Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 28, 1888, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. H!ulflll‘l) EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF 8UBSCRIPTION, Dafly Moraing Bdition) including Sunday, ek, One ¥ear ot Bix Mouths, . . 'or Three Month e Omaha Kunday iier, mailed to sty nd- dress, One Year OMABA OFFICE, NOS.014 AND 016 T NEW YORK OF NG, WASHINGTON OFFICK, Nn TRENTH STREET. CORREEPONDENCE. ANl communications relating to news and editorial matter should be addressed to the En1Tom ¢ & BEE. USINESS LETTERS, All husiness lettess and re: nn.nru should be addressed to Tne Bek PUBLI COMPANY, OMAMA, Drafts, checks and fice orilers 0 be made payable to the order of the company. The Bee Publishing Company, Proprictors. E. ROSEWATER. EDITOR. THE D:\l LY BEE. e 613 Foun- Sworn Statement or Circulation, Btate of Nehraska, County of Douglass, k, secretary of The Bee Pub- pany, does soleninly swear that the for the week Buvarday, Jan. 1 y h Wednesda; Phursday, J Friday, Jun. 2. Average, S|worn to and suhscril 24th day of January, A. D, Btate of Nebraska, ( ||||R )f Douglass, ( o i l)r 'Ilu' "l'l Puiiiing compin tual wverage duily circulution of t for the month of Junuary, for February, 187, u‘m/..l,, 14,400 copies for April, 18, 1 4 e , 1847, 14,151 copi m«mlnr 108 coples: for Octobar: ; for November, 1857, 15,220 coples; for L1 Deconibar: 1w, 10,041 cop GEO. B. TZSCHUCK Rworn and subseribed to in’ my presence this 2d day of Junuary, A. D, 1885, N. P. FEIL, 3 Notary Public. Tue Blizzard with all his fury struck the eastern states, sending the mercury 20 below. The npathy that was ex- tended to the wild and windy west will now be shipped back in refrigerators with interest —— Tne BEr wants no more ““poetic: contributions on the blizzard. What we do want is financial contributions to the fund for the benefit of Nebraska's heroic school teaghers—Miss Freeman, Miss Royce and Miss MAYOR BROATCIH is to be commended for the prompt and energetic effort he is making to get the municival house- hold at rights. A general house-clean- ing once a year is healthful, even though the spring season has not quite set in. AND now the news comes from Phila- delphia that prominent republicans have Mr. George W. Childs, of the Public Ledger, in view for n possible candidate for president. Mr. Childs has promptly and emphatically denied the story. This is the usual first step toward candidacy. THE citizens of Cincinnati are to be congratulated. The council passed an ordinance reducing the price of gas to one dollar, The company refused to make the reduction and the matter was taken into the courts, A decision in favor of the people has just been ren- dered. THE business men of St. Louis have begun a crusade against the Bell tele- phone monopoly. A petition signed by several hundred prominent business men asks the municipal assembly that a bill be passed reducing the rate for tele- phone service one-half. Rochester, New York, has just cowme out victorious in a gimilar contest. Tie Towa people will smufl no more fooling on the part of the railroads dis- criminating against them. Three hun- dred manufacturers, farmers and busi- ness men, irrespective of politics, met in convention at Des Moines and effected a permanent organization. They will stand by the state railrond commissioners in giving them full power to determine freight and passen- ger charges and to classify freights. Taw formation of a “‘railroad clearing- house™ by the principal railway corpor- ations of the country is now under d cussion. This means a gigantic rail- road ‘“‘trust” virtually consolidating all the lines in the Unitea States and hav- ing them managed by two or three men. The object is said to be tha mainte- Jance of fair rates by -doing away with competition. From the monopolistic point of view this is a brilliant scheme. But it is not likely to materialize. GERMAN telegraph officials, it is claimed, have been instructed to receive no cable messages marked ‘“‘via Com- mercial cable.” The Commercial cable is an American enterprise, and this boy- cott against it looks very much as if Messrs. Bennett and Mackay had of- fended Grof Bismarck. If our hogs are to be kept out of Germany and our tele- graph enterprises are to be orippled, we may find means for retaliating that will teach Bismarck to treat this coun- try with decont considoration. THE sugar refiners of the Pacifio coast and the American planters of the Sandwich Islands are much disturbed over the action of the eastern sugar trust. It was decided by the latter not to oppose a reduction of the duty on raw or refined sugar. The western men ook upon this as spite work, But cast- ern refiners claim that Karl Spreckels takes advantage of the free importation of Sandwich Island sugar, hy competing with eastern sugar firms in their own market. With free raw sugar eastern refiners claim they can hold their own. Tug defeat of Jay Hubbell as a candi- date for the nomination to succeed the late Congressman Moffatt in the loventh Michican district, is a result which the republicans of that district ure to be congratulated upon, although it required more than a hundred ballots to knock him out, We are not familiar with the qualifications of the successful