, was Charles SelU, and from a Mis
staked out wth a view of selling as soon ourl rlver Bteamboat he unloaded at He
as land values Increased, than for the Soto , tne lx barrel, of W,lsky, which
purpose of home "ldlng. Town lot. In con,utuUd hl, main Btock ot goods ln th.
Culhoun. De Boto. Fontanelle, and Cuming . . . , ,, . . . . ,
City changed hand, rapidly between the rst tor h " " that place.
direction towards the Missouri. and years of 1S ana l7. one tnousana aouara i "r"lur .v....-
outherly toward the Elkhorn. About 60 for a business lot, was a medium price in me couiuy oi wasningion, ior a iu..
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thus beaten In all th(lr political plan.
The first school of any kind established
at Fontanelle was In the winter of 1865 and
lSfg, with Miss Emily Strickland as teacher,
who was a partner In the first marriage
ln the town, being united with Henry
Whlttler ln the fall of ISM). Thomas Gib
son brought Into Fontanelle the first saw
mill, which for some years was run by
Samuel A. and Silas Francis. One of the
early store keepers was Julius Branlard,
and the first blacksmith shop was eon
ducted by George Hindley.
Pe Soto was founded by a lawyer and
UNITED STATES FOSTOFFICE, BLAIR.
surveyed and platted and named after Its four school districts, with sixty-one school
founder, John I. Blair, on the 16th day of buildings. Five of these are high sohoola.
tlon. The most extravagant pretensions
were covered by accomplishment, hereto- cent of tne eurfac4 0f the county is De Soto, and tho same in Fontajielle and period, waa a favorite resident place
tore marked only by the lapse of years. upiand or rolling prairie; SO per cent river Cuming City. Some speculator made Indians, Is plain to the archaeologist,
A comparison of the past with the pres- bottom land, and 10 per cent broken and money, the majority lost, especially when There Is little tradition or authentic facts
ent give us a better understanding of the bluff land. Throughout, the soil Is ex- the panic of 1857 came, and many found to back up the statement of the historian,
growth made the last fifty-four years. In ceedlngly fertile. The bottoms of the Mis- themselves without ready cash, and loaded other than the evidence that lies In the
1S56 the total population of Washington aourl river vary In width from two to down with town lota, which had depreciated traces of the old earth works, mounds, bits
county waa 807; ten months later, the seven miles. sadly ln value. ot pottery. Implements of warfare, with
number had Increased to TCI: ln 1S60 It was fh. triinri.i Mnrnni.in wh. The business of the county prior to 1860 n.rA .n(i there ancient burial Dlacc. By
1 9jW In ism It A ltt in iron I Ann. in .wi-k v.i . ranrnMntaul bv tha stores anil blank- v .... - -t nMK.. a urn h SotO, Started a flatboat ferry across
1R90. 10,800. and In 1900 the county had over U, 1855. designated Fort Calhoun as the smith shops, the banks, newspapers, etc., sold all their land south of the Platte and Missouri. At this time De Soto could boast l
14,000 population. county seat. The first session of the United in the towns; the lime kiln, saw mill, grist agreed to remain north of the Platte and of "teen or twenty business plscet and
ln a period so remote that there are do states district court was held In 1856 ln a mill and shingle factory. They had a saw west of the Loup river. They did not move mor tnan 500 Inhabitants. It was a pros
records of It. only those that lie burled ln lo cb,n- whlcn ,n 18M w" bullt bJr th" mill on the river bank close to Cuming to their reservation until 1869. In 1854 the Perous place until ln 1859 the Pike's Peak
March, 1869. Sixty-one thousand dollars was
paid for town lots sold In one day. Hun
dreds of buildings were In process of con
struction at once. The first school In the
town of Blair was established In J 88), with
Miss Sarah Klbbey as teacher. On the last
Sunday In April, 1869, the first religious
services In the new town were held on the
platform of the railroad station, by the
Rev. E. G. O. Groat, a Baptist minister.
