Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 23, 1886, Page 5

LAND FRAUDS IN NEBRASKA. | Wholesals Ranvy— ;yf‘flw Public Domain by Dishonest Speculators, THE AGENTS INVESTIGATING Easy Times For OMcialeat the Lincoln Land Office—~The School Child- of the State Loom Up, ren TPROM THR DEE'S LINCOLN MUREAD.] The special agents of the general land office, whose duties are in the line of in vestigation, are not sufficient in number to cover the vast territory of government | land in the west that is honestly and fraudulently being converted from the public domain to private and individual property. Of the twenty-four agents in this line two and while at best they small part of the state whete lands covered with homestead, pre-emption and timber enlture claims, still if an in- #ide view could be obtained of their results in investigations there would be a great many people who now unwittingly howl at Commissioner Bparks’ rulings who would have their eyes open to some of the wholesale rob. bery exercised in western lands. A special agent of the government recently wont up and down a water course in Western Nebraska, not far removed from the aromati 1ks of the frand-haunted Stinking W , and found for thirty miles up the water course not a house or A home or a visible improvement. And yet all this land had been plastered over with entries. A fair sample of the aflidayits fited with the local land oflice, upon which the pre-emption was paid out, recited that the “settlers’ had resided continu on his claim for six months, that as engaged in farming and stock raising, that he had built himself a frame house 18x22, on a good foundation, and that at the time of making proof he had five acres of root crop in cultivation. It is ncedless to add that the sottler could not ve found, neither could the hired parties who swore to his continuous resi dence, and the tract of land had never seen a board for a building nor its virgin soil ocen tickled with a plow. Such cases as this return at once to the govern- 1 examine but a are ment, and of the cases investigated and reported to this land office by the official agents, and upon which & trial is ordered, fully 50 per cent are not con- tested and no appearance whatever is made against their return to the govern- ment domain, from which they had been taken by speculators without a shadow of right and entirely without the utmost limits of the la Recently United Btates District Attorny Lambertson took before the United States commissioners one Frank McAully, of Chappel, Che enne county, 1 with maintaining i 1 fences, Y. Winnings, of rged with twice using the homestead act. These cases will, or ought, to furnish some warning examples. THE LINCOLN LAND OFFICE for the Lincoln land district dozes awa; these summer days with very little wor! to do. Regeiver Root 1s a good republi- can, who s as yet escaped removal from the offensive hand of the partisan udministration, or the partisan hand of the offensive administration, which ever it may be, and Rogister Davis is a good democrat who has received his premium and who is fairly loeated in his stall in the third-story of the government build- ing after running the gauntlet of prize winners. There vemains in the district some three to five thousand homestead entries upon which final proof remains to boe made, but as these final proofs come in only at the rate of about ten a month, the office would seem to have many years of existence yet before work is closed up, unlessat is consolidated with some ad- jucent land office. There are also in the district 1,606 timber culture claims, and final proof has been made upon only 286 of them. There are yet a few, but only a very few, pieces of ‘vacant land in the district, and which in part, if not wholly, are valucless. Nevertheloss thero are occasionally entries made upon these Iands and” commutations and contests further furnish some work for the offi- cials and help to while the hours away. THE COMING GENERATION . State Superintendent W. W. W. Jones is patiently wnilinfi for two counties, Lincoln and Keya Paha, to send in their cnumeration of children of school age, when the annualapportionment of school funds for the year will be made. The state superintendent has experienced the same vexatious delay that has occurred in former years by county suporinten- dents fuiling to send in their returns, and aftor repeated writings all have responded except the two counties mentioned. Ex- clusive of these, tho grand total of chil- dren of school uge in Nobraska foots up the creditable sum of 251,404, which will stand comparison with the increnso in former years in n way orodible to ti growth “of fon of the state. The popul children of school age od by counties as follows: (lllml-r. ‘herry Cedar’, e Colfax uming Custer 4442 Dawson Dakota 1737 Dixon Dodge 5398 Douglas Dundy 858 Fillmore 2653 Frontier . 2845 (g 1437 Gos| 7t il 276 Hayes Hiteheock .. 555 Holt Howard. . 2024, eff erson Jolinson . 4101 Keith Kl‘l\l'lll\{ 2775 Knox .. er Lancas 12203 Loup. . Madison 727 Merrick Nance 118 Nemaba. Nuckolls. Pawnee. Plerce . Polk Riehai $024(Otoe ... 24 Phelps ... . 