Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 19, 1886, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERY Dajly Morniax E Bee, Ono Vear or Bix Months for Throa Montha The Omaba Swnday Liks address, One Year. oF s ition) ine SRIPTION ding Sunday $10 0 N 101 200 mailed o any 200 | OWATIA OFPICR, NO. 014 AND) 01 FANNAY NEW VOmK OFFICE, Toos 05, Tiy i Wasuis FOURTRENTH Err OX UFFiCE, o CORRRSIONDESCES All ommuniostions r to news and ed torial mattor 5ould b od 10 the Ent TOI QF TK DL, * T prersess ANl beiness lotiers an Addressod to Titk B OMANA. Draits, ol ntir wldre remittancos shot PURLISHING COM ks and post 1LY BEE. Bworn Statement of Circuiation, Btate of Nebraska, | County of Douglas, (oo, B, Tzsehuck, secrefary of The Bes Publishing company, does solemnly swear that the actual circulation of the Daily Bee for the week ending Nov. 12th, 1550, was a3 follows: ° Satorday, Nov, 6., Sundav. Novi 7... . Monday, Nov. Tuesday, Wednesday Thursdy Friday, 12 Average. . a8 10, 18,008 TZ8CHUCK, nresence GiEo. B, Subseribed and sworn to in my this 15th day of November, A, D). N in, [SEAL) Notary Publie. Geo. B, Trsehuck, being first duly sworm deposes and says that he 1s sccretary of thé Bee Puolishing company, that the actual av- erage daily citeulation of the Daily Bee for the month of January, 185, was 10,578 copies, for Fubruary, 188, 10,505 copies; for Mareh. 1886, 11,637 copies: 'for April, 15, 12,1 goptes: for May, 1830, 12404 eoples: for Jifn 8%, 19,205 copice: for . ily 514 copie for Auzust, 186, 12,404 cope 18, 13,050 coples; for Oc copics. Gro. B, Subscribed and sworn to before me this Sth day of November, SEAL] Notary RuTiERFORD B. HAves is now theonly living ex-president of the Umited States SNxow plowing will now take the place of subsoiling in this agricultural state. The railroads are chictly mterested in this kind of farming. Wit a hog market o cent higher in Omaha than in Kansas City, our stock yards open the pork packing season with a grateful boom for hog growers. A CORRESPONDENT Writes two columns describing “the continental divide.”” 1f he can throw any light upon the rumorcd architectural “‘divide’ in connection with the new hospital, his information will be read with great local interest. AxE there any citizens who will be willing to make a provosition for the high school grounds? With $150,000 of- fered for Jeflerson square, our sehool yard ought to bring a nice f; if the coun- ur cil would only entertain such a tender, PrESIDENT CLEVELAND has restored Mr. Benton, convicted of the crime of making democratie speeches while hold- ing oflice in Missouri. Mr. Cleveland may see the time when democratic speeches in Missouri will not save him from the wrath of disgruntled bourbons in the next nominating conventi Publie. TOR VAN WyCK of not assisting 1o oust republicans from oflice in northern Nebraska is dwelt upon at length by Dr. Miller. A greater offense in the eyes of the railrogzue editor has been the senator's refusal to play into the hands of the corporations during his five years at Washington. This the doctor discretely says nothing about. THE statement of Dr. Lewsenring . garding his connection with the Mofl: case 15 clear and explicit. It relieves him of ail blame so far as his treatiment of the unfortunate man was concerned. As soon a8 he saw Mr. Moflat’s condition he promptly ordered him to the hospital, and attended to lis physical comfort. That was all that he could do. But why has not Omaha a polico surgeon, always on duty at the station house and ready to give immodiate attention to cases as THE OMAHA DAILY BEE FRIDAY, NOVEMBER e s e 5 8 ST NG 8 T 19, 1886, Desth of Chiester A, Arthur, The death of ex-Prosident Chester A. Arthur will eause profound sorrow to the Ameriean veople. Although his disease was gencrally rogarded ns dangerous, if not fatal, the announcement of his death was a sad surprise. General Arthur first acquired national prominence during the memorable con- test over the New York collectorship. The intense zeal with which Roscoe Conk- ling opposed his removal made the strug- gle over the confirmation of Mr. Arthur's successor one of the most exciting epi- it the political history of the country since the war. General Arthur's nomingtion tg the yice p! after the severdays fight in the Chicago con- vention of 1580, was as mueh u surprise® to himeelf as it wag to the republican He had gone to Chicago as one of the 300 stalwarts who died with Grant; and had no idea of be ng made a candi- date for the second place on the national ticket. It was one of the strokes of political policy on the part of Ex-Gov- ernor Dennison, of Ohio, who headed the delegation from that state, and, was a peace-offering on the part of General rfield’s fricnds and supporters to the Conklir ction. Atthe time a considerable portion of the republican party did not regard this ne- [ tion as wise. The eandidate inly | hadt no claim to so hizh an honor at the | hands of the party. There was even a doubt respecting his ability to nceeptably discharge the duties of the position. In the light of subse- quent events, however, no one will ques- tion that the choice of the convention was eminently judicions and wizo. [t did not immediately €atisfy tae stalwart clement of the party, but General Arthur un- doubtedly exerted an influence infinaily bringing that element into action in sup- portof the wvarty, thus uring New York to the republicans, then believed to be necossary to the suceess of the party in the clection The period of fonal solicitude sorrow, while President Garfield lay in zony awaiiting the commng