Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 4, 1889, Page 5

———— e S THE CONMERCIAL TRAVELER. Moro Discussion of the Mileage Ticket Question. ACCOUNT OF A WESTERN TRIP One of the Boys Falls Into the Po- etry Habit With a Rather Happy Effcct—Gen- eral Notes. 2?9 When the last order is entered upon that great book, Kept by the angels on high, And tie lust town is made and the last *ex- cess' paid, And the last freight “‘caught on the fy.” And the expense account shic wmount In keeping And S, el tho bus, And silently snatches your “grip,” vs the proper vith the cost of the Lrip meots you as you g out of And you're let through the door weary and sore Tired out v h life's race, all up hill, Wil the angel who meets you, smilingly greet you, With the remark, ‘“‘we've bille" Will the sheets just ordered a be wet and the rooms all rab be contracted in hoaven? vach getagirl, one sweet little pearl, Or will wo ve allowed six or seven ! Al theso things are of interest to “tho boys" you know, And the ifquiry respectfully made, is Will drummers feel at home in that beauti- ful land Or must they The Weltern Trip, N. B. Apple, one of the oldest travel- prs out of Omaha, and wit carrying {:is not 80 numerous ightly as o would expense money just befc reaching a remittance, was in Omaha last weck. pical grocoryman, witha fresh, healthy complexion, bright pye und a general appearance giving more weight to his oral quotations than revision could infuse into a price cur- rent. He is a gentleman finding much Javor with the trade in western Ne- braska, northern Colorado, Wyoming and Utah, and he sends his orders to Blonn, Johnson & Co. Mr. Apple was asked about the west gnd of his route, and said We have few towns to make from Cheyenne west, and the locomotive doesn’t have much nse for its whistie, I can tell you, for assing stock and road crossingsare “‘double " down to hades? vare as _ecgrn fields. Trade slack in ~ Wyoming, and it's mighty lonely in that part of the country reached by the Union PPa- cific. car platform of the train m wd watched ghe track when it and the train were the only bandiwork of man in sight, gnd the shining, curveless parallel Jines running back toward Nebraska and the hoys, pushing aside the wierd gage brush and melancholy jack rab- bits and dividing the desert of wild up- land, scemed to me to come closer to the horizon and together in a desire to emigrate and to comfort each other on the loss of the train. Buat these gloomy efloctions would be dissipated by a ively rush intoa picturesque the happiness of the bright str to be found there. The sound of r ning water is cheerful and the impo- sition of the weight and color of great canon sides on such thoughts show their littleness. “But Wyoming will soon be a_better lace for groceries. [ might give one nstance, in fact, for my belief.” About twent ve miles north of Rock Creek there 1s asbestos which is being utilized and the country is full of prospectors for coul, oil and other valuable natural resources. Besides, surveys are in progress for railvoads to distribute the product of the labor that will be em- ployed and to feed it, and you can sce pect to get a rake off. If this » not comfort enough, a few days in gentile Ogden and the fertile valloys of Utuh, where trade is good, would fill one with joy. The gentile party of that ismade up of “democrats, repub- licans, ioni Belva Lock- woodists and Butlerites, and it has re- cently downed the Mormon elementand placed in power Fred J. Kiesel, a whole- Bale grocoryman, by the way, and a full council. Ogden is now an American commereial city, attracting from the wn*luwus as far east as Cheyenne. Jo T experience much competition in Zion’s co-operative mercantile insti- tution?” O, yes, most every school dis- trict in Utah has its co-operative store, controlled by that great mercantile organization, but the mining people at Park City, for instance, who have con- verted the government of the city to well as at other points i# buy most of their goods at the Missouri river. Speaking of Park City calls to mind old Simons,”who kecps the hotel, The hostelry is not much to look at from the outside, but when the landlord takes of his diamond pin and cooks o meal himself, the ex- terior of the house is a secondary mat- ter and your gaod nature prompts you to paint the hotel yourself, He can do up a4 mountain trout to perfection, and once helped me sell a big bill of canned trout by loading a customer to believe that a dish of delicious fish, browned by his own hands, last swamw one of Sloan, Johuson & L'g. ’s tin aquariums,” *"x Mileage Book, ays since THE BEE received the following letter from a traveling man with reference to the taking up of mileage books and the collection of eash fures when the printed contract, Rs he says, called for neither signature or other identification: OMANA, Feb, 25.