Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 9, 1887, Page 4

| _THE DAILY BEE. 2 R N ““tGeneral Sherman on Logan, by Gath.—Mus- e = i —————————————————— 4 PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSORIFTION Dafly (Moeniae Baition) ineluding Sunday Bir, One Yoar . For 8ix Months For Threo Monthe . The Omaha Ssnday Bes, mated 10 any address, One Year . OMATIA OvpIeE, No, 014 NEW VORK OFFICE, ROOM 6, TRIFUN WASBINGTON ( FOURTEENTH STREST OORRPSPONDENCE: All communioations relating to news and ed!. torial matter should be addressed to the Lot TOR OF THE Bk, RUSINRAS LETTERS ATl business lettors nnd tances ahould ba trossed 1o The Bre HING COMPANY, OMARA. Drafts, checks and postof dord 10 be mado payable to the order of the company, THE BEE PUBLISHING CONPANY, PROPRIETORS, E. ROSEWATER, Enrron ——— e e THE DAILY 8 Sworn'Statement of Circulation, State of Nebraskn, 1, County of Dougls. { % % Geo, B, Tzschnek, secretary of The Bee Publishing company, does solemnly swear thal the actual cireulation of the Dally Bee for the week ending Doc. 51st, 1556, was as follows: Saturday, Dec, 2 Sundav. Dec. 2 Monday, Dec. psday, Friday, Dec. 3i. Average. B, Subreribed and sworn to before me this ist yof January A, D., 1857, N. I Frir, [SEALY Notary Publie. Geo. B, Tzschuck, being first duly sworn, deposes and says that he is secretary of the Bee Publishing company, that the aetual ay erave ly eirculation” of the 1 Bee for the month of January, 189, was 10,178 copies, for Fubruary, 185, 10,505 copies; for March; 1886, 11,537 copies: for April,’ 185, 12,191 copies: for May, 1556, 12,459 coples; for Jine, 185, 12,208 copies: for July, 1556, 12,514 copies | for August, 1556, 12,464 copies:for Septamber, 1886, 13,030 coples: for October, 1839, 12,050 coples: for November, 188, 13,348 copies; for December, 1555, 13,237 copies, Gro. B, TZSCRUCK. worh to and subscribed betore me this 1st January A. D, 1557, (SEAL.| N. P Frir, Notary Public e Contents of the Sunday Bee. vage 1. New York Herald Cablesrams— Specials'to - the Bek.—General Telegraphic News. Page 2, Telegraphic Nows.—City News.— Miscellany, Special Advertisements. Editorials.—Poiitical Points.— lCnmlm'lll.\i usan B, Anthony oln. Page 5. Lincoln News.—aiscellany.—Ad- vertisements. Page 6, Couneil Bluffs News.—Miscellany. ~Advertisements, Page 7. Social Events in Omaha.—General and Local Markets,—Miscellany. Letting Them Down Easy, his own sucoes o is now conc 4 been thros on the wall scn he make I'nis fact is a ver ywing admission to the meeting ¢ , are discreetly that he should be den the conclusion fellow arter all such a bad with very gently, used to froth at th of the senator's to voice the will of the 1at the mention in the log- 1 who have votes to cast tim fact that Van Wyek and eflicient public ser- at Lincoln realiz has made an ab; They knosw of voters of both parties cord he has the fame she achieved the national souncils re-election will add to their own poy lavity and they know that his election is a foregone 51,000 votes ¢ of the people for Un against the desperate oppo; proud of the They feel that hi the preference ed States senator tion of the their organs, in the face of threats that would make it a cviminal offense to ped- dle or to vote such a ticket, the membe as any ambition or self respeet will natnrally feel that he is sate in casting his vote for Van Wyck Perhaps the cold ¢ ze of the andi n's performanc at the opera hou sisted in_deereasi Miss Cogh- Let us be charitable this, the pitiful patronag ug companies citlier o wortifying commentary on the intetligence of our people or a proof that they have become thorough skepties in to the truth of which theatrical agents food the which have appearcd on the local the Madison Square company, the Called Back combination Page 8, General City News.—Local Ad- vertisements, Page 9. Fuzenin’s Pearls, by Clara Belle,— Don Carios’ Mimic Court.—Cold and Gauze Garment: ,h)‘ urnassy.— Advertisements, Pace 10.-The Vagaries of Wedlock.—The Jewel Caseof Jokers.— hwarted by Hounds. "he Green Stone Mine, a Story. Page 11 A Mother-in-Law’s Appeal.— ieal and Gramatic. —Educational, —Connubi- alities. —Honey for the Ladies.—Religious.— Impietics Page 12 Her Mind Was Diseased, by Adamn Badeau.—What They Saw and Ldard, an Interesting Letter from Paris.—Hub Heresy, Hash and Tlats, by Franz Sepel.— “Iie Cehter of the Continent, by ¥, L. .- Railway Accidents, by J. H. Lowry.—Mis- cellany.