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Daa's Pay Day.

1t having been the custom of a Ger.
tain establishment in the north to pay
the workers fortnightly, and the work.
men having found the custom some
what inconvenient, 1t was decided to
send a delegate to the head of the firm
to state their grievances. An Irish
man, named Dan D., famed for his
sagacity and persuasive powers, was
selected for the task. He duly waited
on the master, who addressed him
thus:
well, Daniel, what can we do for
you this morning."
IF We place. sur. I've been stint as .
diligate by the workers to ask q favor
of We regsrdin' the payment of our
wages"
Yes: and what do they desire?"
Queried the master.
well, sur. 1t il the desire Of mesilf.
and II is also the desire Of livery man
in the establishment, that we receive
our fortnight's pay every week"
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"Out in Arizona we have a way of
Dragging on the purity and clearness
Of our air." said Judge Murphy, the
delegate at Washington from that ter
ritory, land we have reason for it, for
there is nothing like it in the known
world. The air of California may sur
pass that of Arizona from a photog-
rapher's point of view, and 1t is claimed
that it does, but as the Arizonian only
cares for air for breathing purposes, we
are not at all jealous on that point.
We can see mountain tops for over 100
miles. and some here claimed that
mountains 40 miles distant can be
discerned with the naked eye. I was
speaking Of this to some friends here
recently when I was blandly informed
by a Scotch clergyman, who was here
on a visit, that that would hardly be
regarded as in any way remarkable in
Scotland, where, too, he said, the air
was very clear. We can see murther
than 100 miles in Scotland he said.
We can see all the way to the MOON"
-EX
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when the coaches come to a stop the
band strikes.
Wherefore should its memoe toot
and blow and thump when other and
no nobler men are climbing over freight
cars and turning hanusprings and throw
ing hats, fans and other things into the
air, and swarming about Mr.. Bryan's
handy Not il the court knows herself
will they do it, The snare-drummer
drops his drum and the trombone man
quits swallowing that utensil OF sound.
and the B.fiat cornet player hangs his
and goes violently and dangerously iu-
sane.
At the city OF Ada, college town.
the train ran into mob OF people
which had met Mr.. Bryan before and
who did not need the introduction
given by Prof. Lehr. the head OF the
Institution OF learning. who presented
the fleeting guest very enthusiastically
as "the next president of the United
States" 1t was neat compliment, but
there was a low-lived and mean man on
the train who had passed through Ada
a little while before with Maj. McKin-
lev, and the professor had introduced
the Canton gentleman also as the next
president Moreover. other great men
had visited Ada, this captious person
said. and had been dutifully introduced
by Prof. Lehr to the vast concourse as
the future president This wicked
scoffer says Prof. Lehr is kept in train
ing by the people OF Ada to introduce
unsupported presidents and kings and
things. When the college is in vacation
the worthy instructor, according to this
libeler. makes use OF his leisure by going
down to the depot as the trains come in,
and dragging shrieking and protesting
men who are going to be president
some time out OF the guilty seclusion OF
their upper berths. The professor is
counted ne the best extant in his pecu-
liar line.
Mrs Bryan is not the least part OF
this expedition. Mrs. Bryan talks poll
tics as cheerfully and readily as most
women might be expected to talk petit
coats. When one aged devotee intro
dnced his son to her with the remark.
He is Bryan boy, although he cannot
enc answered sweetly: II find
these young men not quite old enough
to vote are just OF an age to holler mag
The boy Was 80 impressed that he
rushed down into the crowd and yelled
and xhooped around. and Mrs. Bryan
.miied at the correctness of her dag
RECORD.
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sA\R1 WRISTS

We do the genuine French dry cleaning OF shirt waists
and fine garments Of every description Cleaning and
pressing Of gents clothing speciality
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As the day grows there are more
bands, but We never hear them They
are silent bands. Doubtless before the
arrival Of the train they played much
moving music. and very likely after its
departure that music ie repeated, but
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CASH BUYERS UNION.

