Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 10, 1887, Page 4

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TZsCHUCK, Sworn to and subscribed in_my presence this Bth day of November, A, D, 1547, N. P. FEIL, (SEAL) Notary Public Btate of Nebraska, ! Comty of Douglas, {58 Geo, B.1zachuck, being first duly sworn, de- otes and says thit Le is secretary of The Beo Publishing cotpany, that the actual average duily circulation = of the Daily TBee for the * mouth of November, 3 coples; for December, 188, 13,237 copie for Junuary, 157, 16206 coples: for Feb Tuary, 1987, 14,1 for March, 1857, 14,400 <o 3 1,016 copies: for M k67, 14,147 copie August, 1557, 14, GRO. B. TZSCHUCK. Sworn to and subscribed in m( prese this 6th day of October, A, D. 187, NP, F (SEAL.) Notary WE thiuk Judge Groff has been fully vindicated. WHERE was the Fourth ward repub- lican club on Tuesday? DAVEMERCER has decided to resume his lucrative law practice. BALLOU and Estello now know what the people think of them, HONEST George Timme did not sweep the county like a prairie fire. THE people of the Third judicial dis- trict have decided to keep the judiciary pure. . ns if they had gone back on natures. ———— OMATIA has redeemed herself from the reputation that she is controlled by hoodlyms and dive keepers. ———— THE price of beef on the hoof and dressed 15 now lower than ever known before in many parts of the west. CINCINNATI claims to have sccured the national republican convention. Woell she is the hogopolis sure enough. PAT Forp worked very hard for Es- tolle and Ballou, but the bloody Third did not all go one way as Pat predicted. — JupnGiNGg from the amount of stuff bein® found in Lingg’s cell the im- pression is that he occupies the whole jail. ——— THE cover should be removed from Cleveland’s cabinet and the people be allowed to look in and sce what is the matter. — THe BeE never did have any political influence, you know, but somehow it always manages to guess which way the wind blows. ——— PAT O. HAWES and Dennis Lane lay it all to Broatch. How could they make their influence felt with lemonade and ginger ale? ——— JouN M. THURSTON'S oratory and Ballou’s brass bands had no appreciable effoct on the rank and file of thoughtful republicans. PRESIDENT CLEVELAND having saved his stato for his party will now revise ¥ vimarks on pernicious activity and offensive partisanship. HASCALL, who kept discreetly out of reach of the landslide, now points to his speech in the judicial convention: “Didn’t I told you so!” POOR VANDERBUM fecls very much down in the mouth. His iron jaw isal- most paralyzed from campaign speak- ing,and all to no purpose. — THE New York farmers seem to have neglected the united labor party's ticket. Division of land does not suit the farmer unless he gets his price for it. ——— IF the Crown Prince dies, and it now seems impossible for him to recover, Bismarck will have to step around pretty lively to keep the triple alliance solid. GOVERNOR GORDON should have stumped New York state. One result of his visit to Ohio was an increase in Foraker’s majority of about ten thou- sand. SENATOR MANDERSON was ounly jok- ing when he urged the republicans of Omaha to stand by Estelle, Ballou and Huncock. Ho knew they would pay no attention to his advice. As a party wrecker Cadet Taylor has no equal this side of Illinois. His mag- netle leadership bas ditched the repub- lican ticket, and given the democrats more thun they ever drcamed of cap- turing —_— HENATOR EDMUNDS says that he will push the postal telegraph measure in congross as soon as possible after the Iatter opeus. It is said that he does not favor the purchase of any of the exist- Ing lines but that the government shall oroot 1te own wires. Can it be possible that the senator wants to make postal tolegraphy & costly failure? The Roustabouts Repudiated. The triumphant election by sweeping majorities of the non-partigan judiciary ticket in this district rogisters the popu- lar protest against the roustabouts and their methods. It will probably be o long time before another attempt is made to put upon the bench of this dis- triot men who are notoriously unfit for such a position and who lack the confidence of the people, which every judge should have. The rebuke administored to the reck- less party hacks who imagined that they could whip decent republicans into line and force the election of dangerous men and incompetents to the judicial positions in this district could not well be more emphatic. It teaches a lesson which we hope will not soon be forgot- ten. Itis a remonstince which pru- dent leaders must heed, and which as- piring roustabouts will long remember. The mere fact that the republicans are in a majority in this county and district affords no guaranteo of an clection unless the clean and competent candidates are nominated. This 