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The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1897-09-25
Nebraska w. S. A.

The Nebraska Woman's Suffrage As
s)ciatiOn will hold its sixteenth annual
meeting at Lincoln, September .O:h and
October LIST.
1t was decided last year to have the
convention at Table Rcck in come ction
with the Chautauqua, and as the guests
Of the Table Rock w. s. A.. one OF the
Oldest and most indefatigable Of the TO-
cieties of the state; but the post poIe-
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1897-09-25

ney to that semi-penal institution and
by the state for the chiefs expenses
and services in going after and bring
ing back fugitive criminals from other
states. These are lawful fees Of the
chief Of police but the mayor de-
manded them and to keep his place
the chief yielded them. The other
two hundred dollars were presented
by the chief To the mayor when the
latter requested him, Chief Melick),
TO help him out on some payments he
had to make on farm south Of the
city. When Chief Melick was dis
charged from the place he had bought.
he asked the mayor to give him back
his money. The mayor refused and
the chief employed Messrs. Lambert
son and Hall to bring suit. When
the mayor fOund.suit was going To be
instituted he paid the chief the sum
Of 800. He paid him 800 before the
chief was discharged. The items Of
Ex-Chief Of Police Melick's complaint
are: That during the years 1895 and
1896 and until August, 1897, he was
marshal or chief Of police Of the city.
and that during all that time Frank
A. Graham was mayor Of the city, and
by virtue of his office as mayor. was
member Of the excise board.
That the excise board consisted of
the mayor and two other persons, and
that as a part Of its duties it had
charge Of the police force Of the city.
In it was vested the power to appoint
and remove policemen. and the mar
shall or chief Of police.
That while he was marshall he was
called upon to take from
the city various persons to the re-
form school at Kearney and was
often appointed by the governor to
apprehend and bring back fugitives
from justice. and that for such ser
vices he received fees. That during
he time that he was marshal and up
TO January lSt. 1896. he had received
Is such fees the sum Of S1l.25. And
hat the mayor made demand upon
him for the same. That Melick. re-
lliZing that he held his position as
MARSHAL largely by virtue Of the
mayors power and fearing that he
Seuld lose his office if he refused to
'Omply with this request did on JanU-
Try 1st. turn over to him fees amount
ng to the sum of S1l.25. That on
January L.. 1896. on his request. he
urned over to the mayor as such fees
he sum of $23. That on February
9TH. 1895. on the mayors request he
urned over the sum of $3.50. That
m March 10th. 1896. on the mayors
eQuest he turned over 10 him the
UNI Of so. On March y. 1896. $3.50:
N March %, 1896. s3l.25: on MAY 81.
S96. $3l 20: on June 1. 1896. S45: on
september ~. $50: on July Il. 1897.
Il.
That i'm the month Of April, 1895.
he mayor requested the chief to let
i'm have the sum Of 800. whereupon
hief Melick loaned him the sum of
100. That i'm the month Of July.
s97. the mayor requested Of the chief
he sum of 800 which amount he
'aned him. On the md day Of August
ne mayor paid back 10 him the sum
300. leaving balance due Of $40.
,gether with interest thereon from
ne several dates Of payment.
That all Of these sums of money. ex-
ut the two items Of 300 each. were
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1897-09-25
president is urged to be there.


