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MONDAY, JULY 27, 1914. PLATTSMOUTH SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, PAGE 7. Copyright. 1913. by . PROLOGUE. . 44 r Readers of Tarzan of the Apes" there were millions of them have been awaiting with eagerness "The Return of Tar- , zcn." They need no introdnc Hon to the ape-man, who -was cn English lord by ancestry and an inhabitant of the treetops by fate until the same fate brought him out and made him a civilized man after twenty years of life among the great apes of Africa. His adventures, as wonderful and interesting as any set forth in words, have been the center of interest in a story that is unique it its originality. 1'Jow we have "The Return of Tarzan," as thrilling as its fore runner. In it ere told the fur ther adventures of the splendid cpe-mcn, who at last wins his way to the side of his true love after facing countless perils by land and sea. Whoever rea.d "Tarzan of the Apes" needs no invitation to peruse this story. Others are warned that after they read this sequel io "Tarzan of the Apes" they won't be satisfied until they have read that story also. CHAPTER XVIII. The Ivory Raiders. AZIItl'S warriors marched at a rapid trot through the jungle in the direction of the village. For a few minutes the sharp cracking of gms ahead warned them to haste, but finally the reports dwindled to an occasional shot, presently ceasing altogether. .Nor was this less ominous than the rattle of musketry, for it suggested but a single solution to the little band of rescuers that the illy garrisoned village bad al ready succumbed to the onslaught of a superior force. The returning hunters had covered a little more than three miles of the five that had separated them from the vil l.ire when they met the first of the fugitives who had escaped the bullets and the clutches of the foe. There wore a dozen women, youths and girls in the party, and so excited were they that they could scarce make them selves understood as they tried to re late to Waziri the calamity that bad lefallen bis people. "Th'v are as many as the leaves of the forest." cried one of the women, in attempting to espiain the enemy's force. "There are many Arabs and countless Manyuema. and tbey all have guus. They crept close to the village before we knew that they were about, and then, with many shouts, they rushed in upon us. shooting down men and women r.nd children. Those of us who could fled in all directions into the jungle, but more were Killed. 1 do not know whether they took any prisoners or not tbey seemed only bent ufon killing us nil." The march toward the village was row resumed more slowly and with greater stealth, for Waziri knew that it was too late to rescue: their only mis sion could be one of revenge. Inside the nest mile n hundred more fugitives were met. There were many men Among these, and so the fighting f-tretigtb of the party was augmented Now a dozen warriors were sent creeping ahead to reconnoiter. Waziri remained with the main body, which advanced in a thin line that spread in a great crescent through the forest lly the chief's side walked Tarzan. Presently one of the scouts returned. He bad come within sight of the vil lage. -They are all within the palisade." he whispered G'tod!" said Waziri. "We shall rush in upon them and slay tbeui nil." Wait."" cautioned Tarzan. "If there rre even fifty guns within the palisade we shall lie repulsed and slaughtered. me go alone through the trees, so l hat 1 may look down upon them from above and see just how "many there be and what chance we might have w.-re we to charge. Will you wait. AVaziri:" "Yes." said the old chief. "Gof So Tarzan sprang into the trees and disappeared in the direction of the vil J.iue. He moved more cautiously than v:i. his wont, for be knew that men with guns could reach him quite as :ily in the treetops as on the ground. In five minutes he had wormed his way to the great tree that overbuys the palisade at one end of the villajrc. and from his point of vantage looked 6 ivn i;ihii the savace horde beneath. He counted fifty Arabs and estimated th:t there v. pre live times as many cannibal Manyuema. The ape-man saw that to charge tbgj W W. G. Chapman horde, armed as they were with jrun. and barricaded behind the locked satps of the viIla:r,, woK1 lie flltiIe ,ask. ailj so ne returned to Waziri and advised hira to wait: that he. Tarzan. had a better plan, but a moment before one of the fngitives had related to Wa zlri the story of the atrocious murder of the old chiefs wife, and so crazed with rage was the old man that be cast discretion to the winds. Calling his warriors about him. he commanded them to charge, and with brandishing spears and savage