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THE NORTH PLATTE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE: TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 9, 1896. U. P. TIME CARD. Taking effect January 5th, 1695. EAST BOUND-Eastern Time. No. 2, Fast Mail. Departs 9:00 a m No. 4, Atlantic Express " 11:00 pm 'n. ?R. Treiirht " :00 a m WEST BOUND Western Time. No. 1, Limited Departs 3:05 p m No. 3, Fast Mail ' 11:25 pm No. 17, Freight " 1 :50 p m No. 23, Freight " 7:50 a m N. B. OLDS, Agent. JlRENCH & BALDWIN, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, iKORTH PLATTE, - - 2TEBRASKA. Office over N. P. Nil. Bank. T. C. PATTERSON, kttohney-kt-l, Office First National Bank Bldg., NORTH PLATTE. NEB. jTTLCOX & HALLIGAN, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, rfORTH PLATTE, - NEBRASKA. Offico over North Plntte Nationnl Bank. E E.NORTHRUP. DENTIST. Room No. G,-Ottenstein Building, NORTH PLATTE, NEB. D R. N. F. DONALDSON, Assistant Surgeon Union Pacfic b"t and Member of Pension Board, NORTH PLATTE, ... NEBRASKA. Office over Streitz's Drag Store. Wanted-An idea Who can think of some simple thing to patent? Protect Tour Ideas: thev mar brinir you wealth. Write JOHN WEDDERBURN & CO.. Patent Attor ney. Washington, D. C, for their Sl.SUO prlre offer and list of two hundred Inventions wanted. A. F. STRE5TZ, Drugs, Medicines, Paints, Oils, PAINTEES' SUPPLIES, WINDOW GLASS, -:- MACHINE OILS, ZDIa,:Ea,:n.ta, Spectacles. Deutsolae Corner of Spruce l F. J. BR0EEER, Merchant Tailor A well assorted stock of foreign and domestic piece goods in stock from which to select. Perfect Fit. how Prices. SPRUCE STREET. A O. A A A A A&A A A A-AA AAA A A A A A A Ai C. F. IDDINGS AND GRAIN. Order by telephone-from Newton's Book Store. SB I'l J. F. FILUON, Plumber, Tinworker General Repairer. Special attention given to BICYCLE HI. WHEELS TO KENT mil LITBBT -AJSTID PEED STABLE (Old 7"aax Doran StaTolo.) ELDER &c LOOEZ. SSfNorthwest corner of Courthouse square. China aviland Plain and Decorated, "Will be sold in sets or by the piece. The finest line of goods ever shown in the city. We have also in stock seven different patterns in English $ China. These goods are in 100- piece sets, and range in price from 11 to $15. An inspection of these goods is respectfully invited. V. VonGoetz, Grocer. Ottenstein Block. and Sixth-sts. 'eiuiaoi DEALER IN Coa! Oil, Gasoline, 8 Gas Tar, And Crude Petroleum. Leave orders at office in Broeker's tailor shop. Jos. Hershey, DEALER IN Agricullural : Implements OP ALL KINDS, Farm and Spring Wagons, Buggies, Road Carts, Wind Mills, Pumps, Barb Wire, Etc. . Locust Street, between Fifth and Sixth Apotla.eke Chute 1 Good Teams, Comfortable Higs, Srisnl Accommodations for h hmm Public, LRAL BAJIE, Editor and Proprietor SUBSCRIPTION BATES. One Year, cash in advance, 11.25. Six Months, cash in advance 75 Cents. Entore'd at the North Platte (Nebraska) postofflce as s econd-clnss matter. The republican hosts are already assembling- at St. Louis, and by the latter part of the week nearly all the delegates will be on the ground. The Nebraska delegation will be quartered at the Southern hotel. The talk in favor of Senator Tel ler as a possible nominee for presi dent by the Chidago convention simply goes to show that the demo crats wish to give respectability to their party by taking1 a republican for a leader. Quite a number of Lincolu coun ty populists favor the election of Major McKinley. They are weary of democratic administration and admit that in voting for the popu list presidential candidate they simply throw away their vote. They consider the logical thing to do is to cast their vote for McKinley. The flow of oratory at St. Louis next week promises to be up to the highest mark of excellence. Fora- ker will make the nominating speech for McKinley, Lodre for Reed, Depew for Morton and Bald win for Allison. These men are among the flower of republican orators. A few would-be politicians in the western counties are making the bluff that if Dawson county does not support L.B. Care', of Cheyenne county, for state seuator. the west ern counties withdraw their sup port from MacColl. The origina tors of this bluff are very few, and cut very little figure in the politics of western Nebraska. We can .hardly believe that such action as they propose, even though it will prove futile, meets the approval of Mr. Care Judge Hoagland of North Platte is the logical candi date for the