Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 28, 1887, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE FRIDAY JANUARY 28, 1887, THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TEIME OF SURSOAIPTION | D“lr (Morniag Bdition) including Sunday e, One Y ear . For 8ix Months Yor Thrao Montha . The Omaba Swnday Bee, muiled to any wddress, Une i ear. . oviee PrICE, NO. 01 OvFicr. R 3 513 FOURTEENTH ST CORRESPONDENCR! All communications relating to news an torial matter should be addressed o the TOR OF 1UE BER. HUSTNESS LETTRRS: ATl bueinees lottors and remittances should be Addressed to TRE Re PUBLISHING COMPASY. OMAHA. Drafta, checks and postoffico orders %0 be made payable 1o the order of the company, THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRICTORS, .. ROSEWATER, Enrron. THE DAILY BEE. Bworn Statement of Oirculation. Btate of Nebraska, 1. o County of Douglas, {* % Geo, 13, Tzechuck, secretary of The Tee Publishing company, does solemnly swear that the actual cireniation of the Daily Dee for the week ending Jan, 21st, 155 follows: Baturday Sundav. Monday, Jan. nesday, Jan, wdnesday, | "hursday, J riday, Jan. . Was as 13,000 . . 14.002 GRO. B TZ8CHUCK, Sulgeribed and sworn to in my presence this 22d day of January A, D., 1557, L P FrL, [SEALI ntary PPublie. Geo, B, Tzschuck, being first duly sworn, deposes and says that he 18 sccretary of the Bee Publishing company, that the actual av- eraze daily eirculation of the Dully Bee for the month of January, 1856, was 10,578 copies, rv, 1856, 10,505 copies; for March, 1866, 11,557 copiess for April, 188, 12,190 copies: for May, 15, 12,450 copies; for Jine, 185, 12,208 copies; for July, 1856, 12514 copies Tor Auenst, 186, 12,464 copiess ntember, 1850, 15,030 copies: for October, 1556, 12,0%) copies: for November, 1886, 13,343 covies; tor December, 1886, 13,257 copie: Gro. T Tzscnuek, Sworn to and subseribed betore me this st day of January A. D), 1857, N. P, Frir. Average Notary Publie, oLy has introduced a bill making it # penitentiary offense to conduet a bucket shop in this state. Can it be that the Gage county statesman has been buy- ing short? v book is announced, “Why IHo ! His Trust,” or “The Secret Told.” If the narrative is founded on Whitmore's recent actions, a large sale is assured, Govervonr THAYER opens his term by recommending an unwise appointment In the case of Dr. Knapp. To complete the job he should now endorse Nobes as warden of the penitentiary. Tire legislature is now up to its ears in work he avalanche of bil over- whelming tie committees and compelling both houses to make up for lost time by a stricter attention to business. “Tiouv fool and madman,” isabunched- up bomb thrown at Dr. Miller's young man by the Hon. Charles I'. Brown, It 15 sad, in this hour of democratic despair, to see such gobs of gore hanging on the outer edges of the big, full moon. TexAs, Indiana and West just now experiencing senatorial dead locks. Whitmore might give up the key to these exciting contests, by informing an anxious world how his vote was cured against his alleged preterence. ginia are s0- Dr Kxare's confirmation as superin- tendent of the insane asylum pays off a debt to Collector Post at the expense of the insane of Nebraska. Dr. Knapp has no more qualifications for the position than the average country pill peddler, Ir is hard seratching among the sta press to gnd traces of satisfaction over the defeat of Van Wy A half a sco of papers under railroad control are quoted and requoted by the monopoly organs, but the list makes a sorry showing. It 15 o satisfuction to know that the charge against-Mrs. J. Ellen Foster, the Towa prohibitionist, to the effect that she had received $1,000 to betray the part bhas been proven false, Good name in women who politicians is the imme- diate jewel of their boom, A CORRESPONDENT asks tho question: “If the Union Pacifie raroad was triendly to Van Wyck and Van Wyck to it, as has all along been claimed, why was the in- fluence of that corporation withheld at a time when it could have done him good?"” The correspondent’s question answers Itself, The W. C. T. U of Is making great ado over ‘“‘the posi- lion Mrs, Cleveland has taken jn the chiof social circle of the nation as a total abstainer from all intoxicating drinks.’” It is & beautiful custom to bestow honor where it is due, but with Colonel Dan and Grover in the white house, Frankie has no more chance to drink than did the nmiable, agreeablo and charming mother- in-law of Daniel Quilp--when that red- nose dwarf h Virginia Tug latest news from Lincoln is to the effoct that unless the Bre's reporters show more *ci M in their commonts on railrogue members, those hide-bound figure heads will attempt to oust the newsgathers, It would be a charming spectacle, wounld it not, to see Agee throw u BEg reporter through the window? Indeed, it wonld be so novel in its way that we almost feel like sacrificing a man or two. ArL the newspaper men must take warning from the sad fate of Editor Bharpe, of Oconto, Wis. Just as long as he attended to s duties as editor of the Enquirer—a little paper in his little town—his life was as pleasant as a fairy tale. Leaving his humble sanctum to flirt with the seductive sivens of ward caucuses and county conventio his history is wrntten among the “P's,” politics, postollice, penitentiary. m— IN Newark, N. J., the other day, seven celestinls, led by Sam Foo, forsook the faith of the flowery kingdom and cut off their “‘pig-tails.” The tradition of the Chinese is a pretty one, that on resurrec- tion morn old Shangte is to take them by their