m PLATE- I&IIBER.
SHAVED A DEAD MOONSHINER, AND
THERE WAS NO " NEXT."
The Job TeBderett. Tilth Sbsc Krapliasls,
"by Friends of the Deceased TIic Trav
eling Man Accepted, bat Sot Sells
'Over Another Route.
"It was in Tennessee," said tb trav
eling man, "it happened, ou one of
those back conn try roads which I -was
traveling on ray -way to a town where I
had a-fine list of customers. The night
was closing in, and I was wondering
how long it would take rae to reach a
plaGe where I coald spend the night. I
knew that I was among the moonshin
ers, for the jng on a stump with the
money under it wis in evidence along
the road. I had no thought cf being
molested in that country, where the
only warfare is against the revenue
officers, aud no one would have suspect
ed me of complicity with the govern
ment. "A slight noise startled my horse,
and I leaned out of the buggy to lock
into the chamber of a revolver. At the
same time I saw two figures, one on
each side of me, and, checking my
horse, I tried to assume a bravado I
was far from feeling as I asked:
" Well, gentlemen, what is your will
with me2'
14 You can imagine my surprise when
a boyish voice asked?
" 'Kin you shave yourself?'
"I answered that I always shaved
myself. Without lowering his revolver
he looked across me to his pal on the
other side.
"He uns will do, Jim. Hop in an
I'll lead the horse.'
"Having made up my mind not to be
dragged off in any such ignominious
manner, I said:
" 'If yon are going to shoot me. 1
suppose I ranst give up my life, as I am
unarmed. If it is money you want, I"
'"Tell him, Jim.' said the one who
was leading my horse.
" Yer won't be killed nor robbed nor
nothin, if yer don't try ter give us the
slip. Shet your mouth now, mister, an
youl know more right soon.
"We must have gone a mile before
we came to a turn in the road that
brought us ont in front of a cabin much
larger than any I had seen that day in
my travel. A woman stood at the doer
crying.
" Hev yer foun somebody, boys?' she
asked anxiously.
" Yep, niorrn. an hellflo the job up
slick 'thont askiu much pay. '
"I wondered if I was to be compelled
to murdrr some one. The boys were
beardless mountain loafers I had met
their type often, but I never knew them
to be desperadoes.
"I was shewu into the cabin by the
woman, one of the boys following with
the revolver, while the other waited to
fasten the horse to a scrub cak. I saw a
figure stretched ou a settle, and the idea
flashed into rcy miud that I was mis
taken for a doctor.
' I am uot a medical man," I began
to explain, when the woman cut me
short.
"'You cus 'ud a been tew late ef
you uus was a doctor. He passed outen
afore dayHcbt, an it's Tuothcr kind of
job we warner hev done. Yer see, we
uns is a goin tew hev the biggest fau'rel
evafi was in these yeah pahts, an we
wauter hev the ole man shaved fob. the
fust time, an there ain't a man no
where aroun as shaves hisself or euuy
body else.
"The revulsion of feeliug which came
over me was uot altogether pleasurable,
for I did not fancy the idea of playing
barber to a d?ad man, but when Hooked
at the cadevrroas countenance and
tangled gray beard of the deceased I felt
n sort of prrfessioual pride in making
him look mere like a mortal being and
less like a wolf. I had always been an
abstainer from strong drink, bctJ filled
up on crude spirits that would have
killed me on an ordinary occasion and
tackled my silent curomer with a fe
verish aud bysteriral skxrity This was
in part due to the close proximity of
the two boys and their revolvers. But
as soon as I had the old mountaineer
shaved the revolvers were laid aside and
I was treated with the utmost hospi
tality. The work itsoif had net been
half as gruesome as I bad imagined,
and I had to fight a ludicrous tempta
tion to pour barber talk into the deaf
ears. He was such an improvement over
himself when alive as I jndged by the
family lingo that I wanted to ask him
to look in a mirror 1 declined the fee
tendered me by the boy Jim, and, sup
plied with a jug of moonshine whisky,
I was set in the right road and per
mitted to leave-
"I found it true that in all that com
munity not a man had ever been shaved,
and it was only in deference to a whin
of the old mountaineer, expressed on
his deathbed, that he was made such a
curious exception. I did not mention
my part in the transaction uutil I was
far beyond that county line, for I was
uot sure that, a precedent being set,
they might uot again demand my serv
ices, and another salesman has that
route. " Ch cago Times-Herald.