yells the little force of scarcely more than a hundred dash ed madly toward the village gates. Ie fore the clearing had been half crossed the Arabs opened up a withering tire from behind the palisade. With the first volley Waziri fell. The speed of the chargers slackened Another volley brought down a half dozen more. A few reached the bar red gates only to be shot in their tracks without the ghost of a chance to grain the inside of the palisade, and then the whole attack crumpled, and the remaining warriors scaruiered back into the forest. As they ran the raiders opened the pates, rushing after them to complete the day's work with the titter exter mination of the trile. Tarzan had been among the last to turn back to ward the forest, and now as be ran slowly he turned from time to time to speed a well aimed arrow into the tody of a pursuer. Once within the jungle be found a little knot of determined blacks wait ing to give battle to the oncoming horde, but Tarzan cried to them to scatter, keeping out of harm's way un til they could gather in force after dark. "Do as I tell you." he urged, "and 1 will lead you to victory over these ene mies of yours. Scatter through the forest, picking up as many stragglers as you can find and at night, if you think that you have been followed, come by roundabout ways to the spot where we killed the elephants today. Then I will explain my plan, and you will find that it is good." They had barely time to hasten away farther into the forest before the first of the raiders had crossed the clearing and entered it in pursuit of them. Tarzan ran a short distance along the ground before he took to the trees. Then he raced quickly to the upper ter race, there doubling on bis tracks and making his way rapidly back toward the village. Here he found that every Arab and Manyuema had joined in the pursuit. leaving the village deserted except for the chained prisoners and a single guard. The sentry stood at the open gate looking in the direction of the forest so that he did not see the agile giant that dropped to the ground at the far end of the village street. With drawn bow the ape-man crept stealthily to ward his unsuspecting victim. The prisoners had already discovered him. and with wide eyes filled with wonder and with hope they watched their would be rescuer. Now be halted not ten paces from the unconscious Man yuema. The shaft was drawn back its full length at the height of the keen gray eye that sighted along its polished surface. There was a sudden twang as the brown fingers released their hold, and without a sound the raider sank forward upon his face, a wooden shaft transfixing his heart and pro truding a foot from his black chest. Then Tarzan turned his attention to the fifty women and youths chained neck to neck on the long slave chain. There was no releasing of the ancient padlocks in the time that was left him. so the ape-man called to them to fol low him as they were, and. snatching the gun and cartridge belt from the dead sentry, be led the now happy band out through the village gate and into the forest upon the far side of the clearing. It was a slow and arduous march, for the slave chain was new to these people, and there were many delays as one of their number would stumble and fall, dragging others down with her. Then. too. Tarzan had been forced to make a wide detour to avoid any possibility of meeting with returning raider3. He was partially guided by occasional shots, which indicated that the Arab horde were still in touch with the villagers, but he knew that If they would but follow bis advice there would be but few casualties other than on the side of the marauders. Toward dusk the firing ceased entire ly, and Tarzan knew that the Arabs had all returned to the village. It was after midnight when Tnrzan, with bis slow moving caravan. "n proached the sjot where the elephants lay. Long before they reached it they had been guided by the huge fire the natives had built in the center of a hastily improvised boma. partially for warmth and partially to keep "lo!T I chance lions. was a joyous reception the ilitle partylreceiYecT vhen file LTacks-wfthhi the boma saw the long file of fettered friends and relatives enter the firelight. These had all been given up as lost for ever, as had Tarzan s well. Sleep was no easy matter that night, for the women who had lost their men or their children in the day's massacre and battle made uight hideous with their continued wailing and howling. Fiually. however, Tarzan succeeded in silencing them on the plea that their noie would attract the Arabs to their hiding place, when all would be slaugh ter ed. Wheu dawn came Tarzan explained Lis plan of battle to the warriors. First the women and children