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THE NOMA PLATTE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 51896. HSFO. 3496. 1STOETH JPITTJBL NEB, Capital, -Surplus, - - $50,000.00. $22,500.00 IRA Ij BAKE, Editor akp Pkopkletor suBscarpnoN bates. One Year, ce.sk la advance, $L25. Six Months, cask in advance 75 Cents. Entered at the North Platte (Kebraaka)postofflce as second-claes matter. H. S. WHITE, Pres't., -P. A. WHITE, Yice-Pres't. ARTHUR McNAMAEA - Cashier. The Illinois republican platform truthfully characterizes the demo cratic party .as"the same old thistle, always promising- to bear figs, yet at every chance bringing- forth and scattering more thistle seeds." An investigation going- forward in New York shows that of the Ital ian immigrants 'who have arrived in this country since the beginning- of the year, 7,095 admitted that they could not read or write their own language. This is about 35 per cent of the whole number arriving dur ing- that period. Such additions to the illiteracy of the United States are highly undesireable, and if they continue will become - a political danger. Ex. ROYAL WIDOWS. Highest of all in Leavening Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report Wi IfAHMiiN Absolutely pure STOR Y WITHOUT Em MYSTERY OF CROSSED THE TWO BEINGS WHO NARRATOR'S PATH. M. M. Neeyes, formerly receiver of the U. S. Land office, is now pub lishing the Record at Dayton, Wyo., Oaa er More In Nearly Every Country la t Europe. It is just a thought astonishing to reckon the number of royal widows, regnant or uncrowned, now more or less in pnblic view. First, of course, comes -her majesty, Victoria, empress of In- NYE'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND. Af tPD PT3 1 Tfo Tl 1 1 Tl 0 Rll T1 PQQ Tr a n s3 ft Pfl the initial number of which reached queen of England, Scotland and VJCilUiai UaillVlliy JJUdiilGOD lldlloaUlGU. ... t-a Ireland. Next to her one .must rank her Introduction of the Hyphen on English Soil. A. F. STREITZ is the fourth paper Mr. Neeves has established. . Drugs, Medicines, Paints, Oils, PAINTEES' strPIPXXES, WINDOW GLASS, -:- MACHINE OILS, Ia,m.a,rLta, Spectacles. Manley, manager for Tom Reed and Tom Piatt, boomer for Morton, are still busy at work attempting to discredit the strength shown by McKmley, but thev might as well lay down. When the St. Louis convention assembles both Manley and Piatt will be wondering where they are at. The organization for the West Nebraska Fair to be held at North Platte has been fully completed, Bister threw herself into the breach, in and a vigorous campaign from this eldest child, Victoria, empress dowager of Prussia, more commonly known as Empress Frederick. Then, in the same family circle, there are the Duchess of Albany, born Princess of Waldeck-Pyr mont, and widow of the. English queen's youngest son, and the Princess of Bat- teriberg. upon tno continent in ere are a pair of widowed queens regent Christine of Spain and Emma of Holland. Both have won golden opinions from those they govern, no less than from impartial onlookers. Queen Emma is, by the way, sister to the Duchess of Albany, who is said to have been the first choice of the gay old reprobate, King William of Holland. She refused him, but her THE ADVENT OP THE ANGLES. Corner of Spruce and Sixth-sts. v r ... . -- 1 C.FIDDINGS, time henceforth can be looked for. Buffalo county is riffht in line for the project and our people will do their full share to make the fair complete and satisfactory success. Kearney Hub. LUMBER, There are rumors in Washington says the correspondent of the State Journal, that cabinet honors await Senator Thurston in the event of McKinley's election. No one will duubt the Senator's ability to fill any cabinet portfolio, but we would rather see him remain in thesenate, for the reason that he can be of more real service to the people there than in a cabinet omce. AND GRAIN. Order by telephone from iewfcon's Book Store. WALL-PAPER, PAINT AND OIL DEPOT. WINDOW GLSS, VARNISHES, GOLD LEAF, GOLD PAINTS. BRONZES, ARTISTS' COLORS AND BRUSHES, PIANO AND 'FURNITURE POLISHES, PREPARED HOUSE AND BUGGY PAINTS, KALSOMINE MATERIAL, WINDOW SHADES. - ESTABLISHED JULY 1868. - - - The grand triumph of McKinley. in the Illinois state convention Fri day practically insures his nomina tion at St. Louis in June, and his rivals have thrown up the sponge in their