Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 22, 1888, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY. e g y__." 22 DECEMBER 1838, THE DAILY BER. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERME OF BUBSCRIPTION, Daily (Morning Bdition) including SUSDAY TER, One Year.. . For Six Months For Three Mont Trs OMAIA SUNDAY H wddress, One Y ear . WERKLY IIRE, Ono Yoar .. v iasos WO OMARAOTFICE.NOS. 014 AN D016 FARN AN BTRERT, CHICAGO OFF 7 ROOKERY BUIL NEW YORK OFFICE, ROOMS 14 AND 15 TRINUNE BUILDING, WASHINGTON OFFICE, NO. 613 FOURTEENTH STHEE CORRESPON DENCE. Al communications relating to news and sdi- ial mutter should be addressed to the EpiTon OF THE BEE. . BUSINESS LETTERS, Al business lettors and remittances should be addiessed to THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMAIA. Drafis, checks and postofice orders 1o bemade payablé to the order of the company. The Bee Pflhlishiflflflmflfllly Propristors. maiied to any E. ROSEWATE Fditor. THE DAILY B ent ot Circulation. Sworn Stater Rtateof Nebraska, la.s. County of Douglas, (%9 (George 1, Tzschuck, secrotary of The fes Pub- lishing Company, does colemnly swear that the actual r\rl‘u!u N of T'n DALY Bee for th week ending Decomber fay Dec. 11 dnesday, Tln\rnflli Friday, Dec. 11 Baturdiy, Dec Average..... . ;. GEORSGE B. TZSCHUCK. Sworn %o before me and subsceibed in my presence this 15th day of December A. D, 1884, Seal N. P. FEIL, Notary Pubiic. State of Nebraska, 5 County of Dougias, 3 George B, T7achuck, Veing duly sworn, de- oses and _says that he fs secretary of tho Boe Publishing company, that the actilal average daily circulation of THE DALY Bee for th month of Decenber, 1857, 15,041 copies; for Jan- uary, 188, 15,206 eoples Fobruary, 188, 16,008 coples; for March, 1888, 10,650 copies; for April, 1% 841 coplest for’ May, 186, 16, 151 coples: for Jiine, 185, 10.243 copies; for Jul 4, 18033 coples? for Angust, 1383, 18,183 copie for September, 1858, 15,154 coplas;’ for October, 1865, was 18,084 copies: for November, 1858, 18,086 coples, GEO. B TZSCHUCK. Bworn to before me and_ su Dresence this 8th day of Decembor, 1 N. . FEIL Nofary Public. IT LOOKS as if the old council wi busy fixing the slate for president of the new council to give any attention to such trifling subjects as charter re: vision. Tis formation of a window-glass pool has taken place among the glass manu- facturers. 1f congress should throw a stone at the concern there would be a very loud crash. Goop, Fonest local government is what the people of this city demand. Tt can never be accomplished so long boodling politicians. rings and com- bines rule the counce Tue recommendation of the charter committee tor the creation of an inter- mediate court in which appeals from the police court can have a speedy hearing is one which has long impuessed itself s u nec , Denver, Lincoln and other western cities are like Omaha, wrestling with proposed charter revis- ions. Municipal government appears to be one of the problems always press- ing for solution. Tue democrats of Dakota appear to be equally as anxious asthe republicans to divide the territory and to urge im- mediate s hood for the two sections. But the democrats 1n congress are turn- ing a deaf ear to their appeals. THE United States will dispatch one of the government vessels in southern waters to Panama in order to protect Amevican interests in that quarter. The difficulties which surround the Panama Canal company ave likely to lead to disturbances of a scrious na- ture. CrrYy TREASURER AXWORTHY, of Cleveland, has made a restitution of the funds belonging to that city, which he carried away to Canada. This un- looked for precedent gives Kentucky high hopes that her delinguent state treasurer, ““Honest Dick Tato,” will send o substantial Christmas present all the way from Montreal, Trw idea of Building Tnspector Whit- lock being consulted by anybody in re- gard to charter amendments is prepos- terous. In the first place the man i utterly incompetent for thé position he holds, and in the next place he has shown himself utterly untrustworthy. Reform in building inspection and su- pevvision is within reach of the mayor and council under the present charter, All they need to do is to revise the building ordinance and put at the head of the board of inspectors, which the charter creates, a competent builder who can keep sober at least six s out of seven each weels, und will do his duty impartially and conscien- tiously. IN ms recent discussion of the rail- roud problem, President Charles Francis Adams, of the Union Pacific railroad, has this to say of the western roads: The railrond system of this country, s pecially of the region west of Chicago, is to-day managed on principles which, uniess o change of Leart oceurs, and thut soon, must nevitably lead to financial disaster of the most serious kind, Th is among the lines composing that!system an utter disregard of these fundamental ideas of truth, fair play and fair dealing which lie at the foundation not only of the christian faith, but of civiliza- tion itself, While Mr. Adams applics theso sty tures to the dealings of railvoad man- agers in their relations with each othor, how much more forcibly his words ap- ply to the policy of the raiivoads in their contact with the people. — ConGruss has taken a recess to Jaun- ui 5, which 1s a shorter time than usual, the credit for this being duc to the senate. The session thus far has been quite & busy one, although beyond the the progress made with the senate tarill bil! ifttle of importanco hae been ac- complished. A vote on thay bill wili be reached January 21, uccording to pree- ent arrangement, and meanwhile the republicans wili probably modify the sugnr schedule. Thero is still talk of sufficient democratic fipport in the bouse to pass the bill in that bedy, but the general opinior is that therve will be no tariff legislation by tiis present cougre! The republivans, however, Intend to perform what they have prom- tgod, and if there is fuilura the respon- will regt with the democrats, A (CORN EXHIBIT, AT PARIS. The Tarmers of the great corn belt, in which Nebraska is embraced, will be interested in a plan submitted to tho produce exchangs and grain merchants of New York for a special corn exhibit