Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 2, 1888, Page 4

4 THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED LVERY MORNING. Quack Remedics. A good deal of attention las been given to a m: zine article by Mr. Pow- TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. derly, and to his testimony before the D}:Ly.n\,i:::ln\l." ‘I‘A\nh n) Including Su -mwé 0% Ford committee, in wl.\'; h he guve his For 8ix Months. . 140] 1 views on the emigration question. Of For Thiee Moutiis 2 | course he had a remedy, the chief in- gredient of which is thus stated: “No 20 : | person shall be allowod toland on Amer ican %0il who has not filed an applica- tion with an Ame rican consul to be per- mitted to emigrate to the United States at least three years prior to the date of " 513 RILESPONDEN( All communications reiating to news and adi- torial matter should be addressed o the KDITOR OFLIIR Dk g sailing.” It need hardly be said that All brusir ot Lot tere and remitinnces should be | this very brilliant suggestion has not e L e onteta t | been received with universal commen- be made payabie to the order of the company. The Bee Pablishing Company, Proprictors. E. ROSEWATER, Editor. dation. On the contrary the very gen- eral verdiet has been that Mr. Powderly is rather more absurd in this matter than on a number of others respecting which he has given his views during the past year or two. One commentator o 'l'lll;J DAILY BEL, Sworn Statement of Circulation. State of Nebraska, 1 Among the many quacks who have of late County of Douglas, | * 8 tried to place their cure-alls against immi Geo. I8, Tzschuck. secretary of The Bee Pub- | gration upon the American mwarket, Mr. abing courpany, does solemaly swoar that the | powderly takes the cake, This three years' circuly wetuil \tion of THE DALY BEE for the week ending September 1 10,1iz notice, which is tobe duly recorded by the consul, and certified on behalf of the appli- cant, while it could not kecp awny the hard- B2 | Augus ened criminals, would result disastrously for Jadnesduy, Augis just that class of immigrants which 1s the ;,'.‘.‘,’,’.“;“" }{,‘,fi‘l"?{_ most desirable of all—the young, robust, Baturday, Seot. 1 healthy men who do not care to do compul- sory military service for the best period of their lives, and hence prefer to skip. Mr. Powderly's proposition would most thof oughly benefit Bismarck and the house of Hapsburg. No deserter, flecing from the brutal treatment of his drill masters, could scek liberty and hospitality in the land of Thomas Jefferson. Mr. Powderly's remedy Average GEO. T T78CHUCK. Sworn to before mo and subscribed in my presence this Ist da A. D, 1885, N. T stary Public. ‘Btate of Nebraska, County of Dougins, eorge I3, Izscnuck, being fivst duly sworn,de- ses and says (hat he is secretary of The Bee Publishiug company, that the actual average daily circulation of Tnr DAwy Bee for the | month of August, 18, was 14,151 coples; | Would also close the gates of this country to for Septemb 1887, . for | political refugees. Think of Michel Bak- October, 1% 35 coples ! 867, 16,50 coples: Tor December, 1857, 15, fem: for JANUAy, 186K, 15,20 ¢ KR, 15,087 coples’ for M April, 188, 18,744 cop! unin, of Friedrich Hecker, of Franz Sigel, of Louis Kossuth, of Dr. Hans Kudlich, and a thousand others, giving three years' no- tice! its ‘eoples: for June, 1888, 16,243 coples; for Jul How absurd, how stupid, and, m 18,0653 copios. GEO. B. TZSCHUCK. inal v ow cruel o v is! Bwompln hetors me and. subacribed inmhy final results, how cruel that remedy is! It is about time Mr. Powderly should begin to study the immigration problem in its true aspects before he undertakes to eulighten his fellow citizens on it! 1t is said that Mr. Ford, man of the A. D, 188, sence this Ist day of August, o R VL Notary Public. 1L IT18 a matter for congratulation to the Grand Army of the Republic that the reunion just over at Norfolk passed the chair- house committee investi- 5o well, gating immigration, favors a plan of requiring persons who desire to Way did Governor Thayer decline to | emigrate to this country to give appoint Morrissey on the police commis- | six months’ notification to an sion,and why did MeShane bounce Mor- rissey from his paper? American consul, so that such official shall be enabled to investigate the char- acter of the person proposing to emi- grat This has the merit of being far less irrational than the Powderly propo- sition, but it is nevertheiess not free from objectior There hasbeen a great deal of nonsense talked about this ques- tion of regulating and restricting im- migration, and much more may be ex- pected. 1t isto be apprehended, also, that some of the quack remedies which are and may be proposed will crystalize into legislation. The tendency in deal- ing with a matter of this nature is to run to extremes, and espe- cially so when there appeared to be a chance of making some political eapital out of it. There is unquestionably a considerable element in the country en- joying the right of suffrage which would welcome a policy of absolute exclusion, and both political parties are disposed to go some distance in that direction in order to win the favor of this ele- ment. When there is such a rivalry the politieians are not concerned about the fundamental principles and cease- I1'8 ALL very well for our great men to go off fishing with improved flies ana reels. But when it comes to digging one’s own angle-worms and using a erooked pin, our Harrisons and Cleve- lands arc nowhere beside the small boy. A REMARKABLE convention has just elosed at Toronto. It was anational gathering of deaf mutes representing «Poth the learned professions as