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MAIN LINE KAHT DEPAItT
No 0 CoutrnlTImo 1027 p m
2 522 AM
12 715 a m
14 2ir
10 725 r M
MAIN MNB WEST DEPAIIT
No 1 Mountain Timo 950 A M
3 1142 P m
5 Arrivos 8S p M
13 1025 AM
15 1217 A M
IMIKBtAL LINE
No 176 arrives MountuinTiino 5KW p m
No 175iloiiartB 710 am
SloopiuR dining a nil roclinttiK chnir cars
seats froo on through trains Tickets sold
and bnKao cliockud to any point in tho United
States or Cannda
For information time tables maps and tick
ets coll on or write UK Foe Agent McCook
Nebraska or L W Wnkoloy General Pufasun
nor Agent Omaha Nebraska
RAILROAD NEWS ITEMS
Tho smokeBtncka have all boon re
placed
Conductor Penrco had the pay car
Thursday
Engine 17 19 ia in for light repairs and
ia now over the pit
Engine 701 ia having her firebox
patched this week
Conductor and Mrs H A Bealo wore
down from Denver Wednesday
C M Scott ia a new round houro
helper Went to work last Friday
Roawell Cutler came in from Denver
first of tho week nnd may remain hero
Jack White night operator at At
lanta was called to McCook last week
J O Colip a fireman who lost out in
the force cut is now in McArthura
boilormakers gang
Switch engine 16G2 is receiving light
repairs and meanwhile a road engine is
doing her yard duty
William Raine arrived last Friday
from Wisconsin and has gone into the
Eurlington service again
FN Berry went down to Hastings
this morning on a short visit to his
father-in-law who is ailing
A L Loshbaugh is on the relief since
last Saturday when he received a pain
ful injury to his left thumb
W S Perry chief of bridges and
buildings west of the river was at
headquarters yesterday between trains
Conductor N D Harbough has mov
ed his family to Oxford and we under
stand that Engineer Woody goes there
Boon Red Cloud C A
Stack covers have been provided each
stall in the roundhouse This cuts off
the draft and retards the cooling off
process of engines brought in from ser
vice
Charley Wesley who worked here
for the B M about two years ago
was accidentally killed at Brush Colo
rado last week Republican City
Granger
HE SOUGHT DEATH
The Unfortunate Napoleon III at tho
Battle of Sedan
Sarah Bernhardt mentions in her me
moirs that Napoleon III had two
horses shot under him at Sedan Some
having thrown doubt on her statement
and denied that the emperor was ever
In personal danger at the time Baron
Verly son of the late colonel of the
Cent Gardes gives what he affirms to
be the authentic account of the unhap
py sovereigns persistent attempts to
court death when he saw that defeat
was unavoidable On Sept 1 1S70
at G oclock in the morning Marshal
MacMahon returning wounded to Se
dan met the emperor riding out to
Bazeilles Napoleon III realized that
the situation was desperate He rode
slowly out depressed and thoughtful
under a hail of shot During an hour
he inspected the positions Bullets
rained on his escort Captain dUende
court was killed a few feet away from
the emperor The latter deliberately
seeking death alighted ordered his es
cort to remain behind an embankment
and walked up to a cemetery on a
height where he stayed for another
hour exposed to fire He mounted
again and rode to another part of the
field General de Courson and Captain
de Trecesson were dangerously wound
ed by his side but not a bullet hit him
The enipeVor at last seemed to despair
of meeting his death as he sought it
and rode back to Sedan at noon In
the town itself shells fell thick and
while the emperor was ridiug with his
escort up the Grand Rue one burst
just in front of him wounded one of
the Cent Gardes and killed the horses
of two aids-de-camp Napoleon III
looked on stolidly understanding per
haps that it was not his fate to die in
action The story that he had two
horses killed under him is therefore
not correct But there is no doubt that
the unfortunate emperor beaten and
ill a pathetic and tragic figure did de
liberately seek death on the field to
escape the disgrace of Sedan which he
foresaw Paris Letter
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Strong faculty the best academic
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I or business A clean and inspiring
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FINED A FRANC
What That Meant to an American Who
Was Living In Paris
When you are fined a franc in Paris
It mcans that you pay 12 francs 73
centimes or Just over half a sovereign
