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The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1896-01-18

Trilby's Truthful pills" is a specific
in all cases Of kidney and liver toubles.
Jus. one pellet at night does the work.
At Riggs pharmacy cor II and o.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1896-01-18

mate Of the crowd and saved the
country the expense Of an official count.
They would need only to add the fifty
or a hundred whom the fire whistle
failed to awaken from their Sunday
nap, or who we're too sick or too lame
to walk or ride. Everybody else was
there. 1t was an occasion to see ones
friends such as the century may not
repeat. Everybody had good time and
was sorry to leave. 1t was understood
that the house had passed out of Mr.
ance company. 1t is very hard TO
sympathise with an insurance com
pany. Not because it is not worthy
or ever did anything to harm us, but
because a company is so abstract a
thing. it lives east somewhere and is
composed Of sleek financiers who think
Of Lincoln as barbaric place way out
west. The smoke was 50 dense that the
firemen could not stay in it long
enough to bring out much furniture.
There was very little saved. Oddly
enough the books generally so easily
damaged were not much injured The
china also appears to be all right. The
carpets are covered with sand and
water, the pictures struck by stream
OF water, have only the frames left, the
wood work is charred and warped. alto
gether, the house is desolate wreck
In spite of the destruction no flames
were seen at any time by the crowd. As
long as the house was to be destroyed
it was pity that spectacle did not
occur. At the present time the house
its guarded by policemen, the glass Of
the windows is broken in and the house
where 20 many parties and dinpers have
been given only needs iackal to be
completely horrible. The slow consump-
ton OF Mr.. Burr's house by smoke
and water is like the loss OF his expec.
tations. They were once a magnificent
structure. He lost his credit, then slow
ly and without much noise the structure
slowly melted away. II it had not been
for Nebraska drouth and univer-
sal depression that is, if the times had
continued as they were when Mr.. Burr
laid the foundations of his fortune.
he would now be one of the wealthiest
and Influential citizens. As it is
We have lost from our midst a
Colonel Sellers or a Colonel Carter of
Gainesville in the person of
Colonel Fredd who started the Neb-
raska Hedge Co. few months ago.
Colonel Fredd is a professional pro-
moter. He has started over ninety diff
ferent compan les. Every new enter
prise, however worthy. needs just such a
confident promoter as the col
onel to give it push to start with. He
can most always do it. He has the
energy. the honesty, the faith. The Ne
braska Hedge company was not great
success but Nebraska people have cut
off many Injuries in the last two years,
and they drew the line long before they
got 10 hedges, Colonel Fredd has gone
to Denver and interested himself in
Cripple Creek mines. He mines and
the Cripple Creek district
in the Denver stock exchange and word
comes from there that he has made
$4,000. He is willing to place about
100000 shares of some Of his best mines
on the Lincoln market. II some Of the
stocking capitalists might be induced to
invest in this rare chance, it might air
a little money that has been in a con-
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1896-01-18

