Nebraska Newspapers

    ACO&IT PfcOVEBB Uo. 12.
W May liTe without leaning,
IFa May lire without hooks,
Bat civilize Ma
Cannot lire without cooks.
Nor can a cook live without an ACORN
Range, which renders perfect cook
ing an absolute certainty.
EM
Here we are again with the
best line of
HARDWIRE
In the City. Have secured the
sale of the Celebrated lines of
A CORN COOK AND
HEATING STOVES.
Everything New.
Repairing done Promptly.
Come in and let us smile on
you. We make the Price.
A. L. DAVIS.
m to Order.
$3.00 Pants.
3.50 Pants.
400 Pants.
450 Pants. '
5.00 Pants.
"5.50 Pants.
6.00 Pants.
6.50 Pants.
7.00 Pants.
7.50 Pants.
8.00 Pants. 9.00 Pants.
I have the agency for the above
and samples of the cloth can be seen
at J. E. Evans' Book Store.
C. VL NEWTON.
p RIMES & WILCOX,
ATTORNE YS-AT-LA W,
NORTH PLATTE, ... NEBRASKA.
Office over North Platte National Bank.
A.
H. CHURCH,
LAWYER,
NORTH PLATTE, ... NEBRASKA.
Office: Hlnman Block, Spruce Sircet.
D
,R. N. F. DONALDSON,
Assistant Surgeon Union Pacific Railway
and Member of Pension Board,'
NORTH PLATTE. ... NEBRASKA.
Office over StreltzV Drug Store.
"yAL EVES, M. D.,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
NORTH PLATTE, ... NEBRASKA
Office: .Neville's Block. Diseases of Women
and Children a Specialty.
$50 REWARD.
By virtue of the laws of the State of Nebraska
I hereby offer a reward of Fifty Dollars for the
capture and conviction of any person charged
with hone stealing in Lincoln county.
D. A. BAKER,
Sheriff.
N H. S. BOAIi,
Insurance !
Agent for best line of Fire,
Life and Accident Co's.
GEO. NAU MAN'S
SIXTH STREET
HEAT MARKET.
Meats at wholesale and re
tail. Fish and Game in
season. Sausage at aU
times. Cash paid for Hides.
NORTH FLfcTTE
Marble Works.
Manufacturer of and Dealer in
Monuments, Headstones,
Curbing, Building v Stone,
And all kinds of Monumental
and Cemetery Work.
Careful attention given to lettering of
every description. Jobbing done on
short notice. Orders solicited, and esti
mates freely given.
Hershey & Co.
DEALERS IN
Agricultural : Implements
OP ALIi KINDS,
Farm and Spring Wagons,
Buggies, Road Carts,
Wind Mills. Pumps, Barb
Wire, Etc.
Locust Street, between Fifth and Sixth
Pure :: Ice !
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LAND OFFICE NOTICES.
NOTICE FOH PUBLICATION"
Land Office at North Platte, Neb. I
August 28. 18B3. f
Notice is hereby given that the following
named settler has filed notice of his intention to
make final proof in support of his claim, and that
said proof will be made before Keuister and
Kcceiver at North Platte. Neb., on October 10,
1K!3. viz: Francis A. Disraeli, -who made H. E.
No. 16.188. for the cast half of the northwest
quarter and the southwest quarter of the north
east quarter and tho northwest quarter of the
southeast quarter of section 24, township 12
north, ranee 29 west. He names the following
witnesses to provo his continuous residence
npon and cultivation of said land, viz: Thomas
McGlimmere of North Platte. Neb., William H.
Picket of Cottonwood Springs, Neb., William
Stoddard of North Platte, Neb., and Clause
Mylanier of North Platte, Neb.
A. S. UALDW1X,
316 Register.
LEGAL NOTICES.
NOTICE.
Mary C. Mer?dith, L. w. Tnlleys, Trustee, and
Burnhnm, Tulleys k Co. defendants, will take
notice that on tho 10th day of August, 189. John
M. Wardwell, plointifT herein, filed his petition in
the district court of Lincoln county. Nebraska,
against 6aid defendants, the object and prayec of
which is to foreclose a certain mortgage executed
by tne defendant Mary C. Jleroclltli to I. W. Tul
leys. Trustee, upon the east half of section Twen
ty (20), in township Nine ('J) north, in range
Thirty-three (33) west of tho Sixth P. M. in Lin
coln county, Nebraska, to secure tne payment or
one promissory note dated March 1st, 1883, for
the sum of $600 and Interest coupons thereto at
tached; that said note and coupons are now past
due; that said note and mortgage has been as
signed to this plaintiff for value, and plaintiff
prays for a decree of foreclosure that said prem
ises be sold to satisfy the amount found due.
You are required to answer said petition on or
before the 2d day of Ocfcber, 1893.
Dated August 23, 1893.
JOIIN M. WARD WELL, Plaintiff.
lly A. D. McCajjdless and J. E. Evans,
3U His Attorneys.
SHERIFF'S SALE.
By virtue of an order of sale issued by W. C.
