THE DAILY 11E11ALD, PLATTSMOUTIL NEIUIASKA, SATURDAY, OCTOREIi 8, 1837.
t Jplattanioutl) Puily Cjcralb,
KlvTOTTS S.,
Publishers & Proprietors.
REPUBLICAN COUNTY TICKET.
For Troxsiirer
I. A. CAMPIJKLL.
For Work
BERT CltlTCIIFIELD
For Keconlfr
WM. II. TOOL.
For Huperintemlcnt of l'ullc Instruction
MAYNAUI) SPINK.
Fjr Slu rin'
J. C. KIKIvNBAItY.
For JuJt,-e
CALVIN liUSSKLn.
For Clerk of Di.st.ict Court
II. J. STKEIOHT,
For County CoinmlHsionor
GEORGE YOUNO.
For Surveyor
A. MADOLE.
For Coroner
1IEXKY li(ECK.
A deserved compliment wiis paid to
Hon. Sum'l Chapman tho other day at
the Judicial convention, when his first
year's services ou the bench were reward
ed ly a unanimous nomination to succeed
himself for the next four years rb judge
in and for the 2nd judicial district. The
successor to Judge Pound, Hon. Allen
W. Field is a young man, but a hard
working, painstaking lawyer and one
that, without doubt would make a good
judge.
contest of tho kind in which no single
life whs taken in cold blood as a punish
ment for treason. It was followed by n
disarmament winch was even greater as
an act of patriotism than the original call
to arms. It has been followed in our
day by iterfect reconcilliation between
the sections mul by a growth in prosper!
ty which is the wonder of the world.
All this, with how much else in culture.
in education, in invention, in every art
of life, has been achieved by the common
people for themselycs, and it is the great
est service ever rendered to mankind,
With the United States in their place
among the nations, the humblest of men
may take hope. They may especially
conmtcr that self doubt which is the
worbt of all obstacles to popular progress.
As the American people arc, so may any
other people, by cnerav. courage, manli
ness, and self restraint, hope to become.
A true festival of humanity is being cele
brated, both in deed and symbol, in
America to-day. London Dailn News.
SCYTHE SONG.
Mow A weary and brown and blithe.
What la the word mKbinka yo know.
Endless over word thtit tho Bey tho
fclii' to tho blades of. tho grans below f
Scythes that swing In tho prass and clover.
Something, still, they Hay ns they pass;
What is the word that, over and over,
tings the Scythe to tho flowers and gi'nssf
Hush, ah hush, tho Scythes are saying.
Hush, audlued not, and fall aslucpi
Hush, they Bay to the grosses swaying;
Hush, they siu;j to the cfcver deepl
Hush 'tis the lullaby Time is singing
Hush, and heed not, for all things pass,
'Hush, ah hush! and the f Scythes arc swinging
Over the clover, over the gratis I
Longman's Magazine.
POSITIONS THAT EFFECT SLEEP.
Nebraska
Republicans
Tariff.
and tho
Tiie ammount of rain di ring the last
month has occasioned no small ammount
of grumbling, but we are told that it is
almost a "guarantee for bounteous crops
next year, The ground becomes thor
oughly soaked, fall plowing can be en
gaged in and the ground being damp
freezes thoroughly which is one of the
best fertilizers, thus putting tho soil in
fine condition for next year's cultivation.
Plattsmouth may be afflicted with a
city council that does not reflect and rep
resent the best interests of the people,
but we are to be cougratulatcd that we
have no Hascalls or Bethels here; our
sitution might easily bo wors", though
Omaha's could not well be worse than
now with the city governmont trying to
starve out the policemen and inaugurate
a reigu of anarchism that would lift
Ilerr Host to the third heaven of do
light. Yet with the people paying the
police out of private funds and carrying
on the government the city will doubt
less continue to improve and at the next
election will show its appreciation of
that kind of work.
Democracy in Chicago fairly went
wild on Feeing a Bourbon president, it
being the lirst one that many of that
party naci ever seen. Cleveland is evi
dently an improvement on their traitor
ous Buchanan, though weighed in tin-
scale of republican statesmanship he
would certainly fall below all tho lead
ers of his own party as well as those of
the republican.
