Semi-weekly news-herald. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1895-1909, December 06, 1896, Page 2, Image 2
THE SEMI-WEEKLY NEWS-HERALD, PLATTSMOUTH, NEB., FEBRUARY 6, 1897. 2 I USHEU WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS ... BY THE . . . NEWS PUBLISHING COMPANY, M. D. POLK, EDITOR. DAILY EDITION. One Year, in advance, .... Six Months jne Week, Single Copies, SEMI WKEKLV EDITION. One Year, in advance, . . . Six Months, $5 00 2 50 10 5 91 00 f0 THE LARGEST CIRCULATION Of any Cass County Paper. Among others Caivin S. Brice would I like to succeed John Sherman as United States senator from Ohio. Electricity for use on the farm gives promise of becoming popular. Imagine a horny fisted farmer sailing acro93 the field under the trolley. " The Nebraska state legislature has been in session five weeks. For all that has been accomplished it might as well not have convened until now. THE January mortgage record for Cass county makes a good showing especially as regards city property, the extent of mortgages filed being $15, while the releases were away up. The plan to have the West Point cadets in attendance at the inaueura tion and to pay their expenses out of the national treasury was defeated. This is a very important event, but to pay the expenses of the cadets would be a useless expenditure of pub lic funds. The government has come to an un derstanding with the reorganization committee of the Union Pacific, so that the road will be sold at mortgage sale and the government get the money called for by its mortgage, which is in the neighborhood of fifty million dollars. The city of Glasgow, Scotland, en joys the reputation of being today the most advanced municipality in the world. Beginning with January, 18D7, the city will be supported entirely by the revenue derived from franchises, the property ol the city. No more will such a thing as an assessor or tax- collector be known there. Kefekixo to the action of the Ne brasKa legislature in instructing him to vote for the free coinage of silver, Senator Thurston said: "The present Nebraska legislature does not repre sent the party that elected me to the senate. When any of the legislators show a disposition to come to my pro position, I will consider the matter. We are now as far apart as the poles, and there is no apparent prospect of agreement." Thehe is great dissatisfaction at Washington, and in fact all over the country, because of the refusal of those in charge to employ the Marine band at inauguration ball. This is known to be the best -organization of music ians in t he world and since they are paid by the government should have been employed. Instead different bands were invited to bid for the job and the Marine band was shuv out. Some one is evidently trying to make a stake out of it. A national bank in Texas which suspended about four weeks ago has reopened its doors. Probably many others of the banks recently in trouble will do this also. The difficulty with most of them, it is likely, was not really serious, but in the general tor por in trade they wont down. Now that everybody sees the worst is over, and that business is unmistakably im proving, the bank suspensions will probably soon be fewer than the re sumptions. Globe-Democrat. The latest political report con cerning the successor to Senator Sherman, already selected as a mem ber of President McKinley's cabinet is that Gov. Bushnell will not appoint M. A. Hanna, who has senatorial as pirations, and that no special session of the legislature will be called, but to further his own ambitions, Gov. Bushnell will resign, Lieut. Jones will become chief executive, and will promptly appoint his predecessor to the vacant seat in the senate. Ex. The female suffragists had lots of fun at Des Moines last week and took in the town in a proper way, but when they essayed to capture the state legislature 6uch a "marble heart was "shown as even the exper ienced Susan B. .nthony had not be fore encountered. What the Wyom ing and Colorado people call progress is not designated that way in Iowa, and the horrid men folks will doubt less continue to rule tne roost over there without let or hindrance until the millennium. It is a noble spirit that actuates the people of Nebraska to respond to the cry of the hungry Cbicagoans. People of that town, did admirably in Ne braska's hour of need, being the first to fend food. However, the sugges tion that the Chicago Tribune makes, that all corn sent to help the sufferiner Cbicagoans should be sold and the proceeds derived therefrom used to purchase sound money literature and immediately sent back and distributed over