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The courier., 1902-06-21

Lightning did sharp business In the
house Of Cassius Babcock i'm the town
of Farram the other evening. IL struck
the building in four different spots and
set things inside topsy turvy. Just a
minute before the bolts arrived Mr..
Babcock left his bed. In the second
minute II had been ripped to shreds In
a flash. There was mad confusion and
wild stampeding among the members
of the family, while the tongues and
balls of flame danced about the rooms.
1t happened, however. that none Of
these bright intruders did personal
damage. Only the family cat was
smitten and this poor beast never
breathed afterwards. All the omen
mongers in Odell are busy these days.
Right in the midst of the graduating
exercises of that town a bolt of light
ming struck the steeple of the church
in use, darted down the chimney
and from the pipe and stove into the
basement. Several of the charming
graduates were shocked into uncon-
sciousness, along with their friends.
A few were burned a little but all are
living yet. The question is, what does
il bode?
Glass notices for graduates have all
been selected this season and most of
them have been used and are rapidly
being effaced from memory. The
Laurel Advocate. however. does not be-
lieve 1t too late to cast a few remarks
on the subject. 1t would rather do 1t
now than wait few months and per-
haps forget about it until put in mind
by the next outburst of high sounding
Latin phrases. What Is the use of all
this nonsense? it means. Why don't
the students come down to the common
level where they are bound to stay for
a good many years yet? 1t exclaims
frenziedly. After few more sobbing
sentences it suggests a motto such as
this: Beyond us lie the washboard
and the bucksaw." There you have
The courier., 1902-06-21

Aurora is told by the Register. She
was young at the beginning of it. The
time was when she lived in a little
town in Illinois. Now she is widow.
but one day back in that old state she
was engaged in the wholesome occupa-
tion of sewing buttons on her husbands
coat. She sneezed violently with
needle between her teeth, just as she
was measuring of the proper length
of thread. Faithfully she searched for
e suddenly dislodged implement but
IL was useless. The other day she felt
a curious sensation in the palm Of one
of her hands, A tiny object protruded
Just in sight In a few minutes she
secured a pair of tweezers. Then she
removed the splinter that had lodged
there a few minutes before. The
needle still is missing.
q
Worms are not all lined up against
the farmers. One whose every move
ment and meal is a blessing has been
discovered in the country about Beaver
CITY, 1t is n green chap with an om-
niverous appetite for weeds. 1t seeks
it's sustenance in the fields of growing
grain but touches nothing but the in
truding element, the weeds. LAMBS
quarter is a special favorite. The poor
groveler finds it hard, apparently, to
masticate sufficient rations in its hours
of wakefulness. The days are too short
for it. But the weeds it attacks look
Worse than thirty cents ever did
A strange epidemic of municipal en-
thusiasm has infected the women OF
Grand Island. They not only love their
city but they love the people who come
. to it from the surrounding country.
You can tell it from the way they are
oreanizing their strength and moulding
the sentiment of the town for improve
Aments. They are toiling hard for the
3nstitution of parks in various parts or
the town, to be fitted with bandstands
by way of inducement to musicians;
they are striving for the erection of an
attractive place at which the country
people may absorb good food when in
town; and they are also laborins for
building where women and children
may rest when weary and where the
babies will be cared for while the
mothers continue their pursuit Of BAR
gains.
Phonograph music in public is rapidly
adding to the hosts whose course leads
to the insane asylums. Nearly every
business man i'm the small towns is in
vesting in the machines with view to
multitudes with money training their
steps in the direction of their empOr-
ium. The result is that when the coun-
try editor of chaste and simple musical
tastes strides down the main street his
Ae..As are rasped with an unmerciful din.
When he has endured the limit he has
tens back to his den and grinds out
a plaintive appeal for law. Some
times he would be happy to listen to
the work of single phonograph. But
he prays for deliverance from dozen.
Band music, basso singers, banjo solos,
alleged humorous monologues and
crack whistlers one at time are all
right When he has no special cares on
his bosom, but to have them all sound
ing at once is maddening. The editor
of the Fremont Herald is becoming
desperate and is planning to run for
the legislature one of these days for
the sole purpose of attempting legis-
lation to assign a certain hour a day
to each phonograph man that only one
The courier., 1902-06-21
ODD n BITS n OF
NEBRASKA n LIFE