well as many trades and arts. Thanks to the perfection attained in educating these unfortunatos, they are notonly made self-supporting and useful members of society, but they take their place on an equal level in education and intelli- gence with men and women who are gifted with speech and favored by mature. THE unfortunate mental condition of Harriet Beecher Stowe will awaken universal sympathy. The famous author of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” is seventy-six years old, and for several years she has A less professions of the republic. Beea Ll health, though unul noN I | Thoy will falsify theso without o B e it | compunction. This is tho danger AR IR R0\ VSN ONe G ineIn RIS HEFhAY " Desots ¥ this'quention, and Wit ‘woman, she secured everlasting fame by her one great novel, which perhaps exercised a greater influence than any qther one thing in educating the people 4 to the moral wrong and national shame P of slavery, The life that rendered such . 8 service should end peacefully and serenely. is one that will be averted only by the vigorous assertion of the sober judg- ment of the country in opposition to all quack expedients, from whatev source they proceed, for dealing with the subject of immigration. As we have before said in referring to this matter, we believe that if exist- ing laws were rigidly enforced all fair reason of complaint would speedily dis- appear. This is not impossible, and ought not to be very difficult. But the clamor regarding immigration is maae largely by a class of people who are not content with keeping out immigrants objectionable on the score of character and condition, as criminals and pau- pers, but would desire to close all our ports to all who desire o come here to labor. The policy invoked by this class is grounded in utter selfishness, and could it prevail would inevitably work great injury to the material interests and welfare of the country. THE people of South Omaha are as- pured by the FHerald that they have B made no mistake in plastering their town with mortgages, and 1T'HE BEE is | msked why it did not raise the point on &he viaduct question before the election. [ We frankly admit that the provision in o the Omaha charter relative to viaducts was overlooked by us. But we did cite « other good and sufficient reasons why the bonds should not have been voted at this time. Our syndicate contemporary does not and cannot gainsay the fact that South Omaha would have saved peventy odd thousand dollars which she is about to expend on viaducts if the i eorporate limits of Omaha had included ~ the tracks which are to be spanned. ——— GRAIN and flour shippers of the south- west are making use of the low freight rates to New Orleans by sending their eargoes to Liverpool via our southern port in preference to the route by way of New York. The ocean rates from [ New Orleans to Liverpool are about the k' same as from New York, and as there is & saving of twenty-two cents in railroad rates to New Ovleans, grain men are not - slow in profiting by this advantage. The fact that New Orleans has stepped into tho arena as a competitor to the eastern seaboard and is taking away business which heretofore has gone through Chicego, makes the solution of present freight complications all the more diffi- cult. Our Generous Govornment. The annual report of the commis- sioner of pensions furnishes interest- ing and instructive figures, all attest- ing that the government of the United States is the most liberal of all govern- ments to its defenders. The pension rolls of the nation to-day contain over four hundred and fifty thousand names, of which more than sixty thousand were added during the fiscal year that ended with last June. To provide for this great army of pensioners, whose ranks have steadily grown and ave still being added to, requived last year over seventy-eight million dollars, or nearly thirty-one per cent of the en- tire outiay of the government. But in order to comprehend the full magnitude of this benefaction one must reflect upon the grand total that has been disbursed for pensions since 1861, amounting to nearly one thousand millions of dollars. ‘What a grand tribute this is to the gratitude and generosity of a free peo- ple, who have cheerfully and heartily paid out to the union soldiers and their widows and children this vast sum without feeling it to be in the least degree a burden. Who can contemplate these figures and say the republic is ungrateful? The present pension rolls represent nearly one-fourth of the mighty army that preserved the government. It seems hardly possible that it will be very largely increased, although the ad- ditions made last year were larger than for any previous year. But it is to be expected that within a few years the rolls will begin to lose instead of gain, The veterans of the war are rapidly dropping out of line. Of the more than three hundred thousand of them who are now drawing pensions as invalids, probably a decade herce at least half of them will have joined the silent army. Large as the demand now is, therefore, on the resources of the people to provide for the living defend- ers of the nation, it has doubtless reached the maximum and will in the e————— THE FUEL problem with coal from five 0 twelve dollars per ton for nearly six months of the year is-one in which the people of the west aredeeply interested. 