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

4 THEE T A 03t o T RSN 5 OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1888 --SIXTEEN PAGES. e e — e ————————— e e e e e e e e ———————————— THE DAILY BEE. run HED EVERY MORNING, TERME OF SUBSCRIPTION, Dally Morning Bdition) fncluding SUSDAY, TER, O I DT Fo For'Three M THy OMANA St address, One Y OMAHAOFFICE, CORRESPONDENCE Allcommunications relating tonews and edi- torial matter should be addressed to the Entron ¥ THE BEE. bt BUSINESS LETTERS, All business lotters and remittances should be addressed to THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMAHA. Drafts, checks and postofice orders to bemade payable to the order of the company. e Bee Pablishing Company, Proprictos. . ROSEWATER, Editor. THE DAILY BEE. $worn Statement of Circulation. Btateof ?\'t‘hrlwkn1 ™ County of Douglas, | Guorge B. Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee Pub- lishing Company, does solennly swear that the ‘cmtrr‘lrru&llou of Tug DAILY Bre for the week ending October 27, 1588, was as follows Bunday, Oct. 21 . . Monday, Oct. 22 Tuexday, Oct, 2. Thursday, € Friday, Oct. Baturday, Oct. 27 Average. JEORGE 1. s Sworn 40 befors mo and subscribed in my prosence this 27th day of October A, D, 1 Seal, N. P. FEIL, Notary Public, State of Nebraska, '~ |, County of Douglas, | G o 13, uck, being duly sworn, de. e and says that he I8 secretary of The Bee Pobiishing company. that the actual averags dally circulation of ‘THE DAILY BER for the montn of October, 1887, 14,335 copies; for No- yember, 147, 15,226 coples: for December, 1857, 16,041 copies; for January, 188, 16,208 coples for February, 18, 15,82 coples; for March, 1384, 19,040 coples: for April, 1588, 1 May, 188, 14,151 copies: sopioas for Jily. 1 . 18,083 3w, 14,183 coplos; foF Septewn coplos. GEORGE Sworn to before and subscr ence, thls ¥th day of October, A coples; for 84, 10,243 un{v, weal or woe, New York is She has won the base ball pennant. MORRIS MORRISON spokL:lo the Scan- dinavians last night but said nothing about school house furniture. REPEAL the justice law for metro- politan cities and stop the cost-mill fake from which Omaha is suffering. T editor of the Herald has ovi- dently been reading the New York Sun’s chapter on government printing office steal: CHEYENNE is complaining of a coal famine, which is all the more aggras vating because it is not caused by any decrease of production by the mines. Apparently it is the result of increased demand by localities to the west of Cheyenne, and the monopoly in contr prefers serving new customars to ones. AMERICAN industries were not very largely reprosented at the Brussels ex- position, but such as were commanded marked attention and were notably suc- cessful in securing awards. In the de- partment of agriculture and its pro- cesses all the American exhibitors of agricultural machines but one received adiplomaof honor, the highest award in its class, whilst all of them obtained gold medals, In other departments fifty-four out of seventy-three American exhibitors received distinctions of greater or less degree. The notable success of our manufacturers at Brus- sels should suggest to them the wisdom of taking a prominent part in the Paris exposition. — THE singular attitude taken by the Canadian Pacific railroad to prevent the crossing of its tracks by the North- ern Pacific may lead to serious results. ‘The people of Manitoba are excitedly wrought up over the high-handed action of the Canadian Pacific officials, and bloodshed may be imminent. The new railroad, it appears, to whicn the Cana- dian Pacific is violently opposed, is being built by the provincial govern- ment. This may explain why the peo- ple of Manitoba are so directly con- cerned in its construction. The North- ern Pacific has virtually leased the line from the government, and will operate ft under a guarantee that the rates charged shall not exceed those in Dakota, and that the net income shall suffice to pay the interest on the bonds, emm——— TrHE effort making in New York to raise a fund sufficient to prevent the disbandment of the Thomas orchestra ought to be successful, and doubtless . will be if such enthusiastic and gemer- ous patrons of art as Mrs Juaneite M. Thurber address themselves to the task. This ladly, whose devotion to the cause of muSical culture in the United States Bas been attested by very large ex- finduuros from her private fortune, already contributed liberally to the ‘orchestra fund and promised more if needed. Such an example ought to be widely emulated among the wealthy people of Gotham; but unfortunately the great majority of these have neither the iefined tastes hor the generous dis- position of Mrs. Thurber. The orches- tra ought to be maintained, and it can be done only by ralsing the proposed fund. THE project of an association of American women to prosent to the French nation a statue of Washington is to be commended. This country owes much to the friendshipof France, some of whose most valiant sons helped by their counsel and their soldierly ability to establish the republic, and whose names are inseparably associated in history with some of the greatest eveuts of the revolution. The Fremch people have always felt friendly toward the United States, and never more so than at whis time. In 1876 we received from the French the heroic statue of Lalayette, which is in Union Square, New York, and therefore the proposal of American women tosend to Paris astatue of Washington is commended by every consideration of propriety and dignity. It is estimated that the work will cost twenty thousand dollars, a sum which there ought to be no dificulty in secur- ing. It is expected that the unveiling of the statue can be