Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 8, 1887, Page 4

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Sept. 2 Wednesday, Sep Hursaay, Sept, 2 'riday, Sept. 0. Averagt Sworn to and subscribed in my presence this 15t day of October, A, D. 1887, [SEAL. Notary Tabi Notary Public. Btate of Nebraska, | Douxlas County. i 58 Geo. B. Tzschuck, helngufim daly sworn, secretary of The mnu and says that he Publishing company, that the actual average dally circulation of the Daily Bee for the month of October, 1856, 13,99 copies; for ) fes: for December, 1886, 13257 coples: for January 1887, 16,264 copies; for February, 1887, 14,198 coples; for March. 1857, 14,400 coples; for April, 1887, 14,316 copies; for May, 1857, 14,227 coples: for June 1887, 14,147 coples; for July, 1887, 14, 063 copies; for August, 1887, 14,151 copies; for September 1587, 14,340 coples. Gro, B Tzscwuck. Sworn to and subseribed in my presence this 6th day ot October A, D., 1887, {SEAL.]" N.P. Fer. Notary Public. Tue last legisinture did not secure a vote of confidence out of the republican state convention. E—— THe commissioners who are investi gating the Pacific railways are beginning to “catch it from the press for the man- ner in which they are conducting their inquiries. They are alleged to be hob- nobbing with the men on trial in a sus- picious way, It is suggested that a com- mission to investigate the commissoners may become u future necessity. Tur Westinghouse and Thomson- Houston electric light companies, it is said, have formed a combination to pro- tect themselves against Edison, The Iatter has recently been granted a patent for the multiple are system of distribu- tion, which, if sustained by the courts, will give Edison absolute control of in. candescent electric lighting, The other companies will thus lay themselves liable to prosecution for infringement. TrE wages of the miners of one of the largest coal combinations in Pennsylva- nia have been increased 8 per cent. But the profits of the robber barons will not be decreased by that amount, nor the profits of the railroads which carry the coal. The price of the fuel has been ad- vanced more than enough to cover the increase in the cost of production, and the consumers must pay the difference. The whole country 1s at the mercy of the coal combinations. The price of coal is already moaustrous and likely to be still higher. E——— ONE of the results of the recent scare- ity of money was the bringing to market of much lean cattle from the western ranges during September. Ranchmen found themselves harder pressed for cash than they have been for many a year, and were compelled to market immature cattle to mecet obligations. Recently, however, there has been an increuse in the influx of eastern ecapital, and the money market is becoming easier. Ranchmen will thus have an opportu- nity to get their stock in good condition before selling, and better times for them are ussured. It is announced that the republican na- tional committee may meet in Washing- ton in December, instead of January, to determine the time and place of holding the next national convention. In order that Omaha's claims may be properly pre- sented, there 1s not much time to be lost in formulating them. Some members of the national committee are understood to favor an early convention, but there has been no intimation as to what the senti- ment is regarding the place of holding it. The probabilities, however, are strongly 1 favor of the selection of & western city, and there is no reason why the chances of Omaha will not be as good as those of any other. At all events a very earnest effort should be made in behalf of this city, and it cannot be started any too soon. KaANsAs papers are very enthusiastic over the future of sugar manufacture in that state. One of them has figured out that a net profit of over $4,000 can easily be obtained from every fifty acres. If there are no mistakes in the computation there seems to be agolden future 1n store for Kansas farmers. But the trouble likely to arise is that everybody will rush into the raising of sugar-cane to the neglect of all other products. Sugar pro- duction was also very profitable in Ger- many when the industry was first intro- duced there, but now overproduction has reduced the profit to a minimum, A like result may follow in this country, but not immediately. [mportation of the foreign article must first be stopped. — Mgs. FRANK LEsLIE was recently com- pelled to pay duty on some insignificant private property brought from Europe, by a New York inspectress. She made a vigorous ‘'kick" and threatened to change the politics of her periodicals. ‘I'his seems to have caused the demo- cratic departments in New York and ‘Washington to pause and consider. The usual long roll of red tape was dispensed with and the money Mrs. Leslie paid was promptly refunded. The offending in- spectress was also recommended for re- moval. The polities of Mrs. Leslie’s pa- pers will not, probably, be changed now. It is pretty safe to assert that had a poor woman, without influence, made a simi- [ar remonstrance, no totice would have been taken of the comvlaint. Nearing the End. The indications now are that the coun- cil will take steps to have the police muddle adjudicated