at the Paris international exhibition to be held next year. The idea is to erect aseparate pavilion, to be covered in- sido and outside with maize in the form of grain, ear, stalk and sheaf, within which will be prepared and dispensod free, the various articles of food mude from maize. The design of the pavil- ion would render it one of the most unique and attractive features of the exposition, and the intention is to have the food prepared by real southern “Dinahs” and New England ficient in making all the palatable va- riety of pones, dodgers and ecakes that prepared from cornmeal. It is proposed that lectures shall be given on the value of corn for human food and its methods of preparation, and to dis- tribute pamphlets in various languages. The object of demonstrating to Eu- ropeans that wholesome, nutritious and palatable food can be prepared from corn is one of genuine beneficence. Statistics recently obtained show that few Furopeans have become maize caters, and its value and ap- petizing qualities as food remain almost unknown to the toiling classes on the continent, who continue to cat their bitter black bread or spend more than they can afford for wheaten loaves. Millions of Europeans would be greatly benefitted could they be induced to sub- stitute, in part at least, corn bread for the wheaten article they now use, and American corn sers would also secure a very material advantage. It is in- teresting to note that while our exporta- tions of wheat and wheat flour range from twenty-five to thirty per cent of our whole crop, the exports of corn and corn meal are generally only two or three per cent of the whole crop, and have never goue as high as seven per cent. A very small part of our corn export goes to Burope, the 1 r proportion going to the West Indies and British possessions. Last year Germany, France and Bel- gium together imported only about six million bushels of our corn, and this was principally for feeding live stock. The commissioner of agriculture says of this project: “There is not a rail- road running through the great corn belt of the United States, not a produce exchange at our principal corn and export centers, that is not es- peecially and directly interested as a beneficiary in this work. If carried out it will enhance the value of every acre of land in the corn belt.” The project has the support of many members of the New York produce ex- change, and the only difficulty 1n the way of carrying it out may be found in securing an additional appropriation from congress, which will be asked for. An endeavor will also be made to in- duce the legislatures of the corn-grow- ing states to make appropriations for the object, and it is quite probable that such states would consider the project favorably. No other exhibit the United States will make at Paris would proba bly be more uable in results than that of a corn exhibit in the manner proposed, and the project merits hearty encouragement. cooks pro- can be ANOTHER PLAN TO BE TRIED. There appears to be a very earn effort making among railroad manag- ers to arrive at some practicable plan for putting an end to rate-cutting wars. The latest plan was formulated at a meeting of railroad men and bankers-in New York. The details are not at hand, Dbut the vrincipal feature of the plan ap- pears to be that in cases where the ad- ministration of a railrond manager is found to be unsatisfactory, with the effect of dumaging the sccurities of his own and other roads, other road officials shall be notified of the offense and the offending official be asked to resign. There is probably some provision for dealing more or less summarily with a manager or other ofticial of the class described by Mr. ms, 1 the event of his refusal to vesign, for otherwise the proposed plan would not amount tomuch. A manager who was found violating his agreement with other railroad ofticials, and by such unscrupulous and unlawful means as bave recently been exposed. seeking to talkce an undue advantage of his com- petitors, might be cutoff from all re- lations with them—summarily boycotted —in case he insisted upon retaining his position after being asked to sur- render it; or his road might be dropped from the list of the stock ex- change and ignored by the bankers who denl in railway securities. Ob- viously a simple vequest_to resyzn, with no penalty for a refusal to do s0, would have no weight with the railroad officials described by the president of the Union Pacific. The plan that will keep these in line, and according to Mr. Adams, they are numerons, must have severe penalties and be relent- lessly enforced. Perhaps such a plan may result from the agitation of the subject, without at the same time menacing the rights and intevests of the public. Meantime the tho question of bringing better relations between the railvoads aud obviating rvate wars grows in interest. The public is obtaining from it a great deal of instructive in- formation whieh it might not have been possible to obtain in avy other way The managers themselves have turncd the light upon each othar, and the d closures have gono fur 1o justify the long- prevailing popular distrust of the men who control and manage the vast rail- rond system of the country., The effect has certainly been to strengthen the publiz convietion of the necessity of o strict and firmly enforced national reg- ulation of the railroads, and to sileuce much of the objection that has béen made to the existing lew for this purpose. Thero i3 a move earn- est demand than ever before that the policy whieh has beeu enter npon shall be maintaiced and mude stronger in whatever directions it may be shown to need strengthening. If the ratlroads can esisblish and wmaintain better rela- tions between themsolves 1t will be well, Stabiifty iu their Lusiness rela- of about discussion tions with the public would updoubt- edly be for the general welfare. All the people require, and this they will insist upon, is that there shall be no combinations that would jeopard the rights and interestsof the public. Even Mr. Depew that this will not be tolerated. Tne refusal of the council committee on charter revision to confer with the committee appointed by the board of trade, goos to show how utterly demor- ized the present council