—To the Editor of Tue Bekg: During the past week, the conductors on some of the railroads baye taken up & number of mileage tickets on their trains, refusing to give the passenger any acknowledgment for e, and comuvlhufi: them to pay cash »; can they do so legally under any cumstances, when the ticket was purchased and paid for in cash, or is a passouger obliged to sign & mileage ticket purchased by himself from the company’s agent. when the contract printed thereon don’t call for either signuture or identification? Aun answer to the above through the medium of your valuable paper will much oblige A DRUMMER, A reporter of THE BEk was sent w0 the various general passenger agants of railvoads operating in the state, for in- formation on the subje It was statea thut milnufe tickets are sold at a lower rato per mile than regular trip tickets and that 0 prowct the rouds in this re- duced rate it was necossury that the total mileage ol a book should be used by ove individual, as the use of the samo book by more than one person would practically brlufir about the winimum rate now charged for mileage tickes,for all business done. The general passenger agent of one of the leading l#nt!i of Nebraska handed the reporter copies of classes piintad on sl wileage tickets sold by that voad MARCH 4, 1889 and offered them as answering the ques. tion brought up by the correspondent of Tire B They are: “First. This ticket s not valid, un- less properly signed below by the per- son to whom issued, and such person may be required to identify himself by duplicating that signature upon request of the couductor, or any authorized agent to whom it is presentod. **Second. The right to obtain trans- portation at a reduced rate in accord- ance with the terms of this ticket, is a vrivilege personal to the person to whom it is issued, whose signa pears hereon, and who is t Y ful holder, and this ticket and the at- tached mileage strip are not transfor- able, and no person other than the | ful holder has any or can obtain title or property wha reing and if this ticket or any portion of the mileage strip is or is attempted 10 be sold, transforred or given or if it be presented in any other mar ner than as herein provided, or found in the hands of any other person than the lawful holder, it shall have no value whatever, and shall bo forfeited, and may be taken up wherever found by any agent of any of the companies over whose lines it is issued. “Third, This ticket has been issued by the railrond company at a reduced rate, solely in consideration of the fact and upon condition that it shall be used only in accordance with its terms.” The information gained at the offices of other railroads operating in the state was that none of them issucd mileage tickets to commercinl men without re- quiring the signing of the contract by the purchaser and exacting of the holder that he identify himself by sig- nature at the request of any conductor to whom the ticket might be presentea for passage. wu A Traveler's Reply. To the Editor of Tie Brk: Kindly suggest to Rev. W, J. Harsha through your columns that it is entirely possi- ble—and I think very probable—that he has been somewhat unfortunate in the class of traveling salesmen with whom he has been thrown in contact, because he pronounces profanity as “the heset- ting sin” of the profession, which any one of a broad experience with and a knowledge of salesmen knows unjust inference, and en- incorrect in fact. »m the very nature of his traveling salesman must be a g and if not one at least role, and no man can be nof fane and for one moment prestige of a gentleman. The gentleman, I think, was beyond doubt well intentioned in his addre Sunday evening, but a ‘‘drummel who knew no ‘more about a “line of zoods” he ““‘took on the road” than Mr. alling a tleman, sume the Harsha does about traveling men, would have very poor success us o salesman. The thre doctrine that drummers. to an) le or effect sales by the purchase or giving of cigars or drinks is too vidiculous to discuss. The remotest kind of a thing of that kind would ensure an abrupt invitation to *‘ged oud” from nineteen-twentieths of the most excel- lent gentlemen who are the buyers for every house of standing and credit in the commercial world. I like Mr. Har- sha’s energy and earnestness, and if he will take up my line of goods and first learn them and then use the same ear- nest effort for their sale that he used in denunciation of a class of men of whom he evidently has known but a few, and they *‘poor samples,” I will insure his success. But with preachers as well as sulesmen, I learn the goods you are’ to ‘“handie” before at- tempting too much in that way. 1 speak from an experience of sixteon years as a “knight of the grip™ and for myself and 70 per cent of the eraft who have at least high moral sentiments and deep respect for all things good. You have my card enclosed Mr. Editor which, should he desire, you may pre- sent to Mr, Harsha, and thanking you for space, I sigg m o HEXPERIENCE.” " Norfolk's Traders. A correspondent from Norfolk writes Tue BEE as follows: This city is one of the places in the state favored