Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 30, 1886, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. DMAMA OFFICENO. 914 AND gTaFARN AM ST KW YOk Orrice, ROOM 6, TRISUNE BUILDING WasiNaTox Orrice, No. 613 FOURTRENTH ST, Published every morning, excapt Sunday. The galy Monday morning papor publ jshed in the te. TERME DY MAIL: £10.00 Three Months. .. 5.00.0ne Month.... ... o Year....... Months.. ... Tns WeekLY Drr, Pablished Bvery Wednosang. TERMS, POSTPAID: Gro Fear, with premium e Year, without premivim Bix Months, without One Month, on trial COMMESPONDRNCE: All communieations rolating to_news and edk forial matters should be addressed to the Evk TOR OF THE DER. RUSINESS LETTERS: All by tiness Jottors and remittancos shonld bo d to Tue Bee PULisning COMPANY, Drafts, checks and postoffice orders iado payable to the order of the company. TEE BLE PUELISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETOS E. ROSEWATER, Eprron. (ORI o AL LR L) Ry WiLL the Herald please make a few more remarks about Gardner? The silence is becoming oppressive. JAy Govrp has directed Mr. Hoxie to recede from his position and to arbitrate the differences between the Missouri I cific and its employes. This is the begin- ning of the end of the strike. 2.5 100 premium SeNAToR INGALLS' plotograph of the political hermaphrodite will live in his- tory asa work of art. But why was it exhibited for the benefit of George F. Edmunds, the mugwump candidate? As it has passed both houses, the new pension law will add about $6,000,000 an- pually to the pension disbursements, How much of this amount the agents will get is a question which no mathematician has been able to ligure. Tie blind ch: gether too v plain are alto- gorous and pointed to suit the majority of congressmen. His inti- mate friend, Congressman Mor advised him to let up on the “boys,” they are beginning to squirm. Forty dollars a month and the per- quisites draw like n mustard plaster. Almost every other man you meet is will- ing to go to the council. They don't care so much for the forty dollars as they do for the honor and incident Tue Second ward has three council- men now—Behm, Schroeder and Lee. They will continue to have three coun men for the nex ear if Haseall gets in from the First ward, and one-third of the next council will hail from the Second — TuE senator from Kansas has call the president a “pterodactyl.’’ president should now return the pliment by calling Mr. Ingalls an “octohedron.” e is a many sided legis- lator, but every side is turned in sucs sion to the corporations. red to The com- AL HowaArbp’s nomination will be confirmed at the next exceutive ses- sion of the senate. 1t was reported fa- vorably by a unanimous committee. The democrats who years ago tried to con- yinco themselves that Howard was a bold bad man, scem to have revised their opinion. THE senate Il grappling with Lo- gan's bill to increase the efficicncy of the army. The bouse is not likely to devote #s much attention to the measure. There are so many members of the house who felt the efficiency of the army some twenty yeareago, thatitis hard to persuade them that the organization needs doctoring at the present day. BisMARCK may fume and fret and preach immigration to Africa, but his follow subjects of the emperor prefer Ameriea to Zanzibar and Nebraska to the Cameroons, During 1885, according to the report of the German government, 84,080 Germans emigrated to this country, while only 204 went to Africa. Since 1820, comsiderably more than three millions of German emigrants have Janded on our shores, and the stream is still flowing. While thesc figures are rather depressing to the Iron Prince, they cause no dismay in the United Sta The Germans are a sturdy, in- telligent and thrifty stock and have been no small factor in” the development of the country of their adopoton. ———— 12 is to be regretted that the two cen tral committees could pot agree upon making a non-partisan school board, It now remaing for the friends of the public sehools to attend the primarics of their respective parties and see to it that dele- gates ave sent to the city convention who will make first-class nominations. The board of education is & more important factor in some respeets in the growth and welfare of Omaha than the city council. It ndles and disburses nearly } gm,«m;. year for salarics and school uildings, and it has under its control the entire system of owr common school edu- gation. Our public schools contribute yery largely to the reputation of Oaha as a desitable place of residence. Their excelionco dopends upon the competency snd ofliciency of the bosid, 1t 12 t- ter of vital concern to every ecitizen, whether he has children to educate or not, that the members of the board of _education shall be intelligent, honest and active business men, ATION of prominent citizens of ns boarded the Brazilian train- ing