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WE WANT TO ARREST YOUR MIND THE COMING MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY
AND FRIDAY, WHEN YOU WILL BE SENTENCED TO BUY ONE OF OUR
Celebrated Wooltex Suits or Cloaks at ONE-HALF PRICE.
On these days we will make yon oar final offer. We propose to sell our $10 suits or cloaks for $5. Our $15 suits or cloaks for $7.50. Our $20 suits or cloaks
for $10. Our $30 suits or cloaks for $15. Our $40 suits or cloaks for $20. It is heartbreaking to do this but the holidays are so near we are compelled
to make the sacrifice and you are getting the benefit. We would rather the Plattsmouth people had the goods at such prices than to move them away.
Ladies Rubberized Rain Coats, they will have to go and you get them for $4.98 and $5.98
FURS! FURS!
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday we dispose of our entire stock of Furs at any old price. Now is your chance; you will never get another like it.
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We have by actual count more than 200 swell ladies' trimmed hats and have them on display in the front part of our store. These hats will go for 98c to $1.98.
Now ladies this is the greatest opportunity you ever had to buy goods in the city of Plattsmouth. WE NEED THE MONEY, YOU NEED THE GOODS. We
are selling all new merchandise and have undertaken to close out and are going to do it and you are going to help for it is dollars in your pocket.
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THE ESKIMO.
with such ceremonies is the bury
ing of a (loir's head meant to act
Wht H. Look. Like nd th. W.y H a8 a guide together with the dead
Dreisei and Lives.
What is an Eskimo like? His
portrait is easily sketched: A small
person (live feet live inch" is the
average height of the men Mid five
feet that of the women), with a
grayish copperish and oily skin,
thick lips, deep set and ohlique
eyes like the .Japanese, n flat, oval
face and fat cheeks, a low, retreat
ing forehead and black, glossy,
straight hair, which is allowed to
grow to its full length. The hands
and feet are remarkably small. The
nose is abnormally flat.
The faces of the children are
generally so fat that the eyes al
most disappear, and the nose is
sunken between the cheeks instead
of protruding.
The Eskimos have a happy, care
less, optimistic look about them
Nordcnskjold used to call them
"big children" and stated that
"those unfortunate creatures, who
are deprived of every comfort, are
conceited and jocular. They are
hospitable, too, and when brought
into contact with Europeans they
grow civilized quite rapidly, though
thev retain a number of their old
habits."
As regards dress, it is almost the
same lor women as tor men a
close fitting sealskin coat, with a
hood for the head and breeches of
the same material.
Needless to say the Eskimos dis
like water as a "cleansing agent,"
and they lack fascination. Hut
they do not consider Europeans as
very attractive, and the refinements
of civilization are repulsive to
them. The same Nordcnskjold once
told a very amusing story on this
matter, lie gave a bottle of cau do
cologne to an aged Eskimo lady to
smell. She almost fainted and
called the scent "dreadfully stencil
ing
body,
They live under tent9 during the
summer and under snow huts dur
ing the cold season. They possess a
skin canoe called kayak, a sledge
and a few dogs.
They marry at an early age. The
bride brings to her new homo her
clothes, a knife and a lamp. The
husband gives her a cooking pot.
Eskimo etiquette compels the bride
to object to marriage, and sho must
pretend to escape from her husband
two or three times before settling
down to her duties and accepting
her share of responsibilities. Exchange.
STOCK TRADER'S CANE.
A Stick or a Whip Always Carried In
the Cattle Yards.
To a live stock trader a cane or
a whin is as essential as a uniform
! is to a soldier. One or the other
always is carried by regular traders
in the stockyards. A prospective
rattle buyer usually buys a cane be
fore he enters the pens. A trader
would no more think of going to
work without his cane than he
would without his hat.