6y will be gratified to learn conse- juently that a German has finally solved the problem of solidifying petrolcum. This certainly looks promising for a complete revolution in the use of fuels. Petroloum has supplanted coal in many Aistricts where the oil is cheap and easily obtained. But a liquid tuel does not recommend itsell for general use. The transformation, however, of this oil into cakes like soap, which, when kindled, burn smoothly with a hot flame, leaving a residual ash of only 2 per cent., would make petroleum safe to handle and cheap to transport. The ~ _ discovery of this chemist is therefore "= destined o have important results. The manufacture of this new form of fuel ‘would stimulate the petroleum industry in Wyoming and other localities of the west as well as in Pennsylvania. There ‘would be a more general use of the new fuel all through the country, and the ex- port of this comnmodity from the United States, which now amounts to nearly ly millions of dollars annually, would - 4n all probability be doubled. . i THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1888 —-TWENTY-FOUR PAGES} near future begin to decline. Mean- while the sentiment of the cotntry is still as favorable as it has ever béen to muking generous provisions for all vet- eraris who have o just claim to it. &till Something to Learn. Prof. I, H. Boyesen, in a paper dis- cussing the public school system of this country, frankly says that we may still learn something from Germany and France. Some years ago he went abroad on an educational mission, filled with the belief that our public schools were our chief glory, and immeasur- ably superior to those of any other coun- t “If T have had been shaken in this belief,” he says, ‘it is chiefly be- cause during the last twenty years, we have been standing still, while Germany and France have been pro- gressing, We have been so well sati fled with what we have that we seen no need of improvement. The sult hag been that we have been out- stripped by the Gauls and the Teuton and what was, no doubt, half a century ago, the best school system in the world, is to-day antiquated and ill- adapted for the work which it under- takes to accomplish.” This plain talk may not be pleasing to our pride and cgotism, but none the less it is needed, and ought not to go unheeded. Prof. Boyesen found the whole educational system of Germany orvigi- nally coherent, carefully graded in cordanee with psychological principles, Although not by any means perfect, it is the result of long and watchful ex- perience and of a puinstaking and con- scientious endeavor to conform to the laws of psychologi developement in the child. Compared with the methods observed by Professor Boyesen in Ber- lin, our methods appeared slipshod. Lverywhere a spirit of pr gress was perceptible, but nowhe strikingly as in the primary classes. The elementary instruction was delight- fully adapted to the intslligence of voung children, “and so entertaining as to make one vegret that hisown school days were over, Every legiti- mate means was employed to impress the lenses’ stercopticon views, plaster casts, pictures, and other kinds of sim- ple apparatus were displayed. The children were made to co-operate with he teacher, and they were compelled to 80 use their understanding; all me- chanical memorizing cavefully avoided. Prof. Boyesen boldly declares his conviction that our public school system will sooner or later have to be radically remodeled. **It is an academic system —a university curriculum on a restricted scale—similar in kind, differing only in degree. The culture which it imparts is academic, and has but small reference to the life which the great majority of the pupils will have to lead.” Prof. Boyesen contends that the academic education which the public schools impart must give place to industrial eaueation, which, without fitting a child for any definite trade, yet develops manual dexterity and respect for physical labor. Reading, writing and elementary arithmetie equip a man for the ordinary business of life, and enable him, according to the degree of his native intelligenca, to fulfill hi civie duti An outline of American history, communicated in familiar con- versation with the teacher, might be added to this; and all the rest of the curriculum should be devoted to instrue- tion in industrial branche: The boys should be taught the of tools, and whatever natural dexterity they may have in handling them should be care- fully developed. Industrial drawing, as an aid to carpentering and rudimen- tary cabinet making, trainsnot only the hand, but the eye as well, and is of in- caleulable use in all mechanical oceu pations. Modeling in clay is another exercise which educates the senses and the taste, and stimulates 1ntelligence of the kind of which a workman has need. These practical suggestions of an edu- cator who 18 among the foremost in de- votion to his profession, and who has given very thorough study to pedagogic science, merit the serious consider- ation of all engaged in the work of edu- cation in the public schools. Butun- fortunately it is not the habit of these people generally to trouble themselves with such consideration. ‘‘Lhave known a dozen or more principals and super- intendents of schools,” say Prof. Boyesen, **but scarcely one of them has the faintest acquaintance with the discussions which have, during the last quarter of a century, replaced the wooden and mechanical teaching of the past with more vital and uscful meth- ods.” Perhaps the first condition to the improvement and progress of our schools is to impress upon those in charge of them the duty of giving more attention to what is going on outside the rvestricted field of their personal work. RV pELL HOLMES, Ameri- s grifted poet, celebrated his seventy- inth birthday last Wednesday, and the hope is that the genial and gifted writer may be spared to spread sunshine and humor for at least another decade. For nearly two generations Dr. Holmes has