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North Platte National Bank,
NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA.
A HORRIBLE EXPERIENCE.
3?aid up Capital,
875,000.
DIRECTORS:
E.W. HAMMOND, ' O.M.CARTER, J. E. EVAKS,
Cr.IDDIXGS, M. C. LINDSAY, ' M. OBERST,
A. F. 8TBEITZ, H. OTTEN, A. D. BUCKWOBTH
All business intrusted to us handled promptly, carefully, and at lowest rates.
Closing -:- Out -:- Sale
BOOTS and SHOES
I will close out my entire stoch of Boots and
Shoes at a GREAT SACRIFICE. Wishing
to quit the business I will give bargains
on all goods in stock: Some of the best
goods made in this country will be
GPITERE1)
Our goods are all the very best. No shoddy in
stoch. Call in for Bargains, for you never bought
Good Goods for such prices.
I offer at a bargain the entire stoch and fix
tures to any one desiring to engage in the Boot
and Shoe trade. The reason for selling is that
other enterprises engage my attention. Call
for bargains at
Otten's Boot & Shoe Store
LUMBER US COAL.
LUMBEE,
Lath.,
SASH,
3LINDS, '
DOORS, Etc.
LIME AND CEMENT.
Rook Springs Nut,
Book Springs Lump.
Pennsylvania Anthracite,
Colorado Anthracite
AND
Colorado Soft
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YARD ON R. R. TRACK WEST OF DEPOT,
JOS
F. FILLION,
Steam and Gas Fitting.
Cesspool and Sewerage a Specialty. Copper and Galvanized
nice. Tin and Iron Roofings.
ESTIMATES ZFTXZEHsTIESIHIIEID .
Repairingof Kinds will receive Prompt Attention,
Locust Street, Between Fifth and Sixth,
North IPlatte, - Nebraska.
Iron Cor-
Beick Liveey Stable,
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FIRST-CLASS RIGS FURNISHED
on short notice and at reasonable rates. Horses boarded by the week or
month. Careful and competent employes. Stable opposite the Hawley
House on east Fifth street,,
if
NORTH PLATTE.
BROEKER,
ant Tailor,
jo hepliher
F PIECE GOODS.
pt"on hand and made to order.
R THAN EVER1BEFORE
n Fifth and Sixth.
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A Small Koy Attacked br a Pack of Infu
riated Mastiffs.
Wheeling, W..Va.. Sapt. 7. Edward
uxuis, 9 years old, had a horrible and
ratal experience in this city. Young
Gillis was playing in the street, and
near at hand waa a dog kennel in which
were confined six huge English mastiffs.
While plajing Gillis began teasing the
arYjM 3 JJ W
aau mey became fearfully en
raged. One of the dogs broke down the
door and six ferocious brutes made a
fierce attack on the boy. He was knocked
down at the first onslaught and all the
dogs began biting and chewing him. Po
liceman James Carney, assisted by Will-
...wvu, Biuion wiiu revolvers
and crowbars, finally reached the in
furiated animals, but it was impossible
to make them loosen their holds and
Carney shot fire of the dogs dead while
they were still chewing and biting their
victim. The sixth brute escaped. Car
ney himself was severely bitten, Gillis'
wounds are terrible; his eyes, ears and
nose were literally bitten off, and his
uuuy una no iewer i nan sixty wounds.
The dogs that were killed were valued
u $ouu excn.
POISONED BY "WATER.
Plre Die and Twenty-five Sicken from a
Well's Imparities.
Dditdee, Mich., Sept. 7. Five people
have died in this vicinity from the
poisonous effects of water from a well
on the Gilsen farm, near Deerfield.
Something over two weeks ago a. thrash
ing crew was at work on Gilsen's place.
The well is not an abundant one, and as
a result of the unusual demand upon it
the water became very low. It was ob
served to be rather muddy and repulsive
to the taste, but it wj the only water
on tho place and everybody drank of it
as usual. Those who have died are
three children of Gilsen and two farm
hands. Twenty-five others are affected,
about naif of them seriously.
Balling's Spiritual Adviser Released.
Sajjannah, Mo., Sept. 7. The Rev.
August Lavake, who acted as spiritual
adviser at the hanging of Louis Bulling,
has been released in bonds of $300 to an
swer tne charge of famishing Bulling
the weapon with which the murderer
attempted suicide jast before his execu
tion. It is generally believed now that
tne priest is innocent. Balling left a
letter in which he directed the sheriff
to return the revolver to Abe Bulliag,
his brother, who, he said, knew to whom
it belonged and how it came into his
possession.
Seacoast Towns Flooded.
