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BOOTS and SHOES
I9 ivill close out my entire stoch of Boots and
Shoes at a GREAT SACRIFICE. Wishing
to quit the business I will give bargains
on all goods in stoch. Some of the best
goods made in this couniry will be
SLAUGHTERED.
Our goods are all the very best. No shoddy in
stoch. Call in for Bargains, for you never bought
Good Goods for such prices.
I offer at a bargain the entire stoch and fix
tures to any one desiring to engage in the Boot
and Shoe frade. The reason for selling is that
other enterprises engage my attention. Call
for bargains at
Otten's Boot & Shoe Store
LUMBER COAL.
LUMBEE,
Latin,
SASH,
5UNDS,
DOORS, Etc.
LIME AND CEMENT.
Eock Springs Nut,
Eock Springs Lump.
Pennsylvania Anthracite,
Colorado Anthracite
AND
Colorado Soft
COAL-
YARD ON R. R. TRACK WEST OF DEPOT,
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171 BI1TG-,
Steam and Gas Fitting.
Cesspool and Sewerage a Specialty. Copper and Galvanized Iron Cor
nice. Tin and Iron Roofings.
ESTIMATE S EXJIlsriSHEID.
Repairing of Kinds will receive Prompt Attention,
Locust Street, Between Fifth and Sixth,
North. IPlatte, - Nebraska.
Brick Liyery Stable,
35-cun. TD3T ID- Besacfe,
FIRST-CLASS RIGS FURNISHED
on short notice and at reasonable rates. Horses hoarded by the week or
month. Careful and competent employes. Stable opposite the Hawley
TTmisfl on east Fifth street.
NOKTH "PXiA-TTTC. - TsTTh1BJRA.SK: A
"rj. broekee,
Mprrhant Tailor.
OXj SAINTS XI. AKTID
t. aihh! STOCK OF PIECE GOODS,
embracing all the new designs, kept on hand and made to order.
PERFECT PIT GUARANTEED.
PRICES LOWER THAN EVER BEFORE
Spruce Street, between Fifth and Sixth.
THE CltlSJS I BUE.YDSTUFFS
Germany, France and Kagland Will Have
to Draw on Oar Granaries.
Washington', Sept. 14. Consul Gen
eral Mason of Frankfort, in a report to
the state department on what he terms
the German crisis in breads tuffs, pre
sents some very interesting statements
respecting the most notable commercial
event of the year in Europe the Rus
sian decree forbidding the exportation
of rye from Russia to any foreign
country. This, Mr. Mason regards as
equivalent to an official declaration that
the harvests of cereals in Russia is so
deficient that the export of rye must be
forbidden in order to avert danger of
famine there. Mr. Mason presents eomo
data which shows how seriously this
unexpected edict is likely to affect the
bread supply of Germany. Very little
pure wheat oread he says, is eaten by
the middle and lower classes m Ger
many. The "staff of life ' to a vast ma
jority of the German people is black
bread, made with flour ground
from a mixture of rye and an
inferior quality of wheat. The con
sumption of this material is so enormous
that Germany imported 947,375 tons of
rye, of which 85 per cent., as well as 55
per cent, of the whole import of wheat
into Germany came from Russia. The
recent edict, therefore, cuts off nearly
five-sixths of the entire foreign rye sup
ply of Germany. How difficult it would
be to fill this great deficit by increased
importations from other countries, Mr,
Mason says, will be evident from the
fact that the entire export of rye to
Germany, from 1884 to 1888, from the
six countries which rank next to Russia
as producers of cereals, averaged but
6,142,331 bushels a year. This is barely
one-fourth of the rye exportation to
Germany from Russia last year. Mr.
Mason thinks it doubtful, in new of
the short cereal crops which prevail this
summer more or less uniformly through
out Europe, whether Jb ranee, lioumama
or bervia will have any consid
erable surplus of rye for export,
The deficit iu Germany", therefore, can
not be filled from any known source of
supply on that 6ide of the Atlantic, and
the effect of the situation upon the rye
market has been startling. A year ago
rye sold in Berlin for $o9 per ton of
2,240 pounds. On the third of August
last the effect of the meagre harvest had
raised the market price to $52.24 per
ton. Then came the Russian edict and
within two weeks the price had risen to
SGI. 88 per ton. Add to this a short and
inferior potato crop throughout nearly
the whole or brermany, and it will bo
seen.Mr. Mason says.that the food ques
tion there has assumed an ominous aspect
and in the end the people of Germany,
France and England will have to draw
upon the well filled granaries of the
United States for a large part of their
food supply during the coming year.
GIVES THE "WORLD TEX YEAK.
Doomsday's Coming Foretold by an In
diana Episcopal Clergyman.
Indianapolis, Sept. 14. The Rev.
