TEE NORTE PLATTE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE. TUESDAY EVENING,. JULY 14, lg96.
. A DREAM DREAMED OVER.
The music was throbbing and pulsing;
The flowers, and the palms, and the light,
In smooth, waxed floors were reflected
That glorious gala night.
With the fragrance of roses about her,
In her dainty, pure white gown,
She was, as he whispered to her,
"The prettiest girl in town."
She smiled and 'flushed and denied it, ,
As a pretty girl must do,
But by her heart's deep contentment
She knew that he thought it true,
And they danced to the thrilling music
Oh, life was rapture then I
TFben she was the prettiest girl in town,
And he was tho first of men!
They parted with anguished sorrow;
Time cleared the clouded sky.
But at last night's ball she lived again
In the charmed days gone by.
His son and her daughter were dancing,
The girl in a pure white gown.
And she heard him say as they passed her,
"You're the prettiest girl in town!"
Oakland Echoes.
HOW GUNPOWDER IS MADE.
The Fart That Each of the Three la
Credlents In the Explosive Plays.
Gunpowder has steadily developed as
mechanical skill constructed better and
better -weapons in which to use it, un
nntil today it has reached a perfection
of manufacture for Tarious purposes
which allows its effects to be foretold
in any weapon, even to the time it takes
a grain to burn and to tho distance it
will drive a shot.
Roger Bacon's gunpowder was made
of saltpeter, sulphur and charcoal. Salt
peter is chemically called niter and is a
natural product found bedded in the
earth in different parts of the world,
chiefly in India and China. Sulphur,
too, is found in a natural state in many
volcanic countries, like Sicily, while,
as is well known, charcoal is made from
wood or woody substances by heating
them almost to a burning heat in an
airtight vessel, thus driving off every
thing in them but carbon.
Saltpeter, sulphur and charcoal are
still the only ingredients of the gun
powder in common use, although a new
gunpowder made of different materials
is undergoing successful experiment A
mixture of saltpeter and charcoal alone
would form an explosive, and sulphur
is added chiefly to make it plastic or
capable of being pressed into cakes and
shapes. All three ingredients have to be
purified by the most careful chemical
skill before they are combined. Then
an exact proportion of each has to be
measured out according to tho kind of
powder to be made.
For tho gunpowder generally used you
would find in every 100 pounds, if you
could separate the ingredients, 75
pounds of saltpeter, 15 pounds of char
coal and 10 pounds of sulphur, but it
would be almost impossible to separate
the ingredients, for they are not merely
mixed together as you might mix pep
per and salt, but they arc ground and
rolled and stirred and pressed together
by special machines until they are al
most sufficiently united to form a sin
gle new substance.
This mixing process is called tritu
ration, and tho powder is thus made
into the form of big flat cakes, called
press cakes, and then broken up and (
screened into grains of special sizes, or ,
ground to the fine powder used for shot
guns and revolvers. The large grained
powders are still further stirred together
until the grains become highly glazed,
and these arc called cannon powders. A
lighted match may bo held to a grain of ,
cannon powder and it will bo found al
most impossible to set it on fire, but
once ignited it flashes off very suddenly
and violently. Lieutenant John M.
Ellicott in St. Nicholas.
Tho Swiss Army.
The Swiss army is completo in every
detail, it is said, the medical, veter
inary and commissariat departments be-
. 4 1. .-..H nl.l . wnn.v i A.a.l -l.Ir. i.,
spite of the lace that tiie average cost or
a soldier is only 7 a year. The first
line forces number an effective total of
137,640 men; in the landwehr thcro
are j30, COO more, and in the landsturm
370,000. Besides, owing to the encour
agement given by tho state to such in
stitutions as the Socictes de Tir, nearly
every man in the country knows how to
handle a rifle and is more or less of a
soldier. Switzerland could at the short
est notice put into the field and main
tain an army of 150, 000 men at least,
properly found and equipped. When the
Swiss soldier crosses the threshold of
his house, he may be said to be in full
marching order, for he keeps his entire
kit, rifle knapsack and cloak in his
home, and every man takes an honest
pride in having each article in good
condition. Pall Mall Gazette.
HlfZ Prices Paid by Magarlnes.
