Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 3, 1888, Page 4

PHE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EE'\Y MORNING. TS OF PTION, ’M‘ orning. Edition) including Sunday Tore, One Y our . ; ‘or 8ix Months ‘or Three Months. Bunday HA OFFICE, D?“lw‘\' K OFFICE, ROOMS 14 AND 16 TRIB BUiLbING, . WASHINGTON OFFICE, NO. FOURTLENTH BTREET. CORRESPONDENCE. o 11 communications relating to news ane - ol mmttet should be addrossed to the RDITOI OF THE BEE. 1y NS LETTERS, All buginess letters and remittances should be addrossed to THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMAHA. Drafts, checks and postoffice orders to Do made payable to the order of the company. The Bee Publsting Company. Proprictors E. ROSEWATER, Editor. THE DAILY BEE. SBworn Statement of Circulation. Btate of Nebraska, [P County of Douglass, % Goo. 1. Trschiick, Secrotary of The Tles Pub- Jishing company, does solemnly swear that the actual circulation of the Daily Boe for the week ending Feb. 24, 188, wi lows: Baturday, Feb, 18, Bunday, Feb onda; osday, Feb. 3! Wednesday, Fe Thursday, Feb. Friday, Feb, 24 Average. GEO. B. TZSCHUCK. Rworn to and subseribed in my presence this 25t day of February, A. D., 18 N. P, FRIL, otary Public, Btate of Nebraska, W County of Douglass, f %5 Geo, B, Tzschuck, being first duly eworn, do- on and says that ho 18 secretary of The Hee Publishing company, that the actual average dally circulation of the Daily Bee for the month of Fabruary, 1887, 14,178 copies; for March, 187, 34,400 coples: for' April, 1857, 14316 copies; for lay, 1666, 14,227 coples; fof dtine, 1R, 4,147 coples; for Jily, 1887, 14,008 coples; rnrimfun; 4,161 coples; for September, 1887, 14,34 ctober, 1867, 14,383; for November, fes; Tor Oc 15,226 coples ember, 1887, 16,041 1 coj Copless for 9 e 1r 508 co €] or January, ', 15,208 coples: GRO, B, TZSCHUCK, Bworn and subscribed to in my presence this 2dday of Junuary, A, D. 1888, N. P. FEIL, Notary Public. HAS a builder of the Budensick class anything to do with putting up the Midland hotel at Kansas City? For the sake of the injured workmen we hope a thorough investigation will lay the ‘blame for the disastrous ealamity of the falling roof where it belongs. THE anti-prohibitionists of Iowa are not going to let the cold water advocates have it all their own way. Active work is going on through thestate in organiz- ing personal liberty leagues which will test the strength of the prohibition party when election day comes around. A NOVEL suit has been brought into the municipal court of St. Paul the re- sult of which will be of interest to horsemen. A citizen claims $150 dam- ages for injurios to his horse’s foot caused by the horse-shoe catching into the cable slot. The city’s defense is that the horse was not properly shod, meaning not shod in the way made nec- essary by the introduction of cable slots on the street. The case will probahly be appealed to the higher courts before & final decision is reached. . oi—— THE senate has lent its ear to the Nicaragua canal scheme and passed a Dbill incorporating a New York syndi- cate for the purpose of constructing a ship canal through Nicaragua or Costa Rica. No government subsidy was asked by the promoters of the canal at this stage of the proceeding. Should financial difficulties threaten to swamp the company after investing millions, in the manner of De Lesseps’ Panama canal, the syndicate will probably not be backward in appealing to congress for pecuniary aid in helping American capitalists out of a hole e . FrROM time immemorial it has been the custom for both houses of the British parliament to hold protracted sessions all through the night into the small hours of the morning. An 1mno- vation was made by the commons by which that house will sit no later than 12 o'clock at night, except upon occa- sions of extraordinary importance. It remains to be scen whether the house of lords will follow the commons’ ex- ample. It isa surprise to most Ameri- cans that the lower house displayed so much unanimity in breaking away from & habit and custom so deeply rooted in the British breast. E—— I is gratifying to be told that Omaha 18 as well advertised in the east and as favorably thought of by eastern capital- s ang Western city, but it will be nfortunate {f such assurances diminish @seal in keeping the claims and ad- wantages of Omaha prominent in the attention of those who are on the look- out for profitable investments. This city cannot be too well known. It can stand the most thorough inquiry and investigation regarding its sityation and possibilities as a commercial and manufacturing center. The danger is not in having too much but too little attention. There will be no difficulty in averting this if all whoare interested in the progress and prosper®ty of Omaha will make the proper effort. E———— THE situation in Perkins county, Neb., growing out of the conflict re- garding the county seat, is becoming serious. Thus far bloodshed has been averted only by the most zealous efforts of the law-respecting eitizens, but the passions of the contending factions are at the fighting point, and recourse to violence may happen any hour. Such an outcome of the contention it is the duty of the authorities, county and state, to prevent, and thorough meas- ures should be adopted and firmly car- ried out for this purpose. The deter- mination of the question in issue must be made peaceably and lawfully,and the warring factions ought to be made to understand that its determination in