The Plattsmouth daily herald. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1883-19??, April 12, 1889, Image 3

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    THE DAILY HERALD : 1JLA1TSM0(JTH, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1SS0.
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Wide. Sffeinstitcltecl iisselsags. Marrow Swiss Embroidery, ffiamburgh
Embroidery in ali widtbs
DOVEY & SON,
G. DOVET & SON,
E, G DOVEY & SON.
MOTIVES OF KID.XAI'i-liS.
t isi;
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earnest, too. l uitl-
WHY CILD?.EN AP.S SO OFTEN
STOLEN FP.Cr. THEin HOMES.
IVnpIe Aflli-!-:l willi Derail
ment W liii li i'roiiipt Them to Ihrdiui-Iui--io:i
of t!.e Crime (."!i-lr:ilel (Ws
Ilicliliii:; That of Charley Koj,.
"Why are children stolen? Xot ruany
of tlu m are kidnajnd in the hoje of e
cuniary reward. CuM's of this sort, such
as the CharKy IIts.- aItluction. are rare,
l'cvengo may i the motive in exception
al instances, hut usually it turns out that
the ire:its of the stolen child were ut
terly unknown to the abductors. That
the incentive is a jure love for children
anil the desire to have a chil.l is dis
proved by the fact that nine times in ten
the stolen one is wo!':iJ!v abused and
maltreated. I'robabi.v the. most satisfac-
ury explanation is that certain people
are affected !y a peculiar mental de
rangement which promj ts thesn to the
commission of the crim without malice
nforethou-'ht. It is. in fact, child klep
toman ia. although this ptvuliar phase
of mania has not been dignified with a
scientific name of its own in the lxok.
NOT OFTEN KCiC LOVE.
Even this theory falls short when we
think of the nuiucr:is cases in which,
-without apparent motive, two or three
persons unite t do the stealing. They
cannot each be af.Iicted simultaneously
to such an extent.
That a child stolon hy a partially insane
person should be inhumanly treated is no
cause for wonder: it naturally follows
that any one with so distorted a sense of
right and wrong. i:-o:-osarily without a
moiety of love or feeling, would not ho
capable of ten i-.-rucss or even considera
tion. In ISM a child named LainUrt was
6t, 4en from her parent- i:i I'aliiir.oro l.y
altung woman, apparently sane, purely
W-ii 'se she wanted it to keep. She was
d a few uar later, ana me ennu
matcly got thy child, hut my friend and
I are s.trangcrs yet."
::OT VKT FOKOOTTEN.
Any mention of child stealing always
recalls tlie C'harK'v Koss case. So cele
!?ra'.d was the all'air that now, sixteen
eai s:ifter, it has not to a great degree
A SPORTSMAN'S TROPHIES.
3Ir.
I faded out of the opular mind, though
! perhaps the details have.
Ch.-istian K. Koss lived in a handsome
I dwelling, i.ulateil by a large ard. in
(Jerii'.antown. a Philadelphia suburb.
One July afternoon all of the family hap
pened to he absent save two young broth
ers, aged 4 and S years. They were play
ing together in the front street when two
men drove up in a covered wagon. One
of the men jumped out and addressed
the little loys. offered them candy, and
finally pur.suaded them to take a ride.
After driving a short distance the elder
brother was given some money and sent
on an errand for more candy. He re
turned in a few minutes, but the wagon
had disapjeared, and Charley Koss has
not been seen to this day. The crime was
committed to extort a ransom for the re- I
turn of the child, but the abductors' fear '
of capture was so great that no agree-
:ncnt between them and the father was
ever successfully carried out. The search
for the missing child was pursued un-
ccasingly and thorougldy. Prominent 1
I hiladelpluans interested themselves in
the m.:tter, and seemingly no stone was
L'ft unturned. Countless trips were made
to Lurope, every gypsy camp in the world
was searched; the identity of over 400
children was investigated, but without
avail. Two men were fatally shot while
committing a burglary on Long Island
the following year, and while dj-ingcon- !
fessed that they had stolen the child, but ,
did not divulge its whereabouts. I
A third conspirator was subsequently
Von ilcr "Wetteru'n Collection of Deer
Horns, Guiu, Etc.
Mr. W. Von der Wettern, Sr., who re
sides at No. 413 "West Saratoga street, is
one of the best posted sportsmen in Bal
timore. He was originally a forester in
(Germany. The ritlo is his choice gun,
and, while he is fond of small game
i hooting, large game has been his favor
ite sport. That he is a master hand at
rifle shooting a case of twenty gold med
als attests.
