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THE DAILY JIEKaLD: TL VITSMOtJf II, NEBltASkA, MONDAY, AJtfllL 29, 1889. The PiattsiQOiitb Daily Herald KNOTTS I3RC Publishers & Proprietors. TIIK ri.ATTHMOUTli HERALD I piibllilied every evening except Sunday ana weKiy every 1 uursday inoriitiiK. Kegiit terea at uie Htoiiii:e. ratfmouth. br..c necoud-cliiHo matter, onice earner of Vine and r Iftll ft nets. Telephone No. 3X. TKMl FOR DAILY. One copy onn ear In advance, by mall.. .'.$6 on Miecopy per month. iy ran ler fir One copy per week, ly carrier,... IS TRIMS FOR WEKKLV. One eopy one year. In advance f I V One copy in niontbn. In advance 75 ToMonnovr being a national holliday vre will issue no paper on that day. Uotu the military and naval demon stration in New York tomorrow will be the most impressive that the county lias seen for many a day. 'New Yokk' remark the Buffali Courier, is for from lain"; a well govern ed rity." Yes, the metropolis is demo cratic by a lare majority. Ik yellow fever can be conveyed in aacks of coffee, the United States can af ford to stop importations from Santos and Rio, two ports from which we impoit most largely. The disease in its wont form is raging there. It h w just come to li.ht that one of Nebraska's sons T.'on honor and promo tion in the recent disaster at Bomoa, his name is Oc.-ir IJrinkman, he was a sea man on the Vaudalia, he fearlessly risked his life in aiding the rescue of those im prisoned on the Trenton. General Boct.anoek excites only mild curiosity in London, and is warned by ne or two journals against entering into political intrigues by which the friendly relations of France and England may be imperilled. He has found nn asylum where he will be at liberty both to live in retirement, if ho desires to nyoid publicity, and also to direct the Boul.tngist movement. Tle warnings of the press do not mean anything. Louis Napoleon intrigued in London before and after he occupied the French throne and the Orleans princes have been equal ly active during their period of exile ii England. General Boulanger's house will be the headquarters of the French party which is making arrangement! for contesting three-fourths of the arron dissements in the general elections to be held in the autumn; and English law and precedents will prevent Government pro- j liibitiou of his political activity. Eng land guards jealously the right of asylum which exiles foreigners enjoy on its soil It is only when Irish-Americans engage actively in the work of sustaining the home rale cause that the expediency of allowing refugees unrestricted privilege of conducting political agitation on for eign soil is questioned thre. New York Tribune. THE NATIONS CENTENNIAL. For a number of years there have beei centennial celebrations of some of the moat memorable events in the opening history of the country. The first was m memory of the encounter at Lexington. April 19, 1775; tha second was the sign ing of the Declaration of Iadependanc &t Philadelphia, and the third was tli framing of t'ie federal constitution whicl was also done at Philladelphia. Botl of these last occurred in the year 17S7 and now comes the last of the momen tous events of a hundred years ago to b remembered with rejoicing and thanks giving, the inauguration of Georg Washington ai the first president of tli United States. It will be cellebratcd to morrow in New York City and even city throughout the nation, with a patrt otic interest and enthusiasm that h.n never been surpassed in our history. ARJIINU JmiTISIllsEALERS. It would seem as if the British fisher men who have been prohibited from en tering the American waters of BchriiiL Sea for the purpose of catching seals in tend to treat the proclamation of tin United States government with contempt From Victoria, B. C we are informe that "the scaling schooners about starting out on their cruise will be armed ac will not tamely submit, as before, t piratical attacks of American cutters.' It is said that a British war vessel ha leen ordervd to that quarter in ordei to protect those foreign sealers, and thai tesUtance of tiie most determined kind will I xr offered to any. attempts to assert American supremacy in Behring Sea. We can hardly believ all this. John Bull may growl a little but he will not dare to support armed resistance to the authority of the United States in Anieri can waters under present circumstance? at least. The president's proclamation must be obeyed and those who seek to set it at defiance must take the conse quences. Irish World. "That Diabolical Apparatus, the stomach." is the energetic phrase which Carlyle applied to hi own trouble- t some organ of digestion. Tue great es- ajHt was a dyspeptic from his youth; ! but had he used Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Purgative