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Finest Wines, Liquors and Cigars at the Bar. Our billiard hall is supplied with the best make of tables and competent attendants will supply all your wants. KEITH'S BfiOCK, OPPOSITE x'flE UNIOF PACIFIC DEPOT Choice of all kinds of handle $50,000.00. 22,500.00 Q. Y V JLLJL JL JJU, 1ICS I., A. WHITE, Vice-Pres't. ARTHUR McNAMAEA, Cashier Business Transacted. ImCiI I my -Apotlieke and Sixth-sts. Good Teams, . Comfortable Rigs, Accommodations for ih Farming: Fubhc. IK AIj BARE, Editor and Pbofkietor SUBSCRIPTION BATES. One Year, cash in advance, 11.25. Six Months, cash in advance 75 Cents. Entered at the Korthplatte (Nebraska) postoffice as second-class matter. Many good words are heard tor Mr. Abbott, of Deuel county, who has been endorsed by the republi cans of his county as a candidate for representative. "With Judge Hoajrland as the senatorial candi date and Mr. Abbott for representa tive a winning" fight can be made. Is is generally conceeded that the defeat of M. A. Daugherty as a candidate for delegate-at-large was was due principally to the resolu tions passed by the republicans of of Mr. Dauber ty's county in conven tion assembled. The republicans of the state are not in favor of tree silver by a large majority, as is evi denced by the state platform. No county convention is greater than its party. The ambitious attempt of the bosses ot the A. P. A. to advertise themselves in the guise of dictators to the republican party in the mat ter of a candidate for president will only make them absurd. The American people are weary of that sort of secret society horse play. The charge that McKinley, a mem ber of the Methodist Episcopal church and an American from away back in blood and patriotism, favors the pope in politics and appoints Catholics rather than protestants to office is so puerile and crazy that if the A. P. A. organization goes into the campaign on it, it is the association that will be swamped and not Major McKinley. State Journal. The candidates of the Sixth dis trict for delegates at large to the re publican national convention was turned down by the state conven tion and principally by the votes of eastern Nebraska, which already has the earth. The affront was un called for and the rejection of the Sixth district claim unjust. July first another convention will be held. At that convention the Sixth district should again unite on a candidate for governor. and give some of our eastern Nebraska nibses" another opportunity to de termine whether they propose to ignore and insuH and abandon all of this great northwest territory to the enemy. The Hub has referred to this matter before, and will have something more on the same line before the July convention meets. Kearney Hub. With the tact patent that with out the North Platte ring the popu list party of Lincoln county would not'be in existence, it is poor grace for the Era to refer to any supposed republican ring in North Platte. Messers Neville, Gantt, Buchanan and a few others in North Platte have absolute control of the popu lists in Lincoln county and when the members of this reform (?) ring snap their fingers the rank and file of the pop party bow their knee in gentle submission. The populists do not seem to possess the courage to resent the political lashes applied to them or to break the bonds which hold them as slaves to their political masters. Rob the members of the North Platte ring of their chance to retain or secure office and how long would they remain populists? Not twenty-four hours. They work to maintain the populist party solely that they may gather the political crumbs which accrue by reason of its existance. As for pop ulist principles they care not a snap. TWELVE HUNDEED DOLLAES A MINUTE. The treasury deficit for the first eleven days of this month is $6, 084, 803. This, as our Washington cor respondent observes, is at the rate of 5608,480 for each working day of the year; counting eight hours to each day, and eight hours make a business day at Washington, it is at the rate of $76,000 an hour, and over $1,200 a minute. This comes of Democratic tariff tinkering, of Democratic currency tinkering, of democatic appropria tion making, and of all the combined manifestations of democratic incom petencr to administer concerning the finance and trade of the country. The first twenty months of oper ation of the McKinley tariff resulted in a surplus of $20,287,462 for the national treasury. The first twenty months of the operation of the Wil son tariff has resulted in adificit of $82,248,794 The democrats denounced the surplus as "infamous, " though it is a matter of common, sense that a surplus of S20,000,000 is no more than a safeguard against emerge ncies. But if a surplus of $20,000, 000 be "infamous," what adjective is fit to qualify a deficit of $82,000, 000? When there was a surplus in the national treasury there was a sur