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FRESH AND SALT MEATS, BACON, BOLOGNA, CHICKENS, TURKEYS, AC., AC. F. S. WILCOX, Prop. F. D. 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. GREAT SPEAR HEAD CONTEST. CHEW . U AND %m0? SAVE THE TAGS. Ons Hundred and Seventy-Three Thousand Two Hundred and Fifty Doiiars, $<73,250.00 In valuable Presents to be Given Away in Return for SPEAR HEAD TAGS, 1 ,1 55 STEM WINDING ELGIN GOLD WATCHES.554,650 00 5,775 FINE IMPORTED FRENCH OPERA GLASSES. MOROCCO BODY, BLACK ENAMEL TRIMMINGS, GUARANTEED ACHROMATIC... 28,875 00 2G, 10O IMPORTED GERMAN BUCKHORN HANDLE, FOUR BLADED POCKET KNIVES. 23,100 00 1 1 5,500 ROLLED GOLD WATCH CHARM ROTARY TELESCOPE TOOTH PICKS. 57,750 00 1 1 5,500 LARGE PICTURES (14x28 inches, IN ELEVEN COLORS, for framing, no advertising on them. 28.875 00 261,030 PRIZES, AMOUNTING TO.$173,250 00 _The above articles will be distributed, by comities, among parties who chew SPEAR HEAD Plug Tobacco, and return to us the TIN TAGS taken therefrom. We will distribute 236 of these prizes in this comity as follows: To THE PARTY sending us the greatest number of SPEAR HEAD TAGS from this comity we will give.1 GOLD WATCH. To the FIVE PARTIES sending us the next greatest number of SPEAR 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 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 1 ROLLED GOLD WATCH CHARM TOOTH PICK.100 TOOTH PICKS. To the ONE llUNDRED PARTIES sending us the next greatest number of SPEAR HEAD TAGS, we will give to each l JjARGE PICTURE IN ELEVEN COLORS ..100 PICTURES. Total Number of Prizes for this County, 226. CAUTION.—No Tags will be received before January 1st, 1801, 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 any other plug tobacco produced. It Is the sweetest, the toughest, the richest. SPEAR HEAD Is absolutely, positively and distinctively different in Savor 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 In the contest for prizes. See that a TIN TAG Is on every 10 cent piece of SPEAR HEAD you buy. Sena in the tags, no matter how small the uuantlty. Very sincerely, 1 THE P. J. SORG COMPANY, Middletown, Ohio. A list of the people obtaining theso prizes in this county will be published In this paper immediately after February 1st, 1894. DON'T SEND ANY TASS BEFORE JANUARY I. 1894. BABY’S ASLEEP. Snog In her hammock hero. Under green trees. Swinging so languidly, Lulled by the breeze; Softly with silken cords Baby Is tied; One little dimpled foot Straying outside! i * Beauty lines lavishly Fashion her face; Rosy blooms blushingly Touch it with grace. Down through the orchard boughs Comes the soft air. Tenderly kisses her. Plays with her hair. Perched on an apple bough. Bending above. Swings a sweet oriole. Singing of love. Hushed arc t lie katydids. Hid in the grass. Listening as Brownie folks Sing as they pass. Here comes a honey bee From his retreat, Drowsily humming homo. Heavy with sweet. < ~ Softly some drowsy god ' Closes her eyes. Fair as forgetmenots Under blue skies! Walking in Wonderland, Baby’s asleep. Dreaming of Brownie folks Or of Bo-Peep! —R. Way Smith in Cleveland Leader. A TYPEWRITER GIRL, There was weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth in the St. Clair house hold. Caroline, the youngest daughter, had decided to carve her own fortunes, as those of the family were getting in a most entangled condition, and “unbe knownst” to her worthy relatives had sought and secured a position as type writer in one of big, wicked Chicago’s well known business houses. “It’s a disgrace to the family!” Broth er Bob declared, and he donned his over coat and repaired to the clubhouse around the corner. Mamma wept loud ly; papa fumed faintly. “John Vandergast!’*moaned mamma. “He will never look at you again! A daughter of mine a typewriter!” Caroline’s short upper lip curled slight ly more than already curled by nature, although an apprehensive look did come into her great hazel eyes. “If you think, my dearest mother, that I am going to starve here in this remote quarter of the woods, even in the most genteel style, just for a look from Mr. Vandergast, you are vastly mistaken.” “There are other employments for a woman—such a public position! And typewriters are alw: • ; o—so talked about!" “In the newspa Mad Caroline. “But no one will U.k about me!” she finished, with stern oravery. Before it was time for Caroline to leave for the distant city her father had altogether ceased his fuming and was considering the advantages of his daugh ter’s assistance. Of late years the strug gle had been a hard one for him. His wife had always been a society woman and extravagant; indulged sons and fash ionable daughters, whose marriages had each cost him a small fortune, had so re duced the estate made in his prime that now, in his old age, bankruptcy con stantly stared him in the face. “I regret, daughter,” he said as the train whistled and they were out on the station platform, “that you are going so far from home. But I know how you would feel to begin labor hero, and I fully appreciate your efforts in assisting me. The burden is growing heavier with every year,” and he sighed. “Somebody has to do something,” re turned the daughter sententiously. “And I know you are fully capable of taking care of yourself. God bless you, my girl.” And the careworn father was prouder of his typewriter girl than of his wealth iest and most beautiful daughter. But once on the car and steaming Chi cagoward Caroline was not quite so brave, and despite her tall, dignified self one or two tears rolled down her aristo cratic nose and defied the superior little curl of her short upper lip. What if John Vandergast—the}- had been such friends before he left for Eu rope, and although Caroline • had not given her promise, for she was not sure of herself, she had consented to speak with him again upon. the subject when he would return. Now she was sure of herself—but John? “It is one more test!” she said sternly to herself as she brushed away the im pertinent tears, “and a