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

THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, Dally (Morning Edition) including 8USDAY. Brk, One Year #10 00 X Montha.. ... e Three Months L. 300 p OMAHA SuNnAY Bre, mailed to any idress, One Year OMATA OFFICE, NOS, U1EAND OIS FARNAM STR NEW YOUR ORHICE, ROOMS 1§ ASD 15T TON OFFiC b o ) FOUR L RENTH "xl(r CORRESPONDENCE All communications relating tonews and edi- torial matter should be addressed to the Ebiron OF THE Brk. DUSINESS LETTERS, All business letters and remittances should be addressed to Tite BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, Omana. t ks and postoffice orders to be made rder of the company. The Bee Pablishing Company, Proprietors. . ROSEWATER, Editor. THE DAILY BEE. $worn Statement of Cir Btateof Nebraska, County of Douglas, 1S Geo, B, Tzschuck, secretary of The Ree Pub- 1shing company, doss solemnly swear that the actual circulation of Tuk DALy Bee for the ‘week ending September 15, 1858, was as follows: Sunday, Sept. 0....... {52 Monduy, Sept. 10,0 Tuesduy, Se l! || Wednesd ation. Sworn 1o befors me and su presence this 1th day of Se Etate of Nebraska, | County of Dougias, { George B. Tzschuc o and sy that b 8.8, eing first duly sworn,de- is secrotary of The iles lishiug company, that tho actual average daily circulation of IRE DALY BER for the mantn of &eptember, 1447, was i£34) coples: foz October, 15, copies; for 18w coples -r hr-rcmm-r.lm. anua 1884, 15,992 copl Apn. 1858, 18,74 coples: for'Junle, 184, 10,243 18,533 coples; for August, 183, 15, GEO.'B. Swornte vefore me nd, wubscribed in my Presence this bth day of Septemb: D, 1858, R Notary v For once Omaha has not been snubbed and sat down upon in & con- gressional convention. T ll(‘ln‘g ates from Douglas did not come home on the swearing train this time. JOHN SHERMAN stuck a pin into the retaliation bill and will keep it in the committee on foreign relations as long as he can. By next Wednesday we shall know who is to be the victim of the demo- cratic congressional ticket in this dis- trict. COUNCILMAN LEE has introduced a timely ordinance for licensing employ- ment agencies. Tt will to a great ex- tent protect those secking employment from impostors and sharks. AvTnovGn M r Hewitt, of New York City, is not acceptable to either Tammany or the County democracy politicians, his popularity with the business men and taxpayers may compel his renomination as a stroke of policy. BY THE time South Omaha procures proper plans for sewerage and draining from some expert enginecer, it will be time enough to let the contract for her sewers. Any othe® mode of proceedure is like building an expensive block without plans, Tue bill to create an exccutive de- partment of the national government, to be known as the department of agri- culture, passed the senate yesterday. The senate and house differ on some provisions of the measure, and 1t will now go to a joint conference com- mittee. —— THE August statement of earnings for one hundred and eleven railroads shows a net gain of about two and one- quarter per cent over the corresponding month last year. The mileage of these roads increased during the year from sixty-one tbousand to sixty-four thou- sand miles. A better exhibit could hardly have been made IT WAS a happy inspiration that en- tered the mind of an Italian laborer at Aspen (Colo.), during the contest for a right-of-way between the Rio Grandc and Colorado Midland railroads. With his shovel doing service as the sword of victory, he shouted, ‘‘Garibaldi and Liberty.” 1t was an inspiriting battle ery, and his 150 follow Ttalians wielded their shovels with telling effectand won the day. Tue Chinaman who applied for naturalization papers in Nebraska a few duys ago may have no better suc- cess than the celestial recently refused citizonship by the courts in St. Louis. It is a question whether the naturaliza- tion act can be made to include Chinese among thoss who may avail themselves of its provisions. The United States court of California has passed directly upon the question, and it was decided there some years ago, that a Chinaman could not be naturalized under the naturalization law. THE most encouraging reports from Jacksonville, Fla., do no not allay the fears that yellow fever cannot much longer be confined to the vegion where it first made its appearance. Refugees have scattered to all quarters of the . south and reports come in every day of eascs breaking out here and there which are liable to infect whole dis- tricts. The situation at Jacksonville, in- . stead of improving grows rapidly worse. - There is an increase in the death rate and confusion in the care of the sick, All this tends to putthe south in a state of panic, unsettling the minds of men and making them a ready prey to the insidions disease. —— Tug Sucond ‘Ward Republican Flam- m“ olub wiit 'ead the procession to- Wiks oo ~~etiang mnight that will march to the re. of W. J. Connell to congratulate him upon his nomination for congress by the republicans of the First district. It is fitting that the republicans of the Sec- ond ward should lead in this demonstra- tion of approval, Before the redis tricting of the city into nine wards Mr. Connell was a voter of the Second. His interest in republican success was not confined to the duty of voting, but when ahard battle was to be fought he was always in the thickest of the fray, and none know it better thau the republi- cans of bisold ward. Oune Next Congressman, The republicans of the First Congros- sional district are to bo. congratulatod upon the nomination of W. J. Connell, No man in this state