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W. J. CONNELL.
THE REP U It LIC AN TARIFF BILL
The reduction in the government's an
nual income which would be caused bj
the Senate's tariff bill, if it should be
enacted, is placed at a little over $7:,
000,000. About $42,000,000 of this cut
would be mde in the customs list and
$31,000,000 in the internal taxes. On
the customs schedules nearly 28,000,000
of the reduction would come from th
lowering of the duties on sugar, 8,000,-
000 from changes in other imports, and
$6,500,000 from the entire abolition ef
duties on certain raw materials. About
$24,500,000 of the cut in the internal
taxes would come from tobacco and 7,
000,000 trom alcohol used in the arts.
The heaviest reduction in rates which
the bill nrovides for is iu sugar. On the
average, taking all the grades together,
the cut on sugar is about 50 per cent
The changes in the wool duties are slight
On some grades they are increased in a
small degree, and on others they are low
ered. The same is tnio of woolen tnanu
factures. The duties ou ready made
clething. when altered at all, arc in
creased, while those on earthen, stone,
creckcrv and glass ware are reduced.
There are some changes in classification
made in iron and steel schedules, but th
modifications in rates which the measure
effects is gent rally toward a lower rangi
of duties. Steel rails, upon which the
present impost is $17 a tou. would come
in for about $14 a ton if this bill should
become law. The duty by the Mills bill
is $11 a ton. The reduction of the in
ternal tax on tobacco permits a reduction
to be made in the duty on that article
without injury to the domestic industry,
and the duty, thcref re, i lowered.
The senate bill is neither so conipre
hensive in scope nor so radical an(!
weeping iu the alterations which it pro
proposes, so far as regards the cust"m
list, as the Mills bill. The duty on no
important domestic product which th
tariff has adequately developed or which
it can develop is reduced below the pro
tective point. Wool, lumb r, salt ant
other leading articles of domestic indus
try, which Mr. Mills and his friends put
on the free list, are either untouched b
the republican measure or touched bm
lightly. The article from which thr
senate strikes off all duties are g'.-n'-ralh
those not produced in this country a;
all, or produced in very small quantities
The rcducton in the government's reve
nue which the bill would bring about i
about $3,000,000 greater than that pro
Tided by the hous.? bill. That meausun
takes $50,000,000 from the customs
acheduk's $30,000,000 by lowering du
ties and $20,000,000 by removing duties
altogether and $20,000,000 from the in
ternal tax list. No rtwre carefully drawn
or sensible revenue revision bill than that
just reported in the senate stands any
chance of passage iu the present congress.
Globe Democrat.
THE CHINESE JIESA QE.
The most noticeable characteristic oi
the president's Chinese message is it
ltrth. It is safe to say that if tie pr:
f J ' ' - t-t
Jlr. Cleveland would have found it con
venient to inform the congress, with
much greater brevity, that ho hid signed
the bill, and to suggest legislation on
two points. But the voting is only five
weeks off today, and this was a last
chance for the delivery of a stump speech
to the Pacific Slope which was not to be
lo9t. No oiie can read it without being
impressed with the fact that Mr. Cleve
land is imitating his prototype, Mr. Til
den, iu the uncommon anxiety witli
which he is seeking the presidency.
Leaving out of consideration the bun
combe, the inconsistency and the disin
genuousness of the president's attitude,
thero is no radical defect iu the messtge.
The suggestion for an appropriation for
indemnity for the Rock Springs massacre
is proper. It is already in the deficiency
bill, and is now in conference between
the two houses. Tho suggestion that
legislation should be had permitting
Chinese to land who are already on their
way to this country with certificates is
undoubtedly a sound one. The number
thus admitted would not be great, and
the United States would thus be iclieved
from a charge of bad faith. But if Mr.
Cleveland had just been re-elected, how
much less paper that message would have
covered! N. Y. Tribune.