republican nomination for state senator, and we have no fears but he will be the nominee. Under a protective tariff the public debt of the United States was reduced seven t3r-iive million dollars annually for a period of twenty-eight y-ears. Under free trade policy the democrats have in creased the bonded indebtedness of the country $80,000,000, a year. The difference between protection and free-trade, so far as the public is concerned, is $155,000,000 a year. The experience of the past three years has proved that a protective tariff is necessary for the mainten ance ot the national credit. But this is not all; nearly one million laborers who had emploj'tnent uncier protective tanir are now, under a free-trade policy, without work. Hon. Thomas Moonlight, minis ter to Bolivia, sent a letter to the Kansas democratic state conven tion, in which he called attention to the fact that "that in all coun tries having silver for a currency basis there exists a semi-slavery among wage-workers, and particu larly among- day laborers and farm hands." This did not prevent the Kansas democrats from declaring for free silver with both lungs, but it will probablj- enable Moonlight to retain his office as long" as the pres ent administration lasts. TnE Omaha World-Herald ex plains the pig-headedness ol its mm -t i -m--m cnensneci iriena ivem, oy aiiejrinjr that he lias given up all hope of a renommation by the pops and dem ocrats of the Sixth district and has saved enough of the 30,000 plunks drawn from the federal treasury, tor ins imaginary service in con gress," to buy a Colorado farm whither he will retire until the bugle blast informs him that his suffering country again appeals to him for reform and salvation. But whenever the country is to be saved Kem will be found in the forefront of the battle it there is a salarv offered. Lincoln Journal. The attitude of Buffalo county re publicans toward their neighbor, Jack MacColl friendliness. is one of the greatest Before the meeting-of the county convention it was generally agreed that a state delegation friendly to his interests should be chosen, but that there should be no instructions because of any possible effect instructions might have upon the congressional candidacy of Mr. Bceman. This agreement was lived up to, and it is well understood that the delegation is favorable to the nomination of MacColl first, and an eastern candi date afterwards if MacColl's nomi nation can not be effected. It is the prevalent opinion however that his nomination is assured and that the band wagon will not be large enough to accommodate those who will want to get on before the con vention iscaljed to order. Kearnev Hub. NYE'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND. Hot Water Squirt Guns at the Battle of Hastings. B00IAL CUSTOMS OF THE TIME, "Small and Early" Had Not Coino Into Vogue, but "Drunk and Disorderly" Was HiEh In Favor A Pane of Glass Indi cated the Abode of Wealth. Copyright, 1996, by J. B. Lippincott Company. CHAPTER VHL The Norman invasion was oneoi the most unpleasant features of this period. Harold had violated his oath to Wil liam, and many of his superstitious fol lowers feared to assist hiin on that ac count. His brother advised him to wait a few years and permit the invader to die of exposure. Thus, ex-communicated by the pope and not feeling very well anyway, Harold went into the battle of Hastings, Oct. 14, 10GG. For nine hours they fought, the English using their celebrated squirt guns, filled with hot water and other fixed ammunition. Fi nally Harold, while straightening his ST. nUXSTAX WAS XOTKI) FOli THIS KIND OF THING. sword across his knee, get an arrow in the eye and abandoned the fight in order to invetsigata the surprises of a future state. In this battle the contusions alcne amounted to over 07, to say nothing of fractures, cencussions and abrasions. Among ether casualties, the nobility of the south cf Englaud was killed. Harold's bedy was buried by the sea shore, but many years af terward disin terred, and all signs of vitality having disappeared he was buried again in the church he had founded at Walthain. The Anglo-Saxons thus yielded to the Noimans the government of England. In these days the common people were ' ,11 . SAXONS INTRODUCING called churls or anything else that happened to occur to the irritable and quick witted nobility. The rich lived in great niagnifience, with rushes on the floor, which were changed every few