Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 10, 1888, Page 4

o e THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISRED |'7"_ERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSORIPTION, Pmily Morning Bdition) inc lmunu SUNDAY Ry, One Yoar 10 00 Yor Six Mouths ... . . 60 ¥or Three Months 2 THROMARA SUNDAY ll»'., malled to any address, One Ve BUILDING, FovrTeEsT™ BTRE retating to news and adi torial matter should be addressed Lo the EDITOK OF THE kR, USINEES LETTERS, All Lustnesn intters and ronitinn: o8 should b nddres ed 1o OMAIA. Drat e made puyabie to U The Bce Punll:hlna Compeny, Prnnmmr . ROSEWATER, Fditor. hecks and post: der of th THE DAILY BEE, Bworn Statemen Clronlation, Blate of Nebrask ‘Connty of Doulus, { * % Geo, 1. Tzschiek. secrotary of The Nea Pub. 1ishing company, Aoss solomnly swear that the wetul circulation of THE DALLY 1Kk for the week ending September K, 188, s as follows : (pnday, Bept, 2 ondiy, Bept. Tuesdny, Sept. 4 Wednenduy, Sopt Thursda "”l’ Friduy. Sopt.¥ Baturday, Sept. 8. | Average. JRRTY ™) i TZICTIUCK. Sworn to before me and ibed |n my Preseuce thls 8th duy ot ot b ‘Notary Putic. Etate of \’l-hnwkn [ County of Douglas, { % % Goorge 3, Tzse being first duly sworn,da- oen wnd says thet b i secretary of The iiee hat the actual a Anrll "' SRS o Bworn to betor presence thisbth dn A. D, 1885, 5. Notary public, Now that the fair is over, r-;mdhlntas for the legislature will blossom. GAMBLING has become a very haz- ardous business in Omaha, and the po- lice deserve credit for holding that vice in check. THOSE farmers of Nebraska who in- vested in & patent cyclone cable by which their houses and barns were to be anchored are laying in a supply of shot guns and raw hides. They are waiting for the agents. Mg . THURMAN'S sharp attack of cholera morbus is reported to have been broughton by an over-indulgence in green apples. But knowing oncs say it was the election news from the Green Mountain state —_— SECRETARY WHITN of the navy 15 said to be heartily tired of building war ships and wants to resign. It is certain that General Harrison will not urge him to stay in the cabinct after the 4th of March. CONSIDERING the heavy exvense the fair association was put to this year, owing to the necessity of rebuilding pavillions and sheds, the company is more than satisfied in starting out with a comfortable balance for next year. IN THE great administration specch of Secretary Vilas recently delivered at Milwaukee there was nothing about civil service reform and no intimation that officeholders are to be prevented from working for democratic success. A CORRESPONDENT wants a protest made against the horse car company for not paving between its tracks on North Twentieth street. Some big men thero are who protest against little things, and there are little men who kick against big things. A HALO of glory has been spread over the merchants who participated in the drummers’ parade, but the meed of praise due the committee who con- ducted the affair has not materialized up to date. There is & moving spirit somewhere, to which the city and mer- chants are greatly indebted, and it should be run down and fed, e ; THE reason why Ex-Senator Tabor failed to get the nomination for gov- ernor of Colorado is said to have been duo to the influence of the women of the state. The women threatencd Tabor with a house to house crusade, Mighty as the ex-senator is in politics, the purty could not carry him against a boycott by the female population of Col- orado. —_— Tite law which provides that no city official, in whatsoever capacity, shall be interested in any contract with the city, is explicit and wise. The board of education seems to have overlooked the law in one or two instances. « Ignorance will not excuse the board any more than it will the individual. It’s “spon- taneous” attention is directed to this “menacing degradation.” CANDIDATES entering for the legis- lature sweepstakes are expected make good time in the coming The people of Nebraska will sc every party hack no matter how care- Mully groomed and blanketed, They ®re too good judges of politicul horse flesh to be taken in by appearances. They are going to back the candidate #ho has a record and a clean pair of heels, and the race is going to be run on its merits. THE success of the week’s celebration just closed demonstrates the ability of Omaha to attract thousands of strangers tothe city. Thisnaturally suggeststha with proper amusements Omaha can in-t augurate a week of carnival two or three timesa year, The attempt should be made. The city ks reached that point where constant effort must Le put forth to make it a center of amusement and pleasure. The growth and impore- ance of cities like St. Paul and Minne- apolis can to a greatextent be measured by their ability to draw tens of thou- sands of people annually to their expo- sitions, their winter palace and other attractions, Omaha can do the same, if slie will but make the eflort., Now that the iron is hot, and our citizensare flushed with success, let & movement be started for the celebration of a win- ter’s carnival in January, and if that be encouraging, plans could be made later ~o for u midsum:ner' s festival, The House Votes Retaliation. The House of representatives on Sat- urday passed, by an almost unanimous vote, the retaliation bill supplementi the act of 1887 and granting er powers to the president hes were