The OldJRellable Dealerjfor
HARDWARE
*np farm machinery
In the Retail Battle for Life we always lead, be
cause we sell Good Goods at prices that defy compe
tition. The Majestic Range leads them all and is a
household necessity. The Anti-Rust T inware is
another standby, and one the people all admire. For
Barb Wire we take a back seat for no one, because
we always did and always will handle the best goods
and at prices none can excel. When you are ready
to start your Fall plowing come and get one of the
John Deere new improved riding plows and the rest
will be easy. Genuine Moline and Birdsell wagons,
the best on the market.
NEIL BRENNAN.
SaHi
UNION
MEAT
MARKET,
CHOICE LINE OF
FRESH AND SALT
MEATS. GAME IN
B SEASON"
FRED C. GATZ, PROP.
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Purohai* Tickets and Consign you
Freight via the
I-'. Ii.& M.V.andS. C.& P
RAILROADS.
TRAINS DEPART:
GOING HART.
Passenger east. No. 4.
Freight east. No. 24,
Freight east, No. 28,
GOING WKBT
9.57 a m
12 :01 P. M
2:35 P. M.
Passenger west. No. 3, 9:40 p. m
Freiglit west. No. 27, 9:15 P. m
Freight. No, 23 Local 4:10 r. m.
The Klkhorn Line ie now running Reclining
Chair Cars dally, between Omaha and Dead -
wood, jree to holders of Brst-class transpor
tatlon.
Per anv Information call on
Ea R ADAMS, Aot.
O’NEILL. NEB
Palace Meat Market.
E. P. HICKS, Prop.
Fresh and salt meats
always on hand. Oys
ters and vegetables
in season....
TOP PRICE PAID FOR HIDES.
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Yet eve
ry&ody *
does notcAo.
know
That the New Home
Sewing Machine
Company of Orange, Mass.,
TLelr No. 18 New Home Drop Head
la Selling like Hot Cakea.
SEE IT BEFORE YOU BUY ANY OTHER!
makes and sells
more machines
every day than
nearly all the
other compa
nies combined.
It is the most handsome machine you ever saw. It is
entirely automatic—cannot get out of order. Double
feed with SCIENTIFIC TREADLE MOTION that does
not make your bark ache. No other kind Just as good.
Steel bearings. Will last a life-time. It runs easier and
costs no more than a common everyday machine. VO
other kinds from (18.00 up. We discount all Big Bar
gain prices. Why not buy where you can get the most
for your money! * Every Machine fully guaranteed.
Needles, Oil and Repairs for any machine. Send for
ppecial list, or call on our agent.
SHI NEW HOKE SEWUT9 MACHIHS CO.. St. Louli. Ho.
O FBI GUN,
WE WANT MSS
Stock. Best Wages. Pay Weekly.
THE JEWELL NURSERY CO., Lake City, Mlai.
Detireen Arts.
Little 5-year-old Willie had hern t
the theater and upon his retur ’u j
mother asked him how he like■’ i
play. "Oh,” he replied, “the pis; i
all right, but I didn’t get to se- i
all of it.” Why, how did tha
pen?” asked his mother. "Be
answered Willie, “the roller mu i h
been broke for the window bi nd rd
down two or three times.”
Delivered llie ...
The statement that ltudyard Kir
ling had received a shilling a w •
for a story in an English mag a 1
induced a wag to .write him and :>
close a shilling postal order. "Her. a
that wisdom was being retailed a
shilling a word,” writes the Joker.
Inclose a shilling for a sample.” Kit
ling kept the order and sent back th
word “Thanks.”
STAFFORD SAYINGS.
Ole Anderson is working at
Bergstrom’s.
Tom McGrane now sees with
a glass eye.
John Carr went to Omaha Fri
day with some cattle.
Horton brothers are plastering
their house as they do not intend
to freeze this winter.
Melvin Hagerman and Tom
Barret will take in the Exposition
this week.
Dan McGrane attended a meet
ing of the Highlanders at Page
Saturday eveving.
Nels Bergstrom and family
spent Sunday at Inman, the
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Fowler.
Mr. Patterson, of Omaha, was
buying hay here Saturday.
C. F. Smith and wife returned
from the exposition Saturday.
Jack McGrane came up Satur
day and spent Sunday at home.
Miss Mainwaring will give a
lecture on Temperance Friday
evening at the school house. We
have no saloons at Stafford, how
ever the lecture will do no harm.
Mr. Posson has just completed
a large cattle shed for T. Brown.
Mr. Brown has one of the best
equipped farms in this locality.
Miss Edith Larson has a new
buggy and now drives to and
from her school.
INMAN
Aarry Van Valkenburg will
return to Omaha soon.
When Gen. Hancock led only
5,000 men at “Mary’s Heights,”
the killed was half as many as in
the entire “Dewey Island” war.
The stockholders of the Inman
separator company will meet in
Tompkin’s store November 2.
Why are Bryan’s speeches like
Shakespeare’s works? Because
in both there is “Much ado about
nothing.”
In the absence of Mr. Peterson
Mr. Cates has charge of the sep
arator.
