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transaction of ligltlniate
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dtocke, bonds, frold. government and local ee
auritiee bought ami sold. Ueposits receiveo
and interest allowed on the certificate
Drafts drawu, available iu auy part of tbt
United State aod all the principal towns o
Europe.
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TKD. Highest market price psld for County War
rants, State ana tJounty bonds.
D I HECTORS
John Fitzgerald D. Uawkf worth
Sam Waugh. F. K. While
Ueorge E. Dovey
John Fitzgerald. S. Waugh. -
President Caef Jet.
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Uayltal stock paid iu W o t
Authorized Capital, $IOOfOOO.
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fttASK 0ABKCT1X. JOS. A. CONNOlt,
President. Vice-PresiU t
W. H. OUSHINO. Ccbier.
DIKECTOBd
Frank Oarrutb J. A. Connor, F. R. Guth
J. W. Johnson. Henry Boeck, John O'Keete
W. D. Merriani. Wis. Wetencainp. W.
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ssues ce-itiflcates of deposits beariuK interest
Buys and sell exchange, county and
city
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Paid up capital $50
Surplus 25.000
O. H. Pamela ,rl Edent
Fred Oorder Vice President
J. M. Patterson
T. M. Patterson. Ast Cashier
DIRECTORS
O. H. Parmele. J. M. Patterson. Fred Gorder.
a. B. Smith, B. B. Windham. B. 8.Kamey and
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deposit and prompt attentiougiveu to all bus
tuess entrusted to its care.
When you go to a shoe store your
object inot 011I3- to" buy shoes but
to procure for what you spend the
best that your money will buy.
Less tliati this will not content you;
more than this you cannot, in rea
son, ask. Our methods are as
simple as your desires. Velio not
..lift your expectations to the clouds,
but we realize them whatever they
re. We will never sacrifice jour
interests to ours and nowhere else
can j'ou get a fuller and fairer
""equivalent for your money. An
.specially profitable purchase tor
iu ufour etc. v
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EVERiTHING FRESH - AND - IN - SEASON
ATTENTION FAKMEK9
I want your Poultry, FIggs, But
ter and your farm produce of all
kinds, I will pay you the highest
cash price as I am buying- for a
fir 11 in Lincoln.
B. PETERSEN,
THE LEADING GROCER
Plattsmouth - - Nebraska
p J. H:A:N:S:E:N
DEALER IN
STAPLE AND FANCY
GROCERIES,
GLASS AND . .
QUEEN SWA UE
FIdop ami Feed a Snecialty
H'roiisjuM- tli Puble Solicited
JOHNSON BUILDINGN Sixtb .St
JVTEW HARDWARE STORE
S. E. HALL & SON
Keep all kinds of builders hardware on hand
aud will supply contract' rs on most fav
v orable terms
TIN ROOFING
Hpoutinf
and all kinds of tin work promptly
one. orders from the country Solicited.
616 Teasl St. PLATTSMOUTH. NEB.
Lumber Yard
THE OLD RELIABLE.
B. A. WATEBHAN & SOU
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Shingles, Lath, Sash,
Doors, Blinds
Can supply everw demand of the city.
Call and get terms. Fourth street
in rear of opera house.
Chamberlain's Eye and Skin
Ointment.
A certain cure for Chronic Soto Eye?,
Tetter, Salt Bhenzn, Scald Head, Old
Chronic Sores, Fever Sores, Eczema,
Itch, Prairie Scratches, Sore Hippies
and Piles. It is coolies and soothing.
Hundreds of cases have been cured by
it after all other treatment had failed.
It is put up ia 25 and SO cent boxes.
P LUMBER
- ."Oh;
-Jy-eateo
for three
-Z we aet the
zza at least.
Jtage, it makes
- 1 - ' lT bnt we all take
J n:J Lilp, 1 Vthat they are as pleased
as w are." ,
It was delightful to eit under the treen
that flecked the table cloth with moving
pliadown and aeeined to add new flavor to
the dimple food. The hoube stood back
from the street of course, and yet if it
had been near the 'street there might
have been a great gain for the passerby.