made in opposition tot wut only four votes were corded against it, the ex- The bill provides that wheaever president may deem it his duty to ercise any of the powers given to him by the act of 1857, it shail be lawful for him, in his discretion, by proclamation to suspend in whois or in part the transportation across the territory of the United States, in bond and without the payment of duty, of goods, wares and merchandise im- ported or exported from any foreign country from or to the British domin- fons in North America. Further, it is provided that whenever the president shill be susisfied that there is any ais- crimination whatever in the use of the Canndian canals, whoether by tolls, drawbacks, refund of tolls, or otherwise, which is or may be detrimental to the United States or any of its citizens, 1t shall be lawful for him in his discretion to issue a proclamation to that effect, whereupon the shall be collected a toll of twenty cents & ton upon every foreign v and her cargo pussing through American canals, or the pres- ident may prohibit the useof said canals to any foreign vessel. The continuance of such a policy as the president shall adopt pursuant to the bill is subject to his discretion, nnd the secretary of the treasury is authorized to make any rog- ulations needful to carry the act into authority he asked for in his mes- © to congress, and if it shall become alaw he will be clothed with tne power to proclaim absolute commercial non- intercourse between the United States and Canada whonever the circum- stances may avise which in his judg- ment would justify such action. a great power to upen the exccutive, since its in- ous excreise might not only bring great injury to vast material interosts, but precipitate a war between the United States and Great Britain, As to the interests to be affected by the exer- cise of this power the northwest is pecu liarly concerned, though as Representa- tive White, of New York, contended, the possible injury to be inflicted by an extreme nolicy of retaliation would not be limited to the people and the com- mercial interests of the northwest. R grding the possibility of such a policy eventuating in war, there has been somo R R Y T S SR S T i 15 BT T 4 idle bravado induiged in which would better have been omitted from the dis- cussion. The remark of Mr. Wilson, for exninple, that should war be de- clared ‘*‘a gunboat of Great Britain would scarcely have time to v shore befor nada would be the United States,” was neither sensible nor patriot! If Great Britain should decide to defend Canada’s cause even to the extent of going to war it is more than probable that her gunboats wouid be in & convenient place for prompt em- ployment when war was declared, and we have the very recent opinion of American naval officersthat the country is in no coudition for such an exigency. Ina serious matter of this character congressmen should wisely guard their speech and not permit zeal to override reason. It may be somewhat hazardous to con- jecture regarding the course the senate will pursue with this bill, but it is not improbable that the majority of that body will stand together in opposition to extending the power of the presi- dent. This is the reasonable infcrence from what has already been said on the subject by leading republican senators, who have argued that the president has sufficient authority under the act of March, 1887. In any eveut it is hardly likely that the senate will act in the matter at the present session. Mean- while it will be intercsting to observe how the action of the house will be re- ceived in England and Canada. Maine To-day. The Maine election takes place to- and the result will beawaited with it interest by the whole country. campaign has heen one of the most tive and vigorous on both sides in the history of the state, and has been con- ducted with reference wholly to national issues. Mr. Blaine has been speaking almost daily since he returneda to the state, everywh sned to by large and enthusiasti nd at leasy o score of other exponents of ropul principles have kept the campnign fires burning with unwonted vigor. The democrats have also had a numerous body of able speakers expourding their policy, and it is not to be supposed without some effec Republican succoss, however, is con- fidently expected, and theve is good veason why it should be. Eight yewrs ago the republican plurality was nearly nine thousand and Blaine hud a plu- rality of twenty thousand. At tho lust general election the republican cendi- date for governor vreceived nc thirteen thousand plurality, the agpr gate vote being less thau two years 1 fore. The professed hope of the demo- crats of currying the state this does not appear to be founded upon any substantial facts in the political site uation there, and it scems rea- sonubly certain that the publican plurality in to-day’s election will be not less than that of two years ago, while the probability ie it will be larger. A very strong efort has been made to defeat Represeontative Reed, in the first district, and as he was electod two years ago by a plurality of only about thirteen hundred there is a chance of his being benten this time. The result of the Muine election iy certain to have considerable signifi- cance in relution to the vatlunal con- test, and to exercise a more or less im- portant influence upon the future course of the presidential canpaign. Feme——— The