Low ate
Excursions
TO
kHvWAiur
2 California
in tho vicinity of Mntnnzns, Mr. King
wns mnilo vice president of the United
Stntes amid the r.oleinn "Vayn vol eon
Dloa" (Ood will bo with yon) of tho
Creoles who had assembled to witness
the unique spectacle. Vice l'resldcnt
King returned to his home at Uahftw
ba, Aln., arriving nt that place April
17, 1853, and died the following day.
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A QUAINT OLD CITY.
California One Way
One-way Second Class Tiekots Doublo Berth In SlccpiiiK Car
o?SS ' From Chlcafto . . $7 00
nn From Kansas Wty . . 5 75
3( 00 From St. Louis . 0 50
DAILY FROM SEPTEMBER k TO OCTOBER 31
Tickets Rood in Tourist Sloo -lug Cars. Koclining Chairs KRR13.
Same rates to Phoonlx and Prnunn Ari7 n p,n t- ,.,,,1 infn,.,t,n.
diato points. Corrosooniling rates from all points east during tho same period j
itiuub uiiiJui-Luuiiius lor inrmors in San .loaquin Valley.
California Round Trip
On certain days in Soptombor and Oetobor round trip ilrst class tiekots
will bo sold to California and North Paciilo Coast points for 11 littlo moro than
half rate, uccount national moot ings in Los Angeles and San Francisco, and
the Portland Imposition. Iioturn 1 mit is 00 days, not to exeood November .'10,
and stop-over granted in Colorado and west
Bolow aro datos of salo and rates from Chicago, St. Louis and Missouri
Kivor. lou can purehago throiiRh tickets of your home ngont.
California and Back Direct routes both ways or Portland one way
On September 1, 8, , 1, fi, l'J, 13, 14, 20, 'J7, 28, at
$67 60 from Chicago, $63 50 from St. Lous and $56 from Missouri River
California and Back Direct Routes Both Ways
On Oetobor 17, 18, 1!), 20, 21 At $62 50 from Chicago,
$57.50 from St. Louis, and $50.00 from Missouri Kivor
Numerous other rates for combination trips via Portland, etc. Full par
ticulars on request of any Railway Agent, or General passongor Agent A. T .&
S. F. Ry., Railway Exchange, Chicago, or Topoka, Kan.
Bruffca, tkv Chief InilnMr)- of "Which
1m Liium Mil kin ,
Bruges lace has been made In the
convents of Bruges by old women
whose hands have grown stilt clicking
the bobbins back and forth, who learn
ed when they were children from other
old women, who In turn had learned It
from other old women, and so on back
for hundreds of years. Lace making Is
the chief industry of this city of Bel
glum, tho capital of the province of
West Flanders, but that It has not
made for the prosperity of tho place
Is attested by the fact that In a popu
lation of something like 50,000 there
aro 15,000 paupers. It is a very quaint
old city, the corporation of weavers of
Bruges having been celebrated In tho
time of Charlemagne. It reached tho
height of its prosperity in tho fifteenth
century, when It was one of the great
commercial emporiums of tho world
nnd was famed far and wide for Its
tapestries. The great prosperity, how
ever, led to such extravagant habits in
1 mi win it ml us-wiIm 1 II fi Mint i ltn 1im V
lutnn iiiiii nwi.ni uii- unit, v iuu a o
was obliged to pass stringent sumptu
ary laws. Complications between sub
sequent rulers and the people led to
the removal of all trade to Antwerp
and tho ruin of Bruges as a commer
cial center, but tho name and fame of
its lace have been Imperishable. New
York Herald.
Idlng the lunatic wllh adipose tissue,
as there Is nothing like brain disease to
cause too, too solid llesh to melt.
The aim of most of us nowadays Is to
keep down what our transatlantic
friends, with their genius for using tho
ugliest word for everything, uncom
promisingly call "llesh." We bathe, wo
massage, we diet, we fly to these and
those waters, wo try all manner of
cures and put ourselves Into various
kinds of straps and pastes and take
violent exercise with the aim of lining
ourselves down and keeping stoutness
at bay.
Does this decided disposition on tho
part of men and women to avoid cor
pulence and the successful "thinning
down" that we notice on all sides por
tend Increase of lunacy? If so, dieting
and the taking of waters and massage
ought to be forbidden by act of parlia
ment. By tho way, Hamlet was fat
and scant of breath, but ho was cer
tainly far from sane. Ixmdou World.
