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THE PRAYER OF C CELEBS. pother pone! Alas, one more Deluded by a v.-onian'a trickl Another stalwnrt bachelor To figure as a Benidick! "A marriage," yp.-, "has been arranged Bttween iliss Blank and" yes, and Harry! My -well loved friend, you must have changed You, of all men alive, to marry! At Cambridge, on debating nighte, Brown and yourself shone in the lists As valiant foes of "woman's rights," A pair of stanch misogynists. How valueless your speeches prove! Brown, too, I understand, is fated To make, like you. the deadly move Which lose: all, by which you're mated. But, though I mourn for you, my friend, My feans arc not for you alone. This fall of yours, does it portend A like disaster of my own? Is love a brief insanity Which seizes all of us? Shall no men Escape its ravagcw? Shall I Becomo a lover? Absitomen! Oh, Maud or Muriel or Kate! Your name, from force of circumstance, I cannot definitely state. Let me entreat you in advance! Oh, unknown maid whom I shail woo, Let me put forward my petition - Before you have reduced mo to A scmi'imbuoilu condition. When, on Fomc fragrant summer eve, I vow that you arc quite divine And ask you simply to believe There never w.s such lovo a3 mino, Despise such platitudes as those. From ray demented self protect me, And, if I finally propose, Be kind, be generous and reject me! London World A SHEPLASTER. I am a 25 cent greenback, and for all I know may be one of the unredeemed, but I have had such varied experiences and -was able to do so much good the day Eiclunond was evacuated I feel I must tell about it, for I was as much a subject of dispute in my day as gold and silver and bonds are now. I was pout forth fresh and crisp from Yfashington to a paymaster in (he Army of the Po tomac on the Virginia peninsula, and he delivered me, :Jcng with n lot of larger notes, to a captain of the Fifth Pennsylvania cavalry. The captain placed the big notes in a letter which ho wrote to his wife a sweet, loving letter in which lie told her he was going the next day on a raid up the peninsula, and that if all went well he might sleep in Richmond; that she must ke ep up a brave heart and that he -would be home soon. When he sealed this letter, I saw tho muscles cf his mouth twitch and his bravo blue eyes moisten, and I snuggled up within, for I knew the bravest vcro the tcudcr cst, aiid he was wishing that he could go with that letter. But there were no braver men in the war than the Pennsylvania's, and I knew that, live or die, he would be game and do what was right. The nest morning we started off and got along vciy well until about miles beyond "Williamsburg, and just at .the fori; of the reads we were attacked by the advance guard of Shinglor's South Carolina cavalry. We had only 40 men in our party, and tho rebels wero numerous. The captain saw he had bet ter retire, so he turned his horse, order ed a retreat, and the men threw their guns over their shoulders and dashed down the road, firing as they retreated "We went into a new position, behind the college walls tho college had been burned and as the hot lead spat tcrc.l against tho old English bricks I shuci dered, and every time theptatue cf Lord Botetourt was hit I felt as if everything sacred was being desecrated, and I could almost hear the British lion growl. "While I was made for circulation I was based on protection, and when charges wero made against me I feared I would be ground into pulp before I was with drawn. Our enemies were re-enferced, and my captain, seeing discretion was the better part of valor, again retired and dashed down the main street. Before he had gone two squares a bayonet was thrust through his thigh, and he was made prisoner. In a very short time I was exchanged for a bng cf tobacco and became an ally and associate of armed rebellion. A shinplastcr has no affec tions or attachments, you know. I was put in what was called a pocket by my rebel owner, but it seemed to me like a rag bag. I was so frightened I thought I would die and was sure I would never smile again, but that night I laughed myself sick at the ludicrous and hairbreadth escape of my new friend. Ho was worn out with excitement of the day, and as he passed a house by the college, just across from the president's house, ono of his friends asked him in, pointed to a feather bed on the floor, and he sank down in it and slept as only a Confederate soldier could, for he had not seen a bed of any kind for so long. He w:is in high feather at his good fortune. Ho was too tired to dream. I was awake, studying my new surroundings. Suddenly a fricudly hand shook him up and said, "You are caught." He crept to the window, pull ed the curtain aside, and there, sure enough, wero my friends of the Fifth Pennsylvania cavalry. If ever my Union soul longed for a voice, it was then. He could have put his hand on them. Ho double quicked into his clothes and buttoned me up against his heart, which was going