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ESTRAY NOTICE.
Taken tip on the 23d day of October, A. D. 1890.
as a stray on section 18, in township It. north,
rang 23 weet, in Lincoln comity, Nebraska, by
the subscriber, who there resides, two roan
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esch and apparently four or five years old,
described as follows: One black roan, white
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left shoulder, small brand on left stifle resemb
ling the letter C and has a leather halter; one
sorrel roan with bald face and white on legs and
feet, no brand perceptible.
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Dated this lSUi day of November, A, D. 1890,
455 W. 8. Cox.
ESTRAY NOTICE.
Taken up on the 29th day of October, 1890, as
a stray on section 20, town 10, range 29 west, one
bay mare, supposed to be four years old, star in
forehead, dark streak from loin to tail, branded
with three perpendicular bars (III) on left
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The owner of raid property can havothe same
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Dated this 22 day of Norember. 1890.
466 FRANK VOTAW.
NOTICE OF SALE.
iY VIRTUE OP AN ORDER OF
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the District Court of Lincoln county,
Nebraska, upon a decree of foreclosure
rendered in said court In favor of AY. W.
Birge and against Roy Thompson, I have
levied upon the following real estate as
the property of s aid Roy Thompson, to
wlt: the northwest quarter of section 22
in township 14 north, of range 33 west,
in Lincoln county, Nebraska, nnA I will
on Tuesday, December 30th, 1890, at one
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of the court house of said county in
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465 D. A. Baker, Sheriff.
S50 REWARD.
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I hereby offer a reward of Fifty Dollars for the
capture and conviction of any person charged
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TV as it up or down our boat shot out?
You who are oarsmen maybe know;
There seemed so seed that I should hoed
Aught save to watch my laddie row.
The floating tresses of the trees
Bent low to kiss the river's edge;
A pipe of bird, whoae neat warn stirred.
Rose sleepily from out the sedjre.
The swift turns of the curving course.
The tranquil nook where lilies slept;
A human flute, now sharp, now hoars,
As low beneath the bank we crept.
The wet tips of the tiller ropes
Dripped silver in that magic air;
The river's edge, like ciant hedge.
Grew denso with shadows black and bars.
A sudden flash ot gleaming lamps,
Where sweet, shrill laughter pierced the Bight;
A gunt and glow on us below,
Then stillness, and the rare moonlight.
A tawny head in crimson cap.
Eyes, boat-fit eyes, most darkly blue;
Bare arms of snow that come and go
Athwart a statue's rosy hue.
O moon! what strange dementia breeds?
What stirs this quiet pulse ot miner
What vision sweet and incomplete
Illumes the worl.l with light diviner
No answer' But the moon shines on.
Smiling, mayhaps, with gentle glea.
Why should I wish with her to khm
The rower, who is not for me?
Some day the statue will arouse.
The marble arms with warmth will glow;
Then in his boatanother'll float.
And the will watch my laddie row.
"And why," you ask, "to other lovea
Do I resign my gondolier?"
"Because (ah. me! the crueltyO
I am his maiden aunt," my dear
Cora Stuart "Wheeler In Loubville Courier-Jour
naL
A' DISAPPOINTMENT.
-AT-
NORTH PLATTE, - NEB
J. 0. Ferguson, Agent.
"Debt debt nothing but debt,
grumbled Maj. Montliill, as he tore open
one after another the numerous letter
which lay upon his 11 o'clock breakfast
table. "If I -was Midas himself I couldn't
pay cni all and I wouldn't cither.
There's only one alternative left open to
me that 1 know of and that is marrying
an heiress."
The major eyed himself critically in
the opposite mirror. He wa3 a tall, hand
some Apollo of a military gentleman,
with well preserved teeth, hair and
whiskers, bright hazel eyes, and a gen
eral air of stylishness.
"Yes," quoth the major, "I must marry
rich and Letty Pnco is tho woman.
She's as ugly as a Gorgon what very
unpleasant Ioolnng females those Gor
gons must have been, by the way, to get
themselves such a reputation for homli
ness; but a man must overlook minor de
fects when his settlement m life is at
stake. I've been a gay young bachelor
long enough; I mnst really turn my at
tention seriously to Letty Price. But
there are several preliminaries to be con
sidered, and 'one is that she has a lover
for every day in the 'week, and every
lover I believe a more genuine fortune
hunter than myself. It takes policy to
outgeneral so many suitors, and I've got
to look sharp if I expect to win the prize."