AsburyPark, N. J., Sept.. 7. The
savere rains of the past two days and
the unusually heavy surf caused much
damage along the New Jersey seacoast
towns. Many bad cuts were made in
the Long Branch bluff. The New Jer
8ey Southern railway tracks at High'
land beach were undermined by the
high tide. At Browntown, a small As-
bury .Parte colored settlement, the streets
are all inundated and people are wading
irom place to place, m many nouses
the water has flooded the first floors.
several smaii sailing vessels were
driven ashore at Atlantic Highlands.
Ganging by Weight.
Washington, Sept. 7. Commissioner
Mason of the internal revenue bureau has
been considering for some time the ad
visability and practibihty of adoDtinar
what is known as the weighing system
for the official determination of the
quantity of spirits placed in casks and
packages. This system, if adopted, will
take the place of the present one, by
which the contents of a cask is determ
ined by the use of gauging instruments
as now practiced.
Short's Mother to Get the Beward.
Gutiikie, Okla., Sept. 7. Some time
ago, when the Santa Fe train was
robbed by tho Dalton gang, the express
and railway companies offered a reward
of $GU0 for the capture of each one. Ed
Short, who was killed two weeks ago,
alter capturing one or tne gang, left a
mother in destitute circumstances at
Osgood, Ind. Word was received that
the reward would be paid to her.
Sunk by a Cun artier.
New York, Sept. 7. The tug boat
Erie, was run down and sunk off Bed
loe's island by the Cunard steamship
Etruria, while proceeding down the
bay on her trip to Liverpool. The son
of the captain of the tug was drowned.
Tho accident occurred daring a dense
fog. The Etruria was not damaged.
Made Rivers of Baltimore Streets.
Baltimore, Sept. 7. A very severe
rain storm prevailed in this city. Tho
downpour of water was enormous and
turned the streets into small-sized riv
ers. Cellars were flooded and other
damage was caused by washouts. There
were some narrow escapes of people be
ing washed into sewers.
Car Shops Barn.
Port Huron, Mich., Sept. 7. The
large car shops of the Chicago and Grand
Trunk railway were partially burned.
Eleven cars were destroyed, besides a
large quantity of lumber and the car
penter shops. Loss, $100,000. Two
hundred men are thrown out of employ
ment. Gardner Fonnd Guilty.
Minneapolis, Sept. 7. O. A. Gard
ner, a letter carrier, was found guilty
of opening letters and sentenced to pay
a fine of $o00, he is the man who claimed
immunity had been promised him by In
spector Gould of Chicago because he
was a Mason.
After Wisconsin's Kx-Treasurera.
Madison, Sept. 7. The time in which
the ex-state treasurers could make a set
tlement with the state expired and no
settlement was made. The attorney
general sayB the cases will bo pushed
vigorously hereafter.
x- Caught by the Undertow.
Ateantic City, N. J., Sept, 7. Bar
ney McLaughlin, aged 45, and living in
Philadelphia, while bathing, waa caught
by the undertown and before help could
reach him, was drowned. The body
wai recovered.
Gresham of Texas.
Galveston, Sept. 7. Hon. Walter
Gresham of this city was enthusiastic
airy endorsed-at a meeting of citizens
for appointment to the position madf
vacant by the death of W. L. Bragg ol
the interstate commerce commission.
Postmaster Arrested for Forgery.
Olney, Bis., Sept. 7. F. P. Gillespie,
postmaster of Olney, was arrested on a
warrant charging him with forgery
daring his official career as treasurer of
Richland county. He is short nearly
$15,000 of county funds.
Will Recognise the New Government.
New York, Sept. 7. The Herald's
Washington special says the president
has instructed Minister Egan to rec
ognize tho new government in Chili.
Why Women Should Help Govern.
The eternal and ineradicable distinc
tion of sex is one principal reason why
women in a representative government
should be directly represented. If law
yers alone cannot safely be trusted to
make laws for mechanics, if merchants
alone cannot legislate for farmers, if
every well defined class in society is en
titled to its own authoritative expression
through the ballot, surely women, who
are the wives and sisters and mothers of
men, should give expression to the do
mestic interests from the feminine jxrint
of view. If a blacksmith cannot fairly
represent a physician, how much less can
a man represent a woman! Henry B.
BlackwelL
AT REST.
Poorgirll
Fold her hands, cross her feet,
Leave her to her slumber sweet;
She hath earned it welL
Every day fcr many years
Cause had she for bitter tears,
And they daily felL
See the hollows in her cheek,
Marks of woe she could not speak:
See her sunken eye.
Worn and wasted is her frame,
Nono too soon her slumber came;
Touch her tenderly.
Hard as iron was her fate;
Life for her was desolate.
Full of yearnings vain.
Sympathy and loving care
Fell not to poor Mary's share,
Wake her not again.
