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ry Tincday ntctit ut t ln-ir in KitzireraM
blck. AIHmIiI I-.-IIdwh art- cordially invited
to attend vtlirn viitlnn in I 'it- city.
T. K. Wii.i.iamh. N. ;.
J. W, liitllx.K. Sec.
KMCHIS Of' PYTHIAS. CaimtlH l.lu'
No. 47 M -li f very Wedm-Mlay evening
al their li 11 In v-ci-k' ;n li Mock. All vi-itni
knlKlit? are roidl.itly iiiv ted to attend, (J. A.
Maithall. '. t ; Krai.k Dixon. K. It S.
YOU.Nt MKN'S IIKIVI lN -SO(.:l ATlON
W atermaii him k Main Strx t. Kooms
open fr- ni H :; a in to V ;'M in, hir ineu only
ioM-l meet'iiK every MuiKiay attemii at 4
'eiock .
C. A R.
Mriniltiie IWI, No. 4.r. meets every Satur
day evening at 7 :'. in tlictr hall. Hock wood
Block. All visiting comrades are Invited to
uieet with ii".
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Lincoln Call " " 2.15
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Time Table
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A DiiHt Dmilructor.
A correspondent asks. What is the
"dust destructor?' The dust destructor
in n group of furnaces set in an inclosed
space containing the requisite yards and
buildings used for consuming the rub
bisli which is swept off the London
streets, which amounts to many thou
sands of tons in a year. The furnace
house is approached by an incline drive
way leading to a covered place above
the furnaces. In this place the scaven
gers' carts shoot their rubbish, which by
simple apparatus is dropied into the
furnaces, where it is sjieedily converted
into "clinker." This clinker is then re
moved and broken up. Some of it is
ground, some reground, and some ground
a third time.
In the ward are seen piles of broken
and ground clinker, some of course
lumps, some resembling gravel, mine
looking like the finest sand. For all
this material there is a use. Some of it
goes to form the foundation of roads;
some, mixed with tar, is made into a
durable pavement; some makes admira
ble sand for mortar and cement, and
some is made into imitation stone for
sidewalks. In the Dattersea district
of London the parish wagon houses,
stables, blacksmith shops, etc., have
been constructed eutirely of this imita
. . , - . , , , ,
tion stone made from the refuse of do- J
, . .
mestie dtit bins and the streets.
If any of the residents of the parish
want any of the broken or ground
clinker for any purpose they are per
mitted to take as much of it as they cau
carry away in barrows or carts. Noth
ing goes to waste. The process of cre
mation is cheap, and this method of dis
posing of the refuse of a crowded dis
trict has had a wholesome effect from a
eanitary point of view. In Battersea
the death rate has gone down from
eighteen to eleven. New York Com
mercial Advertiser.
The Rugby Iloya Easy Iy.
I give the everyday routine at Rugby
just as my young "Lower Middle" friend
rattled it off to ine: "Well, the C:15
morning bell wakes us, but we don't
want to get up. Then another bell rings
at 6:50 for five minutes. We've got to
get in our places in chapel in that time
to be 'called over,' and if we are too lazy
to make it, it means a 'licking, that's
all. After service we march in order to
our different 'form' rooms and say les
sons till 8:15. Then we have fifteen min
utes to buy any little luxuries, like penny
loaves the house bread's pretty dry
and then comes breakfast. From 9:15
to 1:15, lessons; and dinner's at 1:30.
"We pet a rest spell from dinner until
3, and then lessons go on again until
except Tuesdays, Thursdays and Satur
days. Them's half holidays. Every boy
has got to join the games then, unless
he's got good excuse. Sometimes we get
off by shamming a sore foot and many
other ways well known to us boys. But
whatever we're doing at G o'clock, games,
sauntering or study, everything's drop
ped, and we give a grand rush for 'tea.'
Aftei tea in winter, and after 7:15 in
summtr, cornea locking up.' Nobody
likes that. Then we have to pitch m
on preparation' that's getting our les
sons for the nest forenoon until 9
o'clock, when they give ns a very light
eupper that don't make anybody dream.
