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An Essay on Cranks.
J!Y ON li OK THE KJIATKUN IT V, KTKWAKT.
"And rowing liniil 8g;iinnt tlx stream
hec dUliinl i;;ilH ol Kden tffAM.
And cauuot deem It all a Dream."
Tlie dirti fct people, rh a claw, are the
Jicnltliicfct, those who live on the worst
food have the bent digestion, und the
mcnncfct mm in the community, (the
inoney-leaders), arc the most respected,
while those who devote time and mcaus
to iniiirovtmentH which have no money
in the in are called fools and cianka.
Crank is a word fiiht coined by Medi
ocity to discredit those who surpubsed
him and made him HHhamcd.
Hefcrcncc is here made more especially
to that ppec ics of crank which has reach
ed its his hijihi nt development in Ameri
ca the inventive crank. (All inventors
are more or lts cranky). At universal
expositions the American line-art section
cannot compare with those of other
nations, but to the cranks' display the
department of inventions the world pays
the tribute of its admiration and its
praise, yet nine-tenths of the men who
produced these inventions reaped no re
ward, but plucked from the dying limbs
of expectation the withered leaves of
hope.
No, our reputation in other lands does
not rest upon our statesmen, authors or
artists. Anions the one hundred of the
world's greatest of the last fifty years,
rery few are claimed as American, even
- Americans, it is the Amerirun in-
yitor trio luisyictn our country repii-
in ubroatl and prosperity at home.
Tits footprints are on every shore and his
improvements benefit every nation.
It is natural that the inventor should
be under-estimated, for he is generally
ipiite ordinary in everything but his in
ventiveness, and that is something not
often revealed by his words or actions.
Ijig talkers and fluent writers who have
no originality themselves who witli
weeks of study could not make an im
provement in a lady's garter cannot be
lieve in the originality of men seemingly
inferior to themselves.
Tlx; crank is usually one generation
ahead of time witli his ideas, bat the
generation that eoine3 after liim generally
tries to do the proper tiling by his mem
ory, and gives him ten dollars worth of
stone monument instead of tm ceuts
worth of recognition which he didn't get
but would rather have had.
Many inventors float on the clouds of
enthusiasm pursuing rainbows which
they cannot reach, and it is also true
that they often x igerate the value of
their productions, but this is a wise pro
vision of nature. If the inventor did
not over-estimate the importance of his
invention he would rarely have the pa
tience to perfect and introduce it, for
toug through storm and wintry weather
must Truth stand timid knocking at
the door of Incredulity.
The world gains enormouly by the
inventor oyer enthusiasm, for when
the invention is bad it is rare that any
one loses except the inventor, but when
it is good it benefits millions.
But inventors are not the only men in
this country who are over-enthusiastic,
Wlien the inventor happens in court and
hears a lawyer declaring that he can see
a band of white-robed angels placing a
crown of innocence upon a New York
alderman, or when'-he glances at mer
chants' advertisemens or listens to their
clerks he feels himself o'ershadowed.
The embryo Merchant-Prince when fifteen
years of age. having accumulated five
dollars, embarks in business, investing
twenty-five cents in a peck of peanuts
and four and three-quarters dollars in a
sign which reads, '"Great American
Peanut Company. Depot for the United
States and Can-ida. Dealers Supplied."
Take exageration from our modern en
terprise and thousands of our beloved
countrymen would have little left to do
business on.
Within half a century cranks have
made more improvements and greater
changes than all the "well balanced'
men could make in a thousand years,
and have giveu the poor man comforts
and luuries which kings could not have
had fifty years ago. Hundreds of inven
tions which, a few years ago were, by nil
well -balanced men deemed impossible,
are today in such common use that not
one user in a thousand considers he owes
anythhing to the sweat of the crank.
Cranks showed how to cross the
oceans, tunnel the mountains and bridge
the rivers. It required a thousand
cranks to perfect hundreds of inven
tions before it became possible to send
a mess gc four thousand miles at high
speed for (a postal card).
