THE DAILY HEltALD : PLAlTSMOflTIl, NEBRASKA, SA'DUltDAY AVRlt J.7, ISSO. The. Plattsmouth Daily Herald. KNOTTS BRCa, Publishers & Proprietors. THK l'LATTSMOU I II IIKIULII H published everv evening except iSunday and Weukly every Thursday inoriiln. Kegt terd nt thu pt office, I aHMiiomh. Nlr., .t Hecftrii-t-l.tt mat i.t. Olliee corner of Vine and Fif til trtel. TeU-plimiK .No. 3. TF.HMS FOR DAILV. One copy n e:ir In advance, by mall. ...$5 no Oun.ciiiy per muni li, lyi-sirler fM One copy per week, by carrier 15 TKKV PO WKttKLV. One copy oo year. In ndvanito fso jutt evpy iii mo.-itn--. in advaui-t. ........ 75 A touch of peril makes all men kin It is gratifying to note that the owners of the Missouri will present no lill for the trouble and loss they experienced in s.iving the D.inmirk's people. Even the cargo that was thrown overboard will be gladly paid for. This generous action H us worthy of praise as Captain Mur rclTa cool and heroic conduct. Tim appointment of II. M. Dixon, of Mississippi, as a cadet at large at West Point serves to recall the fact that his grandfather cast the only vote for Lin coln in his country, depositing the bal lot with one hand while ho held a revol ver in the other. That was a long time ago, but it is still impossible in certain parts of the south for a man to vote the republican ticket with personal safety. Globe Democrat. TOTAL DISABILITY. Corporal Tanner, now pension com missioner, excited the wrath of the dem ocratic economists by deciding that the term 4itotal disability" as applied to u limb of a pensioner does not mean that lie cannot use the linb for any purpose, but that it is totally disabled so far as its participation in work for the support of the pensioner is concerned. But the interpretation is in the line of common sense. The total disability of the arm of a farmer occurs when he ear not bse it for the ordinary work on the farm. If he knows no other trade i:i which he can make a living it is ju6t as fatal to his power of self support as j though the arm had been amputated tit ; the Moulder. The words were inserted I for nractical application and not for ! technical objections. In the case before him that elicited the decision, the pensioner was suffering from yericosc veins in his leg that pre vented him from exercising his avoca- ; tion. It was not totally disabled, to the j extent that he could not stand on it and walk more or less, but he ccul 1 not stand J or walk with it in the way he must in order to earn his bread. j If the predecessors of Commissioner Tanner hive been construing the pension law otherwise, they have evidently sac rificed its spirit to its letter. The gov ernment should never interpret laws in its favor in that way. Lincoln Journal. Til E S VGA 11 S VP PL Y. There is no mnn liv'ng who knov. more about the sugar trade of the United States as it now is, as it might be, and . it is likely to be than Clans Sprcckles. And he has expressed his belief that the once potent sugar trust is in the hoe: and article of death. His belief is s- firm that he ventures $:5.000.000 in an in dependent refiner, against which th trust will have to contend, if the prooe. of law leave it in possession of lib enough to contend with anything. But the most important of all tin opinions which Mr. Speckles has express ed on the sugar question is that whiel afrinm the capacity of the United Stattr to supply itself with sugar and to have residue for exportation. The supply ' cane sugar will, it is true, be unequal t: the needs of the home market, bat Mi. Speckles says, and he has examined an: experimented concerning the matter, that California, Kansas, and the Central states can grow beet sugar in unlimited quantities. By way of trial, Mr. Speck les invested $440,000 in a beet sugai facthry at Wats'mville, Cal.; six friend admitted to "the ground floor" of th speculation swelled the capital to $.100, O00. ' It netted a 5 per cent dividend L the first year, though the farmers had t. be educated to the growth of the bee: and the operatives to the process of man ufaeture. for, say Mr. Speckles, ''I did not import a single laborer from Europe" It was a 5 per cent profit on the fir.