Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 7, 1888, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SU / DAY, OCTOBER. 7 L 5 A VAT S AN MY 1D 1888 —-SIXTEE PAGE THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERME OF 8UBSCRIPTIO! Dally Morning Bdition) including Sus BER, N6 YeAr.c0eein.e ¥ 310 00 Yor Six Months ... verii GO0 ¥or Threo Months 3] ok OMANA SUNDAY BEE, fialled 10 any address, One Year 20 ONAHAOFFICENOS VA AND OIS FARNAM STRYET. NEW York Orricr, ROoMS 11 AN IBUNY BULDING. WASHINGTON OFFICE, NO. 61} FOURTERNTH BTH AY CORRESPONDENCE All communications reiating to news and edi torial matter should be addressed to the Eurzoi OF THE Brk. BUSINESS LETTERS, All bustness Ittors and remitfances should he addressed to Tie Brr PUBLISHING COMPARY, OMANA. Drafts, checks and postoffice orders 10 bemade payable to the order of the company. T1e Bee Publishing Company, Proprictors. 3 ROSEWATER, Editor. THE DAILY B $worn Statement ol Circulation tataof Nebraskn, 1 'l’numynf Douglas, | & # George B, ‘Tzschiuck, secretary of the flee Pub- Ushing company, does solemnnly swear that the actual circulntion of Ti DALY 1 for the week ending October 6, 1588, was as follows Bunday, Sept. ) 1823 M 1. 1105 Wednosday, Oct. Thursday, Oct. 4 Friday, OCt.5.. .. Baturday, Oct. 6.0 Averago i Siii GEOR L TZSCHL Sworn_ to before me and subscribed in my presence this 6th duy of October, A. D, 148, Soal. NP, FEIL, Notary Public, Btate of Nebraska, —{ County of Dougfas, { & orge . Tzsciiick, being first duly sworn, de xes and says that Lie 15 secretary of The Bec blishing company, that the wetual averags daily circulation of ThE DAiLy for the month of Septeiber, 18 October, 18, 11,551 87, 15,28 copie fen:'for Junuary, 1888, 15,012 copl April,’ J85S, 18 coples; for June, 16, 19,24 coples: Tt 18,053 coples: for August, 1885, 18,181 GEO. B TZ5CH 011 cop: e February, 681 coplos: fOr 15,181 Sworn to before me Bresenco thisth day of fe 3 . P.FEIL Notiry Public, Tie cold wave flag has been hoisted, and it does not seem to have been moth eaten in its summer retirement. @TerE is no necessity of a pontoon bridge ncross the Missouri at Omaha. And it is all moonshine that such a bridge will be built within the next five WHEN flour goes up to ten dollars a barrel there is a kind of grim humor in contemplating that although corn does not make flour, 1t makes excellent hog and hominy. s has made a new treaty with the Peruvians. If it protects Ame capital invested there, we care tle if they gobblo up every roud in sight. TRE people of Chicngo do not mind a tie-up of Mr. Yerkes’ cable line due to the strike of the grip-men. The road had a way of breaking down continu- ally. Now the people walk and save their nickles to hoot. THE indications are that the ceremo- nies connected with the opening of the new bridge between the sister cities of Omaha and Council Bluffs will be most amposing. Tt is not a meve local affair, The two great states of Towa and Ne- braska are deeply interested in the union. The occasion will be a mem- orable one. THERE appears to be considerable mystery connected with the railr that is pushing its way through Wiscon- sin, Minnesota and lowa to Omaha. The question is, who are its backers? It is known as the Winona & South- western and is said tp be a link in the Delawaro & Lackawana system. DBut there are knowing ones who claim that it is being backed by n no less powerful syndicate than the Canadian Pacifie. It is well known that the Canadian Pa- eific has recently undertaken several projects of magnitude. There may be some color therefore to the report,since that railroad has obtained a strong foot- hold in Wisconsin and Minnesota and is pushing out feeders in various diree- tions. to impugn the mo- WE do not propos: tives which actuate the chairman of the republican county central committee in holding back the call for a meeting of the committee to fix the dato of the coming county convention. We do, however, consider it imprudent for the party to delay its nominations unreas- onably, At least ten days’ notice should be given of the primavies and conven- tion, and two weeks is not too long for a county campuign which invoives the election of twelve members of the legis- lature. Owing to the submission plank the advantage in this campaign is with the democrats of Douglas county. The odds aguinst the republican ticket by reason of local defcctions must be made up in a ticket of the very hest material at the party’s disposal, and the candidates must have time to make a personal canvass thut will rally to their support elements that are disposed to be hostile and perfect an organization that will bring out the voters on glection day. SINCE electricity has becn substituted for hanging in the execution of crimi- nals condemned to death in the state of New York, soveral scientists have come forward to advocate tho old system of eapital punishment. Among these Dr. Richardson and Dr. Hammond, well known in their profession, claim that there is danger that the criminal will not be killed by the electric shock. They are answered, however, by sev- eral French and English scientists who have made a careful study of the sub- ject. Death is not only instantaneous, but the electrie shock, when rightly directed, would kill any living object if the tension of the induced curvent was made sufticiently strong. There can be no question that the substitution of elec- tricity for hanging is to be desired. Haoging is brutal and a survival of a barbarous custom. Execution by elec- tricity is not only humane, but in keep- ing with the progress of the age. There ean be but little doubt that every state in the union will follow the example of New York by putting the gallows tree in the chamber of horrors and adopting electricity as the ageut for inflicting