Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 25, 1889, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25. 1839. THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. i TERMS OF SURSCRIPTION. Daily (Morning EAition) including SUNDAY Bex, One Year . For fix Month K ) @ For Three Months 0 THE OMANA BUNDAY o 200 address, One Y ear WrrkLY BER, One Year. ... OMA A OFv1cE, Nos, 914 and 910 FARN AV STREET, CHICAGO OrFFICE, b7 Rookery Buir New YOk Oprice, ROOMS 14 AND 15 Thi BUILDING. WASHISGTON OFFICE, NO. FOURTEENTH BTREET. CORRESPONDENCE, , All communica ns relating to news torial matter should besddr: OF THE BEE Bk, matled to any BUSINKSS LETTERS, ATl business letters and remittances should bs addressed to Tik BEE PUBLISIING COMPANY, OMANA. DPafts, checks an postofiice or ders 1o e niads payablé to the order of the company. k¢ Bee Pablishing Company, Proprielers. ROS sditor. THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Oirculation. Btate of Nebraska, | . County of Douglas, (** George B, Tzschitck, secretary of the Bee Pub- Mshing company, does solemnly swear that the actual circulation of Tur DAaiLy Be for the week cnding February 23, 1880, was as follows: funday, Feb. 17. .. L Monday, Feb. 18 1 Tuesany, Feb. 19, © 18 Wednesday, Feb, 2. 18. Thursany, Feb, dve LR Friday, Feb, 22 Vesninien L Baturday, 1B Averago 18914 Btate of Nebraska, County of Douglas, Georgn B, Teschuck, being duly sworn, de- poses und &ays that he is secretary ol the Pubiishing company, that the aciual ayerage daily circulation of Tie DaiLy Bik for the month of February, 188, was 15,00 for Murch, 188, 10,680 copies; 18746 copies; for Muay, for gune, 188, 19,24% 1868, 18,053 coples: for Aug 18,145 copids; for_September, 1889, 1%, 154 for October, 1888, 15034 coples: for Novem: Der, 1888, 18,056 coples: for December, 1855, 18.22) coples; for January, K0, 14574 copiés EORGE 1, TZSCHUC Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence this 15t day of Februar. D). 1850, N.P. FEIL Notary Public, Tne inaugural waltz is becoming the fashionable step for every body ubout Washington except democrats. NEW YORK is always a doubtful state. It is doubtful whether President Har- rison will recognize it with a cabinet appointment. Tue vencrable Hannibel Hamlin is visiting Minnesota for the purpose of finding out whether it is cold enough to Wear an overcoat. WiLL the committee on public lands and buildings tell the legislature why two-thirds of the state buildings are ramshackle structures? Mon s anti-gambling laws just signed by the governor are peculiarly significant. They prohibit all games of chance ‘‘except faro and roulette.” —— WILL the council hana the streets of our city over to the electric overhead wire companies when every other city in the country is putting the wires un- derground? revised charter Omaha must have a rigid registration law to protect the purity of municipal elec- tions. The Douglas county delegation should keep this well in sight. NEXT to a ‘WHiLE there is general rejoicing over the early admission of North and South Dakota, it will he remembered that Montana and Washington Territory have greater cause for congratulations. " SENATOR CHANDLER'S ear was not pulled by Senator Blackburn after all. This will relieve the country of the great tension to which it was drawn at the first report of the quarrel. IT does not speak well for the local butchers of Saint Joe to protest against the dressed beef of packing houses, and then be caught slaughtering and sell- ing lump jawed cattle for home con- sumption. A SUBURBAN train to Papillion is promised on the Missouri Pacific. Un- doubtedly the Union Pacific will extend its South Omaha service to the same village. It may be that Papillion will some day become o fashionable suburb of our city. ’ THE festive book agent is at work, and has suceeeded in getting a proposi tion before the board of education to change music text books at a cost of sixteen or eighteen hundred dollars, The taxpayers, of course, will be ex- pected to pay the fiddler. JAY GouLD’s retirement from the directory of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western, coupled with the well de- fined rumor that he is about to step out of the Missouri Pacific, gives color to the reports that he is ready to pass over the aetive management of his affairs to his son, George. And George is a young man fully a8 keen in the race after wealth as his father over has been. I7 was to be expected that Wyoming would be spurred on to renewed zeal in pushing forward her claims to state- hood by reason of the admission of Dakota. There can be no question that the next territory to be clothed with sovereignty will be Wyoming. Her rapidly increasing population, her rich mineral resources, her advantuges as a Btock raising country and the develop- ment of her railroad and commercial enterprises will all combine to force congress to an early recognition of ‘Wyoming’s fitness to govern herself, —— Pz Oklahoma bill in all likelihood will receive its death blow in the sen- ate. Despite the fact that the house has passed the measure, there is a pro- walent feeling that the measure as passod for the opening of the Oklahoma lands to settlers is but a thin disguise fin the interest of land grabbing syndi- cates, ruilronds and boomers. The bona fide settlers would be crowded out and the purpose of the bill to open a large area of public lands for actual homesteaders would be defeated. The bill sent by the house to the senate is called a curious crazy quiltof legis- lative quackery. It had to deal with a complicated situation from the spart, and to satisfy a multitude of clashing interests. For that reason the meusure 18 looked upon with suspicion, and will fail of becoming a law at this sessiou. THAT PLEDGE T0O THURS TON. The country av large, and the citi- zens of Nebraska in particular, have been let into a profound state secret concerning the invincible influence which John M. Thurston will wield with the incoming administration. The | startling revelation made by the double-barroted local contemporary which holds the patent asthe only paper in America that straddled all the issues in the late national campaign and sup- ported