Fabulous prices are sometimes paid
for the sensational features in the mag
azines. A writer who claims to speak
with full knowledge of the facts claims
the Century company paid 50,000 for
its "Life of Lincoln," $18,000 for the
serial rights to Mrs. Humphry Ward's
novel, "Sir George Trcssaday;" from
$250 on up to $750 for Kipling's verses,
according to size. Charles Scribner's
Sous paid J. M. Barrie 25,000 for the
serial rights to "Sentimental Tommje j"
Robert Louis Stevenson received $7,000
for one of the serials he sold to the Mp
Clure syndicate. Other and equally ret
niarkable prices are not lacking. Sue?
cess in literature nowadays means money
just as certainly as does success in other
pursuits. It's all in the name' and the
fame. Family Call.
Cruel.
Miss Antique How sad the thought;
that in a hundred years all wo know
will be gone!
Miss Pert Console yourself! You
will have a chanco to make now flc
quaintauces. -Detroit Free Press,
Whenever the invention admits of a
model, the inventor is required to fur
nish it, of a convenient size, to show
properly and to the best advantage tho
working of the device.
The oldest son of a marquis takes
precedence over the younger son of a
r.uke.
If oil is spilled upon a carpet, imme
diately scatter corumeal over it and the
oil will be absorbed. Oil that has soak
ed into a carpet may be taken out by
laying a thick piece of blotting paper
over it and pressing with a hot flatiron.
Repeat the operation, using -a fresh
piece of paper each time.
Candling eggs is tho one infallible
way to test them. This is done in a
dark room with a candle, gas or electric
light When the egg is held close to the
light, if fresh it will appear a pinkish
yellow, and if otherwise it will be dot
ted, with oiwgue spots or be entirely dark,
BURIAL OF POPE PIUS IX.
The Bedy Walled Up la a Temporary
Tomb Uatil It la Pat la the Crypt.
Few saw the scene which followed
when the good pope's body had lain
four days in. state and was then placed
in its coffin at night, to be hoisted high
and swung noiselessly into the tempo
rary tomb above the small door on the
east side that is, to the left of the
Chapel of the Choir. It was for a long
time the custom that each pope should
lie there until his successor died, when
his body was removed to the monument
prepared for it in the meantime, and
the pope just dead was laid in the same
place.
The church was almost dark, and
only in the Chapel of the Choir and that
of the Holy Sacrament, which are op
posite each other, a number of big wax
candles shed a yellow light. In the
niche over the door a mason was still at
work, with a tallow dip, clearly visible
from below. The triple coffins stood be
fore the altar in the Chapel of the Choir.
Opposite, where the body still lay, the
Noble guards and the Swiss guards, in
their breastplates, kept watch with
drawn swords and halberds.
The Noble guards carried the bier on
their shoulders in solemn procession,
with chanting choir, robed bishops and
tramping soldiers, round by the Confes
sion and across the church and lifted
the body into the coffin. The pope had
been very much beloved by all who were
near him, and more than one gray
haired prelate shed tears of genuine
grief that night.
In tho coffin, in accordance with an
ancient custom, a bag was placed con
taining 98 medals, one of gold, one of
silver and one of bronze for each of the
81 years during which Pope Pius had
reigned, and a history of the pontifi
cate, written on parchment, was also
deposited at the feet of the body.
When the leaden coffin was soldered,
six seals were placed upon it, five by
cardinals undone by the archivist of the
Chapter of St. Peter's. During the
whole ceremony the prothonotary apos
tolic, the chancellor of tho apostolic
chamber and the notary of the Chapter
of St. Peter's wero busy, pen in hand,
writing down the detailed protocol of
the proceedings.
The last absolution was pronounced,
and the coffin in its outer case of elm
was slowly moved out and raised in
slings and gently swung into tha niche.
The masons bricked up the opening in
tho presence of cardinals and guards,
and long before midnight the marble
slab, carved to represent the side of a
sarcophagus, was in it3 place with its
simple inscription, "Pius IX, P. M. "
Marion Crawford in Century.
TURNER, THE ARTIST.
Seme Unflattering: Pen Portraits of the
Great Master of landscape.