Boom days for Blair were quick In passing.
The first few years of Its existence. Its
growth waa rapid, and It bid fair to be
come a city of more than ordinary lm-
saloon keeper in 18ol and incorporated portance. The location of Blair is some
March 7, 155. In May. 1857. Isaac Parrlsh, eighty feet above the Missouri river and It
The county has ninety-three teachers, with
4,418 pupils of school age.
The valuation of Washington county la
824,700,000, with a population of 15.000. The
county has fifty-one miles ot railroad and
acven railroad stations. There are 495 mllea
of public highway In the county, and two
first-class flouring mills. A large fer oent
of the farms of the county are owned and
operated by the people living on them.
In the county collection exhibit at the
state fair for the last eleven yeara Wash
ington county has won first prise seven
times and second prise twice, and during
that time no other one county has won
who was the first newspaper man of De has a natural drainage. The site Is an Ideal first prise more than twice.
the one for a city, and In all, It Is a beautiful
the strata of the earth's crust, the little town "lt company. In 1856, by popular Cltyj and one at Elknorn tnd Fontanelle. number of Pawviees was estimated at 4,000. excitement caused many to leave. From
Stock growing was in Its Infancy, there Many Indian graves have been found, par- t"Rt urn ln descent oi tne town was
ticctton of Nebraska now known as Wash
ington ounty, was the abiding place of
animals that exist today only in skeleton.
It matters little to people living ln this
day whether it was 1,000 or 10,000 years ago
that such conditions existed, but that they
did exist In the light of modern knowledge,
subscription, money was raised for the
erection of a building of logs and cotton
wood boards, to be used for court pur
poses, also as a school bouse. This was
being but
were brought In by the settlers.
the first building erected for court pur- "ettllng up of the county business changed,
poses west of the Missouri river.
In 1858, when William Clancy was a mem
ber of the territorial council, and Peter S.
Is a matter indisputable. At a more re- Sullivan In the house, both from the town
cent time, before the advent of the white of De Soto, the legislature removed the
man ln Washington county, lt was a para county seat from Calhoun to De Soto, and
dlse for animals. bnffaJn. alk. dear, haavwr it remained there until the fall election of
and foxee, all were in abundance and at im '"hen bT vot f th People the county Th Price of provisions became exorbitant;
hnma nn iha nratriaa mnA ainn. an seat was again located at Calhoun, and potatoes, rrom M to 5 per Dusnei,
tho streams.
It Is the trading point for the farming
community for the country surrounding,
and this trade is the chief support of the
town. The principal manufacturing plants
are the Acme flouring mills and a corn
canning establishment of some magnitude.
few head In the county, which tlcularly ln the vicinity of Calhoun and old gradual, and. like Cuming City, Its death The plant of the Danish Lutheran Publlsh-
Wlth the De Soto. Early ln tne sixties, on tne nign w rrcnvtu ncn Hif m umr m- uo., is tne most important or us Kina
hill back of the town site of old De Soto, was started. De' Soto was one of the most ln the west. This Is the official publication
on one Fourth of July, when a party of noted homes of pioneer Journalism ln Ne- office of the Danish Lutheran Church, and
natrlota were dlselnr a hole for the erec- braska. In the first three years of Its does a business of from $75,000 to $100,000 a
life four papers were started there.
Notable among the defunot towns of
Washington county was Cuming City, ln
early days an Important place with bright
prospects. This city formerly stood about
Agriculture received more attention, new
business enterprises were started, and the
new county gradually assumed the busi
ness like ways and aspects ot the older
settled country to the east.
The winter of 1867-57 was very severe.
tlon of a flag pole, a skeleton of an In
dian chief waa found; also a skeleton of a
horse on which the skeleton was astride.
