THE NORTE PLATTE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 22, 1S96.
OREGON SHOWS GREAT SPEED.
Official Trial Trip Places Her In the Frost
Eank of Her Class.
Santa Bahbara, Cal.f May 15. In
her official trial trip yesterday the bat
tleship Oregon covered 62 knots, the
official government course, in 3:40:48,
making the magnificent average speed
for the time over the course of 16.78
knots or 19.45 miles an hour. This
speed places her in the very front rank
of ships of her class in the navies of the
world, beating the Massachusetts.which
had a record of 16.15 knots, and the In
diana with a record of 15.61 knots. By
her great performance the Oregon has
earned for her builders, the Union Iron
works, a premium of 175,000. -
Senator Thurston I'refcrs Leadership.
St. Louis. May 15. A special dis
patch to The Globe-Democrat from
"Washington says: "Senator John M.
Thurston will undoubtedly be the per
manent chwrman of the St. Louis con
vention. Senator Thurston has also
been spoken of for one of the leading
cabinet positions in the event of Gov
ernor McKiniey's election. This specu
lation is unreliable. Senator Thurston
much prefers to be administration leader
on the floor of the senate, and this he
undoubtedly will be if McKinley be
comes president."
Fifteen Years For Ileform leaders.
London. May 23. A Pretoria dis
patch to The Times siys: "The execu
tive launch decided that the punish
ment of Colonel Francis Rhodes, Lionel
Phillips, George Farrar and John Hays
Hammond, the leaders of the reformers
who were sentenced to death, shall be
15 years' imprisonment. The hope is
entertained that these sentences will be
modified. The decision of the sentences
of the other reformers is still awaited."
South Dakota Crop Prospects.
Alexandria, S. D., May 17. Rains
so far this mouth have been timely and
grass and crops are far in advance of
what they are generally. Stock on the
range looks well and is taking on fat
rapidly. The season is fully two weeks
in advance of the average year. The
wet weather is proving veiy discourag
ing to the Russian thistle.
Western Federation of Miners Adjourn.
Denver, May 20. The annual con
vention of the "Western Federation of
Miners adjourned after 'electing dele
gates to the American Federation of
Labor, with which the miners have de
cided to affiliate, as follows: President
Boyce, F. H. Clifford, W. It. Phelps,
and J. F. McDonnell.
Will Ntit Abandon Irrigation.
Sioux Falls, May '20. Despite the
heavy rainfall which has fil.ed the dry
runs of the Jim valley and soaked the
ground to a depth of a dozen feet, the
plan of irrigation by artcsiau wells will
be tried on a much larger scale than
ever before.
Protest Aaiust Funding: Bill.
Sax Francisco, May IT. The San
Francisco labor council adopted a reso
lution protesting against the passage of
(he Pacific railroad funding bill and
urging California's representatives tc
do all in their power to defeat the
measure.
Washlialiie's Mayer Indicted.
Cheyenne, "Wy., May 15. The Unit
ed States grand jury found indictments
against "William Lamoreux and 13. F.
Odell for the murder of Jim"Washhakic,
a snbch'ef of the Shoshones, and grand
son of Chief "Washhakie of that tribe.
I'atcnts For Indemnity Lands.
Pierre, S. D., May 16. The laud
commissioner's office received govern
ment patents for 16.0C0 acres of indem
nity lauds, which were selected in the
eastern part of Hughes cornty several
months ago.
Foster I nangura t ed.
Baton Rouge, La., May 19. Murphy
J. Foster was inaugurated governor of
Louisiana for the second time and
Robert H. Snyder for lieutenant gov
ernor in the presence of a large crowd.
Lumber Dealers Assign.
Columbus, My 19. Edward Kellon
Co., lumber dealers, assigned to George
L. Converse, Jr. Assets $200,000. The
liabilities will not exceed, $160,000.
Lochren's Nomination Confirmed.
"Washington, May 16. The senate
confirmed "William Lochren as district
judge in Minnesota.
Twenty Deaths From Cholera.
Alexandria, May 18. There have
been 23 new cases of cholera and 20
deaths from that disease here.
Sioux Falls' Big; Blaze,
Sioux Falls, May 19.-The Mer
chants hotel was gutted by fire. Loss,
$20,000. Insurance, 16,000.
STRONG MARKET FOR WHEAT.
Corn and Oats Were Steady and Provisions
Heavy and Lower.
Chicago. May 2U.-rHessian fly in H'chif-an
wheat was the principal agent in creating a
very strong market for that article today.
July closed at 62or"tgC over yesterday. Corn
and oats were steady, but provisions very
heavy and lower. Closing prices :
WHEAT July. G2-5"c; September, 63
CORN July, 29c; September. 3j?4 .
OATS July, lic; September, 19)8'?v
PORK July, $7.55a7.57"; SeDt., 57.67vS7.70
RIBS July, $3.92,4: September, J4.05,
LABD Julv, U.52X; September, $4.65.
Cash quotations: No. 2 red wheat, 6i"c; No.
3, 6is6J4; corn, 2Se292;oat3, 19,5C.