On the whole, the portraits of Turner
in after life cannot be said to be satis
factory or convincing. Turner's was
doubtless a baffling face, full of charac
ter, which was difficult to seize without
caricaturr, showing little of the fine
spirit and poetical feeling which were
displayed in his works and becoming
coarser and redder as he advanced in
life a faco that rejected all attempts
at idealization, at least in the hands of
those who tried.
None of tho written descriptions of
him is very attractive: "A red Jewish
face, with staring bluish gray eyes, tip
smallest and dirtiest hands on record;
his complexion was very coarse on--wexither
beaten; his cuticle that of a
stagecoachmau or an old man-of-war's
boatswain" this, according to Thorn
bury, was the impression he made on
"less enthusiastic friends." "Turner
had fine, intelligent eyes, dark blue or
mazarine," said Mr. Trimmer, his old
friend; "but, as it is said of Swift's,
they were heavy rather than animat
ed." Leslie writes: "There was, in
fact, nothing elegant in his appearance
full of elegance ::s he was in art. He
might have been taken for the captain
of a river steamer at first sight, but a
second would find far more in his face
than belongs to any ordinary mind."
Unfortunately no artist has recorded
that "second" sight Mr. Watts, if he
had tried, might havo done sc. but who
else? Ccsuio Moukhouse in Scribner's.
Where Was He?
The Forfarshire lairds of a remote
day were wont to go weekly to great
Dundee, not so great then, to dine early,
but too well, and ride away home, not
in every case very fit for the saddle.
The road ran eastward for some miles
on a height above the Tay, a steep
grassy slope down to the Firth. One of
the old gentlemen (they were gentle
men) rolled c his horse and rolled
away down the declivity. The-water at
tho edge was only a few inches deep at
that season of the tide, and there he
lay. By and by some one remarked
that the laird's saddle was empty,
though his horse was trotting on with
the others. So the party turned back,
looking for the missing man, and ex
claiming: "Faar are ye, Baluawiggin?
Faar are ye?" At length a voice was
heard, coming from far below. "Tho
Lord knows faar I am. But I canna be
in hell, for here's water!" Longmaii's
Magazine.
An Example.
"You will kindly give us an example
cf the general law of averages, Mr.
Peabody," said the professor of mathe
matics, after his lecture on the doctrine
of chances.
' Cm why there's the speed of the
telegraph, and the lack cf it in the ines?
senger who delivers it," said Peabody,
in a vague, hesitating way. Cincinnati
Enquirer.
Beady to So It.
Jiuison What's this I hear about in
subordination in your class at college?
Young Jimson Nothing at all in it,
Jimson But the president writes me
that yoi refused to obey your professor.
Young Jimson Bosh ! He asked ug
to decline the verb to work, and we all
declined. Philadelphia North Ameri
can. The Jadlclal Dlcttassxy.
The Century, Standard, International
and Encyclopedic dictionaries are stead
ily falling behind tho courts. One re
cent decision establishes that when a
man is hanged by a mob it is an. "acci
dent " A child whose parents are liv
ing has also been declared by an emi
nent jndgc to bo an "orphan," and
when life insurance was taken by a man
while unmarried it was judicially de
clared to have been "effected by a hus
band." In addition to these an unmar
ried woman has been declared by our
highest court to be a "single man.";
BABY INCUBATORS.
A PHYSICIAN TELLS OF THE CON
STRUCTION AND OPERATION.
The Apparr.tca Is Very Simple and Inex
pensive, bnt Attendance Is Costly In
Addition to Saving a IJfc, Each Incuba
tion Contributes Useful Knowledge.
In sharp contrast to the lavish reck
lessness with which noble, splendid
lives are often sacrificed to somo futile,
ignoble cause, is the infinite vigilance
and care, the ingenuity and skill that
are sometimes expended upon preserving
and fanning into flame a little spark
that has hardly attained tho dignity of
being called a life.
Doubtless most are familiar with the
metal receptacle 4 by 2, standing on
four legs about waist high, with a small
water pipe and heating apparatus on
one side and a cold air pipe and addi
tional apparatus on the other known as
the infant incubator. But perhaps few
realize the patient skilled watching and
the consequent expense necessary to the
bringing forward of the little inmate,
until it shall be able to take its place in
the world as a real "live and kicking"
baby.
