THE NORTH PLATTE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE : TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 8, 1896.
avis' Seasonable .Goods
Davis, the Bicycle Man,
THE VIKING, is the "biking", Best of cycles.
THE ELDREDGrE, strictly first class.
THE BELVIDERE, a high grade at a popular price
THE CRAWFORD, absolutely the best wheel on
earth for the money.
bars, saddles and pedals.
ALL KINDS OP BICYCLE ACCESSORIES.
Davis, the Seed Man,
Has a full line of
ER SEED from the
ley Seed Gardens.
Davis, the Hardware Man,
Big stock of POULTRY NETTING, GARDEN
TOOLS, RUBBER
Stoves and Ranges.
gSTDon't forget Davis, "that no
in his line. Samples
3STO- 349 S.
fTirsi vTalioiial Ban
NORTH PLATTE, NEB.
i H.
A General Banking
A. F. STREITZ
;Drugs, Medicines, Paints, Oils,
PAINTERS'
WINDOW GLASS,. -
DIsua3Q.ei3n.teL
Dentsolae A-potlieke.
Corner of Spruce and Sixth-sts.
WALL-PAPER, PAINT AND OIL DEPOT.
WINDOW GLSS, VARNISHES, GOLD LEAF, GOLD
PAINTS, BRONZES, ARTISTS' COLORS AND BRUSHES, PIANO AND
FURNITURE POLISHES, PREPARED HOU E AND BUGGY PAINTS,
K LSOMINE MATERIAL, WINDOW SHADES.
ESTABLISHED JULY 1S68. .... 310SPRUCE STREET.
R J- BROEKER,
4
MERCHANT TAILOR
LITBRY -A.1STJD PEED STABLE
(OXd. "Van Doran StaTolo.)
srr- tiv m t - v
Prices
EIjZDIEJIR, &c look.
53F"Northwest corner of Courthouse square.
JOS. F. FILLION,
Steam and Gas Fitting.
Cesspool and Sewerage a Specialty. Copper und Galvanized Iron Cor
nice. Tin and Iron Roofings.
Estimates furnished. Repairing of all kinds receive prompt attention
Locust Street, Between Fifth aud Sixth,
INTorth. IPlatte, - Nebraska.
FINEST RAMPTYR "ROOM
Having refitted our rooms in the finest of style, the pnblic
is invited to call and see us, insuring courteous treatment.
Finest Wines, Liquors and Cigars at the Bar.
Our billiard hall is supplied with the best make of tables
aud competent attendants will supply all your wants.
KEITH'S BLOCK, OPPOSITE .x'flE UNION PACIFIC DEPOT
Choice of all kinds of handle
BULK GARDEN AND FLOW
celebrated Rice's Cambridge Val
HOSE and the celebrated Acorn
one owes" when in need of any tiling
of "bikes" now in.
Capital, -Surplus,
50,000.00.
$22,500.00
S. WHITE, Pres't.,
P. A. WHITE, Vice-Pres't.
ARTHUR McNAMARA,
Cashier.
Business Transacted.
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SUPPLIES, '
. - MACHINE OILS,
Spectacles.
A Fine Line of Piece
Goods to select from.
First-class Fife. Excel
lent Workmanship.
Good Teams,
Comfortable !Rigs,
Excellent Accommoiaiions for its hmiu Public.
TTJ TtffTOTrT PT.ATTP
xt Wvttmnt.
IRA Ii BARE, Editor and Piiopkietor
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
One Year, cash in advance, (1.25.
glx Months, cash in advance 75 Cents.
Entered at the North Platte (Nebraska) pontoffico as
second-class matter.
REPUBLICAN COMMITTEE MEETING.
The members of the republican
county central committee are re
spectfully called to meet at the
court house, in North Platte, on
Saturday, March 14th. 1896, at one
o'clock in the afternoon, for the
purpose of determining the man
ner of selecting delegates to the
state convention to be held at Om
aha on April 15th, 1896, and for
the transaction of such other busi
ness as may properly come before
the meeting. A full representa
tion is desired, as important busi
ness reaching through the cam
paign of '96 is liable to come be
fore the committee.
G. C. McAllister, Chairman.
THE SIXTH DISTEICT.
