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The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-11-25

very Ill, Is now reported rapidly re-
covering in health.
Born. to Mr. and Mrs. c. c. Hayden,
n SON.
Born, to Mt and Nrs Bauer a
daughter.
Mrs. O. II. Meredith arrived in BOISE
city Ida, in time to see her mother
alive, but there is no hope OF recovery.
City Attorney II. f. Barnhart re-
turned from Pierce, where he was
counsel for the defense in the Ash.
croft murder trial
ED Hans has purchased the Bathke
property, consisting of eight lots on
Braasch avenue and Second street.
Mr.. Hans intends building residence
on one of the lots soon.
Elmer Reed has Installed another
chair In his barber shop, which makes
total of six chairs. o. ~ Bohan of
Mr.. Reed for the newly created posi-
ton.
a special meeting will be held to-
night by the building committee of
the Y. Nj. G. A. in the Office of Math-
ewson and Co. in the Mast block to
devise means for the collection of sub.
scriptions now due.
The Country club lambs, which were
reported recently fattened on various
implements of the golf game and ship.
ped TO the South Omaha market,
topped the market in that city, bring
ing GA cents per pound.
l.. j. Dignan has purchased the Will
liam Schulz interest in the Dignan and
Schulz plumbing shop. The shop will
be known as the l.. j. Dignan shop
Mr. and Mrs. Schulz will leave
Wednesday for Creighton, where Mr.
Schulz will open a plumbing shop.
The entertainment committee of the
local committee of national guards re-
port the completion of an elaborate
program for their annual military ball
at Marquardt hall on the night of No.
vember "a. Vogets concert orchestra
has been secured to furnish the music.
Donald Mapes and Marvin Hibben
will represent the Norfolk high school
at the coming state convention of the
boys department of the Y. M. C. A.,
| which will be held at Fremont Novem-
Der 25-26-27. Both are star players
on the Norfolk football team and are
very popular among their classmates.
Dr. Dishong, former physician at
the Norfolk state insane hospital in
Norfolk arrived in the city from IL
linOis at noon. DR.. Dishongs name
| has been prominently connected with
the appointment of successor to DR..
Pecival as superintendent at the hos
pital soon to be made by Governor
elect Aldrich.
With the exception of two, all teach
ers of the Norfolk public schools will
embark on a special car at the Creigh-
ton depot at o'clock Wednesday
morning and go to Lincoln, where they
| will attend a convention of the State
| Teachers association, which will hold
three days session in the capital
city. The exceptions are Miss Ethel
| Long and Miss Annie M. Hahn, who
are reported ill.,
Chief of Police Marquardt received
a letter Tuesday morning from Mrs
| Ed Jones of Toledo, o., who says her
husband left her nine months ago and
! has not been heard from since. She
gave his description as similar to that
of the Black Hills gambler and ball
| player who was arrested at Pilger and
who "shot up" one of the resorts in
the east portion of the city. She de,
clared she believed this man to be heI
husband and wants the chief of police
to find him.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-11-25
Court on at Neliqh.

Neigh, Neb., Nov. Especial to
The News: The November term OF
the district court of Antelope county
opened yesterday afternoon by Dis,
trict Judge A. A. Welch. A large
number of equity cases will be taken
up at this term. The regular jury
term is called for Monday, December
II, when ii is expected that the Greg,
gerson.Pederson murder trial will
come before the court at that session
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-11-25
Count Comes Too High.

Birmingham, Ala, Nov. 23-Tainted
titles are at discount in Birming-
ham. j. c. Maben, president of the
Gloss Sheffield Steel and Iron com
pany and a hard-headed man of bust
ness, is said to have given the skid
doc" sign to Count Martio de Nasci-
mento of Portugal, whose marriage to
Mr.. Maben's daughter, Miss Elizabeth,
had been set for today. The iron
magnate disagreed violently with the
count in regard to a marriage settle
ment Rumor has it that the noble,
claiming at first to be actuated only by
the sincerest and most disinterested
affection for the fair Birmingham girl,
put off his financial demands until the
date and arrangements for the mar
riage had been completed. Although
the count is the scion of family as
old as the House of BraganZa itself,
his title is somewhat clouded by the
| fact that the new Portuguese republic
! has announced the abolition of all
patents of nobility. Count Martio,
/ therefore, has no standing as noble
/ in his home country. 1t is reported
that a large number of Portuguese
mobiles are now in this country or will
soon come over to search for wealthy
! wives. Under the monarchy, the Por-
| tuguese nobility waXed fat and pros
porous from the labor of the poor but
that condition no longer exists, and
many men with imposing titles now
find themselves forced to choose be-
tween marrying American heiresses or
| going TO work
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-11-25
EXPLOSIVES ARE FOUND.
A Trunkful Of Nitro Unearthed in
City Hall at Cincinnati.