'fe-tbe earliest code of British laws,
pow extant namely, that of Hoel Dba,
n famous king of pambria (the present
Wijles), who djcfi aboup the year Q5Q
A. D. wp find q canpn enacting in
plain and unmistakable terms that any
married woman, whose husband, was
pfiiicted with Jepxosy was entitled not
ouly to separation, bat also to the resti
tution of her gocdi
Victoria Abaadeas the Postilion.
Queen victoria now announces her
intention to abandon the practice of
postilion driving altogether, a pictur
esque custom which will be regretted
greatlv She is becoming more ,and
more nervous with increasing age, and
save on ceremonial occasions of late has
insisted on her carriage being drawn by
a pair of horses driven from the box by
her coachman, Harvey, who now, for
the first time, has a fcotmau seated by
his side Tbe queen is of the opinion
that tbe carriage is under better con
trol when driven, from a box. Besides
it is far easier for her majesty to com
miinicate her pf&ers fo "bun than fp tne
ppstilipns., who" can be reached only by
pausing que of the equerries canferinc
beside her carriage wheel to gallop fof-
gard abfpast of he leaders. This, of
course, entails loss of time, which
sometimes is inconvenient and ccca,-
gicnally is even - dangerous. Chicago
Record.
FROM FOREIGN LANDS
late resting Topics Tbat Ecium tbe At
tention of Earope.
So sensational have been tbe accounts
published by the Parisian press con
cerning the Turin-Orleans duel that tbe
11 and 12 -year-old sens of two socially
prominent Parisians were moved there
by to do a little dueling on t:eir own
account. Having sccurd possession of a
couple of dueling rapiers, owned by tbe
father of one of them, they fell to fight
ing one another with quite as much
vigor as the two princes, although they
had no quarrel and were solely possessed
by a desire to win fame and notoriety
in the same manner as their seniors.
The conflict terminated far more se
riously than tbe ridiculous Turin-Orleans
duel, for, whereas Prince Henri
has already entirely recovered from his
slight wound, one of the boys was run
through tbe shoulder, while his own
rapier pierced his adversary's eye, de
stroying its sight and narrowly avoid
ing penetration of the brain.
The Dannbe, like the Thames in
Encland and the Hudson here in New
York, is to have a tunnel beneath its 1
bed. The Hungarian government has I
just completed the- necessary arrange
ments for the construction without de
lay or a subway beneath the river at
Budapest on the same principle as that
of the new Blackwall tunnel under the
Thames in London. There is to be a
footpath for passengers and an electric
railroad. The upper way will be re
served exclusively for vehicular traffic,
and ventilation i3 to be provided by
electricity.
Dr. JLeyds, tbe Transvaal secretary of
state, is now on his way back to Pre
toria, his mission to Europe, avowedly
undertaken with the object of securing
the support of the continental powers
in the efforts of tbe Boers to rid them
selves of the suzerainty of Great Britain,
having been a failure all along tbe
line. Financial considerations are all
important at Paris, and to this must be
attributed the fact that the doctor met
with so little encouragement from the
French government. The economic in
terests of France are almost identical
with those of England in the Transvaal,
where both nations suffer from the
treatment accorded by the Boers to for
eigners. In Germany and at St. Peters
burg Dr. Leyds was received with
plenty of pleasant speeches, but could
get no assurances of support that were
of any practical value. Accordingly be
betook himself to London, where, after
some preliminaries, he became tbe hon
ored guest of Colonial Secretary Cham
berlain, and he has now returned to the
Transvaal a sadder and a wiser man.
Enthusiasts of Wagnerian music will
be interested to learn that a Richard
-1
Wagner museum has just been opened
at Eisenach. Among tbe treasures con
tained therein are the original mann
Eeript gcore of "Rienzi" and of other of
the great compeser's operas, as well as
the decree of arrest issued against him
by the Saxon government as a politi
cally dangerous individual" and a
"revolutionist" in 1840, when he was
conductor of one of thg leading orches
tras at Dresden.
To what pn extent the soi-disant
Count LeontielT, who served as Prince
Heuri'sJ second in the Turin-Orleans
duel the other day, is looked upon as
an adventurer by the czar's government
is shown by tho fact that in spite of the
services which he hes undeniably ren
dered to the Muscovite cause in Abys
sinia is is not he, but Colonel YlaFsoff,
now consul general at ileshed, in Per
gia, who has just been gazetted as Rus
sian minister to the court Qf the Negus.