of death at Washington and Elberon, made a powerful test of the character and pa- triotism of General Arthur. It was an opportunity which mignt have been taken advantage of by a man less patviotic than ambitious. Vice President Arthur was publicly advised, and doubtless privately also, to assumo the excentive funetions, which it was held the dis; ty clause of the constitution authorized him to do. He not only paid no attention to such counscl, but by his conduct gave assur- ance to the people that nothing could be farther from his thonght, and that he »uld become the president only .n the event of the deatn of the man whom the had elected to that oltice This should have inspired public confidence in Gen- eral Arthur, but when the time eamo for him to ke the peesidential oflice the feeling was very general that it was an udded misfortane which the country would deplore. The administration of President Arthur was not remarkably ntful, but very early in its course the public apprehension that existed respect- ing it at the beginning gave p to a feeling of confidence that the untried and untrusted executive had the wisdom to kuow his responsibilities and duties and the patriotism and courage to perform them. Itis not too much to say that no admiristration since the foundation of the government closed amid a more gen- eral verdiet of popular approval than that of President Arthur, nd per- haps his strongest endorsement is in the fact that a rge clement of the republican party strongly desired his nomination forthe presidency in 1884, and believed that a fatal blunder was committed when this was not done. Noman could have had a higher or juster estimate of the character of the ex cutive oflice—ot its digmity and its duties, its prerogatives and its obliga- tions—than did President Arthur, and while ho never allowed its rights to be in vaded he also never forgot that it be- longed to the people. There were no aunnouncements during his term notifying the people that at certain poriods he would not he accessible to them. Few dents were so bfui and indefati- ble in the performance of duty, and while he was not by nature an aggressive or stubborn man, he had decided convie- tions on ull questions of public concern which he conld firmly adhere to when sodes widency masses oo md thoy ave brought in, There is the fauit to bo remedied, Tire: Omaha Horse Railway company is one of the most profitable of our local onterprises. Its franchise costit nothing. Itis heavily patronized by our people. But whenever we are treated to o flurry of snow, traflic is suspended and the pub. lio is foroed to wait for hours after the snow fall has ceased before the cars re- sume running. In other cities the serap- ers and sweepers on the horse railways begin work as soon as a storm sets in and continue operations until the tracks are clear. In Omaha work with an anti- qunted soraper commences after the storm is over, and horses and cars are 1aid up somcetimes for days until the tracks are seraped c There Must be No dobbing. There always is and always will be more or less danger of collusion between contractors, architects and superintend- ents of public buildings. Qur city and county are not likely (o be exempt from Jobling of that nature The only safe- guard is a vigilunt press and honest pub- lic oflinial Avery ugly rumor comes to us that Frank Waiters has sudde taken s deep interest in the adopt plans for the new county hospital, that he has been buttonholing sloncr Timme in this conneetion, body knows what Frank Walte noss 15, He is a promoter of corrupt schemes, a legizlative go-vetween for jobbers and never known to be assceiated with straight work, Mr. Timme has been a little more inti mate with Mr. Walters than a man in his position ought to be, but we hope for the public good that he has not yet commit ted himself to any scheme i this connec- tion that will give unpleasant notoriety to him and may bring him into trouble. There must be no jobbery in the new county bospital. There fust be no put- up jobs by archit commuissioners. Ever; g connected with the building of this institution should be ecxurried on openly and nboye board, We are aware already that there j underhanded effort to nuprop- erty control some of the physicians on Omimis contractors or | has | opposed. At the beginning of his admin- istration the party in his own state was broken into hostile factions, and through- out the conntry it was tilled with distrust and misgiving. His policy closed the breaches, restored conlidence, and the party again became strong, compact and hoveful, with every assurance of suceess m the ensuing national eampaign under a leader who could have held 1t together. The two most sorious mistakes in the public hfe of Chester A, Arthur were his participation in the contest of Rosc Conkling for re-election to the senato after he had resigned in consequence of the issue with President Gartield, and the indircet intluence whieh it was allegod he exerted in behalt of the nomination of Folger for governor of New York, The former was due to the loyalty of his friendship, which was a strong trait of hig eharactor, though he held it i sub tion after he became president. In t! latter ease may have been prompted by personal ambition, though the truth of the churge has been ques tioned, It will not be claimed that Arthur was 1 great statesman, but ho was a judicious, patriotic and sate man, and therefore especially suited to the time and the eireumstances in which he acted 1f the record he leaves is less brilliunt than others, thero 1s none more Lonorable. he s0me