"BOODLE McSIIANEr
It sounds very pretty and it is thor
oughly democratic for the Omaha Her
ald owned by John A. McShane, to talk
comm. hi honesty. If McShane and his
gang had their deserts they would not
tday be running loose and libelling
men like G v. Thayer. What is this
McShane that ran for congress two years
ago in this district and purchased a seat
w'th money, openly, frozenly, with the
effontery of the very devil? We have
heard the tools of this corrupt man boast
of boodle they have distributed at his
request and under his directions to cor
rupt the voters of this district. lie i- a
man who openly purchased an election
to congress; who never made a speech or
put in an appearance at a meeting and
who is today as complete a stranger t
the people in the first district out side t f
Douglas county, as a South Sea Islander
except they know of him as "Boodle
McShane." That is the sort of a man to
be running a newspaper and calling old
citizens dishonest. Mr. McShane and
his gang want to understand that they
h-ive to face the record he made in this
district as "a baodler" and that he can't
again bamboozle fie public by throwing
mud at old ci'izens and honorable men
and his paid hireling Calhoun of the
Herald will find this out before he is
done with this campaign.
Gen. Tiiayer has addressed an open
letter and challenge to John A. McShane
and hi3 hirelings c n the Omaha Herald,
anil the confedrate Calhoun and the rest
of the paid traducers on that McShane
sheet may just as well understand first as
last that the braye old governor is no
m-jre afraid of that kind of warfare now
than he was in 1861. Gen. Thayer will
stand by thecorrupt gang of the Herald
until it is snowed under in November,
iiud that concern need not doubt it.
What Am I To Do?
The symptoms of biliousness are un
happily but too well knowu. They differ
in different individuals to some extent.
A bilious man is seldom a break fast eater.
Too frequently, alas, he has an excellent
appetite for liquids but none for solids
of a morning. His tongue will hardly
bear insM-ction at any time; if it is not
white and furred, it is rough, at all
events.
The digestive system is wholly out of
order And diarrhea or constipation may
be a symptom or the two may alternate.
There are often hemorrhoids or even loss
of blood. There may be giddiness and
often headache and acidity or flatulence
ind tenderness in the pit of the stomach
To correct all this if not effect a cure try
Green" 8 August Flower, it costs but a
trifle and thousands attest its efficacy.
Little, "But Enough,"
as Mercutii said of his wound. We refer
to Dr. Pierce's little, pellets, which are
small, swift, and sure, in cases of sick
headache, billiousuess, constipation, and
indicestiou.
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headache, indigestion, constipation cr
costiveness we cannot cure with
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Neaf Laundry Work.
All parties desirous of having the neat--st
and cheapest laundry work done,
should leave it at this office Tuesday
night and it can be secured again Friday
.veiling. The Council Bluff steam laun
dry, where the work is done, has put in
ill the latest improved machinery, and
their work cannot be surpassed. The
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BABYLONIAN BELIEF
CONCERNING THE MYSTERIES OF
THE LIFE AFTER DEATH.
Dr. Jeremia' IteercliM "Tue Lwiid from
Which Thero In No Return" Pictured m
Iark and Cheerlew Tlio Present I.Ife,
runcntl IUtea.
Dr. Jeremias sets forth the conceptions
which wero current several thousand years
ago among thu inhabitants of Mesopotamia
regarding tho fate of the dead. He has col
lected with commendable diligence the im
portant references in the Babylono-Assyrian
literature bearing on this subject. Without
claiming to have exhausted the topic, he ha9
produced a work which must be regarded as
thoroughly trustworthy a merit by no
means to common in the works of Assyriolo
gists as not to call for special mention.
THS NETHER REGIONS.
According to the Babylonians, there was
only one path which all mankind had to
tread after death. Deep in the bowels of the
earth, underneath a hu;;e mountain known
as tho "Mountain of the Universe," which
was supposed to be situated in the distant
north, lay the place where the dead were
gathered, Separates I from the land of tho
living by the "waters of death," there was
no hopo for those who once entered it of ever
retracing their steps. It was therefore ap
propriately termed, among other names, "the
land from which there is no return." The
land was pictured as dark and cheerless; the
inhabitants, far from being content with
their lot, were supposed to be longing for a
sight of the upper world again. There ore
no indications that the Babylonians looked
upon death as a deliverer from evils. On the
contrary, the day of death was to them a
"day of sorrow," and the dead themselves
are represented as bewailing their fate.
