TOL" DAILY HDiiP; PLATTSMODTH. NEBRASKA, SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 189. Vl3 Plattsrootith Daily Herald. KNOTTS BRC Publishers & Proprietors. THE I'LATTriMOUTII II KHALI) If published every evening except Sunday and Weekly every Thursday morning. Kels lered at the poslonice, J'lattsiuouili, Nebr., m second-class matter. Ofllce corner of Vlue and yiftU streets. Telephone No. 38. TERMS WOtl DAILY. One copy one year In advance, by mail... .$6 no On copy per month, by carrier, 60 One copy per week, by carrier 15 TERMS WOtt WRRKLV. one oopy one year, in advance, .... f I M One copy all. niontbs. in advance 73 WHEAT AND OFFICIAL STATIS TICS. The logic of events is bard to answer, as tbe wheat speculators are learning. After puttiag up wheat to $1.20 last Oc tober, they persisted for months in the assertions that there was not enough of the grain to go around, that the official reports of the bureau of agriculture were erer so much less trustworthy than their guesses, that the great millers in Minne apolis really knew more than anybody t-lsu about the size of and quality of the wheat crop, that Europe whs ahort of its regular supply by an enormous quantity which could not possibly be obtained from any other country than this, and that European buyers would have to pay any price holders saw fit to ask before the crop year ended. It is supposed that somebody invested many millions on the faith that these stories were correct. On the other side there was nothing offered of consequence except the official reports and legitimate deductions from them liut the tieonle who sold wheat in the t i faith that those official reports were sub stantially correct saw the price nearly 20 cents lower before the end of December. The attempt to persuade people that a scarcity was inevitable, that govern ment statisticts were crooked and that the millers knew all about it, has been kept up ever since this began. When the bureau repn sented the quantity re maining in farmer's hands, that was also pronounced an utterly untrustworthy statement, though it was easily reconciled with other official figures. But some body has been using or losing several millions in attempts to control that 'mar ket since January 1, and the pi ice on Monday was about 15 cents lower than when the year began. By way of further proof that all the speculative predictions were in error, Europeans have failed to come after the enormous quantity of wheat supposed to be required, and have somehow supplied all needs with smaller receipts from the Atlantic States than have been recorded in any other year for a long time. The price obtained in markets east and west indicates pretty clearly that the holders, traders, and possibly purchasers, have all come to substantially the came conclusion, that the official reports were entirely correct and trustworthy or, at all events, more trustworthy than any of the other so-called statisticts published. As this is not by any means the first time a powerful combination of speculators has tried to make everybody believe the official reports misleading and false, and as the result is just what has usually fol lowed such endeavors, it seems to be in order to remark once more that the olemn asseverations or even the inspir ational guessu's of a speculator do not as yet appear of greater practical value than the returns published by the agricultural bureau. Whether wheat will mount up todayor tomorrow at Chicago, or sell for $2 a bushel before July, it is not the province of & public jaurnal to prophesy. What can properly be said is that there is not now, as there has not le?n for since ex ports were arrested by the advance last year, any reason to fear a scarcity of wheat, unless the weather should prove exceptionally unfavorable. The acreage sown this spring appears to bo larger thaa in anv previous year, and the ap pearance of winter wheat is such on the whole as to indicate a full crop. If the men who forced poor people to pay a liigher pnee for their loaf of bread some months aro have lost much of their money nobody is sorry. N. Y. Tribune. Woex an Afrieaa king dies a number of his follpwers are beheaded in order that the royal spirit may have company on its journey. The same rule is appli cable to democratic office-holders