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

THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERME OF SUBSORIPTION ¢ Dafly (Morniag Edition) lucluding Bunda; Brr, One Yoar. ha The Omaha Sunday Hix, mailed to any address, One Your.... “ o NO. 014 AND 918 FARNAM STREPY. . ROOM K, TRIBUNE BUTLDIN 0. 615 FOUTEEN Tl BTRE CORRESPONDENCE: All sommuniontions relating to news and ed! torial matter should be addressed 1o the Kol TOK OF Brs PUBLISHING COMPANY, eliocka and postofice orders 0 be made payable to the orderof the compuny, THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPARY, PROPRIETORS. E. ROSEWATER, Eprror. THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Oleculation. Btate of Nebrask * a8 County of Dounclas. Geo. B. 'Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing comrnnv. does solemnly swear that the actual circuiation of the Daily Bee for the week ending July 1, 1837, was as follows: Baturday.June 25, Sunday, June 26. Monday, June 27 Tuesday, dune 28 ) Wednesday, Juna %0’ Thursday, June 30 . Friday, July 1... AVErage....oovuinens cor o X Gro, 1. TZ8CHUCK. Sworn to and subseribed in iy presence this 2d day of July, A. D, 1887, N, P. FrIL, [SEAL.] Notary Publie. Btate of Nebraska, | . Douglas County. | Geo, B. Tzschuck, belng first duly sworn, deposes and says that he is secretary of The Bee Publishing company, that tlie actual average daily circulation of the Daily Bee for the month of July, 155, 12,314 copies; for August, 188, 12,454 coples: for Septom- ber, 18%, 13,030 coples: for October, 184, 12,89 coples: for November, 185, ' 18,348 coples; for December, 1856, 13,237 copies; for January 1857, 16,266 copi les; for Februarv, 1857, 14,198 coples; for March. 1557, 14,400 coples; for April, 1587, 14,316 copies: for May, 1857, 14,227 coples; for June 1857, 14,147 coples. Gro. B. TZscNUCK. Subscribed and saworn to before me this 1st day of July A, D., 1857, [SEAL.| N. P. FeiL, Notary Public. In is comforting to know that the bat- tlo of Gettysburg was fought before the seige at St. Loui; I¥ President Clevoland does not come ‘west soon he may not be able to bring his high office with hm. — Mg, MELVILLE STONE, editor of the Chicago News, has been made a LL. D. The next we hear of Mr, Stone he will be wearing a white choker. Is 1t not about time that Robert Garrett let some other fcllow “‘deal” in that Bal- timore & Ohio scheme? A change of “dealers” might produce a change in luck. I has been so long since Chicago has been honored by the presence of a great and honest man that the whole aity turned out the other day to sec Roscoe Conkling. It was in perfect nccord with the eternal fitness of things that the Union Pacific o1l room chief should appear in the courts as the defender of the official printing swindle. WiLL not Mr. Edison please attach his new apparatus for telegraphing from ship to ship to the messenger boy, so that his whereabouts may be discovered when he is wanted. Ex.GoverNor Burrock, of Georgia, thinks the republicans should nominate Rutherford B. Hayes for president, If nominated he believes he can be elected. Bullock did not divulge where he bought his apple jack. Ir there was no itention to try the starvation policy on the police force why did the council amend the ordinance pro- posed by Comptroller Goodrich so as to provent a transfer from the spe estate fund to the pollce furd? THE projectors of Omaha motor and cable roads should lose no time in get- ting land owners ulong their lines to erect cheap dwellings for wage-workers. That is the only way their cable and steam motors can be made to pay from tho start. —— MR. BraiNg, in future when he goes to Edinburgh, should take the precaution to have his hat chckoed so that the keopers at the gates may know the distinguished American, and he can gain adwmission to the city without having to await for some one to identify him, MRg. Oscar J. HARVEY, the defaulting treasury clerk at Washington, formerly chief of the horse claims division, was plunning a neat schemo to swindle the government out of about $50,000 on fraudlent vouchers, His prompt arrest makoes it a “horse” on him, Ir Floridu Jones was realy ambitious to take the throne as king of Bulgaria he liyes again to see bimself the vietim of disuppointment. Prince Ferdinand has taken possession of the throne, and it is 1o be hoved he will not suffer the fate of his immediate predecessor. —— Tie noxt distinguishisd American citi- ren to depart for the siiores of England is the champion thagwump, Colone! Jonn L. Sullivan. 1f there is aay convenient way by which this invividus! can be dropped over board, by all weans let it be done with neatn Omana needs one thousand cottages and cheap dwellings for workingmen this year. If our real estate exchange can induce any capitalist or syndicate to build these cottugzes on the liae of the wvarious motor nd cable roads they will § all be taken as fast s they arc ready for occupancy. e ____ ] Epitor Donseeiven, of the New York Star, appeals to the hard working and poorly paid shop gir's to contribute to the Grant fund 10 conts each. There shouid be a hazdsome monument erected to the memory of the great captain, But why does mot Mr. Dorsheimer solicit something from the twvo huudred or more persous in that city whoso wenlth ranges from one to twenty millions osch. Let tho billionaires and wrilionmires who grow rielk while Grant was saving the union de their dnty and the dsserving shars wll wwer o'er the grave whore our hero lias buried. Give Us Rapid Transit. There is & growing demand in this country for 4 more rapid transit between the east and west. Itis true there has been a gradual reduction in time since the time the roads crossing the continent were completed, Every year has brought forth & reduction of time, but it has not been reduced to anything what it should be, or should have beon years ago. Strange as it may appear, there can be no good canse assigned why it is so. The greatest reduction in speed between the oceans is confined to but a small por- tion of the distance wviz., between New New York and Chicago. The mileage from New York to Chi- cago over the Pennsylvania road, which is the shortest, is about twice the distance it is from Chicago to OUmahu; yet the time in transit is about the same. When taking iato consideration that the Punn- sylvania road traverses an unusually rough, and in some places A very mountainons country, where reverss curves are numerous and grades as steep as scventy feet, to the mile the speed maintained is in a measure marvelous. From Pittsburg to New York the mileago is about the same a8 from here to Chicago over the North- western road, and over one-half of the journey is made through the heart of the Allegehany mountains. Upon the other hand, the roads west of Chicago do not encounter the obstacles that some of the eastern roads do, There are nogrades to speak of between Chicago and the M; souri river, and the tracks are as straight as the engineers could make them. There is hardly a road west of Chieago that is not advertised as ‘‘steel led, stone ballasted, and the best equipped railway in the world," to say nothing of other attractions in the shape of supurb dining cars, ete, The superiorty of the roads are not questioned; and when pos- sessing all that is necessary to constitute a thoroughly equipped railway, there is little to be said in their favor, when the managers allow the eastern roads to discount them in speed. The American people are nothing if not en- torprising, and the hundreds of thou- sands who daily ride upon railway trains seldow if ever find a train which fur- mshas the necessary and required rapid transit. The rates of fare are uniform through- out the United States and the volume of trafiic is almost, 1f not as great, between Omaha and Chicago as it is between Chi- cago ana New York. There is no differ- ence in the matter of competition. If the “Limited Express” is profitable on the eastern roads, why would it not be on the great trunk lines of the west. If a passenger train can boe carried from Pittsburg to New York, through the mountains, a distance of about five nundred miles in less than cleven hours, can there be any valid reason given why the time in transit between Chicago and Omaha cannot be reduced from eighteen to at least ten hours? Clevel, lidate. Itis reported from Washington that the president is beginning to talk quite freely concerning the campaign next year. He bas evidently reached a degree of confidence in his renomination which has entirely dissipated his previous coy- noss when the subject was broached even most intimate friends. s no longer a doubt about his determination to stand for a renomi- nation. Within the past few days he has very frankly stated that the suggestions of his friends, and corre- spondence from all parts of the country had pursuaded him to veto his first deter- mination not to be a candidate tor re- nomination. In the early partof last winter thero was an attempt made at Washington upon the part of a number of disappointed democrats to create an antagonism against his renomination. Whatever there was of the organization it has long since disbanded, and the leaders of it are the most enthusiastio supporters of tho president. There is ev reason for belief at the hat Governor Hill will te New York state poiitics 50 as to give Mr. Cleveland a solid dole- gation from that state in the convention. Mr. Cleveland, it appears, is in the pos- ion ot his usual amount of self-con- ceit, Heis tirm in the belief he can be the successful candidate against either Blaine or Sherman; but the man he most fears, and who he believes will grow into o formidable candidate, is General Plul Sheridan. It is a question of the gravest kind whether Mr. Cleveland can carry the state of NewYork against whomsoever the republicans may nominate, while those who are the loudest in their denunciations of him now will, when the time comes, be whipped into line. There is still an- other clomeut who can not be counted on as giving him the support which will do him the most good. Mayor Hewitt, who controls the machinery ot New York city politics, cannot be counted on as giving Mr. Cleveland the support which will, in all probabulity, by necessary to his election. Mayor Hewitt is not in harmony with M. Clevetand, either personally or polit ieally. The battle-ground in New York state will be contiued to New York City alone. Itis not improbable that the re- sult there will decide the election. Tudi- ana willnot bo so important a state in the future as it hasin the past. Who- ever is elected must earry the state of New York. If the election were to take place to-morrow or a month from to- worrow, Mr. Cleveland would find him- self o badly defeated cundidate. From the controversy he has gotten into with the membors of the Grand Army of the Republie, he eannot count on any sup- vort from that organization, which in itself is sufficiently formidable in New York to insure his defeat. Talking Compromise. Another democratic revenue reformer, Congressman Brecklaridge, of