by commercial traveling men, as shown in the fact that so many of them make this their home and are really among the citizens of the place, while many others, whenever any- where in the region, lay their plans to spend their Sundays here. Most of those living here have families and some of them own their homes. They are large- ly interested in one of the additions of the city—that of the Elkhorn Invest- ment company—and one of them, W. C. president. If one should wveling men live here would got an exagge veply. Thera are, how number as the following o list will show: ‘W. C. Sutphen, Sloan, Johuson & Co., , Omaha; W. W. Lillie, May grocers, Omaha; R. V. Hunter, Hardware company, Council Bluffs; George R. Davis, Rector, Wil- helmy Co., hardware, Omaha; J. R. Grant, Voegle & Diming, confectionery, Omuhi; Jay Helphrey, Peycke Bros Co., fruits, ete., Omaha; O.'E, Living- stone, Kirkendall, Jones & Co., boots and shoes, Omaha: T. B, Kail, Will- iams, Van Aerman & Harte, boots and shoes, Omah D. P. Owen, Purlien, Orvendorf & Martin, implements,Omaha; W. L. Wallace, McCord, B ! grocers, Omaha; Hurry Huggins, Con- solidated Tank Line Co., Omaha; H, G. Mason, Sommer Richardson Manufac- turing’ Co., St. Joseph; G. S, & 1 B e V. W. W. Marple & Co., tail- ors, Norfolk; John Humphrey, W. W. Marple & Co., tailors, P. Schwenk, P. Schwenk & Co shenkberg x City, In.; N, P, Gibson, tobacco and H. Watson, ¢, M. Henderson, boots and shoes, Chicago; Tate, Hibbard Spencer Bartlett boots and sho Chicago; A. R. 10, H. C. Fisher, s and tons, Chicago; Jimmy Mamilton, Strange Bros., hides and furs, Sioux City, The single men are: A.'A. Karl, A. Hospe & Co., musical instruments, Omaha, J. B. Gray, Paxton & Gallagher, grocers, S. M. Paul, Champion [mple” ment company, Chicago. cigars, No 5 Traveling Men's Outing. LaNcoLN, Neb,, March 8.—[Special Telegram to THE BEE.]—The meeting of the general committee for the travel- ing men’s outing to be held the last week in June at Cushmen’s park, took place in the parlors of the Capital hotel at 4 g’clock this afternoon. There was a gooa attendance and the cities of Lincoln, Omaha, York, Chicago, Des Moines, Hustings and Kansas City were represonted, A vumber of letters from members who could not be prosent were read, exprossing the hope that the contem- plated week’s pleasure would prove a perfect success. All preliminary work was completed, and it goos without suy- ing that the outing promises to be the happiest affair ever undertaken by the ate. Season traveling men in the and single ad- tickets were fixed at 81, mission 25 cents, Cushman park will fairly smile on the occasion, Andrews & Son promise to have it in apple pieorder, . Tuttle, of Kansas City, well his trade through Nebraska ‘the kid,” was in the city a uple of days last week. Tuttle is now in the hardware brokerage business on his own hook, but formerly made Nebraska for Keeline & Felt, of Council Bluffs, - - - Eruption of the Skin Cured. Ed Venney, Brockville, Ontario, Canada, says: Ihave used Braxpmeri's Piiis for the past fifteen years, and think them the Dest cathartic and anti-bilious remedy known. For some five years I suffered with an erup- tion of the skin that gave me great pain and aunoyance. I tried different. blood remedies but, although gaining sirength the itching was unrelieved. I finally concluded to take a thorough course of Braxorern's Prirs, 1 took six each night for four nights, then five, four, three, two, lessening each time by one, and then for one month took one every night, with the happy result that now my skin is perfectiy clear and has been so ever since, - LOVE CHARMS AND PHILTERS. Description of an Infallible Charm Made by a Vondou Priestess. The manufacture of love charms and ilters is a_practice nearly as old as as the race. The medieval astrologers found their pr cnue from the sale of charms, sre to attract different eyes to the owners of them or bring back to its allegiance some errant he: The male sex, when driven to cntire dispair by some heart-whole flouting she, did not scruple to use the charm or the philte a last resor but the gentler sex were the astrologer better customers. Perhaps because men are naturally more given to vanity and more confident of the power of their un- aided charms; perhaps because immem- orial custom has decrced that the woman must wait to be wooed and for- bids that she should put forth her powers of persuasion and eloguen ce all events women are to this d chief users of churms and secret devices for compassing their ends in matters of the heart. The Boston obe describes a love charm which is declared to be absolutely infallible and was vecom- mended ‘and manufactured for y and in great numbers by a very old New Orvleans negress, who w dou priestess and who was s to bo more than a hundred old. She was a nativ n and never learned to speak h very distinctly. She lived by telling fortunes, the sale of herb: voudou charms and this love which had a very high reputation for efficiency, not only among her