Tho moment that the deceased reaches the
shores of the nether world his coming is an
nounced to Nergal, tho ruler of these regions.
Ue is then conducted through seven gates, at
each of which be is obliged to lay aside a
portion of his clothing, until, having happily
passed the seventh gate, he stands naked be
fore the Divine Judge, Nergal, and his con
sort, Allatu. There judgment is pronounced
over him. Nam tar, the demon of plagues,
is in readiness to remove the condemned to a
place of special tortures where painful dis
ease and privations of all kinds rob him of
his rest. But even those who escape the Ire
of the god are not much better off. They
dwell in a place of darkness, with dust as
their food and with no pleasures to cheer
their spirits. Only the few favorites of the
gods, that is, the popular heroes, were ac
corded a more happy lot. They were re
moved by a special decree to an island
vaguely described as lying at the "conflux of
waters," where a seat is assigned to them in
the assemblage of gods and they enjoy eternal
hfe.
LTFT5 AND DEATH.
Tbo present life was accordingly considered
the all-important one by the Babylonians,
and their religion bears witness to this con
ception. Tho deities to whom prayers are
addressed are looked upon as gods of the liv
ing and not of the dead. Tho petitions to tba
gols, snch a3 we fird fn the cuneiform litera
ture, are concerned almost exclusively with
earthly blessings. Tho kings ask for a long
life, for sound health, for victory over their
enemies, for a numerous offspring, and for
an uninterrupted rule of their dynasty. With
death the favor of the gods was supposed to
cease and all relations between man and deity
came to an end. The Babylonians re-echoed
the sentiments of the Psalmist that "tho dead
do not praise Jah." Although the most recent
excavations in the mounds of Babylon would
seem to have established it beyond any reason
able doubt that the Babylonians in very early
days already burned their dead, still tho testi
mony of language points to burial in the
earth as the other form of disposing of them...
It is on this supposition alone that we can
account for the survival in late cuneiform
literature of such phrases as "May he have no
burial," which continued to be about as severe
a curse as could be hurled against an enemy,
and is in itself sufficient to show that the wel
fore of the dead, little as thero was in store
for them, depended upon the proper observ
ance of funeral rites.
The practice of placing food and drink on
the graves, which is found among so many
nations of antiquity, and has survived to our
own days in China, Russia and other coun
tries, also existed among the Babylonians. It
has its origin no doubt in the belief that the
dead have need of these articles, but the cus
tom continued to be observed long after this
belief had died out. Even the introduction
of cremation brought about no change, for
with the charred remains of human bodies
discovered under the mounds there have been
found the still recognizable traces of food.
Dr. Jeremias dismisses this portion of his
subject, regarding the funeral rites of the
Babylonians and. Assyrians, with few re
marks. New York Times Book Review.
A Case of Dysentery,
The diet should be chiefly milk and lime
water, uncooked beef juice, tho whites of
erss and water, and lijrht meat broths. 1 o
solid food should bo allowed. Drinks luke
warm are most easily borne; cold fluids gen
erally cause abdominal pain. Stimulants
should only be adininiftared by the advice of
the physician; they are rarely needed except
ing in the most desperate cases. ' When the
thirst is excessive plain soda, barley water
or gnra arable water are palatable and re
freshing. During convalescences the diet is to
be most carefully regulated, and when the
patient begins on solid food be should indulge
only in the white meat of fowls, delicate fish
and very light puddings.
