Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 6, 1886, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVE‘RV MORNING. TERMS OF SURSCATPTION ¢ Dafly Moeniag Baition) ineluding Sunday Brre, Ono Yoar....... o 81 For 8ix Months vos For Threo Montha ... 3 The Omaha Swnday iike, mufied to” nny nddress, One Year. ... TR 0 01 50 25 200 014 AN 018 FARNAM STRERT. . ROOW (5, TRINUNE BUILDING INGTON OPFICE, NO. 513 FOURTEEN 11 S TREET. OMATIA OFFICT. CORRESIONDENC ATl communications relnting to news andedi- torinl matter should bo addressed to the Eni- TOI OF THE BE 1NESS LEITER F4 and romiitances should be PUBLISHING COMPANY, Drafts, chocks and postofice orderd be made payuble to tho Order of the company, THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPAYY, PROPRIETORS, E. ROSEWATER, Eniron. An THE DAILY B Sworn Statement of Circulation, State of Nebraska, County of Dougl Geo. B. Tzsehick, Publishing company, do hat the actual cireniation of for the week ending Oct. 20th, 155, was as follows: Saturday, Oct. Sundav, Monda Tuesday Wednesd Thursda Friday, Average.. g 0. I Tzscinvek, Sworn to and subscribed in my presence this 30th day of October, A, 1., 185 g N. P i, [SEAL] Notary Publie. Geo. I, T7schuck, being first duly sworn, deposes and says that he is secretary of the Bee Publishing company, that the getual ay- datly circulation” of the Duity Bee for month of January, 185, was 1057 coples, for February. 185, 10,505 copies; for Mareh, 186, 11557 copies: ‘for April, 188, 12,101 copiest for May., 1850, 12,450 copies: for June, 1855, 13,208 copies: for Juily, 1856, 12514 copies | for Anrust, 188, 12,464 copies: for September, 1586, 13,030 copies. Gro. B, Tzscnuek, Subscribed and sworn to before me this 2d dnynfiém.,m-n A.D., 186, N. P, Frir, ALl Notary Publi —_— THE more the returns are r the more clearly they fullill the Beg's predic- tions, made the morning after the clee- tion, — Six out of ten of the legislative delega- tion, including two senators, is a sub- stantial victory for Douglas county re- publicans, County Attorney Simeral ran aheadof the republican stato ticket. His success is gratifying to members of the bar without regard to party “Tie Two Johns' were in town last night—John L. Sullivan and John A. Me- Shane. They bear astriking similarity to each other in one res Each has knocked his man ont. Mn. CLEVELAND perhaps observed that the leading organs of democratic opinion in New York do not agree with his view that the administration was not on trial in Tuesday's election. I'nr. Knights of Labor did valiant work against Church Howe throughout the district, The labor vote throughout the conntry on Tucsday was powertully ex- ercised in behalf of good government. —_— M. MoUNT was another candidate who felt the pleasant effects of popularity, re- sulting from a good record. The reputa- tion which he won in the assessor’s oflice aided him materially in the sanva landed him in tho board of commis- stoners by a handsome majority. DOUGLAS 3 the first steps towards providing for its sick and unfortunate in the projected hospital, Months must, howev, elupse before the building can be constructed. Meantime our people should sce to it that the many cuses of suflering in the city are relieved, KAL Harrison's splendid cam- pugn in Indiana is said to have con- siderably advanced him i republican opinion at Washington asa possible presi- dentinl candidate in 1888, He, has cer- tainly shown ability in organization and tendership worthy of all adwmiration. Tux vinduets are greatly delayed but they will doubtless be completed before winter sets in. The value of these con- nections with that part of the city lying across the tracks will be shown noxt foring in inoreasod travel and heavy builaing operations in that portion of Omaba. Tur nomination of Judge Peckham in New York was due to the magnaninty of Governor Hill, the judge having been among the most pronounced cncemies of Temmany und an out-and-out Cleveland man. His rescue from defeat is also credited to the sume source, he having made a personal appeal to the governor, Nevertheless, the vote for him shows a heavy democratic loss as compared with the vote of last year. Only the president is eapable of deriving any satistaction from such n showing and construing it as an endorsement of the administration. IN u fow weeks we shall probably know the fate of the legislative amendment to the constitution providing for an inere in thoe length of the legislative session from forty to sixty days. At present it extromely doubtful whether it hus car ried. The decision of the courts that constitutional amendment must rece majority of all votos east at the makes its adoption in a eamp! other issues are paramouat, a doubtful matter, In addition, the practice of prnting the governor's proclamation in pupers which circulate most heavily among exchunges is a drawback whose eflect is invariabiy n in oach eleetion when the people exlled to vore upon fueh propositions. se ve election L burning of the new Barker build- ingin fess than thirty minutes after the dis. covery of the fire shows what a dangerous five teap it was, It was simply a wooden tinder-box, vencered with a mere pretense of brick. 