Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 19, 1888, Page 4

L v ¥ o L 4 | *YTHE DAILY BEE. ™ l‘hhl"rlt'lunll;: N:.w \fnr;:. ) transmitting the samc unpald b;:ng;:qulmd‘to secure such'a scholar- 4 ‘ - e e board of arbitration and media- | claims to their heirs. There are gray- | ship e president of the conservatory A PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. | i, of the state of New York has just | haired men and women who have been | is Mrs. Jeannette SFhurber, to whom # TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, issued its annual report. Made up with | seeking what justly helongs to them for | the incoption of the-institution is due, | © - Dgiy Morning Fdition) incluaing SUNDAY ) | reference to satisfying the labor organ- | the last half century, most of whom will | and among the incorporators are Au- Blx Montha. ... 11" R 5 | izations, the conclusions of the board [ doubtless pass to the undiscovered coun- [ gust Belmont, Andrew Carnegle, Jesse | * i&fl'«"fi.r. *W 1 from an experience of two years have [ try without getting their due from the | Seligman and William K. Vanderbilt, ! dress, One Year... .. 5 2 inl interest and significance. The | government their ancestors fought and | There is an extensive and able faculty, 3 ,.‘.'(."{-7.’.{;1“.5'.'»:‘.‘.,':«.‘.:'.'é‘i'i'.'.fl‘.;‘.‘;"f‘..'.'f."" services of the bonrd were called into | died to create. [t is not a record of | and the number of pupils already en- Buitoixa, W AiINGTON OFFick, No. 51 | yrequisitiop but seldom last y the | which the American peoplo can feel | tered for the next yearsis nearly up to f el gt P number of labor difficulties susceptible | proud. the capacity of the ifstitution. The i CORRESPONDENCE. | of settlement by mediation being much Hardly less discreditable to the nation | conservatory merits the heartiest sup- torial matier should be add d tothe koiror | smaller thau in the provious year, and | isthe course that has been pursued with | port, and the outlook !or it is highly settlement of generally deter- the mere question of wages having been mined satisfactorily by the parties themselves without incurring the publicity of an investigation. Itisnoted by the board, that the chief cause of trouble in New York arose out of the question how far employees shall pre- sume to dictate not only in regard to the wages that they ave paid, but also, through their labor organizations. at- tempt to control the manner in which men shall be hired and dismissed. and to dietate that none shall he employed except those approved by the organiza- tions. The leading labor troubles in New York last yearhaving been on this issue, the board regards the question of such supreme importance that it suggests to the legislature that it should acquaint pect to the French spoliation elaims, of which a great deal has been recently said in congress for and against a pro- appropriation to pay a part of These claims have figured in the deliberations of almost every con- gress for eighty years. During the Napoleonic wars the French despoiled American citizens of their property on the high seas and in the portsof France. Our government demanded indemnity of the French government, and the justice of the demand was conceded. By the terms of the convention under which United States purchased from ice the Louisiana tervitory this government assumed the claims of its izensagainstthe French government. it part of the treaty which bound the United States to pay filteen million dollars into the French tres oF THE mw.m satisfactory. —— THE latest reports from the Sioux re- servations indicate that the Indians are holding out against signing the Sioux bill and that the prospects of winning them over are decidedly dubious. They will not even affix their x marks to the “red paper” which signifies “‘no,” be- cause they fear it might turn black, which means “Yes,” before it reached Washington. —_—— VOICE OF THE STATE PRESS. he Bee Publshing Compeny, Proprietors. ¥ B, ROSEWATER, Editor. DAILY BEE. ent of Circulation. TH i Sworn Stat. Btate of Nebraska, 1 o County of Douglas, (%% @Geo. B, Tzechuck. secretary of The lee Pub- o venr that the af week ending A ugust 18, 18 nday, August 12 onday, August 13, i e es gust 17, . August 1% hi of The Norfolk News springs this mighty big conundrum on its readers, and then fails to furnish the answer: “One question to be set- tled by the next legislature is, will history repeat itseil in Nebraska, or will Charles F. Manderson succeed himself as United States senator! It is a mighty big conundrum.” al 18,104 . U ZSCHUCK. things before. In other words the law and the public be d—d, when the old machine wants to grind its axe, The peoplo of Mer. rick county would not listen to the appeals people that there is will go on and land him in the sel f honest men, but stood by the ring thieves, Now they stand appalled at a $40,000 shortage n the treasurer’s accounts. Every man who helped to brow beat those who called for jus- tice should be made to pay his share of the stolen money. The Nance county men who are engincering this state of things should be held financially and morally for the dev- iltry going on there; and the same when there will be a ground heave in some other county not far away. The mills of the gods grind slow, but they grind all the same." The Cedar County Nonpareil warns the 'a move on foot in this tate among the railroad corporations and their lickspittles to elect men to the legisla- ture this fall who may be depended upon or can be bribed or bulldozed into voting for that mouopoly henchman, John M. Thurs- ton, the head attorney and political wire puller for the Union Pacific railroad corpor- tion, the road which is delinquent in the payment of millions of dollars to the govern- ment, to the senaté of the United Stat This Thurston has been putting himself for- ward, and so far has succeedod in putting imself at the head of the