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Treasurer.
Deputy rre.f4urer, -
Clerk.
Deputy t'lrrk.
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Jlutv Kei-onler
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Kherirr.
Surveyor.
Attorney.
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ZIVIG SOGIKJllKS.
1ASS 1-ODOK No. He;. 1 O. O. F. -Meets
xyyery TiieiMlay evening of eaeh week. All
transient brothers are rei-nectfully Inviieil to
attend.
TKIO MIM5K NO. 81. A. O. V . W. Meets
every ;il''r!ial Friday eveiilnir at K. of 1 .
hall. Transient brother are respeelluily In
vited to attend. K..I. Mornaii.M;isterViirkinan ;
K. S. llarfow. Foremau ; Frank ISrnwii. Over
seer : I- Biwen, liui.lo; :eme lloiifoitli.
Kecorder; II. .1. J.dinson. Financier; )Vajli.
Sinltli. lteeelver ; M. Ma brbt. l'ai-t M. V. ;
Jack Iaushert. Inside t;narl.
ClAKS CAMI NO. 3T.. MOUKUN WOUOMKN
; of Ameiic i MeeU second and fourth Mini
d ay evening at K. of 1'. ball. All transient
brother are requested to nu-er witii u. I- A.
JSweier. Veneri!ile tm-iiil ; S. I-'. Nile.
Worthy Ailvtner : 1), U. Smitli, lis Hanker ; .
C. Willetts, Clerk.
IiL VTrsMounc i.oi:e no. s. a. o. u.xv.
Meet ev.-ry alternate Friday evening at
Kocktvood liatiat muVIock. All rrausieiit broth
ers are re-jpeetfuHy lnvltei attend. I.. S.
I.irxni, .M. V.'.; F. Iioyd. l-oreinai. : S. C
Wilile. Ktrcorder ; Leonard Anderson. vereer.
McCUNIHlE POST 45 C. A. R.
KOSTKK.
J. V. Johnson ro-niiiander.
O. S. Twiss Senior Vice
F. a. It at ics Junior "
t;xo. Nii-ks Aiijsitant.
Auotrsr Takts ,n .....t. m.
hi i.s Dix't.v OJiieerof the Hay.
ChklksFoui " " x;i!.ird
r.KX.l. IlKMi'LK Ser,:t Major.
Jaob(1iibii'.i:mas.. ..Quarter Master eitt.
A i. I'll a Wiiioirr l'ost Cbaidain
.Meeting Saturday evening
WM.Iv. BROWNE,
LA.W OFFICE.
Pirsonal at'ention to all Giis'ine's tntrusr
to my care.
XOTAItV IX OKI'ICK.
Titles Kxaiiiined. Ai starcts Compiled, In
surance Written, t eal Kstate So'.d.
Better Facilities for making Farm Loans than
Any QtUcr Agency,
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GENERAL
r GEN IS
Iwcpresent the following time
tried and tire-tested companies:
American Central-St. Louis, Assets Sl.253.lno
Commercial Union-England. "
Fire Association-Philadelphia. 4,415.576
Franklin-Philadelphia, " 3.117.106
Ilome-New York. " 7.8?5.5 9
Io. C . of Vorth America. Phil. " 8.47t62
WTerpoolJtLondon& Globe-Ens " 6.639.781
Korth British Mercantile-En " 3.37i,754
vorwich Cnlon-EiiKland. " 1.245.4.56
iJpringfleld F. & M. -Springfield, 3,044.913
Total Aisets. $42,115,774
losses AfljnM sad PaiflattMsAgeiicy
WE WILL HAVE A
Fine:-: Line
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HOLIDAY GOODS,
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Library - Lamps
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AT THE USUAL
Cheap Prices
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Mayor,
Attorney.
Knjtiie-r.
I'.iinr Jude,
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SMITH & BLACK'S.
LfiTEST BY TELEGRAPH
Tho Admission of North Dakota.
"Washington, March 12. Tin; senate
I c nii:iittej on territories this morning in-
strue tcel Senator I'l itt to report favora
I b'y the enabling act for the admission of
i North Dakota. It &ho instructed 8oaa
, tor Stewart to report favorably the
euobling act for t!i; admission of YTasb-
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J ington territory and North Idaho, at a
i Finale state, providing no part of Idaho
shrill ha included without ths consent of
j a m.'tjoritj of the ilectors residing in the
t Dirt in eiucstiun. Tliere will b a minor
ity adverse report upon the last men
tioned hill.
