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Sappy Gftfctilfe'to All ! Davis, the Hardware Man, Has just received the Nicest Assortment of Lamps to be found in the west. Also a nice line of silver-plafced "Tea and Coffee Pots and Tea-kettles; something new, combining beauty and durability. We handle the cook and heating, for either soft or hard coal, which will be sold regardless of cost for the next three weeks. Ke member we carry a full line of Hardware, Stoves and Tinware and would be pleased to have you call and see us. A. L. DAVIS, - - - CASH STOflE. Repairing Promptly Executed. U. P. TIME TABLE. No. No. 'o. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. OOIXS ZABT Atlantic Express .DeptliJO a. . .. " 630 A. if. .. 8 0 A X . .. " 10:05 A. M. ... " 7:50 A. X. ... " 6:00 T. M. .... " 4:03 A. . 6 Chicago Express.. 4 FaiitMaU 2 Limited 28 Freight 18 Freight 22 Freight OOINQ WEST HOUNTA1S TIME. 7 Pacific Express Dept 4:40a. K 5-Dnrer Express " 1030 p. 1 Limited 10:00 p. if 21-Fmght " 23Freight 6:10 A. M N. B. OLDS. Agent. p RIMES & WILCOX, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, NORTH PLATTE, ... NEBRASKA. Office orer Korth Platte National Bank. H. CHURCH, LAWYER, XORTH PLATTE, - - - NEBRASKA. Office: Blnman Block, Sprue 8reet. . D .R. N. F. DONALDSON, Assistant Surgeon Union Pacific Hallway and Member of Pension Board, NORTH PLATTE, ... NEBRASKA. Office OTr 8treltt's Drag 8tore. AL EVES, M. D., PHYSICIAN AND BURGEON, NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA Office: Neville's Block. Diseases of Women and Children a Specialty. NORTH FLTTE Marble Works. W. C. EITIsrEB, Manufacturer of and Dealer In ( Monuments, Headstones,. Curbing, Building Stone, And all kinds of Monumental and Cemetery Work. Caret ul attention given to lettering of every description. Jobbing done on short notice. Orders solicited and esti- ' mates freely given. R. D. THOMSON, -afuccliteot, Contractor and Bider. 127 Sixth St. Cor. of Vine, NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA. $50 REWARD. Br rirtaa of the laws of the State of Nebraska I hereby offer a reward of Fifty Dollars for the emptor and conyiction of any person charged with horse stealing in Lincoln county. D.A.BAKER, Sheriff. GEO. NAUMAN'S SIXTH STREET HEAT MARKET. Meats at wholesale and re tail. Fish and Game in season. Sausage at all times. Cash pai for Hides. LEGAL NOTICES. State of Nebraska, Lincoln County, m. In County Court, Dec 1st, 1993. It being suggested to the Judge of paid court that one Albert Harsh, an Inhabitant of said county, departed his life on or about the 28th day of November. 1893: and there beine on file in said court, deposited by said deceased In his lifetime, an instrument purporting to be the last will and testiaent of said deceased, in which Frank E Ballard is named as Executor, it is Ordered, that December 23d. 1893. at 1 o'clock p. m., is assigned for hearing thereof, when all persons interested may appear at a County court to be then held in and for said county, and show causef any, why said instrument should not be admitted to orobate as the lost will and teatimnnt of said deceased and that notice of such hearing be given to.all persons interested therein by publish ing a copy of this order in The Noxth Platte Tsnuxt newspaper, printed in said county, for three successive weeks prior to said day of hearing J.UIEb M. BAY, 483 County Judge. ORDER OF HEARING. Statu or Nkbxaska, LnCCOLK COUKTT, J At a County Court, held at the County Court Boom, In and for said County, Dec 5th, 1803. Present, James M. Kay, county judge. In the matter of the estate of John L. McAllister deceased. On reading and filing the petition oi Lucy McAllister praying that administration ot said estate may be granted to Samuel C. Wills administrator. Ordered, That December 23d, 1893, at 1 o'clock p. mM is assigned Tor nearing said petition, wnen au persons interested in saia matter may appear at a County Court to be held in and for said County, and show cause why the prayer of peti tioner should not be granted; and that notice ol the pendeney of said petition and the hearing thereof, be given io all persons interested in said matter, by publishing a copy of this order In the North I'lattk Tbibtox, a weekly newspapei printed in said County, for three successive weeks, prior to said day of hearing. JAMES M. RAT, 483 County Judge. PANTS TO ORDER $3 to $9. SUITS TO ORDER $r5 to $30. Call at Evans' Book Store and see samples of goods. C. M.NEWTON, A GT. FOB S-LB- E.. B. WARNER. " Funeral Director. AND EMBALHER. 