"Well balanced implies that the facul
ties are about equally developed. Such
a development gives too much common
sense and conservatism, and not half
enough ingenuity, hope aad perseverance
to force improvements on an unwilling
world. A man with the inventiveness of
Edison would, in order to be balpgd,
need to be able to equal or surpass Bis
marck as a statesman, Napoleon as a
treneral, Shakespeare as an author and
Raphael as an artist. This would bo ex
pecting almost too much in one man.
I saw an engraving of a passenger
packet which plowed the raging canal at
a velocity of three miles per hour, which
was not from Nineveh. Pompeii or the
pyramids, but from a packet company'n
advertisement in the l'hili. Lttlyr of
March 28, H:M. The captain, pilot nnd
chambermaid had cracked many jokes
over "Fulton's Polly," a boat proposed
to run at the dangerous t-petd of six
miles per hour, and entirely unaided by
jackass power. The canal boat is strand
ed on the shoals of other days. The
crew and the mule retired to the bank of
the canal to go down with the country.
They slumber in the valley, but they all,
axeept the mule, left descendants, and it
will take several generations more to
breed the c-nal boat instinct out of them.
They retard many inventions ana some
they smother entirely.
Said the gentle Fulton to Judge Story,
"As I had occasion to pass daily to and
from the building-yard, while my boat
was in progress, I often loitered, un
known, near the group of strangers
gathered in little circles, and heard vari
ous inquiries as to the object of this new
vehicle. The language was uniformly
that of scorn, sneer, or ridicule. The
loud laugh rose at my expense; with the
dry jest, the wise calculation of losses
and expenditure, the dull but endless
repetition of 'the Fulton Folly.' Never
did a single encouraging remark, a bright
hope, or a warm wish, cross my path."
Watt and Stevenson were reviled as
cranks. Ono en vol veil the steam-engine;
the other put it on wheels and produced
the steed of the iron way, to feed on lire
and ncyer tire. Not one well-balanced
man in Europe would endorse it. for not
one was tall enough to touch it; but its
snort startled myriads of fogies and
awakened thousands of clama. It spread
civilization and unified the nations. It
changed the world more than the great
est 6 doz. warriors and statesmen that
ever stradlcd steed or strided stage.
Many a Watt has lived and made no
changes; many a Stevenson nas died and
made n- sign too sensitive to undergo
the "Pains of the reformer'' and bear the
cross of the crauk.
But the time will come when nations
will vie with one another in aiding and
stimulating cranks to work out all their
ideas. I find the annual output of our
colleges gives us more than enough law
yers, doctors, dealers aud dudes. What
the country really needs is more cranks.
To be successful in war or progressive in
peace there is nothing so important as a
full assortment ot well developed cranks.
There are very few cranks in such
countries as Spain and Mexico.
If one-fouth the inventions given us
1 y cranks within two generations were
saddenly taken from us, we should ex
perience incalculable inconvenience and
suffering. Thanks to inventions which
double productions and cheapen
transportation, we could, if we had
sense enough to be frugal and temperate,
and keep down pride and extravagance,
enjoy more, see more and learn more in
one year than our grandmothers did in
three, which might be equivalent to
living three hundred years.
Against two classes of our fellow
citizens chronic skeptics and foggy
fogies the crank wages constant war
fare, giving and taking hard knocks.
But for the foggy and the skeptic, the
progress of two hundred years could be
made in twer.ty, and man the jaded
slave of toil, might be master of nature.
I would rather be a tumble bug by the
road side than to be a foggy foggy
perched on the tombstone of a defunct
idea, slicking the dry bones of superan
uated notions and mouthings at the
march of invention : I'd rather be a
defunct monkey on the dead limb of a
withered tree than to he a chronic skep
tic a scarecrow in the path of pro
gress, pointing at improvement with the
dirty ringer of doubt: I'd rather be a
polliwog and witrgle in a wave of mud
than to be the toiling inventor's shame
less traducer a spider on the wall of
Truth weaving webs over its whitness.
Bashfully submitted to all whom it
may concern.
Tribute of Respect.
The following tribute of respect was
received by us for publication, on the
death of Hazel Forbes, sou of Mr. C. S.
Forbes :
Darling Hazel died October 19, 18S8.