with a guard of some twenty old warriors and youths were started southward to be entirely out of the zone of danger. Two hours after daylight a thin cir cle of black warriors surrounded the village. At intervals one war perched high in the branches of a tree which could overlook the palisade. Presently a Manyuema within the village fell, pierced by a single arrow, a silent mes senger of death from out of the silent forest. The Arabs and their followers were thrown into a fine rage at this unprec edented ociunreuce. They ran for the gates to wreiik dire vengeance upon the foolhardy ierpetrator of the out rage, but they suddenly realized that they did not know which way to turn to find the foe. As they stood debat ing, with many angry shouts and much gesticulating, one of the Arabs sank silently o the ground in their very midst a thin arrow protruding from his heart. Tarzan had placed the finest marks men of the tribe in the surrounding trees, with directions never to reveal themselves while the enemy was faced in their direction. As a black released his messenger of death he would slink back behind the sheltering stem of the tree he had selected, nor would he again aim until a watchtul eye told him that none was looking toward his tree. Three time" the Arabs started across the clearing in the direction from which tbey thought the arrows came, but each time another arrow would come from behind to take its toll from among their number. Then they would turn and charge in a new direction. Final ly they set out upon a determined search of the forest, but the blacks melted before them so that they saw no sign of an enemy. But above them lurked a grim figure in the dense foliage of the mighty trees it was Tarzan of the Apes, hovering over them as if he bad been the shad Now and Then at Varying Intervals a Man Would Plunge Forward Dead. ow of death. Presently a Manyuema forged ahead of his companions; there was none to see from what directiou death came, and so it came quickly, and a moment later those behind stum bled over the dead body of their com radethe inevitable arrow piercing the still heart It does not take a great deal of this manner of warfare to get upon the nerves of white men. and so it is little to be wondered at that the Manyuema were soon panic stricken. Did one forge ahead an arrow found his heart: did one lag behind he never again was seen alive; did one stumble to oneide even for a bare moment from the sight of his fellows he did not return, and always when they came upon the bod ies of their dead they found those ter rible arrows driven with the accuracy of superhuman power straight through the victim's heart- But worse than all else was the hideous fact that not once during the morning had tbey seen or heard the slightest sign of an enemy, other than the pitiless arrows. When finally they returned to the village it was no better. Every now and then at varying intervals that were maddening in the terrible suspense they caused, a man would plunge forward dead. The blacks besought their white masters to leave this terrible place, but the Arabs feared to take up the march through the grim and hostile foreFt be set by this new and- terrible enemy while laden with the great store, of Ivory they had found within the vil lage: but. worse yet, they hated to leave the ivory behind. Finally the entire expedition took refuge withiu the thatched huts. Here, at least, they would be free from, the arrows Tarzau. from the tree above the village, had marked the hut into which the chief Arabs bud cone and, bajancii) himself upon au overhanging limb, tie drove his" heavy spear with all the force ot his giant muscles through the thatched roof. A howl of pain toid him that it had found a mark. Then Tarzan returned to the forest, collected his warriors and withdrew a mile to the south to rest and eat. An inspection of his force showed not a single casualty not even a mi nor wound, while rough estimates of the enemies' loss convinced the blanks Mint no fewer than twenty l:ud fallen oefore their arrows. They were wild with elation and were for finishing the Cay in one glorious rush upon the vil lage, during which they would slaugh ter the last of their foemen. "You are crazy!" Tarzan cried. "I have shown you the only way to hunt these people. You will fight just as I tell you to fight or I shall leave you and go back to my own country." They were frightened when he threatened this and promised to ol-ev him scrupulously if he would but promise not to desert them. "Very well." he said. "We shall re turn to the elephant boma for tie night. I have a plan to give t.'it Arabs h little tarte of what thev mcv expert if they remain in our country, but I shall need no help." So they marched back to their camp of the previous uight and. lighting great tires, ate ar.d recounted the ad ventures of the day until long after dark. Tarzan slept until midnight, theu he arotse and crept into the Cim irwian blackness of the fiyrest. An hour later he came to the edge of the clearing before the village. There was a camp fire burning within the palis ade. The ape-man crept across the clearing until he stood bob ire the bar led gates. Through the interstices he saw a lone sentry sitting before the fire. Quietly Tarzan went to the tree at the end of the village street. He climbed softly to bis pla-.