At tho first appearance upon life's
stage of this speck of humanity "scarce
half made up," it is swathed in a bun
dle of absorbent cotton and laid in its
little nest, with nothing to distract its
attention but a perfectly accurate ther?
mometer, to which it, however, seems
wholly indifferent. The glass lid is then
almost closed. Experience has taught
the physicians that it is better to leave
it open a little space. A trained nurse
at puce takes her place by tho side of
this unique object and keeps constant
guard over temperature, conditions of
air, etc, Absolute quiet and a subdued
Jight are. among tho requirements. The
temperature may range from 00 to 08
degrees. In cases of low vitality it is
kept at 03, and with tho most robust is
never allowed to go below 90 degrees.
Then every hour the little charge must
bo fed. This is sometimes accomplished
by means of a dropper, but more often
a little rubber tube is passed through
the mouth tud esophagus into the stom-r
ach, and into this tube is slowly poured,
a dram, about a teaspconful, of pre?
pared foo3. Thus in the 24 hours about
three ounces of food are absorbeeL This
food is made after a formula arranged
by a most expert chemist and changes
from day to day according to the devel
opment of the baby.
Every 86 houra the little gown of ab
sorbent cotton is exchanged for a per
fectly fresh ono of the same material.
The food and clothing of this embryo
personage are not, therefore, great bills
of expense, bnt its lodgings, its physi
cian and nurses make up a pretty sum
for its indulgent parents.
It will easily be seen that the only
requirements for raising a baby in an
incubator are a perfectly even, high
temperature, pure air and a food tho
nearest approach possible to its natural
food. But simple as this sounds it has
taxed every resource of the best engi
neering and sanitary authorities, tho
finest bacteriologists and chemists in
the country to arrive at the present
state of advancement. An incubator as
it is now perfected costs about $200. A
few firms h;:ve them to rent, and a3 tho
demand for them is naturally small one
may bo rented at any time.
Dr. Rotch, who is responsible for
many of the recent improvements of tho
incubator, has been very successful in
its use. He insists upon having always
two trained nurses, so that no moment
may there be the risk of a change in
conditions which might turn the scale
the wrong way. This of itself means
50 a week, and the time of incubation
is usually from two months to ten
weeks. But the baby so saved comes in
time to be quite the equal of his fellows
who followed the good, old fashioned
ways.
Hospitals cannot boast as great suc
cess from their experience with incu
bators, although several include one
among their appliances. In the first
place it is often a case where tho tiny
Mohammed must go to the mountain,
and it is almost impossible to accomplish
this without some little exposure. Then
in most cases the child has not only
premature birth to struggle with, but
the worst factor of having come from ill
conditioned, badly nourished and often
intemperate parents. Besides, no nurse
in a hospital, no score of nurses, can so
arrange that one shall always have an
eye on the thermometer; and the 50 or
more full blown babies will not upon
demand refrain their voices from weep
ing out of consideration for the sensi
tiveness of their delicate little comrade.
The hospital people are sometimes
asked why they make so great an effort
to save the lives of these poor little
creature.5 who, at the best, must enter
the race of life fearfully handicapped.
Their argument, of course, is that the
tiniest life in embryo has a right to its
chance ; but their interest is doubtless
largely scientific Physicians from
Maine tp California, frpm the St. Law
rence tp the gulf, are cpnstantly looking
to these hospitals for the latest and best
results of their researches and experi
ments, and by studying the treatment
and watching the development of cases
here, the incubating process included,
they may be able to save many a life
nearer home. Besides, who can foretell
whether the tiny atom may not turn out
a Lincoln or a "Wagner as well as a com
monplace Smith or Jones? M. D. in
Chicago Record.
Exhausted.
"Si Hubbard told me that he got a
heap of work out of you when you was
wcrkiu fer him, " said the farmer.
""Waal, I allow he did," said the
hired man.
"Yaas. Fact is, I guess he jist about
got it all." Indianapolis Journal.
A greater number of men than of
women become stout late in life. No
satisfactory explanation of this fact is
offered.
MECCA CATARRH REMEDY.
For colds in the head and treatment
of catarrhal troubles this preparation
has afforded prompt relief; with its con
tinued use the most stubborn cases of
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
cts. Prepared by The Foster Mfg. Co
Council Bluffs, Iowa. For sale l.y A. F
Streitz.
