Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 16, 1888, Page 4

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Editor. tary of The Bes Pub- wnly swear that the ) DAILY Bek for the mber 0, 1585, was a8 tollows: 15 George shing Con wetual circula week cnding No Sunday, ondiy, Nov. b éuwln\', No adnesday Thuraday, N GEORGE 1L T orn o before me ibscribed n my ence this 10th day of ember A, D, 1584, 1 NP Notary Publie. | , being duly sworn, de- " s that he js secretary of the Bee Pubnishing ¢ o daily eircul month of Novem b December, 18 26,506 copit: for Mart s g 48 Coplosi for May, 18 Hine, k%, j0 50 ‘-..DK« for diul Sopis: for Anust, 18K, 14, tomber, 18, 15,104 coplas 2804 cop GRO! worn to before me and sub. Prosetice this 71 day of Novembar, 1885 N 'E1L Notary Pt 011 copies; for ruary, 1888, 19.659 cople 51 coples: for 1838, 18 ToE fraudulent plumber must go. KANSAS takes the cako. She leads the republican column with a pluvality of over eigh ty thousand. Was it for a New York farmer boy that Mary Anderson snubbed all the dukes and dukelets of Burope? LIKE drowning men catching at straws, the democratic managers are muaking desperate attempts to grab West Virginia and Maryland. STEALING ballot boxes in eonfined to prominent citizens of the Btate. It is an oceupation in which they have proven themselves eminently proficient. Arkansas is M. CLEVELEND'S underground rail- road has been formally opened for busi- moss. It will carry the mails to those federal officeholders whose resignation would be acceptable at th earliest convenionce. Toe map of Western Nebraska will undergo considerable change The people of Clieyenne county have voted %o sub-divide it. Where Cheyenne spreads itsclf like the state of Massa- chuset the face of the map #lx new counties will be created. They have been temporarvily called Deuel, Beott’s Bluffs, Banuer, Kimball, Brown, Rock and Cheyenne until named by the legislature This will afford an excel- lent opportunity to immortulize our state patriots and statesmen. across THE people of San Franci gratulating themselves ov of the democratic boss of that city. He failed vo carry the ticket as he had fixed it, and in consequence his long isrule, which has been the curse of hat city, is likely to be ended. The re- publicans elected their candidates for @istrict attorney, sheriff, county clerlk, tax collector and other offic fong time not only the juries but the courts themselves have been prostituted %o the control of this San Francisco Boss Tweed. Happily the city is rid of &is political supremacy and the gross miscarriage of justice has been remedied for the time being at least. SCO are con- the defeat NEBRASKA has never set up a claim ©f being a great wool producing state, and yet compares favorably with many of the states and territories that are known as wool growers. From tables prepared by the Philadelphia Textile wssociation, Nebraska is credited for the year 1887 with a clip of scourcd wool of one million seventy-seven thousagd pounds. As compared with the clip of fourteen million pounds of California, or with the clip of eleven million Emunls of Ohio or Texas, Nebraska cuts ut a small figure in the wool market. But the wool crop of the state exceeds that of Vermont, Towa, Minnesota, Da- kota and Idaho, and approximates the elip of Arizona and Wyoming, leading sheep growing territories. ONE of the duties of congress, in view of the speedy admission of most of the territories iuto the union, will be to baptize the now states with appropriate names. ldaho, Arizona, Montana and Utah are on the whole acceptable. The @ames have become familiar, and to &hange them would be sure to @oufusion in the postoffice department 9y the misdirection of mail matter, ‘With Dakota, Washington territory wnd New Mexico changes of name are highly probable, As Dakota, in all probability, will be divided into two states, it would, in the puinds of many be a serious mis- take to call one North Dakota and the other South Dakota. The southern part of the terrvitory, which i the most populous and likely to be ad- mitted first to statehood, should bear the original name, The northern sec- tion, on the other hand, might be given & name local ws well as appropriate, It s protty gencrally accepted that Wash- ~ington territory will be renamed so as mot to create confusion with the pital city. As for New Mexico, while it might bear its original name, iv would be appropriate to change it either to & nmme historical in its application like Montezuma or Aztec; or a name might be given to the state that should per- petuate one of the fathers of the coun- try, such as Hamilton, Jefferson, Madi- son or Franklin, There is sa1d to bo an attempt making in castern financial the presumption that th withdraw the bauks, based ral Har- rison regarding the course of the pres- ont depositing Yarge amounts of public Panks. There is not the @er, however, that the tHon will put into financial policy civeles to er administration will lic money from the depository by Gen on the views exprossec wiministeation in such money with the slightost dan- new administia- immediate effect any that would radically affect the monetary sitaation, and if it shall happen does not now appear pro! that a large part of the de- posits now in the banks are still there when tho new administration comes in, they will unquestionably be permitted to remain until they can be withdrawn without disturbance to the money mar- ket. But these de ing returned tothe treasury, and the chances are that the banks