made oue of the at- tractions during the continuance of the Paris exposition next year. WEST MAY BE RECALLED, There was a prolonged meeting of the cabinet on Friday, the chief topic discussed being the political letter of the British minister which caused such dismay in the democratic camp. A dis- patch from Washington states that as a result of the meeting the American minister to England has been instructed ¢ to Lord Salisbury that in the opinion of the president the friondly relations between the two countries would be subserved by a change in the head of the British legation in this country. It is evident the view ex- pressed by Secretary Bayard, that the matter was one of which the govern- ment could not take official notice, on the ground that the letter was private, was overruled, very likely the presi- dent himself insisting upon the politi- cal necessity of taking official notice of the minister’s grave violation of diplo- matic etiquette and propriety. Mr. Cleveland must have been quick to see the effect that the letter could not fail to have, and he understood that the only hope of weakening that effect was to rebuke the indiscretion of the min- ister in the way that is reported to have been taken. He has at least sufficient political acumen to discern that no amount of such specious expluna- tions as have been offered by Mr. Bay- ard and Mr. Thurman could break the force of this letter upon the popular mind of this country, and that the only safe alternative was to ask the recall of the offending envoy or promptly give him his passport. Had the minister advised his correspondent to vote for Harrison it is quite probable his offense would have been considered sufficiently grievous to justify the latter course. Lord Salisbury will undoubtedly ac- cede to the desire of this government in the matter, and the early re- call of Minister West may be confi- dently expected. But will this mend the matter, or materially diminish the effect of the disclosures contained in his letter? We cannotsee that it will. The writing of such a letter to an entire stranger, of whose identity and charac- ter Mr. West could have had no knowl- edge, was in itself evidence of the in- tense interest taken in the democratic cause, reflecting the sentiment not merely of the minister, but of the Eng- lish party he represents. It should be borne 1n mind that the letter asking counsel bore date September4, and that the reply was dated September 13, so that West lost no time 1n conveying the desirved advice. His anxiety that his cor- respondent should be placed on the right track, and should have an opportunity to influence others to get on the samo track with him, led the minister to be prompt in conveying the counsel asked for. The recall of West cannot obliter- ate the fact thus clearly established, that the sentiment of tha ruling class of England is profoundly interested in democratic success in the coming elec- tion. Nor will the recall of the British minister destroy the effect of his confi- dent expressions regarding the friendly and conciliatory spirit of the president respecting English interests in- volved in the controversy be- tween this country and Canada, of which he obviously must have had ample assurances from competent au- thority. Neither will it do away with the very plain intimation of Mr. West’s letter that the administration has been merely playing a part for political effect in its professed desire for enlarged authority to protect American rights against Canadian aggression. In a word, the damage has been done, and no amount of virtuous indignation which the administration may now manifest can wholly undo it. Minister West will very likely be recalled, as he certainly should be, but the sacrifice will not change the fact that the ruling party of England, whose sentiment the minister well knows and frankly expressed, earnestly desires the continued supremacy in American poli- tics of the democratic party, and that the chief of the democratic party has not failed to give such assurances of friendliness to the English government as have relieved it of any anxiety re- garding the future of its interests on this continent in the event .of demo- cratic success. COMPLIMENTING HASCALL. After appealing to Germans and lib- eral-minded people (as they are called) to support certain candidates of foreign birth who are on the legislative tickets of both democratic and republican par- ties, the German Tribune makes the fol- lowing appeal ou behalf of Isaac S. Has- call: “Furthermore, Mr. Hascall is being traduced, maligned and persecuted by newspapers that constantly carry water on both shoulders, aund never dare to take an open and firm stand against prohibitionists and their helpers and sympathizers This should inspire every liberal- minded, free-thinking citizen to sup- port his candidacy. and more especially because Mr. Hascall has publicly and most decidedly declured himself as against Governor Thayer and in favor of Mr. McShane. Within the brief period before election it behooves every- body to take position and steadily keep in view the principle, ‘Those who are not with us are against us.”” — LITERARY SWEATERS. Sweating is the cant word which was invented in the old Chartist days of 1848 in London to describe the condition of things which Nell Nelson hasventilated in Chicage,and is now depicting in New York. London, however, was always the central point of such operations,and & committee of the house of lords is making investigations at the present moment of the sweating operations of the modern Babylon which are simply heartrending. Whilst they have been taking the testimony of tailors and of cloak-makers, of feather trimmers and of artificial pearl ornament