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1 T r I 1 1 1 I I r 1 w k The NauonalHymnXmbtk Worlds Fair. NMAlRBANKrM NEW LUMBER YAAR I. D. M WES & c'). DEALERS IN PINE LUMBER, SHINGLES, LATH, BASIL DOOUS, BLINDS.and all building material Call and see us at the 11th and Elm street, north of Heisel's mill. Plattsmouth, Everything to Famish four House. AT I. PEARLMAN'S -I.RKAT HUHE FURNISHING EMPORIUM. Having our chafed the J. V. Main street where lam now or than the cheapest having ht to and furniture of all kinds sold F Q FSW' Co WILL KEEP CONSTANTLY ON HAND A Full and Complete line of Drugs, Medicines, DSUCGISTS SUNDRIES AND PURE LIQUORS Prescriptions Carefully Compounded at sill Hour. rtw jam. mmm i'vtuiudk xlk , wb. .asaw naji a C3a0 KLY BKOTHER9. M Wina BU New York. Price 60 r.U.l HENRY BOECK The Leading I PITRMTTTTRF. DEALER AND UNDERTAKR. Constantly keeps on hand everytliin yoii iii'od o furnish yonr house. COIINKK SIXTH AND MAIN BTHKKT Plattsmout NTeb Out enetnmen cal fovr S4h AtooKTi fOUGn EILLES, 'I 1 1 T I ItoT and we din't Bod K pruAta- i Tr7 V .j,.. .. 1 ri -1 m. a SmLLmmA. KkMeld. Minn. SAN 1A UlAUS bUAf ' a C vntry: tit of thee, t luiiu'of liuerty, Of tlvx-1 sing; L;i:.J where our fathers u.ed ; Lard v. iv-r: our iVioihfS tried, Over the wasfi-tub t'.cJ 1 it rfvh.n ri'... .'afi'.v i.!.: v ree iVoMe. t:i.f love ; .:!; and tt "s - I i r. i ills: i i '.. i .1 l'.i .1. t W: ! ! '.:-.!.-.K (. t ::. .'.'MCSAVtil ! ,c ' ! ,N i A CLAl. : iuuiy try ; :.'. '..'. f r c!'.sr..HiS sake, .kin tne appuubf. a i a i i M r ill cjsS nations. corner of one block Nebraska - modkkn - Weckbach store room on south located I can sell goods cheap jiwt put in the largest stock the citv. Uasoiine sioc on the installment plan. I. 1'EAllLUAiN. Paints, and Oils. iOt, I'ERKISS- HOUSE, 217. 211. 221 and 223 Main St., Plattsmouth - r-ebraska B. M BONS. Proprietor. thb Perkins has been thoroughly renovated from top tc '.ottciui aud ia aow one of the best hotels in the state. Boarders will be taken by the week si t4.n0 and up. GOOD BAR CONNECTED MIKE SHNELLltACKEH. Wagon nud Blacksmith shop WagonBuggy, Machine and plow Repairing dona HORSESHOEING A SPECIALTY He uses the NEVERSLIP HORSESHOE Which is the best horseshoe for th I farmer, or for fast driving, or for city i purposes ever invented. It is so made mat anyone cun pui on simrp or imi corks, as needed for wet and slippery days, or smooth, dry roads. Call at his shop and examine the nkvrksmp and you will use no either. .1. M. SHNEI.LBACKER. 12 North Fifth St. Plattsmouth THE ELDER BOOTH AND THE PIRATE. How lht Tradlaa Sated His Money and Hit Ufn and Mad a Friend. otic night Lu Louisville a number of "iiie cneii on caw, in ixhru, anion,, the in a 'doctor of local celebrity, who wanted to place in his bands a valuable relic that had once belonged to tlie elder B.K)th He was shown npstau by a little dinky, who earned .ni'.etbin:T i. ..i wi;:piicu tip in a newspaper, a p ' to he u wv?U preserved bkull, thoronyhly cleaned ami the parts jitueu vj npnus anil tin' tits '1 he nvctur tohl us tliii Ur.V of the bkuII. whieh proved roiuautic aud iut r-estitiii-. Many yi-aw before Ted's visit the elder UvHitU had plavt-d an encasement in Natchez. Atter the clvisinK perforiu uuee he was taken down to the river with his trunk to wait for the upcoming steamboat, lie found at the saloon at the w naif a rouyu looking set of inen who by their talk he decided were thievt'S and cutthroats. liooth had sfl.tKK) in his money belt, and from motives of policy be invited the ruffians totuke several drinks, which oulv served to increase their peculiar looks in his direction. There was no belt) near and escutw was out of the question he would probably have been followed aud murdered. Selecting the roughest and touphest man in the crowd, old Booth called him outside to say a few words. "Look here," said he, "my name is Booth; I'm an actor; you may nave ueara or me. I've a thousand dollars here in abelt and I'm afraid of being robled. I want you to take it and keep it safe for me until the boat comes along. " The fellow looked earnestly at the old man, anu then reacnea out