Like all ardent sportsmen Mr. Von der
Wettem has preserved many trophies of
the chase, his collection of deer and
other horns being one of the finest, if
not the finest, in this country. The
horns number over 300 pair, and are val
ued at over $10,000. They were all beau
tifully mounted by Mr. Von der Wet
tern, and, as he keeps them for his own
pleasure, the immense amount of work
which ho has spent on them has been a
source of pleasure.
On reaching the fourth floor of Mr.
Von der AVettern's dwelling the visitor
finds himself confronted by a passage,
the walls of which are studded with
mounted horns, under which are a lot of
cages filled with song birds. The horns
are of all kinds and so arranged above
and alxnit the cages as to remind the
looker on of a rose bush with its thorns
guarding the roses. In two rooms lead
ing from the passage are neatly and sys
tematically arranged nearly 300 pairs of
horns. The mounting is artistic. Each
pair is a true pair, being attached by the
frontal bone of the animal to which they
belonged. By the means of screws pass
ing through this bone the horns are at
tached to the shield shaped wooden
panels, the size of the panels being in
neatly iftted into a "lit e sized ;heau" car veu
from wood. Tho horns are nearly as tall
as a man, and it takes a lengthy pair of
arms to be able to span the distance be
tween the top prongs. One horn contains
nine and the other seven prongs. Another
pair from a Montana elk, though con
taining but twelve prongs, weighs thirty
six pounds. The lightest pair weighs
eighteen pounds. Deer horns from dif
ferent species of deer naturally form the
larger part of the collection. The finest
specimen is from a black tailed deer
killed in Colorado. It has fifteen prongs.
The others range down to one prong.
Among the deer horns those of the Ger
man noble deer are the most beautiful.
the colors ranging from light brown to a
seal brown and black, tho tips of all
being jolished white. The largest of the
collection has fourteen prongs.
Mr. Von der AVettern's firearms are all
adapted to the sport to which he is de
voted. Besides a regular target rifle, he
has a case of guns of foreign and domes
tic patteros, generally of smaller bores,
from 12 down to 16. Some of them are
combination guns for shot and ball. One
fowling piece has two sets of barrels of
different caliber which fit the same stock.
A handsome leather case sheathes a col
lection of his hunting knives. Baltimore
Sun.
fol uid mangled and bleeding, and
st dt uo evitlt'nce showed that
arresti
was
the child hvJ maltreated "because
it wouldn't vJk fast enough.
Of course. iVre are many cases when
the abduction to abnormal love
and yearning. tw.r-nd simple. A well
known judge the Jrr day id: Last
T crtt. 1.1) tJiJ-iJ.' '-"6''-,u'
vears oni.
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i:ig too
summer
Tl T l;tT,-fc rrtrT 4
rAng to stand the t r. p. wa placed m
J'Vare of a frfc.n.V'f e. whose
itZiv consists of a wu . r and one child.
When the folks came bac n the autumn
I went To get the child, but " 3. o" thin
willing to give her up.' Not much.
So said: Tve had this child sx months
bow. and I don't propose to ,-art with
Ser You have a large family. a.id can
YuSas well spare that little girl as not.
Sw if you go to law about it and to
Zt the child, I PIf you can, I
S regard you as unworthy of respect
and wilT never speak to you as long as I
This from a. friend of jca stand-
conviotitl of complicity and sentenced to j conformity with the horns. The panels
a long term in prison, protesting his in-i are attached to the walls by hooks, so
nocence and denying all knowledge of i tliat they may be easily handled,
the affair. It i3 "the popular theory that ; There are horns that would have been
the abductors, at last finding themselves i the pride of old hunters in the days when
-i -i i i . i i-i i t i r i r i
Koss is living down at Germantown, a pouches; horns that would adorn the
worn out, heart broken old man, but etill halls of a mansion; horns that the dude
hoping on that some day, somehow, the I would give up his last dollar for, so that
i -. . i ii -ii i i i j i - I . : . i l ii- i ii- i i i
httle fellow will come back little i:o
longer, but to his loving memory tho
same sunny faced, golden Jiaired boy of
sixteen years ago.
