Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 17, 1885, Page 4

e THE DAILY BEE. Ostana Orrice No. 914 axn 916 F. New York Orrice, Roos 65 Trinose Britn: ING, Publshed overs morning, exo only Monaay morning daily publi TRRNE Y AL $10.00 | Three Months 500 | One Month ublished Sunday. The inthe state, 250 1.00 ednesday One Year Bix Months The Weekly I 8200 19 10 One Month, cn t s and Editorial EvItoR oF TR relating to N Irossed to the All Commnieatior matters should be Ber, TUSINRSY 1RTTERS, All Business Tetters and Remittances thould be ddressed to Tin Bre PUBLISIING COMPAXT, ONATIA Jrafts,Checks aud Post office orders to be made pay able 16 the order of the company THE BEE PUBLISHING C0., Prps, E. ROSEWATER, Epiror, A. H. Titeh, Manager Daily Circulation, “A FAMILY AFFAIR," BY HUGH CONWAY. In this issue of the Ber will be fonnd the Mayor Boyd scems to have a very queer Iden of the meaning of the words tsslosed at midnight,” as applled to the saloons, He is of the opinion that the proptietors have a right to keep thelr curtalns down after 12 o'clock. One might Infer from this that 1f they keep tholr curtalns down they can let In peraons all night long by a simple turn of the door-dey, In answer to a gentle rap, aud thus bs enabled to continue thelr traffic without interruption. It that means closlng at midnlght, the may- or's order amounts to nothing. The doors might as well remain wide open with the window curtains up. The mayor's opin- fon on the curtain question la in direct confllet with the law, which distinctly sayn, in soctlon 20, chapter 61, laws of 1881, that liguor dealers must keep the windows and doors of thele places of business unobatructed by screens, blinds, palnt, or other srilcles, and a violatlon cf this section is a miedemeanor panishable with a fine of not less than introductory chapters of the last story by this celebrated anthor, Thia is unquestiona- bly Hogh Conway's greatost story, His two pravions novels, “Oalled Back” and **Dark Days,” havo boen the most popular stories ever printed, with the excoption only of “Unele Tom's Cabin.” No novel written by Dickens attained so large n sale in the same length of timo as either of these two stories by Hugh Conway. The mew story, “A $25, or Imprisonment In the county jall not less than ten days, or both, to be followed with a revocation of license. If this sectlon coes not cover the curtaln question then we do not understand the Eoglish language. We do not believe there isa saloon keepor In Omaha who strictly obeys the liquor law, and for any of them to object to the saloons belog closed at mldnight Family Affair,” though only a little more than half completed as a serial, has made a pro- found sensation in England. The right to print it in newspaper form has been sold to small eyndicate of newspapers in England for ten thowsand pounds, The story will be con- tinued from day to day in tho B, and its completion will be followed by storles and sketches by other noted authors, A SAN Josk bank was robbed the other day of a tray containing $10,000 in gold. It would seem that this is placlog alto. gether too much money oa the tray. Furraer investigations show that that cholera cate at Camden, N, J., was not of tha Asia‘is strlps. It was only groen apple cholera, which is liable to occur In tho beat regulated commaunities. For forty yoars the rearest frienda of the *‘aoblozt Roman of thom all” have ro known what the lutter G. stood for in his nams. It has juss boon direovered that his full name ts Allen Granberey Thurasn. A cornresrospeNT asks 1f a county tressurer can b elccted for a third texm In succeetion. Tho law prohibits any maa from holding the citice for mere than two terms in eucceesicn, but he can ke elected a third time if a term intervenee. is certainly exhibiting a splrit that is in marked contrast to the liberallly that Is displayed towards them by the auth:or- fties who pormlt them to keep open not only twenty hours a day, but also on Sundoys, through the back doors, al- thoogh Svnday liquor-traffic 15 a violation of law. If they are permltted to do a back door bustness on Sunday, then per- hapa It is proper enough to keep the curtalns down, but <when curtalns are used as & scresn t> hide from vlew the drinklng crowd bstween the hours of midnight and 4 a, m , it is certainly con- trary to the meaning of the mayor's order as origlnally promulgated. Tho modifi- cation of the order, as expressed by the mayor In an Interview, certalnly locks like & case of hedging. So far as wa know no one has asked for a strict enforcement of the llquor law, or even demsnded that the saloons bo closed at midnight, bat pablic eentiment i3 overshelmingly favor of tho saloons balng strictly closed at that time, and that no liquor shall be ecld between that hour and four o’clock In the morning. It s to be hop:d, there- fora, that the mayor will inslat that the curtains of saloons shall not obstruct the view between thoss hours s> that the polics can see