Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 31, 1886, Page 4

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Sworn to and subseribed in’ my presence this “0th day of October, A. 1) 11, ¥ Publie. Geo, B. Tzschuck, being first duly sworn, deposes and says that he 18 secr of the Bee Publishing company, that the actual av- erage daily eirculation of the Daily Bee for the month of January, 185, was 10378 copies, for February, 1856, 10,89 copies; for March, 1836, 11,587 copies: ‘for April, 185, 12,191 copies: for May, 1853, ) copies: for June, 0, 12,208 copl for July, 155, 12,314 copies; for August, 18, 12,464 copies:for September, 1886, 13,030 cop! Gro. B, Tzscuuck. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 24 d.nym[ulm.fyu A.D., 18%, N. ‘ SEALI Page 1. p)l‘( als to the Bre—G ows. Page 2. Telegraphle News,— Miscellany. Page 3. ° Spe and Local Mark Pave 4. Kdi Press Comments. —Su 581 D Tage 5. Lincoln News.—Miscellany.—Ad- vertisements. 6. Couneil Bluffs Nows.—Miscellany. dvertisement TPage 7. Bowers of Sociubility—The Week in Omaha Society.—Metrovolitan Writers.— Clara Belle's Gossipy Chat.-—~Lappenings at the Hub. Page 8. General City News.—Local Ad- vertisements, Page 9. Glimpses of German Life.—Honey e Ladies.—Religious.—Musical and Dramatic. ational ngularities. — Connubialities.—lmpicties. —Railway Pools and Politics. Engo 10.—Adrantures of Major Nouth, by Alfred Sorenson.—1In the Land of the 2 Page 11, Among the Wits and W Woman and Her Work.—Met in_ the Moon- lght.—The Komanots & Pago12. lospitul for the Insane, by I A, ©O'Brien.—A Touching Story.—The' Pop-ular Question, “Mints to louse Builders.--1lis Gloved Hand. ablegrams— raphic City News.— | Advertisements,—General Political Points,— GENERAL VAN WYCK spenks at the E position on Monday evening. Let there be a general turnout of citizens to hear Nebraska's senior scnutor on the issues of the campaign M. AL will command the full party vore. In addition he will poll a heavy vote of democrats who know of his ability as a jer and his high reputa- . has made another contribution to the sufferers from the Charleston earthquake, This time he has extracted $10 from his sack- sonian jeans. Mr. Cleveland evidently be- lieves in Joflersonian economy—in dona- tions to charity. PRESIDENT Now that the Bartholdi statue is fin- ished the question of maintaining the eloctric lights comes to the front. New Yorkers are boginning to sce that the ex- pense of enlightening the world through the torch of Liberty will be considerable and are figuring out where the funds are to come from. OMAnA'S future depends greatly upon the result of the coming clections. The needed changes in the charter are one important feature to be considered. Pro- hibition is another. Business men and owners of real estate owe it to themselves fo take an nchive part in choosing the proper kind of a legislativ ation. Tuere may be money in wheat, wealth in oorn, fortunes in mines and heavy fits in stocks, but Omaha is staking pile on the money in dirt in her meighborhood. The steady advance in the real estato market is still maintained, whilo new people and new enterprise aro doing their best to still further in- erease the demand —— BusiNess men of Omaba are vitally intercsted in securing a live, wide awake mnd aggroasive legislative delegation, Qur charter lothes are too small. We have outgrown them and need a new suit. A conservauve, but enterprising delegation should be chosen from Doug- Ias county to superintend the work of amending the charter. CONGRESSMAN | REAGAN tlinks that eongress will certainly pass an interstate eommerce bill at the next session, and he i8 sanguine that his measure will pre- wail. The recent decision of the supreme eourt, which greatly circumseribes the ym of the states to regulite the charges - of the railroads for transvortation, ren- ders more imperative the demand upon oongress for legislation on this subjeet. BarrnoLvy, the sculptor, was the re- eipient of a great popular ovation in New York on Thursday, and none of the great ~ men present on that memorable oceasion ~ was more worthy of such distinguished consideration. But the crowning honor was conferred on the foliowing day,when @ postoflice in Dakota was named after the emunent Alsatian. Bartholdi may _ mow feol that the immortality of his fame ~ ds assured. ~ Tur somewhat questionable statemeut 45 wade that Mr. Cleveland gave while in Now York $5,000 to the Hewitt campaign g , Wera the figures reduced by a "~ eipher they would be more eredible, but ghe probability is that ho gave nothing ieve that the presi a pradeut economy, in part to his recogmtion of the un- intios of the futurcand in part to the nads of “Red Top” improvements. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, The Brass Band at Lincoln. The grand brass band parade which Clitireh Howe began at Beatrice enacted at Lincoln, The great mounte bank has brass enough in his composi tion to supply all the bands in the s It was in nccord with the eternal fitness | of things for this tive blackms m | to make a trumpeted appeal to the - eiti- | zens of the eapital eity whom he has Irh-u | at every session of the legislaturo botk 4 purchased o had upon reputable and decent peo ple at the state we cannot gay. We do not believe, however, that Howe has made many converts to his bad cause even among those who profess to regard it as a calanuty to Lincoln for an Omalia _man to be clected to con gress. With his demagogy Mr. Howe took occ ton loeal prejudice by exhibiting to the as seml +at Lincoln & paper containing the ~]nuh made by the editor of the B when he accepted his nomination. That speech, g bled by the Journal for the oc- casion,was the cssonce of Howe's appeal for support from Lancaster county. Now, in what manner does this speech explain away Howe's infamous record? Are the republicans ot the fivst district to cleet & man who protested against the canvass of the olecto) for president of the United Rosewater said mn his speech thy posed to break up the state house rings if he should be eleeted to the legislature? Does Rosewater's ndidacy condone Chureh Howe's vote for ‘ilden and Nelse Patrick? Does it wipe out tl black stain on the character of the mun who has notorionsly used the position of Iaw maker to fill his own pockets ¥ We know of course that all the ring- sters and ringmasters were terribly shocked when they learned that there was o possibility of Rosewater becoming amember of the state senate, and they naturally make that a pretext for shouting louder for Howe. The sober minded, reputable people and property owners of Lincoln will see no menace in the election of anybody from Doug county who 1s not, like Church Howe, bent upon bleeding them under the pre- tense that they would be ruined and the capital would be removed without his help. was roe An luspector Needed, Omaba is again suffering from the diseased meat scare. She had it once be- fore, and there were good grounds for the alarm. There seem to be generally good grounds at present. It cannot be denied that the nearness of the stock yards in- creases the dangers in this respect. Bruised, broken-legged and lump-jawed cattle are more numerous at such a large shipping and distributing point. It is er to dispose of the ex ses of such animals and more diflicult to trace the perpetrators of the erim Reputable butchers will not countenance the traflic, but there are a number of deale who are not reputable who will not hesitate to increase their profits by an illegitimate transaction. Of course, the poor are the chief sufferers. The romedies furnished by law are quite inadequate to deal with the ques- tion. There are penalties provided and an inspector named who when called upon has authority to condemn eattle or meat. But thero is no regularly em- ployed agent of the law whose sole busi- ness it is to prevent fraud and deception of this character. The revival of the question is timely. An effort should be made at the next legislature to secure proper authority for stationing tn in- spector of meat at South Omaha. The health of our people demands prompt and eflicient remedial action. At the Chieago yards cattle of this elass are at once disposed of in a manner which pre- vents them from falling into the hands of butchers. In Omaha at present, there is nothing to prevent any ot our butchers from peddling the carcasses of diseasea animals. The Young Voters. Workers for the Nemaha fraud are boasting that he has captured the vote of all the Iroad clerks in Omaha, and brag loudly of the flood of ballots which will pour from the railroad headquarters on ¢lection day to float Church Howe safely into a seat in congre Elections are always more or less surprises. The present one will prove an astounding one for the reckless corruptionist who imagines that a life-time of dishone: treachery and frand will have no wulght in determining the judgment of honest young men who have not trained long enough with his associates to Lave be- come politically and morally calloused. ‘The rising generationof young votersis the terror of political shysters. In Brooklyn it overthrew the corrupt ring which had ridden the backs of tax payers for years, In New York 1t has curbed the power of Tammany, enforced great changes in the line of municipal reform, and worked a startling revolution in the character of nominees, Its ambitions and hopes are for the present and future. There is where the political work of our young men lies, and they know it. They have sensibly left to party hacks the “*pointing with pride,” and have concerned them- selves with assuring good government for now and hereafter. The young vote holds in its hands the preservation or the destruction of existing parties. Sensible that honesty must win in the long run, and that party organizations are only valuanle as expressions of honest party sentiment, they are working to perpetu- ate good government through party, by il dishonest methods and dishonest party eandidate The medicine of defeat is not A pien: one, but it is sometimes the only effeotive remedy. Acquiescence in the nomina- tion of corrupt men is endorsement of the corrupt means by which they have secured their nominations, Church Howe's whole career, commercial and po- litical, is so disreputable, so flagrant in its violations of deceney, honor,common hon- esty and phighted faith that no honorable and high minded young man, fn railroad headquarters or elsewhere, ought to have # moment's hesitancy as to his duty at the coming election. The confidence hut republicans will endorse any. can- didate, no matter what his character or record, who has the brand of a conven- tion on his eanvass, should be rudely broken ounce and for all. With Churci Howe's defeat the corrapt tricksters who have foisted this man upon the republi- cans of the First district will learn the lesson that the party lash may be eracked in vain, and that independence of indi- vidual cunscience 15 sometimes superior