THE DAILY HERALD, PLATTSMOUTII, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, OCTOHER 14, 1SS7.
ljc yiattsmoutl) Dtriltj fjcralb,
KNOTTH I3BO S.,
Publishers & Proprietors.
REPUBLICAN STAJE TICKET.
For Supreme fuli?!?
SAMUEL MAX W ELI
For Cnlversity Knouts,
. DH. R 1$. DAVIS,
DK. UEOIIOE KOIJEKTH.
For .JiiIk!h of Ne?onl Judicial litrl-tt
HON. SAMUEL M. CHAPMAN.
J ION. ALLEN W. 1'IELD.
UBL.ICAN COUHTY TICKET.
For Trr;c iin-r
D. A. CAM I'll ELL.
ForClcrk
MUD CUITCIIFIELD
For Hoconlcr
WM. H. POOL.
SiiijeriiitendtMit of IMildic Instruction
MAYNAltD SPINK.
J. C. EIKENHAKY.
For Judge
CALVIN KUSSELL.
For Clerk of I tistricl Court
II. J. STKEKJIIT,
For County ('oiiiiiilfsion;r
GEOKOE YOUNG.
For Surveyor
A. MADOLE.
For Coroner
1IENKY IiGX'K.
Hp.au the republican state platform
and read it every clay. It is good road
iui' and sound doctrine.
The prohibition vote in New York
though cast for St, John made Cleveland
president but did not help the cause of
temperance.
The republican victory at the late mu
nicipal election in Indianapolis so soon
after the prtsidents visit shows that his
trip is bearing fruit and good fruit even
before his journey is ended.
The laboring people of Pensylvania
have not as good houses nor as good
food ami clothing as they ought to have
but the tariff is not the cause but it is
the whiskey that they drink that causes
the most pinching part of their poyerty,
The Journal admits that the repub
licans have nominated a stronger and
better man for supreme judge than the
democrats have. This is honest and we
believe, sincere. "We will elect him,
Shake, brother Sherman.
If the C. B. & Q. and K. & M, railroads
do not speedily build double tracks along
their trunk lines,' many serious accidents
are likely soon to happen. As it is, de
lays are common vexations and very
unsatisfactory to the traveling public,
The attempt to handle so many trains
with only a single track is impracticable
and dangerous and if the roads are so
parsimonious that they will not, of their
own accord, make their double tracks;
they should be compelled to do so by
law or the number of trains they are al
lowed to run in a given trme should be
limited to a safe and convenient num
ber
TnERE is no doubt but that the tenden
cy of monopolies, both in this and in for
eign countries is to oppress the masses
and make rich the few. Hence, the
sympathy of the republican party has al
ways been with the laboring people. They
emancipated the slaves, stopped the idi
migration of cheap labor from China,
put a tariff on such articles as could be
manufactured here by protecting labor,
The democrats have been in power sever
al years and have done nothing to help
the poor, the laborer nor any body else
except a few rich nabobs, and it is not
likely that they ev r ailL To the republican
party all poor and oppressed people must
look for redress.
A Helpful Neighbor.
The Council Bluffs ItTonpareil, referr
ing to the adoption of a resolution by
the Pottawattomie county convention
favoring Omaha as the place for holding
the next national republican convention,
and asking the Iowa members of the
national committee to vote for it, says
"This is as it should be. Omaha is the
best town west of Chicago, till we read
the Pacific coast. It can entertain th
national convention handsomely, witli
the aid of Council Bluffs, and give the
country a ticket that will be elected in
18S8." Omaha appreciates these compli
ments from her neighbor and count
much upon its valuable assistance in htr
efforts to secure the republican conven
tion. Omaha Republican.
The Prohibition Party.
