THE NORTH PLATTE SEMI-WEEKLY TlttBUNB: PfilMl EMING, APRIL -10, 1896..
HOUSE PASSES THE SENATE CUBAN
RESOLUTIONS.
Sire, sad Harbor Sill Passed Under Saa--peailea
ef the Kales Tby an Orenvhelm
iBf 3IaJorIty Goman and. Alien Critl
aie tke Administration.
"Washington, April 7. The house
Monday accepted the conference report
on-the Cuban resolutions by a vote of
yeas, 244; nays, 27; and passed the river
and harbor appropriations bill under
suspension of the rules after a lively de
bate of 40 minutes by a vote of yeas,
216; nays, 40. The report on the Cuban
resolutions had been debated "Friday and
Saturday, and the vote -was taken im
mediately after the reading of the jour
nal. Eighteen Republicans and nine
Democrats voted against the report.
After the most determined opposition
of .those opposed to the recognition of
thesinsurgents'in the senate and house
there -were but 10 more votes against
the report than against the original
resolutions. The former vote vras:
Teas, 262; nays, 17. 'By its action the
house agreed to the senate resolutions
and disposed of the Cnban -question for
the .present. Those resolutions "were as
follows:
Eesolved, That, in the opinion of con
gress, a condition of public rar exists be
tween the government of Spain and the
government proclaimed and for some
time maintained by force of arms by the
peopte of Cuba; and that the United
States of America should maintain a
strict neutrality between the contending
pqwere, according to each all the rights of
belligerents in the ports and territory of
the "United States.
Itesolved, further, That the friendly
offices of the United States riiould be of
fered by the president to the Spanish gov
ernment for the recognition of the inde
pendence of Cuba.
The river and harbor bill as passed
carries in actual appropriations 10,
330,560, and authorizes contracts for 82
new projects, 'with a limit of cost of
151,721,210.
Criticisms by Gorman and Aljen.
Washington, April 7. The senate
spent ihe entire day Jlonday on the
postoffice appropriation bill, but did not
complete it. The bill served to bring
out some sharp criticisms by Senator
Gorman on the administration of the
postoffice department and by Senator
Allen on alleged irregularities resulting
from the civil service system. Mr.
Allen repeated sensational charges as to
large money contributions said to have
been made in the interest pf Cleveland
and Harrison. The charge that Mr.
Wanamaker contributed $400,000 to
ward Mr. Harrison's election led to an
emphatic denial from Mr. Hawley. Mr.
Allen alluded to the president as "his
majesty," and es the chief mug wump
of the country. The vote on the post
office bill will be taken today.
Jfoitcfllce Appropriation Passed.
"Washington, April b. The postoffice
appropriation bill, which has engrossed
the attention of the senate for almost a
week, was passed by that body just
previous to adjournment Tuesday. The
entire day with the exception of a few
minutes at the beginning of the session
was devoted to debate and votiug upon
the amendments proposed to the bill,
the "Wolcott amendment for the consoli
dation of smaller offices with larger
ones receiving the greater share of at
tention. The discussion on this propo
sition again took the form of a debate
upon the merits of civil service reform
and was participated in by Messrs.
Tilas, Wolcott, Allen, Hill, Gear, Gor
man, Stewart and others. There were
some rather spirited dialogues between
Messrs. "Vilas and Allen and between
Messrs. Wolcott and Hill. Mr. Wolcott
criticized Secretary Smith for his parti
cipation in the Georgia campaign und
was replied to by Mr. Hill. The amend
ment was defeated by a decisive vote.
"Vote on the Metric System.
nVASHTXGTOX, April 8. The house
spent" Tuesday debating a bill to fix the
standard of weights and measures by
the adoption of the metric system on
and after July i, 1898, and a proposition
that the government shares with the
District of Columbia the expense of
creating and maintaining a public li
brary in the city of Washington. The
latter was defeated. Teas, 113; nays,
127. The fate of the metric system bill
still hangs in the balance. On a rising
vote it was defeated, yeas, Go; nays, 80,
but Mr. C. W- Stone (Pa.), chairman of
the committee on coinage, weights and
measures, who has given the subject
much attention and who warmly sup
ported it, secured the ayes and nays.and
pending the roll call the house ad
journed. Senatorial Sarcasm and Bidicule.
Washington, April 9. Senator Tur
pie's speech on Cuba was the event of
the day in the senate Wednesday and
in many respects it -was the most
-picturesque and vehement utterance
heard un the subject. The senator has
an inexhaustible vocabulary and a bit
terly satirical style. While arguing for
radical action on Cuba, even to the ex
tent of sending a fleet to Cuban waters,
much of Mr. Turpie's speech was given
o sarcasm and ridicule of the course of
Mr. Sherman and Mr. Lodge in manag
ing Ihn Cuban rpsolntioiia. The senator
created -amusement by his portrayal of
Senater Lodge as a warrior about to
fight a duel with Minister Dupuy de
Lome of Spain. Most of the day was
. given to the Indian appropriation bill,
which was not completed. Unanimous
consent was secured for taking up the
resolution fGr a senate inquiry into re
cent bond issues next Tuesday. .