Elder, clerk of tho District court of Lincoln county
Nebraska, npon a decree and judgment rendered
by said court in favor of H. Emerson and against
J. J. Henrich Schroder, et.nl., I have levied
upon the following described real estate a3 the
property of the t-aid J. J. Henrich Shroder, et.
aL, to-wit: The Southeast Quarter (S. E. U)
of Section Twenty-six (2(5), Township Ten (10),
north of Range Thirty-one (31) west of Sixth
Principal Meridian, in Lincoln county, Ne
braska, and I will on the SOth day of September,
1893, at one o'clock p. m. of said day, at the
east front door of tho Court house of said
county, in North Platte, Nebraska, sell said
real estate at public auction, to the highest
bidder for cash, to satisfy said order of sale,
the amount due thereon in the aggregate being
the sum of S410.G0, and 21.00 costs, and probable
increase costs, with interest on said decree and
judgment.
Dated at North Platte, Neb., this 2Sth day of
August, 1893.
D. A. BAKER,
311 Sheriff of Lincoln county, Nebraska.
NOTldfe.
Frank W. Hopkins and Mrs. Hopkins his wife,
whoce first name is unknown, defendants, will take
notice that on the ICth day of August, 1633, The
Phenix Investment Company, a corporation,
plaintiff herein,' filed its petition in the district
court of Lincoln county, Nebraska, against said
defendants, the object and prayer of which are to
foreclose a certain mortgage executed by the de
fendant Frank W. Hopkins to the Security Invest
ment Compay, of Yankton, Dakota, which mort
gage has been duly assigned to plaintiff herein;
said mortgage being given to secure a certain
bond or note dated Jnne 1st, 1889, for the sum of
$450.00 with certain Interest coupon notes attached
for tho sum of (15.75 each; said mortgage covering
the following described real estete, to-wit: The
southeast quarter of Section .2.", Town 10, Range
33 west, in Lincoln county, Nebraska., that there
is now due and unpaid on said bond, coupon notes
and for taxes paid the sum of SSOO.&'i with interest
from August 16, 1893; plaintiff prays for a decree
that defendants be required to pay the same or
that said premises may bo sold to satisfy the
amount found due.
You are required to answer said petition on or
before the ICth day of October, 1893.
Dated September 4th. 1893.
THE PHENIX INVESTMENT COMPANY,
Plaintiff.
By Gnr&rxs i: 'Wilcox, Attorneys. 354
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purifying- tho blood
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Police ob the Wkeel.
The proposal to mount a part of the
park police on bicycles is timely though
tardy. Already the world's armies have
organize dtheir bicycle service, and it
can hardly be contended that this mode
of locomotion is more appropriate there
than in the police service or likely to be
so useful. In the event of the wheel's
adoption by the police authority the
public may assume that the men will be
required to sit it properly. They will
not offend the eye by contributing to
the monkey on a gridiron exhibition.
In fact, their martial appearance could
be expected to contribute by its example
to diminish that depressing practice.
It is certain that the seat of the mounted
police has stimulated perception of tho
ridiculous in equestrians bobbing from
the saddle like cockney tailors out for a
holiday.
The extension of the use of the wheel
is among the interesting phenomena of
the day. The French postal service has
adopted it extensively in rural service.
Even the stolid Briton has proposed the
reform. In England, however, the mag
nitude of tbe mail offers some, difficul
ties. Its growing extension in the col
onies is marked. The export of bicycles
now cuts a respectable figure in board
of trade returns, Thiring the past year
the value has nearly doubled. New
York Evening Sun.
-FROM-
iPURE Well Water.
; WM. EMS
announces to the public that be is serv
' -ing pure crystal ice this summer.
Best in the market.
.Leave, orders at Streitz's Drue Store.
CENTRAL MARKET
F. M. HECK, Prop.
DEALER IN ALL KINDS OF
Fresh, Salted and Smoked
ME4.TS.
Hams, Bacon, Fresh Sausage, Poul
try, Eggs, Etc.
Cash Paid for Hides and Furs.
Your patronage is respectfully so
licited and we will aim to please
you at all times.
U, P. TIME TABLE.
OOIKO EAST.
No.S Atlantic Express Dept 12:15 A. si.
No. 6 Chicaco Uxpress 6:40 A. M,
No. 4 Fnst Mail 8 55 A. M.
No. 2 Limited " 10:10 A. M.
No. 23 Treight " 750 A. M.
No. 18 Freight " 7.-00 p. M.
No. 22 Freight " 4:05 a, 31.
GOING WEST MOUNTAIN TIME.
No. 7 Pacific ExDress Dept 4:10A. M
No. 5 Denver Express " 1030 p. M
No. 1 Limited " 10:00 p. M
No. 21 FroiRht " 330 r. M
No. 23 Freight " 750 A. M
N. B. OLDS. Agent.
CLAUDE WEINGAND,
DEALER IN
Coal Gil, Gasoline,
Crude Petroleum and
Coal Gas Tar.
Leave orders at Evans' Book Store.
mm lans ,
I. A. FORT,
Has 200,000 acres of U. P. K. R. land for
sale on the ton year plan. Call and
seo him if you want a bargain.
E. B. WARNER,
Funeral Director.
ANDMBALNER.
A full line of first-class funeral supplies
always in stock.
NORTH PLATTE, - NEBBRSKA.
Telegraph orders, promptly attended to.
Exiled Socialists In Siberia.