-t Teu"" effort toward supplying the Anie-r ac in m.irkct with sugar grown on Aiueii can soil nd manufactured by American capital and labor. The success of the Watsonville ex pel i mtnt has incited capitalists to construct refineries in Kansas. Illinois may be heard from lefore long. Ten Dew beet sugar factories will lc built in California luring the y?ar, each at a cost of $.00. lOlfc, hy Mr. Speckles and his associates; these ari additional to the refinery for cane s.s gar, which has cost $:J,000,000. Evidently tliC diy and power of the ugar trust are nuwbeeJ, No combina tion can control the price suid pro luct of j an article which can le grown and made ; as boct sugar can, in more than three- ; ' ; foarths of alHbe states of tho union. Inter Ocean. .MAGICIANS' THICKS. MAKE-BELIEVE MIRACLES PERFORM ED BY MODEFW MORTALS. Tli JIt if injj Invention of le Kolta. "Oriental OccultUm" Kiinlly Explained. Tlio "lllack Art" I Very Simple When You Know Mow. Magic art 1 ms undergone many remark able transformations since Robert llou- din, the father of all modern magic, lived in Paris half a century ago. Perhaps no ono could compare with him in celebrity, excepting tho original Herrmann, who died at Carlsbad a couple of years ago. and from whom tho Herrmann who at present perambulates America took his name and learned what ho knows. The present Herrmann was known as Neu man, and was an assistant to his greater prototyjH?. Ho was always remarkable for ono thing, and that is I1L3 very great dexterity in sleight of hand tricks. To day there is nolxxly that can compare with him in this lino of work, what is known .'is palming. In fact anything that can be done with tho bands alone, excepting a deaf muto who travels through tho cheaier museums, and who is said to have even far greater ability in this line, but without tho gift of express ing himself. THE FLYING UIRD CAGE. Herrmann, however, baa never been a:i inventor. He (inds his tricks ready made for him abroad and buys their sec-rut. As a result he is Compelled to travel around with a vast paraphernalia that the old magicians would have looked upon with great contempt. In fact, the tendency of modern magic has been the elaltoration of tho cumbersome, and Herrmann needs a whole roomful of f ur nituro to carry out 0110 of his illusions. The brightest mind in magic at the present day is a prestidigitateur named Do Kolt:u Ho holds forth in Paris, and. being almost a gentleman of leisure, only appears about three nights a week. lie has made all tho most important of mod ern inventions in magic. Tho ono that brought him first into prominence in the line of invention was tho flying bird cage, which is now so familiar that it ca:i bo bojght in magic stores for a few dollars, but it made a great sensation at tiie time. Kellar was tho first to buy it from Do Kolta, and took the trick to Australia, whoro he mado some CQ, 000 out of it. lie only paid SoOO. Two or three seasons ago in New York the Vanishing Lady was accepted as a very remarkable novelty. Thi.i was atao an invention of De Kolta's. During the pa.;i year another of his inventions, the Cocxn, Las been given in New York both by Kellar and by Herrmann. Dut the one that is now most familiar and turpi ising De Kolta first brought out two years ago. We have seen it with Herrmann under the name of lilac k Art, and willi Kt-liar under tho name of Ori ental Occultism. The trick is precisely the mhio with them both, and is merely an illusion of blackness. Tho whole stage is draped i.i the blackest of black; tho magician, be it Kellar or Herrmann, ij completely robed i:i white, so that lu stands out clearly in the gloom surround ing him. Then ho orders various objects to appear, a cup, a sword, a table, a eii.:i. MAGIC 13 WAXIXC. These things seem to suddenly Gtart into being, and yet tho device is of the simplest. The objects in question are concealed behind a black cloth until the ord:-r for them to appear is suddenly given. Tho cloth concealing them i. dropped, and they seem to have come out of chaos. In the same manner Mrs Ilerrmaroi or Mrs. Kellar 6tands on the i,ta. ,e draped in white, but holding up u blark cloth between herself and tho au di:, ucc. At tho word of the magician she drops the cloth and stands revealed. To tin uninitiated the trick is most puzzling. It is the same way that tho head de tached from the trunk appears to be car ried around tho stage. The illusion is that tho trunk is closed in black, and Standing against the blackness of the scene, cannot be distinguished; the head behig white, alone appears. This is per haps the cleverest of all De Kolta's in ventions. Of mechanical trick3 Maskelyne, ol London, and Kellar are tho most noted inventors. Psycho, or the hand that taps on a glass table in response to tho ma yieian's command, is an invention ol Kellar, and is simply a piece of very deli cate and intricate machinery. It is very siu;:lar to the Clio of Maskelyne, and both have a family resemblance to Kel lar"s chess board, originally invented by Maskelyne. Magicians generally give the palm to Kellar for all tricksof a mathematical kind. He has a marvcl-ou.