m&th Platte National Bank,
NORTH PLATTE, IJEBRASKA.
.3?aid up Capital.
K.W.HAWIOin,
C. T.TPDINOS,
X. JT. BTM3TZ,
DIRECTORS:
O. M. OARTEE,
M. C. IONDSAY,
H. OTTKN,
S7 5,000.
J. E. EVAN8,
M. OBEB8T,
A. D- BUCKWOBTH.
ju5ta-totrust.a to u handled promptly, catetally, and at hmert r.to.
maino -:- Out -:- Sale
-BOOTS and SHOES
"Rants n,nJ,
I WILO Close OWb iiuy vivvvi v oukjv.u
Shoes at a GREAT SACRIFICE. Wisimg
. to quit the business I will give bargains
n j 7 ,,, nnnl? Flnm.fi. af UlP, best
goods made in this couniry will be
ITTGKEITEIiED
Our floods are all the very best. No shoddy in
stock. Call in for Bargains, for you never bought
Good Goods for such prices.
I offer at a bargain the entire stoch and fix
turcs to anyone desiring to engage in the Booi
and Shoe trade. The reason for selling is that
other enterprises engage my attention. Call
for bargains at
Otten'sBoot&Shoe Store
NORTH PLATTE MARBLE WORKS.
Manufacturer of and .Dealer in
Headstones, Curbing, Building Stone.
; And all kinds of
MONUMENTAL AND CEMETERY WORK.
Creful attention given to lettering of every description. Jobbing don
on short notice. Urders solicited ana estimates rreeiy given.
WEST SIXTH STREET, - NORTH PLATTE, NEB
HERSHEY & CO.,
DEALERS IN
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS.
-AND-
ttOJLJD CARTS, ETC.
Agents for tbe Celebrated
Goodhue and Challenge Wind Mills
Agents for Union Sewing Machines.
Locust Street,
North Platte, - -
Nebraska.
JOS. F. FILLION,
Steam and Gas Fitting.
Cesspool and Sewerage a Specialty. Copper and Galvanized Iron Cor
nice. Tin and Iron Roofings.
ESTIMATES ZFTTETISITIEID.
Repairing of Kinds will receive Prompt Attention.
Locust Street, Between Fifth and Sixth,
"NTovth "Platte. - Nebraska.
IT. J. BROEKER,
Merchant Tailor,
LABGE STOCK OP PIECE GOODS,
. embracing all the new designs, kept on hand and made to order.
PERFECT FIT GUARANTEED.
PRICES LOWER THAN EVER BEFORE
Spruce Street, between Fifth, and Sixth.
FINEST . SAMPLE EOOM IN NORTH PLATTE
Having refitted our rooms in the finest of style, the public
is invited to call and see us, insuring courteous treatment.
Finest Wines, Liquors and Cigars at the Bar.
Onr billiard hall is supplied with the best make of tables
and competent attendants will supply all your wants.
KEITH'S BLOCK, OPPOSITE THE UNION PACIFIC DEPOT.
Mexican
Mustang
Liniment.
A Cure for the Ailments of Man and Beast
A long-tested pain reliever.
Its use is almost universal by, the Housewife, the Farmer, the
Stack Raiser, and by every one requiring an. effective
liniment . " .,
No other application compares with it in efficacy.
This well-known remedy has stood the test of years, almost
generations.
No medicine 'chest is complete without a bottle of Mustang
Liniment.
ho
Occasions arise , for- its use almost every day.
AU -rugzists nd dealers have iti ' - -
GENERAL NOTES.
Frank Browa was inaugurated gor
jrnor of Maryland.
Earthouftke sfeocks hare been felt in dif
ferent parte of Italy.
The Victorian cabinet has chosen Mr.
Shields as the new premier.
Fire at Dodgeville, Wis., did 110,000
damage. Insurance about $5,009.
Eisenberg & Clapp, umbrella manufac
turers of New Yorx, have assigned.
Viscount Dillon, sixteeath bearer of
that title in the Irish peerage is dead.
Just 38,163 alien immigrants arrived at
the port of Philadelphia during 1891.
