Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 29, 1888, Page 4

~THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMB OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily (Morning Fdition) including Sunda; BEw, One Year ... . ‘or 8% Months, 1.0 or Three Months s gogss lny BEe, mailed to any ad- T i he Omaha & dress, One Y . 2 00 OMAAOFFICE, 014 AND 010 FARNAM STRERT. New Yok Orrice, RooM 65, TRIBUNE BUILD- 150, WASHINGTON OFFICE, NO. §1) FO TRENTH STUEET. CORRESPONDENCE. All_communications relating to news and editorial matter should be addressed to the Eviton o¥ tue Dek. BUSINESS LETTERS, All business letters and remittances should be addressed to THE DBEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMANA. Drafts, checks and postofice orders to ben ayablé to the order of the company. ‘The Bee Putlishing Company, Propristors. L. ROSEWATER. EDITOR. DAILY BE Sworn Statement of Circulation. Btat raska, C Dougli schuck, Tuesday Wedn Thursday, Jan. 19. Friday, Jun. 20 Average.............. o o GRO. B. TZS TCN. fworn to and subscribed in my presence this 24th day of January, A. D, 1888, N. P. FI Notar; Btate of Nebraska, La.s. County of Douglass, %5 G ‘Tzschuck, being first duly gworn, de- wes and says thaf he I8 secretary of The Bee Pobiiching company, that the actual average dail ublic.” reulation of the Daily Bee for the month 1 copie Februar) 4,178 ¢ l)ll.\ for April, 1947, 14, tor Juine, cope GEO. B, TZSCHUCK. Bworn and subseribed to {n my presetice this 2d day of January, A. D, 18, N. P. FRIL, Notary Public, of #315,000 on the Manitoba provincial books. Cana- dian officials are apt pupils of an old American bank-cash HEAVEN - save the mark! Both pugilists, Sullivan and Mitchell, are fighting the championship through a bottle of ink. The pen proves mightier than the fist. SINCE the railvoad managers have decided that the inter-state law applies to the carrying of civeus companies, it looks bad for the cireus and pink lemon- ade business for this year at least. P, T. Barnum threatens to take his grand agfrregation over to Europe in the Great Eastern if the railroads remain obdurate in adhering to the strict inter- pretation of the inte te law. LoveRrs of grand opera will with regret that the company is about to go into the hands of a receiver at Boston. Outside of one or two enstern cities, the patronage does not warrant the giving of grand operaon the magnificent scale as at- tempted by the promoters of the National company. Even in New York the German opera season of the Metro- politan Opera house was an expensive drain on the stockholde read National opera MR. ANTHONY COMSTOCK, the New York apostle of morals, has received a rebuke in a Philadelphia court. As chief specinl agent of the New York society for the suppression of vice, he visited that city and set about pros cuting several art dealers for exposing pictures which he alloges to be obscene. The judge dismissed Mr. Comstock’s complaint on the ground that nude pic- tures were not necessarily lewd or inde- cent. Mr. Comstock may be doing a great deal of good in the suppression of wvice, but in his war on art it is very evi- “ dent that he is over-reaching himself. GERMANY has long agobecome recog- nized authority in the arts and sciences. The reason is, that her schools rank higher than those of other countries owing to the thoroughuness and superior training in every branch of education. The same spirit of completeness as characterizes her professional culture has taken possession of Ier technical and commercial schools. The result hus been phenomenal. Her young business men cquipped with a thorough commercial training reduced to scien- tific precision are rapidly supplanting the English.” In South America, in Mexico, in Ching, in the Samoan islands and even in the counting-rooms of Lon- don, the Gormans arve pushing the English aside by virtue of their superi- ority and industry SOME time ago the Cremation society of Boston disbanded, and immediately a mew organization was formed at Wor- cester. This society appears to he making good progress, and the effort that failed in Boston promises to prove & success in the smaller city., A num- ber of those who were identified with the disbanded society have connected themselves with the new organization, and the agitation of the subject has brought a number.of people who muy not before have seviously thought of the subject into full and active sym- pathy with the object. Assometimes happens in the practical affuirs of life, failure has pointed the way to success. Boston may not have been the best place for the creation and growth of such a society, although it would scem to have been. At all events the Wor- cester organization is steadily growing, and since that city became the center of the movement it has attracted more attention and interest than when lo- cated at Boston. What was largely a local affair has become one of concern to the commonwealth. Considered generally, however, this reform grows very slowl Notwithstanding the fact that every argument of modern science, every motive of mmon sense, and every plea even of taste, counts for ere- mation, the sentiment and the supersti- tion which bulwark the prevail- ing system of burial in chris- tian countries are found to be almost impregnable, The idea that cremation is heathenizh, and even sacrilegious, is one which the vast majority of people tenaciously eling to, and are likely to do for generations to eome. It is not the first instance in which science, arrayed against senti- ment or superstition, has been com- pelled to carry on u conflict for centu- vies before achieving success. Trusts and Combines. The growth of monopoties