Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 22, 1888, Page 4

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Btate of Nebraska, o County of Douglass, Geo, If, Taschuck, secretary of The Hes Pub- Hahing company, does nolemnl{ swoar that the actunlciveulation of the Daily Bee for the week n 1868, was as follows tur ;lg 14 18,115 18,600 19,000 L18,060 .}:l.\’r!fi . 18,263 GRO. B. TZSCHUCK. Sworn to and subscribed in my_ 'nm this 215t day of April, A. D., 1888, . P.FI Notary Public. Btate of Nebraska, %. 2 Gounty of Dougles 8.8y Goo. B, Tzschuck, being first duly sworn, de- nd says that ho is secretary of The' Bee lishing company, that the wctusl avorage circulation of the Daily Bee for the month of April, 1857, was 14316 _copies: for May, 1857,; $4,57 Copless For dunc, 187, 16,147 coptod; for Juily, 187, 14,008 coples; for Aujrust, 187, 14,151 copies; for September, 1887, 1140 copies; Tor October, 1887, 14,55 coples; o 587, 16,523 cotes; for Dacember, 1887, 1h,041 copie: Tor January, 18, 16,200 copies: February, 188, 16,002 copies; for March, 1888, 10,080 copies, GEO, B, TZSCHUCK. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my prescuce this 16th day of April, A, D. 18 N. P. FEIL, Notary Public. Now the news comes that the pretty romantic engagement between Princess Victoria and Prince . Alexander is . nothing but a cruel hoa: T was an American’s money after all that furnished Boulanger sufficient funds to buy his seat in the chamber, Thus do we pay back the French spoila- tion claims. CuBA is under martial law. The bandits have become bold enough to defy the authorities, and the captain general is powerless. Whenever Cuba gets into a box the respectable people of the island want to be annexed to the United State: It has been customary for senators to eontribute $10 each towards the pur- chase of a wedding gift for the bride of @ senator who marries while in office. For some unaccountable reason the cus- tom was overlooked in the recent mar- riage of Senator Hawley. But gallantry 8 one of the redeeming features of the upper house. A maguificent diamond ®Brootch has just been purchased and will grace the neck of Mrs. Hawley as “ the gift of seventy-five senators, THE mortal remains of Roscoe Conk- ling have been consigned to the tomb. * The record of his distinguished career remains for the study, and so far as it was wise, patriotic and honorable, for the emulation of his countrymen. In this busy and practical age the greatest ~ men do not long hold a place in the pop- ular memory, and perhaps Conkling will soon be forgotten by the multitude, but he made an indelible mark on the his- tory of his time which will perpetuate his name to the future generations as a than whom there were few greater in ability and noue of higher or cleaner integrity. CLEVELAND, Ohio, is in the anomal- @us and embarrassing condition of not ‘Baving a legislative branch to its muni- eipal government. It seems that a €hange was made by the lastlogislature fa the law regulating the election of mddermen in Cincinnati and Cleveland, fhe efleot of which was to repeal the portion relating to the latter city, a fact which the solons representing @leveland did notobserve. The result is that the city is without a municipal legislature, and the only hope out of the dilemma is said to be in the supreme court. Cleveland has beet having a hard time for a year past with its city goyernment, which is democratic, and it would seem to have now reached the elimax of its troubles. How often a minister is praised for his indefatigable exertion in frecing kis ehurch from debt. Infact,it has grown %0 be the universal custom among sehurches to put the work on.the minis- ter's shoulders. Many a clergyman looks upon this burden as one of the du- sies which naturally fails to his position. o him it is a test of popularity among his parishioners and to his congregation 4t is an evidence of his ab preacher. The standard, however, is false. The test is low. An able divine is not to be judged by his financial acuteness. [t 1s a question for religious societics to consider whether their pas- tors are not more valuable for the at- “tention to their spiritual duties than for lifting financial burdens which belong £ the pew and not to the pulpit. —_— T appeel of the Young Men's Christian association for more funds to _eomplete the beautiful structure on the corner of Douglas and Sixteenth should “mot go unheeded. The value of such a buildiag to a city cannot he estimated. When fully completed and equipped ~with its libraries, reading rooms, gym- nasivm and lecture rooms the hundreds of young men in Omaha will have an at- tractive resort, surrcunded by healthful ~and moral influcuces, The association meeds in nddition to the money sub- soribed from $25.000 to $30,000 to com- “plete and furnish the structure. A num- ber of our wealthy citizens have re- sponded liberally, others have not con- “tributed a dollar. 1t is not alone to this olass the Y. M. C. A, appeals, but also " to workingmen, clerks and citizens in goneral, whose contributions, though dndividually small, will materially aid the association. If the people only knew how a public enterprise of this eharacter repays them, there would not “be & man in Omaha who would not send ~in his mite.