Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 8, 1888, Page 4

~ THE OMAHA DAILY BEE SUNDAY APRIL 8, 1888 -SIXTEEN PAGES. THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MOR! TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily Morning Edition) including Sunday 008 YOAE ..o cor s " 8ix Months ../ it § Three Months i W e Omaha Sunday Bee, mailed to any ad- dress, One Year ¥ T PRICE, NOS.OLLASD 018 FARSAM STRERT. O P Gwitn, IoowR 14 AND 1h TRIDUNY rLDING. WASHINGTON OFFICE, NO. 513 JOURTEENTH BTREET. CORRESPONDENCE. Al communieations relating to news and edi- forial matter should be addressed to the EDIToR OF THE KR, . GINESS LETTERS. 11 business letters and remittances should be ressed to Tur BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, [ ] ) 0 WA, Drafts, checks and postoffice orders to o made payable o the order of the company. The Bee anismujgamnany. Proprictors BE. ROSEWATER, Editor. “THE DAILY BEE. Bworn Statement of Circulation, Btate of Nebrarke, Lo ouglass, (%% Goo. I sk, secrotary of The Bes Pub. Nshing company, does solemnly swear that the wetun] circulation of the Daily Bee for the week ending April 6, 188, was as follow: Hisd Average . GEO. B. TZ 'worn to and f“x“l’;ml’u‘isén nlprli?N'l(nn(“al this f April, A. D, 3 WP kA Notary Public, Etate of Nebraska, L& County of Douglass, oo Geo. B Trsehnck, Detng rat duly sworn, de- says that hods secretary of The Beo biiahing compagy, {hat the vl average aily eirculation of the Dat'y Ree for the month of “March, i 14,318 400 copesy for April 1887 L3 1‘1,.'#1 copies Jul it coples; for May, 7 for June, 187, 14147 coples: Iy, 1857, 14,008 coplesi for August 1887, 14,161 co for September, 187, 1434 foa; for October, 1687, 14,833; for November, 68, 6,20 coples: for December, 147, 16,040 copien: for Junuary, IF8, 15,200 coples; for % coptes. Frebruary, 1965, 1690 COTGR, g, mascHUCK, £worn and subscribed to in my presence this 84 day of March, A. D. 1888, N.P. FEIL, Notary Publie. A PETITION is already before that board of aldermen just elected in Oska- loosa, Kansas, to change the name of the town to Oskalucy. OMANA has donned her gingham apron and dusting cap and is already beginning the spring cleaning. Byand by, after she has got through scouring her streets and alle aman will be able to see his own reflection in the pavement blocks. — SENATOR REAGAN, of Texas, has drawn a salary from the public since 1888 when he was surveyor of public lands in Texas. A democrat who has fed at the public erib for fifty consecutive years would draw better than the lamented Jumbo did in Barnum’s hippo- > drome. e —— Tnoere was a hitch in the Denver eelebration over the completion of the Fort Wortn & Denver railroad, which has thrown a damper on the whole af- fadr. Under an iavitation to attend the International Range convention a train load of cattlemen from Texus came up to extend the right hand of fellowship tothe Colorudo cuttle-growers. As it was, the International Range conven- * gion turned out to be a dismal failure, and the Texas visitors three hundred strong were very much disappointed. To the Texas pegple, it appears plain on the face of it, that the Colorado cattle- men have no desire to join with them in the formation of a union of range in- terests. What effeet this snub will have on the business relations between Col- orado and Texas remains to be seen, ‘THF senate having passed a bill pro- viding for the celebration at Wash- ington, in the spring of 1889, of the centennial of the constitution, no doubt is entertained that the measure will go through the house and be approved by the president. It is a patriotic purpose that commends itself to all citizens, and the universal desire will be that it shall be made as complete and memor- able as possible. It is contemplated to invite as guests of the United States at the celebration representatives from all the Central and South American repub- lics, the empire of Brazil, the dominion of Canada, and even San Domingo and Hayti. As all these stutes will un- doubtedly send representatives thero is every reason to expect that the ocen- sion will be one of the most notable in the annals of civil year does not appear to he very prom- ising, and it is feared that a great many people employcd in this industry may be compelled to lie idle during wuch of the year, The very large pro- duction of last year left the market with heavier stocks than usual at the end of the year, and as the demand thus far iu the current year has been light and prices are consequently de- mressed, manufacturcrs are not disposed to uctively continue operations. Two extensive iron firms at Pittshurg sus- @ended payments yesterday, and it will not be surprising to bear of others aus the season advances. The situation of the ivon trade foreshadows s general industrial depression, which would not bo exceptional for u presidential year, dbut wh may be aggravated at this time if congress does not make adequate provision for reducing the revenues of the government and d.sposing of the “surplus, — Tue death of Mr. Joseph W. Drexel, —of New York, a few days ago closed a life that was filled with bigh and char table deeds. Mr, Drexel was not only a banker and millionaire, but healso com- bined the qualities of a philanthropist and u patron of art and music. Hestrove to better the condition of the people about him by economic schemes. For some years he maintained at hiz own " expense cheap coffee houses to benefit the deserving poor of New York city. He scld coal at less than half price to alleviate the distress of that cf He [ %= bought 6,000 acves of land in Missouri, ~ divided the land inte small farms and #old them to worthy colosists on twelve years' purchase, the annual payment ‘mot averaging more