ship, Almirante Bairroso, to give a welcome to Dom Pedro's son, Prince Augustus Leopoldo, who had been re- ported as coming to this country on a wisit, and especially to take in the New Orleans exposition. Speeches were made welcoming the prince and ofticers of the wessel. Al went well unul the com mander of the ship, a very courteous and lished gentleman, responded in fault- 88 English, saying that he took the visit of (the distinguished ens “of New Orloans s a compliment to the Brazilian # and navy, and not to the young k- Ince Augustus, who was not a or " o this country us n representative of the poyal famnly, but as a midshipman, and that he was treated the same us other middies. To say the New Orleanists ~ Were cmbarrassed does not half express #he situation in which they found them- ves. In order to somewhat relieve r embarrassment the captain set up champagne. Altogether it was a rich ,.and no doubt will be appreeiated " Sy Dom Pedro, when the gallant captain ~ makes & report of the ecompliment paid, vn« considered it, to the Brazilian flag 5 RRVY. Tapping Oentral Wyoming. Laramie county, Wyoming, which in cludes Cheyenne and little else in the way of population, has passed by an overwhelming majority a bond proposi- tion giving $400,000 to aid in the con- struction of the Cheyenne & Northern Irond. This line as projected will run northwards from Cheyenne towards old Fort Fetterman. 1t will penetrate central Wyomitg for a dista of 120 miles from the line of the Union Pacific and will strike the northern extension of the Elkhorn Valley railroad some enty- five miles or more from the braskn border. The construction of the road is a meas- ure of self defense on the t of Chey- cnne. For many years that city has drawn to itself the rich trade of the in- terior of the territory. As the center of the great stock grazing interests, it profited handsomely from supplying the ranches and ranges tributary to i of the Jargest cattle companies have their headquurters in the city, much of the banking is transacted through its finan- cial houscs, and as other inter in the north and western portions of the terri- tory have developed, Cheyenne has al- ways been ready to assert her claims s n supply depot. Now that the Northwestern road e ping central Wyoming, Cheyenne feels that direct railroad connection with the nges isa necessity. Last summer thou- nds of eattle reached the eastern mar- kets over the Northwestern road from ranges which in previous years had shipped through Cheyenne, or Pine Blufls and the Union Pacil This summer the shipments by rail over the same system will be still further increased by drawing from the country to a distance of over a hundred miles west from Chadron. The Northwestern extension will reuch Fort Fetterman by the middle of July and will offer to shippers an all rail route to Omahy and Chicago, in which Cheyenne will be left quite out of the caleulation. In addition, settlers are pouring into the country along the Platte and its tributa ries in western Wyoming, new towns. are being located, the muiming interests at Sil ver Cliff and vieinity will doubtless be developed and the entire section will experience the usual boom incident to vy immigration in a new country. The road therefore from Cheyenne north is likely to prove a profitable in- vestment for the city and for the Union Pacific with which it conncets. It will bring the capital eity of the territory in- to trade relations with the upver country and will at the same time give the bene- fits of competition to the scetion which it penetrates. Indirectly Omaha will reap the benefits of an addi- tional feeder to the Union Pacific, and will have two inlets into central Wyo- ming. 'L'he chances are that the Burling- ton system will also invade the territory which the Northwestern hasbeen the first to occuny, and that all three of the great trunk lines will push for a share of the traflic of central Wyoming before the snow flies. Another Combination. While the organs of capital have been bitterly denouncing, during the past week, combinations of ous to socicty and the indu of the country, few have found time or inclination to note the latest combina- tion of capital in the ecast or the eflect which it is certain to have, not upon industry alone, but upon the entire pub- lic. On Monday last the presidents of the great anthracite coal compunies met in a room and combined to limit the production of anthracite coal for the year and to advance the price 25 cents a ton throughout the scile, The combination represented several hundred millions of stocks and bonds, of capital largely fietitious. By a stroke of the pen these ecleven magnates bound themselves to tax the publie $6,300,000 more in 1886 for the same amount of coal than they did in 1883, the sum represent- ing the additional profits of the in- creased price of their commodity. The corporations who were parties to th