It would have given a touch of sociabil
ity to the street, like that so character
istic of the French, who eat in public so
gracefully.
It formed a sort of daily picnic, with
out the toil and bugs and depressing
after effects of that great American in
stitution. It added charm and relish to
the meal, and made the gammer more
distinctly a time for vacations and out
of door impressions. It seemed a cus
torn that could be profitably followed by
many suburban dwellers and it would
be a distinct lengthening of the play
time of midsummer. Boston Transcript
He Changed tha Day.
The story is told of the late "Kg Iron"
Kelley that on one occasion a young
woman, the daughter of an old Pennsyl
vanian, who had been one of Kelley's
political lieutenants, applied to him for
a position, which he promised to secure
for her the next day. On the following
morning, when the young woman called
on the judge, he had forgotten all about
her case, but upon being reminded, apol
ogized profusely and told her to "call
tomorrow." The judge kept this up for
nearly a month, when the young woman
lost her patience. On the occasion of
her Inst visit the judge, who was very
absentminded, did not catsti her name
as the servant announced hei presence
in the parlor and, walking hurriedly into
the room, shook hands with her and be
gan the old formula.
"My dear young lady, 1 am very busy
today; you will really have to call to
morrow. "But, judge," she protested,
"that is what you have told me for a
month. 1 have come almost every day,
and you have invariably told me to call
tomorrow." "1 beg your pardon, I am
sure," said the judge with great suavity.
"Call day after tomorrow." San Fran
cisco Argonaut.
The Barn Owl.
ilow soft is the plumage of the owl,
and how noiseless her flight. Watch her
as she floats past the ivy tod, down by
the ricks and silently over the old wood;
then away over the meadows, through
the open door and out of the loophole of
the barn; round the lichened tower and
along the course of the brook. Presently
she returns to her four downy young
with a mouse in one claw and a vole iu
the other, soon to be ripped up, torn and
eaten by the greedy, snapping imps.
Young and eggs are not unfrequently
found in the same nest.
If you would see the midday siesta of
these birds climb up into the haymow.
There, in an angle of the beam, you will
Bee their owlships snoring and blinking
wide their great round eyes. Their duet
is the most unearthly, ridiculous, grave
noise conceivable; unlike anything you
ever heard. There they will stay all day,
digesting the mice with which they have
gorged themselves until twilight, when
they again issue forth upon their mad
can revels.
This clever mouser has a strong claim
to our protection; so let not idle super
stition further its destruction. Man
chester Times.
The French National Printing- Work.
The French national printing works
date from the year 1640, and owe their
origin to Louis XIII, who established
them under the title lmprimerie royale.
The works were suppressed at the begin
ning of the revolution and reorganized
in the Year LL The state printing office
has had many homes. It is now in the
former abode of the princely house of
Rohan, in the Rue Vieille du Temple,
which still retains traces of its former
splendor.
Besides executing all the printing of
the ministries and other public bodies,
the presses' of the lmprimerie nationale
are at the service of all private individ
uals who require in their works types
impossible to procure elsewhere. The
collection at the Hotel- de Rohan is
unique and contains 200 varieties. It
would almost satisfy the archdeacon of
the story whose sermons could ' not be
printed because the printer had only one
ton of parentheses in stock. London
Sews.
Fired.
A titled Parisian, after wasting much
time in the Latin quarter, finally man
aged, by hook or crook, to become en
rolled as a pupil of Gerome. Day after
day the nobleman came, took his place
before the model aud sketched as best
he could. Finally Gerome paused before
the new pupil one day and said, "You
come here in the morning; what do you
do in the afternoon?" "Oh," said the
nobleman, "I ride in the Bois, 6ee a few
of my friends, and then dress for din
ner. "You do," mused the master;
"don't you think you'd better do the
same things in the morning, also?" The
next week a new pupil had the noble
man's place in front of the model. San
Francisco Argonaut.
Why alloys should vary in their prop
erties so widely as they do from the
metals which form them is an obscure
question. Experiment ia still the only
means of discovering what properties
such and such an alloy will have, or
how these properties may be usefully
changed by a slight uwierence in composition.