We .'ilata aad ateaasre.
Washington, April 9. The hill to
adopt the metric system of weights and
measures was sent back to the commit
tee on coinage weights and measures for
further consideration. On the first
voteit had a majority of 2, but the op
position was aggressive, and after a
.eeries of votes it was recommitted, yeas,
i90:nayD,S9.
pife Seateape For HcGian.
Qxajla, ApriF a, Barney McGinn
was sentenced to life imprisonment in
the state penitentiary at Lincoln at
hard-iabca-, with solitary confinement
ootech asjuverssry of the dayon which
1m ruBrdered 'Edward McKenna, July
36, 1893.
Tart RoVlmen Caateea Opes Agate.
CxAwroKU, leb., April 8. The dif
ferences between the fort Sobineon
canteen and the complainants against it
were, with the aid of bnaneas xaen of
Crawford, amicably settled and tko
jataeecatio& withdrawn. Seer is oa
draught again at the post.
CHAPTER IT.
BIMETALLISM.
It was iatoin the evening when Patrick
Cambel again found himself cn tete-a-toto
with his host. Thoro had been people
in to dinner at the house in Park lane,
bnfc these had gone, and Mrs. Shelf and
Amy Hirers followed them to parties else
where. Mrs. Shelf had wished to carry"
Cambel also in her train, but thai person
staid behind by a request which ho could
not very well refuse. " You will favor mo
very much by remaining hero for the rest
of the evening, Mr. Cambel," Shelf bad
said in hispompous way. "I havo matters
of the greatest; moment I wish to discuss
with you."
"I hardly know how to begin," Shelf
confessed uneasily when they wero alone.
"Then let memako a suggestion," said
Cambel, with a laugh. "Conio to the
point at once, list's have the plot without
any introductory chapters. You've told
me you've got a scheme on hand for turn
ing my discovery into currency, and you've
rather hinted it's a dirty scheme. The only
question is how dirty. Thanks to prcssuro
of circumstances, Pm not an overparticu
lar person. Hut on points ln very
squeamish, or, in other words, I draw the
lino somewhere. Unless I'm very vastly
mistaken, your plan will involve ono in
downright knavery, which is a thing all
sensible men avoid if possible. 2sow, n
my ignorance I fancied the find mightlio
turned to account without climbing down
to that."
"Oh," said Shelf eagerly, "then you
had a scheino in your head before voucamo
tome?"
Tho other shrugged his shoulders and
lit a cigar.
'Just a dim outline nothing more.
You see the interior of tho Everglades is
absolutely untouched by tho white man's i
weapons. It was vaguely supposed to bo
one vast lake, with oases of elimo and
mangroves. Tho lako was reported as too
shallow for boats and abounding with
fevers, agues apd mosquitoes. Consequent- j
ly it remained unexplored, and on the end
of the Florida peninsula today no white
man, barring myself and ono or two oth
ers, has over got farther than five or eight ,
miles in from the coast.
"Now, as I've told you, I was lucky
enough to hit upon a fine deep ship chan
nel going Jn as far as tho center line, and
I don't know how far behind inside, Thoro
is good, fertile country, a healthy climato
and tho best gaiue prescrvb on this earth.
For the first comers that interior will bo
just a sportsman's paradise.
wIy idea is twowise. First sell tho
cream off the sport. Some men will give
anything for shooting, and in this case
thefo will also be the glamour of being
pioneers. Each one will start determined
to write a luuik of his opinions and doings
when he gets br -!:. Uy chartering a steam
er and treatinjj them well on board they
would have sporting do lure. Ono ought
to grt quite live and twenty chaps at 500
guineas apiece.
"That gives tho first crop. For the sec-,
ond buy up an enormous tract of the
land, which can bo got fur half nothing j
say, 10 or 15 cents an acre boom it and
resell it in lots tu Jugginses. They '11 fancy
they'll grow oranges, as all Englishmen
do who try Florida. Perhaps hey may
grow 'cm, who knows, if they keep off
whisky and put in work? But that won't
bo tho promoter's concern. They don't
advertise that tho land will produce
oranges. They only guarantee that it
would if it was given a chancr, and that's j
all correct. j
"Perhaps this is rough on the Jug
ginses, but as they crowd tho "British is- '
lands in droves, and arc always on the
lookout for some out' to shear tbcm, I
don't fco why an Everglades company
shouldn't have their fleeces as well as any
body else. They're mostly wasters and
wouldn't do any good anywhere, and it's
a patriotic deed to cart them over our
boundary ditch away from local mischief. .