Then it's go to bed, and no fooling, or it
means another 'licking, sure as fees and
marshals, that's all!"-E. L. Wakeman
in Wilmington News.
Wltl. I"' Future Generation.
In southern Oregon there is a forest
1 .. --t wit 1 an estimated
... . r i-i iv 1 i.uable umler of !",-
r tho proceeds would pay our
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(ECIJISTION GONE
NOWADAYS THER IS VERY LITTLE
FOR A SCOUT TO DO.
Tin- K:lllroal unrl 1 1 Tcl-nr:ili llitve
Tiikfii Awity III A vot-iit ion Impiirl
ancn f the Scout of Kurmrr Time
111k Vnlvrfil Kyt-aiglit Imliaii Trails.
The scout, of tlio frontier is like the
t) iiil ovlxy ;i mythical personage in
these daws of steam and electricity
The
recent Indian war was conducted with
out him, and the travelers on, the prairies
do not need his services. Trailing is as
much an art as is painting or sculpture,
and almost as few become proficient in
it as in the handliugof brush or chisel.
It is imiKissihlo to realize nowadays
the importance of a scout of former
times. No party dared cross the plains
alone without a professional trailer to
lead it, and no marauding band of In
dians or whites could bo overtaken un
less they were tracked across the bound
less wastes of sod.
A traveler across the plains of New
Mexico relates to the writer that one
day while riding with a guide he stopped
and pointed to a clear and well denned
bear's track in the sand.
The guide looked at it attentively a
moment, then, without dismounting,
declared: "You are mistaken; it is not a
bear's track."
"Isn't it?" said the American. "Then
I never saw one."
"Yes, you have seen many, but this
isn't one."
Quickly alighting, the American
pointed out the heel and toes of the
track as clear and well defined as if
made a few minutes lefore.
"Well," said the guide, "if it does
look like a bear's track, still it isn't one.
The marks you imagine to be the heels
and toes are made by those spires of
grass, which, bent by the wind, scoop
out the sand in the manner you see.
"You ought to have seen that yonr
eelf," he went on, "but you didn't stop
to think. You Americans never do.
Americans travel with their eyes shut
and their mouth open. An Indian or
Mexican will travel all day without
speaking a word to any one unless abso
lutely necessary, but nothing escapes his
observation, while an American will
talk continuously and see nothing but
the general features of the country
through which he travels."
The guide was probably right, for few
Americans become adepts at trailing
either men or animals across the plains
of the west. ,
FOLLOWIXQ A TRAIL.
It is impossible to learn the art from
books, though there are a few general
rules which can be observed. For in
stance, every scout knows that to over
take a party which has perhaps run off
some stock, provisions must be taken to
last several days; that the start must be
made slowly and the course followed
persistently and at a moderate pace, giv
ing the horses the nights to rest in and
start at daylight in the mornings.
Then, when the pursuers come near
the pursued, it is the scout's business to
tell the number and condition of tle
enemy, and how many hours have
elapsed since they passed the spot on
j which you are standing, for it may be
come necessary for 3 cm to remain con
cealed until ou decide upon the manner
of attack, for if the part 3 be made up of
Indians they will scatter before you can
capture them.
Again, any scout can tell whether the
trail be that of a war party or not, be
cause no Indians take tlieir families with
them on the warpath; hence no lodge
poles drag behind the ponies. If there
is no trace of these it is sate to consider
. . .
that a war tiartv is on the ramTinire.
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om; 01 me uuaiun imiigs 10 tieiermme
is the age of the trail, and to do it cor
rectly requires much practice. If the
track is verj- fresh it will show moisture
where the earth is turned up, which
after a few hours becomes dry. Should
rain have fallen the edges will be less
clear and will be washed down some
what. The expert Mexican scout can tell by
a glance what tribe of Indians has made
a given trail, its age, and every particu
lar about it as truthfully as though he
had himself seen the cavalcade pass.