lost. An editor, says tradition. cannot
afford to lose anything. presuming
that he is ever so fortunate as to pos
sess anything. c. E. Sheldon is the
name of the ranchman. He came into
the village a short time ago feeling
rather lonesome after a siege of bach
ing" in the sand hills. The editor sug-
gested that he take to himself a bride.
But where could he WOO one? Well,
the editor knew 1t could be done read
lily enough and that matrimony is the
simplest matter in the world when you
make up your mind to undertake it. He
offered to wager a dozen yearly sub
scriptions or something like 1t that he
could find a bride who would marry
the lonesome man and do it before the
Fourth. In his turn the rancher agreed
that IL he did it would be his pleasure
to submit to public wedding at the
celebration at Sargent. The editor
pretends not to be worried but he is
beginning to weaken. He avows he
was never built for a matrimonial bu-
reau and ought to have had sense
enough-etc.
A youth with tremendous hands is
thus itemized in the haywood Eagle
Reporter: Harry Dawber caught a
catfish Monday in shallow water with
his hands that weighed twenty pounds;
it was fine; we sampled it,
=
The Cherry Valley correspondent of
the Ainsworth Star-Journal issues this
strange warning: Girls look out for
that fellow with the moustache; though
it is false he may not be-"
.
Grafton Clarion Weekly crop report:
I'VE are having new potatoes, green
peas, mulberries, cherries and with
plenty of good grass, the cows give
good. rich cream"
A sensation is thus recorded by the
winside Tribune: Another bull was
killed east Of town one day last week
by the train. We did not find out who
owned him or why he was prowlins
around on the track"
Oakland people who were startled by
their paper a week ago are now set at
ease by this explanation of the value
of a word: 1.-The omission Of the word
not from Ira Thomas article last
week entirely changed the meaning of
one sentence. 1t should have read, 1T
has always been the common sense of
this town that boys should NOT be a.
lowed in saloons
What's to be done with the telephone
eavesdropper? A country editor or
two has ventured to talk on the SUBJ
ject and the wisest conclusion reached
by any is that 1t is well that caves
dropping is possible. Enough idle and
compromising gossip is spread without
the lightning facility of the telephone.
So long as it is possible that another
person may be slyly listening the
speaker Is more likely to be circum-
spect, businesslike and brief For the
sake of distant sweethearts, however,
the optimistic editor bangles aloft the
prospect Of a fortune for the person
who can invent an appliance whereby
the dear ones may detect the intrusion
Of the party who has no business to
hear II wOuld he some comfort at
least to know just when to check the
flow of endearments.
The courier., 1902-06-21

Where is the bride? That woman Is
wanted in earnest by the editor of the
Loup County News. No, not for him
self. 1t is not quite SO personal as
that. but he has become involved with
n rancher in a wager that must not be
The courier., 1902-06-21

one that is not only intelligible but at
tractive to the multitudes ''and Il pos
sesses a lot of truth IL not much
poetry" the editor adds. triumphantly.
The courier., 1902-06-21

Wearied travellers who stop overnight
at Alliance and seek to be entertained
have not far to look. Two small col
ored boys have a supply of amusement
in their dark fists. They charge only a
small sum for an exhibition of juve-
nile pugilism that is described as better
than tonic to jaded nerves. 1t is use
less to deny that the colored race as
represented in Alliance is without orig
inality. These lads are less than ten
The Florence daily tribune., 1902-05-19
Spring Ailments.

There is an aching and tired
feeling; the liver. bowels and
kidneys become sluggish and in
active, the digestion impaired,
with little or no appetite, no am
bition for anything, and feeling
that the whole body and mind
needs toning up. The trouble is,
that during the winter, there has
been an accumulation of waste
matter in the system Herbine
will remove it, secure to the secre-
tions right exit, and by its tonic
effect, fully restore the wasted It's
sues and give strength in place of
weakness SOC at A. A. Hull's
The Florence daily tribune., 1902-05-19
STRIKE ASSUMING
A SERIOUS PHASE
Bifuminous Miners Threaten TO
Join Anfhracifes.
TIE-UP WOULD BE COMPLETE

Hazelton, Pa, May 19-There is
a possibility that 100000 bitumiu-
GUS coal miners will join the l40,-
900 anthracite miners now out
unless compromise is effected at
once. President Mitchell says
that he is more than satisfied with
the present situation, and that
unless the miners demands are
met very soon the business of the
East will be paralyzed.
The Florence daily tribune., 1902-05-19
VIII organize Post.