Patient, unceasing efforts of loving
hearts and hands were unayailing to save
the swiet life, and after many days of
racking pain to the body, her pure soul
whs watted to that eternal rest in Heaven,
safe from sin. secure in the arms of Je
sus. Little Hazel would have been two
years old on next Christmas day. A
child, beautiful and lovable to an ex
treme degree, she had entwined her little
life around the heart strings of all the
household. Her presence has been as a
shaft of golden sunlight in the home, the
removal of which makes it oh! so dark
and sad.
Mr. and Mrs. Forbes have the deepest
sompathy of their many friends. May
He who tempers the blast reconcile their
hearts in this great grief, and may they
say "Thy will he done." W.
The Yellow Fever.
Jacksonville, Fla., Oct. 22. Thelast
two days have witnessed a decided in
crease in the number of new cases, and
today the death record is not very en
couraging. Dr. Neal Mitchell, president
of the board of health, reports 27 new
cases up to C p. m today; deaths, 4;
total cae to date, 3,790; total deaths,
331.
PLATTSAIOIjTII "YVEEklA ltcrt
THE ACTION OF THB ttlOUX.
Due to the Influence of Chiefs Gall
and Sitting Bull.
Why Thev Rejected the Treaty.
Washington, I). C, Oct. 22. Is is no
ticed during the conference between the
Sioux Indians and Secretary Villas but
week that while Little Wounded, Oray
Eagle, and a half dozen other prominent
chiefs had suggestions to make, and that
they interpolated remarks from time to
time during the translation of Secretary
Villas' pioposal, Caiefs Sitting Bull and
Gall sat in apparent indifference in the
rear of the room with their backs against
the walls. They appeared throughout
the pow-wow to have the least possible
interest in the proceedings. Yet these
two men did mire than all the rest to
gether towards securing the rejection of
Secretary Villas' proposals. Iu fact, it
is stated, now that the Indians have left,
that but for the opposition of these two
wary old warriers the majority would
have acquiesced in the proposals, and
that, insteed of a failure, their visit
would havo been a success. Gall and
Sitting Bull understand that the accept
ance of the Sioux bill means the aboli
tion of the power and the breaking up of
the tribal relations of this powerful na
tion of red men. From the fut their in
fluence has been felt by the commission
ers, and it was realized from tfie outset
that more was to be leared from Sitting
Bull and Gall than from all the others
put together. The decision of the Iu
diaus yesterday brings to a final end ne
gotiations under the act known as the
Dawes bill, and it is not likely that any
thing further will be done for some time
to come towards the opening of the Sioux
reservation, as secretary Villas is deter
mined not to depart one iota from the
premises laid down by him when he in
formed the Indians that they must sig
nify their willingness to accept as indi
viduals before returning to their people.
A Terrlblo Catastrophe.
IIoopeu, Neb., Oct 21. A terrible ac
cident occured at this place last night
by which three persons were killed and
twe were seriously injuied.
About 10 o'clock p. m. Henry Schaffer,
living four miles west of town, started
for home. Accompanying him in the
wagon was his stepson David Minnick,
his sons Percivul and Henry Schaffer,
his son Daniel Schaffer. Thomas Roe and
a Mr. Lenig. As they drove up to the
Elkhorn road a stock train was approach
ing from the west at a high rate of speed.
It seems that the occupants did not see
the train until it was upon them. Just
before tho engine struck them the
mule team they were driving tamed
down the track in the same direction
that the train was going. The engine
struck them, killing Henry Schaf
fer, sr., David Minnick and Percival
Schaffer, and injuring Thomas Roe and
Lenig. Both lie in a precarious condition,
with some chances of recovery. Henry
Schaffer, jr. escaped, after being thrown
about forty feet away. One of the
mules was killed. The coroner's inquest
was held today and a verdict rendered
censuiing the the train crew for running
it too high a rate, of speed and not
giving proper signals.. One thing
noticeable was that each of the victims
wa3 killed by being struck in the head.
Louisville.
Mr. Maynard Spink was in town
Thursday.
Sickness threatens to break
schools at present.
up our
Dr. A. V. Robinson made professional
calls in the city Tuesday and Thursday.
Elder Mayfield was booked to preach
at Elmwood last Sunday and Sunday
evening.