-;ly quick mind in thii respect, and the most abstruse problems he can solve in ;. few seconds apparently, of course, allowing it to bo done by some mechani cal figure. Whether all tins comes within the ex act domain of magic does not so much mailer as that such tricks sre now ac cepted in magical entertainments and vastly tnoro enjoyed than the old pistol, card and rabbit tricks to which some magicians still adhere tricks that neces sitate the use of a confederate, and which are, therefore, of little account ar.-J at which even l-.Krals laugh. Tho futuro of magic is hard to fore tell. Everything in the sleight-of-liand way has become familiar, and outside of De Kolla there is no inventor of anj thing new. Tho result is that reoent prcstidigitatcurs, such m Herrmann, are compclkd to add to their own some sort of variety entertainment to fill out the evening. Even Kellar had to go back to the old Indian basket trick for a novelty. New York .Journal. The Little Circles, Each one is bound to make the little circle in which he lives better and hap pier. Each of us is bound to see that out of that small circle the widest good may Cow. Each of us may have fixed in lus finJ "louS mat can 01 a sing e household may t!ow influences that 6hall .t;,I111,:lt,, thn wiw,i0 commonwealth ana I the whole ci vilized world. Dean Stanley. How lasituver P.reuil I Made. In the preparation of I ha Jewish Pass over bread the kneading udono in the ordinary way. Pure powder water is the only .v.ip ;::-i:t 1: Med. Tho time for tho dough tube baked ij reduced to tho minimum. It i.; broken into flat cakes and then run jetwei-n rollers into very thin uhects. Over these a workman rolls a pronged ster! to perforate the dough so that air holes may be seen in the baked cakes. A steel hoop cuts tho dough into round, flat sheets, which are then ready for the oven. Tho baker stands with a paddle attached to a very long handle, With the aid of a boy he thrusts the cakes into the brick compartment, and in half a minute pulls them out ready for use. A matzath cake i i round, aliout four feet in diameter, somewhat browned and hav ing slight air hole projections or its sur face. Ihey have a rather pleasant taste. not unlike that of crackers, and make a good substitute for bread. In some places there is a demand throughout tho entire year for the unleavened cakes by dys peptics. Alx)Ut eight cakes weigh pound, which in largo quantities sell at eight cents. The cakes are very brittle, and their pieces are ground up into fine meal. This is the substitute for wheat flour in tho household during tho Pass over. Baltimore Sun. Couldn't Fool the Itairber. tnree young leliows wero Having a heap of fun with themselve a" few days ago, aided by a twenty-dollar bill. About 2:'-i0 in the afternoon this trio went into a barber shop up on North Clark street and got shaved. When the tonsorial act had been completed oneof the young fel lows produced a twenty-dollar bill and told tho barber to get his pay out of that. Tho barber asked politely if the gentleman had nothing smaller, saying at tho same time that ho had no change. At this ono of the chaps very foolishly laughed, and stated that that bill had been as good as a gold mine to them, for they had come all the way up Clark street from the bridgo and had had all they wanted to eat and drink on that bill because no one could change it. This made tho barber hot, and he said: "Veil, you wasentt peat mo like dot; you vas pay fbr dose shaves, I pet me," and he called his darky, saying to him: "(Jo over by the South Side und got some changed for dot pill, und you vasen't hurry too." Tho colored man under stood the situation perfectly, for at 7 o'clock in the evening the ' three young men still tat there in tho barber shop waiting for their