THE DAILY HERALD : PLATTSMOtJTH, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL ilG, 18SU. The Plattsmouth Daily Herald. KNOTT8 3E3 C S., Publishers & Proprietors. THE PLATTSMOUTII UEUALD I published every evening except Sunday and Weekly every Thursday morning. KeKls tered at the iMMtofflee, 1'iattnmouth. Nebr.. h aecoiid-chiHH mutter. OHIce corner of Vine and Fifth streets. Telephone. Jo. 38. TRIMS FOB DAILY. One copy one jear In advance, by mall. ...f 6 00 One copy per month, by carrier 60 One copy per week, by carrier, 15 TERMS FOR WEEKLY. One oopy oue year. In advance,.... (I AO One copy fix montbn. tu advance 75 Tiicrk will be 50.000 militia in the pa rade at the Washington inauguration centerjnial in New York. The European military apics who will be on hand to watch that spectacle will make a poor use of their time in this country if they do not discoTer that four times as many trained men as this could be sent to any point on the coast at ten days' notice, if their services were required, acainst a foreign foe. A good many militiamen would volunteer for an enterprise of this sort, while there are hundreds of thous ands of ex-union and confederate sol diers still young enough for military duty who stand ready to shoulder their muskets again at the call of duty. The name of John L. Webster has com grandly to tht front as a leader among the legal lights of Nebraska. To some, who are not acquainted with the abili ties of this man and the strength of his lejjal mind, it may be a surprise to lien his name mentioned in connection with the supreme bench of the United States. but those who know him regard him fully competent to as same the duties of that high office, and observe the mention of his name to tak the vacant scat of Judge Matthews, de ceased, with pleasure. Mr. Webster is a' lawyer of continuous fctudy and has m reputation as an able jurist. If it should be that Pres'dent Harrison will look ti the west for a judge, no more able p. r son could be selected than Mr. Webster, and high honor would be reflected or this state by his appointment. As citj attorney ot Omaha this bright jurist ha a record that is enviable, and his whol career as a lawyer recommends him ti the president. The change of the Athens (Tenn.) Post from the democratic to the republican faith, which has just taken place, 1ih more importance than may appear on tht surface. That paper is one of the oldest in the state, and one of the most influen tial among the papers published in tht state outside the principal cities. Its edi tor and proprietor, in resigning from tht demorcatic committee of his locality, ol which he was chairmam, which he did when he took himself and his paper out of that party, declared that the proltc tive policy is essential to the prosperity of the South, and that this policy can not be upheld and maintained except by tl. triumph of the republicans. The sculi ment in favor of protection is taking deep root in Tennessee and other Southern states in which manufacturing !b on tht increase. The immediate reason of the abandonment of the democracy by tht Post was the attempt made by the Ten nessee legislature to so irerrvniander tin jiuiru congressional uiatrict mat m democrats might regain contiol oyer it. but the principal and ultimate cause wa the growing dissatisfaction with fret trade, which will undoubtedly drive many of the most intelligent democrat in all the industrial states of the Souti into the republican ranks before the next congressional election takes places. Glebe Democrat. The Republican Party and TnE Nk c.ro, by E. L. Godkin. Industrial pro gress in the South since its deliyeranc from carpet-bag rule proves that propel and individual rights are on tl.r whole well protected there; statisticts ol unparalleled growth; republican dis pleasure because the south has not bee u kept republican by the negro yote, whith has beea nullified to a greater or less de frree; the only practicable remedy by leg islation is to control elections, which, since it would have to be uniform, woulo not be acceptable to the Northern states: reasons why Southern civilization canno' afford to repeat its experiments with negro rule, "no man at the North wht bis no negro question to face realh knows how he would settle it if lie had to face it;" complete restoration of th- South to the American political system cannot be effected by legislation; tht Southern states are doing more than the Northern to make the corruption and tht intimidation of voters difficult or im possible. Mr. E. L. Godkin, the editor of the New York Evening