Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 22, 1886, Page 5

FITNESS OF ONE 0" THE FINEST The Mayor and Law and Order Leagne Quar- reling Over Officer Bmith. END OF THE TROUBLE NOT YET. Sad Death of the Daughter of a Pros- perons Farmer—A Race Probable Between the Fitzgeralds and Thurstons. IPROM THE RFE'S LINCOLN RURARAD.| yor Burr and Seeret owis of the Law and Order league are having a lively correspondence over the fitness of Offi Smith to remain on the police for Smith is what the Hibernians would ¢ a “‘broth of a boy,” with an admiring for pretty women, and some of his ventures caused the league to prefer charges to the mayor and council against his personal character. The council at its last regular meeting having retused to consider these charges, Mayor Burr wrote to Secretary Lewis demand- ing that they be withdrawn. In his letter the mayor asserts that he assisted to organize the league and is in sympathy with its purpose. The charges against Smith, however, referred to old transgressions, of which he had repented and avoided repetition. The American people, Mr. Burr said, had forgiven Cleveland, and he thought he could af- ford to forgive Smith, especially as the Iatter is an efticient officer and conducts himself in a becoming manner. He told the league this when it asked for Smith's discharge last month, and expresses as- tonishment that instead of accepting ms ement Seeretary Lewis should present churges against Smith to the council for the purpose of bulldozing him into dismissing the officer. The mayor closes ying that he emphatically declincs bulldozed by any league or thing, and demands a withdrawal of the charges, Mr. Lewis, in reply, tells the mayor that he has mistaken the facts, and that so far from atte unin{; to bulldoze lim, the league merely desives to try Smith before the council and get at tho truth of the current rumors about him, The inclosed paragraph of Mr. Lewis' letter is very spiey. He says: *“You will understand” me, therefore, as positiyely refusing to withdraw the cl not- withstanding the consequence h you » verbally intimated to Mr. Sawye and me as certain to follow sucl 9 WORRL Late Saturday afternoon Alice Flan- nery, the daughter of a prosperous mer at Hickman, in_this county, d: the Home for the Friendle the pangs ildbirth, The woman’s dying story, ven in the presence of witne is that about eight years ago, when her maiden name was Alice Bur- cham, she married one Klann ; whom she had three children. twelve months ago Mrs. Flannery and her husband separated, and she came to Lincoln to labor for the support of her- sclf and children. In June she became acquainted with a worthless chap named William McNair, and that on the 24th of that month he drugged and outraged her. In time she found self in a delicate condition, but dreading the shame to her relatives and children refrained from snying anything about the matter to her parents, to whose home sho returned. Wednesday Mrs. Flannery came to Lincoln on busine: and while here was sick, Going to the Howard hous waited until Thursday. when, realizing that the dreaded hour had come, sho asked to be sent to the Home for the Friendless, whichjwas done. After forty- pight hours of agony she died, making the statement in’ her last moments as Lv]"]‘“ above, Nai ; . The may l\fic_flmr Who! e woman feenses a)f‘ this hotFibie ‘2}-‘.,,,.,, is ufis- reputable scamp on whom the police have long had a watch. A HIOSE RACE PROBABLE, An Omaha gentleman now in the city, who is very intimate with the controlling spirits of the Thurston hose team, su,]'s the challenge put out by Manager Hoh- mann of the Fitzgeralds, for a 800-yard race, for from $300 to $1,000, will un- doubtedly be accepted. According to this gentleman, who was in attendance at the tournament in New Orleans, the ouly prize in the 800-yard race there was the” empty title of *‘Champions of the World.” © When the Fitzgerald team appeared on the track with their skeleton hose a protest was entered by the Thu on the ground that it was not ‘“‘service- able hose” within the meani rules governing the tourn judges allowed both teams to star after the race, made the announcement that they had handicapped the Kitz- geralds five seconds on account of the lightness and quality of the hose com- plained of. As there was only three sce- onds difference in the time of the rival companies, the Thurston's claim the race by two seconds. It is the opinion of some gentlemen that the two teams are very evenly matched so far as speed is concerned, but that in