—Advertisements. TiEwE seems to be nothing definite about the ramored proposition of Mana- ger Hughitt. That is the reason why there will be nothing definite in the re- sponsc of Douglas county. At the anti-Van Wyck organs have their cyes draped in mourning. The strength displayed by the old man’s forces is dreadfully surprising to his opponents who have been gulled for ks by the absurd predietions of the Van Wyck pre. Tiie current issue of the Accident News contains a summary of the railroad acer- dents in the United States and Canada for seven years—those for last year being brought down to December 10—and the number ot persons killed and injured. The accidents numbered 8,914; killed, 2,616; injured, 10,740, Ra1LroAD rates in Nebraska are so out- rageous by comparison with those of neighboring states that the agitation for local regulation of home corporations is not likely to abate until some effective measures are taken to remove the cause. The merchant in the interior of Nebraska who pays four times the freight rates on his merchandiso whicn the business man in lowa is called upon to pay can neyer be convineed that there is any equitable renson behind such a discrimination, ‘When the rate on sozp to Omuha trom ro is only 30 cents o hundred it i cult to figure out any rational busis for a charge of $1.00 to points sixty miles west of Omaha. ‘The BEE proposcs to company played to long rows of ompty The worst theatri ceived the la most uproarious applansi It is possible sponsible for this condition of nd diseriminating ¢ refusal to permut the nse of their colunmins might awaken more value of the informa atrical which they spread before their this, the general public whi the theatre to listen dramatic werit, performed by actors or variety troupe order, while annot be drawn to patronize plays and actors upon which th 1ts seal of high approval, lay themselv open to either the charge of gross ignor- ance in fuiling to know what is good or of gross car their corre lessness in taste when occasion oflers, It Greatly Depends. There will be no lack of rs ositions in these parts during the next 8 indications Manager Hughitt is not the only t system which is ilroad prop- representative of a gro anxious to come into closer commercial relations with this city on terms of mu- focusing their attention on his metropo. lis and planning to wake it their terminal point on the Missouri, ask in return 1s & question to which a few weeks will give answi receive depends very largel value they are prepure What they will What they wiil to give for the ‘The people of wroused to the possibilities he fore them, but they have « vivid remem- of the events b s interest on they never rece 1zs this annually are willing for what the; they will not open their purses to prom guarantees. A proper effort on the par of our people and a wise foresight on the part of trunk lines secking trade territory Nebraska would in develop discuss this question fully during the wresent session of the legislature and to publish comparutive freight rate statis- ties from ulong the lines of I- roads in the state, For seve months past it has been collecting materials to show how the people of this slate are being bled to roll up dividends on the bogus debts of the railroads and to lay before tho public the real basis of the continued complaints against these cor- porations. Ncebraska last year p: meny millions more for freight than the state of lown with all its population, There 15 food for reflection in this single fact, OxE of the first bills introduced into the senate was that which proposes to raise the age of consent of girls to fifte years, It is a remuarkable fact that under our stato laws a girl of ten years and over can consent to her own ruin, and that the scoundrel who robs her of her virtue can escape from all penalties of the law. If ho steals her pocket book the penitentiary stares him in the face; if he assaults her forcibly the public court threatons him with retribution, but provided only that the child has reached the tender age of ten and consents to her own ruin the law stands aside and re fuses to lay hands on the destroyer of fnnocence. The movement to the age of consent is a wise and 8 timely one. The sbsurdity of permitting a child, who cannot make a logul contract for the sale of real or persoual property, to barter away what i8 of more value to herself or to society than untold wealth is too manifest to r quire discussion. Other stat taugit by the bitter lessons of experience, have ehanged thsir iaws 1n this respeet in ac- eordance with the dietates of wmorulity and an enlightcued publie sentiment. Nebraska, with its. thousands of happy howes, cannot afford to be behind in thi much needed reform, ments that would double Omaha's popu- lation within five years, and give us 200,000 population by the census year of the railroads answer to this question is an o the query whether Omaha w ! otter's Death, The death of the bishop of the diocese of New York will be folt as a personal bereavement by the community in whieh he ministered for so many years, and will come as a great loss to the For nearly sixty yeurs identified h work and for wmore than half that time performing the duties of the oflice, no churchman was better known in the great religion tion of his choi admired forthe rare wisdom, kindly oration and untlagging encrgy which displayed in furthering tho e W he devoted Lis life Bishop Potter was not s man of passing intellecfaal attainments, He was neither a great pulpit orator nor a famous tla published few books, and or more respected and discussions threw all lus energies into the ehannel of | harmonizing ecelesiastieal upbuilding of the the diocese who was ever brou simple and aracter or the \is convietions His gentle and admirat the results of his respect of his assoc It was a trying position which Bishop Horatio Potter was called upon to fill thirty two years ago had