Next Congress, Not less important to the republican party than the election of its candidute for president is the matter of securing control of the next house of represontas tives, which begius its existence eimul- taveously with the cowmencement of | ti the next presideutial ferm, March 4, 1889, The house consists of three hun- dred and twenty-five members, all ex- cept seven of whom will be chosen on mber 6, the date of the presidential election. Of the seven the one member from Oregon and the two from Vermont have already been elected, and Maine will chose her four rep- resentatives to-day, all of whom will ibtless be republicans, though the democrats are hoping to d t Mr. Reed, During the ten yearsimmediately suc- ceeding the close of the war the house of representatives was controlled by the republicans, In 1874 the demo: elected a majority of that body have singe continued in control of eve house except that of the Forty-seventh cong chosen in 1880, Tw later the democrats rec obtaining the large plurality in house of eighty-four, since which the preponderence has declined, being re- duced to forty-three in 1884 and at the the last election to the present plurality of fifteen, There is good reason to expect that the popular branch of the Fifty-first congress will be republican. Gains of republican representatives are dently counted upon in New York, Penusylvania, Ohio, Illinois and braska, and it is more than probable there will be some in other statc Quite generaly the republicans, whe ever they have so far made their nomi- nations. hiave shown a due appreciation m the importance of major- of the next hou sirong aud in all men, This should tion wherever dates ave Nov 248, confi- the republican cand vet to be chosen. The experi- \lve years with the populs branch of congress in control of the demoeracy ought to have convineced the people that the time for a change is at hand, and it is not questionable that a majority of them ave so convineed, but their interest will not be enlisted in be- half of candidates who have not the strongest claims to their respect and confidence. The outlook is most favor- able for the success of the republican national ticket, and if the right sort of nominated in the congressional cts it is more than probable that the repablican purty will be in control after the 4th of next March of the legis- lative branch of the government. ortof the imperial emigrant commissioner of Germany for 1887 has recently been transmitted to the state department and gives reliable informa- tion regarding the movement of Ger- mans to America. Hamburg, Bremen and Stellin ave the three principal ports from which statistics have been col- lected, and the report states that the number of German emigrants for 1887 was again on the increase as compared with the previous year. It has been regularly observed that, ex- copt in 157071, when emigration was greatly stimulated owing to the Franco- Prussian war, the number would in- crease for a period of years and then decrease again for some time. In 1872 German emigration reached the remark- able figure, 81, Ju 1577 the num- ber fell to 41,824, Since the year 1880 the number has not fallen below 150,000, The years 1881, 1882, and 1883 mar maximum when the emigratiou ave ,000 for each year. It fell again during the next three years. For 1857 the number was 172,452, There is no doubt that emigration will be stim- ulated during the present year owing to the failure of cropsin Europe. In this respect 1858-89 is likely to equal the 1881-82 rate, when the high price of food brought the unusually large number of 247,000 Germans to our sheres. Tue Indians of the extreme north- west are reported to be spoiling for a fight. Tor the past few months the tribes on the various reservations have been fed and petted inordinately for the purpose of creating a gencral good feeling toward the government pending negotiations for the opening of the Sioux rl'acrvflt\uu in Dakota. The con- sequence is that the Sioux in Montana are feeling their oats and have rubbed on their war paint for a jamboree. In case of an uprising of tho various ribes on the Montana reser would not be a surprise if the defe spread among the Sioux of Dakota. Although the quarrel seems to be con- fined to the Indians themselves, when once on the war-path the pamnted sav- uges would cause no end of trouble to the white scttlers who should fall in their way. It is necessary that this warlike spirit be nipped in the bud. or that purpose the soldiers at the various military posts along the upper Missouri have been detailed to check any hostile movement of the Indians from their reservations, THE republicans of the Fifth Massa- chusetts district have nominated Gen- eral N, P. Banks for congress, and as the republican plurality n that district two yenrs ago was over thirty-three hundred the veteran statesman will un- doubtedly be returned to the scene of his former usefulness as a legislutor. General Banks is seventy-two yearsold, but he is still & hale and vigorous man, apparently with much good work left in him. His record as a statesman and soldier is familiar to the country, and is an entirely honorable if not an ex- ceptionally brilliant one. After all the years he has passed in the public ser- vice—his last office being that of United States marshal—General Banks is a poor man, a fact that amply attests his honesty. Even democrats who honor personal