A Novel Cold Discovery.
iue larm wnerc jirs. f rank Seacoy re
sides is near the river and about two
miles from JIatterson's mill. On her farm
the well was cleaned out a few days ago
and one or two bushels of dirt and gravel
were thrown out. Around this pile of
gravel Mrs. Seacoy's flock of chickens
congregated and picked it over, and with
it filled up their hungry crops. The day
after, one of these chickens was killed
ior dinner, in its crop was lonnd a
good-sized gold nugget worth not less
than a dollar. This nugget she brought
to town on Tuesday and left it at this
office for inspection. Sir. BeSomber, the
jeweler, examined and tested the nusrgct
with acid, and says it is gold, and Squirr
Hewitt, who was a miner in California,
agrees with Mr. DeSomber. This nugget
can be seen at this office. Mrs. Seacoy U
a lady whose word as to the manner of
finding it, is worthy of implicit confi
dence. Ponca Journal.
While keeping in line with the party
generally in approval of a tariff system
that shall conserve the interests of Amer
ican industries and lador, the sentiment
of the republicans of Nebraska, as
voiced by their state convention, 18 un
mistakably in favor of a revision of the
existing tariff. The platform especially
say3 that the business of the country dc
mands a revision, and arraigns the dem
ocratic party for its failure to keep its
tariff reform pledges. It puts the repub
licans of this state on record as desiring
such revision at tho earliest practicable
l:iv. thono-h intimating no faith in the
7 O
ability of the democratic party to bring
about that consumation. Republicans
elsewhere will not fail to giye
heed to these expressions, nor should
they be disregarded by the reprasenta
tives in congress from this state.
This attitude of the republicans of
Nebraska marks an advance in the sen
timent on this subject, and demon
strates the force of the arguments on
the existing situation so clecaly that
the extreme protectionists may learn
from it that their swav cannot bo
much longer mantained. They may
blindlv elect to still insist upon their
demands, rathsr than to wisely yield
such fair and just conccssious as they can
make without harm to themselves and
with great good to the general welfare,
but the time is not remote when what
they now refuse to concede the people
will have in despite of them, with the
chance of taking much more than is at
present asked. There is no disposition
anywhere to pull down the tariff struct
ure. Rational men of both parties un
derstand that such a policy would be
madness, and with such there is no tol
eration of those, a mere handful numeri
cally, who advocate absolute free trade.
But it is reasonably insisted that neither
the necessities of the government, the wel
fare of the industries of the country, nor
the interests of labor require a continu
ance of the tax imposed upon the people
by the existing tariff, and that on the
contrary all iuterests would be benefitted
and national progress stimulated by a
generous reduction of this tax. The pre
vailing spirit is one of compromise. The
great majority of the people are willing
that for the present the question shall be
settled on that fair middle ground
which will as nearly as possible
divide the reduction of revenue equally
between excise taxes and the tariff.
What an Observant 1'hj ttlclan Says Cause
of Snoring Ireaurs.
According to Dr. Granville tho position af
fects sleep. A c.nstruir.el position generally
prevents reposo.wbilo a comfortable one wooes
Bleep. lie suys lying Hut on tho back with
the limbs relaxed would seem to secure the
greatest amount of rest fur tho muscular sys
tem.
This is tho position assumed in tho most ex
hausting diseases, and it is generally hailed
as a token of revival when a patient volun
tarily turns on the sido ; but there aro several
advantages in tho supino posture which im
pair or embarrass slee;. Thus, in weakly
states of the heart and Llood vessels and cer
tain morbid conditions of tho brain tho blood
seems to gravitate to the back of tho head and
to produce troublesome dreams.
In persons who habitually in their gait or
work stoop, there is probably some distress
consequent on straightening tho spine. Those
who have contracted chests, especially per
sons who have had pleurisy and retain adhe
sions of tho lungs, do not sleep well on tho
back.
Noarly all who are inclined to snore do so
in that position, lecau90 the soft palate and
uvula hang ou the tongue, and that organ
full back so as to partly close tho tofi of tho
windpipe. It Is better, therefore, to lio on
tho side, and in the absenco of special dis
eases rendering it desirable to Ho on the weak
eitlo so as to loovo the healthy lung free to
expand, it is well to use tho right sido, bo
causo when tho body is thus placed tho food
gravitates more easily out of tho stomach
into tho Intestines, and the weight of tho
stomach does not compress tho upper portion
of tho intestines.
A glance at any of tho visceral anatomy
will show this must bo. Many persons ore
deaf in one ear and prefer to lio on a particu
lar side; but, if possible, tho right side should
be chosen. Again, sleeping with tho nnns
thrown over the head is to be deprecated; but
this .'position is often assumed during sleep,
because circulation is then freo in tho ex
tremities, and tho head and neck and muscles
of the chest are drawn up and fixed by the
shoulder?, and thus the expansion of the
thorax is easy.
