Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 23, 1888, Page 4

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N, P. FRI PAvL and Minneapolis are at it again. Nosooner does St. Paul brag of its immense manufacturing interests when Minuneapolis steps in with a yard more of statistics than her rival. —_— w it falls like a thunderclap that Sitting Bull has outgeneraled Secretary Vilas as a shrewd poli- tician. For Secretary of the Interior, 1889—Hon. Sitting Bull, of Dakota. AND It 15 to be hoped the interminable street railway confliet will soon be set- tled once for all. The people of the city have borne patiently with streets torn up, and injunction suits by rival companies. SEPARATE polling places have been provided for the women of Boston who will vote in the coming school election. That looks like a stab at equality before the law which deprives the right of a woman’s ballot to nestle along side of a man’s DEPARTMEN ks at Washington from the same state, of different party aftiliations, are pairing off, and there- fore will not go home to vote as is cus- tomary. This saves expense and allows larger contributions to the campaign funds. Morris Mo ON vouches for Bill Morrow, and Morrow vouches for Mor- rison and all other members of the school board building committee com- -bine, so long as Bill can draw pay for every day in the month, including Sun- day, Fourth of July and Christmas. THERE is no danger that any repre- sentative from Douglas county will vote for the submission amendment no mat- ter who is elected. But there is danger that Douglas county may be represented by some men whose sole object in boing candidates for the legislature is odle. HONEST JIM is not content with mak- ing Paxton pay for several thousand yards of his rotten cedar block pave- mont on upper Farnam. He is now or- ganizing a raid on Paxton’s pocket- book by threatening to beat him with We, Us & Company’s paving brigade. But Bill is liable to get even with Hon- est Jim some of these days. Tie unusual precaution taken by Chairman Quay of the republican na- tional committee to ensure an honest vote in New York City is highly signifi- cant. The large rewards offered for the arrest and conviction of ballot-stuf- fers and repeaters and the careful can- vass of the votes of that city, will have a tendency to check illegal voting. But New York is not the only large city where the democrats depend for success on crookedness at the ballot box. Chi- cago, San Francisco, Boston and other leading cities of the country have time and again been stolen by the democrats on election day, —————— Tue widespread disappoint ment that will be felt at the refusal of the Sioux chiefs to accept the terms proposed by the government will undoubtedly make itsolf felt at the next session of con- gress. It is more than probable a strong pressure will be made to induce con gress to adopt a different policy for opening the Sioux reservation, which is a matter of too great importance to be left to the will of a few score obstinate #hicfs, who are actuated chiefly by the dlesire to retain their authority, and who neither know nor care anything about the general welfare. The feeling is gaining ground that the government should abandon the practice of treating with the Indians, and it will very likely show itself in tuture Indian legislation, I11s more than likely that a federa- tion between the locomotive brother- hood and the firemen and brakemen will take place. Mr. Arthur strongly favors the proposition and the scheme has been favorably endorsed by the fire- men and brakemen. The late Burling- ton strike has shown the necessity of such a union. In time it may be possi- ple for the other railroad organizations to join for mutual benefit, but at pres- ent it is not the purpose to take in the switchmen or conductors. The broth- erhood is not in favor of an amalgama- tion of trades organizations. It believes that the rights of the different classes of workmen can best he promoted by individual action rather than by a uni- versal organization, owing to the clash- ing of conflicting intarests. THE CONGRESSIONAL ELECTION. Owing to the systematic suppression of the republican vote in the south it is on the whole easier for the republican to elect a president than to 4 jority in the house of ropresentatives. Nevertheless, the indications are garded as very favorable to changes that would give the republicans control of both branches of the fifty-first con- gress. The prosent house contains ono hundred and sixty-eight democrats, one hundred and ffty-three re- publicans, and four classed as independents, the straight democratic majori being Gf- teen, There are twenty-five districts represented by republi in each of which the party majority is less than one thousand. While this margin is small, it is not believed the democrats can secure one of these districts, there being no evidence from any of them that that party is likely to poll a rela- tively better vote than two yeurs ago. On the other hand, there are thivty-two close democratic districts, twenty-nine of which are in probubly republican or doubtful states. Two of these districts are in California, two in Connecticut, five are in Indiana, three are in Michi- gan, one in Maryland, one in lowa, two in Massachusetts anl the others are scatiered. Tho chances of the republicans carrying some of these close democratic districts are unquestionably far better than for the democrats to carry any of the close republican districts, which are in ( fornia, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Towa, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Penusylvania, Rhode Island, West Virginia and Wisconsin. Careful estimates accord to the re- publicans a probable gain of eighteen representatives and a loss of three, making the net gain fifteen, which would be sufficient to transfer the con- trol of the house to the republicans, though the majority would be a narrow one. There is reason to believe, how- ever, that these estimates are too con- servative, and that the republicans will carry a greater number of the close democratic districts than the estimates contemplate. Two years ago the re- publicans did well in the democratic and doubtful states, while they elected scattering members in the Dborder southern states, gained in Indiana, and held their own in New York. They lost in New England and the northwest, and if they redeem these lossesthis year and hold their own in the states where they did so well two years ago the next house will certainly be republi- can. A gain of a dozen mem- bers by the republicans ought to be made in New England, the middle states and the northwest, and it is quite possible that Indiana and the south will furnish half a dozen more, though the republicans of Indiana are not confident of doing better than to hold the ground won two years ago. We have not shared the hopefulness expressed from time to time regarding gains in the southern states, but the prospect in certain dis- tricts of Virginia, West Virginia, Ken- tucky, Tennessee and Missouri is cer- tainly encouraging. But the hope of the republican party obtaining control of the next house of representatives rests mainly upon its ability to redeem past losses in New England and the north- west, and there appears to be excellent promise that this will be done. It is quite as important that the republicans should obtain control of the pop branch of congress as that the party should elect its presidential candidates. re- THE TROUBLE AT WINNIPEG. ents are happening at Winnipeg which may lead to the most important consequences, and which have an in- tense interest for the northwestern states and territories. English states- men are fond of declaring that the idea of Canadians asking to be admitted into the United States is the veriest dream and delusion. This may be true of Quebee and Ontario, for those two prov- inces have a strong national character. The former is French, and the latter contains a very large number of retired English officers, who have made that province effusively loyal. But with regard to Manitoba, and the lands lying west as far as Puget Sound and Van- couver’s Island, the citizens of those sections are by no means of the same homogeneous nationality. They are like the veople of our own northwest, emigrants from all countries of Europe, fleeing from the burden of taxation, from the muddle of political economy, from the disadvant- ages imposed upon them by the dis- tinctions of caste, and from the perpetual menace of war, whose cost is greater than war itsell. The consequence 1s that between the northwest provinces of British America and the northwest- ern states and territories theve is an immense sympathy based upon that fel- low feeling that makes all humanity wondrous kind. They are nearer to us by far than to their alleged brethren of Ontario and Quebec, and the very argu- ment advanced by British statesmen to prove the idea of Canadian annexation in the east a mere dream is the strong- est argument that in the west it isa reality. The cause of the trouble demonstrates this absolutely. The people of Winni- peg have been most desirous of c nection with the Northern Pacific rai road, and the government line, the Canadian Pacific, has been endeavoring to prevent any such alliance. The mu- nicipal authoritics at Winnipeg have taken sides unanimously with the North- ern Pacific and have done everything possible to facilitate their entrance into the city. When the American line had come within hailing distance of the point where their track layers would have to cross the track of the Canadian Pacific it was discovered that the crose- ing was blocked by three engines and a number of ears loaded with la- borers armed with axes and pick-axes. When this fact was thoroughly known to the people of Winnipeg the local government, that is the mayor, alder- men and high sheriff, swore in as spec- ial constables betwoen seven and eight hundred busincss men of Winnipeg, and these, armed with rovolvers, have been guarding ever since the track llaycnol the Northern Pacilic. Inl. day or two the point of collision must be reached. The Canadian Pacific asked and obtained from the govern- ment of the Dominion military ist- an A hundred mounted riflemen have been sent to the scene of action, and the infantry battalion ationed at Winnipeg has been ordered to hold itsell in readiness. These acts of the government of Canada are contrary to law, contrary to the traditions of Eng- lishmen, and contrary to justice. The municipal government has absolute con- trol of the question ana has decided it. The Canadian Pacifie, so like our own beloved Umon Pacifie, is resisting the local govern- ment by violence, and the Canadian government is backing it up by military force. This is tyranny as plain and un- deniable as that which lost for England those colonies that now form the United States, If Manitoba and the lands of the British northwest feel like casting their futures with us of the American northwest, they will have the welcome of true brotherhood. This new country