how to vote upon the proposed amend
ments to the constitution: he pre-
pared to report and speak for your
club. and to pay s. dues for lS97-9s.
Please acquaint delegates and WISH
tors from your club with these par
ticulars. Yours truly.
NEsTA GRAY. Sec, n. F. VIC
The COURIER acknowledges the re-
ceipt Of two large volumes. Americas
Successful Men," bound in half calf
and prOfusely illustrated from the
New York Tribune. They are useful
because they record in 1000 pages the
life history Of most Of the prominent
citizens" Of the cities and villages of
this country. The books treat of men
like j. ]. Case. John w. BOOkwalter
and George w. Pullman. who have
made themselves rich by an ingenuity
and shrewdnesS peculiarly American.
The volumes do not include biOgraph-
les Of literary or musical or intellect
ual Americans. These enjoy essays
and biographies in every magazine and
need no further emblazOnment.
America 5 Successful Men" is the book
If the poor rich whom the literary pro-
fessiOnal biOgraphers despise. Here
are set down the names of the banks.
railroads, gas and water companies.
mining and ship companies that Dives
is president Of--the only apOtheOsis
he will ever receive, aside from that
daily homage which the prosperous
receive from those whom their enter
prise provides with work. The books
are especially useful i'm a newspaper
Office as reference books when any of
hese little great men come to town.
die or get mixed up with any affairs
which the public likes to read about.
In New York. according to these
books. there are nearly as many great
men as there are i'm all the rest Of the
United States. The first volume is
confined to history Of the lives Of
the citizens Of New York city who
have made a financial success Of the
struggle with their fellOw-men and it
requires 753 folio pages tU do it. The
rest Of the country is summarized i'm
9O7 pages. Seriously. though, the
books are useful. 1t is Sd hard to find
the initials of and authoritative data
the rich village gods who
dispense happiness and misery to the
simple folk who work with their heads
and hands for the men who know how
80 make money and i'm most cases how
TO keep it.
The real leaders Of the republican
party i'm this city and county are tired ,
Of apOlOgizing for the men who have
dragged the party i'm the mire until ,
the splendid name is a reprOach. In |
time past they have kept still when
il was intimated that Mayor Graham [
was receiving from every one Of his |
ippOintees certain proportion Of his {
salary. i'm the hope that it might not 4
be so and fearing to hurt the party !
Dy expressing their indignation. But {
he situation is growing worse every /
lay. 1t has reached stage Of cor t
upton where the only cure is radical O
md surgical. Unless the whole body t
,ecome corrupt the unworthy men, t
,ers must be cut off. Last Saturdays
Post published charges against Mayor c
iraham which none of the republic f
an papers, except one. though they c
we're cOgniZant Of the facts. referred n
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1897-09-25
Wore the Pants,

First Little Boy-My pas a Free-wiII
Baptist; what's yours?
Second Little Boy-Mine says he's a
Free Thinker, but doubt it.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1897-09-25

o TO, you SING
er of the charm.
OF mountain. sea
and stream;
The joys you chant
about are not
Quite always what
they seem.
And as for comfort.
let me stay
In dear old
Gothamtown;
And let the chap
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-08-27

world. 1t consists of ledge Of solid
granite which bears a most grotesque
resemblance to a human head, its cav
ernous mouth partly open, its features
distorted with a horrible grin. This
monstrosity is commonly known as
Devils Head" but is also called Skull
Rock" 1t is about twenty feet high
above the bluff and about twenty-one
feet in width at the widest part. Ears,
eyes and mouth are plainly visible
the latter appearing in the form of a
cave, which extends back in the stone
about ten feet, and then, like veri-
table throat, shoots down consider
able distance into the hill on which it
rests.
This extraordinary object has attract
I'd the notice of almost every pros
pector for precious metal who has WIS.,
tied the region. There is hardly an ex-
plorer who has entered the productive
gold fields known as the Rainy and
Seine River Ell Dorado who has not
touched with the palm of his hand a
spot just above the eyes in the belief
that this act would bring him luck in
his search for the precious metal. Per-
haps the reason for this singular super
stition is the fact that the first gold
bearing rock ever found in this region
was taken from the mouth Of this fig
ure, where it is supposed to have been
deposited by the Indians years ago.
A gold miner Travelled 1900 miles to
touch it before going out on six
months expedition. 1t would have
been just as well for me not to have
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-08-27
HER SUCCESSFUL SCHEms.
How an Ingenious Aunt Saved Her
Nephew from Drunkenness.