Joseph Jenckes, D. D., rector of St.
Paul's cathedral, the most prominent
Episcopal minister in Indiana, has be
come convinced from historical research
that the world will end in ten years.
When he abandoned a lucrative law
practice in Louisville in I860 to enter
the ministry it was his belief that the
world would end in thirty-five years,
and for a long time this was the contrul
idea of his preaching, but in time cir
cumstances tended to check the order of
his convictions. He haa now a thorough
awakening through the discovery of an
error in the accepted system of chrono
logy which had made the time of the
judges as governors of Israel 350 years
instead of 450 years, He warns all per
sons to put themselves in the line of
believers "if tbey would avoid becom
ing ashes under 'the feet of the right
eous," and will begin a series of sermons
on the subject.
SPOUTING EVENTS.
Fifty Thousand to the Winner.
CniCAGO, Sept. 14. The Washington
Park club ratified Secretary Brewster's
suggestion to make the cross value of
the American derby for 1893 $60,000, or
$50,000 to the owner of the first horse
under the wire. Entries for this event
are now open, to close Oct. 15. In ad
dition to increasing the value of the
American derby stake, the- club has de
cided on another important event for
the world's fair year, to be called the
Queen Isabella stake. The event will
be a sweepstakes for fillies, foals of
1890, with $10,000 added money. Be
sides the regular stakes and those an
nounced above, twenty or more valua
ble stakes for 2 and 3-year-olds and for
all ages will be advertised to close dur
ing 1892-93, including a guaranteed
stake of $25,000 for 2-year-olds, and the
Columbus handicap for 3-year-olds and
upward, which will be worth $25,000 to
the winner. It is the intention of the
Washington Park club to make its
meeting of 18U3 the grandest race meet
ing ever given in America.
Loaguo and Association.
Louisville, Sept. 14. President
Phelps, of the American Base Ball As
sociation, sent a letter to President
Young, proposing that a series of games
be played between the clubs of the two
associations. The proposition is as fol
lows: A series of three, five or seven
games between any number of League
clubs and the like number from the As
sociation, a portion to be placed on the
League grounds and a like number on
Association grounds, the deciding games
(if necessary) to be played on neutral
territory. President Phelps says: I
know that your inclination will be to
reply that under the National agreement
your clubs cannot play Association
clubs, but I beg to remind you that
there can ne no agreement unless there
be two or more parties thereto, and that
the League is now in truth the only
party to said agreement."
Mrs. Peck's Last and Greatest.
New York, Sept. 14. The notorious
Mrs. Ellon E. Peck, alias E. Eliza
Knight, successful for years as an all
round swindler, has outdone all of her
previons exploits by defrauding a law
yer and his wife out of a quarter of a
million dollars' worth of Brooklyn real
estate. Her victims are Merritt H. Day
and Mary E. Day of Rapid City, S. D.,
who brought suit in the supreme court.
Brooklyn, against "E, Eliza Knight" to
6et aside deeds for property which she
obtained from them under false rre-tenses.
TwentT-nlne Houses Destroyi '.
Quebec, Sept. 14. Fire starts! i i
grocery store occupied by Oulelt. r.s
Capo Blanc, and before the flames
gotten under control had destroyed
twenty-nine houses and a portion of the
Roman Catholic church. A portion of
Onlett's Ttlace was found to li&va been
saturated with coal oil. When this fact
got noised about an infuriated mob pro
cured a rope and, capturing Ouiett.
were about to lynch him when the po
lice rescued him. He has been safely
lodged in the city prison.
Kansas City Highwaymen.
Kansas City, Sept. 14. At midnight
three highwaymen entered the saloon
of Tony Crandall, on the southwest
Boulevard and "held up" the inmates,
five in all, robbing them of their val
uables, Crandall attempted to resist
and was beaten over the head with re
volvers, his watch, diamond pin and
all the money in the cash drawer being
taken. The robbers then leisurely
helped themselves from the bottles ana
took their departure.
Halifax, N. S., Sept, 14. rjews has
been received that the Yarmouth fish
ing schooner Georgiana has been righted
and the dead bodies of four men found
in her cabin.
A Big Plan log Mill Burns.
Sonbuby, Pa., Sept. U. Clements'
planing mill, employing 300 hands, wu
burned; loss, $75,000.
A CANAEY WITH TALENT
HE GREW UP AMONG FOUR GOOD
NATURED BACHELORS.
He Could Sine and They Taught Him
Many Airs Each Man Became At
tached to the Bird, and When They
Disagreed One of Them Stole Him.
In a gilded cage in the top flat of a
bisr house in East Sixteenth street is a
little ball of yellow feathers that is cared
for as tenderly as any baby in the land,
It is only a very tiny canary bird, with
the unpretentious name of Pick, but in
suite of its size and its name it is the
master of a great wealth of music.
