Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 28, 1888, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF 8UBSCRIPTION. Daily Morning Edition) including SUNDAY, Brr, One Year.. AY Bk, mailed to any CORRE All communicati torial matter should b ¥ THE | = BUSINESS LETTERS, All business letters and remittances should be addressed to The BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMAIA ts, checks and postoffice orders to be made payable to the order of the company., The Bee Pablishing Company, Proprietors E. ROSEWATER, Editor. — e THE DALILY BEE., PONDENCE. relating to news addressed to the $worn Statement ol Circulation. Btatsof Nebraska, i, o County of Douglas, (* 8- Robert Hunter, clork for The Omaba Tee, Qoes solemnly swear that the actual circulation of Tig DALY DBEE for the week ending Sep- 18K, was s follows: Bunday, Sept. 10, M t. 17 i t. 19 Thursday, Sept. Friday, Sépt. 21 Baturday, Sept, 2. Average. . 3 LIK05) 18071 CAR 064 i 18089 JBERT HUNTER. Sworn_to before me and subscribed in my presence this 2:d day of Septomber, A. D, 1! Se N Py PRI L. Notary Public. Etate of Nebraska, | o o County of Douglas, { ® % e 1. Tzscnuck, being first duly sworn,de- xe8 and says that he is secretary of The il Fibithiug company, the actual average Qally circulation of TRE DALy BEE for the month of September, 47, was 140 coptes: fox October, 18, 14,5 copies: for N 1 5,22 coples; for December fes:'for Junuary, 18, 16,200 copl 1exK, 16,902 coples; for March, 14, April,” 18, 18744 copios: for 3 Goples: for Jure. s, 10,443 14,85 coples; for August, ] Bworn to before me prescnce this Sth day of Beptember. A Do 1885, . P. FEIL Notary Publi " Tue democrats went down to Ne- braska City to find a Van Wyck and got a Morton. ng inquiries con- ¢ Canada’s military strongth. Thunder and guns, is Canada to be hin- dered from annexing herself to the United States? ToE shotgun in Mississippi is so sacredly devoted to influencing repub- licans on election day and to settling private fouds, that it seems almost sacrilege to use it in intimidating yellow fever refug@es. THERE is a quorum neither in the house nor the senate, nor can any man blame the absentees. Congress is only nominally in scssion, and ought to have adjourned long ago, but could not on ac- count of the insane ambition of Grover Cleveland, who raised a big fire simply to warm himself, TuAT lurid and exceedingly smoky light of democracy, Postmaster General ‘Don Dickinson, in his Detroit speech the other night, described Cleveland as *‘an honest man whostands for the right \with the firmness and serenity of the Rack of Ages itself.” This will hardly +go down even with the democracy, for it is not oniy fulsome flattery, but to christian men it is revolting blasphemy. Perhaps the Don did not know that the Rock of Ages is one of the names of Christ himself. THE democracy of the First congres- sional district have placed in nomination as their candidate for congress Hon. J. Sterling Morton, of Arbor Lodge, Otoe county. Mr. Morton, barring some of bis erratic notions, is eminently qualified for a seat in the national legislature. But the people of this district will not be represented by Mv. Morton, for the very best of reasons, a majority of them “are republicans, and Mr. Connell, the republican candidate, is in perfect ha mony with that sentiment. THE swindling operations of Bedell, the real estate clerk of the New York law firm of Shipman, Barlow, Laroque & Co., were only possible through the connivance of a notary named Henry, who is legally responsible to the banks for the losses which must ultimately fall upon them, because Henry has nomoney. It may be asked whether the American Bankers’ association cannot devise some system whereby the check-exchange dodge cun be stopped. Each succeeding swindle is in every instance based upon the mechanism of banking and convey- ance, showing a faulty state of things in the system somewhere. Irisnow known that the Panama Canal company failed to raise the whole amount of its last loan. Financiers in Europe regard this as a sign not that trust in De Lesseps is impaired, but that the cluss of small capitalists to whom the appeal was directly made have no more money. In the beginning of the enterprise bankers and heavy capitalists invested freely, but as it pro- gressod they drew out, having satisfied themselves that it could not be a suc- cess pecuniarily, Their places as holders of Panama stock were taken by people who usually put their money in savings banks or in small vineyards, It is greatly feaved that the impending erash will bring about a revolution un<" less the French government assumes all responsibilitios and stands between the sharcholders and ruin. T'ie deeision of the inter-state com- morce commission in the appeal made by the American Postal telegraph com- pany to compel the Union and Central Pacific railroads to comply with the obligations imposed on them by their charters will be awaited with no little mterest. It is ar open secret that these land-grant railroads deliberately ignore their contract with the government. Instead of operating their own telegraph lines and affording equal facilities to any telegraph line that may ask for con- nectipns, they have openly given the ‘Western Union company control of their lines and a monopoly of the business from Omaha to the Pacific coast. The question, therefore, which comes before the commission, is, whether the Union and Central Pacific railroads are not bound to give tne Postal telegraph com- pany equal faciiities with the Western Union. The Apportionment