candidate, but we do know something of Mr. Hubbell, and believe that poli- ticians of his class are not' the sort which the republican party can aflord o countenance. An Appeal in Behalf of Miss Shattuc! The case of. Miss Ettie: Shattuck, a young Nebraska school teacher, appeals more strongly for sympathy and aid than that of any person who has suf- fered from the recent blizzard. Bhe was teaching school in Holt county, and was caught out in the terrible storm. Secking refuge in a hay stack, she re- mained there seventy-cight hours, and was discovered by a farmer in time to save her life. She was, however, n, and on Thurs- home in Seward she had both legs amputated below the knees. It s thought she will recover. Miss Shattuck is only nineteen years old. Her father, who isa veteran of the civil war, is unable to earn his own living, being physically incapacitated for work, and for some time he has been dependent upon the carnings of his faithful daughter for his support. The great misfortune which has over- taken the young lady leaves both father and daughter destitute. The BEE suggests, under the ecir- cumstances, that the members of the Grand Army of the Republic in Ne braska take up subscriptions for M Shattuck at once. Such contributions will be acknowledged tirough the B At the same time the teachers of Omaha, who seem to he very slow in rendering assistance to any unfortunate member of the craft, ought now to come forward with liberal aid for Miss Shat- tuck. We hope also that the teachers throughout the state will join in this movement, together with citizens gen- erally. The heroism of Miss Freeman and Miss Royce is being acknowledged, but day ‘neither one of these young ladies is in the terrible condition of Miss Shattuck. Miss Freeman, whe'is a very sensible and modest young lady, does not really relish the notoriety she has gained through her heroic conduct and presence of mind. She seems satistied that she did her simple duty un ng cir- cumstances, and saved the lives of the thirteen children in her charge. She was not in any v injured. Miss Royce, the other young school teacher, who bravely tried to save the lives of three children, is not so seriously injured as at first reported, and will not be obliged to suffer amputation. ‘We hope, however, that the contriba- tions for the benefit of these two heroic young ladies will continue. The appeal in behalf of Miss Shattuck should in no way interfere with them, and probably it will not. All three should be prop- erly provided for and the B#E proposes to continue its efforts in that direction. Panama and Nicaragua Canals. The complete failure of the Panama canal project is now only a matter of months, The refusal of the French government to sanction the issue of lot- tery bonds in aid of that enterprise puts the finishing blow to the hopes of M. De Lesseps. It was the last hope of the sanguine engineer, For the past three years he has tried every possible means of raising the wind financially and, after securing millions of dollavs, which he has sunk in the big ditch in the 1sthmus, is at last brought face to face with eertain failure. .Not six months ago M. De Lesseps, in his appeal for some funds, assured the government that a lottery was the only remaining chance, and that, failing to secure a credit sanctioned by the government, operations must stop during the coming summer. The failure of the plan for a tide water level canal across the Isthmus o Panama was predicted from the outset by the leading engineers of our country. For thirty years past the United States has taken a doep interest in suggested projects for opening water communica- tion between the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacifie occan. Various surveys which have been made officially by our government and semi-officially through its naval oflicers show clearly in advance of the actual experiment what M. De Lesseps’ expensive ditch digging has at last proved. The proposition to du pli- cate the Suez caunal across the backbone of the isthmus was a darving one, well worthy of he indomitable pluck of the great French engineer. It lack important prerequisites of succe unlimited amoant of money and a cen- of time. After several years in which hundreds of millions of francs had been squandered and several thou- sand lives lost in the malarial isthmus, there is nothing to show for the work but a very small portion of the excava- tion on the easiest portion of the work, while the two great problems of the deep rock cut and the control of the Chargres river remain untouched. he projected Panama canal will stand in history as one of the most monumental examples of blundering in engineering of modern times. If the results of the unfortunate enterprise were not more far reaching than their effects upon the reputation of the en- gineer who projected it there would be less cause for comment. The failure of the canal company, Thow- ever, will involve many thousands of Frenchmen and French women who, with the phenomenal success of the Suez canul in their minds, have lavishly given all their little savings and carn- ings to De Lesseps and to the company to which helent his name, It can read- ily be believed, as reports from abroad tell us, that the flnal