Dick never knew the pleasures of lib
erty, having been born of captive pa
rents in another gilded cage in- another
bier flat farther up town. Up to the
time when he was G months old he
never did anything that was worthy of
especial attention. Then he was re
moved from the parental cage and a pri
vate cage was bought for him, and he
was sent down town under the charge
of a liarum scarum boy as a present to
four young men who lived in a flat in
Ninth street.
ne was accepted as a matter or cour
tesy, and the cage which imprisoned him
was hung on a string in a rear window,
and the servant was instructed to feed
him whenever it became necessary. The
young men were free and eas3, and
was their habit to lean out or this win
dow in their idle moments and whistle
at Blind Tom, who used to exercise on
the rear piazza of a house on Eighth
street, and at other times to whistle at
the neighbors' daughters in the nearby
buildings.
Blind Tom responded with a whirl
wind of music on the piano, and the
neighbors' daughters frequently showed
their appreciation of the attention be
stowed on them by the young men by
singing. Une of tho young men occa
sionally played on a tin flute, while an
other whistled an accompaniment
dick begins to slnq.
Nobody paid any attention to Dick
until one morning when the sun shone
on him, making his yellow feathers glow
line a burnished lump of cold, he trilled
a bar or two sweet enough to attract the
young men's attention. One of them
whistled, and he instantly caught tho
refrain and turned it promptly. Noth
ing more was needed to make him
great favorite, and one of the young men
poked a finger at him playfully. Dick
did not flutter away in fear, but hoppeii
toward the finger, and with outstretched
wings, picked at it fiercely, and at the
same time pecked his way into the hearts
of all the occupants of the flat.
After that incident it was a wonder
that Dick's health and morals were not
ruined, for the young men insisted
on feeding him all sorts of stuff and
whistled all the vulgar airs of the day.
Tk 1 Ml mm -
due no maiierwnat Kind ot iood was
offered to him, he ate it promptly and
seemed to thrive, and no matter how
vulgar the air that was whistled, he re
peated it with a sweetness and clearness
that would have filled the author s soul
with delight.
One morning the door of Dick's cage
was opened, and he caino out and looked
about him with a great expression of
wonder in his little bead like eyes. Then
he piped forth a few low strains, flew to
the table, and began to peck a loaf of
bread.
"I wish he was bigger, so I could pet
him," said one of the big men.
Every morning afterward Dick had
breakfast with the young men. He
would hop on the table, sampling every
thing he came across, and bathing fre
quently m the goblets of ice water.
Breakfast over, Dick would fly back to
his cage, and getting into the little swing
at the top of it, would sway madly to
and fro, and sing everything he knew.
That was regarded as an offering of
praise, and quiet reigned during the per
formance.
DICK'S PRESENT H031E.
mi. i m
j.ne tnai came, wnen rue young men
failed to agree, and it was resolved to
sever tho family. Each of them was
willing that the other should take every
i1 ' 1. Jl . II I 11
ming eise in me uac lr tney would give
Dick to him. But that was not to be
thought of for a moment, and the young
men kept together for a month longer
than they intended in order not to be
separated from their pet.
1'inaUyone of the young men delib
erately carried Dick away and kept him
in hiding for several mouths, and guard
ed him as carefully as a miser watches
over his money. Then he rented the flat
in Sixteenth street, and a few nights ago
invited his former companions to see
Dick. As lie ushered his guests into the
hall they were greeted with a burst of
music. They recognized the voice of
Dick. The moment they entered the
room where the little songster was he
flew as near them as ho could and cooed
softly and ruffled his feathers gently.
'Ihero may be persons m the world
who would scout the suggestion of a
bird remembering faces for so long a
time, but there is not the slightest doubt
that Dick remembered the young men
and that he was welcoming them with
all his heart. During all the time they
were in the flat Dick sang all the old
tunes. He stopped only when one of
them spoke to him, and then he would
be silent and cock his little head on one
side and peep intelligently.
The young men readily accepted an
invitation to remain all night, and the
next morning before they were out of
bed they heard tho magic music of the
little songster. At breakfast he hopped
on the table and flopped in all their
glasses of water in order to let them see
that all were dear to him. Before the
three visitors left the man who had stolen
Dick from them made each one promise
that ho would not attempt to steal the
bird. New York Sun.
Not a Theory.
"Do you believe man sprang from tho
ape."
"2so; but I believe woman springs
from the mouse in fact, I've seen her
do it." Harper's Bazar.
Strong "Writer.
Uncle Stephen, an old negro, had come
to cut the grass in the front yard, and as
Colonel Winter started out to his office
he stopped to greet the old man. "Well,
Stephen," said the colonel, "I hear that
you intend to give your son an education."
