PERSONAL, POLITICAL AND PERTINENT Now that a good crop of small grain has been secured to the farmers o Cass county, and the corn crop is almost assured there is hardly a good reason why they cannot pay their ac counts with the printer. There are several hundred farmers in Cass county who are in arrears for the Weekly and they could, one and all, very easily help us out of a hole, and a little help from each one would work wonders. Acorn crop of 2,400,000,000 bushels is now being figured on. This is 200, 000,000 or 300,000,000 larger than the greatest vield of the past. All the other cereals will average with corn and some of them above the average, while cotton promises to go up near the highest mark ever touched except in one or two years. Nearly every element necessary to the country is being provided this year. "Plattsmouth has a young lady who has gone insane over bicycling. It takes very little to turn the head of the average person in Plattsmouth." Nebraska City News. Considering the source, comment is unnecessary. An electrical paper suggests that good brakes are more necessary to street cars than the fenders about which so much is being said. The in ventors have devised power brakes by which the motorman, with a slight movement of the hand can almost im mediately stop cars at a high rate of speed; but the companies do not adopt them, it is said, because they are more expensive than the feeble and un certain ones now in use. Darwin, the great naturalist, is authority forthe statement that earth worms possess the remarkable faculty of reproducing a head or a tail in case an accident occurs to either end. If one be cut in two at the middle tie tail will immediately set about repair ing damages and growing a new head. The head end is also equal to the emer gency, and within a surprisingly brief period of time grows a tail of its own. One of the singular things in college is the fact that a professor will lecture for an hour and seem deeply absorbed in his subject and the next time he meets his class he requires them to tell him what he has been talking about. Princeton Tiger. Concerning the discussion as to "What Constitutes Male Attire," it does not appear, from a review of the bicycle arena, that there is any dis tinctively male attire left. Several thousand anxious American sportsmen are hoping that the De fender will give the British a harder rub than the Cornell oaismen did. . The various Nebraska roads have begun providing the box cars with grain doors in anticipation of the big shipments of grain. These doors are necessary in the boxcar to prevent the grain from spilling out. This is the first time in three years that it has been necessary to provide the doors, and is a straw which shows which way the wind is blowing. It means that the roads realize that the box cars are going to be at a premium and that every car will be loaded to its full capacity. The roads are also calling in the scattered cars and are getting them home for use when the shipment of grain begins. Nebraska City News. "Three minutes for dinner!" yelled the railroad porter. "Good!" ex claimed the editor. "The last time it was three dollars." Stevenson's pity was a very marked quality, and it extended to beggars, which is, I think, to go too far. His optimism, however, suffered a rude shock In South Audley street one sum mer afternoon. We met a stalwart beggar, whom I refused to aid. Louis, however, wavered aud finally handed him sixpence. The man pocketed the coin, forbore to thank his benefactor, but, fixinghis eye on me, said in a loud voice: "And what is the other little gentleman going to give me? " "In future," said Louis, as we strode coldly on, "I shall be 'the other little gentleman.' "Edmund Gosse,in the Century. Gov. Holcomb has instructed the county attorney of Douglas county to report on the alleged assault of the McCarty gang on a family of emi grants named Dawson, who are Brit ish subjects. The sheriff reported that both sides were equally to blame in the matter. British authorities have asked the secretary of state at Washington for further particulars. When a man goes into a store and thickly asks the clerk for a pound of paralyzed coffee when pulverized coffee is what he wants, there is some reason to suspect that be is partly paralyzed himself. Lincoln must have a surplus of can didates for office, judging from the following by Col. Bixby: "A man was discovered on the streets yester day who