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THE SEMI-WEEKLY NEWS-HERALD, PLATTSMOUTH, NEB., APRIL 14, 1897. TneSemi-Weeklu News-tterald PUBLISHED WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS BY THE NKWS PUBLISHING COMPANY, M. D. POLK, EDITOR. DAILY EDITION. One Year, in advance, 5 00 Six Months 2 50 me Week, 0 Single Copies, 5 SEMI-WEEKLY KDITION. One Year, in advance, . ... $1 00 Six Months, . . . 50 LARGEST CIRCULATION Of any Cass County Paper. TllK legislature finally ajourned Saturday morning. Out of the three months' seion of the legislature, there have not been passod six bills of real merit that are of general worth to the state. It was a legislature loog to be remembered. STALE poultry fruit and carrot bouquets, which have long held a con spicuous place in Kentucky politics, must now be discarded, as the legisla ture down there has passed a law against their use in political meetings. THE prospect for war in the east be tween Turkey and Greece looked quite flattering this morning. If the powers would keep bands off and let the Greeks kill a few thousand Turks the whole world would be better lor the killing. TnE populists, who have howled on high, republican salaries, raised the salary of the private secretary to Gov. Ilolcomb to 82,000 per year and sal ariea of other state house employes have also been raised. This is reform with a vengeance. The sugar trust, which is hit hard by the new tariff bill. Is importing vast quantities of raw sugar just now, io order to avoid the payment of a tariff. If the consumer always paid the tariff, the sugar trust would not care anything about it. Billy Bryan says he has discovered "a great change in public sentiment since the election" when prosperity and Bryanisim were thought to be making a neck and neck race. We think prosperity is eaining rapidly on its opponent and that it will get leagues ahead by fall. Oxe of the populists voted for the Dingley bill and many of them refused to vote one way or the other. Many of them no doubt favored the measure but were deterred from declaring for it for fear of their constituents. It is clear that the cause of protection is gaining strength all over the country. The testimony produced before the senate investigating committee which was appointed to exonerate the hon orable senators of the charge of being boodled by the gamblers, seems to fall far short of its aim, though a white wash report was agreed to. The Bee is printing the testimony, and it ought to make Ransom and Howell squirm to read it. The Omaha Trade Exhibit is mak ing a war on the department stores of that city that will make the pro moters of those establishments equirm. The Trade Exhibit sent a reporter around to the department stores to learn the prices on various articles, and when compared with those of the other 6tores they were found to be higher in every instance. They do not do a town'any gcod. AND now the Japs are moving on to the Sandwich Islands with war-ships. If McKinley would get a move on to his foreign department and annex the Islands before any foreign powers got mixed up it would be statesmanship of the right sort. If we are to have an other siege of Cleveland's brand of diplomacy, ' Mr. McKinley should learn the temper, of the American people at once. There is no tenable reason why Hawaii should riot be an nexed, and:the longer it is put off the worse it will be tor the administration. The first reports from the Chicago city election enthused the popocratic press and it immediately climbed into the seventh heaven of happiness to proclaim that'free silver" had car ried the city by a majority over all The complete returns knocked out that illusion, but probab'y the popo cratic press will never discover its mistake. Mr. Harrison, however, in his speech of thanks declared that he was elected b7 the help of gold demo crats and republicans who were dis gusted with municipal misrule and was toosmartjto creditJhisDvictory. to Brvanism. State Journal. The legislature succeeded in pass ing a bill creating a new charter for Omaha which legislates everybody out of office up there and makes an immediate election necessary. This was all done in the interest of Senator Howell and his gang of public plun derers. A pretty spectacle, indeed that of.the law-making powers stoop ing to ward politics, and seeking to advance the present ends of candi dates whose malodorous records will defeat tnemeat the polls. Represen tatives Pollard and Young have combatted these organized cohorts of iniquity with such zeal as to endear them to the honest tax-payers of the county, who will not forget the efforts they put forth in favor of clean and