Harrison and Cleveland at the same time, without seriously impairing its usefulness and influence, The story as given to its patrons reads as follows “During the Chicago convention at a time when Harrison and his friends were straining cvery nerve to get votes Mr. Thurston secured from General Harvison an absolute pledge that in the event of the latter’s nomination and clection cortain Nebraska gentlemen should have nothing whatever to say about Nebraska's patronage. As sult of that pledge Mr. Thurston not only gave his vote to Benjamin Harri- son but secured other votes for him * * * * The unfortunate Nebraska gentle- men who were mentioned in General Harrison'’s pledge include the Hon. E. credulous a re- Rosewater, Hon. C. H. Van Wyck and Hon. Alvin inders.” This would be ve! interesting if it were true. On its face it bears the un- mistakable ear-marks of the profes- sional liar. General Havrison was not present at the Chieago convention. If he had been present he mnever would have thought of making such a pledge, even if Thurston’s support had been essential to his nomination. Nobody authorized to speak on behalf of General Harrison at Chicago ever made such apledge and General Harrison would promptly have repudiated it if it had been made. Gen- eral Harrison would not be guilty of base treachery to personal friends, least of all, to Alvin Saunders, the only prominent man from Nebraska who at Chicago talked and worked for Harrison fivst, last and all the time. His loyalty to Harrison will hardly be called in question. General Harrison is under no obliga- tions whatever to Johu M. Thurston for anything he said or did in Chicago in his behalf. Thurston was opposed to General Harrison from the very outset and did all he could to keep members of the Nebraska delega- tion from giving their votes to Harri- son until after the crisis when Harvi- son had votes enough in the convention, and some to spare. That fact affords suflicient refutation of the story about Harrison’s pledge to Thurston. The onl rvices Thurston rendered to General Harrison in the last cam- paign were in the capacity of stump- orator. In tnat service, Mr. Thurston vas on an equal plane with scores of campaign stumpers, who, like him, con- sider themselves well paid when they can gratify their ambition for notoriety. ‘While Thurston and other stumpers were talking to from two thousand to five thousand people once or twice a week, every leading republi- can daily in the country was talking to tens of thousands every day from the bth of June to the 5th of November. Thurston’s claim upon President Har- rison scarcely reaches the proportions that would entitle him to dictatorship in Nebraska political affairs, to the exclusion of republicans who stand much higher in the confidence of the president-elect than does the general attorney of the Union Pacifi STATE TARIFFS ON BEEF. The latest expression of the hostility to western dressed beef that has been exhibited in proposed legislation to ex- clude such beef from the eastern mar- kets, is in a bill ictroduced in the New York assembly. This measure isin- tended to supplement one previously presented providing for meat inspec- tion, and it proposes that vesidents of the state of New York shall be pe ted to sell the meat of animals raised by them without such inspection asis quired in the case of meat or cattle brought from another state. Ridiculous as such a proposition clearly is, it has been seriously made in the legislatures of several states, and will very likely be enucted into a law by some of them, though it is hardly to be supposed that it will in New York. Inspection bills, designed to exclude ern dressed beef, are now pending in the logislatures of quite a dozen states, so thut this menace to a most im- portant business has a very serious as- pect. In all these states the cattle growers and the butchers ave firmly united in the effort to obtain leg- islution that will so far as pos- sible shut out western beef from their home markets, and every selfish argu- ment they can invent is being urged to that end. The peliticiuns are not in- sensible o this influence, and as there is no organization of consumers to pre- sent their side of the question it will not be very surprising if the combina- tion that is wuarring against western dressed beef suceeeds in accomplishing its purpose. The contest is being ear- ried on chiefly by tne butchers, and their complaint is that the western meat is sold at so low a rate that east- ern-killed beef cannot compete with it. They therefore demuand the enactment of laws that will practically shut out western beef, for the proposed inspec- tion bills can have no other effect, since 1t is well known that the western meat is carefully 1nspected before being shipped and that the beef sent to the eastern markets is of excellent quality. The pretext that it is not, and that dis- ased meab finds its way into the east- ern market from the west, will not stund the test of honest investigation. The New York Zimes says of all this proposed legislation that its aim is to raise the price of beef to the consumer in the east by methods that would at the same time lower the quality of a considerable part of the supply—that part furnished by the importation of live cattlo from the pastures beyond the Mississippi, These results would inevi- tably follow the enforcement of such in- spection laws as ave proposed in a num- ber of the eastern states, but the ques- tion is, cun public sentiment be so forei- bly brought to see the certalu conse- quences that it will assert itsel! with sufficient vigor to defeat the ambition of the butchers and political dema- goguds? What shall be the fate of this proposed legislation, and a decision must be soon reached in most of the states where it 18 pending, is a matter of very great importance to the western dressed beef interest, and indeed to the ontire cattle interest of the west, and nuoless important to the millions of oastern consumer ASTERN ANXIETY. Some of the eastern papers represent that there is a feeling of anxiety in that section caused by rumors that it is the intention of neral Harrison to adopt a western financial policy, and to emancipate treasury