that the order 1s obsyed so long as it {s 1o force. What did the mayor lssue the order for in the first Cor, Tox MooNLIGHT I8 to be the first deputv of the new Unlted States marshal of Kansas. Moonlight wlll probably make hay while the sun shines, but it does not seem quite the proper thing to appoint a moonshlner to a responsible federal position, Tue Herald joins the BEE In the pro- tes: agalnst the whistling nulsance. If the power of the press rsally amounts to anything this combination ought to ba sufficient to put an end to the whistling, The probability, however, is that the whistles will continue to whistle, and the people can do the samo thing. TaE cable informs us that the Rusilan army is belng mobilized to move the czar to the place of meeting with the German emperor. Tkis cextainly looks like reck- lets extravegarce when the nihilistic dy- nawiters stand ready to move the czar free of all expenee, All they want is the opportunity, Tue death of Mrs. Helen Hunt Jack- #son ends the csreer of a good woman acd charming writer, Mra. Jackeon was beet known to the reading public 85 a con- tributor to the Century and other peri- odicals over the siguature of “H, H.” Her work has been varled and volumin- oug, including descrptive articles, storles and poems, and, at a time when good lit- eratare and gifted authors were lees common, would have won her no liitle fame. Ir now torns out that Judd, the Cole- rado horse-thief, was recommended for & federal po:ition by prominent republi- «<cans, and hence the odium of biyappolnt- ment falls upon the repub izan party. It ie abous time to call a haltia this kind of bualness, In the first place we do mot bslisve In re- publicans recommending democrats for office, and in the next place, If they will peratst in doivg It, we wculd suggest thai they carefelly inqu're Into the ante- cedents of those ¢emocratic office-seekers whom they wish to aesiat. At any rate, ‘we hope no mora horse-thieves will be appolnted to cflice. ——— Mansran Cusmines, who iv endeavor- Ing to perform his daty, deerves the support of the public In the position he has taken in the controversy with Judge Stenberg, So long as the mayor’s order closing the saloons at midnight is in force, the marshal declares that he pro- poses to s2e It enforsed as he undersi ands it. Any attempt to sell llquor afterraid- night beh'nd locked doors and curta ne a violation of the law, and the ma - shal is emlnently corsect in his efforts to pot astop todt. I¢ Is not fair for one salooz-keeper to be compelled to close, while another ls pormitted t» sell llquor on the sly, after m\dnight, as Is probably the case with some of these who are lo cated beneath gambling rooms, If thete gambliog rooms ware oréerad closed at midnight, along with the saloons, ft would have a salatary effect. The mer: ahil hag the power to close them entiraly, and If he exerc'scs thet power he will place If it was not to be enforcad? RAILROADS AND STOCKYARDS. £ the editor of the Omaha Bik had sent & reporter to any of the railway officials of this city, or had taken the trouble to make the slightest personal inquiry, he would not have published the editorial in which he accused every Nebraska railway of the Jittle less than crime of working against the Omaba stock- yards, Indeed, if he had gone through the somewhat ordinary process of thought, he would not have published it, The facts eeem to be that all the Nebraska ronds are doing everything they can to favor the Omaha stockyards, and that Commission- er Faithorn endorses their action,—Omaka Republiean, In this particular fighttheonly Nebraska road that is really endeavoring to help Omaha and the Unlon stockyards 1s the Unlon Paclfic, and Commissioner Falt- horn does not endorso its actlon, That the Borlington and Northwestern, through thelr Nebraska allles, the B, & M. on the south and the Sionx City & Paclfic on'the north, are discriminating agalnst Omaha {s an Indisputable fact. The B. & M. and the Stoux Cliy & Paclfic, by virlus of thelr connections and the discrlminating manner in which they are operated, may much more prop- erly b called Chicago llnes than Ne- bratka roads, Of the two the B. & M. is Incllned to msake more of & show towards treating Omaha fairly. Butit is a fact that the Barlington rates from Chicago to Lincoln are leis than the distance justifies, when compared with the rates from Chicsgo to Omaha, The sams may be said with re- gard to the Northwestern rates from Ohicago to Fremon*. The fact s that the only falr rates from Omaha to Ne- bracka towns by the B, & M, and Sloux City & Pacific are for common polnts reached by the Unlon Paclfic. Will the Omaha Republican please inform us how many oars of stock the Lnlon Stockyards company has recsived off the line of the Sloux Olty & Paclfic since the establish- ment of the stock yards! Does It know that the rates on that road are made so high that 1t 1s impoesi ble to ship stock to this market, which pos dvantages superior to those of