than a fair rert. As a patron of art and musie, he estab- lished schools, eudowed gulleries and 4n other ways fostercd the cuitivation of the fine arts. Mr. Drexel was the ideal | Awerican gentleman who combined ‘within himself those attributos which - fgoade him uaiversally bouored. A Conl Consumera' There has been organized in Chicago a company which may be the example for numerous other similar organiza- tions in the west and northwest. a coal consumers’ combination in toenable its members tc obtain th at the cost of laying itdown in Chi plus incidental expenses, therehy eff ing a saving of from two to three dol- lars a ton on anthracite, which is the only coal the compnny will handle at present. The capital stock of the com- pany s twenty thousard dollars, and it is proposed 1o issue two thousand shares of stock at ten dollars a share. Each share of stock will entitle its holder to buy from the company’s supply ten tons of coal ench year. The company will purchase at the mines, or in the most advantageous market, such an amount of coal as is represented by the stock subseribed for. Should there be a surplus in cxcess of the wants of stockholders it will be sold at the discretion of the board of diree- tors and the profits placed in the treas- ury, to be applied as dividends when deemed expedient. The price of an- thracite conl in Chicago during last winter was advanced to between nine and ten dollars. It is estimated that counl can be had by the stockholders of this company at not to succeed five dol- lars and o quarter per net ton, to which would be added for the first year the price of the stock, one dollar for each ton of conl. Had such a company been in operation in Chicago last winter the saving to its stockholddrs in the cost of coal would have been from two to over three dollars a ton, and the gains of the coal barons and their allies, the middle- men, would have been that much less. The experience of the people of the United States, and particularly of the west and northwest, during the past few years, as u consequence of the mo- nopolistio policy of the anthracite coal combination, demands some etfort on their part for relief. They have vainly hoped for legislation that would put a vestraint upon the power and the greed of the Pennsylvania coal barons, and the chance of any redress or protection in this way scoms as remote as ever. Only a few weeks ago the anthracite pool determinea to continue for 1888-9 the policy that has proved so profitable to it during the past two or three years. Prices are to be maintained, and the production will be limited so that they can be maintained. This policy resulted during the past winter in a great deal of suffering, In many localities of the west and northwest the supply of coal was insufficient, while there were many thousands of famitlies that could not afford to pay the prices for this fuel, The organization of companies such as that in Chicago would give direct relief from the exactions of the barons and the middlemen ouly to those who could be- come stockholders in them, but the gen- eral.effect could hardly fuil to be bene- ficial. Now is the time for consumers to unite for their protection, under some such plan as that of the Chicago com- pany, against the promised exorbitant prices for coal that will prevail next winter. A consumers’ coal company in Omaha would doubtless have little diffi- culty in disposing of stock on the bas of the Chicago company, and there is quite as much reason for such an organ- ization here as ther Naturalized Americans Abroad. Again is the government of the United States called upon to assert the principle that a person born in a foreign land, who by naturalization has become a citizen of the United States, is thereby absolved from all responsibility or obli- gation to the government of his native country and is everywhere entitled to the full protection of the government of his adopted country equally with the native-born citizen. This American principle has bheen so often asserted, and sofar as we are aware always suc- cessfully maintained, that it might be supposed no Buropean government would now call it in question. The second war with England was brought on by the claims of the British govern- ment that British-born citizens natural- ized in the United States might be held for military duty the same as if they had not foresworn their nllegi ance. English men of war took Amer can citizens of British birth from Amer- can vessels and held them to service in English vessels. No nation has claimed this right since the war of 1812, and an seamen, whatever their na- tionality, have been in no danger of imprisonment, but there has been re- luctance on the partof several European governments to concede that the act of naturalization annulled thefr claims upon a man for military service. They have been disposed to hold firmly to the principle, “once a subject always a sub- ject,” which with no less persistence our government has combatted. We do not recall any case in which it has failed to carry its point, The latest attempt to violate the American principle 18 on the part of Franee, the last country of which such u proceeding would be expected, John Feuchier. a native of France, became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1880, Some time ago he returned to France, where he was arrested and cn- rolled in the army. He invoked the aid of the governor of Nevada, in which state he resided, and the governor re- ferred the matter to the department of state. The American minister to France was instructed to demand the release of Feuchier. The reply of the French mivister of foreign affairs was a picce of diplomatie subterfuge. He stated that the minister of war regarded the claim in behalf