XHE DAILY I1EJIALL) : rLATTSMOUTH. NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL -5, 1-89. The Plattsnwjth Daily Herald. KNOTTS BECS., Publishers & Proprietors. TIIK I'LVrTHMOUTJI HKKALU In published nrery evening except Sunday and Wnttkly evy TliurNday morning. Kegls tered at the postortlce, I at ifiuouth. Nebr., HHcoiid-clitt" matter. OIUcm :oror of Vine Had Klftli etreeH. - lelepliune io. M. TUMI TO DAILY. Oue copy ono e.-ir In advance, by mail... .$5 no One copy per month, by carrier ftO One copy per week, by carrier 15 mm won wkkklv. One copy one year. In advance $1 no inncipy lit montbft. In advance 75 The farmers of Kansas liave sown a larger acreage of wheat thit year tliaa ever before, and the farmers of Michigan and Dakota have done the same, so if there is no unfavorable weather between now and harvest time, this year will bent all prcuious records for wheat raising in the Uhited States. Thk English government is in receipt of positive news os the junction of Emin Pasha and Stanley, and their march to ward Khartoum. The crushing defeat of the army sent by the madhi to destroy Emin was administered by this combi nation, and now nothing prevents them from peacefully floating down the Nile to the scene of the assassination of Oen. Gordon. They captured steamers enough from the khalifa's army to carry thei:i comfortably. Lincoln Journal. Bismarck, it is now reported, actually proposes to allow the Samoans to choose their own king, uninfluenced by outsiders. This is a surprising concession from the German autocrat. Of course England will agree to, while the United States has been trying to bring this about all along. But even the liberty to elect their own ruler will not be much of a privilege for the Samoans if the ruler should be dis posed at the whim of Germany, asMalic toa was, or outlawed by the Germans, as Mataafa, the successor of Malietoa, is. Ix looking for contrasts between Washington's time and the present let us not forget that in his day the ofiiee sought the man, while in ours, usually, the man places himself in the hau ls of fiiends, secretly hires a brass band to serenade him, slips a call in a local paper signed "many voters" demanding that he come forward and sacrifice himself for the country's good, and otherwise works night and day till he either runs the poor, distracted otlice to earth on election night or gets beatei. by the other man. Thinps will change in a hundred years. The roll of members holding certifi cates of election to the next house tf representatives has been made up and contains one hundred and sixty-four re publicans and one hundred and sixty-one democrats. On the face of thisstatemei.t it would look as if the republicans had a majority of three. It would seem, how ever, that under the present membership of the house their majority upon a clo;c party question will be reduced to one, due to the fact that quorum of the hou -e as now constituted, is one hundred and sixty three. It is not likely, under the circumstances, that an extra session w ill le insisted upon before the election o the new members of congress from ti e states soon to be admitted. It is ex petted to add at least five to the work ing majority. Dee. The Saloox as a Political. Powek. by Ernest II. Crosby. The saloon ha presented a problem of practical politic ly reason of the power it wields; growl I of the saloon-keeper and of the brewer a apolitical factor; illustrations drawn from several states; how congressman was elected first as a republican then n a democrat by the same brewers; exper iments in several states with (1) prohi bition, (2) local option. (:) high licens ; degrees of success of each; need to lay aside quarrels about details until thi corrupting power in . politics is over thrown; its effects in debauching the (.al lot box and in encouraging the sale f office. Mr. Ern.st II. Crosby, a son of ttt Tiv. Dr. Howard Crosby, has for sevens! sessions of the New York legislature ad vocated a high license law. and has ex erted himself chiefly to distroy the polit ical power the saloon. The Rey. Dr. L. "W. Bacon wrote for The Forum for May, 18S8, an answer to 'Objections to High Licens." Speakixo of the defeat of the prohi bition amendment in Massachusetts, that yiiservative republican organ, the Bos doa Journal says: Mauy good citizens, who have voted ftog-tlirr upon local prohibition as in volved in the annual vote for no license. parted CO npany upon this issuo. For liiis re so i the vote in fayor of the Amendment can not justly le tiken as nn