The first step is to remove as early as pos
sible all irritating matter from the bowels by
a cathartic To accomplish this there is no
safer remedy than castor oiL If taken clear
vomiting will very b'kely be induced. There
fore, it is best to have a druGist specially
prepare It. He should make into an emul
sion one ounce of castor oil, and to it add
twenty-five drops of laudanum; that dose is
for a full grown person. In many instances
if this is taken within a few hours after the
attack commences, and a proper diet is reg
ularly adhered to. no other treatment will be
needed. By the use of the oil the dysentery
is converted into a simple diarrhoea, which
soon disappears of itself. Boston Journal of
Health.
A Diabolical Stringed Instrument.
The Chinese "urh-heen" is one of the prin
cipal musical instruments of that backward
cation in everything as regards music. Their
instruments are the same, many of them, as
three of centuries ago, and with tbeir preju
dices against revolutions in their forefathers
customs they retain some of the most diabol
ical stringed instruments. The "urb-heen"
has four strings fastened to pegs coming'
from the top of a small tube, extending from
one and of a long wooden box with a bridge
in the center. The sounds emitted are crude
and nowise pleasing', except it may be to tba
Chinaman's own ear. In a Chinese theatre,
where every known instrument is collected
and made to borl forth its dismal or saneech-
f -r strain, there comes no relict to tho
t'rtrr be ca tgr-ifc-
FUNERAL REFORM NEEDED.
A Strong Plea Made on Sanitary Grounds.
An Evil.
The Church of Eugland Burial, Funeral
and Mourning Reform association and its
friends believe that the time has arrived
when a determined and united effort should
bo made on tho part of ministers, physicians
and surgeons, sanitarians and persons tf in
fluence generally to put a stop as far as pos
siblo to the prevalent and what is practically
regarded as repulsive and utterly mdefen-
siblo practice of storing up in the neighlor
kood of great populations vast accumulations
of human remains in every stage of arrested
and prolonged decay, to the great detriment
of the public health.
The society was organized eleven years
ago in York, one of the promoters being the
late Archdeacon llev. It had to encounter
deeply rooted prejudice, trade interests,
ignorance and lukewarmness, but encour
aging progress has been mado. Tho work
has necessarily been largely educational, the
aim being to teach the rich and intelligent so
that they may set examples to the middle
and lower classes. In a broad sense, the ob
ject is to promote a fuller appreciation of the
idea of Christian burial, to simplify and
cheapen funeral and mourning ceremonial,
to encourage timely burial in perishable
coffins in simple eurth, and to discourage
vaults and sarcophagi.
Some of the specific reforms urged are
these: Tbo use of plain hearses or wheeled
biers, tbo avoiding of excessivo floral decora
tions, the disuse of crape, scarfs, feathers,
velvet trappings and the like; the meeting in
the churchyard or cemetery instead of at the
bouse of mourning; tho early interment
of tho body in soil sufficient and suitable
for its resolution to its ultimate elements;
the use of such materials for the coffin
as will rapidly decay after nature; the en
couragement, on sanitary grounds, of the re
moval in crowded districts of the body to a
mortuary instead of retaining it in the
rooms occupied by the living; the substitu
tion of burial plots surrounded by coping for
family vaults, and the impressing upon offi
cials the claims of the poorest to proper and
reverent buriaL
One of the points made must come home to
many residents of this city. It is the evils of
expensive funerals. It is a matter of every
day experience that when the head of a fam
ily dies the widow and children are found
soon aicer in a state oi aesutution, mou'rn a
large sum has been received by benevolence,
most of which w3 spent ou an ostentatious
funeral and mourning. Many workingmen
burden themselves with debt to honor their
dead, but while the society does not desire to
discourage giving honor to the dead, it
thinks that the dead can bo better honored
by the survivors aiming at higher and
nobler lives. New York Times.
A. Branson Alcott's Vegetarianism.
Mr. Kennedy's recent Concord anecdotes
have brought to The Listener's hopper tho
following story about A. Branson Alcott:
Mr. Alcott waa knowu to be utterly opposed
to tho eating of meat a strict vegetarian.