Three j ears before the disappearance
of the Koss boy Freddie Leib, a pretty
little child of 5 years, was stolen in about
tho same manner at Quincy, Ills. He was
never recovered, although tho father im
poverished himself in tho search.
his cane and umbrella handle mlirht be
the envy of his fellow chappies; horns,
big and little, straight and crooked, of
normal and abnormal growth, from for
eign shores and different parts of Ameri
ca, some with and some without a his
tory; some that would make corkscrews,
some that would make gimlets, some
that would make' boat hooks and others
that would make baseball batsand bat-
One of the most mysterious cases of re- i tie axes. In fact, it would be hard to
cent years was the stealing of Lillie Shaff-
ner, a 14-months-oId baby, in this city
about fi ve years ' ago. The family lived
on Wesson street, and two older children
were wheeling the baby to and fro in
front of the Jionso. A strange woman
stopped, and after playing with the baby
a moment gave the other children some
money to go buy candy. When they rer
tumed the woman and child had disap
peared. It wa3 ascertained that she had
D:iarded a nassing street car with the
find a more varied or beautiful collection.
Besides the horns the sanctum contains
a collection of pipes and canes of rare
designs, gathered from different part3 of
the world.
Mr., Von der Wettern has not as yet
catalogued his collection of horns, but
on each pair he has attached a ticket
which bears the name of the animal from
which tho horns were taken. The most
striking of the horns are those of the
elk. One pair of these came from an
A Plumber' Trick.
The Sanitary News describes a new
plumbers' trick, which has Ijeen first du
covered in Iilwaukee. but' ma v be known
elsewhere, so that architects and inspect
ors will do well to be on their guard
against it. in Milwaukee, as in man
-.1- ll !
oiner cuies. an sou pun's put up in
dwelling houses must be tested by fiiiin;
them with water. A certain firm, know
ing that a defective pipe had been used
contrived to plug it with clay, so that
the water applied for testing it did not
enter the pipe at all. It is not stated how
the inspector happened to find out this
ingenious deception, but he did. and the
offending firm wa.i reported, and pun
ished by liaving its license revoked until
cue ueiective pipe sin uid Ie replaced by
a new one. Mo.st persons will sav that
the revocation of the license ought to
have been made permanent. Scientific
American.
Profeshioual Advice.
Certain physicians are careful not to
give advice to people except when they
are formally consulted, or in the strict re
lation of physician and patient.
One evening, at a social party, a lady
was introduced to the celebrated Dr.
B .
"O doctor, I'm so glad to have met
How to Deal with tJinlitlieria.
A committee of the Massachusetts
Medical society, appointed to confer with
the6tato board of health relative to diph
theria, officially recommends that the
society, both collectively and individu
ally, should foster as far as they can a
proper sentiment in tho community as to
the contagious nature of the disease, and
more especially should encourago its
earliest possible recognition and report
to tl-.o board of health in each individual
case. By theso methods a public Eeiiti
rnent will sooner or later be created jus
tifying and requiring fiom the proper
authorities a suitable separate hospital
for th. treatment of infectious and con
tagious diseases: such, for instance, as
are required by law in England, with
ample means for support, and over which
tlie re i-hall be absolute authority, as al
ready exists over tho hospital for small
pox. In the absence of tiiese necessary
facilities for thorough isolation it is im
possible to exercise an efficient control
over the various dangerous diseases that
from time to time lecome epidemic in the
city, and which have gained a permanent
foothold here. Boston Journal.
I
1 V 3 for
Ui MI i
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OFFERED
an Incurable ohao of CaUrrk
tkellead byttio proprietors of
DR. SAGE S CATARRH REMEDY.
Symptom of Catarrh. Hoalache.
ebetruction of nose, diKebuwu falling1 into
throat, sometimes profuse, watery, anri aeri'l,
at others, thick, tenacious, mucous, purulent,
bloody and putrid ; eyps weak, niiRiriK in curs,
deufnees. difficulty of clearing throat, expecto
ration of offensive matter: breath offensive:
smell and taste impaired, and general debility.
Only a few of theso symptoms likely to be pres
ent at once. Thousands of r ases result In con
sumption, nnd end in tho frrave.
Uy its mild, soothing-, and healing- properties.
Dr. SHge's Remedy cures the worBt canes. 50c.
QaB&Wt I rum Dm ie
' l C3kt PA. Pwrlv Vrgrta-
UnequaledasaIlverPiII. Smnllest.eheap
Mt, easiest to take. One Pellet a Uoite.