Fred Bugeon, now a merchant of Blair,
was an eye witness to this discovery.
and
In building up Nebraska In tho early ' two and one-half miles north of Blair and
days, many towns had mushroom growth, n.mi in hn, nt nrnAr riimin
there remained until 1869. when by popular bacon and pork could not be had at any to melt away soon after birth, while others In 1867 y,, town had fifty-three dwellings
rote, Blair was made the county capital. price. Harlow Carpenter of Fontanelle whlch carne ,nt0 existence after decades, and Beva, bu.lneM hou.M but it has
The first court house at Blair waa of bought a hog of a neighbor for which he have not yet reached the pinacle of great- jonK ,lnce entiroly disappeared
" " n m-m vum iw .liuuui iuiyum jjiu iu seiier ui mo uua uuuiu ness. asmngxon county nas naa many
The time came when the pride ot the many wttn the j5 an eighty-acre tract of land disappointments In establishing and dovel-
citlsens demanded a new court house. Many on the Elkhorn bottoms that could be oping towns and cities. With brightest
In iha farmlnr districts onDosed this move. ... . - . m . . ,. - ...
th. early part of th. nineteenth century, "fn order to convince the doubter, of the "'a t?aay Ior on Mr rw,nlTJJ
When Lewis and Clark made their expe- importance of a new building, the com- Only a few of the pioneers came to Wash- n- Early ln 1854 a company was organ
dltlon up the Missouri river, the Otoes. miMioners decided the court house unsafe, tngton county with much more than money iza QHncy. I"-. to establish a city ln
wnicn at one time were a powerful nation, and had lt proped up by placing heavy enough to pay their way and keep tnem
were there. But continuous warfare re- timbers about the exterior walls. This was for a year or so and many came with only
duced their number, and even ln Lewis a convincing argument to the farmers, and sufficient funds to carry them across the
and Clark's time, there were but few of the bonds were voted for the present $50,- Missouri or up by steamboat from St.
Long before white tnan aet foot upon the
land embraced within the limits of Wash
ington county the Indians had made it
their home and hunting ground. They oc
cupied the river shore and were there In
year. Every line of the mercantile business
Is well represented, and some of the general
stores carry a large stock. In all there
are about sixty business places In the
city. Including two substantial banks and
three newspaper..
In the fall of 189$ an elegant postofflce
was established by the United States gov
ernment, and la considerable of an orna
ment to the town. From the beginning a
lively Interest has been taken In .the edu-
The building of the Sioux City & Paclflo cational matters by the people of Blair,
railroad was the means of bringing tho The city has three public schools, lnclud
clty of Blair into existence. The town was ing a high school. The county ha. flfty-
Thl. county has 218,000 acre, in farms,
with 133,000 acre, under a high state ot cut
tlvatloii. The county has been making
wonderful progress In the last few years
In the dairy Industry. At present the
farmers of the county have 4,000 acre,
seeded to alfalfa. On these farms over
8,000 head of cow. are kept, and last year
650 hand separator, were in use. The
farmer, sold and shipped out of the county
last year more than 136,000 pounds of but
ter and 386,000 gallons of cream. Yet thl.
Is still a corn and live stock county. Lo4t
year the farmers sold and shipped out
17,800 head of beef cattle, 60.(00 head of fat
hogs and 6,800 mutton sheep. Beside, thl.
thry sold and .hipped out 663,000 bushel,
of corn, 141,000 bushels of wheat and 461000
bushels of oats. It Is also one of the first
counties of the state In the production of
fruit. At present there are growing and
In full bearing 101,000 apple, 1700 pear,
11.000 peach, 8.000 plum and $.000 cherry
trees. Taking lt all in all. Washington
county Is one of the very beat oountles of
the state.
them compared to other nation, mentioned 000 court house.
In the annals of that trip. Few of the early pioneer, had an eye to
Washington county 1. one of the original the great agricultural value of Washington
eUht counties defined upon the ocganlsa- cunty land. While many .ought bom-.
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Louis. The spirit of speculation died out
and many left the county. Only those re
mained who. were determined to make a
home for themselves, and a few other
who were too poor to leave. Gold was
discovered at Pike's Peak, and westward
went thousands of seekers after wealth.