1f the building inspection luw had been strictiy enforced we don't be- lieve such a strueture cosld have boen erected within the fire limits. It is to be hopea that it will not be permitted to be rebuilt according to the origina! plaes. Sach a fire trap in the heart of the city is too dangerous to life and property. Had the builting besn oe- wcupied, several lives would undoubtedly have beon lost. Had there been o heavy wind the tire would have swept the eity. It would have been a Chicsgo conflagra- ion from the starting point to the eity imits. Lot us have no mere such fire Seaps. JRE————————— SRS - L Lees THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: The Next Honse. The last report of estimates made at Washington as to tho probable strength of parties in the next house of represent- atives, gave n emall majority to the re- publicans over the demoorats, the labor representatives, five in number, being sot agide as an unknown quantity. Ad- vices received since the estimates were | however, assure the election of democrats which was then regarded ns doubtful, and it appears safe to conclude | that the democrats will haye a small ma- Jjority over the republicans, with the not unlikely circnmstance of labor represent- atives holding the balance of power. In such an event the question of the organ- 1zat10n of the next house becomes n mat- tor of sme intercst, and indeed under any circumstances it is likely to be } n most interesting matter in view of the exceptionally numerons changes that will occur in the membership of that body and the influence which the popu- Iar opimon imvlied in those ehanges niust exert, It is already determined that the nest house will contain a less number of dem- ocratie tariff reformers than the present body, and the probability is that they will be less nggressive also. The defeat of Morrison, the narrow eseape ot Carlisle, and the reduced vote for Springer, all aseribed to the opposition to the tarill views of those gentlemen, will be very hkely to make a deep impression upon the men in the next congress whose opinions take a similar dircetion and render them umid in advancing their views on this subject. For these reasons the chances of Mr. Carlisle for re-elee tion to the speakershyp will be materinlly uflected. With a diminished demoeratie majority he will encounter a disposition 1o pursue amore conservative policy than he represents with respect to the tarifl, and the indications are that he may be compelled to yield his leadership to another. Itis already intimated that the Hon. 8. 8. Cox, who is not unknown in this relation, is likely to have a consider- able following, and he ought to have ne- quired some additional prestige with the party by reason of the exceptional cir cumstances of his re-election to con mad, sup! gress. But his very cordial relations with the administration, implying a sup- port of its entire policy, would probubly not promote his chances. 1f Mr. Cox i devoted to civil serviee reform and the Wall street system of finance as reflected by the administration, he has little to hope for from a democratic house. Mr. Randall will of course be a ecandidate, but manifestly a hopeless one. It hardly possible to conee any combination of circumstances under which that gentleman conld be elevated to the speakership of the house o long as there are democrats m that body who remember his course in the present congress and regard it us having been mimical to the welfare of the party. Certainly in the next house the democrats who feet this way will be sufliciently numerous to easily defeat him. Morcover, the majority of the party at large has no desire to promote the pirations of Mr. Randall, and nothi that could happen would more com- pletely demoralize the party throughout 0 whero i the country than his election to the speak- ership. Obviously the democratic di- lemmi promises to be most perplexing to the party and interesting to the country, Assuming that the labor vote will hold the balance of power, as now appears not improbabie, and the possible situa- tion presents another interesting pect. To which side would vote be most likely to gov While these five representatives would undoubtedly demand conspicuous con- siderution in the organization of the house, they woald probably not presume to nsk the speakership for one of their own number. But on the other hand they would not give their votes to any man not in full sympathy witn them. 80 faras the tarill question entered nto the contest—and it scems likety that it will play no meonsiderabte part--itis to be presumed that the symputhy of the labor vepresentatives would be with the republi- cans, Whether wisely or not, the or- ganized labor of the country is evidently favorable to the existing taviff system, and its influence would be exerted upon its representatives in congross. 1t would not support Carlisle or Cox. It might support Randall, but he eannot have the following of his own party. In such a contingency the possibility of clceting a conservative republican—a man who pos- sesses the confidence of the labor element —could not be regarded as out of th tion, and clearly the labor representatives a greater ventage ground than would the election of a democrat by their support. An ar- rangement of this kind would of course ss from consideration the gontlemen who are now prominently named us pos sible republican candidates 1t will thus be seen that the probable sit uation, as it is now presented, gives prom- ise of a contest of unusnal interest, with possibie results of st importance to ecither of the great political pa this ies. t 1t Down, g mateh being infosted Thoy are w disgusting in their intl nd morals of the commun- citios are promytiy suppross- Even New York 1 pormits such exhibitions, The maniy of self-defonse 15 right cnough in its “Learn to box, my son," sa'd an English Jord, “because some brute may insult you, and as veu canvot eall him out yon should be abie to knock him down.” In ecrtain situations a mun's fists way serve him, They should not, however, be