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CALL toe couirrY CONVENTION.
The republican electors of the several
precincts of Lincoln county are requested
to select delegates to meet in convention
in North Platte on June 20th, 1896, at
10 o'clock a. m., for the purpose of se
lecting eleven delegates to attend the
state convention to be held in Lincoln
July 1st, eleven delegates to attend the
congressional convention to be held in
North Platte on July 3d, eleven dole
gates to attend the state senatorial con
vention, eleven delegates to attend the
state representative convention the last
two to be held at times and places to be
selected and to select a candidate for
county attorney and transact such other
business as msy properly come before
the convention.
It is recommended that the primaries
be held June 13th, between the hours of
6 and 8 p. m., provided any precinct com
mitteemen may by a week's notice select
any other day or hour for holding the
same in their respective precincts.
The basis of representation is one dele
gate for each precinct and an additional
one for each 20 votes and major fraction
thereof cast for T. L. Norval in 1892.
The several precincts are entitled to
representation as follows, to-wit:
North Platte No. 1 5
North Platte No. 2 9
North Platto No. 3 5
Antelope 2
Ash Gro-o 2
Baker 1
Birdwood 2
Blaine 1
Brady Inland 2
Buchanan 2
Circle Hill 1
Lemon 2
Maxwell 3
Medicine 3
Miller 2
Mvlander 1
Myrtle I
Nichols 3
Novell 2
O'Fallon 8
Osgood 2
Peckham 1
Plant 2
Potter 1
Ritner 1
Sellers 1
Somerset 1
8unshine 1
Vroman 1
Walker 1
Wallace 3
Well 1
Whittier 1
Willow 2
Total 03
Cottonwood . . . 2
Cox..: 1
Crockett l
Deer Creek 2
Dickens 2
Fnirview 1
Fox Creek 2
Garfield 1
Gaslin 2
Hall 2
Harrison 1
Hinman
Hooker l
Kem 1
Kilmer l
Immediately after the adjournment of
the county convention the delegates from
the Third commissioner district will meet
in convention for the purpose of select
ing a candidate for commissioner for said
district. G. C. McAllister, Chmn.
John Sorenson, Secy., pro. tern.
It would be interesting- to know
just how many laboring- men there
are in the United States who are
satisfied with democratic adminis
tration of the past three rears and
three months. Surely the thous
ands of idle workmen in every
branch of business are not; neither
is the farmer who was promised
S1.25 per bushel for his wheat, but
instead is receiving- fifty cents.
Haying enjoyed increased pros
perity under the present tariff law,
the foreign manufactuerers and
laborers are much exercised over the
certainty of McKinley's nomination
and the enactment of a tariff meas
ure that will protect the American
laborer and manufacturer. It is
certainly time that the voters of
this country elect men who will
put an end to increasing- England's
prosperity at the expense of our
labor and capital.
Major McKinley g-ives it out
straight from the shoulder that he
will announce no platform on the
currency question now or at any
other time before the St. Louis con
vention has made one for the re
publican party. Renewed cries of
pain are heard from the head-quarters
of the syndicate showing" how
much this decision hurts the men
who have sworn on bended knees
to down the major by hook or by
crook. Everybody else is feeling"
comfortable, as it is the custom of
republicans to make their own plat
forms and not to delegate that
business to any candidate, boss or
dictator. State Journal.
The A. P. A. lig-lit ag-ainst Mc
Kinley did not have the effect the
managers of theschemeanlicipated
and the deal has been called off.
Things have come to a pretty pass
when some secret organization
can step in to dictate what men
shall run for office, or what policies
or principles this g-overnment shall
adopt. Any political party will
be damned, and it ought to be,
when it allows itself to be dictated
to by any secret society. If the
A. P. A. is of any benefit to the
public generally the fact has not
been very firmly established, and
they have no more rig-ht as an or
ganization to g"o poking- their nose
into politics and attempting" to dic
tate nominations than any other
secret order. It is the privilege of
of every individual to think and
vote as he pleases, but this freedom
guaranteed by the constitution is
threatened whenever a secret so
ciety attempts to intimidate men or
dictate to political parties. Broken
Bow Republican.
