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A VIOLET IN HER HAIR, A Tiaie-t in Tier lovely hair, JLTsBc-"sptm her bcscnn fair! Bst. ck. ier eyes A lovelier violet disclose! Asd ker ripe lips the sweetest roe Tkat's 'aeath. tke .sides. A Inte 'beneath icr grasifaL hand &eaihes exesIc forth, a ssr r-nrv, tt. But stin her tengue Tarxicker music -gTtg to Tsirth Thsa all the minstrel pcrwer on earth Can give to song. And thas she moves in. tender light The psrestrar. where aRis hrishs, Serene and sweet. And sheds a graceful Influence round That hallows e'en the -very ground Beseaih her feet. 2Terr Tcrk. Ledger. MEED AT EAKDOM. Eardesty had teen called davm to the town of Ms birth, "bj-the the real estate agent into -whose hands he had intrusted the care of the proper ty he had recexvedfrom. Ms fathers es tate. Estate is a Mg and general "word and many people use it in a grandilo quent manner in speaking of a corner lot in a marshy suburb. In Hordes fy's case it meant a little tetter than that, but it "vras no "vast Anneke Jans tract by any means. He had not "been in that little town far 17 years indeed since the days of his school attendance. He recalled how on one summer afternoon he hadTanlt ed out of a window just ahead of the schoolmaster's hickory, how when wal loped for it at home lie had left the house in anger, and iow that night he had boarded a freight train bound Cin crnnntiward nnrf had never gone back; Often he .had thought of the old place and when the" days of his middle age came they found Mm wondering and wondering and dreaming at odd times about Milt Woodard's cooper shop and the other thi-gs but he did not go back. After the death, of his father and when he had come into the old family residence he seemed to wonder and dream all the more. Once he had met the father of Ikjras Alderman at a quad rennial session of the Methodist confer ence and had talked to him of Doras, who had been a schoolmate but in gen eral be bad had little communication other than that witnessed in the letters which, passed between himself and the real estate agent. Imtw, on this even ing; 17 years afterward, he trundled into town in a sleeper and thought smilingly of the day when he had rolled out on a ben car. The agent had writ ten him to the effect that somebody bad offered a famous sum for the old Har desty homestead, purposing to cut it up into an addition to the city. The agents a boyhood friend, had suggested that Hardesty come down from Chicago to give personal attention to the matter; for by so doing he believed that a few -v thousand dollars more could be realized. Breaming of the old days, Hardesty left the train at the depot. It was a stone and brick depot, he noticed, and not the little frame structure in which he and Tom Coyne bad loafed in the summer of old days. Ee remembered Tom Coyne very readily, and thought with especial amusement and interest upon the episode of the bumblebees. Before reaching the town he had decided that- the very first, thing he would dc would be to go into the little old wood en station and csamine the walls to sea if the initials "D. H-' for David Hardesty, were still there where he hail cut them on the wainscoting, to the fury of Johnny Clark, the station agent. Ho had counted a great deal on the pleasure of this investigation, and it annoyed Mm somewhat to" step off the car and into a spick and trig depot of masonry construction. After the affront cf this evidence cf progress and prosperity bad somewhat worn away he started to walk down the road to the residence of the agent, his old friend. He knew the location of the bouse, far as a boy be had been able to draw a map of the town, showing ev ery residence, outhouse, chicken coop and fence. Somehow, however, hefound the quest abit difficult 2vcw streets ap peared, inviting him to walk down into what bad been green fields, but which were now "additions" and ' 'places, " all built up with trimly painted frame found the object of his search at last and was admitted. His friend, the .agent, who had only partially expected him, did npt know him at first, and in deed Hardesty would have passed the other a thousand times before recogniz ing in. his brown mustache and glessy collar any semblance to the patched and freckled boy who had helped him to rob . . . ... . t i 1. The agent introduced his wife and said ! Hrartt ptpne s uistonc meion patcu. rr TA toW hrrr Ivnt Hardesty would nave aone nocmngoi the. sort,' except for the fact that he had learned from correspondence that his friend had married little Eda Stone, daughter of the sovereign of the melon patch. They talked, after dinner, about business and about the improvement in the city It had been a village in the old days and about the advisability of Hardesty selling his property. "BeaHy," said Hardesty, "I don't know that I care to selL You see, the old homestead has been in the family far generations, and