of Feuchier as rais- ing a question of personal status which the civil courts alone were in a position to settle. He announced that the man could be struck off the military rolls ounly upon the produetion by him of a judgment issued by u French court of justice and recog- nizing in him the status of a foreigner. The ab v of this position is obvi- ous. The United States has no means of obtaining the decree of a court de- clarcd to bo necessary by the Freoeh minister, and if this pecessity should be admitted by the American govarnment France might with entire vest and enroi! in the amny any an of the United States, uative-born or nat- uralized. Of course cur goverument will nys | rights admit any such preposterous claim ns that a citizen of the United States, arbi- trarily doprived of his liberty and his by a foreign government, find rvedress only through the courts of such foreign government. It will not concede that the French or any other foreign government shall be permitted to select its own tribunal and its own method of precedure for do- termining the rights of an American citizen. The question involved is to be ttled by the principles of interna- onal law. with which a court of jus- tice has nothing to do. It is impossible y with what degree of firmness Sec- retary Bayard will idsist upon the American principle in this case, but the opportunity affords bim a chance to show the country whether he really faels that solicitude which an Ameri- can secretary of state should feel for the protection of American citizens in for- eign land: Electricity as a Motive Power. I'he most exhaustive investigation of olectric motors which has been pub- lished by this country is that recently presented to congress from Captain Griffin of the engineer corps. Captain Griflin’s report deals especially with the subject of electricity as a motive power for street cars. [t was made in vesponse to the demands of the commis- sioners of the District of Columbia, and with a view to deciding upon the ques- tion whether such motive power should be permitted ome the streets of Wash- ington. Captain Griffin sums up the various arguments pro and con in a statement that the advantages of _electricity as a motive power in comparison with ani- mal traction are more rapid transit, better service, cleaner streets, smoother pavements between the tracks and rails, less noise, less obstruction on crowded streets, less linbility to accident, fewer repairs to tracks and pavement, and diminished cost of maintenance and operating expen Aguinst this he states as the current objections to electy railways—first, cost of the eleetric plant, the fact that bhorses fre- quently take fright atthe cavs and the insufficient development of the differ- ent electrical systems. According to Captain Griffin, the dangers from wires of electric railroads, whether overhead or underground,have been greatly exaggerated. He insists that there is little danger from unde ground wires if the metallic circuit is complete, and that as a rule overhead conductors carry too low potential to en- danger life. After athoroughinvestiga- tion he gives it as his opinion that the development of different electrical sys- tems has advanced sufficiently to insure the success of roads properly con- structed, and notes that twenty elec- trical railvoads are in operation in this country, twenty-one under contract and that fifty-four are projected. “A caveful review of the recent developments in electrical railways,” says Cap- tain Griffin, “must convince any un- prejudiced investigator that the electrical motor is now beyond the experimental stage and well established in practical commercizl domain., In other words, itis an uncontrovertable fact that electrical energy offers a much cheaper and far more satisfactory motive power for tramways than either cables or horses. There are ahout 25,000 street cars in use in the United States which require 120,000 horses for their operation. About one-fifth of these, or 24,000 horses, are more or less disabled annually. In addition to the saving of life which its introduction would give, electricity will give a brilliant light to the cars, ring the alarm bell, signal the driver, and can even be made to heat the coaches. In concluding his report Captain Griffin suggests that in large cities no overhead electrical conductors be per- mitted,but that such conductors,with due precautions, may be allowed on subur- ban lines. He adds that no line should be permitted to be constructed which is not supervised by competent persons outside of the company in order that the slip-shod methods of constructing clectrical power lines which have ted elsewhere in seri- ous and fatal accidents, and which have brought this motive power into disrepute, should not be repeated to the public detriment. Ho also suggests that the speed should not be allowed to excced ten miles an hour within the city limits. This report, which bas been published by order of congress, is filled with valu- able scientific information and cannot but be of general in t to all munici- palitics where reform in the vresent method of slow transit is contemplated. A PROMINENT contributor to the last number of the North American Review says that the United States has too many holidays, which will ruin the country by diminishing the working time of all Iaborevs, He supports his assertions by counting the number of public holidays observed, and finds that “working people waste duving the year nearly three months of time.”” An argu- ment of this sort is hoth shallow and ab- surd. Noone holiday in the United Statesis universally observed by the laboring masses, and even if it were, it is absurd on the face of it to say there are ninty of such holidays in the course of a