a race where botih carry full 'weight the Thurstons would Lave the best show of winning because they are larger and more powerful men, DOWNER'S LONG TRAMP. A travel-stained but respectable look- of about 50 years was a guest at headquarters on his own ihvitation aturday night, oceupying a bunking place on one of the luxurious boot box settoes with which Marshal Beach has nished the room. ‘The stranger gave aaine as Charles P, Downer, and said he was a seaman by ealling, 8 stytement 1o which his sea-bronzed complexion and tattooed hands and arms’gave credence, Downér said that on the 23nd of Junuary, & merchant vessel, on which he was one of the crew, was wrecked on the coast of ne and he was thrown ashore barely e. When able to trayel he manageid ake his way to Buffalo, where he ex- to find a remittance from his . to whom he had written of his condition, Not hearing from them there Downer took the tie route to Chicago, and from there come on west afoot to within ninety miles of Councii Bluffs, whero some old soldiers, after hearing his story, procured bim transportation to Lincoli, He reached this place Saturday ight, having made the 1,900 mil six weeks, Downer says, that hi family, consisting of his wife, o1 daughter and three boys! have a sbug farm about three miles from Hastings, and thatit is to that point he is trave The police force and reporters who hear his story ‘‘chipped in” liberally and started him off yesterday, quite willing to take chances on ing been confidenced by an impecunious tramp with a vivid imagination, DROWNED IN THE PLATTE. Friday afternoon while the section men were repairing the break at the south end of the B. & M. bridge across the Platte at Oreapolis, Roy l(imb\)ull and & number of boy friends came down from La Platte to witeh them. The boys walked over the long trestle in safety, and after looking at the work for a while Roy and anoth lad started for home, going along the six- inch stringer on' the outer - edge of the ties at & dog trot. When nesrly half way across Roy was seen to stub liis toe against some ob- struction, urulmh]?' a n'nikt‘, and made a wild plunge head first into the river. He struggled hard for a time to get out, but the tierce current overeame his strength, and before the section men could do any- thing to help him his body had been swept away to the Missou Roy was in, rolice al about 13 years old, and a likely, promis- ing boy. BRIEF MENTION. The Geneya Building association, the romoters of which areJ. M. Fellebrown, J. M. Fisher, Wilkins, W. S. } and J. D. Spear, has been incorpor The capital is £200,000. The original bonds issued by the city of Lincoln in aid of the Lincoln & North- western railway, amounting to $25,000, have been sent in to Auditor Babeock for registration. This formality | complied with, all objection to the registry ot the refunding bonds will probably Do sith. drawn. Tne doors of the state honse are to be locked hereafter on Sundays, and spoo ing couples will have to seck some other trysting place, I'he statement made in the Ber_some weeks ago that Mr. J. C. Bonnell had sold his proporty in thiscity and intended enigrating to some eastern town, was vigorously denied by that gentleman and Ing friends through the local press. It is now authoritatively announced by that same press that Mr. Bonnell has decided upon making his home in Burlington, oW May Young, of Portland, Me, me o Lincoln a few days ago onn visit, 11 remain here and take a course of study at the state university. Fire Warden Newberrv now swings a handsome nickel-platcd lantern, o gift from friends abont the county offices. The house of Mrs. L. E. Brown, at South Twelfth street, s entered by burglars Saturday night while the family were at church and rifled of a number of small articles. A gang of confidence men have taken I 0 in this city, and are s for all they are worth £ Pacitic right-of-way through Laneaster county, outside of the city limits, will cost the company $15, - A DREAMER OF DREAMS. James Bond had reached the mature age of forty when the casual smile o! woman changed the whole tenor of his stence. He met her in Westbourne grove one autumn afternoon, and though she smiled not at him, but atan old crossing-sweeper who was thanking her with ex ive volubility for sixpence, yet her beautiful face was so charged with sweetness that there arose within him a new sensation which he could not deline. “Can this be love?’ he asked himself, azing earnestly after the graceful figure disappearing around the corner. “Pshaw! it absurb, I don't even