Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 4, 1887, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, APRIL 4, 1887. THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF BUBSCRIPTION ¢ For Bix Months For Threo Month The Omaha #ddress, One Year. EW YORK OFPICE, ROOM %, TRINUNE BUII. g«uu OFpIcE, No. 014 AND 918 FARNAN STREFY. 15 FOUNTEENTH BTREET. ASHINGTON OFFICE, NO OORRESPONDENCE ! All communieations relating to news and edi- torinl mattor should be addressed 1o the Eol- TOU OF THE Bik. RUSINESS LETTERSE Al businoss Ietters and romittanoes ehould be addressed 10 THE BE4 PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMAMA. Drafts, checks and postofiico orders %0 be mado payable to the order of the company, THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPARY, ROPRIETOS, E. ROSEWATER, Epiton. THE DAILY BEE. 8worn Statement of Circalation, Btate of Nebraska, 1 o County of Douglas, j & * Geo, B. Tzschuck, seeretary of The Bes Publishing company, does solemnly swear that the actual circuiation of the Daily Bee for the week ending April 1st, 1557, was as follows Baturday, Mar.2. Sunday, Mar, 27, Thursday, Mar. 5 Friaay, April 1, Average.... cesine GuEo. Bl HUC) Subscribed and sworn tobe fore me this 2 dayof April A, D., 1887, N. P. Frin, ISEAL) Notary Publie. Geo, B, 'lzschuck, being first duly sworn, deposes and says thiat he {s secretary of The Bee Publishing company, that the actual av- eraze daily circulation of the Daily Bee for themonth of March, 1886, 11,657 copies; for April, 1886, 12,191 copies: forfor May, 188 430 coples; for June, 18%, 12,208 copies; for July, 185 12,314 copies: for Aucust, 189, 12464 copies;’ for September, 165, ' 13,030 copies: for October, 184, 12,080 copies: for November, 1886, 13,248 copies; for Decembe 1886, 15,237 copies; for January, 1587, 16, copies; for February, 1857, 11,198 copie GEO. B.1Z8CHUCK, Subgeribed and sworn to before me this 9th day of March, A. D. 1887, SE. P.Frir. Notary Publice. Tnis gentle sy something like our a flat failu up to date, has been ast legislature, It is. Tow increase in the population of Omaha during the last twelve months is 33 per cent. And the city is still boom- ing. CoMING events cast their shadows be- fore. The coming scrim city election i3 already bummers’ corner near the crossing. iftecen street Some suspicious democrats are begin- ing to think that Congressman McShane, like some other politicians, is disposed to let his friends severely alone, and con- ciliate the opposing faction. liis federal appointments squint that way. Our next postmaster pledged himself some weeks ago to vote for Blaine, if Grover Cleveland is renominated, and Blaino is his opponent. This will be very satisfactory to all the Blaine repub- licans in general, and republican em- ployes in the postoflice in particular. CritEs, the new land office register at Chadron, 1f we remember right, is the same person that lost the confidential correspondenco with J. E. Boyd in which he expressed the opinion that Mr. J. E. House was not fit to be surveyor- general, RosErT G. INGERSOLL has been admit- ted to practico at the bar in New York oity before the general term of the su- preme court. When he was asked to be sworn he refused, and affirmed in place thercof. Yet Mr. Ingersoll does swear. When it comes to inarticulate profanity or blatent blasphemy, he is at home. ‘Tur adverse criticisms of the Germans on the latest composition of Sir Arthur Sullivan, “The Golden Legend.' may not be entively just. 1t was a daring inva- sion of the English composer that was very fure to stir up some jealousy, But itis probable that the standard of the world is not the highest. The most gifted minds require rest. Sir Arthur has been too industrious. Mgs. CLEVELAND is & pretty woman, and has made a wonderfully successful mistress of the white house. It is only natural that newspaper men should hke her, and praise her, But all the gnats and fashion-flys must also have their buzz. They are now chronicling her - walks in the garden. There is no need of that; she is not Aristotle. Kl off the flunkeys, or we shall have a court-circular Bastened on us, like the effetest of mon- archies, THE current statement of the United Btates treasury shows that $16,677,050 of the interest bearing debt of the country were paid during March, and that $85,076,550 of the sight paper still remain uncancelled. Notwithstanding the flat- tering reduction of the debt, the surplus in the treasury increased 9,275,848 in March, and is now §84,093,114 above the greenback reserve of $100,000,000. For the last three months Mr. Fairchild has permitted his silver to increase on his hands, while, during the previous four months, he diminished the store with gratifying rapidity. —n THE crisis apprehended in the French cabinet, reported last week, appears to bave been averted, if, ndeed, there was any substantial ground for fearing such an event. Certainly a ministry that can command for its policy a hundred major- ity in the legislature cannot be regarded a8 in immediate danger. Unless outward #igns are misleading, the present polit- 10al condition of France is satisfactory to the people. But Americans may congrat- ulate themselyes that they are not in the present humor of the French. They are a strange people with a history thnt out- does all romance. B Mr. ViLas has denied in explicit terms that he is a candidate for the vice bresi- dency in 1888, saying that such a notion bad never entered his head. In view of ‘what this paper said