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About The news-herald. (Plattsmouth, Neb.) 1909-1911 | View Entire Issue (March 31, 1910)
A Hardwood Floor of any Color You may Choose for $2.50 vim vi Floors which are In ton i poor condition to be im proved with varnish alone can he made to imitate a genuine hardwood floor with this new patented Graining System. This process does not require the services of a professional wood fin isher. The Graining Tool takes the place of skill and can be successfully used by the inexpert enced man or woman, thus making it possible for any one at a very slight expense to enjoy the luxury of a new hara wood floor. , This Graining Com pound when protected by one or two coats of Chi-Namel produces a surface that will out-wear any ordinary varnished noor, many times ovet Sold Only By WEYRICH & HADRABA The Red Cross Drug Store. Let us give you a sample card. (7 SHOE SHOW IS READY! You will certainly take pleasvre in seeing these handsome shoes, and We mil certainly take the greatest pleasure in showing them to you. Then tfyou buy your Easter shoes here, there will be another pleasure in store for you m the way of satisfaction afforded you, by the correctly dressed fed. There's a touch of style and wellbredness to our shoes, and we have such a variety of models and leathers that you are sure of finding here- IST YOUP FASTER filiniri shown for spring. So we say, come, see our Easter shoes' 3 FETZERS' SHOE STORE THE TAILOR'S SONG Fit out at Frank's-get a suit up to date, Right in the fashion of woolens first rate. A suit that will fit-goods sound as a bell, No outside shops will fit you as well, Keep track of Mac's good value he sells. Mac builds good clothes garments all neat, Chicago's ready made agents cannot compete. Examine his line and prices all through, Look him up for a suit, saves money for you. Reliable goods, all through his line, Order a suit for the on coming spring time, You find value for money here every time. F. M. RICHEY DEALER IN Building Material LUMBER, LIME, ETC. Estimates Furnished. Prompt Attention to Orders. YARDS AT PLATTSMOUTH, . . - MYNARD, NEBRASKA. - . ' . NEBRASKA. AUNT ABBIE'S VISIT. The Old Lady Managed ft Make Things Prett Lively. SatvkiflS eaVS lllut snmnlhinn- hi. wrtVN happen. alien li is Aunt Abbie comes to visit. She is eighty-four, ami. although she ounnot hear nd her eyesight is poor, still she is very! acme., particularly at night, alien the frequently gets up to take a sip tf niilk und nibble a cracker. The first night of her last visit ehe got up at 2 o'clock to take her t-econd snack. Feeling around aith lighted match for the gas, she set the curtain on fire. Without a mo riients hesitation she pulled the Mazing curtain down and tried to beat the blaze out with her bed slip per. She couldn't. 80 sha hurried downstairs in the dark to Sawkins' room and pounded on the door. Sawkins and his wife awoke with with a start and heard some one mumbling outside the door. Aunt Abbie had put her teeth away for the night, and her voice sounded strange. They sprang out of bed and yank ed open the door. "Nre!" muttered Aunt Abbie in deep guttural tones. And she point ed upstairs. Up to the third floor front darted Sawkins, followed by his wife aud aunt Abbie. 1 he carpet and a wicker chair holding Aunt Abbie's undergarments were burning brisk ly. Sawkins grabbed rugs and tried to smother the blaze, while his wife ran to the fourth floor to arouse the 6ervants. The servants came rushing down ii bare feet and nightgowns. Saw kins meanwhile attended strictly to business. With water carried from the bathroom the fire was extin guished. During the excitement Sawkins had forgotten all about his father, out as the old man had not showed! up Sawkins thought his father was still asleep downstairs. It seems not. His father had heard Aunt Abbie say "Fire!" and, very thoughtfully for an old man of seventy-nine, had ODened hia win. dow and yelled Tire!" Tnen he nad gone out on the front ntpna in his nightshirt and yelled until Borne one heard him and sent in an alarm. When the firemen them took Sawkins' father, as he was, into the next house. So when Sawkins ran downstairs to tell his father about the fire he met the firemen coming up. They told him the old man was in next door. So soon as the firemen had gone Saw kins went in next door after his fa ther i am v t- i i am w mi tf a m l j"v a mvF-- ri I I FOR ihies tertid 2 CO It you're looking for something particularly attractive in Easter footwear you'll find representation in our Easter window. Don't mar the effect of your Easter attire by wearing shoes that are not proper. MEN'S NIFTY OXFORDS in Patent, Gun, Calf, Tans, in conservative shapes' or snappy styles WOMEN'S OXFORDS in Patent, TaH9, in Ribbon Ties, Pumps and new spring Creations $3.50 $4.00 $4.50 $2.50 $3.00 $3.50 i THIS WAY FOR EASTER FOOTWEAR j lhli3Wdl l )in) Rapid Age. The stranger came v the old tavern "You are behind the times," he elucl dated, gravely. "Why don't you take down that old 'irmmmral.iHnn for Man and Beast' sign over your gate and put up 'Accommodation for Man and Automobile?' " But the old tavern keeper onlv smiled. "What would be the use?" "Why, don't you think It would be of advantage to you?" "No; by the time I got It up I'd have to take It down and put up a sign. 