Chicago Live Stock.
Chicago. Mav 2j. aTTLEReceipts.l5.0C0;
common to prime native steers. $3.5j(34,6J;
Btockers and feeders, $2.30CS&8i; cows and
haiers. ri.753.3); bulls. 52,0033.33.
HOGS Receipts, 42.00J; fairly active. 5 Uc
lower; common to choice heavy, $.J,0u3.23;
medium and mixed, 53.2J 33.45; light, W 20.g3.50.
SHEEP Receipts, 12.00J ; Texaas, 52.75.S3 5J;
pativ&i, 53.IXX23.90: lambs. 53.35&5.15.
South Omaha. Livo Stock.
So urn O.MAHA,3Iay 20 CATTLE Receipts,.
1.60J; active, steady ; native beet steers, 13.5 .(5
100; western steers, 53.C0S3.8J: Texas -steers,
f2.8(X53.70; cows and heifers, $2.fcs3,flj; can
tiers, 1 70.2.5 J; storkers and feeders, $3.00.3
i.W. calves, l3.5X55.25; bulls, stags, etc, $lxto'&
3.25.
HOGS Receipts. S.103; 5c lower: heavy. 53.00
3 5; mixed, -&05; light, 3.c5;g3.15; "dk of
sales, 3-Uos3.1 -
SHEEP Receipts. 8JJ: lower; fair to choice
natives. 53.0J&3.6J; fair to choice westerns,
52.8U-33JS ; common to stock shsep. 52.2033.23;
lambs, 53.504-'5.
"This X ray is doing
wonders for
mankind," he remarked.
' 'Yes, ' ' his wife replied. 'It lias done
lots for mankind. Maybe it'll be devel
oped in the course of time to where it
will enable womankind to see whether
her hat is on straight or not without
looking in the
Stan-
lass. " Washington
"The dogwatch," a term
sailors, was once the dodge
used by
watch, a
hort watch being introduced between
those longer in. duration in order tht.1
too great an amount of work should not
be put upon the same men in tha course
of. ths dav. .
HEWS OF ivEBEASKA.
Trust Ssld to Have Ms.Ha a rcrchsc
Nebraska City, May 20. It is rum
ored that the distillery at this point has
been purchased by the trust.
Alleged Cattle Hustler Commits Suicide.
O'Neill, Neb., May 20. Jehu Car
berry of Stuart committed suicide by
shooting, killing himself instantly.
Banker's Cnsc Continued,
Chadrox, May 19. The case against
A. C. Putnam of the Chadrou Banking
company was continued until June 16.
Dolln Sentenced.
Omaha, May 17. Henry Bolln, the
defaulting ex-city treasurer, was sen
tenced to 10 years imprisonment and a
fine of $210,000.
Carried Oft a. Darn.
Beatrice, May 19. Adam Smothers
and Jesse Hadley stole a barn last night
belonging to Lafayette Young. Officers
found the lumber stored in their cellars
and lodged them in jaiL
Kennedy Gets a Contract.
Crawford, Neb., May 19. Bids
were opened at Fort Robinson for the
supply of GO.000 pounds of fresh beef.
Much interest was manifested here in
the result. AT K. Kennedy's bid was the
lowest.
Dismisses Professor Norton.
Lincoln, May 16. The state board of
education held its regular meeting to
take up matters pertaining to the state
normal school at Peru. A resolution
was presented and adopted dismissing
Professor Norton.
Suspension of Sentence.
Lincoln, May 1!). John Feuton and
George L. Barney, who were convicted
of cattle stealing in Holt county and
whose cases were brought to the su
preme court for review, were granted a
fcuspeusiou of sentence.
Uody or a South Omaha Dcy Found.
PLATTSilourH, May 20. The body of
a boy, apparently about 15 years of age,
was fonud in the Missouri river near
Rock Bluff. It is believed that the boy
is one who was drowned near South
Omaha some time ago.
Robber Secure tiie Cold Cash.
Lincoln", May J 8. The residence of
R. J. "Wright, Sixteenth aud P streets,
was robbed of $i00. Mrs. Wright, with
whom an unmarried sister lives, was
the only person at homo. She lost $150
and the absent sister ST0.
Goe to n Ulglirr Court.
Omaha, May 19. The constitution,
ality of the curfew ordinance is to bo
tested in the district court. The case of
Ross Grone, constituting the first prose
cution under the provisions of the or
dinance, has been appealed.
UanKer Putnam in Trouble.
Chadron, May 18. Arthur C. Put
nam, president of the defunct Chadron
Banking company, which closed its
doers some few weeks ago, was arrested
on a charge of accepting deposits when
he knew the institution to be insolvent.
Assessed Valuation of Nebraska Railroads.
Lincoln, May IS. The state board of
equalization has completed its work and
adjourned. The total assessed valua
tion of the o. 542.59 miles of railroads is
$25,425,H0S, an average valuation per
mile of $4,5S7.26; palace car companies,
52,1C0.5S; telegraph companies. $205,
340.80. Good Price For Nebraska Corn.
Shelby, Neb., Mav 20. The last of
the western steers which have been fed i
at G cents per pound gained were ship- J
ped last night. Over 10,000 have been j
distributed near Sheibv to the feeders '
of these auinmls. Grain which has had
a low market value aud s fc corn and
stalks yielded a fine profit when con
verted into meat.