The Nebraska Court BUI-
Washington, I). C, March 12. S?na
ior Jl-indersoii today introduced a peti
tion sijjncd by the supreme court judges
of the ttute of Nebraska and most of the
statft otHcials, praying that fie Dorscy
court bill will be made n law. The ju
diciary committee of the senate haa this
bill held, and time is no doubt that if
the people of Nebraska could agree upon
just what they want it would be put
through without much trouble. A it i,
it is likclv to uan; on account of the in
ternecine strife which has been waged on
account of it lately.
Tho Border Affair.
San FttANCikCO, March 18. Word was
raceived here yesterday from El Paso,
Texas, to the effect th t United States
Marshall Meade, of Arizona, wlioie ar
rest by Mexican authorities at Janos.state
of t-hihuabua. was reported Saturday,
has been released from custody. The
arms of Meade nnd party were taken from
them and they were allowed to walk
about town, but not to leaye it. It is un
derstood th:ft Meade and party were not
arrested because in pursuit of train rubbers
but because they went into Mexico with
horsrs nnd arms without being examined
by the Mexican custom authorities. It is
understood that Governor Corollo, of
Chihuahua, promised to assist in any way
possible any United States officer in per
suit of robbers if lie should present prop
er papers, and ths? governor states ha will
lay the whole affair bifite the general
government at ths tity of Mexico.
A Disagreeable Surprise
Chicago, March 13. The developments
m Judge Gresham's court wc-re a disa
greeable surprise to the railway managers.
They had expected a ruling which would
clos.ly guide them as to a
safe course to pursue, but the result de
cided nothing. Even the question" as to
whether the Wabash engineers will now
handle Burlington cars remains to be de
cided. Kecvivcr McNulta suid last night
that he had received no notice whatever
fro:n representatives of tlu engineers em
ployed on the Wabash that they would
or would not handle "Q" cars. Chair
man Ilanvev. of the Wabash engineers'
giievnnco committee, told a reporter that
the men were strongly averse to touching
a car Indonging to the Burlington, but as
to what would be done when the case pre
sented itself he absolutely declined to say
whether be knew.
Chief Arthur &aid to an associated
press representative shortly before mid
night that the Wabash men were greatly
excited, but for his psrt he would not
see thejn take a radical position. The
Wabash would handle littl:s Burlington
freight in any evcDt, and the fret that
the road was in the hands of a receiver,
who is an officer of the federal .court,
complicated m V.tirs to such a xtent
that there was danger the brotherhood
might become involved in r. false issue.
Any issue taken by the Wabash njtn,
said Mr. Arthur, conld not at all be con
sidered a p.ecedent by other roads.
Of Interest to Whist Players.
Every man when Vie takes up his cardi
at a game of whist holds one out of C35,
Olo.ooil.GOO possible hands. As for tho
total number of variations possible among
all players, it is so enormous as almost
to excet. u bcl iof . Mr. Babboge calculated
that if a million of men were to le en
gaged dealing cards at the rate of qno
deal each minute, day and night, for a
hundred million of years, they would
not then have exhausted all the possible
vamtloi;? of the cards, but only oue-hundred-thousandt.h
prt of thera.
Chicago licruld.
The Llqnor They Sold.
It is reported that two men were some tirno
ago arrested in New York state on tba charge
of violating the revenue law in selling wine
without a license. They testified that they
sold to saloons about 100 gallons of a drink
tnarf by this recit: Put sixteen gallons of
watt-r into o common washboiler, add forty
eight pounds of M'.gat-j ono pound of tartaric
acid and some aniline dye for coloring.
After stirring with a stick until it is dis
solved adtl a quantity of orris root, cut with
fi pint of al.ohol, to give the flavor or 1-asp-berry
wine. Thi.i slutf hn I been sold for
jaoro than a year as wine. Boston BleraJd.
WHEN WE SLEEP.
OUR DISPOSITION TO ASSUME TENSE
AND WEARYING ATTITUDES.
Nervous and 7lusculnr Tcimloii Seldom Kn
tlrely Relaxed During the N Iglit Suer
lluou ICnerjjy Nervous Kxauerutloii.
.Seienre of "Devitalization."
Tho most noiseless, quiet sleeper rarely liea
in a perfectly relaxed state, body and limbs
ut ease. With an egotism th.t seems to be
instinctive, most people endeavor to look out
for themselves in sleep. They do not trust to
tho soft and willing supjort of the ImhI; they
cling to it as if some sudden and malicious
spring might toss them out upon tho floor.
They hold their heads down on tho pillows
us if the feathers ought rise up and bounce
them ofT. Or, and this is more common,
tbwy stolen the muscles of the neck and bold
their own heads as if the pillow could not be
trusted for supjort.
