Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 24, 1887, Page 4

JHE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERYE OF SBSCRIPTION ¢ ifly Moeniax Edition) including Sunday £, One Yoar.. ... " r 8% Months . ¢ Thi L1, T e n Swnday fiex, mailed to £10 00 b 00 250 200 ABA OFPICE, NO. 014 AND 918 FARNAM STREPY. W YORK OFFICK, ROOM 6. TRIRUNE BULLDE ABHINGTON OFFICE, any 515 FOURTEENTH BT, oonR All communications relating to news and ed' torial mattor should be addressed to the Kol TOR OF THE LKk v BUSINESS LEWPERSE All bueinees lettors and ittancos should be add 10 THE BER PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMANA. Drafts, checks and postofMeo orders %0 be made payable to the order of the company, THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS, E. R THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Circulation. State of Nebraska, *u s Ummtinl Douglas. {* Geo. B. ‘Izschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing company, does solemnly swear that the actual f'lr{‘!llnflnll of the Daily Bee for the week ending July 22, 1857, was as follows: Saturdav.July 16.. Sundav, July 17. Monday, Jul{ 18 Tuesdav, july 19. Wednesday, Jnly * Thursaay, July 21, . Friday, July 22., Averare. .13.0910 15,025 Gro, SCH Sworn to and subseribed in my presence this 23d day of July, A, D, 1887 N. P. Ferr,, [SEAL.] Notary Publie. State of Nebraska, | ¥ = Douglas County. | Geo. B. Tzschuck, being first duly sworn, deposes and says that he is secretary of The Bee Publishing company, that the actual average daily circulation of the Daily Bee for the month™ of July, 1555, 12,314 copiesi for August, 1556, 12,4084 copies: for Septem- ber, 18%, 13,030 coples: for October, 185, 12,08 copies: for November, 1583, ' 15,548 copies; for December, 1856, 13,337 coples; for January 1857, 16,266 coples; for February. 1857, 14,195 coples; for March. 1857, 14,400 eopies: for April, 187, 14,316 copies: for May, \ 14,227 coples: for June 1857, 14,147 copies. 88 Gro. B. Tzeenuck, Bubseribed and sworn to before me this 1st day of July A, D., 1857, |SEAL.| Contents of the Sunday Be Page 1. New York Herald Cable—Special to the BE: eneral Telegraphic News, Paco 2 Telezraphic News.—City News.— Miscellany. Page 3. " Special Advertisements, Page 4. Fditorials.--Political Points.— Coming to America. arity.—Iress Com- ments.—Womanhood.—Odds and Ends. Page 5 Lincoln News—Miscellany—Ad- vertisements, P'age6. Council Blutfs News.—Miscellany, ~—Advertisements, Page T.—General and Local Markets,.—Re- public of the Future, Page 8. General City News.—Local Adver- tisements. | ., Page 9. Soclety In Omaha.—In the Ante- t Bmm"m.-ue Obeyed the Injunction, by Clara e. | Page 10.—-The Tie Which Cupid Binds.— | Connubialities. — Singularities, — Sparkling Gems of Jest.—Educational.—Musical an Drawatic.—Wonders of Electricity.—Adver- tisements. Page 1L A ne from ‘“Make-Adoo. Honey for the Ladies.—Peppermint Drop: sian Jewellers.—Old Baws in Rhyme.— ‘The Model Millionaire.—Religious.—A Pen Pieture of lelena, by J. ( ‘The Franco- German Frontie:.—Advertisements. Page 12, ;ib:l,ll-Alllnu?I Statsnisnt of the asurer of ouglas County.—Our Queer Household Pet.—Miscellany, :{ W ‘Tig BBE publishes today the statement of the treasurer of Douglas county. It will prove an interesting document for tax-payers, ‘I'ne Republican claims a copyright in cily advertising, but as the copy has been hung up by an injunction padlock there s nothing to copyright. — Ir Postmaster Gallagher will sign his name once to an order authorizing the fumigation of his office, he will not have signed in vain. *'Let her go Gallagher." ‘T'ue trial of the boodlers in Chicago is creating almost as much interest as a pational convention. The arraignment of a syndicate of thieves in that city is a movelty in the extreme. SEPEE—— In 18 with pride and pleasure that the Bex this morning presents to its thou- sands of readers a graphic account by special cable of the review yesterday of Great Britain’s navy. Now is the time to suoscribe, POSTMASTER GALLA R complains about having to sign his name as many as a thousand times a day. Mr. Galla- gher should congratulate himself that it does not take him a thousand days to aign his name once. As the inter-state commission has re- fused to take action in the cases of the boycotted roads, on the commission ques- tlon, the next thing we may expect is the demand from the ticket agents for the earnings of the roads. A ticket agent who will take commissions will bear watching. YESTERDAY was a great day for the quecn and the review of her navy. It ‘was to be hoped that the numerous prom- inent American statesmen now abroad would avail themselves of the opportu- nity of witnessing the review of the great ‘wear ships that they might know what a real navy looked like. — Tiis is indeed a cold and heartless world. After Mr. Tuttle, of lowa has Been scquainting the country with his deeds of valor during the war, up pops a man away down in Massachusetts who makes the charge that Tuttle came near being court-martialed for cowardice, Herc is an opportunity for Tuttle to write @& war paper for the Century., A vERY large number of distillers we s of the Ohio river are attempting to orga- nize a whisky trust, and the chances ure they may be successful in it. Fora great number ef years there has been a com- bined effort upon the part of the con- sumers of the entire world to organize a ‘whisky trust also. In some instances it has been followed by success, and would bave become general had not the saloon- keepars rebelled. Mg. HANLAN, who has occupied alto- “gether too prominent a place in the pub- Mo mind as one of the first in the art of an oarsman, is fast degenerating into that of a common trickster