much needed legislation and opposi tion to tho robbers7 roost which con trolled, both ends of the capitoL THE GOVERNOR AND MUTUAL INSURANCE. Two veers ago when the republicans P ut through the legislature a care fully prepared and well-digested measure providing for mutual fire in surance companies to write risks on city and town property, Governor Ilolcomb unexpectedly vetoed the measure and it failed to become a law. since which time the old line insur ance companies have raised their rates on this class of property, says the Fremont Tribune. At the present session of the popu list legislature a bill was introduced permiting the organization of com panies to do this kind of flro insurance. The bill was signed by the governor on Wednesday of this week and on the very same day, by what must be regarded as a singular coincidence. articles incorporating a company under the new law were filed at Lin coln and Governor Ilolcomb is to bo president of the company. The public will be at a loss to under stand just why the governor should row be willing not only to siern a bill providing for this kind of insurance but should also become president of a company, when two years ago he vetoed attempt to give the people some relief from the extortion of the insur ance com panies. Ihe insura ce lobby is just as strong at the presert session as it was at the session of 1893, and its inducments are just as ftatteaing. no doubt, it appears from the record thai mutual fire insurance laws for city use are not desirable unless they have the populist braud blown in the policy and that companies organized for this pur pose are spurious unless Governor Ilol comb is at the head. A bill has been introduced by Judge Maxwell, of this state, transferring all the postmasterships in the United States from the executive offices and providing that thereafter all post masters shall be elected by the people. For this pjrpose an extensive election system is created, a county board be ing organized in every county of the union to divide the territory in post office districts. Mr. Maxwoll's bill provides that the terms of all post masters now in office shall expire on the first day of January after the bill becomes a law; that the postmasters shall be elected for four years through out the United States at the general election of 1898. All that is left of the patronage of the postoffice depart ment under this comprehensive and sweeping measure is tho right to fill vacancies until the next general elec tion. The bill covers all classes cf postmasters. Ex. The war news look more belligerent than ever today and the chances of selling bread stuffs to both sides of the dispute is what makes your Uncle Samnel feel first rate thank you. INFORMATION' ANI OPINIONS. It is said that a Council Bluffs woman who wanted to know how to make good coffee sent fifty cents in stamps to an address in New York and got the following recipe: "Practice until you get it exactly right, then keep on making it that way." This brings to mind the advertisement of a Now York man during the civil war who guaranteed to inform any one sending him $1 and a postage stamp how to escape the draft. A good many men were looking for just such a snap. They got it. The answer sent by the New York man contisted of a single word, "enlist." Ex. Miies Standish bas signed to pitch for the New York league this year. It is notour Miles, but probably the sam3 breed o cats. Colonel Sprage, who once edited a paper at Rush villa and got away with out getting hurt, assumed full control of the Norfolk Times. He announces that the paper will henceforth cham pion tho cause of revivified democracy. If that means the Nebraska brand, the colonel might as well get right inside the populist car as to ride on the trucks. He will find it more comfort able, aud get their just as soon. Bix- by. The son of Georgia's governor, at the age of seventeen years, married a girl aged fourteen yesterday. Young Sullivan, the debased, vile, sneaking, cowardly dead-beat, who bas never been known to perform an honest day's work, serves notice on the editor of this paper that If we print any reflection on what he calls "my old man," we are to be horribly mangled and must .yield up our life for such an offense. It is a disgrace to this paper to even have the contemp tible scoundrel's name appear in these columns, but we arte, constrained to say that The News will continue do ing business at the old stand, and when we see fit to criticise the "old man," not the least of whose crimes is the harboring of this dirty cur, we shall do so without asking permission of any one, much less a drunken, irre sponsible hanger-on, who .has