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IF YOU WERE GIVEN A
$5,OO0 HOME
on condition thai you would pay the taxes foe twenty years before the
deed became effective, would you take it? Why, you'd crab at it!
We will do belter than that; we'll give you an Equitable life insur
ance policy which is a safer and moro profitahlo asset than a home
an investment that you yourself can realize on in cash in twenty years;
that your wife and family may havo in full immediately at your death
without further payments. ,
Cu;cw why capitals owr, ,"?re,,f wanes Uiau they
do real estate?
Complete Jiaia ',? you'll write or call.
Without committing myself to any action, I shall bo $i& to havo
you send mo full particulars regarding your new Standard Life Policv
for $ ..of insurance with premiums limited .to a period of
.... . . .years', on the life of a porson years of age.
Name... .
Address.
GRAY & GUTHRIE, General Agents
ALLIANCE, NEB.
CHRISTMAS
is almost here and a photograph is one of
the most acceptable
PRESENTS
you could give a friend or relative.
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The Alliance Art Studio has just finished some
of the tatest styles for you to inspect. Carbon
Black, Green, Sepia and Platinum gives one
all that could be desired in a photograph . . .
We enlarge any photo from original negative for
S1.00
CALL AND SEE US
GRAND
CONCERT AND BALL
AT PHELAN OPERA HOUSE
NewYear
Eve
To be Given by Alliance Band
Ctticwt te Commence at 8 e'ctick, Grand March at 6 o'clock
The Grsml March and Opening Waltz by the Entire Band
DON'T FORGET THE DATE DEC. 31st
Tickets will be on sale at all Business Housos
Price, $1.00
The Home Paper
issue will
prove a -welcome visitor
should head your list of newspaper
WINTER EXCURSIONS
LOW RATES
Winter Tourist Rates: Daily reduced rate excursions
to California, Old Mexico, Southern and Cuban Resorts.
Landseekers Excursions: Advise your friends back
east of the cheap Landseekers Excursions on the first and
third Tuesdays of each month, and help settle up your coun
try. We run personally conducted excursions on the first
and third Tuesdays also to the Big Horn Basin and Yellow
stone Valley and help buyers locate on the new Government
Irrigated Lands. Excursions in charge of D. Clem Deaver,
General Agent, Landseekers Information Bureau, Omaha.
Tell vour old home friends about this good chance to own an
irrigated farm watered by Uncle Sam, the greatest irrigator
the world has eer known.
II
Datb.
. 1908.
Gives you the reading matter in
which you havo the greatest in
terest the home news. Its every
to every member of the family. It
and periodical subscriptions,
F. D. CAMPBELL, Agt,
Alliance, Neb.
L. W. WALELY, G. P. A., Omaha
HEMINGFORD
I'ostmuatcMV. F, tynlkcr, BJitor.
Amos Danansky went (0 Alliance Tues
day p.m.
C. H, Hubbcll was in from Sioux coun
ty Monday.
a we
Leo Roland went to David City flnday J
lor a suun visu
Miss Dertha Par'
.jm Spent SJ'.'arday ad
Sunday in
.UllauCei
G, . West Went to Kentucky Tuesday
toVdnlndenntWUVay.
Miss HeYnBr Naeland spent Thanksgiv
ing ftt the Wildy home.
County Superintendent Phillips came
up from Alliance Monday.
Mrs. Rolla Johnson is able to be around
again after her recent illness.
Ira Scribner was a business visitor in
Alliance the first of the week.
Frank and Sylvine Potmesil spent Sun
day with friends in the country.
Albert Uedgecock and son, Ole, return
ed Thursday from Boulder, Colo.
Brown Chnrch is back in town after a
two weeks sojourn in Sioux county.
Mr. and Mrs. B. U, Shepherd are en
joying Sioux county life at present,
L. W. Neelick relumed Tuesday from a
visit in the eastern part of the state.
Presiding Elder Julian of Gordon held
services at the M. E. church Sunday.
O. Fosket and family returned Tuesday
from a visit with friends in Chadron.
Rev. Klevjord went to South Dakota to
spend the holiday with his wife and family.
