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RED CEDAR AND OAK POSTS.
. HTU. J. WARREN, Manager.
B. & M. Meat Market.
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E. S. WILCOX, Prop.
F. D. BURGESS,
PLUMBER®STEAM FITTER
NORTH MAIN AVE.. McCOOK, NEB.
Stock of Iron, Lead and Sewer Pipe, Brass Goods,
Pumps, and Boiler Trimmings. Agent for Halliday,
Eclipse and Waupun Wind Mills.
QREAT SPEAR HEAD CONTEST,
SAVE THE TAGS.
One Hundred and Seventy-Three Thousand Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars,
$173,250.00
In valuable Presents to be Civen Away in Return for
SPEAR HEAD TAGS,
f , 1 55 STEM WINDING ELGIN GOLD WATCHES.*34,C30 00
5.775 FINE IMPORTED FRENCH OPERA GLASSES, MOROCCO BODY,
’ BLACK ENAMEL TRIMMING3, GUARANTEED ACHROMATIC... £8,873 CO
23 100 IMPORTED GERMAN BUCKHORN HANDLE, FOUR BLADED
' POCKET KNIVES. 23,100 00
115 500 ROLLED GOLD WATCH CHARM ROTARY TELESCOPE TOOTH
* PICKS.. 57,730 00
115 500 LARGE PICTURES (14x28 inches) IN ELEVEN COLORS, for framing,
’ no advertising on them. 28.S75 oo
261,030 PRIZES. AMOUNTING TO..$173,250 OO
The above articles will be distributed, by corntlM, among parties who chew SPEAR
HEAD Plug Tobacco, and return to us tbe TIN TAGS taken therefrom.
We will distribute 226 of these prizes in tbls connty as follows:
To THE PARTY sending us the greatest number of SPEAR HEAD __
• TAGS from this eoDBtjr we will give.I GOLD W ATCH.
To the FIVE PARTIES sending us the next greatest number of _
SPEAK HEAD TAGS, we will give to each, 1 OPERA GLASS... .5 OPERA GLASSES.
To the TWENTY PARTIES sending us the next greatest number
of SPEAR HEAD TAGS, we wUl give to each 1 POCKET__
KNIFE....20 POCKET KNIVES.
To the ONE HUNDRED PARTIES sending us the next greatest
number of SPEAR HEAD TAGS, we will give to each I _
ROLLED GOLD WATCH CHARM TOOTH PICK.100 TOOTH PICKS.
to the ONE HUNDRED PARTIES sending us the next greatest
number of SPEAR HEAD TAGS, we will give to each I
LARGE PICTURE IN ELEVEN COLORS.WO PICTURES.
Total Number of Prises for this Connty, 298.
DON'T SEND MT TASS BEFORE JANUARY I. 1394.
THE APOLOGY.
Chide not if here you imply find
The rough romance of country loves
I sing as well the brook and wind
The green below, the blue alwvc.
Here Bhall you read of spreading cress, ,
The velvet of the sparrow’s neck;
Sometimes shall glance the glowing tress.
And Lanra's snow without a speck.
The crab that sets the mouth awry.
The chestnut with its domes of pink.
The splendid palace of the sky.
The pool where drowsy cattle drink.
The stack where Colin hides to catch
The milkmaid with her beaded load:
The singing lark, a poet's match.
That travels up the great blue road;
The cherry whence the blackbird bold
Steals ruby mouthfuls at his case.
The glory of laburnum gold.
The valiant piping of the breeze—
All, all are here. The rustic Muse
Shall sing the pansy and the thrush.
Ah, chide not if she sometimes choose
The country love, the country blush!
—JJ. R. Gale.
THE BLACK PEARL.
The harbor of Acapulco is an ideal one
for shelter, and after the steamer is once
at anchor it is a source of mystery to the
passengers who have not been on deck
how she ever entered the quiet little bay.
The high, blue mountains in the back
ground, the tall palms and tropical green
down to the water's edge, along the
shore the tiled and thatched hotises—
among the oldest on the coast—and on
the rising ground to the right the an
cient fort and military prison—all these
make a sight that fills a lover of the pic
turesque with enthusiasm.
The waters about the steamer are thick
with the boats and dugouts of the bum
boat women and dirty native boys ped
dling fruit, shells, pearls and a world of
indescribables, all keeping up a constant
din of jabbering jargon, that, with the
hundreds of half naked natives passing
from the ship to the lighters discharging
cargo, makes an exciting scene, in sharp
contrast to the peaceful outlook on the
shore beyond.