1316|Platte Stanton, ayer ... ashington . Valley 2079 W Wayne 1414 Webster. Wheeler v 520 York.. Dawes .. Logan . In connection with the school popula- tion by countios, the following school populution of the principal eitics of the stato outside of Omaba and Lincoln is given, so that the census war between the Pplaces may go on with & new basis from which to figure. The population in school ehildren in these places foots up om the returns in the fol Plattsmouth, i‘h\lfl\n g ebraska Cit Grand lfilfllldy Beatrice .. Fromont, g All of theso places show a very credita ble increase in school population over the yoar previous, CITY ITEMS, Members of the Nebraska commandery of the military order of the Loyal Legion of the niz:g"smwu, go to Le:;vonwuru, Xan., to-morrow to organize the com- mandory of the state of Kansas. The Lineoln” delegation will not be as large, numerioally, "as the one from Owaha, and up to J-u the followin, have daul- ip: “¢d their intentions of g the are stationed in Nebraska, | Licutenant Dudley, Major Franklin, Gen- eral J. C, McBride, Jwezn 0. P. Mason and Major C, H. Pierce. The delegation A RACING SKETCH. The Story Told to Colonsl Baster by THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WED asked a young man acquaintance of mine to get them." “What young map wasit™ A young will go via. the Atchison & Nebraeka the Inventor of Rawkins' triend of mine, ' $he said branch of the B. & M/, leaving this city | Mechanical Sulky. The young man with whom you are at noon to Il St Louis _Globe-Democrat: Colonel keeping _dompany asked the of the m ok | from '\’]“"*‘ At | Norman L. Baxter of Lexington, Ky., | Jld&e, “Yes, sir," sho answered Leavenworth will be one long to re A withrawn le from the crow - member und the commanding officer at ‘,'w'f t the m‘ua “.,‘].’\l:‘ at the Southern That is the reason he 18 angry and Fort Leavenworth has arranged a | hotel iast might and taken & quiet seat mlm\‘llwi“"vfl 1S Yas, sir, I believe gram of military exercises for th ear 6 © = & and when & edy old | 0 .anghter tertainment of the new sommandery and | it ",“,,',q;.'d 1‘,‘,.,' hiy 9 L i L 1 guests "Excuse mo. Colonel Baxter,” said the | the young woman that she could keep On Saturday next the oty of Lancoln | g e o Mietors | the nresents, as she was entitled to them votes npon the question of issuing $90,000 | {1y oo G NG i Wwkins | She Teft the court. 1 om_without 1ooking n sewerage bonds and at the last meet- | 1° "™ 40 Cinventor of Hawkims' | 8 her old lover and he quietly took a ing of the city conncil judgos and clerks | mochanical sulky. I usod to be | brek seat without saying a word, the were duly appointed for the election. It | (™) cleiian ™ Hivelt, and had as | judee having told him that he ought to § the intention of the city government | g0 o stud of speedors as there were 1n | have been wed to A young if the bonds carry to put in from twenty | Kontucky. Everybody knows that as a | Woman with whom he had kept conipany to twenty-five miles of sewerage as A | yeual thing the third quarter of a race is | because she did not Jonger desire his vommencement in the strect improve: | 1o glowost, It is then that the weight | society : o ment lino. The sentiment for or against | (¢4 driver o sulky combir with Horrible Occurrence. the bonds seems to be in a chaotic state | tho fatigue of the horse and retard or % St Saskiclia i at the presont writing pull it back. The finish is faster, be. | . L Situation n(\ sy qn‘r\; ‘~”lm‘ vide The Kitehen, Bro's, proprietors of the | Y’ tha ‘whip is applied. dhen the | the metropolis of the republic Uraguay, old established and well known Com- | oiond inspiration flashed upon me. A | €ives the following account of a frightful mercial hotel, yesterday changed the | Bt R, O oull o | OCCurrence in that city April 13 name of that popular Tesort to the | of Guott - nadl Jnstond of heing &t A sad and hortible affar took pice to Capitol hotel, by which name it will | pull wotld push the noble Aoimal to n‘l\, in this beautiful and tranquil eity of known in futire. =~ Workmen areen- | yiotory, Montevideo, of which the following ac gaged at changing the signs to that effect “Attor mionthis of study T-perke count is given by one of our roporters and the stationery 1s changed in like my plans. . L went into interior Ken .1 was .|”,.,;m,g my steps toward ‘h‘f oky. and in secreey and alone built | Lidza Cagancha to admire the new St Louts house for 800 tents for use at | axuctly” resembled an ordinaty road | 1, tiear the street Rio-Negro, 1 heard Grand Army reanion at Grand Island | SO0 was made entirely of metal | HEHUUT outevies and saw many women, will be an opening wedge in the | h i was hollow, The shaits sere | men, and children running in great ter way of '\m-ruumml'..lmm for the old yets | ¢ ' ror w on they meet at their annual reunion Councilman Billi ley has shown his fatherly faith in the city by laying out and platting a twenty-aere addition to the city, the gronund in question being located on'the wostern outskirts of the pl Yesterday the Lincoln base ball journcyed to Topeka, where they meet that clubin a four-game contest, both clubs returning to this city next week for a four-game tournament on the Lincoln grounds. The St. Joseph elub has gone o Denver. Kent Hayden has purchased the Wil liams property on (v street, and house of his own which he will oceupy s an early day Police court ws by four simple