Freighting across the plains became an
Important industry. This was the begin
ning of a new era, one of almost continued
prosperity. Among the prosperous wealthy
Washington county. Eight of the party
wore selected to visit this county and se
lect a site. The party reached Kanesvllle,
or Council Bluffs, la., and crossed over to
the Omaha side early in August. Omaha
then had not half a dozen houses. There
they met Logan Fontanelle, then chief
of the Omaha Indians, and one known to
be friendly to white settlers. By Fonta
nelle the party was dlreoted to tho place
that has since been famous In state his
tory as the town of Fontanelle. This loca
tion so pleased them that without further
exploration they paid the chief $100 for the
right to claim and locate twenty square
mllea of land, and the party returned to
WASHINGTON COUNTY COURT HOU6E, BLAIR.
residents or the county are tnose wno m Qulncy and gave a glowing report. The
the hard times suffered the keenest. territorial council Incorporated the city of
In 1854 when Nebraska had been admitted Fontanelle March 14, 1865.
as a territory, steamboatlng was reaching The height of Fontanelle's greatness was
It. greatest Importance on the Missouri, reached the first few years of its life. It
and a doxen years later Its decadence com- was the first capital of Dodge county, and
menced. Along the Missouri, town site, ln 1S56 came -within one vote of becoming
were selected according to the river land- the territorial capital, and It has often
rigs, and the founders of the town of been hinted that only for the fact that
De Soto had this point In view when they one member of the territorial council who
chose a location for their town. The bed cast his vote for Omaha, and thereby en
of the Missouri, both above and below rlched himself to the extent of sixty Omaha
Omaha, is strewn with the hulls of steam- town lot., Fontanelle would have been the
boat., wrecked by running Into .nags and city of territorial government, and perhaps
sandbars. In the early 60s. two steam- today would have been one of the big
loats were sunk opposite De Soto; one, cities of the state.
the Bertrand, which sunk near the landing It Is plain that the early settlers of
opposite the town; the other, the Cora, Fontanelle were enterprising and alert to
which went down near the bar on the op-, everything that would assist the building
poslte ot the "Island." The flood of 1857 up of their town, but lacked dismally In
' spread from bluff to bluff, the river ln the diplomatic, wire pulling qualities neoea
places being from eight to ten mile. wide, sary to sway legislative bodies, and were
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MONDAT AFTERNOON CLUB OF BLAIR.
A Collection of Short Tales Selected from the Story Teller's Pack
Prepared t RIts Klaa. was onnolcessary under law. Then, it said.
HB dignified president of a well th exeoooter ,ww to set aside thlrty-fl"
known and flourishing New Pul' toT th' buryln'. D'ye mlndr
But the father of the Klckapoo movement diocese chuckled as he unfold, the tale, too." He did both, and much more. Th
got Into trouble. I believe the last time I The seed ha evidently fallen on arable account of hi. rise from position of student
C '.,
England college, in his mo
ments of relaxation tell, the
following story at hi own expense:
"Oh, aye." responded McDermott.
"An' then he wished th' execooter to
procure as handsome a stone as could be
bad In a' Grasgy fer a matther ' seventy
heard about him he was In jail."
Quick as a flash the old full blood came
back to the Kanean:
"Tea, sometime even senator go to
Jail."
one aummer, some year, ago, be spent $u .
ground. Interpreter of the Chinese maritime
customs 1. a romance of steady effort by
a man of great force of character and
fnnriftMt mannara. 'A amnll. lnalmlftrant
A Qk II.J.Inl.1. c , , . ,
. -" Duuuajr .cnooi icacner iri-hman," he waa called, but In the
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A Modern Idea.
a vacation of several weeks at a farm
house In a Maine town. The next season
he received a letter from hi. farmer land
lady Inquiring If he would like to return.