has become under tho malign influence of the coterte that makes its headquarters in a Farnam street saloon. These so-called representatives of the people confer with nobody unless he hangs around the bummer resort night and day. The action of these conneilmen can have no other tendency than to revive in the coming legislature the disgeaceful methods by which the charter was mutilated in the last legislature. THE sympathetic message which the sheriffs of Towa in convention sent to Sheriff Smith, eof Birmingham. Ala., who so pluckily held out against a mob in that city, is a recognition that the sheriffs of the country are proud of Smith. OTHER LANDS THAN OURS. Two dispatches came from London yester- day with news from Stanley, one of which is perfectly enigmatical, but the other is piain and clear, and states that Henry M, Stanley, with Emin Pasha, haa arrived in the Aruwini, This is a river which flows into the Congo at the head of navigation, about twelve hundred and seventy miles from the mouth of the great stream which Stanley has done so much to develop as an artery of trade. At the junction of the two streams the native town of Yambrega, where Major Barthelot was stationed with 100 men to guard the stores which Stanley in- tended to take to Emin Bey. He was forced to leave the greater part behind because Ttpoo Tib never sent the 600 porters whom he had promised. Barthelot was murdered, and Dr. Jamison, who succeeded him in command at Yambrega, died of yel- low fever, and this part of the expedition. after waiting for many months in expect tion of news that never came, returned to the mouth of the Congo, and the white patt of it came back to England, bearing news of Barthelot's death and telling most contradictory stories about it. News from this point should be true, because this is exactly where Stanle would enseige if successful. But has this now really come from West Africa, or was it manufactured in London? The West African Telegraph company, to whom the dispatch is is credited, do not send it, but claim to have received it from St Thomas, an istand be- longing to Portugal, in the Gulf of Guinea, considerably to the north of the mouth of the Congo. Without a_complete knowledge of the telegraphic arrangements in that part of the world, it is difficult to understand why the dispatch should come from St. ‘Uhomas, and not from the Congo station of the West Africa Bxploration company, who must be 80 immeasurably interested 'in the fate of their chief. Further details are promised which, when received, may clear up a story which' at present is’ doubtful. The most dubious feature is that a statement, pr: tically to the same effect, but with utterly in- comprehensible details, comes from Zanzibar via laull(‘ml. and this was clearly manufac- tured. Representative Butterworth of Cincin- nati has not earned the love or the esteem of the Canadians by his annexation proposal. The general drift of public opinion among the blue-nosed Canucks 1s that the initiative must come from tuem, and that all such pronositions as Mr. Butterwort's simply postpone the time wheu union will e possi- ble. At the same time it is certain that in their hearts the Canadians desire it. C ada is at best a poor country, and that part of it which is capable of being developed and of attaining great prosperity is geographic- ally and commerciaily a unit with our own northwest, In the concessions made to the Canadian Pacific by the English government apower has been given to that railroad wiich males them virtually the rulers of the country, Tho experience of Nebraska and of Omaha will enable the readers of Tug Bge to comprehend that this situation will creato, and has mdeed created, an irvitation and bitterness of feeling which must inevit- ably lead to assimilation. But the request must be made by the party wishing to be as- similated, for nations, like queens, must pop the question for themsolves, and must be the wooers. And therefore ' the verdict_of the northwest will undoubtedly be that Mr. Butterworth is a blunderinge well inten- tioned booby who has outraged the suscep- tibilities of the prodestined bride and de- layed the proposal which was on the lips of the dear creaturé by his awkwardness. Med e Now that Russia has succéeded in obtain- ing a loan in Paris, the tonc of the czar has become more bellicose than ever, and 1o one knows upon whom the sullen storm of Slavonic war will descend. His latest throat has been dirceted against tho poor shah of Porsia, in spite of that potentate’s change of heart about the Russian consulata at Meshed, The czar now says that if he does not in- stantly revoke his concession to the British, giving them belligerent rights in that corner of Persia which lies between the Khanatos subject to Russia, and Afghanistan, it will become his painful duty to take certain steps that may paralyze his royal brother. The fact is that +Russia_wants to pick o quarrel with Persia for reasons of her own Some very uwhkward discoveries have been mado i Armenia, which have annoyed the white czar boyond measure, Armenia formerly belonged wholly to Turkey, but @ good slice of it was won by Russia, a long time ago, and some was added in tho lust war, Hitherto it has been universally believed in Iussia that the Armeniuns were devoted to the czar, and the most reliable agents of intrigue in Ori- ental countries wore from that nation. And now it has been found that tho whole of Ar- menia, both Kussian and Turkish, is honey. combed with sccret socicties, on tho model of those established by Mazzini, to further the cause of a united Italy. The desir f the Arnienians is to revive a kingdom of Ar- menia, The czar hopes, by o war with the hereditary enemies of Armenia,to rally them to their pristine fidelity, and to find a vont for those encrgios which were about to bo turned against himself, He will, therefore, be compelled to fight both Turkey and P sia, and the menaced Gallicians will breathe more {reely. Naples has been the first community to re- spond to the crusade against the Arabs, preached by Cardinal Lavigerie, and an Anti- Slavery society has been formed there. But the action of the dreamyl™ voluptuous, art- oving, archaological city of Naples, is not very important, and it probably was the re- sult of