It seems almost a sacrilege to dispose of it. ' "Why, I was born in that house, I used to look over the fence there at the gooseberry bushes in Gallagher's place and wond by the war, are the Gallaghers living there jet?" ' ftOb, no Theymoved away long ago, - and a fine, big,, stone public schcol has "been built there." ' ' " fA stone public school? "Why, Henry, when we were boys, a. one room frame Taouse did us pretty well. Do you remem ber how we used to revile the boys who attended the academy and call them academy rats, because the academy hid two rooms, and consequently two stoves?" "Yes, and they called us 'district rats,' and wc fecght about it," said Henry. "By the way, Dr. Culver lived on the other side, didn't he? Veil, there "5s a .whisky cure institute there now a. big one the third in the state." '"'Vic. ixtmrb TTfn-r?frt-s- started bat to visvthe-prorerty before finally decidia sot to selL He declared that it was hardly worth while, ag he had noinave u5ej Ballard's Snow Liniment -pcesshsffneed faeBaosey, asdic was al ways pleasant to thiakof the old times, oJa. place, gWT the old home. "Wfrea-we get to that cocaer," he add, proaclK) Efeowtiat fee still remem bered things, "we wiR tars awl cross lihp rnrnnitn. -aatxinc by oM Xrs. Xar- vm?s cottage and swinging to the right by Hen Gertie's hothouse. " "Pro. afraid. we can't, "said the agent and friend. "Ten mean to cross the common, don't you, as we used to in making the short cutler the river when we went fishing? 'Welt," as Hardesty nodded in a delighted afarmative, "we cant do it, f cr it is all built up new. Sirs. Marvin's cottage site is taken up by the residence of the mayor, and Hen Gertie's home is now his home no lon ger, but is a three story hotel. Ton see the town has been progre?sfrTg: in 17 years."' Hardesty looked at his friend in won der and not altogether in pleasure. "On the way," he said, "1 should like to pass the old one room schcol where ioEQenwood used to teach, and cut of the window of which I leaped 17 years ago. Is is down this way, isn't itr ' 1 'It has been moved back in the lot, and a big grocery has been built on the front the playground, you know, where we used to play foot and a half and sail ors' Bombay. The old school has been converted into a stable for the horses of thf TnfiTT who runs the grocery. We abandoned it as a school ten years ago and erected a pressed brick structure down in the next bTock. "We have been progressing materially. " "You don't mean to tell me the old school is used as a stable?" cried Har desty. "And that playground gontr too? Why, the happiest moments cf my life and yours were passed there listening to halfwitted Billy MendenaTI imitating bird songs and skinning the cat on the horizontal bar, which we bought by a popular subscription of old iron and rags." "Yes, it was in the way of improve ment." As they talked they walked. Hardesty hardly knew himself for the changes in the old town the dear old town back to which he had looked so fondly. Off there in Chicago he had been in the habit of passing opinion on men and saying! "Ah, you poor, hustling, de luded mortals, you are entirely different from Squire Lo Stone and Ott Templar and the other quiet, tranquil souls in that other town where my old home is. I am glad I have that dear place. It will be like an anchorage to me in this stormy sea.' And now, and now why, just think of itl The old school a stable! "Henry," he frnalTyremarked, "there- is just one thing I seriously want to and must see. There used to be a bigcotton weed tree over on the river bank you remember it where I carved my name one day my name and that of a gixL I'm married now, but, do you know, I'd like to see that old tree and see if the initials are there yet. The girl was Ida Jordan. I suppose, of course, she has 12 children and" 'She's dead, Dave died two years after you left. And the tree has been cut down to give wav to a lumber yard and" iiardesty interrupted him. "Say," he cried, "you: sail that stmT of mine far what you can get. I don't want to see it again. Your town is too prosperous for me. There's only one thing naore I want to know. I want to lick the man who cut down ihat tree. "Who is he? "Where can he be found?" "It was on my iasd, and I cut It down," said his friend, the agent. Chicago Record. Our Dear English Cousins. Somebody has been informing the London Times that "American children are trained in their higher schools to exercise the ritual of 'saluting the nag' in military style, and that their mar tial ardor is by this and other means eo blown into Same that when these young persons leave their schools they form themselves into societies and take a vow to avenge with their blood any in sult to their country's nag." This scmewhat vivid description has excited the horror of another reader of the Thunderer, and he leaps to a conclusion in the following amusing and highly