THE WEEKLY HERALD: PLATTSMOUTH.NEHUASKA. MARCH lb. S!W.
5
THE COMMISSIONERS.
Doings of the Board of County
Commissioners.
Plattsinouth. Nel., March 7, 1X!
Hoard met persiMtit to adjourn
inent. Pn-rfiit Jaco). Tritsi h. S. W.
Duttonand J. 11. Hayes, county
commissioner!?. Frank Dickson
county clerk.
Minutes of Felmary cession read
and approved, when the following
was transacted in regular form.
The following appointments were
made:
i!OMt o kk'si;kk.
Jacob Person. District No. 7.
Vm Morson. District N. IS.
K Morson, Di-trict Xo. H.
Wm Leesley, District No. 2i.
J H Davis, District N. 4!!.
OFFICIAL HONKS A I'I'KOV K ! '.
M H Williiims, Di.-tiict . 5:t.
Fred Dreesen. District No. 20
J V Collart. Klimvo.i! precinct.
1',.1'VTV litlVII'l IV
f V H I. I 1 ... ..... .
H 1' Hrend.d. District No. -'.
K Huiek, District No.
J 11 Ilaseim ir, District No 4
J W Thomas. District No.:!.
X K llobhs, District No .
K V Cook, District No. 1.
Claim of J M Ward for turti'shin
coffin for pauper reconsidered and
allowed.
Claim of Geo II. Oliver for refund
iii pi rt of tax 1.U on lots :i and
4 block !!. Weeping Water was re
fused, as the evidence from the as
sessors book for that year shows no
clerical error was made in the asses
ment of said property.
March, 8, lMtt- Resignation of Dr.
W. Kirk, Justice of the Peace in and
for South Hend precinct filed and
accepted.
March (.)th lVfl.-Conract for con
structing of county bridges for the
year lsiM was awarded Todd V Dun
das of Lincoln Xeb., at ifl.Os per
lineal foot.
Ttie following bids were received:
Wrought. Iron, Hri lges to., of
Canfjfjn, Ohio ttVM).
ToA.1 At Dundas.ll.as.
Milwaukee Hnilge Co., oi council
Bluffs !f4..ni per foot.
TJ Cromwall of Ashland R'JT.
it. Joe Iron Bridge Co.,!i4.4S per
foot.
11 J Mayer of St. Joe $5.2.1 per foot.
H. K. Mart y of Ashland. Xeb..
f 4.18 jer foot.
It was also agreed with Todd tV
Dundas. that for all bridges re
paired, they are to receive ." cents
per lineal foot for piling, including
caps $) per M. for ill lumber fur
ished, including all labor.
CLAIMS ALLOWED CENKKAL Fl'XD.
Jacob Tritsch. sal &exp...
22 20
. 40 00
. 17 (JO
S W Dutton, same
J C Haves, same
Frank Dickson work sal and
f expenses UK) 'JS
' Hen Hempel. janitor and ex
tra time titi 00
C V Sherman, stationery ."7 7."i
A H Knolls, same :)li
W J White, coal to Co hi! tin
HennettA- lint, mdse to poor
(2 bills)
Brown Vc Barrett, imise poor..
lilsel) Telephone Co., tel rent. ..
K Wilkinson, coi'lin forpauper
J M Ward, same
:!2 (Kl
(i 20
24 Ml
21 Oil
Ii (ill
I'latts (jus A; Ivlec Light Co.,
gas :(o: i
Aug Bach, mdse to poor s m
C S Twiss, work at court hou-e 7 M t
A M Russell, def prisoners
in district court HO oil
M Hight, bdg pauper 12 m
Joseph Graham, ('are to poor. 15 (Ml
K Stu..euegger, iiidse to poor hi (Ml
J C FJikenbary. bdg paupers
less rent
LehnholT Bros, stationery...
Matthew Gering, def prison
ers district court
0!l 10
21 (io
.to 00
A II Weckb.icb. mdse to poor 12 45
State Journal Co., mdse to
County Iti 10
C K Wescou, mdse to poor. . . 10 (HI
Dickson Stopher Co., coal to
poor Si (i I
A Clark, mdse to poor ! 05
GW Noble, institute funds
sal and exp 128 5n
I) A Campbell, vol M Xeb , re
ports 2 5o
J Schippacasse, bdg jury (i 5o
h v White, mdse to Door L'H tK)
tinder Bros., same '2d (Ml
ltdin Swoboda, same 4 (X)
j' Smith, keeping pool- 10 oil
F McCourt, mdse to poor :iti 00
W F Richardson, rent of
house to poor Ill 20
O.naha Priniinu' Co.. station
ery 17 (KI
Joseph Mullen, service on sol
diers relief coin 21 00
J W J )lmson, same..' 20 00
J II Davis, same 22 50
State Journal Co., printing
bridge notice 12 50
B F Brendel, phy salary f, oo
Wtn Tighe, bdg anil ldg pris-
oners, etc 127 50
VChris Strahr, wittness district
court ;t 'j(l
( YV II Desiring, costs J. 1 Still I
... i . . .
