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THE CRAWFORD, absolutely the best wheel on
earth for the money.
bars, saddles and pedals.
ALL KINDS OP BIOYOLE ACCESSORIES.
Uavis,. the Seed- Man,
Has a full line of
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ley Seed Gardens.
Davis, the Hardware Man,
Big stock of POULTRY NETTING, GARDEN
TOOLS, RUBBER
Stoves and Ranges.
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second-class matter.
Pawson county republecans have
adopted the Crawford county sys
tem ot conducting elections. The
matter was brought up in the coun
ty convention last Saturday, the
vote standing forty-six for and
forty-two against.
The republicans of Holt county
in convention assembled endorsed
Judge Kinkade tor congressman in
this district and gave him the privi
lege of selecting the delegation to
the congressional convention -to be
held in this city Augnst 19th.
Republican conventions were
held in a large number of Nebraska
counties Saturday, and without ex
ception they favored the nomination
of McKinley. As time goes by the
foolishness of attempting to start a
Manderson boom becomes all the
more apparent.
The county convention Saturday
afternoon proved the truth of The
Tribunes assertion that the re
publicans of Lincoln county are for
McKmlev first, last and all the
time. Every delegate in the con
vention was red-hot for the Ohio
man, and every mention of his
name brought forth thunderous ap
plause.
.
Readers of the Lincoln Journa
could not be otherwise than wel
pleased with the suberb Easter
edition of that paper, and the
claim that the Journal is "Nebras
ka's greatest newspaper," has been
strengthened thereby. The Jour
nei is a good paper seven days in
the week: and more than that it is
republican 365 days in the year.
The candidacv of E. B. "Warner,
of this city, as one of the four dele
srates-at-lar"fe to the St. Louis
convention is meeting with approval
in many sections of the state. Mr
Warner is the original McKinley
man of the state, havinjr voted for
the Ohio statesman in the Minne
apolis convention four years ago
and his admiration for the greal
protectionist is greater now than it
was at that time.
J. H. Abbott, of Big Springs.
has been endorsed by the Deuel
1
county repuoucan convention as a
condidate for representative from
this district. There are now two
candidates tor nomination in the
field, Mr. Abbot and B. Carey,
of Cheyenne county. In view of
excellent work performed by the
republicans of Deuel county last
fall, their claim that Mr. Abbott
should receive a nomination is
worthy of consideration.
It is announced that
upon the nomination of
the
fiffht
Congress-
man Hainer in the Fourth district
has been declared off, and a liar-
monious convention is confidently
expected. Mr. Hainer's activity
in the Manderson boom made the
republicans of his district "hot
under the collar" and it looked for a
time as thousrh an open revolt
against him would occur. Mr.
Hainer is a very hard worker in
the lower house, a good man both
for the party and for his constit
uents, and both are to be congratu
lated that the feeling engendered
has healed over.
According to the figure of the
Philadelphia "Press," which is not
unduly biased toward or against
McKinley, the number ot delegates
to the St. Louis Convention chosen
up to Monday night of this week
was 6yb. These are divided in
their preferences thus.as that paper
figures: McKinley, 205; Morton, 65;
Reed, 43; Allison, 38; Quay, 20;
Cullom, 12, with 13 doubtful. This
estimate places McKinley so far
in the lead that there is, so to speak,
no second. Not quite half of the
delegates to the convention were
chosen at that time, and McKinley
had a little more than half of these,
without counting for him any of the
doubtful ones, some ot whom prob
ably will vote for him.
The chairman of the Dawson
county republican committee is
sending out circulars formally an-
nouncing Jack MacCall as a
guber
natorial candidate, and soliciting
aid in securing his nomination.
Two years ago The Tribune sup
ported Mr. MacColl and regretted
that he was turned down by the
state convention, believing that had
he been the nominee his election
would have followed. Since that
time there has a change in sentiment
to some extent, and there is a doubt
if Mr. MacColl will command as
much strength in the convention as
he did two years ago. The votes
in the convention this year will,
however, be distributed among a
greater number of candidates, and
it may be possible that if Mr. Mac
Coll leads on the first few ballots
he may be able to draw the votes
of the weaker candidates to him.