"Dat's what I does, sab. I knows what
tis ter Etruggle erlong widout larnin'.
an' 1 is 'tenmned dat my son sha nt
trabble bar'foot ober de same hard road
dat I did."
"A noble resolution, Stephen. I wish
all fathers felt as you do. Is your boy
learning rapidly."
"Ez fast ez er hoss ken trot, sah.
Why, last week he wrote a letter to his
aunt dat libs mo' dan twenty mile from
yere, an' atter a while he gwine ter
write ter his udder aunt dat libs fifty
mile away."
"Why doesn't he write to her now?"
"Oh, he kaint write so fur, yit Es
ken writo twenty mile fustrate, but I ;
tole him not ter try ter write fifty mile
till he got stronger wid his pen. But
he's gwine ter git dar, I tell you. Won't ,
be more'n er year fo' dat boy ken set
down at one eeud ob de gumbronment:
an' wnto er letter cl'ar ter de
eend." Exchange.
LONDON WATER PIPES.
for which
get your
case
you
isn t a "cure-all," but it does cure
all diseases arising from a torpid
or deranged liver, or from impure
blood. For all Scrofulous, Skin and
Scalp Diseases, it's a positive rem
edy. Even Consumption, or Lung
scrofula, is enred by it, if taken in
time and tnven a fair tnal. i hat's
all that's asked for it a fair trial.
Then, if it doesn't help you, there's
no pay.
We claim it to be an nnequaled
remedy to purify the blood and in-
vigoraie me liver, w o ciaim id io
be lasting in its effects, creating an
appetite, purifying the blood, and
preventing Bilious, Typhoid and
Malarial Severs, if taken in time.
ine time to take it is when you
hrst feel the signs of weariness and
I. T w - .
toeuKnew. xy aruggisis.
Land Office nt North Platte. Nob., (.
Autrust 18. 191. i
Notice is hereby Given tlmt the following-
named settler bus hied notice of his intention to
mnko final nroof in BQDnort of hi claim and
that said proof will bo made, before theReRister
nnd Keceivornt North Plntte. Neb., on September
ailn, lP'Jl, viz: lvl l. uaker "wno made
Homestead Entry No. 14761 for the southeast
o.narter of section 22, town 12, range 31, west.
lie names the following witnesses to prove lus
continaons residence upon and cultivation of
fund tend, viz: John II. Ciinpen, .Tohann Cleman,
Jolin W . uood, i rnncH Montjicue, all of North
Finite, reU,
32(5 John I. Kesbitt. Register.
WM. NEVILLE,
Attorney-at-Law,
Office: N vills Bi,ock, Sixth STnEk
NOltTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA.
GRIMES & WILCOX,
Attorneys-at-Law,
NORTH PLATTE, - NEBB.
OJIico over North Platte .National Hank.
C. M. DUNCAN, M. D.
Physician and Surgeon.
OFncK: Ottenstein's niock. no fctnirs. Office
nours from 9 to 12 n. m., 2 to 5 and 7 to 9 p. m
Kesiaence on West Bixth street.
NORTH PLATTE,
NEBRASKA.
"Win. Eves, 3S. 33.,
Physician and Surgeon.
DISEASES of WOMEN and OHILDBEiT
A SFECIALTT.
McDonald Block,
Kobto Platte, Xeb.
!D ENTIS TUT.
Of-
A. B. AYRES, D. D. S.,
las located at North Platto to stav.
fice over Foley's Store.
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED
Gas Administered.
"w. c. LEivioisr,
Land Attorney and Loan Agt.
Money constantly on hand to close farm loans
nt lowest rates Riven in Western Nebraska.
All kinds of business before United States Land
Office attended to.
NORTH PLATTE,
NEB.
WHY NOT HAVE YOUR
LINEN
DONE UP NICELY?
Take it to our agent, Frank Sujli-
van.
at C. Wein gaud's store.
Anything laundried from a hand
kerchief to a fine lace curtain.
Launurv leaves Tuesday and is
returned the following Saturday,
A. P. CARLSON,
Merchant
Tailor.
fHEY ARE NEAR THE SURFACE AND
THE WATER FREEZES.
, Can't be found
-the equal of Dr. Pierce's Golden
JUedical Discovery. If other medi
cines of its class were like it, they'd
be guaranteed. This is. If it
doesn't benefit or cure, in every
it's recommended,
money back. It
GBAND ISLAND STEAM LAUNDRY, v
Full line of piece goods always on
hand and made to order.
Tho Pcoplo of tbo City and Suburbs
Havo lleea Troubled with Frozen Watei
Flpes for Generations, but the 11 pes
Will Xover IJo Placed Beeper.