160 acres of land in section 18, town ship 13, rane, 27, four miles northeast of Maxwell, in Lincoln county, Nebraska: 90 acres good farm land, 12 acres o' which is broke; the remainder good grazing land. Pawnee creek, a livi stream, runs through the land. Framf house, two stables and other outbuild ings, good well, an irrigation ditch and a small creek near house. Also breakinp plow, stirring plow, riding cultivator and single cultivator, cookin? stove anc cooking utensils. Price $800 for the land and implements. Call on or ad dress, Napoleon St. Marie, 463 Maxwell, Neb. H. MacLEAN, . Fine Boot and Shoe Maker, And Dealer In MEN'S LADIES' AND CHILDREN'S BOOTS AND SHOES. Perfect Fit, Best "Work and Goods Represented or Money Refunded. REPAIRING PROMPTLY DONE NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA A full line of first-class funeral supplies always in stock. NORTH PLATTE, - NEBBRSKA. Telegraph orders promptly attended to. What a Prominent Insurance Man Says H. M. Blossom, senior member of H M. Blossom & Co., 217 N. 3d St., S Louis, writes: I had been left with very distressing cough, the result ol influenza, which nothing seemed to re lieve, until I took Ballard's Horehouno Syrup. One bottle complete!' cured mi I sent one bottla to my sister, who had si severe cough, and she experienced im mediate relief. I always recommend this syrup to my friends. John Cranston, 903 Hampshire street Quincy. Illinois, writes: I have found Ballard's Horehound Syrup superior ti any other cough medicine I have evei known. It never disappoints. Price 50c. Sold by A. P. Streitz. 2-1 TStt e Inter Ocean -IS THE- MOST POPULAR REPUBLICAN NEWSPAPER OF TEE-WEST -AUl HHS THE LKRGEST CIRCULATION. TEE5IV3E5 BV MAIL. DAILY (wilhsul Sunday), t 6.00 ftr year. DAILY (with Sweety), 9S.00 per year. The Weekly Inter Ocean, per year, $1.00 As a newspaper THE INTER OCEAN keeps abreast of the tines la all respects. It spares neither palna nor expense is securing ALL THE NEWS AND THE BEST OF CURRENT LITERATURE. The Weekly Inter Ocean Is edited especially for those who, on account of mall service or any other rascal, do set take a daily papsr. In its columns are to be found the week's news of all the world condensed and tha cream of the literary features of the Daily. AS A FAMILY PAPER IT EXCELS w"i' J'' " on 1 sists of EIQHT PACES, with A Supplement, Illustrated, in Colors, of EIGHT ADDITIONAL PAGES, maklnt in all SIXTEEN PAGES. This Supple, saeat, containis SDX PAGES OP READING MATTER aad TWO PULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS, is alone worth the price chsrg-ed for the paper. THE INTER OCEAN IS PUBLISHED IN CHICAGO, the news and commer cial center of all west of the Allegheny Mountains, and is better adapted to the seeds of the people of that section than aay papsr farther East. It ia in accord with the people of the West both in Politics aad Utoratare. Please remember that the price of The Weekly Inter Oceaa IS ONLY ONE DOLLAR PES YEAR. Address - THE INTER OCEAN, Chicago. Importing an Ancestor By HAS DE QtJILLE. Copyright, 1868, by Americaa Press Associa tion, j PROEMIAL. "Congratulate me, old man,. I am now Mayflower of the Mayflowers I" cried' mj friend Sam Johnson. "A Mayflower?" queried L "Yes, a Mayflower. Not in person, o! course, but by marriage. It shall now be my care to perpetuate on the soil of America the line of the noble house 0: Johnson. At last I am in tne swim. and blue is the hue of my blood!" "What! Married! Have you deserted our noble band of bachelors?" "Yes, and am now of the noble band ox benedicts." "In what bright spot in the Golden State did you find your Mayflower blooming?" "Why, my dear fellow, I've not been in California at all. I've been east. Bless yon, old man, since leaving the Comstock I've crossed the 'briny' have been over to the land of our fathers." "You don't mean to say that you've brought a bride from over the sea, when we have in our own America the best and most blooming beauties the world can boast?" "No, no, my dear boy! No, my bride is not from over the sea, but to win hex cost me a trip to the land of my ances tors to old England, where peacefully slumbering in rural churchyards lie whole acres of Johnsons." "Why, Sam, yon don't mean to tell me that you've been over to England since I last saw your' "Yes, old man, that is just where have been', and to a few other places be sides. Why, by Jove, a man may cir cumnavigate the globe, and when lie re appears on the Comstock he is supposed to have merely been over the Sierr as to California on a little flyer! I've knocked about pretty lively since I left Virginia City a year ago." "A year ago!" "Yes, a year ago. You have hardly missed me, but I really left here a year ago. When you think a fellow is over in California, it never counts with you in this town; it is the same as if he were here at home. In the time I've been away I might have put about four 'gir dles' round the earth." The particular Sam Johnson who thus spoke was a young man about 28 years of age, who had for three or four years been engaged in running a big hoisting engine at one of the leading sil ver mines in Virginia City. He also speculated a little in mining shares and otherwise enjoyed himself after the Comstock fashion. He was always happy-go-lucky young fellow and bought and sold mining stocks in such a seem ingly offhand, reckless way that his friends, -were wont to say that the god dess of fortune herself took care of all his speculations. The fact was, how ever, mat every move aam made in stocks