been deposed aud the chu work comwanded the His predecessor | assaited from without by the scandal which Bisnop Onderdonk’s trial and < less torn with dissension from within, The storm of theological rancor whicn later burst out oyer the High Church question was already then gathering, bidding fair to permanently divide the chureh mto two opposiig and hostile eamps, Bishop Potter, with rare wisdom, marked out his course and consistently followed it until his death. Toleration was the com pass by which he steered in Kest of nights, and it never failed . He threw himself earnestly into the work of healing up the wounds of the past, of in | fusing his own encrgy into the parishes | and of making christian work supplant christian controversy among the clergy | The end has justilied fully the coursc adopted, The extent of Bishop Potter's arduous duties may be in a measure gathered from a summary of a part of his labor during twenty-seven years up to 1881, since which time failing health made it necessary for a younger and more vigor ous man to assist him in the labors he was no long o to perform alone—a service most ably performed by his nephew. During that period he admin- istered the rite of confirmation to 78,009 applicants for membership to the church; he baptized more than 150,000 men, women and children; he conseerated 117 churches and laid more than 100 corner stones; he ordained 450 deacons and 865 priests, He took a leading part in founding numerous charitable institu tions connected with the chureh, some of which were established only A vigorous contention, and of which have justified the nerous spirit of charity in which they were conccived, Bishop Potter was a ripe scholar and to the end of his life o close student. While still a young man he received the degree of doctor of divin- ity from ‘Trinity college, having previ ously reccived that of doctor of laws from Hobart college, his alma mater, In 1860 Oxford university recognized his scholarship and accomplishments by be- stowing tho degree of doctor of eivil law. His monument is the Protestant Episco pal diocese of New York, and it will per- petuate his memory and bear testimony to his great and useful labor long after his mortal parts have returned to dust Authors Sceking Protection, The subject of international copyright has from time to time engaged the atten tion of congress almost since the United States began to e a literature of its own, but the difflenlties growing ot of conflicting interests have generally been <0 great that it has thus far been founa impracticable to establish a satistactory and permanent arcangement in which both authors and publishers could agree. With the owth of an American litera- ture which is finding in Great Britain and clsewhere a steadily increasing de- mand, the importance of a just and equitable system of international copy- right becomes ey cear more urgent. "To promote this the American Copyright League was formed, embracing most of the leading authors of the country, and largely through the influence of th organization—of which James Russ Lowell, we believe, is the president bill to establish international copyrig was introduced at the last session of congress by Senator Hawley, The object of this measure, which is understood to have the approval of all American authors interested in this subject is to es- tablish complete reciprocity between Eng. land and the United States. The principle on which the proposed arrangement pro- ceeds, as explained by the league, is to put a foreign citizen on an equality, « s copyright, with the Amcrican when the American citizen has cqual copyright with that foreign eitizen under the laws of the latter’s count This plan is very much better, for many reasons, than the alternative of giving the foreign citizen exactly the rights which his country allows our citizens. In con- sequence of the fact that foreign copy- rights are generally more liberal than our own, we shall get under the proposed ar- rangement more than we give. As to Great Britain, whose o i is most umportant to American authors, the ex- change will be about equal, The Hawley bill was framed so as to ayoid any question of frec trade or pro. tection. With respect to this the league obseryes that the advoeates of copyright as such, no wish to mterfere with the protection of the manufacturer, but they do rot believe his protection should be effected by forfeiting the rights of the author. “The book manufacturer is now protected, says the cireular of the leazgue, “by the provision in the tarifl’ which im poses a duty of 25 per cent ad valorem on imported books. Inasmuch as the price of the imported book embraces a sum which represents the value of the copy right, that sum also operates as a protec- tive duty, and increases the chances of the roprinting i this country of the foreign bouk. It thus appears that by the absence of copyright to the foreigner the business of the manufac turer is enlarged, although the rates of his labor are not evhauced, In other words, the right to the product of his labor is entirely denied the author, and thereby the business of the manufacturer is made brisker. Protection in that form is