THE DAILY HERALD, J'LATTS MOUTH, NEUUASKA, Fill DAY, OGTOIiEU 7, 1SS7.
$l)e piattsmoutl) Duilji Cjcralii,
Publishers & Proprietors. -
REPUBLICAN COUNTY TICKET.
KorTiriisiuer
I). A. CAMIMIKLL.
TorCh-ik
liERT CKITCIIFIELD
Vor Kecortb-r
WM. II. POOL.
For Suji'-ii!itciiK'i.t of 1'tiI.Iic Instruction
MAYNAltD hi'INK.
Kir Sli I'.ii
J. V.. EIKKNIIAUY.
l-'or JiiJk'
CALVIN IlUSSEIJi.
i:r Cl;rk of District Court
II. J. HTHEKJIIT,
Tor County Cominlerdoiicr
GEOWJE YOUNG.
For Surveyor
A. MA DOLE.
For Coroner
IIENKY IUECK.
The republican county central com-
mittcc will meet at AWrping AVutcr Mon
day. Oct. 10th at 1 o'clock. A full at-
tendance is especially desired. Com
mittcemcn who can not I e present should
send men in their stead, who aresulliccnt
lv interested in the welfare and success
of the ticket to be of material assis
mice.
Sakpy county which is but little strong
cr democratic than Ca-s i.s republican
lias elected but one republican county
oilieial in years. "While Cass county i
keeping in oiliee three or four democratic
tutcsmcn('0 all tho time; let us get
pointer from democracy (a tiling that is
ordinarily impossible) and vote a straight
ticket once. "Wo think our republican
friends would feel better the year rount
if they pursued this plan, besides it
would almost amniount to a guarantee
for honest and capable officials.
Look not upon the crab apple cider
when it gcteth there cli. For at last
will yank you up as a witness against the
man who sold it to you, and make you
accessory to getting him fined a hundred
dollars and free board at the county jail
jT il. !i 1 i in . i -
lor iniriy uays. n no natn woes and
headaches? Who hath
He that monkeys with
extract of malt. "Who
and redness of nose and
no wherewith?
hard cider am
hath babblings
imagineth him-
self a whole circus, with the clown thrown
in? He that bloweth in his sustenance
on drinks that brace him up. Hard c ider
is a mocker and extract of malt is a fraud
and he that is bamfoozled thereby
named dennis. Tecuniseh Journal.
1S
Tho New Pension Bill
The new pension bill drafted by the
Grand Army of the Republic differs from
that vetoed by the president in that it is
broatler. It asks for pensions to all vet
erans disabled in the war or now in need,
and to dependent fathers and mothers
and an increase for union children;
-T f -
ior pensions ior survivors ot rebel pris
ons.
The bill will pass congress, but it 'will
be opposed by those who favor a repeal
of the duties on svhiskcy and tobacco,
and by democrats who hate the old sol
diers, but it received the votes of some
democrats who believed it just; and
all republicans will vote for it.
The passage of such a bill would re
lieve the democratic party of the ac
cumulating treasury surplus, and save
them from the danger of tariff revision;
but will Cleveland meet it ? It is hoped
that he will not.
It has been discovered that President
Cleveland's speeches, which ho delivers
at western towns, are taken almost
bodily from a well known cyclopaedia.
That ought to nail Grover in the mind
of the average intelligent voter. A
statesman who goes around the country
firing extracts from cyclopedias and
dictionaries at the public as original is
not a safe man to hold the highest office
in the gift of the people. When 1
copied his epistle to Queen Victoria from
a Ready Letter Writer, the people were
disposed to pardon him ns the queen's
reply was a worse screed than his own
1.... 1 . C k i j
mul we mo pcopiu or America ciraw inr
line at extracts from such books as the
above. That might do in Kentucky,
where the papers print the ten command
nicnts as a scoop, but it won't work ii
Xebraika. Lincoln Journal.
Tue cunning and deep laid schemes
of the railway, especially the Ii. & M., in
attempting to defeat Jude Maxwell's
renomination, were with great difficulty
frustrated at the republican state conven
tion Wednesday. It was somewhat
amusing to hear the railway lackeys,
compare tho fearless and honest Maxwell
who has been tried these many years,
withC. J. Dilworth the preferred candi
date of the railways. The lack of inter
est, or something else on the part of the
people almost encompassed Maxwell's
defeat, which would indeed have given
the antimonopolists some cause for com
plaint, but when the anti-Maxwell votes
were Ieing cast by'delegatcs from anti
monopoly counties it not only looked in- j
consistent, but suggested to us the idea
that a little more work at the . primarie
and a little less shouting and howling
about corporate thieves might possibly
be of more actual benefit to "the people.
