Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 21, 1887, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERVE OF SUBSORTPTION : Dafly (Morniag Edition) including Sunday Brr, Ono Year v 810 For 8ix Monthe ... ... . 500 For Three Months .. 2 The Omaha Swnday Tk, mefiod to any addross, Une Year. . 200 , NO. 014 AND 916 FARNAM STREPY. ORK OEFICH TON OFFICE, NO. 513 FOUKTRENTH STHEE] OMATIA OFFICR, N NEw Y Wasui OCORRESPONDENCE! Al communieations relating to nows and edi torial maiter should be addressed 1o the Eii- TOR OF THE Bre. RUSTNESS LETTERS? ATl businees lottors and romittancos should be #ddressed to Tie BEs PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMAHA. Drafts, checks and postoffice orders 10 be made payable to the order of the company, THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS, E. ROSEWATER, Eprron. THE DAILY BEE. Bworn Statement of Circulation. Btate of Nebraska, |, o County of Douglas, | * ° Geo, B. Tzsehuck, secretary of The Publishing company, does solemnly swear that the actual circulation of the Daily Bes for the week ending Feb, 18th, 1857, was as éollnw Bee Thursday, eb. Friday, feb. 18, AVOrago......... ! Subseribed in my presen fore e this 19th day of Fel rm\r{ A. D., 1887, i N. P. Frir, [SEALI Notary Publie. Geo. B, Tzschuck, M‘mi first duly sworn, feboses fnd say that he | secrotary of The lee Publishing company, that the actual av- eraze dally circulation of the Dally Bee for the month of Fobruary, 1835, was 10,505 copies; or March, 1886, 11,657 copies; for. April , 12,101 copiés: for for May, 1856, 12,430 Goples; for June, 1856, 12,208 coples: for iy, 1856, 12,314 coples: for = Auust, 185, 13,46 copies;for September, 1886, 13,050 coptes; for October, 1886, 12,080 copies; for Novembe: 1886, 13,348 copies; for December, 1886, 13,2 eopies for January, 1887, 16,266 copies. Gro. B, TZSCITUCK. Subscribed and sworn to before me this Sth 4y of February A. D, 1857, [SEAL.I N. P. Ferr, Notary Pablie. Tue demand of the hour is a normal wchool and insane asylum in every village aro still busily engaged in fighting the Tilden trust. They believe in the ‘‘usufruct” of rela- tionship. — Tuecitizens and taxpayers of Omaha must feel delighted to learn, through the Herald that Mr. Sullivan, of Platte county, is doing *‘noble work” in resist- ing the Omaha charter. In this ‘*‘noble work" Mr. Sullivan follows closely on the heels of Colby, whom the citizens of Beatrice once honored with a neck-tie sociable for trying to annex property which did not belong to him. present and ex-officials of Cook county, Illinois, are charged with being “‘boodlers,”” and the prosccuting attorney and the newspapers are pur- suing them with relentless vigor. The Tribune and some of the other papers have been prosecuting a still hunt with special detectives for months vast, and some of the developments are e: ingly interesting. Although Chicago is now far behind New York in this sort of enterprise, the opportunity for her to make an equally strong record scems at hand. CoLONEL JAMESON, who recently re- signed as general superintendent of the railway mail service for the alleged reason that his refusal to yield to parti- san pressure for changes in tho servico bad rendered him obnoxious and tho position Intolerable, is referred to by an eastern contemporary as the creator of the railway mail service. This is unfair to the memory of the late Colonel Bangs, who created this most important branch of the postal service, and raised it to a high degree of efliciency, leaving it finally for more Iucratlye employment, after having given to it the best y of his life. Jameson was unquestionably a pood official, but the honor of having created the railway mail service belongs to Bangs. ‘With the honorable exception of Mr. Raymond, who proved himself to be n fair minded, manly man, the members from Lancaster county in the house have ac- corded the delegation from Douglas any- thing but generous treatment. Whilo they had the united support of our dele- gation in favor of the motion to have the Lincoln charter referred to the appro- priate committee of cities and towns, they refused Omaha the same privilege. In view of the fact that Omaha pays one- teath of the entire state tax and Lincoln gets the lion's share of all the appropria- tions, it comes with ill grace for repre- sontatives of Lincoln to withhold from Omaha the right conceded by common courtesy to every other city, town and village. If the positions were reversed and the Lancaster delegation had been subjected to such shabby and insulting treatment at the hands of Douglas county, there would be an outery raised by every man, woman and child at the state capi- tal. Omaba would from that moment be treated as the common enemy and every appropriation or favor she asked for would be blocked and vetoed if it lay in the power of Lincoln to do so, Tre announcement that the bond calls are to go on, and that the entire 3 per cent funded debt will probably be extin- guished with the current fiseal year, raises anew the question as to what is to done in the way of furnishing new securi- ties for the circulation of the national banks to take the place of the canceled bonds. Nothing has yot come of the ef forts in this direction made in both houses early in the session, neither of the measures of Mr. Hewitt in the house and Mr. Aldrich in the senate having been heard of since their iutroduction, wnd it looks as if corgress had concluded to allow the matter to go over to the next congress. Meanwhile, if the poliey of the 1 ury is carried out, the banks will be gompelied to purchase the 4 or 4} per cent bonds to replace the 8 