If it were not for tho inconvenience
and discomfort of the thing the plight
in which London finds itself with its
water supply frozen would be comical
to a practical Yankee. Tho water pipes
are frozen Bimply because the Briton haa
never prohteu by nis espenenco ot ins
native winters. Year after year they
have freezing weather in London, and
year after year Lionttons water pipes
freeze, burst, and there cometh a water
famine.
The Londoners' water pipes freeze not
because the weather is intensely cold, but
because the pipes are insufficiently pro
tected. Too often they aro left exposed
to all the winds that blow.
Entire districts in London, square
miles, districts as large as many good
sized American cities, had their water
supply entirely stopped one winter. Im-
the inconvenience, even the dis
tress jind danger, attending such a con
dition of things! But the fault has been
with the Londoner, and not with the
weather. I passed through a district
thus afflicted one dismal day, and saw
the workmen digging up the road to get
at the pipes.
In the street where these operations
were going on tuo supply pipes lor ail
the houses (the pipes running in from
the water mains) were all laid within a
foot of the surface of the ground. The
water was frozen in .nil tho pipes. Eight
een inches below tho surface the frost
had not penetrated. But the English
man deliberately puts his supplj pipes
within reach of the frost
A PItDIITIVE SYSTEM.
The pipes would never freeze if they
were put a few feet under ground, for
the frost in London rarely penetrates the
earth more than a foot or two. But the
Londoner does worse than this he often
runs tho water pipe up the outsido wall
of his dwelling, without protection of
any sort. He has another cheerful habit,
which is fast becoming the fashion, and
which is now put in practice in all the
better class houses.
The drain pipes, at any rate those from
the sinks and bathtubs, are carried down
the outsido walls, with a break at every
story, where another inlet or outlet is
made into a small open trough, from
which another pipe leads down another
story, and so on to the bottom, where
the water flows into a gutter and thence
into tho sewer. The system fully ac
complishes its object sewer ventilation,
but this could be equally well secured by
a less, primitive arrangement, and with
one that would not freeze in tho winter
and cover tho side of your houses with
dirty ice.
When I said that tho Londoner is not
prepared for tho annual freezing of his
water pipes I did not adhere strictly to
the truth. For the good gentleman is
prepared in a certain way, or perhacs
should say that the water companies aro
prepared. And the preparation is pecu
liarly British, as you will see. When
your street freezes up that is to say,
when it freezes down a dozen inches be
low the surface and blocks all the supply
pipes, an oluciai trom tne water com
pany puts in an appearance, after a day
or two, and has an apparatus fired into
a little hydrant close by the curbstone.
xne apparatus consists eitner of a
wooden or an iron pipe, as the case may
be, which stands upright above the
which has an inch faucet
To this fount the entire
neighborhood must come, with pails and
pans and caus and jugs and mugs, and
carry away the precious fluid.
WHY THE BRITON BEAKS IT.
The water companies keep these prim
itive plugs in stock, some thousands of
them, but it never occurs to anybody to
place tho supply pipes deeper in the
ground and thus prevent freezing. This,
then, is the way tho Londoner, or his
water company, prepares for the annual
visit of Jack Frost. But tho preparation
is effective only when the water mains
are laid well below the surface. When
they aro not there is a water famine
throughout extensive districts, as at
Brixton, at Hampstead and other places
in London town.
Why not lay the water pipes deep
enough?
If j-ou had ever lived among tneso
droli people j'ou would not ask that ques
tion. The pipes have never been laid
deep enough, and therefore never will
be not this side of tho millennium.
The water supply of London is bad
enough at its best. At its worst, in the
winter, it is too bad for words. Nobody
but these droll people would submit,
year after year, to the ridiculous system
of supply and tho outrageous charges.
But tho Briton is a patient soul. He be
lieves that whatever he has is the besf of
its kind, and he resents any suggestion
to tho contrary. A water supply that
was good enough for his grandfather is
good enough for him; moreover, it is
good enough for yon. There's the rub
of the argument. "It's good enough for
you." Why, in tho name of justice,
should you, a foreigner, complain? Out
upon you for an ungrateful alien.
Nevertheless, one has to suffer from
this drollery. When he does not suffer
ho can smile. But that is the atmost he
can do. You cannot change the habits
of a nation. And you cannot induce
5,000,000 people to put their water pipes
hve feet under ground if they think five
inches sufficient, and if they have had
them five inches under ground for gen
erations. Boston Herald.
ground, and
affixed to it.
Don't Rush.
That i3. do not leave a comfortable
country for an uncertain city home.
Here is a paragraph saying that the
average wages of 150,000 girls in the city
of New York is sixty cents a day, in
cluding the cash girls at two dollars.
Deducting room rent, tens of thousands
of these trirls cannot have enough for
comfortable clothing and nourishin;
food. This should serve as a hint to
country girls who are planning to seek
their fortunes in cities.
