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About Plattsmouth weekly herald. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1882-1892 | View Entire Issue (July 30, 1891)
WHERE BEAVERS LIVE." KILGORE'S BIG FARM INHABITED BY BEAVERS FOR MARKET. One Man Who Ilopnat to Crow Itlch Out of the Scarcity of Sealnkinn A Oueer Kind of Live Stock to ltale Iteavera Are as Social a Flea. "You have never heard of Dick Kil gore's beaver farm? That's queer." The Fpeaker was old "Mud Cat" Williams, who has been a fishemwin in the south east Georgia streams for forty years. "Dick's going to make a pile of money,' he continued. "You see, Dick has about 200 beavers, young and old, but there are not more than twenty to be killed for their skins this year. It's a 'uevv industry, an ex periment with him, and ho don't want to kill any except the surplus males for the present. But suppose you go out with oe ami see the farm." A drive of ten miles through the swamps along Briar creek and the Kil gore place, or Beaver Dam Hollow, was reached. "Now, here's the farm," said Willi iiii pointing to the creek, across which even few yards were rough dams, and abov. them, in the almost still water, wer mounds of earth, rocks and sticks coin ing out a few feet above the surface of the water. "You know beavers don't show them selves much in the day. They do th ir work at night. Dick owns about 1,000 acres running up and down the creek. has the land posted and keeps everybody off, but it is not fenced. Fences would not keep the beavers in, but there is no dan ger of them going oil, for this is a nat ural home for them, and every beaver here knows old Dick. He feeds them every night, and they come, when he calls, like hogs. Kilgore has been a farmer down here for years, and beavers have been in the creek for all time, but it was not until recently that he began to protect and care for them with a view to making beaver raising a regular business. It will be a profitable business, for the scarcity of sealskins has increased the value of beaver skins, and they will con tinue to increase year by year. A few years ago beaver skins sold a3 low as four dollars per skin, but they should now bring at least ten dollars each. VALUE OF BEAVER SKINS. Beaver skins sent to London and prop erly dyed a seal brown are splendid imi tations of the seal. The seal fur, you know, is naturally a gray. The reason I say send beaver skins to London is be cause that is the only place in the world, it seems, that furs can be properly dyed. However, the fur of the beaver is natu rally a reddish brown, and is a beautiful fur. The beaveT is a queer little animal. "When full grown it weighs from fifty to sixty pounds. Its hind legs are its prin cipal propellers, both when in and out of the water. The hind feet are webbed and the front ones have claws, which are about as convenient to the beaver as a monkey's hands are to him. They can carry stones and sticks about in them vriih. wtse. In the water especially a bavur can carry a quantity of freight, for he swims with his hind feet and arries his load in his mouth. Just af tor dark Mr. Kilgore went down to the edge of the stream to feed the beavers. "I don't often feed them in the sum mer," he said, "for they get all they -want along the banks of the stream. They eat bark off the trees, and at this season there is an abundance of fresh, tender bark and grasses and roots. In the winter they lay up a supply of food for themselves along the banks and in their holes in the dams, wnich they build of roots and sticks and stona. I feed iem nparlv all the time in winter, wher. they flock together ancFunite in building dam?, but in summer they scatter every fellow for himself and I only call them tip occasionally, just enough to keep them tame. As they are scattered off for miles around, but few will come to a call for food." UOW THE BEAVER WORKS. But there were' a dozen romping about in the stream then, and in a few minutes quite numlier had gathered. Among them were a score or more little fellows born c nly a month ago. The females have from two to six young each annually, and a 8 a consequence the families in crease very rapidly. A mixture of green food and a little orain was thrown out on the ground to the hird of little animals, and they scampered around nd picked it up like so iniwy hogs. Some of them would gather up an ear of corn or a young corn stalk and dive oil witn it into me stream. They were tame, but, like hogs, would scaraper off if you tried to catch one. A beaver seems to be almost human in intelligence. They actually