Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 12, 1887, Page 4

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B.T78CHUCK, wiore me this 10th N P, Frr Notary Publie. huck, being first duly sworn, deposes and saye that b retary of the Bee Publishing company, that the v- erage daily circulation” of the Dal the month of January, 1850, was 10, for February, 185, 10,505 coples; for March, 1856, 1 copies: for April, 183, 12,191 copies 1846, 1 coples: for Jine, 1856, 19,208 copie y, 1856, 12,314 coples for Av , 12,464 copiesifor Sentember, 1850, copies: for Octobe 0, 12,950 coples: for November, , 48 copies; for December, Subseribed and sworn to day of January A, D)., 155 SEALI Sworn to and subgeribe day of January A . [SEAL, HERE is a great deal of useless breath expended in speculating who will get Van Wyck's strength, When it has fin- ished with the general no other candidate will have any use for it. AccorpING to the Hamilton county dado, he sat down upon Rosewater with a dull thud at the opening of the legis lature. Thisis a painful disclosure. We had the impression that when the speak- ership contest was over Mr. Agee's friends were busy looking for him with dustpan and a broom. M. Gere will have to charge double prices on his B. & M. job work to make up for s loss of state patronage. There is no ““false economy” shown by railroad managers towards their personal organs. The paper may be thin, the impression blurred and the type poor, but the use of the editorial columns makes up for the difference. Tuk Rock Island roud is running veys into Omaha from Gilmore. Th Paul is looking across the river in the same dircetion. The Missouri Pacitic is meditating further extensions and the Northwestern has already driven its stakes iuto the city. Come right into camp, brethren. 7There 18 room enough and to spare for all and suflicient traflic to keep all well employed. It is to be a great year for Omaha. SENATOR VAN WyCcK was neccessarily absent from Washington yesterday which was the day set for the consideration of the Kneyals lands bill. The bill was, however, presented to the senate by Senator Manderson and that body promptly passed it with all the Van Wyck amendments, including that re- imbursing settlers’ purchasers at the rate of $3.50 an ac The bill now goes back to the house in committee of conference. AN irresponsible scribbler from Lincoln assorts that for two months the B has kept 1ts mouth tightly closed about the necessity of abolishing the bogus railroad commssion. There has been scarcely two days in the period named in which the BEE has not urged upon the incoming logislature the ubolition of that useless fraud. Such a statement is either a may licious lie or the result of perverse igno- rance. If the present iegislature does its . duty it will sweep the railrond comn sion device from the statute books with- out shrift or benefit to the railroad clergy. A CORRESPONDENT at Chadron writes to know what has become of the house bill making avpropriations for our fron- tier forts. The bill passed by the house making appropriation for rebuilding Fort Robinson and completing Fort D, A, Russell was referred to the senate mil- itary committee, and by it placed in the hands of Senator Manderson. It was re- ported by Senator Manderson back to the senate with the appropriation cut in half in the case of the Nebraska post, and sent back to the house for confer- ence, where it passed yesterday. The es- timates of the department of the Platte for rebuilding Fort Robinson amounted to #85,000, in addition to §20,000 vecently appropriated. The bill as sealed down by the Nebraska senator appropriates $05,000, or little more than half the amount required. i legislature of Inaiana is passing through an experience in some respects similar to that which the Oblio legislature had a year ago, 1n which the demociats were defeated. The indications are that bad counsels are prevailing with the members of the democratie senate in In- diana, and that while they may n they manifest a disposition to do, a gr deal of trouble, they will ultimatel forced to recede from their position and accede to the requirements of the law. ‘The attitude of the majority in the senate in refusing to concede the election of Rob- ertson as lieutenant governor is obvi- ously untenable, and their whole cour: thus far has been so unwarrantable and 80 nearly revolutionary that it will be condemned by judicious, candid and law- respeeting democrats eyerywhere. There was nothing in the circumstances that could justify them in resorting to the ob- structive tactics they bave most foolisnly adopted. All advices at hand indicate that the republicans have pursued a straightforward course, [conforming strietly to the requirements of the law, and they will undoubtedly adhere to this policy under all circumstances. 