when their president g hence, with the dif ference that the sacrifis should include the whole lift of such perso,, Globe Democrat. The election in Rhode Island the other day settled the political complex ion of that state, the republican vote on joint ballot wa3 increased to 57 (55 being the majority). This also determines that the principal stat6 offices will be filled by the republicans for the coming year. Dr Sago's Catarrh Remedy cures when every other so-called remedy fails. Plenty of- feed, flour, graham and deal at Ileisel's mill, tf Lillet for sale Enquire at F. A. Burke's implement store. IIUSI5AXDS, STANi) i:r AVCZn THINKS ONE TOOK IT. 13 YOU IN HAfiD. Two Wiom f Artius XVUrn You Come IIoiim- - Tilings You Mioulil !i, u:iil 1 iion Vmi Shotilil Not !) Of Conine T.i it tlon'l M iui Von, but II l it Your Ne llilmr. There is so tiiiii'li exccllfiil tulvire given to wives. 8:ii; .;;. fur a clmirrc, we turn around ami n-ud tli lius!i;i:nls a nice 1 i 1 1 1 l- i!t::miul of correct lclia iir. It is hig'i ti.'itf no:;e oik took thi'tn in hand: hut. although I have had my eye upon tliiii for a i;ood while, I have been IjoIIi- tii-d to l:::d a i ipo opportunity. In l!u iirst place, to iiluiic riirlit into the tr.ii 1st of tilings without further wait- in?;, bow do you go home to your u ifeat iiiirlit.' Chapters have lieen written as to bow t;!ie ou;;ht to receive you: now let me u:i v a word aUmt tho other sido of the question. When you find a tired little woman who has been so hard at work all day with live babies and an in- coiiiiK-'tent girl, callers, and miscellaneous jobs of mending, pastry making and pickling, that she has found no time to curl her hair and put on her best gown to meet you, what do you do? WHICH IS voun WAY? Do you, like a dear old sympathizing fellow, take her worn face into a warm end race and whisper in her ear: "Never mind, dearie; I have got home, and we'll share the cares for tho rest of the day. ion go and rest yourself while I put Johtu lie and Trot and baby to bed?" Do you see that sho sits in the easiest chair while you skip around and minister to her wants? Do you keep Bilent while she reads the evening paper (to herself), and are you mindful of draughts and slam ming doors while she takes her ease in slipjK red content? Do tho stars dance the Newport, and does tho moon sins: psalm tunes? Just about as much as you do all this, 1 ou exjiect the hushed home, and tho biesta with the paper, and the slipjHTs for yourself, to bo sure, and if you don't get them you think you're ter ribly abused, and ten to one llounco off to the club to escape tho noise and con- lusion, but you never take it into your head to consider that tho day has been just sis long, and just as bus', and a thousand times more full of ietty cares for her as for jou. You bolt into tho house, and the first tint:..; you say is: "Why isn't 6upper reaciy? I r.i as hungry as a hound! "CJrcv.t Scott! Can't you keep that child nun tr or. "wnats me use oi ourninjr so m.ich coal? Turn off the damper! l osi:: iv enough to ruin a Vanderbilt!' Thafu the keynote of the 6ong you sing and yet you think it is dreadful if she ever makes a remark harsher than the bleat of a lamb. Suppose you had been a hansom cab driver, a board of trade man. cook in a restaurant, cash boy for a dry j;oods house, a kindergarten teacher and a hospital nurse all combined for the whole uay long, woulun t you be more tire.!, and wouldn't there bo more excuse for your irritability than when you have simply attended to a 6ingle systematized branch of business. A woman is required to bo everything fro::i a reception committee to receive calls in the parlor, to a nurse in the nur sery, c.rnl a chief executive in the kitchen, while a business man devotes himself to a si.icvle trade or profession. LOX'T EE AFRAID OF "SPOONING. " Ar.l net, how do you entertain your vrifo evenings? ' If yon were invited into a neighbor's house to spend a couple of hours with his wife and daughter, how won LI 5'ou entertain them, I wonder? Why. you would put a posy in your but tonhole, and slick up your hair, and blow a liitu perfume out of the atomizer all over yourself, and throughout tho even- ins vou would overflow with bright anecdotes and be so racy and charming that ::ftcr you had