Ma. Thompson is adding 30
feet to Downey & Watson’s store.
Everybody is well pleased with
Rev. Kliver. He preached two
strong sermons Sunday from the
texts, John 12532, and Rom. 1516.
Mr. Sylvanus will goto Wayne
and Mr. Dodge to Tilden to husk
corn.
lteporter.
PAGE ITEMS.
Mr. Leonard Hess went to
Omaha Tuesday morning.
Mr. Smith has his new barn
completed and painted.
Mr. and Mrs. Snyder go to
Tecumseh Tuesday to make it
their future home.
John Gray is now a partner in
the firm of Hunter & Gray, and
has moved his family to the store
building, while George Hunter
moves his family back to his
farm, and E. E. Hunter occupies
the Gray homestead.
A lot of our young folks trip
ped the light fantastic toe in Mr.
Smith’s new barn Friday eve.
Mrs. Townsend is adding some
improvements to her home.
James Moffit is now at home
after several years absence in
Oklahoma.
Charles Allen, the well digger,
has been helping Win. Lord and
Wilsie Stewart to find water on
their respective homesteads with
fairly good results. Some of the
wells have a fashion of going dry
unless dug to “sheet” water.
A. A. Wagers has moved his
family to the Snyder place this
week.
ARE YOU GOING ABROAD?
Ifjou contemplatea trip to Europe
during ttie summer, please remember
ibat any ticket agent of the Chicago,
Milwaukee & Si Paul R'y can furnish
you rates, tickets anil up to date inform
ation, as well as reserved berths on
ocean steamers—all lines—in advance of
sailing.
Gen. H. Ueafiord, Gen. Pass. Agt ,
Old Colony Building, Chicago, III.
W. N Day. D P. A. 415 4th. st Sioux
City.
THE MADSTONE SELDOM FAILS
Wonderful Properties tlulmul for »
Memphis 1'osiesnlon.
From the St. Louis Post-Dispaieh:
There is In the house of Mrs. H. It.
Beebe of 73 Dunlap street, Memphis,
Tenn., a wonderful madstone, which
for 75 years has enjoyed the reputa
tion of performing wonderful cures
of hydrophobia. Mrs. John Shelton,
the sister of Mrs. Beebe, Is the owner
of the stone. It was willed to her
by her father, a minister In the Chris
tian church, to whom It was presented
by a poor German woman In his par
ish. The pastor made good use of It
for more than half a century. In all
those years only two persons treated
with the stone failed to recover. One
of these had let the wound go un
attended for over nine days; the other
was a farmer, too busy with his crop
to permit of the applications which
were considered necessary. Mrs. Shel
ton lost her father twenty -years ago.
She has used the madstone constantly
since and has never either lost a case
or made a charge for treating. People
come from far and near to be treated.
In many instances dumb brutes that
have been bitten by rabid dogs have
died, while people bitten by the same
logs have recovered, showing con
clusively that the animals were mad.
The stone Is broken in several pieces
and has something the appearance of
a piece of coral. It is porous and
absorbs the poison when applied to
the wound. It was broken by being
gnawed by a valuable dog. The dog
was being treated for hydrophobia.
He had been bitten and the stone
was bound to his wound. He not only
gnawed the stone off, but tried to chew
it into bits. The stone is applied by
being first put In hot water for a few
minutes. Then it is taken out and
placed, as hot as can be borne, upon
the wound. This is repeated hourly for
twelve hours. If there is more than
one wound the treatment is extended
to twenty-four hours.
Lottery Scheme for Spain.
Under the auspices of the Spanish
government a great lottery scheme will
be launched in Madrid August 1, the
receipts of which, minus the prizes,
will be turned over to the government
for its most pressing needs. It is
thought that by September the sala
ries of civil and military servants re
cently suspended can then be made
good. Circulars are being sent out
i all over Europe, and it la expected
I that 500,000,000 pesetas, or about $100,
000,000, will be netted by the govern
ment. There are five capital prizes
of 500,000 pesetas each. The lottery
i Is now new in Spain, but Spanish lot
! tery has never been popular in other
states of Europe, investors preferring
to take their chances with the Dutch
or Prussian lotteries. The Spanish
lottery In 1897 brought tha treasury
3,000,000 pesetas, In the same year the
Portuguese lottery gained 1,760,000
milrels (nearly $2,000,000). The lot
tery is authorized in other countries
of Europe. In Italy last year the
government gained 62,000,000 lire ($12,
400,000), showing that the poor lazza
rone was not without his savings. In
Holland the official lotteries gained
$300,000; in Denmark the winnings
amounted to about half a million
more. But the Prussian lottery, which
is annually operated under the direct
authority of the state. Is the most pop
ular. There are a number of prizes
of 500,000 marks every year, and in
1897 the receipts of the treasurei
amounted to over 100,000,000 marks.—
New York Times.
Not Infallible).