A number of socialist exiles have been
located at Chita, Siberia. Our corre
spondent tells us that, though not allowed
to leave the city, they move about freely
enough within it and in various Muds of
skilled handicraft are earning their own
livelihood. They are in this way quite
an acquisition to the neighborhood. If
you have a scientific instrument to bo re
paired or any work to be done in which
delicate manipulation and special inge
nuity are essential, you must send for one
of the socialists.
They bear an excellent character, and
the superintendent of police in Chita
says, "If all the people in this province
were socialists, there would be nothing
for us to do." Alas for this province, a
large proportion of its .people are of a
very different type! What Van Dieman's
land and Botany bay were to England
half a century ago the Transbaikalia is
to Russia now a cesspool foe its crime.
Capital punishment is comparatively
rare in Russia, and villains who would
without doubt receive the death sentence
in England or be lynched without judge
or jury in some parts of the United
States are in this country condemned to
life banishment in Transbaikalia. Lon
don News.
Tbe Chicago Fair's Bad Management.
Either the blood sucking parasites at
the fair must be dispensed with, the dead
head leak stopped and expenses cut down,
or there must be a default on the bonds
which the corporation owes. The direct
ors have outstanding five millions of
bonds and floating debt, and they have
not yet a dollar to apply on the bond
payment. They have not yet paid the
floating dobt by perhaps a million, and
from present appearances will not until
late in August.
The fair is costing $600,000 a month for
operating expenses. The army of dead
heads who enter its gates is 6teadily in
creasing. Friday more than one-third of
those in attendance went in on passes.
The deadheads ought to be cut down at
least one-half. At least half of the police
f orco at the f air ought to be mustered
out and taken off the payrolls. The ex
penses of operating the fair ought not to
be over $300,000 per month at the very
outside. The directors must face the
music. Chicago Tribune.
Offer to Float the Victoria.
Signor Balsamello, the inventor of the
Balla Nautica, the submarine vessel with
which several successful experiments
were performed lately at Civita Vecchia
in the presence of a commission appoint
ed by the Italian government, declares
that by the aid of his invention he can
float her majesty's ship Victoria at a
cost of less than 40,000. He says that
with the Balla Nautica he can make ar
rangements for raising weights far ex
ceeding that of the sunken ironclad. The
preparations and placing of grapnels and
chains around the Victoria would take a
month and would be performed by the
crew of the submarine ship, which has
already descended to and been maneu
vered successfully at depths beyond that
in which the Victoria lies. The bring
ing of the ship to the surface would take
two days. StJames Gazette.
Somebody's Father.
I think that one of the saddest inci
dents of the war which I witnessed was
after the battle of Gettysburg. Off on
the outskirts, seated on the ground with
his back to a tree, was a dead soldier.
His eyes were riveted on some object
held tightly clasped in his bands. As we
drew nearer we saw that it was an am
brotype of two small children. Man
though I was, hardened through those
long years to carnage and bloodshed, the
sight of that man who looked -on his
children for the last time in this world,
who, away off in a secluded spot, had.
rested himself against a tree that he
might feast his eye3 on his little'loves,
brought tears to my eyes which I could
not restrain had I wanted. There were
six of us in the crowd, and we all found
L great lumps gathering in our throats and
mist coming before out eyes which al
most blinded us.
We stood looking at him for some
time. I was thinking of the wife'and.
baby I had left at home and wondering.
how. soon, in the mercy of God, vane,
would be left a widow and my baby boy
fatherless. We looked at each other and
instinctively seemed to understand one
another's thoughts. Not a word was
spoken, but we dug a grave and laid the
poor fellow to rest with his children's
picture clasped over his heart. Over his.
grave on the tree against which he was
sitting I inscribed the words: "Some
body's Father. July 8, 1863." Blue and
Gray. .
Exploded Traditions at Old Vale.
Both South college and the Athenaeum
have their now blasted traditions. As
to the former, it has been alleged n New
Haven and at least one prominent ar
chaeologist has indorsed the story that
about the time the college was built
there was a mysterious hiatus of grave
stones in the old cemetery on the New
Haven green. The tradition then averred
that these stones had. been built into the
fireplaces of South college, where they
would be found when the structure was
pulled down.. Here was the fine hint for
a college ghost story, based .on a spectral
avmqiqfiAn f9 oflFwmfo avium. ts$ nna
of tbe stones, but, if ever penned, .jt itfi
outlawed now by the discovery that
every fireplace in Old South was of sim
ple brick.
Then, again, President Stiles' diary
notes the confession of a student that he
had stolen-the college Bible, dropped it
between the courses of mason work dor-'
ing the building of the At hen mum (1763),
and that there the sacred volume had
been bricked up a myth proved so now
by the fall of the Athenaeum's walls
without the filched Bible's reappearance.
New Haven Cor. New York Post.
Singular Case of Insanity.
Professor Alfonso Carpentieri, the,
famous gynecologist of the University
of Naples, became suddenly insane a
few day3 ago. He imagined that ho was
dying from starvation- and thirst, and,
entering a restaurant, drank' four cups
of coffee-, a bottle of wine, a bottle of
cognac, and ate 15 sandwiches and
more than a dozen eggs. When the
proprietor declined to serve anything
else, the professor sprang on the table
and cried, with the voice of Stentor:
"Eggs, eggs! Give me eggs and keep me
from starving!" When he began to
break chairs and tables, he was over
powered and placed in a hospital. He
is one of the most famous physicians in
Italy. Chicago Times.