the state, has a tendency to cool ol the enthuslam. It was a mear thrust. - It still remains true that tho sym pathies of the people of the Unite! ub t iu t c, - hex Hie wilu A m uiaus g tin Iho u.ur er oua laiuo auct w..ij ver mjil aad material aid can lawfully be given the insurgents should be uromplly rend ered, a;iys the Beatrice Express. Cut the fact remains thai the laws of na tions give us no right whatever to in terfere in the Cuban conflict, and that we can only doit by assuming the risk of war with every country that sees tit to resent it. To this conclusion the second sober thought has brought most of the congressional statesmen who a month ago started out with a great flourish to establish Cuban independ ence by joint resolution. The com mon resolution which was to have been oassed in the twinkling or an eve. sleeps the sleep that knows no waking in the pigeon hole of the com mittee that was to report it. Its author admits that it is dead. Most of those who were so enthusiastically for it when it appdared are more than content to leave it wnere it is. An expression of the deep sympathy w all feel for the Cuban patr.ots and of the earnest hope we cherish that they may succeed is fit and proper but beyond this we may not cousis tently go. Ex. Senator Mantle, of Montana says a new silver party will be formed in 1900, composed chiefly of republi cans. Such a party necessarily would be verv small. Probably the silver party of 1900, whatever is constituon elements may be, will be small any how. Many of those who voted for free silver in the recent canvass wan free greenbacks now, and some of the others have come over to the gold side since the election. If there is contest on the money issue three years hence, it will be between th gold standard and greenbackism. The fight will not be so hard as it was in 1896, for the dollar wtiich is intrinsi cally worth only the fractional part of a mill can never muster the strength that the 50c dollar commanded last year. Ex. The loss caused by the destruction of the Pennsylvania state capitol by fire is heavy enough, but the state did not carry all its offices in one building and the proportion injured is there fore quite small. The old capitol was outgrown long sgo, but instead of adding to it or erecting a new build ing aitogetner, ine state put up sep arate structures for its growing de parimects. ine state library, the treasury and virtually all of the ex ecutive offices are housed in detached buildings. The loss in historical as sociations is greater than in money Ex. .w ices irom .Mauria sav mat tiie news of Mr. Sherman's uppointiiien us secretary of 6tate in the cabinet of Mr. McKinley has created a sensation at tho court, and the unexpected change in Senor Canovas' policy, as shown by his readiness to grant re forms in the island, though he af firmed a few months ago that not the least concession would be made unti th revolution was crushed is only due to the fear that one of McKinley 's first steps would be an effort to end the war in some way favorable to the na tivo?. Mil Bkyan claims in his book that the cross of gold and crown of thorns was his own phrase, though he had used it Deiore in congress. It is strange that Mr. Bryan ignores the perfectly well known fact that McColl of Massachusetts, was the first to em ploy it in congress, and that it had been printed many years before in the play of Jack Ode. Globe-Democrat Fouu weeks more of Grover. Just think of the misery in this great but busted country, if we should wake uo tomorrow morning to find that it wj.s an irridescent dream and that there were four years more of Grover. State Journal. The Nebraska City News has be come so "poppy"' since it flopped that it now fights the Omaha exposition appropriation, just to be in line with tne papers from tne snort jjrass country. The republican candidate for trea urer of aoutn Dakota was elected by a majority of two in a total vote exceed in s 90,000 INFORMATION AND OPINIONS. Five school children went through the ice at east Nebraska City Tuesday and were drowued before assistance could be rendered. Three of them were members of one family making a sad eyent for mother and father when their treasures were brought home with blanched faces and rigid forms. A German scientist is authority for the statement that if women will eat onions they will rid themselves of nervousness and beautify their com plexions at the same time. And as an antidote to the pungent objection which will be promptly brought forth, be asserts that a sprig of parsley dipped in vinegar and eaten after the onions at once removes all evidence of their consumption. Ex. Two