A party following an Apache trail dur
ing the Indian difficulties of lS3 sud-denl-
came to a ledge of bare rock. The
officers of the troops examined it care
fully, but could see nothing to indicate
where the tribe had gone. But the scout
led them for two miles across it as un
erring as though the trail had been made
in heavy grass.
KEEN EYESIGHT.
When asked what told him the way,
he called attention to the fine moss which
covered the rock, and that by close
scrutiny gave evidence of having been
pressed by the foot, an indication so
slight that it would have been passed
unnoticed by ninety-nine out of a hun
dred, yet his keen eye detected every
footprint as easily as could be wished.
In the grass a trail can be seen for a
long time, as the blades will be bent in
; the direction followed by the party, and
even after it has recovered its natural
position an expert trailer will detect a
slight difference in the color of the grass
that has been stepped on and that grow
ing around it.
So the appearance of the tracks will
also show him the gait at which the
party was traveling, and he thus knows
how to regulate his pace in order to
overtake it.
It is rare to find a white person who
can retrace his steps for any great dis
tance in the open country, but it is tirn
ply impossible to lose an Indian. No
matter how circuitous the route by
which you have reached a certain place
the Indian will find his way back to the
place of starting by the most direct
route, and without hesitating for a mo
ment which course to pursue.
If you ask him how he does it he may
possibly shrug his shoulders and reply,
(Juion fwibc?" or "Who knows?" though
i '' .-! :: -. . - -' 1 e v,-:i! not reply r.t
Leaveiu
It is easy to sneer at people's eccen
tricities. Ve may smile at the man who
persists in wearing a queer style of hat,
or at the woman who clings to an old
fashion in hair dressing, lint in adher
ing to a custom both agreeable and com
fortable, do they not show seme ind-
Itendence of mind, a decision that help
to leaven the lump of general flabbincss?
Once a lady whose eyes were weak was
obliged always to carry a sunshade t
protect them from tin; glare of the sun.
Kven in winter, and when she wore furs,
the sunshade was a necessity. She de
clared laughingly that no one would be
lieve, unless she tried it, how much at
tention such a simple matter evoked.
Sometimes she was followed a block or
two by boys commenting on her odd ap
iiearance. They wondered if she was
crazy. And while they wondered, seemed
to think she was also deaf. Older jieople
whom one would think might knov,"Yet
ter, gazed at her curiously, and even
questioned her as to the reason of her
peculiar conduct.
Most iersons under such jiersecution
would have given up the fight, staid in
the house or decided to bear the pain and
run the danger. Being a woman of reso
lute temtier she did nothing of the kind
She carried her muff and her parasol all
winter. Indeed, after a while she seemed
to take a wicked pleasure in flaunting
these articles before the faces of be
wildered passers, who would often turn
and look back with an expectation of
seeing strange developments from so
great a phenomenon.
Probably not many women would
have stuck to the singularity as she did,
or have gotten so much amusement out
of it. Yet if it is considered in another
light, and we reflect how much interest
she excited and how many gazers she
supplied with subject for conversation,
we might call her a public benefactor.
Harpers Bazar.
Imagination and Hunger.
I observed another instance of the in
fluence of tho imagination upon our hap
piness of a sort to which I dare say I
have before alluded. I was engaged one
morning in preparing part of an inter
esting chapter in my new work the one
which deals with the origin and develop
ment of the bonnet. I had got as far as
the head dress worn by the Athenian
matrons to tho theater, and was natural
ly much engrossed with tho work, when
an inward monitor, in a still, small, yet
unmistakable, voice, suggested "lunch
eon." I looked at my watch it said 3
o'clock.
Now I always take luncheon at half
past 1 ; never, in any emergency, later
than 2. But 3 o'clock! I felt ill and
faint. I started for the club feeling like
Rip Van Winkle when he came home for
his luncheon twenty years late. I passed
a friend. I tried to slink by without his
noticing, but I could see that he looked
upon me sadly and askance, as if I were
in some way a stricken wether of the
flock. 1 went in and sat down.
Somehow everybody else seemed to be
late. I looked at the clock. It was ex
actly twenty-five minutes of 2. I 1 oked
at my watch again. It still said 3 o'clock.