rob- bery.”” This statement presents the one ,and thus far insurmountable, ob- le 1o a justinternational conyright ar- sment—the persistent demand of the publishers to be protected, which con- gress has listened to in complete disre gard of the rights of authors. The men and women who create American litera ture are sacrificed in order to swell the profits of the publishers and make them secure in the control of the home market, and practically also that of Europe. Among the many forms of almost pirati- cal diserimination inseparable from our vrotective system, there is none more un just any reprehiensible than this, -which not only defrauds home authors, but al- lows the practice of gross injustice to those of other lands, who are deliverately robbed by unserupulous publishers, while its inevituble tendency with respect to literature is repressive. The Copyright league is now endeavoring to have the t disc 1 at the present session of congre t there is littie reason to expeet favorable legislation at this time, The agitation of the subject, however, e maintained I spite of the cold weather, the circu- lation of all of our esteemed contempo raries, if their statements to be be- lieved, keeps up atfever heat. Each and ail fly the pennant of “‘the largust cireu- lation in Nebraska,” ever, emphaticaliy refuse to publish s ments of their “remarkable Artemus Ward started | s road with his famous wax f tuares his aged father gecompanied him to the gate and bestowed upon him his pater Goin, my <on," said he, 1 thought," nal benediction ‘o in and hog the pubhc, ricklmg down the old man’s c¢hin perhaps [ was mistaken been tobacco juice,” —_——— thul at Ninety. the third day of this month our might have , entered upon the of its existence, and it re o and all t cipated in during ferred toits liad witnessed and par its long life with the modesty that comes with the tullne and wisdom, It s born asa daily paper in 1307 has since punctunlly evening of every r day, the issue being the 270,000th work, " says the Washington's fitor, “‘at the close ot dministration, and have had our say of all the fitteen administra have followed it.” saw the light the federal gov- crnment was at Philadelphia, whither 1t took two days by coach to travel from Fulton's first navigate the Hudson miles un hour, al was pro- birth, and it was thirty years subscquent The journal was forty years old steamer left ph bad not then The population of New Contereial Ad, was born was less than 60,000, and the attered population of the infant n three millions ng growth and progress the con- ductors of this journal, through three generations, have witnessed, and what immeasurable possibilities of the future wre suggested by the contemplation of the ments ol that period congratulations to our con- temporary upon the distinciion of its g and more particularly upon the fac which the clearness and vigor of its shiness and fullness of York, and the telegr been thoueht of, not more than thourht and the fre 1ts news bear daily testimony, th accumulation of years has not impaired llectual forces nor diminished its Still youthful at ninety, its gives promise that tness three generations hence rvening’ progress of the re- public, and then as ‘now, pointing with ast, look with buoyant ex- vigorous vyrility ride to the ps aney to the future. ditional laxity of of Sunday observance, to enforce a rigid Sunday law The Sabbath has always la day in the Creseent city, pre neh eustom wn to abandon change in popular senti- position now sl tom evidenee dited with eurious i Lany concern in such m: may be quite safely predicted that the st by all who task it has undertaken no casy Lvery great deal of pe a good deal of time will be neces- accomplishment, that Boston has had only moderate suc- cess in maintaining Sabbuth reassuriug for volicy when nee extended decorum 1s applied to New Or possibic that the resnlt in that city muy he as snrprising progress of temperance reform in por- tions of tho south. Robert T, Lin- coln as Senator Lozan’s suc Ex-Senator Rollins of New Hampshire has openly begun his canyass for the seat of the late Senator Pike. colored man elected to the United States senate, is now a well-to-do farmer in Mississippi, Island republicans are split over party manaccment in the state and an eftort will be made to recognize the state commit Senator Jones, drawn his salary © absence from the scuate, but his son has also tary to the senator, xX-tioveraor “Extra Billy” Smithof Vir Florida, has not only ilarly during Arawh pay as sec sald to have orin the United $ New York women vote in the election delegates to the con- constitution, will be introdnced in- the legislature to give A. Boozer is the name of leader in the South Carolina legisltur ‘Chomas Todbunter is oue of the most ar advoeates of does seen to be sometting in the prohibi Twelve Tons o oty Demoerat. It required twelve tons of print paper for the Omaha BEE's holday edition, A Good Endorsement, t like tho Bat- a sort of endorsement of the Battenbergs as men- of good charac- The Prince of Wales does tenbergs, which and After, When you see a couple on the streets if the man carries the bun ey are engaged, an carries the bundles they are mar- That's Engl America by doesn’t know ber of champagne that doesu’t recognize its 0wn DOp. proposed to build a monument to southern poets. manuseripts t will saon 1 h any desired height, A Big Adve The Omahy Brr, with its usual enterpr came o the front yesterday with g sixteen *page edition, glving all of the improvements wade and things done in thatcity during tue |8 well-to do farim 1581581 pols pastyear. ‘The paper was a big advertise ment for Omaha and the Bee deserves great | eredit for the large and Interesting paper is — Omaha Bonds, Rankers Monthty, Omaha 1, city bonds command a premium Dhigh enough to reduce the interest on them below 4 per eent, whieh fact speaks woll for the financial credit of that thriving city - nsolation. 