All she trusted faithless proved.
Every creaturo that she loved
Shortly changed, or died.
Good it is for her to rest.
Seldom, sure, was human breast
More severely tried.
Often has sho slept before.
Dreaming woo was hers no more, ,
Life and sorrow past; .
Cut from such delusive sleep
Ever more she woke to weep
Peace is hers at last.
Poor girll
True and tender hearted one;
Hard it was that death alone
Comfort had for her.
wFold her hands, cross her feet,
Lay her, robed all white and sweet.
In the sepulchre.
Augusta Mooro in New York Mail and Express.
Thought He Knew Every One.
Tom Fletcher had the good fortune to
be born in County Eildare, Ireland, and
to emigrate to New York at ten years of
age. At twenty-five he had attained a
six foot physique, a big black beard and
a clerkship in "uptown postoffice sta
tion Q."
Looking through the little brass bars
of the general delivery ono day he saw
approaching Mr. Barney McGuffin, a
fine old Oirish gentleman he had known
in boyhood. Tho old man was un
changed, but the boy had outgrown Mr
McGuffin's remembrance.
"I dunno, is it too lato fur t' stamer
th' day?' said the old man as he poked a
letter through the bars for "The Widow
O'Brien, Curragh of Kildare, Kildare
county, Ireland.
"An is this to de Widde O'Brien that
lives on d' Ballywink road?" said Tom
in his best brogne.
"An' how the divil did you know she
lived on d' Ballywink road?"
"Phat would Oi be doin' in de post
orfus af Oi didn't know the Widde
O'Brien lived on d' Ballywink road?
Git away from d' winddy how; yon've
had y'r toime."
And the old man was frequently seen
to stop on the sidewalk and gaze with
awe and wonder at the man "what
knowed iverybody in Oireland." Dry
Goods Chronicle.
Tho Poet Riley and Mrs. Wilcox.
"Can you recall more than a single in
stance of a man of letters marrying a
literary wife?" asked a Chicago writer
tho other day. "Browning? Yes. 1
know another instance whioh comes
pretty near it. I do not think the fact
is generally known, but James Whit
comb Riley, in the earlier days of his
literary career, was a most ardent ad
mirer of Ella Wheeler, the poetess of
passion, and a favored suitor for her
band.
"Both the young people were poor,
however, and neither had attained a na
tional reputation at that time, although
both had written some very charming
specimens of verse. I do not know
whether Ella ever intended to marry the
young Hoosier poet or not, but I do know
that young Riley was nearly heartbroken
when their cordial relations were sun
dered." Chicago Mail.
High Sheriff Benjamin Disraeli.
An Irish antiquarian has discovered
that the "Benjamin D'Israeli, Esq.," who
was high sheriff of the county of Carlow
in 1810 was an uncle of Lord Beacons
field. He is buried in St. Peter's church,
Dublin, having died in 1814, aged forty
eight This Benjamin, of whom none
of the writers on Lord Beaconsfield ap
pears to have known anything whatever,
left a large fortune, and his will, which
is preserved in the Dublin record office,
is signed "Benjamin D'Israeli." Lord
Beaconsfield once wrote asking for a
copy of his uncle's will, but neither his
name nor his father's appears in the
document Benjamin D'Israeli the elder
was only the half brother of the author
of the "Curiosities of Literature." Lon
don Truth.
A French Rale.
Every householder in the capital of
France is called upon to fill out a paper
upon which there are questions regard
ing some of the internal machinery of
the menaga The name of every person
who has spent the night in the house
has to be written out, and another point
mentioned is the number of windows of
which the house is possessed. , It seems
that the Elysee, the house of President
Carnot, has 114, and the number of do
mestics employed twenty-six. New
York Evening Sun.
Animal Lite at the Surface of the Sea.
The surface of tho sea is alive with
vast swarms of minute organisms, both
plants and animals, and the Challenger
investigations have shown conclusively
that showers of these keep dropping day
and night like a constant rain toward
the ooze of the bottom. Current Literature.
Every heart knoweth its own bitter
ness. It is one of the extraordinary de
velopments of human nature, that while
men can sympathize with each other,
condole with each other, each individual
suffers his own pangs and distress, and
suffers them alone.
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LECAL NOTICES.
SHERIFF'S SALE.
Bv virine of an order of sole issued by W. C
Elder, clerk of the district court of Lincoln county.