We are in favor of free action as well
as free thought by all who honestly do
whatthev think is riirht. But wc would
--'
like to have all people who think as w
do, act with us. Hence we cannot but
regret that our prohibition friends do
not endorse and vote for our ticket in
Btond nf nresentin? one of their own. It
tvv i. -J
is impossible for then to prefer demo
crats to republicans, and yet in their
zeal for the best of causes there is dan
ger ot their becoming the helpers of the
pronounced party of the saloons. We
know they wculd not intentionally do
this, but such is the pccular condition of
the political parties in relation to the
rohibition question that a third party
making that the issue can hardly fail
to help the democrats and hurt t lie re
publicans. There is not a xloubt but
that a majority of the republicans in
Nebraska are in favor of prohibition and
the party will, if supported by all pro
hibitionists at exactly the right time
which is when it will carry, submit the
question to a vote of thi people. But
if the prohibition pat ty should cither de
feat the republican party or take from it
the prohibition strength, then they kill
prohibition in the state. For if thedem
ocrats carry the statu there is no more
show for J prohibition than if the
whole business were turned over to the
saloon keepers themselves, and if they
draw from the republican party the
strongest and most active 'supporters of
prohibition, of course those left will be
both less inclined and less able to bring
around the reform than they would bo
if they had what the third party takes
from them. In Iowa and Kansas the re
publican party has given the people pro
hibition and it will do it sure in Neb
raska if all the prohibitionests of the
state come to it, stay with it and work
with it. The republican doors are wido
open to all good people and we believe
the prohibition folks to be such. As
they cannot possibly hope to elect their
ticket, we trust before the election they
will conclude to vote our ticket and
thus help the cause nearest their hearts.
Iowa would not now have prohibition if
any considerable number of the republi
cans had gone with the third party.
And a? sure as time continues Nebraska
will not soon have it, if those who
want it do not work together. "A
house divided against itself cannot
stand" neither can a great reform be
brought about except enough of those
who want it agree and work in unison
for its accomplishment.
Procrastination.
Time once gone can never be re
called." is the remark only too often
said by those who neglect themselves.
Dr. Warner's new Speeific'Cough Cure
Conies to the world's rescue
And denies death of its rightful due.
Please report your experience to your
druggist and neighbor, that tli3 world
may have proof no cure, no pay re
quired Pri::e 50c and 1. For sale by
Will J. Warrick.
MEN WITH MARVELOUS MEMORIES.
People Whose Ttritln JTever Forgot Phe
nomenal Powers of Recollection.
Parsons, the Greek scholar, could re
peat Milton's "Paradise Lost" back
wards. A monk who resided in Moscow in tlio
Fifteenth century could repeat the whola
of the New Testament.
George m of England, though deficient
in education, never forgot a name once
heard or a face onco seen.
It is said of Themistocles that he could
call by their names the people of Athens,
which city then numbered 20,000 inhab
itants. It has been written of the Bourbons
that they never forgot a man's name nor
his face, and this has been sometimes
considered as a true sign of their royal
natures. i
A school teacher of London, whost,
name wa3 Dawson, possessed a remarka
ble memory. He could repeat the book
of Job and the Psalms, and on a wage
of .200 ho repeated, without the aid of a
book, Spenser's "Fairie Queene," a poem
of nearly 4,000 6tanzas of nine lines each.
Iloudin was once invited with his son
to a gentleman's house to give a private
seance, and as they went up stairs they
passed the library door, which was par
tially open. In that single moment
young Charles Houdin read all the names
of twelve volumes and recognized the po
sition of two busts.
Boone, the blind negro pianist, who has
given performances through several
states, has a most wonderful memory in
connection with his art. From once
hearing it he was able to play Liszt's cele
brated "Hungarian Rhapsody" without
missing a note. Blind Tom also per
formed similar feats.
Mozart, when only 12 years old, played
a new opera from one hearing, which
had been composed expressly to test hia
skill. A writer, referring to this inci
dent, says: "He not only reproduced tho
opera from memory which was a very
difficult piece without missing a single
note, but on a second playing threw in
variations in such a manner that all who
heard him were speechless with astonish
ment." McKenzie tells us a most interesting
story about Carolan, a blind Irish harper
and composer, who once challenged a
famous Italian violinist to a trial of skill.