republican leagues £ this state, and in boing appointed tempor- ary chairman of the republican national con- vention. These are but preliminary steps, nd he has succeeded 8o well that uis party eof the nited States if the people ave not extremely ful. The people must be e diligent ; m D e N gints A by 1k, Y | itselt with the difference between | ury was strietly observed, but-when it | ~The Madison Reporter is satistied that “At- | iy over before—attend all precinet cau- 3 LR (N Public. | contentions for a redress of legiti- | beeame n question of paying American | torney-General Leese should be his own suc- | eyges, county and district conventions, and E'flkf,,':{y“;,’}"l':’,“'l‘:;u} 8.8, mate labor grievance and for power | citizens their claims there was an oppo- ""‘:"lr'h“““ corporations aro secking weak old not ono inch of vantagze ground to the George B, Tasciick, beini: frst duly swomyde- | und control. This is the stage which [ sition developed which has over since | e it over tho oo g ar qapie. | monopotistic host. — The people must vise in pblisn{ug company, that the sctusl averags | tho [alior question has roached in been strong enough to prevent the puy- | im, The people should keep an oye o this | oo yor iy and fiht—fight for - thele gripCITistion of T DARY B Copka; | York, and it is a repetition of the old | ment. There can be no rensonuble | schome, also, aud watch the mon Who 0per- | s i e o o ALY 100 1 September, 8, 130 doples: question of trades unionismin Englund. | question as to the justice and validity of | ate it.” LA el W Ll i L tober, 187, s for m ., 16,226 copies: for December, 1887, 15,041 ¢ fe8; for January, 188, % coples; for February, ABBK, 15,002 copies: for ) April, 185, 18744 cop fes: for Jurie, 1888, 19, ol involving the proposition whether em- ployers shall hive their work done by men of their own choosing, or whether the men themselves shall form organi- the claims. That was established by the government itself and acknowledged by France. The treaty for the purchase of the Louisiana te hich released Editor Correll's presumptuous candidacy for the nomination for lieutenant governor is thus referred to by the Nebraska City Press: ““The Press vather likes Correll personally 1 5 83 coples. . 18, TZ8 4 itory, w i ’ er 3 m'&di’"’f{ ma' Anml n'mm-nlr;e:lwl: my | zations and insist that no men shall be | Prance from the payment of theso but so far s harnessing him with llm: 1 presonce this Ist dny of AL Notary Pablic. | employed until he has become a mem- | elaims and transferred the obligation to | concerned, it feels a litle dubious, Unless it is misinformed the gentleman from He- bron is closely allied to railroad intercsts, 1 U ber. This issue has not been peculinr to New York, but has really become the United States, was a complete con- W. J. CONNELL has annexed anothet fession by the two governments of their county to his instructed list. Sarpy | poneral, and the solution, if it shall | justico and validity yet they are | KSferring tothe nomination of Hastives oounty instructed for him yesterday, | over be effected, will doubtless mot | still unpaid, and even after the | .ot the Schuyler Quill pens the foliowing: | 1 which gives him a total of fifty-four own county lentiess war which 18 beinz w. Attorney G ral L s not recaving the support of his nomination are thus re ard Roporte “In the re for uted by the S 4 upon by the railroads and is neglected that ieral hn heir follow ng promises to eive assistance, and no agency is 0 low, no methol too hese disreputable, for men to make use of. One of their latest schemes is 10 sy that Soward coanty is 0pposad to the ionof Mr. Liaese, and hat the S»ward couaty deleration in the i be reached without many severe and | court of claims has passed upon a pov- | «Ihjs insures James Laird's walk-away, us | state convention will be against hun. In an ; Votes, or within twenty-eight of the | serious conflicts. tion of them and found them valid. A | Hastings is what is known in mathematics | adjoinime county this was recently told, and ‘ mecessary number for a nomination. The board speaks very plainly | proposed appropriation to pay this por- | asa minus quantity, Had the democracy | the name of a gontleman who stands N - on the amportant question of | tion encounters a strong and deter- | putup our friend C. D. Casper, of Dav high in this county was given as the 3 THE fact that General Sheridan died | yhether employers have any | mined opposition in congress, although | City, he would have stood some show of an | man who would se it that the | comparatively poor is a commentary on | public responsibility, and its opin- | the amount involved is 1ot greater than | election. The nomination made is a miss | delogation was ag Loese. V the integrity and soldierly spirit of the | jong are so niuch out of the ordinary | the surplus revenue of the treasury for | it VORI GO G ) L 3 man. He never sought to enrich him- v self although the opportunities for so doing were open to him during and afier the war The Wymore Union believes thero some crooked work done at the recent p ary clection, and savs: “The legislatur the coming session should cnact & strict v istration law for all cities. If reports true there were a good many illegal votes cast here lust Saturdaye [t was not was line and in advance of the view popu- larly held as to be worthy of reproduc- tion. The report says: Of what avail is it for the state to possess and exercise a power of control and regula- tion over railroad corporations, created for public benefit, and over private persons hold- two or three da; No creditor ever went into court with a clearer case than these claimants, and no debtor ever more solemnly bound himself to pay a certain debt than did these United States to pay the French indemnity. I6NATIUs DONNELLY, who went to England to spoil Mr. William Shake- over the gent against Mr. 1 fri fai ment from beginning to