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.Si THK DAILY HERALD; JLATISMUUTH, NEBRASICA, THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1888. Tne Evening Herald. OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE CITY. A. KalNbarr, lrphoae 3u, DeatUt, Rockirood Building, Dr. Klgfftai, OlDrn la Sherwood Blork, KkI Jeaee Cor. Sixth aal (iraaltc. Telephone So. 42. Dra. Cato A Smith, the Palalnta nratUta, I'uloa Block, oter C'llUoaa' Bank, ruttftoiouth. CITY CORDIALS. Remember the banquet tonight. Admission to the gallery tonight, 25 cents. "What's the matter with the banquet tonight? It's all right. Tickets will be sold for the gallery in the opera house for 25 cents tonight. What's the matter with the gpeakcra who will be present tonight? They're all right. Gentlemen, take your ladies to the great republican banquet at the opera hou.se tonight. Republicans should secure cam paign handkerchiefs from J. II. Don nelly for the banquet tonight. Any citizen, democratic or republi can w ill be admitted to the gallery at the opera house tonight for 25 cents. Thomas B.f Miles appeared before Judge Russell this morning and procured a licenre to wed Mrs. Mary Dixon. J. v. v tckbach, received today, a stock of boots and bhors and is ready now to furnish you with new shoes. Call and examine them. Shpriff Eikeubary and Marshal Ma- lick, accompanied by their families, went on a fishing expedition yesterday. Tliev arrested several fish. me members or the ulee clui were pleased to welcome Mr. ('has. Whitney, one of their members, home again today to participate in the eutertaiument at the opera house tonight. lie has been at Ar lington for sometime visiting his parents Mr. Daniel Bunis will start out with his subscription paper tomorrow to make collections in the interests of Jedd Vance. The boy is now able to sit up and take care of himself. We trust none who have put down their names to represent any amount will not refuse to pay now as the boy will not be able to work this summer and. will need assistance. - The wife of Mr. Jake Vallery. who resides about 6 miles west of the city, met with a very painful accident yester day. A new house is being built on their property an?T several boards were Mattered on the ground which had nails sticking from them. She stepped on a board, running a nail into the hollow of her left foot until it was stopped by com ing in contact with the bone. Quite a lengthy notice was given in tins paper concerning the move some of the striking engineers had taken, but none of the names of those going back were given. Out of the twenty-five striking engineers who signed request to the IJ. & 31. management asking to be taken back, the following old employes were notified to return and went to work this morming: Joe McCoy, Chas. Mar tin, Sid Wheeler, Mart Cushing, Lou Pennington, Jake Coffnian, Frank Pal mer, Geo. Pronger, Green Coffmau, Robt. Smith, J. W. . Halliday, Glenson and others have been assigned places at Lin coln, Mc-Cook and Denver. The taking back of the old men will not interfere with the positions held by new men, and those who assisted the company when they needed help, will now be taken care of. The above action created quite a stir in the brotherhood camp and a gen ral rejoicing among their friends. This is just the commencement cf the end, and Plattsmouth is proud to have set the example. There will be more to fol low. This morning a wise young man who earns his bread by the sweat of his brow, by distributing mail for the citizens was badly defeated although he acquired considerable satisfaction at the time. II t. . 1 Til , 1 nau arweu iiunseii wun a uucket, gone to a punipOJ in the vicinity of the court house, pumped the bucket full of the life-giving tluid from that quarter, re turned with it as far as McElwaiu's jew elry store, and noticing a number of his friends engaged in conversation in the store dropped his pail, made a dart, ap earing upon the scene in ample time to catch a thread and participate in the edi fying conversation which was being in diilged in by the assemblage. When all vere deeply absorbed, two brothers of the c-aniue fraternity appeared on the scene, looked ic every direction on the street, and supposiag no gentleman would in terfere when such an opportunity was left open to them, immediately engaged themselves in a hearty drink of the fresh water which the gentleman had, a short time before, pumped, for himself. A