management and the national finances from the domina- tion of New York ideas, Washington correspondents of eertain papers report that leading republicans of the east view the situation with alarm, as threatening political consequences likely to prove disastrous to the party returning to power in New York, Mass- achusetts, and some other eastern states. To name the channel through which this information is imparted would be sufficient to show that it has no more substantial foundation than a desire to awaken distrust of the new administration at the outset, and thereby if possible compel it to give *heed wholly to castern counsel in shap- ing the policy of the treasury. If the financial and business interests of the east could be led to believe that the next administration is likely to adopt any radical changes in the govern- ment’s financial policy a vigorous pressure would probably be brought to bear to preveat any such departure, but a leading and very in- telligent organ of these interests they “show no indication of being di turbed by the reports of a contemplated departure from conservative and sound financial policy, because they are con- vinced that political mfluence, if no others, will prevent such mistaken and dangerous action,” The reported anxiety in the east regarding the future administration of the national treasury is doubtless a pure invention. It is undoubtedly to be expected, as it certainly is to be desired, that the finan- cial policy of the government will not be s0 entively dominated by New York during the next four years us it has been for the last four,* but this possibility does not involve the substitution of any distinetive western financial policy. It is an entirely gratuitous assumption that the west, counsidered as a whote, has a financial policy differing in essen- tial respects from what is desired by other portions of the country, and it an injustice to the west to imply that it wishes any departure that might impair the soundmess and the smooth and heulthy operation of the financial system. = There is no reactionary sentiment as to this matter in the westat large, whatever there may be in limited sections of it, but ou the contrary it will be entirely satisfied with a continuance of that re- publican policy in the administration of the national finances which in the past contributed so largely to the general prosperity, to sound and stable condi- tions, and to the upbuilding of the na- tion’s credit. “The west has no selfish purpose to sub- serve, so far as a rational financial polic is concerned, at the expense of any othe section. Whatever influence it may have 1o the next administration will be exerted with reference to the general welfare. It believes that no section should dominate the financial policy of -of the government, but that that policy should be formed on a broad national basis, with a judicious and conservative regard for the interests and welfare of every section. The west is as practical us the east, and understands thoroughly tho necessity of pursuing a course that will not shalke confidence and create dis- trust. Ttsprogress and prosperity are de- pendent upon a sound, stable and healthy financial condition, and it will not imperil its future by demanding anything inimical to the continuance of this condition, There ave no wiser, sounder, or more conservative financiers in congress than the men who represent the financial views of the west, and these will exer- cisc a very great influence upon the financial policy of the next administra- tion, whoever may be at the head of the treasury. The fact that General Harri- son invited one of thess, Senator Alli- son, to be secretary of the treasury, is in itself evidence that no radical de- parture in the financial policy of the government is intended, With Allison and Sherman as counscllors of the ad- ministration there need be no anxiety anywhero that the policy of the national treasury for the next four years will be far removed from the lines which have been found safest for the interests of the government and the welfare of the country A CORRESPONDENT asks an explana- tion of the direct tax bill, An act was passed by congress in 1861 providing that direct taxation to the amount of twenty million dollars annually should be collected from the people of the Unitod States by assessment upon rveal estate, and that these taxes should be apportioned according to population, as required by the constitution. All of the northern states and a few of the south- ern states paid the tax in whole or i part, the aggregate amount thus re ceived by the government being about twenty million dollars. The direct tax bill provides for refunding 1o the states and territories the sums thus paid to the general government, and for remitting and relinquishing all moneys due the government under the act of 1861, THE Chicago board of trade has at lust tiled its report with the interstate commerce committee to the effect that the railroadsare discriminating against that city in charging higher rates for the transportation of live hogs thau for packing house products. All the lines leading from the Missouri river to Chi- cago are charged with the offense of violating the provisions of the inter- state law which forbid un just discrimin- ation and of giving undue advantages to a particular locality. It was hardly expected that Chieago, favored so long by railroad discrimination, would carrvy | eve | Missouri river to fear from the out the threat of running into court with its eoplaint. For, if the truth be made known, Chicago can be shown to have been benefitted by unjust rail- road discrimination to the detriment of other ¢ity within a radius of five hundred miles of it. There is nothing for the pork packing centres along the investi- gation. Tt has already demon- strated that discrimination does not ex- ist in their favor as against Chicago. The difference of rates on live stock as against packing house products is one which railroads are bound to make on account of greater cost and risk of transportation. It would appear, there- fore, from the undignified stand taken by Chicago that the pork packing in- dustry is slipping through its fingers and in desperation