and profes- slonal sporting shurk, The attempt at a boat race yesterday at Pullman, in which Banlan was the chiof spirit, ended in a migantie fizzle, which bore upon its face every feature of a gambling scheme. Hanlan and his erowd of claquers should e relegated to the seat of disgrace for Shich they are emiuently fitted. fAcensed Telegraphers. The duties devolved on railroad teie- graphers are of the most important racter, They require for their proper performance intelligence, vigilance, promptness and accuracy. No man should occupy a position of this kind who is not an expert in his business and thoroughly qualified and trustworthy in all other respects. ‘The security of life and property very largely depend upon the railrod telegrapher, and the man in this position who is deficient in ability, experience and the other qualitics we have cited is very sure sooner or later to be the cause of disaster and death, Such a man may be had at small cost, and for this reason will find employment on some railronds, but 1t is almost inevitable that in the end he will prove to be vastly more expensive than would an entirely competent man at two or three times his salary. The property losses suffered by the rairoads of this country, to which a very considerable sum was recently contributed by the B. & M. eollision, from employing inexper- 1enced, incompetent and - careless tele- graphers, would perhaps build and equip a line of road from the Atlantic to the Pacific, while the loss of life from the same cause would make a startling ex- hibit. There1s a class of railroad mana- gers to whom the costly lessons of exper- fence in this matter will never be of any value. There mnst be n way found to compel them to at once protect the pub- lic and themselves. It is gratifying to note that the railrond telegraphers themselves see this neccessit) and are pro- posing to meet 1t if their way shall be found feasible. About a year ago they formed an organization of their own, ana since that time the order has grown both east and west. At the coming session of congress they intend 1o have passed a bill—and they cluim to have congressional influence enough to do it—making it a penal offense for any wrailroad company to employ a telegraph operator who directs the movements of passenger trains who has not been granted a license. Licenses will be issued by the government, the applicant being required to pass a pra al examination, to produce evidence as to moral char- acter and habits, and to be of proper age. The leaders in this movement say that. as congress has the power to regu- late inter-state commerce, it has the power to issuc these licenses, the same as it now says who shall command a ves- sel on navigable waters or who shall hold a mate’s or engineer’s certificate, The operators claim that despite the responsi- bility attaching to their occupation mere boys and young girls without experience are put in responsible positions, and that this license system would correct that evil. Often when accidents have oceurred they are blamed for them and made to suffer, when 1 reahty the re- sponsibility is not theirs, and under the license system in such cases they could appeul to the United States officials. The organization may be assured that its efforts to bring about this meritorious arrangement witl not lack public sup- port, regardless of what other motives, 1f any, may be incidental to 1 the railronds will undoubtedly ciaim. A movement to effect the required improve- ment in this service, having once opened the eyes of the public to the great neces- sity there is for improvement, will receive such universal en- dorsement that resistance on the part of the corporations will be over- whelmed. We cordially commend the spirit and purpose of the railroad tele- graphers, and would urge them to zeal- ously pash their plan if it shall be found practicable, as we believe it to be. Katkoff, the Editor, It happens rarely that the life of a man who wields the editorial pen becomes the subjeet of solicitude to an entire nation, participated in alike by rulers and peo- ple. The United States has had but one editor who was able to command such re- gard. When the life of Horace Greeley wus drawing to its close the whole coun- try was filled with anxiety, and his aeath was the signal for univsrsal sorrow. When the distinguished journalist, De- lane, who had for so many years directed h pre-eminent ability the London mes, was announced to be dying, all England was shocked, and there were few men in that country who did not re- gard us death as a national calamity. France had her Delecluze, the cham- pion of the people, 1 whose defense Gambetta won his first fame as an orator, and who deserves to be remem- bered among the heroic advocates of the republic. Other lands have had able and courageous editors, but the number is fow of those whose life has been a sub- ject of concern to an entire nation. Among this few must be prominently placed Michael Nikiforovitch Katkoff, the now world-renowned editor of the Moscow Gazette. Next to the czar, this man exercises a greater power than any other in Russia, even the emperor him- self being largely under his influence. Reared in luxury and receiwving a very thorough education, Katkofl' began the business of life as a university professor. He had imbibed liberal and progressi ideas in Germany, and he began in: them into the minds of the Russian youth. This lost him his professorship and he turned to journalis. For a time he urged with moderation his pet theories, which counselled constitutional rather than revolutionary reforms, and having opposed the revolutionary party he thereby achieved the avproval of the Emperor Nicholas. Government patron- age was extended to