any other way will not.stand. No ques- tion can be settled by violence in the state of Nebraska, where the laws are ample for every requirement, the courts always accessible, and justice is assured to all citizens, We confidently trust that the issue in Perkins county may not go beyond the point of hot and angry controversy it has already reached, and that the prudent counsel of its law-respecting citizens will pre- vail to the extent of averting any re- course to violence. Hot-headed and reckless men, being advised and warned, must if they persist in their eourse be compelled to regard the laws. The New Tariff BIIL _ The bill revising the tariff agreed upon by & majority of the ways and means committee, the most important portion of which was published yesterday morning, is designed ‘according to the estimates of its framers to effect a re- duction in the revenue from imports of about fifty-three million dollars. Of this amount over twenty-two million will be dropped by the additions to the froe list, if the bill should pass in its present form, and beyond this the effect of the reduced duties on the revenue can be determined only by ex- perience. It issafe tosay that if the full amount of over thirty million dollars in revenue is not cut off by the reduction of duties as intended, the result will not fall short of this sum by an amount exceeding five million dollars, g0 that the bill in its present shape would almost certainly effect a reduc- tion of revenue from customs of at least forty-eight millions. Add to this say twenty-five millions taken from internal taxes and the reduction of revenue would perhaps be as large as would now be expedient to make. The measure submitted, it need hardly be said, will be subjected to a greav deal of criticism, will encounter vigorous opposition from every interest that it would affect, and will be the source of an extended discus- sion in congress. The additions to the free list are more exten- sive than were generally® expect- ed, and as they include lumber in various conditions, salt, tin, flax, hemp, cottonseed oil, petroleum, and some other articles for which protection has always been urgently demanded, and in the production or manufacture of which large capital is engaged, such in- terests will bring all their forces to bear against the measure. The proposed re- duction in iron and steel and their prod- ucts is certain to be stoutly resisted, though it cannot be shown that such re- duction would not still leave the iron and steel industries amply protected. There will doubtless be a very vigorous protest, also, from the cotton manufac- turers, although the bill treats this in- terest with quite as much con- sideration as could reasonably be asked with a due regard for the interests of consumers. Respecting the reduction of the duties on sugar the bill is not likely to fully satisfy any- body, and it is very likely the framers of the bill found this one of the most difficult questions presented to them. The proposed reduction would perhaps do away with the amount of revenue es- timated, eleven million dollars, but it is not apparent that it would equally ben- efit consumers, or indeed be of any ad- vantage to them. There is no reason to believe that with the sugar-refining industry in the control of a trust the prices of sugars would rule any cheaper under the rates proposed in the bill than they are at present. In that case the govarnment would lose the revenue and the people would de- rive no benefit, thus defeating a most essential part of the object of tariff re- vision. But the feature of the bill which will be most vigorously assailed is that put- ting all wools on the free list after July 1next. It had been reported that this was the intention of the majority of the committee, but it was not generally ex- pected that they would go so far as this. We have no doubt that so radical and sweeping a change would be ill-advised, and we cannot easily conceive the rea- sons that led the framers of the bill to adopt this provision. Had it been thought best to place carpet wools on the free list there would be a defense for such action in the fact that it is necessary to import fully,ninety-five per cent of this claes of wool, but to sweep all wools into the free list can not be defended as a wise or necessary policy. The wool in- dustry is a very important one, and should not be recklessly imperiled, as it unquestionably would be if all wools are placed on the free listat the date named in this bill, It is more than probable that after realizing on the present year’s crop more than half the wool growers in the country wo.!d abandon the business, There is not the slightest probability that this provision of the new tariff bill could pass either house of congress. The woolen manufacturers are quite fairly dealt with in the bill, and it will not be surprising if very little opposition is heard from this source. As bad been expected, the republican members of the ways and means com- mittee aeclined to consider the bill in committee, and this attitude they will probably adhere to. The majority hav- ing gone on in the preparation of the bill without consulting the minority, in violation of precedent, they will doubt- less be permitted to bring the measure forward in their own way and at their own time without any suggestions from the minority. This they may be ex- pected to do at an carly day, when there will begin a tariff discussion which will occupy most of the time of congress for two or three months. S —— $2,000 Per Front Foot. The proposition to sell Jefferson Square to the government for a half a million and to use the proceeds for “park” purposes is all very well, but it is like counting one's chickens before they are hatched. Tho government has a word to say asto where it pro- poses to locate s publio building, and also something to say about the cost of the land. Just because four or five hundred thousand dollars are voted for the site, the government does not pro- pose to pay a fancy price for a piece of land that can be bought cheaper in the open market. Take the Jefferson square project as a business venture, would any capitalist pay for it at the rate of $2,000 per front foot? But that is just about what the Jeflerson square boomers are asking. The square has a frontage of 264 fect on Sixteenth street. At the price of #2,000 per front foot, the net cost would amount to 8528,000. But we presume the boomers would not be hard on the government, and would throw off the 0dd $25,000 in order to close the bar- gain. Now the truth is, there are a numher of available sites neaver to the businass center of the city, and much more de- sirable for heavy buildings, owing to the nature of the subsoil of Jefferson square, that can be bought at a closer figure than 82,000 per front foot. But even if the price of a site thatis en- tirely suited for the new postofiice is worth as high as #3,000 a front foot, the property owners in the vicinity would undoubtedly contribute sufficient to cover the difference between the price asked for the land and the ap- propriation of $400,000 or #500,000, THE BEE does not care to go into a lengthy discussion of the merits and demerits of the new Union club. It may be the purpose of the promotors of the club to live up to their promises of fostering the business interesis of the cit; But the club has taken a strange way of showing its regard for the city’s commercial welfare. In the first place two-thirds, if not more, of the members of the Union club are identified with the board of trade. As members of the older association they have plenty of scope to take an active hand in promot- ing manufacturing and commercial activity in the city. There is, therefere, no excuse for establishing a new club that shall follow in the same path traveled by the board of trade. A division of the business men into two camps will promote anything but har- mony or strength. Rivalry will in no way promote the welfare of Omaha. In this respect the Union club will be of no benefit to our com- mercial prosperity. If, however, the Union club is to be a silk stocking affair for the purpose of occupying Mr. Paxton’s club rooms, the “business at- tachment” should be dropped immedi- ately. ThE readerless sheet tries to make capital out of the statement made in the BEE yesterday that Jefferson square is impracticable as a building site for any massive structure, owing to the nature of 1ts sub-soil. The readerless sheet doesnot controvert what we said, that water is within twelve feet of the level of Sixteenth street adjacent to the square, and that a bed of quicksand un- derlies the square at a depth of not more than twenty feet. But the Repub- lican wants to hold the BEE accountable for the faults of nature. More than this, the readerless organ is dishonest, and is ready to trick the government into the purchase of land unsuited for the erection of a massive public building that requires founda- tion walls of from twelve to twenty feet below the street level. Property own- ers along Sixteenth street know that on certain parts of the street the subsoil is unsuited for any kind of a heavy struc- ture, and have put up lighter buildings in consequence. There is nothing secret about the matter, and, therefore, the BEE necd not be silent about a fact which architects and builders speak of every day of the year. OVER ten thousand bills have been introduced during the first twelve weoks of the fiftieth congress. This number exceeds by 30 per cent the record of any previous congress for the same length of time. From this avalanche of bills— some important, but the majority trivial and of & private nature—only thirty-one have passed through both houses and received the president’s signature. Here is certainly a state of affairs which shows that the present way of conduct- ing business in congress is unsatisfac- tory. The calendar is loaded down with claims and wants of private individuals which clog the proceedings of both houses. Senators and representatives use the time of the session in pushing through pet schemes for political effect and waste valuable hours filibustering to make an impression on their constit- uents, The merit of a bill has very lit- tle to do with its success. If it goes through it is largely a matter of luck and chance, and the more important the measure the slighter the chance. e THE Omaha public building bill is now in the hands of a conference com- mittee, and it is thought from the char- acter of the committee that the outlook for the measure isfavorable. Of the senate conferees Spooner and Vest rep- resent western sentiment regarding public improvements, and the former will certainly and the latter probably favor the bill as it was passed by the senate. There is little reason to doubt that Senator Quay, of Pennsylvania, will be equally well disposed toward it. Of the house”conferees Dib- ble, of South Carolina, will doubtless insist upon the house bill appropriating 400,000 foP the fiurclnuo of a site, but Mr. McShane will