Besides, even if tho worst comes to tho
worst and the orango Industry of Florida
still refuses to make headway, the would
be growers needn't starve. Sot need they
even do what they'll probably hato more,
and that's work. There's always sweet
potatoes and mullet and tobacco to be got, ,
and, If that diet docsn t cloy, a man can
have it there for mighty little exertion.
"Come, now. That's the pemmican of
the plan. What do you think of it?'
"Much capital would Ire needed."
Cambel shrugged his shoulders. Some,
naturally, or I shonldn'thavecoinetoyou.
If I'd seem any way to pouching all tho
plunder single handed, you may bet ypur
little life, Mr. Theodore' helf, I shouldn't
have invited you into partnership,'"
"lieturns, too, would be very slow,"
"Not necessarily, Float the company
and then turn it over to nuother company
for cash down."
"Moreover, when the er the young
men you spoko about found that the or
ange groves did not produce at once In
paying quantities, they would writo home,
and their parents would denounce me in
the papers as a swindler."
"No, not you, the other company the
one you sold it to. But then apologists
would arise to show that the Jugginses
don't shy at the word, sir were lazy and
Ignorant, and also that they absorbed the
corn whisky of the country in excessive
quantities. And then that company could
smilo smugly and pose as a misunderstood
benefactor. So its profits wouldn't be
smirched In the lcas Grasp that?"
"Yes, yes, I dare say you havo worked
it all out to yourself and thought out the
details so many times that the whole
scheme seems ontircly plausible. But,
looking at it from the view of a business
man, I cannot say that it appears to be an
enterprise I should care to embark in.
You see, it is so very much beyond the
scope of my general operations that I er
hesitate er you understand I hesi
tate" "Yes," said Patrick Cambel quietly,
"you hesitato becanso you've got some
thing ten times more profitable up your
rleeve."
Shelf started and shivered slightly.
" You may as well be candid and open
with me," Cambel continued, "and tell
mo what you are driving at. If it suits
me, I'll say so, and if it doesn't I'll let
you know with surprising promptness.
And, again, if we don't trade, you may re
ly on mo not q gossip about what you
suggest. Pm not the stone throwing va
riety of animal. You see, I lire in a sort
of semigreenhousq myself."
There was a winuto's pans, during j
wmcu xneouoro tsneix smitea about as
though his chair was uneven rock beneath
him. Then ho jerked out his talo sen ten co
by Eentence, squinting sideways at his
companion between each period.
"You know, I'm a shipowner In a large
way of business?"
Cambel nodded.
''Ships are occasionally lost at
steamers, even new steamers, straight off
tho builders' slip and well found in every
particular."
"So I've read in the newspapers."
"And every shipowner insures his ves
sels to the full of their TaHw,f
iJExceptwhen he has a foreboding that
they will come to grief on a voyage. Then,
so rumor says, Jio usually has tea fore
thought to overinsure."
Mr. Theodore Shelf passed a handker
chief over his forehead and started wh.it
was apparently a new topic: "There Is a
silver crisis on just now in the Unit -1
"States, and by this morning's paper tLe
dollar Is down at GO cents. American gold
Is not to be had. English gold is always
worth its face value. What more natural'
financial operation cocld thcro be than to
ship oat sovereigns end profit by the dis
crepancy?" "The new and valuable steamer which,
though overlnsured, is likely to be report
ed lost is evidently to have a consignment
of specie on board. Five hundred thou
sand pounds I fancy you mentioned as the
figure in the billiard room this morning.
Well, if one is going in for robbery or
piracy, I suppose it would turn out to be
in this instance there's nothing like -a
large coup. It's your niggler who usually
fails and gets laid by tho heels. Drive on,
and bo a little more explicit"
"Couldn't the steamer be lost somehow
in the gulf of Mexico and a boat contain
ing tho boxes of Epecie find its way through
this channel of yours into the interior of
Florida?"
'How lost?"
Mr. Shelf mopped his forehead again,
"Don't steamers," he asked, "don't they
sometimes havo sad accidents which
Which cause them to blow up?"
"Such things havo been known.' But
it's rather rough on the crew, don't you
think?"
"Oh, poor fellows, yes. But a sailor's
life is always hazardous. Indeed, what can
he expect with wages at their present
ruinous rate? Shipowners must live."
"Oh, you beauty'" saidPatrick Cambel.
'I must ask yon to refrain from these
comments, sir. But, tell me, before I go
any further in this confidence, am I to
count upon your assistance?"
"That depends upon many things. To
begin with, there'll have to bo modifica
tions before I dabble. I'm not obtrusively
squeamish about human life my own or
ptner people's. On occasion I b3gged my
man becauso ho bad twice shot at me.
