UNTIL JANUARY 1, 1895, 25 CENTS. If you are not already a JOURNAL subscriber that is all you will have to pay us for the ScmUWeeltJg Journal from now until January 1, 1895, if you will at the same time pay a year's subscription in advance to the Tribune. The Semi-Weekly Journal is the greatest paper in the west, pub lished Tuesday and Friday, giving two complete papers each week, with markets and telegraphic news of the world. Send in your orders at once to the TRUMJLJNJR. W. 0. BULLARD & CO. -;oi —-■tot"'—— BED CEDAB. AND OAK POSTS. WTJ. J. WARREN, Manager. at———aoMamuCTUUi—■——— B. & If. Meat Market. fres'h" and ^ MEATS. BACON, BOLOGNA, CHICKENS, TURKEYS, AC., AC. F. B. 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 YVaupun YVind Mills. GREAT SPEAR HEAD OORITEST, SAVE THE TACS. 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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, wo 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 HUNDRED PARTIES sending us the next greatest number of SPEAR HEAD TAGS, we will give to each 1 IjARGE PICTURE IN ELEVEN COLORS.100 PICTURES. Total Number of Prizes for Ibis Connty, 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 t>c PrePaREAD.—SPEAR HEAD possesses more qualities of intrinsic valne than any other plug tobacco produced. 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Enjoy while you can such moments fleet— Those transient spells of a fond delight: Kisses are balm when young lips meet. Glad as the morning, Marguerite, Are your girlish face and your bosom white; Love in tho dawn is honey sweet. The lilies smile at our very feet. The roses blush to our left and right; Kisses are balm when young lips meet. Wedded today in this bower discreet Our lives shall fall upon lines of light; Love in the dawn is honey sweet— Kisses aro balm when young lips meet! —Eugcno Davis in Kate Field’s Washington. Met With a Serious Fall. “Yott aro very late thi3 morning, Mr. Baldwin," said a dry goods merchant re cently to one of his clerks. “Do not let it happen again.” “Very sorry,” said tho clerk humbly. “I met with a serious fall.” “Indeed ” replied the merchant, relent ing. “Are you hurt much?” “Principally, sir, in your estimation,” answered the clerk respectfully. “Oh, nevermind that,” said the mer chant kindly. “I am very sorry and had no intention to be severe. We are all liable to accidents. How did you get the fall?” “Well, you see, sir,” said the clerk confidingly, “I was called quite early this morning—earlier, in fact, than usual.” “Ah!” “Yes, sir; hut somehow or other I fell asleep again.” “Go to your desk, sir, and don’t try that on again,” exclaimed tho merchant, with an air of severity which was belied by the twinkle in his eye, which denoted that he enjoyed the joke.—New York Herald. Lightning’s Strange Selection. Probably ono of the most remarkablo lightning accidents of the period was that which took place in one of the east ern counties lately. A man was shear ing a sheep. Another man, passing on a pony, stopped to exchange a few words with the shearer and watch the clipping operation for a minute or two. He had been standing there but a very short time when a sharp crack of thunder was preceded by a blinding flash of lightning. The shearer was startled almost out of his senses by seeing the pony and its rider suddenly collapse in a heap, but in a second the man was up, quite unhurt. Then the shepherd, happening to glance at the animal beneath him, found that the lightning had served it as it had served the pony. The sheep was stone dead! This, it may be as well to state, is a perfectly true story.—London Tit Bits. French Politeness. Suppose French politeness is a myth, it is one to be cultivated the world over. Even the humblest peasant in the small est province is endowed with an all con quering courtesy that is brought into play in the most commonplace matters. If our men could only be taught some of it, how much more easily would run the wheels of life’s machinery! Business is business, of course. The rush and worry of money getting dwarf the real nature, yet at the same time stocks would act no more irregularly, bills would be no less ready to be paid, panics would occur no more frequently if the arbitrators of great affairs would but remember to bring into their business life a little more of the softening influence or refined courtesies that are the flowers in a mead ow of rank weeds.—New York World. The Best Language For Telephoning. The French language, it appears, is better adapted to the purpose of the tele phone than the English. It is stated that the largo number of sibilant or hiss syl lables in English renders it a less easy and accurate means of communication. Some English words are especially diffi cult of transmission by telephone. The word “soldier” is cited as one of these. Proper names frequently occur in the midst of an otherwise perfectly audible and intelligent conversation which the ear cannot possibly catch. These must be spelled out, involving delay.—Elec tricity. Considerable Mutuality. Mrs. Lakeside—You are Mr. Pork chop’s second wife, are you not? Mrs. Porkchop—Yes, he was married once before. “That’s unpleasant. Whenever you have a little row, he can bring up his first wife and brag about her goodness.” “He never tried it but once, and then I told him about what nice men my three other husbands were.”