By F. M. KIMMELL.
OFFICIAL CITY& COUNTY PAPER.
$1.50 A YEAR IN ADVANCE.
ALL HOME PRINT.
An , there McKeighan , Mack ;
you are there.
THE national republican ticket
is overwhelmingly defeated. The
man of destiny Grover Cleveland
will reign for the coming four
years.
THE voices of Tom and Jerry
will soon cease to preach the gos
pel of calamity on the floor of the
house of representatives. Little
did they imagine a few weeks ago
how real was the danger of calam
ity to themselves notwithstanding
they appeared to be so familiar
with old Calamity himself.
PUOF. C. L. INGERSOLL of the
chair of agriculture has assumed
O
the duties of director of the uni
versity experiment station. Diffi
cult as it would be to find a man
to carry on the work performed
with so much success by Prof.
Nicholson , there is no doubt that
Prof. Ingersoll will bring new
fame to the university through his
management of this important
auxiliary. He is a pains-taking
scientist , a hard worker and an
earnest student of all the problems
that come before the farmers of
this state for solution. Journal.
BENJAMIN HARRISON set a
worthy example by standing up
HI for his state , which cannot com
wini neurasKa in ncuuess
and growth. In an Indianapolis
speech he said : "It is one of the
best elements of our strength as a
state that our form lauds are so
largely possessed in smaii tracts ,
and are tilled by the men who own
them. It is one of the best evi
dences of the prosperity of our
cities that so large a proportion of
the men who work are covered by
their own roof trees. If we could
perpetuate this condition , we must
maintain the American scale of
wages. "
only wheat is going to
market at a rate altogether un
precedented , but the flour mills of
the country are also breaking pre
vious records. There has been
an increase in the volume of sales
to the domestic trade but the for
eign demand and flour remains
light , though direct exports last
week were higher than the week
before. The explanation of the
sluggish foreign demand , as given
by good authorities , is that Europe
hopes to buy both wheat and flour
at still lower prices and will not
stock up until the supply of wheat
in this country is more definitely
known than it is now.
HARDLY a day passes without
news of the killing or maiming of
some unfortunate railway employe
while coupling cars. A bill now
pending in congress proyides a rem
edy for this by making the adop-
iioii of safety couplers of uniform
style compulsory upon all railroads
in the United States. This desir
able measure should be promptly
passed in the coming session , and
as President Harrison is strongly
in favor of it and the house has
-already .acted favorably upon it ,
ihere is good reason that it will
"soon become a law. The lives and
limbs of railroad employes should
be protected so far as legal enact
ments can secure this result.
YEAR by year the crowds at the
tombs of the murderers of Hay-
market Square grow smaller and
smaller , and the space in the news
papers devoted to the "anniversary
celebration" grows beautifully and
appropriately less. The attempt
to make martyrs of the five An
archists is not even consequential
enough to be called a reputable
fizzle. There is nothing to justify
the attempt. The dend "murderers
were noisy incendiary roisterers
without conviction , and almost
without principles. They preach
ed a doctrine which is distasteful
to the American idea of civilization
and to the American plan of gov
ernmental progress. And it will
be very hard indeed to find a halo
with any lasting luster to fit their
contracted brows.
CHINESE GBOCERHS.
AN ORIENTAL STORE WITH QUEER
KINDS OF EDIBLES.
a Chinaman's Delicatessen Iv Like.
A Veritable Museani of Guntronomy A
St. Louia Firm That Sells Thing * That
the Chinese Eat.
On the corner of Tenth and Locust
streets is s little Chinese shop that has
about it the red and white air of a laun
dry , but it isn't. The sign in front of
the store says "Chinese and Japanese
groceries. Sun Yah Sue & Co. " It was
at one time a fancy goods shop , but the
owner concluded groceries would pay
better. "People are compelled to eat , "
he says , in explaining the change. The
owner's name is not Sun Yah Sue , how
ever , and there is no company to the
concern at all , but it is run by a single
proprietor. The proprietor's namu is
Jeu Hon Yee , and he put " & Co. " on his
sign because he saw it on several other
signs in the neighborhood , and thought
it had an air of business about it. As
for Sun Yah Sue , that is not the name of
any personage whatever , but is simply a
motto chosen by Mr. Yee. Its literal
meaning is "Believe in Jesus. " so that
any one passing along the street and
translating the sign would bo surprised
to see a grocery store run by "Believe in
Jesus & Co. "
Mr. Yee sells groceries , but none of
the kind that are seen upon the table of
an American , if we except a little rice
and tea. The kinds he sells are those
which tickle the palates of the dwellers
in the land of Confucius.
The writer yesterday had the pleasure
of witnessing a shipment of freight un
packed which had just completed its
long journey from China. The ten or
twelve large boxes covered with the odd
but well known green paper and inimi
table characters , all securely wrapped
with strips of cane , had at a glance a
foreign look about them. When the
boxes were opened , however , and some
of the goods taken out , the foreign ap
pearance was increased many times over.
Everything was stored away in a very
careful and compact manner , each arti
cle being separated from every other by
little improvised but effective partitions
in the large boxes. There were strange
looking nuts of all sorts some from the
marshes along the Yellow and Blue
rivers , and some from the rugged upland
region between the Yangtze and its great
tributary , the Min. The water nuts
from the low lands , growing in the
ponds and the swamps like lilies the
root forming the nut had the soft black
mud from their eastern home still cling
ing aronnd them. When cut open with
a knife the juicy white meat was evi
dently as fresh as it was the day it had
been taken from the faraway banks of
some lonely swamp.