- Liet Them Oonfer Together. In the last sumber of America, Chi- cago is congratulated upon the effort of her workingmen and capitalists to come to a better understanding as to their mutual relations. The following ex- tract is deemed worthy of reproductios At last a movement is under way which may lead to a peaceful and reasonable solu- tion of the capital and labor problem. A series of regular weekly conferences be- tween capitalists and laborers have been organized in Chicago. It is the purpose of these conferences to bring the employer and employed into closer rolationship, by estab- lishing an open forumn in which advocates of different theories may present their argu- ments, and be met and replied to by men who bold opposite views, The following selections from the pros. pectus explain themselves: “It is proposed to endeavor to make busi- ness men and workingmen better scquainted with one another's views. “How many business men have attended workingmen's meetings, and know at first hand what their aims are? How many work- ingmen ever hear their employers, or other leaders of business enterprises, explain their views and the problems with which they have to dealt “‘Businoss men have their clubs and various associations, at which they stato and defend their views —-but to people who ave alveady convinced. X “Workingmen have their union and nssem- bly meetings, and the same is true in sub- stance of thom. SWhat 1s needed is to bring these people together, and to help each to understand the other. Such is the aim, at least, of the pro- posed cconomic conferences. They have been arranged with a sincere desire to pro- mote a bettor feeling in the community. There is more true common-sense patriot- ism in this movernent than in all the trades unions and business men's protective associa- tions combined. It is only by such means that either side can be brought to & recogni- tion of its faults, Iimployers and laboring men will b8 brought into closer sywmpathy, and each class will learn to recognize that the other is composed of fellow men. The promotors of this movement deserve the profound thanks of the whole American nation. They show by their action that they are carnest loyal Americans, who are willing to work for the good of their fellow men. This movement should not be coufined to Chicago. It should spread to -every village and hamlet in the United States. Then, when business men and laboring men meet each other in friendly debate, and frecly discuss their wrongs and grievances, the capital and labor question will have received an equitable solution, Why cannot such a conference be held in Omaha between workingmen and their employers? Such a confer- ence should of course not be confined to contractors, who employ the greater part of our mechuanics and laborers but should include the owners of buildings and capitalists engaged in manufac- tures and other entorprises. There is no doubt that such a conference would result mutually beneficial in the end. It would dispel many false impressions, smooth down differences between work- ingmen, and their employers and pave the way for harmonious progress all along the line. A better mutual un- derstanding between our workingmen and capitalists is essential to Omaha’s growth and prosperity. Why not hold a conference within the coming weel at the chamber of commerce which is com- modious and centrally located. A Race Exposition, An exhibition which would show the progress made by the colored people of the United States during the quarter of a century since emancipation would cer tainly possess very great interest. It would undoubtedly serve to undeceive the popular impression that these people bave not been advancing as rapidly as even with their restricted oppor tunities they should have done, and to demon- strate on the contrary that their im- provement has under all circumstances been rather extraordinary. It is natural to underestimate the qualification and capacity of the negro race for advance- ment. The white people of this coun_ try have been taught to regard them as having neither apti- tude nor ambition for broad and elevated improvement., The impression which obtained for a century or more that the negro was naturally a depend_ ent, helpless without the care, guardian- ship and support of the white man, has not yet been wholly effaced. Many peo- ple still believe the race incapable of high intellectual attainment, or the de- velopment of practical ability. A few xamples there are of members of the ce who huve acquired extensive learn- ing,shown giftsof oratory,and exhibited business capacity, but these exceptional cases are not generally regarded as proving the race capable of great ad- vancement. Those who take a depre- ciatory view of the negro do not give adequate importance to the fact that 1t is less than a generation since he escaped from a thraldom which blunted all his faculties and put an impassable barrier in the way of his ambition. If slavery was uver con- siderate of the physical wants of its vic- tims, it always, and necessarily, denied them every requirement for mental en- lightenment. But the experience of the last twenty years shows that the negro race is capable of both intellectual and material progress, and that it is ambitious to im- prove and advaice. The school reports make an excellent showing for the col- ored pupils, who average well with the white children in both studiousness and readiness to learn. In wmany mechan- ical industries of the south colored men are working successfully side by side with white men. There are ex- tensive and prosperous negro [farmers in the south, and the race can show a considerable number of moderately weazlthy men whose for- tunes are due to industry, tact and thrift. The evidences of the capacity of the negro race for improvement, if brought together, would undoubtedly be sulticient to convince the most skep- tical, It is proposed to do this in a great in- dustrial exposition to be held in Atlanta from the 12th of next November to the 12th of February, 1889, and the govarn- ment will be asked to give the project national recognition and support in the form of a lcan. The plan is to exhibit the works of art, field produets, live stock, manufactures, machinery