per cent se- eurities or withdraw their circulation, and it is apprehendod that a great many of them will take the latter course. This, however, might be averted by allowing the banks circulation to the amount of the par value of the boads, instead of 90 per cent, under existing law. A further contraction of the bank currency at this time would be unfortunate, and if a prac- ticable way ean be found toavoid it with- out detriment to the interests of the gov- ament it ought to be adopted. A Pack of Lies Nailed. We are willing to give Mr. Hitehcock, who hankers after notoriety as muca as he does after his rents, salisfaction enough to pronounce his sheet u disgrace to Omaha and himself, and his vaga- bonds a pack of cowardly whelps and low-lived liars. This is plain English and we mean just what we say. One of the roustabouts whom M Hitcheock employs, went into the citi- zens’ meetings two weeks ago and joined with the other roustabouts and roughs whom Gallagher, Murphy and Morrissey brought there to break up the meeting. He there gave himself airs and declared that the charter clause requiring twenty days published notice of changesof grade would amount to $51,000 a at the present price of printing. Every appren- tice in a print shop can compute the es- timated cost, which could not possibly reach over $250 a year. We are ready to give a bond to publish all these notices for the next year for $200. This same roustabout, having editorial charge of Hitcheock's sheet, finding himself downed with the disreputable gang by the overwhelming sentiment of the meot- ing, changed front, and while pretending to favor the railroad clanse made villan- ous personal assaults on the Douglas delegation and the editor of the Bee for supporting the charter. He took up the cue of the Lincoln lobby and denounced Rosewater as a traitor, railroad eapper und sell out gencrally. This was fol- lowed up by the whole chain gang of seamps connected with Mr. Hitcheoek's aper with libels and slanders that no decent man would ever countenance or | utter. Emboldened by the policy of in- difference which this paper has pursued with regard to the bushwhacking serib- blers, they ventured to charge, first, that there was a sell out at Lincoln to three or four different interests by which the Douglas delegation has Lo support ecr- tain alleged jobs in exchange for votes for the chartel If this defamatory charge did not involve the members of he delegation we should still treat Hitch- cock and his crew with the silent con- tempt they merit. But we feel com- polled in justice to our representa- tives to brand the liars nd their falsehoods as infamous. There not one word of truth in the charge that any trade, bargain or understanding was had by the editor of the BEE or any rep- resentative of this county with the lessees of the pemitentiary or any of their agents. Three or four of the Douglas delegation who supported the bill had agreed to do 80 long bLefore the charter was opposed by anybody. We are told that their sup- port was given on condition of certain restrictions in the bill with regard to conviet labor. On the other hand not one of these mem- bers was ever spoken to on thesubjeet by the editor of the Brg, and Mr. Smyth, who voted against the bill, will certify that he was advised by the editor of the BEE to investigate the matter before he ommitted himself. Smce that time the tor has publicly stated at the capital that the bill should be overbauled and bids invited for competition. Following up this vile slander comes the charge that Mr. Peter Iler was threat- ened by Rosewater that the prohibi amendment failed to help the charter. of the blankest of lies of the coinage of '87. We call upon Mr. P. E. Iler to give his opinion of the liar. Last but not least comes the eliood that this paper conmived at the grant by the council of a limited frunchise to mine coul on the bottoms. We call for the proofs on this malicious mvention. The Bee always has opposed monopoly b; franchise in general, and it was tho firs to oppose this monopoly. It was b | of its opposition that the graut has becn limited, but nobody outside of the coun- cil except the coal company had any idea that the ordinance was to be pushed through. Is it not about time for Hitcheock and his vagabonds and roustabouts to do the sweeping around their own filthy quar- | ters, attend to their own b iet their betters alone? Those Kigures, The attempt of the Zercld to slur the twenty democratic members of the legis- Iature who have issued an address to the people of Nebraska, is as usual bols up by downright falschood. The figures which Dr. Miller quotes against them are grossly incorrect, While these twenty democratio legislators represent seven- teen counties which cast 17,878 votes for the democratic eandidate for governor, the Herald purposely tries to make its readers believe that they only repre- sented thirteen and 15,859 democratic votes, Thisis in full keeping with the disreputable course of that monopoly sheet whosoe editor still smarts under tho rebuke he received from his own party through its chosen representativesin the legislature, ‘The men who repudiated Dr, Miller’s leadership by recording their votes for J. Sterling Mortor represented Butler, Cass, Cedar, Dakota, Dixon, Dodge, Douglas, Hall, Hamilton, Harlan, Johnson, Knox, Pierce, Polk, Seward, Saunders and Washington. Many of these counties are democratic strong- holds, and tho fact that the so-called leading organ of the democracy has no influence whatever with the representa- tives is a commentary upon the total wreck which & surrender to monopolies for the sake of Wall street pointers