is better equipped for the duties and responsibilitie volving upon & member of the national legislature, and no man could have been named who would at this critical junct- ure have inspired groater confidence in his election next Novembe It is a forogone that the First congressional dis- trict of Nebraska will be representod in the Fifty-first congress by a republican, no matter who may be the democratic nominee. Mr. Con- nell's record in public life is unassailable. As prosecuting at- torney of this judicial district, which during his term embraced one- third of the entire state, Mr. Connell made a reputation as an energetic and conclusion most successful public prosecutor. As corporation attorney for the metropolis of Nebraska, Mr. Connell displayed signal ability and thovoughness 1n the very intricate work whi the position imposed upon him. Tt is conceded by his personal and po- litical opponents that Mr. Connell wi the most efficiont city attorney Omaha ever had or is ever likely to have. It goos without saying that Omaha has reason to feel gratified over Mr. Connell’s selection for the congressional nomination. Identifiea as he is and has been with the material growth and prosperity of this city, this community feels assured that her interests at the national capitol will not suffer while he holds a s in the house of representatives, While being loyal to Omaha, Mr. Connell is a man broad enough in his makeup to realize thata congressman may serve Omaha without neglecting the welfare of his constitueney in other portions of the district, and, for that matter, the inter- ests of the whole state. In the prime of lifo, with a landable ambition to serve the people, and in so doing clovate himself toa higher plane of activity, Mr. Connell can be de- pended upon to devote his best encrgies to the promotion of every measure that will tend toincrease the prosperity of our city and advance the growth of our state. A self-made man, who has risen by his own industry and perseverence, Mr. Connell’s ac- tive sympathies have been, and will con- tinuo to be with the industrial, toiling masses, and whiloe respecting and up- holding the rights of corporations he will curb the power of monopolies and labor to have them relegated and re- stricted within their proper aomain. A Better Understanding Needed. The democratic leaders who by com- mission or self-uppointment are ex- plaining to the people the tariff policy of their party should endeavor to reach a common ground and stand upon it. Tn order to do effective work party leaders muss be in some sort of agree- ment, but there is a conspicuous lack of this among some of those who are promi- nent in defining and explaining demo- cratic taviff policy. In his letter of acceptance Mr. Cleve- land said his party was not en- gaged in a crusnde of free trade. Mr. Carlisle, who has as much authority to speak for the party as the president, and very likely has a more aceurate knowledge of its real purpose, suid in his speech accepting the re- nomination to congress: ‘Now, the great question you are to decide is whether this system of taxation is to be continued indefinitely or whether the country shall return to the methods of taxation which prevailed in this coun- try before the war.” Everybody at all familiar with our tariff history knows that before the war the country had comparative free trade, the average duty under the tariff act of 1846 being twenty-five per cent, and under the act of 1857 twenty per cent. If, therefore, Mr. Carlisle correctly states the aim of his party in this matter the house tariff bitl goes less than half way toward the point where the democratic party would place the tariff if allowed to. Obviously this does not fit well with the assertion of Mr. Cleveland that the party is not engaged in a crusade of free trade. Another democratic leader who has some vight to speak for his party is Senator Vest, of Missouri. That gentle- man recently said that the president had ‘‘challenged the protected industries of the country to a fizht of exter- mination, and that the fight is to the death.” Tt is not possible to misunder- stand the meaning of this language, and it certainly implies the convierion of its author that his party is engaged in a crusade of free trade, which is the policy by which alone the protected in- dustries of the country could be exter- minated. Still another democrat who enjoys a high place in the councils of the party, Mr. Henry Watterson, in a recent spoech declared that the Mills bill did not suit him by a long shot, the trouble with it being that it does not go far enough in reducing duties. He was willing to endorse it in order to secure democratic harmony, but he had hoped for something far more sweeping— something that would have come nearer to the methods of taxation that pre- vailed betore the war, ‘We submit that these emanations from responsible democratic sources do not fit well with the assurance of Mr, Cleveland that the democratic party is not in a erusade of free trade, while they do go very far to justify the asser- tion of General Harrison in his letter of acceptance, that *‘the Mills bill is only a step, but it is toward an object that the leaders of democratic thought and legislation have clearly in mind.” There should be abetter understanding among Ahe gentlemen whose distinguished mission 11 e taesplain the taviff policy of the democratic p&n;. e— Oolored Democrats. No doubt Mr, Thurman was entirely sincere in what he said to the delega- tion of colored democrats who called on him Thursday. 