I'J. 70. Chicago Herald. When Davis Left Fortress Itlonroc. George Alfred Townsend, who saw Davis leave Portress Monroe for Rich mond, 6ays: "His pictures heroized him and gave him a classical profile and an eye of ruling decision, which now ho did not show. Still, in this setting of Hamp ton Uoads. the man could not be eke than the central figure. The great law of as sociation made him the personage to which everything in view was subservi ent the old fort which was tho entering wedge into the late Confederacy; the yellow barrack peeping over tho parapet where he had been imprisoned; the wrecks of the frigatC3 sunk in the road stead by his navy; the opposite capo where turned that morning terrible as ever tho superstition of the iron mon ster which had emerged thence for the dt it erate work cf destruction at the com mand of his will. And now ho was the riddle and perplexity of his conquerrr; this thLi old man, just permitted to fvvl tho breath of liberty, whoso name for fear or wonder had gone round the world and earned from a cool head, even like Gladstone, the opinion that 'Jefferson Davis had made a nation.' " Do Fon taine. An Honest Showman, Lord Stowed, who went to see every exhibition, provided it did not cost moro than a shilling, once presented himself at tao door of a show where a snake of some more or l":ss gaudy color was on view. Cut tho sight of so good a custo mer was too much for the conscience of tho showman, who exclaimed, like Mrs. Cluppins, "My lord, I will not deceive you. It's only the old snake with a new coat of paint." The showman doubtless meant well, but he certainly acted ill. Harmless pleasures are not so common in life that even successful lawyers ought to be deprived of them without a cause. Lord Stowell would have grati fied the lur t of his eyes without risking tho salvation of his soul if only ho had been permitted to gaze upon a skin where nature had been eclipsed by art. A certain amount of wholesome igno rance is necessary to the enjoyment or even to the toleration of existence. The Saturday Eeview. Jerrold's Joke. The familiar inquiry, "Is it true that the first apple was eaten by the first pair?" is far fetched, but one cannot deny the humor of jt. Again, in tho conun drum, "Why is blmdtnan'a buff like sympathy?" "Because it is 3 fallow feel ing for a fellow creature," there ia a di rect application which is also unquestion ably humorous. Then, as another ex ample of a pun which is absurdly appar ent, there was Douglas Jerrold's remark about a man to whom he had repeatedly written in vain for some money. "I have written him." said Jorrold to an acquaint ance. "Lut got nothing." "Strange," said the other, "for he is a man full of kind ness." "Yes," rejoined Jerrold, " un re mi LI in;? kindness." All the Year Round. in ectjer's Country Place. Po.seobcl. the country place cf the late Henry Yv'ard Deecherat Peekskill on the Hudson, lias been sold to Mr. Duller, of New York, for 73,01)0. The house cost Mr. Peecher STO.OUO, and he I3 said to have spent $':0'J,000 pn the grounds. The larger I art of this sum was spent on trees. Mr. Peecher planted over 8.C00, including every variety native to tho temperate zone. The whole place was stibsoiled and drained, and bis trees, which protected' his garden from the northwest winds, enabled Lim to have friuts and vegetables two or three weeks ahead of his neighbors. Harper's Eazax. ANOTHER VIEW' OF HIM. L 'ui-i..i:i tr;n IVittt't's A-:iiint the AtMi-rlIiiis of i''Iui:iiic I.U117..1. I was paine.l to sk in a recent issue of Or.:e a Week an article by the Marquiso Laiiza. entitled "The Man Who 1-a.sci nates," for it so rntiivly ignored tho moral clement in tho character of men and women, and presented for our con sideration such low and unworthy standards of conduct as to shock all who have not become roues or cynics. Briefly, Madame Imza declares that women do not admire men for their goodness nobilty of character, but for their man ners and the ability which they may possess to (latter, cajole and deceive tho silly if not immoral creatures whom she makes women out to U?. 1 pass over her assertion that women are fascinated by mere brute strenirth. Possibly some of them are; but it is no credit to them. Yet what 1 wish especially to protest a.'