'Accommodation tor Man apd Ac;o plane.' " UNKIND. I had hopod we were friends, and per haps something more: You often have given me praise; 1 have paid your cur fare; you were clad when I swore That you liad adorable ways. Wo FEMININE AMENITIES. haVft WhlHItnrPfl anmotlmr.. nothings. tln true " , . """'?a corners and nooks; Mr. Sawkins. Sr.. was sittino- in nave "luwd your slim hand and ore. the parlor, surrounded by ,1,J a .Z&SrZut,,., bk. neighbors family, and busuy e,. . . ployed in consuming a hot drink.!' UZZ Zl TJSTK and Iv llis costume wa3 a nightshirt ccv-'RMy llfe bI,,'"H into your iir. ered by a swallowtail coat, patent ; Zmt' 1 a"ked you t0 ,uncheon leather pumps and knees draped in ' 1,1,1 you telephone to my wife,? a Steamer rug. j 8, E' KlBer' ln Chicago Record-Herald. Sawkins was no struck by his fa-' Word ther's genteel appearance that he! when I was young, if I thought any gravely thanked the neighbors for body's house was on fire, I said: "Sir. their kindness in outfitting his fa-jtDe abode which you probably ther. Then he took his father home passed tbe delgntM year- of your in his novel costume to show hi. yo,ith ,s ,D 8 8tate of conflagration." wjfe ana People called me a good writer The nest morning Aunt Abbie said she was too old to go visiting and wanted to go home. But she couldn't her underclothing was all burned. New York Press. Amy Twr Do you know I've a good ailnd lo auk some manager to give me a trial? Sur urr tt boa t. dear, you'll be con demned, sure. THE OLD DUTCH OVEN. Borne siRh for cooks ot boyhood days, but none ot tlim lor me; One roundup toon was best of all 'twaa with the X-Bar-T, And when we lieurd the grub pile call ftt niornui, noon and night, old Imtch oven never failed to cook the tliIS!, juat rlgnl Twaa covered o'er with red-hoAoala, and .. wl,(,n we fetched her out ne biscuits there were rilce and brown. ou never liad a doubt I ain't to strong for boyhood grub, 'cause. .. uniroiT. spring or fall, me old liutch oven baked the stuff that tast-d t,est o( al Perhups 'twas 'cause our" appetites wera always mighty sharp me men who ride the cattle range ain't apt to kick or carp; But anyway 1 Und myself a-dreamlng of that brend The old Dutch oven baked for us beneath those coal so red. -Arthur Chapman. In Denver Republican. then; now they say I cannot write at all. beCailRP T av "Sir vnr hmm. In i ljii i j vua uuuou o on fire." John Ruakln. Dr. Johnson's Marvelous Memory. Dr. Johnson, the Ursa Major of English literature, had a prodigious memory and at one period of his life e.-nployed it in reporting par liamentary debates. Once Dr. Hawkesworth read to him a poem which he intended to publish and asked his opinion of it. "Why, sir," said Johnson, "I cannot well de termine on a first hearing. Head it again." Hawkesworth complied. The next morning, the subject of the poem being resumed, Johnson said ho had but one objection to it, that he doubted its originality, and to prove his statement repeated the whole poem, with the exception of a few lines, which so alarmed Hawkes worth that he declared he would never again read anything of his composing to Johnson, who, he said, had a memory which would convict any author of plagiarism. Tha Khedive and the Rascal. Even to t!io adventurers and downright Pwi-.Mora who hung about liis court at (.'uiro and afterward pursued his wanderings Ismail ex tended a good naturcd, half con temptuous patronage. He liked a rogue far better than a fool. Once, when he had formally forbidden his door to a flagrant offender, the man, who knew his character, got a lad der and elimbed into the viceroy's room, remarking, "1 have obeyed your highness' commands and have, crossed your threshold by the win dow and not by the door." The humor of the thing at once appealed to Ismail, and the offender was re- lose accl- The Real Mourners. The Bull Pup How did you your tail, old man? The Yellow Cur ln a trolley dent. The Bull Pup Do you miss It mucb? The Yellow Cur Not as much aa the boys do who used to tie tin cans to It. Discretion In Speech Needsd. "There's one thing we will have to change If these ladies who wish to vote have their way," said Senator Sorghum. "What Is that?" "We'll have to quit talking about 'the wisdom of the plain people.' " Suspicious. "Yes, miss," boaxted the chivalro old Colonel, " was at the battle of Chickamauga and was shot right here