year. The tyuth of the matter is, that the United States has too few holidays in which the working classes can find relaxation, In thisrespect the people of the old world are better off, Even in an active commercial country like England the people shrate as national helidays not only historical but religious festivals which swell the number, and no English statesman fears the ruin of that country in consequence, But articles of the above sort may ve written uutil the end of time without convineing anybody that holidays ar harmful. We all feel as if there was an overproduction of good things in this world, but that we have not the time to enjoy them. - e———— ‘Irix fact that several women political ¢luhs for campaign purposcs have been scton foot in some of the castern cities may strike the American people as rather funny aad novel &s ove of the peouliar features of the coming presi- densial cansass, - Bul it is a matter of | cosi oz the tuldiogu. history that for many yoars English women, and especiiifyladies of rank. have taken an acflvl rt in politics. Women like Mr hdstone, who is el president of the W n's Liberal asso- ciation, work togetwer-vith the men in political matters, )d Bave been able to control votes. It is hét at all uncom- mon for lady this or baroness that to peddle tickets and@amvass votes at the polls. The wondegjis that at exciting clections the \-ml*g element treat these ladies with s much t and good nature. However, when it is re- membered that once upon atime the duchess of Devonshire traded a kiss for a vote, the recollectionsof the gallantry may have a great deal to do in marking the place of women in the affections of an English voter. res) THE little sign, which meets the eyes of all travelers of sleeping cars, inform- ing thom that the company will not be responsible for money lost or stolen on the car, will have to be taken down and used for kindling. The courts of New York have decided that question by a decision just handed down by the court of common pleas. By this finding it is settled that the sleeping car company is responsible for money lost by passeng- ers while asleep, and that it 1s the duty of the porter or the conductor to be on guard constantly and keep watch of the sleeping passengers, The plaintiff is not bound to prove more than enough to raisea fair presumption of negligence and of resulting injury to himself. And if the porter goes to a forward compart- ment of asleeping car to black the pas- sengor’s boots, and leaves no official on guard, it is a fair presumption of negli- gence, and a cause for recovery of dam- ages by a passenger. THERE 18 no encouragement for the advocates of commercial reciprocity be- tween the United States and Canada in the vote of the Dominion parlinment yesterday on a question involving this policy. A proposition for unrestricted reciprocity was defeated by a majority of fifty-seven in avote of 191. The fact that there were were sixt pven votes in favor of the proposition doubtle shows that progress has been made b, the supporters of commercial reciprocity in Canada. Itisnotat all likely that anywhere near so many votes would have been given in its favor a year ago. But it is evident that a great deal of dis cussion and work will yet be necessary before the policy is accepted by a ma- jority of the Canadian people. Com- mercial reciprocity hetween the United States and Canada is still very remote. —— THE Nebraska state board of trans- portation, which is in'vestigating the competency of the new engineers em- ployed by the Burlington & Missouri, has decided to give thelinvestigation a wider scope. A caretil inquiry into the cause of the strike as well as its effects npon business is to be mgde. The testimony of railroad experts and leading merchants through the state is to be taken. The Wholé inquiry is to be embodied in a repéut which is to be sub- mitted to the nexf legislature. The report will be referred to the commit- tees packed by the oil room cappers and pigeonholed. Avrnouvei the United States has a treasury surplus, there is no authority or precedence that it should be reduced for the purchase of works of art for the city of Washington. Itisa nice com- pliment indeed to the memory of Leif Erikson, the Scandinavian explor who, it is claimed, set foot in Amer: long before Christopher Columbus saw the light of day, for Miss Maria A. Brown to be willing to make a bronze statue of him. But she should ask some philanthropist of Washington to con- tribute 850,000 necessary to immortalize the Norseman instead of importuning congress to tax the American people for the proposed monument. — VOICE OF THE STATE PRESS. The York Times thus speaks on the far- mer's trust: *“Nothing can protect the far- mer from the monopolies aad constantly mul- tiply trusts but thorough organization. This is notas impractical as may be supposed. The Knight of Labor organization is found in all sorts of the land, and is strong, influ- ential and powerful everywhere, Cannot the farme rs organize as thoroughly as they! What is to prevent a combination so power- fully cemented together, 80 thoroughly or- ganized and so systematically managed that its exective board can absolutely control the price of all products! If it were desired at any time to hold back the crop in any section of country or to keep out of market any particular arti- cle arrangements could be made to furgish money to the owners of the products until such time as it should be deemed profitable to dispose of it. A farmers' union could do this just as well as a trade's union, and the time would soon come when an order from the executive board to hold any crop for certain price would make it worth the speci- fled price atonce. An organization of this kind in the states