Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 15, 1888, Page 4

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Sworn o hefore me and subsc rlhud m n 1y Dreun:e this 15th da. of October A, CHRIL Notary Fublic, 2 tas o I3, being duly sworn, de- 1 says that he §s secretary of The Bee blishing company, (hat the uctual average daily circilation of "Tik DAILY BER for th ontn_ of Octohor, 187, 1188 coptess for No- vember, I mber, 185 200 copies. GEOR( Sworn to before and Nn.«mml oy pres- enco, thiy 0th day of O . P. unv.r, “buniic. —_—— FATHER SCIHLEYER, the inventor of Volapuk, is dead. It would have been better for the world if Father Schleyer had lived and his Volapuk had died. Tie battle of the ballot has begun, In all the lurge cities of the country the preliminary skivmish of vegistering for the November clection is taking place. Tue later reports from the Mud Run, Pa., rail disaster fully confirm the first rumors of a terrible holocaust. Since the Chatsworth horror no railroad accident has been so fearful in the de- struction of life OWING to a lack of proper freight depot facilities the merchants and ship- pers of Omaha are subjected to serious delays by the Union Pacific. In no other city would the Union Pucific pro- sume todisregard the convenience of its patrons in the way it does. THE democratic national campaign committee has turned another screw on the luckless officeholders of Washing- ton for funds. They have all just re- ceived polite notes from headquarters to call for a personal interview on “urgent business.” Everybody knows what that means. KANsAs Cr1y is anxious to extend its eity limi But millionaire owners of acre tracts just outside of the limits have succeeded in defeating the project in the city council. Their object is to escape city taxation, and in this they succeeded, just as many rich tax-shirk- ers of other cities have done. yor Hewitt's en- eveland dates back to the time when the President issued his order for the destruction of Hewitt's fences upon government land which had been built by the cattle syndicates of the west. Mr. Hewitt has now an op- portunity of retaliating by smashing Mr. Cleveland’s political fenc York. THE real cause of the marked falling off of migration to Kansas and the ac- tual decrease in population considering the natural increase by births, is pro- hibition. Kansas, like Towa, is paying dearly for her attempt to enforce tem- perate habits by Puritan blue laws instead of restricting the evils of in- temperance by rational police regula- tion and leaving the task of temperance reform to moral suasion and exemplary living. — THE New York Life Insurance com- pany will, in all probabilities, think twice before rushing into court to d. fend its actions in continuing the exca- vation under Seventeenth street after it has been revoked by the . The company has been granted no franchise for using the public high- way for its own use, and therefore whatever privileges the building in- spector has granted to them without euflicient authority can be recalled at his discretion, or by the order of his superiors. THE latest dispatches show that New Orleans, as foreshadowed in these columns, has formulated a most string- ent quarantine against the western part of Florida. The trained nurses who have given their time, their energies, their knowledge to the cause of human. ity, who have risked their lives and ex- hausted their own pecuniary resources for the yellow fever sufferers, are warned away from New Orleans. The United States surgeon who has charge at Camp Perry and who has sent some nurses home by way of New Orleans, was astonished when they returned, and sent a sharp remonstrance, which pro- duced no effect. —_——— A MOST vigorous pressure is every- where being brought to bear on federal officeholders for campaign contribu- tions. The coaxing process having failed to produce the hoped-for results, it has evidently baen determined to adopt a different policy. The most significant indication of this that has appeared is a lotter of the chairman of the democratic national committee, Mr. Barnum, addressed to clerks in the de- partments of Washington notifying them when he would be in that city, and inviting them to call on him. Of course everybody can understand the sort of interest that Mr. Barnum would have in the department clerks. THE INCREASE OF POPULATION. A writer in an eastern journal who has been stodying with evident care the statistios of the growth of popula- tion in this country presents an inter- esting and suggestive computation of what the population may be a century Assuming that the rate of in- crense will be thirty per cont per decade during the next hundred years, which is alittle below the percentage of the past, an equal ratio of population with Ge many will be reached before 1980, and a greater ratio than that of England by 1990, two years more than a century hence. Estimating the population of the United States a fraction over sixty-five millions, which doubtless is not greatly out of the way, the computation on the assumed increase of thirty per cent cach decade gives a population in 1990 of a little short of eight hundred and ninety- nine millions, a ratio to the square mle of 200.30 against a ratio two years hence of 21.70. ““If carried to the ¢ twenticth century of the Chr says this writer, ‘‘this computation