peritted to take the place of brains in making 1) 0 living. Just at present the ot of self-defense is & streggle on the part of a fow drunken and dist table brutes to “knock out” dollars from the py pocket and to defend “hippo dromers” m interforence on the of the police. Weeall upon the ties of this city to put down the wateh abowination The Omianha L Rnocks ich with sho! w is nuisance, b mjurions to t ity. Otlicr ing th ni no place nathori- siugging ch a result would | longer | part | The Va Reputation. The results of the eleetion in the First district show the surprising value of reputation in an uppeal for popular en- dorsement The defeat of Chureh Howe by an agricultural and laboring coustit ueney quite outside the vote of the large cities was the rebuke which honest men, entirely irrespective of rLy, gave toa candidite whose name bad been a stengh 1 the nostrils of Nebraska republicans | for more thun ten yews. - Year witer SATURDAY, ~ NOVEMBER 6. 18806, year the political trickster and lobbyist | the treaty of Berlin. ' She will probably had succeeded in twisting local pride to a local endorsement. The present eanvass was the first in which a large part of Nebraska republicanism wasgiven achance to expressits opinion of the man and the politician. It has been done so effectually and 8o emphat- ically that Church Howe disappears for- ever as a factor in the polites of the stato. Other elements contributed doubt- less in rolling up the monumental ma- Jority under which he was buried, but the personal and political record of the can didate was the leading force which oy whelmed him, If the lesson of the election is taken te heart by the gre litieal party which disgraced itself by placing Church Howe in norination, it will have been cheaply bought. Personal reputation counts in business, It carries its weight in litera- ture and art. It is effective in every tield of human endeavor. The political party which imagines for a moment that repu- tation has no weight in determining the stecess or defeat of party organization simply closes its eyes to n fact which sooner or later nsserts itself against the most obstinate unbelieves Out of Politics, The late Governor Dawes was beaten ont of hishoots in his own county through the republican nominations for the legisl ture and state convention. He joined hands with Tobe Castor, the democritic boss in Saline county, to beat the repub- lican ticket and sspecially Duras, the re- publiean eandidate for senator. A Bur- lington contractor, named Lanham, was set up as an independent eandidate for the senate and the railroad democrats under Tobe Castor's lead endorsed him with the private understanding that Dawes would pull him through, Mr Duras is elected and Dawes hasn’t a soul to represent his bursted senatorial boom- let in the next legi I'he Honorable kid Carns is among the He londed the republican stom- nd missing, ach with an anti-Van Wvek ticket, the load was too much. Seward which always has elected republicans to the lemsiature by large majorities, has returned a solid demoeratic delegation. This leaves Cairns out in the cold as a factor in the senatorial fight. The senatorial air castle of Albinus Nance will no longer disturb his dreams. Polk county, which is his home and stronghold, sends a Van Wyck represen- tative to the legislature and a Van Wyck senator to the upper house Last but not least among the dead ducks s Church Howe, who only a few weeks ago regarded himself as the pos- sessor of ascat in scongress and heir ex- pectant to a cushioned chair in the sen- ate. The Nemaha renegade witl now v tire to his farm and prepave his spring crop of rulroad ties for the Missouri Puacific. ON Sunday next we begin the pubh tion of a weekly lotter from New York b al Adam Badeau, formerly consul 1 at London and Havana, and so long the military and contidential seer tory of General Grant, Badeau's **Mili- ary History of Grant,”” his Cuban ro- manec of “*Conspiracy.” and his work on “Aristocracy in England,” have made his literary repntation familiar, while his long oflicial residence abroad, his posi- tion for many years at the headquoarters of the army, and his life at the whito house, have given him a wide experience and an acquaintance with many of the most uotable peonle of the time. Of all this he proposes to make am- to embroider his papers llections and incidents known only to few and many familiar to him- self ulone. He does not, however, expeet to confine himself to reminiscences; he retains his reiation with political, fash- ionable and literary people, and will endeavor to keep abrenst of the day in nutters pertaining to society, hiterature and art, European as well as American. When he discusses politi it will be with no partisan purposes, but rather from a personal standpoint, and bits of seeret history, foreign and domestic, may often be reyealed to illustrate current events. Weinvite the attention of our readors o these letters, which we trust may become an important feature - the journal of the day. Nosoby hassaid anything about the board of public work during the camnmgn, but the Herald has kept bLarping on one string about the danger of its being ubolished. As amatter of fact the board has been an expensive luxury since Jim Creighton transforred his energies to contracting. It has not earned it . The bourd may have to be reorganized orits duties more ciearly defined. There is one thing cer- tamn. I the bourd 15 retained there is no use for a street commissioner. The wholo eare and supervision of our streets should be under the control of the board or else under the control of the council, with a hoard