minister w as near by at the time, and his services would have been engaged in be half of the dogs had it not been for their elasticity in making themselves scarce at the time the young man appeared by the backet with a foot uplifted ready for a kick that would only have assured about one minute's life for the dogs, had he let it go as swift as he had first intended and the dogs remained still where they were. One received a kick which caused it to produce a couple of yelps andMisappear. CRASS WIDOWERS- A Dozen or so of Them In Platts mouth Look Upon Themselves as Privileged Characters Wife, You Had Better Come Home to Your Hubby. An unmarried gentleman of leisure, who was possessed of an extraordinary pleasing countenance and who, upon in quiry, was found to be making a tour of the country, made a visit to this great city of ours. Although he professed to be a man of leisure without any particu lar aim in view, yet people of whom he made many inquiries were left under the impression that more than just tho idea of pleasure-seeking called him from town to town. If we were to judge from his many similar questions the cause, Ave would decidedly state that he was on the alert for the woman of his heart. Platts mouth only detained him a short time from the continuation of his tour, and when he was about to leave this city he was heard to remark : "Of all the towns, cities or villages ever yisitcd by me, this city affords less encouragemeut than any to a man who has in view the same good object as myself." He could not possibly hold himself long cr.and hcing'unablc to secrete the ovei flo of a wounded heart which was made sore from deep regret of such total discourage incut upon reaching Plattsmouth, that he exhibited the most crest-fallen' expression every witnessed by any one. On being questioned as to his trouble he explained "I am learning that the further west go, the worse it is lor me ana the mon fruitless my journey. Plattsmouth is the termination of my route, for if more sucl discouragement greets me, I will count my journey a failure, and fall victim of the ridicule of the many heartless grass-widowers your city is possessed of. As far as I can see wherethe young men have not already got the advantage, the men whose wives hav gone east, west, north and south are pay ing attention to the widows, grass-wid ows, girls young and old, making them selves so prominent in the field that stranger like myself is ignored by the women whose present chances arc so nu merous. Occasionally those men I speak of are seen driving up to the front of the residences here in your city inviting some one to take a drive, and I have noticed that invariably a lady comes out to ac company them. The appearance of the grass-widowers I speak of is so marked by a change of apparel they always look so prim, and I also notice that they always wear clean collars now, keepthei neckties straight, and in every way take good care to present thciuielyes in as handsome attire as any young man who goes on a flirting expedition. If they are asked by an intimate friends who are like ly to extend information Li their wives, if they are made aware of facts. how grass widerhood agrees with them, there is not one among the crowd of inyincibles who will not drop his head immediate', as though the thought caused him a pan or deep feeling of loneliness, and explain in a trembling voice: ''Oh, if my wife would only shorten her visit and return to me soon, what a happy man I would be. I cannot be contented at the house now. When I is.ni studying or reading, I will suddenly look around to say a word to her, but alas ! she is gone, and the strongest sense of loneliness then pre sents itself to me. I feel as though all the iriends I ever had on earth had left me, because my wife is all in this world to me. They will then plan their course for another day. It is true they do not care to remain long in the house, and they start oil an expedition each day as though they had business, iu yiew on which some one's life depended. They all seem to forget that this is leap year and that their wives who are many miles away are los ingjno chances which the privileges of this, their great year, affords them. I have not the slightest doubt but that the wives of those men are flying high, flirt ing, and saying to their gentlemen at tendants: "That husband of mine will never dream that you are so good and kind to me. He is the best husband in the world, I am sure I can trust him. I am probably doing him an injustice, but what's the odds, he will never be auy the wiser, so you need not care." Such are the thoughts of the wives whom the husbands here are trying to deceive. It is no more than right that the women should be informed of this, and as the Herald reaches nearly all of them, aa over.