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About The Plattsmouth journal. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (May 19, 1904)
6ood Health AN l Good Appetite Are dependent on jjood, nourishing food. Prime, juicy meats, tender and easy to digest, makes red pure blood. By buying your meats here you get nothing but what is first class in every respect. We handle nothing but the best meats, and claim to be experts in judging the quality and in cutting them properly. Our prices can't be beat. Our grocery department Jonathan Hatt & Son NO. W MAIN STREET 1 8 MwrLy Special Correspondent. Ilarve Manners spent u couple of days in Union this week. Homer Miller, Lizzie Edmunds, Jeff Prendel. Farley Mateer, James Man ners.and Lulu Leek spent Wednesday evening at the street fair. Fred Schafer was transacting busi ness in town Tuesday. Rev. Jackson made liis usual visit here this week. Jetl Hrendel has accepted a position in the postolllce. Mrs. Al. Kennedy and daughter, Ag nes, spent Saturday In Plattsmouth. Mrs. J. M. Leekspentafewdayswith Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Breekcnridge, in Plattsmouth, this week. The funeral of Nora, the two-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Hamilton, occurred Sunday afternoon from the. Presbyterian church, ttev. Keiser officiating The little one had been suffering for some time wl tli pneu monia, and at times would sink so low that the end seemed near; then rally, and new hope would spring within those who so tenderly stood to admin ister lo her wants. When the final summons came, and the young life floated out. theshock washard to bear. The pall-bearers were Chas. S Stone, Will Rrown. James Lobridge. Dr. Jake Krendel. The remains were laid to rest in Eight Mile Orove cemetery. Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton have thesym patliv of the entire community in this their hour bereavement. (Too lute for lust week.) Charley Stone drove to Plattsmouth Tuesday evening. JetT Rrendel and Jeral Royal spent Sunday in Plattsmouth. While there they called on their lady friends. The A. O. U. W. inltlaUd five new members Saturday night. L. (t. Todd, sr., took a tine car load of cattle to Omaha Monday. Dr. Rrendel and little daughter, Pes sib, took In the street fair Tuesday. T. A. Vallery 's new house Is progress ing nicely. When completed Mr. VaT lery will have as nice a home as any of them in this neck o' woods. Miss Pauline Oldliam has returned from an extended visit to Broken Row. Mr. and Mrs. John Connally spent Tuesday in Plattsmoutn. I r. Walker's health has improved so much as to allow him to he on the street again. Read llayden Hro'sad in this paper This That bill'' in Mats and Corner 1 I" r r..Vt! is complete in all lines. Avoca Speeliil CorropontU'iu'i-. (eo. Wondeily (lf near Nchawka was in our city Monday. II. T. Jones had buslnessat Weeping Water the tirst of the week. E. II. Straub Is building a new barn on his farm south east of town. Charles Benedict is under the phy- sycian's care. Charles Clark had business at Oma ha a few days tills week. Prof. Spencer enjoyed a visit the first of the week from Ills parents, of Red Oak, Iowa. Mrs. J. O. Rowland was a nortn bound passenger Tuesday morning. Otto Brooks was down from Lincoln the latter part of the week. Jacob Opp is among the sick. a. a. uiatman had two car loads of cattle on the Omaha market Tuesday A. l'j. uitler has pui chased lots in the north part of town, and will soon commence the erection of a residence thereon. sirs. Joseph .Immerer is visiting relatives at Lorton. Semi-Annual Apportionment. School directors and all Interested In the finances of our schools, of which no county can boast of better, will be interested In knowing that the semi annual apportionment of school funds is being made this week by Superin tendent C. S. Worlman. The money soapportioned Isderived from the sale, rental and leasing of public school lands of the state. State Superintend ent Fowler has sent to County Super intendent Wortman notice that the amount which accrues for our county will be 8SOH,82. To this amount is added from the county treasurer all moneys derived from local tines and licenses of the county, and which in this case increases the amount men tloned to !)42:,82. One fourth of this amount