the Chicago markel? Is it not aware that these rates are In- tended to freeze Cmahs out and give Chicago the entlre possesslon of the northern Nebraska field? And yet Commissioner Falthorn endorses such actlon, If the Republican wants to lesrn anythlng concerniog dlscriminatlons agalost Omahs let it loqulre of our mer- chanta and shippers, who endorss the couree of the Bez 1o denounciog these outrageous practlces. The editor of the Republican would uot have published his editorial denouncing the Bek's course {f he had as much sense a3 the local de- psrtment of his paper, in which we find the following—agrecing with what the Ber #ald lo the firs! place: “The adoption of Faithorn's report would simply 1estroy the Omaha market without addiog to the recaipts of the paol,” We are N8) by Judge Btenberg that #o far as ‘he enforcement of Mayor Boyd's order closing the ealoons at mid- THE MAYOR AND THE SALOONS. |a right to use his ditcretion regarding the ball bond, which is only taken to secure the sppesranco of the accured at the pollee court. In the cate, which has created some little controversy, he re- leated the ecouzed on his own recognl- zsnce. The only polnt le whether ho made that raoognizince in writing, Al though thls is a techuleallty in cases where thers Ia nmo doubt about ap- pearance for trial, yet it should be atriotly carrled out, and made a matter of record. Judge Stenbarg astures the Bz that he proposes to do hls duty impar- tially, aud that the litile dlragreement with the marshal wes merely a side Issne having nothing to do with the merits of the Higgins case. THE OHIO CAMPAIGN. The liquor questlon wlll figure very prominently in the Ohlo campaign. The prohibitionists are more than usually active, and aro resorting to tastios that would do honor to the moat experlenced politislans elther among the republivans or democrats, One of thelr statements— which Is emphatically characterized as ‘‘a campalgn lie"—ls to the effoct that the Scott liquor law, while in force, encour- sged the liquor traffio sni largely in. crensed fthe number of saloons. In refu tatlon of this statement figures, ob- talned from the commiasstoner of inter- nal revenue, are produced, showing the number of retail liquor deslers dolog bueiness In Ohio, April 30, 1883, to have been 16,7563, of whom only 336 dealt ex- clusively In malt llquors, The Scott law becamo operatlve when the tax imposed by its provisions fell due, which was June 20, 1885, The payments under this Jaw went on until the month of Septem. ber of the same year, at which time, according to the records of tho etate auditor's office, 10,631 liquor eellora had complied with the act by paying thelr taxes, This embraced about a!l who re- malned In the buslness. Comparing the number with thoze who had paid tho fed- eral tax at an earller date 1t will be seon that 5,104 liquor dealers, nearly 33 per cent. of the whole number, were forced out of ousiness by the Scott law. Not- withstanding thls reduction and the col- lection of a revenus amounting to $1,785,508 in 1883 from the saloons, the prolibitionists united with the democrats to wipe out this law, the usefulness of which had been practically demonstrated. The united forces sncceeded In electing a democratle leglslature snd a supreme court, That settled the fato of the Scott Hquor lsw. It was declared unconstita- tional, and the dec!slon had the effest of Increaslng the taxatlon to an amount equal to that which had been pald by the llquor dealers. Besldes, the number of saloons Immodiately Increased again, and on the 30th of April, 1885, thers were 14,920 retall liquor dealers paylng government tax. In the face of all theze facts the prohibitlonlsts are again work- Ing hand in hand with the democrats. Do they suppose for one moment that they will ever succeed In forclng prohibition upon Ohio cr any other state by kelping the democrats into power? They certainly must know that the prohibition doctrine Is as repulslve to a democrat as water Is to & mad dog. The democrats will use the prohlbition- ist vote, but will never give anything in retarn for it. The majority of the tax- payers of Obio had become ratisfied with the workings of the Scott law, which lightened tho burden of tsxation to the extent ¢f nearly $2,000,000, and they feel pretty rore over its defeat at the bands of the democratic-prohibltion combination. The prebabllity s that there will be a great many honest tax-payers among the dem- ocrats who will vote with the repabli- cans if thelr votes will aeslat them in se- curing a law that will regulate and tax the liquor traflic, 1f the peopls of Ohio are opposed to free whisky—and pro- hibitlon means free whisky—they will elect the republican state ticket this fall. Tue Bee has never charged that the Unlon Paclfic has thipped stock from Valentine to Chicago for less money than from Valentlne to Omaha, the Lincoln Journal to the contrary notwithstand- ing, The Sloux City & Pacific has, how- ever, made rates discriminating