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PETER CLAUS
He has just received some
line new
MONITOR RANGES
He also will convince you if
you call at his store that he can
fit you out with
FURNITURE and
GRANITEWARE
in a very satisfactory manner.
THE THOUGHTFUL WOMAN
comes here when she wishes to luy
candy, tsoft drinks, ice cream. Why
Becaus she can depend upon our
goods heing absolutely fresh and pure.
,S Follow her example and you will
V profit by so doinir. Leave orders for
. Ice cream, Pint '20c, Quart, 4()c, Gal
lon, $1.15. Try our Fountain for ice
cream and soda.
J. E. MASON
The
COZY CORNER
Perkins House
ED. BRANTNER
Proprietor
Cigars, Candies and
Tobaccos
cordially invite my old
B friends, as well as new. and
all others in search of a cozy
comer for an hour's rest, to
come to my place, where you
can enjoy a refreshing smoke
An unexcelled line of choice
Tobaccos always in stock.
Ed. Brantner, Prop.
OUR LINE OF SHIRTS.
is well worth an inspection. We make
ft specialty of fine shirts at the lowest
prices ever quoted for such quality.
FOR THE SHOP MAN.
In working shirts we have a com
plete stock. Come in and look over
our big values and then use your own
judgment about buying.
Try one of our "Khaki" or "Chamois
Skin."
J. E. TUEY
Methodist Bazaar.
Tho Methodist ladies will kold their
annual bazaar on May Gth and 7th
and will have on sale a nice line of
llowers, aprons and fancy work. tf
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SERVANTS IN AFRICA.
Reference the Natives Product Are
Not Always Complimentary.
The servant problem is bad
enough in America, and the experi
ences mistresses have to relato are
many and nricd, but an infinitely
wider ranjic of possibilities is open
ed up when mere man and a
bachelor man at that tackles the
servant and other household prob
lems in an Fast African bungalow.
Anything can and docs happen
then.
Native house servants of a sort
arc plentiful enough around the
chief towns of British East Africa,
Nairobi and Mombasa, and the
slightest rumor that the muzungu
(white man) requires a "boy" or
m'pezi (cook) fills one's compound
with cooks, "generals" and raw ne
groes representing every tribe un
der Africa's sun.
The average bachelor contents
himself with four servants a head
"boy," a cook, a 'toto (youth) to as
sist them and a m'shenzi (raw, un
trained native) for odd jobs, gar
dening, etc.
It is no easy task to make a se
lection from the host of eager, volu
ble applicants. Dirty, carefully
stuck together "baruas" (testimo
nials) are examined and the owners
questioned, but it is unwise to put
much faith in these documents, for
it is no unusual occurrence for a
"boy" on the principle of "tho
more the merrier" to proudly pre
sent you with three testimonials,
every one bearing a different name
from the one tinder which he intro
duces himself.
These gentry are always greatly
offended when you kick them off
the veranda and tell them they
have bought or stolen the docu
ments from oilier natives! Upon
one occasion a would bo cook
brought the writer a "barua" sign
ed by a well known settler and
worded :
"To whom it may concern : The
bearer of this 'barua' is an infernal
rogue and thief. Please kick him
out."
By the time tho white man had
stopped laughing the negro had ar
rived at the conclusion that some
thing was wrong and was doing rec
ord time down the path. World
Wide Magazine.
The World's Largest Crab.
The gigantic Japanese crab, meas
uring twelve feet, is probably the
largest crustacean in the world. It
is a type of the spider crab, which
inhabits the waters of the group of
islands forming the empire of Ja
pan. Tho body portion is the size
of a half bushel measure, while its
two great arms, or "feelers," could
easily encircle the figure of a man.
Its eight nrms, or legs, resemble
huge bamboo poles and are ex
tremely elastic, and if strung into
one lino they would reach to the
top of a four story apartment
building. One of the extraordinary
peculiarities of this crab is the fac
ulty of assuming a disguise by af
fixing pieces of seaweed and sponges
to the body.
Would Drown All Sounds.
The agent of the apartment
house was trying to discourage him
from applying for a flat.
"Your nerves would be ruined,"
said the agent. "There is a pho
nograph on the second floor that
runs day and night."
"Dot was nuttin's," responded the
little man in the red and bluo cap.
"On the third floor a girl prac
tices on the piano all day."
"I vud hear her nod."
"And just across the air shaft a
lunatic blows tho cornet at all
hours."
"Dcr sounds vud nod reach me."
"Great Josephus! Are you deaf?"
"Nein! I blay dcr drombone."
Chicago News.
Easy to Arrange.
The poor but honest young man
had bearded the millionaire in his
den.
"Well," he said, "I want to marry
your daughter."
"Impossible, sir, impossible!" ex
claimed the old man. "Why, I
would rather give up every pound
I have than part with my only
daughter."