unquestionably have the assistance of General Kennedy, of Ohio, in support of the senate bill ap- propriating $1,200,000 for site and build- ing. We think it reasonably sure that the senate bill will have the support of the majority of the conference commit- tee, A RESOLUTION has been introduced in the Council Bluffs city council pro- viding for the creation of a board of ex- aminers for tho purpose of passing upon the qualifications of engineers on steam railroads within the corporate limits of the city. Whether the Council Bluffs council will be able to enforce such an ordinance, should it be adopted, isa question. However, a law of such a na- ture should be passed by state legisla- tures making it necessary for steam railway engineers to be licensed after having been examined and endorsed as qualified by a board appointed for the purpose. The public is directly inter- ested that no incompetent men should be employed to run passenger engines and imperil the lives of travelers. En- gineers of steamboats are obliged to pass a rigid examination before a board of examiners and to show a license to that effect. The same law ought to ap- ply to engineers of steam railroads, T———— Other Lands Than Ours. The record of English events during the past week has not disclosed any- thing of very great interest for anybody outside of England. The conservatives are still congratulating themselves over the successes in Doncaster and ' Dept- ford, and are feeling stronger and more confident. Still the ministry have not boen wholly free from harrassing cir- cumstances, chief of which has been the stinging eriticism of Lord Randolph Churchill on the financial conduct of Fiigin e the government. ‘This is a matter with' which Churchill ‘is not only entirely tarhiliar, but regarding which he feels astrong interest, and the failure of the government to successfully confute his charges of folly and extravagance gives him a victory far more satisfactory than any glory he could probably have won had he remained a,member of the gov- ernment. He is the sort of man not to be satisfied with a single success, and may be expected to ‘‘throw his shining lance" in the face of the government on this subject whenever opportunity shall offer. It can easily be understood that such an outlook is not pleasing to the ministry, but there is no way to get rid of itsolong as Lord Randolph is un- fettered by any obligations to silence, and he has already said so much that probably there could be no inducement offered that would keep him silent. Some singular incidents have occurred in the house of commons which give fresh force to the axiom that *‘politics make strange bed-fellows.” These re- late to Gladstone defending the toreign policy of Salisbury and complimenting Chamberlain in connection with his mission to the United States. Churchill talking for Parnell, Parnell going to the rescue of Smith of the ministry, and more of the same sort of concilia- tory ,proceedings which might:lead a stranger to the issues that separate these men to suppose that they all quartered in the same camp. On the question of paying the bill of expenses for sending Chamberlain to the United States to negotiate a fisheries troaty, amounting to the generous sum of about nineteen thousand dollars, Mr. Glad- stone voted with the tories, and took oc- casion also to speak in most eulogistic terms of Mr. Chamberlain. His course as a whole must have greatly surprised many of the liberals, but it was really an example of magnanimity quite con- sistent with the characterof the ‘‘grand old man.” The policy of the liberals not to obstruct or embarrass the govern= ment 1 its plans of local reform is being well adhered to, and doubtless with good effect upon public sentiment. It very likely will not have any effect to modify the harshnessof the govern- ment’s Irish policy, but it will be suffi- cient if it shall favorably igfluence the people, and this it can hardly fail to do. * ' Political affairs on the continent of Europe continue free from outward agi- tation. Nothing has recently emanated from any of the ‘cabinets giv- g cause for, uneasiness regard- ing the situation! The appearances in- dicate that all the assurances that have been given that peace would be main- tained are to Be fulfilled. Still the question may be pertinently asked, how long is this placid condition likely to continue ? The answer may depend upon the success bf Russia in the effort she is believed to be making to effect an alliance with France. The promise for such an effort, if It s really being made, cannot be regardedias at present very favorable. There is undoubtedly a strong sentiment,in France in favor of an alliance, but it is not influential enough with the present government to accomplish anything. President Car- not is not a soldier, and as a civil engineer he will prefor peace to war. The French peo- ple are not anxious to precipitate an- other governmental crisis, and they will support the president. Russia may have the good will of France, but she will not be able at this time to secure her help for inaugurating a great con- flict the end and the dire consequences of which no man could foresee. If Rus- sia cannot or will not strike without having the active support of France she will be compelled to delay her blow for an indefinite time. e Roumania seenis to be the only one of the parties to the Balkan controversy that has achieved any substantial gain from the later diplomatic moves, but she has had a single purpose in view, and has