It is likely that the delegates from
this county will be .favoradle to
MacColl by reason ot his location,
though there are a number of warm
admirers of Congressman Meikle
john in Lincoln county.
The Mosqne of Kerbela.
In plan the mosque is almost a per
fect square aud covers a considerable
area. The four outer walls face the car
dinal points and have seven gateways
one to the south and two on each of the
other sides. The names of the gates are :
South, Bab el Kibl; east, Kathi el
Hagat and es Safi ; west, el Zeneb and
ea Sultani, and north, es Soddar and
fiahna el Sirir. Within the outer inci
sure is a wide paved courtyard, then a
second wall with seven gates, and hand
some minarets surmount the southern
angles.. Another courtyard follows,
on the western side of which are three
holy spots the place where Husain fell,
the tomb of his child, Said Ibrahim, and
the tomb of his banner bearer, Habib
ibn Mazakir.
The third inclosure wall has five
gates, and within it is the tomb of the
70 warriors who fell with Husain and
the supposed birthplace of Jesus. Lastly,
in an open space, stands the holy of
holies the great domed mausoleum of
Husain Shah, the sole entrance to which
is by tho Bab el Murael, or Gate of
Hope.
Within are two tombs, that of Imam
Husain and of his two sons, Ali Akhbar
and Ali Azrar. The dome is a magnifi
cent and costly work of art, being tiled
with slabs of pure gold and inlaid with
Koranic inscriptions and other designs
in various colored enamel. When we
saw it, however, its beauty was partly
concealed by a black drapery, on which
was embroidered a verse from the Mo
hammedan Biblo, while at its summit
floated the black flag of mourning in
honor of the martyr. Blackwood Mag
azine. EgK Candling Business.
The business of egg candling, or egg
testing, does not look difficult and ap
parently requires no especial proficiency.
The South Water street expert in that
line paused in his work long enough to
tell a different story.
"Egg candling," he said, "is no fool
job, and only the man who has been at
it a long time can make good money. It
requires keen sight and a practical eye
and just about one man out of ten is
good at the business. You've got to have
a steady hand, too, and the man who
drinks much can't candle egg3 very
long. The breakage would soon take all
the profit off every crate of eggs. In
New York they have an egg candlers'
or egg testers' union and one of its rules
is that no man who drinks steadily can
be admitted. It is composed mostly of
east side Hebrews and is very old, one
of the oldest labor organizations in New
York. Men in our business who are real
ly first class get good wages. You can
always tell a good man by the light, easy
way he touches an egg. He can tell an
egg that is addled at a glance, where even
people quite familiar with the article
will say it is in first class condition. "
Chicago Chronicle.
Socialism's Kant and Cant.
The German mind is of the type that
loves to build imaginary schemes and
to dream dreams of the regeneration of'
mankind. It revels in views, theories,
philosophical systems and ideas, it is
rather tentative and nebulous than pre
cise and well denned. Dr. Mansel, in al
lusion to the proneness of the German
to indulge in vague and shadowy specu
lations, has described his country as
The land which produced one Kant with a K
And a great many Cants with a C.
The Frenchman rushes onward to con
elusions, the German feels his way.
Moreover, tne uerman socialist can
plead in his defense that, alter all, he is
only bettering the instructions of his
rulers.
State socialism is the recognized creed
of the great majority of influential Ger
mans. It is notorious that Bismarck him
self used to take counsel of that eminent
socialist Lassalle. The reigning em
peror is credited with having much tho
same ideas, and it is said that he wishes
to become known, as his great prototype
before him, as a true king of the beg
gars. Macmillau's Magazine.
Lelchton's Generosity.
The following story is characteristic
of Lord Leighton's kindness to poor
students: A yonng fellow, without
friends or money, came to London to
make his fortune with his brush. Or
ders for pictures were not forthcoming,
however, and the young painter found
himself reduced to dining on sunset ef
fects. In despair he wrote to the presi
dent of the academy at his private ad
dress in Holland Park, stating his case,
and forwarding at the same time some
specimens of nis worir. Witnm a few
days he received an answer, asking him
to call at Sir Frederick's house. The
president of the academy received him
kindly, advised him to study more and
gave him two letters of introduction.