Bill Valid. The supreme court of Nebraska has decided that the apportionment bill of 1887 is valid. The eourt found that the acts of both the senate and the house, were all right, but that the act of the conference committee was defective in excluding Sarpy county from represen- tation. This part it declared to be void, and that Sarpy county is entitled to representation under the apportionment act of 1881, It might perhaps fairly be questioned whether as to this last con- clusion the court did not go beyond its authority, though doubtless no such question will be raised, but witle respect 1o the general scope of the decision it THE OMAHA DAILY BEE:. more than. any other property owner be. granted the "use of a large. ‘area upon - a thoroughfare? What benefit is the city to derive from such a grant? © Why should the public be inconvenienced by having the street blockaded at the out- set while the excavation isgoing onand periodically by accidents whenever any break may occur? If Mr. Whitlock has unlimited power to give away strects for private use, he is in position to hlockade half of the city with excava- tions and 0do a very large real estate business on his private account. It would be worth thousands of dollars to evory owner of a large block will undoubtedly be generally conceded that the court has determined the ques- tion in accordance with the letter and spirit of the constitution. Section sec- ond of article third says: The legislature shall provide by law for an enumeration of the inhabitants of the state ar cighteen hundred and eizhty-five, y ten years thereafter: und at its first regular session after each enumeration, and also after cach enumeration made by the authority of the United States, but at no other time, the legislature shall apportion ors and representatives according to the number of inhabitants, excluding In- dians not taxed, and soldiers and officers of the United States army and navy. This is perfeetly explicit in requiring that the apportionment should be made on the census of three years ago, and in indicating that the last legislature was alone competent to make such appor- tionment. The duty was devolved upon it by the constitution, and had the act which it passed been declared void a new apportionment could not be pro- vided except by the legislature which will hold 1ts first annual session after the next federal census, so that the state would remain as now apportioned until 1891, Meantime the people of a dozen or more counties not embraced in the last apportionment would be without representation in the leg- islature, an injustice that no such defect as that found in the act of the conference committee would excuse. The constitution con- templates giving all the people of the state representation and clearly points out the way in which this shall be done. Nosimple defect in an act of the legis- lature that is not repugnant to the fun- damental law should be allowed to de- feat the will of the people. The supreme court has taken the broad, justand com- mon sense view of the matter, and un- questionably its decision will be gener- ally approved. The Boom in Wheat, There has been an almost uninter- rupted advance in wheat for the past two weeks, but yesterday the market took the greatest leap upward since the advance movement began, and in Chi- cago especially it was a field day for the bull speculators. The chief of these, familiarly known as **Old Huteh,” is re- ported to have made on his deal thus far considerably more than a million of dollars, and it is also said that he has the market cornered and has given the shorts notice that the price is going to two dollars. It is, of course, not safe to put any faith in the predictions of speculators, on which- everside, but the conditions certainly appear to favor a further advan One of these conditions is the steady diminution of the visible supply, which is an extraordinary feature of the mar- ket at this season. The almost invar ble rule ie that when the new crop is coming into market there isa steady in- crease in the visible supply from week to week, but the reverse of this has been the case for & week past. The short crop and tho indisposition of the farmers and country dealers to market their grain are the two causes to which the decrease in the visible supply must be attributed. The farmers are not only fully aware of the situation, but they have shown more than usual readiness in accepting suggestions to hold their wheat for the high prices that were sure to come. The wheat growers un- derstand that the advancing market 1s not wholly speculative, but is due very largely to legitimate couditions, and quite naturally they are disposed to reap the full benefit. The effect of this is of course to assist speculation, and if persisted in is very likely to carry the vrice considerably higher. The question upon which the specu- lative movement largely depends is how long the farmers can afford to hold their grain, or may think it expedient to doso. The present prices, it would seem, must prove a strong temptation to many of them to market agart at least of their product, and all but the more wealthy and prosperous, who have no pressing obligations to meet, may be ex- pected to do this. A marked increase in the visible supply is therefore prob- able at once, and in such event the speculation for a still further advance would doubtless weaken. Caution would therefore appear to be the wiser part just now so far as speculation is con- cerned. It is evident, however, that the farmers who ecan wait will receive