The Confederate soldiers of this
county ARE working for the organi-
zation of post with headquarters
in eitheECanon or Florence. There
are about thirty confederates in
the county and fifteen of them re-
side in this end of it. Organizer
McCulk, of Dallas, is in Canon
working up the organization which
will not be complete before Decor
alton day, because the Union and
Confederate soldiers will unite in
the observance of the occasion.
Those desiring to join the post
can secure the desired information
by comforting with S. Samuels
Pueblo, Colorado Springs and
Denver each have Confederate
post.
The Florence daily tribune., 1902-05-19
d. & r. q. Excursion Rates.

National Convention Travellers
Protective Association of America,
Portland, Ore, June 81. Round
trip $40.
State meeting department of G,
A. r, Rocky Ford, Colo, June 20,
II and II, one fare for round trip
from Colorado points to Rocky
Ford and return. Selling days
June 9 and TO- Final return limit
June ID, continuous passage.
Race meeting under auspices OF
the Pueblo Colorado States Fair
association at Pueblo June 3 to 9th
One fare for round trip Tickets
on sale 3rd and 9Th Final return
limit June 7th.
State convention of Epworth
League of Colorado, Salida, June
IL to IS. Rate of one and onc-fifth
fares on certificate plan from all
stations in Colorado. Tickets on
sale June 10, IL and II Return
limit not later than three days
after close of convention
The Florence daily tribune., 1902-05-19
THREE HUNDRED
MINERS ENTOMBEO
Fatal Gas Explosion In a Coal
Mine.
FIRE POURING OUT OF SHAFT

Nashville, Tenn, May 19-By a
gas explosion this morning over
300 miners it is feared have lost
their lives, being entombed in the
Fraterville and Thistle coal mines
owned by the Coal Greek Coal
company. Only one man is known
to have made his escape and
he was the superintendent who
was in the shaft house when the
explosion occurred, being blown
out of the building and seriously
bruised and lacerated
The shaft is filed with smoke
and fire and it is impossible to
gain an entrance to the mine The
full amount of damage cannot be
ascertained at this time.
The town is wild with excite
ment. Women ana children are
standing around the ruins crying
and watching for the bodies of
loved ones. 1t is not believed
that any can escape unless they
get into another part of the mine
which has been worked out and
abandoned And even in that
part the smoke and gas might
sutfocate the miners
The Florence daily tribune., 1902-05-19
Diamonds Recovered.

Kansas City, Mo-, May 10 -
About $1,000 worth of diamonds
which were recently stolen from
Hamphy Stevens and wife in a
fashionable district, have been re-
covered. One OF the robbers was
the son of we'll known million
aire and for that reason no prose-
cution was pushed
The Florence daily tribune., 1902-05-19
FLORENCE WON.
Elks Lay Down Their Record at
the Claws of the Eagles.

Florence II; Cripple Creek s.
These we're the records made by
the Florence Eagles and the Grip
pie Creek EIks on the Cripple
Greek grounds in game of base
ball yesterday afternoon. OF
course the Cripple Creekers can
play good ball, but Florence can
go them one better. The game
was pulled off on rather heavy
grounds and during the event
some snow fell.
The runs by the Florence Eagles
were made SO fast that the locals
dampened the enthusiasm of the
Elks who dropped out of sight on
the score book, while the Eagles
made their runs 30 fast and often
that all track of them was lost only
by the score keeper. 1t was no,
necessary for the Eagles to play
their half of the ninth inning.
This game was to have been
pulled off on the local diamond
but because of the excursions to
the district from this end, the
game was played in Cripple Creek
Two coach loads of Forentines
accompanied the Eagles.
E. r. Millar, heavy and light
diayage. Piano moving speciality
Promptness and accuracy. 34-tf
The Florence daily tribune., 1902-05-19
FLORENCE OIL FIELD.
fiore than $4,000, 900 Worth of
Oil Produced in II Years.