and job office pap has made of & concern that might have otherwise been a power in the land had it been u®the hands of Lonest men. Railway Legislation. A large majority of the present logisla- ture were nominated by conventions that instructed them to support railway regu- lation bills and most of them gave solemn pledges to the people on the stump that they would vote and work for legislution that would reduce present railroad tolls, Th men cannot go back to their constituents without dis charging their obligations. They know public sentiment is alrendy arouscd by the interference of the railroad lobby and the infumons metheds by which cor- ROTALe MADAZeTs arc trying to thwart the popular will, While popular confidenee i the present legislature has been shaken by the outeome of the senatorial contest, we still believe that a majority of the leg islature sincerely desire to redeem them- selves on the railway issue. The only question is how it can best be done and what bills will reccive a m il 1t is plain and palpable of the railrogue lobby is to defeat all rail- road lugislation by dividing its support- would be submitted it he | 1 This is oue | severest thrast he | bill, the committee conten av ered | ers on varions and preventing union on any one bill. They want to re- tain the bogus railroad commission and defeat every other measure unless it bo the three cent passenger bill, which practically amounts to nothing. Now the cmissaries of the railroads have charged and are still charging that the anti-monopoly element in the legislature, whose sentiments are reflected in the Be: are merely making a sham fight and pre- fer that nothing should be done so that the campaign two years henee would give them materia) for renewed warfare. This, like other canards, 1s designed to mislead and divide the honest memhers of tho legislature. There is no danger that the next campaign will afford no anti-monopoly issues if a good railroad bill is passed. The conflict between the peoplo and corporate aggression will not cease until the people are allowed to govern themselves and can choose their own representatives without corporate dictation. The cancer which is eating away the vitals of the republic eradicated by the Nebraska legislatu We must purify the political ife blood of the nation by destroying the germ of the discase, For our part we cheerfully advise every honest man who desires to give relief to the producers to drop his pet me and join on any bill that is not s and delusion on its face. Abolish the useless and expensive commission if you can; but if you cannot get a regulation bill that reduces the freight tolls through without a commission you had better support such a bill than to go home with- out any relief assured. We believe in getting half a loaf rather than going hungry The Veto Condemnoed. The vresident’s veto of the dependent pension bill has, after careful consider- ation, been condemned by the unanimous vote of the house committee on invahd pensions. The report of the commttee, recommending that the bill be passed notwithstanding the objections of the president, was submitted on Saturday, and by request of the chairman congider- ation of it was deferred until next Thurs- day. 'The synopsis of the report at hand shows it to be a convine of the pre i operate to change the views of many who were too readily influenced by the narrow and sophistic oning upon which the president based his proval of the bill. The report point that the president made no objectios the bill on the ground of its constitution- ality, nor did he question the right of congress to el t the law. while he fur- thermore ignored the fitst section, which embodies an independent proposition in the precise form urged by the secretary of the interior in his last annual report. Procecding with an analysis of the presi- dent’s obj ons, the report affirms that thereisnothing vague or ambiguous in the terms of the bill, that those who franfed it have made no > and have coit- tined ittoa ¢ which ¢ be well de- fined as consisting of those disabled or dependent on therr daily labor for sup- port. The strained interpretation put on the measure is ECE X- (ther than a reason for returning ¢ house, and the opi i d that the president would terposed his objection 1f the prov wnd no question could to whether the bill unabie to labor. This ave been raised included only thos | most palpable imputation upon the hon- esty and sincerity of the president is the from his party friends in 5 in congress. Re- ding probable expendit s under the At the es- timate of the president 18 exaggerated, and it has been shown that most of the figures employed in the veto message as o basis of the estimate were incorrect. The responsibility for this do not rest wholly with the president, as he must rely upon subordinates for this informa- tion, but the fact is interesting as show- ing in connection with others of a similar nature that have preceded it, that his sources of knowledgze - this direction are not reliable, and that there may be 'y strong motive behind such misin- formation The inte report was re a very good indi the approval of the necessary two-thirds vote to pass the bill over the veto. The bill was originally passed by a vote of 180 to 76, the abscntecs numberi 0. There will be required to vass the measure over the veto 217 votes, so that if the supporters of the bill keep their ranks unbroken, which they can doubt- less do, they must o be successful gain 87 votes, not, it wonld seem under th i cumstances, an improbable gain, the veto of this measure there has been a very general expression of opinion con- t and favor with