end. The Leounty are a unit in favor ‘mination, an 1 he witl re- the volls, More- who was reported as is oue of his warmest uds and supportors, and if a fight were to These cases of national default, if not | and the legislature should provide sc be madeon him in this county, would take off ) fom: 4 ing and using their property for public pur- ; Bt ; o h it A s m‘"’“’"‘“’“““°“' T °":“"g ot il B T its combinttions of inauthor. | Of absolute dishonesty, are most dis- | means for prohiviting such voting. Wt ool o (e [, WLED 1D T B v e ey dotamy tave | porations and porsous, or others, to arbi- | are well caleulated o bring | known in tito Second chiasdbssional district. | 8 BB L hi SRR ST revenge, however, by going back to { v,y arrest and hold at will the operation | the American people Aai|iOnvtasteithoyical it dag LOE L ORIl ok VAR 5] AL 188 IR [Foa RS « scongress and twisting the British lon’s tail. ‘THE Argentine Republic is doing very. well. Over five thousand miles of rail- poad were built last year and the coun- #ry attracted an immigration estimated ] st 200,000 during the same period. | Bome day the United States will wake k up to appreciate what grit and enter- prise the Spanmsh republics possess. ——— THE request of eastern dailies for full foarket quotations from Omaha 18 a “#traw showing which way the wind is blowing. Cincinnati, particularly, has - made the request for full Omaha quo- tions of the pork market. The great orkopolis of America of twenty years #go is now compelled to regulate her rk market by the Omaha ticker. The whirligig of time has brought about no more remarkable changes. ings Gazette-Journal, Lair®s home organ, says: “‘The congressional campaign in the Second Nebraska district is ready to be opened as soon as Mr. Laird returns with the can opener. Neither of theother two candi- dates for congress can bo efpected to work up much enthusiasm."’ “ft is said by the polificiahs,” remarks the Knox Center Capital, that “the farmers ought to be poor. They never will vote for their interest. You will Kee how they will vote this full. The farshers.of Kuox county are an intelligent lot of men. They voted right two years ago, and will do the same thing this fall. W. L. Turner stood by the farmers on every question twoy wo. Wasn't it better for republicans to vote for a demoerat who would do that rather than a republican who would vote with the rail- roads?” The Crete Vidette states some plain traths inafewlines. It says: “There may be several political parties in Nebraska, but there is but one question at issue and that is, shall the railroads control the legislature and state officers! The sooner tHe people drop the misnomer of republican, democrat or prohibitionist, and unite their forces in downing the railroad party, composed of Marquette republicans, Tobe Castor demo- crats and Church Howe prohibitionists, the better it will be for the present and coming generations.” The Grand Tsland Independent refers to of railroads or other properties in the service of the public! The operatives of a ralroad, from engineer down to trackmgn, are, in the practical relations of their services to persons and property transported, far more important as factors than officers of the corporations, and should be held to due responsibility. Nor would the extension of regulations by law to employes upon rail- roads work any hardship to them. On the contrary, it would be their guarantee and protection, as well as the guarantee and protection of the corporations and the people. A railroad is a quasi-public highway of the state, subject as much to reg- ulation by the state for the public benefit and for the protection of the lives of peo- ple who travel, and for the transit of the property carried upon it, as if the state owned and operated it itself. When a man tukes service upon the railroad, whether as an agent of the corporation or an operative upon the line, he becomes a quasi-public officer and hence subject to such regulations of law in the discharge of all lis duties and the time and manner of his abandonment of them as arc appropriate to protect the lives of per- sons and secure the transit of property car- ried upon the road. No dispute between these quasi-public ofticers about the price of labor or any kindred thing should be per- mitted to jeopardize the lives or interrupt the trapsportation of property of citizens to whom the use of a railroad daily has become the American system into disrepute and contempt. Tt is no credit to us that we are honest with the outside world knowing the possible consequences of a failure to be, when we are dishonest toward our own people who have no power of compelling justice. The coun- try is rich and prosperous, and every claim of its citizens against it that is shown to be valid should be paid to the last cent. b ¢ ! CANADA is aroused to the necessity of reciprocity with the United State J: party calling itself the Liberals is grad- ually growing in strength which is openly advocating an unvestricted com- mercial union. At a recent liberal dem- onstration held at Toronto the leaders of the party dealt openly with the ques- tion in its financial as well as political bearing. It was claimed that Canada’s isolation retarded her development, and that the country had not advanced per- ceptible within the past twenty years. In the Dominion, real estate instead of going up had gone down, and popula- tion was on the decrease. Such a con- dition was not flattering to the future development of the country. There is the danger that it will shrivel up un- « THE fast train service is destined to stay after all. The Kansas City busi- mess men have been assured by the Chi- eago & Alton that instead of leugthen- ing the time, as intended by the other - Chicago lines, that road proposes to re- duce the time of limited trains between i\ the railroads, betray ek, whom he had promised to support. His Colfax con- stituents, whose