In reply he staled that he would be very
glad to pas another summer vacation with
her. provided some needed change war . . ..... t ,,
. v. th. oral. But at the grandfather, house all
First." wroU thT coll... prudent. . h vt'ltd "
your maid Mary. U persona non grata, b f "' h he"
Ing anything but neat and orderly In her " " " "
One day hi aunt waa helping him
'AyeT"
"Aweel, mon," concluded McGregor,
"this la the stone." Cleveland Leader.
treeless Waste ef Energy.
A .mall Wichita boy', father 1. a demo-
In view of the fact that Senator Burton, dLcovered. to her great horror, that some M,.rrt nt rhtn.. d.v.innm.m h. tnw.r.
bong s coueague, naa just oeon sentencea ul ul ""'i luouiuers ot ner class naa
to Jail, Jacob's repartee waa thoroughly taken as literal truths the tales of ancient
appreciated, especially by the other sen- god and goddesses which they had read ln
ators on the committee. St. Louis Glob child' mythology at school. She deter-
DemocraC
A . and asked
among the tallest figures. Upon Li Hung
Chang he exerted great Influence In varlout
crises perhaps tbs world will never realise
all t ti . nnwAi that V k..n m ( 1 H l Kv f V. f
mined to deatroy this belief by .impl logic Qulet mM wlth lngcrutabl. eyea.
way, and If h l. iiu wun you i trust
ou will at least not allow her to wait
cn the table.
"Secondly, I would suggest that the sani
tary condition of your place would be
a i tally Improved If the pigsty were moved
through with his lessons, when he sud
denly flung his book into a corner of the
room and said:
"Auntie, It's no use. I'm not going to
Senator Williams Is Reminded. "Who was lt that supported the world '
"The fix of many of my estimable repub- oa hl" huu?"
Ilcan brethren ln congress, who want to "-'. Mix Mary," a little girl promptly
revise the Urlff, but are afread of the responded-
gentlemen who conduct th highly pro- "Yee. Now think. If he was supporting
tected Infant Industries," said John Sharp the world on his shoulders, of course, he
Williams, "remind me of a neighbor of cuu,a De nanK on it. Now, what
h.nlc a r.w ot farther from the house to If" no use. I tell you,
or done aay with altogether. Wb'r' l v ot i0 b democrat, anyway."
"I will wait until I hear from you before Kanaa City Journal,
deciding about coming."
The somewhat particular president waa ol Indian Bests Senator,
reassured by th receipt of the following The recent death of Jacob Jackson, th
reply: Choctaw Indian who used to be so active
"Mary has went. We hain't had no bog la politic, recall the time he floored
on the place alnc you were here last." Senator Long when the special senate
mine, down ln Mississippi, who went to uPP"ea aiisbt
prayer meeting one night.
"After the spirit got to moving he rose ut"' then the "ttle rl spoke up:
ln his place and said: "Friends, I would
like to confess my sins, but the grand Jury
1. in .esslon."
" 'Go ahead,' shouted th leader; 'go
ahead, brother. Th Lord will forgive.'
" 'I know,' replied the penitent, 'but be
Caution, of course, he learned In the
Oriental school. Once a lady asked him to
accept a rose, and he offended her by say
ing: "I should prefer to consider the matter
before answering." But, brought up in
Wesleyan traditions, he never absorbed
any eastern fatalism. In VMt, he felt that
the road was open for his return home
A ponderous silence prevailed for a mln- h felt that' halfw hld,5en' !hfer Wr!
VUVlKltl wailllix &u um lliru J'C vptflinu
his Bible at random and read the text
'Oh, 1 know! He married a rich wife."
Harper'. Weekly.
"Paul said to the centurions and to the
soldiers, Except ye abide In the ship, ye
can not be saved." Ti.at decided him Im
mediately to remain ln China.
Notable dates ln his life have been
marked by a curious coincidence. In the
Judge.
Tale ef m Tkrlfty See.
Alexander Wright, brother of the county
auditor, who I visiting Cleveland for a
vacation period, and who is ln the publio
service In his Scottish home, tells this tale sell everything and go.
committee visited Indian territory, seeking
information.