This is the only conclusion to which
one can come after reading the curi
ous experience of an American citizen
who is staying In Paris to complete
the education of his sons lie lives In
fin apartment near the Arc de Tri
oinphe and the other morning one of
his servants committed the impru
dence of shaking a carpet out of the
window after 9 oclock A lynx eyed
constable saw her and Immediately
climbed the stairs rang the bell en
tered the apartment and drew up a
summons against the tenant The
American was called and gave his
name
I did not know it was a breacli of
the law he said But as I have
broken it I must pay How much is
it
You will be fined 1 franc replied
the policeman
There you are answered the
American and he held out the coin
But the agent refused to take it
Later on he remarked as he with
drew you will be summoned before
the justice of the peace
Some days later the delinquent was
invited to appear before the juge de
paix and obeyed the summons lie
was obliged to wait three hours in an
antechamber Then he was admitted
Do you admit -asked the magis
trate having broken the law
I do was the reply
Good You are fined 1 franc
There you are then And the
American again held out the franc
But the magistrate would have none
of it
You will pay the sum later You
will be advised when You may with
draw
The American took his departure
considerably surprised at so many for
malities in connection with a franc
fine A few days later he received a
stamped paper inviting him to pay
first of all 1 franc the amount of his
fine plus 25 centimes the amount of
the deciines plus 11 francs 4S con
times the amount of the costs making
in all a total of 12 francs 73 centimes
The American paid but as he left the
police court he remarked
In America a law which forced a
citizen to pay 12 when he had only
been fined 1 would be considered a
hypocritical and dishonest law And
we would not tolerate it long you
bet London Globe
HE HAD TO PAY
Half a Dollar That the Traveling Man
Hated to Spend
The 50 cents I hated most to spend
said the traveling man went to the
Canadian Pacific railroad I dont mind
paying for things I get but this par
ticular expenditure couldnt be in
dorsed for value received
A number of us got into St John
N B one night just in time to catch
the night train for Boston We got
aboard only to learn that the train
didnt carry a diner Now a long
night ride without dinner isnt a pleas
ant prospect so we besieged the con
ductor
Why dont you start on the Mont
real which pulls out just ahead of
us he said It carries a diner and
we can pick you up at Frederickton
Junction
No danger of your passing us we
asked and he assured us that he
couldnt very well as there was only
one track So we all piled out after
leaving our baggage in our Pullman
berths
It was surely a fine scheme we
thought as we dined at our leisure in
the Montreal train After dinner we
sought the nearest smoking compart
ment in a sleeping car and prepared to
wait in comfort for Frederickton Junc
tion
Then along comes a much uniform
ed official and demands 50 cents each
for the privilege of eating a meal and
having a smoke aboard his train We
explained carefully that we belonged
on the other train had given up the
price for Pullman berths and further
more that we had been sent aboard
this train for the sole purpose of get
ting our dinner Didnt the Canadian
Pacific run both trains we asked
But it was no use We had to pay
Washington Post
Eicmarcks Appetite
Bismarck ihe Iron Chancellor had
an enormous capacity for eating and
drinking lie once told a friend that
the largot number of oysters he ever
ate was 175 He first ordered twenty
fhe then s they were ery good
fifty mere and consuming these deter
mined to eat unthiug etee and ordered
another hiridred to the groat amuse
ment of tloe prceut isrt iv v as
then twenty -six and liad just returned
from England
Citified
One third of the fools in thfc country
think they can beat the lawyer in ex
pounding the law one half think they
can beat the doctor at healing the sick
two thirds of them think they can beat
the minister in preaching the gospel
und all of them know that they can
beat the editor in running the newspa
per London Tit Bits
Shameless
Persons belonging to the higher
walks of life are to be seen promenad
ing in short jackets and chimneypot
hats without the slightest symptom of
awkwardness or shame London Tai
lor and Cutter
Half of our diseases are in our