will hold a compar: mall amount when the change national administeation takes s0 that the question will prob- solved itself by the new administration shall down to business. there is not the to apprehend any of an extreme character. Whatever the republican administration shall find that needs to be remedied will be attended to in such and at such time as will best sub- the interests and welfare of the Those who would create alarm by professi to apprehend anything different mply seeking their own aggrandizement, knowing perfectly well that theve is no substantial veason for their pretended fears, The financial affairs of the country have always been carefully and wisely guarded under republican divection, and theve is not the least ground of doubt that this re- cord will be maintained by the new ad- ministration. osits are now 1 tively in the place, ably have time the have got any event est r new deps serv people. THE PRESIDE. TERM. The close of a presidential contest is followed by a discussion of uggested by the trying and costi exverience of these quadrennial polit- ical conflicts, and this year the discus- sion is quite as general and earnest as herctofore. A change in the presiden- tial term, prolonging it to six or eight years, and reforms in the methods of olecting the president, are being urged upon the public attention, and they are worthy of being carefully considered. There is undoubtedly a growing sen- timent in the country that the presiden- tial term should be extended. The confederate constitution provided for a torm of six years, and made the presi- dent ineligible to re-election, being in this respect, if in none other, an im- provement upon the federal constitu- s not necessary to refer to the sons which led the framers of the constitution to fix the presidential term avs, because however proper and forceful they were at that time they do not apply with equal cogency now. It may be granted that 1t was wise and expedient, when the country had but about four millions of people, pursuing industries that could be little disturbed by a political contest,-to allow the people once in four years to vote upon the question of a change in the executive ofllce of the government, but the conditions are very different with 2 population of sixty millions, car rying on vast and diversified industries which must be more or less unfavorably influenced by a prolonged political con- flict. A national election in this country is an extremely costly affair. Accord- ing to competent estimates the late cam- paign caused a shrinkage in the inter- nal commerce and industries of the United States amounting to not less than five hundred million dol- lars, or more than cight dollars per capita of the population, and yet the business of the country was appavently not so seriously affected as usual by the apprehension, excitement and other conditions incident to a na- tional political contest. To this great sum must be added the vast outlay for the expenses of the election, which, if not properly to be considered as a loss, is still to a very considerable extent a waste. But if the matter of cost to the energy and prosperity of the country is not deemed a sufficient reason in favor of prolonging the presidential term, there is the further and perhaps no less forcible argument that it is desirable for political and patriotic rea- sons that the antagonisms of these con- flicts shall not recur so frequently, and the importance of this consideration is likely to become more apparent as the nation grows in population. The gen- eral tendency of national campuigns, to which the last was perhaps an excep- tion, has been to arouse the popular pas- sions and to create sectional hostilities which have sometimes gone so far as to threaten the peace of the country. 15 not to be supposed that these experi ences would be avoided if the presiden- tiul election occurred but once in six or cight years, but there would mani- estly be an advantage in having such experiences at longer intervals, and there would be more time to r from their effects. Already the organs of the defeated party in the late elec: tion are urging their partisan friends to prepare for the next only fourteen hundred and fift days. and therefore no time is to be lost. Were it remote twice that num- ber of days the organ referred to would hardly be so anxious to prepare at once for another political battle., ‘There would be umple time, and it could ad- dress itself to something else of move immediate concern to the welfare of its readers, The question is one for caveful and serious consideration. An extension of the presidential term would possibly necessitate some modifications in our governmental system, tho expediency of making which would call for prudent deliberation, It has been suggested as an objection to the change that it would be a'step in the direction of parliamen- tary government, but there does not scem 1o bo yery great force in this, The presidential office would ot be deprived of any of its constitutional prerogatives, and its influence and authority as a co- ordinate b be in nowise restricted. bility to re-election were a condition of the extended term, it might reasonably ted that the independence and dignity of the exeeutive office would be better 1, that its inc would be more fully the guardian of the popular inte orpurt sequently the relations between the ex- ecutive and legislative b: iy and under all circumstances more harmonious and satisfactory, while assuredly the tendency would be to in- in