Cincinnati, Nov. %. - Explosives
enough to blow the city hall here into
fragments were found in a trunk in
the city clerks office. Just why it had
not exploded is almost past under
standing, according to the clerks of
the office, inasmuch as the trunk had
been kicked from corner to corner for
the last two months.
The trunk was found by local detec-
tives while searching the rooms of
several supposed members of the
BLACK hand" This was last Septem-
Der. The trunk was brought to the
clerks office and had been moved
from one place in the room to another
until yesterday afternoon, when 1t was
decided to store ii away. 1t was
cleaned out thoroughly and in the bot
tom were found two packages of ex-
plosives carefully wrapped. On each
package was the label thirty percent
nitro-glycerine."
Program for Pedagogues.
Lincoln, Nov. 22.-The forty-fifth an.
nual session of the Nebraska State
Teachers association, to be held at
Lincoln November %. "a and %. has a
greater number of noted persons on
the program than any session in the
history of this association. The east
the west, the north, the south and the
central west will all be represented in
the list of speakers: DR.. Edward
Griggs of New York city, DR.. Herman
Harrell Horne of New York univer
sity, Ada Van Stone Harris of Roches
ter, N. Y; M. Adelaide Holton Of Min
neapolis, DR.. Frank A. Crane of Chi
cago, Professor Henry Jurmort Eames
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-11-25
Ashcroft Was Nearly Acquitted.

Pierce, Neb, Nov. 22.-Special to
The News: The verdict of assault
and battery in the Ashcroft murder
case at Pierce proves to have been
compromise 1t has been learned that
all day Saturday the jury stood 10 10
for the acQuittal of Ashcroft.
1t is probable that Ashcroft will not
be compelled to lay out more than
the fine imposed, which was 500.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-11-25
Cancel Meet for Bird-Men.

San Francisco, Nov. 23.-That viii
bur Wright demanded $4,000 rs IL
censc fee is the reason given by the
promoters of the San Francisco avia-
ton meet, scheduled to begin today,
for canceling the affair. A prize fund
of $4,000 had been pledged before it
was decided to abandon the meet
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-11-25
"Brainstorm" Plea Frees Her.

Sturgis, S. d., Nov. 22.-After being
out five hours the jury in the Mrs.
Nellie Mcmahon murder case at $50
last night returned verdict of acquit.
tai in the grounds of insanity at the
time she committed the tragedy
Mrs. Mcmahon killed Attorney Ira
Thomas on the morning of July 80 last
after a quarrel.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-11-25
PACIFIC STEAMER OVERDUE.
Portland.Frsco Boat, the Bear, More
Than "a Hours Late Now.

San Francisco, Nov. 22.-The big
coastwse steamer Bear of the San
Francisco. Portland steamship line,
carrying $50 passengers, is now more
than twenty-four hours overdue at this
port on her southwark trip and the
companys officers are being beseiged
with inquiries concerning the cause.
The Bear was scheduled to arrive here
early Monday morning.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-11-25
Two Carpenters Are Badly Hurt.

Gordon, Neb., Nov. Especial to
The News Two carpenters were hurt
here yesterday by falling from brok-
en- scaffold, one of them, Chris Mich
aeson, quite seriously, sustaining a
fractured skull and three broken ribs.
The other one, Chris Hoist, received
minor injuries.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-11-25

New York, Nov. 23.-ln memory of
John Ericsson, inventor of the Mont
tor, which did such valiant service in
the civil war, the John Ericsson So
ciety of Swedish Engineers will give
a dinner tonight. 1t will commence
rate the anniversary of Ericsson's
landing in New York.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-11-25
Bees Smoked Out,