of Illinois, Towa, Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska alone could absolutely control the price of corn. The farmers pro- duce it and they have the right to say what it should be sold for." The Bloomington Justice, commenting on the strike, indulges in this philosophy: *Six weeks of the Burlington strike have now passed. The companyis entitled to all the glory of along, vigorous fight, if there be any glory in it. The company has sustamed a direct money 10ss of about $1,500,000. It has inflicted @ loss on the northwest amount- ing to many millions of dollars, This has fallen, ost severely on the merchants along its line who have been its regular patrons. It has besides permanently lost the patronage of merchants who have begun to shipover other lines and not likely to change back without cause after the trouble is over. In retrn for all these immense losses on itself and others, what has the Burlington gained, or what at most can it gaind 1f successful it will save in en- gineers wages perhaps $15),000 & year. At this rate it would take ten years to compen- sate for losses to date if the road could to morrow resume completely the immense business which it was doing before the trou- ble began Pl strike of the brick and stone masons at Owaha,” says the Fremont Tribuue, *is a most unfortunate thing for that city. The: are 4 nunber of flue structures in course ercction which have been brought to & stand- stil! and the matorial growth of the city par alyzed in . the very beginuing. It ooks very much as if the masous wore asking 100 wech, Thoy want #2450 per day of eight Lours work, wrich e aken 4 edditional Alec wLb areoua rike onc-third of their to work ono-third of the hours the re the time, are a detriment to themsely 10 tho public: Business men in most depart- ments of trade work twice any hours as they do, and twice as hard, and no complaint is heard." On one of the important questions of the hour, the Norfolk News gives down this bundle of 1 “One man's rights loave off just whenanother man's hogins, Every man who thinks ho can sing and wants to has a right to sing, but we are decidedly of the opinion that it is not exactly au fait for a crowd of fellows who form about as good musical combination as 1ath ia the hands of a small boy and a paling fence, and voices harmonize as woll as those cat and a pig, to make night their warblings when their fellow citizens arc trying to sleep. A lodgo in somo vast cooler would have a beneficial effect on thelr vocal powers." The Grand Island Indopendent, in exultant glee, looks through its telescope and discov crs that “in Omaha, which’ has its separate city organization, a lively election has given power to a democratic mayor and a demo. cratic council. This result of a municipal election encournges the excitable imagina- tion of the Omaha Herald to see in the di tance the fata morgana of a great political victory of the ever hopeful Nebraska democ racy in the next fall elections. As they have to feed on hopes exclusively, we shall be glad to see them get of this article all they can possibly lay their hands on." The Wood River Gazetto is opposed to monopolics in glory as well us in other things. It says: ‘“‘Senator Manderson is proposed as o delegate at large from No Dbraska to the national republican conven- tion. Senator Manderson would be a very creditable represontative of the state in such a gathering, but he can well afford to let other men enjoy the distinction. He already enjoys the highest honors the state of Nebraska can confer upon him, and should be willing to give other worthy men a chance for glory on a smaller scale. The Beatrice Democrat, in answering the Fremont Tribune's question: “What has the democratic party done for Nebraska!" says: “Well, among other things, it has kept Mr. Ellis Bierbowor, a prominent re- publican politician and _son-in-law of Jim Boyd, member of the democratic national committee, in the office of United States marshal, Of course the party is deserving of censure for this sin of omission, but we are willing to stand most anything to help out our friends and relations.” The Wymore Union, doubtless remember- ing the election of two years ago, indulges ry: “The report has gained circulation that Hon. Church Howe will move from his Nemaha county home to Hastings, where his headquarters are as manager of the Missouri Pacific lines of Ne- braska, The Union sincerely hopes the ru- mor unfounded, as it would like to sce Church remain in the First district. He is nceded here.” The Fremont Tribune muses, on the can- dor of insurance -agents, in this language: ““The people of Nebraska last year paid the insurance companies doing business in the state over $700,000 premiums in excess of the losses by fire. Herein Fremont the insur- ance agencies try to catch gudgeons by put- ting up the rates on the plea of pove It's a pretty thin excuse for bleeding property- owners." The Oakland Independent, after reading the returns from over the state on the recent city elections, consoles itself in this way: “It seems, fromreports, that a majority of ihe towns in this part of Nebraska have voted in the saloons. One of two things is true,cither the temperance people have gone to sloep or they have done the right thing in the wrong way. whose of a town hideous with In presenting the name of Senator Mikle- john for congressional honors in the Thiud district, the Nance County Journal distinctly says: “Wo motify the balance of the Third congressional district that Nance county does not intend to be ignored in the coming campaign.” Outside of the preferences for local caudi- dates in different parts of the district, the general expression is for Dorsey, who will probably have a large majority of the votes in