Judgment For tha Jones Kstate
Lincoln, May 17. Judge Holmes has
rendered a decree in the case of Jacob
Bigler, executor of the Lord Jones es
tate.against Carles C. Burr. The suit
was instituted to foreclose a mortgage
of $100,000 on Burr's lauds, lying; ad
jacent to Lincoln. The coart finds there
is due plaintiff the sum of 76,700. Der
fendant has given notice of appeal to
the supreme court.
Secretary Morton Interested.
Lincoln, May 16. Papers in the old
Otoe county case, in which Julius Sterr
ling Morton and others protest against
the levy of taxes to pay interest on bonds
voted in Nebraska City precinct to the
amount of $40,0DJ to aid the Missouri
Pacific railroad, were filed in tho su
preme court. The bonds were voted in
1SS6, and tho case has been m the dis
trict court since soon after that tinie.
Uryan-Kosewater Debate.
Omaha, May 17. Tho silver debate
between E. Rosewater and W. J. Bryan
took place at the Creightou theater last
night before such an audience as has
been rarelv assembled in Omaha. It
was a crowd of people who had evident
ly thought much on the subject of the
evening, as was indicated by the man
ner in which the points made by the
speakers were grasped aud applauded. In
sentiment the listeners were apparent
ly very evenly divided and the success
ive arguments lor ana against tne tree
aud unlimited coinage of surer were
greeted with successive signs of almost-
equal approval.
Damage in Johnson County,
Pawnee City, Neb., May 19, A cy
clone passed from west to east through
the southern part of this county, de
stroying several houses. The residence
of William Burg was demolished, also
the barn of Arnold Parli. Mount Zion
church was wrecked, together with the
United Brethren parsonage and a half
dozen other u turnings. Tne cyclone
took out the side of one house, exposing
the furniture, but destroyed nothing
else. At Mr. Burg s all of tho family
had escaped to the cellar except Mr.
Burg, who was caught by the wind and
dropped into the cellar after the house
had vanished.
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of catarrhal troubles this preparation
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tinued use the most stubborn cases gof
catarrh have yielded to its healing
power. It is made from concentrated
Mecca Compound and possesses all of its
soothing and healing properties and by
absorbtion reaches all the inflamed
parts effected by that disease. Price 50
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Council Bluffs, Iowa. For Eale by A. F
Streitz.
c Mosaic Tcsscr-r.
The opacity cf the material used in
the mosaics cf Rome, Ravenna and Ven
ice is due to minute particles of cxide
of tin held in juspension by the glass,
and the texture of the glass is dull and
granular. The material now being used
at St. Paul's owes its opacity to pow
dered feldspar, an psscntial ingredient of
granite, and itself a natural but very
infusible glass. The texture of this ma
terial is smcoth and vitreous, and it is
consequently less retentive of dirt and
more easily cleantd than the glass con
taining the oxide of tin. The various
colors are obtained by mixing metallic
oxides with the ordinary ingredients of
glass, to which the powdered feldspar
has been added. The oxide cf cobalt
produces a purple blue color, and the
oxide of copper, according to its state cf
oxidation and the proportion in which
it is used, gives a Line, a green or a
red. Black is obtained by the oxide of
manganese, green by the oxide cf chro
mium, pink by the oxide cf gold and
yellow by the oxide cf uranium. By
combining the cxides a practically un
limited palette may readily Lc obtained.
The mixtures, in the state of powder,
arc shoveled into crucibles standing
round the grafc cf a furnace, and when
fusion is complete the viscous glass
can bo coiled upon the heated end of an
iron rod and removed for use very
much in the way that thick treacle may
be gathered ronud the bowl cf a spoon
and removed frcm the jar to the plate.
A mass cf molten glass thus collected
is allowed to fall n)on a flat ircn table,
and is pressed into a slab about six
inches square and half an inch thick. The
slabs are removed to an oven, where
they are allowed to cool slowly, and
when cool are broken by a hammer or
chopped by a miniature guillotine into
small cubes or "u-ssenc" "Tesserae"
is perhaps the more appropriate term,
as io dees not suggest that geometrical
accuracy of fcrm which is implied by
culcs. Contemporary Review.
A Drama In the Old Testament.
There is cne shcrt story in the second
book cf Kings which is wholly dramat
ic in essence, and the narrative form is
so subordinate in feeling to the dramat
ic spirit that even a casual reader, if at
ail critical, must be impressed by this.
Indeed so essentially dramatic is the
story that in clc.se ly considering it we
may say it falls naturally into the neces
sary acts and scenes lightly end deli
cately held together by r. thread cf nar
rative which almost serves tho purpose
cf the chorus, although there is abso
lutely no comment another dramatic
feature and the rubject is left to speak
directly to the reader's mind.