l to fear of the displeasnre of politics hacks, Improving Architecture, Oneof the marks of Omaha's growth is the general improvement noted on every hand in the character of the new buildings which are rising on our bus ness and residence streets, With in crensing wealth and enhanced property values, our citizens have awakened to a realization of the advantages of archi tectural symmetry and have learned t ugliness and convenience are not nec garily synonymous wlied to building. They ha red that, other things being equal, a sightly busi- ness block will command a better elass of tenants and a longer rent roll, and that well built and attractive residences are rarely vacant of occupants. Those too, who arc ambitious for name, and a reputation tor enterprise see that an ornate and symmetrical building, be it wsed for purposes of trade or asa home, is astanding advertfsement of the owner., Are oture is a progressive art. It is based on certain fun laws, but in every age it adapts itself to the wants and tendencies of the times. When Omaha was a small and isolated town, when lumber was dear and stone out of the question for building purposes, the question was chiefly one of shelter and comfort. Modern homes on eity models could.not be attempted. Business blocks of handsome propertions were not re quired and were notattempted. Without a system of water works and sewe , the elevator played no part in the nlvu\ s of tenants. The third story was a loft and a fourth would have found few ten- nts. The style of itecture for busi- ness houses has been everywhere revolu- tiomzed by the elevator and over since the elevator has been practieal in Omaha the revolution has been steadily progres- sing in our midst. ‘That simple vertieal nilroad makes 1t possible to build cities in the air and place the seventh and eighth story on a level with the second as far as case of approach is concerned. And this single change has brought into usenew architectural forms for which without 1t there would have been no de- mand, A Brotherhood to be Emulated. The annual convention of the Brother- hood of Locomotive Engineers in New York last week was in all res model assemblage of workingmen, It was notable for the e nd intelli- gence of its membe s freedom from wrangling, disorder and acrimoni- ous disputation, and for the conservatism and wisdom of its expressions and It was a body the presence of which in v community would be rezarded with vor, beeause by its judicious policy i has earned and commands the public re- spect and confidence. Every word spo by the distinguished gentlemen who pa icipated welcoming the convention to New York, in compliment and commend- jion of the organization, was sincerely ant and was entirely just. i ind useful to refer to this admirable organization, because it presents an example of the highest form of labor union, and one which it is prac- ticable 1 intelligent and self-respect- ing workingmen to émulate. Its ex- istence and the excellent work it has accompli ating the char- acter and capacity of its members fur- nish convincing evidence, admitted by all candid men, that labor or; when founded and conducted on wise and just principles, instead of menacing may be made to conserve the public wel fare. From the beginning the work of the Brotherhood has been to uphaild the fraternity of locomot engineers, and those who remember what the character of the average engineer was twenty-fiv years ago know how well and thoroughly that work has been accomplished. id Mr. Devew, the president of the New York Central, in addressing the late con- vention: *‘The man of the old time was rathera rough chap and swore hard. He kept a whisky bottle, too, to steady his nerves, but there is none of that now. The men of to-day need no whisky to give them nerve.” The engineer of to-day is a sober, self-respecting citizen with a full sense of the great responsi- bility that rests upon him. -He hus pride m s duty and conscicnce in performing it. He believesin the eternal appliea tion of the principles which are the mot- toes of the Brotherhood, “Sobriety and Truth,” “Justice s Morality,” Dy fense and Defi “Reason, not Vio- lence.” He feels honored m heing & member of a fraternity which 18 @ power not for war- fare, or aggression, or destrue tion, but for maintaining and promoting 1 all proper ways the jnst rights of its members, while at the snme time holding each to the full performance of his obli- gation as an employe, and he is ever so- licitous to maintain his relations with the organization unimpaired. This gen- eral and self-discipline required by the brotherhood, this fusion of a feeling of pride and honor among the men, have made the organization what it now i the model 1zbor uaton of the world, pected and commended by everybod, Itis practicable for workingmen in every depariment of labor to emu- late the example of this exeellent organ zation, and if ever they shall ao so from that time will cease all opposition to la- bor unions, which now makes its most forcible argument not against organiza- tion, which in this land is an inalienabie right, but against the spirit and aims which too often are permitted to control such combinations. nee, A Soclety Matter, The time is nearly at hand when it will be necessary to rearrange, to some ex- tent at leust, the social hines at Washing- ton, or to put the matter more accurately, perbaps, to djust the relations of in- dividuals within established lines. lor 1t must be understood that there