faster than a weaver's shuttle. It was a bril liant moonlight night in April. He had put his horse in an open shed and pushed a cart in front of it to keep him from getting away. He realized his danger and the absolute necessity for quiet. Just as he stealthily entered the shed a calf ran between his legs and bellowed as only a calf can and tlirew him over on the cart. 4 Well, ' ' thought I, " I will now be back with the Fifth Pennsylvania cavalry." He clutched at the horse, jumped on his back, dug his spurs in its side and dashed down the road I had been over twice before. The bit was out of the horse's mouth, and he was going like John Gilpin and no possible way for the rider to control his horse right to the Confederate pickets, who had or ders to shcot any and all cavalry com ing down that road. After great yelling he made himself lniown to the guards, and he never stopped till the horse got to the camp: I was presented to his sister, and then I was taken to tho parlor in Richmond and put in something I had never heard of before a glory pitcher. I had great curiosity to know what a glory pitcher svas. Day and night I kept my ears open to try to find out, and on the Fourth of July I did, for they took me out and filled the pitcher with punch and drank General George Washington's health, find I heard them say that when General "Washington died these pitchers wero made of china, with a picture of Gen erally ashington being taken up tojjlory on their "sides. 'Every 22d of "February and Fourth of July they were used for punch. If I had been sound money, I would have known that a sister cf the poet Longfellow, Mrs. Pearce of Port land, Me., had one of these pitchers, but I was of mushroom growth kne-w nothing of traditions and really very lit tle about myself. Well, I remained a prisoner in soli tary confinement in Richmond until evacuation day came. It was Sunday, and heaven seemed to give one grand, glorious smile to the last day of the Confederacy. A smile liko a martyr wears on his dying face, and nature, every tree sad flower, was bursting with green leaf and blossom, struggling to be free, and I thought the tearful eyes of my dear ladies should take com fort and remember that they, too, had been prison bound and now wero free ing themselves. I had grown to love the lady in whose care I had been, she was so pure and brave, and I became unhappy lest some evil should befall her and her lit tle children. I saw her kiss her husband goodby and saw her hand her jewels and valuables to an old slave, who promised to do his best to protect her. In a short time the city was in flames, the water cut off, the gashouse destroy ed, and darkness reigned Tho streets were full of Union soldiers and army followers, and the desolation of that house was beyond anything I can de scribe. Suddenly I heard my friends coming down stairs, and I felt my dear lady's soft white hand pick mo up from the glory jar, smooth me out, and, calling Uncle Harry, a faithful old slave, she said: "Uncle Harry, this shinplaster came from a fight in Williamsburg. Richard gave it to me, and I have kept it all this while. I see they have estab lished a sutler's store across the way. If you aro not afraid, go and see if it will buy me some candles, for if it will we will not be quite so forlorn. " Uncle Harry grabbed me with his big old black hand and said: "God knows, Miss Mary, you always was good, and God gwino to take caro of you and yourn and wo and us. Afeerd? I ain't gwine to come back 'dout dem caudles, Bcnsiu dey hain't got none. " And ho brought back three, and the light they shed was like the glory of God a light in a dark place. She lit one and made a patrol cf the house from garret to cellar, under tho beds and in the closets; would blow it out and in a few hours rcconnoiter again for when they were gone, where would any more come from? But she knew that "unto the upright there ariseth light in tho darkness." and her beautiful faith sustained her. I was in the sutler 'p shop back in the Union lines, and I missed my glory pitcher and all the exciting news I used to heai from the doctor and the generals and my gay young lady. Although fair ex change is no robbery, J. felt jealous and injured. Shortly after this I retired from busi ness a small boy put a mustache on tho face of the statesman who adorns me, a drummer pasted mo on the inside of his desk, and after a brief and event ful career I was sponged off, and I now lie in a cabinet of curiosities, not caring 25 cents whit becomes of mo. Phila delphia Times. The Woman In Black. One of the most familiar characters to be seen dail," about tho city hall and park is a pretty, sweet voiced, gentle mannered little wcraau, apparently about iio years old. She is known by all denizens and frequenters of tho city hall as the Woman In Black. She has arriv ed promptly a littlo after 9 every work ing day for four years. Her husband is employed in tho department of public works, in a neighboring building, and