Miss Letty Price wai rather after the
Gorgon style of womankind. Maj. Mont-
hill was right in his criticism of her style.
She was fat and stout and ungraceful.
with a dumpy figure, a. short neck, green
ish gray eyes, reddish brown hair,
turned up noose and teeth broken and
decayed. Her complexion was muddy
and her chin retreated, and altogether
she was a picture that 6orely needed the
glitter of a golden frame to set it off.
Dut then Miss Letty'a grandfather was
worth $200,000, and she was consequently
what the newspapers call a '"society
favorite." People listened when she
spoke, and laughed obsequiously at her
jokes and admired her taste in dress,
and Miss Letty, naturally of a confiding
and credulous disposition, believed it all.
With Maj. Monthill to will was to do,
and nd sooner did he make up his mind
that he must marry an heiress, and that
heiress Miss Letitia Price, than he set
vigorously about consummating the af
fair. Bouquets, drives in the Central
park, books and photographs.soft glances
and poetically flavored quotations were
all alike the engines of his. warfare;
and when at length the time had arrived
in his estimation to strike the final blow.
he dressed himself in the guise of a Nine
teenth century exquisite, and went to
call on Miss Price.
"It seems to me," said tho heiress, who
had contrived to make her blowsy cheeks
a shade blowEier than ever by a hideous
ruby silk drees, with a scarlet cashmere
scarf looped over it, "that you are unusu
ally dull this evening, Maj. Monthill."
The major affected to start from a deep
and absorbing reverie.
"Ah, Miss Price, you of all others
' should not reproach me with my lack of
spirits," he said sentimentally.
"And why not?" demanded Miss Letty,
with elephantine playfulness.
"Need you ask me when you know so
well that my heart is racked by contend
iug emotions."
"I'm sure," quoth the heiress, looking
down at the point of her Mane Antor
nette slippers, "I dont know why it
should be racked."
"Because I love you, and I dare not
'speak my love!"
Miss Price colored and essayed a faint
httle giggle.
Tm sure, major, I don't see any ne
cessity for such timorousness."
"Because," impressively went on the
major, looking unutterable things into
the greenish gray orbs his own eyes.
were an exquisite wine brown, and well
he was aware of his advantages in this
respect "because yon are rich and I am
poor, and I have registered a solemn
vow upon the. tablets of my own 60ul
never to wed an heiress!"
"La!" said Miss Price.
"Of all men," said Maj. Monthill, "I
am tho least mercenary. A roof to shel
ter me from the driving storm, a crust,
a glass of clear cold water from the
spring that's all I want Money I
spurn, gold is my bugbear. And yet,
dear Letitia nay, let me call you thus
for once fate has decreed that I should
hopelessly lose my heart to one who is
unfortunately rich."
Miss Price burst into tears and im
puTnvely put her fit hand into the
major's slender palm.
"Don't talk that way, Marmaduke,"
she 6obbed, "and don't look at me with
those mournful eyes, or youTI break my
hwirt."
"Letitia, do you then love me?"
"Yes, yes, I do," wailetl the heiress.
"I love you with all my soul."
"Alas!" groaned the'major, "that two
such hearts as ours should be parted by
a wall of gold!"
"But they nha'n't be!" asserted Letty,
her nose growing red and her eyes
twinkling in the enthusiasm of the mo
ment "No, Marmaduke, no! Not if
grandpapa was ten times u obstinate
and pig headed as he is."
"My Letitia!" sighed, the major, in a
voice honey sweet, and as low as summer
winds breathing o'er the twilight sea.
And when he left the Price mansion
he had the satisfaction of knowing that
he was Misa Letty's accepted lover.
He plunged ruthlessly into more debt
the very next morning to the amount of
$200, to buy a solitaire diamond ring to
deck the fat forefinger of his affianced.
"It will be a mere drop in the bucket."
he said to himself, "when I come to
handle her cash. I hope the old gentle
man means to place it entirely at her
disposal, and Til see to the rest."
And Maj. Monthill contracted for a
pair of cream colored horses, a yacht
and a cottage at Newport for the sum
mer season, on the strength of his known
engagement to old Zadoc Price's grand
daughter. Just at this time life, we all know, is
proverbially uncertain Mr. Zadoc Price
took it into his venerable head to have a
stroke of apoplexy, and depart this exist
ence without the ceremonial of more
than "two days' illness.