As the young man was leaving Sir Fred
erick handed him an envelope, remark
ing: "Here is an example of the best
kiud of drawing. No doubt one of these
days you'll be able to do as well, if not
better." It contained a check for 50.
The recipient is a long way up the lad
der now.
A Downfall.
Wanderer Yes. A few years ago I
was just rollin in wealth. j
Kind Hearted Housekeeper Poor
man ! Here is a shilling. Prink did it,
suppose?
Wanderer No'm. Religion.
Kind Hearted Housekeeper Reli
gion?
Wanderer Yes'm. I was one 0 ' the
most successful burglars in the country,
but I got religion and couldn't work at
me trade no more. TnanKS ! Juonaon
Tit-Bits.
The four podded lotus, in an exposed
situation, makes a cover for its flower
by drawing one or more of the leaves
over the blossom and keeping them there
during the heat of the day.
Bags for paper making are boiled un
der steam pressure. A hundred pounds
of rags are mixed with from 6 to 12
pounds of carbonate 3f soda and half as
I inch quicklime.
Tho famous savage clubs of Borneo
wero modeled after a thorny fruit which
grows wild in that island.
Highest of all in Leavening
Absolutely pure
An Agreeable "Walter.
They have been telling me about a
tamouB head waiter in a great restaurant
in this town, and I suppose all the man
know of him, who has grown rich lend
ing money.
I never could set rich tnat way, I am
sure.
This particular philanthropist is
called Philip, possibly because that's
his name, and any hard pressed individ
ual whom he knows, or knows about,
need never be short of funds.
Sometimes a man will forget to go to
the bank or won't have his checkbook
with him, while he has immediate use.
for some money, and that is an awk
ward state of affairs. So ho hies him
away to Philip.
"Philip, can you let me have a hun
dred until tomorrow? You know me,
Mr. of street. "
"Oui, monsieur, with pleasure."
So that chasm is bridged.
But when the hundred is paid next
day Philip expects to find it a hundred
and ten, and if he doesn't he does not
look kindly upon the borrower or have
the funds upon the second application
At least that is what I hear.
Of course no money is loaned to any
one of doubtful credit, so I can easily
see how Philip's comfortable fortune
can have been acquired. New York
Becorder.
Women Fonr Hundred Years Ago.
The home life of the upper classes in
the fifteenth century was the achieve
ment and possession of the women.
They made it and they enjoyed it, and
although the man was the lord, the
master, tho cause of tho institution, it
was not he who animated it or who
stamped upon it the impress of his
spirit. His life was passed in camps and
courts. A succession of foreign and civil
wars in both Franco and England kept
tho knights in the saddle during the
greater part of tho fourteenth and fif
teenth centuries, and tho ladies, left
with the children and the servants in
the manor houses and chateaux, directed
the domestic life of the time.
The Lady Joan Berkeley in tho whole
42 years of her married life uevGr made
a journey of more than ton miles except
in going from one of her mansion houses
to the ether. "Sho did not humor her
self with the vain delights of London,"
or at least if she did it must have been
surreptitiously, for there is no record of
it in the account books of the family.
One hopes, though, that the conscien
tious matron slipped away for at least
one visit to the wicked capital, or from
behind her veil witnessed with beating
heart one gay tournament. There is
such a thing as being too good. Emily
B. Stone in Lippincott's.
How to Yarn.
Did you ever watch a dog gape? For
thoroughness and entire absence of af
fectation and mock Jiamefacedness there
is nothing like it. When a dog gapes, he
doesn't screw his face into all sorts of
unnatural shapes in an endeavor to keep
his mouth shut with his jaws wide open.
Neither does he put his paw up to his
face in an apologetic way, while gaping
in ambush, as it were. No ; when he
gapes he i perfectly willing that the
whole world shall come to the show. He
braces himself firmly on his fore feet,
stretches out his neck, depresses his
head, and his jaws open with graceful
moderation.
At first it is but an exaggerated grin,
but when the gape is apparently accom
plished the deg turns out his elbows,
open his jaws another 4o degrees, swal
lows an imaginary bono by a sudden and
convulsive movement, curls up his
tonguo like the petal of a tiger lily and
shuts his jaws together with a snap.