would show a population of the United States of the astounding number of 1,116,486,942, with a ratio of three hun- dred and eighty-nine to® every six hundred and forty acres of ground.” As the percentage of the past has been about thirty-two per cent., and as the old world countries have nearly all reached that growth of population which the soil will sustain, and as their populations continue to increase despite their loss by emigration, it is thought to be not wholly improbable that the future increase of population in this country per decade will be nearly or quite thivty per cent. These figures have a bearing on the question of immigration, and it should be said were intended as an argument for restriction, but before giving too great importance to them it will b well to reflect whether the are likely to be realized. It n quite reasonably be obscrved at the outset that it is questionable whether it is incumbent upon this generation to concern itself about possible conditions a hundred years from now. It can do very little to influence them inany way, and if it shall be successful in meeting its own requirements it will have done all that it ought to do. It can only properly concern itself, therefore, with the question whether the country at present profitabiy utilize class of immigrants, however numerous they may be. If it be granted that there is room here for fifteen times as many people as we have there cer- tainly appears to be no reason why we should trouble ourselves about the accession of three or four hundred im- migrants a year if they are peoplo of the right sort. But looking at the mat- ter practically, it is by no means cer- tain that the ratio of increase will be long maintained at anywhere near the percentage of the past. Oune of the great attructions possessed by this coun- try, cheap lands, is becoming every year less, and a few years hence, when the public domain is all absorbed, this at- traction will be gone altogether. There will still for a long time r main greater opportunities than in the olda world, but they will not be so easy of attainment as in the past. It is inevitable that a generation hence the United States will not hold out the inducements to the people of other lands that they do at present, and consequently fewer will come to this country. Meantime pro- vision will be made for a sh: of the iner ng population of the already overcrowded countries in other portion of the world. There are great schemes of colonization now in progress by the Furopean nations which will muke places for millions of their people within the next generation. We be- lieve the computation of the writer we have quoted could safely be divided by two in order to give a reasonable estimate of the population of this country a century hence, and it consequently loses by just one-half its force and value as an argument against immigration. —_— THE WHEAT RISE STARTS A PROB- LEM. Tho rise in flour has alveady created suffering in New York, where the small bakers who buy a little at a time have been compelled to raise the price of the standard household loaf. If the rise can be maintained, and it should be in justice to the farmers of the north- western states, this suffering will be terrible during the winter. It has been assorted that low prices for food pr ducts invariably tend towards the low- ng of wages, because men who go into the market for labor will give rates according to the cost of living, respective of the value of the work which they obtain and the profits which they make. That this should be so is a proof of the false relations of capital to labor, which the most earnest re- formers helieve can only be changed by the introduction of the guild system. That this isso is at any rate a reason- able conjecture in the absence of per- fect knowledge. Now, the converse of this should also be true, and higher cost of living should lead to an inevi- table rise in wages. But if this should not be so, if the power of capital should be equalled by its injustice and its cruelty, wages will remain stationary in spite of the advance in the cost of food products. Can this civilization of ours be genuine which demands either that the farmer should be ruined to en- able the workingman to exist com- fortably on his small wages, or that the latter should be forced into degradation and misery whenever the farmer manages to obtain fair remuneration for what he duces? This problem, but in a more intensi- fied condition, confronts the people of France and England. (n the former the government has sustained the pro- ducing elements; in the latter a rem- edy has been sourght by scouri ing the world for cheaper food products to the ruin of the producer. The English farmer has been so robbed that he is no longer the small capitalist that he used to be, and the landowner has been com- pelled to lower materially the rent of the farms. Cousequeatly the value of the land has diminished thirty to forty hence, can a proper pro- per cent in spite of the fact that it pays no tax to the country, and bears not an iota of the cost of governnent. There is, it willho observed, in the minds of governments no idea of solving the problem. It is simply a choice of evils —to protect the producer at the expense of the consumer, or to abandon the pro- ducer for the benefit of the consumer. Ona of the two must be ground