18 by no means the first time that the best elements of the party have repudiated the work of a nominating convention. These periodic revolts are the safety valve against the dangerous overpressure exerted by the party machine in the hands of un- principled men. The BEE heartily con- gratulates the people of the Third dis- trict upon their deliverance from a roustabout judiciary and the election of men who are entitled to their confidence and esteem. — A Brilliant Political Fight. The local political fight in New York City was one of the most brilliant poli cal battles ever witnessed. The chief point of interest was the district attor- neyship, an office of vast importance, as the conclusion of the case against Jacob Sharp, charged with bribing the alder- men, was involved. Two candidates presented thomselves, both democrats, and both assistants under the present district attorney, Martine. Col. John R. FPellows, the joint nominee of Tam- many and the county democracy, was the orator of the boodle trials. He made the final pleas before the juriesin five of the six trials, and in four of thom se- cured a conviction. Delancey Nicoll, his opponent, has had sole charge of the boodle cases and the work of propara- tion and presentation of evidence, se- lecting juries and arguing pointsfin taw has been his, The impression obtained that the case against Sharp now before the court of appeals was to be dropped, and that Fellows was chosen to do the work, The republicans on the strength of this impression took up the cause of young Nicoll, a candidate for the dem- ocratic pomination, and placed him on the republican ticket. A cross fight of unusual bitterness immediately arose, the mugwumps joining in to support Nicoll. The New York World was cs- pecially severe in its criticisms upon Fellows. and he was charged with being o dead-beat, with unsatisfied judgments of over $10,000 standing against him. His sympathy and connection with the exiled boodlers in Cunada was shown, and fac similes of correspondence dated fourteen yecars ago between him and ‘Cweed was shown. Against these damaging attacks Colonel Fellows stood up manfully and with honeyed oratory explained them all away. Nevertheless the democracy, with a clear working majority in the city of fifty thousand, was alarmed for the candidate, and Mayor Hewitt wrote an urgent appeal making Colonel Fellows’ cause his own, praying the democracy to stand to- gether for the sake of the state ticket and national administration. At the eleventh hour President Cleveland was induced to write a letter endorsing the whole ticket and with a special request that Fellows be elected. The fight be- came desperate for Fellows, a poor man, and fifty-soven years of age. Without o law practice, defeat under such charges meant poverty and disgrace for himself and family. Nor could his party well stand defeat for this powerful official. Nicoll, although a young man and exceedingly brilliant, stood in the position of a bolter after going to the convention of his party as a can- didate and defeat for him meant his political death, The World with itsen- ormous circulation and the Zimes with its mugwump following were also in the balance, the former alienating itself forever from the local democracy and the lutter cutting itsell off from Cleve- dand and the administration. For these two papers Nicoll's success was of the greatest importance. Both forces had exhausted their resources in behalf of their candidates and money. was used on both sides without stint. As a result Fellows is elected by a handsome major- ity. Nicoll receives 10,000 votes more than were given to Grant, and the George candidato for the district attor- neyship falls behind his ticket 10,000 votes. The Result in Onio. It has never been seriously doubted that the republican ticket in Ohio would be successful. The democrats were heavily handicaped by the very bad record which the party had made during the past three or four years. Frauds at the ballot box, corruption in the legislatuve, extravagance in admin- istration which bankrupted the state treasury, and the prostitution of the su- preme court to partisan purposes, made a load that no party could carry with any hope of success in a state whose voters read and are of average intelli- gence. The effort of the democratic leaders to divert attention from the sins of the party and run che campaign on national issues was neither success- ful nor profitable, The peo- ple could mnot forget the record, and in the discussion of national issues there were several im- portant respects in which the democrats were at a disadvantage., Not the least of these was the advanced position they took on the tarif question, which, however admirable as an example of courage dissatisfied a great many demo- crats who are as ardent believersin pro- tection