Plainview News: Some time early
last spring a swarm of bees alighted
and located under the bay window
of the old n. NJ. Nelson residence
which is occupied by d. l.. Crellin,
formerly editor of the Republican.
There the swarm worked away all
the live long summer, coming and 60
ing through narrow crack in the
wall between the sill and the brick
foundation. The children learned to
avoid the locality after several of
them had been stung, the bees guard
ing their home most carefully, while
they were laying up a supply of honey
for the long winter ahead. But their
dream of winter security was rude
ly broken into Monday morning when
the eX-editor got busy with a pick and
shovel and a pan of sulphur. The
sulphur fumes were too much for the
bees and they were soon paralyzed.
Upon investigation the honey comb
was found to completely fill the space
between the floor joist for some dis
lance back from the opening in the
wall. Mr.. Crellin sliced the comb
from the floor and jOist and let it fall
into large pan. The comb was found
to contain over twenty-five pounds of
excellent honey.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-11-25
Wholesale Grocery Burns.

Columbus, Neb., Nov. 22.-Fire dam
aged the stock and building of H. w.
Abts & Co., wholesale grocers of this
city, to the extent of $4,000. From
the fire had been smould-
ering for some hours and was probably
caused by mice and matches. When
discovered the flames were bursting
through the roof
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-11-25

of Lincoln, DR.. Henry Suzzalc of Co
lumbia university, DR.. William NJ.
Davidson of Omaha, Professor =. p.
Claxton of the University of Tonnes.
see, William Il. Chancellor of Nor.
walk, Conn, and United States Sen.
ator Jonathan Bourne, jr., of Oregon.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-11-25
Pine RIDGE indians Back Home.

Fifty Pine Ridge Indians passed
through Norfolk yesterday enroute to
their Dakota reservation after having
spent the summer showing with Buff
falO Bill
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-11-25
Chadron Pastor Goes to Neliqh.

Chadron, Neb., Nov. 22.-Rev. G. w.
Mitchell, pastor of the First Congre-
gational church of Chadron, goes to
Neigh, Neb., this week to become
principal of Gates college.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-11-25
A SENSATION AT FAIRFAX.

Fairfax, S. D., Nov. Especial to
The News: A rather mild sensation
was occasioned here during the lat.
ter part of last week by the filing
for record in this county of a decree
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-11-25
Her Voice Comes Back.

Madison, Neb., Nov. 22.-Special to
The News: Miss LYDIA Donovan,
daughter of John B. Donovan OF the
Star-Mail, has found her voice again
after being deprived of it for weeks.
Upwards of twelve weeks ago, while
leading the soprano in the Presbyte-
rian choir, her voice suddenly left her
and she has been unable to speak
above a whisper since until yesterday
morning while passing along the
street it just as Unexpectedly and
suddenly returned.
Stubs Toe, Says couch"
Miss Donovan's voice came back
yesterday when, in stubbing her toe
as she walked across a crossing, she
suddenly said, "Ouch!"
Miss Donovan is about 10 years old.
When she lost her voice she was sing
ing. People in the choir turned
around to see why she wasn't singing.
Her lips We're still moving and she
didn't realize that she was not in the
chorus.
Gilpin observer., 1910-04-14

script group of old women, two or
three soldiers. and farmer or two
who soon collected about him. Then
he dashed into the house and set a
telegraph instrument. over which he
sometimes presided, to clicking.
Hardy. chilled to the marrow, now
that he had ceased walking and run
ming, and wearied to the point of col.
lapse, sank on rustic bench, believ-
ing himself forgotten in the excite
ment evidently occasioned by his
news. In this he soon found himself
mistaken, however, for a toothless
old crone. with kindly face and a
red handkerchief tied over her head,
came up to him and, taking him by
the arm. inquired:
'Zakouska?"
He swallowed three glasses of vod-
ka and ravenously devoured several
caviar sandwiches, after which he
was supplied with warm, dry clothing
and tucked away in bed.
When he awoke 1t was mid-after-
noon, and the old commandant had
delved into a Russian-French diction-
airy sufficiently to dig out the words,
which he pronounced many times,
with smiling face: "Sauves, mon.
sieur, tous sauves!" thereby affording
the American the greatest Joy and
relief and establishing his own reputa-
ton at the station as a wonderful
scholar.
Hardy remained at the station one
week, at the end of which time he
resumed his journey to Stryetensk
on horseback, escorted by half dozen
Cossacks bound for Irkutsk ON some
military mission or other.
He learned, very soon after his ar
rival at Stryetensk. that the relief
party had put in an appearance q
short time after his start down the
river on his perilous trip. and that
the princess had been rescued this
time entirely without his aid.
Gilpin observer., 1910-04-14
SYNOPSIS.

