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The courier., 1900-03-10
CLUBS.
Continued from Page 81

Mrs. Frank James. Nessrs. Burnside
and Rhinhart.
Short sketches OF George Gable,
Thomas Nelson Page. Joel Chandler
Harris-Miss Daisy Spickard.
Vocal quartet, My Old Kentucky
Home. Good Night"-Miss Roberts, Mrs.
James. Meesrs. Burnside and Rhin-
hart.
The courier., 1900-03-10

The Civic club OF Tekamah held it's
regular meeting March 9th. at 2:3O p. IN.
at the home OF Mrs. Belle Sears. The
program follows:
Roll call-eubject OF response-What
Jur Noted Women are Doing
Music-Mrs. F. L. Cook.
Report OF " E. s. Airs. F.. Hayes
Resdiug-Mrs. George Latta.
Lesson-First Chapter Fisk's Civil
Government
Review Of lesson-Mrs Sears.
The courier., 1900-03-10

1T is curious fact says McIvor-
Tyndall's secretary, "that OF the large
number who daily call at the hotel to
make appointments for areading OF the
hand at least two-thirds are men, This
is probably accounted for by the fact
that men more readily recognize the
personal benefits of the science, while
women, as rule, only take up the sci
ence because it is at present a society
fad in the metropolitan cities Of England
and America.
McIvor-TyndalPs reception hours at
the Lincoln are from 10 a. IN. to p. m.
The courier., 1900-03-10

Corn Tassels, William Reed Dunroy,s
new collection Of poems, on sale at the book
stores.
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Plenty of Meat, but No Saw.

A United States army Guartermaster,
whose rank entities him to wear all
manner of gold and silver lace with
his full dress uniform, came home on a
furlough the other day, and told this
story as illustrative of some Of the
troubles a man meets in catering to
volunteer troops. In a Mississippi
camp was a regiment Of southern men,
unframed and almost unorganized.
We'll" said the quartermaster, when
that regiment came into camp on a hog
train my men nearly died laughing.
They were the gawkiest, awkardest lot
of clodhoppers that ever was. I halted
the colonel, and taking him aside, said:
Now, look here, colonel, you and your
boys can have anything you want.
There's a plenty here and all you have
to do will be to send your wagon down
every morning and you'll get all that
you need-fresh meat, fresh bread, veg
etables and all the requirements that
you want One day l was surprised to
receive a letter from the chief COM
missary asking me what in ALFRED
| cannon-balls was the matter with me
and my department. 1t went into
some twenty-five particulars that were
not very pleasant to read, and at
tached to the document was a string OF
letters that would reach the length Of q
box car. In less time than it takes tc
catch a pig by the tail, I had learned
| from this document that this regiment
| of mountaineers had not had an ounce
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Bad Scar.

Denver News: Sergeant Leonard
Russell of company L, Colorado regi-
ment, is a distinguished volunteer.
received a wound during the war with
the Filipinos from the hands of a
woman The scar is still livid. He
was struck May IA, and came near
his death by it. But the fact that the
sergeant suffered from a woman's
hands does. not belle his bravery. The
woman took advantage Of him and
made an attempt at assassination.
Sergeant Russell enlisted as a mem
Der of the Fifty-first Iowa and was
transferred while at San Francisco
four weeks age. He tells the story
thus: 'It was the night after the
Iowa boys had captured a little town
and routed the insurgents. I was ser
geant of the guard, and it was report
ed that one of the houses in the viii
lage was filled with insurgent stores.
1t was my duty, therefore, to confiscate
them. Calling a detail, l started for
the place. We did not know what
there was to find, but we were on the
lookout for ammunition. Naturally, we
supposed that the natives would III
when we came up. The night was fer
fully dark, and 1 carried a lantern for
the search. The first thing I found in
side the hut was a butt of native to-
bacco. I lifted the lantern, but could
see little, and, as the boys followed me,
struck for the rear of the building.
We heard some scufhing, and thought
that some natives in hiding had gone
out the back way. I remember seeing
another butt of tobacco in a corner,
and was in the act Of turning the Ian
tern upward when something struck
me Just as the blow fell I could dimly
see a little native woman perched on
the butt and handling a machete. That
was all I knew. Well, the woman had
struck me square on the top of the
head, and, as you see"-showing a
scar beginning above one eye and end
ing in the ear-'partly on the fore
head. She did not get a full blow, for
her arms were short and she wasn't
strong. If she had been-ugh! Well
I would not have returned to Colorado
and my home in Des Moines. 1t took
me a month to get we'll, though my
skull was only a little denied. The
woman was taken into camp by the
boys and afterward released"
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Faithful