the convention frow the first, says the Wayne Herald. The Custer Leader has the names of five farmers who have given notes to the amount of $2,250 to Bohemian oat swindlers. The Leader is forced to admit “that the fools of the country are increasing.' The Ashland Gazette finds that as Ashland is situated midway between Omaha and Lin- coln, the congressional convention of the Big First should be held in that town. The North Bend Flail objects to calling the Third congressional district convention so early in the campaign. “A six months cam paign comes too high," it sa With the few days of spring weather the papers of the state have taken up the burden of life again in demanding that the Fourth of July be properly celebrated. The Superior Journal insists that tiee planting in Nebraska is of more mportance than politics, and urges every peeson to plant trees on Arbor day. The Albion News is boosting Loran Clark as a *man peculiarly fitted by nature’ to at- tend the Chicago convention in the capacity ute at large, e McCool Record nominates Hon, Wi iam Leese for re-election to the oftice of attor- ney general, but fears the railway influence will defeat him. Dozens of papers are calling upon Gover- nor Thayer to marshal the police and arive the “Pinkerton devils out of the state.” The Wahioo Wasp is attempting to boom Patrick Egan for congressman in the First district. The Seward Reporter favors ¢ tions to nominate con — Gould rdigree Minncapolis Tribune. We look for Mr, Bennett to prove that Mr. Gould's mat ndmother stole soap grease from b st neighbor, and then borowed ashes to make the necessary lye. -~ ven- idates. D 3 Chiicago Tribune, My Dear Keely: Dow't part with the secrot of your motor for less that $4.50 per copy, cloth binding. Fraternally yours, 1. DONNELLY, - Worse Than a “Scab." Bostor, Globe, The “Q." strikers are orderly men, but they do not recognize the autharity of the Pinkertons. A wan who will shoot striking employes at 80 much per diem is much worse than a sab,’ Carnot's ¥ Chicago News. Th ation in France: Presiaent Carnot 4l Boulanger an easter egg, The general placed it in an incubstor labeled “public opinion.” From it was hatehed a crisis. ZKH. sent Genes - Ny, Powderly Phitadelphin 1 And now Mr. Powderly, who has been convinced for yeers of the futility of str to attai the objects set forth in the | plon of the vay Kulghts of Labor, hus at lepgth formally appesied w the order 1o enfer upon the work of educat- ing its mewbers to & better - knowledge of the true reations of lubor and capital aud Plan. ord. of workingmen's organizations to the indus- trial developmient of the national resources. No one knows so well as the general master of the knights how diffieult and how slow and tedious of accomplishment must be the task which he thus proposes. - i sl The Rebel Orator, SpringfictdRepublican. We do not wonder that the Pall Mall Ga- zette asks: “Who 18 the rebel orator to-day 1" after roading the speech of John Bright at the Chamberlain reception. If Bright dia not invite Canada to cut off from the empire and seek admission to the United States, he ut least made it apparent that he would not take the trouble to oppose such a scheme, - iinion . Wyoming Oil Notes. Lixper, Wyo., April 4.-- [Correspondence of the Brr)--As boring progresses at the cast end of the Wyoming oil fleld, the indica- tions and great depth of shole tend to show that the oil sand is reached at a much greater depth than at the west end where the sand is above the shole. If this ould prove true generally then the Lander wells will, in this respect, be identical with those m the vicinity of Oil Creek, a., while the decper wells of the Rattlesnake region may take rank with the Washmgton county, Pa., gushers, On Heaver creek, in Fremont county, two weeks ago Jared Sessions found anoil_spring yiolding an amber colored ol that burns in an ordinary kerosine lamp without_any refining, There 1s a similar grade of oil at Smith's IFerry on the Ohio river below Pittsburg which has boen used for year A party of ol prospactors is being made up av Girard, Pa,, to make a tour_through Wy- oming in May. Girard is on Lake Erie, the home of the late Dan Rice of circus fame, and of many wealthy oil producers, Forty acres on the south fork of Powder river, containing a rich oil spring, sold for 2,000 cash last month, H. Morcton, of Denyer, was the buyer. The recorder’s office of Rattlesnake d trict is doing quite a land office business in transferring oil claims. Two rigs are contracted for to go up in town 33, ranges 85 and 86, in Rattlesnake dis. trict, as soon as teaming will permit the hauling of boiler and engine. There is no diminution of the flow of gas at the Shoshone wells, A bed of astestos as fine as that of C has come to light in the Sweetwater range Itis a fine delicate fibre, white and sil The ancients wove this material wto cloth and to clean garments made of it, threw them into the fire from whence they came out puritied. Ashos al o also preserved in it. grades of woven nastestos are extens used in both Europe and this country for f proof drop curtains in theatres, and has been introduced for firemen’s clothes. A very ¢ trade is also carried on in this material aints and steam packing. S oyt ey HOW THEY VOTE IN AUSTRALIA, Points in Which 1t Differs From the American Plan. Australin is a vaguely known land and the citizons of free and progrossive America, accustomed to consider them- selves “‘ahead of all creation” in every- thing, ave not prone to look to the smallest of continents and the youngest of ¢ d peoples for advice in mat- ters of social or political conduct. Yet Australia, though it is a province and not a nation, and though it began its social existence asa colony for exiled