RYBODV WAS AT THE WEDCiN
EXCCPT MZ3 BECKETT.
lory ir m Illume 'n rt li I".
iu Hi" 1 elJifiir Lxrilfi! ;
Irrr-t I'.m-.iii (lit, l.riii.in
frati-i i-i-
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M'a mi
A llivk Klllril by a Hallway Engine.
To railway officials it is a well known
fa t i M.-'.r t ii jiKiiM't of ln-'h ncl ex-
pn kill sinydl ami largo heavy flying
birds, Midi :ts j artridges nl gronse, in
gr-;.t Mi.i:t i: !.:,- M.iii?tu:n'fi carrying
tin ir l: iis 1-i if iii.itiim:-H. A few
in :i ; ago th writer was shown by a
I i
rlii'.r. Win, Iluil l;iirivl
lllllTt ll-
At Millii
r
CMlll I'llWV HII1 -Mi
ll. vl:i lias bi-cn kim'.vj. ;
dot!i Jjjil., f,,r twi-nt v-live war ;
iiIIc.H c;r Iv ill Millikn's widow. w
Jirii-.l Mfi-iillv in tint t.risi-iifi-
'rybody ju tiii village e.i t,t M Ml s
kitt. ?.I5.-.s Beckett would have b. -n
sent if .-lie had nut left hr M.k-
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:ri iiv
iutl li'ielit of ).:o of tl:e
in linen a leal binl
to toy, ihutigh a very
i.n t its doom through
iron horse. This Lircl
hawk, and it is now
v lm i-ecn in the Carlton
cliool museum. Kentish
:i
H last v.vik to rail on Z.Irs. Millik
Ml Hupiiro into the; J ai ticnlars i f t!i
gagcnunt. After thi.s iiin.nhl. n c ih-
M ii n.hij.. and has 1h;i ii nnal.l to
I m
iio ner !.!. was lin niKMl up ;it
lo window all tin: iifieriiooii, howev r.
M saw ev.rviHxiv that went in or mi:
church.
Undertaker I'av-v has buri-d sul i f
I1 io deail here for tin? pat M.xty yi-.irs.
Tlv is now u tail. Una man. with t-Jos..
cro white hair and smooth shaven
face, and always dresses in black, as
couiesaii undertaker. Only the oldest
citizens can ri member when ho looked
any different from the way Iih looks
now. His wife died forty years ig,
and ho has kept shy uf all maidens and
widows ever hince. Years ago he was
abandoned by the most ix-rsistent match
makers as u hopeless case.
The widow of Kill Milliken is an e.-ti-mablu
lady, a gn-at maker of t akes for
the church festivals and clever at cro
cheting worsted tidies, with a large
number of which the chairs and the nofji
in her front parlor are adorned. As
there has been a good deal of curiosity
about her engagement and marriage,
eho Las consented to a public statement. (
She is a short, fat woman, with hair of
a peculiar shade of yellow, which oha
got by using the hair dye which was ad- ;
vertised extensively in connection with j
her pictnrw and letter of recommends- i
tion. aha says that Mr. Pavey had never j
shown any signs of (reference for her j
whatever, nor had she thought of him j
as the successor of Kill until ten da3s i
ociore tlie marriage.
About that time he knocked
front door at half past 1 1 in the morn
ing. It was a Wednesday and the
1' ll
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was
Ml.ll'ed
road l
Town
Tie? driver of the train relates that h
was traveling liefveen sixty and seventy
tail' s an i:oiir in ..r Melton, when just
on ti." point di entering a long tunnel
.o-erved ibtl terimr in front of the en-
gi:n? ro:in; i(!,ject wiiieii h at first mis
took for a rag, but when mi leaving the
tunnel he went forward lie discovered
i iiis HM ii'ii-iiiin :it. tliat it was a spar
row Jiawl: wmea had Utmne entangled
i tween the handrail and sniolco box (
the engine, and was held there firinlv
oy uie pr -M're oi me wind, it was
not ipiite d.- id when taken out of thi:
cnnoiis dealiitraj. though ono e-e had
lfen destroyed. There is nodoubht that
it met its kath accidentall)', as a hawk
can lly quicker than the fastest trairu
travel so the drivers say, who often
observe them living low down in tin
hedgerow and keeping up with the train
till some unwary small bird, frightened
by the noise. Hies out of the fence, when
the hawk i.f.nces on it and devours it
blruud Magazine.