queues and pull them over the dark riverto everlasting life. The eastern linen-starehers doubtless believe as one of their misguided Wyoming brethi- ren, to the effect that “‘Chinaman he live ip Melica—but go to helle alle samee like Melican man." Push the Charter. The Douglas delégation should push | the oharter to a prompt consideration. Everything depends on united and hard work., Several changes remain to be made, especially the ehange in the sec- tion giving the council the power to ex- tend the city limits, As at present drafted the whole value of this section is destroved by the exclusion of incorpor- ated suburban villages from the ope tion of the city ordinances. This should certainly be eliminated from the charter in spite of all the threats and promises with which interested individuals are assailing the delegation. Such exclusion would { put it in the power of any portion of our suburbs to block all extension of ety jurisdiction. A handful of persons could incorporate an addition to Omaha s a suburban village and reap the be clit of city taxes in adjoining improve- ments without contributing a dollar toward their cost. So far as South Omaha is concerned, the city council has pledged itself to exclude that community from the operation of the law in response to the wishes of the principal owners, The pledge will be carried out. But other scotions are already moving to in- corporate as villages for the express pur- pose of evading the operation of the law, and unless it is changed it will be practi- cully worthless in carrying out the intent for which it was drafied. Omaha is vitally imterested in the pas sage of her new charter which has been I upon by our citizens and sub- ctory in the form in t gooes before the legislature. L h. The clarion notes of General Van Wyek's speech before the legislature are ringing throughout the state. The brave and manly renewal of his pledges to the people, the bold exposure of the wrongs from which the public are suffering at the hands of corporate monopoly, and the earnest appeal to the legislature to take prompt steps to carry out the wishes of their constituents, have touched the pop- ular heart, cemented more closely the bonds which bind him to the producers of this state, and won him friends in quarters from which he never looked for support. In spite of defeat and disappointment, and facing the scoundrels who had sold him out for a mess of railroad pottago, General Van Wyck most effectually gave the he to the eharges that he 18 a trimmer and hypoerit He had nothing to gain in t hour when the cheers were still echoing which had grected the choice of his successor. He bad everything to lose wmong his opponents by flinging once more the gauntlet of the people’s rights full in the face of the corporate hench- men and monopoly tools who had com- pussed his defeat. A trimmer would have glossed over the situation by mean- ingless platitudes about ‘‘the for- tunes of war” and the wishes of the majority, and applied the salve of hypocrisy to the wounds of a bitter con flict. Voicing, as he always docs, the sentiment of the poople, General Van Wyek was once more the people’s spokes- man, Without rancor, without bitter- ness, with no visible resentment in his tones, he bravely set the key-note for the future in unremitting warfare for popu- Jar rights a. ust the wrongs and the shameful political methods from which the peonle of this state are suffering at the hanas of the monopolies. The man who has been accused of retly curry- ing favor among the ailronds met their representatives face to buked the presumption by planting himself and his following more firmly than ever on the unyielding ground of immutable jus- tice and popular s irnty. eneral Van Wyek is a strong, and an honest man; a born leader with a remarkable following, & popular repre- sentative with a ional reputation, a champion of the most intelligent, the most industrious and the best elements of our citizenry. Such a man eannot be suppressed. He rises superior to tem- porary defeats. The people, whose cause 18 faithfully championed, will see that they do not losc their advocate and loyal fricnd. Inter-State 1 able, Commerce Commissi The inter-state commeree bill cres commission of five persons, to be ap- pointed by the president and confirmed by the senate. The commissioners first ap- pointed are to continue in oflice for the term of two, three, four, five and six y respectively, from the first day of Jan- uary, 1887, the term of each tot ignated by the president, but theirs cessors shall be appointed for terms of six years, except that appointments to vacancies shall be only for the unexpired term. The president may remove a com- missioner for inefliciency, negleet of duty, or malfeasance in oftice, Not more than three of the commissioners shall be appointed from the same pohtical party. No one officially connected with or n- terested 1n any cemmon earrier subject to the provisions of the act can be a mem- ber of the commission, The commission- ers are not permitted to engage in any other business, voeation, or employment. Each commissioner shall receive an an- nual salary of $7,500, and all necessary expenses for transportation incur in making any investigation 1n any other place than in the city of Washington, where the prineipal oflice of the commis- sion shall be located and its general ses- sions held. A very wide latitude is given to the au- thority of the commission. It may in- quire into the management of the busi- ness of all common carriers subject to the act, requir- ing of them full information as to their manner