eriminals, and_though it is situated at the remote and uttermost end of earth can teach some things of importance to the great republi Perhaps the **Australian system” of voting at popular elections is not en- tirely free from objectional features, but unvrejudiced consideration of its chief features must result in an acknow- ledgement that it is successful in doing awsy with the most glar- ing evils ‘of the- ‘‘American - sys- tem.” Suppose, for instance, that to- Kansas City were Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, and that you were a properly authenticated voler. Your name is on” the registry list with- out your having put it there,” The gov- ernment has sent around canvassers, sworn to honesty, who have visited cvery house in the city to obtain lists of the names of duly qualified voters. By this means few errovs are made that are not easily rectified. When you go to vote you give your name and address to the sworn polling erk. He refers to the regijstry list and hands you a card beaving the num- ber of your name in the lis You pass into an enclosure und there meet an- other sworn polling clerk, who hands you a voting tieket printed’ by govern- ment authority, at government ex- pense, and bearing an official stamp and number, It contains the names the duly qualified and regularl nated candidates, of all par alphabetical order. You then go into a private compartment with a swing door, where there are red chalk pencils, and cross of all but the names you wish to vote for. Then, with your folded bal- you pass into the presence of the n supervisor and the sworn judges--- representing the candidates of each p al party. The supervisor sits in rontof a table on which is heavy iron box locked and sealed. He satisiles himself from the outward ap- pearance of the ballot as you drop it in- to the slit that it bears the official stamp, though it would not be counted if it did not. You have voted. The polls close at 4 c'cloc The Dboxes are opened in the presence of the proper officers and the result is soon after made known. There is no ped- dling of tick The government prints the only voting list thatis ac- cepted, 3ulldozing’” is unavailable because it is impossible for anybody e t the voter himself to know how he s voted. Ballots aceidentally spoilt by the vote red others, the supervisor carefully presery- ing the count. impossible, is simply f stamp im- ressed upon the numbered ballot is rent fo h election and the seal with which it is made is not perfeeted until the morning of i Miscon- duct on the part of supervisors, judges or clerks i3 punished with two yeursin the penitentiary. *‘Heelers” and “ward-workers” arc unknown about the polls, “This is the syatom of voting originally used in Australia and now, with some slight modifications, in vogue in Great Britain, Do The millionair aping relatives had gather his bed hear his last wor ently he sed his head m the pillow and glanced about him. Then he back, and, to the amuzement of merrily. *Don’t mind me,” od, aftor' he had partially cecded in controlling his mirth. was only thinking what fun all of you would have trying to break my will, 150 us to get me out of the way, and then wade in and enjoy yourselves. Sorry with you to hear the insanity and all { Hope you'll have a good ves, ohuckled doctor said: was dying and all the around teebly, o It’s all over. 1 7.—Owing to the depres labor troubles which caused a stoppaige of mills for nearly four months, iba Tron and Rolt company, limited, and Continenta) Tube company have' sus- led payment. Their liabilities are §527,000, their assots, consisting of valuable man: ufacturine sites, wills, ete., amount 1o over $400,000. The two mills whe in full opera- tion employed 500 men. It is thought the creditors will grant the Sems s extension, the THE NIGHT SCHOOLS OF OMAHA Thoey aro Growing in EMoclency and Publio Appreciation, ABOUT ONE THOUSAND PUPILS, —_— What a Visitor Saw and Heard at the Oass Street Night Sohool Frie day Evening—A Worthy Enterprise, — Successful Schools. There are about one thousand pupils in the night schoo's of Omaha. They aro flouris! ing splondidly under the wider appreciation which has been accorded them by the publie, and under the wise direction of the public school boad. Some ti*10 ago the board of education startod a scheme of holding evening classes in soveral of the large pubiio schools, with a view to instiiling the rudiments of education into the'minds of thoso who wero anxious to improve thenselves intelleetually and mako up for any deficlency in their education, The results wore not encouraging, and did not wuarrant the amount of expense that such an enterpriso entailed. “This was in a moasure duc to the teachers then employed, who, not being specially trained, were in- capable of imparting knowledge to the eager minds of the'r pupiis, At the comuiencement of this yeara now plan was instituted by the bo: of educas tion who coniined themselves to day school teachers and thus had responsible, reliable persons with u thorough training for teach- ing. Herein lies tho success of the night schoois of O naha. On this new footing they were once more put iuto working order on ‘the petition however, of at least thirty boua fide pupils, and should the attendance have fallen bulow fifteen the doors were to be closed. A class room in Cass stroet achool was tha first to be lit up and going on the priucipal of inference from past to future, the teacher who presided was afraid that fow would take the advan‘ages offered, but it proved an example to the coutrary for the room was so thoroughly packed thai more space and mora teachers were required. Other schools fol- lowed suit and at the present time Omaha has some eight of her public schools afford- ing facilities