and other articles raised, produced or owned by colored people throughout the United States. The twenty-fifth anniversary of the emaucipation of the ruce is deemod to be an appropriate time for showing the progress the race has made intellec- tually and industrially since it was given freedom, and the promoters of the exhibition urge in its behalf that besides being a source of great interest it would stimulate the race to better effort in the future. The project is being pushed by the Colored World's Fair ussociation of America, and it already received the indorsement of the legislatures of Georgin, Tennessee and Alabama, the chamber of commerce of New Orleans, and many representative men and associations throughout the south., Some days ago a bill was re ported favorably from the committee on education and labor of the United States senate, which provides for a national recognition of the proposed exposition and a loan hy the govern- ment of four hundred thousand dollars in aid of the project. The feasibility, interest and probable value of such an exhibition in stimulating the industrial progress of the colored race being granted, the propriety of giving it gov- crnment recognition and support ought not to be seriously questioned. The amount asked for from the government would not be missed if given outright, Linstead of as a loan, should the exposi- tion prove to be as successful as an fh- structive and educating influence as its projectors, with evident sincerity, be- lieve it would. Achor Day. To-morrow will be Arbor Day in Ne- braska, and it is to be hoped it will be obscrved with even more general dovo- tion to it beneficent object than in the past. The institution of the custom “of setting apart one day in the year for tree planting, due to a citizen of Ne- braska, has become widespread, giving assurance that in time it will become universal in this country. It is com- mended not alone by the great practi- cal benefits that result, but by the pleasing effect produced upon our finer sensibiliti It does not call us to a ask, but invites us to a labor of love. We have grown to regard the duty as a pleasure aud to ass ciate with its performance agree- able and elevating sentiment. The poet tells us “the groves were God’s first temples,” and as we set out the trees that aro to make the groves of the future we may feel that our work has some other meaning and merit than the waterial good that is to come from it, vastly important though that be. The tendency to give the custom a senti- mental association, to impress it upon the minds of the young as an occasion from which they may derive present pleasure and agreeable recollections, and to remove it from the role of mere practical duties, should be encouraged. Its effect will be to stimulate interest in the custom, enlarge the desire to give it proper observance, and thus hetter assure its permanence. Arbor day has been of inestimable advantage to Nebraska, but yet greater benefits are to come if it shall continue to be properly observed. Those of our people who understand this will not need urging to perform the agreeable and profitable duty to which the recur- rence of Arbor day invites them. The Temple of Ceres. Why not call the big grain palace which the Omaha fair association pro- poses to erect, the Teufole of Ceres. The goddess Ceres was the classical di- vinity whe presided over corn and tillage, and who was the patrouess of husban n general, Theve is something in o name, if well chosen, which excites the interest and invites attention. To call this proposed structure the Temple of Ceres is appli- cable where the cereals of the state are to be displayed to the best advantage. The name Ceres, moreover is strik- ing. It has the advantage of novelty and certainly is more expressive than “‘corn palace” or ‘‘grain palace.” It can also be combined ‘with spectacu- lar features which would stimulate large numbers of participants in the proposed celebration. A Temple of Ceres would be suggesti It would supply the motive to guide the archi- tect in pianning the building. It give the theme to the deco- rator in his effortc to reproduce ancient art, Sucha combinition can re- sultonly in consistency and harmony of idens, and the artistic effect is sure to impress itself on the visitor as beauti- ful, ‘What, for instance, could be grander and more effective as an attraction than atemple patterned after the famous Parthenon of Athens? A building fashioned on the lines of this majestic temple can be produced with better effect in straw and corn than o Gothic struc- tare after the style of the Sioux City corn palace. There is more scope for the decorator, In his hands the frieze and pediments of the proposed classical building could be heightened with color- ed leaves, gr , different varieties of corn, wheat, rye and other cereals of Nebraska, to imitate the motopes, the triglyphs and sculptured frieze of the original. e pediments could be filled with appropriate figures in straw in imitation of the sculptured statues aud groups of the Parthenon. If the classical idens be carried out still further to heighten the spect- acular effects, & majestic figure of Cores fashioned after the goddess Athena could be erected in the center of her temple. Here the agricultural, manu- facturing and all other products of the state shonld be brought and displayed as votive offerings to the goddess. In this instance it may be well to re- call that one of the most unique and prominent attractions of the New Or- leans exposition was a grand figure of the goddess of Liberty made of corn. That was a striking example of the possibilities of the uses of cereal products in the art- ist’s hands. Can we not follow out on a grander and more elaborate scale the idea