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About The news-herald. (Plattsmouth, Neb.) 1909-1911 | View Entire Issue (April 28, 1910)
V ? V v ? ? v ? ? ? ? T Fine Millinery w 1 nr m vi ic vnrrnn PETER CLAUS He has just received some line new MONITOR RANGES He also will convince you if you call at his store that he can fit you out with FURNITURE and GRANITEWARE in a very satisfactory manner. THE THOUGHTFUL WOMAN comes here when she wishes to luy candy, tsoft drinks, ice cream. Why Becaus she can depend upon our goods heing absolutely fresh and pure. ,S Follow her example and you will V profit by so doinir. Leave orders for . Ice cream, Pint '20c, Quart, 4()c, Gal lon, $1.15. Try our Fountain for ice cream and soda. J. E. MASON The COZY CORNER Perkins House ED. BRANTNER Proprietor Cigars, Candies and Tobaccos cordially invite my old B friends, as well as new. and all others in search of a cozy comer for an hour's rest, to come to my place, where you can enjoy a refreshing smoke An unexcelled line of choice Tobaccos always in stock. Ed. Brantner, Prop. OUR LINE OF SHIRTS. is well worth an inspection. We make ft specialty of fine shirts at the lowest prices ever quoted for such quality. FOR THE SHOP MAN. In working shirts we have a com plete stock. Come in and look over our big values and then use your own judgment about buying. Try one of our "Khaki" or "Chamois Skin." J. E. TUEY Methodist Bazaar. Tho Methodist ladies will kold their annual bazaar on May Gth and 7th and will have on sale a nice line of llowers, aprons and fancy work. tf m MM Bfra SERVANTS IN AFRICA. Reference the Natives Product Are Not Always Complimentary. The servant problem is bad enough in America, and the experi ences mistresses have to relato are many and nricd, but an infinitely wider ranjic of possibilities is open ed up when mere man and a bachelor man at that tackles the servant and other household prob lems in an Fast African bungalow. Anything can and docs happen then. Native house servants of a sort arc plentiful enough around the chief towns of British East Africa, Nairobi and Mombasa, and the slightest rumor that the muzungu (white man) requires a "boy" or m'pezi (cook) fills one's compound with cooks, "generals" and raw ne groes representing every tribe un der Africa's sun. The average bachelor contents himself with four servants a head "boy," a cook, a 'toto (youth) to as sist them and a m'shenzi (raw, un trained native) for odd jobs, gar dening, etc. It is no easy task to make a se lection from the host of eager, volu ble applicants. Dirty, carefully stuck together "baruas" (testimo nials) are examined and the owners questioned, but it is unwise to put much faith in these documents, for it is no unusual occurrence for a "boy" on the principle of "tho more the merrier" to proudly pre sent you with three testimonials, every one bearing a different name from the one tinder which he intro duces himself. These gentry are always greatly offended when you kick them off the veranda and tell them they have bought or stolen the docu ments from oilier natives! Upon one occasion a would bo cook brought the writer a "barua" sign ed by a well known settler and worded : "To whom it may concern : The bearer of this 'barua' is an infernal rogue and thief. Please kick him out." By the time tho white man had stopped laughing the negro had ar rived at the conclusion that some thing was wrong and was doing rec ord time down the path. World Wide Magazine. The World's Largest Crab. The gigantic Japanese crab, meas uring twelve feet, is probably the largest crustacean in the world. It is a type of the spider crab, which inhabits the waters of the group of islands forming the empire of Ja pan. Tho body portion is the size of a half bushel measure, while its two great arms, or "feelers," could easily encircle the figure of a man. Its eight nrms, or legs, resemble huge bamboo poles and are ex tremely elastic, and if strung into one lino they would reach to the top of a four story apartment building. One of the extraordinary peculiarities of this crab is the fac ulty of assuming a disguise by af fixing pieces of seaweed and sponges to the body. Would Drown All Sounds. The agent of the apartment house was trying to discourage him from applying for a flat. "Your nerves would be ruined," said the agent. "There is a pho nograph on the second floor that runs day and night." "Dot was nuttin's," responded the little man in the red and bluo cap. "On the third floor a girl prac tices on the piano all day." "I vud hear her nod." "And just across the air shaft a lunatic blows tho cornet at all hours." "Dcr sounds vud nod reach me." "Great Josephus! Are you deaf?" "Nein! I blay dcr drombone." Chicago News. Easy to Arrange. The poor but honest young man had bearded the millionaire in his den. "Well," he said, "I want to marry your daughter." "Impossible, sir, impossible!" ex claimed the old man. "Why, I would rather give up every pound I have than part with my only daughter." "Oh, very well," calmly rejoined the diplomatic youth; "if that's the way you