Then he assumes a grave and content
ed visage, as is eminently becoming to
one who has performed a duty success
fully and conscientiously. Pearson's
Weekly.
A Competent Witness.
A little girl was in the witness box,
and, as usual, before she was allowed
to be sworn, she was examined by the
presiding judge, Mr. Judge Maule, as to
her understanding the nature of an oath
and her belief in a future state.
"Do you know what an oath is, my
child?" asked the jcjlge.
"Yes, sir; I am obliged to tell the
truth."
"If you always tell the truth, whore
will you go when yon die?"
"Up to heaven, sir?"
"And what will become of you if you
tell lies?"
"I shall go to the naughty place,
sir.
"Are you quite sure of that?"
' ' Yes, sir ; quite sure. ' '
"Let her be sworn," said Maule. "It
is quito clear she Joiows a great deal
more than I do." Pittsburg Dispatch.
Crooked Kailroadlny.
An engineer who formerly ran on tho
Decorah division, known among the
railroad boys as the "pea vino" on ac
count of its many curves, tolls of a re
markable occurrence that happened near
Braiuard, where the railroad is said to
be as crooked as anything to be found in
the state. A freight train was being fol
lowed close by the passenger, both being
off time on account of a washout. A
headlight was placed on the rear of the
caboose as a warning to the passenger
train which followed. Suddenly tho
train came to a halt. The engine was
reversed, and the engineer and fireman
were seen to jump. Tho train was on a
part of the road that was so crooked
that the engine had turned around, and
seeing the headlight on the rear end of
the caboose they thought they were go
ing to have a head end collision. Ma
son City Globe-Gazette.
Two Kinds.
Papa (busy with his accounts) I wish
you wouldn't read aloud, Rachel. You
disturb me.
Miss Rachel This is the morning pa-
i per, papa. I'm reading ".Notes on so
tiety." Papa So am I, child, and I'vo got
rame here that are awfully hard to col
lect. Chicago Tribune.
Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report
When Old Friends 3Teet.
From their conversation they must
have been old college chums who had
not met for a long time until they ran
against each other in a Madison avenue
car last evening.
The-bigger one was accompanied by a
pale, delicate man who bore a much
Ecared expression, while the other ex
collegiau, one of thoso fellows with a
stentorian voice, was alone.
They shook hands effusively and then
began an exchange of reminiscences, in
which such fragments as, "Don't you
remember the '87 game at Princeton?"
and "What's become of Jack So-and-eo?"
were distinguishable all over the
car.
Then tho one with the voice became
more personal in his remarks :
"Do you remember, old maN, how
you always intended to be a doctor? Ha,
ha, you don't look much as though you
took your own medicine, I can tell you.
'Faithful unto death,' no doubt, is your
motto. Ha, ha ! I'll bet you enjoy cut
ting off legs and arms and taking out old
'msides' and putting in new ones. I say,
haven't you killed off more than you've
saved?"
The pale, scared man was sinking
rapidly into a faint. The big man braced
him up, and turning to the one with the
fog horn voice said :
"For heaven's sake be quiet! I'm a
professor at the Johns Hopkins hospital,
and this is a patient I'm taking there
for an operation."
"ine log horn voice and its owner
nearly got killed trying to get off before
the car arrived at the corner. Balti
more Telegram.
Hia Umbrella.
A youug man was riding down town
the other evening in a Euclid avenue car,
He took tho front seat and held in his
hand an umbrella which had been given
him as a birthday present. On the seat
facing him was a lady with a precocious
infant boy, evidently about 5 years old
j.ne youngster regarded the young man
with rapt attention for a few moments,
and then his eyes wandered to the um
brella. He gazed at it in silence for a
second ; then he wriggled in his seat,
clapped his hands and shouted :
"Oh, mamma, doesn't that look like
papa's umbrella?"
"Hush I hush! my child," said the
mother, patting the prodigy on the head.
"Papa was looking for his umbrella
this evening, wasn't he, mamma r" con
tinued the child wonder.
"Yes, yes, but he found it," said the
mother hurriedly as the conversation
was becoming of exceeding interest to
the occupants of two rows of seats.