are rec- ognized rules and . time-honored prinei- ples regulating the social status at Wash- ington, and while these have sometimes been rudely, or even ruthlessly, dis- turbed by some innovator who thought them undemocratic and needing reform, it has very rarely happened that an en- tre soc¢ season has passed without their having ultimately asserted them- selves. Some, perhaps most of them, bave descended from “way back,” bring- ingwith them the high and almost sacred endarsement of the superb and brilliant women who composed and. fashioned the social fabric of the national capital at an early ¢ra of the republie. Time has attested the far-reaching wisdom and diserimnating sagacity of the “‘first ladies of the dand™ in the days of Ada and Madison and Monroe, quite as surely as it has demonstrated that of the s men and political sages of those pe and it is haedly lessiof a sacrilog to interfere with' the = judgments and decrees of the one than with those of the other. It hias nevertheless sometimes happened that such interference was at terapted, dnd even for a period proved uccessful. The social commotion which signalized the administration of Presi- dent Jackson was a most memorable fea- ture of that eventful and bustling period, and was really tho toughest and least snecessful struggle in which that indom- itable old hero ever engdged. At a later time most of the traditional regulations were T Al even during the re- bellion cra, when the processes of up- heaval and overthrow were felt in almost every direetion, the time-honored regulations at Washington nearly intact. The lust imnovation was made by Rose Elizabeth Cleveland, when sumed the role of the “first lady,” but not wilh very serious consequences. There was for short time danger that the entire social fabrie of the national capital would be thrown into chaos by the “‘reforms™ which the new administra- tion of the president’s accomphshed but somewhat ercatie sister projected, but so ciety speedily and judiciously decided that it might properly make some conees- sion to the abounding “freshness’ of the new regime and settled down to an uncomplaining aceeptance of the It deerce, quite sure that the saerifice conld be only temporary. [t was morcover the ‘L to do this since there was ous question respecting the right of the president’s sister, in charge of the do- mestic duties of the white honse as a matterof convenicence, to determine what should be the proper thing socially, and those who entertained this doubt conld very easily regard any concession they might make as wholly informal and acquit themselves of having really sur- rendered any principle. There was, however, ample precedent for Miss Cleveland’s right in the matter, and she is perhaps entitled to some commenda- tion for the spirt and pluck with which she insisted upon its recognition. Now this interesting, and far more than most people away from Washinglon ean understand, really important matter, i to be handled and managed by Mrs. Frances Cleveland, who brings to the task an unquestionable title as the “‘first lady of the land,” and therefore an un- tloubted right as a social arbiter. There has really been no indication yet as to what “policy” Mrs. Cleveland may adopt, though it appears she has mani- fested personal preferences that are noted as probubly designating those who will be the chi¢f ‘’recipients of her favor. In g géheral way it may be presume that she not make any very. radical departures. Her tendencies appear to be conserva- tive, and not at all in‘the /direction of re- forms that could b accpmplished, if at all, only by a gnml deal of conflict, It appears to be a justsimpression of Mrs. Clevelard that her chief aim will be to herself popular, ‘for which she s amvle griee apd accomplish- and an urgent motive to which will be her undoubted dosire to promote the popularity also of the president. Very few people, we suppose; apprehend how much is possible to the wife of the president in this Iatter direction. That Mrs. Cleveland intwitively understands what she may accomplish in leading people to think well of her husband there is excellent reason to believe, notwith- standing th ct that she declined to assist the Virginians in making a society heroine of Miss Winnie Davis. In the mples she has given of he ial ces and art, Mrs. Cleveland has ared (o great adyantage and won ed commendation. She conforms easily and unaffectedly to every situa- tion, and evidently has her full share of womanly discrimina- tion and tact. It is not doubted that she has as well some ambi- tion, and would not be atall ave: to another presidential term for Mr. Cleve- land. To this end, ther she can contribute in the wa influence will not be withheld, Respeeting those who are likely to have the personal preference of Mrs. Cleveland, it 1s said she is especially par- tial to Mrs. Manning, whom she met for the first time on her wedding day, on which ocension the wife of the sceretary of the treasury showed the bride of the president much greater attention and af- fection than did any of the other ladics of the cabinet, The attachmentbetween the president and tho secretary gives a *‘touch of nature’ to this afliliation be- tween their wives. There is moreover a similarity in the tastes of the two ladies which draws them together as kindred spirits, It is not surprising to r that the other cabinet ladies are a little jeal- ous of Mrs. Manning. Mrs. Whitney, wife of the seeretary of the navy, and a social leaaer, appears