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About The North Platte semi-weekly tribune. (North Platte, Neb.) 1895-1922 | View Entire Issue (May 8, 1896)
Mm YOL ,2TL : TH PLATTE, EEBRASKi FRIDAY EVENING, MAY S, 1896. 10. 87. j I - r 37-Tood.- over our Great Clothmg, Gents' finishing Goods, Boots, Shoes, flats, Caps, Gloves and tittens. Surprised, .First at the Large Assortment; l Second at the Superior Quality: " Third at the Immense Yariety; igfk Fourth at the Low Prices. - .V We haye heen some time in getting- these Sur prises here and ready for you, but at last are able to jinn ounce Bargains all Through the House. We solicit a comparison of Goods and- Prices, knowing that you will find our stock'the Best and the Cheapest. Star Clothing House, WEBER & YOLLMER, Props. Davis' Seasonable Goods Davis5 the Bicycle Man, THE VIKING, is the 4 'biking' ' , Best of cycles. THE ELDBEDG-B, strictly first class. THE BELTTIDEPwE, a high grade at, a popular price. - . THE CRAWFOPwD, absolutely theibest wheel on earth for the money. Choke of all kinds of handle v bars, saddles and pedals. ALL KINDS OF BICYCLE- ACCESSORIES. Davis, the Seed Man. Has a full line of BULK GABDEN AND FLOW ER SEED from the celebrated Rice's Cambridge Val ley Seed Gardens. Davis, the Hardware Man. Big stock of POULTRY NETTING, GARDEN TOOLS, RUBBER HOSE and the celebrated Acorn Stoves and Ranges. IfSHDont forget Davis, "that no one owes" when in need of anything in his line. Samples of "bikes" now in. NOETH : PLATTE ; PHARMACY, Dr. N. McCABE, Prop., J. E. BUSH, Manager. -TsTORTHTT PLATTE, - - NEBRASKA W e aim to iiandle tiie 5 est Uraaes 01 Groods, sell iliem, at Reasonable jETir ures, and W arrant Everythi-ng as 'R.p-resTited. r jrzisa3 Orders from the country and along the line of the Union Pacific railway respectfully solicited. Gothenburg Ice. Pure, Clean and First-Class WM. EDIS ?c in -Mia ir hnsinpsc rhis prison as ! EXinES W5 ftt5 i Gothenburg lake. The patronage of the public is solicited. Orders may be left at the Vienna Restaurant- Jos. Hershey, DEALER I" 1 : totals OF ATJi KINDS, Farm and Spring Wagons, Buggies, Road Carts, Wind Mills, Pumps, Barb Wire, Et-o. Locust Street, between Fifth and Sixth MECCA COMPOUND So prear are its Hearts: Powers and Pain Relieving Properties a to seem impossible from a Noe-Piso-ous Preparation that can be Bw tr.ih nil freedom. For Barns afaat Jf$- t j it is often worth its weigh: in Go. L V i lives have been saved by its mc)ad rllllrigCWl fo fur hemline: ail kinds ef seres its sacr- it exceeds all expectattaos. Prsoqtt use is most effective and it sWohW fee in every home and v.-urkhop. -nared tav the VcKTrr "lbr I'm.- ( a- dl Staffs. Iotra. Sold by the trade. J Sold, "fc3r -A.. 35- Stzroitss, i kiciiira Stock of- Plain and Decorated, Will be sold in sets or by the piece. The finest line of goods eyer shown in the city. We have also in stock seven tliffei ent patterns in English s China. These goods are in 100 piece sets, and range in price from 11 to 15. An inspection of these goods is respectfully invited. Y. VonGoefz, Grocer. Otten stein Block. iHavilaod Una 02, THE UPXAITD TA2ME2. The abundant rains during the month of April have put the up lands in fine shape for "rowing" crops, but these rains do not insure the crop. The rainfall m 1890 was still more abundant and jet our uplands suffered in June, July and August with the worst drouth that ever visited this country. There is no question but that if -the abundant moisture that is now in the ground could be conserved it would insure us a bountiful Tiarvest, In this connection the following extract from a communication in the Western Soil Culture is perti nent. As I have said before, the people of western Nebraska believe they have made a valuable discovery. TJhey believe that the twenty inches of rainfall that goes into that west ern soil annually can be to a large extent held in the soil though this system of frequent surface- cultiva tion, and that good crops can be produced with a certainty nine years out of every ten. There are three things necessary to produce a crop soil, moisture and sunshine. TVe have the rich est soil in the world and plenty of sunshine. In order to make a per fect crop there must not be too much moisture. In Iowa and Illi nois they generally have twice as much moisture as they need and they must resort to tiling to get rid of the surplus. Here Ave will never be hindered with too much rain, but will always have sufficient to pro duce good crops, and when this new system is put into practice, when the farmers by experience ihave learned