Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 21, 1888, Page 4

AR MR S THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SU . THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED F nY MORNIN TERME OF SUBSCRIPTION, Daiiy Moruing Edition) including SUNDAY Bk, One Y oar i For Six Months For'Three Months Tiik OMAHA SUNDAY BEY address, One Y OMANAOFPICE, $10 00 500 20 madled to any D16 FARNAM STREE NEW Y ORKObF I s 14 AND 15 TRIBUR BUiLoinG, WASRINGTON OFFICE, NO. O FOUITEENTH STIE CORRESPONDENCE All communications relating tonewsand sdi. torial matter should be addressed 1o the EoL1oi orTanbek. o All business letters and addressed 1o Tiy, BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, Drafts, checks and postoffice orders 1o payable to the order of the company. The Bee Publishing Company, Brunrlctm THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement ot Circulation. Btateof Nobraska County of Douglas, Robert Hunter, nes Pub- ishing Company, does solemnly swear that the actual circulation of TrE DAILY 13EE or the week onding October 20, 1885, was us follows Bunday, Oct. 14, ... 1 Monday, Oct. 13 Averago. 15,050 BERT HUNTER. Eworn 40 befors me and subscribed in my Ppresence this 20th day of October A. D, 1484, Seal. N. P. FEIL, Notary Public. Btate of Nebraska, | County of Dougliis, George B. Tzschuck, being duly sworn, de- oses and says that he {5 secrotary of The s iblishing company, that the actunl averags Qaily circilation of “Tuk DALY Bek for the ntn_of October, 185 : for No- mber, 1887, 16,24 cop mber, 1857, 16,041 coples; for January, 1839, 16,20 cople for February, 1888, 15,802 coples: for Marcl, 1895, 30,68 copient for April, 144, T4 coplos; for May, 1883, 8181 copies; for Jine, 1888, 19,243 gopies: for ily. IS, 14,043 coplea; for Augiist, 1858, 18,153 coples; for Septeiuber, 1885, was 18, 151 coples. GEORGE B, TZ8CHUCK. 8worn to before and subscribed in my pres- once, this th day of October, A. D, 1848, N. P. FEIL, Notary Public. CoMPLAINT has been made that street sweoping in Omaha is a farce. A tour over the principal busiuness strects fully sustains the indictment. CONGRESS has adjourned and the pol- fticians breathe easicr. Senator Pad- dock was the only member of the Ne- braska delegation who was in at the @eath. DOUGLAS COUNTY has never failed to cousult what 1s belleved to be its own fnterests in the choice of a legislative ticket. Tt will not reverse its record in tho preseunt campaign IT is said that Mr. McShane will have his congressional speeches printed in book form and circulated as campaign literature. The appendix will embrace his political record—printed in gold, probably. T political map makers of Europe find it an ea: task rubbing out Hol- land and running a blue pencil through the Balkan peninsula. It will be an- other thing whon th will try to put their theorics into effec Tue Pundita Rambai, who came to the United States to create sympathy for the Hindu women, has 350,000 worth of it in her pocket to distribute when she gets back home. That is the kind of sympathy evidently the widows of India were sighing for. T adjournment of congress by no means affects the fate of tho Omaha postoffice bill. It undoubtedly would have passed the house some time ago, had a quorum been present. Butit is safo to say that the moasure will be brought up early this winter and be- come law. TWENTY-FIVE years ago Isaac Hascall was a fire eating secessionist in Idaho territory, then a part of Wash- dngton, and left presumably to join the southern army. It is necdless to say #that he never reached the front. He will not in the present campaign. MEN of common sense will read with futerest that the striking taiiors of St. Josoph, Missouri, carried their point and obtained eleven dollars for making Prince Albert cutaways. Under the free trade regime, and free wool dispens- ation in England, the Albert cutaway can be bought for eleven dollars. But what does the tailor get for making i THE endorsement of Chief Arthur by the Brotherhood of Locomotive In- gineers at the Richmond convention uts an ond to the silly rumors circu- ted to the effect that the brotherhooa had become dissatisfied with Mr. Arthur. The conservative and honor- able policy of the order so long main- tained will strengthen the brotherhood within its own ranks, as well asin the estimation of tho public. XT Saturday the union labor party of Douglas county will hold their con- wvention to nominate a complete county ticket. They huve the sympathy of all patriots because they represent the idea that land and labor form the basis of eivilization, and that the country at large.cannot be prosperous unless they prosper. Incidentally it would be di- gectly in the line of union labor princi- ples to pass astrong resolution con- denming the course of the demoerati party with rvegard to Dakota., Their party would gain very greatly from tha admission of Dakota us a state, and in doing their utmost for that purpose they serve thelr cause almost as much a8 by nominating a county ticket. — A reronr to the comptroller of the currency showing the condition of the soven national banks of Omaha &t the close of business on October 4 hus just been published, The magnitude of the business done by these iustitutions may be judged from the fact that the re- sources of tho seven banks amount to over seventeen millions six hundred thousand dollars. The amount of loans and discounts foot up to nearly mine and a half millions. The capital stock paid in s three millions, the in- dividual deposits aggregate cight mil- lons three hundred thousand aud the reserve fund held is thirty-three per want. Thoro is overything to be proud of in this showing, which so faithfully reflocts the commercial greatness of our