capital punishment, Nebraska's Progress. snt year has not been marked rress in any quarcter s countey. < becn a larger addition to the lation than last year from immigration, but much of this has remained in the larger cities, and the rest has distributed itself pretty evenly over oth attractive sec- tions of the country, a greater propor- tion than veual going to the southern some of which have been holding out strong inducements to immigrants, Nowhere has there been any boom, and on the other hand only in spots, where the most extravagant and groundless speculation had prevailed, has the been any serious deprossion. degree of reaction from the extraordi- nary real estate and building activity of last year was cxpected, but those who solemuly predicted a general break down in tho of the country, widespread and a period of goneral financial and commercial hard- ship, are to have been prophicts. The whole country has been advancing steadily, if slowly, nlong the lines of pr .and unguestionably is more substantially prosperous now than it was a year Neb has ¢ ed in this prog She has grown in population, though perhaps not very largely. She has advanced in improvements, al- most every considerable town in the tate being able to show a better condi- tion than a year ago in the possession of those things which contribute to the convenience and comfort of the com- munity. Her farming population is as o whole better off than it wasa year ago. More land has been cultivated, and with splendid results. An unprece- dented crop of the state's staple cereal, “King Corn,” has vewarded the labors of Nebraska's farmers, assuring in the higher price it is certain to bring a much greater prosperity than they had looked for. The increased yield and the advanced value menns millions of dollars of obligations wiped out within the mnext twelve months, placing every thrifty furmerin the stato on a surer and more imdependent basis. The metropolis of the state, whose tinancial and commercial activities show unmistakably the course of the business currentthroughout the state, has moved steadily forward, gaining in population, in business, in improvements, and in permanent w th. While a number of older and larger cities than Omaha have from week to we shown a decrease in ctions ns compare cor ing periods of last year, those of Omaba have ex hibited an increase, and in every department of her commerci afMaies there has been growth. In ever: branch of public improvements the re sults of the year will compare favorably with those of any preceding year, and while the aggregate outiay for building will not equal that of last year, it has still been on a very generous scale, Es- pecially in the construction of residence buildings of the better class the present year will make a better showing than last. Thus Nebr: achieved some present year, bus fuilur 1058 shown false 15k with ka has in all respects progress during the whatever pessi- mists may to” the con- trary has been real, substantial and permanent. It isan addition to the solid foundations before laid, and which have successfully re- sted all the adverse influences that have assailed them. And the people of Nebraska may confidentially look for- ward to a more rigorous advance in the ensuing year. The splendid agricul- tural record of the state must attract population, the prosperity of our farm- ers will advance the general prosperity, legitimate enterprise will be stimulated and steadily and firmly this monweanlth will move path of progres: eat com- forward on the Nebraska is all right. iler's Installation. The installation of Melville W. Fuller as chief justice of the supreme court of the United States will take place to- morrow. It will bhe the cighth event of the kind in the history of the govern- ment, and though usually attended with only the simplest ceremonies, its relative importance is not thereby diminished, for the induction into oflice of the chiof justice of the greatest judicial tribunal on earth is a matter only less serious and significant than the inaug ion of apresidentof th{(-puhlic, When Chief Justice Chase wad inaugurated the cere- mony was extended somewhat heyond the practice that had before been observed, and it is understood that a similar cere- mony will be gone through with in the case of Chiel Justice Fuller. The law requires the chiefl justice to take two oaths, the first being the one which all ofticials under the government, except the president, must take, and which de- clares past loyalty and future faith and allegiance to the government. The other is the onth originally preseribed and taken by all the chief justices and assoeiate justices since the foundation of the government, and is a pledge to admimster justice impartially and faithfully discharge the duties of the oflice. This oath is taken in open court, while the custom has been to administer the first in the robing room with only the associate justices present. When Chief Justice Fuller takes his place on the supreme beneh the politi- cal division of that tribunal will be six republicans and three democrats, The precarious health of Justice Matthews has created an apprehension that the time is not remote when his place will have to be filled, while it is highly probable that two or three of the other justices will retire within the next four yuars, as it will be their privilege to do. It 15 quite possible, therefore, that there will be a change in the politicaldivision of the suprewe court within the next two or three years, and this possibility has some siguificance in connection with the question of who is to be the next president. emmr———— An Attractive Feature Commencing with its Sunday issue of October 14, THE Brk will begin the publication of au interesting series of letters upon ‘“‘the out of way plac of