weeks. Beautiful tapestry similar to the rag carpet of America adorned the walls and prevented ventilation. Glass had been successfully made in France and introduced into England. A pane of glass indicated the abode of wealth, and a churl cleauing the window with alcohol by breathing heavily upon it was a sign that Sir Reginald de Pmup, the pampered child of fortune, dwelt there. To twang tho lyre from time to timo or knock a few mellow plunks cut of the harp was regarded with much favor by the Anglo-Saxons, who were much given to fe:isting and merriment. In those pioneer times the "small and early" had not yet been introduced, but "the drunk and disorderly" was re garded with much favor. Free coinage was now discussed and mints established. Wool was the prin cipal export, and fine cloths were taken in exchange froni the continent. Wom en spun for their own households, and the term spinster was introduced. The monasteries carefully concealed everything in the way cf education, and even the nobility could not have steed a civil service examination. The clergy were skilled in music, painting and sculpture and loved to paint on china or do sign work and car riage painting for the nobility. St. Dunstau was quite an artist and painted portraits which even now remind one strangely of human beings. .fcagar Atneimg, the legal successor of Harold, saw at a glance that William the Conqueror had come to stay, and so he yielded to the Norman. William was crowned on Christmas day at Westminster abbey as the new sovereign. It was more difficult- to change a sovereign in those days than at present, but that is neither here nor there. The people wore so glad wertiie coro nation that they overdid it, and their ghoulish glee alarmed the regular Nor man army, the impression getting out that the Anglo-Saxons were rebellious, when as a matter of fait thev were MECCA CATARRH REMEDY. 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Pec pie who had been foreclosed and ejected from their lands united to shoot the Norman usurper, and it was not un common for a Norman, while busy usuminir. to receive an arrow in some vital place and have to give up sed entary pursuits perhaps for weeks after ward. In 10G8 A. D.. Edgar Atheling, Sweyn of Denmark, Malcolm of Scot land and the soils of Harold banded together to drive out the Norman. Mal colm was a brave man and had, it is said, captured so many Anglo-Saxons and brought them back to Scotland that they had a very refining influence on that countrv. introducing the study c " the yoke, among other things, with niuuerate success. William hastily returned from Nor mandy and made short work of the re bellion. The following year another outbreak occurring in Northumberland, William niischievouslv laid waste GO miles of fertile country and willfully slaughtered 100, 000 people men, wom en mid children. And yet we have among us those who point with pride to their Norman lineage when they ought to be at work supporting their families. In 1070 the archbishop of Canterbury was degraded from his position and a Milanese inonk on his Milan knees suc ceeded him. The Saxons became serfs, and the Normans used the school tax to build larsre. renulsive castles in which to woo the handcuffed Anglo-Saxon maiden at their leisure. An Anglo-Sax- on maiden without a rope ladder in the pocket of her biisque was a rare sight, Many very thrilling stories are written of those days and bring a good price. William was passionately fond of hunting, and the penalty for killing a deer or boar without authority was greater than for killing a human being out of season. In order to erect a new forest, he dev astated 30 miles of farming country and drove the people, homeless and foodiess, to the swamps. He .also intro duced the curfew, which he had rung in the evening for his subjects in order to remind them that it was time to put out the lights, as well as the cat, :md re tire. This badge of servitude caused great annoyance among the people, who often wished to sit up and visit or pass the tankard about and bid dull care be gone. William's death was one of the most attractive features of his reign. It re- THE YOKE IN SCOTLAND. suited from an injury received during an invasion of France. Philip, the king of that country, had said something derogatory regarding William, so the latter, having business m France, decided to take his army with him and give his soldiers an out ing. William captured the city of Mantes and