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M. Cochran & Co. • -^-N .SELL. STANDARD BICYCLES, CHARTER OAK STOVES, CHARTER OAK WAGONS, PLANO HEADERS AND BINDERS, J. I. CHASE THRESHING MACHINES, HOUSEHOLD SEWING MACHINES, BUGGIES AND WAGONS, UUICK MEAL GASOLINE STOVES, FIVE STYLES OF WINDMILLS. West Dennison st., McCook, Neb. W. 0. BULLARD & CO. _ *_JoJ-. - o • LIME, HARD ” CEMENT, _ —— AND ;s LUMBER. SOTI ! BLINDS. __ COAL. O • RED CEDAR AND OAK POSTS. HTU. J. WARREN. Manager. B. & M. Meat Market. FRESH AND SALT MEATS, BACON, BOLOGNA, CHICKENS, TURKEYS, Ac., AC. F. S. WILCOX, Prop. F. O. BURGESS, PLUMBERf 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. Gif EAT SPEAR HEAD CONTEST. UL^'-tMaasawoMBEiaiia draw AND SAVE THE TAGS. One Hundred and Sam-Tee Thousand Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars, $173,250.00 in va!uaEiie Presents to be Civen Away in Return for SPEAR HEAD TASS, 1,1 55 STEM WINDING ELGIN GOLD WATCHES.S3i,S50 00 5.775 FINE IMPORTED FRENCH OPERA GLASSES, MOROCCO BODY, FLACK ENAMEL TRIMMINGS, GUARANTEED ACHROMATIC... £8,875 00 23,100 IMPORTED GERMAN BUCKHORN HANDLE, FOUR BLADED POCK ET KNIVES. 27,100 00 115,300 ROLLED GOLD WATCH CHARM ROTARY TELESCOPE TOOTH PICKS. 57,750 CO 1 1 5,500 LARGE PICTURES (14x28 inche3) IN ELEVEN COLORS, for framing, no advertising on them. 28,875 00 251,030 PRIZES, AMOUNTING TO.$173,250 OO The above articles will be distributed, by conn sirs, among parties who chew SPEAR HEAD Plug Tobacco, and return to us the TIN TAGS taken therefrom. We will distribute 226 of these prizes in this county as follows: To THE PARTY sending us the greatest number of SPEAR HEAD TAGS from this county we will give.1 GOLD WATCH. '/'o the FIVE PARTIES sending us the next greatest number of SPEAR UK AD TAGS, we will give to each, 1 OPERA GLASS....5 OPERA GLAUSES. To the TWENTY PARTIES sending us the next greatest number of SPEAR HEAD TAGS, we will 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 1 liAKGE PICTURE IN ELEVEN COLORS.100 PICTURES. Total Ntimber of Prize* for this County, 226. CAUTION.—No Tags will be received before January 1st, 1894, nor after February 1st, 1894. Each package containing tags must be marked plainly with Name of Sender, Town, County. State, and Number of Tags in each package. All charges on packages must be prepaid. READ.—SPEAR HEAD possesses more qualities of intrinsic value than anv other plu" tobacco produced. It is the sweetest, the toughest, the richest. SPEAR HEAR is absolutely, positively and distinctively different in flavor from any other plug tobacco. A trial will convince the most skeptical of this fact. It is the largest seller of any similar shape and style on earth, which proves that it has caught the popular taste and pleases the people. Try it. and participate tn the contest for prizes. See that a TIN TAG is on every |0 cent piece of SPEAR HEAD you buy. Sena in the tags, no matter how small tte • nuantity. very sincerely, 1 THE P. J. 80RG COMPANY, Middletown, Ohio. A list of tic peonle obtaining these prizes tn this county will be publisbed In thli paper immediatcl) after February 1st, 1894. G3.VT SEND HH1 TAGS 2ZF3PE JANMF.Y I. 1234. PASSION TIDE. The young child Jesus had a garden Full of roses rare and red, And thrice a day he watered them To make a garland for his head. When they were full blown in the garden. He called the Jewish children there. And each did pluck himself a rose Until they stripped the garden bare. “And, now. how will you make your garland. For not a rose your path adorns?” “But you forget,” he answered them, “That you have left me still the thorns.” They took the thorns and made a garland And pieced it on his shining head. And where the roses should havo shown Were littlo drops of blood instead. —Richard Henry Stoddard. A WIDOW’S WALK. The Marquise de Beauminois had mourned sufficiently for a gouty and un reasonably jealous husband. She had recently laid aside her weeds and began a neuvaine, whoa an order from the king enjoined her to lodge a captain and his squadron, which had been sent to clear the country of an audacious band of brigands. The young widow submitted with good grace. While the dragoons had free access to the pantry, she did the honors of her table for their chief, the Due de Merval. Dom Marouflot, the chaplain of the chateau, acted as chap eron. One evening the duke was talking and drinking in the large wainscoted room, where he was playing chess with Dom Marouflot. The marquise, who wore an exceptionally elegant toilet, was asking herself for the thousandth time that week, “Do I really love him?” and, though she reflected seriously, her ques tion remained unanswered. “That Gillou is a clever bandit!” growled the captain between two games. “For two weeks we have scoured the country, and