1t is very hkely that he has never felt any enmity to- ward the colored race, though as a strict partisan he certainly never did anything to the advantage of the race. He was a pro-slavery democrat and stood always flrmly in line with his party in support of the institution of slavery. But it is conceivable that he did this without any fecling of enmity to the enslaved race. It may also be conceded that Mr. Thurman was entirely sincere in saying that he believed in the full equality of colored citizens be- fore the law, and that they should bo allowed to enjoy all their rights equally with white citizens, But it is a reflection not altogether fortunate for Mr. Thurman that an ur- gent political exigency, in which he is a conepicuous figure, was necessary to draw from him thesa proper aad honor- able admissions, and that but {nr the part he has been called upon to play the colored voters would never have known that he was a friend and recog- nized their legal equality, Yot there abundant opportunity for making this known before. Mr. Thurman has had the knowledge possessed by all other in- telligent citizens that for yoass the col- ored voters in every southern state have been denied their rights, and he has every reason to believe that in most of these states they will not be allowed to freely exercise them next November. He is unquestionably fully informed re- garding what has occurred in Arkansas, Louisiana and Mi sippt during the present year in the form of outrages against coloved eitizens for political reasons, He knows, or if not, he may easily learn, that the sentiment in most of the southern states against per- mitting the colored citizens to enjoy their rights, as strong to-day as it has ever been. But ha ing this knowledge of the wrongs to which the colored citizens were being cted in the old slave states, Mr. Thurman has never until now uttered a word to indicate that he was not in full sympathy with the persceution. Asa party loader of influence it was possible for him to have done something for the amelioration of the hard condition of the colored citizens in the south, but it is not of record that he ever spoke a word in their behalf or uttered a syl- lable in deprecation of the unjust treat- ment they were subjected to. M. Thurman will have hard work to show that he hasany just claim to the votes of colored citizens. He may never, as he claims, have been their enemy, but it is nowhere in evidence that he has ever shown them any friendship. his PRESIDENT ARTHUR once said to the editor of THE BEk that the greater por- tion of his time was taken up with ap- plications for promotion in the regular army and the squabbles of the Nebraska delegation in congres: We venture to say that the greater portion of Gro- ver Cleveland’s time for the last six months has been taken up with the muddle over the Chicago postoftice. After wrestling with this postoffice mudale through many sleepless nights Grover has finally decapitated Postmaster Judd by appointing General Walter C. New- bury in his stead. It was eminently appropriate that the exceution should take place on a Friday. Mr. Cleve- land’s experience as high-executioner at Buflalo has prejudiced him in favor of hangman’s day. Postmasters in other cities who have transgressed will take due notice and govern themselves ac- cordingly. THE farmers of the south are organ- izing against the jute bagging trust, and the Atlanta Constitution says if the are everywhere as earncst asin Georgia the trust will be destroyed. Two re- sourcesin favor of the farmers have been developed, one being the manu- facture of bagging from cotton, which, it is claimed, can be done as cheaply as from jute, and the other, still experi- mental, is bagging made from the fiber of the inner bark of the corn stalk. Thisis said to be strouger than jute, and would therefore be more durable, while the bagging made from the fiber would cost less than from jute, which is imported. The southern farmers ave thoroughly aroused in this matter, and the outlook appears to be-that the trust will have to succumb. Tue death of Mr. R. Bowden, a well- known journalist of Jacksonville, of yel- low fever,was a pecul one. One month ago, just as hi ready to start for the north, one u[ lna children was talken sick. This was the beginning of a siege of sickness which included ten members of his household. Mr. Bowden was the last to be stricken by the scourge. Worn out by constant care and watching, his constitution was in no condition to withstand the dread destroyer, and he joined the silent ma- jority. . THIEVES robbed a pay car on the Lake Shore road,in the outskirts of Buftalo, of $10,000 yesterday. The thieves were evidently the “gentle- men” of their profession. Unlike the Texas train vobver, who usually com- mands the quiet attention of his v tims with{a six-shooter, the New York desperados avoided resistance by ad- ministering ether to the occupants of the eu When it comes to robbing railroad trains the effeto cast is far ahend of tho rowdy west. scare people into laying in thel winter's supply of coal at high-water- mark rates. By the way, what bencfit has the cash system been to anybody except the coal trust? Herotofore the dealers have always complained that they have had to add to the price of coal the estimated heavy losses from deadbeats. These losses no longer can afford an excuse for increased rates. err————— SENATOR PLUMB, of Kansas, takes no stock in the department of the geolog- ical survey, He characterizes it as an invalid hospital which provides soft T -wthg for relulivea of congressmen, e, h than poetry in the There is more ki bluff Kansan’s remark. Death Stops the Stanley Relief. BrussuLs, Sept. 21.