Nebraska, upon a decree of foreclosure of a mort,
g3RB upon the premises hereinnfter described
rendered in paid court in favor of tho State Bank
of Wallace, Nebraska, nRninst Fred II. Bentley, et.
nl., I Jinve levied upou tho following nal estate as
the property of said Fred II. Bentley, et. al.,
to-wit: Lot seven (7), in block fifteen (15), in th
town of Wallace, in Lincoln County, state of Ne
braska, and I -will on the 12th day of September,
1801, at ten o'clock a. m. of said day, at the front
door of the court house in said county, in North
Platte, sell said real estate at public auction to the
highest bidder for cash to satisfy said order of sali,
the amount due thereon in the aggregate being the
sum of $173.34 and f 19.28 costs and accruing in
terests and costs.
Dated August Sth, 1831.
D A. Baeeb
315 Sheriff.
SHERIFF'S SALE.
By virtue of an order of salo issued by W. C. El
der, clerk of tho district court of Lincoln county,
Nebraska, upon a decree of foreclosure of
a mortgage upon the premises here
inafter described, rendered in said court
In favor of Stull Brothers against John W.
Cochran, et. al., I have levied upon the following
real estate as the property of said John W. Coch
ran, et. nl., to-wit: The southeast quarter of spc
tlonjthlrty (30),town nine (9),range thirty four (31),
west of the Sixth principal meridian, in Lincoln
country Nebraska, and I will on the 12th day
September, 1891, at one o'clock p. in. of said day,
at the front door of the court house in said coun
ty, in North Platte, sell said real estate to the
highest bidder for cash to satisfy said order of
sale, tho amount duo thereon in the nggregato
being the sum of $33.75 and $23.83 costs and accruing
interest and costs.
North Platte, August Sth, 1801.
D. A. BAKER,
315 Sheriff.
SHERIFF'S SALE.
By virtue of an order of sale issued by W. C.
Elder, clork of tho district court of Lincoln county,
Nebraska, upon a decree of foreclosure of a mort
gage upon the premises hereinafter described.
rendered in said court in favor of w. J. Gilbert
against John Lunkenhelmer and Mary C. Lunk
enheimer. I have levied upon the following real
estato as the property of the said John Lunken
helmer. and Mary C. Lunkenheimer, to-wit: The
northea!fl"quarter of section twenty-eight (28),
township nine (9), in rango twenty-seven (27) west
of the Sixth principal meridian, in Lincoln county,
NcDraskn; and I will on the 12th day of September,
1891, at two o'clock p. m. of said day. at tho front
door of the court house in said county, in North
Platte, sell said real estate at public auction to the
highest bidder for cash to satisiy said order of
sale, the amount due thereon in the aggregate
being the sum of $121.50 and $22.53 costs and
accruing Interest and costs.
Dated August Utu, 1891.
D. A. BAKER,
315 Sheriff.
Land Office at North Plntto. Neb.,
August 18. 1891. J
Notice is hereby Riven tlint the followinc-
onmcd settler has filed notice of his intention to
make final Droof in enDCOrt of his claim nnd
that said proof will bo made before the Register
and Keceiverat North Platte. Neb., on September
23th, " 1K91, viz: Levi L. Baker who made
Homestead .entry iso. J7C1 lor the southeast
quarter of section 22, town 12, range 31, west.
He names the following witnesses to prove his
continuous residence npon nnd cultivation of
said land, viz: John R. Chapen, Johann CIcman,
John W . Wood, Francis Montneue, all of North
PlnttcNeb,
326 John I. NESurrr. Register.
WHY NOT HAVE YOUR
DONE UP NICELY?
Take it to our agent, Frank Sulli
van, at C. Weingand's store.
Anything laundried from a hand
kerchief to a fine lace curtain.
Laundry leaves Tuesday and is
returned the following Saturday.
GRAND ISLAND STEAM LAUNDBY.
A. P. CARLSON,
Merchant
Tailor.
The sea urchin has five teeth in five
jaws one in each-jaw all the five im
mediately surrounding the stomach.
The jaws have a peculiar centralizprt
motion, all turning inward and down
ward, so that they also act as feeders. -
Beautiful meteorolorical Dhotnjrranhs
of clouds and the aspect of the sky have
been taken by reflecting the object in a
mirror of black glass placed in front of
the object glass of the camera.
Kilkenny Cats.
During the rebellion which occurred
in Ireland in 1798, or it may he in 1803,
Kilkenny was garrisoned by a troop of
Hessian soldiers, who amused themselves
in barracks by tying two cats together
by their tails and throwing them across
clothes line to fight The officers,
hearing of this cruel practice, resolved
to stop it. As he entered the room one
of the troopers, "seizing a sword, cut the
tails in two as the animals hung across
the line. The two cats escaped, minus
their tails, through the open window,
and when the officer inquired the mean
ing of the two bleeding tails being left
in the room, he was coolly told that two
cats had been fighting, and had devoured
each other all but the tails. Notes and
Queries.
She Had Bead About It.