well known Cass county hoys went to Tecumseh not long since to start a club room and the Telegraph yesterday says thoir place was raided by the officials, the boys were thrown in jail while half a barrel of whiskey and eight kegs of beer and some poker chips were confiscated by the authori ties. It is to be hoped that the boys may learn a good lesson without seri ous pecuniary loss. Life on the farm may not be so roseate as is sometimes pictured but it is several points easier and su'-er us a mens of livelihood than any saloon it bilitrd table route. Scandinavia wants to secure peace in case of a European war by haviner its neutrality guaranteed by the powers, as is now the case with BtL criuut and Switzerland. Resolutions asking for this will bo submitted in the Norwegian storthing, the Swedish riksdag, and the Danish folkething. Ex-Warden C. J. Nobles died yester day at his home in York county. He was wealthy and leaves a valuable es tate for the support of his family. A peck of corn makes a pint of whis ky, which in turn causes a peck of trouble, and nature's law of conserva tion of matters hold good. Bixby. The court reporters have won their suit in tho supremo court and their salary of $1,500 per year will remain the same. The estimate of the provender re- vuired for the supper in connection with the inaugural ball, is 10,000 as sorted sandwiches, 8, COO chicken cut lets, 7,000 sweetbreads patties, o()0 gallons of consomme soup, 300 gallons of terrapin, U00 gallons of chicken salad, 200 gallons of crab salad, 200 gallons of lob9ter salad, 2-50 hams. 80, oysters, liOU tongues, 180 boned lur- kejrs, 1,S00 quat ts of ice cream, 100 gallons of Iloman punch, 2)0 pounds of cakes, 100 pounds of game patties and 200 gallons of coffee. This is sup posed to be sufficient to feed 10,000 people, which is the minimum attend ance expected. And it only costs one dollar in addition to the ball ticket, to enjoy a lunch like that. Ex. A St. Louis judge fined a young man who attempted to kiss a pretty girl. and failed. $10 and costs. Served him right; no pretty girl likes to be disap pointed in such mitiers. Ex. An Illinois uidge recently sen tenced a man to 100 years in the penitentiary. The fellow's good time may cut it down to about ninety. The determination of G vernor Pin- gree of Michigan to vary tne tuonot- ouy of the gubernatorial oflice by hold ing on to his post of mayor of Detroit for a year or two, h;:s displeased people who think that tho ollicers are too few to go around with one to each man, and they have brought a Suit in the supreme court to see if they can't make him drop one of his bones and be content either to bo governor or mayor, a one. The governor's ambi tion to hold down both executive chairs at once is certainly uniqup, Senator Hill is about the only mcJern case of a eovernor ho'ding another oflice. He was New York's governor and senator combined for some months. na"id enr ot liealrice shot ai.p killed a dog belonging to John A. Dobbs. Dobbs arrested him and he was convicted j;nd sentenced to one day in jail, which he served. The case was appealed to the supreme court where it was reversed. Nehr then brought suit for $10,000 damages for imprisonment and a jury has just re turned a verdict for $245 in his favor, which is the price of one day's work in jail. This is a pointer for Richard Roe and J. Doe. Ex. Editor Mell Schmeid of the D.ikota Ckv Eagle acknowledges the receipt of a wheelborrow load of wedding cake, when he is already so fat ho can hardly button his shoos. But that's the way it goes. Thosa who have sh ill be added unto, but those who have not, from them it shall be taken away. J hero are some other editors in Nebraska who are so lean they will not cast a shr.d jw, yet they are trying to pull through the winter on hay and corn fodder. Ex. Captain Palmer is the titled digni tary who acts as secretary to Queen Liliuokalani. It is not our friend, Captain Palmer of Omaha, however, as some have been led to believe. Six sets of triplets and thirtv-ono pairs of twins is reported from a re cent New York baby show. It is firmly believed that President McKinley will recognize in his ap pointments to prominent ofllces, some of the sound money democrats who advocated his election, on the rostrum and elsewhere. It is possible, even if not probable, that the support of that wing of the democracy aided to a cer tainty his election. As a reward for his support, and recognizing his ability, late reports indicate that Gen eral Daniel E. Sickles is to be offered tho position of commissioners of pen sions in the McKinley administration. Ex. Take off the llornn. The undersigned is now ready with a good portable chute and tools, to re move the weapons of horned cattle at ten cents per head. It never gets too cold to dehorn cattle. Any time after fly-tinie, until the first week in April s the right time. After that it is too ate. If those who wish to have such work dono will address mo at liock Bluffs, Neb., they will be promptly answered. S. L. FUKLOXO. Klieuuiatisin Cured in a Day. 