The story is the well known one of
Naaman the Syrian and his recovery
from leprcsy, and in simplicity, direct
ness movement and dramatic fire the
story cannct be surpassed. It is told,
too, with such impartiality that we
seem to be looking upon life itself, and
such is its rare art lhat there is abso
lute freedom from any feeling of the
personality of the author. And, though
so brief, the narrative holds a great
deal first, tho revelation ox the po
litical, social and religious conditions of
the times, and then within these, which
are always the necessary groundwork
and frame, there is scon that separate
and yet at the sumo time interdepend
ent play of character which is so es
sential to tho drama. Then, tco, the
narrative fr.lls inevitably into the usual
five acts, and these carry out strictly
the Aristotelian analysis cf dramatic
tragedy the beginning, increase, cli
max, declension, consequence or fall
and all takes place in such a way that
that purification of the mind by calling
forth the feelings cf pity and terror, the
artistic and ethical aim cf tragedy, is
fully accomplished.
In this shcrt story, mere than any
where else, the genius of the Hebrew
approaches to that of the Greek, and
the passage is easy between them.
Lippincott's.
An Eccentric Traveler.
Colonel G., a considerable landowner
in the midlands, had a mania for trav
el, cr rather a spirit of unrest which
prompted him to keep continually on
the move. This harmless eccentricity
made his whereabouts a perpetual mys
tery. On one occasion, after months of
absence, he suddenly returned to his
house and was accidentally met in the
hall by his ecu.
'How are you, my boy? No, no;
can't stay to dinner. Only looked in to
change my hat. Goodby. - I have kept
the fly at the door," and he was off
again.
One day when his sou's yacht was at
Corfu he made an unexpected appear
ance ;:nd was with difficulty persuaded
by his daughter-in-law to stay for break
fast. During the meal the "steward re
ported that he could find no nails with
which to repair a bookshelf.
"No brass headed nails?" cried the
colonel, who had been fidgeting in his
chair and saw in this want an opening
for his peculiar talent. ' 'No brass head
ed nails! I'll get yon seme, " and he
tumbled over the side into his boat.
Five months later he reappeared at
Constantinople, where the yacht then
was.
"Here you are, my boy!" he cried tri
umphantly, protlucing a Fmall packet.
"Here are nails real good ones. Bought
them myself a Birmingham, but had to
go renrd by Honolulu and Sim Francis
co. TVLut! Tco large? I'll get you seme
smaller f.ncs. Gccdby." And it was on
ly by ceutie force that he could bo re
strained from starting off forthwith.
Pearson's Weeklv.
Washington's Tallest Policeman.
Policeman John T. Kennedy is the
tallest man in the department. He
measures Gfeet 6 inches and weighs 2G0
pounds. He has a peachblow complex
ion, and talks in a deep down Marine
band voice. He is not only remarkable
for his dimensions, but for his police
record as well. He was born in West
moreland county, Ya., Feb. 25, 1871.
He was appointed on the police force
July 1, LS93. Washington Times.
The ohia, or Malay apple, is a com
mon timber tree of the Hawaiian Is
lands, though not peculiar to that local
ity. On the island of Maui is a mam
moth orchard of wild ohias, extending
from the sea to the mountains and
measuring 20 miles in length by from
5 to 10 miles in width. The trees are
from 40 to 50 feet in height, some of
the largest yielding nearly 50 pounds of
fruit, the total crop being said to be
sufficient to fill a fleet of 100 steamers.
The beautiful crimson or white apples,
however, are unfit for transportation,
as they last but a short time in a good
condition. Popular Science Monthly.
THE IMPENETRABLE.
TREMENDOUS MAGNITUDE OF THE
STARRY SYSTEM.
What We Know, What Wo Believe and
What Wo Do Not Comprehend of Oar
Solar System Considering; Stupendous
Distances by a Scale Greatly Ii educed.
It is worth while making an effort to
picture to ourselves the vast extent of
the starry system in which we reside.
Having gained some faint notion of the
extent cf the lesser solar system, which
occupies a small corner of the stellar
system, we must work outward from
that beginning. Let us take for our
unit of measurement tho space which
separates the earth from the sun, and
let the 92,000,000 of miles of this dis
tance be represented in our minds by
a single inch. In proportion the sun
itself must be pictured by a tiny ball
less than one hundredth part of an inch
in diameter, while our earth must be a
mere speck, less than one ten-thousandth
of an inch in diameter. And this little
sun and this minute earth must be just
on inch asunder.
Following out the same idea, Mercury
and Venus, being closer to the sun than
we are, have to be less than 1 inch
away from him, while Jupiter will be
5 inches off, Saturn will be 10 inch
es off, Uranus will be over 19 inches
off, Neptune will be almost 30 inches
off. Then the solar system as a whole,
leaving only out of the question certain
comets which travel farther, will be in
closed in a circle less than 2 yards in
diameter.