index to the temperance sentiment of the tate. For this reason, also, the defeat of the auiemlmi-nt can not rationally be interpreted as a blow at temperance. It as only a question of method which was settled in the election; the broader un lying question of priuciple is undis turbed, and we look to see a rontinued growth in the forces which make for sobriety, good order "and the thorough xtforcemcnt of restrictive laws. The Ad vocates of the . amendment will not complain that they have not had fair play. The pledge which the republican party made to submit the question to the people has been made good by the con current action of two successive legisla tures. The day fixed for the vote was one agreeable to the advocates of the amendment. The campaign in their in terests has been ably organized and ushed w ith vigor, skill and intelligencee. Don't disgust everybody by hawking, blowing and spitting, but use Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy and be cured. Two Little Travelers. Among the passengers on the north bound train over the California and Ore gon line wcro two very small travelers, small in stature, but feeling wonderfully big and indcendciit over a feat which they have ju&t accomplished that of crossing the great American continent unaccompanied by parent or guardian. Flora and Arthur Wertheim, the trav elers in question, are aged respectively 0 and 9 years, and they are all the way from New York, where they have lived ever since they first saw the light. "1 hain't got no mother," said Arthur to a Chronicle reporter who saw the youngsters at the Oakland pier, and father's up in Porkland, w here's he's lieen for "bout two years." "You mean Portland," suggested the reporter. "That's what 1 said Porkland," said the little fellow. "Sister an' I came out in a tourist car. No, wo didn't have anjlody looking after us," this rather disdainfully. "I was the boss o' the trip. I ought the tickets an' carried the lunch basket, an' did everything." The children had cleaner faces than generally come from a New York tene ment house, and their clothes, though rather worn ami patched, here and there, wcro also clean, or as nearly clean as they might l.o expected to be after a 3,000 mile trip. "We came in a tourist car," the boy went on, not omitting to emphasize the "tourist." "Those tourist cars ain't very high toned, but they'll do for poor folks. Immigrants like mo an si3 can't have everything wo want." "I want some peanuts," chirped the littlo maiden. She's all the time wanting mo to spend money on nonsense." said the boy. ignoring the remark so far as a direct re ply was concerned, "but it takes rnin to travel, and you can't fool it away and have 'null to take you through when haven't got only just 'nufT to buy grub." When this chunk of philosophy had been delivered the littlo fellow went on to nay that his father had gone from New York to work at his carpentry in Oregon; that he was going to be a carpenter him self, and knew how to build houses pretty well already. lie bad had no trouble in getting over the road without assistance, and thought he could easily make a trip around the world. "I will get to Porkland Monday morn ing." said he. "Father will meet us at the depot, and then we'll be all right." San Francisco Chronicle. The Austrian Journalist. The Austrian journalist has the same literary methods as his German relative, but lie must supply a livelier and larger paper to his readers, who are a rather frivolous lot, and he lias not such amus ing advertisement columns. Frequently the Austrian editor makes extensive use of bis imagination, and he can invent thoroughly. Some time ago one of the best known Vienna papers published a long paragraph purporting to be a tele gram from London. It was very inter esting. It told how the three daughter? of the Prince of Wales were walking down Whitehall when they observed that a wretched looking woman selling flowers was doing no business. They therefore took her basket and 6old flowers for about three hours, making a grc::t deal of money, which they gave to the ioor woman. The 6tory did not havy the least foundation in fact, of co::rse, and the princesses were not in London anywhere near the time the inci dent was said to have occurred. Wash ington Star. "Never Xto Caution." The old Jews and the old Scotch High landers had one feeling in common a dread of suretyship. The book of Prov erbs contains several warnings of the danger that lurks in .i surety bond, but nc-r.o are more admonishing than one ut tered by a