Dr. G. W. Meredith of Ashland, passed
through town Thursday on his way to
Southern Kansas.
Rev. Miller of the M. E. church is try
ing to get up a Chautauqua circle here.
We hope he may succeed.
Mr. and Mrs. Sutton were at Platts
mouth Saturday. Mr. Sutton conducted
an examination for Supt Spink.
R. P. Loucks arrived home from Kan
sas the latter part of last week. He
brought with him a span of nice horses,
lit? came overland.
Two men from over the river were
badly hurt last week while at work in
the quarry. They were brought to Louis
ville for treatment.
Mr. M. D. Polk passed through the
city Thursday tnroute for Weeping
Water and other points in the country.
We hope to see Mr. Polk elected by a
good old fashioned Cass county majority.
It is said that W. D. Jones, a candi
date for county commissioner, spent a
who'e day and lots of money in another
county while out soliciting votes last
week. He went hevonrl his bounds.
HAZEL
to jin. and tns. c. s. foehes.
Only a little silent term.
Covered with flowers white ;
A snowv face, two dimulQ1 hands
.Now hidden fiom our sight.
But oh ! thelonliness an1 Brief,
That little irrave has left :
Witbiu that nome so desolate.
And parent hearts her' ft.
Oh Hazel ! little ar eel child.
Thv mission heie is done ;
God lent ttiee for a few short months
He has but call-d his own.
Believe that she is happy now.
At home iu heaven wnh God.
Tbit oyt-r those lie loves the best.
He holds the cnaneuiDjj red
inUKSDAY, titTOBFR 23,
&oin0 New I"ounJ Inolan Triba.
The ptt-at tabic lainl of M.ttto Grosso,
In thw wontorn part of Brazil, is still ona
of tlie IcHst known (tortious of South
America. When Dr. Cluuss und Pr. von
Oeu St ei nen HMtetrateJ it several years
ago. and followed tho large Xingu river
from its head waters to tli AtaZuii. they
floated down about 1.000 miles before they
reached the known ortion of tho river.
They did not havo time to adequately
study the strange and unheard of Indian
tribes they met amid those denso forests
and barren uplands, and for tho purposo
of makintr furl her researches among them
lr. von den SSteineti returned to theupper
Xingu last year. Ila visited tho villages
of nine of these tribes, and in a recent
lecture In liio do Janeiro ho gave tho in
teresting results of his etudies.
There is hardly a corner of the earth
whose people have not had some iukling
of tho great world beyond them. But
these primitive natives of tho upper
Xingu had, apparently, never seen a scrap
of trade goods or heard that human beings
existed outside their little circle of
observation. They uso no metul imple
ments, but fell trees with stono axes to
clear the ground for their plantations of
Indian corn, cotton and tobacco. Wearing
shell ornaments, they use hammers and
nails of stone to perforate them. They
mako knives out of shells and tho sharp
teeth of a certain fish, and with these
poor tools they earvo their rudely orua
mented stools and weapons.
Dogs and fowls are found in all parts of
the Amazon valley that havo been visited
by traders, but these Xingu tribes have
never heard of them Neither have they
any know led go of tho banana, sugar cane
and rleo, with whi -'i i v ; of tl.e
tropical zone mv eiicraliy familiar. They
have not tho slightest coureplion of a
(iod, but they behove they will live again
after death. Their most important myth
relates to tho creation of the world,
which, in their view, consists wholly of
tho head waters of the upper Xingu and
Tapajos rivers.
From the languages and pottery of all
but one of these tribes tho explorer de
rived tho Idea that these isolated peoples
are allied to tho original stock of the oueo
powerful Cariba, who journeyed from tho
south to the sea. One trib differed to
greatly from all others that he was unablo
to trace its relation to any other people.
These people are almost wholly isolated
even from each other, and their languages,
though of the bainu derivation, are so
dissimilar that tho tribes cannot under
stand each other. Pew people exist today
who are so primitive in their ideas and so
low iu tho social scale as these new found
Indians of South America. New York
Sun.
B. &. ft!. Time Table.
c;oix; wkT.
No. 1, 5 :lo a. in.