An old elephant taken into battle on
the plains of India was a standard
bearer and carried on his huge back
the royal ensign, the rallying point Of
the Poona host. At the beginning Of
the fight he lost his master. The
'mahout" or driver had just given the
word to haE, when he received a fatal
wound and fell to the ground, where
he lay under a heap of slain. The
obedient elephant stood still while the
battle closed around him and the
standard he carried. He never stirred,
a foot, refusing to advance or retire.,
as the conflict became hotter and
%fiercer, until the Mahrattas, seeing the
standard still flying steadily in its
place, refused to believe that they were
being beaten, and rallied again and
again around the colors. And all this
while, amid the din Of battle, the pa
tient animal stood straining it's ears to
catch the sound Of that voice it would
never hear again. At length the tide
of the conquest left the field deserted.
The Mahrattas swept on in pursuit OF
the flying foe, but the elephant, like a
rock, stood there, with the dead and
dying around, and the ensign waving
in its place. For three days and nights
it remained where it's master had given
the command to halt. No bride or
threat could move it. They then sent
to a village, 100 miles away, and
brought the mahout's little son. The
noble hero seemed then to remember
how the driver had sometimes given
his authority to the little child, and
Immediately, with all the shattered
trappings ~clinging as he went, paced
quietly and slowly away.
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VERY Raw Recruits.

The life of the Russian soldier is a
hard one, and the bondage of COM
pulsory service weighs cruelty upon tho
peasants through the cars dominions,
Attempts to escape enlistment are
made continually, but the simple
minded peasant is no match for the
alert recruiting officer. At a recruiting
station in eastern Russia a peasant
pleaded deafness and would not answer
any question put to him. You can ga
home" said the examining surgeon IN
a very low voice, and the man at once
started for the door. The shout of the
surgeon brought him back, however,
and he was informed that he had sue
cessfully passed the medical examlna7
ton. The Philadelphia Record tells
another story of an unwilling recruit,
He was a big, strapping fellow, pos
sessing the strength of a Hercules; bur
he declared this, tne index and middle
fingers on his right hand were joined
together and could not be taken apart
The appearance of the fingers did not
indicate, however, that such was the
fact, and the examining surgeons, VINO
were strong men themselves, tried with
all the strength they possessed to sep
arate the two fingers, and after a great
deal of exertion gave up in disgust
At last a clever thought struck n OF
them. Tell me- said the surgeon
chow were your fingers before? Were
they always like this?" "This way
replied the unsuspecting young peas
ant, and he opened his fingers as easily
as anybody else. He was astonlsnec
at the laughter his act invoked. The
surgeons did not attempt to examln'
him further; he passed.
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died up stream to be farther from the
Infatuated mother when she should dis
cover her loss. The little fellows kept
UP a continual crying. and soon a
plunge caused the travellers to look
back, and there was the old bear puff
ing and fl%oundering across in search OF
her babies. The almost human intel
ligence and solicitude she displayed
made it no easy matter to persist in
the abduction Of the cubs. Pressing
On ahead of the boat a few rods, she
would plunge into the stream and in
tercept it, aud when evaded and passed
would takezthe bank again and repeat
the attempt with increased cunning.
Her actions were intensely human. She
screamed and scolded, wept and
moaned, her tears flowing freely, her
lips and under jaw trembling. She
hid her face in her paws, and then
held them forth as If beseeching. Some
Of the party were for giving up the
cubs, but others held out. The babies
whimpered necessarily, and the moth
er's demonstrations of grief grew more
touching. Her anger seemed to abate,
but in its place came more plaintive
tones. She showed no signs of aban-
doning the chase. At last it was de-
cided to surrender the cubs, and the
boat was pulled cross the bank oppo-
site to the old bear. There the little
ones were gently placed on the sandy
beach, and the party hurried back to
the boat. They were one too soon,
for the instant they lifted the babies
in sight the mother started across.
She went to the cubs. nosed them over,
searching for wounds, and then licked
their glossy fur a~ffectionately, crying
meanwhile like a human mother weep
ing for joy. Then after reproaching
the travellers ~furiously for a minute,
she took both cubs up by the neck, and
holding them by her great jws, carried
them off into the woods.
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Two Singers.