A Thirty Found Nugget of Gold.
The recent gold strike made at the
Virtue mine, near -Baker City, is the
richest and most extensive revealed for
years. One afternoon a chunk was
taken out weighing 80 pounds, which is
estimated to contain $8,000.' On account
of the extreme richness of the ore it is
not run through themill, but it is pound
ed up in a large mortar. Cor. Portland
Oregonian.
The Henry Bergh circle of King's
Daughters, composed of eight members,
reports that last year it chloroformed
4,089 cats, 71 dogs, 6 wounded sparrows,
1 rabbit and-1 opossum.
A snake is renorted to have olirafeedfe
pole to a martin's box at Breesy Heights,
W. Va., a short time ago, and swallowed
two birds before being discovered.
A Faaious Stesmbcmt Race.
The famous race-between ike Hanni
bal City and the Ocean Spray occurred
in 1669. Prior to this race the Oceaa
Spray had splendid records. The race
was from St. Louis to Keokuk. The
early part of the race was very close,
and the excitement was intense. Wheat
nearing Bissell's point, the Ocean Spray
found the Hannibal City passing her.
The mate on the Ocean Spray, one Davis,
becoming desperate, ordered the head of
a barrel of turpentine to be knocked in.
His men were then ordered to dip the
wood in this turpentine before putting
it in the furnace, the object being to
quickly increase the steam pressure.
The Ocean Spray was supposed to carry
only 160 pounds of steam, but Davis
thought that by "putting another nigger
on the safety valve" he could ran the
pressure up to 200 pounds and distance
his rival. In carrying the dripping wood
to the furnace the track became satu
rated with turpentine, which caught fire
from the open furnace. The flames quick
ly reached the barrel. .An attempt was
made to throw the barrel overboard, bnt
it exploded, and the burning oil being
scattered all around the boat was soon a
mass of flames.
Scott Hatson was captain on the Han
nibal City. He was a brave and gener
ous man, and in this instance these two
qualities made his name famous. Not
withstanding the imminent danger, he
ran his boat alongside the burning one
and rescued every person on board. Da
vis, the mate of the burned boat, was
afterward convicted and sent to the peni
tentiary for such gross violation of the
rules of safety. He was later pardoned.
St. Louis Letter.
The Order Pleased the Cook.
The following story is told on a mis
sionary of the China inland mission, a
bachelor keeping house for himself in the
southern part of China: One morning,
in ordering his dinner, he wished to tell
his cook to buy him a chicken. Instead
of saying "ye"' for chicken he aspirated
the word, saying, "Buy me a 'che.'"
His cook thought that was an eminently
proper command and went about his
marketing in high good humor. At noon
the missionary found no chicken cooked
in fact, no dinner at all, for his cook had
not returned. About dark the man
came back, saying: "Tills was not a
good day for buying wivos, and I have
been all day looking for one, but at last I
found one for you. She is rather old and
not pretty, but you can have her cheap.
I have promised 40 for her." New York
Independent.
THE LEGEND OF EVIL.
This is the sorrowful story
Told when the twilight falls.
And the monkeys walk together
Holding each other's tails:
"Ok fathers lived in the forest:
Foolish people wan they.
They went down to the comland
To teach the farmers to play.
"Our fathers frisked in the millet.
Oar fathers skipped in the wheat,
Our fathers hang in the branches.
Our fathers danced in the street
Then came the terrible farmers.
Nothing of play they knew.
Only they caught our fathers
And aet them to labor too!
"get them to work in the comland,
"With plows and sickles and flails;
Put them in mud Trailed prisons
And cut off their beautiful tails!
"Kow we can watch our fathers, -Sullen
and bowed and old,
, Stooping orer the millet.
Stirring the silly mold.
"Driving a foolish furrow,
Mending muddy yoke.
Sleeping in mudwalled prisons.
Steeping their food in smoke.
"We may not speak to our fathers,
For if the farmers knew
They would come up to the forest
And set us to labor too!"
This is the horrible story ,
Told as the twilight fails.
As the monkeys walk together
Holding each other's tails.
Itudyard Kipling.
Two Strange Brothers.
It had always been the habit in tbe
Ward family if two relatives differed
strongly to arrange not to be on speaking
terms. Dr. William G. Ward was once
asked how much he had known of his fa
ther's first cousin, Sir Henry Ward. Ho
replied quite gravely: "I only saw him
twice once as a boy, when he came to
see my father, and then again I had an
interview with him about a matter of
business soon after I came into my prop
erty. We arranged at the end of it not
to be on speaking terms," quite a super
flous arrangement, as Sir Henry Ward
lived at that time in Ceylon, of which he
was srovernor, and in fact never came
afrain to England for a prolonged visit.
Dr. Ward and his brother Henry had
been estranged for a year or so, and one
night they met at the Haymarket thea
ter. Each of them bad for the moment
quite forgotten the quarrel, and friendly
greetings passed, and they had a talk
about the nlay. Next morning came a
letter from Henry Ward:
dxar William in tne nurry of the mo
ment tonight I quite forgot that we had ar
ranged to meet as strangers, and I wrlto this,
leei you should misunderstand me, to say that
I think we had better adhere to our arrange
ment, and I remain, dear William, your affec
tionate brother, Henry ward,
Dr. Ward replied:
Dear Henry I, too, had forgotten our ar
rangement. I agree with you that we had bet
ter keep to it, and I remain your affectionate
brother, w. G. ward.