"Oh, very well," calmly rejoined
the diplomatic youth; "if that's the
way you feel about it I won't be
too heavy on you. Just write me
out a check for a hundred thousand
and we'll let it go at that." rear
eon's Weekly.
A Fireless Cooker.
"Have you ever tried a. fireless
cooker?"
"Yes. We've had one for six
months. My wife has tried to fire
her, and I've told her to go, but ehe
simply ifrnores our requests and
snys she'll scratch the eyes out of
iny other girl we dare to bring into
tho kitchen." Chicago Record-Herald.
LARGE HANDS
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Big Mills Most Desirable Fci
Successful Ball Tosser,
TANNEHILL HAS GOOD PAIR,
Chicago Americans' Third Backer Hai
Large, Sinewy Maulers Evers Hai
Small Hands, Yet He Is One ol
Game's Greatest Fielders.
Many coluuius of stuff have been
written about "baseball bralus." while
"baseball hands" have beeu sadly neg
lected. Fair hands are common, but
the real perfect tyre Is scarce. It li
generally admitted that Lee TannehlH
the Chicago Americans' third sacker,
has the Ideal hands fur a ball tosser.
Lee Is on the down grade as a top
liner these days, but In his prime he
could pick up a grounder better than
any of liU rivals In the Infield.
A close study of Tanneblll's hands
show them large, strong and sinewy.
When he places the tips of his fingers
together, and also the base of his palm,
a baseball fits there as snugly as a
GEOKOE STONE, ST. LOUIS AMERICANS'
ST A It LEFT FIELDE1I.
IGeorRe Btone, the star batter and left
fielder of the St. Louis Americans, it
once more cli'monstratlritf that he Is out
of the leading stick wleldtrs on Ban
Johnson's circuit. Shortly before th
season opened Stone refused to join'
his team because of a big cut In salary,
but later chanKed his mind and at
tached his John Hancock to a contract.
LaBt year George Injured his ankle
and was forced to lay off. Since In
Joined his teammates Stone has been
walloping the sphere at a great rate.J
glove ou the hand. On Bcooplng up a
grounder n round third base the ball
appears to lie almost crushed before
he lets It go to first base. It Is this
that started the expression of "de
vouring the ball" or "eating It up." A
mau who has delicate hands can never
play an Inlield position as easily as one
of 'launchill's kind.
Another luflelder who "eats up" the
ball Is Hans Wagner. Without
stretching the point any. bis hands
look tremendous wueu he swoops up
a grounder. They are about the big
gest hands a man ever looked on. It
takes a fearful drive to get away from
his clutches. Once he gets his hands
on a grounder It geuerally means cer
tain death for the butter. Ills hands
are more necessary to the lnflelder.
for it Is much hard or to scoop up a
ball when it is coming fast than to
catch n fly. Many a fielder who is sure
death ou a fly ball or a line drive will
let a grounder out in bis territory get
away from him.
Devlin of the New York Nationals
has a perfect baseball hand. So have
Hill Hradley of the Cleveland Amer
icans and Pelehanty of the Detroit
Tigers. I'.ut the perfect type is a
rarity. Manager Chance of the Chica
go Nationals looks at a player's hands
first in sizing him up as a possible
recruit It is there that the man's
strength Is shown, and. for that mat
ler, bis character.
A man with delicate hands who
starts In the lufield is a "freak."
Johuny Evers of the Cubs comes un
der this classification. To see Johnny
In citizen's clothes be appears more
like a bank clerk or a cashier, a man
whose business it Is to write or to
handle money. Ills fingers are long
and tapering, almost like a woman's.
It makes one wonder how he can save
fhem from injury and also how he
cr.o round up Borne of the terrific
drives which go his way.
Boston Tesms Composed of Youngsters
The two Huston teams this year are
composed nearly entirely of players
well under the twenty-five year mark.
The Doves, with one or two excep
tions, aro all tinder twenty-five, while
tho majority (if the Hed Sox players
are below that limit. These are the
youngest tennis that ever played to
gether in major league baseball.
- Collins Family Prominent.
There are three Colliuses in the
American league this year. Two of
them are sicond basemen, Eddie of
the Philadelphia Athletics and John
of the Chicago White Sox. Hay Col
Una of the Boston I Jed Sox Is a pitcher.
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FIGHTING A CROCODILE.
An Exciting Adventure In a Chinese
Timber Camp,
A chance visitor to a Chinese
timber camp has related in Chain- j
hers' Journal an cxtraorniary a J- j
venture with a crocodile, in which'
the crocodile came very near having)
the be.-t of it: "Arriving in my!
boat at the little jetty or landing j
place, I was astonished" to find Gra-
nam, the white man in charge of I
the camp, lying on a rattan couch
within a few yards of tho bank,
with a heavy express rifle across his
knees, gazing intently at a rough
fence erected in the stream.