was well considered. I was delighted to meet the jolly young fellow, and having met we at once pro ceeded to our old quiet retreat to con verse at ease and pass upon the merits of the newest brand of beer put forth as candidate for public favor. "Yes," continued Sam, when we had anchored ourselves in our old time safe harbor, "yes, I've been down east, over to England, down south and all about." "I can understand your trip to the New England states and can guess that you went down into Georgia or South Carolina to look at mines, but I cannot imagine why you should have gone tc England." "Ha, ha, ha!" laughed Sam. "What is the joke about your trip to England? Perhaps you made it merely m imagination?' "No, I actually went to England and accomplished my mission there, but probably no man ever before crossed the ocean on such an errand. Ha, ha! it was the funniest piece of business ever undertaken. But it was a success a glorious success." "What you are saying is all Greek to me, Sam." - "Of course, but you'll see the fun oi the whole business when you've heard my story. Then if yon don't say that the affair is the most elaborate joke of the century I'll treat to the beer every day for the nest year. To begin with, the whole and sole object of my mission to England was to steal and import an ancestor for the Johnson family." "To import an ancestor?" "Yes. A great-great-grandfather, and I got him. He is now the pride of Pason agessit.'1 "But he is not alive?" "Alive! Pooh, no! Seen dead ever since 1798." CHAPTER L THE PEOPLE OP THE TOWN OP PA60NA- GESSIT. Sam then proceeded to tell me his story as follows: You know that my father. James A. Johnson, left San Francisco about four years ago pretty "well fixed," as the say ing is. With what he made here and down at the "Bay," he had very nearly two millions in good, solid gold coin. He went back to New England to found a home in which to end his days. After spending months in looking about he at last fixed upon the village of Pasonages- sit, near the old whaling town of New Bedford, Mass. In Pasonagessit he built a palatial mansion the finest private residence in the village. His grounds were also the finest. As for carriages and horses, no man in the place could ever approach my father. He had also a fine library and some fine and valuable paintings not paintings from over the sea, but the work of our own leading artists. Of all this I had heard through letters from my sisters before I went home. I expected to find my father, mother and all the family perfectly happy. Judge of my surprise and sorrow when I dis covered that they were quite the con trary. I was not long in getting at the lacts at the real situation. In the village of Pasonagessit resided two "high privates," Captain Shrimp and Rev. Nantucket Sperm. All the rest of the inhabitants were Bradfords, whose progenitor came over in the May flowerso at least it seemed to me. My people were looked upon as upstarts a family without a pedigree and they were snubbed on all sides. Soon as I made this discovery, which I did in a way that came home to .the heart in my bosom, I took occasion to speak of it to my father. "Sam, my boy, you are right," said he. "It is true. You see how it is here. These people have a sort of petty, nar row pride of ancestry that causes them to act in a very clannish manner. All jtf their societies and social gatherings so smack of the 'pilgrim fathers of the otony of Plymouth' that all who can tos Aim descent from said fathers are laws. There is here a sort of aristoc- of the descendants of the first ef emigrants that landed on these , and all others are looked upon nobodies. Your sisters are as well , as well mannered and as good way the daughters of our eMagmbors, yet they are snubbed. We re an cvtoast family. All their social iMmads tores -Iff - w i -nit - i f 7 try' and the 'Mayfiower ..pilgrim? ,al ways come up in one way or another to rule us out. Ah, Sam, we're set of so cial lepers I" . "They must boa queer kiad of Amer icans," ventured L ' "They are just as I have told you, and they are growing-worse eviry,ymr. With their various kinds of pilgrim so cieties they are cultivating this sort of thing. As we are socially ostracised hire among these descendaass of the. Mayflower pilgrims, I am seriously thinking of selling everything I possess in the place for whatever I can get and moving west or south. My father possessed a reallyleaatiful place. .Everything had been jwranged to his mind, and he had hoped to com-1" fortably and happily end his days in the beautiful little village. What he said worried me greatly. Besides this worriment on my father's account, I was chafing not a little in my own harness. There was cause for tins ohafing, and a very bewitching little one it was, notwithstanding it owned to the name of Bradford. On my aids it was a case of love at first sight. Ah, what a sweet little Mayflower it was! From the moment I first set eyes upon Pru dence Bradford I felt that I had "met my fate," as the saying is. . Judge, then, of my