Chi catehes at straws, been P ——— A CITY ministor yesterday scored the press for catering to the appetite of the public it serves. Incidentally he wan- dered into politics, but while this wasin questionable taste, it was not without precedent. But why should ministers scoro the press for doing what they themselves do? Only yoesterday a 50,000 chiurch was dedicated in Wash- ington. To meet a debt, $25,000in cash was raised there ina fow minutes. This church will be for long purses. The rich will be the minister’s constituency. He will cater to them, He will not find fault with their weaknes: He will not teach humility, but it will be his part to help them squeeze through the oye of the needle without disturbing their figuvative pumps. Perhaps we are all poor creatures anyhow FORTUNATE the differences be- tween the master and journeyman plumbers have been satisfactorily set- tled and no interruption in their busi- ness is anticipated. It appears that the whote difficulty arose from mutual mis- uuderstanding which was quickly cor- reeted the moment the two parties came together to discuss the question in dis- pute. The agreement of the plumb- ers is to be commended. With a desire on each side to come to amicable torms, the diffieulty was adjusted promptly in a businesslike mauner by mutual concessions. The action of tho Prumbers in reaching a satisfactory angement as to a scale of wages will undoubtedly influence the other cr: in the building trades. in fixing t! schedules for the season. - T stir made by the death of Flood was hardly noticed outside the apart- ment where the event occurred. The bonanza king on a death bed is only a poor, weak creature, and his fellow men seein to realize the fac TiE people of Nebraska have a rignt to know who was responsible for the recent boiler explosion at the Lincoln insane asylum, STATE AND TEKRITORY., Nebraska Jottinga. It has been decided to organize a Y. M. C. A. at York. There gre 1,100 momber: alliance fir‘\mufi)pv county. Another large wildeat was killed by Weep- ing Wuter sports last week. The Nebraska City papers are advocating a rock pile, on which tramps can be utilized. A number of Crete young men have banded themselves together to organize asocial club. E. D. Canfield, the Decatur banker, is pre- paring to go to Chicago to be treated for a cancer. A Schuyler young lad the recipient of §1,000 a from her father. While playing football at T duy lust week Orin Cramer oroken by n kick. A detachmeut of the Salvation army is about to move on Wymore, burracks having already been secured. A meeting isto be held at’ Beaver City Wednesday to organize a Furnas County Sunday School association. A dog with pronounced symptoms of hy- drophobia attacked William Oswald, living near Odetl, and badly lacerated his log. Wymore is in need of many new residences, new arrivals being obliged to domesticate in hotels, owing to the scarcity of houses to rent., At the meeting of the excentive committee of the State Sunday School association the next convention was located at Tecumsch, to be held on June 11. There are 7,190 membors of the G. A, R, in good standing in Nebraska, composing 254 posts, and 154351 has been spent in - assist- ing ncedy veterans during the year. The citizens of Tamora are making an cf- fort to secure the romoval of the county seat from Seward, and will endeavor to” raise 850,000 to have it located in thut town. Willis Record, of Paxton, who was a mom- ber of General Harrison's regiment, is circ lating a petition for his appointment us re- iver of the North Platte land oftice. The Woman's Relief corps of the state has a membership of 1,160, has exponded during the year $722.13 in charity, turned over to posts a bulance of 00 and has a reserve re- lief fund of $1,000. The buffalo grass along the track at M- Cook was ignited by a spark from an engino and & number of cars were set on fire. The flumes, howaever, were extinguished before much damage wa$ dong of the Farmers is said to have been a birthday present anola one nad his arm lowa. ‘There is something over $2,500 in the city treasury at Cherokee. A raid on a gumblinz house at Oskaloosa resulted in the arrest of fifteen inmates, 1t is expected that the new Ldison electrio light plant at Carroll will be in operation in about two weeks, Charley Ashley, a sixteen-ycar-old boy living at Boone, Wwis sent to jail for thirty days for stealing & vevolver, Mrs. Judd, of Dows, has filed the ncces- sary papers to comumence action against G, ( Jameson, bauker of that place, for $500 for slander. Sixty civil cases, one murder and one rape case, and four actions for divorce compose the docket of the district court now in session at Jefferson, Clerk Collins, of the city of Creston, hag been exonerated from the charges that were brought against him'and has sued two of the daily papers for $5,000 damages for libel. ‘fhe Perry Disteict Agricultural society has amended its chaiter 50 as to leave out Boone and (ireené’ counties, and have the district confined Dallas and Guthrie counties, o Wybming. An effort is being made to secure the loca: tion of a plaster mill at Laramie. The Colorado and Wyoming G. A. R. en campment will be held at Greeley, March 13, ‘There are fewer prisonors in the Laramie county juil than at any time during the past tive years. 