San Francisco Argonaut.
Difficulty of Sailing a Boat.
Watched from the wharf, a sailboat
seems an easy sort of craft to manage,
The wind uppears to do everything. The
casual guest of a skilled skipper likewise
is apt to think that as his host takes
things so easy it cannot be so very diffi
cult to handle a sailboat after all. He
regards the warning of experience as
based on the jealousy of competition.
Let him who thinks sailing a science
which its followers try toiepresent as
hard to learn because they want to keep
it to themselves take a trick at the helm
once.
It looks easy to keep the boat ou her
course. Your friend who takes yon out
sailing barely-touches the tiller once in
awhile. Some day he asks you to take
the tiller while he goes forward. He tells
you to keep that spire anil that tall
chimney in line. You take the helm; you
do what you think you have seen him do".
The chimney and the steeple act as if they
'were bewitched. They .positively will
not come into line, xon observe ma
knowing tone, "She doesn't seem to
mind her helm." But she is minding her
helm, and pretty soon you find out what
jibing means.
Host of the fatalities of summer sailing
are due to the errors of the man who
thinks sailing is easy,, who is confident
that he knows all about if. In reality
many a sea captain who can handle a big
ship without difficulty does not feel at
ease in command of a sailboat. Boat
sailing is a course at the Naval academy
in which the cadets undergo arduous
training under the most skilled instruct
ors. Boston Transcript.
Iilquids During Meals.
If we bear in mind the whole mechan
ism of digestion, it will readily be seen
that in cases of weakness or want of
tone on the part of the muscles of the
stomach, when every part of the food
cannot be properly presented to the ac
tion of the digestive juices, the introduc
tion into the stomach of a moderate
amount of water may be of no slight
benefit. The mass of food will become
more pliable and so more easily operated
upouby the weakened muscles. Youth's
Companion. .
Tho Fire Great Oceans.
The following are the latest estimates
of tho five great oceans: Pacific, 71,000,
000 square miles; Atlantic, 35,000,000
squar miles; Indian, 28,000,000 Bquare
.miles; Antarctic, 8,500,000 square miles;
Arctic, 4,500;000 square miles. St. Louis
Republic.
An Excuse For Fighting.
Joseph Chamberlain, in the speech he
was not permitted to deliver, got as far
as to liken Gl.Nlstone to Herod. He was
on the verge of likening the home rulers
to the innocents. At that point their in
dignation became insupportable. The
fist fight which followed was a healthier
and manlier recourse than tbe reduction
of expression to a science of insult within
the elastic limits of parliamentary per- 4
missibihty. It is better to call a man a
liar and have him to hit you in the nose
than it is to declare that he is the lineal
descendant of the impenitent thief who
died on the cross and for him to retort"
that you are a blank leaf between the Old
and New Testaments. Brooklyn Eagle.
A Profitable Potato Season.
The Irish potato season, which has
just ended, has been the most profitable
one on the eastern shore for years past.
The shipment has been larger, and the
prices have been and are yet the very
top of the market. During the past
three weeks over 2,500 carloads of pota
toes have passed over the peninsula.
One day's shipments from Cape Charles
alone amounted to between 8,009 and
9,000 barrels or 50wcarloads. The sweet
potato season will be in full blast in a
few weeks. Richmond Times.
Til er Fox, the Badger and Babbits.
The fox noses the rabbits out at times
and scratches them out. As to the badger,
what could be more delicate for his very
accommodating appetite than tender
young rabbits? They put flesh onto his
ribs after his fast of ten a long and com
pulsory one in winter. So he digs for
them in the most businesslike manner,
just like a mole. He knows where they
are exactly his nose tells him that and
in less than two minutes tho fore part of
him is buried. All you will see will be
his hind legs working vigorously and a.
lot of earth .moving. But he gets his
rabbits. Hungry stomachs are hard to
reason with. The badger is, I know, as
a rule, nocturnal in his habits, so is a
fox; but where the places that they fre
quentare quiet and secluded they will at
times hunt by day for their food, A
vixen and her mate at times reverse the
order of things. Like humans, wood
land wild oreatures are governed by cir
cumstances. I have' at different times met with the
fox and the badger in spots where I cer
tainly did not expect to see them. And
when I have gone where, according to
myreckoning, they ought, to have been
so far as locality could be relied on
they were not there. Very contradic
tory experiences one has in looking for
wUd things. Blackwood's Magazine
The Habit of Carelessness.
In youth men are self reliant, self as
sertive and self sufficient. Soon they
find themselves mistaken, possibly iu lit
tle things at first, for the fact is they are
still small in knowledge and influence.
Hence the chagrin of the first errancy is
-softened by the reflection that its conse
quences caanot work much harm. Too
often they fail to emphasize theimpor?
tance of the value of their utterances as
their personal influences widen. Hence
their testimony without sufficient proof
for themselves begins to work misohief
for others. Then follow surprises, mis
understandings, alienations, crimina
tions, heartaches and occasionally some
thing worse- Friendships are broken, in
tegrity is wounded, confidence is shaken,
human testimony is suspected.
