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SPORTING GOSSIP,

Martin Costello and Billy Woods Of
Denver met in Montreal and signed ar
tlcles of agreement for a 10-round contest,
to take place on or about Feb. %.
Denis Driscoll, tho champion pedes-
trian of New England, is dead.
Lawrence Curtis is no longer Jim Halls
manager. They have had falling out
and have separated.
Professor Jacobi, instructor in fencing
at Yale. has resigned and will leave the
university at once. The department of
fencing was instituted just one year ago.
and jacob was invited to take charge by
Professor Anderson, director Of the new
gymnasium. Fencing has not proved
popular at Yale, and lack of interest IL
the cause of the Abandonment of the
classes. Professor Jacob will probably
return TO France.
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the tales concerning him: merely turns
them INTO his bureau and an explanation
comes out by the regular machinery OF
ms system, to which he has impaired his
personal quality OF inevitableness. Once.
grown tired of the abuse. he asked of the
governor leave to resign, but the gov
ernor said that il would be innoss,bIa
now TO appoint new man without som,
great and disastrous halt of the
machinery. Ludden returned TO his post
and TO the abuse.
But IN this vast area of desolated land
there has been no benefit derived from the
intrigues and scuffl ngs at Lincoln, which
is 20 miles away from the scene of the
suffering. This town of Eldyville is i'm
the heart of the stricken territory. The
thermometer at this time registers Is de-
grees below zero. Over the wide white cx-
panses of prairie, the icy winds from the
north shrek, whirling high sheets of snov
and enveloping the house in white clouds
OF 1t. The tempest forces fine singing
flakes between the rafting sashes of the
window that fronts the storm. The air
has remained gloomy the entire day.
From other windows can be seen the
snowfiakes fleeing into the south. trav-
ersing as level line as bullets. speed:ng
IKE the WIND. The people in the sod
houses are much moro comfortable than
those who live IN frame dwellings. Many
OF these latter are high upon ridges of tie
prairie and the fingers OF the storm clutch
madly AZ them. The sod houses hud lie
close to the ground and their thick walls
restrain the heat of the scant wood fire
from escaping.
Ediyvile IS a typical town Of the
Drought district. Approaching il oyer tho
prairie. one sees n row Of little bouscs.
blocked upon the SKY. Most of them ar.
'ne stored. Some of the stores Ia ~.
title square false fronts. Tho build.n--
.iraGsle al irregular intervals along NE
street. acl little board sidewalk c3ugec-, .
hem. On al sides stretches the wind /
wept prairie.
This town was once live little place. .
rom behind the low hllocks, the far. /.
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win other things, that this tempest should
come at precisely the time when il will he
remarkable if certain of the people en-
| dure it.
Eddyvillc received a consignment of and
recently. There were 50 sacks of flour
and dozen boxes of clothing. For miles
| about the little village tho farmers cauo
with their old wagons and their ill-fed
horses. Some of them blushed when tho,
went before the local committee to sion
their names and get the charity. They
were strong. fine, sturdy men, not bendad
Ike the eastern farmer, but erect and
agile. Their faces occasionally expressed
inc subtle inner tragedy which relief of
1000 and clothing at this time can do but
little TO tighten. The street was again
lively, but there was an elemental mourn-
iuiness IN the little crowd. They spoke of
the weather a great deal.
Two days afterward the building wbera
'he remainder of the relief stores had been
put away, burned to the or ound.
n farmer in Lincoln county recentIv
said NO | don't get no aid. | hadter
drive 70 miles 4 git my flour. an then
drive back again an / didn't think tn
team would stand it, they been poor-fed
SO long. Besides I'd hadter put IN a
oilar TO keep tn team over night an
ulun have none. l hain't had no aid .,
'How did YOU get along?'
Don get along, stranger
In the meantime, the business men in
Tue eastern part of the state. particularly
an tie tsplcndid cities of Omaha ana
Lincoln. are beginning 10 feel the crea.
depression resulting from extraordinary
accounts which have pias'creI the entire
state as place Of Voc. Visitors to tho
country have looked from car windows 20
sec the famine-str.chcu bodies Of the
farmers lying ia tie fields aud have troI
lightly III the streets of Omaha 10 keen
from cruShin. the bodies If babes. b.,
he point should be empal- I'd thar tho
,reEioas condition D. caufu.I f1 a conn
'1ratively narrow section u. tas western .
p rt % tho state.