showed by his looks of abso lute unconcern that he- was not a can didate for office, and the police threat ened to run him in as a suspicious character." An Ohio professor is advocating a painless death for condemned mur-J derers by the use of carbonic acid gas in place of electricity. The victim would simply say good-night, as usual, after an order to be called at six o'clock, and at six o'clock would be elsewhere, without an idea of bow he came there. The scheme has its ad vantages in minimizing the horrible. New York Mail and Kxpress. A summer girl at Bar Harbor is de scribed as being "attired in a very smart little coat and a veiy clever lit tle hat." Two airy altogether. The Dick Frampton mentioned in the following, from the Council Bluffs department of this morning's World flerald, is a former resident of this eitv: "Rosa Brown, a mulatto woman. was arrested Monday night charged with vagrancy. She was found with a colored man, Dick Frampton. When brought into court the next morning she was given a sentence of $3 and costs, which was suspended on her promise to leave the city." Victor Hainer, a brother of Con gressman Ilainer, has been missing for the past three weeks from near Cripple Creek, Colo., and as he had considerable money about him when last seen it is believed he was mur dered for his money. OOLDIU'O SLANDKKS. Every advocate of unlimited silver coinage at the ratio, of 10 to 1 pro claims his belief in the inherent power of the government to give value "to anything that bears its stamp and is leclared a legal tender for the paj ment of debt. Omaha Bee. There is nobody would seriously dis pute that statement not even the Bee editor. He believes in the greenback and takes it unquestioned in payment of debt. The sentence which follaws, however, is as mean as it is untrue. "The logic of this article of faith is not merely that 50 cents worth of any metal can be converted into coin valued at 100 cents by the action of tli mint, but that any article or commodity with little or no value, may be coined or stamped into dollars of equal value with gold and silver dollars." This is rank falsehood. The free coinage people do believe, however, that it was the taking away of the full egal tender quality and free mintage of silver and leaving it on gold that has ncreased the value of the gold coin ibove the silver. Silver is a metal of imited quantity. There is not too much of it in the world to plnce it within the power of government to coin ill that is or might be offered at the ratio of 16 to 1 to the common good of ltimanity. Will the Bee deny that it s tl e common use of gold as money. backed as it is by the lawful tender quality, that gives it its present stable value. The supreme court of the United States has decided that the egal tender quality given the green back made it as good as gold in the payment of debts. Dare the Bee con- rovert the law V Tde people of Nebraska have had an object lesson during the past two years in proof of the fact that nearly all prosperity depends on the farmer. When the tiller of the soil gets a good return for his labor in the form of a arge crop, the wheels of all other in- lustries are set in motion, and labor of every kind is employed. The railway magnate might have thought him self independent of the farmer, but the experience of the past two years las convinced him of his error. Even he speculator and banker is looking over the waving fields of growing corn and chinks his coin in hopeful anticipa- ion of enhanced speculations and con- fquent in loans at usury. The work- ngman sees in a big crop better chances for labor and all men are made happier by the bounty of provi dence and the work of the farmer. The United States has, or is sup posed to have, $500,000,000 in silver and $411,000,000 in gold in circulation, while France has $800,000,000 in gold and 8700,000,000 in silver. The silver n the United States is practically kept at par by pledging its payment in gold. In France the silver is kept at par by the action of the government in paying out silver when coin is asked for in redemption of bank notes just as Uncle Sam could do if he would. The per capita of all money in circu- ation in the United States is about 23. In France it is over 40. V - The new yacht. Defender, built to defend the American cup against the British yacht Valkyrie III, recently completed for Lord Dunraveu. has shown herself to be the superior of the Vigilant, in both rough