TALLYING PINEAPPLES.
Quick Work Done In Handling: the Fruit
on tbo New York Wharf.
The pineapple season lasts from about
March 1 to about Aug. 1. New York
gets pineapples from the Florida keys,
from the "West Indies and from the Ba
hamas. Some- come in steamers, somo
in sailing vessels. Pineapples from Ha
vana by ste'amer arc brought in barrels
and crates. Pineapples brought in sail
ing vessels are brought mostly in bulk
not thrown in loosely, however, but
snugly stowed, so that as many as pos
sible may be got into a vessel.
On tho wharfs here pineapples
brought in bulk are handled with great
celerity. Men in tho hold of the vessel
fill bushel baskets with them and hand
the baskets up on deck, where they are
passed along and set up on the string
piece of tho wharf. The trucks in which
they are to be carted away are backed
down handy. A box of suitable height,
and which is as long as tho trnck is
wide, is placed at the end of the truck.
A man standing near on tho wharf lifts
the baskets from tho striugpiece and
sets thein up on this box. Two men
stand at the box, each with a basket of
pineapples in front of him, to count the
pines and throw them into the truck,
which has racks at the sides ; lengths of
board are placed across the end as the
load rises. Two men stand in the truck
to level the fruit as it comes to them.
The two counters are experts, and they
work with great rapidity and steadiness,
keeping pineapples going all the time.
Each man picks up two pineapples at a
time, one with each hand, and gives
them a toss into the truck, both men
counting as they go along, ono after- an
other, 4 onc, " " two, ' ' "three, ' ' ' 'four, ' '
"five," and so on up, each count mean
ing two pineapples. When they strike
"pne hundred," the tallyman makes a
straight chalk mark on the end of the
truck that stand3 for 200 pineapples.
While he is making tho chalk mark tho
other counter keeps right on, and he may
have got up to "two" or "three" again,
for it takes a second or two tQ make the
chalk mark, but by that timo the tally
man is at it again chiming in with
"four," and away they go together
again, counting up rapidly toward an
other hundred. If a man on the load
finds a specked pine, he drops it over
the side of the truck into a basket that
stands there, and says: "One out, " Tho
tallyman tosses in one without count
ing, to keep the count gecd.
As fast as tho counters empty the
baskets they push them off the box, and
the man at the stiingpieccsetsup a full
one in its place and the counters keep
the pineapples going without cessation.
At tho fifth hundred the tallyman makes
n mark diagonally across tho four he
has already made, in the commonly
used method pf tallying freight; but
these five marks hero stand for 1,000
pineapples. On a double truck thero arc
usually carried from 4,500 to 5,500
pineapples; on a single truck, from
2,000 to 8,500. New York Sun.
LAUGHTER.
Has It Evolutcd From tho Brutal Yell
Over a Tortured Encni7?
Just as tho heef cf tho horse is the
remnant of an original five toes, just as
the pineal gland in man is now said to
be the survival of a prehistoric eye cu
tho top of tho head, so, perhaps, this
levity in regard lo particular ailments
(in others) may be tho descendant of an
aboriginal ferccity in man. It is well
known theory that what wo call humor
arose from the same source ; that the
first human laugh that ever woke the
astonished echoes of gloomy primeval
forests was not an expression of mirth,
but exultation over tho misery of a
tortured enemy.
There is to this day something ter
rible in laughter. The laugh of madness
or of cruelty is u sound more awful than
that of the bitterest lamentations.
By means of that strange phonograph
that we call literaturp wo 'can listen
even now to the laughter of tho dead,
to the hearty guffaws or cynical titter
ings of generation after generation of
bygouo men and women, and if vro are
curious in such matters wo can proba
into the nature cf the changes that have
passed over the fashion of men's humor.
For it has been said, not without the
support of weighty cumulative evidence,
that, as wo penetrate further into the
past, we find the sense of -humor de
pending always more obviously and
solely upon the enjoyment of the pain,
misfortune, mortification or embarrass
ment of others. The cusc of superiority
was the sense of humor in our ancestors;
or, in other words, vanity lay at the
root cf this, as cf most other attributes
of our bumptious species!