-itinst is the calm assumption on the part of the writer that all women ignore the question of character in a man. The veriest scoundrel." she says, "that ever drew breath is apt to Ijo a thousand fold more magnetio than he who, having marked out an ethical path for himself, proceeds religiously to follow it. All women like insinuating manners." And again: "A man who desires to please a woman should never tell the whole truth. Sincerity arouyes and even returns respect, but that is a far different thing from fascination. It suggests tho tradesman in a leather apron and smell ing of garlic compared with a lovely woman made yet lovelier by tho scent of rose leaves." There you have it r;ll. All women are either fools or worse: and in order to gain their attention men need only be out .vardly charming. Lying and deceit will not only not hurt them in the esti mation of the poor tools whom they wish to ensnare, but wiil i-.ctua'ly heip them. As ior the rest, they may le as dissolute and immoral as they please; women will still bo fascinated by them, r,o long as they are dissointo in :'. charming way. Now, I ask hi all t.-i iousnt-:-;s, ij that tho highest outlook of cur age :i this great question of the relative relations 01 i.'ie.i ;:nd women? After nil these uges of moral conflict, afier all the teachings ;f ("iri.itiai.ity, nay, after ail tho prog reij made by humanity in intelligence and morality, Li that wretched and re puL ive Lit el' Loalevard cynicism all we have to show? 1 will not believe it. I deny that idl women are so mindless, so vain, so utterly unable to appreciate or unuertta::d moral goodness and parity . as tins writer makes them out to be. i submit that Mine. Lanza speaks only for the fashionable idlers of both sexes who in our great cities audaciously assume to be the whole of good society. In reality, they are only the unhealthy and artifi cial scum that floats on the surface of the great stream of human life. In thousands of happy homes in this city today, among both the lofty and the lowlv, men and women tire to bo found who would repel with indignant scorn j such a low and cynical view ot our so cial life. Thank God there is such a thing yet among us as a lovo of good ncs;;, and truth, and virtue in spite of our society cynics, and club roues, and miasmatic erotic novelists. The women ci" this fair land are not yet so silly and vain as Lime. Lanza considers them to x. With an exception here and there they aro attracted by purity of hfa and nobility of soul in a man, and repelled bv tho roue and tho liar, however 'charming" their manners may be. A Puritan Matron in Once a Week. An April Fool. A joke upon popular credulity was a trick perpetrated in London no longer ago than 18G0. Thousands of persons received official looking invitations to be present on Sunday forenoon, April 1, "to witness the annual ceremony of the washing of the White Lions in the Tower." The favored recipients of these missives were instructed to present them selves at the White Gate for admission. All that forenoon the streets near the Tower were thronged by hundreds of vehicles bearing people in earnest quest of the White Gate. Finally somebody a little less tluck witted than the rest of the crowd remembered that there was no white gate to the to ver, that there were no white lions, and that ceremonials under governmental auspices on Sunday wero at least wildly improbable. Like an electric shock his reflect jona flashed tnrciugh the throng of ceremony seekers, and their recognition of the fact that all were "April fools" sent them scurrying away in angry haste. Belford's Maga zine. Tho Tiew from Sit. Hamilton. Professor Whitney says that from the summit of Mt. Hamilton in California, more of the earth's surface can be seen than from any other spot on the globe, though it is only about feet high. The view extends around in every direc tion, and the snow capped range of the lofty Sierras can be plainly seen 200 miles away against the northern sky. To the south, nearly as far away, the flan Dernadino range limits the view, and between the two lies room for all the eastern states, with their rivers, takes, mom: tains and sea coast. Twenty minutes before reaching the summit, a heavy white cloud Moated up and treated usty a crenc.uug snower or ram. ve wcra well prepared, however, and did not suffer any inconvenience beyond less of the view. Worcester Spy. 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