efforts to defeat him. The fight on McKinley has been waged, not by the rank and file of the n publican party, but by a few poli ticians of high standing- in the party, and the nomination of Mc Kinley will be a victory for the rank and file. 310 SPRUCE STREET. F J- BROEKER. MERCHANT TAILOR. A Fine Line of Piece Goods to select from. First-class Jit. Excel lent Workmanship. It is generally conceded that Hon. J. S. Hoag-land will receive the nomination for the state sen ate at the hands of the reoublican legislative convention. Mr. Hoag land deserves this honor at the hands of the party, for he has been a tireless worker in the irood cause. He is a man or recognized ability and a very upright and con scientious citizen. He will make a very creditable respresentative at Lincoln. Cozad Tribune. (OlcL Van Doran PEED STA-JBXjjB JStcilolo.) Prices Good Teams, Comfortable 33igs, Sxcdhnl Accommodations for h hmm Public. ELDER &j LOOK. "Northwest corner of Courthouse square. JOS. F. FILLION, Steam and Gas Fitting. Cesspool and Sewerage a Specialty. Copper and Galvanized Iron Cor nice. Tin and Iron Roofings. 7istimates furnished. Repairing of all kinds receive prompt attention " T.ftnnof. Sf.rnof. Rof.woon Fi-Pfli nnr? fiJvfli ;rTortli IPlatte, TsTebrasBia. 7 USEST SAMPLE K00M IN NORTH PLATTE Having refitted our rooms in the finest of style, the pnblic r 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 tablps and competent attendants will ..supply all your wants. "ITH'S BLOCK, OPPOSITE x'flE UNION PACIFIC DEPOT m 1 1" IT ii ii it 6 Ml-Eilliy AW 3sued in 10 Farts -: -10 Cents Each. FOR SALE At TRIBUNE OFFICE. "Every mechanic," says John R. Tanuer, who was nominated for governor by the Illinois republicans, "who thrusts his idle hands into his empty pockets will know how to vote." It will certainly not require much campaigning this vear to in sure tne election ot a republican president. The experience of the past four years has proved a great boom for the republican party the party whose administration of public affairs has always provided work ior the laborer at good wages. what is needed to solve tne cur rency question at present is not more money of any kind, but more business for the money that already exists, wisely says an exchange. Why should not the price of wheat be low when there has been a fall off in its consumption during the past year of one bushel for each man, woman and child m the United States? Why should not the price ot corn be low when during the past year there has been a fall-off in its consumption equal to five bushels for each oneot the 70,000,000 of peo pie in the United States? What we need is protection to stimulate our industries, put idle muscle to work so that it can earn a living and every man, woman and child can have their three square meals a day and a chicken on Sunda The statistician of the New York Tribune discussing the Spanish re ports of slam- rebels that come in every day. concluded to look up the record of the last rebellion there that lasted a number of years and which was distinguished by the same sort ot otncial reports of battles won and rebels killed by the terrible Span iards. At the end of the war the totals of rebel losses, as given f rom day to day by the Havana authori ties footed up, killed dead. 395,856: wounded, 726,490; captured 451,100 total 1,573,446, This was oyer a quarterof a million more Cubans killed, wounded and captured than there were men, woman and children on the island when the war began. The way the slaughter is progress ing now in General Weyler's prolific imagination, the entire population of Cuba will be killed three times each by-the time the hostilities are over. And yet Spain denies that the row m Cuba amounts to the dignity of a war and is only a sort spired doubtless by the knowledge that reigning sovereigns, even though some what battered and the worse for wear, were not likely to come often a-wooing in starveling if princely households. So they were married, and there is a little queen of Holland to cheat the anticipa tions cf the house cf Cumberland, uuc none ot tuc queens or empresses can put out of court Dagmar, sometime of Denmark, now tho widowed czarina, Marie Feodorowna. It must have gone hard with her, in spite cf tho splendors the change implied, to give over her Danish name, which means "day dawn, ' ' for an appellation so cumbrous. Feodo rowna