Governor Ha.com3e Sail 10 the writer:
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disc appeared in the East and it weak
ened when the blood-red molten mass
vanished in the West. From day TO dav
IL ragged like pestilence. The leaves of
the corn and of the trees turned yellow
and sapless like leather. For a time they
stood the blasts in the agony of a futile
resistance. The farmers helpless. with
no weapon against this terrible and in
scrutable wrath of nature, were specta.
tors a. the strangling of their hopes. their
ambitions, all that they could look to
from their labor. 1t was as if upon the
massive altar of the earth. their homes
and their families we're being offered IN
sacrifice to the wrath of some blind and
pitiless deity.
The country died. In the rage of the
wind, the trees struggled. gasped through
each curled and scorched leaf. then. AT
last. ceased to exist. and there remained
ONLY the bowed and bare skeletons of
trees. The corn shvering as from fever.
bent and swayel ahjectly for a time. then
one by one the yellow and tinder-like
stalks, twisted and pulled by the rage of
the hot breath, died IN the fields, and the
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n NEGRO's FIDELITY.
The Old Man Was liver Faithful to His
"MarS Tom

The Old Man Was liver Faithful to Hi.
"Mar- Tom
From the Cincinnati Tribune.
Il saw a pathetic instance at Green's
boro OF negro's fidelity" said w. L.
Williams, a travelling man. about 10
miles from the town saw a grave with
a marble slab at ITS head. Seated near il
was an old negro with bunch of flowers
which he was placing upon the mound. |
stopped my horse and spoke TO the
darkcv.
Whose grave is that. uncle? . | asked.
"'Mars Toms boss. I'm his nigga
Ion, no; you are no mans Niger
now. Didn't you ever know that you
were free
dunno muffin bout dat. sab. ESQ
Mars Toms nigga, sab, an he's waitin'
foh me suah up dab. Desc hans done
toto him frum dat place dey call Shiloh.
an he died while | wah a-totin i'm; lest
closed he eyes an went to sleep, an when
| comes ter cross do ribber OBJ Johdan he
Jest hol' out his hans an he tells de an
gel at de gate who be an he let me in.
dreamed bout it las night, boss
II was interested in the old fellow and
wanted to hear his story. The slab at the
grave told me that il was that of Col.
Tom VIM, killed at the battle of Shiloh
and | questioned the faithful negro fur
Their:
'"How old are you, uncle?
"'Mos' n hundred. / reckon, sah.'
"'Was you in the WARP
"'Went wifi Mars Tom, sab. Use his
nigga, an he's in heaben. Use les,
a-waitin' till desc ole bones, weary wild
trabbelin' ober he road, III take me TO de
rbber, when Mars Tom'll help his ole
nigga ober.'
Were you with him when he was
killed.
81 was right dar, boss. Done pick m
up an toted i'm TO dat place dey call Cor
NTH; den foun' a train, got to do place
dey call Chattanooga; de mex day we
wah in Atlanta. Mars Tom den in glory.
Dis heah nigga lef to ten his body. Boy
buried I'm when l got i'm heah an dis
nigga jest lef' to ten his grave an keen
dc flowers hyah.'
Il found, upon inquiry, that the story
was true. and for quarter OF a century
the faithful negro had done nothing bur
attend the grave of his young master.
whose body no had brought from Northern
Mississippi 20 Central Ga1rril."
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this portion which is exempt. To the
eastward, the blot shades off until one
hnds moderate crops.
In June, 1894, the bounteous prolific
prairies of this portion of Nebraska were
a-shine with the young and tender Green
OF growing corn. Round and fat cattle
filled the barnyards of the fairness. The
trees that were congregated about the
little homesteads were of the vivid and
brave hue of healthy and vigorous vegeta-
ton. The towns were alive with the COM
merce OF an industrious and hopeful COM
munlty. These mighty brown fields
stretching for miles under tho imperial
blue sky of Nebraska had made a promise
TO the farmer. 1t was TO compensate him
Tor MS great labor, his patience. his sacri-
noes. Under the COOL blue dome the
winds gently rustled the arrays of waist
high stalks.
Then, on one day about the first of July
there came a menace from the southwark.
Ihe sun had been growing prophetically
more nerce day by day. and in July there
began these winds from the south. mild
at hrst and subtle like the breaths
oil the painting countries of the
tropics. The corn in the fields underwent
a preliminary CULVER from this breeze bur-
dened with an omen of death. In the fol-
lowing days II became stronger, moro
The farmers turned anxious
eyes toward their fields where the corn
was beginning to rustic with a dry and
cracking sound which went up from the
prairies like cries.
linen from the southern horizon came
the scream of wind hot as an ovens |
inry. lis valor was great in the presence
oI the sun. 1t came when the BURNING |
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vast and sometime beautiful green prair-
les were brown and naked.