Still piracy, complicated with what prac
tically amounts to murder, is an art which
I haven't trafficked in as yet, and, curious
to relate, I don't intend to begin. Your
scheme is delicious in its cold bloodedness,
but it would look better if it wero toned
down a tiifie. By the way, better help
yourself to a drink. Your nerves are in
such a joggle that I fancy you'll faint if
you don't. I notice there's no blue ribbon
on your evening dross. Humph! That's
a second mate's nip four fingers if it's a
drop. Apparently you'ro used to this. By
the way, what honorarium do you propose
I should take for engineering this piece of
rascality in your favor?"
'I will give you 500."
'Now, would you really? Not even
guineas?"'
"Mr. Cambel, I'll make it a thousand.
There!"
"Mr. Theodore Shelf, when a monkey
wants a cat to pull chestnuts for him out
of tho fire, be first has to bo stronger than
the cat. You don't occupy that enviable
position. In fact, I have the whiphand of
ybu in every way. We need not particu
larize, but you can sum the items for
yourself. Now, I'll mako you an offer
half of all the plunder and entire control
of everything."
"My God, do you want to ruin me?"
'.'I don't caro in tliQ least if I do. Your
welfare doesn't interest me. ily services
are on the market with a prix fixe. You
cap take 'pm or leave-'em. That's final."
Shelf burst into a torrent of expostula
tions, exciting himself moro and more as
ho went on, till at last he stood boforo the
other, with gripped fists and the veins
ridged down hia neck, inarticulate with
fury.
Cambel heard him out with a contemp
tous smile, but when tho man had stormed
himself into silence then ho spoke.
"When one trades in life and death, the
brokerage is heavy. You havo heard my
offer. If you don't like it, say so without
further palaver, and I'll leave you now
with your conscience, if you have a rag of
such a commodity left."
"Yon may sit where you are," replied
Shelf sullenly.6
'"Well and good. That means to say my
terms arq accepted. I'll pin you to them
later. But for the present let me observe
to you something else, eq that thero may
be no misunderstanding between us. I've
been rambling tip and down the world
half my life, and I've met blackguards of
most descriptions in every iniquitous
place from Callap to Port Said forgers,
thieves, murderers of nearly overy grade
of proficiency but they say that the
prime of everything gets to London, and I
verily bclievo now that it does, for, by
Jove, you are the most pernicious scoun
drel of all the collection."
"Sir," thundered Shelf, "am I to listen
to these foul insults in my own house?"
"Oh, I quite understand thdobligations
of bread and salt, but you are beyond the
pale of that You are a noxious beast who
ought to bo stamped put But you can
be useful to me, so I shall hire myself
out to be useful tq you. But I have
brought these unpleasant facts under your
notice to lrt you thoroughly understand
that I have summed you up from horns to
hoofs, and to point out to you that I
wouldn't give a piastre-for your most sqr
crcd word of honor. We shall be bound to
one another in this precious scheme by
community of interests alone, and if you
can swindle me you may. Only look out
for the consequences if you do try it on.
I never yet left a score unpaid. "
"We're Arcades ambo, rascals both, only
we'ro different varieties of rascal. I know
you pretty thoroughly, and if you don't
know me as well possibly you will before
we've dono with one another.
"And now, if it please you, we'll go into
the minuter details of this piece of villainy
and sketch out definitely how we are to
steal this half a million in specie and this
valuable steamer without committing
more murder than is absolutely essential
to success."
CHAPTER- Y.
Tipe TEMPTING OF CAPTAIN QWEf KK-iTl.-R,
Ifpne might judge from thejacquered
majesty pf your office appointments," said
Patrick Cambel, taking one of the big
chairs ir? Shelf's inner sanctum, "your firm
is doing a rearing fine business."
Theodore Shelf seated himself before
his desk and began sorting out some pa
pers. "The turnover," he Eaid evasively,
"is enormous. Our operations are most
extensive."
"Extensive and peculiar," commented
Cambel.
"Bat I regret to say that during the
f last 18 months the firm's profits have seri
ously decreased and the scope of its opera
floss been much hampered. I take credit
to myself thatrthis diminution could have
besa prevented by no action on my part It
is setiraly the outcome of the times the
.lazy greed of the working classes, foment-
ed by the fro things of paid agitators. The
Eeries of strikes which wchave had to con
tend against is unprecedented."
"Is it? Well, I don't know. There havo
been labor bothers all down through his
tory, and I fancy they'll continue to the
end of time. If you'll recollect, there was
a certain Egyptian king who once had
troubles with his bricklayers, and I fancy
there have been similar difficulties trotting
through tho centuries in pretty quick suc
cession ever since. Of course each man
thinks his own omployces the most un
reasonable and grasping that have ever
uttered opinion since the record began.
That's only natural, but I might point
out to you that in definite results you
aren't in tho worst box yet Your chariot
hasn't been upset in the Bed sea so far,
and it may be that a. certain operation in
the Mexican gulf will piece up the wheels
and sot it running on triumphantly.