eity nud hor monstary inatitutlons. IN THE INTEREST OF LABOR. Congress was slow in giving consider- ation to the claims of labor, and it was lat sion before any legislation was secured, and only after the pe ent prodding by those most cone for the inter of labor. Perhaps the most important ition was the | sage of the act creating boards of art tration to settle controversies between inter-state common carriers and their employes. This act provides that when either party to the controversy submits a wrilten proposition for arbitration, and it is accepted by the other party, each party shall select an arbiteator, and the two so selected shail choose & third party. The bourd of arbitration thus con- stituted is to have the same powers for administering ouths, subpmnaing wit- s, and compelling the production of papers, as United States commission- ers have, but in no case shall any wit- ness be compelled to disclose the secrets or produce the records of a labor organ- tion of which he may be a member. The board's decision, and the findings of facts upon which it is based, together with the testimony taken in the case, ave to be filed with the commissioner of labor. Another provision of t the president may select sioners, one of whom at 1 a vresident of the state tory in which the controversy arises, who together with the comnmis- sioner of labor shall constitute a temporary commission for the purpose of examining the causes of the contro- versy, the accompanying condition, and the best meansof adjosting it, the result of the examination to he reported to the president and congress. The president is authorized, upon his own motion, upon the application of either party to a con- troversy, or upon the request of the ex- ecutive of a state, to tender the scrvices of a commission constituted as above for the purpose of settling a controversy such as contemplated. Awmple powers ave given to the commission for obtain- ing testimony and making its investiga- tion thorough. The enlargement of the bureau of labor was made at the urgent de- mand of the labor interest, passed on both the last and the present congress. In the broader scope given it the design is that it shall acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with labor, and es- pecially upon its relations to capital, tho hours of lubor, the earnings of la- boring men, women and children, and the means of promoting their material social, intellectual and moral prosper- ity. The commissioner is charged with a numper of additional duties to those hitherto required of the bureau; not the least important of which is to ascer- tain the cost of producing ticles dutiable in the United States in leading countries where such articles are produced, the in- vestigation to comprehend every item of cost, which shall be properly classified. With its enlarged functions the value of the department of labor should be very greatly in- creased., Regarding the act providing for boards of arbitration, cases of contro- vorsy between interstate common ¢ viers and theiv employes, time will dem- onstrate whether it has any merit. We are not confident that it will prove to be of much value, but it 1s perhaps as far as congress could be induced to goat this time. The policy that must event- ually prevail will so change the rela- tions of these common carriers and their employes that controversies which imporil the public interests will be no more likely to occur than disputes be- tween the governmentand its employes. —— OMAHA CHURCH Bishop Newman, of the Methodist Episcopal chureh, is evidently of opinion that the ecclesiastical structures of this city are not commensurate with its population and its commercial import- ance. Presumably he referred only to those of his own denomination, but as that denomination is nearly ona par with others, it may be accepted that what he said to his own he might have suid to all. The excellent bishop has in fact only repeated the observations of other men who have come to Omaha and have peered around at 1ts religious edifices. There are one or iwo churches not far from the High school which show the same beauty of proportion and of details which may be observed in many of the bauks and commercial buildings: But with these exceptions the churches of Omaha are both dingy and homely. Thoy may be and no doubt are commodious and well ar- ranged within, but the axteriors are for the most part ungainly masses of red brick smeared over with red paint. There has been no attempt to obtain from brick the artistic effects of which this material is capable, and houses dedicated to God have been planned and built without one spark of that beauty which exists in all that He has mude. The appeal made by Bishop Newman can scavcely fail of success, and if an opiscopal residence should be built for him, as well as the new church, whose ercetion he spoke of as a prime neces- sity, it is to be hoped that both will be, as he suggested they ought to be, worthy of Omaha. This great and growing city, one of the brightest stars in the galaxy of cities of the northwest, ought for its own reputation to be on a par with them in the beauty of its churches. There are here a dozen structures which would be pronounced beautiful by Bostoniaus even if they were upon the Boston common. It must seem to a leading clergyman that there is a laxity of rehigious fervor or of public spirit when the churches are 80 immeasureably behind the buildings devoted to commerce and finnnce. He muy well suspect that in Omaha there has not been the same development of church feeling asof business energy. It is a reproach that ought to be re- maved from us, and no doubt will be. The example given by the erection of a Methodist church of metropolitan char- acter will