Jacob had been telling ot him plans to re
move the full bloods to Mexico, and be
urged the committee to recommend Ike re
moval ot all restrictions so that they could
anent one MoOregor, a thrifty man in
land of thrift, who wa seen In Glasgow
wearing a lustrous sparkler la hi cravat.
To him said Sandy McDermott: "Who
gl'n ye the dl'mon', aaoGregorr"
"Nobbut myself." wa th answer.
"Oh, aye," ventured the questioner,
"T'v been trattng yereer, ehT"
"No that, eyether," McGregor made re
ply, "Hut ye ken I'm exeoooter of th
estate o' gam mis McDougaL"
"An y baa yer ban in th pii the
noo?"
"Hush, mon, al MoOregor, looking
hurt. "Tli ' r th" ul First. It said,
ta lawtu' dbt were to be paid, which
He wa questioned closely by various
senator, particularly by ttenator Teller of
Colorado. In a fatherly way the senator,
who had once served a secretary of th
Interior, and had always bad a keen in
terest ln Indian affair, called attention to
the serious trouble that had befalWn th
Klckapoo, who had tried to sotu In
Mexico.
Senator Long, during th entire hearing,
had been very witty. Long took a hand ln
qulsslng Jacob, finally asking him If he in
tended going to Old Mexico himself.
"Yes, I'm the father ot the movement,"
said Jacob.
"Of course, then, you will have to go.
'Grand Old Ir tubman of China."
(f genius consists ln an Infinite capacity
kln't nn that crro i ... lOr ISKing EHl. SaVS 111 LOIldon NtWI.
Herald. then Sir Robert Hart, "the Grand Old Ma.i ear h w" born' h" "'""day. February
. of China," has demonstrated the possession teli on th twenty-third day of the
Ileedlaar th Sermon ' con-lderoble geniu. throughout hi. re- t-'hlnese first moon. Once more lt fell on
A well-known prelate of The Cleveland "1. career. No trouble ha. been tOJ the twenty-third of the first moon In 14,
dloc!. , racUy preached a ..rleT of er- reat tor th P'mcy of Sir Robert Hart; h l thln' not
, recently preecnea e series of er- d-n,and tor th. errUa nt until 173, when his only son wa born.
mons, his general theme being "Humility." ueniana ior tne exercise ot patience
In the cour of his sermon, he necessarily " Wn to ctlng. The Irish lad who ;
dwelt upon the nothingness of man without "ven lole """" mlnu,1' ' h' lunch ,Iow Bo tT M'mt Annapoll.
th help of grace. Hi auditor were the tour 10 '"' at Hebrew." and workeU so Admlrsl Evans tells the story of how
gentle nuns of the Villa Convent, and the "alously at school that he was nicknamed he happened to be appointed as a cadet
convent school puplla made up of many "tn" t,wPt," became the man who, urg- to the Naval acamedy-at Annapolis from
young ladies, girls and small boys. ln tils wife year after year not to break Utah when hia native state waa Vlr-
At the. conclusion of the eermuni, says up bcr ll0m and rejoin him because h wa ginla.
Th Leader, the prelate, while divesting crtaln to b returning home "next spring," "William H. Hooper, the first territorial
himself of the garments ef the altar serv- remained at his post ln China for thirty delegate to congress from Utah, waa a
Ice, turned to the eanctury boys, lads ot yr at a stretch rather than leave his great friend of my family," he said. "One
10 or 11 years. "What are your' inquired magnificent life work unfinished. day he asked me lt I did not want to be
the venerable priest ot one of the two When he was six years old, some sixty- an officer ln the navy. I told him, 'Tou
boys. Quick a a flash came back the an- .even year ago, hi Imagination waa fired
wr, "I am an Irishman, and I am proud wlll tales of the departed Hart family
ot It." "And what are your he asked the n1 hl Dutch ancestor. Captain von Hardt.
other lad. Crossing his little hands upon King William had given the township of dent of Utah I coyld get the appointment.
hie breast, he quietly rejoined.. "Father, I Kllmoriarty to the captain. "When I'm a As soon as I could get my bat and catch
have been listening. I am nothing." man." the little fellow said solemnly, "1 11 a train I wa on my way to Bait Lake
The aged administrator of the Cleveland buy back Kllmoriarty-and I'll get a title. City, and I got the appointment I wa
bet I do.' He then explained that there
wa m appointment to be made from
Utah, and said that If I was only a reel-
the first cadet to be appointed from that
territory."