-e and fitted an arrow to his bow. l or several minutes he tried to sight fairly upou the sentry, but the waving branches and flickering firelight convinced him that the danger of a miss wa too great. He must touch the heart fu!! in the center to bring the quiet and sudden death his plan required. He had brought beside his bow. ar rows and rope the gun he had taken the previous day from the e ther sentry be had killed. Caching all these in a ?onvenient crotch of the tree, he drop ped lightly to the ground within the palisade, armed only with his Ions knife. The sentry's back was toward him. Like a cat Tarzan crept upon the dozing man. Tarzan crouched for a spring, for that is ever the quickest und surest at tack of the jungle beast, when the man. warned by some subtle sense, sprang to his feet and faced the ape man. CHAPTER XIX. Victory For the Waziri. HEN the eyes of the black Manyuema savage fell upon the strange apparition that confronted hiui with menac ing knife they went wide in horror. He forgot the gun within his hands He even forgot to cry out. His one thought was to escape this fearsome looking white savage, this giant of a man upon whose massive rolling mus cles and mighty chest the flickering firelight played. But before he could turn Tarzan was upon him. and then the sentry thought to scream for aid. but it w as too late. A great hand was upon his windpipe, and he was being borne to the earth. He battled furiously, but lutilely. With the grim tenacity of a bulldog those awful fingers were clinging to his throat. Swiftly and surely life was being choked from him. His eyes bulged, his tongue protruded, his face turned to a ghastly, purplish hue. There was a convulsive tremor of the stiffening muscles, and the Manyuema sentry lay quite still. The ape-man threw the body across one of his broad shoulders and. gather ing up the fellow's gun. trotted silent ly up the sleeping village street to ward the tree that gave him such easy ingress to the palisaded village. He bore the dead sentry into the midst of the leafy maze above. First he stripped the body of car tridge belt and such ornaments as he craved, wedging it into a convenient crotch while his nimble fingers ran over it in search of the loot he could not plainly see in the dark. When he had finished he took the gun that had belonged to the man and walked far out upon a limb, from the end of which he could obtain a better view of the huts. Drawing a careful bead on the beehive structure In which he knew the Arabs to be. he pulled the trigger. Almost instantly there was au answer ing groan Tarzan smiled; he had made another lucky hit. Following the shot there was a mo ment's silence in the camp, and then Manyuema and Arab came pouring from the huts like a swarm of angry hornets; but, if the truth were known, they were even more frightened than they were angry. When they discovered that their sen try had disappeared their fears were in no way allayed, and as though to lolster their courage by warlike ac tions tbey began to fire rapidly tit the barred gates of the village, although no enemy was in sight. Tarzan took advantage cf the deafening roar of this fusillade to fire into the mob be neath him. ' ' r No one heard his shot above the din of rattling musketry in the street, but some, who were standing close, saw one of their number crumple suddenly to the earth. When they leaned over him he was dead. They were panic stricken, and it took all the brutal "au thority of the Arabs to keep the Man yuema from rushing htjter skelterjnto W the-juui-lo anywhere to escape from this terrible village. After a time they commenced to quiet down, and as uo further mys terious deaths occurred among them they took heart again. But it was a short lived respite, for just as they had concluded that they would iut be dis turbed again Tarzan gave voice to a weird moan, and as the raiders looked up in the direction from which the sound seemed to come, the ape-man. who stood swinging the dead body of the sentry gently to and fro, suddenly shut the corpse far out almve their heads. With howls of r.larm the throng broke in nil directions to