know her name."” He continued 320 his walk more slowly toward Kensington gardens, where he was accustomed to go for his daily con- stitutional. ““What is love? he proceeded. —the dovetailing of angles—the meeting of extremes; therefore dependent upon the logical faculties which alone can classify, separate and unite. Con: quently without thorough nowledee love is impossible. Yet her smile was sweet—yes, it certal nl_]' was very sweet.” At the” thought of that exquisite vision the dull gray oyes brightencd and the sallow, careworn face wore a peculi soft expression., Bond rented lodgings—dingy rooms, lit- tered with books papers, from which his landlady was forbidden to remove the dust. He was scldom there, how- e for he lived in dreams, the con- struction of which uccuricd most of his time, to the exclusion of more solid work. Why should he work? He himself did not'sec the need, for the proceeds of n fellowship supplied him with food and book: 1 his clothes were shabby it was from want of thought rather than from want of means, A tall, gaunt, black- bearded man, with rounded shoulders, he went about likec a scarecrow, & most tempting object for the small boys in the neighborhood to pelt with jokes and orange peel. Wi k]mg homeward l;.hrou hbu back he ¢ n number of the o o g RN They were engaged in tormenting a cat held firmly a_string round its neck. At another time Bond "would have gone swiftly by, anxious only to escape to peaco. and guictness, but now it was different— why, he could not tell, Some causes are too subtle for analysis. “My good children,” he said, advanc- ing nervously, “you shouldn't do that, you know." They turned and faced him, a dubious group ready to assail or flee, according a8 he showed weakness or strength. “Why do you beat the unfortunate ani- mal?? he pursned. “Cos it's mine,’’ replied the red headed young wiehin who held the string. “Highly illogical, my boy.’, “Findin’s is keepin's, you know, gov- "nor. Master wallops me, so I wallops my cat.’’ **Human, no doubt, but the humane,” said Bond, with a smile. *“Will you sell it They opened their eyes and grinncd at ench other. After a pause the young spokesman demanded: *‘I say, gov'nor, what will you give!” ““Ten shillings. See, here they are. Is that enough?" Needless tosay, the bargain was struck on the spot. Bond paid the money, put the cat under his arm and walked off, followed by yells of laughter. In his threadbare clothes he certainly looked an m\fiuinly figure at any time, but the struggles of the sleck” and handsome tabby to free herself from his ombrace made him a more than usually remark- able object, “‘Now, why did I buy this ereature?’ he asked himself. *‘Was a hatred of cruclty the sole motivet No; each act is tho” resultant of e or more ferces {hyuglmem pitrison r? bo dafied 00 fur, the eat Taturally suggest: woman; she s the old maid’s companion; why not the_old bachelor's as well? 1 am lonely. There we get to the bottom of the matter—sclfishness under the guise of beneficence, Not quite the bot- tom, how wn{' more lonely to-day than yesterday? But stay; only a fool searches for first causes. Ab, yes; her smile was very sweet.” Though the weather was by no means cold he had a fire lighted in his sitting room, in order that his new pet should enjoy the cheerful blaze. Abundantly provided with milk, the cat soon made {tself quite at home! Her master, after silently contemplating her fora fow min- utes, let his thoughts wander away into the realms of fancy. He had already given a name to the Fair Unknown and that name was Eulalia—the prettiest one he could think of. He depicted bor in her home sur- rounded by smiling faces —father, mother sisters, brothers—all uniting to rende homage to the beautiful Eulalie, and then he saw her in another home no 1éss happy, himself her vis-a-vis and her sole ad- mirer, Some how or other the cat pur- ring on the hearth rug at his feet seemed to be a link between them. It was ab- surd, no doubt; he tried to struggle bacl into'a more rational mood, but all in vain, he scemed to have drifted into another sphere 1n which reason was un- known. Next morning Bond went out into the grove again. e was out of sorts, he Tie told himself, and wanted a walk badly. And yet he lingered wmong the shops, and looked absently into the windows, and with furtive anxiety at the passers- by. But of a sudden ho turned scarlet, for one on the other side of the street was Eulalie—a queenly women, tall and state- ly. charmingly dressed, with a ze of duinli’lill] e brown curls on her