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VOLUME XXVI.
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T'HK second invoice of our spring slock is on the
road. We are well pleased with the very decided
increase in last year's business over the previous year.
We feel that such could not have been the case unless
we had given you extra values for your money. We
are now better prepared than ever to serve you, having
the largest stock in the valley. Anticipating the ad
vance of goods by the passage of the tariff bill, we
we made heavy purchases in many departments, In
carpets we can save you 10 to 20 per cent. In Dry
Goods from 20 to 25 per cent. We were heavy pur
chasers of Cotton Goods before the great cotton
mill strike, and can give you extra values in all staple
cotton goods.
Groceries.
Corn or Gloss starch, nor package 5e
2 packages Cut Plug Tobacco .... nc
Largo sizo can of Lyo 5c
2 boxes hardwood toothpicks.... 5o
1 package bird seed 5e
2 oz bottlo standard extract f.
4 oz standard Lonion or Vanilla: 10c
Sopolio, per cako 8c
Good Making Powder, per lb 8c
1 bottlo Crown shoo dressing !:
12 boxes Parlor Mutches 10c
Package Cottco 10c
1 can Salmon 10e
3 cans pio peaches 2."e
2 cans preserved strawberries .... 25c
8 cans fust quality blackberries. . 2.rio
8 bar White Russian soap 25c
10 bars Fern soap 25c
12 bars Ark soap 23c
3 lbs tapioca
4 packages tninco meal
0 cans sardines
." pounds Rico, good value,
(I pounds Lima Roans,
10 pounds best oatmeal
8 pounds fancy Navy beans
Citron and Orange peel
Gib Raisins
01b Pi lines
4 lb Poaches
Old Siylo smoking tobacco per lb.
Premium Making Cln., late
4 2lb cans cove o7Urs
Pure spices, whole or ground
Rogultir 40c can Price's Unking
Powder
Fancy fasten' full cream cheese.
2 pks fancy s l'd raisins
Tea, full stotK. . ! 11). 25c, 50c. . .
Tea dust extra
3 cans pumpkin
2 cans early June pons
joc
25c
125c
25c
25c
25c
25c
20c
25c
25c
25c
20c
40c
50c
40c
37c
200
25c
t'.Oc
15c
25c
25c
One can of
glow-:
RAKING
FOWDF.R
and a 5 toot
STEP
LADDER
7 5 cents.
Onlj a few left.
WWW 'l IWT1WOTWPW
Renovated Geese Feathers,
fancy, 75c.
" Michigan barrel salt, $1.35.
Toilet Soap.
nbars'Lnbolle 5c
Cocoa, triple bar 8c
Cocoa, long bur, regular 10c, 8c
Lamb's A'ool, 3 bars 10c
Palm.Glycoiinoi&Eldor 3 bats 10c
Glycerine Soap Do
MUSLINS.
In muslins wo aro prepared to
givo you exceptional values.
10-4 blenched Popperill sheet
ing "0
!M bleached Allonsdalo sheet-
ing 10c
411-incli Popporill mills sheet-
ing 10c
GO-lnuh Popperill mills sheet-
ing 11"
80-inch bleached Fruit of the
Loom J,'0
3U-inch bleached Lonsdnlo . . . lie
30-inch Fiirnuu's choice c
30-inch Hailrer State L L Bo
30-inoli L.L., a good one 4e
30-inch L.L., excollont value. 3 jo.
SHIRTING
Wo aro offering oxtin values.
Southern Silk 8c
Atnoskeag p'l
Rinchtunn's lu
Knatlako cheviot, extra linn 15o
- Bros.
I M Embroideries.
One special lot lc
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II II II Jv
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" " " worth 12Jo 10c
.1 .1 .. wm.lh irKJ 12j
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Stamped Linens.
A line lino. Wo carry
the most complete
stock of those goods in
tlin eitv. A complete
line of silks.
India Linen.
Special values at 10c,
I'JJc. 15c, 20c, 25c, :t()c,
and 5l)c.
In black at 12 jejuni 15c.
30-inch Dolled, Swiss, worth
?5c fi.rOOc
Linens f n- futn-j
5oc.
woik !!5c to
Organdies.
Special values at 10c,
12o and 20c.
Hosiery.
To close out the few wool
hose wo have left of our win
ter .stock wo have decided to
soil nt'grunllv reduced prices.
Lace Curtains.
Special values, 47c to
$3 00, per pair
Bedspreads.
All full size, 72x81 inch
es, 00c to $3.
Table Linen.
Hlcaclicd, 23c to $2 per
yaid.
Red 12 o to 75o per yard
Napkins, ble.iehed (iOe
to 8-1.01)
CALICOES and
PERCALES.