They clutch tho bedclothes, and cling with
tightened grip. They braeo their feet against
tho !ed rail or, by dexterous twisting, uso
themselves as a point d'appui. They draw
up as for a leap. They crouch as for u spring.
They tie themselves into knots, clasp their
knees in desperation, clench their hands, and
writho, wriggle and swim over tho area of
tho Ijed. They set their jaws, grit their
teeth, bury their heads. In brief, nerves and
muscles are kept in such u state of unreason
able tension that waking becomes relaxation
to overcome the fatigues of th night.
No one perhaps has a clear idea of abso
lutely what antics onejxjrforms in sleep, al
though drearily conscious of tho effect on
waking. But almost every one has somo at
titude essential to going to sleep. One would
think that these, one may call them elective
positions, would be of the easiest, if not tho
most graceful, for every one has not been
trained as considerately as tho children of a
woman whom the writer once knew, who
were taught to go to sleep in graceful posi
tions, as tho mother naively remarked, "in
case of fire." On the contrary, tho attitudes
necessary to sleep, after long and minute in
quiry among a large number of people, aro
found to bo uneasy, unnatural, ungainly,
distorted, painful.
If aDy number of readers undertake to dis
cover their own eculiar habits of sleep they
will doubtless bo found uncomfortable. It is
safe to say that this stato of intense nervous
and muscular tension is never relaxed dur
ing tho night, even though the position be
changed. Tho only exception is after exces
sive bodily fatigue. The body then suspends
nil effort, and lies such a dead heavy weight
that it seems tho bed must ache to sustain it.
Sleep at last performs its gracious mission ;
and morning brings that repair and refresh
ment, that senso of rest and energy to begin
tha day again which makes life oneo more
worth living. Chronic sufferers from in
somnia know well the value of fatigue.
How much superfluous energy we expend
in the performance of tho most trifling act.
Writing, for example, requires very little
muscular exertion, but tha pen is pinched
until the fingers ache, and the muscles of tho
back of tho head aro as tired as tho fingers.
Tho seamstress sews wich her back as surely
as with her fingers. The school teacher rubs
pfl! tho blackboard with one hand and mimics
tho movement with tho other. Nino jieoplo
out of ten cut with their mouths when hold
ing tho scissors. A woman with her hands
in her muff clasps them with a grip that
fatigues her and mako them ache. Even in
idle conversation people wigglo their fingers
and wag their feet as an accompaniment to
their tongues. A prominent divine once
could not preach without jingling the keys in
his trousers pocket. Few peoplo can sit in
an easy chair without clinging to the arms.
Observe the passengers in a street car. The'
stiffen the muscles of tho neck and hold oa
to their heads with grim earnestness, as if a
sudden jolt might lose them, and in the con
fusion they would be difficult to readjust.
This care soon imprints itself on our weary
faces.
It is this habit of nervous exaggeration, so
tyrannical and merciless to the muscles, that
we take to bed with us, and that plays such
mischief with divine sleep. How to conquer
it! Plainly it is with the working hours we
must begin. In Boston, where tho supreme
ego gets a completer development than
within sound of the echo of tho roar of
Broadway, thera has arisen the science of
devitalization that is directed to this very
end. Devitalization in its highest sense, to
speak in the language of its disciples, is the
spiritual side of physical culture. Its great
principal is embodied completely and briefly
in these words, "Mind active, body passive."
Its methods are based on the union of the
imagination with certain exercises of tho
body. The immediate physical result is tho
setting up of perfect independence among tho
various movements of tho different members
of the body in detaching them, so to speak,
f rom one another.
The results pf thest exercises are, first, the
calling into activity all the muscles of the
body, many of which are comparatively un
used; second, rendering thera perfectly inde
pendent of one another; third, making thera
immediately responsive to the call from the
neryes; and, lastly and chiefly, rendering
them indifferent to anything but their own
business. In this lies the great saving to the
vitality, and that is what wo aro after,
Nov, how does all thi3 tend to better and
moro restful sleep? In the first place by hav
ing trained the nerves and muscles to keep
still when they are not wanted. Surrender
of yourself. Lay your burden down. God
will take care of you, the bed will hold you.
say the disciples' of devitalization. But if
the mind and body are not brought to this
perfect state of obedience, the various exer
cises in devitalizing are gone through, bo
ginning with tho head. The different mera
hers are unlimbered, detached. These exer
cises should be done seriously. They are, in
fact, awfully f unny.