1t seems certain that. the contlict 15 to be pro longed aud bitter, 20 | The Thicves Balked, Adouble breasted wail of agony ia rising from the printing sharks of the | combined job offices over thebreaking of the pool which had for its object the rob- bing of tho state treasury by exorbitant charges for printing the legislative | records. The contract for the senate files and the house bills has been let out- side of the ring at figures which will save the tax-payors 5,000 of their good money. Some weeks ago the “‘ringsters’ | own’ at Lincoln put in a bid for the | work at 53 cents a quire, or $11, for | the entire amount of work s0 munifestly a swindle th the board promptly rejected it. Compari- son proved that the work two years ago was done at a profit, when the bid was less than half the amount, and in- vestigation showed that a combination had been made among three or four prominent job offices to divide the state printing at their own figures, ecretary Roggen rose to the occasion and the board promptly put its veto on the job. New bids were led tor with the result of erow out the ringsters and securing for th te the same work for half the mone There i3 no teason why the state of Nebraska should pay a cent more for its printing than would be paid by a good business man for the same class of work run off on the same quality of paper. The gang headed by the Lincoln Jour- which has nd fattened from jobs, jobbery and railroad pap ever since it began its carcer taught a by the able experi- In the long run an honest nimble sispence is worth soveral dishonéstly carned dollars, lesse ence. The Ch Ball. he custom of dancing for sweot charity’s sake bids fair to be a hxed one in Omaha as it has been for many seasons in other large citics. There are good reasons why it should be so. IHundreds of men and women will gladly contri- bute liberally to the success of an enter- tainment from which they are to obtain personal gratification when they would draw their purse strings closely at the sight of a commonplace subscription paper. An indirect tax 1s cheerfully borne where a dircet tax is denounced as oppressive. This 1s the verdict of all expericnce and 1t applies to alms-giving as well as to governmental revenue. The best answer to all the ob- Jections against charity balls is found in the fact that such a method of collecting funds for distribution among the poo gives the largest financial results with the least expenditure of honest endeavor, It is the most practicable means of attain- ing theend. At the same time it places a large amount of money in circulation among retailers at the dullest season of the yeur. Dry goods merchants, mil- liners, shoe dealers, livery stable keepe florists and glovers all reap the Dbenefit, while the poor lose nothing by the double expenditure for tickets and trinket The third annual cb to take place at the e on Friday should be the most successtul of the series. All indications support the belief that it will be so. No detail is bemg spared by the committee which has the affair 1 charge to surpass all pre- vious entertainments of the kind so far as the comfort of the guests isconcerned. It only remains now for the public to r spond liberally and generously 1s ther subscriptions A Bushwhacking Hireling, Senator Manderson's private one Ham, has been for some time busily engaged in filling the columns of the state press with abuse of the senior sen- ator for the sole object of influencing the senatorial election at Lincoln, and assist- inzin encompassing the defeat of Gen- Van Wyck. iver since Mr. Manderson took a fourth-rate scrib- bler into his committee room as clerk the capitol has been used as the shelter for this anonymous assmilant of General Van Wyck. The special di patches of the Lincoln Jowrnal, which have been absurd in their malicious fals: hoods and misrepresentations, he emanated divectly from My, Manderson’s representative and spokesman, and are as dircetly ehargeable to the senator’s inspiration as if they came from his own pen. Mr. Manderson may be shrewd enough to see future poli capital through this style of newspaper bushwhacking, If he can ho has more foresight than his best triends give him eredit for. But how- ever much he may expect to build him- self up 1 certasin quarters by this sneaking method of warfare, it is doubtful whether honorable men gener- ally will agree with him. Certainly po- litieal usage will not sustain such a course. We question very much if an- other inst n be named 1n the coun- try where a United States senator would retain a day in his employ a private sec- retary or clerk whom he knew was per- sistently assailing behind the mask of un anonymous correspondence his s atorial collengue. Mr Manderson issaid tobe a great stickler for senatorial cus- toms and the comity of the senate, A comity which strains at the gnats of minor points of etiquette and prerogative and swallows the camel of such gross abuse of ordinary civility between gentle- men cannot be clearly pereeptible unless viewed through the glasses of pe: » and factional bia ty ball which is position building The Business Situation. The first ten days in the year are always marked by seasonable ckness in most lines of distribution. It is too carly for any widespread renewal of ac- tivity in the distributing markets, but matters are shaping foran early iinprove- ment in many departments, and the sur- roundings of the general business situu- tion are favorable for a good spr trade. The failures during the past w throughout the United States and ( ada aggregated 209, against 3 for week preceding. Low and medium grades of wool have been in decidedly better demand, and a better feeling charactorizes the entire wool trade. The improvement is due in part to trade cables anuouncing a re- vival of activity and inereasing strength in continental markets. Woolen goods are moving fairly in completion of back orders for spring weights, but the season for the gencral line of fall