The Chief
California
It is easier to tell what California hasn't than what
it lias, for in that ereat emnire is found nearlv
everything that man needs. Tho San Joaquin Valloy is ono of the largest in
tho United States which is subject to irrigation, and tho peoplo who are living
there now aro perfectly happy and contented, and think that it is really tho
best cnuutry in tho world That in itself is tlio bost recommendation You
never hear a California)! speak of his country excopt in praibo of it.
Litoraturo and Tho Earth, free for tho asking
GENERAL COLONIZATION AGENT,
JJJ7 Railway Exchange, CHICAGO:
Please send California information as per ad. in the Red Cloud Chief.
SO
Name,
Aduss
. . State . .
VjfeDDEN
GOLD
OLD SWISS LAWS.
A Whale Jmvhmie.
The Jawbones of a whale are some
times twenty feet In length, and tho
mouth, when wide open, Is 12 by 18
feet. The throat, however, Is so small
as scarcely to admit a hen's egg. Tho
whale gets his living by straining tho
auimalculae nnd small llsh out of tho
water he takes Into his capticIouM
mouth. It must bo slow work, but
then he has plenty of time and nothing
else to do, so he attends to his eating
so regularly that he often accumulates
a ton of oil In his bulky system.
801110 Wonderful Plffiirra.
Figures on tho light and heat of tho
sun are the most startling that can
possibly be presented. The astrono
mers measure the amount of heat and
lluht emitted by tho sun by estimat
ing that the earth Intercepts about tho
two billion three hundred millionth
part of tt. Thus It Is found that In
every second of time the sun omits an
much heat as would result from tho
sudden combustion of 11,(100,000,000,.
000 tons of pure coal. It may 1k Inter
esting to the reader to know that each
portion of the sun's surface1 as largo
as (his earth emits as much heat per
second as would result from the com
bustion of 1.000,000,000 tons of tho best
anthracite fuel.
Enrly HInIiik Iloynlty.
According to the following entry In
Pepys' diary of March 7, I'iiiO, royalty
rose somewhat earlier In the day than
Is the custom now for the purposes of
witnessing sport. I'epys says, "I hear
that the king (Charles II.) and tho
Unite of York set out for Newmarket
by u In the morning to see some foot
nnd horse races."
The l.iiMiHlryiniiti.
There Is one branch of trado which
runs on In an even tenor regardless of
prices and crashes. That Is the laundry
business. People who patronize laun
dries never economize on their linen.
A man will average about so many
shirts, collars and cull's a week when
ho is cutting down on his drinks and
cigars and his (heater tickets. And
this observation recalls the fact that
tin' hiuudrymnu never has any Innova
tion In his business. He will ruin about
so many shirts and collars and cuffs
every three months and never say a
word about il or make any deduction
If you keep quiet. -Chicago Tribune.
In a watch chain that adds nothing
to the chain's looks or the quality of
Its workmanship ? The outer sur
face of pure gold and all the details
of workmanship and finish are
identically the same In
Simmons
Watch Chains
and In the costly gold ones.
For Sale by
Newhouse Bros.,
Jewelers ft Opticians,
Rod Cloud, - Nebraska
m INSURANCE
against Fire, Lightning, Cy
clones nnd Windstorms, see
JNO. B. STANSER,
agent for the Farmers Union Insur
ance Co., Lincoln, Nob., tho bost in
surance company in tho sto.
PARKER'S .
HAIR BALSAM
Cleamei nd bemtlfief the tutr.
l'romotei a luxuriant , growth.
Uever Fail to Beitoro Oray
nnlr to lta Youthful Color.
Cures c!p dlwawi k hair HUlng.
SOc and 81.00 at DruinrliU
H. B. ASHBR,
VETERINARIAN
Of tho Kansas City Veter
inary College Olilco at E.
.lohnston's, tho Brick Barn.
ALL CALLS PROMPTLY ATTENDED
Telephone 82.
RED CLOUD, - - NEB.
At Blno mil ilrst Tuesday in each
month.
Qneer Stnlule Tlmt Covomcil "Wcd
(IIiikh utitl Wciti'lnt; AiMitii'i'l.