about the report that the postmaster general was planning for the nomination, it is due to him to note his denial, It is very diflicult to be- lieve, however, that Mr. Vilas has never entertained a thought in the direction stated, nor would his doing so be any discredit to him. The presidential am- bition is entirely honorable, however vis- fonary and futile. Western democratio aspirants will find relief in the denial of Mr. Vilas, Our Linte Misrepresentatives, The last legislature, like the last bliz zard, “'is always the worst that we have ever had." Weare not overdrawing however, when we assert that the legisla- ture which has just passed out of existence was positively the very worst law-mak- ing body that has ever convened at the state eupital, It can truthfully boast that it has outdone all the legislatures that have gone before, in mediocrity, dis- honesty and disregard of obligations to its constituents, The legislature of 1835 was cer- tainly bad enough. It loaded the state down with a mountain of taxes im- posed by placing upon the legislative pay- roll a horde of needless employes, mak- ing aporopriations to pay fraudulent claims, and legalizing all sorts of jobs and steals. It placed a seal of approval upon perjury, grand larceny and swind- ling by whitewashing the roguesengaged in the notorious school-tand frauds. It capped the climax of disregard for moral obligations by creating the bogus railroad commission which had been re- jected by an overwhelming vote at the very election at which the members were chosen. Its closing hours witnessed a disgraceful orgy with a general distri- bution of stolen furniture and stationery among members and employes, followed by a junketing tour over Jay Gould’s Missouri Pacific railroad to New Orleans. Incredible as 1t would have scemed three months ago, the legislature of '85 will have a saintly memory when com- pared with the legislature of 1837, The eampaign ot 1886 was not a polit- ical hurdle race, The issues were clearly defined and the candidates for the legis- Iature in almost every district were bound by party pledges and personal promuses to the support of legislation in the interest of the producers, including the abolition of the worthless railroad commission. A large majority stood pledged upon their honor as men and representatives to the re-election of Charles H. Van Wyck to the United States senate. Those .who were not so pledged had bound themselves on the stump and in private to support Van Wyck, in ease the people should des- ignate him as their preference tor United States senator, The election returns gave Van Wyck over 51,000 votes out of less than 55,000 votes cast on the issue of senatorial pref- erence. A pronounced majority of the elected members were either outspoken for Van Wyck or pledged to exert their influence m his behalf and cast their votes for him, Had these men been true to their trust and given Van Wyck an unwavering support the people’s choice would have becn ratified by the legisla- ture, But treachery and rank treason within the camp of lus professed friends de- feated him and nullified the will of the people. Back of this infamous betrayal, and directly responsible for 1t were the managers of the railroads, who had con- centrated all their corrupting machinery upon the defeat of Van Wyck at any cost. While the cunning traitors of the Russell, Slater, Fuller, Robbins and W hit- more brand were chiefly instrumental in the defeat of Van Wyck, it was also due to wholesale buibery of members who had been tampered with by the railroad emissaries before thelegislature had con- vened. The demoralizing effect of the outcome of the senatorial contest made 1tself man- ifest through the remainder of the entire session, The oil rooms of the railroad lobby becume the pitfalls of men who hud bravely resisted the crimmal ap- proaches and proposals of the rail- road cappers for the first twenty days. The honest minority decreased from day to day, as the jobber’s lobby, which rein- forced the railroad strikers, made its in- roads into its ranks. Every effort at decent legislation became more difficult as the session progressed. Honey- combed with corruption, saturated with liquors, hoodwinked by dishonest leaders, the legislature became a vicious mob. Its closing days were signalized by the most reckless disregard of the public welfare or even of common decency. Having voted itself a twenty day exten- sion with a back and frout salary grab amounting to over $25,000, this model legislature frittered away nine-tenths of the session, and during the last forty- eight hours of its existence rushed through seven-cighths of all the bills which it passed. The really creditable measures which it enacted can be counted on the fingers of one hand. It was the play-ball and prop- perty of the railrogues, jobbers, bummers and tricksters. Elected to vitalize the anti-monopoly sentiment expressed in the platforms of all parties, it not only violated every obligation, but added insult to injury. A legislature pledged to elect Van Wyck came very near electing the most notor- ious of railroad attorneys—John M. Thurston, and, failing to elect him, it sought to perpetuate his memory by nam- ing a country after him. lnsolent de- fiance to popular sentiment could no fur- ther go. The Chicago Election. The clection of city officers in Chicago is ordinarily not a matter of great muo- ment west of the Missouri, The situation in the lake city just before the battle is, however, an exception. Carter