Frederick Hardy, fashionable Boston
society man. lost his wealth. was Tilted
by girl and sent by friend to take
charge of an American Trading Company
Japan he met Stapleton Neville. sup
posedly al Englishman. They agreed TO
go together to Russia. Because or sus,
picious circumstances they were several
times molested by the Japanese. Hardy
was arrested and found upon his person
were papers showing maps OF Jap forts
Hardy was proven guiltless. On train
he met Aisome' Sano. daughter of a Jap
merchant. In Neville's shoes Jap found
pictures of forts. proving him to be
Russian spy. Hardy departed for Rus
STA on a steamer, which was wrecked
shortly afterward. He was rescued by a
Russian steamer. On reaching Vladi-
vostok he was we'll treated. He started
for Siberia. meeting Princess Romanovna
Amur: Hardy showed the princess his
was stranded The princess and her
maid were attacked by Chinese. Hardy
Hardy for his heroism. Manchurians
fired upon the craft. Hardy, slew their
chief. Burning arrows were hurled upon
the Pushkin's decks. An attempt was
Chinese We're repulsed Romanof sneered
at Hardy's solicitude for the princess.
Stanka. a messenger sent for help was
nailed to cross on the shore. To put an
put stanka out OF his misery. taking his
own life in his hands. Forest fires men
aced the vessel Hardy volunteered to
90 for help; Refused permission he
with the princess distress message. Ro-
manor was angry at Hardy for his brave
efforts to rescue the princess. He wooed
her in his own savage way. He said
anese girl. Help came and the princess
was rescued.
Gilpin observer., 1910-04-14

that country Sano. being summoned
denied the plot, denied that he had ever
sought my hand or that he had any feel
ing for me except admiration for my tai
ents. The authorities were rather amused
over the affair and seemed to think that
l bore Sano some private grudge which
l was trying to pay off. 1 was reduced to
despair, hardly knowing what course to
pursue next when the news arrived that
the Shikoku Maru had been wrecked and
that you were taken off and carried to
VladiVostok by a Russian merchant
steamer. 1 take 1t for granted that you
are safely in Stryetensk ere this and are
deeply immersed in your new duties
Sano, by the way, is 80 bitter against me
now and so intent on my ruin that
have applied for service in Manchuria, a
task for which 1 am fitted by my thor
ough knowledge of the Chinese language
So you see into what trouble you have
got me by calling me your Queen of
Fairyland" and your Little Lilac Bios
SON.. Are not women silly?
1 am firmly convinced that this suscep-
dbility to fiattery renders them untitled
for all serious work in the world
But ] could not rest without letting you
know that did not deceive you. and that
1 am not the treacherous creature you
must have thought me, IL you gained any
inkling of the designs upon you. I sup
pose you have entirely forgotten your
Japanese friends ere this, and that you
have become an enthusiastic admirer of
the beauty of the Russian ladies' Still
IL you should ever think of me again, 1
should hate to have any unpleasant i'm
preston associated with the memory of
one whom you once thought of as a
Lilac Blossom" and Queen of Fairy
land" Am l not silly?
Your friend
AISOME MOSURO.
He gained from the letter that Also
me was most feminine woman, de-
spite her calling, but the idea never
occurred to him that she was in love
with him.
Gilpin observer., 1910-04-14