by direct appeal to the supreme court. This should have been done months ago. Omaha has suf- fered severely by the stubborn refusal of the council to heed the opinion of its le- gal adviser, the city attorney. The pol- icy of glarving the police, even if the council were right in its claims as to po- lice regulations, is utterly indefensible. When it was first talked of Councilman Hascall himself denied apy intention to resort to such a method, but, as the con- troversy grew more intense, the mmpro- priety of starving the police was lost sight of. It is an unmitigated outrage that men who are employed by the city to watch over life and property and maintain order, should be refused their pay. No- body can charge that they did not enlist m the police service in good faith, nor is there even a pretense that they have not faithfully performed their duties. The bias of councilmen against the chuef of police should have no bearing upon the police force. Leastof all should membvers of the force be made the victims of a quar« rel between two co-ordinate branches of the city government. It is a sad com- mentary upon our municipal legislature when private citizens have to organize a relief associution to provent the disband- 1ng of the police by reason of the starva. tion policy. In such an issue the council cannot possibly sustain itself in the eyes of the people. The sooner the council abandons its mulishness and plants itself upon a more defensible position, the better it will be for the majority faction that insists upon construing the charter as giving the council indirect control over the police commission. e—————— Nebraska Repablican d the Tariff. While keeping in line with the party geunerally in approval of a tariff system that shall couserve the interests of Amer- ican industries and labor, the sentiment of the republicans of Nebraska, as voiced by their state convention, is unmistaka- bly 1n favor of a revision of the existing tariff. The platform especially says that the business of the country demands a revision, and arraigns the democratic party for its failure to keep its tariff re- form pledges. It puts the republicans of this state on record as desiring such re- vision at the earliest practicable day, though intimating no faith in the ability of the democratic party to bring about that consummation. Republicans else- where will not fail to give heed to these expressions, nor should they be disre- garded by therepresentatives in congress from this state. This attitude of the republicans of Ne- braska marks an advance in the senti- ment on this subject, and demonstrates the force of the arguments in the exist- ing situation so clearly that the extreme nrotectionists may learn from it that their sway cannot be much longer maintained. They may blindly elect tostill insist upon their demands, rather than to wisely yield such fair and just concessions as they can make without harm to themselves and with great good to the general welfare, but the time is not remote when what they new refuse to concede the people will have in despite of them, with the chance of taking much more than 1s at present asked. There is no disposition anywhere to pull down the tariff struct- ure. Rational men of both parties un- derstand that such a policy would be madness, and with such there is no tol- eration of those, & mere handful numeri~ cally, who advocate absolute free trade. But it is reasonably insisted that neither the necessities of the government, the wel- fare of the industries of the country, nor the interests of labor require a continu- ance of the tax imposed upon the people by the existing tariff, and that on the contrary all interests would be benefitted and national progress stimulated by a generous reduction of this tax. The pre- vailing spirit is one of compromise. The great majority of the people are willing that for the present the question shall be settled on that fair middle ground which will a3 nearly as pos sible divide the reduction of revenue equally between excise taxes and the taniff. The mistake of the protectionists, and one which must ultimately react to their discomfiture if persisted in, isin maintaining a rate of taxation for which there is no longer a necessity or a justi- lication, It results in piling up a vast surplus in the treasury which is danger- ous in itself as a temptation to govern- mental extravagance and a serious draw- back to the national prosperity. Two- thirds of this 1s derived from the tanfl, which puts a tax on almost everything that the people wear or use in their domestic and business affairs. A re- duction of the revenue of the govern- ment, that did not involve the cutting off of a part of this tax, while it might prevent the accumu- lation of a surplus in the treasury, would give no relief to the people, and would therefore be alike unwise and unjust. The republican party of Nebraska, largely composed of farmers, favors a revision of the tariff with a view to re- ducing oppressive duties because it be- lieves that course to be fair, just and necessary, certain to work no injury to the industries and Iabor of the country, but instead to promote the welfare of all interests and advance the general pros- verity. Thissentimentisobtaining rapid development in