counsiderable more than a dollar for their wheat, and this promise will in- duce most of them to strain every effort to hold their grain aslong as possible. A Gold Mine For an Inspector. The action of the building in granting a permiv to the N Life Insurance company to occupy sixty-cight feet of Seventeenth stree! twenty-two feet outside of the curb line, for its steam power and coal house isa new departure. It isan exeveise of power on tho partof an inspector which, it permitted, would lead to the most flagrant of abuses and in the end would seriously the city in constructing sewers and sub-ways for telegraph, telephone and electric lights, quito apart from its interference with water and gas mains. The grant of public thoroughfares for private use is at best very questionable. It should in every mstance be restricted within narrow bounds for what is absolutely essentiul for the buildings and their occapants. In this city nobody has ever ‘been al- lowed to appropriate permanently any part of astreet beyond the curb line, and nobody ever should have such privilege, excepting when streets are narrowed, and that can only be done by ordinance enacted by the mayor and couneil, And why should the New York Life to annex the streots underground, and if one city official has the giving away of this valuable privilege he would have an opportunity for making him- self independently rich in twelve months out of perquisitos. A Bat-Blind Policy There are indications that the Union Pacific railroad has practically aban- doned all improvement and construc- tion on its Nebraska lines. It has been shown by an expression of a govern- ment director of that road. who may be presumed to speak the intentions of a majority of the stockholders, that the company has decided to do nothing fur- ther than keep its road in ropair. It is claimed that the owners of the road pos- itively refuse to build more lines in Ne- braska or the long-promised improve- ments in Omaha, as long as the state board of transportation maintains an at- titude of hostility, and the legislature refuses to make the board the figure- head which the road desig it to be. This abandonment of Nebraska as a profitable field of investment is no doubt intended as a rotaliatory measure, but while it is being put in operation, the competitorsof tha Union Pacific are encronching upon its territory and se- curing to themselves the traflic of some of the richest lecalities of the state. ‘While the road has been noticeahly inactive in Nebraska, it has found op- portunities and funds to build and equip many miles of track in other states, not- ably Kansas and Colorado, and this in spite of the impending Outhwaite fund- ing bill. Right here it may be well to recall the fact that the short-sighted and narrow- gauged policy pursued from the outset by the Union Pacific has borne its legit- imate fruit. From Durant to Adams, the heads of that corporation have bent all their energies only to secure ter- minal traffic. They have built feeders at extravagant cost into Colorado, Montana, and clear to Oregon. They have literally stripped the country this side of the Rockies of all the surplus production by exorbitant rates and through special favorites have monopolized the traffic in coal, lumber, grain and even cattle. AllL their nims being centered in mak ing fortunes out of the construction of mountain lines, which afford a vast lee- way for Credit Mobelier methods, the policy of the road for years has been to abandon the great Platte valley and the rich territory that should have been inexed by local feeders to compoting railroads which have built up a perma- nent and profitable local tratfic within the domain of the Union Pacific. The construction of five competing trunk lines to the Pacific coast has divided the through traffic and left the Union Pacific largely dependent upon local business. They still persist, however, in treating the country westof the Mis- souri like a Turkish province—to be exploited and taxed out of its resources by the old-time rates on the Credit Mobelier basis of yielding an income on one hundred and thirty thousand dol- lars per mile. Thisof course the people of this state will no longer submit to, even in the face of threats that they will be relegated to the tender mercies of the Burlington, Northwestern, Mis- souri Pacific and other lines. If the Union Pacific managers persist in their bat-blind policy they will only succeed in arraying the state against them ana foreing its people to more re- strictive and repressive legislation, T of an Indiana paper writes bitterly that the range beef market is controlled by Chicago, Kansas City, Omaha and St. Louis men, who are in a trust to keep up the price of beef, and he adds that these wicked men, Phil Armour among them, stand between the eastern consumer and the cheap beef of the range country. What bosh! If it were not for the enterprise of these four cities, the eastern con- sumer would get norange beef at all, but would be entirely dependent, upon the local raisers of steers whose prices would mount up to incredible rates, were they not kept down by the com- petition of the men of Omaha, Kansas City, Chicago and St. Louis. That is the truth, but some men squint so badly that they see all truths at an obtuse angle. THERE is some foundation in the com- plaint made that the cedar block con- tractors are vetarded in their work be- cause the streets which they pave ave not curbed in time. The firm which has the contract for setting two-thirds of the curbing of the city is also exten- sively engaged in stone