In many cases the whips and
canes are of great service. When
the cattle are turned into an alley
to ho sorted and some obstreperous
animal takes a header for the gate
keeper the means of turning the an-
Whistling and Weeping Trees. " . . ,V
Anions the curiosities of tree life ufuuuy nicmuu u iw.. . ..u JU,k
is the sofar or whistling tree of Nu
bia. When the winds blow over
this tree it gives out fluteliko
sounds, playing away to the wilder
ness for hours at a time strange,
weird melodies. It is the spirit of
the dead singing among the
branches, the natives say, but the
scientific white man says that tho
sounds are duo to a myriad of small
holes which an insect bores in the
spines of the branches.
The weeping tree of the Canary
islands is another arboreal freak.
This tree in the driest weather will
rain down showers from its leaves,
and the natives gather up the wa
ter from the pool formed at the
foot of the trunk and find it puro
and fresh. The tree exudes the wa
ter from innumerable pores at tho
base of the leaves. Chicago Jour
nal
nil lrisiimun or an Irishwoman
is rrrely at a loss to give quite as
good as sho gets. The American
tourist who figures in Sketchy Bits
found this out to his fost.
An old Irishwoman "who kept t
But she dwelt in a 6ordidj fruit stall had some melons exposed
hut. where the air was "unbrcatha- for sale. The Yankee, wishing to
ble." and lived on food of which one! have some fun with flic old lady,
hesitates to think. took up one of them and said:
The Eskimos have no religion "These tire 6mall apples you
worthy of the name. They are cx- grow over. here. In .America we
tremciy superstitious. But : how i have them twice tho sizo."
could thev help being bo, surround- The woman' slowly looked up at
cd as they are by truly fantastic, him and in a tone of pity cxehiim-
Bccncry mysterious caverns and. ed:
grottoes, mountains of ice, bathed' "Sure, sorr, yo must be n stranger
in ircianu anu Know very iuub
about the fruit of our country whin
ye can't tell apples front gooseber
ries 1"
above the nostrils. Sometimes a
heavy blow from a cane brings him
to his knees, but in many cases it
takes only the sting of a lash to
turn him. Some of the most stub
born steers run a regular gantlet
of ciincs, clubs and whips and are
I not stopped until some one "gets a
gate on mm, t lie yard way ot ex
pressing the closing of a gate across
the alley down which the animal is
headed.
Tho regulation trader's cane is
made of hickory, with a large
curved handle, n".d weighs about
twenty-four ounces. The surface is
smooth and unvarnished. Some of
thecanes have been in use constantly
for ten years. llackberry, dogwood,
elm, ofik, maple and ash arc the
other kinds of wood used to make
this class of canes. They cost from
25 to SO cents each.
Whips of all kinds are seen. A
few weeks ago a four plait hickory
ark whip, the kind that has to he
ry. Tho rule, however, is not to
leave any kind of mark or bruise, as
buyers look closely for such spots.
When whips; or canes are broken
they generally are thrown to the
ground, and the yard company gath
ers them up with the other refuse.
About thirty whips and twenty
canes a:r abandoned each day a';
the yards. Kansas Citv Star.
Zero.
The word zero" Is from the Span
ish :ii:l means "empty." hence nothing.
It was tlrst used for a thermometer In
1 "!." by n Prussian named I'ahren licit.
I'y experimentim: with snow and salt
Fahrenheit found that lie could pro
duce a dejrrt f cold equal to that of
the coldest winter day. It happened
that the day on which he made his
final experiment was the coldest that
anybody could remember, and, struck
with the coincidence of his scientific
discovery, he hastily concluded that he
had found the lowest degree of tem
perature, either natural or artificial,
lie called I he degree "zero" and con
structed n thermometer graduating up
from zero to boiling point, which he
marked IT.' imd the freezing point 32.
(race Women arc rot so irivo
lous as you think, Tom. There nr
still some who have thoughts of
higher things than dress.
Tom Oil, yes, I know hats I
London Illustrated Bit.
iHE INDIANS VANISHED.
Strange Illusion That Came to Thirty
Men at Once.
"One of the greatest hallucina
tions I ever knew of," said J. 15.