give the necessary initiative, and all denominations will vie with each other in the race to adorn their u the se. nes. act is that two commis- t shall be or terri- city with churches that shail he the ad- wivation of every visitor. A RELL Even more relentle TLESS TRUST. than the great | sugar trast is the jeweley trust, which lugive and bindi this co six year 15 one of the moste ever formed, The origin of bination dates back fi or when the manufacturers of watch cases combined, and it was agreed that nothing should be sold to any jobber to be sold by him to a retail jeweler un- dev a stipulated price. It was also agreed that no goods should ba sold to any jobber who was not a member of the jobbers’ association. This is a very ex- clusive organization, which admits to its ranks only the favored few. Ifa man wants to go into the jewelry business as a wholesale merchant he must obtain the permission of the jobbers’ association and aequi- esce in its demands, otherwise he can get no goods. The watch case manu- facturers and jobbers induced the move- meut manufacturers to join the com- bination, and gradually the trust has been extended to take in all kinds of staple jewelry or articles sold by jewel- ers, such as clocks, plate, knives, forks and spoons. Any one attempting to do business in disregard of this exclusive and formida- Dle organization is persistently and re- lentlessly pursued, and with what effect is shown by the suspension, a few days go, of one of the oldest wholesalo jewelry houses in Cleveland, Ohio. This firm, until it encountered the hostility of the jowelry trust, was rated high in the trade anden- joyed a large and profitable business. It refused, however, to accede to the demands of the combination and soon found it impossible to buy goods, as other firms had before done under like circumstances. The inevitable result followed. It is understood to be the in- tention of the Cleveland firm to bring suit against the combination that de- stroyed 1ts business, for the purpose of determining in the courts whether such a couspiracy can be carried on with im- punity, and it may at least vest assured of universal popular sympathy. Mean- while the Dueber watchcase manufuc- turing company, one of the most exten- sive in the country, which has always r fused to have anything to do with the combination, is also contemplating ju- dicial proceedings against the trust. The failure of congress to do any- thing regarding these monopolistic combinations will very likely render them more aggressive, aud the public should be kept fully appriscd of all their movements for destroying free competi- tion, lessening production and advanc- ing vrices. There should be a great popular movement in eve state de- manding of the legislatures strong laws for the suppression of trusts, which can be effoctively done by the withdrawal of franchises from all corporations that have entered these combinations. Br1 tenof the seventy-six members of the senate, and only fifteen of the three hundred and twenty-five mem- bers of the house, were present in their respective chambers yesterday when congress adjourned. We belicve there is no parallel to this small attendance at the close of a congressional sessi but so far the Fiftieth congress has been in many respects unparalleled. The circumstunce of but twenty-five members of both houses participating in the ceremonies of adjournment con- veys soveral suggestions, but in the gratification at the fact that the end has come they may be dismissed. There was little in the closing scene of part ular interest, there being nothing differ- ent from the formalities usual on such oceasions. The expectation that the president would have something sensa- tional to offer at the lust moment, was not realized, and the end of the longest session of congress in the history of the government was without the least poli- tical significance. Doubtless the hap- piest people concerned, when the end came, were the newspaper correspoud- ents, who signalized their gratification by chanting the doxology Day after day the telegraphic dis- patches bring news of fatal railvoad disasters until the mind becomes over- charged with horrors, and is filled with indignation that such things should be. Now it is the Cincinnati express that is wrecked because an overworked offi- cial left a switch open. The engineer and a passenger were killed on the spot, and twenty people injured, some of them fatally., The situation is a dangerous one for the public safety. Railroad re- formers have so ventilated abuses that presidents prefer rigid economy to high rates, and endeavor to get dividends by skinning their employes. The natural consequence is that overworked men be- come inefficient, and passengers lose their lives. We are between Scyllaand Charibdis. Ontheone side are extraor- di 'y charges, and on the other eflicient service and fatal accidents. GENERAL CROOKS' visit to Omaha, which, in the general’s language, was purely private business,” turns out to have been made on ovder of General Scholield to decide upon a location for the new Fort Omala. General Crook is nothing if not agdiplomatist. His knowledge of Omaha and its surround- ings was naturally taken advantage of by the general of the army to pass upon the various sites proposed for the relo- cation of the post. And yet a year ago, General Crook did not hesitate to say that any change of location was un- necessary and that there was ample room at the present post for all the gurrisou which would be stationed there for the next fifty years, THERE isevery indication that the selection of the new site for Fort Omaha will not be unduly delayed. The posi- tion of General Crook at the head of the board of recommendation of eligibie sites