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Omaha daily bee., 1899-02-24

The County Board of Supervisors this even
ing left for a tour Of principal western cities
to inspect court houses with a view to get
ting ideas for the new $400, 900 court house
to be built here. 1t will visit St. Paul, Min
n%eapolis, Chicago, Cincinnati, Indianapolis,
Fort Wayne and South Bend.
Rev. A.. N. Coffey, arrested yesterday for
the alleged theft Of over $500 from his land
lady, gave a bill of sale on diamond rings
which he had given to two Of the three girls
to whom he was engaged, and which he ad-
mits he purchased with the money which it
Is alleged he stole. He is still in JAIN, but
his father is momsntarily expected from
Kansas City and he will probably secure his
sons release on bonds.
Governor Shaw stated today that he was
trying to get the War department to bring
the Fifty-irst Iowa home from Manila by
way of the Suez canal and the Atlantic when
1t is mustered out in order that the boys may
be given a trip around the world. something
which has not yet been accomplished by a
regiment of United States troops. The gov
ernor says he believes that the Forty ninth
Iowa and the Iowa Signal corps in Cuba, as
well as the Fffty-frst Iowa in Manila, will
be mustered out within a few weeks.
NigsardIy Behavior of Hens.
Des Mo+nes is In the midst OF an egg
famine and as high as 60 cents per dozen
was paid today for that article, then the
purchaser could get but a couple of dozen,
and the hotels are having a hard time to
buy enough for necessary uses. The long
cold snap is held accountable for the strike
of the hens. Those sold in Des Moines to-
day were bought ia Chicago on t%elegraphic
orders and shipped by express. The situa-
ts1, - - raoarl l,,oJnu
Prohibitionists will hold their state con-
vention here May % and "a. The call was
issued today by Chairman o. d. Elicit. The
basis of representation in this convention
will be two delegates from each county and
one additional delegate from each twenty
votes or major fraction thereof cast for NAL
com Smith, candidate for secretary of state
at the general election held in 1898. TIE
state central committee is positive that this
convention will be the largest ever held in
Iowa and that men will be placed on the
ticket who will make hard runs for the
respective places. The organization is being
kept up and when the campaign opens the
committee states that several speakers of
national prominence will assist the state
candidates and workers in placing the ques-
ton Of prohibition before the people. A full
ticket will be placed in the field.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-02-24

Do you want a high grade wheel? II you
have no money, get one in The Bee bicycle
contests. You choose any make.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-02-24

Bee bicycle contests You choose any
Omaha daily bee., 1899-02-24

win you ride n free Bee bicycle contest
wheel? You choose any make.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-02-24

Wanted-Good, competent girl for general
housework. Mrs. G. A. Robinson, 724 South
Sixth street.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-02-24
supposcd DurgInr Hound over.

Bee bicycle contests begin March LIST. You
choose any make.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-02-24

When you ride a wheel why not ride the
best? Bee bicycle contests March list. You
choose any make.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-02-24

Blun City laundry. phone 3l4, "Domes
tic and high gloss"
Omaha daily bee., 1899-02-24

two San Francisco papers because
OF the cartoons which have appeared in
their columns.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-02-24

Bee bicycle contests begin March LIST, You
choose any make.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-02-24

1t is easy to get a free wheel In The Bee
bicycle coutests-How? Wait for the an
nouncement. You choose any make.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-02-24

Trade where they give STARS"
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would Become Bankrupts.

Remember the exposition by getting some
copies Of Snap Shots at the Council Bluffs
office Of The Bee. Ten cents each.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-02-24

Davis sells drugs,
Omaha daily bee., 1899-02-24

Bee bicycle contests. You choose any
make.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-02-24
N. Y. Plumbing company. Tel. $50.


Bee bicycle contests begin March list. You
choose any make.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-12-28

AS! my time has
nearly come:
I'm weak and weary,
and cold a n d
numb,
And sad and sour,
and cross a n d
glum
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-12-28
NEW YEARS RESOLUTIONS.
If Sincerely Made They Are n Help to
Right Character, Although
sometimes Broken.