Is divided equally among the various school districts of the county, which will give to all but the Avoca school district $1X7.1, besides what will come from the pro rata apportionment of the remaining three-fourths. The school district of Avoca Is what Is called a fractional district, part being in Otoe county, and as such shares un equally in thedistribution of thesmal ler fund. It will take several davs to liguie out just what each district wil get as a llnal total. Plattsmouth be ing district number one, is the tirst on the list, and we are Informed that , its share will be "The Early Bird Catches the Worm" is mi old saying, but a very wise one in many respects, and serves to remiru those who fire on the lookout for Spring Suits For Men and Boys William Ilolly is prepared to "fill the this line to n dot, and invites nil to come and inspect his now arrivals and get prices. Fit nnd quality guaranteed, and urioes to suit the times. AIbo, a fine line of Men's nnd Boys' Shoes of all grades. Caps, Gents' Furnishing Goods, Etc Remember the place, William Holly East Room Waterman Block Fourth and Main Streets A GREETING FOR NEW YEAR To the P. E. 0. Circle, and Maj the Passing Months Add to Our Prosper It; end Sisterly Affection. The Pol'a Itooks were a source of great delight to me In my childnood. and they were responsible for the Ir ginning of a lovely air castle. Imi t or all the delights of travel in foreign lands. a castle which grew with the years and which reached magnificent proportions as I traveled through my teens, but which was slowly (and re luctantly) left behind as my small bump of common sense developed. 1 1 has been an nniiislng and inteicsting experience to recall from time to time the visionary castle and compare it with the reality. We sailed at noun on the Peulseli land of the Hamburg ami American line, one of the swiftest and limst steamers. The kinds were playing and Hags Hying, while people shouted and waved lo friends. My traveling hum and I were like two orphans ast into a see of restless luimani'y as we stood on the deck and watched our native land, so taittifiilly guarded by Liberty, slowly fade fioin sight, while we went "Siilllni;. snlllnj; farnwiiy. Around us mighty lilllnu lu. Our ship u tiny sprik in spuei--Our putli hy fiminliig wiivi- i trsie rilntnl wllh lnvlnir dirt ily liiiil who ttuhh's us rvrry where." After one has sailed for a week over a vast wilderness of water he begins to have a better knowledge of the sl.e of our earth. What a study one s fellow travelers are at such a time! The en vironments are such that formality Is thrown aside. Soon all become friends. We walk, we talk, we read. W e listen to the music, we discuss the menus, we play games. We watch the stun ning girl w ho is having a tli rt at Ion with the first mate. We criticise the fine look ng Russian woman who loves wine better than her reputation. We weave a nice little romance around the mysterious South American. We laugh at the surreptitious "spooning" of the bridal couple. We sympathize with the poor little woman who has discovered that the porter made a mistake with her trunk, taking it to er husband's Xcw York boarding house and bringing Ids nuineiou trousers and waistcoats on board lor her use. And we try to sympathize with the many woe-be-gonc convales cents as we saunter past their steam er chairs. riie first harbingers of land were the sea gulls gracefully skimming over the water, then olT to our left a lonely liglithou.se, and then the Scilly islands a low, barren mass of rocks. They were two horns sailing behind us when we saw tne first of hngland, and so different from the foggy, rocky, ills- mal coast I had expected! A gradual ly increasing spot of Intense blue, like a deep shadow Hovering aoovc the water line, above this a da..l ing gleam of white which slowly took the form of an old castle, the blue below chang ing to an intense green, and before us unfolded, as we sailed along, a beauti ful panorama view of '-Merrle Kng land." On the first out-Jutting hill an old stone castle, the low hills back of it one lovely variegated splash of color from small, irregular patches of different grains, sometimes with hedges through them in places, some times fortifications, which always seemed to end on some elevation with a tower. Around