Miss Lettio Carey went to Alliance Sun
day to see her mother, who has been real
sick.
Frank Bresee came up from Alliance
Sunday and went to his home at Rushvllle
Monday.
Miss Byrde Mark, a sister of Mrs. Delia
Mosher, came Tuesday from Bloomfteld
for a visit.
Mrs. Fanny Hollinrake is so far recov
ered from her recent illness as to be in
town again.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Coe went to Hot
Springs Tuesday for the benefit of Mrs.
Coe'a health.
B. F. Gilman and family were up frotu
Alliance to spend Thanksgiving with the
Davison family.
Mrs. A. Price and son, Adam, were
down from Wyoming the last of the week
visiting old time friends.
Mr. and Mrs. J, B. Iverson returned
from their visit Friday and are now keep1
ing house on (he place near Berea.
Misses Mabel and Etta Michael and
Ethel Kinsley and Phil Michael, jr., spent
Thanksgiving with friends in town.
The dinner and bazaar given by the M.
E. ladies in Green's hall Thanksgiving
was a grand success socially and financial
ly. Mayme Miller returned from her two
months stay at Gothenburg last Wednes
day. Her friends are glad to welcome
her back again.
Mrs. Buckman and daughter, Ina, came
up to spend Thanksgiving with relatives.
Mr, Buckman came up Saturday. He
and Mrs. B- returned Sunday to their
home in Alliance.
Will Hollinrake, jr., who has served his
three years enlistment in the Philippines,
was honorably discharged a short time ago
and returned to his home and friends in
Box Butte county Monday.
The infant son of Mr. and Mrs, H. R.
Olds was quite sick the last of the week
with a cold on his lungs. For a time it
was feared he would have pneumonia, but
he is much better at this writing.
The dance given by the orchestra last
Thursday night was a grand success. It
is reported by those who were there as the
finest dance,ever given in this town. There
was a good attendance, good music, good
supper and a general good time.
IVLARSLAND.
lQginejjr Hurst is back after a two
weeks absence at Alliance.
Mr. Hacket was down fiom the home
stead Monday after a'load of lumber.
S. Albro and family pf Alliance were
over Sunday visitors at P. R, Bellamy's.
Miss Emele Jacobson is spending the
week at K. T. Gregg's doing dressmaking.
K. V. Cramer and family and Miss At
tie Snow came up from Alliance to spend
Thanksgiving with L. Snow's.
Pete Allison of O. U. ranch made a
shipment of cattle last week and accom
panied them to South Omaha.
Will Wittewack bought a quarter sec
tion of land adjoining his homestead, pay
ing S6oo.
A large number of turkeys were raflled
off at Thanksgiving time by farmers who
brought them in,
Mrs. H. L. Richardson and son Harley
have gone to Alliance to reside. H. L, is
in the employ of the B. & M. as brake
man. Three joungsters from Alliance, the
O'Connor children, spent several days last
week with Mr. and Mrs. Sweeney, near
this place.
Ceorge Gregg met with quite a serious
accident on Friday bich will lay him out
of work for some lime. While standing
upon a hay rack driving, the wagon drop
ped into a rut pitching him off onto the
ground with sucu force that he was re n
di red uniop-.i io .s for a turn t pan ex
actuation Or Ail. fsun.t the shoulder I
bono broken, which he
George up in a straie1
. &fla a re wed
now resting as wet1
jt wk'et and he Is
under the circn
.. "Kould be expected
'Stances.
Mrs. Fr-
,4,'t fiihn ui9t nniln 11 fnr
Moore was
" " ' .10 Hlehln linmc. tin I rrnv(rit
. numcip-jy t0 relurn t0 her home sevenjj'
ml' cs sout,mest o l(mni
The new school house in the Trussed
district wai completed last Saturday and
it is a dandy. School has been held in a
room of Mr. Trussell's house, but now
occupies the new building.
Mrs. Rev. McLaughlin and little daugh
ter came np from Alliance to spend
Thanksgiving with Mr. McLaughlin at the
Richie hotel, he being engaged in a meet
ing at the Presbyterian church. ,
Mrs. Eldridge Wells of Sioux county
came in recently, accompanied by her sis
ter, who has been visiting her, and togeth
er they took the train for Gordon. Mrs.