paving. In con- sequence, it has repeatedly neglected to curb the streets for the wood pavers until it had pushed ahead those streets on which it had the contract for pav- ing. It is manifestly the business of the board of public works to designate those strects which have the precedence in either curbing and paving, and con- tractors should be made to obey the in- structions of the board on this impor- tant matter. ONE cannot always trust even delib- erato statements of fact. Edison may have discovered the yellow fever mi- crobe or germ and then again he may not. The whole scientific world some years ago was aroused by the finding at the depths of the ocean of protoplasm, which Prof. Huxley in a burst of enthu- siasm declared had all the promise and potency of life, and it transpired subsc- quently that it was all a mistake like Faraday's furfurol. Many men doubt the germ theory altogether and believe in a vitiated condition of the atmos- phore, which is fatal to peculiar consti- tutions. From shese individuals the fover there spreatl to. otliers who would not otherwise have been affected. . The spread of parasités in an armg is un an- alogous case fth the appoint- Jostmaster, Gon- ArL. is not:sereno ment of Chicagoe’s new eral Walter C. Newberry, who succeeds Mr. 8. C. Judd. The business men of that city are not at all pleased with the prospect, us the general, it is said, rep- resentsthe short-haired school of politics and will not forget the “boys™ when the appointments e to be made. It is more than likely that when his name is sent into the se the question of his confirmation will be most carefully woighed. I is perfectly proper for the city council to join with the council of Council Bluffs in the opening ceremo- niesof the new bridge, and to make the oceasion a memorable one. It will afford an opportunity also for our people to call up the provision in the Omaha charter which clothes the city council with power to regulate and fix the rate of bridge tolls on any bridge within the eity or across the viver abutting the city. It 18 a fair question whether the illumination of cities by elevated elec- trie lights is a success or a failure. In Denver the experiment has been tried with results far from gratifying. Each cluster of lights is indeed visible from a considerable distance, but what the pedestrian and the driver require is focal light, not diffused light. The eleetric high light givesonly the latter. THE present year will be one notable for public improvements in Council Bluffs. Over five hundred thousand dollars have already been expended for paving and sewering. As a result there are thirteen miles of paved streets and a sewerage system equal to the present demands. The march of public im- provement has evidently taken firm hold of our sister city Stranger Than Fiction. Washington Critic. “Mr. Potter of Texas" is a work of fiction; Mr. Kilgore of Texas is a work of reality. Troth is sowetimes stranger than fiction, LA ey A Jealous Animal. Chicago News, This is the time of year when the ambitious candidate for oftice attends the agricultural fair and grows insanely jealous of the prize ox, because that “noble animal is more popu- lar than he. —_———— A Sad Prospect. N. ¥. Sun. Any federal ‘democratic officeholder can bet the United ‘States treasury against a cancelled sickly green postage stamp that if the democrats are licked next November he will be looking for a job next spring. bl e Pinneer Press Auctionecr Unole Sam: “The presidency, gentlemen; how much am Ioffered! Ten thousand is bid; do T hear twenty! Who'll make 1t ten an’an ’alf, an’an 'alf, an’ an’ 'alf? Do I hear the 'alf 1" L Indircet Intluence, Springfield Republican. Anna Dickinson is on the stump i ana for the revublicans, and the poli are said to complain because her audiences are so largely composed of women. The ob- jection is not well taken, Women are v much interested in this campaign on both sides, and they slways did have a good deal of mlftuence with men. ——— Silly British-Canadian Bluster. Chicago Tribune. A dispatch from Ottawa announces that the members of the dominion cabinet have been called to the capital owing to the re- ceipt of a dispateh from the British authori- ties in London asking for a report upon the condition of the volunteer militia force of Canada and what military resistance can be made in case of war with Americans, Of all the acts of Lord Salisbury this is the most pitifully ridiculous, If it is not a silly bluff, then it indicates the grossest ignorance on the part of the British cabinet of the war- like power of the United States against any foe on this continent. ——— STATE AND TEHREITORY, Nebraska Jottings. Johnson county farmers will not sow much fall wheat, as the ground is too dry. The ity council of Indianola has granted a saloon license in spite of a vigorous remon- strance by a large number of citizens, Platismouth 18 considering a very flatter- ing offer from the builder of the Nebraska _City pontcon oridge to put in a similar struc- ture there. During the races at the Johnson county fair P. H. Shaughnessy, a jockey, was thrown from his sulky and had both boues of his left leg broken. A Custer county politician made three specches in one day—one for the democrats, one for the union labor und one for the pro- hibitionists. He was talking for anyting to beat the republican party. Platte eounty’s schools have furnished em- ployment the past year to thirty-five male and sixty-one female teachs the aggregate salaries amounting to §20,410.60. The entiro cost of the schools was $100,622.50, The