our trouble, perhaps losing your life.
The people do not understand your as
sociating with me. 1t is even whis-
pered that you are of Jewish descent"
Hardy laughed.
MY dear fellow" he said, cit is no
body's business whom employ for .
Russian teacher. / shall pursue the
course that seems best to me, and I
shall not allow these people to inter-
fere with my private affairs. If nee
essary, we will warn the authorities
that trouble is brewing"
Baruch sprang to his feet and
looked over toward Stryetensk, his
eyes blazing with hate.
ooh, the authorities!" he cried; do
you know that the prosecutions of the
Jews in Russia are connived at by the
authorities, and tolerated even by the
car himself? Could not the authori
ties. If they wished, uproot and dispel
the superstitions that make the Jews
hated and feared? The people II
Russia are mere animals, ignorant and
ferocious. and they do what they are
told. But there will be day of reck-
oning for Unholy Russia. The God
who opened the Red sea for Israel:
who led them through the wilderness
with pillar of cloud by day and Of
fire by night; who talked with Moses
in the burning bush; who was with
his people Of old in Nineveh; the God
who has made Rothschild king Of
kings; who inspired the brains Of
Solomon and Heine. the souls OF
Mendelssohn and Meyerbeer, and tho
heart of Montefiore-he will make
this rabble pay for the blood of his
chosen race. All the miseries of the
Pale and the Ghetto, all the degrade
ton and suffering, the starvation, tho
blows, the massacre and pillage. are
they not written down in the books OF
Recording Angel? The old law of an
eye for an eye, tooth for tooth.
was written for you. o Unholy Russia.
and when your day Of Judgment comes
your ruin will be more terrible than
that Of Babylon! Draw out the score.
heap high the mountains of wrong.
but be sure that the mills OF God
grind very fine, not matter how slowly
they turn"
AS Mordecai said these words.
something of the power of an ancient
seer crept into his bearing, his red
eyes flashed fire, his shabby cloak
seemed the robe of prophet, and his
thin, hooked nose and Semitic fea-
lures took on the dignity of the an
cient and glorious race whose insignia
they were.
Hardy arose. I'VE will walk back
together. Mordecai." he said, quietly.
On his return to the store he found
awaiting him letter from Moscow.
1t was addressed In Russian, but tho
epistle itself was written in French
and bore at its head princely crest.
He trembled and his face paled as he
turned back and glanced eagerly at
the signature, "Eiizabetha Rx,-
manovna."
"Mordecai." said he, come carly
this evening. am going to try to
write letter in Russian, and / shau
want you to straighten It out for msI~
(To BE CoNTINUED.)
Gilpin observer., 1910-04-14
CHAPTER XXI.
kniqht. Errant.

Hardy's journey down the swift.
vague, mysterious river that night
was an experience never to be for
gotten. Often, as he chung to his little
raft, his knees would scrape on the
soft sand, and Just as frequently he
would swing of into deep water and
hang suspended above depths where
he might easily drown, should he
take n cramp or lose his nerve. Sew
eral times he grounded on sand banks
and was obliged to drag Off his wooden
buoy, matter of no little difficulty,
as it was partly water.logged and
very heavy. Once he drifted close to
shore and found himself in counter
current, that actually was taking him
back toward the Pushkin, and 1t was
only by swimming at right angles to
this and giving his raft frequent Wig
orous pushes. that he managed at last
to get out into the downward sweep
of the stream.
Four hours after leaving the boat
he was on the military road that
stretched, dimly gray. between the
stolid, silent black of the Siberian
forests and the star-sprinkled, wills.
pering black of the river.
He reached the military station-a
rambling building Of square. hewn
logs, fanked by several small struc-
tures-about ten o'clock. and. break.
ing his bottle. gave his dispatch to
white.haired and corpulent soldier.
with q very red face. whose frayed
and faded uniform proved him petty
ofiicer of some sort. This man glanced
through the paper with wondering
eyes, then read It aloud to q monde
Gilpin observer., 1910-04-14
CHAPTER XXI.
Hardy Receives Two Letters.

E'o'oy nSSS'VCo tWo 6StkCTos
The store at Stryetensk was a low,
rambling building, constructed in The
shape of a capital Z without the mid.
die bar. A high board fence, connect
ing the extremities of the two wings,
inclosed one side of a square yard
which contained outbuildings and
sheds for horses. a droshky or two,
and several Of the long boat.shaped
telegas that do duty In that country
as drays. In the clubhouse. moreover,
was kept supply Of plows and other
agricultural implements. while the
store itself was stocked with an i'm
mense and motley assortment of gen.
eral merchandise suited to the retail
demand of the region, and for whole
sale shipments to the towns along
the Shilka river, on which stream
Stryetensk Is located.
Hardy found the city itself deary
in the extreme, consisting merely of a
collection of raw, squalid houses, To-
Gated on dusty or muddy streets. 1t
was as new and rough as the newest
frontier town in America and hope.
lessly unattractive. despite the fact
that It was surrounded by noble hills,