1t is estimated that #8,175 will be required torun the oity of Cheyeune during the present year, The stock raisers of Uintali county have united in offering & reward of $1,00) for the conviction of every thief during the next year, for mutilating brands, killing cattle or stealing horses or cattle, The Greon River stovk association has elocted ofticers for the ensuing yoar and will take active steps to bring to justice the or- ganised baud of cuttlo thioves which now i st Carboun, Sweetwater, Fromont waod Ulntah counties. | SERVANTS OF THE MASTER. Words Spoken by Them in Looal Pulpits Yesterday. MUCH WHEAT; LITTLE CHAFF. One Divine Speaks of Heavenly Man- slons—The Press Gets a Scors ing — An Address to Pythian Knights, God and Mammon. ou cannot serve God and Mammon'' was the subject of the sermon delivered last night at Central United Presbyterian church by the Kev. John Williamson; *‘for the love of money 18 the root of all evil, which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many Sorrows. Many porsons scem willing to illustrate the impossibility of which the Saviour here speaks,” said the n d gentleman, com niencing his talk. *“The wisdom of his words they cannot doubt; yet they enlist as the servants of Chirist ana then make the chief effort of their lives the service of the world Money, money, with all thy gotting got money. Whatever else you may fail to get, 1 beseech you fail not to get money. And yet with all their purposes set in this direction they will turn aside, in body at least, upon the Lord's day, to_enter the sanctuary and 10 be reminded that there is something clse for a being created with immortal powers, and designed to serve and enjoy the God in whose imae ho was created that is infinitely better than all the wealth afteg which they are striving, “Iwant to speak mainly of some of the tendencies of public thought, as these ten- deneies exhibit themselves in tho public press to-day, that show a decided purpose to cast off all pretenses at serving God, and to centiirone mammon. 1 wish it distinctly un derstood too, in what I say, I neither wish to underrate the power, ror the blessing of the press of the land; and I presume I could do no better than to acknowledzge that T do nat, and so far as I know the church does not pray for this mighty director of human ener- gies, a8 we all ought to do. 1 beheve this 1s lurgzely true, that the press gives to the public whit 1t wants to read. When we see what it distes out to them day by day, we surely cannot form a very exalted idea of the public appetite, But 1 fear the press forgets that there is areflox influence, that peoplo are influenced by that upon which they feed: that_gving them unwholesome reading viti- ates their taste; that the press is ghe molder as well as the propagator of public thought. Many immoralities are deeried by all our daily papers. Some of them seem never to wedry in _deuwouncing trusts and mo- nopolies because they are greedy and - graspin and because thoy IS and oppress the poor. And the masses of the people are ready aud in many cases rightfully 100, say amen. God's dis. favor, as well as that of ‘men, rests upon the wan or that company that oppresses the poor or robs the hireling of his wa Yot we may well doubt from what we sce in other directions, if these same papers would de- nounce these things -were it not popular to do so, in short did it not make money for the papers. How many of the daily papers of our land are ready to takea stand for any question of right, assured that they will los money by so doing’ I will not say none will dare do it. But how many do you think you could name? What constitutes the cthics ot the daily press to-day! Or may we not ask, what has lowered tho ethical standard of our dailies throughout the land, and shall I say of Omaha in_particular? s it not the ten- dency-to worship at the shrine of Mammon? Letus take z single and living illustration. The tegislature of our state has, after a severe struggle, by a barely suficient ma- jority, agrecd to submit the question of the constitutional prohibition of the liquor trafiic to a vote of the people. Though the republican party, which is in the majority in the legislature pledged itself to submit this question in its_platform, how uniform was our city press in_opposing that submission. What was the great argument brought to bear upon our legislators to induce them to prevent the people from letting their voice ve heard through the ballot box on this question. Wiy sho one labor to pre- vent the peoplé fron being heard, in_an’ or- derly way, upon any question of public in- terest? I8 not this a government of the peo- ple, by the people and for the people? Yot every step toward the submission of this question was persistently opposed by all our large and infiuential dailies, even of the party that in its platform was pledged to submission. ““What are the arguments brought forward to defeat this movement! By the force of what persuasion is it thought to turn the minds of men against voting for this pro- posed amendment? Is it the best good of so- ciety? Should this prohibitory amendment be adopted, will it have a tendency to de- grade socicty: to lower its moral tonc; to imperil the peace of communities, endanger life or morals¢ Will it unsettie or rénder in- secure the homes and home life of our land, close our churches and poliute the minds of our children! Wil it tend to increase crime aud pauperize the musses by cultivating idlo- ness and by opening the doors more widely into the haunts of vice! Is there danger of its bringingz upon the people the displeasure of d, and so closing the windows of heaven and inviting disease and pestilence, since the God of heaven who loves holiness has forbidden the adop- tion of any such measure? Some of theso things arc likely to be considered by think- g men, who wish to act wisely are dis- nosed to meet their responsibilities as citi- 1. And these are prominently the ques- tions which the all wise God is constantly pressing upon the consideration of men to influcice them in all their lives and acts, public and private, as eilizons of the realm and as subjects of his authority. 13ut n- stead of tnese or such as these receiving consideration witi the press, it is simply and constantly a matter of mongy. ‘It will imooverish sociely:' ‘it will Prevent the rowth of our city;’ ‘it will drive out capi- taly ‘it will empty our houses and depopu- late our streets; *it will unsettic businesss’ ‘e the vast amount of moncy invested in this business and the number of men thoy cmploy; what is to become of all these?' ‘It will divert the flow of money to other piaces where these industries are encouraged:’ ‘the auger of Mammon will be turned againstus and we will be ruined.) The press will close its cyes to tho direful results of tho trafiic, to the number that it brutal- izes, the homes it destroys, the poverty and disease it engenders, the prisons that it ills, the courts that it is crowding, and even the taxes that it forces upon 4o unwilling people, the murders that it daily perpe- trates, and the cternal rain into which it plungeés its victims, for the God of truth Lures that ‘no drunicard shull inherit the ingdom of Ciol." It considers not that ‘sin is & repronch to any peovle, while righteous- ness exaltoth a nution.” The one chord 1t sounds in the cars of poople 1s ‘it will endan- ger our wealth. 