the west, 1f it is not in other sections of the country. ‘Tue council hus very properly sent for Architect Myers with a view of ascer- taining what, if anything, should be done by the city to protect that portion of the east wall of the city hall which bhas its foundations only about five feet below the street grade. Mr. Myers is the proper persoa to give advice on this matter and alter the plans if any alteration is neces- sarv, which we doubt very much, Mr. Myers ought to be here anyhow at least once every two months while the build- ing is in progress. Up to this time he has exhibited too much indifference about the supervision of the structure, and al- lowed the contractors to have their own way. E—— TaE more we look into the manage- ment of our county affairs the more we become convinced that a radieal change of methods and managewment is impera- tively necessary. Everything is at loose ends in the records of the commissioners and there is neither head nor tail to the entire system of county business. While vouchers are now taken from parties who draw upon the county treasury, many of these vouchers are no better E2 THE than preces of blank paper. They fail to show the character of service ren- dered, the quality and quantity of sup- vlies and materials purchased, or work done. The whole court house, from seioent to garret, needs a thorough overhauling and an introduction of strict business methods, such as any large cor- poration that transacts (wo or three hundred thousand dollars' worth of busi- ness a year would pursue. Eee—— PREPARATIONS arc now in progress for paving Seventeenth street adjacent to the east front of the court house. The contract calls for a forty foot roadway, which is twenty feet narrower than that of the north front on Farnam. Common sense would dictate that the Seventeenth street approach to the court house should be fully as wide as that on Farnam, but like everything pertaining to the court house, the bunglers will have their way. Within less than five years we expect to see this pavement torn up and thé road- way widened at the county's expense. A thirty foot stone sidewalk is entirely un- necessary. Twenty foot walks are ample, and widening the sidewalk increases the paving expense. Tie Herald is making & great hulla- baloo over the so-called prohibition plank 1 the republican state platform. No such plank was adopted. The only thing the convention did was to pass a resolution recommending that the state central committee should, in its call next year, ask for an expression on the pro- posed submission of a prohibitory amend- ment, at the county primaries. — WE are much pleaeed to note that the g£as company has enjoined the cable road from tearing up the streets. If the cable company will now enjoin the gas com- pany from making itself a public nuiss ance in promiscuously tearing up the pavements and digging deep trenches through thoroughfares without regard to the public convenience, the citizens of Omaha will feel grateful. THE new bridge is located at the foot of Douglas street. So far so good. Now let the projectors of the bridge go to work una redeem their promises. If all the material has been bought there is no good reason why the bridge can't be completed within twelve months. Other Lands Than Ouars. The complete failure of the govern- ment to sustain the case brought against Lord Mayor Sullivan, of Dublin, under the crimes act, the charge being that he had incited in his newspaper seditious meetings, is said to have had a some- what depressiug effect upon the Balfour- ites. No meetings having been held, the prosecution had nothing to support it,and the lord mayor went his way triumphantly. The matter is significant merely as showing the disposition of the government authorities to avail them- selves of auy pretext in carrying out their policy of proscription and op- pression. 1t happened fortuaately for the lord mayor and for jus- tice that the magistrate had re- spect for law. Among the several things which endanger tory su- premacy in England the declining health of the Marquisof Salisbury is noted as not the least important. He is again re- ported to be physically unable to stand the work his office imposss on him. It is not a wild conjecture that Salisbury may have a premonition of what the verdict of the English people is pretty sure to be in the policy he represents, and desires to get out of the way before the blow falls. It is not only the Salisbury ministry that is going to pieces, but everything that ministry in an especial manner repre- sents. It is the government of the people by a class for the exclusive benefit of the class, Lord Salisbury in an especial manner representsthe landed aristocracy which have ground the English farmer to powder in a vain effort to preserve their own enormous revenues. Land in Eng- land, Ireland, Scotland and Wales has been held at a rental far beyond what its productive capacity would warrant. The bulk of the farmers have been ruined in trying to meet these exactions, but the time hus about come when the land ownuer must be content with the rent the products will enable the tenant to pay. A ministry that has championed this monstrous injustice will pass out of oftice without regret, save by the limited class for