Even in a young city like Minneapolis
the cases of disappointment and destitu
tion aro numerous and painful, There
are scores of applicants for every place,
and it is getting worse all the time.
Better keep away from cities unless
you have remarkable, ability. Inis ap
plies even to those who are seeking for
ordinary housework. An advertisement
for a cook, a chambermaid or a girl for
general work will be answered by twen
ty or thirty the samo day. Tne intern
gence offices aro continually thronged
with jxrang women looking for work of
this kind.
There is a demand for young women
who can do good work in private homes.
Some of these places are not desirable,
perhapt not tolerable, no matter how
hich the wages. There aro mistresses
of homes of wealth who aro ready to
pay any price for thoroughly competent
girls, but they do not know how to treat
a girl.
They do not intend to bo unjust. The
trouble is, they do not know a good girl
when they have one. Allowing for these
and other exceptions, thero remain hun
dreds of homes in Minneapolis where
first class domestics would be welcomed
to fair treatment and generous compen
sation. Housekeeper's Weekly.
Too Much Femlnliio Politeness.
A street car conductor said "Young
women in Washington indulge in a pe
culiar sort of politeness which is more
calculated to injure tho feelings of others
than any rudeness of a deliberate nature
that they could very well contrive. Yon
will often see a girl of twenty odd get
up in a street car to give her seat to a
lady, quite a stranger, who is no more
than middle aged. This is intended for
a courtesy, presumably, but it is a very
silly one, because its obvious intention
is to exhibit a deference to superior age.
Now, no woman likes to find herself re
garded from that point of view, and the
worst of it is that it is impossible for the
victim of such a performance to show
any resentment. All she can do is to
decline to accept the place vacated,
which is not very much satisfaction.
"I niyself havo frequently noticed
women who had perceptibly passed their
first youth offering their seats to others
hardly older than themselves, so that it
might seem as if this was a novel way of
claiming to be young at some one else's
expense. My observation is that few
people, however old, aro otherwiso than
mortified by being given seats in this
manner on the cars. Old gentlemen are
not less sensitive on the point than old
ladies." Cor. St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Only first-class workmen employed.
Shop on Sprnco Street over Hans ficrtlcr&Co.
0
R. D. THOMSON.
.rclItect,
ontractor and Builder.
127 Sixth St. Cor. of Vine,
NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA.
E. B. WARNER,
Funeral Director,
AND EMBALNER.
A fill line of first-class funeral supplies
always in stock.
Ufiast Sixth street, next door to First Na
tional Bunk,
uddeTj.
A Chivalrous I.al.
"Mamma," said Willie, "that little
Susio Harkius called me a donkey to
day."
"What did you do?"
"Well, of course I couldn't slap a lit
tle girl, so I told Sister Mary, and she
just scratched Susie ont of sight."
Harper's Bazar.
Strawberries.
Why are they called "strav"berries?
Smart men differ on that. Some sa- it
is on account of their hollow, strawliko
stems. Others think it is because they
have to be covered with straw or similar
protecting material in winter. Tho most
classical explanation that our Anglo
Saxon forefathers used to raise them and
they gave them this name because the
berries are generally on the ground, that
is, "strewed" or "strawed" around. Exchange.
Acres of ground around Sandringham,
the Prince of Wales' country seat, are
devoted to tho cultivation of lilies of
the valley, the sweet scented and ever
popular spring blossom. In the little
village near there is little else except a
remarkably fine ruin of a little church.
and hundreds of thousands of the pure
bell shaped blossoms are sent up to Lon
don evenr year.
NORTH PLATTE, - NEBBHSKA.
Telegraph orders promptly attended to.
Quite Fatal.
Mrs. Spiggit Do yon think thatsmok-
ing shortens life?
Mrs. Gazlay I think
sure some of the cigar3
smokes would kill me if I staid
room. New York ' Epoch.-
it "docs. I'm
my husband
in tho-
A Table 3Iado of Human Flesh.
A writer in Harper's Magazine of Feb
ruary, 1855, gave the following descrip
tion of a remarkable table made by Pro
fessor Segato: "It comprises every por
tion of ihe human body transformed
into stone, destined to endure as long as
the world itself if not ground to pieces
by violence. There aro really two tables,
one finished and polished, the other in
complete, made of mosaics formed by
sections of hnman bones, brains, lungs,
blood vessels, intestines and muscles, all
as firm as marble, anu snowing tne in
ternal structure of each.
"Without an explanation a visitor
wonld supposo them to be from some
mosaic manufactory, for thej' are sym
metrically arranged in squares, triau
gles and circles, with the great variety
of colors nicely graduated. Different
portions of the human body, showing
tho internal anatomy, aro so perfectly
petrified as to form a fiuo object of
study for the medical student. Even
morbid anatomy wa3 subjected with en
tire success to this process. Animals of
all kinds, chickens and reptiles, in short,
nothing that has blood was capable of
resisting Segato's petrifying touch."