confidence he has lost, cer- tainly would not send him back to the legis- lature. Therefore the railronds, and their man Gere, propose to promote him to the lieutenant governorship, that he as presiding oMcer of the senate may havea better chance — Jor REDMAN is still clamoring to “ have the city hall built on Jefferson square. Joe hasen’t enterprise enough fo build a hen coop if somebody made * him a present of a five acre lot, but his ecommands to the city council sound as if | erals, an unhampered reciprocal treaty with this country. For that purposc the party hopes to bring into the Canadian parliament a majorty de- termined to have unrestricted recivro- city with the United States. Such is the platform it offers to the people. thing else that enters into the equipment and operation of such a road. The state should lodge somewhere & power, with ample means of law to make it effective, for the speedy settlement of all disputes between the ofti- cers of railroad corporations and the opera- tives of railroad property. These opinions are not new or singu- Bio kad laid out several millions in brick | e Gitine - vions have hew | Other fssues aro set aside and first | than beforo of assisting thom cffectually. and mortar in Omaha, and was just | expressed i thewe columns | Place 15 given to this question, With | Thisis the way the Garfield County Quaver B 0 e b A GeEls i make a strenuous effort g e state | @0 on Jefferson square becnuse the | months. But they merit special atten- | MOUORLY the people of the province of f 0B E% UL Lo ition in the ropublican " Ontario but the whole dominion. There can be but little doubt that a comm, cial union must be established between the two countries to preserve friendly relations. The present difficulties on the fisheries question now agitating the senate show how impossible it will be for the twonations to live side by side with- out reciprocity. It may take some years to influence the majority of each coun- try to accept the inevitable, and there will be many difficulties 1n the way. But eventually the movement for vecip- vocity which has began so earnestly in Canada will find a responsive chord in America as the commercial relations between the two countries expand. —_—— IT WAS to be expected that President Cleveland would commute the sentence of dismissal against the naval cadets convicted of hazing, to a comparatively light punishment. It is an open secret that while the authorities at West Point and Annapolis outwardly frown upon hazing, it is secretly encouraged. In fact, hazing is part of the discipline of a military school, Itisin line with the cunning policy of the Spartans, who encourvage their youths to steal, but unished them if they were caught pil- ering. eouncil has pot acted promptly. convention the 23d of this month. This board is composed of attorney weneral, auditor, treasurer and commissioner of public lands and buildings, and they will try to capture a majority of those oficers. If they succeed our railroad law is entirely worthless; if they fail, our railroad law is as good as we need. ‘The republican party should see that men who are solid on the transportation question are nominated.” Here 18 a little advice from the Columbus Journal which the papers mentioned will probabiy not heed, although it is good: *“The Omaha Republican and the Lincoln Journal ought to know by this time that the anti-monopoiy element of the republican party in Nebraska is growing and will make itself strongly felt one of these days. They have been doing their level best the past few years to keep the wheels of political progress moving in the right dirgetion, and if such papers as the Omaha Republican and Lincoln Journal will lay aside their predjudices against the prevailing sentiment, the coun- cils of the party will be more in accord with the tendency of the times.” This is the kind of man the Sioux City Sun wants in the next legisiature from Dakota county. “‘A man insteadof a stick; a mau who has business sense; & man who will go for something besides ease; a man who knows good laws from bad Ones; a man who knows enough to frame his bills and papers without calling to his ald Cheap John attor- s; & man who will win and keep the re- spect of those about him, and one who will act creaitably alike for himself and for those whose representative he goes to be. No superanuated old duffer will do, A pompous swagger and a wise leer will not do. These accomplishments answered five or six years ago, but they will not go down in this good fall of 1888, There1s work to be done at Lincoln the coming winter, hard and earn- est work. The man who goes must take off his coat and be about it?” Says the Stromsburg Headlight: *“Brad Slaughter, member of the Nance county board of supervisors, got a resolution passed by that body to have himself and a few friends investigated, whereupon the Fuller- tion as being exceptional in a public report and as indicating progress in the direction of a rational and sound public opinion regarding the exceedingly im- portant matter discussed. It cannot but be apparent to every thoughtful man that a complete and effective reg- ulation and control of common carriers by the state in the interest of the pub- lic cannot be had without subjecting employes of such carriers to a responsi- bility which will operate to restrain them from acts inimical to the public interests. The view that there must be legislation establishing both the rigits and the responsibilities of railroad employes has had a wide and rapid growth within the past year, aud the time is not remote when it will crystalize into law. Such legislatiol wisely and justly framed, would work no Lardship to the employes, but on the contrary, as the New York board says, would be their guarantee and protec- tion, as well as the guarantee and pro- tection of the corporations and the people. ThiE beaux and gallants who woo the muse of polite