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KNOTTS BEOS.,
Publishers & Proprietors.
Tub overwhelming Republican victory
in Ohio knocks (Jen. Gordon out as a
Vice Presidential aspirant. The politi
cal mortality among Georgia's favorite
sons in the past few month? has been ap
palling. Tub republican loss of one United
States Senator from Virginia in the Fifty
first Congress will be neutralized by the
republican gain of one from New Jersey.
The republicans have a majority in the
upper branch of the legislature of that
state which was chosen last Tuesday.
This branch holds over until 1800, and
assists in the election or a senator a year
hence. The lower branch which takes
part in the canvass will be chosen next
November. There can not now be even
the smallest doubt that the republicans
will elect enough members of that body
to give their, a majority on joint ballot.
Henry ui:ou(;e calls Ins tleteat on
Tuesday lust his Bull Run. Whether it
is a Bull Hun or an Appomattox, howev
er it appears plain enough now that, as a
potent political factor, lie is pretty thor
oughly eliminated. His vote in New
York City seems to be but little more
than half that given him last year for
Mayor, while outside that place and
Brooklyn his support was trilling. The
fallacies and vices of the Henry George
doctrine have been often exposed within
the past six months. It is doubtful if
George himself now believes in the eco
nomic efficacy of Georgeism. There will
probably be a Labor candidate in the
field next year, for President, but it is
hardly likely thut it will be ueorjje, or
that he will be nominated on the George
platform. (Jlobe Democrat.
At a desk in his office the editor sat,
and wrote up an excellent screed, telling
farmers the way to do this and do that
from plowing to sowing the seed. In
words that were burning he told of
neglect that lay on some farms like a pall,
and asked how the farmers in sense could
expect to harvest a crop in the fall. He
told how to fatten the hogs and the cows,
to make splendid hogs of the shoats, and
how to take care of the harrows and
plows, and raise the best millet and oats.
It was late in the week when the editor's
door let in an old farmer named "Brown,
who hung up his hat on the unpainted
floor, and said:"I just come up to town
to tell you how grateful I am that you
tell, how farmers should harrow and sow:
if you didn't show us and lecture us, well,
we'd butt up in business you know. And
now while I'm talking, I'll tell you, I
guess, you don't print the paper you
might; you ought to be careful to clean
up your prcs, nd sec that it's running
all right. A press that is dirty don't
run as it should its bearings should
always be oiled, and if you would buy
only paper that's good, there wouldn't be
so many spoiled. Your typo has been
ruined by use and neglect, and really is
useless to print; and if you would act as
I choose to direct, we'd all help you on
without stint. Your ads are set up in
deplorable taste, and some of them can
not be read; your wrappers are all botchy
and covered with paste you run in old
matters that's dead. You ought to en
deavor to write in a vein, that's cheerful
not dry and morose; to read what you
write always gives me a pain, though I
try to enjoy it, Lord knows?" The editor
rose in his pride to his feet and said with
the greatest cf stress: "I'd like to inquire
who is running this sheet. I know my
own business I guess, I guess." The
husbandman smiled in an unpleasant
way, and held up a paper on high, and
said as he shook from its creases the hay:
"On this for a time rest your eye." 'Twas
but the poor screed that the editor wrote,
to show all good farmers ;the way, to
pile on the flesh on the cow and the shoat
to harrow and harvest the hay. "And
now," said the granger, "I am glad, I
avow, for the warnings and notes of
alarm, but I would enquire while I'm
here with you now, who in thunder is
running my farm?" Lincoln Journal.
A DEMOCRATIC LIE A' AILED.
Plattsmouth, Xeh., Nov. 11.