Amending the State Constitution, The retirns to the secretary of state vom all but two small countios show that the proposed amendment to the constitu tion which provided for longer sessions of the legislature and higher pay of wmem- Lers fulls about four thoussnd short of a majority of all the votes cast at the No- vember election, This 13 the second time that this samendment has failed of the uecessury majority, although five-sixths of those who did vote, voted in its favor, | This brings us to the question whether any amendment to the constitution sub- witted at a general election woulidl carry under the ruling of the supreme court that # majority of all the votes cast for any officer at the election is necessary to make an amendwent valid, In the eloyen years since the present constitution was adopted, we have voted on eight or ten amendments with the same result. The the advisory board and we shall uot be sarprised if the same game is being tried with the commissioners. amendment to give woman the franchise was veally the only one that drew. out ot the against the amendment was in jority. On the amendment to ecr "' n railroad commission which wa< sn mitted two years ago the vote was burely a majority of all the votes cast, buith, e fourths of those who voted were opposcd to the amendment In view of the fact that the state outgrown the present constitution, which was adopted when we had & popnlation of lessthan a quarter of a million, we are now confronted with a serions prob- lem. We musteither go without necessary constitutional revision or a new constitu- tion must be frame It is almost imver- ative that our judiciary should be in- creased, reorganized and paid salaries which will agtract the al, and most successful lawyers to thg begen. The ex- ecutive offices which gre now limited in number are scarcely able to cope with the work with which they are burdened as members of various boards, including public buildings and land commissions, the bogus railroad eommission and com- missioners in charge of the reform schools, penitentiary, hospitals for the insane, hospitals tor the blind, home for the friendless, deaf and dumb instivute, ete. Our educational system is deficient, expensive and cumbersome We need a state board of education to and control the entire system, beginning with district schools and end- ing with the university, It self-evident th changes ean only be brought about by a constitutional convention The only question is whether such a conention ean be safely called during the hurly burly of the next legislature, which will waste nearly the first half of the session in the senatorial fight and will barely have time to make the apportionment, pass. the laws which are absolutely required by lo W make avoropriations for conducting the state institutions dur- ing the coming two ye state, but in that instance the vote the ma- manage 18 these needed A Squore Back Down, The president surrenderad to the Missouri pressure in the case of M. E Benton, who less than a month ago he suspended from the office of United States attorney for the western district of Missouri tor having violated the ex- utive order against “‘pernicious ac- tivity” in politics on the pare of federal oflice holders. It is the lirst conspicuons and complete back down the president has made. For that snd some other reasons 1t is peenliarly interesting. After reading the letter of Benton to the attr ney ceneral any eandid man will admit that his course was clearly in the line of ““pernicious netivity™ as detined by the terms and implied in the spirit of the sident’s order, or as he is now wsed to call it, “warning.” By his own confession Benton made numerous poli specches in various places be- tween September 25 and October 16, and these were not delivered to “neighbors and friends,” nor were the times and places “merely incidental.” They were mude in pursuance of requests of the democratic s central committee and of demoeratic candidates for congress, and with the concurrence has of the United States senators from Missonri. ‘The ar- rungement was effected with the full knowledge of all these parties of the e istence of the presulent’s “‘warning, and it is probabie that the question ot its consistency with that order was dis- cussed. This is suggested by the ment of Benton that he relied for Jjustitication of his action upon the clause of the executive order which says that “individual interest and activity in po- litical affuirs is by no means con- demned,” and that “officcholders are neither disfranchised nor forbidden to exercise political privileges,’ to which it is evident he gave a most hberal con- struction. Itis more likely, however, that he relied mainly upon senatorial and other assurances of protection, and as the result shows not mistakenly. ‘I'here could not be a elearer ease of the disregard and violation of an order which has been accepted and construed in two instances by heads of depart- ments, us forbidding the sort of “per- nicious activity’ in politics of which Benton was by his own confession guilty. How does the president explain the re- yersal of judgment on Benton and jus- tify his square back down? It is to be noted that he ncknowledges having acted in the matter of suspension on ex parte evidence. A mewspaper containing a list of Benton's engagements to speak was submitted to him and he was “led to bo- lieve in many of the days speeificd the court was in scssion.” It does not ap- pear that he took any trouble to cor- rectly inform himself, though he might have done so with very litile expenditure of time or effort. The fact