own peo* ple, but among the creoles as well, It was made by catching a small tree fond, one of the sort who make night reso- nant in those warm regions and which are not very much larger than_the first joint of a man’s thumb, provided the nan be a big one, but with a voice out of all proportion to their size. Their backs are a smooth, delicate green in color, without speckles, and on the under side they are ilvery white. These little, nois 1o ver) Y and difficult to catch, and it was alws a mystery how this antique darky 1 aged to secure them, s they generally prefer to sing from the uppor branches of the largest trees. She did get them, however, and comnassed their demise by the kindly barbaric device of driving a'large pin through their heads. She then looked for an ant-hill—and in Louisiana_the formiew_ are numerous and voracious—near which she buried her wretched little victim whose bones were immediately picked and polished to snowy whiteness by the In the cour: remains were d through certain voudou mysterious African words---und were d through fire upon which fsalt sprinkled. The charm was then ready for use, and the purchaser having paid $2.50, all in silver half dollars, for this treasure, was then required to wear it about her neck for seven mights in succession. She was then to lie in wait for the insensate wretch who had failed to properly appreciate her attrac- tions and, unobserved, hook the skele- ton to the gentleman’s coat by itssharp, white ela He probably crushed it or dropped it very shortly after, but if it remained only a fow minutes, five or six at most, the charm was sure to work, 80 great were its mysterious powers. The ancient African ‘managed to dis- pose of some forty or fifty of these charms every y and she was wont solemnly to ‘assert that out of several hundred cases in which the charm was used but seven had enti y fuiled, and in those cases cause the charm had been applied *‘in the dark of the moon,” it being necessury that all love charms should have their use when the moon was waning, e of a day or two the interred and wen formularies--- ants. —— The governor of lowa has ordered the civil and military authorities of the state to provent the spread of diphth- eria. It would be more effective to use Dr. Jefferis’ Diphthera Preventive and Cure, which renders this destructive pestilence non-contagious. Mortality under Dr. Jefferis' treatment during the last twenty-five years has averaged less than 1-10'0f 1 por cent, or onein a thousand; malignant scarlet fever none. No physiciun required. The vemedy will be sent by express on re- ceipt of price, $3. Addvess Dr, Jefferi Box 657, Omaha, Neb. ck the Ripper and Jack the Kisser, 1s *'Jack the Clipper,” suys a Cincinnati special, He appeared in this city on Wednesday afternoon Mrs. Klesking, of 9 Abigail street, called in Colonel Deitsch and reported that her daughter Nina, fourteen years old, had been stopped at Twelfth and Central streets by o man who tore off her hat and cut off her hair close to her head. A similar case was reported later by Mrs. Pedrone, of Baymiller street. Her ecen-year-old girl had been stopped dnd treated in a like man- nerat Dayton and Lynn streets o the same evening, The man is deseribed as of medium build, well dressed, and wearing a dark mustache. Pecuniary gain is supposed to be his object. Those who take Dr. Jones' Red Clover Tonic never have dyspepsia,costiveness, bad breath, piles, pimples,ague and ma- laria, poor appetite, low spirits, head- ache or kidney troubles, Price 50 cents, Goodmun Drug Co. - - Drake's Magazine: There are sev- eral thousand languages spoken throughout the world, and & man never feels so much like wishing that he could speak all of them as when he sits down upon a cat. —— Yes, Marmaduke, you can see & horse fly, I:)uv. you cannot hear a Peruvian rk. A LR R Advise to Mothers. - Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup should al- ways be used for children toething. It soothes the child, softens the gum: lays all pain, cures wind colic, and is the ' best remedy for digrrhaza. 25 cents @ bottle. - It was Artemus Wara's lecture tickets which read: *‘Admit gentleman and one wife,” when the humorist lectured at Salt Lake, EWS AND NOTES. LINCOLY ) Destitution of the Family of a Once Prosperous Phyaioclan. ANOTHER VICTIM OF WHISKY. A Serious Accident On the Burlington —Packing Operation to ko Resumed At Onoe— Laird's'Condition, 1020 P Ster, LixcoLy, March 8 The word destitute feebly expresses tho conaition of the family of Dr. W. H. Dickey, late of 720 L street, and the story connected herewith is not without interest. Dr, Dickey was the first practicing physician to hang out his shingle in this city after changing the name from Lancaster to Lincoln, in the days of long ago. Atthat time he was regarded as a citizen of worth and ranked high in his profession. He soon built up a paying prac tice, and his home was surrounded with more than the ordinary comforts of life, But in the midst of prosperous days