literature have selected n romantic spot for discussing the American copyright law. The Doge’s ace at Venice will add to its long list of historical events a gathering of American authors and writers in Sep- Sember. Under the blue Italian skies ond the poetic surroundings which have . Wade Venice famous, the American men . of letters will gather on the bridge of K pighs to bemoan the larceny of their { mental offspring, «OMAHA is still aflicted with a few ours in the manger. The performance of these obstructionists, under the lead of the head of the thrifty firm of We, Us & Co., was a fair sample, Like the . three tailors from Tooly street, these ~ loud-mouthed mossbacks prowested, as . %'We, the people,” against building the city hall this year. But the patriotic . leader of the gang still continues to pile ~ bonds and ‘taxes on Omaha for pave- ments that will rot out in less than five . You mustn’t issue another dollar of bonds for public improvements in * Omaha unless We, Us &Co. have a hand in the ple. e—— .. Dr. LYMAN ABBoTT, Who occupies ~ the pulpit made famous by Henry Ward Beecher, is as busy as ever with his pen endeavoring toshow society where it is ~ out of joint and the way to reform. In _ arecent paper the reverend gentle- seems to locate the origin of social distemper in the multitude of profes- slonal men who profess what they do not teach, or what they have only a “wngue conception of and hence cannot tench, and in the accumulation of pri- ~ wate property. He therefore comes E—— The Nation's Delinquency. Some time ago there was published in THE BEE a history of private claims against the government, dating their origin back to the war of the revolution. It was clearly shown by this reord that these claims are founded upon a most sacred obligation of the government, entered into with the patriotic men whose courage and sacrifices established the republic. The ablest men who have sat in congress since the government was founded have acknowledged the obligation and its binding character, yet a century after it was entered into hundreds of claims remain unpaid, and the greatest difeulty is found in securing from congress attention to Ture National Conservatory of Music of America, which is in the third year of its existence, has issued its prospectus for 1888-9. The main object of the con- servatory is the thorough cultivation of the vocal powers of pupils, from the earliest rudiments of voice formation to the fullest development of lyric and dra- matic singing, but it is also intended to establish instrumental schools. The education given is free to all who are unable to pay for it, provided their nat- ural abilities justify their admission, To secure to each state not only " down heavily upon the excoss of preach- [ any of them. Thousands of people | the chance but the right to be |\ "pog Loints outs line of investigation _ ers and lawyers, and at last denies the | who lived in the hope that the govern- | represented in the institution, | 1,4 ig truly refreshing. The board has ad- " pight M toto of private property. There | ment would do them justice have died | there has been estaliished in | mitted, according to reports, that they knew perpetuity a system of free scholar- leaving their claims as a legacy to their ships, the sum of five thousand dollars survivors, who Lave in turn gone to the they were going contrary to law, but decided R t man, wao will a) f % & gron y people P> 10 g0 right oo, because they bave done such prove a partof Mr. Abbott's conclusions. sured that the 81 to 8y tir issuc of onr state States sel braska a republican victory is as much se- pend on the railroad issue. of state oft the oaly the people or the railrond magnates shall rule the state of Nebrasko. ce than in nearly all be tion, whose duty it is to protect the peovle against railway robbery, while some of them the republican masses of Ne- hraska will sec that he is nominated.” The Grand Island [ndependent is sure of 33 of the national ticket in Ne- ad that no effort will be needed to ng the state into th> Harrison and orton column on the issues set forth in tae publican platform. But it says: “‘En- v different from our national issue is the wpaign. Our state and county elections have no influence on national wlitics, except in the point of u United atorial election, for which in Ne- hrask: :ured us in the presidential election, 1n all sther respects our Nebraska clections de- In the elections rs and members of the legislature stion to e decided is whether Our state offi- sure of immensely greater importance former times, because now they ng to the board of trausporta- belong also to the board of equalization, which has to fix the tax rate for the rail- roads. The railroads during the whole year have made a number of strong efforts to be- come entirely independent of the authority of the state of Nebraska, and to defeat the action of the board of transportation when- this board dutifully acted " Kanens City and Chicago. Such a S S n ever course will of necessity compel compe- :I:';":"f:ent{,:,;”;sg:l“u:‘;Q‘gt{ir::‘::f”:';‘xf; less efforts are made to expand and | Spy Russel's candidacy for lieutenant gov- | in defense of the people of titon, and fast trains to Kansas City 1n- | of u railroad and other partiesabout the price | Uicken its industries. The remedy | cror in the following language: “iRusscll | Nebraska. —And = they calso for a sure fast trains to Omaha., of cars, o rails, or ties, or spikes or any. | 80ught for is, in the opinion of the iib- | in the lst legislaturo did good service for | jong time have mado their prepara- tions, to capture in this fall's elections the state offices and the legislature, so that they may own the boards of equaiization and transportation, prevent all wholesome legis- Jation and elect a railroad man to the United States senate. For this purpose most all the so-called ‘republican’ clubs have been taken possession