"The most sensible thing the old fudge
could possibly have done," thought his
dutiful grandson-in-law elect "LettyH
come into her fortune now without any
difficulty, and I shall be a made indi
vidual!" He stopped at a hat store to get his hat
draped in a suitable mourning weed, and
thought it very becoming. The third
day after the funeral he called on Letitia
Miss Price received him in her new
black suit, her nose swelled with much
weeping, and her eyelids as pink as if
they had been painted all round with d
red lead pencil.
"Dear Letty," murmured the major,
his voico attuned to the tenderest sym
pathy, "do not mourn too deeply! 1 We
mnst all die and our departed friend
had lived out the threescore and ten
years allotted to man's life here below."
"I know it!" sniffed Letty, taking out
her black bordered pocket handkerchief.
"You are not bearing your grief all
alone?" he asked.
"No; Cousin Bethuah Jenkins and her
husband have been here for a weekj"
Letty lugubriously answered.
Maj. Monthill pricked up his ears.
Cousin Bethuah Jenkins? He had not
hitherto been aware that his Letitia had
anyrelatives save her grandsire. How
ever, the.200,000 would well bear a few
reversionary legacies, and this Cousin'
Bethuah was doubtless an attached rela
tive whom it would be scarcely credita-:
ble for tho old gentleman to omit entirely
from his will. .
I "The only thing that I regret in this
.sudden and unlooked for dispensation of
Providence, dearest Letty," went on our
smooth tongued major, "is that it makes
an heiress of you and I believed that I
have before expressed to you my horror
of the imputation of wedding a rich
wife."
"Don't let that trouble you, Manny,
dear!" cried Letty hysterically. "I I
meant to have told you all about it be
fore, but 6otnehow there never was a real
good opportunity."
"Told me all about what, Letitia?"
asked the major, in some surprise.
"About my quarrel with grandpapa
last month. Ho said you were a fortune
hunting miscreant yon dear Marma
duke! and I never should have a cent
from him if I married you. And then I
repeated to him the noble words j'ou had
spoken, and he said grandpapa always
had an inelegant way of expressing him
self 'that he'd settle your hash for
you!' And he called me a fool, and we
had an awful quarrel,-andhemadea new
will, and left all his money to Cousin
Bethuah Jenkins; but I don't care,
Marmy, darling, for I knew," cried the
disinherited damsel, with a fresh burst
of tears, "that you loved me for myself
alone, and not for mere filthy lucre!"
And sb speaking, Letty Price flung her
167 solid pounds of dumpy humanity
fondly into the major's arms.
Marmaduke Monthill felt like the man
in the old tale who has sold hia soul for
forty pieces of gold, and finds the treas
ure changed into dead leaves. He had
got Letty Price, but not Letty Price's
fortune.
He went home, promising to call early
the next morning. The next morning
came, but not Maj. Monthill. -
Miss Letty Price is living, a dtsap;
pointed damsel, with her Cousin Bethuah,
who is a good natured'soul, and does ndt
grudge the "bite and the sup" to the
poor girl whom she really thinks has
been used very ill both by .her grandr
father and the uiajor. As for the gallant
Marmaduke, nobody knows what has be
come of him, not even his Jewish credit
tors, who would certainly be the one-j to
find out, if any one coulcL The'diamond
solitaire is not yet paid for, and. some
body else is living in' the cottage at New
port, this season. '
But, after all, it is only one more illus
tration of the daily lesson we all read
the mutability of human affairs. Helen
Forrest Graves in New York Weekly.
BROKEN FLIGHT.
I taw a Wrd, Kgai wtacerf, ray,
Leap from the earth in drclint; flight,
I saw it cu ts clouds of gray
Aad dart iatd the drifts of light.
And I I envied and I yeaned,
Like it, to break the bars of fate
While Aeree the name of longing burned
To do and dare but not to wait.
I saw a bird beneath my feet,
Laid ii the duet with broken wing;
All hushed tho minstrel music sweet
A crushed aad wounded, dying thing.
An, me t set'thoao who cleave the sky
Ar safest whea the storm gods jeer
Not those who fret and fume to fly
' 'Are always'ltted for that sphere.