Nothing would arouso Lis indignation
quicker than to bring forward the idea that
it was tho design of Providence for man to
subsist on animal food. He even refused to
taste of on egg. Some t Visive or fifteju j ours
ago he was a welcome visitor iu many of tbo
cities of the west. His coming was hailed
with delight. Dinners were given, and clubs
extended their invitations. He was ready to
talk, and others were glad to listen.
During one of theso visits be was unusually
pale and weary. His hostess rallied him
upon his favorite theory of vegetable diet.
".air. -aicoiE, li you wouia only live as we
do you would soon be strong and robust,"
sbo said. And the old gentleman, with a
placid smile, made his usual reply:
"And be in dauger of becoming a brute?'
He was a connoisssur in tlio cooking of oat
meal, of which he always partook in tho
morning. At this timo tho lady, feeling
sure that his health was seriously impaired,
resolved to tako charge herself of bis break
fast. She sent for a pound of beef, had it
slightly cooked, the juice extracted and wel!
stirred into a dish of oatmeaL Mr. Alcott
ate with unusual relish, and discoursed elo
quently upon the virtue of grain that waved
in the sun and air. Tho next morning the
same dish was repeated, and throughout his
stay he partook of the pudding and beef
juice.
It was noticeable that he gained rapidly ic
health and flesh, and becair.e thoroughly sat
isfied with the western climate. Before h
left be remarked:
"Your oatmeal has been very strengthCEi-
ing. You must tell me just how it is made,
and I must take away a package of the meal."
"Air. Alcott," was the reply, "there is ge
nius in gosd cooking, and it is hard to im
part it Only come again, and you shall
find the dish equally palatable."
Some days after he had returned home.
rested and refreshed, Mrs. It related the
story In great glee to her own club. Boston
Transcript.
Russia' Feasants ICand Banks,
A report just published from the British
consul general at TV arsaw contains the trans
lation of a new law extending, with certain
alterations, the scheme of peasants' land
banks, established in Russia since 1882, to tbo
kingdom of Poland. Under it peasants of
Russian, Polish or Lithuanian extraction
may, with the approval of the local commis
sioner for peasants' affairs, obtain loans for
the purchase of lands which do not belong to
peasants, and which ore not burdened with
onerous servitudes, such loans not to exceed
90 per cent, of the valuation made bv the
officers of the bank. In Russia proper the
maximum is 75 per cent, and in the case of
Poland the additional 13 per cent, is to come
from a special fund instituted for that coun
try in 1360 to free peasants from dependence
on the landlords. The balance of that fund,
which amounts now to 2,000,000 roubles, is to
be handed over to the land bank. Tho land
purchased in this way cannot be sold until
the debt to the bank is cleared off, nor can
persons who are not peasants under the defi
nition of the law become purchasers or own
ers by inheritance or gift In either of the
latter cases the disqualified person into whoso
possession the land may come is bound to sell
within a year. The limit of allotments is
eight and one-fifth acres. London Times.
The Boston young woman has eye3 of
bright comprehension, a skin made clear by
exercise, good teeth and height of body with
out scrawniness. .Nearly all the guests are of
the clear Entish races. Plentifuiaess of
human society, without baste; privacy and
multitude; a breeding above the conscious
ness of it; no vulgar ostentation at all, of
which New York has too much, mark this
place. The ladies walk and wander over the
rock3, and do not seem on the lookout for
personality or scandal. "Gath" in Cincin
nati Enquirer.
Making Bogus Ancient fielZca.
The manufacture of counterfeit implements
oz tiie stone age seems to be becoming quite
an industry. A recent deception detected at
tho Smithsonian institution, consisted in chip
ping away parts of genuine spear or arrow
heads, and seHing the mutilated flints at a
rreatly !ncred jYt as rsre and curious.
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ye.
Teachers should watch the early mani
festations of their scholars' evesight and
report in time to therr respective parents
o have their eyesight examined by Prof.
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REFERENCES:
NEBRASKA CITY.
George Rurgett, Rev. A. Clark, Mr.
