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About The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 16, 1909)
IWIMJIimi WJJULHUMUJIW.limn -wwuKWT rtmyvniTvynMwrv wn,w(fTinjr vttam-aiMtt&nstEsmiasmmxnxx '"Hf H A Railroad Ghost Explained AOE BY OVERING BROTHERS and CO., I THE MONUMENT MEN, Are durable, attractive and mechanically correct. '. Red Cloud, - - Nebraska. 8 uvmsi. -i. ;,.,: W.V-""W ;:::. ..tfy.wa V"SWJ5WW0ASyV.WJ?l WI'.vV.'h iiiiih III II III i i II That Lame Back Means Kidney Disease And to Relieve the Lame and Aching Back, You Must First Relieve the Kidneys Thrro 1.. 1 tpi -.tiun a'n t tliat nt all for tl l.mio :i: il i.dilm; back is cam-oil by n di- .- ! ton dltlon ot 11. o hiilnoys ami b'.ulil?r. It i3 only common boiim', any vav that you mrl o-.iro a cn-.dltion by nmovluK tbc cmsp of the con dition. .inl lai"o and mlnn,; b-u-k nrc not by any moans tho only symptoms of derangement of th" kidneys and bladder. Tlioio a ' a inultltudu of well-known and un mlstnkablo indication-) of a muro or loss dangerous oonditlon. Some of those aio, for instance: Kxtrcnie and unnatural lassitude and weari ness, ner ous irritability, hart ir regularity, "nerves on oAko," Bleep Icssncss and inability to secure rest, scalding sensation and sedi ment in the urine, inflammation of the bladder and passages, etc. DoWitt's Kidney and Bladder Tills aro an exceptionally meritori ous remedy for any and nil affec tions or diseased conditions of these organs. Those- Pills operate directly and promptly and their beneficial results arc at once felt. They regulate, purify, and effec tually heal and restore the kid neys, bladder and liver, to perfect and healthy condition even in come of the most advanced caies. p- ' - "- 1 ii i iiui '-jrfA iJ Wtt K. C DeWItt & Co., Chicago, 111., want every man and woman who have- the least suspicion that they aro afflicted with kidney nnd blad der diseases to at onco write them, and a trial box of theso Pills will bo sent free by return mall postpaid. FOH SAL -Y ALL QPl'.GGISjS Skirts, Furs, Etc. We have a nice new line of the above to close out at wholesale prices and it will be a chance to till your needs at a veiy small cost. These was shipped us on approval and will ive vou the benefit of These very low Prices. x In Our Canned Goods line we have the best at prices that cannot be Beat by the case or dozen. Call in for your supply. JOHNSON GROUT itlkifcll(il(4(llltnkv4iti1i'T'li.i.i.' U'ttitlfMitbi'-itbiittblli(r6'C'titiitlill SAY, HISTER1 Jo you know that it will pay WL n soil as US, to buy your Huilding Ma terial mid Coal at oiiryurdsy Not otil that oui prices AVtiutiK lower, or at least us low, us those of ourcompetit ori, but UKOAfhK we take especial care of and protect all can be u hissed a1 El K (i U L A U C U S T C) M K It hi . PL ATT & FREES CO. Coal Lumber. Tipvniriiii,,,',',,-',"liv,,,,,,'',,(1,,,1,,,1,1'1,1,,',,,,,,','','',,1,''kl'''' ALFALFA WANTED I tj Will buy your hay in Stack or on Car. Highest market prices Paid. Will be glad to look at your hay any time. Address Alma Alfalfa Mill Co Alma, Nebraska- It wasn't in fault, so oer. olio mild, that lllpo Coukllu missed liH fooiln' when ho wiih trMu' to buaid my HiJIilo alter bo had Hugged mo oil tlio midnight i nih-omm n' foil under tho wheels, luxlir bl life," said the fnt engineer; hut I blamed myself considerable ncvci-tlic-lctm, 'n' took It some t heart. It'n cuMouinry when you're Hugged to Just Mow down '11' lot tho tlagnii.ii umbo tho tank slop to git on tho hi I'm- n' toll yon what's doln' on alter d. Thin night whon lllpo Hvvung mo up lioraiise bin fnt frolgbt train wan mailed a miiplo of mllo down llio line I eased her up 'u' wbb -i niToly nml: in' mnro'n neioti or olfelit, iiillo an hour vlun tbo tank step enino along to lllpo, but Homo way or'milhor ho iuIhuoiI 'n' tit under, boln' kilted before I roub! stop. ' I took n wvi'k or so off before 1 w ( nt back on my run ngnln, but I made up my mind that rullrwullti' nt its best wan n serloun buclnesH 'n' It was up to mo to get clown to