been able to show that it is for the interest of at least one of the great powers to support this purpose. She has notified the porte that Aus- tria gives her assurances that a Russian violation of Roumanian territory would be considered a movement against Aus- tria and a cause of war. The march of Russian troops into Roumania would not only bo aggression of a positive kind, but would specifically threaten Austria’s own defenses. It is a safe conclusion, therefore, that it would be resented by the latter as a hostile movement. Still, to make a hypothetical case, and act upon it by a specitic promise is notice- apie, and Austrig’s purpose is presum- ably not only to warn Russfa but to in= crease her friendly relations with Rou- mania, This kingdom must have an additional bias toward Austria as hav- ing voluntarily given her pledges of protection. Russia could convey forces to Bulgaria by sea without violating Roumanian soil, but in any great war in the peninsula Roumania would find it difficult to preserve her neutrality. . e The Bulgarian government 1s said to be firmly resolved to reject any proposal to dethrone Prince~Ferdinand, even if such proposal should’ come supported by the powers. This s a plucky stand for the little principality to take. Russia and Turkey, which enjoy the honor of being joint suzerain over Bulgaria, are agreed that Prince Ferdinand has no business on the throne. His election was not in accord with the provisions of the treaty of Berlin, which is in a sense the organic law of Bulgaria. The other powers agree with Russia and Turkey in this respect mainly because the terms of the treaty on this point bear but one in- terpretation. But the government of Bulgaria snaps its fingers at the powers. They have got a prince they like, and they propose to keep him, 1f the powers do not like their prince, so much the worse for the powers. It is to be hoped Bulgaria will emerge from the war that is threatened withundiminished territory. Her area 1s limited, but her confidence in her ability to stand against the some- what formidable alliance that is being formed against her is one of the most refreshing exhibitions Europe has given us for some years. e The effect of the proposed. intermar- riage of a prince and princess of Eng- land ‘and @& prince and princess of D. Greece, the contracting parties in each case being first cousins, will be to keep the two thrones strictly within the fam- ily. The next generation of European monarchs will be mainly brothers and sisters and first cousins. It is difficult to see how the tiesof consanguinity could be any closer. The empress of Russin and the princess of Wales are sisters who have the king of Denmark for a father and the king-of Greece for a brother. The prince of Wales and the crown princess of Germany are brother and sister. The Crown Princess Stephanic of Austria is closely related to the royal family of England, and there are degreos of connection without num- ber besides these between the different thrones. How much more intermarry- ing this race of kings and queens will stand is an interesting question. The percentages of insanity, imbecility and congenital diseases are large enough, surely, to teach the adoption of a wiser system of matrimony than the one fol- lowed. The hold of royalty on several of the nations of Europe is not so re- markably firm that it can afford to let the quality of its stock deteriorate further. England could cut loose from the throne now with scarcely a jar to the governmental n:nchinory. *'w The north of Scotland is raprdly de- veloping into another Ireland, and great trouble is expected there before long. It will be remembered that it was pre- cisely this very region that in former times furnished the bravest troops for he British army; and even now, though the proportion of Scotch and Irish troops has largely decreased, large num- bers of the marines come from the high- lands and islands of Scotland. An im- portant idea is now being considered by some of the leading crofters, which is this: That, when called upon to join their ships the marines shall, acting in combination, refuse to do so until the land of whith they have been robbed is restored to them. The government would, in such case, be quite powerless, and the question would then be forced to the front. In this event there is lit- tle doubt that the rich men who have stolen the crofters’ land to make way for their own deer forests would be gradu- ally but surely dispossessed by similar processes to those which have been adopted in Ireland. Thus the landlord systern is gradually perishing in all por- tions of the United I.(ingdom. "% The presidential election in Mexico, which comes off next June, seem s to be practically decided in advance, as no one of the candidates yet named against General Porfirio Diaz is able to con- centrate anything like an effective op- position. There is achance for a some- what greater union of the hostile ele- ments during the next three months, but with the enormous power of the ad- ministration influence and patronage to aid him, the present incumbent will probably be re-elected by an overwhelm- ing vote. Indeed, had there been much chance of defeating President Diaz it would have organized itself against the recent amendment of the constitution that allowed him to become a candidate. Having been able to carry by a vast ma- jority this alteration in the fundamental law for the express purpose of making him eligible for immediate re-election, and in spite of his own