which the y be_accepted as t it will have sentatives of the veteran soldi out the country, the influence of which will be strongly felt in congress. The men who voted for the bill will not de- stroy the record by sustaining the veto, the majority of those who did not vote will be very likely to take the course which justice and patriotism suggest and support the bill, while it is not improb- able that some of those who originally voted inst the measure will see their mistake and unite with the friends of the soldier. It will not be surprising, there- fore, if the vote in the house, in opposi- tion to the veto, shall considerably ex- »d the necessary two-thirds. The result in the senate is hardly less certain, A Significent Manifesto, The address which a majority of the democratic members of the legislature have issued to the people of Nebraska is, to S ant, Itisa declarution of independence of the mis- rule which monopoly domination has endeavored to fasten upon democracy through a venal and subsidized pr and dishonest and dangerous leadership. Itisa scathing rebuke to Dr, Miller in person and his democratic railrogue fol- lowers, who have heaped abuse upon men for simply earrying out in good fuith pledges made to their constituents While it justly arraigns the repub party for failing to Ty out its p of honesty and economic government, it is unsparing inats dewunciation of the methods by which both parties have been made subsersive to the will of the great corporations who control our rail- way system. It was hardly n these members to ask a vindi their course in the senatorial clection, They had the popular vote behind them and personal pledges bofore them. They had the scutiment of the laboring and producing elements of the state and of the whole country with them. It is not for them, but for the wretched little gang of renegades into the monopoly camo, to get a vindi- cation if they can. The people of Ne- ska who have been spectators of the al drama at Lincoln know by this timo who has been true and who found wanting, It is to be hoped that the twenty democrats who have issued this manifesto will have the conrage of their convictions and professions when the final test comes on railway regulation by Jaw. [ —— WiiLe our amiable contemporaries are howling about the so-called printing steals, they have not one word o say about the inexcasable printing steal which robs Omaha tax-payers for their benefit. We refer to the expensive and useless notices to paving contractors which have been mserted in the Herald, Republican and World for twenty and thirty days at just double the price which the BEE charges the city under its con- tract. What excuse is there for such reckloss waste of the tax-payers’ money? Is mnot publication in the Bee ample enough to reach all parties who intend to bid on paving contracts? If there is any printing steal in_ this city this is the most glaring and barefaced. It is a fact beyond ail contradiction that the Bre reaches twice as many people as all the other Omaha dailies combined. We bold ssert that there are not 250 peo- ple on the subscription lists of ull the other hadailies who do not also take the There are from four to five thous- and regular patrons of newspapers d Ly the Ber, who do see any other Omaha paper. Why then pay one dollar per sq to cach of the three other dailies, which is equal to three dollars per square for each day, when the BEE prints the same advertisement for fifty cents per square? The most striking contrast of this in- stance is the fact that while its regular patrons pay the Bre from 50 to 100 per cent more for advertising than is paid by the ci the other dailies do the advertising for outside parties at from onc-fourth to one-cighth of the rate which the city pays them, and yet these impostors talk about printing ste. ng jobs. ot for the city hall basement was let last fall it was de- nounced as a jub and steal by the menda- cious amateur, whose inheritance runs an afternoon sheet in this city. This charge, like his smallsouled vaporing about the back-yard location of the city ball was purely an ifyention gotten up with the crazy notion that he could build up his own paper by attempting to pull down the B The recent report that Reagan brothers, contractors for the city hall basement, had assigned to another con or affords this ambi- tious monomanae another ¢ e to y the demagogae. He repeats what yhody knows to be untrue from be- ginning to end, that everything connected with the eity hall Jocation and censtruce- t1on was a conspiracy against taxpayers, and a corrupt job. We will not attempt to reh story about the causes which ha ayed the erection of the city hall. notorious that City Attor- ney Cpnneli’s opinion, ofticially given to the mayor and council, blocked the enterpr by reason of the defect in our charter, which prevents the issue of bonds for publie buildings. But the fact that Mr Coots, the heaviest building contractor in On , refused to Jake the contract of Reagan brothers oft their hands at the price which the city is to pay explodes the charge about the so- alled city hall basement job. Mr. Fred el, another very competent con- tractor, has time and again publicly de- clared that he would not build the city hall basement at the contract price. It 1s hardly nccessary { atten- tion to the of these repeated slanders about the city 1. They are aimed entirely at the editor of this paper, whose personal labor and contributions in money trebled the value of upper Farnam street property, and put at least fifty thousand dollars into the pockets of the would-be journalist, who h~d not public spirit enough to pay one dollar