is a great wheat growing section also, and if united to us, the one great wheat belt of the entire world would be under one banner. It will be because it ought to be. Tir Towa prohibitionists may con- gratulate themselves upon a victory won in the supreme court of the United States which wis not generally ex- pected. The court has decided that the prohibition law of Iowa, in so far as it prohibits the manufacture and sale of liquors except for mechanical, medici- nal and sacramental purposes, is not in conflict with the provision of the federal constitution which gives congress the sole power to regulate inter-state com- merce, and sustains the decision of the Towa supreme court. The distiller against whom the case was brought took the position that, as he was manu- facturing liquoes solely for exporta- tion to other states, the law in prohibiting such manufacture interfered with inter-state commerce, and was therefore in conflict with the constitution. The supreme court do- cides that there is no such conflict, and thus disposes of a very important ques- tion. The decision of course will avply to all states baving prohibitory laws similar to that of Towa,so that manu- acturers of liquor in any of these statesexcept for the purposes specified— medicinal, mechanical and culinary ay as well without furth prepare to transfer their business to states where there is no such restri tion. It is not in the power of a state to prohibit the importation of liquors, but this appears to be the only conse- quential limitation on its authority to deal with the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors. Tie Chinese exclusion bill may raise questions of international importance in which England and not China will be drawun into the controversy. The case of Fong Tang, who walked across the suspension bridge at Niagara Falls, but was compelled to go back to Canada by the customs officers of the United States, is a case in point. The merchant, Tye Chong, who wanted to come to New York on business, but was permitted only after considerable delay, to put foot on American soil, is likewise in point. These Chinamen are natural- ized citizens of Canada and subjects of G Britain. To them and others of like political status the right to enter the confines of this country is an affront to England, not to China. It may be that Great Britain would accept America’s explanation; in case the question becomes one of international inquiry, that the fact of naturalization or of British citizenship does not alter the legal conditions for the exclusion of Chinamen. But it is highly proba- ble that the foreign officc would de- mand a uniform treatment of British subjects on American soil, irrespective of the fact whether they are white or yellow, native or naturalized refuse THE report of the democratic minors ity of the sanate committee which in- vestigated the civil service makes a brave effort to defend the shortcomings of the administration in this matter, but not with a success proportioned to the earnestness and elaboration of the effort. The facts which prove the failure of the president to faithfully and honestly carry out a civil service reform policy are too numerous and conspicu- ous to be explained away. They are ad- mitted by the sincere friends of reform who are also the frieuds of the presi- dent, many of whom have publicly de- clared their disappointment Mr. Cleveland might do better in a second term, but so far as he has gone he could hardly have done worse. TRUSTWORTHY eastern advices leave no doubt that the policy of the demo- cratic managers of the national cam- paign is to amass an immense corrup- tion fund to be used during the closing days of the campaign in buying up the saleable vote and in colonizing where that expedient can be made serviceable, It is said that money is now pouring in upon the national committee in a stead- ily swelling stream, Mr. Barnum’s plan of locating in Washington to give special attention to coniributions having worked well. It seems certain that the *‘educational” campaign is not to end without the usual amount of corruption and fraud. BUILDING INSPECTOR WHITLOCK has been as dumb as an oyster ever since the revelation made in court concern- ing the deal with the New York Insur- ance company. He has beea convictad by their deposition of wilful and delib- erate falsification to the mayor, to the council, and other city officers to whom ne represented that he had issued a per- mit months ago for excavating Seven- teenth street, when, in fact, he did not issue the document until the 11th day of October, two days after the council had requested him to revoke the per- mit which he led them to belie had been issued. SEE—— Applicable to Omaha. Record. Self-respocting councilman: *So ye think we've (hic) been off junketing and spending the people’'s money, eh? Well, we saiu't. ‘We've been (hic) w Chi-Chicago investigat- ing Its aystem of strect lighting, sir."" Con- stituent: “Oh! well, what system have they ! “It's ‘most as ours, ouly (hic) the posts is in pairs’ “Pairs?’ “Yes, (hic) every lamp-post we saw was (hic) double.” —— He Won't Come Down, Chicago Tribune, “Is that you, Colonel Brice!" inquires the democratic coon. “Shoot if you want to—I refuse to ‘come down.' " o s The Slot is Still Open. Minneqpolis Journal. Kvery federal ofilce holder is expected to drop his contribution in the democratic cam- paign slot. Otherwise he will be ‘“‘weighed and found wanting." Pl R — What Harrison Really Said. Boston Traveller, What General Harrson did really say about workingmen's wages was this: ‘“No man's wages should be so low that he cannot make provision in his days of vigor for the incapacity of accident or the foebleucss of old age. PR S — ‘What Makes Her Doubtful. Minneapolis Tribune. Visiting Statesman—Well, how is Tndiana? You have her safe, I suppose, for Cleveland? Central Committeeman—Well, we felt rea- sonably confident until this morning, but the latest reports are bad. Here's a telegram saying that John Updegraf, of Decatur county, has been convicted of arson, and an- other telling us that the White Caps have licked Bill James, of Kokomo, so bad he won't be out for a wmonth. These losses knock our estimate askew and make the state doubtful as thunder, ———— Who is Carrying the Debt? Wall Street News. The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy and the Atchison, are both tarred with the same stick. Both are staggering under a floating debt in curred by paying uncarncd dividends, and losses in operating. We kunow that the Chi- cago, Burlington & Quincy is really a little worse off than the Atchison, which was compelled to issue a second mortgage for 06,000,000 or $7,000,000, in order to meet its current obligations and keep the road in op- eration. The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy has, 80 far s the public knows, done nothing of the kind. The question is, who is carry- ing this large floating debt of the company? They had less than a million balauce of cash assets at the begiuning of the year, and have lost about 5,000,000 since. S0 whom is this owing! Are the millionaire directors coming to the aid of the company and lending it money without security, or has the company quietly placed a collateral trust, or kas it sold sowe of its assets in the treasury? Some in- formation on this point would undoubtedly be received with intercst. S Mixing Politics With Religion. Philadelphia American. The authorities of the Northern Methodist church do not relish the attempt of some of their ministers to represent the church as an appendix to the thizd party. One bishop has mude his voice heard in conference in the matter, and one conference has administered an implied rebuke to those who were using their pulpits for the purpose of urgiug the claims of that political party. Nothing in- deed 13 more notable in the course taken by this party thau its entire indifference to the claims of the weekly day of rest. Demoorats and republicans lay aside their differences on Sunday to worship in common, and to fix their attention on those great truths about hich no good men differ, The prohibition- ists hold public meetings of their party on Sunday, and they use the pulpit to advertise their week-day meetings, where they do not turn 1t into a political machine itself. This course is not only unfair but socially mis- chievous. The social Sanity of the American people depends more and more with every decade upon the maintenance of a day of weekly rest, in which the weck-day _excite- ments of business, politics and what is called “society” shall stop entircly. On_that all sane people, whatever their views of the re- ligious obligation of Sunday, must agree. - LABOR NOTES. A Pittsburg contractor and engineer, so it is_given out, has closed a contract for the erection of an immense iron and steel plant at Sabinos, Mexico. The plant 1s to cost 3,000,000 and will consist of two blast fur- naces, a Bessemer rail and nail plate mill, and structural iron works. The longest white pine sticks that were ever cut in Michigan,probably, were recently manunfactured in a mill at Cadillac. They were six in nnmber and were 65 feet long and were 10-12 inches in diamete A stick of timber was sawed at Hastings Mil, Puget Sound, recently that was 106 feet long by 24 inches square. The importation of pauper labor from Europe into Pennsylvania will be investi- gated in a few days by the congressional in- vestigating committee. Judge C. H, Sim- mons, special agent of the government, has been looling over the field in that state in advance of the committee's sessions to be held in Philadelphia and Pittsburg, and has succeeded in gathering important points for the committee to work upon. The Brotherhood of Railway Porters of the United States and Canada (colored) has is- sued an_address to the different railroad brotherhoods which reflects in strong lan- guage against the discriminations which govern the admission of colored people in those organizations. The address closes by inviting all railroad men, irrespective of color, to join the colored orgauization. 1In the musical arrangements for the Veiled Prophets' parade at St. Louis the members of the Musicians' Mutual Benefit association were given the preference, and the force of union musicians was exhausted before any non-union bands were employed. This is a reversion of the custom of former years, as the method was to getall the non-union bands obtainable before employing union bands, and many of the bands employed were from the country towns. B STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. The fence question is stirring up a good deal of strife in Sioux county, Forty new buildings have been erected in Benkelman since the 1st of last June, William Parker, a one-legged veteran, broke his only leg by falling off a wagon at Buruett. William Filbert, of Stratton, is minus a hand which he fed into the gearing of a cane mill the other day. Real estate men in. Stratton are platting big additions to the town in anticipation of & big boom in the spring. The settlers of