How an Ingenious Aunt Saved Her
Nephew from Drunkenness.
It was a striking couple that entered
a carriage last Wednesday in front of
the Hotel Savoy. Both were tall, of
fine figure and easy grace, says the
New York Herald. The man looked
on the sunny side Of so; the woman,
some years younger, was Of the Juno
type. Their eyes and compilations had
a dash of the Spanish, while their talk
and manners were French.
Curious history that man has had"
remarked a hotel lounger. "He comes
Of a rich creole family in the Pont-
chartrain district of Louisiana. They
were immensely wealthy before the
war and managed to hold on to most
of their estates. His wife, also q Gre
ole, was educated with the most ex-
pensive polish abroad. Though mar
ried now for many years, they're lovers
yet. He was a wild young blade,
drinking, dueling and gambling. His
family tried all means to curb him,
but he broke every bit.
"One night he was taken home par
alyzed with champagne. His old
maiden aunt had an inspiration. She
hurried off a trusted negro to New
Orleans for a burial casket-silver
handles, satin lining. Flowers were
picked from the garden and she ar
ranged candles and crucifix. When
the casket arrived the paralyzed youth
was placed carefully in it, while the
dear old schemer stayed up with "the
remains 1t was some time before
he recovered enough consciousness to
grasp the funeral outfit, but the old
ladys artifice did the business. 1t was
the eye-opener he needed. That was
his last debauch."
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-08-27
A Stag Hunt In Siberia.

The English traveller Atkinson de-
scribes the following scene which took
place in Siberia: 1.-TWO hunters were
chasing a stag and followed him from
valley to valley until they arrived at
a rocky portion Of the country. I'm
daunted, they kept on, and toward
evening had driven him to a pass, with
a precipice upon one side and a defile
upon the other. Here, while in hot
pursuit, they saw the animal hesitate.
as though afraid to advance. Suppos-
ing that some wild animal barred his
passage, they kept on, when sudden
ly two bears leaped out of the bushes.
and joined in the chase of the stag.
The poor animal, turning short to one
side leaped, the precipice. making a
bound of thlrty-three feet, and landing
upon the summit OF rock Sssached
from the priDc!psi fnass. One of the
bears attempted to follow him, over
calculating his strength, fell into the
abyss, while the other stopped upon
the edge Of the preeipiee, growing
with rage Our CcssaclCs seGt him to
rejoln ais eomrade in the heaven q
bears, by shooting him"
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-08-27
POPULARITY OF CRICKET.
Englishmen Play 1t from the Cradle to
the Grave.

Englishmen Play 1t from the Cradle to
the Grave.
OF all the sports cultivated in Eng
land cricket has the fewest characteris-
tic features at the public schools. This
is not because it is the least popular
of the sports, but because it is most
popular, says Harper's Round Table.
There is no cricket but cricket and all
England is its prophet. 1t is played
in fields and parks and byways. AS
you whiz through England on the hys-
terical little railway trains the wayside
swarms with men, boys and children
in white trousers. 1t is played in the
morning, in the afternoon, and in the
long summer evenings it is often al
most 10 o'clock before the stumps are
draw. 1t is played from Ine cradle to
the grave. Certainly the best and most
popular player in England to-day, DR..
w. G. Grace, has a son in the Cam
bridge eleven, and is grandfather.
And it is recorded that a famous crick-
eter once excused younger brothers
lack of skill by saying: HE never had
a chance to learn the game. He was
so i'll that he couldn't begin playing
until he was years old" If boy
isn't a past master at cricket before
he goes to school there is little hope
for him.
How much most schoolboys do play
cricket is evident in the time and space
given to the game. At Elton, for in
stance, there are seven separate
grounds, each with name Of its own.
The most exalted Of these is Upper
Club. where the best twenty-five play
ers in the school hold their Matches
and the school eleven plays its home
games. Then there is Middle Club,
a Lower Club, an Upper six-penny,
Lower sixpenny, and a lot more.
Every house" in fact, has its eleven,
and it's separate field. In all, the Elton
cricket grounds cover forty-two acres
and afford room for almost 500 boys
to play cricket at one time.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-08-27