Town Topics is one Of the brightest
papers published in this country and
one OF the most brutal. IL its editor had
not been an editor he would have been a
surgeon. As it is he is never happy I'M
less he has the scalpel in his hand. AS
for subjects he prefers women. Every
body who has any psychological knowl-
edge at all knows that woman's bon
net is her vital point. Attack that with
ridicrle and the bare nerves will CULVER
Imagine Mrs. Burden reading the two
following paragraphs:
1t has been suggested that while the
burglars were about it, they might, for
the relief Of those who have some ar
tistic feelings left, have taken aSay
Mrs. Townsend Burdens violet bonnet
and her still more wonderful headgear
with the vari-colored plumes. The VIC.
lent violet bonnet seems to be an espe,
cial favorite with Mrs. Burden, as she
aired it or one like it last summer at
Newport most continually, and it has
bobbed up again recently. Perhaps,
however, if these had been taken away,
something still more startling would
have soon been in their place, so it may
be all for the best.
was very much amused at reading
in one of the newspapers that Mrs. Bur-
denis diamonds were almost equal to
those displayed by Mrs. Herman Gel
richs. Mrs. Oelrichs never wears jewels
at all, and is generally most simply
gowned. Mrs. Astor, Mrs. Henry Sloane
and Mrs. Bradley Martin have always
been famous for making the most lavish
displays at the opera. have never seen
Mrs. Burden when she wore all her
jewels or even part of them. l sup
pose that room was wanting.
Omaha society is much more sophisti-
Gated than is that variable entity called
society in Lincoln. Although not even
Omaha has reached the metropolitan
point OF indifference to things calculated
to improve the mind and character. IL
it happens to have German opera all
there is Of it anG some other people
crowd the house and listen humbly and
seriously. IL Omaha is going to have
anything to fall back upon when she
claims the homage due a metropolis
from provincial towns she must drop
this seriousness and be frivilous and in
consequent always. Omaha has made
encouraging progress in the last ten
years. In this beginning Of the new
year it is we'll to take retrospective
glance at what spirit OF reform has
accomplished for Nebraska's city. In
the first place, Omaha has very good
turn-Outs-handsome horses, harnesses
and carriages driven by neat coachmen.
In Lincoln the horses and carriages are
we'll enough but '.any old thing" seems
to do for coachman and harness. The
Omaha young men have modish way
Of getting over the ground, neat tourn-
ure, that Crete and Saltillo might study.
There is only one man in Lincoln that
dares to wear chrysanthemum in his
buttonhole during the somewhat long
season for that flower and his Eame is
always given to the minstrel manager
when he risks for a name which will
make his very poor jokes funny enough
for the gallery to laugh at. There was
a time when Lincoln men did not dare
to wear anything but coarse clothes. 1t
is the survival Of border intolerance that
seeks to make this young life an I'M
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1896-01-18

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The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1896-01-18
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The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1896-01-18

The Burr fire on last Sunday brought
out most Of the population. 1t
would have been an economical idea to
have taken the census then and there.
A few men good at figures and large
cancellations like those who stand
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-12-17

in the Concord coach and drove over
from Nevada City. Next morning the
injured man was tenderly placed in the
coach and made as comfortable as pos.
sible.
Az the Cold Spring house, six miles
rom town, Olin pulled up to water his
lorses, winding the ribbons around the
brake before leaving the box.
dog ran drove of hogs under the
horses feet, and in flash the spirited
animals were tearing down the ridge.
Some one at Nevada City happened to
be scanning the road through field
glass and suddenly shouted: "The stage
is coming hell bent for lection an Olin
amt on the box!"
The news spread throughout the town
like wild-fire and in an incredibly short
time the whole town turned out and all
who had field-glasses were anxiously
watching the swaying stage in its mad
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-12-17

career along the ridge towards the steep
grade leading into town. 1t was still
some four miles distant.
What would happen at the grade?
Men blanched at the thought of the Ger
tain death to the passenger within the
coach.
The excitement was intense. Every
one knew that Mathewson, helpless and
weak, lay inside, at the mercy of the
four blooded animals. The wheelers
especially were splendid pair Of met
tlesome stations and the leaders care
fully selected No power on earth
could have stopped them on that ridge.
Down the grade they plunged. The
speed was terrific. Strong men turned
away in horror, expecting from moment
TO moment that the stage would go
crashing into the canyon below.
Half the distance towards town bad
been accomplished in safety when a
hoarse cry broke from the watching
multitude. 1.-The stump! the bowlder!"
Three miles from town the stage-road
led between stump on the lower side
and a bowlder on the upper side of the
grade.
With long plunging strides the ami
mails approached this danger point.
The crowd was too Mortified to shout.
Only a stifed groan, more eloquent than
words, could have been heard
"A few rods more and God help poor
Mathewson," reverently murmured a
grizzly miner, as the tears flowed down
his wrinkled face. Many hard-lookine
but tenderhearted man near him muir
INJURED: "Amen"
Gaining increased momentum at
every bound, the stage ran into cloud
of dust just before reaching the stump
and bowlder. Awed, pallid upturned
faces gazed with fascinated intentness
ut that little cloud of dust.
"They've done it," whispered man
in front, with eyes still glued to his
glass.
With only IA inches to spare on either
side OF the stage it had passed through
in safety. But the danger was not yet
over. The steepest and toughest part
OF the road was yet to come.
As the stage reached town the people
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-12-17