Grumble if you like, Mr. Shelf, but don
make yourself out to bo the worst used
man in history. Pharaoh hadn't half you:
opportunities."
"Yes, yes," said Shelf, who didn't relisb
this kind of conversation, "but we will
come to business, if you please. "
"Bight you are. Let's finish floating tho
swindle."
"Mr. Cambel, "exclaimed the other pas
sionately, "will you never learn to mod
erate your language? There area hundred
clerks within a hundred feet of you
through that door, and sometimes even
walls can listen and repeat. Besides I ob
ject altogether to your phraseology. Wo
engage in no such things as swindles in
the city. Our operations aro all commer
cial enterprise."
'Very well," said Cambel, shrugging
his shoulders, "don't let's squabble over
it You call your .spado what you like,
only I reserve a right to slap on a plainer
brand. We're built differently, Mr. Shelf.
I prefer to be honest in my dishonesty.
And now, aJ I've said, let's get to busi
ness. You say the charter of this steamer
of yours, the Port Edes, has expired and
she's back on your hands. She's 2,000
tons, built under IJoyds' survey and
classed 100 Al. She's well engined and
has just been drydocked. She'll insure
for every sixpence of her value without
comment, and there's nothing more nat
ural than to send out your specie in such a
sound bottom. Bemains to pick a suitable
complement"
"I've got a master waiting here now by
appointment His name's Kettle. I havo
him to a certain extent under my thumb,
and I fancy he'll prove a reliable man.
He was once in our firm's employment"
"Owen Eettle, by any chance?"
, Mr. Shelf referred to a paper on his
writing table.
"Captain Owen Kettle yes. He was
tho man who lost the Doge of Venice, and
einco then he's never had another Ebip."
"Poor wretch yes, I know. That Doge
of "Venice case was an awful scandal.
Owners filled up the board of trade sur
veyor to the teeth with champagne, or
Eho'd never have been passed to sea. As
it was, she'd such an unholy reputation
that two crews ran from her before they
could get her manned. She was as rotten
as rust and tumbled rivets could make her,
and she was sent to sea as a coffin ship to
earn her dividends out of Lloyds. Kettle
had been out of a job for soma time. He
was a desperate man, with a family de
pending on him, and he went as skipper
fully conscious of what was expected of
him. He did it like a man. He let the
Doge of Venice -founder in a North sea
gale, and by a marvelous chance managed
to save his ship's company. At the in
quiry, of course, he was made scapegoat,
and he didn't contrive to save his ticket
They suspended his master's certificate for
a year. On tho strength of that he applied
to owners for maintenance, putting it on
tho reasonable claims of services rendered.
Owners, being upright mrrchants and sen'r
Eible men, naturally repudiated allinmvlr
edge or liability; said he was a blackmail
ing Ecoundrel as well as an unskillful sea
man and threatened him with an action
for libel. Kettle, not having a solitary
proof to show, did tho Only thing left for
him to do, and that was eat dirt or sub
side. But the incident and tho subsequent
starvation haven't tended ta sweeten his,
temper. Latterly he's, been serving as,
mate on a Pacific ship, and he was just n
holy terror with his men. Ho simply kept
jilive by carrying his fist on a revolver
butt. There wasn't a man who's served
with Red Kettle three weeks that wouldn't
have cheerfully swung for tho enjoyment
of murdering him."
"You appear to know a good deal about
this man."
"When it suits my purpose," returned
Cambel dryly, "I mostly contrive to know
something about anybody. -However, it's
no use discussing the poor beggar any
longer,
here?"
What's amiss with having him in
Shelf touched ono of the electric buttons
which studded the edge of his tabic, and a
clerk appeared, who went away again and
shortly returned. With him was a. shriv-!
eled up little man of about -JO, with a red
head anq a peaked red beard, who made a
stiff, nervous salaam to Air, Theodore
Shelf and then turned to stare at Cambel
With puckered amazement
Cambel nodded aad laughed, "Been
carrying any more pilgrims from Port
Said to tho Morocco.coast on iron decks?"
he said.
"I never did that," snapped Captain
Kettle,
"Ah, one's memory fails at times. I
daro Eay also you forget a water famino
when the condenser broke down, and a
trifling, affray with knuckle dusters and
other toys, and a dash of cholera, and nine
dead bodies of Hadjis which went over
board? Perhaps, too, you don't remember
fudging a clean bill of health and black
sheeshing certain officials of his Shereefian
majesty?"
"No," said Captain Kettle sourly, "I
don't remember."
'I'm going tq forget it also, if you'll
prove yourself a sensible man and deal
amicably with Mr. Shelf qnc myself, I'm
also going to forget that when you wero
shipping rice for Calcutta in 1883 you
rented mats you called your own to the
consignor and mado a tidy penny out of
that, and I shall similarly let slip from
my memory a trifling squeeze of ?S00
which you made outbf a stevedore in New
Orleans before you let him touch your
ship in the fall of 1SS7."