the executive. We have little doubt that an extension of the presidential term will come in the not far future hof the government waud And if ineligi- maintain mbent ests vegardless of political san considerations, and that con- anches would be gene crease popular THE KNIGHTS AND WOMEN WORK ERS. At the convention of the Labor in Indianapolis, morning session was devoted to the general sub- ject of women's wages and to heaving the report of Mrs, Barry, who had been given a commission to investigate the condition of women workersall over the country. The letters of Nell Nellson in the Chicago Times and the New York World have already made the facts no- torious, and therefore to vecapitulate them would be simply a tax upon the indulgence of the readers of THE BEE. Mrs. Barry's recommendations are of more interest. Sho desives the adoption of laws for a more speedy amelioration of opor humanit, and more effective restriction of child labor, and from the Kuights of Labor particularly astronger interest in the matterg of women workers. It is not pleasant to be forced to criticize the labors of so zealous a person as Mrs. Barey, but novertheless it is obvious that Mrs. Barry has been sedulously endeavoring to get water from a deep weil, and her rope was too short. Her conclusions conclude nothing. Her recommenda- tions point to no definite line of action, and it is abundantly clear that she does not comprehend the situation. In the first place nolaw can prevent the overcrowding of cities; that is no divect law. The oppression of women workers is due solely to this over- crowding. When business men recog- nized that there was a vast element of population eager for work, they determined to profit by the circum- stance, and to go into the market for labor ut the lowest rates as they would o into the market for raw matevials at the lowest rates. Theve is at present a glut of apples, and those who have them for sale in London, Liverpool and Glas- gow will sell them for whatever a pur- chaser will give. In New York, Chi- cago and Philadelphia there is a per- manent giut of woman and chiid labor, and it fetches, therefore, just what the employer chooses to give. Upon this fearful foundation of human agony has been built up a great treade in furnisi- ing goods both for men and women. In th three cities such articles are made not alone for the districts legitimately helonging to them, but for the United States. The custom of retail houses in every state of the union is sought for by an army of commercial travelers, and the goods made at the expense of hu- man lives are eagerly bought because they are of the newest styles and of the best materials. The competition is so great that the margin of profit is very small,and it has been demonstrated tha! the persons who really ave benefited by this abnormal and detestable state of things are the wearers of the goods, be they men or be they women. Nothing can be more false or more misleading than the ¢ zes of inhuman avarvice made by Nell Nellson against the em- ployers. The real sinners ave the pub- 1 and the worst sinners are th women who are enabled to dress far above their means by the erucifixion of sister women and young girls, If thisstate of things is intolerable, the way to amend it would be to pre- vent the ecrowding into citics, But how is this to be done? We are working in a vicious cir- cle. Women crowd into the cities that they may get work, and the more they crowd the more work there will be of this sweat-box order. Plainly the chief reason why they crowd into cer- tain cities is because their work has gone from them, and they follow thei work. If the women of Omaha wear dol- mans made in Chicago, the dolman male- ers of Omaha must go to Chicago for their work. If the men of Omaha wear shirts made in Chicago, the shirt makers of Omaha must go to Chicago that they may continue to make shirts. There is no getting over this syllogism. Is there any real earnest desive among the general public, who are the true beneficiaries of the sweat-hox system, to abolish it, which means to pay more for inferior articles for the love of humanity, and out of a sense of justic Have we not become covrupted by the habit of purchasing certain goods for less than half their legitimate price? Arc we capable of rising to the high plane of according their dues to wage workers? If weare in earnest the plain remedy is a return to the guild system. According to this plan there would be a guild of haberdashers for Omaha and the district nttached to it, and no one could within that district sell any article of haberdashery without being a meml of the guild, any offender against this n would be liable to arvest, and teial in a guild hall with a probability ity of being sentenced to a fine of one thousand dollars, with imprisonment for six months, Thissystem practically unites permanently the interests of those who make and those who sell, and it shuts out thé power of capital oyer labor completely. But it would raise prices materially, Knights of one ssed journals of the country IF half the are to be belicved neral Harrison's first appointment as president will bo secretary in the person of Heath, the able and brilliany ashington correspondent of Tie Bi Without having been consulted in the matter Tug BeEE cen endorse all the pleasant and good things which have been seid concerning the suggestion of N Heath’s name. A genial gentle- man and hard working journalist, he is atthe same time & well equipped stu- dent of politics who has traveled over