erash, which can- not now long be delayed, will involve in general ruin thousands of well-to-do rtisans, mechanics and farmers of France. But there is one cause for congratula- tion as far as America is concerned. The faflure of the Panama canal will direct more general atténtion to the Nicaragua route, which, since 1858, has been several times investigated by our government. The last surveying party, that under Lieutenant Menocal during the year 1885, hasfully demonstrated the practicability of a canal with locks run- ning from Greytown, on the Carribean sea, to Brito, on the Pacific. Mr. Menocal’s thorough carches have re sulted in the publication by the govern- ment of an elaborate report on the pro- posed route which leaves nothing to be desired in the way of details. Every foot of the ground was covered by a practical surveying party and every serap of information. regarding the l 'YME OMAHA DAILY 'BEW: SATURDAY, edrth'to be éxcavated and engineering appliances necessary to the complete control of the water was gathered and garnered for the information of the naval department. The route as sur- veyed by Mr. Menocal would give a sanal nearly one hundred and seventy miles in length, of which only about thirty-niné miles would have to be ex- cavated, while the remaining one hun- dred and thirty miles would be lake navigation upon Lake Nicaragua. The summit of the isthmus would be crossed on this plan by, seven locks and the en- tire heavy excavation would be con- contrated upon a single cut of less than fifteen thousand feet in length. Ac- cording to Mr. Menocal, forty-nine million dollars would be ample to com- plete the canal ready for traffie. Such a project, whilelacking the most daving features of De Lesseps’ brilliant scheme, is also fortunately wanting in the financial rocks upon which his com- pany has struck. 1t is more modest by two-thirds in its cost than a scheme which proposes to level a way ncross the Isthmus of Panama and it will use for four-fifths of its distance a great fresh water lake in the interior of the con- tinent. Tt possesses the udditional ad- vantage of greatly shortening the dis- tance from the Atlantic to the Pacific slope, owing to the fact that Nicaragua is much further north than the Isthmus of Panama. It is searcely probable that the United States, after its experience with the Pacific railreads, will venture into the canal digging business, but whatever encouragement and aid through its en- gineers and governmental bureaus it can afford to a proper company organ- ized for forwarding the project will vrobably not be withheld Proposed New Treaties. It is expected that the senate will at the present session pass upon two new extradition treaties, which are of very considerable importance by reason of their political features. These are the conventions with Great Britain and Russia. The first of these was before the senate of the last congress and was widely discussed in the press, The ger eral publie opinion was that Minister Pheips had conceded too much, and very likely it was this expression that led the senate to defer action upon it. The treaty makes a number of additions to extraditable crimes, and if adopted would have the effect of compelling em- bezzlers and defaulters to seck some other asylum than Canada. So far as it would “accomplish this there was no objection to it, but the inclusion of per- sons alleged to be dynamiters among offenders who should be extradited was a source of strong and earnestobjection, which the explanation of Mr. Phelps, that no better arrangement could be ob- tained from England, did not serve to remove. The proposed convention with Russia, according to the published text, was even more vigorously objected to by rea- son of 1ts political -provisions than that with Great Britain. Mectings were held in New York and eisewhere to de- nounce it, and organizations formed to oppose its approval by the senate. A provision of this treaty, as published, would have permitted the Rus- sian government to make a hunting ground of the United States for refugee nihilists, and practically deprived this class of political offenders of all rights or security of asylum here. Such an arrangement would be repugnant to the whole American people. It is now said, however, that the text of this treaty, published last year, was not correct as to the objectionable provision, there being no such clause in the treaty before the ‘senate. It is hardly conceivable that an American minister would sub- scribe to a convention containing such a provision, and it may confidently be said that there is no danger of a treaty of this character receiving the sanction of the senate. A treaty with Holland is also pending before the senate, and has received some consideration already at the present session, but this is mainly commercial in its character. — An Unfortunate Overlap. An overlap in the fire department fund has been officially reported which calls for retrenchment in the number of men and economy in materials, This is not only unfortunate, but becomes a matter of deep concern. It appears that the levy of 44 mills on the dollar on a valuation of $16,000,000 is about $25,000 short of the amount neces- sary to keep the fire department up to its present