gnaw down young trees, drag them into a etrpam' and let them float down, switu ming with them to the place they want to build a dam. I lien tney win urag stones and roots and sticks and grasses, and indeed everything used to dam a stream, until they have practically as tial a dam as a man could con struct. They do this to make the water above deep enough to sport in ana piucia enough to build their homes of sticks and mud in, which are very warm and comfortable in winter and large enough fny a. familv of eiirht or ten. The beaver's principal tool in building these homes is his tail. 1 ne tan is a tmwel sharped anpendaere about ten inches long and four or five inches broad. The beaver s main strengtn i 111 tail TTft can take up soft mud on it, place it against the sticks and stones used to build his nome, anu pat 11 uou with the tail as firmly and as well as a man could do the work with a trowel. Besides its fur, which is the main reve nue from the beaver, it furnishes cas torenm, a product used in medicines, and its flesh is a food that when prop erly prepared is delicious. Jascom t-r. i'Jor. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. USEFUL MENDING BAG. Kvrry Housekeeper Should Ifuve One la ij.t I'rivate Koom. This shows an extremely simple but useful mending bag. The plain sateen front and back pieces are each made by covering a piece of cardlxard eleven by nine inches (narrowed to seven and a half at the bottom), and a narrow strip, throe and a half by seven and a half, is similarly covered for the bottom; the three pieces are then joined by over hand seams on what is to be the inside of the bag. A piece of figured sateen or cretonne, twenty-one by thirteen inches, is given an inch-wide hem across the top, anil is drawn up closely with long running stitches at the bottom, and sewed to one end of the narrow bottom piece; each side of the gathered piece should now measure eleven inches, and be sewed to the corresponding sides of ia plain front and back. This finishes one side or end of the bag. The other end is finished in the same way. Across the inside of the back piece is placed a full pocket, eight inches deep, to hold balls, spools, etc. The topis finished with a shirring for an elastic baud beneath a narrow standing mllle. Above the pocket are tacked flannel needle leaves and scissors straps. Some- MENDING BAG. times an interlining' of wadding is placed beneath the inner cover of the back piece, and the whole used as needle-book or pincushion. Sometimes the pocket is omitted and a third piece, just like the front and back, is fitted in between the two to divide the bag1 into two equal or unequal compartments. Small brass or silvered ring's or homemade ones of wound wire, covered with, knitting silk or floss in closely worked double crochet are sewed to each upper corner of the front and back, and three more are sewed cross wise to the hem of each side piece one in the middle and one four inches from each corner ring-. A narrow, stitched band of the plain sateen is run through the rings, and the ends are neatly joined. This forms the means of suspension and also allows the bag to be opened easily and widely when in use. The lettering & worked with silk or floss in colors to match the figures in the side pieces. Such bags, though handy to use for any family mending, are especially con venient for stockings, which may be dropped into them every week as soon as dried, there to wait in company with thread, yarn, needles, etc., till mending day arrives. Youth's Companion. ABOUT SECOND TEETH. Seme Hint Mothers "Would lo V'eii to ii?ne Liber. It becomes mothers, from the moment that their children begin to eat solid food, to see that they have meat and vegetables, and milk, eggs, fruit, bread and porridges of the unbolted grains, and as little pastry, fine-flour bread and confectionery as possible, in order that they may at once begin secreting the material for sound second teeth, which come under any circumstances, to be sure, but which under hostile circum stances go without long waiting on the order of their going. It is equally neces sary to see that the food agrees with the child, for if it is not of a kind easily digested then the gases of its fermenta tion will rise and injure the teeth, and the heated blood occasioned by indi gestion will make diseases of the gums, also hurtful to the teeth, and create more sensibility in the nerves to pain and to heat and cold. Alternations of heat and cold, by the way, are quite as bad for the teeth as indigestible food, the delicate enamel being obedient, as