Post, came to th United States from England in 1S G, first as a correspondent of the London Ntics. In 18G5, when The Nati -n wns established he became its editor. In 1881 The Nation and the New York Evening Pout became the property of the same owners, and Mr. Godkin has since then been the editor of both. He is the auth or of the volume on ''Government" in the "American Science Series." Mr. Godkin's article follows a discus sion of both the social and the political phases of the negro problem, to which the following writers have contributed: Senator Wade Hampton, of S. C. on "What Negro Supremacy Means," in The Forum for June 1888; Senator William E. Chandler, of N. II., on "Our Southern Masters," in The Forum for July, 1888; Senator James 13. Eustis, of La., on "Itace Antagonism in the South," in The Forum for November, 1888; Mr. Geo. W. CabU, on "A Simple Southern Ques tion," in The Forum for December, 1888; Senator John T. Morgan, of Ala., on "Shall Negro Majorities rule?" in The Frum for February, 1889; Prof. W. S. Scarborough, on "The Future of the Negro," in The Forum for March, 1881); and Mr. A. W. Tourgee, on "Shall White Minorities Ilule?" in The Forum for April, 188'J. An English Medical Authority affirms that the best regimen for pre serving health may be summoned up in the maxim, "keep the head cool, the feet warm, and the bowels active." There is a world of wisdom in the observation. Obstinate Constipation, or coetiveuess, is an exciting cause of other diseases; and with many persons of sedentary habits or occupations, this miction of the bowels is a source of constant annoyance, pro ducing piles, prolapse of the rectum fistula, and yanous dyspeptic symptoms All these are warded off, and health i mnintained, by the use of Dr. Pierce Pleasant Purgative Pellets. n is AVifo Helped film. 1 know one member of congress who lias thought it necessary to keep two of his cider children from school that they might help liiru out with his oflico seeking correspondence. One day l:ust week a western senator, recently re elected for six years, threw up his hands in despair as the perspiring mail carrier threw upon his desk another huge bun dlu of letters, and declared ho would not write another reply or wasto another postage stamp on the horde of place bun ters. Iii3 wuo knew this would never do, for a senator or representative might as well go out and commit political sui cide as to refuse to answer tho letters of his constituents. Once let the word pass round a district or state that the Hon. So-and-So is too proud or lazy to answer letters, and his days of power are at onco numbered. So this good wife said to her despairing lord, "You go and take a walk. The air will do you good; and while you are gone I will look over the maiL" When the senator returned he found tho letters opened and nicely as sorted. In one pile were those which Jenianded immediate attention; in an other those which could lay over a few- Jays, and in a third those which could in a pinch be altogether neglected. This bit of feminine orderliness brought order out of chaos, and thus encouraged the senator cheerily resumed his thankless task. v ashington Letter. Shopping Anions the "Elect." She might have called cousins with two or threo of tho women whom Mr. Liowells has drawn, but alie did not 6ay whether she was Harkness or Hubbard or Kilburn, but asked for gloves, and after examining several pairs, looked up liscontentedlv with "Haven t you any ,-lect shades'" "Must mean electric, thought tho salesman, and produced the jox of electric blues. "N no, she said. tonkins at them with scorn; "I want jomcthing elect to match this green and Aiis brown. The colors are well enough, mt I want something elect in quality.' An J the salesman told her that tho firm ia J decided to stop keeping them because .hero was no call for them; and, R3 soon uj l!io was gone, confessed bis fib to one )f the girls at the counter, and asked vhat "elect" meant. The girl reads Har k-t's Magazine and Tho Editor's Study, :nd she told him. and the two are won- lerinsr whether it would not be well to ut una sitrn. "Elect Gloves. Great Bar- :;ins." Why not? And why should not lio butcher announce "Sausages. Very ;tc-ct," and tho clothing dealer "Over oats, $3; Elect Lot?" Boston Transcript. Tbo ConsreMiona Library Rules. The families of national legislators and -Hi-ials seem to read an immense nuni K.r of books. The daughters are espe- :ia!ly voracious. Thev will go to the ibrary at 10 in tho morning and keep an distant busy until late in the afternoon oozing up books for them, which are -arried to their homes by men servants vhom they bring with them for that urpose. Ihey repeat tuo programme io next week. It is quite evident that .icy could not read a tcntn oi tnese ooks; And the fact is they do not. They vud them io their friends whose fathers ira non-official, and, therefore, have not .ha free privileges of the library. This is against tho rules. But rules are flexible :"or those connected with the government .vhirl at Washington. That is, be it liatinctly understood, while they are in .he whirL For those who are not, the rules are as the laws of those much quoted Medes and Persians,New York Star. Rachel's Intellectual Power. The late Matthew Arnold, comparing liachel and Bernhardt, said, after seeing iho latter act in tragedy: "I liad never till now comprehended how much of Rachel's superiority was purely intel lectual power; how eminently this power counts in tho actor's art as in all art; how just U the instinct which led the Greck3 to mark with a high and severe stamp the muses. Temperament and quick intelligence, passion.voice, charm, poetry Mile. Bernhardt has them all. One watches her with pleasure, admira tion, and yet not without a secret dis quietude. Something is wanting. That something is high intellectual power. It was here that liachel was so great. She began, one says to one's self, as one recalls her image and dwells upon it she began almost where Mile. Bernhardt ends. Pittsburg Bulletin. FROM THE MUSTY PAST. MANY SUPERSTITIONS ROOTED OLD PAGAN BELIEFS. IN Clinging to tlia Ignorance of the Pant Well as to Its Wistloru The Cnlucky Day The Harking Dog Cutting NaiU and Hair by the Moon. I want now to look with a little more particularity into the origin of some of our superstitions. I have already told you, in a general way, what I now wisl to emphasize, that the largest part of them are modern survivals of old nature myths and pagan religions. That the old world is still vital in us we are giv ing evidence every day of our lives. Our common speech is full of traces of old beliefs, just as the rocks under our feet are full of fossils and tracks of creatures long sinco extinct. Our carnivals, Mardi Gras and Lents; our Christmas trees. yule logs, gift ruaking.mistletoe boughs and evergreens; our New Year and May day festivals; our Easter rejoicings. Easter eggs and carols; all of there are thousands of years old and have their sources in all nations and all religions. -The peasants of England still kindle ttieir Bel lires which across the darkness of the centuries flame out an answering signal to the old Phoenicians; and they were kindled at the still more antique fires of tho older Persians; and even these last are only modern representa tives of the old first fires of the first wor shipers, who. in far ofT Jdimness of the years, first made on earth a tire in honor of ttieir heavenly god, the sun. The past, then, where is it? It is all about us and in us; its wisdom not only, but its folly. We clothe ourselves in its robes of wisdom, and we still gattier about us tho tattered and grotesque rags of its ignorance. WHY FRIDAY 13 AN UNLUCKY DAY. We will now particularize just a little. Why should Friday be now regarded as an unlucky day? Nobody ever proved it so. As many facts against the notion can lie found as those that favor it. Only if people get a fancy in ttieir heads, they always forget the times when ttieir fancy misses fire, and only rcmemlier when it hits. Is there anything in the nature of one day in the week to make it differ from others? . Nothing. All days equal ly are caused by the turning of the earth on its axis, and thus bringing its differ ent sides successively toward the sun. Suppose we should begin a new count, and call Wednesday Monday, and so on. would Friday, when we got to it, still be unlucky? No, friends, ttie reason is here In one of the old forms of paganism this relic of which has still survived Friday was dedicated to Freyja, the Pa gan Venus. Christianity naturally cursed the day and its worship, which was cor rupt and corrupting. So poor Friga's day was given up to a fish diet and ill fortune. 