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BOW THE TARIFF IS WORKING. We remember that the chief officers of the Illinois Steel company (aconcern second only to the Carnegie works) were gi?ing to the public the most gloomy and pessimistic predictions of the inevitable effect of the new tariff upon their interests so long as it should be a law. But now the new tariff be ing only in existence ten months, and having at least two years of life re maining the wages of that company's 7,000 workmen have recently been in creased and its great mills, in several cities, are full of work. Certain well known manufacturers of spool cotton thread in New Jersey gave to the pub lic one year ago a statement that the proposed reduction of the duty from 7 cents to 5 cents per dozen spools would exert a most depressing influence upon their business. The minds oi employes were prepared for a reduc tion in wages, and it was even sug gested that it might be necessary to j take the business back to England and Scotland. One of our contemporariet has recently made an inquiry as to th condition of this thread industry, and it reports that since the beginning oi the present year the mills have been working to their full capacity, with the maximum force employed. There wa a reduction of wages during the period of depression, although the working force was cut down for a time, and it is stated that business is more lively than it was in 1893. Everybody was told last summer that the copper min-J ing industry would be ruined by the! removal of the duty on copper, but the mines continued to pay their large div idends, and wages were recently in creased in the largestof them, and the prices of copper stocks have been ris ing for some time on the exchange in Boston. The owners of the iron ore mines in the Lake Superior district, and many republican journals, asserted that this mining industry would be ruined by the reduction of the duty on ore from 75 to 40 cents per ton. But there has been a noticeable revival of activity in that mining district. Wages have been increased. The lat est reports say that the ore shipments during May and June have broken all records and that the. ore output for 1895 "will unqustionably be the largest yet made." Tb.at Fixas the Pries of Gold Bullion. Editor Journal: For the benefit of some that do not understand why gold bullion commands the price it does, and for the benefit of others who dispute the cause of its stable price. I will quote from England's coinage law of 1S70. I would like to have every person examine for himself to see whether these are facts or not, and to help such as feel disposed to inform themselves. I will say, look in volume 16 page 435, of Encyclopedia Britanica and you will find the law construed by B. W. Chandler Roberts, and R. A. Hill, both of the Royal mint London. They say that: "Gold bullion for coin age is supplied to the mint almost en tirely by the bank of England, the bank being bound by law to purchase at the rate of 3, 17s 9d per ounce any gold bullion of the legal standard, which the public may bring for sale. Private individuals are permitted to bring bullion to the mint, and to re ceive back the full amount (at 3 17s 10d an ounce) converted into coin, free of any charge for loss or manu facture;" but, as they are subject to some delay in the comingof the bullion at 3 17s 10d an ounce more generally prefer to take 3 17s 9d an ounce and do as they please with it. Ask yourself the question, now, does this law create an unlimited demand for gold bullion, or not? Be your own judge and jury in the matter not for England alone but for the world over. For myself I have no doubt on the subject. II. B. Sexator David Turple, of Indi ana, '.permanent chairman of the Memphis silver convention, said "Ratio and parity are two words much used in this discussion, and have experienced similar fortunes. When it is proposed by us to restore silver to full coinage, parity is spoken of as an invincible objection. How has parity been maintained from 1792 to 1895 ? By law. In the same manner we shal establish and maintain the same par ity. For this parity by law we shall have a voucher, that of more than a cen tury's maintenance. Parity and ratio