"You can't make anvthing out of
those," said Kettle. "They're tho ordi
nary customs of tho trade."
"Ship masters' perquisites for which
owners pay. Exactly. I know skippers
consider these trifles to bo their lawful
right, but a court of law might bo igno
rant enough to set them down as robbery."
"1 should like to know where'vo von
got all these things from," Captain Kettle
demanded, facing Cambel with his lean,
scraggy neck thrust forth nearly a 'foot
from its stepping. "Ishouldlikatoknow
X 1 m - ' "
wo, nowyou renerei vu aiancy- you wero
dead." - - -
"Other people have labored under that
impression. But I've an awkward knack
of keeping alive. You've the same. The
faculty may prove useful to ns both in the
course of the next month if you're not ass
enough to refuse 500." j
"Ho! That's tho game we've net about !
is it? What old wind jammer do you want
mo to lose now?"
"Sir!" thundered Shelf, lifting his voice
for the first time. "This is pretty lan
guage. I would have you remember that
but a short time ngo you were in my em
ploy." "And a fat lot cf good it did me," re
torted the sailor. "E. t, " he added, vVitli the
sudden recollection that it'is neve? wise of
a master mariner to irritate any shipown
er, "but sir, I wasn't talking to you. I
fancied it was Mr. Cambel hemwho was
"Kan ting to deal -with-riic."
"xnen your lanffy carried ycu astray,
ecptninj' said Shelf. "Como, come, don't
let ns get angry with one another. As I
repeatedly impress on all who cuino In
contact with me, there is never any good
bora out of words vnced in anger. Mr.
Cambel has seen fit to mention a few of
your shall I Eay eccentricities, jiist to
show cr that we understand one an
other." "To show he's got his knifo in mo, Mr.
Shelf, and can wragglc it If ho cbcoses."
'What a fractious pepper box it is,"
said Cambel, with a laugh. "Man, dear,
if I'vo get to bo shipmates with you for a
solid month, d'ye think I'd put your back
more up than's necessary? If yen remem
ber mo at all, you must know I'm tho
"Ilol Hint's the game, is ttf
deuce of a stickler for my own personal
comfort and convenience. You can bet I
haven't been talkingatyou through gratu
itous cruelty. But Mr. Shelf and I have
got a yarn to bring out directly, which is
a bit of a coarse, tough fiber ed yarn, and
we didn't want you to give it a top dress
ing of varnish. So, by way of safeguard, I
pointed out to yourthat if we show our
Eelves to ba sinners you needn't sing out
that you find yourself in evil company for
the first time."
Mr. Theodore Shelf had been shuffling
his feet uneasily for some time. Camber s
method of ppcech jarred him to the verge
of profanity. His own saintliness was a
garb which he never threw entirely awny
at any moment. His voice had always the
oily drone of the ccnventiclo. His smug
hypocrisy was a perennial source of pride
and comfort to him, without which he
would have felt vory lonely and abandoned.
At this point he drew the conversation
into his own hands. It had been said c!
him that he always addressed the house of
commons as though it wero tho congrega
tion of his own tin tabernacle, and he
preached out his schema of plunder, vio
lence and other moral uncleanness with
similar fervent unction. Cambel was
openly amused and once broke out into a
mocking laugh. Ho was never at any pains
to conceal his contempt for Air. Theodore
Shelf, which was more honest than judi
cious on his part Kettle, on the othc
hand, wore the puckered face of a puzzled
man. The combination of cant and crim
inality was not altogether new to ihm.
Men of his own profession are very apt to
behave like devils unbooted at sea and
then grovel in clamorous piety among the
pews of some obscure dissenting chapel
the moment they get ashore. It is a pecul
iar trait but the average sea captain be
lieves that he can lay up a stock of fire in
surance of this sort which will comfort
ably see him through future efforts. But
in Kettle's mind shipowners wero a vast
ly different class of beings, and so ii never
occurred to him that thg paiae might ap
ply to them.
In this attitude Captain Kettle listened
to the sermon which was reeled out to him
and rather gathered that the project he
was exhorted to take part in was in some
obscure manner a missionary enterprise
promoted solely in the honor and glory of
Mr. Theodore Shelf's own particular nar
row little deity, and had Mr. Shelf made
any appreciable pauso lietwcen his sono
rous periods Ecttlo would have felt it his
respectful duty to slip in n humble
"amen," But tho dictator of tho great
shipping firm was too fearful of interrup
tions from his partner to glvo any open
ing for a syllable of comment
But If Captain Owen Kettlo was un
versed in the finer nicotics of 'the art of
hypocrisy ho was a man of angular com
mon sense, and by degrees it dawned upon
him that Mr. Shelf's project, when re
moved of its top dressing of religion, was
in its naked self something very different
.from what he hail at first been drawn to
believe. As this idea crew upon him the
devotional droop faded from fho corners
of his lips, and his mou.th drew to a hard,
straight line scarcely to, bo distinguished
among hu curving bristles of hair which
surrounded it. But ha mado no interrup
tion and drank in every word tiil the
speaker had delivered the whole of his say.