ca the police officials were enter other by recitals of exploits of other days to remove the ennui of the present, everal new cases of scarlet fever and one death were reported yesterday and a number of people are taking precaution ary steps by the use of disinfectants to prevent the spread of the disease. Recent heavy rains have made dubions times for parties located in low places in the city and many cellars have been team s of intoxi emptied only to be filled again with the floods that ~find them convenient of access The Ross-McGuire broadsword contest that was stopped by the authorities on Sunday, eame off yesterday according to programu HOTEL PATRON yosterday from ‘erent Nebraska points were: J. R. McKee, Palmyra; R. S. Stew- art, Hastings; L. E. Skinner,Plattsmouth; Walter A. Leese, Seward; M. D. Polk, Plattsmouth; Dr. D. T. Martvn, Colum' bus; H. N. Carpenter, Syracuse; 1. M. Bader, Crote; D. Waif, Palmyra; . C. Colson, Omabia; John J. Cagney, Platts- mouth, — - Tact. n Francisco Chronicle: *You talk of tacl't’ said the shorthand re- portes “I remember a case of tact t W pretty as anything I can imagine. It was at the house of a governor of a western state, His wife one of the most refined and charming women I ever knew, and she was just ‘chock full’ of tact. The governor had. to give recep. tions to influential men in the state, and you can faney that some of them wer very uncouth and uneducated. One eve- ning there was a large dinner party, and a rather rough old cove, p wealthy and important man, was the chief guest: The dinner went along very nicely. Beyond making a few rather gauche remarks, the old western fellow bshaved pretty well. But when the finger-bowls were put on the table he was rather knocked over, and like many other heroes of such stories he took his up and drank out of it. Nobody happened to see him except tho hostess, and quick as a wink she signa to the servants. They removed evurK finger-bowl before anybody could touc! them, and the old fellow doesn’t know to-day, if he's living, what a mistake he ade. Now, that's tact!” That you call tact!” said an Irishman, sitting opposite the stenograpner. ‘1 can beat that myself. [ got out of a serape the other night at the Baldwin theatre. I had aseal in the middle of a row, and there was a mighty )iruu.y womun 1 had to pass to get there. I was squeezing my way along, and I couldn't help casting” a_squmt at her as I went, While I was doing that I trod on her toe and she gave a little scream. The fellow with her looked as if he was going to lick me. ‘T bog your pardon, madame,’ I said, olitely. I could not, judging by your hand, imagine your feet were so {nrgu.' What are you langhing at?" +Oh, nothing. L The President's Money. Washington Capital: The president of the United States always uses new money. He never gets any old notes, except in change, whon making purchases. His salary is paid him in monthly install- ments—§4,160.66 on the last day of each month--and the treasurer alwuys makes it # point to send him notes of the latest issue. Mr. Cloveland, as his predecessors have done, keops a private bank account with Riggs & Co., and makes a deposit the hrst of every month, reserving enough from his salary to pay current ex- penses, and setting a good example by putting the rest aside for a rainy day. « I am told that his accounthas shown a bal- ance as large as $35,000, as he has an in- come aside from his official salary. While he has never been a money-getter, and has earned in_his profession all he has ever made, Mr. Clevoland has an cconomical disposition, and no luxurious tastes, like his immediate predecessor. Before he entered public life, when he muking from $10,000 to' $15,000 o year hf‘ his practice, and could have liv like a Tord, his expenses, I am told, were never more than $2,600 a year, and he en joyed life us much as most mon do. His frugal habits were acquired in youth, for he wus not born with a golden, or even a silver spoon in his mouth, and he has found s pleasure in hard work, The Population of Paris. The census which is about to be taken in Puris will settle the much disputed question about the alleged decrease of population there. If there is a decrease Il will be for the first time since the cen- sus of 1802, The following hgures show that with the single exception of a sta- tionary period betwoen 1846 and 1851 the ratio of inerease has been well main- tained: Fopu- Popu- Year, Iation. Increase|Year, lation, Increase L2 070000 ... (1850, 131,000 TUH000 41,000 1561 4051000 800,000 177,000 1560, 152,000 000,000 19,000'1871. 11,851, 52,000 T1 912000 5000 1576. 