Why IUi-cIm Migrate.
Why some birds which could pick up
tool among us nil the year around
should leave when food is plentiful.
while others with similar ways life
remain, is still a mystery. It is easy ti
understand that a siiecies which prey
on fresh water fish ami on fnifra clinnl.'
seek other quarters when the ponds arc
frozen and the frogs buned in the clav,
But it is not quite so clear why the
swallow and the flycatcher leave a re
gion where there is jierpetual summer
and winged food m abundance, to risk
a long journey over sea and land, onlv
to find a great scarcity of the same
kind of food. And it is equallv nuz-
at her ! zlino that the seed and fruit eaters who
i since October nave been fattenin;
! among the gardens of Algeria and
The Aator l'ortune.
It is believed that the estimate cf fCO,-
UUU.UUO which is made of the shares of
his father's estate which John Jacob
Astor received is under the mark. Upou
tne division ot the property which Wil
liam 15. Astor left Ins two sons. William
Asior'H share was inventoried ct about
frOO.Oou.OOO, and whiZo his family have
lived expensively, yet they did not lie-
gin to spend his income, and although
lie did nothing to increase his wealth,
tho yearly accumulations are believed
to have increased the property by some
eir,.HMM00. Deducting from this the
tu,in)u,iJ Klvt' io nis daughters, r
lf2,(M0,000 apiece, and the charge on the
estate of .jo,(i)) a year for the l-nefit
of his widow, it would still leave for
John Jacob Astor between (j.j,000,000
and $70,000,(1(1(1.
It is not the amount, however, which
tho young man receives that causes spe
cial interest. The sum is so large that a
million either way is of little account.
The question which interests lxuplohere
is what is John Jacob Astor iroing to do
wit h his property? If he becomes, as hli
cousin v llham Waldorf has, a man of
keen business instinct, he will have to
change remarkably. lie has one trait
of the Astors perhaps more strongly de-
velojied than it was in any of the others.
and it is a trait which in some men
would be called parsimoniousness. Ho
is an extremely close figurer, and is of
such disicsition that when he secures a
dollar he feels like making it a prisoner
for life. Whether lie brandies out as a
daring and conspicuous builder of real
estate properties or not his fortune is
certain to increase steadily, because no
rich man in !N ew i ork, not even Russell
Sage, will figure more carefully over his
expenditures, both personal and busi
ness, than John Jacob Astor will do.
New York Cor. Philadelphia Press.
PLACES OF WORSHIP.
CATnoi.ic.-M. Paul Church, ak. between
fifth ami Mxth. Father Camry, Faster
Services : Jtfes at ainl lo : a. m. Kunday
School at i UK), with Ix-iieUicthm.
CiiKivriAN. Corner 1'ru.st and
Services morn in c m.iI tvei.'Mr. h
Culniway jijislor. Sunday School 10 a
Kiuhih
Ider
M.
StM
A
Kun-ni'AL-Si. Luke's ( liim li, corner Third
;iii1 N ine. lev 11 II. iiineen. (lai-tor. Ser
vices : 11 A. M. a d 7 :aoi-. H . Sunday School
hi :.;o v. M.
Hi'.MA.v M FTiionisT. . jriier Sixth St ami
.1 : 1 1 1 1 . Kev. Iltit. i'lihtor. Sn vi-es : 11 A. M.
and 7 :ao v. Jl. Suiniay Si-heol lo :M A. M.
l'ii-MvrKiti a. services in i'cw clnnch.ciir
uer sixth m.iI Cr;. loir sir-. llev.J. T. Hniri,
I'jiytoi . sui:it;:v-.sc-i nl jit 9 ; 3( ; l reacliini;
;:l 11a. m. mi s j. in.