charmed his countrymen with his hu- morous rhymes and verses of delicate pathos. But it is not alone as a “jester in verse” that the kindly old face will be remembered. The superb lyric, “0ld Ironsides,” which stirred the hearts of the American people a half a century ago, was the ring of the true mettle of his soul. Tn the more serious duties be- fore him, Dr. Holmes proven him- solf & man born with the instincts of a noble life. As a physician, he stands av the head of his profession. As an edu- cator, as & novelist, as an essayist and editor, and above all as a philanthro- pist and a patriot, Dr. Holmes has now lasting fame in the hearts of his coun- trymen. OLIVE MR, CHARLES BRADLAUGH, after fighting for years to take his place in parliament as a member from North- ampton, is obliged now to resign his seat because he is burdened with debt. This is a sorry spectacle for a man to present who has posed as the great iconoctast of England. m— Worse Than Dynamite. Philadelphia Kecord. Terrible word comes from Duluth, The wifo of a Polish laboror in that prolific and progressive city ‘v\" unsalted scas g birth last week to fou cigldren; *all heal and well, two boys an| i | promise and the potency . fold production, combiulif s twofold | on the bullot box and a diftribution of sexual conditions vhat iudicated a systematic de sign to take Americaa from the Ameri- cans and turn it over to the Poles, ought to put new life into the Ametican party, It makes us tremble, this Duluth business, when we consider the possibilities, —_—— That Lewer. New York World: 1t may be that the document is dae. Baltimore American: Presidont Cleveland should invoke the services of Mr. Gallagher, and let the letter go, Peoria Transcript: We wonder if Presi dent Cleveland will mention anything in his letter of aceeptance about the dangers of a third term. Toledo Blade: Grover having gotten oft his *Jingo” message will probably now hu alittle time to devote to his loug-delayed let- ter of acceptance. New York Tribune: Cleveland's lottor of acceptance is boing held back for want of type. The setting of the first 100 words ex- hausted all the capital I's and M's, —— Their Hearts Fail Them, Pittshurg Chronicle, remarked “Daniel.” *Yes, sire.” 1 understand that the Ohio postmasters are a little slow with their campaign contri butions.” “They are, sire. They lack the ‘zeal born of benefits received and fostered by the hope of favors yet to and do not stand ready o aid with money and trained political servie 31} “ How is that, Daniel 1 “Oh, they believe this term will finish us up, anyhow, and there is no use wasting any moncy on the campaign.” ne, A Good Nomination. Glohe Demoerat, The nommation of Warner Miller for gov- eruor by the New York republicans will strengthen the party in the state, which both republicans and democrats are making a su- preme endeavor to carry this year. While in the senate Mr. Miller displayed a sincerity and consci s in the discharge of his dut; L 4 discrimination and judgment in dealing with public questions, which made him one of the most vaiued mewm- bers of thet body. He is one of the most popular members of his party in New York. " A Boomeran Boston Advertiser, The president has just framed a powerful indictment against himsclf, He has shown a case which demanded of a patriotic exceu- tive an excreise of the last power given him by the laws, and instead of calling one of them into action, he has been playing with diplomacy and purchasing anew, at the price of American rights, privilgges which he ad- mits we were entitied o by the weight of a thousand considerations. — - Pleasant to Dredm About. Burlington Hawkeye, Lest Europe go to bed hungry many a night during the coming winter it will be | be elected by mc necessary for the United States to ship to it about 50 per cent more wheat than last year, a bit of news thut will not be unpleasant to our farmer friend: e Mr. Cleveland to the Committee. Washinglgn tie, “Here's my $10,000, But if you think 'twill be Pornicious and offensive, Please hand it back to me.” T + As Interpreted in lTowa. Winterset (Tmoa) Madisonian, The Nebraska Republican convention de- clared i favor of submitting the question of prohibition to the people at a non-partisan election. The “Iowa exiles,' will soon have to turn their faces towards Missouri, - It 1s Not Catchi Philadephia Press, The attempt of Judge Thurman to spread the Old Roman fever in the west is a dismal failure. ‘The germs lacked vitality. gl Would Look Weli in the Ring. Philadelphia Press, Grover Cleveland may be no great shakes as a statesman, but he ranks high as an acro- bat, I3 —_——— One Kound of Pleasure. Siowr City Jowrnal. ‘With plenty of politics, base ball and good corn weather, life in the northwest is fast becoming one continual round of pleasure. itidi ARl ‘What the Sk From the Per are 1 Spake. an of Sadi, mighty! Think not no Sultans largely of thror alm of the beggar is safer than the kings of diademmed ones, he The woe of a Darweesh is measured by his want of an oaton crust; On the heart of a king_sits' always his em- pirc's toil and trust. ‘When the Darweesh has munched at sunset his hunk of yesterday’s bread, He sleeps inhis rags more sweetly than the king ou a gold bed. Be grieved for whoso ruleth,and pity his sor- rowful fate! The_begzar is verily monarch, though hides with a clout his state! he 1 heard 1t told of a Darweesh, long ago, in a distant land, How a Skull spake these words to him, as he neld the thing in his hand: *“The pomp of the giving of orders, and the power to save and to siay, Were mine: and a turban of frroatncss on the brow which is bone to-day. “God's will and the harvest to edge of my swor I was king of the two great rivers; I Bubyloniw's lord. ory of battle brought was “I had in heart the purpose to sieze Kara. mania’s plain! When, lo!