Kentucky, has joined the as yet smull circle of those who are disposed to compromise in order to secure a reduction of federal taxation and revepue, The Kentucky represen- tative hae reached the conclusion some time ago announced by Mr. Springer, acquiesced in by a few others, and quali- fiedly accepted by Mr. Carlisle as one which it might brcome necessary for all to accede to, *:atto nccomplish the re- duction of taxation: necessary to bring the revenue down to the requirements of the government a compromise will have to be twade between the reformers and the turift Vorters iatter, so far a8 this proposition 18 con- cerped, are simply the Randall coutingeut. The democratle reve: nye veforwer lu the next house of repre- 1hese | 1 sentatives will be called upon to make concessions only to the less than thirty democrats who will marshal under the standard of Samuel J. Randall, It is this minority which will dictate the terms, and which must be placated in order that anything can be done for re- ducing the revenue, uniess it should hap- pen that the refusal of this contingent to be reasonable would lead a suflicient number of republicans to vote with the reform element to enable them to carry through a fair compromise measure. This 18 not an entirely improbable oceur- rence, except from the point of view that the democrats will be indisposed to take a course from which the republicans might obtain any glory, while the latter, outside of tho few committed to tariff revision, will be unwilling to do anything that will give the democrats an advantage. Very great caution in this respect is certainly to be exercised by both parties in the first session of the next congress. But the overwhelming importance of this question of revenue reduction may induce republicans whoso constituencies are not wholly given over to protection to support a measure framed framed by codcessions from both sides, and there are undoubtedly enough of such to easily overcome the Randall faction should it become obstinate and threaten a further obstruction likely to defeat the necessary legislation. “L'he country has received no intima- tion from Mr. Randall or any one of his followers us to what course he will prob- ably pursue, butno one expects he will be found to have changed hisdisposition. The truth is that tbe conditions surrounding him politically do not permt him to change. He must be what heis or be nothing. Randall in any other role than that which he has played and is expected to play would be inconsequential, He retains the control of his congressional district by virtue of the fact that he can be depended on to continue the work he has been doing, while his position has also given him a strong vantage ground with the democrats, and is likely to still do so notwithstanding the desire of some to thrust him to the rear or drop him out of cousideration altogether. It is not to be expected, therefore, that Mr. Randall will surrender anything if he can hold his faction together, and as most of them are similarly situated with him- self there isn't much room for doubt on this point. If there are any deserters they will be such a3 ean be bought off by the prom- of being otheswise provided for in the ovent of failure before their constitu- ents, There cannot, then, be much hope for a iair compromise revenue measure that must depend for success upon the Ran- dall facuon. What is the probability of sucha measure obtaining suflicient re- publican votes to pass? At present it does not appear to be very good. There are not to exeeed perhaps a dozen who could now be safely designated to p- port such”a measure, but the pressur for revenue reduction will be greate opon the next congress than ever before, and it will not be surprising to find the number of republicans willing to accept tarifl revision along with the ndon- ment of a part at least of excise taxation considerably larger in the next congress than in the last. The senti- ment of the conntry has been undergoing a change on this subject, and the people are becoming tired of the trifling and the sophistries of politicians. Those rep- resentatives who are not shrewd enough to see this, and to govern themselves ac- cordingly, will in many instances be made wiser when they again ask the en- dorsement of their constituents. THE labor troubles, which for the last month have seriously retarded building enterprise m Omaha and indirectly have had unfavorable effect upon the rotail trade, are happily about at an cnd. Labor strikes in the midst of the building season are always disastrous to all parties concerned, no matter which of the contending parties comes off victor- jous. The contractors are damaged by delays of construction while mechanics and laborers kept idle during the season when they should be at work, absolutely lose what they fail to earn. Itis to be hoped that the adjustment reached between contractors and their disaffected employes will be on a basis of live and let live. Fair wages and good work should go hand in hand, Other Lands Than Ours. Mr. Gladstone has made few efforts during his great careor that will redound more to his history than his splendid ap- peal in the house of commons on Thars- day night for the postponement ot the third reading of the crimes bill. It was o logical and eloquent plea against this measure which was made more impres- sive by the commonplace reply of Bal- four, and although it may have no eftect upon the purpose of the British ministry. it will make the Irish cause stronger with unprejudiced people the world