"Ah J well that o'er our Judgment weak
A heart of mercy throbs for all
To hold from us the hurt we seek.
And, pitying, note a sparrow's fall.
Hattie Bonner in Philadelphia Ledger.
DOCTOR'S INHERITANCE.
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A good suggestion has b?en thrown
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Let the girls who would like to know
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married Miss Helen Magill, who after
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Cornell. A little learning in a wife is
not a dangerous thing to a man who
knows something himself. The man who
ts afraid of knowledge Hi a woman has
grave doubts about his own capacity.
fcate Field's Washington.
The First Female Preacher.
Mrs. Ella May Bennett was ordained
a Universalist preacher at Stony Brook
September 23, and she is the first woman
preacher ordained on Long Island; She
is the mother of seven children, and is a
hardworking housewife, yet she con
trives to find leisure for study and the
writing of sermons. The advent of wo
men in the pulpit nowadays, is not as
startling as was the first anoeaninr of
women on the dramatic stage a few cen-
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Two gentlemen, both past middle age,
were seated beside a glowing grate fire,
chatting as old friends will who have
met after along separation. The hour
was late, nearly midnight, but no sign
of weariness was on cither face. The
room was a library, with well filled book
cases on all sides, a large, business like
table in the center and deeply cushioned
chajrs scattered about. One bookcase
contained only medical works in sub
stantial bindings, and with marks of
service plainly visible.
J)t. Thornton, host and owner of the
handsome house in which the room was
situated, was a man fcast 40, with ifqn
gray nair, strongly marked features, a
tallif erect figure and an expression at
.once-kindly and resolute. You read
prompt decision in his dark blue eyes
and & sympathy in tho pleasant smile
that often crossed his lips.
'His companion, heavily bearded and
bronzed by travel, was a far handsomer
man, but with a weaker face.
"At last." he said, stretching himself
latrily in his deep arm chair, "I find you
alone and disengaged. (Jive me per
mission to fctufl: a towel into that ob
trusive office bell of yours, 60 that no
whining woman or squalling brat can
summon you away and make me un
happy."
"Can't be done, Tom. Make the mos
of mo now, for the claims of the whin
ing women and the squalling brats can
not be denied.
"You know what I went to hear.
left you twelve years ago a poor man
with a struggling, almost wholly gra
tuitous practice, a sworn bachelor, and
almost a hermit outside of your profes
sional duties. I find you wealth, with
a charming wife and a popular member
of society, and yet your practice is, as
before, almost entirely among those who
could not fee you if they would. From
what relative unknown to rae, your own
cousin, did you inherit your fortune?"
"Did it ever occur to you, Tom, that
there are romances in real life all about
us, quite as improbable as those found
upon the shelves of the circulating li
brary? My ajrperienco will convince
you that I speak with authority. Twelve
years ago we are getting old, Tom
was, as you say, a poor man, studying
hard, living in a stuffy house in a poor
neighborhood, hoping for better times,
more profitable practice and a fuller
purse. I was a bachelor because I could
offer only poverty to a wife; a hermit
because my studies were engrossing. In
mv small house I kept one old woman
rservant, who cooked for mo and kept
things tidy. Having no carriage
needed no boy, for Martha could write,
and I bad a much larger office practice
than- that outside.
"It was late, one bitter night in Jann
ary, when I was roused by the office bell
Uand the sound of excited voices under
my window. Hastening down I found
several men carrying upon a shutter the
unconscious patient I was to aid, if pos
sible.
" An old man, sir, knocked down by
runaway horses and run over,' said one
of the party, as they gently deposited
their bnrden upon a sofa. 'Badly hurted,
I'm thinking, doctor, but not dead!'
"Badly hurt, indeed, I found him, and
my examination convinced nie that any
further motion would result fatally.
Keep, mm 1 must, or risk 111s life by re
moval to a hospital. With the assistance
of two of the men I undressed him and
put him into my own bed, noticing then
that he wore no coat.
" 'Somebody took it off,' they told me,
and apparently somebody kept it, as it
never appeared again. In tho trousers
pockefs were only some trifling articles,
a bunch of keys and a handkerchief, but
nothing to give any clew to the identity
of my patient and uninvited guest.
"I will not enter into the details of the
injuries that excited my interest as a
physician and surgeon as much as they
called for my sympathy as a man. There
were complications in tho case that
called upon all my skill and knowledge,
and the patient endurance of great suf
fering made me respect my unfortunate
guest from the first.