and trust- combines in the United States is excit- ing widespread discussion. . Democrats and republicans alike admit the danger from these combinations, but so far have been unable to suggest o practical rem- edy. The public generally does not know the extent of the evil—the number, va- riety and magnitude of these trusts. It is an error to assume that all such com- iations of capital vesult from our tarviff laws, The high tariff in itself is simply one of the forms of combination against the consumer. In some cases, however, it is an aid to trusts, by which they are enabled to still further squeeze the consumer by exact- ing higher prices than could be secured without the tariff laws. It would be ditficult forany fairly well informed man to enumerate all the “trusts” and “combines™ now existing in the United States, He might nam the “Standard Oil.” the “Linsced O “Cotton Sced Oil,” “Bessemer Steel “Cordage Pool,” *Leac op- and on Tube Pool,” *“‘Paper *Blank Books.” and others, and yet but a part of the story be told. We have had whisky pools and a “*Whisky Trust' is now in processof development. It is even suggested that u “Farmer's Trust” be orgunized to control the pro- duction and prices of all farm vroduce. Such combinations of capital, to limit production and force up prices, are made possible from want of repressive laws. and, so far, with all that has been said in opposition, no reasonable proposition has been made for legislation to cure the evil. Taxes are imposed, or levied, by the general goyernment for revenue: for protection of capitubinvested in manu- factures: for protection with incidental revenue; for revenue with incidental protection. and, in rare instances, taxes have been imposed for destruction! The tax of ten per cent per year on the bank note circulation of state and private banks imposed by the act of Febr 18 was of this character—i not for revenue, but b s intended to destroy all such eur- wnd stop the issue. The oleom: wet, so recently passed, was not intended to secure vevenue for the gen- eral government, but was designed to protect our people from fraud. The high license in many states for the sale of liquor has for its first object the pro- teetion of the people from the evils of intemperance. All this class of laws, we presume, are founded on that part of article 1, clause 1, section 8, of the constitution which empotwers congress to levy taxes for the “general welfare™ of the people of the United States. Now if the “general welfare™ demands the elimination of all these “‘trusts™and “‘combines,” this power to tax for the general welware affords the legitimate and summary manner in which it can be done, and at the same time will prevent like combinations in the future. Let a tax of say twenty-five per cent per year, payable semi-annually, be imposed on all “trust” certiticates: such tax to be a lien on all trust visible property—attaching to the same on the s of January and July of each essors, for this tax, power to inspect all books, contracts, papers, ete., under oath of the owners of the Trust, in such manner as will secure a rigid compliance with the law, and under such penalties for any ev: ion or concealment as will sccure its rigid enforcement, With such a law it would not be many months, until all such combinations were wound up and the proceeds distributed to the stock holders. The people of the United States, through the forms of law, without anar- chy, are more than a match for all the **trusts” and *‘combines” that can bc started. Western Investments, The persistent attacks of eastorn papers upon western farm and city mortgage loans are made for a purpose. They arve instigated by the eastern woney sharks and gamblers who are endeavoring to stop the tide of western investiments so that the surplus of east- ern money may be made to flow into the speculative whirlpools of Wall and State streets. The more money that is sent west for solid investmentsand gilt- edged loans the less there will be to be gobbled up by the stock market gamb- lers. The ignorance displayed by eust- rn writers concorning western affairs is on & par with that of European w ers on Ameriean subjects; but it is not the ignorance of innocence. It isun- doubtedly an assumed and intentional ignorance—the result of money placed by the Wall street sharks where it witl do the most good. The fact that the oldest, most solid and best managed life insurance companies continue their western investments and loans 18 evidence of their confidence in the stability of the west. These companies, managed by shrewd financiers, have made the most thorough investigation regarding everything h could in any way effect the v and prosper of western bor- The result has been emi- nently satisfactory, and to-day they ave so largely concentrating their loaning business in Nebraska, southern lowa and northern Kansas that the rates of interest are being reduced lower in this territory than in any other section of the west. This is an emphatic endorse- ment of the claim that nowhere else-are crops so largely diversified, reliable and abundant, and stock-raising so exten- sive and profable. It is not true that the farms are mortgag: amination of the records shows that while many of the farms were mort- gaged to insurance and eastern capital- ists for the purposes of development, such incumbrauces have not only all been removed, but the borrowers have themselves become lenders of money. The existing mortgages are almost ex- clusively given by recent arrivals from the east for purchase money. It is a fact that the foreclosure accounts of all the loaning companies show a credit balance. Eastern capital has built our railroads and