Basking SJrk-bem Iini.uj
That a man nbould take a rule :ti n
live hhark't) back, apparently with all
the delight of a wild cowboy breaking in j
an unruly nnir-tan. would be difikult
10 Dciieve unless circumstances win
presented to verify it. Such an occur
rence has really taken place, however
and at so Hlnrt a distance from San !
rraucioco that any doubting Thoma.
can easily (taiisfy himself by making a
personal investigation
For the pat few years the fishermen
in the northern part of Monterey bay
near Santa Cruz, have been greatly
annoyed by basking sharks. These
sharks, while in search of food, often
run into the nets of fishermen, and
in thrashing about and trying to
ef-cape from the meshes which enfold
them, tear the nets and injure them no
that the fishermen at times suffer the
loss of hundreds of dollars. Sometimes
a shark struggles about so much in the
watw ms to wrap the nets around it iu
such a manner that escape is impossible,
and the huge fish dies from the exhaus
tion produced by its wild efforts to get
free. To extricate thedead fish from
the nets it is sometimes necessary to tow
it ashore, and to recover part of the loss
sustained in the destruction of the nets
tbfe fishermen try out the liver of the
shark and obtain a quantity of cheap
but profitable oil.
AM OCULAR DEMONSTRATION.
A huge backing shark about thirty or
forty feet long became entangled in the
nets of soma fishermen off Soquel point,
about four miles from Santa Cruz. The
shark, still alive and enfolded in the
nets, was towed by the fishermen in
boats to the wharf at Ca pi tola. Its ar
rival created great excitement among
the visitors at that resort. The fact that
sharks, any sharks, were near the beach
drove hundreds of bathers from the wa
ter, and people began to make np their
minds to leave the place. Ho amount of
assurance on the part of the proprietors
of the hotel or the fishermen that bask
ing sharks were not man eaters, and that
many had been caught with no accident
happening, could entirely quiet the fears
of the visitors, and bathing was almost
given up.
Some ocular demonstration of the fact
that a basking shark was harmless there
lore became necessary. Swimming
i Vjwher Swanson, of the Capitola baths,
rtien determined to 'give an exhibition
with the shark which should convince
the most timid. A performance fol
lowed the like of which no man ever
participated in before. Swanson put on
a bathing suit and swam to the wharf
where the partially exhausted monster
lay, still partly wrapped in the torn and
tangled fishing nets. Slowly approach
ing the gasping yet enraged monster, a
whale in siz if not in species, Swanson
swam close to its side, and then clamb
ered .slowly on top, a moderately easy
task to accomplish, as the shark lay
almost entirely under water. Sitting
astride the huge fish like a baby on an
elephant, the bold swimmer shouted in
triumphant derision at the several hun
dred people on the wharf, who had
gathered to witness the strange per
formance. .
GOT USED TO IT.
His song of success was quickly cut
short, for as soon as the lazv shark real-
ized it had gathered somet .--its
back it commenced to 1 :
and threw Swanson off. W
crowd shrieked in fear an--their
breath in excitement. V
ly a minute, however, be.' ;
appeared uninjured and .:
6ide of the line of foam -shark's
struggles. The cnv
wharf breathed more freely
uore on
.1 about
-M 111 the
1 :i held
- hard
HTison out-
v the
:i the
.. -'I they
. -:hing
tfeu
tHi.
, ... u
saw the man emerge from th
waters and realized that he li:t
devoured, as they expected n
The undaunted swimmer aa.i.
the side of the shark, and n. -mounted
his marine 6 teed. T:
again showed its fear and atiLivi (
ing him off, but not so viole:i I v
more
iiark
: shak-
&8 be-
fore. With great persistence Swanson
again climbed on to the monster
What seemed before to the many spec
tators a most foolhardy act, and but the
courtship of certain death, now became
a strangely comical sight. Swanson
mounted the fish, and the shark becom
ing accustomed to its queer burden,
merely rolled the man off each time he
got on its back, simply turning lazily in
the water and shaking himself. This
was repeated several times, and the
large crowd of people who came expect-,
ing to see the man killed and eaten de
parted laughing at the ludicrous ending
of the performance. Swanson became
the hero of the camp. Bathing was re
sumed and even more freely indulged in
as a consequence of the exhibition, and
no one can now be found in Camp Capi
tola who' will admit that they if ear .a
shark, or a basking shark at least. San
Francisco Chronicle.