is a sufficient guarantee of good faith. It is, moreover, gratifying to learn from Genera! Schofield that the dopartment will establish a model fort and make permanent improvements of the most substantiat chavacter. — S7. Lours puts New York to shame in unveiling a life-sized statue of General Grant last Friday, The Grant Monue wion of Missouri came itto existence August, 1885, a month after General Grant’s deatbh, New York rted its Grant Monument association about the sam 1t the people of the Empire stat evidently too 1ch engrossed {h success of their ball team to remomber the duty owe to the groat commander, —_— W Yonrk Crry ment associ seems determined en for itself the reputation of being the most un-American city in the country. A British American asoc tion has been formed to promote good foeling and good harmony between the governments of the United States and Great Britain: to aid in maintaining order and enforcing the laws of the land and to aid in the election of good men to political offlce, The meaning of all this is that the mugwumps are going to establish a rival hall to Tam- many. Letus thank Heaven devout- edly that we live in Omaha, wheve the mugwump waileth not, neither doth th thief of Tammany break through and steal, acked. Call, A limo famine seewms is something strange in America. The product scems to have stacked. e it i Looks Bu, Minneapolis Journal, Carl Schurz takes four and a half columns inthe New York Post to explain why he will vote for Cleveland. Au act that requires so much explanation may justly be regarded with suspicion. Tariff Talk. New Yol Herall, Some individual with a taste for statistics has ascertained that 500,000,000 words of par- tisanship and tariff and prohibition and gen- eral oratory are uttered every seven days of this political canvass. ——— The Other Side Still Fighting. Portland Oregonian. The war is not over by a great deal. Tt continues under the direction of the solid south in control of the government against ex-union soldiers and their widows and orphans who have been in government cm- ploy. Ct R The Bread Issue. Pittsiirg Commereial-Razette, Pretty soon the people will be using a tele- scope to determine the price of flour, so high will it be, and a microscope to see the loaf of bread so small will it have shrunk. But their eyes will need no assistance to see the profits ot the speculator ———— Bright Outlook for Thanksgiving. St. Louts Globe Demoerat, The latest returns show that the condition of the presont corn crop has been equaled only three times in ten years, and excceded only once, When we come to add to this the election of & republican president and con- gress next month the outlook for Thanksgiv- ing day will be bright enough to satisfy all good and patriotic citizens, - : The Way it Works. Boston Advertiser. Nearly every since thepassage of the bung- ling and hasty Chinese #xclusion act, some- thing turns up to show its contemptible char- acter, Last week a Chineso merchant of Montreal, although a naturalized British subject, was prevented! from visiting New York on business because this act was inter- preted at the United States custom house as excluding him. He was turned back at the boundary and his vustuess in New York was left to the care of itself. The merchant, Mung Kuow, proposes to find out whethe he has any rights as a British citizen whi the United States is bound to respect, even if it has no respect for the land of his birth, ——~ The Peoples’ Cholce. Chicago Tribune. We are asked for the hundredth time to state whether the most votes were cast for Blaine or Cleveland, and we agaiu answer that the most votes were cast for Blaine, but not counted for him. There were 35,000 votes cast for hum in Georgia that were not counted, and 36,000 in Alabama, and 30,000 in Louisiana, and 48,000 in Mississippi, and 50,- 000 in South Carolina. There was also 50,000 republican majority suppressed in Dakota. There were fully a quarter of a mill- 1on of Blaine votes mnot counted and suppressed by the democrats in the states we have named. On a full election and with a fair count the national republican party con- stitutes a large popular wmajority of the American people and can carry two-thirds of all the states. S Dana Mine, Dana Mine. Pionser-Press “I've a lotter from bold Grover, Dana mine, Dana mine; I could read it ten times over, Dana wmine, Dana mine. He says on me he dotes, He has calmed the mugwump goats, I'll get their perfumed vote Dana mine, Dana mine. S Ballade of the Faded Field. R. B. Wilson in the Critio, Broad bars of sun-set slanted goid Are laid aloug the field, and here The silence sings as if some old Refrain, that once rang loud and clear, Came softly stealing to the cur Without the aid of sound. The rill Is voiceless, and the grass is sere— But beauty's soul abideth still. Trance-like the mellow air doth hold The sorrow of the passing year; “Tho heart of nature groweti cold, The time of falling snow is near On phantom feot that none may hear, Creeps—with the shadow of the hill— The semblance of departing cheor— But beauty's soul abideth still. The dead, gray-clustered weeds enfold The well-known summer path, and drear The dusking hills, like billows rolled Against the distant sky, appear., From lonely haunts, where night and fear Keop ghostly tryst, when mists are chill, ‘The dark pine 1ifts a jagged spear— But beauty's soul abidoth still, Dear love—the days that once were dear May come no more; life may fulfill Her fleeting streams with many a tear— But beaut, i VOICE OF THE STATE PRESS. ‘The Grand Island Independent gives good advice to its readers when it tells them to “soratch a ticket every time rather than knowingly vote for a dishgnest or notoriously unfit man.” The Burtonian remarks