1 wonder they kept the fish, for it was sacred to Freyja, and this is the reason why Friday is fish day still. Saturday used to be the unlucky daj- Saturn's day, and hence the name. And as Saturn was always a gloomy and malignant god it came to be thought un lucky to begin anything on his day And did you ever think of it? This is the old Jewish Sabbath or day of rest. A ml beyond question here is the origin of thf Sabbath. First it was unlucky to do any thing on that day, because they were afraid of the god who ruled it; then, as the conception of the god changed, they refrained from work, because, for s(:m reason, they supposed he wanted them to. Our Sunday is still Saturday, Sa turn's day, to thousands, and they still keep it, because they are afraid of the God who is supposed to have made it his own. THE WILD HUNTSMAN'S DOO. Take one more illustration. It is still a bad sign for the dog to bark at night under the window. It portends a death in the family. I haven't time to go into this at length, but this is a remnant of the old myth of Odin, the wild hunts man. Jolin represents Jesus as saying that he would come for his disciples at death and receive them to himself. In all ages and in all religions it lias been believed that fit death tho father of the tribe as the god of the dead came for and led away his followers to the land of the departed. This faith lias assumed a thousand shapes. Odin used to be the god of our Anglo-Saxon ancestors. Un- der.the name of Wodin we still have his name in our day of ttie week, Wednes day Wodin's day. In the dark nights when the storm was up and a rustling of winds could be heard through the groaning tree tops, the frightened peasants fancied they heard the rush of the Wild Huntsman's troops, accompanied by shrieking trump ets and hurrying horses and baying dogs. To pick up pue pf the horseshoes was lucky, for, as lightning doesii t strike twice in tho same place, he wouldn't be likely to pass that way soon again. Hut to hear the barking of one of his dogs meant that the death call had come. Odin is forgotten except by scholars; but his horseshoe is remembered for luck. and his dog's bark at night still makes us tremble. Another origin of many superstitions is to be found in fanciful analogies or lorant interpretations of nature, or mere coincidences of color or form. For instance, why put the hair or nails on the increase of the rnoon? A mere fanci ful connection with the idea (hat as (he moon grows so other tilings would grow also. The witch supposed that as tier wax figures melted and wasted away be fore the fire, so the man it represented would waste away. Here is the origin of the famous cures for warts we used to know as bovs. Rub a bean on them and throw it away, and as the bean de cayed the warts would go away. Or if another boy picked it up he would pick up the warts along with it. All the other cures were of a - like kind. The middle ages were full of sucli medicine as this, even among grave and learned men. It still survives among old nurses. Because the mandrake root was forked. and supposed to resemble a man, it was conceived to possess remarkable curative Swer8. Bey. M. J. Savage in Boston lobe. - OLD PICTURE SALES. Masterpiece r-ohl for Clironio IV-- Ue-liilil.-eiicc of Art Auction. Long before the duke of Du real's col lection of paintings had been taken from the ancestral walls to be brought across the Atlantic, New York was noted as a picture buying town, and many of tho auction sales of "rare and antique" paint ings of fifty years ago were quite as far cical a3 those of today. Excellent pic tures were brought from the other side by chance frequently, but the critical eye of art lovers of that time was too practi cal to allow any undue indulgence where more than a trifling sum was asked for a work even of unusual merit. It's nothing new in New York that the works of old masters should go begging for a price even near their value." said an old artist, as he proceeded to tell a story of some ieeulia'r auction sides of years ago. several prominent actors in which may L.j familiar to old New Yorkers of today. In the early forties an undersized, dark browed, keen eyed art dealer. Levy by name, opened a small auction room for tho sale of paintings on Broadway, near Cortlandt street. There he sold at auc tion every Saturday night old paintings, many of which bore the names of world renowned artists of past generations. Paintings of all kinds, many merely old scrolls of canvas and some framed, were knocked down at prices that would not stagger a dealer in chromes nowadays. One day a traveler, whose funds had run short, called on Ievy and offered him twelve panel portraits of the Ciesars for an old song. As Ievy never told what tie paid, nobody ever knew, hut certain it is that lie oouglit tliein ut a low figure, and o:i the following Satur dav night placed them in a row on the wall and asked the asseinl.led critics, consisting mostly of neighhoring shop keepers, "What aiii I offend for the whole Oesar family by liaphaet?" Mr. Levy