standard. In order to hold expenses down to the fire department find, it is proposed by Mayor Broatch wdmchm-ge one-half the members of the department, and to tie up several of the hose-carts. ‘While the BEE is of the opinion that greater care in the equipment and pur- chase of material for the department could have saved the city several thou- sand dollars, there are strong reasons to excuse the large outlay for fire pro- tection at the beginning of the fiscal year. The necessity of the department to keep up with the rapid growth of the city was urgent. The outlying dis- tricts had to be provided with new com- plements of engines and men. The erection of so many high buildings called for new hook and ladder trucks and improved machinery. Then, also, the inevitable loss by the breakage of carts and material, and crippling of horses, swelled the expense. To cripple the department by reduc- ing its force 50 per cent would not be prudent. It muy become necessary for heavy property owners to advance or donate the necessary funds to keep the fire department up to its present effi- cient standard. « Other Lands Than Ours. The political activity that naturally precedes the assembling of parliament is manifesting itself in England. The circulars of the party chiefs requesting the early vresence of members have been issued, and some of these lead®rs have given public expression to their views as to what is hoped for and may be accomplished. Mr. Goschen, the chancellor of the exchequer, does not anticipate the crisis predicted by Mr. Parnell, He saysit is the determina- tion of the government. to make the topography, cost of labor, amount of | coming session a normal one, that there is no dissension in the cabinet, and that there will be no dapger to the ministry from questions of home policy. Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, in 8 speech at Bristol, fa#vored local gov- ernment in Areland and de- nounced the appointment of poli- tical officials for Ireland who are di- rectly responsibla: to one man. Lord Sulisbury his heen forced to make con- cessions to the libéral-unionists on the local government bill, as it was ex- pected he would, do in order to hold their support. TUis issupposed to have satisfied the coalition, at least for the time being. The promise now is that the loeal government Dbill will be brought in early in the session, and will be found very demoeratic in churacter. It is expected to receivo the full sup- port of the tories and liberal-unionists, The most important feature of this measure will be the extension of the basis of suffrage. Changes in the rules of procedure, so as to materially chec if not entirely prevent obstruetion, will probably bo made. The ministry and the liberal-unonists are understood to be absolutely as one in sustaining the coercion act and its execution by Bal- four. Such are the salient facts of the political situation in England ten days before the assembling of parlinment. They may undergo important changes after the body meets, notwithstanding the reassuring statements of M. Goschen and others, There is good rea- son to believe that the next session of parliament is not likely to be normal, unless, indeed, the ministry is prepared to make much greater concessions to the liberal-unionists than it probably will be. Still, it may be expected to go along in order to retain power. A few weeks ago an interesting event was the visit of Lord Randolph Churchill {o St. Petersburg, supposed to bo on o diplomatic mi: n. IHe has got as far on his return as Berlin, but efforts to ascertain the character of his mission and its results have not been fruitful to any great extent. Perhaps the most important outgiving is that he found the best classes of Russia to be eminently pacific and that he did not share the war apprehensions that pre- vail in Europe. But very likely, so far as Russia is concerned, Lord Randolph was shown only the bright side of the picture. " There has been a less warlike tone to Buropean dispatches for the last few days, but military preparations are con- tinued in various quarters, These sup- ply the material upon which those who believe a conflict to be inevitable predi- cate their faith, and so the contribu- tions to war arguments goon. The chief trouble of recent ogeurrence threatening difficulty is the issue between France and Italy, growing out of the seizure, by order of the Florentine court, of cer- tain papers in the custody of the French consulate at Florence. This action Trance claims to have been a violation of the laws of nations, and the govern- ment has been urged by the radical press to summary proceedings if Italy does not render prompt and complete satisfaction. Thé Italian government ordered what was:done at the consulate to be undone, but disclaims the power to overrule the decisions of its own courts or apologize for them. Itisa most natural suggestion that the hand of Bismarck is in the matter, but it does not appear at all proba- ble. The suit requiring the production of the papers in the custody of the consulate concerns claims which arose in Tunis and have long been a bone of contention between the two powers. There appears simply to have been an excess of judicial zeal, and although the offense was certainly