good one too. I am so glad I defied mamma and took the business course at college.” In the excitement of her new life Caro line forgot her little thoughts that might hav9 been called sentiment. She passed the ordeal of critical examination by the other typewriters in the office with su preme indifference and so impressed her employers with her dignity that they were half afraid of her. A6 a typewriter she was invaluable— rapid, correct, distinct, her every sheet perfection itself, but there was no social intercourse nor pleasant conversation. “That girl,” declared the junior part ner,. ‘ ‘actually scares me. She’s too pret ty to be such a prude.” “Ye—es,” drawled the senior, and that afternoon the venerable gentleman asked her how she spent her evenings. “Sir!” inquired Caroline. “You—excuse me, but you are young and not homely, and you will pardon an old man if he takes an interest in your welfare in this great city.” “Ah, yes!" Caroline drew a long, ex pressive breath, and a close observer would have said that her nostrils dilated something like those of a high strung horse. ‘ ‘Sunday evening I attended serv ices at St. James; Monday evening I de voted to literature, Emerson, Carlyle and Renan being my favorite authors; Tuesday evening I attended the musi cales, and Wednesday evening I attend prayers: Thursday evening I again de vote to reading: Friday evening I gener ally attend the opera or concert, and Saturday evening I give to preparations for the Sabbath.” Then she turned to her Remington, and the old gentleman groaned in an aside. Caroline was.flushed and wrathful. “The old sinner!” she was fuming to herself as she took his dictation in short hand. “As though he thought I could not understand!” Caroline was past 20 and considered capable of taking care of herself, yet she felt as injured and insulted as though the white haired man had ogled her as he did the youngest and most flippant girl in the house. But Caroline did not wish to lose her position, for it was an unusually paying one, and it began to be an effort to her to repel the insinuation of the seuior partner without offending him. She soon detested him most heartily. One morning the junior partner came in very much flurried. “Vandergast is in town,” he said. And despite herself Caroline reddened and then, grew pale. “Hey? You don’t say! Well, that’s ducedly inconvenient just now.” “He will be looking into accounts, and we are not prepared for that at present,” 6aid the youth significantly. “No,” mused the other, and then they held a lengthy consultation, during which Caroline was on the qui vive to catch every word. But they spoke guardedly, for all that her outward appearance was one of such indifference. Evidently it was of enough importance to not trust her fully. “Yes,” said the senior at last, “that will be the best plan. We will secure the bonds at the bank to put a good face on things, and then he will not be likely to look deeper until after the crisis. It would ruin us for him to withdraw his shares now.” All this was Greek to Caroline until she remembered several communications she had taken which were in regard to speculations, and then it was clear to her. The junior partner went at once to the bank, and the old gentleman seemed somewhat worried. Caroline gave no sign, but she made a resolution, and when 3 o’clock, her hour for quitting work, came she said calmly: “I believe I must sever my connection with this office today. I wish to return home.” “Ah—ahem! Do 1 understand you mean to quit us at once?-'” “Yes. I wish to return home tomor row morning,” she returned imperturb ably. “This is rather sudden. Indeed I do not see how I can let you go at once.” “But you must, sir!” said Caroline, with decision. So he made out her check and bade her a suave goodby, and a few minutes later found her in the hotel waiting for John Vandergast. Whether it was her John or some oth er Vandergast, she had determined to warn him and then go home for a vaca tion until she secured another position. And when she looked on the hotel regis ter she knew it was her John. “Why, Caroline,” he said, when he came in, his face lighting'up. “This is a most unexpected honor. I was hurry ing business matters so as to get home tomorrow to see you.” He shook her hand warmly and looked closely into her face to see if he might venture any further greeting. No one would be apt to take even a lover’s liberty with Caroline. “You have made my stay a long one i and a tedious one to me by denying me the privilege of writing to you.” he said in reproach. “Yes, I know, John,” she rejoined has tily, for she was afraid her blushes might encourage an embrace, “but you know I am a typewriter now, or was an hour ago.” And she looked at him defiantly. He laughed. “I understood in one of my letters from home that you had accepted some position here in the city, but I could not learn where or what it was. I am sure you are the same if not more to me for that. Typewriters are a fine set of girls.’’ An unmistakable satisfaction came into Caroline’s face. “I am—so glad you do not think less of me than you did,” she said, under her breath. Then she recollected her errand. She told him what she knew, and he listened with a grave face. “I am glad you told me. It is provi dential you were employed there. So they are speculating, and from what you tell me my thousands would have been higher than the moon by day after to morrow. I will withdraw them for you, my queen, this very day.” Then as there was not a minute to lose Caroline bade him goodby and hurried to her boarding house. The next morn ing she was homeward bound, John Van dergast’s promised bride. Several months later there was a quiet wedding in the St. Clair homestead, and the typewriter daughter was the highest honored the worldly mother had.—Belle V. Logan in Chicago News. Two Great Composers. Dr. Hatislick once asked Schumann ! how he got on with Wagner. “Not at all,” replied Schumann; “for me Wagner is impossible. 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