%. West N,a Buren, Street. BIZ - n CHICAGO. Ill.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1896-08-15

$40 our spec Wnoiesxie Price. Never before
for less quickly the M syWCOd Bicycle
decided make special coupon offer giving every
er of this cnanc to get wheel At the
price offered On receipt OF $500 aud coupon
will ship the above Bcvcle securely Grated
guarantee delivery Money refunded IL not
represented after arrival examination We viii ship
privilege of examination for s6 90 and coupon
OF good faith
A binding warranty with each Bicycle This Is
chance lifetime afford let the
unity pass. Address all orders to
CASH BUYERS UNION.
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Mrs. Gen. Custer, with a letter stating
that the country was indebted to her
gallant husband more than to any other
person for the glorious event Of that
dav. / cut a small piece from the truce
of surrender, then gave it to Gen. Gus
Ter. His widow informs me that she
has provided in her will that at her
death one-half of the towel Is to 60 to
West Point and the other half to me.
1t was through the efforts of Gen. SIMS
TO Get possession of this relic that led to
n correspondence between us just after
Gen. Clusters death, which ] have for
tunatelv preserved. / say fortunately,
because / find that in Gen. Gordon's
lecture and in Gen. Longstreet's book
they both omit all reference to the inter
view with me, and the real, uncondl-
fional surrender Of Lees entire army by
the officers then in command OF 1t at ,
o'clock in the morning in response to
demand made through me by Gen. Gus
Ter.
in conclusion, let me say that of all
the battlefelds of the war of the rebel
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CUBAN INSURRECTION.
Cartridges for Cheese and Oranges.
fHorpe.is WeellRl

0nr1r1oEes 5Or Cfieese ana Orangee.
fHorpes's WeekIgl
Imagine party of Spanish soldiers on an
expedition into the country. They are
>rumbling about the Tations zone meal a
day-a little bacon, handful of white beans.
q scrap Of bread. All from Spain, all of in
ferior quality The Government has paid
enough for good food. and plenty of it, God
knows but the contractors give us only this,
and they are growing rich ont Of the war"
Then they come upon a criollo e. e., intensely
Cuhanl settlement, and the natives, feigniDg
distress, run out 10 meet them crying: "For
The love of God give MS something 10 eat
We are starving Nothing for you, dogs
OF Cubans." is the response, and the disap-
pointed soldiers march away. But then the
Cuban bands, hoyering in the rear, waiting
for opportunity TO strike, come to The same
destitute peasants. "Do they being all pa
trlots, though of many colors, lack food? I?
VIII they deign TO accept hOsp;ality?"
They are led into peasants hut, the bed is
showed aside, a pit is disclosed that the bed
had hidden and in this pit is store Of
sweet potatoes, and of pork cured in the
smoke Of guayabo leaves. That is good food
for the insurgents. The meat thus cured
can scarcely be regarded as dainty bit, but
IT holds its own il does not deteriorate for
years.
Aud meantime the invading column has
pressed on to an encampment where peas
ants come in, offering fruit and new cheeses
for sale
How much for this little cheese?" a hun
cry soldier asks.
"One dollar"
"That's too much. rascaln
Well, nobody is looking Suppose say
Eve cartridges 2"
Another soldier to another countryman:
How much for an orange?"
twenty-five cents"
Estoriionerio
"Well, when the officers aren't around.
two cartridges"
So, more or less on the sly, the exchange
is effected, and when the peasants Withdraw
they have capsulas with which 10 slay their
customers.
That is one way IN which ammunition has
been secured by the insurgents. On larger
scale and by force il has been obtained from
time TO time
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was adjudged forgery, though, beyond
doubt, most of it. if not all, was properly
signed, but fraudulently issued. On this
city scrip our bank must have lost about
$4,000. Meiggs subsequently, turned
uPin Chile, where again he rose TO wealth
and has paid much of his San Francisco
debts, but none to us. He is now in
Peru, living like prince. With Meiggs
iell all the lumber-dealers, and many per-
sons dealing in city scrip. Compared with
others, our loss was triAe. In short
time things in San Francisco resumed
their wontcd course, and we generally
laughed at the escarade Of Meicgs and
the curslng Of his deluded creditors.
Shortly after our arrival in San Fran
cisco, l rented of Mr.. Marryat, son Of
the English Capt. Marryat, the author, a
small frame house on Stockton street
near Green, buying Of him his furniture,
and we removed to it about Dec. /, 1853.
Close by, around on Green street, a man
named Dickey was building two small
brick houses, on ground which he had
leased of Nicholson. / bought one of these
houses, subject to the ground-rent, and
moved into it as soon as finished. Lieut..
i. II. Stevens, of the United States Navy,
with his family, rented the other. We
lived in this house throughout the year
1884, and up TO April II, 1850.
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UNDER FIRE.
A Veteran Tells What 1t Seems Like the
First Time.
ITougt's Cou,pu,eion.I