lor tne Deit. Booth never expected to see a dollar of the money again, but was glad to insure his personal safety. He slept on a tahle in the saloon, and was awakened early by the custodian of his treasure. "Get up." said he; "here's your money. The boat's in sight." Booth was thoroughly surprised, but of course delighted. "What's your name?" he asked; "I always like to remember an honest man's name." The fellow hes itated, lowered his voice and answered: "It's Morrill; folks call me the chief of the river pirates. You trusted me and 1 appreciated the trust." A year later Morrill was sentenced to the penitentiary for life. When Booth visited NaU'hez again he visited the prison and took Morrill some money and delicacies. At the last of his visits he found the man dying of consumption. "Booth," said he, "I've not long to live: I should die happy if I had something to leave you to remember me by. Yon have been good to me and I cannot re pay you." Booth laughed and said, "If you are set on leaving me a legacy, let it be yonr head." He spoke in jest, but the pirate took it in earnest, and on his death it was found that he had willed the tragedian - his skull. BootlL gave it to the doctor in Louisville to put in order, but dying himself soon after never claimed bin bequest. The physician gave it to Ted. We used it for Yonck's skull in "Ham let." When on a visit to his mother in Bal timore, she unpacked Ted's trunk while he was out. and came across the skull Not knowing what it was used for, Blie decided to get rid of it with some other rubbish. So when Ted came in she told rubbi how she had thrown that nasty out of the window, and that a coal passing by, had crushed it into a hundred pieces. Interview in New York hpocli. Some Familiar Quotations. Wabole. the prime minister of the Georges, is misquoted in the expression "All men have their price." He never said so, and entertained no such narrow views of mankind. He Was referring to certain persons, and 6aid. "All these men have their price." "Money is the root of all evil" is another misquoted quotation, and a wide deviation from the truth. "The love of money is the root of all evil" is the correct quotation. "Love me little, love me long is household phrase sometimes supposed to have originated with Charles Iteude, be cause be wrote a novel by that name, Those who are familiar with the poets know that the expression originated with Christopher Marlowe, and is found in his "Jew of Malta." It was after ward given a new impetus by Robert Henick. Philadelphia Ledger. Teddy Was 8virirUed. Teddy, a little three year-old, was one day following his father about the farm, when he saw a terrapin for the first time. "Oh, papa," he called, "come and help me catch the bug with a shell on his back." "Just cut his head off," his father re plied, "and you have him." Teddy excitedly hammered away, but the terrapin, after the manner of his kind, scenting danger near, drew in his head. "Well, is his head off?" asked his fa ther. "Oh, no," cried the astonished little fellow; "he has swallowed his head'." Springfield Homestead. Diphtheria Tnkrii (rum a Kitten. P. C. Coleman, of Colorado, Tex., states that after a residence of five yean at Colorado he saw the first case of diph theria. A child of four years, living thirty miles distant in the country, and with no neighbor within six miles, had diphtheria, followed by paralysis. The child was far away from any source of human contagion and had rarely seen other children. The father stated that two kittens bad recently died from what seemed to be the same disease, and the child had frequently kissed them. Dr. Coleman does not doubt that the diph theria was contracted from them. Dr. J. I.vis Smith in Babyhood. Timely Tune. "That was an appropriate bit of mnic they had at the cattlemen's annual din ner." "What was it?" "The baud played Beethoven's 'Con certo in Gee.'" Harper's Bazar. AFTER AM. RIO FIRES. i MEN WHO MAY PF SEEN IN THF. RUINS OF A CONr'LAGRAI ON HlrniiK lli',i !:- TIikI Onllmi r IVopI Hnnlit Nrter lrHtn Ahout. The Wurk That Ini-niru. riliieiirii. rMtri.tiitnt auff AnjiiMlem lt. j Af'er the !'