whose ndvantage it has existed. * s Europe has been very much interested in the negotiations promoted by Bismarck looking to a triple alliance between Ger- many, Austria and Italy, which the latest advices say has been practically con- summated. The precise nature and terms of the uew alliance have not transpired, but it is pretty well understood to unite these powers both for political and com. mercial purposes against France an Raussia. Whether it is intended to be offensive and defensive under all circum- stances remains to be seen, but it is doubtless so as to all present matters in controversy among the powers. But if the political feature of the arrangement does not include & defensive and offens- ive alliance the commercial and financial certainly does, for it will be defensive so far as the partners thereto are concerned, and offensive so far as the outside world is concerned. It will, however, be par- ticularly offensive to Russia, in that it is a sharp answer to the late attempts of that power to exclude the myn tures of other countries from her market. One of the most important provisions will be a higher tariff on Russian agricultural products, whieh will thus be thrown in still larger quantities in competition with those of the United States into the mar- kets of Great Britain. The matter is thus seen to have great importance not only with respect to Europe, but also to this country, and has the appearancc of being one of the most comprehensive and far- reaching feats of Bismark’s statesman- ship. * G Gold mining is to be developed in China by a company of Americans, with American machinery, Gold is plentiful mn China., Itis to be ®und in every one of her niueteeu provinces. The mines, bhowever, have mnot been worked, one reason being that the people have no apparatus with which to rid the excavations of water or to drive out the dangerous gases. An- other reason is that the Chinese are ham- pered by a superstition that at the bot- tom of the mine is a demon or a race of demons who become indignant at any interference with their underground abode, and scatter ramines and pesti- lences in revenge. China has learned an MDD N BTG . DAILY BEE: TR @ o A S vl 55 7 TURDAY. important lesson from the experiences of the past and take a great strde. She has at Iast come to the conclusion that if she is to"HBid hor own in the family of nations she must have & gold currency. This conclusion having forced itself upon statesmen and gov- ernment, the project has been vigorously put on foot. The whole empire of China is something over flve million square miles in extent, or very nearly onetenth of the surface of the habitable glgbe. It has a population which may ly be reckoned at four hundred millions, or cne auarter of the inhabitants of the garth, Tae recent dif- ficulties with France, the unceasing en- croachments of England and the possibil- ity of war with Russia have opened the eyes of the Chinese to the absolute neces- sity of making three radical changes. ' First, they must have a gold currency; | second, shey must have railroads, and third, they must indefinitely énlarge their telegraph system. ‘They have now about five thousand miles of wire, but that is only enough to prove that they must have much more. In other words, they are to join the other nations in the march of progress. », " Spain was remarkably prompt in hur- rying her troops into Morocco on the re- port of the death of Sultan Muley- Hassan. Six thousand men kave already been sent forward. The object i8 said to be that of protecting Spanish interests should anarchy result from the emperor's death. The commercial in- torests of Great Britain and krance in Morocco are more extensive than those of Spain, but the latter country naturally looks upon the region across the straits as one in which, by virtne of her proximity, she is spec- 1ally entitled to interfere. She has not wholly relinquished the hope perhaps of some day getting a stronger foothold 1n Morocco, and remembers how easily, in 1859, Marshal O'Donunell invaded the country, and how, after bombarding a few seaports and fighting a coupie of battles, she obtained not only apologies for insults but a cession of territory, a war indemnity, and sundry trade privi~ leges. In her present movement she seems a8 ye*, to have encountered no ob- jection from other powers. e There was unveiled at Buda-Pesth a few days ago a statue of Francis Deak, the occasion being honored by the pres- ence of Kranocis Joseph, the emperor- king of Austria-Hungary. The statue commemorates the man who made Aus- tria-Hungary, the dual constitutional monarchy that now is, the ally of Ger- many aud ltaly, out of an Austria and a Hungary held together by the sword, after a ferrible conflict. The sword had been half broken by Sadowa when the Hungarian statesman was called forth from his modest pptreat to act as pacifi- cator between hi# nation and the Haps- burg dynasty. Adting under the aus: vices of Count Beust, the newly ap- pointed leading ister of the monarch, he laid the ‘7 foundation of a new order of ithings which was to restore to the Magyr his an- cient freedom, give each component part of the empire natjonal autogomy, and create collective strength through volun- tary union. Twenty years have passed