record of oppo- sition to two successive terms, his friends may well regard his triumph in June as a foregone conclusion. This country will not object to such a result, since General Diaz has been a firm and sincere friend to the United States under all circumstances, as well as one of the ablest presidents that Mexico has ever had. * e For the first time in history a Mahom- etan sultan who claims to be a lineal descendant of the prophet, and who is the ruler of oneof the most fanatical nations under the sun, has appealed to the supreme head of the Catholic church for assistance and advice. An envoy has just arrived at Rome, bearing a let- ter from the dusky monarch of Morocco, in which the latter requests the pope to undertake the mediation between him- self and the foreign powers in con- nection with the abuses of the protege system. Leo XIII., who was for many yearsa nuncioat several of the northern oourts, is exceedingly proud of his well- merited reputation as one of the most remarkable diplomatists of the century, and he cannot fail to be exceedingly pleased at this flattering tribute to his fame. * There is a whlesl:rznd and very bitter feeling in Germany because there scems reason to fear that the condition of the 6rown priige differs materially from the assurances which attending physiefars have been led to make. In 8o faras these assurancef sprang from over-san- guine or mistaken judgments, they are only to be regretted, but the idea is gaining ground that there has been in- tentional concealment of the gravity of the symptoms. Just professional cau- tion is very far removed from unwar- rantable representation, no matter how good the motive THE F1 DUSTRY. Trade is reported brisk in the clothing line. There are 250,000 Knights of Labor in good standing. The Indianapolis gas trust intends to have 250 miles of pipe laid by June 1. West Chester, Pa., offers new manufac- tories immunity from taxation for ten years. There is an Italian chamber of commerce in San Francisco composed of Italian mer- chants of that city. A $2,000,000 iron and coal company has just been organized at Tinneville, Ky., the center of a rich mineral district, At Irwin, Pa., a company has been organ- ized to manufacture hardware novelties, lawn mowers and other machinery. Harper, Kas.,, has refused to accept the waterworks constructed for it by a Mr. Hill, the test having proved unsatisfactory. The Southside Land Owners' Protective association of Pittsburg has resolved to pub- lish the names of tenants who do not pay their rents, Electric railroads have been laid in thirteon cities. One of them at Montgomery, Ala., covering eloven miles, carzied 1,000,000 peo- ple last year, ‘Work on the main building of the Southern Agricultural works at Atlanta, Ga., has been carried on night and day, electrio lights hav- ing been introduced. The crematory for the consumption of garbage at Chicago nas been completed. It 1s the Intention to erect similar bujldings in -each district'of the city. 1t is said that the strike of the employes of the Boston and Saridwich Glass corapaiy, at Sandwich, Mass., is kitling lccal trade and practically ruining the town, It has beon stated on good - authority that 1t will require upward of 2,000 cars to trans- port othe orange crop of California, now just coming to perfection, to eastern markets. The Southern Pacific has ordered twenty switch engines from the east to be used in Los Angeles, San Pedro, Mojave, Oakland, San Francisco, Post Costa, Lathrope and Sacramento. W. H. Tift of Tifton, Ga.. has just pur- chased 19,00) acres of yellow pine timber lands for £19,000, making his present pos- sessions of timber lands in Georgia amount 10 100,000 acres, The clothing trades and the other ten sec- tions of the Central Labor union and all the nsscmblies of Knights of Labor of New York and neighboring cities have voted moral and financial support to the Reading strikers. ——— Lacks the Stamps. New York World, The envelope trust is lacking in one impor- tant detail. It does not bear the stamp of public approval. U — Nobody Wants It St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Some ambitious city should now make ap- plication for Dr, McGlynn's presidential nom- inating conventi —— The Need of American Youth, Alta California. The youth of this country need to be taught less about music and free hand drawing and more about handling a trowelor a jack plane. - - Making Himself Solid. Augusta Chronicle. The president kissed a large numer of lit- tle children at Waycross, on his way to Flor- 1da. The president is very solid in the wire- grass NN S Shrouds Next in Line. Nebraska State Journal. Even the grave must pay tribute to monop- oly. The coffin “trust” is the latest. It will vrobably be one of the most exacting and ex- orbitant. —_—— Bulling the Human Market. Minneapolis Tribune. ‘The New York asscmbly has passed a law increasing the cost of a man’s life to a rail- ‘way company from 5,000 to $10.000. Voters become valuable as the campaign ap- prodches. Elalgn o An Expensive Hobby. New York Sun, ® Senator Blair's crank hobby has cost the taxpayers of this country at least a hundrod thousand dollars. He should be suppressed, even if it has to be done with shot and shell. He should be captured and sunk. bbbt A Monopolist as Bad as an Anarchist. New York Herald. Look at it how you will, trusts mean war against the best interests of the community. If we don't abolish them they will abolish us. It may bea long fight and a hard fight, but it is a fight