gone away everybody would say: "What a perfectly delightful man Ir. perkins isl What good com pany!" Now let u3 see, sir, how you entertain your wife. You 6tand in front of tho tire and pick your teeth with a wooden toothpick until she starts to put the chil dren to bed, and every now and then you make a few cheerful remarks about the t-ciareity .of money and the general cuKsednesa of children who run through shoes and clothes 60 fast. When the time comes that all is still and every thing nicely adapted for a chat or a game, you draw out your miserable newspaper and begin to read. And you read that paper dj to yourself, word for word, and line for line, straight through from edi torial to market report, as if jt contained the secret of youth, wealth and eternal salvation! In the same way .one nijght drink soda water by tho pailf ul, or con sume caramels by the ton! Newspapers, read by husbands in selfish solitude, aro answerable for many wifely heartaches. Uow many good stories and racy :mecdotes do you tell your wife to mauJ Jif ,'augh? IIow many roses do yop pin on your fat and how careful are you of your appearaiioo in he long evenings, when there is nobody by but her to be captivated by your charms and bewjl -lcred by your manly beauty? There is jnt exactly as much excuse for her (and a littla more, it may be,) if her dres3 is slatternly and her hair untidy as there is for you, and there is precious little for either of you. You excuse your indifference and peylect end tho withdrawal of fond and uutl, attentions, just as dear to luf t forty as at twenty, with the thou;:iit: V, well, sue Knows i Ayve per; what's the use of 'spooning' at our age? 15 v and by t here will cornea time when you fcliall see tier fyiyg in her coffin, perhaps, and you would Bell your poul that day to be able to shine away long years of cold neglect with the manifestation of the love that was always in your heart, cer tainlv. but carefully kept on ice. Call it spooning." if you like, or any other name of contempt, but I tell you there is nothing sosud n al life's history as the vanished opportunity to manifest a love for which some friend went hungry through slow years of undemonstrative and eiupid reserve. Amber in Chicago Tribune. Island. It has long been tho opinion of geolo gists that tho curious atolls of the Pacific and Indian oceans, tho circular coral islands, inclosing a shallow basin of tho sea, were to be explained as was first suggested by the late Charles Darwin, through tho long continued subsidence of tho sea floor on which they rested. Tho idea was that the coral Crst found foothold around the shores of a volcanic or other mountain peak projecting above the sea. It was further supposed that the subsidence of the ocean floor gradu ally lowered the original island below the level of tho sea, while the coral reef, growing steadfastly upward, remained after tho mountain had disappeared to mark its original site. Alexander Agassiz and John Murray have recently held to the doctrine that the greater part of our atolls at least are not thus formed, and that the central cup of the atoll is not duo to the fact that it occupies the jiosition of a subsid ing mountain, but that it is brought about by a process of solution by which the coral rocks are dissolved away. Dr. II. B. Guppy, a competent ob server, has, during a recent sojourn on the Keeling atoll in the Indian ocean. been enabled to confirm the opinions of Messrs. Murray and Agassiz. It there fore seems probable that wherever coral reefs attain tho surface of the sea the circular basin will naturally be formed, and that if Mr. Darwin's explanation has any truth in it, it is to be accepted only in raro and, as j et, unascertained cases. -Boston Herald. The Young Folks Friend. A pleasant faced old gentleman, who looks as if he had forgotten as much as some people know about editing news papers, comes over from tho ieaceful shades of Newark now and then to mingle in tho busy metropolitan whirl of which he was onco an important fijrure. lie is Noah Brooks, lonj time an editor of the Tribune, a conspicuous journalist in San Francisco during vigilante times and ono of the most popu lar writers for children who wield quills today. ' Mr. Drooks is a tall, well built man; his white hair has