No, 3. : 10 p, in.
No. 5 li :47 a. in.
No. 7.-7 :.T! p. III.
No. !.-0 :1" Ji. III.
li.)lN(i EAST.
No. 1 p. in.
?o. 4. 10 a. m.
No. C T :i: p. in.
No. 10. :4j a. Ill,
No. u ; a. m.
All trains run daily hy wavof Omaha, except
Nos. 7 and 8 which run to and from bcliuilrr
daily except Sunday.
No. 30 is a ftul) to Pacific Jtmntlon at s Soa m
No. ly Is a siulj from l'aciiiu .hniclion at 1 1 a.m.
LEGAL
Order for Hearing-
In the lJiti:ct Court of Cass eoimtv, Neb
ra ka . '
In the matter of the application of t!. Ad
iiriiitra'or efthe l-.itat.eof Mary t'. lieaver,
deceased, to .st,l re:i estate,
i'lattsnc utli, Cass county, Nebraska. October
131 li. isss
On reading the petition tiled, of the Admin
istrator of the 'state of JIary S. Iiaver. de
ceaed, represent !iik anionic other t ti i : that
Siiiddeeeased died, seized of -e: t:tin lealtsta e
therein described, and that it is necessary to
sell i lie s in e to pay t he debt of s id d c-:iscd,
and praying for liceLse to sell ihe i:ii:ie, u:d
it appet'rin to t he i ourt l l.at it is neccvuuiy
to sell the s oiie for that p'uipff.- ; It iscuU ri ll
that -a:d petition tin heard al th-j. liiee of i lie
Clerk of ti e. Din-rid Court of Co-s county, in
Plattsmout h, Nehra ka. on the lot li iia ui
November, A. !., lN, at 2 o'clock p. m . t
said day. ncd eaune be shown then, if anv,
by Hli persons interes ed in ;iid estate, why
license should n-t he grafted.
li is furtliei ordered tli.it t In-order le pu'.
lihed at le;;s, four weeks before said lav ii d
foi the earner of said petit'osi. in the "i'latt-i-moutb
Hni.ud, a wctklj mvspapei pi.li
iished bi l;!tlst:"u:h aud iii ges. cr.it cuiu.a
tion in iiiil coaptv .
Dated ociouer uth. A. D. isss.
Sah:ki m. Chai'mak.
Judge of liistiict Court.
Evros Claki;, Att'v for AdinV -si-4
Order for Hearing.
lu the L 1st i let Couri, of Chss county.
eb-
raska.
In the matter of tne application of the Ad
ministrator of the Estate of Eeter T. Heaver.
deceasd. to seil real estate,
Plattsinouth, Cass Co.:i;ty, Nebrask, October
13, 1SS8.
On reading the petition tiled, of the Admin
istrator of the Estate of 1'eter T. IVaver, de
ceased, represent!!! anions other t hins that
siiid deceased died . seized of c.-r ain real eb
tat e therein riescr bed, and that it if necessary
to sell the same to pay the debt of said de
cease ,aiui p'::l t f'-r lifer.se to sell l he s;oae,
and it apnea: inji to incc-mt that it is neces
sary to sell the same for that purpose, it i or
dered that said petition be h ar.1 at the ' fiiee'
oftherle k of t e eistrict court ef ;is emii.t v
ill Flattsni mill. Nebraska, on the lull day of
November. A. li l?., at J ;.l p i.i. f -aii
day. and eaue. l e shov.-ii tlieiuf any. !
persons interested in snid estate, why sa d li
cense should not be j;r- nted.
It is fin t tier ord-r. d tii:;t th'-s order be pub
Us tied at l"i!st four successive w. eks bcion
said dv fixed fi) the hearing of hkvA petition
in the I bitisnioutli TIfuai n. a w.-ckly nev.s
t r-der rublisl-.ed in I'laf tsuiouth i':t !! ;!psn:ral
cilenhition ii sai.) c:-,;- y.
Dated October lbih, A. I), lsss.
Samiki. M. Chapman,
.Indue of District "ouit.
Bvuoy Clauk, Att'y for Ad in 'r. Sl-4
Sheriffs Sale.