-tax cn postage will be the result or the railroad companies will reap a harvest. BAD BLOOD. There is not one thing that puts a man or woman at sucii disadvantage before the world as a vitiated etate of the blood Your ambition is gone. Your courage has failed. Your vitality has left you. Your languid step and listless ac tions show that you need a powerful in yigorator, one bottle of Beergs' Blood Purifier and Blood JIaker will put new life in a worn out system, and if it does not it will cost you nothing. O. P. Smith & Co., Druggists. What's the matter with Harrison to night! ue s a'.l rtnht. Another Base Ball Came. The Fort Omaha team, which is report ed to be classed among the most success ful clubs in Omaha and vicinity, has signed a contract to play a game with the riattsmouth team here tomorrow (Friday.) - Since the home team was victorious in the hotly contested game between them and Lincoln, and aftei holding their own so admirably in the Council Bluffs game, the boys will work with more assurance Lthis time, and that encouragement with the continual practice they have lad since, will send them iim the field to morrow feeling that victory will surely fall to them, and we feel quite confident it will. The game will bo. called at 3:30 sharp, and let all lovers ot the came be on hand early. The following list gives the names of the players and their positions: FLATTtf. J. Patterson T- Patterson Coolidge Chapin O'Rourk Oliver Jones Reese Pollock FT. OMAHA c 1 1st b 2nd b 3rd b s s 1 f c. f r f L. Purtill Gust Cuthbert Coady Hays McLaughlin Huff Millet A. Purtill This morning the attention reporter was attracted to a sight of the which made his blood run cold although day has been very warm. We do know who should be blamed for cause, but however, Dr. Salisbury the not the was the victim. We have heard the remark that: "It's a cold day when the flies roost on me," but we never heard of a mouse taking a sleeping abode on a man's hat before. As the doctor was busily en gaged in one corner of his room in the blacksmith shop adjoining his oflice, hammering away at his anvil and pound ing teeth into shape which are to be used by some of the Plattsmouth old maids, he found no use for his hat and left it in the oflice to be used by the first passer-by as an article of amusement if so desired. We did not wait until the doctor wished to make use of hi3 hat, but it is supposed that when he picked it up in a hur ry, without noticing the mouse which was so comfortable on its throne and monarch of all it surveyed, that when peo ple drew his attention to it he remarked: "It will be a cold day when the mice roost on me again." The time has arrived in the annals of our nation's history, that each true and loyal citizen should be awake to all duties and responsibilities resting upon them as citizens, that each may be able to insciibe upon its sacred pages some thing worthy of the administration, not only of the fiein but of all future gen erations. An inspiration is given to us when we have the knowledge that the citizens of Plattsmouth arc awake to such duties and responsibilities, and that they are ever ready to do anything that will promote the interest and welfare of this great nation. This they have de monstrated in the preparation of a grand banquet for this evening, which in all probability will surpass anything of the kind ever given in this city, in every re spect, and so far their success hasjexceed ed their highest anticipations. This should incourage every man that lias an interest in the coming campaign. This we be lieve will be the iv-sli tlien in the end. It may be said of every oie, this eam- palgn lias been better for their having lived through it. We have heard of men being arrest ed,) shot, sclapod, muzzled, tared and feathered, kicked out of shape, and eyen hanged for kissing and attempting to kiss another man's wif. One of the above fates rSfght have been assigned to the city attorney today had it not been for his keenness in discovering his mistake just iu time to save iiinicjf. A lady had taken a pattern from his wife's