gave way on either side, none dream.
ing of trying to stop the foamcovered
stations in their wild run.
Along Coyote street they whirled,
then making a flatiron turn entered
Main; still on they dashed, wheeling
into Commercial, then up into Pine and
still at full speed to Broad, heading
for the destination of the stage in front
of the National or Persons hotel in the
middle of the block.
Arthur IIagadorn, the owner of the
stage line, was standing, pale with eN-
citomcIt, close to where the stage
usually refined in. None can ever know
how it came about, but at the sight of
the familiar figure the four intelligent
animals slowed up and came to stop
within foot of where they would have
been driven, had Olin been on the box
Stepping up to the leading horse
Hagadorn stroked his wet neck and
said: "Noble fellow, you've done your
last days work"
Mathewson was unhurt and feebly
thanked friends and acquaintances who
crowded around the stage to congiutu-
late him on his miraculous csci 30 from
death.
Such is the recorder one OF tae Wild
est stage rides ever tal1epi bs Sman.-
Overland Monthly.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-12-17

by local applications, as they cannot
reach the diseased portion of the ear
There is only one way to cure deafness,
and that IS by constitutional remedies.
Deafness is caused by an intiamed con.
dition Of the mucous lining of the
eustachian tube. When this tube gets
inllamed you have a rumblng sound or
imperfect hearing, and when it is entire
ly closed deafness is the result, and un-
less the inflammation can be taken out
and this tube restored to its normal con-
dition, hearing will be destroyed for
ever; nine cases ont Of ten are caused by
catarrah, which is nothing but an in
famed condition Of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for
any case of deafness Caused by catarrh)
that cannot be cured by Halls Catarrh
Cure. Send for circulars, free.
f. j. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o.
"a Sold by druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-12-17

The Philadelphia Record, as in former
years, is first in the field with lis al
manac. The Recow has easily led its
contemporaries in this, as in many other
respects. and the latest compendium of
facts and useful knowledge from it's
office is better than any it has hereto
fore sent out. The political figures,
and other statistics of this almanac,
make it one of the best reference books
that can be found in newspaper office
Barring the golden-hued cover. which
recalls unpleasant recollcctions, the al
manac is all that could be desired.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-12-17
CRT-BABY.

Cry-ba5y, cry-baby! Always seems to
be
Hedged about with accidents OF grievous
sort to see;
Troubled deep in mind and heart and howl
Ing fit to kill
Out beside the wa gon box or by the window
sill.
Cry-baby, cry baby! Stumbling on the
floor,
Tangled with his fathers quirt or with his
hackamore;
Lifting up his baby voice forever through
the day,
Registering worr!ments occurring in his
play.
Cry-baby, cry-baby! And yet that cry OF
Brings me consolation, for 1t tells me
where he is
Once there was an afternoon when silence
was, and
Thought the music of the world was CEN
tered in that cry.
That was just a month ago when Cousin
Annabel
Came up here from Laramie to visit us
spell
Brilliant Cousin Annabel, who teaches
school. and who
Knows the world, its medes and bounds.
and all its habits. too.
Oh, the sun was blisterlng. and oh. the
winds were hot
All the air was quivering-a sort OF blush
blot;
Wide across the mesa was the heat thrown
back and forth
While the snowy Tetons looked down mock
ing from the north.
Cry-baby, cry-baby! Naked. but his shirt,
Digging where the shadow was and play
ing in the dirt
Blinking for the awful heat and nodding
by the door.
Crying for cooling drink and crying then
for more.
1t was Cousin Annabel who laid him down
to doze-
Laid him on the parlor bed without stitch
Of clothes,
Telling him OF cooling winds that softly.
gently blow
From the Teton mountains with their ice
and drifted snow.
Cry-baby, cry-baby! Fell asleep, and she
Laid him on the parlor bed and came to
talk to me;
1t was early afternoon, the day had well
begun
Heaping up the horror Of the burning. des-
ert sun.
/ was at my sewing. and when Thomas
spoke to me;
wonder how the baby is," ] said I'd go
and see;
And | went to look, and pulled the curtain
up for light
Wasn't any baby there, nor anywhere in
sight!
Baby wasn't on the bed nor lying on the
floor.
Nor playing at the window nor beside the
open door
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-12-17
WILD RIDE OF MATHEWSON.
BY Il. X. ROUNTREE.