Editor Herald. Dear Sir: In the
Plattsmouth Bail' Journal of today are
the names of eight republican foremen
of the B. & 21. shops that are accused of
supervising the votes of the workmen
under them. Among the names I find
the name of the foreman of the painting
department, Mr. D. B. Smith, and in his
case I know the accusation to be unjust
and fals?. Of the others I cannot from
personal knowledge say, but can say
that if they are as innocent as 2Ir. Smith
they are wrongfully accused. I am a
a democrat from the ground up, have
never voted for a republican in my life,
always spell the w'ord with capitals and
am proud of my political preference, but
when I see a worthy political opponent,
honest in his convictions, exercising the
same rights we all enjoy and are
entitled to, ;my democracy will not
let me bo a silent witness.
I am an.employcc under Mr. Smith as are
several other democrats, and am sure
that each and every one in our depart
ment voted as he desired and no force
was used directly or indirectly, to make
him vote to the contrary. We are all
used alike, favoritism being unknown.
I ask m favors of the B. & M. Co., am
under no obligation to them and feel thai
it is my services -is a workman, not my
politics, that arc wanted there. We do
our own thinking and vote as our con
science dictates and think the Journal
must have a weak opinion of u demo
crats when it intimates we sold our pre
ference for our job. If our party is made
up of men with such easy political virtue
the sooner a headstone marks its grave
the better. J. A. Brumo.
A FOREIGN CITY.
Bellcyille, 111., special: Within twenty
minutes ride of St. Louis and I can readi
ly imagine myself iu Europe! But then
this is not strange, come to think about
it, with St. Louis iu the consideration.
Here is a town of 19,000 inhabitants ami
they are all Germans. I am tld there
are a few Americans here, but I have not
seen, much less heard them. Everything
is German here the men with their pipes,
their knitted, sailor-like caps, their blous
es, and their baggy breeches; the women
with coarse shoes, short woolen dresses-,
and big handkerchiefs folded across their
bosons; the children with sturdy legs,
bright eyes, tow-heads, and cheeks sored
that they glitter; the houses with their
queer gables and double chimneys; the
fat herses, the dogs everything ore seis
in Germany. There is nothing apparent
that is American or progressive. I didn't
feel at home as I rode through the streets
of the town, and I haven't got oyer the
feeling.
But this is a good town and the inhab
itants aru good citizens. There are 'more
householders here more people who own
the homes in which they live than in
any other town in the west approaching
its size. It is a manufacturing town.
Here is the finest steel plant iu America,
and one manufacturer has a secret smelt
ing process which men from all over the
east have been trying to discover.
Here is a town larger than Galesbnrg,
almost as large as Bloomington, that is
virtually without a hotel. There are
scores of places here called hotels. I
stopped at one which I understand is as
good as any.
As I rode into town I asked a man on
the pavement which was the best hotel.
He named three and told me to take
my choice. I stopped at one and asked
a man outside where the hotel office was.
"In der sal-oon," he said. I went in. It
was forbidding and smelled bud, and I
went out.
I wen to another and asked another
man where the hotel office was. "In der
saloon," he said. I went in. This even
leas assuring than the first. Then I went
to the third first-class house which had
been recommended. Office in the saloon,
just the same. Xo polite clerk, no picture-frame
full of half-moons known as
an annunciator, no big safe, no weary
bell-boy, no aspect of a hotel. Just a
German beer saloon full of smoke and
jargon.
I stopped here principally because
there is a stable iu the rear of the house
where I could put my horse. The host
ler is no Joe; he is an old German peas
ant and i3 dressed like one, and he car
ries a Ducth lantern if ever there was
one. I have never seen a German peas
ant where they are planted and grown,
but I have seen pictures of them, and this
hostler was the subject for all the pictures.
He called my horse "cattle," and had I
not been well up iu German folk-lore I
would have taken this as an insu'.t to my
horse Comanche, and had Comanche un
derstood him he would have kicked the
daylights out of him, for he is a very
sensitive horsj. The hostler feeds a horse
as he would a steer. He asked me if ht
would feed my horse a peck or a half
bushel of oats, and when I told him to
give him three quarts ha looked as niueh
astonished as he was able. He took the
cue, however, and asked if he should
give the horse 5 cents' worth of hay.