The trombone player was fittintr a
mouthpiece to his instrument with a
good deal of care, and a young woman
was heard to ask, "Mamma, what can
that man be doing?'
"1 don t know, my dear," answered
the mother, as she leveled her glass
upon the musician in question, "unless
he is winding his horn. You often read
'ton Post -
Full line of piece goods always on
hand and made to order.
Only first-class workmen employed.
Shop on Spruce Street over Hans GertlcrJ; Co.
R. D. THOMSON,
A-ic3u.tect,
Contactor and Builder.
'127 Sixth St. Cor. of Vine,
NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA.
. E. B. WARNER,
Funeral Director.
AND EMBALMER.
A full line of first-class funeral supplies
always in stock.
East Sixth strept next door to First Na
tional Bank,
NORTH PLATTE, - NEBBRSKA.
Telegraph orders promptly attended to.
Intellectual Men and Oulda's Novels.
Some time ago a busy man of the
world asked Mr. Charles A. Dana how
ho managed to keep himself mentally
so fresh and vigoron.3. Mr. Dana gave
several explanations, and among others
he admitted that he had taken to read
ing novels. Frequently Mr. Dana is
seen riding on the elevated reading
novel or a volume of short stories, and
the smile which plays on his face indi
cates how thoroughly he delights in such
pursuit Ho is a great admirer of a nov
elist whom Mr. Howells would esteem
with honwr, and that is Onida; and it is
a curious thing, perhaps, that among the
many readers of this popular writer in
this city there are to be numbered so
many vigorous intellects.
Roscoe Conkling anticipated a new
novel of Onida's with as much pleasure
as a Frenchman used to look for a new
installment of Alexander Damas' ro
mances, and he regarded Ouida's "Under
Two Flags" as one of the best stories
which he had ever read, and even went
so far as to recommend that grim and
dignified justice of the supreme court,
Samuel Blatchford, to read it if he
wanted a mental tonic. Congressman
Reed is a great admirer of Oaida, and
Joe Choate confesses to the pleasure he
has taken in reading the works of this
woman.
Novel reading has become a passion
with manj of our professional men, and
I saw the other day the dignified presi
dent of Yale college trotting across the
street to the Grand Central station with
a couple of novels under his arm and an
other ono in his hand, with his fingers
inserted between the pages, as though
he had just been reading it and even be
grudged the interruption which took
him from his hotel to the railway sta
tion. E. J. Edwards in Philadelphia
Press.
Fooled by a Filibuster.
A. P. Hulse, lato of the custom house,
tells a good story of some filibustering
that came under his notice j-ears ago:
In 1859 Harry Maury, a midshipman,
who had resigned from the service of
the United States government, was in
command of a brig off Mobile bay. The
vessel was loaded with filibusters for
Walker and was overhauled by a revenue
cutter. An officer went aboard in the
night with instructions to seize the ves
sel and bring her to Mobile. Maury,
who was equal to the emergency, pre
pared himself by unshackling the anchor
from the chain and fastening a lantern
to a pole. When the vessel arrived at
Dog River bar it was hailed from the
cutter and ordered to come to.
Then came the order, "Let go your
anchor!" Maury let go. "Pay ont
thirty fathoms of chain I" was the next
order. Maury ran the chain throngh
the hawser hole and over the rail back
on deck. Ho was ordered next to hoist
a light, which he did by lighting the
lantern already affixed to the pole and
sticking the latter in the mud. Ho then,
when all was quiet, put off down the
bay, leaving the cutter watching the
light, which it did until morning.
In the meantime the officer from the
cutter, who was in charge of the filibus
tering vessel, was down in the cabin
plajing cards. On arrival at the en
trance of the harbor the officer was
tapped on the shoulder and told of where
they were and asked if he wished to go
ashore. A boat was at his service and
he took it, returning to the cutter in
time to share tho chagrin of his mates.
San Diego Sun.
Electricity That Kills.
Dr. C. F. Chandler of the Columbia
School of Mines says: "An interesting
misapprehension that exists in the minds
of a good many persons is concerning
the vital dangers that lurk in the pres
sure of, say, 1,000 volts. The newspapers
often tell us that a man has been killed
by such a pressure, whereas, in fact,
such a pressuro alone couldn't kill a
humming bird. I have frequently caught
in my hand sparks possessing an electro
motive force of 100,000 volts without
feeling anything more than a very slight
burn.
"The danger arises only when tho
volts are re-enforced by a good many
amperes or currents, as when one takes
hold of a charged wire. Then one feels
shock that is unmistakable, becanse
force of a great many currents in the
wire suddenly decompose all the fluids
in the body. The salt in the blood at
once turns to chlorine gas, and the man
whose veins are charged with this deadly
poison cannot in reason be expected to
live long."