first suggested at New Orleans? ‘Without going further into particu- lars the BEE hus suficiently indicated its coneeptiou for a grain palace, which shall embrace both originality and ar- tistic harmony, and which shall display in a pleasing setting all the natural pro- Quets and resources of Nebraska, E—— Tux latest advices regarding the con- dition of Minister Fendleion, who, a BEE: SUNDAY, APRIL 922, 1 few days ago, had a siight stroke of pars alysis, report hif{much improved, with a favorable prospdet of speedy recovery Since the tragic death of his wife it understood that My, Pendleton has not been the vigoroys apan he was before that unfortunatef event, which was a very severe shock to him., He had also found his duties Ml Berlin_laborious, and it is not unlifel$ that the climate and the conditions under which he has lived there haveiot’been favorable to his health., Mr. Pgndleton is sixt three years old, and fan attack of alysis age is A serious matter, even though theftfoke be slight. The crown prince of Germany is said to hate everytning English. Chauncey M. Depew’s photographs sell as rapidly as those of beautiful women, Senator Bvarts has bought anew spring silk hat to wear to the Chicago con vention. Count von Moltke must bo a queer-looking figure. He is peaked in face and wearsa yellow wig., President Ingalls uses a sand glass to time speakers when the senate enforces the five- minute rule, Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher has given the sqydiers’ hotie at Leavenworth 2,000 books from her husband's livrary. Ulysses S. Grant, jr., is now in active busi- ness harness in the Cosmopolitan Publishing company, being its vice president, Robert Louis Stevenson was paid £,000 for his latest novel. And better novels have been written for one-eighth the money. Horace Davis, the new president of the California state university, is an enthusias- tic advocate of the higher education of wormen. The late Chief Justice Waite once ro- marked that he was better acquainted with “Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations” than with the “United States Digest.” Senator Chace, of Rhode Tsland, is a gen- tleman of v pronsunced ideas and does not regard the dictates of fashion in the least. He is said to be the only member in congress who wears a spike-tail coat. Joaquin Miller is lying at present in a little redwood house, about twelve feet high by somcthing like thirty fect in length, 'perched away up on the side of a naked and rocky mountain near Oakland, Cal,, at a height of several hundred feet above the sea. amucl J, Tilden never spoke of his wealth, but it was variously estimated all the way from 4,000,000 to $10,000,000. His executors have lately stated in court that his assets footed up £5,225,000 iy real and personal prop- w5 also admitted that after the legacies provided for in thewill are paid over four millions will remain for the ere tion of three public librarics contemplated by Mr. Tilden in New; York, Yonkers and New Lebanon, where hé was born. Attorney General Brewster was a man of hobbies and eccentricitigs and given to sul- phurous warmth of spedch. He was surpris- ingly vain, and spént a remarkable amount of time in frivolous correspondence. Among his idiosyneracies fwag) the belief that no laundry in Washington could do his shirts or underwear justice, and they had to be sent to Philadelphia every fveek. He used to take particular fancies to certain garments, and when sent to Philadelphia to be washed was in the habit of making frantic appeals by telegraph for their prompt retura to him, A Family Trast. Minncapolis Tribune, Is Mr. Cleveland really to have Secretary Bayard for a daddy-w-law? Now if Rose could only be provided for the royal family ‘would be reasonably comfortable. Against All Precedeat. Cinetnnati Enguirer. These statements of the opposition that congress is wasting its time amount to noth- Who aw a United States con- gress do thing on the eve of a presidential election? oL, Sure of His Pay. Washington Critic. If Mr. Chauncey M. Depew should decline the services of one of his railway employes with the same violent vigor which he displays in declining the presidential nomination, the poor man would go right along drawing his salary and be sure of it for years to come. ———— Better Class of Immigrants.” Philadelphia Record. The ocean steamspips which carry passen- gers hither and thither between this country and Europe are doiug a big business. Those that sail eastward go loaded with pleasure- seckers, and the inward-bound vessels are crammed with immigrants who intend to find homes for themselyes and their posterity in America, Probably the immigrants bring as much money into the country as the tourists Putting aside imported labor- of the immigranis who seek our shores grows better year after ear, e e ————— A Tribute to Conkling. Kansas City Tines. There is a story of two Rochester men who lately were in New York on legal business. 