Pellets he might have shaken off the incubns of indigestion. "like a dewdrop from a lion's maine." and thero would have been more "sweetness and lighf'in his writings and his home. All druggists 25 cents a vial. . TIIK CAPITAL OF SIAM. BANGKOK AND ITS FIFTEEN MILES OF FLOATING HOUSES. A City a Large Chicago, of Which Nine Out of Ten of the People Live ou tlx Water Something of the Country Itself. The King Owns the People. Siam is one of tho out of the vay coun tries of tho world. None of tho great 3teamship lines of tho Pacific or of the Indian ocean stop at it. Few globe trot ters visit it, and it is about 1,500 miles out of the regular line of travel around tho world. Tho great Siamese peninsula juts down from tho east coast of China. It contains half a dozen different coun tries, tho chief of which aro Burmah, Siaiu and tho French states of China. Siaiu itself is at the lower end of tho pe ninsula and it bounds tho greater part of the mighty body of water known as tho (Julf of Siaiu. It is 1,300 miles long, and at its widest part it is 4.j0 miles wide. It is almost as flat as your hand, though it has here and there a few mountain chains. It has many big rivers, and tho country is as muc h cut up with canals as is Hol land. During tho rainy season it becomes a mighty lake, and tho people move here and there from one city to another in boats, ON THE RIVER MENAM. The greatest river i3 tho Menam, which the Siamese know by tho same name as the Indians knew tho Mississippi. It is "the father of waters," and it forms the great highway of tho kingdom. This river flows into tho Gulf of Siaiu at its head, and it is about forty miles from its mouth that I bit here ou its banks and write this letter in this iloating city of Bangkok. Imagine a city as largo as Chicago, of wluch ninety-nine hun dredths of the people livo on tho water. There aro fifteen miles of floating houses on tho two sides of this river, and these, with the king's palaces and a few foreign buildings on tho land, make up tho capi tal of the Siamese people. There are six millions and moro of these Siamese and their country covers territory of about twice tho sizo of Colorado, four times tho size of New York, and it is about five times as bis: as Olu'o. Tho cocoanut and the palm tree line the banks of this Menam river and tho lat3 flit in and out of jungles which remind one of tho swamps of Florida. I wish I could givo you a picture of our rido up tho Menam to Bangkok. The sides of tho river are lined with these small floating houses. They aro anchored to piles and they lie . half hid den by tho great palm trees on the banks. Hero and there a canal juts off into the jungle and the houses on it makes this a Iloating street. These houses aro made of bamboo, with their sides and their roofs thatched with palm leaves. They are sometimes on piles high above the water, but moro often they rest on its surface. They are tied to poles driven into the bed of tho river, and they rjso and fall with the tide. Their average height is not more than ten feet, and eack looks liko two largo dog kennels fastened together and covered with palm leaves. The river is winding. It is perhaps a -quarter of a mile wide and every turn brings new surprises. As we near Bang kok tho waters aro alive with craft of all kinds. Little, naked, brown, shock headed youngsters . paddle long canoes not over two feet wide and so sharp that the least balance would unseat the rower. There are half naked women with great hats of straw, which look like inverted work baskets, sitting bare legged and bare breasted in boats which they paddle along, and boats of all sizes are worked by all ages and sexes train babies of 0 to wrinkled , old men and short, gray haired women of GO. As you enter Bangkok the crowd increases. In stead of one lino of floating houses along the banks there are three and sometimes rour. Tho wiioio river js alive, and you urn your eyes this way and that, meet ing a maze of new objects nt every turn. LIFE LOXQ SLAVERY. The king of Siam is supposed to own .lie people, and each man in tho realm ias to servo for three, six or nine months s a servant of tho government. At a ertain time of the year tho entire popu ..;tion is marked off to particular nqbje nen or government masters. These .aaiiters, whenever tho government dc- nands anything cf them, can compel the oien marked olT to them to serve. Ail iinds of work are demanded, and the various marks put upon the men indi cate? their trades or profession. Some ue:i are required to give all their L'mo ut the government, and in this case they get nominal salaries. Those who give half their time work for the king fifteen days, and then have fifteen days off. The three months 6ubj.