losses have sometimes resulted theretrom, still eastern papers do not condemn them and they continue & favorite form of investment. Eastern eapital 1s developing western farms and making them productive, putting them in condition to yicld euch year more than sufficient to pay interest upon their value and reasonably reward the husbandman. Losses have not re- sulted from this class of investment, yet lending castern papers exhaust their vocubulary incondemning them. Why? Unless, asabove stated, timid investors are to be cajoled into the hands of of Wall and State street gamblers. Agriculture is the basisof anation’s greatness and prosperity. Financial depressions affect and sometimes wholly destroy the value of railroud stocks and bends and prevent payment of interes on school district, municipal, county state bonds, but they do not prevent western farms from producing their annual increase to the wealth of the country or render the payment of inter- eston a mortgage burdensome to the borrower. In other words these farm mortgages, so severely condemned by eastern papers, return their full value and the interest is promptly paid re- gardless of the social, political and finuncial conditions of the country, while Wall street securities do not. Of course we refer to farm loans, negotiated by solid and re- liable compuanies managed by men of character and responsibility, who are thoroughly familiur with the value and productiveness of security in the territory where they operate and those which have not grown to such large proportions as to render it impos- gible for the managing officers to prop- erly attend to the selection of security and oyersee the details of business. It isalso true that this business has at- tracted to it the usual number of i sponsible loan agencies which accept security rejected by reliable companies, which enables them to offer loans bear- ing high rates of interest, but this should not condemn the business or reflect upon the credit of honorably managed institutions more than the failure of Mrs, Bowman's Enstern bank, the collapse of the Fidelity National bank of Cincinnati, or the frauds re- cently perpetrated by a so-called woman’s bank in Philadelphia, injure legitimate banking institutions. So long as bank officers and corpora- tion employes can steal the funds in- trusted to their care and migrate to Canada, and managers of railroads render valueless the securities ed upon the property in their vestern farm mortgages— which place in the hands of the capital- 15t productive security that cannot be destroyed or stolen by dishouesty or misumm\gument—‘;ill continue to be a favorite form of investment with all who investigate, notwithstanding the efforts of interested parties to divertthe accumulation of rural communities into the vortex of Wall or State streets. Army Promotions. An influential member of the house military committee predicts that there is no chance that the bill to rearrange the gradesgof the officers in tho sub- sistence department of the army, can become a law this year. He declares himself adverse to any more staff legis- lation, until something is done for the line of the army presumably through the passage of the Manderson three-battalion bill for the infantry. Now while the BEE has earnestly favored the proposed reorganization of the infantry arm of the service, it hus not heen blind to the inequalities exist- ing in the matter of promotions gener- ally throughout the army—particularly in some branches of the staff as com- pared with others, arfd with the line. To illustrate, take the recent promo- tion of Major Burt of the Eighth, to be lieutenant-colonel of the Seventh, and Major Snyder of the Fifth, to be lieutenant-colonel of the Tenth. The last army register, dated January 1, 1887, shows that Burt stood 154 in the list of majors, and Snyder 158. To promote these ~ two officers to the grade of licutenant-colo- nel, involved the “*jumping™ by Major Burt of 152 officers and by Major Snyder 156 officers, their seniors in rank and service. Of the number so passed over ten were officers of artillery, nineteen were of the cavalry and 127, staff of- ficers! Major Burt was promoted to his majority January 26, 1883, and Snyder March 10, 1883. Now this *‘jumping™ above their former superiors was from no special merit, no act of heroism, but simply an advantage gained through unfair or unequal laws regulating pro- motions in the army. They are both very worthy officers and deserve the ad- ditional grade they get in the service, but such additional grade should have been possinle without the gross injustice it involves to others, equally as good and deserving as they. Their advancement shows that the infantry field officers have advantage over all thestaff as well as over the ofticers of cavalry and artillery. The intimation that no action will be taken on-measures introduced to ad- vance by one grade some of the officers of the staff who are now asking to have this inequulity corrected, is unworthy any member of the house military committee and will not be an- proved by the liue of the army. All should be fairly and impartially treated and ench of the proposed meas- ures should stand or fall after a fair examination of its merits, and this with a reasonable purpose to correct the glaring inequalities which admittedly exist in army promotions. Without special fayor, some have passed through all the grades from second lieutenant to full colonel, while others have had ab- solutely no advancement, occupying now the same position or grade they didat the beginning of the war. This is notably the case with some of the sub- sistence and pay departments of the army, ‘We trust that