still he slips through our fingers. I have decided to search for him tomorrow with the whole squadron. “Gillou is not an ordinary brigand,” continued the duke; “they say he is edu cated, courteous and even gallant upon occasion.” As the marquise drew her chair nearer to the table where the two men were sitting, the captain began to tease her. “What a serious countenance, ma dame! I fear my stories about brigands have so frightened you that you will not dare to venture two steps in the park this evening.” Dom Maroufiot looked at the clock and said: “It is the hour for your neu vaine, madame. I will ring for the serv ants to escort you.” “No, no, it is needless!” replied the marquise, piqued by the duke’s sarcasm. “I shall go to the chapel alone. I wish to prove to Captain Merval that women are not such cowards as he believes.” The old chapel was at the farther end of the park. Once out of the house the marquise began to regret her bravado. Mme. Beauminois’ mind was filled with the stories she had heard concerning Gil lou—“the man in the mask,” as the old women of the country called him. Under her fine satin corsage her heart beat so loudly she could almost hear it. At last she reached the chapel, and en tering kneeled and said her prayers a little more quickly than usual. Then she rose and went toward the door. Suddenly she stooped and caught her breath. A masked man was standing near the holy water vessel. As she saw that he remained motionless and in a re spectful attitude, she took courage and advanced. The man dipped his fingers in the holy water and held them out to her. She did not dare to refuse the stranger’s offer, and, thanks to a ray of moonlight that filtered through a stained glass window, she remarked that ho had a very beauti ful hand. A little reassured, she made a sign of the cross and left the chapel. She had scarcely taken-10 steps before the unknown man rejoined her, and she started at hearing a voice which she thought she recognized, although it was singularly softened. “Will you allow me to offer you my arm, madame? Some accident might be fall you alone in this great park at such an hour.” He had such a courtly bearing that the marquise felt perfectly safe. As they crossed an opening bathed in moonlight, she examined her companion more closely. His mask left the lower part of his face uncovered. Not only did she believe that it was not the first time she had heard this voice, but it seemed to her that it was the same blond mustache which had lightly touched her hand each evening in a discreet kiss. The masked man had therefore almost the same voice, mustache and figure as the duke. Be had disguised himself to frighten, her. This discovery gave her a great desire to laugh, and she leaned upon his arm with more confidence. Finding the adventure a pleasant one, she resolved to play her part of the courageous woman seriously so long as it should please the duke to remain a brigand. Besides, what a fine occasion to learn under cover of jocularity the duke’s real sentiments! “Do you often go out alone like this, my pretty devotee?” “Yes, M. Mask, all alone, just like this.” “Do you not know that Gillou and his band are running about the country?” “Yes, I know it.” “Are you not afraid of brigands?” “That depends upon the brigand.” “Myself, for example.” “Are you a real brigand?” “Alas, yes, fair lady,” he said in a melancholy tone. “Indeed,” replied the marquise. “lam sorry for you, but you do not frighten me a bit. Quite the contrary.” The stranger had such a grateful, ten <fer and aloquent look that the young Woman was touched. She would never have believed that the duke’s eyes could express so much as that. “Would it be indiscreet, beautiful princess, to ask why you went to the old chapel?” “I went to finish my neuraine.” ' A neuvaine! And for what reason?” “Guess.” “Are you married, my queen?" "I have been, but” “Ah! I understand. You were offer ing up vows for the end of your widow hood.” “Perhaps that is it.” Without another word he began to press a series of kisses upon the mar chioness’ taper fingers. Her hesitation increased the enemy’s boldness, and when she thought of draw ing away her hand he had already aban doned it for a skirmish where the kisses closed her eyes. Suddenly she escaped from her im prisonment and noticed that his eyes were fixed upon the brilliant diamond she wore upon her little finger. “Do you want a pledge of pardon for your boldness," she said: “here* it is.” And putting her whole soul into a last, playful smile she added: “It is a talis man that will aid you in returning to the right path, my dear brigand. Re member that I should prefer to see you dead rather than unfaithful or a felon.” At these words, lightly uttered, the masked man showed extraordinary emo tion. Then, with