'M otic Cure" for Rheumatism and iNeuralgia raaically cures in one to three days. Its action upon the sys tem is remarkable and mysterious. It removes at once the cause and the isease immediately disappears. The first dose greatly benefits, 75 cents. Sold by F. G. Fricke & Co., druggists. Dry wood taken on subscription at TnE News office. THE DEACON'S DONATION. And Why It Wae Not Accepted by the Town Committee. It had been decided at a publio meet ing of the citizens they that wonld have a combination library, reading room and eocial club in VTampton. The commit tee, made up of snbstantial members of the community authorized to act upon their own judgment, was in session at Deacon Close's, he having a site that he wanted to sell for the proposed building. "I regard this movement aa deserving of popular approval and aid," said the minister. "It aims to secure a wider intelligence and a better tone of morali ty among our people. Every one should give according to his means." After the editor, the doctor and the banker had talked in the same vein, the lawyer proposed that they get down to business. "Deacon Close," he contin ued, "has a desirable lot for which he asks t2,000. It strikes me as a pretty stiff price, but I have no doubt that he will make us a donation of f oOO and make a deed of the site for $1,500. " There was applause, in which the deacon did nof participate, but rising reluctantly he delivered himself as fol lows: "I must say that I agree with what has been said in praise of this en terprise. Our town needs it and there is no place for it more desirable than the lot I have offered. Of course I want to bear my full share of the expense. "Since I offered you this lot," the deacon went on, "there has been a great improvement in times. Money is easier, prices are better and realty gets an en hanced valne because of the general prosperity. I will let you have the lot for $2,500 and throw off $500 as a do nation. " The minister muttered something he was glad the rest did not hear. The doctor laughed, the banker scowled and the lawyer moved to adjourn in a voice that told the deacon he would have to seek some other market for the lot that had taken such a long and sudden jump in value. Detroit Free Press. THEY DO NOT SIT. Some Birds That Hatch Their Eggs by Queer Devices. It is well known that the Australian megapod is a bird that is accustomed to sit on its eggs. In certain parts of Aus tralia are found numerous mounds of considerable size and height which the first explorers took to be burial grounds. These were made by the Megapodius tumulus, which uses them for hatching its eggs. They have sometimes consid erable dimensions. A nest that is 14 feet high and 55 feet in circumference may be regarded as large. Each megapod bulds its own nest with material which it gathers from all sides, and these are exactly what the gardener uses in the month of March to make his forcing beds namely, leaves and decomposing vegetable matter. which, by their fermentation, give off an appreciable amount of heat. In the forcing beds tbi.s heat hastens the sprout ing of the seeds. In the nest it suffices for tho development and hatching of the young birds, and the mother can go where she likes and occupy herself as she wishes without being troubled by the duties of sitting. In the small island of isinaiou, in the Pacific, another bird has a some what similar habit, in so far as it also abandons its eggs, but in place of ob tabling the necessary heat from fer mentation it gets it from warm sand, The leipoa, or native pheasant of Aus tralia, acts like the megapod and watch es the temperature of its mound very closely, covering and uncovering the eggs several times a day to cool them or heat tbem as becomes necessary. Aft er hatching, the young bird remains in the mound several hours. It leaves on the second day, but returns for the night, and not until the third day is it able to leave for good the paternal abode. Iievue Scieutilique. An Embarrassing Gift. Lord Leightou's house is to be pre sented to the nation, which in tnrn is to maintain it in its present condition as an artistic monument of its late own er. It is ungracious to discuss snch mat ters too closely, and every one will