The Italian played the fifth concerto of
Vivaldi on his violin; then, to the aston
ishment of all present. Carolan, w"ho had
never before heard the concerto, took hi
harp and played it through from begin
ning to end without missing a single
note
Sergt, Kates in London.
I asked what kind of a man Sergt.
Bates was, who starts the show by riding
round the immense ring with the Ameri
can flag in his hands, and he rides as well
as any Indian. "Why," said Jack
Burke, "Bates is a real philanthropist,
for that man is going on all day with those
Indians, taking them to the tower, to
Westminster Abbey or some place or
other. We have to keep their minds oc
cupied or the monr tony wears upon them.
Bates loves nothing better than to go
around with these Indians morning and
night. He has carried the American flag
through all the American states and
through all tho British Islands. When
we took him up the old fellow could hard
ly make a living. He is of considerable
use to us. "Gath" ia Cincinnati Enquirer.
DEATH PENALTY IN COREA.
Peculiar Manner of Killing Criminal In
the Oriental I'enlnsula.
The manner of killing is peculiar and ii
esx:cially obnoxious to tho Catholic Chris
tiuaa, wLo ui o ubiiinlant in this country. An
onliimry Roman ctobs is M t up on a hun
cart drawn Ly oxen. Tho man is t'utd to this
witlj arms extended, and ho is thus drawn
through tho streets. A c! ior precedes the
Irx:cs.sioii, aiiiiouir-inR tho crime for which
tho inun is l ing punished. II Ls friends are
allowed to follow und protest his innocence
and bowail his sud fate, h'lt as the punish
ment is usually visited upon tho family if tho
treuson has been glaring, tho following of
friends is upt to Lu rather small.
There are two places of execution at tho
capital. One, seldom u-ed, is in tho city,
while the chief place is jn.it outside tho west
gate, on a hillside, where the immense crowds
upon the city wull und other liij;h places can
get a good view of the interesting sight.
Whether tho prisoner, in his exhausted state,
hus succumled to tho torture on the cick-s or
not, on arriving ut the place of execution ho
is placed face downward, with his neck upon
a block, when, by ono stroke, if it is a good
one, the heavy sword severs the head from
the body. Tho hands and feet are then cut
off, und the mutilated body is carried back
into tho city and luid, chest? downward, in
ono of tho streets, where it must lie for three
days.
It is refreshing to note that the people, and
even tho dogs, avoid that i.treet for tho tiuo
being, and the udjoinitig shops nro closed.
Thoy count from tho evening when tho body
is laid out till daylight of tho third day, so
that the body only lies there ono duy in re
ality. Tho foreigners resident in tho capital,
during tho time following the emeuto of li&A,
when so many political criminals were exe
cuted, often stumbled upon these horrible
sights in their journoyings about tho streets.
On one occasion when tho bodies were near
tho legations the representatives combined
and asked for their removal.
It should be. mentioned that the humane
king is opposed to this practice, which custom
seems still to demand. . In case the acuser
should Ikj proved an impostor and to have ac
cused tho man falsely, the prisoner or his
friends have tho right to demand an eye from
him. Their method of obtaining tho organ
is quite novel, and if well performed it is
more expeditious than is tho modern surgical
method of eneucleatlon. The culprit is made
to stoop over and is then hit with the loaded
end of a flexible stick upon a spot on the back
of the head, when theej-o protrudes sufliciently
so that it may bo cut off. If, however, the
people who wish tho eye are not prompt in
doing the cutting operation, the prisoner may
quickly replace the eye and possess it there
after in peace, all of which is said to have
been done many times, but unfortunately has
:iot been witnessed, as yet, by foreigners.
Seoul Coi San Francisco Chronicle.
Poisoned by Mammy Eyes.