a serious one, it is not at all likely to lead to anything worse than a sharp diplomatic controversy. * % The military measures proposed in Germany will, if adopted, give the army in time of war an additional force of nearly 700,000 trained men.. The cost is estimated at from 80,000,000 to 100,- 000,000 marks per year, or an increase in the cost of the army of from $20,000,- 000 to $30,000,000. The present cost of the German army is about 385,000,000 a year, and to this the new bill will add some $35,000,000 more, making the en- tire cost of the army about 120,000,000 a year. Such a proposed increase of mili- tary strength and expenditure at this time is certainly significant, and the meaning and motive of it is naturally a subject of speculation. The menace to Germany of the standing army of France is the explanation that will geu- erally occur, but it is hardly suffi- cient. Were France the only power which Germany has to fear, there can be no possible doubt that negotiations would be undertaken, and shortly car- ried out, for a mutual reduction of their armies by those two nations, The long- headed among the French do not want war, nor do the conservatives among the Germans, The French leaders know that the urgent need of France for the next quartewof a century is pro- found peace; and While it may well be that the hot- hc‘u\”d and impetuous among the French-would gladly declare war, it was shown by the amicable set- llmln‘utnf the Sclinaebeles affair and the affair of the killing on the frontier that those who are at the head of affairs prefer peace to war, France, then, is not the chief moying cause for Gor- many’s maintaining her immense army, For that cause we must look tward, not westward. Russia, the inscratable, the grim, the silentwmore dreadful be- cause the extent of “her resources and her fighting capagity are not well known—is the object of Bismarck's dread and suspicion and the real reason for the maintenance of the German army. There is a mystery about the future movements of Russia which even the acute chancellor of Germany can not wholly fathom, and so long as the TRussian problem remains unsolved, so long will Germany maintain her stand- ing army. S The purpose of King John of Abys- sinia to move forward in force against the Italians betokens a great degree either of confidence or impaticnce. He is said to be concentrating his army at Asmara for this purpose. Hitherto the king has been satisfled to mass his troops on the high lands of Abyssinia, JANUARY 28, 1888, back from $he const, preparing for the expected attempt of the Ttaltans to ad- vance to his camps, or ot least to rope- cupy the position from which Ras Alula drove them. In this policy there are advantages. The mountain country is very defensible, and can be made much more 80 by folling trees along the diffi- cult ronds which lead up toit. This preparation the Abyssinians have made; but now they are said to be disinclined to wait patiently for the attack, which is certain sooner or later to be under- taken by the Italinns in order to re- cover the prestige lost by earlier de- feats. The problem will be materially changed should the Europeans have the full benefit of their defensive works; and if they repulse the Abyssinians an immediate advance to the mountains would be far easicr on the heels of o defeated enemy than if undertaken be- fore his spirit had been broken by reverses. But a reconnoissance to i, not quite twenty miles from Mas- sowah, and at the foot of the mountains, shows that they have not yet come down from Asmara, W The British govermment did not think favorably of the proposition of Australia to join her in the plan of con- tributing $25,000 each for an antarctic expedition, and has refused to engage in the enterprise. But the objection made Dby the British government, namely, that the amount proposed is too small to be of service, is a very easy one to cure, if Australin wishe: Still, it is not improbable that any increase in the sum devoted to such an expedi- tion would be so much additional mone throwdaway. While discoveries within the arctic circle have been pushed to a distance of only a little more than si and one-half degrees from the pole, the furthest advance in the antarctic region is still nearly twelve degrees from the south pole. Practically nothing of im- portance has heen discovered in that direction for nearly half a century, or since the triple successes achieved be- tween 1840 and 18 our American Wilkes, and the Fronch Dumont d'Urville. Ice and snow per- petually cover latitudes corresponding to those in which at the north flourish- ing vegetation, many quadrupeds, and even permanent populations are found. To suppose that any commercial advan- tage could come of another attempt to penetrate these prodigious ice barriers is preposterous, and there is only a slender chance of deriving scientific knowledge of importance from the quest, **x The announcement that a company has at last undertaken to build a pipe line for the transportation of petroleum from Baku to Batoum is one of consid- erable importance from a commercial point of view. Heretofore the terms offered by the Russian government have not been attractive to capitalists who had money to invest in such projects. Apparently