escape this new anil terrible creature who seemed to be springing upon them. To their fear distorted imaginations the body of the sentry, falling with wide sprawled arms and legs, assumed the likeness of a great beast of prey. In their anx iety to escape many of the blacks scaled the palisade, while others tore down the bars from the gates and rushed madly across the clearing to ward the jungle. For a time no ore turned back to ward the thing th.it had frightened them, but Tarzan knew that they would in a moment, and when they discovered that it was but the dead body of their sentry, while they would doubtless be still further terrified. Le had a rather definite idea ;i to what they would do. So he faded silently away toward the south, taking the moonlit upper terrace back to'vard the camp of the Waziri. Presently one of the Arabs turned and saw that the thing that had leaped from the tree upon them luy still and quiet where it had fallen in the center of the village street. Cautiously he ciept back toward it until he saw that it w;!s but a man. A moment, later he was Resile tlie figure and in another had recogni."..-d it as the corpse of the Manyuema who had sichkI on guard at the village gate. Ills companions rapidly gathered around at his call, and after a mo rn nt's excited conversation they d.d precisely what Tarzan had reasoned they would. liaising their guns to their shou'ders. they poured volley lifter volley into the tree from which the corpse had been thrown. Had Tarzan remained there h would have been riddled by a hundred bullets. When the Arabs and Manyuema dis covered that the only marks of vio lence upon the body of their dead com rade were' iriant linger prints upon his swollen throat they were again thrown into deeper apprehension and despair. That they were not even safe withiu a palisaded village at night came as a distinct shuck to them. That an ene my could enter the midst of their camp and kill their sentry with bare hands seemed outside the bonds of reason. :.'Dd so the superstitious Manyuema commenced to attribute their ill lucl: to supernatural cruses, nor were the whites able to offer any better expla nation. With at least fifty cf their number flying through the black jungle, and without the slightest knowledge of when their uncanny foemen might re sume the cold blooded slaughter they had fomuioneed. it was a les;erate band of cutthroat that waited sleep lessly for the dawn. Only on the prom ise of the Arabs that they would leave Cue village :t dayl.reak. and hasten on ward toward the. r own land, would the remaining Manyuema consent to stay at the village a moment longer Not even l'ear of their cruel masters was suliicient to overcome this new terror. And so it was that when Tarzan and his warriors returned to the attack the next morning they found the raiders prepared to inarch out of the village. The Manyuema were laden with sto len ivory. As Tarzan saw it he grin tied, for he knew that they would not carry it far. Then be saw something which caused him anxiety a number of the Manyuema were lighting torch es in the remnant of the camp fire. They were about to fire the village. Tarzan was perched in a tall tree some hundred yards from the palisade Making a trumpet of his hands, he cailed loudly in the Arab tongue: "D not fire the huts or we sLall kill you all! Do not tire the huts, or we shall kill you a!!:" A dozen times he repeated It. The Manyuema hesitated; then one of them flung his torch into the camp fire. The others were about to do the same wheu an Arab sprang upon them with a stick, beating them toward the huts. Tarzan could see that tie was com manding them to Cre the little thatch ed dw ellings. Then he stood erec t upon the swaying branch a hundred feet above the ground, and. raising one of the Arab guns to his shoulder, took careful aim and fired. With the report the Arab who was urging on his men to burn the village fell in Ids tracks, and the Manynerna threw away their torches and tied from the village. The last Tarzan saw of them they were racing toward the jungle, while their former masters knelt upon the ground and fired at them. I'.ut, however angry the Arabs might have been at the insubordination of their slaves, they were at least con vinced that it would be the better part of wisdom to forego the pleasure of" firing the village that had given them two such nasty receptions, in their hearts, however, they swore to return t I & gain w ith such a force as would en J able them to .sweep the entire country ! for miles around until io vestige of ! human life remained. ! They had looked in vain for the own er of the voice which had frightened I off the men who hud Ix-en detailed to I put the torch to the huts, but not even i the keenest eye Hinoi.g them had been I ible to locate him. They had seen the puff of s.uioUu from the tree tollowing s the shot that tr ;;ght down the Aisib. , j but, though a jvoiiey had itnineciiateij j been loused into 'its' "foliage, there hail been no indication that it had been ef fective. Tarzan was too intelligent to le cn-.