that *“Burt county democrats seem to object to republican ral- lies on the ground of o much enthusiasm. We are sorry for thom, but they will get used to it by November." The Nebraska City Press ‘*hopes that Otoe county will give William Leese, candi: date for the office of attorney general, some- thing more than a full party vote. He has done some splendid work forthe people. The Madison Reporter emphatically de- clares that every “farmer, business man ana laboring man should scratch the name of Secretary Laivs off his ticket. Never vote fora man that 18 & tyaitor to his party and the peoble in geaeral." The Fairmout Signal says of one of Fill- wore oounty's excellent representatives: “Hov, John A. DempstenNs making votes for the republican party dnd himself wherever he goes. - The prople have the most implicit confidenve in. his integrity and avility, and thelr confidence is wall merited. Mr. Dompster will lead the ticket in the victor- ious next month, Plain, outspe n and what the people want, when combing abilit for effective work " The Thayer County dorsement of a clear hionest more can i with Herald has this en wislator: “The peo plo will have no hesitancy in deciding to vote | for . M. Wetherald for state senator, as he favors the instigations of no el - set of men who manipulate the wires solely for political purposes and not for the general good. He is one of those men who poscsses independence enough to act openly and bravely on the side of his constitucnts and the people in general, without acknowleding the beliests of corporations and political cor- ruptionists who infest the oil rooms of the capital city." “Now that the railroads have shown their hand and foreshadowed an intent to secure laws for the suppression of the labor organi zations," remarks the Grand Island Inde- pendent, “it is more than ever importaut that the people arise in their might and sit down upon all railroad henchimen put forward as candidates for either branch of the legisla: ture. The importance of frustrating the plans should not be overlooked, as, if the railroads can elect a sufiicient number of their tools, you will see conspiracy laws en- acted by the next legislature that will make mere slaves of the laboring people and pau- pers of our farmers.” According to the South ¢ not a candidate has been nominated in Da- Kkota county fit to receive the suffrages of honest men. After chronicling the noming tion of Pete O'Sullivan for representative the Sun remarks: Jakota county should now put up an independent candidate, and every man in the county, republican and democrat, should vote for him. But this will not come to pass. O'Sullivan will be elected, and our county will be as thoroughly with- out voice or influence at Lincoln this winter as it would be if it was located in Alaska. To aid in the work of making poor old Da- kota county the laughing stock of the com- monywealth, Old Chump Bonesteel will go down from Knox county as senator from this district. May the Lord reach forth a strong hand and inject a little temper into these coming winds of adversity.” Says the Schuyler Quill: “Wo conscien- tiously ask all republican readers of the Quill to scratch Lows' name from their tickets on election day It is to the interests of all to do so. The only way we can hope to get honest men in oftice is to defeat every such one as Laws. We must make our revenge on betrayal felt far more than railroad re- ward can relieve. When the fear of an up- rising among the people against every offi- cial who sells them out is known, expected, and felt, then we can hope for honesty among public servants, but if such s as Laws' are condone at the polls the people might as well give up right here. The people have the power in the bullot and they must use it 1f they hope to be duly and truly represented. Secrateh the name of Gilbert L. Laws from your ticket and put his opponcut’s name on instead.” “The resolution of Secretary Laws passed by the board of transportation is doing its perfect work," says the Lincoln Call. *‘The question of reduction in rates is laid on the shelf and while Mr. Laws is traveling about the state in his campaign, the people of the state, the producers, the shippers and con- sumers are paying just as high rates as ever to the railroads. Every road is collecting every day, through Mr. Laws' defeat of a re- duction, 50 to 100 per cent higher local freight rates than the people of Towa or Minnesota are paying. The months are gliding by toward a new year, the crops of the state are moving, but there is no movement down- ward in rates. The railroads of the state are sitting by, enjoying the fruits of their sharp practice. And the work of such men as those on the board, who delayed reductions, and the people of the state are paying for the music that the railroads are enjoying.” Sogs KINGS AND Q The empress of Austria explains that al- though she admires Hoine's poetry, she with- draws her donations to the Heine monument fund at the request of the emperor. Says a foreign correspondent: ““The crown priace of Germany is a dear little fellow six years old, with fair skin, hair and colo generally, and full of life and intelligence.” Princess Eugenie of Sweden, who sac ficed her jewels to build a hospital on an is land off the coast, where poor cripples might be nursed and healed, 18 regarded us insane by her family. It is said that not a friend of the late em- peror has been left in position, great or small, at the German court. There has been a good deal of uncivil service in Berlin within the past few moruths, Queen Victoria never gives but one wed- ding present, an India shawl, and they say that that is the direct result of the fact that her Indian subject make her presents of so many hundred