FIGHT PAIS.
There is no excuse tor sundry re
publican papers that have en
deavored to cast a slur upon Jack
MacColl, a leading" candidate for
the nomination of governor, bv re
viving an old slander as to the way
Tom Majors was discriminated
against b' his personal friends
and neighbors in the election of '94.
It has been alleged that in Dawson
countv, the home of Mr. MacColl
republicans largely voted for Hol
comb and scratched Majors.
A few figures show that there is
no foundation for this charge. In
1893, when Holcomb ran for justice
of the supreme court against Harri
son, the republican candidate, the
vote in Dawson county was, Hol
comb 1,174, Harrison 1,001. The
vote on governor in '94 was, Hol
comb 1,178, Majors 998. In the
election for supreme judge in '95
Dawson gave Maxwell, pop., 1,375,
Norval rep., 901.
Taking this record, it will be
seen that Majors polled more than
the average republican vote in that
county on the head of the ticket,
for the three years last past, and
consequently the charge that he
was scratched by the personal or po
litical friends of MacColl in Daw
son cannot be sustained.
But those who know the staunch
republicanism of MacColl need no
refutation of this scandalous
charge that he was sulking in his
tent in '94. In this friendly con
test for the governorship between
a number of staunch and tried men
there is no excuse for such unfair
methods. Let it be an open honest
contest and when it is over let
every republican newspaper be in
position to make the greatest fight
of its life for the success of the
man who shall be put nomination
at the Lincoln convention. Lin
coln Journal.
The boys of the press wlio op
pose MacColl upon the ground that
he did not deal squarely with
Majors two years ago are an incon
sistent lot of fellows, to say the
least, says the O'Neill Frontier.
They point with pride to the fact
that Maiors received a larger vote
than was received by any republi
can candidate for jrovernor for
years, yet they intimate that Mac
Coll and his friends rather felt for
his ribs with a knife of disapoint
ment. Does the vote received by
Majors in Dawson count', compared
with the vote received by the re-
oublicans on the state ticket, show
any treachery? Sidney Poinard.
The London "Times" suggests
that Spain may concede as much of
liberty to Cuba as Canada enjoys,
and still remain overlord of the isl
and. It is not likely that this idea
will be well received by the insur
gents. They know all about the
overlord business, and. animated by
the spirit of 76. propose to govern
themselves without dictation trom
Europe.
The Shakers of New Lebanon, N
Y., had occasion not lonjr ajro to
lease a building in New York City
in which to sell their products, and
of course the owner of the property
looked into their solvency. He
found that they are worth not far
from $15,000,000, invested in choice
city real estate, mortgages and
first-class railway securities.
The I,uinlnon Sea Crab.
One of the marine curiosities recently
fished from tho bottom of the Indian
ocean by a dredging vessel in the em
ploy of the Calcutta Society of Natural
History was a mammoth sea crab'which
continually emitted a bright white light
similar to that seen in the spasmodic
flashes of phosphorescent luminosity
kindled by our common fireflies. The
oddity was captured in daytime and
placed in a large tank, nothing peculiar
except its immense size being noticeable
in the broad ghire of the tropical sun.
At night, however, when all was in
pitchy darkness, the crab surprised the
naturalists by lighting up the tank so
that all the other sea creatures, great and
small, occupying the same tank could be
plainly seen. When the luminons crus
tacean wus prodded with a pole, he emit
ted flashes of lights which enabled the
experimenters to read small print, even
though otherwise they were in total
darkness. St. Louis Kepublic.
Out or the Tubllc
"When I was a very little boy, writes
Sir William Gregory in his autobiog
raphy, my grandfather, who was then
under secretary for Ireland, took mo to
the chief secretary's room in Dublin
castle and formally introduced mo to
Lord Melbourne.
After I had been with him for some
little time he said, "Now, my boy, is
there anything here you would like?"
"Yes," I answered, pointing to a
very large stick of sealing wax.