-ct3 get no pay, and during the time they are in Bangkok they have to find themselves in food and lodging. This work practically enslaves the whole jopulation of males, and slavery is common in Siam. Criminals convicted often become slaves, and thej are sometimes marked or branded on the forehead. I have seen many men ia chai:is duriug my stay here, and just outride the walls of the palaco there are at least two score of men, bright eyed. gxj loosing, lusty ia;ow3 wuo nave great iron collars about their necks am? ch::ins about their legs and arms, who. t re making basket work, and who offered to sell mo their wares as I passed. The debtor who does not pay in Siam mu.st become the elavo of bis creditor, i who charges him from 13 to SO per cent. 3 year, puts him in chains and takes his work us the interest on the debt. There are hundreds of 6uch slaves in iungkok, and many of the men become slaves by gambling away their living, Tlia uation, all told, seems addicted to vice rather than to virtue, and it is nearer akin to pure heathenism thaq any other I have yet seen. Still it claims to be progressive, and its king Jias made some steps to the front. The whole, however, compares more to the colored republic of llayti or to the blacks of San Domingo than to any other civiliza tion. The jwoplo are devoted to Buddh ism, and tiie priests are numbered b; tiiiiusauds. Frank G. Carpenter. Giant GliU-iera of AlaaltA. ' The southwestern face of St. Elias, it is saf to nay, will never be climed; it prese.its a mass of broken snow, bcauti ful, yet forbidding. We estimated the summit to Ik? about 7.000 feet above us, making its total height 18.500 feet. It seemed to us that tiie coast survey m giving it 19.500 feet was too liberal in its figures. The day was cloudless; the whole scene was one that baffles descrip tion. It surpassed in grandeur, though not in picturesqueness, tho very best that tho Alps can offer. Koughly speaking. tho eye encountered for miles nothing but snow and ice. 1 had never before thoroughly realized the vastness of the Alaskan glaciers, though during the past fortnight we had 6pent many a weary hour in crossing immense moraines. One of the glaciers we looked dowu upon was not less than sixty miles long, while another attained a breadth of twenty-five or thirty miles. From below I had gained the impression that ice covered with debris predominated over white ice. I now saw that this was not the case, and that the ratio of debris to clear ice was probably not greater than that of ten to one. When standing at a considerable height one appreciates for tho first time the beautiful curves through which the glaciers alter their course. We noticed this in particular in looking down upon the Agassiz glacier. It appeared at one point to describe three or four arcs of concentric circles with radii varying from eight to ten miles, each arc being indicated by a light coating of stones, tho whole resem bling an immense race course. Through tho middle of the Tyndall glacier, and for a distance of several miles, two light streaks of moraine ran parallel to each other, presenting from above tho appear ance of a huge serpent crawling the length of the glacier. Scribner's Maga zine. Women Illacksiniths. It is considered improper for women to work underground in a coal mine, writes a Dudley (England) correspondent. Is it not equally wrong for them to toil as blacksmiths? The scenes that occur in tho smithies, especially in summer time, are quite opposed to the accepted notions of decency. T.he beat is intense, There are the forge fires, tho red hot pieces of iron, and, above all, the tre mendous labor of hammering out the iron. Even in wintry weather, with the snow on the ground, I liave seen women perspire at their work. In the summer it simply results in an indecent abandon ment of clothing. Tho fellahin of Egypt are better clothed than tho women lu a smithy's shop on a midsummer's dav. Then, to bring tho olivo hammer down with greater force, it sometimes happens that two or three persons will spring on the treadle at once. This is generally done by boys and girls. They stand as close as possible, hold each other by the waist, and simultaneously spring with tho right foot on the treadle. It is Iiardlv necessary tq add that the standard, pf morality is not high among tho members of this trade, and would undoubtedly be much improved if the women were de barred from such work. Whether the men alone could earn enough to keep them is a question not so easy to answer, though there can be no doubt that their wages would greatly increase but for V.io competition of their wives and their .sif ters. Philadelphia Telegraph. A professional "funny man" cays tint he once gave a humorous lecture i.. which all his audience roared with laughter, wilh the exception of an old man in one of the front seats, who pre served an aspect of owl like solemnity. The humorist almost exhausted himself in effort to win one smiie from that stolid visage, and he was only relieved by bearing, after the lecture, that Hu man was stone deaf. At a very hilarious family party, one old gentleman, famous for his apprecia tion of a joke, was observd to le ab solutely sik'nt, even when J.he fun was at its loudest. His unusuaj soberness of demeanor first puzzled and then dis turbed hij friends. "Aren't you well to-night, uncle?" asked a young man, finally, drawing the old gentleman aside. "Bless you, yes, I never felt better!" 