of publie works made up of city officers acting as an advisory body. The eampaign being over, the canard about the seheue to make City Engineer Rosewater head of all our public works, may us well be dropped. It has served its purposc on the part of Boyd and Mil- ler, lale contractors in patronage, and can safcly be shelved. Andrew Rose- water intends to vetive from the city en- neer's oflice next April, if not sooner, wd will probably shend next summer in vin professional study and travel Other Lands Than Ours, Russin seems Lo be slowly winning her wuy to a ion of her nopes i the Balkans, Steadily, but with Muscovite persistency, the agents of the czar are bLafMling opposition and wearing out the i ney with alternate threats and intrigue, 1he sobranje has opened at Tirnova with an overwhelming ma- jority in favor of Bulgarian indepen- dence, but the menace of Russian gun- boats at Varnae aud Russiaa threats of ocenpriion, has made its members more conservative than was expected. The powers deeline to interfere, The oceu- pation of Varna is excused by Austria rany the eircumstances v which § explains it by main it is only done to protect ets in Buigaria from more or less pronounced tribulations at the bunds of the anti-Russian government of tue little country, Anda slight demon- stration of the kind now gaing on in Varna and Tirnova may sufliciently reduce the bellicose spirit of Bulgaria to wake her amenublé once more to Russian mandates. Bulgaris is not free to choose her form of government, this having been imiposcd upon ner by the powers in be glad toend the contention by selecting for prince any candidate in reason whom Russin will suggest, and will perhaps be fortunate if Russin indicates novody more objectionable than Prince Walde- mar. o The general rednction of rents i ono district of the West of Ireland is a proof of the inability or unwillingness of the tory government to protect the landlords. Ot course, the landiords have given up part of the rent in order to make sure of what thay do not remit. 1f this process goes on over all Ireland it may result in a postvonement of the eritical strugglo for home rule. This postponoment ean bu only temporary, The Irish are in the unfortunate predicament of having what ever line of conduct they adont used agamst them. If they are quict their quietude is adduced as proof that they need no new legislation. 1f they are out- rageous thoir outraces are adduced as proof that they need coercing. Irish his- tory justifies them, however, in expect- ing that, so long as they do not make themselves acutely disagreeable to Eng lishmen, Englishmen will do nothing for them. n 3 At the gossion of the Belgian parlia- ment, which is about to oven, the reor- gunization of the army will be the most important matter discussed. At the present time the Belgian army is reeruited according to the old system— ystem based upon conseription and replacement by payment of a certam sum. Ever since 1850 this method has been found to be very defective, yet no ministry has dared 1o proposy and - substitute an obligator re, sUeh as it ey in France and Germany. The riots of last March demonstrated cleariy t the recruiting system would have to be mod- d, and since then public opinion has foreed the government to take the matter in hand. A law, prepared by M. Adrien d'Oultremont, deputy for Brussels, as- sisted by severnl staft ofticers, will be submitted to Parliament as soon as it meets, and it is understood the govern- ment aceepts this law and will favor its passage. s Tho misery is great in all the larger Russian cities. In Suint Petersburg, withina stone'’s throw of the Imperial valuce, poverty lifts its hideous head. Out of 910,000 inhabitants, 650,000 ure poor. These unfortunate wretehes rk shelter in out-of-the-way corners, cellars, and night refuges, The luckiest ones crowd together in bands of twenties or more in miserable houses, and sicep on the ground or on boarc In the houses of the poor where there are beds, cach couch having a mattress is ocenpied by three persons, without regard to age, sex or relationship, Invalids or well persons are crowded into these pl and poor workmen who have no plice to sleep are 50 received 1nto these same houses at a price wiiich is less than two cents a night from each lodger. With such statistics it is not surprising that fifty-seven per cent of the conseripts of the Russian capi tal have been found uniit for milita service. change sery sts. Mr. H, E. Berner, of the Norw Storthing (Parhament), has been visiting London, Paris and Berlin, He says that the burning question in the Seandinavian peninsula at present is not whether Nor- way shall declare for the republic or not, but whether the union between the sister kingdoms, Norway und Sweden, shall continue. Mr Berner, although a radi- eal on all other questions, is an “onpor- tunist” on this one. He belicves that the true mterests of Norway he i “letting well enough one.”” In the struggle with King Osear, his highn foreed cay 0 the sants of ing”” and Mr. Berner the wisest polie) to to go quietly on in the way of reforms and general progress, so when the da; doption royal to the thinks that pursue is internal that of i comes for the the republican form of government, the country will not have exhausted any of its energios in a struggle for what must happen naturally sooncr or Iater. “You have about half a million of people in the United States who speak our language,’ said Mr. Berner, taking up another topic, “‘which wus the number of inhabitants in Norway when our present constitution was adopted in 1814, We have now over two millions. 