for years had no visible means of support. Decent people avoid him, and it is to their credit that they do. The air-ship fake has collapsed, and those who have been willing to make affidavit that they saw it can new bathe their heads and take out the swelling. W. J. Bryan, 6ince his fall of twenty feet caused by the giving way of a platform from which he was speaking. is able to talk again, having had a lucky escape from what might have have been a serious fall. The river at this point raised about four inches last night and high water is reported at Sioux City. The indi cations are that there will not be an overflow here, although the danger point has almost been reached. The river is cu'.ting the bank about a quar ter of a mile above the water-works power house and the water is only about eisrht feet from Isaac Snead's residence. From tho action of the river it is thought the power house is in no danger. .Nebraska City Press. Tho parade at the Grant monument dedication in New York will be over twenty miles in length. The militia of thirteen states will bo present. Air ships are getting so thick one might suppose they would become cheap, but they still refuse to come down. They are decorating women's' hats in Berlin with mice. This may be come a fashionable fad, as it is the other extremity where a live mouse strikes consternation. . WoUenbeger ought to be down in Louisiana just now ar.d study irriga tion aiong the banks of the Missis sippi. Governor Mount of Indiana would be a political failure in Kentucky, as he has given out that he would not give any office to steady drinkers. Fortunately for the "hoosiers," the man who takes a nip occasionally is not barred. A man at Niles, Mich., aged eighty seven, eloped wit h a lady of seventeen last week. He was old enough to have known better, and may have but a fewyeais left for repentance. Nebraska City will have twelve sa lo: ns next year, while the nice, quiet town of Plattsmouth only requires five. Our folks up this way bathe in water. The fast mail, drawn by engine No. 204, yesterday ran from Greenwood to Lincoln, a distance of eighteen miles, in sixteen minutes. A few days ago the same engine ran at the rate of seventy-four miles an hour between La Platte and Omaha. The 204 is a hct proposition. Thurston's Private Car. One of the private cars of the Uuion Pacific system will bo thoroughly re novated and trimmed up within the next few days for the exclusive use of Senator and Mrs. John M.Thurston. The car will be sent to Washington, where it will be mot by the former Union Pacific ereneral solicitor and his wife. They will then take posses sion of it, and then leave for Florida, through which state they will travel for the following three weeks. Tho order for the car has not yet been cfllcially issued, but will be within a day or two. Advance notice to comply with the request of Mr. Thurston has already been given. It has not yet been decided which car will be sent south for the use of Sena tor Thurston, but it will probably be the handsomely appointed one, knovvu as No. 010. How's This. We offer Ode Hundred Dollars Howard for any ense of Catarrh that cannot tie cured by Hall's Catarrh (Jure. 1 S. CHENEY & CO.. I'rops.. Toledo. O. We tbe undersigned, have known K. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, mid believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by their firm. West & Truax, Wholesale Druggists. To ledo. O. Walwno, Kinnan & Maiimn, Wholesale Druq'lsts. Toledo. O. Hull's Catarrh Cure is taken internally acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. I'rice 7.hj. per bot tle. :jo:d by all Druggists. Testimonials free, Dr. Marshall, Graduate Dentist. Dr. Marshall, fine gold work. Dr. Marshall, gold and porcelain crowns. Dr. Marshall, crown and bridge work Dr. Marshall, teeth without plates. Dr. Marshall, all kinds of fillings. Dr. Marshall, all kinds of plates. Dr. Marshall, perfect fitting plates Dr. Marshall, all work warranted. All the latest armliances for first class dental work. Homeseekers Kxcnraion. For the above occasion the B. & M. will sell tickets on February 10, March 2, 16, April 6, 20, May 4 and 18 for one fare for the round trip plus $2 to points in the following terri tory: Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, South Dakota, Wyoming, Arizona, Arkansas, Indian territory, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas The minnimum charge will not be less than $7. Americans are the most inventive people on earth. To them have been issued nearly 600,000 patents, or more than one-third of all the patents issued in the world. No discovery of modern years has been of greater