Harrison, who has for years held sway as mayoi of Chicago, has surprised his democratic friends by refusing to stand for re-elec- tion. His effort to name a candidate for the demaocratic party, to whom he could transfer his strength, has, at the outset, proved a dismal failure. In conse- quence, the Chicago democrats are badly disorganized. Last fall the labor vote of Chicago was about 18,000. This spring the labor unions have put in the field Robert Nel- son, a workingman, as the *' didate for mayor, whom thi expect to elect. The republicans have nominated a man named Roche, who, as far as he is ‘‘made''—is self-made. But he is no bet- ter known to the masses in Chicago than his opponent, Nelson, The moneyed men of Chicago appear to be somewhat alarmed over the pros- pect of a workingman mayor. With them any man identified with labor- unions is clnssed as an anarchist, In fact, any man who views with alarm the tendency of corporate aggression, and the disposition to centralize po- litieal power in the hands of the billionaires, is regarded as no better than an aparchist or communist.. And this sentiment 1s held by nearly all of the werchants and manufacturers. No mat- ter by what dishonest device a man has amassed wealth, he is classed as the peer of the honest laborer who works ten hours a day at his trade. Henco the lines are more sharply drawn than they should be between the wage-worker and the wage-payer. Itisnot likely that Nelson will be elected mayor. But if he should be, it would not mean a commune of Chicago. 1t would mean that the time has come when the laborer has concluded that his whilom representatives, the professional men and demagogues have not been true to him. It would mean that, however clumsy his hand may be, he will, himsef, try the art of government for awhile, at least, in Chicago. Being unskilled at that art he will not accomplish all that he has ex- pected to do. But, in the main, he will be better contented to pay Lis taxes. A laboring man, as mayor, would, un- der his omfi of office, be bound to main- tain order and enforce existing laws. But as a moral cvent, a victory for the labor element would mean a great deal more than the mere division of munici- pal epoils, The Same the Country Over. A wail of woe comes up trom the arnd territory of Arizona. The few honest settlers there have been robbed blind by the present territorial legislature. The account of the lagislators’ work at Pres- cott this wiuter shows that boodle has become an important faction in our civ- ilization, and is found with 1ts corrupt- ing influence in all parts of this continent where money is a circulating medium. The following extract will show that job- bers and conspirators secured coutrol of the legislature, and defeated all measures calculated to do good: “Both legisla- tive branches, which were two-thirds democratic, were elected on the proposi- tion to reduce the railrond fares and freights, Governor Bulick never re- ferred to the subject in his message. A bull was introduced in both houses to re- duce the passenger fare from 10 to 5 cents, and freights from 15 to 5 cents per ton per mile, The bill was defeated by a bare majority. The governor used all his personal and official influence for the railroads. His friends in both houses voted against the bill. Lobbyists with a big corruption fund have been present during the entire session. All save the gubernatorial appointments were traded off to defeat the bill. Several members of the legislature were given territorinl office by the governor—something never done before. The railroads will charge 10 cents per mile fare and 15 cents per ton per mile freight,” The most bare- faced corruption stalked abroad, and the record made surpassed all former ses- sicne held in the territory, and all of them have been mnotoriously bad. Ne- braska was not alone unfortunate this winter. Reform in New York. The task of moral cleansing, to which Mayor Hewitt, of New York, has ad- dressed himsclf with an evident earnest- ness which ought to have good results, merits hearty commendation and encour- agement, The metropolis sadly needs purging. [t may not be the wickedest city in the world, but there is hardly any form of vice that does not flourish there. The political government of the city in the past has countenanced, and in a measure sustained, this state of affairs. The worst elements of that great city are the pillars upon which the democratic su- perstructure rests—the always reliable source of those great majorities which at times are sufficient to defeat the honest sentiment of the state and nation. Quite. naturally Mayor Hewitt finds himself first confronted by the almost in- superable obstacle of an unfriendly police force largely drawn from the rabble and necessarily more or less in sympathy with it, while sharing also the gains of vice. He seems determined, however, to ex- haust every power the law gives him for carrying to a successful issue the hercu- lean task, and if his efforts shall not re- sult in all that could be wished, they will undoubtedly accomplish great good. The Federal Bench. 