The Congressional
Committee ot
the Sixth Congressional district is
hereby called to meet in the city of
Kearney on Wednesday, March 11,
at 2 o'clock p. m., for the transac
tion of such business as may prop.-
erly come before it.
G. H. Cutting. Chairman.
P. T. Lambert, Secretary.
The library of the average news
paper editor is now being enriched
with biographical sketches of presi
dential possibilities.
-.-
E. McLerxox, of Sidney, has been
announced as a candidate for dele
gate to the St. Louis republican
convention from this congressional
district. He is one of the promi
nent republicans of Cheyenne
count.
The Baltimore & Ohio railroad,
the oldest corporation of its kind
in the United Stntes, passed into
the hands of receivers last Friday
evening. The receivers appointed
are John G. Cowan and Oscar G.
Murray, both of whom have been
officers of the ioad.
Op the twentj'-eiglit democratic
members of the Iowa legislature,
only three are in favor of any prop
osition for free coinage under the
present conditions. Ifthis is an
indication ot how the rank and file
ot the Iowa democracy stand upon ;
the silver question. ex-Gov. Boie
must feel rather lonesome.
Newspapers in every county in
the state weekly record the return
of farmers, who under stress of crop
failure, and for other reasons, lef
the state to seek better locations.
Without exception these farmer are
glad to g-et back to Nebraska, and
will be contented to remain.
Investigation has proven that
only twenty per cent of children o
chool a"fe in Omaha attend the
Sunday schools of the various de
nominations. There has always
been a suspicion that Omaha need
ed the services of a few missiona
ries, but the suspicion has now be
come a painful necessity.
The first presidential veto of this
session of congress was overridden
by the house on last Saturday. The
measure was one providing for the
leasing of public lands in Arizona,
and the vote was 189 to 38. The
bill authorizes the governor and
local authorities of Arizona to lease
the school lands of the territory for
educational purposes.
According to dispatches from
Washington the Nebraska maxi
mum freight rate cases, which have
been suspended for several vears
through the machinery of the
law, will be taken up to-da' for
argument in the United States sup
preme court. J. M. Wool worth ap
pears for the railroads and attor
ney general Churchill for the state.
General Weyler's last proclama
tion is to the effect that at the ex
piration of fifteen days the Cuban
insurgents who refuse to surrender
will be treated as bandits," which
probably means that they will be
massacred. In the laneruasre of
Senator Vest "will the United
States stand dumbly by while this
bloody Spanish general drives the
Cubans into a pen and slaughter
them."
Congressman Hainer has
given
out for publication a lengthy de
fense of his action in booming ex
Senator Manderson as a presiden
tial candidate, but the defense is
not likely to cut any figure in help
ing out Manderson. If the ex-sen
ator desires to be classed as a dark
horse, and it appears in the -convention
that McKinley cannot be
nominated, then the Nebraska del
egation will probably swing to him.
This far in advance of the national
convention it is safe to say that
Nebraska's sixteen votes will be
cast for McKinley.
On Saturday last Auditor Moore
completed. the record of the mort
gage nrdebfedc's of Nepr&?t for
the year ending December 31st 1895.
The total farm, town and city and
chattel mortgages filed ior that
year show a decrease of $9,183,977.
04 from that of the year ot 1894.
To offset this, however, there is a
corresponding decrease m the total
amount of satisfactions, the satis
factions of farm, town, and city
and chattel mortgages for 1895 be
ing S9.289.577. 42 less than for the
same period in 1894. The total de
crease of farm mortgages is $4,118,
022.75; total decrease of chattel
mortgages $3,237,287.62. In town
and city mortgages for 1895 there
is a decrease of nearly $2,000,000,
and a corresponding decrease in the
amount ot satisfactions. The
number of sheriffs deeds and other
deeds in foreclosure are about the
same for the two years.
The Chicago saloonists have de
cided that something must be done
to put a iittle more of a veneer of
respectability on their business,
and have concluded that the rush
ing of the growler is a belittling
feature. One of the advocates of
reform crowded several extra oc
taves into his voice as he urged the
abolition of the growler as a needed
start toward the suppression of
crime. His proposed remedy was
to refuse to fill any growler for less
than ten cents. The chief crime to
be thus suppressed is that of try
ing to work a ten-cent growler with
a nickel. The growler has grown
so that it is often as big as awash
boiler, and the trade can't stand it.