congress will look into this subject and treat both the line and the stafl of the army with liberality and impurtial fairness. — Negro Colonization. There appears to be something real in the reported movement looking to the colonization of colored people of the United States in South America. A St, Louis paper states that within a few days a charter haw been obtained from the secretary of !Fm,‘l of Kansas incor- porating the South and Central Amer- ican Immigration‘league of the United States of Americf, which is composed of prominent and wemlthy colored men of Kansas and a mumber of leading col- ed men of the 'United States. The capital stock of the agsociation is placed at two million dollars, and the general object is to set¥le portions of the Argentine Republie and other states in Central #nd South Amer- iea, where land concessions and political privileges huve been made and guaranteed to coloni: 1t 15 stated that this movement, which has been quietly projected for several vears,is being received with great enthusiansm, by the colored people of several of the southern states, and no doubt is felt that when it becomes generally known there will be a vast number found willing to accept the terms offered them and locate in some of the states of the southern half of the hemisphere. If as a result of this movement the exodus of colored people from the south should become very large the matter might grow to be of grave import to that sectioff How much of alossof this labor the cotton, rice and sugar industries of the south could stand without damage or embarrassment is a servious question, and the danger from such a movement is that it will attract the younger, more vigorous, and the most useful portion of the colored peo- ple. These people are not naturally a migratory class. They have strong at- tachment for the place where they were reared and have always lived. Those who have attained to middle life would therefore probably not be greatly influenced. But the young men and women, who have grown up under new conditions and feel bronder aspirations, would undoubtedly be very susceptible to such promises as are held out by this colonization scheme, The movement is encountering some opposition from cql- ored people in the porth, and its future will be watched with a great deal of interest. Extravagant Weddings, The movement inaugurated east against extravagant funerals has been followed, perhaps quite naturally, by one against ostentatious and costly weddings, The latter does not seem to have become so formidable as the for- mer, and there may be some doubt as to whether it can be made so effective, but it1s supported by very strong argu- ments, It is held, for example, that the number of weddings islargely dim- inished ever ¢ by the common cus tom of costly display, and in addition to the serious hindrance to timely mar- vinges it is a pernidious and steadily growing evil. The argument of those who oppose the prebailing custom is that there is nothing more beautiful on wedding o ons thip retined and ele- gant simplicity, while the ostenta- displays * so common al- ways border strongly on vulgarity, and at times vulgarity is exhibited in its most offensive qualities. According to the view of the reformers this begins with the vulgar gaze and description of the bridal trousseau, continues with costly presents for exhibition and pub- licity, and ends with all the pomnp and ceremony that can be commanded to at- tract the attention and inspire the gos- sip of the multitude. Still another reason urged against ostentatious marriages is the unwhole- some lesson it teaches all newly married couples. Even if they have what ap- pears to be ample wealth in possession or i prospect such costly exhibitions alculated to unfit them for the at battle of life and its un- known vicissitudes. In a word the idea sought to be impressed is that ““modest. refined, elegant wed- dings may be hadin families of the humblest means, and modesty and re- finement should be the charm of every marriage occasion. It misleads no bride or groomin the first step of marriage life; it exposes no honest friend to eriti- cism for humble gifts; it harmonizes with the exceptionally solemn life com- puct made by the wedded pair, and it gives the best promise of happiness to all.” There is very likely no one who will not agree thatall this is reasonable, and that a reform effected on such lines would be an improvement, yet all will on alittle reflection realize that the probability of the movement for such reformreally accomplishing any general resultsis extremely small. Such attempts to curb or circumscribe the im- pulses of human nature are for the most part of very limited and temporary in- fluence, They secure a few devotees and have a period of seeming success, but finally it is found that the instinct which has given them an excuse foc ex- istence is unconquerable, and their ex- tinction becomes more rapid than thei growth. There is some hope for reform in the matter of extravagant funerals, but none at all as to costly and ostenta- tious weddings. — Miss Shattuck's Case. The case of Miss Shattuck, as related in the BEE, is exciting, deep sympathy. As already staced, she was teaching a sehool in Holt county, and was so se- verely frozen as to necgssitate the am- putation of both legs. Her aged father, a disabled veteran of the civil , has for sometime been dependent upon her ecarnings, which have now been cut off. The Dzk has appealed to the Grand Army of the Republic, and to the teach- ers and people generally of Nebraska in behalf of Miss Shattuck, and already responses are coming in. We hope that they will continue until a hand- sum 18 raised. People