Hard to Get.
Doctors are sometimes more consid
erate of their patients' needs than they
aro of their circumstances. It is easier
to prescribe a journey to Europe or Ber
muda than it is to fill the prescription.
A gentleman whose affairs had be
come very much embarrassed, and who
was overworked and overworricd, went
to a celebrated specialist, broken down
with nervous exhaustion.
"Now," said the doctor, "there is only
one thing that you must have, that is
absence of worry, absence of caro and
freedom from all preoccupations."
"Much obliged for your prescription,"
said the gentleman, "but you've left out
one important thing in it."
"What is that?'
"You haven't put in the apothecary's
street and number." Exchange.
Graduates Who Use Ribbon.
A grave professor concerned with read
ing the essays of a large number of grad
uates from a co-educational college
demolishes an old respectable tradition
wfcen in a private letter he writes:
"Brass clamps are a great improvement
on pink ribbon for tying up the loose
pages of wise young women s wise essays,
but the present generation of girl grad
uates would never think of nsing ribbon
anyhow, it commonly chooses cotton
twino or mucilage." Herein is shock
ingly exemplified tho influence ofthc
mind masculine over tho character
feminine. The knot of ribbon is still
very much tho rule m schools where
girls alone do congregate. Exchange.
BAD BLOOD I:
PiaplM on tho Pace j ;
BreikiEg Out ) S
Skin TrtnUet f -
Little 8crj Hot Skill ;
Sails I Blotekesj Z
Gold Sorest BadBmthf
Sow Month or Lips :
Jtymn iifcr from r of ;
theso naitou, take -
I DOCTOR ACKER'S !
i ENGLISH i
IBL00D ELIXIR!
WHY? " KKH8nOOB I
; Hits yon erer used mercury! It so, did yoo
agt to yourself, ths needed attention at tne timet.
Z wo n-ed not tell you that you require a blood ;
medietas, to ensure freedom from th after ef-
Zfects. lr. Acker" KnltlUh Tllood Kllxlr isth-? S
; only known medicine tnat willthoroochJT eradl- ;
catetho poison from the oysteitu Get it from
Syoar draprfst. or write to W. II. IIOOKF.n b ;
JCO.. 4UWet BTOwur'-,7",j.r,,f,'J';, ;
H. MacLEAN,
Fine Boot and Shoe Maker,
And Dealer la
JIEN'S LADIES' AND CHILDREN'S
BOOTS AND SHOES.
Perfect Fit, Lest "Work and Goods
Represented or Money Refunded.
as
REPAIRING PROMPTLY DONE.
NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA.
Bank Counters, Tyler System, Port
able, Unequaled in styles.
Cost and Finish.
ISO rue CaUlogae af Comntfn, Desks etc., Illutrtted U
Colors. BmIs Free Postage 11 Cents.
Also lyier's
Office Stki and Type
writer Cabinets. 0O
Styles. Best and cheap
cat on earth, with great
reduction in prices.
ISO pace eataUcM Tree.
Poalage 12 eta. roll Use mt
Deaka, Ckalra, Tables, Book
Cara, Cablaeta, Legal Illaak
Caklaets, elf., slwsja la stack.
Bneelal work aaad ta arser.
1YLEK DESK CO., St.ioula, Mo. U.S. A.
H. W. FOGEL,
EfsseFalilacksmiihiWagonWorks
Horse Shoeing a Specialty.
Shop on Locust St.,
North Platte. Neb.
Billiard : Hall,
J. C. IIUPFER, Prop,
The Casino is supplied with am
ple billiard and pool tables and is
a pleasant orderly resort at all times.
Lipors and Cigars
of the finest stock and brands
be found at the bar.
Neville Block,
North
will.
Platte.
Humphreys'
Dr. IIcmfhrets' Specifics arescientiacally and
carefully prepared prescriptions ; used for many
Sears In private practice with sncccss,and f orovcr
ilrty years used by thopcople. Erery single Spe
cific is a special euro for the disease named.
These Specifics cure without druKsln?, purg
ing or reducing the system, and are in fnct ami
deed the sovereign remedies of thcYVorld.
LISTOFPMSCIPAl.a0S. CTUES. PRICES.
1 Fevers, Congestion, inflammation...
14 Worms, Worm Ketcr. Worm Colic. . ,V5
3 Cryine Colic,orTeethlngof Infants .4.1
4 ninrrhen, oruninirenor acuiw
5 Dysentery, Griping. Mllous Colic-., .li.
I) uuoicra illo
lolcru
7 (,'ocgb. Cold, Bronchitis
rbns, Vomiting t.J
.'.i.i
as
.as
.25
Ncaralsia. Toothache. faceache
! neadacbes, Slcklleadache. Vertigo
iu jiyttpcpsia, uiiious siomacn
11 Suppressed or Painful Periods.
ivinesi loo rronue serious
l.'t Croup, Cough. Difficult Breathing....
