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About The news-herald. (Plattsmouth, Neb.) 1909-1911 | View Entire Issue (May 12, 1910)
A. 20 per cent discount 1 jft on children's hats, 1 yailors, baby hoods. 4 V This Week Only. ? f Mrs. Norton $ 1 Millinery. X PETER CLAUS He La3 just received some fine new MONITOR RANGES He also will convince you if you call at h)s store that he can fct you out with FURNITURE and GRANITEWARE in a very satisfactory manner. THE THOUGHTFUL WOMAN copies here when she wishes to buy &ady, soft drinks, ice cream. Why Heeaute she can tlcj end upon our 0ods being absolutely fresh and pure. Follow her examiile mid von will l profit by so doing. Leave orders for Ice cream, Pint 2()e, (Juart, 35c, Gal lon, $1.15. Try our Fountain for ice cream and soda. Ice Cream Delivered J. E. MASON I ml. Telephone 33G. Store. The IV COZY CORNER Perkins House ED. BRANTNER Proprietor Cigars, Candies and Tobaccos cordially invite my old friends, as well as new, and all others in search of a cozy corner for an hour's rest, to come to my place, where you, can enjoy a refreshing smoke An unexcelled line of choice Kfobaccos always in stock. Ed. Brantncr, Prop. OUR LINE of staple and fancy Groceries. arc strictly fresh. The quality alone has made us many friends awl suc tomcrs. Just a trial. convince you that this is a fact. )ur prices arc always moderate and J. E. TUEY i pi MEXICAN SWEETMEATS. Vegetables of All Kinds Are Candied or Preserved. I was sirprised at the Mexican sweetmcatis, said u Now Yorker just back from Mexico. 1 do not think there can bo any fruit or vegetable which they do not candy, pro-servo in sirup or convert into jam.. In a queer little pueblo in the state of J'acatecas I heard a wo man calling Monotonously, "Cimar roncs, calabasas!" Xow, tbVse words in English mean sweet pota toes and pumpkins. She had a small tray, held in place by a leath er thong that went around her neck. I crossed the plaza and asked her for five cents' worth of calabasas. She placed several pieces of a sug ary yellow substance in a paper bag, and I realized that I was going to have the experience of tasting can died pumpkin. If you can imagine pumpkin pie frozen hard and saturated with sug ar you can get an idea of the flavor of that queer confection. One grows to like it after one has lived in Mexico for awhile. The cimarrones were also rather nice. The sweet potatoes arc boiled in water until they are soft. They are then soaked in lwt sirup and candied. A final coating of pow dered white sugar is added and gives them the appearance of large Easter eggs. I?eets, carrots, turnips and arti chokes are some of the vegetables made into sweetmeats in Mexico. T?opical fruits of every description are also used for this purpose, and candied watermelon peel is a great favorite. The regular stand of the sweet meat venders is on the plaza, but at night they turn out in force around the doors of the theaters. A Mexi nn senorita would not enjoy the show unless she had a good supply of native confections to munch. It is her substitute for the chocolate creams that we buy for our matinee girls. Last Ncw Year's eve I was in Xogales, a pueblo on the interna tional line between Arizona and the Mexican state of Sonora. A vaude ville entertainment was being given at the little theater, and about 8 o'clock I strolled over to take in an act or two. It was almost impossi ble to make my way to the box of fice through the crowd of peddlers that blocked the 6treet and side walks. "Pumpkins, carrots, sweet pota toes, senor!" they shouted in Span ish while the light from Many oil lamps flickered over their wares. "Very cheap! Only 10 cents for os much as you can eat!" It was a strange scene, full of color and racy of the soil. Indeed, it is the sweetmeat venders that will always recur to my mind when I think of my visit to Mexico. Ex change. A Disgusted Thief. Under the headline "Xot Worth While" a Paris paper prints this story from Piccolo of Trieste: "At police headquarters a portmanteau was received with this note: 'Please accept this from a disgusted man. Pays ago I gained possession of it how and where I need not tell and felt confident because of its English make and the Many evi dences of travel which it bears that it was a rich find. See what it con tains books, old books at that; old shoes, soiled linen of the cheap kind, and the stockings have holes in them. The foreigner who car ried it was well dressed, and I would go to prison for theft for the satisfaction of having him identify his beggarly belongings.'" Queer Chinese Headdress. The female headdress is carried in some countries to singular ex travagance. The Chinese beauty carries on her head the figure of a certain bird. This is composed of copper or of gold, according to the rank of the person. Tho wings spread out and fall over tho front of tho headdress and conceal the temples; tho tail, long and open, forms a beautiful tuft of feathers; tho beak covers the top of tho nose; tho neck is fastened to tho body of tho artificial animal by a spring that it may tho more freely play and tremble at tho slightest mo tion. An Intelligent Horse? A baker living in the west end of Dundee, Scotland, possesses a Most intelligent horse. While waiting in front