"It was nearly a fortnight before he
recovered from the brain injury suf
ficiently to speak distinctly. When the
sufferer could speak ho told me that his
name was Fanshawe, but said nothing
more of himself, and I supposed him un
willing to confess to poverty and the in
ability to p:ry mo for my services.
"I do not take much credit to myself
for my hospitality or devotion, becanso
I was so1 deeply interested in the 'case,'
professionally considered, that I would
have lived on bread and water rather
than have it taken out of my hands.
. "As he became stronger my patient
became , my ,friendAand interested me
deeply, by the variety and depth of his
information, his experience of travel and
charin of conversation.
"Not until he was convalescent and
bad been an inmate of my house for four
months did I know that he was a man of
wealth, living in the house I now oc
cupy. "To cure him was beyond human
skill, but through two years I attended
him, alleviating great suffering and
often accepting his invitations to 'spend
an hour or two with a lonely old man.'
"When ho died he left me his entire
fortune, which I supposed to be mine
only .because he had no direct heirs or
near relatives. He had never spoken but
once of his family, and then said briefly
that he was a widower and had lost his
only child.
"I had enjoyed my inheritance for
more than nine years when I fell in love.
I, who had never cared for female so
ciety before, became deeply attached to
the mother of one of my patients, a lady
nearly my own age, the widow of an
artist, Who died in Rome some four or
five years before I met her. She had
sent.for me to see her boy, an only child,
slowiy dying with an incurable disease
of the spine.
"Mrs. Eastwell knew before she saw
me that there was no hope of saving the
child's life, but she thought I could ease
the pain and restlessness from which he
suffered. She was herself an artist,
working in water colors for the large
stores that dealt in fancy goods, and em
broidering most exquisitely. But her
child claimed much of her time and at
tention, and I knew 6he worked in hours
When she should have shared the boy's
slumbers.
"Patient, self sacrificing, gentle and
refined, she filled my ideal of pure wom
anhood, and I .loved her with all the
strength of the first love of years. Igavo
her a man s devotion, not a ooy s lntatu
ation. But I knew that it was useless
for me to speak while the child lived,
She would have thought it a sacrilege
give my lovo consideration while the
mother lovo in her heart was the ruling
spirit. Love making while her child
was dying! I could see how she would
shrink from the mere suggestion.
"So I tried to bo content with winning
the place of trusted friend, delicately
trying to mako my presence a comfort
and a help to her, and doing all that I
could to make smoother the hard path
the childish feet were pressinr.
"One afternoon she came to my office
to ask somo questions about the .little
boy, and, as the waiting room was full,
I took her through the parlor to the
front door. As we passed by the mantle-
piece of the front room she suddenly
gave a cry of pain and surprise, stopping
short before a lifesiza portrait of Mr.
Fanshawe. Her face was white, her
whole form trembling, and before I
could catch her she gave one cry of
Father!' and dropped in a dead faint.
"It was the old story, Tom. She had
loved her husband better than her fa
ther, and eloped with him, never win
ning forgiveness. The home she had
left was broken up, and Mr. Fanshawe
removed to another city, so that for
years she had not known where to find
him, and had never heard of hi3 death.
Her husband had taken her abroad soon
after their marriage, and she did not
know whether ho-r father had over tried
to-trace or follow them.
t "You may imagine how like a thief I
felt when I coulct calmly consider this
story and think of my inheritance 1 1
living in luxury and she toiling for
bread! And tho money was hers by
every claim of humanitj.
"At once I commenced to arrange for
restoring the property to her, and know
ing her pressing needs instructecL-my
lawyer to supply her with ready moncj-
and inform her that as soon as it could
bo legally dono her father's fortune
would bo restored to her.
"Tom, she flatly refused to take it.
She had offended her father and had ac
cepted her punishment, and she would
not listen to any proposal to accept his
money. In vain I urged the justice of
her cause, the burden that -money so
wrongfully willed away from her would
be to me. She threatened to leave the
city and never return if I persisted.
"While lathing was settled her child
died. She grieved as only the mother of
an only child can grieve, and yet I think
I comforted her. I dropped all question
of the disput inheritance in those long
months, when her loneliness led her to
turn to me, her true, loving friend.