14 Halt IMifiim. ErrslDelas. Eruptions.
15 Hheutuntinui, Ithenmatlc Pains 25
Ki Fever and Acne, Chills. Malaria.... .SO
17 Tiles, mind or llleedlntr SO
1H Cntnrrli, Influenza. Cold In the Ilead .St)
iU Whoopin? Cough, Violent Coughs. .SO
a t ;-neral Dehility.lhyslcalWcaSnesa .SO
27 Kidney Disease ... .SO
2S Nervous Debility l.tMl
30 ITrinary Weakness, Wetting Bed. .SO
32 Diseases of thcl!cart,PalpltatIonl.OO
Sold by Druggists, or sent postpaid on receipt
or price, dr. uuMrnitETS" jiaxual, (i p
richly bound in cloth and gold, mailed
Manual, (144 pages)
goia. maiieii iree.
umf nnnio iiuiuiwuia wis..
Cor. William and John Streets, New York.
SPECIFICS.
J. E. SQMEBS,
Nurseryman,
Florist and Gardener,
NORTH
(BARTON PLACE,)
PLATTE, NEBR.
Can furnish all kinds of
shade trees, forest trees,
lings
fruit and
and seed-
xo Details Needed.
Mrs. Blank The paper tells of a post
master who was appointed by John
Qnincy Adams, and has held the position
ever since, was ho an unusually good
man, do yon thmk?
ilr. 131ank (an experienced citizenl
un, not at all, not at alL It was an un
usually poor office. New York Weekly
A Modem Solomon.
A famous Chicago lawver nnco Ti.nl a
Bingnlar Case tO Settle. A Ilhvsirin n nnmn
mm in great distress. Two Risf
iiuSnuuusame nouse. had lmKitx nf
equal age, who so resembled each other
that their own mothers were tin.iW t
distinguish them when they were to
gether. Now it happened that by tho
carelessness of the nurses the children
had become mixed, and how were the
mothers to make sure that they received
back their own infants? "But. nerhaTw "
said the lawyer, "tho children weren't
changed at all." "Oh, but there's no
doubt they were changed," said the phy
sician. "Are you sure of it?' "Per
fectly." "Well, if that's tho case why
don't you change them back amW T
don't see anv difficnltvin tii PICA ,J .
W J - WMW WMW
Boston Satorday Gazette.
: DOCTOR
IACKERSJ
PURE
I PINK
PILLS.
Thesa Celebrated ENGLISH;
Plus are a PoiUIre Cure for Sick:
Headache, Billawneius aadS
Constipation. Small, plena.;
nnt and a Tarorlte with the!
ladle. Sold in England for Is."
1KL, In America for 2 5e. Get;
them from your Druggists, or:
lend to W. II. HOOKXR a CO.,
for tree claims at lowest
prices. Also all kinds ot plants and
llowers. Estimates and designs
pi ven for laying oiit new grounds.
Yards kept by contract.
Chamberlain's Eye and Skin
Ointment.
A certain cure for Chronic Sore Eyes,
Tetter, Salt Rheum, Scald Head, Old
Chronic Sores, Fever Sores, Edema,
Itch, Prairie Scratches, Sore Nipples
and Piles. It is cooling and soothing.
Hundreds of cases have been cured by
it after all other treatment had failed.
It is put up in 23 and 50 cent boxes.
S50 REWARD.
By virtno of tho laws of the State of Nebraska,
I hereby offer a reward of Fifty Dollars for the
captnie anil conviction of any person charged
with hi use 8tenJinK in Lincoln county.
d. a. bake;:.
Sheriff.
COXSl'JIITIO.V CURED.
An old physician, retired from practice,
having had placed in his hands by an
tast India missionary thn fnnntn ..
simple vegetable remedy for tho speedy
and permanent euro nf pnn,,l.t:
Bronchitis. Catarrh. A'" -"YW"V,
throat and and Lung -AfFffi Tone ntfn r
positive and radical euro for at '
Debility and all Nervous
after having tested its wondfufTura-
;IT?-J?!,re58 in thusands of cases has
felt it his duty to make it, Immn ' x.:
suffering fellows. Aot.n.ntAi i.
motivo and a desire to rRi: u..
suffering. I will Knr1 f r i " I
all who desire it, this recei fo TCema
French, or English, with full dirSS
ior preparing and using. Sent by mail
by addressing with stamp, naming Thia
Paper. . w. A. Nov Z, H
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