1t is complained that nearly the whole federal judiciary of the United States is republican. The New York Evening Post reckons seventy life-judges who are opposed in politics to the present Admin- istration. The democrats, however, have just had two odd Treats of fat judicial vlaces to parcel among themselves. Two district judges, in adjoining jurisdictions, appointed long before the war, both of the name of Treat, have just dofted the ermine, one at 8t. Louis, Mo., and the other at Springtield, Ill., one by death and the other by resignation. Inthe palmy days of stock-jobbery, death and Jay Gould were the only causes of vacancies on the United States bench, A great judge weighed out justice with the hope of some day joining the counsel of some robber-corporation, where his fine-spun distinctions and his small gilded technicalities would be worth fabulous sums to his employers whenever they might set out to cheat the people. We have changed that somewhat, yet not any too much, after all. Let us insti- tute a different era. Let the two new men who may now ascend the bench steadfastly refuse to use that exalted place as a first step toward the throne of somie overgrown corporation, Giadstone's Predicament, In the fall of 1830 Mr. Gladstone went into power as premier of Englund. Under the spur of English hatred of Ireland he prepared an arms act and a crimes act, The land league made things so hot for Mr. Forster, the Gladstonian chief secre- tary for Ireland, that his rule was pro- nounced a failure, and he was recalled. Parnell and the other land leaguers were let our of jail, and an era of peace was seemingly at hand. This gratifying state of aftairs was rudely changed by the assassinations of Phenix park, in May, 1882. Then began the territic parliamentary battle wherein the gag-rule was put on the free house of commons under the namo of the closure. Some of the sittings whereby this ‘‘previ- ous question” was made n custom of the commons were without parallel as tests of physical endurance. But Gladstone carried the day and make the gag a part of the rules. The point of all this lies in the applica- tion of it. To-day this gag is being put on the very man who sat up so many nights to make it. It is an odd case of a bad penny's re- turn—of chickens coming home to roost. It teaches that it would have been better for Mr. Gladstana ta heva more bravely taken poor Ireland’s part in the storm of populur fury which followed James Carey's fiendish plot, its execution, and fis own disclosureof that plot. Justice to Ircland could not harm Eng- land. Injustice to Ireland may at least harm England.in the opinion of all free- men. And England has men of spirit. They do not want such an outcome. Oar Sfator Republic. All intetligent Apericans must feel a degree of satisfaction in tho material prosperity of Mexido. There are obvious reasons why we should not only welcome the progress of that country, butin every vracticable way aid and encourage it. Mexico has a population numbering one- fifth of our own. She has great natural resources. The men who are at the head of national afTairs there are intelligent, enterprising and progressive. It is clearly our interest to cultivate intimato commercial relations with a country now offering a large market, and having in abundance the conditions of further great material progress. We haye not hitherto given adequata recognition to this policy. Spasmod ic efforts have been made to effect closer business relatiohs, but their scope has not been national. Qur tariff has been the chief obstruction. Meanwhile other nations, mo articularly England and Germany, have enjoyed much the larger part of the valuabie Mexican trade. The fault has been wholly our own, Mexico has desired and still desires to do busi ness with us. Evidence of this is found in the changes which have been ef- fected in the customs tarift of that coun- try, to go into effect on the 1st of next July. The changes make liberal conce: sions in favor of several important Amer- ican interests which ought to greatly to their advantage. More will undoubtedly follow if the Umted States shall show a popular disposition to respond liberally to the more generous, and certainly wiser, policy of Mexico. The annual message of President submitted to the Mexican congress on last Friday, showed the feeling of the government to be of the most friendly nature. Not only have the eflorts of mischief makers to seriously disturb the cordial relations of the two countries en- tirely failed, but so far as appears they have produced not the least ill-feeling on the part of jthe Mexican government. On the contrary that government, as rep- resented by its executive, seems most de- sirous to maintain and perpetuate the fecling of friendship between the two countries, Our duty as a great people, as well as our interest as a commercial nation, demand that we shall recognize and respect this sentiment of our neigh- bors, and in all proper ways make the best use of it for the mutual advantage of both countries. A LOCAL paper wants to establish a grain exchange in Omaha instanter. Be- fore such a scheme can be made feasible Omaha must become a grain market, and she never will be a grain market until she has a number of large mills and clevators to com- pete in the purchase of grain. A bucket-shop grain exchange with the grain lying in Chicago or New York can be opened at any time, but gambling in grain options does not mean a grain market. A grain exchange before we have grain buyers and grain consumers, would be putting the cart before the horse. It now seems that eight wards with sixteen councilmen will satisfy Omaha's wants for the next two years. The only advantage of increasing the number of wards to ten would be the known fact that jobbing is more effectively balked by large representative bodies. But then we have 133 members in the last legislature, IN view of the inter-state commerco blockade Omaha may be corpelled to drop the free advertising of the arrivals and departures of railroad trains, but the arrivals of new railroads in Omaha will be published in big type, without charge. OMAHA wants cable roads and better street car facilities, but she will not be content to have them on paper. 