VII ffoudSSo III ~ ICai >.
The strike in we'll No. 3 of the
Keystone Oil company has given
marked impetus to the oil move
ment here as we'll as in other parts
lof Colorado. The fact that the
Florence field has been proven to
be almost inexhaustable, has served
to turn the would-be investors to
new fields, believing that if oil
abounds here to such an extent
that it also does elsewhere, but no
developments have arisen which
iustifie the belief At Boulder
the people go wild because the
bailer brings up few drops of
oil, but when 100 barrel well is
brought in in the Florence field
only a passing mention is made of
it by our people, 1t sometimes
looks as if Florence residents are
not even yet awake to the untold
advantages of a field at their back
door More than 100000 worth
of oil has been produced from the
local field since its birth.
But comparatively little consid-
Grafton is given to this territory
by Florence people when on the
other hand outsiders are desirous
of getting in" Here the pro-
duction of oil on commercial
basis has been so long in progress
that the coming in of new well, 1,
even on large scale, causes only
passing interest among the pop
ulation, and transient telegraphic
comment in the news papers.
When few drops are found in a
Boulder well the news is good for
a half column in the Denver
papers.
1t has been demonstrated be-
yond doubt that the limitations
of this district have not been
reached and that important dis
coveries may be looked for in
nearly all directions on the bord-
ers of the former circumscribed
field. This is particularly true of
the westward line of development
where extensive explorations are
being conducted.
Not nearly all the desirable
lands about Florence have been
taken up by companies now oper-
ating in the district, although the
exploration is being done chiefly
by close corporations. There is
room here for the occasional in
vestor or speculator who would
try flyer" in oil, and he does
not necessarily go to new helds to
drop" his money. There is room
here for all his surplus enthusiasm
and cash although he may not be
able to secure land just at the out.
skirts of the city limits.
Concerning the prospects for the
com mercial development of thu
Arkansas valley as an oil territory
j. Wallace, general manager of the
United Oil company, and who>hat
had more experience in sinking
wells and refining oil than any
other man in the state, made ar
exhaustive investigation of the
field some time ago and he founc
every condition right to justify
his expectations for its future.
The Florence daily tribune., 1902-05-19
ALL BODIES RECOVERED.
One Hundred Houses Destroyed
by the Cyclone.

Dallas, Tex, May 19-The latest
from the Goliad cyclone
places the death list at 80 killed
and one hundred injured. The
cyclone lasted but five minutes
but destroyed over 100 homes, Its
path WAS about two blocks wide
and a mile in length. All of the
bodies have been recovered.
The Florence daily tribune., 1902-05-19
Thirteen Drowned.

London, May l9-Nine excur-
sionists and four boatmen were
drowned this morning by the cap
sizing of boat at Historic lake
Three of the corpses have been
recovered.
The Florence daily tribune., 1902-05-19
Another Boulder Well.

Boulder, May 19-The Crawford
we'll drilled into oil this morning,
but it is not known how much of
the grease there is.
The Florence daily tribune., 1902-05-19
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Write for descriptive folder r.
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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-04-01
THE JAMEsTOwN CELEBRAT1OH.

Of much interest is the proposed
celebration in 1902 of the three hun.
dredth anniversary of the founding
at jamestown, Va, of Anglo Saxon
America. That occasion ought to
be, made the "old home week" not
only for the South, but for the whole
country. jamestown made possible
Plymouth, and though civilizations
evolved from Jamestown and Ply
mouth, respectively, may have diff
fered materially, both in their origins
and in their developments, they have
in the course of centuries, through
much tribulation, come TO be one,
banked upon the principle first enun-
oiated in this country at Jamestown
Primarily of interest to Virginians
still at home and 80 the greater body
of Virginians and desoendantsG of
Virginians in forty-four other States,
in the Territories and in the islands
East and West, the JamestJwn oele-
bration ought so appeal TO all Ameri-
m every where, so that il the
spring five years from now there
should be a focking of thousands and
hundreds OF thousands to the little
spot onithe James River marked by a
ruined tower and the low fragments
of the walls of a church where Eng
Gshmen first made law in America.
Baltimore Farm Magazine.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-04-01
Miscellaneous.
TuE IsrHMIAE CANAL MATTER.