into the dust. But not one word has ever been uttered of the necessity of touching the monopolist. He is the driver, and it is tho galled jades that wince, and whether it is the near or the off side animal—the producer, or the working man—is nothing to him. His withers are unwrung. BETTER ADJOUBN. Senator Hawley set a good example the other day in the senate when he d that he had abandoned his inten- tion to speak on the tariff bill, beeause his heart was in another place, meaning the field of political battle in his own state. The sanator very correctly said that the people were not looking to the senate or caring what it said or did in the mattes “Nobody believed,” ob- served the ator, *‘that the bill could be discussed item by item and disposed of at this session; it had to go over till December.” He intended to go home himself, and he thought that the best thing for all the senators to do. The senator is not mor of playing a part in the congr farce than the country is of witnessing that farce, for such it has been for more than a month past, and such it is cer- n to continue to be until there is recess or adjournment. Why keep it up? The house got through with the last of the appropriation bills, and there is not enough of its members in Washington to make a quorum. They are at home looking after their political fences or wandering about the country campaigning, and many of them ¢ not be induced to return to the scat of government until after the election. There is certain to be no more legislation ¢ this session. So far as the senate is concerned, the di cussion of the tariff theve is not receiv- wtention from the people. The popular mind is finding ample employ ment in other directions, and nothing that senators may in Washington will divert it. Why then, we repeat, kecp up the favce of which everybody has grown tired? The trouble is that while nearlyever member of congress is anxious to hay or adjournment, neither side to make the confession. party s afraid to origin- a proposition for bringing ion to a close for fear the fact would be somehow used against itin the campaign. We believe this to be a foolish feur, but it unquestionably is the influence which is keeping up the congressional comedy. Some one of those members who a styled “‘inde- pendents” would do the country a ser- vice in moving to bring this session of congress to a conclusion. tired n- ing ar FAIRCHILD IN SELF DEFENSE. Secretary Fairchild addressed a meet- ing of business men in New York on Saturday, his speech consisting chiefly of an explanation and defense of the policy and course of the national tre ury in dealing with the surplus. IRe- ferring to the deposits of treasury money with the banks, amounting now accord- ing to the secretary to fifty-seven mil- lion dollars, he was candid enough to say that he does not defend a deposit of large sums of government money in banks, on the ground that it objection- ably mingles private with public busi- ness, but he claimea that the only choice was a choice of evils, and main- tained that the administration had chosen the lesser evil. The other was, of course, the purchase of bonds. Secretary Fairchild is doubtless sig- cere, and at any rate it is not he who is responsible for whatever faults there may have been in the treasury policy, and particularly for the extraordinary b e nccorded the banks by the financial department of the govern- ment. e took charge of the treasury department after its policy had been very fully and clearly defined by his predecessor, with the undoubted con- currence of the president, and although subsequent exigencies necessituted a de- parture in some respects from this pol- icy it has been adhered to as closely as possible in its main features. Ono of these was to interfore as little as pos- sible with the accumulation of the sur- plus by a process known to the law and which had been practiced under pre- vious administrations,that of purchusing bonds. Depositing money with the banks does not reduce the surplus, but buying bonds does. The former policy enables the banks to make prof- its out of the money of the people without paying anything for the privilege; the latter returns the money to the people and stops interest on the government's obligs In his message to the present con s Mr. Cleveland said: “The proposition” to deposit the money held by the government in bunks throughout the country for u by the people is, it scems to me, exceed- ingly objectionable in principle as es- tablishing too close a relationship he- tween the operations of the government reasury and the business of the coun- and too extensive a commingling of their money, thus fostering an unnatu- ral relinnce in private business upon public funds.” Yet at the time of mak- ing this virtuous declaration the treas- ury had deposited with New York banks, among others that of which the first secretury of the treasury under the present administration was president, large sums of money, and when it was urged that the law contemplated the employment of a part of the surplus in the purchase of bonds a sudden doubt took possession of the president and the secretary of the treas- ury as to the extent of their authority under the law to buy bonds., Until con- gross reassured them there was u cessa- tion of bond purchases, and it was dur- ing this period that financial civeles be- came