Tho chief objection to these positions Is that
they create a tendency to cramp and cold In
the arms, and sometimes seem to causo head
aches during sleep and dreama. Theso small
matters often make or mar comfort in sleep
ing. Boston Budget.
An English Tribute to America.
1X7 "il J. mW a m m a
Him most oi ua ine winn ior peace is
little more than the wish for the millen
nium. The United States have made it
the guiding principle of their national
life. In this alone they form the repub
lic of thtfuture as well as of the present.
It will be a long time before any existing
government of the kind, less fortunately
circumstanced, can have anything tc
icacn us sucn entire Harmony with our
noblest convictions and with ou:
brightest hopes. The whole world msv
celebrate this centenial, for the whole
world has its account in the prosperity of
the United States.
The experiment which has now been
progress on the other side of the Atlantic
for over a century is the most conclusion
in the history of humanity. Nothing less
has been settled there than the power of
men to govern themselves to all the
greatest ends of national and of individ
ual life. That power has been tested in
nearly every way, in war, as well as peace,
by the elation of victory, if not, thank
Heaven, by the humiliations of defeat.
It has never been lonnd wanting. The
American civil war was the only great
The mistake of the . protectionists, and
one winch must ultimately react to
their diseomfitur if persisted in, is in
maintaining a rate of taxation for which
there is no longer a necessity for justi
fication. It results in piling up a vast
surplus in the treasury which is danger
ous in itself as a temptation to "govern
mental extravagance and a serious draw
back to the national prosperity. Two
thirds of this U derrived from the tariff,
which puts a tax ou almost everything
that people wear or use in their domes
tic and business affairs. A reduction of
the revenue of the government, that did
not involve the cutting off of a part of
this tax, while it might prevent the accu
mulation of surplus in the treasury would
giye no relief to the people, and would
therefore be alike unwise and unjust.
The republican party of Nebraska,
largely composed of farners, favors a
revision of the tariff with a view to re
ducing oppressive duties becaase it be
lieves that course to be fair, just and
necessary, certatn to work no injury to
the industries and labor of the country,
but instead to firomote the welfare of all
interests and advance the general pros
perity. This sentiment is obtaining rapid
development in the west, if not in other
sections of the country-
Notice to Ico Consumers.
All contracts for ice expired on the 1st
day of Oct. All persons in arrears
please call at F. S. White,s store and set
tle the same. Parties wishing their ire
continued can have it at the same rate
per month as heretofore.
dlw F S. White.
JIo Fined for Home.
He was sitting in front of a sod houso in
Nebraska, near tho Niobrara river, smoking
a cob pipe and occasionally pausing to whistla
a few bars of "Dixie" as ho gazed lazily but
admiringly at a semicircle of dogs stretched
on the ground around him. We drove up and
inquired how far it was to Valentino.
"Dunno, stranger," ho replied.
"Haven't you ever been there?44
"Yes, I 'low I've been there."
"How far do you think it is, then
"It might be 'bout seven mile, and then she
might bo nearer ten makes a heap o' difrence
what you do down where the road forks. Say,
don't wan't o buy a good farm, I reckon?"
"Don't behevo wo do.
"No, I 'lowed not. Soems 's if I can't never
sell out."
"Where are you going when you 6ell out
here?"
"Gen'l'nien, I shall pull back to ilissoory,"
"Can't you raise good crops here?"
"Can't raise nothin' on this farm 'cept
cuckle burrs. That's what I coll it, gen'l'men,
Cuckle Burr homo! I got 'nother farm out
on the flat furder."
"That must be poorer soil than this."
"Doggoned sight wuss. Can't raise nothin'
but sand burrthere. I call it Sand Burr place.
I got ono other farm down nearer tho river."
"That's seems like a better location."
"Oh, yes, some you can raise red tumblj
weeds on that land it's Tumble Reed re
treat; that's the nnmo of it."
"All for sale, firo they?"
"Every one of 'em buyers can take their
choice between lumblo Reed retreat, Sand
Burr place or Cuckle Burr home they all
got their good p'iuts. Tumble Reed retreat
commands a good view of the river an' more
muskeeters; Sand Burr place is level an' nice,
but exposed to tho wind; Cucklo Burr home
is sheltered from tho wind, an' there's four
teen badger holes on the back forty, an' a fel
lar can tako a dog an' have piles o' sport with
'em. Ill take tho home fer mino every time
I'm powerful on sport. Goin' to shack along,
air you? Well, if you see anybody that wants
to buy somo land of 'bout this d'scription Jes'
send 'em out. I'm get fin' mighty anxious to
be moseyin' down round old Pike ag'in!"