clothing wool- the ens hias not yet fairly opened,and business, as 8 rule, continues guict. Iundications point toa good volume of trade, but at Little if any advance. in prices as com- This bid was | § | from $ THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1887, trades continues very strong. Anim- mense amount of material of all kinds has been already contracted for by the larger consumers, and only the strong upward tendency of prices and the reluct- ance of makers and sellers to further en- gage capacity except at a sharp advance in quotations prevent the booking of nu- merous additional orders in all branches of the trade. In steel rails especially a arge percentage of the probable outnut, at least 1,200,000 tons, has been sold for 3 delivery, but the bulk of this business was taken at between §34 and tions now range at 0 $10, according to the relation of the mills to the market—the higher rates being quoted by manufacturers who are so heavily sold ahead that they are not in a position to fill orders for conve- nient periods of delivery, The grain markets have lacked the strong foreign support that v the basis of strength during and vprior to the holi- days, and although the interior move- ment of wheat has not been large it has run a little ahead of that of the previous week, and there has been a liberal country movement of corn. These features of the situation have dampened the ardor of and the bears have of their opportunity to In this undertak- ing they have had the md of more iberal selling by parties who had “gone long” of wheat at lower prices, and who have re led this interval of compara- tive dully sa fitting time to realize profits. Prices have consequently de- clined 1 to 1§ cents per bushel in wheat and $to 1 cent per bushel in corn. There is not much shipping demand for corn, and new busin in wh is com- paratively small, but clearances ot tho I, and, from the amount previously reported under contract, are likely to continue la for weeks to come, £30 per ton, and quo! speculation, ken advy depr Inadequate Remedies, We took oceasion some time smce to refer to the profitless platitades of the dent 1n his last annual message rela- tive to the condition and requirements of labor, and to reflect upon the narrow view which public men gencrally are dis- posed to take, doubtless from a sense of political expedience, of this always fresh and i subject. As Governor Hill, of New York, occupies i his relations to Iis party a position second only to that of Mr. Cleveland, and is unquestionably an aspirant for a_ higher political honor than that of governor, it is interesting tonote his opinions respecting what is desirable to be done in the interest of labor. In his commendably brict mes- sage to the legislature, Governor Hill de- voted more space to this than to any other subject, but it is perhaps n. y that bis treatment of 1t is m same narrowness and obvious constr which characterize the utterances of all mere politicians regarding the fabor prob- lem, He recommends the eaveful consider- ation of the demands of workingmen for « reduction of the hours of lahor, and says it is the true policy of the state to elevate and dignify labor, “not by exacting the greatest amount of toil that the laboring cls re capable of furnishing, but by legitimately encot o every honest ort to improve their condition and requiring that only reasonable hours of labor shall constitute a day's work, for which full and adequate compen- sation should be received ” Better com- pensation, he aflirms, will best pr the dignity of labor, and he proceed instruct the members of the lepislatur to what hetter compensation would complish in details. It would furnish greater fael s for eduacation, comfortable homes, more contented fam- dlies, better opportunities for recreation, well as tend to develop nobler aims men, greater intere prosperity of the sta of citizenship. Plethoric with platitudes, Governor Hill emits them freely. “Poverty is one great source of discontent,”” he sapiently remarks; “‘overwor poorly recom- pensed, is another.”” Therefore, he sug- goests that the demand of wage-workers for shorter hours and mnereased compen- sation is entitled to respeetful considera- tioh, with a view to legislation that may aid in the accomplishment of such re- sults. But if the attainment of these de- sirable conditions by statute should not be practicable, the legislature has the unquestionable power to declare certain days to be legal holidays, and the gov- ernor suggests that it may e advisable to exercise this power, in order that the workingman may have a t or the whole, of every Saturday, or every other Saturduy, to devote to Ins personal en- joyment, Inany eyent he recommends that one day of the y: be set apart [ al holiday, to be known as “‘Labor —though in fact non-labor day—and to be observed by all the people as a day of festivity and recreation, and devoted especially to the interests and welfare of labor, Now all this is well enough as far as it oes, but who can fail to see that it is nothing more than the politician’s cheap sop to labor. Unfortunately, too, labor permts itself to be caught by it, and con- tinually builds hopes upon such shallow professions of regard for its interests, Every intelligent workman understands the situation set forth by Governor Hill quite as well as Le does, but all working- men do not understand, as we have no