are handsome names. Elegant syno nyms for that hostility to silver which its enemies would prefer to disguise In the vernacular of the single gold standard, as it is spoken today, parity means no more silver; a ratio means nothing but gold. They have put silver under duress. We would make it free as before." " Democratic Committee Meeting. The democratic county central com mittee is called to meet at the police judge's office in Plattsmouth, Ne braska, on July 20, 1895, at 1 o'clock p.m. for the purpose of calling county convention and such other business as may come before it. M. Archer, Cbairmaq. Chas. Grimes, Sec'y. GOLDEN APPI.ES. (.Written for The JocknalJ The golden apples Lang Just out of reath, While those we erasp are only tasteless austt Yet do we never heed the tale they teach , They're only ashes all, beneath the crust. We look upon our neighbor's richer dres9 And envv him. perchance, his nappieriot; We cannot Bee the weary cares that press, The tears that rise beneath his eyelids hot. He has not poverty, we have not gold , Yet we. maybe, are far more ricniy Diest; We may be young, perhaps, while he is old, He may be racked with pain, while we may rest. Each has his sorrow, reck not otherwise; Deep hid beneath the pleasing outer shell, Within the chamber of the heart it lies ; Each knows his awn and guards his secret well. The golden apples bang just out of reach. While those we grasp are only tasteless dust, Yet do we never heed the tale they teach ; They're only ashes all. beneath the crust. Isabel Richet. PERSONAL, POLITICAL AND PERTINENT. A severe hail-storm visited Tecum- seh Tuesday, doing considerable dam age. The corn and other vegetation was nearly ruined, while the fruit was knocked t ff the trees. It hailed for fifty uiiuutes and three inches of rain fell. The storm belt was only about two miles and a half in width and ex tended about two miles north and south. Among the democrats the names of Wm. Taylor jr. and Wm. Wheeler are spoken of as likely candidates for sheriff. The weather is warm and dog days are near at hand, therefore every one should keep a sharp eye on their dogs and when they act a little queer it is better to kill them than to run tberisk of having someone bitten, even though tbey may not be suffering from the rabbies. One human life is worth all of the dogs in the world. A "tall man with a blonde mus ache" is going about central Illinois claiming to be John the Baptist. He is doubtless an impostor. He doesn't answer the authorized description of John the Baptist in any particular. In political circles there is consider able talk of making Chas. C. Parmele the democratic candidate for county treasurer, and he is said to be very popular throughout the county. The new woman at Bryn Mawr col lege is responsible for the latest and best joke about the Deleware peach crop. "In Deleware," they say at Bryn Mawr, "the people eat what peaches tbey can and can what peaches they can't." The new woman who is capable of that kind of thing, will make her way. According to the assessment returns for Lancaster county, only one man in that county owns a bicycle, while some three thousand people ride wheels in Lincoln alone. The riders claim they are not legally the owners of the bicy cles until they are paid for, and they all say tbey are paying for them on the installment plan. The reported increase in the force at the Plattsmouth car shops is in per- fecl accord with divers reports of bet ter business prospects throughout the state. Omaha Bee. David Weaver of Cairo, Ritchie county, W. Va., on whose land a big 240-barrels-a-day oil well was struck one day last week, died the next day of heart disease resulting from excite ment over his stroke of good fortune. "I'm ferninst bloomers," as the hus band said, when he tossed his wife's houseplants into the street. Ex. LUt of Letter Remaining unclaimed in the postoffice at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, July 17, 1895: Arnold, L L Blsizek, Frank Hawkins, S P Lynch, Rev Smith, Birt Weeks. C W Peste. Gottfried. Persons calling for any of the above letters or parcels will please say "ad vertised." VV. K. Fox, P. M. Special Notice. The 24th annual camp meeting of the state Holiness