regularly every morning the two togeth er leave their heme in an uptown street. She accompanies him to the elevator in the building where ho is employed, ride3 to the tcp, pees with him to the office door and eccp. him remove his coat and hat. Then she goes to tho city hall, where she remains until noon, when she goes to the door of his office building and accompanies him back to tho city hall, where, either in corridor or jury room, they cat their lunch. After lunch the programme of tho morning is repeat ed, she waiting at his office door until his coat and hat have been removed, when she again returns to the city hall. At 4 o'clock they meet at tho door cf the offico building, and she accompanies him home, .hcro it seems reasonable to conclude that they allow no separa tion to occur. "It is but. one of tho in explicable freaks which distinguish hu man nature," said ono of the city hall officials. "It is hard to understand how a woman can afford in this busy world to spend every day in the week and all day waiting for her husband." New York Tribune. A Judicial Mot. Tho best judicial mot ever recorded is that of Sir George Jessel, tho Into mas ter of the rolls, when sitting with Mr. Justice Bacon. A demoted and enraged suitor who had been unsuccessful threw an egg at him in the corridor of tho conrts whiah narrowly missed tho judge's head. Smilingly Sir George turned round and calmly remarked to tho astonished bystanders, "I think that must have been intended for my brother Bacon." A Mathematician. "You mustn't detain me," said the man who was hurrying down the ave nue. "My time is valuable. " "Do ye reckon thet five minutes of yer timo is worth 25 cents?" asked Meandering Mike, quickening his pace so as to keep in step. "Assuredly." "Well, I was goin:ter give ye a hard luck story thet 'n'd last five minutes ex actly. I've timed it ter run jes' thet long. But cf ye'll gimme the 20 cents change I'll let ye off with one minute, an we can't neither of us feel thet we've been took advantage of." Washington Star. It is estimated by naturalists that there are net less than 100,000 varieties of plants already known and classified The distance from Bombay to Wash ington is 8,548 miles. It is believed by some naturalists that wasps, like bees, establish sentinels at the door of the nest to prevent the en trance of intruders. The peach blossom indicates submis sion, though why nobody has been able to guess. ' A Valinnt Invalid. Huron county, O., 25 years ago boast ed a resident named Jedediah Cronce, one of those hale invalids who sit all day at south windows, reading while their wives uo tho work. One day Jedediah grew querulous. He had "such a distress" iu his stom ach. Nothing solid or liquid relieved him, but when the hollow eyed wife suggested apple dumplings he folded his hands resignedly and sighed On the strength of that sigh Mrs. Cronce prepared 12 large and luscious dump lings. With much complaint the suffering 4 farmer drew his chair to the board, tuck ed a napkin under his chin, and after a fault finding grace attacked the dumplings, brown and steaming. One by one they disappeared, with hungry eyed little Sammy looking on, too wise to ask for a portion. As he saw the eleventh sent below to mitigate his sire's "distress" he slipped from his chair and sidled around the table to where the invalid sat. "Papa," ho pleaded, "can't we have jus' one apple dumpliu?" The old man waved his hand "Run away, child. Papa's sick." Chicago Record Department Stores. Department stores have advanced for tunately in both the quality of the goods sold and tho amount of the sales. The business of several amounts annually to from .$7,500,000 to $15,000,000, and this, roughly speaking, is as much mon ey as many a prosperous railway 1,000 miles long handles in a twelvemontli. One great store in the west carries a rent account of almost if not quite 400, 000 a year. The mail crder business of another amounts to $900,000 a year. A number of Louses send to tho homes of their customers more than 20,000 pack ages in a single day, while perhaps as many more are carried away in the hands of the shoppers. In the busiest days quite 100,000 persons have visited each of the very largest stores of Nev York, Philadelphia, Chicago and Brook lyn. Ono firm spends more than $o00, 000 a year for advertising, and single departments in several stores sell more than $2,000,000 worth of goods annual ly. Samuel Hopkins Adams in Scrib ner's. Occupation end Health. "Thero are occupations which men do not shun as they do work in a- gas house, " said a life insurance examiner, "which we consider far more hazardous. You will be more likely to find old men in a gashouse men who have worked in the business for many years than in a brewery. In tho brewery men look robust and strong. They have every ex ternal appearance of health and would be looked upon by the average man as 'good risks. ' But the fact that one rare ly sees an old man in the business shows that