should not wait until personally solicited, but should promptly respond to the appeal made through the press. In this connection the BEE suggests that next Sunday, February 4, a collection be taken up in all the churches of Nebraska for the benefit of Miss Shattuck. With proper effort on the part of the minis- e and leading members of congre- gations a sufficient amount could be raised on that day alone to put Miss Shattuck, who is terribly crippled for life, in independent circumstances. We hope that everybody will unite in this movement. — I¥ the Cable Tramway company wish to avoid accidents and expensive damage in the suits they should see to it immediately that their cars are furnished ~with proper wheel-protection. POLITICAL POINTS, Minnesota republican clubs are perfecting a state organization The Maryland legislature is endeavoring to improve on the present election laws The defeat of Mr. Randall may cost the democratic party the loss of the next presi- dency. Nearly every republican candidate for nomination to a state office in Illinois this year is an ex-soldier. Senator Walthall (dem.) of Mississippi ro. ceived every vote cast for senator in both houses of the legislature The Philadelphia Telegraph says that *the Blair educational bill and all similar bills do not represent republicanism.” % Murat Halstead has shed enough tears over the confirmation of Lamar to wash the bloody shirt whiter than snow. The drift of discussion at tne Virginian re- publi ‘lub meeting is held to indicate that Sherman will get the delegation from that state, Mr. Mills may probably be able to lead the house if iie can fiud out which way he wants to go and does not trip himself up over Mr. Samuel J. Randall. Isaac Bell, brother-in-law to Jumes Gordon Bennett and now United States minister to The Hugue, is spoken of as a democratic candidate for the senate from Rhode Island. When there is any financial hocus pocus between the government and the bond- holders, the people may be very sure that the government is going to get the worst of it. We do not believe in blacklisting, but we make an exception in the case of Senators Stewart and Stanford, who voted for Lamar. The republican gates to honor should forever be closed on them hereafter, Colonel John H. Kuight, of Milwaukee, is said to be the choice of Secretacy Vilas. as the democratic candidate for governor in Wisconsin. He is connected with Vilas in the Superior lumber company. Editor Grady of the Atlanta Constitution appears to have recovered from his attack of vice-presidential fe He suggests that the name of Governor Gray of Indiana, will be the democratic mascot for 1988, The democrats 1 the Ohio legislature are solid for Cleveland's re-nomination, and the republicans are reported by the Cincinnati Enquirer as standing 20 for Sherman, 21 for Blaine, 5 for Foraker and 33 non-committal, The Cleveland administration has dem- onstrated the thorough devotion of the der ocratic party to the spoils doctrine. Genuine and honest civil service reform was never more an issue than at present. Thery fectly three republicans who are per- from presidential lightning. These arc Stewart, Stanford and Riddle- berger, They have erawled ical cofMins, aud down tight The “Bill to Promote Medicancy.,! has a rival in a bill introduced in the nouse by the Hon. Frank Lawler, who represents his own Chicago saloon, “to test und try the science of spelling and to provide for 100 schools for that purpose.’ into their polit- the lids have been nailed In theory our caucus and’ convention sys- tem is perfect, but everybody knows that there is so serious a defect in its practical workings that it is very scldom that the can- didates of either party are the men for whom the average citizen wants to vote. Com- mon;y the caucus system selects candidates not thought of at the fireside of the people. = A Well Founded Suspicior Philadelphia Times, There is a suspicion that the steel trust doesn't spell its u; Maintining the Family. Cincinnati Enquirer It Lias been discovered that Hogg, of West Virginia, belicves that Bacon wrote Shak- speare. They Protcct Themselves. Chicago News. Everything in this land is protected now oxcept the people. Monopolists are not. peo- ple; they are monopolists. The Glorious Climate of Texas. Timpson (Tex) Time orious climate! Auy kind of weather, to suit immigrants from all sections, Italian summer in the forenoon and Siberian winter in the evening. patw AR Preserving the Proportions. The Epoch. Gentleman (to Uncle Rastus)—Why Uncle Rastus, you never charged me 35 cents before for carrying in a ton of coal. Uncle Ratus— Dat’ case de price hab riz Mistah Smif. Yo' Kain't expec’ to git seven dollah coal carried in at de ole rates, sah. A Sermon in Rhyme. If you have a friend worth loving, Love him—yes, and let him kuow That you love him ¢'er life's evening Tinge his brow with sunsct glow. Why should good words ne'er be said Of a friend till he is dead. If you hear a song that thrills you, Sung by any child of song, Praise if t let the singer Wait deserved praises long. Why should one w rills your heart Lack the joy you may impart. If you hear a prayer that moves you By its humble, pleading tone, Jom it—do not let the seeker Bow before his God alone. Why should not your brother share The steength of two or three iu prayer! If you see the hot tears falling, ‘alling from a brother’s eyes, Share them—and thus by the Own your kinship with the sk ‘Why should anyone be glad ‘When a brother's heart is sad! 1f a silvery laugh is rippling Through the sunshine of his face, Share it—'tis the wise man's sayins, For both grief and joy a place There's health and goodness in the mirth In