1f the people are to vote franchises they must haye some guarantee that the projected roads will be built within a reasonable time. Tue-prospect of anowher Missouri river bridge is good, but meantime Omaha would feel gratified if the Union Pacific would push its wagon bridge an- nex and place it in condition for public use. STATE AND TERRITORY. Neligh is negotiating for a creamery. Custer county has 170 school districts. North Platte will vote on water works to-morrow, A bank with $25,000 capital has been started in Geneva. The construction of waterworks begins in Neligh to-day. Plattsmouth is piped to the nozzle for Thursday's squirs. Norfolk celebrated the feathering of two wings for ber asylum. The West Point Republican confesses that the boom in Omaha is in its first stages. 3 A lightening corn raiser is harrowing the foot-hills of Beatrice. The old corn razor is still on duty. Seventeen car loadsof immigrants were dumped in Dawes county last weck and the earth is yawning for more, The organization of the Nebraska Cen- tral nmflzin Omaha is already attracting attention up the Elkborn valley. Fred Massman, of Nebraska City, who inflated his fortune by forgery, received a three years' job in the penitentiary, John F, Baker, a demented resident of Platte county, cooled his throbbing tem- ples with « bullet, lust Friday, sudended his cureer. Hastings has incorporated a belt hne of railrond. Her cufnoraw bay window is entirely too large for ordinary means of locomotion, Now 18 the time to plant tho roots of prosperity, in liberal doses, in the home papor. The harvest can be gurnered daily, if inserted wtf. The circulation of the Lincoln Demo- crat reacned such proportions last Sat- urday that the fire department was called out to cool off the machinery. Whisper it notin Lincoln: Grand Island enthusiasts are nursing a boom for “‘the future capital of the state.” Her encmies could not wish her a worse fate. Creighton has a coal vein twenty inches thick, lined with *‘good indica- tions.”” A majority of the prospect holes now in the state are paved with good in- tentions. An exploring expedition from Omaha made a haul of goods worth $101 in Kearney the other night. The metropolis is bound to maintain her commercial supremacy. The Republican City Topic and Harlan County Democrat have formed an alliance resulting in the birth of tho Republican City Independent, with N. J. Ludias editor. The Schuyler Quill in a new dress is a stem winder, full jeweled, There is no danger of the Quill corroding or get- ting dull while in the hands of Joln C. Sprecher, Hoffman and Bell, the men who wrecked the Missouri Pacitic train at Dunbar, a few months ago, will be tried for murder in Nebraska City next Wednesday. The country editors attempt to re- linguish their annuals witn a show of humor, but the darling pasteboards bear external evidence of saline lnmentations and sundry ties. Beatrice burglars are evidently anxious Lo test informally the waxed end of Jack Marion’s choker. A little lead dpm]mrlv planted would secure the end sought with less ceremony. Forty men and teams turned out at a Elnwin% “bee’ at the Stewart farm near Sutton last week. Nine kegs of beer, & big lunch and ninety acres of good soil were plowed up and irrigated. Fairbury has raised a purse of §1,500to pay the expenses of a committee sent out to get points on the management of a boom. There scems to be soma fear of the consequences of turning the animal loose ou an inex perienced community. Dispatches trom \Washington —an- nounce that the new land oflices in N braska will not be y for business be- fore the first of May, owing to the delay in perfecting the necessary books and plats. B A Beatrice mossback has discovered several flaws in the procecding leading to the voting of bonds in aid of the ex- tension of the Rock Island road, and has asked the courts for an injunction against the delivery of the bonds to the company. Several lawyers are wound up on the point of issu Plum Creck has grown weary of the disappointments heaped upon her by the B. & M. and boldly declares that the com- pany must “‘pop tho question or quil flicting.”” The next B. & M. man who tritles with the patient virtue of the town will be shorn of his scalp and kicked into the next county. The new hotel nearing completion in Grand Island will be the finest building in the town. It is 66x13?, four stories high with basement. The material is stone and brick. There will be M) rooms in the building, of which eighty-one will be furnished with the latest conveniences for comfort and safety. The cost of the structure complete will reach $100,000. Tho?