feel about it I won't be too heavy on you. Just write me out a check for a hundred thousand and we'll let it go at that." rear eon's Weekly. A Fireless Cooker. "Have you ever tried a. fireless cooker?" "Yes. We've had one for six months. My wife has tried to fire her, and I've told her to go, but ehe simply ifrnores our requests and snys she'll scratch the eyes out of iny other girl we dare to bring into tho kitchen." Chicago Record-Herald. LARGE HANDS ARE T Big Mills Most Desirable Fci Successful Ball Tosser, TANNEHILL HAS GOOD PAIR, Chicago Americans' Third Backer Hai Large, Sinewy Maulers Evers Hai Small Hands, Yet He Is One ol Game's Greatest Fielders. Many coluuius of stuff have been written about "baseball bralus." while "baseball hands" have beeu sadly neg lected. Fair hands are common, but the real perfect tyre Is scarce. It li generally admitted that Lee TannehlH the Chicago Americans' third sacker, has the Ideal hands fur a ball tosser. Lee Is on the down grade as a top liner these days, but In his prime he could pick up a grounder better than any of liU rivals In the Infield. A close study of Tanneblll's hands show them large, strong and sinewy. When he places the tips of his fingers together, and also the base of his palm, a baseball fits there as snugly as a GEOKOE STONE, ST. LOUIS AMERICANS' ST A It LEFT FIELDE1I. IGeorRe Btone, the star batter and left fielder of the St. Louis Americans, it once more cli'monstratlritf that he Is out of the leading stick wleldtrs on Ban Johnson's circuit. Shortly before th season opened Stone refused to join' his team because of a big cut In salary, but later chanKed his mind and at tached his John Hancock to a contract. LaBt year George Injured his ankle and was forced to lay off. Since In Joined his teammates Stone has been walloping the sphere at a great rate.J glove ou the hand. On Bcooplng up a grounder n round third base the ball appears to lie almost crushed before he lets It go to first base. It Is this that started the expression of "de vouring the ball" or "eating It up." A mau who has delicate hands can never play an Inlield position as easily as one of 'launchill's kind. Another luflelder who "eats up" the ball Is Hans Wagner. Without stretching the point any. bis hands look tremendous wueu he swoops up a grounder. They are about the big gest hands a man ever looked on. It takes a fearful drive to get away from his clutches. Once he gets his hands on a grounder It geuerally means cer tain death for the butter. Ills hands are more necessary to the lnflelder. for it Is much hard or to scoop up a ball when it is coming fast than to catch n fly. Many a fielder who is sure death ou a fly ball or a line drive will let a grounder out in bis territory get away from him. Devlin of the New York Nationals has a perfect baseball hand. So have Hill Hradley of the Cleveland Amer icans and Pelehanty of the Detroit Tigers. I'.ut the perfect type is a rarity. Manager Chance of the Chica go Nationals looks at a player's hands first in sizing him up as a possible recruit It is there that the man's strength Is shown, and. for that mat ler, bis character. A man with delicate hands who starts In the lufield is a "freak." Johuny Evers of the Cubs comes un der this classification. To see Johnny In citizen's clothes be appears more like a bank clerk or a cashier, a man whose business it Is to write or to handle money. Ills fingers are long and tapering, almost like a woman's. It makes one wonder how he can save fhem from injury and also how he cr.o round up Borne of the terrific drives which go his way. Boston Tesms Composed of Youngsters The two Huston teams this year are composed nearly entirely of players well under the twenty-five year mark. The Doves, with one or two excep tions, aro all tinder twenty-five, while tho majority (if the Hed Sox players are below that limit. These are the youngest tennis that ever played to gether in major league baseball. - Collins Family Prominent. There are three Colliuses in the American league this year. Two of them are sicond basemen, Eddie of the Philadelphia Athletics and John of the Chicago White Sox. Hay Col Una of the Boston I Jed Sox Is a pitcher. IMPORT! PA 'A y ' sL,.rv 'tA ... 4?$&1 ;" FIGHTING A CROCODILE. An Exciting Adventure In a Chinese Timber Camp, A chance visitor to a Chinese timber camp has related in Chain- j hers' Journal an cxtraorniary a J- j venture with a crocodile, in which' the crocodile came very near having) the be.