benetit to mankind than Chamber lain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, or has done more to relieve pain and suffering. J. W. Vaugn, of Oakton, Ky., Bays: "I have used Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy in my family for several years, and find "it to be the best medicine I ever used for cramps in the stomach and bowels. For sale by all druggists. The David City News gives the amount of corn cribbed at the various railroad stations in Butler county at $1,04G,000 bushels, with two shipping points not reported. JiallariTs Horehound Syrup is the one remedy for Throat and Lung Troubles that cures the right way. Gives Nature just the help needed. Heals and sUenffthens while It cures and is just as harmless ns it ia sure. Its remarkable success for years makes possible th is guaran tee; Use it faithfully for Coughs. Colds. Bron chitis, Whooping Cough, etc. If it laus to benefit, our authorized aent will return your money. If anything stronger than this could be said. Horehound Syrup would deserve it. Price 25 and 50 cents. Sold bv F. Ci. Fricke&Co. NEBRASKA. NOTES. Cedar county has a medical society. It meets every month. A Brewster man thinks of starting a newspaper at West Union. A man at South Omaha was sen tenced to eight days in jail for stealing- coal. E. P. Corrick of the Coznd Tribune will carry the postoffice during the reign of McKinley The death of her husb.md has 60 prostrated Mrs. F. Behring of Hum phrey that her life is despaired of. Edgar and Fairfield have already started in on baseball. Edgar was de feated a week ago with a score of 12 toll. The far western counties, usually dry at this time of year, are reported in excellent condition for successful farming. The Superior Journal says that Jthe society of some people would be more enjoyable if they would occasionally take a bath. A year ago Gus B. Speice was elec ted mayor of Columbus by a majority of one over his swiftest opponent. This year his majority was 154. F. W. Sprague of Ida Grove, la., has purchased the Norfolk Times and will change its politics from populism to Jeffersonian democracy. The ladies' aid society at Fi smont sent $31 to Sweden as a gift to the wife of Nels Peteison, who died in tho hospital a short time ago. The same society also paid his funeral expenses. The North Platte Land and Water company has ordered the necessary material for a telephone line toextend from the head of their canal to the town of Hershey, a distance of nine miles. Or King's New Discovery For Consumption This is the best medicine in the world for all forms of Coughs and Colds and for Consumption. Every bottle is guaranteed. It will cure and not disappoint. It has no equal for Whooping Cough, Asthma, Hay Fever, Pneumonia. Bronchitis, La Grippe, Colds in the Head aud for Consumption. It is safe for all ages, pleasant to take, and, above all, a sure cure. It is always well to take Dr. King's Little Life Pills, in con nection with Dr. King's New Discov ery, as they regulate and tone the stomach and bowels. We guarantee perfect satisfaction or return money. Free trial bottles at F. G. Fricke's drug store. Regular size 50 cents and 1.00. 6 Horses For Pasture. Splendid pasturage for 300 head of horses in the Loupe valley can be ob tained by seeing George Edson. This is a good opportunity to get your horses and colts through the summer very cheap. The stock will be taken from here and returned, and the en tire cost for the season is only $3 per head. Address Geo. Edson, Platts mouth, or leave word at W. D. Jones' livery barn. A Valuable Prescription. Editor Morrison of Wcthington, lnd., "Sun," writes: "You have a valuable prescription in. Electric Bit ters, and I can cheerfully recommend it for Constipation and Sick Headache and as a general system tonic it has no equal." Mrs. Annie Stehle, 2t25 Cottage Grove Ave., Chicago, was ail run down, could not eat nor digest food, had a backache which never left her and felt tired and weary, but six bottles of Electric Bitteis restored her health and renewed her strength. Prices 50 cents and SI. Get a bottle at F. G. Fricke's diug store. 6 Comfort to California Every Thursday afternoon, a tourist leeping car for Salt Lake City, San Francisco and Los Angeles leaves Plattsmouth via the Burlington Route. It is carpeted; upholstered in rat tan; has spring seats and backs and is provided with curtains, bedding, towels, soap, etc An experienced excursion conductor and a uniformed Pullman porter accompany it through to the Paci tic Coast. While neither as expensively finished nor as fine to look at as a palace sleeper, it is just as good to ride in. 