1y Hevald, “The stories abont the czar's drinking habits atford considerable consolation to that por tion of the American press which endeav- ored to make great national issues out of cial Envoy Sedgwick and Minister Man- ning. - Pictorial Libels, New York Mercnry, The illastrated daily newspapers spare neither the living nor the dead. The e tures of the late Senator Logan are vile cari catures and the cuts of Mrs, Logan are an outrage upon that lady and her iriends. - A Texas Ignoramus. Teras Siftings. A bachelor, npon reading that “two lovers 11 sit up all night with only one chair in the room," said it could not be done, unless one of them sat on the door. Sucl ignorance is positively shamefnl. <o The Lady Who Raised Cain, New York Sun, The San Franciseo Methodist clergymen have been disenssing the question: Who was Cain’s wife? We have distinet views on the subject, but for the present prefer to restrict inquiry to the protuberant fact that kve was the lady who ralsed Cain, vhema— Bound to Keep Right On, Springficid Monitor. Omaha is bound to be deserving of her title ~the Gate City. Her growth during the past year is unprecedented for rapidity and sta- bility, Cities have been built in a night, but they were ot short duration. Omaha is bound to keep right on in her grand march, and we predict that at the end of another vear statisties will reveal far more surprising faets concerning her growth and advance- ment, FTe SIS A Move the Right Direction. Huyler Hevald. A bill has Dbeen introduced in the senate by Senator Van Wyck providing for the election of United States senators by a direct vote of the people. ‘This is & movein the right direction. All the moneyed interests of the country will be used to prevent the passage of this much to be desired amendmen, If the amendment should be carried it would ¢o avreat way toward stopping the purchasing of seats in the senate. - We hope to see the amend ment carried, R - Omaha's Wonderfol Str.0a. Grand Iawd Independent. e Omaha Br annual review is looked for by citizens of Ncbraska generally, who always keep their eye on the metropolis of the state—wondering what strides forward it has taken with eael succeeding year. Ac- cording to the statisties Omaha has improved more during the past year than any two pre- vious years, and the Bir: does its full shave toward keeping the city among the first of the western eompetitors.” A visit o this Mis- souri river metropolis is all that is necessary 1o satisfy the wost skeptical that the Be statements are verified by facts, which goes to prove that it is the coming Chicago of the entire west, Dvery Doy is a Fresh Beginning. Every day is a fresh beginnin, Every morn is the world made new, You whoare weary of sorrow and Sinning, Here is a beautiful hope for vous A hope for me and i hope for you. AlLthe past things are past and over, ashs are done and the tears are: shed. 1ay's errors let yesterday cover day’s wounds, whiell smarted and healed with the healing which night has shed, Yesterday now 1 a part of forever: Bound up ina sheaf,whick God holds ticht, Witn zlad days, and sad days, and bad days which never Shall visit us more with their bloom and their blizht, Their fullness of sunshine or sorrowful night. Let them go, since we cannot relieve them, Cannot undo and cannot atone: God in his merey reeeive, forgive them ! Only the new days are our own, “To-day Is ours, and to-day alone. Here are the skies all burnished brightly, Here is the spent earth all reborn, Here the tired limbs springing lghtly ‘To face the sun, and toshare with the inorn An the chrism of dew and the cool of dawn, v day is a fresh beginning Listen, my soul, to the glad refrai And, spite of old” sorrow and_ older Sinning And puzzles foreeasted, and possible pain Tuke heart with the day, and becin again. THE MYSTERY OF THE KNOCKS, T Cowardly Aszault on Editor Chamberlain Explained. John Frawley tackled the fighting editor of the Stromsburg Headlight last week and laid him our, Chamberlain, the f. e, is a six footer, weichs two hundred and over, and striked like a tiip-hammer, and his defeat in the arena goes down with the dying year a mystery darl and deep,— 1 Jude rawley, democe ic postmaster at Stromsburg, kicked nine kinds ot grunt and about seven kinds of groan out of 1, D, Chamberlain, éditor of the patent anti-monop headache dispenser. in that town the othier [State Journal. To the Editor of the By The above