-t of it: "Arriving in my! boat at the little jetty or landing j place, I was astonished" to find Gra- nam, the white man in charge of I the camp, lying on a rattan couch within a few yards of tho bank, with a heavy express rifle across his knees, gazing intently at a rough fence erected in the stream. "Throwing myself down near him in the welcome shade, I learned the following story: "Two nights before Graham was sleeping peacefully in his little palm leaf house, in a clearing nbout twenty yards from the river bank, when hi3 dog began to growl. Gra ham turned out and walked round tho hut to ascertain the cause of the disturbance, but, seeing noth ing, addressed himself to the dog in his usual vigorous sailing ship language and retired to bed again. "Five minutes later ho was once more aroused by a yelp from tho dog, nnd this time, really annoyed, he seized a stick and sallied forth to inflict punishment on tho dis urbcr of his dreams. Suddenly a nrk form glided swiftly from the shadows, and Graham felt himself seized by the right knee as in a vise. Stooping to free himself, he found ho was in the grip of a large crocodile, whose teeth wcro firmly embedded in tho flesh. "Hack ward and forward the struggle swayed, tho crocodile striving to pull its destined victim to tio wate's edge and Graham, hampered as he was by his impris oned leg, fighting for his life to reach higher ground. At last the beast, hurling its victim to the ground with a shako of its powerful head, began to drag him swiftly to ward the water. 'Toor Graham, feeling, as he ex pressed it, that it was 'all over bar the shouting,' determined to make one last cfTort for his life, and, tak ing advantage of a momentary halt as the brute was steering past a tree 6tump, ho sat up and succeeded in getting both his thumbs into the reptile's eye sockets the only vul nerable part of a crocodile's head. "The rest of the story is per haps best told in Graham's own words, or as nearly as circum stances will permit: "'As soon as I gets my thumbs made fast in 'is eyes, 'e opens 'is mouth to shout an' lets go my leg. Then first thing next mornin' the coolies lays 'is breakfast for 'im, as you see, an' I gets into this chair an' 'ero I stays, if it's n month.' "Vainly I tried to persuade him to come away with me to the next station and bcc a doctor. I argued with him, I implored him, but it was absolutely useless, lie refused to move from that chair till he had bagged his crocodile, and I was at last obliged to leave him, having dressed his leg and exhausted every known means of persuasion short of brute force. "I met him again a week later in a hospital bed, suffering severely, but quite happy in the knowledge that the bones of that crocodile were bleaching in the sun outside his house." The First Skaters. It is very doubtful which race first skated, for traces have been found among prehistoric remains all over northern Kuropo indicating that the art was practiced by prim itive peoples. The Eskimo of the farthest north are also found to be in possession of runners carved from whalebone. Skating is men tioned by a Danish historian about 1131, and Fitzstephen in his "His tory of London" says that in the twelfth century young men fasten ed the leg bones of animals under their feet by means of throngs in order to slide along the ice. This statement is confirmed by the pair oi bone skates of the period now in the British museum. It is likely, however, that these early London ers got the idea from Holland, probably via Lincolnshire, where skates have been used on the frozen fens from very remote times. Guarding the Cash. The gypsies in some parts of Eu rope have a curious way of looking after the honesty of their money collector. The person intrusted with the mission of taking the hat around among the crowd has a liv ing fly put into his left hand, while he holds the hat with his right. When he returns with the funds he must bring the fly bark alive as a sign that he has not taken any money from the common property, but if the fly be wanting or even dead he doc not get even his share of the mor.ev. Let Me Tell You Something If you v:int to bo properly dressed, you should have your clothes made to order. You can't ;et up-to-duto styles in ready-mades, for they are made six months before the season opens. BLUE SERGE SUITS The only place in the city where you can get a tfood blue serine, fancy worsted, cheviot or Scotch tweed suit to order that are actually worth from $.'15 to $40, for only $20 Cleaning and Repairing A SPECIALTY ALL WORK GUARANTEED James Socher The Tailor. THE PARMELE Presented by the Company Burglar J 1 Seats on sale Thursday. C&llU Curtainjat 8:15 sharp the r. , Friday Evening blIt April 29 This is the last appearance of the Grew Co. at the Parmele Prices - 25c, 35c, 50c Closing Out My JVKlUnery ft ft & 8 Owing to my failing health, I have decided to close my entire line of millinery, after which J shall retire from business. Prices will be made accordingly. This will be our last summer season. MRS. JULIA DWYER ? ? ? DOVEY BLOCK REAL ESTATE. Town residence from $450 to $;?,000. Don't nay lent any longer. You can own your own dwelling cheaper. Let me show you some pood chances to acquire farms in Ne . hraska. South and North Dakota, Missouri or Texas. FIKE INSURANCE written in six of the best companies. SURETY BONDS. Get your Iwnds from the American Surety Co. ACCIDENT INSURANCE. The risk of personal injury is 40 times as jrreat as that of losing your property by fire. Secure a policy of the London Gurantee and Accident Company and be sure of an income whil you are onablo to work. 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