and method of doing busin the production of their books, papers, tariffs, contracts, arguments and docu- ments relating to any matter under in- vestigation, and take testimony relative thereto. It may invoke the aid of any United ates court to carry out its authority. It shall receive and investi- gate complaints aganst any common carrier subject to the act, and when a common carrier fails to satisfy a com- plaint the commission shall determine what reparation, if any, should be made, such finding to be deemed primu facio evidence in all judicial proceedings. It 15 suthorized to require annual reports from all commoun carriers subject to the act, and specitic answers to all questions upon which the commission may need in- formation. These reports must contaia in deteil all fucts showing the condition, busin: and general financial opera- tions of the common carriers making them. The commission 18 required to keép a record of every vote and official act, and ite procced’ngs shall be public upon the request of either party inter ested. It will make annual reports to the secret of the interior. Any party may apoear before the commission and be heard in petzon or by an attorney. The great importance of having the commission composed of thoroughly capable and trustworthy men, who will earry out its provisions firmly and impar- tinlly, makes the question of who the president may appoint one of great, and even anxious, interest. There appears to be a most abundant supply of acceptable material, and Mr. Cleveland's difliculty will be in sclecting the best out of so much that is worthy. He onght certainly to be able to form a commission that will entirely satisfy the obvious demands of this new experiment in legislation and meet the expeectations of the country. For the first year or two at least the law will be on trial, and there will be greater solicitude regarding the ability and char- acter of the first commission than will perhaps be feit concerning those of the future. Everybody understands the sort of men who are required for the impor- tant duties under this bill, and there is no reason to doubt that the president will make his selections so carcfully and wisely as to respond fully to the popular conception, Proposiug a Civil Pension List. The tendeney to enlarge the paternal functions of the government ey from year to yea Thereis a class of benevolently-disposed people, some of whom get into congress, who believe it to be the duty of the nation to assume all sorts of obligations w respect to the re, comfortand welf of its citizens in addition to its legitimate duty of pro- serving to them *‘hfe, liberty il the pursuit of happiness.” At every session of congress some measure s introduced intended the expense of the public treasury, to help some portion of the peo- plo to better their situation in life, for which the government is in nowise re sponsible. These philanthropie schemes have from time to time referred to almost every material relation, and conld the; be ¢ ted would present a most into esting exhibit of the crude ideas and singular eaprices of some men who have sat as leg the funetions and duties of rnment. A rich treasury and great and growing resources, with a system of taxation which provides more money for public use than the necessities of the government, wisel ministered, requite, invite such me of reprisal upon the public treasur A few days ago there was introduced in the house of representatives a bill to provide for the ereation of a civil pension tion was not then for st time proposed. It provides that sons in th il service of the gov: erniment who served a period of thirty years or more shall be entitled to be retived with a pension. It i not at likely that any such measure could congre As at present constituted, the house at least would not vote benefits to men in public oflice whos ases th not been insympathy with the majorit that body, and there few others to whom sueh legislation would bring any early advantage. The danger of such a bill becoming a law is not immediate, though legislation of this kind in the fu- ture, if the disposition we have noted con- i to grow, is not improbable. Fu more, in copying most of the civil stem in gland we may in time aceept the whole of it, including pensions. But for the present it is sufli- cient to s of such a proposition that it would have an extremely limited popular supvort. Independent of the fact that the pension demands upon the government are now extremely heavy, the idea of pensioning government clerks 15 one which the people of this ge wtion will not tolerate. There is not a valid reason why the government should assume the obligation of providing after a term of yoars for those who entered the service of their own option, exgerly sceking the the opportunity, and have remained in it voluntarily, Such a policy is not consist- ent with our governmental system, and it is not desirable to establish any such additional inducement to otlice-secking, We pension the soldier for his suflerings and sacrifices. That is as the, tion can wisely and justly extend its benefactions Tue senate again decided on Wednes- day that the Albany colored man, Matthews, is not wanted as recorder of deeds of the District of Columbia. Thes were three republican votes in s favo but double this number of democrati votes were east against him. It is not probable that the president will make any further effort to have “the colored man recognized in polities’ in the person of Matthews. The fight against him has been made chietly on the ground of “home rule” by the democrats of the Dis- trict, who