1t occurred to them to consult Mr. Conkling, and they did so at some length and very much to their satisfaction. As they roso to g0 the spokesman said: *“Mr. Conkling, we thank you for your advice, which is very valuable to us. When we get home we will send you a check for §500.”" “Oh, no, gentle- men,” said the ex-senator, *“don’t do that. I am only too happy to be of service to you, and make no charge. You are quite wel- come, but when I do charge, my feeis S P et 1 Should Sec to It Themselves, Philadelphio Ledger, Ina forthcoming article, Mr. Powderly's suggestions that the members of the brother- hood shall themselves take the count of the number of children under proper age em- ployed at work for wages, in factories, mines and elsewhere, is proper and most pertinent. It is the needs of family support far oftencr than the demands of the employer that re- cruits the ranks of labor with infant bread- winners, When the, wages are o important 10 parents, they—it is not surprising—hope to pass in the little workman as of suitable age. o Danfel Webster's Views. The Springfield (Mass,) Republican cites the following from a specch by Danicl Web- ster in 1838: 1 bave no hesitationi in_declaring that the income from customs must be reduced, It must be reduced at the hazard of injury to some branches of manufacturing industry; because this, in my opinion, would be g less evil than that extraordinary and aangcrous state of things in which the Umted States should be found laying and collecting taxes for the purpose of distributing them. Mr. Webster was'one of the strongest of protectionists; yet he was willing to adjust his theory to the practical situation rather than see a surplus distributed by an expendi- ture such as that unblushingly proposed by the advocates of the Direct Tarifl Refunding job. e -— Conspirators Arrested. New Youk, April 21.—Judge Barrett to- day granted an order for the arrest of John N. Stein and Anthony Comstock in a suit commenced against them by Jonn H, Emwins and Charles Sherly for $30,000 damages for conspiracy. Bail was fixed at$2,000 euch. Comstock will not be arrested until Mouday. THE TRIBUTE OF ADMIRERS, Words. of Regret and Voices of Praise for Conkling. DEPLORING A NATION'S LOSS. Representative Citizens of Omaha As- semble and Utter Expressions of Sorrow Over a Grand Man's Death. Moeting at the £axton. Dr. Miller presided over n represontative mecting of citizens, rogardless of party affili- ations, to pay homage to the worth of the de- parted Roscoe Conkling, statesman and Jurist, in the parlors of the Paxton last night. The doctor, upon assuming the chair, spoke in eloquent terms of the deceased, and con- sidered him the noblest of politicians, the greatest of statesmen, the acmo of virtue and the noblest of men among men. Roscoe Conkling's motto was, Amerirg and Amer- icans first and all the time. ~ Charles J. Green followed with an eloquent. tribute to the decoased. Ho referred to his great record and said that every shaft that had been hurled at Lim, in personal or official life, had been invigorated through spite, but had been happily and substantially dis- proven. Roscoe Conkling now rests in aggrave that is honored and watered by the tears of the universe. Mr. Green then read the following resolutions as the sense of the meeting: As sons of New York, cherishing a just ]vrhie in the grandeur of onr native state and n the ?rcnl men by whom her annals have been illustrated, we hasten to give inadequate expression to the emotions with which we have received the intelligence of the death of Roscoe Conkling. For a quarter of a century he has been a great figure in the Empire state. Fora large part of that period he maintained an_almost undivided ascendancy in the conduct of affairs—his devoted “followers were to be found in every village, his trusted adhercnts directed the administration in all places of power, his imperial command swayed popular opinion and sentiment throughout the Porders of the state. When a period comes to the career of such a man all the people and the state mourn. We declare our appreciation of his great character in the following expressions : 1. Imperial in his physical proportions as becawe a chief among the people, his tread and front bord witness to the spirit of the man. From early life he was inspired by an ardor in the pursuit of his aims that brooked no opposition and overcame all difficultics, Step by step he stalked over the fields of strife and contention, crushing adversaries and winning victory He made friends and he made encics, but alike by those who feared and hated him and by those who trusted and honored him, he was ac- knowledged to be great. Impelled by what has been called the in- firmity of noble minds, and pursuing his lofty aims with an unconquerable zeal, neither his aspirations nor the methods by which he per- sued them, marred the purity of his personal character.” He lived among public men who made profit of public employment, and held it mot unjust to the state, and only just to themselves, to - take money which was not earned. But he cherished poverty us a sign of fidelity in the public ser- vice, and no taint of ill-gotten gains was ever on his name. The one great lesson of his life, a lesson sadly needed and hard to learn in American politics, is the grandeur of per- fect honesty. 3. In the character and career of Roscoe Conklimg there was much that was by the public misconceived and misjudged, because v stopped for explana- tion, and when questioned he did not conde- scend to exculpate himself, but in grim silence bore all accusation, the gracefulness of his character, the affectionate tenderness of his heart, the transcendent purity of his spitit were unscen and uuknown. 