three continents, and is as familigr h men and measur s o s with vents and occurrence Among all the Dbeilliant and mgugtelous corpsof Wash- ton correspo s mono stands in m hdh Colonel Heath, He wnd courtashs, and popular be- J . He diserete, hand- comfofable circums! and g.; an acquaintance gl over the countr, d by fow in Washing- ton. General Hargison has known Colonel Heath for many year and if ho makes the seloetion which he is credited with intchding, he will hit the bull's eye and ring the bell at the first shot. is tact cause some, in nees financial They Concede It Calt The indications arc that tho railrond about to cloction of William Leese, neede the - s o Harrowing. can Instead of sweepiug the streets of Lincoln, 1l makes the harrowing that they should be harrowed - Slsbidet It en Overcame the Collar, York Graphic. His grandfather's hat it covered up his cars, and it ran way down to his nosej but when our own Grover he put it on his head, it hid him way down to his toes, = e She Got 1 St. Paul Globy vood was one of the fortunate ones. She expeoted nothing, aud got it That she is a woman with lovel head is shown by her statement that a woman who pets a pug dog isn't civilized. - d of Eastern Control. New Orteans Picayne. It is time the wost had its due woeight in the control of the national government. New York is the center of the money power, and for that reason seems to monopolize influenos over national affairs to a degreo that is by no means healthy. If Illinois shall establish its rignt to be the pivotal state in presiden- tial elections none will rejoice more than we. Belva T i Hill Really Helped Cleveland. New York Sun, On account ot Governor Hill's nomination, Mr. Cleveland has received, at a low estim ate, 20,000 votes in this state that would otherwise have been denied to him; while the contest raised between Mayor Hewitt and the successful Tammany candidate has tended to heighten the int st of the eloc- tion, to increase the number of democratic votes, and consequently to increase the num- ber given to Cleveland and Thurman, - Use of Money in the Campaigo. Providence Journal. The worst foature of this year's campaign has unquestionably been the abundant use of moncy. How much has been raised for one purpose and another during the last four months can only be conjectured, but that the total amount far exesads the sum speut in any preceding cauvass pdst be apparent to ovel body. The only refleempg fact about it is that a larger propopfiongthan usual of the campaizn funds has Beenjspent this year on the printing and circulation of tariff discus- sions and informatign. pThis, of course, is cntirely unexceptioddbledand, indeed, help- ful to a falr clectionuy Byt 1o one doubts that an alarming proporien of the funds collected has been used for digereflitable, if not crim- inal, purposes. Indeed. the increased use of money in clections in regent years, both for expenses that are réally logitimate and those that are ouly ecuphemistically called so, is Losr—March 4, 1335, in the city of Wash- ington, D. C., a copy of “Civil Service Laws" for the use of the chief executive, The I of this book has interfered with the proper administration of said laws, The person tinding said book and returning it to President Harrison after March 4, 1584, will receive the thanks of the nation. Also, at same time and place, certain mem- orandu of promises made during the cam- paign of 1834, which promises have remained unfulfilled on account of said loss. The finder will please destroy these memoranda. Also my luck. The loss of this was not discovered until the recent election, the re- sult of which leads me to think it must have been lost for some time, The person finding this and returning it to me befove the next election for sheriff at Albuny takes place will do me the greatest favor that lies in the power of man, G. C. T Break, Broak, Break. ) Tribune. Breals, b From the White House, Grover C, For Uncle Sam has leased the place To a man with a pedigroe. , ——— The Year of Jubilee. Pioneer Press. The sotid south is breakiug; Let er break— The democrats are quaking ; Let 'em quake; This is the year we jubilate; MDCCCLXXXVIIL STATE AND HKRITORY. Nebrassa Jottings. Bellwood is to have a #4,000 Catholic church, A potition is already in circulation at Te- cumseh for a change of postmaster, The Wolf county proposition in Greeley county was lost at the late clection, St. Paul voted bonds to fund the city debt at a special election held on Wednesday. ‘The champion corn husker of Sarpy county is Kd Weidman, who disposed of bushels and twenty pounds in eleven bours. Tne postoftice av Plattsmouth has been re- moved across the street from its former loca- tion. It is now in the Anheuser-Busch build- ing H. H. Stoddard, a Plum Crock poulteres who publishes sc 1, poultry periodicals Hartford, Conn., is talking of removing his printing plant to Kearne, A man named Bainbridge, living at Emmet, has been arrested and Jailed, charged with in cest with his thirteen-year-old step-daughter, who is about to becomie a mother, A Thanksgiving tucke d from its moorings ut York the other day and dashed through the plate glass window of a store, smashing the heavy .l into smithereens. The trustees of Donhie ‘®olloge gave a pub. lic reception to the citizens of Creto to cele brate the completion of the $15,000 fund to endow a chair of natdral-science in the col- lege The boss democrat of the iittle town of Bee is congratulating himself g the fact thut the republicans of his town hd no sand. He