couldn't sell them very ea sily, but finally a bid of fivo apiece bought the collection. shillings A year or two later Brett, a London picture dealer of some note, whose spe cialty was collecting the lost works of great masters for private collections of the nobilitv, came to New York on a hunt for the Ciesars. After a long search he found them in a small restaurant on Nassau street. lie offered the proprie tors $.") for the tot. The offer was ac cepted promptly, but two of the por traits were missing. Inquiry developed the fact that the thrifty restaurateur had used them to kindle a fire during a heavy snow storm when it was difficult to get wood. The ten portraits accompanied Brett on his voyage back to London, and were handed over to a delighted purchaser for $40,000. Pierre Flandin. the old time dry goods prince, was at that time an art dealer, as were also Paff and Beau mont. At a sale in the auction room of the latter a work by Durand was sold for $230, and for days the 6ale was tho talk of the town. une or tne largest collectors or pic tures at that time was Lunian lieed, a successful merchant who lived in Green wicli street. Mr. Reed's gallery con sisted almost entirely of works by Ameri can artists. Many well known rieople at that time were visitors at his gallery These pictures are now in the possession )f tho Historical society, at Second ave nue and Tenth street. About 1840 Ernstpusch, a German im porter of pictures, brought over the greatest collection of pictures ever im ported at one time. In all there were 40,000, mostly by German artists, Lnt among them the works of Spanish, Ital ian and French artists. Levy sold nearly the entire collection at auction at price: of from 1 shilling to $100. The last reallv hi rim micrinn cnlo nf pictures was ttie sale of the Robert Smitli collection about tventy-fivo or thirty . m . . years ago. ine amun collection was mercilessly assaited on all sides and the prices realized, with a few exceptions, were ridiculously low. One picture by van uyse. However, orouglit a verv good price. New York Commercial Ad vertiser. A Cunning Cird. Canary birds are easily trained, as we told you recently. Two of our girls senu us mo ionowmg letter about one belonging to their aunt. Everybody do lights in a trained bird and there i.i n- reason wny txv3 and girls should not teach their little pets all tho tricks our young friends tiere tell us about. ucar :in. L.D1TOR Alter readm-'aboui canary birds in your paper we though: you would like to hear about one oui aunt has in Washington. It is ver;. tamo and flies through the house, bot!. up and down stairs. One day tie follow ed grandma out into the front yard with out tier knowledge. She was scared when stie saw him on tho step, but spoke snarpiy to mm, saving, "t'ete: vou ras cal! go in the house!" Rather to her sur prise tie turned and hopjied in. When any one uses the typewriter Ik get3 on the carriage and ridea back and forth, sometimes running along on it as if trying to beat it. lie will go to a stranger when spoken to and he never gets tired playing with any one. He will also lie on his back m the palm of your hand and play "dead bird." People often bring their friends to see him, as he is so very amusing. Besides he is a beautiful singer. Philadelphia Times. A Frepch Puii-.t, The ruling passion is usually shown very strongly in doatlu Malherbe, a fanatic for tho purity of the French lan guage, was known as tho "Tyrant of Words and Syllables." On his deathbed ho angrily rebuked his nurse for the solecisms of her language. And when his confessor mildly remonstrated, Mal herbe replied: "Sir, I will defend to. my very last gasp ttie purity of the French language." Soothingly, but not in too exquisite a diction, the good confessor dwelt on the heavenly joys whicli ilal- herbe might now reckon to be witlim so very easy a distance, but the pedantic purist interrupted severely: Sav no more, or your wretched style will dis gust me with the. place altogether," .London Lue, I. PEIELI1I HAS THE LARGEST FURNITURE, STOVES, HOUSEHOLD GOODS. In the city, which he is ofitrin at Prices that will make them fell. A complete line oi' Whitlow Curtains at u Kucrifice. Picture Frames in re.-it variety. Yiu vmi ret everything you need Vou can buy it on the installment j.lan. pay s much each month and yon will soon have :i line liii iii.-licd houc and hardly realize the cost, ('all and see. X- IE3 IE Xj lL 2Tv SIXTH STIiEET, V.ET. MAIN AND n i T3 -i PLATTSMOUTrl HERALD ALL THE NEWS POLITICAL A DELI VEUE!) 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