Crime must be suppressed. Coun
cil Bluffs Nonpariel.
Tho labor and capital employed in
all American manufacturing industries
should ponder very deeply just now tho
cheering fact, which the latest returns
of the bureau of statistics bring to light,
that the exports of our manufactured
goods in 1895 havo beaten all previous
records. New York Herald.
The suggestion of the New York Press
that The Herald's deliberate distortion
of the results shown by our trado statis
tics arises because that Democratic pa
per is not furnished with brains to com
prehend tho compilations may be the
correct one. Assuming that this is so,
and that tho policy of the paper is di
rected by its proprietor, it is some sat
isfaction to know that the "cheerful
idiot" is a resident of Paris and not of
the United States. His latest bit of flim
flam was the following :
EXPOKTO OF DOMESTIC MANUFACTURES FOR
EliUVEK MONTHS, ENDING NOVEMBER
1S04.
1S35.
Iron and steel $27,508,011
Cheniicals,drnffs and dyes 7,003,220
531.223.C82
7,970.432
Leather and manufac
tures 1S.S00.173 17,012.279
Machinery 12.C15.2-Jo 13.088.273
Glass and glassware 633,593 915, -137
Theso statistics also Bhow beyond cavil or
question that no such era of trade prosperity
was ever enjoyed by American manufacturing
industries generally ns that created by the
Wilson law. Ten thousand Republican calam
ity howlers cannot gainsay this fact.
Of course this Pecksniff had no uso
for our imports of similar goods. Ho
had no desire to bo honest, even if he
knew how. But here aro the imports of
the samo classes of goods :
IMPORTS OF FOREIGN MANUFACTURE V03
ELEVEN MONTHS, ENDING NOVEMBER
1KM. 1S95.
Iron and steel ?18,C23,rSl J23.502.827
Chemicals.drugs and dyes S;7,?;07t5G8 41,451,487
Leather and manufac- -
tures 9,534,100 14.803.GStJ
Machinery. 1,021,084 1.972, 1G2
Glass and gJossware 5,075,201 6,905.874
The extent of tho "era of trade pros
perity" that is now being "enjoyed by
American manufacturing industries"
can be ascertained by placing side by
side tho increase in our exports and the
increase in our imports of these different
classes of goods. We omit "machinery"
because it ia already included in the
"iron and steel" manufactures, and the
totals would inaccurately represent our
foreigu trado statistics if "machinery"
were given again as a separate class of
goods. Here is the trado balance that
tho "cheerful idiot" of un-American
journalism failed to present in his ac
counting :
INCREASE ITOn KLEVKN MONTHS, ENIJINO NOVEM
BER, 161)5.
Loss to
American
Foreign nianufac
tznpcrts. turcrs.
I4.8U3.S40 11,184,075
American
exports.
Iron and steel $3,024,771
Chemicals, drugs
and dyes 93S.2I2
Leather and man
ufactures 413.10!
Glass and glass
ware 81,844
4.K3,C7P 3,155,7e7
5 20S,SW 1,795,790
1.CG0.G10 l.S38,7fiG
Totals f8,057.933 JJC.032.331 $7,974,328 ! h wage earner who wants to build
Tho "cheerful idiot" shows that our j ? hf for his fa.u,i ,VIith ff,e? Inni
exports of theso four classes of Ameri- ' Jcr ll0 promised a "cheap house,
can goods wero $8,057,933 larger iu 11 f er dutlcs 011 "a,Ls re . to
months of 1895 than in 1894. The oth- help every man to o;yn his owncas lo.
or. mq nf M'nor- 0hnW t w. Thcs0 ro tlio promises. Tneso aro tho
onr imnnrfrs nf Ritnilnr fnritn nnnd.q in-
creased by $16,032,331. Tho balance of
- v 0 a -
trade against us was $7,974,398 in the
11 months. This is "the cheering fact."
The increase in what we bought is prac
tically just double the increase of what
we sold. Ior every dollar's wortn ot
trade captured in the markets of the
world we have lost $2 worth of trado in
the iron aud steel, chemical, leather
and glass trades at home.
The "cheerful idiot" says that "Dem
ocratic newspapers should make the
country ring with the announcements of
these statistics."