and ' smooth water that is, with a strong and light wind. By all accounts she is a flyer. For years the Americans have de fended the cup and it now seems that they will be likely to keep it. The Nebraska City News is re quested to join the regular democracy. Sulking and bolting when fairly beaten don't compart with the usual conduct of the News men. If they will come in out of the wet it is safe to say they will feel far better, besides enjoying the luxury of being welcomed by the killing of the fatted calf. . Settleks on the Otoe reservation lauds will shortly be brought up stand ing if they don't pay up. They have had ten years in which to pay for their lands, which they bought with the ex pectatiou of paying in two years, and now they complain about the severity of their lot. Such is human nature ! NKItltASKA ITKMS. New potatoes are selling at 30 cents a bushel in Kearney. Hitchcock county warrants are worth 1)6 cents on. the dollar. The water plant at Sidney is owned by the Union Pacific Railway com pany . The pops of Greeley county will hold their convention and begin a campaign of education today. Nebraska takes the cake on crops this year and Wayne county is in the centre of the cake, coated with sugar beets. See? Wayne Herald. Two new irrigation ditches have been formed at Gothenbrug, under the new state law, one the Gothenburg South Side district, comprising lW.OOO acres, and the other the Lincoln and Dawson county district, comprising 300,000 acres. Editor Gerrard of th Momoe Look ing (J lass is trying to purify the moral atmosphere of Columbus ami Platte Center, and the Signal editor of the latter place wickedly recommends that he ought to shovel the shavings out if his own carpenter shop. Joseph Johnson, an old settler of Madison county, was recently found dead in bed. He had worked hard the day before in the hot sun aud was overheated. Mr. Johnson was fifty years of age and leaves a wife and seven children in rather poor circum stances. No matter how much trouble you haye and how many of your friends desert you, says t he Scribner Hustler, no matter if the clouds of distress and grief are so black that no silver lining is visible, there is always one place where you can find sympathy, and that place is in the dictionary. A lone woman, says the Harrisburg News, drove a prairie schooner into town and camped on the east commons Tuesday night. Hailing from Idaho, she had come through the wilds of Wyoming unmolested and nothing daunted with the lonesomeness and hardships of the long joifrney. had fixed her destination as Ohio.' If the new woman is not a myth perhaps this is she. Doe Your It i rath Com in Duchess Trousers? Many get theirs that way. C. E. Wescott & Son in sales have passed the line of 4,000 pairs of Duchess Trousers. Everybody happy in Duchess Trous ers. C. E. Wescott & Son sells them, and everyone who tries them is sure to buy nonk other. What is home without The Daily JouknalV A Kirk From "Lover of .Jili- " Editou Jo u una I.: The parliamen tary drill was not'without its good in fluence. How does lite council ex punge from its records the record of the previous meeting, when it cannot legally be done if one member objects, whereas there were four. Or does the city council pose before their constitu ents as a body which utterly disre gards one part of the people and stops at nothing to gain the desires of the other side. Love it ok Jus-tic is For a clean, cool, sweet smoke Flor de Pepperberg, Buds and Bock'y are superior to any other brands of cigars in this western country. J. Pepper, be kg, Mf'r. List of Lelttm Remaining unclaimed in the postoffice at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, July 24, 1895: Berge, J W Clary. V F Sharp, FE Stobbe, Joe. Persons calling for any.of the above letters or parcels will please say "ad vertised." W. K. Fox, P. M. If the rain falls upon the just as well as upon the unjust, why in thun der, asks the Tribune, does it not rain in Fremont? Money to Utnn On farming lands. Low rates, long times. No delay in securing loans. Inquire at First National bank. 7 Leave your orders for job work with Thk Journal, an artistic job guaranteed. TI1K NEWSBOY'S STOKY OF THE CROSS. NOTE r.Tbe newsboy aud hiB companions are housed in an empty hogshead and they lis ten with eager attention while he repeats to them the wonderful btory he has heard at the Mission Sunday school. He tells It in the only language he can command, or they can