Wells expects to be gone about two
months.
C H. Richie and daughters, Mrs. Wal
bridge and Mrs. Richardson, made n trip
to Bdgemont the latter part of the week,
packing and shipping the household ef
fects of Mrs. Walbridge to this place,
where she and the children will reside for
the present.
Will Nicholson was down from the
ranch recently and reports busy times on
the creek, being engaged in feeding 300
steers and getting them ready for market.
They will be shipped some time next
month and no doubt will bring a fancy
price.
A DREADFUL "WEAPON.
The Slashing Sharks' Teeth Club f
th Polynesians.
Clubs were tuo weapons of primitive
and savage man. Ancient specimens
from Mexico arc heavy sticks "grooved
Along the side for the Insertion of
blades of bosldinn that Is, volcanic
glass. The Sioux club Is a flat piece
of wood, curving and widening nwajr
from the grip and terminating In a
6pb.erlc.al head, which In modern times
carries n long spike, while the blades
of several butcher knives are common
ly Inserted along the margin. The na
tlonal museum of the United States
possesses a great variety of these
shocking weapons, designed.' as the
frontiersmen say, to "knock down the
white man and then to brain him and
cut him Into mince meat." The Klugs
mill islanders and other Polynesians
make dreadful slashing weapons by se
curing rows of sharks' teeth along a
haft of wood.
These weapons ury from n few
Inches to sixteen feet in length, and it
has been said that In all the range of
weapons devised by mankind there Is
nothing more blood curdling to behold.
They show how the sword may have
been evolved from the club even by
tribes unacquainted with the use of
metals. African weapons, again, are
exceedingly complicated owing to the
acquaintance of the natives with Iron,
The standard club Is converted into a
sort of tomahawk by the addition of
blades or Into n primitive spear by the
addition of a sharp spud. The plain
clubs in the Africnn area are used
chiefly for throwing.
The small knobbed clubs, or "ker
rles," such as are found among the
Kaffirs and other African tribes, are
generally used as missiles. Whereas
the club proper was soon brought to
perfection among savage tribes and
was long ago abandoned as a weapon
of civilized warrare, the missile typi
fied by the thrown clubs or "kerrles"
Is still being Improved upon in boom
erangs! bows and arrows, crossbows
and. firearms.
BEETHOVEN
AND BUSINESS.
Selling
His Music Was Distasteful to
the Great Composer.
An extremely Interesting article
which has appeared In a German mu
sical and theatrical paper under the
above heading contains the following
statement, says a London exchange:
Beethoven never bargained In the or
dinary way. His fees for u compost
tlou were demanded briefly and In a
decided manner, und he always pointed
out when mentioning a price that he
meant guineas and not sovereigns, or,
rather, their equivalent In Austrian
coin. In 1S01 he wrote to a music firm
at Lulpzlg; "Now the unpalntnhlo busi
ness part Is done with- 1 wish things
could be munaged differently In this
World. There should be only one mu
sic publisher to whom the artist might
take his work, knowing that he might
ask a fee 'according to his require
ments. As It Is, he has to be partly a
tradesman. Good heavens, how dif
ferent and unpalatable this is!" But
this pious wish wns uever fulfilled, and
Beethoven had to remain "half m
tradesmaa" to the end.
As u suggestion of bow dedications
are occasionally made, the following
letter, which Beelhoveu wrote to the
same publisher in ISO'.! from Vienna. Is
Interesting;
"The lady lu question can have a
sonata, and 1 will do my best to carry
out her aesthetic Ideas. The price Is
5 gulneaa (dncateu). and for this she
may retain the sonata for a year as
her private property, but not for pub
ileation. At the end of the year the
sonata becomes my property that Is
to say, 1 have the right to publish It,
and If she thinks It an houor she may
ask to have the work dedicated to
her."