Chicago Tribune.
Scenes at Uellevuo Hospital.
On tho lowest floor of all, behind heavy
iron doors, are kept patients suffering from
alcoholic manias. It scarcely need bo said
that these apartments do not suffer for ten
ants. Sometimes, indeed, they aro crowded
uncomfortably with a lot of filthy, howling
incurables, who, sunk lower than beasts,
seem scarcely worth minding about. One of
them, somewhat recovered from tho worst
stage, was still dazed and occupied with phan
toms and vampires. You could shake your
first in his face, but ho wouldn't have seen
you. Now and then he put out his hand as if
to ward off some stealthily approaching foe.
He wheeled around quickly and shrank back
in fright. He held his hands before his face
and every nerve in his body shook violently.
The doctor took his hand.
"What do you see, John?" he asked.
"Green devils in the water and I can't swim
a stroke," was the despairing answer. The
variety of their horrid visions is amazing.
One of them thought himself in a spider's
web and "moro'n a million" spiders, hairy,
long and vicious, were weaving their skeins
around him. The attention of a third, whose
violence when brought in had been overcome
only by the brute strength of a dozen order
lies, was now engaged rolling oflf the roofs of
houses one rearsd above the other far into
the clouds, while a Hundred bats chased him
in his tumbles. Every minute or two he
bounced heavily on his bed and groaned fear
fully. He had just struck another roof.
New York Tribune.
Fish Leather in Germany.
The skin of the catfish is now tanned into
leather in Germany. Tho new leather is
tough, supple and of good appearance. It is
made into purses and shoe laces. Tanned
salmon skins are used a3 robes by the women
of Cas trie's Bay. CasselTs Magazine.
THE PANORAMA'S GROWTH
fMNVARD'S THREE MILES OF CANVAS
AND THE SHOW OF TO-DAY.
Tho Illusion of tho KoiiimI Hoime Taii
oruiu:v IVhy They urn .So i:flVctlve
Myittcry of tho Cyclorumu A Ilattle
Scene.
Tho man who will confess to a rocollo.-tion
of tho timo when Barnard's "Panorama of
tho Mississippi" was first unfolded to th" ul
miration of tho public may be husjKrcted of
being either a married man, to whom youth
Is no object, or a bachelor so long bulfeted on
tho sea of celibacy that ho Is no hojo of
ever reac hing port. It was a Tung time ago,
so long that even tho multitudu of imitations
that followed tho original Banvnrd, covering
journeys by land, ocean, and river over al
most half tho globe, huve all vanished into
tho attics and bten forgotten. It wai report
ed that thcro vvero throe miles of canvas in
Bauvard's panorama. That was probably a
managerial fiction ; but it ij none the less
certain that there vera u great many yards.
It took hours to reel tho pictured! before tLo
eyes of admiring spectators, and a lecturer
with practiced lungs wjis needed to expatiuto
on iU beauties. But there wero not many
beauties after all. Tho Mississippi river,
though a long river, runs for tho most part
through a flat country, and is navigated by
flat boats which it may or moy not bo worth
while to try and make picture-quo. But the
motives of Banvard were putriotic and pe
cuniary rather than artistic. The biggest
river in tho world was entitled to the biggest
picture, and it was reasonable to suppose that
tho two attractions combined would bring
out tho biggest throiiirs of spectators that
ever attended an art exhibition.
However far back in tho uncertain past tho
origin of tho fixed panorama may bo traced,
thero is no doubt that tho panorama on roll
ers is a modern conception. Thero could bo
little doubt either from tho beginning that
its career was destined to be brief, for life is
too short to paint pictures by tho aero that
will bo good enough to endure. But tho idea
seems to have been tusceptiblo of develop
ment. Tho cyclorama, calied also panorama,
now holds the iiold vacated by its prede
cessor. Between tho panorama and tho cyclorama
thero is a wide distinction. Tho former car
ried you upon a long voyage and showed a
succession of scenes, und you were supposed
to sail by on tho deck of some steamer; but
thj latter sets you down, or rather sets you
up, in the middle of a fixed andscae uiado
memorable by somo historical event, and
gives a picture of incidents that can bo re
called only by the imagination. The cj-clo-rama
is an invasion of tho field of historical
painting, therefore, und must ba tested by
severer canons of criticism than the panorama.