every other substance is, to th laws of contraction and expansion, crushing and splitting under the process and afford ing opportunity for the beginning of decay by lodgment of food, or even by the entrance of the common air. Thus it is hardly a matter of doubt whether ice-water and ice-cream are not of great detriment to the teeth, whether good or bad for the stomach, and if hot tea and coffee, or even plain hot water, are not equally potent for harm. Nor must the mother, if it can be helped, allow the first teeth to be drawn. Real pain that cannot be al layedfor there was never yet philoso pher that could endure the toothache patiently, says Leonato is the only thing that should make her yield on this point; as it is right that the fangs of the first milk-teeth should be ab sorbed in their place, and not extracted, after which absorption the little crowns will drop away of themselves. Harper's Bazar. How to Get Inlt Out of Clothes. Every housekeeper has many gar ments spotted with ink. Here is a good way to get the ink out. Ink spots may be removed from linen with tartaric acid while wet. To remove ink from cotton, silk or woolen goods, saturate the spot with spirits of turpentine and let it remain several hours; then rub between the hands. It will crumble away without injuring the color or tex ture of the article. Xow's the Time to rrofit by This. Rattan and willow chairs should be cleaned, like straw-matting, with salt and water. First thoroughly remove the dust. Then wring a clean cloth out of salt and water, rubbing chair or mat ting dry with the other hand as you go on, or, at any rate, as quickly as you can, so that it may retain none of the moisture. Military Orders. Adjutant-General Cole yesterday announced the following addi tional appointments on the stuff of the commander-in-chief: Dr. N. F. Donaldson. North Platte, surooti-uviieral, with rank 1A colonel. George K. Jenkins, hairhury. quarter-master and commisary- reneral, with rank of colonel. Charles K. Maroon, Lincoln, judtre advocate-fejeiH-ral, with rank of major. Rank of colonel Kramus -I. Correll, Hebron, a id-de-cainp; Smith T. Caldwell. Kdjrar, aid-de-camp; George W. Martin. Kearney, aid-decamp; K'ohcrt McKeynolds, Lincoln, aid-de-camp; C. H. Wilkinson, iirokcii How, aid-de-camp. Burlinaton Earnings. Cllic A;. July "JS The statement of the Chicago, Hurlinton (Juincy for the month of June last, in comparison with that of the cor responding month last year, shows: Gross earnings, decrease, $131.34; expenses and charges, decrease, lD.Oss; ' net earnings, increase, $1n7,7s for six mouths ending June 30. The last statement shows: Gross earnings, decrease. $Ll('.7t3; expenses and charges, decrease. .flls.'Jii'J; net earnings, decrease. IHiS4,N7o. Take vour prescriptions to Brown A: Iiarre'tt's.they dispense pure med- it It'll ICS. 11 N'elirfika Peaches. The Journal yesterday received a consignment of a n umber of baskets of as beautiful and delicious peaches as one could find in many days' search. They were contri buted by J. M. Russell & Son of Wymore and are a splended evi dence of Nebraska's productiveness in that line, being la rife, sweet, juicy, as pretty a color as one ever saw and as line a flavor. They were cling stones. State Jour nal. Base Ball. An excellent game of ball was played here yesterday between the Red Kobins of Omaha and the Klsons, a youthful team of this cit,y. The visitors proved a little too strong for the boys and they suc cumbed to a score of 5 to 3. The score by innings: Red Robins 1 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 05 Klsons 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 Base hits Robins 0. KlsonO, Errors Kobins 3; Klson o. Batteries Lindsay and (Juinland, Green and Donelan. Struck out By Lindsay 11, by Green 4. The visitors had as strong a bat ter' as could be found among the amateurs of Omaha and were held down in good shape by the Klsons. Engineer Jeukins I'resentlmsnt. Charley Jenkins was an engineer on the Baltimore and Ohio for many years, and he had many hairbreadth escapes. His run was between Garrett, Ind., and Chicago Junction, O., and nearly every body along the route came to know him personally. His friends could tell his engine every time by the peculiar "toot," and whenever the engine was in sight there would be a wave of the hand as a recognition of friendship. His engine, the 720, was the best on the division, and if a fast run was to be made Jenkins and the 720 were sure to be on the call board for it. One day the old engineer was taken 111, and for weeks he lingered on his