under stand, which Is the language of the gutter. Author. Onct they was a feUer, what lived. Way back In them ole fashioned daye. Whatever ye done, he forgived, My Sunday school teacher, she says. She says that a ole widder's son Jest turned up his trotters one day. An' when the folks seed he was done, They s'arted ter plant him away. An' when they got part o' the way, 'I he Savior, ho happened along, Ef you hed a bin there,' hays they, 'They would u"t a bin nothing wrong.' An' he were as cool as could be An' he walked right up the bier Took hole of his hand an, says he, Young feller, git up an' come here. An' he got right up on his pins An' moseyed along wltn ther rent. An' took the rags otX of his fins, An' praised, an' give thanks, like iersesFed. Then Jesus was wa'.kln' one nay, Along by the Bide of a sen. He see a boat com In' that way, A-rockln' as bad as could be. An' then he beerd somebody t-hout. A begnin' o' him fer ter save, An' so he Jes' started right out. An walked up ter them, on ther wave. He says to ther waters be st'H.' An' they was us still as could be, Ther waves shell all bow ter my will. Fer lam ther Master, says he. He opened the eves o' the blind. An' he raised up a gal from the dtad ! An' lots a nr re things o' that kind, My Siinday-schooi teacher uid. It got to be so that a crowd, Jes' followed wherever he went. He didn't git haughty er proud, Ner he didn't charge 'em a cent. But some fellers called blm a fake An made lots o trouble an' fuss. An' they ottered Judas a stake lie took it the mean, sneak In', cuss! An' when he was gone out ter pray. He put ther perllce on ter him, They took him an' dragged him away, An' Pilate he humored their whim. A whole lot o' blokes took him up, An' fastened him on to a tree. An made him drink out o' a cup. That was bitter as bitter could be '. An' made a big hole in bis side It was mostly as big as my head, So afier a while he jes' cried. An' give up ther (ihost, au was dead. An' Mary, his mother, was there. A wHitin' till they took Lint down, she wired off the blood with her hair, An' took off the thorny ole crown. Thy put him away in ther ground. An rolled a rock up ter ther door, An' stood up som soldiers aroun. An thought that they had him then, shore. He stayed there a couple o' days. An then he irot up au cone out. An' some o' ther fellers, she says, They met lm a walkln' (.bout. lie showed 'em the hole in his side. The print o the nails In his ban's. An then they no longer denied, hut tried tei obey h's comman's. An one day he spread out his wings. An sailed right away to ther sky, An' we. to ther Sunday school sings. We'll meet liim atrain by am by. He msde up a passel o' laws, An' left 'em all down here fer us, lie saysye kalnt kill fer no cause, Er swindle' er lie, bo s. er ens. But always be good as ye can. An walk in ther narrerest way. An try ter live up ter the plan, Au read in er bible an pray. An then If ye hapeu ter croak, Ve'll g'j up ter Heaven ter live. Where ye'll never be cold, kids, er brute. An' all of r sins he'll ferglve! sh says, ye can enter thar yet. An' put on a garment o white. An' I'm goln' ter get thare, you bet ! An set with ther sheep on ther right! Isabel kit hey. PRRSnWAT. AMH nTTTP.RWTHP ur. jviarsnaii, trraduaio uiunr- Jti, 1'itzgerald block. Hen McGivim of Omalia is visiting I old friends in this citv. ,.... I 11.111 ttuiiiiiK. iii-sirnciui or uues, 1 odd block. Uuarnntfea accuracy of all Ins work. lOtf. I L. P. Knrges of Avoea, Iowa, a for- ii.tr lesi.tent of I his city whs in the i x I . . . I ..,J ... ............ .,rU ..mC leiuay morning. 1 Religions services are being con-1 dueled every night this week at the Smith Prk Ih.ntist nimirii i.v T?v a Post. Everyone inviN d. 1 v ...... toou auery . sr.. 01 me preemci nas hetrunwork with his new Case thresher siml is delighted with its work. He I says the small main crop i fair and !.. xvi idui. t , IIU Mill IV uw. 1 I A team of mules hitched to a lumber wagon, belonging to A. Ji. Todd, took a notion to ruu away yesterday aftei- J noon and went teHrintrup Main street, breaking Geo. Vass' sign pole in sev- eral pieces before they were stopped. wtu. siamer, or .uiDeriy precinct, was in town Saturday paying his taxes. His fall wheat 1ms been threshed and it turned out over twelve bushels per acre-far better than he had expected. ir hvnrA Vrldav h nui.l Mint, spvah cents was offered for new oats at Ne braska City a good price for these gold