of fered to bet §1,200 on_ election day, but could find no takers. lowa. > become ngress Five ladies h Dubuque labor e One farmer near Muscatine gallons of sorghum this year Work bias been begun on the last block of paviug to be done in Burlington this scason The Drake University Oratorical associa tion holds its home contest at Des Moines, December 14 ‘Chie postofice at Norway was broken into by burglars the other night and between $200 and £300 stolen, ‘The religious harvest, as the result of the seed sown by revival meetings at Parkers- burg, added eighteen mewmbers to the M, E church on probation. Frank James crested asensation in Musoa. tine the other nizut by appearing at the opera. He was oun his way home from a visit to the Youuger brothers, A Davenport lady who was in the babit of hers of the made 3,600 OVEMBER 16. 1888 paying the grocery bills not toes constitutod a groat sha expenses, 8o she made aninvestigation which resultad in the discovery thav hoer beloved husband had been having his ¢ charged as potatoes. Of course e Tho little town of Hawleyville, Page county, was thrown fnto & bigh statd of ox citement by Stephen Franks attempting to kil Miss Carrio Love. Franks is a young man about twenty-three years old and had been courting Miss Love for somo time. Hoe desired a speedy marriage, but the young lady wished to wait for a'few months, He drew a revolver and tired Lwo shots at lor. One of them took effect, He then made an unsuccessful attempt to shoot himself. Both partics are iu a fair way to recover, Dakota. The silk hat has become the style at Yank ton since the election The Ward county seat has heen ¢ from Burlington to Minot and local o) was defeated Pembina county had _enough of loeal op tion in two years, and defeated it this time by 500 majorit A Deadwood lady br head of a prominent attorney the other day as u gentle rebuke for his vilzar talk W. 11, Potter has been discharged from the penitentiary at Sioux Falls, haviag served ono year for monkeying with the mails in Lincoln count The prospects are very bright for the building of the road from Mandan to Rapid City. It is expected that grading will begin early in the spring. The First National bank of Columb given notice that it will surrender its cha the 1st of January. ‘The Bismarck Natioaal bank dropped the “national” from its name some days ago. Johuny Johns, a Terraville barber, as de- veloped into a ‘most, wonderful pistol shot He hias knocked off the sights from his pistol and when a bird flies over he raises lis gut fires, and it is a dead bird. He shoots pip from the mouths of miners walking by, and iu most cases makes the boys dance to his music. It costs him nothing for budge The Pross and Dakotian says: Local op tion was dofeated in , Grant, Minno. haha, Spink, Beadle, Davison, Brown and Huglies counties and porhaps'in other coun- ties. It was o 1 in Dickoy county and porhaps others. ~In Cass, Grant, Minnehaha, Spink, Beadlo. Brown and Davison counties the law has been tried a yoar and its defeat this fail in those countios is & result of ox- perience, In Minnehaha county the major- ity against local option is 1,200, There is ov- idence in these verdicts that the local option law of Dakota is not satisfactor; AMUSEMENTS. Murray and Murphy, the Irish comedians, appeared at Boyd's opera houso last nlght in “Our Irish Visitors.”" They have the dor to style this production an absurdity and for this, at least, they are to be com mended. It is all that that term suggests or implies, and it belongs in & class of absurd vroductions of which the stage of to-day is already overstocked, but of which the sup- vy seems to be steadily mereasing, So- called plays of this kind can have no proper classification in the drama, ana whatever value they may have as a means of fur- ng passing amusement to that very class of people who go to the merely for pastime, without any thought of intellectual profit, the obyious duty of criticism 1s to represent these pro- s for what they are, and not what rerally pretend to be. In the present cast, Messrs, Murray and Murphy have sup- vlicd the proper description in calling Our Irish Visitors” an_absurdity. As to these comedians it can be said_that in their way they a lever, but that is quite as strong a term as their merit deserves. Tho fact is that most of the so-calied Irish comedians of the present are not in any true sense come- dinns at all, but simply people who can pro- duco a fair imitation of the “brogue, grimace ludicrously, and somewhat skill- fully exaggerate the mannerisms and peculiarities of a certuin elass of Irishmen. Those who remewber when Ir was popular as presented by liams, Billy Florence, and whose fame is identified with it, can find little to please them in the efforts of present- day Irish comedians. The other members of the cast in “Our Irish Visitors” are of moderate merit, perhaps the neatest special feature being th Seymour. The entertainment was seen by numerous audience, and portious of it wi received with cordial favor. It will remain through the weclk. ol that pota- of the family a chair over the has A Card From ral Badeau. The following was addressed to the New York World in a recent issuc: ““As your re- port of the discontinuance of my suit against the representatives of General Grant con- tains several erroncous statements, doubtiess based on misrepresentation, I beg you will do me the justice to publish the following: I have not receded one step from the stand I took at the outset. I never claimed the au- thorship