8o you sec we are increas- ing in population, notwithstauding the large annual emigration to the United States.” w*x The tithe war in Wales continues to be waged with unabated vigor. Meetings have been held at Caergwrie, Nannerch, and in the Vale of Llangollen. The sole apparent difference in the sentiments of tho farmers in these different loculities is in regard to the amount of abatement claimed. Inthe Caergwrie district the tithe-payers scorn an oflered reduction of 10 per cent, and demand 25, In Nun- nereh and the Vale of Llangollen on the er hand, an abatement of 10 per cent, would bring the quarrel to ar end. It is stated that in the latter district the viear as at length yielded the point. 'y T slow-moving Russian government, finding the railroud facilities inadequate for carryipg the output of petroleum from theshores of the Caspian sen to the Black sea, has now made propositions 10 the bpilding of an oleoduct, or “pipe ling m.}mlm.n to Batoum eapablo of lr:nn‘mill.:‘g 160,000,000 gallons of oil a ar. I'hd pipe is to be laid in three years, and for twenty years the company Iaying it is to be allowed to « o §3.25 per ton, ar about 1 cent & n, for transporfation, he ling be G600 miles long, and presents no greater en gineering difliculty thun a litt of 3200 feet in crossing the clevated lands between the two seas. Tho pipe line company will not be allowed to engage ' relining oil nor becogie the owner of oil wells CURKENT TOPIC There are over a million negro Methodists the United States, Brotherhood of Loeomotive aised the salary of Chief 5,000, The Vermont legislature has passed an oleomargarine law prohibiiing the sale and manufacture of spurious butter uuder i line of 8500, Five stidunts of Earlnam college, Indiana, have beed expelled and seventeen placed on their good bebavior for attending a represen- tation of “Richard 1IL" Now is the winter of their discontent, Fravk 1. Walworth, who killed Lis father atihe Sturtevaut house, New York, in 1573 to will TgIeeTs Arthur to wrongs, Is dead. He for lifey avenge his mother’ was sentenced to imprisonment but was pardoned in 1877, After Chauncey M. Depew had concluded his oration at the unveiling of the Bartholdl statue he said it was the first time he had ever addressod an audionce of applauding steam- boata. Hemi It have addressed them as his esssteamed friends, John Beard and Annie Perigo, of Anburn, N. Y., were to haye been married on Friday s e wroom and his frieuds went to chureh, but the bride did not appear, and a visit to per house diselosed the fact ‘that hier father had tied a knotother than a matrimonial, having fastened her to a bedstead with a rope. Roland Worthington, editor of the Boston Traveller, recalls that when he took hold of that paper, thirty vears ago, it was the mo suceessful one in the eity and printed copies eaeli of the ave diys of the wee ten extra conies Saturdays. The paper {8 still traveling on its aneient reputation, and nas lost little of eireulation. Robert G, Ingersoll is attorney for Charles B. Reynolds, who is unoer 500 bal at Morris- town, No J., ehareed with plasphemy. This i the first ¢ the kind ever tried under the unrepeale liemy laws'™ which are incorporateit in the statutes of New Jersey. yooids was arrested in Boonton, N. J., a fow weeks aco. He delivered Tectures against the bible, and afierward wrote a pauwphlet called “Dlaspuemy.” - The Teaveler, 1 WL Gilder, Tmet a trave'er on the road Whose ek was bent beneatly His face was worn with moral His frame beneath its burden shoo Yet onward, restiess, he did fare With men'unsieldingly, nsed, a look Set forward in the empty air, As it he read an unseen book, What was it in his smile that stivee My sonl 1o pity? When I diew More nan it seemed as if L heard The broken echo of a tune Learned in some far and happy June, 1S 1ips wore parted, but unn 15y words, Ho sane as dre And ot as i he heard s loy The sons he sang. 1 hear it now. T1e stood beside the level brook, Nor quenched his thirst, novbaih Maor from his back the urden stook. He stood yet e did not resty His eyes elimuid up in aiwless quest; Then close did to that mireor how— And looking down, saw, in lace Ot his, my own familiar tace. The Candy Butcher. St. Lows Globe Democrat: It takes an artist to sell books onthe railrond cars. You never see an artist slam into a ¢ bang the door, and start right down the 1sle, hitor miss, throwing a Lafe of Jesse James down by a minister, Gems from Moody’s sermons by a Texas cow- boy, Allan Pinkerton’s ‘deteetive books by 4 voung lady from Vassar, and Bou- quets of Verse by a sherifi taking a pris- oner toSing Sing. Your artist saunters noiselessly mto a car without a hook tells the brakeman a funny story, whi he sizes up the crowd, and moves ieisure- ly down the msle picking out suckers When he has studied the people e enough he determines just how he will ike each one, and gets nis stock ready, n he sits down by the munister and 510 him gravely and i a pleasant, subdued tone abont Moody's great work. He drinks some of the cowboy's whisky and tells hin a story that keeps him Tanghin ) the way to Utica. He dis- cusses poetry with the from Vassar, and conve - mg manner about ‘‘t with the slim young salesman from the drv goods store. The result is that he eatehes every one of them. Those are the men who make£50 or 75 0 w nd throw the nut and fruit stock out of the window her than bother with it. Ain't the; artists® ‘I'he Hebrew elothing merchants down in Baxter strect think that it is a great thine to sell . man acoat at all. I'hat's simply nothing to selling a man a book that he doesn’t want, can’t read, and has been importuned