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PLATTSMOCJTIl WEEKLY JIEKAUV THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1887.
THE LAST DAY.
Tho Cass County Fair Ended Friday.
Large Crowds Attond-A Partial
List of Awards.
Tlio day wag most delightful and
refreshing. Although many people were
on tho grounds the crowd was hardly bo
largo as Friday.
Tho baby nhow in the afternoon was a
great attraction and several infants were
on exhibition, and tho decision of the
judges will be found elsewhere.
"VVc give Thursday's races and all the
premium awards we have time for below.
The races at tho fair Thursday were as
follows:
Free for all trot, best threo in five.
Van Duke, Nat Brown 3 3 3
Elmwood Chief, II. B. Krcebo 111
Billy Ford, Arthur Terry 2 2 2
Time 2:41, 2:31 and 2:32; purse $150,
$U0 and $00.
Free for all race, best threo in five:
Madison, W. A. Ketchum 111
"White Billy, C. M. Holmes 2 2 2
Lowry Todd. Piatt Ketchum 3 3 3
Time 2:04, 2:12 and 2:01; purses $75,
$45 and $30. Gentleman's Iioadstcr,
best three in five:
Clarence L. C. P. Whiting 3 111
Nig, Dr. E. W. Cook 3 3 3 3
George, John O Kecfe 1 2 2 2
Time, 3:11. 3:00 3:05 and 3:02;
purses, $37.50, $22.50 and $15.
Bicycle race, half-mile beats, best two
in three:
T. M. Patscrson 1 1
Sam Patterson 2 4
T. II. Pollock 3 2
J. K. Pollock 4 3
Ed Holmes 5 5
Time, 1:37 and, 1:44; purses, $15 $10
and $5.
A partial list of tho premiums is as
follows:
DOCSES AND MULES, CLASS 1
Best draft stallion four years old or
over, first premium $10; entered by Mar
shall & Gall. Best jack two years or
oyer, first premium $10; entered by
Nicholas Holmus. Best family carriage
team weighing 1,000 pounds or over,
first premium $8: taken by W. D. Jones'
grays; second premium $4, taken by
Sam Ritcherson,of Eight M;le Grove.
Best draft mare, weighing 1,400 or more,
first premium, $10, was taken by John
B. Holmes; second premium, $5, taken
by J. Grassnian.
Best mare of any age or breed, sweep
stakes, $10, taken by J. Grassman.
Best colt under one year, $5, taken by
L. Rusteikoltz.
Best pair mules any age, first premiu m,
$ 5, taken by W. L. Propst
Best roadster, first premium $ taken
by Wm. Gilmour.
SWEEPSTAKES.
Best and largest display of boots and
shoes, $15, taken by Peter Merges.
Best and largest display of musical
instruments, $10, taken by J. P. Young.
Best and largest display of harness and
goods Lept in harness shops, $10, taken
by O. M. Streight.
Best and largest display of dry goods,
$15, taken by Solomon & Nathan.
Best and largest display of hardware,
stoves and tinware, $10, taken by Jno.
S. Duke.
CATTLE, CLASS 2.
James W. Thomas, of Plattsmouth. 1st
with no competition, $10.
M. A. Hartigan received on best bull
1 year old and under 2 1st $8 no com
petition; best cow over 3 years 1st; best
heifer calf 42nd, no competition, $2.
Moses Dodge on best cow, any age or
bred, 2nd., no competition, $5.
M. A. Hartisjan recived 2nd, on best
cow of any age or bred.
J. N. Thomas received on best bull
calf, no competetion, $2, and on best
bull 2 years old and over, $10, with no
competation.
Henry Eikenbary, Sup't. and Samuel
Barker and Theodore D. Buck, Judges.
8 WINE, CLASS 3.
Levi Churchill; Best boar, 1 yr. or
over, Rock Bluffs, 1st, $10.
Best boar under 1 yr; W. L. Propst,
Plattsmouth 1st $4.-
Best sow 1 yr. old or over, 1st $G; best
sow with litter of pigs, 1st $10; best
boar 1st $10; best sow, $10; best boar
under 1 yr., 2nd $2; W. L. Propst of
Plattsmouth.
Best sow with sucking pigs; R. F.
Dean.
Best sow 1 yr. old or over; BMoses
Dodge 2nd $3.
Best boar 1 yr. old, 2nd $5; best boar
under 1 yr. 1st, $4; best sow under 1 yr.
2nd $2; Eli Sampson.
A. B. Taylor, C. H. Vallery, n. "Wolfe
Sr. and Frank Mitchell, judges.
BEES, CLASS 7.