he “‘puiled up' his carthly possessions and removed to California, where he remained until about two years ago, when he returned to Lincoln, a wreck in every sense of the word. Love for strong driuk had ruined a ouce strong, manly man. ° Worse still, the opium habit held him n chams he could not breals, and nickel by nickel his sustan ce went 1o satisfy his depraved appetite. But through all the years his wife has stood faithfully by his side, through ev il and good report, and by her needle and over the wash tub, since last coming to Lincoln, she has provided the clothes and bread and butter for the entire family. About five wecks ago Dickey moved his family into a small house on L street, owned by a Norwegian by the name of Potlok, paying him $3 a month rent in advance. Shortly “after getting settled for the ninety-ninth time, as the poor wife and mother” puts it, one of h ldren, a twelve-year-old boy, was taken dow ith pneumonia, and what little she was able to earn went for the medicine and necessaries to restore him to health, and when it day came again she was un- able to pay it. She explained the situation to Pollock and asked for a lit- tle time to earn the mone, nd offered her sewing machine to secure him from loss. ‘This {proposition he rejected peremptorily and demanded the rent due him under pen- alty of immediate ejectment. Although night was upon them they were landed in the streets, bag and baggage, with no place on earth to luy their heads save upon the cold, damp ground. Dr, .y, wife convs escing boy and another chiid put in Frida night on the strects of Lincoln and nearly ail day yesterday. Last night, however, a neighbor gave Mrs, Dickey and the sick boy a bed in her over-crowded home, but the doctor and the other child spent the night on the streets guarding their few household pos- This mornmg, however, the hu- v of neighbors was asserted and the and household ' goods were lod zed in tenement house further down the ables were provided and starva- LiNoo1.X BUREAU OF Tir OmArns Bans, } mani fami a deserte strcet, tion no longer stares them in the face. But in Lincoln that needs a if there is a family Dickey's family is the helping hand Dr. one. Another Burlington Accitent. No one seems o know the exact hour, but it is a fuct, nevertheless, that another wreck occurred on the Burlington, near E street, some time last night. The ¥ smashed car or two amouuts to little com- pared with the loss of a leg by one of the brakemen. And, as usual, it is impossible to locate the blame or the cause of the accident. Empioyes and officlals of the road button their lips and refuse to talk. It seems there isno help for the murderous grind of rai way juggernauts, and no way to get at the truth when a life is given up, or a limb dis- membered, unlcss {tbe in the broad light of day with 'a hundréd witnesses around and about. In this, as 1n other cases, carcless- ness of the victim or some one unknown stunds as the only explanation given. Charles Boyer had one of his legs almost wholly dis- membered, 'The road's surgeons performed a “dressing amputation,” and at this hour iblo that he will survive. This much g the accident, however, is known. The engine jumped the track and took a car or two with it over a small embankment. Murmurs are made that the cause of the uc- cident might be traced to the incompetency of the engineer. Getting Ready For Busincss. ‘en days, at most, and the packing houses of Lincoln will agaia commence to grind. Mr. W. H. Silberhorn, of Sioux City, ar- rived here last night at8 o'clock, and un- nounces that the necessary alterations on the yards and houses will begiwon the morrow. Carpenters will be put to work at once. Mr, Silberhorn says he docs not propose to toot his horn until the proper time comes, but the fact that he is here to arrange for per- manent operations is ample proof tnat he has faith in the future of Nebraska's capital. Mr. Gardner will follow Silberhorn in v matters littl will be opened for e hoof kind that comes this W Ivis given out, as & suggestion, that Lincoln citizens ought -t feel impelled to extend a helping hand in every possible way. A market for both cattle and Logs will be made from the first, En Route for Washington. s aird passed through Lin- over the Burlington, via Chicago, for Washington. He was actom- panied by Mr. Paul, his privare secreta Mrs. Paul and Mr, Jackson, one of the dep uty oil inspectors. Mr. Laird scems to be greatly improved in health. 