An Interesting Calculation.
An uptown man. having nothing else
to' do, thought he would try an experi
ment, so he turned the hands of a clock
in his room the full twenty-four hours of
a day, and found it took, with moderate
movement, one nunute of time to accom
plish that task. He then made a calcu
lation of how long it would take him to
turn off the full measure of a man's life,
which, according to the Scriptures, is
"three score years and ten," and found
that it wonld take seventeen and one
half days to turn the hands of the clock
to represent' seventy years. Philadel
phia Record. .
A Itargain.
Small Son Dot suit fit dot man awful
tiprht.
. Dealer It vas a dight vit, mein son.
'Vy did jou jell it zd sheapr
-'1 vas avraid I couldn't get it off mit
mt tearing it." Good News.
disU
umbrelV!. .
her great exei.. n '
II i heart was Wuuuvii and be pulled
the ropes for "down brakes." vAt thin
unusual signal every window was pushed
np nod an eager head thrust out of each
The conductor smilingly enconragfl
the would be" passenger, and the others
cheered her ha she thundered alon 111 a
full duck gullop Two lady friends of
hers (brunettes) stood upon the platform
of the car and frantically beckoned h;i
approach. When at last she was lauded
by the train, and was helped on by the
conductor, three brakemen and a lny,
she greeted her two iriend9 with several
affectionate "smacks" and a "good by
children," then rolling back again to the
ground she turned to our polite conduc
tor and said. "Thank you. boss.' and
waddled away
That train was started as by one in a
spasm, and the minister read ou the t'ol
lowing evening a prayer request from the
wife of a backsliding cond actor. Troy
Telegram.
A Wonderful Mineral Substance.
A new mineral substance, resembling
asphalt, has been discovered in Texas,
which promises to become very usef-d
to the scientific and industrial world. It
is unaffected by heat, acid or alkalies
and is said to be the most perfect in
sulator yet discovered. It may be used
for paint and is a perfect covering for
wood or iron, resisting all the influences
which destroy ordinary paints. As a
varnish it retains its character under all
conditions. It may be rolled into a tissue
and used for waterproof tents, clothing,
etc.; it makes leather impervious to
water and prevents iron and steel from
rusting.
Professor Hamilton, of the Western
Electric company, finds that wires cov
ered with this substance offer sevenfold
the resistance offered by other wires,
and the results of its use in electrical
engineering are likely to lie very marked.
The material is found in unlimited quan
tities, from two to forty feet below the
surface, and if it proves as useful as it
promises will be a new source of wealth
to Texas. Boston Transcript
Why People Go to K a rope.
The high fares on American railroads
result in sending people to Europe. All
of New England and the Middle states
are full of people who have climbed Alps,
visited Rome, boulevards of Paris, been
all over the United Kingdom and seen
the midnight sun on the coast of Nor
way, and yet who have never been west
of Chicago. They hear of the beauties
of the Pacific coast, they read about the
glories of the Yosemite valley and they
want to go and see them, but when thoy
learn what it will ' cost they think they
cannot afford to go farther than Niagara
Falls. After that they go to Europe, and
so year by year the Atlantic passenger
lists have been swelling rapidly until
now they are something stupendous to
contemplate. Bangor (Me.) News.
Began Growing After He Was Thirty-five.
Oak Cliff has a citizen who is now a
robust old gentleman of fine pb ysique and
is descended from a very long lived an
cestry, their ages running to ninety-six,
ninety-eight, one hundred and six, and
np to one hundred and twelve yeurs.
He has all iiis teeth except two which
were knocked out by an accident, and!
they are as sound as a dollar, although
he is now seventy years old. He has
grown three-fourths of an inch in height
since he was thirty-five years old, and he
wears a size larger hat now than he
wore then. From that age up to forty
one or forty-two years his weight re
mained at 190 pounds, and now, at three
score and ten years, his mental faculties,
he says, are brigh ter than ever bef ore
Dallas (Tex.) News.