The colonel is to tako up his place
there in October.
Not cniy the municipality of Berlin,
but also the faculty of the university of
tbe metropolis, lias from time im
memorial displayed a tendency to re
gent the disposition to despotism and
arbitrariness which is so characteristic
of the reigning house of Prussia. It is
therefore in keeping with it3 traditions
that the Berlin university has just
elected as its rector for tbe coming
academical year Ptqfessor Sehmoller,
who has recently incurred the wrath of
Emperor William by the socialistic
leanings which he displayed in his lec
tures while occupying the cbair of po
litical economy.
It is net titcu that the principal law
officer cf a pevrnr-jent, while acknowl
edging the i x truce of a statute, pub
licly and cflicinHy declares in parlia
ment tbat he dees pot propose to take
any steps tj micrce it. Yet this is pre
cisely whar the ji:truey general of Eng
land has done In response to a ques
tion evoked by tbe increasing number
of Bomrat Catholic ecclesiastical pro
cessions tbreugh public streets and thor
oughfares be admitted that they were
expressly frrbiddeu by law, but added
tbat he had ju-t as little intention of
taking any steps to enforce tbe statute
as he had cf enforcing the act of 1851
against the assuu.ptiou' of the names of
English cities, towns and places as
titles for Romsu Catholic bishops.
Whep parliament nieet? afam in
England, 5ttenton is fq he drawn to
the unprcpedf r-jpR manner in which pri
vate telegrams jiave been seized, apej
made public during he rcceufc South
African fnveetigaop Westminster.
There was ninch prctes? raised in
parliament years agQ when Mazzini's
porrespondencp was opened and exam
ined by the authorities that it seems
strange that sq many weeks f bpnld. have
been allowed tq elapse before anything
was heard about the violation by the
government of private telegmphic cor
respondence. In England tbe tejegxqphs
belong to the state and are under the
control of the postoffice, which is just
as much bound to observe the sanctity
of correspondence by wire intrusted to
its charge for transmission as corre
spondence by letter. New Terk Trib
une. A Sure Tliin for You.
A transaction in which you cannot lose
is a sure thing. Biliousness, sick head
ache, furred, tongue, fever, pjles and a,
tbqQsan other nis are caused by con
stipation and sluggish liver. Cascareta
Candy C$$h.artcI tie onqerful new
I jver stamulant and intestinal tpnic are,
by all druggists guaranteed, to ou re of
monpy refunded, C. C C. are a sure
thing. Try a box to-day; 10c, 25c 50c.
Sample and booklet free . -
THE NEWSBOY'S DREAM.
It TTas His Idea of "What Would Be Ab
Bolatelj- Ideal Condition.
The American newsboy can almost
be said to have created a genus for him
self. If he has any, he has certainly
created it, for of all the inhabitants of
this planet there is none who is so abso
lutely independent, so thoroughly con
fident of his own exertions. He has a
self importance, derived from his ability
to support or partially support himself,
which places him high above the rank
of the ordinary gamin, and he generally
possesses what is far more important in
any community ready money. He is
the capitalist of our junior civilization,
the Count Esterhazy of newsboys' alley.
He can play craps for money when other
boys are constrained to pursue this de
lectable amusement with only the mild
er if more intellectual pleasure of study
ing tbe finctuatians of fortune, or, at
most, hazarding cigarette pictures.
He may swear a little more than is
necessary, but in general is not half
bad. His train of thought is usually
healthy and vigorous and has a robust
ness born of the outer air in which he
spends so much of his time. Physically
he is agile and almost tireless. While
apparently reckless in most things, he
is, on the whole, careful of his health
he is scarcely ever known to smoke a
whole cigarette at a time. His intellect
is as keen as a razor. He keeps it con
tinually honed on the strop of experi
ence. Everything carries for him a les
son. From the sale of the largest Sun
day paper to that of the most unpreten
tious weekly there is nothing he does
not profit by.
He is a born statist, a self educated
strategist. He has the nice art of going
far enough and yet never overstepping
himself. Ou the eve of such an occasion
he will vociferate, "All about the elec
tion, " but don't ever expect of whom
until you buy the paper. Pleasure and
other things occupy a fair proportion of
his time, but with him tbe distribution
of news is always uppermost. It even
permeates hia Eleeping hours. One of
them was heard to remark between sales
to another a day or so ago, "Say, Jim,
I had de finest dream I ever had las'
night."