We don't believe they will. "Tho
cheering fact" will be too muchfor
them.
Continue Their Record.
Failures for the past week have been
much larger in magnitude, numbering
895 in the United States against C78
last year. Dun's Review, Jan. 18.
And it is the "solid returns," tho
"left overs" from 1893, that aro being
knocked out now. This is "the cheering
fact"
Senator Prltchard's Sentiment.
It is the policy cf the Republican
party to not only extend ample protec
tion to the manufacturers of the New
England states, but it is the policy of
the Republicau party, as evinced by all
the legislation it has enacted iu tho
past, to likewise extend protection to
every article in which the southern peo
ple are interested. Hon. Jeter C ,
Highest of all in Leavening
ABSOLUTELY PURE
ONLY WAGES CHEAP.
DEMOCRATIC PROMISES OF
PROVE FALLACIOUS.
18S2
Prices of Goods to Consnmers Make a Sharp
Advance "Cheap" Things Existed omy
In the Minds of Freo Trade Liars How
the People's Burdens Were Reduced.
The effort of congress will be to ro
duce the burdens of the people, not to in
crease them ; to cheapen living, not to
render it more costlv. New York
World, Nov. 14, 1892.
This is a eample of the Democratic
promises of 1892. Every paper and ev
ery politician that favored freo trade
was, at that time, spreading broadcast
the wildest statements as to the won
derful cheapness of goods that would
follow their success in the national elec
tions. We have shown, from facts com
piled by Dun's review, that prices in
cotton goods, woolens, silk, iron manu
factures, boots and shoes were all high
er at the end of 1895 than at the open
ing of that year. But Bradstreet's has
examined this subject of "cheaper
prices" even more extensively, and, in
its issue of Jan. 11, 1S96, gave such in
teresting facts that we quoted them more
fully because thoy give tho lie direct to
every free trader's promise of "cheap
ness:" "Among food products which are
higher than on April 1, 1895, are wheat,
eggs, butter, milk, molasses, mackerel,
sugar, peas, apples, peanuts and raisins ;
as compared with six months ago the
list is found to be smaller, consisting of
eggs, butter, cheese, mackerel, milk,
molasses, sugar, peas, raisins and cur
rants, while as compared with quota
tions for Oct. 1, 1895, higher prices for
food products include those for wheat,
flour, beeves; sheep, rnuttou, eggs, but
ter, cheese, molasses, mackerel, sugar,
rice, peas, apples, cranberries, peanuts,
raisins and currants, indicating a much
inoro extensive advance in quotations
for staple food commodities during the
past three months than had been pre
sumed from some market reports."
This list comprises pretty nearly ev
ery commodity that the average family
needs for its daily existence. A "much
more extensive advance in quotations
for staple food commodities" is not
quite thesamo nsthopromisoof "cheap
er prices." But let us look at tho cloth
ing list:
"Quotations for textiles, raw and
manufactured, which are higher than
they wero on April 1 last, include cot
ton, wool, hemp, silk, flax, print cloths,
eastern sheetings, ginghams and south
ern sheetings, and the list is practical
ly the same for those higher today than
on July 1 last, tho exception being
southern sheetings."
Besides tho advauco in the prices of
article of food thrro has also been a
"much moro oxtensivo advance in quo
tations" of wearing apparel and house
hold articles. Now for the products of
the mines :
"Quotations today as contrasted with
July 1, 1895, show advances for iron
ore, No. 3 southern pig iron aud lead,
and as compared with prices on April
, 1895, present quotations show ad
vances for iron oie, eastern anthracite,
No. 2 southern pig, besseiner pig, steel
billets, rails and beams, copper, lead
and quicksilver. "
Moro money has to bo paid, too, for
articles made cf iron, lead, steel aud
copper. Firo and light, as well, are
more expensive, as the following shows :
"Circular prices for bituminous coal,
southern and Conueibville coke aro
higher today than on Oct. 1 last aud as
compared with July 1 last, when an ad
vance for anthracite coal must bo added.
Tho like is true when prices are com
pared with quotations cn April 1, 1895.
Crude and rofiued petroleum, castor oij.
and turpentine aro all higher today
than they wero on Oct. 1, but as com
pared with July 1 iLo list for thoso
which are higher today includes refined
petroleum, cottonseed oil, castor oil aud
turpentine, and as contrasted with prices
on April , 1895, higher prices today
aro thoso for crude ant refined petro
leum, naphtha, castor oil and rosin."