over. But it will not prevent the consummation of tory injustice toward Ireland. The plan of the governient so far as the crimes bill is concerned will be curried out. What may ensue cwnnot now be safely pre- dioted. Among the interesting incidents of the week 10 England, which affords a curious example of the English govern- mental system, was the discussion in the house of commons on Tuesday night of the case of a young woman who had been arrested by the police on the charge of being an improper character, Tt seemud that in this the police were in error, the woman being of pure repute, and the govermwent, rep- resented by the home secretary, baving sustained the police, was defeated by the vote of the house. So much consequence was attached to this result that the ministers held a private consultation, and it has been expected that the house socretary would be com- pelied to resign. Probably in no other country could such a ecircumstance as the mistaken arrest of man involve a par troversy ending with putting in jeop- ardy the oflicial position of a govern- ment misister, but perhiaps Eng wili point with vride to the event as il- lusteating the jealousy with which Eng- lish law protects individual character and reputation, " Turkey having declined to sigd the pro posed agreement with England regard- ing Kgyp, whict stie was to have done on Iast Monday, it becomes an interesting questioz whas aourse Eogland will now porsne in the matter. It is intimetad that neither party was anxious tbat tha agreement should bo accepted, but this view is not quite warranted by the course that has been pursded and the evident solicitude of the | English diplomatie reprosentatives who framed the agree- ment. It may be, as claimed, that Eng- land would derive no great advantage from the treaty, while its falure, if it shall finally fuil, will enable her to say to the interested powers that she is no longer under any obligations to listen to any apveals for withdrawal from Egypt. It is certdinly significant that the failure of the sultan to sign the treaty appears to have excited no special inter- est in government circles in England, notwithstanding the statement of Salis- bury in the house of lords that fhe sign- ing would certainly take place at the designated time. The latest advices, however, are to the effect that England has not withdrawn her pressure upon the porte, bnt that future overtures for an agreement must come from the latter sourco. The situation of Turkey in this matter must be an extremely per- plexing one to her statesmen, but they are used to it. *a While Russia is extending her power n Central Asia, England is muking littlo headway against her. The Afghani are unruly and rebeilious, but show no dis- position to welcome England as an ally ecither against their own sovereign, tho ameer, or the Russian, Both Russia and England are intent upon getting what they term scientitic military frontiers ithout any regard for the intervening states. England fixed her frontier some years ago to include Candahar, but in 1882 this city was restored to the ameer, probably because it was too costly and dangerous to maintain it It s important strategically, beeause it commands the passes lcading over the ranges that separate lndia from the Hilmend basin of Afghanistan. To the ordinary judgment it would appear that the work of England in railway building is really smoothing the way for the Russian advance to India. The bar- rier ranges which now impede the move- ment of her troops, would be equally ob- structive to the Russians. Why should she tunnel and open them for the sake of holding an Afghan town of no earthly use to her? Jealousy of Russin and greed of annexation can alonc explain her action. Kor the defence of India it is ab- surd to fight among Afghan hills and deserts, far from her natura nse of supplies. Suppose Russin does seize Afghanistan? 1t will always cost more than the country is worth to holait. In such contests the winner 18 the loser. *e The project for the abrogation of the concordat in France is at ent being favorably discussed by a majority of the commttee of the chamber of devuties appointed to study the question of the separation of church and state. A con- cordat is a treaty, an agreement en- tered into by the pope with a secular prince of government touching certain points of ecclesinstical disciplin, The name is said to have been used in 1418, to the stipulations entered into 3 in V and the governments of England, France and Germany. A simi- lar arrangement beiween Calixtus 11 and the Emperor Henry Vin 1122 is re- garded as the fundamental law of the churchin Germany, The concordat of August 18, 1855, between Rome and Austria, by which much of the liberty of the Austrinn church was given up to the Papacy, is the most famous concordat of this gener- ation, Itwas virtually nullified in 1868 by the Austro-Hungarian legislature. The concordat between Napoleon Bona- parte and Pius VII, signed atParis in 17902, was, however, by far the most fa- mous of these agreements. 