of by them, and placed under the command of their trusted ‘oil room’ pay- masters. And their attorneys and agentsare assiduously working with all their usual tricks in caucuses and primaries to fix the elections, 8o that railroad toois may be sent to Lincoln to do their railroad masters’ bidding. That men appointed as delegates to the conventions by an insignificant min- ority of railroad men, will make sensible nominations cannot be expected. They proba- bly will do what they were appointed for, which means, they will nominate reliable railroad tools, and the result will be a repub- lican defeat. If the republicans place them- selves on the railroad side against the peo- ple’s liberty, they deserve defeat, and will get it.” e The Disappointed. Ella Wheeler Wileor. There are songs enough for the hero Who dwells on the height of fame; I sing for the disappointed— For those who missed their aim. I sing with a tearful cadence For one who stands in the dark, And knows that his last, best arrow Has bounded back from the mark. I sing for the breathless runner, The eager, anxious soul, Who falls, with his strength exhausted, Almost in sight of the goal. For the hearts that break in silence With a sorrow all unknown, For those who need eompanions, Yet walk their ways alone, There are songs enough for the lovers Who share love's tender painj I sing for the one whose passion Is given all in vain. For those whose spirit comrades Have missed them on the way, I sing with a heart o'erflowing This minor strain to-day. And I know the solar system Must somewhere keep in space A prize for that spent runner Who barely lost the race. For the pain would he imperfect Unless it held some sphere That paid for the toil and talent And love that are wasted here, e — PROMINENT PERSONS, Commodore W. S. Schley, United States navy, is lying ill at his home in Washington m overwork. Sheridan’s illness lasted eighty-five days, Garfield's seventy-nine, Grant's and Arthur's about twelve months, M. Rochefort has been fined 6,000 francs for libel on M. Jules Ferry. A duel would have been cheaper and the danger slight. McClellan's grave in Riverside cemetery, Trenton, still has no i nument. A commit- tee, however, is hasteni. ¢ to provide for one. William Blakle, the w !l-known writer on athletics, has become a n. ‘mber of the White Cross army, 80 it is repor d, and addresses gatherings of young me in Bostou con} stantly Mary Anderson, who is finds boating on the Thamc a great relaxa: tion after hard theatrical w)rs, She will row for miles at a stretch, an | is as fresh at the finish as at the start, an ui nirer reports. John Swinton has had an . ration for cataract successfully perform | upon his right eye at a New York eye u il ear intir- mary, and will see again after . wing been totally blind for some wecks. v in London, Jay Gould was reading the “Qu’ ¢ and the Dead for recreation. He was ask -1 if it en- tertained him. He said: “Tole It 18 & curious study of a morbid ment “dition in a woman. The features which I s :pnose have popularized it are disagreeable. don't know when I have read a novel befor My doctor told me to try fiction and let tho i tht- ful books alone. So I am obeying.” Sheridan’s Franco-Prassian war article n the November & bner will be called “Fro Gravelotte to Sedan.” Sheridan was wi Bismuarck when the great statesman sprung fi stol in each hand 1 his carriage with a d t and clear the stre of the village of Garge. He was also with him when he dis. unted abreast ot the earriaze of the de Napoleon, Sheridan’s description is interesting and graphic. He says Bis- marck saluted the emperor “in a quick, brusque way which scemed to startle him." Abram Stevens Hewitt is sixty-six years of age. He was born in brick-making town of Rocklank county, York,on July 81, 1822, He graduated fr Columbia college forty-six years ago, and did not become active in_politices until he was fifty years of age. He then ent many hall in the wake of Mr. Tilden, Mr. Cooper and others who desired to reform the methods of the Wigwam, till then dominated by William M. Tweed and his associates, hristian, of Denmark, has started for Wiesbade: Prince Alfred, of Salm-Reiffersch eidt- Dyck, formerly imperial court marshal, is dead, The household expenses of the sultan Turkey amount to £11,000,000 a year, keeps too many nived girls. King Milan of a, is a most despicable creature. Some ) ago he went to Vienna for u brief stav, and on the first night of his visit he lost £2£,00) at the Nobles® club Prince Bernard William Goorge H Auke of Saxe-Weimar, a fine lookin elor, is expected soon to delight the of He femi- nine hearts seeking conquests in tho Cats- ills. The king of the Sandwich Islands is in trouble, ~The legislative assembly has abolished his navy in spite of the official veto and reduced his drmy to about sixty men and a brass by Prince Roland Bonaparte, who has ro- turned to Paris, writes to' a Washington friend that he was delighted with his visit to this country, and that he will long remem- ber “‘the courtesy of Mr. G. Cleveland.” Emperor William has directed that the commission by his father with the erection of a cathedral in Berlin proceed at once with its labors. The edifice is to oc- cupy a site between the royal palace and the museum, According to London of Germany's mew empress would have married in 1852 the Emperor Nepoleon 1L, but for the opposition of Queen Victoria and the prince consort, to whom as princess of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, she was closely related. On the day before the departure of the late Emperor Frederick from Charlotten- burg, he ordered four gigantic statues of sandstone for the hall of the Royal Schloss in Berlin. 