When I told him to fill the manger "jam
full" of hay he looked pleased.
I went in the saloon and registered my
name in a book on a desk nailed against
the wall.
General Crant's
Fame "will always grow brighter wi
age. B dycat's Fig Tonic requires on 7
a trial to illustrate whether the enfeblc
constitution will change to one of stou
or robust form and the ruddy l-1ow o;
perfect health will appear where disease
ence was. No eur. no pay. Price 50c
and $1, For sale by Will J. Warrick.
For Sale On reasonable terms iny
residence on the N. W. corner of Elm and
11th streets. Said property consists of
i block with a good story and a half
hcuso of six rooms, two wardrobes and
one pantry; good well and city Mater;
twenty-seven bearing apple trees, aud an
abundance of small fruit of all kinds.
tf P. D. Bates.
Great discount sale at Bcetk and
Birdsall's. Call and get a discount bill.
AUTUMN LEAVES.
TLa flower spoka all summer as they chose:
thvy nuiil iu colors what they wtvtept thonpht.
Tliey seized the jawrled dews, liht'is lutebt
K'lows,
And into living sIkuh S A'ift splendor wrought.
All summer Iouk the Mowers! The leaves the
leaven.
They were the slaves; they had no word to say.
They wore the nis-tct livery, and n; Khenves,
Gathered for tjniin, were i:ot ruore mute than
they.
li:t reckless whrli nt lfu;t the flowers killed;
They withered into ras upon their Ktal:n;
A:idt!in the Iavi-s, too, felt their linn hearts
chilled.
Yet hush! The dyin forest nobly talks:
"Oh, slaves have passion. The dumb leaves cf
toil
Accept not life ignobly no, nor deuth.
They show their colors!'' Autumn's air and soil
liuru with inspiration of their lireath.
"F." la New York Evening Pout.
ATMOSPHERE OF ALASKA.
Dense Growth of Vegetation An Almost
Incredible Stutement.
Lieut. Sehwatka, in making the inland pas
sf ;;o to Alaska, at one jxtiit went ashore
among the wilds of the Alexander arehi
jiclago, and ho describes tlio vegetation which
ho encountered as being most rank and lux
uriant. At the feet of the evergreens clothing tho
land grew a. dense mass of tangled bushes and
vines, and at the roots of these was a solid
carpeting of mosses, lichens and ferns, which
often run up tho trees to a height greater than
a man's reach.
All this dense growth is as moist as a sponge.
The thick carpet ing of moss extends from tl;
shore to the edges of the glaciers on the moun
tain summits, and the constant melting of ice
through the warm summer keeps it saturated
with water. The air is burdened with mois
ture, and everything is, like Mr. Jlantalini's
proposed liody, "nioist and unpleasant."
It is almost impossible to realize the damp
ness of this region without having experienced
it. Water drips from overhead like an April
mist and oozes up beneath thn foot as one
walks.
As an example of the luxuriance of tho
vegetation, take tho Indian's "totem poles,"
which, although they are dead timbers stand
ing 0:1 end near the native houses, boar hugo
clumps of dripping moss and foliage at
heights varying from ten to thirty feet from
the ground.
It will bo well to explain, in passing, that
these totem poles are covered with very cu
rious carvings, and although no one is at all
sure of their significance, it is probable that
they represent genealogies or tribal histories
of the Irtdians.
It often happens that the seed of a Sitka
spruce becomes lodged in tho tangle of moss
resting upon a totem pole, and there germi
nates, its roots crawl down the pole. and.
having reached the earth, find additional sus
tenance there, which they send to the
oraueiies nourishing above, and which have
thus far been nourished by the juices fur
nished by the moss.
Imagine a city boy tossing a walnut from
his window, so that it lodges upon a telegraph
Ile, sprouts there, sends down its roots to
the earth, and waxes into such a tall tree
that the boy can lean from his window and
p.'ck walnuts from it every autumn!