" Was it about angels?" inquired Jim.
"Naw," was the contemptuous re
sponse. "I dreampt dat der was a aw
ful smashup, Eix fires, four double rnnr
ders an tree suicides, all in one day."
Chicago Times-Herald.
THE FAMOUS GIN LAW.
How It Was Received aed Evaded by the
English Public,
This famous "gin law," passed in
1 735, is interesting as the earliest se
vere blow at liquor dealing among civ
ilized nations. It levied a tax of 20s. a
gallon on spirits, and a license of 50.
for any one selling or dealing in them.
And, being in advance of public opin
ion, it failed, ranch, as ether more
eiringent prohibition laws have failed
ia our own day. For the cry was at
once raised that ft taxed, the poor man's
gin and let the rich man's wine go
free. Every wit, every caricaturist, had
his fiing at ft. Ballqds were hawked
around felling qf tbe approaching
death of Mother Gin. The liquor sbeps
were hung with black and. celebrated
pproariously JJme. Geneva's lying in
state, her fnueraj, her wake- and so on.
The night before the law went into
effect, so the contemporary journals
Hay, there was a universal revel all
over the country. Every one-drank his
fill and carried home as much gin be
sides as he could pay for.
To evade the law apothecaries sold
it in yials aid. small packages, some
times eolored and disguised, generally
under false label.?, snch as "Coiic
Water," "Make Shift," "Ladies' De
light." There were printed directions
on some of thesa packages--e. g., "Take
tWQ or three spoonfuls three or four
times a day, qr as often as tho fit takes
yon." Informers were very prominent
and exceedingly oEceu5ive, inventing
snares to catch lawbreakers for the sake
of the heavy rewards, and spying ai.d
gneaking around in a way particularly
distasteful to tbe English mind. In con
sequence they snffered iq their turn.
Tl?e me're cry, MLiqnor spy!" wi
enough to raise a mob in the Landou
Streets, and the informer was lucky it
he escaped with a. sound thrashing and
a dncking in tbe Thames or the nearest
horse pond. Indeed, such an outcry was
made about the matter that the minis
try became very unpopular, and the
law was pot enforced, after two or three
years, and "was largely modified in 1743,
after seven years' triql. Popular Sci
ence Monthlt.
A CnriQn and Rare Hook.
The most curions a? well as one of
the rarest books known to collectors is
the edition cf the Vulgate issacd by
Pope Sixtns V, soma time between
1585 and 1590. The book, as Disraeli
describes it, "fairly "swarmed with er
rata." So numerous were they tbat a
number of printed paper slips contain
ing the proper words were pasted over
the bluudors, and this device proving
ineffectual on accoqqt of the immense
number o mistakes, as -many of the
qpies as could," be fouud" were called in
anil destroyed- Qnly a few remain, and
fhe beck withhs paper jir.tch.es com
mands an extremely high price.
AH chalk is composed of fossils If
you take the tiniest bit and place it un.
der a powerful rnicroseqpe, you will see
aq infinite n amber of extrenjely dinjin
ptive shells, aud. uu spectacle ou a large
scale is more beautiful than the varied
forms f these tiny homes of animaT
life, which are disclosed by powerful
glasses.
Waera JMaces Are SacTed.
When a young prince of, Japan wishes
to learn the mysteries of cbirography,
young maidens bring paper, others make
the ink and prepare the paint brush.
The master expresses admiration by
gesture and face, for no words must be
spoken by him to the prince, his mouth
even being bandaged tbat his breath
may not blow nyin the face qf the
prince. The teacher must move about
in the quietest manner "'and give com
mendation only.
How Bead poluiex look.
A British arraj surgeon is authority
for the statement that the cause of death
is clearly shown in the expression of tbe
face of a, corpse qi the field of battle.
He states tbat those who have been
killed by swerd thrusts hare a look cf
repose, while theae killed by buliet
usually have pain of an intense nature
clearly denized.
MISS-MISS &PASEB.
HE CAPTURED THE GRIZZLY JUST IN
THE NICK Or TIME.