A weird iuterest attaches to mummies, and
their coming to life, or exerting an occult in
fluence when resurrected in one day, has
furnished tho foundation for several ro
mances. Hero is a prosaic and true story,
with the scene laid hi matter of fact New
York, which goes far to relieve the romancers
from the charge of romancing. Some time
ago Messrs. Tiffany & Co. received an invoice
of mummies' eyes. I do not go so far as to
say that they were the actual eyes of leading
citizens of Thebes and Memphis, but they
wore taken from the eye sockets of mummies
exhumed from Egyptian tombs, Thpy may
have been the actual eyes reduced to the
hardness of stono by the process of embalm
ing, or they may have been only false eyes
like those used by modern taxidermists in
perpetuating tho life semblance of some pet
Fido or Tabby. At all events they wers
dubbed "mummy eyes," and tiro jewelers set
about getting them ready for tho market.
They were amber colored, opaque and luster
less. It was thought best to polish them before
setting, and a workman was set at the task.
Before he had been long at the work ho be
came ill of a fever, and another man was put
on the job. He, too, became ill of the same
kind of a fever before he had spent much time
on tho job, and three or four other workmen
who succeeded him were taken with the same
symptoms and suffered a similar illness, al
though others, working on other jobs amid
tho same surroundings and under the same
conditions, were enjoying their usual good
health. Here is an excellent opportunity for
the Society for Psychical Research. Were
theso illnesses simply a coincidence, or did the
mummy eyes really exert some occult and
baneful power for their own protection?
New York Commercial Advertiser.
YVhy Corn Bread is Scarce.
Corn bread, onco a staple and common ar
ticle of food, is coming to be regarded as a
luxury. Not only is this true of tho north,
but also of the south, where Indian corn was
at ono time preferred to wheat for making
bread. A Georgian said in explanation of
tho change: "Tho complaint that a really
prime article of corn or Indian meal cannot
bo obtained in towns and cities is general. A
country miller told me that ho could not pro
duce good cornmeal by the use of modern
grinding machinery. The softest and best
flavored meal is made from new corn. This
tho proprietors at largo mills refuse to grind.
To get good cornmeal tho grinding must be
dono slowly, and it must be given time to
cool properly before it is moved. This can
only bo done in country mills, and the supply
i3 far behind the demand.
"Besides this, cornmeal cannot be kept long
without deteriorating. It is not in tho matter
of bread making alone, however, that corn
meal has fallen into disuse; it is less used for
cooking purposes generally. The great in
crease in wheat growing and tho improve
ments in the flour making line, together with
the high price of corn and low price of wheat,
is in par t responsible for this state of things.
Few pel-sons now use corn for economical
reasons. Many, however, would prefer it for
a considerable portion of the time, if a good
article could be procured. The southern corn
is preferred to all others, although the flint
com raised in New England is an excellent
article; but it requires a largo amount of
cooking. Com that grows in the prairie
regions of the west is tho most undesirable,
and as this represents most of the cereal that
is f orjale it is not used to any gret extent."
Now York Mail and Express.
High Priced reaches Abroad.
An American who recently returned from
England says that before sailing ho noticed
one day a plate of Cue peaches among the
fruit of the dining room at the hotel. He
inquired their jrice, and was told that the
peaches were sixty cents apiece, and that
they were "all or nothing" for Englishmen,
as the fruit has not yet been brought in
quantities which insure cheapness. Chicago
Times.
Tax Collecting In alorocco.
Muley Hassan knows how to collect taxes,
anyway. Recently many of his subjects
manifested a tendency to bo delinquent
Thereupon he cut off the heads of a tfozen or
so and stuck them up in front of his palace,
to encourage prompt settlement on the part
of the others. It worked splendidly. Every
delinquent taxpayer in Morocco settled up
hi full, next day. New York Tribuue.
MARK TWAIN'S YOUTH
HOW
HE CAME
ON THE
TO BE A
MISSISSIPPI.
PILOT
A Chat with the Veteran Under 'Whom
Clemen Learned the Crook and Shal
lows of tbe Great 111 vo r First I.lterarJ
Work.