thinned out on top, his eyes keep their light, and his short, white side whiskers and mustache give him a venerable appearance. lie is well over sixty and carries his age "like a major. As editor of 1 he JNewark Ad vertiser Mr. Brooks continues the active intellectual work which lias char acterized his life. He has given that journal ono of the oldest in tho coun try, by the way a standing it was un likely to get otherwise. Besides, in St. Nicholas pnd such periodicals, where one looks for the lighter touch and tho finer fancies, his name is always welcome, not only to the editors, but to hundreds of the littlo ones who havo learned to look forward with eagerness to his stories for children. New Y'ork World. "Water Tight Match Box Wanted. Bishop, who mado a thousand mile voyage in a paper canoe, says that It. 13. Forbes, of Boston, once gave him a water tight pocket match box, that he lost it, and was never able to find an other. Thousands of hunters, canoeists, and others have hunted and longed for a match box that would be water tijdit one that would preserve its contents dry even though tho owner was com pelled to take a swini with the box in the pocket of his pants, and the pants on the swimmer. An upset in the wilderness or on the coast, away from dwellings, often destroys every match a man has with him, and places him in a position of great danger. Though match boxes aro made in in numerable styles, wo have never been able to find one which was suitable for carrying matches in the pocket and would at the same time protect them from water. There are some difficulties in the way of inventing such an article, because when carried in the pocket tho air within the box is rarefied by the heat of tho body. When the box is plunged into cold water a partial vacuum is formed, and this aids in forcing water through he joints. Scientific American. Napoleon, The duke said: "After the retreat of Bonaparte from Leipsic, ho never, in fact, had any hope of getting over his bad fortune. Mole, then minister of war, told m? fhat shortly after Napoleon's re turn at that time to Paris ho was playm, at billiards with him when he became thoughtful and, laying down liis cue, be gan talking to him of the impossibility of ever reviving the spirit of the nation suf ficiently to expel the northern powers. Had these reverses, he said, occurred in the first days of the republic, there would have been a freshness of spirit that nihrht have saved tlio game, but tliat pjrit was how worn out and never could again be expected to revive. Yet, with -this de pressing conviction upon his mind, he went through his wonderful campaign of Champagne with an activity perhaps un paralleled in his former wars." The duke's invariable comment on Napoleon was: "He was not a gentleman." Per- 7 de Eos in Murray's Magazine. Two Smart Maine Women. Two spinster sisters up in Maine who run ft si5ty-five acro farm, sro credited with being the smartest women in the state. One of them chops every wmter the year's supply of fire wood, going into tho woods early in the season and re maining until the work 13 completed. She works in the hayfield in summer and dicrs from seventy to one hundred bush els of potatoes yearly and puts them in the cellar. ' The other" 6ister i3 the car: penter of the family and has added all manner of improvements to tho farm. Pittsburg Dispatch, A white tongue is said to denote a febrile disturbance; a brown, moist tongue, indigestion; a brown, dry tongue, depression, blood poisoning, typhoid fever; a red, moist tongue, inflammatory fever; a red, glazed tongue, general fever, loss of digestion; a tremulous, moist and flabby tongue, feebleness, nervousness. The. Coral JIM RILEY'S COME. TO TOWN. Jim Riley's come to town, boys, he's now at Par ker's place. His Ilooaier vcrao to read uh. with Its quaint and I jje-8 baled inR'n touching Krace; at Tremont teinplor-oli. how Brown. 