Asia,” from the pen of Mr. Frank G. Carpenter, who hus made himself fa- mous over the well known signature of arp.” Under made with Tae Bre eral of the great American dailies, Mr. Carpenter will traverse and write up sections of the Orient not usually visited by the average ‘‘globe- trotter,” and the results are the exclu- sive property of the journals inter- ested, Mr. Carpenter's first letters will be from Japan, thence he will journcy to China, drifting from the Flowery Kingdom through the islands of the western Pacific to Siam, and thence by way of the ights of Malacca and Ceylon to India. From India he will #0 to Palestine and Turkey, and thence to Iigypt and the palace of the khedive. Dispite the Russian rage against American newspaper cor- respondents due to jeorge Ken- nan's articles on seria, “Carp’ proposes to traverse the Caucassus and southern Russia visiting the domains of the ezar and Greece. This is a nota- ble programme and promises the collec- tion of a fund of interesting information from out-of-way places which will prove of great novelty and interest. That the letters will be more than readable goes without saying. No journalist of the day writes more piquant and charming gossip than “Carp.” He has an eye for novel situations, a nose for news and a pen which mterprets as truly asa pho- tographer’s camera. The readers of THe BEE can be assured that a genuine treat is in store for them during the coming year from Mr. Carpenter’s ve satile pen, and they will no doubt await his suce ve letters with all the impa- patience of a reader interested ina novel which is *“to be continued in next.” the agreement and sev- our Banking Responsibilities in Equity. The American Bankers' association adjourned from the convention at Cin- cinnati without paying any regard to the necessity of some check to prevent the possibility of frauds similar to those perpetrated by Bedell. This swindler could not have utilized the check which he received from a customer for his bogus mortgages because 1t was made out to his employers, the firm of Ship- man, Barlow, Laroque & Co., but he gave it to his accomplice, Henry, who deposited it to his own creditin hisown bank, and then Bedell a short time afterward obtained from Henry his check and placed it to his own eredit in his own bank. Could this have been done without awakening sothe suspi- cion? Isnota bank something more than a mere machine for the exchange of values? Whilst there can be desire to impose upon banks the duties of detectives, they ought to be something more than mere auto- mata. A bank must know pretty thor- oughly the extent of a man’s business, and the bank with which the notary Heury deposited his funds must have had strong suspicion that the checks of Bedell’s firm were not in the regular line of his every day transactions, but were of a suspicious . character. The fraud was devised obviously because Bedell was certain that the bank would take no cognizance of anything which was correct according to the system, and so long as banks maintain this atti- tude, there will be other frauds from time to time based equally upon the mechanism of banking and transpar- ently clear from the common-sense point of view Is it not a fair question whether all banks have not obligations in equity besides those which rest upon the technicalities of the law. The State Bank of New York City is con- testing its liability for the Bedell frauds purely upon a technical point. This cunnot be considered commendable. no THERE is a nccessity for the revision of the banking laws in nearly state of the union. Under the lax tem of st control and inspection, wild cat banking has been encouraged 50 that there are now in existénce state banks rotten to the core and liable to tumble at the first outset of financial stringency. It is a sad commentary on the laws of the state of Illinois, when an institution, s the Traders’ bank of Chicago proves to be, was allowed to do ‘business for years apparently without ibility to anyone. Controlled president alone, without even the ck of directors or stockholders on his management, he had fine opportuni; ties for misusing the savings of many a poor man. The abuse calls loudly for veform. Tt is the duty of the state to sce to it that the depositories for the keeping of people’s money are responsi- ble for every dollar of deposits, TWO 1 D AND FIF were appropriated by of the Nebraska state to carr on inoculation in the swine plague in the physiological and hygienic department of domestic animals, It would be interesting to know whether the two hundred and fifty dollars go for the purchase of the hogs, the virus or the plague. The truth of the matter is that the exten- sive experiments which the university has carried on in the agricultural and veter! v departments have proven valueless, They have been an expen- sive hobby and should be abandoned. DOLLARS the regents university VOICE O PRESS, Of the bridge-building candidate for the state senate in Hall county, the Grand Islsnd Independent remarks: “The gulf between Johu L. Means and a scnatorial seat will prove the most difficult body to bridge that he ever tuckled.” The Schuyler Sun announces that it 1s “‘de- in favor of the next legislature of this state passing a law that will enable the people to directly elect the railroad commis sionersand that they be men selected for that purpose alone and not of the state off cers.” cory farmer,” says the Ulysses Dis- patch, “‘no matter what his politics, should vote for William Lease for attorney general. A reduction of freight rates will benefit the democratic as well as the republican farmer, and certainly no man couid do more to bring about fair, just and equitable railroad rates than William Leese." Now that the senatorial Twenty fourth district tori tled in favor of Keckley, the York candidate, the Fillmore papers wre swinging into line in his support. Says the Fairmont Signal: It is generally known that the re- sult of the senatorial conventicn led to much dissatisfaption. The Signal waited for a satisfactory settlement of the question which itknew wust come. The watter was re- squabble m the has been sutisfac forred to the statg goutral committeo and they decided on Monday in favor of C. R. Keckley, whom the Sigual cheerfully on dorses.’ The Weeping MWater Republican says he democrats in their nomination of J, Sterling Morton for congress, could not have named a man whim g would be 80 easy to defeat. His conffecthon with the B, & M railroad will take every laboring man's vote away from himj while his free trade Cobden club ideas 3\11 drive the reading democrats to vote for the other candidate." The legislative campaign in Adams county waxes decidedly warm, but the Hastings Ne braskan remarks: *“‘Stripped of all side is- sues and local questions, only raised to con- fuse the voter, the issue is plainly before the people of Adams county whother they shall send democrats or republicans to represent them fn_the state legislature, The prohibi- tion and union labor candidates cannot muster enough votes to secure election. The election of either the republican or demo- cratic candidates is inevitable and the in- telligent voter 1n such an emergency must decide which he prefers.” The Madison Reporter sums up the Laws mattor as follows: “Secretary Laws, in order to malke sure of his nomination, voted lust July, with Attorney General Leese and Treasurer Willard for the reduction of rail- road rates on all the roads in the state; and later, when he as one of the state board, voted to allow the different roads more time to present evidence, the people thought he was an honest man yet, and that he would bhe fair between the roads and the people when the time came, little dreaming that he meant to betray them as soou as he received the nomi- tion at their hands, No man of this stripe should be allowed to hold an office who will not recognize the people who send him forth to deal justly by all, and falter by the way- side for his own individual benefit. Party lines must be laid aside long enough to rout out these tools in volitics. Laws has no right to expect the support of the party that nominated him after he has betrayed it, and shown to everybody that heis a dishonest tool, or not competent to fill the place he socks at the hands of the republican party of Nebraska.” s e October. Written for The Res October's shieen is on the trees, His breath is in the air; And on the misty mouutain top, His purpling glories are, Low in the valley rank on rank, In many a broad platoon, Tho rustling corn a murmur makes, Mid crisper airs than June. The sumach with its leaves Flaunts out beside the rill, And blood-red banuers mark thy step, On every sloping mill tlow, Thou art the choicest of them all, Oh, month of garnering grain; I love to feel thy cooling breath, Upon my cheek again. —KvoeNe Cuay FERGUSON, e b In Distress, Lineotn Call, Give us freo lumberor drive upthe hearse, e Touching. Lneotn Call. Ono touch of yintpr makes the whole world shake. vy The Blight of Civilization. Pigneer. Pross The Sioux Indian commission, in Chicago yesterday, informed gn interviewer that Young-Man-Afrald-of-Fis-Horses was at the Lower Brule agercy suffering from Bright's disease. If this steady march of civilization and ethical cultgre continues among the red men, we need not be surprised to 1 day that Old-Man-With-a-Nose-Like-: ope is suffering from hay fever, e s Send Us a Sambple. Denver Republican, In the Omaha Bee of last Sunday lowing appears as an editorial paragraph : “Perhaps it it is necessary to whisper in the cars of the board of education that a little less attention to base bail and a little more regard toward warming school rooms 1s the proper tiing for this season of the year.” What a contrast this is to the condition of educational matters in Denver. Denver has, with one exception, the largest high school building 1 the United States, and the school boacds are alive and wide-awake to the in- terests of public instructio - The Two Bl Chicago Tribune. Now that both parties have presented their schemes of tariff reduction, the voters are brought to the forks of the roads. One party proposes a reduction of 5,000,000, much of it taken off wool, and the other of $70,000,000, two-fifths of which is to come oft sugar. The means and methods proposed to reduce the surplus are widely different. The democratic party is struggling and fighting to take the road which leads to free trade, while the republicans are determined to take the other fork and keep inside the lines of protection. the fol- e The Cold Truth Minneapolis Tribune, The high license law has closed a thousand saloons in Minnesota. A vote for the third party prohibition candidate is a vote to open not only that thousand but several thousand wore, simply to allow some impracticable people to try to close them a different way. They would probably succeed in a great many of the smaller towns, but for every saloon closed in the country there would be two opened in the cities and larger towns of the state. The best way to go forward is not to take two steps backward but to hold the ground already won and fight for more to add to it. Regular and steady progress to the total abolition of the saloon lies through the intermediate means of high license and local option. — - The Penaltties of Truth, Commercial Advertiser. “Here are theso confounded newspapers telling the truth again," 1 a complaint which statesmen have beon often called upou to make. Bismarck is pow reiterating it against the editors of the Rundschau for their publi- cation of extracts Troth the late Emperor Frederick's