New Years resolutions are so often
made the target for cheap jokes by
cheap critics as to create the impress
sion that such resolutions are never
kept and never ought TO be made. The
criticism is unjust, its logic is false,
its effect pernicious. \ recent preacher
brought out the true idea in sermon
upon Peters pledge of devotion to his
master, even though all others should
desert Him. Simon did not yield to
temptation because of his earnest as
surance, but in spite of it. 1t had been
said that hell was paved with good res
olutions. If that was true it was GER
tainly the best thing about that place.
We must resolve before we do. Right
resolutions sincerely made are a help to
right character, even if by distress of
opposing forces some of them are not
kept. Peters faith did not finally fail,
and very likely he had more faith and
more strength because he failed once
and so learned his weak point. 1t is
good thing, then, with the thoughtful
ness belonging to the outlook OF new
year, to desire and decide and declare
that we will live truer, nobler lives.
Making the resolve, not lightly or
boastfully, but seriously and expecting
the Divine help, we shall succeed in part
if not in full. He whom we call Mas
ter and Lord is praying for us that our
faith fail not. The man who resolved
and failed and tried again became a
strong man. What he wrote to his
brethren in the first century was doubt
less an echo of his own experience, and
it will be fulfilled even to the TWEEN
tieth century: after we have su$
fered awhile, God will make you per-
feet, stablish, strengthen, settle you."-
Congregationalist.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-12-28

bag of oats for his horse, and had
come up through the side lane and
taken the liberty to put the animal
in our barn to eat his oats, while he
himself ran in to see how we all Jared
this inclement day, etc, etc. | slid
out while he was thus discoursing and
rushed to the parlor with very for
lorn hope of finding stray stick or
two left over there, making a fire
and getting him into the parlor while
we finished the dinner. The hope died
as [ poked my head into the arctic des-
olation of our best room. 1t was on
the east side, where the spiteful wind
had been battering at it all night,
searching out a hundred crevices
about windows and door to hurl the
fine, powdery snow through. There
were drifts, varying in size, on the pi-
ano, on the chairs, and dainty white
powdering all over the carpet, which
the wind had puffed in under the door,
You could fairly feel the gale whisk
ing about your ears. There wasn't
scrap of wood nor chip in the
wood box. Relinqushing a wild idea
of chopping up a parlor chair or two
to make fire of, l scooted back to
the sitting-room chilled to the bone.
Dora, putting as bold a face upon
the situation as possible, was bringing
ir dishes from the dining-room and
setting the table right under the eyes
of the minister, who was chatting
away as serenely as if he hadn't
driven us all frantic by his ill-timed
call. Aunt Laura had levied on her
cellar goodies and produced preserved
ounces, apple jelly, picked peaches
and chow-chow, so the dinner wasn't
so frightful. The only thing l was
ashamed of was the corn cakes; they
were so big and clumsy, and Dora had
crumbled the edges in turning them.
But that good man seemed to think
we had banquet and even the corn
cakes didn't go begging so far as he
was concerned.
We all made merry over our predic-
ament as we told him how it hap
pened and he joked about it, too, but
shook his head a little, and said it
oughtn't to go on that way. He pro-
ceeded upon his errand soon after din
ner, and we went about our work with
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-12-28
THE OXEYE DAISY.
Although 1t Has Some Value for
Home Feeding, Yet Its Exter-
minatiOn Is Advisable.

The oXeye daisy is not nearly so
difficult to eXterminate as many be-
lieye. If it is cut while in blossom it's
determination will be assured, and as
it requires ABOUT two weeks from the
time it first blooms until its seed is
sufficiently matured to terminate,
there is abundant time for cutting it.
One of the worst features of this
weedy growth in the estimation OF
the average farmer, is that when it
is in the hay field it Injuries the quail
ity of the hay. If the hay is to go to
market, that is true. Any admiXture
would injure the market value of hay.
But for home feeding the oXeye daisy
is about as valuable as timothy. 1t
contains less water than timothy, one
per cent. more protein, nearly the same
per cent. of fat, not quite four per
cent. less of nitrogen free extract, and
only four per cent. more fiber. just
what it's palatability is we are not
prepared to say, but in one way or an
other, usually by cutting and mixing
with ground stuff, almost any rough
age can be made palatable. 1t would
pay of course, to take some trouble
in feeding a product that we were
forced to have, and which is as chem
ically valuable as analysis shows this
weed to be. But good farming de-
mands that we rid the farm of it as
soon as possible. Weeds, however they
may analyze, are not preferred by any
class of stock, except goats, and to
some extent sheep. Every ton of OK
eye daisy removes from the soil IS
pounds of potash, very nearly nine
pounds of phosphoric acid, % pounds
of nitrogen and 26 pounds of lime,
which is too much fertility to give up
to weed.-Agricultural Epitomist.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-12-28