J ohn GreenTeaf Whittier.the poet, is sick
with the grip at Newburyport, Mass.
At New York the American sugar trust
increased its capital stock to $15,000,000.
Frosts have damaged the fruit interests
in the San Gabriel Valley, CaL, $1,000,000.
The annual convention of the Young
Men's Hebrew association was held at St.
Louis.
Houghton's foundry at Toledo was
burned. Loss, $25,000; insurance about
$12,000.
Fire destroyed the Waterbury, Conn..'
brass works. Loss, $380,000; insurance,
$187,000.
The Hon. George V. Howk, ex-judge of
the Indiana supreme court, died at New
Albany, aged 68.
Secretary of State Chapleau of Canada,
will resign, it is said, after the Quebec
provincial elections.
The coal men of Pennsylvania will put
a full-sized breaker on the world's fair
grounds and operate it.
The Rev. Joseph Cook of Boston is men
tioned in connection with the Prohibition
nomination for president next year.
Mortgages for $6,000,000 on the Kansas,
Arkansas and New Orleas railroad were
filed in various counties of Arkansas.
The power house and car bam of the
Uniontown, Pa., electric street railway
was burned. Loss, $30,000; no insurance.
Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone have gone from
Pau to Toulouse, in southern France.
Thence they will go to Carc&ssohe and
Nimes.
J. W. McMullin of Mahaska county was
elected president of the Iowa Agricultural
society at the annual meeting at Des
Moines.
The Vanceburg, Ey., Nntional bank has
suspended. There is money enough in the
bank to liquidate every claim against it
in full!
It is said that a company is being organ
ized at St. Lous, Mo., with , 000,000 capi
tal slock, to fight the American Tobacco
company.
Ichabod Tanner, one of the wealthiest
residents of Portage. Wis., has just died
from the effects of a cancer, at the ad
vanced age of 100 years.
Exports from the United States during
December are figured at $116,000,000, the
largest ever known. For December, 1890,
the exports were $98,000,000.
Indications now are that New York's
legislature will pass a bill appropriating
$300,000 for the purpose of representing
the state at the world's fair.
Owing to feeling of distrust arising
from the recent financial crisis, a number
of the small private bankers have formed
the Bankers' Union of Berlin.
At Key West, FJa., Chief Engineer M.
B. Sweeney of the Plant Line steamer
Mascot was killed by being caught in the
belt running the electric dynamo.
The trial of the heavy guns of the mon
itor Miantonomah have proven successful
and the results obtained more satisfactory
than was anticipated they would be.
The Argentine Republic has appointed
t commission to collect an exhibit for the
world's fair and has appropriated $100,000
toward defraying the necessary expenses.
A Detroit firm has a scheme to an
nounce in evy large city in the conntiy
by electrical munciator the opening of
the world's fair, the president to touch the
button.
Maggie Whitney, aged 18, and her moth
er were arrested at Ottawa, Ills., for iu
fanticide. The girl threw her illegitimate
babe in a snowbank, where dogs found it
and tore it to pieces.
A board has been appointed to investi
gate the loss of the United States revenue
marine cutter Gallatin off the coast of
Massachusetts.
It U asserted that the German troops in
Africa under Captain Krenzelear were
defeated and pursued to the gates of Fort
Tanga by the Madigals Dec. 14. The Ger
man government withheld the news for
three weeks.
Chief Engineer Butts, who was in charge
of the work of rebuilding the Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy at Burlington,
was killed by a heavy rock which a care-,
less workman threw upon him from the
nier twenty feet above. - -
Beginning Jan. 30, s fast mall tram win
be run over the Pennsylvania road be
tween New York and St. Lonia by way of
Pittsburg, Columbus and Minneapolis.
It will leave New York at 9:15 a. a. ad
reach St. Louis at 5 p. m. the following
day.
President Langtry and other members
of the National Stone Masoaa! association
report that James Tracy, the treasurer, of
Baltimore has disappeared with $1,000,
funds belonging to the association.
Tracy has a wife and eleven children in
Baltimore.