Arrestvd for Selling Brandied Peaches.
A peculiar case of innocent violation
of the revenue laws has developed iu
Decatur. F. S. Pox bought a quantity
of imported brandied peaches. He took
them to Cerro Gordo and sold them at
his restaurant. Jacob Leslie's boy bo
came intoxicared on the peaches, and
this started quite a run on the peaches.
Fox had to order a fresh supply. Mr.
Leslie had Fox arrested for violation of
the liquor law, and the trial will take
place at Cerro Gordo. A Decatur chem
ist analyzed the peaches, and found that
one bottle contained 37 per cent, of al
cohol. Cor. Chicago Tribune.
Moral, Chew Gum.
A" man from Oxford county lost a rail
road coupon ticket to the fair and in
quired at the ticket office if one had been
found. One had been found, but h&w
were they to know that it was his. He
asked to look at it and it wa shown to
him. He said: "It is mine. 1 can prove
it. See, the face of it is torn off. Look
here," and be opened his vest pocket aud
showed a hearty cud of gum and the face
of a railroad coupon sticking to it. . The
two matched, and the ticket was passed
over to him. Lewiston Journal.
Made a Fortune Easily.
Captain D. S. Goodell, a retired sea
captain, of Searsport,'' Me., advanced
money to enable James Knibbs, of Troy,
N. Y., to prosecute a suit for an infringe
ment upon his fire engine valve patent,
on condition that he should have a cer
tain percentage of the damages recov
ered, if any. Captain Goodell's share of
the winnings thus far foots np $750,000.
Bangor Letter.
Appearances Are UeceltfuL.
While riding down Washington street
the other afternoon the'seat beside me
was occupied by a poorly dresaed, igno
rant looking man, with the misshapen,
dirty hands of a coal heaver. Yet he
was reading, with apparently intent in
terest, a well thumbed copy of Herodo
tus in the original Greek. Boston News.
at a. oust, ,td - ft. rBtasve Ufttot-i W . ' v
been ray family medicine, and slokiMf's as
lHH!omo a stranger to our household. I
believe It to ls the liest medicine on earth.'
1. V. M. Nulty; llackiuau. Id Summer L
Lowell, Mass.
FOR DEBILITY
Ayer's Sarsaparilla
1 a certain cure, when the complaint oriifl- t
uates in hnioverlliel blood. "1 was a
preat sufferer from a low condition of the
blood and general debility, becoming finally.
ho reduced that I was unfit for work. Noth
ing that I did for the complaint helped dm
so much as Ayer's Sarsaparilla, a few bottles
of which restored me to health and stretiKth.
-1 take every opportunity to recommetid till
medicine In similar cases." C Evlek,14 K.
llaiu St., Chllllcothe, Ohio.
FOR ERUPTION8
And all disorders originating In Impurity of
the blood, such as boils, carbuncles, pimples,
blotches, saltrrhouin, scald-head, scrofulous
sores, aud the like, take only
Ayer's Sarsaparilla
PREPARED BY "
rm x n avpk a no.. rawu. wr
lric ft ; six bottles, 5. Worth botUsv
GRATEUL COMFORTING
Epps Oocoa
.BREAKFAST
"Ryu tlmr'iiiirh knowledge of the naturaf
laws wliieli nveih I lie opemtions of dlm-HtMMi
;iid nutiiiloii slid by -;irc!ul aii hoHllon of
1 lie line iirpM it of well nHee'eil 4'o-oH Mr.
Ki'ps Im iivilel our breakfast table a
delicately ll-vored beve-atie which may hv
iis many heavy d odor' hills. It I" bv?the Judle
ii'iis use of mieli articles of llet that a coii
eit utioii in;tv be radiiHiry built up until stroiur
enoiiuh to resist every t' luleucy to di.seaneV
Hundred of mihll n. hnlles are tloatlu K
stri.iiud us ready to attack wherever herein a
u-eek iint. ke may escape inanv a fatal
shaft l.v kec..iiiK nurwe've well fortified with
pine hlno nd a properly nourished frame."