Two singers there were, and one was like
To a queen in her royal gown
With a stately step, and pride agleam
In the deep of her eyes a brown;
And one was a face with a gentler grace,
Eyes that borrowed the s~choolday tint
OF a little s%unbonnet of blue.
One was a singer of great renown,
Now stirring the blood with a note,
Now charming the ear with cultured
tones
That came from her shapely throat;
And one was a singer of songs of love,
And she knew not the ways of art;
But she sang right on past the ear and
poured
Rich melodies round the heart.
Two tributes of song, and one was lost
In the deafening volley of cheers;
And one throbbed on when the singer was
gone,
And the answer was silence and tears.
All! many the day hat passed since then,
And the singers who are not;
But memory holds to a little song,
And the other-forgot; forgot!
Brooklyn Standard Union.
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A Queer Insect.

A very curious creature is the surgi-
cal ant Of Brazil. The native BraZili-
an, far removed, as he usually is, from
doctors and surgeons, depends upon a
little ant to sew up his wounds when
he is slashed or scratched. Truth to
tell, the average surgeon could do the
Job no better than these little insects.
The ant has two strong nippers on his
head. They are his weapons for bat
tie or forage. When a Brazilian has
cut himself, for example, he picks up
an ant, presses the nippers against
the wound, one on each side, and then
gives the bug a squeeze. The indig-
nant insect naturally snaps his nip
pers together, piercing the flesh and
bringing the lacerated parts close to-
gether. The Brazilian at that mo-
ment gives the ants body a jerk, and
away it flies, leaving the nippers en-
bedded in the flesh. To be sure, that
kills the ant, but, as he has served his
most useful purpose in life, it is we'll.
The operation is repeated until the
wound is sewed up neatly and thor
oughly.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-01-11

Now that the European demand for
American apples is heavy, it being
estimated that it will be this season
1,217,767 barrels in excess of the de-
mand last year, apple-growers in this
country are looking forward to much
higher prices, especially as this years
home crop is from one-half to three
quarters less than what is looked upon
as a full crop. In New York state
farmers are now getting from rs cents
to $1.25 a barrel for apples under the
trees. The standard apple for the
European market is the Baldwin. Oh
the 12,437 barrels of this years crop
shipped since Aug. l the lowest price
netted to the American exporter is S.
per barrel, and the price has kept
nearer 81.
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Army and Navy.

The United States navy will equip a
tugboat with an electric light plant
which will enable the boat to light YES
sells which may be out of commission
or that may be undergoing repairs.
There are some places where a mans
height counts against him. One OF
these is India, where orders have been
issued that no officers will be appoint
ed to Goorkba regiments who exceed
five feet ten inches IN height or who
measure less than thirty-eight inches
round the chest. officers over a GER
tain height are considered out of place
among the squat Goorkhas, and the
smart appearance CT a battalion OF
these sturdy little warriors on parade
has always been liable to be somewhat
married by a marked incongruity in
stature between the rank n lille anf
their British leaders. On active St
ice, too, a tall British officer in
Goorkha battalion is a conspicuous fig
ure for the enemy's marksmen.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-01-11