characteristic style: "Apparently your correspondent uses the expression 'young person' in the technical sense of a fe male creature somewhere between a girl and a woman. Dees he really desire that young females of this kind should in England form themselves into societies to avenge with their blood any insuis to the union jack in "Venezuela or else where? Seriously, I think that the American example in this, as in same other things, is to be avoided as degen erate rather than followed. Surely our ancestors managed to conquer at Cressy and Poictiers and Agincourt, at Blen heim and Trafalgar and "Waterloo, with out all this absurd civilian ritual on the part of schoolgirls, this religious war ship, or rather idolatry, of the personi fied country under the symbol of a flag, and these silly vows by young Hanni- &als in petticoats. If the people of the L 1121611 States la reaiiy DegTlining IU worship itself as an abstract nnity, it is a sure sigj that it is beginning to aban don the only true worship, and to retro grade to mere eivic paganism, " Faithful to Sid Captain. That was a loyal if not very gentle answer once made by a private soldiei to Frederick the Great of Prussia, as the story is told in Harper's Bound Ta ble: During a campaign in Silesia the king made it his habit to stroll through his camp in disguise at night, to came into closer relations with his soldiers. One night he was stopped by a sentry, but, giving the proper password, was permitted to proceed. Instead of doing so, however, he endeavored to tempt the sentry into accepting a cigar, Eajv rng that a nfa would solace his long watch. 1t is against the rules, tT said the soldier. "But you have my permission, ' said Frederick. Your permission!'' cried the soldier. "And who are you?" - "I am the king." "The king be hanged!" said the in corruptible sentry. "What would my captain say?" Sellsved of Terrible Pain3. XL E. JTerse, Traveling Salesman, Galvesfamv Texas, says Ballard's Snow Liniment cured me of rheumatism of; three months standing: after use of two ! bottles. J- S. Doan, Danvflle, ill., says 1 for vears and would not be without xfc. J.K. Crouch, Bio, Ills says Ballard's' Snow liniment cured terrible paics in! else would. Every bottle guaranteed. Price 50 cents. Sold by The North. Platte Pharmacy, J. E. Bosh, Mgr. 2 SON3. Hhy dsrz oyes tq mn.j Aifhae, JLamrs of desircJ Ch. fccrr my scd laapa Jjsspa to their firal Sere. noKV if I ux Lesven, Draamias' in. t!iS Heard but tie trhlsper. But tha lest echo, evts, Of one suclr hiss, ATT cf the soul of me Would leap afar. If that called me to thee, Aye, I vrcnld leap afar, A faHras stari lan Cameron ia 25err Tori Triinnc OUR DESERT ISLAM). There was an ciminous rattle upon the handle of the door a rattle needlessly long and suspicious. It conveyed an al together unworthy siur upon the pro ceedings of the inhabitants of the room, rm3 Cynthia laughed with amused resig nation. "It is Charlie," she said. "He al ways comes ia like that." "We must do the same for him," 1 replied, "when he arrives at years oi discretion and becomes engaged." Cynthia's youngest brother stole intc the room rapidly and softly. Keeping bis eyes religiously averted from the sofa by the fireplace, he picked up a book from the table and departed. I offered some casual observation, but he took no notice, clearly thinking it would be injudicious of him to be mixed up in the business at alL 2Ty innocent position, which was two good yards from Cynthia, courted observation, and we both felt a little injured. "I wonder what he expects to seer" 1 said, resuming my seat -upon the sofa. "Augustus in the presence of Cleopatra was not mure careful to see nothing. H it a sense of decorum or a feeling of contempt that inspires his caution?" "Soever mind," answered Cynthia. "Let ns talk about ourselves. Are-yon sure? Are you sure you are quite sure?" This cornmdrum I had heard before, and my answer was stereotyped. I was quite sure, and I pressed her hand to convince her. "And when," she continued "when did you firss, yon know? "Was it at the" Any demonstration that I may have been contemplating was rudely inter rupted by a further agitation of the door. With a promptness bred of some practice I was again in an erect position on the hearth rug, and Cynthia was read ing a bock. It was a manservant with a scuttle of quite unnecessary coal far the fire. He poured on the fuel and brushed the hearth with scrupulous care. The operation seemed to take an enormously longtime. Left once more to our tete-a-tete, Cynthia's impatience of these interludes found words. "I wish we lived on a desert island," she said. "How delightful rtwouid be I" "Indeed it would, " I agreed. "Long yellow sands and blue sea and palm trees and solitude, with nothing to dis turb our conversation. "We could talk together from sunrise to sunset." ""So we could or we could read to gether." f'Or you could sing to