or joint authorship of General Grant's book. No words to that effect have been written or spoken by me. Cousequently [ have never withdrawn them. On the other hand I have constantly repeated the state- ment | made to General Grant himself, May 85, namely: ‘I have no desire, intention ight to claim the authorship of your book. composition is entirely yourown. What ance [ have been able to render has been in suggestion, revision or verification.' This I repeated before the suit began ; this is every word I gave at the close, “I'was offered first of all $1,500 by Colonel Grant in writing, then $5,000 by Mr. Conlk- ling—both betore the suit was brought; next $7,500 by Mr. Conkling, then $5,000, then $10.000, then $9,750, and on October 31T was paid 311,254, being the eutire amount stipu- lated by General Grant, with interest, and which has never before been offered or ad- mitted by Colonel Grant. Had this not beeu paid the case wouldihave been tried this week. Yours respectfully, Apay Bapeac,” Jamaica, L. I, Nov. - Phonograph vs Short-Hand, Mail and Expr Is the short-hand writer's business ruined? Arve the 150,- 000 men and women at present engaged as amanuenses, court and newspapoer reporters to be obliged to look for other fields of labor” on account of the itagonism of this new and wonderful result of Bdison’s brait These and other equally consequon- tial questions are to-diy being asked by the thousands interested. At first sight it appears as if this new muchine would accomplish these ends so diveful to many, so bereficial, perhaps, to more. It has been held all along and daily il- lustrated in the matter of salaries that pher is a mere machine; tions, after the diffe kinds of pot-hcoks are learncd purely mechani Business men scom to forget that it requires notonly brains to write and brains to read, but brains to liston, too. And this is the first and most disastrous weak point ahout the phonograph. It must be vemembered thut most business men ave not in many cal English in prompt answer to a bulky mail, und the difficulty is remedied by “backing and filling,” by changing words and sentences, and oftentimes by entively altering the original meaning, All this is obviously impracticable in the use of the phonograph. It will be impossible toalter or improve the phri eology after the words are ut Though it must be conlessc that th trouble after all is of 50 much with the machine as with the man, and when th minds of men become equal to the use fulness of the phonograph will vastly in- e Business men who accurately and cor reading o letter, 1 graph with some ree of success. 1 then ther sufticient obst in the way of its use to debur its i diate aceéptance. One of them is fact that no economical, reliabl rapid method of copying the lettor after it has been dictated into the wax cylinder has as yet heen presented. Copies of all business letters in_ this day of complication and rush are, as & matter of principle, h upon phouo- But tho and retained, and, until this obstacle is over- come, it isa sorious one. These wax cylinders are some three or four inches long and perhaps half as much in diam- oter, and these attributesof the now- comer are greatly to its injury when the proper filing of correspondence is con- sidered, Along with copying of lettors written oes the systematic tling of lot- ters received, And there aro scores of patented files upon the market now, the first aim of every one of which isto According to the man who daily re- ceived fifty letters will have half his of« fico filled by them, Another point against the phonograph is in the matter of timo cousumed in listening to tho contents as they may bo ground out. Everyone knows how much faste an 1 to himself than oud, and this principle applied to the question in hand will show the diffor- ence in the amount of time required by the ear reading of the new process as my with the eye readiny of the old. In court reporting the phonograph will, when suitable mechanism is joined for catching the voico in different parts of the room, prove a valuable auxiliary 10 the reporter’s notes by being o means of verification as to their correctness, But even here the stenographer cannot be dispensed with, for the phonograph is still confronted by the objection that any particular part of the testimony cannot readily be found, but it would bo necessary to go over an indefinite amount of the evidence before tho de- sived portion was reached. And, too, every other irrelevant noise in the court room would make its impression upon the eylinder and thus complicate the record and make it less clear and con- cise than tho short-hand, - N ad Exploring the Antarctic Sea. London Daily Ney 1t appears to ho probable that Prof. Neumayr, of the Hamburg marine observatory, will sue- ceed in getting a Scuth Polar expedi- tion organized. It might boen supvosed that until some grent measure of success had attended similar adven- tures in the arctic regions the most aj dent advoeates of such schemes would have doubted the wisdom of oxposing human lives and treasure to the risk of antarctic scas. All the best authorities ave agreed that the difficulties to be en- countered in the south are much greater than in the north, and the hideous stories which 1 curvency after the return of the arctic expedition might well have sickened the boldest of this generatiom sufliciently to deter them from any assault upon the stronghold of King Winter in the south. In compa ing the difliculties of arct nd anta tic adventure, Sir Wyville Thompson 55 “We can only anticipate disasters, multiplied a hundredfold, should the south pole ever become a goul of rivalry among nations.” For various rensons the great lone land under the southern cross is more diflicult of access than the north. 