as are the republicans of Ohio. Neither was it wise to avowedly make the fight in the interest of the national administraton, which was done when the democratio eandidate for governor was nominated and mude more distinctly ap- parent as the campaign advanced. It forced an issne that ought to have been resorved for a yoar later and compelled the republicans of Ohio to record their yerdict tion twelve months in advance. happened curred to imbue them with a special hostility to the administration which, had a year been allowed to intervene, might have proved less effective. it is, Ohio can with entire safety be placed in the republican column for 1888, whatever may arise meanwhile. Tt was an unfortunate move for the dem- ocrats in importing the governor of Georgia, fresh from praising and honor- ing the chief of the confederacy, to take part in their campaign. were other blunders, but thoss cited, added to the burden of its many sing, were sufficient to defeat the party, and the wonder is that the republican majority is not much larger. mour concerns have given assur- ances to the Stockman, the organ of the packing interests at South Omaha, that preparations being made for the slaughter of cattle on a large scale. put the cattle market at South Omaha on as substantial a footing as that upon which the hog market is to rest. Omaha has beretoforo been powerless to influ- ence the cattle mavi of this section has been dependent upon on the presidential quos- It oc- that circumstances As Thero we have The personal effect of the republican victory in Ohio will very likely be to strengthen Governor Foraker in the good opinion of the party generally. cannot gullant aggressive campaign, and has demonstrated that he is a politician of mind-and mettle, qualifications essen- tinl to a leader. pardonable for the sectional controversy that became so prominent a feature of the campaign, since the democratic plan provoked it. that Mr. Foraker is rather too fond of this line of disc undoubtedly at his best, and for this reason is not the man to be pushed far to the front as representing the spi and sentiment of the ropublican pi as a whole. ers who will probably endeavor to do this, and it will be well to serve timely notice upon them that the republicans of the country, at least outside are not expecting and do not de the presidential campaign shall be run on tho O Foraker is likely to be something more of a figure in the party councils than he has been, and in the proper place will undoubtedly render good service. It be denied that he made a He is to some extent But it is to be said ssion, in which he is t 'ty He has very warm admir- of Ohio, ire that model. Nevertheless Mr. Of Great Benefit to Omaha. The opening of the Armour packing house at South Omaha yesterday is an event of great interost to the people of this city. slaughtored the first day, but this num- ber is by no means the full capacity of the concern. tration of the leading packing concerns in South Omaha this city has become for this section a better hog market than Chicago. Armour house, which will now continue to slaughter from 1,000 to 5,000 hogs daily during the season, establishes a bome market that cannot possibl excelled. establishment, fully as large as the Armour house, will be opened, and the local demand for hogs will be materially increased. culty under which buyers and sellers at South Omaha ruling, of Kansas City and Chicago prices for live stock and the conse- quent fluctuations dependent on the re- ceipts at the South Omaha yards in ex- cess of the demand at the local packing houses. ready been mnoticed asa result of the work of Armour’s buyers. character to the Omaha stock market that draw: ers and producers in Nebraska and west- ern Iowa. One thousand hogs were By reason of the concen- The opening of the be Within a few days the Swift This will remove the difti- have labored—the A stiffening of prices has al- This gives a attention hither of all deal- Representatives of the Swift and Ar- are now This, of course, will et and the product the fluctuations at Chicago and Kansas City. With a strong demand from these to two cnormous packing houses, Owmaha’s live stock markets will be of far greater importance to this section than those of either Kansas City or Chicago. The United States Senate. It seen.