worth will be glad to see the veteran back on the floor of congress, The proposition that the city should curry the risk of its school buildings by dropping its five lnsurance 18 o veiy quostionable one. While the offort of the bourd to resist exorbitant insurance rates is commendable we doubt the wis- dom of taking chunces on the burning down of any of our large®school build- ings for the sake of saving twenty-five hundred dollars a year, In no event should the high school building be left uninsured, That, structure cost ov two hundeed thousand dollars. It is not fire-proof in its interior construc- :, end a five that would not damage tha outer walls materially ms thousand dollars’ structure., The insurance ¥ destroy seventy-five we | on school houses should by rights be her buildings that a not strictly fira-proof, and the under: writers shoutd be to see it that ligh low 28 on any « induced ————— MR, CLEVELAND may have a suit to answer for as a result of his flections in & pension case, General Browne, of Indiana, will try to intro- duce a petition in the house this week praying for the power to sue the dent for libel. He is championing the of N Ann Dougherty w! pension bill the president vetoed on the ground was a disreputable ng been d A thorough investigntion has mado of the Ind s the arrests ar taken and only one 1 that vears ago, ean be found whe Ann Dougherty had been Of course a democratic will not enter the proposition General B libel 8- cause se e court e aid to hay instance olis pol house ain of Tue demoerats of th vania, district, would not a ot Mr. William L. Scott’s refusal to again be a candidate for congr and after can- assing the morits of sev aspirants renominated Scott. He will probably malk the run, but although he will doubtiess spend money more lavishly than ever before, the chances are that he will be beaten, There have been some very ugly disclosures made re- cently regarding the business relations of Mr. Scott and his treatment of work- ingmen which will be ve likely to exert an influence against him that his money cannot wholly overcome. His plurality twelve years ago was oaly twelve hundr Pennsyl- WHEN the coynty commissioners have nothing else to do they wrestle with the county hospital und the doctors. STATE AND TERRITORY, Nebraska Jottings. Borers have destroyed many trees in the parl at McCook. Albion papers think Boone county has enough papers to stock a poor farm. Shooting parties from the cast are trying to clea out game in Garficld county. ‘Two murder cases will ve tried during the fall term of the Cuerry county district court. A camp of Modern Woodmen was organ- zed at Grant lns; week with twenty-seven charter members, Lightning strugke two houses in McCoolo Thursday night, playing some queer pranks, but doing but irttle damage. The Wayne board of health is on a smelling excursion after dirty hog pens and is cleau- ing them out as §6on as suiffed. In its last issue fhe Tecumseh Republican a chauge of managemeat, Nate 5. Reynolds becoming editor and proprietor. Boone countyhabn't half enough hogs to consume the immense corn crop and the farmers ave on the hunt for more porkers, A spark from Bifjengine set fire to the grass on the farm of Mr. Trowbridge, near Hend- ley, and fifty acves of fine hay was burned. Lightning started a prairée fi Coolk last week, but it was extinguished after burning overan area of u mile or two. Petitions are being circulated in Logan county asking the Nebraska delegation in conzress to use their influence toward sceur- ing a railroad for that section, ine Geuoa Indian school ball team has challenged the Chinose club of San Francisco 4 game on its way from Chicago to the Pacific slove, says the Pipe of Peace. The sixteenth annnal convention of the angelical Lutheran synod meets at Ris ity, Butler county, Tuesday evening Sep- tember 15, and will dontinue throughout the near Me. Moffat, living near Greeley Center, was shot while hunting with a neighbor named A. C. Rogers by the latter's gun being acci- dentally discharged. He lived only a few hours after the accident. Horse thieves in the vicinity of Blue Springs are getting uncomfortably Du- merous. Duriog the past month seve mals have been spirited away from that city, and no clue is obtuinable of either thieves or property. John Fowler, who acted the part of peace- maker between two fighting farmers near Cedor Rapids, was badly stabbed for his pains, Sum McWilliams, who used the knife, has been held for trial charged with assault with intent to kill. Loran Kidd, & youth living near Edgar, was kicked on the temple by a horse the other day. fracturing the skull, forcing a spicula of bome iuto the brain, producing serious compression, coma and convulsions, ‘And stil the kid is recovering. The Platte Center News says that a well izen, while digging a post-ole the k a pint_ bottle of whi rs old, as shown by datw of blown “on the bottle. He took a seat in @ shady corner near the fence and opened his find, und when his wife came to look for him he couldn’t tell a post-hole from a hole in the sky. fown. Sioux City jobbers claim an increase of 2§ per cent in business this year. sdward Rux, of New Hampton, has been failed for seducing a feeble minded girl. The Methodist church of Waverly is having aboom. It has recently enrolled twenty- eight new members, In Butler county there were only forty- seven deaths last year. There were ninety- four