disarjDointmen' when I learned from my sisters that Prudence Bradford was upon the very apex of the pilgrim pyramid was the Mayflower of the Mayflowers. They said that owing to the peculiar social conditions existing in the village would be almost impossible for me to obtain an introduction to the young lady or to in any way make her acquaintance'. Besides, they had heard that Prudence was reserved for her" cousin Standishjt Bradford of the bluest blood. My. sis ters being ostracized in Pasonagessit so ciety, their brother could expect no kinder fate. But where 'there is a will there is a way.. The houses of Rev. Nantucket Sperm and Captain Shrimp constituted neutral ground, as I soon discovered. Very soon after thi3 discovery I managed to mak the acquaintance of Prudence Bradford, I found her as good natured and sweet as she looked. Not a sign of the pride of pedigree did I find in Prudence. 'will not say that on her sido it was also. a case of love at first Bight, but it was very like it. She now accuses me of having "hypnotized her." At all events, we progressed very rapidly, and soon there was a very good understanding be tween us. Soon I grew so bold that I ventured to stroll home with her to the castle of the Bradford of all the Bradfords. There I met my Waterloo. Prudence was hus- I ventured to stroll home with her. - tied out of sisrht in atsf instant. The Bradford of all the" Bradrortls eyedme"! "' CHAPTER II. THE TOWN OP THETFORD AND TOMBS OP MY ANCESTORS. On mv arrival in London I halted there two or three days to make inquir ies and get my wits into working order. I soon decided that I must get back among the old country towns and vil lages. There I would begin a series of antiquarian researches. I would be a young American specially interested in old churches and churchyards. Wishing to at once get into some old and thickly settled section of the coun try. I took the Great Eastern road and went np into Norfolk. Speaking of my antiquarian hobby and special fondness of old churches and churchyards to a fellow passenger, he mentioned roe wwn or xneixora, on tne Little Ouse, in Norfolk county (and part ly in Suffolk), as a place in which I might see some very old churches still standing and the ruins of others much old er. "There, qn the Norfolk side of the Ouse," said my fellow passenger, "you will see St. Peter's, called the "black church" because built of flint. Also in Thetford, on the Suffolk side of the Ouse, you will find St. Mary's church, a large thatched structure, with a lofty square rower. Ana m xneuoru you win see the remains of a Cluniao priory and oth er religious edifices. My fellow traveler appeared to be quite an antiquarian himself. He said Thetford. was a very ancient town, even for England, and told me so much about the place that I decided to make the town my headquarters and from it for a time prosecute my archaeological re searches, though it is only about 05 miles out from London. As there are in Norfolk county alone no fewer than 700 parishes, I had before me an excellent hunting ground. I very soon discovered that I had landed in what must have been the original rook ery or hatchery of the Johnsons in Eng land. The ground was full of the "crop- jTpings'' of Johnsons of both high and low degree; also there were "Johnstones," "Jonsons, and even "Johnssons." I did not devote much time to the ex amination of the large cemeteries in Thetford, but at once set to work at rrmaiMirHjuy" tlii nlil riil.Tnilnfw! rhnrrV- over. Then, beginning witn "xoung man!" he laid down the law of the Brad ford dynasty. He gave me to under stand that Prudence was reserved for her blueblooded cousin, Standish. Brad geons and ever blooming joke. Even my mother aad sisters must remain in the dark. In oonaequence of this understanding, I the next week set out for England. In a note to Prudence I told her I waa go ing to the land of onr ancestors on a mission of great importance to my fa ther, aad one that would be qtiite as important to ourselves. As it was my father's business, I was not at liberty to enter into particulars, but she would probably be able to get an inkling of it from Rev. Nantucket Sperm or Captain Shrimp, at whose houses my father vis ited. My father gave out that I had gone to the mother country on business of his own. He wore a very solemn face when he said ISvis going on a "grave" mission. I was going, as he said, to perform a solemn duty which had too long been neglected, a duty whicn ms roreiainera had-f ailed to perform owing to various hindrances, and one which he himself had too long deferred. Further than this he declined to explain, except that my mission involved a duty to one long since r dead, a venerated ancestor. This of course soon found its way into the mouths of the village gossips, as was intended. My father being on rather in timate terms with the "neutrals," Cap tain Shrimp and Rev. Nantucket Sperm, he did not mind telling them thus much When they put forth some feelers in re gard to the occasion of my visit to Eng land. CHAPTER HI. X POSSESS