makers, of fancy boxmakers, of paper lamp shade makers, and of all those trades which the quick and the industrious can pick up without much difficulty, a new class of viotims has presented itself, and has raised an awful cry, which the English newspapers have treated with the ridi- cule which is o much more natural to thom than humaaity or decency. ‘This bitter wail comes from literary hacks, who complain that they do the whole work of distinguished journalists, novelists, dramatists, and other sons of Parnassus, and receive for so doing the merest stipend, sums not only out of all proportion to the prices the pseudo authors receive, but even to the bare time employed in these labors, The London Duily News 18 foremost in the attempt to treat this claim with Homerice laughter and to deny the pos- sibility of its being true. And yet the same paper admits that in France the system has obtained the fullest vogue, and that Maquet and not Alexander Dumas was the author of “The Three Musketeers,” with the succeeding vol- umes in continuation of that fascinating tale. Every herring must hang by its own tail, and London literary swoaters must settle scores with their victin A word or two, however, may be said with advantage as to the system of sweating pursued in New York in jour- nalism. Syndicates have been formed in that city to supply all the literature which is demanded by the Sunday edi- tions of daily pape rs all over the land, and these syndicates make terms with such writers, mage and female, as they think will be most attractive by their literary veputations. No outsider has the remotest chance of gotting any work from the syndicates. [t is obvious to the men who form these associations that it is not within the bounds of pos- sibility for any of these writers with whom they have made ar rangements to do tho work which they engage to do. Tt is as physically impossible as it was for Narcisso Diaz, the great French landscape artist, to paint the seveuty thousand canvasses that bear his name in this country, or for his friend Theo- dore Rousseau, to paint the forty-s thousand for which he is considered re- sponsible. Who, then, write the letters, the sketches, the short tales, the continued stories, the weekly correspondence of the stars employed by the syndicate? Poor wretches who are out of employ- ment and out of credit, and whose fail- ings have placed them under the ban of every city editor. Also youug aspirants for journalistic honors who cannot get work because they are unknown, and who remain unknown because they can- not get work. These do the writing and the stars simply sign their names and hand the manuseript to the syndi- cates. Under such a state of things the work done is necessarily very uneven, and, upon the average, of inferior qual- ity. The natural consequence has been that there is a reaction against syndi- cate articles for Sunday editions, be- cause the public, although completely ignorant of the inside facts, has shown a marked preference for those papers that have made their own arrange- ments with literary men and ha fused to have any dealings with the . New York syndicates. The public is the best judge, and it has never been fooled with bad work for any length of time in any line of business, and it has shown itself especially judicious in its affection for honestly conducted news- papers. THE agricultural college of California appears to be as much of & farce asagri- cultural colleges generally are in other states of the country. ccent investi- gations show that the institution is sadly mismanaged. There are a half dozen professors who draw comfortable salaries and have little or nothing todo as there are no more than a half dozen students to instruct. The college farms ave neglected and wretchedly taken care of by the students. The pamphlets and bulletins published by the college ave expensive, inaccurate and worthless for practical purposes. Jn the face of all this, the college authorities continue to ask for more funds. But California has about reached the counclusion that agricultural colleges do not benefit ag- riculture. The state will draw the purse strings against any further ex- travagant appropriations in that direc- tion. EDUCATING THE COLORED MAN. Daniel Hand, of Connecticut, hasdone not only a generous aud noble action, but a wise one, in donating to the Amer- ican Missionary association one million dollars, for the education of colored people in the old slave states. This in- troduces a notable wedge into » vory knotty onk. So !anz as the colored man 15 uncducated there always will be force in the southern plea for keeping him from the polls, that he is unfit for! the franchise, which cannot safely be trusted to him in states where he is in the majority. All men remember how badly the system worked in Louisiana under Grant’s administration, and how it was proved boyond contradiction that the exercise of a free man’s privilege by the uneducated negro meant debt, disaster and actual anarchy. Men may mourn over the shot-gun polic they cannot approve the election to the office of sherift of an absolutely ignorant black man, whose bonds to the amount of forty thousand dollars were furnished by an absolutely penniless white man,a drunken bummer living upon the forbearance of the community. It was plain fifteen years ago that the solution of the problem lay in the edu- cation of the colored man. This was 80 clearly true that northern sympathies were enlisted for the southern white man after the outbreak in New Orleans of 1874, because there dawned upon the northern mind a full comprehension of the gigantio diffi- culties with which these southern states had to contend where there was a majority of colored men. For it never entered