the value of "dust blankets" as a means of liolding the moisture in the ground, then we will be using for crop purposes nearly all the moisture which these twenty inches of annual rainfall produce, and, as Mr. Lanning, of Hastings, expresses it. "We will have a dead sure thing." It is bet ter than irrigation. If this dust blanket is kept m ttact on'every-field, the -escape of moisture from the ground through the capillaries will be reduced to a minimum. Water will not go through dust. - Gustave Lens, a German farmer near Hastings, had forty actes of winter wheat last spring which he thought was dead. He harrowed it thoroughly as an experiment and harvested twenty bushels to the acre, while another field which looked more promising in the spring, but which, he did not har row, produced only twelve bushels to the acre. His explanation of this is that the harrowing of the field covered it with a thin, fine, dry dust, which stopped up the pores of the soil and prevented the evaporation of the moisture. AtHoldrege, McCook. Minden, Stratton, Imperial, and all over the western portion of the south Platte country the farmers have all heard of this new plan through the farm ers' institutes which have been held in these localities, and they have more faith now in their abil ity to successfully grow crops on this western soil than they ever had before. Since the first of October a sys tem of farmers institutes, under the auspices of the state univer sity and conducted by Professor Taylor and Lyon, have been spread ing this new gospel among the peo ple. The state agricultural so ciety assisted in the work, and it is believed that the new system will be put into practice this coming season throughout all this western locality. As an example of how these farm ers have become students of the soil, 'I may cite that five hundred were in attendance at some of these meetings. At every one of these meetings where these educa tors talked to the farmers there were always men in the audience who were ready to give testimony and back up the new "theory with practical reults. Keep a dust blanket on the field; that is the watchword. Put a dust blanket on the small grain field in the spring, as soon as possi ble. Put a dust blanket on every field of newly plowed ground Take the harrow and the plow into the field together, and as fast as an acre is stirred with the plow run the harrow over it and smooth the sur face and pulverize the top of the soil. Keep a dust blanket on the corn field from the time the ground is first plowed in f he spring until the ears are matured in the fall. Don't "lay corn by'" in July-i and leave these capillaries to form on the surface and the moisture to escape. The moisture will never leave the corn field as long as it is mulched with a coat of fine, dry soil. Do not stand around waiting for more rain to fall, but hold fast to the moisture already in the ground. This is the way the farmers are talking out here now. ' Among the brilliant stars who hav added luster to the dramatic stage in this country the name of Mllfijj Rhea stands pre-eminently forth not only as the great and' gifted actress who long ago won her' way to the hearts of the people of two continents, -but as the woman, tender and true and ennobling her sex by every act of her gracious and charming individuality. No woman ever possesses a more striking persorality than this gifted child of Frances But the world al ready knows that, for who has not seen Rhea in her great characters Adrienne Lecouvreur. "Camille and Josephine. It was only a tiny bit of a girl fresh- as the roses and modest as the violets of her convent home who presented herself one day in .the Paris conservatory, to begin a course of dramatic study under the great Beauvallet. Her first de sire had been to remain in the dim old convent; then she found herself before knowing it, studying for the stage. So true is it that genius cannot be quenched but springs to growth and strength whether it is nurtured or not that before many months had passed she made her first public recitation, a trembling timid girl in the great Salle Pleyelle in Paris reciting Alfred De Musset's "La Nuit d'Octobre." "I remember," she will tell you laughingly, "there were three little steps that I had to mount in order to reach the stage Those steps were the hardest I ever had to mount in my life. But once on the stage I knew no tear. I was applauded to the echo; my career was assured." Mile. Rhea appeared -firs tat Brus sels and then at Rouen, playing Adrienne Lecouvreur and meeting unheard of success. Then she went to Russia