From the ship the city seems but a
collection of small adobes, scattered here
and there along the hillside, with an oc
casional long, low white building in
view. But no sooner has the traveler
passed the gates of the custom house than
a little city of 12,000 inhabitants lies be
fore him under the shelter of the hill,
with thriving stores thronged with dark
eyed senoritas and men in white linen or
bespangled velvet, many of the latter
with the flaming serape hanging over the
shoulder.
Edmund Warren represented an Amer
ican house. He had taken the place of
the traveler who for years had made the
annual visit to the Mexican seaports.
He had never seen Acapulco before, nor
had Henry Sanford, who accompanied
him on this trip. They had only just
landed and become settled in the miser
able excuse for a hotel in time to enjoy
a delicious eomida, when they felt an
impulse to join the throngs which filled
the clean paved streets as evening came
and night soon followed the footsteps of
the sultry day.
Passing down the street leading by the
stores, the market and the plaza, just
back of the custom house, a small space
under sheltering palms opened to view,
where night after night the lower classes
assembled to watch the fandango. The
crowd of dark skinned men and women,
all dressed in the garb of the locality,
stood out in the dim light of the long
torches planted here and there among
the throng, like ghosts of departed senor
itas and Caballeros. All were watching
the couples dancing the monotonous clog
quadrille on the low platform to the mu
sic of drum, tambourine and guitar.
With hands on hips and heads thrown
back, the dancers faced each other on
the boards arms’ length apart, and the
constant stamping of little feet and the
changing from side to side was kept up
until all were exhausted and others took
their places.
• j. ne Americans naa mingieu witn tne
throng about the dancers, watching al
ternately the platform and the groups of
girls about. Soon soft eyes had discov
ered the strangers, and coquettish
glances went out from beneath long
lashes. Warren was never happy unless
in love and in love with every pretty
face that came across his path. His
heart beat faster as he caught the glances
shot at himself and and Henry, and he
nearly pinched the latter’s arm off as a
smile came from a dark eyed beauty on
the edge of the throng.
“Gad, Henry! Such eyes! Did you
ever see their like?” he exclaimed. “I
must see where she lives. Are you with
me?” and he ri bbed his hands in antici
pation of an adventure. Henry was
quite as ready for a lark as his compan
ion.
Ten o’clock. The dancing was over,
and the crowd scattered through the dark
streets.
“You had better look out for that tall
Mexican with your beauty, Ned. He
may stick a knife into us,” cautioned
Henry.
“Nonsense. Come on,” was the other's
rejoinder.
They did not notice the native police,
not uniformed, but armed, following
some distance behind as the Americans
dogged the footsteps of the first conquest
of the amorous Warren, nor did they
know their custom of “running in” the
foreigner on any pretext whatever for
the revenue of the paltry fine. Muriella j
Narvaez knew full well that her new ad
mirers were close behind, and so did her
tall lover. He bade her good night as
Warren and Sanford passed, and went
back toward the plaza. If the Ameri
cans could have heard his consultation
with Old China, the bnmboat woman
and character of Acapulco, they might
even now be back in their native city.
The young men retraced their steps
and found the olive skinned beauty still
in the door. They saluted. The bow
was returned.
“Adelante, senors,” a pretty voice said,
and they accepted with alacrity the in
vitation to enter. Candles bnmed dimly
in a corner filled with bottles—mescal
aguardiente and aquilla. Several other
girls, quite as pretty as the captor of
Warren’s transitory affections, were
seated about, some on stools and some
on a low couch in the corner. Two had
guitars.
“Here s luck, Henry,” whispered War
ren, and they were soon quite at home
in the little white adobe, though to Hen
ry there seemed something uncanny
about tlio place. To the Americans,
used to the luxurious fittings of a met
ropolitan home, the bare walls and dirt
floors, covered with palm patates, were
a new experience.
While laughter and song came from
the little house, and the Americans were
whispering love nothings in the ears of
newly found amoreux, in another house
not far from the water more serious
words were passing between Old China
and the tall lover of Muriella. The old
dealer in green cocoanuts and occult
mysteries was listening with ill con
cealed pleasure to the man who was beg
ging a favor at her hands. No love
scrape about the shores of that pretty
bay ever escaped her notice, and nothing
pleased the stout old bumboat woman so
much as to be sought out by tlio amor
ous of the upper classes to listen to such
information from her lips as is sought
from the “second sight” mediums of our
own country.