Hy virtue of an order of sale issued by W,
C, "-hov.alti r.elerK of 'lie c'smct court, wiiiiiiJ
ni.ri tor Cass pou'i tv Nehru-ka, and to nie
directed. 1 wiil on the day of November
A. M. lsss at o'clock p. in . of said dny at the
s'.'nth door of the c urt house In s iid county,
sell at public auction, he following realestatG
to-wit : The west hall Cs) ot tne s. iithe-flst
quarter ( K ) 't sect ion twenty-one 21 ) township
twelve (12,. ransre nine (9 east of the Cth P. 51 .
in Cass county, Nebraska, with the privileges
and apperteuatKe-' tliereuutu boioiitjnj or in
anywUe appe,ita:n"jig.
The Sc.ne lieins levied upon and taken as
the p' operiy of Samuei b. Andersen, Nanny
Andemon, Lombard Investment- Company, 11.
W. Curtis & Co. and -Ta-ob b. 1 hi. lips, de end
ants : to satisfy a judgment of said icourt re
covered by Alia A. Coleman, plaintiff, against
saul defendants.
Plattsniouth, Neb., Oct. 17 'n, A.D. 1sh.
J. O. ElKESr.ARV,
31 w3 Sheriff Cass County, Neb.
Sheriff s Sa!o-
By virtue "! an execution is-ued by YV. C.
Sliovalter. clerk of the district court within
and for Cass county. Nebraska, and to me di
rected. I will .-n the loth day of November, a.
1). isks. at 2 o'clock p. in., of said day, at the
residence of Samuel L. Thomas, io I'lattsinoutb.
Precinct, in said county, sell at public auct tu
the following personal property, to-wit :
The undivdei one-haif interest in two bulls,
and the undivided one-seventh interest in eight
eows, live steers one to two yean old. eight
calves, one bull one year old, aud two oae-year
old heL'ers.
The same belnii levied upon and txken as
the property of Thomas J. 1 bonnes, defendant ;
to fatisty a Judgment of sa'd court recovered
by Oeorse . Dove7, plaintiff, against aaidf de
fendant. Plattsinouth, NeK, Oct. 2-.'nd. A d. 1s8.
33 2 J. C. fclKENBAKy.
Sheriff Cas Comity, NeV.
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If Will Dn Tiilniinfifiiifr
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The r gran's Frieini. No Two Vices ! No Credit,
Prices ! No Cal. Price !
JOE will sell you Hotter (i ootid for Less Money than vou
can 1inl in Plattsinouth.
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eM Misses'
Call early and make vour selcctit ns, ior
vou all know how difficult it is later on to "ct
the sizes.
This cut represents one of our decided 1 ar
gains in that jhie, commencing with size 4 at
S4.5, with a 5Cc. rise for a size made ot a
Hrown Checked Ali-'vVool Cloaking, Plaited
skirt, with Surah Lined ILood. "We lave ttdl
lines from 2,00 upwaids. sizes
-2 to lb.
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ONE DOOa EAST FIRST 1TATI02TAL BANK.
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Trade,
Our Stock of Cloaks is now com
plete, nnd we are showing the Largest
Line ever opened out in this city. La
dies desiiinir a New Wrap this season
should not miss looking over our line,
for we are showing the A ery Latest
Novelties at very Low Pi ices.
UM and Missss5 Jackets !
This cut represents our popular
s.".o0 Ladies' Jacket, made of All-Wool
striped Cloaking, and at the price a
decided bargain.
We have Fad Lines at $3 to 15,
each mad3 up of thy very best materials,
in solid olors and strmes.
Mis-es' Jackets from ?4 to $7.50.
ran ire irom i
CloeKs !
ini gir-ir fitit
Vm-'AX.
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Plush - Cloaks.
"We have never carried so larwe a line
of Plush Cloaks as this season, and at
prices so low.
Plush Saeqt.es from &25.0O to 45.
Plush Newmarkets at SCo.00.
Plmh Jackets from 15.00 to 20.00.
Pluh Modj ska's from 18.50 to 35.00.
Plu-li Manteaus from 18.00 t 40.00.
Call Early and make
your Selections.
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