Mr. J. M. Young, of Rock Bluffs, was
awarded premiums on the following:
Best colony of Italian bees. Best colony
of black bees. Best bee hive in use con
taining bees. Best gallon of extracted
honey, '87. Best comb lioney, not less
than 101b. Best gallon of extracted
honey, '8G. Best display of honey, not
less than 201b. Best display of the comb
from the foundation for brood and sur
plus, showing the different stages of de
velopment from the foundation to full
drawn. Best display of honey extracted.
All the above were awaded first pre
mium. Henry Wolfe, Supt., J. Capon, M.
Clemnon and Levi Churchill were the
judges.
Scarcity of Brick.
President Cleveland need not have any
fear that the people of Sioux City treasure
up against him his veto of tho Sioux
City public building bill. Tho people
of the northwest are a generous people.
They recognize that he is president of
the United States, and that he meets
the responsibilities of his high place ac
cording to his best light and within all
tho puzzling exterior limitations which
encompass a president.
And. perhaps, it is just as well, any
how, that the Sioux City government
bill was vetoed. The needs of Sioux
City in constructing the great packing
houses and in other building operations
this year have been such as to make
great scarcity of "brick."
By all means let the president come,
and welcome to him. Sioux City
Journal.
Ninety Days and Thirty Minutes lo
- Leave the Town.
John Doe and James More were be
fore Judge Mathews' Saturday morn. In
the warrant the first man's name was
given as John Doe but before the court
he plead his name as Timothy McCarty.
Doe was charged with malicious assault
with a knife, and More, with begging by
tramp.
Doe is the man who has been laying
around town lately with his left hand
tied up as though it were hurt, but it is
said it is simply fiy blistered for the pur
pose of begging. Fi iday night he was
making more or less disturbance in a
tough crowd on lower Main street, and
John Fitzpatrick asked special polce
John II. More to arrest him. More
took Doe by the left arm and Doe ob
jected as its being a sore arm and at the
same time whirled partially around and
thrust his right hand iuto his side coat
pocket. Policeman More noticed the
movement and immediately seized the
right arm and drew it behind him (Doe),
as he did So he grabbed Doc's hand and
discovered a half opened knife in it, the
blade of which pricked his hand. The
knife was taken from him and he was
hustled off to jail, using very bad and
threatening language on the way, and
after he arrived.
Doe appears to be a hard case, wears a
stealthy evil look, and called at the jail
a day or so before his arrest and wanted
to see "the beys," but he was refused ad
mittance. He claimed he could raise
$50 to help them, but as they were sen
tenced the $50 would not haye been of
any avail. He seemed well acquainted
with the whole outfit the gang who
broke into the beer house and he told
one of the officers he had been out of
the penitentiary just two weeks.
At trial Saturday morning he did not
deny the eyidence after it had been given
by policeman J. II. More, and took
his sentence a good round 70 days at
hard labor without any smiles. James
More, at his trial, plead guilty to begging
for food and being drunk and disorder
ly and said when he came to town he
had some money but spent it in drink.
He was a fair appearing man to be beg
ging and said he stopped here on his
way to Denver and acknowledged he
intended to beat his way there in box
cars. Judge Mathews sentenced him to
30 days at hard labor and suspended the
sentence 30 minutes, which time was
spent (as was intended) in a successful
effort to get out of town, and he will
probably remain there during the present
municipal court administration.
Dillon Cetsthe Earth..
Oh! what a crowd! Even the heart of
that veteran actor and prince of come
dians, John Dillon, must have danced
with delight as he beheld that sea of happy
faces that greeted him at Foster's Opera
House last evening. It was not a house
full but a perfect jam, every seat, aisle
and corner being occupied, and when the
popular favorite made his appearance,
fully twelve hundred people manifested
their appreciation of his great abilities
by loud and continued, applause. The
play was his new farce comedy enti
tled, "Wanted the Earth," that is scoring
a great success everywhere, and well it
may, for the piece fits Dillon and Dillon
fits the piece. In fact, Mr. Dillon has
not been so happily cast since he electri
fied the continent in "All the Rage." The
piece is not without faults from a dra
matic standpoint, but like the "Bunch of
Keys," and other light comedies, the fun
is so fast and furious that ono forgets
everything but to laugh. It is also a
pleasure to note that the star is not
handicapped by a weak company, each
member being capable, and some strong
and when we add that Mr. Dillon has
lost none of his old-time fire and charm
it goes without saying that a better satis
fied audience has ever, if rarely been
within the walls of the theater. Iowa
State Register.
Cardinal Gibbons intends to take a
western tour soon.