“So you want to buy the Black Pearl?
To buy it! You fool!” shrieked Old
China when the Mexican had finished
his story. “What do you know about
it?”
“I know what was sai 1 when i'..e com
andante was found dead, and that the
police were afraid to search for it. Five
hundred pesos for its use tonight—that
is all I ask.”
“The police are fools, and you are a
fool. I know nothing about the Black
Pearl.”
“Come, China. A thousand pesos for
its use and the knowledge how to use it.”
“A thousand pesos,” muttered the old
woman. “Have you the money with
you?”
“Aye, that I have, and I want its use
for only this one night.”
China waddled into an adjoining room,
whence after much delay she brought
forth a package carefully wrapped and
sealed. “You must not undo this, senor,”
she said, “or you, too, will suffer if you
see the pearl.”
The laughter and song in the adobe
casita stopped at a knock on the outer
door, and Ned Warren’s pretty Acapul
can answered the summons. A neat
parcel was handed her by the messenger,
which she eagerly unfolded. “With the
compliments of-,” it said, but she
knew the handwriting.
“How funny' at this hour!” she thought,
but her snapping black eyes danced with
glee as she undid the parcel and found it
to contain an immense black pearl set
in beaten yellow metal of quaint work
manship. At her exclamation of delight
the others grouped about, and the object
of their admiring glances was laid upon
the table for inspection.
An instinctive shudder passed through
Sanford as Muriella laid it under the
candle light. It seemed to emit a pecu
liar light, and a queer, pricking sensa
tion went through his veins as he viewed
the jewel—the largest of its kind he had
ever seen. As he looked a feeling of ex
hilaration came over him, such as he
had not felt during the evening.
“That last drink of tequila was too
much,” he thought, but the others, too,
were beginning to evince signs of liveli
ness even greater than all the hilarity ot
the night had brought forth. A faint
blue haze seemed to cover every object
in the room. The figures of the girls at
intervals looked far away and then near
byr, while a feeling of utter recklessness
pervaded his whole being. All the phan
tasms of the opium eater could not be
more weird than those which came into
Sanford’s brain as his gaze was riveted
on the jewel lying among the candles
grouped around it on the table. In their
dim light it seemed to grow and grow,
emitting a demoniacal glow that, but for
the spirit of recklessness which possessed
him, would have filled his soul with
dread.
“The fandango,” cried one of the girls,
with a wild burst of laughter. “Let us
dance once more, for I feel as though my
feet were on fire,” and when the guitar
sounded the notes of the dance the danc
ers seemed to enter into it with fiendish
delight and boisterious enthusiasm. Back
and forth they' crossed, swaying like wil
lows in the wind, with hands on hips and
heads well back, their feet pattering and
stamping to the twanging of the guitar.
Faster and faster their movements be
came, as the music seemed to fill every
fiber with its wild action.
**»*«*
Five bodies were found in the adobe I
casita next morning, but with no marks j
of violence or other signs to show the
cause of death.
The gossips of that quaint Mexican
seaport tell a weird tale of a black pearl,
taken from the gulf, that acts upon be
holders as does the loco weed upon all
who taste that evil plant, and they tell,
too, of a mad dance of death years ago
when two foreigners and three beauties !
of the place fell exhausted about the
jewel, whose demoniacal fire kept them
treading the fandango till every energy
was gone and life went from them.—
John Craig in San Francisco Argonaut.
A New Class of Compounds.
The “nitro metals’’ are a new class of !
compounds discovered by Sabatier and
Senderens. They have found that re
duced copper absorbs, in the cold, the
vapors of nitrogen peroxide, heat being
disengaged during the process. The
product is a maroon colored compound,
the composition of which is represented
by the formula Cu2N02. This is nitro
copper. A similar compound has been
obtained with cobalt.—New York Jour
nal.
The Most Magnificent Array of Diamonds.
Mrs. John Bloodgood is said by the
most noted of the London jewelers to
have a more magnificent array of dia
monds than any woman extant. She was
one of the four Americans who were
able to secure a box at the opera in Lon
don during the summer of 1892, and her
diamonds even in that show excited the
greatest comment.—New York Recorder.
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Keeps the scalp
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Restores hair
which has become
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For a Lame Side, Back or Chest Shiloh’s Porous
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Mrs. T. S. Hawkins, Chattanooga, Tenn.,says:
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cimaider it the best remedy for a debilitated syatem
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For sale by A. McMillen, druggist.
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