a hundred times in three days to buy. And that's what booksellers who are artists dc “Now, there was ‘Homely Dave,'red- headed, ugly 18 a hedge fence, without single handsome feature—he could tal any man that ever lived into buying a book. Did you ever hear about Senator Lvaris’ crience. with Dave? It was when secretary of state under Mr. Haye He had been out to California on & kind of a jaunt, and w coming back with a number of distin- gwished gentlemen—senators, con men and oflicinls. They struck Dav run at Council Blufls. Before they gone ten miles Dave had 1o0oked the party over and determined to sell them some books. He decided that he would make his first assauit upon Secretary arts. Mr. Ev s not fecling ver, well that d: n he saw Dave coming he turned away inpatiently and motioned the porter to put him out. “‘I have been bored to death by news gents and book peddlers ever ‘sin left San Francisco, and Tam heartily sick of it.! ““Home A his brow, v Dave' was not frightened in the least. He suid, with a bland snlet ixense me, Mr. Sceretary, but | don’t want to sell you anything. I just waunt to read you a page or two ont of a book just issucd, Have you secn it? “Mr. Evarts glanced at the title ana suid he hadn’t. “Now just let me beguile the tedious- ness of the journey by reading the first page to you ' 5o, Dave, who had a remarkably clear dweet voice, read on, not only the first, but the second and third pages,with Mr. Evarts a deeply interested listener. When ‘Homely Dave' stopped Mr., Evarts simply said: ‘I'll tuke that book. Nome your ‘price. Now, what clse have you got?! “That book was ‘Edwim Arnold’s Light of Asin.’ It had jus. come out then, After Mr. Evarts had picked ont a lot of other books he ealled " the senators and congressmen, introduced Dave to them, and made them sit down and listen while Dave read a lot of things. e sold more than %200 worth of books to those people before they got to Chieago. Yon bet hie didn't toeh the peanut basket that trip. “That was red-headed ‘Homely Dave There ain't muny news agents in the bus iness nowadays that ean equal that p formance,” page and - oldiers for Omaha, “The concentration of the soldiers of the Seecond infantry at Fort Omaha not menn anything:" said a member of the Department of the Platte staff to are porter for the Brk yesterduy., *“The fuct is, that all the of this denariment are crowded now, and each one has more than its usual quota of soldiers. Ten compuuies will be stationed at this post alone. No. Ido not think t the num ber of regiments in this depurtment is o large. An nprising of the Sionx In dians to the norih of us would demon strate the fact that the number of sol was not Larger than, for reasons of sufety, it ought 1o he.’ The compantes of th which will be transferved o this depart ment, are expected to_arrive here from the western posts within a day or so Baseball Prospeots. Messrs. Bandle and Kay will probabiy leave weday for Leavenworth, Kuan, to attend a meeting of the representa tives of the western league to be held in that eity. Upoun their return n meet ing of the Omaha stockholders is to by held, probably on Tuesday cvening to take the final steps of organization. The first assessment on the stockholders will then be levied, and the work of signing pluyers commenced. Itis the intention of the Omahia men to get together fivst cluss nige, and good. players ouly wiil be engaged. docs posts Second infantry, | LINCOLY'S ~ EARLY 1'FE. Mo Was Born and Reared to Poverty and Hard Work. Daniel mi- Afather Lincoln and e in Kentucky—A Sorry | grant: Tram in Indmana— The Future President at Work and Study. ham Lincoln, the grandfather of the prosident of that name, went to Ken- tucky from Virginia with Danicl Boone somo years after that great fronticrsman first made himself famouns. The Lincolns 1d Boones were distant relatives. In the November Century Nicolay and Hay the following account of the Lin coln’s adventures in their new home: T'he lite of the vioncer Abraham Lin- coln soon came to a disastrons close. He had settled in Jeflerson county, on the land he had brought from the govern- ment, and eleared & small farm in the forest. One morning in the year 1586 he started with his three sons—Mordecai Josinh, and Thomas - to the edge of the and began the day's work. A shot from the brush killed the father; Mordeeai, the ninstinctively to the house, Josiah to the neighboring fort (Hughes station) for assistance, and Thomas, the youngest, a child of seven, was left with the of father Mordeeai, reaching the cabin, seized the wifle, and saw through the loophole an Indian in his war-pamt stooping to the child from the ground. He took deliberate amm at i white ornament on the breast of the savage and brought him down. The little_boy, thus released, ran to the cabin, nd Mordecai, from the' loft, renewed his fire unon the savages, who began to show themselves from the thicket, Josiah turned with assistanee from thes tand the assailants fled. ‘This tragedy made an indelible _impression on the mind of Mordeeni. Either a spivit of re vengze for his murdered ther, or a sportsmanlike pleasure in his sucecssful shot, made him a determinea Indian stalker, and he rarcly stopped to inquire whether the red man who eame in- range of his vifle was friendly or hostile. Tne head of the family bemg gone, the Widow Lincoln soon removed to a more thickly settled neighborhood in Washing: ton county. There her ehildren grew up Movdeeni and Josinh beeame reputable citizens; the two danghters married two men named Cruome and Bonfield, Thomas, to whom were reserved the hon ors of an illustrious paternity, learned