into the head of any northern writer or speaker that the south would, as a matter of public policy, insist upon keeping the colored men in ignorance. But that is precisely what is being done. Solong as the colored man in the south is densely ignorant there will be grounds for cheating him of his franchise right, and he is being kept ignorant that there may be in perpetu- ity that excuse, Daniel Hand’s gift is a blow aimed at the very heart of this flendish policy, and it has been placed where it will do the most good. The American association will pour out hun- dreds of bright, resolute men who will dare anything in so holy a cause. It was not enough, it seems, that. this race should have been deprived of its liberties. It was not enough that they should be kept at miserably low wages by an understanding among employers to boycott and drive dut of the country any man who should $ffer to pay more. They are to be¥kebt in the bonds of ignorance that the whole value of the surrender at Appomattox might be negatived, and thdt the wrong of con- turies which men had hoped was gone and blotted out might be practically perpetuated. But this action of Daniel Hand will change all that, and will create a nucleus of education for the colored man which will within a single generation make him n new being, ono whose rights can neither be disputed nor taken from him without danger. He will be then practically what he is now legally, a citizen of his state, and if wronged by his state he will have his appeal to the United States that will see him righted. A Chicago Tribune. The white house at Wushington has just ro celved a new coat of paint. This is the near- est approach to painting the town that the democrats will have any occasion for indulg- ing in during this campaign. Simply Matchl Gresham Review, Last Sunday’s Omana Bee was one of the finest newspapers ever published in America, It was sixteen pages, contained the brightest gems of current literature, and for society, political and general news it was simply matchless. e ——— Good Men, Good Pay. Men who sit in railway signal towers, men who run trains, men who tend switches, and all other men employed in the actual minutix: of raitroading, ought to be picked out for their qualities of fidelity, painstaking and general conscientiousness. They ought to be picked out, drilled, watched, and—well paid. — - Not a High Opinion of Him, Philadelphia Record. General Salomon, the deposed president of Hayti, who dicd in Paris recently, uufortu- nately had noneof that grandeur of charac- ter possessed by Toussaint I'Ouverture,under whose benign rule, until he was made a vic- tim of Napoleon's treachery, the island pros pered so wonderfully. Salomon was, in fact, thoroughly unscrupulous and wildly ambi- tious, with a strange blending of French polish and culture and African cruelty and savagery. bl S Crushed by Their Own Weight. Commercial Bulletin, How much more effective natural laws are than laws enacted by statesmen in bringing colossal *“corners” to grief is seen once more in the collapse of the scheme to monopolize the lead market. No ‘act of congress, how stringent soever, nor of any state legislature to “prevent” or ‘punish” such practices could have had a mo astrous effect upon the monopolists u.un'n:‘j-impm operation of cause and effect—in $thaf words, the law of competition, which, unrestrained, sooner or later makes short work Iyr monopolies, and monopolists, whether in{ lead, tin, copper, gram or any other commédity. An English journs#l gives some details of the great salt trust or syndicate which has been organized there for the avowed purpose of killing off competition in one of the neces- saries of life. There gre a great many sources of salt pmmm}m thiroughout the world, and, unless the syndicate are vretty sure of having ch. or subsidized, or bought all these up, its collapse also is but a question of time. #Old Huteh” in lead, or salt, or breadstuffs, may flourish for a time, but in the end he is bound to be “hoist with his own petard.” B The Big Appropriations, Epoch. The thirteenth regular appropriation bills passed by congress and signed by the presi- dent, aggregate $2i7,260,000, against $243,500, 000 for the fiscal year 1387-83, and for the year 1886 The tenden steady mcrease of the expenaitures of the government would seem to be noarly as pro- nounced as the steady increase of its reve- nues. A difference of about $41,000,000 in two years seems to require explanation, if not to excite some suspicion of extravagance, The most striking vpoints of difference be- tween the appropriations passed at the first sessions of the Forty-ninth congress, and those passed at the first session of the Fiftieth are these: For pensions, 5,700,000 more has been required, the river and har- bor bill appropriates $3.000,000 more, there is an increase on fortifications of about $4,000,000—no0 appropriation uuder this head having baen passed two years ago; the navy gots §7,000,000 more, the postofice and the sundry civil bill is nearly $4,000,000 in excess of that of 1856-'87. The only items in this list which challenge criticism are those of the river and harbor and sundry civil biils, and there is at least this to be said about the river and harbor bill that it covers, in part, the failure to pass any bill at the previous session. e T VOICE OF THE STATE PRESS. “Elect railroad tools to the legislature," says the Grand Island Independent, ‘“and you will see conspiracy laws, the likeof which you have never seen before in this nation. ‘The railroads want no half-way rule, but absolute power. Of the Douglas county legislative delega- tion the Lineoln Call remarks: *‘It is to be regrotted that it will present, like Macaulay said of Bacon's life, ‘the checkered spectacle of 50 much glory and of 50 much shame.’ " S0 dull are polities in Thayer county that the Hobron Journal avers that the noise made by the inhabitants of a graveyard is a perfect bedlam compared with (he quietude of politicul matters. A peculiarity of staté politics this year is noted by the York Times, ‘which says: ‘‘The railroads are out of politics, Church Howe is out of politics, everybody' is out of politics except the giday farmer. How lonesome he must be playing a loné hénd at politics and not & trump in sight.” The O'Neil Frontior baldly asserts, with- out fear of contradictiom, that ‘‘MoShane dare not accept the gentlemanly invitation of Governor Thayer to engage in a joint de- bate. McShane knows better than to tackle the old vetoran, who would wind him up so quick that his head wowld be dizzy for six woeks. MoShane, howewer, coward like, does not forget to give instructionsto his edi- tors to ‘light into the old man,’ " The McCool Junetion Reeord remarks that “severy voter, whether he be a republican, democrat, union labor or prohibitionist when when he goes to the polls November 6 to cast his vote should see that it has the name of Hon. William Leese upon it. Mr. Leese has proven himself to be a friend of the peo- ple, and ho should receive the hearty indorse- ment of every farmer aud laboring man in Nebraska without regard to politics.” The Hastings Gazette-Journal acknowl- edges that “Mr. McShane accomplished one thing at least, during his two years in con- gress. His bill making Lincoln & port of entry received the siguatare of the president. The farmers who have for years beeu clam- oving for the establishment of & port of en- try as Lincoln will uow expend their grati- tude upon Mr, MoShane by voting for him, Those who have not clamored will vote for Mr. Thayer," It is hard for the Wymore Union to under- stand “Low any labroing man who believes in electing moen friendly to the laboring men's interests can vote for J. Sterling Morton, whose only occupation in the state has been that of a paid lobbyist of the Chicago, Bur- lington & Quincy railrond company at Wasn- ington. In opposition to Mr. Morton the re« publicans have in Mr. Connell » man whose public uttorances and work has boen in the the interest of the laboring and producing classes, He has never been tisd up with railroads or othor corporations as has his op- ponent, He has no record to cover up." Says the Beatrice Republican: “In his speech at Wymore, J. Sterling Morton made a very pretty apology for himself in reference to his sou's counection with the strike of the locomotive engineers on the Burlington. He spoiled it all, however, when in attempting to berate Governor Thayer; he said that Thayer ought to bave called out the state militia to protect the railroad property n- stead of allowing the Pinkerton's to be brought into the state. The locomotive engineers aro peaceable, law-abiding citizens, but Morton’s remark left the inference that ne considered them a set of lawless yahoos. Morton will not get many votes from tho brotherhood, or their friends.” 1t would scem that the republicans of Hall county are not sure but that their candidate for senatorial honors 1s a democrat in dis- guise, for the Grand Island Independent says: “Is John L.Means already pledged to vote for John A. McShane for United States senator, while instracted to vote for Charles ¥. Manderson{ is a question very pertinent in view of certain actions of his and the support of some uncompromising democratic saloon keepers, who generally kuow what they are about. The surfuce in- dications point o the use of McShano boodle in the interest of Means, the so-called re- publican candidate. This democratic sup- port means something, and republicans have aright to ask what it means, and all the more 80 on account of the crocked politicel record of John L, Means in the past.” —— Old-Fashioned Roses, James Whiteomb Riley. They ain't no style about 'em, And they're sorter pale and faded; Yit the doorway here without 'em Would be lonesomer, and shaded With a good ‘eal blacker shadder Than the mornin’ glories makes, And the sunshine would look sadder, For their good, old-fashioned sakes. I like ‘em use they kind o' Sorter make a feller like 'em; And I tell you when you find a Bunch out whur the sun can strike 'em. It always sets me thinkin' O' the ones 'at used to grow And peek in througp the chinkin’ O' the cabin, don't you know. And then T think o' mother, And how she used to love 'em, When they wuzu't any other, 'Less they found 'em up above ‘em! And her eves afore she shut ‘en Whispered with a smile, and said We must pluck a bunch and put ‘em In her hand when she is dead. But, as I wuz a sayin’, They ain't no style about 'em audy or displayin’, But I wouldn't be without 'em, *Canse I'm happier in these posies And the hollyhawks and sich Than the hummin' bird 'at noses In the roses of the rich, —— DPICS. CURRENT Tn one particular at least_the great Ameri- can people has emancipated itself from sub- servience to European and more particularly English fashions. Tnere is aumiversal de- termination to discard the umbrella as a pro- tection against rain. It is conceded that as a sun shade it has murked good points, and when the color is in harmony with the dress and the inside lining throws the right tint upon the face the young lady of the nine- teenth century fels that her sun shade is her dearest possession, and that Life without it would not be worth living. But the win- ter umbrella which has been carried as a defence against rain storms and falling snows by both sexes has at last been voted an in- tolerable nuisance and & fraud. Very sel- dom does rain fall perpendicularly, and when- ever