association will be held at Bennett, Neb., Aug. 10-20. Itev. G. W. Wilson of Des Moines, la., and Rev. P. F. Bresee, D. D., of Los Angeles, both members of the Na tional Holiness association, will con duct the meeting. Reduced rates on all railroads. For further particulars write to the secretary, H. (i. Wilcox, Beatrice, Neb. Prominent Druggist of Blair. Neb., Write Magnet Chemical Co. Dear Sirs: The goods which we bought through your salesman are sellers j the Magnet Pile Killer es pecially sella good and gives excellent satisfaction. We have re-ordered through our jobbers several times. Respectfully yours. Palmer & Taylor. For sale by Gering & Co. J. M. Young brought in last Men day and posted in front of The Jour nal office a hill of corn from his father's field near Rock Bluffs, the stalks in which averaged 11 feet 3 inches, and the tallest stalk was Bilked with two ears. PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE, Dr. Marshall, Graduate DENT IST, Fit2grerald block. Bi Seybert of Murray was in town Saturday. J. M. Carper of Weeping Water was a court house visitor Monday. Louie Boedeker, the Louisville stock dealer, was in town Tuesnay en bus iness. Harvey Holloway went to Nehawka and Weeping Water Monday on his wheel. Mrs. W. H.Dearing and sister de parted Saturday afternoon for a visit at Wabash. Miss Nellie Spencer departed for Ashland Monday morning to attend the teacher's institute. Geo. Amick, a prosperous farmer of this vicinity departed last Tuesday on a business trip to Lincoln. Many farmers were in town Saturday having laid their corn by. and are now makiug ready for harvest. Jacob Tritpcb, the ex-county com missioner, was in town Tuesday. He is spokeu of for county treasurer. Mrs. Street is having her millinery pallors papered and cleaned, greatly improving the appearance thereof. County Treasurer L. C. Eickhoff was in town Friday morning, and went up to Omaha in the afternoon. Doc. Hunter, mayor of Cullom, and Councilmen McCool and Brooks of that city spent Sunday in Platts mouth. Attorney A. L. Timblin of Weeping Water was attendiug district court yesterday. He says he is not seeking rfny oflice. Govge Horn of Cedar Creek was in town Saturday. He say s the cribs and elevators there aie hungry for the com ing big crop. District court convened yesterday and has been busy all day with the suit of the Plattsmouth Water com pany vs. A. B. Smith. Messrs. Ed. Schulhof, Arthur Big nell. H. K. Fogarty, Rob't. Schaper and Ed. Kroehler of Havelock visited in the city Monday. Miss Minnie Sharp of Louisville, who has been visiting with Mrs. Way bright and other friends for a week, returned home Saturday afternoon. Fine large cooking plums were sell ing on the street Tuesday for $1.25 per bushel. The price will probably be lower yet, as the plum crop is very bountiful this year. Mrs. Frank Young and children of Durango, Colo., accompanied by the former's father, S. W. Barnett, of Weeping Water, are in the city visit ing with Mrs. Street. John J. Stineof Union was in Mon day paying his taxes and took the trouble to renew his subscription to The Weekly Journal. He is one of the early settlers of Nebraska. E. S. Barnett, the rotund and jolly justice of the peace from Weeping Water, was here Tuesday airing his chances for the nomination on the re publican ticket for county judge. Wm. Eikenbary of Union, who was in town the other day, says crops are advanced a week more down that way than in this part of the county, and the small grain harvest is at its height. Hawrick,the Sixth street secondhand dealer, is growing some cotton plants on the south side of his building. Their growth will be watched with interest especially as the holies come to maturity. Misses Maud and Lilly Coray, two of Cass county's teachers, departed Fridav morning for a fortnight's visit among friends in Missouri, taking their lit-le niece with them to see her grandparents. Chas. Schopp. living a mile or two south of town, brought In a branch off one of his apricot trees last Tuesday that was literally loaded down with ripe fruit. He says he lias twenty trees, all full of fruit.' Richard Nast. a well known farmer of Nehawka precinct, was in town Fri day. He says that crops out his way are