Then get into bed, and, sitting upright,
conceive of the backbone as a strand of beads
held upright. Then let yourself down slowly
without tension, bead by bead, until the uu
limbered head falls back inert on the pillow.
Lio in that position, on the back, the arms
helplcsslj' lying on the bed, at the sides, each
member divested of all responsibility, which
l.as been assumed by the bcl. If necessarv.
do this several times, and lio on the back if !
possible. If this is not jKissible, at least be
gin in this way and afterward turn over on I
to the side preferred. I
Such is the Boston rccipo for wholesome, ;
restful slumber it w worth trying. New
EGYPrS SLAVE GIRLS.
THEIR LIFE COMPARED WITH THAT
OF THE ENGLISH DRUDGE.
The Scant Wages of Civilization AVorlc
of u Soudttnl Servant in Hie I-iuitl .f I lie
Nile The 1'ulr C'lriuHtiuu'd laiiiil 1'ute.
No Sense of Degradation.
The English drudge rises early and g s to
bed late, working eight or twelve hours a
day, either in her miserable garret or in a
huge manufacturing hive, l'inched with
hunger and cold, worn out with labor, ex
jxsh1 to temptation and degradation, her
joyless life stretches behind her and leforo
her, with no pleasures to look Lack ujxin, no
hope to look forward to. Tho wages she earns,
those wages which proudly separates her
from the slave, are barely suflicient to keep
body and soul together, till at last the xny
gives way or tho soul revolts. Then comes
tho inevitable end, and a verdict of "Death
from starvation" or "Found drowned"' closes
tho scene.
The Soudani girl is taken from her parental
hut of sticks arid mud and sold to a respect
able family or perhaps a very rich one. In
the first case, she vill it ,h"t,' - - .':'!
tho second, she will lmd others hue. herself.
She represents so much capital-invested, and
is looked after with equivalent care. .Sho is
a servant whose wages have been paid twenty
years in advance. It is true they have not
been paid to her, but that is all the better for
tho girl. Sho is well housed and well fed, and
wants for nothing. She is immediately pro
vided with decent clothes and set to house
work. Sho lias charge of the family wash
ing and cleaning, and of tho kitchen, and
generally fulfills these duties much letter
than a native paid servant would do. She is
under no special restraint, accompanies her
mistress shopping or does the marketing her
self, and gossips her fill with the neighbors as
sho hangs out tho linen on the house ton, or
sweeps the front door step.
Her work is by no means hard, and after
the fashion of Egypt, where every man is a
brother nnd every woman a sister, she is
looked upon by the family quite ns one of
themselves. Sjieaking from jersonal observa
tion, we may affirm that the black women
aro almost invariably treated with the utmost
kindness ami indulgence, and are often sijoilcd
like children by the too great good nature of
their masters or mistresses. They constitute
a very merry, happy portion of the popula
tion, and it is seldom one can find a black girl
without an infectious broad grin on her pol
ished face. If she chooses to marry, as sho
often does, with her owner's consent, sho re
ceives a dower, and goes forth a "free"' woman
in. tho letter, though often, as sho finds to her
cotit, a greater bond slave in the spirit than
ia the days of her servitude.
Now let us go a step higher in the social
scale, and place tho middle class English girl,
compelled to work for her living, side by side
with the Circassian, and we shall find again
that all material advantages, of which alono
we speak, are not on the side of the free. Tho
Circassian is a little f:r haired lass from a
far village in Turkestan (pace Dr. Tanner).
Tier father is a robber or a herdsman, and
sho will perhaps be a princess. The Prince
Charming, whom tho governess is always
looking for, but who never comes, is a very
strong potentiality in the future of tho white
slave giid.
One day a bearded and venerable old Turk
arrives from Stamboul, and picks out our
httlo girl. She is not carried away by force,
but gold is counted out, and sho is jierched
on a mule, and bids good-by forever to bar
barism. The purchaser takes every imagin
able pains with her education and apiar
ance. Sho is taught to read and write, to
daneo and sing, to embroider in silk and play
the guitar, and further initiated into all the
mysteries of the toilet. When sho hsa
grown into budding womanhood tho dealer
l.'ts his best customers know that he possesses
a treasure almost priceless, and nil her vir
tues and beauties aro detailed with the usual
Oriental exaggeration. Finally, some royal
princess or rich pasha's wife expresses a wish
to see her, and extra care having been taken
with her bath and dress, she is presented for
ins lection. She gives samples of her accom
plishments, musical, gymnastic and other
wise. Accepted, she is at once clothed with
a rich silk dress, and receives a present of a,
necklace or bracelet as an earnest of favt-j
before she joins her fellow slaves, Beyond
assisting her mistress in tho toilet, ac
companying her in her drives, and
handing her coffee and cigarettes, sho has
little to do. She is an ornamental append
ago rather than a servant. A household
such as one of these Circassians would enter-,
would contain a crowd of men servants, and
black women to do tha work, and perhaps
ton to twenty other girls like herself, and a
very gay time they have together. The
great ladies are very fond of exchanging
visits and giving musical entertainments, at
ell of wnich some of the slave girls attend
When she goes out with her mistress in th
uatty little brougham, almost the only differ
ence between the lady and the maid lies in
the former taking the right hand seat. The
girl is dressed in a way to do credit to the
house she belongs to, and often sparkles with
jewels, chatting freely with everybody at
tho places she visits, and enjoying herself as
fully as any of the emancipated.