marringes and 126 births, A club composed of Sioux Indians has beaten the Mason City, Charles City and several other bull clubs in northern Towa. D. Compisky, of Dubuque, eighty 3 age, 1ok a mouthful of chioroform’ in ms. take for brandy. But the old believed to be out of danger. The monthly Y ents of the industrial ing the month of August 64 boys and 115 were enrolled. Warrants for suppo wssued for $3,8i2 for the school at It and #1,150 for the girl's school at Mitch- ellville. While Louie Wedeking, of Clarksvilie, was plowing with tl horses attached to a riding plow one ‘day lust woeek the midilo horse hid its neclgbrol While the man's attention was othibravi sied the linos became entangled Ta the wheels and pulled the animals over batkward on the plow with the above resuit. - man is now kota, thools openad with an one thousand pupils, ell kuown in the lllllw, adwood with enlarge The Sioux P..u«‘ enrollment of new: Luke McDonald, is seviously il t ment of the live The Brown County Fair association has decided upon tho second week in - Uctober as the date of the fair Rapid City comes to the front with a wenty-tiree years old who took his first ride on a railroad” lust week. It is estimated that 13,000 head of cattle will be loaded this season at Whitewood, 4t Thrord, 520 ot Brennan and at nts ave Tho McCook county agricultural at a recent weeting, devided to give the man and woman bringiog the Imuxl family of their own children to the fuir a season ticket and a copy of the Dukota PFarmer for one year, The semi-annual report of the county treasurer of Yankion county shows a halance in the treasury of #16,000, The tax levy for the ensuiug year Shows a repuction of 3 wills rrom that of last vear, The county is now in the best financial condition it has becn sluce its orgauization, society THE NEBRASKA STATE FAIR. ! Hard and Parnest Work Entalled on All Officials. FORMAL OPENING THIS MORNING. The Number of Entries Swell Aearly Seven Thousand-—-En Wants & Depot — Lin« coln Gossip. 1029 P STREKT, LINCOLN, Sept. 9. One would hardly gather the idea that Sunday is recognized as a day of rest throughout christendom to go upon the state fair grounds to-da No rest for the weary has been the watchword there all the day long. After doing their level best it was found to be im- possible to get the exhibits ready for the formal opening to-morrow morning at S o'clock. Yet the work {s ahead of that of last year, notwithstanding there huve been over one thousand more en- tries to provide for. The been the past thre been done but there have been v morning. Lixcory Bureav or tie Omana Bes, } grounds have bee hive for A vast work has is still much to do. coming in _since 3 y train swells the number of some one of the classe But unless, perchance, a place has to be provided for the arrivals, this arrange- ment is made in very short order, und the preparation work is nearcr the goal. Itis quite probable that “itis finished’ can be said before the sun sinks behind the western horizon. But it will take hard and earnest work. The exhibit classes have been ar- in alphab al order, apd b from A to T, making twenty-one in all. The number of euntries in the different classes are as fellows: Class A, horses, mules and asses, ¢ class B, cattle, 986; class C, sheep, 225; class D, swine, T16; class I, fat cattle, hogs and poultry, 4507 class G, fa cts, 1,749; cli H, textile fabr , fine arts, 144; class J, dai rv products, 110; class K, educational oducts, 563 class L, bees and honey, 45; class M, champion including grasses, canes, {rees, ever: ' ; class N, mechanical s O, machinery, 480; class instruments, efc., 25: class Q, agricultural societies, 50; class R, iscellaneous, including all exhibits gularly listed, 200; class 8, special, 95, class T, speed entries, 5. The above facts were kindly furnished THE BEE representative by Sceretary Furnas. The exhibit entries make a grand total of 6,494 AN ANRW ND COMPLAINT, The B. & M. objects to putting in a depiot at ‘MimeralAy this Gointy:. (Ho¥ answer to the complaint of J. W. Castor the Burlington says that the village had ample accommodations for the pus- senger and freight traftic of that plac that during the past year the business done at Emerald, both passenger and freight, only amounted to #628.35, as shown by exhibit and made a part of the answer. The defendant denies each and every averment of the plain- i not specifically admitted, and asks t the plaintiff’s bill of complaint be \lhu\iwcll.uilv;_'inu that the voiume of business done there will warrant the defendant depot and freight house Iready provided. J. R. Van Buskirk, of Alliance, comes in with a new complaint against the Burlington regarding excessive charges on separators, horse powers and other farm implements, and prays restitution on all extortions. The com- plainant goes into detal making rked exhibits of all charges from the izinal place of shipment to the final destination,setting up excessive charges whenever they become apparent. This complaint, however, has been before the board before, and comes back in amended form, possibly better stated in legal diction. Mr. Van Boskirk thinks that he has been wronged out of &80 or more, and seeks restitution and such other redress as the state board of trans- portation may deem it just to order. Notice of the complaint will be served on the Burlington to-morrow. PROCEEDINGS IN QUO WARRANTO. Attorney General Leese will com- mence