1t is much colder there than in the Arctic circle. There scoms to be no such warm currents as are to be found in the north—such, for instance, as the Labrador curront, or that round the south coast of Spitzbergen. Such emanations from the torrid regions of the earth do much to mitigate the rig- ors of the northern seas at certain points, and bring about the most strik- ing variations of temperature, broaking up the ice at certain seasons and open- ing the to navigation far beyond points othérwise attainable, Any en- terprise of th kind will, of course, be pushed on during the summer months— during January, February and the earl part of March,that is. But even in the height of summer the temperature of the air in an tic regions is alway: below the freezing point of sea water, and bitter, tempestuous winds and fogs and blinding snowstorms are all but in- sant. No arctic explorer has ever wone beyond the bounds of vegetation. At least lichens and scaweed have been found wherever northern navigators have pencteated, but in the awful soli- tudes of the south SivJames Ross found not the slightest trace of vegetable life, either on the land orin the vet he never came within less than 700 miles of the south pole. The magnetic pole has been approached within 150 miles, :ems possible that important scientific results might be obtained by covering that further distance; but even this is doubtful. s A National Anthem, springfield (Mass.) Union: The cam- paign just closed has been, to a larger extent than any other for yenrs, a sing- ing campaign. But out of it all nota single new melody has been evolved, so farns we know. The singing of the campaign has, in fact, emphasized our musical poverty, for, while we hav number of patriotic airs which survive the war, and will be remembe: prob- ably for another generation, we have not « single national song or hymn in which all the people, north, south, east and west, rvegardless of politics, faith, color, or previous nationality can join. We lave the hymn, “My Country, ‘tis of Thee,” which comes nearer to the national standard than anything else. But that is written to th tune of “God Save tho Queen,” and the issues of the past campaign have becn such that it could not be sung, because the melody is *English, you know.” *The Star Spangled Buan- her” may fairly eclaim to be a nations tune, but not ‘a national hymn or an- them, for not one in o thousand can re peat a single stanza of it. Morcove the song was written Lo commomorate o rather unimportant event in the war of 1812, and it 18 not comprehensive cnough for a national song that will serve all patriotic occasions, — Still, i an American son nd ought to know it. Wi hould it not be sung in the public schools until the children know it by heart? *“*Yankce Doodle” is only a tune, fit for the fife and drum, National hymns have been written by the scove, but have neye tuken root to uny oxtont. Keilor's SAmeriean Hymn' is one of the bost, but the music’is a litttle too elabe for common use. What we want is o thoroughly good hymn, set to stirring music that sings itsclf—such a tune as the German **Wacht am Rhein,” for instance. How weare tocome by such an an- them nobody knows, [t ought to bea spontancous growth,but we have waited 80 long for that, that it is useless to ex- pect it unless we have a foreign war 1o awaken our patriotic muses. An im- perial government could creato ana- tional anthem, but the American sover: eign is too numerous and diversified in his tastes to undertale such a creation. Perhaps some national musical uss0- ciation might accomplish the work sat- isfactorily by competitive tr A big prize oficred for the best national hymn, sct to music, would draw out the poets and composers, and if the judges held the confidence of the people it is possible that the outcome would be gen- Ally accepted. Then let the common 10018 all over the land set to loarning and singing the hymn. and if it were worthy of it placo and purpose it would stick.” The United States is certainly old enough to have a national hymn of its own, Secure a sound mind, which seldom goes without sound algestion, by using the genuine Angostura Bitters of Dr, J. G. B, Biggert & Sons. The nenmatic Dynamite Lieutenant Zali the the experiment of The secretary of war to the gun con could do—whethoer anything or hit anyt uched in 18, the answor wa destroy any vessel th United States navy at mile; that if any mora | il were built we would contract to de them, provided wo were giver to experiment beforehand; that wo would prefer an expe it if exe periments we determined upon, ona of the monitors, as being the best tc wo could have for showing most fully the power of the gun. There were somo doubts expressed by some of the officers who wore concerned in the experimont a8 to the naccuracy of the fire and as to thoe torpedo effect produciblo. The accuracy of fire was shown by a series of exp nts, five out of six shots being landed in the same spot. Provious to these exporiments with thae **Stillman” there was g0 much doubt as to tho accuracy of the apparatus that one ofticer offered to sit on the whon the gun was fired. Tho target was a very small on, sel only eighty foet long and twenty foet wide, and at the distauce of a wmilo it looked pretty small, so that it was not thing