means, by the way, "daughter of Theodore, " as docs Pnulovna "daughter of Paul. " The termination "ovna. " or owna,"has in all cases thatsignifl cance m Jtlnssiau names, -just as the sumx "vitcb." means always "son of." Thus Alexaudrovitch is "the son of Alexander. " Austrian royalty has two widows out right, between whom it is hard to say which has t lie more tragic story. All the world still remembers tho tragedy of Meyerlmg how the Crown Prince Ru dolph shot himself and tho beautiful Marie Vectsera, leaving his wife, Ste phanie of Belgium, by no means discon- solate, as thB pair had been on the point of judicial separation. Still the shock and shadow of it all for the time over whelmed her. But she has no continuing sorrow such as has driven to madness Carlotta, onco empress of Mexico, who missed seeing her husband, Maximilian, shot only because she had gone to Eu rope asking help for him, where no help was. Yet it is a question if. in suite of all, she is not less unhappy than her sis ter, the Empress Elizabeth of Austria, who has been for long years widowed in all but name. Besides Empress Eugenie, widowed, childless, a withered shadow of her beau tiful self, France has a Duchess of Or leans, wncm the 1 legitimists rank as queen dowager not to mention the wife of her murdered president, Carnot. And there is more than a Gallic trace in the youngest of royal widows, the Bonaparte princess, who married her uncle, the Duke d'Aosta, and since his death has set the Italian court wild with her freaks. New York journal. The. Musical Cat. My blue Persian oat is a gentle, senti mental creature, fcljghtly inclined to melancholy and, strangely, even trouble somely, affectionate to one or two select friends. She had been accustomed from the time I first had her last summer to be continually with me, generally on my lap or shoulder. "When the winter evenings began to draw on, I took to playing the piano, which I had not done during the summer. The cat could not understand why, when this was going on, she was not allowed to take up her usual position. In order, I suppose, to show her disapproval of my occupation, she would continually climb up either on to me or the piano and pat my hands with her paws, and pull them off tho keys very gently and without scratch ing at alL This became such a nuisance that I could not play unless I put her out of tho room, but she would sit out side and howl, and when any one open ed the door she would rush in and begin dg. papo. At last I thought of i way of treating her-vi?? like a rational being. I placed a chair next to the music stool, as though for 'a duct, and put her pn it, and explainer the matter to her, and from that time I have had no further trouble, unless I forget to put her chair for hey when. I begin to play. London Spectator Correspondence. Bade Warriors Who Wiped Their Whisk ers on tho Tablecloth Close Relation of tho Pic and Jfoblllty Bibalons Prom Incnco of the Saxons. Copyright, lSD0,'by J. B. Lippincott Company. CHAPTER HX "With the landing of Hengist and Horsa English history really begins, for Caesar's capture of the British isles was of slight importance viewed in the light of fast receding centuries. There is lit tle today in tho English character to re mind one of Ctesar, who was a volatile and epileptic emperor, with massive and complicated features. The rich warm, blocd of the Roman does not mantle in the cheek of the Engb'shman of the present century to any marked degree. The Englislunan. aping tho reserve and hauteur of Boston is, in fact, tho diametrical antipode of the impulsive, warm hearted and garlic imbued Roman, who revels in assassina tion and gold earbebs. Thft beautiful daughter cf Hengist formed an alliance with Vortigern, tho royal foreman of Great Britain, a plain man, who was very popular in the alcoholic set and generally subject to violent lucid intervals which lasted un til after breakfast, but the Saxons broke these up, it is said, and Rowena encour aged him in his efforts to becomo his own. worst enemy, and after two or three patent pailfuls of wassail would get him to give her another county or two, until soon the Briton saw that the' Saxon had a mortgage on the throne, and after it was too late ho said that im migration should have been restricted. Kent became tho first Saxon kingdom and remained a powerful state for over a century. More Saxons now came and