"Switzerland hud a law that no wed
ding party should have more than
twenty guests ten men friends of the
bridegroom and ten women friends of
the bride. No wedding procession was
permitted to have moro than two sing
ers, two tiddlers and two trumpeters.
Married women were forbidden to
wear silk or decorated hoods, though
maidens might. No woman, whether
married or unmarried, was allowed to
wear any dress in which the opening
for the neck wns r.o largo that it did
not lie at least two inches wide upon
the shoulders, and the gown must not
be buttoned or laced up in front or at
tho side. To restrain Uio fashion of
long pointed shoes it was enacted that
no person of either sex should wear n
shoe with a point extending beyond tho
foot enough to allow anything to be In
serted In It, nor was any woman or
girl permitted to wear laced shoes. No
man or boy should wear n coat that
did not reach to the knee. Garments
were forbidden to bo slashed so as to
show different colors or kinds of mate
rial, and trousers were required to bo
made without stripes and both logs of
the same color. In M70 one Swiss can
ton in council assembled enacted that
hereafter uo one shall make points of
shoes or boots longer than one Joint of
the finger, and If any shoemaker shall
make them longer he shall bo fined 1,
as also the person wearing tliem. Lon
don Express.
PrtM' TrnnslnMim.
Mrs. Koeder-1 wonder what this pa
per means by this: ".Mr. Kndley's meth
od of entertaining his guests was qulto
original and unconventional?" Mr.
Boeder It means simply that he is
boorish, but has plenty of money.
Philadelphia Ledger.
Those who have no good qualities can
neither appreciate nor comprehend
Uiem la others. Rochefoucauld.
The 1'Vnllvill of Mlnervii.
The most notable festival at Athens
was in honor of Minerva. All classes
of citizens tm this day marched In pro
cession. The oldest went ilrst, then
the young men, the children, the young
women, the matrons and the people of
the lower orders. The most prominent
object la the parade wns a ship pro
pelled by hidden machinery and bear
ing at it's masthead the sacred banner
of the goddess.
A Crn7.y Itlin.
"IIav "t ; M ever thought of going
to work?" asked the farmer's wife of
Sauntering Sam.
"Yes'in." replied the veteran tramp.
"I thought of It once, but I was dee
leoryuH at tie time." Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Schiller Llltlnir 1'nr Applet).
One habit of Schiller's was a pas
sion for the smell of an apple. Ho
used to cut an apple Into quarters and
How the VcMtiil VlrirlHN AVer Hon
orctl ! the Iloniuii.
The nrlnelnal wind deities wero
Boreas, the north wind; Zophyrus, tho keep them In the drawer of his writ-
west; Auster, the south, and Eurus, tho Ing table. T. IVs Weekly
east wind. The ilrst was remembered
chiefly on account of a love scrape.
He fell In love with a nymph, but
could not speak softly nnd found him
self unable to sigh at nil. Knowing
that it was Impossible to make love
without soft speeches and sighs, ho
was about to give up lovemaklug as a
bad Job nnd go back to his regulur
business of blowing, but took ndvlca
Another Victim of HI Cnrlolty.
lie At what ago do you think a girl
ought to mnrry? She Well, I couldn't
think of sotting the day before next
October, George, when I shall bo Just
twenty-nine. Somervlllo Journal.
VICE PRESIDENT KING.
He Toole the Onth of Ofllee Ahmad,
bnt Did Not Live to Serve.
William Rufus King, born April 0,
1780, died April 18, 18Ti.'J, was n vice
president of tho United States who
never Berved lu that capacity and one
who took the oath of olllce on foreign
soil, something which can bo said -of
no other executive olllcer who has ever
been elected by the peoplo of this coun
try. King was an Invalid, but his
friends urged him to tnko second place
on the ticket with Pierce in 1852.
Both wero elected, but Mr. King's
health failed so rapidly that he wus
forced to go to Cuba boiho two mouths
before Inauguration day. Not having
returned to tho United States by
March 4, congress passed a special act
authorizing tho United States consul
at Matunssas, Cuba, to swear him In
as vice president at nbout tho hour
when Pierce was taking tho oath of
oillee at Washington.
This arrangement was carried out to
u dot, and on the day appointed, at
tutlou on ono of the hlgjiestjillls
The Chnntre of n Word.