laid it in ashes at his feet. These . hto-Wre still hot in places when the great conqueror rode through them, and his horse becoming restive threw his royal altitoodleum on the pommel of his saddle, by reason of which he received a mortal hurt, and a few weeks later he died, filled with re morse and other stimulants, regretting his past life in such unmeasured terms that ho could be heard all over the place. Tho "feudal system" was now fullv established in England, and lands de scended from father to son and were divided up among the dependents on condition of the performance of vas salage. In this way the common people were cheerily permitted the use of what WILLIAM WAS FOX I) OF III XTIXC. atmosphere they needed for breathing purposes, on their solemn promise to return it and at the close of life, if they had succeeded iu winning the royal favor, they might contribute with their humble remains to the fertility of the royal vegetable garden. Bill Nyf Did You Ever Try Elactric Bitters as a remedy for your troubles? If not. get a bottle rftnv and get relief. This medicine has been found to be peculiarly adapted to tho relief and eur. of all female complaints, exerting a wonderful direct influence in giving strength and tune to the organs. If you have loss of appetite, constipa tion, headache, fainting spells, or are nervous, sleepless, excitable, melancholy or troubled with dizzy spells, Electric Bitters is the medicine you n ed. Health and strength are guaranteed by it use. Fifty cents and 31.00 at Streitz's drug store. Af. CLAY DISAPPOINTED. HIS DEFEAT FOR THE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION IN 1839. The Part Taken by T liar low Weed and Horace Greeley A Plot Admitted How the Senator Received the TXem of the Convention's Action. Tnc Wing convention oi lb3lJ was held in a new Lutiieran church in Har risburg, and it is a safe assumption that never before or since has a house of God been made the scene of so much and so adroit political maneuvering as went on there for tho purpose of preventing the nomination of Henry Clay for the presidency. The chief manipulator was Thurlow Weed, who appeared there as the friend of Governor Seward, and the future member of the powerful firm of Seward, "Weed & Greeley. This firm was indeed tho outcome of the ensu ing campaign. Greeley was at the con ventiou, little dreaming that the cam- naien wnicn was to loiiow wonirt crive him the opportunity for developing th qualities which were to make him the first editor of his time and lead to the foundation cf a great newspaper to be forever linked indissolnbly with his name. Weed went into convention with the determination of defeating Clay. He says in his autobiography that he had had the New York delegation in structed for Scott to keep it from Clay, his real candidate being Harrison. Ho entered into an agreement with friends of Webster, on the way to Har risburg from New York city, to act to geter for Clay's defeat. "Webster was in Europe at the time and had sent word to his friends declining to be a candi date, primarily because of Weed's re fusal to support him. After detailing these facts Mr. Weed goes on to say that, on reaching Jtiamsburg, "we tonua a decided plurality in favor of Mr. Clay," but that, ' m the opinion of the dele gates from Pennsylvania and New York, Mr. Clay could not carry cither of -those states, and without them ho could not be elected." Weed admits a bargain in favor of Harrison with the friends both of Web ster and of Scott, and says the "final vote was intentionally delayed by the friends of the stronger candidate (Har rison) for 24 hours" in order to placate the angry friends of Clay, ' 'whose dis appointment and vexation found excited expression." Greeley manes irank admission m his "Recollections of a Busy Life" as to the plot by saying that the parties to it, chiefly Weed, "judged that he (Clay) could not be chosen, if nominated, while another could be, and acted ac cordiugly, " adding, "If politics do not meditate the achievement of beneficent ends through tnc choice and use of the safest and most effective means, I who! ly misapprehend them." This somewhat Jesuitical view did not strike Clay and his mends as an adequate justification of the methods by which an admitted majority of the con ventiou had been prevented from ex pressing its will, donn yier ot Vir ginia, one of Clay's most ardent friends in the convention, was so overcome with grief at Harrison's nomination