Wheeler county are doing their utmost to increase the population. Tywins are again announced from Bartlett, Two prominent citizens of Benkelman fought a duel the other day, the weapons used being a sand shovel and a singletree, supplemented by Gatling gun volleys of jaw- ne, The great activity ip real estate in Harri- son the past week was caused by the high wind, which lifted large quantities of soil but forgot to raise the mortzages at the same time. Two Sheridan county youths went hunting for ducks the other 'day, but brought down bigger game than they intended, They shot their horse by mistake and had to walk home. The court of Dundy county seems to be rather easy-going. When the jury brought in averdict of guilty against Banfill for horse stealing tha_;mwnur'u inebriated coun- sel howled out! *That's all right. Let's see your Kansas and United States officers get the prisoner now. But I'll betch’er $50 Ban- fill won't go to the penitentiary.” Aud the judge did not even rebuke him. lowa. Wild turkeys are being shot in the vicinity of Burlington. The board of supervisors of Grundy county is offering the swamp lands for salo. The Congregational church at Grinnell has g(:cflidx not to accept the resignation of Dr. ord. ‘The streets of Des Moines are overflowing with mud and tho mayor is rustling arouna trying to see what he can do about it A Muscatine schoolma'am figures that she has walked over six hundred miles during the past year in going to and from school It is mored that seventy-five of the charming young lac of Kidora have vim d never to marry until Harrison is elec Waverly people are charitable. They have just built a barn for a resident who was vis ited by the fire fiend, and now propose to il the structure with hay and grain. A young man named Alex Bal ating quite a sensation in O: his threats to do injury to Miss o farmer's daughter, who has refused to lovo him, A Boono botanist reports having found the largest example of the Iycopedon bovista— commonly known as the puff-ball—ever dis. covered. In circumfercnce it was three feet seven inches, its diameter fourteen and a half inches. Dakota. A buciet shop is about to be established at Aberdeen, Wheat is sold in the Hills by the vounds, bringing $1.50 for that amount. A Baptist church with upwards of thirty members will soon be organized in Dead wood. Wheat purchased at Yankton this year averages sixty-one pounds to the measured bushel Sioux Falls is beginning to talk up a re- ception for the Manitoba eMcials upon the advent of the road into that city. The Episcopal church society at Wahpeton passed a resolution last Wednesday demand- 1ng the resignation of Rev, Mr. Morrow, Rapid City has oftered a bonus of $4,000 to the St. Paul, Black Hills & Pacific rail road compauy to build its proposed line to that point. Many improvements and repairs are being made on the capitol in Bismarck, and it is ex- pected that the building will be in good con- dition when the legislators arrive. A party from Manitoba, consisting of Premier Greeuway, mombers of his cabinet and members of the legislature, visited Pem. bita and were banqueted by the citizens, Within the past thirty days one of the merchants of Sioux Falls has cleared $2,600 on flour that he purchased before the rise, and he expects to clean up $2,500 more before his supply 18 exhausted. The crowded condition of the fail at Dead- wood has made it necessary to enlarge it immediately, The commissioners contem- plate submitting to a vote of the people a proposition to issue $3,000 or #5,000 addi- tional bonds for the enlargement of the jail, or rather the addition of two tiers of cells, as contemplated when the jail was built. Joseph Card was discharged from the pen- itentiary at Sioux Fails last Thursday, hav- ing served a sentence of ten years for incest aud adulter He was sentenced from Law- rence county and left again for that place. He was a well known charactor to frequent visitors to the penitentiary, as he was on the outside and looked out for teams driven there. There has always been some doubt about his guilt, and up to the day of his dis- charge he protested his innocence. s General Harrison's Speeches. St. Louis Globe Democrat, The speeches of General Harrison are a source of continual and gratifying surprise. They serve not only to dem- onstrate his familiarity with all ques- tions of importance, but also to display a fertility of argument and illustration on his t which is truly remarkable. There may be other men in our politics who are equally as gifted 1in the matter of fluent, graceful and forcible talking d fter day under circumstances that vary with each new occasion; but if so, 't has not yet been practically ex- emplfied. So far as the cases of those who have heretofore un- dertaken such tasks are con- cerned, the comparison is unquestion- ably favorable to him. He surpasses irceley, Garfield and Blaine in point of variety,of originality und of sustained interest and excellence. The ordeal is one that demands superior mental vigor and alertness, as well as exceptional power of restraint and skill in the selec- Sion of fucts and words. Most men put ton test so pecubarly trying would either drift intoa sort of repetitional monotony, or err on the other side in the way of excess and imprudence. But Geuneral Harrison steadily steers clear of both dangers, and is alw: i always judicious, and always en rapport with the audience which he happens to be addressing. It is to be borne in mind, of course, that on is merely the repre- sentative and the servant of