~ to be very probable that Mr. Riddleberger. of Virginia, will be suc- ceeded in the United States senate by a democrat. His term will expire March 3,1889. As the two parties now stand in the senate the republicans have 39 and the democrats 37, classing Riddleberger as a republican, He has exhibited in- dependent tendencies, however, which make him uncertain, and he may at any time make a tie by voting with the democrats. Whether he will be more or less likely to do this by reason of the result of the election in Virginia itis difficult to say. A democratic successor to the Virginia senator will not change the relative strength of the two parties in the senate if, as now appears proba- ble, the republicans have secured a ma- jority in the New Jersey legislature and will thus be enabled to clect & ro- publican successor to J. R. McPherson, whose term will e in 1889. It is not improbable, however, that the claim of David S. Turpie to the scat of Senator Harrison, of Indiana, witl be disallowed in which case the republicans would have a majority of two without Riddleberger., Of the other senators whose terms wil expire in 1889 all will undoubtedly be succeeded by men of like politics, so that the present political complexion of the United States senate will prob- ably not be changed during the next four years. It is perhaps not unfortun- ate that the two political partics are so nearly evenly divided in the senate, but it is & misfortune that a man so erratic, unreliable and generally wrong-headed as Riddleberger should have it in his power to tie that body and thereby re- tard and embarrass business, or perhaps work mischief. The Banner Ward. The Fourth ward has for years been the bwuner ward of republicanism in Omaha, Populated almost entively by business meu and the best class of our citizens its expression through the bal- lot box affords a reliable index of the sentiment of the reputable and intelli- gent element of the community, Tho banner ward has been heard from and it spoke with no uneortain sound. Judge Maxwell, who represents the party sentiment of the ward, received 038 votes for supreme judge, ngainst 499 for the democratic candidate. In other words, the republican majority of the Fourth ward on supreme judge was 439. Contrast with this the voto for district judges. The banner ward gave Istelle only 425 votes and Ballouonly 374, whilo of their competitors Wakeley received 1,185, Groft 5,081, and Doane 1,043, Just think of ¥t! A republican ward © which gave Judge Maxwell 430 majority gave Wakeley 710 majority over Estelle and 761 over Ballou, whilo Groft beats Estelle 656 and Ballou 707, and Doane, who was represented as awfylly unpopular, beats Estelle 618 and Ballou by 669, The bauner republican ward gave Frank Moores 998 votes, or a clean ‘majority of 559 over his demo- eratic opponent, while Dave Mercer, for county judge, only received 563 votes altogether and was beaten by Shields, democrat, by 810, This is the most scathing rebuke that has ever been ad- ministered in this state. It is a procla~ mation by the reputable element of the party that only clean and competent candidates can counton its support. Ture interfercnce of the president in the Massachusetts campaign appears to have beon less effective than was his intermeddling in New York. There was great joy in the democratic camp of the Bay state when the information was communicated that Mr. Cleveland endorsed the state ticket and desired its vicction. The disaffected ceased their complaining and those who were satis- fied became sanguine of success, It was believed the expression of the president would at once draw into line the mug- wump vote, which with the Butler con- tingent was thought to make the outlook for the democracy entively screne, It is now evident, however, that ¢ ous miscalculation was made somewhere, and very lik it was with regard to those somewhat troublesome and uncer- tain fellows,the mugwumps. Tven a presi- dential endorsement could not induce them to accept Lovering, and it may ap- pear when the figures are all in that there were a good many democrats who felt the same way. Democratic politics in Massachusetts has been somewhat de- moralized, and may be more so since Tuesday’s defeat, yet with Cleveland as the candidate next year the republicans would be surer of some other states than of Massachusetts, TnE state of New Hampshire hajcome tardily into line with the states which have laws to prevent and punish bribery or corruption, and this cannot ho ex- plained on the ground that there h been no demand for such a law. How- ever, the legislature finally grasped the situation and possed a law which provides that whoever at- tempts to corruptly influence an execcu- tive or judicial officer, or member of the legislature, shall be punished by im- prisonment not exceeding five years or a fine not exceeding 83,000, and whoever accepts a bribe shall forfeit his oflice, be forever disqualified for holding oflice, und be imprisoned not more thun ten years or fined not exceeding 85,000. Such a law ought to insure New Hump- shire against un THE unsuccessful candidacy of Colonel "rederick Dent Grant for the oflice of secrotary of the state of New York dem- onstrates the impossibility of bodily transferring to a son the boundless love and veneration which the people have for the father. No name isdearer