him, and under its influence his views began to change. Liberalism gradually lost its hold upon him, and as it did so it was replaced by an aspiration to unify all the Slave ele- ments of Europe into one great empire. He developed an intense hatred of Ger- many and all things Germ and an equally intense regard for Russia and all things Russian. Al this commended im more surely to the rulers and made him the unquestioned leader of the pro Russian party. This role he has continued to play, and while it gave him great intluence with the father of the reigning czar, it has made him almost the master of the mind and conseience of Alexander IIL 1t is said of Katkofl' that he hus been success ful in all his undertakiogs. ' In the shap ing of polities, edueational affairs, in military reforms, the mandate of the edi tor bas become the law. He has mad and unmade men with his resistless pen whose favor has been fortune and whose hostility ruin, Aggressive, earnest, un tiring, Katkoff has for twenty years been a power in Russia who has done more in moulding the volicy of the emnvire than any ten of its statesmen, For two wecks past this pow- erful editor has been sick unto death, sud from one end to the other Russia has been filled with soheitude. It has been said that if Katkoff died the czar might feel his helplessness so keenly as to unsettle his mind. Whether or not this is an ex- aggerated idea, there can be no doubt that the emperor would feel the death of the editor as the severest calamity that could befall himself and the country. y be very little in the character and carcer of Katkofl, except a sort of patriotism and rational devotion, which the friends of liberty and of the people can admire or approve, but none the less the wonderful power he has achieved makes a demand upon our interest. It foreibly illustrates the language of the dramatist, that “in the hands of men en- tirely great the pen is mightier than the sword.” ——— Corporation Expenditures. Some attention has been given to a 1e- cent statement of the London Economist comparing the eceints and expenditures of the United States and Great Britain, in which it is shown that the military ex- penditures, including pensions, of the former exceed at the present time those of the latter. The London journal em- ploys this fact to controvert the idea about “‘the advantages which acerue to the United States beeause they are not burdened with the he: ost of keeping up an army,” and some American news- unquestioningly acquiesce 1n the ion of the English journal that reat Britain is wasting money in y expenditures this country is doing the same thing on a larg i We submit, however, that there is a very wide difference in the conditions and re- sults. The money paid by Great Britain to maintain 1ts standing army goes to a body wholly composed of non-producers, wiio are continually drawing upon the wealth of the country aud giving nothing in return. The more than $100,009,000 annually expended 1 this way by the British government is almost wholly wasted. But with this country considerably more than half the military expenditure, including pensions, goes to citizens who are more or less actively engaged in some sort of produc- tive work which is steadily adding to the wealth of the country, and to which their pension monc in part coatributes, Every vensioner who is a worker isreally all the time contributing something to the resources from which the money to pay him must be drawn, and there are many thousands such, But the British soldier, maintained in 1dlencs: simply a consumer, and all that is paid bim out of the public treasury in excess of what he would consume as a citizen is a waste, There could be no greater injustice than to put the American pensioner on a par with the British soldier in estimating the military expenditures of the respective government Heroic Reporters. In a recent address at Maryland col- lege Mr. Meckins, of the Baltimore dier- ican, spoke about the heroism ‘‘fre- quently showa by men in search of news.” He mentioned the. feats of avery shown by reporters who have jumped into the sea, who have inter- viewed patients dymg of cholera, yellow fever, smullpox, or other dangerous diseases; who have dashed into the storm of death on the battlelield; who have ridden hundreds of miles through a h tile country, through deserts, that they might be the first to tell the news. It re- quires courage to do such things, of conrse, but there is an exhiliration about these risks that takes little account of death, If they come out alive there is a shiming mark at the end which they will attain—fame. As a blazing feeling which glories in the prospect of self immolation without reward if they can only beat their competitors, may carry them along. But it is calmly knocking at the door which it is morally certain will shortly be slammed in your face; nccosting com- posedly with pencil and note book the sworn enemy of your paper who may use his fists on you at the first question; pa- tiently digging for facts where you met with sneers from those who in their ignorance despise newspaper men; going to places where you know you are not wanted, that shows real courage. There is no offset to these drawbacks. No blaze of glory follows. No one knows anything about them. Maybe you will meet rebuke instead of praise. It is not so difticult a performance to go through a feat that may electrify the world if successfully accomplished. It is the daily uncomplaining endurance of the annoyances of his vocation that makes the reporter heroi Better Service Needed, Referring to the commendable growth of public interest in the last few years in the collection of industrial statistics, a contemnorary wisely remarks that those placed 1n the