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The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1900-06-09
A Memorial Day Story.

81 ehsll never forget" said the man
from the West, "how We celebrated Dec
Grafton Day out in Hooptown, Nebras-
ka, in 1882
Call it Memorial Day." said bis friend.
II stand corrected. and Memorial Day
it is," said the first. "Hooptown isn't
much larger than two Philadelphia
squares, but when 1 knew it two years
ego it had more patriotism than any
town ten times it's size 10 America. This
was the natural effect Of the law Of SELF
preservation. Hooptown had to be
lively to keep pace with village called
Bsttersby, which lay three milees down
the river.
Battersby was just like Hooptown in
being intensely public-spirited, and for
the same reason. The rivalry between
the two towns was not friendly by q
long shot. and there wasn't any good
will wasted on either side. The towns
had been knitting each other for yeare,
and it did them both good. Talk about
college spirit-it wasn't in the same
class with our town prejudice.
"Along in May Of the famous year l
am going 10 tell you about We Hoop
townians got tidings through interlying
farmers that Battersby wac working up
a monster Memorial Day celebration.
Visits to Bsttersby on the part Of sun.
dry Hooptown citizen confirmed the re-
ports. Our deadly enemy was stopping
at nothing to make the affair success.
There was to be parade and public
meeting with speeches, and fireworke
display in the evening. The city coun-
Gil Of Battersby had voted an appropri-
alton Of fifty dollars for decorations. and
there was to be horse race.
Careful inquiry revealed the further
fact that Battersby was planning the
celebration more to Guido HoOptown
than to honor he soldier dead, for there
was but one soldier grave in all her GEM
etery. This had a wooden slab on il,
labeled:
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1900-06-09

In the district court OF Lancaster county. Ne
braska.
In the matter of
the estate Of ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE
John Ilin, fee
BILE minded.
This cause came on for hearing upon the pc
ntion OF Andrew kroehler, guardian of the per-
son and estate OF John Hin, feeble minded
praying for license to sell lots three and four
and , In the city OF Havelock, Lancaster coun-
", Nebraska, or so much thereof as in neces-
sary to pay the debts and support the said John
lin, feeble minded, there not being sufficient
personal property or income from the said real
estate to pay said debts and support said ward.
IL Is therefore ordered that Stella Kroehler
Havelock, Nebraska; Nora Clark Auburn,
Nebr.; Emma Allen, Dawson. Nebr.: j, W. Ilin
santa Cruz, California; III. G.. Ilifi Santa Marie
California; Mary Peck, Pataskala. Ohio: CLYDE
Ilin. John Ilin, and Cleon Hin. minors OF Will
lam =. Hin. now deceased, the next OF kin of
said ward and all persons interested In said
estate, appear before me. at my chambers, In
the court house in Lancaster county, Nebraska
on the 18th day Of June. 1900. at ten O'Clock A
M, TO show cause why a license should not be
granted said guardian to sell much OF the
above described real estate OF said ward a. shall
be necessary to pay said debts and support said
ward
1t is further ordered that this order be pub
lished for three successive weeks In The Cou-
rier, a weekly newspaper published and in gen
eral circulation in said Lancaster county.
Dated this I'D day of May. 1900.
EDWARD p. HOLMES
Judge OF the District Court.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1900-06-09

TO THE DEAF.-A rich lady, cured
OF her Deafness and Noises in the Head
by DR.. Nicholson's Artificial Ear Drums,
gave $40, 900 to this institute, 90 that
deaf people unable to procure the Ear
Drums may have them free. Address
No. 6,63S9 A, the Nicholson Institute,
$50 Eighth Avenue, New York.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1900-06-09

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Please compare address. II incorrect,
please send right address to Courier
Office. Do this this week.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1900-06-09