{ were of medium age and size and fresh from the country. With smiles of coming joy perched on their dust cov- ered faces, they wabbled, arm in arm, into a justice shop in Beatrice, and draw- ing themselves up before the bewilder- ing bar tender, who sniffed a fee in the distance, the bridegroom exclaimed: “Say, old man, knock us out a pair of licenses.”” The document was promptly knocked out and the pair ‘‘hitched” then and there. Towa ltems. Decorah saloons have been enjoined. Another gus well has been tapped at Herndon. Coo college trustees are skirmishing for a president, Dubuque is planning to s\mml $200,000 1 improving the roads leading to town. A disease identical with the epizootic of 1872 prevails among horses at Mason City. The State Undertakers’ association has gealed the lid on a three days’ session at Dubugque. The Dubuque registration, just closed, shows 4,647 names, twenty-six more than registeted last fall. Rev. Theodore Wezman, pastor of the German Catholie church at Roselle, Car- roll county, died last Friday night. The Mount Pleasant school board has dropped all examinations for grades and instructed teachers and principals to promote pupils and classes on their gen- eral work and without any test, In a fow days» full bench of the United States court will meet at Dubuque and hear and determine cases arising under the prohibitory laws of Iowa, especially applied to compensation for brewery property. A saloonkeeper in Muscatine filled a keg with water, the minions of the law came along, seized the keg, and arrested the proprietor. The trial proceeded until an expert was called upon to test the Iiquid, and he pronounced it water. August lh‘gy. of Illinois, has been ap- pointed by Governor Larrabee commiss- 1oner to represent Iowa in France and other European countries in the interest of American importers of horses and other fine stock. The silver medals of the State Agricul- tural soclc!ly are nearly ready for distri- bution_and when completed will cost about $7 each. They were awarded at the last state fair and will be neat and valuable souvenirs, The society will distribute about fifty of them., Dakota. " ,'_I‘owcr City claims a populations of Local option is spreading in the north- ern counties. Deadwood is anxiously watching forin- dications of the coming of the Elkhorn Valley raiiroad. A fine sample of marble has been dis- covered ten miles from Rapid City. 1tis many-colored and susccpliBln of a very high polish. E. B, Chapman, of Rapid City, has gone east with $125,000 of gilt edge to sell in the east. The proceeds will be used 1 building narrow gauge railroads. Kingsbury county has an arca_of 552,- 000 acres, contains ninety good school houses und has a population of 10,000, two-thirds of whom are engaged in agri- cultural pursuits, T A Timely Suggestion, OMAHA, Neb., April 2.—To the Editor of the BEe: If you will be kind enough to allow me the privilege of a few lines in your valuable paper I would like to to express my views upon a subject in which every humane person in the city should be deeply interested. The follow- ing incident will fully explain my meun- ing: Yesterday morning a poor servant girl in the employ of ono of my neigh- bors, suddenly lost her reason from re- ligious excitement. Although she was very quiet and showed no signs of vio- lence, it was deemed advisable to remove her, as the l:ul{ of the house is just recovering from a severe spell of sickness, and consequently was un- able to look after her. She was accord- ingly removed to the county jail for safe- keeping. Now, after considering the cause of her misfortune, and the fact that she at times realizes her friendless and deplorable condition, would it be strange if her case becomes hopelesst I think not. Now, Mr. Editor, this is an occur- rence that takes place every day in our city. While citizens on all sides are im- bued with the spirit of improvement, lot me suoggest, in the name of humanity, that proper measures be taken to better the condition of these poor unfortunates. We should have a home for just such cases as this, where they could receive proper care while waiting medical exam- ination, and am contident thut o call made upon the public to subseribe to n fupd for the erection of such a home, would meet with hearty and substantial approval from at least & majority of well- | thinking people of Omaha. © Winnias A, DeWirrr, NORE SICNS OF PROSPERITY | Tho Steady Growth of Nebraska as Shown Throuvhout the State. HOW BELVIDERE IS BLESSED, Magic Towns Springing Up in the ke- publican Valley With the March of Civilization—Other Prose peroas Places. Nelvidere's Bloasings. Neb, April 1 spondence of the Bek. |- Belvides uated on the Big Sandy, in Thayer county, which is one of the southern counties of the stato. We have here three of the most essential factors requisite for & home, viz:a mild healthy climute, an abundance of pure water, and a soil that is not surpassed by any in the state. There has been to rain during the past winter and but little snow, therefore we have not been compelled to wade around in snow or mud. Wells are made here by boring from twenty-four feet on the bottom of seventy feet on the high ground surrounding the town and cost from $10 to §20. In proof of the productiveness of the soil, I cite you to the fact that Bel- videre is the sccond best shipping point on the St. Joe & Grand Island that confessedly runs through the best farming lands in the west. There are two elevators on this road and they handle large quantitics of grain. There is to be one or more elevators erected on the B. & M. this season. Inthis connec- tion a grist mill would be o paying in- vestmer The eattle and hog business is carried on by three buyers, inaking a good competitive market. ‘Thereare two ass lumber yards doing a large . The coal businessis conduc > enterprising firms and their fa are wreathed in smiles when Prof. Foster tells of one of those Dakota blizzards on its way to the sunny south. The weary bilgrim is cared for by two first-class hotels and three restaurants, Two deal- ers in farm machinery fully supply the