to hit or to sink vither, although it was a wooden vessel,becauss thero was no ballast in {t. The first shot was exploded short of the vessel, as it occurred to me that if I struck it the fi time it might be considered an accidental shot; but that explosion shook the vessel up, brought down her mainmast, and changed her bearing with reference tothe line of fire. There was only one mast remaining. I then pointed the gun directly at the ship, An officor represonting the navy yard there present looked through the tele- scope 50 that he could seo where the gun was directed, The gun was di- rected accordingly, and my intention wasg to go shortly underneath in the middle and break her ba [ may say here that so confident was Iasto the accuracy of the gun, that when I was telling “two persons’ the experiments hich I intended to do, I stated that I intended to shake her up by the first shot and break her back at the next, and then destroy what was left. That was considered boasting; but it was ctly what 1 was fortunate enough to accomplish. The next shell struck slightly short, and went under hor and broke her back, the pieces of the vessel rising. This view was when the water was coming down, apparently; it was caught by the plotographer at tho instant when it was coming down The next shell that followed was on the chamber above and exploded above water, and another one went in tho same vicinity, I followed itup after the ship had “sunk, because I wanted to indicate beyond question that I could put my shot whore I wanted it, time after time, and that it was not an acgis dental matter, ey Harney Peak Tin, The Rapid City papors chronicle the arrival there of William L. Flanni and Samuel Untumeyer. Mr. Flanni- gan is the son of agentleman largely in- terested in Harney Peak tin, Mr. Uns tumeyer is a gentleman who, in o ros cent interview with the New York Hers ald, stated he had floated the Harney stock in London. Both the gentlemen after stopping briefly in Rapld, pro- ceeded in company with Mr. Wilsie, to the Etta mine. What their visit may signify, Gate City papers do not unders take 10 state, and as the gentlomen des clined 1o be interviewed its object can only be surmised. With their usual in- dustry in Rapid’s behalf its journals jump” at conclusions and advance an opinion xtensivo developments are to be inaugurated at once; large plants erected, railroads built, a host of men employed and a yast sum of money distributed. Whilst public credulity has frequently been imposed upon, and has often been Jed to believe that a sale had been consum- mated and that oxtensive operations were to begin, disappointment has as frequently followed. The Hargoy Peal company, 50 far as endeavor to sell tha property is concerned, has apparently acted in good faith. An agent has been kept fn London for several yoars, quantities of ore from the miné have been forwarded thereto, the compuny has paid expenses of more than one ex= pert, selected by English syndicates formed to take the property from Lon- don to the mincs and return, and though these expenditures must have boen enormous, hus never lost heart or faltered in its purpose. That the sale was not consummated two years ago, was due to various causes. The conservative English investor is loth to put money into a mine that is barely developed. The Harney group, including its bonded properties, were at that time little more than prospeos holy The Etta mill has been erected ab great expense, started up and after & few days’ run forced to shut down it ig said for want ot ore to keep it running. The truth probably was that the rlunz not suited to the character of ore and that its suspension was due en- ircly to this fact. Since then, hows the company has pushed develop- Mr. Vincont’s report shows tvast quantities of ore are avail- able, If confirmation to this is needed it can be found in the public opinion of Profs, Carpenter, Emmons and others, who bave made personal examinations, The efort to sell the property continucd and according to hisown statement Mr, Untermeyer’s aid —was invoked, ho elnims, stecessfully. Untermeyer’s cas recr in | wnd, s has heen mide gen- Iy known through the press was sucecssful, so far as forming the hrew- crs’ syndicate was concerned. That demonstrated he commanded immense sums of money, and it is not impossible that he may huve succeeded 1w placing Harney peik tin, ski hefore -— salt River. Buffalo Express: Having just re- turned from a somewhat extended so- journ up Sult viver in company with its party, the Express is ubl destined democratic L their worst fea fzed, Saltviver is a resort, The s what th us ok life s will not be real- much underrated snery s really ve is of it. The air is so pure wable of sustaining human one, and democrats must live on wind for muny a year to come, The socicty, to be sure, will be only s0-50 while'the bourbons ave up there, but the religious advantages of wandering in the wilderness can not be too highly prized. The moral discipline of heing ever within sight of the promised laud is 50 desivable that one returned exile wroto: "Lis not the grapes of Canan that repay, But the high faith that failed not by the wiy. 50 step outside and begin the pro- cess of cooling your toes, boys, while waiting for the boat to start. —— It is by copying after nature that man gets bost resuly Dr. Jones' rod clover tonio is nature’s own remedy, is purely vegetable, can be taken by the most delicate, Cures all stomach, kid- ney and liver troubles. Goodman Drug company. 60 cents. gnificont—