an outburst of temporary piety more rare in Naples than the eruptions of its own Vesuvius, It is very clear that the Ger- mans and the English are the only nations really interested, and they have not been able to resolve on uuited action, because they are enemics at heart. Old Prince Bismarck has come out with some statements, however, which may be tuken us reflecting the senti’ ments of the nation, for he is really a typical German, and woenever a Teuton finds himself ‘thinking differently upon a national question, he hastens to reform his views, and get humseld in line with Germania personi- tlod by the Iron Chancellor. Bismarci says that the whole blame for the disaster at Zan- abar wust be ascribed to the reckless blun dering of the oficials of the East Afri Colonial gympany, who treated-most injud- iciously both the natives and the sultan. Lheir course of conduct enraged tuo people and gave great influence to the Arab mer- nts, who, underhand, were working for 1 outbreak, especially ono of thew, who is known ae Lushirl, because he comes from Bushire. (This city, though nominally Pe; sian, I8 iu realty Avab.) Prince Bismarck undoubtediy recommends an inland expedi- o0, aud eams up the situation terecly by the statowecl that Germany must sither conquer absolute supremasy, or abandon the enterpriso, K The Panama canal company has ac- knowledged its bankruptey, and the Fronch government refused to shoulder its résponsi bilities, or to afford relief. The number of sharoholders in this scheme of monumental folly was 850,000, almost a million, all of them belongimgto the lower classes. Thero # no nation mors industrious or more thrifty than the French, and the success of the Suez canal emboldened this enormous multitude to stake the wholo mass of their suvings upon the now schame of & man whom they rogarded s the greatest engineer in the world. The French have a proverb that mouey wounds are not mortal, but it is greatly to bo foared that tho wounds from anama canal company’s failure wiil © an exception. This is a worse blow to nation than the surrender at Sedan, for this will strike at the vory roots of national life. The Kronch have great olasticity of spirit, which enables them to to bear misfortunes with actual gayety, but they have neither the doggednoss of the Brit- ish in the hour of defeat, nor the ferocious su perrity to disaster of the Poles, and when their mercurial light heartedness fails them they are in danger of utter collapse. This was the case with the great revolution of 1793 which was the couscquence neither of noble tyranuy, nor of royal despotism, nor of priestly greed, but of bankruptey. The financial wheels were all clogged, and there Was an utter giving up the ghost by all par- ties concerned. Agriculturalists ceased to labor, taxgathorers did not even try to col- lect 'the internal revenues, tradesmen dropped their tools and harangued on the sit- uation, and then they all flew at each other's throats like so many wolves, The Krench national debt has bicome so enormous that the revenues are utterly insufticient to pay its interest, and meot current expenses, and the fall of the Panama company will, with- out any doubt plunge France again into bank- ruptey. The beginning of the end has come. Various straws in motion indicate that Ttaly is by no means as ficm in 1ts alliance with Germany as its own government is. The Berlin correspondent of the Diritto of Rome has been expelled from Germany be- cause his paper has shown more and more antagonism to Geriany as the time for prob- able actiou has drawn nearer. Also at the very time when all Germany is cnragod against Russia on account of the undisguised hostility of the entire press, the pope has seized the opportunity to display his sympa- thies by making reu able concessions to the czar. The Russian plenipotentiary, Mors. Izvolsky, was sent some time ag. Rome to_demund the appoiatment of Mons, Simon, Rector of the Catholic semina St. Petersburg, to the bishopric of Wilna: to demand the filling of the bishoprics of Lublin and Plasko; and to obtain the privilege of using the Russian language in all nonliturgical services in Little Russia and Lithuania, These have been granted. Also the statesmen who aro most identified with conservative politics in Ttaly are strenuously urging an alliav of- fensive and defensive botween all the mem- bers of the Latin monetary league—France, Italy, Spain, Switzerland and Belginm. Tho league is sinply an arrangement for the maintenance of silver money at par, and for the rocognition of the silver money of each country s possessed of the same value, Thus each of the countries belonging to this association has a coin equivalent to our own dollar which passes current inall of them as money. So at present there are two well defined partics in Rome, the Turin party, composed of the wovernment and the army who arc for the Kmperor William, ana the Roman party headed by the pope nrainst him. It is the Guelfs and the Ghibllines over again, and it the long run the pope will triumph. " All's well that ends well. The president of Hayti, Legitime, has not waited for the arrival of the cna, the Yantic and the Richmond to surrénder the Hayticn Republic, but has sent her home under her own cap- tain, and a crew sent down especially for the purpose by the Atlas steamship company. The stcamer people were very wise, and Legitime also shotved.a level head, for if he had surrendered the vessel to a hostile force, his rival Hippolyte would have held the age, £0 to speak, and his own supporters would have deserted him. Whereas now when the three Awerican_terrors stewin into the har- bor of Port-au-Prince and run up their flags, and run out their cannon, there will be in- vitations and hbations amd fraternizations, and every man, oMcer and boy in the threo steamers will spend his last coin in the port, with the result that there will be more ready money in the place than was ever known wvefore. This will greatly strengthen Legitime's adminis tration, and will rally to him the doubtful people Who always wait until events have happened before they declare themselves. Also it will make the Americans zealous for Legitime and opposed to Hippolyte. But the Atias company has been the smartest. If the government had rescued