In few weeks this prosperous and
garden-like country was brought TO a con-
dition of despair, but still this furnace
wind swept along the dead land, whirling
great clouds of dust, straws. blades of
grass. A farmer, gazing from a window
was confronted by a swirlinr tempest of
dust that interviewed between his vision
and his scorched fields. The soil of the
roads turned to powder in this tempest,
and men travelling against the winds
found all the diff culties of some hideous
and unnatural snowstorm. At nightfall
the winds always vanished and the sky
which had glistened like a steel shield be-
came of soft blue, as the purple shad-
ows OF merciful night advanced from
the west.
These farmers now found themselves
existing in a virtual desert. The earth
from which they had wres,ed each morsei
which they had put into their mouths had
now abandoned them. Nature made light
OF her obligation under the toll of these
men. This vast tract was now a fit place
for the nomads of Sahara.
And yet, for the most part, there was no
wavering, no absence of faith in the ulti-
mate success of the beautiful SOIL Some
lew despaired at once and went to make
new homes in the north, in the south, in
the east, in the west. But the greater
proportion of the people of this stricken
district were men who loved their homes,
their farms, their neighborhoods, their
counties. They had become rooted in this |
soil, which so seldom failed them i'm COM
pensation for their untiring and persist
ent toll. They could not move all the |
of their social life and their
iaboring life. The magic of home held
them from travelling toward the promise
OF other lands. And upon these peopIe
there came the weight of the strange and
punishment of nature. They
are fearless folk, completely American,
heir absolute types are now sitting about
New England dinner tables. They sum-
noned their strength for a long war with
'old and hunger. Prosperity was at the
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nebraska is desert. In reality the situa-
'ioh is serious. but 1t does not include the
whoie state. However, people feel that 80
counties in pain and des titution is suf.
ficicnt.
Inc blot that is laid upon the map of
~. me s.ale oeglns In the north beyond Gus
ter county. 1t is there about so miles
wide. 1t slowly widens then in a south
ward direction until when it crosses the
Platte river it is over 100 miles wide. The
country to the north and to the west of
this blot is one of the finest crazpc
grounds in the world and the cattIemen
there are not suffering. Valentine ia in
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1t the Goulds chose to pay $1,000, 900 for
De Castellane no one can ever again ac-
cuse young Mr.. Macdonough of extrava-
gance in securing Ormonde at the modest
figure of $50, ,0O.-Sdn Francisco Erun-
iner
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BITTER FIGHT FOR LIFE
Inc People Of Nebraska Counties
Starving
STEPHEN CRANES REPORT
waiting In the Cruel Cold Of Winter
Tor the Spring. When They'll
Have No Seed Corn-The
Relief Commission.
copyright 1895, by Bachelor. johnson &

Copyright, 1895. by Bachelor. johnson &
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DDYVILLE,Daw-
son county, Neb.,
Feb. %. - TIL e
vast prairies in
this section of
Nebraska contain
a people who are
engaged in a Bit
ter and deadly
fight for exist
ence. Some of the
r e ports ell e.
graphed TO the
East have made
it appear that the
entire state of
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Deaths Mrs. @. p Aikens, died on
Saturday morning last, at the residence Of her
ssn.in-law. Nr. 7. H Carpenter, Pisgah, az
ter lingering illness Of heart disease, IN the
eoth year Of her age. she vas native Of
New York, having novel to this county
about 10 years ago Mrs T. H. Carpenter is
the only child that survives her. Her funer4
took place on Sunday and her remains wer'
inferred in the Pisgah burying ground. Rev.
]. c. Sedwick performed the burial ceremony
The paul bearers were, Messrs. J. W. Jen'
kins, W. C. Grinder, L. Cox, James A.
Franklin, James Cox, g. N. Carpenter, N. R.
Simmons and Henry Deloxier.
Mas. ANN G. GARNER.
Mrs. Ann G, Garner, widow Of the late
Charles Garner, died at the residence Of her
son, Mr.. John W. Garner, on Monday last
in the s4;h year of her age. She leaves three
sons, Messrs. John W and George Garner,
who reside 10 this county, and Mr.. Robert
Garner, who lives in the West She also
leaves Two daughters, one Of whom is the
wife Of ex-SheriH Adams. Her funeral took
place on Wednesday and her remains were
inferred at Pomfret Cemetery.