It is perhaps rather amusing to steal
a pair of whimpering bear cubs and
carry them off, but in one case, record
ed in Current Literature, the travellers
who engaged in the pastime found the
grief of the mother too real to allow
them to persist in the fun. They were a
professor and five seniors from an
eastern college, and the scene of their
adventure was the Seneca Indian res
ervation, near the line between Penn
sylvania and New York. They came
upon a couple of little cubs snuggled
away in the bush, and scarcely realiz-
ing what they did carried them to their
boat and covered them with a coat.
Then they hastily pushed off and pad
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-01-11

Under the terms of his fathers will,
which have just been made public,
Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., has been cut
off with the portion of a younger SOD
as punishment for marrying Miss
Grace Wilson. According to informa-
ton given by a person who should
know the facts, this is the ultimate di-
vision of the 800, 900 900 scheduled in
the v~est-pocket memorandum by which
the late Cornelius Vanderbilt always
knew how much he owned: To Cor
nelius Vanderbilt, Gertrude Vanderbilt
Whitney, Reginald Vanderbilt and
Gladys Vanderbilt, his children, S10,-
,O0O, 900 each! There are large special
requests to relatives, to Yale, Column
.bia and Vanderbilt Universities, to the
Metropolitan Museum of Art and tt
various charities. The remainder O.
the estate, subject to a life interes
held by his widow, is left to ALFRED
Gwynne Vanderbilt, his second surviv
ing son. William K. Vanderbilt ant
the widow of Cornelius are trustees.
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LET a mar tell you his story every
morning and evening"" said a famous
Englishman, in characterizing the
newspaper, "and at the end of a
t~welvemonth he will have become your
master" What if the man is brazen-
faced, a chronic liar, n who r%ejoices
in iniquity, and is utterly reckless in
principle, who is thus welcomed daily
to the home circle? Ought not a news.
paper that is Indifferent to truth, is
self-seeking, and has no regard for in.
dividual rights or for public morals
to be treated as you would deal with {
scoundrel who seeks admission to youl
room and company? Let an %unprinci
pied journal tell you its daily story
and by an memorable moral law yol
will in due time have an EVIL spirit
for your master.
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of fresh meat since coming into camp.
I gathered from the number and char
acter of the letters attached that about
every man in the regiment that could
write had complained to washington,
and had not contented himself with
calling me by my proper title. In
short, they had accused me of being
every kind of a criminal known to this
century, and-well, l really couldn't
repeat all of the epithets and charges
without doing damage to your feelings.
I was innocent entirely. Every morn
ing that regimental wagon had been
loaded with beef just as the other
wagons had, and l was hot. 1 got on
my horse and went around to the camp
on a run. The colonel was there, glum
as a stone jug. He wouldn't ever re-
spond to my not too deferential salute
and l went at him bald-headed. Look
here, colonel said 1, what does this
mean?' and l handed him that forty
foot letter. +Mean?' said he. Mean?
1t means that there is a dashed mutiny
on foot. 1t means that my regiment is
disgraced, that I'm disgraced and that
L CoA ACFCI uOlu LILY hCuo uP d5oAh
among my own people. 1t means
how the blank do 1 know what it
means? l tell you to settle your own
business!' Now, colonel l said, let
US be quick. This complaint says that
you have given your men no fresh
meat since you came here. You know
as well as l do that meat has been de-
livered to your wagon every day. Now,
l want to know what has become of it.
I want to know it quick Well said
the colonel, if that's all vol want, I'll
tell you. We amt got no meat saw!
| took another drink, and the colonel,
for politeness' sake, did likewise. No
meat saW?' exclaimed. No meat
saw? And you made your men eat salt
meat and made 'em mutiny and get me
in a hole because you didn't have any
meat SAW The colonel pursed his
lips, cooked his head to n side, and
squirting at me, remarked: 1 callate
that this guv'ment undertook to equip
this regiment proper an it amt done
it. We never got any meat saw. These
here commissaries sent US a lot OF
meat without a saw at our state camp.
We couldn't cut the meat an we
couldn't eat the meat, an I just lowed
that the guv'ment could go to -
with its meat till it give us a meat Jaw,
an if you want your meat you can go
fish it out of tibet horse pond along the
road | got my men on the telephone
and had two wagon loads of meat
yanked over to that camp in about five
minutes. AS soon as it appeared with
two of my meat saws in each wagon,
all signs of continued mutiny disap-
peared and I'll bet there wasn't a mar
in that regiment that night who WASH
stuffed like a Thanksgiving turkey,
That evening also my men founo
twelve quarters of beef at the bottom
Of that horse pond."-Chicago Inter
Ocean.
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Krupp, the gunmaker, has completed
a number of excellent paper cannon
and now proposes to make armor for
war vessels out of the same material.
Paper armor will be the final blow to
the of naval battle and the
song of the naval poet. The poet,
after a hard struggle, was able to for
get the towering mast and swelling
sail and to write "songs of the ships
of STEEL" but how can he handle
rhyme and rhythm to glorify the ships
Of paper?
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Composition on breathing.