cases 'n' go back to voik or move on down to i bo pnorliom-,e. Nnteherly my Hint trip after tins accident I wna tpilto Hiptonmlnh romln' down along by S'liholnon'fl curve, wtme 1IIh bail met hln death, .lust as wo commenced to take the curve 1 gritted mv tvoth 'n' got myHolf on !p- As lb- train commenced to -tinl'hton out on the main lino after eoniln' m-nnn' Hi" ourvo I now u white light -lnuJii' hoii.oninlly across the Inn U, wliU h oi oourHo Is signal to st on, 'n' stop I did. After wo had come in a standstill, howi ver. wo ("il tlnd no whiu lir-,ht nor Htiybody nim-ii' who might have boon pwlugln' it It's mighty peculiar, mighty po uli.ii. 1 k.ijs, ilinibln' bueh. (li eoni-Ho tho boys all thought I wns seoln' things, but I doolarod up n' ilowii that I bad seen a whit 1 .'),' Iii-Im' HWitiiK aeross the traiUM n I wouldn't hiiM it any other w.a luoldotitnlly such an on inroni-e dull) i no very lar toward sinuotbin' out my pent up leoliu'H. I wasn't the only man who had seui Hie light at Hint, for it noon boi passed iiroun' up in the stovo commit too n' elesowhere at nieetin's of the railroad men, 'n' other boya allowed that they'd seen the same thlnu. "My next trip down there on the midnight epio.ss I Just called to my llremaii as 1 eaine in the lclnliy of .Nleholson's ( urve n' made him keep his peepers peeled just to see what he could see. As wo come nroun' the curve the little white light was on tho Job all right. j "Did you see It, Murf?' I hollers to my fireman. "'I certainly did,' he says, his teeth a-obatterln'. 'You golii" to stop?' "Stop uutliln'.' I answers, for 1 was gettlir my nerve back now. "If that'i lllpo Conklln's ghost ho wants to read up on the rules. It ain't good form to flag a train with a white light.' "I Jerked the throttle open 'n' we went away from there full tilt, bm 1 wasn't acared a bit. "We wore not through with tho spookin' of Nicholson's ourvo, how ever, lor the uci lime I was! iiii.iln' e;int Willi ll-ai i-i'i'tilfJit express 1 got a wlilslk signal It'iiiu the coiulm or to slop and no monkey busliies-i about It. So I set up the brakes "n wo stopped. One of the journals on the sleepers was glltin' agitated 'if the conductor had signaled mo to stop till they could soothe It. "Well, of course J was jusl tickled to death to stop right there In the community ol interest ol that will o' the wispy light. We came to a standstill Just as 1 was on a diiect line with It. There It was all right, fiAvlnglif slowly 'n' steadily. Now that iVoiild got a good sight on It while the enjlne was standln' still I saw that It was considerable to the right of the tracks 'if some distance away 'if only the speed of the train comlif nroun' there made It appear to swing direct ly across the track. "Knowlif Hint we would probably lay to some minutes while the crew were pacifying Hie anarchistic box I just stopped down off tho enjlne "if went to a little clump of trees at the side of the track 'if peered through. An' what d'ye think It was? Why, there on a factory in a village u couple of miles to the right of the track they had erected one of them big clocks for advert lain' purposes. The long pendulum was lilted with an electric light 'if as the pendulum went from right to left, lett to right, the light would pwing. Conilif around tlm , curve you could got a glimpse of this swlnglif light through a clearlif In tho i trees, but after tho train got straight ened up again ou'd lose sight lof It. "As I said heroic, I'm no belleer In ghosts, but I was mighty glad to know that It was only a clock pen dulum 'if not lllpo Conklln's ghost that hnd been a-heckllif me. If I hadnf got nervous "if ran so far by I would have found it out the first night, 'if saved in) self a lot of fiettlif." i tit IK II hi I lllllsi. 