—Advices frow Stanley Falls state that Prof. Jamieson, engaged in organizing an expedition for the relief of Honry M. Buasuley, died of African fever at Bingolas, on the Congo, August 17. The organization of another relief cxpedition is now regarded as hopeless, | | | | Other Lands Than Onrs, Thero is a genoral eommoendation among fair-minded people of the conduct of the Par- nell eomtnission ut its first session. The Parnellites at the outset gained from the commission a fraudulont concession which thoy ¢ endeavorod to socure from the house of commons, The judges have decided that the titute not an all-embracing in quisitorial tribunal, but a court of Jaw organ- ized to try a spocific case. This moeans that the Times must appear in the role of prose cutor, and must definitely formulate its charges. But this, as its advocate plainly showad by "‘3”‘ slo tenor of his argument, i was the very ting the Times does not want to do. It wishdl to appoar asa kind of amicus curiw, and proMised to afford the court all tho “anformation’ in its power. But Justice Hannes, the president of the commission, at the court wanted was not discursive information, bat an ex plicit case. That was the first point scored for Mr. Parnoll, and it was one of capital importance. Auother concession of vital moment was the decision, reachel in spite of strenuous opposition on the part of the coun- sl for the Timos, that every alleged morimi nating letter which should be demanded by the lawyers for the Parnellites must be pro- duced. This covers not only the letters of which fac-similes have been published, but also those to which any referenco has been made in the O'Donnell trial or in the “Par- nellism and Crime” articlos. It is, of course, conceivabie that the Times may possess other letters, about which it has hitherto preserved a strict silehce, but, considering the anx throughout the discus sion of tho subject in its columns to sustain s, We ventura to pronounce this ex- able. The next session of the commission will be October 2. That the rnsiyn.mnu o{ Prince Bismarcic, which has beon several times hinted at of late as impending, would produce a pro- found impression in Buropean polities 18 of course unquestionable. The case is quits different from that of General Moltke's withdrawal from active military life, which caused hardly a ripple of sensation. The great fleld marshal's work was done, and it had been recognized that he conld not take the field for the immodiate direction of another campaign. 3ut Bismarck is only seventy-three years old, while Moltke is nearly eighty-eight; and never has the Ger man chancellor exe ore eontrolling influence upon the destinics of Burope than now. The statements, however, of his pur- pode to resign made by the Berlin corre- spondents of London newspapers and by the Independence Bolge seom to rest on no tangible basis. They appear from mere conjectures that the restlessness and love of control which characterize the new emporor ‘must eventually bring him into conflict with the chancellor in matters where the latter has bocome accustomed to have his own un- questioned way. No particular, however, is yet mentioned in which such a .conflict has arisen or is likely to arise. w*u 1f Stanley is the white pasha and is work- ing his way northward toward Gondokoro and Omdurman, the fato of the mahdi is scaled. A tyraut of his kind will be desertod by his troops at the first clash of arms, and Stanley i$ no mean general. It may bo re- served for him to comvleto the work which Wolseley was unable to accomplish and to avenge the deatli 6f Gordon. If this should prove to be his destiny, and if this was his objective point when he left England, how admirably the secrot has been kept. There is nothing incredible m the conjecture. The opening of equatorial Africa, one of the most fertile populous scetions of the world, to civilization and ‘trade, involved two prior conditions—the overthrow of the slave trade and the extinction of Moslem intolorance of the foreigner. The mahdi was a fair type of both. He is not known to have been a slave trader himself, but he was the ally of the slave traders, and in one sense a protector of their nefarious traftic. Of the s > bigotry of theancient Moslem he is one of the few \g representatives. He believes in destroying Gisours because they are Giaours. If helets them live, it is in order that he subject them to indignity and humiliate th religion in their persons. ‘Fhe time has passed - when civilized nations thought it their duty to go to war to propagate a re- ligious faith. But the time has not passed when spirited nations held it to be a solemn duty to rescue their citizens from the clutches of bari Aud if this is the errand on which Stauley is bent, this country, at all events, will wish him Godspeed. “ »u . The destruction wrought in Central Africa by Arab slave stealers within the past five appalling. Tn regions where tone, Stanley and Cameron suw large populations, no human inhabitants can now be found. Most of them have been captured or slaughtered, and remnants of tribes have escaped into other districts. Along threo hundred miles of the Congo, between N, angwe aud Stanley Falls, the Avabs, uccord- ing W Glecrup and Lenz, have depopulated about 15,000 square wiles of territory. ‘The numerous tribes whom Staniey first saw have become slaves or in greatly depleted numbers wander through the forests far from the river. About 10,00 square miles of the rolling prairies west of Tippu Tib's home at Kasougo have been utterly drained of their people. About 20,000 square miles on the wostern headwaters of the Congo are no longer a profitable