the terms have recently been modified. The proposed pipe line will carry oil from the Baku wells to a port on the Black Sea, and thus greatly decrease the cost of transporting it to European markets. The supply of crude oilin the Baku field is enormous, and the cost of oil there is very low. When the pipe line shall be in operation ex- porters of Ameriean oil may have some difficulty in retaining<control of certain foreign markets in which they now have a large trade. e The beauties and blessings of a gov- ernment administration by imported of- ficials are now being illustrated in Ha- vana. Spain sends to Cuba a captain general, whose power is even more des- potic than that of the reigning sover- eign at home, and against whose acts of oppression and tyranny there is appar- ently no protection. The voice of the press is stifled very much as in Russia, If a newspaper makes known the truth it is promptly suppressed. There is no right of public assemblage for the dis- cussion of grievances, and if an attempt is made to hold a meeting armed sol- diers are on hand to disperse the gath- ering. Official thievery is rampant, and murder and highway robbery are the order of the day. The description of the state of affairs in Havana scems almost incredible in this day and age of liberty and enlightenment, P It is to be hoped that Prince Oscar Charles of Sweden will never regret the determination that led him to renounce his royal rightsin order to marry th young lady of his choice. 1f she proves a true wife he will probably be much happier than he would have been with a princess from any of the royal houses of Europe. As regards the rank that he has thrown away, this is notof such long standing, as the founderof the present Swedish dynasty was one of Napoleon’s marshals, and owed his ele- vation to the throne to the favor of the conqueror. In Sweden, asin England there are scores of noble families of pure blood and more ancient lineage than the sovereign. x| The Germans are having a hard struggle to maintain their position in Samoa. They have shown small judg- ment in arresting natives who had paid visits to their friends and relatives in neighboring islands, according to time- honored custom. In thisway they have stirred up bitter feeling which it will take u long time to allay. Meanwhile, to keep Tamasese on the throne will require at least one man-of-war con- stantly in Samoan wate an expense which will be sure to provoke inguiry in the German parliament. *" The reports as to the sufferings of the Russian troops on the Galician frontier do not give great promise of the ability of Russia to carry out a suc- cessful offensive campaign. German military experts have all along declared that when actual warfare should brealk out the Russian army would be found in as inefficient a condition as was that of France in 1870. The fact that a winter movement has alveady developed di ease lends the color of truth to the as- sertion, — OMANA'S young sister, Bouth Omaha, imitates her senior in more ways than one. In the management of her munic- ipal affairs she has already begun to struggle with ovorlaps and with deres lict city officials, Tie demand for struck Kentue more than reform, riom election veform has ¥. What that state needs anything else is M. Pasteur is a vietim of partial paralysis, He conducts his experiments with constant industry, nevertheless, Charles Dickens has done only moderatety well here as a lecturer, He is not over- whelmingly in love with the country. George Francis Train says he will remain in New Brunswick for the two hundred years of existence he thinks yet remaiu to him Editor George W, Childs' fame as a philan- thropist brings its rewnrd to him in the shape of about two hundred begging letters every day. Perry Belmont and Isador Rayner, demo- crats, and Phelps and Lang, republicans, are the only members of the house of representa- tives who part their hair in the middle. E.C. Allen, the millionaire publisher of Augus! used to sell raspberries from tin pail treots of that city. His vari- ous publications have 1,200,000 subscrib Robert Garrett is now in Yokohama on his journcy around the world. If the sultan should fail to capture Gould or Vanderbilt, he might get Mr. Garrett to start a railway sys- te wifor him. Senator Blair is deseribed as o remarkably dull speaker, He talked for hours the other day on his educational grab chestuut, al- though only eight scnators remained, and riting. hingon county, Py claims to be the oldest citizen of the state, He was born in 1776, was a soldier in General Jackson’s army at Now Orleans, and asserts that a bullet from his musket killed General Pakenhum, Fraulein Louise von founded a frec public librar memory of her father, Baron Karl Roth- schild. The library contains 5,000 volumes, antly bound, the majority hvving formed part of the barou's libra There are also The num- ber of illustrated works on art history is especially noticeable Isham White, of V Rothschild has in Frankfort in Chicago Inter Ocean. A Chinamaris charged duty on enterin Canada, but the recreant cashier goes in free, Every country to its t fostianictong There Are No Vacancies. Minneapolis Tribune. The turtle is said to be almost insensible to the effects of