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About The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 28, 1911)
irJ K&3 jkZfifisahWW ca-,ca3WK.,ki,.li ,a tarwmw -. 1'''''l,1,1,,11"11'eaesaeawawssssB K t i v, Atkins 6 Furniture, Rugs, Carpets, ) A V W J -k mam EsV ; wmuuw onaues, anu : UNDERTAKING Visit our store, inspect the immense stock and get our prices. We know that ' We Can Save Now is the Time to Order Your Monument for Fall Delivery and have it erected before cold weather sets in. First class material and workmanship guaranteed. Overing Bros. (Si Co. Dealers in Monuments, Red Cloud Real Estate Dan Garber & Co. Red Cloud,, Nebraska ' T I A Meal of Bread Our Hrend Is so nutritious Unit you cau make n meal ou it tlmt. is tlior oughly refreshing and strengthening. "We Imvo inudo It a oint to uso none tyut tlio best of Hour in it prepaid 'tlon, and cleanliness has not been sue winced. When , you piutiiko of it you will say that "the bread that mother used to bake" cannot be compared with it. Frosb bread daily, and plenty of it, does much to keep tho liealth of the family. It is truly the stall' of life. Call on us for your supply. Bon-Ton-Bakery and Restaurant. CHICHESTER SPILLS .OtAMOND LADIES I JUk iup VrmmM for CtH-CHESTHR'S IJMHUnU I1KANM 1'1L,L, II Gold metallic boses, sealed KlbbOlt TAKB NO OTBBB. Unnlll ul uk for Mil, DIAMOND RUAND PULL, for twf DtT-flrO years regarded at Best,SaSm, Always Reliable. SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS TIMK TK1RI' EVERYWHERE JgxIS! Widow's Pension. i'fClJysyB with Blue0 Bay yaar V jj The recent act ot April 10th. lODg .-litAB tn nil artlil Iaku' tntflnn'O ti mi t 1 Ait fivoa in nil ouiMioia tuuuQ t jjvuaiuu -attorney, has all necessary blnnkb. Barber L. k. -J . ., . . -J A T s s s You Money! and Loans Chief Office NEW BAKERY I liavcxopenecl u bakery in Red Cloud and solicit a share of your patronage. Fresh Bread, Pies and Cakes always iu stock. Phono mo your wants (Ind. phone 188.) Deliver to any part of the city Retail stoic opposite 1'ostof flee, in Diadcrlch building. CURTHATFIELD,Prop. Swift's Premium d Hams and Bacon John Yost THE "Dutch Butcher" tonmoi Grids must be taken Serleinlv For uuless cured tlioy sap the vital ity and lower the vital reslstuuce to more serious Infection. Protect your children and yourself by the prompt use of Foley's Honey uud Tar Com. pound and noto its quick and decisive results. For coughs, folds, croup, whooping cough, bronchitis andatl'ect ions of tho throat, chest and lungs It Is an over ready and valuable remedy. For sale at Dr. Cook's drug store (JO SWI wffli For Sale J1R Ifin by pmiWmnk tkBjrr9 (quiet ) DAYS "Marjory, I love you but If you ever mention 'rest cure' to me again our friendship will be a thing of the 'past!" "Why this terrible threat?" usked Marjory. "I morely said" "If you'll listen to my experiences you'll understand. Don't Intorruptun. til I finish. "Our faintly physician said, 'That child Is completely run down and she must have u complete rest at once." 1 am 'that child.' -Dressmakers, hat makers, hulrmnkcrs, shoemakers, dances, parties, luncheons, dinners and' .theaters had combined to do the mis chief. "My Aunt Susy lives in u two by four town whero everything is sup uosed to be quiet and restful. 1 wroto to her asking If 1 might rest under her peaceful roof. Shu answered, 'Of course, come at once. I'm lonesome for you and I pronilso to provide you, with a genulno rest cure.' "Tho day after tho arrival of this letter I nnd my new scut suitcase .started for Aunt Susy's at Johnson's Junction. "Marjory, Imaglno my horrors on discovering, seated next me on the. train, none other than the impossible, talkative Joe Simpson. He talked to ino and at mo until I was dlzcy. I couldn't even get In a word of ono syllable to break up his monologue. , "Auntie met us at the station on our arrival. In about two minutes she dis covered that Joe Simpson's fathor was ,an old sweetheart of hers. My hos pitable aunt Invited him to dine with, us that evening. Promptly he accept ed, camo nnd remained until half past dj o'clock. It was cruelty to animals. "Oh, Marjory, I had Btich beautiful