fleld for slave hunting. In the very region where Livingstone died and where his heart was buried, extending southeast from Lake Banweolo, and om- bracing about 15,000 square miles, the Arabs, wo are told by Giraud, have completely rav- aged the country. And from all these con- ters of devastation the paths of the destroy- ers leading to slave marts and shipping points may be traced by the bones of the victims who fall by the way. It eannot be possible that the civilized world will much v permit this colossal erime of the cen- 10 add to its murderous results without taking earnest moasures Lo put a stop to it. It is uncertain whether or not Russian in- fluence has anythitg to do with the revolt of Ishak Khan in Afghanistan. Ishak has mili- tary and organizing skill and his desire to malke himself stronger and more independent has been known fod Jeveral years, He has more than once, however, disclaimed being subject to Russian_influence, and for that reason the impres{lbn has prevailed that his prosent attitude afsults from a personal quarrel with his cousin or from the latter's suspicion of his ambitlous projects. Still, it may be that Russign {ntrigues have been at work to induce 10 throw off allegiance to Cabul. If he oowid maintain himself in independence in the north the way might ba paved for Russianygggression there, Mai- mens, where the last battle occurred be- tween Ishak's forces and the Ameer's, is on the maiu route from Balkh to Herat, being about balf way between Saripul aud Bala Murghab. This is one of the routes on which a Russian advance might take place. But it appears likely that Ishak Khan has overestimated bis streugth in thus measur- ivg swords with the Ameer, and that he will be driven as a fugitive over the border which he crossed s an ally eight yoars ago. * » " ~ *vouble between the There is again 8erious . pope aud the Italian government. The pope has sent & circular dispatch through his nuncios to the various European govern- ments, describing in strong terms the in- creasing annoyances and inconveniences of his situation in the Vatican. Oneof the things which trouble him is ueither more nor 1ods than the adaption of a new penal code in Italy, which provides severe penaltios for everyboily convicted of destroying, or trying evep rwords, to destroy the territorial iu- tegrity of the kingdom. This of courso covers the case of all persons advocating publicly the restoration of tho temporal power, a class which includes a great many priests and bishops. Moreover, a rocent de- cision of the Italian council of state make im- perative, i order to give thom validit ro gueds church property or functions, th tration in the usual manner of all decroes, or orders, or decisions 1ssuing from the vatican. ailing such rogistration, the courts are to treat them as null and void. This the popo treats as a direct blow at the ‘‘exterri- toriality” which is supposed to have been guaranteed to him. These are positive and definable griefs: Thore are others which, though not positive, are none the less real. The admission of 1t to the triple alliance and the friendly way in which Austria and Germany treat her, also wouuds the pope, and makes bim feel that there is not much real feeling be- hind the compliments which the powers lavish on him, and the deference with which his place in the world i oken of. His re- cent encyclical, too, in which he pointed out the snares and falacies and dangors of mod- ern liberalism, has somehow fallen very flat. Nobody has paid much attention to it. The newspapers have not cven discussed it Finally the people of Rome, who have hith- erto been supposed faithful to the papal tra: dition, have gone and elected for the first time a municipal council with a liberal ma-. jority. Tt is not wonderful that under theso mstances he should begin to feel that he is regarded simply as one of the venerable antiquarian relics of the KEternal City, and talk once more of moving to some place where his purcly spiritual character would come out in st v relief, Native treacherous worth © partios in Africa have often proven and in many ways untrust- ¥y, bat until the murder of Major Bart- telot no instance can b2 cited, except in north Africa, of the killing of the white com nan- der of an expedition by members of his party. Barttelot is said to have mot his death at the ds of Manyema porters. This is the first occasion on wiich these nati have been employed in the service of white men. Within the past few years their country be- tween Lake Tanganyike and the Congo has been ravazed by the Arabs, and most of the Manyema are now wes. There isno doubt that these cannibals were supplicd to the ex- pedition by Tippu Tib, into whose hands many hundreds of them fell while he was stilla slave hunter. The suggestion that Barttelot's death 1s due to the treachery of 'l‘l\) has no reasonable foundation, 1 Gele, who was sent to Stanley Falls last spring with re-inforcoments for Tippu Tib, and who has returned to Europe direct from that station, fully confirms the other reports heard as to the fealty and faith- tuiness of Tippu Tib. The civil war that has broken out in the and of Samoa was predicted by all Ameri- s who are familiar with the natives. Here is a German consul attempting to confor the yal titlo of Molictoa upon a usurper who owes his place solely to the terrror of the German gunboats. The Samo- ans are a proud race und they naturally re- sented this crowning indignity. They bore with great patience the deposition of their old rul and the levying of taxes, but when it > to clothing tho imposter in the royal robes, which fit him as ill as the