resented the importation of a New Yorker to fill one of the most lucra- tive offices at the national capital, hold- ing that it unjustly ignored the elaims of reputable and deserving democrats there and was in violation of the national plat- form of the party regarding territorial appointments. It appears that so far as the business of the oflice is concerned, Matthews has carried it on satisfactorily. One thing is certain, he has had a fat job for several months, having got the bene- fit of the real estate boom of the summer, and he will return to Albany—unle something else is found for him—consid- erably better off in pocket than when he went” to Washington, besides having gained a grea t deai of notoriety, WEe LEARN from reliable authority that our reporter was mistaken in ascribing the action of Governor Thayer, with re- gard to Dr. Knapp, to the influence of Senator Majors, The governor had, after mature retlection, reached the conclu- sion more than a week ago that br Knapp's confirmation as superintendent of the 1nsane asylum would put an end to further controversy. The responsibility for the change was with the bourd of public lands and buildings, and the gov- ernor has deemed it best in the interest of harmony among the state oflicers to let the senate confirm the appointment made by hs predecessor. This puts a different light upon the matter, and shows conclusively that Governor Thayer's eredulity was not imposed upon by auy- body. “Tue Fisheries Dispute” is the title of a half column telegram appearing al- most every day. It is strange that a country as strong and powerful as the United States claims to be,should tolerate 80 much comment on a half barrel of boarding house salt mackerel, when wall- eyed pike areso plentiful. WHAT SHALL WE Do the Railroads Control the Legisia- ture? LaxcorN, Neb,, Jan, 27— Editorial Cor. respondence of the Ber.]—1 am not here now to rencw the bitter strife of the sena torial eampaign. [ will only remark at the outset that members who eame here pledged to Van Wyck's competitors and carried out their pledges in good faith have no cause to fear the resentment of their constituents, and certainly © no ground of just complaint ngainst me. 1 do respect & man who honestly differs with me on any question, and have no fault to find with those who did not sail under false colors, I have mnot been and could not be too severe in scoring spies, deserters and conspirators In the lan- guage of Rief at the first joint session last Wednesd “it is treason to the siate," and there is mo higher ecrime on the criminal ealendar than treason. I have vd it from the stump time and again that a man who sells out and betrays his people should be dealt with like a horse- thief. Since my return to the eapital T have been asked what may we expect from this lezislature, 1s there any hope of relief for the weoplo from a legislature that is 80 badly demoraiized? T must I am as yet unable to reach @ny sion on that score. A round m: the members came here with honest in- tentions and desirous to do the right thing, but I have grave doubts about their ability to withstand the corporate pres sure. The rmlrogues still here in full force. John M. Thurston, of the Union Pacific, and Deweese ana Charley Green, of the B. & M., have not given up their criminal practic Thurston may go up to Columbus for a day or two, but he has left enough aids in iniquity to give eflective assistance to the B. & M. gang. The notorious Paul Vandervoort, who is on the Union Pacitic pay roll, is sti here playing railroad stool-pigeon among the Grand Army boys. Tcould find fault with this bloated blatherskite for making a vigor- ous fight against Van Wycek, whom he considered us a personal cnemy. But what business has he here now There is no occasion for camp-fire stories trom 1 who never came within a hundred and no honest man can ance his imposture, istant adjutant, Gurley, around the hotels and rooms, making himself useful as a by for the sake of “‘the grand old party,” and going through an apprentice- ship with Frank Walters, Doe Blair and John Sahler tutors in politieal chican- ery. Itas a pitiful spectacle to see a well-raisede young man throw himself away in the company of dead beats and volitical lepers. Carns, the Sev also lingers hero confess conclu- jority of Thurston's is still praneing ard county reprobate, emissary of the rlroads. Tobe Caster and his right bower, Alley, of Saline, are elbowing around amongs the democratic members, while the burly Richardson, of Butler ounty, nother monopoly lobby- ist, is doing general utility work These ar few among the foree that is operatingupon the legis- lature and deeo members into the ailded and bai familiar with the peen ilrogd lobby must fee the situation, I'h certainly a very poor outlook for lexislation m the interest of the people unless by a desper- ate resolve thé men now m the deadly coils of the monopoly anaconda shall by a desperate effort cut loc and stand up to do their duty. The eflort of Agee, whois simply a Bar- lington coupling pin, to stave ofl action on the part of the house in its endeavor to abolish the bogus railroad commi shows plain as the nose on & man’s fa that the railroand managers me to pi petuate this costly frand, The delay over night, which ure: 1l give them time to count noses and set their pins to defeat the bill. If the railroad commis- sion can’t be wiped out this legish: ture mizht just as well p 1-hole all railroad bills and devote the bals of thewr time to othe important business. They had better appoint a comn to wait on Mr Holdrege and beg him to rec: pers and shysters, so that the leg can have time to attend to the s stitutions. Holdreg ore railvoad commission, He wus on floor himself two years ago, with the railroad lawyers, carryimg on the dis- reputable and lawless work, which no ting body of law-makers would have'allowed. The effort to con- tinue this bastard commission, conceived in fraud and begotten i iniquity, is again evidently inspired and sustained by this man Holdrege, who does not seem 10 realize that a long-suflering and pa- tient people may resent his insolent and outrageous interference with their law- makers, E. Rosewaren, L Agec the Tur ch 211 has passed out. Agee continues to talk, that the theory of “‘the fittest” 15 a false one, KINGS AND QUEKNS, Mr. It would appear survival of the Queen Marguerite ot Italy is writing a book of fable: ‘The Empress of Russia is an expert shot with a rifle, and has ranges for practice at all her residences, ‘I'he prince of Wales having expressed a desire to have the pair of spurs worn by Fred Archer _when he rode Ormonde in his last race at Newmarkel, the executors have sent them to his royal highness, together with the saddle used on the oceasion, About Mareh 1 the prinee of Naples will set out on a three months’ journey in Syria and Palestine, Queen Victoria’s coachmakers have just furbished up one of bLier six state coaches for the jubilee this year, Queen Vietoria's New Year's gifts to the noor of Windsor ineluded 1,000 prime joints of beef and 100 tons of coal, The czar of Russia threatens to send any one to Siberia who ventures to suggest that the czarewiteh's health is failing, In calling the son of Princess Beatrice “His Highness,” Queen Victoria has made & deelded innovation in British court nomen- clature; or perhaps revived a style that has for eenturies slumberad in innocuous desue- tude, Practically it is the founding of a new order of princes, to rank immediately after those of the blood royal, and before the dukes. Emperor Willlam of Germany recently made a joke for the first time in nis life. Oun the elghteenth anniversary of his entry into the army one of his doctors tried 1o prevent him from going to the oven window to re- turn the salutations of the assemblages out- | moutii to Chierbourg, Tis majes! t “1 mustgo. It isnoon, and Baedeker's Guide says that [ am visible atthe window at this hour, Queen Victoria intends to go to Aix-les- Bains at aster for three weeks, Her majesty, who will be accompanied by Princess Beatrice and Prince Henry of Bat- tenberg, will probably leave Windsor Mon« day, the 4th of April, crossing in the royal yacht, the Vietoria and Albert, from Ports- and ceeding from that point direct to Aix-les-Bains by special train, The prince of Naples, crown prinee of Italy, will, at the beginning of March em= bark for a voyage in the Savora Syria and Palestine. The land route will comprise Boyrout, Damascus, Jerasalem and Caffa, or St ovanni d’Acre, and will, itis thought, take three months, 1t is said the prince will visit the Italian possessions in the Red Sea but these possessions do not amount to much, e cclPucammten Uncle Joe's Boom. Lowisville. Commercial. Unele Joe MeDonald still nurses his presi- dential boom. With the exception of a broken back, where the Indiana democratic caucus stepped on it, it is as good as new. - Something to Make Merry Over, Chicago Herald. John Su an's arm was broken on Car head. Now if John could break his h on Cardiff’s fist there would be something to make merry over. e Washington fafe, Atlanta Constitution, Three novels of Washington life are said to be in course of preparation, This is welly at the sane time there are some phases of Washington lite too novel to be dealt with in a novel, Tt appears th Life Experience, Medora Clarkes not the happiest nor the purest lifo hat is the richest in its coloring, 18 not the highest sphere that holds “The sweetest Joy the world ean brine, The sun is pale when in high heayen, but when Tt falls, it eathers riehness from the earth, And gives aeaim its beauty in the west, Fron underneath ared and golden girth, And who would live a life unmarred by pain And have but rainless days ungloomed by elond? So mueh of full experience we gain Is purchased by those ills that thickly crowd. - R’S FROM Senatorial Res the Pabli EBaxcrort, Neb., Jan, 26—To the Edi- tor of the Br The senatorial contest is over and the people have been defranded of their chorce by traitors in their own camp. But mark it, there is a day of re- iation, and those Benedicet Arnolds will yet realize that their misrepresenta- tion of the wishes and desires of their con- stituents will met with sure and swift punishment. Cuming county feels proud of its noblo representutive, Hon. J. I Barvett. All honor to him. Hounded on all sides by rvepresentatives of corpora- tions, cappers and boodle operative he nobly withstood their combined cftorts, and remwuned by the “old man” from first to iast. Mr. Barrett has enshrined himself in the hearts of the people of ‘uming county by the manly stand he took in the contest, and he will ever be gratefully remembered | So, too, will be remembered, but in difterent the scab on Eumanity, one Frank r, who misrepresented this senator- distriet. Pledzed to the sapport of 1 Wyek, he basely deserted him from start, and my advice to this nonetity s not to show himself in this end of the district. Judging from the remarks made by sevi 1 tlors, he is apt to meet with areception that would not be condneive to his health or pe appearance. CIf we are to be detranded this way year in and year out, d one stalwart farmer, “the sooner astern example is mads of one or two of the traitors, the more likely are to have straight goods in the future.’ Mis! Fuller will take heed, Our peonle are for Van Wyek and the principles he represents forey more, and the old man is round majorit THE WILL OF THE PES D) Hepron, Neb., Jan. To the of the BEr: “Requieseat in pac reads the peroration of an article pub- lished in the Lincoin Journal on I nd written by a gentieman of stal- 't corporate hivities from Hebron, wyer county, N > Nay, we sl t him rest, The defeat of Charles 1. Van 3Wyck for the United Stat senite by the t Nebrask roislature is e strength of ska which power s all times, to undo the sovercign the people atlarge. To-day, the mujority of the people in this county espouse and Ivocate the principles which the senior senator so nobly defended both upon the ump id an” the halls of legislation, Phe alarmingly increasing power of ail corporations gains day by day, gradually swallowing the ndividuality of the who depend entirely upon hard work a means of support for themsclyes and families. The defeat of Charles H. Van Wyck is the defeat of the will of prople in this ecounty, and believe in almost every county in this commonwealth, But he will ere long rise again. He is to-day the foremost leader of the anti-monopoly party, and if he sclects upon the expiration of his term in the senate to make Nebraska his home, he will infuse fresher and warmer blood in the movements and operations of that party which to-day is the only party that endeavors by its” humane ef- forts, though ignominiously scowled at by corporations and ther designing tools, to remove the shuckles of bondage from the musses of honest toilers. His defeat, in our judgment, though WO Arro; no superior wisdom to our- selves, s the rise and growth of the anti-monopoly party independent of de- moeracy and republicanism. Nay, he, too, will not rest, not even slecp; he will rise higher and higher in the plane of manly independence; he will continue in the organization of s fol- lowers more untiringly than ever hereto- fore, and they, in return for his zealous endeavors to free them from bonaed mo- nopoly of pelf, will rally to his standard. By no means do we look upon the stilletto that did wvicree the heart'’s core of t people’s defender as being directec toward him solely; but we rd it, and 80 does every fair minded voter free from ins and unhampered from corporate nopoly, thatit was a dircet stab at the life's blood coursing in the body of the people. S, THEY'LL REMEMBER WHITMORE VarLey, Neb., Jan, 20.—To the Editor of the Ber: The almost unammons voice of the neighbors of Mr. Whitmore, both republicans und democrats, coincides with your editorial in Tuesday's BEE We nominated and voted for Mr. Whit more as a straight Van Wyck man. He #0 expressed himself to us publicly and orivately. We sant him to the legis. ature to *‘stay with”” Van Wyckism to the bitter end, and we understood him pledged to do'so, although we remember now with an “understanding” mind that he refused in the Republican Valley cau- cus last fall to go to the county conven tion “‘pledged’ for Van Wyck, We are lad to learn so early in _his career that fieisa railroasa man. We hope to have the opportunity of remembering it at the polis in the future MEnmory THE MONOPOLIES REJOICE IRVINGTON, Neb., Jan. 37.~To THE PEOPLE, as Viewed by LETT The the | the ground willL itor of the Brr: In the election of United States senator in Nebraska ecan anyone think the will of the majority of tho electors has been voie A vast majority of th of this state evidently desired the re-elees tion of Senator Van Wyck, and many of the democratic party proferred him anyono else outside of their ranks, and not reallv becanse he held an tively democratic notions, but simply be canso in congress ho championed overy interest of our state and every mterest of the great majority at largo. He m have been above criticism in regard his own personal ambition or personal qualities as a man, yet in these respeets 1 vresume he is more than a fair averag among his compeers, But I would ask what has he done as & ehampion of any cause that he has deserved defeat. Ho has done everything that ould entitle him to success and _the enconinms of a great people, **'Tis ngt in mortal command suceess, Sempronius, bu t we'll do better, we'll deserye it Such is trae of Van 'Wyck, and everyonoe that has manfully stood by ~ him in the struegle against his wanton opposers, e is ridiculed for his pretenses of being a friend of the poor man while he pos sesses a large fortune of bis own T'he question is, did he get his fortune ¢ defranding the poor man?® He secured fortune in the same way ove poor man would, if he could. His conrse mizht, for anght I know, be an inspira- tion to the poor man, No poor man with an ounce of brams will think the less of him for his wealth, and none the less is he the_champion of the poor man's interosts, Van Wycek has made a national reputation, and one that has refleeted honor on our state, and has been feared for his advocaey of measures to grinding monopoly and nny. In his absence scoundrelism lift again more boldly its defiant wlin the halls of congress, and soulless monopoly witl “‘thank ‘the deyil,” and take courage.’ defeat Tdo not think our legisla ture has done anything to feel proud of They have, through tie unseemly nfl ence of others, defeated the will of the Van Wyck w a majority ha s oo, < the people’s choice, ut not governed., I il STATE AND REITORY. RESTON, Nebraska Jot tings, mont had forty-five funerals Fuirbury claims a population of 8,000, and eries out for a new hotel. ‘The reported shooting of two horse- thieves near Hastings is denied Pawnee Republican nominates al Van Wyck for congress trom the Big First i 1888, Ihe waterworks company of Neligh has the material on the ground to pipe the ci s soon as the frost tes, Kerosene o1l seratched two vietims in Bartley Iast week, and eleven sinners were reseued from ruination by the evan- listic halter, Fred White, of Seribner, Jaid out on the prairie a month ago with a cargo of liquor and a blizzard for companions, He died last week, The Baptists of Red Willow reanch salvation by a bath in Red Willow creck, surrounded by ice two feet thick, while gaunt consumption hovers on the brink Half & hundred Lincolnites have peti tioned congress to abolish the tax on bogus batt This would enable them to grease the wheels of legislation ad a trifling expense. Herman Conrad, of Seribner, monrns tne death of wn uncle in Germany, but the brine of his tears is sweetened” by legacy of £10,000. The clonds of his gloom have a German silver lining Contractor Dauchy, of the Nebr City extension of the Missouri Pacifie, ex- perimented with dynamit Lric nd a hot stove at Weeping Wat The ex- plosion tore off an_arm and blew out an sye. Me was badly distigured out still ska iv The giddy girls of Ar; hauled into court last we: liberal sum for sh 100 K and taxed mpooing a masher with beer bottl he vietim was bald- headed, and the blind goddess, after feel- ing his bumps, assessed the zons §1a imp. Two hundred residents of Gothenburg turned out, afoot and on horseback, to clean out the wolves, last week An in- ventory of the expedition showed one seurvy wolf, four escapes, thirteen lame horses and a fraction less than a ton of 1d v Senator-Eleet Paddock deelined to name public reception by the citi- zens ot Beatriee, for the reason that he did not wish to put them to further trouble and expense. He thonght the money would be better spent as a dona- tion to the public libi and enclosed a check for §100 tor that purpose A horrible story comes from Franklin county, concerning the death ot Patrick and Charles MeDormott, Several weeks ago Patrnek got drunk, went to sleep out of doors, froze both legs and both arms and had them amputated On Monday Inst Pat and his brother died, the lutt from the effeets of drinking the liquor with which his brother’s L and arms had been washed, Whisper it not in Schuyler, to the marshal, T was the vietim of not even vigilant oflicial nel joke last week, and a half thonsand “tufers” have not stilled the hter of the town, The wife of Martin Hebrie presente himn with a baby boy. Inguisitive children could not account for the addition to the population, so the nursery story of drop- ping from 'the clouds found adherents and gained in strength as it soread, When the story reached the marshal it was that the youngster was the railrond track in a gunny sack. To ferret out the find and punish the tiend was his first impulse, and giving his official dig nity an extra twist he marched on the Hebrie mansion, The procession aug- mented rapidly, andwhen it renched its destination the erowd was large enough to grace a dog figt, The result of the in- vestigation will never be known, s the'l ma al is persistently mum, Lowa Ltem Tama county issucd cense in 18506, The Rocky Fork Coal company Dodge, capital $1,000,030, has b porat Dubuque has just Listed her b improvements of last year, and adds u total §1,026,301 Knoxville is workin tem of water works dectrie light plant o running expenses of the state house st eignt and one-half months of nounted to §14,126.17 astman, of Grinnell, azed s hied himself away to Chica, where he was married to Mrs Dr. Bowers, aged sixty-six, and the happy pair huave tuke bridal wurto Vermont. The finane! gents of Des Moines who went to New York recently to negotiate sale of #250,000 city bonds have returned me with empty pockets. The tern capitalists positively refused to come down, Scott county has forty-six stered physicians, thirty-cight of whom @ of the allopathic or regular school, seven of the hameopathie, three electic, one com bination and two are not clussified. Their average is forty-four years and one month. An observing lowa farmer risks reputation of his prophetic soul on fact that the comit eason will * be unusuably good one for the ra small grain He lius: proy the drouth of Ui past year, arguing in better shape for re marr| of Fort 1 ineor ng up on an F18,000 sys- 1t is also to have enty Tast we the of bases on » ropublican voters | to | distine- | v not | to | [ 0 ¢ | ceiving secd next spring by reason of ity | dryness aud consequent early warmth About 800 Iadies of Clarinda petitioned Prosident Perking, of the Chicago, Bur- lington & Quincy road to stop running trains on Sunday. Mr. Perkins roplied that “when public opinion is so largely in favor of the cessation of all Sunday work that the majority of people will nos ship freight exeept upon condition that it shall not be transported on Sunday, and when the majority of passengers will not travel on Sunday, I think that rail- voad officials will “gladly avail them- selves of the opportunity to discontinue the running of trains on that day." Dakota, The Odd Fellows of Rapid City aro digenssing plans for a $20,000 hall. A well digr at Bridgewater struck an abundanee of mica at a depth of eighteen | feet. A fourteen year | says the present w | the coldest in all tha A Sioux Falls young man named Williams was persuaded to lap his tonguo about a frosty lamp post, The greater t of his tongue is still lapped. Rapid City boasts with much vain pride on the