"Why, mamma," continued the
youngster, "you know he didn't. Why,
you told him that ho didn't know
enough to keep an umbrella. Why,
mamma"
At this stage the young man got up
and left the car. Cleveland Plain Deal
er. A Sfory of the Prince.
In England the following is regarded
as "a good story about the Prince of
Wales," and perhaps as not reflecting
upon the newspaper man: "His royal
highness has often gono to see big fires.
Once after tho opera ho strolled unat
tended toward a spot where the red
glow in tho sky had indicated a great
conflagration. Seeing a newspaper re
porter taking notes, the prince asked
him for details, which were of courso
readily given, especially as the identity
of the questioner was known to the jour
nalist. At the conclusion of the conver
sation the prince offered the reporter a
cigar, which tho latter carefully wrap
ped m an envelope and placed in his
pocket. ' Why don't you smoke it?' said
the prince. 'Because I'm not likely ever
to get another cigar from the Prince of
Wales, so I mean to keep this one as a
memento. ' Tho prince laughed good na
turedly, and bringing out his case again
replied, ' Well, yon had better have an
other one this tiino to smoke.' "
Prehistoric Literature In America.
The only evidence that has ever been
found going to show that the prehistoric
cave dwellers of America had a written
language was discovered for the first
timo in the year 1891. In the summer
of that year Professors Shaler aud War
ren, the former of Yale college, made a
thorough exploration of what is known
as Falling Spring cave, in the Se
quatchie valley, state of Tennessee, and
therein found incontrovertible evidence
that the prehistoric Americans wore a
race of civilized beings, possessing a
literature and an alphabet. In one of
tho galleries of tho cave they found tho
body of a human being, transformed to
stone by tho salts and silica in the drip
ping water, and noar by a largo oval
slab, upon which were carved 467 words.
Iu all theso words, some of which con
tained nine and ten letters, only 32 dif
ferent characters were used, proving
conclusively that their alphabet was one
of 32 letters only. St. Louis Republic.
A Handy Itlan.
People always seem to be more or less
interested in seeing men at work on new
buildings. On a building under con
struction up town thero was a man up
on the fourth or fifth story who was
hoisting water from the ground. He had
a beam rigged out, with a fall at the
end of it, and a bucket attached to the
fall. There was a barrel on the ground
below, and when he wanted water ho
lowered the bucket down to the barrel,
dipped it himself from above and hoist
ed away. He didn't want any help ; all
ho asked was to have the barrel kept
full, and he would do the rest. New
York Sun.
A Doable Ufo.
The scorcher whizzed around the cor
ner, and Ferry escaped getting run over
only by an uudiguified dodge.
"I wonder who that idiot was?" ho
said.
"He's the walking gentleman in De
Hamine Mactor's company," said Har
greaves. "Well, he may bo a walkinc Dentin-
man, but he s an unmitigated hog when
Do's riding. "Cincinnati Enquirer.
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The Piety of Washington.
The doubt has never been raised in
any respectable quarter that Washington
was not a man of strong religious faith.
One wouid need to read hardly more
than his farewell message to be con
vinced of that. In that document, it
will be remembered, Washington dis
tinctly says that religion and morality
are indissoluble and that the two to
gether constitute the main props of civil
government. But a writer now comes
forward in The Lutheran Quarterly to
claim and to prove not only that the
greatest of Americans was a religious
man, but that his pre-eminence as a gen
eral, statesman and leader was due not
to genius, which has neverbeen claimed ;
not to learning, of which he had no
large store ; not to eloquence, of which
he had less, but to moral excellence
and especially topiety.
"Washington was a Christian," says
this writer. "Study his private life
among the shades of Mount Vernon.
Contemplate his career as a soldier at
the head of the army. Scrutinizo the
acts of hi3 administration as chief mag
istrate of the republic, and you will
constantly find proofs that he was gov
erned by Christian principle. If we ex
clude the molding power of Christianity
in the formation of Washington's char
acter, we can neither account for it nor
interpret it. Depraved human nature
cannot bring forth, under the most fa
vorable circumstances, such a man, such
a hero, such a ruler, such a patriotand
such a statesman. Heathenism in the
highest stages of civilization attained in
all ages and lands has produced no char
acter approximating to that of Washing
ton." The Circulating Barber.