rec ognize the good intentions of tbe ladies who make the generous gift, bnt some day it will be necessary seriously to dis cuss this business, now so much in fash ion, of keeping up the houses that are associated with the memory of our great men. Une day it is UarJyJe, another it is Turner, and so on. There is a little "boom," a few of the faithful pour in on the opening day and examine the hat stand, and tbe walking stick, and the dining room ta ble, and then they go away and straight way forget all about it. For a year or bo stray Americans and provincials keep up a show of interest, and then the thing becomes a mere white elephant, of in terest or of use to nobody. Lord Leigh- ton's house is out beyond Holland Park, and, as it is not to be either a school, a museum or a home, who is likely after the first few weeks to take the trouble to go three or four miles to visit it? St. James Gazette. Breaking Things. Robert We had quite an experience at btoder's last evening. Richard Yes? Robert Yes. We were sitting there like so many mumchances, when Sto- der s daughter suddenly broke into song. lticharu bo? And what did the rest of you do? Robert Oh, the rest of us broke away as soon as possible. Boston Transcript. The present kine of Servia. Alexander it was elevated to the throne in tbe place of his disreputable father in 1889. lie was born in 187G and is now a stur dy youth, who, it is said, gives promise tiug aiuan ever was. It is stnted by Brewer that Podo Hor- u"'wi t -j . an ma utbz to wear a cup or tiara of state. County Physicians ine loiiowing is a list of the county physicians for the eix dis tricts appointed by the county com missioners today: Dr. Cummins, Geo. GHmore, Ur. M.M. Cutler. Dr. TJol- lister, Dr. lamblin and Dr. Neeley. Allen C. Story a lawyer of Chicago, came near being lynched right in the heart of the city yesterday by an in- furiated mob who insisted through Allen's manip jlations of Building and Loan investments thev had been rob bed. A catholic priest interfered and Story sneakec out of sight. THE ROSE OF STARS. "When love, our great immortal, . Put on mortality And down from Eden '9 portal Brought this sweet world to be. At the sublime archangel He laughed with veiled eyea. For be bore within his bosom The seed of paradise. Ee hid it in hU bosom, And there such warmth it found It brake in bud and blossom. And the rose fell on the ground. As the green light on the prairie. As the red light on the sea. Through fragrant belts of summer Came this sweet world to be. And the grave archangel, seeing, Spread his mighty vans for night, But a glow hung round him fleeing Like the rose of an arctic night. And sadly moving heavenward By Venus and by Mars, He heard the joyful planets Hail earth, the rose of stars. G. E. Woodbury in Century. HAS THE UMBRELLA FAD. Chicago Man Who Carries It to Greater Extremes Than Most People. There is a man on the North Side who has the umbrella fad. It would hardly bo fair to tell his name, as it was learned in confidence, and the fad might not be regarded as a mere eccen tricity by some people who have suffer ed from it and they might be tempted to complain to the police. Again, every body who has lost an umbrella and that means a majority of the people of Chicago would look up his address in the directory and sweep down upon him with the hope that his lost property might be in his collection. There are other men who have a weakness fcr taking umbrellas, but no man is known to have carried it to so great an extreme as this one. He has a collection numbering 400 umbiellas of all kinds. A good many of them were bought. Some of them were borrowed from friends, with and without their permission, and others were acquired in other ways which it would be hardly polite to mention. The man is a good citizen in other respects, but he is a vic tim of the umbrella habit, and when he sees an umbrella he is compelled to struggle very hard to resist the tempta tion to make himself its owner. Usual ly he yields to the temptation, and the coveted prize is transferred to his col lection. The umbrella collector does not make any great display of his collection. The umbrellas are piled up in a big closet in his bedroom, and he very seldom visits it. Now and then he looks over them and counts them with satisfaction. The last time he counted them there were 398 in the closet. He has added a few to his collection since that time. In every other way except this pas sion for umbrellas, which amounts to a mania, the man is perfectly sane. His friends regard him as a very clevei man, and he holds a responsible posi tion in a big wholesale house down town. But