what spirits we might. 1t wasn't more
than two hours after he left that
Uncle Jink, dilapidated old colored
man, appeared with yoke of steers,
which he left in the lane while he
came plodding through the snow to
the house.
"Heerd y'all was out O WOOD he
grinned, so 1 lowed I'd come an
snake up few logs m split fer de
f'place N whack up some fer de
cook'n' stove"
Its very kind of you, indeed" said
Aunt Laura, for we are in great need
of wood-only I'm afraid 1 can't pay
you for it to-day, Uncle"
"Dass all right-dass all right" in
terrupted Uncle Jink; don't y'all
boddah bout dat-dass all right" and
he scuffed away, leaving us little
mystified. for it was not quite like
Uncle Jink to be so Indifferent about
compensation for his good deeds.
"Of course Mr.. Melton went and told
him to come, and either paid him or
agreed to if we didn't" eXpounded
Dora, and looked as if she were ready
to fall in a heap.
ut was very good of him if he did,"
said Aunt Laura.
"Good-yes; but who wants to be an
object of charity" groaned Dora, "es-
pecially-"
"Oh, well, I don't suppose he'll
preach about it next Sunday" L said,
consolingly; but Dora wouldn't cheer
up very much. Still, it was very COM
Portable to have plenty of wood, and
l felt grateful to the good man for
instigating Uncle Jink to come to our
assistance.
OF all the 365 days of that year the
three hundred and sixty-ffth was the
most dismal at Maple Knoll. 1t opened
with a drilling, soaking rain, much
more depressing than the blizzard
from which it evoluted; the kind that
dampens your spirits in spite of all
the philosophy you can bring to bear
against it. The sky was dismal gray
waste without slit of light. Aunt
Laura had raclling neuralgia in her
face. Dora had been dreaming about
charity and wood all night. AS for
me. l had little trouble of my own
which popped up just now more ag-
gressively than ever. [ never had but
one lover U never wanted but one),
and he was a poor young man who
had gone to the frozen Alaskan re-
gions with the avowed intention of
making his fortune and coming back
to share it with me, rebuild the old
house into a stately mansion and take
care of Aunt Laura and Dora, which
was quite proper; for, you see, 1 had
been gathered into the family when
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-12-28

Breakfast was ready when we got it
safely under cover, ard notwithstand-
ing our impending doom, we fell upon
the ham and fried potatoes and pan
cakes, and enjoyed our meal immensely.
Girls" said auntie, when the last
potato and the last crimpy brown bat
ter-cake had vanished, Il don't want
to dampen your spirits, but there isn't
chip left, and how were going to
cook dinner | don't see."
Nett. said Dora (who was just three
months older than y, well cook
dinner by the fireplace"
Dora" said, you're gifted. That's
what we will, and imagine we're our
own great-grandmothers and great
aunts-how lovely!"
"Well, you'll have to help, miss, and l
doubt if you think it so lovely before
you get through" returned Dora.
you'll be baked beautiful brown"
We took an inventory of our stores to
see what there was we could cook by
the fireplace,
"There's a sparerib, for one thing"
announced Dora. "We'n hang it up by
a string in front of the fire"
"Potatoes we can boil by hanging the
kettle on the hook and chain" said Aunt
Laura.
And the sweet potatoes we can roast
in the ashes" | added.
"And bake corr in a skillet in the hot
GOALS" finished Dora.
"Goody," said l, that's fine enough
dinner for blizzardy day like this. Of
course, nobody'll come"
But somebody did come, as they usu-
ally do when you think they won't;
and who of all persons but Rev. Gyrus
Melton! Dora fairly squirmed when
Aunt Laura brought him right into the
sitting-room, for, of course, she
couldn't take him anywhere else, unless
she wanted to freeze him. So in he
came, smiling placidly, and there was
the rib cooking in front of the fire with
a skillet set under to catch the gravy,
and there was Dora with her face like
a hollyhock, turning a great hoecake
in another skillet, and there was /
prodding in the ashes with a long fork
to dig out the sweet potatoes! Not that
it mattered much about me; but some
folks were beginning to observe that
Rev. Cyrus was trifie more attentive
to Dora than the fact of her being one
of his flock warranted, and | knew that
in her eyes he was about as near state
of perfection as a mortal man needed
to be.
He was just riding out, he ex-
planned, to see old Mrs. Hawkins, who
was sick, and had been delayed a lit
tie by the blizzard and been on the
road quite awhile; he had brought
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-12-28
HINTS FOR BEEKEEPERS.