charge of such work should possess qualif ions of the highest character. They should in the first place be men of good mental endow- ments and with some special training for the duties devolved upon them, and in the next place they should not be mere advocates with special theories to bolster up. The public statistician is responsi- ble to the whole community and not to a part of it, and his work should present a faithful and accurate reflex of the cumstances and conditions he finds e: 1sting within the bounds affected by his investigations. The object of his work 15 the information and guidance of the state as a whole, and un- less he keeps this in view his work can have little practical value, It is unfortunately the fact that most of the states now maintaining statistical bureaus have not been successful in securing for this service the sort of men who an- swer to the standard detined by our con- temporary, for the probable reason that they are very difficult to get. Most of the heads of existing bureaus seem to bave entered npon their work under the mistaken idea thav their business is to prove the existence of certain industrial conditions regardless of the facts, and it is too frequently found in their reports that statistics are twisted to prove some pet theory or perhups strengthen o party iobby, Industrial reports of this char. acter are worse than worthless. With the progress of this class of investigation improvement in the character of in- vestigators may resasonably be expected. i E—— . 'THE project of the bank of which ex- Secretary Manuing is president, of issu- ing bullion cerufi confronted by a sef attention of treasur, called to a printed certificate, they hay jon that it is the rep! tative of money, by whatever name if may be called, and therefore comes within the prohibition of the law. There is obviously some force in this objection. While it is true that on their face these certitigates show that they are simply recedptd for the deposit of so much silver bulliod, and in this re- spect are similar €o ‘grain, provision, petroleum, or other storage certifi the circumstances which would prevent the other classes of certificates from being used as the representatives of money would not be operative against the bullion certificates, and there is very good reason to ieve that they would come to be somewhat freely employed, not only between banks, but with indi- viduals, in this w appears to bo objection. The ressed the opin- Wio says the African race is not pro- gressiv Not only have they learned the use of the boycott, but they know how to apply it with a refinement of cruelty that would do credit to a Torque- ma A teachers’ institute was held at Atlanta, Ga., last week, and the colored teachers, according to southern etiquette, were allotted a lecture room apart. They considered themselves neglected by the state school superintendent, who tem- forgot them, and left. The next they were promised alectuve by the governor of the state, who appeared at the appomnted time wearing his store clothes and a smile, whose eflect was caiculated to reach forward to the next election day. But his smile vanished. There was not a solitary sable auditor to bask init. Can there be a more crael situation for an orator? The neglected teachers had a just grievance, no doubt, but their revenge was terrible. Subse- quently one colored instructor appeared. On him the lecturers remorselessly visited all their learning in turn, as per programme, and thus the race conflict raged, AccorpING to a Mexican financial journal, the United States bure of statisties has made very bungling vork in its statement of the annual export trade of this country with Mexico. An investigation made by the Mexiean jour- nal as to several details shows the burcau of statistics to be very greatly under the actual figares, and the journal insists that instead of the total exports from the United States to Me: only $7.000,000 they amount to n y $20,000,000. 'J‘hnru,xi- no doubt that the former figures are Tar out of the way, and the exports annually are at le double that amount. The disclosur such a marked inaceurae tor which there can be no sufjcien excuse, throws diseredit on the wpol work of the bureau, suggesting ‘thel it may in its entirety be largely guesswork. Lake City before the Pgeilic railroad in- dion that he Has® occasionally assisted the Nebraskh lej ure i form- ulating laws for the benelit of our people. But Mr. Peter Shelby does not remember that he ever tried to exert his inflnence over members by anything except pure oratory. In this be was a good deal like Crawford, the lone fisherman from fdaho. We regret to notice that Mr. Shelby’s : has been seriously impaired by tence among the Mormons, Oth- erwise he could surcly not have forgotten what transpired in the Lincoln oil rooms between the boodlers and the Union Pacitic lubricators. Mg, PETER SHELBY m;h- 1hed at Salt > I'r may happen that the gold find near Ishpeming, Mich,, will fall far short in its development of the extravagant expecta- tions of the discoverers, but the mining nien are still greatly excited oyer the (ind and confident of resuits that will make them all rich. The belt appears to have an extent of some sixty miles, and is located from two to eight miles from the iron belt, A gold formation is known to exist in the Huron mountains among which, tradition has it, Dr. Hougnton, the ploneer mineralogist of the upper peninsula, “filled a goose quill with pure gold only a few days betore he was drowned while trying to cross Keweenaw bay in a storm.’ Exploration in the Huron range has been carried on only to a limited extent, The discovery near Ishpeming was made two years ago, but 1t is only within a year that explorations have been actively prosceuted. ‘The as- says show the rock to be very rich in native gold. — e FreEMONT, according to the new city directory, has now a population of 8225, It has doubled in population since the state census in 1885, Fremont is not only one of the finest towns in the west, but it is having what may be truly termed a phenomenal growth, OManA, July 23.—To the Editor of the Bee: Will vou please answer the following question in your valuable paper to decide a bet? What is the highest point within the cor- porate limits of the city? Yours truly, E. 8. Lrwis, Without engaging in & careful survey of the matter, we would say that the highest point in the city is the tip end of the lightning rod on the public school building.—[Ep. BEE. ———— POLITICAL POINTS, Mahone still hopes 4o’ elect a legislature that will make him senator, ‘The Springfield Ropublicanp is “booming” Robert T. Lineoln for the presidency, Neal Dow is preparing to take an active part in the prohibition canvass in New York. John Sherman is at Mansfield keepinz close wateh upon his qwn futerests in the Ohio campaign. Senator Beck is making six speeches a week to help his triend 8imon Boliver Buck- ner get into the Kentucky gubernatorial chair. ‘The I'hiladelphia Ledger can only find five officers In that ity who are fit to hold oflice. ‘Three of them are republicans and two are democrats. Foraker will go asa delezate to the na- tional republican convention, and he consid- ers hiwself as promising a presidgential quan- tity as was either Hayes or Garfield. Allison is expected to solidify the lowa delegation for Blaine, with the understand- ing that if the Maine statesman ean't get the nomination he shall help the Iowan to cap- ture it. Senator Blackburn of Kentucky Is still un- reconstructed. In o late speech at Lancas- ter he incidentally remarked: “If God Al- mighty can forgive the republican party for its work from 61 to 65 it will be a severe strain on Ilis plan . of universal salvation,” Duting the same periods the rebels, of course, were serving God. Objector Holman, according to the testi- mony of an intimate friend, proposes to end his congressional cateer with the present con- gress. e is oppressed with a convietion that if he does not retire voluntarily, the la- bor vote in his district will retire him. Governor Biges, of Delaware, says that Secretary Bayard made the biggest mistake of his life when he went into President Cleveland’s cabinet. There is much truth in this, There is nothing like a cabinet position toshow the world the real stature of a man. — COMING TO AMERICA. Minister McLane will leave Havre for home on July 50, Lord Herschell, congpicuous at the English bar and in British oratory and politics, will sail with Lady Herschell on July %0 from Liverpool for the United States. Professor Henry Drummond, teacher of natural science in the university of Glasgow, and author atural Science in the Spir itual World,"” recently arrived for a sojourn of six months in America. An English nobleman with three titles is soon expected to visit New York, He is Lord Mowbray, Segrave and Stourton, and he is equipped with a long-drawn-out pedi- gree that runs back to 12 He uses all of his titles in signing his name. —— CHARITY, Secretary \Whitney and his wife have spent £100,000 for charitable purposes since last Mrs. "Laleott. of Chicago, has an income of $50,000 a year, and she devotes $45,000 of it to charity, her husband on his death bed hav- ing told her never to hoard a dollar, St. James’ Gazette: Baron de IHirseh, in memory of his son, Lucien de Hirsch, who had a large racing establishment at New- market, Las, in consequence of the breaking up of that establishment, devoted the pro- ceeds, amounting to £12,000, to the following publie charities: The Metropolitan Provi- dent Medical association, £3,000: the London hospital, £1,000; Rous Memorial hospital at Newmarket, £1,000: Children’s hospital, Great Ormond street, £500; Northwestern hospital, £500; Jewish board of guardians, £2,0003 Judith Lady Monteiiore’s Con home, £1,000; Jews' free school, £700; hospital, i Jews' Infant school. Westminster Jews' free school, £300; Deaf and Dumb asylum, £500: Hand-in-Hand soelety, £230, and Jewish home £350, s Bl Sy Must Make ast Time. Sult Lake Herald Arabian horses are being bred in Dakota. They are expeeted to keep just a little ahead of u blizzard. SCE- RS How to Become a Liar. Macon Telegraph. Three years' undisturbed pogsession of a setter dog will destroy the veracity of the best man In America, e In the Dwamond Field. Boston Post. ‘The man who goes to the pawnbroker may not be much of a baseball player, but he is apt Lo go out on thr Fressed Upon Him, Leavenorth Times, “Ican give you a good point,” sid the in the of the sleeping sertion on your outside.” SRS - s Force of Habit, Harper's Bazaar, ald the wife of a baseball umpire, “Tommy has been a very bad little boy to- day.” *“Is that s0,” he replied absent mind- edly. *Well, I'll fine bim $2.” e The Lily Knows, The Judye. Mrs, Langtry, who applies simultaneously for citizenship and divoree, thereby demon- strates that she is thoroughly acquainted with the customs of the eountry, Thought It Was His Wife. Turlington Free P Lizhktning knocked ¢ men who were sitting on boxes in front of a grocery store in Patterson, N. J. One of them was knoc! senseles: The other two e claimed: **Leggo, I'm comin’ right home. SR B, Buffalo Beer and Beauty. B fato Cowvier. Buflalo is really growing quite English. The latest eraze is bar-maids. There are more than a hundred saloons in town where the ruddy malt nectar Is tapped by these beer belles, -~ Sull Showing Them Up, r Herald, sewater is still_engaged in the laudable enterprise of showing up the crooked