excellent and the farmers will com mence about next week to harvest their wheat and oats. A five rr.ile race has been arranged between Lee Allison and his team of bronchos and a bieycle rider on the fair grounds track at Shenandoah on the 24th inst. That foolish Iowa biker needs to have bis eye teeth cut and Lee is the man to do it to a turn. J. WKinser has just completed an extensive job of plastering for Wm Hagel, a wealthy German farmer of Mt. Pleasant precinct. Koehnke & Frahm, the carpenters, recently built Mr. Hagel a large, new house and Wesley secured the contract for plas tering it. Wiley Black and P. E. Ruffner are picking, packing in barrels and ship ping apples of the Duchess variety from the orchard of J. P. Falter this week. They last week put up 25 barrels from an orchard near Murray. Tbey pay 75 cents a barrel for the fruit on the tree. J.C.Petersen brought in a stalk of corn from bis field near the head of Chidago avenue last Friday, July 12, that was tasseled and silked cut, measuring eleven feet aiiel six inches tn height. It is of the white dent va riety. The growth is very large for that date. Can anybody beat it? Subscribe for the Weekly Jour nal $1 per year, if paid in advance. HOW BEADS ARE MADE. One of the Oldest and Most Interesting of the Minor Arte. Chinese are the oldest beadmakers in the world. They have made beads so long that even their historians do not mention a time when the industry was not ancient. And the Chinese today do the work just as their forefathers did, and the styles are exactly the same. After the Chinese no people are so ex pert as the Venetians. At present there are more than 1,000 workmen in the is land of Murano alone who are engaged in beadmaking. The few manufacturers in other parts of the world have all learned the secret of the craft in Venice. For beadmaking there must be a rope walk connected with the glass factory. A rope walk is a narrow, straight gal lery 150 feet long and so situated that the middle is not far from the furnaces in which the glass is melted. The first process is the making of ordinary tubes like those used in almost every drug store. Two brawny workmen with bare, brown arms seize a huge wedge of -the "metal," as the molten glass is called, between their blowpipes, and after it has been blown hollow thoy gradually stretch it out into a long, swinging rope. When it has been reduced to the prop er Bize for the beads about to be made, it is laid away to cool, after which a workman comes along and in a wonder fully deft manner chips it into frag ments of uniform size. Often for small beads these are not much larger than a grain of wheat, but so carefully is the work done that the little cylinders are rarely cracked or spoiled. The pieces are now picked up by boys and placed in a tub with sand and ashes and stirred up carefully. In this way the holes in the embryo beads are stuffed full, thus preventing the danger of the sides flattening together when heat is applied. They are next placed in a skil letjust such a one as the housewife uses in frying eggs and stirred over a very hot fire until the ragged edges where the pieces were broken from the tube are rounded, giving the bead a globular form. As soon as tbey are cool tne ashes and sand are shaken out of them in a sieve, and then they are separated according to size by other sieves. They are taken next to a long table around which a whole flock of boys and girls are sitting. If the glass is colored, as it often is, the piles of beads on the table suggest a rainbow, with every hue, from jet black. through red, green, yellow and blue, up to white. Each child has a needle and thread, and by long practice the beads are placed on strings with almost incon ceivable swiftness. And the children keep an exact count, too, so that the manufacturer knows just how many beads be is seudkig out. The threads are tied into bundles and shipped to al most every port where a vessel touches. Chicago Record. BRYANT'S MARRIAGE. It Wm an Ideal Union Between the Poet and Ills Wife. Allusion has already been made to William Cullen Bryant's marriaga None could have been happier, no un ion more nearly an ideal one. Miss Fan ny Fairchild was a young lady whose parents had lived