plus in nearly every house. The building associations and the sav ings banks were receiving vast de posits of accumulations from the wage fund, merchants were enlarge ing their stores, manufacturers were enlarging their mills, wages were going up, and all manufactured things that wages buy were coming i rs i r t t aown. oiriKes ior nigner wages were too common, but strikes against lower wages were unknown The democrats have changed all this. Turn them out. Inter Ocean. A GREAT CONVENTION PROGRAMME TOR NEXT ANNUAL MEETING OF THE Y. P. S. C. E. To Open at Washington July 8 Prepara tions Being Made to Accommodate CO,' OOO People Opportunities to See the Sights of the Capital. The general outline of the programme of the fifteenth international Christian Endeavor convention, which will be held in "Washington July 8-18, is an nounced. It is expected that fully G0,- 000 people will attend. Every morning of the convention there will be held at 6 :30 o'clock from 20 to 30 early morn ing prayer meetings in as many churches. The formal opening of the convention will occur Thursday morning in three great tents upon the. White lot just south of the executive mansion. Those will be called tent Washington, tent En deavcr and tent Williston and will seat about 10,000 persons each, including a chorus choir cf about 1,000 voices. At these opening sessions, which will be held simultaneously at 9 :30 o'clock, ad dresses of welcome, the annual report of Secretary John Willis Baer and the annual address cf President Francis Clark will be given. Thursday afternoon there will bo held about 80 denominational rallies. The rallies of the Presbyterians, Baptists and Congregationalists will be held in the three tents, and the others will be held in large churches. The topic ior consideration Thursday evening will be "Christian Citizenship." The topic for Friday is "Saved to Serve," The morning meetings will be held in the three tents, said hi. the afternoon confer ences for the discussion of Christian En deavor committee work will be held in many churches. In the evening ne of the tents will be given over to an evan gelistic meeting for the citizens of Washington, while in the other two tents, Central hall and six churches programmes of great interest toEndeav orers will be provided. Saturday will be outdoor day. At 9:80 an open air praise service will bo held at the Washington monument The Endeavorerswill then march to the cap ital, where it is hoped brief addresses may be delivered from tho steps of the seat of government. The Junior Chris tain Endeavorers will hold an early prayer meting Saturday morning and a grand rally in one of the tents Saturday afternoon, at which choir and orchestra composed entirely of children will lead the music. Saturday afternoon will be given up to signtseeing, while Satur day evening will be devoted to recep tions of the state delegations. Sunday afternoon an evangelist serv ice will be held in one of the tents, and in the other two and in many churches there will be denominational missionary rallies. At the same hour there will be held in Central hall a meeting devoted whftlly to the question of the American Sunday. The tents will be closed in the evening. Monday morning the World's Chris tian Endeavor union, formed last year in Boston, will hold its first annual con vention. The afternoon will be devoted to excursions, and in the evening the convention will close with the sermons and usual consecration services in each of the three tents, Central hall and five or six large churches. IS "PHIS A SPECIMEN?' Congressman Crowley Tells How He Made His Maiden Speeeh. "Did I tell you fellows how I come to make .my maiden speech?" asked Con gressman Crowley of Texas. "No? Well, it was this way: A gang of newspaper fellows was guying me as not making a speech. 'Speechmaking's no sign of a man's usefulness in congress, ' says L 'Better men than me are not making speeches, but if you're betting that I can't make a speech I'll just go you a ten.' "'It goes,' says one of the gang. 'You're afraid. ' And he shows the long green. " 'What's up in the house now?' says L " JCannon is fighting an increase for a lighthouse keeper in your district, ' says he. " 'I'll go right now, ' says L And in I goes. Well, you know what happened. I told Cannon he didn't know as much about keeping a lighthouse as a porcu pine does about Ascension day, and Can non spread himself all over me. If he'd known how I come to jump on him, I'll bet he'd laughed. Then I goes, out, and j the stakeholder hands me the stun. That's how it happened. " Washington Post Campos May Go Back. A rumor is current that Marshal Campos is to be sent Jback to Cuba. No confirmation of the story can be ob tained in official circles. Marshal Campos declines to be inter viewed on the subject His position just now is a delicate one. Contrary to gen eral belief, he came back from Cuba a poor man. It is declared