contract control the entire supply of ¢ east of the Alleghanies. Their action in- creases the costof production in every fus {ory using coal as fuel. The lo ulting from half a dozen strikes would scarce ly foot up the enormous total which their arbitrary advance of coal will cost pro- duction, And yet the very men who have combined to lift the price of coal are cloquent in their abuse of laborers who combine to raise theprice of work. They are bitterly opposed to a strike for higher prices for labor, while they are themselyes striking for higher prices for the product of the labor of others. If their poorly paid miners should venture on the strength of the advanceé in coal to com- bine in demanding an advance in wages they would at once be informed that combinations of laborers are dan- gerous to society and an interference with the industrial interests of the coun- try. Wherein lies the difference? Which is more to be dreaded, a combination to increase the wages of the poor, or a com- bination to inc the profits ef the vich, in which the entire country is taxed for the benefit of the coal kings? — . 1s it Bconomy? People who intended to invest money in buildings in this city during the pres- ent year are very foolish in holding back because of the dread of labor troubles. For the last ten years there have been strikes and rumors of strikes every spring. It is like the spring fever, a disease that comes and goes with the soason, and will so continue for many years to come. The man who imagines that he will save mon by delaying his building another y lubors under a reat delusion, The movement for a ve- duction of the hours of labor will proba- bly stop with a concession of nine hours for a day's work this year. But as sure us the sun shines on a clear day the pressure for a reduction to eight hours will keep up until the ghange has been brought about. It is just as liable to come next year as it is to come three yeurs hence. W hen it does come the cost of building will be ten per cent. higher than it is this year. “I'he prospest for a reduction of wages with a reduction of the hours of labor is not very promising. The cost of living will advance with the decrease of the time, und therefore it is clear that the mechanic and labover will reauire ten hours pay for eiglt hours work in order to subsist. This means of course that building will be done cheaper this year than it will next year in spite of all the strikes and labor troubles. - Those free pgriward movement and ingreasing » THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. TUESDAY, MARCH 30, 1886. who build this year will profit by the ad- vance in rents which is sure to follow the change in working hours, and conse- quent increase of biilding. The man who has the money to build in 1886 had better not delay until 1887 or 1888. It will be poor economy for him to do so. The End In Sight. Mr. Gould has drawn in his horns. In telegraphing to Manager Hoxie to re-employ Knights of Labor and to submit the difforences between himself and the Missouri Pacific employes to arbitration, he has yielded to General Master Workman Powderly and made the road elear for a prompt conclusion of the strike. Orders have been telegraphed from the headquarters of the order to the striking Knights to resume work first and to arbitrate afterwards. The trouble should now ccase, and the social warfare which has disturbed the southwest for three weeks past be brought to a close by an amicable treaty of peace. he good sense and clear head of Mr. Powderly has won the day for labor. His persistent work for a peaceful settle- ment of the great labor trouble will now be crowned with success. He has en- forced the doctrine of arbitiation upon the king of monopoly, whose favorite weapons in his struggle with both capital and labor have been force and corrup- tion. The claims of the Knights of Labor for recognition as knights and for a hearing, which Loth Messrs, Hoxie and Gould arrogantly refused, are now ad- mitted. The whole country will rejoice in tho termination of the strike. Whether ill-ad- xd or not there is no question that it has been a very costly afiair for all con- cerned while it lasted. Labor has suf- fered hardly less than capital, trade has been seriously affected and business men who had no part in the causes which led up to the trouble have lost heavily through its long continuance. There should be no delay in the prompt resumption of supended traflic. The Business Situati The extensive railroad stri in the southwest and otber labor troubles in vari- ous sections of the country have had a de- pressing eftect on nearly every branch of business. Under such conditions the com- mereial situation during the last week or two has essentially been a wiiting one, and a large amount of business of one kind or another has necessarily been held in abeyance pending a solution of the la- bor troubles. There