1t wil! dothrono Mammon, And as one that belioves that morals are worth as much us moucy, thut purity is more valuable than pelf, that rightcousucss is worth more to a people than richos, I main- tain that these should bave some considera- tion even from the sceulur press in the dis- cussion of #his question. And if they caunot have then must the pulpits, cven though they be charged with preaching politics, cause their.voice 10 be heard! Manhood is h something to socicty, What is society without 1t? It would perhaps be an un- charitable view, and 1 never want to be 8o uncharitable as 1o aceuse the press of being influenced unduly by the patronuge it re ceives from the traffio; but when papers will publish adyestisements that ara calculated to delude, and arc contrary to the spirit of the laws, both state and national, cven if within the letter, they certainly invite suspicion. For surely they who advertise lotteries do this for the mone, there is in it Yet the state laws prohibit them from advertising lotteries withn the state. Aud the law will not permit these lotteries to send their own advertiscments through the wail, yet some of our papers will adver tise for them and send their papers through the mail, doing for theso gambling schouers what théy cannot do for themselves without throwing thewmsclucs subject to prosecution. Is it the money they hope to make for their readers, or the hope of deludiug their readors into the loss of their money for the sake of the money they make for publishing tho de- luding schewe !~ Greau is Mammon 1 To Pythian Knights. Last night Trinity church was thrown open to the Uniform rank of the Knights of Pythias who attended in a body, ou the twenty fifth anniversary of their organiza tion. There were no sparo seats in the edifice, and those prosent wore amply repaid by the sermon of Rov. Whitmarsh, brigade chaplain of the order. He chose for his text the words in Ephesians 2-4: “God who is rich in Merey.” Speaking of the order he said: “Looking from the hill top of our twenty-fifth anniversary, we can 1ook back on the rich mercy of our God and estimato what is evidently within reach of our order in days not far remote. As an instrumentality of good to oursclves, usefuiness to othe we can thank God that our order has boen permitted to attain so marvelous a growth Twenty-five yoars ago our foundor gathorad seven friends around him, and under pledgos of secrecy, for tho first time read the ritual of what he considered a brotherhood, and on tne 19th of February tho first Pythian lodwe was formed, Judee IRathbome, with his friends, acknowlodging their vows on his mother's bible. Since then what do we be hold! A quartor million of our citizens be ing the Pythian flag in every state and terei ory of our union, with one ‘member in every 250 of our entire population. All of unsul Tied character and white blood are weleomed nd side by side stand in it ranks, the me. chanie, the clerk, the merchant, the man of leisure, tho artist, soldier, Arctic explor. or, ad ate, physician, divine, teacher, legis. lator, judge ‘and governor. What marvelous results of a twenty-four years' history Pythianism is not a religion,” and is no rival of substitute for the church of Christ. Un soltishness, self-sacrificing interest in a brother's cause, friendship proved by sncri fico ina brotier's need, i the losson taught by the order we love, and is the demand it makes of those who join its ranks. Personal experience proved that the lessons so taught were not heedlessly forgotton. Once it was the speaker's duty to watch by the bod side of a dying knight. He was a_stranger in the town in whch he died, and while endeavoring to aid & Stranger brothor had risked hip lifo and contracted an infectious disease. “How truly ho had risked it was proved by the life ho gave up in a fow short hours, and his devo- tion to the order was shown by his fidelity unto death, Ounce it was the burial of a young man who died far from the home of iis childhood, where he bad left two young sisters. How lovingly the Pythian brothers hastened to his solitary room! How the castle hull was draped m crave and adorned with flowers when he died ! How carefully the body was guarded day and night by the brothers in that hall! “And then iwhen the mourning sistors arrived, they were tenderly welcomed by the knights, and wstead of being given the cold comfort of a hotel, were taken into the home and family of a brother knight They came to meet strangers, but found kindred for their brother’s sake. A third time was when a knight was taken sick away from home, and for cight long months, night after night, month after month, was watchiod by knights he had never before scen, and whose names he did not know. When at last he died, the same brothers sent one of their nnmber to_accompany his wife and child to take a last fond look at the one they had lost. The ritual of the Pythians is no empty form, and the question “*Does any one know of a sick brotuer, or of a brother's family in distress " as it is asked in the lodgo room, is one that every member nwaits with the full determination to go and aid the aflicted if need be. We may bless God for the rich morcy in which he has reared up such an in- stramentality, to set an example of unselfish ness and self-sacrifice upon the altar of friendship. Judging by the twenty-five years we can see ahcad possibilities grand and glorious, we sec the oraer growing in num- bers, influence oand moral strength, and spreading on either hand tnose influenc: of brotherhood and fra ternal love. We sec it standmg as 1o other association of men, save only the church of Christ, can stand as an arbiter bo- tween contending classes. It may be said the aims of tho socioty are Utopiau, but they will be only so, 1f the members of this so- ciety are false to their principles and neg gent in cxtending their influence for good. It is no easy task. To fight with selfishness i 10 