wearing apparel and was busily engaged this morning in assisting the young ladies of the Young Ladies Reading Room Associ ation in arranging the tables at the opera house for the banquet tonight. The at- i 7 T 1 lorney appeared, its gazeu in amaze ment for some time at the beautiful deco rations. He was quite still for awhile and his attention was attracted but little y any of the ladies until the appearance ot "one dressed as ins wite. lie started. and the lady started, when she learned it was his jntentjon to embrace her. Jte was given the toid shouider and he wa glad it happened so when he discovered his mistake and that l.U fjetter half was not far -distant at the time. PERSONALS. Mr. C. O. Wells, of Omaha, is iu the ciiy tod:, J. Mr. II. Chapin ret u rued frri Crete yes terday afternoon on the flyer. Jlrs. J. M. Johns and little girl this morning for Macksburgs, la. Sir, Keiscer, who was iu Omrdia terday, returned home this morning. Mr. J. I. Unruh, furniture dealer, turned last night from his trij east. left yes- re- Mrs. B. Elson and family left this morning for Colfax, Iowa, for a short vi sit. Miss Anna Coleman left last evening at 7:15 for a two months visit with rela tives and friends in Illinois. . Coal is Cash. The undersigned coal dealers, doing business in the city of Plattsmouth, deem it to the best interests of the public, as well as of the dealers, to sell coal strictly and exclusively for cash. Coal is a commodity that is, and should be, sold on a very close margin, too small, in fact, for the dealers to trust to the de lays and uncertainties of collections. The dealers are required to pay spot cash for coal. The credit system entails a serious los3 cacli season, by reason of the amount of bad debts necessary to be charged off to profit and loss, and in the additional expense required for book keepers, collectors, etc. By dispensing with the above formid able items of expense, dealers can afford to sell coal at lower prices, and they feel assured that this will commend itself to the thinking public. For the above reasons, therefore, the coal dealers have decided to sell for cash only, ON AND A FT EH JULT 11, 188. This means just what it says. Timothy Cr.AitK. tf II. A. Waterman fc Son. BANANAS A BLESSING THERE. fTaldor Makers I'rrtty Nearly Everything Out of tUn rlri or the Tree. A yo-.mg Salvadorian, with tho dark eyes and inky hair of Lis countrvy-talked to a reports-r the other day nLout tho Central American banana treo. Tho tree is 2l to ! feet in circumference nt ita base. Its tap ering fibrous l-ly, without a branch, is from !0 to l." feet in height. Tho fibers, separated by a thin pith, are as long as tho body of tho tree. These liliers are ns.-d in Salvador, ju.-t as thoy aro taken from tho tree, as shoe strings and as cords for all purposes. Tho natives u o them largely for bridle reins and lariats, 'i he raw material costs only trans- Iortatio:i to the ropewalks. Each banuna tree bears in tho twelve months of its exis!-:ico only one bunch of fruit, but from two to ten trees spring from the roots of the one that has fallen. In .Sal vador the bunch of bananas is worth fifteen cents, mid the dead tree nothing. A cordage factory or paper mill or coffee sack maker, were not tho dead trees numberless, would give for each tree ten times tho value of the fruit it ha3 produced. Root, dried and packed, tho bodiea of tho banana trees might beshijied profitably to tho United States; but there is no reason why somo enterprinhig American would not take them in hand and ship to Salvador the proper machinery for their manufacture, as labor is fully two thirds cheaper there than in New York. In Salvador ropewalks are found in unfre quented streets and suburban roads. The native machinery consists of a crank attached to an upright board, with which a native boy twists the filers of the bandana and cac tus. A man skilled in the rojevalker"s art splices the fibers together, adding to the length and thickness of the revolving cord. The stem of each banana leaf consists of the toughest and finest threads, and these leaves, two and a half and three feet wide, and ten to fifteen feet long, resting on the heads of native women, are umbrellas in the rainy season iu i opfless market places and streets of Salvador. These are the carpets on which tho people sit and the beds on which they sleep. "There is a fine opportunity," said the Salvadorian, 'for somo enterprising American