1t re-estab- lished the Catholic religion and the Papal authority in France, and 1n efl Napoleon the head of the church, as the bishops were to rece tneir appointments from him and their investitures from the pope. The provis- jons of this concordat were, however, well nigh nullificd by the concordat with Louis XVIII, made in 1817. Napoleon's successors waived their rights to control the doings and writings of the French bishop nd the church in France n beeame an independent landed propr tor. In 1830 and again in 1882 unsuceess- ful efforts were made to abrogate the concordat. g The recent floods in a portion of China have reduced the inhabitants of the flooded distriots to a condition of pitiablo suffering. One of our vice-consuls re- ports to the state department that during A trip made through those districts he relieved 196 people. He found the na- tives generally living on the bran and chaffot a large species of grass grown for feeding cattle. Some were reduced to enting ohopped grass, moistencd with water or baked in cakes, while others fed on leaves and sceds of weeds gathered i the fields, In some of the villages fully une-half the dwellings had been washed away, and the inhabitants were huddled together in the few remaining huts. The deaths from starvation have been very numerous, The Chinese as a rule are very indifferent to human hfe, and in all probability the idea of succoring these poor, starving, homeless creatures never entered the heads of those around or near them, who might have relieved them. They simply left them to their fate, perfeotly as to whether they starved to death or not, or what became ofy them. But even if they had desired to ki them, none but those living in their immediate vi cinity conld have repdbred them much assistance, on account of the slowness and difficulty of intercommunication. On the network of canals and on the river transit is easy and comparatively rapid, by means of boats propelled by oars and sails; but beyond that it is very tedious and attended with all sorts of obstacles. e AN international exhibition is to be held at Glasgow during the summer of 1888, The guarantee fund already ex- ceeds £240,000, and is being increased. The objects of the exhibition, as stated in the prospectus, are “to promote and foster industry, science and art by incit- ing the inventive genius of our people to still further development in arts and manufactures; and to stimulate commer- cial enterprise by inviting all nations to exhibit their products both i the raw and finished state.” Examples of the man- factures of Glasgow and the surround g distriets—chemical, iron, and other mineral products, engineering, shipbuild- ing, electrical and scientific applican ces, aud textile fabrics—will be shown; and similar and more varied exhibits may be exvected from other parts of Great Britain and from the continent. Promi- sesof support have also been received from America, India, the Canadian, Aus- tralian, Cape, and other colonies. 'Lhe site, which has been granted by the Glas- gow corporation, extends to sixty acres, and the buildings will cover about ten acres. Y It seems to be a pretty general im- pression that, in the next war in Europe, dynamite, melanite and other destructive chemical compounds will play an im- portant part in battles and mining and defensive operations. But the frequent accidents attending the handling of these explosives suggest that they may be more destructive to those who use them than to an encmy. A few days ago a dyna- mite cartridge exploded among a party of sappers and miners at a town in Hun- gary and killgd twenty-seven men and wounded forty-eight others. The danger of such accidents as this will make sol- diers timid in handling the new agents, and may force them to be abandoned. Ir Postmaster General Vilas expects to occupy the second place on the next na- tional democratic ticket with Mr. Cleve- land he should first see that General Bragg is comfortably fixed with a post- oflice. Bragg does not love Vilas for the friends he has made. PERSONALITIES. 1t is thought Jav Gould has been squeezing Cyrus Field. They are both famous huggers. George MacDonald, who has eleven chil- dren, is the author ot “Annals of a Quiet Neighborhood. 8. G. W. Benjamin Las written about al- most everything of tha Shah’s except his corns. Achmed Ben Amar, the Algerian lion slayer, has killed over 200 of the kings of beasts. Well-to-do widows in Yuba county, Cal., remember with complacency that Mrs. Hugg is their deputy PSSOT, Senator Cullom’s daughter I8 ranked among the beauties of Washington; “a tall, slender blonde, with a face like those seen in portraits of the Madonna.” Craig Tolliver's right name wus Tallia- ferro, and he came trom a reputable Virginia family. Myron Whitney, the well-known sineer, is with his family at Long Pond, Mass., forthe summer. Bishop Taylor is called by the African chiefs of his missionary diocese **O1d-White- Mun-Wall-Digger-and-Long-Walker.” Senator Colquitt who is likely to succeed etary Lawar as secretary of the interior, is an enthusiastic temperance man. Ho be- lieves in nothing but water tor the interior. General Albert Pike, a poet, soldier, and grand commander of the southern jurisdie- tion of Free Masons, spends his time in his library translating the Sanscrit books of Veda, Mrs. Langtry celebrated the queen’s jubi- lee by taking out naturalization papers pre- paratory to becoming an Ameriean citizen, Mary Anderson, however, has become an Englishman, Mrs. James Brown Potter is a poser. You can buy her photographs taken in 140 differ- ent altitudes. Noneof them, however, in- clude the attitude neecessary in sewing on her husband’s trouser-buttons or doing up his other shirt. Adjutant General Drum is a man of me- dium height, about sixty years of ageand not at all distinguished in appearance. He is, it is sait an Enghshman by birth. He entered the army way back In the fiftles. He isa strictdiseiplinarian, brusque 1 speech and manner. An old army ofticer, speaking to George Alfred