MYSELF OP THE ASHES OP MY AKCESTOBS. Having decided upon the "transfer ence" of Sir Archibald and Lady Elea nor, I made careful measurements of their tombstones and had boxes made for their reception and transportation. The only real work in connection with the business was the exhumation of the remains, and even this was no great task for a man from a mining region. The churchyard being half a mile from any village, and the graves being hidden in a thicket of brambles and thorn bushes, ,one might have worked there a week without any one appearing to ask ques tions. Had any questions been asked I was prepared with a plausible story which I had concocted. After mature deliberation and a care ful survey of the ground, I decided to do all the work of exhumation myself and in daylight, in order that I might be able to carefully inspect the contents of the coffins. As the coffins themselves would be too much decayed for removal, I pur chased two neat and strong trunks of small size in which to place whatever I might find in the way of remains. This done I had only to find means of conveying tho tombstones to the depot. I must secure a trusty drayman. Dis guising myself as a workingman I one morning sauntered down to the iron bridge which spans the Ouse, uniting the Norfolk and Suffolk sides of the town of Thetford. The town we would call it a city is situated at the influx of the little river Thet, and the Ouse, thus strengthened, is navigable as far up as the point where it is spanned by the bridge. -Some small vessels wero discharging" cargo at thewhrf, and drays were haul ing the goods up into the town. I pres ently went down upon tho wharf and studied the faces of the draymen Among them was a young fellow about my own age, whoso looks and mariner I liked. I soon engaged him in conversa tion, and pretending to be interested in something he told me appointed a meet ing with him for that evening at a tav ern he named. I found Tom Bell, my drajnnan, await ing me at the tavern. After a long talk about the Thetford business outlook, in the course of which Tom complained bitterly of hard times, I suddenly ex claimed: "By Jove, Mr. Bell, I can do something for yon! I can put a small job in your way in a day or two. It is not much maybe 5 in it." Of course Tom Bell was all attention duVto the churchyard and losided on the boxes. The only work about the job was the carrying out of the boxes con taining the tombstones, and we soon had them on the dray. Indeed before sun set we had all at the station ready for shipment to London the next morning. We did all the work in the broad light of day, and not a question was asked us by any one of the several persons we en countered at the churchyard and else where. At parting with Tom Bell he said he had never before so easily earned "five poun." I told him that people always expected to pay ojg prices for such work, as at best it was not very pleasant busi ness. He said, "If themaister should send ye daoun Teford way for 'nuther load o'the dead una, just'ee call on Tom Bell, will 'ee?" I promised Tom he should have all my jobs in that line and. left him a very happy man. The next evening I had Sir Archibald and Lady Eleanor comfortably housed in London. I have given you all the particulars in regard to the finding and "transferring" of my ancestors in order to show you how easy of accomplish ment I found an enterprise which at first mention one would think very dif ficult. Why, I would be willing to con tract to deliver in good order m any part of the United States the bones, tombs, ashes and all the belongings of any num ber of Iang syne departed Browns, Smiths, Clarks, Robinsons, Richardsons and so on. In England the old parish churchyards are full of them. yards'of the neighboring parishes, many of them so overgrown with weeds and brambles as to be in what we would call a "shocking condition." However, the people explained that they were now al- deserted on account of the shifting of the population, so many people leaving the farms and going into the large man ufacturing towns. As you can imagine, all this suited my purpose well. After "prospecting" about a week I found a Sir Archibald Johnson in an old parish churchyard, who had "de parted this life" in 1798. The tombstone was about feet in height and of pro- ford, and as good as told me that I waTpnwt disused and many of them wholly nobody and never again to darken his door. He was almost brutally plain in his talk, But "love laughs at locksmiths," and Captain Shrimp was my friend. He was only a shrimp in the eyes of Pasonages sit in the heart and soul he was a whale. Now, urged by necessity, Pru dence and I came to a good, square under standing. She had a perfect horror of Standish Bradford, and come "weal or woe I was to be the man. Yet she feared her father and all her family. They and all the town would be arrayed on the side of her cousin Standish. She begged me to keep our engagement secret until we could see our way to anppen declara tion of our intentions, and if need be de fiance