'Yoij'j-q pof troubjed about anything?" "Why, no! Wrat maues you ask?" "I noticed you didn't smllo at all when all the rest of us were laughing, and that's something new, you know." The old gentleman put his hand to his mouth, and whispered: "Don't you say a word, Harry, but just now I can't laijgh. I'm afraid to. I've jiuit got my new set of teeth, and 1 aint fairly used to 'em." Youth's Com panion. Too Much Mtarje Ulssiug. Y.'e commend to amateur actors, trou bled with bad memories, the happy idea of our friend C, writes tho "stage man" of The Baltimore American. Though a young man, he wa3 to play the father, and the daughter chanced to be a very liandsome woman. So when he forgot his part he could think of nothing better, while ludding his "child," than to say: "Kiss your father." And each time when he felt hij mem ory about to fail, he would save himself by cry mg out: "Come tq my nrm3, my child." The husband of tho daughter was heard to say that ho thought "thouuthor repeated himself very often." Ho Will Not "oish-ft - A precocious Ponckhokie boy had his photograph "taken" the other day. His uncle, desiring to send one of the r traits to a friend in England, wrote the following on a slip of pacr and asked the boy to copy . on he back of the poi'r trait: "To Uncle 's English friend. From a little American boy." When the portrait and copy were given to the lad he shook his head and appeared dissatis fied, lli.i mother asked him why he acted i:i that manner. ' pin't going tq send my picture to the English. U-eause they came over here and t.i.ied us on tea." xvi'.s the youngster's answer. Kingston F.eeiuan. SOME SUPERSTITIONS. FEW OF THE FANCIES AND POPULAR FEARS, FAIRY TALES. Didn't lleliei-e lu GhMt. but Afraid of Them Things Worn anil Curried to lre- vent IHHcnse- t'nlucky to Go Coder Ladder lit and Out the Same Door. The probable truth is that there is not one of Tho Globe's readers who does not at least half believe in some superstition. Somewhero in your lives you have little private closet where you keep one or more pet superstitions locked up out of sight of your friends, and, for tho most part, out of your own sight. But now and then you unlock the door, or they get out through the keyhole; then they look at you in the twilight with their weird eyes, full of the mystery of the past, arid you find yourself on your knees la-fore them. Perhaps you are half ashamed of them, because jou do not more than half believe in them, but when hey get you alone they master you. iou are like Mine, do Stael. A fi 'end said to her one day, "Do you be lieve in ghosts "No, she replied, "but 1 am afraid of them, though. A LONESOME I.ADY. Col. Ingersoll dedicated his first vol ume of lectures to "Eva A. Ingersoll, a woman without superstition." In tho early mining days, in California, when sclfUh rascality seemed to be tho rule, an old miner who had been repeatedly "fleeced" was very much astonished at the remarkable honesty of si young man who had just paid back sunn money which had leen given bi::i by mistake. Thinking he could nut have many com panions i:i sueh deeds l':: old man stepped up to him. I.sid his band on his shoulder and sai.l, "Stranger, don't you find 3-ourself awfully lonesome about these parts?" So 1 huve often thought that if Mrs. Ingersoll is really altogether "without superstition." she must some times find herself -awfullv lonesome." I remember, when a bov, that one of my brothers used to wear about bis nock a red woolen cord to prevent the nose bleed. The only tiling clear in my mind on the subject was that it did not pre vent it. At any rate it used to bleed very often, while the rest of us, who did not wear one, were never troubled at all, except in those cases that all who huvfc been boys will understand, where a iost. pf the ice in skating, or a snowball, or some other boy's fist came in somewhat violent contact with tho most prominent feature of our fncea. I suppose, how ever that there was some fanciful con nection between the red of the string and the red of the blood, and an incipient homeopathy suggested that "like would cure like." I also remember, when a child, how some of the larger lxys used to carr? about a horse