A King on Swollen Finger.
"Will you please saw this ring off my
flncr",
It was an old woman who made this re
quest of u liroailway jeweler, and aa the
worker In gold and silver took tho
wrinkled, though fat and shapely, hand
In his it trembled violently, mid a tear
dropped upon tho counter.
'Excuse me," continued the old lady,
"but It is my wedding ring. I have never
had it oil since I was married forty-five
years ago. I havo refrained from having
it cut, hoping that my finger might get
thinner and that I could take it oil with
out breaking It."
"And what if I can remove it without
cutting?" inquired tho jeweler.
"Hut can you?" said 6he, looking tip in
a half credulous way. "If you can, do It
by all means."
Then the jeweler took the swollen
finger and wound it round from the top
downwards in a length of flat rubber
braid. The elastic cord exerted its force
upon the tissues of the finger gently and
gradually until the flesh seemed to be
pushed down almost to tho bone. Tho
old woman's hand was then held abovo
her head for a brief interval. Then tho
bandage was quickly uncorded and re
wound about the member. This was re
peated three times, and finally It was
found upon uncovering the finger that it
was small enough to admit of the ring's
being removed with ease.
"I have never failed but once," said
the jeweler, "and I have removed many
rings from fingers even more swollen than
yours. Do I charge for it? Oh, yes. I
ask tho same amount that I would get
if tho ring were left to be mended after
being cut. One dollar. Thank you!"
and as he turned to his bench and tho old
woman left the store he added: "But after
all sho might have done the same thing
herself. It's not the work, however, I
charge for; it's the 'know how." New
York Mail and Express.
Joke on a General.
Apropos of Gen. Faidherbe, an amnsing
anecdote Is related of an adventure which
befell him when ho commanded the Army
of the North in the war of 1870. His
charger, a splendid gray Arab, had been
wounded at the battle of Pont Noyelles,
and the general was obliged to leave it bo
hind him at a farm. Some days after, as
Gen. Faidherbe was at lunch, a non
commissioned officer of the Prussian army
came up with a French dragoon and a
horse which Gen. Von Goben had sent him
with a polite message, believing It to be
his property. The horse was a miserable
animal, and Gen. Faidherbe, amazed at
the apparition, asked the dragoon for
an explanation. Tho man related
that he had been taken prisoner with three
comrades by a patrol of German cavalry
two days before, and that he had bit on
the bright idea of representing himself as
the orderly and his horse as tho favorite
charger of Gen. Faidherbe. The German
officers had communicated his statement
to Gen. Von Goben, who had courteously
returned the animal to the French general.
Gen. Faidherbe, however, asked the Ger
man soldier to take the dragoon and tho
horse back with him, and the man had to
return crestfallen at the failure of his
ruse. Gen. Von Goben, as soon as he
learnt the truth, directed that diligent
search should be made for the Arab, but
it had been so carefully hidden away that
he never succeeded in restoring it to bis
adversary. Chicago Times.
The Average Country Journalist.
Every now and again I see in the city
papers sneer3 at the country papers and
jokes at the expense of rural editors. It
may be that my experience has been pe
culiarly fortunate, but I have found that
the average country journalist with whom
I have come into contact has more brains,
more straight out, square toed ability,
more pride and interest in his profession,
and more money, than his city brother.
It is the graduates from the country
offices who make the best men in metro
politan journalism.
I read of the country editor who takes
his pay in squashes and cord wood, but I
see the country editor who pays mo in
checks on his local bank, cheeks which
are always good. I read of tho poverty
stricken rural newspaper man, but in my
experience, and I have met a good many
of them, the rural journalist is apt to own
a share in the paper ho edits, the house he
lives in, a horse and buggy, while the
metropolitan writer who invents the
highly humorous paragraphs concerning
his country brother too often owes for the
coat on his back. And finally, a good
country editor is a king pin in his locality.
He is looked up to and respected as a
leader of public opinion, a man who
knows what is going on in the world. I
can't imagine a more enviable position
than that of the owner and editor of a
good country paper. Compared to the
grind of a city daily, the work is light,
and the rewards are proportionately
greater. The Journalist.
The Old Clown's Days Are Over.
Col. W. C. Crura, the advance agent of
Forepaugh's circus, says: "The day of
the clowns is nearly over. Formerly they
were half the show, but now they attract
but little attention. The enlargement of
the 6hows is the chief cause. The big
shows now have two or three rings, and
the circle of seats is so far oil that the
people cannot hear the jokes of the clowns.
In the old days an average clown received
from $100 to $200 a week. Dan Rice,
who was considered the greatest of them
all, was paid $1,000 a week, which was
the highest salary a clown ever received.