doubt the governor does, though as a e would not dare to publicly hat there is another way widely different from any suggested by the governor by which the iterests of labor can be most directly and effectively promoted, and 1t is a way tar more simple and practicable than that of in- creasing the compensation and lessening the hours of labor. That way is to pre- :nt the combinations of capital and the creation of corporate monopolies for plundering the people, such, for example, as the anthracite coul combination, which annually robs the consumers to the extent of at least $20,000,000, which keeps an army of miners out of employment dur- ing one-quarter of the year, and which by advancing the price of coal to ev manufacturer in the land who must use it as fuel precludes the labor in such in- dustries from civing better compensation, Remove the tax imposed upon the people by the exuctions of corporate monopolics and unneevssary tariff duties, and the buying power of the wage-workers® dol- lar would be increased by one-guarter or oue-third. That is the most direct, the most feasible. and the most just way of tin the peace ¢, and higher id pared with the ‘figures ‘current a year g The position of the iron and steel helping the workinguian, but ‘politicians like Governor Hill do not dare to recom- more”| mend it. They tickle the ears of labor with harmless professions of solicitude for its interests while they leave organ- ized capital and monopoly to the free ex- ercise of its pernicious power. ———— TiiE judiciary committee of the houso of representatives are now considering two jointl res ions introduced at the last session, which propose to change practices that have prevailed almost since the foundation of the government. One of these provides for the extension of the president’s term of oflice to the last ‘Tues- day in April, the extension also of the terms of senators whose terms would otherwise expiie on March 4, and substi- tuting the last Tuesday in April the 4th of March as the commencement and termination of the oflicial terms of prosi dent, vice vresident, senators and repre- sentatives. The other proposes that the constitution shall be so amended that the term of the Fifticth congress shall end on December 31 at noon, that the Fifty-first congress shall meet immediately there- after, and that the meet day for con- gress shall in the future be the second Tuesday in January in each year. There is something to be said in favor of both of these propositions. As to the first it iz unquestionable that the last week of April would be a much more favorable season for the mauguration of ap dent than the first week in Mareh, The rule is that inauguration days are uncom- monly inclemen that participation in the ceremonies is a source of 'omfort to everybody., As there will probably never be a return to Joft ian simplieity in connection with thi event, but rather the occasion will he made more ostentatious and imposing m the future, it will be well to have 1t oceur ata time when the weather conditions are pre(ty certain to be fayvorable, As to the other proposition it would avoid the break of w holiday recess in the session of congress, which is a loss of valuable time, varticularly in the short session, It would also afford a chance for making cach session of congress twelve months long it the majority should decrde to do business for that length of time The committee will probably report a resolu- tion comprising the best points of both. €0 THERE is & ring of business in - the ac- tion of the reorganized board of county commissioners requiring a closer g sion of expenditures for Looseness been the ord the day in times past and there is larg room for radieal reforms. In a county of the size of Douglas, the annual rev- enue and expenditures reach total which few tax-payers apprecis Three men control its distribution and virtually audit their own accounts. County gov- ernment in counties ot over fitty thou- wd population isin need of thorou, reorganization. The board could be vantageously increased in size from three to five or even seven members A county auditor = should be dded through whose hands all vouchers should 1 field in which the leg- islature now in session can do good work for the s Iing oflicer of the board of trade, ot that body paid & well deserved compliment to thful officer and an encrgetie and public spirited citizen, Max Meyer has been the right man in the right place, president of the Omaha board of trade. He has infused energy and life into the ation, and with the co-operation nt board of directors has lifted the board into prominence aud usefulness as a medium through which our citizens ean voice their sentiments upon matters of commercial interests. The board consul ir own interests in refusing to aceept Mr. Meyer's refusal to be again a candidate, ERAL VAN Wyel strength is held well in hand and will be tound on the spot when the balloting opens. 