diary; whigh extracts, though Bismarck at first said that they w gar- bled, are now, by the National tte, which has had thom compared with the orig- inal, said to agreo ‘withi it, word for word. The conauctors of the National Gazette will now have to answer td the prince for this assertion, and likely ‘esough they will soon find themselves in jfiL _,Professor Geffcken, who is charged with furnishing the Rund- schau with the extrifts from the diary, has been arrestod and i on the high road to prison. Behold how good a thing it is to tell the truth under despotis ~—a- Corn is King. Boston Advertiser In the old ante-bellum days the sturdy farmers of the northwest were wont to an swer the vainglorious boast of the south, “Cotton is king," by saying “No! Corn is king." Whoever studies the relation of which maize stands to American economics will be strongly impressed with a sense of the kinglyness of his subject. Not far from ,000,000,000 bushels of this product are raised annually in the United States. No other = product approaches this in value. Rye, oats, barley aud evec wheat, are . iunsignificant itews, Ly comparison, Cotton, rico are left so far behind as to be almost out of sight in the ra ow poople in this part of the country have any idea how com pletely they are dependent for many of the ne saries and comforts of life on the mighty corn flelds that lie in the valley of Mississippi. Every pound of beef,pork or mut ton that is brought into Faneuil Hall market from the Chicago packing house has been fattened on Indian corn. Few of us could ve our Cliristmas and Thanksgiving turkey yellow maize were blasted, rriage horses and the street car horses are strong because they are fed on this most nutritious of grains, Directly or indirectly agreat share of all the industries aud of all the material enjoyments of the Awmerican people have their basis in maize. - — CURRENT TOPICS, A Hubbub at the Hub. In Boston the election of a president has become a matter of secondary consideration The burning question in the Hub is con nected with the administration of the public schools. A reader compiled by the well known Johin Swinton was objected to, and the objection was subsequently sustained, be cause it contained a foot-note intimating somewhat ambiguously that the Catholic priesthood sold indulgences which were not only pardons for the sins which had been com- mitted, but a virtual absolution for sins yet to be done. The fact that the objection was sustained aroused a very bitter feeling among the Protestant women of Boston, and as they can vote upon school questions numbers de termined to register and elect a school board that should be distinctly Protestant. When a knowledge of this increased registration came to the ears of the Catholic women of the Hub, they immediately proceeded to register also, and up to date 25,140 women have registered with an estimated Protest ant majority of 1,000. Now this will puzzle the western mind, for in Nebraska the fair city of Boston always been considered transcendentally liberal, and this whole busi- ness savors of bigou and sugar Langtry's Hat, There are some women who can soled bo con- by a hat for the loss of a husband, and, perhaps, Mrs. Langtry is one of them. At least, it is to be honed so, for the sake of her public performances, which are really excel- lent. Yesterday's telegraphic letter from Paris to Tur DBee informs us that Madame Augusta has created for the Lily a new type of at, uot, the roader will observe, a new combination of existing types, but an actual creation, The feminine mind will at once be on thorns of expectation to know what sort of thing this new creation is, but this will never be known until the footlights reveal it on hier opening night. The question arises, whether the art of the costumer is not becoming somewhat too prominent in things theatrical, for it must be remembered that the infection has spread from actresses Lo ac- tors, and Kyrle Bellew has obtained from Worth a series of costumes for Romeo that will, by their poetry of conception and splen dor of color, utterly cclipse any interest the public might be supposed to feci in the lines of Shakespeare. On the Second. In the discussion as to the pronunciation of Sebastopol it scems to have escaped notice that the word is bastard Greek, a survival of Byzautine days. It is a combination of sebaste, the fominme of scbastos, meaning August, with the sense of imperial and polis city. -If, as is reported, the excellent white czar pronounces the word with the accent on the third syllable, one can only say that it would have better become his imperial mouth tohave placed the accent on the second syllable. This is in substance what theactor, Macready, said to King George, the Fourth, of England, when he condescended to ask the actor to obleege him with apinch of snuft, Even kings and emperors make mistukes, but the world need not follow them into error. Bob Won't Like It. A Philadelphia court has taken a stand on the infidel question which will certainly arouse the wrath of Robert Ingorsoll and all the more because its constitutionality may be called into controversy. A Hungarian applied for his final papors of naturalization. When asked to tako the oath he stated that he neither swore nor afirmed, and further that he did not believe in any kind of poity. The judge then refused to proceed with the ceremony, upou the ground that if he did not take the oath of allegianco he could not ob- tain his papers, and he added to this decision the unkind cut that there were too many in- fidels in this country already. > Electric Execution. Onand after the first day of January, 30, throughout tho great state of Now York all criminals condemued to the death penalty are to be executed by electricity. This certainly is not progress, though