the Haytien Republique, she would not have been turned over to the owners for a dog's age, and there would have been a bill of expense which would have been terrifying. Now there is nothing to pay :what bliss! _And the steamer can go al_once into the coffee busi- ness, as innocently as if her hold had never been polluted by cartridges and rifles and other contraband of war. But how erateful the Atlas Co. must be that the government corvettes are 50 slow. for otherwise they would have been too late, iy No Santa Claus For Them. Globz-Deno No Santa Claus for democrats this year. The old man is in better business, -~ Tears Not Water. Chicago Hevald, M. de Lesseps was affected to cepious tears in his interview with his stockholders, and more water stood in his eyes than will ever stand in his Panama canal, Hale and Hearty at 70. Phitadelphia Record. Illinois was seventy years old on Monday— a very supple, healthy, promising septuagen- arian, with a great deal of colic in the Chi- cago corner, but otherwise healthy. The prairie region is beginning to cut its teeth, - ilroads in Wisconsin, Record. That railroads are dangerous in more senses than one s evidenced in the way the Badger state has sharpened its claws to fight them. The governor of Wiscousin is a granger; the Wisconsin legislature is as full of farmers as a pin cushion of pins or a strawstack of straw; and thoy propose to bring the rascals of the rusty rails to terms. - - A Grand Idea, Bat lmpracticable. New York World. 1t is grand, this idea of a big wmunicipality composed of New York and Brooklyn. It would bring us up at once, without waiting another ten or twenty years, to the size of Puaris and nearly that of London. vt there are clouds in every sky. Imagiue New York with a board of aldermen increased by tho addition of a score or 80 of city futhers owing their positions to the favor of the Brooklyn political bosses ! The I s Prophetic Photography. Toledo Co) Wall Street News, A man may shop from morn i/l night, From now till Christmas day, But he can’t get a bargain like his wite, Because he ain’t built that way. - PROMINEGNT PERSONS, And now the question is, did Harrison post Morton/ P. T, Barnum drinks no wines, but he has @ great fondness for Bridge-port. Dow Pedro, emperor of Braall, hus been enjoying very good health since he returned from Europe. Admiral Luce will ba placed on the retired 1ist nioxt month. His successor will be either Commodore Harmony or Commodore Ben ham, Now 18 it gsserted th be secretary of the navy subject is considerod tothing naval rescrve. Reprosentative Henry Cabot Lodge is about through with the second and final vol me of the life of George Washington, for the Statesmen series. “Mike" Kelly, the base ball_star, is to re. ceive $1,000 for two weeks' work as an actor, bosidos the present of a handsome overcoat He will earn the overcoat in all probability First Assistant Postmastcr General Stoven, son will turn over his office on March 4 and turn to the practice of law at his homo in Bloomington, 1l Mr. Hayne, his chief clerk, will become a mombor of the law firm of M. H. Day & Co., at Rapid City, Dak sunt Herbert Bismarck made his maiden spoech in the roichstag last Friday, Unliko his futher, he drank 1o brandy during the thirty minutes he was addressing his col lengzios, But he resembled his sire in his . His voice, enunciation, gestures and abrupt method were much like those of the elder Bismarck, t “Tom'* Platt is to His silence on the more than & - STATE AND TERRI Nebraska Jottings. The prohibition town of Union imports its whisky with a *“lubricating oil" braud. A Woman's Relief Corps has been organ ized at Beaver City with twenty member: The DeWitt elevators are so full of corn that many loads have to be refused for lack of room, Snouk thieves are getting in their work at Plum Croek, and so are the police. A nuni- ber of arrests have been made. ‘I'ie United Bretliren church at Nebraska City has been dedicated. Tt is free of debt and there is 4 surplus in the treasury. Miss Mamie B. Lyday, one of the best known society young ladios of Beatrice, was married on Thursday, to R. P. Smith, of Houston, Tex. Two members of General Harrison’s oli rogiment reside at Beaver City, and there 18 talk of raising a purse to enable them to at tend the inawguration ceremonies, The business men of North Platte ganized a elub for the double purpose of vancing the interests of the eity and so enjoyment. An elegant suit of Tooms will be fitted up by the new orgunization. In chronicling the failure of J. 13. Foot, North Bend, Tue Bee credited the First tional bank of that place with holding a first mortgage on the stock. This was an_error, the mortgage being held by the Bank of North Bend. A queer suit was decidod at other day. woeks for at Kearney the A young man hired to work two a favmer. At the expiration of four days the young wman quit on account of sickness. He' brought action to recover his wages, and lost his case, besides having to pay &3 per day to the farmer for hunting an- other man. The little son of James Stoddard, of Bene- dict, upset a lamp, breaking it and setting fire 1o the carpet. Mrs. Stoddard ran out with the child and then went back to put the fire out, when her dress canght, and she again ran out'ana jumped into a tub of water. Her haw was badly smged and she was badly burned. Her presence of mind and the carly arrival of her husband and one of the neigh- bors saved her and the child and the house from burning up. Towa. A five-foot ear was tuken from the river at Muscatine a few days ago. After a wedded life of sixty-two years, Mr. and Mrs. Frankhin Nagle, of Poik county, declare that marriage is not a failure. Luther Blood, a boy of twenty, living near * Renwick, Humboldt county, forged a note for 8150 to raise meney with which to marry a school teacher. The officers have been un- able to capture hun yet. The Rev. Dr. Reid, of Mason, has returned home from the western coast of Africa, where he has been as a missionary. He was reported some time ago to have been eaten by cannibals on the coast of Africa, The programme for the twenty-third an- nual session of the State Horticultural so- ciety, which convenes at Des Moines Janu- ary 15, 16 and 17, is elaborate and interest- ing, und the mecting promises to be highly instructive to those who attend. J. Hummel, a Waterloo printer, has a heu that is a stay She od over lust summer with v when the barn was filled, and Saturday, when the hay was removed, she found still sitting on the nest. She is totally blind, but otherwise in good con- dition, A letter has been received from Thomas R. Gaston, of Dix, 1ll., who wishes to know if L. Cornwell, who is a farmer near Demison, Ia., was a mémber of company C, Twenty- second 1linois infantry. If le is the same man, a number of his relatives in Jefferson county, 1llinois, would like to hear from him. C. C. Horn was shot whilg working in his field near South English, the other day. A young man approached him and asked him if he wanted to hire a hand. Mr. Horn told him where he would be likely to get work, and then started to resume his work, when the man shot him just behind the left car, and then ran away. He 1s still at large. 