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About Plattsmouth weekly herald. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1882-1892 | View Entire Issue (March 17, 1892)
9 f If the democracy will continue to huff Hoiea, says the SL Paul Pio neer Press, and the other delusion that they can carry Iowa in a presi 4ential contest, republicans will encourage the foolishnesa up to ejection day. Council Hluffa Nonpareil. Hones recently found in New Zealand are estimated to represent 500 specimens o( the moa. This im mense wingless bird, now extinct, iteems to have been hunted and aten by the early inhabitants of New Zealand, and is believed to have stood at least ten feet high. And now cornea a French officer with the startling report that he has invented a machine that will throw vitrol 200 feet in a steady stream, and an exchange says that it is almost equal to the mouth of an American politician, who can project campaign lye fully as far as that. Contrary to democratic expecta tion and hope the supreme court has pronounced the McKinley bill constitutional. Equally to demo cratic disappointment and dismay the people will pronounce it a well devised plan to broaden and strengthen the system of protection to home industry. Judge Samuel M. Chapman of Plattsmouth is mentioned as a probable candidate for congress kom the First district The citizens f Cass and Otoe counties, regard less of political affiliations, will in sist that he remain upon the bench, hut in the event the republicans wisely choose him to enter the ring for congressional honors he will receive a warm endorsement at their hands. Heatrice Republican MAGNESIUM LIGHTING. A new magnesium lamp, devised fcy M. Dronier, burns without at tention for regular periods of 24 hours. A pound of magnesium i consumed in about 100 hours, civ ing a light equal to that of 130 pounds of candles, 80 pounds of petroleum, or somewhat more than 100 cubic yards of gas. The ad vantage is offered of freedom from risk of fire. The present running expense of the lamp exceeds 30 cents nn hours but with the antici pated great reduction in the cost of the metal, lightning by magnesium may be made fairly econmical. rOK years American pork and American beef have been under the bon of some of the principal gov ernmeuts of Kurope. Under the pretense that our hogs and cattle are unhealthy, the importation of our pork was forbidden by Ger many, Austria, France, and others of the most populous nations of hurope, and our export cattle were subjected to a quarantine and in- spection system in Great Uritian amounting almost to an exclusion. No sooner was the present secre tary of agriculture inducted into oflice than, with nnked hands nnd farmer like directness and energy, ne grappieu these barriers against trade in our farming products, and by a rigid domestic inspection dis proved the false charges against our cattle and swine, with the re sult that nothing American now stands more proudly erect in Kurope in the consciousness of un impeached and unimpeachable character than the American hog ami uic American steer. GIRLS WHO HAVE PUSH. There is an intresting group of bright girls at the New Kngland Conservatory, in Hoston, who rep resent the quality of push charac teristic of the American girl. There are thirty five of these girls, and they are being vocally educated by the Ladies Home Journal of Philadelphia. Sim- time ago this magazine offered, as a stimulant to girls to get subscriptions for it, free educations at the Conservatory. The American girl is quick to see a chance, and one bv one these thirty live girls hiivi come from nil parts of the counti to Kostou. They re ceive the cr best the Conserva tory affords, the most desirable! i" me miiiuing are theirs. I and they have all their w.mts care fully looked after by a wealthy periodical. Perhaps in no other country on the face of the globe could such a thing- be possible. These girls, too, (lie reporter was told, belong to nice families, but they preferred to earn their own musical education rather than de pend on the - family purse. Of course, the particular girls ure un known to the scholars at large, and t all intents and purposes are pay Hg their own vny. And they cer t.iiuly are. It is said that the maga zine is educating a number of other ii ls at Wellesley, Smith ami Vas-te-r colleges. -Hoston Journal. i INCONSISTENCY. Last night's Journal presented about as fine a spectacle in the line of inconsistent editorial writing as has been our fate to witness. Its very bright arid brainy editor de facto labors and sweats through an editorial attacking the republican candidate from the Third ward because he is an employee of the H. & M. railroad company, and denominates all men who work be side him and are his fellow-work men as "unfortunates who are "compelled" to vote for the alleged "boss." Then the exceedingly able writer devotes some space to giving the probable democratic nomine i from the Fourth ward a gloriouB 'write-up," and praises the citizens of that ward to the skies for sending such an able man as Mr. McCallan to the council, The consistency of the Journal's course in this matter is plain to everybody. Mr. F. II Steimker is the republican