tho calling, coupled with the hab its which it creates, has a tendency to shorten life. Tho iron worker is anoth er who is a less good risk than tho gas man if all other things are equal. The fine particles of metal which find their way into his breathing apparatus have an effect on his lungs, and strong men in that calling frequently develop pul monary consumption. In fact, all trades and occupations which require working in dust are detrimental to loagevity and will kill much more quickly than work ing in awll regulated gashouse." New York Tribune. Pictures of Kousscau and Hume. "The portraits of Rousseau and Hume are historic. Beth were executed iu 17G6, tho year of that absurd misunder standing between the self tormentor and his guide, philosopher and friend, over which so much eighteenth century ink was spilled. They must have been paint ed shortly after the arrival of tho pair in England iu January, and that of Rousseau was apparently interrupted by the quarrel, since it is asserted that he refused to continue the sittings, and the portrait, iu which ho wears the American dress he had recently adopt ed, is supposed to have been finished from such furtive glimpses of him as could be obtained in public. That of Hume exhibits the historian in his charge d'affaires period, when, sis the apostle of deism, ho divided with whist the admiration of the Parisians. Aus tin Dobsou's "Eighteenth Century Vi gnettes." After the Garden Party. After the guests bidden to a garden party given by tho queen have with drawn, the police, with a striT of men, go carefully through the grounds exam ining the interior of tho marquees and scrutinizing licoks and retreats in search of lost jewels. Everything that is found in the way of trinkets, sticks, lace hand kerchiefs and love letters is forwarded to the lord chamberlain's office. Phil adelphia Ledger. The Care of Clothing. "Always shake, brush and fold your clothes at night," is Walter Germain's advice to men in The Ladies' Home Jour nal. "Never hang coats fold them. Trousers should be folded by putting the two waist buttons together and preserv ing the crease. Fold lengthwise and then double. Coats are folded length wise, the sleeves in half first, then each half of the coat to the sleeve line, then the two remaining halves, the lining be ing on the outside. Waistcoats are fold ed in half, lengthwise. Never lounge about your room in your clothes noth ing destroys them s0 much. When you come in during tho aftemcon or at night, remove your coat, waistcoat and trousers and put on a bath rote if yon are to remain in your room for any time. Always have an old coat at the office. " The Largest British Painting. The largest picture ever painted by a British artist is said to be Sir James Thornhill's work on the ceiling of the great hall at Greenwich hospital, rep resenting the founders, William HI and Queen Mary, surrounded by the attri butes of national prosperity, which meas ured 112 feet by 56 feet. The largest picture ever painted and exhibited as such by a British artist is one by John Martin, the subject being "Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still " It was hung on the walls of the academy in 181G. Another lorge portrait group picture, painted by Phillips, containing over 600 portraits, measured 26 feet by 17 feet Strand Magazine. Tree Planting In Sweden. About 600,000 trees are annually planted by Swedish school children un der the guidance of their teachers. Pittsburg Dispatch. Emeraoti'n Wit and Humor. There never could be born a man es sentially great who did not liko to laugh or to make at least others smile. Even Schopenhauer and Nietzcho could crack their grim jokes. There is nothing in compatible in that drollery which Em erson at times indulged in. Iu The Fo rum llr. Henry D. Lloyd thus descants on Emerson: A pleasantry recorded of him is a story ho told of a friend who carried a horsechestnut to protect him from rheu matism. "He has never had it since he began to carry it, and indeed it ap pears to have had a retrospective opera tion, for he never had it before." An English friend tells me that while with Mr. Emerson in his garden discussing some problem of life Mrs. Emerson call ed to him fa" "ome wood Emerson went to the wood pile. When he came back, he said, with his wonderful smile, "Now, we will return to tho real things." When Oliver Wendell Holmes asked him if he had any manual dexterity, he illustrated his want of it by replying that he could split a shingle four ways with one nail, "which," says Dr. Holmes, "as tho intention is not to split it at all in fastening it to the roof, I took to be a confession of inaptitude for mechanical work " In later years he lost his memory of the names of things. Once he wanted his umbrella, but could not recall the word But he got around the difficulty. "I can't toll its name, but I can tell its history. Strangers take it away." His daughter ran in one day to ask who should be in vited to join their berry