to the improvement. Such dogs-in-the-manger do not know in what contempt they are held by decent men of all olasses. It begins to be exceedingly doubtful whether the taxpayers of Nebraska have any rights which the legislature consid- ers itself bound to respect. The reckless and extravagant estimates for new asy- lums, hospitals, homes and normal schools would be absurd if they were not startling. Mr. Cleveland’s remark that the people shounld support the govern- ment and not the government the people seems to have a pertinent application to the existing condition of affuirs at Lin- coln, ANOTHER “‘prominent ranchman” has felt called upon to solemnly declare that *‘Sparks has done immeasurable damage to our interests” through his rigid rul- ings. Settlers generally will agree with the ranchmen who have been forced to vacate their bogus claims to give the farmers a chance, STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. Ashland will indulge in a street rail- way. Plans and specilications for a board of trade are wanted in Ponca, Dog poisoning is the favorite oceupa- tion of the two logged curs of McCook. Nebraska City was treated to a shower of wud Thursday evening, Poor old Plattsmouth! A Crete firm has contracted to plant 820 acres of trees in Lincoln and Chey- enne counties T hipments from Rising City during ated 159 carloads—121 of wheat, 1 rye and 4 of The Bloomington Justice deciares for Hon. C. H. Van Wyck for president in 1888, and Terren Powderly for vice president. The ticket is too good to run well. B. F. Swith, chief corker for company in Hastings, was ari week on the charge of embezzling He stoutly denied the charge an bonds, Sioux City does not ts the Nebraska & Western, porated in this state by residents h. The only stock taken by the town just now is that found in bar rooms, The death of Albert Farburger in Hast- i"f" last Thursday is wrapped in the sable garb of mystery, according to local accounts, Two bullet holes found in the a brewing last 1,400. gave who followed Dr. Miller | body are sufficiently lominous to banish the darkness. Rev. 8. L. 8t, Cl of Madison, no longer Bh ds for m to the throne of grace, but limits his appeals to twelve ordinary mortals. He has been admitted to the bar, where the ‘“root of blooms and flonrishes. The Columbus cornet band, after a wearying existence of thirteen years, has hung up the instraments of torture and dissolved, Death was peaceful and pain- less. Sixty dollars to pa i ex- penses were found in the treasnr, The democrats of Butler county, the home of Senator Casper, pressing their approval of Ins splendid work in the legislature by disecontinuing the black- listed organ of Omaha and subseribing for the Lincoln Democrat, St. Paul, Howard county, proposes to invest §30,000 in a fire department. The town has had four severe contests with flames, in which $100,000 worth of prop- orty was destroyed. The bucket brigade proved as cffeetive as & squirt gun in a drought. Ir. and Mrs, Isaac King, of David y, colebrated their golden wedding last Wednesday evening. They were mar- ried in Genesee county, New York, in 837, ‘I'he venerablo couple were treated uine surprise party by their and reccived scores of valuable Holt county has a bountiful supply of Celtic names. There is O'Neill, after the late goneral, its founder; Atkinson in honor of a Detroit Ivishman; Emmet after the famous Robert; and Stuart and Shamrock. The county would be ut home as.an annex to the emerald isle if home rule prevailed thera. A weary and tattered tramp tumbled into the Presbyterian church at dusk one evening recenily, fired up the stove, lit the gospel lamp, read scveral appropri- ate chapters from the Bible and laid down for a season of blessed sleep. Early next morning a voice from the pulpit rose above fog calling upon the faithful to bring him grub, The citizens of O'Neill city have at las taken hold of a too-long neglected olue ot —that of erecting a monument to the memory of General John O'Neill, the noted Canadian raider and leader of the Fenians, who founded the town and de- voted the last years of his life to the set- tlement of Holt county. Four hundred doliars have already been subscribed. Rev. C. Buechler, who expounds the gospel in the German Lutheran church at Carleton, has justsprung into notoriety by horsewhipping his daughter for re- fusing to marry a man of his selection. ‘I'he rawhide did not enforce obedience, however, as the young lady was married last week to A. L. Johnson, the railroad agent at that point. The indignation of the residents promises to end 1n a spring suit of tar and feathers. The Johnson County Journal has dug up from the archives of twenty years ago a lotter signed by A. 8. Paddock, J. Sterl- ing Morton, Robert Kittle, O Dake, B. G, Turner and W. G. Bowman, and addressed to Hon, J. E. Lancaster, then coilector of internal revenuc of this dis- trict. The letter is dated “Fremont, September 4, 1866," and states that the signers are Usupporters of tho policies recommended on the 14th of August by the national union convention at Phila- delphia,” and recommend that W, R. Wilson, of Fremont, “'a friend of the ad- ministration” (Johnson), be appointed depaty colleetor in place of I5. H. i(ugcrs‘ a radical. Lancaster declined to ac- commodate the distinguished endorsed and closed his letter in reply as follow: Knowinz me as you do, your coming at me in this way, with such an array of ement, time-tried bourbons, und your mo: new converts, is only a the- atrical dispiay of your power and jewels, and a play on one’of those grim ple antries you always so delight in. I take it Mr. Paddock 1s carnest, and 1 will to him, or you may say to him for m that T ‘cannot et down that low, or make a turn so short, to retain this office. You have my answer. 