1t is not an unknown and speculative quantity, It does not depend upon a dozen contin- gencies or hang upon the edge of a com- position of factional prejudices. Based on popular approval and gained by the expression of the people’s will, voiced through the ballot box, it has a solid foundation upon which that of no other candidate rests. CURIL TOPIC E urphy, Lucky Baldwin's jockey is worth 000, As many as 27,000,000 persons great Brooklyn bridge in 1586, Pierre Lorillard’s toboggan stide at Tuxedo s tly one wilo long and the descent is frequently made in just one minute of time, The Sandwich Islands have furnished seventy-one subscribers for General Grant's book. ‘Lhe subscribers on the Pacilic coast number 20,389, It is said that James Brown Potter has be- come suddenly rich by the rise in coffee, He is reported to haye made $110,000 on one day and §30,000 the day following. Mrs. George Sage of Harlan,Ia., is reported to have traveled 14,000 miles in pursuit of her husband, who last fall rau oft with the hived girl, Mrs. Nancy Gorman, who Is ninety-one vears old, at a recent Baptist church festival in New Haven sang a song of Ler child- hood in a most azreeable and vivacious man- ner. ) The widely cireulated item to tho effect that Mark Twain is ‘wérth $1,500,000 s not true, Mr Clemens is'a wealthy wan, but his fortune does not nearly reach that tizure, tephen Bryant,” & negro aged 123 years, died reocwtly at Beauford, 8. C. His only clgim to distinction, aside from | was the fact that be had never seryed body servant to orge Washington, though had once ited at table where the father of his coun- Isaac used the b Slaytop, of Fayette county, Ga,, is the father of 50 many. children that 1 not remember thein names, He married twice and had eighteen one wife and twelve by the othe five sons in one company of a Georgia regl wment during the war When Jay G i seribbled off a eheek for £1,500,000 to pay Tom Allen for the Iron Mountain road, it was thought to be the larg - est individual eheck ever written, Gould wrote it on a sheet of note paper, John B, Alley once dashed off a check for §400,000 and gavo it to Senator Dorsey for a half in- terest in the scoator’s cattle ranch., There are several United States government checks for 1 cent, to square up’ aceounts, in existence, The man who framed the original legal tender act is still living, His nawe i3 Spaulding, of Buffalo. He is nearly eighty years of 4, At the breaking out of t war he was a leading member of the lower house of congress, His famous bill, known as the legal tender act. was slightly altered before its_introduction by Secretary Chase and My Lingoln. ‘The origiual bilkis now | 1aws In the possesston of its author, Mn Spauld- Inz“(: a bank president and Is worth 810, 000,000, P — Van Wyck's Chan ces. Dutler County Press, Thus fat the skirmish line shows up a_pre- ponderance of strength In favor of the re- cleetion of Van Wyck., The old man 13 the best organizer in the field, and unless some- thing bigger thana voleano turns up, his chances for re-election are quite flattering. - Pay As Yon Go, Kansas City Star, Nebraska s a good example of a etate that proceeds upon the wholesome econoiie prin= ciple of “pay as you go.” Ry the showing of the governor s the state only has an indebtedness of $150,000, Nebraska is pro- gressive and prosperous, and yet the state has wisely contrived to ayoid the incubus of debt, — Divided Into Two Classes, Nebragka City Dress, s of the legislature are divided 1o two classes—the Van Wyckers and the railroad men, The singular part of it is that the latter are the more vigorous in impressing the distinction on the muititude of lookers- on. They seem rather proud of belng mon opoly henchmen, The membe - - ska Revenne Laws, cannot amend the revenue to assessments too quick the present sy of government, ty is placed so low that tax agen- eral thing, amount 105 per cent upon asses valuation, The prevailing custom of assess- Ing property at less than one-fourth its real value, ana then not atail uniform among the counti kes a bad showing in the eyes of the outside world. Property should be as- sessed at its real worth, and the limit of the levy fised ata lower per cent, Nebr The ¢ relating Unde Pro; it 1t 18 Not His Fune Nebraska City Press, Hon. John Watson returned from Lineoln last ever and was interviewed by tele- plione by a Press reporter, *You may tell your people he, “that Senator Van Wyek was ney in better pirits than now, that he will not occupy the hearse at the funeral booked to occur later in the month; that there s a general feeling at Lincoln to this effect; that non more fully than the ring opposition.” "ou do not think there is danger of his losing ground 1n the next ten days?” “No, sir, Ilis men will stick to him to the end, and he 1s gaining, rather than other- wise, overy ¢ The member who goes back on his pledges to his constituency in this matter wants to leave Nebras there will be no room for him here, i A Equalization Tremont Herald. governor doubts the propriety of the e ofticers acting as a board of lization, as does everybody else, and sis that it wonld be more practical to constitute the board of one from each county (the chairman of the county board) and one fiom the state at large, who shall meet once a year at Lincoln for that purpose. He also proposes that all taxable property be appraised and assessed at its full actual value, and that the levy then be made on one-third or one-fourth of its anpraised value. Then every man should be sworn to return all that he owns, and the assessor be made to swear that he has sworn them all, Then send them to the penitentiary when they commit perjury, and confiscate enough of their proverty to pay for sending them there, and we may have a little more just in the colleetion of t The new Old-Year Memories Magazine of Art. Why do we mourn the days ti same