Miss Paddock's garden as We came
past
ut looked Hopeless for Hooptown,
when the village lawyer jumped sud
denly of the fence and waved his arms.
Whose grave is it they're going to dec
crater he cried. Isn't it 81 Peters?'
Everybody answered at once and
took heart, for the lawyer was as much
respected for his shrewdness as disliked
for other things.
Isl Peters Fever lived day in Bat.
tersby,' said the lawyer. His people
rent q farm in there back Of Wolcott's
mill. know his brother Hank
"'What Of thati' asked the grocer.
""There's this much in it, said the
lawyer, talking as if he were arguing q
case 10 court. The Peters people are
poor and they don't care snap where
old 81 is buried. And il you men think
more of your beloved city than you do
of your purses. Rooptown will have a
Decoration Day celebration that'll echo
all over this glorious country
ut took US about a minute to see
what the lawyer was driving at, but
when we did the old graveyard looked
like the wind-up Of Dutch picnic, and
the lawyer was pounded on the back by
rejoicing citizens till he sputtered.
ave left all negotiations with the law
yer and went ahead with our plans for
Memorial Day. There wasn't man.
woman or child in the place that wasn't
on some committee. The news Of our
doings reached Battersby, and the citi-
zens Of that place stood by and laughed,
for they knew very we'll we didn't have
q soldiers grave to our name. But We
smiled in our hands and waited.
"a week before the end of May our
lawyer drove over to Hank Peters farm
and spent the day. When he came back
ali Hooptown was waiting for him in
the lodgeroom.
"It's all right, he reported. had to
talk him around, but made him admit
Hooptown was just as near his farm as
Bsttersby. He agrees on condition that
We give him a cemetery lot here, pay
him s35 in cash and put up q marble
tombstone over his brother
swell, sir, the town went wild with
Joy. Six Of US drove over to Battersby
that night in farm wagon and picked
up Hank Peters on the way. We wanted
him on the spot in case there was Q row.
Battersby was sleeping the sleep Of the
truly unsuspecting and We weren't dis
turbed. By daybreak the mortal re-
mains of Silas Peters lay under six feet
Of earth in a new grave in Hooptown
cemetery. With apicked guard armed
with shotguns patroling the lot.
"Such celebration as Hooptown had
on Memorial Day was never seen before
or since in Nebraska. 1t was ten
Fourths Of July rolled into one glorious
whole. A brass band that Battersby
had engaged for her fizzled celebration
played patriotic music in our streets.
We had three parades to the cemetery
and decorated Silas Peters grave as
many times. There was a lemonade
barrel in front of every store, and all
the fakirs in the state lined up along
the main street with their shell games
and wheels Of fortune. The country
people for miles around came to help us
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1900-06-09

By WALTER A, LEEsE.
Clerk County Court.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-01-11
SHE BEAT THE BAND.
Woman's Wild Ride Down n Hill on a
Runaway Piano.

Scores of residents of Germantown
avenue, on the hill above Wayne juno
ton, on Saturday, witnessed the spec
tacle of a woman suspended in the air
from the handles Of a street piano
while the instrument was rushing
down the street car track at a high
rate of speed. Antonio Annelli and
his wife of SAC South Eighth street,
were providing people in the lower
end of Germantown with a brand OF
music frequently heard, when a band
advertising a downtown clothing
store came along. The noise made
by the band drowned the strains OF
the piano, and so disgusted were An
nelli and his wife that they started for
fresh fields, pulling the instrument to
the middle of the steep street. The
band made an effort to get ahead of
them. Husband and wife had won the
contest, but unfortunately, the hus-
band left his wife to pull the riano.
Almost Immediately the handles of
the piano shot upward, lifting the
woman into the air. Her weight was
sufficient to keep the instrument or
box from dragging on the street as il
dashed down the hill. She chung tc
the handles for fear that if she let go
she would be injured. She beat the
band down the hill, a distance of two
squares. Persons along the street saw
the woman's perilous predicament, but
the speed at which the instrument was
pounding it's way down hill preclud-
ed every possibility of an attempt at
rescue. At the foot of the hill the
piano swung abruptly into Berkeley
street and Mrs. Annelli was thrown
to the pavement. Band, members
picked her up.-Philadelphia North
American
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-01-11