1f Rogers must zo we will o together—so on with the dance.’” This indicates that the mugwumpian period is approaching 1ts majority. Towa Items, *A charity ball in Des Moines netted 100, is overrun with thugs and Burglars and measles are raging Davenport, A Creston litigant was fined $25 for de- nouncing the judge and jury as “‘a lot of cranks.” A burglar with $348 in his possession was captured in the act of robbing a house at D loines. A driver of a brewery wagon was fined in Des Moines for showing the cegs on the streets and tempting the reside 5 L. C. Groft, who has been on trial at Fai charged with it literature n nequitted, Charles Arnold, of Des Moines, a drug- gist’s clerk, while bucking down stairs with a barrel of oil, slipped and fell, ‘The barrel rolled over him, inflicting fatal injuries, Cornell college, at Mt. Vernon, is now at the head of any institution of the kind in the northwest. It was first organized as a seminary in 1852 and continued so until 1857, when it organized as a college under its present name. It has cost up to date $300,000, and has the larg- est academic department west of the Ohio river. The college is now raising $80,000 for an endowment fund. sending obscene through the mai Dakota. Hay sells for $16 a ton in Bismarck, s Rapid City epioures are feasting on cat- ish, A Catholic church to cost $8,000 is to be built in Yankton, Cattle are suffering intenscly in Dickey county on account of the deep snow and the protracted cold weather, It is believed that more Imople have been frozen to death in Northern Dakota this winter than ever before in one sea- son. A year ago a Valley City man Jeft his wife and children to rustle for themselves or starve. The deserted wife worked hard and provided her family with a good home and living. A few days ago she re- ceived a telegram from Grand Forks say- ing her truant husband had died there, and asking what disposition should be made of the remains. The telegraphic answer was: “Leave them where they are |.|’nd till up the hole as quick as you can, Wyoming. The municival expenses of Cheyenne for the coming year are estimated at $100,000, ‘The wind whirled a fire through a house in Cheyenne Thursday, destroying the building 1n ten minute: Mother Goose socials are the prevailing in Cheyenne, A few ganders are ssable on the border of the pond. A Massachusetts maiden has written to the Cheyenne Sun inqui, about the prospects of Lurinfi a husband in the territory. She ‘‘doss not wish to marry 4 man that is green, but one who is thoroughly sensible, good looking, kind- hearied and patient, who will proviae a zood home for oue who will never seex the wilds of Wyoming without some good motive. Iam full of sentiment, kind to everybody,make beautiful bread and cake and " like' home furnished in an attractiv manner, that is after the eastern styl While the Massachusetts girl is no doubt an accomplished maiden, the Sun, with- out hesitation, throws the weight of i influence in favor of the Wyoming girl, who, though a home product, seems to suit the people of this section quite well, WIVES OF WORTH AND WORK Tho Woman Who Made the Leading Ger- man Paper of North America. VERY VENERABLE VANDERBILTS. Stewarts, Fremontsand Logans—Mrs, Cleveland—~Barney Willlams— Who Wounld Hear of Jim Potter Brown ? New Yorg, Feb, 17.—[Correspondence of the B ~Thousands of men would to-day be in the poor house were it not for their wives. And other thousands of men for that matter are as near tho poor house as thoy dare got beeause of their wiyes—not at all an ill-natured thing to say, because I intend to illustrate a thonght born in my mind of a report that Jessie Benton Fremont is about to pub- lish a book, namely, that mmany men sue- cessful in polities, fortunate in business, have been marvelously aided and abotted by the calm, intelligent helpfulness of their wives. A.T. Stewart was an Irish- man with a much greater reputation for business sagacity and wide horizoned intelligence than he deserved. He was mean, close-fisted, penurious, hard to get along with, imperious without being im- perial. L recall the time when he was known as the prince of American mor- as though a merchant could be a prince. But who ever heard Mrs. Stewart alled the princess? 1In spite of that, however, men in New York who know of their early start, of their first efforts to climb the long ladder of fortune and sperity, understood very well at the timo that it was Mrs, Stewart's taste in color, MRS, STEWART'S PRUDENCE in investment, Mrs. Stewart’s forecasting of the coming fashions, that gave to the great firm its prestige, and aided it in its ongoing toward a plane of universal recognition as the loading house on the continent. Visitors familiar with the in- terior of Stewart’s great establishment, now forever closed, will recall the slight, the lady-like figure of the wife of the heud of the firm often seen there going about, unpretentious, from department to department, - from counter to counter, from clerk to clerk, inquiring here, listen- ing there, attentive everywhere. Showas learning her lesson, and when shelearned her lesson she taught it to her husband, and when he had learned it he went out among his friends, associates and cus- tomers and paraded it as the learning and the law of the prince of American merchants. A NEWSPAPER HELP. You know the New Yorl tung? You know the magnificent grun- building that stands on what was once own as Tyron row, now the base of City Hall square at the bridge entrance, with cellars