'Second class tickets are honored and tbe pr'ce of a berth, wide enough and big enough for two, is only $5. For a folder giving full particulars, call at the nearest B. & M. R. R. R. ticket office. Or, write to J. Francis, Gen'l. Pass'r. Agent, Burlinsrton Route, Omaha, Neb. Bucklen's Arnica Salve. The best salve in the world for cuts, burns, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fe ver sores, tetter, chappephands, chil blains, corns, and all skin eruptions. J ana positively cures piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or money refunded. Pyice 25 cents per box: For sale by F. G. Fricke. Tho Rev. W. H. Weaver, pastor of the U. B. church, Dillsburg, Pa., recognizes the value of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, and does not hesitate to tell others about it. "I have used Chamberlain's Cough Remedy," he says, "and find it an excellent medi cine for colds,coughsand hoarseness." So does everyone who gives it a tt ia1. Sold by all druggists. ' THE CITY HOTEL. HANS H. G00S, Proprietor. Best $ i Per Day House in the State Thoroughly cleaned and refurnished. A nice table and pleasant rooms. Bar in hotel stocked with pure Liquors and Cigars. Corner Third and Main-sts. PLHTTSMOUTH. THE RAINBOW IN THE SPRAY. The tide Is foul that sweeps about the town A yellow, turbid, disenchanting flood Of c'ty refuse mixed, and oil and mud. But when a ferryboat, liijt, ug'y. brown. Against the gals of Harch cornea lumbering down, The waves she flings to either side are bright Ti'ith spray as dazzliug in thj sen's keen light. As white, as fair, as pure as snow at daws. And in the spindrift from each chopping crest The colors ot the rainbow meet and play. So in each life, however dull and griy. There comes some breeze of fortune at its heat, Cheering tho buart witu love or hope or rest And shining like, the rainbow in the spray. J. L- Heaton in "The Quilting Bee." PREMATURE WRINKLES. They Are the Record of Thoughts Forced on the Face. Wrinkles are as natural to old age as is a full, smooth face to childhood. They are due mainly to a certain shrinkage of the -muscles a shrinkage which charac terizes more or less the .entire system in the later period of life. It is in conse quence of this general shrinkage that in advanced life tho height is somewhat lowered; that the substance of the jaws contracts, thus often giving rise, by pressure on the nerves that pass through the bony canals, to severe and difficult neuralgia, and that the brain substance becomes reduced in bulk, water filling tho vacant space. Were it not for the fixed habits and accumulated resources of a lifetime an old man's brain would not be equal to the work which he still performs easily. There is, of course, much difference between old people in this respect, which Js due largely to tempera mcut, hat its of thought and of feeling anil niodoi cf lifo. The papers l;:t ly told cf a man over 100 years old whoso face was wholly Without wrinkles. This was a very ex ceptional case, for tho great body of us, if we attain length cf days, must take them with the addition of physical de cay. Even the proud belle must make np her mind for wrinkles, but if, as she grow s older, she grows in good sense, intelligence and kindly sympathies, her beauty of character will have au attrac tion far beyond beauty of face. While wrinkles result from the natural work ing of the jiystoni, they may also be eausod by a perverted condition of the system, as are pimples, blotches aud boils. Now, the hnman face, nnlike that of brutes, was meant to be the "mirror of the mind," the visible expression of ev ery passion, emot ion and inmost feeling. Herein is its chief beauty; hence its numerous ninscles and nerves, whereby it is so wonderfully adjusted to this end. But muscles in constant or frequent ex ercise increase in volume, strength and readiness of action; hence habits of thought and feeling become stamped on tho face, and we read so easily the character of the proud, the vain, the de ceitful and tho sensual man or of the kind, tho cairn, tho energetic, the frank, the candid and the honest man. But there is nothing like care and worri ment to plow furrows in the forehead, and these are badly marring the faces of some men and women. We pass in the streets persons of 35 whose foreheads are more wrinkled than the brow should be at 70. Some of these may have more care than others, but they n?nccessarily yield to the tendency to express them in the face. Icds Mercury. Lin-k la Old .Shoes. The Chinese value a pair of old boota which have been worn by an npright magistrate, and the custom of wishing a friend a "happy foot" is still observed all through Europe. The casual putting