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WIRELESS
MESSAGE
Young Men's Bible Class In
vites Plattsmouth Citizens
to Enjoy a Treat.
FREDERICK II. MILLINER
U. P. ELECTRICIAN
Give the People of the City a Peep
Into the MIsterles of the
Wireless.
The Younjr Men's Iible
Class have jiven the people
of this city many chances to
enjoy hearing, some good
things the past winter, but
laxt evening they capped the
climax of them all by inviting
Dr. F. II. Milliner, expert
eU-ctrician of the Union Pa
cilia system to come to the
city and show the people the
misteries of wireless.
The previous sessions of
the clans' have been held in
the class room, but last night
the young men were con
vinced that there would be
such a crowd that they opened
the auditorium of the church
and it was well thay did so
for the room was filled to
oversowing.
It is not much use to at
tempt to explain the workings
of electricity as set forth by
Dr. Milliner. It is a matter
which must be seen to be
understood, and then in fact
after seeing it it is a question
1 A 1 !l ..ii -11
II one unuersianus i&auerau.
The satisfaction comes how
- ever in being able to say that
one has seen the thing work.
Dr. Milliner went into the
history of electricity from its
first inception and brought
the workings of it up to the
present time in such an inter
esting manner that all were
. very much taken up with his
manner of doing so. Then
lie gave some exemplitica
tions of its work through ;i
svstem of wires which he hat
set up to represent the sys
tern and which set off a bel
in the rear of the church.
One of the misteries of the
whole system is that the
harder the wind blows the
more successful the wireless
system will work. A calm
hot day is the hardest one to
get the messages to work.
It is not much use to at
tempt to go into details of the
lecture, for the farther one
gets into it the harder it
jseems to give it the kind o
;m explanation which will ex
plain. It would seem that
the use of electricity is yet in
its infancy and all we can say
is that it is best to improve
every opportunity you ha"e
to observe its workings if vou
want to understand it or not
l oil might be able to say you
do, but when it comes down
' to "brass tacks," as the
' lecturer saw, it is another
proposition.
One thing however is sure,
and that is that the young
men of the bible class made
no mistake when they invited
Dr. Milliner to come to
Plattsmouth.
To the Union Pacific to a
great extent are the people
who heard the lecture in
debted, for Dr. Milliner being
u very busy man, it would
have been impossible to have
secured him had the manage
ment not given him. the time
to come here.
A Linen Shower.
Last night at the home of Mrs.
J. K. Hunter, a linen shower was
given Miss Mary Sharp,' whose mar
iage to Mr. G. Thomas of Omaha is
set for Wednesday of this week. Pre
sent at the function were. Miss Pearl
O'Neill, the hostess, Misses Mary
Sharp, Mae Patterson, Vernie Hatt,
Pearl Allcn.Claro Wohlfer, Minnie
Hendrick, Clara Mockenhaupt, Lilian
Keimadd. Games and music enlivened
the evening and dainty refreshments
wero served.
VALLEY COUNTY MAN
SELLS 7.000 BUSHELS WHEAT
Disposes ol Large Amount
Grain for $6,790.
of
Seven thousand bushels of wheat
bought by the W. T. Harstow Grain
company of Lincoln from one farmer
in Valley county is now being deliv
ered to its elevator at Ord and re
shipped to a large milling company at
Minneapolis, where it will be made
into flour. Mr. Barstow, who has been
in the grain business for fifteen years,
states that this is by far the largest
purchase of cither wheat or corn that
he has ever made direct from a pro
ducer, and he does not expect ever
to make another of equal size. There
will be more' than seven carloads of
it altogether. The first sample sent
in by II. (J. Bcrkcmcier, the agent at
Ord, tests sixty pounds to the bushel
and grades an exeellt lit quality of No.
hard.
Charles Halls, reputed to be the
argest landholder in alley county,
is the mini from whom the wheat was
bought. He held it through the win
ter while dickering with several dif
ferent firms at Omaha and elscwh re.