—in the wink of my worms were eating my brain yelid—the From the ear of wisdom, Darweesh! the cot- ton of carelessness plugk, That counsol of dead men, Darweesh, may bring thee, by lowliness, luck, POLITICAL POINTS. Mudd is the name of ‘the republican candi- date for congress in!the Fifth district of Maryland. [ Henry George and Col. R. G. Ingersoll are to debate on Turiff IReform in New York early in September Gen, Harrison is said to have outlined his letter of acceptance, but 1t will probably not be given to the public tild after the adjourn- ment of Congress. Benjamin Harrison's first cousi W. Harrison, a homaopathic phy Baton Rouge, La., will be the republican candidate for Congrress in the Sixth district of Louisiana, now represented by S. M. Rob- ertson. San Francisco has a elub of sixty old dem- ocrats who will vote for Ben Harrison, It is called the City Front Portugese Republican club. A majority of the members of the Liberty (republican) club of San Francisco aro old democrats, There are several plans on foot in Michi- an to bring about @ fusion of the union labor party, which is to hold its state con- vention next week, with the airvady fused democratic-greenback forces. 1t is believed that this combination can carry the state, and if it does the union labor party wikl have three of the elecloral votes. VOICE OF THE STATE PRESS. The Red Cloud Chief say ticket that it ‘‘could ot be bet sod majorities this fall The York Times says “ther ticket will ted fro and the majority will surprise of tho state red and will publican stato top to_bottom, 1 good muny, The Beatrice Democrat knew better than to designate by party title when it said “Candidates should make hay while the sun shines, A terrible blizzard is predicted carly i November." Of the outcome of the state Fairmont Signal manipulation by strik rporate monop olies. Tho republican party in Nebrnska has cleared its skirts of all such charge: “Three for the railioads and eight for the people, was the condition of representation from Hall county o the state conveution, says the Grand Island Independent. “The clection will be in about the same propor- tion.’ onvention the There was no ays the Sutton Register \o renomi- nation of Attorney General William Leese toa third term 18 a just tribute and hand some compliment of the people who appre ciate his valuable sorvices s u member of the board of transportation.” Thostory of the changing fortunes of an aspiring politician is told by tho Stuart Lod- wer in four lines: “Tom O'Day, of Neligh, was, a year ago, a candidate for judge of the supreme court. iis campaign he is running for county attorney of Antelope connty." the Farmers' Advocate of North Loup speaks of Genoral Leose's succossful fight as follows: With all their power, the rail road bummers were unable todefeat William : for attorney general, for the people of ol themselves in favor of s actions on the board of transport tion, and wished to keep the right man in the right place.” Hereisa couple of “failings” from the North Bend Fiail: “Well, yos! Leese was renominated ‘as casy as falling off a log.’ In the prosaic dialect of the political buster, ‘there are no flies on the anti-monopolists of Nebraska.! About the only laws in the state ramplod upon :0 L. Laws, the crippled sceretary of Although one-legged, he got there, so state, to speals, with both feet." The Schuyler Quill rejoices over the work of the state convention and says: “The re- publicans of Nebrasica did themsclves proud last week in placing the ticket they did be fore the people. It is a good one from be- ginning to end and will be elected by a haud- some majority. When a ticket as_ splendid as this one is placed before the people, when the names of so many unworthy men were d forward witi so much zeal, it is in son to rejoice and be glad.” o republican state ticket,” says the Hastings Nebraskan, *“from top to bottom, is composed of men whose character und fitness to fill with honor to themselves and credit to thg state the respective positions for which they are named, fully entitle them to the earnest and unqualitied support of eve member of the party. This they will recaiv beyond any question, and their triumphant election is completely assured.” ‘the Grand Island Independent believes that “for the first time in several years Ne- braska will have a licutenant governor of some ability, as well as a man who will not use his position against the interests of the people. For such a man the licutenant gov- ernorship will prove a stepping stone to some- thing better, while for the railroad figure heads like Agee and Shedd, who have pre ceded him, it hus proved a stepping stone toa political grave, dark, deep and hopeless.” The Falls City Journal agrees with its con- temporarios that the republican state ticket isoneof the strongest ever nominated in the state, and says that “‘not a single objec tion can be urged against it. Some good men were defeated, it is true, but they went down good naturedly and no one is looking for sealps. With such a ticket at the lead, every county 1 the state should send in in- creased majorities. It is a wianer and will be worth 150 votes to the county ticket in this county.” The Crete Vidette gives the Saline county delegation to the state convention credit with beng with the winners every time and getting there with both feet. The delegation “voted solidly for the presiding officer. Its thirteen votes insured the nomiuation of both Leese and Benton. It helped to turn the tide in favor of Captain