A Youthful Yankee's Ingenuity.
A boy wo know had some chickens of
which he had made pets. He and his
father went to their work early in the
aniing, and while the rest of tho fam
ily were away for the summer it became
a question how tho chickens were to be
fed with proper regularity.
The boy was equal to the occasion. He
took an alarm clock and fastened it se
curely to one side of the barn by means
of two spikes. Next he hung a bucket
of corn to a rafter and connected it with
the clock by a stout cord.
He wound up the alarm and set it at 4
o'clock. At that hour the alarm went
off, wound up the string and tipped over
the bucket. And so tho chickens were
fed by clockwork. Cleveland Leader.
Proportions of the Human Figure.
The TiroDortions of the human figure
are six times the length of the right foot.
Tho face from the highest point of tho
forehead, where the hair begins, to the
end of the chin is one-tenth of the whole
stature. Tho hand from the wrist to
the end of the middle finger is also one
tenth of the total height From the
crown to the nape of the neck is one
twelfth of the stature. Current Litera
ture. John Wilson, better known in litera
ture as "Christopher North," was a ro
bust walker. A forty or eighty miles
tramp was no unusual undertaking for
him. He often walked at the rate of
five miles an hour for a whole day, and
at tho end of those long walks would
write off columns of the brightest things
that adorned the pages of his Edinburgh
Review.
He Could sympaxmze.
I was walking along a street given
over to the smallest of shopa and almost
the cheapest of restaurants, when I meta
good looking ten-year-old boy in shabby,
respectable clothes.
It was autumn, and I carried a bunch
of flaming, splendid maplo leaves. He
Etopped, aa if the sight of them really
took his breath away.
"Oh, give me one," ho gently ex
claimed, in a manner that was more
than polite. It lifted our interview
straightway into some rare, superhuman
atmosphere, whero perfect simplicity
became a matter of course. Unfor
tunately this waa not so becoming to me
as to him.
I said, "Oh, I hate to!" but at the
same time 1 began looking for tho mean
est little leaf I conld find. When I had
discovered and was presenting it, shamo
overcame me, and torn with conflicting
emotions, 1 said:
"1 know I'm being horridly stingy."
"Never mind." said my boy, in a big,
masculine, comforting mannrr. "I
know just how you feel."
He smiled his thanks reassuringly, and
we parted never to meet again, i ue
clare, I conld write a sad little poem
about it thia minute. Atlantic Monthly.
LAWYERS AND LAW FIRMS.
Bono Recent Developments In the
Practice- of the Metropolis.
The practice of law in New York is
not only a profession but a business.
Many small factories occupy less room
and employ fewer people than some of
the great law firms of this city. Law
partnerships have always existed here,
but the large law firm with half a dozen
partners, a host of clerks and a corps of
office boj-s, all occupying a Urge suite of
apartments in a tall office building, is a
thing of comparatively recent growth.
The office rent alone of such a firm would
have been a handsome income for any
but the most successful lawyers of fifty
years ago.
The law firm that acts as counsel for
a great local corporation employs forty
clerks, all of them lawyers, graduates in
law or law students, eight or ten "ex
aminers to collect evidence, tour or nve
stenographers, from six to ten type
writers, four or five proofreaders, a
cashier, a man in charge of documents
and half a dozen office boys. The pay
roll of such a firm must foot up $800 a
week. Law clerks are paid from 500 to
$2,000 a year; stenographers from 750
to $1,000; typewriters from $000 to 900,
and office boys from $200 to 400. The
office rent of such a firm is not likely to
be less than 4,000 a year. Many smaller
firms pay out 5,000 a year in salaries.
One effect of this development in the
practice of law is the lessening of busi
ness for beginners. When a law firm
has half a dozen salaried lawj'ers at its
call, even small cases are not despised.
Many a suit involving less than 100 is
placed in the hands of law firms whose
annual transactions may involve mil
lions. Tho clerk that is set at such
minor tasks may be a graduate of the
best law school m the land or a lawyer
ten years at tho bar. Many a well edu
cated and capable lawyer is unable to
build up a practice in New York, and if
nothing else presents itself such a man
gladly accepts one of the better paid
clerkships in a large office. He may
know vastly more law than some mem
bers of the employing firm, for great
law firms are not composed exclusively
of great lawyers.
The important thing is that a man
may be able to attract clients, and this
he may do in a dozen ways not involving
a knowledge of law, One man was ad
mitted to partnership in an important
New York law firm because it was
known that he could bring a single 15,
000 fee to tho office. Such a case, how
ever, is rare.