When the time comes for her to be mar
ried, her owner chooses n suitable husband
and gives a rich dower, and many of tho
marriages of slave girls eclipse in magnifi
cence those of even the wealthier classes.
The erstwhile barefooted ragged little Cireas.
sian from Turcoman's Land is now a prin
cess or pasha's wife, with slaves of her own;
but shc would laugh if you suggested to her
that there was anything degrading in their
xsition or had been in her own. London i
8aturday Review. "
Moat Consumed by the Trench.
In the rural districts very little meat is
eaten, but Frenchmen who live in cities con
cumo a great deal of animal f ood. In Paris,
for example, tha annual consumption of
butchers' meat is 3,.j0,000,000 pounds, which
means an average of 170 pounds, for each
man, woman and child; and yet the total an
imal consumption for the whole of France ia
2,010,000,000 ounds, or an averago of only
70 pounds per head. If people in all pari3
vf Franco were as great meat eaters as those
of Paris it would require something like
0,000,000,000 pounds a year to supply them.
Outside of Paris the average i.r capita con-,
sumption in other cities varies from 170. to
S3 pounds per head, and in the rural sections
i( is not more than to rounks F vj-v
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Tho iiyligl.t Store.
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.lust after our inventory, we reduce
prices t sell the goods rather than to
carry over. We are willing to sell our
entire Winter Goods at e'st. Staples we
have a large quantity and oiler the in
very low. Calie-os : to 5 cents per yard,
making the best standard of the m at 20
yards for 1.00. Gingham best dress
styles 10 cents per yard. Dress giods
all kinds ut the ve-ry lowest prices, from
o cents per yarel upward. Woolen lio;!
we offer at cost, extra fne. L.ielii s casli-ine-re
hose, weirth 1.00, now 7."i ce-nts,
fine heavy wool 40 ee nls, now child
ren's line ribbed worth .10, now :t0. I'n
elcr wear must go at low prices, as we
will not kee-ji them over.
Our Gents Silver Grey Mi l ino Shirts
and drawers, former prices 50 now :11.
Our Gents Silver grey inarino shirts
r ...... .j..,.i.y J.'i now .10.
Our Scarlet all wool shuts and draw
ers I'm" ejuality 1.00 now 1.1 cents.
Our scarlet all wool shirts and diaw
e rs. line eptality 1.2-1 now 1.00.
Our scarlet all-wool shirts and elraw
e is, line quality 1.7.1 new 1,-M.
Oar scarlet all-wool shirts ami el raw
er, line-ejuality '2.00 now 1.10.
5i:tcli.s' - 'ITiEcliwcar,
EQUALLY AS CHEAP.
Our 2.1 per cent, eliscount on cloaks, is
still good. We are elite rmined to c lo-
out our entire stock and never before
has such an opportunity bee n oH'cnd to
economical buyers to purchase the bc-t
qualities for so little money.
Joseph V. Weckhnch.
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As per previous announcement, we liael
fully determined to discontinue business in
Plattsmouth and no advertised accordingly and
now, an satisfactory arrangements have leen
perfected for tlie continuance e.d same under the
management ot "Mr. J. Fi:dey ami J'. I JJuff
nei as book-keeper and cashier, we herewith
notify our friends and patrons of our iinal de
cision and kindly solicit a continuance of your
kind patronage, so freely extended during the
past sixteen years, by the adelition eif compe
tent clerical force.
On account of Mr. Solomon loaviner the
city and by the adoption of the su:ieTi.v
ne-Psce
Courteous treatment,
Ii Bed-Rock
yi We trust to merit your
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Will be open January 241), at the
OIi STiirTD OFF.rbOillUTlf
All work warranted first-class.
"W- IE. OUTIjIHJIR,. '
System,
and an elegant new
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Prices,
good will and patron-
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