where she acted five years at the Imperial Theatre in St. Petersburg. She had a great friend in Alexander IT. wh6 was assassin ated. After that tragic event she went to Paris and not liking the attitude of the French critics to wards actresses she determined to come to a country where they were properly respected. Rhea will ap pear at the opera house in this' city on the evening of May 22d. An adequate idea of the meaning of the expression "intensive culti vation of the soil" is scarcely had bv the average man. The claim is made bv a certain gardener that so far as net results go more money is to be made from five acres when brought up to a high state of cul ture and properly tilled than from a two hundred acre farm as ordin arily kept. We have no doubt of the truth of this statement. A more general appreciation of this fact is to be the very thing that will wield a large influence toward cutting down the size of the aver age farm throughout the corn belt region. This day is rapidly ap proaching and it will get here none too soon for the good of all of us. Nebraska Farmer. An esteate that was worth S20.QOO when it got into the 'law courts twenty-five years ago, was settled last week in Los Angeles, Cal. The estate was left b v Encarnacion Buelma in 1S70. There was nobody to claim the 42 cents that remained when the public administrator offered in the superior court last week, and the judge made an order directing that it be paid into the county treasury. The Emerson saloon men are clamoring for a reduction in the saloon license from S900 to $750, which has been refused by the vil lage board, and the saloon keepers threaten to close up the saloons, which would have the effect of clos ing the public schools. Glen Sante was shot and killed Wednesday by W. R. Welch nea Ida postoffice. The men became involved in a quarrel and Welch shot Sante in self-protection. Scarlet fever has become yerv troublesome at Grand Island, but the cases so far reported are mild. Vale, thin, bloodless people should use Dr. Saw yer's "Oka tine. It is the greatest remedy la the world for making the went strong. For sale by V 12. longley. LEGEND 0E THE CROSS WOOD DERIVED FROM THE TREE OF LIFE IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN. A Story of lha BoUh cf Adam aad the Crucifixion al Chriet Which Wss Eecited Is the 3Iiddlo Ages How Seth Cot a Glimpse of FsradLse. When Adam was "banished from, par adise, he lived in penitence, endeavor ing to expiate the past by prayer and toiL "When, he reached a great ago and felt death approach; he called Seth to him and said: "Go, my son, to the ter restrial paradise and ask the archangel who keeps the gate to give me a "balsam which, will save me from death. Ton will easily find the wsy, because my footprints searched tho soil as I left paradise. Pollowmy blackened traces and they will conduct you to the gate whence I was expelled. ' ' t Seth hastened to paradise. The way , was barren, vegetation was scanty and ; of somber colors. Over all lay the black prints of his f ather's and mother's feet. Presently the walls surrcunding para dise appeared. Around them nature re vived, the earth was covered with ver dure and dappled with flowers. The air vibrated with beautiful music. Seth was dazzled with the beauty which sur rounded him, and he walked m forget ful of his mission. Suddenly there flashed Lefore him a wavering line cf fire unrichr. like a serocnt cf licht con tinuously quivering. It was the flaming sword in the hand cf the cherub who guarded the gate. As Seth drew nicrh he saw that the angel's wings were expanded so as to block the doer. He prostrated himself before the cherub, unable to utter a word. But the heavenly being read in his soul, better than a, mortal can read a book, the wcrds which were there im pressed, and he said: "The time cf pardon is not yet come. Four thousand years must roll away be fore the Redeemer shall open tho gate to Adam, closed by Ins disobedience. But as a token cf future pardon the wood whereon redemption shall be won shall grow from the tomb of thy father. Behold what he lost by his transgres sion!" At these words the angel swung open the great portal of gold and fire and Seth looked in. He beheld a fountain, clear as crystal, sparkling like silver dust, playing in the midst of the garden, and gushing forth in four living streams. Before this mystic fountain grew a mighty tree, with a trunk of va?t bulk and thickly branched, but destitute of bark and foliage. Around the bole was wreathed a frightful serpent or cater pillar, which had scorched the bark and devoured the