anticipations of my llrst evening at nuntlo's vlalotis of sitting on the lloor, with, great logs blazing, Har old's box of candy by my side and my braids hanging down my back! In stead, I found myself entertaining the uninteresting, ever talking Joo Simp son! "When ho left auntie said, 'You do look fagged out, child. Clo to bed this Itibtnnt. I gavo you the room upstairs, bo you won't hear a sound. Sleep as long as you like tomorrow. I'll send your breakfast to your room.' Auntie Is a dear. "I did have a regular Itlp Van Win klo Bleep thnt Is, while It lasted. But at six o'clock tho next morning I was awakened by a rapping and tapping and pounding on the roof above my head. "I lay fascinated, by tho rhythm of tho taps until seven o'clock. Then, In desperation, I dressed und descended. Auntie was distressed that my first night's sleep had been broken off by the man who came to repair the roof. It seems that man comes from the next town only twice a year, so when ho does como the townfolk consider it a great honor If ho condescends to repair their roofs. And such a noise as ho made! "After eating the best wnffles In the world, I felt somewhat consoled. But my consolation was short lived. For my Aunt Martha is a human question mark. I was Just preparing t6 answer a thousand questions about the folks at homo when In rushed tho woman who lives noxt door, crying, 'Quick I Come! My bnby Is In convulsions I ' "We ran for doctors, nurses, medi cines, hot water bngs and other per sons and things. Tho next 12 hours we devoted to nursing tho bnby and comforting the distracted mother. Tho baby recovered, I am thankful to say. Probably It will never know what 'a disturbance It caused. Hut I will never forget thnt time. "That night I hnd a splondld rcsi slept until ten o'clock in tho morning. Then I woke up to Hnd thnt our house hold was minus Mary Duggan. "Mary Duggan Is auntie's maid. Mary Duggan's 'sister is Lizzlo Dug gan. Lizzie Duggan took suddenly 111. She telegraphed for Mary to como to her at once. So It was up to nuntlo nnd me to wosh dishes, cook, make beds, dust, bake, mend, and do all .tlioso otner things. "Then Aunt Susy's furnnco hnd to act up. Wo couldn't hnve n fire until ,the flro pot was repaired. We hugged ourselves over ono little oil stove that iwo borrowed from a neighbor. Did ;you ever try keeping wnrm over a bashful and backward oil stove? We almost frozo to death. "Then the minister's wlfo bad to give a tea. We couldn't possibly send regrets to the minister's wife, so we went. She made us examine her plush albums containing the family por traits from antediluvian times. I could have screamed. "The next evening a Mr. Dobbins and his three maiden sisters Insisted upon calling on us. Auntie wasn't to blame she couldn't ward them off. "The next day Aunt Susy's euchre club met at hor house. Mary Duggan being absent, auntie and I prepared and served luncheon for 26. "Tho day after the luncheon, ex hausted, I bade Aunt Susy and John son's Junction good by, I went home to rest. St; Simon Stylltes, who stood on ono foot for 39 years, was not half so tired as I was tho day I arrived home. "Now, Marjory, you won't ever sug gest 'rest euro' to me again, will you dear?" demanded Dorothy. "Never," promised Marjory, sympathetically. BONAPARTE AND HIS RED MAN .Story of the Familiar of Napoleon, Disregard of Whose Advice Caused His Downfall. Tho story of the Red Man was evi dently current in Paris at the time of Napoleon's downfall. In a section headed "llonaparte and His Familiar," contained In "News From the Invisible world," pp. 35:10 (one of M liner A Sowerby's publications, reissued In London, 1864), an anonymous corre spondent, writing from Paris, names January 1, 1814. as the date when the mysterious visitant appeared. The ac count Is given with much circumstan tiality of detail, but differs materially from Cyrus Heddlng's version. Instead of being a person of small stature, the familiar was a tall man of Imposing appearance, dressed all In red. Count Molo, in attendance on Napoleon, with orders to admit no person to hls,pres ence, was quite ovciawed by tho mys terious stranger, lie listened trem bling