of his Master's shop tho ani Mal is often called upon to clear the way to allow tho tramway cars to pass, and this it does regularly and without the slightest assist ance. On hearing tho clanging of tho car bell the horse immediately crosses over to tho other side of tho street and allows the car to pass; then, looking around, as much as to say, "All clear!" it again takes up its original position. --Wide World Matrazine. STORIES OF THE DIAMOND. ill Dahlen of Brooklyn Tells ol Managers' Hard Lot, APPLAUDED WHILE WINNING. When Club Strikes Losing Streak Fans Tender No Sympathy to the Pilot. Leader of Big League Team Has Thankless Task at All Times. No. VI. By BILL DAHLEN. :Copyrlaht, 1310. by American Press Asso ciation. Very few people, except those who possess Inside knowledge, are familiar with the trials of a manager of a major league ball team nnd with what he has to coutend. Let me tell you. a manager's path Is not Btrewn with roses; but. on the contrary, it Is a po sition beset with tribulations, of sleep less nights and of hopes often unful filled, particularly when conducting the affairs of a losing club. The fans will not stand for a persistent loser, and the team which is unable to make a fairly good showing in tho pennant race soon loses support and Is termed "lemons." "clucks." "dubs" arid "has beens." and the lender of such a club is set down in the same clans. In the present day baseball game the munager Is the man who has to stand or fall. It's up to him as far as the public goes. And jet how ninny of the faus who go to ball games know or even care who the manager of a team is as long as it continues to win? But if It loses wow! Theu tho man ager gets It. and gets it good and plen ty. The fans only blnt. tho manager. They forget there Is an owner behind the manager, who may be more to blame than he. In order to be a successful manager In the major leagues today one must possess a large amount of gray mat ter, up to date Ideas nnd knowledge of the Intricate points of play. Not only must he have a full understanding of the game, but he must bo able to in still the knowledge Into the heads of the players comprising his team. The mnjority of the leaders in the big leagues today have knowledge of the game through practical experience nnd active participation as players. In fol lowing the game dny in nnd day out all of Its sclentlDc features are pre sented to them. Almost every day the plays that are pulled off are the result of deep study aud mature meditation. One of the big woes of a manager is the dally advice of pntrons who by word of mouth and numerous letters insist upon telling him how the team should be run. Of course this advice is thankfully received nnd Immediately followed nit If these fans had their way changes iu the team would be made every dny and new players would be coming in by the train load. The hardest part of a manager's work lies iu the selection of his team, weeks nnd mouths being spent In scouring the country for promising ma terial. If out of a half dozen selec tions one real diamond star Is discov ered the manager considers himself very lucky, for the ratio of young players making good in fast company Is only one iu six. In the spring, when reporting time arrives, the manager awakeus to the fact that his troubles are to commence. With twenty or thirty players from which to select a regular tenm his work Is cut out for him. and he passes days of anxiety aud suspense. After many trials bis choice is made. Those who have not displayed the requisite speed are returned to the minors. The mnn nger Is filled with hope and fenr. If his team stnrts in a nit nnd every thing breaks badly he knows thnt he will pass a season of discontent nnd become the target of nbuse. Ills hours will be full of unrest nnd devoid of plcnsure. Then the fans will submit hundreds of letters telling him of the players thnt he should get, many of whom could not be secured for love or mon ey. When he Is recognized on the streets he Is met with sour looks and coldly greeted. Then perhnps som one will hurl the questions at him: "Why don't you do this?" "Why don't you do that?" "What do you mean by letting the tenm go to the dogs?" "Are you trying to kill the game?" While the manager feels like sonic lug the Interrogator he is forced to smile n sickly smile nnd work his thought tank In nn endeavor to pacify the Irate fan. While sitting on the players' bench he may have to listen to such expressions as these: 'Ituin tenm." "They're rotten," "I'unk." "Knnk aggregation" and "Oct a new manager." After listening to these comforting words for n couple of hours ench dny the pilot of the tenm Is thankful when darkness envelops the land nnd he can retire In restful slum ber. A manager's berth In the mnjor leagues Is no sinecure. It may con tinue fot one or a dozen years, accord ing to the measure of miccess nttnlned. and the Incumbent Is nlwn.vs on easy Ktreet. In thai capacity one may be worthy of a medal today, the tin can tomorrow. The fans are prone to ap plaud the successful and lienp coals (if fire on the heads of the unfortunate. A hnsebnll nmruuer Is un today and ' down tomorrow. MYSTERV OF SLUMBER. Our Sense ef Time Keener When Asleep Than When Awake. While it is true no one knows