In May, 1857, John Matlewson, a
pioneer in hydraulic mining, to whom
belongs the credit of building the first
water-derrick in California, had both
legs broken while erecting derrick at
Washington, on the north fork of the
Iuba river, 25 miles north of Nevada
City. He was taken out from the ruins
Of his derrick and word sent 10 Nevada
City for an ambulance.
o. S. Olin was the driver OF the daily
stage between Washington and Nc
vada City, and he at once placed bed
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-12-17

a Menominee (Mich.) woman is richer
by 5000 than she was recently, and
the manner in which the money came
was like finding it. Her husband died
IA years ago with $1,000 insurance on
his life, which latter fact, however,
was not known to the widow, The
company has held the money since
awaiting a claimant, but wishing to so
out of business started an inyestiga-
ton of the matter, which resulted in
The finding of the widow and the pay
ing over of the money. ......
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-12-17

a Colorado genius claims that ne has
found a way to telegraph without " ircs
from one mountain top to another in an
east and west direction, using almos-
pheric strata which are already electli-
fled as his conductor. The apparatus
Employed has not been publicly de-
scribed, but the inventor is said 10 be
experimenting in Colorado and Utah,
and he says lie has transmitted mes
sages by his method over distance cf
30 mileS
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-12-17

The "downtrodden" farmers of Je:-
ferson county, Kan, have about 100000
on deposit in the local banks. There
does not seem to be any great number
Of zoophytes on the Kansas farmer
nftnr al.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-12-17

Acting on the notion that as pruning
was good for fruit trees it would bene-
MT potato vines, Jerry Lucliish, of Port
land, Ore, clipped off the vines in a
patch, close to the ground, as soon as
they were we'll up, and some of the po,
tdtoes grown there were, it is said
among the largest and finest found.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-12-17

a married woman in Calhoun county,
Michigan, teaching district school at
ten dollars a month, boards herself,
and does the janitor work. The ques-
ton naturally arises: What does her
man do?
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-12-17
FREELAND, DECEMBER II. 1876

IN nlcKsvlne, ", recently a weuu1ng
oarty was stormed by tramps, who
iockcd the groom in the smokehousc,
ote the wedding supper and stole the
marriage license.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-12-17

Not a baby anywhere, but just outside
track
Pointed to the Teton peaks, but none was
pointed back.
All the world was furnace-like the blue air
parched and baked,
l looked to east and north and south until
my eyeballs ached;
The mesa was like plowshares burning
white with summer heat
And swimming wide before my face and
blistering my feet
Cry-baby, cry-baby! No. not the smallest
sound,
Not a towy head was there above thai
burning ground,
Not a sign of any sort to show where he
might be
Out there where the cactus foated on
molten sea.
Swiftly to my vision came u picture Of Il
child
Lost upon that mesa stretching vast and
scared and wide;
accursed,
Failing meath the blazing sun and perish
ing with thirst.
1 could see him toddle on and on and on
and on,
othBSei tili ilS DhDy SlTeHBtH was melteO
out and gone;
1 could hear his little cry-could see him as
he fell,
But oh. could not run to him and kiss and
make him well.
Cry-baby cry-baby! 20 God, attrne mine
ears,
Let me buy my babys cry with purchase
price of tearsl"
So / prayed and. fainting, fell beside the
doorstep there,
And when woke baby's hand was play
ing in my hair.
1t was Cousin Annabel who told how little
Jim
Came around the house just as I went to
look at him,
And remembering her tales about the
Tetons high
Said: II want some snowy ice or Jimmy
boy will cry!'
Cry-baby, cry-baby. Yes, he Is: but
Praise the Lord, whose goodness let's me
hear my baby cry.
Babies can't be perfect here in Idaho, and
then
can kiss his little hurts and make them
well again.
Chicago Record
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-12-17