Tho American Beer Pool.
The pool formed by the cuttle pro
ducers promises to become a stupendous
affair, if carried out according to present
intentions. Jlr. Armour, to whom the
association has promised all the cattle
under their control, would seem to hold
the key to the greatest trust in the coun
try. In effect it will give him control of
the entire dressed beef industry of t lie
land and consolidate all markets into
one. It is claimed, however, that tho
price of beef will not be raised to the
consumer. The cattle producers will
have the benefit of the combination.
They have always complained- that the
middlemen raceived too great profit.
No matter how cheap or how high beef
on foot might bo, the price to consumers
has varied but little. Mr. Armour, it is
said, will merely act as the agent of tiie
association, recieving pay for services
rendered, and assuming no risks. Uut it
will be in his power to drain the cattle
ranges. Other beef packers cannot enter
the combination except with his consent.
Representatives of the pool say it will
make no difference to them whether one
man does the packing or a hundred, and
they prefer co-operating rather than fight
ing with him. This plan seems to be
the final result of the many methods
which the cattlemen have been consider
ing during the past summer, and it is an
attempt to revive the stock raising indus
try in the west, which ha.-s been on a
decline for sometime. It is thought that
this measure will have tho effect tiiey
desire. It looks as though Mr. Armour
has here the material for the biggst mo
nopoly in tho world. Jhe,
Wiikn a man comes into the office,
planks down the cash and says, "send me
your paper for a year," that means
business. "When one says, "I want your
paper but havn't got the money now,"
that's all right. When he takes it out of
the ost office for several years and sends
it back refused, that is meanness. When
a man spends ten cents to a dollar a day
for beer and whiskey says he cant afford
to take his- home paper, t list's a no s;oh
thing. When a man borrows his neigh
bor's paper to read every week that is
cheek. Tecuniseh Journal.
Tho Quaker Medicine Company
Respectfully ask some very plain ques
tions: Can Consumption be cured or
even be bene fitted i Can a Cold be cured
or even stopped? Can you expect to be
even relieved by any medicine or physic
ian? No yon cannot,
if you simply
of your body
change the temperature
three or four times a day for every
chang you add to your cold Mothers,
vour children's health and your future
happiness demands of you consistent
love. Shall vanity make your life mis
crable. endins only in death. Dr. Wat
son's New Specific Couidi Cure is the re
sult of science. Price 50c and 1. It is
warranted by the following druggist.
W. J. Wahkick.
Notice to Ice Consumers.
All contracts for ice expired on the 1st
day of Oct. All persons in arrears
please call at F. S. White,s fctore and set
tle the same. Parlies wishing their ice
continued can have it at the same rate
per month as heretofore.
dlw F. S. White.
Hon. H. VY. Crady
The Statesman, Scholar and True
American, set an example worthy of re
flection for all True Americans. Healing
wounds that no methods except those
used by Heaps' Camphorated Arnica Salye
which is sold on its merits for any use
that a salve can be used. No cure, no
pay. For sale by the following drug
gist. Price 25c per box.
W. J. Wakbick.
. Strata of a lirooklyn Street.
They are digging for foundations of the
elevated railroad or. the made ground at
the foot of Fulton street, Brooklvn. Just in
front of the Annex ferry house is a hole
which has historical interest. At a depth
of two feet a brick pavement was reached
resting immediately upon a layer of cob
ble 6tones. This was the grade of Ful
ton street at that point twenty-three
years ago, when turntables were used to
reverse the street cars. Four feet below
the surface is a pavement of rough round
6tones, and this was in use fifty years
ago when the old stage line halted there.
Eight feet down is a deep black stratum
showing the high water mark of the old
landing used in colonial times. The piles
will probably Lave to go very deep to ob
tain a firm hold, for all the old map
show that less than 150 years back a littlo
bay ran up Fulton street as far as Front
street, and Jewell's mill was out on a
poiat. New York Sun.
Hawk nnd Coyote.
A coyote in Walla Walla was attacked
by an immense hawk that hit him fair on
tho back of the head. The coyote would
duck his head, then make a snap at the
hawk, but could not reach it, and at the
end of twenty i -.inutes was literally
pecked to death. lew York Sun.
Costa Kick's Miueral Springs.
The recent discovery of several valu
able springs of different mineral waters
in Casta Rica has caused the government
to issue a decree declaring all such to be
the property of the state, and ordering
that in future none shall be transferred
to private ownership. Chicago Times.
THE FEAR OF SNAKES.