. two vs. v. ass county 1 i;j
Cost Hill. Stale vs. Vatider-
venter rt r,
Cost Bill, State vs. Weaver. ... 152 Z
JIansen. mdse to poor. .. 17(0
rowler, mdse to poor .... 10 40
Total.
517GI 35
COUNTY KOAO FVXD.
John Kleiner, viewing road 2 50
X II Meeker Ad tier, road
damage 100 00
HIST KOAD Fl'XD.
O K Chandler, District 21 :V 72
Board adjourned to meet in regu
lar session ruesday. April 4th l'.U.
Fkaxk Dickson,
County Clerk.
MURDOCK.
Mr. McGuirc sold his business in
the Pool hall to Mr. Wtn. Wright of
Manley who will take possession
about March 11th.
A. Zubdel, our genial postmas
ter and merchant has bought out
Mr. F. Haas' stock of general mer
chandise and reiited the store
building also. It is the best in town.
He will take possession at once,
and move his goods Irom
the present place into the
rooms of his new quarters. We wish
him success.
An uncle ot Mr. F. Stock is here
in a visit from Missouri.
A little boy of Mr. Long is very
sick with typhoid fever. Dr. Friday
of Ashland is attending the little
sufferer.
A surprise and birthday party
was given to Mrs. K. W. FJvans in
commemoration of her 'Xk birth
day. A large number of her
friends were present and a very
enjoyable time was had by all.
"'e think that Mr. P. lCveland
beats everybody in getting his
wheat sowed this year, as he com
menced March 10th.
Peter Kveland was the most sur
prised man we ever beheld on the
evening of March 10th, when about
sixty of his friends gathered at his
always hospitable home, the occa
sion being his 47th birthday. A
very enjoyable time was had by
all. Games by the young people
and chats about old times by the
old, were kept up to a late hour,
when a tine oyster supper was
served, after which all departed for
their homes amidst a fearful wind
storm, but with the assurance of
having spent a very pleasant eve
ning. Dr. Kirk of Sjuth Bend, gave a
lecture on "Modern Christianity" in
our school house, last Thursday
evening, which was the beginning
of a series of meetings to be held
by the Christian church. The
meeting is carried on by a lady
missionary whose name we were
unable to learn.
A big time is expected by every
body next Friday night, when the
musical entertainment will take
place in Murdock. All that cm.
should turn out and hear the
scholars of Mrs. Bishop.
Grandpa Xippert is quite sick at
his home here. Dr. Madding is at
tending him.
Dr. Madding returned from his
trip to Frontier county, Xeb., and
reports things booming out there.
The excavation for the new par
sonage for the Lutheran congrega
tion has commenced, and the work
will be pushed as fast as it can.
Rikli & Xeit.le have their new
implement house about completed.
EIGHT MILE GROVE.
An exhibiton wiil be given at the
school house, in Ivight Mile Grove
mi Friday evening, March 17th. A
cordial invitation is extended to
all.
Mrs. R. Marrow is very tiek with
typhoid fever.
Miss Iva Minford and Miss Cora
Davis were passengers to Omaha
Monday afternoon.
Mr. S. M. Davis m keeping alivi
the enterprise of our vicinity by
laving the foundation for a new
house on one of Lis new farms.
A. S. Will leads out in farm la
bor by setting his men to cutting-
stalks.
Mr. Xiley Davis ban purchased
the entire stock of the firm known
as lCdinonds A Root, of Murray.
Mr. Jacob Vallery shipped a car
load of cattle to Omaha today.
The warm day last week coached
the boys out to irnther the corn that
was snowed under last December
Mr. Howard Young who has Ih-pp
teaching school east of Flight Mile
Grove was taken suddenly ill last
Tuesday and compelled him to
close his school.
F.lv Parkin nisoovred a Puwrllst
Melville D. Lnndon. who is known
to the public as Kli Perkins, was
battered and bruised Monday in a
fi-j-ht with a Pullman car porter.
The trouble arose over an argument
Mr. Laiidou entered into with the
Korter. Hot words brought on
blows. The porter was " ischarged
when the train reached St. Louis.