extremely anxious and the exi- gency was felt to be so urgent that re- course was haa to deposits of the sur- plus with the banks which finally amounted to about sixty million dollars, ions. and the treasury resumed bond buying. Wo gran§ fhere may be an honest diffgedpe of opinion to which is fhef lesser evil, ing a vast sun he public mor the banks, the® fhofit from which goes wholly to those institutions, or paying it out for bonds ak alarge promium, with no other advantage to the government than that of stopping interest, butin view of the professed hostility of the ad- ministration to the deposit plan its re- course to it on so large a scale demands some more convincing defense thanis offered by Secretary Fairchild, The truth is there would have been no ne- cessity for adopting this plan but for the doubt of the ministration regard- ing its authority to purchase bonds and its suspension of such purchases on that doubt. IHad it gone on as the law clearly provided there would have been no impairment of financial confidence, the public debt would be less than it is, and the favored banks would not be so rich as they are. NFPLL NELLSON'S ERROR. The recent failure of Zimmerman Co., wholesale cloak manufacturers of Chicago, will tend to dispel an error into which Nell Nellson innocently fell, and which necessarily created a falso impression on the minds of her many readers. Iler work was so necessar, and was dono with so much effective- ness and such a passion of sympathy for the victims of an abominable condition of things, that it may have an effectas groeat “Uncle Tom'’s Cabin,” and may lead to the enfranchisement of white women slave: She thought, and she recorded her mpression frankly, that the sordid avarice of employers was to be blamed, and that an immense profit was wrong out of the misery of the poor wretches who toiled at their needles like galley slaves at the oar. But this bankruptey is conclusive ovi- dence tl the cause must be ascribed to a trenzied competition between man- ufacturers by which wi down to the starvation point, work was increased to the killing point, and yet there was either a very narrow margin of profits or no profits at all. For the firm of Zimmerman & Co. failed be- cause the Traders’ bank closed its doors, the cloak manufacturing company baving a deposit of eight thou- sand dollars. The temporary depriva- tion of this money, and the pros- pective loss of the greater part of it compelled this firm o suspend ope tions. Thev had no less than one hun- dred and fifty women in their employ, whose condition was precisely similar to the descriptions of Nell N It must not be supposed that frenzied com- petition exists only among cloak manu- facturcrs. There can be no doubt that 1t rages furiously among the whole class of makers of furnishing goods. There can be no doubt that it has existed among every cluss of manufacturers throughout the countr The trusts were ostensibly established to remedy this state of things, and as there were many illegal acts, such as egregious stock-watering and corrupt compacts, the public beliaved that the reason al- leged was a mere excuse for the acts of monopolists. But in the face of this failure it must be admitted that this suicidal competition is a establishment of the guild seem to be a more legal, a more equita- ble, a more trustworthy remedy than the trus as It wouLDp be giving just considera- tion to General Harrison to allow him at least a week of rest, aud it is under- stood to be the intention of his friends to secure this for him. He has been by all odds the hardest worked man in the campaign, and he has had but one bricf vacation. The effect upon the popular mind of visiting delegations is nolonger what it was earlier in the campaign; in fact the intluence of this sort of demon- stration is at an end. General Harrison having done his duty to the cause, and done it well, should be given at lenst suflicient rest to enable him to recupe- rate his energies for the final onset of the great battle. Tue highest compliment that can be paid Mr. Kicrstead is the protest of Cadet Taylor against his confirmation as member of the board of public works. The support of Taylor would have at once aroused the suspicion that Mr. Kierstead was either a knave or a fool. In other words he would be liable to the suspicion of collusion with political vultures and birds of prey, or still worse, he would be reckoned among the dupes whom Taylor has roped in to invest in bankrupt newspaper stock Whistling Up Courage. New York Telegram, Uncle Dan Voorhees says that Indiana “is as safe for Cleveland as Texas is." The Tall Sycamore often deals in rosy language, but it will be remembered that all his senatorial exgs are in this November basket, too. — Remarkable. Kansas City Jowrnal, Itis a most remarkable thing that Gen. Harrison should have been making speeches for three months without having “laid him- self open” once to his. watchful opponents. No other public speaker 1 the country has ever equaled that reco 5 The bitter fll,'hl hfl\\'n\'n l\ll‘ democratic factions i New York has progressed in a manner that is eminently satisfactory to the republicans, for it has become clear that the national democratic ticket will suffer. The Scounties” are no doubt honest in their sup- port of Cleveland, with Hewitt for mayor; but as their chicf aim js to defeat