;I."V II. S. i K t 'ihi heicli ni et eveiy
S;il:h.il h cvei.ii c at 7 A" in the ha.se Hie nt of
Uie ctiuci h. All are invited to attend ttieM
:i eel intjs.
Kikst M KTiiol'lsr. Sixth t.. helwcti Alaai
ali'l l'e:til. KfV. I.. I-'. I'.iitt. i. I. liastor.
Sei vicen : 11 A. M.. 8 :lt p. M Suiula School
: :;ui a I'rxy r nieetii g Wednesday even
ing. N
utMAN I'ni-MiVTKKi.i.x.-Cemer Mfin mm!
Ninth. K'-v itte, I'a.ster. Services usual
iiniii. Sunl:iv -cliool !i a. 51.
'U IUHSM ' I XlillHIATI
iwceu Fifth and sixth.
'NAl ( rati he, !--
i nltiliKli I'.AI'l liT. Vt. (ilive. ''.ik. between
lentil : 1 1 . 1 hleveiith Iev. A. I'.tifwell, fas
tor. Services 11 a. in. Mid 7 . III. 1'rajer
tneetini: Wednesday evenint;.
Vuii'i; Mkn's Ciikistiav association
Hoems in v-aterinan block. Main street. Cos
l ! leeetinir. tr men only, everv Stinlay af
lernooii at 4 o'clock. Kooiii" open week dnys
Iroin 8:0 a. in . i 3 : p. i.i.
SOUTH lAI;K TAHKKNACLK. I.eV. .1. M.
v Mill, I astor. Services: Smdiiy School,
a.m.: I reselling, 1 1 a in. aud'Hp. m. ;
prayer meeting Tuesday infill ; choir rae-
' tee t rid.iy infill Ai; are welcome. i
C t Z
IP- r Mi 'SrWr.airftOClfrTrJolkS I
I. IT- UjXNT
Always lias on band a full stock of j
FLOUR AND FEED,
Corn, Bran, Shorts Oats and Baled
Hay for pale as low as the lowest
and delivered to any part of the
city.
CORNER SIXTH AND VINE
Plattsmouth,
V.
II. CUSHING,
President,
Nebraska
J. V. Johnson,
Vice - President.
-ooOT EC EOoo-
Widow JUilliken was deep in the dough. ! e nouiu sutueniy, m March or
as that is baking day through this whold I -Ai'"!. be seized with such an inordinate
town. She looked out through the ' craving for a change of diet as to fly
blinds of the window next tho front j 3'fM)0 nnles the chance of picking up
door and saw who it was. As she had 1 the short commons of an English spring.
known JMr. Pavey so many years she
just wiped the flour olT her hands upon
her apron and ojiened the door.
Mr. Pavey went into the parlor and
sat down in the caneseat rocker with
the green worsted tidy with blue rib
bons through it. He 6et his tall hat
carefully on the floor beside him and
then said:
"Good morning. Sarah Milliken.'
"Good morning, Mr. Pavey," said ilrs.
ililliken. She said that she acccnted
tho Mr. so that Mr. Pavey might under
atand that she had noticed his not call
ing her Mrs. Milliken, as he was accus
tomed to do. Mrs. Milliken also says
that she had a sort of premonition that
something was coming.
"It can't bo that the (iompers girl is
dead?" she said anxiously.
"No." said Mr. Pavey. "But life is
uncertain. Sarah Milliken."
"No one should know that better than
you, Samuf-1 Pavey." said the widow
with one of her sly laughs.
But Mr. Pavey did not laugh as he
went on:
"Sarah, you are getting along in
years. You will scon be in need of tny
services."
"I haven't even sent for the doctor
yet, and I von't need you till he's done
with me," s;id the widow, bridling ami
pouting.
"Do yon remember the Mrst Mrs:.