"ThU coat is too tight across the
chest."
1 Well, it won't be long. You are
a cigarette smoker you know."
A FRONTIER FARVEM6 W.FE.
Her Iliinleat Arc Many, and Her I'lranurM
Art I'rw.
The yim'ii who live in cities can form
no estin::te of 'the work done day after
day by the fanner's wife on the frontier. 1
There are no convenient laundries, baker
ies or stores where she could buy tin '
ready uiado articles nhe is coniielleil tc
Jiiuke for herself. It is unceasing wnvli
with her from early sunrise until loni!
fter the hours have grown small id
night. She lights the tires for breakfast.
Nowhere is a man so completely lord
and master as on the f.irni. His mother.
whs a fanner's wife and lighted the fires
bis wife shall do the same. While the
kettle is Ixiilini? she does the milking,
nnd cases are not rare where a fanner'
wife milks as many us 8 or 10 eo
twice a day. The milk is curried intc
the cellar in great heavy pailn that
would try u man's strength, and slm re
turns to the work of getting breakfast.
During the progress of the meal she can
not sit hack and eat and rest, as many
do. but is kept jumping up and down ;
waiting on t lie men folks and children.'
It is often n (most ion to strangers win
visit on the frontier if she ever gets a
chi.nee to eat i.t all. Then the children'
are to bo started off to school, mid
though the credit of their education f'all
to the father it is the mother who doci
extra work tluit. they may go. and vh.' '
pulls them out of bed and starts them
oft" in time every nx ruing.
The milk is to be strained nnd put
away, crocks scalded, butter churned,;
and the disl s and cIihiuImt work still
wait. Dinner and supper and afternoon
work take up Iter day. Then in tilt h
turns throughout the week there an
washing, ironing, baking every othei
day, scrubbing, sweeping, sewing mid
mending. In harvest time she will have
as many as 14 to k for and does it all
alone. It is s ddoin that a farmer feels
th.it he can afford to hire help in the
kitchen. She has 1 1 it; vegetable garden
to see to. To brighten the dreariness ot
Iw-r life she hiu-'closetothe seldom opened
front door a bed of half starved looking
flowers old fashioned coxcomb, four
o'clix-ks. trass pinks and a few other
cheerful looking plants that will tl.rive
under neglect. She makes everytliiup
that her family wears except bats and
shoes. She has no time to think of rest
or self.
It is in most cases her lot to welcome a
new baby every other year, and the only
time when help is employed to assist her
is for a jH'iiod of two or three weeks
wl en the little srun:rer arrives. The
births of the babies are about ail that
vary the monotony of her life. Oca
Monally death calls and takes from hei
tired arms a little life and leaves in it?
place an added pain in her heart. She is
old and tired out at !!(i.
When her daughters reach the age ut
which they could assist her. the dreary
prospect of a frontier life appalls them,
and they seek employment in town.
Nothing in her house is of late improve
ment. Her washboard is of the kind her
mother used, and her churn in its heavy,
clumsy build shows that it belongs to the
same date. Improvement stalks all over
the farm and leaves no trace in the kitch
en. Her pleasures are few. The satis
faction that she is doing her best seems
to be all that rewards her. She is a hero
ine in a caliio dress, wrinkled and stoop
shouldered a woman with it burden
who never complains. Late at night,
when all the members of the family are
in l d, a liht vv ill shine out across the
prairie from the family living room. It
is by this light the farmer's wife is doing
her mending and sewing, and it will
shine out long after the occasional travel
that way has stopped, and no one but
the one who blows it out knows tit what
hour the patient burden bearer's labors
c ase. IJ..ltimore Herald.
KryiiiK ItrcHt-m' (.nilim.
A special machine has been devised for
effecting the drying of brewers' grainsin
vacuum at u low temperature, "brew
ers' grains" arc now largely employed
for feeding cows a' id horses, hut the high
nutritive value of the sjient grains known
by that name is not generally known.
The dessicated product of the new proc
ess has proved to be of a highly satis
factory character, being free from the
peculiar bitter taste so often possessed
by brewers' grains and showing on anal
ysis a very high percentage of proteids
and fat producing material.
The advantages claimed for the vac
uum drying process are: The lowest
working expenses wit li greatest capac
ity, rapid drying at lowest tcmcia
tare and cnnscijucut excellent (piality
of the dried grains; no loss of material
or nutritive properties, as the grains nr
not pressed before drying; a clean and
simple process, and the avoidance of
vapor in the drying rooms or vicinity.
New York Telegram.
Dr. .-plli.il nr VI Mil IllrtU.