have been no other disturbing elements of special impor- tance in the immeniate business outlook, and the settlement of the south- western railroad strike, which at one time threatened to extend all over the country and involveall the 1- ing railro: and other industries, willin all probability e tollowed by are of activity in all branches of trade. So far, however, confidence has been lacking, and operations in nearly all lines have been confined within the limits of actual requirements. The failure list shows a further slight deerease, the total for the United States and Canada last week Deing 221, as against 225 the previous week. Cotton prices are slightly lowerin New Yo Philadelphin and some of the southern markets, us a result of a slug- gish legitimate demand and the set-back to speculative confidence caused Dby the industrial agitation and by unfavorable reports from foreign marke Wool dull and weak to scll. Manufacture are dissatisfied with the results of the season’s business to date, and with some success are using the labor troubles, larger importations of forcign goods and the tariff dis cussion as arguments to depress price: Demand is very slow and unsatisfact i kets. A fair degree of v s in the dry goods jobbing trade, but here also the disturbing effect of thoe strikes is evident. Some of the western jobbers haye withdrawn from the eastern markets until they can feel sure that shipments will not be delay by n general railroad strike, and the distribution of goods in the southwest has been seriously retarded by the trouble on the roads in that section. Print cloths are a shade lower, but ues in most deseriptions of textile fab are well maintained. The iron trade is comparatively quiet, but the situation as regards values and prospects for busi- ne: hows little change; makers and buyers are awaiting developments in the labor world, and at the moment are op- ing with caution. ore has been a fair demand for wheat for export, but the movement has not been in sufficient volume to materially diminish the domestic visible supply. ‘fhe comparative firmness of eastern markets is due to the fact that stocks ot the speculative grade of winter wheat are comparatiyely small and are lurgely banked against sules for future delivery. There is very little doing in spring wheat for export because the cost of transporta- tion by rail routes, added to present prices in the wi t above an cx- port basis. Ing ks the opening of navigation will release the large supplics stored in Chicago, Duluth and at other points in the west and northwest, and a exports aré probabie if speculation dots not hold prices above a parity with for- cign markets., The visible supply of cornlis 2,118,000 bushels larger than a week ago, but the movement from inter- ior points has been checked by the south- western stikes. Export demand for coin is fuirly act ——— Ovur of over 7,000 persons examined by the civil service commission during the past year, of whom about two-thirds were successful in standing the test of capac- ity required, 86 per cent were educated in the common schools; the other 14 per cent had the advantage of either com plete or partial eollege training. The common school graduates came out gtrong, as & general thing, in the exam- inations as toreal business qualifications ———— Tur Knights of Labor will now put in days of work on Gould's southwest sys- tem. Score anuther victory for I - headed Powderly. e Say Ssmart and Sam Jones have sworn off on tol 0. If they keep on reform ing they will soon be a pretty good pair. We shall miss the Panama Star and Herald from our list of esteemed ex- changes during the next two mouths. That Ameriean newspaper has been sus- pended for sixty days because it refused to publish certain correspondence .uu-l A e e st mitted by the gavermor general. Run- ning a newspaper jh Panaria is about as uncertain and ridky & business as it isin Russia. A SENATORS AND CONGRESSM Senator Wan Wyckhas earned the title of “Terror of the Lobbf,” Alittle over tweuty iyears ago Senator Kenna was following a plow. Representative Boaeh, of New York, bids fair to edge Judge Holman out of place as the ‘great objector.” Senator Spooner has a brother who resem- bles him so closely that ofily intimate friends can tell them apart Congressman Hewitt breaks out oratorical- Iy entirely without warning. He goes off like powder all in an instant. Speaker Carlisle says the business of the house 1s farther advanced than would have been possible ander the old rules. Representative Breekinridge, of Kentucky, is not yet forty-nine years old. but his heavy hair and beard are snowy white—a family in- firmity. Senator Edmunds’ power is ascribed to his clear judicial mind and sarcastic speech which enable him to retain leadership in spite of personal unpopularity. i It is now reported that 18 made nse of the words “innocuous desuetude” in an oration some forty years