Capt. Horace Bixby, of tho magnificent
steamer City of Baton Rouge, is tho most
popular man on southern waters. Capt.
Bixby is a well preserved relic of the golden
ego of tho river, and has been a constant stu
dent of currents and chutes for forty years.
Horace Bixby is the man who taught Mark
Twain how to steer a steamboat, and tho kuc
cess of his whilom cub hns reflected consider
able glory on tho tutor. That was away
back in the '60s, when l:ixby was a pilot, and
uf ter all these years ho is now of tho opinion
that a pilot is a bigger man than a captain
any day, and especially on a dark night in a
tight place. Capt. Bixby is i-ow CI years of
age, and he says: "I am just nine and a half
years older that Sum Clemens." When in
a reminiscent mood tho other day ho snid:
It was quite vemnrLnhlo how Hum Clem
ens happened to bocomo a pilot. lie has
written a great deal about it himself, but I
don't beliovo heever told it all. It was in tho
spring of '57. I was then running regularly
between St. Louis and New Orleans mid oc
casionally doing an outside job on tho Ohio
river from Cincinnati to New Orleans. It
was on ono of these outsido trips that I first
met Clemens. I was taking the Paul Jones
down from Cincinnati, ai.d ho was a passen
ger on board. In those times the pilot house
was n great loafing placo for ititssc-ngers and
pilots out of work. They came in, spit all
over tho wheel, swapped lies, and then left
the pilot on duty to slosh around in tho
debris. I didn't like it a bit, and I was
mighty short with nil passengers who at
tempted to talk with me. One morning when
the br at reached Island No. 35 in tho Mis
sissippi river, and wo were booming along ut
a good gait, a young man walked into tho
pilot house, and after watching mo for a few
minutes, paid 'G-o-o-d m-o-r-n-i-n-g,' in ft
drawing manner."
"I said 'good morning' mighty sharp,
thinking it would freeze Liin. out. But it
didn't. Ho Paid:
'D-o-n-'t y-o-u w-a-u-t a b-o-y trO 1-e-a-r-n
t-h-o r-i-v-e-r if'
"No; don't want any boy to learn tho
river. What are you pulling your words
that way for?
" 'I d-o-n-'t k-n-o-w, y-o-u w-i-1-1 h-a-v-e
t-o a-s-k m-y m-o-t-h-e-r. S-h-o d-o-e-s t-h-e
3-a-m-e t-h-i-n-g.'
"I thought ho was chaffing n;o when he
said that and I looked up, but his face was
just as sober as a preacher's. lie then asked
me if I knew tho Bo wens who were on the.
river. I told him that I did and worked
with one of them in 1S53. He told me that
the Bowens lived next door to his father,
Judgo Clemens, of Hannibal, Ma. In his
brawling way ho told mo of his plans. Ho
had learned printing at Hannibal on Ids
brother's paper, but it did not af.ree with
him, and be w-as going to South America for
his health. He liked the river, however, and
would abandon his projected invasion of
South Amorica for an opportunity to become
a pilot.
"'There is only one thing that would in
diuco mo to teach 3rou the river,' said I.
" -W-h-a-t-'s t-h-a-t?" ho i-sked.
" 'Money,' said I.
" 'Mone-yf he echoed.
" 'That's just it,' I answered.
" 'II-o-w m-u-c-hs' ho gasped.
" 'Five hundred dollurs,' I said.
" 'We ll, I ai n't go-t that mu-ch,' said he.
" 'Then you bettor get ib if you want to
learn the river,' I replied.
" 'I've go-t e-i-g-h-t 1-o-t-s up in K-e-o-!t-u-k,
I-owa, but I d-on't kuow w-hat they wo-uld
bring, an' I'-ve go-t 2,000 acres of 1-and in
Ten-ness-eo that I can got twenty-five cents
an acre for,' said ho summing up his assets.