This, from the business point of view
of the lady in question. Is surely a
tempting offer. At least, so the art
patroness of today would think if she
bad a cbaucc of suggesting to a
Beethoven the "aesthetic Idea" for a
sonant, lo retuln !iuh a muMirc in tier
own hands for a twehemomli uii'l
thereafter U.ue it deducted to her
-ndail for 5 guineasl
PUBLIC RIDICULE.
Phe Time When It Served as Punish
ment For Lawbreakers.
It la the problem of nil nges to make
the punishment fit the crime, but they
seem Itf have come nearer Its solution
In Plrthtngenct times than they ever
were after the Introduction of (logging.
When burglary meant the total ruin
of the matt who kept his whole fortune-
In his house the burglar was
hanged. Burin tho same period pub
He ridicule served as a punishment for
most crimes, and the man who sold
bad meat was placed in tho pillory and
his bad meat burned to windward of
him; the vintner who sold bad wine
was forced to drink some of it and the
rest wns poured over his head; for
moro serious offenses the criminal had
to walk along Chcnpslde bareheaded,
dressed only In a shirt and carrying a
wax taper, escorted by the mayor's
acrgoants.
The result was that law and order
were maintained far better than when
men became brutalized by the horrible
floggings of Georgian times.
Punishments became worse with re
ligious persecutions, and after the ref
ormation the pillory, wltb Its terrible
accompaniment of slit ears, whippings,
etc., became popular, to say nothing of
torturing, burning at the stake, and so
on. At St Thomas' hospital one of
the sisters, ''for a grave offense, con
trarle to ye lawe of God and according
to the proffe of threo wytnesses," was
ordered to "be punished and have xil
strypes well laid on."
But all this, bad as it was, was less
demoralizing than tho terrible crimi
nal code of Georgo II.'s reign, when
there were forty-eight crimes punish
able by death and forty punishable
by whipping, transportation or pil
lory. Flogging for mere vagrancy be
gan with Henry VIII., and as late
as 1804 six women were publicly whip
ped at Gloucester for this unavoidable
offense. And never did public morali
ty sink so low.
In those good old days wo flogged
our sallormcn "to encourage the oth
ers," and there were many trussed at
tho triangles who woufd now bo sim
ply admonished. A pleasnnt form of
punishment was "flogging through the
fleet." It was given to the Ignorant
sallormau who struck n superior offi
cer. And when he had been carried
from one ship to another and flogged
in each he survived If he was unfor
tunatefor six months. The lucky
man died accidentally. London Chronicle.
CONFEDERATE FLAGS.
The Stars, and Bars and Then the Red
Battleflag.
The first Confederate flag was the
stars and bars, a blue field and three
stripes, one white and two red, and
on the blue field seven white stars lu
a circle, a star for each state that np
to that time had seceded. In battle,
however, it was seen that this banner
bore altogether too close a resemblance
to the stars and stripes, and thus
there came into use the Confederate
battleflag, the origin of which seems
to have been as follows:
This is the statement of General
William L. Cabell: "When the Con
federate army commanded by General
Beauregard and the Federal army con
fronted each other at Manassas, it was
seen that the Confederate flag and the
stars and stripes looked at a distance
so much alike that It was hnrd to dls
tlngulNli one from the other. General
Beauregard, thinking that serious mis
takes might be mnde In recognizing
our troops, after the battle of July 18.
at Blackburn Ford, ordered that n
srunll badge should be worn on the left
shoulder by our troops and. as I was
chief quartermaster, ordered me to
purchase a large amount of red flan
nel und to distribute It to each regi
ment" This Confederate battleflag was
adopted In September, 1SG1. and was
designed by Generals Johnston and
Beauregard. Red was Its color, with a
blue St Andrew's cross reaching from
corner to corner and white stars on
tho cross representing, the different
southern states. The women of the
south made these flags by hundreds
out of their red aud bine silk dresses.
Miss Constance Cnry, who afterward
became Mrs. Burton Harrison, thp well
known noyellsf, wns one of the .three
southern girls who made the first three
battleflags. - Magazine "of American
History.
The Man In the Moon.