forchead and s fyce like an angel's; Poopla tarned to look at her as she went by; had they bowed down before her Boud would scarcely have felt surprised, She was “Unity stree Tarne 1 i i S s i e e Rfl:;a‘sr"” v Ssra——y attended by a couple of handsome men— one deferential, the other more observant of the mghts’ around. Her brothers commented Bond, who had squeezed himself into a doorway and peeped tim- idly at her over the bonnets of two el- derly Indies. As each i mentarily shut her out breath came fast and thick; he almost feared lest he should never behold her again. He saw her enter a shop and presently come out again. Quite uncon Yeious of the cxistence of her shabby ad- mirer, she procecded on her way and soon disappeared in the crowd. Then, with the desperate courage which i§ perhaps most common in timid men, Bond ]J nged into the shov and asked the assistant her name “You mean the lady who was looking at these gloves? inquired the dapper youth, pausing in his task of returning them to the box in order to st i evident amusement at his question “The lady!” repeated Bond, absently. There was but one in_the whole world for him. *‘Yes, yes, of course.” “I don’t know ‘wr nanie, sir.”" Bond looked disappointed. But secing a pair of gloves which had just been tried on he pounced upon them eagerly. What was this strange thrill that went through and through him® “The touch of o vanished hand?"’ Sympathy? Surely he was traveling the road of knowledge Iwant a pair of gloves, he smd. “These will do very nicely.” hey are ladics’, sir,” suggested the assistant, “Oh, they'll do. large.” i He blushed as he spoke, for they were \uge. ([l T put them in paper, sir betl Yos, weap thow upcarotully. ro apt to besoiled in the pocket.’? It was not tional net he had just committed, he contrived to cover it neatly w little pretenses and » disguise its real purport. Was not he a student of human nature? and was not the hand an index to and was not the glove an index to the hand? Here, then, he was starting at the hegin- ning of things, ns bocame & sound philos: opher, So, for the purpose of his study, he laid the gloves on the table before him and riveted iis gaze upon them. He even pressed them passionately to his lips, an_act that made him blush ag deeply as if Bulalie herself had witnessed it. Had notshe touched them? and ah! a sweet smile she had! Logic could not fathom that, but he recognized its trath, nevertheless, During the o went out ever retting a bric My hands are not ting fortnight Bond y morning in the hope of glimpsc of the charming ulalie, and, when successful, returned brimful of happines The rest of the he invaribly spent in building tles, constructing new settings for his gem. It delightful oceupation, this continu intercourse with his divinity. Though she knew him not, probubly had never even seen him, they two lived an ideal life together. Where- ever she went this shabby bookworm Siibm, 1bmayibe sho swoalANnoUNliaye deigned to ‘notice, accompanied her in fancy; he dined, walked, talked and laughed with her; he invested her witn every virtue. set herin_ a perfect home and “provided her with every comfort, contented himself to be her devoted slave and minister to her wants. In accordance with this theory Bond attributed to Eulalie qualities the very opposite of his own, or rather what he supposed to be his own, for he set a v humble value upon himself. He made her out to be all that is pure and lovely. generous,” he said; “did she not give sixpence to a crossing sweeper? [ never gave sixpence to i Crossing swi erin my life. My _temper is vile, hers is sweetness itself. “Did I not her smile? She is the most beautiful woman in the world. 1 am the incarnation of ugliness. He looked in the glass and saw it was true. Andso he had no difheulty constructing his golden image, bofore which he, a vile ereature of clay, meekly bowed I d and did obe There was a strange pathos in tho love of this aulitl 'y s‘lul‘lunl for an unkno\\;n woman, whose influence, unconscjously Exchiod hud gorfs T8 EsoRd tha Aty of her petsonal acéquaintance. Yrad" it done nothing else it would have raised him above the drea vel which he bad so long occupied, but it k)rus(‘utly took a more practical turn.” When he beheld his cheerless room, the cat the only homely thing in it, and thought of that rerfect home of his fancy, there flashed nto his mind the question, Where is_the money to come from and whatam I, to aspire to such as she, even if 1 had the money? This thought fell upon him like a zhuudcrel‘\li; it threw him