of Standish Bradford and all other Bradfords. I promised, at the same time telling her to be of good cheer, that would set my wits to work for bur mu tual benefit. Besides our occasional meet ing under the hospitable roof of Captain Shrimp we established an extra postof- fice in the town, and this, after all, was our mainstay. Through it were dis cussed all our plans, she keeping me in formed in regard to every move of the Bradfords. The position of our affairs set me seri ously to thinking. I did not wish old Amariah Bradford the Bradford of all the Bradfords to pronounce upon his'daughters a Puritan curse, nor did I wish the remainder of the family and tribe to feel that Prudence had become an outcasthad as good as thrown her self av.v.y f.d disgraced the name of her ancestor L must in somevray bring all the (nb2 to freely consent to the marriage. I must humor their pride of pedigree m some way. The result of this thinking took such shape that, meeting my father alone .in the library one day, I surprised him by saying, "Father, I'm going to England next week." "To England, Sam!" cried the old gentleman, with widely expand ed eyes. "Why, what put that 'notion into your head, my boy?" "Our talk some time ago. I have thoroughly thought over the situation, and I've arrived at the conclusion that we've got to import an ancestor." "Import an ancestor!" ' 'Yes, sir, an ancestor. There must be plenty of Johnsons, Jonsons and John stons buried over in England, and if I can find one of the right date and quail ty the mere spelling of the name is of little importance. I shall look for a Six J ohn, a Sir Ralph or a Sir Richard John son, and, when I find him, over here he conies to be prominently and perma nently replanted in the Pasonagessit cemetery. When I find a titled Johnson of the right degree of antiquity, I shall steal him, bones, tombstone and all, aad we will then transplant him in a style tnat will astound the. Pasonagessit de scendants of the pilgrim fathers." "Ha, ha, ha!" laughedmy father. "Ha, ha! Why, Sam, blast my buttons, it wouldn't be a bad notion." I then thoroughly unfolded my plans to the old gentleman, who laughed con sumed! y. My father, you know, is a jol ty joker as ever spun a yarn or set a trap to catch a hunter after mares' nests and j three tailed cats. He soon began to en-. ter into the fun of the scheme and.de-! clared that merely as a joke it would be worth twice what theBxpedition would cost. We were agreed that our enterprise must be kept a "dead secret" from all in the village and all our own family inor- when he heard me mention 5 as a sum he might easily earn. I then told him I was an undertaker's man sent down from London to remove a couple of bodies, and that I had all in readiness except tho mere taking up of tne remains. "I'd like the five pun," said Tom, "but I don't much fancy handlin of dead boflies." I laughed and said: "Whv, my friend, these have been in the ground a hundred years. There will be nothing left but a few bones, and those you'll not even see, for I'll have them in two small boxes, all ready for you. The only work about the 30b is the removal of the tombstones. You see the family care as much about the tombstones as about the bodies, as the remains to be removed are those of a baron and hi3 lady. It ia an affair of family pride. The relatives, at least one wealthy family among them, want the remains and the two tombstones to give a sort of tone, d'ye sec. to their family burial plot up where they now live, near JLondon. 5" "Oh, I was afeerd tbov was fresh una like that iapot so old but they'd be bad uns thandle." unit! Tnm "Rf.ll "YoufU have tho handlinor of noiUinc but .tnefomDstones."said 1. "I'll take care of the small boxes." Tom wasVsatas&fc and declared him self ready to take nib job. "Are there any Johnsons in this town?" I asked. "Lots and lots on 'em," said Tom. I then told Tom that it appeared from what my master had told me that there was some disagreement between tw brancl.es of the Johnson family as to which had the best right to the remains of the ancient and titled Johnsons. Thereforo it would bo best for us to say nothing of what we were about. "Some of the Johnsons here in Thet ford may be of the same family," said I, "and may put in a protest against the removal of the bones of their ancestors. therefore let us earn our money and sav nothing. We'll leave the Johnsons to fight the matter out in tho law courts if they like. Heretofore the graves seem to have been sadly neglected. Now, if these Johnsons up Lun'un way want to take proper care of the bones of their an cestors, why let 'em have 'em is what 1 say, particularly as they've got tho mon ey and are willing to pay well for all trouble." "I don't want to git into no law courts," said Tom. roonr cned 1. "Mlgnty nttlo you and I would have to do with it. It's a matter between my master and the John- I found a Sir Archibald Johnson. portionato width. "The Inscription was in a good state of preservation, which 1 considered a fortunate circumstance. The date waa