The dark marking! so conspicuous 011
the moon mid known as the "man In
the moon" are ureat plains, lying at n
muoh lower ret el than the' lalghter
parts, lu till prnluihtllty they are old
sea bottoms, some of tliein having un
dergone upheavals and other changes
since the waior rei rented from them,
others presenting the appearance of
being unchanged since the time when
the waters dried up or were In some
other way removed from them.
His Thirst.
Husband-May, Just send up some
Altered water. Wife Which was it
last ulght. "Detained at the office" or
"A friend at the club?' Ilusbaud
Wby? Wife Because I didn't know
Whether you wanted a tumbler or a
pailful. London Opinion.
Off His Mind.
"Have you forgotteu that X that you
borrowed of mo some lime ago?"
"Ob, no. I still have it In my inlud."
"Well, don't you think this would be
a good time to relieve your mind of
It?"
The sorrow of j cs.it rday Is u noth
lug. ib't ft today Is bearable but that
of tomorrow s gigantic because In
dl'tlict Furjptde
Just Received
AT
Brennan's
DRUG STORE
BEAUTIFUL LIVE OF
IMPORTED
Hand Painted
Chinaware
Haviland
Japanese
and other importations in most
pleasing artistic designs.
n Aiso a line line or
g Cut Glass Ware
.
Call and see the new stock
Q. W. ZOBEL
DRAY LINE
Office at Geo. Darling's Store
Phone 139.
Residence Phone 570.
GEO. W. ZOBEL.
"When you plan your home
remember the importance of
Good Plumbing
I do sanitary work and guar
antee it.
I install Standard bath room
fixtures.
Steam and Hot Water .Heat
ing with modern, up-to-date
Ideal Boilers 'and American
Radiators rjgm? in myjine."
FRED BRENNAN
H. NELSON,
Painting, Paper Hanging
and Kalsomining
Phbne 641 Alliance,
Nebr.
Wm. James,
Exclusive
Dealer in
COAL &
... WOOD
'Plfone Alliance,
ISo, 5. Nebraska.
CONTEST NOTICr.
Alliance, Nebraska, Oetobor, 23. 100s
A stitliclout contest utllduvlt having beon
tiled In this otllce by Fred J. Jinnies, contest
ant, against homcito.ul ntry No. OftS snl ur
tnl No OJKC, mado April S3, liWi. for nw!
section '.'0. township i",, rsius" K!. by Jamen J"
Coleman. Uontestee, In wlileli U In aliened tllat
said James F Coleman bus fulled to nldo up
on and improve aid trout uk required by Intf,
and ban wholly ubundoned tbo miiiio for more
than .six mom lis Just past, mild ii.iVtleH urn
hereby notified to appear, respond und ollur
evidence toiii-hlnx wild ulk'tcatlous at 11)
o'clock a. in. mi January VI. llniO. befote the -Heglatur
and Uwetver at tho United Btaie.s
Lund Olllca in Alliance. Nebraska.
Tho said contestant huving, lu u proper
Hftidavlt, Hied October 23, HXK sot forth fuct
wbleb show that after due diligence noi-sonul
(.ervlce of this notice cannot 7w made, it Ik
hereby ordered und directed that such uotlcu
be i Blven by due and nnuicr publication
f p Nov. -jo-ow w. W. Wood, Itocelver.
LrGAI. NOTICU.
Tbe State of Nebruhka, i In tho County
Box Uutte County. Court
In matter of the eluto of Morrii Kouk,
deceased.
To the creditors of hald estate i
You will taku notice, thut 1 will lt at the.
county court room lu Alllttnee, on Monday..
May lfiii, juoo, at HUi'clock a.m. mi receive aud
examine all claims against said ectato, with
a view to their adjustment und allowance.
I ho time limited for the presentment of
claims against said estate is six months from
tho joth day of November ti)0, und the time
studied for their payment is one year from
oald 10th day of NovemlMir.lPOi All claims
gainst galtl estate not presented to the court
by stlcl 17th duyof May, 1U09, will be former
barred.
Witness my hano and tho seal of our County
Court this ItiiU duy of November, lUiW.
lAL 1 A. llLllBV.
IpNovitKtw County Judge,
WE PRINT
SALE BILLS
AND PRINT THEM RIGHT
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