touched the lucky stone, though" he
said, "for both the fortunes which have
come to me through it have faded away
and 1 am now out for the third time in
search of what l have twice squandered
with lavish hand"
The Indians have legend concern
ing the Skull rock" to the effect that
it is nothing more nor less than the
petrified head of great warrior who
came from their "happy hunting
ground" to protect the tribes of the
northwest against determination by the
whites They therefore look upon the
stone with reverence as a talisman.
In the earlier days a sort of Indian
,burying ground was established there
by the bravest warriors. The custom
seems to have been abandoned, how
ever. The stone was used before the
country was surveyed to mark certain
locations for the Canadian government,
and some of the main survey lines
which now cut the country into sections
were made from this rock as basic
point.
Some one has painted the image with
blood red paint, outlining the eyes and
nose which appear in the structure of
the rock, making them even more prom
inent than nature left them. This has
given the grinning etfigy a somewhat
funny appearance; certainly it causes
in the traveller who behofds it for the
first time very queer sensation, and
the boatmen take great delight in
frightening the more timid with the I'M
expected sight as they pass along the
river below. Judging, however, from
the number of souvenirs taken from the
rock every year, it will not long sur
vive the onslaught of curio hunters.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-08-27
DOMESTIC TEA CULTURE.
The Future May Find America Great
Tea Center

Iea OGHtcIs
Most people will be surprised to
learn that tea growing is a successful
industry in this country, and that the
highest prices are | ling paid for the
American product Of this popular
beverage, says the Washington Star.
Secretary Wilson OF the department nj
agriculture lately requested William
Saunders, the veteran horticulturist OF
his department, to visit famous tea
farm at Summervlle, S. c., and report
upon what he should see there. Sew
enteen years ago Mr.. Saunders pre-
pared an article on "Tea Culture as q
Probable American Industry" which
was mainly intended to answer re-
quests coming from all parts OF the
country as to the status of tea culture
in the United States. For twenty
years previous tea plants had been
annually distributed in varied quanti-
ties, the only purpose at that time be-
ing to encourage the culture OF tea
plants for domestic purposes in linz
tied way. The cost of labor and de-
ficiency of rainfall were the main OBJ
stacles in the way Of making tea cul-
ture successful commercially. The tea
farm visited by Mr.. Saunders is gently
undulating and the soil is mainly a
sandy loan, and he found the farm to
be under perfect cultivation. The la
Dor question had been settled by its
owner by building a school house on
his farm, inviting the people of the
surrounding country to send their chill
dren there for instruction and in the
intervals of the school term he en-
ploys the scholars under pay to pick
tea. This tea grower has procured
plants from all quarters Of the globe,
has experimental extensively with
them and has been so greatly encour-
aged that he declared that were he
twenty years younger he would plant
500 acres as rapidly as he could pro-
cure the plants. His experiments with
the tea plant have been so thorough
and successful that Mr.. Saunders has
recommended that some arrangement
should be made whereby he could i'm
part his knowledge to others, and for
this purpose he advises the establish
ment of school where the veteran tea
grower could instruct young men so
that they might undertake the work of
developing the tea industry of this
country. The tea from this farm sells
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-08-27
Life of South African Lady.

In South Africa the women some
times need set of accomplishments
differing from those of New York. The
feminine graces might be at disad-
vantage when not backed up by more
than the usual feminine force. At
least that is what the experience of
Mrs. Johann Colenbrander, who is now
being feted in England as heroine
of Buluwayo, would seem to indicate.
II cannot remember the time" said
Mrs. Colenbrander, to au English in
terviewer, when I was without o
horse and gum" Her familiarity with
these masculine belongings has more
than once stood her in good stead. For
amusement this sturdy lady has en-
joyed such things as a months lion
hunting with her husband and King
Lobengula, a three months visit at
Cecil Rhodes place, in the Matoppos
hills, where conferences with savage
chieftains and inspections of the Hill
camp were the entertainments. She Is
said to understand the language, GUS
toms and prejudices Of the natives bet
ter than any other living woman, in
addition to which she is handsome, and
an adept in the art of dress.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-08-27
RAMS HORNS.

The seeds of virtue grow best when
planted early.
To get money without work has
made all the thieves.
Your acts will not go right while
your thoughts go wrong.
Satan can wax fat in a heart too
small for Jesus to squeeze into.
Success is costly" Paste these
three words across your mirror.
Nothing is more to be dreaded in
church or state, than ignorance on
fire.
When weeping mothers are given the
ballot their tears will put out the fires
of distilleries.
A drop of the oil of humility will
save a man from a great deal of the
smart of humiliation.
Solomon took the world for a text
and preached the shortest sermon on
record-"all is vanity"
A sermon hasn't been preached until
it has got into few pairs of shoes and
gone out on the street
The lion spirit of greed is always
seeking to lie down with the lamb, but
it wants the lamb inside.
What must Jesus Christ think of his
bride, the church, carrying on polit-
ical Irritation with the saloon keeper,
the seducer ind destroyer of his chill
dren?
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-08-27
The Problem of the Weather.