brought with them yet other Saxons with yet more children, docs, vedka and thirst. The breath of a Saxon in a cucumber patch would make a peck of pickles per moment. The Angle3 now came also and reg-' istered at the leading hotels. They were destined to introduce the hyphen on Eng- : lish soil and plant the orchards on whose ancestral branches should ulti- ! mately hang the Anglo-Saxon rsce, the progenitors of the eminent aristocracy of America. Let the haughty, purse proud Ameri can inwiicse warm life current one may trace the unmistakable strains of bichloride of gold and trichina; nause j The Danes or Jutes joined the Angles ' also at this time and with the Saxons spread terror, anarchy and common drunks all over Albion. Those who still claim that the Angles were right Angles are certainly ignorant of English his tory. They were obtuse Angles, and when bedtimo came and they tried to walk a crack the historian, in a spirit of mischief, exclaims that they were mostly a pack of Isosceles Try Angles, but this doubtless is mere badinage. They were all savages, and their reli gion was entirely unfit for publication. Socially thoy were coarse and repulsive. Slaves did the housework, and serfs each morning changed the straw bedding of tho lord and drove the pigs out of the boudoir. Tho pig was. tho great social middlo class between the serf and the nobility, for the serf slept with the pig by day, and the pig slept -witb the no bility at night. And yet they were courageous to a degree (the Saxons, not the pigs). They were fearless navigators and reckless warriors. Armed with their rude meat axes and one or two Excaliburs, they would take something in the way of a tonic and march right up to the mouth of the great Thomas catapult, or fall in the moat with a courage that knew not, recked not, of danger. ETHELBERT, KIXG OF KEST. PKOCLAIMEU "BKETWALDA." Christianity was first preached in Great Britain in 597 AD., at the sug gestion of Gregory, afterward pope, who by chance saw some Anglican youths exposed for salo in Rome. They were fine looking fellows, and tlifr good man pitied their benighted land. Thus the Roman religion was introduced intc England and was first to turn the sav age heart toward God. Augustine was very kindly received by Ethelbert and invited up to the house. Augustine met with great suc cess, for the king experienced religion and was baptized, after which many of his subjects repented :uid accepted sal vation on learning that it was free. As many as 10,000 in one day were con verted, and Augustine was made arch bishop of Canterbury. On a small island in the Thames he built a church dedi cated to St. Peter, where now is West minster abbey, a prosperous sanctuary entirely out of debt. The history cf the heptarchy is one af murder, arson, rapine, assault and battery, breach of the peace, petty lar ceny and the embezzlement of the ene my's wife. In 827 Egbert, king of Wess:x and duko of Shandygaff, conquered all his THEY WIPED THEIR COARSE RED WHISKERS ON THE SNOWY TABLE CLOTH. Boston Culture. "Deliver us, " says the Boston Tray eller, "from the New Yorker's use of the letter r, as it occurs in 'church,' 'first, ' 'bird' or as it appears when they pronounce the words Cuha or banana. The New Yorker speaks of his 'chuich, ' tells how he was fuist,' loves the pretty 'buids1 and believes in the cause of 'Cuber. ' We must concede that we are a bit off in a few words, 'grass' being one of them. Tho New Torker pro nounces grass as it is spelled, tho Bos tonian drawls it. out as 'grarse. ' For all our shortcomings there is less slurring in our pronunciation than, in any other city, and it is a well known fact among our English cousins of the better sort that Bostonians speak cleaner English than citizens from any other city of tho Union. ' A Division of Labor. The statesman who is new to public life Jiadjbeen interyiewed and he felt nervous. "Now, you understand," he said, 'that V don't want to be misrepresented in anything that Ihaye said."" "Of course. Do you want to ya auptr ed literally?" " "N-no. don't know as I do, I be? lieve in every man stickin to his par ticular line of duty. I'll put in the opinions and you put in the grammar. " for one moment to gaze at the coarse features and bloodshot eyes of bis an cestors, who sat up at nights drenching their souls in a style of nepenthe that it is said would remove moths, tan, freckles