The citizens of Machias, Me-, rurg
;he town bells the other day to oolc-
brate the victory of a popular young
awyer who had won verdict in a long
lrawn-out land case.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-12-17

a woman was summoned by her
neighbor in Long Island City for being
a common scold. She judge was Loaf h
to hold her, but while hesitating she
put in few words on her own behalf
lie Immediately committed her.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-12-17

Owing TO the enormous crop, peaches
In Michigan have been so cheap that
IN some cases the growers found them
teives in debt to the commission mer-
chant after the latter had sold . con
1gnment of peaches.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-12-17

o'ie'e"i PoT""ga are prohioi5su %,
aw in Delaware With the exception
of political clubs proceeding in body
from their headquarters to places where
public meetings We're held, there has
lot been an old-time parade of political
marching clubs in Delaware since the
campaign of 1880.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-12-17

a recent report from Amoret, Mo.
says the people of that town put in their
leisure time digging holes in the ground
in different parts of the town where ira
dtion locates various pots of gold coin
buried during the war. As good a way
to kill time as any.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-12-17

\ number or Blu.rron tlnd.j servants
lately conceived the idea of forming a
union, with a regular scale of wages
based on the number of babies in fam
lily and the number of nights out. What
now will the Button housewives do.
moor things?
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-12-17

Among the various fruits second
crops Of which grow unexpectedly this
year were Strawberries. An Indiana
farmer had an autumn yield of the fruit
which was pronounced equal to the
June growth.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-12-17

While the caucus of Republican sena-
tors did not by formal vote abandon
the Dingley tariff bill, they did what
was practically the same thing when
they referred it to the steering commit
tee and empowered that committee to
act upon its own judgment. Pressure
from the woolen manufacturers MAY
compel the Republican senators to dem
Onstrate by some sort of a vote, moi
necessarily on the bill itself. that the
Dingley bill cannot pass, but the bill is
as dead as Ben llarrison's Force bill, SO
far as any serious attempt to pass it is
concerned. The Republicans couldn't t
pass it if they wanted to, and very few
Of them want TO- This was shown last
week when the bill was before the sen
ate for few minutes ton Senator AL
lens motion to take it up, which was
carried by Il vote of 35 to 2D, by the
CONSERVATION which was existed amons
the Republicans who had voted for tn,
motion because they were afraid to do
otherwise.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-12-17

The old story of the mt un ain not &C
ing to Mahomet was paralleled here last
week. After remaining in Washington
nearly week, stopping inst around the
corner from the hotel at which Ca
Reed makes his home in Washington
without receiving call from Mr.. Reco
King Hanna decided to step from hi
Golden throne, bundle his dignity an
his naughty mien under his arm and
call upon the speaker. This he did at
the latter's Office in the capitol. In
view Of the humble and supplicating
manner in which most of the Republi-
cans waited upon Hanna, this call must
have been humiliating to him: that il
was pleasant to Tom Reed is certain
beyond Il doubt.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-12-17
WASHINGTON LETTER.

Washington, December IA, 1896.
Dear BOSs.-U Mess you can buy us
several more senators it will be impossi-
bic TO pay tariff dividend on the in
veStment of the late campaign While
the above is not the exact wording of
the message sent by the caucus of Re-
publican senators to King Hanna, it
contains the substance and real mean
ing of the request of the caucus steer
ing committee, that MIR. Hanna shall
try to Influence" the election of sena-
tors who will pledge themselves to act
with the Republicans on the tariff, in
several states. Among the legislatures
upon which the Republicans desire Mr..
Hanna to try his influence are those of
North Carolina, Kentucky, Washington
and South Dakota. If high tariff sena-
tors can be secured in all of these, the
passage Of a high tariff bill at the extra
session of the next congress will be as
Sured. Otherwise the matter has been
made very doubtful. with the chances
against high tariff, by the action of the
Silver Republicans in declining invita-
tionS to enter the Republican senatorial
caucus.