leaves. ' Beneath the tree was a precipice. Seth beheld the roots of the tree in helL There Cain was striving to grasp the roots and clamber up them into paradise, but they laced themselves around the body and limbs of the fratricide as the threads of a spider's web entangle a fly, and the fibers of the tree penetrated the body of Cain as though they were endowed with life. Hcrrcr struck at this awful sight Seth raised his eyes to the summit of tho tree There all was changed. The tree had grown till its branches reached heaven. The boughs were covered with leaves, flowers and fruit. But the fair est fruit was a little babe, a living sun. who seemed to be listening to the songs of seven white doves who circled about his head. A woman, mare lovely than the moon, bore the child in her arms. Then the cherub closed the door and said : 4 4I give thee now three seeds taken from "that tree. When Adam is dead, place these three seeds in thy father's mouth and bury him. " So Seth took the seeds and returned to his father. Adam was glad to hear what his son told him and praised God. On the third day after the return of Sath he died. Then his sou buried him in the skins cf beasts which God had given "m for a covering, and his sepul cher was on Golgotha. In course of time three trees grew from the seeds brought from paradise. One was a cedar, anoth er a cypress and the third a pine. They grew with marvelous force, thrusting their branches to right and left. It was with one of these boughs that Closes per formed his miracles in Egypt, brought water out of the rock and healed those whom the serpents slew in the desert. In the time of Solomon this was the noblest of the trees of Lebanon. It sur passed all in the forests of King Hiram as a monarch surpasses those who crouch at his feet. Now, when the son cf David erected his palace he cut down this tree to convert it into the main pillar sup porting his roof. But all in vain. The column refused to answer the purpose. It was at one time too long, at another too short. Surnnsed at this resistance, Solomon lowered the walls of his palace! to suit the beam, but at once it shot up and pierced the roof, like an arrow driven through a piece of canvas or a bird recovering its liberty. Solomon, en raged, cast tie tree over Cedron, that all might trample on it as they crossed the brook. The queen of Sheba found it there and recognizing its virtue had it raised. Sol omon then buried it. Some time after the king dug the pool of Bethesda on the spot. This pond at once acquired miracu lenis properties and healed the sick; who i flarQed you have a rumoKag sound or flecked to it. The water owed its virtues : imperfect hearing, and wben it is entire to the beam which lay beneath it. ly closed, Deafness i- the resnlt, and un TVhen the time of the crucifixion of less the inflamation can be teken oat Christ drew near, this wood rose to the 1 and this tube restored to its normal con Rnrfs.riR nnd was brought rmt of the wa-! dMon, hearing will be destroyed forever; ter. The ndn, heu seddag . suitable beam to serve lor the cross, found it and of it made the instrument of the death of the Saviour. After the crncifbdon it was buried on Calvary, but the mother cf Consiantine the Gret, the Empress Helena, found it deep in the ground with two others. Christ's was distinguished from these cf the thieves by a pick woman being cured by touching it. Barmg Oroultrs Aiytns of the Middle Ages. " THE cycle ..AND.. Bus! Richards Bros. "When the republicans of western Nebraska stand shoulder to should er for their rights they will jet them and along- with them the esteem of the? republicans of all parts of the state. Guerilla warfare and cut throat politics will not build up a party or any part of" it. Stand to gether and we can stand against whole world. KearnevHub. It is said i hat President Jvruger of the Transvaal Republic has con fined his reading- to the Bible and "Pilgrim's Progress" until recent ly, when some one gave him one of Mark Twain's books. The humor of the American joker happened to hit the Boer ruler in the right place, and he purchased a full set of. Mr. Clemens' books. One of the shortest wills ever filed was offered the other day at the surrogate's office in Xew York. It was the work of Andrew Wesley Kent, a lawyer, and was written on a sheet of his office paper. It read: "My Will: I g-ive, devise, and be queth unto my wife, Nina Kent, all ray estate, both real and personal. I appoint her executrix therof, and revoke all former wills. Br. A. P. Sawyer I have h&i Bhe&aatwai eiace I -was 20 years eld, bat steee