4 'That's right, ' ' said Lord Melbourne,
pressing on me a bundloof pens, "begin
life early. All these things belong to
tho public, and your business must al
ways bo to get out of the public as
much as you can. " Pearson's Weekly.
A Sucar Coated Conscience.
United States Treasurer Morgan has
received the following letter from West
ville, Conn., inclosing 80 cents in post
age stamps :
"I was a soldier at tho time of the re
bellion. I was on guard over the com
missary stores and thoughtlessly took
lamps of sugar from an open barrel to
eat. I did not take much in quantity,
but violated the principle of strict hon
esty. It is impressed upon me after all
these years that I ought to make resti
tution. I send postage stamps to cover,
I think, the value of all that I took,
with interest."
The stamps were turned into tho con
science fnnjfla.shin
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NYE'S HISTORY
OF ENGLAND.
Kings Were Hard Workers In
the Middle Ages.
LITTLE TIME P0E GOLF 0E TEAS.
Why the Coronation of Edward the Pa
cific Was Delayed Assaults on Bis Char
acter Probably Political Lies How He
Utilized His Welsh Enemies.
Copyright, 189G, by J. B. Lippincott Company.
CHAPTER V.
The Ethels now made an effort to re
gain the throne from Edward the Elder.
Ethelwold, a nephew of Edward, united
the Danes under his own banner, and re
lations were strained between the lead
ers until 905, when Ethelwold was
slain. Even then the restless Danes and
frontier settlers were a source of an
noyance until about 925, when Edward
died, but at his death he was the un
disputed king of sdl Britain, and all
tho various submcnarclis and associate
rulers gave up their claims to him. Ho
was assisted in his affairs of state by
THE SEA GOES
his widowed sister, Ethelfieda Edward
the Elder had his father's ability as a
ruler, but was not so great as a scholar
or litterateur. He had not the unfalter
ing devotion to study nor the earnest
methods which made Alfred great. Al
fred not only divided up his time into
eight hour shifts one for rest, meals
and recreation, one for the affairs of
EDMUND THROWING LEOLF OUT.
state and one for study and devotion
but lie invented the candle with a scale
on it as a timepiece, and many a subject I
came to the throne, at regular periods to
set his caudle by the royal lights.
Think of those days when the ser-geant-at-arnis
of congress could not
turn back tho clock in order to assist an
appropriation at the close of (lie session,
but when the light went out tho session
closed.
Athelstan succeeded his father, Ed
ward the Presiding Elder, and resem
bled him a good deal by defeating the
"Welsh, Scots and Danes. In those days
agriculture, trade raid manufacturing
were diversions during the summer
montlis, but the regnhir business cf life
was warfare with the Danes, Scots and
Welsh.
These foes of England could live easi
ly for years on oatmeal, sour milk and
cods' heads, while the fighting clothes
of a whole regiment would have been a
scant wardrobe for the Greek slave, and
after two centuries of almost uninter
rupted carnage their war debt was only
t trifle over $8.
Edmund, the brother of Ethelstan, at
the age of 18 succeeded his brother on
the throne.
One evening, while a little hilarity
was going on m the royal apartments,
Edmund noticed among the guests a
robber named Leolf, who had not been
invited. Probably he was a pickpocket,
and as a royal robber hated anvbody
who dropped below grand larcenv the
ng ordered his retainers to put him
out.
But the retainers shrank from the un
dertaking. Therefore Edmund sprang
from tho tlirone like a tiger and buried
his talous in the robber's tresses. There
was a mixture of feet, legs, teeth and
features for a moment, and when peace
was restored King Edmund had a watch
)ocket full of blocd and the robber
chieftain was wiping his stabber on one
of the royal tidies.
Edred now succeeded the deceased
Edmund, his brother, and with a heavy
heart took up the eternal job cf fighting
he Danes. Edred set up a sort of pro
vincial government over Northumber-
and, the refractory district, and sent a
governor and giirrison there to see that
the Danes paid attention to what he
said. St. Dunstan had considerable in
fluence over Edred and was promoted a
great deal by tho king, who died in the
year 955.