to be second in favor, She a daughter of Senator Payne, of Ohio, and is in all respects a charming lady. Last winter her opulent brother, Colonel Oliver H. Payne, pre- sented her with half ~ a million dollars to be used entirely for society purposes. Mrs. Vila and Mrs, Endicott 'are necessarily ex- cluded, by reason of their age, from the ardent’ friendship bestowed upon the younger ladies of thy-enbinet by the young mistress of the W hite House, It is only a short month until(socicty in the national eapital will ;begin to take on new hfe, and there is promise that the social scason, thougly, 1.m»s. will be spir- ited and eventful m Von Mansfelde's Oircular, Dr. Von Mansfelde,’ secretary of the State Medical society, has geen (it to issue an appeal to the medieal fraternity in be. half of Church Howe. ~The oflicious doctor h.ul the lmuudquce to attach the words of the Nebraska State Medical Society"” to hispathe in the » nature to the circular. 'He did this with the object of lending some weight to the document and to give it an official ehar- acter, He did this wholly without any athority, and his impudent action is spudiated by the sooiety, as will be seen by the following OxamA, Neb,, Oct. 50, 1556, Members of the Nebraska State Medical Society: Gentlemen—The circular lately is- sned by tile Secretary of the State Medical society ‘was not authorized by either the soclety or the board of trustees “This association fs maintained for scientitio purposes and no oflicer or member is justined in using . the organization to advance the in- terestof any aspirant for political preferient, Ricua 2. Moo Puesident Neb, biate Medical Society. social remuined Miss she as ost OCTOBER 31, The Herald and Hollman. The Oma Herald, which has been successively “'burying” and resurrecting General Joe Hollman for the past six s lately been endeavoring to ad the impression that the general od 08 a eandidate first for the state senate and more lately as an aspir- ant for the legislature from Dakota county. The following letter will ex- plain itself HUnnanD, Oct. 28, 1586, M. Editor: As chairman of the democratic convention of this county 1 wish to correct a false statement made by the Omaha Herald, Holl man was nominated on the first and only ballot for the lezislature and declined it after it was made unanimous. On the bal that was taken out of fifty-one votes he received thirty-seven. 1t wasa surprise to the eon- vention when le declined, and we ask it in justice to the people of this connty who have always been wlad to honor hin that this statement be publishied. Respeetiully yours, JEssEE WiGH rman Demoeratic Committee, t that a movement has been inaugurated in Mexico to establish adicta- torship, with Dinz at its head, is not cn- tirely incredible when one reflects upon the fickle character and fluctuating tem- per of the Mexican people. It is indeed rather remarkable that the republican system has been maintained so long, though in fact the government of Mexico rdly be ealled the popularor demo- eratic form. The will of the peonle is but indircetly expressed in the ere of public oflic nd the ms very thoroughly dominated by the poli ticians, iwthermore, 1l power is centralized in the g nment, which exercises its authority, backed by ample means for enforeing it, with an arbitrary will that is decidedly unrepub- licawin character. Indeed. the existing government is vractically a dictatorship in its operation, so that the change said to be projected would be little mor N one of designation, and probably would not materially lessen the popular influ- ence in the government. Still it wonld doubtless be a serions mistake as affect- ing the political relations of Mexico on this continent. That country will prob- ably continue to enjov consideration and immunity as arepublic which would be less likely to be given it under another form of government. Every candidate on the Dougl county legislative ticket nominated b, republican convention has expressed him- -self as unalterably opposed to the sub- mission of a prohibitory amendment. The grounds for their opposition are sonnd. They insist that the right of sub- mission means the right to attempt pro- hibition if a prohibitory amendment car- They affim that no collection of eparate communitics has any right to saddle a police menasure upon other com- nnot be enforced and where its non-enforcement means un- bridled license in liquor selling and the loss of a large revenue for the support of the public schools. They* point to the vesults of prohibition in every sta where it has been attempted and cont them with the operation of high license and local option as carried on in D The republican nonnmees for slature from Douglas county will and work against the folly of prohi- bition. ~As members of the majority party, their influence will be far greater than that which could be exercised by democrats in their place: Tue county hospital proposition should ba borne in mind by every voter on Tuesday. A vote for the proposition menns relief for the si nd destitute and a refuge for the helpless and de- mented. The vote should be unanimous inits fayor POINT! 