ago. We thought the phrase sounded as If it had burrs on it. Senator Vance's relatives are not as Jucky asreported. Of the sixteen said to be hold- ing office the senator acknowledges kinship to only four. The rest he had never heard of ill the newspapers printed their names, Senator Pugh of Alabama Is a large, broad shouldered man, with o wonderful memory and thorough understanding of constitu- tional Iaw, hot vartisan, strong in physique and voice and_convietion, with full, round face, brown beard and dark hair, not much of an orator, but an intenselover of is party and its principles. SRRV RN 1t Won't Pass for Statesmanship. Chicago Times. Ben Butler has come outas a champion of oleomargarine, which, he says, is all right if not passed off for butte The same might be sd of Ben's charlatanism if he did not try to pass it off for statesmanship. ———— Whav's in a Name? New York Sun., What did you call that new boy, Dan?” asked the president, as an attendant left the room. “Thomas Jefferson.” *Is that bis name, Dan?” “Certainly.” “Well, pay him up to the end of the month and let him go.” g Moved to Arizona. Philadelphia Record. ‘The contradictory stories as to the surren- der of Geronimo are as numerous as were those as to the movements of the Madhi in the Egyptian campaigp. - Our old friend the Mudir of Dongola must inye moved his head- quarters to Arizona. enator i The New Senator Frem California. Chicagp News, This Mr. Hearst, who has been appointed United States senator: from California, may be a very able and a very brilliant man, but a perusal of his nowspaper: would never lead one to suspect as much of him. ‘There are very many stupid papers printed on the North American contihent; but the San Fran- cisco Examiner is the’ sturiidest of them all. Inthe vast parterre of journalistic daisi Senator Hearst’s paper 1doms up supreme and unchallenged the serenely soporific poppy. A Super's Platut, The Rambler, I stand upon the stage, v King Richard’s foeman, a noble Roman Atiention I engage, 1 bear aloft a spear And sometimes, ton, a banner 1in an artistic manner. I'shout “Hurrah’ and “Hear.” Sometimes T play a guard And someties eke a troopér. Men, sncering, call me My fate, alas, 1s hard. They call me clod and mule; And, though their conduct’s groundless, Tl badinage is boundless, So is their ridicule. And if perch “The cari s waiting,” They faueh in imitating And jibing kind of way. o I say: Folks laugh my legs to scorn; “They also scoff profusely Because my tights hangs loosely, The which doth wake me mourn, ‘The public must not seek Talents beyond all eriticism And legs no theme for witticism For dollars twain per wek. Alien Landlordism, New York Commercial Advertiser, The time has now arrived, even though we are unafl by laws of primogen- iture and entail, when it has become necessary to enact laws concerning the acquirement of real e by aliens, The tendency of the age is to monop- olism, and our laws offer to foreign cup- italists far too great advantages for the establishment of landlordism upon o seale large enough to threaten eventually to engender serious international com- plications as well as to embarrass the proper growth and settlement of the country by a native population, It 18 the latter aspect ot the case that is the more serious. The spirit of Amer- ican institutions is against the absorption of large tracts of land by owners who do not themselves till it,since the soil is thus made to support & middle man as well as the proprietary class. It 15 this s that is Ireland’s curse, and while no dgngor that America will duced to the misepies thatTandlordism has brought to that couniry, the s; has already been profluctive of suflicient evil in some of the western states to warn us that legislation, is necessury to stop its growth, e ol The ease of a single dlien property- owner sufticiently illustrates the matter, An_Irishman, namdd, William Scully, & resident of Dublin, 0Wns not only from 75,000 to 90,000 acres of the best farming land in Hlinois, but 'mofe than 100,000 acres in Kansas an )tuhl'“lm' This land he lets, through bis agents to a number of small mers; and thus he has established in Anterida a reproduc tion of Irish landlordism, w I of its evils and most of its amisuri ants are obliged to take Gryearleases, and t the expiration of thi ms they are charged additional rent for the im) ments they have made upon the farm: at their own expense. The result is that they pay o rental that devours almost the entire proceeds of their labor, and, therefore, become shiftless and im- provident and make no effort to better their condition, The Irishman, Scully, has at present between sixty and seventy American families bound to him by rent contracts. As we heve said, the time has arrived when the state should adopt measures for self-protection against these evils. Of course, foreigners who take up their ros idence in this (’uunlrf‘ with a view to be coming citizens should be allowed to pur chase and hold real estate, butalien land- lordism should be legislated out of exist ence_as I%‘aedllv aund #s thoroughly as possible. We offer to every forcigner the privileges of full Americun citizenghip, and surely that is_carrving national hos- pitality far enough. To those foreigners who do not choose to bocome eitizens we are under no obligation to ofter anything, and certainly we should not permit them to become our rack-renting, non-resident alien landlords, — Help For the Workingwomen. New ¥ork Tribune. The Knights of Labor have found out how to help themsolves, but thus far nothing h been dome to improve the condition of the workingwomen. The state of these latter is as wretched as it can be. Without organization or associa- tion of any kind they are absolutely help- less. Their individual necessities compel them so to maintain the pressure of com- petition that their labor market is always glutted, and therefore wages remain at staryation point. It has been estimated that there are two hundred thousand wo- men in this city alone who wholly or partly depend upon the labor of their hands for a living. There can be no doubt that every advantage is taken of their helplessness, and that they are so insufliciently paid in most instances as to be unable, even working from twelve to sixteen hours a day, to do more than keep themseives alive. Their condition is such as to challenge public sympathy, but mere sympathy will not do them any good. The case 18 one tor practicul sures, and the success which the or- hization of abor has attained in- dicates the direction in which action should be taken. Here is a matter which appeals to the Knights of Labori hetn most direct man- ner. Their own ex) has taught them how relief can be obtained for their sisters, and their own sufferings in the past ought to make them not only will- ing but anxious to go to the assistance of those who cannot free themselves. It is a virtual slavery from wiiicl tho work, ingwomen or emancipation, and they surely will not appeal in vain to American workingmen. There are many diflicultics to be ¢ncountered, no_doubt The workingsomen are so ground down, s0 pressed for time, so dispirited by over: work and poor living and anxiety und ill health, that any plan for organizing them will have to be put _in operation by men, and it will demand much paticnce and resolution to make it successtul. The moyement to secure better pay f{or women,however, may be lielped forward by some of the methods which the nights of Labor have foundso cftective in their own e When the exigencies of trade are made an excuse for putting out of sight all considerations of justice and hum: the relations between employers and_employed, those who so abuse have no right o complain if their own tactics are turned upon themselyves and they are coerced into more equitable arrangements. The workingwomen of the United States ean be ed to a position of comfort and independence equal to that of the work- ingmen, and the latter have the power to effeet his beneficent change. There is no evil needs treatment more urgent even the drink evil. Modern ¢ seems to haye done nothing hitherto for these poor womien; indeed the rapid in- crease. of population in the more ad- vanced countries has swelled the nunibe: of those who fail to attain comfort and measurable independence, and who are d to pass their lives in a struggle for mere bread which stunts body and soul, and makes of e penance e: ceeding in sustained suffering and mise: all that more fortunate classes ean col seive of human wrotchedness. sy there is no help for this state of things is to suy that civilization is a fail- ure and an imposture. But such an as- sertion can no long ade in view of what the Knights of have accom- plished and complishing, and now that they | wetically broken down the most s¢ liculties that confront. ed mp2m they ought to turn their atten- tion to the deplorable state of the work- ingwomen. A TR The Servant Girl Problem, . Cassell’s Magazine. Competent domestic service will then be the only barrier to comfortable home life in large cities for the refined Ameri- can family of small means. I do not know whether Americans themselves are as well aware of it as one who has been an observer years; but the scrvants have s0 greatly improved in the last decade that a similar improvement in the next will make hifc easy t here, if not in Paris, al'least in London, for it must always be remembered that a great deal more’is expected from seryants here than in England. On account, perhaps, of the sleeping room required, and o tener the high rate of wages paid, fewer servants are kept, and one is often re- sved in a small family to be cook, laun- itress and chamberr The ant (usual Irish or German) undertakes all these dutics knowing one. Thus the life e Ame housekeeper is a of in inefti- ent, often indifferent girls, into satis- factory ser and "frequently the weary discouragement from much fruit less effort induces \in one, for the suke of a sngle good quality, and put up with her general incompetence. 