Johnson County Journal is very anx- ious to know what has become of the new Missouri Pacific road that Hon. Church Howe intimated would be built to Tecumseh, It is less than six weeks until election and no road yet. Willie Prietauer, working on a ranch near Gothenburg, was sat down on by a bucking bronco, the pummiel of the saddle producing a dislocation of the humerus and fracture of the anatomical neck of his south shoulder. In spite of it all Willie will recover. ¢ Two Scotia young men wenton a big drunk several weeks agp, assaulted & farmer and were arrested and fined. They now bring suit against the saloonkeeper who sold them the liquor, claiming $1,000 damages each for the stain that has been placed on their fair names by the spree and its consequences. W. H, Stone, a Ulysses farwer, has sold £2,300 worth of hogs this year, which causes the Dispatch to -wemark “thut while corn is king, the hog is his prime minister. The hog is also the treasurer of the farmer, and he never embezzles nor defaults. Hurrah for the hog and his dbminion and his functions and his price and everything that is his. Ulysses is one of his temples. He has al lowed the steer and the sheep to adorn the courts, but the foundation and the walls are his. Withoul him the ccwboy would now be jingling his spurs, cracking his whip and popping his revolver along the banks of the beautiful Blue and the Indian brave would be surreptitiously skinning the white man's beef in the hazel brush. once more hurrah for the hog. Towa. Shippers pay 2 cents per pound for grapes at Muscarine, o coal company distributed ong its employes last Satur- Fourteen saloonkeepers at Lyons were fined §14.85 each for keeping open saloon on Sunday. D. C. Johnson, a well-known farmer of Fremont county, was trampled to death by & mad bull. The thirty-third annual session of the lowa State Teachers' association will be held in Des Moines Deceinber 26 to 20. City laborers work cight hours in Fort Madison, but they receive only 81 per day and tedms sre paid only §2.50, The News ulyl oné of the Des Moines churches is 86 infected with. bed bug that life is made miserable for the dwindling con- grepation. Des Moines bakers ngreed that bread was too eheap, and 10 cents per loaf or three loaves for ° price was formerly S cents a loaf or four loaves for a quarter. Although the harvesting of sweet potatoes has scarcely begun at Muscatine tho ship- pers have already consigned about twelve hundred bushels to points in the surrounding Carter cropped sixty acres to 8 and sold his crop to the Atlantic canning company for $900 cash, It pays to raise sweet corn and it pays to have a can- ning Mmetory. ‘Ihe aunual state convention of the woman suffeage association is to be held at Ames October 18 and 19, and an excellent pro gramuwo 18 being arranged for it. Susan B. Anthony has promised to be present at the convention, and she will speak on Thursday evening, Captain T, W. Kendall, a well known boat- man of Spirit Lake, and two friends, are re- fitting a little steain launch, which has been one of the lal afts for several years, and will soon put it afloat in vhe Missouri at Sioux City and steam away to New Orleans. They will pass through Lake Ponchartrain n‘inl work their way along the coast of K'lor- ida. Dakota. A movement on the part of private indi- viduals is on foot to stock the streams about Rapid City with trout, The La Gr: arier hints that there is a small fortun aiting for the man who has sufticient ent se to start a lime-kiln in that vicinity. A large mountain lion is terrorizing the in- habitants in the vicinity of Boulder park, near Deadwood. No one ventures forth at night witgout a gun. A Deadwood lady, well known as leader, will go to Chicago tl enter the college of medical science, with a view of fitting herself for the performance of faith cures, Charles . Armstrong, manager of the Porter Milling company at Castlewood, has disappearcd, His books showed a shortage 3,000 bushels of *vheat and he also secured £000 in cash Somewh in the neighborhood of thirty ts of Bismarck are reported to be ing seriously of goingtoChina with the Marauis de Mores and _engaging with him in his gigantic railroad scheme, The Rapid City Republican makes the fol- lowing prediction for the marble industries in the Hills, “The time is not far distant when the marble industry of the Hills will occupy one of the front se In quality the narble is not excelled by any marble of tho ne shade on the American continent. It takes a high polish and its color is rather pleasing to the eye.” < Ira M. Jackson, who was convicted at the January term of the district court st Dead- wood of the crime of manslaughter, has been sentenced to the penitentiary for ten years. The defendant’s attorneys a few days before stated that no appeal would be taken, but when the court gave the defendant ten years they scemad surprised and said the ' case would be appealed to the October term of the suprewmc court. g PROMINENT PERSONS, ce C society Ex-President Hayes thinks northern state wili go republican, and that West Virginia will give a large majority for Harrison. Prince Bismarck's health is said to be bot- ter than it has been for years. His complex- ion isa clear pink, and ho walks with an clastic step. Grover Cleveland, Druid Hill that _every the deer presented to park, Baltimore, by a Mississippi lady, recently jumped over the high park fence ude his oscape. The other Grover Cleveland will take to the woods in November. Mr. Gladstone, who is one of the best ex- amples of physical preservation cxtant, cats