.Just loccived a nice lino of
poi calcs Very nice foi shirt
waists.
Any pattern led and white
calico, pur yard 5o
Rlack and white per yard.... 5o
Silver grey por yard 5c
1 jtligo Rlue prints per yard . . 5o
Dress Goods.
Latest plaids and novelty
goods from 12Jo to 50c
30-inch Henriettas 18c
38-iuoh Henriettas 30c
All wool Heiirioltas 50c
All wool limeade, in black.. 50c
48-inch all wool Henriettas 75c
18-inch all wool Henriettas 00c
Silk warp Cashemeic 00c
GINGHAMS
Just leeeived a full lino of
Toll Do Noid Ginghams and
Dress Plaids, also Apron Checks.
Ticking.
A.C A
Old Dover
A good straw tick
.12 Jo
. 10c
. 8c
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RED CLOUD, NEBRASKA. FEi.l 1898.
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J SOME RAMBLING THOUGHTS.
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"NK.MO,"
K igei ness l" .o ! a' tin- oitlnatd tip
pcaranco of a gn.i: man is no real
compliment to Ins wink. Willingness
to take of his nie.-s.tge and live it is
moro to be praised. Ry way of illus
tration let mo cite Christianity. As
the centuries increase in number be
hind us, the vital strength of Chris
tianity seems (I do not write of creeds
but of deeds) to increase. And I doubt
not that tho world's workers, who have
learned from tho Great Worker, caro
Iofs and less for His personal appear
ance; since were we to behold Hun as
He was, like enough we should see but
little cause to admire Him. A man's
work is more than the man, and his
message more than his faeo. And wo
gaping ones who would run hither and
thither just to "see," advertiso that wo
as yet understand but little of what in
fluence really means. Like those who
gaze upon caged lions, aro we who
Bather to stare at famous thinkers wo
have our reward; wo am disappointed
in th
ho lions and men, for they are out
of their proper sotting.
And those who, having aided the
thought of the day, straightway imi
tate the freaks of the museums, show
ing themselves at every public place
havo their reward also they nro seen,
their work is judged by their facial or
physical insignitieanco (for great
thouchts are no neeesN'tv toniluct of
magnillccnt blows nr hot. 11 1 uu imiln )
and ihi'V .-tie on the wa tho land !
toigolieu tilings. Hetti 1 In live tin
knwi and leau- a me-sige tm nil
time licieafie-; than to kill time mid
illlll.iliee h li pal-iililig' of self.
Tho ".silent uilluutik-c" what a world
of satisfaction theie is in tho idea! It
brings us all in as one in the onward
work of the world. The "silent influ
ence," soft as a snow llako, gent 0 as a
summer zephyr, despi.sod as an earth
worm, unheeded as a blade of grass, is
what is doing tho work of the world.
Mightier than monarehs is tho quiet
thought of the people, passing from
hamlet to hamlet and growing as it
passes; more enduring than mountains
are tho personal and national virtues
that are quietly and silcntlj taught
and livid by unknown men and wom
en; moro persistent than death are the
silent works done generation after
generation by the humble and unseen
done because they weie right to bo
done, and not bcoaiiM' they were to lje
either seen or piniscd of men.
Hiitnbloonesevoiywhere, tho "silent
inllucnce"and a knowledge of its gran
deur 111 till histoiy, all progress, all
morals-makes the humblest of us
huniblo ones proud to live at.d eager
for more of tho patient plodding to
which wo have hitlierlo boon confined,
Wo aro a part of Hie great human body.
as much as tlio invisible oxygon in us
is part of us, and like it wo ate exerois
ing a definite influence of good in our
race, no matter how .small or insignifi
cant may be our ell'ort toward wisdom
and righteousness in life.
Purpose in life is like the sunshine
that comes over the hills to make tho
way cloar after a night of doubt and
wandering. 1 am not .surprised that
many people find existence altogether
too confusine and givo up in despair.
It is because they got into tho mnzo of
life and lose hold upon the one thread
that will guide thorn out into freedom,
that thread is purpose. Like the early
alchemists who always had one thing
lacking when they tried to transmute
metal, many of us aie seeking the phil
osophers stone '.hat shall turn to lino
gold the days and hours that are allot
ted to us. Failure follows f.tiltii'0, fail
ure lives witli us, failure nauseates us
becauso the one thing lacking if pur
pose. Good, sincere, honest purpose is
more to bo desired than great riches,
and stronger to sweep dilliculty out of
the way is It than muscle. Hut tho
possession of clear purposo does not
necessarily mean that all dilliculties
will dis ppitir. Sin'li me g mil fop us
in ' 1 1 n 1
metal
about it.