That idea is incredible, and yet its equiva
lent often happens in southeastern Alaska.
outh s Companion.
How Men Ituy Overcoats.
A salesman in a State street store says that
the overcoat season is the worst in the year.
"Jlon are worse than women when it comes
to buying overcoats." By which ho meant
that men ere more particular in that kind of
shopping than women are in theirs. "A
man," ho continued, "never knows what
sort of an overcoat ho wants. If his strength
lasts him he will try on every overcoat in
the house. It is vain to reason with him. I
have hern in the business fifteen years, and I
can't nuke a customer believe that I tell the
truth when it comes to selling overcoats. I
have watched the perversity of customers in
this respect and it is my observation that
nine men out of ton who come in and buy
will never take the coat you recommend.
Six men out of eight who come in and pull
and haul at every coat will go and buy else
where. I have heard it said that a man
ought to be a good judge of human nature
to be a successful salesman. There is no rule
that will apply to such customers as I have
been talking about. I knew an old man once
for several seasons. He always came in, and
was jupt as much troubled tho last time aft
the first. I asked him why it was. He said
he al-.va3 a felt mean when he came to buy an
overcoat, for he knew that an overcoat was
a pawnbroker's delight. He never pawned
one himsjlf, but ho couldn't rid his mind of
the notion." Chicago MaiL
A Choice of Terms.
is a very enthusiastic surgeon
Dr. M-
and delights in cutting up the defunct in the
cause of Iiis profession. Ho was lately called
upon to attend a case at St. Mary's hospital.
A poor fallow had his face filled with bird
shot and one arm nearly taken olT. The
doctor had come directly from the dissecting
room and his head was full of his work there.
Walking into the ward with both hands in
his pockets, as was his way, he approached
the bed.
"Is this the subject?" he asked briefly.
"Xo, doctor," the poor fellow answered,
"I'm not a subject yet; I'm only an object,"
and he smiled comically.
Tho do-tor nodded grimly (he likes a joke,
even at Lis own expense), but ho gave an ex
tra touc'i to his professional care for tho
witty patient. Detroit Free Press.
How the Old Egyptians Worked.
Arnaudeau publishes in The Revue Scien
tifique an es?ay- upon the question how the
ancient Egyptians managed to transport and
lift the immense rocks found on top of tem
ples and how they raised their obelisks. He
thinks thoy took advantage of the rise of the
Nile. Clothing a block with as much wood
as was necessary to raise it a little from the
ground they pushed it forward to where they
wanted it to lie and held it in position while
they removed the wood, which left it in the
exact place it was to occupy. An obelisk was
lifted horizontally and pushed to where they
wanted to erect it. There they took wood
away from the base and fastened it to the
top, which caused the foot to sink and the
top to rise. Chicago Herald.
An Unfortunate Heroine.
Omaha Dame How proud I am to know
you. You are a true heroine and everybody
is talking about you.
Brave Girl I wish it had never happened.
"How can you? Just think, you attacked
a burglar single handed and held him until
help arrived. The papers said he was utterly
prostrated by the blow you gave him with
that rolling pin."
"I wish I hadn't touched him."
"Why, dearf
"I'm afraid I've spoiled my chances of
marrying." Omaha "World.
The baseball umpire's wife
To all dread is now a stranger,
For the baseball season's over.
And her husband's out of danger.
Boston Courier.
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Two daily j-;:p.-rs; oik- Uej aidw an a:d one I cni -erat Sc.
Sehnelhaeh; r hngy and v.": -.Mn facloi v'.
i 1 pperoerg . ei-ar mnnuiaclory, employs fifteen hands, and lar-'civ
era IS'ehraska.
Dufiior ec t "o's. new Packing Uoute.