this is not the case, the ouly part of tho body that is protected is the head and shoulders. Most frequently rain is accom- panied by strong gales, and then the detest- able umbrella proceeds to invert itself, and to make its unhappy bearer a mark for scorn and an object for the amusement of the small boy. When it snows the arm bacomeo weary of carrying several bushels of frozen rain upon the top of the umbrella, and it is far from agrecable to have to halt and discharge the unwelcome freight. Besides the rain umbrella is an anachronism, It was invented, or rather it was modified from the sun shade prior to the discovery of vulcanized rubber. From that time waterproof coats and cloaks bave been manufactured whose efticiency is undeniable and whose cost has been reduced to & minimum. The time has come when the winter umbrella must go. - e Kyrle Bellew is an actor with a fondness for brilliant stage costumes and a mania for mashing. The fact that he had obtained from Worth a series of doublets and jerkins of the most resplendent character for the role of Romeo made him somewhat of a nero in socicty this fall, and he was in- vited to Tuxedo. There ne gave way to his mashing propensities to such an extent that he became an unwmitigated nuisance, and was nov asked to reuew his visit wheu he went away. Pierre Lorillard, who is president of the association, sent written instructions to the manager of the hotel that Kyrle was not to be accommodated under any circum- stances, no matter what member of the association might bring him down. This fact was published generally by the papers, and this creature of clothes has had the im- pudence to write to a New York afternoon paper an open letter to Plerre Lorillard de- manding an unqualified apology or satisfac- tion. Kyrle Bellew has made a blunder The world does not take him seriously, but considers him a toy. There ure women who delight to train their pug dogs to look like & lion, but the pug feels within every fibre of his body that he is only a lap dog when the cat comes into the same room. If Mr. Bel- lew wants to be treated as an, let him burn his clothes and study his profession, and he will find fewer mashes, but far more respect. But this he will never do, for he is not built that way. . " Bavaria has a monopoly of lithographic stone, and that little state, the headquarters of German beer and German art ought to be the richost country in the world in propor- tion to its size, for lithography has been uni- versal. And nowjthe lithographic stone is doomed, and plates of zino are being largely used a8 a substitute. 1t has been found as practicable to draw upon them as upon the Bavarian stone, and hence has arisen the new word—zincography. The saving ef- fected is remarkable. A sinc plate costing only 85 cents is as efficient as a lithographio stone which costs $54. and it can be resur- faced practically forever, whereas the litho- graphic stone will only bear regrinding to a limited extent. When it is remembered that in good chromo-lithographic work a stone has to be used for each color, and that some- times the number so employed ranges from fifteen to twenty stones, the difference in the cost becomes au item of grave importance, which will revolutionize the art. The thin- ness of the plates has also permitted modifi- cations in the press work, by which it is now possible to throw of 1,400 sheets an hour with the same good results obtained by the slow printing of lithography, A resumo of the advantagos offered by zincography shows that the Bavarian stone has beou superseded, . Rider Haggard hos ‘started the theory that Stanley has been seized by wild African and deified, ned that ho is as much & risoner as the Grand Lama of Thibet, But Rider Haggard has never seen either Stan- loy or Central Africa. The people of Omaha who have seen Stanley will searcely believe that be has been deified. Ho was not built that way. - »e Edward Atkinson is authority for the state- ment that a method has been discovered of making soft woods non-combustible by paint- ing them with a solution of zinc dissolved in water under certain conditions, Mr, Atkin- son has the faculty of casting a doubt in rea- soning minds upon cvery statement which he advances and every cause which he cham- pions. With regard to this last discovery it may bo remembered that thirty years ago, when railroad building was being projected in India on alarge scale, experiments were made with zinc upon railroad sleepers as a defense against white ants, The process, however, gave the sleepers a flavor which the white ants found delicious, and native teak was adopted, which the experience of thousands of years had shown that tho termites would not touch. " At the grand Christmns eve banquet and ball of the Armour-Cudahy Packing associa- tion there will be, for 8o it 1s rported, rivers of champagne. This ought to be California champagne, and there should be nothing served at the festive board that is not an American product. Omala is the star of the northwest, which isa land of produca, and Omalia men ought to be intensely patriotic and tuke their stand upon the principle of sustaining every kind of American produce. California brandy has found its way her: aud has been generally accepted as a good article, the equal of cognac. Now let us try their champague. o~ Au enterprising man of Salt Lake City has applied for a patent for the construction of a salt palace, and has formed a company which will begin operations as soon as the papers arrive from Washington. The idea suggested itself to his mind when he was in Sioux City, Ia.,on a visit to the famous corn palace that has created so much favorable comment in east- ern cities, The marvelous effects which can ba obtained by