on the Seekonk, a stream tributary to the Green river, not far from Great Barrington. Early left an orphan, she made her home alter nately with her married sisters in that place, and there it was that Bryant met her. Charming in person, sweet in dis position, lovely in character, she drew him to her through his sympathy with her orphanage, his admiration of her beauty and his appreciation of her worth. For 45 years she was the stay and blessing of his life. What that mar riage was to him they knew best who knew him best. Reserved on the subject to the world at large, he allowed only those who were nearest him to know the wonderful depth and tenderness of his affection. Their sympathy was per fect, their dependence mutual. : He said at her death: "I never wrote a poem that I did not repeat it to her and take her judgment upon it. I found its success with the public to be pre cisely in proportion to the impression it made upon her. " A dear friend of them both has said: "The union between Mr. and Mrs. Bryant was a poem of the tenderest rhythm. Any of us who re member Mr. Bryant's voice when he said 'Frances' will join in his hope that she kept the same beloved name in heaven. I remember alluding to those exquisite lines, 'The Future Life,' to Mrs. Bryant, and her replying, 'Oh, my dear, I am always sorry for any one who sees me after reading those lines ; they must be so disappointed. ' ' Beatrice and Laura have not received such trib utes from their poets, for Mrs. Bryant's husband was her poet and lover at 70 a? at 17. Arthur Lawrence in ffcnfnTv What Ailed Him. A gentleman of Berwyn, Pa., who is employed with an electrical light com pany, has two boys aged 8 and 5 years respectively. The older one, through frequent conversations with his father, is familiar with electrical terms, appli ances and probabilities. Little 8-year-old one cold morning was fumbling with a half frozen wasp that had lodged on the window silL The wasp thawed out, and recovered much of his usual animation, a fact proved by a succession of yells on the part of the boy. "What's the matter with Dawson?" cried the father as he rushed from an adjoining room. "I 'spect he touched a live wire," re plied the brother, with a scarcely per ceptible OThx:outh,sCorQpanioq. l C M M The Glass Trust HAS ADVANCED THEPRICE OF OE-ahs 251 BUT WE ARE SELLING WINDOW GLASS AT THE SAME OLD PRICES. Woodman's Raw Linseed Oil nt fi'ie a gallon. Woodman's Boiled Linseed Oil at 65c a gallon. West Virginia Black Oil. for Farm Machinery, at Hr a gallon. Uaholine at 15c per gallon. WE SELL ONLY THE VERY BEST. YOURS CKEisiIfcTO- Sz CO., PLATTSMOUTH, NEB. BIRDS LIKE TO TRAVEL. The Reason They Aunaitlly Leave Xortta crn Cllmei and Fly South. Why do the birds flit southward each autumn and return again with every fpriug? No one knows, hut science; in the person of Professor Wang, the emi nent Austrian ornithologist, has just dis closed that the usual flippant answer to this question, "Because they like to travel," is not far out of the way, after alL In a lecture that Professor Wang re cently delivered at Vienna he gave some extremely interesting details regarding the migrations of birds, all of which migrations resemble one another in two respects: They follow the most direct line southward, and are made with al most incredible rapidity. Numerous ob servations have been made at Helgo land, which is the principal halting place of birds of passage from northern countries, and of Egypt, which is the winter home of many, and these obser vations have established some facts hith erto unknown. The bluebirds traverse the 400 nautical miles which separate Egypt from Helgoland in a single night, which is at the rate of more than 40 geographical miles per hour. The swal low's speed is over 24 miles per min ute, or nearly three times that of th fastest railway train. Even the younger birds, 6 or 8 weeks old, accompany the others in their journey. Professor Wang asks himself what is the impulse which causes the birds, aft er the brooding and molting season is over, to quit our nothern climate. He does not think it is fear of cold for many species quite as delicate as those which migrate southward easily with stand the rigors of the winter hut