his party, and avepublican triumoh implies the vindication and promotion of certain principles which are more important than any man can possibly be. But at the same time that party may fairly claim as one of the strong arguments in its favor the fact that it'presents a can- didate who is manifestly so well cquipped for the duties of the highest office in the government. It can not be doubted that with Gen. Havrison in the White House, the country would be entively secure against any deprecia- tion of the dignity and propriety of that exalted position. His speeches af- ford the amplest assurance that on no account would the people ever have oc- casion to blush for him should he be made president, His qualification for the place include both the theoretical knowledge and the practical sense re- quired in such an office. He isa states- man of thorough training, of accurate judgment, and_ of close sympathy with the interests of al! classes. It is folly to say th this not a considera- tion to which voters huve a ri‘;ht to at- tach particular weight, when his oppo- nent is plainly wanting in_all those ualities that fit men for high aund :}iflluuh political respounsibilities. The fact that a man need not be a success- ful orator in order to make a satisfac- tory president may be readily granted, but, l[ml. is no answer in this case. Gen- eral Harrison's speeches show him to be more than an orator, They furnish con- clusive evidence that he has a well- stored and well-disciplined mind, and that all his impulses and tendencies are sound, safe mnl profitable. TIn short, he has recommended himself to the couvn- try as a candidate beyond criticism,and his party is gaining votes every day by reason of his splcukid personal services. s o M e Sunday in the Seven Dials. Tondon Echo: Tf one wants to realize the real shavpness of coutrasts in Lon- don, where horrible slums are side by side with wealthy squares, and where the beggar and the millionaire tread the same pavements, one cannot see it better than by wilking a very few steps from the well-dressed, middle-class de- corum assembled in St. George's church, Bloomsbury,or the fine drawn intellect- ualisms of Mr. Stopford Brooke at Bed- ford chapel, into Seven Dials, on any Sunday morning. It is really a matter of some difficulty to pass along Neal street or Little Farl street, so crowded is the whole roadway with coster- mongers and Cheap Jack's barrows. Every one of the little poverty-stricken, grimy shops are open, and the whole scene is more busy than it ison any other day of the week. The sight is one to freeze the heart of a strict sabba- tarian. but, more than that, it is a truly dreadful picture of the real condition of life 1n west central London. I stood for some time in the doorway of onc of the sickeningly odoriferous butcher shops, where loathsome scrapsand trim- 100 ,mings of boue, fat and skin were sold at twopence a pound. A tall, gaunt woman came and looked them over; but tho butcher said, *“No picking: yer ‘takes as they come’' with them, missus!” “Well,” she anawered, *‘then yer might let me have two pounds for threepence half-penny." “‘Can't,” was the vendor's prompt tand laconio reply, and the woman turned away; but she stood by the barrow of a potato dealer till his back was turnad, and furtively appro- priated first one, and then another of his tubers. Not only were the ovi- denees of poverty something appalling in this Sunday fair, but the looks n.' utter degradation of soul and body in tho majority were truly lamentable. Angry woods. and an occasional blow even, occurred; but that terrible apathy and sullen indifference to all but tho immediate object in view spoke volumes on the lives they lived. Young menin dirt and rags; girls who had lost the feminine pride of vanity which leads them to bestow a thought upon their personal appearance; strong middle- aged men whose love of drink was ap- parent; mothers with babies in their arms, but who looked old and careworn enough to bo grandmothers, these pre- vailed in the crowd. And the noise and the bustle, the tumult and bargaining, lasts till about 1:30, when thing: a more woekday-like tranauility one s out into Shaftesbury avenue and sees the conventional and well-to- do going home to Sunday dinners, and one realizes that in London and all places, “One-half of the world knows not how the other half lives.” The Venezuelan Re Dr. W. F. Hutchinson in American Magazine: At 8 in the evening we ar- rived at Lus Tablas, the ncarest port to the famous Callno gold mines, that ware for several ye among the most productive in the world, Of late, how- ield has been falling off, until the price of shares that paid $10 each per month upon a par value of $200, has dwindled down to $1. The de- crease, it is said, is due partly to a change of management and partly to a contraction of the vein of ore. Shafts have been sunk only to the depth of 800 feet, however, and 1t is expected that as progress more will bo obtained, The gold was brought aboara in four boxes, each containing two bars of a thousand ounces tied up in gunny cloths, with a wooden bouy attached in case of an accident coming of the steamer, They were thrown down on the cabin floor ‘with apparent careless ness, but two well armed men watceh the treasure cacefully all night, and in the morning it was to be landed at Cindad Bolivar, iu transit for Caracas, where it is coined. When that morning came, as iv does down here, almost with a bang like Pat’s sunset, the steamer was tied head and stern to voleanic rocks half