Even tho sick man has to pay more
money for his castor oil, Other drugs
and chemicals are dearer too.
Not much inducement is offered either
facts :
"Among building materials brick,
nails, glass, pine, spruce and hemlock
are higher than they were three months
ago, und the like is true as compared
with six months ago, with the excep
tion of hemlock, and a similar state
ment may be made in reference to nine
mouths ago. with tho exception of the
quotations for brick and for hemlock."
We might enlarge tho list. But it is
not necessary. Friends of protection
have proof enough that the Democratic
cry of "cheap prices" was a fraud. Al
most tho only "cheapening" has been
in wages.
Freo Trcdo Results.
No branch of manufacture ha3 inado
I progress. Dun 'a Review, Jan. 18.
What's the matter? We still have freo
wool. We still have tho Gorman tariff.
And we still have a Democratic admin
istration. Is this the trouble?
The Can bo Removed.
We fail to see such cause for alarm
about our financial conditions as the free
trado papers exhibit. They forget en
tirely that ilr. Cleveland and his for-?
eign emissaries will not be permitted to
run the country further ino debt.
Congressman Hermann.
It is a relief, sir, to knew that the day
has already dawned for a return to
American policies and American -institutions.
Hon. Binger Hermans of Olf
BO
Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report
hA Baking
A GOPHER AS A HYPNOTIST.
Held
by Its Glltterlnsr Eye,
Kabbli
Awnited Certain Death.
A gopher snake atEscoudidoha3 been
the cause of much earnest discussion
among local naturalists recently. The
qxiestiou (ljscnssetl wa .Do Snakes
i Charm or Hypnotize Their Prey?" One
of tho naturalists had the unusual but
fortnnate experience at Escondido of
happening upon a largo gopher snake
just as the reptile was about toover
couio a trembling cottontail rabbit and
envelop tho animal in its deadly coils.
For some time the naturalist watched
the snake's movements
It was within 10 or 12 inches of the
apparently fascinated rabbit. Silently
and almost imperceptibly the snake had
wormed its way nearer and nearer to
its victim. Its eyes glistened with an
intense brightness. Not u movement did
it make which might alarm tho timid
rabbit. The forked touguo, which to the
eyo of a human being is so repulsive
aud intended to bo terrifying, appeared
to exert an entirely different influence
upon tho mind of the innocent rabbit.
This darting tongue either excited tae
victim's curiosity or caused tho animal
to so concentrate its mind on the snako's
tongue as to throw that mind into a
hypnotic condition of such strength that
it could not break the spell and run
away from impending death. The forked
tongue darted out of tho snake's mouth
almost as regularly aud rapidly as tho
needle of a sewing machine lises and
falls in the cloth. The lithe body crept
nearer and nearer. The ::iubit was mo
tionless. Its eyo was fixed on the pierc
ing eye of the .Miaka Even the waving
of tho wind kissed shrubs about the
rabbit failed to bre.sk the spell, and
softly and slowly grim death in snake
form wreathed its folds about tho crea
ture. Then was the spell broken.
To tho naturalist who watched tho
capture of the rabbit it appeared as if
the snako had certainly fascinated the
animal. As a gopher snake is not poi
sonous and has no well developed fangs,
its only means of killing prey is by con
strictiou. In order to catch an animal it
seems almost necessary for the snake to
fascinate the victim. Washington Post.
HE HESITATED.
But the lover Discovered That Ills Objec
tion Was a mistaken One.
The doting father was reflective.
"You will find Mabel a splendid
housekeeper," he said at last.
Tho lover's face was blanched.
"I I had not heard of her accomplish
ments in that direction, " he said hesi
tatingly. "Then it must come to you in tho na
ture of a glorious surprise," returned
her father, ' 'for I assure you there is nc
moro careful housekeeper in the city."
"I presume, " faltered the yotmg man,
"that she takes a very pardonable pride
in her ability in that line."
"Of course, of course, rfhe is natural
ly prond of her economical management
of a household."
Tho young man groaned.
"I never knew but one woman who
was considered a really first class house
keeper,' he said, "and I had hoped that
Mabol would havo none of those traits.