Duff", Mrs Dr La-sb, D P Rolfe, Mrs
Streeter, Pr Brinker, R M Rolte, Roden
hiock, C Anderson, J W Waldsmith, W
A Cotton, S II C'dhun, Judge Mi;. s,
David Brown. Dr IL.rshey, W'm liver,
T S Jones. E M Taggart, E Reiber, W.
II Murphy, Frank McCartney, James
Fitchie, Rev. Emanuel Ilartig. Mrs. A.
E Rudd, X7 D Merriam, -Miss VanMeter,
Dr S L Gant, A Home, Paul Schininke,
Nat Adams. Geo A Wilcox, Mr Sheldon,
Mr. Gunsell. Rev R Pearson, Shomerus,
L Levev, S M Kirkpntrick, Drvsr-oll,
Donald McCunig, William Wilbelmv.
Rev Rivers, Logan Enyart. N Red field.
J F Wekli. Rev. J B Green. John Good-
lett. C B Bickel. Dan Gr-esc. C W Scber-
fy. E S Hawley, A R Newcomb, Win
Nelson. Mrs N D ivis, Wm Fulton, At am
Kloos, Mrs Ed Platner. M T Johnson,
Mrs Carnout, Mrs. Sterling Morton. Mrs.
Watson. Miss Morton, Mr Geo W Hawke.
Mrs WT Sloan, Mrs L W Lloyd. Mrs.
S J Stephenson. Dr. Bishop, JJr Johnson
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Never before lias an Ojdieian re
ceived such testimonials from
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Oilicc of Iowa Soldier's Home.
Marshalltown, In., Feb. 17, '88.
Prof. Strahsman, I)tar tilr: The
glasses you furnished myself and wife
when in Clinton, have provin in rvrry
way satisfactory, and we take pliiMire
in recommending your work and 2ascs
to all who limy be in need of Kiifely und,
and comfort for your eyepight. '
Very Respectively,
Co i.. Miu Smith, ComuiMid.-int.
Mayor's Ofiice, Maishallfi m,
November Jbd, lbH7.
Prof. StiasHinan has been in our city
some six weeks or more, and as un opti
cian has given the best of sat iff act ion
both ns to prices and quality of woik,
having treated some of the most difficult
cases of the eyes with success and am sat
isfied you will find him a skillful opti
t i an and n gentleman.
Very Respectfully,
Nki.son Amks, Mii3'or.
Prof. Strassmnn, a distinguished op
tician, now stopping in our city, comes
be fore us with the highest testimonials
of skill and experience in his int. and I
take pleasure in recommending him to
my friends aud the public who may bo
in need of his services, ns one entitled to
his confidence. J. "Williamson, M. P.
Ottumwo, Iowa.
Kew Eyos
The long felt want in this com
munity for sight-restoring glasses is now
supplied by the successful optician, Prof.
A. Strssman, from Ilerlin, Ue;many, for
a short time longer at the Riddle house.
The waste of valuable eyesight can bo
prevented, if not too late, by his correct
mode of equalizing all inequalities of the
injured eyes In bis specialty, it is con
ceded that he is the bead of the profes
sion, and tmny of our best .citizens, and
physicians have been successful in ob
taining relief by the use of his glasses:
Allen Ileeson,
Ryron Drew,
J. Viillery, jr.,
11. T5o"tk.
Mrs. F. Johnson,
Mrs. N. K. Snge,
Mr. C. Nichols,
Mr. Ilodgetr,
Dr. Seh'ldknecht,
S. I. Vi.natta.
W. II. Newell,
Mrs. P. Messier,
Mrs. P. Kennedy,
C. W. Sherman,
Eli Samps' n,
Mrs. Rankin
Mis Young.
W. Manker.
Mr a. Livings,
Mr. Hayes,
Mrs. Nieman.
Prof. J. H Wi tcmb
Judge A N. Sullivan
Judge f'bnnmnn.
Mrs. Renfer. .,
(I. W. Co veil.
Ge. Uir-kK
Mr. Leonard,
Jf hn Io!,lins.
Mr. Ilolschuch,
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