-ght in any such trap, and so the re port of his shot had scarcely died away before the ape-mau was on the ground and racing for another tree a hundred yard-s away. Here he again found a suitable perch from which he could watch th'e preparations of the raiders !t occurred to him that be might !iave considerable more tun with them, so again he called to them throng!) fiis Improvised trumpet.' "Leave the ivory!" tie cried. "Leave the ivory! Dead men have no use tot ivory !" Some of the Manyuema started to lay down their loads, but this was al together too much for the a variolous Arabs. With loud shouts and curses they aimed their guns full upon the bearers, threatening instant death to any who might lay down his load They could g:-" i:p firing the village, but the thought of abandoning thi enormous fortune in ivory was qintc beyond their conception. Better death than that. And so they nuirched cut of the vil lage of the Waziri, and on the shoul ders of their slaves was the ivory rau som of a score of kings. Toward the north they marched, bark toward their savage settlement. Under Tarzau's guidance the black Waziri warriors stationed themselves along the trail on either s:ic in the densest underbrush. They st:.:l at far intervals, and as the column passed a single arrow or a heavy spear, well aimed, would pierce a Manyuema or an Arab. Then the Waziri would melt into the distance and run ahead to take his stand farther on. They dkl not strike unless success were sure and the danger of detection almost nothing, and so the arrows and the spears were few and fur between, but so persistent, and inevitable that the slow moving column of heavy laden raiders was in a constant state of panic jmnic at the pierced body of the comrade who had just fallen, panic at the uncertainty of who the next would be to full and when. It was with the greatest difficulty that the Arabs prevented their men a dozen times from throwing away their burdens and fleeing like frightened rabbits up the trail toward the north. And so the day wore on a frightful nightmare of a day for the raiders a day of weary but well repaid work for the Waziri. At night the Arabs con structed a rude boma in a little clear ing by a liver and went into camp. At intervals during the night a rife would bark close above their h?nc!s. and one of the dozen scntriej which they now had posted would tumble to the ground. Su -h a condition was Ln sjupportublo. for tl.ey saw that by means cf these hideous tactics they would be completely wiped out. one by one. without indicting a single death upon their enemy. But yet. with the persistent avnriciousness of the white man. the Arabs clung to their loot and when morning came-forced the demor alized Manyuema to take up their bur dens of death and stagger on into the jungle. For three days the withering column kept up its frightful march. Fach hour was marked by its deadly arrow or cruel spear. The nights were made hideous by the barking of the invisible gun that made sentry duty equivalent to a death sentence. On the morning of the fourth day the Arabs wire compelled to shoot two of their blacks before they could com pel the balance to take up the hated ivory, and as they did so a voice rang out clear and strong from the jungle: "Today you die. oh. Manyuema. un less you lay down the ivory. Fall uton your cruel masters and kill them! You have guns, why do you not use them? Kill the Arabs, and we will not harm you. We will take you back to our vil lage and feed you and lead you out of our country in safety and In peace. Lay down the ivory and fall upon your masters. We will help you. Else you die!" As the voice died down the raiders stood as though turned to stone. The Arabs eyed their Manyuema slaves. The slaves looked first at one of their fellows and then at another. They were but waiting for some one to take the inititaive. There were some thirty Arabs left and about b".0 blacks. AM were armed even those "who were act ing as porters had their rifles slung across their backs. The Arabs drew together. The sheik ordered the Manyuema t take up the march, and as lie spoke he cocked his rifle and raised it. But at the same instant cue of the blacks threw down his load. and. snatching his rifle from his back, tired !oint blank at the group of whites. In an instaut the camp was a cursing, howling mass of de mons, fighting with guns and knltrs and pistols. The Arabs