The blackened face of a man w.s
seen Just then over the ledge of a f,ftb
STORY window. The fremen in the
street We're running up a ladder. The
ace disappeared and an instant later
me man could be seen again through
the smoke letting himself out over the
ieoge. AS he swung out the crowd
could see he held a woman. The neo-
PIE below thought he intended to drop
70 the pavement and a cry of warning
was raised from a thousand tbroats
III man let himself down from the
iedge holding the woman with his left
arm, while the fingers of his right
nand clutched the window ledge above.
Ihey could then see it was a fireman.
ne mad swung down into the perilous
position to enable the woman to get
ON fresh air lest she die of suffo-
cation. Before his strength failed him
the top rung of the ladder was under
MS feet, and. refusing aid, he de-
scended to the ground with his bur-
den.
Maggie" He whispered the name
MS time as he held her clasped tightly
in his arms.
he alone heard what she whispered
10 him, for the air vas still ringing
with h cheers of the people who were
acciaiming him.-Chicago Tribune.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-01-11
HOW TO STOP A RUNAWAY.
Explicit Directions from a Man who
Has Stopped go of Them.

w VI
10 you want to know the proper
way 10 stop a runaway horse or team
mere IT Is, given by a nan who has
Used 1t on twenty different occasions
and has never yet failed. There is a
a in Denver who has stopped run
away teams dozens of times, as fool
hardy and dangerous as it may seem,
d man whose fixed and studied policy
Is TO stop every runaway team that
chance to pass his way. He is James
n. DE Wore, a fireman. II am not
AFRAID OF horses of any kind" he ex-
plains. Say that you want to stop a
runaway team. If you feel that you
are at all afraid, keep away and let
the team go on. Your nerve must be
right or you'll fail; that may mean
YOU death, and the team is not worth
IL. II you aren't afraid, get out into
the road directly in front Of the team
and keep right in front of them. You
must think quickly. See which horse
is running hardest; he is the grittiest
morse, and is the one to nail. In al
most every runaway, If you notice
closely, you will find one OF them gall
Looping and the other running and
jumping, with his big black eyoballs
almost squirting out of his head, and
his nostrils like the bell OF a trumpet.
lie is the n that is doing the mis-
chief and will run until he dies. He
Is the m you must take. When they
get within a few feet of you they will
no longer attempt to swerve; they are
going over your body If you stand
there. Wait until they are so close
you can feel their breath. Then step
aside as quickly as possible; step on
the outside Of the vicious horse. Here
comes the test, and you must step
aside just in the nick of time. Get
your arm securely around your horses
neck. Don't be afraid; he is too busy
running to think of shaking you off.
Then you will find hat your feet are
striking the ground about every If
teen feet. After you are sure of your
hold on bride and neck, reach over
and catch the other horses's inside
rein. You can do this easily. Then
begin to give the horse that is carry
ing you a taste of your muscle. Jerk
him as though you would tea his
head off. If he has the right spirit you
will find this necessary. He is full or
grit and won't give up by pulling.
Every time your feet hit the ground
brace yourself against the bit and
swing hard on him with a jerk. Work
on the others horses rein and you
will find him respond readily New
York Journal.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-01-11
WOES OF A TICKET SELLER.
Reasons Why He Thinks Travellers Are

ANeasohs why He Thinks Travellers Are
Apt to he Careless or Cranky.
the Bloomington Pantagraph:
ID you ever have any troubles"
asked a Bloomington ticket seller of a
reporter. The cause of his question
was that a few minutes before he had
0 a couple of ladies tickets to a
nearby village. In a short time I'D
came a long, lank, ungainly country
man n bought two tickets for the
same village. He walked directly over
to the ladies who had already DUR
chased tickets, and, after a half min
utes' conversation, rushed back to the
ticket window and demanded the re-
turn of his money. There was blood
In his eye, and he told the ticket man
what his opinion of him was. and it
was not fiattering. He also informed
the ticket seller that it was the duty
or the ticket seller to have told him
that the ladies had purchased tickets.
His money was refunded. Another case
happened a short time ago. when a
Western congressman was on his way
through this city. He was riding on
a Western Union pass, and. by the
way, II there are any impertinent pas
sengers they are some of those who
ride on passes. While his train was
standing at the depot he rushed into
the station and wanted the operator
to send a telegram for him. Just at
the time he came in the agent was
giving orders to the conductor, and
when a man is giving train orders he
is not supposed to do anything else.
He courteoIsly informed the congress-
man that he would wait on him in a
moment, knowing that the man had
plenty Of time before the train left.
The fellow was impatient, and when
the agent went to take his message
he explained that he was giving the
conductor orders and could do nothing
else. The congressman let out an oath
and said he didn't look as though he
could attend to n thing at a time,
guage was decorated around the edges
with swear words that would have been
the envy of a Texas ranger. One other
incident occurred when the late w. H.
H. Adams was president of the Yves
leyan University. Mr.. Adams came to
the depot to get a ticket. He had a
clergyman's permit, and of course the
ticket was half price. AS it happened
an angular farmer wanted to go TO
the same place and got to the window
in time to see what the minister paid
for his ticket, and when the agent
asked the farmer twice as much as he
dld Mr.. Adams the former made a
dreadful howl. The agent pleasantly
explained that the other gentleman had
purchased a minister's ticket. We'll,
give me a minister's ticket, too, then.
A ministers ticket is good enough for
me-"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-01-11
TURNED TO GOOD ACCOUNT.
Wretohed London District Turned INTO
q Pleasant Abode.