picking party. "All the children," he said, "from 6 years to GO." St. Nicholas Day In Holland. In some houses tho little children who go to bed early put out their shoes and stockings and find them crammed with presents in the moniing. Others have to play a game of hide and seek for their presents, which the father and mother have hidden in the most myste rious manner and in out of the way places. In a great many families, how ever, Dec. 5 is celebrated by sending and receiving parcels in tho evening of that day. "Parcels" must be taken here in a very broad sense. The servant who has to answer tho tell is obliged to bring iu whatever is put into her hands or before her and consequently is often heard to giggle behind the dcor of the room in which tho whole family is as sembled. Then in walks nay, is put a most extraordinary looking gentleman or an old lady or a queer animal, con sisting chiefly of wcod or of linen filled with sawdust, in which the present, sometimes one of very small dimen sions, lies concealed Funny little rhymes often accompany the parcels, and generally much good natured teas ing is contained iu tho poetical lines. The patience of some peoplo is often sorely tried by a parcel consisting of a big ball of very fine cotton, which has to be unwound to get at the present. Annie G. Kuiper in St. Nicholas. Emerson3 "American Scholar." Emerson has left behind him nothing stronger than this address, "The Amer ican Scholar. " It was the first applica tion of his views to the events of his day, written and delivered iu the heat of early manhood while his extraordi nary powers were at .their height. It moves with a logical progression, of which he rcon lost the habit. The sub ject of it the scholar's relation to the world was the passion of his life. The body of his belief is to be found in this address, aud in any adequate account of him the whole address ought to be given. Dr. Holmes called this speech of Em erson's onr "Intellectual Declaration of Independence," and indeed it was. "The Phi Beta Kappa speech," says Mr. Lowell, "was an event without any former parallel in our literary annals, a scene always to bo treasured in the memory for its piclnresqueness and its inspiration. What crowded and breath less aisles, what windows clustering with eager head, what enthusiasm of approval, w'at grim silence of foregone dissent!" John Jay Chapman in At lantic. The Saltan nnd Electricity. The sultan seems to have a curious mingled liking for and a dread of elec tricity. Mr. Burgiu tells in CasselPs Magazine that some years ago he caused to be erected iu the grounds of Yildiz kiosk a small theater lighted by incan descent lamps. One day he saw the workmen trenching the walls in order to buiy tho wires leading from tho en gine room to the theater and stopped the work, insisting that the wires should all be placed in sight on poles, as ho feared that otherwise they might be used to produce an explosion. He had also an electrical boat on a small lake, mi English dogcart driven by elec tricity, and a tiny electrical tramcar, upholstered in blue satin and gold, which runs in a circle. It is said that ho has never yet ventured inside any of these vehicles, and also that he has for bidden tho use of telephones in Con stantinople Hst murderous conspiracies should be devised over the wires. Light and Love. The women have a quarrel with Edi son. They won't let him invent an illu minated night keyhole. They don't want their husbands, when coming home late from their clubs, to slip in and up stairs and catch them asleep when they want to make believe they have been sitting up wait ing for them all night. Exchange. The two principal German fortresses on the Baltic sea are at Kouigsberg and Dautzic. Central Germany has three first class fortresses Spandau, Magdeburg and Kustrin; on the French frontier, Metz and Strasburg, and on the Belgian frontier, Cologne and Cobleuz. 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There were hundreds of such towns in couth Florida, in which thousands of lots were sold in good faith and in the honest belief that they would soon be tho centers of wealth and popu lation. Others were manned out for the express purpose of catehinsr "suckers." Some hunters found a "city" in a cy press swamp 60 miles from a railroad and a day's journey from anv human abode. There it was, laid out and staked off in streets and lots and squares and public parks. They killed a bear in the Primitive Baptist church lot. Lippin- cott' s. At a Bookstore. Customer But this book bears a date prior to the invention of nrintinsr. Dealer in Rare Volumes So much tho more valuable, sir so much the more valuable. It is proof of its an tiquity. It was only after tho invention of printing, you know, that the counter feiting of old volumes was possible. Boston Transcript. Swelling. "When Mrs. Rawton lived in Paw paw, she wouldn't wear a gown unless it was made in Chicago. 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