A boy, IA years old, who was told to
write all he could about breathing in a
composition, handed in the following:
with our lungs. our lights, our liver
and kidneys. If 1t wasn't for u
breath we would die when we slept.
Our breath keeps the life a-going
through the nose when we are asleep.
Boys that stay in a room all day should
not breathe. They should wait until
they get outdoors. Girls kill the
breath with corsets that squeezes the
diagram. Girls can't boiler or run like
boys because their diagram is squeezed
too much. If I was a girl I had rather
be a boy so l can ~run and holler and
have a great big diagram"
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-01-11

A year ago the 5000, 900, 900 cloth
combine would nave attracted consid-
cradle comment, but coming at this
late date it finds the public too familiar
with such institutions to notice it.
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The man "who knew Lincoln init
mately' will have a whole lot of new
ones thought up by the time the Dewey
hurrah sobers down.
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en- Thoughts.

There is joy in the glow of a rose,
And grief in it's thorn hidden near,
No burden out finds a repose
In nope buried under a tear.
The pleasure in fancy We crave,
Is often a wound in disguise,
And fades like the light in a cave
Whose mouth strangely dazzles ---e
eyes.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-01-11

A broken heart must be worse than
a broken head, no man being com
PEELED to carry the latter around with
him.
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These are the days when no mar can
safely go away from home without
carrying a fall overcoat, a straw hat
and an umbrella.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-01-11

No man is a hero to his valet, and
no man wants to be a valet to his
here.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-01-11

An axiom goes without saying.
Would that all earthly bores were
aXioms.
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A man isn't necessarily rich when
he is accused of having more money
than brains.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-01-11

A man may forget the dollar he
borrowed, but he always remembers
the one he loaned.
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CAMPFIRE SKETCHES
GOOD SHORT STORIES FOR
THE VETERANS.

Plenty of Meat, but No Saw-Quarter-
master Quells a Mutiny in a Southern
Volunteer Regimont-Bad Scar-Very
Raw Recruits.
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The man who is satisfied with him
self is usually disappointed with other
people.
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Good advice is easy to get and easy
to forget.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-01-11

Some stump speakers branch out al
together too much.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-01-11

Too much help has started many a
man on the road to ruin.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-01-11

The gossip delivers many a telling
blow, but they are always foul.
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FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
SOME GOOD STORIES FOR OUR
JUNIOR READERS.

The Kings Plan Stealing a Bears
CUBA Queer Insect Used by Natives
of Brazil as a Surgical Instrument
Composition on Breathing.
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The self-made man is usually proud
of a very poor job.
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A way that is sunny and gay

A way that is sunny and gay
May soon become cloudy and drear;
True friends are not found in a day,
Nor lost in the course of a year.
Contentment is greater than wealth,
And thrives on affection and grace;
Love brightens the path of ill-health;
Hope softens a care-hardened face.
Pure thoughts are the secret of peace,
And peace is the jewel of life;
Embellished with colors increase
In beauty, through trials and strife.
Care comes like a feather; is tossed
And swept by a tempest through space
A tender faith, once it is lost,
Will never regain its sweet grace.
A howell. with love, is more grand
han castles where bliss is unknown,
And splendor is common as sand
Assailed by a raging cyclone.
The secret of happiness lies
In simple and trivial things
From which gentle sources oft rise
And flow in sublime happenings.
George a Johnson.