was he had no idea of what a hornet’s nest he would stir up in trying to make an example of a Missouri democrat, and did not sup- pose, what he doubtless learned, that §0 small watter a8 this would lose him the support of that state, by no meuns assured now, in the next national democratic eonvention. But on a re cxamination of the case the president goes 1o the other extrome, und aceepts the statement of the suspended official as conclusive. What that amounts to, in the way of defense, simply is that his pohitical work did not interfere with his being in court when his services w required there, This is of a piocce with the ples of M. Vilas, in detense of his al work in Wisconsin, that there us no business in the postoflice depart- ment requiring his attention. We are not informed us to the extent of the duties of the United States district a torney in western Missours, but the posi tiou must ¢ ry nearly a sinecure if he can find timo outside of its requirements tomake a dozen pohtical specches ut nunmerous peints far apart in the cours | of two weeks, It is evident in the letter of the president that he had some doubt about the ability of a man to do this without negleeting his duty, but the mis giving was not strong enough to over come his confidence in the “frank tone” and other convincing characteristics of Benton's statement, vacked by the de- mand of Senator Vest and the assurance that a Cleveland delegation from Mis- souri would be impossible unless Benton was restored, By this action the presi- dent has practically anuuiled his July “warning” and opened the way for all the *“‘pernicious activity' in politics that any reasonable democrat ean desire. All that an ofliceholder, being a demo- crat, will have to do hereafter is to estab- lish the fact, for which it is presumed | bis personal statoment wali be sullicieut, since a more than a majority of the entire vote | that hie political work did not interfore with his official @uties, and hq will not be interfered with. Mr. Cleveland is hedg- ing, and when & man begins this opera- tion there is no telling to what extreme he wiil not go. Stubborn Facts, The methods by which the Omaha erald has been imposing pon advertis- ing patrons both at home and abroad have been a proper subject for exposure, but we have refrained from comment, first, beeause the Horald is in no sense & competitor of the Beg, and in the next place beeuuse we wished to avoid even the semblance of jealousy and rivalry But when the Herald goes out of its way 1o couple with its impoesture a libellous Jassault upogythe character of our “spe- inl" telagraphic serviee, we feel called upon to exhibit the inflated eoncern in its true light. i The proof of the pudding is in the eat- ing thereof, The false pretenses under which the Herald has been advertising itself as the leading paper of this section have doubtless deceived parties who ao not know the relative standing of papers, but facts are stubborn things. The Hernld advertises its weekly cireulation avover 5,000, but it has paid from $1 to $1.25 per week postage on its weekly edi- tion, which shows conclusively that it cirenlates through the postoflice ont- side of this connty less than 1,000, TIts weekly circulation in this county docs not exceed 100 conies. In other words, the weekly circulation of this “great’” paper 1s less than 1,100 copies all told. If we are incorrect produce your postoflice receipts and wo will apologize hand- On the other hand we are ready to produce our postofiice receipts that show a weekly cireulation of fully 3,000 exclusive of Douglas county. The circulation of the daily Herald which 1t is eliimed by our blowhard con- temporary has anereased - proportion more than any paper west of Chicago during the past year, amounts to less than 1,000 copics delivered by ecarrier in Omaha, where the Bee delivers by carrier between five and six thousand. The fact that the Herald has alway: refused to compete for the city advertising when a sworn statement of circulation was required shows that it is in no condition to compete for oflicial business. With ail its cflorts of throw- ing Sunday papers into back and front yards and donating thousands of papers to newsdealers all over the state the Herald has utterly failed to raise its regu- 1 seription cirenlation beyond a pal- try fow hundred. While it keeps up its imposture by printing at its head the claim of “the est actual paid cireu- lation of any daily in Nebraska,” the fact remains Bi circulates mor in Western Towa than the FHerald does in Nebraska, and that the Beg, by its daily sworn statements coyering a period of ten months, shows an inerease of near] 5,600 dailies m that time, which is more than the whole averawe daily cireulation of the Herald. And this cheeky swindle is kept up by the Zerald from day to day and week to week. I'aets e very stun- born things ure of the Herald to inflate its eireulation permanently by all sorts of devices has caused the pub- lishers, as a necessity, to cut down the size of the daily so that to-day 1t is the smallest morning paper in. Omaha while the Bre is the largest. The reduetion in ¢ is equal to nearly twelve inches of space on the page or nearly 100 mches on the eight pages. The same imposture is kept up about the telc phie service. The Herald has contracted for the United Press report at a comparatively low toll, and that re- port, printed by nearly two hundred papers in the country, is rehashed as “special cable dispatehes” and “special telegrams” to the Omaha Ferald. The greater portion of th s report is simply a duplicate, differently