wants of the farmer in thisdirection, and as they carry large stocks there danger of dealors in other towns ge any of their customers. here are two dealers 1 hardware, stoves, eto. The hungry are supplied by seven dealers 1n 1ies and two meat markets, where surloin steak may be procured from any ‘:orliou desired. ~ Dry goods and clothing, ats and caps are supplied by four firms where the question, where- withthal shall we be clothed, is fully answel The understanding is eared for by firms, who will plense the most fastidious if style and price can do so. We also have two ot the best milli- nery stores 1n the country. Cradles and coflins, bedsteads and bureaus, chairs and tubles, and everything in the house furnishing line are secured when wanted in the ono furniture store. As this is a very healthy courtry we support but one drug store and there is serious talk of getting up a dramatic entertminment for the benefit of the two doctors we have, who occasionally amuse themselves by pulling a tooth or some similar innocent recreation, The one bank we have i kept busy caring for the deposits of our prosperous merchants Our ot indus- tries are represented by one wagon and carriage shop, two b mith shops, one harness shop, one shoe shop, one barber shop, one bakery, one feed mill, two liv- ery stables, one artificial stone chimney works, one wi ng machine factory. As the people ave law abiding, and there being no saloon in the town, the two lawyers wo have would starve it ~they wero compelled to lve by the {rnils of their legal practice, but their talents are better directed—one in caring for the immense amount of mail passing through the postoffice and the other as assistant editor ob the Belvi- dere Tribune, the one paper published here, and in which all the above live men advertise. There is the usual number of loan, fand and insurance agents. We have a fine graded school occupying two substantial buildings, conducted by a corps of competent teachers. Three churches and as many preachers care for the morals of the people, The govern- ment consists of a mayor and three alder- men, but owing to the peaceablo condi- tion of societv the police force consists of one marshal, who sighs for a riot or something that he may quell in order to keep his club from rusting. Lots and farm lands are very cheap, considering the fact that we have two rgglroads-here now, with direct connection ¥ith Omaha, Lincoln, St. Joe, Atchison, Kansas City, Hastings and Denver, with a great deal of talk of anothel New Towns Spring Up. FrANKLIN, Neb., April 1.—[Correspon- dence of the BEe:]—While cold and snow and wintry storms have prevailed to the north and east of us, this beautiful Rep- ublican valley has since last November enjoyed one long autumn, now merging into spring. We have had only two storms auring the entire winter. The grassis growing green, the birds are singing, the farmers are plowing and sowing grain. “‘Out of the old house mto the new"” is the watchword in the valley, as the settlers move from the crumbling 800 houses into the new frame cottage. Towns are springing up us if by magic. In the immediate vicinity of your correspondent, where six months ago the prairie grass waved in the wind, the new towns of Wil cox, Campbell, Upland, and ilildreth are melodious with the hum of hammer and saw. Churches, school houses and homes rise as if it were in a night, and little vilages find *‘a local hab- itation and a name” before the thirty- day tourist ean return from his trip (o the mountains. In this day of beginnings it is curious to note the intluences that are to charac- terize the future town. An interesting example of this is the town of Franklin, now six years old. The handful of first settlers in the days of drov d grass- hoppers founded an academy. 1t became a nucleus, and around iv have gathered a class of poople loyal to educati ligion and to temperance. A saloon h; never ventured to rear its hend in Frank- lin, but_instead seven churches prove the tendencies of its inhabitants, and the academy in those six short years has put up three substantial buildings, and, like boy always outgrowing his jackets, is already calling for anothet The future of the Republ valley is bright with promise. A class of settlers has poured in that will make it one of the garden spots of the west. C ] from the cast is pouring into Cloud, Franklin, Bloomi McCook and othor towns a stream. Railroads and roads are intersecting 1 every direction; the buffulo - treating before the tread of the whilom silent streams ure turn wheels of busy mills; the coyot his last ery as he retreats to 1m thickets, where the grapevine hiugs in sangled beauty; green groves are bud- ding along the lines of thrifty elaims, and industry is transforming the face of the valley. Oaklana's Solid Progresa. OAKLAND, Neb., April 1.—[Corre- spondence of the Brk.]