Putting ear to our phonograph, we
catch the echoes of a strange and. merry
tumult; boisterous, cruel, often brutal,
yet with here and there a tender cadence
from some solitary voice ; and presently
this lonely note grow3 stronger and
sweeter, as we travel slowly toward our
time, until at length, through all the
merriment, wo can hear the soft under
murmur of pity. Does tho picture not
seize the imagination tho long laughter
of tho ages which begins in cruelty and
ends in love? Westminster Review.
Farseeing Scotchwoman,
It would probably take many genera
tions of undesired and undesirable ad
versity to train Americans into the far
seeing thriftiness of the Scotch. An il
lustration of this thrift is contained in
the story of a Scotchwoman who had
been promised a present of a new bon
net by a lady. Before she made tho
purchase, the lady called and asked tho
good woman ;
"Would you rather have a felt or a
straw licnuet, Mrs. Wilson?"
"Weel,"said Mrs. Wilson, "I think
I'll tak' a strae ane. It'll maybe bo a
mouthfu' to the coo when I'm done wi'
it!" Youth's Companion.
An Old Hand.
Boh How much is it customary to
vo the minister when he marries you?
Ben Oh, I generally give him $10.
Yonkery Statesman.
A good story is told of the late Baron
Hirsch. A charming young girl, w,ell
known in London society, married an
equally well known guardsman. Neither
Was overrich. The baron's wedding
gift at tho instigation of the Prince cf
"Wales was a special train to Constan
tinople and back for the honeymoon
and a three weeks' stay at the best hotel
in Constantinople. London Tit-Bits.
The suttee, or burning of widows on
the funeral pyres of their husbands,
was inculcated in India as a religious
duty.
ON THE BRIDGE;
Perfection lies
In swerti cart's eyes;
Her f becks would shame a roso.
1 love her hsir,
But 1 can't bexr
The bridja on sweetheart's ncse.
It indicates
Her noblo traits.
And strength of purpose shows.
Bat rivals scorn
And others mourn
The bridge on sweetheart's nose.
If I should feign
A deep disdain
For her, do you supposo
That tears of hate
Would devastate
The bridge on sweetheart's nose?
I think instead
(Yon seo I dread
To add to sweotheart's woes)
111 venturo this:
I'll fondly kiss
Tho bridge on sweetheart's ncse
And warmly praise
Her gracious ways
And beast my scorn for those
Who worship not
That beauty spot
Tho bridge on sweetheart's nose.
New York Hett
'id.
JKE LOST VAS FOUND.
Thc.Hdiso Somber Looked Strange Ee
cause tac xransom was Tipped.
If any one had told him he was druuk,
ho would not have resented it, but
would have made an effort to maintain
his equilibrium and dignity long enough
to explain that ho was only a little
pozy wcozy. He realized that he lived
at 200 Irviugton street, and that his
residence was on the right hand sido as
he wabbled along homeward. The un
certain light of early dawn, combined
with tho blear in his eyes, rendered it
necessary for him to step in front of
every hcuso and gravely brace himself
against the railings until he could focus
his eyesight on the number.
Finally he identified his house, but
after arguing with himself for a couple
of minutes he came to the conclusion
that ho was just woozy enough to make
mistakes possible, so to be absolutely
certain he balanced himself against the
front fence and studied the number on
tho transom. Instead of 20Ghe saw 509
Ho rubbed hi3 eyes and locked again,
but the number had not changed. It
was still 500. Then ho wondered how
it happened that he had got on the
wrong side cf tho street and three
blocks too far out, made n zigzag across
tho street and started back, but before
ho had walked thrco blocks ho came to
the end of the street.
The weary pilgrim was bewildered.
He couldn't understand it, but getting
his directions shaped his course up the
street on the right side and kept on un
til he came to 509 again. He studied it
from every possible point of view, oven
trying to stand cu his head to read it,
but it perversely remained 5C1).
Utterly bewildered, he sat down on
tho steps and waited till a policeman
came along.
"I'm losht," he explained. "I want
er go ter 20G Irviugton street."
"This is the place, right here," de
clared tho officer.
"Can't be. Thish is 509."