NYM CRINKLE WRITES A CHAPTER
ABOUT THE OPHIDIANS.
fctecle Macknji'H The:, ry of Snake C'lmrm-
iiijj Tlio I'bjchlo Kilo of a Serpent'M
diameter One of 3Iuck:tye'ii Snake
Seances TUc I):iii.-r of Fooling,
Steele Mackaye is tlif only man that I have
ever mot who Lis mail j a rational study of
serpen tology. It is tra.s enough Unit I do
not. ngreo with i;iiii in . I i l.i-j conclusions, n.s I
will explain presently, I -it I must ncknowl
edge hi.i accumulation knowledge antl tho
philosophic spirit with which lie has invest!
gated what may bo call' d tho mystic side of
tho ophidian.
Hero lot mo say that I have an antipathy to
tho serpent not unu-uil, hut which is ut
terly beyond thecontn i of my will or reason.
I do not think that I r.m devoid of tho qual
ity which passes by tho iiamo of physical
courage. On more th.-m ono occasion I have
confronted a dog whi -h I had every reason
to" believe was rabid r.n 1 from which other
men ran away; but on tho sudden appearance
of a snake a sensation i dread and weakness
overcomes mo that is unaccountable and irre
sistible. Once, when
with my boy in tho CI
came unexpectedly upci
with his head and r:'
three foot above us. I si
to confess it, that for th
K.nbing some rocks
vat South Talk, we
! a rattlesnake coiled
in the air about
i nv know, and I wish
first ti mo, in my life
I experienced tho parted sensation of faint-
In?;. My boy knlcd th serpent unconcern
wily, but I was unfitted for the journey for
an hour.
This strange fear is, as I havo said, by no
means uncommon. I have encountered it
among all classes of niin, and havo even ob
served it among frontiersmen, who had been
unablo by years of experience in snake in
fested districts to overcome it. Whether this
is a congenial antipathy and tho result of in
herited prejudices or is self mado from early
impressions ami subsequent imaginings is an
open quGstion.
A rnVSICAL. MYSTERY.
Mr. Mackaye holds that It is tho inherited
result of the mysticism that has surrounded
tho serpent from tho tinio of Moses, and that
it can be overcoino by a mere exercise of tho
will and a familiarity with tho snake.
Hero I take issue with him. I cm inclined
to believo that tho universal fear and horror
inspired by tho serpent havo a psychic cause
not yet explained and that this terror reaches
its maximum in certain organizations quite
Independently of their associations mid train
ing. Ko one who has seen a horso trembling
throughout his frame and breaking into a cold
sweat at an ordinary black snake in the road,
or, to take a still letter example, no one who
has seen a bulldog, tho most courageous and
least sensltivo of all tho canine U'ilie, shiver
and put his tail between his legs at tho snifT
of a harmless garter snako, can have failed to
wonder at the mysterious dread which ap
pears to run all through tho animal kingdom
or at least all the domesticated part of it
With tho einglo exception, if I am to believe
common rural superstition, of the hog.
Most of my readers who have traveled in
the southwest are familiar with tho repug
nant experiments of the frontiersmen of cut
ting the head from a fresh killed rattlesnake
and coiling the decapitated body on tho top of
a barrel to see tho involuntary muscular con
tractions imitate the striking act of the live
serpent. But tho remarkable part of this
disgusting experiment is, that not ono man in
ten has sufficient nerve to hold his hand up
and let the headless body strike at it.
A FAINTING FIT.
About three year ago I saw a great,
brawny man In ISunnell's museum topple over
In the crowd. He was carried out, as wa3
then supposed, in a dying condition, and
water pourel over him in the lobby. When
an ambulance arrived ho had recovered suf
ficiently to explain the cause of his fainting
fit, and ho attributed it to the serpent exhi
bition made by the woman who put the
pythons round hor body. 1 took pains to
learn something of his antecedents, and found
that he had been a soldier and noted for his
bravery and courage.
I could multiply these instances to any ex
tent, but what I want to say is that I never
met anybody who had this antipathy mere
unreasonably developed than myself.
Som? ten years ago Steele Mackayo had
some literary work to do in which I was a
collaborateur, and ho invited me to his houso
in Stamford for a week. Anna Dickinson
had told me something about his snake so
ances, but I bad forgotten all about it, and I
arrived there in tho evening and was con
ducted to his study. Imagine my horror ns
I stood ct the partly open door, end, looking
In, saw my friend seated at a writing tablp
in the middle of the room, having for a conv
panlon an eighteen foot South American boa,
the body of which was partly on tho floor,
vhilo tho flattened head, with its littlo lidiess
eyes, lay Within a loot or tne manuscript
upon which Mackaye was working.