umbrellas are his weakness. He is a victim of the umbrella habit just as another man might be a victim of the opium habit or morphine habit, and his relatives are in constant fear that the habit may some day get him into trouble. Chicago Times-Herald. A Pointed Question. The great question whether the use of forks is understood in Chicago hav ing been happily settled in Paris, it mow ha aol'tul in cnvinnanaaa ichothai forks are not too much used in Chicago and everywhere else. Not that anybody wants to use the knife for conveying food to the mouth, but might .not the teaspoon as a part of the dinner equip ment be a little more prominent? People of breeding train their chil dren to eat peas, for instance, with a fork, tabooing the spoon for no apparent reason other than that its use would simplify and facilitate the operation. On tbe same principle they ought to eat their peas with chopsticks, as a China man could easily do. Ho with certain kinds of pie and pastry. The relish is marred by the loss of juices too thin for the fork to carry. Yet the man who values his social reputation must not The proper use of the silver fork might be better understood if it were regarded as a modified shovel wjth lim- itations imposed by its slits. For solids it is an excellent shovel. For liquids it is naturally a failure. The countryman who on his first visit to a city hotel asked tne water for a spoon with no slits in it was no legitimate subject of ridicule. He was an impartial critic, being without the prejudice of habit or tradition. Hotel Mail. The Supreme Court. "The judges of the United States courts have, with rare exceptions, been men of excellent legal ability and of high character,' writes ex-President Tr . rm T - , tt t 1 narrison in ine ijauies xiome journal. The bar has sometimes complained that judges were arbitrary and not al-1 ways aa suave and respectful in their treatment of the members of the bar as I theyought to be. Perhaps there has hppn in TflrHn1iirpnaAa crrrvn n r fnr ennh I complaints, but the cases have been few. Manifestations of rudeness and passion are inexcusable in a judge. He must be deferential if he expects defer ence. He should be patient and even tempered, for the case is Bure to go his way in his own court. And, on the oth er hand, the bar should always give its powerful aid to support the influence of the courts, for the judicial department is the keystone of our government and assaults uron it threaten the whole structure of the stately arch. " He'd Starve. "I don't see how Jolly lives with that rich wife of his. She's a Tartar. " "It would be a good deal harder to explain how he could live without her." Detroit Free Press. What is called elm dust is really the seeds of the tree, which ripen before the leaves are perfectly foi rued. Portland, lie., is 1,297 miles north east of St. Louis. Old fashioned oak tanned leather (that lasts twice as loner as the chemi cal quick tanned leather) is what August Gorder uses, and the result is if a man buys his harness once he will have no other. Children Cry for Pita-Tier's Castoric Children Cry fori Pitcher's Castoria. for Infants and Children. KIT3HiaTY year' observation of Caatoria with tho T?! J millions of person, permit nn to speak of it wifhont gnessiag. It Is nnqnestionahly thejbeoroeyjforjnttjant and Children the world ha ever known. It is harmless. Children like It. It gives them health. It will save their lives. In it Mothers have something which is absolutely safg and practically perfectasa child's medicine. Castoria destroys "Worms. Castoria allays Feverishnes. Castoria prevents vomiting Son r Cnrd. 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Hp has the sole asfency tor the best otove on earth, the C6 GOLD I. ... in an sizes ana oesigns. in o otner nouse in . UaSS COUnty Carries naiT SU large il SIOCK anu . none can compete on for his gOOdS. YOU ARE... Specially Invited to call and see our splendid stock and get prices. No trouble to show good. Remem ber the place. I. PEARLMAN, (Jpp. COUTt HOtlSC When Baby was sick, Tt fave her Castoria. When 6he vaa a ChilJ, she cried for Castoria. When she became Miss, she clung to Corferia. tVbea she bad Children, she gave them Cuatoria - R - I - A. is on every wrapper. Pitcher's Castoria. an Easy Chair, an ele- COIN" . . . . , prices, as ne pays casn Plattsmouth, Neb. Card of Thank. I To the A. O. U. V., also shoo em- ployes and friends of my father whose sympatny anu acts of kindness have been so generously extended, I desire to return my sincere thanks. MlSS lllANCA Fl.F.CHTNKK. DeWitt's Colic & Cholera Cure. Pleasant, quick result, safe to use. w7 STOVES