The question arises next, "What will
be the proportionate size of the stellar
system on this same scale of measure
ment? If the solar system is to be com
prised with a hoop not two yards
across, how wide a space should we al
low to the surrounding system of stars,
"our universe?" How near will be he
nearest cf outlying stars? And tho an
swer is sufficiently startling. If tho sun
is reckoned to be one inch away from
our earth, if Neptune is reckoned to
be less than three feet away from the
sun, then, on the same scale, the star
which lies closest of all outer stars in
the whole universe to us, Alpha Cen
tauri by name, must be reckoned as ly
ing at a distance of about 36 miles.
And between the two nothing; at
least nothing in the shape of a star. An
occasional comet may lag slowly along
in the darkness, finding its way from
one sun system to another, and dark
bodies, cooled suns, may possibly float
here or there unseen by us, but of stars,
radiant with heat and light, none is
found in that -wide area.
Astronomical writers, sometimes talk
of stars "in the vicinity" of the sun,
and thisiswhatis meant by 'vicinity. "
Think of the distances implied. Our
whole Eolar system is first brought down
into a small circle, two yards across
every inch in those yards standing for
more than 90,000,000; miles .and. then,
pn every side and above and below, is
an encompassing void of 3-j$ pules, ev
ery inch of those miles again represent
ing more than 90,000,000 miles. And
then we come upon one gleaming 8tar.
Only one quite so near. Another star
in the sun's "vicinity," known as Gl
Cygni, would lio at a distance of seven
miles, and the brilliant Sirins would be
over ten miles off. Others must be
placeel at distances of 20 miles, 50
miles, 100 miles. It is easy to start
with a list cf these figures. It is not
easy to say where one should stop. That
the starry system has limits we do not
doubt, but to define those limits $s not
possible. On such a scale as is given
above these limits certainly would no?
lie within a distance cf lO'O miles nor
Of 1,000 miles. It is belieye( that; some
dim stars, barely to be detectedi may
be 10,000 times as far away as our sun's
nearest neighbor, Alpha Centauri, and
this at once gives, even on our very
much reduced scale, a line from the
center of 35,000 miles. Suppose that
the limits of the stellar system lay
somewhere about there. Thii-ty-fiv
thousand miles each way fron the cen
ter woulel mean a diameter for the
whole of 70, 000 miles. Imagine a star-;
ry system 70, 000 miles across from side
to side, each inch in those miles repreT
senting 92,000,000 of real miles, and
somewhere jn the midfe ox it our small
solar system, just two yartls across, sep?
arated from all other- stars by a wide
blank of three cr four miles.
That would be stupendous enough.
But we haye no reason whatever for
supposing tnat the limits ot our uni
yerse do lio there. The true boundaries
of the stellar system may be twice as
far, four times as far, ten times as far.
Wo do not even know with certainty
that our solar pystem is placed anv-
where near its center, though this seems
rather likely. Far off as the boundary
reaches in one direction, it may reach
much farther in anothor direction. Ajj
nes Giberne in Chambers' Journal.
Tha Law and the ILady.
Patient Man Suppose a woman
makes it so hot for her husband that ho
can't live with her and he leaves her,
what can she do?
Lawyer--Suo him for support.
Patient Man Suppose she has run
him so heavily into debt that he can't
support her because his creditors grab
every dollar as quick as he gets it, be
sides mining his business with their
euits?
Lawyer If for any reason whatevei-
he fail to pay her the amount ordered
he will be sent to jail for contempt of
court.
Patient Man Suppose she drives
him ont of the house with a flatiron
and he's afraid to go back?
Lawyer She can surest him for de
sertion.
Patient Man Well, I don't see any
thing for me to do but tro banc idvself.
Lawyer It's against the law to com
mit suicide, and if you get caught at
tempting it you will be fined and im
prisoned. Ten dollars, please. Good
day. New York Weekly.
Electric Bitters.
Electric Bitters is a medicine suited
for any season but perhaps more general
ly needed when the languid, exhausted
feeling prevails, when the liver is torpid
and sluggish and the need of a tonic and
alterative is felt. A prompt use of this
medicine has often averted long and per
haps fatal bilious fevers No medicine
will act moro surely in counteracting
and freeing the system from the malarial
poison, headache, indigestion, consti
pation, dizziness yield to Electric Bitters.
50 cents and 3LO0 per bottle at Streitz's
Drug Store.
JLonaou'j Public Houses.
The public houses explain a grea
many cf the miseries of the miserable lo
cality. There may be some teetotalers,
but there ere not many, and there are
almost as few drinkers who are always
moderate in their libations. The curse
of bitter beer, raw Scotch whisky and
"tuppenny" gin rests heavy on the
place. Public opinion is no weapon
against it, for public opinion openly fa
vors drinking whenever one has the nec
essary money and does not regard actual
drunkenness as a disgrace wcrth men
tioning. Women drink at tho bars as uncon
cernedly as men do, and barmaids serve
them. The barrocm is tho gessip place,
and babes and small children are carried
to it and kept in it by careful mothers,
who gather there for the day's necessary
talk. Infants sometimes cry and at such
times are permitted a sip from the ma
ternal glass, quite as other children are
bribed with chocolate drops. Thus blear
eyes and drink reddened faces cf ten have
early beginnings. The children on the
streets arc dirty, ragged and vociferous
ly happy over small things. Adults are
not genuinely happy. There is no reason
why they should be. They derive much
spasmodic merriment from the public
houses. Drunkenness and fighting are
common everywhere, especially on the
streets. During one noon recess I saw
three fights develop among the two dozen
employees of a hex factory. Nor are the
combatants always men cr boys. Cen
tury. At What Ace Is Man Strongest?