sun shin el day? er a spring her primrose hath, and ever a May her may. Sweet as the rose “that died last year is the rose that s born to-day, t go, for the Do we not, too, return—we men—as ever the i earth whirl a head is dimmed with v is sunned with carls, She was a girland he was @ boy, but yet there aroboysand iy gray, but Ab, but alas for the smile of smiles that never but one face wore! Al, for the voice that has tlown away like a bird to an unseen shore! Ah, for the faee, the flower of flowers, that Dlossoms ob earth no more! STATE JOTTINGS, Rising City shipped 962 ears of produce last year., Henry Mason, a Craj, ried henee by taking a dos A rabid dog in Nebraska City 1s run- ning wild and biting cattle, hogs und mule A warm this vicinit assembled, The heirs of Samuel Stewart in Platts- mouth have sued the B. & M. company for £10,000 damages for causing his death while switching in the yards, The harvest of hymen in Plattsmouth Iast year was 157 pz March was the popular month with a record of twenty- four, while the mercury of love in Sep- tembeor 1egistered only six, The husband of the brainy Mrs. Colby, of Gage ys the Fremont Tribune, “fliréd ten bills info the senate at one shor, and that body immediately adjourned for three duys to recover from the shock.” A Cedar Rapids man has been arre: and thrown mto jul for three str: months for pufling the balmy winter: bygone years in Nebraska. As a speei- men_ of surc-footed justice it cannot b emulated too soon throughout the state, Clyde Wycofl, of Burnett, is recovering from an attack of what the doctor all “smokers’ paraly edited with smoking an enty-flve eigars o week with a pipe between times, and 1t is probabie that old nicotine left Ius mark when he attempted to swear off, The Lincoln Courier comes out thi week in a new suit of fashionable brey with pink trimmin ‘I'he Courier is the mirror of social life at the capital and d of New York st suc- reproducing the freaks and sibles of femininity athome and abroad The lay of the ndvertiser flan the pro- duction of vrofessional pens and banishes the dyspeptic symptoms of the ashier, The fury of a mob left o on an unfortunate named Henry Pohrer at Stockville on Friday last. Polrer had become obnoxious 1o the mob because S 4 prominent witness in ontest e, and also because it was churged that he had attempted to outrage o woman hving near the farm, — The mob ragged Polrer from s residence to the t tree, but with & rope about his kand strong arms ready to string nim up, he continued to protest his innocence of the alleged rape. A con- sultation was held and the mob, in the absence of positive evidence, decided not to hang him. Pohrer, after beng horr bly u ed, was left under the troe in" a dying condition. A doctor pro- nounces his recovery hopele: Mr.J. K. Stableton, prin Nebraska Central college at Central City, writes to say that “One issue of your paper last week had a slanderous article ating that the faculty of the Nebraska Central college were quarrcling among themselves, ete. As this ulse, 1, asa member of that facult yant the name of the author of that article.”” Mr. Sta bleton is refreshingly modest in his de mands and assertions. The item referred to evidently demolisned the cold wave in the neighborhod of his collar and: per petrated an optical illusion. It did not state that the “faculty was warring vave is a dead ¢ ity in The Dakota legislature has fatal imprint cipal of the among themselves,” but that the students robelled against a' rule forbidding their attendance at thoatres. Mr. Stableton is too soon, and the demand for the author’'s name is vigorously and per- sistently rejected. There was & double wedding 1 Ash land last Thursday in which a_mother and daughter were the brides, The ed- itor of the Herald, Mr. William Todd, captured the daughter, Miss Kate Bor- land, while Mrs. Borland took the ring “one of the grandest weddings that ever happened in this country.” Evidently Todd was impressed with the ecstacies of the oceasion, N — THE VANISHING LADY, One of Herrmann's Cloverest Feats Shown Up, One of tlerrmann’s tricks which mysti fied the audience last night was that of the “vanishing lndy.” The Bee of Octo- ber 10 contained an article which ex- posed the feat in its entirety. For the benefit of those who witnessed the per- formance last night, as well as for those who did not, the article is reproduced: “The Vanishing Lady is the wonder of the town. She was invented by Duatior de Kalta, a jurer, and she has been performing the Eden theatre there. She is also puzzling the public in London and Berlin. The sceret of her illusion has been kept in ghose cities, and scientists have written théories about her as learned and conjectural as those which Poe devoted to the chess autom: ton. The inventor has an agent in New York to scil herat $100 per eopy. He- has made a sales, Ivery purchaser is astonished by the simplicity of the trick he has acquired, and puzzled anew to command the manual skill to utilize it. Dexterously performed, the feat is like this: The necromancer ap pe; in full dress. A pretty girl a companies him. He talks to ‘her plea antly while he moves about the st and presently he picks up n ch With seeming carelossness ho places it in about the midale of the stage, on anopen news- paper. The girl seats herself, nssuming the ordinary, womanly, restful position, ble he takes a large picco of ilk,u fabric