1960000 109,000 L 1,058,000 300,850 141,000 1551, 3,266,000 1581 .1,053,000 ST Children's Dresses, E. ¥, McCartney & Oo., 1520 Douglas, Areshowing this week the largest and hnest assortment of children’s dresses from one to sixteen years in size ever shown in Omaha. l‘ric& to suit the | most eeon omical buyer, 1 early be- | fore the assortment {5 broken. E.F. McCartyey & Co. 1520 Douglas. e —— Manhatten. Fasy payments. tubes, the spokes little metal pipes, and all the beurings, and, in short, every thing about it, constructed on the same plan \o entire interior was connected, ono picee opening into another, and rep regented a hollow space of over 260 cubie inches. By means of g screw ) On one of the hubs, 1 could fill the whole ma chine with compressed air, which, under a force of several atmospheres, operated on a simple system of cogs, and some- thing like o turbine, and moved the wheels, The thing was put into opera tion by pre on_one of the shafts, whe rest hiz foot 1 hitched the machine to an old ros ster T owned, that had once made fair time on the eastern courses. Never shall I forget the moment I pressed the There was a buzz and a sudden for leap of the sulk The horse Inid his ears, and for” an instant showed a dis- position to rear; then he settled down into a long, swinging gait that spun the voud out behind us like the receding trac! behind a_ lightning express train, For rly half a mile (I had ina light charge ) we dashed along over the old dirt road at what I realized in a vague way to be the fastest time a horse had ever made since creation. Then I went up to a big race meeting and entered my horse in the highest els would naturally his record would admit. lslu|yl|wd my sulky with the greatest care and placed it in'an old stall on the grounds. The air-pump I hid in the manger and set a nigger to watch them both. Meanwhile I had raked and seraped together ever, dollar I could, and the day of the race backed my horse at _the pool-box A little mare named Iolanthe sold favorite, and my horse wasn't considered in the race at all by experts. I had just time before the race was called to rushover to the sulky and make the attachment to the air pump. Then my darky worked at her until his eyes stuck out like door-knobs, i’ou see, 1 was fearful of failure at the last minute, and putin a trem When I screwed on the ¢ hine was sizzing all over like meat frying, from the escaping air, and quivered and groaned under the frightful tension. There were seven starters besides my- self. We had me little difliculty in getting off, but finally passed under” the wire well bunched.” A moment later, however, we strung out into a proces: ion, Iolanthe leading and me last, away in the r I had intended to turn on the sulky at tho half-mile post, but I feared thut I could not overcome the gayp if I let it widen much more, and at the end of the first = quarter | touched the valve. In an instant, so it scemed, I had caught up with the others and passed them. The driver of Iolanthe heard me coming and turned in his seac to look. I will never forget his face. I learned afterward that he stopped the horse, climbed down, and ran out of the grounds under the impres- sion that he had delirium tremens, With the roar of 10,000 excited voices ringing in my ears, I dashed under the wire and realized that I had broken the record all to pieces. Then a hideous fact dawned upon me. I had made no provision for checking the machine, and the power was not exhausted by half. I kept on going faster than before. I realized, of course, that if the urick was discovered my chance of leaving the grounds alive was slender. As I shot toward the half-mile post I saw my darky leaning against a gate. I waved my arms and ho flung it open. We turned, dashed through it, up at short road and out of the grounds. Outside was a turulpikn leading down_to the river. Along that road we flew like a runaway tornado. The next thing [ knew I was trying to keep afloat in the middle of the stream. The horse and sulky were both at the bottom, and a few big bubbles rising to the surface was all that marked where they lay. I reached the other side somehow, and walked to the next station, I never went after my stakes, but I read in tho country papers how a'vigilance committee was formed and went after me. My fortune was disappointed, my hopes were shattered, 1 was an outcast and a fugitive, and, I will be frank with you, my trouble drove me to drink. My path from then to now has been a downward one. Col, Baxter, if vou could—" “Don't mention it,” said the Colon a8 a half-dollar was transferred. ML L Halford Sauce is delicious. Kcpt by Al grocers, —— WANTED HIS PRESENTS BACK. Bur the Judge Informed the Young Lady She Could Keep Them, New York Mercury: Arthur Schupiger, young man about twenty-five years of age, fell in loye with Miss Martha Regen- sheimer, a domestic, several years ago, and gave her many presents, among oth: ers a gold chain and locket of the value of $35. Martha 1s about twenty-four years of uge and has beon in this country only four years. Shethought so much of the locket and chain that her lover had presented to her that she wore thom to a rllolum'npher'u_ and had her picture aken. Some time later another young man won Marthu's affections, much’to the discomfort of Arthur, who determined that he would make the young lady sorry for giving him up, Accordingly hie sued her Tn the Fourth district court to recover the chain and locket, The case wus tried yesterday before Judge Alfred Steckler. “The young man stated that he had only given her the cnain and locket so that'she mignt wear it when she had her victure taken *“What did you want with a lady’s chain and locket," inquired the judge, *‘except to make them a present to some young womant" I have no ladies to ‘make §35 presonts to,’" was the reply. MISS REGENSHEIMER, IN TAKING CHAIR, drew from her pocket the presents and gave them to the judge. She said that they hnd