Tammany, it would not be surprising if they traded the national ticket to bring about their cherished desire. Tammany, on the other hand, caros nothing for Cleveland, and he will be sacri- ficed whenever a vote can be obtained for Grant for mayor. Mr. Cleveland foresaw this, and sent both Colonel Lamont and Sec- retary Whitney to New York as peacemalkers, but their mission was a failure. Betwoen the local fight in New York City and the enmity of the Hill forees, Cleveland's lot is thoreforo ot & happy one. I"nr the Dhlldren. Washington Critic, Do you see the two little boys! Oneis Jimmie Blaine. The other is Donnie Dickin- son. Are they mad at each otheri Well, we should smile. They have been calling each other names. Dear little boys, do uot call each other names. Jimmie has said Dounie was ignorant. That is a long word, children, but you will learn what it means by and by. pimcar DAY, OCTOBER 15, 1888 And Donunie has called Jimmio a Don Quix- ote. You don't know what a Don Quixote is, do you, children! No, and you must never know, for it very, very naughty, Soe, they have drawn back their little fists, Let us hope, dear children, they will not strike each other, Jimmie has told Donnie hie shall not slide on his cellar door, and Donuie says he will not play with Jimmie any more. Children, how sad is it that little boys should act naughty, Good little boys go to heaven, but bad little boys do not. Try to be good littlo boys, children, Now, run along to your innocent, happy gam iy~ N INENT PERSONS, Philadelphia for a dozen pairs of canvas-b: ducks, But ho still refuses to eat American pork. Mrs. Cleveland knew what she was about when she ran away to the Adirondacks. Fall house-cleaning is now going on at the White House. Emperor William is said to be seriously thinking of taking a trip to the United States after the completion of his journcy ings in Europe. Mes, Blair, wife of Senator Blair, has been elected a trustee of the New Hampshire normal school, the first instance, it is said, of a woman being chosen to such & position’ in that state, Mr, Blackburn, the famous chess-player, played eight simultancous games ~blind folded at the London Chess club a few nights ago and won tive of them. The other threo were drawn, Mr. Summers, a_ Gladstonian member of the English parliament, has been spending some time in Washington. He brought let- ters of introduction to Senator Hawley and has been shown much attention. He has be- come warmly interested in the tariff debate, Mary E. Tyler (nee Sawyer), who becamo historie. togéther with her httld lamb, and is still living at her home in Somerville, Mass., at the age of eighty-two years, has furnished “American Notes and Quer with an authentic account of how the familiar verses came to be written, A brother of the late ex-Masshal Bazaine is still living in France. Ho is un engineer, and has two sons who are promising young officers in the French army. They have been authorized to add their mother’s name to their 4, and are given in the army list us Bazaine- Hayter, Archbishop Corrigan is the youngest of the Roman Catholic bishops and presides over the lurgest see. He is tall and well built and has the step of an athlet anner of a rek has sent to suming also. Bishop Corrigan. was born little white, frame house on Market , used since as a saloon L newspaper oftice, dames C. Flood, one of the bonanza kings, lost fully 00,000 by the da bank wheat deal, but is still ‘worth about $ - 000, Yet Mr. Flood is on his death Heidelberg. His wealth will be equally di- vided between his wife, souand daughter, The latter was always Flood’s favorite, and atone time sho possessed in_her own rignt £5,000,000 M real estate and governme bonds. She gave much of this to father out of his embarrassment a year ago, but she still owns, ubouv.i Regulate the blood is dangerous. Ilais the b livgu Warne tor. Tmpure Log Cabin blood puritier. st bottle on the market. KRITORY, Nebraska Jottings. Potatoes are scarce in Hamilton county and are selling at 60 cents a bushel. Miss Matson, a teacher at Hooper, and two of ier pupils were bitten by a mad dog last week. The Presbyterian church now boing erected at Gandy is the only church building in Logan county. The Cuss county democrats have nom- inated Joseph C. Gilmore for senator, and Frank E. White and T. M. Marquardt for represontatives. Ten prominent business men of Ogalalia are about to incorporate a stock company with ample means to aid and encourago im- migration to western Nebraska. Ln:h'mm tered the depot at Edgar over vire, knocked down the operator, furncd over a famp and shook up Gverything in general the other day. How the fluid made its escape s not known. The Knox County News says that up to the present time there have been upward of 30,000 prairie chickens, and rabbits intry and sdld to the refrigerator men at this place. At this rate there will be no game another year. Joseph Melntyre, of Kearnay, wus ad- judeed insune Thu several physicians testified that his insanity was caused by ex- cessive drinking, and his wife began suit against five saloonkeepers of that city for $10,000 damages. Greene & Hostetter, her attorneys, think they have a good case. Last June the county board of Buffalo county motified Emery Peck, county clerk from 1880 to 1534, that an examination' of his books showed he had failed to account for over 