stood togeth er and defended their lives valiantly, but with therain of lead that poured ujx'ii them from their own slaves and the shower of arrows and spears which now leaped from the surrounding jun gle aimed solely at them, there was little question from the first what the outcome would be. In ten minutes from the time the first iorter had thrown down his load the last of the Arabs lay dead. When the firing had ceased Tarzan spoke again to the Manyuema: "Take up our ivory. and return it to our village, from whence you stole it. We shall not harm you." ; - (To be Continued.) C. K.,YVsooti ami liltle grnn.I daughler. Miss Helen Wescoll. wore passengers lliis iiinrniiigr for Omaha, where they wiM visif. for a few lonit's looking after some matters of business. Statement of the Condition THE LIYINGSTON LOAN AMD BUILCIHG ASSOCIATION j Of I'iatt.- inout h. Neb., on the Uoday of .iimo, l'.'l 4. Ass I I I .- l'iit n mm t irate loans , Sloek loans i l.Viil .-late eonl i ai't j Cn-li 1 -i:it-jti-r-t ir irn l, m in I u in-, ar.ii lirvs a?il ilui-s Pent aceouiit I lisiiraiet' aim taxes raid hiitl ml- I vTm'J I 'i -.t:.i .-' 1 ...o4 ( M 44 1 .4.". l."4.74g 3j v ai.ctu Total LIA PdLITir. Capital Stoek naid ur tI m'j 4 !:- ie lurul .mh J" t'r.ilivitied inotii.-, :..; e Ollitr lia'i lilies -I.11N l-aj alil- :.4 A Total ii,4.;u :tj Keoeiits am Hxri:iiTi-iifs run :iie Ve.oi Emii.nc. .1 cm: i'.i4. i;kc niPTs. Kalaiiec on liaml.Iuly 1- t'.'i:; f m rj n: I Mi s j:;.4:i i" Iiiutcms. I'lemluuis and lines ll.iCii '' Loan-, repaid lr.ii'.ti 7' Ueal Ksiate Contracts i-'5 1" Total.. . 03,414 .il K.xpFNomnns rans f i'.Ii-O i Kmmi.4- 1.4-11 : .! H-k redeemed "'.'.Im''. II Cash on hand joi Insurance and Tae jaid and ad- vanced . I.4Vi 4ii Kent and Kenair 444 tJ TolLl .f (si.4,,'4 Jl STATIC of NKi:.K. ' ' I 'ul'N I" V i I. C. I'ricke. secretary of the alivp rained av'iai ion. do ti-m nly w r;tr thai (Iip f uiv'oi'it m a lenient of I lie eonnit i' n of a id a . K-iat ion. Is ! t lie nml coi reel to the Oest of my kneu le!te and In li f. c. rnirKi".. Approved: Mfieiaiy. I). U SMITH. 1 C. A. M A K.-ll A I.l -Pirerlno.. r. o. i i.K.HKK.ri:. sulix-l jhp.i and siaoi II to liefoie nif this 7th day of .Inly P.'KI. A. I.. TUO. IstAl.l Notary Punlje My commission expiies let. .". i.Uj Al t'lflloy .Maltlli'W lli'l IM-. ullo f Hie le;i'li:ir candidate- for I ii republican Humiliation (v cmi i-'ivss. departed tins iiinriiinv' f"t Fails I i I y o there with his friend- and Inoli over Ihe political situation. A- the people o,. ;ir ipiaillled Willi this talenioil e Sicilian they ali realize what an eci Mont i-epro-entat i e ho would make for the I'ir-t di-trict. Wedding stationery Journal office. at the Make Your Wants Known Ad ei t ixenier.t s under this heading foe (flit pi r line each in.-ei Inm. Six wiiiiis vl!l l.e emintfl n. n lin and no ad vert isi nitnt taken for less than ten cents. LOST Ou .July lolh, I.etueoii Mikui ami Lincoln, a ie-lo Lite tank. -izo .' nickel lalei. il!i rciIiM'iny ;ile at tache, 1. H'-wani will ho icii for- its return. II. . r.oe, M nai l. Neb . 7--o- il u FOR SAM! Sihi-r cornet, splen did iii-trunient. I.onjr model. Inquire of JickAanl, Illcc In ic shn.' Store. i-'tllt SAI.I1 FCe-o- .Moocce. I '. I .5 Iliodol. lOUife of A. A. M( ile Holds. N'ohawka. N-h. 7-J7--'lv OZAIlKS tin acre-, handsomely im jro ed. "ooil oiclnird. z I water, clo-e (o town. JO acre- limber; a line dairy, poultry, truck, fruit, r.ain or pra--l.irin: l'.5 miles south of Kan sas (lily, on Kan-a- (lily South ern Railway. Irice. s:i.r)ini.(iii; terms. R. II. Kates, Aiider-on, .Mo. Foil SALK The Mrs. McVickcr residence on North Sixth street, r r particulars call on Mrs. J. M. Jjcesley. POi: SALE Tie O. 1 Switzer quarter, three miles southwest of Nehuwka. For particulars see or write Henry M. I'ollarrf, Nehawka, Nebraska. pOi; SALE Farm ef 121 acres, .V,' miles northea-t of Union. 11 acres hay land. JO acres pasture timber, te-t. in cultivation: well improved, l'rice riht if taken soon. Address Miss Etta Nickels, Murray. Nebr. COi: SALE Heautiful Shetland po- nie at all i iiiies. for the next lo years, unless I ciie in the meantime. I have now un extra line stallion, the best in the state, for sale Well broke for Injth harness and saddle. Wni. Oilmour, l'lattsinouth, Nebr., Yl. F. O. No. 1. LOST Helween Ihe Murray Stale Hank and Ihe Churchill ice cream parlor, a while celluloid fan, has silver -p;ini:les on. also I wo vards pink ribbon. Fillder please loae Millie at the Churchill ice cream parlor. T-1'U..-Rwkly IF Vol; W ANT any e diinx . or (deaninr. r ce--pools or ci--lerns cleaned call on V. II. Man or Frank Rice. 7-. J-Jv-Jw Do you know that trie Journal office carries the finest line of stationery In the city?