imbed- ded in white sand, alongside a steep hill of thesame, some sixty feet high. Up and down its shifting side a few discor solate donkeys were climbing, carrying firusu upon which to feed the rest of the ay; and at the topa dark wall stretched along the town frout, showing above it a few yellow walled flat-roofed house And that 18 all that is visible at first glance of the fourth city of the Vene- zuelan republic. After this ditficult hill was sur- mounted, the town developed into a rambling lot of streets upon a series ot hills, the highest one crowned by a cathedral church and a pretty little square coutaining one fair bronze statue of the great Bolivar, and four wretehed plaster ones, representing the four countries that owe th freedom to his statesmanship and valor. blic. skttt iy Statistics of the Bible. London Telegraph: There ave sixty- six books in our Bible, of which the Old Testament contains thirty-nine and the New Testament twenty-seven. These books contain 1,189 chapters, the Old Testament having 929 and the New 260. Of the total of 31,178 verses, from Gen- esis to Revelation, there are 23,214 in the Old and 7.959 in the New. There 449 words in the Old and 151,153 in the New Testament, or a total in the Bible of 773,602 words., The Old Testa- ment has 2,718,100 letters, the New, 838,380; total, 8,566,480, The shortest chapter is Psalm exvii., which is also the middle chapter of the Bible, while the middle verse is the eighth in Psalm In the,Old Testament, Proverbs the middle book; the midd is Job xxix., and the short is First Chronicles, first twenty-fifth verse. In Testament the middle book is Second Thessalonians; there is no middle chapter, there being an even number of chapters, but it would come between the thirteenth and fourteenth of Romans; the middle verse is the seventeenth of the seventeenth chapter of Acts: and the shortest verse in the New Testament, as well as the shortest in the Bible, is the thirty-fifth of the eloventh chapter of the Gospel accord- ing to John. The name of God does not occur in the book of Esther in any form. The nineteenth chapter of the second book of Kings i chapter of Isaiah, are almost” word for word the same, the only difference in our version is such as would be easily made by two translators, rendering the same passage. The twenty-first verse of the seventh chapter of the book of chapter, the New Ezra contains all the letters of the Fng- lish alphabet excepting j, which, sug- gests a philologi ‘is a spurions coun- terpart of the letter i.”” o A Terrible Epidemic. George Francis Train: When two vears old my yarents moved to New Or- eans, In 1823, when I was four years old, the great fever raged. The edi- demic at Jacksonville seems ridiculous in comparison. Only 300 have died there, while 300 died every day at Mem- phis, and New Orleans was worse. I was only four years old, but I remember they had no coffins at New Orleans, no grave-stones, no hearses, but every day a great cart came lumbering down the strect and a hoarse cry would resound: “Awho-0-0! bring out your dead!™ Then wmy little sister Lulu died. They put her in a little pine box. Then my sister Ellen died, as frail a little flower as ever blossomed. That child’s face has never left my memory, and when she was put in the box I waited wonder- ingly for the call, “Bring out your dead!” The water splashed up into the wagon in the grave-yard. Then my dear mother followed, and then my nurse. My father then received a let- ter from my grandmoth “For God's sake fsend one of the family north be- fore they are all dead. Can’t you send George Francis to me, and save a rem- nant of our race?”’ Atag was then fas- tened to me marked: ‘‘John Clark, Boston, Take good care of the little fellow. They are all dead but him.” [ was put on a steamer and I floated down the Mississippi,up the Gulf stream to Boston,and I seem to be floating sti Our family of eleven died in that epi- SICK HEADACHE Positively cured by these Little Pills, They wiso relieve Dis- tress from Dyspepsia, In- digestion and Too Heartyl Kating. A perfect rem- edy for Dizziness, Nause Drowsiness, Bad Taste) In the Mouth, Coated! Tongue, P'atn in the Side, TORPID LIVER. They] regulate the Bowels, Purely Vegetable. SMALL PILL, SMALL DOSE. SMALL PRICE, AMERICA'S BUGBEAR, A Well Written Article on How Oatarrh {s Produced. A Nose, Throat and Lung Specialist Gives His Experience in Treat- ing It—1ls it Curable, That Catarrh has many victims (0 this city, 18 evinced by the fact that every othier person you meet has either & mufMed voice or xome ofher evidence of catarrh, The writer was introduce | 10 & prominent nose, throat aud lung speotalist not long since and from him_obtained the fol lowing truths regarding the diseaseo HIt s a well known ta that & mucons me braue having becoms the seat of an {ufamat which has Inpsed into the chronic stage sooner or later, becomes thickened and puffed up. ‘This tendency 18 more markcd in the nasal cavity, perhaps than inany other of the mucons tracts, and for several reasons. nsal pas. sages composed of rigid walls, and are traversod by the current of air in by hing.and virtually nothing more. The result thersfore of takiug cold aud neglecting it, is a chronfo in fiamatory condition whicl produces thickening of the mucous membrane lining the nose, and the part involved, 18 that covering the turbina- ted hones which are like ridiges running from the front to the back of the nose, ‘They areseen ndgure 1, and are thres in number Tha membrana covering these ridges becomo frritated by fresh and frequent colds, and oach time puffs up until it nearly or quite stops up the uose as seon in figure 2.