of them. Prince Adolphus Schwarzenbur; struck a bigger thing than a_Chicago corner m wheat. He inherited from his uncle #11,250,000, and has just paid to the Austrian government the little mutter of $1.950,000 as succession duty.” The king of the Netherlands, who is dying, has been in_a precarious state for several months, and now he is wheeled about from room to room in a chair and is even unable to sign his name. During the last three wecks all state business has been transacted by Queen Emma. Emperor William's bedroom in Rome is a beautiful cham The walls are covered with rich silk hangings expressly woven for the occasion—a white ground, with masses of lowers in dark red. ‘The bed is of ebony, intaid with gilt metal and surmounted with a canopy magnificently carved and lined with light colored silk. King Kalakaua, it appears, is getting into his old extravagances again. Al a recent funeral of a royal princess the items of ex- pensos as reported by the king's finance com- mittee included 513 suits of clothes for men and boys, 453 shirts, 740 hats, 857 dresses and a vast quaniity of underwear, the whole costing about §22,000. Hing Kalakaua has no difticulty in managing a surplus. Prince Bismarck keeps a guard of four soldiers insa small conservatory in the garden of his official residence at Berlin. “After Blind's attempt on my life,” he says, “the emperor iusisted that I should have a bodyguard. But I sometimes forget these good fellows, and once at Versailles, seeing one of them appear suddenly beforc me in a corner of my garden, 1 drew my revolver, thinking he meant mischief.” il Personal Paragraphs. H. M. Wells, of Crete, 15 at the Millard. £J hrung, of Lincoln, is at the Murray. L 1. H. Benton, of Lincoln, is at the Millard. H. M. Burharle, of Lincoln, is at the Pax- ton. R. D. Patton, of Freeport, is at the Mur- ray. D. M. Collins, of Norfolk, is at the Mil- lard. ¥\, J. Smith, of Ainsworth, is at the Mil- lard. J. M. Shively, of Fremont, is at the Mil- lard. Watson Pickard, of Beatrice, is at the Murray. L. V. Rice, of Nebraska City, is at the Paxton. J. M. Pusey, of Council Bluffs, is at the Murray. John W, Hoftman, of Lincoln, Millard, 8. R. Gresham, of St. Joseph, Mo, is at the Murray. John Barsky and wife, of Fairmount, are at the Murray. H. M. Warnin, coln, are at the Millard, E. F. Deland, a capitalistof St. Paul, Mian,, is at the Murray. W. D, Kingman, O. H. Bhepherd and A. E. Littlechild, of Fremont, area the Miliard. oux City Sun INS§. rocently is at the and A. B, Beach, of Lin- CURRENT TOPIOS, Nell Nellson I8 continuing her exposure of the miserable life led by the white women slaves of America, and her account of the feather workers is very graphic, But the young woman who earned from five to eight dollars per week and tola Nell Nellson that shie could not save a cent in of sicknoss, has very much to | in the way of study- ing cconomy, Her expenditures for a woek were: Room rent, two dollars; suppers, two dollars and ten cents: car fare, sixty cents; washing, thirty-five cents; breakfasts, sev- enty-two conts, The well-trained worker in New York can get an excellent room in Brooklyn for one dollar and fifty cents, fur- nished with a sink and the permission to cook. Using a coal oil stove such a worker can feed herself royally for w little less than two dollars a week, and this Sybarite of a worker actually paid thirty cents for h supper. There are in New York many news- paper men who have olted against tho cheap restaurants and have taken to cooking their own food, and they are unaunimous that it costs about two dollars a week. Sixty cents for car fare also is not admissible. One of the greatest sights in New York is to go upon the bridge to watch the great army of women workers walking to their toil of mornings. They are well dressed, well made, with beautiful eyes and hawr, full of inde- pendence and hope, and of unconquerable en crgy. They average from five to cight dol lars a , but they are wonderfut ccono mists., Let Nell Nellson go on the bridge and sce that glorious procession of independent womcen, whose beauty could not be bought by the richest millionaire in the great metropo lis, and learn from them bow they live, and she will get very different tigures from the feather girl's account. Mr. Hubert Herkomer is an English painter of German origin who was first brought into notice by the encomiums which French critics passed upon his picture of Chelsea Pensioner dying in the chapel, ex hibited in 1878, It was strongly painted, but full of faults, and English critics have never yet discovered what charm it could vossibly have for Frenchmen. But he was one of th few lucky ones who received a “'grend prize award, and his fortune was made. From that day forward Herkomer has steadly painted portraits, and has never tried his hand at another subject picture. But the wily artist, in conversation with a journal- istic friend in Municn, bewailed his hard for- t being so overrun with orders for its that he could not get time for really good work. “I have,” smd he, “raised my price to five thousand dollars for a portrait in hopes io lessen the number of my commis- sions, but it has made no difference. The fact is that there are but three portrait paint- ers in London who are run after—Millais, Sir Frederick Leighton and myself.” Of courso his friend published the Interesting fact, but it does not tally with what America knows of him. In New York it is very cer- tain that ke ran after commissions, and used method of ingratiatian with influen- ons, painting gratuitously a portrait of Whitelaw Rewd, aud another one on the same terms of John Taylor Johnston's little daughter. The Reid portrait was sion of Clarence Cook’s retiving from the position of art critic