child’s play, but eacs member. has en- listed for that war. The battledeld is wido, and the battle is to be waged between right and wrong, truch aud falsehood, justice and injustice, selfishness anb and loving care for others, and it is the Pythians who have voluntarily placed themselves as champions of the rignt, the true, the just and the unselfish. In conciusion the speaker said: “You are banded together in order that in that war your power may be the greater for tho union. Read your obligations. Go back to the hour when the sprig of myrtle was placed withio your hands, remember the solemn vow you took that vow repeated and yet again re- newed, and bo true—trae to honor, to your word before God and man, and to yourself." THE HEAVENLY HOME. Dr. A. R. Thain Begins Hlis Pas:orale In Konntze Place. Dr. A. R. Thain, recently of Galesburg, TlL., but now pastor of the Plymouth Con- gregational church in Kountze place, in this city, preached his first sermon to his new charge yesterday. The members of the church were delighted with the etfort and there 1s every idication that he will ba as popular here as he was at his late charge. A number of graduates of Knox college who, while students were regular attendunts at his church, were present, ana with the mem- bers of the congregation extended a hoarty welcome to Mr. Thain at the close of the dis- course. Dr, Thain is a tall, somewhat angularly built maun of possibly fifty years. His features, frame and voice aré ail indicative of strength. His eyes are keen but kindly in expression #nd there 18 & quiet reserve in his manner that is probably born of modesty. His locks are alinost raven, but his moos- tache is gray. He possesses all the elements of an orator and his voice, which is onc of rare excellence, 18 deep, resonant and splen- didly moderated. It is in this gift that his power, w0 a great degree, lies. Added to this a sincerity und kindliness that wins the auditor. He ‘was pastor of the Con- gregational chureh of Galesburg for twelve years and the great majority of the Knox college Students were regular attendauts at his church, The reverend doctor took for his text yes- terday, “In My Father's Home are Many Mansions.” He said in brief: Howard Payne struck a chord to which every heart vibrates when he wrote *“There's e Like Home." The home to which his memory looked back was very humble indeed, yet 1t inspired him to write these sweet | words which have sung their way to millions of hearts. The home fecling is so strong 1n us that wo set up our household gods in almost every place and call it home; but the home of all homes to us is the place where we pussed our chilabood, * The roof tree may huve fullen, not a vestige of the home may remain, tho spot whero it stood may be thousands of miles distant, but there is room in the memory, where every post aud beam and rafter is restor where even broken panes of gluss are repro duced, where a motlier knits and a father reads and brothers und sisters laugh and play." J hen followed a graphic and poetical de. seription of the chilhood howme of the speaker, and the ministe “That ample fir that father and mother Creator's praise in_the upper family is scattered, but thoy all their memories an idealized copy of home, father, mother and all the infly there. Tho texu has a homelike sound. It speaks of a father, of a father's house und of tho man sions or rooms in it prepared for his chil- dren, This homelikeness runs all through christianity. We fiod in it all the endearing torms of home; its discipliue is parental, and its_object is Lo gather the human famnily under the high roof tree of un eteruul home, Some religions are far away and mysterious like that of the Porsian fire worship;er, whose temple was the vaalt of hca and whére gods were the su and slars. Other religions ar savage and brutal like that of the Goths,who were taught that animal courage is the chief virtue, and whose ideal of neaven was an im meuse hall where, iu company with Thor and Odin, they were to drink strong mead out of the skulls of slain cnemios. Others, agair are gloomy, like the Druidism of the sucient Britons, poetical like the mythology of the Grecians, or political like the religion of the Romans. Christianity alone has a strong nome element 1o it. The first grand fact is that God is our father. Were it not for God's fatberbood, our feelings toward Him would uot be what they now'are. We might reverence Him but would not lo lim, He has taught us to say “Our Father,” and straightway we are brought near Him. We worship the God none the less because e hymuing their the are lovo the Father. Hois a Father in love. No | love save fathor's could stand the strai which we have subjectad the love of ¢ | Heis a Fathor in care. He givos us golden harvests and ripening fruits, and causos all forces in nature to contribute to our benefiy in answer to our prayer. He is a F' n forgiveness. What love save a father’s could say to robellious ¢ dren, ‘Come, now, let us roason togother, saith the Lord; though your sins be as scarlet they shall Do as white as snow. The home likeness of christianity is scen in the fact that Christ 18 our brother, When Ho camg on_earth Ho took not on him the nature of angoels but bodies like oursclves, He was made so much liko us that the Jews would not acknowledge that Ho was oything more thai a man. 13ut this_only shows tho moro clearly the reality of His brotherhood. He was ot ashamed to call us brothren and would not ignore oven thesthief on the cross, Anotl important point of the subject is | that the present life is our Fathers' family discipline. 