8 too It goes down. As 'tis repeated ou the street, "Jim Riley's come to town I" now dear his homely measure that is more than wordy art. And takes tho very shortest cut to reach the hu maa heart. The faun loners of tawdry verse upon his muse may frown; A fiff for nil their tinseled phrase Jim Riley's come to town I The gold of human nature through his verses glints and bliines, And huinun heart bcuts are the stops that puno tur.to the lines; Enough tho sun-ty that's bis of well deserved re nown; Enough of joy for us to know, Jim Riley's coroe to town. Boston Uudget Concerning the Centipede. Tho centipedes that live in the United States, certainly the northern states, are, for tho most part, harmless. But tho same cannot le said of multitudes of tho race residing in the West Indies and other warm climates. In these places tho bito of tho centipede is not only very painful, but often dangerous. Like some other animals, tho appearance of the centipede is against him. Centipedes are quite ready to stand on tho defensivo when they aro attacked, and when they consider themselves in danger. Their disposition to bito renders them rather troublesome bedfellows. When they get into a bed, the least move ment of tho sleeper over whom they may be crawling, and who can hardly fail to be disturbed by their 6harp, pointed feet and claws acting on his skin, is almost sure to provoke a venomous bite, which will be frequently repeated if the mid night visitor is not removed from the bed. The bite of the centipede is exceedingly painful for the moment, and is followed, unless tho wound is taken care of in season, by great inflammation and high fever. If tho insect is a large one, and tho bite is severe, life is not infrequently lost, especially if the patient is of a deli cate constitution. Bishop Ileber speaks of centipedes as being very largo and poisonous in differ ent parts of India. These insects have occasionally been brought to this country in cargoes of hides from countries where they are abundant, and where their bite is poisonous. Somo years since, a man who was employed in unloading a vessel in Boston, lost his life in consequence of a bito received from a centipede brought to the country in this way. Boston Budget. . A Tenacious Memory, Up in North Georgia some years ago there was a young farmer who was as poor as Job's turkey. He was very ig norant, and did not even know his let ters. One day a tourist paused to rest under a tree where the farmer was eat ing dinner and recited a pretty poem. Tho young man was pleased with it, and the stranger gave him a written copy. But it was useless to a man who could not read, and the traveler had to go over it with his finger, pointing out each word and letter. After his friend left, the countryman went home and took his first writing lesson from the written poem. One letter was missing the let ter Z. Tho next day he walked five mileu to see a neighbor who showed him how t inako it, And then he was master of tho alphabet. He got a spelling book and a reader, and studied them by a pine ki'ot Cre. Two years later he visited Mercer university, at Penfield, durinr vacation time, and the professors showed him through the building, 'He ques tioneJ me for an hour," said the profes sor of chemistry, "and went away know ing more about tho science than some young men who have studied it two terms." "And I talked with him an hour," said the professor of English literature, "and he extracted from me enough information to fill a volume." The young fellow had a wonderful mem ory. It stuck to everything. He en tered tho university and became noted for his strong, clear styje and bis varied attainments. --Macon (Ga.) Telegraph. Must Have Thought Her Funny. A Bangor man has a bright little niece, over- whose head but a few years have rolled, and who when 6aying her prayers the other night repeated a line in the Lord's Prayer, "Harrowed be thy name. 1 no little one was kneeling by her mother's knee, and the latter said: "Why, darling, you don't mean 'har rowed.' Harrowed mean3 broken up and they 'harrow ground. You should say: 'Hallowed be thy name.' Hallowed means hoi v." The little girl thought for a moment and then her face brightened and she said with, a 6mile; VWell, mam ma, the Lord must think I'm awful funny, for I've said 'harrowed' for ever so long." Portland Argus. "Shoot the IJon." A minister once announced as hi3 text: "The slothful man saith, there is a lion in the way." As he paused he heard r whisper: "Shoot th lion." With ready wit he turned to the boy ant said: "You have given in three words the sum of my sermon, and that all may remember, I will repeat your summary." Then