q Pleasant Abode.
From the London Mail: The Shore
ditch vestry, which has of recent years
justly won for itself the reputation Of
being a go-ahead, s~elf-governing body,
has just topped all its previous achieve
ments by building artisans dwellings
for the benefit Of it's poor. This is a
feat which no other London vestry has
accomplished. There are three sets OF
those tenements, which have been
built on the site of what Sir Charles
Dixie once stigmatized as being the
worst slum in London, in a part OF
Shoreditch, which goes by the pic
turesque name of the s"Nile." Several
thieves runs" Of the most p~estilentiai
description have been cleared away and
instead there are now to be seen three
sets of handsome brick buildings five
stories high, which practically form a
new street. The first of these build
ings Is completed and ready for use and
over 300 applications have been made
by people offering themselves as ten
ants. The buildings, which have cost
upward of ELL 600, in addition to the
G45, 900 paid as compensation for the
slums which have been swept away,
and the cost of the freehold land on
which they stand, have been construed
on the most approved method, and the
sanitary arrangements are considered
perfect. Great care will be taken In
the selection Of tenants, only respect
able people being selected. OyercroWd-
ing will be absolutely forbidden-a nee
essary course, as in "Shoreditch, where
the "no-room-to-live" problem is felt
most acutely, it is no uncommon thing
for fifteen or sixteen people to herd in
two rooms. The rent charged will be
IS Cd for a two-room set and rs Cd for
three rooms, which is distinctly below
the average charge in Shoreditch, with
infinitely better accommodations. Inc
dwelling will be run on a strictly pay
ing basis, but at the same time philan-
thropy will not be disregarded, and a
serious effort is being made to arrange
matters so as to enable the tenants TO
purchase their tenements in the same
way that tenants can purchase their
houses under Mr.. Chamberlain's act.
Nothing is definitely settled as yet, but
it is hoped that Lord Rosebery, who
has always taken a very real interest
in the life of Shoreditch, may ultimate
ly be induced to open the dwellings.
No one would question for a moment
that Shoreditch deserved the honor.
Shoreditch is already becoming the
municipal Mecca of the world. 1t has
been visited by Populations from Am
erica, Australia, Ireland and Scotland,
consisting of people anxious to dis
cover the secret of success in munich
pal matters. This, in brief, is the rec
ord of Shoreditch. A town hall with
a music and dancing license; a me-
chanics' technical institute, which has
not rufied the feelings Of any trade I'M
ions; a splendid free library, baths and
warehouses; electricity works, supply
ing light at three half-pence below the
average figure, and a dust Instructor,
the last three all yielding a profit.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-01-11

About four years 4 a London
blacksmith noticed o. a secondhand
bookstall a very old book priced at 2
cents. He bought it, and after at
tempting to read it, threw it aside and
soon forgot it. One of his dodgers
happening to see the book recently,
and, noticing that it was dated 145O,
asked permission to show it to the
British museum authorities. A day or
two later the blacksmith was request
ed to call, and the secretary, to his sur
prise, asked him what he would take
for the book. . In some slight confus-
ion tie man said What viii you
give" ''Win.S25O suit you?" was the
answer of the SECRETARY The black
smith was SO ~dumfounded that the
secretary thought he. was %ridiculing.
his Offer, sand therehpop immediately
increased It ta..Sa0o- which was at once
accepted. Sooner than .have. lost the
book. however, which: was.sthe first
book that. Gutenberg eyer pffnted,s asNe.
therefore ALMOST priceless Che mnss
.eum authorities would have pafd'iah'
most any sum that hadsbeen asked
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-01-11
DEWEY WILL NOT COME.
He Declines the Invitation to the
. st. Paul Carnival.