Juring the last week, the Barstow
company ollercii linn ninety-seven
cents a bushel for the entire lot, which
was a top price at Ord, and he con-
ludcd to sell. Elevators there, were
paying ninety-five cents for wheat at
the time, but on account of his hav
ing so much and its being u uni
formly good quality he was able to
get a premium over the regular quo
tation. The check for $i,7'M) will be
sent to Halls as soon as he completes
the delivery.
Two thousand bushels from one
fanner in considered a big buy among
grain dealers. The Valley county deal
has attracted a great deal of attention
among line house nrms ana some
who did not get it are rather envious
of the company which did. State
Journal.
Marine Giants.
Clo.'C on the heels of the request of
Secretary Meyer for a 32,000 ton bat
tleship conies the announcement that
Germany proposes to build a monster
liner of nearly 50,000 tons. The age
of marine giants is apparently on, and
the Olympic and Titanic, the record
holding leviathans of our modern
oceai -going vessels, are too soon to be
eclipsed. Although the exact dimen
sions of the Germany colossous have
not been given out, the tonnage would
indicate a length of at least !HI0 feet,
a little more than one-sixth of a mile.
The prediction that the twentieth cen
tury would sec vessels 1,000 feet in
length may yet prove true.
The dimensions of modern passen
ger and freight vessels indicate that
battleships will also take on gigantic
proportions in the near fururc. In
the American navy yards two 26,000
ton battleships are under construction,
two more of 27,000 tons each have
practically been assured and the great
52,000 ton fighter is at least a possi
bility within the next few years. The
trend of shipbuilding toward larger
construction is so marked that the
locks of the Panama canal have been
increased in size sufficiently to allow
passage to vessels of 110 feet beam,
the present length of beam being less
than ninety feet.
While the practicability of such
monster vessels, both for commercial
and navel purposes, have been ques
tioned, our present vessels are not
so much smaller than those proposed
and the suggestion of still larger ships
rests on the success of those now in
use. The expense of increasing the
si.e of these monsters, however, c:in
not be entirely confined to the cost of
the battleships themselves, for deeper
harbors will be necessary as well as
larger docks and wharves. l et,
whether we deplore it or approve, the
trend of the times is certainly in the
direction of bigger and bigger ocean
vessels. lire.
Brotherhood Organizes.
Last Sunday afternoon at three
P. M. the young men of the Christian
church held a called meeting for the
purpose of organizing a brotherhood
similar to those existing in the church
in other places, and a good attendance
was had and organization thoroughly
perfected. The election of officers
resulted in Oliver Hudson for pre
sident, Luke Wiles for Vice-President
Jesse Perry, Secretary, nnd H. A.
McKhvain.Treasurer. Invitations and
program committees were appointed
and the former named committee
will meet tomorrow evening for the
purpose of determining the time of
the next nieetigu. which will take
the form of a banquet.
Last evening the regular monthly
meeting of the board of the Christian
church was held at the home of Wm,
Haird and the usual monthly busi
ness of the church tr nsacted.
PAVING QUESTION DIS
CUSSED BY COUNCILMEN
New Paving District Created
as District
IMPORTANT MATTERS WERE TAKEN UP
OF GREAT INTEREST TO TAX PAYERS
Small Crowd is in Attendance When Matters of Large
Importance Were Discussed.
(From Tuesday '8 Dally)
Last evening at eight o'clock as ad
vertised the cits Solotis gathered in
deliberate session to take (and give)
soge counsel with regard to complying
with the demond of the governnieni
that the city of Plattsmouth proceed
at once to the business of paving the
streets bounding and abutting on-the
site of the new goveniemnt building.
The committee appointed sometime
ago to look into the matter came in
with a report in favor of the creation
of a new paving district, and upon
motion of councilman Weber, the
new district to be known as paving
district No. 3 was organized, and the
city Mayor instructed to hire a com
petent engineer to furnish the city
with an estimate of the cost of the
proposed paving. There was some
discussion on the point of the engineer
as to where the city could obtain
such a man as would be suitable for
the work. A suggestion was made by
Mr. Weber that as the C. H. and (.
had furnished us with one in the
former paving work it might be well
to make a similar .request at this time.