The muscles, in cemmen with all the
organs cf tho body, have their stages of
development and decline; our physical
strength increases up to a certain age
and then decreases. Tests cf the strength
of several thousands cf people have been
made by means cf a dynamcmeter
(strength measurer) and the following
aro given as the average figures for the
white race :
The "lifting power" of a youth cf 17
years is 80 pounds ; in his twentieth
year this increases to 320 pounds, and
in the thirtieth and thirty-first years it
reaches its height, 35G pounds. At the
end of tho thirty-first year the strength
begins to decline, very slowly at first.
By the fortieth year it has decreased
eight pounds, and this diminution cen
times at a slightly increasing rate until
the fiftieth year is reached, when the
figure is 330 pounds.
After this period the strength fails
more imd more rapidly until the weak
ness of old age is reached. It is not pos
sible to give statistics of the decline of
strength after the fiftieth year, as it va
ries tc a large extent in different indi
viduals. Strand Magazine,
y
Dr. Sawyer; Dear Sir: HaviDg nsed your Pas
titles, I can recommend them to tho public. I
have been attended by four different doctors, bat
one and a half boxes of your medicine has done
me more good than all of them. Yours reject
fully, Mrs. Maggie Johnson, Eroason, Branch
County. Mich. Sold b,T Y. IT- kongley.
DEAFNESS CANNOT BE CURED
by local applications as they cannot reach
the diseased portion ot the ear. There
is only one way to cure deafness, and
that is by constitutional remedies.
Deafness is caused by an inflamed con
dition of the mucous lining of tba Eus
tachian Tube. When this tube is in
flamed you have a rumbling sound or
imperfect hearing, and when it is entire
ly closed, Deafness is the result, and un
ss the inflamation can be taken out
and this tube restored to. Us normal con
dition, hearing w-11 be destroyed forever:
nine cases out of ten are caused by ca
tarrh which is nothing hut an inflamed
condition cf the mucous surfaces.
We wi.U give One Hundred Dollars
for any oa.ce of Deafness (caused bv
catarrh) that oannot be cured by Hall's
Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars; free.
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$3T Sold bv all Druggist-, 75c.
CLAUDE WEINGAND,
DEALER 15
Goal Oil, Gasoline.
Crude Petroleum and
Coal Gas Tar.
Leave orders at Newton's Store
HUMPHREYS'
VETERINARYSPECIFICS
Per Sorses, Cattle, Sheer), Dcg Hog
AND FODTiTET.
500 Tage Book en Treatment of Animals
aud Chart beat Free
cxTHEfiCFcversjCoDEestiens.Inilaramation
A. A.i Spinal UlcHinsitis, Blilk Fever.
B. J3. Strains, LamcHess, RkeamatiaiB.
C. C. Dlstemperi Nasal Discharges.
D. D. Bots or Grabs Worms.
E. E..-CncUs. Heaves, Pneumonia,
F. F.Collc or Gripes. Bellyache.
G. G. Dliscarriace Hemorrhages.
11. II. Urinary and Kidney Diseases
1. 1. Eruptive Diseases Itlaaze.
J. K. Diseases of Digention, Paralysis.
Single Bottle (over 50 dosesX - - .60
Stable Case, tvith Specific-. ManaaL
Veterinary Cure OU and "dedicator, S7.00
Jar Veterinary Care Oil, - . 1.00
Sold byDrugrhii; or tnt prepaid tarbereud taasj
qnaolltj oa mvlpt of price.
IiraFHEETS 3EB. CO., Ill A llSTTimia St, SewTorfc.
HOMEOPATHIC
SPECIFIC Ho,
In use 30 ye&rs. The only raccsasfnl remedy for
Nervous Debility, Vital Weakness,
nd Prostration, from" orer-work or other causes.
$1 per rial, or 6 Tils and large vial powder, for 5.
Sold by Drasstiu, or lent pottpald on rmlt of pnre.
inrariiKKis'aEB. ca,m n-.muixast.,xwYcrfc.
A Cure for Piles.
"We can assure all who suffer with In
ternal Piles that in Heinorrhoidine we
have a positive cure. The treatment is
unlike any thing heretofore used and its
application so perfect that every ves
tige of the disease is eradicated. Henv
orrhoidine is a harmless compound, can
lie used for an eye ointment, yefc posesrf
es such healing power thatVhen ap
plied to. the diseased parts, it at once re
iieyes; and a cure is the sure result of its
continued use. All who suffer with piles
suffer from Constipation also and Hem
orrhoidine cures both. Price $1 50 . For
Sale by Druggists. "Will be sent from
the factorv on receipt of nrice. Send to
The Foster ManVg Co. 'Council Bluffs,
Iowa, for testimonials and information.