agalnst Omaha to such an extent as to shub out stock shipments from Northern Nebraska to Omaha, and we believe the same to be partially true with regard to the B. & M., with reference to Southera Nebreska. The B, & M., we admit, is Inclived to give Omaha falrer trestment +han is accorded to her by the Sioux City & Pa- cifie, ‘Waerner the “lmmediate delivery” system in the mall service will bscome popular is a questlon which can only be answered by its trlel, It would scem, however, that with reasonably cheap t:le- graph rates and the present mail carrier system it will not be very generally taken advantage of. The new scheme goes Into effect October 1st in all citles having a population of over 4,000, The dellvery Is not to extend beyond the usual carrler dlstricts though made b; epeclal meseengers, or, In towns where there are no carrlers, within a radios cf a mile from the cffice. Besioes the §100,000 raised by the World for the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty, $35,000 more will be needed to complete tie work, New Yorkers bet- ter make up that amount befors they call opon the country for any more subecrip- tions to monumente. If the Statue of Liberty had been sent to Chicigo that eity would hsve raleed §150,000 In a week, P, D. Armove, who knmows more abzut cornering hogs than any other man in the world, hss come to the conclusion zeceive the thanks of the respectable por- fuight fs concernod he agrees with Mar-|that the Ohlcago fisld bas bacome too tlon of the community, eha! Comminge, but he helds that he has) limltel for his talent, He bas accord- Ingly applied for membershipin the New York stock exchange. Mr, Armour may dlscover that Wall str et has swallowed up #s blg men as he Is, Ix order to demonsteato the facllity with which signatures are obtalned to petitions a Lincoln paper ssys that an Omaha lawyer not long ago presented to the governor a petition signed by the principal clt/zens of Omahs, atking for the execution of the governor himself., Some people may possibly think that the signers to that petitlon did not know what they were signing, or that they wera only joking, while others may con- clude that our principal citizins are terrl- bly prejadiced agalnst our distinguished governcr, Tre Omaha Bk has opened up its batter. ios on the snide insuranco compenies doing business in this state, It is quite certain that the Bk has a big work to perform,—Fremont T'ribune, Very true; and If the mushroom insar. ance buslness Is not checked Nebraska will soon be ‘“worked to death” by the ia. surance pests. Nebratka ought to take warning from the state o Iowa, where bogus insurance has flourished to an alarming extent. There has been an overproduction in that state, and the overflow Is seeking an outlot In Ne. braska, Tue foct that one of the recent democ- cratio appointces has turned out to be a horse thief has revived the cuting obzer- vatlon, credited to Horace Greeley, that not all democrats are horse-thieves, but all horse-thieves are democrats, It will be remembered that the democrats onco endoraed Horace Greeley for president. OLTINGS, Nemaha's new court house at Auburn is oc- cupied. Neligh has contracted for a school kuildieg tojcost £5,489. Nebraska City is about to indulge in grano- Iithic sidewalks, Packard’s vew elevator at Creighton will hold 20,000 bushels, The Beatrice strect railway company has been incorporated. Fremont detectives are camping on the trail of the fire buga of the town, Six hundred dollars have been raised for a Grant monument a¢ Central City. A new flour mill, with a capacity of 123 barrels a duy, is to be built by home capital at Red Cloud, Tha town of Jackson, Dakota county, pos- eeszes more rowdies to the equare inca than any other town in the state, The Cincinnati house, one of the land marks of Nebraska Uity, is being torn down to make room for the new postoffice Nebraska City is promised a section of the Q" fast_mails, though the town is well stocked with fast males already, Mrs, Carl Ralzlaff, wife of a York county farmer, and mother of several children, com- mitted suicide by hanging rccently, Fremont s discussing the project of cop- verting its old cemetery into a pullic park, givieg it the name of Grant park, The Lutheran synod of Nebraska consisting of rome sixty ministers and forty laymen, wiil meet in Grand lsiand the 24th of next month, Miss Towneley, of Fairfield, has been or- dained a minister in the M. E, church, being one of the very few ladies who have attained such evangelical distinction, A viclous cow_ gored the two-year-old son of Willism Garduer, in Hastinge, last Tues- day. The little fellow was dangorously wounded in the left breast. C. D. Jones, of the gas and electric light company of Plattsmouth, planked down a forfeit of $300 as a guarantee that the works will be completed by November 15, The Fremont water works committes, who kave been investigating different pystems, have reported in favor of works similar to thoze