Mr. Stcimkcr arose with the sugges
tion that the city profit by previous
experience and secure a man who
One of Khodes' Ideas.
A well known peer once asked
Cecil Khodes to stand godfather to
his son, and be replied that he
would on one condition, which was
that he might invest at once 100
in the boy's name and give 100 on
each succeeding birthday, provided
that it should all go on at com
pound interest until the boy was
old enough to begin to spend the
interest,' and that then he might
yearly decide on what to spend it,
so long as it was not on himself.
"This," said Mr. Rhodes, "will do
two things first, it will teach your
boy how to spend money, and, sec
ondly, it will make him unselfish
and kind to those in need."
How Ney Faced Death.
Marshal Ney was the Bon of a
hardworking cooper and had risen
from the rank3 of the army. He
was a child of the people, and
whatever may have been his vani
ties ho threw them all aside in his
last days. When ho was led out to
death an officer ordered a handago
tied over his eves. .
"Why should you do that?" said
Ney. "Haven't I been accustomed
for twenty-five years to look bullets
and cannon balls in the face?"
He himself ordered the soldiers
to fire, standing and facing them.
His career summed up in one life
the spectacular heroism of the past.
Stone Plants.
In South Africa there is found n
plant of the genus mescmbryanthc
mum, growing on stony ground,
which so closely repembles a pebble
that it is invariably taken by a
stranger to be a stone. Another
species of the same plant growing
on the hills near the Karoo produces
two leaves about as large as ducks'
eggs, having a surface resembling
weathered stone of brownish gray
color, tinged with green. These
plants look like stones, but for a
short time they bear bright yellow
flowers. Still another species of
the same plant resembles the quartz
pebbles among which it grows.
Chinamen's Bones.
All Chinamen who die in Amer
ica are buried in American ceme
teries, but it is the understanding
that, some years later, the bones of
the dead. will bo gathered up and
sent back home for burial. This
understanding with the dead is nev
er betrayed, nml there are a score of
Chinamen who lv.ake n good living
as how collectors nnd bone ship
per. The men travel all over
America, few ce:ne!ei'.e ere mi
knov ti to them. There is i:o freight
line that lias not carried I'risco
ivnrd on their behalf many parcels
of Chinese bones for shipment
tn:nc lixchange.
Which Will Be Known
No. 3
understood paving "thoroughly."
This wise suggestion seemed to make
a hit with some of those present and
Mr. Steiinker's remark was well
taken.
After it had been moved and car
ried that the Mayor appoint a com
mittee to confer with the engineer
on the work a general discussion of
the propostiion was indulged in.
This was the golden opportunity
for the careful and judicious taxpayer
to get a little information on a sub
ject of prime importance to himself
and to the city ns a corporation.
The issue of bonds, although ab
solutely necessary to the liquidation
of the debt, will probably be consider
ebly lightened by the' payment on
the part of the property-holders of
their share in cash. They arc to
allow an opportunity to pay up in
50 days and m doubt many of them
will avail themselves of the opportu
nity. Mention of the fact was made
that some of the people who will
have to pay their assessment are not
on the petition. It is supposed that
these are either careless or indifferent,
as no one has been heard from who
seemed opposed to the contemplated
action.
Thomas C. Piatt
In the death of Thomas Collierriatt
of New York another of the uniouc
figures in the political history of our
country has passed away. Besides be
ing a man of exceptional versatility
and power he accomplished much ii
politics and in national affairs directly
and indirectly. He had been in the pub
lie eye for many years because of his
prominence in state affairs in New
York and also because of his early in
fluence in the republican party as one
of its leading spirits.
Mr. Piatt was in the United States
senate at the time of the trouble be
tween President Garfield and the con
gression 1 delegation from New York
and with Itoscoo Conkling became the
first to have the unique distinction of
resigning from the United States
senate after the civil war. He was
universally trusted by the politician
of his state because of his mental
grasp of political affairs, and in his
time he was the leader of political
leaders.