87,000 excess of fees allowed during his two terms. He replied to this, claiming the right to all he had retained. The county board then instructed the county attorney, vans, to bring suit to recover if he thought it advisable. He has brought suit for 2,675 Peck will contest the suit. The house of J. Foreman, a few miles north of Oakdale, was sct, on fire late Thurs- day evemng by the explosion of a gasoline stove. He had cooked his supper and after eating had primed the stove and relit tho flame to heat some water. Leaving the house on an errand, & rod or two from the house he heard a hissing sound, and looking back saw a red glare in the window. When he opened the door_he found the stove enveloped in flames. ~ He had time to kick a rocking-chair and bed tick out of doors and jump himself, when the tauk exploded and the entire house 10 an instant was aflame. The Mead Advocate says: Oscar Erickson, residing about seven miles south of Mead, is the possessor of a small, iron gray mule that has been pensioned for life by the society for the prevention of cruelty to farmers. That mule will never again be compelied to haul the plow or bray in vain for grub. Tho blizzards of December or the cyclonos of August will never again disturb his tran- quility. Henceforth he will reside in a stone barn, within a box-stall. *What actof charity has this mule performed that he merits such high consideration " Three wecks ago last Sunday “Jack” ‘that is the mule's name) was basking in the autumn sun on the warm side of ‘& cottonwood grove, when a well dressed man tickled one of his hind feet. As if by magic, *Jack's” foot touched the well dressed man on the head. The deceased was a book agent. That mule builded better than he knew. lowa. Arrangements have been perfected for starting a broom factory in Clarion. The Burlington w works are pumping about one million five hundred thousand gal- lons daily D. W. Waulkner, of Anita, has harvested @ crop of over ten thousand bushels of pota- toes from fifty acres of land. Dubuque is the home of humorists. To date 571 have remarked that a huge vegeta ble displayed at the Illinois Central ticket of- fice is the biggest beat in town. The Tama postofice comes under the pro- visions of ‘tho uew law recently passed by congress to allow rent, light and fuel to post- oftices of the third class, $450 being the limit fixed for the above compensation., The Burlington Hawkeye says that a well known physician of that city is drinking nothing but soda water since ho was sum- moned to appear as a wituess in the prose- cution of & saloon & few days ago. Two cases of smallpox are reported from Speucer township, Clay county. They oc curred io a family of Norwegian emigrants. One case proved fatal, but the other is doing well. An effective quarantine 1s in force. D. J. Gibbons, a farmer living near Lenox, was fined #1 and costs last Thursday for as- saulting A. R. Fuller. The assault consisted of using insulting and threatening language. After he had paid the fine Gibbons asked: 'About what would it cost me now to lick nim " “If your jury is carefully selected,” said an attorney encouragingly, “'it wouldu't cost you auything."” After turning the mat- ter, over, Mr. Gibbons concluded not to in- vest and drove home. —————— All lovers of the delicacies of the table use Angostura Bitters o secure & good digestion, but the genuine only, manufactured by Dr. Siegert & Sons. BETTER THAN A CHURCH FAIR The Happy Bcheme Hit Upon By a Lincoln Pastor. HE TURNS ADVERTISING AGENT And ForaSmall Sum Agrees to “Puff" a Merchant's Warcs From the Pulpit—Capital City Notes. STRERT, NCoLN, Oct. 14 The great world is full of schemes scheming people. Step from the busi- ness room into the church and this fact is forced into realistic life. There is no eseaping its truth, To-day, placarded on the walls of one of the prominent churches of the city, was to be seen a unique advertising “card bearing the names of Lincoln merchants, grocers, druggists and saloonkeepers, all of whom asked public patronage, and de- scribed in flattering tevms the goods and wares they had to sell. From the altar at the close of the scrvice, the good pas- tor recommended one and all of the ad- yertisers to his parishioners as reliablo men with whom to deal, and it is said that it only cost them %5 cach. 1t may be possible that no apology is necessary for this seeming busitiess transaction. But it comes to the effect that the money thus earned is to be put into the building fund of the church. “IL prevents unnecess begging.” Yet crowding upon the Sunday refloc- tions of TiE BEE scribe comes the echo irtue and honor continue to freeze and starve. Stopping from the sacred portals of one church into another, and the pew rental service is found to be inaugur- ated for the first time. This fact is od only to show the Mo in senti- ment in- religious cles. Lincoln charch people believe in progression. But in this change it is not_sought to deny the communicant the right to wor- ship God according to tho dictates of conscience. Tt is only a matterof where he does it. The common people—the poor—may possibly be able to get near the altar by going down into their pock- ets for the tithes they are not ablo to pay. Itisonly just, however, to sta that the membership of this church is anything but united upon the new re- gime. The renters at St. Paul’s may prove a winning scheme, but the oppo- sition to the change is bitter and like Bunquo’s ghost it may not down. LINCOLN'S SUNDAY GUESTS, At the Capital— I Patterson. Bos- ton: K. O. Lowdon, Chicago; H. Little, Omaha; A. H. Chippes cago Boudenot, Omahs hall, Tenn.; E. B. Men W. L. Dawson, Bennett; Benuett; J. D. Negu George La i A. J. Osldick, Peoria; G. i Boston; W. C. Kohle, Boston; 7. Lo Forkner, Omaha; Frank Adams, Omaha; waukee; LiNco1 ¥ Bureav o } nd G. H. 1~;~1..