into a stupor out of which ho omerged trvmblin%. Awakened to the reality of his dream, the strong man girded up his loins and put forth the strength which had hitherto nid dormant. Though he could not forego the pleasure of seeing Eulnlie every dayif possible, the afternoons and evenings were honceforth devoted to work. ~Many years before hie had begun to write a book, which he had not the en- ergy to finish. = He now took it up agai and worked ut it day and night.” F and fortune opened out before him, less before, they had now become price- less, for did tm-{ not lead to—how the blood coursed through his veins at the thought—Eulalie! Dissatisfied with the condition of his rooms, he had them swept. So, much to the lnml]nd&"s surprise and delight, the dust cleared away, the furniture put in order, and a toferable air of comfort restored. It was by no means the per- fect home he had depicted, but it was, at any rate, one step noarer. 'he cat—that subtle bond of union be- tween him and her—had grown quite friendly. As he wrote she often sat on the table and blinked wonderingly at the round-shouldered scholar bending over lus desk, his sallow face flushed with his exertions and big dull eyes brightegipg lshif x}c‘? ced over tid };m T pile by his sidé, small at first, dnily grew in magmtude, and the book upon ' which 50 much dopended was noarly tiisliol But abont this time a dreadful uneasi- seized upon him. He had not -seen lalie for a fortnight. When the fort- night grew into a month, and the month into two, he became so alarmed he could work no'longer. Vainly he attempted to allay his fears by assuming that she had one out of town 1 a visit; he felt that he must see hor and so satisfy himself that she was not merely a ereature of his n. Roaming the streets day ay he searched for his unknown love, but found her not; she had vanished from his life as mysteriously as she had come into i At length, in despair, he again entered the shop where he had asked her name. He had seen her there many times sinco, The same dapper assistant was arranging gloves in a box and the whole scene was 50 exactly the same thdt Bond paused in bewilderment, half inclined to think the past few months a dream. Advaneing to the counter, he stammered out: *‘Have you seey her lately? The lady?® What are you staring at? You know who Tmeam.” Seen her!" exclaimed the with a flash of remembran Oh, ah, that's a good joke He endéd with a most objectionable laugh. “A good joke,” said Bond absently. “I don't understand you.” “You read the papers, I suppose, sir.” “I don’t; speak plainly, man."’ ady” —he grinned as he spoke— *hias. just been tricd for obtaining goods under false pretences.” “You lie, you cur,” shouted Bond: Quick as lightning his’ clinched fist shot across the counfer and flattened the ;l?'l«lvimshull youth againt the shelves be- hin A crowd collected n a moment “Drunk,” said one; ‘‘Mad,” said another, and those behind began to press forward and those iu front to steer away. In nt, The lady! trath, this gaunt creature with the fiam- |nr eyes looked violent enough for any- thing. Amid a'general clamor for the police the proprietor of the shop fortu- nately appeared upon the seene. He was not going to have a fuss made thero, he eaid, so Bond was hustled into the street. Ho turned when he got clear of the crowd. *‘Tried, poor thing!" he shouted back. “‘Bat she was acquitted, I swear she was nrrluituul," s though,” eried the haking his fist from doorway. Pure and sweet and beautiful—" “Guilty, or I'll eat my hat.” “Shut up, yon idiot,” cried the pro- prictor, and’ shaking the youth by the shoulders, he pushed him back into the shop. (O Bond searcely knew how he got back to his room. His pile of manuscripts lay on the table; the cat sat purring before the fire; everything was precisely had leftit, But oh! how different seemed. He dropped into a chait and the veins stood out in his pale for and his hands worded convulsively Eulalie in a felon’s dock. Could men be 80 mad, so cruel, so unjust? It was im- possibio One solitary idea now took possession of him—to find kulalie, though with what object he did not determine. By a strange chance he met her in the street next day; met and scarcely recognized . Moving swiftly long, of if she feared to be seen_ with her ha in disorder, licr face no longer touched by that art to which it had_largely owed its banuty, and her dress old and sloven- ly she indeed dreadfully changed. Bond started back when he saw_her, his face deadly white: he pres. his hands to his heart, it gave