been given fo her as presents EWO yours ngc 4 for?"p asked Judge Steckler. ve them to me for a present, that s all'T kn ow, 'shereplied. “What did THE he give them to you fo “1 kept company. with bim and he gaye th Lo me,"” said the young woman, blushin; “Did’fi’a ever ask you to return them?" “He did not ask me persoually. He | that My first movement was to conceal my. selfy but, yieiding to curiosity, 1 entered the court of a house whose ‘occupants I did not up the stairs, and sained a ny dy occupied by several persons in a state of the greatest consternation. In the street below the eries were fright ful. Looking down * * * even yot my hairs put themselves on end to think of the spectacle I witnessedl A crowd of persons, erazy with tof ran headlong, looking b 'y in with fright. Some porsons fell and wer instantly trodden under foot by those ran behind them Some ties earried children in their arms as if imploring the divine goodness; others had fainted and lay in adjacent door- ror, it hind this territied multitude, near the entrance of the street Que , an enormous animal, that was none_other an Bosco the elephant of the San Martin circus, and two of the lions pertaining to the same blishment were making a horrible slaughter. At that moment Zht with his trunk a child s1x or seven years, and thrust one of his tusks in the ereature’s body. One of the lions was toaring the breast of an unfor- tunate fruit-vender, and the other had sprung upon one of the horses of a pass- ing tram-way c T'ho street was here Bosco had ¢ plashed with blood and nd there lay mangled vietimsof the ferocions brutes™-some dead, others screaming in agony or terror The scene was of brief duration, for the keepers of the savage beasts, mani- festing in no degrec the terror of the multitude, soon’ succeeded in _forcing them back to the eages from.which they had eseaped by donsequence of a stupid impradence of the guardians and of and the de- fright caused by the thunde luge. I'wo men, two children, and one e killed; fiye men and three ren were wounded, and twenty-nin s, men, women and ehildren, re ceived more or less contusions. The persons having chirge of the anim and divers employes of the menageric havebeen arrested. S How She, Flattened Him, Detroit Free Pro It the noon- day ear up Michigan avenue. It was hot. It was boiling, roasting hot. The driver had rivulets of perspiration run- ning down his face as the sun hit him plumb-center, and the conductor mopped and growled 'and fingered the nickels with wet fingers in the shade of the rear olatform. Opposite each other, on the ast seats back, were a muddle-aged woman who sat up as stiff as a poker and looked as cool as ice, and a corpulent, red-faced man, who unbuttoned coat and vest and collar and puffed away like a porpoise. “‘Ever sce the like?’ he querried, as he louked across at the woman and fanned himself with his hat. % She regarded him with a look of dis- ain, “Never saw anything like it, even in the tropics!” he gasped. Her glance this time was five degrees below zero. “Awful--just pos[tlvel{ awful! An- other such day as this will use up a thou- You must be sufle sand people. ng, too."’ » She gave him a look hung all around with icicles, and then beckoned to the conductor, Sir,” she said, as that official entered, “when did they remove the stove from this car#” “*Several weeks ago, madam.” “‘How reckless! Please close the win- dow behind me, and do for merey’s sake keep that door shut. I'm just shivering with the cold and have no shawl with me,"” Then she looked a whole iceburg at the man opposite, shivered her sioulders two or three times, and cuddled down in the corner to keep warm. He looked at her for s minute 1 a dubious way, and then buttoned up his coat and vest, jammed on his hat and softly sneaked and boosted himself upon the railing to finish his ride in deopest silence. e The Veto Don’'t Work. Washington Critic: “‘Daniel,” said the president, sternly, as he looked up from an official paper he had found on his desk, 'Yes, sire,” rosponded the secretary, with some trepidation, “‘What is thisy" ing.” m- itated the president it? Well, it is the first thing of the that has ever come before my notice. “Yes, gire,”” said Daniel, because he had nothing else to say just then hen the hard look came into the pres- ident's face again, and his voice was wold, *Daniel,” ho said, laying the bill down in front of him *Yes sire,” hils “Where is my veto “Your wife has it, s “Um-um. Danielt will you be kind enough to fill up weheck for the amount'? Anfi Daniel took the bill. B When Baby was sick, wa gave her Caatorla, When she was a ChiM, sho cried for Castoria, When she bocame Miss, ke clung to Castoria, Whao ks bad Clildses, sle gave them Onsto:'a Public Buildings as Dormitories, Washington Republican: In answer to a cireular letter calling the attention of the custodians of various public build- i to the increased consumption of &as in the buildings under their cha the Collector at Austin, Texas, expl overnment ofticials there have been in_the habit of sleeping in the public buildings at night, thus consuming gas Acting Secretary Fairchild addressed him a letter yesterdny saying that here- after the publie buildings should not be oceupied for sleeping purposes, and will send the