The queen bee is fully developed fe-
male bee.
Pollen is just as essential to brood
rearing as honey.
Bees fructify the flowers and cause
fruit to mature.
Store honey in a warm, dry place to
hinder granulation.
An apiary is best on the south of
east side of slope.
Leave only as much comb in the hive
as the bees can cover.
The workers are dwarfed female bees.
They never become impregnated.
Make the hive snug enough to retain
all the heat generated by the bees.
The worker brood in the comb has a
very even and regular appearance.
BY instinct the bees build the drone
cells AT the lower end of the comb.
All queenless colonies should be
united with those having good queens.
Combs should be handled with care
during cold weather, as they are then
very easily broken.-St. Louis Repub-
lie.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-12-28
IMPROVED ROTATION.
New Applications of n Doctrine the
Value of Which Has Been
known for a Long Time.

1t was doubtless early in mans eX-
perience in farming that he learned
that some rotation of crops, rather
than growing the same successfully
on the land where it had previously
been grown, was necessary. But there
have come new applications of the doc
trine of rotation since it is known that
some crops are actually renOvating to
the soil and that there is the greatest
advantages in alternating clover and
other leguminous crops with the
grains which are very exhaustive of
fertility. Under the usual rotation the
land only comes to clover seeding
every fourth year, and in that time
one hoed crop, one small spring grain
crop and one winter grain, wheat or
barley have been taken from it, which
with but one year in clover for hay
or pasture completes the rotation
But neither spring small grains nor
winter grains give the profit they
once did. If one of these can be left
out, the clover seeding and growth
of clover will come every third year
instead of every fourth. Or if it is de-
sired to keep up the four-year system,
the grain may be seeded with timothy
as well as with clover, and kept
second year in grass, which if the first
year was mown ought to be generally
pastured the second season. But this
requires that the land should be more
heavily MANFRED as the second year
of grass, which is the third spring
after clover seed has been sown, the
bulk of the clover will have run out.
The timothy roots will produce
good crop the third season, better
probably than the second years crop,
but it will be less advantage to the
land for subsequent crops after it has
been plowed again.
There is a still shorter rotation than
this sometimes practiced where farm
ers are exceedingly enthusiastic in
potato growing. That is to plant po-
tatoes on a clover sod, get the crop off
early, fit the land and sow it with
wheat or rye in the fall, seeding heav-
lily with clover seed in the spring,
or else SOW the clover seed with spring
grain sown then. This clover is made
to grow as large as possible the first
season, though care is taken to cut
it down should there be any danger
of its heading and seeding. When the
midsummer has been dry, followed by
wet weather as autumn comes on,
spring-sown clover will sometimes cut
ton of dried hay per acre, and if
left long enough will go to seed. All
that does do so will die the following
winter. 1t should be cut as soon as
heads begin to show, and then a fair
growth may be expected the following
spring. AS the field is to be plowed
for potatoes again the next spring,
there is not time to allow the clover to
grow very large and yet fit the land
for a good seed bed. This plan works
well for few years. Its drawbacks
are that one years growth Of clover
does not keep up the soil fertility,
and that if potatoes are thus largely
planted they must have a good deal
of mineral fertilizers, which are more
costly than manuring with clover
American Cultivator.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-12-28