Now all tide is not the result chiefly
of any essentially bad trait in human
nature. It arises rather from careless
ness and a sort of insincere habit of oon
dooimg the fault on the score of personal
Insignificance. "Oh, I didn't mean it!"
covers a multitude of these sins among
our yomager friende. But, alas, "younger
friends" soon grow into midlife, and the
careless habit, once indulged, barnacles
itselfupon age. Boston Commonwealth.
- When 3faha Mongkut, father of the
present king of Siam. died in 1868, his
body was embalmed and left sitting in
state for nearly a year and a half.
It is said that a pinch of salt placed on
the tongue and allowed to dissolve slow
ly 4s helpful in siok headache.
MI86ILE FROM THE HEAVENS.
Billions of Them Vail, but Cosaparatlrely
Few Beack the Earth.
"It is a nistake to suppose that mete
orites burst i& the proper sense of the
word," said a scientist to a writer, "an
H often happens that they are broken to
pieces on striking the atmosphere of tbe
earth. This may seem surprising, but
let Be call your attention to an analogy.
Strike the surface of water with your
fist, and, though a fluid, the resistance it
opposes to the blow seems almost as
atroog as if it were solid. Now, the me
teorite is moving at a tremendous rate of
speed. If small, it is set on fire in an in
slant by the friction of the air, and after
glowing for a moment brightly is con
sumed.
"On any night in summer you will
see 'shooting stars' now and then. They
are meteorites, which on coming into
contact with the earth's atmosphere are
set afire. This is not surprising, inns-
much as they approach the planet on
which we live at a speed which often at
tains 44 miles a second. By causing the
destruction of meteorites the atmosphere
serves as a protection for people on the
globe, who would otherwise be pelted
by such missiles to a dangerous extent
It is estimated that not less than 10,000,
000 of them, big enough to be visible to
the naked eye, strike the earth every 24
hours.
"By contact with this planet the me
teorites are raised to a temperature which
reaches from 3,000,000 to 4,000,000 de
grees high enough to consume the hard
est known substance almost instantly
Thus only those of large size reach the
earth before being entirely burned up.
The greatest number of such bodies can
be seen just before daybreak, because by
that time we are on the front side of the
globe as it moves through space. The
elevation at which most of them are vis
ible has been found to be between 45 and
80 miles, very few being Been at a greater
height than 100 miles.
"It is believed by most astronomers
that some very large meteors have en
tered our atmosphere and have passed
out into space again, their great mo
mentum being sufficient to take them
away from the earth's attraction. What
these flying bodies are is a question that
has been much disputed, but it is con
sidered most likely that they are the
debris of broken up comets. In one re
cent instance the correctness of this the
ory has found striking proof. That was
the case of the comet of Biela. It was
discovered in 1826 and was again ob
served in 1832, 1845 and 1852. In 1815 it
had split into two parts, and in 1872 it
failed to appear when and where it
should have done. Evidently it had been
smashed up, and prediction was made
that there would be a great meteoric
shower composed of the remains of tho
lost comet. This prediction was fulfilled
"certain groups ot meteors move m
elliptical orbits around the sun. Occa
sionally the earth passes through their
clusters, producing what are known as
meteoric showers. Such showers occur
annually from the 8th to the 12th of Au
gust, and there is a similar display ir
"XT T no m.
jLiuveuiuer oxiuu overv oo years, xaa
stream of the August meteors is esti
mated to be from 5,000,000 to 10,000,000
miles thick. The earth, though travel
ing with the velocity of 2,000,000 miles a
day, is immersed in it for several days.
"The fall of meteorites to the earth is
sometimes accompanied by a great dis
play of light, occasionally illuminating
an area of many thousand square miles.
When such an event occurs at night, and
with loud detonations, so great in some
instances as to shake houses and fright
en men and animals, the explosions are
caused by the breaking up of the me
teor. Ordinarily you will find that such
meteorie bodies are coated on the out
side with a blaek substance, which is
the effect merely of fusion of the super
ficial material by great heat. A piece of
Biela's comet was actually picked up in
Mexico in 1872 at the time of the shower
of its remains. Naturally it is consid
ered interesting.
"Such great interest is taken in mete
orites that all of those collected have
been carefully catalogued. They are
mostly composed of iron, with usually a
percentage of nickel and cobalt and
sometimes copper and tin. It is custom
ary to sawthem into slices, which is a
laborious process, for sale or for ex?
change among museums. Sometimes
the slices are prettily polished, or the cut
surfaces are etched with acid so as to ex
pose the crystalline structure. This
structure is in no two such bodies exact
ly the same, and the differences are
thought well worth studying. Attempts
have been made to counterfeit meteor
ites because they are so valuable, but
without success." Washington Star.
Fortunes From Bags.
It is astonishing what immense sums
ragpickers receive in the course of the
day. The combings of women's hair sell
at 80 cents a pound. This means $300 to
the knights of the hook. "Merinos," as
they are called, are another source of
profit. These are the scraps of tailors
and dressmakers and brjng about $86,000
a year.
The old bones, are another source of
profit and bring about $100,000 a year.