of Beone, Ia., which cost $32,000. A servant girl at Beatrice is said to have fallen heir to a snug fortune of $10,000, The freckles have loft her nose and she i3 other- wise improved in the eyes of tha young men of the town, Melchor Neher gold his little iron-grey team a few weeks ago to Mr. Creighton, of Omaha, for $400, One has eince been sold for $500 and 5800 has been offered and sefused for the other, Possibly the buyers can ses some un- developed speed in them —[Crete Vidette, Dr. Schuchardt, a Scribner charaster, was invited by the citizens of the town a fow days ago to leave the county for the county's good. A bucket of tar, a whip and n rope being in sight, the doctor, who had bzcome notorious as 8 moral leper, accapted the invitation. J. . Hartow, o hog dostor from Shenan- doah, Iowa, deserted his wife and four chil- dren at Nebraska City, leaving them destitute and dependent on the' charity of strangers, The pertidious Harcow ought to be raked fore and aft, wherever fouzd, The annual meeting of ' the north Nebraska conference of the Methodist Episcopal charch will convene at Pouca on Tuosday, September 3, Bishop Audrews, of Washington, D, C., will preside over the 100 to 130 ministers ex- vected to be in attendance, John Kuho, of Seward county, is bullding & thirty foot keel boat, on the river bank near the distillery, witn which he expects to make a trip to Florida, accompanied by his emall family. T will take six wooks to finish the craft, and he counts on two months for the journey, ‘Wiil Waugh, a North Platte machini.f, started in to destroy the sppetite of Dick Grace at & dinner table, one day last weok, and failing with his fists he pulled a popgun, but failed to hit the mark, He was put un- der £500 bonds, then jumped thoe town, leay- ing his friends to settle with the court, T. J. Moore, & Polk county farner, was killed by lightniog duriog the storm of the 10th. He bad partly dressed himself to see that the windows and doors of the house were secure, and as he went down the stairs the eleotritity oame down the chimuey, killing him and tearing most of ths clothes from his body. Amcng the transfeis of real estato in Sloux county last week were the following: O, Frost and wife to Guy O, Barton ll‘llfl’. 3 Nichols, 291 acres near Gilmore, for $16,000; A, Egbert to Jacob Tex, 160 acres of raw lind, three miles northeast of Papillion, for $8,000; L. A, Butterfisld to A. Kase, 16 acree, in Bellevue precinct, for §7,000, Farmers from different parts of York county report rather unfavorable ne ws conceraing the wheat crop. The wheat was not 8o heavy a8 previous reports had indicated, and the rust did much injury during the last few days that wheat was ripening, The frequent raiue, fol- lowed as they all aro by such excossively hot weather,hayve worked great injury to the small grain generally, It is amusing to see the actions of some of the present republican incumbents of the United States land offices cateriog to the wishes of tho democratic prers, Under re- publican administration they were :taunch re- publicane, avd we have heard of one at least toat aspired to represen’ his distriot in con- grese, How long it will take with democratic patrouage to transform these incumbents into full-fledged democrats time will tell,—[Oak dale Journal, Gen, Geo. B, McOlellan, having been in vited to attend the Beatrice reunion of the Grand Army, wrote to Captsin Hill, from Mavitou, Col, as follows: “I am on the point of 'leaviog for Texas to be absent some ten days and cannot determine until my re- turn what my future movaments will be. I fear it will be out of my power to epjoy the pleasure of meeting my comrades ot Beatrice in Heptember, but should it prove practicable I will communicate with you on my 19turn, 1 can arsurs you thet few things would afford me more plexsure thanto ficd myself once ;nurs]in the midst of 89 mavy old aud tried riends, " THE DAILY BEE---MONDAY, AUGUST 17, 1885 THE STATE IN SLICES. A Variely of Events Gathered from All Porfions of the S'ate. Boone County Alh!ra—lnd the Ad- ventist Camp-Meeting =The G. A, R, Inspection Tour, Brown County Affairs. Correspondence of The Ber, Avrarow, Neb., Aug. 156 —The citizens of Boone county, realizlng the importance of organlzing an agricultucal county asso- cistlon, have met in conventlon and re- wolved to purchase twenty-five acres ad- joining the villags of Alblon, for county fair purposes. At the lsat meeting it was declded to hold a county fale on September 29, 30 and October 1, of this yoar, The grounds are being put In shape by grading and preparing a half- mile race track, and In erecting sultable sheds and balld!ngs for the exhibltion of live stock and sgricultural products, Thus Boone county fs keeping paca with our neighboring counties, A fire, burning one of our agrlonltural Implement warehouses, last week, has aroused our cltlzens to the necesity of making gome provision for the protcc'ion of our town from the ravages caused by fire. The