Bow the Hudson Bay Tribes Dispose oi
tbe Old ad Indigent Members Xhl5
Old Warrior Soaght Another Reatkaad
Got a 2e?v Iase la Ufc
"There is but one beast that the Indi
ans are really afraid cf," said Egerton
.Young, the Baptist minister who re
cently returned from a long sojourn
among the Hudson bay tribes, where
he was the pioneer missionary. "That
is the grizzly bear, tbe tiger of North
America. Only once have I heard cf a
grizzly being captured alive, and in
that case the feat saved the life of a fa
mous old warrior.
"Among many of the Hudson bay
tribes it is the custom far the ablebcd
ied to put to death tbe old men aud wo
men who are no longer able to do their
Ehare of the work. The old women are
amply knocked on the head without
ceremony. The process of getting rid -of
an old man is more elaborate. The In
dians do not think it well to stain their
hands with the blood of one who was
once a warrior. So they delegate the
task to their hereditary enemies, the
wolves, to which they render all assist
ance in their power.
"When it has been decided al a sol
emn powwow that any particular old
man is to die, instructions are given to
a number of young men to take meas
ures to get rid of him immediately.
Among the executioners are always the
Eons of the condemned man. The day
after sentence has been passed these ex
ecutioners crll on the veteran, attack
him with st. jcs and spears and drive
him into the wilderness. There they
Teave him to his fate. A few days later
they return and collect a few well
gnawed bones, which they bring back
with fitting ceremonies.
"Among all the warricrs belonging
to a tribe with which I mado a long so
journ, none had a more glorious record
than Miss-iliss. But Miss-Miss was get
ting old. His eyes were dim, his hands
were slow, and rarely did he bring
home a fat buck. Furthermore, food
was scarce, and Miss-Miss retained an
excellent appetite- One morning Miss
Miss got orders to be prepared to
receiva the next day a delegation of
young braves led by his two stalwart
sous.
'But Miss-Miss, though he had as
sisted in many such ceremonials in his
day, had uct yet came tocousider him
self old and useless. He was very angry.
Just as Miss-Miss had done reviling the
ingratitude cf tho young a boy rushed
in to say tbat a huge grizzly was feed
ing a short distance from the camp.
Here was the veteran's chance. All the
braves were away at the hunt. Children
and squaws and Miss-Mss were the sole
occupants of the camp. He knew tbat
to face a grizzly single handed war
certain death, but it as the death cf a
man. Sq Miss-Miss armed himself with
his spear and tomahawk and. went forth
to seek the bear.
fHe bad not far to go. Withiu a few
hundred yards of the camp he espied
the largest and leanest bear he had seen
for years, making a scanty meal off
dried roots. Crav.liug up as close as he
could, he hurled his spear- TI?e weapon
struck the bear in the fjauk As he had
calculated, the wound bad no further
effect than to infuriate tbe brute and
turn its attention upon him. Miss-Miss
took bis stand witb his back tq a. tree,
grasped bis litfle tomahawk fifiniy and
PWted death.
"Now, bad it been an ordinary little
black bear the peril of Miss-Miss would
have been smalL A black bear would
have risen on its hjiul legs when it
came tq close quarters, aud leaving its
chest quite unprotected, tried to insert
its paws between the man aud the tree
in order to hug him tQ death. All Miss
Miss would have had to do would have
been tq wait qutil it came within arm's
length and plunge his hunting knife in
to its cheat- One thrust would have
beeq gqfficienf. Bai a grizzly is different-
It strikes with its mighty claws.
Miss-Miss awaited the onset. When the
bear came to close quarters, it rose cn
its hind, legsaqil made a mighty, swerp
ing biPW at his body. Setting his teeth,
Miss-Miss struck at its bead with his
tomahawk. Tbe weapon was dashed
from his grasp ad be was hurled to
the grougd. bt, ?m?ch to hia surprise,
qqiuqrd- Instead of tbe sharp claws
in his side he had felt a mighty buffet
as if from a huge boxing glove. Miss
Miss ecranibled to bis feet The next
glance explained matters. Like himself,
the hear was a veteran. It had lost its
claws loug since. Miss-Miss dodged
round and rcaud his tree aud from one
tree to another. The bear, whose sight
was dim with age, aimed blow after
blow, with no other effect than that of
bruising its paws against the trunks.
The fight went on, and Miss-Miss'
strength was giving way, when through
an opening in the fqres espied the
blaze of the! campgres close at hand,
he bear aw it, too, and with a grunt
p"f disgust and disappointment turned
r'pund and trpitec; ba,?k. into the depths
of thq fares? lesurne its meal.