simple meals, with claret for lunch, and claret or champagne and always port for dinner. A formula of his is to chew every morsel thirty-three times. Editor Hebron of the Kinsley (Ki cury gives notice to the lealers that since a recent int Mer- liquor ew with Mrs. H., who, although a little woman, is versuasive, they need not waste any more stamps sending him circulars, Octave Feuillet, the famous French novel- ist, has just buried an only son, a young man of thirty. The deceascd left 'a widow and children, The elder Fenillett is prostrated with grief, and a great deal of anxiety has been awakened by his condition, A writer in the Leavenworth (Kan.) Times says that the notorious raider Quantrell is not only not dead, but is at present in the west, where, under an assumed name, he supports himself by teaching school in'the winter and working on a ranch in the sum- mer. . Commander-in-Chief Rea, of the Grand Army of the Republic, thinks that there is more work than glory connected with his place. During the last oficial vear he has held court on 200 days, traveled 26,000 miles, slept for fifty-two nights in slecping cars,and delivered 108 speeches, William Walter Phelps of New Jersey is said to be worth 812,000,000, which is invested one-half in real estate and the other half in railroad stocks and bonds. Hitt and Phelps arc warm friends, and financially they hunt in couples. They own at least §200,000 worth of property dircctly around tho capitol in Washington, conjecturing that it will soon be the fashionable center. Von Moltke, notwithstanding his eighty- eight years, carries himself easily and secms a weli-preserved man, in spite of his deaf- ness and liver trouble. Tall and lean, he is slightly bent, his smoothly shaven face has the color of old ivory: the tall brow is sur- mounted by a blonde wig, although he has had the courago to have his portrait painted without the peruke, so that posterity may see what a cranium he 'had; two gray-blue eyes, deep, cold and penctrating, look at you most cruelly; the lips are_thin and the nose long, straight and strong; long, muscular ears, and a small, closed mouth—which is a sign of dis- cretion if not of taciturnity. e e Another Version. OMAHA, Sept. —To the Rditor of THeE BEE: A personal reminiscence may perhaps serve its purpose in help- ing to settle the vexed question of “How shall we pronounce Sebastopol.” I chanced to be one of the ‘‘handful of American citizens” who made the voyage of *The Quaker City” in 1867 —which voyage furnished the inspira- tion for Mark Twain’s “Innocents Abroad.” It will be remembered by those who have read that book (ana who has not?) that we sailed to the historic shores of the Black sea, and scattered ourselves lover the battleficlds of Redan and Mal- akoff, Inkerman and Balaklava. After- wards we proceeded to Yalta, where the royal family of Russia were summering, and where the emperor had signified his willingness to r us. Among the cour s extended to us there was .akfast given ut the palace of the ind Duke Michael (an uncle of the present emperor). [t was here, in con- sation with the host, than whom a citizen of our republic could not have been more genial, or gracious, or intel- ligent, even upon matters pertaining to American history, that he recalled the Siege of Sevastopol, pronouncing the word with decided emphasis upon the third syllable, thus—Sev-as-to-pol. Assuming with Dr. Thomas that edu- cated people of their respective coun- tries establish the law of good usage for their geographical names, the accom- plished grand duke here quoted may furnish the desired precedent. M. M. . —~— Wanted—Markets. Reftector, Visitors to Council Bluffs are often heard to express surprise that this city is not a better market than 1t is, Itisa fact that cannot be disputed that fully three-fourths of the hogs, cattle, corn and other marketable farm produco of the territory tributary to Council Bluffs is' taken to Omaha and sold. Each day, if you will, you can sco dozens of farm wagons loaded down, being transported across the river on the ferry train. Why is this so? Just because there are no markets here, A farmer brings a load of grain to town— if he sells it, it must be at a price a few cents per bushel less than he can get in Omaha—consequently he goes to Omaha, sells his grain, purchases what supplies his needs and returus to his Towa home, our city loses, of course, but there are none to blame but the Council Blufl's business men. What is needed to increase teade in our city are good markets, where the farmers can dispose of their goods for as good prices as they can get in Omaha: establish this fact and our retail merchants will notice a great in- croase in their business, and there is no reason why this city should not in this 1 be made equally as good a com- al center as Omaha. There i plenty of capital here, but it is a sovr act that it is controlled by apparentl) inanimate beings, whose miserly prin- ciples will not let them undertake any enterprise that will assist in making Council Bluffs the business place it should be. As long as the capital of the city is controlled by such antiquated old skeletons, just so long will it be kept from progressing as it should. But these old fossils will goon run the race and the younger ones may mani=- fest more enterprise, and all will be well, but an opportunity lost places ou city so much farther in the back- ground. i The Clumsiness of Socialism, vopular Scicnee Monthly. It isthe testimon rly ovory competent observer that governmontal management is less economic ergetic, and