not transparent, but ntly soft to show the form of the has completely enveloped ill talking, he in an instant lifts the v he girl is not there. The chair 1s left exactly asit stood before she sat in it; the newspaper is beneath it precisely asit was |vf:lm'|l. No sounds have been heard in the mean- time; there is no darkening of the stage, even the silk covering has shown no shrinkage, but preserved its form up to the moment it waslifted by the fakir. it done? Verysimply. Every- body correctly guesses that o trap is used but'the investigator stops there,defeated. The chair, the newspaper, tho trap, the confederate below the Stage, and a bright, slim girl, are the things that arce used. The ehair is not, as it lool an ordinary arti It is of the heavy, old-fashioned mahogany kind, without rounds, thickly upholstered the seat, with an open i built that by touching a cone spring the seat 1s made to drop down from the rear on a hinge, leaving the girl free to sink down the trap, which is manipulated by the confederate below the stage. There veing no rungs on the chair, the girl h sy job. When the illusion- ist has s I her he throws over her head the silk veil. At the moment she feels herself completely covered, she WO anoth spring, which causes a wire framework to rise up from the buck of the ehair and spread itself about her form, thus preserving undisturbed the outlines of the cloth, and deceiving the aundience into the belief that she is still seated. The mystery of the open newspaper 1 under” the chair, to kill any suggestion of a trap, is even simpler. The paper has been deftly cut 50 15 to contain a trap-opening in itself. windled by the operator as not to 1 the slit, and when he gathers it up after the trick he is careful to fold it— rily at least, 1is own work consists, i ading the newspaper so that b cut in it shall cover exactly the nd, second, in setting air precisely over both traps, Ho ought to be clever in talking, to divert the speetators’ attention from both newspaper and chair, and the more he speaks of the absence of a trap the better he can puzzle those who are watceh- ing him. Of course, he eannot submit citlicr the chair or newspaper to inspec- tion, The trap used in the stage is th ordinary demon's drop, of good size After the girl has passed through, th confeder; below the ze puts hi hand up and springs to its place the iged seat in the chair. Then he raps, nd the illusiomist above knows all is ready for him to pull the veil aw s gained by making I run out into the auditorinm as soon as she ean, A neat sleight-of-hand man 1 also cause the veil itself to disap- s up bis sleeve after he has Jifted it. OMAHA the VEREIN, President Louis Heimrod's Annual Messag Germania hall was crowded Monday night with members of theTurnverein and prominent Germans of the city. The oc- casion was the reading of the reports arious oflicers among which ths president, Louis Heimrod, was 80 ex- haustive and showed so clearly the pros- ity of the society, a synopsis 1s of in- st, as the whole report is rather long for publication in full. Aftel pleasing introduction President Heimrod said he was glad to be able to announce that the Turnverein had largely increased in membership during the last year, there being now on the roll 161 against 140 in Junuary, 1886, The regular instruction in calisthenics and gymnastics has been attended to with praiseworthy punctual- ity, and as a_consequence physical dey opment and athletic skill have rapidly improved. The honorable fact that the Omaha Turnverein carricd off the first and fourth cluss prizes and several spe cial prizes at the last Missouri Valley turnfest held at t. Joseph, Mis- souri, was remembered with ©pride by Omahbans. All this indicated diligence and high perfection among the class and was a proof of the skill and ability of Professor Hy Kummerow, to whom President Heimrod paid o deserved and very high tribute as a gym tie teacher, KReferenee was made in bricf to the diflicultics betweer the Turnyerein and 2 German ussocintion, which arose dur- the past year He said the matier wits familiar 1o all present and in his opinion the Germun association had very little cause for being offended. Continu- ing, he regretied tosay that the past yeur 1 not borue as good frait us the verein expected in the line of intellcetual devel- opment. This had been caused prinei- pally by the great pressure of business These had been satisfactorily nd everything prom- ed prosperous work in the intellectual department during the coming year dent Heimrod” expressed his Zreat ure cetion of Mr, Max Hem- pel as chairman of the committee on in telleetual development. He d no one i the society was better suited to the position and = no one would do it more justice. The German-American school,” which now a standard tucational institution in Om; en solely supported of late Turnvercin. The executive committee of the latter had caused the organization of a “'School S composed ot Ger work and deserve great credit for thele exertions, After touching on many points of locs general interest, President Hoimrod ro. fored to the fact that the annual conye tion of the delegates of the Missouri V' loy tarners, and that the delegates hal chosen Omaha as the headquarters of tho exocutive committeo. The members of the society were congratulated on thy concert lately held for the Ubenefit of the Charleston sufferers, It had