Hill and Captain Steen, and one of its mambers, G. H. Hast- ings, received 450 votes, being the highost Hon, William Leese fo * torney general of Neoraska wasa victory for an element of the party that constitutes Ahe bone and sinew of republicanisin in this state, but which docs not o.en assert itselt phatically as it did is this particular in stance. Since the preseit board of trans portation law went into eff et Mr, Leese, s a member of said board has been a bold worker in the work of its ¢ arcement and in this he has had the powerful opposition of the roads and every striker iey could en list throughout the state, all of whom were present at the late convention w =king vigor & third term as at- ously for his defeat. He was ciwzed with demagoguery: with being incom tent; with mugwumpian proclivities, and List but_ not least, with the unj blesin i socking to violute what is re as the unwrit- ten law of the part forbids a4 third term. These objections were, howe or, a8 chaff before the whirlwind of populal e ment that carried all opposition batore it and again placed Mr. Leese before the peopie as A cnndidate for the position in which his valuable services cannot now be safoly dis pensed with. It is well that the party ex cised such commendable wisdom in this mat- ter. Here area fow questions and comments from the Kunox Centor Capital: *“The candi date for the legislature, Mr. Towle, was structed to vote and use his influence for the tion of Senator Manderson for United States senacor, and he accepted his nomina tion under those instructions and with all that they imply. Two years ago Knox county cast nearly 1,100 for C. H Van Wyck for United States senator out of about 1,600 Mr. Towle at that time was an open advocate of Senator Van Wyck and went to Lincoln to use his influence with the lobby to plish his election. He was present w the railroads of the state, under the lea ership of John M. Thurston, the pi leader of the republican party of the and the general attorney for the Union cifie railw wsed the defeat of Vau Wyck. Mr. Thurston last week intro- duced a resolution in the Dou sunty con- vention, instructing the nominees for the ire to support Senator Manderson for re-election. Mr, Thurston'’s action two years ago did not suit Mr. Towle, for he was for the people as against the railroads. General Van Wyek will be a candidate before the leg slature this winter for the senate, The peo- ple have not changed in their regard for him, nor has he changed in his carnest advocacy of the rights of the people as agaiust corpor- ate monopoly. Perhaps the people of Knox county will ask themselves if Mr. Towle has changed his views of two years ago, and if so, his cause therefor, They may also ask if he was right then, is he right now? If Senator Van Wyck was a fit candidate then is he a fit cangidate now " ““The democratic state convention labored —but not hard™ says the Lincoln Cal. Tt the gencral ovinion that the proverbial mouse was brought forth. McShane for governor! This means something more than appears upon its face, Itmeans that the Juns of Omaha wanted McShane out of the congr sio field. upon the congressional seat of MeShane, some, the idea seemed clear that MeS ] could be governor. But he cannot. Admit ting that he is a strong man, that he 1s up- right and honest and possesses all the qu fications necessary, the fuct is yet clear tha he can never be governor. Enthusiastic friends who saw him sweep the First con- gressional district like a eyclone in 1886, have builded on a false foundation in estimating hus strength. He was only a candidate in a small portion of the state. He was an Omaha man, and republicans as well as democrats voted for him. Omaha held the balauce of power, almost. McShane's opponent was un un- fortunate candidate. He had the enmity of of many men. * * + All these things gave McShane strength. He was elected by several thousand majority. But the succe: must not be measured by his own popularity. All things equal,McShane could doubtless be governor, 'This is presiden year. Party lines will be closely drawn. state Pa- Senator 18 ¢ It means that Boyd has his eye To has a record that is spotless. republican by 000 majorit, he did before, did attempt it. large majority and McShane will party to defeat. He could not make it e KINGS AND QUEEN: the poorest king living. King Otto of Bavaria is said to be sinking number cast for presidential elector at large. Thename of Mr. Hastings heads the list, and he will doubtless have the pleasure of ying Nebraska's vote for Harrison and Morton to Washington. The Fremont Tribune isn't afraid to tell the truth, and here are a few sentiments ex- pressed by its falsehood-hating edijor: “It is high time that Douglas county republican s sond a class of men to the state conventions that will be a credit rather than a disgra to the county. A few—and mighty few, too— of them are good men, but the majority of the delegation is made up of ward bummers with more cheek and gall than common sense. * * * * <Thoy are that class of men whose policy is to rule or ruin. This fast, hi: more fre nent. The Chinese emperor's wedding has been first moon of next year. 1809, the date of tho birth of Frede: liam I11.’s youngest son Albert. Pennil of adwiration. M Naples, now lives in rented unfashionable quarter of Paris. Queen Victoria has gained great] partments in an has been the spectacle in the last two con ventions, and it is high tim> Douglas county sonds respectablo men to the state conven- tions.” The brazen effrontery of Traitor Crane is thus comment by the Grecley New. “Itisasad co ry on a man's rec in the legislature when he is compelled, in order to secure a place