Highlander. Donald had been tried for his life, and narrowly escaped conviction. In dis charging him. the judge thought it proper to say: "Prisoner, before you leave the bar, 111 give yon a piece of advice. You have got off this time, but if you ever come before me again, I'll bo caution (surety) you'll bo hanged." "Thank you, my lord," said Donald, "for your good advice, and as I'm na ur.gratcfu", I beg to gio your lordship a piece of advice in turn. Never be cau tion for onybody, for the cautioner lias often to pay the penalty." Youth's Com panion. . los's Way of Asking for Soda. Water. line J lie c-py man was standing in a drug store a long haired pet dog came in and began to sneeze and cavortaround the soda fountain. The genial proprie tor came out and said: "Ah, there, you rascal; you after a drink of soda again?" The dog at once began to sneeze, 6it up on bis haunches, bark and show tkr.teoda was what he wanted. The proprietor took a mug, and, nam ing syrups of several flavors, asked the dog what he would have, but it was not until vanilla was named that the dog said, as well as he could, "You bet, that's the stuff." Ho sat up and went through all his best tricks until the foaming bev erage was placed before him on the floor, and then he emptied the cup. The dog, liaving done this, was happy. "Does he drink that stuff often?" said the reporter. "Yes," said the druggist, "he comec around about three times a day and h never puts a nickel ia the slot." Worces ter Spv. Plenty of feed, flour, graham meal at Hcisel's mill, tf and KILLING A CATAMOUNT. LUKE FAULKNER'S TLE WITH A TERRIBLE WILDCAT. BAT The Ilrute Took I'oiuteiittion of the House, Tl Negro Man Who Hai Going to "Smumh Lin" but Didn't Luke's Subse quent Foiitlueas for I .urge Knives. Who is that gentleman with the large gray whiskers? This is the question often asked of an old. well known blacksmith in Berrien county, now nearing on to a ripe old age. It Is Luke Faulkner, the man who had such a terribly encounter with a cata mount some thirty years ago. I don't suppose you would find one-half dozen men in Berrien county that would have had half the courage that this man did possess at the time 1 write of. The facts and circumstances of the ease are about as follows: You will recollect that thirty or thirty live years ago IJernen county was very thinly settled, and consequently wild animals were more numerous than they are nov. It is true there are now in these da-s of George Mc's and Shade Dorminy's occasionally a catamount, but they are not to be compared to the cata mount of thirty years ago. SHE THOUGHT IT WAS THE DOG. But to the subject in hand. Luke had not long been married. He lived on a little clearing near the ten mile creek famous for the number of wild cats, catamounts, etc., th:it roamed its banks iind swamp'? in quest of fish or a stray litter of young pigs. The day on which this episode took place was mill day with Luke, and a3 the mill was some distance off it was a pretty big day's trip, and if the mill haj pened to be crowded it took till in the night to accomplish the trip. And it so happened that the mill was crowded. No one was left with Mrs. Faulkner for the day as no danger was apprehend ed during the day time, and Luke in structed her that if perchance he was gone till after dark she should go down at sundown to a neighbor's house, a little way distant on the road to the mill, so that she should be ready when her hus band came back from the mill. The day wore heavily away, as it does to all young wives when first left to themselves, until the sun seemed to stand still. But finally the shades of evening began to lengthen, and many an anxious glance was cast up the road to see if Luke w.is yet coming. No Luke! The fuel was prepared for the night, the supper cooked, all preparations were made for the night and Mrs. Faulk ner was sitting by a slow fire knitting and waiting. Waiting for the one or both of two things. For the return of her husband or for the approach of the time when she should go to the neigh bor's. It was now time she should 6tart. She would knit around once more. Pit-a-pat pit-a-pat. She hears the dog jump the fence and come walking in the piazza, and she turns to look, expecting to see her husband driving up the lane. What was her fear and surprise when instead of the dog, a great big, ugly catamount r-alked in. eyed things cau tiously for a moment (during which time she was afraid to move) ami turned and walked under the bed and lay down on a pile of seed cotton. Can you imagine