on top ol the head. No one can care say tha. I was up a tree during the fighting." "Er--where were you. colonel." asked the young hostess. Innocently "down a well?" Golden Silence. One ol the children in the Lysander John Appleton family Is named Vas sar for the college from which their mother was graduated. Mrs. Apple ton says: "He has went." and uses many other strange expressions for a Vassar graduate, but she is a Wom an, and none dare say a word of doubt. -Atchison (Kan. Globe. Picture of Olden Times. A most unique sight of old Boston must have been the celebration of the fourth anniversary of a society for 'Promoting Industry and Frugality." when 300 young female snlnstera d. cently dressed brought their spinning wheels to the common one afternoon and plied their homely craft, a fe male at each wheel, to the accompani ment of music and the delight of many spectators. Diplomacy. The wife of a man who came home late insisted upon a reason. "When I go out without you," he said, "I do not enjoy myself half as much and it takes me twice as long." Success Magazine. Truth Above All. Welcome the beggarllest truth, so It be one, ln exchange for the royalest sham. Truth of any kind breeds ever new and better truth. Thomas Car-lyle. Need of Originality. No matter how haid one may work, hard work will probably not achieve any striking success unless originality be intermingled with it Must Have Time to Live. It was not intended that a man should work as long as his eyes are open. He wants a little time to live as well. Animal Study. The study of animal behavior, which is now being so vigorously pursued ln America by our great field naturalists, will provide, perhaps, the most likoly channel along which the main stream of advance will be nade toward the fuller comprehension of the mysteries of mental life. Lancet How He Got It. The kind lady bad jiift handed the hungry hobo a sandwich and a hunk of pie. "Poor man!" she 'said, svmpa thetlcally. "Are you married?" "No'm," answered the H. H. "I sot dla hunt ed look from bein' chased from place f place by tier perllce." Illustrated Sunday Magazine. SOMETHING WRONG. The balloon pilot landed In the little backwoods village aad told the loiter era the thrilling story of his escape. 'And at one time.'" he related, with dramatic force. "I was in a storm and aweeping ever a vast desert. There was nothing to do but throw out sand and prepa-e for the worst. Gentle men Ht one time I felt as if I had lost my head and gone plumb crazy." The oldest inhabitant slowly lighted Us pipe and drawled, with a sarcastic smile: "ion must have been plumb crazy, "i"), o throw sand on u desert. Didn't you think there as enough sand toere already? Daily Thought. No man can Justly censure or con demn another, becauso Indeed no man truly knows another. This I per ceive in myself; for I am In the dark to all the world, and my nearest friends behold me but in a cloud. Sir Thomas nrowne. Why Pat Didn't Pay. An Irishman refused to pay his doc tor bill, and when asked his reason for It he said: "And, sure, what shall I pay for? He didn't give me any thing but emetics, and nlver a one could I keep on my stomach At nil at all." Saw it First. One of the waiters In a local restau rant was overheard talking with an other about the attractions now play, lug in I he city. , "Are you going to see 'Romeo and Juliet? " asked his companion "No." answered the waiter, decided ly. "I saw 'Romeo and Juliet' when It was first produced four years ago" Shades of Shakespeare' Fortunes from Small Sums. People do not always realize the value of small sums of money that have been sometimes the seeds of fortunes. Bridesmaid's Tragic Fate. A girl, aged nine, one of the brides maids ln a wedding procession that passed through the woods of Sabantl, was seized by a wild boar and killed before tbe guests could interfere. A Newlywei. " "He's a queer fellow." "How so?" "His wife went away for a month's visit this morning and he looks as Clura us If she had missed tbe train." Always Wheat Trouble. W.,.1?ntu?rn' bren(lt"n-s, the staff of life this has always been the agony of humanity whenever It pro gressed Into advanced civilization I h lnSl pomjlntlns. And along with the breadstuff., of course, all farm products rose till the people. mtoZ? 6arth they Were' roaned under the Increased cost of living and Weewy!" ValD f0F Wedding Anniversaries. arJhLdiifenent Wedd,ng a"nlvrsarle. are as follows: First. pnper; flrth wooden; tenth, tin; fifteenth, crystal The slwM , 8eventy flh diamond. thVdSl 8 U8Ual,y cc'ated as ot of very few to live together for three-quarters of a century " -I . Badly Matched Ears. No pair of ears, scientists say, are ever perfectly matched, neither' "I In son! eX8CtIy R,Ike Pn the head. ent that th 68 thf .ear" aro 80 dl"er ! i i ey mlKht m "PPronrl ttely belong to different IndlvEaJi