The great law firms of New York do
not attempt to maintain large private
libraries. The libraries of the Law In
stitute in the postoffice building and of
the Bar association in Twenty-ninth
street, near Fifth avenue, furnish facil
ities that make large office libraries no
longer a necessity. When an important
question involving an examination of
authorities is to be looked up, a clerk is
dispatched to the Law Institute, where
he has ample opportunities to consalt
whatever book he may need.
Some of the most famous lawyers in
town pass whole days in the library of
the Bar association, Attendants are
ready at a signal of an electric bell to
bring whatever book may be needed.
The place is absolutely freo from noise
and from the intrusion of clients. Some
of tho most famous cases of recent times
have been prepared in this library. It
is a favorite workshop at night and on
Sunday. No liqnors or cigars are sold
upon the premises, but smoking is per
mitted in the parlor. In fact, the Bar
association affords many of the comforts
but few of the privileges of a club.
Now York Recorder.
BAD BLOOD!:
Pimples on the Pace ;
BreiUag Out S
Bkia TroaMesj
little Sores ) Hot Bikj -
Boils I Slotakes Z
Gold Berflij BdBmth J
Sere Mffath or Lips j ;
If Torn saScP from nay of ;
tbeae (mptou, take -
II o Finally Itcnched School.
An amusing story is told of a pretty
little Stockton schoolboy who makes it
the rule to get to school rather late in the
morning. Tho Irind teacher, who had too
much regard for the little fellow to pun
ish him harshly, resorted to sharp lec
tures for his tardiness, but the whole
some advice did no good, so she wrote a
note to tho little scholar's mother, tell
ing of his shortcomings, and asking the
parent if he could not bo made to come
to school early, as ho was alwaj's tardy.
The next da- the mother had her son
up bright and early and started him to
school early enough for him to make the
round trip before school time. When the
luncheon hour came the little chap ar
rived home happy and verj- hungry. But
the first question put to him by his fond
mother was: "My son, did you get to
school in time this morning?" "Oh, yes,
chool early to-
recess!"
ma,
'1 got to
said he.
I got there in time for
San Francisco Bulletin.
Pit in Ofllclal.
When M. Thiers, once president of the
French republic, revisited his native
town he found one or two old men who
had been the companions of his bojiiood
some sixty years ago, and whom he had
not seen since.
He asked one of them what he had
been doing, to which the old man replied,
with evident satisfaction, that lie had
been driving a flourishing trade in the
boot and shoe line.
"And what have 3-ou been about?" ho
in his turn asked of M. Thiers.
The latter explained that he was the
ex-president of the republic.
"What," ejaculated his companion.
"Aro you that Thiers? My poor friend,
how I pity you!" New York World.
An iEsthetiu Meat Man.
There is one practical soul just around
the corner in the Ruo des Petits Champs
who points with pride to tho crowds
who gather round his establishment,
drawn thither by the symphony in filets
of beef, chops en papillotes and legs of
Iamb dreamily interspersed with palms
and drooping pots of mimosa. Paris
Letter.
Site Knew Him.
'Td be glad to have you marry Har
old, my dear," said Ethel's father, grave
ly, "if I thought he was a young man of
pertinacity. 1 do not think he has what
wo call stickatitiveness."
"Oh, yes, ho has. He proposed nine
times before I accepted him," returned
Ethel. Harper's Bazar.
A man named Green, who, with
others, was wrecked fifty-five years ago
on a remote island in the South Atlantic,
has resided there, living a Robinson
Crusoe life, ever since. Green is the
chief of a colony which now consists ol
eighty persons.
Although cooker is proverbially a
French art, Paris had no school of cook
ery worthy the name until very recent
ly. Lectures are now given in tho Ruo
Bonaparte, with practical demonstra
tions by professors skilled in the noble
art
J. W. Midgeley, the Chicago railroad
man, who is reported to receive a salary
of 30,000 a year, was a newspaper desk
editor not many years ago. Failing eye
sight compelled him to abandon his pro
fession.
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H. MacLEAN,
Fine Boot and Shoe Maker,
And Dealer In
MEN'S LADIES' AND CHILDREN'S
BOOTS AND SHOES.
1'erfect Fit, Best Work and Goods
Represented or Money Refunded.
as
REPAIRING PROMPTLY" DONE.
NORTH PLATTE. NEBRASKA.
Bank Counters, Tyler System, Port
able, Unequaled in Styles,
Cost and Finish.
ISO r-ase Catategve or Coaatm, Dnks etc., Ulutmted la
Colon. Bool, 1'ree Ponlan l&Ceats.
AHo TylerU Koyml
Office Dealt a and Type
writer Cabinet. 200
Styles. Best and chenp
est on earth, with great
reduction In prices.