I assume that tho preceding para
graph will be icgai ded as -ipplying
most, delimii I.. i Siting men out 111
the w 01 Id's uiii h Dai I do imt mint.
it s 1 tippucii. Tin h too uuriow a
way of regarding ii It applhs to us
all, as I sh.ili show.
Weaiy widow, with a hcatt crushed
i) a strange ami terrible aflliction,
left pet haps with small children to sus
tain, none of them able to help with
the family purse, except to help empty
it look hack at the first few hours of
your betcaveinont and recall how the
almost llcrco resolve to bring them up
well in spite ef every obstacle, lit ought
some measure 0 quiet orderliness to
your brain ami has made the struggle
seem worth while ever since.
Aged pilgtini, wlmso beetling brow
is covered with the snows of life's win
tor, lift up your head into tho sunshine
let its gloiies linger around your tem
pest worn face, that the young may
look up to you as a guide and an en
couragement; that they may see what
it is to have borne the conflict and re
sisted the storm, to stand at the last
strongly, quietly, brightly in the midst
of a light that seems 10 ukuv morn
beautiful as jon sink awa into the
night. Purpose is mi I jours to enj y;
tho purpose to guide and eneoungo
others. That will make th lnl du,,s
ns beautiful for good, as perniMiently
useful as any that htve gone before,
since you know not what undreamed-of
hero, what budding genius you may bo
stimulating; or what "silent influence"
yon hi i. iiriM3uriitiiig.
Mi-1 i.b v. I'll Knowledge of life v t
to I"' learned; Ih-i caved and smitten
ones in 1 .m,. ivhcie tin ie utuivr
dei-i soimv.s than .0i1r.1; men !..
soot ' make money lor Um-II alu
ami " b I' Ii ippitii'ss in the tu iking,
young men over whose bright way
is but the one cloud that ai isos from
abusing life instead of using it; all, all
who aro weary ami heavy laden, all
who are puz.led, bewildered, lost
cling fast to one purpose to do all you
can for as many as you can as long as
you can, and the living out of the
golden rule will make crooked paths
sttaight and show ovon the most trill
ing duties to be "worth while "
An Insurance Suit
Under the above head the Nebraska
State Journal of last Tuesday says:
"Tho Imperial Insutanee company ami
the family ol W. S. Garber seems des
tined to have some difTercnees in court.
Gather was once ai rested on the
chatge of .sotting lire to miiihi pioperty
at Camp Sowatd, Coioiado, but was
acquitted. He sued the company for
?50,000 damages for false imprison
ment, claiming unit it was at lis lu
st nice that he was falsely at rested.
Mrs Garber has pending in thu dis
trict court a suit for. $3, 157 for the val
ue of her goods destroyed in the lire
her husband was accused of setting.
In this suit thu insurance eoiipany
yesterday tiled its answer, in which it
makes a number of charges that aro
likely to got it into more trouble. It
chin ged that the provisions of the
policy woro violated in that Mrs. Gar
ber did not stay in tho house, but that
it was turned into a miners boatding
camp, where no females or anyone
who know how to keop house was kept.
This added extra hazard, says tho
company, It says that the goods were
worth only $400, and that all that
were insured were not in tho house
when it burned. A confederacy is al
leged to have existed, the details of
which, or rather the alleged details,
are fully nud minutely set out in the
answer."
Kidney nr.d Bladder Troublos.
If you sulTcr from kidney, bladder or
urinary troubles, or from too frequent
or scanty I urine, Dr. Foniiers Kidney
and Rnckache Cure is what you want.
Red-wetting by children is generally
cut ed by ono bottle of this powerful
remedy. Testimonials are disregarded
many people doubting tho honesty or
sincerity of them, wo Mieroforo avoid
giving any here, but will furnish them
on application to dealer whoso name is
I'ivcu below If not satislied after us
1 .iii 1 if f 1 ' ' w 1. in ii' in- 11
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has the genuine ring of pine
ULADEN.
Did you receive a vali ntlne.
Wo aro all having our pictures taken.
Will Strieker is visiting friends at
Lincoln.
Dr. Wegmauii of Itluo Hill was in
tin city Monday
No mail Spiiu ;oi had a horse badly
cut 011 the luili' d wiic.
LeiYostof Swansoii is heio vi-it
ing ills brother a few days.
Raillio & Rodsttom seem to bo doing
a rushing business in their lino.
Rev. Thompson expects to continue
the meetings through the week at the
llaptist church.
J. M. Dority is shelling out John
Miller's corn which lie cribbed at thU
place last year. t
A project is on foot to raise the G.