chestniit in their pocket's as a piOYPntJvo of rheumatism. This is one of the mysteries 1 have never fath omed. Only it does seem a willful per versity for people to suffer so, just to save the trouble of carrying a horse chestnut, Just as it seems pure malice in any one ever to die when one looks through an apothecary shop, reads the advertise ments m tho newspapers, or knows how Dr. Cullis cures people by simply praying for them, and then telling them they ar WHAT BAD DREAMS MEAN. A friend told me the other day that when a boy he always felt it incumbent on him to spit three times whenever he saw a dead cat. The origin of this I will not stop now to trace, Not long since a lady acquaintance was waiKing aiong ine ptvoet witn a friend, when she suddenly felt herself pulled off ii- i . . ... . tne sidewalk mto tho street. The occa sum of this sudden maneuver was the other lady's superstitious fear of walking under a ladder that leaned againsf the wall in front of them. I have learned that this superstition is very common and, perhaps, it is not worth my wliile to disturb it. ror it might be decidedlv "unlucky" to walk under a ladder pro- viueu a man weighing 200 was on it and it should slip; or in case an unsteady man with a "drop too much," should in dulge in a further drop too much of a loose lying brick from Ids hod. Though, in tho case of the colored brother, who, stood serene while tho brick lay in frag ments at jus feet, and w ho merely ex claimed, "Look out, darl Ef yo' doan't want yo bricks broke jes' keep 'em off o' dis chile's he'd!" it was only the brick that was "unlucky." I iiave an old acquaintance in Maine who used to stick his jackknife in the headboard pn going to bed to prevent his having the cramp. That is the solo in stance of that sublime faith with which I am acquainted. But 1 hare known of people who warded off the same uncom fortable nightly visitant by scrupulously arranging their slippers bottom up at the foot of their bed. A lady not long since went into a jewelry store. Being at a corner it opened, on two streets. When she started to go out, the salesman said, "Madam! you have forgetten." "Why what?" said she, thinking of purchase or purse. "But you came in at the other door," he replied. Then it flashed over her: and though she went on her way., she rememliered that it was "unlucky" to enter by one dooy and go out by another. However it may be about other places, I am really inclined to. think that it is unlucky for a lady to go into a jewelry store, no matter which door she goes out of: unlucky for the man who lias to pay the bills. Then, again, it L unlucky to have a luul dream three nights running. This is one of the signs that I believe in thor oughly. "Aha!" you say. then you, too, are suierstitious as well as the rest u?" Yes, leljeve it is very unlucky tq liave a Ixul dream even one night. It is a sign that your supper didn't set welL and also that you will not feci nearly so w ell the next morning. And if you allow it to trouMeyou the next day it i-i another Lad igi a sign lhal you won't sleep 6Q well the next night, and also a sign that you have not yet outgrown the fanciful dreams of the world's childhood. Dr. Savage ia Boston Clobo. I TT iio 1IA8 THE LARGEST FURNITURE, STOjVES, TIW.WAEE HOUSEHOLD GOODS. In the city, which lie is ottering at Prices that will make tJiciu sell. A complete line of Window Curtains nt u sacrifice. Picture Frames in great variety. You can get everything you need. You can buy it on the installment plan, pay so much each mouth and you will pooh have a fine furnished house and hardly realize the cost. Call and see. I- 3? 1E2 Xj 2v -A- IfcT, SIXTH STREET, RET. MAIN AND VINE. I LAITHUOn P, M P. 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No matter Ii taire or email the trt.sii.-:lon, it will receive oar careful attention, and we promise always eour teou.s treatment. -ues Certirtoit-s of Deposits rtexrine intr. Buy and He!! Foreign i'"xclTa:i?f. Coar.'v and t'itv securities-. FIRS ATIOAL B .A. 3ST- 3E. K f-UTMMtlCTH. NKHIHMSiA rte very be tacilitU fertile (iron j rracottctlon of legitimate BANKING BUSL to: -ks. Bonds, iiold, overT mrtn M.ri . ."cnritie Bou;ht and Solri , Deposit s receir d ;md interest allowed tin ti.Mf Ovtifl. -Hte, Draft rdi-awii. available in any nart of the United St lie- n.J all th lrinctal tortm of Eurooe. :ii '.fiction mad fr promj-t- rttr.itt ;hat marlrct price paid for County w H tnte ai. d Count RoVd.. OIRECTOPS 1 KP.zer.fd Joh R Clarlt ' S. -""a-iifti JoffV KTT?aRAt, Prefideat. !llcv ,rf h AND FINEST STOCK OF AND SOCIAL, FOR EEK. RV CARRIERS BY 3LJ-TaZj. be Convinced Bunk of Cass County Cor. Miln H'ul Fifth Sis., I'latti-mouth. PA II) CP CAPITAL. SL'KI'l.L'3 '. $M.CtO 26,000 C. if. 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