Tho papers, corks and crusts of bread all
go to different industries and bring a not
less fabulous sum.
As for the election bulletins, which to
the number of 1,325,000 are pasted upon
the walls of Paris, they are much sought,
especially immediately after an election,
for the making of buttons. Paris Letter
Robert Louis Stevenson's Story Writing.
Mr. B. L. Stevenson says that he be
gins work every morning at 6 o clock
and sometimes keeps at it all day in spite
of an impression that three hours of
writing is enough. "I am a laborious
writer," he avers, thereby encouraging
the worthy band whose motto is "Labor
Omnia Vincit" and who have faith that
nothing is beyond the reach of hard work.
But straightway he dashes their hopes
when he says, "I inherit a taste for story
telling from my father, who used to tell a
story every night before he went to bed."
Is not that a most unfair advantage for
a romancer to take of his contemporaries,
to burst upon the current story market
with the prodigious endowment of de
scent from a Scotchman who out of mere
lovo of yarning was used to tell a story
every night? Frankly it seems a worse
blow to ordinary competitive endeavor
than for an'Astor to take up the busi
ness of publishing magazines. Harper's
Weekly.
Toys on a Tombstone.
In the cemetery of Marietta, Ga., there
is an infant's grave that attracts atten
tion of visitors to that place. There is
no headstone, but resting on the top of
the grave is a glass box containing the
playthings the little one had before its
death. There are dolls, rubber and china,
rubber ball, rattler, china cup and other
toys. On the sides of the grave are three
bottles of medicine, that which was in
tise presumably during the last sickness.
The Art otXeave Taking.
The art of going away gracefully is one
of the most difficult of social observances.
Women err in lingering too long after
the start is made; men in bolting too
suddenly, making sometimes the exit al
most a blow in the face. There is a
golden mean of leave taking, whose aro
ma of graceful courtesy is not soon dis
pelled, and happy is he or she who finds
it. New York Times.
A LU fold la SehooL
It has always been father's purpose to
give his children a fair education, but as
the family iacreasod in sise and numbers
aad father's salary would not grow in the
same proportion, he found it necessary
to cut down some of the aveauee of ex
peadlture.; Ose of Us first thoughts was
that of the shoe bill for the family. Said
he, "HI be the cebbler when amy shoes
need repairing after this." Unfortunate-
PROF,
Hirschber
The celebrated New York
mf"rUl,"rd "IMS and St. Louis eye expert, by
special request wui again
visit NOKTH PLATTE on
brought from the shop where he was
working some of the old belting that had
been laid by. This leather was thorough
ly saturated with oil. and as I entered
the schoolroom next day with new taps
on my shoes the oil would form a mark
on the floor, just like a footprint on the
newly fallen snow, ana wnat good ex
cuse to tell I couldn't think of.
It became an eyesore to the whole
school, and I was wishing somehow I
might take a vacation. Finally the
ZfiHttSfiSgsri How Are Your -Byes!
leaf, I told the story. My brother Jack
Orl. . !. Hi
and I had got to fighting the other day
in the cellar, and he threw me in a pan
of grease that was near by cooling.
That lie settled the teacher, but the other
element of the school were not satiated
until they stood me on say head and
looked at my shoes. Cor. New York
Recorder.
Ia a City Restaurant.
A trifling incident noted not long ago
in a city restaurant tells its own story
and needs no spoken moral. Two girls,
possibly attendants in a shop, were sit
ting together eating their luncheon, ana
one was holding forth to her companion
on an experience which had just befallen
her.
"I came in here," said she, "and got
this seat, but wan't long before an old
lady came in and sat next to me. She
took off one pair of glasses and put on
another. Then she stared and stared at
the bill of fare and laid it down. I
thought first she couldn't read a word.
Then she turned around to Tne.
" 'Will you let me sit next to the win
dow? says she.
"I didn't take any notice, and in a min
ute she said it again. Then I answered
her:
" 'No,' says I, 'this is my seat, and I'm
going to keep it.'
"She turned 'way round in her chair
then and looked me all over. Then she
looked away. But I guess she knew I'd
got the .best of her, for she did have the
manners to say:
" 'I beg your pardon.'
"She spoke real low, and I noticed she
looked land of surprised." Youth's Com
panion.
Sticks In Mercantile life.
Many young men choose a mercantile
position for the present only without
thought or intention of making it a per
manent business The result is that of
tentimes we find these men at SO years
receiving no more pay than they did
when only 18.
There is an army of this class of young
men behind counters today. They are
an aimless, pitiable class. They stand
listlessly in their departments and are as
unobservant of what's going on around
them as are the inanimate figures which
one sees at the entrance of clothing estab
lishments.
Many of them let slip grand opportu
nities of becoming great business factors
in the commercial world and have
doomed themselves to the treadmill of
common drudgery. Singleness of pur
pose implies self reliance, without which
a young business man la. not thoroughly
f urnished for a successful business career.
Dry Goods Economist.
Do thev ache, burn, itch, water,
or fire upon contiued use? If they
do thev are defective and should be
carefully fitted with glasses.
Are you subject to chronic head
aches, the kind that begins in the
region back of and around the eyes,
making the eyes feel heavy and
dull? If so the eyes are at fault,
and a pair of glasses are needed.
i
"Don't Neglect Your Eyes,
When you can call and consult
an eminent Opthamologist.