since the work was consummated, and have tested its worth and strength, The vast majority of the nation and its ruler gratefully acknowledge its excellence. As to the excellence of the man himself, as a patriot, legislator and orator, there has never beén a dissenting voice. When he died in the beginning of 1876 ‘‘the Aristides of Hungary'’ was honored by a national mourning equaling the mourn- ing over Washington or Lincoln. n.' message of to the jMexican congress shows there 1s a good deal of tension in the relations of Mexico and Guate- mala. 1t seems that early in the year the assistant secretary of the Mexican legation in Central America was as- saulted by a citizen of Guatemala, and the latter when brought to trial received a punishment far less than the laws as- signed in such cases. The Mexican min- ister was at once ordered to demand that the magistrates respousible for the evasion of the legal penalty should’ be dismissed from office. While the aftair was pending, the assumption of the dictatorship by Barillas took place, who immedistely sought recognition from President Diaz. This was refused by the latter, however, and has not yet been granted, the Mexican government pro- fessing to be ready to recognize any gov- ernment established by the people of Guatemala, but doubting if the dictator- ship was 1n accordance with the popular will. Meanwhile, a socond assault upon the same secretary has occurred, and the demand for satisfaction nas been met very chillingly. General Diaz's refer- ences to the affair amount to a distinct threat that Guatemala must move promptly or expect decided activn on the part of Mexico. The President Diaz * e Tune London workingmen are clamor- ing against the sugar bounties, and a meetng of 10,000 persons was held there recently to denounce them, As these bounties are imposed by the nations of continental Europe, the British working- man is powerless to help himself, except by calling for retalistion. France, Ger- many, Russia and ether countries by paying these bounties on the oxport of beet sugar have stimulated the growth of that product from 20 per cent to 55 per cent of the world’s production. Of course this enormous and arti- ficial stimulation has closed the British refineries and greatly damaged the countries which produce sugar from the cane, except in the case of the Hawaiiun islands, which have a great advantage in the free admission of their products to our ports. But, in the mean time, the European powers are not with- out difliculties. None of them can afford to pay millions annually to pay for other people’s sugar, but none of them dare to reduce the tax, for fear of rousing the op- position of those engaged in rasing the beets and refining. e A London journal remarks that it is a curious fact that there is hardly a reign- ing monarch in Eurove whose family is of the same nationality as the people governed, The house of Austria is really the house of Lorrane, and even in their origin the Hapsburgs wore Swiss, And if the emperor Francis Joseph be not, strictly speaking, an . Austrian, still less is he a Hungarian, although he is king of Hungary. The king of the L S e Syme g e OCTOBER 8. 1887. is .a Saxe-Coburg; the king of Denmark is a Holsteiner; the in- fant monarch of Spain is & Bourbon; the king of ltaly a Savoyard: the king of Roumania and Prince Ferdinand of Bul- garia are both foreigners, the founder of the Bornadotte dynasty in Sweden was born at Pau less than a century and a quarter ago; the czar is a Holstein-Got- torp; and the king of the Hellenes is like- wise a Holsteiner. Even in the English royal family there is very little English blood left. The Hohenzollerns were orii- inally Suabians, and therefore partly Bavarian and partly Swiss. Neither was the historic house of Orange, in which patriotism has nearly alw been the first instinct, Dutch to begin with, - Y The finding of a Greek coin of the second century, B, C., in India, does not of itself so much call for comment as does the fact that this fiad is thought something remarkable, inasmuch as 1t indicates the presence of Greek art and of Greek enterprise in the region of the Oxus at that day. The coin 18 described as a decadrachm of the Bactrian series— the first ever met with. Apparently it was struck to commemorate some victory of the Greeks over the barbarians., It finds switable lodgment in the British Museum, ——e ELEVATOR BOYS, Not Given to Speaking Much, But Al- ways to the furpose. San Francisco Examiner: “What would you do if you felt the cage fall- ing?" asked a morbidly inclined passen- ger who had just entered the machine at the fourth floor and was going to the basement. His fellow traveler on the down trip looked uncomfortable, but the elevator boy answered sulkily, *‘1 wouldn't do nuffin'.”’ *‘Why not?” Because there wouldn't be nuflin’ to do," replied the lad mpre morosely than before. “‘You might say a prayer or take np a collection oc do somethin’ pious, if you had time, but 1I'd go down with my Jaw shut and my lips suff."” “Wouldn’t you even roar ‘Look out below?' ' persisted the passenger. “No, [ wouldn’t,'"” came a dufilflcd reply. “Nobody could be in the shaft below unless the elevator was there, sod if any one had sneaked in underneath and didn't look outand get out, too, without bein’ hollered at when he heard the thing fallin’ on him, why, he’d de- serye to stov 1t, that's all I want to say, so don't ask me any more questions. Basement!” *‘Don’t you know,’ said another pas- senger, addressing the one who, con- trary to the rules, had questioned the lad while engaged 1n the conscientious discharge of his duty, ‘‘that elevator boys as a rule, are the very antitheses of barbers, and rarely care to speak, ex- cept in announcing the floor they are ap- proaching? They have, usually three oceupations, engaging their attention at the same time, and it is not at all safe to thrust a fourth upon them. They must gnaw an apple, read a book and keep a hand upon the rope. Now, if they allow themselves to become interested in a pas- senger's remarks they will be likely to be choked with a bite of the apple, to,! drop the book or to guide the eleyator to disaster. They know this, and hence therr dislike to speak or be spoken to. *““T'wice 1t has been my lot to bein a falling _elevator, ‘The first time we dropped from the sccond floor to the basement, but, beyond a few bruises, no- body was hurt. d frequently trav- eled 1n the same machine, and I had al- ways supposed the boy in charge to be as dumb as_an oyster; but, as he felt the cage ing downward, he called out, with a shrill voice, ‘Tell my mother—," but the rapidity of the descent took away his breath, and he could not complete the sentence. The shock on the base- ment floor knocked him down, and a clergyman, who had kept his feet in the cage, raised him, and, subposing him to be badly injured, said tenderly: ‘What do you wish me to say to your mother, my poor boy?' “But the lnd had ascertained that he was worth half a dozen defunct youths yet, and he answered, impatiently, ‘I wasn’t speakin’ to you. 1 was just hollecin’ to a bloke I saw standin’ on the floor above to tell mv mother to put my surpor mn the oven if I wasn’t home by 6 o’clock.’ “My second misadventure was in the enormous Mills building in New York, ‘The elevator boy was currently reported to have never allowed his discourse to wander beyond the limits of the scriptu- ral ‘yea, yea,’ and ‘nay, nay,’ as ho an- swered qu ons relating to localities, On this oc ion the elevator suddenly droppedwhen it was above the ninth floor, Knowing the dizzy depth beneath us, nobody there had a hope of living an- ute, but the machine stopped lent shock after it had fallen about three feet. Its course had been arrested by a patent automatic grip at- tached to it. *'The elevator boy wasthe first to re- cover himself. Looking at the valid faces around him lus lugubrious coun- tenance expanded 1nto a grim,us he said: ey !.hougm we was all gone that time.’’ 4 —_—— Grief too Great for Utterance. Wardner (hl:moi News: Professor Clayton tells a thrilling experience. At Ruby City, while looking over a claim to determine the most favorable place to prospect for a blind ledge, an extention of a valuable mine, he accidentally in- marking the ground, dug up some good ore and exposed the ledge. The locators, who had recently sold it for an incon- siderablo sum, were with him. One of them indulged in a grest deal of profan- ity, cursing his luck for having trifled away a fortune. Turning to his partner, who was less demonstrative he inquired: *Why don’t you knick?" *Don’t talk to me, [am hart so bad L can't kick. I'm bleeding inside.”” L The President’s Car. New York Sun; The car in which President Cleveland and s handsome wife travel around the country is Gieorge M. Puliman’s priyate car. It has every possible convenience, from a piano and library to a cook stove. It also hasa history, torit has carried nearly every great man, native or foreign, who has made an extended tour of the country in a dozen years. General Grant came east from San Francisco in it, and he used it with his family on several other journeys; it carried the late Presi Arthur when he made his memorable trip to Florida, and the duke of Suther- land ;uurncyell in itacross the continent. Mr. Puilman 1s rather proud of the car on account of these associations, and he has no present thought of parting with it. Mrs. Cleveland’'s O Sweetheart Toledo Blade: “There is a young man in Toledo,” said a young lady whose name shall remain a secret, *‘who prides himsclf on the fact that he was once Frankie Folsom's sweetheart. Like all young men who part with young ladies who afterwards marry presidents, gen- erals and governors, he imagines that she is not happy in her position ns ‘first lady of the land, and believes that Mrs, Cleveland sometimes sighs for the ‘old days and the ol friends,” the long walks through the college groves,and the hours at the old trysting place whicn he spent 50 happily hours in company with the unaflected colleze girl, who had not yet 10 snub n ZOVernor or coax s st for a new seal-skin sacque.” Rev. Dr. Hobbs, of Boston, ¢laims to have mathematical proof that thé willenium wiil be along next vear. A A NV R, ARRANGING THE BIG EVENT, The Oloveland Reception Oommittee Hard at Work Perfeoting Details. PARADE AND DECORATIONS. State Veterinarian Gerth Visits Te- kamah and Talks About the Tex| Fever Outbreak — Night and 1ts Evils, The President's Reception, The arrangements for the reception of President