that he shed tears, and after several unavailing efforts to get r ome one else to take the nomination for vice president Tyler was named for it, his tears having con vinced tho convention that tho placing of so devoted a friend of Clay on tho ticket would go far to heal the wonnds that the methods of the convention had caused. Clay's rage at the outcomo was un bounded. He had been assuming in the senate a lofty indifference to the presi dency, his famous saying, "I would rather be right than be president," hav ing been made public only a short time before the convention, met. There was nobody in the senate at that time of suf ficiently rimble wit to think of the bit ing retort which Speaker Reed many years later made to a congressman who for the thousandth time w:is strutting about in Clay's cast off garments: "Don't give yourself the slightest un easiness, xon 11 never be either. Uut Clay had given himself great uneasi ness, for he was most desirous of the nomination. He had been a candidate eight years earlier, when he had no chance of election, and he believed firm ly now that if nominated he could be elected. When tho news from Harrisburg reached him in Washington, he lost all control of himself. ' ' Ho had been drink ing heavily in the excitement pf expec tation, ,? says Henry A. Wise, who was with him. "He rose from his chair, and, walking backward and forward ranidly, lifting his feet like a horse stringhaltcd in both legs, stamped his boots upon tho floor, oxclaimingr 'My friends are not worth tho powder and shot it would take to kill them. It is a diabolical intrigue. I know now, which has betrayed me. I am the most unfor tunate man in the history cf parties- always run by my friends when sure to be defeated, and now betrayed for a nomination when I or any one would be sure of an election.'" "Humor and Pathos of Presidential Conventions, " by Joseph R. Bishop, in Century. A Story of Crockett. At the booksellers' dinner in London S- R. Crockett told how he was recent ly introduced to a lady to whom his profession was mentioned. "Mr. Crock ett," she said during the evening, "I hear you are an author. Have you pub lished any of your works yet?" Mr. Crockett enjoyed telling the story, though it wjis at his own expense. But he was decidedlv nonplused for a mo ment when a glee club which was pres ent immediately burst forth with the glee, "Strike the Lyre. " Alf There. Mr. J. 'Meal.) Mr love, did you have a finger in this pie? Mrs. j. -r Practical. ) Why, no, in deed. None of piy fingers is missing. " Detroit Freo Press, Ruins in gome conn tries indicate pros perity. Iu others decay. In Egypt, Greece and Italy they record the decline and fall of great empires. In England, Scotland and Wales they mark aboli tion of feudal tyranny, the establish ment of popular freedom, mid the con solidation of national strength. R. An derson. Metaphor. "This," remarked Algie's now bicy cle, as it inserted him in a soft bank of clay by the roadside, "this is what might be called running it into tho ground." Cincinnati Enquirer. J ENGLISH CAVE DWELLERS. Evidences of Them Found In the Begioa Itlado Merry by Kobla Hood. The town of Nottingham is 124 miles north of London. A part of the town is on low lying ground close to the river Trent, where floods sometimes occur, but tho rest of the town is built on a series of red sandstone hill3. It is sit uated on the southeastern fringe of tho great Derbyshire coal field, and the historic forest of Sherwood formerly spread almost up to the city walls. Now this forest has, in a great measure, been cut down, and this has reduced the rainfall, raised the temperature and rendered the climate of the town drier and more bracing than it used to be. The mean annual rainfall is now 25 inches and the temperature 47 degrees. As sandstone is soft and easily cut it is only natural that the early dwellers in caves came and lived in holes dug in the hills of Nottingham, particularly as the forest close at hand was a good hunting ground where game could bo captured for food. Bronze and other tools employed by these early and prehistoric inhabitants are occasionally found, and the first name known to have been given to the place was Suotingaham. This in Celtia means "the homo among tho rocks." Afterward it became one of the towns of tho kingdom of Mercia, and" in tho ninth and tenth centuries was one of the five chief northern strongholds of the Danes. Already what is now known as the