Pavey?" said the undertaker, paying no
attention to her and pursuing his own
gloomy reflections.
"I was a little girl when she died.
said Mrs. Milliken.
"Yes." said Mr. P.ivey, "yon had j;st
married the late Mr. Milliken five ye...--before.
You remember that she had We
lest funeral this town ever saw, not e.v
cepting old Captain Lander's fiineir.l,
which cost five d dlars. as I should k:;o-.v,
if anybody. As I said, Sarali, you p.z y
getting old. If you marry mo I v. iil do
as well by the second Mrs. Pavey as 1
did by tho first."
"You always would have your joke.
Sam," said tho widow. "What will
everybody say?"
"Yc are both getting old." said Mr.
Pavey, still paying no attention to what
the widow was saying. "Life is uncer
tain. There is no time to lose."
So Mrs. Milliken said. "All right.
Samuel; whenever you say."
"Ten days is long enough. I'll :;e3
the pastor this afternoon."
Then they shook hands, and Mr. Pa
vey put on his hat and went away, look
ing quite gay and chipper as soon as tho
door closed on him, for he did not know
that Mrs. Milliken was watching hi:u
through the blinds. Two minntes after
ward she had called Mrs. Meek, her
next door neighbor, to the back fence
and had told her all about it. Ten min
ntes afterward by the clock on the court
house Mrs. Meek, having left her bakery
in charge of her daughter Lizzie, had
on her bo::::ct and shawl and was liear
ing down the street, telling everybody
she met. Cor. New York Sun.
Perhaps it wiH be found that immi
gration is natural to an Diras, ana is
greater or less as circumstances mav
determine. Every animal shifts its quar
ters according to the plentifulness or
scarcity of food. Even our residents
neve up and down the country at dif
ferent periods of the year, living in the
lowlands in the winter and in the up
lands in the summer, and it is well
known that all winter there is a con
tinual drifting of the birds from the Con
tinent to our islands, according to the
It Finds I'rerioua Metals.
Mr. Andrew Thompson has made an
instrument resembling in its appearance
the oil well locator, which will locate
gold or silver ore. This instrument will
act on these metals whether in ore deep
in the earth or in the shape of coin or
jewelry. Gold and silver money was
placed on the floor and the instrument
quickly located it. The coin was then
placed high above the floor and its loca
tion was quickly and accurately deter
mines iz was also tried on goltl and I y- i i -t
silver ore with the same result. Many J1T1556HS - DdIJri,
TiitnrrvioTio 1 1 i tc Yiaayi V ..1 r. I
Thompson to disclose the secret of the
little machine, but he has refused all
offers, some of them very liberal ones.
He has selected a well known resident
of the south side, to whom he intends
before he dies to impart the secret of the
unattractive looking but most potent
machine. The gentleman designated to
receive this important trust as yet knows
nothing about the instrument except its
effects. He can handle it with as much
dexterity as Mr. Thompson, but posses
ses no knowledge of the machine other
than that imparted in this article.
Pittsburg Post.
GrO - TO-
House Furnishing Emporium
Y X 7"llLliH you can gat your limine fun
V V kitchen to p-ir!or and at easy toai
irniMieil tnni
inns, l lian
die the world renown Haywood hahy carrisiges, alt-o
the latest improved J'eliahle Process Gasoline etove
Call and lie convinced. Xo trouble to t-how goods.
Cl-AITSMOUTH
NKIw- ASKA
Capital Paid in
$SO.OOO
F R Guthman. J W Johnson. E 8 Greusol.
Henry Jbikenbary, I W Morgan. J
A Connor. W Wettenkainp, W
II dishing
OPPOSITE COI7HT
HOUSE
I. Pearleman
A c-eneral banNinsr business trans
acted. Interest allowed on de-posites.
weather. London Standard.
Two Narrow Escapes.
Twice in his experience has John li.
Obermeyer, of Chicago, owed his life to
the practice of carrying papers in his in
side pocket. The first time was on ;:
battlefield in tho war of iiie rebellion.