items appear in the State Journal of last week, and also in the Bee of the same issue. It might be well for the readers and editors of these respective papers to understand more of this “dark mystery " before giving it to the publie. In the first place the democratic postmaster of Stromsburg is not known in this vicinity asademocrat, but as a willing tool to aid in placing the radical wing of the monopoly eclement of the republican party in power. This he has done by cmploying persons more potent than himself to work for interests which he dare not openly avow. And when an editor twenty-five years his elder dared to show himi up to the publie in the light ini which he belonged, this Samp son of modern times, whose musceles had heen educated instead of his brains, hud the bravery to walk up behind him' and fell_him {0 the earth, The greatest ex- ploit of valor known in modern times, although the editor made not a singlé effort of self-defense. Sut the “‘seven kinds” of groans and various other sounds were entirely drowned by the voeiferous voice of the eminent pugilist as his excited langnago gave a blue look and 8 sulphur smell 1o the atmosphere while he recounted the number of cditors he clould sluy if they wonld only make no resistance and wer loast twenty tive years older than himself. In sho the dispenser of such exalted liter as is depicted in such jottings u last one of the above,” should know that the postmaster of this place has been ned for years. He has tamed alli s i Louisiana, has eaptured the ar bear in his favorite retrea was torun a hotel bandits and office at Stromsburg. And this Lincoin Law-giver should k more; that if we had “more such patent anti-monopoly papers he would have the headache mork trequently than ke does M. L STROMsLURG, Neb. Jan, 5 e Firam P. Rovels, the first colored man elected to the Upited States senate, isnow THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, JANUARY 9, IS87-~TWELVE PAGES | WHAT SUSAN B, HAD 70 SAY] Miss Anthony Tells of the Rights and Wrongs of the Weaker Sex, A PERORATION ON THE NEGRO, he Urges the Legislature to Grant Woman the Right to Vote at Municipal Elections—The Milleninm Coming. A Tyrant Talks, Lixcony, Neb,, Jan, 7.—{Correspond- ence of the Bre. ]J—1 walked six blocks and stood up two hours this evening for the purpose of gratifying my curiosity and pleasing my better half. Miss An thony was the attraction at Masonic | hall, She was flanked by Mrs, Colonel Colby and seven or eight other ladies who pose as conspicuous martyrs to the tyranny of despotic man. As an evi dence of how the men lord it over the members of the human family who wear crinoline, about one hundred other mas- culines stood up with me that their wives and lady friends nught occupy comforta ble chairs, Miss Anthony made a pleasing speech Shetitst established the proposition that only through enfranchiscment conld women secure legislation tor the amelior ation of their condition. What particular ameliorating legislation the woman of the hour stands in need of she did not have time, ovidentiy, to indieate; but from the intimations which I have re ceived during the walk home I infor that exclusive control of the bank aecount is one of the desived reforms, Inillustra- tion of her position, Miss Anthony pomted to the onee deplorable condition and the now blissful state of power of the British peasantry and the American negro. But Susan did something I gave h er eredit tor being oo smart for when she said, concerring the peasantry, “Every parliamentary boon they conld desire” has been conferred upon them, This has been beeause of the power of the ballot with wrich they can make or unmake members of parliament, and which power they have wiclded vigor ously. They allicd themselves to the lib eral party first, then to the tory party, ain to the liberal par and now a see- ond time to the tories nd we now hav the result of their voting in the chuos than confusion which exists in nd to-day.”” Of the negro vote she spoke similarly, and attributed (Miss An thony is unquestionably a stalwart) the what she called “‘temporary” loss of power by the republican party to the fail- ure of the party when it had control of the administration, to insure the colored peo- ple of the south their franchise rights. SAIL the mugwumps,” she declaimed: tall the followers of Tanatie St. John; all the ‘Rum, Romanism and Rebellion® of Burchard: all the effect af the Belshazzar feast given poor Mr. Blaine at Del- monico's would have been but adrop in the bucket if the black men of the states south of Mason and Dixon’s line had been protected in the constitutional preroga- tive”” “Give women the right to ve and you wmay be assured they will not be bulldozed,” she added ™ after an _ imvressive pause. The applause which gi rd this deelaration indieated that the advice given the colored lover might be altered to Come aroun’ some other nigh ‘er there's awine tor be a fixht An' de rollin’ pin Il be tivinin de air, in event any objection should ever he raised to exercise of rights contemprated i asixteenth amendment. At this point of Miss Anthony's triumphal oratorical maveh, Mrs. Colby came forward d: “Some gas s cscaping : please open the door.” “An irreverent male in the rear of the room remarked: I should say there R Miss Anthony didn't hear tkhe base intimation, but wics who did actually looked the indisereet individual ont of the door and up the street to the next corner. 