candi date for councilman from the Third ward. He is employed by a railroad corporation as a foreman in their shops. He is a man with few, if any, dissolute habits and en joys a clean and spotless reputa tion. Mr. McCallan will probaly be the democratic nominee from the Fourth ward. He, too, is employed by a railroad corporation as a fore man. His reputation is parallel with Mr. Steimker's. Simply be cause Mr. Steimker is a republican and Mr. McCallan is a democrat the Journal feels forcec to draw the fine distinction. Its inconsistency is amazing. DOES FARMING PAyT The impovrished condition of the armer has been a favorite theme for alliance politicians, and to lis ten to their tales of woe would make it appear that we have more suf fering on the broad praries of the west than the Czar has among his peasants in Russia. But these alii ance politicians are only the walk ing delegates of the country dis tricta. Their tale of woe and their agitation is their source of living The Omaha Dee has started an In vestigation in Nebraska as to whether farming pays in that state Correspondents have gone among the farmers to interview them and learnj their exact condition. The names and places of residents of these farmers are given and in the two counties of Hamilton and Gage many farmers have testified that farming pays and pays well "where the same attention is given to it that a man gives to any (other business." As a rule every one of a score of men in Hamilton county went there with nothing within the last fifteen years. They have large farms, well stocked, all paid for, and count their net profits from $3,000 to $15,000. In Gage county the same story is told. Every one of these men interviewed had had some ex- perience in farming elsewhere, in Illinois, Texas, in the east or in Europe. Their testimony is that farming pays better in Nebraska than anywhere else they have farmed, and that in the west a man can farm one-third more land with the same effort than anywhere else. If all the farmers in the west could be interviewed the result would be the eame as testified to in Nebraska. It would be shown that 00 per cent of the farmers in the newer weBt went on their farms with nothing a few years ago, and now own them, or have them al most paid for, and horses and machinery to work them. In the city, where a mau hus been able to save his earnings and buy a home, he counts it the same as he would a bank account. Judge the farmers the same way, and few will he found who are not much better off than they were when they bought their farms with promises to pay. inter Ocean. THE GREAT OIL TRUST C1VES UP THE CHOST. The greatest trust of all trusts has decided to yield up the ghost and quit. The directors of the Standard Oil trust have called n meeting for the 21st of this month for thepiupo.se of devising means to close up its immense business. Unlike the National Cordage trust and other monopolies that have made it their first business to advance juices the great coal oil trust has left the cost of iM product lower than it was when in lividual operators had full sway. Vet it must not be assumed that the operation of this great monop oly has been otherwise than, hostile to the public welfare. Hy its com bination of the business of making and transporting refined oil and by its control of large areas of oil pro ducing territory, and, perhaps most of all, by its peculiar uml not wholly honest methods of obtain ing favorable discrimination in freight rates for its products it has ruined many small manufacturers and producers of oil, and has pre vented hundreds of other small capitalists from engagiug in busi ness. It has created half a tlny.cn immense fortunes, and has pre rented the accumulation of scores, it may be of hundreds, permanent competencies. Such methods are at variance with republican institu tions. If this nation ia to be a re public in fact as well as in name the aim of its legislation must be to secure a comfortable living to all, rather than to enable a few to be- come needlessly rich. It was quite as much for the puipose of giving the small capitalist a chance to enKaKe successfully in trade or manufactures as with the intent of preventing an undue advance of cost to the consumer of goods that the anti-trust law was devised and enacted by republican policy. Everybody remembers with what unanimity the democratic press re frained from advocacy of Sherman's anti-trust bill while it was under consideration, and with what per sistence it derided it as useless after it was passed. But it has done great work. It prevented the for mation of a mower and reaper trust. It so frightened the parents of the projected glass trust that tmeir illegitimate offspring was born dead. It made an end of the southern cracker trust. It forced the cotton seed oil trust into disso lution. It gave such strength to the prosecution of the sugar trust by 4he authorities of the Btate of New York as enabled them to achieve an easy victory. And now it has forced the coal oil trust, the most powerful and the most shrewdly conducted commercial monopoly of ancient or modern times, into surrender of its illegal position. The anthracite coal trust and the National Cordage trust