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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
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