less plastic than pr management. The result of its subst! tion would be in the long run to lower the product both in quality and quant- ity, through waste, incompetency, and a tendency to retain old methods where new and better ones should bs tried. The reasons for this are not far to seek. Lacking the normal and powerful stim- ulus of self-interest, as well as the en- ergy which is the outgrowth of compe- tition, the state, as an industrial agent, can never be relied upon 1o equul in productive results the present system of individual management. But this of itself would not necessarily condemn it, if can be shown that socialism, by raising the moral tone of society and more equitably distributing its eco- nomic product, gets rid of those evi which, it is claimed, are caused by in- dividualism, aud, thus elevating the standard of social, well-being, more than balances the lossin production. It is indeed conceivable that men might live happier and better than they do at present by restoring the ancient ideal, and limiting their wants only to those things which are essential to human welfare; and that production might, as a whole, be less than it now is, and yet icty be better off if work were so ded that there should be no such thing as overproduction of some articles and underproduction of others, or that such a ratio should be preserved that the purchasing power of the masses would keep pace with their production powel To this, however that there is no good ing that the state will be of what is essential for human welfare than the individuals who compose it, and it would not be as sure a check on “overproduction™ as the selt-int the individual producers; for this will keep them alert d watchful of the conditions affecting demand and supply e The Inter-State Commerce October Scrilmer’s. The immediate effects of the law were extremely good. There were certain sectionsof it, like those which secured publicity of rates, and equal treatment: for different persons in the same cir- cumstances, whose wisdom was unive ally admitted. Indeed it was rather a disgrace both to the railroad agents and to the courts, that we had to wait for an act of congress to secure these ends. and most of the railronds madoe up for past remissness in this respect by quite a spasm of virtue. In some instances it was even thought that they “stood up 80 straight as to lean over backward.” But this was not the only part of the law which proyed efficient. The very vagueness of the clause concerning the. relative rates for through and local traftic, which under ecircumstances might have proved fatal, puta most, salutary power into the hands of the inter-state commerce commission, and one which they were not slow to use. The president was fortunate in his lection of commissioners; above all in the chairman, Judge T. M. Cooley, of Michigan, a man whose character, knowledgo of public law, and techncal familiarity with railroad business,made. him singularly well fitted for the place. The work of the interstate commission,. like that of its Massachusetts prototype shows how much more important is per sonal power than mere techunical author- ity. It was supposed at first that the commission would be a purely admini trative body, with direction to suspend the law. Instead of this, they have en- forced and interpreted it; and in the rocess of interpretation, have virtually ated a body of additional law, which vead and quoted as authority. With but little ground for expecting it from the letter of the act, they have b a judicial body of the highest import- ance. Their existane a possibil ft it may be replied son forfthink- better judge Law. No More D Photographic Times: Marks, Plainfi photog! ' Rimself in conneetion with instantane- ous photography, especially of racing events, recently favored us with a call, ained his method of photo- phing the finish of close races, show- us some of his r order to secure the exposur actly the right moment, he has b era necu ed heneath the wi on a pivot in'such away that by fi viewing the horses s thy appre last sixteenth of a mile, nud follc m along with his finder, the expos- is automati when the camera has re Jper position under the wire just as the »'s nose passess under. Mr. Marks proposes to affix an electric arrange- ment by which ho may sc MOre BCCUrato exposur being no chances of the expunsion of the operating string. Marks has been appointed the offic photographer of the Rochester Driving Park association, and the only reason why his method 1 once by the various other driving associations would seem to be that the results are too accurate and impartial, The camern | ional will not lie, however heavy the bets may be ona losing horse, and there is no chance to declare a *‘dead heat” ! when a photographio nogative plainly shows one horse 'to be a hall head or more in advanee 6f the other. Mr. Marks showed us several photos - aphs of finishes that were doclared “dond heats,” which prove that in reals ity tho horses—in some cases three in number—ywere several inches apart. Mr. Marks believes that a true ‘‘dead heat” is impossible, and that, by his method of photographing, the judges may al- ways be sure of deciding which is the winning horse. O — Antiquity of the Telephone. New York Graphie: “The principle of the telephone has been known for 2,000 years in Indin,” was the ratherin- credible statement made last night by Iy mesbury, who has just returned to New York after years' sojourn in the lund of striped tige and won= dervful faki 1 do not assert, mark you,” continued Mr. Amesbury, *that they use