"No, it ain't. It's 20G, but the tran
som is turned over. "
The lost was found. San Francisco
Post.
The Glacier of tho" Dead Plain.
The finest scenery in this part of our
journey, at tho west end of the famous
Bernese cbcrland, was that of tho gla
cier of the great Dead plain. Wo did
not see it until wo were on its edgo and
the white expanse spread before us. It
fills a kind of elliptical hollow, somo
two miles long by a mile wide. Once
on its smooth, largo surface the external
world is shut out by a ring of low
mountain wall. Not a trace of human
activity can be seen in any direction.
The largeness, simplicity and seclusion
of this strange sncwfield make it unique.
We traversed its longest diameter. The
snow fortunately remained hard
throughout the hour of our passage,
thanks to a cool breeze and a veiled
sun. The surface was beautifully lip
pled and perfectly clean. "A Thou
sand Miles Through the Alps, " by Sir
W. M. Conway, in Scribner's.
"nulls" Not Irish.
Those who arc not Irishmen some
times trespass on Irish property. A
French cure, preaching about sudden
death, said, "Thus it is with us wo go
to bed well and get up stcne dead!"
An old French lawyer, writing of an
estate he had just bought, added,
"Thero is a chapel upon it in which
my wife and I wish to bo buried, if God
spares our lives."
A merchant who died suddenly left
in his bureau a letter to one of his cor
respondents which he had not sealed.
His clerk, seeing it necessary to send
the letter, wrote at the bottom, "Since
writing the above I have died."
Mr. Henry Roth, of 1848 South 9th
Street, St. Louis, was given the usual
mercurial treatment for contagious
blood poison. He was twice pronounc
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time, he was seized with rheumatic
pains, and red lumps and sores cov
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would soon have been a complete
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S. S. S., (guaranteed purely vegetable)
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Books on the disease and
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by
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ART iN ST. PETER'S.
There Are Vcxr Iictnros or Frescoes In
the Great Cathedral.
Nothing perhaps is more striking as
one becow-cs better acquainted with St.
Peter's than tho constant variety of de
tail. The ast building produces at first
sight an impression of harmony, and
thcro appears to bo a remarkable uni
formity of stylo in all the objects one
sees.
Thero aro no oil paintings to speak of
in the church :md but few frescoes. Tho
great altar pieces are almost exclusively
fine moraic copies cf famous pictures
which are preserved elsewhere. Of these
reproductions the best is generally con
sidered to be that of Guercino's "St.
Pctronilla" at the end of the right aislo
of tho tribune. Desbrosscs praises theso
mosaic altar pieces extravagantly, and
even expresses the cpinicn that they are
probably superior in point of color to
the originals, from which they aro cop
ied. In execution they are certainly
wonderful, and many a stranger looks
at them and passes on believing them
to bo oil paintings.
They passers the quality of being im
perishable and beyond all influence of
climate or dampness, and they aro mas
terpieces of mechanical workmanship.
Bnt many will think them hard and
unsympathetic in outline and decidedly
crude in color. Much wit has been man
ufactured by the critics at the cxpenso
of Guido Beni's "Michael," for in
stance, and as many sharp things could
bo said about a good many other works
of the same kind in the church. Yet,
on the whole, they do not destroy the
general harmony. Big as they are, when
they are seen from a little distance, they
pink into mcro insignificant patches of
color, all but lest in the deep richness
of tho whole. Marion Crawford in
Century.
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nine cases outof ten are caused by ca
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Wo will givo One Hundred Dollars
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Legal Notices.
iXOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
Land Office at North Flntte. Neb., )
June 20th, 1650. J
Notice is hereby given thnt the following-named
settler has filed notice of his intention to iscto
final proof in support of his claim, nnd that said
proof will be made before the Register and Re
ceiver at North I'latte, Nebraska, on July 21th.
I icw, viz:
I RICHAKD S. F1DLEK.
who made Homestead Entry No. 15,(?J8, for the
southwest quartor, section l:$, township 10 aortb,
range 'll west, do names the following witaeeoes
to prove his continuous reidenc upon ami
cultivation of said laud, viz: William A. Latimer,
John F. Brittniu, Pascal N. Latimer ami John 31.
McConnel, nil of Somerset, Neb.