1 saw himan hour orsoafterward. His hair had- turned gray and he was rapidly Aps ing into gibbering idiocy. Miss Anthony, continiing, said, not in exact lmguage hut by inuendo, that the woman suflragists of the nation had re- linquished the hope of obtaining the rth at present. What they now wanted the right, which legislatures could ive them, to'vote at municipal eleetions S belieyed that a woman had as good a right tosay whdshould be mayor, who should grant”street car franchizes, and who should determine upon entting the avenue down in front of her residence as her bushand had. She admitted that it was hopeless to expect selfish man to grant he rights at general elec tions, but was hope, she believed, that legslators, who (by the way of tafly, were Uy better than their corstituents,” would " be broad-minded enongh to permit her to dabble in ward solities. Until that should be granted to ier sex she y womun would Iabor to defeat every man who didn't favor 1t. She complimented Governor Thayer's inaugural address; but deplored that he said nothing about” women; and then aceused the governor of the frailty of demagoguery by serting that f women huad the hower to vote for or agninst Dim half -+ his message would have been devoted to the needs of feminine legislation, ie accused women themselves of being too tume, too weak. She exclamed “You want to talk more;” indicating that she has neyer been intimately aequainted with any well regulated family. Then she grew revengeful, and said: *“Women of Nebraska, you will get the power of the ballot some day, and then you do not want to forget the men who have kept you so long out of your constitutional rights,” From the enthusiastic applause it was evident that,” when the suffrage millenium does arrive, no oppoucnt o the idea need apply One thing that oceurred to me was Miss Anthony refrained from sayin thing about Wyoming. 1 was glad of because such reference wonid h opened a wound which rankled for five yeurs in my breast while I was a benight- d resident of that territory. In political prec 1 aw a republican—born so The s of my trials and joys, and the product of my ly “toil, i8 # demoerat—likewise born so. For five years I dejoctedly wended my way to the polls od the straight ticket, but nowith the conseiousness tdidn't amount to unything. My 15 just us faithful in ler political yi made my vote s “stand 1to convert her, and 8 d voree suit loomed up more conspicnously than the fabled cloud no larger than man's bund. © For the " 5 of domestic peace I refrained | from talking politics, but my wife didn't Iwas a candidate for the city conne and was beaten by onc vote. | am m ily certain my wife east that vote never dured stay away from clo though I alwauys endeavored to muk believe 1 would be too busy to att I 4 uld be sure to th und would n minutes after they opened I L was there to-night, it wis n had never heard Miss Anthony and | w uaded. I have a personal grievance A Tynant - Senator Voorheds lives in the hous¢ oo cuvied by Joho Quincy Adans when J elected president. e o ac— HELD OUT FOR THE YEAR. he Recent Exploit of a Brother of McKee Rankin, the Actor, A Detroit special, Jan, 1, says: George | Rankin, the author.actor, who has for three months undergone & decidedly novel imprisonment at_ Sandwich, Ont., just across the river, says he will' come out of his castle—otherwise alow old fashioned frame house, which stands in the centre of the village—Monday and surrender himselt to the officers of the wn who have a warrant for his arre for assanlting his maternal unele, Thomas McKee, an oflicer of her majesty’s cus toms. This casge is in Some respects yery unique. The McKees and the Rankins are descondants from the earliost Scotch and French settlers of the place. Both clans, however, have claim to be called Americans, forin each family there is a dash of Indian blood, They are con- nected by mareiage and blood, but this s not isure the presence of white robed peace among them, On the cor trary, white-robed peace us 1 pressing engagemonts elsowhere, George Rankin is a_brother of McKoo Rankin, the actor, and is himselfan actor of no mean ability and a playwright of considerable skill nd - reputation, Thomas McKee, his uncle, has been at open war with George, for many years, The two have never spoken to each other except to exchange expressions of unkins. manhke ill feeling. H ntil abont the 1st of October last, howover, there had been no violent rupture since six years ago, when MeKee gave Rankin a thrasing in one of the public resorts of Windsor, Rankin denied that MceKee had ot the better of him on the oceasion reforred to but the preponderance of evidence goes to show—or went to show at the time— that he did. McKee is now sixty-eight years old, but is still connted as *y good man,” and can put up his “duke with any of the younger bloods of the village Rankin is a powerful man forty-five years One day last October