on the left shoe on tho right foot, put ting it on uneven or crosswise, bursting the latch or tie, lacing it wrong ami losing a button arc all bad signs. A Yorkshire man will spit in his right shoe before pitting it on, when going out on important business, to bring luck, and many an English girl has been known to hang her boots outside of the window on St. Valentine's night for love luck. Proffpsor Black tells us of a singular superstition existing in England, which insists that if the youngest daughter of a family marries first her sisters must dance at the wedding without shoes, so as to insure husbands for themselves. Old shoe throwing is done for many purposes. In Ireland the election of person to almost any office is concluded by throwing an old shoe over his head. The gypsies say: Hnrle after an old fhoe, I'll be merry what here I do. In the isle of Man an old shoe is al ways thrown after the bride, as well as tho groom, when leaving their homes, and in the south the oldest person on the plantation, white or black, always throws a shoe after any one starting on a long journey. It is said that Mine. Patti and other women of hi eh standing on the stage preserve most carefully the boots they vore at their debut, which they consider lucky to wear on the first nights of engagements forever after. Newark Standard. Criticisms on the Rich. Civilization is a very complex affair, So long as the laws of the land are not violated the rich man's private expend ltures are as strictly a matter to be con trolled by his own taste and judgment as the expenditures of the poor man. Capital in this country in our genera tion has been eminently and conspicu ously devoted to economic production and has not to any appreciable extent been diverted and wasted in wanton luxury. It is none of the public's busi ness bow the millionaire monopolist spends his money, but it is in the high est degree the public's business how he has gained it especially how it came to pass that he obtained the franchise or public privilege or ether favorable op portunity by means of which he has en riched himself- Review of Reviews. It is asserted by typographical au thorities that the first Bible printed in America was "John Eliot's Indian Bi ble." in 1GC3. The language into w hich this Bible was translated is extinct, and it is said only one or- two persons are able to Tead it. NEBRHSKH. for Infants and Children. THIStTY year' observation of Castor! with tho patrnnngwjvf millions of persons, permit tia to speak of It without guessing. It Is unquestionably the test remedy for Infants find Children tho world hat ever known. It Is harmless. Children It. It gives them health. It will iv their lives. In It Mothers havo something which is absolutely safe and practically perfect a a child's medicine. Castorla destroys "Worms. Castorla allays Feverishnes. Castorla prevents vomiting Sonr Card. Castorla enres Diarrhoea and Wind Colic Castorla relieves Teething Troubles. Castorla enres Constipation and flatulency. Castorla nentraligeo tho off-acts of carbonlo add gas or polsonons air. Castorla does not contain morphine, opium, or other narcotic property. Castorla assimilates tho food, regulates tho stomachan d bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. Castorla Is put np In ona-idze bottles only. It Is not sold In bulk. Don't allow any one to sell yon anything else on tho plea or promise) that It is "just as good and "will answer every pnrpows." See that yon get C-A-S-T-O-R-I-A. The fac -simile signature of Children Cry for PEARLMAN THE OLD RELIABLE DEALER IN urnitu Has a larger stock than ever which must be sold and he has made prices that will sell the goods. FOR. PRESENT Nothing is nicer than an Easy Chair, an ele gant Picture; or a convenient Writing Desk. Pearlman has them to give away or next thing to it. He has the sole agency for the best Stove on earth, the C6 GOLD in all sizes and designs. No other house in Cass county carries half so large a stock and none can compete on prices, as he pays cash 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, Opp. Court House. (Chen Baby was sick, wt jave her Castorla. When she vaa a Child, she cried for Castorla. When she became Miss, she clung to Castorla. VChea she bad CUJdreu, she gave thein Caatorla is on every wrapper. Pitcher's Castorla. COIN" Plattsmouth, Neb. Kheamatlsm CartHt la Day. "Mystic Cure" for Rheumatism ;u.l , Neuralgia radically cures in one In three days. Its action upon the ov tern m remarkable and mysterious. It removes at once the cause and the ' disease immediately disappears. The first dose greatly benefits, 75 cents RE STOVES Sold by P. G. Prlcke & Co., druggists.