worth fighting. A monopolist is just as much an enemy to orderly society as an anarchist. The latter blows us to smith- ercens by a single explosion, the former lays us under tribute and compels every man, woman and child to add to his bank account. ‘Weare his slaves, and have no rights be- cause he wants them all himself, James Jeffrey Roche. Have you scen my sailor boy as you came across tho seal Have you seen my sailor boy, with the laughing eyes of blue, ‘With the sunlight on his hair, and his face so young and fair, Andt zho'smile he used to wear, brave and rue X Oh, he kissed mo on the check as he sailed away to sea, Sailed away from Gloster Town,and I never saw him more. But the ships they come and go, and the tides they ebb and flow, And the waves are moaning low on the shore, Ah! they told me he was dead, but I know it is not true; For hecomes to me atnight, when the world is all asleep. And he speaks to me by day, when the tem- sts sweep the bay, And the billows are at play on the deep. For he said he would come back,and he never broke his word. - Have you seen my sailor boy? He is coming soon, I know. I would go to him to-day, if I only knew the way, Though the grave before me lay, I would 80. e Probably Fatally Injured. A probable fatal accident occurred at the cornerof Thirteenth and Dorcas streets yes- terday morning. George Hughes, who resides on the western out- skirts of the city, was driving a two-horse-team attached to a big road wagon. The horses became frightened at a piece of flymg paper and ran off. Hughes at the pomnt above mentioned was thrown out, and in the fall sust aned a fractured skull and in ternal injuries that will most likely result in death. ‘The patrol wagon was called and the injured man was taken to St. Joseph’s hospe tal, where he lies in a critical condition. Hi- 15 a man of family. INFANTILE SKIN DISEASES Our oldest child,now six years of age, wh en an {nfant six months old was attacked with a viru- Ient, maglignant skin_ disease. All_ordinary remedies failed, we called our family physician, who attempted to cure it; but it spread with al- most incredible l’lpldlty. until the lnwnl‘rnl‘llnn of the little fellow's person, from the middle of his back down to his 1ees, was one solid rash, ugly, paintul, blotched and malicious. We had norest at night, no peace by day. Finally, we were advised to try the OUTICUKA REMEDIES. The effect was x,lm})ly marvellous. In three or four wocks a complete cure was wrought, leav- ing the little fellow's person as white und heal- thy as though he had never becn attacked. Tn my opinion your valuable remedies saved his life, and to-day he 18 a xslr(m%' healtny child, pertectly well, no repetition of the disease Lav- ng ever occurred. GEO, B, SMITH, Att'y at Law and Ex-Pros. Att'y, Ashland, 0. REFERENCE: J.G. Welst, Druggist, Ashland, O, THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN Are horn into the world every day with some ec: zematous affection, such us milk crust, scall head, scurf, or dandruff, sure to develop iito an agonlzing eczema, the Mohing, burning and dis- figuration of which make Itfe & prolonged tor- wgo unless properly treated. A warm bath with CUTICURA BOAP, an exquis. ite 8kin Beautifier, and ' single application of CuricuRa, the Great Skin Cure, with a littlo CuTICURA RESOLVENT, the New Blood Purifier, are often sufficlent to arrest the progress of the Qisease, and point to & speedy and permanent cure, Hence, no mother who loves her children, who takes pride in their beauty, purity, und health and in bestowing upon them o child's greatest inheritance,—a skin without & blemish, und a body nourished by pure blood,~-should' fall to make trial of the CUTICURA BEMEDIES. 80ld everywhere. Price, QUTICURA, 50c: BOAP, #ic; RESOLVENT, 81, Prepgred by tho PorTe DRUG AND CHEMICAL Co., Boston, Mass, - Send for “How to Cure Skin Diseases,” 04 pages, 50 illustrations and 100 testimonials. BABY'§ i ana Beaip presorved utd boauti- tled by CUTICURA MEDICATED SOAP. HOW MY SIDE ACHES! chitig Sides and Back, Hip, Kidney nd Uterine Pains, Rheunatic, Bclat euraliey Kharp bud Sliostis Pat RELIEVED IN E MINUTE D] cURA ANTi-PAIN PLASfER. The first and only palu-killing plaster; 26 cents, T VILINTER FRBMEN | A Reminiscens of the Valunteer Fire Department by an Ex-I'resident of the Daraat Fire Company. —_— One of the Many Thrilling Experienc e Ho Was Sulject to—What an Em- inent Writer Has to Say About Sleeplessness, Prominent tn the Fifth distriot of Omaha,and hugging the banks of tho great Missouri river, stand the vast and solid workshops of the Union Pacific Raflrond Co. The several structures n- he puint sliops, the car shops, the botler theblacksmith ghops, the machine sHops, fler works. Insido tiese builditigs fully wearing the jean overalls whic iform of labor (a manlier garh l|ll|l! orcouriers' laces) move nachinery, or deafen the wir with & Ccontinous rat-a-tat-tat of thelr hammers. 