it masks under that name, and it is questiona- ble whether the legislature, in making this law, was not actuated by a movbid curiosity to know how the new-fangled system would work. There will certainly come a reaction against electrici which has shown itself to be a dangerous agent, hard to control, and presenting many undesirable features. It probably will be retained in some for s use as a universal factor of force is ut- terly chime 1, for it is eonly cheap under certain conditions, and it can never be made perfectly innocuous, even to the operatives who constantly handle the wires. Homocidal Tip. Adam Forepaugh's elephant Tip has killed another man, making a homiciaal record that 15 nearing twenty. Ought showmen to be permitted to retain creatures that e con stantly kil human beingst O ) Reade, in one of his short stories, advanced the theory that all elephants had homicidal longings, whether they were indulged or not. This scems to be disproved by suflicient evi- dence. But some elephants are notorious wan-killers and they ought to be shot. Tip is one of them, and his doom should be pro nounced instanter. Miseries of Women Workers. Nell Nellson, who exposed the miseries of women workers in _the wholesale furnishing houses of Chicago, has been engaged by the New York World, and her first article upon the metropolitan sop shops apncared almost simultaneously with the publication of her Chicago experiences in book form. This lady is doing excellent work, and overy honest man will wish more power to her pen. Something must be wrong in the system which is repeating in a christian land, and in free America the horrors of effete Iome in tho age of Aurelian. But no one nced lose faith in America for all that. Every civilization which has ever existed upon this carth has perished from vices inberent in its system, and there can be no more hopeful sign thau the appearance of our inherent de- fects at atime when we possess the strength and elasticity of youth and can conquer them. Our conquest over slavery has made other victories the easicr, for those who op pose reform can flgure accurately now the strength which lies in popular detestation of wrong, and the power of tha people t put that detestation into practical legislation. It is possible that there may be disagreement among reformers as 10 the cause of the state of things which Noll Nellson has pointed out, and this would lead to differences as to the necessary remedy. For our part we believe that the root of the evil lies in two things - the practical divorce betwcen those who maie und those who sell fa the frst place, and secondly the overcrowding into citios. It scoms to us that no one reform will remedy both of these thin and that two changes arc nocessary. Let us take firat the separation between the maker and the seller, The one remedy that has been devised for this is co-operation, and it has in variably proved inoperative. Wherever it has boen tried capital has been on the alert, and has put down prices to such a point that the co-operative workers been com pelled to give up the contest. Then the prices went up again. There are illimitable funds at the back of these great slop shops whose dens outdo the bolgias of Daante, and in a contest between o firm with no capital save knowledge and industry and aunother controlling the Fortunatus's pause of un bounded credit, the issue is not and cannot be doubtful. [n our opinion the only remedy is in the introduction of the guild system with such modifications as the A life of modern times demand, According to the guild system the cloaks and dolmans made in New York city could only be sold in New York city. 1t is clear that if New York city insists upon making men's and women,s fur nishing goods for the whole republic, the women of many cities will ba without the work which belongs to them as a saercd right. If the shirts worn by men i Omaha are made in New York, then the workwomen of Omaha will follow their work to New York, and it is this congregating together in the metropolis of myriads of women begging for Christ's sake to employers to give thom work that they may remuin pure and honest,which enables employers to pay them just what they choose. ¥ RO iuts ine market for labor, and buy the cheapest article they can get. What this means is being told by Nell Nellson. It means that a delicate woman is being treated worse than a brute beast, or a piece of machinery,; that her capabilities of work are squeczed out of her by the most hideous slavery, and that she is worn to death in a few years. This could not be if Omaha women made cloaks for Omaha women and shirts for Omaha men, which is the true law of protection, For then each great city like Omaha would be the natural center for all that work which is done in the filthy dens of New York and Chicago Muchof the work is botched, because the workers come from everywhere and do not know how to make the articles properly, or, if they have the knowledge, are 8o driven by their inhuman taskmasters that they cannot, The adoption of the guild system would end this unnatural state of things, since none could be members of a guild save those who were thoroughly qualified. This reform will be considered by capitalists as a blow at their rights, but it is the outcome of a cry for a change which is not to be withstood. The workers suffer, the interests of consum ers are disregarded, and the time has come for a new system, Death of a arnalist, The suicide of Edward Gr anese scholar, has been wrongly attributed to pecuniary troubles, It was known to his most intimate friends that for the pasttwelve months he has complained of dreadful pains in his head, the result, as he belicved, of ulceration of the brain. It scems only too probable that m a paroxysm of agony too great for endurance