usiep yr ItaEBy Cure have been free from it. It ate awed mj husband of the same disease. Mis . Beet. CM nelly, Brooklyn, Iotra. SeM by r. H. Ixmglay. The date of the Nebraska Irriga tion fair to be held at North Platfe has been fixed tor October 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, and 15, and no doubt will be a gTand exhibition of what water and sunshine can do in the great "American desert." Next to the Trans-Mississippi exposition, then the state fair, nothing attract more attention next and wm fall when pumpkins are ripe and beets full grown. Every county in the western part of the state should make an appropriation to make a display. We hope to see the Hall county commissioners lead' in the matter. Grand Island Independ ent. DEAFNESS CANNOT BE CURED by local applications as tb&y cannot reach the diseased portion oC the ear. Tbaro isonlyoneway to cure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed con dition of the mucous lining of the Eus tachian Tube. V.hon tb5 tube w la f baT an inflim'S condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars; free. F. J. Cheney & Go, Toledo, O. Pgr" Sold by all Druggists, oc. iiinr,4nfl ln J. HuJIIgu All luCu Who eaa. thlai of some simple thiaz to patent? Protect roar Ideas: they may briar you wealth. Write JOHX WXDDEBBURX & CO, Patent Attor ney. Washington. D. C for their llOO prize oCer and list at irfo hundred isTeatiasa -vraatgd. '.V a p ml ft to 5 o pi Wai Si lUpponer "Ik Fair, 53 vAlmost any kind of figures rep resenting the whole of the United States are staggering when they are first brought forward. Who would think.for instance, it wfll re quire 10,000 "barrels of lubricating oil to run the bicycles of this coun try during the season of '? The cost of ihis feature of wheeling will be, it is" estimated, about aquarter of a million dollars. MECCA CATARRH REMEDY. For colds in the head and treatment of catarrhal troubles this preparation has afforded prompt relief; with its con tiaued use the most stubborn eases gof catarrh have yielded to its heal-ojr power. It is made from eoaceotrated Mecca ODmpound and possesses all of its soothing and healing properties and by absorbtion reaches mil the iaftameu parts effected by that disease. Price ") cts. Prepared by The Fostac Mfe. Co. Council Bluffs, Iowa. For sal by A. F Streits. Madrid has been iag.eigbt hun dred priests and twice as -many prayers to get its patron saint t intercede for the suppression, of the Cuban rebellion. ' As St. Isadro died in the thirteenth century and is still dead it seems that Madrid might Jiave selected some livelier intercessor. Uncle Sam for instancc who is willing and anxious to serve L whereas there is some donbt as to how Isado stands on the Cuban question. Ex. Pale, thin, Moedle-'s seoato . Saw a the I yers Ukatiae. It is ta greatest trerM lor caste? lae weal; H. Loagtey. Persatafcy I'- It has boon said that there eonidbeno cure for internal piles witbott a surgi cal operations, bat over ICQ easftg cured in Council Bluffs, la., by tbe ase of Hemorrboilditie proves tbe statement false. There is a cure and quick parma nent rehef for all who suffer with blind. bleeding and protruding piles. Its use causes no pain, even in the most aggra vated cases. It is also a ears for coast i- gation. Price $1.50. For sale by A . F. treitz. Dr. Sawyer; Hear iitr: Bavwg ana ywar Pas tljles, I eaa reasmsaead &esa to ifce jiuWic. I have kee attend oA by aac iMffreat in if re, bat ee aad a kaK bases a yawc sanMala. bae done me atere geed than all tfcaaa. Yarns raepect fairy, Xss. 3Iagi3e Jobo aat. gcoawaw, Bcaacb Ceeaty. Htab. SW br I. B. LMsfep. A Cure for Piles. We can atsurt? aii who suffer nh In ternal Piles that in llt'iiiorrii"; haven pwr: venire. The trv: tm?nt i unlike any tiling heretofore u.-- '. h- spoliation so pt-rifct that vvr v tivx f the dfocaao k eradiated. ?Iern orrttu'.line is a harmlos cn!p'?r- . c-.-n be rtl ior an eye ointm'nt. y . , -e3 neb. healing power tiiat -w : -i aj plk'd U the diseased parts, ii at .i.. n liev r.ntl U cure id the axxrv n';. r of it. continued y. All vhn r v pil- saner from Constipation ai.-io ar Heci -orrhoidiue enm both. Price $1 50. Fr Sale by Brutrjjits. Will beaent fmrn tlie factor v on rtveipt r pri.-e. Semi to ThkFostk MavVo Co. Council FiufK Iowa, for testimonials aad information. Sold .""V- 3P. St2TOXtI. Wanted fin idea Who eaa think or some simple thing to patent? Protect Ideas: ther mar brins- -Tea -re-Mlm Write JOHX WKDDERBDEK & CO, Patent Attor neys. Washington. D. C for their SUSD prise offer aza list ui. too ngnrcrea inrcsxions waaiec