reverence this time, he kissed the lady’s hand and disap peared. When she entered the house, she found the duke and Dom Marouflot at the chess table. The duke was so absorbed that he did not even turn his head as she came into the room. Eke thought that really she was in the presence of a consummate actor. She leaned over his shoulder as he was moving a knight and suddenly turned pale—the duke had no ring on his finger! The poor marquise passed a restless night. toward morning she had scarcely closed her eyes when she was awakened by the sound of gunshots, followed by the noise of galloping horses. The duke at the head of his dragoons was returning to the chateau. He had alighted and was taking off his pistols when the marquise appeared. “It’s all over,” he called out to her. “I brought down Gillou with a single shot. We had hardly got outside the park gate before the idiot came to us. He threw himself between our horses’ legs, so to speak. And for fear that I might not recognize him he cried out: T am Gillou! Kill me!’ “He kneeled down 10 steps from me. When he saw me aim my pistol at him, he raised his hand in the air and held up something brilliant: then he cried out again, but I don't know what he said, for the report of my pistol drowned his voice. “He fell, and one of my men picked up the brilliant thing he held in his hand. If you want it, here it is. It shall be your part of the booty. But there is a little blood on it.” The duke handed a beautiful diamond to the marquise. Recognizing her ring, she turned deathly pale, and suddenly she read clearly in her heart. She had never loved the duke, and now she de tested him.—From the French. French Imitation Fearls. The best grade of French imitation pearls cannot be distinguished from real onqg, even by the most expert jewelers, unless the string is handled, when the difference in weight becomes apparent, the real pearl being heavier than an imi tation one. An American lady who herself owned valuable jewels once told me that she and her husband were shown on one oc casion by her Parisian jeweler a cluster of strings of pearls, half of which were real and the other half imitation, and they were requested to point out the real ones. They both inspected the pearls long and with the most minute care, and finally indicated their choice. The gentleman had indeed fixed upon a string of genuine ones, but the lady, though sho continually wore and had had in her possession for years a mag nificent necklace of real pearls, forfeited her claim for discrimination by picking out one of the imitation ones. The very finest of the French imita tion pearls are expensive, costing from $10 to $lo a string. Oddly enough, the longer they are kept the better they be come, as the passage of years lends a yellow tinge to the wax, which causes the pearls to look at once more lustrous and more real. The pearls prepared for embroideries, dress trimmings, etc., are merely small beads filled with wax and lack the careful shaping, as well as the inner coating of fish scale liquid that make the pearls manufactured for neck laces and earrings so perfectly deceptive. —Ladies’ Home Journal. Fashion’s Gold Tipped Shoes. In this year of 1893 gold, yellow, shin ing, heartless metal, mother of murders and temptress to terrible privations, the yellow root of red evil, holds sway. In the silver age we had combs and brush es, buckles, toilet cases, picture frames and other stuff gleaming with the paler metal. It wasn't rich enough for the blood of New York. Gold has not dis placed it here in the metropolis, but tri umphantly flaunts itself above it. A little time ago the satin slipper with silver filagree toe and heel tip was quite good enough for any one. But it only cost from $20 to $40. Society insisted on something more expensive, and now New York’s swell set rest satisfied as they poke their gold tipped toes from beneath Worth afternoon “creations.’’ The gold tipped shoes are only for house wear. You don't see ’em on Broadway. Their use is to make poor callers envi ous, than which there can be no greater happiness. This is but one instance. The men are as bad or worse, for a pair of gold tipped shoes at $150 are at least visible, and a pair of $75 gold suspender buckles haven’t even that merit. The only use for them is to show that one can stand the pace. The extravagance of wealthy people in small personal expenditures has grown out of all proportion. Trifles and trink ets cost fortunes, good pictures by Amer ican artists go begging, and authors of good books trim their cuffs.—New York Cor. Pittsburg Dispatch. NERVOUS | DEBILITY cured by the use of AVER’S ! Sarsaparilla Tones the system, makes the weak strong. Cures Others will cure you. GUARANTEE? 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