to the hearts of the people than that of Grant, and nothing, were the father alive, would be denied him. But that the son does not share in this was clearly shown by the result of the vote in New York state. Tho people pluce no valie whatever upon the ancesty of a man unless he inherits powers which in themsclves command respect and attention. —_— DivVISION has probably carried in Da- kota, but tho indications ave by a small majority. There was far less interest maunifested in the question than had heen expected in view of the effort that had been made to arouse the people. Porhaps a general feeling that nothing is to be hoped for from the democratic congress will explain the widespread indifference reported. GORMAN victorious in Maryland makes Higgins and all his other hench- men secure. The reformers need hope for no further attention from the ad- ministration, while the chief of the Maryland machine may be expected to wield the sceptre in managing the next national democratic campaign. CHIEF JUSTICE FIELDS now relates how an infernal machine was once sent to him also. Such devices are not nearly so dangerous to men in his posi- tion as the bombs they manufacture for themselves every time they decide with the monopolies and against the people. JupGE MAXWELL must feel highly gratified at the renewed evidence of his populavity which is furnished by Tues- day’s vote. It is a splendid and merited endorsement of the fearless and upright judge. HOLE-IN-THE-DAY, JR., another son of his father, has been adopted by a white family in xl nuesota. Having thus advanced in the social scale he will soon be in trim % Fun for supreme judge of Nebraska on {he domocratic ticket. e—— GENTLEMEN who were “left” on Tuesday should not fail to give their serious attention to the figures. They are the estimate which their fellow- citizens place upon them, and are a pretty just measure of their merit. THERE is a faiv prospect of a rate war between the Milwaukee & St, Paul and the Chicago, Burlington & Quincey v 1f the contest is as fierce as the tl between the two lines the freight between Omaha and Chicago will knocked quite low. —— WneN the Union Pacific shortened the time of trains between San Fran- cisco sud Chicago by one day much be NOVEMBER 10, 1887 active competition was stirred up in that direction. All the rival roads are now preparing new time tables, show- ing decided reductions in time to Chicago and New York —e PRESIDENT CLBVELAND endorsed ‘‘his old friend Col. Fellows” for district attornoy of New York, and Fellows endorsed his old friend Tweed by bor- rowing $523 from him during his trial for bribery. Public office is a public trust, but politics is polities. Tie Republican sa Themugwumps are on top.” 1In this case the term “mugwump” is a synonym for decency, common sense, integrity and ability. When such an issue is forced the mug- wump will always be on top, and don't you forget it. D OF INDUSTRY. Last weck six carloads of cotton jeans were shipped from Biddeford, Me., to China. It has been estimated that there aro 600,000 saleswomen in the United States and 200,000 dressmakers, A California mechanic has invented a stemming machine that stems five full car- loads of raisins daily. Artistic hrass work is becoming very com- mon throughout the west on account of the great reduction in cost, A Maine mechanic has invented a hy- dranlic press that compresses sawdust into one-fourth its loose volume. The Amsterdam knitting mills have all large orders al The New England dry goods mills ave nearly all overcrowded with order New manufacturing companies are spring- ing up in the west, and there seems to be no trouble i obtaining sufticient capital to start Ul o is a good searcity of Spanish ores in gn markets, and ocean freight rates been advanced. This will affect the ¢ iron. Indianapolis’ natural gas people are about to buy §100.000 worth of wrought iron pipe to conduct nntural gas to that city from wells twenty miles away. It has beon estimated that the present pro- duction of finished silk goods in tho United States is $60,000,000; capital employed, $0,- 000,000, and number of hands, 50,000, Manufacturers in Great Britain are_grad- ually adopting liquid fuel in place of raw fuel. A London ship builder has just built a steam launch of 120 tons burden to be run by petroleumn, which is injected into the fur v means of steam taken from the boiler. This experiment will be watched. There arc 20 blast furnaces in and about Pittsburg, 85 rolling mills, 29 steel works, 13 window glass works, 87 flint glass works and 11 green glass works, The blast furnaces malke 900,000 tons of iron per year, the roll- ing mills 575,000 tons; steel o1l ),000 tons; plate glass works, 3,250,000 square feet ; window glass wor ),000 boxes, The painters, plasterers, and decorators are very busy at this soason