The most unique locality to be found
by the sportsman is probably that sur
rounding the town of LinkviUcin Kla
math county, Ore. The town nestles at
the foot of a large mountain, and lies
right on' the bank of what is locally
known as Link river. This stream
which is quite large and connects the up-,
per and lower Klamath lakes is alive
with thousands and probably millions of
large fish, which are constantly passing
to and fro between the two lakes, and
areas constantly jumping out of water
insight of the town. They are of all
sorts and sizes.
Some of them appear to be cutting up
those antics for the fun of the thing, and
some to shake some kind of an eellike
f looking creature which attacks them in
the water and becomes attached to their
sides, causing the fish apparently much
suffering. It is no uncommon thing for
large fish to be taken there whose sides
are all scarred up in consequence, of these
attacks.
It would not be surprising if many
fish were thus destroyed. Probably
there are not in the world two lakes
more numerously stocked with trout
than the upper and lower Klamath UkjaiV
Judging tby map measurement, they
each average thirty miles in length hy
ten miles in width. Many large streams
empty into them, affording splendid
fishing and spawning grounds. Lying
east of the Cascade range of mountains,
where genuine winter prevails in the
season for it, the water is better and the
fish healthy and solid features which
do not prevail on the western side of
the mountains, where an almanac has to
be consulted to ascertain accurately the
season of the year. Forest and Stream.
A Conventional Castes.
One of the simplest instincts of good
manners would seem to be that a man
should uncover his head while eating his
dinner with his family; yet it is pretty
certain that the first gentlemen of - En
land two centuries ago habitually wore
their hats during that ceremony, nor is
it known just when or why the practice
was chanced. In Pepvs' famous Diary.
which is tbe best manual or manners ior
its period, we read, under date of Sept.
22, 1664, 'Home to bed, having got a
strange cold in my head byfliifginjoff
my hat at dinner and sitting with tbe
wind in my neck."
In Lord Clarendon's essay on the decay
of respect paid to age he says that in hi?
younger days he never kept his hat on
before those older than himself except
at dinner. Lord Clarendon died m 1674
That the English members of parlia
ment sit with their hats on during the
sessions is well known, and the same
practice prevailed at the early town
meetings in New England. The presence
or absence of the hat is therefore simply a
conventionality, and so it is with a
thousand practices which are held, so
long as they exist, to be the most un
changeable and matter of course affairs.
Harpers Bazar.
tVhea a Mas Ii Thirty Tears of At;.
All men who employ animals in work
know how their speed falls off with
increasing age. Race horses are with
drawn from the track shortly after they
have arrived at the full possession of
their force; they are still good for com
petitions in bottom, and are capable for
many years yet of doing excellent trot
ting service, but they cannot run in
trials of speed.
Man's capacity to run likewise de
creases after he has passed thirty years;
and the professional couriers who are
still seenm Tunis, running over large
distances in an incredibly short time.
are obliged to retire while still young.
Those who continue to run after they
are forty years old all finally succumb
with grave heart affections. Popular
Science Monthly.
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on
Buckwheat Cakes.
The old way of setting to raise over night by .the f
use of yeast, while the cakes were light yet there was always .
a well founded suspicion that buckwheat cakes made in '
that manner were indigestible and unwholesome, because
of the chemical action that takes place, so alters the flour -
from its original character, that the souring or decomposing
process continues in the stomach, followed by dyspepsia
and kindred troubles.
The new way does away with all fermentation, souring;
etc., and places upon the table smoking hot buckwheat cakes
in 13 minutes or less. Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder
is the element that superseded the old methods. Buck
wheat and all griddle cakes made with Dr. Price's Powder
are not only exceedingly light and delicious, but can be
enjoyed by dyspeptics and invalids with impunity. Dr. Prices
Cream is the only baking powder cantaining the whites of
eggs.
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t.juu what KM te Flaa Carrlacas
The Sioux aation is rapidly bseominf
a naiiom of aristocrats. Dnrinf the past
few weeks many fine new carriages have
crossed over here to zae bioux rerv
uwanil all of them belonged to mem
bers 0 the Sioux nation who carae here
at different times ana purcaaaeu uuau,
wavinsT for the samein gooa naracasa.
fkWiiM dealers are now. in conse-
nnence. doing; a rushing business with
TnAiana. and the demand for
(nut anil mMtexnensire carriages is
creasing, all the prominent and wealth
ier Indians appearing' aeiermmea not
Ike outdone by any other member
wiimtvra of the tribe.