there is a feeling of dissatisfaction in official circles with tho policy of Captain General Weyler and that it is urged that he be removed and Martinez de Campos appointed to succeed him. Philadelphia Press. Follows Omaha's Example. Alderman Abercrombie of St Joseph, Mo., introduced a curfew ordinance at the session of the common council the other night. It is modeled after the or dinance passed by Omaha and Lincoln, and will no doubt become a law, as the members of the council favor its passage. The Chandler Button. The Chandler button has made its ap pearance at the capitol. It does not bear the image of the New Hampshire sen ator, but it is easily identified by the inscription: "I have troubles of my own. Don't tell me yours. " Washing ton Post I Highest of all in Leavening RoYal ABSOLUTELY NYE'S HISTORY . OF ENGLAND. Czesar's Invasion as Viewed by the Humorist. HTDU0ED BY A BILIOUS ATTA0E, The Author Avoids Overpraise and Mawk ish Sentiment Early Britons Only Fit to Act as Ancestors Ignoble Amusement! of the Barefooted Nobility. Copyright, 1396, by J. B. Lippincott Company. CHAPTER L From the elad whinny of tho first unicorn down to the tip end of the nine teenth century tho history of Great Britain lias been deau to her descendants in every land, 'neath every sky. But to write a truthful and honest history of any country the historian should, that he my avoid overpraise and silly and mawkish sentiment, reside in a foreign country or he so situated that he may put on a false mustacho and net away as scon as tho advance copies have been sent to the printers. The writer of these pages, though of British descent, will in what he may say guard carefully against permitting that fact to swerve- him for one swift moment from the right. England even before Christ, as now, was a sort of money center, and thither CAESAR CROSSING THE CHANNEL. camo the Phoenicians and tho Cartha ginians for their tin. These early Britons were suitablo only to act as ancestors. Aside from that they had no good points. They dwelt in mud huts thatched with straw. They had no currency and no ventila tion no drafts, in other" words. Their boats were made of wickerwork plas tered with clay. Their swords were made of tin alloyed with copper, and after a brief skirmish the entire army had to fall back and straighten its blades. They also had short spears made with a rawhide string attached, so that tho deadly weapon could bo jerked back again. To spear an enemy with one of these harpoons and then, after playing him for half an hour or so, to land liim PLOWIXG, 51 B. C and finish him up with a tin sword constituted one of the most reliable boons peculiar to that strange people. Ccesar first came to Great Britain on aecomit of a bilious attack. On the way across the channel a violent storm camo up. Tho great emperor and pantata be lieved he was drowning, so tvjat in an instant's time everything throughout his whole lifetime recurred to him as he went down especially his breakfast. Purchasing a four-in-hand of docked unicorns and much improved in health, he returned to Borne. Agriculture had a pretty hard start among these people, and where now the glorious fields of splendid pale and bil lowy oatmeal may be seen, interspersed with every kind of domestic and import ed fertilizer in cunning littlo hillocks just bursting forth into fragrance by the roadside, then tho vast island was a quaking swamp or covered by imper vious forests of gigantic trees, up which with coarse and shameless glee would scamper the nobility. (Excuse the rhythm into which I may now and then drop as the plot develops. Author). Ctcsar later on made more invasions, one of them for the purpose of returning his team and flogging a Drrid with whom ho had disagreed religiously on a former trip. (He had also bought his team of the Druid). The Druids were the sheriffs, priests, judges, chiefs of police, plumbers and DRUID SACRIFICES. justices of the peace. They practically ran the place, and no one could be a Druid who could not pass a civil service examination. They believed in human sacrifice, and often of a bright spring morning could have been seen going out behind the hush to sacrifice some one who disagreed with them on scni9 religious point or other. The Druids largely lived in the woods in summer and in debt during the win ter. They worshiped almost everything that had been left out overnight, and i ' Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report Baking Powder PURE thtir motto was, "Hever do anything unless you feel like it very much in deed." Cffisar wa3 a broad man from a reli gious point of view and favored bringing the Druids before the grand jury. Foi uttering such sentiments as these thd Druids declared his life to bo forfeit and set one of their number to settle also with him after morning services the question as to the matter of immersion and sound money. Religious questions were even then as