"And so, Tom, when a year had pass
ed, and the little life was a sacred mem
oryj no longer a passionate pain to re
member, I asked her onco more to ac
cept her father's fortune and his heir
witn it.
"Wo needed no lawyer then to make
the transfer, for I won my wife without
losing my inheritance."
"And there goes that confounded of
fice bell!" said Tom rising; "so I am
off." Anna Shields in New York Ledger.
Hotels and Housekeeping.
The ctner day I heard a prominent
merchant say-that tao building of so
many elegant hotels uptown would lead
trade to follow them, and that tho day
was not far distant when Fifth avenue,
below the Cathedral, must be given up
wholly to stores and club houses. It was
with this thought iu mind that I went
into the Plaza hotel and looked, at its
panors and dimng rooms, its cafe and
restaurant. While wandering about I
came to the conclusion that American
women are fast becoming, indeed that
they have already become, indolent.
The new hotels' afford beautiful resi
dences for people wlio'can pay for the
high cost or Irving m them the man
agemcnt at the sJmo timo taking npon
itself all tho cares of housekeeping..
Fashionable women, as a rule, detest
housekeeping, for it interferes with their
society duties, and I thought, while re
flecting upon this subject, that the time
may soon come when there will be hotel
cliques composed of rich families that
belong to tho same set. Such family
hotels will have no transient enstom, but
will be constructed solelj' with tho view
of meeting tho needs cf rich, indolent
women, with a ballroom and private
dining rooms at tueir disposal. In such
a hotel a family could maintain .1 pri
vate establishment and ay only one
bill the landlord's tor which individ
ual, by the by, society may yet invent a
more elegant title. Epoch.
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1 Otten s Boot & Shoe Store
We have added to our stock
E, P. REED'S LADIES' FINE SHOES.
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Also handle the REYNOLDS BRQ8. LADIES'
SHOES and Burt & Mears Men's Shoes. '
llottoni Facts.
"That court house of yours is a credit
to the town, remarked the stranger m
Boomopolis.
"Humph!" returned the man-who-
couldn't-sret-awav. "if von was navin
' mi 4. w
taxes here ve'd think it was a ccnxirr.cd
sight inom of a debitl" Puck.
Eiienk-" Valor in Chojura Times.
The cholera scare that has afflicted
Europe to a degree has recalled an inci
dent of the time when Napoleon III was
at the height ot his power.- The cholera
prevailed to a frightful extent at Amiens.
yet never a day passed that the empress
did not visit the hospitals to superintend
60 far as she could the noble work of al
laying the sufferings of tho stricken.
One morning a cure rushed into the
ward where the empress was consoling a
dying man. "Oh. your majesty," cried
the cure, "two hours ago my vicar was
breakfasting with me, and now he is
dead!"
Eugenia smiled placidly. "That is
well."
"Well?" echoed the cure, in amaze
ment.
"Yes, it 13 well," she answered..
"When once cholera becomes as violent "t
as that it ceases."
The empress was right. From that day
the plague abated. Eugenie's valor did
much to fortify tho people against the
epidemic to which very many, I am told
fell victims through sheer fright alone.
Chicago News.
Courtship,
Hearts cannot always be taken bv
storm. Wooing mr-v bo too hastv and
precipitate as well a3 too slow. A man
who offeis himself to a woman before he
has made sure of her affections is very
liable to receivo "no" for an answer,
when, with a little delay and assiduity
combined, he might have made it "yes." 1
Thero is an instinctivo pride in woman
wlucli makes her rebel against the idea
of being too quickly and too easily won.
tone naturally t limits he must hold her
Ke cheap who supposes it may be had
by a comparative stranger for the mere
asking. Even in the case of mutual
love at first sight she does not willingly
forego the pleasures of the delightful
1 in.. "1 1 a '
penou 01 courisuip. xue wuu uira
wooes his mate with long and melliflu
ous song, and woman fceb it her right
to exact homage before marriage.
York Ledger.
-New
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We have the largest stock of Boots and Shoes west of Omaha. All
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A. P. CARLSON,
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Full line of piece goods .always on
nana una made to order.
Only first-class workmen employed.
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ONLY
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Kept at tho Bar.
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Keith's Block, Front Street.
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HUMPHREYS'
Da. II cxrHBZTi' Srxcincs are clentlfleallT and
carefully prepared prescription ; lued for many
years In private practice with inccec.aad for oyer
thirty years used by the people. Erery alngle Spe
cific Is a special core for the disease named.