lion’s skin did the ass, then their gorge rose and they whipped the army of the protender. The re- sult will probubly be the ordering of German gunboats to Apia, the punishment of the leading natives aud the further reduction of the freedom of the people. England acquies- ces because she has nall int sts in the island und the United States agr because we have a minister of state without back- bone. e e STATE AND TEXRITORY, Nebraska Jottings. Tho old settlers of Phelps county will pic- nic at Holdrege October 12, Harry Wilson, a Holdrege bicyclist, rode his‘machine to Lincoln, 150 miles, in three days. He cott, a sixteen-year-oid Ul boy, is missing, and his mother is adve, tising for news of his whereabouts, Nebraska City now has a city engineer with *an cy n eagle,” and the city ex- pects to have honest work done, Rev. D. W. Comstock, pastor of the Con- gregational church at Grand Island, has re signed on account of failing health, The Platte river is reported to be com- pletely dry in some places in Platte county and multitudes of tish have perished. The Madison papers don’t like the music of their brass band and think there ought to be A reorganization for the sake of harmony. The senatorial convention, composed of Burt and Cuming counties, is called to meet at West Point, Wednesday, September 26, ows began b shth y Auburn Post with its last 1ssue and remarks that everything looks prosper- our. Jacob Huber, a Madison farmer, thrown from his wagon Monday wheel passing over his head, him. Tekamah had a bachelor club of thirteen members, but the number proved unlucky. carly all of the members have fallen into the matrimonial trap. The Weeping Water Eagle reports that a human bone, supposed to be from the arm of some person who lived in this part of tho county when Adam was a boy, was takeu from a well being dug 1n that city recently. John Bolles, who conducted what is known as a “bootleg”! business at the York county fair, was arcested Thursday while in the act of selling liquor and jailed. Bolles is also accused of ““doping” some whiskey and rob- ing a young man, ‘The Independent, published in the pro- hibition town of Oakland, remarks: *‘Judg- ing from the amount of ber that is arriving in town it is expected that the money will ba put in the tills of the saloon keepers and the men themselves will be put in the lo il s of Platte county’s mechanics who runs 0 last year on hogs, und fdedly “the bost paying property on_the farm, suys the Columbus Journal. Another year he will ba still better prepared to care for them, although he now grinds and steams thoir feed, was lust, the fatally injuring lowa, Twenty-five congenial citizens have [de- cided to locate in a suburb of Des Moines and euch one will build a $2,500 house. A number of hogs in the vicinity of Mag- nolia are reported mad as the result of bites from & rabid dog a couple of weeks ago. Incendiaries have set fire to several grain stacks in Moscow township, Muscating county, of late, and great indignation is felt. The total number of transcripts filed with the clerk of the supreme court for the term which opens at Des Moiues week after next was 570, Phe greatest curiosities in tho state just now are the Sioux City man who hasn't a liver and five citizens of Dubuque who don't drink beer. It is being whispered that a certain young woman in_Muscatine accompanied a female friend to the opura house the other night in male attive, The deception was complete and no one would have been awave of the during feat but for a contidante. An investigation of the books of Collector Webster shows no diminution in the number of retail or wholesalo dealers in malt liquor inthe Third revenue district as compared with the number to whom licenses were ed for the annual period which began over a year ago. Thereis, howaver, a falling oft in the sale of beer .lalnys ""ku'l. n Thore is now niciy-on0 conviews Rk Sioux Falls penitentiary. The memorial window at St Augusta's cathedral which will be erected at Bioux Falis, will cost over $1,000. Bishop Hare has gone to Piuc Ridge and T T o T T T T SR T AT e o e P SR T AR A T AT SRS RN flosebud agencier to labor with the Indians thore in behall of the Sioux troaty. A citizens' meeting has boon called at Yankton for tho purposo of talking overa project to build a pontoon bridge across the issouri at Yankton, Three Union county saloon keepers, who sold liquor In violation of the law, have been assigned quarters in the Sioux 1'alls peniton tiary, This attracis attention beoause the law dces not authorize the confinement of this class of offenders in the penitentiary. I'here aro numerous applicants for the place of adjutant genoral of tho territorial militia recently made vacant by tho death of General Jonkins, of Chamberlain, Tt is the most important position in the militia, and one most sought after, a8 much for the sal- £$1,000 a voarns for the distinction \ is conferred. sort of the commissioner of pensions s that Dalota oontains 4,106 pension Wi in pen S120,208.70 per quarter. Yin'tton county contaias s xby-five pension ers, drawlng 84117 quartor 1 tho sion fund Beadle ojunt lmd- o list, with 185 pensioners, and ercy, Horling and Tower counties ' possess one ' pensioner apiece. Dakota contains more pensioner thau fifteen of the states, - TALES OF TWO Retarn of Rev. W. J. Harsha and Charles Dewey From rope. The Rev, W. J Harsha returned from Europe yestorday looking greatly re- freshed from his three mos recreation, He enjoyed his trip greatly and as {v was his first across the sea, he is full of enthusiasm in recounting nis travels. He spent ten days in London attending the