I do not like to eat up to an average."
"Eat up to an average!" exclaimed
the old man.
"Yes. According to my understand
ing of tho subject, a good housekeeper
is one who allows no waste. She studies
your hnuger and your capacity for about
a week, strikes an averago and then in
sists that you must eat up to it ever aft
,er. If yon don't- eat enough, she grum
bles about tho waste, raid if you eat too
much somebody will find a shortage,
and she will call your attention to the
fact that you wero far below tho average
the day before and caused cousiderable
waste."
''I see your point," returned tho old
man, but yen niisunrtorstauu mo. i
paid she was a good huusckcoper, not a
good boarding house keeper." Chicago
Post.
Goes to Church Onco a Year.
Of all Catholiu sovereigns King Leo
pold of Belgium is assuredly the least
devout. He goes to church and attends
divino service only once a year that
is, on his namesda A special service
is performed in honor of tho event at
the aucient cathedral of Ste. Gudule,
which everybody belonging to the male
sex attends in fall uniform. The king
is received in grand ecclesiastical state
by tho prelates of tho kingdom and by
tho clergy of the basili-a at the main
entrance, and marches in procession up
the central aisle under a magnificent
canopy to his seat within tho chancel
rails. He carries in his hand a gorgeous
ly bound mass book, which he peruses
with an appearance of devotion through
out tho ceremony, and which on his re
turn to the palace at Laeken is locked
up once more out cf sight until the re
currence of St. Leopold 'h day 12 mouths
later. St. Paul Dispatch.
A 3Ilsapprelicn8lon.
"Isn't it astonishing how cheap
matches are made nowadays?" asked
the statistical passenger.
"Eef you mean to insult me, sare,"
said the foreign looking passenger,
"horo is my carte. I hold myself, sare,
at no less than one million of your
American dollars!" Cincinnati En
quirer. Eyeless Worms.
Worms that have no eyes are believed
to gain information of the presence of
light from some other sense thau that of
sight. Light is always dangerous to ail
earthworm, and when taken from the
parth and placed in tho light a worm
will always exhibitnueasiness and make
an effort to conceal itself.
The drag used for recovering bodies
I from the bottoms of ponds or streams is
j modeled after the well known grapple
' plant, a thorny bush common in South
America and Africa.
The orchids are true parasites, grow
ing on other plants and drawing their
substance from them and from tho air.
JIM AUD WENCH SOLD.
UNCLE SAM'S TEAMSTERS HATED TO
SEE THE FAITHFUL PAIR GO.
And tlio Worst of It Was That They Were
to Bo Separated For More Than Twen
ty Years They Had Been Together In the
Service of the Government.
"At 15! At
15! Going at 15! Who
Do I hear it? Only $15
says tho half?
for thi3 mule? Why, gentlemen, she's
worth more'u that if she never did an
other lick o' work. Whoa, Wench, you
little old darling ! Fifteen dollars I am
offered I Can't I get tho half? Fifteen
once! Do I hear the half? No?. Fifteen
twice ! Third and last call and sold to
Mr. Carl for 15." And the auctioneer,
who was also the civilian clerk in the
post quartermaster's office, tenderly ca
ressed the face, gray with age, of the
Jittle brown mule, and, brushing his
hand across his own eyes, walked slowly
back to his desk in the office.
Wench wa3 led off to the blacksmith
shop to be branded on ' the left of the
neck, "I. C. S." "inspected, condemn
ed, sold." Twelve other mule3 had
passed under the hammer ahead of her
that morning and then to the branding
iron. Tho last one before her was Jim,
whose neck was still smoking with the
burning mark of condemnation. He had
gone for $15.50.
Two years ago the quartermaster had
picked ont Wench and Jim to submit to
the inspector for condemnation, but one
at a time tho teamsters had all come to
plead for their retention, and he had
yielded to fhoir entreaties. Last year
again he had marked thorn for the list,
but again" gave way to the teamsteiu.
But this timo the chief quartermaster
stepped in with his authority, and, re
marking that there was no place in the
quartermaster's department for senti
ment, ordered Wonch and Jim to bo
condemned aud sold.
