The news-herald. (Plattsmouth, Neb.) 1909-1911, December 20, 1909, Image 6
V t ? ? T t t t t t t t ? ? Y To) Ln y y y y y y y t y a. 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. More th&n. 200 u rimmea sits 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. i HE3 A P Y Y Y FT. QUITTING BUSINESS f3 I Y 7 Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y t Y Y Y Y t Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y 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 0 0 l!c DC DC 0 mo?J CUXJ)ua CH5taa Ul .carnation Demosthenes. boater L-i toue oat who itin oJiui' DC one