about what I required for a great-great-grandfather. By the side of tho tomb of Sir Archi bald was that of his "beloved wife," Eleanor, who had closed her eyes upon things mundane two. years earlier than her lord. I surveyed tliis new and unexpected "find" with great satisfaction. Instant ly I decided to extend my original plan and take back with me a great-great- grandmother as well as a great-greatgrandfather. A sense of justice and the "eternal fitness of things ' told me that to carry away Sir Archibald and leave Lady Eleanor behind would be simply outrageous. As they had not been separated in life, they should not be in death. I knew my father well enough to feel sure that he would be de lighted with Lady Eleanor; that he would receive her with the greatest enthusiasm. The next day, while wandering aim lessly in another old churchyard, 1 chanced upon an earl, one Reginald Johnstone. He was hidden away in a thicket of briars. "Why not go in for an earl while I am about it?" I asked myself. This earl for a moment sorely tempted me, but it soon occurred to me that he was rather too ancient for my a asm a. roe aace on ms tombstone being 1680. After due reflection I arrived at the conclusion that a good, well matched pair, though of lower rank, would be preferable in the game I was about to play to a lone earl. j Besides all this, there was a fitness of the names of the pair I had at first found that seemed almost providential. My father's name when given in full is James Archibald Johnson, and I have a sister Eleanor. Thoughts of these curious co incidences made me resolve to cling to my first find. Indeed I began to feel a sort of affection for the old couple. My sister would be in raptures when I took home to her the' remains of Lady Elea- CHAPTER IV. IN LONDON THE P3EPARATION OF A PEDI- v OKEE. My first care on my return to London was to write and dispatch to my father a long letter. Li the letter I gave him the names, place of residence and all the particulars I had gathered in regard to our distinguished ancestors. This I did in order that he might speak understand ing in breaking the great news to our family and the town. Also I sent a let ter to Prudy, under cover to Captain Shrimp, in which I told her to be of good cheer, that all was going well for us. I told her that she would probably hear something of my success in my mission through my father, by way of Rev. Nan tucket Sperm or Captain Shrimp. I remained in London over a fortnight after dispatching my report to my fa ther, and I was hard at work every mo ment of my time. I had at my disposal unlimited means and was determined to brilliantly conclude what I had so suc cessfully commenced. My first care was to look up tho pedigreo of Sir Archibald and Lady Eleanor Johnson of Thetford, Norfolk. I went at once to the Herald's college or College of Arms, in Doctor's com mons, where all pedigrees have been en tered since the founding of the college by Richard HI in 1483, and there I spent half a day to good advantage. My time was not spent in "prospecting" the old musty records of the college, but in "prospecting" the old musty hangers on of tho place men who havp grown old, bent and gray among the ancient manu scripts and ponderous tomes. About the Herald's college are to be found a score or mora of poor devils, somewhat like our "shyster" lawyers, who eke out a subsistence by examining and making transcripts from the old records. To this not jw of the nunT ber add the less legitimate, but far remunerative, business of manalactur- ing genealoflp"' These men are really among tb'best 'legitimate genealogists in all E-agland, for in the fabrication of falseenealogies" fbojare compelled not onyto be thorough! up in all the trtls gjipealogical records! but also to con stantly delve ia pilesof old manuscripts and histories. In archat with one of the officers of the college"! learned the name of one of the oldest and most expert gene alogical workers m both the legitimate and "shyster" lines of the business. I found tbie man without difficulty and was so woli pleased with him that engaged him at once. He was a fine looking old gentleman and in dress af fected the clerical. I soon discovered that he particularly prided himself upon his ingenuity in the fabrication of bogus genealogies. He had worked out hun dreds that had "passed muster" in Eng land, and as no man in all Great Britain was better posted in genuine genealo gies, not one of his fictitious works could be gainsaid, however much its illegit imacy might bo suspected. My work was easy for him, as it was nearly all of a square and legitimate kind. Much to my surprise I found that this old genealogical chief had at his command a full corps of assistants men glad to be called upon by him to lend a hand in a good job. As soon as he found that the cost of the work was a secondary consideration with me, Mr. Roberts the name of this prince of gen ealogists was Richard Roberts at once sent a man to the British museum, where are kept many records pertaining to genealogies; another