trans- actlons of some railroad corporations. The Bik will advocate the cause of the people as long as Edw: 1t e Rather Ignorant, At a trial at the Clay county, Georgia, court the other day two witnesses were put upon the stand who did not know who made them, had never heard ot heaven or hell, and did not know whether a lic was right or wrong, e Tom Ochiltree’s Threat, St Louis Republican. Tom Ochiltree threatens to run for con- gress in a New York district next year, If w York should happen to send both Och- iltree and Tim Campbell to Washington it would be proof positive that the influence of New York should be paramount in na- tional politics. Surely & commonwealth so abounding in statesmanship should receive reverent attention, —~— Womanhood. Written for the Sunday Bee by Lu 1. Cake, 1 have seen, sweet Mabol, a flow’r so rare, So rich in its sweet perfumes, It may live for years, for long years, and yet, But once 1n them all, it blooms. As the seasons come, and the seasons go, It fills them with suinmer days; And the seasons run and the seasons flow, 1t fades and it falls—decays, Would you know the name of this flow'r so fair, ‘The rarest of all the wood ; ‘That in all its being may bud but once? *Tis pure and true womanhood ; And this flower lives in your life to-day, 1 trust, as the seasons run, When the summer time of reached. "Twill be a swe its bloom is perfect one, - - A Senatorial Prediction. Schuyler Quil. The Quil will wager that Van W, be returned to the United Mr. Manderson’s stead next year. ple are alive and awake to the fact that they were deceived and defrauded last year, and had a thing pushed on to them,and the cham- pion of their rights put out. Van Wyck him- self sees his error (and a fatal one it was) in taking any stock in those fellows who pre- tended a change of heart, but who played the part of spy and defeated him after they were elected pledged to him solidly. People, as & rule, know more the older they grow, and the Nebraska voters are not excentions. ek will senate in T'he peo- cotihdetan ool The Railroad 01l Room." Schaler Quill, After the legislature adjourned last winter certain members of that body, one of Col- fax county’s honorables in the list, made light of the “railroad eil room talk and de- clared there was none, aud that it existed only in Rosewater's mind, The late Pacitic investigation settled that thiug as well as many others, The men who had eharge of the rooms testified that they were, under the management of Thurston and Vanderbum. put there to rope In legislators in order to defeat Van Wyek and any anti-railrond legislation. Our most honorable member was a very frequent visitor to this depart- ment. —— Immortal Signatures Gone. ‘T'he Rev. Dr. 8. H. Virgin, in a Fourth of July address at West Chelmstord, sai recently in Washington lLe exam microscopic serutiny the original draft of the declaration of independence, and nota trace could be found of the signatures of the men who put forth that immortal instrument, et ODDS AND ENDS, Tue cool weather of the last week restores to Omaha its reputation as a summer resort. Missount river water is said to be the best in the world. Missouri river mud is also said to be the best on earth, Tur salvationists’ band, with a bran new cornet player, serenaded the BEE oftice on Thursday evening, and the next day the B was made tae ofticial organ of the Long Pine Chautauqua assembly. The Brr is evidently destined to become the great religious organ of the Missouri valley. BurrALo BiLy's letter toa friend, who indiscreet! lished, has eaused some ¢ writer states that he has from the queen down, and that he s therc “for dust” Well, anybody who has ever seen Bill knows well enough that he is not in England ““for his health,” w Orleans allowed it to be pub- ticism beeause the ptured England Bon PATRICK, assistant nited States dis- trict attorney, pervetrated rather a grim joke in court yesterday. The Unitea States grand jury in January last indicted David Hoff- man, the Missouri Pacific train wreeker, for obstructing the mails. Mr. Ioffman was hanged on Friday last. Mr. Patrick moved that the indictinent against Hoffman be dis- missed, as the defendant was now beyond the comt’s jurisdietion. Judge Dundy accord- ingly granted the motion. Wi ames Stephenson built his elegant cquestrian palace he intended to have the front surmounted by a statue of a horse. The pedestal was placed in position, but the statue has not yet materialized. 1t would be auite an attractive ornament. It is hoped Mr. Stephenson will earry out his original intention and give some eminent sculptor an order for the statue. There is a great lack of statuary in Omaha. Mr. Stephenson has now a splendid opportunity of giving this branch of art a boom in Omaha. AT oue time the owners of the Omaha street railway contemplated converting their lines into a cable system. It is understood, however, that this idea has been abandoned, with the exception, perhaps, of the Farnam street line. Itis very likely that horses will be superseded by electrieity. ‘I'heimprovements that are constantly being made in electrical locomotion leads the horse street railway owners to believe that the electric s will s00n reach perfection, and be far supe- rior to the cable. In that eventall the horse car lines in_ Omaha will be converted into electric roads. Hox. Joux R. Por ex-police judge of who now resides in Los Aungeles, in the city on a visit. He brings some interesting news concerning the Omaha eolony In Los Angeles. ‘The colony includes about 100 people, who nearly all live within a few blocks ot each other. Among those best known in Omaha are IHon, J. H. Kellom, M. G. McKoon, who has made a comfortable fortune in real estate; E. V., Smith, Kev. Mr. Dimmock, who