.: Is ovi-r. what the:!? The average cn:,e;i M'l'h ullly H heap of fc" HiJ- , ing rums H-.nl thinks that nothiu;; re man)', to lieilone but to clear them away and Imild anew. But to the initiated ilia details of ttie work are manifold. There iui four bodies of ineu actively concerned with the ruins. First, the tireuien. They distrust the red dragon. He may be lurking under any of the heaps of bricks, ready for a fresh outbreak. So they do what they call overhauling. They turn over all the smoking piles and drench the embers and wet down tilt neighboring walls and remain on guard until everything is cold. Sometimes they have to 'wait nearly a week, aud their work after the fire is very laborious, as in the Park place fire, where so many lives were lost. Three days after the fire was over there were still fifty firemen at work on the ruins getting out the bodies and watching the place to make sure that no flames would start up again. Many of these fifty men worked for forty-eight hours incessantly, with only three hours intervals for meals. At the great fire that destroyed the Havemeyer sugar re- fineir it was more than a week before the ruins were cold enough to be safe. Second, the police. They protect the firemen from the crowds of citizens who come to look on and the property res cued from the rabble who come to loot They draw what is called a tire line about the burning building ana keep it np after it is burned till the work of the firemen is done. Third, the fire patrol This is a pro fessional band of property rescuers, maintained by the insurance companies. It was organized forty years ago, and was then composed entirely of members of the volunteer hre department. In 18C3 it was incorporated under a charter which commissioned it to save lives and property ut tires. In the first place it really was a. patrol, walking about the streets from 7:110 o'clock each evening till B:H0 o'clock next morning looking for fires. Now it is called to fires in the same way as the regular file depart ment. Its men used to wear the same uniforms as the firemen, but there was u row over that and now they are distin guished by red strips. THK FIRE PATHOL. The men of the fire patrol go out with trucks, one truck from each station. Each truck carries eleven men and axes, ladders, brooms, shovels, crowbars and tweuty-four immense tarpaulin cover inirs. with which the fire patrol rushes into a building comparatively safe from fire, but drenched with water, and covers up the goods there. The patrolmen usually work under the firemen. For instance, if there is a fire on the fourth floor they are busy on the third floor an the floors below covering up goods with the tarpaulins'and removing them out of the way of water. They also follow the hose lines where these lines run through buildings uot on fire to stop all leaks in the hose or set buckets under the leaks or protect good from spray. They can't tell till the fire is over whether the property they ar saving is insured or not; therefore they o ahead wjjhout paying auy attentiot the question. The tire patrol follow the firemen and U.i thiugs up, saving all they can for tha insurance companies and stopping all unnecessary damage. When the fire men and police have gone uway the fire patrol stays with the agents of the own ers, guarding the goods till the insur ance is settled or the rescued property is removed to a place of Bafety. After all is said and done at the fire prner. come the insurance adjusters poking about the ruins. This is a small, hi'li priced body of shrewd and experi enced men, whose business is to find out on behalf of the insurance companies liow much the loss was. An insurauce adjuster will always tell you that his is a judicial function, just us a district at torney always contends that he is acting judicially, though the prisoner may not think bo. The insured seldom agree with the insurance adjuster. He is sent on behalf of the insurance companies, and is on the watch for fraud. THK ADJUSTERS' WORK. The serious work does not usually be gin till the ashes are cold. Insurance companies don't take inventories of the projierty insured