Washington, Jan. 5.-The formal in
vitation of Gov. Lind, Mayor Kiefer,
the Commercial club and the Carnival
association to Admiral Dewey to visit
st. Paul on the occasion Of the carni-
val festivities was presented to the ad-
miral last evening by Senator Davis.
Senator Davis also made an urgent re-
quest that the admiral visit st. Paul IL
he could possibly do so, but the reply
of the admiral was that his engage
ments for the future were so arranged
that it would be impossible for him to
visit st. Paul on the occasion, much as
he would desire to do so.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-01-11
Doctors Favor Vivisection.

winona, Mimi, Jan. Sat a meeting
of the Winona County Medical society
held here a resolution was unanimous
ly adopted protesting against the pass
age by congress of the bill now before
it providing for the prohibition of vivi-
section. 4 committee consisting of
Doctors Franklin Staples, j. b. Nc
Gaughey and e. d. Keyes was APP
pointed to present to the senators and
representatives from Minnesota the
opposition Of the society to the bill.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-01-11
LenpfelIow's wayside Inn.

Rich in the historical and literary
associations accumulated during two
centuries of existence" says the
Ladies' Home Journal for Septem-
Der, 1.-The Wayside Inn, built by
David Howe still stands remote
among the wooded hills in South Sud
bury, Mass. The Londlord' of Long
fellows famous tales was the dignified
Squire Lyman Howe, a justice of the
peace and school committeeman, who
lived a bachelor and died at the inn
in 1S6O-the last of his line to keep
the famous hostelry. Besides Squire
Howe, the only other real characters
in the Tales who were ever actually at
the inn were Thomas w. Parsons, the
poet; Luigi Monti, the Siciliam, and
Professor Daniel Treadwell Of Har-
ward, the theologian, all three of whom
were in the habit of spending the sum-
mer months there. OF the other char
acters, the musician was Ole Bull, the
student was Henry Ware Wales, and
the Spanish Jew was Israel Edrehi.
Near the room in which Longfellow
stayed is the ballroom with the dais at
one end for the fiddlers. But the pol
ished floor no longer feels the pressure
of dainty feet in high-heeled slippers
gliding over it to the strains of contra
dance, cotillon or minuet, although the
merry voices of summer visitors and
the jingling bells of winter sleighing
parties at times still break the quiet
of the ancient inn"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-01-11
CHARGED WITH vAGRANCY.
Well Known Journalist Sentenced
to the House of Correction.

Milwaukee, Jan. 5.-Ross Raymond.
said TO be a we'll known Eastern jour-
nalist, was yesterday sentenced to the
house of correction for sixty days on
a charge of v%agrancy. When arrested
Raymond gave the name Of Archibald
Allen and had in his possession a
forged letter from Adjt. Gen. Corbin
to Gen. Charles King of this city. He
claimed to be an officer of the British
army and his mission in this country
was to purchase horses to be used in
the South African campaign against
the Beers.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-01-11
No Ham for Him.
American.

From Chambers Journal: The pa
tient, a collier, had made a brave fight
for life, but had been defeated. All
hope of recovery was gone, and my
friend said to the dying mans wife, 1T
is of no further use placing any re-
strictions on diet. You may let him
eat anything that he may fancy" The
good woman, who was relieved by the
doctors permission-for she had found
her husband by no means a tractabIe
subject in. the matter of diet-went up
stairs and said: rs there owt tina
could. fancy to eat?. The doctor says
tina san hev owt tina fancies now;
lay" replied the sinking but hungry
man, 81 should like a bit o" that ham
as / cured afore I was ta'en bad"
Said his wife firmly: Nay, tina can
hev owt else tina likes, but we're saw
in that ham for the funeral,
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-01-11
Cattle Were Killed.

st. Paul, Jan. 5. - An east-bound
Northern Pacific stock train and the
Chicago Great Western passenger
train No. 2, east-bound, collided at the
junction Of the Northern Pacific and
wisconsin Central tracks. Seven men
were injured, none Of them seriously,
several horses were killed, the caboose
and two ears of. the Northern Pacific
were demolished and the Great West
ern engine was badly damaged.