quo warranto procecdings in the supreme court to-morrow against the Missouri Pacific railroad company, the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha, and the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, to take the opinion of the court on the validity of their method of becoming domestic corporations. Copies of their fuh\wn charters have been Deen filed, but under section 8 of article 11 of the constitution of Nebraska they ave prohibited from exercising the vight of cminent domain, or of acquiring the right-of-way, until they have become a hody corporate, pursuant to and in ac- cordance with the laws of the state. AN HOUR AT THE PEN, Quite recently THE BEE representa- tive enjoyed a drive out to the state pen in company with Mr. W. H. Dor- gan and his hospitality while there. First visits to institutions of this kind are interesting. An hour with the lawless can be enjoyed, but one wants to feel that he is not hazarding life and property. But this security is always given when shelte; by the arm of the law, and especially when surrounded by guards and the great stone walls of a prison. Whatever may have heen the discipline ut Nebraska's pen durir portion of the past, it is certain that it is all that can be as] now. Warden Hyers has affairs reduced to a perfect system, The conviets ¢ tainly respect his mandates and per- form the 1\\||:n< they are bidden to do remarkably well, Prison purishments not light. The disposition of con- viet labor is most jealously guarded by Mr. Dorgan, und he gauges hi in 4 manner eminently satisfac prisoners have enough to eat. provided them is cleun stantial, Tndeed, many poor bovers of the land fare worse. 'The sys- tems of Nebraska's snlmm are humane, but firm and uny ing, and insuree tions ave few and far between. When- ever 4 meeting occurs it can he traced to natural insubordination rather than to the careless management of those who have the care of the state's cri nals in hand, Both Warden Heyers and Mr. Dorgan are clearly of this opinion. not justify or in_ building a other than is 0 T'he food and TEWISI SERVICES, It is not generally known that the | Reformed Jewish ehurch holds regular Sunday school services at 10 o'clock in the mornine at Bohanan’s hall, But such is the case. These services are in of Isane Friend, and are growing est. To-day’s services wero espe mll\ Intercsting. Dp. William Rosenun. of the Hehrew Unlon eollege of Cincinunati, O., was present and gave | the school a briel lectur CITY NEWS AND > An enthusiastic meeting was held at | the board of trade rooms last evening and it was decided to g an lmmenso purade, on next Thursday evening, to display the products of Liicoln houses and marufactories. A live mittee ppointed Lo urrange L other inton bashet, ‘I | the man another pi ! iug apartment. parade, and it will form one of the great attractions of the day. This, however, will be a side exhibition of the groat fair. A meeting of the cation was held the contractors of the iott school building, Messrs, Grace & Kelly, on a careful estimate of the work done on the building, were allowed #2,700 on the contract. The building is well under way. The drivers and street _car employes made up a purse of $70 Friday and Sat- lay and prescnted it to the widow of nas Show, who dropped dead on his car on Wednesday evening, It wasa timely benefit and Mrs. Show was very graietul for the generous remembrance. — Ll‘l‘hl‘.\“\' NOTES. board of edu- terday, and Our Yorxa Forks atnome, Il D. Lothrop Co. Price $1.00. In turning over the pages of this handsome illustrated quarto the reader instinctively wonders how so much val- uable matter ecan be afforded for so lit- tle money. The boy will find in it a thorough business education; the girl will learn how to do a hundred things about the house and in her sphere which will be of untold service to her. The illustrations wera prepared ex- pressly for it. Our Young Folks at Home'in its high literary charpcter, of tone, and earnestness of pur- iudmlr.nhl\ representative of the books issued by this house. Out of the thousands of volumes in their catalogue is not one but in it the seeds of helpfullness and of incentive to bet- ter things. Boston: NOTES, the Boston Journal for to be enlarged in tobe correspondingly The writer is al ways earnest, practical, bright, helpful and interesting, and it stands unique the only iodical in the world d voted to disct ng the practical detai of literary production. Its conductors, William . Hills and Robert Luce are both trained newspaper men, and the contents of the magazine are full of that practical common sense which is the distinguished charac u stic of sue- cessful newspaper work J. Kohler, of l’)n]‘ulvlphm has just issued an English-German model letter erand bookkeeperin which the read erwill find besides the rules necessary hl the art of correspon ce, & grei iety of epistolary models for the acqui tion of the epistolary style, which will prove the best, \\Iwu best adapted tothe subjeet, to time, to place, and to person The American Magazine for Sept ber will begin the publication of a series of articles on the great economic and political question of the hour, by the eading exponents of protective tarift in this countr The articles of this issue will be entitled, “The President’s or,” by James G. Blaine,and arift and Labor,” by Joseph B, Foraker, both powerful and mu~lm'l_\ productions. Mr. Blaine will