the two met in Sandwich, when, without a word, the pephew gave his uncle a tremendouns blow in the tace which laid him out, McKee, after havin tenderlom on his cye, hied to 3 MeQuinney of Sandwich and procured a warrant” for Rankin's arrest. MeQuinne, like all mayors of Canadian towns, Vi portant dignitary, and in this ease, being a particular frichil of MeKee and having to a degrce espoused the uncle’s part as against the nephew, was bent on having summary justed meted out to the slugger, The warrant was 1ssued fortinwith and given to four oflicers to serve As the day wore on and the officors did not return with their man, speculation began to be indulged in as to the prob- able cause of theirfailure to bring Rankin before the mayor. Investigation des veloped the fact that Rankin had re tired to his domicile and was bent on holding his castlo against the law. W hen the officers uppeared at his house, ho went to the window and made a short pithy speeeh. He ealled the attention of the boobies to the fact that against a war- rant like the one they held, for a simplo imsdemeanor, an Englisman's house was sacred from intrusion, He gave the of- ficers permission, so long as they b haved themselves, to remain outside on his premises, and said he would be hapny to converse with them through the win- dow atany tme. “But,” he said, “if you try to enter this house —you sce this ax ?— Twill brain every man- of you, so help me St. George and the dragon.” 1t would ‘take n great” deal loss than this to ereate a sensation m the quict lit tie town of Sandwich, and the cflect of Rankin’s determination on the inhab- itants may be imagined. It beeame al- most instantly the talk ol the wholo town, and has remained so from that day 10 this. Crowds tocked to the pl of siege and eyed the old familiar ho: stead, which had in the ineredible short of a day assumed a weird and mys- s aspeet. Imagination made tho bristle with hayonets, and thoe garrison rose in the minds of the people 1o immense and heroie proportions. Throughout tire lone howrs of the day and the quiet watehes of the night the ofticers of the Jaw prowled about, while Raukin, in bis “eastle,” smoked his pipe, cooked, ate, slept, and defied them all, This ba's been the progreamme every day for three months, The rumors of it af« tracted much attention in this city,wh Rankin is personally well known, and 1o down the river, where the fanuly has large landod iterests., It was thought at first that the prisoner would soon be starved out aud forced to surrender, but the oflicers had no power to mterfere with the garrison he- ing provisioned and ne obstruction was putin the way of any person chancing to call at tne " house Rankin’s friends called in large numbers, learned that he was in excellent shape to stand a winter siege, with a httle help from them, and gladly embraced the opportunity (o show their friendship by bringing from time to time iarge quantities of and coming often to help away the thne in soeial - diseonrs the banquet table. The vesult is that Rankin has grown fat and at the present time is suffering from the gout in his left leg, although he claims that he sprained the member the other day while throw- ing wood into the house. In conversation recently he declined to state the reasons for the all-feelmg b tween the two families, further than that it was strictly a family quarrel which he objected to making pubhe. He smd that the indignity offered him by sending an oflicer to srrest him was what led him to refreat to his house and defy the buse minion of the law. He said that if they had merely made complaint agzainst him for assault and notitied him of the fi he would have cheerfully appeared | fore his arch-cnemy, the mayor, and sufl- ered without & word m being muleted any sum his worship might have im- posed; but when they sent a posse for him he swore by three generations of re- spected Ranking that he should neyer be arrested this year, He has kept his oath, The r wis up to-day, but it being tho 1ast day of the week he postponed his sur render till Monday ANECDOTE OF GRUFF PHIL, How Sheridan Cu rOne of Western O York Iribune 15 Vthe most ealled upon war department, He hLas a visitors ery day somebody calls to see the general,” as the man ut the door is told, Congressmen escort their constituents who ure curious to sce the hero of the Shenandoah. The other any A western representative ealled, accon- panied by a constitucnt, and, afier the in- troduction, the former said, brisk| “We're just in for a minute, generdl; can't sit down; on the way up, you know Yes, I suppose vou have to leg it to pitol every morning,” replicd the eril, with abrupt and honest disre- ard of congressional dignity. ‘Ob, of course. Committecs and 5o on ¢ good deal of time,” said the M.C,, ttle stifily. In the meantime the con- cnt wad silently taking in the gen i, Jooking **Little P} over wl 1o foot, while his face plainly you a man 1 Shegidun, t andfaced than el visi ! feet will satisfy you fellows, You wanta mun to be a glunt, 1 bolieve The congrossamn and his constitneit laughed, but they did . not - prolang’ the'y eall, and soon after wentawiy, *presums ably to “leg it to the cajito),”