—Texas Siftings. An Illustration. “There,” said Miss Frances E. Willard, closing her fist and presenting it as an object lesson to her interested audience, “is union—and that”—suddenly letting every separate finger fly limply apart, “is diversity. Which is the stronger?” The Lydians had gold coins at the close of the ninth century, B. C., and Greece proper at about the close of the eighth century. The Romans coined their first silver in the year 281, B. C., and gold 73 years later. The philosopher Schopenhauer says that a man’s intellect may be measured by his endurance of noise. He adds that he never knew a man with a barking dog in his back yard who was not a fool. - i We never see every thing that is about us, and no two of us ever see precisely the same things. Each sees what his previous training and his habit of mind have prepared him to see. The milk of cows is not considered good for food by the Siamese. The milk in the cocoanut, however, is much used. Cattle are raised for beef. Burial within city limits was in heath en times illegal, a very wise provision to which moderns are returning. Corset* and Christianity. Whether women should or should not wear corsets, they wear them all the same, and the ham; done by voluntary tight lacing is balanced by the recent noble deed of Dr. Warner, corset manu facturer, of Bridgeport, Conn. Next to artich.'3 of luxury, the last things on earth to be purchased in these hard times are corsets. A pair of corsets may justly be said to have great staying qualities. Panics may come and panics may go, but well made corsets will go on forever. Naturally, therefore, Dr. Warner feels the financial stringency keenly, and not only is he obliged to reduce time to three days in the week, but is forced to “lay off” many women employees. Does he leave them to choose between starvation and the street? No. Dr. Warner actually does unto those unfor tunate women—as innocent of the pres ent wicked panic as the rest of their sex —precisely as ho would be done by. He has read liis New Testament aright and applies to this century Christianity as taught by its founder 1,800 years ago. Dr. Warner offers his ex-employees freo board during the continuance of trade stagnation. They have helped him make the money which he returns in the hour of need. I want to shake hands with Dr. War ner and to thank him for setting so no ble an example. In this era of criminal selfishness, which makes many men a little lower than cutthroats, such evi dence of humanity stands out like a dia mond glittering amid offal.—Kate Field’s Washington. Tliree Millions For Endowment Orders. There is over 000,000 lying in the commonwealth’s treasury in the state house at Boston awaiting distribution among the certificate holders of the de funct endowment orders. In order to facilitate a settlement the supreme ju dicial court proposes to take an active stand in the matter, and to that end E. C. Burnpus has been appointed by tlio court a special master to examine into the situation of the several endowment order corporations, to confer with the re ceivers and to report to the court a plan for an immediate dividend to the claim ants, with the draft of a decree ordering such a dividend. Judge Burnpus has taken such a course of inquiry as will probably result in a practical solution of the endowment cases, the court evident ly having come to the conclusion that the only way to settle them up is to take a common sense view of tho matter and arrange a settlement which will not al low long litigation ending in a wasting of the assets.—Boston Letter. A Mad Stolier’s Freak. A strange railway accident, which might have had terrible consequences, is reported to have happened at the Bologna station on Friday. The stoker of an en gine which was stopping at the station of Galliera on the Ferrara-Bologna line, in the engine driver's absence and ap parently in a sudden fit of madness, set the engine going at full speed, running toward Bologna, The telegraph was immediately set in motion, warning Bo logna and the four intermediate stations, and fortunately the line was clear, and the engine was shunted onto a side line where there were only six empty car riages, and into these it dashed at full speed. The stoker had during the whole time continued to heap coal on the fire. The engine and carriages were of course telescoped, and the stoker was so badly hurt that he died soon afterward.—St. James Gazette. Insect Fife In Kansas. The hot, stifling air brings fresh ter rors in the form of winged insects and j things that creep. Bugs as big as clot hes ; pins pounce upon the wayfarer and claw and scratch until hurled from the neck and stamped under foot. Then there is a green bug which comes out of the night like a rifle shot and sinks ail its feet into one's flesh. This beast is now in season. Grasshoppers as long as the little finger of a grown man crawl lei surely up the screen of your window, stopping from time to time to take ob servations and finally tumbling back into the street to find temporary lodg ment in the whiskers of the native, who is almost certain to be in range.—Kan sas Cor. Chicago Herald. A Jolly Old Mayor. Don Jose Galendo, mayor of the city of Alba, is in a parlous plight indeed. News from Madrid proclaims that his worship has been taking unreasonable liberties with the public treasuries and has in fact been proved guilty of 217 distinct forgeries, robberies and so forth. The penalty for each separate crime is 14 years’ imprisonment, and as sentences do not run concurrently by Spanish law poor Don Jose must go to prison for 3,038 years. This would amount to life sen tences for three or four Methuselahs.— Black and White. A Humble Dross Reformer. At Muncie last night Freight Conduct or Leige Love of the Big Four found a frail looking girl on top of a hox car of his train dressed in boy’s clothes. The girl said she was from Steubenville, O., and had taken to the life of a perennial tramp in order to see the world. She excused : the garb she wore by declaring that she was in favor cf dress reform for women. The venturesome miss refused to give her name and acted very independent.—In dianapolis Journal. A Railroad's Meanness. The recent cutdown in wages among employees at the general office of the 3. and A.road seems somewhat incongruous with the yearly report, which showed a wonderful increase in the net earnings of the road. It seems to be only a case of a “cussed opportunity,” not to be resisted by a railroad company any more than the man whose wife is out of town.— Springfield (Mass.) Graphic. 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