me, " I said. ' 1 should want an accompanist," she observed dubiously, "because you can't play the piano." "It would be most Elysian, " I went on. ""We should have our house, ouz books and our music. Far away from any fellow creature we could idle away the sunny summer afternoons together and be totally happy. We would be in visible to even the telescope of the pass ing vessel." Cynthia took up the parable and am plified it, "The world would contain for you one woman and for me one man, and each would be ample company for each other." "Ample I" cried T confidently. We had only been engaged a fortnight. " Ample 1" she maintained with sus picious emphasis, as if conscious that the statement needed repetition to ren " der it convincing "For exercise," I continued, rashly sketching in the details, "we would have a lawn tennis court." "Ton beat me so easily," she sighed. I passed the compliment by and strok ed her delightful hair. A tap resounded on the window pane behind us and made us. jump dreadfully. It was my uncle, a man devoid of proper feeling, tnd I knew he was about to make a Ehouted suggestion of a stroll in the garden, himself being the third, as Thucydides used to put It. So I shook my head firmly, and he waddled off with a despairing wave of his hand which he may have considered humor ous, fori saw him smile as he went. 'How long," asked Cynthia, becom ing pink in the face, "do you think?" And she nodded guiltily toward the window. "I wish I knew," was my answer. "We ought to draw the curtain." "That would only make matters worse. Besides, there is really nothing to be ashamed of. " "Nothing whatever," I said. "Still the island would be lyg painful to the nerves." "You could play cricket on the sands I" cried Cynthia, rendered desper ate by the stings of conscience. "Anyr thing to be rid of these constant dis tractions. "r "I might at Iowtide, "Isaid dubious ly, "but you know I prefer to play with 21 other men." '31 they were nice men," gaid Cynthia blandly, "we might allow them to come. I delight in watching cricket." ".Nice men!" I repeated with suspi cious severity. BecoTfect I was new to the character of a passionate shepherd. "Well, we could take our bicycles, at any rate," said Cynthia drplomarically. "The roads would be exquisite; nohtEs and no thorns in the road." "It would be fatal if we were punctur ed, "I said. "We should want the nice little man from the shop." "So we should, and to clean them." There was a pause, which we em ployed in contemplating the fire "arS fTifnVrng1 of OUT island. "Perhaps it might be better;" Ire marked, "to put the bicycle Tnn-n in an other house about a mile away from ours."' "He might live with the accorrma nik:"' f'And, of course, we shceld require servants." "So they could all live together be hind, the wood that divides our "hrilf of the fttTann from theirs." "With a telephone laid on," I mur raured, but not ironically, though I be gun to iTmrk ourihrn&was becomiBg rather densely populated. "The very thingf cried Cyathia, f- dapping her hands. "Only we should want samecodyto errmrmft it when it got out of order. " "So we should," I agreed. "But per haps we could arrange for a boatload, of technical assistance .to visit ocrislaad each week." The tradesmen: bringing' the gro ceries." "And the postman with the letters." Cynthia hesitated, in doubt for a. mo ment or two. There seemed to be novel and unorthodox particulars creeping into cur vision of insulated, bliss. We both felt it. At length she said: "Do yemknow, 1 am not sure that it would not be more ; heroic of us, mora like Bobinsart Crusoe, to forage far ourselves. Xou could shoot goats." "I could shoot at goats," I corrected. "And no doubt it would amuse both the goats and myself." "And l could cook their flesh, " ob served Cynthia valiantly. "Ton would do It delightfully, " said L "with a few days' practice." "Yes; white you were fighting the savages." "I doubt the advisability of savages," I replied. "The interruption of a toma- hawk flung at us would be worse than one occasioned by a rattle of the door handle." "And, after all," added Cynthf?rr giving up the savages, "there would be no knowing how long they might have been peeping at us from behind the pa -.m trees." "On the whole a civilized desert is land would suit us better." "Is such a thing ever advertised?" asked Cynthia. "With a 99 years' lease. "We might inquire.'' There was silence in the library for a space of 20 seconds.