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By F. M. KIMMELL.
$1.50 A YEAR IN ADVANCE.
all home print.
THE COLUMBIAN FAIR.
There was a time when the man
agement of the Nebraska state
board of agriculture thought of not
holding a fair this Columbian year
with most western states, particu
larly those near Chicago. Better
and wiser conclusions prevailed.
It is remembered that at best a very
small proportion of the people, will,
or can, go to Chicago, and that
those thus deprived should not be
cut of from the great object lesson
and annual recreative occasion of a
state fair.
To meet the emergency and keep
step with the Columbian year de
mands extraordinary arrangements
have been perfected and all efforts
are being made to render the Neb
raska state fair and exposition to be
held at Liucon, September 8 to 15
next, the greatest entertainment ®f
the kind ever held in the west.
In the agricultural product line,
the great factor, county collective
exhibits, has been thrown open to
the world. Kansas. Colorado, Iowa
Missouri and Dakota, promise to be
represented.
Other special attractions will be
unusually fine and instructive.
Speed ring feature will be larger
than ever. The secretary reports
that already more entries are on file
than at any fair before up to fair
week. Live stock exhibitors are all
wide awake and will fill up the stalls
and pens. Premiums have been
increased in number, as well as in
dollars.
Arrangements have been com
pleted by which railroad transpor
tation can be had, round trip fares
from Chicago to the west and re
turn, the same as from the west to
the world’s fair and return. This
will bring many strangers from
Chicago to see the “New West”
this fall. Exhibitors are in vited to
bear this in mind.
Six hundred dollars is the capital
prize this year, for five other minor
ones, none less than one hundred
dollars.
The price of wheat has recovered
somewhat from the sev ere decline
of last week, which carried it down
to the lowest price for thirty years,
and it is not probable that the price
will again this year go to so low a
injure. But ou the other hand
holders of wheat must uot expect
anv very material advance. It is
true that the conditions for the crop
in this country, have been unfavor
able and it is estimated that the
yield will fall short of last year’s
crop by about 100,000,000 bushels
and of the great crop of two years
ago by about 200,000,000 bushels.
It is also probable that the Europ
ean crop will be below' the average.
Ordinarily this state of affairs
would cause a rise of price, and it
does uot do so now simply for the
reason that there is an gnormous
visible supple of wheat brought
over from the crops of the last two
years. This visible supply amount
ed at the beginning of the current
month in this country and Canada
to 80,000,000 bushels, excluding
wheat stored at interior points in
the northwest, so that the available
accumulations out of f armers’hands
is probably not less than 100,000,
000 bushels, which is from two and
a half to three times the quantity
which has been available at the
corresponding date in years past.
This surplus will^go far toward
making good the shortage in this
year’s crop, and unless there shall
be a much larger foreign demand
than it is reasonable to expect,tbe
price of wheat is hot likely to rale
very much higher. Bee.
DIVORCE IN BURMAH.
An Original and Exhaustive Method ol
Settling Family Trouble*.
In Bnrmah, as in civilized Europe,
suspicion often disturbs the family circle,
but instead of filling lawyers’ pockets
and giving society papers highly spiced
paragraphs the following effectual mode
of divorce procedure is adopted: The
family relatives on both sides are called
in—even distant cousins living a long
• way off—and many are the long journeys
made in jolting bullock carts, and many
the animated discussions by the cigar
puffing circle of relatives squatted cere
moniously on the bamboo matted floors.
If an amicable settlement can be ob
tained thus—and very difficult it is to
smooth down the quarrels, as a rule, for
the Burmese are a spirited race—the eld
ers or patriarchs of the village or dis
trict are called in, and after the circum
stances are expl lined arbitrators are ap
pointed from among them, who proceed
as follows: Two candles—wax if possi
ble, but generally rushlights—are select
ed of equal length and thickness, and be
ing simultaneously lighted are placed on
the table if the establishment boasts of
one; if not, on the floor.
This is done with the greatest gravity,
care being taken that neither party has
any advantage over the other in the
shape of drafts through the doors and
crannies, and that all present are seated
at sufficient distance to prevent their
breathing from affecting the flame. The
gradual burning down of the flames is
then watched with breathless and sol
emn silence, which culminates as one or
the other of these slowly burns down and
splutters ont its life in the waters of the
basin in which it is fixed.
A deep “Aht” a gutteral sigh of relief,
greets this termination, and if it be the
husband's candle that burns out first he
and his relatives walk slowly out of
doors, solemnly and silently, leaving his
better half in possession of the goods and
chattels contained therein. If the wife’s
candle expires first, she and hers do like
wise, and with a small present to the
judges and umpires the divorce is com
pleted.—Chicago Herald.
Advance In the Value of Pictures.