on the Tribune, He wrote upon the portrait, and found preat fault with it, sent ap his matter in the usual d was astomished to sec in the paper next morning, in place of h oriticisia, a highly landatory article. Clarence Cook at once resigned. the occa. e George F. Kunz is the mincralogist of Tif- fany’s, anda very enthusiastic gentloman e is at present in raptures over a diamond which has caused lis firm much annoyance. It cannot be polished from its extreme hard- ness. Now as hardness ina diamond is the quality that gives what is ¢ water, the firm ordered the foreman to persevere,think- ing that they had a treasure. But the stone obstinate and refused. Forone hundred duys that stone was kept pressed against the steel polishing table smeared with oil and diamond dust, and whizzing round at the raty of 2,500 revolutions per minute. But the stone would not consent to brighten up. They weighted the receptacle that held it up to forty pounds, but this simply destroyed the table, for the diamond ploughed an actua furrow in it, scattering a shower of golden sparks, And still it remained unpolished. When Mr. Kunz went upon business to Paris for the firm he took it with him and exhib- ited it at the French Academy of Sciences, where it excited much interest, There is no doubt that if it could be polished it would be the finest stone of itssize in the world: Here is a chance for Yankee ingenuity, « o The book of Sir Morell Mackenzie will certainly have one good result it it draws at- tention to the number of cases of cancer arising from smoking cigars and short clay pipes. The death of General Grant was from cancer caused by incessant smoking. There was uo ground for the belief that his malady was constitutional, and in his case, therefore, the cause is incontestable. In its origin smoking was a calm, sedentary act, and it has so remaincd swong the Turks, Arabs and Pel ns, and in a less d pe the Chinese and Japanese. The restless, ever-moving man of the west is de- tesmined to have the comfort of tobacco in combination with active movement. He smoices his clay pipe, or puffs his cigar as he goes 1o his work, walkiug briskly at the rate of four miles an hour. The consequence is that there is a steady burning of the licate tissues inside the mouth, whic como congested. To men who have no cerous idiosyncrasy there are no further ro- sults, but to those who have, this congestion 1s the beginning of a cancerous tumor. Much s the fair sex deprecates chewing it is cer tain that it is infinitely safer for persons who are in active, incessant motion than smoking. The Turk, who enjoys tobacco more than any human being under the sun, smokes a chibouk with an amber mouthpiecce. The stem of this pipe is usually from two to three feet in length. Such a pipe is incapable of produc- ing any bad effect, and the amber is pleasant and comforting to the tissues. Formerly workingmen 1 this country smoked long clay pipes, afid the part which entered the mouth was coated with sealing-wax. Here were all the conditions of the chibouk re- produced in the cheapest form, but these pipes could only be smoked frowm a position of rest, aud they have disappeared, and can- cer of the mouth has become so prevalent that it has been found nccessary in large cities to establish cancer hospitals. What- over may be the medical verdict upon Sir Morell Mackenzie's statement that the bar- barous and en.pirical use of the galvano cau- tery changed the growth in the emperor's throat from a beuign nature to @ cancerous one, tie general publio will bo apt to believe the English specialist, because his theory is based upon facts very widely known. The man who chews will now be able to look his fair focs in_the face aud say, “‘Ladies, if Frederick the Noble had chewed, he would be alive and a blossing to his people and o all urope, threatened by tho military in- stincts of his so -— The Fire Record, East Tawas, Mich, Oct. 20.—The East Tawas Lumber and Salt company's mill was burned last night. Loss, $40,000; fully in- sured. Bostoy, Oct. 20.—Fire in a building on Lewis wharf, owned by the Lewis hart company, and sub-let for storage purposes, called out the fire department this morning Several firemen wero injured by faling walls, Theloss was $50,000. & TALKS ON TRIFLES. you see it is very important for ug to learn about tho standing of prospactivd custorners throughout the state. T'ho news. papers aro closely scanned ovory day fof names of wen who reside in the oountry towas, but as a rulo the papers do unot give the man's business or social standing. You fellows t to make a speclalty of thig feature, Now, when thoe Superior dolegation camo hero you did very well—you told us just who each man was, This we filo away in a book spectally prepared for the purpisa. Our clorks will mail circulars to these pare ties from time to time, and wo know just what class of goods to offer thew in soason, Our mail order business {s assuming great proportions, and money could not buy tha lists of country people and thoir rating, whica we Lave already preparod.’ ) Tha newspaper (s becoming absolutoly indispensiole in a hundred differont ways. A paper with the large elrculation Taw Bre has is invaluablo. 