Sold Toy A. 3F. Stroitz.
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Who can think
of some simple
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ftfr
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re is no
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J as much "Battle Ax" as you do of other
J brands for 10 cents. 5
DON'T FORGET that "Battle Ax" is made of f
the best leaf grown, and the quality cannot be
5 improved. S
DON'T FORGET, no matter how much you
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you want all you can get for your money. S
Why pay IG cents for other brands when you 3
g can get " Battle Ax'r
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QUENCH & BALDWIN,
ATTORXEYS-AT-LAW,
XOIITJI PLATTE, - -Oflice
over N. P. Nfcl
2TSBRASKA
Bank.
T.
C. PATTERSON,
HTTO RNE V-KT-L.KirZ.
Office First National Bank B!dg.,
NORTH PLATTE. NEB.
flLCOX & HALLIGAN,
ATTORNEYS- AT-LA TP.
sortii platte. - - . Nebraska.
Office over North Ptetie Xftiieasl Bak.
jg E. XORTtfKUP,
DENTIST,
"Room Xo. G, O-teostein Building,
NORTH PLATTE, NEB.
N. F. DOXAIJ0SOX,
Assistant Surgeon Union Pac.fic Hp ""'""
and Member of I'ensiou Board,
NORTH PLATTE, ... NEBRASKA.
Office over Stroitz's Drag Store.
GEO. NAU MAN'S
SIXTH STREET
Meats at wholesale and re
tail. Fish and Game in
season. Sausage at all
times. Cash paid for Hides.
SMOKERS
In search of a good cigar
will always find it at J.
F. Schraalzried's. Try
them and judge.
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Lega.1
Notices.
B
OXl ELTiCTIOX NOTICE.
Notice is nerebv eirea to ih electors of
the Suurlan Irrigation District of Lincoln
County. XobrasS.1. that an election will be
held in -aid irrigation district on the Sd day
of Jane. 1H345. at whtsn election the question
of issuing bonds bv said Suburban Irrigation
District m the snih of .. bearing inter
est at the rate of six per cent per annum.
Interest payable semi-annually, to be issued
in manner and icrni as provided by the pro-
BUT IAHET.
visions of Chapter 70 of the Sesion Laws of deceaeed will meet the .dninitraior of said
Nebraska tor the year 1&3. will be submit- t e-tat. before the Cr.onty Jmige of Lincoln county,
ted to the qualined voters of said district. NebraMuu at the t .imty court room, in said conn
Said bonds are to be issued-for the purpose J t- tm tBe jn day of September, 1SIW. en the ltk
of purchasing and constructing the neces- J Jay Df Oct.er. il and on the lh day of No
sary irrigating canals and works, and ac- t vernier, W9, at X oviock p. m. each day, for the
quiring the necessary property and rights i porpre of presea'.infr their claim for exansina
therefor. for said Suburban Irrigation Dis- i ,ioo adiDnect and allowance. Six months are
trict- Said amount ot XW Swing the actu-
al estimated co-t of said irrigating canals,
works and riphts therefor as foand and sub-
mitted to the directors by the engineer in
charge.
, Those voting in favor of the issuing of said
' bonds will vote "Bonds Ye." and those op
1 posed to the issuing of said bonds will rote
Bonds No." Said election will be pen at
eight o'clock in ihe morning of said day and
will continue open until 6 o'clock in the af ter
noon of s-aid day. ...
The voting places in said irrigation dis
trict will be as follows:
Voting precinct. Dirfcdon No. 1, at the res
idence of Jr. C. Lindsay on tot 4 of section 4.
. in township 13. ranee 30.
j Voting precinct. Division No. at the resi
dence of W. M. Hinman on the northeast
quarter of section & township 13. range 30.
Voting precinct. Division 3, at the resi
! dence of A. M. Stoddard on the north half of
section 23. township I :. range 31.
Dated Jlav 6th, t6.
yf. M. HINMAN. President.
M. C. LINDSAY.
F. W. MFRPHY
T-.-tr- ' T 1
Attc t T.C PJLTTI.r -lON r ..tan-
dividing
line
for 5 cents ?
& -s t! -a?
PROBATE NOTICE.
In the matter of the estate of John Hawley, de
eeseed. In the county coart of Lincoln ooonty, Nebraska,
3sy 1th, ISCtJ.
Notiee Is hereby giTen, that tho creditors of saW
deceased will meet the Execator of said estate,
before the eoanty jadjee of Lincoln county, Ne
braska, at the county court rooni. in said eounty,
ti the 5th day of Septerabt-r. l-BU, on the ath day
of October, 1SU aal on the 5th day of November,
lx&5, at 1 o'clock p. m. each day. for ihe parpore
of pre?enUne their claim for examination, adjast
Joeot and allowance. Six months are allowed for
creditors to present their elaiass, and one year for
the exeeutor to settle sakl estate, from the 5th day
of Xiay. lb. This notice will be paMi-ihed ki
Thb Tbiboks, a. newspaper printed In said eosaty,
far fr weeks successively, on and after May 5th,
1SW. Jambs 31. Rat,
Connty Jndge.