Then the muster roll of his company of
the Eleventh Pennsylvania volunteer;
stopped a musket ball fired at random
from the enemy's lines. The second
time was on Monday, when a bulle:
from a 38-caliber revolver, fired only six
feet distant, and aimed deliberately at
ins ureast, iaueu to penetrate an en
velope filled with bank bills and a pas-s-look
in his inside vest pocket.
I After this second event Mr. Ober-
meyer, it is said, looked coolly at the
j would be assassin, and called him a
; coward, and invited him to shoot a sec
j oud time, but the latter stood for a
J moment irresolute, then, with his hand
j trembling, laid his revolver on the desk
; nml surrendered to the iolice. Phila
delphia Ledger.
Six! Water Not So Much, in Demand.
An up town dry- goods store last sma
ll! -r tried the experiment of giving soda
waU-r To its p.'.trons free. An enormous
fountain, well equipped for service, was
placed in the back part of the store ami
on each hot day half a dozen attendants
were kept busy serving a clamorous,
thirsty and never diminishing crowd.
One day upward of 7.000 glasses of soda
water were drawn from that free foun
tain. This year the firm charges three
cents a glass lor its soda water, and a3
a result the patronage has fallen off to
a remarkable extent. On two very hot
days a fortnight ago, although the larre
store was well filled with customers, ti.e
soda fountain was at no time overworked
New York Times.
The Latest Western Gold Story.
J. A. McConville, who lives on Mon
tana street, killed one of his chickens
for dinner, and on cleaning it was sur
prised to find a quantity of gold nug
gets in the crop and gizzard. Having
about thirty more chickens on hand, he
began killing and examining them. In
each of them he found a pro rata of nug
gets, the total amount gathered from the
thirty-one hens being $387.50 an aver
age of $12.50 a'head. The gold was sent
to the State National bank and pro
nounced eighteen carat fine.
Mr. McConville immediately bought
fifty more chickens and turned them
out on the gold fields in the vicinity of
the hencoop. As an experiment one of
them was killed and $2.S0 in gold taken
from its inside works, the result of a
four davs' run. Mr. McConville has a
virtual bonanza, and expects to be a
millionaire before fall if the chickens
hold out. Butte Mining Journal.
pIRST : NATIONAL ; BANK
OK PLATTSMOUTH. NEBRASKA
Paid ud capital , 10.01 io.oo
S'liplus 10.0"0.0fl
WILL KEEP CONSTANTLY ON HAND
A Full acd Ooinpbte lim;
Drugs, .Medicines. Paints, and Oils.
r.s the'?ery best facilities lor rhe prorop
transaction of ligitimate
linking BusinesN
8 lock?, bonds, gold, government and local e-
uritieB bought and sold. Deposits recoiv-.
ind interest allowed on the certificut-
Drafts drawn, available in any part ot
Cnited States and all the principal tewns o!
Surope.
Xtl,ECTIOJJ8 MADE AND PKOA1 PTLY REMIT-
IKD.
Utghesi market pric pii lor County W?.
rants, state ana County bonds.
.DIRECTORS
John Fitzgerald D. Ilawftsviortb
Sam Waugh. F. K. White
(ieoree E. Dovey
Jchn Fitzgerald. S. Waugh.
rreement .'rr-
DRUGGISTS SUNDRIES AND PURE LIQUORS
Prescriptions faivfiiiiy rouipowurffri . a Hour
Lightning Kindled the Fireplace Fire.
Saturday night there was a prettv big
thunderstorm. An old negro named
Henry Wishum lives at 531 Jefferson
Btreet. There was no one in the house
while the storm was in progress. Tho
building was struck by lightning and
the whole front of the house was torn to
pieces. On the opposite side of the room
was an open fireplace filled with trash,
before which a screen had been placed.
The lightning ignited this rubbish as
nicely as a match could have done, and
without setting fire to anything else in
the room. When Wishum's wife re
turned shortly afterward she found the
fire burning cheerfully. Americus
Times-Recorder.