There were dozens of kinds of dried
mushrooms , numerous kinds and quali
ties of macaroni , jars of the most de
licious ( ? ) sauce , boxes of queer red
rasins , casks of dark brown oysters ,
which , it is said , swell to many times
their size when cooked ; ginger root so
strong and biting that none but an ac
customed tongue can endure its taste ,
dried fish in endless variety and appear
ance , sticks of sugar cane , which were
really quite palatable , beautiful little
bamboo baskets of the finest tea , kegs of
long , slender cucumbers in a thick ,
black sauce ; vegetables something like
beets and carrots and potatoes , but
really like none of them ; black seagrass
or seaweed , which , when "wash * wi'
flesh water , " is supposed to become a
most luscious auxiliary cooked with
stewed meats ; and last , but not least ( in
price ) , the inevitable birds' nests ,
wrapped in tissue paper and inclosed in
delicate half pound paper boxes at four
dollars per pound.
Indeed , while the amount of each kind
was not very great the variety seemed
almost endless , and the prices were a
revelation. The water nuts , which
looked like buckeyes , sell at thirty cents
a pound. They are used , sliced up very
fine , to cook with meats , etc. The
mushrooms are eighty cents to a dollar
lar a pound , and look very much like
our own. The lowest priced dried fish
are thirty cents a pound , and the best
kinds a dollar. They are shipped in
great numbers during the summer
months , when other meats cannot well
stand the journey. There is a kind of
duck , however , whose legs are dressed ,
placed in tin cans , which are filled with
oil , and shipped to any distance. Packed
in this oil these legs will keep fresh in
definitely and are considered a wonder
ful delicacy , retailing at ten cents each.
The black seaweed which is cooked with
meats sells at seventy-five cents a pound
and other things in proportion , while
the little yellowish sticks known as
birds' nests bring four dollars a pound.
Mrs. Yee says it is an excellent thing
for children and a magnificent ingredi
ent for soups , as no doubt it ought to be.
In explaining the different articles and
their characteristics Jeu Hon Yee had to
show considerable dexterity with the
English language. He would call over
the name "ho she" some little time before
he could explain with clearness that it
was an oyster. When he picked up a
"hung jo"neitheritsnamenoritsappear-
ance gave any evidence of its being a
raisin which it . "Gum "
, was. gum chui" is
a sort of cauliflower kind of vegetable ,
which is not a gum at all , nor is it meant
forchewing , except incidentally insoups ; j
while "cha gua , " a little box of four wax
balls containing medicine ( selling at
§ 1.50) ) , never did secure its English name
while the writer was present. In fact ,
the entire shop , with everything jammed
up close together , and with its strange
appearance , name and odors , has an un
mistakable foreign air about it. One
Dan close his eyes and with bnt it slight
effort of the imagination find himself in
iorne faroff oriental village. St. Louis
3rlobe-Democrat.
Still There.
"There's gas escaping , " said Eunting ,
miffing the air.
"No , " replied Larkin , also taking a
miff , "it seems to be here yet. " Ex-
A Democratic View.
BENJAMIN HARRISON and White-
law Keid are worse beaten in the
electoral college thau auy men who
have run for president and vice
president since Horace Greely's
campaign in 1872. They will
receive barely more votes than
Greely would have , had he lived
until the college met. Cleveland
and Stevenson will receive more
votes in the electoral college than
any candidates have ever before
had. The transfer of Ohio to
the democratic column raises
Cleveland's vote to over 800 auc
reduced Harrison to not more than
100. The exact figures according
to the latest returns are : Cleve
land 303 , Harrison 109 , Weaver
32. N. Y. special to Deuvei
News.
THE Nebraska warehouse
appears to be rather difficult to
understand in some of its provi
sions. The recent decision o :
Attorney General Hastings as to
the meaning of the iuspectioi
clause is to the effect that owners
of public warehouses must no
store grain of their o\vn without
having it inspected in the same
manner as other grain. One firm
iti this city seems to have misun
derstood the- law and , perhaps ,
others have done so. This , we
believe , is not the first time thai
it has had to be iuterperted. Bee
J. W. Tram m ell is up from Ox
ford today.
Banker O. Frost of Bartley is
in town today.
The latest returns show Ne
braska to be safely republican on
national and state tickets.
Children Cry for Pitcher's Castoria.
EDWARD . B. SHAW ,
Regimental Blacksmith ,
HAS Ol'ENKI ) A
BLACKSMITH : - : SHOP
ON MARSHALL STREET ,
Opposite Milliard's lumber yard and
in O'Neil's carpenter shop.
/ Will Cure Interfering Horses
& Contracted Hoofs or no Pay.
I ALSO HAVE A FIRST-CLASS
WAGON : - : MAKER.
C3T1 will iilvo you value received or no
pay. Prices reasonable.
CURTIS & BATES
For a Clean Shave or
S An Artistic Hair Cut.
REAR OF CITIZENS BANK.
McCOOK. - - NEBRASKA.
PERFUMES
TOILET SOAPS
AND
Fancy Articles
LW. McCONNELL
& CO.
Druggists.
/
Established 1886 , Strictly One Price.
FALL AND WINTER 92-93.
Famous Clothin Co. "
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OVERCOATS AND ULSTERS ,
UNDERWEAR AND OVERSHIRTS ,
GLOVES AND HOSIERY ,
NECKWEAR AN MUFFLER S.
ASSORTMENT IS THE LARGEST
OUR PRICES THE LOWEST.
McGook , Neb. JONAS EN6EL , Manager
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