suce a painful thro he could searcely believe his own oy His earnest gaze seemed to discompose her, for she dropped a faded old um- breila in the mud, whereupon he rushed forward, picked 1t up and handed it to her. She took it without a word of thanks, a scowl being all she gave him, Then she hurried away, leaving him in ained bewilderment. e could only r t over and over again, “Her smile sweet,” . d un, sir," said a policeman who n watching this little scene, * ular bad un.”” “He winked in the di- tion of the retreating woman But Bond was already out of earshot, hurrying after her in ¢bedience to an i ble impulse, to offer her all he had, yearning to tell his love and acquire the izht to protect her. Though his ideal was littlo more than a memory the woman remained and in his eyes she still beautiful. With he de he ed not what the world said. Never ad his love been stronger than it was at this moment. But though he dived down one obscure strect after another he conld not find he And at length, murmurning to himself, “Ah, yes, her $mile was very sweet,” ho wearily dragged himself back to his lodging. Onee again and for the last time, he her. on the following afternoon. He sitting at the open window, ab- ently caressing the cat upon his lap, when she happened to pass by at the opposite side of_ tho street. Looking up at the window sho s ly stopped and stared. he had recovered from hys su e she stretched out her arms and crie ““Oh, my pussie! come to me?” k The cat sprang through the window and crossed the street in less_time than it takes to write the words. There could searcely be a doubt about the ownership. The animal, with arched back andi straightened t: was delightedly rub- bing itself against her shabby dress and she was bending down, talking to it as if it were her child. Bond_was not slaw o grasp the situa- tion. He rose hastily to explain the cumstances under which he had bought the cat from the lad, whom he had be- lieved to be the rightful owner. He w. trembling in every limb, for had not his opportunity come at lust, ns some one sad it nl\\":‘n‘s will co|[uu to ltlm man who yaits? Blundering down the stairg ho whispered m‘fifi%n{-‘. T Q“‘nnv%n the cat ioves her and she lo it. 1 knew she was good and pure and lovely.” “I must apologize,” he bagan, advanc- ing awkwardly, Miss—Miss—' she said, rather de- Nell, Nell, won't you he gaspaed, staggering k.® Then she was a married woman. s thought affected him even more nfully than_the one that followedit. Sometime before he had read in the paper a charge of swindling brought aguinsta Mrs Trayers, descri member of a gang of fashionablo sharp- , “Then you are a widow,’ he cried, with startling unvrg{. “'Oh, in pity’s sake say you are a widow." She laughed scornfully. Pointing to a secdy-looking individual who was ap- proaching, she smd: “Here comes my husband. Now, pray, what have you to'say against me? Just say it right out before him, it you dare.” Poor Bond slunk away to his darkened room. His dream was over; bis life was He relapsed into his old book- bits, wore clothes as ancient as and, to the despair of his landlady, renewed his edict inst dusting. ¥he lifo hud gone out of him, and three years after strangers carried him to his rest in Kensal Green, his landlady the only mourner, A plain tombstone marks the spot whero he sleeps, dreaming perhaps some happier dream, with a loftier ides which the world can time destroy. LSRR The farmer tired with overwork blesses the great pain cure,—St. Jacobs Oil. L Marriage Licenses, The following matrimonial candidates ave made gpplication to enter into u‘fi “vetter or worse state,” for the we ending March 20t} On the 15th—Wm. H. Cowdey and Minnie Scherrer, March 16—Michael J. Klenk Klatt, Fritz H. 8 in, Otto Bad ting. March 17—Jas, Peter Palen and_ Chris- tina Sundberg, Anton Jensen and Mary Hansen, Peter . Delanoy and Kate Schaf- ler, & March 18—Gearge Jeffrey and Mattie B. McGray, Alphonzo Small and Mrs Mollie Gelbhardt, March 19—Andrew Jensen and Sis Hansen, Ed Haberstrobe and Ma Franke, Hans Peterson and Anna Rs iner, Will Nixon and Rosa Gottenbing. can never tarnish nor and Au- Il and Wilhelm- r and Lena Gut- — Lost and Found. Asa lady was about to step on the platform of the overland Union Pacific train yesterday she discovered that she had lost her pocketbook containing all her money, a ticket to San Francisco and her trunk checks. She informed Depot Policeman Duff Green that she had been robbed, and the officer immediately be- gan & search for the thigf, While look- Tng about the