worded, of the reg- ular press report, which the Herald throws out purposely to deceive its pat- rons into the belief that it has ‘fresher"news than any other paper. As a matter of fact the New York IHerald special cable service which the Bg prints exclusively west of Chicago and which is copyrighted to make it exclusive, costs the | money every year than the entire te phic service of the Ier- ald. During the past two Sundays the BeE has published more than 10,000 words of special cable service from the capitals of id its Ameriean ‘‘specials” wired to it exclusively by its pmd agents at Washington, New York, Chi eago, DesMoines and Lincoln made up 10,000 words more. If this braggart wnd swindling concern desires to compare telegraph toll receipts, we will accommodate them with great pleasure. The amount paid last year by the Bk for telegraph tolis will more than cover the telegraphic expenses of all the dailies i Nebraska, The taunt that a dispatch which appeared in the Herald one morning appeared in the Beg the next evening hardly justifies calling our telegraphic service bogus. This morn ing's Herald contains a column on John Jacob Astor which readers of the Ber will at once recognize as a copy of our New York letter pub hished last Sunday and paid for to Mr. Frankhn File. The Herald's enter. prise in this ease, as in its stale Clar: Belle letter copied each week from a Cin cinnati paper of the previous week ander iged date docs not draw on its parse strings, [f the Horald will confine itself to bogus cluims on its own account without libeling the’ Beg, further refer ence to its eollupse a8 the “greatest daily west of Chicago” with the *“largest actual pad circulation,” will not be made by us Eieiie—a— some| ac Tuere will be no factionalism m the sincere regret which republicans every where will express/ over the death of General Arthur. He did much as presi- dent to wipe out the distinction between stulwart and mugwump in the ranks of the party and to show the country how u formerly active partisan could adapt him self to the position of chief executive of nation. ——— THE FIELD OF INDU T'wo hundred and eleven out of 5 bar- bers in Washington are Knights of Labor A good many of the New England manu- facturers are building houses for their work- wen. Thie cotton oarn mills of Utiea are run niug night and day, and baye ordors enough for & year 20 come, A silk factory. has just been completed ut Fultonyille, N. Y., and silk machinery from Europe is being put in. Thelatest reposts from the leading iron | tions will be commenced at once. and steel centres show an influx of inquiries for materials of all kinds. Natural gas Is being used as an illominant under several patents, The same amonnt gives more light than artificial gas, Plants can be erected at a small eost. Some sclentific people in St. Louis are rec- ommending manufacturers to sink wells from 1,500 t0 2,000 feet for natural gas. Four thousand acres of land sixteen miles from East St. Louis have been leased and opera: 1f natural gas cannot be found two or three firms will Pprobably move intothe Ohio gas fields. I he trade conditions are improving even at this Iate date. The consumntive require- of the country are so heavy that accu- ions of stock are found to be difficult. Inquiries from all_quarters of the country show that buyers, bullders, projoctors and in- vestors are quite confident’ of a_continuance of the vigorous trade and manufacturing con- ditions that have existed since the 1st of Sep- tember, Tho news from New Encland manufactur. Ing centers shows'a liberal supply of orders for boots and_shoes, cloth for winter and spring use, and for manufacturing produets of a hundred varieties, The New Eneland manufacturers are preparing to inerease their manufacturing capacities both by steam and water power, and already contracts have been placed with builders of enginesand machin: ery forthe increase of steam power, ‘This especially true {n the larger mills. Before the opening of spring thero will be between twenty and thirty new national or- ganizations formed Mting As many diffe i througliont. the United States, “This national orsanization ( labor by individual eratts is one of the*des artures inaugurated at the last two National conventions of the Knights of Labor, This denartiire has the decpest sienification. Each craftwill attend to its own affairs and per- fect plans and establish rules for its own separate eraft, butall will be. subordinate to the gencral assembly. During the past fow days projects for the consiruetion of between 7,000 and 8,000 miles of railroad have been made publie. The de- mand for those new ronds it presented this winter. as they probably will be, will_have the effeet of crowding prices up to a_higher limitand of stimulaiing industry in every branch. Railrond building will be entered upon next year on a scale of unprecedented maenitude. Nearly all the leading railroads throughout the country have been gaining in stiength, and a competitive spirit is veloping itself which will result in I vestments for the purpose of erailway sion, is —~— Will Not Know Where to Begin. St. ouis Post-Dispatch, Wiien the president begins to mend fone he wiil nardly know where to be amidst sueli a profusion of starting point The Next President, Youngstown Telegram, Taken altogether, the returns mean that the next president of the United States wiil De the nominee of the national republican party. — - Has Had Its Day. New York Telegram, Mugwumpery has had its day. Prohibi- tion as a third-party movement has spent its force: but orzanized labor will have much