-'--Miss-Miss hastened back to tbe
camp and called the eldest oi the boys
togetbef. 'Take your lassoes,' he cried,
'and we will capture a grizzly alive.'
So out tbey went. When the party ar
rived within range, Miss-JIiaa whistled.
The bax raised. U bead and the boys
pgst their lassoes. One noose fell over
the brute's neck.
"When the braves returned in tbe
evening, prepared to chase Miss-Miss
into the wilderness, they found a huge,
roaring grizsdy tethered in the middle
of the camp- .No one of the tribe ever
had done such a deed. They concluded
the Great Spirit had willed" that Miss
Miss should live, and Miss-Miss is alive
today and in high honor with tbe
tribe." New York Sun.
Signs of Falltime.
Gittin clost ter fa II time $fwfv? w tie 'way
Ihe triad cocich eryt tag aomjBiy at tht
An the twitchr in. tny j'nits is a most nufail
in 515a "
That they're tenia cji Hps udie fer tbe boys
ter tall is line.
JUtiii closl ter falltime know it ly the tcoj
The smoke v curlin up'ard, ia th mornin s
cool an gray.
You tin a whip a-ersctin crest a clover
field or rwo.
An ycu tUmir o" rides by moonlight -writk. a.
svreetiwart ettat ter yoc
Exittia elost ter r&llthne. Let it cczae alonl
Spring ia rich, an rosy, an srsirnner'a sweeS
with, sans- ...
Every season's scod enocsh, but rre jae frost
an fall.
An balance ter ysrpsrdners an tiraycr swesS-hesr-jsalll
Atlanta
CURIOUS INSECT.
A Batterfly TTswfc Enjoys Oaly Five Hear:
or IMe.
It is in August that the naturalists
observe the marvelous insect which is
born, reproduces and dies in the period,
of a single night, on the banks of the
Marne, of the Siine, and of the Rhine.
It is the ephemere of which Siraramer
daru has written and which is spoken
of in Aristotle
The life of this insect does not last
beyond four or five hours. It nil's to
ward II o'clock in the ever!'ui after
taking the fcrra of a butteruy about sis
hours after midday. It IS tl oC. how
ever, that before taking thii. f rm it
has lived three years in tbat of a worm,
which keeps alvrays near the LoiJer cf
water in the holes which it makes in
the mud.
The change of this worm ia the
water to an ephemere which nVs is so
sudden that cue has not the tin" to see
it. If one takes the worm in the water,
the hand cannot be taken away before
the change is made unless by pressing
tbe worm slightly in the regi- a of the
chest. By this means it can be taken
from the water before the change takes
place.
The ephemere, after leaving tbe
water, seeks a place where it can divest
itself of a fine membrane or veil, which
entirely covers ic This second "change
takes place in the air.
The ephemere assists itself with the
point of its little nails as firmly as it
can. It makes a movement similar to
that-of a shiver, then . the skin ou the
middle of the back breaks apart, the
wings slip out of their sheath, as we
sometimes take off our gloves by turn
ing them inside out. After this strip
ping the ephemere begins to fiy Some
times it holds itself straight up on the
surface of the water on tbe enii of its tail,
flapping its wings one against the
other. It takes no nourishment in the
five or six hours which are the limit of
its life. It seems to have been formed
but to multiply, for it does not leave
its state of a worm until it is rt.dy to
deposit its eggs, and it dies a? soon as
they are depesited.
In three days time one sees appear
and die all species of ephemeres. They
last ?ometimes until the fifth day, for
the reason that gonie malady has affect
ed some of tliem nud prevents tiiem from
changing at the same time as the
others. -Eschanse.
Gold anS Silver Gospel-.
"The Gold aud Silver Gospels" is
the name of a very peculiar book now
preserved in the Upsala library in Swe
den. It is printed with niets. type, on
violet colored vellum, the letter? being
silver and the iuitials gold. When it
was printed, by whom crwh-t were
the methods employed, are stions
which hpve great interest for i'ie cczi
ous, but have never been answered.
Maul and Widow.
By the old Sason law a maiden and
5 widow were of different value. The
latter could be bought for one-half thf
sum which the guardian of tit- maid
was entitled to demand. A muu. there
fore, who cmld not afford to buy a
maiden might, perhaps, be abls to pur
chase a widow.