same instructions to other custodians whoere such customes preva - - Anuliwd and found free from poison, —Red Star Cough Cure. Health boards endorse it, ISDAY, JUNE 23, 1886, '"TORNADO TOMMY, The Walf Who Was Blown Into a Home Then Blown Out to Sea. ve in Harris county, the home of the cyclone,” said » Georgian to an At | lanta Constitution reporter, ‘‘About three years ago, one afternoon in May, 1 was down at the spring, when suddenly I leard a sound like the running of a freight tram, Looking up, I saw a fun nel-shaped cloud coming over the top of the hill on the other side of iy honse and leading in my direction. As black as midnight with electric sparks emanating | from it in showors, it was a fearful look mg thing, and my hair stood on ond _as [ Jooked at'it. Tho spring was in. a lttle hollow under a buge rock, and as the slnce was the only shelter within reach threw myself down, hugging the ground like wl fellow, 1t seemed to me that | it was over in aminute, 1 heard an awful roar The ground shook under me Lurid streaks zigz ed in every direc and then came 1 so tion g pattering of pelt T to my feet and looked about me. 1 hardly knew the scene Abso lutely nothing was left of my little cot tage except the floor and underpinning Even the chimneys were gone. | thought Lheard a feeble “ery in the shrubb near where my front gate had stood. Th shrubbery had been beaten down and lay perfectly flat in a tangled Ap pronching the spot 1 was almost para yzed to see half hidden in the bushes a little child not more than two vears old. “Bringing up my triends with a shout, wo picked up the little fellow o our surprise, he was alive and without a scrateh. He langhed merrily, but spoke indistinetly. Wo asked his name re peatedly and his reply sounded some thing like “Tommy." * Of course wo sup. posed that he was the child of some neighbor. After putting the child to bed at & neighbor’s house my friend’s wife came to me and said that the boy could not possibly be one of our Harris county folks. His little frock was made of r material not used in those p: e no marks on his clothing face and bright eyes had a f eign look und his baby jargon was not English Vell, sir, 1 sent ont runners and then adyertised, and evervbody oame to see the boy. It was us s. We never got the slightest clue to him. “The following summer 1 went to Mississippi. 1 took Tornado Tommy along for company. Ourdestination was alitile village on “the gulf. After our arrival I was very busy and allowed the boy to run about'on the beach as much as he pleased. Late one afternoon a tornado camé along, just b missing the village. It twisted up big trees and ! »d them out of sight. Its course was straight to the guif, nd the last seen of it was as it whirled away over the waters. As it had missed us, I was happy, but thinking the child might be frightened, I hurried to the house where we were stopping He was not there, and 1 was told that he had gone alone to the beach a couple of hours before. Then rmed. I rushed down to the nd searched and shouted like a n. The poor little fellow was gone. The villagers all joined me, but were soon forced to give up all hope. There was no doubt about it. The tornado had caught up the boy like a feather and carried him out to sea. ALittle Scheme With Big Possibilitics Chicago Herald: *If Wizard ldison wants to get something worth his wh said an official of the Western Union Tel- egraph company, “why doesn’t he turn his attention to the printing tele, The belief is quite general i circles that the next great revolution in our business will be a printing telegraph, by which mossages may be transmitted v cheap help, and printed in lines li r copy at the other end of the I attempts have been m:u:\‘ ol to ”f"t out a practionl printing teleg an not long ago it was announced v York, Lf;m a young Ohioan named ck, a protege of a brother of Con- rressman McKinley, had succeeded, but hear that it has not beon a success in practical working. The trouble with these printing telegraphs, as with a good many electrical inventions, is that while they” work all right ina room, experi- mentally, they balk when tested on a line across the country. For instance, a man called on Colonel Clowry a year or 50 ago, and claimed to have discovered a new insulating material, something althogether perfect and wonderful, The colonel asked him if it had been tested, and he said it hadn't, but to secure a tost was the object of his visit. ‘Go and throw a piece of your insulating material in a puddle of ‘water,” replied Clowry, ‘and et it stay there six months without tak- ing it out. If 1t is all right come and see me.' The man has not been heard from since. YA few weeks ago a young man came to Chicago with an idea, but with no money. He believed he could make a printing telegraph, and Superintendent Tubl Lhou%ht there was something in him. So did Barrett, of the ecity hall, and other experts, The Western™ Union company refused to put up any money for experiments, and then Tibbs and others got to work and organized the Frinting Telegraph company of Illinois, They sold enough shares among board of trade people to raise $1,750, and with this money elaborate experiments aro now going on in a room over on Fifth avenue. The prospects are encouraging, and if