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Ik { RELIABLE GUIDE BOOK. 5
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H | N there , what to take along , ( either by \
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K / Mines , the Ravines , tells where every P
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We have a NEVER failing cure for
Piles of every description. Tried thou
sands of times and never known to iJ.\ir , .
So confident are we of the merits of the
great Indian Pile Reined- , that we will
send free to any reader of The Tribune
a liberal sized trial package , only asking
the small remittance of ten cents to cover
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fer longer but send at once for a trial of
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Write name and postoffice address plain
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PROPRIETOR OF THE
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BUS , BAGGAGE AND EXPRESS.
JSirDnly furniture van in the
city. Also have a first class house
moving outfit. Leave orders for
bus calls at Commercial hotel or
at office opposite the depot.
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IPtilUyffl UcCOOZ , 1IEBSA2ZA. ail Mj
LINCOLN , DENVER ,
OMAHA , HELENA ,
CHICAGO. BUTTE ,
ST. JOSEPH , PORTLAND ,
KANSAS CITY , SALT LAKE CITY ,
ST. LOUIS and ai.l SAN FRANCISCO ,
POINTS EAST AND AND ALL POINTS
SOUTH. WEST.
TRAINS' LEAVE AS FOLLOWS :
CENTRAL TIME.
No. 2. Vestibuled Express , daily ,
Lincoln , Omaha , St. Joe ,
Kansas City , St. LouisChi-
cage , and all points south
and east 5:55 A.M.
No. 4. Local Express , daily , Lin
coln , Omaha , Chicago , and
all points east 9:00 P. M.
N0.I48. Freight , daily , ex. Sunday ,
Hastings and intermediate
stations 5:00 A. M.
No. 76. Freight , daily , Oxford , Hol-
drege , Hastings 6:45 A.M.
No. 80. Freightdaily , Hastings and
intermediate stations 7:00 A. M
No. 64. Freight , daily , Oxford , Red
Cloud , St. Joe , Kansas City 4:30 a. m.
MOUNTAIN TIME.
No. 5. Local Express , daily , Den
ver and intermediate sta
tions 8:15 P. M.
No. 3. Vestibuled Express , daily ,
Denver and all points in
Colo.Utah and California , 11:40 P.M.
N0.149. Freight , daily , ex. Sunday ,
Akron and intermediate sta
tions 6:00 A. M.
No. 77. Freight , dailyStrattonBen-
kelman , Haigler , Wrayand
Akron 1:30 P. M.
No. 63. Freight , daiyStratton,15en- !
kelman , Haigler , Wrayand
Akron 4:10 P. M.
N0.175. Accommodation , Mondays ,
Wednesdays and Fridays ,
Imperial and intermediate
stations 7:00 A. M.
Sleeping , dining and reclining chair cars
( seats free ) on through trains. Tickets sold
and baggage checked to any point in the
United States or Canada.
For information , time tables , maps and
tickets , call on or write C. E. Magner , Agent ,
MeCook , Nebraska , or J. Francis , General
Passenger Agent , Omaha , Nebraska.
RAILROAD NEWS ITEMS.
The pay-checks came on No. 4 , last
night.
' Brakemen L.M. Best and O.V. Woods
are on the sick list.
Chief Engineer Holmes Blair was out
from Lincoln , Tuesday.
A brother of Mrs. J. E. Robison is a
student at the Wauneta station.
The Burlington has adopted a new cap
for station agents and baggagemen.
Will Brown went clown to Oxford on
Tuesday evening , to work for the com
pany.
pany.W.
W. E. DeLong was up from the Has-
tings-Oberlin branch , Tuesday , to have
his hand dressed.
Auditor E. O. Brandt was out from
Omaha , Monday , on business of the
auditing department.
Conductor T. W. Benjamin , late of the
Hastings-Oberlin run , has resigned , and
is running out of Grand Junction , Colo.
Conductor A. P. Bonnet has com
menced the erection of a kitchen and n
bedroom addition to his home on east
Dakota street.
Conductor H. C. Brown was on Con
ductor Frank Quigley's run while he was
out with the bridge special on the Has
tings-Oberlin branch.
Supt. A. Campbell , Assist. Supt. D. F.
McFarland , Asst. Supt. EF. . Highland ,
and Master Mechanic R. B. Archibald
attended the meeting of Burlington Su
perintendents and Master Mechanics , at
Omaha , first of this week.
Wednesday afternoon , while helping
to shift a car by hand in the yard here ,
Arthur Wood sustained a painful injury
of his right foot. While pushing one
car , another car ran onto his foot , which
was quite badry mashed , but no bones
were broken.
Conductor Mose Carmony returned
home on No. 3 , Wednesday night , from
their month's visit in Southeastern Indi
ana. He gets way-car No. 34. He re
ports crops better here than there , and
the crop prospects better for next season
here than there.
Fire destro\-ed fifteen or twenty bales
of hay for Gus Budig , on Thursday after
noon. It is not known how the fire orig
inated , but children are supposed to have
had a hand in the preliminaries. No
alarm was turned in , and no further dam
age was occasioned. '
Road master Sam Rogers is always on
the lookout for men to work on the gravel
train and in the gravel pit up near Wau
neta. But he seems to have a hard job
to keep them when he gets them. He
has already shipped in about three hun
dred from Denver , but has only been
able to keep of that large number about
thirty. A good many of them seem to
be on the tough order , and they strike
the first freight the- can to get away
from work.
KLONDIKE !