HENRY BOECK
The Leading
FURNITURE DEALER
AND
TRY THE
rT;E:f:A:L:f)
A Hare Collect ioti of fabric.
The collection of fabrics in the Drexc l
institute, Philadelphia, promises to lie
come one of the finest in the country and
of tlie highest importance to students.
Ta - series of Indian prints is remarka
)le : n 1 the Chinese embroideries com
prise several notable specimens.
Tli? Ireaclier' Intlustrloim Ileii.
The Congregational minister in Xew
ington things he has the champion hen
of the place, aha began laying in Feb
ruary, immediately after he first owned
her. She kept this up until she went to
sitting and hatched out a brood the first
Xart of April. About a week ago she
was allowed to run at large with her
brood, but returned to the coop during
the day and laid an egg, brooding her
chickens at night. This she continues
to do, la3ing her egg daily and still rar
ing for her chicks. Ilartford (Conn,;
Times.
May lie Soap Advertisements.
L. C. G. Harris, of Bertha, Lake
1 county, Cal., writes that he has discov
ered upon some rocks in that section a
large number of painted hieroglyphics
of the most interesting character. There
are many hundreds of characters, and
Mr. Harris, who has studied them close
ly, believes that he has hit upon a clew
to their meaning. In the same locality
he has dr.g ui a number of arrowheads,
one of which i3 made of abalbne shell,
and the characters engraved upon it are
similar to those painted on the rocks.
San Francisco Chronicle.
The coffee crop of Brazil has been so
large that the railroads of one of the
provinces have for weeks been blocked,
every available car being in service,
freight depots being crowded and fur
ther receipts of coffee being declined.
UNDERTAKR.
Constantly keep9 on hand everythin
you need to furnish your house.
CORNER SIXTH AKD MAIN STREET
A
KNO
iiUs::
33
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Plattsmouth
Neb
Lumber
Yard
THE OLD RELIABLE.
Tlie Kclrr Way.
A boy of three and a half years, on
licking about a mail who 6trained his
back by liftin;; a barrel, said: "I shouIJ
have thougiit ha would have rolled it."
Cor. Babyhood.
Major Renard is constantly improv
ing his dirigible balloon, and he has
now announced that he has invented a
motor of seventy horse power weigliing
only 4 CO kilograms."
Melbourne is just emerging from the
overwhelming effects of a land boom.
All trades are stagnant and the unem
ployed are clamoring for work.
A Curious Horse.
Air. Yelkins had a fine bay horse that i
had a mania for catching chickens, and J
one day last week, wheu he went out to i
the stable, he found the hort e lying dead.
He cut the body open and found that tho
horse had actually eaten a whole chicken,
and the bones had cut through the stom
ach, causing death. Santa Maria (Cal.)
Times.
An electric exhibit will be one of the
features of the exposition to be held at
Buffalo in August. A model of Niagara
Falls tunnel, showing how it is to be
utilized in the transinission of power, is
one of the novelties suggested.
WiTBBSAK k m
nn p 1 1 in iprr
Hnr LUMBtH
Shingles, Lath, Bash,
Costa Rica is about to have a law
making the sale of Indian antiquities to
foreigners a crime, punishable with
severe penalties.
cors,
1
s
Xn supply everv.- dtmand of the city.
Call and get terms. . Fourth street
: in rear of opera havst.
501 Cor Fifth and Vine St
PLA.TTSMOUTH - . NE3R-SKA
Mexican
Mustang
-isr-
iniment.
A Cure for the Ailments of Man and Beast
A long-tested pain reliever.
Its use is almost universal by the Housewife, the Farmer, the
Stock Raiser, and bj- every one requiring an effective
liniment. ' - - -
No other application compares with it in efficacy.
This well-known remedy has stood the test of years, almost
generations.
No medicine chest is complete without a bottle of Mustang
Liniment.
. Occasions arise , for its use almost every day.
All druggists and dealers have it.
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