The purchase by one Indian of an ele
gant carriage is sure to arouse the jeal
ousy ot some otner inaian, auu
some rustling is done. Cattle or
thing that will net them the money
seeded is hurried to the nearest market
and disposed of, and with the money
tlma obtained the fortunate Indian wil
tsnrrv toawazon and carriage dealer
and purchase the finest carriage that can
be procured.
Th Lower Brule and Crow Creek
diyia are already the possessors of man
Una turnouts, and should they keep o:
as they are now doing every Indian will
soon travel about in a carriage of his
own. If the carriage manufacturers
would paint their carriages a gaudier
ftolor it would result in lanrelv increased
sales, on the frontier at least, but at the
rate the Indians are purchasing it is
quite probable that they are satisfied
with the plain colors. South Dakota
Cor. Minneapolis Journal.
To Have New Eyelids.
Harvey Chaffee, of East Valley, a well
known oil contractor, who was badly
(buned by a natural gas explosion on the
7th of May, is in the city for the purpose
of having the skin grafting process tried
on him. Mr. Chaffee was very severely
roasted. The skin was burned off his
face and neck, and ten holes were left in
his head. The most serious scorching
was that upon the eyelids. They were
completely burned off both eyes, and in
their stead at present is the raw, in
flamed and swollen flesh. The sight is
most repulsive,- but Mr. Chaffee bears
bis misfortune with great fortitude.
When asked if his injuries were pain'
ful, he replied: "Yes, sir, they hurt me
right smart at times, but it takes a great
deal to make me grunt. I can stand a
heap. You ought to have seen me when
I was burned. My ears were as big as
your fist and my head as big as a half
bushel measure. I was a regular sight.
You can ask my wife there," and he re
ferred the reporter to a pleasant woman
who sat near..
The work of puttinjr new eyelids upon
L the unfortunate contracter is to be done
by Dr. F. D. Edsall, who said that he
would cut the material for Mr. Chaffee s
eyelids out of the patient's arm. Except
for his burns Mr. Chaffee was in a
healthy condition, and his&wn cuticle
would perhaps knit more rapidly than
that from another person. The new
eyelids will be bereft of eyelashes, bnt
: utility and a cure is what is sought after
rather than beauty in this case. Pitts
burg Post
Twenty Posad Salmon for a Cent Apiece.
The present wonderful run of salmon
has so glutted the market that for some
time these silver sided beauties have
been selling at five cents apiece, but the
price took a tumble yesterday and sev
eral fishermen sold a boat load of fine
salmon, weighing about twenty pounds
each, at the pitiful price of one cent
apiece. One cent for a twenty pound
silver salmon, the finest quality of that
excellent fish, is the lowest price perhaps
that a food fish ever sold for in this or
any other country, but salmon are so
plentiful that people do not know what
to do with them.
It is estimated that enough fish could
be taken there in one day to fill 1,000
barrels. Fishermen say they can make
big money bv selling salmon, at a cent
apiece to the canneries if they will only
buy all they can catch. Une man caught
fourteen with a gill hook attached to a
hoe handle yesterday, and another man
claims to -have found them in such num
bers in shallow water in the Dungeness
that he threw them out with a pitchfork
and soon got fish enough to last for a
month. Fort Townsend Leader.
Sharks In ZMVg Island Sound.
An unusual number of large sharks
was reported during September in Long
Island and Fisher's Island sounds. To
these the name of man eater is generally
applied. As a matter of fact, however,
the true man eating shark (Carcharodon
carcharias) is rarely seen on our coast.
This species grows to a length of twenty-five
feet and to the weight of one ton,
being surpassed in size only by the bask
ing shark. It is a relative of the enor
mous shark whose teeth occur fossil in
the phosphate beds of South Carolina.
Any shark measuring nine or ten feet in
length is liable to be called a man eater,
and not without warrant, for all of them
will attack man with slight provocation
or when suffering from hunger. Forest
and Stream.