bed, when it seemed that only a thread held him on to life. He was sadly missed along the route, and the peculiar "toot" of the whistle was heard no more, for. although old 720 was kept running, there were other hands at the throttle. The crisis of his illness came. The family surrounded the bed and watched with breathless eagerness for any sign of a change. The stillness of the room was oppress ive. Nothing could be heard save the regular, heavy breathing of the sick en gineer. Suddenly he arose on his elbow. He stared wildly around, and his eyes looked like a madman's. Then he sat up in bed. clutched an imaginary sheet of paper, and gasped: "Tiffin; train five; engine seven-twenty; prepare to meet thy God." He sank back exhausted and fell into a quiet, easy sleep. When he awoke he was on a fair way to recovery, but by that time the news had reached the place that a terrible accident had happened: that No. 5 had collided with a freight; that engine 720 was a wreck, and that the engineer and fireman were dea L Charley Jenkins insists-that he had a presentiment from heaven. Cleveland World. Maine's Female Tramp. A city female tramp of giant stature is annoying some of our western Maine towns. " She comes to the farmhouses, generally after dark, and begs to be al lowed to stay all night. Her request is generally granted, though unwillingly, for her person is very repulsive. She always carries several large bundles cov ered with a waterproof. In one of them are a clean dress and whole shoes which she saves to put on in Boston. They are too good for tramping in Maine. To all appearance she hasn't a relative in the world, and prefers this roving life to any kind of labor, for she is frequent ly offered a chance to do housework at farmhouses, but always declines. Once she did work for a day or two, but de clared she'd rather walk and beg. She expects to go to the poorhouse, but not until she can no longer travel. It is 6aid that to hear her talk without looking at her one would imagine her a lady, so correct is her language. Lewiston Journal. 1 : In, (h nv if When jou lake (Jiiiility ami 3I:ike in CoiiMuYralion you Can not IJiiy Cheaper an. I'ian' in the World than !' The Only One TO APPRECIATE JOE'S LOW PRICES You uni t call and hxamine his Superior 3Iake and Quality of thing, F Joe boys Only -:- Quotes 110 Prices FOR Money Che Sati Opera House Corner Free Delivery of Newspapers. "I believe in the extension of the free delivery system," said Mr. Wanauiaker. "Free delivery is like gas or water to a town. It increases its metropolitan character. It adds to its attractions as a business and a residence community. I believe that the introduction of the free delivery extends the circulation of newspapers and increases letter writing. It is not convenient for a man to go to the postoffice for his newspaper. "If he could get it delivered at his door it would be a welcome visitor. But take a young couple, for example, living in a small town. The husband is at work all day. The wife does not care to go to the postoffice, or perhaps she cannot go, especially if there is a baby id the house. That man would like to take a daily paper perhaps. But he is too tired to go to the postoffice for it every evening, and so he takes a weekly paper or no paper at all. "As I said, the extension of a free de livery system would increase letter writ ing too. It is astonishing to me how hard it is to convince the people that uu can increase the business of the ni office." Washington Cor. Philadelphia Press. . 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Deposits received and interest allowed 011 the certificates Drafts drawn, available in any part of the United States and all the principal tewns of Burope. OOLLKCTIONB MADE AND PROMPTLY REMIT TED. Highest market price paid for County War rants, State ana Connty bonds. DLKECTOK3 John Fitzgerald D. Hawkoworth Sam Wugh. F. E. White eorge E. Dov?y John Fitzgerald. S. Waugh. President Caetier. Potted strawberry plants of choice varieties will be on gale at Lew Moore's by July 15th. Plants put out now will insure a big- crop next year. tlAiwtf IU t 1 1 U; VJSil Mlm in fess bo. utSi EtCi) 1 Plattsmouth, Neb. Tbe Citizens BANK 1M.ATTSMOUTJU . NEBRASKA Oayital stock paid iu 05 q g Authorized Capital, 5IOO.OOO. 0FFICKK8 rfKANK CAKKUTII. JOS. A. CONNOK, President. Vice-President W. H. CUSHINQ. Cashier. DIKKCTOKH frank Carruth J. A. Connor, K. R. Gutbruanu I. W. Johnson, Heury Boeck, John O'Keefa W. D. Merriam, Wra. Wetencamp, W. H. Cusking. TRANSACTS:! 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