- Then Cynthia said, "Xinety-nine years is rather a long rime." "Yes," I agreed. "If we talk hard the whole time, we shall have said a great deaL" "I fhfnk we might allow 031103.' It relieved me to hear her say so, but I clung to the origrnpl proposition as long as I could. "We might be at home," Isaid, "on Wednesdays.'' "To the officers from the barracks." "And the charming Suss Carrnthers. " "Unless they stopped the night," meditated Cynthia, "I don't see how they could admire the Crown Derby dinner service TJncle Joseph sent us." There was not a suspicion of inter ruprion about, either at the door or at tho window. We heard not so much as. a furtive rustle in the passage, and out distaste for the rest of the world was ebbing away. "With Cynthia's pretty head resting upon my shoulder I some how had the patriotism to feel that England was good enough for even sc absorbed a couple as ourselves. "I am not," she whispered in my ear, "very geod in a boat, youknow- 1 don't always look my test." "There are not many islands attached to the mainland, I cm afraid, " I an swered. Then we looked at each other and laughed aimlessly, but happily. "The island problem," said Cynthia, "ia more difficult not that I do not care for you. tremendc . Jy; still it is more difficult than I thought." "I am devoted to you," was my gal lant answer, "but I am prepared to treat the Robinson Crusoe question like other riddles." "How do you mean?" she asked. "To give it up," I replied. St. James Budget. The Pointed Beards. The Society of the Pointed Beards re cently held its third dinner in New York. The Pointed Beards is one of the most exclusive societies in the city. Ar ticle 2, section 1, of the bylaws says, "2To one shall be eligible unless he have a carefully cultivated beard of natural and personal growth. In good standing and terminating in one symmetrical point half an inch from the apex of the chin, of sufficient evidence to preclude controversy." As far as possible every thing connected with the dinner "har monized with the aims and objects of the society. The menu cards, most of which were either designed or executed by the diners themselves, gave ample evidence of the whisker mania, and even the eelery was served with its foliage trimmed a la Vandyke. There were S3 members present, several of whem are well known artists. Wheelbarrow Instead or Knapsack. Hajor Padrin of the Italian army has invented a very ingenious contrivance which is-designed to supersede the knap sack. He has invented a vehicle to which he has given the name of the cy closac, or the sack on wheels. On this wHL be carried the baggage of two sol diers, and the uprights of the tent will be used to convert it into a sort of wheelbarrow, which the soldier can drag behind bim when ascending or push before bim when descending. The two soldiers will take It turn about to push or draw the cycloeac, and it is contended that this arrangement will not merely enable the troops to march much longer distances, but to fight nmeh better an the field of battle, being relieved of all impediments, which can be left in these light wheelbarrows in the rear. A MUSICAL MONKEY. Also a Trapeze Performer sad. a Kgstei Domesticated. Ik Gotham. Albert Anderson, who lives in Har lem, has a monkey named BiHy. The monkey has a room 10 by 12 which is fitted with all sorts of acrobatic appa ratus likely to be enjoyed by a small but healthy trie climber. Tn one corner of the room is a bed, and in another are two dumbbells made fast with chains, because the monkey throws tbfrigq when its temper is rufded. The monkey is so fond of music that when Albert Anderson, Jr., plays the harmonicon in its hearing, no matter if It be eating or rollicking, the monkey stops, and, keeping time to the musie sways back and forth from its hipe, its eves wide open and its face expressing great joy. Young Albert gave- Billy a mouth organ one day, and Silly scream ed with delight. The monkey put the instrument to its mouth and blew hard A discord followed instead cf the tane which the mcnlrry plainly espected, and it thereupon held the harmonicon at arm's length to leak at. It blew the in strument again and again, each time looking at it as if to make cut what the trouble was. At last BfUytkrew the htexaonlech' across the ream, chattering th grtger. Albert played a waltr on his isstrument and. BHIy grew less excited, bat would set touch a harnMaiexmagain. A week laterrthe boy got a rzrassc box for the monkey. After showing BHIy how; to turn the crank the boy left the box on the floor. The monkey looked at it, turned the box upside down, shook it, and then, taking- hold of the handle, began to turn it slowly. The music csune, and the monkey began to dance, first cm one foot and then on the other, whining with delight. It is only after the removal of the box that Billy can be made to exercise an the bars and swing enough to keep in health Billy does not weigh more ffr?Ti twe pounds, but every grain of those two pounds is full of grit when it comes tc a fight. Sam, the house cat, a big gray brute, scarred in street fights with wan dering tramp cats, got into Billy's room one day, and the monkey's lips curled. The cat locked up at the monkey, which was on a trapeze bar; and licked its chops. Bitty apparently knew what that meant and dropped down partway tc the floor. The cat jumped, but Billy