Crime la the Air.
It has been frequently noticed that
there are epidemics of robberies as well
as of suicides and other crimes. A crim
inal epidemic, peculiar to a half dozen
large cities of the United States that
have a large and vicious population, is
that of Sunday murders, which are the
results of a day of idleness. Then,
again, murders with peculiar features
often occur in groups in all parts of the
country. In France there is a tradition,
centuries old, that epidemics of suicide
return in regular cycles, at each recur
rence of the suicidal furor the succes
sive victims of their own murderous
hands vising with one another in the
greater ghastlihess of the tragedy that
they enact.
Stories -of wife murders in various
parts of the country, relieved by a few
exceptional murders of husbands by
by their wives, reach the press simul
taneously from many different ' sources.
"Murder is m the air has become a
stereotyped expression among newspaper
men and detectives, who know from ex
perience thatsuch epidemics will run
-their cycles and cause many bloody
records to be made before they have
spent their fury.
With bank robberies it is the same.
It is not often that a single robbery is
made one is sure to breed others; "they
come not singly, but in whole battal
ions." This is not because the same
gang engages in many different enter
prises, but because a universal similar
impulse permeates the minds of the
classes devoted to that form of guilt.
St. Louis Republic
Happy Hooslers.
Win. Timmons, Postmaster of Idaville,
Indn writes "Electric Bitters has done
more for me than all -other medicines
combined, for that bad feeliDg arising
frnm TCIdnev and Liver trouble." John
Leslie, fanner and stockman, of same
wimnn "Find RlMtr!r. Bitters to be
tha heat Kldnev and Liver medicine.
made me feel like a new man." J. W
Gardner, hardware merchant, same town,
gays: .Electric miners is jusi iuo iuing
tnr a man who is all run down and don't
care whether he lives or dies ; he found
new strengin, guuu appemu nuu icii. jus
ike he had a new lease on me. uaiy ouc
bottle at A. r;. atrenz's urug store, zz
A Bnaadr locomotive This.
"If the new engine I am about to
have constructed is not capable or mak
ing 100 miles an hour Til give her away
to the first person I meet"
This astounding statement was made
by Mr. Jacksoa Richards, the master
mechanic of the Philadelphia and Read
ing railroad. Mr. Richards has been
working on his latest invention for the
nast. ten vears. and a few days ago tho
drawings were completed and the pat
ent was applied for.
In outward appearance the new loco
motive will not differ materially from
the speedy engines now used. The pe
culiarity of construction lies in the fact
that instead oE the two cylinders as used
at present there will be four. One cylin
der will be located on each side of the
locomotivo frame as at present, and the
other two will be cast in what is known
as the cylinder saddle. The inside pair
of cylinders are to be in one piece and
will lie on an angle. The outside cylin
ders are to be horizontal as at present.
The four cylinders will entirely over
come what is known to engineers as the
dead center, and the engine will be per
fectly balanced without any counter
balance in the wheels.
This latter improvement will, to a
large degree, do away with the vicious
pounding which has proved so destruc
tive to modern roadbeds. The perfect
balancing of the engine will be largely
due to tho working of the two cylin
ders so near her center, and these same
cylinders, working as they do from such
a central point of vantage, will help out
in the matter of speed to a great degree.
Phil. Cor. Boston Post.
Sermon by Tclephono In England.
The transmission of sermons by tele
phone to those who from various causes
are unable to attend church services,
which was. experimented with in Eng
land last year, has turned ont so success
ful that steps are being taken to extend
its use on a large scale. Provided with
the receiver specially used, it is said that
invalids can hear perfectly while in bed.
In a quiet room the tolling of the bell
before service is distinctly audible, the
"prayers can be followed, the responses
emphasized and every word of the ser
mon distinguished, while S0I03 in the
anthem are heard as distinctly as in the
church.
Twenty-four calls were recently re
ceived at the telephone office for connec
tion with a local church in an English
town, and as the number of subscribers
there probably numbered not more than
sixty, it is evident that the privilege of
hearing the sermon without going to the
church for it was appreciated. In many
of the large towns in England, especially
in Manchester, Nottingham, Stafford,
Wolverhampton, the church telephone
service has come to be quite an institu
tion. New York Recorder.