us were ships and boats of many nation. several nunoied passengers lelt us at Plymouth, then, after a sail of five hours we said goodbye to others at Cherbourg, France. Then we sailed through the Knglish Channel, past llelgium and Holland up into the North Sea. and twenty hours late reached Cuxhavcn. Six of us kept close together, and were a mutual help and encouragement. Two young ladies from Iowa on their way to visit their grand parents In Switzerland, a New York high school professor to attend a lecture course in Jena, and a jolly young salesman on his way to Russia. After passing through the custom house we took the train for Hamburg It was the "sclinell.ug," but much slower than our express trains, so we had ample time to see things. Past Helds and meadows where peasants In picturesque dress were working. Past quaint villages with red tile roofs. We saw little German maidens busily knitting while they herded Hocks of geese. We saw many teams of oxen, and dog teams and a few long legged storks. There were dowers every where. The tiny cottage would have a little llower garden before It, or w indow boxes filled with gay blossoms, and at the station "beer gardens" the tables often stood shaded by rose bushes, which were always trimmed up with Ixi rc stalks and a huge bunch of (lowers on top. From a distance they looked like rows of feather dust ers stood on end. Germany Is a beautiful country! It has no Niagara Falls, no Yosemlte Valley, no Yellowstone Park, no Mam moth Cave, no majestic mountains, no great lakes nor mighty rivers, hut It Is a beautiful land, every foot of which Is cultivator! to th greatest extent. It Is Impossible to got ay from civ. Ilizston here. In the depths of the forests and on the niouiitnlns one finds the work of man exenwheie. There are no tylateil farm houses or peasant home There are thousands ot ied h-ofed ili.iges nestling among the hills, or .attend ox.-i tin- plains. 1 liuxe tood on a low hill a doen around nie, ill connected with paved roads lined withtri.ii tiers Ti e fields hetween were tilled with opening grain, and heie and theie could he seen patches of scarlet poppies, some delicate white blossoms and blue corn (lowers, mak ing a goigeoits howiiii't c( our nal ioi.al Colors oil exciv sine. KvelV village has two prominent buildings, equally well patioiiie l, a chuicli and an inn or tavern. W e spent a few dais In Hamburg. It Is a delightful combination of old and new. Around us xxeic haiitUoiiie buildings, hiuad si reels, pinks, ami all the usual things pertaining to city lire. A walk of tit teen minutes anil one could imagine oneself in Venice, only Instead of palaces, li.inilsnnie ami otherwise, the canals were lined with quaint old buildings wllh many pro ject log gables, and instead o( gondo las one saw haigesot every desci ipi ion. I here are three rivers ami nuineroi.s inals intersecting the city in even direction. From Hamburg we went to Kr- t ii rt. then to a picturesque linle walled village nearly .mi years old, where we had a delightful visit, of a coup'e weeks with relatives. I wonder what American children would think if t hey had to he in t heir seats ready for school work at ii:!to, or i Mil o clock l he village summer schools begin at those hours. My room at the parsonage was a corner one, with a couple of w indows on each side. My tirst morning there was an experience which was repeated every morning with but slight varia tion. When scarcely daylight I heard a most unc.trlhly noise, and bounded out and to a window to see what had happened. It wasn't Gabriel's, hut some other kind of a trumpet, blown by a swine shepherd in broad hat, brown Jerkin and Hopping shoes, al most surrounded by his grunting fol lowers. They made a picture walking down the narrow street, with Its quaint little homes built in an almost solid line along the walks. The. first rays of the sun just touching the red tiled gables, lighting up here and there a tiny window, glowing on the' gay (lowers in the window boxes, or Hashing in the tree tops. Then would come perhaps a team of oxen on their way to wont, the driver always walking by the wagon with its broad daring sides, and cracking his whip. Then perhaps a group of peas ant women en their way to the fields. Sometimes they carried Immense bas kets on their