Pleasure In the Heareas. c
There is a satisfaction in learning the
names and positions or tne stars that
does not belong -to the study -of the
planets. Tne stars apparently never
change so for as their position relative
to each other is concerned. The planets
are always moving, and to those who do
not watch the heavens with particular
attention it is a cause of snrpnso very
often to nnu a '-new star' adorning a
certain section of the heavens. If, howr
ever, this newcomer pe carefully pbr
served from night to night, it will bo
found to change its distance from the
fixed stars, and the observer will discover
that it is a planet and at liberty to wan
der about from place to place under the
sole condition that it obeys certain rules
of motion. When the bright stars that
grace the heavens become familiar to ob
servers, they will know just what to ex
pect on each succeeding season. New
York Times.
Remember the dates, October 7tii,
9th and 10th, at the store of A. F.
STREITZ, sole agent for North
Platte, Neb.
CONSULTATION EREE.V
TESTIMONIALS :
Omaha, April 8, 1893.
PkofTH. Hirschberg:
Dear Sir I have been weannf
tho glasses you prescribed -fQrjuesver
since l received tnem, ana x am very
much pleased. They are so easy on the
eyes, tne strain is entirely relieved and
at the same time I can see much better
than before. Respectfully yours,
Charles Conoyer.
FREMorrr, Nec, April 3, 1893.
Prop. Hiuschbeko:
Dear Sir: Answonng your favor
of March 2Stb, I am pleased to say I ap
preciate the very thorough examination
of my eves which you give while in-
Omaha, and am delighted with tho two
pairs of glasses you prescribed for mo;
they being much superior to any I have
used. Any friends needing treatment I
shall refer them to you.
Yours truly,
D. Croweix.
Lincoin, Neb., March 27, 1893.
Dr. H. Hirscherg:
Dear Sir I havo tried the glasses
and spectacles which you mado for me,
and take pleasure in recommending
them as being tho most easy on my eyes
of any I have ever worn, and in using
them I am unable to say- whether 1 am
ooking through glasses at all. I wish
you great success m your travels over,
this state. These gliisses are such an
improvement to my eyes that I can sea
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as well as J. could in my Doynood. i
take great pleasure in recommending to
any one who is afflicted like myself and
has to wear glasses, as I can seo better
with them than I have been able to do
in the last twelve years.
lours respectfully,
T. K. Sudborough,
Genl. Supt. Pacific Express,
Omaha. Neb.
NoRxn Platte, April 7, "93.
I take pleasun in recommending the
plan of Prof. Hirschberg of securing .
competent opthomologist to our place,
every few months to examine the eyes of
our people and advte tnem as to tuo
requisite glasses, etc., required as the
best way to secure proper and scientifi
cally adjusted spectacles and eyo glasses
and I take pleasure in recommending it
to their consideration.
Dr. Wm. UJves.
R. D. THOMSON,
-A-xoliitect,
Contractor and Builder,
Customers Too Fartlealar.
Some years ago the proprietors of a so
called "ulster house" in London placed
in their windows a placard setting forth
a new rule of their establishment, name
ly, that no orders given by Americans
would be executed unless the orders
were paid for beforehand. The proprie
tor on being interviewed declared that
American ladies were much too hard to
please infinitely more so than English
ones. They insisted upon having their
things made to fit or they refused to take
them. ''I had an ulster sent back to me
the other day, for instance," he rer
marked, ,fby an American customer
merely because it was longer in front
than it was at the back." Only that and
nothing more! Lucy Hooper in Home
Journal.
The Name of Stebblas.
The Stebbins family is fairly numer
ous. It is not now a classic name. Its
owners wear it ignorantly. More the
shame for them. It is by right a classic
name, borne as it was by the first of
Christian martyrs St. Steven, some
times spelled Stephen. Steven is the
Dutch way of spelling it. Spell it in
Spanish Eeteban. Drop the initial si
lent e and then you have Steban. Among
the ignorant the step to Stebbins in very
short. And the honorable name of St.
Steven takes on degradation, even as the
fine old Norman-French name D'Au
baine becomes the homely Dobbins.
Davenport Democrat.
127 Sixth St. Cor. of Vine,
NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA.
. -
H. MacLEAN,
Fine Eoot and Shoe Maker,
And Dealer In
MEN'S LADIES' AND CHILDREN'S
BOOTS ANDSH0ES.
Perfect Fit, Best "Work and Goods :u
Uepresented or Money Refunded.
REPAIRING PROMPTLY DONE.
Hanaoay aad Xradltloa.
There is a popular fallacy among par
ents that harmony means erudition, and
erudition of so abstruse a nature as to be
quite beyond the reach of -the every day
child and to be reserved for the later
years after he is grown up, if undertaken
at all, and then chiefly when the youth
or maiden has what is called "talent."
Ah, the muoh abased word! How glad
ly would all' artists banish it from the
Vocabulary and from the ears of the
American child 1 Harmoay ia only gram
mar, aad grammar of euch an entertain
ing kind that if rightly presented it ia
fascinating, and of 'a nature so essential
that tbe musical nonpossessor of it,
young or old, is crippled, Harper's Ba-
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A bit of pure aad harmless mischief at
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