:. "a growing more and o evil
Int that the only way TO solve the
U.nsl problem quickly and effeotually
:, COR Congress to avoid deciding be-
roan the Panama and Nicaragua
soutes by adopting the Spooner
.u,endment 30 the bill now pending
:, the Senate. That amandment
s.,soates the power of choice TO
prasident Roosevelt, with the proviso
chat he shall not pay more than forty
nilIion dollars TO the present Pana-
ma Canal Company for everything it
nav have to sell. Neither Columbia
:, the n hand o Nicaragua and
Costa RIGA on the other can be credited
With approaching the tremendous
impetus which would be given TO the
;ndustry and commerce of their re
.pective countries were they trav-
srsed by an inter. oceanic waterway.
Each of the republics interested is
irving TO make the best possible bar
gsin with the United States in the
sense OF securing the largest possible
amount of money by way of rent for
fits venal rulers, actual or prospect
i've. to handle. The President should
be authorized to stop the ignoble
game of "hold up" which these
Latin American commemorative are
inclined TO practice by giving each of
them a short and definite time in
which TO make irrevooably such con-
oessions as he may deem worth 40
oepting. Colombia, which knows by
experience what it means to have
from one TO two hundred millions of
foreign capital spent within its
boundaries, could be soon brought to
book by an ultimatum from the
President, in which event Nicaragua
and Costa RIGA, which have been
talking vaguely about the Canal for
fifty years, would have to wait till
the Greek Kalends for the fulfill,
ment of their dresm.-Collier'r
Weekly.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-04-01

In order to have a school, six
things are necessary: children,
teacher, means TO pay the teacher,
a place TO teach, books and methods.
In order to have a good school, six
things are necessary: children who
attend regularly, a trained teacher,
sufficient means TO pay the teacher,
a comfortable and attractive place
to teach in, good books and good
methods.-Evelyn Royal.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-04-01

Fayetteville dispatch: The silk
worm literature which the State
Agricultural Department is sending
out, and the opportunity offered of
securing eggs for incubation, are at
tracing attention in this seoticn,
where the people have already tried
their hands at the industry and
where a large silk mill in successful
operation adds impetus to the enter
prise. Besides, here and there are
still TO be found growing the genu-
ineC Chinese mulberry tree.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-04-01
SOMETHING ROTTEN IN THE STATE OF
DENMARK.

There might we'll have been a sem
satiop in the House yesterday after
Mr.. Richardson's resolution, show
ing up the corruption and fraud en-
plOyed 80 secure the sale of the
Danish West Indies TO the United
States, and asking for an investigat-
Ing committee. The chargeis specific
that one Christmas, q Danish sub.
Iect, has in a secret report TO his
government, set forth the fact that
Denmark has promised to turn over
80 him 10 per cent. of the purchase
money TO be paid by the United
States for the islands, which sum
will amount to about $500, 900, to be
used to pay for bribing American
congressman and other influential
men and in subsidizing the press, in
order to bring about the transfer of
the islands and to secure the ratihca-
OF the treaty confirming the sale.
h name of Abner Mckinley,
brother of the late Presidents, is men
aoned among those whose influence
was sought to be bought.
The House did we'll not to follow
Mr.. Cannon in his wish for even a
Jays postponement of action but TO
adopt at once Mr.. Richardson's reso
tutlon for an investigating commit
Tee. The Democratic minority in
cue house have done the country q
service in ferreting out this fraud,
anu FORCING the administration TO an
DtLnsdlate investigation. Verify,
senere Is something rotten In the
Ssate OF Denmark. Charlotte Oh.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-04-01

A mother and her son have been
placed in the penitentiary here, the
hrst o thirty and the second for
twenty years. They are Van and
Venia Fuller, barn burners from
Orange County. Any student Of
sociology or observer has noticed the
tendency in some families TO produce
criminals. There ono lived a notori
Gus woman named Margaret in New
York, who is now known as MAR
garet, the Mother of Criminals" It
is said that 105 criminals have been
found TO be direct descendants of
this woman. There is q family in
this county which gives an example.
The father is serving a third term in
the penitentiary and his four chill
dren T nearly always before the
court or on the roads. Whether
this tendency so crime is inherited
or imbibed from early training, the
fact is patent the reform must begin
with the child. Preventive medicine
is the most effective In this work
church and State must combine. The
former must seek the children of the
fallen and vicious and the State
must protect that child and give it
an education. The establishments of
a reformatory in North Carolina can
not be continually deferred with
out working great harm to our oiti-
2enship.-Raleigh Times.