hotly discussed as in later times, and AXCIEXT SCARECROW. Caesar could not enjoy society very much for five or six days. At Stonehenge there are still relics of a stone temple which the Druids used as a place of idolatrous worship and as sassination. On giblet day people camo for many miles to see the exercises and carry home a few cutlets of intimate friends. " Alter tins iome sent over various great federal appointees to soften and refine the " e. Among them camo General Agncola, with a new kind of seed corn and kindness in his heart. He taught the barefooted Briton to go out to the pump every evening and bathe his chapped and soil kissed feet and wipe Iheni on the grass before retir ing, thus introducing one of the refine ments of Rome in this cold and barbaric clime. Along about the beginning of the Christian "Erie," says an elderly Eng lishmau, the Queen Boadicea got so dis gusted with the Romans, who carried on there in Er gland just as they had been in the habit cf doing at home cutting up like a Halloween party in its junior year that she got her Britcns together, had a steel dress made to fight in com fortably and not tight under the arms. Thenfhe said, "Is there any one here who hath a culverin with him?" One was soon found and fired. This by the Romans was regarded as an opening of hostilities. Her fire was returned with great eagerness, and victory was won in the city cf Lcndon over the Remans, who had taunted the queen several times with being seven years behind tho be ginning of tho Christian era in the matter cf clothes. Boadicea won victories by tiio score, and it is said that under tho Losrra of her wrath 70, 000 Roman warriors kiss ed the dust. As she waved her scepter in token of victory the hatpin came cut cf her crown, and wildly throwing the ' 'old hot thing" at the Roman general she missed liim and unhorsed her own chaperon. Disgusted with war and the cooking they were having at the time, she burst DEATH OF ROADICEA. into tears just on the evo of a general victory over the Romans and poisoned herself. Bill Nye. N. B. Many thanks are duo to tha author, Mr. A. Barber, for the use of his works en titled "Half Hours With Crovned Heads" and uThouKht3 on Shaving Dead People on Whom One Has Never Called," cloth, gilt top.-' I notice an error in the artist's work which will be apparent to any cae of moderate intel ligence and especially to the Englishman viz, that tho tin discovered by the Phoenicians is in the form of cans, etc., formerly having con tained tinned meats, fruits, etc. This book, I fear, will be sharply criticised in England if any inaccuracy bo permitted to creep in, even through the illustrations. It is disagreeable to fall out thus early with one's artist, but the writer knows too well and tho sting yet burns and rankles in his soul where pierced the poisoned dart of an English clergyman two years ago. The writer had 8xiken of Julius Cmsar's invasion of Britain for tho purpose of replenishing the Roman stock of umbrellas, topcoats and "loydies," when the clergyman said, politely, but very firmly, that "England then had no topcoats or umbrellas." Tho writer would not have cared had there not been others present. B. 2f. A. .Compromise Proposed. Little 4-year-old Florence was canght weding in a mud puddle in front of her home. "Now," declared her mother as sha led her in the house by the arm, "I am going to whip you first and then send you to bedj and you can't get up again till tomorrow morning, all because you disobeyed me and went outside in the mud." After a deal of preparation that was. intended to be impressive, Florence waa' duly spanked, and she boohooed lustily. "Now, then, I am going to put you to bed." "Oh, don't, mamma, " begged Flor ence. "Whip mo some more, mamma, please, and let me stay up." San Fran cisco Post BRUIN AND THE BOAT THE DEER STORY MAN SIGHED, BUT SAID NOT A WORD. A Story of a Bear and a Hunter In s Ca noe With No Weapon Except His Wits. It Was a Kaval Battle Koyal, aad Brains Won a MagrnlfleeBt Victory. They had been telling all sorts of hunting stories, some almost too mirac ulous to be believed, except by hunters who had had experiences and knew what strage things sometimes occur far away amid the forest wilds when there are no witnesses. The last man had told of deer hunting in the water, and a squat, heavy set man sitting in the cor ner seemed particularly interested- in the tale. 1 "That reminds me," he said, when he had a chance to come in, "of an ex perience I once had up in the lake re gion of Canada. A party of us were in camp there, along in the fall, and were I having great sport with the rod and gun. We -had secured specimens of all the game and fish for which the section was noted except a bear, and of that tracks had been reported not far from camp, and wo were to try for bruin as soon as we had made proper prepara tions. The'day before we were to start out on the bear hunt I had