hghting up rock salt are well kunown, fo®in the salt mines of Wilicka in Austrian Poland there has been something similar for the past hundred and fifty years. All the effects there, however, are interior, and there has been no attempts to obtain any architectural splendors. It does not seem probable that such a structure would ve dam- aged by rain, unless the fall was very con- tinuous and heavy. Many of the readers of Bre may have seen masses of rock salt stores for many years, exposed 1o the heaviest weather without any results, Itis to be hoped thatthe Salt Lake citizen will carry out his idea, and obtain the pecun- iary success which he deserves. Mr. Thomas Meehan, an eminent eastern botanist with a turn for sentiment, has been deploring the sad fact that the great nation of the United States hasno national floral emblem. Granada had its pomegranate, France ts fleur de lys, Florence its iris in mediwval times, and in the Hritish embire England is still symbolized by & rose, Ire- land by a shamrock, and Scotland by a this- tle. Brooding upon this state of things Mr. Mechan proposed that the golden rod should be the emblem of the people of this country. But Mr, George W. Childs, of the Ledgor, stauds forward for the maizo plume and tas- sel, and it must bo acknowledged that he has hit'the bull's eye. Mr. Meehan has not ra- flected that thero was a symbolism in these emblems. The fleur de lis is an undoubted pun upon the vame of Louis, the favorite name of French kings, and the pomegranate is similarly & pun upon the name of the Moorish kingdom, Granada, for in Spanish granada means ® pomegranate. So the flower upon the cofns of Florence was a pun upon the name which means flowers, and the iris was chosen begause that city had a great commerce in orris root powder' made from the great white iris of the Arnos banks. Now maize has a symbolic meaning, for the word can be de- composed into ma-iza, and this in the an- cient Maya means great knifemen—which 1s an equivalent of Saxon. Forithe true mean- ing of Saxon is—wearer of the Sax or short sword, And in Maya iza or itza refers to the sword made by puttlng mto a wooden framo knives made of itza or volcanic glass. This was the origin of the name given to the Ttzas of Yucatan, who founded the citios of Chicken, [tza Izamal, and Izapan, and it is asserted in Maya records that one of the Ttzaob was the discoverer of maize which he obtained in its wild state from a Quinami, one of the aborigines of Mexico. And from sentimental reasons the maize plant is infl- nitely superior to the golden rod. If the floral symbol is & necessity, by all means lot Mr. George W. Childs' suggestion be adopted. “ The newspaper men of Savannah, Ga. have appoiuted a committee to raise a fund for the family of Edwin Martin, the manag- ing odutor of the Jacksonville Times-U nion, who died recently in that city of yellow fever, Imbued with strong professional feeling, and realizing how greatly the daily 1ssue of the paper cheered the hearts of those citizens who remained in the plague- stricken city, Edwin Martin stuck to his post. There were many such faithful hearts in Jacksonville, and the examplo of this journalist no doubt had a great effect upon them. There was a milkman who made his rounds as if there was no plague iu the city. To all who spoke to him about his danger he said: “The people must have milk. What would the people think if the milkman did not come round as regularly as the man with the morning papers!” The initiative has been taken by Savannah journalists because he was well known to thom, having been for threa years connected with the daily press of that city. It is felt that some provision should be made for the family of this brave man, who gave up his life because the cir- cumstances of the times demanded the sac- rifice. —— - The Pilot's Wife. George Barlow in Belgravia, *“The moou shines out, with here and there a star, But furious cloud-ranks storm both stars and moon. The mad sea drums upon the harbor-bar. ‘Will the tide slacken soon? O Sea, that took'st my youngest, wilt thou sparel” —And the Sea suswered through the black night air, “1 took thy youngest. night" Shall I spare to- “The thundering breakers sweep and slash the sands; To westward, lo! one line of cream-white foam 1 rise to darkling heaven my halple 1 watch within the home. O Sea, that took'st my eldest, wilt thou —And the Sca answered as from out & grave, “I slow thine eldest son for my delight." “The glant waves plunge o'er the shingly beach : The twany mane! great lions of the ses, With pitiless roar fiowl down all human 8| peech. 1s God tar off frow me? O Sea, that slewest my 8003, mwine busband Spare The B:T'T wild laughter shook and reat the r “Lo! on the beach & drowa'd face deadly ‘white, TALKS ON TRIFLES. An Omahan who has jush roturnod from Chicago states that ho had & talk with Hon, Walter Q. Gresham, at the Grand Paocific, while there, The conversation turned on the prosperity of the great west, and partic: ularly of Omaha. Mr., Gresham said he had watched the roports of our system of high liccnse and was pleasod with it. He de- clared that he thought it the proper romedy for the excessss of intem- peranco and that bhe oonsidered it moro practicable than a prohibitory law. Ho again spoke of Omaha and its pros- pects in the commeroial world. Mr, Gres- ham said that his son, whois now prac- ticing law in Indianapolis, was looking in the direction of Omaha and would undoubtedly decide to locate here. . Few people have a corroct idea of the mage nitude of the business trausacted by the Western Union Telegraph company in Omaha, Thore aro over nincty employos drawing pay in Omaha, and the monthly salary list amounts to over $3,000, Includine line