did the giant swing, and the cat missed. Before the cut had got to the floor again BHIy was on It, and in two minutes the cat was leaping over bars and swings. yowling with pain. Sam never visited Billy again, 2tew York Sun. KITCHEN RUN BY CITY. At GreKoble, Xrasses, an Association Serve Good. food, at Cost. Housewives who think the co-operative kitchen is so far in the future that it would be absurd to look forward ta it for relief from dairy drudgery wHL be interested to hear that a kitchen with the same end in view as the co-operative has been in successful oneratian for nearly 50 years. The Association Ali mentaire of Grenoble, France, is a pure ly municipal affair. The city owns it and supplies meals at cost in its own restaurant or delivers them at private homes. Everything at the Association Ali- mentaire is as good as money can buy. The cooks are as clever as any in France, which is saying a great deal. The pro visions are bought rn the best markets and are carefully selected- The service is excellent. The dining rooms are of several grades, according to the furnish ings and the: attendance, so that all tastes may be accommodated. One may dine there for 3 cents on bread and soup and be satisfied or one may pay 12 cents and have a full course dinner. In the best rooms, which are marble floored and decorated with much elegance, there are waiters who lock far tips as natu rally as though they were in the swellest of Parisian cafes. Pure wines, which have been proper ly aged, are served at about 8 cents a liter. There is no financial profit to the city in running this huge restaurant,, which serves same 15,000 meals a day. The charges are based on the cost of the materials used, the employment of help and the amount spent in keeping the utensils, machinery and building in re pair. Tew York Prss. Episcopal Prerogative. The only daughter of the Bight Bev. William Croswell Dcane of Albany is a married woman living in the same town with her episcopal father, ilrs. Gardi ner and her large family of small chil dren crossed the Atlantic on a steamer, where the following remark was over heard by another passenger. Her little son was "caught" in some game of play. "Why," he exclaimed, "I can't be 'itl' My grandfather is a bishop I' " THE HOLD ENGINEER. Ha springs to his post when he hears the tell toL Anil seises tha valves 'which, the engine cen tre!; He looks-at the gitnge; hut, a stranger to fear. Away flies the train trtth. the hold engineer. The nipht Is adTancing, and daTimesaand rain Hide mountain and meadow scream, valley and plain. 2To sound ut the sleet driving wind docahe hear Sat thfnfrs not of danger, the hold engineer. A carve he approaches the speed is the same He glories in thinkin;? his spirit is game I 'Oni on!" ia ah- instant 'tis far to the rear. Tfeil done I" to himself says the bald en gineer. He comes to a lighthouse, hut sees not the light The signal to show that the track is all right. The drawbridge is swinging away from the pier. "Jump, jump, for your Iivest" shouts the bold engineer. A jury next morning examined the ground. The verdict they rendered, "By accident drowa'dV" And one thing they settled, from evidence clear, "27o blame is attached to the bold engineer!" Sew York: Ledger. if Mercury! 3fr. Henry Rath, of 1848 South 9th Street, St- Louis, was given, the usual mercurial treatment for contagious blood poison. He was twice pronounc ed cured, but the disease returned each time, he was seized with rheumatic pains, and red lumps and sores cov ered his body. "Iwasirr a hor rible fix" he says, "and the more treat ment I receiv ed, the worse I seemed to get. A New York specialist said he could cure me, but his treatment did me no rood whatever- I was stiff and full of pains, my left arm was. Hseless so that I was unable; ta do even the lightest work. This was my eonditiori wheal began to take S. S- S., and a few bottles convinced me that I was being benefitted- I contrnned the medicine, send one dozen bottles cured me sound and well. 3y system was under the effects of mercury, and I woald soon have been, a complete wreck "but for S. S. S." S. S. S-. guaranteed purely vegetable) is the only cure for real blood dis sss eases- The mer curial treatment of the doctors al ways does more harm tha good- Beware of mercury! Books on. the disease sad its treat zaent mailed free to any tMress by Swift Specific Cc, Aflrmta, 6a- Beware Ho. First National Bank, SOUTH PLA.TTE, JZCEB, I I Fresk Garden Spring P either in bulk or packages- These seeds come from one or the most relinbie growers in the country and we Gan recommend them as frssh. We have also received our spring stock of - JLBDilT TOOLS. In the Hardware Line we carry a full stock. F. STREITZ Drugs, Medicines, Paints, IP-AXESTTSSS5 WINDOW GLASS, - -p.-m g.-nt. D exits olie kp o tlaeke . Corner of Spruce and Sixth -sts. 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