her feelings? Gently easing up from her chair and out at the door she fairly flew to the neighbor's house already mentioned. It was dis tant only about half a mile, and the dis tance was made in quick time. This man was the owner of a slave, a large, heavy fellow, whom she thought she would get to go and run the cat off But "No, sah! Me to 'fraid of dat war mint. Can't go." In an hour or bo Luke returned from the mill, stopped and called for his wile, according to previous arrangement, and was told the story of the cat. He'd go. Frank would go with him if he'd take the two dogs along. Yes, they'd take them. A largo hand light was procured and they started. "Now, massa, if he jump on me you smash 'urn, and if ho jump on you I smash W THE STRUGGLE IN THE DARK. All right. They walked on. The ne gro kept behind like a cowardly puppy. They walked up to the yard fence and began to make preparations for a des perate encounter. The negro's heart beat a iiouble tattoo all me wmje. Just as the light was well replenished and di vided so tlir.t each should have a light in case one got put out, and Lulc1 reached in his pocket to get his knife, biff! he felt the weight of a big dog right in his breast and face which knocked him over and put out his light. Oh horrors! he could hear the negro's feet packing the grit way off up the road. Gone! He had thrown down his light and betook him self to Cigiit. Luke by himself Cer tainly by himself in the dark and a bi.i eatumoant making desperate struggles to I iccrate his flesh with his sharp claws, which was, however, prevented bv a thick new suit of jeans which he had on. It was a tight hand to hand fight, hard telling which would gain the ascend av.cy and win the night, as it were. Finally Luke placed his left hand on his throat and held such a firm grasp that :he cr.t lay still with its talons bur ied in his clothing. Willi his right hand and his teeth lie managed to get out ami open his knife, und with a sweeping g.sh cut its throat from ear to ear, and the beast was made to relinquish his hold. Luke's clothing was literally torn in shreds, but he received no wound of a serious nature. , When he returned for his wife he found the negro cuddled up in the cor ner liaving a genuine dog ague. Luke did not say much to him, for he knew that was the very thing the negro would do when they started. When asked whv lu :id not stand his ground he replied": W'y, Mass Luke, my legs jes gin to iggla. and 1 boon was back Ujh voii-Ji-rhf where I'd dig yer grabe." LuLe got to making pocket Lrdvca urter that, and to this day carries oae t::at is a sight to behold, it is so large. I do:;'t blame hita, do you? Val Josta Gc) Tiintd. - A SoMler'a Life Saved by a Dream. A man of the name of Jx Williams dad told a J ream to his fellow soldiers, iomo of w hom related it to me months previous to th occurrence which I re late, lie dreamed that he crossed a river, marched over a mountain and ?amed near a church located in a wood, near which a terrible battle ensued, and in a charge just as he crossed a ravine he was shot in the heart. On the ever memorable 7th of December, 18GI (battle ot Prairie Grove, northern Arkansas), as we moved a double quick to take our place in the lino of battle, then already hotly engaged, we pa-ssed a church, a small frame building. I was riding in the flank of the command, opposite to Williams, as we came in view of the house. "That is the church 1 saw in my dream," said he. I made no reply, and never thought of the matter until even ing. We had broken the enemy's lines and were in full pursuit, when we came to a dry ravine in the wood, and Williams said: "Just on the other side of this ra vine 1 was shot in my dream, and I'll stick my hat under my shirt." Suiting the action to the word he doubled up his hat a.s he ran along and crammed it into his bosom. Scarcely had he adjusted it when a minie ball knocked him out of line; jumping up quickly he pulled out his hat, waved it over his head shouting: "I'm all right." The ball raised a black spot about the size of a man's hand just over the heart and dropped into his shoe. Hall's Journal of Health. The Vanity f Men. "A man cares more about his shape than a woman," saiil a corset maker, "mid will resort to more stringent and uncomfortable measure.; to improve his figure. A slout wo:i;;:ji will walk a mile for two or three days and i io; eati! candv for a whole week t- rcduee her flesh, but a m;:n v. ill .submit to the most wearisome processes for the same pur pose and keep :t his effort for