1. A. Audrie postmaster for sixty years. Sam Randall runs on erutehes, hasn’t any competitor in the race. Some western republicans are industriously grooming Robert Lincoln for the presidency. Cato Sells is the name of the leading d eratle candidate in lowa. After the el it will be Henry George's eandidacy in New York city 15 being supported by thorough organiza- tion and work in all the wards. Don M. Dickinson, who wants to go to the United States senate from Miel n, says the democrats will earry that state this fall, John Sincl; formerly a prominent demoeratic politician of New IHampshire, is mentioned as likely to sueceed Senator Jones of Florida. The lowa registration law applies to cities hoving 2,000 or wore population at the last census, There arve fifty-four such cities in the state, Senator V of Mendon, Mass., has been but he no- tion ner Miller is working hard for re-election, Complaint §s made that the weight of his hand is felt in every New York assembly district, It is noticed that in close Kansas districts there has searcely been a republican meeting which was not presided over or addressed by a railroad attorney, Nearly 6,000 Germans have been natural- ized 1n New York by Henry George's man- agers, and his campaign 15 drawing largely from the forcign element that comes from Continental Euroye. Ohlo State Journal: President Cleveland’s “popularity” is exhibited in the fact that nearly every one of his staunch supporters and backers in the last congress has failed to seeure a renomination, Secretary Bayard has made the diplomatic hteen months, the whole aumber of oflices being 527, Mr. LBlaine, when secretary of state, made fifuy- five changes in four months, the whole nuu ber being then about 500, Theodore Rooseveit says “running for mayor of New York is worse than being out among the cowboys and bears. The strikers come on me in a current, and I haven’t any way of defending myself. Out west you can shoot a man, but you can’t here. You cean only talk to him.” Kate Field recently remarked that prohibi- tion hiad made the Lowa people sueaks and hypoerites: but this, it appears, is not her only gronnd of opposition to the law, She s confessed to a Washington xeporter: When § was in Towa my brandy gave out and I had to purchase a new supply, Great goodness | sueh terrible stuff 1 Washington Post (Dem.) : The democratic candidate tor governor of Conuceticut, Mr, E. b Clevelund, apparently has a thrifty soul. 1t being alleged that i 1566 lie received from a rubber company $41,000 and eame to congress toinfluence legislation, and being interyiewed about it, Mr. Cleveland says: SWhy, of course, you know when | was down theie in Washington, — Well, the rub- ber people gave nie some money to ‘bust’ somebods’s patent or somethi d told me to hunt around Wastunzton find the wen who needed it most and give it 10 thew. So I hunted all over house, wentover to the senate and hunted there, and went down o m looked into the wirvor, and I sitld, There's the man that newds it wost, and 1 put it in wy pecket=aud L've got.ii there yet.” 144 changes in - Big Named Men Seeretary Lueius Quintus. Cipéiynats Lawar is uot the ouly big-uswed wan in the 1886,-~TWELVE PAGES. department of the interior. Tnere Lucins Quintas Cinethnatus Lamar, jr., pri vate secretary: William Andrety Jackson Sparks, land commissioner; Martin Van Bureh Montgomery, patent commissioner; John De Witt Clinton Atkins, Indian affairs commissioner: Nathaniel Harrison Randolph Dawson, education commissioner: and John James Jones Scipio Hassler, appeintment clerk. - Henry George's | 1t i< claimed for Mr. Henry has no barrel, but this is rel—a barrel of ink. Whete to Draw the Line. Women ean stand ticht shoes, ti and tight waists, but they very proj the line at tight hasbands, Sure Death for O'Donovan, Tid-Nite O'Donovan Rossa alrave man. Let some one ask him o accept the position of league wmpiee pest year, Human Beltows, A Mr. Wind is running for a Wisconsin district. ‘Ilie same candidate can be founda in many other districts, Damps His Ardor, Acw Haven Newes, Many a man who thinks he Is going to sct the world afire finds to his sorrow that somo body has twned (e hose on him, It ¢ erly draw suys lio is Too Big tor m)lll Ilnln.('l'fl. Philadelphio Herald, he statue of Liberty enlightaning he world 10 be made of colossal size to keep the New York uldeimen from stealing it. A Grand Success. Avkansaw Traveley, = “Ilas prohibition proved a failure in your town?” asked a gentleman of w man who had st come down from the hills. *You bet it hain't. W'y, podner, we can et more licker now than we ever could betore. No failure about that, is tl Rank .\‘pl‘('lllu ton “Cultare,"” 0, culture, what nonsense is talked in thy name, A Boston preacher recently stunned his congregation by the following daring as- fon s “The badness of the bad shall never pre- judice my mind against the goodness of the good, the purity of the pure, the honor of the honorable.” 1t is to be hoped that the mind of the good man is not blind to the absurdity, of the ab- surd, the enptiness of the empty, the bosi iness of the bosh, and the slushiness of the slush. Liberty inlighten the World, Edmund ¢, Stedman in Harper's Weelly, Warder at cecan's ate, Thy feet on sea and ~lmrl‘, Like onc the skies await When time shall be no more? What splendors wn thy brow? Wiiat bright dread angel Thou, Dazzling the waves befors Lhy station great? “\l) name is Liberty ! From out a n izhty land y day in deaven’s iight, Apillar of fire by night, Atocean’s gate I stand, Nor bend the knee he dark Earth lay in sleep, ler ehildren erouehed forlorn, Ere on the western steep L sprane to helght, reborn : Then what a joyous shout The quickened lands gave out, And all the choir of morn Sang antheis deep. th yon firmament, rw World to the' Old rd and summons sent, y