standard times. Sheriff Eikenbary of Cass county brought lena IMoeger to the insane asylum yesterday. This is the girl who went crazy after seeing the bicy ole raoes last week at I'lattsmouth. On the train coming to Lincoln she waved her handkerchief at imaginary "crack-a-jacks" a good part of the time. Lincoln Journal. A CHEERFUL &IVER. NOVELIST HOWELLS DESCRIBES HIS TRI3ULATIONS. A Maimed Beggar, a Solitary Half Dollar and the Contest Between Two Con sciences Unsettled A Usually Calm Mind, but a Compromise Was Arranged. Mr. W. D. Howells has written for The Century two papers entitled. "Trib ulations of a Cheerful Giver," giving his experiences with the begging frater nity. The following is taken from the first paper : Some months ago, as I was passing through a down town street on my way to the elevated station, I saw a man Bitting on the steps of a house. He seemed to be resting his elbows on his knees and holding out both his hands. As I came nearer I perceived that he had no hands, but only stumps, where the fingers had been cut oft close to the palms, and that it was these stumps hj was holding out in the mute appea7 which was hie form of begging. Other wise he did not ask charity. When I ap proached him he did not look up, and when I stopped in front of him ho did not speak. I thought this rather fine in its -way; except for his mutilation, which the man really could not help, there was nothing to offend the taste, and his immobile silence was certainly impressive. I decided at once to give him some thing, for when I am in the presence of want or even the appearance of want, there is something that says to me, "Give to him that asketh," and I have to give or else go away with a bad con science a thing I hate. Of course I do not give much, for I wish to be a good oitizen as well as a good Christian, and as soon as I obey that voice which I can not disobey I hear another voice re proaching me for encouraging street beggary. I have been taught that street beggary is wrong, and when I have to unbutton two coats and go through three or four pockets before I can reach the small coin I mean to give in compli ance with that imperative voice, I cer tainly feel it to be -wrong. So I compro mise, and I am never able to make sure that either of those voices is satisfied with me. I am not even satisfied with myself, but I am better satisfied than if I gave nothing. That was the selfish reason I now had for deciding to yield to my better nature and to obey the voice which bade me "Give to him that asketh, " for, as I said, I hate a bad con science, and of . two bad consciences I always choose the least, which, in a case like this, is the one that incensed political economy gives me. I put my hand into my hip pocket, where I keep my silver, and found noth- a-ixxaui, cnangea me wnoie current oi my ieei- ings, and It Was not Chill penury that repressed my noble rage, but chill afflu- ence. It was manifestly wrong to give half a dollar to a man who had no hands or to any sort of beggar. I was willing to commit a small act of inci- vism, but I had not the courage to flout political economy o the extent of 50 cents, and I felt that when I was bid- , .m- t 1 1 At , T J-; - " never meant to give so much as a half dollar, but a cent, or a half dime, or at the most a quarter. I wished I had a quarter. I would gladly have given a quarter, but there was nothing in my pocket but that fatal, that inexorably indivisible half dollar, the Continent of twn nnartprs. hnt. not nrnprifjillv a nnnr- tor T tennlrl harn ncL-ot nnrllv i,, sight to change it for me, but there was no one passing ; it was a quiet street of brownstone dwellings, and not a thronged thoroughfare at any time. At that hour of the late afternoon it was deserted, except for the beggar and my self, and I am not sure that he had any business to be sitting there on the steps of another man's house, or that I had the right to encourage his invasion by giving him anything. For a moment I uiu. nub hiiuw quiiu vnub iu uo. iu ue RTirft. I wjis not honnrl tr trm man in Unvwav. He had not asked me for char Mry. and I had barely paused before him. I could go on and ignore the in- ciaenc x inougnt or aoing mis, one then I thought or the bad conscience 1 should be certain to have, and I could not go on. I glanced across the street, and near the corner I saw a decent look- m& restaurant, and "Wait a minute," I lu Tr m w f AWAIT. C4JLIU -ft. ilUI UUi VOO fcl frU Uil . .. , nl.al,0J .L. tonranf r WRS nnw rmifA rponlv1 tn iriva him a quarter, and be done with it; the thing was getting to be a bore. Hut when I entered the restaurant I saw no , A . . . one uiere out; a-young man quu uw txi I ena 01 a long room, ana wnen no nau COme all the way forward to find what I wanted I was ashamed to ask him to change my half dollar, and I pretended that 1 wanted a package 01 aweet a- porai cigarettes, whicn i cua not, vani, T 1 ? 