'They are to represent Jurisprud- ence, Strategy, Natural Science and States- manship. Queen Victoria is cleared of the charge that plain English bread is not good enough for her taste. It has been reported that she ate only Turin rolls of the kind called Gress- ini, but London Truth says this is all non- sense, and declares that brown and white bread are made every day for her use; and she is exceedingly fond of oatcakes and scones. Truth, the mother ——e MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. William Shakespearo is a London theatre managed in the year of grace 1888. Edwin Booth has been steam yachting along the New England coast for a fort- night. Mageie Mitchell will make “Ray” the principal feature of her repertoire next season, Denman Thompson and Frank McKee have bought the new comic opera *“Said Pasha.” Those who have waltzed to his music will be surprised to learn that Isaac Strauss was a Frenchman, Adelina ti's share in the profits of her South American tour amounts to over 300,000 francs. She will return to Rio next year, as it is too profitable a field to be teft untilled. Mr. Gustav Hinrichs is going to offer a lib- eral sum of money for an original American grand opera suitable for production by his new American opera company. Edwin Booth and Lawrence Barrett begin their second tour in the west about the mid- dle of September. The supporting company will be about the same as last season. Signor Del Puente was lately stabbed in the'hand in the “Faust” duel scene at Covent garden by Signor Reszke, who played the lover hero to Del Puente’s Valentine, Daniel Sully’s new play has been named ‘'on Conroy and Company.” It will be pro- duced for the first time at the Bush Street theatre, San Francisco, in November, “A Love Story,” the new play which Mrs Langtry is to appear in next season, is an adaptationof an old Fr y. Her tour will begin at Kansas City er 15, Now comes Marietta Zanfretta with e £10,000 challenge to “‘down” Blondin as a rope-walke Miss Zanfretta is only fifty-six years old, while Blondin reverses the figures and is sixty-five, The sopranos of the Boston Ideal opera company next scason will be Miss Zelie de Lussan and Miss Pauline L’Allemand. Both these artists are in Europe, but ure expected home in September, At a concert given by Fisher, a double-bass player, in Vienna, recently, ‘the audience were struck by the peculiar tone of his in strument, which reseribled that of a violon- cello. It appears that this result was ob- tained from the employment of harp strings instead of the ordinary strings used for th double bass. The critics comment disap- provingly upon what they term ‘‘this fantas- tical mnovation.” It is anpoundad pn very good authority that Mirie Van Zandt will make a tour of the United States and Mexico during the season of 1880-90. It has not yet been definitely set- tled under whose management the young prima donna will appear, although neégotia- tions are at present under way with sevoral opera managers of prominence. Miss Vi Zandt will sing in_ November and December next at Lisbon, after which she will fill an engagement of _twenty-five nights in St. Petersburg and Moscow, returning to Lon- don for the spring season. Miss Van Zandt's voice is said by those who have recently heard her sing to have acquired a marvellous richness of quality and to have gained greatly in volume. pManager Aronson, who has secured the American rights for the new Gilbert and Sullivan_opera, aunnounces that from Sep- tewber 17 to November 10 *“Oolah™ will be resented at the Casino, New York, and on Jovember 12, simultancously with' the pro- duction in London, the new opera will be put on. The period of the opera will be the time of Gustave Wasa and the revolt of Dolekar- lians and miners of Falun. The first scene will be in the harborof Hammerfest, on the northern coast of Norway, with the glaciers and Dorlekarliun Alps in the distance. The icturesqueness of the scene will be en- anced by the “costumes of the Norwegian peasant and sailors. The folk songs are of especial beauty, and the libretto of Gilbert 1s sparkling with northern wit, it is said. The sccond act is laid in_the aula of the great Swedish Upsala university. There is a double chorus of students and Falun miners, with their daughters, and solos of Eddas, the prima donna. There will be seventy le in the chorus and eleven principals. ullivan got his ideas for the opera while a co-pupil of the Swede August Soedermann -mf rhe Dane Neils W. Gade, at Leipsic, under Mascheles and Dr. Rietz. The cast and name of the opera have uot yet been made public, THE BEE SORAP BO( Morganatic Marriages. When the left hand is given fnstead of right, between a man of superior and a woman of inferior rank, in which it is stipu lated that the latter and her child not enjoy the rank or iuberit the posse of the former, the childron leg Such marriages are contracted in by royalty and the higher nobility, Georee L of Eugland was thus inarried and lator t king of Denmark to the countess of Dan August 7, 1850, tie nall ne Quinine, Peruvian bark, from which quiniag o was called in early times rauit or wood," and “Kina' by the na tions of Peru. Itissaid to have been ais covered by the Jesuits, about 153, Its vir tues were not generrlly known until when it cured of fover the countess of Cin chon, wife of the viceroy of Pern. It #old at one period for ita weignt and was introduced into France in 1649 came into general use in 1650, and Sir Sloane introduced it into England in 17 Leather, Was very early known in Egypt and @ oce, and the thones of inanufactured liios were used for ropes, harness, ote., by all o v mad cannoa was proved at K times, und found to answer, October 3, 173, in Hans . Leap 3 Leap ye'r, or bissextile, originated with the astronomers of Julius Cwsar, 45 3. C. hours, comprisi.ic, as they thought, ths pe riod from one ver.ial cquinox to anothe six hours were set aside, and at the end of was made to consist of s, he day thus added w lary, and 2th of 1 Lich was ic This added day with us is February Major Andre's Papers, “Where are the papers found in Audre's stocking They may be seen at