that they have an irresistible humor for traveling. This is his idea of the fact, but he can give no explanation. The Work of the Heart. One of the most remarkable things about the heart is the amount of work it .does. Considering the organ as a pump whose task is to deliver a known quantity of blood against a known "head," it is easy to show that in 24 hours a man's heart does about 124 foot tons of work. "In other words," says a contemporary, "if the whole force ex pended by the heart in 24 hours were gathered into one huge stroke, such a power would lift 124 tons one foot from the ground. A similar calculation has been made respecting the amount of work expended by the muscles involved in breathing. In 24 hours these muscles io about 21 foot tons of work. " A Mob. A mob is usually a creature of very mysterious existence, particularly in a large city. Where it comes from or whither it goes few men can tell. As sembling and dispersing with equal sud denness, it is as difficult to follow to its various sources as the sea itself, nor does the parallel stop here, for the ocean is not more fickle and uncertain, more terrible when aroused, more unreason able or more cruel. Dickens. KJght on m Dark Subject. Rivers Supposing it to be true that Luther did throw an ink bottle at satan, why do you think he did it? Banks- I presume he wanted to see if ae couldn't make him blacker than he vas nmnted. Chicago Tribune. Forthe Campaign. The Omaha Weekly Bee, Will be hent to any address in this country or rauada from now to ... . December 31,1895 25 CENTS. Send o ders at once to . . . The Omaha Bee, Omaha. Neb. New York Baker j CHOICK LINE OF FRESH BREAD, PIES CAKES, ALWAYS ON HAND. FINE CIGARS and . . . . . . CONFECTIONERY. ! C. SAHL, Prop. 314 Main stree. . Fiattsmooth, Neb. ft.UMtO.4l) TIMF. TAHLE, 11 . at 91. It. li. EAST BOUNt). dally i .5:1, p. m. 4. .tally. . : 10:29. a. ru. 10, from Schuyler except Sund ay. 11:55, a. m. 12, dally except Sunday 8:2.5. p. in. 92, daily except Sunday 12:23. p.m. 3, freight from Louisville 2:50, p. m WKST BOUND. 3, dally 3:43, p. m. 5. daily . . . . ...9:15, a. m. 7, last mall, dally..:. 2:12.p- va. 9. to Schuyler, exoe'pfSoiiday .... 2:20, p. m. 11 , dally '. V ..4:60, p.m. 81 . dally except Sunday 7 : 15, ft. m. 2tf, freight to Louisville 220,p.iu. No No No. No. No. No. No. No No. No No No No GOlNO NORTH : Leaves. Passenger. No. 1 4:50 a. ui. No. 111! 5 03 p. m Freight. No. 127 (dally exe'pt Siiaday) 3:35 p.m. GOlNO SOUTH: Passenger, No. 'Z lo 43 p. in. No. 134 11:52 a. n. Freight, No. 1 3' fdiTJi exrept Sunday H0-C5 a. m THE OMAHA WORLD - HERALD Kdlted by Ex-Consreiiman W. J. BRYAN Is the greatest newspaper west of the Missouri liiver. It advocates FREE SILVER at the present ratio of sixteen to one Its news service is the beat to be obtained. Daily, $6 00 per year; 50 cents per month. Weekly. $1 00 per year Subscriptions for the WORLD-HERALD received at this office Wm. Neville & Co., WHOLKSALi: ?id RETAIL DEALERS IN Pare Wines and Liquors AND THE BEST CIGARS. Sole Agents for the Celebrated MILWAUKEE Pabst Beer. Deliveries made' to any part of the city or shipped to any place. WM. NEVILLE, . . . MANAGER, . 412 Main Street, - Hattsmoutb, Neb F. G. FRICKE &. CO., Will keep constantly on hand a full and complete i-toek of pure" PAINTS, OILS, Etc. Also a full line of l'rmtl.t' Sumlriea. 1'i.re liquors for medicinal purposes. Special attention given to COMPOUNDING PRESCRIPTIONS. Messrs. F. (i. FRICKE A CO.. are the only arties selling our Alaska Crystal Hrilliant COMBINATION Spectacles and lye-Glasses la Plattsmouth. These Lenses are far Miperior to any other sold in this city, possessing a natural transparency and f-tieiikUhtiip qualities which will pre serving the failing eye sight. PROF. STRASSMAN. Zuchweiler & Lutz RELIABLE GROCERS, Cor. Sixth and Pearl Sts., KEEP EVERYTHING IN THEIR LINE. SELL CHEAP, GIVE GOOD WEIGHT. DELIVER PROMPTLY. YOOIl CUSTOM IS SOiLlCI'l KIw BKESON Sc. ROOT. Attorneys-' at Law, PLATTSMOUTH. NKh. OVKVK KMrtrt-raM Mork. nvirKlrMn hunk H. C. McMaken & Son WIIOL.KMAI.13 ..ICE DEALERS.. Cutting, Packing and Shipping a specialty. Telephone No. 72. PLATTSMOUTH. NEB H. O. LIVINGSTON, ATTORNEY AT T,aW. Paits.-nositn, - ' . -"Veoraa