minds and the other half are in onr
bouses Ernest Seton Thompson
MABEL TALIAFERRO
A Popular Actress and Her Husband
Manager
Mabel Taliaferro who will appear
again in Polly of the Circus in the
autumn has a manager of versatile at
tainments in her husband Frederic
Thompson of Hippodrome and Luna
Park fame Mr and Mrs Thompson
recently returned to New York from
a trip to Washington on their yacht
and while at the capital witnessed the
first performance of William Gillettes
new play That Little Affair at the
Boyds Mr Thompson bought It and
will produce this and several other
new plays in the fall lie has come
Into prominence In the theatrical
world through his success as a pur
veyor of entertainment to visitors to
expositions Ilis Trip to the Moon
on the Pan American Midway at Buf
falo was the parent so to speak of his
Luna Park at Coney Island and he
was the founder of the New York Hip
podrome Now he controls besides
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Luna Park quite a list of amusement
ventures As to his plans for bb
wife Mr Thompson said
Polly of the Circus with Miss
Taliaferro and the entire New York
company will open in Chicago on La
bor day and will then go to Nashville
Tenu for a special engagement ol
three days Nashville will be the only
southern city in which either Miss
Taliaferro or Polly will be seen next
season and the exception is made only
because of my affection for the people
of Nashville which is my home town
About the 1st of December Miss Talia
ferro will leave Polly and return tc
New York Her place in the companj
will be taken by her sister Miss Edith
Taliaferro By that time rehearsal
for the new production of Cinderella
to be offered by Klaw Erlanger and
myself at the New Amsterdam thea
ter will be well under way and my
wife who is to play the title role ir
Cinderella will step directly from one
company to the other Cinderella i
to be offered with elaborate scenic ef
fects in straight dramatic form with
a few musical numbers several of
which will give Miss Taliaferro a
chance to show that she can sing as
well as act I made this new version
of Cinderella myself
THE CASTELLANE BOYS
Three Young Hopefuls Who Are a
Subject of Legal Controversy
The complications of the marriage of
the former Countess de Castellane to
Prince Helie de Sagan are increased
by the attitude of the Count de Cas
tellane regarding the three little Cas
tellane boys Mine Anna Gould when
she obtained her divorce secured their
custody being the innocent and in-
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THE CASTEIiTiAXE BOTS AND THEIR TUTOR
jured party in the suit But the count
is very much incensed by his former
wifes marriage to his cousin the
prince and thinks he sees an opportu
nity to annoy her by interfering with
her possession of the children ou the
ground that Prince Helie is not a prop
er person to have any relationship
with them as guardian
Would Join Him
Ernest Renan the great author and
member of the French academy lived
a life of great simplicity going to bed
with the chickens and arising with the
lark Once a minister of state pressed
Renan to attend a ball he was giving
Renan at first stubbornly refused but
after awhile he said
By the waj when do you go to sup
per
About 5 a m
Very good said Renan Ill get
up half an hour sooner join you and
make it my breakfast
THE WEST POINT RIOT
t Happened Durii the Cndetship of
Jefferso i Davis
Closely conuecte with Benny na
vens was the great cadet riot of Christ
mas 1S2G In the middle of Jefferson
Davis third year Before Christmas it
was rumored through the barracks
that Davis and other southern and
southwestern cadets were going to ex
plain to the other members of the
corps the mysteries of eggnog Cadets
Davis Tilghman and Temple were to
get the necessaries from Bennys hut
It seems that something prevented and
others had to get the materials The
authorities were suspicious and or
dered the inspectors to stay up all
night to keep order This angered the
cadets and the preparations for the
eggnog went on In the dark of the
morning of Dec 25 the invitations
were sent out ISobert E Lee and Jo
seph E Johnston declined J B Ma
gruder Drayton C J Wright and oth
ers accepted Davis w as extending the
invitations when he heard a rumor that
Captain Hitchcock was abroad no
ran back to No 5 north barracks
where the refreshments were collected
called out Put away that grog boys
old Hitcli Is coming and looked up to