nowadays. The con tents of a store are constantly changing. They wait for the insured to make out his claim in itemized form. Then they call for the books and the vouchers. Maybe all books and vouchers are burn ed. In that case the memory of, the owner must do its best to supply the de ficiency. Frauds are frequent, and the adjusters are usually in business for themselves not attached to any particular company, tiut hired by the job, just like lawyers or private detectives. They have to keep their eyes wide open. In cases like the Park place fire, where everything becomes a heap of ruins in an instant, and no books or papers or ma terial evidence of any kind is left, the adjusters have to depend on careful scrutiny of the itemized claims; but in numbers of other cases where the fire de partment does its work rapidly the ad justers make most astonishing finds. After the insurance is settled the owner of the building puts the ruins up for sale. There are a number of con tractors in the city who will buy them ou speculation. New York Recorder. Petrified Kemalnik William Iijies died and was buried at Corunna, Ihd., in 1888. At the time of his death Mr. hues weighed 180 pounds, lu May, 1801, when the remains were disinterred, they were found to be petri fied, to look like marble and to weigh ex Actly 40,- pout 'Is. - fct. bonis Republic. AN ENGLISH TOURIST. KE HEARS A STORY OF MIT MOUNTAIN WAS HOW HEFT NAMED. An Ame'lrtiM Oiininr -Hal "'"rareler TIU a Slr;iiii- Vrn About III" Lonely, I.nveik Miner of the. SelUlrke Th Mountain VI an Niinird for llllll. Tin1 tr ii had stopped uear the heart of the S'l arks, timicr the shadow of a pent bare crag, which the guide book . ii ... Tl... talu whs me lfiuiii luouiivaui. rock rose almost precipitously, culminat- lug in a crest extending tor nuuureus or f.-et to the nvirth, and the top of the crest seemed almost as sharp as a razor. W ith arms akimbo on the rail of the observa tion car was an English tourist, who wore a monocle and a stare, and seemed very much bored by the scenery. Near him stood a commercial traveler of To ronto, who was explaining how the mountain got its name. Follow the edge of the mountain from its front to the rear, he said. "Right where the edge breaks off you see a solitary pyramid, rrora uere h seeius to be rtily about six feet tall, though in reality it is about thirty feet high. Don't you see It bears some re semblance to a muu? That is the hermit, and it is this solitary pillar that g.ive name to the mountain." The English tourist suddenly showed indications of interest, ne edged a little nearer, and remarked: 'Beg pardon, did I hear you say some thing alout a hermit?" The commercial traveler gave his com rade a dig in the ribs. "Why, yes," he said to the tourist; "didn t you ever hear the remarkable facts about the hermit here?" "No," said the tourist. A DkL'MMKK'B BTORT. "Well, I'll tell you the story," said the drummer. "It's a remarkable one, and every traveler ought to know it. You see, about the time of the gold excite ment in the Frazer river country 'way back in 1H50 a man came here to make his fortune. One of the miners had brought into this wild region his little family, und among them was his daugh ter, a very prottv Kirl. with whom this other fellow fell madly in love. He had a hated rival, of course, and in a few months this rivul t arried off the prize, and life became a hollow mockery to the disappointed lover. Ho became not only a woman hater, but a hater of his kind, ami he made up his mind he would spend the rest of his life us a hermit. "So he came to this mountain, and he clambered up that brush th.'