the trade of a carpenter. He was un y-going man, entirely without ambi tion, but not without seli-respect, ‘Though the friendlicst and most jovial of gossips, he was not insensible to aflronts; and when his slow anger was aroused he was a foromdabie advisary. Several border bullies,at different times, erowded him indiseretely, and were prompily and thoroughly whipped. He' was strong, well knit, sinewy, but littie over the me dinm height, thongh in other respects he seeras to have rescmbled lis son in ap pearance. On the 12th of June 1806, while learn- ing his trade in the rpenter shop of Joseph Hanks, in Eli. town, he mar ried Nancy Hanks, a nicee of his em- ployer, near Beechland, in Washingion county. She was one of o large fumily who had emigrated from Vivginia, w the Lincolns and_ with another family called Sparrow. They had endured to gether the trials of pioncer life, and their close relations continned for many years after and were cemented by fredu inter-muringe ‘There was no hint the wedding or the bringing home of Nancy Lincoln. Al accounts represent her as a handsome young woman of 23, of appearance and” intcllect superior (o her lowly fortunes. She could read and write—a remarkable accomplishment in her cirele—and even taught her husband to form “he letters of his nam He had no such valuablo wedding gift to bestow upon her; he brought her to a little house in Ehzabethtown, wh he and she and want dwelt together in fourteen feet square. The next year a dawghter was born to them, and the young earnent not iinding ' his work remunerative enough for his growing budget, removed to a little farm which lie had hton 'msthen prev: in Ken- tueky, on the Big South fork of North creek,in what was then Hardin,and is now La Rue connty, three miles from Hodz- ensville. The ground 1 nothing at- tractive about it, but its cheapness. [t was hardly more grateful than the rocky hill slopesof New kngland. 1t required full as earnest and intelligent industry to ersuade n living out of those barren hillocks and weedy hollows, covered with stunted and serubby underbrush, as it would amid the rocks and sands of the northern const. Thomas Lincoln settled down in this dismal solitude to a deepe poverty than any of his name had over know e, in the midst of the most unpromising eircumstances thut ever witnessed the adyent of a hero into this world, Abraham Lincoln was born on the 12th day of February, 1809 Of Thomas Lincoln’s removal to In- 1 and s ife there the following ae- count is given ‘Thomas Lincoln, concluding that Ken tueky was no place for a poor man, de termined to seek his fortune i Indiana He had heard of rich and unoccupicd Tands in Perry county in that state, nid thither he determined to go. He built a give eldest son, v COrvse his se nt of future elory in rogress," a hi the United States, and “Weems' | Washington.” These were the | these he read over and over uy knew them almost by heart. 5, voracity for anything printed satiable. He would sit in and read a dictionary ws long as | seo. He used to go to David | the town constable’s and revised statutes of Indiana o in our day do the “Three men,'” Of the books ¢ « own ho took voluminous notes, | copy-book with choice extracts, un ing over them until they woere | his memory, He could not o waste paper. upon his own orig position. He would sit by e night and cover the wooden sioy essays and- arithmetical exercie he would shave ofl and begin oy 18 touching to think of this great child batiing year after yeur agai | evil stur, wasting his ingenuity ) vices and makeshifts, his high genee starving for want of the <)Y phiances of education which are now fored grotis 1o the poorest and mos iy ditterent. He did a man's work tron i time he left school; his strength ang stature were alveady far beyond th of ordinary men. Mo wronght pointed” tasks ungrodgingly, without enthusiasnig buy when | ployer's day was over his own b John Hanks says: “When Aty ned 1o the house from wo would go to the cupboard, picee of corn bread, take down sitdown, cock his legs up as high head, and vead” The picture ma Incking in grace, but its truthfu beyond question.” The habit e woth him always. Some of his g work in later years was done o grotesie woestern fashion—‘sit his shoulder blades,” OF his habits and dealings with men atthis early period tie foiloyw given One of his emaployers, undazzlod cent history, taithtully remembers (1 oz Abe liked his dainer and his pay petter than his works there is nothing alien to ordinary mortality this. Itis also reported “that he sony times impeded the celerity of harve erations by making burlesque specd or worse than that, comie sermons, ir the top of some tempting stum, 1o delight of the nred hands and the ey peration of the farmer. 1his budiding ents as 4 WEIter were notalway s use crectly, He was too muach given to conrse satires and chronicles in prose, and in something which had to him and his friends the wir of verse From his arose oceasional heart burnings and feuds, in which Abraham bore his part cording to tie custom of the country. Despite his Quaker aneestey and his it ural love of he was no non-resist ant, and when he once entered upon a quavrel the opponent usually had the worst of it But he was generous and placable, and some of his’ best friends were those with whom he had had difler ences, and had settled them in o way then preyalent—1n a ring of serious s tators, calmly and eritically ehewin their cuds under th shade of somo spreading ok, at the edge of the timber He was not remarkably precocions fis mind was slow in acquisition, and s powers of reasomng aud rhetoric in- proved constantly 1o the end of his lif a rate of progriss marvelousty r and sustained. But there w that about Im, even at the age of 19, which mizht 1 yustify s admiring friends in jre- o saging for him an unusual career. 