to do with determining the people’s chioce in 1888, L Ought to Feel Complimented, Chicago Times. M. Bartholdi is said to be anzry because of the failure to light the statue of Liberty. Ie onght to fecl very much complimented that New York has not yet bezun to cover the statue with advertising placards, - A Passage. i Boyle *Ieilly, The world was made when a man was born. He must taste for himsell the forbidden springs He can never take ioned thinus; He must ficht as a youth; e must kiss, he must love, he must swear to the truth Of the friend of his soul; he must laugh to warning from old-fash- boy, he must drink asa i The hint of deceit in a woman's eves That are clear as the 115 of Paradise, And so he goes on till the w Till his tongne has grown eautious, his he has grown cold, Till the smile leaves his mouth and the ring Jeaves his laugh, And he shirks the bright headache you a him to quafls Ho grows formal with men and with women polite, And distristful of both when they're out of his sight: Then he cats for his palate, and drinks for his head, And lov, his ples were dead ! S SRR STATE JOTTINC rt ure—and 'tis time he Albion sighs for an athletic music teacher. Norfolk is enjoying the luxury of a ily paper. Twenty-three train erews make Chad- ron their headquurrers. ‘I'ne human and the horse race for the drinks in Juniata, The farmer holds the stuke and both take corn. Nebraska City sends o Omaha for hogs, doubtless beeause the metropolis is the packing house headquarters in - more than one sense, The Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley company have settled with nearly evory farmer for the vight of way throngh Boone county, and_there are very few cases left for settlement by the ap- praisers, George Schoficld, a Saunders county farmer, aged sixty nted his interior department with lundanm at Cedar Blufts 1d o stomach pump failed to work him, The blizzard bad no terrors for him; he is at rest, An artesian well is being bored at Chadron to get a little water to mix with the whiskey, but none of the strange liquid has yet been struck. The butte cliy has been gone through and the immediate work is of considerable in- terest, A valuable horse was stolen from the stable of Mr. Higging in Hastings Sun day night. A ncighbor lost a harness, and another a buggzy the same night, proving that the thiof knew the lay of the ground, and went off with the plun der in tivst-class style. The first “‘no’ of the scason fell Fuirticld parlor Monday evening when the belie of the town declined an offer of asleigh ride from a sentimental and con- suderite young man. Coming astride the snowy billows this *no™ left x melancholy vacuum in Henry's heart and catter. A Syracuse five-vear-old, well advanced in domestic cconomy and the proper out- 1ana of the Gracian band. used noxtanoh busket for a bustle. When the hopeful's mother discovered the unnatural *pro- tuberance,” she promptly reduced the swelling und dressed her down A young woman named Mary Hall was decoyed from Brownsville to alonely spot in lowa by a debauchee, and left sick and penniless in an abandoned cabin, She was discovered and taken to Brownsyille, where she is heing cared for by eharitable ladies. The unfortunate is not expected to recover. ay and giddy of Ainsworth will monopolize the rink on the night of November 2ith, for the Mother Hubbard Shindig. 1t 15 thought that all the noc turnal robes of the village will be mat- tendance that evening. The men will each use two villow slips for Father Hubbard pants. George Buzzard, living on Plum crock, Brown county, recently lost his littie girl in the canyon, and the ether went out in seureh, looking long and anxiously up and down the eanyon and it so wrought upon her mind that she became tempor. anly insane, and bas now gone to lowa on 4 visit 10 friends in hope she may re cover, The ehild was found the sune day, having sustawned 1o injur Jules Fogerty is s man _of means and mueh lewsure in Omaha. He is constiw tionully epposed to shovelling snow or other wearying exertion. He arose at & in a seasonable hour Wednesday morning, and muflling himself to breast the blizzard, started for his business offico. Right at the front door step he encoun- tered a drift of sufficient proportions to cause a h It stretched awav in an unbroken ficld four feet deep, over gate and out into tho street. Fogerty d termined to get there somehow, and backing up a few paces, made a sliding dash over the billows, He skimmed the drift for a distance of ten feet, when his pedals struck the gate, aod he disap peared headforemost in the outside drift ~~the prettiest dive that haif a dozen neighbors ever witnessed. Kven his age- mellowed wife joined in the loud laughter that rehly smote on Fogerty's ears when he rose to the surface, enveioped in powdered crystals, a Santa Claus in disgnise. Ho plowed his weary way down town and remained there tll the thaw set in. —— oves in ¥ Chicago Harald: Colonol Moonlight, lately the democratic candidate for gov- ernor in Kansas, doclares that the drug stores defeated him. Under the so-called prohibitory law the have & monopply of the beer and Jiquor trafite, and, as a re sult, are'selling vast quantities of intoxi- its at exhorbitant rates. The only dif ference, he discovers in the situation since the abolition of the saloons is that liquor nov costs more money than 1t dud, the amount sold and consumed being as targo as ever. Beer which droggists buy at thirteen cents a bottle is retailed stead- ily enough thirty cents a bottle Whisky bought by them at 50 per (lon is sold at $1.60 per pint. Al that is needed