1u the machine shop huge machines bore, shear or punch thick steel as oasily as a carpenter carves wood or a child with sclssors cuts out hi plastlings. Lutho blacksmith shop forty od forges CAST A LURID GLARE upon the smoky walls, Tnthe roundhouse twenty stalls contain éach an «msllm (that seems in its narrow house monstrously enlarged) in process of repair or manufacture, - Each engluesuggests huita beehive and the men crawling oF olmbe ng upon it seem like industrious bees, Tothe midst of such surroundings as it blacks smuth-shop, the reporter in quest of an item ofls terest, found Mr, James Callahan, & man well known and popular among his teflow-workmer s well s to every banking establixhment an ‘business house in this eity, snd_who has been employed in the same shops for 23 years, In re- ply to an interrogative from the scribe Mr, Calla- ian replied: “I came to this country from Queenstown, Treland, in 1860, Ju- aftor Lincoln was elected (\hmlnlum ofthe United States, 1re- mained in New York city until 183, when I came to Omaha, where I secured a job of work as helper in the' U, P, 8hops and have worked here ever since. I worked under Mr. Hoff. the first master machanic the U, P. Co. had in these shops, In 1866 1 worked under the present fore- man, Mr. A. A. Gibson, and have beenin his em- ploy ever since. Whilé they were building the ‘r’. E’. Bridge 1 s taken from the shops to as- sist at the fron work there and while their em- ployees were carried away daf many of whom died, I never w lenst by the exposure aud worl feet below th 1 name or the “cotton wood man gineer bocuuse ay o said T was' proof agatnse the mhlady that was continually decreasing his force of workmen. “As 1 started to say, T was always a hearty man and was never under the care of any doctor until about two yearsago, when 1 took a cold which settled in‘my throat and chest. 1 would hawk andspit and had pains over my” eyes and in the smailof my back, Had ® severe cough nearly all the time. Had dizzy spells at times. t tho Dy the chief en- and more than once I had to sieze hold of some support to keep from l'lllinfi, 1 went to some of by them: T also t0ok trewiment, bus devived no benefit’ whatever. There was for three and I had a continual hoarness—nose wotld stop up so I could not, breathie through it. My ) ing the mght. and to get rid of it in [l-e morni 1 would have to gag for an hour or more, an 1 WAS IN A VERY CRITICAT, CONDITION, Inst fall and scarcely think 1 would have been for some of my fellow workmen who had been successfully treated by Dr, J. C. MB(‘O{ Al visited his office in tlie Ramge block and at once sought his services to see what lio conld 4o for fice three timesa week besides taking his medi. cine regular and at the end of one week found right along and the change WAS BIMPLY MARVELOUS my lifethan I do at the present time. I have more pains or aches, have had no trouble wi my congh troubles me no more and 1 feel like @ new man altogether. Mr. Callaian 18 probab ness man in the city, having acocumulaf slderablo of this world's goodsand is one of the best physicians in the city, and was examin. ‘months that I could not speak above a whisper, throatwould fill up with mucus or phiegm’ dure frequently would vomit, able to work during the winter had it not st his associates, through thelr instrumentality me. Tbogan to use is treatment, going to his myself much improved, I continued toimprove T don't think I ever enjoyed better heaith in my speech, do not take colds as easy as I used ts as well known in and around Omaba as any busi- wost popular men around the works, He war JAMES CALLAHAN, for yenrs president of the Durant Fire compan before the present paid fire department was or gunizod, was for yoars a prominent 0dd Fello and at present s & member of the Knights of Honor, and can be found at the Union Pacifi Dlacksiith shops, or at his residence 109 North Fourteenth-st., where he will fully corroborate the above statement, OERTAIN EVIDENCE. Discovered Which May Be Beneficlal to the Reader. In thepractice of a skillful physiclan there occurs many cases like the case of cataryh mens tioned, In many cases the patients have pais about the chest'aud sides andsometimes {n t back, They feel dull and sleepy; the mouth @ bad taste, especiallyin the morning, of sticky slime collects about the teeth, Thoe aps otite i poor. There 13 u feeling 1iké & heavy oad on the stomach, sometimes & faint, all gong sensation at the pit of the stomach, which food does not satisty. The eyes are bunken, tho hands and foet be- come cold and foel clamwy, After a while & cough sets in, at first dry, buf after a fowmonths it 15 attended with a grénish-colored expectors ation. The patient feels tired all the while, and sleep does not seem to afford any rest. After a time he becomes nervous, irritable and gloomy and has evil forebodings, ‘Thereisn glddiness, a & sort of Whirling sensution in the Liead whén rising up suddenly, The bowels become cost- ive, the skin {5 dry and hot at times, the blood becomes thick andstagnant,the whités of th become tinged with yellow, the kidn ions become scanty and high colore ing a sediment after standing. 5 quently a spiting up of food, somtimes with & sour taste and sometimes with a sweetish taste: this is frequently attended with palpitation of the hieart and asthmatic symptoms; the vision becomes impaired, withspots before the eyes; there 15 a feeling of great prostration and weak- ness. Permanently Located. Dr. Cresap J. McCoy, Iate of Bellevue Hospital, New York, and his associates, late of tho £ New York City, also of Wash- ave loeated permanently in block, Omaha, Neb., where d skiflfully, Discase, University ington, D, the Ham, Consumption, Dyspepsia, Rheumatism, and all nervous diseases. All diseases peculiar to sex & speciaity, CATARRH CURED! Consultation at office or by mail, 1. Office hours—9to 11 . m.,, ¥ to 4 p. m,, Tto v m Sunday Hours From 9 a. m. to 1 p. m. Correspondence roc s prompt attention. No letters answercd unless accompunied by 4c in stamps. Address all letters to Dr. McCoy, Rooms 310 and 51 amge Bulldiug, Omal e