resulted in securing a larger amount of moncy than thatraised by any gvninastio society in the country. In closing the vresidont congratulated the society on the good work done durmg 1836, ‘and the bright prospeets for still greater wchiovements during the coming yea As a wholo, President Heimrod's miossage was t t ever given in the history of the Lurnverein, and indicates that ho has given a great deal of attention to the work of which he has eharge. BARNUM WANTS SULLIVAN, Manager Sheedy Receives an Intore csting Business Lotter. “I have just recaved a letter from I T. Barnum,” s Manager Sheedy, of the Sullivan combination, yesterday to a reporter for the Bre, “He makes Sullis van a eplendid offer for next season to go with his show. He offers 10,000 a month, and expenses of Mr, and Mrs. Sullivan, and myself and wifo, 1 shows just how badly he wants to got the cham pion. “Will you accept this offers"! ‘‘No, we cannot. We have tour in Europe which will oceupy ne n all of t season, and henee cannot aceept Mr, rnum's generous ofler. 1 haye written him to that eflect.” “Howevel made a p; weeks' eng sad Mr. Sheedy, “T havo sposition tohim’ for a six gement, Wo will go with him for this length of time for not a cent less than $20,000 and expen: for Sulli- van and myself and our wives, I seem to be a pretty suft’ price, but tt is money for Barnum even at theso figures, I have written to him, making this proposition. W hother or not he will accept it remains to be seen.” THE PFPOLICE ALARDM, An Decided by Important Question the Council, 3 Last night the eity council decided the question of adopting a pohee alarm for Omaha, A representative of the tom now invogue in Chieago isin the city, and hy been adopted. The street em consists of a little eight- sided house erected around & lamp-post and containing within a common tele- phone and the police alarm apparatus with wires reaching to the policé station. In the Chicago boxes the dial ot the police alarm machine has marked upon its face ut different parts of the are “police,” Swagon ire," “burglar, “riot," “drunk,” “corpse,’ cto. there bo- ing fifteen or twenty calls, Tho officer turns the hand around until it has a position on the index point- ing to the word he wants to announce and pulls down a small lever which scts u machine buzzing in the police station, and tells the desk sergeant just what is wanted as well as the corner from which the aiarm is sent in. THE CHAR l.\" DALL. Arrangements—Tho Grand March, “People don’t scem to realize that the charity ball 1s only four days off—on Fri- day night,” snid a member of the com- mittec yesterday. “The tickes are not go- ing off tus they ought. We ought to have a large crowd, and must have i we propose to make the aflair a success.” T'he committee met last night and de- cided upon a novel figure for the grand march, which will be oentirely differ- ent from anything heretofore seen in_Omaha. The four leading couple will be Mr, and Mrs. J. E u“,y.‘T, Gene and Mrs, Wheaton, Mr. and’ Mrs, Guy Barton and Mr. and Mrs. S. R. Callaway Supper will probably be served in - th north gallery by Belduff, at$1 a couple The same method of handling the ¢ ringes, by numbers, which obtained such wood results at the last charity ball, will be adopted this year. A Practical Joke, Ab Waggoner, of the firm of Homie & Waggoner, and W. E. McCloud Cloud & Love, commission merchant: re great friends. The night Mr. McCloud stepped oat of his ving his gold wateh and chain in . Mr. Waggoner, think- The Detai man es which will take charge of the They bave alteady done good ing to teach him a lesson for being so careless, put the wateh in his own pocket. Yinding that Mr. McClond did not miss 1t, he went to bed, intending to give it back in the morning., During the night Mr. McCloud had oceasion to visit the lower story of the building, in haste, and while there heard F) Doud, the watch- man, whom he had met in the hall but did not recognize, walk down the hall, stop in front of his oflice door and subse- quently go out of doors. In a moment he thought of his watch and hastening back as soon as possibie found it gonc. Burning with rage he went below and when ho met the watchman was ready to chew him up in short order, as bieng the thief, Things were becoming despe ate, the watchman was pleading inno- cence and for more time, while Me- Cloud was standing in front of him with a club demanding that he proauce the watch instantly. At this moment an in- spiration struck Mr. McCioud und he bounded up stairs to see it his friend, Mr. Waggoner, had it, When the truth beeame known Mr. MeCloud wi overcome that he could hardly sp and had to try several times befor mmer out an apology to the in jured wetchman. Ab says the lesson was a thorough success, No one ean have any idea of the de mands in the name of charity that are de upon the wives of public men here, writes & Washington correspondent of Philadelphia Press, I was told by the leading senator, the other day, dy she had been visited this iter by twenty-six applicants for the promise of her arded clothing at the end of the sen None of the people could be termed beggars, but most of them belong to that unfortunate class known as gentlewonmen A little while ago a granddaughter of Bustirod Washington was on the verge of actuul want in the city which bears her illustricus family name. 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