on the delezation of his county to the state convention, to buy a proxy. Ourown dear Morgan, late repre seutative from the Forty-ninth represent ative district, failed 1o secure a piace on the state deleg although he worked hard and long so to do. Nothing daunted, he hied himself away to Lincoln, and by some ruse, induced one of the del Dt a do. nation, and ver his p grin the remainder of the sseutatives felt, too, when he, of all others, the least vepresentative, was chosen as a member of the committee on resolutions. They have aboutcome to the conclusion out in Loup county that the ouly way to get Morgan Crane out of tho way is to bury Lim.” Concerning Church Howe, the Lincoln Call announces that he is out of politics. And the Call also remarks that “we make this state- ment without any mental reservation. We say it boldly, but not klessly, Wespeak from absolute and unquestioned knowledge when we say that Church Howe is out of polities, However, Mr. Howe is in the rail road business. He is building railroads. He wants to be float senator from Nemaha and Johuson counties, He was certain of secur ing Nemaha, but he had his arms full of doubt concerning Johnson. And he prob- ably was not hugging a delusion, Being out of politics and free to act, he went over to Johnson county, surveyed a railvoad from Cookville to Tecumseh, and assured the folks that he would have cars ruuning be fore snow has wings. The people of John- son county have so long paid tribute to the 3 & M.; have insilence and poverty solong submitted to the exactions of the Burlington greed, that Howe's Missouri Pacific scheme appears like a ray of hope and Howe will be the man. ‘Th as Colonel Lamont re- marked to Mr. Cleveland once upon a time, \is clover, sire, d——a clever.’ " As usual, the Wood river Gazette i sound when it says: *The renomination of .the world. Professor Von Esmarch, the distingnished ), is on his way to this coun- 88 Hen- an aunt erman serge accompanied by Wis wife, Prine vietta of Schleswig-Holstein, who of the king. The crown prince of Greece is described as a tall, handsome youth of nineteen, with re markable strength of character, but, withal, an the idol of the people, The Mikado of Japan has almost his new palace, which has taken six y for its constru on. ‘Thel » 400 rooms the building, and the dining hall will seat 1 guests, The furniture of the state depart ment came from Germany. Not the least interesting object in the palace is an Ameri- can pian Prin (nicknamed Thomas of Savoy, Duke of Genoa, “King Tom™ by his English schoolmates because, while a Harrow boy, he on inti- mate terms with the Arnolds at Harrow, and dec ed the crown of Spain) wa has forwarded a contribution to the proposed Arnold memorial, with a letter breathing warm affection for the poet and his family. Doubtless with a prince for a physician many sensitive patients would be hastened along the road to convalescence through the influence of the imagination alone. This ud- mitted, there seems to be no reason why Prince Louis Ferdinand of Bavaria, who has passed the final medical examination qualifying him to practice as & physician, should not work up an extensive practice for himself. By law the person of the young King Al- phonso XIIL of Spain can be touched only by certain duly appointed persons, The other day the little fellow undertook to crawl out of hiscrib and would have caught a fall, which might have resulted in serious conse quences, had not an unauthorized person caught him. 13ut for this act the person had 10 be punished all the same, though he was rewarded liberally in private. Referring to the emperor of Austriaa re- cent writer says: *‘He has no taste for court goyety and leads rather a solitary life, retir- ing varly and rising with the dawn. - When, however, lis presence is necéssary at official ‘Fhayer has a strong following among the old soldiers. He The state is McShane will not attempt to make the campaign that if he Thayer will be elected by a lead his Milan of Servia is said to be, financially, fits of insanity having become much arranged to take place on the 24th day of the Emperor William I1.'s last-born son is the first prince of Prussia born to a king since ick Wil- s quoens are not specially objects e, the exiled queen of n flosh this summer. When she puts a nickle in the slot she realizes that even the sovereign of England may have too much weight in the miability of disposition that makes him finished ars in caremonies or festive gatherings he is one of the most punctual of men. His only passion is grouse stiooting, and in_tho season he fre- (uently slips away from Vienna to the Als pine forests to indulgo in hus favorite sport. Hois very charvitable and, having & largo | fortune of his own, distributes his bounties | freely, though discroetly. - Francis Joseph is owes his excollent health to occupation and proverbial never ill, and his constant sobriety.” it PROMINENT PERSONS, General Sheridan's grave has been lovelod and sodded over 80 asto be indistinguishable, President Van Horne, of the Canadian Pacific railway i to be knighted, He has actually railroaded himself into the favor of the queen, Haonibal Hamlin may often bLe seen mounted on a load of lumber, smoking a brier pipe in colpany with the deiver, at his home in Bangor, Me. Hanuibal is one of the hume ble citizens. Mr. Bradiaugh, member of parliament for hampton, announces that he is still bur od with debt, and that if he is unable soon ) ar himself by tongue and pen he must relingiish his carcor in parliament M ine has a good word for Chief Jus- tice Faller, whom he knew in Augusta moro than thisty years ago, *“‘He was a good fel- low of marked ability