According to a paper by Mr.. Nc
Adie, recently published by the Smith
sonian Institution, it appears doubt
full if the official weather-forecast
are today much in advance of their
predecessors of twenty-five years ago.
This means that an extension must
be made of our knowledge of the at
mosphere before more accurate wealth
er predictions will become possible.
The establishment of an aero-physical
observatory is advocated for the stduy
OF all the influences and conditions
that affect and govern the weather. 1t
is asserted that the origin of the cleo
tricity of thunder-clouds is as little I'M
derstood today as was the nature OF
lightning itself before Franklin's fam
GUS experiment with his kite nearly
one hundred and fifty years ago.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-08-27
AN EARLY LIQUOR LICENSE.
The New Restraining Law Was IndIg-

nantly Received.
The famous "gin law" passed in
1886, is interesting as the earliest Sc
we're blow at liquor dealing among civ
ilized nations, says the Popular Science
Monthly. 1t levied tax of 20 shil-
lings a gallon on spirits and license
of ESQ for any one selling or dealing in
it, And, being in advance of public
opinion, it failed much as other, more
stringent, prohibition laws have failed
in our own day. For the cry was at
once raised that it taxed the poor
mans gin and let the rich mans wine
go free. Every wit, every caricaturist,
had his fling at it. Ballads were
hawked round, telling Of the approach
ing death of mother gin. The liquor
shops were hung with black and cele-
brated uproariously Nine. Geneva's ly-
ing in state, her funeral, her wake and
so on. The night before the law went
into effect, so contemporary journal
says, there was universal revel all
over the country. Every one drank his
fill and carried home as much gin, be-
sides, as he could pay for. To evade
the law, apothecaries sold it in Walls
and small packages, sometimes colored
and disguised, generally under false
labels, such as Collie Water" make
Shift" Ladies Delight" There were
printed directions on some Of these
packages-e. g., Take two or three
spoonfuls three or four times a day,
or as often as the fit takes you" In-
formers were very prominent and eX-
ceedingly offensive, inventing snares
to catch lawbreakers for the sake Of
heavy rewards and spying and sneak
ing around in way particularly dis
tasteful to the English mind. In con-
sequence they suffered in their turn.
The mere cry, Liquor spyw was
enough to raise a mob in the London
streets and the informer was lucky If
he escaped with sound thrashing and
a ducking in the Thames or the near
est horse pond. Indeed, such an out
cry was made about the matter that
the ministry became very unpopular
and the law was not enforced after two
or three years and was largely 'modi-
fed in 1743, aften seven years trial
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-08-27
Eugene at Athens.

The ST. James Budget reports a pa
thetic incident in connection with the
recent visit of the Empress Eugene to
Athens. When she was leaving the
hotel in order to return to her yacht
some Frenchmen belonging to the Phil
Hellenic legion who had assembled out
side, uncovered respectfully, and one CT
their number, advancing few PAGES,
said to her majesty: Madam, we
come from a war which has proved as
unfortunate as yours" The empress,
who appeared much moved, stopped
and caused some money to be distri-
buted among her distressed country
men. 1t is thirty years since her previ-
Gus visit to Athens.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-08-27
Hnu a Hnraa Starts.

This was the subject of a recent
communication to the Paris Academy
of Sciences. Many instantaneous pho
ographs were made of horse in the
act of starting from position of rest,
and a careful comparison of the pic
lures, combined with a study of the
anatomy of the animal, led to conclu-
sions which are said to be at variance
with what has hitherto been believed.
It would appear, from this evidence,
that the forelegs play an important
part in the propulsion of the animal
from the very beginning of his motion,
and that the breast muscles, remark
able for their development in the
horse, are essential agents in equine
locomotion.