chalrman of the village board of trustees has called a meeting of the citizens for Ssturday evening of this week, for the purpose of adopting some measures for the safety of the community against the fire fiend. The Boone County Te:cher's asssoo'a- tion has been in eession since the 4th fcat, It will close its eestion on Saturdsy of this week, The conventlon has been largely attended—some efghty teachers beiog pretent —and tho evening lectures hava been given to houses crowded full to overflowing, of our cltiz:ns 28 well as teachers. The conventlon has boen em- inently succersful and interesting not only to the teachers, but also to our oltt- zens who have largely attended the In- stitute. The polftleal pot is commenc'ng to boil. There are numeroua candidatcs for county clerk, county treasurer and sher/ff. Hand shaking and ‘‘glad tv see you” is belng expressed by candidates to our citizens, and many of our farmers wonder what, it all means, until the ques- tion is asked ‘‘what do you think of my chances for an election this fall,” then the interest manifested in their welfare dawns on them, The county conventions will not probably bo called uatil early in October, List week a wind and hail storm did considerable damage In certain portions of tho cotnty. In many places the leavis on the cornstalks were entirely stripped cff, and {he show for a crop is gloomy. Butf, with the exception ot ths damsge done by this storm, which is con- fined to a narrow strlp, the proepects of an akundant crop were uever better in Boone county, Small grain has already been cut, and the cora in nearly covery field s glazed aud out of the way of even an early frost, Weather cool and pleas- ant. Farmoers are ull busy stacklng and preparing for haying., Buainees ls qaiet, but cer merchants are content, knowing that farmera ara Improving every mo- ment In taking care of their oropr. Owro. The Adventists’ Camp Meeting at IKearney, The accond day of the meeting opened with sarvices in the morning at 5:30 o'clock. This was so conducted that every one could take part by bearing a short testimony, At 7 o'clock all took thelr meals in thelr tents, at 8 had fam!ly worship. The camp Is divided into sections, and those within their re- speciive sections meet in a tent and there worahip is conductad. At 9 Elder O. A, Johnson gave instractions In Biblo study. He introduces the best mathods of study- ing subjects so as to arrive a% the proper conclusions In the shortest time possible, At 10:30 there was preacning In the large pavilion, Elder Johnson delivered a virg uble dlecourse. The prlncipal theme of his eermon was the comlng of Christ, and the Importance of belng prc- pared for that event. He showed that the events prodicted, in the book of Daniel, that were to tike place before the s3cond comlng of Carlst, are all in the past, except the very closing ones, and which were immedlately to proceed his coming. Also the slgns have been fuliilled ard are now In the past, avd s0n tho greatest of all even's will take place, that of the coming of Chrlat, At 1 o'clock all took their dinner. At 2:30 & bible rexding was glven by Elder Cudney upon the coming of Chrisr, and 83 qaestion aftar qaestion wes ssked, belng auswered directly by texts from the bible, the poin's wera proven beyond controversy. At 5 o'ciock thers was a moeting for the children. Elder Cadney talked to them for a short time, showlng them ths importance of shunning tho evils that are 80 common among the ohildren, such as swearing, using tobace), oto, Then a fow moments were devoted to ssklng quos- tlons, in which the little ones showed tholr Interest, by putting many ques'ions which we mlght suppore would trouble their little minds They were all an- swered, however, to the satlsfsc:lon of the children. This meeting was very Inter- esting, and parents cou'd have lear: ed by attending, but while the children were assembled In the large tent, the older ones were having a meeting in another tent, It saems that all h, ve came to wor~ ship, snd they try to improve tho tlme. At 8 o’clock there was preaching agaln, 00 | Eld, Johnson spoke upon the perpetulty of the law, The cougregation was large, and the very best attention was given to the words spoken, At 9:30 the sllence ktell ringe, after which all lond tslking ls prohibited. Thus onds the programme of the day. This will b, the proceedings of each day during the meetiog, People ccniloue to come ia from abroad, and now the attendance is larger thsn was anticipated. The weather thus far has been basutiful, The Grand Army Inspection Tour, Correspordence of The BEE, Accordlng to the notice I read in the papers last week that Department Com- mander A, V. Cole and staff woald etart on the grand rounds throngh the North Platte conntry, and finding after arrlving up here that the Bee is the most gen. erally circulated paper in this country, I thought perhajs a few llues from us might be aczeptable, We left Fremont the mornlng of the 10th inst., on the