° The irritation not ops up the nose but n- crenses the secretion of mu- cous which nothaving free exit from the nose, accumulates {n the back part untll suf- ficlent hus collected to run into th i out, This s & conditis may cor der Wher —the socretion heing of an trritating nature causes the throat also to bacome in- flamed and little ted binchos n] 2 to form on the back part of the throat, as seen in figure 3. The sensative condition of which provokes tickling aud cough ing, and a fecling of fulln reness; the larynx or bronchial tubes may become involved by an extension of the troubfe, and eventually the lungs especially, if there {8 & predisposition to lung troubles. Some physiciaus claim that this condition cannot be cured, which is an ap probium on the medical profession, that it can o and {s cured, i3 shown by the testimonials here xhown. Mr. Peter Holt, 2028 Castellar street, Om: ys: “Some SIX OF seven v 20, 1 co ted some severe colds which soon turned in- to u bad form of catarrh, ana for a long tim suffered ¢ but on the advice of a friend called on Dr. Jordan, and to-da I man. T treated with him for thre the result is a complete and radic I would advise all sufferers from that dread dis- ease to give Dr. Jordhn a trial Mr. Harry Laufenberg, 421 South 19th stroet,n bricklayer, sa; “1 contr od catarrh in Min- nosota about five years ago and had an awful time of it for that length of time, but was com pletely cured of it by Dr. Jordan aftor two months treatment. Dr. Jordan is a painstaking and concientions physician, and treats catarrh on scienitic and_common sense prineiples, and 1 think that it was the best day’s work I'over Qid when [ started treatment with him.’" 2613 Ham|lton st orative Company consulted physiclans, of course, both hore and in Illinois, and_one of the best’ doctors i would have to get out of this city . 1 did not get out of the city, but | did call upon Dr. Jordan, whose offices art Nos. 810 and 811 Ramge Block, corner 15th and Har- ney streets. 1 was advised to call upon D Jordan by friends of mine who had been ben fitted by Dr.Jordan’s treatment. I placed m: self under Dr. Jordan’s care and am very well satistied with elt MUCH BETTER after beginuing and con! ains In my chest hu the freely and regul ¥ in very much [mproy 15 clearand dfstinct again. My stom : rlght and my wppetite §s kood, My nose throut ave in'good condition and T can br naturally again. [ am very well satisfied with r. Jordan's treatment, and 1 shall certainly advise all my friends to'call upon Dr. Jordan it they are troubled s [ wus."" Mr. Jno. Thoruton, Blatr, Nebraska, a farmer, sy 1was in a very bad way, I had been reading the advertisem(nts of Dr- McCoy for sonie time and at last I concluded that I would call on him and give him a trial; 1 did so. 1 went to Omaha and called at_the office and’ was examined by Dr, Jordan who told me he could cure mo. 1 did not tell him that T had had this catarrh siucy the war, I was afraid that he would tell me that I had had it too long and _could do nothing torme, 50 1 told him that I had had it about seven years, but thut made he commenced treating me and e at home only saw mo thres times y trom his office to take offi done for me what many and failed, and [ want to glv tue credit for it too, | took my sister down 1o the doctor 100, and sho is getting Detter very fast and 1 do not doubt in tlie least that {n ashort time she will also be cured —_— BOMETHING WORTH KNOWING. A Few Symptoms of Discase That May Prove Serious to You. Doyou have frequent fits of mental depres- sion Do you experience ringing or buzzing noises in your ears? Do you feel as though you must suffocato when lying down? Are you troubled with a hacking cough and general debility? Are your eyes generally weak and watery and frequently. inflamed ¢ Does your voice have a husk, thick sound aud & nasal sort of twang? breath freql atable cau e you a dull, oppressive headache, goner- ally located over tho eyest Do you huve to lwwi and cough froquently in thie effort to clear your throat? Are you losing ‘your seuse of smoll and is your sénse of taste becoming dulled? Does your nose always feel stopped up, forc- ing you to breatiie through your mouth? You frequently feel dizzy, particularly when htooping to pick auything oif the loor? Does every little draft of siv audevery slight itly offensive from some hangre of temperature give yon & "Ate you annoyed by a constant desire to hawk spit out an endféess quantity of phiegm ! Do you rise from bod as tired and weak as you wore the nght before and feel as though you wanted to lie there forever? 1s your throat filled with phlegm fu the morn- ing, which can only be discharged after violont coughing and hawking and spitting? Do you oocastonally wuke trom & troubled slecp with a start and feel as if you had just escaped @ borrivle death by choking? Pemanently Loouted. J. Cresan McCoy, late of Bellevie Hospi New York, succeeded by Dr. Charlos Jordun, 'late of the Univer- of New York City, also of Washing: ton, D. C., have located” permauently in tho Karuge Biock, Omaha, where all curabls cases are treated skilifully. Consumption, Bright's Disease, Dyspepsia, Rheumatism, and all nervous diseases. Al diseases peculiar to 50X & speciaity. CATARRHCURED. Consultation at office or by mail, §1, OMce bours 9to 11a.m., 2to 4 p. m., TLo 4 p. in | Sunday Houry, from 9 a. m, to 1 p. m. 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