1 l i in i.imM'iii in ii I i ii I "iin'v 1 1 lllllll 'I lunil M I in scliuxii mill I imiiiiiiiiiIoii II ii " ' i lirNII-m l''lnli'Hnr . H li' ! in ' 1'riiu-liinn " Sl I' " l'r i r tout prniM. I'tlni-mlay . p i" si-ill frie. tliiiKtlllirMi'. i-oillo. Illlllic i'ni llllili . frii miN ntul iciniil i In r. I.. l. Ill !lSii. MllllKll-l ill M t: .HMSflll'AI.. l-IIUIil'll Km .1. M! llilltH. t'nMnr. Krnire lite llrt two Sioutil) til null tumuli Hull I 11111111111111111 ill IttnrlllllK Kl'IVtl-lw nil the tlrt 4iiikIii . Slliiil-iv M'hdiil ill l-iu'i'link tMO Miillihix. Jrr i it iiiiiii. iiipirlniuiilriii. JtllU!- ol SI.KMCK AT liNnltl'U niiSAlirilfHOM. "llll Wtl HMIVH l. ITcuiiiim .... I": I'm in. itiiii. mIkioi win. I'ri tii-iiini', m-r It " !' I'ltMirnml I'diitrti m-i inn Hun Wtilni Jny in . hi. A I'm. 1 1 1 1 lnMt)tli N li llilnl lunil. Hi V. X .-iiimn rnntot Won: i in ihiu- lino m your pupi-r niul if ! iiic In'liliiil 1'iiinc In mid ro ller nii- tlliM'i-iptioll. Wliliw's Pension, The n Mil not ..f prll HI'll. I'.M'S ptvt'H to ill! siililloi--' widow H a poiitiiiu orci'Jper iiiuiitb. Fred Miuiroi-, the tttlonii'. bus nil iieot'-iiry libiliUi. mm K -mid Hint- llir OUTSAT M.UTJSTIC-thcy arc Hie onlv t.ltiKi" ttmile exclusively ol Mnllpntlo nml Clir eonl Iron oullntt lhre aritlnary rAiiain- ilmi l lurnk. I'nik nt f list Miillt-nlilc Iron iiltow u'.olii v nif tiijl t ml lultlll III n M,JI MIC ntul tlir r i .iiilnin .1 u niir iiilirolKH lltntis;. tnv linlf vnnr fuel lull nml niv vim tlcjiumUlile luoUrr, a reflect liadcr every day. Tlic MAirsTIC II ni'ilpixd Willi 11 I c ill nlt-cn rcscTWil il U'ikIum the ii I l.ut lire nnd licit uui.i i.i h Hi pity. Railway Travel to London, If the number of people dally enter ing London were to be dispatched from any given station by rail, 1,077 trains, ouch conveying U00 persons, would be required. The Power of Wealth. "The more money a woman has tho more rod hair she can havo without people, calling It by that name." New York Press, 1?e Great and Grand Majestic Njilcable 3nrl Charcoal Iron Range h r,ii i v n it r nl I, Ii i In n itr i , .If n t cM 'i. If Mtvme a"!rh I Mill' wrlclit- i ii tm h tlliic h iti i a ,i is i I ' n Kni I liltiu" Ilmi b totHiuiiit . unii on,, riitu k mo M J . I II t.'.i' in m aro tliooim i fun ui'iin.f it nnl.ovfl mul ti, o n ii tm, in,,', r It V i tin i r (liii.. r of flmfn m tul Ii .1 tt'li ir , a M.Vlf.STK l.iiclt ridie.Ivo MAJI SflO (mluro mnlirn ill, t roimo tnofc pro.-. nvr nKml II', morj Oi.r.r. t; I'.initr.i , jurrontwy in tu i;imtl-snc,l gtKe, SOLD V Klin LOUD Hdw. & Imp. c & ' ...i. iwSsls&a" &5 m Sk i piMi f Z . 1'- ' JE i.- v,.s .. vv ' r- '. Wi l&A Ty 'lE v. J I Lest We Forget. II. iv in.' (.lion mil- iviOMtlli for the m orcn. in llio Miii-oilpiiiui piico of Ibi' pnpei we wish to limlvo plain when the now i .i'o tiikoi olTed On mul after .laiiiiui-y llr'-t tbo pi ice of tlii- p.ipel' i I bo J? I ." pel eiif ill aii:iin.'. lloWi'Ver ally tiiic Mtbuerlli ittif lii-foro .latntary lsl. t'in, take ml Viiti'iiiii- "f 'lie olil fit to uf I.0U p"i JO-ll". -ii telle AliK I'lll lie ri en i-d III tlic I ate "I l nn p1 i- vein until ..Inn. li N mi cull pa as ii un yeuis in ml l III i ,l- Villi ilosiii (' II II Ml Killt.'i iBH VffBB Bl ftARIL l".v7jftriMi More of Buddha's Ashes Found. Kicavatlons conducted by the Ar cheologlcal depnrinient of the Indian government near Peshawar have re sulted In the dlHoovery of an ancient nuildliist stupa or memorial mound containing a bronze casket, within which are some of the ashes of (!uat nma Hudilhu, the lounder of Buddhism. They me Inclosed In a wrought hex agonal rock crystal receptacle sealed with royal seal of the Kmperor Kan Hikii, who was ruling In Peshawar at tho opening oi the ('hrlstlan era. The tllsoovery Is reported to have taken place on a site di-scilbed by tho Chinese traveloi llleun Tsang In tho record of his journeys In tho early years of the Christian era as being the position of a large lliuhlhlst mon astery. Pror. A. Vouchor of the Sor bonne, an authority on Hiublhlst arch eology, noticed live years ago some curious mounds In this spot, but had no appliances for oxen vat ion. Tills clew has since been followed up" by Dr. Mnrshall, head of the Indian Arch eologlcal department. "When liuddha died In IS2 It. C bis body was cremated and the ashes divided