tlaz unrolled hands renew r strength; the form ye view are also | | winal was turned over to the po merchant prince’s wishes, She shut he | wpin her beaut!fnl marble palace o avenue, and from that time unt!l A, T rtwas laid away in his costly mausoleun inrden Uity there . was nothing of lové wd ie of interest between them,” Tuene appeared inthe Beg of Octolx A rather sensational artiele, exhibi v diagram showing the exact location of a treas- ure-box, supnosed to be buried six or feet in the ground. It all grew out of o nete which was picked up in the street and wh reproduced in the Ber, 1 ce who mad a thorough investigation, scarching o digging for the treasure according to the d gram Nothing came of i, however, the matter was dropped. A representative of the Brr, however, | been working up the ese ever since, and | efforts have been rewarded. e has s o ceeded 1a finding the author of the not motive which inspired it, and all the fa bearing on the ease. It was first learned t: o aschoolboy not over fifteen years of o wrote the note, made the diagram, in dropped it upon the street. The n tive, however, was not as easily ascertain Upon lear the names of the bog's chums, they were each questioned closely, and it was found that the author of the plot had at tempted to play a practical joke on his elass- mates, and put the much-talked-of missivo upon the side-walk just before they were ex- peeted to come that way. For several days hie watened in ambush for them to commene dizging at the given spot, but they came not. What was their discomfiture, then, upon seeing the Ber with a full account of tho matter, and a day or so later to see two po- licomen digging for the treasure. Their augist presence frightencd him so much that lie said nothing about the matter for several days. It fs supposed that he got his idea of the vlot from some story paper. Turne is “amerry war Boston Ideals, who are“to appear in Omaha in this season. The prineipals in the war are Manai “oster and Miss Hunting: ton, and the seene of the latest conflict was Buffalo. Mr. Foster took oceasion to reply tothe Buffalo Courier's criticisms, based on the casting of Mlle. Lablache as Bertha in “The Maid of Honor,” instead of Miss Huntington. Mr. Foster, among other things, said that Miss Huntington envies Mile. Lublacha for the great reputation the latter enjoys, and he accused Miss Hunting- ton of incivility. Foster's card called out a reply from Miss Huntington, who is pretty handy with the pen. Sbe intimated that Foster's wrath aroused because the Buffalo papers did not boom his favorite, 2 De Lussan, as much he expeeted, Some Omaha peovle, who know a thing or two about the Ideals, will probably side with Miss Huntington In this issue. They know that Foster, when he was here t year, en- deavered to shove De Lussan to the front in every possible manner—by word and deed, through the newspapers and_otherwise—and that he tried to ignore Miss Huntington. 1t we remewber rightly Miss Huntington ear- ried off the honors of the engagement all the same, (f we arenot mistaken our impre sion at the time was that Foster laying his plans to make De Lussan the star of the Ideals this season, but e is not entitled to the place on her merits she will not get there. The public u‘m.l«\ll) knows on whom to bestow its praise and appleuse, and it seems, from tho castern papers at least. that Miss Huntington holds her own in spite of all efforts 1o the contrary. Mlle. Lablache, who has taken a hand in the fight, pitches into Miss Hunting- ton in a rather vigorous style, as follows: “But when I sang her role for the list time she acted differently toward me trom what [ would have treated her. Naturally Miss Huntington, who sung the same part, was in ahox dressed in a whitebonnet and carrying awhite fan, They attract an artist’s atten: tion when perh; nothing else would. If the case had been reve and I was an older member of the v, and Miss Stowe 15, ever was raging among tho comp Came from a living mould In glory blent. ve, whose broken spars “Tell’of the storms ve met, Enter! there are no bars Across your pathway set: I “reedoin’s po Foryou I lift my toreh, For you my coronet Israyed with stars *Be ye that hither drawn To desecrate my fee, Nor yet have I|el& in a ‘I'hie justice that makes free— Avaunt, ye darkening brood ! ¢ Right my house hath stood : My name is Liber My throne is Law.” Ol wonderful and bright, Tnmortal Freedom, hail § in thy jiery migiht, midnight and the gale; inted on this base . Guard well thy dwelling-place; “Lill the last sun grows pale Let there be light! - DAY GOSSIP, st *“Prp: death of Mrs, A New York merchant, who is visiting in Omaha, “naturally brings up the question of the disposition of herfortune, Her property | is variously estimated from twenty to sixty millions. It will now, I presume, finally pass into the hands of Judge Henry M, Hil- ton, It will be remembered that immedi- ately after Mr. Stewart's death, Mrs. Stewart transferred to Judge Iliiton for the nominal sum of $1.000,000 all her right, title and inter- est to the vast Stwart stores, mills, factories and warehouses, This left to Mrs, Stewart the personal property of sfocks, bonds, bank accounts, the eiegant residence on Fifth avenue, with its million dollar art alle the vast real estate pos- sessions in Garden City, the Home for Women on Park avenue, and a number of nouses in New York then variously estimated to be worth from fifteen to seventeen millions. Judge [ilton, who had