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IN MEMORIAN.

DIED at her residence, Pisgsh, on August 81,
1895, after long and painful illness which
she bore with . reat fortitude. Mrs. Catherine
r. Aiken in the Goth year of Der age.
Borne in 0wego, New York, she married
and spent her early life in that State. About
eighteen years sgo she came to Maryland and
since that time has resided with her only
daughter, Mrs. Thomas II. Carpenter Of Piss
gsh.
Possessing 10 an eminent degree all these
qualities Of bead and heart which 20 to form
perfect character, Mrs. Aiken was every
where respected and beloved by all with
whom she came il contact.
Educated, intelligent and refined, though
modest, retiring aud 1nostentatious, she was
ever ready to respond to the call Of sorrow
and distress, aud although physically delicate
and in Door health, no task seemed too great
for her, if the alienation of pain or distress
was the object.
A lifelong member ofthe christian church, she
was strictly conscientious and diligent in dis.
charge Of church duties, active in church
work, and charitable in its truest sense.
Long after the ailment which finally took
her of had seized upon her and was steadily
and surely sapping her life, she never wavered
in her christian faith aud dntits, and when
active work was no longer possible, no case
of want, sorrow or pain ever came to her no
tice without eulisting her deepest sympathies,
and elititing word of cheer, a message OF
coincidence or some token of christian love
and always her earnest prayers.
Thus has passed away woman of rare
merit, a loyal friend, a devoted mother, q
true. noble and christian woman
In life beloved BY all who knew her
In death by all lamented.
Weep rot then bereavea ones, 'for ye
mourn not as those without hope" for if an
upright christian life of spotless purity and
pety means anything. il means that the de-
parture Of the deceased has added another
star to the galaxy of Heaven, another voice to
welcome you to thai better land.
On Sunday, September lst, bright and
beautiful Sabbath day, just as the sun was
approaching the western horizan, closing q
perfect day, loving friends laid Der to rest in
the quiet churchy ard at Pisgah, beside her
only son. DR.. Henry Aiken, whom she SC
dearly loved in life aid whose memory she
so tenderly cherished, thus performing the
last token of love and respect to life as
pure and spotless as the passing day. **s
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COl0red Tournament.-The affair OF
the season for the colored people was the tour.
lment held in this village on Tuesday. From
early in the morning till late 10 the evening
crowds Of persons from every section Of the
county poured in the town until the party
swelled to at least Eve hundred persons. The
arrangements for the affair were all well per
fected so at about 3 o'clock everything was
in readiness and the fitting began. The
prizes, besides the crowns, were N cart, harness,
saddle, bridal and martingale. Sixteen
knights catered the list and from the begin
ming the contest was close and spirited. The
result. Mr.. G. D. Lancaster, won the first
prize, and crowned the Queen, Miss NJ. 7.
Votes; Mr.. A. L. Wade, I'd prize, and crown
ed Miss Lizzie Wade, FIRST Maid; Mr.. W. j.
Chapman, third prize, and crowned Miss
J. q. Campbell, and Mr.. J. B. Stewart, the
fourth prize, and crowned Miss Lillian Gill
lum. The music was furnished by brass
band from Marlboro. At night dance was
given under the large improvised dancing
hall, constructed for the occasion. Perfect
order prevailed throughout the entire enter
tainment, and the concessum of opinion is all
had good time.
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A social wis given last Monday evening
in CockinR's Hall, Hill Top, BY the young
men Of that neighborhSod 10 honor Of Mss
Alverda G. Hawk, of Washington, and Miss
Bula Carr, of Virginia.
ars. Martina Yznaga aud daughters, Misses
Constela and Martina, Of Washington, who
haYe been the guests Of the fsa.ily Of Mr. =.
B. Green, near Pomiret, for the past month,
returned home during the week.
Mr. Peter W. Roby was kept busy last
week Furnishing vioators Of the Criminal
Code. He deals out justice with an even
hand and the old sinners having sinned pre-
fer to have him to pass judgment on their
wicksdness to Circuit Court jury.
Mr.. Vim. VI. Holiday, Of Annapolis, Edi-
tor Of the Anne Arundel Advertiser, made a
business trip TO the county on Wednesday.
And while down adding much to the pleasure
Of his visit by social call on charming
young lady acquaintance 10 the neighborhood.