to make tran scripts of the parish registers in Norfolk and others to exploring the printed col lections of genealogical information, snch as the books of tho peerages, bar onages, baronetages and county histories, he himself working in London in the College of Arms. The register books kept by tho heralds and their assistants contain the pedigree, arms and all the leading facts and events in the history of a family; therefore, to begin with, there is found in the Herald's college a rich mino in which to delve in the very outset. Indeed the Herald's college, London, is a mine of wealth in which Americans in want of ancestors may profitably dig. Mr. Roberta gave mo the genealogy bf- Sir Archibald Johnson fairly and truth fully as far back as it was traceable in only som of Sir 'Archibald and Lady Eleanor Johnson, who migrated to Axnerica a few years bef ore the death of hi father and then the reeerd ended, tolMtaxw up bymyfassily in the United States. As Mr. Bohertsandhij assktants wero experts at sneh work, I had them get up ftrajgniiceat MMsoegtoal tree, adding; the Johnsons im. the United States to date, and devoting a corner to the fami ly arms, all in colors, and the whole work oa the finest vellum. Thus I had the tree a beautifully constructed gen ealogical table and appended to that a long and very interesting family history. We managed to take into oar genealog ical table at my suggestion from his tory a certain Lady Arbella Johnson, daughter of Thomas, fourteenth earl of Lincoln, wife of Isaac Johnson. This lady, it appeared from the account ex humed by Mr. Roberts, accompanied her husband to-New England on board the Eagle, whose name was changed in her honor to the Arbella. She died in Sa lem, Mass., in 1680, about two months after her arrival in America. While my genealogists were at work upon the pedigree of Sir Archibald and Lady Eleanor, I had their coffin plates polished up and retouched in spots. Also I caused to be made for my sisters and mother a few gold ornaments set with handsome gems and bearing the family crest, bracelets and all else beingof dent patterns. They were the best coun terfeits of ancient family jewels that could bo turned out in London by an ex pert at such work, an artist immensely patronized on the sly. I next invented a very pleasing and romantic fiction of these jewels having been deposited by Sir Archibald with a certain barrister his lawyer as a secret trust, to be delivered to the heirs of his son Walter when personally applied for and under .certain conditions, one of which was that the person applying must remove his remains to America, in accordance with his dying wish. This trust bound not only the counselor at law, but also his heirs, with much more that I put into the story to make it plausible. TO BE CONTINUED. r LAUDE WEINGAND, DEALER IN' 1 Coal Oil, Gasoline. Crude Petroleum and" Coal Gas Tar. Leave orders at Evuus' Book Store;, Hershey &.Co DEALERS IX kiieiiitoa! - . ov r,r. KINDS . Farm and Spring Wagons, Buggie3, Soad Carts, Wind Mills, Pumps, Barb Wire, Etc. Locust Street, between Fifth and Sixth - - -c sler to make it succeed as a really gor- j great-great-grandmothi 1 In the grave of Sir Archibald I found a very uctt prcservea SKciewn. sons. 11 my master sends me down here to do a job o' work, Fm going to do it according to orders. If there's any lawing or sicn fussing, that s his look out." Tom said he might as well have ihe job as another and would keep mum about tho business I had but to say when I was ready. This matter arranged, I went to the churchyard the next day in my working dress and disinterred the remains. In the grave of Sir Archibald I found a very well preserved skeleton. It showed him to have been a tall and powerful man, an ancestor to be proud of. The coffin was much destroyed and crumbled al most at a touch. On it I found a silver plate containing the name and coat of arms of the deceased, and in it among some dust and scraps of cloth a number of large silver gilt buttons bearing the family crest. These were prizes to be treasured. In the grave of Lady Eleanor I found nothing except a few bones and a plain gold ring doubtless her wed ding ring. On her coffin was a plate similar to that found in the other grave. After the remains had been carefully packed in their respective trunks, and the graves filled, leveled and strewn with dry leaves end other rubbish, I went to the wharf and informed Tom that all was in readiness. After he had deliv- All this rcas written out upon a moat for midable looking parchment. the records. To this he added as a labor of . love a mythical genealogy runnin? back to tho year 870, when Thetford was sacked by the Danes. In the battle with the Danes he caused one Geoffroi John ston to perform "prodigies of valor." All this was written out upon a most formidable looking parchment, to which were attached all the seals obtainable legitimately or otherwise. Altogether, it was a most substantial and well to do looking document. 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