Then he uttered his decision.
"So, gentlemen, you are standing In
partners over this precious business? And
because you know rao to be a poor, broke
man, with a wjfeand family, you naturally
think you can buy me to work for yon off
the straight. Well, perhaps that's possi
ble, but there aro two ways of doing it
and of the two I like Mr. Cambel's best.
When a man's a blackguard, it don't
make him swallow any the sweeter for
setting up to bo a little tin saint And I
don't mind who I say that to."
"My good man," snarled Shelf, "do you
mean to threaten me?-'-"
"No, I tfon't. 2 just gave you my own
opinion, as from man toman, just becauso
I respect myself. But I'm not going round
to your chapel to shout it out to them that
sit under you Sundays. They wouldn't
believe me If I did, pot now at any rate.
Besides It wouldn't do mo any good, and
I couldn't afford it I'm a needy man,
Mr, Shelf, as you havo guessed, and that's
why I'm going to accep your offer. But
don't lot us havo any misunderstanding
between ourselves as to what it foots up
to.
"What I'm going to sign on for direct
ly, when you hand me the papers, is a
spell of piracy on the high seas, neither
more nor less. And I'm going to have
money all paid down In advance before I
ring an engine bell on your blasted tramp
of a steamer. I guess that's fair enough.
My family'll want something to go on
with if I'm caught, and if one's found out
at this game it's just a common ordinary
hanging matter yes, sir, swing by tho
neck till I'm dead as an ax, and may the
Lord have mercy on your miserable tog of
a eouL That's what this tea party means,,
and for your dirty 500 yqu're ituying a
live human man." "
(Cpntnue hj next issue.)
j
State of Ohio, City of Toledo,
XiTJCAS CotrsTY, I
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the senior partner of the firm of F. J.
Cheney & Co., doing business in the City
of Toledo, County and State aforesaid
and that said firm will pay the sum of
One Hun3red Dollars for each and every
case of Catarrn that cannot be cured by
the use of Hall's Catarrh Cure.
Frank J. Cheney.
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my presence this 6th day -of December,
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ATTOBNEYS-AT-LAW,
NORTH PLATTE, - - NEBRASKA
Office over X. P. Ntl. Bank.
IJI C. PATTERSON,
KTTG RNE y-7n"-LKil,
Office First National Bank BIdg.,
NORTH PLATTE. EB.
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ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, .
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E.
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DENTIST,
Room No. 6, O'tenstein Building,
NORTH PLATTE, NEB.
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R. N. F. DONAIJOSON,
Assistant Surgeon Union Pacific !"'
and Member of Pension Board,
XDRTH PLATTE, ... NEBRASKA.
Office over Streitz's Drue Store.
Legal Notices.
PROBATE NOTICE.
In the matter of the Estate of nna Basil ns,
deceased.
In the County Court of Uncoln County, Ne
braska, March 28th. 1S3G.
Notice Is hereby bItch, that the creditors of said
deceased will meet the Administrator of raid es
tate, before the CoanryJadge of Lincoln Connty.
Nebraska, at the County Court Room, in said
County, on the 31st day of Jnly, 18S6. on the 31st
day of Aofrust, 18, and on the 1st day of October,
1SU6, at 1 o'clock p. m. each day, Jor the purpose
of presenUnj; their claims for examinaUon. adjust
ment and allowance. Six months are allowed for
creditors to present their claims, and one year for
the administrator to Fettle raid Estate, from the
3lst day of March, 1S96 This notice will be pub
lished in The Tribute, a newspaper printed in
said County, for four weeks successively, on and
after March Slst, 1896.
Jamxs M.Rat, County Judge.
ORDER OF HEARING.
The St Ate or Nebbaeka, i
LrscoLs Codjjtt. ' 33
At a county court, held at the county court
room, in and for said county, March 24th, 1890.
Present James 3L Ray, County Judge.
In the matter of the estate of Martin Van
Brocklin deceased.
On reading and filing the petition of Elizabeth
Van Brocklin prayiag that administration of said
estate may be granted to James II. Van Brocklin
as administrator.
Ordered. That April 18, 169G, at 1 o'clock, p. m..
Is assigned for hearing said periUon, when all
persons interested in said matter may appear at a
connty court to bo hekl in and for said county,
and show canse why the prayer of petitioner shonld
not begrantcd; and that notice of Ihe pendency of
-.11 ltf rf-U I .1 . , . - . J
oju imiuuu uuu ucana; uiexvor,oe gi ten to an per- i
sons interested in said matter by publishing a copy
01 imsoraerinT5T3iiraE.a legal newspaper!
pi"" ui jiuu ruuuij, jor inree successive weeks
prior to said, day of hearing.
m27 Jaues M. Rat, County Judge.