It had stopped during the night. Now
mark the result. I instantly recovered
from the starvation from which I had
been suffering, and began to converse in
niy usual cheerful and intelligent man
ner. But I did not mention the extraor
dinary behavior of my watch, which 1
now reveal only in strict confidence.
Boston Post.
?IcCulloiili Krlioes.
Joseph Haworth in private life is a
student. When away from the theater
Haworth spends all his spare time in
completing the life of John McCullough.
Haworth has an autograph letter from
McCullough which money could not buy.
It was written several days previous to
the death of the tragedian. It was
probably the last letter written by Mc
Cullough, in view of the fact that for
mouths pivvions to death his brain was
shattered. " We will climb the ladder
of fame together, Joe," he said, "and I
will help you until we both reach the top
round."
" McCullough had a valet named Bob
Pritchard, who was a curious fellow,"
said Haworth, recently. " He was a
thrifty Scotchman, and to save money
he always made his bed in McCnllough's
dressing-room in the theater. Once John
missed a handsome robe which he wore
in ' Richtird IH. It couldn't be found.
Finally, several months later, when
playing in New York, two little Priteh
ards came to the theater, and the dresses
which they wore were cut from Mc
Cullough's handsome robe.
"Pritchard expressed his sympathy
curiously tue uay tne guv nor was
buried.
" He was a great man, Mr. Haworth,'
he sobbed, ' a good man. Many a dressing-room
through the county has he
willed the floor with me. sir." Boston
Globe.
Expensive Repairs.
A submarine telegraph cable has a life
of from ten to twelve j"ears. If a cable
breaks in deep water after it is ten years
old it cannot be lifted for repairs, as it
will break of its own weight. On this
account cable companies are prepared to
put aside a large reserve fund in order
that they may be prepared to replace
their cables every ten years. The action
of the sea eats the irmi away so com
pletely as to turn the outside coating to
dust or sediment while the core is still
intact. Tho breakage of an ocean cable
is a very costly accident, owing to the
difficulties to be encountered in repair
ing it. It often becomes necessary in
case of a break to charter a ship at .$500
per day for several da)-s in succession,
trying to fix upon the location where the
cable has parted. One breakage in the
Direct Cable company's line a few j-ears
ago cost that syndicate $125, 000. Boston
Transcript.
A rtreak la the Proceedings.
Mrs. Slimson I don't understand, Wil
lie, how yoa should have worn your
clothes out bo sliding down hilL Didn't
you use j-onr pled?
Wir.i " Yr -..'ir. All but the l.tst tiire.
Harper's Younj 1 . . .
NEW
The
Goods
"The Little Tycoon."
Willard Spenser's successful
. ... . w ... 1 'r
comic opera, " 1 lie J.ime 13 coon,
will be presented with the same
magnificent scenery and costumes
used in the productions in New-
York and Philadelphia. The com-
paii3' comprises liny-iwo peopie.
The stor3' of the opera is told with
out utmcccessary waste ot words.
In the first act a company of amus
in colleiates is shown on the
deck of ati ocean steamer. General
Knickerbocker's daughter Violet is
in love witli -Alvin JKirry, an cnei-
ietic young- American, Out iier
father wants her to marry an Eng
lish nobleman, one Lord Dolplim.
Violet's bosom friend. Dolly Dim
ple, and Alvin s college chum,
Kufus Keady, determine to aid the
young- people in their love affairs.
uid the college boys and jirls, who
ire represented by members of the
chorus, also lend their assistance.
Disiruised as hobroblins, the col-
ege boys endeavor to harass and
friphten old Knickerbocker in the
i-
first act, and they impart an air of
merriment to the action of the en
tire opera. The finale of the first
act is made exceedingly effective b
the showing- of a panoramic view
of New York harbor and lower ba3.