13ut no man was ever uttended by such troops of friends wherever he went, nor followed by h absolute devotion in all exigencies of nor remained unforsalen twhen his srasped the scepter of power no longer, who had not in him that which makes lifa lovely er noble, The career and aspect of this great fimure in American life inspires us with new pride in the state whose annals bear among her sons the name of Roscoe Conlkling. Pending the adoption of the r City Attorney J. L. Webster took oc tribute to the departe brightest and noblest representative of the republican varty and its principles. Dean Gardner, of Trinity cathedral, was next called upon. He had presided over a church in which Mr. Conkling was a com- municant, and knew him as a lover of mau- kind, a true christian and a magnificent man. “If Roscoe Conkling,” ventured the spealker, “had been nominated for the presidency, I would have stumped the state for him." Mr, W. F. Gurley then spoke as follows: “The asperities of life become softened when we view them in the twilight of concluaed day. Oneof the most pleasing attributes of human nature is revealed in the universai sympathy aud love which, like perfumed gar- lands, deck the grave of the departed dead, If universal sympathy. could bave banished pain_and suffering, or have conferred the cless boon of restored health, Roscoo Conkling would have risen from his couch of anguish in the full strength and glory of vig- orous manhood. If universal love embodicd in a nation’s voice could penetrate “the dull, cold ear of death”’ and, speaking language of entreaty and command, enforce obedicnce, the departed spirit of Roscoe Conkling would to-day re-enter and reinhabit its earthly ten- ement. But the “pallid messenger with the invested torch” has beckoned him away, and sympathy as wellas love is impotent in ontloss grasp m ut, and blast the future, the past. Emerson has s great man who inhabits a higher spliere, to which other men rise with labor and difi- culty.” Such was Roscoc Conkling, A man of royal intellect, of imperiul character, of superb intellect.” A kingly man, A leader of men, not by the warmith of ussociution, but by the lustrous of brain_and consciencé which dominated and controlled his own life, and pulsated their every action by which he sought to gain the mastery of men. 'A% un orator he possessed @ subtle power arm, fascinating his hearers by the logic of his argument, the exuberance of diction, and the majesty of Lis uttoran buv above all and benind ail was his splendid individuality, which gave power o language and transformed words into thunderbolts. Choate in Lis culogy upon Webster gave expression in a passionate out- burst to the longing of Lis soul. His words wight well be uttercd by those who mourn to-day the untimely death of the great sou of the Empire State *Oh, for an hour of Conkling now! Ob, for oue more peal of that clarion voice, one more rotl of that thun- der inimitable!" Mr. E. Rosewater denied the imperial- ism of the departed, quoted by previous speak- ors. Roscoe Conlkling had never held himseif above the common people. He was the most approachable man' in public life that the speaker had eyermet. Conlling was always Kind and considerate to all he came in con- tact with, and while Mr. Rosewater admired these qualifications of the man, he had nover sided with him in his political views. Out- side of that, bowever, Roscoe Conkling was strictly and rigidly honest; with all his icos 1o become dishonest he spurned m, und while other scnators and congres £ less ability and renow n lages, had their residences in ington, @ 5 cent car was £ood enough for Conkling. He had no royal turnouts, and died, said Mr. Rosewater in conclusion, with the Feputation of being an honest man. Judge Hawes, Attorney Baldwin and Hon. Mr. Gaunon, of Towa, paid complimentary tribute to the deceased, and the question oc- curring on the adoption of the foregoing res. olutions the same were unanimously passed and the meeting adjourned, -~ LAID TO REST. New York's Statesman Laid to His Long Rest, Urica, N. Y., April 21.—The remains of Roscoe Conkling lay in state from 12to 1 o'clock. Before noon a very large number of friends of the deceased had assembled in the vicinity of the house, and during the follow- ing hour & continuous streawm of peo- R ple passed mto the residence to take the last look at the dead. Floral tributes were very numorous and of unusual mag- nificence. Conspicuous among them was & large wreath of calla lilies, intertwined with blue immortelles, attachéd to which was & Ylniu white card bearing the words: ““The President,” Tho trains this morning brought throngs of official and unofficial friends from all parts of the union. A wreath of flowers was sent by President and Mrs, Cleveland, Cavalry church was filled to overflowing long before 2 o’clock. Upon the arrival of the proces. sion was met at the entranco of the church by the rector, Rev. A. B. Goodrich. When all were seated the burial anthem taken from thirtieth and ninetieth psalms was rendered respon y by the officiating clergymen, tho choir singing alternate verses, After brief but impressive sorvice, the sad procession wended its way to the cemetery where committal service of the church was hold in the conservatory, ———— Conkling's Portrait. New Yo April 21.—|Special Telegram to the Bee.]—Frank B. Carpenter, a well known portrait painter, on Thursday en- tered the death chamber where Roscoe Conkling lay and studied his features long Then he measured tho head h great care. Some yoars ago Carpenter, through friends, arranged that Conkling, President Arthur and Qeneral Grant shonld sit for oil portraits, Conkling was quite shy. He had invariably refused to permit artists or photographers to study his ace, being very sensitive about portrait pictures. After consenting to sit he kept putting off the event from time to timo. leanwhile the paintor studied the icader at ever possible occasion and began a portrait in his studio. With the measurements and study of the dead statesman’s countenauce he will now be able to complete the only oil portrait of Conkling in the country. e e=-tveey Ex-Members of the Cabinet. The New York Graphic attempts to catalogue the men living who held seats in the cabinet. It begins with the sec- retaries of the navy, as follows: Most people of the present generation have no idea that the venerable George Ban- oft, the historian, who is now in his eighty-cighth year, .was in his carly days quite o democratic politician. Not only is this true, but he is to-day the man whose service as o @abjnet officer