Senator Piatt will go down in his
tory chiefly for being the unintentional
instrumentality by which Theodore
Itoosevojt was elevated to the presi
dency. It was Senator Piatt who
forced the nomination of Roosevelt as
vice president on the ticket with Wil
liam McKinley in 1000. While at
tempting to end the political prospects
of the then governor of New York by
.shunting him to "the office of the
dead," he unwittingly placed him in a
position to give to the nation service
of immeasurable value. And it is the
irony of Mr. Piatt's fate that this last
and greatest service to the nation
should have been the very thing which
he most desired to prevent. live.
Warning.
I hereby warn all parties who
drive or ride in any manner upon the
sidewalks of the city, that any person
found doing so will be arrested and
prosecuted according to law. The
habit must be stopped at once.
I). L. Amick,
Chief of Police.
Money Lost
$23.00, between postoflice
and court house. Finder
leave at First National bank
and receive reward.
The display windows of the Dovey
store are attracting much favorable
attention. While nothing extrava
gant is attempted in the way of dis
play still Mr. Ramsay shows that he
knows how to do things, lie will
soon have a chlince to display his
skill as a window trimmer for Mr.
Dovey has fully determined to pull
out the old front and put in a new
and up to date one. When the work
in completed the store will have all
the appearance of a metropolitan
store.
WORKS THE ROAD
TO ADVANTAGE.
John Trltsch Goes out With
Drag and Solves the Problem.
If you want to sec what a good
live man will do in order to make the
roads good, go out to the farm of
John Tritsch and sec what a little
work with a drag will do. He spent
a few hours in dragging the road
along his farm and we understand
that they are now in good shape.
This is the kind of enterprise which
pays and if every man who lives on
a farm would take the time to drag
the roads adjoining his place at the
right time he would find that it was
the best paying proposition going and
if all would do so it would go a long
ways toward solving the good roads
question.
Troubles ol a Smith
Fritz Hrandt, of Louisville is in
this city today consulting a lawyer
wiui regard 10 wna,, appencu to
him ast Saturday, in the Court of
'
Justice Lewis, magistrate of Louis-
ville. Mr. Hrandt has been causing
the local authorities of his village
more or less trouble for the past where the liquor question is an issue
year on account of his refusal to and where the enforcement of the Slo
comply with the state law with re- cumb law and the enactment of new
gard to the breeding of horses and liquor laws is being discussed. J ho
use of stallions. On the repeated governor explains in his statement re
complaint of his neighbors, Mr. Brandt metting the fine that the ofiender in
was arraigned Saturday morning be- tins case sold what is known as non
fore Justice Lewis and found guilty intoxicating liquor, and his trial was
of the misdemeanor of indecently more of a test of the right to sell such
exposing to view a stallion, and of stuff than anything else, that the su-
allowing filth to accumulate on his
premises. The Judge accordingly changed its policy and Held that the
fined him $50.00 on the first count, state need not prove the intoxicating
$10.00 on the second, and costs, quality of the liquor. The court re
amounting to S?1.20 in all. Mr. versed itself by holding that so long
Hrandt was allowed till Wednesday
to liquidate, when he must either
pay his fine or go to jail. He says
he considers the fine excessive and
will seek legal advise with regard
to the advisability of complying
with the courts order.
Farewell Reception
Mrs. Murrav and Mrs. Richardson
of Mynard planned a very successful
farewell party for Mr. and Mrs.
Stokes last Friday. About fiifty
neighbors and friends with well filled
baskcts dropped in upon them and
passed the day in a very pleasant
manner. 1
Mr. and Mrs. Stokes are moving to
Canada where they are going to make
their home, having purchased land,
however Mrs. Stokes will visit with
friends about a month before she
joinesthe rest of the family in their
new home.
Before leaving the guests left with
Mr. and Mrs. Stokes a token of re-
membrance and also wished them sue-
cess and prosperity in their new nome.
The
Scrap Book
Too Realistlo.
A fairly well to do bnt rnther miser
C farmer said to a friend: "Say. Bill
I'm going to kill my pig, but I owe so
much pork to my neighbors that I shall
have none left
for myself If 1
pay It all back.
What would you
do?"