The venerable Mr.. Thomas g. Ward, near
Benedict, said to be lO2 years old made
business trip to Baltimore during the week.
He is doubtless the Oldest man 10 Southern
MARYLAND, but still active and can attend TO
business Notwithstanding his advanced age.
Grand special sale next Tuesday closing
out sale, ! gallon Mason jars, 7sc, quart cans
36c dozen, erockery and glassware will go at
any price. new line Of Percals and Duck,
just received, too late for this season, must go
If sold below cost. Counters well displayed.
E. l. W., leaders Of low prices.
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Horse stealing.-Edward Matthew!

Horse Stealing.-Edward Matthews,
charged with horse stealing under the statute,
on the 18th of August last, has been arrested,
adjudged guilty by Justice F. R. Wheatley,
and sentenced &c tie House of Correction for
months. Matthews, it seems. was at Shiloh
camp meeting on the day above named, and
wanting to return to Cox's Station, near
where he lives, took the horse of Mr.. VIM,
jackson, Of Newport, who was also at the
camp meeting, and rod. him home end ther
let the animal loose Mr.. jackson found hi:
horse after several days seaich, and obtain
ing proof that Matthews committed the Of
tense had hlm arrested, and he was punished
as stated
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Hi lexis for this Month.-Hick fore

Ill CHS IOF tnts MOntu Iich ioie
casts the weather for this month as follows;
From 9Th TO 9Th look for warm wave and re-
newcd storms. The warmth and storms al
ways start in the West, and reach the ex-
IRENE East two or four days later; hence, all
can sec we do not mean that it will he storm
ing everywhere during the whole of every
storm period, except it be when mans causes
couspire to excite and prolong disturbances.
About the lth and 18th autsmnal equinoc-
tial storms will begin. From 18th to 10Th
will be a period in which many dangerous
storms and gales will visit land and sea.
Watch indications, wherever you be, they
show the approach of storms to your locality.
The 22ud to 25th will also be Time in which
very marked disturbances are apt 10 occnr.
A change 10 very cool, with frost northward,
will come after the storms. Veaus will affect
all the last half of this month. The .pppth
ends warm, and stormy from alto TO 30th.
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Orphans, Court.-The Orphans

was in session on Tuesday full bens. pres
ent First and final account Of Pere Wilmer,
Jr., administrator of W. A. Lloyd. passed.
Inventory of the personal property of Thomas
A. Jones, fled by L. A. Wilmer, admins
traitor. Order for sale by posting notices.
Application of Addison Marbury for letters
on estate of George B. Shull. Application
by j. A. Turner and A. Posey
for letters on estate of William
E. Turner; letters granted, bond filed
and warrant of appralsement issued to S. G.
Padgett and C. NJ. Turner. Fifth account
filed by Mrs. E. C. Tennison as guardian tC
Dennis Tennison First and fIal account O
I. T. Owen, administrator Of ]: W. Owen
Jr., passed
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Paid a VISTA party Of gentlemen
from Washington city, paid flying visit to
Poynton Manor on Sunday. Their visit was
Of a social character, but while enjoying the
generous hospitality of Mr.. and Mrs. Bob
Ferguson, they took occasion to examine
some OF the lands near Poyton Manor, and
expressed themselves pleased with the same
aud the country around. One of them may
buy.
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Alexander's Army knew no defeat. The sam
s! true ofDr. Fenner's Golden Relief. It's war.
ranted to relieve toothache neuralgia. head
ache, or any other PAIN in to minutes -
Also bruises, wounds, wire-cuts, swellings
bites, burns, summer complaints, collie, false
in horses), diarrhea, dysentery and Aux. j
satisfaction not given money returned. Fol-
sale by all dealers and W. W. Padgett, Port
Tobacco
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MIR Neale Indignant Mi

Neale is very indignsat over the manner in
which be was treated at the Marlboro Fair
He exhibited bis pretty young stallion. Rinal-
do, at the Fair and il was admitted by all
who saw the exhibit Of stations, that Mr.
Neaie had the prettiest show horse On exhibit
ton, but Notwithstanding this the prize wa;
awarded to another horse not near so hand
some and well known to be- a broken down
animal. Mr.. Neae says the judge in the af
fair was we'll known horse dealer, named
Gren, of Washington, and was very unfail
IN bis award of the prize. He cared nothing
for the prize, and exhibited his horse merely
to encourage the Fair aud feels much hurt a
the treatment he received.