for evening study. A reporter of the Brr happened along Cass street the other evening about 7 p. m., and sceing a mixed assemblage of peopld about the door+ of the school, black and white, young aud old, of all sexes and nation- alities, thought he would take a “peep in' and see what was going ‘on. He lingerod about till most of them had entered tho various class rooms on the socond floor of the build ing. At last, he timidly entered & room in which some twenty scholars were seated, en- gaged in reading and spelling. The reading, a verse or two of which was read by each in turn, was most interesting especially to hear the difference of accent. and pronounciation and watch the degree of aptitude each scholar displayed in handling the English language. In some cases the *th" as in “through' sounded like “‘true,” the *4" as in “jnmpot,” as ‘“yampot,” and the “'w" in “wickedness? as v After the reading was finished a_question in arithmetio was given out, and then an opportunity of havimg a few minutes' conversation with the teacher was had. “My pupils,” she said, “embrace almost all nationalities, and they come here to learn what they have most need of viz.—the thres R's—reading, writing and arithmetio. The majority of them are busy during the day working hard with their hands for an exiss tence in the world—some in workshops, other as messengers, several as servan girls. That woman sitting over thero is ; has a young family, and recogniz- essity for bettering her education sie has come here regularly every night, and is fast gathering in material for the future good of her offspring. They are not graded as aclass, each one works for himself or herself, and thus they do not impede each other’s progress. DThe teacner told a rather amusing Iuci- dent: One evening as her class was too full she wanted to transfer a colored man to another room. As he was leaving he re- marked thut “he had been knocked abouti from pillar to post, and he didn’t believe ho would ever learn much on the leap.” In the next room a number of pupils wera busily at work, some in reading, uthers in writing and others again fighting hard over a sum in addition or division. 'This sot were not 8o far advanced cs those first seen. The greater proportion of them were ‘“ourly heads,” and one rather elderly woman, while stammering out a portion from tha second Electric reader, came to a complete standstill at the word “stretch.” For tha life of her she couldn't get the word out. What did the teacher do? ‘‘Mrs. Jacobs,'? she said, *‘what do you do when you pull'a piece of elastic sof suiting the action to the word. *“Why, you stretch to be sure,” wus the reply. = At iast she had grasped it. *T used to have in this room a couple well o in life,"” said the teacher, “They've becrt ubsent for a day or two, having changed their residence, but formerly they never failed to be present even though they had over six miles to walk. When they came to my class they could neither read nor writes In six weeks they were able to master tha first reader and write their own names in legible style.” "Phere aretwo other teachers, also, with large classes, and doing the e kind of wor The following is a list of the various night; schools, the name of the various teachers,and. ago daily and largest attendance ! Schiool: ‘Teachers—Miss Rice, Average daily attendanco, 20; s azier, M Avere age daily attendance, 120; largest, 156, Castellar Teachers—Misses Cor- , Nagl, Average daily attend- , 00 largest, 80, Conter school: Teachers—Misses Roys, Shattuck, Vineent and Ruo. Average daily attendance, 65; largest, 100, Hartman school: Téachers—Misses Atler, Roberts Mr. Bradiey. Average daily uttendance, 40; lurgest 60, Tzard Schooi: Teachers—Miss Dye, Miss Stillwell, Average daily attendance, 85; Teachers — Miss Miss Hubbard. daily atle 7; lurgest 75. heane, Average daily at- School : Jol ance, 55; largest, 50, s street school is thus the largest and ored the most advanced. Euch ro- ceives a salary of § per night, the janitors from §10 to §20 per month, according to the uumber of rooms they have 0 look after, Text books, paper, pencils, cte., are furns shied freo to the pupils, A similiar movement was sot on foot a few years ago in Scotland among the farm labors ©rs in the small villages. Successful results were not attained, simply owing to tho fact that those who taught did not kuow Low to teach, never having received any special training. It is one thing to possess kiowledga and it is another thing to impart it to others in an intelligible foru 50 who attend ¢ night schools in Omaha don't go thera Their veryjdemeanor indicates cars diligence und attention, and when the teachers say they have uo cone plaints, no trouble, no disorder, surely this 1 something to be proud of and add further stimulus Lo the work in whicn they are ens gaved. 1t is impossible to say that any fragment of kuowledge, howevor insignificant or remots from the ordinary daily pursuits of those at- tending these night schopls, m; not some day be turned to good account. To koow & vell, one must be ignorant of a great - The Golden Roll, New Youk, April 7.—(Special Teiegram 10 the BEE.) —A unique accident happened in th of the Adams' express company yesterday afternoon. TWwo porters wore busy lugging bags of monoy toa truck tuat was to transfer them to the sub-tressury in Wall street, when suddenly the bottom of oue of the canvas bags split and 4,000 five- dollar pieces fell on the floor and rolled in all directions. Everybody in the place was with emotion for several mo- Then the porters recovered theiv sqnses, the doors were closed, and the clerks set to work picking up tho ‘scaitered gold. one of the §20,000 was lost, but it took & long time to count it all over and pavk it Wi \ /4