Falcons, hawks the largest siecies
can compress their feathersand look very
slim, if they think it necessary to do so.
As to the owls, they can hump up into
any jiosition they think most suitable. H
is useless to look for these self preserving
traits in any of the family kept in zoo
logical collections, fur the birds are s
accustomed to see large numbers of peo
ple Hissing and repassing, or standing in
trout of them, that they treat the whole
matter with perfect indifference. They
know that at a certain time their food
will be brought them, and that they are
otherwise perfectly safe. Then the rap
tores in a wild state have a bloom on
their plumage like the bloom on a hum h
of grapes, which is Hot often seen when
in captivity. Cornhill Magazine.
l.onkliiK I r lli'iir.
A party nf farmers in Wales once set
out in search of a bear which had es
caped from a traveling menagerie and
roamed their lands with considerable
detriment to their live stin k. In the
course of their quest one of the farmers,
observing a brown animal of consider
able size lying apparently asleep under a
tree, discharged his gun at it with fatal
effect. The victim of his zeal, however,
turned out to be a common donkey. The
bear was ultimately tracked. Loudon
Tit-Hits.
--THE HERO OF TODAY.
ELEMENTS OF CHARACTER WHICH
RAISE MAN TO THE FORE.
. Man In Often Juilgril by the Mm Tic
Ailuilrrn, Mil It Nullon by III Hlnil of
Men Sht llnimrn Connir In Not th
Only Uuitllly ItriiiiUII In ll. ro. '
It is a truth which has not yet come to
be fully realized that much of the char
acter of an individual depends upon his
ideas of heroism. What he admires and
honors is a good test of what he is, or
rather what he longs to be, and his heroes
will always have a strong attractive
force, which will draw himasfaras pos
sible into their sphere". In all the various
types of th hero one quality remains
forever prominent courage. The can
nibal who has distinguished himself by
theuuniber of his murders, the robber
chieftain who had held thousaudsat bay.
the Indian w.th his belt adorned with
scalps, the duelist who holds his lite
cheaper than his fancied honor, have all
in tunes past been regarded as heroes,
and whatever estimate they now receive
no one d".iies t heir courage.
Equally s.i. the martyr who gocschecr
fully to the st. die; the man who bra vet
obloquy and contempt for truth as he
holds it; he who risks his life to save an
other, or devotes it unreserved! v to the
good of mankind; one who can bear and
endure, and another who can dare and
do. all are. in turn, heroes to those who
appreciate them, and all are distin
guished by the same element courage
Whatever be the virtue or the vice; what
ever the cause engaged in: whatever the
motives which govern the life no one
has ever been made a hero, even in
thought, unless in someway he has shown
strength and bravery. Cowardice and
weakness, pusillanimity and fear, arc op
posed in their very essence to all hero
ism, and no merits, however great, can
form tt connecting link between them.
The mistake, however, which has long
tHH'ii made, and which we are only be
ginning to correct, is that courage alone
can make a hero. To some extent we
have given up this notion. Our present
heroes are no longer cannibals or rob
bers or duelists, however courageous
such men may have been. We have
come to admit that something else must
he united to bravery to create heroism.
And what is that something clscr Is it
not some noble purpose outside of self
and its interests, 'i'lioglad and willing
sacrifice for something higher than
pleasure or interest, comfort or ease,
united to the courage which scorns all
mean temptations and persists in the
truth and right, as far as it is seen, spite
of all obstacles that is the true heroism
which we are vaguely seeking and be
ginning to appreciate.
The prizefighter may bo bold and in
trepid in giving and receiving blows;
but, except to a few like himself, he has
reused to be a hero, for his purses are
low and Rellish. The suicide may have
the courage to throw away his life, but
he has not taat heroic courage which
lives on. enduring, hoping and working,
in spite of all the adverse circumstances
of his lot. The great conquerors of the
world who have plunged their nations
OO TO
ISAAC PEARLM AN'S
GREAT rODERISr
HOUSE-FURNISHING : EMPORIUM,
Where you can get your bolide furnised from kitchen to
parlor and at easy terms. I handle the world re
nowue Haywood Hah'- Carriages, also
the latest
Improved "Reliable Process "'Gasoline Stoves.
CALL AND UK CONVINCE!!. NO TKOl'HLK
to snow goods.
! OPPOSITE COURT
HOUSE
WE MUST HAVE MORE ROOM
AND IN ORDER TO GET IT
WE WILL FOR THE
Make Prices That
Will Move Hardware.
GLEAN NEW STOCK GOES
BURNED HARDWARE AT ANY PRICE
J. VV. I HiNDEri Sc CO.
.MUlsilXGIvR it I.OHMAXN.