electricity, When the turtle gzets out of & job it can go into the telephone business. Rivals of American Boodlers. San Francisco Alta. Members of the Italian parliament have passes over all the railroads in the kingdom. One of them has just been detected in turn- ing a penny by renting his official pass to his friends. The rairoads stood it until he hired it out to ladies, and then they kicked. Sl A Imme Law, Norfolk N The Omaha Bee complains that $170,000 are lying idle in the Douglas county treasury while §79,000 worth of county warrants re- main unpaid for want of funds. This ought to remind the Bek that the law that allows that amount of money to lie idle in the tr ury is lame, That money should be earning Douglas county something by being placed in the bank that would pay the most for the county doposits. Perhaps, toe, if the money in the treasury was being used' for the coun- ty's benefit instead of some individual's, there wouldn't be so many warrants ‘‘un- paid for want of funds.” St ey Dissatisfaction. Harry 8. Sargent. ““What is life to a man like me?” An actor quoth to himself one day; “For years I've played—some three— And seen the world while onmy way; T've starred and starved in many parts, Set people crazy, far and wide, D've squandered cash, I've broken hearts, But still I'm never satisfied.” “What is life to a man like me?" Said & tramp one day in the rosy morn, As he tipped a beer kog on his knee; “)Twas a sorry day when I was born, I'm kicked and cuffed and _gazed at queer, A sober breath I am denied, And, though I'm always full of beer, Somehow I'm never satisfied.” “What is life to a man like me?” A rich man asked of himself one day: “I've gathered wealth from land and sea, And life has been one sunny ray; Istrive for more, though 1 have Enough to soothe the vainest p And, though, I've always cut a (lm)l.l "Tis true, I'm never satisfied.” “What is life to a man like me?” A poor man said to himself one night, As he homeward plod his way to tea, ‘Where a wife and child were smiling bright. «oig all to me,” the poor man said, “I've a happy home, friends true and tried; As yet no cloud has o'er me sped To make me feel dissatisfied.” MORAL. Man's but a man, and nothing more, His mind is never easy; He's building castles o'er and o'er, And some of them quite ‘‘breezy ;" And, not content with good success, Tempts fortune far and wide, And when ho dies off fortuncless, ‘We'll trust he's satisfied. SKIN SCALP BLOOD Having been a sufferer for two yearsand ahalf e catised by w brutse on the leg aud by the CUTICURA REMEDLES hthoda A8 Fonedion fatlea T twenty- When 1l other deem it m, Hot Sprin torsavitho at last our prineipal druggist, Mr. mlay (to whom I shall ever feel grateful), spoke to me abont CUTIOUIA and 1 consente Nem a trial with th he lars, est surface whe from of any one in the state EMEDI R h A G A % Aras kb AR LS 1 refer to druggist John P. Finlay and br. D. C. Voth of this place, and to Dr. Miss, | our request with results as uhove state AL B FINLAY & CO., Drugglsts. D MY MOTHER'S LIFE, ince wember, my mother has from a milk Nothing would do her She had the best medical talent, but her no good, Shie suffered with her Te For thii years wnd’ never knew i well day. St would Have to st up hatt the nheht, holdig up her legand moaning. 8he had no peace. S used atl the best knu\\n remedies in the country without effect. T axked her o try CURA hips, Got hlr bottls of ¢ CURA RE- T and she took it, and ax taken in ai About sk or v whe 1% i well wom healed, wnd her h an go out every not. done in never hing sl ou see | cannot ,.\,‘.\u your \\nmh 1) lllN ( have saved my mother's life. words to express my gratit; tised your CUTICE EDWARD L. 1 cannot find I have adver- and Blood dlsease from p Sold everywhere, Pri i T, 4. by e Boston, Mass, ure Skin Discases, Duia & ¢ ur\m‘ I lu For 5 Inhukh«-mln,tlmplwll and ofly skin ented by CUTIOURA MEDICATED SOAT, NO RHEUMATIZ ABOUT ME! IN ONE MINUTE THE CUTICURA ANTEPAIN PLASTER Toll Ithe matic, Seltic, Sudden, Sharp, and Nervous Pains, Strains and Weal Seene Toe first and ouly palu-kiling plaste 2 cents, THE PENCIL PUSHER THE ONEROUS DUTIES OF A MET« ROPOLITAN NEWSPAPER RE- PORTER, How He fs Chased from Piliar to Pose ~What Would Take Ordinary Peo- ple One Week To Do, Done By & Keporter in One Night, foof a reporter on a dafly paper {3 Of thie okt happy 1ots, “H 1s Gt into 15 of compa 2y, from the highest to tha lowest dr At one time he is calls ed to att AN ANQUEst, to “write up” the suds den death of w man, un..x..: YOurs wis known 10 be w relfable ponter, 1f not perehitice i br comumon Inborer, On s wit Wwith his notes a friend says, “1 can give you the of aparty to be niarried at a‘certain In quiest of news the reporter finds o and several small ehildren fnn mise 516 ot of Bavel i famian i condis Promising 10 all in his power to relieve 1 the scril (s his way agan, when his tRoukhis Are fured to his nore booK, ThURTL e AUl LS ey es are cast o o memorandum which says: A dog fight at Rtop me Well hiere cotnes the trial for the pencil pusher, A Teading ministor is to preach asermon_from text which he desires printed and the reporter s promised to do thut work, as 500 marked coples of the paper containing that sermon is to be mailed to the