.t you see alongside, and he built him a hut of stones and branches, and there he began his new life, lie had a gun and lived on what he could shoot, a little flour he got from the settlement and the berries and roots he gathered. He lived that way a good many years, bringing down from the mountain un occasional fur or bear skin, which he sold for provision. For years now he has been old and unable to limit well, but nothing has ever induced him to give up his queer life." By this time the English tourist wan all eyes and ears. "You don't mean to tell me." he wid. "How on earth does he live now?" "Well, once a week the people who live in this little hamlet you see here fill j a basket with provisions and one of them takes it np to the top of the mountuin. When the hermit hears anybody coming he leaves his hut and retreats into the woods. The man with the supplies leaves the basket at the door, and the next fellow who comes np with provis ions leaves another basket and takes back the empty one. THE TOURIST BELIEVED IT. "The hermit never speaks to anybody. Early in the winter, before there is dan ger of a big fall of snow, a lot of pro- I visions is taken up to him, for fear that a heavy snowfall will prevent any one from reaching the top. "Why, doesn't he get sick and need a doctor sometimes?" asked the tourist. "Nobody knows that he e"er had a sick day. lie is old, but he's well. 'ou see the air up there is magniticiiit, aud there's no reason be should be sick. There he is now," coutinued the drum mer, in a state of wild excitement. "There he is; near the edge of that rock. Don't you see him?" The Englishman looked, but could see nothing. He borrowed a field glass and was adjusting the focus when the uiau exclaimed: "There, he's gone. I just caught a glimpse of him. Ha's up so high he didn't look bigger'n a speck, any way." "Remarkable," said the Englishman, as he lapsed into a seat. He rolled it all over in his mind for a couple of hours. Meanwhile the story of the Englishman's interest in the hermit had been told to a number of choice spirits, and there had been much hilarity. One of the men who shared the fun was standing near the Toronto drummer, when the English tourist sidled up to him again. "Now, look a-here," he said, "honest, is that really all true about the hermit?" "Certainly, it's true," said the com mercial traveler. "Most all tourists know it, and any one who lives in this country can tell you all about it. Ask this man here." The Englishman turned to the other man, who told the story of the hermit over again, with some grajihio and cir cumstantial additions. The Englishman will probably prepare an account of the wonderful hermit for the British press. New York Sun. I'urle Sam's Carpels. Strangers who come to Washington discover things of the existence of which residents know nothing. How many people know there is a large room in the treasury building in which every yard if carpet used in government buildings all over the Cuited States is cut and fewed? The work is done by contract nnd carpets are fitted from the architect's plan. Washington Post. Stealing a March. want to give you a piece of ad- -1 rice.' "All right, let me give you one first- follow it." -New York Epoch. FOR DYSPEPSIA, Aycr'sSarsaparilla In an eltertiTe remedy, u nume rons teatlmo liiuUv coudiinivcly lroT, "f or two year I was a couAUkiit tuderer from dystonia tun liver coiiipl.viiiL I doctored a ionn timo and tlie innllelm-s preirrlbed, in nearly every case, only nRKravated the di.iewa. An apothecary advised me o use Ayer' KarMparilla. I did bo, and wns cured at a cost of itt. Hlure Uiat time U tin heen niy family mediclim, and sickneM l:nmu a stranger to our household. I believe it to he the best medicine on earth.'' V. F. McNulty, lluckiuau, 'it Summer St., Lowell, Mass FOR DEBILITY, Aycr'sSarsaparilla Is a certain eure, when the complaint origi nate in Impoverished blood. "I was a treat ulTerer from a low condition of the blood and Kiwrat debility, becominR Anally, to reduced Umt I was mint for work. Noth ing that I did for the complnlnt helped mo so much as Ayef s Ssrsaparllla, a few bottles of which restored me to health and streimth. I take every opportunity to recommend this medicine in similar cases." - C. Evtck, 14 K. Main St.. C'liUlleotl.e. tliilo. FOR ERUPTIONS And all disorders orlxlnatlim In Impurity of the blood, such as holli. eHrbunch, pimples, blowlirs. n:dt-rl-,"i! ci,l-lteRd, scrofulout ores, and the like, lake only Ayer'sSarsaparilla FRtPABID BT DR. J. 0. AYKB or. CO., Lowell, Hats. l'rtoa $1 ; sit bottle, i. Worth & a bollle. 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