What does it cost to get there ? When
and how should one go ? What should
one lake ? Where are the mines ? How
much have they produced ? Is work
plentiful ? What wages are paid ? Is
living expensive ? What are one's chances
of " strike ? "
"making a 4-25-98
Complete and satisfactory replies to
the above questions will be found in the
Burlington Route's " Klondike Folder , "
now ready for distribution. Sixteen
pages of practical information and an '
np-to-date map of Alaska and the Klon
dike. Free at Burlington Route ticket
offices.or sent on receipt of four cents in
stamps by J. Francis , Gen'l Passenger
Agent , Burlington Route , Omaha. Neb.
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AN ANCIENT MEXICAN CITY.
fc Cnrlona legend Some Relics of Empero *
Maximilian.
Querotaro was a town before the
Ipanish conquest and was made a city
in 1GG5. A legend of Quereturo is that
n Otornito chief , Fernando do Tapia
by name , undertook to convert the city
to Christianity in a way that seems
novel to ns , but was common enough to
hia day. He came from Tula with a
challenge to the people of Queretaro tea
a fair stand up fight. If ho won , the
people surviving were to bo baptized.
The challenge was accepted , but while
the fight was in progress u dark cloud
came up and the blessed Santiago wa
eeon in the heavens with a fiery cross ,
whereupon the people of Qneretaro gave ,
up and were baptized. They set up a
stone cross to commeinorato the event
on the site of the present church of
Santa Cruz. There is scarcely a church
in Mexico which has not a legend of
this kind attached to it. The town is
identified with the history of Mexico.
Here the treaty of peace between the
United States and Mexico was ratified
in 1848 , and here Maximilian made his
last stand in 18G7 , was obliged to sur
render and was shot. Everybody is in
terested in Maximilian mainly on ac
count of poor Carlotta. Maximilian was
executed on the Cerro de las Oampanas
and with him Generals Miramiu and
Media. The place is marked by three
little crosses of stone. The two gen
erals were killed at the first volley , bul
Maximilian , who had requested that he
be shot through the body that his
mother might look upon his face , was
only wounded , and a second firing was
required to kill him. '
The emperor had been led to believe
that Carlotta was dead. She became in
sane from grief and was kept in an asy
lum for many years , but she still lives
and still mourns for her dead husband
and the loss of her throne. The United
States government protested against the
execution of Maximilian , but in vain ,
Juarez refusing to spare him.
There are all kinds of relics of Maxi
milian in Mexico the Yturbide thea
ter , where he was tried and condemned ,
the table on which the death warrant
was signed , the wooden stools on which
the prisoners sat during the trial and
the coffin of Maximilian , whose remains
were subsequently sent to Austria and
buried at Miramar. I confess I do not
share in any sentiment of pity for Max
imilian , who was an adventurer with
out a shadow of right in Mexico and
took the chances of war. Ho was , it is
true , a victim of Napoleon and of his
own ambition and was very scurvily
treated by those who had induced him
to set up his throne in Mexico , but to
have released him would have been to
establish a claimant for the Mexican
throne. It was better that this man
should die than that thousands should
bo sacrificed in the wars ho would sure
ly have fomented if he had been allowed
to live. Philadelphia Ledger
WAGES IN CHINA.
In Spite of Their IiOwnesa the Celestial ?
Wax Fat.
How a Chinese workman manages to
support his family and remain sleek and
fafc on the wages he receives is an ever
lasting mystery to the European and
American. The Chinese arc a people of
marvelous economy. They will support
a family , furnishing food , clothes , shel
ter , from a small garden which they
call a farm , bnt which in America
would not more than furnish an Amer
ican family with early vegetables.
In cities the laboring men receive the
merest pittance. In Canton , where la
borers are better paid than in other parts
of China , skilled workmen live on these
wages : Shoemaker , $4 per month ;
blacksmith , § 5 per month ; fine ivory
carver , § 12 per month ; tailor , § 5 per
month ; fine embroiderer , § 4 per month ;
designer , $ (5 per month ; silversmith , § 8
per mouth.
The Chinese are superstitious , and
the workmen support , in addition to
their temples and pagodas and priests ,
which receive more in proportion than
the churcLcs of Europe and America ,
idol makers , geomancers , fortune tell
ers , physiognomists , soothsayers , astrol
ogers and interpreters of dreams , who
exist by thousands and coin all the mon
ey they want. Another thing which
makes money for a certain class is the
Chinese custom of burning great quan
tities of "spirit money , " imitation
coins , which are supposed to be legal
tender for dead relatives. One city
alone employs 100,000 people in making
this cash for ghosts.
Peculiar superstitions embarrass the
workman. For instance , carpenters and
builders have to exercise great care in
selecting a ridgepole for a house. It
must have neither cracks nor knots , and
in it a small hole must be made and
filled with gold leaf and the whole
beam painted red. This insures good
luck for the owner of the house.
The tea trade employs thousands of
persons. The laborers receive from $2
to § 10 per month , according to their
grade of work. Chicago News.
Fishy.
A man who resides on the east side
relates an incident which may be true ,
but it sounds fishy.
His boy caught a large sucker a cou
ple of years ago , and since that rime he
has been experimenting with his finny
pet somewhat. The fish has been kept
out of the water so much that it gradu
ally became accustomed to it , and fre
quently flopped out of the water itself
and followed the boy around. Finally
the boy placed it in a pen and gradual
ly reduced its bathing periods until it
became acclimatized , abandoning en
tirely its native element. It would fol
low the boy around like a dog , and one
day he started over to town across the
swinging bridge with the pet fish flop
ping along after him. But alas for boy
ish hopes 1 The fish made a slight miscue - '
cue and flopped overboard into the creek
and drowned before the boy could res-
sue him. Punxsutawney Spirit
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