-r. Aluu\, /. Morgan, Monmouth, 111.; G. Knight, New York; F. M. Kenned Council Blufls; John Medick, (num'll Blu o J. i Chicago; G. W. S L Hugo th.nn. New York; gendaller, Chicago; M 3 ymore; Hirschberg, Bartholome s Clark, Minnesota; S. D. \()uxu: Philadelphkia; G. R. Fer. roll, Nebraska City; ¥. I. Myers, Be, ntriu R. H. Reynolds, Hastings: O. B. Savage, Highland, O.; R. A. Brown- Brooklyn; C. . Brown, Omaha; D. M. Carr, Council Bluffs; Hugo Lange, Du~ buque; W. W. Fineh, Chicago; O, H. Phillip Jh-mnw B. uhu.m Cus- tor; ol Omaha; J. (0] P, Ving cent, Hastings; alter, Beatrice: Julius S. Cooley, Omaha; F. J. Comp- ton, Utica, Neb.; W. W. Abbey, Fall City; Frank Lludn-u,(-lx n Cha Fred Sawyer, Charles Courtney, W. . Con- rad, Lon Lender, George Ingram, Fred Collins, W. J. Thompson, Miss Ella Mason, Miss Carrie Anderson, Miss Kdna Earle, Miss Hattie Neville, J. M. Mitehell, Chicago; A. Davidson, Wy- more. At the Windsor—Charles Linstrum, Sutton, N b.; J.H. Comter, Juc H. Veit, New York S \uv York; Fred L. Kelly, (]n- . C. B. Crane, Chicago; C. ( ) ne, Wis.; M. Cliff d Stevens C. A Lockwood, Atchison, Kun.; Gilham, Rea Cloud; v, Now York: Markowitz. atte, Charles Mantz. teovge D. Hoffman, J r0; v nati; George A. Dascomb, son; John M. Hoge _and Boston; A. Seldner, New George Rogers, — Counci Ww. ]l ludwurg.-« Chicago; J. K. Weyer, St. Louis; B. Emmit, Chicago; F. L. Eschbach, New York; I. G. Luchhardt, Llu«ago. (/. Dewolff, Connecticut; Abo hicago; J. E. Greff, Louisvill hu\)d Barre, Chicago; R. . Joseph: A. W. Greene, Chi- Marstin, New York; W. A. Chicago; L. T.. Lake, New D. Morris, Chicago, C.R. \hllur,fit. Louis; C. H. May. fihu'ngo' 5. Greditzer. \l Louis: E. Straws- berger, Chicago; A. W. Brown, New York; Alex R. Lewis, Chicago; C. P, King, Cincinnati. At Opelts C. Barclay, Omaha; H. E. Klein, Burlington, Ia.; I". Pierson, Milwaukee; Geor . Britton and wife, Auburn; ( Lenon, Auburn; . M. Kaer, Gresham; H. Cleive, Chi- Quinn, Omaha; . B, ieago; Hahn, Louisville, Lyford, nsas City: lum «mmh J.S. G i , Beatrice; J. T. Webbe, feC ullull;:ll Chicage Sohuston, \upurmx W. H. l(||l< ette, :\l\\m-.un‘ W. W. mm‘{ W. I'. Webster,Chicago; H. M. (.n;,;, Alum ) (VY Miss Addie Shepard, Bei J. W. Shepard, Indianapolis; P Galena, I11.: A, C. Weir and wife, Omala; M. Van Buskirk, Freeport; John 'T. Morgun, York City; H. B. Field and wife, Wamego, Kan.; W. A. Mitchell, Warren, O.; C. M. Chown, Marshalltown; B. C. Buke Fremont; C. H. Seymour, M. D., Belve- dere, 11l.; W. G. Hawkins, Genesel H. Shroder, Berlin; W. H. Retter, Omaha; T. E. Shaffer, Chicago; D. Fuller, Chicago; John Davis, Omaha; Ike N. Hahn, St, Louiu'. W. E. l)mhh,h, Mason , 1113 mnnd enworth. POLITICAL POINTERS, “The situation in the Sixty-seventh representative district,” said Attorney General Leese to THE BEE scribe to- day, “is everything but assuring. The action of the “evecutive committee may have been just from this point of view, but it don’t take worth a cent out there. I shall not be surprised to see the demo- cratic candidate for the house elected from that district. Mr. Meeker does not have the confidence of the people. *'So far as Otoe county is concerned, remurked Judge Masou, who came from there recently, “the republican ticket will be elected. But tho democratic party will make some gains, The Gore man republicans in somo localities have got frightened on the dubmission question, but the political standing of the gentlemen who make up the tickot is such that the disaffection will not be very great in my judgment. But, ocen- sionally, that county cuts some queer capora. ' You can't wlways tell which way the eat will jump.’ I have traveled over the stato con- siderably,” says Judgo Lansing, “and I tell you the republican party will got to the front with a bigger majority than over on the Gth of November, Tho legislative ticket of some countios, as usual, will be clected by the democrats, but tho gain will not amount to much it emigration into ka during the past year has been L and my observation goes to show that it has 1 republican, Besides, the t many boys who are just coming on the political stage, and they will cast their vote for :.