| was left small orphan, in Uncle
Johns time, and he and Aunt Laura
had not made an atom of difference
between Dora and me in their love
and care. But now it had been so long
since | had heard from Frank
couldn't help being afraid he had
frozen to death or been buried in a
snowslide. And this dreadful rainy
day l couldn't even have the satisfac-
ton of going or sending to town for
the mail, if there should possibly be
any news.
Dora and | had an unwritten law
that the more downcast we felt the
jollier we should force ourselves to be.
To-day l think we degenerated into
Stiffness in our efforts to be cheer
full. But a lot OF smaller troubles
followed each other so persistently-
such as the refusal of the cook stove
to draw, the falling of the light bread
in consequence, slip in the mud on
Dora'S part, etc. etc.-that when, to
cap the climax that evening, our be-
loved fireplace smoked sulldly and re-
lentlessly, we felt that we might as
well wind up the year by going to bed
at eight o'clock.
When we were all snuggled down
and the lights were out 1 could have
cried just out of low spirits, but U
wouldn't. | knew God could see far-
ther ahead than we could, and l put
everything into His hands and went
to sleep.
l slept so soundly that 1 was greet
ed the next morning by savory,
sagey scent of frying sausages COM
ing up the little back stairs before L
fairly got back from the slumber
world. Dora was down in the kitchen
singing Lightly Row" over the bis
cults, and looking as fresh as peach,
with her rosy cheeks and clear gray
eyes. And the stove was drawing
beautifully. And Aunt Laura came
down without a speck of neuralgia
and feeling as spry as girl, to finish
breakfast, while Dora and l went forth
to do the milking. And behold! the
sopping rain had turned into love-
ly, soft snow in the night; not a bliz-
zardy snow like the one before the
rain, that blew in everywhere, but a
gentle, fine, thick powder. 1t had
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-12-28

stopped falling now, and the air felt
crispy and bracins The sun wasn't
shining yet, but there was a mellow
look in the sky, as if it meant to pop
out any minute.
New Years calling was not much in
vogue in our rural district; still, it was
Aunt Laura's way to make red-letter
day of the opening one of the year, and
always to be prepared for any stray
eaAer who might chance TO appear. She
had a cheerful fire in the parlor, plen-
tiful supply of coffee and cake on hand,
and we all put on our pretty house
dresses and prepared to be happy
whether anyone came or not.
AT half past nine pleasant melody
of sleigh bells jingled along. and the
cutest little cutter stopped at our gate,
and here came Rev. Cyrus Melton smil-
ing up the walk. We were mighty
thankful for the contrast between this
call and his last one: but such is the
perversity of man. | imagined he
looked a little disappointed at not be-
ing ushered into the cooking regions
again. Still, he smiled very good-na-
turedly, with those jolly brown eyes of
his, as he fshed something out of his
pocket and handed it to me.
Miss Nettie," he said, II felt it in my
bones that you couldn't get any mail
up here on the hill all yesterday, and /
dropped in at the post office as | came
by this morning, and found you this"
Maybe l didn't know what it was,
even before l saw the handwriting on it,
and perhaps l didn't fly to get it and
scamper out to the big fireplace and
curl down beside it on little wooden
stool 10 read my letter all alone. Frank
hadn't made a fortune, he wrote me,
and he didn't know as we could have a
big mansion built, but he had dug
enough gold to repair the old house and
make us all comfortable, and he was on
his way home that blessed minute to
metamorphose Maple Knoll into the
finest little farm in the county, take
care of aunt and Dora and Incidentally
marry me.
When | got back to earth again Mr..
Melton had taken Dora off in his sleigh
for a ride, so auntie and | had a little
Notification of our own, and | forgot all
al out lunch time. 1t didn't matter,
though, for when the sleighing couple
came back they didn't seem to know
much of anything. fell on Dora in the
hall and told all about Franks letter,
and she Rugged me black in the face
and said she was tremendously pleased,
but he wouldn't have to take care of her,
because that was going to be attended
to by Rev. Cyrus, who was the dearest
man in the world, but crazy as loon,
because he confessed that he had fallen
more in love with her than ever the day
he came and found her baking hoecake
in the fireplace.
We celebrated that night by having
the biggest fire of the season in the old
fireplace, which behaved splendidly,
and we sat up till all kind of hours,
Aunt Laura, Dora and l, with no light
but the mellow crimson and gold bril-
lance of that big old black cavern,
roasting nuts and red apples, talking
about the new paths opening before US,
and telling each other how grateful and
thankful we ought to be for this happy
opening day of the new year.-Hattie
Whitney, in Farm ard Fireside.