The herd cf European bisons protected
by the czars of Russia in the torest of
Bjelowski, Lithnauin, numbered 1,900
in 1856, but is now reduced to 500 and
shows ne sign of increase. The dwin
dling of the herd is ascribed to inbreed
ing, due to the confined area of tee res
ervation. Ecze
All Her. Life.
Mr. E. D. Jenkins, of Lithonia, Ga.,
says that his daughter, Ida, inherited a
severe case of Eczema, which the usual
mercury and potash remedies failed to
relieve. Year by year she was treated
with various medicine, external appli
cations and internal remedies, without
result. Her sufferings were intense,
and her condition grew steadily worse.
All the so-called blood remedies did not
seem tc reach, the dis
ease at all until S.
S.S.was given "when
an improvement
was at once noticed.
The medicine was
continuecd with fav
orable results, and
now she is cured
sound and well, her
skin is perfectly
clear nd pure and
she has been saved
from what threat
ened to blight her life forever.
S.S-S. guaranteed purely vegetable)
cures Eczema, Scrofula, Cancer, Rheu
matism, or any other blood trouble.
It is a real bleed remedy and always
cures even after all else falls.
A Real Blood Remedy
Take a blood remedy for a blood disease;
a tonic won't cure it.
Our books
ou blood and
skin diseases
mailed free to
any address.
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Fissures & Fistulas.
Burns &. Scalds.
Wounds & Bruises.
Cuts & Sores.
Boils Sc Tumors.
Eczema. &. Eruptions.
Salt Rheum & Testers.
Chapped. Hands.
Fever Blisters.
Sore Lips & Nostr s.
Corns & Bunions.
Stings ct Bites of Insects. ';
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ma
First National Bank,
XOKTII PI.A.TT2S,
11 . jflflffiSlifctoi
A. F. STREITZ
Drugs, Medicines, Paints, Oils,
WINDOW GLASS, -r MACHINE OILS
XDiaaza.a.'n ,te, Sioectsicles-
33 entsclie Ap otlieke .
Corner of Soruce and Sixth-sts.
i THOSE NEW STYLE i
I REFRIGERATORS I
Are selling rapidly. The many good 12
points possessed by them can easily be
ascertained by an inspection. ... 3
GASOLINE STOVES
r- Are being sold by ns cheaper now than f2
Ez ever before in fact we are" making a 13
"leader" of them. "We handle the best 2
in the market. !ome in and see them,
g GARDEN HOSE, SPRINKLERS,
and other seasonable goods -are car-
y ried in stock, together with a complete 3
Sj line of Hardware. We still sell Bicy- 55
5E: cles and bicycle supplies. :2
E: Eoley Block. Who no one Owes. :2
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AND GRAIN
Order by telephone from Newton's Book Store.
N. McCABE, Proprietor.
North Platte Pharmacy.
Urugs and Druggists' Sundries,
We aim to handle the best grades of goods
Sell everything at reasonable prices, and
-warrant all goods to be just as represented.
All Prescriptions Carefully Filled by a Licensed Pharmacist.
Orders from the country and along the line of the Union
Pacific Railway is respectfully solicited.
First door north of First National Bank.
WALL-PAPER, PAINT AND OIL DEPOT
wtvtvtot OT.5S VAttNISBES. GOLD LEAF, GOLD
PA02,AimSOCT BRUSPIA , OA
KALSOitDfE MATERIAL, WINDOW SHADES
ESTABLISHED JULY 1S6S. - - - - 310 SPRUCE STREET-
FDffiST SAMPLE E00M
Having refitted our rooms in
.J is invited to call and see us,
tpmect Wines. Liduors
Our billiard hall is supplied tvith the ces. make of tables
and competent attendants will supply all your wants.
KEITH'S BLOCK, OPPOSITE x'HE UNION PACIFIC DEPOT
Mo. 34 &S I
CAPITAL, -SURPLDS,
-
$50,000.
$2-2,-500.
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1 L. J. lllllLv, - - - nwmwuu
P, A. White; - Yiee-Bres't
ArthurMcNamara, - Cashier.
A sreneral banking business
transacted.
J. E. BUSH, Manaser-
IN" HOBTH PLATTE
the finest of style, the public
insuring courteous treatment.
and Cierars at the Bar.
COAL