to get a supply of beer or whisky is to obiain a permit from the probate judge, and as that functionary derives a reverue of five cents for every permit ssued he is not likely to be oyer-particular abont sat- isfying himself of the genuinencss of the application. Eyery man who is sick, or vhio may think that he will be sick, isen- titled under the law Lo have some medi- cine, and us a_consequence Kansas has become one of sthe unhealthiost states in the Union. The invalid presents himself 10 the probate judge, nominates his dis- case, pays his fee, r ives his permit, procecds to the drug store, nominates his poison, receives it, paying three prices theretor, and goes home. From the re cords which the dispensaries arve com- pelled to keep it appears that wh 18 zood for everything from & buld b fuiling oyesight and curvature of the spine, and thiut the people are resorting to that remedy in increasing numbers every month. Enjoying a monopoly of the trade and reaping profits which promise soon to make the Kansas drug- gist a millionaire, this new social factor lias also become & power in politics According to Colonel Mooulight ever druggist is enthus in favor of the prohibition law. Its wetment has plit money into his purse and its con- tinuance “will make him rich, He is therefore ardently in favor of any part which promisesto retain the law, A the republican campaign was made in defense of the present system the drug gists arrayed themselves on the side of that oryganization.and by assessing them- selves 100 apicee they were able to raise a corruption fund which made the eflorts of the demoerat Moonlight to illumme the state full short of their obje Naturally enongh, he considers the drig store in politie rear evil and he sees no limit to the opportunitics for fraud id corruption whien it offers. [t is evi dently only a question of time when the will appenr in Kansas and other prohi- Dbition states ty which will aim to destroy the drug sto If the th Colonel Moonlight says are to he acceptid as correct itis ulready as demoralizing 1 institntion as the saloon, and under some circumstances it way become more 50, Druy St olitios, Ityan's Knock-Out. hieago Heratd. se will be manifested over the faect the trouble with Paddy Ryun in his engagement with John Sul livan in San Francisco was not so much his inability to hit Sulhvan in the nose as his inadequate supply of wind. All the dispatehes agree that if Ryan 1 had plenty of wind he might e hurt Sullivan before he got through with him. As wind has been Paddy’s best h for several years, what now is left to him? In the aceountof the fight with which the readers of the Herald’ were fuvored it was suid that Ryan forced the issne from the first, and “that not more than five seconds elapsed atter the opening of hostilities before he landed a terrific bone-rattler on Sullivan's right cheek., Later on he did the saume thing again, but it was not until the of the third round that Paddy showed tho stuff he was It was then that he the shining qualities which made him_great among the Jamming pugihists of the day. Having approached dangeronsly near to Sullivan's right, Paddy gotone on the jaw which sounded ko a4 cannon Istriking a board fence, and with a lunge which did eredit to him he dropped on the outside of the ropes When time was called Ryan heroweally sfused to move, 5 1L Wis apparent that he had begun s great act of gong to sleep the referee decided the fight in his antagonist’s tavor, While, in the expressive langn: the prize ring, it is evident that R Sullivan’s “pudding,” it cannot be de med that Paddy is truly great in defe Ho knows whon he'h 0t enoug well &s any man in the country, and the way he takes of showing it is to be com mended. So far as Sullivan is concerned he is to be praised for his forbearance not giving it to him in the first round Some surp )80 have s of Lal Chicagn News ow that the hours-of-lubor que given such prominence in the United States politico-vconomie field, it will be of interest to know that these hours are inno other I'he reports of the German insp of fuctories for 1885 have just been Clussifying the returns, it is found i fuctor ics work ten or eloven honvs daily, with at least six full days in the week ten hours form of the whole overtime. In - Dus cleven to n s countrics tor issued that working njorivy oning time s f hour In Bay In corn mi up a8 hi from sevent per week! in the men work out interriay gera proper s not lovf twelve [t polish n ih wnd in in mer ut o winter six, continuing il night, With h honrs as 1 matter for wonder thut there are not ¢ o rimany thin t erment is wlready ealled to A Mr. Ja! says St. Jace rheumatism socialists in G n G )5 O - A Proud Boston Maother. TRATS D b R T R T tion between two ladies, averheard on a suburban train a few mornings ig 80 George is at Harvard now “Oh, 3es; this is his second year, know; hie has just entered the sy cluss." you “L'is vain to seek # powder that defics del on, but use Poczoni's Lo improve s complexion. STORIES OF DOCTORS. Queer Things About the Wise Men Who Hold Our Lives in Their " ands, A woman in New York, near fifty, has been a cripplo for yoars and has suffored intensely. She spent thousanis and thousands of dollars in obtaming the best | medieal adviee, but to no purpose. Lately she consulted & mountebank, who gave her a preseription which espelled a tape worm of which the reguiar practitioners had entertained no suspiceon Recently a well-known rich financior having suflered for months from severe headache, songht relief at the hands, one after another, of all the doctors in Bos