Sutherland !
Sutherland is located near the
center of a beautiful level section
of land on the Union Pacific Rail
way about eighteen mile3 west of
North Platte. Good bridges span
the North and South Platte river?
at this point, making a large sec
tion of fine agricultural countrv
tributary to it. Jt must necessarilj
become a good town and keep pace
with the improving country which
it will supplT. It affords a good
opportunity for the location of
hotel, grain buying, lumber and
coal yard, merchandise, livery stabh
blacksmith shop or other busiuese
that will be patronized by a thrift
agricultural community, and it i:-
always the case that those win
come first and establish a busines
acquaintance reap the greatest ben
efit in the rise of the value of prop
erty as well as in other respects
Applications for lots will be received
maps furnished, etc., by H. S. Boal,
North Platte, A. G. Campbell
Sutherland, or the Undersigned.
J. T. CLARKSON,
16-1 Randolph St.,
CHICAGO.
E. B. WARNER,
Funeral Director.
AND EMBALMER.
A fall line of first-class funeral supplies
always m stock.
East Sixth street, next door to First
tional Bank,
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Another of the War's Strange Stories.
The suit of Joseph Troop brings ont a
mostremarkable story. Thirty-one years
ACO Troon wsis married to Miss Elizabeth
Carter in Ohio. Four weeks after the
wedding Joseph went to the front as a
soldier. Ho fousht for four years, and
finally was hit by a Confederate bullet
and was left for dead on the held. JN ew
of his supposed death reached his Ohio
home.
Nevertheless, he recovered after sev
eral months' suffering in a hospital, and
in 18GC ha returned to Ohio to claim his
bride. But she had left and could not
bo fonnd. He hunted for her for month
and years, and finally heard tliat she was
dead. .Meanwhile he had met another
charming young lady and the two "were
finally married. For twenty-three years
thev have lived together, and in addition
to accumulating a handsome fortune
they have been blessed with several sons
and dantrbters. one now of age.
A week ago, while at the state reunion
of soldiers at Grand island, Troop was
introduced to a widow by the same
name. A few minutes' conversation re
vealed tho fact that the gray haired lady
was his bride of over thirty j-ears ago.
The old soldier was dnmfounded, and
hurried to his Lincoln home to bear the
tidinss to the mother of his children.
Ho assured her that nothing but death
could part her from him. and sent word
to his long lo3t wife that he would have
to sue for a divorce from her. Cor. St
Louis Republic.
Saved from Suicide by ills Hog'
An intelligent pet dog owned by Louis
Schmidt, of Camden, has prevented him
from committing suicide.
Schmidt is just recovering from a seri
ous attack of typhoid fever, which left
him very nervous and subject to fits of
melancholia. He was seized with one of
these spells Monday night, and while his
wife was asleep he stole to the kitchen.
Here he procured a rope and making
a noose tied one end to an iron hook in
the wall. Then procuring a chair he
adjusted the rope, and kicking away the
chair swung himself off, as he thought,
into eternity. But, unknown to Schmidt,
his faithful dog had followed him, and
instinctively knowing something was
wrong the intelligent animal went back
to the bedroom whining pitifully. Final
ly he awoke Mrs. Schmidt by tugging at
the bed clothing and rubbing his cold
nose in her face, and she followed the
dog down stairs as soon as she missed
her husband.
Thero she found him hanging from
the hook. She managed to cut him
down in time to save his life. Philadel
phia Times.
She Had Xo Trust in Banks.
Over $7,000 in greenbacks has been
found hidden among a lot of rubbish in
the trunk of an eccentric widow, who
spent her summer in a cottage near
Stonington, Conn., and who died re
cently. Always on leaving Stonington
at the end of the season she left the
trunk with a friend, telling him that it
contained nothing of account, but that
she didn't care to have burglars rum
maging tlirough it, which wonld he the
case if she wero to allow it to remain in
her cottage.
After her last visit the trunk was
stowed away in the garret of the friend,
and he thought nothing more of it unti.
some time after her death. His mint
then happened to run on the old box
and ho opened it, finding the money. It
is supposed that she accumulated it
from allowances made her every now
and then by relatives. Philadelpliia
Ledger.