completing coutract worlk, and will probably be erowded with in« terior work during the winter. A vast amonnt of alteration is contemplated and building labor genorally will find more em- ployment the coming winter than herecto- fore. Valuable anthracite coal finds are being made on the Northern Pacific coast. Ono district i 1 to posscss the richest coal measures in theworld, One vein is fourteen feet th nother thirty feet and another twelve f All these scams are within a distance of 700 yards, There are seven seams. in all. For some reason the conl owners of South Wales propose to abolish the shding scale, by ‘which 60,000 miners have been paid for ten years. During the past threc years $15,000,- 000 or its equivaient, has been expended by English mechanics, colliers and cotton spin- ners in paying the cost of strikes. On uccount of tho rapid expansion of our manufacturing capacity the machine shops of the country continueto be excecdingly busy, and as a consequence prices have begun to move up. This is welcome news to ma- chinemakers, as for been doing work on vears past thoy have ery narrow margins. Sigteaa s Distinction. ocean will hercafter enjoy the unique d ion of being the ono thing in God’s universe that over gotmore from Juy Gould than it gave. The Atlanti el EO TR A Health Injaring Strain, St. Louis Globe-Democrat, The announcement that Mr. Cleveland has an attack of rheumatism leaves no room to doubt that the mental straiu of his recent specchmaking was entirely physical, as un Ivish philosopher would state the case. S on. ctricians have discovered that the hu- 1in when at work evolves enough hea 1 electric motor, through the inter- vention o Onc of these days, the ministers, and_editors will be given free passes on the railroads on condi- tion that they woar thermopiles in their hats, think hard, and furnish power for the loca- motives. et AT Glorious Autumn, Boston Courier, Crimson autumn, golden autumn, autumn of our northermelime, Spring they say's a splendid season, but you beat it every time. Season of delightful evenings, charming mornings, glorious noons, Purple dawnings, rosey sunscts, tender Stac- light, niellow moous. Crimson nutumn, golden autumn, autumn of our northern clime, Life is sweet and worth the iving when we $CC you in your prime. In the autumn days we suffer neither from the heat nor cold, And there are no flies upon us while the sceptre she doth hold. sing of spring time, let them, Are a rap, glorious autumn, never lingers in your lap. ’ Colds, nor ehills, nor_dread pncumonia, ever your reign molest, folds Ler arms around you and ex- pircs upon your breast. Dies upon your bosom, autumn, leaving you the wreath she won, All the riches that she gathered 'neath a fiercely burning sun. But you freely share them with us till old winter in his rage, Hoary winter comes to rob you of your precious heritage. In the autumn twixt the winter's cold and summer's parching heat, We are ne'er assailed with 'questions as we pass along the street. Questions foolish, idiotic, answered not, ex- cept by few, Such as, “Cold as blazes, ain’t it?" or, “Is't liot ¢nough for you " In the autumn when the glory lies upon the woods and hills, We've no more ice cream to pay for, no more iceman’s monthly bills, In the autumn comes rejoicing, for the picnic #cason's by, Anda we run nq risk of sitting on lemon, squash or custard pie, Crimson autumn, !mrple autumn, golden autumn, season blest, All thy days are tull of pleasure, all thy nights are full of rest. And the fow! which (so the story hath been hauded ¢ Wh 1O us) built by Remus and his nulus, At an altitude's suspended, such as gives to mankind cheer, In the autumn, gorgegus autumn, gladdest season of the yoar( THE TELECRAPH OPERATOR Tho Salary and Reeponsibilities of the Position. SOME BENEFIT ORGANIZATIONS. Few Old Telegraphers—The Fight of the B. & O. Company— Some Intereste ing Facts. New Yonrk, Nov. 8.—[Correspondenco of the Ber.]—There are about 50,000 telegraph operators in this country. Their wages have declined 10 or 15 per cent within the last five years. They were puid best before the strike. In the Western Union the standard salary then was 890, First class operators got $85 and 305 per month. After the strike operators who received those salaries got 875. A year afterward the standard was made $80. Later $00 and 895 was paid to old first class operators; after which the declino waggeneral, to the present rate. The s¥Mdard is still $50, A few old hands get more. Nonew operator does, Very many receive less. Salaries range from $35 to 875 or §80 as a rule for men, The range for wo- men isfrom 835 to 850. They never receive men’s wages. In some fow cases, however, women can do men’s work in full. Her work in general com- pares better with man’s work than her y with man’s pay, in telegraph Vere hor work exactly