the stato library of New York, in Albany. They ars [ framed under glass and hang upon the wali, This library contains many articlos of great st to the antiquarian. He may see the original *‘Fu pation Proclamation’ as it left Mr. Lincoln’s hand. Upon the tloor may be seen one of the links of the great chain which was stretched across the Hudson river at West Point to prevent vessels passing up stream. This hink is part of the chain taken down by Benedict Arnold. In a glass case standing upon a tavle may be seen the in- struments used by George Washington when he was a surveyor. Death of Col. Baume. Col. Baume, who commanded the British forces at the battle of Bennington, was mor- tally wounded ana died next day. He was earried to a swall building standing near the river, zbout one mile east of the battlefield, where he died. The writer has often seon the building and_visited the interior several times. Where Col. Baume was buried mo one can tell, but it has ever been a tradition that he was buricd soméwhere near the river. His sword and several pieces of his camp cquipage aro i tho possession George W. Robinson, Esq., of Benningto V. For some years past they have been ia Boston upon exhibition. eI PEPPERMINT DROPS. A girl can't climb a barbod-wire fence Or slide off from a load of hay, But she can ride a bicycle easy enough, ‘Cause her bicycle's built that way. Now is the time to conciliate the girl's futher or make fricuds with tae dog. A Chicago woman recently registered in & hotel register: *‘Mrs, Blank, knee Blink." ““Caress" is the name of a new postoffice in West Virginia. It may yet rival Kissimmoe, Fla., as a popular resort. Old Mortality and **Old Humidity" are al- ready making each other's acquaintance and find they are twin brothers. “Winery” is a word gaining popularity in the west. We may yet have ‘‘milkery," “whiskeyry” and even “talkery.” The last would, of course, apply to congress. A cynical man says_ that there are two 0c- casions when he would like to be present. One is when the gas company pays 1ts water bill; the other is when the water company pays its gas bill. Emperor William is a_firm believer in kissing, and_saluted nearly overybody on his journey in this friendly style. He and Tecumsch Sherman should form’ a kissing syndicate and tour the world. One of the meanest men on record was a Missourian who had a personal grudgo against his neighbor, the coroner, and com- mitted suicide wheh the latter was away from home on a two weeks’ visit. Boston School Teacher- Now, children, can you tell me the name of the English no- bleman who did great services to humanity, and whom we all ought to remember here in Boston? Children—Marquis of Queensberry, As a literary centre Chicago now outranks Boston, The fact_secms to be chicfly estab- lished that a judicious mixture of pork with beans makes a diet more conducive to the growth and development of literary culture than beans alone. John L. Sullivan is_training at Nantasket beach, near Boston. His voice is improving duily. It is already beard throughout the lund, and there is something of the old blow toit. The next man ho meets in the ring he threatens to death. «Absalom,” remarked Mrs. Rambo, “didn’t I hiear you little while ago that you_had been out with *Russian, the Growler?” Who is he, Absalom " *He is a foreigner from St. Petersburg,” said Mr. Rambo, whose aco was hidden behind a newspaper, “his real name, I think, is Badwiski." Loy were going to Saratoga the next day, and she donucd her new suit to show her papa how sweet she looked init. The eld man was enthusiastic. “*Beautiful, my dear, beautiful. Now, what kind of a suit do_you call that? “Papa,” she said, as she shyly fingered button of his coat, “that’s a busi- ness suit.”? i SING LARITILE During & heavy rain storm at Seymour Ind., last week, u telegram asserts, “A large number of fish of a variety unknown there, some of them foar inches in length,” fell in that neighborhood. There are two sunflower stulks of matural growth at Rocl o, I'la., one of which has 1,000 and the other 1,136 blooms and buds. The stalks are about ten f high, with brauches reaching Sy about six feet. John Hampton, of Quitman, Ga., raised in his orchard twin LeConte pears. There are two distinet pears growing tandem; that is to say, one is wing from the terminus of the other. Pieces of the bloom are plainly visible on the first pear. Peter Johnson, a farm hand living near York, died recently of perforation of the stomach. A post morlem examination re- vealed fact that the liver, bladder, stom- ach’and intestines were involved in one can- cerous mass, and it was almost a miracle that the man had lived so long, In Macon, Ga., & young man, while prac- ticing on the horizontal bar in the armory there, fell, was taken up insensible and car- ried home. Next morning he was all right againg but the strange part of it is that he has lost all mewmory of what had occurred for twelve hours before and after his fall. Some three months ago the water in & Georgia well, some forty feet deep, began to roar and boil in a most alarming a few weeks luter the performa peated' 8o the owner coneluded to clean it out and find the trouble. He did—and didn't—for when the bottom was reached there was nothing there, and the well and the mystery are to-day as deep as ever. Joseph Richards, fourteen years old, was driving & mule in the Murray shaft at Wilkes- barre, Pa. A train of five I d cars ran away and struck the boy with such force that his hend was driven entirely through the mule's abdomen, His shoulder was broken and he was otherwise injured. The horrified miners tried to extricate the boy and found the united strength of two wen necessary. ‘The boy revived somewhat, though his skull is fractured and he will probably die. The ‘l’nuw died almost immediately after the acoi- ent. e Miss Margaret Mather arrived from Fu- rope. She will begin her season in Newark in September,