success comes every man who has a dollar in the concern will he able to pull out a thousand for it. By this printing telegraph messages could be transmitted by one operator working a key-board like that of & type-writer, the mossages appearing neatly printed at the other end of the wire. Key-board writers can be had for half the money an expert telegraph writer costs, and the sorvices of only one-half as wmany people would be required. SRSy Daggett's Business Ruined By a Mule. Carson Appeal: Many yoars ago down in Idaho during the gold excitement a good many men went into the country to muke money outside the gold-hunting industry. Their ides was to make the other fellows daelve for the gold, while the; qmmlnrinwd it_afterward, Rollin Daggett, afterward Nevada’s congress- mau, establishod a ferrybont on & small , and named the | “Death’s Lord,” at the same time inventing a musty logend to the effect thut it was thus named because so many lives had been lost in an attempt to cross it. The stronm was not more than a dozen yards wide, and the water nowhere more than two feet deep; but he rigged up a flat- boat,and pulled back and forth by a rope contrivance. Whenever the prospectors crossed he regaled them with horrible tales of the treachery of the stream, and the remorseless quicksands which had drawn so many men and mules to terrible deaths, In the night wlhen he ferried people over he would caution them not to got too near the edge of the boat, as a fall overboard was cortain death, By letting the dim old 1 go out and making slow time, he_frequently impressed the passengers wich the idea that tho stream was half & mile wide. For night trips he charged §5, but when the wind was high and the weather Le struck san- guine prospectors for much larger sums. n the day time $4 was his modest charge. He wont along in this way for several monhts, the men who rushed to the hills looking upon him us a sort of benefactor to his race by this conquering of so formidable an obstacle to travel as “Death's Ford.’ One day C| appeared arley Stoddard, the promo- on the bank with & mule, boarded the flatboat to cioss. In m, ust when the fe! nan wus telling how dangerous the place was, the mule grew restiv and b the middle of the su overboard. One lag canght on a rope, and he got his hoad undor v and, unable to extricate himself,was drowned When he was_ent loose he lay there ia the middle of ‘‘Death’s Ford," half out of the water, so that all who eame along saw what & miserable sham forry was, and that 1y _four-foot animal could walk across.” Daggott tried to got the mule away, but he was too heavy to budge, and so_he Jay there m plain sight for weeks, until Daggett's busines ferryman was ruine - A RUSSIAN PRINCESS. as & Wonderfully Beantiful, but With the Temperof a d—She Burns up $300,000 allowed her complote control over him | self. To indulge her love for pleasure and Inxury he went beyond his means, and then sold one estate after another Once, when he handed ber a little packet of bank notes he had won, as a_ sort of peace offering, Natalie scized them and threw them into the fire, to cure the noral, as she said, of club gaming anc te hours Another night, when she was adorned in full splendor for a court I, the general kept her waiting. At last he came, greatly ex cited, with a red face and flashing ‘e She supposed the excitement was caused by wine, and told him so in vehement words. “No, dear, darling," he pro tested, 1 had the most important busi ness to attend to, concerning myself and our Alexander, Look th ruble notes—you will not throw them in the i “1will, though!™ she exclaimed And as she spoke she snatehed the notes from his hands and threw them into the flames. He shrieked m despairand rushed forward to save them—too late! There vas seen a bright blaze, and—"Natalie," he said ina hollow voice, “you have just destroyed our whole fortune —£60,000. I hope f I should not return alive from the Caueasus that you may never have a bit pentance. To-day I received orders from the emperor’s own lips to join the army in the Caucasus to-morrow. In r to secure your and our child's future I to-day sold our last estate to the Crown, and eyverything now is ashes, ashes!” Gen. Kurakin was killed in one of his first engagements in the Caucasus, se and Natalie became the most heartless of widows. Juster and His Regiment at Loaven- worth, Chicago Herald: Leavenworth, time when Ci “Talking about Fort that remmds me of the ster and - his Seventh regi- t of va were there. Oh, but y were devils, and how Sitting Bull managed to get away with so many of ‘em as he did, even with his superior force, Idon't sce. One night a ]ut of soldiers eame down from the tort to the city to have a time. Whenever any of Custer’s men came down town to eool off the city autnorities doubled the police force and gave out extra ammunition to the police ofticers. Well, a crowd ot troopers went to a sort of 'varicty thea- tre then running on Shawnee streét, They wanted to go in, but admission was re- fused except on’ payment of the regular fee. When they went away they swore they would return and burn the house and they did. Those were stirring time: in Leavenworth, The police were pow- erless, and so Custer sent down a squad to corral the riotersand bring them back to