with a small capital to do a thriv ing trade and make money by introducing western ideas and machinery to the people of Salvador." Xew York Mail and Express. The J'oacliiu of Agriculture. It is a well-known fact in real life that every man who is master of a practical art connected with tho production of wealth will find it far movo profitable to practice tho art than to teach it. A successful merchant coulil never afford to teach bookkeeping. A great refiner of petroleum oils could not accept the paltry salary which even Yalo or Harvard could afford to pay to a teacher of tho art of reliuinp: oils. Kven a good base ball pla3'er will draw a higher salary in tho practice of his calling than the Lest col lego president commands for his services. So one who knows how to farm at a real profit to himself and to tho world cannot afford to stop farming in order to teach the art, and very likely would make a poor teacher, after the first half hour, if he did. Ono reason for this is that an art is not reducible ti principles that can be taught if each person that succeeds in it succeeds "py different means, under different conditions and on precisely opposite methods to tbos-o on which others succeed. One farmer suc ceeds by exhausting his soil, another by replenishing it; one by abundant seed, an other by thin seed planting; ono by under drainage, another by saving wages and avoiding expenditure; one by rotation of crops, and another by letting land lie fallow, and another by continuous cropping of the same land to the same product. It is as in business: one man will succeed by giving many and long credits, another by paying and demanding cash down; one by being curt and gruir, another by being suave and polite, and so on. What it is wis for a business man to do depends on his own imme diate exigencies, and a teacher can never fol low the myriad forms of business into these practical exigencies. Hence, the teaching of agriculture, like tho teaching of any other practical art, is beset by two insuperable diffi culties at tho start, vizi : First, good farmers will not and cannot teach, and the teaching of men who are not themselves good farmers cannot be good teaching, for a bad farmer cannot teach good farming; second, the arts and the judgment that comprise good farm ing vary in somo degree with every farm and with every farmer, and hence are not re ducible to teachable principles. Frank Les lie's. Russia's asy Victory. In the little war Great Britain' has now on hand with Thibet two scrimmages have thus far occurred, and r;oth times tho Buddhist warriors hare been sent scampering off tha field of battle with an eye single to getting out of cannon range. This funny little war suggests Professor Varubery's explanation of Russia's easy victory over the Tartars ot Central Asia. AVhilo the Russian, ho said, Lad a first rate weapon and the best of pow der, the Tartar had only an old rusty gun which rested upon a wooden fork. When he wanted to shoot he first looked around for a level spot, where he tuck his fork in the ground. Then with a flint and some tinder he set about kindling a Are. After he had lit his tinder he applied it to hia coarse powder, th3 gun exploded,' the fork tumbled down, and the Lord only knew where the bullet went. The valiant Tartars cf the Dalai Lama have a somewhat similar equipment, and any victories Great Britain may win on the Thibetan border are hardly likely to enhance her military prestige. New York Sun. ' Our Mid-Summer Slaughter Sale ! In order to Clean up our OdU and Ends in various Depart incuts wo Shall oiler Extraordinary inducements for this week. 3 - Special Bargains in Hosiery - 3 Lo T I. At 25 cents a .pair Our Entire Line of Children's Printed Hose that have never before retailed for le..s ll cents a pair. Ladies' Hose in Solid Colors and Strij.cs from 35 to 50 cents a pair. jOT II. At 50 cents a pair comprises our Entire Line Plain and Iiihbed Enrlidi Lisle Thread Hose, I) j us from 75 to 00 cents a pair. Ladies' Eancv Silk Plaited Hose. worth from 75 to $1.00 a pair. At 75 cents a pair takes in our Stock of Children's 1 Striped Lisle Hose, worth $1.50 a pair. Ladies' Euney and Silk Hose worth $1.50 a pair. .OX III. Extraordinary Gauze and Satin Pans, Plain and .50 to SI. 75, reduced to 1.10. SI Handsome Satin and Eeather from $2.00 to $2.50, reduced to .Elegant Carved Pone Handle sold from $3.00 to 3.50, reduced to $2.JJ0. Plack and Gray Ostrich