1t is said that the spring-lik her of the past few days has greatly invigorated him, and his friends think that with cheerful surroundings his former health will speedily be restored. City News und Notes. It is currently rumorcd that Mr. S.S. Joues, of the Blue rings Motor, has leased the New Republic, and will man 1t during the political campaign. He is to take charge of the paper at an early date. W press ordered by the Call a short time since will soon be inplace. It arrived a day or two ago. New and more commodi ous ‘quarters have been rented at 1022 P strect, and the boys are preparing for a “igpread,” as the saying goe: Miss May Carroll, of Denver, Colo,, is the st of Mr, and Mrs. John I. Fincl Fant, o brakeman on the Stroms- burg branch of the Union Pacific, met with a painful t yesterday. While coupling curs on N iiis left hand was crueily crushed. Iv will bee several weeks before he can use the wounded 'membe Mr, Fant's home is in Washington, D. C., but he will remain in Lincoln during his convalescence, u splendid hing of the [ S That tived feeling und loss of appetite are entirely oversbme by Hood’s Si parilla, the peculiar medicine, T and see. P Favorite Colars of Actresses, Grace Henderson affects mauve as her favorite color, Grace Filkins, whose hair is half-way (between the colors of Mrs. Potter and Minnie Madern, stil dresses in nky, somberness. Rose Coghlan likes hi’qua‘ Nallie McHenry browns, Annie, Pixley light grays, Mary Anderson, Mrs. Booth, Langtry and Potter all stick to ribbed black ks, Florence Ashbrook is partial to light brown, Nellie Desmond likes dark brown, and Louise Dillon affects checks in grays. e Hon, Jas. D. Giffin, Judge of th ghth Judicial District of Iowa, say “It gives me pleasure to recommend Chamberlain’s Remedies, because I do 80 from actual experience in the use of them in my family, I refer particu- larly to Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy, “,lllich” I think unexcelled by any other, e Always Nehind. Philadelphia Record: Winks--So Penster is the editor of a paper in yovr town, too; a molder of public opinion, I uu‘-pouc? Rival Editor---No, he reflects public opinion alter it begins to mold, GOLLARS AND CUFFS. Hundreds of our customers will remember the wonderful sale of collars we had last fall when we sold those splendid 2100 Linen Collars at 65¢ a dozen. never seen before—mnor since, A That was gomething These collars gave such satisfaction that we have been try- ing ever since to get them at a figure which would enable us to sell them all the year around for that price, but the manufacturers would not furnish them regular. however, succeaded in getting of linen, but new shape. At We have, another lot —this time only turn-down —of the same quality We shall offer them at a special sale on Monday morning 65¢ Per Dozen. These collars are WARRANTED 2100 LINEN, and of as good a quality asissold b other houses for 20¢ or 2hc apiece. In connection with this extraordinary collar sale we will offer Monday morning a large lot of pure Linen Cuffs, in two of the very latest shapes, at 65c per half dozen or $1.25 per dozen. The linen in this cuff is not of quite as fine a grade as that in the collars, but wo guarantee it to be of better quality than i found in cuffs usnally sold at 25¢ a pair. In order to supply as many of our patrons as possible we shall sell only one dozen collars and cuffs to each customer. We alsgo invite at lention to our laundriel and unlaundried shirts department to give more value for less money than any house in the ask the ladies to compare our three qualities of unlaundried We claim in this iited States. We which we are shirts, selling at 80c, 50c and 70¢, with any shirts sold by other houses for almost double the money, and they will find them in quality and make ejual in every respect. I'he laundried shirts at 65¢, 90c and $1.25 are fully as good as those others are selling at $1, $1.50 and $2. PLAIN FIGURES AND ONE PRICE ONLY. Nebraska Clothing Company Corner Douglas and Fourteenth Streets, Omaha. THE ENGLISH SPEAKING RACE. It May Some Day Form One Vast Federation. TENDING TOWARDINDEPENDENCE Prof. Edward A. Freeman on the Relations of Canada and Aus- tralia to the Mother Coun- try--A Prophecy. An Anglo-Saxon Brotherhood. There is an article in a late number of Macmillan’s Magazine, dated from Syduey ana signed B. R. Wise, which is eminently worth ding by any one who cares about the relations between the different English speaking commu- nities of the world, says Prof. Edward A. Freeman, in the St. Louis Post-Dis- P It is, I venture to thiuk, worth reading, not only in Great Britain, and in the still dependent colonies of Great Britian, but in what 1 hope I may ven- tare to call the independent colonies of England—in the United States of America Mr. Wise, an Australian colomist, seems to have no wish what- ever to separate his own land from the rule of Great Britain; but he speaks freely and truly against much of the the nonsense which the name of Imperial Feder modestly su that he do upon behalf of any one except a certain number of Australi * but he says a good deal that is worth thinking of a beyond Australin. He talks, “empive” and “impe- perhaps, too lism. He ure, about i The fashion is, rial. strong for him to withstand, but it is in but the grand, swaggering imperial style that he writes. *The interests of the several portionsof the empire are various,and perhaps con- flicting,” “A person writing from alia cannot without presumption Jress an opinion on the feclings ‘anadians.” No