He was succeeded by Edwy tlo Fair,
who was opposed by another Ethel. Be
tween the Ethels and the Welsh and
Dane there was little time left in
England foe golf or high tea. and Ed
wy's reign was short and full of trouble.
He had trouble with St. Dunstan,
charging him with the embezzlement
of church funds, and compelled him to
leave the country. This wa in retalia
tion for St. Dnnsrau's overbearing or-
der to the king. One evening, when a
banquet was given him in honor of his
coronation, the king excused himself
when the speeches got rather corky and
went into the sitting room to have a
chat with his wife, Elgiva, of whom he
was very fond, and her mother. St.
Dunstan, who had still to make a speech
on foreign missions, with a yard or so of
statistics, insisted cn Edwy's return.
An open cutbreak was the result. The
church fell upon the king with a loud,
annual report, and when the debris was
cleared away a little round shouldered
grave in the churchyard held all that
was mortal of the long. His wife was
cruelly and fatally assassinated, and
Edgar, his brother, began to reign.
This was in the year 959 and in what
is now called the middle ages.
Edgar was called "the Pacific." He
paid off the church debt, made Dunstan
archbishop cf Canterbury, helped reform
the church, and, though but 10 years of
age when he removed all explosives from
the throne and seated himself there, he
showed that he had a massive scope,
and his subjects looked forward to much
anticipation.
He sailed around the island every
year to show the Danes how prosperous
he was and made speeches which dis
played his education.
His coronation took place 13 years
after his accession to the throne, owing
to the fact, as given out by some of the
ii
BACK ON CANUTE.
more modern historians, mat me crown
was at Mr. Isaac Inestein's all this
time, whereas the throne, which was
bought on the installment plan, had been
redeemed.
Pictures of the crown worn by Edgar
will convince the reader that its re
demption was no slight task, while the
mortgage on the tlirone wsis a mere
bagatelle.
A bright idea of Edgar's was to ride
in a rowbeat pulled by eight kings un
der the old regime.
Personally Edgar was reputed to be
exceedingly licentious, but the historian
wisely says these stcries may have been
the invention cf his enemies. C4reatness
is certain to make of itself a target for
the mud cf its own generation, and no
one who rose above the level of his
surroundings ever failed to receive the
fragrant attentions (f those who had
not succeeded in rising. All history is
fraught also with the bitterness and
jealousy cf lie historian except this
one. No bitterness c:ui creeD into this
histoiy.
Edgar, it is said, assassinated the
husband cf Elfrida in order that he
might many her. It is :dso said that he
broke into a convent and carried off a
nun, but doubtless, if these stories were
traced to their very foundations, poli
tics would account for them botli.
He did not favor the secular clergy,
and they, of course, disliked him ac
cordingly. He suffered also at the hands
of those who sought to operate the
reigning apparatus while his attention
was trailed toward other matters.
He was the author of the scheme
whereby he utilized his enemies, the
Welsh princes, by demanding 300 wolf
heads per annum as tribute instead of
money. This wiped out the wolves and
used up the surplus aniinositv cf the
Welsh.
As the Welsh princes had no money,
the scheme was a good one, Edgiur died
at the ago of 82 aud was succeeded by
Edward, his sou, in 975.
The death of the king at this early
age has give.: to many historians the
idea that he was a sad dog, and that ho
sat up lute of nights and cut up liko
EDGAR srnMOUXTED IJT HIS C ROUTT.
everything, but this may not be true.
D?ath f ten takes the good, the true and
the beautiful while young.
flowever, Edgar's reign was a bril
Jiaut one for an Anglo-Saxon, and Jiis
Doouskin cap is said to have cost over a
pound sterling
Bill Nye.
Joseph Leonard was arrested iu New
York tho other day for stealing a door
mat. He told the jndge that he took it
because the word "Welcome" was on it.
ROBIN IN THE RAIN. If
Listen to that soaring strain!
It is robin in the rain.
Sitting there aloft, aloft,
Underneath his leafy roof.