NOTICE F0II rCCLICATIO.V.
V. S. Land Office, North Platte. Neb.,
March 2d. 1S9P. C
Notice Is hereby given that the following-named
settler has filed notice of her intention to make
final proof In support of her claim, and that said
proof will be mode before the Register and Re
ceiver at North Platte, Nebraska, on April 16th,.
1S06, viz: Elizabeth Cragie, widorr of Alexander
Cragle, who made Homestead Entry No. 1533 for
the east half of the northwest quarter and the west
half of th6 northeast quarter Section 26, Township
12 north. Range 31 west. Sho names the following
witnesses to prove her continuous residence npon
and cultivation of said land, viz: David E. Baker,
Joseph II. Baker. James Montague and George K.
Johnston, of North Platte. Neb.
m20 JOHN E. mNMAN, Register.
NOTICS "TOE PUBLICATION.
Land Office at North Platte, Neb.,
March 9th. 1896. f
Notice is hereby gives that the following-earned
settler has filed notice of his intention to make
final proof in support of his claim, and that said
proof will be made before ihe Register and Re
ceiver at North Platte, Nebraska, on April 13th.
lfcStS, Tiz:
WILLIAM M. PORTER,
who made Homestead Entry No. 15415, for the
east half of the northeast quarter, lots 1 and 2, sec
tion 6. township 10. range 3L He names the fol
lowing witnesses to prove his continuous resi
dence upon and cultivation of said land. tIz- Luke
Conneally, William L. BrownfieW, Joshua C Hol
Bngsworthjind Henderjoa HolUngsworth, all cf
Wallace, Neb.
aWi JOHN T. HINXAN, Begfeter
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION".
TJ. s. Land Office, North Platte, Neb., 7
April 2d. 1SL f
Notice is hereby given that the following named
settler has filed notice of his intention to make
final proof in support of his claim and that said
proof will be made before the Register aud Kt
ceiver at North Platte, Neb., on May 9th. 15SO,
viz:
ERNEST J. BAKER,
wfco made Homestead Entry No. 1571ft for tike
lots 4, 5, 6 and 7, Section 6. Township 10 5f,.
Range -32 TV. He names the followiag witaese
to prove his continuous resideuce upon add oaM
vation of said land, viz: Wiley Mathews. O-car
M. Mathewn, Billings P. Baker and Jasen R. Ges
selman, all of Dickens, Neb.
276 JOHN F. HINMAN. Reginer.
NOTICE TOR PUBLICATION.
Land Office at North Platte. Neb..
March !h. 1SW (
Notice Is hereby given that William M. Porter ft a
filed notice of intention to make final proof beCnr
Register and Receiver at his office in Nrtk Pfcttr
"Neb., on Wednesday, the 15th day of April. 1SJHJ. ,.
umoer culture application o. 11 Ir tlt- sr h
east quarter of section No. 6. In towsship N
north, range No 34 west. He namts a ntmtnff
Luke Conneally, William L. BmwBfieM. Jwb:. t
Hollingsworth and Henderson Ue)iiBpswirth
of Wallace, Neb.
20-C JOHN F. HINMAN. ICntW-
REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF
The Bank of Sutherland,
At Sutherland, la the State of Nebraska, at the
close of business March 28th. ISW.
RESOURCES.
Loans and discounts SBSffl 7
Due from national banks 7a J I
Due from state banks and bankers lit 23
Banking house, foraHuro and fiiteres lfiUj.Td
Currsnt expenses and taxes paid ltHfe
Checks and other cash items 4 14
Bills of other banks I0flt ok
Fractional paper currency, nickels and
cents 2- SI
Specie 427 W
Legal-tender notes 18Q GO
Other real estate , K)r. (XI
Personal property . 18. W
Total ,$me-o?
LIABILITIES.
Capital stock paid in ffOO
Surplus fund It 99
Undivided profits 2tf j
Individual deposits sabject to check 437K &
Time certificates of deposit 161 74
Total 12 90
State of Nebraska, Lincoln Ceunry. s. s.
I. C.B. McKinstry, cashier of the above-named!
bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement
is true to the best of my knowledge and belief.
C B. McKINSTRY. Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 4tlx
day of April, 18W. Hxjnrr Cokes.
Notary Public
Claude weingakd,
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Crude Petroleum and
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Jos. Hershey,
DEALER IN
Afridkral : Iilemeiife
OF ATiTi KINDS,
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Buggies, Road Carts,
Wind Mills, Pumps, Barb
Wire, Eto.
Locust Street, between Fifth and Sixth
NORTH PLATTE
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Man'frof and Dealer Jn
MONUMENTS, : HEADSTONES,
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