IFouLFs Coupn,,ion.l -
An old soldiar, who had seen service fol
many year in the Crimea, India, China
Africa and Egypt, was asked one day in 6
London club whether he remembered the
first time he was under fire.
Certainly" he replied. No soldier ever
forgets that experience.
| Did you feel like a hero at the time?"
! No, indeed. 1t was in one of the great
battles of the Crimea. | was young Off
Ger who had run out Of the military school
ahead of time to fill vacancy. had hardly
been in camp a week before the regiment
was ordered TO charge Russian battery,
which was posted in q commanding position.
We went forward on the gallop through a
dense cloud of smoke, swooped down on
the battery, sabered the artillerymen, and
captured the guns. We lost many of our
aen, but it was a very brilliant charge.
Yet there was at least one hussar who ac-
knowledged himself TO be a coward from
beginning to end.n
Then you were terribly frightened by
your first battle?"
"Yes; that is the truth. I went ahead
with the others, but was trembling with
fear and excitement. / shut my eyes and
made no attempt to guide my horse /
thought Of my good mother at home, and
wondered how 1 had ever been so foolish
as to think of the army, when there were
comfortable professions like the ministry
and the law, which / might have followed.
The charge occupied only few min
utes, but it seemed an endless time before
We we're behind those murderous guns and
had the canneneers at our mercy. / was
among the first TO be with them, and I
svsggered with my saber, while the horse
rode down and killed gunner. But my
heart was like ball of ice. A greater cow
ard never scrambled over an intrenehment.
All the time / was repeating texts from
the Bible and sentences from the Lords
Prayer, and wishing myself thousands of
miles away"
The veteran laughed heartily over his
"reminiscences of the first battle.
The funniest part of it" he added, "was
that they considered it a great exploit, and
insisted upon giving me a medal for my
heroic and courageous conduct, when / was
white-faced, mean-spirited coward from
first to last, and my horse did all the fight
ing for me, tranpling the gunner under
foot"
Probably the veteran exaggerated his boy
ish trepidation and panic. He could have
afforded to DO so, for he was seasoned SOL
dier whose courage, and even reeklessness,
were well known; but he was not tar from
the truth when he declared that no soldier
ever felt like hero when he was first under
fire.
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| possible speed, jumped at the Lieutenant
twisted his arms, sb' that the revolver fell
out of his hands, and kept him fastened to
the spot, shouting all the time, 'Vive Ia
4 France!' si7
And the machine began to rush on down,
| leaping over the paving stones; and the gun
rushed after 1t, gum carriage and all. making
| a very deuce of noise.
The machine sped straight on, like a
fash OF lightning. jacques clinging TO his
| Prussan, looked regular demon. Once
| more we heard him shout, Yive la France!
Then, at the turn of the road, in a single
bound through the hedge, everything rolled
| over into the ravine below. 1t was an awful
crash. And then Immediately there came n
| great silence. No one could speak the
women covered their heads with their
aprons we felt sick at heart.
Well, to cut long story short, the Prus-
slams were more than six weeks over fishing
up their big gun. When at last it was all
got up out of the debris, it was too late to be
of any use in the bombardment-th siege of
Paris was raised.
Good old Jacques! That was what he
had wished. And TO think that we could
never even give him heros funeral.
" lie had been so completely crushed that
nothing of him was found but u few manged
scraps of flesh some days after-one couldn't
even tell if they belonged to him or the
Prussau. We put little headstone over
the grave, with the inscription, Died for his
county, under his name, then the date, and
that was all
The wife is dead, the house sold, the hoy
has gone for a soldier-now he is a Sergeant
in the line, and the Prussians will catch it
pretty hot if ever he has a chance of getting
at them. But he doesn't very often get
back to his old home, and with the excep-
tion of himself and lew old folk like me,
who will remember Jacques Brulefert?
And now, sir, I've been talking long
enough. l must get to my work. Your
health, sirl"
"A Ia sante de la France, pere Savage,
and the memory of Jacques Brulefert. l
promise you to write his story.-Strand
Wdgazine
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Deer Park and Berkeley Special