Townsend about Secretary Endicott, recently, said: “The present secretary a good deal represents an old bottle of perfumery which had been lost in a very genteel drug store. He does not know muen about any- thing, but desires to be a gentleman.” Tom Cook, of Mt. Vernon, Ala, now seventy-eight years of age,was in the famous charge of the light brigade at Balaklava, and loves to talk of the “Ligh black mare,” whom he credits with saving his life, Cook was also aguard at Buckingham palace at the coronation of Queen Vietoria. Mrs, Cleveland, it is said,prefers M 10 the other matrons 6f the cabinet, 1o a great extent owing to the fact that Mrs. Vilas is the youngest of the cabinet wives, She isa quiet, even-tempered wowan, very pleasing in personal appearance. and not un- like Mrs. Cleveland in character, A strong friendship has grown up between the two, Nearly two centuries and a half ago a Herr Rabmsauer arrived in North Caroilna, Some of his descendents are still living near Fort Worth, in Texas, *I found,” writes a gen- man who recently had oceasion to look them up, “that the family name had undergone the following changes: Ramsaur, Ramser, Ramsir, Sirram, Ram, Sheep, Lam| James Russell Lowell is in England .and has been the guest of Gladstone. The thor of “Biglow Papers" retains his popular- ity at home and abroad. e is a sort of con- necting link between Americaand England. 1t Is a matter of doubt among many whether he loves Engiand or Ameriea most devotedly. He, however oughtto be heard in his own behalf, and he protests that while he admires England and respects her as his mother country, that his love is for the United States, —_— The Best, Detrott, Mich., Dash, Decldedly the best daily paper between Chicago and San Francisco is the Omaha Bre. Itis a newspaper in eveiy sense of the word, and it keeps up with the onward pro- gress of the times. It eosts aamint of money torun the Beg, and its columns show that no nigezardly hand deals it out, ‘The genial sinile of Edward Rosewater is a constant cer- tificate that it pay D A “Blushing’’ Beauty, Humphrey Independent. The Omaha Brk has just celebrated its six- teenthgyear. Sweet sixteen, a blushing and developing age. We have noticed the matur- Ing of the waist and form of the Ber, and it anybody is desirous of seeing the blushing, all they need to do is to monkey with its “business end.” —_— The Gitasticutus of the Lobby. Plattsmouth Journal George N. Crawford, an extinet politician of the railroad stripe, ealling himselt a democtat,” demonstrated the inspiration of the war on Van Wyck in his testimony be- fore tie Union Pacific commission. He said the object of keeping the democrats united as a party for a party candidate was solely to defeat Van Wyek in the interest of the rall- roads. In other words, the Union Pacific and B. & M. raliroads used the democratie contingent in the legislature to pull their chestnuts ont of the fire. He was under pay of the Union Paeitic rallroad—just as Joki M. Thurston, Charley Manchester, Paul Vandervoort and others were.. The repub- lean conspirators worked on the repulicans while he and Charley Green worked on. the dewagrats, to defvat Van Wyck and honest railroad legislation. ‘That wat their wim, and the railroads footed the bilts. The eyes of the peoplé will be opened some time 1o their schewing villaioy. ka Jottings. Patrlotic grand openings are corked for an indefinite period. Ex-Senator Van Wyck 1s booked for a speech at Wayne, Septembet 1. The hay kings of Schuyler are harvest- ing the crop and expect a profitable one. ‘The city of Norfolk expects to wiggle along with $4,000 the present fiscal year. Lightning struck a venerable hen in front of a house at Gilmore and pounded her into the consistency of a spring chicken. The contracts for the construction of the Burlington bridge ut Nebraska City have been fet. The piers will be granite and the superstructure steet, ‘Wahoo appears to be suffering from an overdose of Ylollf' direct pressure in the matter of an exclusive waterworks fran- of . The Wahoo valley is said to be creased with howls of indignation and denunciations of Penpsylvania log roll- ing. The Nebraska City council is unable to agree on the amount of bonds to be voted for Y:\\mn and sewers, and thus buries the hope of progress for an indefinite period, Jubilant, Duke Thompson, the artful bachelor of arts, declares that *‘Hastings has a real curiosity. There resides in this city a lady who has been married about eight months and she asserts positively that she has never told her husband an un- truth, and she belicves that he has never told her one little lie, This beats any- thing yet on record in this line.” A Wymore woman accused of ‘‘ruin- ing a'man, was invited to leave the town by a bunch of ferocious regulators, with tar and feathers as the penalty for non-compliance, The woman, however, did not shrick for mercy or tear her hair, She just laid in & supply of powder and buckshot, barred her door, and sent word to the regulators to come on. At Iast accounts they hadn’t come, and now it is said that the letter was only a joke, any way. They published the" lotter of warning with great tlourish, but have not written anything since the woman re- phied to their mvitation to leave. The mossbacks of the town are lowa ltems. The prohibitionists will meet in state convention i Des Moines on the 1dth inst, ‘The Second Towa cavalry will hold its third reunion at Muscatine on the 13th of (¢ ber. ‘I'he internal revenue receivts in tho Davenport district for June amounted