and outreachings thatextend. at least a hundred feet under the center of the street, with no more right there than I would have in the Kkingdom of heaven, prior_to the shufliing oft of my mortal coil. Who owns 1t? Oswald_Ot- tendorfer and the heirs of the late Mrs. Ottendorfer. Perhaps you think Otten- dorfer made the Staats Zeitung, and coined the cash which paid for that beau- tiful ornamentation? ~ Not much. Go back with me a quarter of a centur in a little cellar, a kind of back plice at that, look with me at_a sturdy, chubby, modost, driving, pushing, encrgetic Ger- man named UhL ~ Sec him set type. Seo him justity it. See him put it on the e him put it n the form. Seo him lock the form and watch him as he puts it on the hm.d-}an Does he work the press? No, he doe: IS WIFE WORK 3 fino looking woman with a - oped head, s Dbeautifully pro- portioned body and intelligence written in every line of her attractive faces she vulls with brawny arm, she pushes with expanding muscle. She works hour after hour, She 8 .from the press the dampened sheet. She folds it. ~ She sells it and puts the coppers in her pocket There they work day after day, night ufter night. The place is dirty. The surroundings are unpleasant, the work, as we who are printers know, is not fit for delicato fingers or glossy Skins or fine attire. Toiling day in and day out, work- ing till the very dirt grimes’ the under cuficle, these™ two hclp-meets, band in hand, with & common sweat pouring from their bodies, luid the foun tion of the leading German newspaper of the United States of Awmerica, The nor- mal result, i A GREAT PROPERTY? Yes, now. Not then. Many and many a time they wondercd if the paper could be gotten out. Many a time and oft they saw the matter prepared and the type set and justified and in the form, without one ‘sheet of puper dampencd for the press. But industry persevered in, econ- omy practiced, and'a cleverly laid pro- gramme for circalation followed out, led them on step by step until they reached the bascment, and then an upper floor, and then another, until finally they occu~ vied two great buildings on Chatham low. Morning after morning for months, for years, for decades, Mrs, Ubl came down town, sold the pap- ers and carried the literal mone; in her carpet bag to her home. She sols the papers, she took the cash, she kept the books, she paid the bills and she saved the balance. Gradually they merged from the realm of poverty and placed their foot on the solid, substantial rock of independence. Then Uhl died and gn; gathered to his fathers. And Mrs, hl? OH, STTE MARRIED the bookkeeper, for “'when the old man died the property survived,” and Oswald Ottendorfor, a tall, handsome Teuton who had been hired in the early days of their prosperity, entleman, a man of education, a possible factor in politics, de love to the widow, captured her fat and forty hand and led her to . The property cxpanded and when the Tweed ring birst forth in all 1ts uproarous roisterings in the city, its patronage was given to the Staats Zei w8 freely as to the Post, Commer- al, Star and World. Later on, phe- nomenally rieh, Mrs. Ottendorfer, who had been ‘with ber husband the found of the respected and with a funeral proc such as rarely attends the obsequic private citizen, she was carried to wood cemetery, and laid away with every indication of popular respect and social regard. Had it not been for her the Staats Zeitung would never have existed. Had it not been for her that great German organ would never have attained the phenomenal proportions it has to-da; FOUR GENERATIONS OF VANDXRBILTS Commodore Vanderbilt wus largely in- debted to his wife. As o matter of fa in spite uf the old fellow's grimness and reticence, in spite of his disinelination to give anybody any credit for anything, he was fond of telling about his “early” ex- periences when he ran a boat and his wife kept a bar. A man of Vaunderbilt's proportions couldn’t help suc ing 1n this country, but in the early days of s prosperity, he was not so reckless, not so independent, not so less of the opin- ion of others, and he i almost en tirely, absolutely I might say, upon t the a! his bride when a rough, rude boy on ton Island flats. The Vandoerbilts are their fourth genoration here. THE OLD COMMODORE, the father of the race, n man of immense mentality and tremendous vitality; Wil liam H., his favorite son, whose death untimely, premature, unnecessary, has never yet been fairly and properiy ac counted for, a man able literally to pnormous fortune of §100,000, n by his father; Cornelius anl young men, bright men, full , strong in vitality, with manly firm and not obstinate, do and not dogmatic, yiclling readily to wise counsel, ‘and their children who are said to be_ bright, v vacious, fond ot study and likely to fo low in the footsteps of their fathers, thoir E:rmull:nlu-r ana their great grandfathor take no stock in the common sncer af the Vanderbilts as people of recent cro tion. The boys of Cornelius and Willian K. can go back beyond their fathers fc their father, and back again to hu father, and when they reach the heartlh stone of their great grandfather they find sitting _ there, no alone the man whoso vig I intelteet made him the master of the North river, carried him in Iater life o commodore of a mighty flect on the | lows of the ocean itself, and again, sco ing new highways, bound New York Albany together with an_iron rail, the woman also at his side, whose aid comfort, helpfulness as a wise, dis creet, faithful companion ho always cheerfully acknowledged. WIVES AND BABIES TOO. Do you remember Barney Williams, the best stage Irishman this country