which an honest laugh has birth, 1f your work is made more easy i3y a fricndly, helping hand, Say so—speak out braye and truly ro the darkness veil the land. Should a brother workman dear, Falter for a word of cheer! Scatter thus your seeds of kindness, All enriching, as you go Leave them: trust the Harvest Giver, He will make each to grow. So, until life's happy end, You shall never lack a friend. —~ A few evenings ngo as a train on the Rio Grande railroad was going down Veta Pass mountain the engineer no- ticed something on the track a few paces ahead of fis engine. On close examination he discovered that it was a mountain lion, and it was trotting along in the center of the track, big banks of snow on either side preventing him from getting off, It only required a few minutes to reach the lion, and after a race of about four hund yards the pilot of the monster mogul struck Mr. Lion a broadside that knocked him several feet from the track, but did not kill him. The lion got up and ran off. ~- Bishop Garrett, of Texas, has been telling the Women's Episcopal Missionary socicty of Washington that they should quit spending 80 much money on the South Sea Islanders and send a few missionaries to the Lone Star state. . physician and surgeon since the ye ADOSE FOR POWELL REEVES Given By Dr. McMenamy in the Shape of a Legal Document. SOME RATHER RACY READING. McMenamy's Reply in that Libel Suit—He Shows Up Reeves' Record, Yesterday afternoon Dr. McMenamy, through his attorneys, Ambrose & Munn and W. J. Connell, filed his answer in the libel suit brought against him by L. Powell ‘The substance of the answer is as The defendant, John W. McMonemy, shows that he is a well educated physicia and surgeon, that he received his medical education at the college of physicians and surgeons in the medical department of Colun bia Medical colley also at the Bellevue Hospital Medical college, New York: also the college of physicians and surgeons of the state of lowa. That the state of Illinois is onc of the fore- most states in the organization of its board of health, having full control of the licensing of physicians in that state, and upon representation by this defendant of some of his medical diplomas from the aforesaid colleges, was licensed by the said state board of health of Illinois, and has been engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery since the year 1869, The defendant is proprietor of the Omaha Medical and Surgical institut which institute employs five skilled ph, cians and surgeons and a large number of other assistu That ever since the estab- lishment of said medical institute this de. fendant has been in the enjoyment of a large business, and for the six months prior to this date has been in the receipt of over £3,000 a month from said business, That it is true that the defendant made in the public jour- nals of the city of Omaha a publication which is correctly sct forth in said petition, show- ing his business, his medical institute and the diseases treated by him. The defendant further says that the allegation in said petition contained “that the plaintiff, Powell Reeves, is 0 physician and surgeon, und has been such T 1860, during all of which time he has practiced his profession, and that during said time has given his attention and skill to the treatment of special cases, having devoted careful study and rescarch to the investigation and treat- ment of such cases, and that he has treated and does treat the same scientifically and with a comprehensive knowledge, with skill and with success,” is absolutely untrue in every pa The defendant alleges that the said plaintiff is not a physician and surgeon, that e never pursued a course of study in any reputable medical college in Europe or America, and never received a diploma from any medical college in Europe or America recognized by any state board of health in the United States. Defendant further s , that said plaintift pretends to hold a diploma from the Eclectic M al college of C iti, pretended to ave been issued to him in the The defendant alleges such date was not a reputable institution, w then and never Ras been si until its re- organization in 1882, recognized in this country or in Europe as a reputable medical institu- tion, but on the other hand the diploma whi the plaintiff pretends to hold from said medi- cal institution and which is of record in the county of Douglas, and by which he pretends to have suthority to practice medicine in this state, was purehased by the said plaintiff from the ofticers of said pretended medical college, and the name of L. Powell Recves does not appear upon any catalogae or other publication of suid college as having been a graduate therefrom., Defendant alleges that the said plaintiff started out in his medical career in Terre Haute, Ind., asacans doctor, so called, having previous to that time been the driver of a horse and cart in said city and had worked in and about a livery stable thercin, at some_time later within the year 1879, the said plaintiff was traveling over the country ding to bea doctor, exhibiting his s and pretende d science upon the public streets of That he came to Omaha,the exact 1 unknown todefendant, and while in Omaha acting as a fakir he was al ted for some crime committed in ssee, the exact nature of which is at this time unknown to defendant, and he was arrested upon a requisitien and returned upon said requisition papers. During the residence of the said plaintiff in Indiana he became acquainted either by reputation or personally with one Dr. Van- who was a specialist and prac- cine in the city of Indianapolis, but some time during 1850 said Vanmonciscar died. In 1883 said plaintiff