he rushed for his revol- ver and ended his life by a bullet through his head. He had just returned from Japan, where he had made extensive purchases for his Japanese art emporium, and he was en gaged in o work on Japaucse metallurgy, part of which had been completed. He had many friends among American journalists, having been on the New York Herald for some ycars as au art critic and gencra writer. The Sharks of the Red Sea. An English paper spreads a note of alarm that the ferocious sharks of the Red Sca have found their way into the peaceful Mediterrancan by the canal. But there have always been man-eating sharks in the Mediterranean, as the coral fishers of Naples and the South of Italy know to their cost. The Whitechapel Horrors, The devourers of romances are asking for the whereabouts of Itobert Louis Stevenson, whose nawe is greatly in men’s mouths sinco the commencement of the Whitechapel hor- rors. Scientific men seem to incline to the view that the monster is a man of high at- tainment leading a dual life in the Hyde and Jekyll way, and the thought has even crossed some minds that the crime was suggested to the criminal by Stevenson's ghastly tale, In the meauwhile the author s blissfully un- couscious of all the hubbub, for when last heard from he and his devoted wife were on their way to the islands of the Pacific. Prob ably this means Tahiti, for Mrs. Stevon- son’ daughter is living there with her hus- band, Edward Strong, a Califorian artist en- by King Kalakana to paint frescoes on the walls of the royal palace. His Jokes Will Be Serious. Robert J. Burdette, the well-known humorist of the Brooklyn Eagle, has joined the Baptist church at Philadefphia, and been The Rev. Sydney Smith neland, had a_ similar experience, and wicked wits said of him after his translation that he mixed his two professions, and las jokes were sermons, and his seruons jokos. Theodore Thomas Retires. ‘Theodore Thomas is going out of the con- cert fieid. This will awaken regret in the minds of all lovers of music, but it is inevi table, for he has been for the past threc years a tal for constant abuse of the most venemous character from musicians, and he hias not received compensating support from the general public to a corresponding d The plain fact is that Americans like music, ‘from the domestic piano-playing standpoint, and are not enthusiastic over classic har- monics, The experiment has been tried so often that the fact is notorious. ~ Theodore ‘Thomas himself has been the hero of count less musical enterprises which were remun erative so long as they were fashionab and which ceased to be fashionable when the gloss of novelty had worn off. Wo are what we are, and ¢ L be made otherwise by the most eloguent lamentations of the music-minded. the Jap October 1 October haze o'crhangs the willing Earth, And nature in her garb of gaudy tints Bares her fair brow to catch the fan of Au tumn. O bounteous Autumu! Whom Earth should Eugerly She craves the fruits that load thy mellowing lap The fresh, crisp mornings, aud th' all-tem Surely thou art she meet with kisses, Now proguant with thy v ving brea “Twill brace her for the time -1t comes aj When melaucholy winds, through wood grov Fetch their deep sighs, ana moan, and fret thy leaves faill, and dauce and whirl like giddy maskers In the ball-room maze. "Tis called the sobbing-time of yv. Sear Earth, stripy lifeless lies, And trees with v the skivs. - Steamship Arrivals, At New York - Uwmbria aud Botheia from Liverpool. At Liverpool—Italy from New York, and Kansas from Hoston At Queenstown — Etruria from New York. At Amstordam - Kuskaro from Now York At Rotrerdaw—Rotterdam from New York At London-Lydian and Monarch New York Passed Scilly—Steamer Now York for Hamburg. To aud then, d for her shroud, ull idowed branchlets web from Wieland from EVERY NORTHERN STATE Will be Carried in November by Har! rison and Morton, .1, Albock, of tho iron firm of Peters & Co., of Pittsburg, arrived in town yestorday fresh from a tour through a number of éast orn states, He has boen a close observer of the political demonstrations mado by tha democrats and republicans in favor of theie respective presidential nominees, and as a consequenco makes assertions which go to show the certain election of Mr, Harrison and Mr. Morton, New York, he claims, will go republican by 21,000, the majority It gave to Garfield. Thero is not a manufag turer in the state, he claims, who will vote for Cleveland. Connecticut, he says, will go republican by at least 1,500, This statoment hie bases upon the fact of the increaso of 500 in the late clection two weeks @840 Indiana will give the same majority it gave to Garfield of 7,000, and that is not the highe est figure it may reach. ‘“There is not & northern state that will go for Cleveland, and 1 know it," he says. “‘I have been through all of them, I haye been through them in other campaigns. 1 was in Indiana inthe Garfield campaign, when Hancock et veform. I was on that ‘still-hunt,’ which you remember, 1 left my vatise at Fort Wayne, and it remained thery for five wecks. 1'went down to Evansville, Kokomo, Richmond, and several othod places. 