Cleveland are progressing in & very gratifying manner. General Wheaton will be at the rooms of the board of trade this morning at 11 o'clock and it is requested that all organizations desiring to participate wiil have their representatives roport to him for the pur- pose of making the necessary arrange- ments for the event. The committee will make a tour of the route of the pro- cession this morning, and make arrange- ments for the principal points for decora- tions. The governmental headquarters will be elegantly decorated, and the arch at Farnam and Sixteenth streets will be adorned with flags and bunting in an elaborate style. At the high school building there will be another arch under which the procession will pass. The decoration committee requests that the occupants of private residences unil business houses not situated on the cor- ners of the streets make decorations as elaborate as possible. It is contem- plated that the decorations at the Eleventh street viaduct will also be very fine. The Musical Union band have ar- ranged a special programme for the oc- casion. It has been ed that Congressman McShane aud a limited reception commit- tee to be appointed by the chair, meet the president on the lowa side and welcome him to this state. It was also decided that when on this side he should be wel- comed by the mayor. GERTH U-N TEXTS FEVER. The State Veterinarian Visita Teka- mah and Investigates the Disease, Dr. J. Gerth, jr., state veterinary sur- geon, went to Tekamah yesterday in company with Comwissioner Abbey and Dr. Ramaccoiotti, assistant state veteri- nary surgeon. Dr. Gerth's object was for the purpose of investigating Dr. Bill- ings' cases of Texas fever which has broken out among the native cattle of Tekamah, and which the latter claims was transferred from the suffering cattle in the native herd to other cattle in the same herd. This theory is exactly oppo- gite to that of Dr. Gerth's, who has al- ways claimed that it is impossible for the disease to spread among the cattle of na- %i\'c herds to other cattle in the same her Dr. Gerth, after examining the much- talked of case very thoroughly, retu | to Omaha last evening, and in conv. tion witk a Brg reporter said: dr. Biliings has done more to injure the cattle business of Tekawah than any other one thing. He has spread his opinion in regard to the contagion of the ‘l'exas fever broadeast, and in conse- qu buyers or purchasers cannot be ound in that part of the uuunlr_}'. I have always been of the opinion, and am of the same opinion yet, that Texas fever will not spread in a herd of native cattle. The way the malady strikes our native cattle is from the southern cattle. When the latter come north they do not die from the effects of it, but the native cattle are almost sure to die from it. As far as my observation and experience reaches, the malady cannot be trans- ferred from native cattle to other native cattle, and owing to the theory ady: by Dr. Billings, the people of Te are alarmed, and cattle business there is almost stagnated. He has just one case where he claims that the disease was transmitted, and I have come to the con- clusion upon investigation that he has not the least of grounds upon which to base his statements. His case isin Smith & Gammols’ herd of cattle, and he claims that it was in their pasture that the malady was trapsmutted. I find in the first place that just across a road (sixty feet wide) from this pasture therc isa herd of cattle owned by Langford. Then I was told on good authority that it is not known where Smith & Gammols' cattle haye been at times, for it is a well known fact that their cattle have stam- peded many times, and that they may have been across the rond among the Texas catle. Sheriff Skinner also tells me that s al of the Texas ecattle have se and roaming outsige of their and that parties have reported r to him several times, and ral them. This 1 anse the pasture in which they are confi is only fenced with two lines of wire, and it would be very easy for some of these catile to get the wires and roam wherever they pleased. “There are several other things that also might betaken into consideration. ‘The native cattic are known to have come over the same trail that the Texas cattle were on, and they may easily have caught the malady there. Then again the high winds may have blown the dry manure from the pastare of the Texas catule to that of the native cattle, and the disease could have been generated 1n that manner. 1 think that Dr. Bilings has acted very unwisely in this matter. He has done more harm to the cattle trade of that part of the country than the entire out- break of Texas fever, and the indirect loss 1s more serious than the discase it- self. This is his first experience with Texas fever and he 18 now trying to over- ride authority. 