1n governing His ohildren God has ever showa Himsolf to bea kind and wise fathor. The homelikeness of christianity is seen in the fact that all of God's redeemed dren are to bo gathered together in their Father's house there to abide forever, Somo of od writers —more particulatly the Apostie John —describes heaven in language of great sublimity and beauty, but much of the language is evidently figurative. Tho re- sult is far from satisfactory. Hoaven is de scribod as glittering with gold, and gems and d_material splendor. Kverything is on o grand scale. Individuality is swallowed up. amiliarity s impossible. Now this may please the imagination but it does not warm the heart. Don’t the perpetual song some times become a littlo wearisome and monot- onous! Do the feot of the angels nover be come tired and cold standing so long on _tho golden payements! The trouble with these pictures is the homo element is left out Christ said: ‘In my Father’s home are many mansions: if it were not 8o 1 would have told you. Igo to prepare & ploce for you.' Ah, that wsatisfies the heart. Heaven ismy Father's house. Heaven is a home—the dearest spot in God's wide universe.” TH WESTERN A A Very Slight Clue Furnished Threo Tramps. Trrane, Cal, Feb. 21.—-On receivtof intel- ligence, Friday night, of the train robbery at Pixley, a special car was ordered immediately to carry officers to the scenc. A pool of fresh blood was found soveral yards from tho track, whore one of the unfortunate passen- gers had been shot down, There were indi- cations of horses laving recently been hitched to one of the telegraph poles near by, Two tramps were found who told the follow ing story We were waiting for a train to ride out to Pixley, and noticed two more men who scomed to be waiting for a tram. We went up and commenced talking to them," ‘I'hey acted in a peculiar manner. “Ivwas so dack that we could not tell ex- actly how they looked, but think both were good sized men. Both' wore overcoats and white shirts. 13oth had what appearcd to be shotguns. They asked us where wi good place to et on a train, s they were goiug to Delano to shoot jack rabbits. We asked them what was the matter with shoot- ing jack rabbits at Pixley. One of them said he had a ranch at Delano. Just then the train came along and the men jumped on the front part of the engin One of the tramps continued: “Something seemed to warn mo that ull was not right. As the train passed a third man jumped out from somewhere and boarded one of the passenger cars. 1 felt uncasy and walked over to the depot and told some one what had happened. 1 was only laughed at, but it was not long till we heard what had hap- penca.” A man who was riding on the blind bag- gage said: *“The train_commenced to slow up when we got somo “distance beyond Pix ley. When it nearly stopped I discovered that there was trouble of some kind and jumped off. When they commenced shooting T ran and jumped a wire fence and laid down i a field near by. 1 heard some one say, *My God, I am killed. ‘Phen moro shooting occurred, and_then 1 heard an explosion of some kind. When the robbers had gone I skipped ont and got among the passengers, One of the men shot had his side_torn all to pieces with bjckshot. The train bucked up to Pixley, wiere one of the passengers claimed that he ROBBERY. by saw a_man fall some distance from the track. The train went back and we searched for the man. We soon found him. He had evidently been instantly killed. The shot catered near the tempie. He had a ticket in his hat for Poso From people at Pixley and other sources it was learned that when the train was stopped, and as soon as the express messen- ger found out what was the trouble, he barred the doors of the car, but the_robbers threw a bomb under it and gave him such a shaking up that he was glad to open the doors. The amount taken is variously esti- mated, some placing it at from 50,000 +to $60,000. Moen_ are Searching the country, though there is no clue as to the direction taken by the robbers. Kelly, the messenger for Wells, Fargo & Co., on the train robbed last Friday night, says that there was something less than $300 1n the safc at the time of the robbery. The amount small owing to the money order system now in use. Ho opened tho door _and let the robbers in only because the latter threatened to kil the engineer and fireman, whom they also forcod to beg the messenger to open tho door. Kelly says there were only two rob- bers, but Baggagemaster Lohn says there were five at least. Kelly says the robbers were undoubtedly novizes Dotectives of the Southern Pacifie left here last evening for Pixiey. A description of the robbers has beon obtatica and it is thought they will s00n be caught, A special dispateh from Los Angeles to the local pa- pers here say “When it beeame known that the train was in the hands of highwaymen a sceno of will confusion occurred n the Pul slocping coachies, The porter locked both doors, while the inmistes of the car hastily hid therr valu- ables in places where they would escape de- tection. One of the men threw a diamond ring in a spittoon, and the idea proving cateh- ing, cuspidors were rapidly converied into safe deposit boxes. The party then prepared for the attack. Twe revolvers cowprised the ordnance, and the owners were stationed at cach door. ‘The second Pullman car was equally barred, Tho people in the regular coaches being uu able to lock the doors, were in the very worst of @ dilemma, and when one, more weak-kneed than his companions, crawled under his seat, the others took e cue, and there was a general and systomatic diving under benches.” A dispateh from Delavo states that B Bentley, # deputy constable of that place, and oncof the wen shot last Friday night near Pixiey by the train robbers, died to-day, 2 A Stolen Diamonds Recovered, SAN Dirco, Cal, Feb, 24,—The diamonds lost by Mrs, Snyder, daughtorof ex-Gov- ornor Oglesby, of Illinois, were recovered yestorday. ‘I he valuables had boen mislaid by tae person accused of stealing them b Bl Constitutional Cafarrh, No single discase aus ontatled mors suffering or hasteried the breaking up of the titution than Catareh, Tno seuse of smell, ol taste, of siglit, of hearing, the human voice, tis mind, one or more, and somoetimes ali, y(sld to its de. structive intuence, Tue poison it distributes througiiout the sy.tein atticks overy vital fore ana breks up the niost FoHUSt of C0'1sLLULONA: Jguorel, becauso but |4ty anderatood, by most phy siclans, impotently nssuiled by quacks and Cchirlatans, tho o sutfering from 1t have little hope to be relieved of It this side of the grave, It4s time, then, that the popular treatment of this tereible diseass Ly ‘Temedies within the Yeich of all DRSSed 1nto DA At oNCe LOMPELENt and trustworthy. 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