Civil -ervh-e ;aette. ' vhiohI simiily with
boililifT water or milk. Sold only in halt-(H)llud
tow. hv t.. roroi i- s labelled thur:
.lA.MHs KITS .V l . lloimeopatlilc Chemist
i ondon. EntflHiid
Dr. Grosvenor'f
Bel l eap s ic
t.h PLAuTLU.
tram MM, .
imilfs. nlsnriayMd lumbacol
SoarM M ones. mmu rnr ,i oj mil unmip
PARKER'S
HAIR BALSAM
Clpaw and brauiii'm th hair,
l'ronulri a luxuriant (trowth.
Never Pails to Beators Ony
Hair to its Youthful Color.
Care aralp imMu- hair (ailing.
nrnlJMjafrtigjii
I Parker's Oincar Tonic. Jt rum th worst Cough.
Weak Liirta, I-bility, Iruljceitiun, Pain,l'ak iatiuM.aOcta.
fllNDERCORNS. The onl nr cur for f oma.
lop aUlMua. Cc. at Xttuggutj, or UlSCOX a CO., M. V.
Bucklen's Arnica Salve.
Tim Bkst Salve in the world for Cuts
Bruisex, Sores. Ulcers, Salt Rheum. Fever
Sores, Tetter. Chapped Hands, Chilblains,
Corns, and all 8kin Hruptions, aud posi
tively cures Pirer. or no pay required.
It is guaranteed to (live satisfaction, or
money refunded. Price 2." cents per I hx.
For sale lv F. O. Frirke & Co.
A National event.
Tbe holding- of the World's Fair
in a cit' scarcely fifty years old
will be a remarkable event, but
whether it will really benefit thiH
tyition as much as the discovery of
the Restorative Nervine byfj; Dr.
Franklin Miles is doubtful. This in
jiisft what the American people need
to cure their excessive nervousness,
dyspepsia, headache, dizziness,,
sleeplessnes, ifc-uralgia, nervous de
bility, dullness, confusion of mind,,
etc. It acts like a charm. Trial
bottle and line book on "Nervous
and Heart Diseases," with une
qualed testimonials free at F. G
Fricke & Co. It is warranted tocon
tain no opium, morphine ordaner
011s drugf. L
For many yearn Mr. H. F Thotii
SMn, of I)f a Moines, Iowa, was He
verely- a ill ic ted with chr onic diarr
hoea. lie say?: "At limes it was.
very severe; t?o much so, that I
feaerd it would end my lift. About
jieveti 3" ears ago I chanced to pro
cure a bottle of Chamberlain'.
Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea
Remed3". It gave me prompt relief
and I believe cured me permanently-,
as I now eat or drink without
harm anjthing I please. I have
also used it in tny family- with the
best results. For sale by- F G.
Frirkie A: Co.
Wonderful Success
Two years ago the vIIaller I'rop.
Co. ordered their bottles by the box
now they- buy by the carload.
Among the popularand succeseful
remedies they- prepare is Haller
Sarsaparilla Hurdock which is
the most wonderful blood purifier
known. No druggist hesitates to
recommend this remedy.
For sale by druggist.
Remarkable Facts,
Heart disease is usually supposed
to be incurable, but when" properly
treated a large portion o cases cati
be cured. Thus Mrs. Flmira Hatch,
of Klkhart, Itid.. and Mrs. Mary L.
Haker, of : Ovid. Mich., were cured
after suffering 120 years. S. C. Lin
burger, flruggist at San Jose, III.,
says that Dr. Miles' New Heart Cure
which cured .the ' former, "worked
wonders for his wife." Levi Logan
of Kuchanan, Mich., who hrfd heart
disease for 30 years, says two bottles
made him "feel like a new man."
Dr. Miles Nw Ilestrt Ciirr is unlrf
and ruaraiied by K. G. I-'ricl" .V
'. Hook of wonderful tcsti:'f:!::iT.4
free. 1
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