has a most beantiful home; Hon. John L Redick, who is heavily interesied in real estate and is president of a bank; Bob Harris, who is building a magniticent house. The Scherb brothers have ranches near Los Angeles, Mr. Jenkins, the printer, is connected with one of the daily papers. Mr. Shears is engaged in superin- tending the erection of a hotel, which he will preside over as landlord. ‘There are also in Los Angeles quite a number of old Omaha railroad men. Los Angeles is a place of over 60,000 people, 1Its greatest attraction, accord- ing to Judge Porter, is its cllmate. Hox. FrANc1s ConToN und his son have been visiting in Omaha the past week. Mr. Colton is well known in Owaha. He was appointed United States consul to Venlce by President Lincoln and remained there throughout the war of the rebellion. Return- ing to the United States he was appointed the first general passenger agent ot the Union Pacifie, which position he held for several years. Helng succecded by Mr. Thomas L. Kimball, he was senton a trip around the world to advertise the transcontinental route in opposition to the Suez canal. He did this success- fully in Japan, China, Australia and other countries, thus drawing to the Pacific Mail steamship company and the Central and Pacific railroads a large passenger travel and the tea and silk trade. He established agencies in all the principal cities of the old world, and the Ameriean trauscontinental route has ever since derived great benelits therefrom. Mr. Colton, who now resides in Washington, is one of the largest land own- ers in Nebraska. In the early days he fore- saw that Nebraska was to become a great state, and he accordingly made large invest- ments In lands which In those days were very cheap. The Increase in value during the last few years has added a large sum to his fortune. Mr. Colton predicted the future of Nebraska and particularly ot Omaha twenty ears ago, when he first came to this city. e now wakes another prediction and declares that there will be only four really creat eities on this continent —New York, Chiicago, Omaha and San Fran- cisco, Ex-Governor Gilpin, of Colorado, said to him, *These cities are on the temper- ate line of the intensest econcmies Mr, Coiton’s son, who is a very bright young man, intends to make braska his home and take care of his father’s interests. -— Cut the Weeds. James Allan, the newly appointed side- walk inspector reports that a great deal of cofplaiut has been made to him of the earelessness of vroperty owners, who allow weeds in front of their lots grow 50 high &s to hang over the sidewnlk. In damp weather, or at night time or in early morning, when these weeds retain a moisture which is rather heavy, it is impossible far a gentloman, much less a ludy to pass them without being in some manner affected by the dampness her they soil tha garm s by with dust. They 5 quently, & nuisance at all seasons of the “They are to be found in many parts of the and there is but one way to avord t 1, in Mr. Allun’s opin 1om and that 15 to cut them down s, the inspector proposes to compel prop- crty owners to do, on sod after to-mor TOW. Special tio There will a specisl election in South Omuha to-morrow and Acting Mayor Fred M. Smith has issued lns proc lamation accordingly. ‘The prineipal question is the granting of the right of way to the South Omaha Street railway company, The giving of a franchise to the Omaha Motor railway will also be considered, These are important ques tions regarding the prosperity of South Omaha and wil muluul)ludlf’ meet with general discussion at the ballot box, OMAIA'S GREAT ADVANTAGE. Far-Reaching Effects of an 0ld Oontract on Live Stock Rates. THE INEVITABLE RESULTS. Forcing the Mammouth Packing House luterests From the Garden City to the BDanks of the Missouri IKiver.) Dressed Beef Rates, Chicago Times: Shortly after tho western freight nool was formed, some two yedrs ago, and the discovery was made that the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul company bad entered into a contract with Hammound & Co. to transport their dressed beef from Owmaha to Chicago at a rate considerably be- low the tarlff. a railway veteran controlling one of the big western systems, to whom the president of another had gone for advice as to what should be done by the competing roads, strongly counseled that a firm and united effort should be made to break the contract. IHe looked into the future and predicted that it the rate should be allowed to swund it would eventually drag all dressed-beef rates from the Missourl river down to the figures fixed by contract, and, more than that, would” surely in the end destroy the live stock S ness, which has been so great a source of revenue to the Missouri lines. Kvents show that the ofliclal was long-headed and no false prophet, ‘The present drevied-beef rates Toin Omaha to Chicago overall lines areso,28 cents a hundred,whichi was the rate made by the St. Paul 1or the Hammond company. When the nominal livestock rates Council sluffs to Chicago were $70 a car-load, the St. 1l company ligured that what with rebates and concessions theaverage actual rate given by all roads was $45 a car-load. Calculating shrinkage and relative proportions between ive-stock and dressed-beef rates by the same process as used by the eastern line: rate was reached, and, as predic already become the standard raté from Omaha. As the contract still has threo yOars to run, there is no probabilit; will be raised. Not only has itatfecte traftie, but it is =~ pulling down tho Kansas City rates to the samo polat. Only last week tne Chicago and Kansas City roads were foreed to make a reduction in dressed beef rates of from 40 to 35 cents, and it is treely admitted