Cure Sick Headache, liiliona f leadar lie,
DizzineiM, Cloiitipution, I iidiKCiioii,
Bilious Attacks, and all derangements of
th stomach and bowel. eta. by drug-g-isU.
ooVSL-
C. SCHMIDT,
((Ol'NtV El'KVKVOU,)
Civil Engineer
you!"' exclaimed the lady.
leu me,
have an
what do you do when you
awful bad cold?"
"Cough, ma'am," said the celebrated
Dr. C . Youth's Companion.
"This, butter, Mr. Spicer," said the
dealer, "carried ofT the prize at the
fanners fair," and Seth spat out a taste
of the compound and remarked: "Un
less the prize was a ship's anchor ar.d
, chain cable, 1 would think the butter
Carried tho Proofs with Tliem.
Two ex-Confederates who applied for
allowance under the maimed soldier act
badly hurt during the war. About 2 SUrVGVQr SHU UTaff 211111
o'clock- Mr. Lucius Maxwell walked in. ' U ' ' 1 " ' " 0 1 1
and taking from his pocket an old Con
federate passport slowly unwound it and
laid before Col. Tip Harrison sis pieces
of Ids skull. Mr. Maxwell was a mem
ber of the Forty-second Georgia regi
ment, and received a terrible wound in
the head in one of tho battles around
Atlanta in July, 18GL About 4 o'clock
Mr. Joseph us Iiiden came in and took
from his pocketbook a piece of his own
6kull which he has preserved all these
3-ears. Mr. Iiiden was a member of the
Thirty-fourth Georgia regiment, and was
shot in the top of his head at the battle
of Jonesboro. To this day these unfor
tunate veterans still suiter from th
Cxiectsof their dangerous wounds, and
oave never been able todocteadv work
since they were received. It Li hardlv
necessary to add that the applications of
botii were promptly allowed. Atlanta
CViri'i;'!:! ion
Plans, Specifications and Estimates, Mu
nicipal Work, .Maps &c.
PLATTSf!OUTH. - - NEB.
C. F. SM iTH,
The Boss Tailor
Maia St., Over Merges' Shoe Store.
Has the best and most complete stock
of samples, both foreign and domestic
woolens that ever came weht of Missouri
river. Note these prices: ISusinet-s suits
from $10 to dr-ss suits, to 4..
th pants -f 4, $.3, $6, $ G..r,0 and upwards.
ZSTWill guarantee a fit.
Prices Defy Comoetilion.
b.ibr in her arms, but that was the last i Oregon elk, and attached to the horns is couiU ,iave C31Tlca 11 ou easily. Oro-
cver seen of either. Chicago Tribune. a portioij .of. the skull. of the animaL cers Advocate. t
Lady Travelers.
A great deal is said and written tend
ing to show that the gentler sex know as
little about traveling as the sterner sex
know of fjishion plates, but it is about
time to call a halt on that proposition.
Traveling by rail lias become so common
that there are very few ladies, emigrants
excluded, and among that class the men
know as little as the women, who are
not jerfeetly capable of taking care of
themselves on a journev of a few hun-.
dred miles. They are as speedily served
with tickets as tho average man. and
more readily TLpcsed of than manv of
the latter, and ;.-:k fewer questions as to
when the tram will depart, where it can
be found, how often they will lie com
pelled to change cars, etc. The age is
progressive, and in railroad traveling
the ladies are keeping right up with the
procession. St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
BUSINESS DIUECTOItY.
ATTORNEY.
S. F. TIIf'MAS.
AttoniP'-af-L-iw and Notary 1'uWic. Ofllce In
Vird.gf.TA U Diouk. f'latlf mou'tii. Neb.
ATlOI'.N'l Y.
A. N sri.MVA.
Attorney-ar-.aw. V.'lll trive p.-.'nr t attention
to ail niiMnes Intrusted to !:ii. onw-e in
Union Block, East side. I'liiltsmoutli. Neb.
GKOCEKIES
c'Hiifs. wrmi KiHTii
Map.a and rjitiey lirocer'e.
Crockery, Flour and Feed.
J.II.EiOI0NS,3I.I).
IDYOJOfATHIC
Physician Surgeon
ffle and residence eoracr of Seventh street
and Wvijngron Ave-.ue. Telephone No. m.
Chronic Dinjmei and Dise ites ot Women sad
Children a specially. Office hours, 9 U to a. Ui.
to 5 aad 7 to 9 p. m.