At the sale of the art collection of the
late Mme. Denain, once a famous actress
of the Theatre Francais, a comparison of
prices with those obtained at the auction
of the Didier collection in 1808, from
which most of the paintings, etc.,
brought to the hammer were derived, is
most instructive as showing the wonder
ful variations in the value attached to
masterpieces of art. Thus “The Four
Seasons” (Prudhon) brought 80,000
francs, against 83,600 francs in 1868; a '
portrait of Mme. de Sombreval and of
her son (Nattier), 40,700 francs, against
6.000 francs; a portrait of Rembrandt (by
himself), 40,000 francs, against 4,000
francs; “The Rainbow” (Th. Rousseau),
17,600 francs, against 4,700 francs; “A
Riverside View” (Bonington), 17,500
francs, against4,200 francs; “The Recon
ciliation” (Fragonard), 16,200 francs,
against 1,460 francs; portrait of Mile.
Olivier (Greuze), 15,000 francs, against
6,500 francs; portrait of a Monk Con
fessor (Rubens), 12,800 francs, against
2.000 francs; “A Forest Landscape”
(Diaz), 12,500 francs, against 3,000 francs.
On the other hand, a few works by
Prudhon and Decamps were knocked
down at prices far below those obtained
in 1868, and a portrait of a girl by Ve
lasquez, presumably his daughter, was
sold for 10,000 francs, against 15,100
francs at the Didier sale.—London Tele
graph.
Hoses All the Year Bound.
Splendid as the blooms of the June
ones are, we want roses all summer long,
hence have to look to the teas, Chinas,
Bourbons and similar ones to give them
to us, and they won’t disappoint us.
Summer roses, as we call them, bloom
from first to last, giving us their small
er, though sweet scented, flowers until
freezing weather comes. When the cool
nights of fall come, they make a glorious
display of flowers, allowing of the cut
ting of many a bouquet. The well
known Hermosa, Louis Philippe, Mal
maison and Agrippina are members of
this class. Other good representatives
arq Appoline, Edward Desfosses, Louise
Odier, Bougere, Caroline Mamiesse, Ho
mer, Gloire de Dijon, Mme. de Vatry,
Souvenir d’un Ami, Marie Ducher and
Sombrieul. These are all hardy in this
latitude with but little protection, and
in many places with no protection at all.
—Joseph Meehan in Pittsburg Dispatch.
The Growth of a Metropolis. *
Things seldom seen in New York now
adays: A runaway, a man trying to as
certain where he is from the sign on a
lamppost, sheep or steers being driven to
slaughter houses, a man carried on a
stretcher, girls selling newspapers, boys
sweeping crosswalks, advertisements
pasted on the curbstones, a torchlight pa
rade, a chowder party keeping step com
ing home, a goat south of Fifty-ninth
street, an omnibus on the west side of
town, a barber shop in the second story
of a building, or a woman as ready to
take pennies in change in a street car as
to give them for fare.—New York Sun.
Asking the Wrong Party.
“Some of yon,” said a political orator,
“remind me of Johnny Bizim, who un
dertook to break the yearling bull, and
to make sure be did not get away tied
the rope around his waist. The break
ing process angered the yearling, and he
split a crack in the atmosphere toward
the swamp. Johnny only hit the ground
in the high places. In their mad career
they passed a neighbor, who yelled to
John, ‘Where are you going? ‘Blanked
if I know,’ he replied as he sailed
through the air. ‘Ask the bull.’ ”—
Northwest Magazine.
Not • Paying Occupation.
Hicks—What a chance for a fellow to
grab these women’s pocketbooks that
they hold in their hands so temptingly!
Wicks—Excellent, as yon say. An in
dustrious thief might snatch scores of
’em every hour and make as mnch as
half a dollar a day.—Boston Transcript,
Your Watch
Insured Free.
A perfect insurance against theft or accident
is the now famous
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the only bow (ring) which cannot be pulled
or wrenched from the case. Can only be
had on cases containing this trade mark.
—MADS BY—
Keystone Watch Case Company,
of Philadelphia.
the oldest, largest, and most complete Watch
Case factory in the world—1500 employees;
2000 Watch Cases daily.
One of its products is the celebrated
Jas. Boss
Filled Watch Cases
which are just as good as solid cases, and
cost about one half less.
Sold by all jewelers, without extra charge
for Non-pull-out bow. Ask for pamphlet, or
send to the manufacturers.
—CALL AT—
LENNART’S LAUNDRY
For First-Class
Laundry Work.
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McCook, - Nebraska.
To Our Advertisers.
You are entitled to have your display
advertisements changed once a month
at the regular price. Chauges more
frequent will be charged extra accord
ing to the amount of composition.
Local advertisements may be changed
every week at usual price.