as manv moiith.s as his trainer reeom mends. fiaee a ias at tne leiioi any puouc stairwav, ai:l lour men to one woman will turn to look i;i it. and from these premises may be urawn tne double con clusion that men are more vain than wo men, and that were the stigma of fend ninity removed from corset wearing and uie custom si:;oieu bv lasnion loaders men would fall in line very readily. There is no more reason why they shouldn't suffer in them than that wo men should lie laced into them, simply because they iooi; more trim ami shape ly. In 1 80S and 18-10 corsets were worn by men, and the fashion might Ik? re vived it a tew leaders as courageous as the apostles of dress suit reform would introduce the practice." New York Sun. The Mediaeval Housewife. The housewife of the middle ages cooked over an open fire on a stone hearth in the middle of the room, a hole in the roof letting tho smoke escape. Over this fire the people shivered in cold weather; but at a later time some of the queens Had braziers or small iron tur- naces in tneir rooms, mere were no carpets in those clays, and rushes anu sweet herbs were spread on the floor in stead, especially when company was ex acted. There were tapestries on the walls of tho finer houses. At dinner eople sat on wooden benches and stools .ta heavy table of boards set on trestles, ud this wo3 covered with cloth. The oill of fare changed with the centuries in those days, and not much from da' to lay: the food was barley and oaten bread, bacon, fish, capons, eggs and an abundance of home brewed ale, and the nobles sometimes had wine from the e;vst. Good Housekeeping. Napoleon Lost Cameos. For many years the Bibliothequo Na tionale of Paris has bewailed the loss of two dozen very line ancient cameos bor rowed by Napoleon I and never returned. The emperor had them mounted in a tiara, and when Louis XVIII came to the throne they were found among the crown jewels, and were sent along with them to England for safety when Napo leon escaped from Liba. Since then they have been hopelessly lost. Tho curator had failed to preserve a detailed descrip tion of the gems. M. Germain Bapst, however, has been able to provide the substance of t he missing document, and has published it in his "Hitoire des Joyaux de la Couronne." Should the cameos ever como into the market, tlioy may be recognized and bought back by the authorities. It is general k' supposed that they are retained by the heirs of the Comte de Chambord. Jeweler's Weekly. A S!i;ttiu Princess. A very pretty ftory is related of the crown princess of Denmark. Prince Waldemar and Princess Marie are good skaters, and one afternoon when, after a long run aero.-.s the ice, they sat down to rest, they noticed a little loy who was vainly trying to put his skates cm. On seeing the royal couple he took off hi.i hat and said: "Oh, dear Princess Marie, can you not help me to put my skates on?" The royal lady smiled, knelt down on the ice and firmly fastened tho straps round the boy's ankles. Boston Tran script. Ailam'tf Politeness. A mother on Delaware avenue- was on Sunday giving her child, a boy of 7 years, some Bible instruction. She was telling him the story of Adam's fall Having narrated the tale cf the apple and what mischief it did, the mother asked: "Now, don't you think Adam did very wrong to eat the apple?" The little fellow thought a momont and then an swered: "Why, would it have been polito to refuse the apple when the lady ollered it to him?" ISufTalo Corn ier. Had lliiu There. "Is it proper 'blown down?' to 6ay 'blown up or Teacher Either. If it ia the result of an explosion, it U blown up: if the re sult of a cj'elone, blown down. .'Joy An' couldn't the result of an ex plosion be 'blown down?" Teacher No. Roy What's tho matter with a sneeze? Drake's Magazine. ! So Jt ja has Tin; lai:iJi:st C I S D M IT 1 1 P F 0 T 0 l I X runNS l-Unt, o I Uvila HOUSEHOLD GOODS. In tin city, which lu A com )let'! lino is oii'ci:!' "T IMloA Frames in rivar v.n icLv. Yo;i caii .! evt'i vf hinir yiu jhtu. oil can bay it :i tin; iinl;il!im nt lati. pay m lunch imcii mouth :t:nl yd will mmm haw a li ; In; r.i.-!icl holism ami hardly rcaiixu SIXTH STliEEI. EET. MAIN AND :TJr mm 1 IP IR, X PU U US fs TTiTf-FT 11 A tJ'UKulM A i l)MU u 1 h I ALL THE 1 POLITICAL Ik DELIVERED Otmo TO ANY PAET OF THE CITY OIR, SIB TT Tin- Daily nnd Wkf.kly ili:iti.i) is the b -i. because it reaches the l.irirest number made known on ;qi-l;e.-itiin. rent or s--ll it will l to vertise ii! 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