In eight parts among his dis ciples," said I)r U. D. Ilurnett, keeper of the Oriental books in the Hrltlsh museum. "One of the vases contain ing these portions, known as the Piji rahwa vase, was dlscoveied a few years ago by a government survey. The other six are yet undiscovered." Tho Ranee With Perfect a Baker M M --- oi ..'," VJii '''-"-v ,,",'ft Blind, Dut Picks Berries. One of tho most expert strawberry pickers in this country is a blind man. Hubert .lolly ol Ureas, Wash., - for yeais has made his annual expenses picking strawhcrrieB ami other fruit lor his neighbors, and so skilled Is lu, and to rapid, that lie earns as much on the commission plan as a man with good eyca. .lolly finds his , way along the rows of vines with his stick, and carries a dozen crates with him. Ills nimble lingers find the Irult, and while one hand is plucking tho berry tho other Is searching lor more. Picking cherries or apples and climbing around on a ladder is as easy for him as for a schoolboy. What Little Things Can Do. Oeinian proverb Small axes fell Broat tires One Kind of Teacher. "In a school near Concordia," said Statu Superintendent Kalrchlld of Kan sas In a discussion ot school work, "u little French hoy was found by his , teacher down under a seat trying to catcli a grasshopper. Tho toucher got down, too, and assisted the llttlo Icllow in catching tho hopper. AVhat a clianco to have done tho wrong thing to have frightened tho llttlo lorelgner, to havo scolded and lec tured the whole school. How wisely this young man acted under tho cir cumstances. Ho would have been my choice for a teener for my boy." inv L- i. . 111 & . iti i k ' ana. o m if if Mil ux 'Br( Tw.vifj:!; ;. k . ' t PlM W (IS m ( m (! w The Home 6r0Gery P. A. Wullbrandt, Prop. E verything IN atables i) it) iti it t) iti it; iti iti iti iti iti n I carry a complete line of strictly fresh Groceries, ci ffi and my prices are such that it will pay you to do ttj your buying in this line of us. Only the first-class (Jj (I) brands of canned and package goods carried. t W All staple Groceries in bulk at Bed-rock Prices. Ui ! iti W iti Ifl rinisiitonrr '" " Uroi-fiy store tnoto tlntii in anything olso. V f UltJdllllllubb ,j.L.rs sluiitlil iloiuaixl Absolute Clennliiie-.s. ( IfjX Vol cannot buy (irocerlc.s ill a dirty, Ill-kept place ami be sine o fi ft pure goods Cleanliness uiid sanitation aio our hobble. 1V $'& St & & & at Cst & s st & st C & 9L ZZl Si- stc i. & G. A. SGHUliTZ GO. Real Estate Brokers Red Cloud, Nebraska. Ituy a piece of land at Wray, Colorado. Where wheat and corn is plenty. 640 Acres of Land Hood frame house, barn, windmill, well, feucod, cross fenced, on which about 10 stacks of line wheat was raised this year. Price $12.50 per acre, if taken at once. 160 acres at $1500 good level land This investment is safer than a bank I havo personally inspected this county and 1 can recommend it to my friends. si i us at once. We go cor. Mondav night on I .. Hot In line. Swift's Premium Hams or Bacons. r X Pt l.w MJf per lb. Market Report As Furnished by Hanson tt Trine Hens Mali s Springs s Cox ' Ducks " fieoho ' Hntter.... '-21 Kk'KS ( rots out) -" Church Services. mints iik.skhvici: ATM. I" ' "I IK'H Si.MiliVTii m:iivh'i; Suiiilny M-lioul I'rcacliliiu flass iiuctliiK KVI.NIMI Knworlli li'iniuv 1). ...Willi, , IP 1 ,lt,Vt,., - Prayer iiirctlnu Weilni'Miiiy cciiuikhi'..m LniUcs Alii I'rlday - - !' M. Your iiri-hciii'o Is requcstiit niut a coitllnl ln Itatlon l cxti'iuliil to all. M.T. Kiivri.Kit l'ahtor. UA.M. II A.M. l M. 7 P. M. S 1'. M. i Al If WNifB. Fresh and Salt Meals of All Kinds Wm. Kaon Red Cloud, Nebr. Land Bargain. 010 acres -sq. sec. II lo ill Lincoln Co.. Neb. Price SS per acre. This is A 1, gras. corn, alfalfa, potatoe and beet land Inquire of Kill tor of this paper. Go!. J. H. Ellinger AUCTIONEER Does livestock and general auc tiouccriiiK' Satisfaction guaran teed in every case. Understands pedigrees' and stock values. " .Many years experience. IMione liiiii.anytimb. Red Cloud, Nebr. c 'V'WAA-'WWV AarWArWVMArWW