truth can be more cer- tain than this last. The difference in sitions of Australin and Canada consists in this—that Canada has, and that Australin hasnot, another English speaking land marching on it along a vast frontier. This gives Canada a special ¢ which Australin has anything not. Aust may set up for itself or it may r dependent on Great Britain, So may Conada. Australia, again, cithe may remai or it may, lik a federal or sendent or independent, em of detached €5, nada, form 1ts nto i-foderal body. But Canada 1 thing besides either setting up fo 1f or keeping ction with Great Britain, It ghboring body like the United is non ] States to which it can attach itself. Again, Cunada has one neighbor, and is not likely to have any more. Aus- tratin has at present no neighbors, but is likely to have a good mauny. Ior, as Mr. Wilson points out, Australia has a number of interests connected with India, China and the e ) seas, in which Canada has no share. One of them to be sure touch the United States as wellas Australia, In both lands the old question between the European and the barbarian has turned up again in a new light. In other words, what has either land to do in the face of Chinese immigration? But in the United States that question is isolated; in Australia it is joined on to a good muny others. in MP, Wise's eye Bngland” is a power Asiatic rather than Kuropean, a doc- trine which the English of Great Britain may sometimes be tempted to rhetorical tlourish, but rtan never to act on y that Mv. Wise mingly wish, It might pos- sibly suit Australia if the center of her o her phrases, of t queen’s dominions—were to be removod rom Westminster to Delhi. But such a change would surely be a fresh te tation to Canada to seck another at Washington, Mr. Wise speaks a good many home truths to those who are always talking about “Imperial Federation.” without 80 much as stopping to attach any mean- ing to their own words, All that he says is the more worth attending to be- cause he claims to be zealous on be- half of union, Yet he speaks very strongly of the evil of a “'state of de- pendency;” “the subjection to a distant country, however seldom that subjec- tion may be manifested, exercises a de- pressing influence on the national char- acter.” “'If the sentiment of union is strong to bind us to England, there is also a sentiment of dependence and inferiority, which might easily urge us to a foolish self-assertion.” That is to say, they are talking in Australia in 1885 very much as they talked in the thirteen colonies of North America be- fore 1776, Grant that Australin hasa ‘“‘national character;” AUSTRALIA, THEREFORE, 15 A NATION, And it has taken an important step to is talked of under | not *speak | Asiatic than European, but he hardly ic in this sense. serting itself as a nation; it has taken a national ne r. Wise sc wishes it to be times opposes ustralions™ to ng- | Bat the most interesting part of Sir lishmen,” and his usage of language | Henry Parkos’ remarks is yet to come. become common in England also “lalso think that in all reasonablo say, the word **Australian™ | probability, by some less distinet bond, ¢entury gone through the [ even the United State: ning which tho | bo connected with 1t English- somo me c this gr word went through in the | speaking congoriesof free governments, last, N years back the | I believe the circumstances of the world meant the navive will develop some such now complox A hundred and nationality as this, in which each of the word ; y ven the word | parts will bofroe and independent while “*American” meant the native savage of | united in one grand whole which will Awmeri The change of meaning has | civilize the globe.” followed ctly the same line in both There is ciearly lands, and the unalogy may have, por- A GOOD TIME COMING; t isstill a little dar Still Sir Heney Parkes has in the main got the sow by the right ear. We will are at least indircetly concerned in the | not talk about an ‘‘Tmperial Federa- points raised by Mr. Wise, they ave di- | tion for what is federal cannot be 1m- rectly concerned in some remarks made | perial,'and what is imperial cannot be by Sir Henry Parkes, which Mr. Wise | fed But when one he. of a fed- quotes with approval. 'What Sir Heury ! eration, not of the “‘empir uot of the Parkes say according to Mr. Wise, | queen’s dominions, but of that very dif- inely expressed.” Now there are | ferent thing, *‘the English-spoaking tastes to which Mr. Wise’s own thoughts | people.” It sometimes turns out that will commend themselves the more be- | the larger part of the Enghs} i cause they are not ‘“‘finely expressed,” | people have been forgotten. but are straightforward and easy to be | the case v ir Henry Par but its hans, mc quite take: > significance than Mr. Wise it. But if thinkers in the United States One th understood. Still_we may learn some- | may be a little puzzled about a *“con- thing from Sir Henry Parkes, not- | geries” of free governments: it 1s o fee- withstanding