He was a bright, ambitious young fellow,
possessed of much originality, and he
reached the top notch of his profession.
Once an educated young Englishman, a
graduate of Oxford university, who pos
sessed excellent comic talents, was
brought over to this country, and he was
paid $500 a week. At the present day
the pay of the clowns ranges from $20 to
$50 a week." Courier-Journal.
The Non-payment of Kent.
In the reports of tho health of towns
commissioners it is continually pointed out
that sickness is the chief cause of the non
payment of rent. One witness says:
"Three out of five of the losses of rent
that I now have are losses from the sick
ness of tho tenants, who are working men.
Rent is the best got from healthy houses."
Another says: "Sickness at all forms an
excuse for the poorer part not paying their
rent, and a reasonable excuse," so that
filth causes sickness, sickness inability to
work, inability to work poverty and non
payment of rent, to say nothing of starva
tion. Science Book Review.
Hard and Soft Water.
The importance of soft water for do
mestic purposes is illustrated by the ex
perience of a large London asylum, in
which a change from hard to soft water
has resulted in an estimated annual 6av-
ing in soda, soap, labor, etc., of more than i
f4,000. Arkansaw Traveler. i
NEED OF PRACTICAL EDUCATION.
Fathers, Examine tho Studies I'umuoil
by Your Soiih Mental I'xcrcUo.
I have been assured by learned pro
fessors that the collegiate course is merely
an exercise, useful in forming and strength
ening the mind. Therefore, useless studies
become useful as dumb lells, stiffening
the mental muscles and imparting tone to
the intelligence. Would not useful studies
and the acquiring of facts needed in the
daily grind to come be equally healthful
to tho mindf
Tho most our graduates acquire is
barely a smattering of each subject.
Why? Merely because there is not time
to givo each branch of study conscientious
and exhaustive research. It may bo
asked why, then, the number of studies
Is not limited. The answer ia simple.
Between tho vanity of the parents, who
like to say that their sons are deep in this
abstruse subject or that high sounding
science, and tho stubborn conservatism of
tho faculty, retaining Eighteenth century
sentiment in this Nineteenth century of
practical life, the course is filled with
tares and there iii no room for the wheat.
Of what uso are Latin and Greek to tho
youth who must soon strip in the strug
gle for bread? The barest excuse is that
they give au insight into the derivation of
language. Well? A dictionary will do
as much. Why waste four years in ham
mering verba and nouns, declensions and
conjugations into a boy who is destined
afterward to sell coileo or soap? Of what
valuable uso is French? It will take sev
eral years to learn, and the acquirement
is purely ornamental, and in most cases
not worth a dollar to the future man.
Fathers, examine tho studies pursued
by your sons. You will find that you aro
spending your money and wasting their
most precious time storing up glittering
tinsel to tho exclusion of what can benefit
them in the sterner days to come. Cast
them adrift upon the sea of life without a
thorough education in some practical sub
ject of value to tho world, and which in a
needy hour they may coin into bread, and
you are casting them adrift in ships of
lead without a lifo preserver or a spar
aboard. A sunken rock or a storm and
they are lost.
If they need mental exercise let them
Juggle with practical subjects mechan
ics, bookkeeping, drawing, practical chem
istry, arithmetic, the English language
and physics. Let them learn how to keep
accounts, how to handle tools, how to
build and work an engine, how to detect
adulterations in staples of commerce, how
to understand tho machinery of the great
practical world and not learn the vaga
ries of the land of dreams.
If you have learned the bent of your
son's mind, confine him strictly to studies
pertaining to his calling and cast all
others away.
Our boys aro not fools. They know tho
uselessness of half tho labors imposed
upon them, and, being Americans, resent
the encroaching upon their liberty.
Rather than Latin or Greek, they take up
tho fantasticoes of the poker deck, they
twankla a banjo, and aro erudite only in
the latest laws appertaining to trousers
or collar. Wo neglect to give them
weapons to fight the battle, and they be
come skulkers in the rear. We turn
them loose upon the world with no means
for employment; they reply by becoming
idle and profligate, prematurely wasted,
the soul of Saturn in the body of Adonis,
crowded from the race for fortune and
fame by striplings of humbler life, whose
education ran in narrow lines, but was
sturdy and sharp as an ax to hew their
path. Henry Guy Carleton in New York
World.
Looking Through the Telescope.