Castlehill was a strongly forti fied position, mid it was iu his attempt to capture this fortress that Alfred the Great was signally defeated by the Danes. Two hundred years later, when Williani the Conqueror in his turn sub jugated the Saxons, he rebuilt the cas tle of Nottingham and placed it under the command of his natural son, Wil liam Peverel. But it was here also that Saxon re sistance continued for many a long year, for it was in the great forest hare by that Robin Hood and his merry mei dwelt. Those outlaws were Saxons who were dissatisfied with the Norman rule and preferred a life of brigandage to submission. Tho holes dug in tho rocks, the passages made through the sand stone mountains, enabled these bold for esters to occasionally appear in the town and close under the Norman bat' tlements. Boston Post. BAD BILL'S BREAK. It Was a Sensational Feature and Shut Up tho Wholo Revival. Bad Bill was a well known charac ter in the west, and thero are many stories told of his exploits, but one ol the best has never been printed, and was related to a reporter by a man who was present when it occurred. Great Bend, Kan., now one of the best towns in tho state, was at one time about the worst. That was when it was a railroad terminus before Dodge City was established. A traveling evangelist went to Great Bend and tried to start a revival. There were a lew Christians m town, and these all attended the first meeting, tho only one of the unregenerate present be ing Bad Bill, who took a front sear. Every one feared trouble when he walk ed into the church, but he sat quietly during tho exhortation. The evangelist requested all who w;uitcd to go to hea ven to stand up, and every person pres ent except Bill arose. When they were seated again, Bill got up, and, drawing two pistols, said : "You say you want to go lo heaven. Now, anything I can do to help this game along and givo pleasure to tho players, I'm in for. You all want to gq to heaven, and I'll give you as good a chance as you'll ever have. The first man that gets up I'll give him a ticket clean through, without any stop overs." The evangelist crawled under a seat and the members of tho congregation laid on the chairs. " Well, " said Bill, 'I see you wasn't m eiirnest, so we'll put out the lights and call this meeting adjourned." One by one he shot out the lights, and by morning tho evangelist was on his way to Hutchinson, while the members of tho congregation kept quiet and made no further attempts at holding a revi val. Washington Star. Paid For tho Pleasure. During a journey of the Emperor Jo seph H to Italy the wheels of his coach broke down on the road, so that it was with difficulty that he reached a small village at a short distance. Ou his ar rival there his majesty got out at the door of the only blacksmith shop in the town and desired him to repair the Wheel without delay. "That I would do willingly, " replied the smith, "but jt being holiday all my men are at church. The boy who blows the bellows it not at homo, ' ' "An excellent method then presents of warming oneself," replied tho cm peror, who was unknown to the smith, and he set about blowing the bellows while the blacksmith forged the iron. The wheel being repaired, 0 sols wero demanded for the job, but tho emperor gave 6 ducats. The blacksmith returned them to the traveler, saying, "Sir, you have mado a mistake, and, instead cf G sols, have given me G pieces of gold which no one in the village can change." "Change them when you can," said the emperor, stepping into the carriage. "An emperor should pay for such a pleasure as that of blowing the bellows. ' ' Talent. The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius. Talent is a docile creature. It bows its head meekly while the world slips the collar over it. It backs into the shafts like a lamb. Holmes. II is Undo Did It. "Did you say that Marks owed his financial success to his own will power?" ' Oh, no; to his uncle'.- will power. He left everything to Marks. " Detroit Free Press. "Ethel," he whispered, 'will you marry me?" "I don't know, Charles, " she replied coyly. "Well, when you find out," he said, rising, "send me word, will you? I shall be at Mabel Hicks' uutil 10 o'clock. If I don't hear from you by 10, I'm go ing to ask her. " London Tit-Bits. Shakespeare says we are creatures that look before and- after. The more surprising that wo do not look round a little, and see what is passing under our .Sec eyes, .Qarlyle.