men, repairers, eto., in this district, over 30,000 monthly is pald im salaries by tha company in Omaha. Thore are no better operators’anywhere than the flower of the Omaha office, in which class are found about twenty-five operators, Tho salary of each is $30 per month, and with extra time ho makes anaverage of about 110 per month. Only the Dbest operators can make that money, Tha Omaha offico pays the highest salaries of any in the country. Kausas City and San Francisco offices pay only $70, which is cone sidered a good average salary throughout the country. " An army officer said yesterday that the war department would not, in his judgment, take the site for the new Fort Omaha that is offered at the lowest price, ¢The de- mands of an ideal fort will be met, if possi- able, regardless of the cost of the land. The needs to bo considered are multi- farious and must be determined with an eye to the future. General Crook's ad- vice in the matter will carry great weight with the dopartment, and his judgment in all probability will decide the matter ia the mind of his superiors, . «" “There is no better placo in town than this to observe the idiosyncracios of peoplo,” said Mr. E. O. Stark, agent of the Webster streot union depot. “A man stepped up tothe ticket window the other day and said abruptly: *‘Give me a ticket?" P “Yes, sir,” I answered, ,g ¥ ““Give me aticket!" “Yos, sir.” I ‘“Give me a ticket!!" ho roared. ~ “Yes, sir,” “What is your name, sir! Ishall report you atonce for yourimpudence! Now do you intend to give me a ticket{" “Yes, 'y if you will kindly state to what point.” The countenance of the purchaser changed ina flash from onecof defiance % that of whipped shecpishuness, as he gave his destine ation, and slunk away with his ticket. . " “One of the strangest things s thatso many women lose their purses, Very often the watchman finds an empty portmonnaie on & seat in the ladies' waiting room, or on & car seat, or on the floor of the depot or plat« form. An old, indifferently-clad lady tha other day came in and purchased a ticket fow an interior point, took a seat for a few mo« ments, and then went to the train, which stood in the yards for some time before thq hour of starting. She left her purse in tha depot, and as luck would have it the watohe man saw it, and after a search, restored it to theowner. It contained nearly $100. 5 e “At another time a lady left her hande satchel on one of tho seats of the waitinge room. Shortly after the departure of the trair another lady came in and spied the satchol, and brought It to me, Finding the oone tents of no value, I put it back where ownor had left it, to watch developments. Pretty soon alady came in and sat down near it Shoeyed it furtively for some fifteen min- utes, and then sidled up to it, looked all around to see that the const was clear, and then grabbed and opened it. Finding there was nothing of value in it, she lmd it down. Another lady came in a few minutes later and spied the troasuros bag. She, too, sat down near it, and when every one had left the room she pulled It over noar her side. Then she hooked it on to her own satchel, and shyly floated out of tue room. . " A great deal has been written about tha college graduate applying for a position on a newspaper, and his belief that his *‘bool larnin’” is the only requisite to suoh @ place. There is some excuse for all this talk. Applications are made almost daily to Tug Bee for positions by young men who are possessed of the idea that God created them for newspaper work, Many of them have failed 1n evervthing else attempted, and for that reason they believe that the press will open the way to success, As & last re sort they are williug to try it, anyway. They mean woll, of course, but they have listened to poor advice of -somebody. Every newspaper man had to begin at soma time and in some place, but he did not begim in a responsible position on & daily such s TueBre. Most applications are made for & place upon the reportorial staff. The applis cants don’t know that the gathering and preparation of news by reporters has grown 10 be of itself nothing less than an art, and that a reportorial place on a great daily calls for a high grade of ability and skill. Boe sides that, it 18 bard work. o He sat in a cable coach, possessod of sweat contentment. Beside him nestled his Sun- ay girl, whispering 8oft nothings. Sud- denly she pointed upto a glass ventilator, and wondered what was meant by the in- scription thereon. Ho wondered too, 1§ reads like this: Norice, Passouger's Telephone. Signal Pulls Stops the Car, Presently the conductor came in and they questioned him. He pointed to the end of the car, where up on the frieze Is @ pneu. matio whistle which is operated something like a suction pump, To the plunger is ate tached & strap which extends the entira length of the car above the heads of passen. gers. The plunger is pulled out and permit- ted to spring back, the forced air causing s shrill whistle, wkich the gripman obeys, 0y A man about town sidled up to a Bax yesterday and whispered & bit of newspa- per gossip. It ran to the effect that after the election the proprietor of the World would take control of the Her- :ld, n:large the two papers and print two edi- ions daily, undor an entirely n | . g‘s\r:' in support of this cannot be reproduced o A visitor who passed through the city this week, and drove aroand the clty, made a re- mark which ought to be suggestive to our real estate ageuts, ““I'hose white sign boards of ‘For Sale’ which are 8o ronspicuous om your houses und lots, remind me of the proy- orblal, eyer-present white shutter which is the foature of Philadelphis. What sense is thare in real estate 0 many signs all over your oity.