1 had five others with me, and whon we with others had made our canvass, it was found that the state was 6,000 for Hancock, We met domocratic talkers, and every timo they cried tarit reform, we shouted 1,000 for Garfield. When we got to Kvai ville 1 wrote back to John C. New, ‘Write it down 6,000 for Garfield.' When we reached Richmond 1 sent back word, ‘Put it dow: 7,000 for Garfield.” Thit's what Gurflold got. That's what Harrison is going to get. Tho people there dou't want democratic herosy on the tarifl, andwon't have it. The oth night in Cairo, Governor Palmer of 1llinois, who is now a candidate for governor in that mado a speech. He said that iron Vi dland were eiving §2.50 hor day: that if tho tariff were reformed tho same wages would be paid here and the man- ufacturers would still have a margin on which to | I convinced him that irou workers wi tting only S0 cents a day, while liere they were paying over #2.00. On the question of spirits he said that it the tarif were cut, spirits would ba 5 cents cheaper. I 'showed him that there was not a dealer in Cairo who was not selling calico at 5 cents per yard; that if tha tax were removed, those same dealers would have to give their goods away. You ought to hear that audionce yell. They were all works ingmon. Palmier said that those were quess tions he would like to have time to look inte and then the audience yolled again, That! what all democ c speakers want. They want time. If they took and studied up their questions they would sce the hopelossness of convircing honest workingmen of the folly that they can benefit their condition by subs mitting ‘o a reduction of their wages," gy APPROPRIATION DOOTORS, Will the Omaha Medical Oollege Go to the University? In the Lincoln column of yesterday Beg will be found a reference to the attempt, to revive the medical department of the stata university at Lincoln. Itstates that Dr, Moore, of this city, who is a member of tha faculty of the Omaha Medical college, mado a proposition to the regents of the university that if a certain avpropriation could bo se« cured to sustain the college as a department: of the state university, the Omaba collogo would be disbanded in its favor and the faculty would give overy possie ble aid for its success and perpetulty, It is stated that Dr. Moore has represonted that the college has outgrown its present auarters and that a liberal application to poclkets must be made to ercet a new colle 1t is also reported that the college here v live until the proj change is made. The announcement has caused some sur prise to the average citizen, but not to a cluss of physicians who have long been iden- tiied with the late medical department of the state university. One of these was scen nd gave o history of the move. At uest of the regents of theunive "l rof physicians of the state volunteerdd o8 to establish a medical dep: ment of that mstituti The latter w told that there was no money to pay them, but that wien the next legislatre met, an propriation would be secured for the conduct of the place. The doctors worked two years, The scssion of the legislature came and ind no apy; rintion was made, It med that the Omah cal collega presented lobby which kitled tha ppriation. Two more years passcd: ane otlier legislature met. No appropriation, cx- cept in a general way for the support of 'tha unmiversity, was made, and from this the re- gents were to extract as much as thought advisable to rein:burse past sorvices and i for the future work of the faculty, On inal sum was suggestod, ‘Tho fac dissatistied. ‘They refuscd to act, and ear in the summer of the present year the medi- cal department elosed, Now,"" said one of the faculty, “these people want'to o in with the university when before they did ull the conld to kill "its medical department. Wa won't do anything about woever, There were nine of us in the univer We gavo four yoars of time and exporience for noth- ing, lost money und had about fifty pupils. The college here last year had two students. It is paying expenses—t about all it is doing. ‘Plie professors haver been able to get anything." IMPLEM A Disastrous Fire at an Harly fouv Saturday Morning. A destructive fire occurred about 4 o'clock Saturday morning at the corner of Eighth street and Capitol ayenue, near the Union Pacific shops, in which about §,00) worth of property went up in smoke. There were two frame buildings consumad, both of which were foemerly oceupied by (he barb wire company. Of late the ouc on tho corner was used by the Omaha Coal, Cok and Lime company asa storage house for lime and cement, and the other was as an ultural implenent house by Willinm Do & There was in it a lirge quii- ity of reapers and mowers, sleighs and val- » household goods. o duy it had be to put inabout £2,000 worth of lum- 1088 is over £7,000 and is but par- d by insurance, having . policy W York Insurance company for loss of the Coal, Coke and Lamo is loss than 2,000 nnd is also pav- tially covered with insurance. Plie canse of the fire is unknown, but it is supposed that it was caused by u spark from g locomotive or wus set on fire by wid newsboys, who, it is stated, havo making their rendezvous wnder tho building, The structures were old and the dire spread so rapidly that y the tune the fire department resched the seene it was too ve anything and both buildings and nearly the entire contents DESTROYED, men 1 1o wateh nothing was taken u silverware and ¢ «d there were stolen & Co. will ercot n fine brick wares house on this spot next spring left two or mon the ruins to se that ay, nevertheloss woma © which had boen Nebraska and lowa Pensions, Wasmixaron, Oct. 6. Special Telegram to Tuk MHek.] -Pensions for Nebruskans Original invalid--Fred 1. Hil, Robert Wilson, Red Cloud; Jolin Stockton, Chester, Ieissue—John Wilson, Hayes Center, Pensions for Towans: Original John T. Johnson, Atantic; Lonnox. Increase William H. Hiil, decoased, Waverly. issuo—Reuben C. Hyde, Independenc Morris C. Bedford, Patterson; Kdwin Rhoades, Ottumwa; Albert G. Hull, Taintor, Reissue and inorease—Leonard Manning, Chariton, Reissuo—Howard M. Day, Clear Lake; Carl Poterson, Hampton; George W, Lyon, Farmineton, Original widows, ote, — Mactia, widow of Jusoph Dorner, Dodse- ville. . invalid— Alonzo M. Page, Grorge A, Han L golical Assoclation Davrox, O, Oct. 6, the evangelicil assoc mg held bere each con ferenvo t} and Cunadu, vention, ‘The annual session of s be- delegate from United Staice