the telephone as we use it, or that they have any system of general communication. What I do say is that the high caste people have a mothod of communicating with each other by vi- bratory action on a diaphragm, just as wo dobut it is contined entirely to their templos,and its existence has remuined ascerot until within a very few years, 1 was in atows called Panj, about two hundred miles from Mad and while there became acquainted with an Eng- lish officer named Harrington who was me favorite with the natives be- cuuse on one oceasion he had saved a viest from drowning. It was through crington that I was enabled to learn the existence of telephonic communica- tion and to satisfy myself of its anti- quity. There are two temples in the vil- lage, about a mile apart. In the interior and on the ground floor of each small circular structure wh is guarded day and night from the na- tives as well as from strangers, and is supposed to be the abiding place of the ‘governing spirit,’ but in reality is the terminus of the telephone line, which is laid underground from one building to the other, The superstitious natives r rded this little struct with the greatest awe and reverence, because they had seen demonstrated before their eyes—or rather ears—the power of this spirit to communicate with the other temple. They were required to make their offerings in one building, and make known their wishes and de- i Then immediately repairing to socond temple, they would be in- formed of all they had said and done, although neither priest had left his was regarded as a demon- of the spirit. Wo re unable to determine the composi- tion of the wire that connected the two buildings. It was some kind of metal, but neither steel, copper nor brass, al- though it closely resembled the latter, The transmitter was of wood, and about the size of the head of a flour Dbarrel, and to estab- lish connection, instead of ringing o bell, the person wishing to attract at- tention at the other end stood close to the curious looking thing and shouted, ‘Ooey! ooey!ooey!” This was answered by a similar shout, which while faint as distinet and could be heard two feet awa, After Harrington and [ had gained the confidence of the priests— or, rather, he had—wo were given a carte blanche to do as pleased, and we talked to each other from one temple to the other for more than an hou We learned that the telephone that we saw had been in use for thirty The priests were very old men, and they remembered that the line of communication had been renewed only once during their incumbence, They showed the remains of wormm eaten transmittersand wooden condui that must have been hundreds of yeas old. They claimed that the system had been in existen since the creation, and laughed at us when we told them that the same principle hus only been applied in England and America with- in the lust dozon years, overy part of India and in Burmah this system of secret communication exists, although hundreds of travelers have never sus- pected it. T beliove that it dates back fuliy two thousand years.” Lincoln’s letter of acceptance was u medel of brevity that has not been fol- lowed of late years. It was as follows SPRI LD, Ill., May 23, 1860, The Hon. George Ashman, President of the Republican National Convention— Sir: Taccept the nomination tendered me by the convention over which you presided, and of which I am formally apprised in the letter of yourself and others, acting as a committee of the the convention for that purpose. The declarations of principies and sentiments which accompanies this let- ter meets my approval, and it shall be my care not to violate or disregard it in ng the assistance of Divine :, and with due regard to the views and feelings of all who were ented in the convention, to the tories and inviolability ution and the perpetual union, harmony and prosperity of all, I am most happy co-operate for the practical success of the principles de- clared by the convention, ABRAHAM LINCOLN. President Lincoln’s second letter was about the sume length, - Distance Covered by a Waltz. Chicago American: Mr, Edward Seott, in his Dancing and Dancers, makes the following estimate of the dis- » actunlly waltzed over in an even- by a belle of the ball reom: *Do vou, ‘my fa fragile reador,’ think you would go si around a'moder- ate-sized ball room, say, making a cuit of eighty rds during o waltz? Yes, at leust, ¢ allowing for rest. yards, if you went But you ‘are turni 2 time, say on h yard of onward e of ) three times ill bring cach ters of a mile, or, at miles for eighteon of oncein and the waltzes et S R A Business Scheme, New York Sun: “Why do you ask for ten eent demanded a citizen of a tramp in city hall park. **Most of you fellows oply ask for a penny.” i, politely respond 1l wnd if they are repulsed th hopeless, With me [ean offer bargains— slaughter prices, In this case I am willing to make a dead reduction of five cents, thus enabling you, my dear sir, to come to the assistance of a deserving but despairing fellow-being, with the pleasant feeling that you are not only doing good but doing it at fifty cents on the dollar.” tramp, case 18 s b, Not Fond of the National Game. Norvristown Herald: “Every timo T enter your office,” said Alpha to Omoega, “1 find you poring over the Congress- Rocord. Why don’t you read some oth wper for a change?” “The Congressional Record,” replicd Omega, “contains no buse ball news,'’ s M Angostura Bitters, the celebratad wp- potizer, of equisite favor, is used all e the world, | Dr, J. G. 13, Slegert & Sons, sole manufacturers.