"Throwing myself down near him
in the welcome shade, I learned the
following story:
"Two nights before Graham was
sleeping peacefully in his little
palm leaf house, in a clearing nbout
twenty yards from the river bank,
when hi3 dog began to growl. Gra
ham turned out and walked round
tho hut to ascertain the cause of
the disturbance, but, seeing noth
ing, addressed himself to the dog
in his usual vigorous sailing ship
language and retired to bed again.
"Five minutes later ho was once
more aroused by a yelp from tho
dog, nnd this time, really annoyed,
he seized a stick and sallied forth
to inflict punishment on tho dis
urbcr of his dreams. Suddenly a
nrk form glided swiftly from the
shadows, and Graham felt himself
seized by the right knee as in a
vise. Stooping to free himself, he
found ho was in the grip of a large
crocodile, whose teeth wcro firmly
embedded in tho flesh.
"Hack ward and forward the
struggle swayed, tho crocodile
striving to pull its destined victim
to tio wate's edge and Graham,
hampered as he was by his impris
oned leg, fighting for his life to
reach higher ground. At last the
beast, hurling its victim to the
ground with a shako of its powerful
head, began to drag him swiftly to
ward the water.
'Toor Graham, feeling, as he ex
pressed it, that it was 'all over bar
the shouting,' determined to make
one last cfTort for his life, and, tak
ing advantage of a momentary halt
as the brute was steering past a
tree 6tump, ho sat up and succeeded
in getting both his thumbs into the
reptile's eye sockets the only vul
nerable part of a crocodile's head.
"The rest of the story is per
haps best told in Graham's own
words, or as nearly as circum
stances will permit:
"'As soon as I gets my thumbs
made fast in 'is eyes, 'e opens 'is
mouth to shout an' lets go my leg.
Then first thing next mornin' the
coolies lays 'is breakfast for 'im, as
you see, an' I gets into this chair
an' 'ero I stays, if it's n month.'
"Vainly I tried to persuade him
to come away with me to the next
station and bcc a doctor. I argued
with him, I implored him, but it
was absolutely useless, lie refused
to move from that chair till he had
bagged his crocodile, and I was at
last obliged to leave him, having
dressed his leg and exhausted every
known means of persuasion short of
brute force.
"I met him again a week later in
a hospital bed, suffering severely,
but quite happy in the knowledge
that the bones of that crocodile
were bleaching in the sun outside
his house."
The First Skaters.
It is very doubtful which race
first skated, for traces have been
found among prehistoric remains
all over northern Kuropo indicating
that the art was practiced by prim
itive peoples. The Eskimo of the
farthest north are also found to be
in possession of runners carved
from whalebone. Skating is men
tioned by a Danish historian about
1131, and Fitzstephen in his "His
tory of London" says that in the
twelfth century young men fasten
ed the leg bones of animals under
their feet by means of throngs in
order to slide along the ice. This
statement is confirmed by the pair
oi bone skates of the period now in
the British museum. It is likely,
however, that these early London
ers got the idea from Holland,
probably via Lincolnshire, where
skates have been used on the frozen
fens from very remote times.
Guarding the Cash.
The gypsies in some parts of Eu
rope have a curious way of looking
after the honesty of their money
collector. The person intrusted with
the mission of taking the hat
around among the crowd has a liv
ing fly put into his left hand, while
he holds the hat with his right.
When he returns with the funds he
must bring the fly bark alive as a
sign that he has not taken any
money from the common property,
but if the fly be wanting or even
dead he doc not get even his share
of the mor.ev.
Let Me Tell You Something
If you v:int to bo properly dressed,
you should have your clothes made to
order. You can't ;et up-to-duto styles in
ready-mades, for they are made six months
before the season opens.
BLUE SERGE SUITS
The only place in the city where you
can get a tfood blue serine, fancy worsted,
cheviot or Scotch tweed suit to order that
are actually worth from $.'15 to $40, for only
$20
Cleaning and Repairing
A SPECIALTY
ALL WORK GUARANTEED
James Socher
The Tailor.
THE PARMELE
Presented by the
Company
Burglar J
1 Seats on sale Thursday.
C&llU Curtainjat 8:15 sharp
the
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blIt April 29
This is the last appearance of the
Grew Co. at the Parmele
Prices - 25c, 35c, 50c
Closing Out My
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Owing to my failing health, I have decided to close my
entire line of millinery, after which J shall retire from
business. Prices will be made accordingly. This will
be our last summer season.
MRS. JULIA DWYER
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REAL ESTATE. Town residence from $450 to $;?,000. Don't
nay lent any longer. You can own your own dwelling cheaper.
Let me show you some pood chances to acquire farms in Ne
. hraska. South and North Dakota, Missouri or Texas. FIKE
INSURANCE written in six of the best companies.
SURETY BONDS. Get your Iwnds from the American Surety Co.
ACCIDENT INSURANCE. The risk of personal injury is 40
times as jrreat as that of losing your property by fire. Secure
a policy of the London Gurantee and Accident Company and
be sure of an income whil you are onablo to work.
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