ex actly what sleep 'is, huiio curious facts have been discovered about it lately. For example, when we sleep the lower half of us weighs more than the upper half the brain is lighter and the legs heavier. Kx perhncnts have shown that if a man goes to Bleep on a bed suspended ex actly at the middle point of his weight his head begins to tip slow ly up and his feet to go down. When ho awakens it is to find that his head is getting nearer and near er tho floor and his feet nearer the ceiling. This is duo to the fact that when we are asleep the blood in the brain goes ou to other parts of the body. The moment the brain awakes to life again it draws the blood back. In fact, the physician can give sleep to the most restless individual in a few seconds by tight ly compressing the great arteries in the neck that carry blood to the brain. . Our sense of time is strouger when we are asleep than when we are awake. Experiments conducted some years ago on a number of men and women between the ages of twenty and thirty showed that 50 per cent of them were able to wake up in the morning at any time they had decided upon the night before. Tho resolve seems to wind up a lit tle clock in the subconscious brain. When the hour arrives tho clock gives the alarm in some mysterious way to the day shift of the brain, and the eyelids open. Then tho night shift goes to sleep in turn, or at least the clock docs not seem to work in the daytime. You can test this by resolving some morning to look at your watch at 10:20. It is a hundred to ono that you will not do it unless by chance. It is quite likely that when all the mysteries of 6locp are probed the various phenomena will bo found closely correlated with elec tricity as identified with life. It is not improbable that the molecular components of the physical organ ism are both negative and positive, and tho human activity is simply the expenditure of a given amount of this electrical force. When the cells have been emptied the desire for sleep comes. Nature demands that the batteries be recharged, and she can only fill them properly when the objective functions of the body are at rest, thus permitting the en ergy of the human machine to be devoted entirely to the subjective recharging process. While the proc ess is going on we have "sleep." Indianapolis Star. Popular Fiction. "I'm bo glad to see you!" "Oh, what a beautiful new gown you have !" "My friends, it gives me great pleasure to address this magnificent audience." "I assure you it will not be the slightest inconvenience." "Although you have defeated me, I sincerely congratulate you on your election." "Why, you don't look a day older than you did twenty years ago!" "I shall be delighted to have you call." "I do so enjoy hearing you sing." Chicago Tribune. His Own Writing. Dean Stanley's handwriting was atrocious. The lute Lord Lyttleton handed in an amendment to the Tory reform bill of Lord Derby. The clerk at the table could not read it, nor could any one else. At last Lord Lyttleton a rare scholar and nn -accomplished man of let ters was asked to rend it himself. He explained that, thoiiii he could not pretend to read the text, its purpose was to enact that no man should lo admitted to the poll un less he could s;gii his own name in legible handwriting. An Ancient French Cuitom. Anciently in many parts of France when a sale of land took place it was the custom to have twelve adult witnesses accompanied by twelve little boys, and when the price ol' the land was paid and its surrender took place the cars of the boys were pulled and they were beaten severely so that the pain thus inflicted should make an im pression upon their memory and, if required afterward, they might bear witness to the sale. A Wise Answer. The shah once asked a group of courtiers whom they thought the greater man himself or bis father. At first he could get no reply to so dangerous a question, tho answer to which might cost the courtiers their heads. At last a wily old courtier said. "Your father, sire, for, though you are equal to your father in nil other respects, in this he is superior to you that he had a trreater son than any you have." BAKERY COOOg My goods are always fresh from the oven and ready for service. Pastries of the delectable class prepared in a proper way, and as to the pies, cakes and different breads I offer a trial order will mean that the house wife will do away with this part of her daily duties with the coming of the hot summer days. Special orders such as wedding cakes, etc., given prompt attention. A nice line of confectionery and cigars also in stock. Call in and become acquainted. JAMES V. KASPER, Successor to V. T. KUNCL M I i 1 I I M I II I I I I I I I 1 I I COAL that burns,and burns right That's the kind we handle. Deliveries in large or small amounts made on short notice. J. V.. Egenberger jj t it, if t ,t,,.. .,h t .. H"H. ' att m r n it AUTOMOBILES The Line Selected to Meet the Needs ol Every Man No Matter What Car You Want I Have it! t ? ? t t ? ? t T t ? ? ? t ? Y ? f ? t ? ? Marmon 32 - Halladay 40 F-A-L-Car 35 Abbott-Detroit Halladay 30 - Halladay 24-28 Halladay 24-28 Halladay 24-28 Empire 20 - Empire 20 - Patterson & Thomas PLATTSMOUTH Ind. 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