The effect of this upon mo was infkantly
apparent to Mackaye, who jumped up
and began to upbraid mo forgiving way
to what he called mi entirely irrational weak
ness. He uppealed to my philosophy, to my
will, to my manhood. Pointed out to mo that
my terror was a childish one, ungrounded in
sense, and that tho healthy intelligence over
came it.
A SUBTLE, SICKENING ODOR.
No one but myself can know' how vain
were all these apjreals. I distinctly remem
ber that tho moment I put my head in that
door my sense was attracted by that strange,
subtle and sickening odor which emanates
from the ophidian, and to which some organ
izations are so susceptible. Its effect upon mo
is not unlike that of sulphuretted hydrogen
gas, producing sensations of vertigo, accom
panied by that illusion of surface coolness
which is produced on the gustatory nerves by
peppermint.
"I wiil show you," said Mackaye, "that
your fears arc unworthy of you, and con
vince you in five minutes that tho serpent, so
far from being a malignant, dangerous
enemy, is simply an un volitional spinal sys
tem, without a corebrum, and subject abso
lutely to rhythm of sound and motion."
Ht then began a series of Dolsartian exper
iments with his snake, as I stood shrinkingly
at the door with my hand upon tho knob. He
made sinuous and graceful passes with his
his handd, in which his arm imitated the con
vulsions of a serpent, describing beautiful
and graceful curves that seemed pass from
his shoulder along u flexible humerus to the
metacarpal extremities.
The action apparently soothed tho reptile,
for it simply moved its flattened head in a
swaying, sympathetic motion and allowed
Mackaye to grasp it gently at the neck and
guide it wherever he pleased.
"You can see." he said, "for yourself that
the animal i3 soothed by rhythmic motion.
low I will prove to you that unrhythmic mo
tion irritates it, and so does unrhythmic
sound."
Ha then began a new series of singularly
ungraceful and spasmodic actions with his
band, which were not violent, and tho
serpent began to raise his head and dart out
his black, forked tongue.
AN CLI RATTLESNAKE.
Soute months afterwards I saw Mackaye
go through this same experiment with an ol I
Pennsylvania rattlesnake in a wire cngo at
what was then tho aquarium on Proadway.
Ho thrust his hand in at tho littlo wire cno
and did tho soothing busiiieti again, to th
horror of Todo Hamilton und an Indian
snake charmer, who v tv, with myself, t.'u
only witnesses. You ir.w-t remember thittha
Biiako was a veteran, and as full of venom ns
an egg is full of meat. Irritation hi his caso
meant sudden and certain death.
When Mackaye had demonstrated his com
plete power over the animal, ho withdrew his
arm, closed the wicket and began uixm tho
outbiMe of tho cago Hquictly irritating system
of gestures. In an incredibly hbort hpaco of
time tho serjx-nt had thrown himself into bis
concentric attitude of d fiance, his rattlu was
vibrating and ho was u picture of danger
that made us all stand back and hold our
breath.
Hut imagine my wretchedness that night
in Mackayo's house at Stamford. I was given
u luxurious chamber. I knew that my door
was locked nnd satisfied myself before retir
ing that the eighteen foot boa had not by
some inadvertence crawled into my room. I
felt suit) that ho was securely boxed nnd in
tho cellar. And yet I started out of sleep
with an invincible dread.
Every sense fooled mo. I heard tho hlow,
diro, inevitable motion of that spinal body
upon tho n wspa;K-r that I hud dropped upon
tho floor. I saw in tho shadows the uplifted
head and forked tongue. I caught the odor,
which sickened me. 1 felt the touch of the
cold, writhing coils. And all this was accom
panied by tho consciousness that it was noth
ing but my own imagination.
Well, prido and a feeling of shumo at iy
own childishness or effeminacy mado mo en
deavor to familiarize myself with tho reptile
during the week that I was in tho house. I
tried very hard to flght down my instinctive
antipathies and got up a personal acquaint
ance. I might as well say ut oneo that I ut
terly failed.
CnURUEU BY A BOA.
Somo months afterward I cut from tho
London papers an account of the sudden and
terrible death of a stiako exhibitor at Pom-
bay, and took it to Mackaye. This man had
been for years performing in public with
enormous constrictors, which bo coiled round
his body. One day, while on tho stage of tho
Bombay theatre, encircled by tho folds of a
tremendous boa, tho audience heard a cry of
pain, and tho man with his load of suako
staggered and fell over upon the floor. There
was a muffled report, as of many bones crack
ing. At the post mortem ho was found to havo
suffered two hundred and sixty fractures.