PROBATE NOTICE.
In the aatter of the Estate of Mordicn C. IfHrnish,
Jeceaeed.
In the County Court of Lincoln Coaaty, Ne-
raska. May 2d, ISSW.
Xoiice fc hereby givon, that the creditors of said
'eceaeed will meet the Administrator of said es-
ate, before the Connty Judge of Lincoln County,
ebranka, at the County Court Room, in said
ounty, on the -th day of September. ldW, on the
h day of October, ami on the Sin day of Ne-
ember. 1V6. at 1 o'clock p. m. each day, for the
irpnee of presenting their claims for examination,
iiastmeot and allowance. Six months are allowed
r creditors to present their claim?, and one year
r the administrator to settle said Estate, from
he 9th day of May, lb96 Tni- notice will be pnb
whed in The Tjubcnk. legal newspaper printed
ia said County, for four weeks successively, on and
after May 5th, l&t.
X-l J .virus M. Rat, Connty Judge.
NOTICE FOIi ri'BLICATIOX.
Land Office at North Platth, Nsb., I
April 20th, lSCtf. f
Notice is hereby given that the followiB.aaraed
settler ha? filed notice of her intention to make
nal proof in support of her claim, and that said
proof witl be made before the Register and Re
ceiver at North Platte, Nebraska, oa May
27th. 18B&, viz: Maren S. Jorgensen, widow of
ItaswtM Jorgensen, who made Homestead Entry
No. Iv3fel, for the Northeast quarter of section
township 10 N., range 23 W. She names the
following witnessed to prove her continaoM- resi
dence upon and cultivation of. said laud, vie;
Xararae Hansen. Peer Holm, Lais C. Hansen and
Qeovge Schmid. jr.. all of Curtis, Nebraska.
S3 JOHN E. HITMAN, Register.
NOTICE FOR PUlHJCATIOJfl
Land Once at North Platte. Neb., ?
April 3th. 1SKJ. f
Notice is hereby given that the following-named
settler hart Hied notice of his intention to make
Anal proof in sopport of his claim, and that said
proof will be male before the Register and Re
ceiver at North Platte, Nebraska, on Jane 12th.
VM, viz:
JAMES A. BROWN,
who made Homectead Entry No. 15,9, for the
south half of the southwest quarter, section 4, and
the east half of the southeast quarter seeiion 5,
township 17 north, range 28 west. He names the
following witnesses to prove his continuous resi
dence upon and cultivation of said land, viz:
Albert P. Main. Mills D. Brothers. John F. Main
and Prince C. Gibbs, all of Nesbitt,Neb.
35- JOHN F. HINMAN, Register
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
U. S, Land Oroco, North Piatte. Neb., )
May 1MB. ISirt. J
Notice k hereby irJven that the following Banted
setUer ha filed notice of his intention to make
oat proof in support of his claim and that said
proof will be made before the Register and Re
ceiver at North Platte, Neb., on Jaly 23a, 1SW,
viz:
ANDY T. GEYER.
who made Homestead Katry No. 18115 for the
eat half f the northeast quarter ami the east half
of the southeast quarter section :I2, township IS N.,
Range 27 W. He names the following witnesses
to prove bis continnous residence npon and ealti
vation of sahi land, viz: Charles E. Nate, Wit
bud A. Greg. Clarrace C. Bowman and Caroline
Fargaeou, all of Willard, Neb.
4M JOHN F. HINMAN, Register.
XOTICS FOR PUBLICATION.
Land Ottce at North Piatte. Neb.. 2
April 27th, 1SW. f
Notice ia hereby given that William Steishreek
kae mled notice of intention to make daal proof be
fore Reiter and Heeeiver at his otSce ia North
Titte, Neb., on Friday, the 5th day of Jane. ISW. oh
timber culture application No. 12.108, for the north
west quarter of acetioa No. 33. in township No. IS
range Xo. 35. He name as witnesses-. Edward
Tailor. Jasper Hnmpaery, Charles Beeord awl
Oeorjte Brunner, all of Paxton. Neb
3WJ JOHN F. HINMAN, Hegieter.
PROBATE NOTICE.
In the natter of the estate of Martin Van Breok
lin. deceased.
In she connty court cf Lincoln county, Nebraska,
May 1-th. 1XK.
XnUn. 1u IwMliTciviMi. tbai tit erPtHtars af saUi
j allowed for creditors to present their eJaia. and
( yrar t( r tB .minMrtor to settle said estate,
s ja, tbe jr.ta ,uy of May. ln. Thh notice win
be pubiishe-1 in Thk Tamos, a newspaper
printed ineaid county, for four weeks successively.
on and after Hay lUth. 1SW.
40-1 JAMES M. RAY, Connty Judge.
GERMAN BAPTISTS
Will find that the Union Pacific
offers superior advantages to those
who attend the annaual meeting-, to
be held at Ottawa Kans., May 26
29. One fare for round trip, plus two
dollars, from points in Nebraska
and Kansas, is thd rate authorized
ior the occasion.
Call on, or write for full particu
lars. X. B. Olds Agent.