Pouring from his throbbing throat
Note npon ecstatic note,
Rapture in the swift refrain
Robin in tho rain I
Hearken to the song he singfl.
Tiny chorister -with -wings I
"Aftor all tho grief and gloom
Brighter bine the skies will bloom;
After all the cloudy woo
Earth with gladder gold will glow;
Joy will triumph over pain"
Robin in tho rain I
Clinton Scollard in New Orleans Times-Democrat.
ONE SPORTSMAN'S AMBITION.
It la to Hunt In the Undiscovered Patches
Along America's Coast.
"I'll tell you what I would liko to
do, " said a man whoso lifo is spent rov
ing about from city to lumber camp
and from park to forest. "I would liko
to own a schooner fit to weather any
gale on the seas and travel in it up aud
down the American coast from Labra
dor to Cape Horn and north again to
Bering strait. ' There's a whole lot of
odd places one could visit seldom or
never liearttof.
"Take it about Capo Hattcras. Now,
what do you know about the mainland
alongshore there? What can yon tell of
the people in tho swamps there and of
the game these people find in the
woods? It's so little, you have to guess
at it Then there is a whole lot of tho
gulf of Mexico's shore line, not to men
tion the islands and lands south of there.
Why, only the other day I heard of a
tribe of Indians on some islands some
where down that way that buy buckshot
to kill deer with and poor shotguns,
usirig only a dram of powder for a
charge. Just think what sport a fellow
with a good rifle would have among
them if they'd let him. What is more,
they pay for what they buy vrith pure
gold, and if ever a Avhite man visited
them he did not come back to tell about
it, nor will the Indians say where they
got their stuff.
"When you como to think about it,
the sportsman nosing about in these out
of the way places could get more game
and curiosities than ho could get out of
Blue Mountain park or from any other
of the big preserves.
"I hope to make just such a trip some
time. I'll take a 45-90, a 10 gauge, a
20 gauge and a target pistol, with stacks
of fishing tackle cf all kinds and no end
of ammunition. The specimens I will
gather will pay for the trip, as I shall
go along prepared to skin and dry any
thing from a tapir to a crocodile, from
a condor to a beetle, not to mention
snakes and other things." New York
Sun.
Tree Climbing Rabbit.
The Loudon Field has an item that is
likely to call out a discussion among
English correspondents of that paper. A
man writes that "when shooting with a
friend in Banffshire last December my
friend called out, "There's a rabbit up
a tree!" Sure enough one was there at
least ten feet from the ground. The tree
was an upright fir, and the man had
seen the rabbit run up the smooth bark
as easily as a squirrel. Tho rabbit stop
ped on the first branch to look down.
What is more,
blown timber in
the wood, :uid I sup-
pose tho rabbits have got accustomed to
climbing on it, for I have often seen
them jump on to a root and run up the
slanting trjink till they .were sometimes
15 feet from the ground, " which must
have been a dizzy height for an animal
of such ground habits
Corroborative letters will probably
como in, and rabbits will have an es
tablished repntation sis climbers. It is
said that in Australia the imported rab
bits have begun to develop hooked
claws, with tho aid cf which they are
able to climb the rabbit proof fences.
A large number cf animals with hab
its acquired because of environment
have been noted from time to time
foxes that climb trees, rats that are
beasts of prey, birds that build nests
adapted to certain conditions, and so
on indefinitely.
Her Dilemma.
They met at the linen counter, and
the girl in blue looked so sadly perplex
ed that the girl in brown said sympa
thetically: "Why, May, what is the matter? You
look so miserable. "
"I'm bothered," acknowledged May.
4 4 You see, Rudolph mid I quarreled bit
terly last night. And to save my life I
can't make up my mind whether to go
on buying household linens in expecta
tion of a reconciliation or to buy me an
organdie to begin a new campaign. "
44It is bothering," agreed the girl in
brown. "Ah! Wcw'unen have so mwiy
hard problems to solve!" -T- ?
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the glands of my neck, aud all efforts
of physicians in Washington, D. C,
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