on a ' par man’s, she would not get the same w ges. A telegraph oflic expresses it: “*When we have to pay men’s wages to women,we will put men in their places.” There is a disposition on the part of telegraph companics to hive women,and if in all cases the latter were equal to the demands of the business, they would be employed perhaps exclusively. MALE OPERATORS say that in general the labor is too heavy and too steady for women, and that women do not succeed as well as men on long circuit work. Here the tax on putienc nerves and coolness is betfer borne by men, it i3 said. Night work again is endured by men better than women. In the matter of discipline there is no dif- ference; women working as steadily and ously as men. The Baltimero and Ohio company employed wemen in greater proportions than the estern Union; never paying more than $50 per month. In the heavy days’ work of the Baltimoro and Ohio company some of the womon operators would send from 350 to 400 messages daily. This is a big ith ’s work for a man. The hours of ight fo work ig the day and seven for night. IM 188 operators under pressure can send 500 messages, aggre- grating about 5,000 words, in these hours. This is very exceptional, Four hundred messages are a big day’s work; 350 a good one. Three hundred ure nearer the average. Women in the telegraph employ are in most cases unmarried. It s said that they marry oft but slowly. They are generally yonng and comel They are perhaps the handsomest division of women employes, The percentage of women operators in New York city ]is about 80, outside of There ave several insurance and mu- tual BENEFIT ORGANIZATIONS among the telegraph operators, They are local with one exception. The tele- graphers’ Mutual benefit association, which is general, has its office in New York city and a membership over all i of the world. The ago of eligibil- ty to admission is from 18 to 45 years. The initiation fee is $2, and the sum aid to beneficiaries of deceased mem- hers is $1,000 per person deccased. Upon_the death of a member in good standing an assessment of from 81 to $2, according to age of entry, is made upon the survivors. The number of mem- bers of this association in round numbers is 8,300, and the re- fund for 1887, is $64,000. is :umulated by a caleula- tion of 2 per cent of the entire amount of insurance provided by tho association. ,000 of this fund held by the Western Union Telegraph company trustee, and the balauce by D! association’s ex- In New York City there is the Tele- graphers’ Aid society, with an initia- tion fec of $1 for any operator; dues fifty conts per month. This sociely pay: #5 per week to o member in_ cusc i and 875 in case of death, to his aric There are about five hundred members. The officers are all Western Union employes. Another is the Gold and Stock Life TInsurance association with about four hundred members, Thedues are fifty cents per month, and the benefit is 3600 payable in twelve months at $50 per month, Another is a building associa- tion and saving institution, and finally, in some respects most important, is the Brotherhood of Telegraphers, A SECRET ORGANIZATION connected with the Knights of Labor. Its members have nothing to impart concerning it to disinterested inquirers, Those who are not members have no furt] knowledge of it than is to be in- ferred from its association with the Knights, The per centage of women in the ‘Telegrapher’s Mutual Benefit asso- ciation is in the neighborhood of five Their percentage in the T Aid society, which gives as- of ‘sickness, 1s much sistance in larger—about 25 per cent. There are few old telegraphers. Operators ure anxious to quit the busi- ness which affords good pay for a young man but poor for elders und holds no fur ture, The operator of twenty or twent five carns as good pay at ho can ex at fifty. Many drop out of the larg fices ~ continually. They stenographors go to the brokers’ offices on the ate tickers Dusiness; or connection in similar man- operators were and remain in the broker: they enter the newspa and innumerable oth: ner. Baltimore & O] v mostly reeruits from Western Union. As members of the Baltimore & Ohio they were animated by u strong corps spirit and loyalty. In join- ing the Daltimore & Ohio “they ‘sup- posed that they were permanent placed under & company that woul never sell out, Many of THE BALTIMORE & OH10 success in its fights with Western Union were greatly due to the concert and sontiment of the employes. There was an cnlistment of the imaginative side in them, having a practical effect in the competitions of the companics The freights of the Baltimore & Ohio company against Western Union were entered into with free will by the Balti- more & Ohio employes, who often won the battle for their employers. Ou the 1st of November of this year fifty employes of the