1eople of all shados and opinions consult its columns, There isn't & class of readers that does not dorive an ade vantage from the perusal of its columns, ‘Tne daily death list 1u the newspapors is cone sulted by more people than those who havd an idlo et ¥ to know who is dead. Durs ing a campaign candidates for oMos urq anxious to attend funerals that are liable tq congregate men of influenco. A cortain clast of law, e on the lookout for damagy suits, Tombstone dealers take notes with @ view to business in the future., Insuranc onts make a memorandum to call upon tha iving relatives in dve time. The keepors of the bear houses out near the cometerics gauge thew ovders according to the outlool forthoday. The class who want troo care riage rides scan the columa attentively, " Bishop Newman has taken up with ¢ vim tho scheme which the Mothodists ot Omaha had left slumbering. Ho propose that a chiurch be built without unnccessary delay, and created something of a broeze by stating that the next session of the gonoral confs iee would not be held here unlesy proper accommodations within the donominm tion were provided. The impression pro. vailed that the coming of that great body way afixed fact, but the bishop anunounced tha the final determination of the matter was In\‘: to a committee, with power to select a suite able city. A similar committoe selocted Now York city for the last session, notwithstande ing the genc conference had proviously recomuended another place, Itis a mattog which entails enormous expense, the last sos sion costing the denomination in New Yorl city over 0,000, This sum if exponded hera will somewhat cool the onthusiasm o] Mcthodists, So it i3 not so certain tln\! Omaha may be the place of holding the next session. The bishop is also credited with tho statement thut ho will not make his opiscopal residenca here unless a church building be erected which will be in keeping with the dge mands of the vity and the denowination, “Omaha people may not differ from thosa of otuer places,” said a theatrical man yose terday, “but there is an inordinate numbes of well-to-do business moen who will resort o petty indignitios and subterfuges to socurs @ pass to a performanco. They scem to hava amania for getting somothing for nothing, and do not seem o know that their self- respect is involved. ‘Che Omaha thoators have a larger dead-head list than those of Chicago, which might by expected, perhaps. Managers in the latter were compollod to shut down on the doad-heading gentry as amatter ot self-preservation. Thors s no reason why the practice cannot bo stopped almost entirely. Let the theatrical men pay for everything they get and demand paymout for everything they give.” editor of a local soci driving through v Th oty paper way Fort Omaha recently and saw something uew, and not exactly in sgood form.” An officer rode swiftly past, flourishing his sabre in Quixotic fashion = now bending low at one side of his pantin, stoed and then at the other, swiping the tal grass with the desperation of battle. The socicty editor put the officer down as orazy or drunk, and said as much in a late issuo. The slur was resented throughout the fort, very ofticer fclt the disgrace and said 80, The charge was treated as scandalous, and became the talk of the fort. The commands aut at last orderod an investigation, which resulted in locating the man accused, and finding that he was in the instance given, engaged in cavalry exerciso; that he was tomperate in his habits. An of. ficer called upon the editor and subjected him to a close cross examination, the result of which was that it was made clear that tha young man hud never scon cavalry evolu- tions, and took it a8 a matter of courso that the horseman was drunk, The upshot of the whiole business is that the society paper has been boycotted in the fort and its editor o3« tracised by the military ‘‘sassiety” people, It remains to be seen whether an armisticd can be agreed upon, “You haven't any idea of caused by a suddon lapse of pres gas works, such as we had § v night said Manager Smith. It don't make wuch difference if the gas does not go out in tha homes and ofices of the consumers, bug when it does the situation 15 a serious oue. The banksand hundreas of business oftices leave ouc or more gas jets burning all nig and many persons sleep with the gas turne; low. Every one of these, as a matter of course, went out Suturday evening, aud wo had to look after them as best we could. Wa organiz esscuger service and notifled the keepers and owners of all public places, hotels and boarding houses, and did our ut- most to uott eryboay, but of course that was @ physical impossibility,. We did tha best we could to provide against any fatality, and went home hoping for the best. But it isn't easy to slecp with tha thought that some lodger in an obscure room is filling bis lungs unconsciously with the deadly carbon." the troubla “Such accidents rarely occur, and in & short time will be entirely obviated in Omaha. Weare building another storage plant on Center street, which will soon be done. The suppiy of gas in 1t will be held in rescrve, 5o that consumers will nover ba subjected to the annoyance of last Saturs day.” “You ask me if there was over a gas moe ch could be relied on under all cire cumstances, 1 answer that a gas weter is most sensitive to atmospheric conditions. In a warm place it will register a higher degroa of consumption thau if placed in a cool vlace —say on ucellar wall,which is genorally cool. The manufacturer reckons on & variation of two to three per cent, and under favorable conditicns the meter will not exceed those figures. In nine casos out of ten, where complaint is received that a moter has dis. tunced itself in registration, we find that it has been in 8 warm place, and that the press sure has been great through different causes, Of course, with moderate pressure, less gag is burned. Meters shouid not be placed where the temperature exceeds 00 degrees.' recddocd o DIED, MURPHY—John Murphy, at residence, 131 California strect. Funcral Monday, October 22, at 9 & m.g from Holy Family church. SCHILLER—Joseph Schiller, October 20, aged 40 years, 9 months. Funeral will take pluce Octobor #3 at 8 m., from his late residence, No. 1435 North vders strect. Friends are lnvited,