"That," I remarked, '"is a terrible example
of the danger of fooling with tho ophidians."
"It is, said Mackaye, "a terrible example
of tho carelessness of ezhibitors. It was his
own fault."
"How so?"
"Why, ho forgot to examino his clothing
before ho coiled tho serpent round his body
and something irritated the animal. If they
had examined tho boa they would have found
an abrasion or cut, perhaps caused by a pin.
At tho sudden irritation ho exerted his wholo
constrictive force, which was capabla of
f'Vi l V, i" r mi n-rr "
"!Nico dynamic phi3"tiiings," I remarked,
steel springs and lightning."
"Yes," said Mackaye, "you havo to know
how to handlo steel springs and lightning. I
had a similar experience with my pet."
"bmnlar, do you eayr
"Yes, he was coiled around the wicker chair
you used to sit in, and I was writing. Tho
door into tho passage on the other side of the
room was ajar, and Tabby came lazily in,
"with her tail straight up in tho air. I heard
report like a pistol and tho door was
slammed suddenly thut. Talk about frac-
Ujes. 1 don t think there was a piece of that
cuftir lore mat was six mcnes long, ile just
pulverized it, anil shot himself against that
door like a thunderbolt. It was tho cat, you
say! Nonsense, it was a splinter of that chair.
I found a cut in his i-km an inch and a half
long."
"What did you do with j our pet?"
"Lost him. It was a confounded shame. I
left him in a box hi tho cellar when I went
to Boston to lecture, and my men forgot the
blankets. My snako was frozen stiff. I
could have revived him if I had "got back in
time, but tho boys chopped him up in cord
wood lengths and buried h:m." Nym Crinkle
in Now York World.
A His Operator's Generosity.
has become fashionable for some
it
to
speak of "Wall street men as thoroughly
heartless. T hero is ail impression held by-
many that the men in the financial center of
thu country are blind to everything ami
everybody but money. A reporter was chat
ting with ono of the street's biggest operators
in his cilice tho other day, when a broker cn-
ercd and said: "For heaven s sake civo me
?4,C00 immediately. 1 must have ii this
minute. I needed C0,000 at noon, and havo
got all but the 4,000. I know I opposed
your election aa a member of the stock ex
change, and I frankly admit that after your
admission I said some mighty uaaty things,
but forget these personalities and help me.
I only want the money for a short time."
The big operator remarked in a genial way:
"I am glad enough to help you, not C11I7 to
show you that you went oft tha handle i".
fighting me (for what the Lord only knows),
but to demonstrate to j'ou that notwithstand
ing your remarks I f ctl that I am quite r.s
manly as yourself." Was this a sneer? Tcr
haps so, but the big operator touched the boll
button t his dc-sk and directed that a check
for the ?4,C00 be given to the visitor. !New
YorkSuu.
A Monte Carlo Sensation.
I remember that during one of my "visits,
wheft tho weather was exceptionally hot, a
cab horse, after cantering up the hill of Monte
Cristo, fell in a fit at tho Casino door. It was
necessary to kill the horse, and when the car
cass had been removed somo blood remained
on the rrravtl. A few moments later a French
newspaper correspondent came up, and per
ceiving the blood, immediately concluded
that pomebody must have committed suicide.
The horror of tho imaginative journalist was
considerable intensified by the approach of a.
director of the Casino, who with greatest un
concern, walked on the blood Ftained sand,
and unmoved entered the gaming rooms. A
few hours later the press of most of tho cap
itals of Europe re-echoed with the heartrend
ing story of the young man who having lest
in a few hour3 at roulette the entire fortune
bis father had taken a lifetime to accumulate,
blsw his brains out at the very doors of tho
Casino. But tho directors, unmoved by tho
ruin they occasioned, actually trod in their
victim blood. Their consciences were so
hardened by perpetual crimo they had not
even the decency to remove the blood with
which their boots were bespattered. Mem
phis Avalanche.
On the Streets of London,
London papers are printing communica
tions from ladies, which seem to prove that
respectablo women, no matter how quiet
their costume nnd carriage, are constantly
liable to insults in the best streetsof the great
City through the day. Boston Transcript.
What an achievement to know how to bear
a corroding sorrow without letting the ulcers
fchow ou the faca. Dr. Win. A. Hammond,
fcrah M tY--- N sates
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Purchaser mav nav all
half cash, the oilier hall in
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residence worth J,50l) and upwards will bo given a lot with
out further consideration.
STOW IS THE TIM13
to select your residence lots,
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It can bo roaclied conveniently ly either Chicago or
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