Philadelphia's Witty Divine.
Archbishop Patrick J. Ryan of Philadel
phia is as famous as he Is eloquent as a
divlns, and many are the stories told of hi.
quick repartee. When Wayne MacVeagh,
former attorney general of the United
State., wa. counsel for the Pennsylvania
railroad ha called upon the archbishop In
company with Mr. Roberts, president of
the Pennsylvania system.
"Tour grace," said Mr. MacVeagh, "Mr,
Roberts, who always travels with his coun
sel, will undoubtedly get you passes over
all the railroads In the United States If In
return you will get htm a pass to para
dise." "I would do so gladly," flashed the arch
bishop, "if lt were not for separating hint
from his counsel."
On one occasion Archbishop Ryan com
plained to a Philadelphia editor that one
of hels sermons had been badly reported.
"I am sorry," the editor responded, "but
one of our best men, who Is likewise a
Catholic, did it."
"What is hi. name?" the prelate in
quired." "Killpatrick," answered the editor.
"And he came mighty near doing lt,"
was the archbishop's final shot. Philadel
phia Recoid.
A Storr from the Bench.
Judge Frederick E. Crane, the young
and brilliant Jurist, who presided over the
Jenkins Hains trial, has a way of Illumi
nating with an apt anecdote a point he
wishes to make.
In one of the early cases he so brilliantly
conducted, before his elevation to the
bench, Mr. Crane said to an obstinately
reticent witness:
"Tou seem bent on giving the court all
possible trouble. You are like the man
who sat ln the dock one Sur.day morning
with a bandaged head.
" 'Prisoner.' said the magistrate to this
man, 'you are charged with having been
drunk and disorderly. What say you
guilty or not gulltyr
" That's wot you're paid to find out,
growled the prisoner. 'I ain't got no call
-Philadelphia
to help ye do yer work.'
Bulletin.
Too Mark.
"Ay tank Ay go across the street and
get the taHty to mend my valat," drawled
a Swedish foreman, showing hi employer
a very ragged vest.
"All right, John."
In a few minutes the Swede returned
with his vest untouchsd.
"Aren't you going to have it mended T"
asked the boss.
"Ay tank not ln that shop," replied the
Swede. "Ay ask him what he charge an'
he say Two dollar.' Then Ay askhlm,
'Will you take the valst In part payment?
an' he wouldn't do lt" Everybody's
Magaslne.
A Test ef Friendship.
Just before Artemu Ward's death,
Robertson poured out some medicine and
offered lt to the sick man, who said, "My
dear Tom, I won't take any more of that
horrible stuff."
Robertson urged him to swallow th mix
ture, laying: "Do, now there' a dear fel
lowfor my sak. Tou know I would do
anything for you."
"Would you?" said Ward feebly, grasp
ing his friend's hand for th last time,
"I would Indeed," said Robertson.
"Then yeu take It!"
Ward passed away a few hour after
ward. Patriotic.
That Kentucklan have a very high re
gard for their native state 1 Illustrated
by this anctdote told by one ot them:
Once a Kentucklan died. So a near rela
tive went to the local tombstone artist
to arrange about ah Inscription on the
deceasod's tombstone.
After due cogitation the near relative
said:
"Carve on lt, 'He' gone to a better
place.'
"I'll carve 'he' gone to heaven,' If you
want me to," remarked the tombstone
artist, "but a for that other inscription
there' ne belter place tUaa Keutwoky PV
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