ingratiated himself into Mr, Stewart's confidence by his shrewd ability as a_pettifogging lawyer and his merciless severity inextorting rents and colleeting bill came the confidential adviser of Mrs, From time to tine he received large presents from the widow of the late merchant prince. ‘Cransfers of property to him frow Mrs, Stewart have been more numerous than the public has had any idea of. Judge Hilton is to-day one of the wealthiest of New York’s retired merchants, and nearly every penny of his immense tortune has been made out of the Stewart estate, 1 imagine that when the estate of Mis, Stewart 1s finally settled up, it will be discovered that Hilton's leech-like processes bave left very little for the heirs, Mus. Stewart had several nicces who are ex- pected to profit somewhat by her death, but Hilton’s family will be the prineipal bene- ficlayies, Stewart,” said a “It is not generally known,” continued the New Yorker, *that for many years A, 1. Swewart and his wife lived most unhappily together. With aceunlating wealth and the name of the Merchant Prince of America, Mr. Stewart's one idea was to found & family and transfer to his descendants the immense fortune he had won in the avenues of trade. Like Na poleon with Josephine, Mr. Stewart, at least twenty years ago, becawe convineed that in his then marital velltion he must die child less. Judge Hilton was called in and strenuous endeayors were made to get Mrs Stewart to consent to a divorce. ‘I'he mer chant prinee offered licrone-ialt his wealth, tw be settled absolutely. upon ber, if he would . either institufe suit upon grounds - which he - would - furnish, or would consent 4o detend his petition for a separation of “the marsiage bounds. Mrs, Blewast sesolutely declined to yield to uml Huntington was to sing my would ) leater'on that oc- sion, for 1 would have been nervous, At the hotel, too, the company hns not given me the wolcome 1 expeeted. "They all sit at other tables, and never invite me to the same table, as though 1 eler was not as Kood ‘as theirs. My private life is open to the world, ‘and "I feolthat it 1s s good ay any one's, W. . Kexr,iormerly a well-known nows- papor man connected with the Bk, and now cditor of the Laramie Boomerang, was an enthusiast npon the subject of a railway through Alaska and Siberia. His plan was to build a railroad from the terminus of the Northern Pacific through Alaska, to Iich- ying's straits, thence under the straits by means of a tunnel, connceting Alaskn and Siberia. ‘The Siberian road was to conneet willh the Russin system, Kent was always regarded as a dreamer on this subjeet, but the day may come when his drcams will'bo realized. 116 even went so far as to corregpond with high Russian ofi cials upon the subject, and he rcecived answers to all his letters, lte had a pamphlet published upon the subjeet, and he succeeded in getting several prominent American railw s more orless interested in- the enterprise. Mr. Martinoviteh, of t) while in the enst, mn across a recent copy of the ovoye Varmye (New Times), the oficial organ published at St. Petersburg, and in it hefound a long article advocating just such & railroad as bad been contemplated by Kent. I'his paper proposed a railroad to connect the two continents, and gave figures, estimates, ete. ‘I'he cost of the proposed rond would be £125,000,000, The value of such & road to Russin. especially for military purposes, was serionsly discussed, as well as its imnortance in securing the commeree of China and India. The only thing lacking was the apital, which the Novoye Varmye sug gested might be obtained from German and Frencn eapitalists, 1t may be that Kent's suzgestions are at st about to be acted upon by the Russian_ gouernment, 1t that government should build a road through Siberia to Behring's straits, some enterpris- ing Americans might meet it with a rond through Alaska and under the straits, In this age of wonderful enterprise such a thing would Lardly surprise any one, \tments i the said an army SAmong the clvilian app army in the summer of 1852, oftieer, *was that of Lieutenant John L, Selon, who was apoointed from Louisville, Kentucky, and was assigned to the Fourth infantry, then in the department of the Platte and having its headquarters at Fort Omaha. Schon was s dashing young Ken- tuckian with unbounded confidence In his skill as a lady-killer, and having no very modest idea of his acquirements and position asan officer. After remaining tor nearly four years at one of the frontier posts Lieu- tenant Sehon was tranferred with his regi- it last July to Fort Couer de Llene in Dudng the entire tim whieh had | elapsed since he had left his Kentucky home, he bad been corresponding with one of Louisvitle's fairest daughters, and two or three weeks ago he obtained a leave of ab- senec to go to Louisville to be married to the idol of his heart. ‘I'wo days ago the nows reached Omaha that the lady bad warried another man. Hername was Miss Allen 1d she married a gentleman named Bush, ‘The aflair has, of course, created a sensation in Louisville social ciroles, all the young people being widely known members of the upper circle. Licutenant Sehon is naturally much hroken up over the mavter, Miss Allen claims that she notitied hiw by telegraph at his station in Jdaho some days ago t she would marry Bush, but he says, 50 a letter from a friend inforins me, no such notitica ton reached hiwm.. His friends are indiznant and there is much feeling over the allai