1t is thought the assailant was insane. Dakota. Madison will soon have a board of trade. _ Register of Deeds Gantz, of Rapid City, is in London on business counected with the mune The Black Hills Deadwood January %, gunization. aton wants Brown county split up into :c parts, with Graton for the county scat of one,of thie thirds. Over forty-five conversions mude at a revival in the M. Scottand, during the past week. Two car loads of buffaloes on their way from Canada to Kansas, were unloaded at Grand Forks for rest. Three died. Winter is so late in commg that the young people of Onida have organized a lawn tennis club and are caleulating on lots of fun before cold weather arrives. There is talk of reorganizing tho hut of the Oriental Order of Humility at Sioux Falls, “There arc about 200 memboers in that city and fully fifty who are desirous of joining. John Fogleburg, of Grand Forks, worked up cases against about thirty saloon men in Grard Forks county for violation of the local option luw. On Saturday Fogleburg disap- peared, telling his friends he would be back on Monday. Nothing has since been scen of him, and it is supposed he left for good, fter being well paid by thesaloon men, If he cannot be found the county is liable to lose several thousand dollars in fines. - Had Something to Learn Yet, Chicago Tribune: Young physi (at a consultation)—I have no hesitation in pronouncing the disease anagina pectoris complicated with muscula atrophy. Old “physician—You haven’t, Young min, when you have been prie- ticing forty years you will have learnod how to hesitute, sir. It is important in a case of this kind, sir, to_hesitate, and it is also more professional, si Young physician—DMI re to meet at a regular or- pioneers to form have been 2. church, at hey? Old” physician (impressively) disease, sir, is muscular atrophly, com- plicated with angina pectoris. Young physician (humbly)—Ye s . A Slow Train. Philadelphia Record: Judge—The railroad conductors, engineors and brakemen all testify that the wain on which you were a passenger was moving at the time of the accident at the rate of forty-five or fifty miles an hour, yet you insist that it was only going about three miles an hour, Witness—Well, maybe it little faste than that, m to be “What was the object of your j ney?” 1 was on my way across the state to meet my best girl, whom [ hado’t seen for six months.” | as going a i but it didn’t el Pavisian Dynamit PaRts, Dec. 2L.—An attemp! made to blow up the office of the of police with & dynamite Lomb. veen ary nas s Hxtraots From a Recent Address in Chicago. But Flace and Beyond a Doubt Champion Divorce Mill of the World. Thinks It's a Terribly Wickea the How He Docs Hate Dudes ! Rev, Sam Jones appeared in Chi Thursday night with a new loctare full of now slang, and 1,50 people pai conts cach to get into Battery D to hear it He announced the subject of his locture as “Get thore, with the Eli left off, of course, all know, 1 am constitu tionally opposed to using slang.” The thread of the lecture upon which tho many slang ex pressions, funny illustrations, and occasional pathetie incidents were strung together, was simply a paraphrasing of the idea that truo ago because, us you Iluh\ 4,000 policemen to look after the baeh doors. Tn Omahal it was difforent, and in closing his remarks, he said “I know what the better clement réquire of me, and I trust that before [*go out of ofco I will be able to fulfill these roquire- ments. " Rev. A R. Thrain, of Galesburg, spoke humorously of “Ihe Yankoe," and explained that he only missed being ono by about two hundred and twenty-five yoars, having boen born in Scotland. The Yanukce, as he know him, was born down oast, and, although he came into the world as a _baby, was never As he took an inventory of his baby clothes thore was speculation in his cve, aud ho looked at his crib as thougl to ask, “How much did it costt'" He chimbod from his crib and clamored for boots, and spenthis boyhood days in trading tops and strings. Ho cut his eye teoth sooner than any other mortal, and was scen at his bost in the scarch for tho dollar, As & peddler, lie had fow oquals and no su- periors, and asan insurance agent he could almost persuade a corpse to take ont a life policy. As o lightning-rod agent he was smarter than the lightning itself. He had cut down the forests till the carth was bald, and had roofed tho falls of St. Anthony till the stream carried dollars to fiis coffers, Ho came west as a farmer, but if the soil was oo poor e became ' cattle raiser, and it poorer still he was found as o miner. 1f it was 100 poor to be farmed, mined or used as grazing grounds, ho would stake it oft success in life 1s only 1o be attained throngh arnest, honest and conscientious endeayor Some of the characteristic slang illustrations and expressions which wero used are these : *“The dude and the dudeen are the highest type of modern society. The Almighty never dreamed of a dudo when he created Adam, and the whola business has got the start of the plan of creation. A dude is alittle pimple on the body of society, indicating that its blood is out of order. Did you never wake up in the morning with a little white pimple on your facet Well, that pimple is a dude and when you squecze it itisa du- deen. “‘Hell itself is only selfishness on fire." ““There’s such a thing as goetting there po- litically, but it doesn’t amount to much. I've been down in Kentucky and Tennessce a ood deal lately and they are all in mourning own there. 