Fremont, Elkhorn & Missourl Valley rallroad, and mecording to programme, the firat pcst vislted was West Point. There we found saveral of the comradom on guard at the depot commanded by Hon. E K. Valentine, who Is alwaya reacy and willing to do all he can for his comrades. Afret being eacorted throngh the clty and shown all the sights and valuable institutions, of whish they have many, wo assembled In the Grand Army of the Republic’'s hall in the evening, which s very neatly furnished, and after musterlng a recrals and belng Instructed In the secret work- Ings cf the order by Commander Colo and Inepector Lewls, there were epecches made by Comrades K. K, Valentine and L D R'chards, of Fremont; Commander A. V. Cole and Department Inspector J. C. Lewls and others, which wero very Iutercsting, and ell exproesad 1hemeelves as having a good moeting. On the 11th we went to Nirfolk, snd on arriving there we did not find {he pos: asleep, as we wore halted ns soon as we stepped on the platform, our grips taken out of our hands, and we were ushernd into a fine carringe and drivon to the Paclfic hotel, whore a fize dinner was in walting, afier which wo were taken around the clty and Introduced to meveral of the old comrades. As thoy had arranged for a oamp fire In the evenlng, and expesting a large crowd, they had arranged %> hold 1t In the grove. Before the camp fires were lighted the crowd ba- gan to gather in. At 830 p. m. the address of welcome was delivered by COomrade Ralnbolt, which was resporded to by Commander Cole, Then Comrade Lowis was introduced and madie one of the finest speeches ever heard in Norfolk. Ia fact be fs the Robert G. Ingersoll of tho party except In politics, After him Hon, J. 0. Sherwin, late congressman from Illinois, and commander of the post at Norfolk, delivered a viry fine addros, and efter singlng two or three army songs about three hondred of the audlence re- palred to tho large skating rink, where they partook of beans, coffe and crack- ers, and after about two hours spent In singlng old army songs and having a gon- eral good time, everybcdy went home feeling hoppy. It was a sploadid meet— 1 ng. We loft Norfork at 2 p. m., and arrived st Oreighton st about 5 p. m., sams dey, where we found about s:venty of the grand army boys In_line, headed by the Creighton brasa band, and on stepping off the traln we were immediately surround- ed. Wo saw thero was no uze in making any reslatance, so waving our white hand- korohlefs wo were faken in charge and told to form in lino when we marched to the beautiiul hell built and owned by Crelghton post No, 70, and fitted up in good shape. Here wo mot Comrade S. Draper, commander of the post at Nio- Dbrate, ond about twelve of his post who had criven about twenty-five miles to atterd tho cemp-fira, Al:o Comrade U. M. Gable, commander of the post, at Plainview, and eeveral of his post, who had driven ten or twclve miles to take pextin the meotlog. At 9 o'clock p. m. Comrede G. D. Mullihan, commander of the post at Creighton, called the meeting to order and Introduced Qomrade Draper, who deliver:d the address of welcome to the depsrtment commsnder and staff, which was viry good and to thu polnt, After this Commander Cole respended in bis happy and plessant manner. Then Inspector J. C. Lowis was called out and made ons of the most entaueiistic and finest speeches ever heard in this place, which pleased the large audience present and left a good Impression on all who hiard him. After the camp fire the fce croam was served up tothe boys, and afterward the post was opened and four recruits were mustered, snd I must 83y they were mue- tered In the best ehape and the comrades the D:st posted of any post wo have visited on the trip. We go to-day to Nellgh, but cannot expect as good a meeting, for our Jumbo comrade, Lewls, which he thought should be looked after, and he left us this morning for home but will join us again at O'Netll to-morrow. from whence we will continge our jour- ney west, vliting Stuart, Long Pine, Aingworth, Gordon and Chadron. The old eoldiers turn out in large numbers to the meetings and sre very enthuslastic for the good of the ordor, and express their determination to attend the reunion at Beatrice, commencing the 7ch of Sep- tember next. Crops are leoking fine up In this conn- try, everybody {s happy, and a large emi- gration is coming in. 8. J. SmirLey, A, A, G, —————— ‘What is 8 Mutnal Insurance ? To the Kditor of the Exe. In reply to Otto Lobeck’s communlca- tion of August 12, I wish to eay I em not now, never have been, and never expect to be an agent for an old line insurance company, I have carrled old line in- surance, but do not now and never expect o carry any more, I therefore do not attack mutasl ald sccieties in che lnterest of apy other cause than that of humanity. It has been my fortune during the past five years to inves!izate the {nner work- fogs of thess Institatlons preity thor- ovghly, and these investigations have led me tothe