and political disabilities. The seven states known as the Saxon t heptarchy were formed in the sixth and seventh centuries, and the rulers of these states were called "bretwaldas, " j or Britain wielders. Ethelbert, king of : Kent, was bretwalda for 50 years and Jiked it first rate. A very good picture is given here, showing the coronation of Ethelbert, Copied fronj. an old tintype now in the possession of an aged " and somewhat phildish family in Philadelphia who descended from Ethelbert and have made no effort to conceal it. For over J5Q years, the British mado a stubborn resistance to the encroach? ments of these coarse people, but it was ineffectual. Their prowess, along with 1 ft massive appetite and other hand bag gage, soon overran the land of Albion. Everywhere the rude warriors of nortb ern Europe wiped the dressing from their coarse red whiskers on the snowy table cloth of the Briton, In west Wales, or Dumnonia, was the home of King Arthur, bo justly cele- foes and became absolute ruler of Eng land (land cf tho Angles). Taking charge of this angular kingdom, he es tablished thus the mighty vunrry which now rules tho world in seme respects, and which is so greatly improved social ly since those days. Two distinguished scholars flourished in the eighth century, Bedo and Alcuin. They at once attracted attention by be- 7- . IJOJVEyA CAPTIVATES VOIITIOERX. prated in song and story. Arthur was more interesting to the poet than., the historian and probably as a champion pf bum an rights and a higher civiliza tion should stand in that great galaxy j American nublisher has not am)ronriatcd AUGUSTINE KIXDLT KECEIVED ETHELBERT, KIXG OF KEXT. ipg able to read coarse print at sight. Bede wrote the "Ecclesiastical History of the Angles. " It is out of print now. Alcuin was p. nativo of Ycrk, and with the aid of a lump of chalk and the side of a vacant barn could figuro up things and add like everything. Students fleck ed to himfrcm all over the country and matriculated by the dozen. If he took n fancy to a student, he would take him away privately and show him how to read. Tho first literary man of noto was a monk of Whitby named Ca;dmon, who wrote poems on biblical subjects when he did not havo to monk. His works were greatly like those of Milton, and especially like "Paradise Lost," it is said. Gildas was the first historian of Brit ain, and the scr.lhing remarks made about his fellow countrymen have never been approached by the most Merciless pi modern historians. The book was highly interesting, and t is a wonper that seme pnterpnsinf occupied by Santa Clans Giant Killer: and Jack the it, as the author is now extremely dead. The HaHdaame YeRB Pat ban Prisoner Whese.Kalie Waa Stained With Blootf, The YeBj; Girl Wke Presented a SlLrex XiBg Were the Tws Connected? It was on tho 2d of January, 1870, that General Roberta left Hazar Pif Ziarat to subdue tho Khost district, an unsophisticated country where the rev enue had hitherto been collected in cop per, and up to this date the semblance of tho rupee had not been known. Hazar Pir Ziarat (the shrino of a thousand saints literally old men) was hardly even a village, and only the day preceding some six .or seven had been added to the number of saints, a3 a batch of murderous marauders had been executed, and dying in the faith, shout ing the fafcmah and acknowledging nothing but piety in their attempts on infidel life, their corpses had doubtless rendered their graves sanctified ground, and so added to the Ziarat in theso parts a holy grove, generally of olive, to fell which is desecration. As the Tenth hussars spread cheerily into order covering the advance, their bright pouch beltbuckles( the last glitter left after even stirrups had been dulled) sparkling in the bright sunlight as they threaded among the camel thorn sprin kled over tho plain, the writer diverged from tho advance, having to convoy with a small escort of cavalry and in fantry a long train, of some 900 empty camels ordered to the advance base to fill up with supplies. My way lay among hills bordering the right bank of tho Kurrum river, and I soon lost sight of tho force moving on Matoun and fin ished tho day's march without any ad venture. On the 3d of January the in cidents befell which I now seek to nar rate. In a lonely valley a party of my Sikh infantry brought before me a Pathau prisoner, saying: "Hero