Quigley, who surveyed tho state
lands of Texas just after 1 ho civil
war, "happened to the party that! around on horse!
was helping me run the range lines
on the Texas prairies. We were
pretty nervous about the Indians
and kept a sharp lookout for them.
At one Tine we had quite a brush
with a band of about .100 reds. They
surrounded us, and we dug trenches
inside a circle of mess wagons. They
pestered us two days, and we had to
tunnel 200 yards for drinking water
Then we drove tlicm off.
"One morning about a month lat
er an alarm sounded in our camp
just as day was beginning to break.
We rolled out of our blankets and
looked around us. On all sides were
seen the enemy. Not tens nor hun
dreds, but seemingly thousands of
then , sv ar nc ! ovo the prairies.
"If dirt never flew before it did
ili;-.!. Tv-'ry man ;vi::cd a bliovcl
av 1 du trenches for dear life. Blis
ters blossomed on our hands in no
time, and the sweat streamed from
on; fiy ,. h'-tbf ' tiiPil.1
rot. e couiu ce i : i
their ponies lying down, t he red
devils peering over the hor.-es ami
they covered the prairies as far as
the eye could see. Occasionally an
Indian could be seen running on
foot from one horsu to another.
Farther away they were galloping
litCI
"In the few minutes between the
early morning twilight and day
break we had trenched and fortified
our camp. Then we relaxed to
await the attack of the Indians.
"I don't know who came to his
senses first, but as daylight streamed
over the prairie the mists cleared
from before our eyes and some one
cried in a startled voice.
" 'They're prairie dogs.'
"And prairie dogs they were. We
had camped in the middle of their
village and not an Indian within
miles. Psychologists say that what
a man expects to see, he'll see. Our
fear fraught minds had transformed
the prairie dogs into mounted In
dians and a company of thirty men
had suffered the same illusion. Our
blistered !:;:r.ds and deep dug
rcscj.ps teti(ied to that." Kansas
An Ancient Tree.
A mammoth olive tree In the garden
o' (Jethsetnane Is nt least u thousand
years old.
in the weird light effects of the arc
tic atmosphcro or in the awe in
spiring gloom of the polar night?
The Eskimos, however, haw
much respect for the "head of tho,
family." Funerals are a complicat
ed affair in Greenland, and the
Good Thing Are Great.
Ererytblug great Is not always good.
Kn ttll rsw-k,4 Oh Intra OTA (TFtUlt mid
left in the dew overnight to keep
it pliable, stung the backs of some
frightened cattle as they ran along
the viaduct. Many high priced bug
gy whips are used, hut the bulk of
them cost only from 75 cents to $1.
A few regular heavy cattle whips
are seen, though they are not liked
by cattlemen, as a heavy blow leaves
a large welt. Hope and one lash
leather whips are common. In
some cases a short strap nailed to a
long stick is used.
The best sheep and hog, whip is
a piece of canvas hose, meshed to a
Hat surface and attached to a piece
of wood about fourteen inches long
When this strikes an animal it
makes plenty of noise, but leaves no
bruise.
Many times cattle are uselessly
ALL OF 1910
83 uilheat Sunday, $5 uith Sunday
This Is our BARGAIN WEEK OFFER, DECEMBER 21 to 28,
Inclusive. Fourth year of tho big offer, and thousands always take
advantage of It and save money. No traveling men for you to
support, no hotel bills, no railroad fare, no fake premiums; Just
newspaper we aro selling you and nothing else. Every cent of
extra cost cut out and given to you. Do you want to encouraze
that sort of thing and save the usual waste? If so, here's your
chance, and you get the biggest and best newspaper In Nebraska,
the one that can print the truth about everybody and evervthlnz.
It will be an eye-opener. Some Interesting things going on and
If you want the Inside, here's your chance. No whiskey or beer
ads, no dirty medical ads. It's as clean as a whistle and vou'll
like It. You ought to have a Lincoln paper. " " " ou"m
v ASK THE PUBLISHER OF THIS PAPER ABOUT. IT
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