now are the only great monopolies existing upon Amer ican soil, and the end of these may not be distant DEMOCRATIC HARMONY. It is a pleasing spectacle to the republicans to witness the high state of harmony that the local democrats have stirred up among themselves. They have become so harmonious that the mere mention of the name democrat is synony mous with harmony. For instance, there ure two large, able-bodied democrats struggling with might and main to get a chauce to fill the mayor's chair. They are each en thusiastic for the other, but their friends are casting harmony to the lour winds and are digging out for the nomination with unrestrained fury. One of these men will be nominated, and, of course, the other fellow's friends will enthusiastic ally support him. The same con dition of affairs exists as to the other offices. On ' treasurer, par ticularly, harmony ia conspicuous. Both of the aspirants for the treasu rership are vigorously laying wires and working up large doses of har mony for election day. The repub licana are, of course, pleased with this manifestation of harmony. Nothing in the world produces re publican success like democratic harmony. When the republicans are ill, a dose of democratic har mony is a sure restorative. In the face of this harmony the repub licans will nominate a city ticket, and with the aid of harmony they will elect it. If they had their way, democrats would be always har monious. More propositions to amend the constitution have already been in troduced in the present congress than were brought before any two preceeding congresses since the close of the reconstruction period. None of them wiil go beyond their present stage, however, with the possible exception of that to make senators elective by the popular vote of the state. This proposition may leave the house, but '.if it does the senate will kill it. Gkn. Fkam-im A. Walker sug- pests the passage of a law requir- ing each immigrant to deposit $100 upon his arrival in this country, which shall be returned to him at the end of three years if he then de sires to become an American citi zen, .such a law would undoubt edly shut out many undesirable persons, and have a general whole some effect, i English Spavin Liniment removes all hard soft or calloused lumps and blemishes from horses, blood spavins . curbs splints, sweenev. ring lone, stitlee. siirains :n 'ni. len throats, couchs etc.. S:iVe Hit cent by use of one bottle. Warrant ed the most wonderful blemish cure ever known. Sold l.v w r. KrickeA Co druggists Plattsmouth. CfcHdrwi Crj for PiteWs Cwfcr'a. VkaaitMl fhfW, tht triad tr Oartonft, Wtao tk bmiM Mia. W uoc w Cwrk, TWn h1 Phil.. i) f ihrm .Wrtft. The wife of Senator Davis, of Min nesota, is fund of hunting. While a mere child (he was trained to handle a ride. Captain J. Wall Wilson, a survivor of the Kane Arctio expedition, is hale and hearty despite the loss of a toe ia the ice. The Louise Michol of the Spanish revolutionists is a Mrs. Cunningham. ' kon, i jhili 6 ' Elwoll Ap Barnard, of Rysdale, Wales, has written a poem to his cow. It contains 1 DO utanzaa and some clover new rhymes. Some opposition is manifested in the South to pensioning Mrs. Jeffereoa Davis. There is a fear that it would breed sectionalism. Miss Eugonie Sellers ia a young En glish woman who is creating quite a furore in London by her lectures oa Greek statues and dramas. Patti says that her diamonds have boon greatly overestimated in value and that she has only a modest 600, 000 Btook to potter along with. I John Bright once spoke of Cyrus W Field as "the Columbus of niodera times, " who, by his cablo, had moored the now world alongsido the old. The Czar's famous Minister. M. de Gitsrs, is now in bad health, suffering from the painful disease that carried off the last tmpcror of the trench. Max Adams, a vouno man well known in Atlanta, Oa., society, has re- eoivpu a commission from the Khedive as a Captain in the Egyptian cavalry Frank II. Stockton began life in Phil adelphia as an engraver. He is about fifty-seven now, and hus learned to wait an hour for a word if necessary. Grand Duke George, of Russia, wha is spending tho winter in Algiers, ia the hope of overcoming his tendency to consumption, has rented a villa ia El-Biar. In Boston tho remarkable shock of hair which Padcrewski, tho pianist, wears has led somebody to romark that he looks like a human chrysuu themtim. r?iigenie, now a sufferer from goat and rheumatism, once had the toot of a Cinderella, In the days of the Sec ond hmpire she wore shoes that wouM lit mere children. General James Grant Wilson's faihw was the poetrpublisher, William Wil son, of 1 oughkeepsie. He was a fa vorite of Gen. Grant, under whom he served at Vicksburg. The Marquis of Aylestury'9 fine crop of wild oats has cost him his famous collection of live oaks known a Suver- nake forest, which he has sold for the benefit of his creditors. Johnny's Bulge on Grandpa. Johnny is a chubby-faced youngster who for tho past six years has been the ugni oi an east sum household. John ny has a koen sense of humor, but his occasional pranks have not always met with the appreciation on the part of nis momer to which he thought the? were entitled. Johnny