gone off up the shore of the lake in a light canoo we had to fish for a couple of hours and get a fry for supper. I had nothing with me in tho canoe except my fishing outfit and no sort of a weapon unless the canoe paddle might be called one. But a man didn't need a weapon to catch fish with, so I gave no thonght to it. I had found a nice cave up the cove about a mile from camp, and there I stopped tho canoe about 50 feet from shore in deep water and threw out my line. Luck was good, and I had pulled in five or six fine fellows and was hav ing more fun than anybody, except the fisherman, when I was startled by a splash from the thicket lining the shore, and the next minute a whopping big bear was making for me lickety split. To say that I was scared doesn't half express it, I was paralyzed. I didn't even have sense enough left to grab my paddle and try to ge5 away. I simply baught it up and held it in my hand as I would a club and waited. But the bear didn't wait. He was very evident ly hungry, or he never would have at tacked mo out there in the boat, and he was coming straight for me. J waited for him to get close enough to bat him one, and then I gave it to him with the canoe paddle square between the eyes. It dazed him a little, but it was far more disastrous to the paddle, and when I straightened up from delivering the blow I had only about two feet of the paddle left in my hand. The rest of it, splintered, was floating in the wake of the bear. He gave himself a shake after I hit him, and the next minute he had caught the side of the canoe with cue of his big paws and was manifesting a violent desire to get aboard with me. As he weighed about 400 pounds and was as powerful as a horse it did not require a very strong haul to settle that part of the proceeding early, and instead of his coming aboard with me the canoo was upset, and I went into the water with him. "By this time a portion of my wits had returned, and I had sense enough, as the boat went toward the bear, to get off into the water with the boat between the bear and me. I was a good swim mer and had a faint idea if I got head ed toward the shore I could outswim my enemy and get away, so I turned, as soon as I got straightened out in the lake, and put back the other way. The bear in the meautime had started around the end of the boat, coming my way. I don't know what it was, wheth er inspiration or fear or bravery, but certainly it was something out cf the ordinary, for as I went around one end of the boat and the bear was at the oth er or quite near it I wja3 struck with an idea, and instead of trying speed with tho bear for the shoro I concluded to try wits with him right whero we were. So I swung on to tho end of tho canoe, which was bottom side up, and as the bear camo toward me, I tilted the other end up, and with a sudden jerk, dropped the inverted boat over the bear's head. The next minuto I was on top of the boat with tho bear under me. I guess he didn't know what had happened to him, for he didn't seem to do anything pnder there except to bump his head against tho bottom and growl. I thought at first he might have sense enough to dive and come out on tho othor side ; hut, like turkeys that walk into a pen through a hole heading from the outside into it, and, never once hooking down for tho hole to get out at, run around in a crazy kind of f way till they are caught, that bear staid puder the boat with me on top of it, bumping his head and growling. By this time I was feel ing a good deal like Napoleon crossing the Alps, or liko some other great hero, and felt still more like it as I noticed the bumping and the growling growing less every minute until finally they ceased altogether. I didn't understand that quite and began to wonder if the bear wasn't catching on to himself and thinking of the easiest way to get at his dinner, when over in the clear water of the lake, a dozen feet or so from tho boat, I aw something big and dark slowly going toward the bottom and drifting away. Another look convinced me it was my bear, and another minute. found me swimming for the shore at 40 miles an hour, more or less. Half an hour later I was on the spot again with three men in a big canoe, and still half an hour later found us on shore with the body of the baar, which we had re covered from the water. It was a clear case of human intelligence against brute force, with tho intelligence the victor, of course, but when any more contests liko that aro booked I desire it understood that I am not competing." The man whq had told the deer story heaved a profound sigh and looked at the beir story teller with admiration. New YorJ Sun. MECCA CATARRH REMEDY. For colds in the head and treatment of catarrhal troubles this preparation has afforded prompt relief; with jts cqq tinued use.the most stubborn cases of catarrh havp yielded to its liealiqg power. 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