depot, he was aceosted by a akeman who asked if he had seen any- body who had lost a pocketbook, as he had picked one up a fow minutes before. The one found by the brakeman proved 1o ba the lady's, and she wenton her way rejoicing ‘When Baby was sick, we gave her Castorla, When she was & Child, she cried for Castoria, When sho became Miss, shio clang to Castoris, Wheu she had Childsen, sbe gave them Castoria THE MISSOURT'S MURKY BED. Its Periodio Obanges Transfors Farms from Ono Stato to Another, Singular Vicissitudes of a Family and a River Bank Farm—From Ne« braska to fowa and Back Again, Washington Republican: Whatever soil is washed up on a shore of the old Missouri river belonge by law to the owner of the shore. Sometimes a whole farm gradually changes hands by cross- ing the wicked river in solution. Then the surveyors put a little crook m the Missouri on the map and say that it has shifted its course Maj. Dugro Buckhinge was born on a little farm not far below Omaha, and the pretty white farm house in which ho first saw light was not ovor 500 fect from the river. Until two years ago the major had lived nappily on the farm. His father and mother were buried on the side of a hill close by, and he could see the red roof of the school where morality and modern 1deas were whacked into him from his doorstep. When the major was not out in his cornfield swearing at the hired man, he was at homo reading the Lible or playing with his wife and little ones. He was rough, but he was goorl When he was at home he complained that the Missouri was the erookedest and the dirtiest and the stream in creation, but when he paid a visit to Now York he knocked a n down and jumped on his chest for denying that it was the most glorious v way in_the world. On Sundays the major taught in the Sunday school near his | Tt was two years ago that the river be- ganto w ay tl rm and east up the soil on the opposite shore, whic! - longed to Lawyer Deeming, of New Yor The major had not lived there all his life not to know what that meant. Each week a foot or two of land was gone. ‘Then the w seemed to double its thievish energy, and as it undermined the soil sometimes ten feet would cave in at one and disappear. ‘The major's farm was Jong, narrow strip of lsad, and before a year had passed there w nothing left but the house and about thirty feet of the farm. The major knew nothing about la but he had a very long head. One day he fastened roves around his house, hired all the horses in the neighborhood, and had his house hauled out in the stream. His wife waded out with the little ones, and then the major poled the housc into deep water and let it drift. Mrs. Buckhinge and the children in the wvarlor looking back at the dim Nebraska shore and the old red topped school house, while the major stood n the back door of the kitchen and kept his eye on the great and growing state of Towa, to which bis farm ‘haa boen taken by the river. *“Wherever the durn hou settles I'm_a’going to settle,” he said, “for I'm drifting just as my proper and I'm bound to strike the same pl In an hour the house grounded on a point which had been uenfiy made by the AThe major ordered his household to forage,while he hustled around for horses. Before night the house was hauled high and d and the major marked off with stakes the amount of land which he con- sidered w his own. Then he had his farming implements brought over, and in a little while erected a good stout fence around his way farm, “The major gotout his rifle and declared that he was prepared to defend his properly against all comers During the winter the major made friends with his neighbors, and swore that of all the s 5 in the Union Towa waus the 1dol of his heart his way into the villag dny school and told the scholar: » of the il one and to vote the republican ticket iuwi\y& Mo wps eleeted s an eldoy in he cnurch, and on the strength of that borrowed seed for next yoar's erop, In the spring the nm|jor worked hard, He plowed up his land, sowed s early crop, and got things in good shape. wyer came down from Omaha in May and hunted for the major. The two met in the village you Mr. Buckhinge#" asked the W, He worked am,’ said the n 3 “Well, I learn that you have squatted upon, sgmo and owned by one of my clients.” “Ol, you have, have you?" The major beeame freezingly polite. A little party of church triends who were with him drew away. “Yes, [ f ave; and what's moy hand you a notice to quit.” The major vruml:lu(! up the bit of white paper which wus handed to him and stamped upon