The on-tt (. V. CcQ. Railroad machine shops, run ml hons, .t.n-ehot: s,
this point for the n e of its svstem v.vst of tho .Missouri River, cmidovim- many
uiauiii.in to employes mommy ;uo;it
One of the finest railroad bridgos in the. United Slates span. tho .MisM.iiri River at the Southern
limit of the city. '
Over 2,000 miles ot railroad convey .i its freight trafiic into and through ,v.r city.
Ten passenger trains ieave Plattsmouth dailv for north, south, east and west ovi r tho ( . IS. A Q.;
K. C., St. Joe & C. JJ. and the R M. R. R. i iN uhraska.
The cheapness of the land around Plattsmouth and its nearness to Omaha mai lcels toethfjr with
good railroad facilities, make it not only a pleasant place to reside, hut a desirable place for the cv.tablith
meut of mnuufaeorie."-.
To healthy, legitimate mauufactorin enterprises, the citizens or Piatlsmonlh would douhtlt-ps make
reasonable inducements to secure their loc ition, and correspondence is solicited.
While real e;-t ite values are growing iinner each day, yet there U nothin;.;- f-pecuhitlve or iictitious
about them, ami ood resid-nco lots can bu lx.uo-ht at from' $lA) to x:r0; hu,i ne..r the cily can be pur
chased at from s-M)f) to 100 Der acre. Within the nt t fw.K-e otolith:; hp c'ltv . vi.irU ?,. u-. io,in. ib
Missourri Pacific, and tho Omaha
ine auovc iacrs are v;:ven v.'itliout exaggeration and tlie prospects for the future prosperity of our
city, more than ' above indicated. Parties fo.-kin investments iniiealty
are earne tly reouesled to come and make personal investiu-ntioii. While h're you w:i be given a free
ride to South Park, the most. b autilul and desirable residence localitv i;i t ! .(; eitv, w ku re 'lot.-i ma v bo
purchased at from $!."i0 to 0200, each. This picturesque addition is neW-ib!e by either Chicago or'j.in
coln Avenues or hy South 0th Street and may be readied in a ton minutes walk" from tlie business cen
ter. South Turk is more rapidly building up than any oilier part of the city. Corre.-poadence fculicikd.
Hon. 13 . V. Crsdy.
The Statesman, ?! ular said
True
American, set an exanijile worlay of re
flection for all Ti ll.' Americar.s. lleuli-!!.:
wounds tluit r.o a.iiols vxc i I'.usc
usedliy Ileajis' C:imi;I:ofa;etl Arnica hilye
which is s(Ji on it.- v, ' i its for nay use
that a saj ve can be e.s, 1. N cure, no
y.iy. For sale by I'ue following drug
gist. Fiiee 23c per Imx.
Vy. J. YiTaiusick
Tteal estate and a' tracts:
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JULIUS PEPPFB8BG,
MAJfUFACTUKEll OF AND
WHOLESALE & RETAIL
DEALKIt IX THK
Choicest Bra-ls .f Oi?;as,
including our
Flor de Pepperbcro' and 'Cu.:n
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TOBACCO AND SJIOKEKS' ARTICLES
always in stock. Nov. 20. 1SS".
GENUINE :-: MNGiiK
with high arm and vibrating shuttle,
sold on time. Ep.v nayments or cash
F. J. EIvKNELL,
Jlanaccer Plattsmouth IJ ranch
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CLOCKS : Of all -sizes, makes and prices. Y,':,'.y anted.
VAT('HES : Rockiord, I-'redonia, Co!ui.;bns, Aurora &?.
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CHAINS : In tin's lino of goods I have everything almost, if not
quite. Ladies' and Cents' short or fon du'ii-Vi-olid? v di-d r
any other kind. Alo emblem pins ol a'ii the a-nt orders ; chirms
lockets, rings, cuff buttons, gold pens etc. ' " "
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THE BEST THE MARKET AFFORDS ALWAYS. ON II.. ND.
Sugar Cured Meats, Harris, Prcrn, lard, c, c
ot oar own make. Tlie host hraiuls of OYSTERS, in c:;n.3 and l u'k si
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