1 ain't shouting much myself. My man got badly left. But we're eotting over it and are looking torward to four year: of prosperity under General Harvison. If we can’t get puddiny we'll e pic and try 10 make out we like it best. 1'd vather be a preacher of the gospel than be president. The job lasts longe “Thiere are some real men in the world, but there arc also u lot of these little fellers A fly cau sit on the nose of one of them and W in one eye and kick in _the other. You an put 100 of such livtle fellows in a sardine a1 cent stamp ou it and send them ar some of these old christians *Oh, to Be Nothing.’ Yes, old man Novhing goinzr nowhere and old woman Noth- ing going with him. What do you want to be nothing for? How can God crown noth- ing, and how can nothing play on a harpt" “Never were there so many people simply trying to have a good time, to enjoy hog héaven—plenty to cat and nothing to do. The highest ambition of nine out of ten girls is to dance. There is some good in cating, but my! my! my! what zood is there in cutting apigeon wing with the arm of & dude around your I don't believe we came from tadpoles and monkeys, butIdo think many of us arc headed that way now." *“You can never put gambling out of Chi- cao until you put progressive euchre out of your parlors. You never play progressive euchre without playmg for 'somethmg, and when you get up from the table, whether you win or lose, you are as iauch of a black- leg gambler in the sight of God as1s any faro or poker player in Chicago.” “Lnever did have but one’ objection to a satoonkeeper, aud that's the same one I've got against a'house, and that's because of the pyay hogeta his living—oft the heads of fami- ies. “I think a barkeeper will feel very com- fortable in heil with a lot of you Methodists and Baptists all about him."’ “I admire Chicago because its alive; but you've got enough hell in this town to' start, a branch oftice of damnation, and you've got. plenty of men ready and fit o take the place of the devil in runuing it, and good locations. for the ofti ccon nearly every corner.” “If an angel should come down from heaven and announce that not another man would die in Chicago for 100 years, and you believed it, not a preacher in town could get a salary above $5 a year.” ‘“The meanest people are in the church. They pack thoir pastor in an ice box for & year, and they grumble because he don't sweat,” “The more dignity a man gets the ncarer dead he is. A dead man is the most dignitiod animal T know of.” “The people comvlain of being vriest-rid- den, but, excepting in Illinois, of courso, there’s not a preaclier who can’t bo ridden, But here's one they don't ride. They come up and put their f0o¢ in the stirrup, and the first_thing they kuow, when the dust has blown away, I'll be sianding at the trough cating, with' one of their galluses wound around one of my hind legs, and they won't know what's happened to them. There’s not achurch in the country that would have me for its_pastor, and not one I'd have for my sheep.”! “I like physical courage. Do as the Quaker qid, tura both cheeks to be slappedzand when you've got the bible on a man, then pitch in and whip him till his wife don't know him." “Whom God hath joined together let no man put asunder, and whom the devil hath joined together let them come to Chicugo. More people can get unjoined quicker in cago than in any place 1 ever heard of.” “Don’t stop making love t your wife when you have married her, Put your arms around her once i while and tell her: *You dear old thing, you are the sweetest old thing 1 cver ew.” Some of you will have to tell a lie to say it, but tell the lieonce in a while and your home will be happier.” R C— THE NEW ENGLANDERS. A Bountiful Spread and Eloguent speeches at Last Night's Banquet. Two hundred and fifty huppy faces framed the tables that groaned with New England delicacies in the parlors of tho St. Mary’s ue church last night. It was the eve of father's day, and the red-berried holly scattered over the snowy table cloths, or worn alike by the ladies and gentlemen present, told that it was being celobrated. Wax candies illuminated the tables as in days of yore, but their dim light was lost in the brighter gleam of the gas that is rded to make a modern entertainmont a Success. I3ut last night's festival would have been a success without the zid of gas. It was under the auspices of the Omaha Congregational union, and knowing what best would please their guests, the union left the preparation of the supper to the ladics of the church. It, too, was of the New England style, and chicken pie, Boston beans, puump- kin pie and all eatables nacessury to give it tone and character were there in profusion, serving to put the guests in the proper frame of mind to thoroughly enj the programmo that followed. The ke Willard Scott, pastor of the church, pr sided, and i o few woll chosen remurks | troduted as tho first speaker Mayor Broatel:, who had for his theme the *Evolution of the Conneeticut Blue Laws.” He had heard of them and road of them, and found in au old edition of Lhe Lncyclopedia American thut as | quoted there they sceied Lo be 1o tudic | to be true. ‘Chey attacied the death venalty | to the worship of any other god than the ouo | they adored, to bluspliemy, stealing, witch craft, bearing fulse witness, and in cursing of parcuts by a son over sixieen yoars of age. As a rule they were not enforced, but ) at on record to be used in case of necessity Tradition pointed out that these Liws and the | lantation covenantoriginated In New Haven Mlie one thing to be considered now was (hat | laws should be reasonable if they were to be | obeyed. Therc were some in~ Nobraska like t which prohibits troat which, whilo good i themselves, could not Le eaforced, It the laws Wers o be respected. legislators should put noue ou the statute books which it was in ossible to enfo The authoritics, how ever, are uot always to blame, Chicf Seavey had ntly been oi @ tour of iuspection, and aniong other things, ivguired iito the waorkings of the liquor law, At KKausas City | B as told the front doors of