A. R. hall up and make a two story
building out of it.
Martin KaiilTinan returned the first
of tho wool; from Holdrego where ho
was visiting friends.
Ii. K. Speneo returned tho first of tho
week after a threo weeks sojourn in
Illinois and Missouri.
Miss Lizzie Vest returned tho latter
pat t of the week from Rosemont whore
shy had been visiting friends.
Will and Charley Morey loft Manday
for northwestern Iowa where they
have seemed work on a railroad.
Frank Burden has taken tho road
for a paper house, and is canvassing
tho country for orders for wall paper
Don't set the dog on him when you see
In tu 0 niiing.
MI-i Pirl.s, daughter of Harlan
Parks, who Ins miule her homo with
her gr.ueliiMther at Cedar Rapids,
Iowa, at 1 ived Satin .1 iy morning for a
visit wnh her fithei, sisters and
brothels of this pl.icc.
Another lodge has been organized in
this city by a lady from Lincoln. This
time the Royal Neighbors, having
twenty eliaitor members. This is the
second lodge organized in this place
this year, ami if a suitable place of
meeting could he obtained the Masons
and Odd Follows would prohab y or
ganize as they have quite a number of
members in this vicinity.
Monday about sixty neighbors and
friends gathered at the homo of Mr.
and Mrs. Win. McDonald in honor of
their twenty-fifth anniversary or silver
wedding, and It was rathor a surprise
on Mr. Mel)., for when he returned
fiom his load of hay and was surround
ed by his friends lie wondered what
was up, but Mac is always equal to
emergencies, and he and his wife worn
soon entertaining their fi lends in thu
most hospitable manner and an excel
lent dinner was served. The afternoon
wasspint in teviowing old times and
early days in Nebraska, Mr. and Mrs.
McDonald having spent nearly a quar
ter of a century in this vicinity. Thoy
were the recipients of many nice as
well a useful silver presents. On tak
ing their leave tin- host and hostess had
tho best wishes of all present for their
future welfare and happiness.
WILLOW CREEK.
We have very bad roads again.
J. T. Lacy lias purchased another
horse.
Tho foolkillers were all out Sunday
night.
Miss Ressio Godwin visited friends
in Rlue Hill this week.
Miss Addie Edson of Cowles was vis
iting on Willow creek Sunday.
Mr. Hutchins of Kansas City, wns
visiting with G. (J. Hoyl Sunday.
Charles and Myrt Adainson aro now
seeing how it goos to play bachelor.
J. Hni baker and family aro prepar
ing to move in Mr. Cony no's housu.
Chas. Dickerson of Red Cloud was
the guest of A. N. Godwin and tamily
Sunday.
Rev. Dcakui of Cowles holds services
in tho Willow crook school hou so
every two weeks.
TKNI)KKOOT.
TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY
Take Lixatlve Hromo Quinine. Tab
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NUMBER 7
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Books,
Books,
Books,
Books
Given
fluiay
Free.
Commencing
February 14,
Wo are going to give away
books to our subscribers, both
old and now. The books are at
tractively bound in binder's best
silk linislHd cloth, stamped from
now and original designs in iuli
and genuine gold, ami are stand
ard and popular books by the
vorld's best author's. In mater
ial and quality, as well as in se
lection of titles, these books nro
superior to any other cloth edi
tion ever issued. Piloted in
largo clear type and on good
paper. Those books are written
by such authors as
lkrlhn M. Clm,
Mrs, Alexander,
The Duchess,
IVittic Collins.
Charles Diekens,
H.'llitlcr lluyyaril,
Alex. Diimus,
llnahConwny,
A. Canun Doyle,
llulwcr Lytton,
Ucoryc Uliot,
and numerous others famous au
thors of repute.
One of these elegant books
will bo given with every year of
back subscription you pay. If
you pay ono year back .subscrip
tion ($1.00) you get one book; if
two years ($2.00) yon get two
books; if three years (3.00) you
get three books, etc.
SPECIAL OFFER.
In addition to the above wo
will make an extra oiler for sub
scribers who pay ONE FULL
YEAR IN ADVANCE by giving
them TWO ROOKS or ONE
HOOK AND ONE bET OF
CHRISTY PATTERN KNIVES,
consisting of One Dread Knife,
corrugated, 10-inch blade; One
Cako Knife, corrugated, 8-inch
blade; Quo Pastry Knife, 3-inch
hludo. Rlades made of tho host
razor steel, highly polished anil
uicKul plutud; will out hot breau
or cake without cruaibing, and
is far superior to tho ordinary
knife for'cutting pastry goods of
any kind.
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