Baltimore and Ohlo telegruph company, now merged in the Western Un received their discharge in the morning without the month’s notice due by their contract. They were given two weeks' pay upon leaving. These terms were ac- cepted by certuin proportion company of the dischargod omployes, Others h entertained idens of suing for the fall month’s pay. The lack of concert op~ erated as an ohstacle to this_course. The remaining Baltimore & Ohio em- ployes look forward to any uncortaint) in the wuy of discharge from 100 to operators, —an Mrs. SBachs' Pancake. St Paul Globe, Mrs, Sachs, the St. Louis fomale who won notoricty and a court trial by t ng a pan- cake into tho lap of the president's wifo, is now on exhibition in a dime museum in 8t. Louis, What of the pancale! 1f it is like the average pancake baked in the all-nighb restaurant, the probability 18 that some on- terprising sheemaker who knows a good thing when ho sces it I8 using it for a lap- stone, —— ——— ' Boodle, Cincinnati Commercial-Gazette: T'ho word boodlo bas gone into the United States language. — Fuastern newspapors, oven those of Doston, uso it without quotation marks. We believe the word originally appeared in the Commereial- Gazette in a report of tho great Amer- ican Express robbery {in Cincinnati several years ago. Ono Sunday after- noon a one-horse wagon wus driven up to the office on Race strect, a small iron traveling safe loaded on and taken across tho river into Kentucky and rifled. Larry Hazen, the famous old detectivo, was umplny\»d by the express company to work up the case and he succeeded in overing most of the money., When met by a reporter at the police station, after the lucky capture, Hazen throw up his hands in happy mood and ox- claime “We've got the boodle " The word was afterward used to denoto money used for dishonest purposes in local politics, and disreputable politicans in the city and state came to be known as “boodlers” and their party as the ** boodle rty.” The word is spread in usage and is now cowmon throughout the countr; NI An article of household utility, which isnot only elegant and artistic, but economic deserves mention, It is with pleasure that we eall the attention of our readers to the “Curland Stoves and Rangos.” —— Longevity of Animals and In Scienco: The elephant lives 100 years and upward; rhinoceros, 203 eamel, 100; lion, 25 to 70 tiger, leopard, jaguar and hyena (in confinement) about 25; 505 deer, 205 wolf, 20; fox, 14 8; sqirrel, 7; rabbit, 7; swine, 26; stag, under H0; horse, 30; uss, 805 sheep, under 10; cow, 20; ox, 80; swan, parrot and raven, 200; eagle, 1005 gooso, 80; hen and pigeon, 10 to 16; hawlk, 80 to 405 crane, 24; blackbird, 10 to 12; pea- cock, 20; pelican, 40 to 50; thrush, 8 to 10; wren, 2 to 8; nightingalo, 15; black- cap, 16; linet, 14 to 23; goldfinch, 20 to 24; redbreast, 10 to 12; sky lark, 10 to 30; titlark, 5 to 6} chaflineh, 20 to 245 star- ling, 10 to 12; carp, 70 to 150; pike, 80 to 40; salmon, 16; codfish, 14 to 17; eel, 10; crocodile, 100; tortoise, 100to 200; whalo, estimated 1,000; queen bees live 4 years; rones, 4months; worker bees, 9 months. 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At all drugglits, 5 cents; five for $1.00; or, postage froe, of POTTER Diua AND CkMICAL CO., Boston, Mass, . AMU%EMEI’!;S Boyd’s Opera House. TO-INIGIIT! FAREWELL PERFORMANCE Of the Great Spectacular Play, “Michael Strogoff” GRAND BALLETS. GORGEQUS SCENERY. WEXT ATTRACTION. November 10, 11 ana 12, Louis James and Marie Wainwright, Thursday Evening. voo . "VIRGINUS" i i G RITCHEN: Friday Evenlnj " G Rl Mathyoo, §atici ADO ABOUT NOTHING Saturday EVOning.......cooeee . HAMLET Grand Opera House. Two Nights and Matinee, Friday & Saturday, Nov. 11 & 12, America's Greatest Soubrette, Miss MATTIE VICKERS, 1t imneceosary) supported by the fam- cdinn, Chus. Rogers, and & company etropolitan artists, in her electric suc- 2 ffAGOUINI—:, or Paste and Diamonds, A reflection of life behind the Scenes, and CHERUB, The Pearl of Serpent Mountain, A beautiful play, Mattle Vickers 4 an actress of powerful maj net " “m, beantiful in faco and form, and a uL Ver-al Lavorite—(Chieago Times Seats on suls at box. office, Prices—$100, T 8000 anc PEOPLE'S THEATRE ONE WEEK ONLY, MONDAY NOV, 7TH, B 1AL ENGAGEMENT Of the ehurming little netress and soclety favorite, MISS KATIE PEARSON Supported by her own excellent COMEDY COMPANY In a reportoire of selected comedies, MONDAY EVENING, “UNCLE DAN’'L,” A Messenger e a Raationt Prices, ISc,-‘éEt;,-;so and 50c. Merchauts' Nafional Bank OF OMAHA. Northwest Corner Farnam and 13th Sts, PAID UP CAPITAL, = =« $400,000 SURPLUS FUND, = = = 80,000 FRANK MURPHY, President, SBAMUEL K. ROGERS, Vice-President, BEN B. WOOD, Cashler, LUTHER DRAKE, Assistant Cashier, Acoounts solicited and prompt stiention paid o all business eutrusted {0 s vare,