at the door, nnd heard all that passed. The familiar, It scorns, was not an embodiment of the enemy of mankind, but rather the "genius" who presided over Napoleon's destiny. Ho ordered n certain course of action to be tuken, and nllowed three months for It to be carred Into effect. Nupoleon apparent ly refused to comply. They parted In anger, and In threo months tho em peror wns n captive In Klba. "Kvon the French pnpers, when llonaparte was deposed, recurred to this fact, and remarked that his mysterious visitant's prophetic threat had been accom plished." On three different occasions the Red Man apopnred to tho Emper or: In Kgypt, after the battle of Wag ram, and In January, 1814. In tho process of transmission through the crucible of fervent loyal ist Imagination the story seems to have been altered or mutilated. Notes and Queries. VALUE OF THE IMAGINATION A Reasonable Amount of Day Dream ing Does Not Prove Detrimental to One's Interests. Life naturally must be more Inter esting to the person of vivid Imagina tion than to ono who lives only for tho tangible things about him and who fears to dream as his fancy wills because icallty bears heavily upon him. We do not th! ik that even tho man of affairs would find the Indul gence ot a few day dreams detrimen tal to his Interestti, while to those who look only upon the sorioun side of life and share only Its darker as pects, a few dreams of what perhaps may come to pass would act as a tonic upon tired nerves. Our dreams nre oftrK tompanlona to us, and some times wo find ourselves moving un consciously with them In a world far removed from our real habitation, bu' one whose promises seem easy of iul fitment and whose delights compen sate for some of the hardships we may, perhnps, 'bo called upon to bear during our waking hours. Tho world which Is our Idea of happiness, with nil Its wonder of accomplishment nnd nil Its measure of appreciation the world In which we naturally play an Importnnt pnrt who has not seen Its shining sands, nnd lofty summits, and flowering paths, beckoning, ever beck oning, telling us how good It Is to live and defying us to resist Its ap pealing call? We cannot all gain Its shores and discover long-hidden se crets, but, at least, wo can turn Its promises to our advantage and ninko our day dreams oases, as It were, Is the desert spots of life. The Need of Men. More men are needed In the world today than ever before, becauso there Is more to do more different things to make, more actual peoplo to support Fifteen years ngo tho bicycle-makers would hnvo been frightened Into bank ruptcy If you had told them that in 1010 their trade would have almost disappeared. Hut what do wo see now? The coming of automobiles haB given work to nil the bicycle" men and thousands more. And It Is so In other businesses und professions. The point to remomber Is that, while tho form of work changes, the work In every field remains, and even Increases. The real claims aro not all taken up. Alex ander the Orcnt wns only a fool when ho wept because there were no more worlds to conquer. Ho didn't use tils eyes to Bee with, but only to weop with. Saint Nicholas. oy Millionaires. I often call the boys of the public schools of New York millionaires, not because they have, or ever wilt have, millions of dollars of their own, but fcecause they have millions upon millions ot minutes to spend. A boy of ten, for example, has a prospect of living until he Is 70, which means that he has a fortune of over 30, 000,000 of minutes. Of these millions he will have to spend nearly a third, or 10,000,000, In sleep, and another third In earning his food, shelter, cloth ing, and other necessities of life. But he will still have a large fortune to spend as he pleases. The failure or success, or at any rate the largeness or narrowness, ot his life, will depend largely on how he chooses to spend this surplus. Book ot Knowledge. Modern Improvements. Patlont Doctor, I'm having an aw ful lot of trouble with the gas In my stomach. Doctor Yes, yeH, I know. Those old-fashioned fixtures are giv ing people a lot or troublo this fall. 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