ton. They told him that s brain was ected, that his kidneys were diseased that he had liver complaint, that it was the indirect resuit of neuralgia, ete., ete., ete. Each and all fhrescrived a remedy he tried the varions remedies, but none of them was of any aval. Fmally o went abroad for his health, and being in Vienna, consulted an eminent physician there, who told him he haa a_polvpus in the nose, and that it ought to be removed immediately. The overation, a simple one, was performed, andd the financier had no more pain in his hedd. Aftor the Empress Bugene had given birtn to the prince imperinl an important operation wias neces: yand all the cel ehrated #octors of Pars and several an doctoss resident there wers d in, among them Dr. Johns now During her treatment it was found to their consternation that the blood had left her brain. She was in momentary peril of Tosing her lifo. A solemn con sultation took place. Nobody could ad vise exeept Johnson, who declared ho could remedvy the evil. He held her up by the heels and the blood owed back to her brain - He saved her life. Not one of the Parvisian sages would have dreamed of ofiering so monstrous an indignity to the empress of the French, but the ind nity, as they afterward acknowledged, vas preferabfe to her death A millionaire named Parrish had grave ailment, and several Teading physi- cians wore summoned. but none of them him rehef Then Dr. Lewis H Sayre, uhle, but often rude in manners and speech, was ealled in and rendered the desired service. His bill $1,000, which Parrish declined to liguidate_on the ground that it was exorbitant. The doctor, with an_oath declared, which was true, that he had saved his patient's Life, but the late patient still demurred Then smt was brought and the full amount recovered, much of which the plaintilt had to part with for lawyer’ fees. Some months after the willionaire had a recurrence of the trouble, and Sayre was ngain summoned. He went, but fused to do anything until the sufferer had arawn a check Tor $1,000, which he did hnmediatety. If the man’ had been poor the doctor would probably have made no charge, but he was resolved thet Parrish should not benelit by s skill without liberal recompense therefor, African Gold Minoes, From n Nutal Letter to the London Times: Sonth Africa s a country of sur prises, Itis burely twenty years since the existence o diwmonds along the Vaal river becaie known, and soon” after fol Jowed the discovery of the Kimberly mines, which in richness and extent haye qnite cclipsed those of India and Brazil. The yield of precious stones of all kinds and _qualivies extracted from the dia moniferons enrth since that time 18 esti ated to have rex or five tons i, of the grross yalue of £10,000,000, Diamond mining has beeome one’ of our settled and permianent industries, under- ground shafts have supplanted — open workings, a population of about 80,00 inhabit the townships at_the tour mines around Kimberly, and the ordinary ex- penditures distributed among the ‘com munity for labor, machinery and ma- terial employed in’ working ‘amounts to no les ) L2,000,000 per annum; while from January toJuly last the amount paid out to share-holders in the dividend- aying companies was over £230,000. 0w, in another 't of the countr) since the beginning of this year, the ex istence of a grest gold AR e demonstrated bevond a doubt, a series of rous quurtz veefs and lodes having ou discovered and_developed, some of them yiclding as rich returns of the precions metal as havo been found i part of the world, This auriferons tract, generally termed the De Kaap goid fields, is situated on the enstern side ot the Transvaal, where the uplands of the Drakensburg moun tains slope ofl in o succession of terraces nd broken hills und vallevs to the lowe range ot the Lebombo, about one hun- dred and twenty miles from Delagon buy. ‘The greater part of 1t is within the territory of the South African republic, but it ‘extends over the western and southern border into the adjoining na- uve territory of Swaziland. The Croco. dile river 1o the north and the Komati river to the south nearly encircle the arci At prosent attracting attention. Midway between them the Ka with its tributary, the Queen’s riv flows through the picturesque Kuap v ley, surrounded by an oval of hiils, some abruptly rising” to - L0030 or 2,000 foot ~ high. The formation con- sists chietly of a us - slates and sehists andstones and conglomerate, in some pla disturbed by granite, and travers inriz reofs nd igneous di he fs are for th most part vertical, and run almost di enst and west, with nsoutheriy incling tion. Therc has been more or less of Tuvial gronnd worked in some of the hil's and tervaces within the area, but the search for and developing of quartz recf ing is the industry on whieh all on these fiolds ave absorbingly onznged For years pust’ gold mining has beon pursied with the ustal proportion of sue s and fatlure in the distriet of Leyden bere immediately north of De Kanp, bt 16 was not until 1853 that attention was drawn to this locatity by the discovery of reef on what is known as Pioneer 1111 The ground on wiveh the reef was silg ated formed part of or of farims which were the property of Mr A oodie, Tormerly surye eneral of the Trans,aal, wnd thes Nutal company, whi formed with )i dircetorate in rit open thren of these f subject to licenses and in i were dead 'he o throw ri by, retuin on M ground 1o nt lying went to the north e goyernment lands u Messr reef township of B W around it Adrien men Liaz possi veets 1 mu thut noor enwering iy and th Lire is ity wreat