"Quite easy to
trick 'em." said
the friend. "Kill
your pig and
leave It hanging
outside until late
nt night, so's ev-
ery one can see
It. Then take It
atan.!T
one stole It.
Stick to the talo
nnd you'll be nil
followed instkuo- right."
tionb. The fanner fol-
lowed Instructions, and tho kind friend
watched his chance and stole the pig.
The poor farmer came around next
morning to tell whnt had happened.
"Somebody's stolen my nig!" he
cried.
"Good:" said tho friend. "Stick to
It, and the neighbors Ml believe you,
sure enough."
"But It was
stolen, I tell
you!"
Excellent!"
quoth tho friend.
"Just you stick
to the taio."
"You confound
ed ass!" yelled the
fanner. "Don't
you understand?
It was really
stolen!"
"Superb!"
laughed the de
lighted friend. west awat
"Yeu ought to FfJii.Mi.
have boon an actor, so you ought."
Then the fanner shimmed the dooi
and went away fuiulug
MB
FINE IS
REMITTED
Governor Shallenherger is a
Friend of the Near
Beer Man.
HARLAN
COUNTY MAN
ESCAPES GOOD FINE.
Did Not Know That the StuII Wa
Considered In the Line
ol
Intoxicants.
Governor Shallenbcrger who stands
for saloons from 7 a. in. to 8 p. m.,
has remitted a fine of $500 imposed
upon John A. Luther of Harlan county
for violating the Slocumb liquor law.
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The governors action has already
raised a furore m political circles
prenic court, alter twenty-hvc years
as the liqour was malt it was tor-
bidden for sale as a beverage without
a license and the state need not bo
required to prove its intoxicating
qualities. The Slocumb law forbids
the sale of malt, spirituous and vinous
liquors without a license.
Luther lives at Orleans. He kept a
restaurant and made no secret of the
sale of a malt liquor advertised as
malt tonic and said to be non-intoxi-
eating. He said he thought he had a
right to sell such liquor without a
license because it contained less than
2 per cent of alcohol. When the h-
quor was analyzed it was found to
contain one and one-tenth per cent
alcohol. 1 he trial court insti ucteu the
jury that the state, need not be re-
quired to prove that the liquid was in- ,
toxicating, but some witnesses said
it tasted and acted like beer. Tho
state chemist said it was in the class
of beers.
1 nc supreme court had for twenty-
five years held that the state must not
only prove that the liquor w as sold
but that it was intoxicating. From
this instruction of the district court
Luther appealed to the supreme court.
After several hearings the supreme
court affirmed the decision of the
lower court. Judges Lctton and
Barnes dissented from this holding.
The opinion of the court was written
by Judge Reese. In his dissenting
opinion Judge Letton said to hold that
the state need not be required to
prove the intoxicating quality of li
quor sold without a license "is entire
ly new doctrine in this state and gives
to the law such a new and radically
changed interpretation
from that
i
which has been followed by adminis
trative executive and judicial officers
of the government for nearly forty
years as to partake of the character of
judicial legislation."
To Mlngesota.
F. M. Young, an old resident of
Cass county leaves today for Degraff,
Minnesota, where he has purchased
f,(M) acres i,f land and will move on it
and make his future home. He re-
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ccntiy som nis nice larm oi w acres
here and purchased the farm in Min-
nesota.
Thus Cass count v loses another
good citizen nnd family, while Degraff
gains correspondingly. Mr. Young
came to Cass county fifty-five years
ago last Saturday and has been one
of our substantial citizens ever since.
We regret to see him leave Nebraska,
and while we wish him no dissappoint
ments, if at any time he finds that
Nebraska looks good to him there will
be room for him to return.
His house hold goods, pulled in six
wagons, came into town yesterday
and were shipped to their destination.
Notice: if you wish to exchange
your property for other property no
matter what it is, list it with the
Windham Incest incut it Loan Co.
w-'.l.V.'-d-ll'l-'J- -
Hev. Austin and Cliff Wescott are
in Weeping Water today in attend
ance (it a meeting of the County
Sunday School association. The min
tes of that meeting would undoubted
ly make interesting reading could
they be secured.