to §63,407.70. Over 34,000 books were drawn from the Burlington public library for the year ended July 1. Plans have been drawn for a $25.000 hotel at Ottumwa. Colonel Ballingall will furnish the wherewith. Prophet Foster declares that to avoid the rainy season it will be well to hald county fairs from September 27 to 80 or October 2 to 5. The last period, how- ever, will be very cool weather, and the September dates may be the vest, The ther will be very unfavorable for fairs from September 17 to 19, as that will be a period of rains and bad storms. October 6 to 12 will also be unfavorable. The uext best dates will be September 3 to6and 9 to12. Dakota. Ex-Governor Pierce will cept the presidency of the university. Sceretary Dan £ of eutries for the 18, 19 and 20. Nearly 1,500 Beadle county voters have petitioned for a submission of the local option questicn—nearly 600 more names than the law requires. The defaleation and flight of urer of Jerauld county, D. T buted to convival associition: auld County Journal says rosity was his ruin.” The Milwankee road north from Madi- s being extended at the rato of two a day and conncctions with the Hastings & Dakota at Bristol will be made in ashorttime. Itis now generally understood that Madison will be division headquarters. \roh:\N{ ac- srand Forks ott reports a big list oux Falls racee, July the treas- T The Bee at a Revival ‘The hymn published by the BEe a few woeks ago has been doing good missionary work. Founded on a touching incident which occurred 1n an Omaha Y. M. C. A, meeting and written by our home poet, Lu B. Cake, tte hymn found its way into the hands of the accomplished Mrs. T, D. Wal- lace, wife of the Presbyterian pastor at Lian- nibal, Mo, The great revival conducted by vangelist Cole was in progress, and the gifted lady sang 1t with such™ effect that it was taken up by the crowds at the taber- nacle and did much good, Although one of our busy business men, Mr. Cake's pen is helping to make Omaha known in song and story, while the Ber continues its moraliz- ing influence near and far. OMAHA’S PORKER TTAND, By Lu B. Cake. "Twas on the western prairie, ‘They all sat down, they did, M. Appolis, K, City, And O. Maha, the kid. st But when the cards were shufiled, 0. took a hand, you bet, 0. lost a little money, Until the run was caught, Then braced the game a little, And dealt to take the pot. M. bet big mills and waterfalls, K. many a railroad line; 0. modestly put down some chips, All cattle, grain and swine. M. winked at K., and K. at M., And called the modest 0.3 Then reached to rake the pot they pooled, So sure they’d won, you know. “Hold on,” said O, “You've got good hands. But mine is better still; I've got four kings—here’s Hammond, Switt, Our Fowler. and King Phil. — Size of Dary Cattle, There is u madness in the blood of the great mass of farmers in regard to the Size of dairy cows, and this madness s contributed to, in a _ great degree, y breeders, avers Mr. W in the Dair N, il weight is what has horn and a great por- tion of the Devons as profitable dairy cows, and many breeders of Holsteins 1 Guernseys are following in the same question of rumed the Shol track. It 18 a vicious notion and on are convinced to that quahty th Ceow profit- able as a dairy amimal. On the contr size and weight beyond & certain cco) omic measure is as sure u handicap tos dairy cow a8 it is to a roce horse, Then and weight must be and 1f the cow 18 iarger and b is needed for dairy performan s support of the extra ht beconies at the end of eight years & heavy item of that we e whatever »s with great force to cows t for butter-making that in the duiry, a3 well as tain _econ- tundurd below which or which i best to zo. ‘I'he making of butter in conneetion The food wn animal necording to L into three 1. The food ' for growtn ing of new bone and tiasue. 3 foud for the support of the bone the beef anir and tissue already made or ta supply the wast The food of production,which in cattle finds expression in three wnf-k The labor of the ox, the solids in milk, and surplus. flesh, Now in butter-mak- ing we get no_returus from-the food ex- pended until, in & mature cow, the ques- tion of support is first satistied, and’ the cost of daily support is usually from 24 108 per cent of the live weight,where th value of the food is reduced to the same standard as good hay. ~ With heifers the food is drawn upon, first for growth and second for support, before any can be ex- pended in produetion. This evidently is one reason why the milk of heifors is so deficient in butter fat in comparison with older cows, Now to support a hundred or five hun- dred pounds more weight than we need, suy for eight years, at an expense of 2} to 3 per cent of that weight in food daly, 18 a big expense, It 1¢ ubsolute waste, Bates, the great English Short-horn breeder, found that the same principle applied in the production of beef, and ha went to wark to reduce his Short-horns to the most economio standard of weight. The same craze for more sizo without due reference being had to economy of production 18 scen in our American breeding of draft horses. It 18 size, size, size everywhere, and certain French writers aver that we are destroying the real effectiveness of the Percheron horse in our blind rage for size. The Dairy- man 15 very confident that this same vicious notion is doing that work for our dairy eattle. Let us sclect our cows as we do out statesmen, for talent not size. Lot us breed toward the establishment of an heredity tor dairy production, and size