and popularity even then, und 1 have always valued bis acquaint- ance.” Mme, Sarah Bernhardt has christened an old liquor with a now name. She told an erviewer lately that she invariably took a little aconite before going onto the stage o steady her nerves. It turned out that this aconite was the primest Scoteh whiskey. @Thirteen snuft-boxes have already boen sent to Mr. Thurman by unknown admirers. The most costly one is male of a piece of o deer’s antler, with a gold lid; the most orig- inal is from North Carolina, made of polished white hickory, and inscribed 010 Hickory" on one end and “Old Roman" on the other, Mrs, Cleveland has become an experd lawn tennis player this summer. Sho is able ‘“'to serve” a ball with skill and energy, and her volleying is remarkably affective, Up to tho present time she has been unable to make the president tako an active part in the game, but he has learned to score with accuracy. James Whitcomb Riley, the famous poet, has become for the time an enthusiastio pole iticlan. Hejs working hard for the election of Benjamin Harrison. When Mr. Ruley becomes interested in anything he never displays any lukewarmness, His pen is now busy with campaign songs, and he woars a Harrison button, and argues with his demos ic fricnds. Boston's bigzest Unitarian clergymen, Drs. Hale and Bartol, have each a daughter who has skill as a painter. Miss Hale has painted her father's portrait. Miss Bartol has done the same by her sire, and Miss Clarke, the daughter of another famous Boston Unitarian clergyman, has just come pleted a likeness of her illustrious father, Ex-President Salomon of Hayti, the exile who is now in New York on his way to France, is seventy-five years old, and is a giant physicially, standing six feet six inches in his stockings. His featurcs are regular and of cbon hue, and @ crown of white hair surmounts a broad forechead, under which aresct a pairof keen black eyes. His voice is deep and melodious, his gestures [ and natural, Congressman “Tim" Campbell is fond of the phrase, “There's no flies on me,” and tells astory which proves that not every Washington lady understands the United States language. At adinner to which he was a guest, he remarked to the hostes 1 elogant uer, ma'am. No flies on t dinner.” *“No, indecd, Mr. Congress- man,” returned the hostess, all unconscious of his meaning. *I had the kitchen windows kept shut for two days.” S Chicago Dissatisfied. Chicago Tribune. Not since the interstate commerce act went into effect has anything been done by railroads that caused so much ex- citement and ill-fecling among Chicago merchants as the recent action of the transcontinental lines in making rates from Chicago to the fic coast about twice as high as the rates from New York, which makes it possible for Chi- cago shippers to send goods for the Pas cific coast to New York at full rates and have them reshipped from there to San Francisco, and still get a rate from 50 cents to $1.50 per 100 pounds less than if the shipment had been made from Chi- cngo. The most surprising thing about the new transcontinental tariff is that it bears the signature of Chairman J. W. Midgley, who approved it on the part of the Chicago western roads. The mer= chants of Chicago fail to comprehend why the Chicago roads should consent to become parties to an arrangement that discriminates so outrageousl against Chicago’s interests and is caleulated to prevent Chicago from competing with the East or Pacific coast tratfic. Even the trunk line man= agers, who have all the advantage une der the new tariff, have emphatically refused to join in the new through rates on the ground that they are con= contrary to the interstate law, and that they could not afford to join in a taviff that makes the rates from interior points in their territory to the Pacific coast much higher than the rates from senboard points. Most energetic pro= tests against the adoption of the new tar been submitted to the rails ro by John V. Far Field & Co., J. S, ., and many other prominent firms. Some of them declare that they will vefuse to shipany kind of freight Dy lines that aceeptthe new California wiff. These threats are having the de- :d effect,and meny of the leading wes- n roads declare that Mr. Midgley has acted without authority in approving the new tariff, Three of the roads wired Mr. Midgley and Chairman Leeds of the Transcontinental associution that they repudiate the new rates and would not'accept them unless revised 8o as to give Chicago a fair show. A reply was ed from Chairman Leeds saying rift had been revised and that on commodities Yrudm.ed in icago would be made the same as from New York. This list, however, comprises only about twenty-five ar- ticles, while there are thirty pages of commodities on the tariff from New York on which the rates are not more than one-half of the rates from Chicago. Among these are dry goods,cotton pieco goods, sugar, glucose, and many other leading articles which are shipped from Chicago. Consequently the concession made by the transcontinental roads does not beiter the situation. The leading merchants here declare that they will not stand the diserimination and that they will not go before the inter-stato commission with their grievances, but bring suit in the United States courts against any rond that charges the dis- eriminating and unlawful rates, The indications are that all the ronds be- tween Chieago and the Missouri river will repudiate Mr. Midgley's strange action and will imitato the example of the trunk lines and require from the transcontinental roads full local rates between Chicago und the Missouri river on the overland wraflic from New York, e A i - T, P o O o