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MEN'S LADIES' AND CHILDREN'S
BOOTS AND SHOES.
Perfect Fit, Eest "Work and Goods as
Represented or 3roney Refunded.
REPAIRING PROMPTLY DONE.
NORTn PLATTE, NEBRASKA.
AVonderful Pigs.
Josejih Stevens, an Oxford farmer, has
a sow and four well grown pigs, which
ran in an orchard where the limbs of
tho trees are quite low and laden with
apples. The old sow springs up and
catches a limb and shakes it, thus bring
ing down tho apples, which she and her
family quickly devour. After getting in
this way all she can reach, one pig
climbs on the mother's back and reaches
a higher limb, which she shakes vigor
ously, bringing down a fresh supply of
fruit. Worcester Gazette.
Chemistry on tho F;ina.
Many farmers laugh at the notion cf
applying the principles of chemistry 03
the farm, calling such an application of
science "foolinK" and humbug. Yet
farmers see their sons grow up and drift
away because, having been educated in
the public schools, the spini of a scien
tific and progressive age has possessed
them, and they seek elsewhere than upon
an old fashioned farm scope for the edu
cation which they have already gained
and for the wider education which they
crave.
Now there is no field which offers more
amplo scope for an educated and scien
tific mind than a good farm. The old
fashioned farmer sajs. "What do I want
to know about chemistry? It's enough
if I manure the ground and plant my
seed; nature will take care of the rest."
But the application of manure is
"chemistry," and if the farmer or his
boy understands the groundwork of that
science he knows what kind of manuro
is good for a certain field and what kind
is good for another field, and his knowl
edge may make for him or save for him
many dollars in a single year.
A knowledge of chemistry will enable
him to save the valuable properties of
his manures for the soil, instead of let
ting precisely those properties be evapo
rated and wasted, as they are in the case
of most natural manures as now treated
on the farms of this country.
But the most important function ot
science on the farm, after all, at the pres
ent time, is not the immediate material
advantage which it may bring to the
fanner, but the means which it will sup
ply of interesting the young, of engaging
their active and eager intelligence, and
keeping them from places where they
will be very much worse off. Youth's
Companion.
Cruelty to Lobsters.
It is singular how the cruel practice
of boiling lobsters alive continues. Our
forefathers and, indeed, our parents
let calves bleed slowly to death, on the
theory that in no other way could white
meat bo secured, and later on calves
were bled one day and killed the next.
Now every one knows that a calf can be
killed in a humane manner and the veal
made just as good. Hogs are largely
killed by electricity instead of by the
old barbarous method; and, generally
speaking, animals killed for food have
been put out of the way in a much more
humane manner than formerly. But
lobsters are still tortured out of exist
ence, the only difference being that,
while formerly they were exclusively
boiled to death, now some are boiled
and some broiled. Which process causes
the most agony no one can say. St.
Loui3 Globe-Democrat.
Some Foolish People
Allow a cough to run until it gets be
yond the reace of medicine. They oftsu
say, "Oh. it will wear awaj'," but in most
cases it wears them away. Could they be
induced to try the successful medicine
called Kemp's Balsam, which is sold on a
positive guarantee to enre, they would
immediately see the excellent effect niter
taki ng the first dose. Price 50c arid $ 1 00.
Trial size'free." At'all Druggists.'' :'
m
t.CCO Genuine Tjtor Curtain Desks $21 and
G24 Ket Spot Cssl. w
JTo. 40CV Antlqco Oafc Standard Tyler !:.
lft. Oln. lone by aft. OIn. liisb. Mice and Dust
I'roof.Zlnc IJottoaa under drapers; Patent; Brass
lined Curtain; Polished Oak; WritlnsTable: 6 Tum
bler locS; ono lock secn-inn all drawers; sneavy
cardboard Filing Koxcs; Cupboard In .end; Paneled
Finished Back; Extension Ara Elides;
200 llic. 1'rlce.F. O. K. at Factory. SSi &ct
Also l,OCO Antlquo Ash Desk3.