Eeather Eans, formerly SL50, reduced to $3.40. Our $S.00 Ostrich Eeather Ean, Pone Handle, in Cream, Maize and Black, reduced to 5.00. Our $10.00 Ostrich Eeather Ean, Shell Handle, in Plack ami Gray, reduced to $0.50. Eull Lines of Japanese Eans at Popular Prices. Bargains In Parasols ! Cream Lace Covered and Pongee Silk Lace Trimmed Parands wort h from 4.00 to $5.00, now $3.00. Cream and Plack Lace-Covered Porasols thai H!d from $7.00 to $8.00, reduced to $5.0. Plack Headed Lace-Covered Parasols that told at $0.50, reduced to $0 50. Eaney Striped Coaching Parasols duced to $5.00. Silk Sun Umbrellas at Greatly Pednced Prices. Alpaca find Pomhazine Parasols at Greatly Peduced Prices, e r r ONE DOOE EAST FIR&T NATIONAL BANK. Ladies, Attention ! Iiecamier Toilet Preparations wh include Cream, Balm, Moth and Freckle Lotion, Powder and Toilet Sofip, are sold only by Gering & Co., and recommended by the following society ladies : Mes dames Adelina Patti-Xicolini, James Brown Potter, Lillie Langfry, Bernhardt, Helena Modjcska, Eavenport, Clara Louise Kellog one hundred others. tf. Furniture for Sale. A fine lot of household furniture cai be purchased at a moderate price, also a fine residence can be rented which is in a convenient location for parties wishii to keep boarders. There r.re several large rooms in the bouse which would find ready tenants. For information ap ply at this office. lOjl. Furnished House to Rent. A furnished house is open to tenants at a moderate raie. The proprietor offers to board with the family that rents the house. Any family without small child ren can have a good chance by inquiring of W. W. Cole. Will J. Warrick has the best and larg est 6tock of wall paper in the city, their styles are new and fresh and no job lots of last year's designs or bankrupt stock to run off, if you want the latest and best assortment of new goods see Warrick's stock. dwlw Silk bandanas; cotton bandanas and camiaign handkerchiefs of all kinds at Donnelly s. Best in the world. German Vegetable Liver Pills. For sale by Gering Co. Use Blackberry Cordial for Diarrhoea and Dysentery. Guaranteed to give satisfaction. Sold only by Gering fc Co. Plenty of feed, flour, graham ami meal at Ileisel s mill, tf I sell shoes cheaper than anybody. Call nd be convinced, no trouble to show goods. tf. Petep. Merges. Whea'your skin is yellow. V hen your skin id dark and creasy. When your skin is rough and course u hen your skin is inflamed and red. When your skin is full of blotches. When your skin is full of pimples you need a good blood medicine that can be relied upon. Beggs' Blood Purifier and Blood Maker is warranted as a positive cure for all of the above, so you cannot possibly run any risk when you get a bot tle of this wonderful medicine. For sale by O. P. Smith & Co. Those elegant Iiecamier Toilet pre parations at Gering & Co's. Men's canvass shoes at Merges', only 85 cents, everythiqg cheap. tf. The cheapest shoes at Merges . tf. Enncy i an 50 worth of for Children's nerly Mild Lisle and iiricy Values In Fans1 Hand-Painted, formerly sold 1 om Eans, Uand-Paintcd, fniinerly fold $1.00. Satin Pans, Hand Painted, formerly 1.00 to sold from that, soh for $5.00 reduced lo from $0.50 to $.00 $3. re m a n n o f yp .41 Funny Mi fy. 6 pt 8 m s iter 3 i 3 P ?. Hi LQ o 0 I.J J' Dl-' o ft in 0P t) n Watches ! "Watciics I H. M. GAULT Has moved and is now in the Mk rwood room, Cor. oth and Main Sts., v. lu re he is better nblc to (-how his Large Stock of Watches, CLOCKS AND JEWELRY ! Than ever before, and will as an induce ment sell you Watt In s way down. Call and get the Special Prices in Gold Watch es; it will surprise you. A Full Line of the bej-t styles ot Jewelry and Silverware. Repairing will be given Special Atten tion. All work warranted to give satis faction. Personal attention to iny care. to all Business Entrust- X OTA ICY IX OKI-' If K. Title? Examined. Af-staretH CumuileJ In surance Written, Keal EMate Sold. Better Facilities for making Farm Loan- than Any Other Agency. Plattsmouth, - it Send your job work to the IIekai.d office. Colic, Diarrhrsa and Summer com plaints are dangerous at this season of the year and the only way to guard against these diseases is to have constant ly on hand a bottle of some reliable rem edy. Beggs' Diarrhoea Balsam is a POS ITIVE RELIEF in all these disagreeable cases and is pleasant to take. It Mill cost you only 35 cents. O. P. Smith & Co., Druggists. I V.