tinely furnished and elegantly fitted saloons, “And musicians unex- celled anywhere are employed to enters tain callers,” During the past week 500 additional patents were received in the United States land oflic riro, making ahout 2,000 patents ved in'the office since December 1, 1886 tont of Bismarck ner s unquostionably time. The Pacifle Const, The street ear drivers' strike Francisco cost the companies 000, Ripo raspberries are being gathered in the gardens at Neweastle, Placer eounty, The N adegislature will repeal the anti-treating law passed at the }usl Sese s1on Judge Alf Diego count, July. Ben Hogun, the “converted is holding revival meetings in Wooy Large crowds are in attendance daily. cost of muamtaining tho stato m, nsylum and orphans’ home of ada for the two last years was $180, m San. Cowles, of Poway, S8an will be 100 years old in pugilist,” f nd, supposed to haye ys ot the padres, in the mountaing been worked in the ¢ has heen ed near f A Santa Cruz constable arrested a man recently, and not wishing to put him i a cell for a trivial offtnse he handeufled the prisoner and his wifo together and locked them in a hotel room, where Lo found them all safe next mornmng. The tran in which Patti reached Los es trom Mexico had a narrow es- somewhere in Arizona. It got out of the control of the hands while running down a long gr and for a consider: able distane speed of eighty miles an hour was reached. One evening recently a clerk in a storo in asmall mining town near Mariposa was fondling the honsenold eat on the store counter when a wild boar from nn adjoining thicket rushed into the housy and grabbed the elerk by the limbs, and he was reseued be was badly rated about the legs and boc e s 1-Picture of our Porefathe Fibre and Fabrie. Tt s sometimes well to take a look back and see what our forefathers used to da in our own line of business, Before the advent of the narrow loom and fancy cassimeres all goods were woven on the old broad hand loom, which was an immense institution, and usnally owned by the weaver and set up in one of his own chamber; It was always accom- panicd by the old “bobbin wheel” and a Iarge bowl or tub of water, in which to wet the filling; the wheel being used to throw out the surplus water which left cach bobbin of filling equally charged with moisture. The bobbins were s d up in the window until uscd, some: key covered witn a cloth. From fifty to 100 bobbins were wet at a time, Only ono shuttle was nsed, and that a very heavy one. with two large double ~wheels unde and two single wheels on the side ran agamst the reed. Theso wheels used to destroy the reed in time, as the under wheels did the race-board Ther 18 no_box motion then, A piec of strong twine was fastened to cach neker and brought to the center of the oom and fastened to a handle which the weaver held in his right hand, and with which the shuttle was thrown with great jon while he worked the lny with his teft hand and the treadles with his The scat was a two-legged affar sned to the window-sill, the sent part atan angle of about forty de- 1t could hardly be called a seat, weaver stood up while sitting down, us it were, The yarn was let ol from ‘the beam by hand, and the cloth aken up in the samo way, the arranges ment being ve ude indeed, but very eflective; made” so by the skill of the weaver. The cloth was usually woven in the loom cleven or thirteen quarters wide, and, as might be expected, it canme from the loom very thin, but felt like a woolen board when filied, in which state it was generally sold by the small manu- facturer, the parchaser sending it to the finishing mill, Besides the single looms 1 the homes of th there were wi wero termed ¢ where a large number of looms were run, usnally owned by one man, single looms being rented at times. As there was no power th was no bell, and no steam heat, the shons being warmed by the erudest kind of stoves. When the short days of the year came, and it was time to_light up, they usually had what was called “a hghting-up sup- per, and i the spring “a blowing-out supper.”’ Lighting was done with oil in the crudest kind of a lawnp, which was made by any tinsmith, The amount of smoke madeé was fearful. The lamps wereopen, o wlass in any form being used. Coal oil had not been discovered, and lard oil was not then an article of commcereo, The wenvers were gonerally a very happy set of men, full of jest, song and story, and the original wit of some of those men has made the fortune of later inntators The weavers were often raising window plants, them conld miuke u good showing at any senson of the year. Nativ ong birds were often kept, and there was alwi some kind of pet, it may be a dog, ¢ some kind of bird, that “was allowed the freedom of the chamlb Money was not very plenty; lusuries were unknown; but & fair share of huppiness was secured by the old hand-loom weaver, — ker of the Assembly of the State of New York, Srare o¥ New Yok, Assirtiny CAMBER % ALsany, April 16, 15856 My fumily for the last twelve years have been using Allcock’s Porous Plas. ters, und have found them wonderfully eflicacious in coughs, colds ana pains in the side and back. About ten years ago [ was thrown from and badly brmsed. In threa rs entirely removed the sorencss. I'wice they have severe colds whish thr ened pulmonary trouble. Tney also enred my son of rhewmatism in the shouldcer, from which he had sullered two years. Jasks W. Husten, - ting of the directors of the Pa- compuny, the following ol M. Morsman s Francis fent; Will wad auditor, as the The Sy nund sured me AL e ciic ¢ president and ¢ Adams, jr.« b «