it, “I'm a man of peace and have a deep religious feeling,” he said, “hut, durn my eyes, if 1 keteh You around my ‘house I'l1 {ill'You so ull of lead that i1l tako two horses to draw vour hearse.” Then they parted. The major went home and cleaned his rifle. ‘After the family prayers his wife sat up until mid- night” moulding bullets, while he hi: sharpened the old ax on the grindstonc. In the morning two marshals came out to the farm and ordered the Buckhinge fam- ilv to leave, The major got out his rifle, but before ho could make a move he was thrown on his back and disarmed, Then he was handcuffed and taken away to jail. Mrs. Buckhinge vowed that she would bo true to her husband, and she made a loophole in the door of the house and when the marshals came back she poked the muzzle of tho rifle out ;l{gq sijigh that she wuu” dlie l"UP'«!f than glve v » home, The marshals retpeated, but in the um,( BoOh Calid back m‘:fl opened fire on the house with rifles, The poor mother at last crept out of the house with her ‘Lihihlrun and wandered away half Kind neighbors fed the family fora while, and the m at last set free when 'he promised that he would abandon the farm. The first thing he did was to hire horses ahd haul the old home up the shallows until he had taken it far enough to float over to the thirty feet of the old arm which the Missouri had spared, The house was dragged up to its old foundation, As there was no farm left, the major told his family to take care of the houso until he came back, When he starte search for a livi th -umi cried for the first time in his life. He earned a little munx-i' here and there at odd jobs, and sent all he could to his wife and children. All last winter he worked in St. Joe, heart hungry for home, but afraid to go back to the farm house lest he might lose a dollar and thus deprive the children of some little comfort or luxury. Oné morning last spring Le got this letter Dear Husband: Come home at onge, Let nothing delay you. Your wife, JEAN heart the major bur ried back to his farm house with his rifle slung over his shoulder. What was his surprise to find that the Missouri had changed its course a half mile above and had washed the old farm back again, with an addition of twenty seres. | neighbors had joined together to surprise the absent man. They contributed sced, plowed the land and sowed the early crop. The major wept as he embraced his little wife, and then he knelt down and offered up a thankful prayer., On the next day he becamo a “democrat, and now livos a life of contentment and true happiness. 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T also cured my child of diphtheretic sore throat, by wrapping the neck in an Allcock's Porous Plaste - The citizens of Augusta, ( about resorting to force to drive the Chinese out of the town, It has long Deen the headquarters of Chinese immi- gration south, and there are hundreds there; and many new arrivals and th promise of more seem likely to result in a decided anti-Chinese movement. ArL Hot hould use JAMES PYLE'S I S in their washing and save time and labor. It m be used without injury to the finest fabrio As a cleanser it is unsurpassed. For sale by grocers. are talking = The usual story of the travels of 4 pin is at hand. seene is laid in Newton, where thirteen y ago Mrs, ge dropped &) ear. The pin in due course of time dropped _into her throu and was swallowed. The other day a doctor took it outof her left leg near the ankle. time the . The people of Connecticut, when they t their money, expeet a Teturn. An t Ansonin recently sat until midnight waiting for the coming of Tl dore Thomas’ orchestra, detained on their way. The concert then proceeded, and closed at 2 a. m. rCOUGHS,CROUP —AND— CONSUMPTION s (> orSWEET CUNi~ MULLEIN. Mo swoot gum. as gathorod from # treo of the Jamg Rare: 1wk Slon (e Al etreume I 0/ Southors Stntes, COntAIna n SUMAIRKINE OX- pectorant brincllo it oosons (he phiogm oro: Gcln tho early morning cough, and suisulatos o clfid to throwofT thafaiso Membrans incroup wiioopingoouun. W hon combised Wiih (1o beatlng nyuciaginovs prineipie in the mull fant of the old flolds, prosents in TAYLOWS IEROKE REMEDY OF RWEEF GUM AND M KIN e fineat known omedy for Cous Whoonlng conyand gensumptio i D aeantie s ol & RIS tinbi TEEM‘NKVANA GOULDEL 05, ; I8 DECIDED BY Royal Havana Lottery (AGOVERNMENT INSTI UTION) Drawn at Havana, Cuba, March 13-27, 1886 (A GOVERNNENT INSTITUTION) TICKETS IN FIFTHS. Wholes $5.00. Fractions Prorata. 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