eame beltef of the insurance commissioner of the state of Iowa, and that ia that they ebould bs suppressed by law. What is a mutusl insurancs? It s where two broken down business men, or tired insurance agants from insar- anca company on wind, One acts as secretary and the other as genfisl man- azer. They then induce a few respect- able business men to allow thelr names to be used as directors, president and vice president, etc., eto. A mutual concorn In Councll Bluffs a fow months ago used the name of Wil- liam A, Myn:ter, (a prominentattorney,) without his permieslon. Another inski- tutlon tome two years ago at Council Bluffs, used the nawe of Col. Sapp, (member of congrees,) In the sxme way. —Will Mr, O:to L-beck tell us what prominent clt/zen of Omahs he Is using s & figure-head to the Omaba Mutoal Benefi: assoclation, Thece institutions ask the public to trust to thelr honesty t collect assessments frem the lving pol- icy holders to pay to the famllles of the deceased, 1f they fail to do their daty the insured have no redress In reality. If the officers collect the movey and fail to pay 1t over, the burden of proof lays with the insured to show how much and from whom it was collected, and to do thls fv would cost more than the value of the claims, Attorneys sbout the country who have had claims of this kind bave glven them up in dlsgust, Many of these fostitutions have swin- dled the public cut of thousands of dol- lars by drawing fraudulent assessmente, as, for instance, the Ohicago Life Aseo- clatlon, They employed a physician and underiaker to settle 11 soxe dietant lo- cality, from which plico o desth loss would bo reported, this physiclan and on- derwaker certifylng to the death, In time the suthori i & dlssovered the fraud, but oot until the parpetrators had filled tkelr pockets and escaped. ) How many frandulent death claims have been pald by other Institatlons will be known only at the judgment day, « There Instftutions fail throcgh two causes: first, throngh frand, and, secoud, through lack of confiderce cn the part of the poliey holder. The average msn pays his money Into an Insurance schemo and dces his fuvesti- gating afterwardr, e finds he has been induced to insuro through misrepresonta- tlon and he drops out pocketing his lot, atd the agont pocketlng his $16, Any company promlalr g to give a oer. taln fixed sum of money upen the death of the pollog-holder, upon the s1'd policy-hol ter paging the compsny & cer- taln sum per yoar, is considered an insur- rance company under our law, and the etato autboritics under the law compal such companies to give security that they will have the meney to pay the Insured at such tmo as his death may cozur, Our lawa herctofore bave glyen us no protection against the mutuals, simply because the mutuals provise nothing ex- cept under a proviso, Will Otto Lobeck tell us what there is to prevent one of thess mutua’s. rending a phyriclan, underiaker, and even a preacher into scme crossroads in Dakota and reporting a death loes? It has been done time and again by other institutions, and we would like to know what there ls to prevent I's being repeated. Agaln, I wish to ask Mr, Lobeck what kind of & representative government cure would be If we were compelled to go to Washlngton to vote for our president or to send a proxy. How long would our government retaln its representative form? In the lodge systom of Insurance all power emenstes from the polley holder. 1t is purely representative, Officers are elected from the representatives yearly, Death losses are paid only {hrough the officera of the local lodge, herce there Is no opportunity to draw fraudulent asscas- ments, Somo twenty lodge eystems of Insar- ance have been inetituted In the United States, Nono have falled. All are growlng stronger, while on the other hand some two hundred mutuals in the state of Pennsylvania alore, have sprung into existence and dled during the past ten yoars. The wreck and debris of mrtoal in- surance strow our pathway of life count- less as the foreat lenves of antoma, *“*Burnt Cuip,” Owmaha, August 15, 1885, c— Mr, Adam’s Deadly Weapon, From the Philadelphia Press, The story to the effact that Charles Francis Adamws threatened to shoota Deanver repcrter “‘foll of holes” in case the latter reported hlm Incorrectiy, ls bardly worth noticiog. Mr. Adams doesn’t talk in that msnner, and, fur- thermore, if he wanted to warn the re- porter, he would simply have threatened to stab him with an Icicle. HAGAN'S Magnolia Balm is a secret aid to beauty. Many a lady owes her fresh- ness to it, who would rather not tell, and you car't tell. has a littls white elephant at Fremont | B Imported Beer IN BOTTLES. Bohemian DOMESTIC, 8t. Louis | Anhauser ......8t. silwaukeo | Schlitz-P lsner.Milwaukee .Omaha | Ale, Porter, Domesticand Rhine Wines. ED MAURER. 1218 Farnam St. HAMBURG- AMERICAN PACKET COMPANY. Direct Line for Kngiand, France and Germany. 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