made his appearance in Minneapolis, Minn., where he was pub- liely known and denounced as a fraud. After leaving Minneapolis the plaintiff re- paired to Portland, Ore., where he opened an office under the name of Dr. Vanmon 'y where he advertised himself as a physician having treated over four thousand cases vearly, and advertising .himsclf as well known over the United States and Canada by thousands of young men and old whom he had cured, and published a_circular contain- ing his qualifications as such physician and surgeon under name, and attached to said circular was a photographic likeness of the said pretended Dr. Vanmonciscar, which likeness is an exact conterpart and copy of the likeness published of the said plaintiff and attached to his circular issued in Omal That while it was true that the said V. monciscar was a well known specialist and had a large ice and experience with the treatment of private diseases, and said plain- tiff hoping to profit by that fact which he well knew stole the name and reputation of the dead doctor. From Portland the said plaintiff went to San Frapeisco, where in hopes of reaping large profits and rewards he opened an office under the name of Dr. Roberts, advertising extensively in the papars of San K and at Scattle in Washington Territa by a remarkable coincidence the ad ments of the said Powell Reeves Omaba, Dr. Vanmonciscar at Portland and Dr. Roberts in San’ Francisco and Seattle are one and the same, and identical in lan- guage and construction. The defendant alleges the fact to be upon information and belief which he has received and which he believes to be true th: Luli Indianapolis, Portland, San F Seattle, as well as , at Lyon: d Clinton, and said j been Known 1o the public as a fraud and qu , that the said plaintiff has no medi er except such as may have been acquired in a desultory way und 1s ignorant and illiterate; that he does not Know su 0 pro- nounce med terms geor ¢ or=spell the commonest names of the ghish lan. guage correctly The defendant further says tha A saw the plaintiff until long after the time of his, the plaintiff’s, arrival in Or . That aintance was an application by plaintiff to defendant to go into his, defend loy upon a salary as a traveling tising man, which business connec tion defendant declined. At about the same time plaintiff requested defendant to pur- chase his business and office fixtures, offering to sell same for $250, which offer defendant also declined. That the allegation in said petition con- tained wherein plainuff alleges that defend- ant requested to form a partnership with him in practice of their profession in Omaha is absolutely and unqualific untrue. It is untrue that defendant ever made threats against plaintiff upon subject whatever exhibited he never any any said plaintitf as in_a proy in the profession; it is untrue that defendunt wrote a communication to that effect and presented same in his own hanawriting to said plaintiff, authorizing and requesting plaintifft to publish same, but upon contr defendant knew exact history and stat said medical college at Ciucinnati of which plaintiff pretended to be a graduate, knew said college to have been fraudulent and not up to stacdard hools of this country, and he knew the | d diplomas from said college were not recognized by the various state boards of health; that it untrue that the practice of plain s0 large and his treatmeont so su to interfere with business of defenda upon the contrary, during the time that plaintiff has been in Omaha the practice of defendant has continually inereased. 1t is untrue that on the 15th of January, 1553, the defendants o either of them caused ‘working nights, he ‘ove the publication set out {n the safd petition to be made in'the Omaha And while the defendant has no ") interest ar otherwise, except in interest of good morals and good government in the Question of whether plaintiff practices his pretended profession or not the said defend- ant _alleges that uot only are the facts set forth in said publication true but that the fraudulent practices of the plaintiff in the practice of medicine and surgery are not half told in said article; that ti 1 plaintiff is & quack in the strongest sense inwhich that term may be used as applied to the medical professor. 'The plaintiff is not only a fraud and a quack but he is a literary pirate and ](ml'alnmnol' of dead inen us herein before set orth, The said plaintiff pretends in & book of which he fraudulently purports to be tho author, that he has “four diplomas certify- ing to his qualifications in medicine and su gery, and twenty-five years experionce and ive practice in England, France and ' which sentence this defendant alleges was bodily stolen from & book pub- lished by Dr. Betts in New Orleans, and which language in said Dr. Betta' book is used as a certificate of the qualifications of the said Betts, Defendant further alleges that the said plaintiff, intending to deceive and defraud the peovle of Omaha and Nebraska, committed literary piracy in this. Many yeirs ono Dr. Betts, of New Orleans, a reputavle phy i and surgeon, ‘u hed a book which ran into the tenth edition, giving a history of diseases of the human system, relating prin- cipally to private diseases. Said book is n work of merit upon the diseases of which it treats. But said Reeves, plaintiff, took said book to one Festner, a job printer of Omaha, and requested its reprint and publication, in- stry Festner to insert the name of L. Powe ves, 1 place of the name of Dr. Betts wherever it occurred, Said book, agreeable to said instructions by said plaint” iff, “\\'un printed and distributed very gen- erally. pecuniary AMERICAN LO/ AND TRUST CO. This Celebrated Institution Located in Omah It haa always been oue of the proudest boasts of Omaha that she has never had a bank failure, and that in connection with all her financial institutions there have never been other than men of the broadest intelli- gence, unquestioned integrity and the largest experience in financial undertakings. Year by year she has been adding to the number of moneyed mstitutions,so that at the present time she may consistently refer to them as being the cqual of those of any city in the country. The latest accession to the number is the American Loan and Trust company, which has established its headquarters in the mag- nificent building of the United States Na- tional bank, southwest corner of Farnam and Twelith streets, This institution 18 well known in this part of the country. [t is the outgrowth ¢ the real estate and loun business of the old bank of Ash- land, which was pstablished in 1872, Tt has done hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of business in this section of the country and duriug all the years it hu been in business no losses have o either when the affu were conducted by the bank or since they were turned over to the trustcompany. In_coming to Omaha, the company has sceured a more central loc tion, to which every road of the state is tributary. It has placed itself within ecasy reach of thousunds of people who will desire to do business with it. This company has a paid up capital of nearly 00,000, It offers coupon bonds secured by first mortgages upon ate in Nebraska and northern Kansas. Principal and interest are guaran- teed and made payable at any local bank in the eastern states. O. ™. Carter, the president, has been a resident of Ne- braska for twenty-seven years and for a long time president of the National bank of Ash- land, a position which he still holds, although much the greater part of his time is given to the affairs of the trust company. His long xperience in making real estate loans in Nebraska eminently fits him for his position as manager of this company. D. D. Cooley, the vice president, and Philip Potter havo been in Nebraska for twent, cars and are warticularly fitted for the positions they fill. These men are thoroughly conversant. with the vatues and resources of every locality in which the company operates. The other directors are J. Fred Rogers, 240 Congress street, Boston, and ex-Governor Alvin Saunders, J. J. Brown and C. S. Montgomery, of Omaha, all of whom are too well known to the readers of the Beg to need any other introduction than the mere mention of their names, Mr. Rogers originally made large invest- ments in Nebraska farm loans through the Ashland bank, and prior to the organization of the trust company, came to Nebraska and thoroughly investigated the resources of the state and the sccurity of the mortgages held by him, and upon the orgsnization of the trust company becawe one of its largest st holde He has since heavily invested in its securitic Such an organization is welcome to Omaha, not necessarily as a stranger but an old and well known friend capable and ready doing its share in the upbuilding of this y and accommodating and assisting the and industrious farmer in bringing his nd stock to that condition which guar- ¢ and satisfactory return. Now antees i The farmers of of the advent of the company to this with all the confid vhich the intelligence, integrity and experience of its officers, to- gether with its ample means and superb methods, justify. merican Loun and Ty y and will patroni, Thomas Davenport Gazette. The report from Burlington that Thomas J. Potter, general manager of the Union Pacific lines, had placed his resignation in the hands of the direc- tory, to take effy April 15, is denied. But the statement is confirmed that Mr., Potter 1s suffering from ill health, that ther: danger of an carly break-down it he does not take better care of him- self. During his long conncction with the Burlington road Mr. Potter was the hardest-worked employe of thit cor- poration. It was by virtue of his ab that he rose from the lowest to the highest position. Genius has been defined asa capacity for hard work. This is the kind of genius Thomas J. Potter had. Tt made ference to him whether he was d ing ) & month as station agent or $25,000 o year as manager in the time he devoted to his corporation’s business. As his sponsibilitics multiplicd even at a greater rate did his anxicty quicken. When he went to the Union Pacific he attempted to inform himselfof every de- tail in that company’s i s he had done with those of the yse tem. He insisted upon doing himself a great amount of work that a wise would leave to subordinates, and way, making long journcys | ¥ tixed his great resources, What is true of Mr. Potter is true of many others. Railvoad presidents about the count their private pal- i supposed s for small ser- Successful lawyers ¢ which look like fortune: So with doetors, author ake great care and respon- sibility upon themselves, But in ne rly overy ease it will be there isa terrible anxicty tremendous mer strain which is doing its futul work. ‘T'heman who reccives u salary high up in the thousands, as a rule,is the busy: man. He not only has the capacity for worle but uses it beyond the limits of safety. The men who make money are not, in most cases, the men who know how to use it, or if they have any knowledge on the subject it is not of the practical. kind. Ho sley waited until he died to find hing for n And nds of our busy men are counting upon taking a vacatien which will never come to them, sl A Pennsylvania cat invariably bi off the feet of the rats she catehes aw then lets them go.