"You wouldn't think thero'd .bo
of nn expert, who recommended him enough difference between the definite
to carry off tho girl. He did so. Sho nnd the Indefinite article to matter
Boon got used to his blowing, nnd they much, would you?" said a woman who
lived happily ever afterward. I writes for a living. "I made a lifelong
Vesta was the goddess of Ufo and of 0nemv of a woman once Just by writ-
home. Her altar stood on every
hearthstone; her fire burned on tho
floor of every public building. Emi
grants when leaving their country al
ways carried with them fire from tho
public hearth. Tho Vestal virgins
spent thirty years In serviceten In
learning their duties, ten In practicing
them, ten in teaching novices. After
this torm had expired they might, If
they chose, leave tho service of their
divine mistress or mnrry, but few did
bo. nonors wero showered upon them.
They rode in chariots, a privilege In
Rome accorded only to royalty. Tho
best seat In tho nmphlthentcr wero
reserved for thorn. They pardoned or
condemned the gladiators. If a crimi
nal led to execution met a Vestal ho
was Instantly released, no mntter what
his crime.
aurvd the
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IRBHI TIME TABLE.
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DENVEIi
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AVA FJUXC7SC0
and all points
west.
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lOn.ra
Ing 'tho' where I meant 'a.' It was an
account of her wedding I was doing. I
said homethlng about the ceremony be
ing performed nt the homo of tho
bride's aunt, and then I atlded that
thero wore present 'only the few
frlentls of the family.' Tho bride never
got over that 'the' In front of few. It
happened five years ago, and when my
name Is mentioned sho still froths at
the mouth." Washington Post.
CORPULENCE AND SANITY.
The Gonfrvl of Fnt nn Applied to the
Mentally Afllleted.
Are tho majority of folk of weak In
tellect? Is lnsnnlty on tho increase?
Aro we all preparing ourselves for lu
natic HByluiuH? These startling ques
tions have occurred to me after read
ing an article In a medical Journal on
tho "gospel of fat as applied to tho
treatment of mental disease." It seems
thnt tho more you fatten up the men
tally afillcted tho saner they become,
but of course the difficulty, lies In pro-
NeurliiK ti CHnIn.
Jackson (whoso, llnnnclal credit Is
gone) I tell you, Wltherbee, wo nro
on tho verge of a financial panic,
Wltherbee Pshaw! What makes you
think that? JackBon (confidentially)
Well, sir, Bngley and Roberts used to
lend mo small sums a year ago, but
I wheu I go to them nowadays for five
or ten pounds they tell mo frankly
1 that they haven't got It. Bngley ami
1 Roberts are two of our best business
men, too. I tell you, sir, we're going
to have u panic London Express.
thainh i.KAvr. ah riii.i.nwn:
13, PiiM-i'iiKi'r ilnlly fur Oburlln
nml ht. 1'rnncln liriiiiclii'c.Ox
foril, .Mcl'unk. Duuvuriind nil
lOllllH WCht - '
14. I'hmm'Mklt ilnlly for St. .Itiu,
KiitiMHx city, Atr!ilM)!i. til.
I.oiiIh. Lincoln vlu Wymoro
mill nil imlntH ciiNt ami houIii
15, I'liKhi'iiuor. ilnlly, Dunvor, Hil
iiolnth In Culormlo, Utah ntiil
California 8:05 p.m.
ie. I'RkNoiiRcr. dally for St. Joe,
KRIIKRH UltV. AtnlllKOII, at.
I.onlw and all poltilH cant and
Houth 10:3.ra.ta.
So. 174. Accommodation, Monday,
Wednesday nnd 1'rlduy.IIant
Iiirb, Grand Inland, lllaclc
11 1! In and nil polnlH In tho
northwoHt t :30 p.m.
HlcopltiR. (llnltiR, nnd rccllnliiK chair can,
(scull t roe) on through trains. Tickets sold and
bnRKRKO checked to any point In tho United
States or Canada.
For Information, time- tables, maps or ticket,
dull on or addroKN A. Conovcr, Agent. lied
Oloud, Nobr. or U. W. Wakoley. Qouaral !'
sougo! Agent umsua. HObranKft
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THE
Indifference.
Indifference may not wreck tho
rami's life tit any one turn, but It will
destroy him with a kind of dry rot in
tho long run. To keep your mind al
ready made up Is to bo dull anil fos
Blllferous: not to bo able to mnko It up
at all Is to bo watery and supine. . Address
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