the fineness of his ex- [ ble guess thut a ‘‘congeries of govern- tion of some ments” means a fodera) kind. But Sir Henry Parkes clearly sces that in any scheme for the whole of “*the Engiish-speaking people’” the United States cannot be left out. Only what kind of federal tie can be found to unite them with that part of the Eng- lish-speaking peopie which inhabit Great Britain and her still dependent political tie, strictly so called, can be thought of. ~ Sir Henry Parkes cannot constitution of the United States, the | expect that Great Britain and the Australinn colonies might very likely | United States will ever again acknowl- learn a good deal from it. The Swis edge a common political authority. But Federal constitution is not a copy of | he clearly means son defi- the American: but it is plain that thos nite than the mere *‘tie of sentiment” who framed it had studied the Amer! which ought ever to unite them. What cap constitution and followed it so far | then does he mean? One would like to Rthc.\' thought know a little move in detail. One would SUTL SIR OWN CIRCUMSTANCES, | like to know because the principle from Sir Henry Parkes, moreover, does not | which Sir Henry Parkes starts isso emi- believe that the Australian colunies | nently sound and true. Meanwhile, till will ever think of copying any of the | Sir Henry explains himsell more fully, ancient republics. He who suggested | one may dream a little dream of one’s that course must have been yot most | own not for the first time. What 1s the unwise than he who suggested the coy. | world should some day see the kingdom ying of the American constitution: it | of Great Britain free’and independent. must be so oddly unwise that one would | the United States of America free and thing is out of question.” But, with- | independent, the United Statos of Aus- out doing anything so foolish as trying | tralia no less free and independent than to copy any of the ancient republics, it | the other two, any other united states is quite possible that Sir Henry Parkoes | that may grow upelsowhere among men or anybody else might learn something | of English sy I united, not in an by studying the relations between me- | impossible federation. not by any politi- His negative conclusions do not go for much. “The future of these Australiancolonies,” will not ‘“be a copy of anything that has gone before.” They will not even_ ‘‘copy the constitu- tion'of the United States of America.” If anybody recommended that they should, he'was not a very wise person, for assuredly mo constitution can be translated bodily from one country to another. But without ‘“copying the pressions. tropolis and colony among the ancient I tie, but by the “sentiment,” if that vepublics—relutions which had at least | is to be the word, of & common origin, the advantage of muking a course of [ speech and history? And a speaking, independence needless. But what most | outward sign of union might be foun While every member of such a brother: hood should keep its full political ind dendence, each might greet the citi- zens of the other, not as srangers, but as brethren, That is, o zen of any one might at pleasure take up the ¢ iship of any other. Naturalization is now s0 ousy ey that the grant s us is Sir Henry Parkes’ notion s to happen 10 the speakers of throughout the world, and X English seemingly to some who are not speakers of Enghsh. I firmly believe that it is within the range of human probability that the great groups of free communities con- nected with Engiand will, in separate | of such a mato lege could make federations, be united to the mother | buta shight change. Still, as expressive countr, ot by any scheme such as has | of international brotherhood, .it would been ealled imperial federation, but by | be weighty indeed. Nor need wo of ne- the empire being a compact central | cessity wait till the United States of power, and free communities, like the | Australia can, as such, join in the bond; L’n h American colonies, the Aust but it will be a bright day when they lian colonies, the African colonies and | can, EDWARD A, FREEMAN, the settlements in India, being inde- - - pendent federations connected by some The sof t glow of the tea rose is ac- new bond to the parent state.” quired by ladies who use Pozzoni’s Coms o This is doubtless “finely exprossed,” | plexion powde it but it a little davk; the puzzling —— thing is whether by “‘the settlements in Close Contac Dolliver (at the h, yos, I know Jimson quit Drake’s Mugazine: club)—"A Indin” are meant n Indin, or whether Sir ropeans in v Parkes is rondy toenter into a federal bond with | well. I was thrown iu contact with millions of Mussulmans and Hindoos | him last y in Georgia,” who would speedily outvote both Aus- Blotterwick—*"In the cotton trade?" tralin and Great Britain. Mr. Wise Dolliver—**No; in a railrdad collis holds great Britain to be a power more ! sion.” MUSTANG LINIMENT Thus the * Mustang” conquers pain, Makes MAN or BEAST well again! T R | | | 1 | i | |