turning to the con gregation no saiu: "ine siotniui man saith there is a lion in the way." After a pause ho went on: "3Iy young friend in the gallery says, 'Shoot the lion. this is the exact thing to do. Let us pray." St. Louis Republic. Mary Anderson's American Castle. Mary Anderson, the actress, owns a valuable farm of fJ2Q acres on the Lafay ette township knobs, about five miles from New Albany. On the farm is a fine orchard and a building site, from which can be had a magnificent view of the Falls cities and the distant Ohio. It is said that Miss Anderson contemplates at some time erecting on the summit of tho high hill a magnificent country resi dence, similar in style of architecture to some pf the castles 6ho saw during her stay in Europe. Louisville Courier-Journal, r. P-BAKIiBEAET. HAS THE LARGEST AND FINEST STOCK OF FURNITURE, STOVES, TINWARE HOUSEHOLD GOODS. In the city, which lie is ofiering at Prices t lint will make tliom Ktll. A complete line of Window Curtains at a sacrifice. J'icture Frames in great variety. You can get everything you need. You can buy it on the installment jlan. pay so much each month and you will soon have a fine furnished house and hardly realize the cost. Call and see. I- IE5 DEJ SIXTH STREET, BET. MAIN AND THE PLATTSMODTH HERALD ALL THE POLITICAL 15 CENT: DELIVERED TO ANY PAET OP TEE CITY OIR, SB 'STT Thk Daily and Wekklt Hkkald is the best Advertiiing Medium in C;is county, because it renches the largest number of people. Advertising rates made known on application. If you have property to rent or sell it will be to your interest to fid vcrtise in the Hkkald. IF WIEaXa :pj3ir YOU. Advertise and BANE THE CITIZENS 1ST 3KL ! PATTSMOUTH. - NEBKAsKA. CAPITAL STOCK PAID IN, - $50,000 Authorized Capital, $IOOfOOO. OFFICERS JRANK CARKCTIl. JOS. A. CONNC-K, Pre.iMent. VUe-President W. H. CUSHINf. Cauier. DIUKCTORI Frank Carrutb J. A. Connor, F. U. Cutbmaon J. W. Johnson. 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WAtTOM Caeaitr. jbv IfcT., n.ATThMoiiir, m:u. VINE NLWS AND SOCIAL, FOIi BY CARRIERS 33 "5T ZMZIH.. It be Convince Bank of Cass County Cor. Main and Fifth St., riattvruoutli. PAID UP CAPITAL. SUllPlXS -f.VMlOO OFFICEKS : 0. H. Pakmki.k President Vice Pn-KKlenc 'ashirr Ass't Cashier J. M. I'ATTKUN .". J AH. PAlltK11.V,Jlt DIltKCTOIiS : C. II. Parrnelft. .1. M. I'atterno i. Kr-d border. .B. Smith, it. 15. Windlirun. I. S. ItaniNey. Jas. Patterion jr. A General Bain Business Transacts Accounts Solio.'l-et. Interest allowed on tim depnvt. aii'l prom pi. urnfioy given to all busiufas entrusted to its care. Notice to Contractors. Healfd bids will be rec!vpl by th ttttHinnm of the Board of Puldin Work until noon in tin 17th day of April. IHs'i. for Allin thn old crjelc bed at the following pl.iv towit : Contract No. 1. 1.378 cub. yds mon or 1ms on Vine street between 6th ami 7tli street. Con tract No. 2 1 . cub. vil. more or U:m on Pearl St. between th ani 7tli Sts Con t kit. N'' 3 MS cub. yU. mor or lees ou E st of .Vh St be tween Main and IVarl ts. Corrract No 4 744 eub. yds. more or les on east side of 4'h' Ht petweii Main and Pearl Sts. Two classes oi bids will be received for siid work : Cla "A" the Contractor to furnish earth from niivjito ground ; Class "B" the contractor to tafr tbe earth frm such places in the nu'.lic treeisj a the Chairman of the Board of Public Worksj may direct. Knpmeer' Estimate Contract No 12't ct per cubic va-d. Knuineer' fcMiiiiate Contract No. 25 cts. per cub. vnl. 1. Class a, I. Class E, KntjineerV Estimate Contract So. , Class cis per cub. yrd. A. Untfilieer' Kstuiutte Contract N 25 rents per cub vrd. o. 2. Class B. KORinerS kc iuae Cori tract No 3 Clis 12'- ' per cub. yrd A, tngineer intimate ontriict . 3, Cite" iit 20 cis. per cuu. vrd. isupeni;1;'?.? ,e Contraei ' c-,sw A Work to be cnnitilete.l lil.:,. i t... - j- j , 7- " "1HI"-1, Id II fl to th '"""i nun upm Dinner. Hie rilrht Is reserved . 2" 7f?'J.5 " " "V"- rVr P?rtuln. en- kA nrli ... , JOHNSON. Cli'ui Board Pubiic Wmti. B. A M. Time Table. COIXO WKST. No. 1. 9 :o a m. No. . :i p. m. No. 6 H :01 a. la. OOINO EA8T. No- 2.-4 :44 p. m. N. 10 9 a. 111. No. . 7 :2S p. tn ' ro. 8. 10 :Ofa. ut No. 10. ;M it. 111 No. 7.-7 :C5 p. tn. ho. 9.- :0fl p. m. aii inin run di h vf n....v. PER WE K. For Ik