Ko.iOOS. SamcasaVivcciccptmadcnf Spl.a
Antique Ash. KOOd as Oak. J.' V
KrSce F. O. I?, at Factory. Act. Snipped
from our Indlanapolisfactory direct. Slade and sold
solely by tho TYLER DESK CO.. St. Louis, Mo.
160pagoCit!osucof Bank Coontsrs. Deks. rte , In colora
daal ever pr intra, j.ihih nccj ---
"W. O. X-BMCOST,
Land Attorney and Loan Agt.
Money constantly on hand to close fnrm leans
at io-srest rates given in Western Nebraska.
All kinds of business before United States Land
Oilicc attended to.
NORTH PLATTE,
2sTEB.
A. P. CARLSON, .
Merchant
Tailor.
Full Hue of piece goods always ou
hand and made to order.
Only first-class workmen employed.
Shop on Hprnce Street over Ilacs Gortlor& Co.
H. W. FOGEL,
SiMflllillifeflflliFh
Horse Shoeing a Specialty.
hopon Locust St.,
North Platte. Neb.
b b a at mmm. m.
W 1111 IIIIH I sr
VETERSHARYSPECinCS
Fcr Sorses, Cattle, Sheep, Begs, Hogs,
AND POULTRY.
500 Paso Bonk an Treatment of Animals
and Chart Sent 1'ree.
cct.es Fevers, Conscstions.Inflnmmnlion
A.A.i Spinal Dieninsiti, Milk i-'evcr.
IS. It. Strains, lanicnenn, Rheumatism.
CC Distemper, Knsal Discharges.
W.D. Hots or 2rnb, Worms.
K.K. Coughs, Heaves, Pneumonic.
F.K. Colic or Gripe, Bellyache.
5.(5. 31iscrirriaec, Hcmorriiases.
II. II. Urinary and Kidney Diseases.
I.I.Ernutivo Discae, itlaucc.
J.K. Discuses of Digestion, Paralysis.
Stasia Cottlo (over CO doses). - - .(jQ
Stable Case, with Specifics. Manual.
Veterinary Cure Oil and Medlcator, 67.00
Jar Veterinary Care Oil, - - 1.00
Sot.i bj ProgMc; or Mnt prepaid anywhere and la
qooalHy en rtetipt f price.
iicspnacTS'aED. to., 111 a iistoi sl, :.',wTort-
1 HOMEOPATHIC ft ft
SPECIFIC flO.fcU
In ms SO years. Tho only sncccsffnl remedy for
E8
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Nervous Debility, Vita! Weakness.
and Prostration, from over-work or other caosos.
91 per run. or 6 vialaanauixe vial powaer, ioro.
Sold by DrnKlsU, or Knt poti!d ua receipt ot price.
ucarunns' stu. co., 111 &m wuaH su.y.wrort.
Billiard : Hall,
J. C. IIUPFER, Prop,
The Casino is supplied with am-
n!p hiHiiirfl n ml nool tables and is
; t 1
a pleasant orderly resort at all times.
Liprs and Cigars
of the finest stock and brands will
be found at the bar.
Neville Block, North Platte.
350
REWARD.
Bs virtae of the laws of tho State of Nebraska.
I hereby offer a reward of Fifty Dollars for tho
cnptuio and conviction of any person charged
with horuo stealing in Lincoln county.
D. A. liAKEK,
Sheriff.
CONSUMPTION' cntED
A.n old physician, retired from practice.
havini: Imd placed in his hands by an
East India missionary tho formula of a
simpio vegetablo remedy for the speedy
and permanent cure of Consumption,
Bronchitis, Catarrh, Asthma, and all
throat and and Lunir Affections, also a
positive and radical euro for Xervoua
Debility and all Iservous Complaints
after havim? tested its wonderful cura
tive powers in thousands of cases, has
felt it his dutv to make it known to his
suffering fellows. Actuated by this
motivo and a desire to relievo human
suffering, I will send free of charge, to
all who desiro it, this receipe, in German,
French, or English, with full directions
for preparing and using, bent br mail
by nddressing with stamp, naming this
paper... i. , "W.. A. Notes, .
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