—While many other towns in this state are having a mushrouom growih, Dakland has been ¢n- joying a steady and substantial growth, and it hus not been in ndvance of the sur- i 1o the ricks - —————— rounding country, which is the basis of all towns' real progress and prosperity, What Oakland has is based on a solid and sure foundation. There is no better farm. ing country in the state, and the ecountry adjacent to Oakland is not owned by speculators, but by industrious and pro- gressive farmers, The town and all the country contiguous, is set- tled principally by Swedes, who are an industrions cluss “of people, so taught in their nutive country, and they are fast improving their farms. Oakland is_just waiting for another railroad, an east and west line, Several surveys have been made and it is thought by many the road Will be constructed in the near future. I'hen the town will make greater strides towards industry and sho will ride on tho of prosperity for all time to he town has an almost unlimited water power, which can bo utilized to great advantage, Capitalists and manue facturers will rcceive n warm wel. come to Ouklund, and they onl have to visit the town to be co vinced of her natursl advantages and the bright fature that is in store tor her In the not very distant future the removal of t anty seat to this placo will be made Oakland is more con. trally locat the population of tho county. The matter has already re- ceived considerable discussion. I'ie Farmers' union of this place, which aimns 1o test the possibility of the farm domng their own business” through ther own organization, without the interven- tion of the middle man, 1s proving a sue- cess both to the farmers and the _town. The business men are heartily endorsing the same, as they are well aware the suc- cess of the farmers means an increase of business for Oakland. The di contizuance of the liquor traftic is the all absorbing touic of conversation just no treng arguments are being ainst the continuance of the game, 10 50 many dcrious accidents in y whisky. The sent: is greatly in favor of tem- and there is but little question that on next ‘Tuesday the temberance ticket will be clected ™ There has never been such a determined eflort made as is being made by the temperance element. The Independent of this place, which is edited by Rev. Henry, is gotting in somo effective work on temperance, and is re- ceiving a hearty welcome all over tho county. Prohibition 1s the predominant element in Burt county, and the paper that advocates the same is bound to succeed. owin the past caused b Fertile Wheeler County. CuoanvinsvinLe, N April 1.—|Corre- spondence of the Bir. [—If there is a sec- tion in this state which should bs looked over by land seekers itis Wheeler county, and more particularly B r valley, which 18 one of the most beautiful and fertile valloys in this state. Now is the time to locate here, just before the advent of the railroads, as four lines of railroad are pointing this way. We have a good class of citizens here and welcome others of the same order. This is the county above all others for cattlemen. Hogs and sheep do well here. There is grass and corn, oats, buckwheat and roots of all kinds cannot be surpassed. Cumminsyille is beauti- fully located and is bound to be the me- tropolis of Wheeler county. The pro- prietors know what they aro about, and tney stand readyand will strike at the proper time and not before. Parties loo ing for locations for any kind of legi business wil not miss it by locating ‘Te building boom has commenced and we welcome all, G. D. e A Mother's Inhumanity, OMmAnA, Neb., April 2.—To the Editor of the Bee: As I was strolling along Saunders street last evening at 7 o’clock to make a call on one of my Ohio friends { stumbled across a httle fellow appar- cntly about three years of age weeping bitteriy to get home. He neither knew his name nor his address, and as a stran- gor I could be of little assistance. No one knew him in that neighborhood, and when I was about to bring him to the po- lice station a colored girl near Irene street told me she remembered sceing the littlo fellow in company with a small and older brother coming down that way the curlier part of the evening. He had fallen from the sidewalk into the mud and his appearance betrayed an evening of tears and suffering. After dihgent search I succeeded in tracing the little fellow to to his home on [rene street, No. 1218, and as I entered with him a woman (his mother she said) opened the door, and to my story about the boy she replied with™ a chilly disappointment as if to say, t's a matter of su- preme indifference to me.”’ She ever thanked me for doing (what I con- sidered a kind act worthy of recognition) and I was spontancously impressed with the woman's cold heartedness. As I was about to leave terrible screams and shricks of *‘oh’’ emanated from the cot- tage and the little boys and girls who had helped me in ferreting out his home beg- ged mo to go in and sce *‘what's the mat- ter " There 1 beheld a terrible sight, one of those pictures that can never be effa- ced from memory—a strong burley wo- man—a mother! smndinig over the body of that infunt thrust on the Hoor and giv- ing him a merciless flogging with a club, deaf to his entreaties, deaf to that moth- erly instinct which stamps her with ever- lasting infamy. At my home in the city of Toledo, such mothers do not go unpunished and tho silent moanings of such helploss ones do not go unheard by our well organized Humane sociely. T invoke the iud of your powerful and humane pen, your sympathy for these helpless ones _to direct the attention of the proper officials to this sad case. HervaN Friensera, Traveler Millard House, Toludo, O. Boils, pimples, hi ringworms, tete ter, and all other manifestations of im- pure blood arecured by Hood's Sarsae parilla. e Mrs, Helen Gougar has sent an open letter to the women of Kan: who areto voto in the municipal elections, sayi “You will be required (o give your namy Do not give your husband’s name or your |.;-t n-mu-,l l';'ut the one by which you were MOST PERFECT MADB ittty i .flhmgm' Ly Lonphates. Dy Price's 0 Al ia, L4 1 or P B ey Lozaoe, ot