Copy for new advertisements and for
changes of regular advertisements must
be in this office by Wednesday of each
week to insure prompt insertion.
Notice of discontinuance of any dis
play advertisement must be giveu not
later than Wednesday. Local adver
tisements may be discontinued at any
time before Thursday evening.
A strict observance of these necessary
rules is respectfully requested.
The Publisher.
January 1, 1893.
United States Senator Leland
Stanford of California died at
Palo Alto on Wednesday at mid
night of apoplexy.
A local contemporary locates
the honorable Jim North of Platte
county in Columbus, Ohio, not
withstanding the fact that Jim
whacked bulls across the plains of
Nebraska in the early fifties and
has been a resident of the state
ever since.
The American Sabbath received
a sad set-back in the final decision
of Chief Justice Fuller which
opens the world’s fair on Sunday.
As a people we are unfortunately
drifting away from our ancient
moorings and the sacred day is
fast becoming' a day of shows and
picnics Alack a day.
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The attorney general of Kansas
is having an up-hill job in compell
ing the corporations to obey the
laws recently enacted for their re
gulation. The impunity with which
the corporations ignore the laws
and defy the authorities is one of
the most serious things with which
a popular self-government is con
fronted.
A newspaper man is in some in
stances like other people. He re
spects his friends, appreciates a
kindness, and is always willing to
return a favor. In another re
spect he resembles his fellowmen.
He will continue to pat him on the
back tell what a good man he is,
and how much he has done for the
town and give him a free business
puff every day when the man will
not, through personal prejudice cr
otherwise, continue to aid in sup
porting the paper. In other words,
he stands by the man who stands
by him. That’s about the way of
the world, and a newspaper man
can’t be expected to be so much
different from other people.—
Beaver City Tribune.
“We
Want
Facts,”
Observed Dickens’ well
known character, Mr.
Thomas Gadgrind, and
it is well enough for us
to confine ourselves, as a
general thing, to such
statements, unless we are
poets. Just now let us
direct your attention to
the fact that we are mak
ing lower prices than
ever on
BOOTS AND SHOES,
and that we are selling
the best $2.50 Shoe in
the market.
tyzivcj S-toLe.
GEO. M. CHENERY. Propr.
PURE DRUGS, if
Medicines, Perfumes,
Stationery, Paints, Oils,
Lamps, Etc.
213 Main Avenue, McCook, Nebraska.
...The Smart...
Photograph Gallery,
Over the Famous Clothing Co.
—o_ I
This is the place to get anything
in the photograph line. All photos
made with the beautiful Celluloid
Finish. Pictures made from size
! of a locket to life size. Old pic
tures enlarged in crayon or water;
colors. Our crayon work cannot;
be excelled. Call and see samples, j
Viewing of farms and residences.
Constant supply of picture frames
of the latest patterns always on
hand, at reasonable prices. Our
aim will be to please everybody
and we guarantee strictly first-class
work. Cloudy weather no disad
vantage.
P. W. MAECELLUS,
McCook, Neb.
EST'Nobl*, Purveyor to tne Great
Common People, is now exhibiting
about the handsomest and largest as
sortment of plain and fancy lamps to be
seen in Southwestern Nebraska.
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—^THEM—
FAMOUS
CLOTHING CO.
HOT WEATHER GOODS.
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Thin Coats and Vests,
Straw Hats, Neckwear,
Lightweight Underwear,
Negligee & Dress Shirts,
Hosiery of all Grades.
A complete assortment of the latest
novelties in the above lines and at
Popular Prices.
McCook, Nebraska. JONAS ENGEL,
Manager.
FOR
A good slice of tlie earth. Now you get all the profit. In fact
you are in on the ground floor. Think of these prices and
don’t neglect to snap a few of these
Great Bargains.
Here are a few which we offer this week just
for a starter:
Mr) 1 A heavy Screen Door, well painted and fur
nislied complete with spring, hinges, hook <£ i m
and knob, only. ^
Mr, O A First-class Lawn Mower, fourteen-inch r a a
^ cut, only-. O-UU
Mn Q A very fine quality of Rubber Hose, three- i m
D pjy^ an immense bargain, per foot only— .' ^2
Mn A California Lawn Sprinklers, always were a a a
MU. soici at from $2.50 to $3.00, now ohly. £.UU
We are sole agents for the following lines and offer
great inducements in them:
Jewel Leonard Banquet
Gasoline Cleanable ' Stoves4
Stoves. Refrigerators, and Ranges.
The Finest on Beautifully carved—great All fire-backed—war
earth. variety—low prices. ranted 20 years.
Genuine Glidden Barbed Wire, Best in the World.
Our Stock is one Grert Assortment of Bargains. Call
and look us over.
THE PIONEER HARDWARE,
W. C. LaToubette, Propr.
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