will regulate itself. “This logic applies to all breeds alike that come forward and claim attention as_ profitable butter pro- Gueers. The first sharp practical ques- tion with the butter dairyman 1s. How much butter ean 1 get out of a given amount of food and care?'’ and the sec- ond is—"Where is the breod of cows that will take that food, and care, and work it up into butter most economically?” In catering to the necessities of the butter dairymen breeders will find themselves, more each year, compelled to build their cattle to suit the demand. The machine, ther it be a cow or » churn, must be s0 construed as to do dairy work at the least dairy expense g The Outl ook For Woolens, Boston Commercial Bulletin: In a month the samples of new woolen fabrics for summer wear will be before the cloth- ing trade. Itis eminently desirable that agents should not force goods on n sensi- tive market, but it 18 doubtful if they are able to restrain their salesmen beyond the 1st of August. The influence of luro.lill competition, as Inst year, is likely to be very keenly felt, though not in the same direction, Last year England flooded us with cheap worsteds. This year she will attempt to repeat the programme with cheviots, The goods market at Bradrord, England, has ruled dull this spring, the purchas- ing of worsteds for America having fallen off to # marked degree. During the last fortnight, however, there has been some improvement, which was probably due to American orders for yarn, filed during the days when, owin to the dull opening of the London wool sales, prices of varn fell below 60 cents, the low duty limit. Already English agents for worsteds and cheviots have been in our markets showing goods at last year's prices. ‘Their worsteds bave not met with much ess, but _the cheviots have been or- quite freely, the medium grades at ranging about $1.30, being the ayorites, In our own country the conditions are favorable o a most successful season. The last six month have been a most tey- ing period to the dealers in woolen goods for mel ar. Never has there been 2laims and allowances :Jlationsof orders. The miils for the most purt have met the dull market with deereased production, es- pecially the manufacturers of fine cassi- meres and worsteds. ‘The season may be d a suuccess as far as satinets and and cheviots concerned. The situa- tion in light-weight goods, howover, is far diffierent. Clothiers aro absolutely stripped of their socks, nor in the larger distriquting markets are there to bo found the familiar job lots of light weight fabrics which ore usually picked up by close buyers before the opening of the season. With light stocks of cloths and a firm market for wool an advance would be a_moral certainty were it not that the tariff on foreign goods is levied by weight, the markot reduction on the duty on cloth for spring wear increasing the imports materiall + both foreign cheviots and worsteds have alike been opened at lnst yeur's fig- ures, an advance in the price of domestic roods is impracticable. The raw mater- fal for cheviots, however, is much higher than at this time & year ago, and even fine wools show a slight advance, as the following tabies show: July 1, July 1, 1857, 1856, Ohio XX, o e g Hemmed in between foreign competi- tion and mgh wool the American manu- facturer is driven of nec y towards cheapening his product, and some mills have already set to work on that basis. This course meuns poorer fabrivs at the same list price, and 1mplies an increase in the use of flocks, shoddy, waste and stullinti of all Kinds. As most of the mulls are changing a large part of their machinery from fine goods to cheviots, which are evidently to be the leading fabrics, this practice is less notlceable har it would be if the clothing trade tiled for a fine finished cassimere. Aceording to the present conditions new light weigzht will open early und sell frocly at about Iast year's quotation though the standard “will probably lowered in many cases. Cheviots will in be desirablo stock und but a mod- erate amount of fine simeres and worsteds will be wanted. Foreign com- petition is likely to be felt, but not s soverely as lastyear, T'he possibilities of nrond of foreign goods may 1 or dimmished any day by a Loudon wool siles. AU pres- ent the English wool markets are very firm, which is unfavorable to extensive exporting of wooleng to this country. C- The Champion Flano P “The man in Indis who played th for 23% consecutive hours must hic dinnshed head, The top record is longer nis. One Napoleon Bird,of St wort, England, in Keeping it up for 23 hon wus not, unlike the Indizn, al- lowed at meal times to play with one hand while he fed himself with the othe; Bird sucked ice, althou his wife occa sionally dosed him with chicken, toast, brandy and beer. He used two stooly, and for reliet chan, from one to the other. Oceasionally he sang to lighten the tedinm, and frequently he operated a triungle with s teft foot. To draw his eyes from the keybourd a mirror was hng in front of him so that he could sca all that was going on behind. - His muselos were Sl during the twenty- third hour, but this wore off. He mod- estly uttributes his success, not to ex- periness in fingering, but to 4 determina- tion to stick. \ t we think it was due to it that for twelve years pust he has ng mpaniments 1o & puity. e . 0 as Tun: Nothi a piano ‘v who ean necompiny Japs fof 8 o yeurs and not go eragy. - nde DinnG » his no The tiver und kidney goo eondition At remedy organs. arsapsrilin A for regulating these