Pan-Presbyterian council to which he had been sent as adelegate. The Duke of Argylo and nearly all the otch nobility, being members of the Presbyterian church, were in attendance. The nternational council of the Epis- copal church was also in session at the same time and as nearly all the English noblemen are members of this church, Mr. Harsha got a chunce to see thom also. —Both councils were on the most friendly 1S, Liverpool and a number of other English cities were visited and the only thing he saw that was in any way an improye- ment on American methods was the maunner in which the English street car tracks are 1aid in the pavements. Instead of being an nce to buggics aud other vehicles as ‘@ here the tracks are laid deep in the avement. The rail is made with a groove ululn! the center and in this runs the flange of the car wheel. The system not only makes Uw streets smoother but is cheaper than r systems. Mr. Holmes, one of the o foors of tho O hicago street railway company was with Mr. Harsha at the time, and was 80 pleased with this method of laying the rails that he will probably introduce it into Chicago. Mr. Harsha next went to Paris, and was lucky enough to be there July 14, the great national fete day in honor of the destruc- tion of the bastile. It is estimated that about 3,000,000 strangers went to Paris to witness the celebration. Abut this time oc- curred the famous duel between Boulanger and Floquet, and Mr. Harsha had the pleas- ng the lioary-headed statesman, d proved more than a mateh for the Napoleon in a hand to hand encounter, Harsha also witnessed the drilling of the French army, and saw the mag- nificent spectacle of 60,000 armed soldicrs going through their evolutions. Brussels was the next place visited and the reverend gentleman saw the king in all his glory. It was the fifty-seventh anniversary of the accession of the monarch's father to the throne and his majesty with all his no- bles attired in their gorgeous robes went in state to the cathedral, In Germany the educational centers and watering pla were visited. A good chance was given to study student life, Mr. Harsha says that duelling exists there. and the most hideous of scars from sword thrusts are re- garded us marks of honor. He witnessed the graduation of Bismarck's son at Heidelberg. The youug man had been so abused by his fellow students, who belonged to the liberal party, on- VELERS. that he had been forced to leave the uni ty and pursue his studies at Borlin under a private wtor. In July, he returned to the university to pass examinations and take his degree. Mr. Harsha next visited all the places of Interest in Switzerland, and says that thera is nothing there that will compare with the grandeur of the Rocky mountains and the Yosemite, and _the_wonders of the Yellow- stone park. In Switzerland he met the Millards, Browns, and other Omaha people Rome, Venice, Naples, Florence, Milan and all the noted cities of Italy were visited and their attractions enjoyed, and a swim was taken in both the Adriatic and Mediter- raneun s Last e ng Rev. Harsha met all fhis fricnds at the church parlors, on the corner of Seventeenth and Dodge. Next Sunday he will preach on “Rellzlous Impressions of a Travelor in Burope.” —_— Army Bandmasters. Mr. Brthur A. Clappe, professor of musie, United States Military academy, West Point, writes the following inter- esting article in the American Musician, on “‘Army Bandmasters": Less than thirty years ago the bands of British regiments: were nearly all under the direction of foreign musi- cians, many of whom were totally ignor- ant of the language of the men under their charge. Furthes than this, quite a number of these men, apart from playing well upon some one instrument in particular, understood but little, if anything, of those requivements now so commonly recognjzed as the ecssential knowledge of a military bandmaster, This was the state of things in the “good old days,” (¥) when an unpro- nounceable name, an assumption of be- ing musical, and murderous English were esteemed before the unquestion- able ability of a fellow countryman. As time advanced, and army officers be- came more enlightened in musical mat- ters, they became conscious thtre was something radically wrong in the system, and mh © to remove the abuses speed- ily became manifest. The outcome was i ent blishment, of a military school of mus wherein musicians for the army should be trained, and from which all bandmasters should graduate. The building purchased by the government and devoted to the above purpose is de- lightfully situated, between Twicken- ham and Hounslow, abouthalf an hour’s ride from Waterloo station, London. It was formerly the residence of the emi- nent painter, Sir Godfrey Kneller, hence the name by which it is gener- ally known—Kneller hall. It is now ofticially styled lhu “Royal Military Ceilege of Music.” But to return. The bandm: rs of the army, supported by their friends, mozt strongly opposed the establishment of the school, for success they very trualy discerned the first blow on the en- tering wedge that was to shatter the system upon which theyand their prod- sors had so long thrived. The op- position, however, though retarding somewhat the dew.lnpmun of the plans laid down at the time, eyentually sub- sided, and to-day England bousts an in- stitution for the training of bandmas- ters and bandsmen unique in its purpose and unequalled by anyin the world. At first, with a moderation doing credit to a sense of justice on the part of those in authority, the old civilian band- asters were allowed to rem: vided they could give evidence of lhu possession of