ministerial friends of the pase Or oven w ‘Dack t0 the ofics person fo puper publis mornti. All of th s happened within s couple of hours. The makes the effort and by holding the “forms™ for hulf an hour s successful and gots rid of his lond of care, but such was not the case with the gentieman who mukes the follow~ g interesting statements To the write teamster lcont of Hth and Har VEUTS g0, 1.Wis eme it Company 1wy what warm by the t home with my coat came up and e through and took u I and 1t sottled in my face and head, which seemed to get very sore, and beeme 5o swollen that at times my friviids would not recognize me. It pained ma verymuch. | My head would uclie from mornjig tand-from night until morning, My Bowels were very costive for & numby and to tell the truth 1 cannot they w ular until recent hecame very poor and 1 lost se it 1 was ehillek My nppotite al’ pounds in NOT SLEEP AT NI ¢ in the ma : o some of the most horrible also becamme low-spirited often wished ©was dead, worse rapidly. The fall of the year euie and [ would ti L5 on the leust expos head would feel full, my nose stopped up and’ i blow out hard chinks or scabs which seened to be blood. They were | mitted o bid My breath was very X0 \\mh»llm( and despondent “Things began to ' earing seemed to 1 t heaf xo plainly as before. } and somotimes dis: ed, espeeti . when the plllow case would freque so'lod. 1 found the climate of Co'orado did ) of ugroe with me and roturned to Omaha where I have resided over since. SWoll, to make a long story short T found out that my trouble was nothing more than catarrh (it 1 beconn chronic, wemy bronchial tubes were eff 1 wis troubled with a hack- co d have to 1 and spit o morning. 1t was St 1o o for me 10 gug and vomit before 1 could ¢ Y advertisement of Drs. something more than'a with themand was surpri they agreed to furnish treat me for one month. to cure me, but_ said they y materially. 1 began. trentment and have only been treating for n little over one month anid the remarkable change that has come over mo is simply wonderful. 1 liear as well as 1 i, my nose does not stop up, 1 do not hawk Iy Dowels e as rogular i ite oxcellent, I slecp N'ago 1 consulted at the low price with medicine and 1ey did not promise 10 help me very of yoars,” Yery Featoful that T am so much bettor so [ nevur expocted to fool this well aguin and have no h ) pving my stimonial to the many alrea puhi by Drs. MeCoy and Henry and freely recommend” their treat- ment to those suffering from catarrh, as they cured me aftor several other doctors'and nu- merous patent medicines failed.” MR, WILLTAM CROWDER, As above st . Crowder can be found at Farmer's Hotel, corner 14th and Harney sts., where he will corrobborate the above. FETID NASAL CATARRH, Its Simptoms and What It Leads To—The Miserable Feelings, Etc. This form of catarrh is essentially & disease of the nasal cavity proper, and does not extend to the vault of the pharynx. Forawhile a dry ca- rh may, and very develop in that region as the result of structural changes within the tissues of the mucous membrane, The symptoms mainly consist in the accumulation in the nasal cavity of offensive masses and toether with move or luss of 1 fhuja dischar The nasal cavity thus obstructed the breathing or less difticult, sense of smell simpairad, 1f not entirely The especinl liubility to take colds on the Teast expo iats, and the susceptibility to changes of temperature and the influence of o Quinp atmosphere frequently causes thickening of the nasal mucons membrane, As the scero- tlon goes on from the surface’to the mucous membrae the musses are 1 Reacantty. batic . e in its o that {1 h 5 in such & e to dislodge them, and they remain in positon for days and Wetks, Ameir oor 18 offensive i the ex- treme as thé result of this long retention, during which time the putrefactive changes are con- stantly golug on, The sufferer may be entirely unconscions of the offe readily notice it and end onship of such perso To Face and ires. S8 in fetid catarrh r work tn the pusal pass; , polsontug the breath, rutning the senke of 2 und Laste pefcoptibly marring the long ted or ime iving them an appear- o apulsive, almost deforme fueh that 18 true has heen sald regarding the results of catirrh fmpairing the gene aflecting t ont, lungs and stomuch, and pro- ducing consumption and dyspepsia, or' reaching the ears and cansing deafness. 1t fow persons renlize how general T results e disense in ¢ tlonc of thecase: and crook- e from this ¢ y known as “fic Dark ringes about sive hreath, but others 0 shun the com- L quent . red and in- I es3proceeds. s sometimes seriously affected, in- 1k \weak steht, swimminie and watery or blood shot appearan e heing among the coms mon conditions that obtain. J. CRESAP McCoY, Late of Bellevue Hospita!, New York, Dr. Columbus Henry (Late of Unive HA Corner Fift where all curable with succ o5 treated <kiiifully. Consim . Dyspepstv, Itheunad 1 disrudes po CATARI pdical dises Bright's dise VOI's A thie sexes a specialty. 9to 1l a.m luded fecelves promp! 1 hours Sundsys i0. Jndence 10" mi Journey ceasstul hospital treat ut their L No letter: ¢ 11y stamps A Avam tottors to Drs. McCoy and Henty ;‘lunll\‘ 310 and 811 Ramgebuilding, Ouskay b answered unless accompanied by