For moro than a scorn of years these
two little beasts havo faithfully served
tho government, and all this time they
have beon mates. Iu the pack train they
jogged along togother; in the wagon
train thoy pulled over the same spreader;
in tno camp tney ato out or tno same
feed box; in tho stable they stood in tho
samo stall ; in the corral they were al
ways found sido by side. Tonight, for
tho first time in this quarter century,
thoy will be apart, for Jim was bought
by ilr. Hammond, and Wench was
knocked down to Mr. Carl, and Uncle
Sam's exchequer is richer by 30.50.
No place for sentiment in tho quar
termaster's department ! Of course not,
yet "breathes there tho man with souj
so dead" that he does not believe these
two little dumb creatures will miss each
ether thi? night and many a night?
As tho sale went on tho toamstow
stood on one sido like mourners at a
comrade's burial; on the other, the
farmers aud ranchmen and contractors
and lumbermen from 20 miles around,
all there to bid in as cheap . as possible
the mules tho quartermaster's depart
ment was dono witn. Against tho namo
of each mule on tho list stood the legend,
"Old and worn out in service."
There were old Rooneyand Bevis and
Boss and Schaeffer and tho rest of tho
tflumstprs who bnvn drivfln and nnnbpft
rnnL?n ittn inn rTn run r- r i n c rr yi
mountain and prairie. Are they to bo
laughed at for wearing sad faces now i
Yet they bore tho ordeal like men good
aud true until Jim was led ont. Then
you could Eee their sleeves, one after
another, drawn across their eyes.
"This here's awful, boys, " old Rbouey
remarked. "I can't stand it. I'd rather
see the gover'ment bust than see them
two mules sold."
"You're right, Roouey," old Bevis
spoke. "A gover'ment mean enough to
sell them two 'mules ain't fit to stand."
But thoir comrnouts woro stopped by tho
auctioneer's third and last call on poor
little Jim.
After tho sale was over a farmer,
wearing n canvas overcoat that hu had
bought at a previous sale of condemned
stuff and that bore in the middle of tho
back tho big black letters, "I. C,"
stepped up to tho teamsters and asked
why they hated so much to seo tho last
two mules sold.
"Why?" afckfld old Schaeffer, half an
gry, tossing tno luoisturo on his wrin
kled cheek. "Because they're tho best
friends wo ever had. Thorn two mules
was back with the pack train tho day
Custer aud his men was wiped out. They
totod packs during all tho 187(5 and
1877 campaigns 'gin tho Indians,
They're tho best pair of leaders that
was ever in this corral. They can drive
tho'aelves, and iu their young days,
Whenever there was a fight or hkeery
placo to gq through or a hard pull to
make, they was the first ones called for.
They he'ped haul the Seventh from hero
to Rilev, and tho Eighth from there up
horo. There's never been a campaign cr
a march from this post that them mules
ain't gone on it. And they've never
been separated till today, an durned if
I b'lievo thoy 'II work a lick by the'
selves. Do you, Bevis?"
"I sho' hopo thoy won't," this old
fellow answered bitterly. And they
walked away to tho teamsters' mess,
New York Herald.
, An Adventure In tlio Sahara.
Tartarin narrated hiu latest oxploits
in tho desert I was sinking deep
er and deeper into tho sand, and I owe
my preservation solely to tho fact of my
being preniatnrely and, completely
bald."
"You are jesting."
"Not at all. Tho sun was shining
fiercely, a strong wind was blowing at.
the time; the sand drifted about my feet
and rose gra. ualiy higher until it reach
ed my chest in short, thero was soon
nothing to b seen of mo above tho saud
but a light e.jvation as round as an egg;
that was my skull. An ostrich, happen
ing to pass t. at way, closely pursued by
the hunters, came and squatted on my
head. It was beginning to hatch mo
when its pursuers came to my rescue.
Fanfare.
Physicians aver that there aro disease
and death in storing woodeu blocks from
old pavements in cellars for fuel. Sev
eral cases of typhoid aud diphtheria have
been traced to this cause. It is well to
remember a single decaying cabbage or
a bushel of turnips in tho basement has
poisoned the air of the entire house.
Damp cellars alone are sources of dis
ease. Millions of fungi grow in a night
upon damp walls, ripen, and pass off in
the air and often are tho direct source
of fatal epidemics. Fire that will dry
the walls of the hcuso is the very best of
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