de irectly with fl).’lllx s put out by Pr ,.uh 2nt Cleveland in his now famous message of last De- cember, and show by clear demonstra- tion the fallacious reusoning by which the policy of free trade became tixed in the |uuald<~nt~ mind. It is especially clear in showing by Mr. Cleveland's own figures the vast benefits of protec- tion to _agriculturists, > F aker will treat the tariff question in his usual trenchant manner. The Political Science Quarterly for September starts off with an article on the ‘‘Economic Aspect of Trusts” by George Guntron. Prof. Richmond M. Smith follows with a concluding article on **Control of Immigration.” Dr. Dun- ning has a valuable legal paper on the “Inequality of the States.” Mr. Sydney G. Fisher ¢ an exhaustive discus- sion of the ‘‘Suspension ot the Habeas Corpus during the Civil War,” and Mr. g Tampden Dougherty sketches the ive constitutions of the state of \n-w York. “Governor Chamberlain’s Administration in South Carolina,” “The History of Co-operation in the United States,” “Roger’s History of Agriculture,” ‘and Pricer and Sering’s German work on the “Competition of North America in Growing Wheat,” The prospectus for The Statesman, Chicago, for 1888-9, Chicago, a monthly magazine devoted to the problems of practical politics, co-operative industry and self-help, is on hand. In October, it will double its present size and add many additional features. It numbers among its writers many of the ablest thinkers both of this country and Europe, among whom we notice Axel Gustafson, General C. C. Andrews, President Julius H. Seelye, LL. D., President John Bascom, LL. D., Mel- vilie E. Stone, and Judge Rodger S. Greene. Among its new features will be a question box on *'Every Day Points in Law.” The most important_item in the an- nouncement, and one in which journal- ists will be most interested, is that Mei- ville . Stone, whose phenomenal suc- cess on the Chicago News is so widely known, has become a member of the Statesman com ,and on his return from Europe will give his attention to this magazine. LR TR THE MIGHTY SWORD. _The “write Various Processes Neceasary Before a Trusty Blade is Produced. spondent writing from Solin- the Pittsburg Dis ihe following interesting concerning the manutacture of swords: “Here you ? he snid. “see if you can_knock a pxcu- out of um sword on that stone. 1 took the handle in both struck the stone with all my might, ut to my astonishment a piece flew off the stone, while the sword did not show even the least evidence of the blow. “livery one of these weapons has to stand that test,” I was informed “or we do not put the mark of our firm on it, nor do we deliver it as a first-class weapon.'’ 1T went all through this factory, which employs over 1,000 men exclusively the manufacture of fine weapons. ave now filling an order for the Gerr government of a new lmymvt. hundred thousand are to be made, and the fiem delivers 1,500 a day. The pon i8 twelve inches long, and the government pays six mavks for each of them when finished. Defore & piece of steel s converted into an instrument of war it hasto go through quite a process. To show me this Mr. Koch took me into n large space at one end of the factory, where I at once noticed pieces of steel varying in length from ten to twenty feet stand- ing all around the walls. In the centor of the room stood a large machine, where one man and a hoy were occu- pred. hands and WHERE TIE STEEL 18 CU'T. “This Is whore the steel is cut before it has received a stroke yet toward the shape of a sword, so we might call this the storeroom for raw matorial.” Thus iy kind informant began his explana- tion. *“The lang ploces of steel, which were about two and one-hubf inches wide, were then put under the machine and by the turning of & crank pieces of about” twelve iuches fell one after the T'he boy then handed se of sieel, put an basket under the machine and e short pleces into an adjoin- We followed and from empty anrried th the number of fires all around I guossed that we must have arrived at the forges, Aud 50 it was, Each one of these pleces of steel was put into the fire, and, when with heat, a man put it am hammer, which struck » heated steel in succession about twenty times on particle of its surface. Whenit w Ilad out the picce was about eighteen inchos long. It was now thrown into a large barrel filled with water. Now the would-be sword had gone through the hardening process, and a number of boys gathered them again into baskets to carry them to the rolling department. In the front of each of these rolls I 1 my attention called to a big coke tire. This fire was stirred up to an enormous heat, and then the pieces of steel were one by one put into the fire; There hre two men oceupied at each roll, vi the roller and his helper. As soon as the steel is hot again it comes under the roll, from where it ¢ un inch thic of the sword stamped on it. TO THE CENTER PRESSES Again the pieces of steel are carried off, and this time they go to the center prosses, where they are put intoa con- trivance which cuts the margains off the steel, and when they lenve here you can sce that the thing looks like a sword. Hitherto,« however, you have seen nothing but a dark blue picce of dirty steel, while we now come into metal at first the mill." This is a ge place which looks like a barn. From one end of the room to the other I observed rows of im- mense grindstones, some of them