what was then considered the requisite musical kuow Many of these men a; 2d themselves of the opportunity to assure their posi- tions by passing the examination, but others, probably fearing the result, de- clined, and in consequence retired from their positions at the expiration of their contracts with their respective regunents. In a fow years, by retire- death of the foreign incum- mens au. > antire!v oven to bents, the field beoumy - the graduates from Kuellor Hall, and at the present time it is safe L0 say no English regimeat--with the exception of the Royal Engineors and Marinos Chatham=has a bandmaster who has not passod to his position from the Roy n‘ Military Collego of Music. These bandmasters aroe essentinlly military men and musicians, most of them have ing received their first musical teal ing as boys in somo one of the reg ments of the Bnglish army. The law is now such that no man can receive an appointment as !mudmnmvv unless ho has served soven ) in the army and, of course, can’ pass the required examination. it is ono of the purposes of Kneller Halt to further educate and fit intellis gent musicians for the above positions, and that it achioves the attentionsof its originators, is amply shown in the high standard of excellence generally pre- ailing among the bands despite the ox= istonce of a very short term of service, and which makes it necessary that the b, \mlm'\ulwr shall spend continuously x\ is time in the drudg: aining, in ordor l,o e men fitted to fill the frequently oc- curing vacancies. To give an idea of what the English Government considers the necessary ac- complishments of her ar me bandmasters, it is only necossary to look at the thor- oughly organized” military band, with its piccolo, flute, clarionets, oboos, bas- soons, cornets, trumpets, alto horns and French horns, trombones (slide and valve), baritones, euphoniums, B flat and B flat basses uml drums, and say that they (the bandmasters) must pos- soss o practica! knowledge of ench one of thes sopaiate | instruments. In addition to this may be mentioned havmony, counter- point, fugue, compo n, instrumentae tion, musical histor, musical forms, acoustics and above all a display of apti- tude for teaching and directing. The course, except under specially favorable circumstance: tends overa period of about three yoars,at the expirvation of which, and “on appointment ns band- master, tho student receives his di- ploma.’ 1t will be seen from the forego- | ing that the bandmaster of an English regiment must necessarily be an edu- cated musician, and from “his previous training possess considerablo experi- ence in his special line. On appoint- ment he is as a warrant oflicer, a positive status, next below tho grade of commissioned ofticer, and one step above the non-commissioned offic or a long time offorts have been put forward to induce the govern- ment to grant the rank of commissioned officer to bandmasters who, entering the lowest grade, would become eligible for promotion step by step to the higher l'nn{(s up to major or colonel. Last year Mr. Dan Godfrey of the Grenadier Guards was given the rank of lieuten- ant, and no doubt other promotions will follow. # There can be no doubt the system adopted in England, by which a man of good character and musical ability becomes eligible for entrance to the Royal Military college of music, to be specially trained to fill the honorable, responsible, and well-paid position of bandmaster, exercises a most salutary effect on the morale of the army hands. It must unquestionably stir up a foel- ing of emulation, and, inciting men to aspire thereto, tend to n e them both studious and careful in their behavior. The place is within the reach of o bandsman, and whether he shall su ceed in reaching it depends entirely upon himsclf. Is Dignity the Child of Concelt? The Home Maker: Intolerable as is conceit, some risks must be taken in that direction in bringing up hoys, It has grown to be a proyerb that the proper dose to give them every day is . ten parts praise to one part fault find- ing. The poet says: *The love of praise is planted to protect And propagate the glories of the mind.” Under the stimulus of judicious com- mendation we can all perform feats which otherwise were entirely beyond our power. And how else can that self- confidence be engendered which is one of the most essential aids to success? Self-confidence is one of the distinguish- ing marks of the character of Wash- ington, of Gladstone, of Bismarck, of every great man. It is only another name for dignity. If we can give our boys dignity, it isa gift greater than any fortunc in money. Then let us treat them with dignity, treat their occupations and interests,—uot as though they transcended our own or the rest of Creation’s—but as though they were worthy of attention, and we shall go a long way toward developing dignity in the child himself, sitting. Washington ost: “I would like to see Representative ———,” suid o news- paper correspondent to a committee clerk atthe capitol a few days ago. “He went into the house aboutan hour ago,” said the clerk. “Not~ there now?" laconically gested the re “Want o st qum‘*lud the attache. sug= “Well, you go up to the room of the committee on —---, and give seven de- liberate raps at the door; then pause a few seconds and give three more thumps; that'll bring him.” The instructions were followed out to the letter and the door was opened, showing the missing congressman in company with three ‘Others, all hard at work endeavoring to add tothe pile ot chips which stood ateach man’s right hand. 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