1 A. A. . j. and whinh it -was a Toure waste for me to buy, since I do not smoke, though doubtless it was better to buy them and encourage commerce than to give the half dollar and encourage beggary. At any rate, I instinctively felt that I had pouucai economy to the man on the steps and secure my- Beif with Christian charity too. On the way over to him, however, I decided that I would not give him a quarter, and I ended by poising 15 cents on one of I a .1.1 A. his outstretcuea slumps. Lepero In the World. According to Mulhall, leprosy is far more prevalent in Europe than most people suppose. He says that there are now 8,000 lepers in Portugal, 1,770 in Norway, 6,000 in Russia and about 9,000 all told in other European coun tries. In India there are 131,000 and in Canton, China, not less than 10,000. He does not give figures for other coun tries and islands, but it is estimated that the leper population of the world is but little, if any, short of 1,000,000. 5 The Glass Trust HAS ADVANCED THE TIUCE OF ULASS BUT WE ARE SELLING WINDOW GLASS AT THE SAME OLD PRICES. Woodman's Raw Linseed Oil at 62c a gallon. Woodman's Boiled Linseed Oil at ttoc a gallon. West Virginia Black Oil, for Farm Machinery, at l a gallon. Oasoline at ltio per gallon. WE SELL ONLY THE VERY BEST. YOURS OKEIESHSTCr 5S CO., PLATTSMOUTH, NEB. The Work of the Heart. One of the most remarkable things about the heart is the amount of wor& it does. Considering the organ as A pump whose task is to deliver a known quantity of blood against a .knqwi "head," it is easy to show that ill 4 hours a man's heart does about 124 foot tons of work. "In other words, " says a contemporary, "if the whole force ex pended by the heart in 24 hours were gathered into one huge stroke, such a power would lift 124 tons one foot from the ground. A similar calculation has been made respecting the amount of work expended by the muscles involved! In breathing. In 24 hours these muscles do about 21 foot tons of work. " A Mob. A mob is usually a creature of very mysterious existence, particularly in a large city. Where it comes from or whither it goes few men can telL As sembling and dispersing with equal sucf- -denness, it is as diflicult to follow to its various sources as the sea itself, nor does the parallel stop here, for the ocean is not more fickle and uncertain, more terrible when aroused, more unreason able or more cruel. Dickens. Light on a Hark Subject. Rivers Supposing it to be true that Luther did throw an ink bottle at satan, why do you think he did it? Banks I presume he wanted to see if ne couldn't make him blacker than he vas tw'nted. Chicago Tribune. K'.'M'Oi!) xniE tarij-:. H . Ji ax. K. Tt. KAST HOUND. N-n 2f dally firifi, p. ra. . 4, daily i0:2y. a. m. j So. 10, from Schuyler except Sun-lay. 11:55, a.m. f "o. 12, daily except Sunday . ..8:25. p. m. 12:2:1. p. m. . ..2:50, p. m . ..3:-13, p. EC. ...9:15, u. m. ...2:12. p. m. N'- sa. daily except sund.iy N'o. 3D, freight from Louisville.. ' WKST HOUND, No. 3. dally .'o. 5, daily f 4 ' rrtSl mAU' oa,iy j lo,s '". exee, ' tt'.da No. 11 , daily 1 .N'o. 7, fast mail, daily y 2:-ti. p. m. . . 4 :i0. p. m. . .7:15. a.m. . .2:'.'0, p.m. So. 91, daily except Sundav. 1 so. e. freight to Louisville ' T m I". K. Leaves. . ...4:50a.m. goinu nortii: rasenger. No. 1... No. im 5:03 p. in : -'reiRht, No. 127 dai!y exe'pt Sunday) 3:3; p. m t I'OIXG SOI Til: I t.-uKrr, .o. 1q:43 p. m. No. 1U4 11:52 a. m. frekht, No, 12rt (dally except Snnd a v)10:05 a.m Forthe Campaign. The Omaha "Weekly Bees, Will be n?nt to any address in this country or i'anada from now to ... December 31, 1895 25 CENTS. Send o'ders at once to . . . The Omaha Bee, Oimiha. Neb. r F. C. FRICKE & CO., Will keep constantly on hand a full and complete stock of pure mu m ma PAINTS, OILS, Etc. m Also a full line of I rugrgira SuudrUa. Pure liquors for medicinal purposes. Special atteution given to COMPOUNDING PRESCRIPTIONS. Messrs. F O. 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