'he remedy seems to lic in the hands of the ladies themselves, If they refused to pay the wages of a good servant to the untrained, and established a standard of efliciency by which the wages would be gauged, there would be some prize for the servant to work for, and some assur- nce to the mistr that the takes raw from her native bog: not even the names of the articles in common use, will see the need of wurhiu;{ up to better things if she is engaged low wages, and sces high ones to D tained only on producing testimon hor fitness, At present the girl who e light the Kitchen fir ned the names of the ordi ntensils (uot how to use tnem, ) gets the f an experiend i if she them’ aud Gecinres her ability we fna month, but she car s with her the month's’ good wages, and finds another place next day. N Something to Think About. St. Louts Republican, There ave persons who exhibit impa- tience at the demands of labor, Where are these demands to end!—they ask How much must be conceded before will be satisfied? If granted what it ex- acts this year, will it not make new exac- tions next year? It may not be easy to answer these questions in the present stute of the con- troyersy; but there is one prominent and instructive fact which may be profitably borne in mind, viz.: That every volunts ry concession made to the industrial classes, and every vietory gained by them in the course of their long struggle in this country and Europe, hus' been ac cepted and applauded by the public as a beneficent ilt. Labor ha ained one point aft wnother, in the lust twenty Vears; and inno single case has society reason for lumenting the conquest. By the common consent of the world, it is agrecd that all these labor victories have brought positive and yaluable advantuges to the whole body politic, and there is ot one fair and intelligent employer in the United States who would, if he could, un sults. ion is reassuring. It shows no train of calamities fol lowing in ithe wake of labor victories The improvement of the condition of the working classes does not imvolye a de- steuction nor 4 subjection of capital Teadily with nowing that there i On ] the contrary, capital never multiplied at such an at enormous rate as it has done during the trade-union perind of the last twenty five years, and for this very good reason: the working millions of the land are the real consumers as well as the real producers of its products; and the better off they are, the more liberally do they consume, - COLONEL INGERSOLL, A Half-Minute Sketch of the Eloquent Infidel in Time of Peace and War. ,N"“' York Telegram: Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll, the great orator, advocate and free-thinker, is to open a law offic in Wall street shortly. His family ha already been establishied on Fifth avenue, and the indications are that New York will become the colonel’s permancnt lome for several years to come. Thor are fow living Americans who are more widely or betier known than Cononel In gersoll. He was born at Dresden, in northern New York, on August 11, 1833, His father was a Congregational mini tor, who had five children—two daugh- ters and three sons—of whom Robert was the youngest. The daughters were named Mary and Ruth. The Rev. M Inger vas & peripatetic proache Robert was baptized at the age of thre years, in a New York theater. The seled tion of such a place for the event h: pened in this wise: The Rev. Mr. In soll's church was destroyed by fire, not having any other plice to go to, ha moved into tho thontre and hold. services there. He leaned tow: alism and the narrow-minded of his flock caused him much annoyance. John Ing H)fi. the to Yale colle but not graduate from there to a theological sewi being his father’s intention to have him become a minister, The young man, however, preferred the medical . profe: sion and beeame & physician in Wiseon- sin. John's education was a severe tax upon the means of the father, and Robert and Clark, the other sons, received little more than a_common school education, the latter finishing his studi Padueah, in Kentucky. They were unable to re i any school for any length of time, owing (o the frequency with which their father had to move his family Robert was ten yearsold when the family went wi After returning to the cast for a short time they settled in Wiscon- sin. From there they moved into Ilinois, near Shawnectown. ™ Robert displayed at 4 ge a great taste for reading. all authors Robert Burns held fi pla in his estimation. The verses the Scoteh poct he committed to memory. Between Robert and his brother Cl; existed the warmest hrotherl; id they were much alike in pe ater years he refused to ept any office