Commencing Monday. June 18th, the b. & o.
e. 4. will place IA service q special fast express
train for the accommodation Of those desiring
60 visit the Summer Resorts along the main
line OF the road. The train will be equipped
with frst-class coaches and Buffet Parior Car,
and will run on the following scbedule Leave
Baltimore Il:40 A. NJ Washington 1925 p. A.:
arrive Martinsburg 2:30 p. NJ, Hancock 3:07 P.
n, Berkeley Springs. 3:35, Cumberland z:30 p.
NJ. Keyser 5:l2 p NJ. Piedmont BIS p. NJ,
Deer Park 6:12 p. NJ. Mountain Lake Park
6:1e P. NJ, Oakland 6.22 ?. H., Grafton 500 p,
NJ
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An English paper tells story about Bill
Nye and little boy on Staten Island
ierry-boat, who got chocolates out of an
autoD attic machine by blowing down the
slot, as often as any stranger came along, and
then offered TO bet them 80 cents that they
could not do the same
Nye took the bet, and after putting for a
quarter OF an bour, paid up, and offered TO
make il dollar if the boy would tell him
how he managed it.
Why" said the boy, "it's as easy as
possible; you just put a nickle in your
mouth
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lion photographed on my brain Apo,
mattox was the most magnificent. The
sloping, open fields, glittering for miles
with moving armies, in the sunlight OF
that glorious Sunday morning, seemed
designed by nature for the last scene in
a great play of war. And it is my be-
lief that the men who met on that field
of battle were the flower of two of the
finest armies that were ever marshaled
pn the earth.
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Reduced Rates 10 Washington,

The Young Peoples Society of Christian
Eudeayor will hold their Annual Meeting in
Washington, ID. C., July toI3
For this occasion the b. e. o. r. r. Co. will
eel tickets from all points on its line East OF
the Ohio River 10 Washington at one single
fare for the round trip July 10 6. inclusive,
valid for return passage until July Is, inclusive,
with the privilege OF sn additional extension
until July 81 by depositing tickets with Joint
Agent al Washington.
Tickets will also be on sale at stations of all
connecting lines.
Delegates should not lose sight OF the fact
hat ali B. e. o. trains run via Washington.
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Reduced Rates to Chicago.

Account of the Democratic National Conven-
tion. Chicago, ILL.,. the B. & o. L. X. will sell
excursion tickets from all Ticket Stations on
Its lines east of the Ohio River, for all trains
July 3, a, 5 and 6, good for return passage until
July II inclusive, at one single fare for the
round trip.
Tickets will, also, be sold by all connecting
lines.
The b. & 0. maintains double daily service
of fast vestibuied express trains, with Pullman
Sleeping and Dining Cars attached, running
through to Chicago solid without change or
transfer.
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Dangerous Symptoms.

servaDt--Please, sir, don't you think I
had better go for the Doctor Master Johnny
aays he feels so bad /?
The Goyernor-0, that's nothing; he's
telt bad before this. hasn't he, and got over
serTant-fes, sir; but not on a half
holiday.
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Innocence.
[SsmfrgMe Jo,trnal.]

Arthur-You ought to know better than
to give money to that tramp. He will 90
Immediately now, and spend it for drink.
Madge-Oh, but, Arthur. he didn't want
it for a drink. He told me expressly that
he needed il to buy stamps to put on n
manuscript that he is going to send to the
Prohibition NcirS
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The London Daily HaiI publishes dispatch
from Madrid saying that the Spanish Govern
ment feels great uneasness on account of the
platform adopted by the st. Louis Convention.
and is purchasing iroDclads at exorbitant prices,
fearing conflict with the United States over
Cuban matters.
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ALREADY ISSUED.


STATISTICS Of THE WAR the number
Rebellion
LINcoLNS WoRDS.-The Gettysburg Address Second Inaugural
No. 3. MISCELLANEOUS MEMoRANoA.-Dates the grea.
the Army List killed
No. PENSION STATISTcS.-Nmber class;
pendtures
No. s.. HISTORY OF SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES
McElroy its
G Struggle Congress about the Territories;
illustrated by Portraits
No PREslDENJ RESIDE % MoNRoE AND HIS DocIRINEBy
Ceyelands Message Portrait Map etc
No. 7s Double Number. COMMANDERS OF THE
of
ISLAND H from G the M Discovery % Columbus 70 Administration Wer % Mop and % S is
andO
both sides
By & N1 n 19 THE & LIE os sEoReE & T. Il !
with halftone portrait
No. u. OF MAJ. WM McKINLEY.-By McEroy.
TO BE ISSUED.
r. SHERIDAN
OTHER NUMBERS OF GREET INTEREST uILh FohLou
Address, Washington,
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She Was Privileged.
Tn,yxfe nnI HI.