has been prop erly trained, and perhaps overtrained. oy his fond parents, and with the per versity of children has developed i strong prejudice against saying the little prayer his mother has taught mm w repeat oeiore retiring. Several weeks ago the little fellow made a visit to his grandparents in the country. Ho was led awav at bedtime by his grandfather, who had instruc tions irom home concerning the ven' ing devotions. But grandpa is very deaf and white- robed Johnny decided to introduce change in the usual programme, so as ho knelt by the bed he began: "Cotno, little boy blue, come blow up j our norn. x ne snoep s in the moadow, the cow's in the corn," and repeated to tho end that familial jingle of the nursery. Thats a good boy, Johnny," said the old man as he tucked him into bed. "always say your prayers.and you will grow up a good man," and Johnny winked the other eye as he chuckled over his little Uike.Uoehister Demo C at and Chronicle. Vninolested It it'll ..en. Millionaires who are being pursued by wild-eyed cranks might find food for reflection in the fact that Peter Cooper, who was a very rich man, was never molested by bomb-throwers. He was a man always accessible to the grent American public and a stranger who dropped into his office, even though he carried a plethoric earpet sack, struck no terror to his heart. George Pea body was another gen tleman abundantly blessed with the riches of this world who was not obliged to dodgp the dynamite iend. Stephen Girard was still another. Comfng down to the gentlemen wha are alive and active in the world's affairs, Baron Hirsch is conspicuous as a rich man who seems to enjoy perfect immunity from cranks. The baron is worth $l6o,0)0.000 according to popu lar estimate and his expenditure in behalf of his fellow-men in a measure verify these figures - yet there has been 110 attempt to i-iit .short his career. Those of our Amerieun rich men who are still alive and have en dowed colleges and otherwise' helped humanity have not yet been blown up. hut i inure, they appear to he in 110 danger. Our rich men. looking about for security no reference to enniniercial security - might give this some thought. .V. , Ailnrliscr. Speak inj in the Open Air. Experiments have lion ilml a per 011 MK'jking in the open air ean be heard about equally a well at a din. ttnee of 100 feet in front. s.cwntr-is ut each fcidc. and thirty behiud. !.? an Untitling Material. CoiimiI Heath say that many of the lnmt.es in fntania are Infill of the lava which poured forth from Mount .Etna in great streams on the neighboring clay beds. This iniviure of clay ami lsNaisnoM mied ami used to great advsulage in luililili!.r. P In ill! Ii ary tholargoot lino of oarpsts ia tao county, A Lit of which wo offer at lowoot pooai bleprioes. jD ICHEST designs jjacauois. P PETTIEST and ply and three ply oarpots. rj VEIVT piece of carpeting sold on its merits. tFASE8PoVN0,UTABNc.ftVsL82:OOLCARPET u I cheapest grades wo are showing this season will merit your attention, CELBGT your carpet now and havo it mado up ready for house-oleaning, In our line of SPRING :-: GOODS, We have the largest and best selected line of Dress Goods we have ever shown, both ia woolen and wash goods. In all the new New Spring Shades, AND IN BLACK. Serges 2Tew French Cighams Henriettas, Sootoh Gigham. Sedfor Cord Printed Zephera l G. DOM and SONO OHS YOU THINK Tliat Old. Carpet of yours has been turned for the last time, it will hardly stand another such beating as you gave it last 6pring besides we know you are too tender heared to give it 6nch another lashing. It will be a useless task as you cannot lash back its respectability. Better discard it altogether and let us sell you one of these elegant new patterns that we have just received. Spiiqg loqse Gleqiing. Will Boon be upon us and you will want new carpets, cur tains, linens, etc. We are head quarters tor anything in this line, we can sell you hemp carpets as low as ten cents yard, Ingrains as low a twenty-fivi cents and Brussells Irom titty cents upward. This ia n iNEW : DEPARTMENT with us. We have handled them with samples but finding that we could sell them much cheaper by having them in stock we have discarded the former method and arc now able to pell them at a very low price, will duplicate Omaha prices every time, kind and quality taken into consideration Being all new goods we have no old designs in the line, We have just received nn excellent assortment of CURTAINS jWe can sell lace curtaint lor 50 cents a pair upward, Irish 'L'oint curtains. Tambour muslin curtains. Swiss curtains, jeurtain ticrcen in plain and fancy, table silks lor draperies, jChenille Portieres. Also a line line of window shades at I In- lowest prices. v e uve nit nnesi nne 01 uueiiB ever brought to this city. Table cloths with napkins to match, Table scarfs. Burlan drapes, bleached table damask with drawn work and hem stitched by the yard, plain damask tor drawn work, linen crim, stamped linens, an elegant assortment of towels with lancy and drawn work borders, plain and lancy Iluck and Turkish Towels, linen sheeting and pillow casing etc. 1 . .1 . i' 1 1 WM. flEBOLD & SON. IE. HI in body Brussels and newest designs in two N