in the district where Clark was run- ning for oflice Robert In, still under age when he was admitted to the ba fi:- and ( k ovened a lnw oflice in Shaw- neetown. They were, like the majority of theirneighbors, out-and-out Democrats. The brothers beeame prominent in lo polities, und ( was sent to the legi: ature. About the same time he became ndsome young lady in ed her. This led to anging their residence and , where they arrived in the Garly part of 18 rof Peorin many distinguis s practiced. The “brothers_soon d¢ a name for themselves. Robert s the more clo- quent of the two. Clark knew more law. Colonel Ingersoll had a wouderful mem- ory, quick understanding and_ready wit. In"1860 he received the nomination for Congress against William Kelloge, a vet- eran politician and campaigner, who was in 1864 appointed by President Lincoln minister to Guate , and 1868,by Presi- dent Johnson, O of Nebraska, He madc i sanvass, replied with wondertul foree to the arguments of his opponent, and, although running on the Democeratie ticket, went further than Kellogg in denunciation of slavery. Kel logg was cleeted, and Mr. Ingersoll de- d that he would not run again for oflice. In 1862 he went to the war as colonel of the Eleventh Illinois eavalry. venr and & half after that he renc democracy. He returned to the pi of law, and in 1866 Gov. Oglesby ap- pointed him attorne, 1of lllinols. n 1868 he was nameéd “for governor, but did not secure the nomination. He con- tinued practicing law until the Cincin- nati conyention, when he made his famous _ speech in nominating the “Plumed Knight,"” James G. Blaine, for president. The same year he went to the front as a soldier he married Miss Eva Parker, the daughter of a Tazewell county (m,{ farmer. He is a devoted husband and loving father. He takes his family on any long journcy he may un- dergo. Among other trips they have taken was a tour through Lurope and a run throngh Maine diring one of his campnigns. Mrs. Ingersoll is a quict, devoted wife. e life has had it many of the cle s of u romance. ROMANCES OF CHAUTAUQUA, tho brotlie going to Peor A Story Abqut the Celcbrated Place Where Edison Met His 8ride, he recent brilliant wedding at the dence of Lewis Miller, of Akron, O, president of the Chautanqua University, at which his second danghter, Mias Mina, became the bride of the distinguished Kdison, the wizard of Menlo T ro- minds us of an interesting but unwi chanter of Chautanguu’s histor, Away - camp-meet distinguished clergyman oceupi hest door 10 th cortage of & br devout widow. Tha clergyman's wife and the widow became intimate and spent much of their time together in either the tent or the cottage. In this way the widow and the clergyman be- ame slightly acquainted. Affer some six years the clergyman was a widower residing in_another state; in two years wore his childven were all married” and ather was left alone in the world. ather, you must " said the children, and it was ea him to take this advice. Very extensive was his acquaintanee, but as thought wendered the werld around it stopped not ml“g reached Chautaugua, and when it coww &0 no furth He; prung up a multi- tude of difticulti The name of the wid- ow was forgotton, not even her place of residence could be called to mind, and whether she had married or wis dead or alive were matters of conjecture It finully oceurred to hit that the town of R had been mentioned by his wife in connection with her name, and on the bare possibility that the place was her home, he addressed a lettir to the postmaster giving him every particular he could think of in regard to her and asking for information. After studying the facts and the situation the postinas: ter wrate Jly siating t he_ could render him no assistance. As he was about to seal the letter it occurred to him that he would refer the whole question to his wife und abide the decision of woman's genius. The clergyman’s lettel she had not read halz through betore the whole truth Lad flashed through ner mind. The widow was alive and was a widow still. It is only necessary now to say that it was about six months from that time that her widow-hood terini- nated in what has proved 1o be @ bappy marriag Pozzoni. No name is better and more ]»lonianl?‘ and widely known than that of Mr. A. Pozzoni. For Years hie has made him- self famous by the elegant perfumes and complexion powder thiat bears his name the lutter having found its way to th bellos of Paris, Germany and London Everybody admires béauty in ladies Nothing will do more to produce or en hiance it thau a use of Mr. Pozsoni’s pre STRICTLY PUR IT CONTAINS NO OPIUM IN ANY FORM IN THREE SIZE BOTTLES, PRICE 25 CENTS, 50 CENTS, AND $1 PER BOTTLE 2595:1"‘! PQTTLES aro put up for the & cornmoda who * dos €00 and low priced A5k Couzh. ColdandCroupRemedy THOSE DESIRING A RENEDY FOR CONSUMPTION ANY LUNG DISEASE. 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