backs. Sometimes they pushed or pulled queer carts with bags or babies or crude farm Implements In them. Sometime one would see a poor old woman bent nearly double under a load of wood on her back. Sometimes a dear little girl with a Hock of squaking geese, or a boy with an enormous raw cake in a Hat pan on his head, going to the baker's where nearly all the bread and cake was baked. Sometimes a young girl, busi ly knitting as she walked along. Then the clock In the church tower would strike six and I would go (o the win dows on the other si. le, while at the same instant the sweet voices of chil dren would be heard singing the morn ing choral. Ilelow me the old gray walls, built more than lion years ago, the walled garden with an old gnarled apple tree and a crooked pear tree nodding at each other over the high gateway. The crooked street, with Its gleaming cobble stones and across the way the old church yard with Its ivy grown and rose entangled graves, Us rose hedges, its crumbling wall with tiny lichens' rooting in the crevices, and the church with its I ;iu 1 1 Tul windows. Then soon one would hear a clatter ing and clamping and along would come two or three dozen txiys and girls, all fat and merry, with satchels on their backs, often eating black bread and cheese as they walked along. Their school was next to the church and liegan at fl::w. We have seen the most beautiful thing on earth the work of man Raphael's Slstinc Madonna. Words are utterly Inadequate to describe Its marvelous ocauty. I shall not try. Suffice to say that one feels In the In vine presence before It, and the fig ures seem to pulse and throb with life and motion. The colors are very thin and as clear and soft and beauti ful as though but new Instead of near 4i)0 years old. The Hresden gallery now ranks with the Louvre, Plttl and I'lll.l as one of the finest In the world. It contains many beautiful and fa mous pictures, among them being Ilaguacavallo's Madonna, Correggio's Madonna and St. George, Glorglone's Sleeping Venus, Titian's Tribute Money, Vcchlo's Three Graces, Mu- rillo's Madonna and Child, Ruben's daughter of Herod las and his Garden of Love. Carlsbad Is a cosmopolitan resort with very handsome buildings. It Is long and narrow like mountain towns are apt to lie. The center Is some wb;it ctowded f gether ml the sides are pushed up at uneven ht-lghu a. I down the length t it. hot u U .i prel'y p'.io-, and a.l Imuwli xxav (ast the fashlonab e seiis(.ii xhen we were there, many pe .iplr si III llngei, tl, . lit ii to leave its line sin ogv Pi in a, or l'Mitie. tie r.'htinlau inel nqmils. is a heai:t iful i ll y ol J'n,- ooo inhabitants situated among the hihs. It has two nnlveisli ies. f.ini"iis institutions of science ai d ait, mu seums mil ,u adeiuii s Si line oi lis si reets ami buildings h.ixe leiii.ilin d unchanged since the beginning of the middle ages, ami aic fud l lascina ling charm for the sliangcis union lis gates it has lem.ti k.O le old tow ers and hi nlges adorned with statues of Chiisl and Hie saints. It has shrines whcie one can see kneeling pejiite'its, and it lias. I am (old. near ly seventy churches. Thrieisu xery old loyal castle and a nunc modern one. It has a Jewish synagogue and a i old Jewish iii. liter, tliiough Hie narrow, daik and dirty ways of which we had some iuteie.stlng walks and saw many lemarkahle things The architecture of many buildings is so Russian one could almost Imagine oneself in Russia Hut the most delightful place of till was Nuriiberg, with Its picturesque old inin i i iw n, and surrounding it a tine modern city. It is piohahly Hie finest example of an old walled city In existence, and the old wall has Urn artistically dealt with. Theie are immense round and square towers at Iniei vals, and a moat in,", leet wide and thirty-three reef deep which has been turned Into a park. A walk around the walls is delight ful! (n one side a modem city, with broad, well-paved streets, on the other a high railing through which there are openings at intervals leading down Into tlie moat, or across Into the old town. When one becomes tired of feast ing their eyes on the beaut ies of the wall, the high-peaked gotlnc ga bled houses, and quaint towers, one descends Into the mnat and continue tlie merry-go-'rouiid In the lower depths. It