dates farther back than that of any other man now living. In 1844 Mr. Bancrott was the democratic candidate for governor of Massachusetts, but rgs, whom the whigs sup- ported, beat him by some 15,000 votes. Tt was the year when James K. Polk was elected president, and when he was making up his cabinet he selocted Mr. Banmeroft as sccretary of tho navy. He fillod the place for nearly two years, and then rvesigned. All tho men who were at the head of the navy department for nearly twenty-f after Mr. Bancroft withdrew are long since dead. The living men who have been its secretaries ave George Robeson, who served under President Grant from- 1859 to 1873, and is yet a stovmy petrel in vepublican poli- ties in N Jersey; the “An- cient Mariner of the Wabash,” chard 'W. Thompson, who was three years with President Hayes, an eridunv, of a railroad company Vathan Goff, jr., who succeeded **Dick and is now a member of congr from West Virgini: Senator William I, or of New Hampshire, who was secretary of the navy for the last two years of that presidential term. Jefferson D f{)llu\ of war, and held of. of that term, of the men ace ar the commoner, Picree’s secretar fice during the four year from 1858 to 1857. Miny who have since held that'y hut some are yot among The great Pennsylvania Simon Cameron, is the oldest of them, and he was in office in 1861. General Belknap, whose fair face and grayish whis are often scen ahout New York, IHe was Grant’s secretary ng h st term, and old Judge Al- vhonso Taft, who filied out most of the term after Belknap’s resignation, is oc onally heard from in Ohio politi. George W. McCrary, of Towa, anothe: forgotten statesman, went into Hayes’ cabinet as war minister in 1877, but soon left it to take a place as United States judge of one of the western circuits,and” fiois nownitiorney forithe Atehison, To- peka and Santa Fe railroad, with head- quarters at Kansas City. Robert T. Lin- coln was the last of the secretaries of this department under republican re- gime, and he is practicing faw in" chi- b ral Horatio King is another of the cabinct offic of the old days. He was in charge of that de- partment during the closing days of Buchanan’s adminstration in 1861 and is yet a leading spirit in the social cles of the capital. John A, Cresswell, who was Grant’s postmaster general for 1869 to 1873, is living on his farm ov 1n Maryland and has faded out of publi recollection, James Tyner, filled out the end of Marshall Jewitt's term, is somewhere in Indiana and long ince out of public life, Thomas James, who made the department ss under Hayes, is president of the Lincoln National bank, which the Van- derbilts own. Walter Q. Gresham, who nothy O. Howe duving Ar- term, is & judge of the United States court, and Frank Hatton, the t and onc of the best of the mnen who munaged that important department while under republican control, has gone back to his old love and is a suc- cessful editor once more. The other day the papers told ahout the colebaation of the anniversary of Hugh McCulloch’s wedding at Wash- ington. Ho was seeretary of the treas- ry under Lincoln and Johuson, from and George S, Boutwell, who followed him in Grant’s first term, is now a geay-haired, stoop-shouldered er in Washington, Willinm Richardson, another of the sceretaries Grant, isa_judge of the court of the national capital, and Ben Bristow, who was his successor, is prac- ticing law in New York. John Sher- man, who divected Hayes’ financial pol- icy, 18 of course too familiar & character to requive comment, and his old friend and at one time fellow presidential enn- didate, ex-Senator Williun Windom of Minnesota, who was in Garfield’s cabi- net is growing rich and dignified as one of the business magnates of the country. Up in his quiet home on the Hudson the venerable Hamilton Fish, who du ing all the cight years of Grant's pre: dency so honorably and ably managed our foreign relations, yet lives in the honorable retirement which his great public services merit. He bears the weight of his fourscore years th sturdy healthfulness, and takes as much interost, in a quiet way, in public affairs as he did nearly fifty years ago, when he was elected a member of congress on the wig ticket from New York., The other two statesmen who have been at the head of this department are yet filling prominent places in public ‘at- tention, and their histories are a part of our every-day life, It will be some time yet bofore” either of them passes out of the tion of “this genera- tion. Their names are William M. Evarts and James G, Bline, There are quite a number of the old gentlemen w‘im once managed the in- terior department yet in the land of the living. John P. Usher, who served under Lincoln im 1863, is the oldest in int of urm?’; Ho 18 nowe ll“‘cl Foorlhn Unioh ific rallroad, Apd ouf of politics for tho last twenty years, James Harlan, who was another of Mt Lincoln’s appointments is Mnf his last declining years on a farm in Jowa. Jacob D. Cox, who went into office in 1869, is now a lawyer in Cincinnati, Columbus Delano, who served from 1870 to 1875, is rn(slng sheep in Ohio. Carl Schurz, who was Hayes' righte hand man, is in New York,still stirrin, up oceasional political storms; Samuel J. Kirkwood, of Iows, is a' gray-haired and disappointed politician at homa, where he was lately been a candidate for congress. Henry M, Teller, who was President Arthur’s appointment, is back in his seat as one of the senators frofn Colorado. Horatio King amends the above rece ord as follows: Philip F. Thomas, of land, was appointed secretary of the treasury December 12, 1860, and served until General John A. Dix suc« ceeded him, January 11, 1861, Of ex+ secretaries of war yet suryiving thers " eph Holt, retired as a brigadier cneral