ISO pare eautarae Free,
Pottage It eta. Fall llaea or
Detta, Ckalra, Table, Rook
Cane, Cahlaeta, Legal Btaak
Cabinet, ete., alwaj la atnek.
Soeelal work atade to order.
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mm
H. W. FOGEL,
Horse Shoeing a Specialty.
Shop on Locust St.
Xortfi rintto.Neb.
Billiard : Hall,
J. C. IIUPFER, Prop.
The Casino is supplied with am
ple billiard and pool tables and is
a pleasant orderly resort :it all times.
LipoR
i ran iiti
t Mil I . I 1 1 - f l' '
of the finest stock and brands will
be found at the bar.
Neville Block, Nohtii Platte.
aaaa la , BBBiH oraa,
iiwmi mosaic
VETERINARYSPECIFICS
Per Horses, Cattle, Sheep, Dogs, Hogs,
AND POTTLTHT.
500 Faze Bonk on Treatment of Animals
and Chart Sent Free.
A.A.iMplnnl Meningitis, aiilk Ferer.
i.u.rtirniBH, miaeacM, Rheumatism.
C. C.Distempcr, Masai Discharges.
D. D. Ilnta or Orntla. U'nrm.
E. E. CohkIis, Heaves, Pneumonia.
F. F. Colic or Gripe, llellyache.
GAS. Miscarriage, II em orr bases.
II. II Urinary and Kidney Diseases.
EruDliro Diseases. Itfrno-i.
J.KlhtcaHcsof Digestion, Parn lysis.
Slnglo Bottle (over 50 doses), - - .GO
Stable Case, with Specifics. Manual.
Veterinary Cure Oil and Mnrilmirra- Af. nn
Jar Veterinary Care Oil, - - 1.00
Sold brBnurshU; or aeat prepaid aoyheroaad In aar
oaaalllr oa receipt of prlre.
11C3PHEKTSXED. CO., Ill 113 VniUaa. St., Sew Tort.
HOMEOPATHIC fffr
SPECIFIC No GO
In use 30 Tears. Tho only mjccessfnl romedr for
Nervous Debility, Yitai Weakness,
and Prostration, from orrr-irorlc or other causes.
31 per vial, or 6 vials and Utro Trial powder, for $3.
SM bj Druslali, or aent ptpldoa receipt of price.
HC3PUBK?S'BED. CO., Ill Jt 113 TTIUUm St., Sowlork.
J. L SQMERS,
Nurseryman,
Florist and Gardener,
(BAHTON TLACE,)
NORTH PLATTE, NEBE.
Can furnish all kinds of
shade trees, forest trees,
fruit and
and seed
lings
for tree claims at lowest
prices. Also all kinds or plants and
flowers. Estimates and designs
given for laying out new grounds.
Yards kept by contract.
Chamberlain's Eye and Skin
Ointment.
A certain euro for Chronic Sore Eyes,
Tetter, Salt Kheuni, Scald Head, Old
Chronic Sores, Fever Sores, Eczema
Itch, Prairie Scratches, Sore Kipplcsr
and Piles. It is cooling and soothing.
Hundreds of cases have been cured by
it after all other treatment had failetL
It is put up in 2.1 and 50 cent boxc3.
S50 REWARD.
Hy Tirtn of the lnws of the State of N'ebrnskn.
I hereby offer a reward of Fifty Dollars for the
enptme anil conviction of any person charged
with horse stealing in j-ancoin connty.
D.A.BAKEK.
.Sheriff.
DOCTOR
HCKERS
PURE
PINK
PILLS.
These Celebrated ENGLISH;
Pills are a 1'ositlre Cure tor Sick;
Headache, Blllouaneaa, and!
Coaatlpatlon. Small, pleas-!
ant and a farorlte with the
ladles. Sold In England for la.!
IXd., In America for 25c Get;
them from your DrngjUta, or"
send to V. U. HOOEZB A CO.,
4 Weit Broadirae, Xew Terk. Z
hiiimiiiiMMiii aanaarT
COXSnilTIO.V CUKEI).
An old physician, retired from nrnclice-
having hud placed in his hands bv an
East India missionary tho formula of a
simple vcctablo remedy for tho speedy
and permanent cure of Consumption,
Bronchitis, Catarrh, Asthma, and all
throat and and Jjun Affections, also a
positive and radical euro for Nervous
Debility and all Nervous Complaints,
after having tested its wonderful cura
tive powers in thousands of cases, has
felt it his duty to make it known to his
suffering fellows. Actuated by this
motive and a desire to relievo human
suffering, I will send free of charge, to
all who desire it, this receipe, in German,
French, or English, with full directions
for preparing and using. Sent by mail
by addressing with stamp, naming this
paper. W. A. Noyks,
820 Powers' Block, Kochester, N. Y