Thcae Specifics cure without druolnf. purr
ing or reducing the system, and are In fact and
deed the aoverelg-a renedieftaeWrla'.
usTor FBTXCirALnos. ccsxf. nicxa.
1 Fevcrsi Congestion. Inflammation... .25
M Worms, wormieier. norm uoiic,
Crying Colic, orTeethlngof Infanta
Jllarraea, orunuarenor Aaaiu....
Jlyaeaterr, Qrlplnf. Bilious Colic-..
H C'aolera Morbaa, vomltlaj
1 11
IO Dyspepsia, Billons Stomach .'2
11 Boppreasea or raiaiai .reriaaa.
'i "Whites, too Profuse Periods
! Croap. (sougn, iiimcuit ureaiaratt
Malt Bheaaa, Erysipelas, Eruptions,
i Rkeanatlan. lthenmatlc Pains
It Ferersna Axae, enma, sisnna....
17 Piles, Blind or bleeding
IB Catarrh, Influenza, Cold In the Head
20 Whooping Caagh, Violent Coughs.
24 General leblllty.PhytIcalWekneas
. Mr - i a 1
4 niiggivwiK ..i
'2H Nensai Debility I.t
e Urinary Weakness, Wetting Bed. .Si
'2 Diseases of taeHcart,PalpltaUonl.0f
COUGHING ITS CAVBX aXD CUX1X
Couching is an involuntary effort to
expel irritating matter from the lunge
or bronchial passages, and Is, therefore,
as ni:ces3ary, at times, ax vomiting ia to
relieve the stomach of iadigeitibls or
poisonous substances. As a general
rule, when the stomach Is unburdened
of its contents, the retching ceases.
'ot sar with bronchial irritation, the
effect being liable to remain long after
tho primary cause has been removed.
Tho reason of this ia that, in the acts of
coughing and expectoration, tho mucous
coating of the throat and air passages
becomes inflamed and congested ; conse
quently the. inclination to cough and tx
pectorato still continues, and the delicate
tissue of the fauces are further irritated.
The great danger of a severe and pro
tracted cough is in the liability either
to rupture a congested blood-vessel or
to cause an irritation and soreness that
may result in ulceration of the lungs.
The obvious course of treatment Is
to administer, first, an expectorant that
will assist in loosening and bringing
nway the phlegm; and, secondly, an
anodyne to soothe the inflamed and irri
tated membrane. To accomplish this
two-fold purpose is tho design of all
cough-cures ; but the danger with most
of them is that they aro so cloying
to the stomach as to seriously inter
fere witli the process of digestion ; con
sequently, in the effort to cure ono
complaint, the patient is liable to con
tract another.
What, then, is best to be done? Tho
answer is: Take a medicine that is both
an anodyne and an expectorant ons
which loosens the phlegm and soothes
the irritated membrane, but does not
interfere with, or endanger, the regular
functions of any other bodily organ.
Can such a remedy be found? "Wa
reply unhesitatingly, it can in Ayer'n
Cherry PcctoraL For more than forty
years this preparation has been in use,
and it is without doubt, the safest
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That it is so estimated by the public is
evident from the fact that no other
preparation of tho kind is in such uni
versal demand. As a family medi
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sore throat, bronchitis, and the sudden
pulmonary troubles to which children
are exposed, Ayer's Cherry Pectoral ia
imply invaluable.
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of price. Da. Humthbstb' maxvaz, (144 pages) ,
richly bound In cloth and gold, mailed free. J
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SPECIFICS.
Chamberlain's Era and Skin
Ointment.
A certain cure for Chronic Sore Eye,
Tetter, Salt Rheum, Scald Head, Old
Chronic Sores, Fever Sores, Eczema,
Itch, Prairie Scratches, Sore Nipple
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Hundreds of cases have been cured by
it after all other treatment had failed.
It is put up in 25 and 50 cent boxes.
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OSACE PILLS.
PURELY VEGETABLE AND PERFECTLY HARMLESS,
Bein cimiaHitJea1 frew RttnertM htrktaRtf rtvts, which
have been in use among the Osage Indians for V ttTS. It
is the use of these roots and herbs which renders that MMT
ally dreaded event sorearkahl safe and easy with them.
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expected confinement ThSMSandS tf TestiMSRlM tfM far
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