Now it is the traveling barber. He is
located on the upper west side and dif
fers from the ordinary every day barber
in that he calls at tho homes of fairly
well to do business men at fixed hours
of tho day, and for an extra compensa
tion shows his ability as a tonsorial
artist. The class of customers that this
visiting barber has is tho envy of all the
shop barbers for miles around his terri
tory. How he does it is best explained
in his own language. Here's what he
told me: "The business of a visiting
barber resembles that of a fortune teller
in that it must be personal. My charges
per week to each customer range from
2 up. I number among my customers
bankers, brokers, lawyers and young
men of leisure. In all I shave and other
wise attend to 25 customers each day,
three of them bofore dinner in the even
ing. I do not know if there are any oth
er visiting barbers in the city, nor do I
care. All that I know is that I make
money enough out of it to keep a horso
and rig to take my wife driving on Sun
day. While I was a slave of the shop I
never did that. The man who patronizes
the visiting barber is sensible. It .may
be a little more expensive, but" it is
cleaner, more convenient and satisfac
tory all around.7' New York Letter.
A Iand Without Domestic Animals.
Japan is a land, says Tho Popular Sci
ence News, without the domestic ani
mals. It is this lack which strikes the
stranger so forcibly in looking upon Jap
anese landscapes. There are no cows
the Japanese neither drinks milk nor
eats meat. There are but few hurso.
and these are imported mainly for the
use of the foreigner. The freight cars in
the city streets are pulled and pushed by
coolies, and the pleasure carriages are
drawn by men. There are but few dogs,
and these are neither used as watch
dogs, beasts of burden nor in hunting
except by foreigners.
There are no sheep in Japan, and
wool is not used in clothing, silk and
cotton being the staples. There are no
pigs pork is an unknown article of diet,
and lard is not used in cooking. There
are no goats or mules Gr donkeys. Wild
animals there are, however, and in par
ticular bears of an enormous size. One
of these that Mr. Finck saw stuffed, in a
museum, ho describes as "big as an ox."
Canary Birds.
A Chicago bird dealer, one of the
most extensive in the country, says of
canaries: "Tho idea is prevalent that
canary birds either come from the Ca
nary islands or are born in captivity.
Of course some are received from the
Canary islands, and a great many of
them are raised from tame birds that
havo never been at liberty, or cage
birds, as they are called. Still, many of
the very best canaries are captured wild
in the United States. Southern Cali
fornia is full of wild canaries, and
there are no better singers in tho world.
In some sections the air seems to be
filled with melody. They are so plenti
ful that the boys kill them in great
numbers with sling shots, and they aro
little more thought of than sparrows. I
prefer the American canaries to the im
ported, and thero does not seem to be
any danger that the supply will ever
run short."
Watched Dim Digest.
The science of digestion received an
important impetus from the knowledge
gained by tho case of .Alexis St. Martin.
He was a young Canadian who received
a gunshot wound in tho stomach. The
wound healed, but left an open fistula,
through which the process of digestion
could be watched and ascertained from
timo to time. Through experiments
made in his case the time of digestion
was ascertained with some degree of
correctness that is, so far as his stom
ach was concerned.-
ainch tho Same.
A lady walked into a Boston book
store in search of Elizabeth Stnurt
Phelps' "Burglars In Paradise." But
what she' asked for was "Smugglers In
Heaven." Boston Transcript.
Wickedness may prosper for awhile,
but at the long run he that sets all
knaves at work will pay them. L'Es-
'No Discrimination.
Miss Lucy (to her cook)Really,
Aunt Chloo, it is dreadful of old Ned to
bring up his children so badly. He lets
them steal right and left.
Aunt Chloe Yes, Miss Lucy, dat's
what I always say. Folks does very
wrong to: let dey chillen steal, 'cause
chillen, dey ain't got no judgment. Dey
don't know what to steal. New York
Journal.
j Uaialnc'Fnnds.
a n give announced tne man
, m the third paw from tho front.
The converted counterfeiter rose with
UUIUUUIl.
"And I," he exclaimed, "will make
it $100. "Detroit Tribune.
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