Harriet Martineau, the English au
thor, was shrewd and practical, and
had what men are pleased to call a
“masculine intellect." But she was not
always correct in her deductions, a fact
illustrated by the following anecdote,
told in her “Memoirs” by Sir Charles
Murray, who was then the English con
sul-general In Egypt: One afternoon
we met at the villa of my old friend,
S. W. Larking, on the banks of the
Mahamoudieh canal. In the course of
our stroll through the garden we came
to a small gate, the pattern of which
was new to Miss Martineau, who was
walking in front. She stopped, and
looking at the gate in an attitude of
intense admiration, exclaimed: “How
truly Oriental! What wonderful taste
these easterners have in design!” She
went on, and as Larking and I followed
through the gate, he whispered to me,
“I got It out last week from Birming
ham."
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The remarkable record of Silas A.
Holcomb in the matter of insurance leg
islation challenges the attention of tho
people of the state and leads at once to
the inevitable conclusion that it would
be unsafe to place such a man on tho
supreme bench. A weak inau in tho
preseuce of temptation whilo in the
gubernatorial chair, what could bo ex
pected of him as a judge? What caso
would bo safe in his hands?
During the legislative session of 1895
there was a determination to pass a law
which would allow the organization of
mutual companies for the insuring of
village and town property. To defeat
this there was prosont at the state house
an organized lobby, possossod of ample
means for oil room purposes. It was
well known at tho time that $10,000 in
cash was on hand to bo used in defeat
ing mutual insurance legislation.
On Jan. 17th Mr. Brockman of Rich
ardson introduced house roll 246, a bill
authorizing tho formation of mutual
companies. It was perfectly satisfac
tory to tho poople who were demanding
mutual insurance. The record of the
introduction of the bill is found on page
201 of the house journal.
On Feb. 26th the bill was reported to
tbe general file a*d was delayed there
until March 27tli, when it was taken up
in tho committee of the whole and
recommended for passage. On March
BOth (pngo 1183 of the houso journal) it
was passed by unanimous vote. Such
reformers as Barry, Hull and Sodorman
wero thoro and voted for the bill. The
reason for the unanimous vote was that
tho insurance boodle had been in sight
so notoriously that any man voting
against the bill would have been marked
at onco as a boodler.
Tho lobby concentrated its efforts to
defeat tho bill in the senate. Every
method of delay was resorted to. At
least one prominent clerk was bribed.
Money was offered to senators to got
them to delay or lose tho bill. At one
time the one crooked clerk and one
boodling senator carried it away, and
wero made to disgorge only after the
senate had issued warrants for their
arrests.
In the senate, as in the house, all the
boodle plans failed. The bill passed
with but one dissenting vote, and that
one senator was politically blacklisted
for that act, and has never Bince been
allowed to hold office.
But the old-lino insurance people knew
what they wero doing. They had de
layed the final passage of the bill until
the last day of the session. They knew
what Governor Holcomb would do.
They knew that he would wait until
after the adjournment of the legislature,
when all danger of passing ovor his
head was past, and then he would veto
the bill.
The record shows that on April 5th
(page 1359 of the house journal), the
bill was presented to tho governor by a
joint committee. Until it reached his
hands it was carefully guarded to keep
the lobbyists and boodlers from stealing
it. At that late day one of the clerks
was offered $1,000 if he would lose tho
bill or allow himself to be held up and
robbed of it.
After the adjournment of tho legis
lature Governor Holcomb carried out
his part of tho contract. After numer
ous consultations with a Lincoln lob
byist ho vetoed tho bill. For this action
he was never able to give a docent ex
cuse, and left himself open to tho strong
suspicion that ho had entered into a
satisfactory deal with the boodling
lobby.
The defeat of this meritorious bill in
such a suspicions manner causod much
indignation over tho state and tho next
legislature met with the determination
to pass a mutual insurance bill and pat
it through so early that a cowardly gov
ernor could not head it off. Jones of
Nemaha on the 18th of January, 1897,
introduced house roll 183, a bill exactly
similar to the Brockman bill, except
that it had several more sections relat
ing to assessments and other matters,
which were also covered in the laws al
ready on the statute books. The bill
passed the house on tho 13th of March
by unanimous vote. It passed tho sen
ate on the 2d of April with just one
negative vote and was presented to the
governor on the 3d of April.
For some reason not orally explained,
but which is pretty well shown up by
the records, Governor Holcomb held the
bill until the 8th of April, when he an
nounced to the legislature that he had
signed it.
Now the sequel: That same day tho
news was given out that a new insur
ance company had been organized under
the new law and that Silas A. Holcomb
was elected as its president. This action
had been taken before the bill was
signed and the salary of the president
was fixed at $50 per mouth. Comment
on this transaction is unnecessary. “Tho
records are the best evidence.”
From that date to the close of his
official term as governor Holcomb drew
money every mouth as follows:
Salary as governor.$208.SI
Salary as insurance president. 60.00
Kako-off in house rent deal. 19.80
$278.13
This was a pretty comfortable salary
for a “plain man,” and did not count
the other perquisites he might get in
the way of railroad passes, assessments
from clerks and appointees and other
“complimcutaries, ” as O. W. Palm
would term them.
Silas made the office pay, but tho in
surance scandal will be remembered. It
will have another chapter.
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