City Man spending the day in distant
suburb)-Didn't it ever strike you that
your servant is impertinently inquisitive2
SubbeTbs-My dear fellow, it's only the
way of privileged old family retainer
Why, would you believe it, that girl has
been with us over 81 X iweekst
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Correctly Reported.


mike" said the superintendent, "thers
is dead dog reported IN the alley between
Illinois and Meridian streets. / want you
to look after its dispos ton"
An hour later tie intelligent officer tele-
phOued;
/ have inquired about the dog, and fnd
that be had very savage disposition"
News comes from Georgetown, British
Guiana, Of the arrest of Nr. Harrison an Eng
lishman, in charge Of party Of laborers who
were opening a road from Barima to the Cuyuni
River. within the territory claimed by Great
Britain. Work BY the party was stopped on
June 10 and later. on advicss from Caracas the
Venezuelan troops took Harrison TO the Vens-
zuelau station opposite UruaD. The right to
arrest foreigners on the left bank of the Cuyuni
River is claimed by the Yenezuelan Govern
ment. The British colony in British Guiana
demands that Great Britain take immediate
action. London papers say reparation must be
demanded at once.
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Opinions rendered as TO the novelty
and patentabiIity OF Inventions and validity
of patents. Rejected applications nrcse-
euted. All business relating to patents
BromptIy attended to.
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Sir Augustus Harris, the well known actor
and theatrical manager, died in London, Mon
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-03-03
CHEAP RATES Offered by the Cotton Belt to Pine Bluffs Theatrical Enter
 tainments.

The Cotton Belt railway offers a rate of one fare for the round trip with maximum rate of$l from Cam den, Brinkly and England and all intermediate stations to Pine Bluff on acconnt of the Lillian Lewis en- gagement on March the 4th; Henry E. Dixey, March, 9th, and The Private Secretary. March the 7th. No fare greater than One Dollar. Tickets for trains No. l and 2date of performance and limited to fol- lowing day to return.
 This will give all ont of town persons along the Cotton Belt be- tween the points mentioned an op- portunity to witness these splendid attractions at a moderate cost.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-03-03
sss HOW THE PRESIDENTS DIED.

George Washington died from a cold which brought on aryngltis; buried on his estate at Mount Yer non, Va.
 John Adams died from senile debil- ity; buried at Quincy. Mass.
 Thomas Jefferson died of chronic diarrhoea; buried on his estate at Monticello. Va.
 James Madison died of old age, buried on his estate at Montpelier Va.
 James Monroe died of general de- bility: buried Marbe cemetery, New York city.
 John Quincy Adams died ofparaly- sis, the fatal shock oyertaking him in the House of Representatives; buried at Quincy, Mass.
 Andrew Jackson died of consump- tion and dropsy; buried on his estate, the Hermitage, near Nashville, Tenn.
 Martin Van Buren died of catarrh of the throat and lungs; died at Kinderhook, N. Y.
 William Henry Harrison died of pleursy, induced by cold taken on the day of his inauguration; buried near North Bend, o.
 John Tyler died of mysterious dis order like bilious attack, buried at Richmond, Va.
 James K. Polk died from weakness caused by cholera; buried on his es- tate at Nashville, Tenn.
 Zachary Taylor died from cholera morbus, ssinduced by improper diet; buried on his estate near Louisville, Ky.
 Milliard Fillmore died from paraly- sis; buried in Forest Hill cemetery, Buffalo, N. Y. Franklin Pierce died from infiama- tion of the stomach; buried at Con. cord, N. H. James Buchanan died of rheuma. tism and gout; buried near Lancas- ter, Penn. Abraham Lincoln, assassinated by J. Wilkes Booth; buried at Spring field, Ill. Andrew Johnson died from paraly sis; buried at Greenfield, Tenn.
 Ulysses S. Grant died from cancer of he throat; buried at Riverside Park, New York city. Rutherford B. Hayes died from paralysis of the heart; buried al Fremont, o. Chester A. Arthur died from | Bright's disease; buried at Rnra cemetery, Albany, N. Y.