that this is only a half- way reduction, and that the rates must within_three mouths, drop to the Council Blufls figure~50,25 cents a hundred. But this is not all, nor is it by any wmeans tho worst teaturc of the situation. ‘I'he inte) state law has had the effect of mak nominul $70a car-load rate on live sto Missouri river to Chicago, an actual rate. ‘The lowa roads had to hold it there to save their local live stock traflic, and in practice this was an advance in the live stock rate from Council Bluffs of $25 a carload, The Hammond contract was in the way of a rela- tive advance in the dressed beef rate, which should have been raised 17'¢ er cent to preserve the proportion. The results of the lllsl\l’nrn’llun are begin- ning to be plainly soe ‘The western roads centering in Chicago hav nee the interstate law went into effect avera:ed an increase in their revenues from the transportation of live stock of $500,000 a wonth more than revious to April 1. This would be pleasant f its permanence could be insured, but it can not, and, on the contrary, it threatens to deprive all of the western ronds of a greater share of the live stock business. The fact is that there is a pronounced movement of the packing and dressed beef interests to center at Missouri river points, The ten- dency at all times has been to get the slaughtering done nearer the ranges, but b, holding up the dressed beef rates and favoring the live-stock shippers the roads were able to a large degreo to counteract this. Now thel own act they have deprived themselves of the power and are al the other extreme. ‘This added half milllon of revenue i3 taken from the prolits of the cattle raisers and the packers. The forwer probably suffer the most, and their interests will be best served by marketing at the Missouri river instead of Chicago. The three largest packing and dressed beet houses have established bl plants at Missowri river points, a than six months more dressed b uufactured at the M uri river than at icago. What this means for Chicago the I) mists are left to work ont, asthis article s only dealing with the subject from & rail- road standpoint, “But,’”” says the superlicial observer, *‘what difference will this make with the railroad: ‘They will haul the dressed beet if they don’t the live stock."” Yes, but there is a great difference between the revenues accruing from the two eom- moditi ‘The Eestern roads by hotding up the dressed beef rates from Chicago to the seaboard have manuged to keep up the revenue, but the western lines, wll“ a blind fatuity, have reversed this, the dressed-beef rates being much lower in proportion, thus hastening the killing of the gzoose that was laying the golden egys, All railroad man- agers will unite in saying that the aggregate revenues from the transportation of raw are greater and more profitable than the nufactured, so far as the staples are cot ned. [t is better to earry wheat tothe tej als thau tlour. The same rate a hu ed 18 ehars on both, and as 200 pounds of flour equals 300 pounds of wheat the condensation loses to the roads oue-third, or, in other words they get but two-thirds of the rate in hauling the equiva- lent flour, The same 15 true of corn and hogs, ‘The rate for transporting a fat hog to market s nowhere near equal to the revenue whieh would be derived from earrying the corn which fattened the mal, and soatis with dressed beet and live stock, and soon through the list. There are many other points to the question which need not be discussed. The only point sought to by 510 show that when the aforesaid railway magnate advised that the Hammond contract should bebroken atall iz wds he was wise in his generation, and he was equally correct when he remarked yesterday that the contract would cost the ‘western roads a loss of willions of dollars. o Fuget Sound Colony. There will be a meeting of the Omaha branch of the Puget Sound Co-operative Coloney at their hall, 1114 Farnam street to-day at 2:85 p. m. The subjoet of co- operation as applied to n commonwenlth will be the subject of discussion by able speakers. Admission is freo and the public are invited. ge at Libernon. Id: A mle down the coust und we come to Elberon—the Mount McGregor of New dJersey—for here Garficld was brought lying upon his death bed, The cottage tfrom which he gazed upon the sea until his eyes were closed forever is as cosey A Cot Rochester Her and rful as before the villainous shot was od. "The green lawn over which n branch railroad built for that one wvassen- (.znr,llm\ randa to which the car was ed before the cot of suflering was tenderly lifted out; the room next the sea through which they carried him, and the railing that had to be cut awny before they could get him up stuira; tho ohamber in whick Jo. suflored surrounded by the sympathics and prayers of all the people on earth: the little room upon the ground floor in which he Jay 1 state before starting on his Iast journe these ure objects ot interest, looked at not only with the eye but with the Leart. This cottage of denth is the most impressive sight upon the h, and the few who are privileged to see within it must go away impressed with the superiority of the human soul when they feel the weird light that the spirit lett in its departur s Ll Salt, A morning hand bath in cold sult water i ahttully invigorating 'm salt water inhaled through the nostrils will cure cold and ¢ rh A pinch of salt taken frequently will stop a couzh or throat irritation. A glass of salt water, warm or cold, taken on rising in the morning will cure coustipation, Bathing the eyes, when tired or w in warm salt water will soothe strengthen them. Salt, plentifutly sprinkled on the icy door step, will have a better and cleanor clect than ashe 1K, nnd