Ahe saloens were closed op Rurday, but thet b woeuld 1 as an Indian roservation. He elosod with an eloquent peroration in which ho said that the safety of the land depended on the New Englaud clement and tho American charactor, Miss Lz “Great Grandmothers, a well doseryed encore. The Hou. W. J. Connoll thought the time and place a fitting one in which to extend u greeting from the Gireen mountains to the greon prairies. Althcugh not n Vermontor, he had married & genuine Vermont girl. Ha then drow a word picture of the New Eug- lander in his prairie home, and amony othor things predicted the admission of Dakota to statehood soon after March 4 The Rov, L. F. Berry, of Fremont, told of the Now England deacon as he knew him— & composite creature, diffcrent from all other deacons. Formerly he wis a man of mature years and ripe expericnee, now he. is aman of business as well as of religion, and quite as linble to drive a fast horse as his pasior. But New England had o right to be proud of her deacons. As ' he could remember them thero was the deacon with the deep voice, and tho one that could say grace and get to the cary ing knife quicker than _any other man ho kuew. There was the old man, the friend of the young, and there was the deacon that could never keep a secret, but swck to his pastor through thick and ‘thin. There was the punctilious deacon, who never mixed his religion with his business, but always knew when his rents were due; the obstinate deacon, the progressive euchre deacon, and the heresy hunting deacon. Thers were all kinds of deacons, and thougn those he spoke of were long sinco dead, there were others still like them filling their vacant chairs. Miss Georgia P, Boulter then reudered a musical selection suitable to the oceasion, and received a hearty encore. rof. 1 was unable to be present to tell of New'‘England Puritans in Literature,? andas the hour was growing late short speeches were made by Messrs. C. S, Chase, W. H. Alexander and 1. J. Manatt, of Lin’ coln. Miss tceah 1. Wilcox, of Kansas, mado many admirers by her excellent rendering of 2 5010, ANd in TESPONSC 10 AN AUCOTE, KAV A 8O- lection from ““Murguerite.”’ Mr, Jay Northup sang the tenor solo, *“The Pilgrim Fathers,” and the New England banquet was ovor, AMUSEMENTS. Pennell then s ng of our in astylo that won The story of “Daddy Nolan" is simple, in- teresting, and easily told. An Irishman, by means of humble though honest effort, rises to wealth and social position. His son s charged with a crime and banished from the father's home. The father, mother and daughter-n-law retura to their former simpie state,the first mentioned embracing his old av- ocation of acarter. In this way he pys off the indebtedness which his son's alleged crime hus imposed wpon Lim, Five years elapse, the father's obdurate heart softens toward absent boy, especially when he rves that the latter gives evi- dence of penitence and reform, A mecting takes place, an_cxplanation it made, o reconciliation is cffected and the family is reunited in a home which the son’y providence and filial gratitude have prompted him to provide. It is a story which has been told thousands of times in active lifo in ever part of the world. 1t readily elicits and re tains the symoathicsof the s0 nudience, It is rendered doubly affecting by the unfold- ing it receives through Daniel Sully’s im- personation of the father, Daddy Nolan. ‘T'he star does not appear to act. He soems the character he ouacts in method as well ay in appearance. He is an Irishman as well in the drawingroom as in the kitchen of his homely cottage, and such an Irishman as may be scen in numbors wherever Irishmen aro found. He is in- dustrious, affectionate, witty sud honest, and his voice, while eusily ‘conducing to laughter, may almost as r cadily move to tears, He i§ supported by a company of requisite strength, the leading members of which are Max Arnold, Con Malvey, Mrs, Kueass and Mlle, Arzula. Young Malvey's is an admirable im- personation of the 1nischicvous, yet dutiful lad, with whose pranks a_person may bo dis- pleased for but a moment only ata time, The andience was highly entertained and scemed disposed to mako allowauce for somo improbable situations i their cx- ageeration, however, ¢ . to almost con- tmued laughter and applaus Shot and Kalled a 8 nt. Tresos, Arz, Dee. 21—At Fort Grant, Corporal Wilham Wellington, of troop M, Tenth United States cavalry, yo and mortally¥vounded Sergeant Jani LITTLE MARY CECILIA BRUNDLD Has Just been Cured ofehe worst znn ever seen by the doctors who treated her, From head to 188 of diseased skin. Scveral phy- sicians, a modical colloge, all remedics fail. Cured by Cutlou remed i My little \tor, Mury cegilin Brunold, was atfifoted with il Worst cise of cczema over seen by the doctors who treated hor. Sho was it ally covered froim head to 100t with physiciuns tried (ieir best to curo her. love they weraonly experimenting, oy kipt wenting for over ten motihs, but, in: 1 better tho elild got worse, 'aud 1 a1 not know what course (o pu My wifo ook hor, wlter wo had paid all we could afira for medical treatment, to a medical colicge whero there were somo twenty or thi 1y doctors assoms blod, but the ciuse batied (e il My wite had toga avery diy, and sometimes twice w day, 1n fact the medicine they gave 1y ehild A nog aye U016 1o aot, eve 11 Ll Wiss iy virtie in it 1t was chunged 50 often by o1 derof the doctons “The lnttor part of danuary, nter overytling Lad failod, knd patience a Wy Wore both Ox- 6 up 1oy nind 1o quitall doctoris SIS Bk enat, i s i 1y dintighite . sound 1well, to the surprive of huiideos, 4 15 a5 much astoutshed wy i ugs, The CUTIOURA. I § hitve worked complete cure, and we o usod but a lit moro than three fonrils of i bogtle of C v, and a proportioffat WA CUTICU A SOA T tho worst i cmi Admit, evorsoon in this city curod solely by the COTICURA RvDIng, st pliystelans and rameding failod. il 10 have any ony edll upoy of pitomne who bas & child giuflary wilicied, o any persoa Who 15 troublod with @ mkin disedse, that e may ser for himsel€ what vour Cuiion e IEMEDLES v dons, 1 do this lu iratitade for tho cure that has bashs effoctod i Ty chiids case, CHAY. Tb BIUROLD, 2005 Gratios B . 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