find that Hitchcock was already in the
room Davis was sent to his quarters
under arrest fortunately for him for
after some hiiarious noise he went to
sleep and did not get into the riot
which then began The instructors
and officers were chased out of the
halls into their own rooms and there
besieged The cadets obtained arms
and organized the Helvetian league to
protect themselves against the bom
bardiers who they heard were or
dered out to subdue them Davis room
mate Walter B Guion of Mississippi
was the leader of the Helvetians He
secured a pistol and tried to shoot
Captain Hitchcock Some of the offi
cers were badly bruised with stove
wood that the cadets threw at them
After an hour or two the riot wore
out Later nineteen cadets among
them Guion were court martlaled and
dismissed Davis with others was
kept Jong under arrest and given de
merits Professor W L Fleming in
Metropolitan Magazine
NEW ENGLAND WITCHES
A Small Record Compared With That
of Other Countries
Yankees have so long and so loudly
confessed their ancestral sins that the
facts in the case are little known So
much is said about Salem that the exe
cution of witches in Pennsylvania is
overlooked The scant score of persons
hanged for witchcraft in New England
causes more comment than the many
thousands legally burned for that
crime in Europe
In all New England according to
Nathaniel Hawthorne nineteen per
sons were executed as witches One
more was accused of the crime and
for refusal to plead was pressed to
death after the custom of the day
The facts concerning the widespread
belief in witchcraft and the enormous
number of witches killed may be
found in any encyclopedia Haydns
Dictionary of Dates says More
than 100000 perished mostly by the
flames in Germany Chambers En
cyclopedia says In England and Scot
land the witch mania was somewhat
later in setting in than ou the conti
nent but when it did so it was little
if at all less virulent the reformation
notwithstanding The number of
victims in Scotland from first to last
has been estimated at upward of
4000 Dr Sprenger in his Life of
Mohammed computes the entire num
ber of persons who have been burned
as witches during the Christian epoch
at 9000000
Witchcraft persecutions in New Eng
land took place in 1G92 They were all
done in six months In England they
continued till well into the next cen
tury In 1SG3 a reputed wizard was
drowned in a pond at Hedinghani in
Essex Says Chambers It was con
sidered worthy of notice that nearly
all the sixty or seventy pers i
corned in the outrage wore of she n
tradesmen class none of the ar i
rural laborers heig mi ed nj in
affair Springfield Rom1 lira
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make it a rule lie er tn read a e
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period and I am Jwis sre tsat
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talk so I wont read stt a - I
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Hyr Qcccnccs
Bridey My wife is a Mvy gool rook
Wise Jet owl Her mother told mn
she was jit takiig her frst les uu
when you married her Rridey Ex
actly She was gol enough not to
continue her lessons on me Philadel
phia Press
Mixed
Mrs Browne Shes forever com
plaining but I think she merely lacks
stamina Mrs Malaprop Oh no shes
got It at any rate thats what the doc
tor calls her disease She cant sleep
you know Exchange
Willing to Take Chances
The Man Id give anything if you
would kiss me The Maid But the
scientists say that kisses breed dis
ease The Man Oh never mind that
Go ahead and make me an Invalid for
life Philadelphia Inquirer
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C L DeGROFF CO
LET US PROVE TO YOU MR FARMER
t the Big Ms
raised by the Mower and Binder Trust is only to make Ne
braska farmers pay their large ousted fines forced by Kansas
Oklahoma and Texas
G W PREDMORE SONS have Mower Knives
Sections Wearing Plates Clips Pitmans and Pitman Straps
Boxes and Bolts Guards and Guard Plates all kinds and
sizes of Rivets for the McCormick and Deering mowers and
we can soon get them for any other that you may have
We have bought from the same manufacturer for iS
years the same goods and we are selling at the same old price
We are not controlled by any trust combination or associa
tion We buy for cash and sell for cash Cone and hear
our whispering and we will sell you the goods
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