of tho army, and residing in Washington; General John M.Shcoficld, United States army, appointed May 26, 1868; James D, Cameron, now senator, appointed May 22, 1876, and Alexander Ramsey, of Minnesota, who was in Pres- ident Hayes’ cabinet. Of ex-postmasters general, we still have James Campbell of Philadelphia, appointed March 51 1853; Joseph Holt, appointed March 14, 1859, on the death of Postmaster Gen= eral Aaron V. Brown, of Tennessee,and David M. Key, now a United States é]udgu in Tennessee, who was Presi- ent Hayes® first postmaster general,a; printed March IJ. 1877, Alexander H, H. Stuart of Staunton, Va., whose aps pointment as secretary of the interiop bears date September 12, 1850, is not “buried,” but still doubtless takes a interest in publicaffairs. My ims on is that O. H. Browning of Illis , appointed secretary of the interior July 27,1886 is also among the livings Of course all know that L. Q. C. Lamar, now Mr. Justice Lamar, recently hel the office of secretary of the interiors Of surviving ex-attorneys-general, bos sides those named in the article above referred to, there are: B. Rockwood Hoar, of Concord, Mass,, appointed March 4, 1869; George H. \\'ifiimu , of Oregon, whose appointments bear of December '4, 1871, and March 4, 1873 Edwards Pierrepont, of New York, ap- pointed April 26, 1885; Charles Devens, now supreme court judge in Massachus setts, appointed )i’ h 12, , and Wayne MaeVeagh, of Pennsylvania,ap- pointed March 5, 1881, by President Garfield. ———— . Territorial Days. BRADLEY FLAT, Dak., April 14.— [Correspondonce of the BEE.]--Long years ago, when Nebraska was a ters torial infant and Omaha was its capital and metropolitan city, I was a resident of Nebraska City, then a thriving vil- lage of a few hundred inhabitants, sup< ported chiefly by the emigration to, Pike’s Peak and the freighting enter- prise of Russell, Majors & Waddel, Since that time I "have wandered through New Mexico, Arizona, Old Mexico, California, Oregon, Nevada, Idahg, Utah, Washington territory, Wyoming, and at last I am anchored in the Black Hills. During all my travels my mind has always re- verted back to Nebraska ‘as it was 1n those good old palmy days when stage coachesand freighting out- fits were plenty and railroads were un- known. The site of the present capitol was the hunting ground of the Indian and the home of the cogote, and Buffalo frequently. made their appearance on Salt Creck and its immediate vicinity. J. Sterling Morton and Bob Furnas were the only two repregentative poli- ticians that Nebraska could boast of then and woo be-to the political aspir- ant who fell under their orntorical When I look back over the last years and see what the march of 5 has done toward setting up this vast American desert I am amazed and astonished and I ask mysell how long will it be till every acre of the public domain that is susceptible of cultiva- tion will be owned and cultivated by somebody. Surely the next generation will find hard work to got homes with- out money and without price. This country of the Black Hills at tho resent time offers about the same in- ducements that Nebraska offered twenty-five or thirty years ago. mean’ of course in regard to agricul- ture. There is no comparison in re- gard to the other resources of this cound try as Nebraska never laid any claim to mineral wealth to speak of. With our abundanc® of mineral with our abund- ance of timber and with our abundanco of nutritious grasses and fine agricul- tural land and with railroads leading this way from every pointof the com-= puss who can predict what the wealth of this country will be twenty- five years hence. As' this country in- creases in werlth and prosperity so also 1 Nebraska keep on increasing as sho is the national gateway through which all our products of wealth and serity must roll on towards the of the world. I will at some future time give to your readers a de- seridtion of our wonder land of the Black Hills as compared with the terri- tories west of us. 0. 8. O. MOUNT. e THE MARCHING OF ARMILS, The best examples of forced marches in modern times are perhaps those performed by Havelock and Lord Clyde in the Indian mutiny of 1856, Perhaps the finest examples in all history of strategic marches are found in Napoleon's campaigns in Italy in 1790 and the campaign on Danube in 1805, During the rebeilion the march of the seo- ond a Ootober 14, 1363, of seventy- six miles in fifty-six hours, fighting two o gagements, crossing two rivers and guard- ing baggage, is exceptional, During the war of the robellion Hooker's the Eleventh and Twelfth consolida- 000 strong, was moved from Virginia geport, Tenn., with all 1ts bag: and supplies, in seven days, The advance of Washington on New York in 1752, and the deception of the British thereby, while he really marched on Cor wallis at Yorktown, must also ever stand out as a strategic march of the highest or- der, Another instance of successful water transportation is the move of the Twenty- fifth army corps from City Point to Texas in May, 1865, The corps consisted of 25,000 men, 2,000 horses, with guns, wagons, amuu- nition, ambulances, etc. i An Unpleasant Reception. Claveland Plain Dealer: Silas Jack- and Eph Jounes, two Canal street ns, were talking about Eph’s ten- Sencies to be a lady-killor, “I wen’ down to see "Liza lus’ night, di,” said Eph. “Did you?” said Silas, . “Deed Idid. An’law me, Si, you know what kind of a man 'Lisa’s fadder am?” *"Deed T doe Dat ole coon’s got de biggest feet ob any da in town.” “Well, i‘uu' atalkin’. When I got to 'Liza’s house las’ night I met with a wahm recepshun. “Did you?” “Deed Idid, Suy,you know dat man Cooney Beck?" (R T “I got de same kind ob rcegpsbun Coon r gol on election day,” SWhat uz that®? I got de feet.”