Is not warm here. Their nat ional museum Is a magni ficent one, and is in an old Carthusian monastery of the fourteenth century. The exhibits were very fine, but to me the dim old cloisters, the winding cor ridors, the arched colonnades, the mysterious passages, the Inner courts wllh queer carved ornaments, the bel fries and towers were of a greater in teres! , and 1 could almost Imagine I saw tlie sombre gowned monks there. In the tower of one of the churches there is a curious old clock, made in h'liio. At noon a sifting figure on Hie face of it strikes a gavel, and out inarches from an opening at, one side the ngures or nie seven iterinau elec tors, ine sitting figure gives a rap with his gavel as each elector passes him. The elector "laces about," bows, not gracefully but with spas modic jerks, at tlie figure, tin n turns and marches into an opening on th other side. I he seven of them inarched by three times. It is very funny to watch. There are many figures of saints carved on the houses, dating from the fourteenth (o the sixteenth centuries. These figures arc usually hideous looking tilings, highly gilded and painted up, hut occasionally one sees an art gem among tlieui. There are statues of Albrec.ht Durer, Fischer Kralft, Sloss, Sachs and others scat tered about. We sat in the shadow of the torture chamber In the Pentagonal Tower, the oldest building in "Alt Nurii berg," after having risked our lives climbing the rickety stairs of hurt home, and restored our courage for the horrors to come by lunching on peaches and the famous Nuremlicrg Lubkuclieii. It is a kind of ginger bread gi.neroiisly tilled with almonds and very good. We have accomplished some mar velous feats of pedestrlanlsm and worn out our good American shoes at a fearful rate. We have been on top of the I'.rocken, the Pike's Peak of Germany, and the Mons Itrocterus of the Romans. We have loen thorough ly Initiated into the abominable prne tlce of tipping. We have slept under German feather beds and eaten all kinds of typical German dishes. We have cultivated a taste for black bread and caiaway seeds, forbrodchen and hornchen and mnhnkuchen, for many kinds of wurst and kase, but wc still prefer home-made pie. e have stood In the streets wait Ing to catch passing glimpses of titled people. Vic have visited the homes and graves of Goethe, Schiller, Rach Wagner, Luther and other great men Wc have heard lino music, we have seen reviews of soldiers. We have at tended Sunday services In magnificent cathedrals, then come out and walked through the busy markets In front of of them. We have seen much to ad mire and much to please us. There arc some things In which wc could copy the Germans to advantage There arc many things they could learn of us, and In my humble opinion there Is no place on earth as Itcauttful as me i nitca Mates, no people as progressive as the Americans, no fair cr state than Nebraska, no hills more iR-autlful than those around the little home town. In. C. Waoneu. - X K.. 7 -M l I I I 2 24 In the ordinary course of business, but lln-le's Interest to lie considel ed If part ! oiii earnings Is lell with us for life investment. Then I heie'sannl her story, which will make two plus two equal live In t line. Ask us and we will gladly tell you how it is done. Plattsmouth Savings Bvnk Independent Cigar FACTORY! 77 r. 5c CIGAR, Clmll(iiiKn Cninimrlitnri in (Jiiiillly unci Wurknmimhlp. JULIUS 1MC1UMCKHUKG, Miinnfiii-Uirvr. Kunsmann & Ramcje Still lead all other Meat Markets in furnishing the people of Platts mouth and vicinity with First Class Meats Of ftvery Inscription. Fresh and Smoked Meats, Fresh Fish, Lard, Etc. Etc REMEMBER They have removed to the first room west of their old stand. ISy courteous treatment to all they hope to retain their present patrons and gain many new ones. rICCCOGGOOGOGCCGGOOOGOCOQ Perry's Restaurant ,.s mrtnxmrrwnr'ini V? (IIVM US A CALL. S k P. UTTERBACK, Proprietor, MARTIN BUILDING, North Sldt Mala St rot t x W)OCOCOOCOOOOO Always WcIcomclW Any time anywhert In the poor man't cottago or the lich man palace. . Peerless Beer is welcomed and enjoyed puie and wholciome. I V Gnd Short Order House lj N3ceccocccosocoocosQosoo:h Meals Served ut Regular J Meal lluurH. Fresli Oysters S (IX SEASON) 8 S VihU or anything in Markt h m 1 v l&3t tl 4M