eight feet in diameter. In this fae! saw forty stones, and in front of each sat a grinder. He hasa little wooden seat, wears a woolen shirt, no cap, and a pair of overalls. But over the latter up to his knees he has woode iters, made out of four pieces of wood. His fect are inclosed in wooden shoes, The stones turned by steam and ered auto- maticall n the front of this stone the man sits from 6 o'clock in the morn- ing until twelve o'clock at noon. Then he has an hour for dinner, when he sits down again from 1 o'clock until 6in the ovening. He hasa boy who brings him the instruments as he wants them, The grinding department is the most important in the entive factory, and the grinder has to bo very skilful. He has to have a keen eye: he must kuow when to press the steel hard against the stone and when not. A/ single seraping of the stone too much spoils the whole weapon, and it has to be thrown aw: Most of the other work is mechanical, while here it is in- telligence that doesthe work satisfac- torialy. FROM THE GRIND-STONE lho piece of steel comes bright and sharp. It is now taken to the burnish- ing rooms. Thispart of the work is chiefly performed by boys. who vary in age from twelve to sixteen years. In this place there are anumberof wheels, but they are ver me of them of stone, ot} her, which, if the article has to re- vo apolish, is covered with a powder which lends the blade a bright mh The knob and the b the handle are now !u\llmnlh burnished, and the weapon is al- ready very dangerous, but still it is un- finished, The dif it holes which are made in the handle, the one \\\Iil'h fustens the blade on the gun, and se eral others, e now bored. This is done, however, by machinery, and takes but a very short time. Then the handle is covered with leather, and now that the blade itself is thoroughly completed, it is taken to the controli- ing room. In this department we find, as a rule, a number of old men who have been at work for the firm for long years. They are not able to do actual hard work, but still in_this department their ser- vices are indispensable. Their duty is, in fact, to examine the article and see is There i~ whether there is a blemish anywhere. As soon as he detects a flaw he knows where it was done, whether in the burnishing, the grinding, the rolling, or any other department, and the man who is found to have made the mistake has to make it good, or, in other words, he has to pay for the damage. ———— The Rallways of Germany. New York Sun: The railroad stations all over this country are models of con- venience and pretension. The meanest local train on a German railway receives a degree of consideration and honor that would stagger the engineers of the Chicago limited. The railroads are run entirely by the government, and every= thing connected with them shows the impress of military rule. are surrounded by small pa there are fountains, flowe cally arranged hedges. building 18 often the tious one in the town usually attached to it a lar with several waiters in the claw hamm it Broad walks made of granite and marble and relieved from monotony by designs in mosaic streteh along on either side, and there is an air of spick and span brightness about ev- erything in sight. As the train draws into th ation the waiters stand in an orderly row at the entrance to the din- ing room. They have all hecn soldicrs— every man i many has served a number of years in the army—and they stand in a_mil with their hands at the » chins up. Dircetly in front of the main entrance stands the captain of the station. nl is indicated by a ved cap. uniform is exceedingly showing, und often becoming—for the men aro stalwart and well-formed. high-heeled boots. dark blue relieved by a red stripe, a double! breasted military frock cont, with u gold belt and rows of brass buttons. Ranged behind him are the guards, who are also in uniform, but whose caps are dark blue. After the train comes to o halt the chief guard jumpsto the pround and salutes the station master, Then the other men gtep forward, and the work of loading and unlonding the tenin goes on with conventional Teutonie solidity. It is the duty of ona of the guards to” walk along the train and rub all the dust from the door handles and other brass work,so that in the course of the journey the metal be- comes brilliantly polished. When the train is rendy for departura the guards salute the station master again, and he takes a whistle from his belt and blows it twice. Upon this another gunrd,who is stationed at the other end of the plat- form, rings a huge bell three times, and then, with another salute by way of courtesy, the train moves on its way. This is only an indication of the mili- tary spirit which pervades Germany in every direction, The stations rks,in which and artistis The s most and ) restaurant onventional n.mwm‘ Not a Favorite of Fortune. Life: “Young man.” he sald solemn- 1y, ““do you ever contemplate the time when you will oocupy a mansion in the sky?” *A mansion? No, sir; I'll be luckier than I've ever been in the world if T gel 4 three-room flat on the outskirts.” o The progresstva eloment in Egypt to-day is Christian. The Roman Catholic schools Lave over 7,000 pi ]'“" the Greek orthodox 3,000, the Coptic (Jacobite) 5,000, the FPro- testant 5,000, and the Jews have 2,000 schol- ars. These are all, except the Protestant students, free, and are exertiog o powerful influence for progress,