DEALERS IN
SOLID COMFORT PLOWS, FARM IMFLEMENTS, WAGONS
I BUGGIES AND SMALL FARM SAFES.
ri.. nsMorrii, .... xkhrasio.
Into cruel wars tur the sake ot Uieir o ..
glory and aggrandizement were pre-eminently
the heroes of it past age. but w-1
are gradually learning that the tntc law
of bis country is tuo man who seeks 1 er ,
best welfare, who defends her rights ;:nd
consults her interests, and who for this
srreat purpose is ready to take praise or
blame, to govern or to forbear, to liveor
Co die. Our owu Washington and Lin
coln were men of this stamp, and wei.re
pistiy proud to have them head the list
:if our country's heroes.
Not. however, only in public life and
under the ga.e of the multitude do wo
Hud the true hero. In the home and in
the HchoolrooVi. in the otlice and the
workshop, in the crowded street and
open field, he may Ihi discovered by
those who can appreciate what heroism
really is. Whoever h;is a high and
worthy purpose at heart, whether of
truth or duty or love, and also has the
strength and courage to work, to sacri
fice and to Miller, if need be, for its sake,
is worthy of the name.
( ne quietly denies himself pleasure or
comfort or ease for the aged parent or
the sick child. Another gives up cher
ished plans because they would interfere
with the claims of a dependent family.
One faces the displeasure of friends and
society sooner than forsake his principles:
another employs all his power in defense
of the weak and against the oppressor.
Our hero must be strong and brave, but
he must also be magnanimous and uu
seltisli, not counting the cost, in his great
desire to further his noble purpose.
Such men and women are always
among us, but in the retirement of pri
vate life they are inevitably known but
to a few. Those few, however, should
esteem it their privilege and duty to
honor such true heroism, and to extend
its influence. Especially should the
young be taught to recognize and revere
it. It should be an important part of
the education of every child Ut form
within him a true and worthy concep
tion of heroism, and to enable him to
recognize it wherever it exists.
Too often his only idea of it is found
in the sensational romance, or in the ex
amples around him of men who. for
praise or glory or gain, will do daring
deeds and manifest a physical bra very
often at a fearful cost to their fellow
men. Let us give him a truer ideal and
atlord him a higher example Philadel
phia Ledger.
Didn't Know It All.
Hoy I seen a card on y'r winder wid
"Hoy Wanted" writ on it. Got one yeti'
.Merchant I have not found one to
suit me. Have you had any experience
in our business?
11 y No, not much, but I s'pose you'll
tie around yourself some o' th'tilne.
Goo.l News.
Illlllcillt to ItUtliiKiiUli.
Hilkins Is your friend an English au
thor? Wilkins No; he's only a dyspeptic
New York Weekly.
Richter was fond of cts and at one
time kept a great spider in a paper box
carefully feeding and tending the crea
ture for manv mouths.
The Japanese say. "A man takes a
drink, then the drink takes a drink, and
'" i.i -.! i.'.v..!,- taiys the man."
NEXT THIRTY DAYS
AT VERY BOTTOM PRICES
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A cream of tahir bulling powder.
Highest ot all in leavening
strength. Latest I'nited SlatcM
food report.
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CONORRHCEA,
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SEMINAL WEAKNESS,
STRICTURE,
HYDROCELE.
VARICOCELE,
PILES, CATARRH,
SEXUAL WEAKNESS,
Ami nil Nervnim, Oironlo anil 1'rlvnte Dla
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riiri'H during Hie mt 87 yi'r. Send 4o for
their lllunlrutnl hook of 1XO pMKea. Con
nullHtluu free, Cnll upon, or add rut with
ii tii ui p,
DRS. BETTS & BETTS,
llll Smith lltli trc -I. xiiiiiliciixl cur.
Will ninl IhhiuIiik Hlrcr'H.
Oiuii life JNJ t mi ' ta.
JULIUS : PEPPERBURG,
Mniiiifnetiiri'r uf ntul WIioN-hiiIc
iiikI IVetnil Denier in 1 lie
Choicest Brands of Cigars.
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DEN'IMSTlvY.
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Mriiltfe iinil l ine Culil Work
A SPECIALTY.
Ut-' STKINAI'S MX "A I. ii- well mh otli.r
.iiiiirMlH'tii'" eivrii f'r the pninlcMi
exlrin lion nf leelli.
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FURNITURE, AND
UNDERTAKING.
House Furnishing Goods
STOVES AND RANGE?.
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liw through. We will enilni vur to
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