11 had read every book he could find, ind could “spell down' the whole country at their orthograpeal contests. By dig of constant practice he had acquired tmivably clear and=serviceable | writing. He oceasionally astounde companions by such ghmpses of ocen) enee as that the world is round and that the sun is relatively stationary. Ho wrote, for his own amusement and cditi cation 1ys on polities, of which gen tlemen of standing who had been favored with a perusal said with authority, at cross-roads groc “The world ean't heat 11" One or ‘Lwo of these co tions got into print and vastly inereaseo the author's fume. He was also aoma, nanimons boy, with a larger and kindlier spirit than common. s gencrosity, courage, and capability of discerning two sides to a dispute were remarkable even then and won him the admiration of those to whom such qualities were un known. But perhans after ali the thing which iy nd fixed his mastery over his follows wa to n great degree his gigantic stature and strength - He attained s full growth, six fect and four inches, two you fore he came of age. Do rarely met with & man whom he could not not ensily handle. His strength is still tradition in Spencer county. One aged says he has seen him > pick up a chicken hou: weighing 600 “pounds.” At another time secing some men preparing weontrivance for lifting some large posts, Abe quickly shouldered the posts and took them where they were needed. One of his em vloyers says: 11 conld sink an ax wood noany mun lever With h like this and a to di o man wus a born ter in that country at that time Honoring Al Mater, On next Sunday the niversury of the founding of Harvard colicge will be celebrated throughout the country In this city the oceasion will be fittingly commemorated by afl the graduntes of Alma Mater and especially at they Umity ehurch, where the pastor, ey, ! E. Copeland, graduate of the ¢l N vude raft, loaded 1t with fiis kit of tools and 400 gallons of whisky, and trusted his fortune to the winding water-conrses. He met with only _one accident on_ s way--his raft edpsized in the Ohio river, but he fisned up his kit of tools and mos( of the avdentspivits, and arrived safcly at the place of a sottler named Posey, with whom he left his odd invoice of houschold goods for the wilderness, while he started on foot to look for a home in the dense forest. He selected a spot which plessed him in his first day’ journey. He then walked back to Knob erack and bronght iz family on to ther new home. No' humblor eavaieade eve invauded the Indigns timber, Besides his wife and two children his earthly posses sions were of the slightest, for the backs of two horvowed horses suficed for the load. Tusullicient bedding and clotiang, afew puns and kettles wore their solo movable wealth, They relied on Lin coln’s kit of tools for thicir furniture, and on his ritke for their food, At Posey’s they hired o wagon and literally hewed pith through the wilderness to their new habitation, near Livle Pigeon ereck, aomile and w half cast of Gentryville, in a rich and fertile forest country Thomas Lineom, with the assistance of his wife and ehildren, buitt & temporary shelter of the sort ealied in the fronticr langnage “a half faced camn, rely a shed of poles which defended the ‘in mates on three sules from e foul weather, but left them open to its in clemency in fr or & whole yeur his tamily lived it this wretehed fold, while he was clearing a little pateh of grounl for planting corn and building o rough ahin for a permanent residence Young Abrahum's efforts to gain an oducation after recoiving less than a year'’s achooling in various log seliool houses are related as follows “But he read eyervthing he conld luy his hands upon, and he was cortainly fortunate in the fow books of which he begame the possessor. U would hardly ho possible to select n” better handful of elussics for a youth in his cireumstane than the few volimes be wurned with daily band--the bil, ' Robinson Crusow, 1860, will hold — specind - servie Theoo services will be of o most interesting char acter, and wil be attended in o dy | by the Havvard elub of this eity, which is composed of nnmnber of our prow citizens, and of which presidont, ‘Phese seryices, as preyio noted, are hold everywhere througel the country where @ st of 11 graduntes are to he found ner the meniory of the ccleb tution, with “ats long and cent eureer, is huppity perpetuated Died Away from Home. The denth of Mr., Patrick Fur father of Mys, Thon Gentloman wth Sixtecnth street, was & It happened while i and his w were b t from Sprin s, nghrer, and was apeeted when both left home, Mr. Furiony the oviient of good b for seventy-three years of Hoth SO Wore wplied o1 vence and arrived here It ni funoral took place to day trom churchof t Holy Family, and () muins were interred in the Ho! tory sepulchre of casied the s ot tor O'Birien rotiorts from i 1w for bty A Ver Tolographi that the supreme eonrt at just rendered s de G MO Brien in the case ntleman and dudge Gl for years heen pend which involves abe acres of Ll just west of Han worth son 3,000 ar §41.000 and tho ownership of which clwmned by both O'Brien and Gaslin in Chicago. Private advices received in the city y .8 terduylstate that W Jodackman forw phure Nat Brown, of the Merchants fi offerod i rownrd of $100, is 1 ( cago. He is laving low 1y SITEE 10 eavity notice €1 e dak Cibgo po! on e bout Jaikman here, eviden the