the post, and after some difliculty the recaleitrants were placed under arrest and started for the fort. They were full of fight, but so were the men Custer had sent down to take them in, and no trouble was experienced until the northern limit of the city had been reachod, Then one of the prisoners broke away, with a policoman hot after him. Near the cathedral the officer ordered the trooper to stop or he would shoot him, The soldier told him to shoot and be —. Well, most of Custer’s men were profane cusses. Just as the soldier was climbing a fence the policeman, who was at the other end of the lot, about twenty-five feet away, fired. The bullet struck the soldier in the back of the head, passed through and came out at the fore- head, and he dropped from that fence and fell | wris like a Jog. Everybody thought he would die, of course, and tha urdmur’v overy- day man would have died, but this fellow didn't. He got well, and when the regi- ment went to the northwest he went along, too, as well as anybody. That's what makes me astonished that Sittin, Bull got awayfwith the men Custer lmfi with him thal June day in the valley of the Little Big Horn. The officer who shot the trooper is still on the Leaven- worth police fo when 1 heard of him. ’ — e An Overcrowded Profession, Philadelphia Press: *“What proportion of the young men who register as stu- dents are eventually admitted to the bar?” was asked a well known lawyer the other day. *“‘It would be impossible to give ligures,” he answered, “‘but it is safc to say that the proportion'is a very small oné. 'The great trouble for many years past has been that boys are brought upto look upon a trade as a degredation. If they show any considerable amount of smartness at school, fond and doting par- ents insist upon it that they must study a profession. Now. in most cases they are doing their children a grievous wrong, especially whon it is necessary for them to oarn a living at an early age. A boy graduating from the high “school senior cluss most always wants to be a lawyer, it is, he thinks, the most gentlemanly of the professions and the easiest to learn. Some friend will probably get him a po- sition in a lawyer's office, where he will earn $3 or $4 a week with the privilege of studying. 1f he has any talent for it and his parents have any “money he is all right, but if either of these conditions is wanting his whole life runs a chanco of being spoiled. By the time he has studied for two or three years he ofton finds out that he can not live on the pal- try sum he is drawing and even should he pass lus examination and become a full- ledged lawyer, unless he has some money to Live'on'till he gots a practice, his case is notut all bettered. “Lhave known at least a dozen young men who commenced to study law “when they were abont sixteen years old and who, by the time they arrive at the age of nineteen, found they had wasted a val- uable portion of their lives and had reall nothing to show for it. Nothing was 1«1{ but to fight out life's battle on another plane. One young wan 1 knew became an nttorney and then committed suicide, A few are fortunate enough to get places with men who will take an Tuterest in and veally help them, but these cuses ure as one to five ’I’Illl(h't | A Boss Town, Wall Street News: *f think 1'l] Peoria, I11," he remarked t they ook a seat in the “Chance for n spee out there* “'Looks that way to me. When a bank out there permits its cashler to get away with $100,000, and for two long wecks sticks to it and opelieves that the bank renlly owes the cashier $32, there must be & debghtful business looseness in that town, which will enable the cight sort of # an to soon own a home Anfi koop pigs and chickens." 40 to o o friend as r 10 cross the et Change of climute and water often aflect the action ot the bowuis. Une or two Brandreth's Pills taken every night ure a perfoct remedy” in sueh cases, they also prevent waluris und are a protee- von against typhus fever, or diseuse 4 (rom Lad sewerage. e Stayed. “I.nnlv‘h', vh.«:r g | “Yos, dovey dariing." ‘s yo going down to the horrid olub to-night, duckie? “‘Yes, owniest ownio." “Not to-nightie.’ “Yeossier " No, sweetie. s, deario," “‘Bet him a dollar, “Why ain't I, bic r plam, As you “Because, s into the front hall you'll f6¢ mamifa, i own dear mamma, who dotos oh ot sitting on a trunk; ehals just arrives Won't you please stay at llome, sweeti He stayed - Same Profits. “‘1 vhas a sheneral dealer.” “Ah! Aren't the profits protty nowadays®" “Not any closer dan fen yours ago. goes by city license, you know." ETAL's Qurious. Revor heard of SHal befor “1 like you to come inif you vhas in Cincinnati. 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N - " v | uer te roet News: “How is_business Princess Natalie Kurakin, She was an |, Wall Stree 8, | imposing and cantivating beauty, with | in Cincinnati, now?' he asked, '1‘"“. the tempor of a fiend, and beeame the | ";?m ave the Queen City ae his residings | most admired and foa woman at_the [ PIACE i . | : L “Vhell, T can’t complain, | court of the Emperor Alexander. Her | . J " 3 busband idolizod her, and unfortunately What 18 your line; clothiags 9 vo it a glance, and fi had & out LOUISIANA STATE LOTTERY COMPANE." ] 'u_uuqmeuwsg‘nm{gun\!f Nowly Vuruished