1do not blame himn for trying to make a mark, but if he wants to hand the famous name of Billings down to posterity with honors, he had better tackle something that he knows more about and can demonstrate in a proper 'his malady has not made any more inroads on our cattle than we expected. You will remember that [ stated to you nearly two months ago that we should probably lose between 200 and 300 cattle from the disease, and the number of deaths has not overreached our ex- pectations: If Dr. Billings' the- ory was correct we would have to take even more stringent action than we are practicing at present, but 1 believe that under the circumstances the quaran- tine ruies that we have mude are all that i peaking of glanders being pre- valent among the horses of the state Dr. Gerth said that it was fast abatin Just before visiting Tekamah Dr. Ramaceiotti and Commissioner Abbey visited Blair and killed two horses which were suffer- ing with the disense. NIGHT AND ITS EVILS, Dr. Benson's Discourse at the Synagogue Last Evening, The subject of Rabbi Beuson's dis- course at the Synagogue last evening was “Night and Its Evils.” The reverend gentleman said in brief: Living in our bright, sunny homes, we are not prone to make inquiry concerning night and its evils, but rather to think of flowery fields and sun-lit landscapes. It is only in time of sickness and aflliction that we think of night. In yonder lonely cham- ber at midnight sits » forsuken wite. Her Rev, husband is that inebriato who sitsen. veloped in a cloud of tobaoceo smoke at the ganiing table. Iow should we spend our evenings and rob night of its evils for us, The minister wifi suy: ‘'In read- ing your bible; the miser, in condemn: inix the extortion of gas and coal monop- oliag; the journahst, in reading good papers and discussing the cur- rent events of the time. But unfortunately the reading of the bible is irksome to most of mankind, the gas and coal companies must be patronized, and the small type of the newspaper makes reading grow tiresome; besides, many of ont modern scribes imagine mud-slinging and sensational journalism to be the key to public favor.” The way to svena your evenings is at home among your children cultivating their habits of thought and their disposition. The ‘‘Jewish home,' the song of the poet and object of admi- ration of even our enemies is the ono which 1 to-night recommend for your adoption, Personnal Paragravha. H. F. Douns, of Lincoln, 18 at the Mil- lard. C. T. Brown, of Lincoln, is at the Mil. lard . J. Potter left last evening for St, Paul. Bishop Worthington went to Fremont to-day. F. G. Haines, Millard. W. W. Smith, of Kansas City, is at tho Paxton. C. H. Miller, of Kearney, was in town yestorday. William H. Atwood, of Fremont is at the Paxton Hugh Pettit, of Memphis, Tenn., is at the Millard. C. F. Titus, of Creston, Ia., is at the Merchants, I. W. Akin, of Des Moines, 18 a guest at the Paxton, Lee Robinson, of Kansas City, is a guest at the Millard. W. V. Abbey, of Falls City, is staying at the Paxton. J. H. Cowan, of Lowell, is staying at the Merchants. A. G. Fisher, of Chadion, was at the Paxton yesterday. J. R. Laur and wife, of Davenport, Ia., are at the Millard. Senator Paddock went to his home in Bestrice yesterday. W. H. McCann, of Hay Springs, 1s & guest at the Paxton. Charles Heldman, a Baltimore travel- ing wan, is in town. ‘. E. Beard, of Fort Dodge, Ia., is reg- istered at the Paxton. George W. Rhode, of Kansas City, isin town for a few days. W. O. Everett, of Milwaukee, was at the Millard yesterday. Dr. J. Gerth, jr., state veterinary sur- geon, is at the Paxton. E. T. Butler and wife of Neligh, are registered at the Paxton. George M. Meyers, of Kansas City, registered at the Millard. Geo. H. Waterbury, of Denver, is reg- istered at the Merchants, A. B. George, of Cedar Rapids, Ia., 18 registered at the Puxton. W. H. Stanley, of Hot Springs, Dakota, is registered > Millard. John M. Dyer, a well known business man of Ugallala, is at the Paxton. s M. Ingham, of Manchester, registered at the Paxton. arke, a well known railroad ying at the Merchants. J. S. Shoemaker, & prominent business mau of Champion, 18 at the Millard. W. IL. Farnsworth, a prominent busi- ness man of Biair, 18 at the Millard, W. F. Black, a well known business man of Kearney, is at the Merchants. Rev. William Bouchier and R. Bouchier, of Red Oak, Ia., are at t| Paxton. S. Solomon, of Paris, ¥rance, who 18 enjoying a tour of this country, is a guest ut the Paxton. Clarence Brown, of the p: partment of the Union Pa from Chicago yesterday. Hon. J.D.Meiklejohn, of Nance county, chairn of the republican state cent I committee, is in the city. N. B. Huberman, the well known jew- eller, returned yesterday from Germany after several months' absence. Robert Campbell. of Perry, assistant superintendent of the Chicago, Milwau- kee & St. Paul, was in the city atew hours yesterday. Steve Mills. a well known rsilroad man of this city, left on & pleasure trip to Arkansas last evening. He contem- plates also a visit to New Orleans. Mr. Jesse Nason and wife, of Mount Carroll, IlL,, arc¢ in the city visiting their two sons and daughter—Dr. A, W. Nason, W Nason and Mrs. N. S, Miner. John Prin of Kearney, is at tho is nger de- fie, arrived , the byciclist, returned from Plum Creck to-day where he haa two races against horses. In the halfa mile spin best two out of three, Prince lwun. ‘The tive miles straight away he ost. James A. Smith who is called the “story telling'’ drummer of the west and represents Brown & Earle, cigar manu- facturers of New York city with heads quarters in Kansas City, is here on a brief visit. SCRATCHED 28 YEARS. 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