The first scene in the second act is
the interior of Knickerbocker's
villa at Newport, and there Alvin
Harry appears disguised as Lord
Dolphin, while Rufus appears as a
counterfeit of Teddy, the Irish valet
of Dolphin. , Knickerbocker is
about to give his daughter to the
fraudulent Dolphin when the real
Dolphin and his valet come on the
scene, and the audience sees four
Dromios. Alvin is ordered out of
the house, but. not dismayed y de
feat, disguises himself as the Great
T3-C0011 of Japan, and is received at
lawn party by Knickerbocker,
who, not perceiving this repeated
deception, gives him Violet in mar
riage. Then the disguise is dis
carded,. Alvin takes Violet, old
Knickerbocker proposes to Miss
Hurricane, a comical old maid, and
the people on the stage and in the
audience are made happ The
company opens its Omaha engage
ment at the Grand next jnursciay
night for four performances. Will
appear at the Waterman next Sat
urday night, May 2. Prices: aOc.V.V,
$1 and LoO.
Owing to rush of business. Wise
& Root have not been able to make
the fine displa- of patterns prom
ised. Hut b3 Wednesday their sec
ond invoice will arrive and lhe3
will be ready to receive tfieir pa
trons and show them the most ele
gant line of hats, ornaments, etc.,
ever shown in Plattsmouth. The
.-: : . s v.-ill be absolutely correct. 2t
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SPUING CLflTHIl
VUHMSIIIXO (JOOI)S. II ATS, ETC
ARRITING EVERY DAY
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JOE'S
TIIK LISA DING OXK I'KICK CLOTIIIKK.
Do not buy until you have Keen si in I inspected
TOE'S
MAMMOTH STOCK AND PRICES.
IT WILL SAVE YOU MONEY.
finest btoek of Spring Clothing, Furnishing
and Hats you ever seen in IMattsmouth.
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OIPEIR- HOUSE OOZROSriEIR,
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PERSONAL
Dr. Shipmau is having a new tel
ephone put in his office to-da-.
Charh'3- Morrison returned to his
work at Sioux Cit- this morning.
John Loh ties, one of Cedar Creek's
wealthy farmers is in town to-day.
Mnthew Gering is attending a
law suit at Sidney, Fremont county,
Iowa, to-day.
James Pettee went to Nebraska
City this morning 011 building and
loan business.
Mrs. 1). Ilawksworth came home
this morning from a pleasant visit
with relatives at Burlington.
Mrs. Geo. Nickols returned home
this morning- after a visit with her
brother Geo. Horn near Cedar
Creek.
Mrs. J.C. Faught of Philips re
turned home this morning alter a
visit of several da3's with her par
ents at Murray.
Colonel II. II. Nollister. the vet
eran baggage master at the 1$. A: M.
depot, made a business trip to Pa
cific J unction this morning.
F. W. Schleifert, Siini Lyons and
Mrs. Geo. W. Herger of Louisville
came; down on the Schiller to tran
sact business at the county seat.
Pat Naves, a veteran democrat
from the west end of the count', is
in town to-daj Pat' lias been di
vorced from Governor Hoyd and
ere long will bloom out as a full
fledged independent.
First Baptist Church.
TlIE IlEKALI is pleased to note
the progress being made in the
erection of the new IJaptist church
in South Park to take the place of
the old "Tabernacle." The base
ment was completed last Saturday,
and a competent force of carpenters,
under the direction of Philip Mc
Cullough, are now bus- raising the
frame.
For want of space we can not give
a description of the building, ex
cept to say that it is a brick base
ment oOxGO feet, 10 feet high, upon
which will be erected the building
proper, with a sixteen foot ceiling.
The old "Tab" building will be torn
town next week, and all the materi
al that can be used will be worked
into the new building. The new
cmircii wni present a nne appear
ance when completed and will be
the pride of the South Park people.
Kldcr Wood is deserving of much
credit for his enterprise and push
in forwarding the building in so
speed- and satisfactory a manner.
Next Sabbath will be the last the
old Tabernacle will be used for
worship, after which the basement j
of the new building will be used '
till the upper stor- is completed.
'The Fair" has iust received a
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seis. oo3s express wagons and doll
carriages. tf
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