Wo talked for some time and ho impressed
me very favorably. It was finally agreed
that ho was to pay nie 510!) down and $75
every six months until tho debt was paid.
I told him that ho would have to provide
his own clothes and board while in port.
On the river he would receive his board
and lodging free. Ho started in r.s a cub
on the Aleck Scott and he learned rapidly.
He was then just past 21, and rather eccen
tric, no always had writing paper and
pencil around the pilot house, p.nd wns
eternally scribbling away at something.
I seldom ever tried to investigate t!;e
roj'steries of his manuscript, but I soon
turned his talent to good account. Iji
those days pilots made out reports of the con
dition of the channel, und Clemens at once
developed into ft brilliant and picturesque
river reporter. His reports were humorous
and contained all tho informat f m. and were
frequently copied into tho papers just as ho
wrote them. This, I think, was the first pub
lic writing that he did, except, perhaps, some
squibs for the Hannibal paper. Ho was a
good boy, not addicted to dissipation, and
obeyed orders. Ha hated suspenders, and
used to enjoy himself in very looso clothes,
with his hair roached back. Wo steered to
gether on many trips, and then he changed
around and in two years received a license
that made him a full fledged pilot. His first
boat was tho Alonzo Child, under Capt. De
Haven, and he kept turning the heel until
the war broke out. His boat was then in the
south, and he piloted three months for tho
Confederacy. Then he got through the lines
and went home, but after a short eta' at
Hannibal ho went as a volunteer for three
months in the army of Gen. Sterling Price,
the Missouri Confederate. He fought for the
Confederacy three more months on land and
then retreated in good order, with his right
resting on St. Louis. His brother, Orrin
Clemens, was at that time nominated secre
tary of the territory of Nevada, and Sam ac
companied him west. Everybody knois the
rest."
Three years ago Clemens accompanied
Capt. Bixby down the river, and the old sto
jies and glories were revived. Tho result of
the trip was the book "Old Times on the
Mississippi." St. Louis Cor. Chicago Tribune.
Roulette Players Ingenuity.
A large sum was won years ago by a smal
company of players in the following manner:
An ingenious mechanic having come to the
conclusion that it was impossiblo to maintain
a cylinder in such perfect working order that
it should not tend a little to one side or an
other, and thus favor certain numbers more
than others, haunted tbe rooms for months,
and was rewarded by finding that his con
clusions were right, and that certain numbers,
at certain tables, appeared in the registers he
kept with undue frequency. These numbers
tbe members of his company set to work to
back, and with such success that they had
won . very largely indeed before the pro
prietors discovered their secret. It is said
that after a quarrel among themselves, or.e
of the party gave information as to their
mode of procedure; but, be this as it may, the
cylinder of every roulette board is now le
moved and tested after each day's play,
and no more money is to be made in the
manner described. Charles C. Welman ir
The Cosmopolitan,
! For the next few weeks choice of lots in South Park ma
; he had for ir) Purchaser may nay all in cash; or one-
half cash, the other half in one year; or, one third cash, hal
janee in ono ami two years; or '7 cash, remainder in niont Ii
: ly installments of 10; or, any ono areeinr to construct a
; residence worth '2(H) and upwards w ill ho given a lot with
out further
iW
to select yonr residence lots, even though you should not
contemplate building at once. One visit to South Parle
will convince the moM skeptical that it is themoM deMrable
residence locality in the eitv, and we will add, lhat, tho most
substantial class of buildings of which Plattsmoiijh can
boast for the year !8S7, are now being constructed in this
handsome addition.
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around and through the entire tract.
Any one desiring to construct a cottiige or a more preten
tious residence in South Park, can examine a large selection
of plans of the latest style of residences by calling at our
ollice. Anyone desiring to examine property with a view
to purchasing, will be driven to the park at our expense.
South Park is less tli.-m three i'orths of u nule from the Oporsi Jlouse.
Tt can be readied conveniently by either Chicago or Lincoln Avenues,
or Eouth on 7th .street.
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