5Wi JOHN F. HEOTAN, Regieter
NOTICE FOU TUBLICATIOX.
Laud Omcs at Nonra Platte, Neb., ?
Juno 6th, l&M. J
Notice Is hereby given that the foltowiBg-named
settlor has filed notice of his intontion to make
final proof in support of his claim, and that raid
iroof will be made beforo the Resistor and Re
ceiver at North Piatte, Nebraska, on July
28th, 189G, viz:
JOIIN S. HINCKLEY,
who made Homestead Entry No. lB.l&Ofor the
Southoast quarter of section !W, town 13 north,
range 'Ji west. He names the following witaesees
to prove his continuous rerideaco upon and ealti
vation of said land, vis: George L. McLaughlin.
Ellery A. Crobey, Charles W. Burklund and
Charles T. Richards, all of Satherlund, Neb.
1G JOHN F. HIN1TAN, Register.
LEGAL NOTICE.
To Robert D. Kneeshaw, and Ora L. Kneeshaws
Yon and each of you will take notice that P.ufss
Walnwrighr. as plaintiff, did on the 21st day ef
May, 181M3, file his petition in the district court af
Lincoln county, Nebraska, against Robert D. Knee
thaw and Ora L. Kneeshaw, et al. as defendants,
the object and prayer of which is to foreclose a
certain mortgage executed by tho said Rbert D
Kneeshaw and Ora L. Kneeshaw to the American
Loan k Trust Company, a corporation, upon the
southeast quarter of section numbered eighteen
(18), in township numbered thirteen (12) north, of
range numbered thirty-two (32) west of the sixth
principal moridian in Lincoln county, Nebraska,
executed to secure the payment of a certain p -ia-cipal
promissory note dated the bih day of Atgat,
188U, for the sum of Five Hundred Dollars with ia
cerest due and payable on the first day of Augsst,
1834, which note and mortgage wero afterwards
assigned and delivered to said plaintiff who m now
tho owner thereof. There Is now due upon said
note and mortgage the snm of Five Hundred Dol-
1 lars with interest at the rate of seven per coat per
annum irom uio nrsi aay or ieomary, ISUJ, to the
first day of August, 1SW, and with interest on said
snm of $j0O at the rate of ten per cent per annum
from the first day of August, 1894, until paid, for
which sum with interost and costs of suit, plain lift
prays for a decree that the said defendants may
bo required to pay tho game or that said premises
be sold to satisfy the amount found due said plain
tiff and costs. Ton are required to answer this
petition on or before the ifHh day of Jaly,A.P.la06.
Dated this 9th day of June, A. D. 1S05.
JOHN IS. CALVIN,
43-1 Attorney for Plaintiff.
1" viiwiii io ucu, encu iti.li. tut uuaiu in
XI 111LLUL9 Ul lilt. kJUUUl UUU 111 IgUblVH
District of Lincoln countv. Nebraska, on the
Cthday of July. 160G. iiletl its petition in tbe
district court of Lincoln county. Nebraska,
the object and prayer of which "are to have
the proceedings of said district and said
Board of Directors of said Suburban Irriga.
tion District, organizing said district and
issuing bonds of said district in the amount
of &2G.C00. to be examined bv said distrk-t
court: to have said proceedings declared to
be legal, regular and valid, and that" said
oonds be declared to be a valid lien upon the
lands within the boundaries of sawl Sub
urban Irrigation District, and bv an order,
of said district court made in open court on
the 6th day of July, 1896. that being one of
days of the adjourned March. term .af
said court, said petition vill be heard and
decided on Monday, the 3J day of August.
18. at 9 o'clock a. m. or a.- soon thereafter
as it can be heard, and all or any persons in
terested in any of the lands embraced in
said district, in the organization of said dis
trict or in the proceedings for the issuance
and sale of said bonds may on or before the
date tixed for the hearing of said petition,
viz: Monday. the3d dav of August 1SSMJ. at .
9 o'clock in the forenoon of said day, demur
or answer to said petition.
Witness my hand and oflicial seal 'this 9th
day of Julv. 1890.
Iseai. " W. a ELDER.
Clerk of the District Court of
553 Lincoln Countv, Neb.
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ll Sulky Plows ll
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II JOS. HERSHEY,