is a man who has been caught concealing his arms. It has been ordered by General Roberts that all such shall be dispatched. May we kill him?" Now, this was a hard saying. The young man appeared by his head gear to be a Waziri, a not unfriendly tribe, which, however, furnished not a few lawless depredators. His only arm was the long Afghan knife, necessary for his own protection perhaps, and in tho cold weather it appeared not unnat ural that ho should wrap himself in hi3 thin outer colored scarf, worn somewhat after the fashion of a plaid. His face was handsome, open and fearless, but such was the mien of all Afghans often seen on tho most cold blooded fiends. I could not, however, though de termined to fulfill the spirit of instruc tions, at once hand him over to the bay onet, and, saying, "Oh, his knife is only for harmless use or protection, " I took it from him and drew it. It was thickly coated with fairly fresh blood. For a moment I could have handed him over to death, but reason told me that this was no additional evidence of murder. Ho might have slain a goat or sheep, ho might have met an enemy in fair fight questions of course were use less. Finally, with some misgivings as to whether I was strictly obeying orders and amid the scowls and murmurs of the Sikhs, who were quite strange to my command, I gave the young man back his knifo and sent him on his way. He left gracefully and courteously, showing neither in his smiling face nor in his elastic gait one single sign of guilt or fear, and scon his erect figure was lost to my view over the brow of a low hill Some hours of march followed, and tho care of massing the long, unwieldy line cf camels in a column on each small plain, before again filing the next pass, a precaution necessary to enable my rear guard to bo within hail in case of attack on so tempting and easy a prey, fully absorbed me and drovo tho preceding in cident clean from my head. Suddenly I became aware of a young Pathan girl running besido my hcrso and holding up to me a silver ring set with a turquoise. This seemed to mo a very unusual act from a Mussulman and a Pathan, where seclusion is so strictly the rule, and I had no idea as to the meaning Hhe wished to convey, my Pushtoo being unequal to the dialect sho spoke, and indeed scanty enough at all times. However, seeing that I was meant to take the ring, I did so, the girl, about 17, showing that she meant I should take it from her. Even then she mado no effort to leave, and so, imagining perhaps that she wanted mon ey for some purpose, I offered her a few rupees, which she refused petulantly. I turned to the Hindoo sowars who rode behind me and asked what it all meant, but they only laughed unpleasantly, as if to say, "What can a Mussulman and a woman mean except what is contemp tible?" so that, an kit at their scorn and possible misconceptions, I flung the girl back her ring and bade her begone. She left, muttering and apparently still anx ious to explain, but a troop of horsemen now appeared on the plain, and whirl ing their long lances round their heads cantered shouting toward us. The Sikh infantry closed their files and prepared to receive them, and I went forward to reconnoiter them more closely. They turned out to be a friendly "jir gah,"' or deputation, seeking General Roberts, but this fresh incident drove the last again from my thoughts, and ' later pn I concluded my march without further befalling. ft was not till weeks after that I thought of connecting the act cf the.girl with fi possible wish to express gratitude for the husband or Jover who bad such a narrow escape at my han'ds. But I never heard any further explanation, nor did those who knew best the Afghan character think this interpretation a likely one, I suppose I snail never know more of the two being3who on that day only literally crossed my path. United Serv ice Magazine. Sure Cure. He I understand you have been at tending an ambulance class. Can you tell mo what is tho best thing to do for a broken heart? She Oh, yes. Bind up the broken portion witb a gold band, bathe with orange blossom water and apply plenty of raw rice. Guaranteed to be well in. a month. London Tit-Bits. Horace appears in good humor while he censures,' and therefore his censure has the more weight as supposed to pro of axioti Journal. Washington Star. 5 ill Nye. ceed from ludgmenti not from passion. H-Vnnno