In regard to planets, wo must remember
that a telescope does not give U3 a bird's
eye view. We see tho nearest planet only
as an orb in which all such details a3 on
our earth belong to continents aro abso
lutely lost. Mars, tho planet most fa
vorably seen, presents continents, oceans,
ice patches and such cloud masses as ex
tend far enough to cover those larger fea
tures from time to time. But we cannot
hope to see rivers or mountain ranges on
the ruddy planet.
I know not, indeed, what to say about
certain markings which Sig. Schiaparelli,
of Milan, and recently M. Perrotin, of
Nice, think they have seen. They pre
straight, broad bands running across the
continents, and lately Sciaparelli has seen
them doubled.
If they are canals they are enormously
broad, certainly twenty times wider than
the Mississippi at St. Louis. They look
too regular and straight (as Schiaparelli
pictures them) to be natural formations;
and if ho is right about their being double
they must be artificial. The great Lick
telescope may tell us something about
these strange features; I must confess I
strongly expect that the telescope will tell
us that tho parallel canals, if not the
whole set, are optical illusions. It is, at
any rate, worth remarking that they have
only as yet been seen with telescopes of
moderate power and when the planet is
unfavorably placed for observation.
Richard A. Proctor in Youth's Companion.
What Key West Looks Like.
The key has about as much shape as a
camel, and in a general way lies east and
west and contains about six square miles.
It is as flat as a shingle, the highest point
being about fourteen feet above the mean
sea level. To the casual visitors it looks
as though the sea, particularly in a storm,
would submerge this insignificant rise,
but it is a matter of record that it never
has done it. The city proper covers tho
western end of the key, and it was, pre
vious to tho great fire of March 30, 18SG,
very densely settled, and about as un
American looking as could well bo
imagined, bearing a strong resemblance
to a West India town. The houses are of
wood and quite plainly built. There are,
I think, only four or five brick buildings,
and certainly not more than six.
The streets are of very good width,
tolerably straight and passably clean.
The roadway is coral rock. There is no
soil to speak of; what passes for soil is
triturated coral, very rich in phosphates
and making an excellent fertilizer, but by
Itself deficient in fat. To garden one
must use a pick rather than a hoc. Very
few vegetables are grown here and vege
tation is confined mainly to cocoanut
trees. Here and there can be seen a pine
or an Alexander or a star of India or a
royal poncana; a few mulberry and prickly
ash trees and popenack bushes. Flowers
and flowering shrubs grow in abundance.
Rochester Post-Express.
Safeguards Against Cholera.
Max Von PettenkoiXer, a German med
ical authority, considers that cholera is
not contagious in the sense of being com
municable directly from person to person,
but that it belongs to the malarial group
of epidemics, the germs of which find
their way from the soil into the air, and
thence through the lungs iuto the system.
He regards god drainage and pure water
as the most efficient safeguards against an
outbreak. Boston Budget.
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HANS .1 STOLL. DECEASED, FOR A
LICENSE TO SELL LAND
jua now on tins aav cnmci the above named
, idrew Sturm, euardian of J.'a M. Ktr.ll. Lena
. M. Stoll ami Herbert L. Stol). minor heirs of f
ii.ms.j. nioii. oeceaseo. ana presents hispetl-
tion duly verified pryintr frr a license to cell
and convey certain strip of land north f the
line of theXebrxska City br.inuli of the Mis
souri Pacific Railway Co. In the s uth half of
the south east quarter of section number ten of
township number ten north of ranee number
twelve east of the Cth P. M. in Cass County Ne
braska. It. a pe-trinsr to the nnderslprned. one of the
Jmlsres of the District Court of the Seeond Ju
dicial District in and for (;as County Nebraska
that c:iid land Is not fiich a to command a
rental to exceed S15.ro and that It could be
sold for $12 o oo and that the interest thereon
would be more valuable to ea'd m'rtnrs than
the rent ! i t ?n!d premise and that the Inter
ests of said minors would bo promoted bv a
sale of the same.
It Is therefore ordered that all
persons interested in said matter
appear before me at my chambers
in the office of the Clerk of the IMet'fct Court
in Plattsmouth. Cass County, Nebraska at 10
o'clock A. M. on the lftth dav of Octoler A D.
17. and that rotiee thereof be given by publi
cation in the I'iattmouth Hkkald, a weekly
newspaper printed and published in said coun
ty anj of general circulation therein, at which
time ami place a 1 person interested may
howcause. if any there be, why license should
not be granted tosa:d guardian as praved for
in said pet if ion.
Done at inv chambers In the c:ty of Platts
mouth cas Conntv Nebraska this 6th day of
eptenibef A. D. l.W 7
t , t, Sam'l m. CHApstAjf Judce.
J. II. Bellows Att'y for Petition.
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