-pul-ln n success, others to the con- : but you will find that my judg- ment is good whon the vote has beon counted. ~The boys of to-day don't camp itical graveyard. £ ST The *(.IL' l‘un'l*lmu'l' of the lists of Nb Inivor- a met in this city yes- terday nlu-rnonn at 3 o'clock. = The churches of the state are all repre- sented, viz., York, Tecumseh, Marblo Croek precinet, Saunders county, and Lincoln. These churches all have good houses of worship and are reported in a very flourishing condition. The business of the afternoon was tho appointment of committees, reports of officers and the election of Rev. K. H. Chapin, of this city, to attend the national convention of the churech, which meets at Chicago this weck, Last night the church was crowded, Mrs. Barnes delivered the address of the evening on “Sp! ual Life.” She was followed by Mrs, DeLong, who delivered a thoughtful discourse on the same subject. At 9 o'clock this morning the church was L\nl\ well filled to listen to the Talks.” Rev. Q. H. Shinn, preached the sermon. He is an orgtor of eminence and abili Communion services were held at 8:30 p. m. To-night, notwithstanding tho stormy weathor, the attendance at tho mass meeting was large. The ox- orcises commenced at 30 o'clock. Rev. Shinn discussed Attitudo of Universalism Toware Reform;” Rev. Mary Girard Andrews, “The Attitudo of Universalism Towards Phil- anthropy;” Rev. Mary J. De Long, “The Attitude of Universalism Towards the Progressive Religious Thoughts of the Time These subjects wero vory thoughtfully considered and held the ¢l st attention of the audience. The following ministersare hero from abroad: Rev. Q. H. Shinn. Doering, Me.; Rev. Mary J. De Long, Oshkosh Rev. Mrs. Barnes, Junction City The convention closed its session to- night. “The CITY NEWS AND N S, An old line life insurance company wants an energetic, reliable man, ac- quainted i Lincoln, as special agent in Lincoln. Liberal contract with good man. Address, with referencos, I 49, R. Lovell, formerly of St. Paul, \Ilnn , Will Luseh , formerly of Chit cago, and Harry Welch, of Creto, have boon engaged by the Hart wholesale hardware company, and will start on their initiatory trips next Wednesday, tho date on which the company formally commonce business. The republican state central commit- teo will open a document room at tho Capital hotel to-morrow. The idea is to treat the rest of the campaign from an intellectual standpoint. ts and s will be pnnlmod showing why publican part right and the Although very severely burned, now thought that Constable Al Be: child will recover. But the attending physicians say that great care will have to be used. The left side of the child’y burned to a erisp and both her arms were almost stripped of flesh from the elbow to the shoulder. Sheriff Melick received notice from Seward, last night, that two prisoners had broken jail at that place. Harlo Cobb, one of the parties, 1s twenty-two years old, five feet ten inches high and weighs 170 pounds. Harry Bickford is eighteen ye old, five feet four inches high and weighs 130 pounds, and is of light complexion, Sheriff Smiley offers a reward of 50 for his re he decamping Tecumseh physician, Dr. Reese, left his mark behind him in the shape of a ruined girl and a blighted home. The oily-tongued villain did his villainous work well and skipped for other fields. He should be fo]fuwnd to the ends of the earth and punished for his erime. Dr. Reese not only betrayed his friends but left a stain upon his name that will cling to him at Tecumsoh to the end of time. ———— The Great Northwest. California stockmen predict a hard winter, as feed 15 short in the nills. Tommy Wallace, a notorious San Francisco thief, has been arrested for burglary at Port- land, Ore. Tho Walker Lako Bullotin says a three inch veir of almost solid gold was uncovored atthe Pamlico mine, Esmeralda county, No- vada, last Monday. ‘The sum of 87,000 in gotd bullion was the result of a recent crushing of 40 tons of oro from the Orpheus mine, Silver Glance dis- trict, Douglas county, Nevada. Peoter Schommals, an old-time saloonkeeper of Helena, Mont., while crazed with liquor, blew out his brains with a revolver. He came to the territory in 1864 and was quite wealthy. T.J. Sweeney, a veteran, who was em- ploycd us @ le ier at Tacoma, W. T, has been dismissed for offensive partisanship for accepting @ republican nowmination for coustable, An interesting archaological discove has been made at San mente Island, 1t is reported that an ancient temple or van- quech, dedicated to the god Chinigehinich, lias been discovered. R. L. Sykes has confessed that it was ho who killed George Henderson while he was riding on a stage from Redding to Alturas, Cal., at a point’ about forty-seven miles east of Kedding, in the month of October, 1887, A gentleman named Clark discovered a fine silver-lead vein on Thompson creek, a branch of Warm Springs creck, near [Kelcham, Idaho, a few days ago, and got an essay of over 300 ounces from the croppings. The work of discovery still continues with about us much promise as ever, Great excitement prevails at Mecker,Colo., over the discovery of oil and gas near White River City. There is at the presont time suf- ficient gas to supply & town as lurge as Meeker, and there is every indication that the White river country muy yet be destined 10 become one of the great oil regions of the west. Developments will at once bo com- menced. Mr. Plat Hinman, of Snake River, Wyo. took a wagon load of live game into Rt Friday. Nine elk, four untelope, fourtoen deer and a swall black bear completed tho menagerie. ~ Mr. Joe Miller and Thomas Smith, of Three Forks, captured them for a Mr. Chapin, of New York, and were paid $35 & head for the elk and §25 per head for the deer, antelope and bear. Mr. Capin owns a fine park near Salida, Colo., and those pets were shi pped to Ium at that point. an & wht(.ll spring is clogged? E good health when your liver is inws similar condition? Take Warner's Log Cabin Liver Pills and put all the ma- chinery of life in good orde 0 when the main- ow can you be in