ever saw, and his wife, his buxom, bonnie, r beaming companion, the best Yan rl ever known on the American I do. I saw his wife to-day, ¥ , elegant in her matarity, aceom- panied in her afternoon promenade by her sweet faced daughter, Marie, straight a poplar, graceful as & willow, retir ingasa fawn. The first milk punch I ever drank in my life Barn, Williams brought me _in Mrs. Garretson's stage box, in the Walnut street theater, Pnila. delphia, and later in the evening he took me from the box to the stage and pi sented me to his wife, saying as ghe loft the dressing room, ‘‘the best and the brightest in all the world.” Well, now, Barney would have succeeded alone, but nd but judgment, the diseretion, the' quick in tuitions of the woman whow Le nad made he couldn’t have stood alone. He couldn't have endured. She made him what he was. She kept him what he was. They made their fortune together, but she kept it for them both, and for their pretly daughter, after 1t was made. 1 BELIEVE GROVER CLEVELAND will be renominated and re-elected Why? Not because I think he has made a good president. Certainly not because he'is a great man. Assuredly not because le is popular with the leadersof his party. But because there is noother dem- ocrat who can go before the country with as good a chance for re-election as he can, and it y surprise some. Isay that, in my judgment, a chief factor of his popularity to-day is the fact that he married while president, and that hus wife is an attracti nd popular woman, Women and babies control this country, and if by any happy luck a christening shall be led for in the white house prior to the expiration of Cleveland’s present term, i sweep this country as the w weep the sea He owes such popularity as he has to his wife. She has redeemed the white house from the reputation it was fast gelting, born of the reputation that still hangs about Cleveland’s bache- lor chambers in Albany. There is no necessity to be oflensive. There is no need even of being reminiscent. Well informed men thoroughly understand Mr. Cleveland’s past, and joyfully recog- nize the great change that has coie over his Iife. They know the secret of it, and they are calculating upon its effects just nly as ing men caleulate the effect upon a race of a rainy day, a heavy . cough, a cold, a sudden sprain in a favorite hor: LOGAN AND FREMONT. Take the Fremonts, There are some of my readers who can recall the kre- mont campaign. Let them answer. Which of the two was the popular favor- ite, John C. Fremont or Jessie Benton remont? Whose the wildest had the most Who infused an element of ro- mance, mstheticism, poetry, domes- ticity into that young man's campaign? Why thereis no question about it, It W essio Benton, the high-spirited, mettled daughter of old Tom Benton, who ran away with Fremout when he was o young lieatenant of engincers. Right at our hour isan illnstration fur- nished by Mrs. John A. Logan. I have heard Logan speak of it A _HUNDRED TIME: During that long, weary summer, when Vice President Arthur with Logan and Cameron were down at the Oriental hotel at Manhattan beach, other guests in the house were Roscoe Conkling, Tom Platt and Emory Storrs. Logan used to sitin the evenings far down the pis Jooking out upon the sea, looking up at the bright, silvery moon, looking at the clouds as they floated 1 .ilf’ along, look- ing over towird Manhattan beach as rock- ets pierced the sky and bursting, threw vast tricklings of parti-colored fire upon the ‘‘ohing” and ‘‘ahing’ multitude beneath, and pricking up his ears os the canuon boomed and THE GREAT EXPLOSION in Paine's maguificent firework demon- strations broke the silence and thundered in harmony with the beatings of the surf. There he loved to talk of his early strug: gles, of his political aspirations, of h army endeavors, and always pivoted hu scenes of triumph, of adventure, of en: deavor upon the helpfulness of his wife. Politicians will tell you that she wrote his speeches. That's nonsense. Men wha assume to know all about it will tell you that she kepta tight rein upon him. Thal 18 worse than nonsense. John Logan's wife was a helpmeet. She stood by him in the hours of his triumph, JOYED IN HI§ JOY, and hurrahed in the huz Without her he would have been an unperfected man, an incomplete man, and with her, 1 spite of his many lackings, in spite ol his many lapses, he was about as near a good, square, honest, faithful, successful Ian as polities ever knew. : 10 stage furnishes many illnstrations of this. S0 does missionary lifo. So does literary ife. And, will you kindly tell me, would anybody undér God's bright heavens ever e heard of Mr. Jume; Brown Potter, if it hadn’t been for M James Brown Potter? That settles it. ed with songs ai popular refrain? Howagp, ‘The Creighton Pioneer hasinaugurated the cash system, and abolished the pufl ing busmness. All money making schomes, publie, private or charitable, must hereafter pay their way in its col: umns, and even the miserable slab-sided chureh oyster must pay half rates. Com- ntary passes are also tabooed, the to put up or stay out, nsign Howard, the young explorer of brought pack from that desolate two tusks of mammoths, each tusk being sixteen feet long, - od from Maine that the Eng- lish sparrows are growing white, as u re- sult of their becoming acclimatized, W hute feathers have been ofien noticed this winter on the sparrows. -~ Miss Elizabeth Atkinson, who Feoently died in Burlington, N, J., aged ninevy- i ad not been outof her rovm years. i rybody clse may strike if the dress makers will - only buld on, is - the feminine edict jn régard to' the preseut siluation. g