Thero aro plenty of men who belie vo in the
new form of entertainment, and who scc-m
willing to risk their dollars on its success.
Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, St. Paul and
Denver have each a bactlo of Gettysburg;
and, in this city, a round l,ouse is being
erected for the exhibition of a picture of tho
same event, Washington, much to tho third
confusion of the Union army, has its Bull
Run, St. Louis and Kansas City their Mis
sionary ItiUge, ban Jiruiicisco its ViclcsDurg,
Liew Orleans its siege of Paris, and Minneap
olis its Atlanta. Chicago has also a battle of
hiloh.
At tho first view of the spectator tho cyclo
rama seems to be a mystery. It Is appar
ently an nbsoluto reproduction of the scene
represented, tho objects seeming equal in s:zo
with the original objects, and the spaco cov
ered equally great. A circular building, less
Inan 100 feet m diameter, and not much moro
than fifty feet in elevation, expands to tho
dimensions of the space that can bo covered
by the eyo in an open landscape, and reac hes
upward to tho clouds. A portion of the fore
ground, it is very well known, is composed of
real figures and objects; but the illusion upon
the painted canvas is so perfect that tho
painted figures seem hardly less objectiv
man tno real ugures, ana without the rnos
careful scrutiny tho dividing Hue cannot L
itiugiushed. Surely, tho Fpectator think:
there must bo somo wonderful secret known
only to tho painter In this illusion.
But thero is probably no secret deeper than
tho secret which has caused all art to be
called a mystery. Shut out the real objects
m the foreground from tho eyo end the di
tanees in tho perspective will not be dimin
ished nor tho figures ou the canv.13 rcntWec
less strong m ineir rener. mo only service
that seems to be rendered by tho objective
portions of tho foreground is to bring tiia
entire landcapo to tho feet of the spoctato:
and to shut out the intervening space of bare
floor or carpet that would otherwise help to
break tho illusion. He is surrounded by tho
picture above, below and upon all sides, and
is permitted to see no other object. Ho stands
upon a platform that seems to be erected
tne very center or tue neiu ueimeatoil. Ti;:s
doubtless aids to render the scene more re
alistic, but it adds nothing to relief or per
spective. The great sizo of the picture,
reaching practically from the foot of the
platform to tho roof, a distance of about 100
feet, is probably tho chief cause of the appar
ently wonderf ul expansion of space.
i no cyciorama win not provo a moro en
during form of entertainment than tho par.o
rama unless it is produced with a more arlis
tic motive than controlled the production of
its predecessor. There is no merit in relief.
Save to the extent that it results from perfect
modeling, where it is more properly termed
roundness than relief, it is not to bo regarded
as an ar us uc men c. lue means ior its at
tainment aro merely mechanical, and they do
not enter into tho motives that govern the
production of really fine art. Then, again.
the cyclorama is very restricted in its field
and demands a constant succession of artistic
anachronisms and the misplacing of incidents
to be effective.
Thus far the painters of these pictures have
essayed only battle scenes, and it is a fiei.t of
peculiar hardship. A battle Cold, represented
literally as it looi to the eye, would prove a
very tame affair. 2otwithstanding all that
we hear about personal exposure and heroic
deeds, tho men intent ou glorious feats cf
arms are generally trj-ing to keep out of
sight, hiding in the woods and behind ridges
and fences for tho purpose, of course, of ob
scuring their numbers. Except when sub
jected to the painful necessity of going in on
a charge a man may fight all day with hardly
a look at tho face of an enemy. The line of
battle mado by great armies i3 usually four
or fivo miles long, with obstructions of vari-
ous-kinds on the line of sight. It is some
times the case that one flank of an army has
a very desperate fight and wins a victory
when tho men on tho other flank can haruly
be convinced that anything moro than a little
skirmishing had been done. Even the charge
is not what the imagination paints it. A thin
gray, black, blue or green line of troops, ona
of the extremities so distant as to be hardly
visible, does not cut a very imposing figure
running across a half mile of open fi.-M
against an invisible foo. Only th? flashing,
smoking batteries on tho ridges and hilltops
are grand. Particular incidents of a battle
are about all that can be painted effectively,
and they must all bo represented in the fore
ground. New York Sun.
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South Park
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installments of 10; or, any one arcein to construct a
residence worth Hvr00 and upwards will he given a lot with
out further consideration.
to select your residence lo( s, even though
contemplate building at once. One
will convince the most skeptical that
in tho city, and we
residence locality
substantial class
boast for tho
you should not
visit to South Park
it is t he most desirable
will
add. that the most
year
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